Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1935, Page 44

AMUSEMENTS Pictures of Ethiopia Shown at Metropolitan Paramount Sound News Gets First Shots of Emperor Haile Selassie in and Out ’ of Action. I3 A Right. “But it must also be very hot for you to devote one column to the word ‘toots’ and another column to a sheet of yellow paper BY E. DE S. MELCHER. MANDA Q. THINGAMOBOB” is in a quandary. Says she: . "!,0. must be very difficult indeed to write a column when its hot.” which that neighbor of mine on Connecticut avenue, Lou Brown, sent in to you. Why not dig down a little deeper? Why not give us news that IS news.’ This friendly but definite chastisement comes on a morning when it is Miss Thingamobob's first ¢ even hotter. sentence strikes to the very core. Even the word “toots” comes back as a pleasant sort of recreation, and if that piece of yellow paper happened to be around it might serve once again for the daily theatric sermon. Since, however, “Amanda Q" is in such a turmoil, wanting to dig deeper | and deeper and deeper, we shall try and oblige her with the news that IS news this am.—or rather the only news that has come in either by post- man, window or busboy. The results are somewhat as follows: From Paramount Pictures Distrib- | uting Corp., 1101 North Capitol street: “Dear Mr. Melcher: Chalk up another scoop for the Paramount Sound News! | ‘The Metropolitan Theater will. flash | the first actual scenes of the Ethiopian war preparations in that country. ‘These scenes were the first to reach America and were rushed to Wash- | ington by plane. Yours very truly, “STANLEY R. CHASE, “Manager Advertising Sales Dept.” * ok ¥ % | FROM Charles Brennan, manager of the Metropolitan Theater, a wire which reads: “We are now showing through Saturday the only actual | scenes of Ethiopia preparing for war stop Paramount News made these shots in Ethiopia Parliament and | army headquarters in Africa ex- clusively and they just arrived in this | country. Regards,” etc. * ok k% ( ROM Frank La Falce, Warner Bros., theaters: “First pictures of | Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian Em- peror, actually preparing for war with Italy are contained in the new issue | of Paramount news now at Wamen Bros” Metropolitan Theater. The reel contains the first and only pic- tures of the Ethiopian Parliament at Addis Ababa, shows a review of seven armies. with tribal chieftains pledg- ing their loyalty, and flashes of the League of Nations' sessions where an Ethiopian delegate is expressing the appreciation of his country. “Paramount News was the only company to have a cameraman on the scene at the time these pictures were made,” etc. Our local Mr. De Titta, Fox movie- tone celebrity, sent over his little kodack man, too, and he is now scurrying around with Emperor Se- lassie and the other boys, probably in unison with Mr. Paramount’s “scoop.” * % X x | ROM Ray Bell, executive secretary of the Variety Club: “Dear Bark- er: Variety's Board of Governors at a recent meeting designated Saturday, November 23, as a tentative date for the second annual dinner dance. It appears that several members have asked that this affair be restricted only to men. Others share the opinicn that this is the Variety affair of the year that should encourage the attendance of the ladies. So that we may have a definite opinion from the entire membership. won't you express your thoughts on the attached card.” On the other side of the card it eays: “Please mark your preference— | I'm in favor of a stag dinner dance. | I'm in favor of a mixed dinner dance.” What, pray, Ray, is a stag dinner dance? | * x k¥ FROM Dan Terrell (at least it sounds like him): “It seems that Audrey Sieber, not satisfied with the recent acquisition of a new car, has added to her entourage (this is a brave word, Danny) one fox terrier, now known variously as ‘Nameless,’ | “Toodles’ and, by her brother, ‘That Dog’ ‘Nameless’ is 8 weeks old, brown and white in coler and de- cidedly stage-struck. He is also affec tionate and generous and—but Audrey can go on enumerating his good points for hours. “The point is, however, that Audrey cannot decide what to call the pup, which most decidedly needs a name. You can’t get billing in the theater or anywhere else without a name.” Oh, T don't know. “On her way to the grocery shop for dog biscuit yes- terday Audrey expressed a wish that | some Washingtonian suggest a suit- able cognomen for ‘Nameless.’ “‘I'll send an autographed photo- graph and a sincere vote of thanks to | : whoever sends me the right name for ‘Nameless,” she said.’” Suggestion: “Toots.” * ok ok % JFROM Ray Henderson, press repre- sentative, Miss Cornell, Hotel Bristol, Sa!zourg Austria: “As last Summer she visited Verona, legendary scene of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ which she acted last Winter, 80 this vear Katherine Cornell has traced the life of Joan of Arc in France, since she plans to appear in ! make his livelihood as an entertainer ’Heads Veterans’ Administration | | vice president; | secretary, and Miss Frances M. Miller, G. Bernard Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan' next February. “‘To stand in the old market place in Rouen near the place where Joan was burned was a deeply moving ex- perience. As perhaps nothing else could have done to such a degree, it made actual to me the tragedy of the saint,’ said Miss Cornell, who is spend- ing a few days in the famous old Maison Rouge in this city before cog- tinuing her motor trip to Innsbruck in Austria.” Troupers Glimpses of Stage Folk in Washington. 'HE problem of deciding bt‘twcen: one of his parents or the other was too intricate for Ted Valentine when he faced it at the age of 13. Both professional people, long teamed | together on vaudeville and other en- | tertainment clrcuits, his father and | mother had decided to begin “playing a single.” Young Ted was too tund’ { of each of them to exhibit an outright | preference. himself. Fortified by the $1,300 saved for | | him, he started doing odd jobs, living | in come-what-may style and as a pastine amusing his friends with &he‘ tricks of ventriloquism he had learned ! from his father. It was four years before he formed the partnership of Ted Valentine and Chico, which is at present one of the hits of the “Going Native” revue at Loew's Fox. Chico was a veteran member of the family, having been purchased by the senior Valentine in Europe more than two decades before Ted was born. The boy had played with him as a childhood mascot, learned to manipu- late the little puppet somewhat as his father did. When he decided to He decided to go it alone | he promptly teamed with the doll. Like virtually every ventriloquist or puppeteer we have ever seen, Valen- tine has a definite respect for the personality of his inanimate charge and always tries to keep him in char- acter. When working in a night spot, for example, He would not let a patron (or patroness, women being | more apt to ask) hold Chico or play | around with him. Away from Valen- tine the plaster harlequin loses his personality, becomes merely a floppy doll—and his owner doesn't like it. He feels Chico doesn't either. This is not idolatry, it is rather that sort of consideration a man has for any- thing he creates himself. It is, as we said. quite among people who con- stantly work with puppets. A carry- over, no doubt, from ivLlancy, when the personality of a doll becomes so definitely fixed that a child will not allow adults to touch it at certain times (the baby is sleeping), or will comfort its imaginary distress, express | its opinions, and believe in every act as if it were the most ob\ ious reality, LBP . BROSSEAU IS ELECTED [ Welfare Association. A. J. Brosseau was elected president | | of the Veterans’ Administration Em- ployes’ Welfare