Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1936, Page 60

rr_3 THE SUNDAY .S'l.'AR. WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 4, 1936—PART FOUR. BIRMINGHAM WOMEN MAKE INDUSTRIAL CITY BEAUTIFUL CULTURE TAKES FIRST PLACE Proud of Place in World of Manufactures, While Studying Trends in Government and Caring for Those Who Are Employed—Literary Life of City. By Mathilde Bahar. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. IRMINGHAM Women are grow- ing articulate in expressing the spirit of the new South. But far deeper than the eco- nomic developments are the intel- fectual changes evidenced among them, The women tell me that it is the effect of industrialism that brought ebout these changes, For Birmingham has never been a typical agrarian Southern city. It is an important steel center, which came into existence with the discovery of large deposits of iron, dolmite and coal in the sur- Tounding red-earthed mountains. Madame Birmingham speaks proud- 1y of the great industrial forces in her city. Yet she will pause to ex- | plain gently that the women are on | guard to counteract any sordidness that such forces may give. It is their aim to provide a cultural and educational background, and they are therefore investigating many fields and schools of thought. At first, this took the form of liter- ary .organizations, writers' Bahar clubs and poetry societies. Yards of poetry, they tell me, were written, some of it excellent. Today you find about 20 Birmingham poetesses are being read in national magazines and wmewspapers. And numbers are still writing, even though unsung. So great has the public interest in poetry grown that during poetry week last Spring an exhibit was displayed in the windows of the First National Bank. SOMEHOW one gathers, after speak- ing to many women, that the vogue at the present moment is to be beautifully liberal. National prob- lems are being meditated upon and intelligent opinions are expressed. I was even given to understand, by an important woman editor, that those women who find that they cannot give intelligent study to new trends, since it is beyond their experience end grasp, are actually envious of those who can. Every one wants to ¥ead and keep up with the times. “You understand that this is not | the attitude of Mrs. Average House- wife,” she hastened to explain, “but of the leaders, who in turn always eway the women. It is the same here as anywhere else, some women are unaware of everything, others hate change, but the’ rest of us want to learn, to understand, and I fear are | greatly confused by many changes ®end attitudes.” Because of Birmingham being a Bouthern industrial metropolis, the women claim that they have always held a more important place in the | social structure than the women mr neighborhood cities; that man re- gards her as a partner rather than | & burden or an ornament. She also believes her problem to be very different from that of the women {n other cities. In the first place, | POE IN NEW DRAMA | the depression. the importance of the middle class is negligible, for where salary people in other cjties are labeled white collar or middle class, here such divisions are on different lines. Money has nothing to do with social recognition. That you either do or do not have social pre-eminence has been ground into you from babyhood on. In either case you have your place and your work to be done. In the heavy industries you find few wives employed. As one woman put it, who ever heard of a woman working, in a steel mill or mine? However, Mrs. Hoysewife must take her husband’s job seriously. Often she gets up at 4 a.m. to get his break- fast and fix his lunch basket. She must be on the job no matter what the hours of his shift may be. Her duties are many, and that she has done a good job was shown during A social worker, in emphasizing this point, challenged me: “Go into any city and you will not find relief and contentment going hand in hand the way we had it here during the depression. In most places, domestic relationships among the poor were seriously upset. Not here, for our working man respects his wife. He considers her a co-operative wage earner.” I FIND that the Birmingham social- ite also has her job. It is one entirely aside from being a charming hostess in her delightful home. While she adores belonging to the magnifi- cent private country. clubs, when her means permit it, or in participating in | the gay dances and elaborate dinner | parties, she, at the same time, feels | a definite sense of community obliga- tion and responsibility. She will do | volunteer social work, serve on the} Community Chest Board or in other | civic capacities as need demands. But on the whole she prefers a more per- sonal relationship. Where her hus- band is in business, she regards it as her job to become acquainted with‘ the family life of his workers. She | goes into their homes, teaches the women how to cook, how to budget their money, what diet to give their bables. Health and education for their children, as well as decent hous- | ing for her particular workers, she | regards as part of her job. But times are changing, and the great battle of paternalism versus unionism has swept the country. These women are intelligent. They are closely following the trends of the times, and most earnestly are trying to understand them in terms of their own personal problems. You find them sadly admitting that where the em- ployer and his wife have not taken | a personal interest, conditions are apt to be horrible. “Often you find these conditions among families getting good wages,” | challenged a much bewildered liberal. as we sat on her beautiful terrace discussing conditions. “I agree witi the great labor movement in this country—and yet those workers here who have decent homes, whose chil- Arthur Hopkins, Magn ater, Casts Hull of in “Different” Role. By Robert B. Phillips, Jr.) T HAS long been the boast of | Arthur Hopkins that as a the- atrical producer, he makes no at- tempt to discover what the ‘public wants or will buy at the box office, but instead devotes his energies to etic Figure in The-| “Tobacco Road” | of Birmingham, has accepted the place. | beautiful by planting growing things. | Arcade dren are raised correctly and who are living best are those whom we guide. “You will find the Southern woman from either class preferring to deal in personalities,” she continued. “Trade unions and sweat shops mean nothing to her unless her husband happens to belong to the union or has union troubl I have also found a great deal of antagonism here about the “shoeless South” stories. Another question that many of the women who avidly read all the news out of Washington ask is on the statement made by Mme. Secretary of Labor. “Miss Perkins says that when we buy a dress for $5.75, it means some girl is not meking a living wage at her work.” Then they ask, “How can I buy a dress for more when I have not more money?” Other women, I find, have been studying this question and are answering in terms of “it is not price alone that counts.” They are endeavoring to show that good material, strong sew- ing, and style are also important and must be counted in the price, or else the women here are being cheated as well as the girl in the sweat shop, by cheap goods. THAT Birmingham women are in- terested in consumers’ buying education has been recognized by the owner of the city's finest department store. And in an effort to encourage this, and to spread the knowledge more commonly, he recently created a new office on his staff, called Public Rela- tion Counsel. An outstanding social worker, who has won national repute and brought glory to her home city At the present moment she is filled with enthusiasm that Birmingham women, through the consumers’ point of view, will build up a splendid de- mand for the right kind of mer- chandise. Since this is the first experi- ment of its kind in the South, many leaders are following it. While the women insist that they hate to be mixed up with anything politically, I notice they have taken on a splendid W. P. A. job through their garden club work. Working through the public officials here, they have procured from the President $124,853 grant for beautification of Birmingham. However, their main in- centive is to put to work 1,000 lone colored women, who are on the relief | roll, doing the kind of job they like to do. These women, with the aid of 300 | handicapped men for heavy work, will have the task of making the city The garden club women are to supply both the shrubs and the tools. The P.-T. A. is also co-operating, and as a start, they are taking four schools in the city and landscaping them. | Another project accomplished re- cently was one undertaken by the Pen Women personally. It was inaugurated and completed before the W. P. A. turned its attention to such projects. oF WEEK OCTOBER 4 Sunday The two new murals in the Court House have been the sub- ject of much discussion among Birmingham women, This o‘nl is symbolic of the Old South. These women wrote up all the old historic houses in Alabama. They showed all the old rural plantations in the State and their history. As a frontispiece, they have a map explain- ing exactly how the motorist can reach them, with all the highway locations. They were mighty pleased when they received this year's prize from the Na- tional League of American Pen Women for the best non-fiction submitted. Their only regret seems to be that only two of the Birmingham houses could be included. However, the modern homes of the city are so handsome that they feel they are malkng a great cultural contribution with them. Proudest of all are the women here of their symphony. It is the first real symphonic orchestra to be developed | in the South, and they feel it expresses the great cultural changes taking place. ME. BIRMINGHAM is sentimental over her city. She calls it a new