Association at a re- cent meeting. Other officers include E. K. Sunday, Miss Ada M. Kady, treasurer. BURNERS by the Marketers of BETHOLINE anp RICHFIELD SHERWOOD BROS., Inc. 1723 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Phone DECATUR 4181 | Roberta Shirky, | Dorothy Ann Washington, WALLACE BEERY AND JEAN HARLOW M-G-M's new melodrama, which comes Are shown above in one of the less violent scenes from “China Seas,” to the Palace Friday as the first picture in some kind of a “new season.” Clark Gable is also starred. PLAYERS TO RAMBLE Parks to Be Visited by Cast To- day and Friday. THE Rambling Theater of Washing- ton will ramble today and Friday, with the junior players appearing in their own dramatization of “Robin | Hood and Allan a Dale” under the di- rection of Miss Helen Burton. The parks to be visited are Montrose and Franklin, at 2:30 and 4:30, respective- ly, and on Friday Stanton and Lincoln Parks, at the same hours. Those appearing in the play are Pauline Hurley, Lucy Claire Barker, Florence Bachrach, Jean Mendelsohn, Antonina de Luca, Patricia Drury, Charles Herndon, Russell, Marian Grove and David Red- field. The public is invited to attend all performances of the Rambling Theater, conducted under the direction of the Community Center Department and | the Office of National Capital Parks. | Yesterday and Monday, the senior players of the Rambling Theater, playing “Creatures of Impulse” in four parks in widely different neighbor- hoods in the city, gave entertainment to hundreds of men and women, boys and girls, who take their daily recrea- tion in the city's parks in the hot | season. Next week, the senior players will | offer a new play, beginning Monday, | as is the custom, the .time and the | places to be announced by the Office of National Capital Parks, on Sunday. BAND CONCERTS. Concert at the United States Capi- tol by the United States Marine Band at 7:30 pm. Capt. Taylor Branson, | {leader; Arthur 8. Witcomb, second | leader, conducting. Concert at the bandstand, Navy Yard, at 7:30 p.m, by the United States Navy Band. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alex. Morris, assistant | leader. LANK BOOK A Complete Selection in Stock See Us for Your Blank Books E. Morrison Paper Co. ‘ 1009 P: Ave, TUESDAY & Tnblslu! AT 1036 A x Arr. Liverpool 1 Lv. 4 p. m, Back in Washington " 5 Swimming picnicking, _ hik! See Mt. Vernon, Quantico. Pt. Wuhlnllan and other historical sights. aauts 50c Children MOONLIGHT CRGISES 6t 8:45 P. M. nighily. Free dancing Sundays and Holidays, 75¢ Tth & Water Sts.-Dist. 4246 Charles | Where and When| Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. R-K-O Keith’'s—"The 39 Steps,” at 11:55 a.m,, 1:55, 3:55, 5:55, 7:55 and 9:55 p.m. Loew's Fox—“Man on Flying ‘Trapeze,” at 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7'15\ and 10 pm. Stdge shows at 12:25, 3:15, 6 and 8:45 p.m. Earle—"“The Irish in Us,” at 11 am.,, 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:50 pm. Stage| shows at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 and 9 p.m. Palace—"“Farmer Takes a Wife” |at 11 am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 p.m. | Metropolitan—“Paris in Spring,” | at 11:40 am, 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:35 | Orchids to You" b 12:10. 2:05, 4, 5:55, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. | Tivoli—“Love Me Forever,” at 2, | 3:50, 5:40, 7:30 and 9:25 p.m. | Roadside (Rockville Pike)—"Mur- der in the Red Barn,” at 8:30 p.m. “EAST LYNN” TONIGHT WHEN the curtain rises tonight on the Press Club roof, the cast of “East Lynn,” being produced by the Willard Players and sponsored by the President’s Cup Regatta Association, | will look out upon a group of tabies around which will be seated many of Washington's well-known personages. Managers of Washington theaters will bethere, & group of dfficias from | s AEEARIRRRANNNNEN Formerly the Stable of General Miles Court Yard Now Open Week-Day Dinner, 75c¢ to $1.25 Sunday Dinner, $1.00. $1.25 Week-Day Luncheon, 50c to $1. 