city, since it was founded dur- ing reconstruction days. And is a great booster of the fact that the downtown section is squarely laid | out and so well systematized that | every location is easy to find. Alas, to the stranger, I fear it offers a dirty, drab and ugly appearance, with streets always filled with the poor of the city. For here, if you have anything at all, you have a car and ride in it. However, this feeling is quickly lost when one approaches the resi- dential environs. For in those very mountains which brought gold and Monday Tuesday fame to the city, are built the beauti- ful homes. While the downtown sec- tion rests in Jones Valley, all but the colored people and the poor worker, live on the slopes of the Red and Shades Mountains, extending 6 miles to the south and east of the com- mercial center. What makes it so delightful is that no attempt has been made to urbanize this region, and you find it rural and picturesque. No wonder the women call their city the industrial city beautiful! Another fact that the women em- phasize with great pride is that Bir- mingham is the greatest Sunday school and church going city in the world, as shown by a recent study made by the International Sunday School Council of Religious Educa- tion. For the church plays an im- portant part in the social life of their city. ‘However, this desire to be good is an aid, not hindrance, to our liberal | outlook,” they say. And as an ex- ample they quote from an article pub- lished in the editorial pages of their afternoon newspaper entitled, “While Birmingham Goes to Church on Sun- day,” which pointed out to its readers the distinction between religion and church, and showed that neither the French Revolution, in Russia today, nor in Spain among the loyalists, is religion actually being crushed and dead. And then the women ask, “In what other city in the South will you find such honesty of expression and belief in the newspaper mirror- ing the feelings of the people?” Wednesday Thursday | kitchen. | intriguing,” | to the public in the glassed-in anterfum | In the heart al Btrmmghum Ala. ANT COLONIES ARE HOBBIES Newest Pets for Home Amuse With Capers and Are Admired Because of Their Celebrated Industry—Tribe Is Found to Thrive in Humidity of Washington. By Frances Shippen. F YOU haven't ants in the home you're passe. No use throwing up your h.nd: in horror, declaring that for years you and your neighbors have fought the tiny pests. For ants—oh, yes, in their place, of course—are the very newest educational home hobby. Pet birds are history, and the guppy. | that little fish that so recently took the country by storm, must swim into | a back corner. And zll for that insect | whose industry we were taught wj admire in school and whose appear- | nce we learned to abhor in tha Ants are the newest pets. And ln ant colony is supposed to bring more pleasure than the singing of birds or | the breeding of guppies. “Ants are the busiest creatures in the world, as well as being the most according to T. H. Barber and Thomas M. Lyons of Denver, Colo., whose idea of presenting ants has spresd ‘from cosst to coast. Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week One actually grows fond of the little | creatures, as they furiously work, with Friday Saturday |Pranchot Tone and' \Unl Merkel in New York Night.” Also “Special Investigator” Kay Prancis and George Brent in “Give Me Your Heart. Eademy 8th and G Sts. 8.E. Ambassador 18th and Columbia Rd Ronald Colman in Charles Dickens' “A Tale of TWO Citles.” " Kay Francis and George Brent in “Give Me Your Heart.” Franchot Tone and| ne Una Merkel 0 One Kay Prancis and | | George Brent in “Give Me Your Heart." Ronald Colman in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of TW0 citles” - | e and ice Paye and Alice Faye Al Adolphe Meniou Aanlpm Menjou n “8ing. Baby. Sing." ng. | rge_Raft and Do- Pat O Brien, Ross ‘Alexander and Beverley Roberts in “China_Clipper.” Apollo 624 H 8t. NE. Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander ‘and Beveriey Roberts “China Clipper. Pat O'Brien, | Ross Alexander ‘and Beverley Roberts in “China Clipper.” Georse Ratt and Po- more, Georg: fores Costelio. Barry- |more in “Yours the Asking.™ for| Mals " and Lotus 1 in “The "Last of the Pagan: on. ces Dee | Katharie Hepburn | Ge | and mn March lor “Mary of Scotland." Henry Fonda and Pat Paterson 1 me Ask t's Sing Again. 36 Hours to Kill f “Ehantom Robert Montgomery and Madge Evans in “Piccadilly Jim." Cartoon. Band. News Dark. Hyattsville. Md. Ashton . |Cartoon. Band. News Robert Montgomery | Madge Evans in | | “Piccadilly Jim.” | Chmer Morris and T e Evans in rmalient Marde Cart._Novelty. News. “Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor in e Gorgeous Hussy." Simone Bimon in um k! p “'Girls’ Dormitory.” Cartoo; Bevzrley Roberts in | 'wo Against World." toon. Band. News.| | Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor in “The Gorl Hussy.” w n “Meet Nero Wolfe." . Zane Grey' l “Arizons Raiders. “Stampede Jane Withers in Little Miss Nobody." peye. |__ Mickey Mouse Clarendon. Va. | Warper Baxter and erner Baxter_and | Warner Baxter and | ‘Myrna Lov. in O'B: | Ross ‘Alezander and Pat O Brien, Pat Ross Alexander ‘and | Geng Razmond wnd n Sot hern | time the living habits of these minute Sketch from “The Emperor of the Ants,” by Luigi Bertelli Vamba, showing a mother ant lifting her child from its co- coon. Reprinted by courtesy of Thomas Y, Crowell Co., publishers. little privacy, behind glass walls, Mr. Barber declares. You will laugh at| their capers, feel sorry for them when their tunnels cave in, and marvel at their untiring work, he says. ‘The private lives of ant colonists, | presented in this unique manner, first | caught the public's attention at the | Chicago World's Fair, and since that | insects have become public property throughout the country. Undoubted- | ly, an anterfum in the home is the newest. pet fancy. With the minimum of care you can watch Mr. Soldier Ant protecting his | community, cr Miss Nursemaid Ant | | watching the young, or Mr. Builder | Ant constructing additions to his home. SPEAK!NG of care, here's one pet | you needn't fear overfeeding. For | |the ant has excellent table manners and is no glutton at his daily meal. If you feed him too much, he has colony, in that it is founded around a queen ant, who rules the male and female workers in her realm? ‘That the males play an unsports- man like trick on the females by dying very early in life, leaving the business of keeping the community going to the workers? That each ant in a community is assigned a certain duty, each co- operating with the others for the good of the colony? That ants are devoted to the mem- bers of their community, instantly recognizing their fellow citizens and even saluting them as they pass, whiie at the same time they will drive for- eign ants—even of the same species— away without hesitation? F YOU have been fascinated by the multiple blessed events of Mr. and Mrs. Guppy. you will no doubt be equally as intrigued at the process of watching the baby ant through his infant stages. Ant eggs are easily dis- tiguishable in the anterium. White or yellowish in color, the workers carry them down into tre tunnels, finding the warmest and most moist chambers, where they hatch in two weeks. The eggs do not turn into ants at once, but pass through what | is known as the larval stage. At this point the workers have not a mo- ment’s rest until the egg-shaped lar- vae are arranged in different “rooms,” according to size. In another month the ants are full grown, but usually covered with a silken cocoon which they begin to break during the next three or four weeks. Watching the ants gather around the baby when it emerges from its cocoon and help it straighten out tiny legs and smooth its wings is one of the attractions offered from the ever-changing stage in the anterium. With a magnifying glass even more intricate details about your anterium pets can be discovered. Ants have been described by ento- mologists as a superfamily, divided into five subfamiMes. And by their waist lines you can distinguish them. Jimmy Allen in Avalon 4 Mm "with “Sky Parade.” ‘Myroa Loy in Mar: o 5612 Connecticut Ave. | __ With |, | It's the nocde—or hump—that counts. | enough sense to t the ht t, d cot the right smount. | por inetance, the bluebloods of the putting on plays which please him. “To )&-ry ‘With ne&flu Roberts in | Beveriey Roberts Clipper.” | _“China Olipper. “Walking “on_Air." It might, therefore, be suspected that the rotund, seasoned manager, who will present Washington with a play about Edgar Allen Poe on October 28, has led a hard and unprofitable life | in the theater. On the contrary, Mr. Hopkins’ quixotic attitude, combined with sound judgment and good taste, has borne rich fruit, the profits of such meritorious and popular productions | a8 “What Price Glory,” “Anna Chris- | tie,” “The Hairy Ape,” “Burlesque,” “Machinal” (in which Clark Gable played a big part) and “Paris Bound.” | Therefore, when the latest offering | of the Hopkins office comes to the | National Theater, the wise ‘will ex- pect s shrewd ‘and showmanlike drama, rather than the dreamily ar- tistic botch that might be made of & stage biography of the most romantic figure in all the history of American letters. THE meteoric resplendency of Poe's life, its pitiful romance and tragic end have incessantly intrigued novelists and biographers, but most of all, an existence so swift and com- pact in all its elements should be suited to adaptation to the drama. At least Mr. Hopkins is banking on it and he has engaged Henry Hull to play the leading role, an experi- ment in breaking an actor out of & “type” that has become firmly affixed to his name. Mr. Hull has played Jeeter Lester 80 long in “Tobacco Road” that many who did not know him before imagine that he is a bearded old man, who chews tobacco, talks