1734 N St. N.W. A5 S The “Breeze-Swept » 4-.?2“1-“ Dinner F.::“. ot n‘l'nr!un 55c Other Savery ers 85¢ and $1.00 at 7Be, | tonight. « GARDEN 1341 Conn. Ave. Coolest Spot_in Town Luncheon—50c—55¢ Dinner—75¢, $1.00 Open 12 Noon to 12 P.M. GOOD ROADS Right to The Tavern Door Shorter detour only from Silver Spring “Trafi Light.” Follow_arrow_signs. Same Inlermlm om Houu Thursday Special Regular S]_ 00 $1.50 Dinner Served 5 to 9 P.M. DINNER MUSIC 6 to 1 Dinner and Supper Dancing 8 to 2 LEON BRUSILOFF'S RCHESTRA the Philippine Islands, including Al- fredo Nazarano and Gen. Aquinalo; representatives from various legations, civic leaders, officiais and committee- men of the President’s Cup Regatta Association and the Wasnington Board of Trade. The sets for the production have been designel by Hugd> Inden and the cast roiinds up some of the best talent in Washington. The “olios” will be a featurs of the evening. Robert Pitkin will do a number from the “Mikado,” Harriet Borden will do “Love Amongst the Pretty Sea Shells” and there are nine other equally riotous numbers. The costumes and properties will be | those of the gay 90s. Reservations | and tickets may be procured at the Willard Hotel or at the Press Club BOAT TRIPS -R -'d teel L MT. VERNON 5“ Lv. Daily 10 A M-2 P.M. (Round trip) 2. MARSHALL HALL 50c Lv. 10 AM.-3 P.M.-5:30 P.M. (Reund trip) 3. SUNSET CRUISE 50c Lv. 5:30 P.M.—Back 1:45 P.M. (Round trip) Boc_ Piate Dinner on Besrd Froe Dancing to Stehen Le Sieur’s Oreh. AMUSEMENTS Jeritza and Sheehan Toasted by Hollywood|"* Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin S tartles Movie Colony in Luncheon Incident—Clara Kimball Young Gets a Hand. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, August 13 (N.AN.A.).—That wedding ceremony uniting Maria Jeritza, tall and blondly beautiful opera singer, and short, plump Film Producer Winfield Sheehan had Hollywood quite by the ears, it was announced so suddenly. At the Hidden Valley rancho of Winnie Sheehan, where the couple received 50 guests after the wedding, the guests drank to their hosts in brim- ming glasses of champagne, Producer Sheehan beamed his hap- | piness. Winnie Sheehan’s name previously | had been linked with several beauties of the film colony. Lupe Valez threw Hollywood into a turmoil once when she announced “Winnie Sheehan is my boy friend,” and more recently he | was mentioned as a suitor for the | hand of Janet Gaynor. It’s hard to startle the casual Amer- ican public which makes a cursory | toilette in the public eye, including | generous daubing of powder and ap- | plication of lipstick, a part of any| debutante’s ritual. Nevertheless, Mar- jorie Oelrichs Duchin, wife of the pop- ular orchestra leader, did just that recently, and to Hollywood, too! Hollywood, accustomed to beaded eyelashes, generous make-up, has & deadline for refurbishing the toilette | in public. That deadline stops at the | hair. When the wife of Orchestra Leader Duchin came into this village's smartest luncheon spot, removed her hat, produced a capable straight comn from her generous handbag and pro- ceeded to give her crowning glory a good, satisfactory grooming, the ladies of the cinema sat up and stared. Per- | haps that’s just what Mme. Duchin wanted them to do. Some old favorites remembered: At a recent preview Clara Kimball Young got a hearty round of applause Auvszmm‘i. 2% MAC’S MIGHTY MEN MAKE MERRY MuUSIC TO- AT BALL- ROOM GLEN ECHO _ THREE HOURS, 9 TO - 2 whileg, | picture | in her brief close-up when she played | la very small part. Proof that auld acquaintance isn’t always forgotten by | the dear public . . . Alice Terry, an- other favorite of former years, is say- ing farewells to Hollywood once more. Husband Rex Ingram keeps sending those “why don't you come home?” cables. Alice Terry's star-stapphire eyes are alluring as ever. Her hair is blond again, which gives her face its | greatest beauty. From time to time she gets tired of it all and allows it to | 80 its natural dark brown . , . Jack King keeps a roomful of en- thusiasts at fever pitch playing some of his new compositions and a lot of | the old ones. The best galloping left | hand on the keys I've heard in many | a long and weary day. Jean Harlow | sang one of his numbers in her latest | AMVSIM!NTS‘ SUNSET SYMPHON]ES National Symphony Orchestra WASHINGTON—2 DAYS THURS. Fi ae. 15 Jic 16 5th and FLORIDA AVE. N.E. - CIRCUS LTI Twice Daily: 2&8P.M. °7%Y TICKETS ON SALI AT AWFIICAV Atgof(lo'icl'i; 2&‘5’-” 17th & PENNA. AVE. N.W. —_— AC ADEMY ©f Perfect Sound Photopiay " Lawrence Phillips rneam Seautitul Continuous Fro PM NEIL HAMILTON and KATHLZEN BURKE MUTINY AHEAD " Also LLOYD HUGHES in “HONEYM( ITED. ASHTON CLARENDON, GEORGE RAPT in CAROLINA i7=3 LOTTERY LOVER" THE DA DUMBARTON and BETTY FU| OF THE BEES FAIRLAWN JOE PENNER PRINCESS VA, “THE_GLASS KEY." Ave. S.E. e Feature b) e OT 1IN 3 Wisconsin A NETL HAMILTO) KEEPE Comeds. ANACOSTIA, D. C. n_“COLLEGE RHYTHM " 1119 H St. NE. 1 Georgia er Spring, Fr GEORGE Al “Cardinal Rxcheheu > Fox STANTON put Continuous d C Seund " £y pment From 5.0 B M RT MONTGOMERY in ESSA VE STO RICHARD cRo\mEu ond BILL SEW, MED THE HOUR Mndern Theater +, Bethesds, Md. cHEETER \xo’nms and JEAN AR TH “PUBLIC HERO NO. | TAKOMA *@ #5d Butternu st ing Troubles WILLIAM POWE] n HSTAR R MIDNIGHT.” " in MAT 25 - EVE 25¢- 'REO. KEITH’ S Starting DANCIN STDIOS, 1745 ¥ St Private lessans by appeintment. cing_a_speeialty. W SU "MER RATES still in effect. En- T o and Teara Al1 the new smast dance steps. Guest lesson and dance analysis without obligation. Open dally &l 10 F.L. LEROY THA' 1226 lnm:\lul AMUSEMENTS. EDX " | Jnmm:v'vmmm 7 ikl ‘ w5 / Loy erongis “.',;321‘5,; ‘AVI - Siage.. $10 GARY M His first picture since * The Count of Monte Cristo” ROBERT DONAT with MADELEINE CARROLL in “THE 39 STEPS” A GAUMONT- COMING Katharine HEPPURN Alice ;dm AND journalism "The MARCH of TIME" ALWAYS COOLED COMFORTABLY Opposite U. S. Treasury on ISth St BRITISH PRODUCTION L] The new adventure in that defies comparison! MAY Rofi<o\ in ALL” “STRAN ALL OF OUR THEATERS EQUIPPED | WITH NATURAL AL COOLING SYSTENS ear ot HIPPODROME o5...0v%F.. 2% Ann Harding “Enchanted Ap = Romance i Ted Hexl\v Leo Carrillo Ticket ARCKDE HY. A‘I’TS\II LE, M| Franchot Tone i RICHMOND M"r%l) ! Grace Moore. “Love Me Forev AMBASSADOR Ra” o, Air Conditioned. MIRIAM HOPKINS in SHAHS U & Col. 5505 “BECKY GRAND ¢ ? It A ROBERT ° TA\ LOR in HELEN GAHAG. EARLE Screen ssee HOME__ HELEN GAHAGAN 11 mg;normm;;:“ ELLIS. TULLI wha Mecur B o TR A A SAVOY ‘s g, ke dBee " HELNORY HULL in “WEREWOLF OF TIVOLI T® SLe R EL " Ag tnngnm;e WARN R BROS. THEATERS “NO MORE LADIES. JOAN CRAWFORD. ROBERT MONT- SYLVAN “OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA,” T GRERGe fodpm X [PAIM THEATER %ly," “GOIN’ TO TOWN,” MAE WEST. Comedy. mer rnhe LAST 3 DAYS—JANET GAYNOR, HENRY FONDA—*“FARMER TAKES A WIFE” CLARK GABLE JEAN HARLOW ¢ WALLACE BEERY with LEWIS STONE ROSALIND RUSSELL DUDLEY DIGGES C. AUBREY SMITH * ROBERT BENCHLEY and east of hundeeds Directed by Tey Garnent ‘Booed oa the noval by Croskie Garotes A story too big for any one star 50 it has three of the biggest! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starts the new Movie Season, with a picture so real you'll forget you're in a theatre seat] The seething China"Sea is the colorful setting where three adventurers weavezout their romantic destinies amidst terror, typhoons and pirate:raids. 1 LvE MY LFE” RONALD COMAN p v with CLARK GABLE ”‘,f;:a CHARIES LAUGHTON e lm M-G-M in “A TALE Of TWO cimes” "0 SHAUGHNESSY'S i with WALLACE BEERY JACKIE COOPER “ROMEO AND Juuer” with NORMA SHEARER HOURS TO YOU! 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