Southern turkey dialect and never owned a suit of clothes that wasn't patched. As a matter of fact, before “Tobacco Road,” Henry Hull was regarded as one of the more reliable leading men on Broadway. Nevertheless, the pop- ular illusion, the inevitable associa- tion of an actor with a type, Temains to be broken. That also will be no novelty for Mr. Hopkins. Years ago he cast the im- mensely popular light comedy actor, John Barrymore, and made & dramatic sm of him in “Richard II” and ‘Hamlet,” united John and Lionel Barrymore in “The Jest,” took Pauline Lord out of & minor role in a road company, put her in “On Trial” (Elmer Rice’s first play) and then in the successful “The Deluge,” “Samson and Delilah” and “Anna Christie.” R. HOPKINS is no novice at the game, nor has he seen every script he believed in become a hit. Some of his most reliable henchmen, Philip Arthur Hopkins, their newspaper desks when he put on “What Price Glory,” that he introduced Authoress Clare Kummer to the the- ater with “Good Gracious Anabelle, and Don Marquis with “The Old Soak,” and, most of all, that there is still a living theater in which stars and play- wrights may be discovered, literate ideas expressed. Mr. Hopkins was a newspaper re- porter, a publicity agent and a man- ager of small vaudeville skits before he made his debut as a major producer with “The Poor Little Rich Girl” in 1912 Al three types are notably voluable in the expression of their opinions about almost anything, but there Mr. Hopkins has not run true to type. He is famous for his silences, even when he is collaborating on the production at hand. And like most men of the sort, he is quite aware that he has never hurt himself or anybody else by something he didn’t say. | Avenue Grand | V. C. P‘leldx and Rochd.l! Hudson 645 Pa. Ave. BE.__ * ovvy" W. C. Pields and Rochelle Hudson in — Prances Langford in “Palm Springs.” Pat O'Brien and Ma nm Lmdny in lic Enemy's Frances Langford in ‘Palm Springs.” " Willlam Boyd “Heart of the ) “Kine_Roval Mounted” an “Educating_Father.” | Warner Baxter and | To Cameo Mount ler, Md. Carolina 11th and N.C. Ave. Trepe Dunne and Allan_Jones in “Show_Boat.” Warner Baxter and| Myrna Loy in Mary | with T Warner Baxter and | | Myrna Loy in *Ti Mary With Love.” velty. News. ting_on the 5 ‘lav . | C1 Pa t onmn and Beverles Roverts S Jam y and Margaret | Jean Hersholt and Don Ameche 1 d Dix | in The agne: Devil's Bquadron.” Lindsay Roger nyur in, St he Moon. “The Prisco Kid." _Pat O’Brltn .nd n Beverley Roberts i “China cmarme Ja Mari 'nu Prisco_Kid." George O'Brien in “Border Patrolman.” “The Idah Patricia HMI in _“Freshman Love.” “Girls' Dormitory” an “Walking on Central Frances andolph Beott | d Sudden Death. ‘March_of_Time. d ' Ross Alexander and Beverley Roberts n March_of_Time. “Hot Money." art Erwin and Honnee Rice in ‘Women lAu Trou- Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander ‘and Beverley Roberts in ““China_Clipper.” Gertrude Mfichl!l and Ray Mill Return Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. ews. d in_"The |Ri Sophie Herbert Marshall and| Ruth Chatterton in| “Girly Dormitory.” Comed | Gertrude Michael and ot “gophie News. |Ray Return Lang.” Herbert Marshall and _ Ruth _ Chatterton m Beverl “Gi ory.” i Clippe Comedies. Pat O n and Bivericy Roverts In “Chins luuu ‘Comedies. Edward Amold und Josn Perry Nero Woue C medie: Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy in “To. Mars "With Colony Ga. Ave. and Farragut Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy _in v in “To M “To Warner B-xter and | with 32 Love Katharine Hepburn Katharine He d Fredric March | and Fredric in {“Mary_of Scotland. ""'lnry of Scotland.” urn arch Cummings in “Three Cheers for Eleanore Whitney and Gene Rnymona and Ann_ Sothern in “Walking on Alr.” o anen “and Mazgaret Lindsay in lic, Enem Dumbarton 1343 Wis. Ave. N.W. Fairlawn Anacostia, D. ©. Hippodrome K near 9th Pat. vy Allen and 'u i ind KllhenneP Deille n Co Jimmy Allen and Katherine DeMille m‘. Comy te Davis and Bette D-vu and Warren William in “Satan Met a M-dy Warne in “The Prisoner of Shark_Island.” " Warner_Baxter Edward Arnold in in “To Mary With Love.” “Meet Nero Wolte.” ‘Warner_Baxter n *To Mary With Love.” Buck_Jones n “Ride ‘Em, Cow- “Gloner Atwill “Absolute Quiet.” | ‘‘Absolute Quiel !Cart. Novelty. News. Jean Harlow and | Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone in “Buzy.” Cart. No Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone in uz: News. |Cart. Novelty. News. Roben llonttomuy Madge Evans in s Cart_Novelty. News. |Bing ‘Bob| Burns lnd Frances Farmer in_“Rhythm __on_the Range.” Home 13th and C Sts. N.E. Blmnne Simon “Girls'Dormitory.” _“March_of_Time. |Bing _ Crosby. Bob |Burns and Frances |Parmer in “Rhythm on_the Warner Buur und Myrna Loy in “To Mary WithLove. Comedy. _Novelty. Jesse 18thnr. R. 1. Ave. N.E. Warner Bl !r lnd Myrna, g 7o Mary WithLove.” Gomedy. Novelty. | ) | Prances Randolpn Scott in |“And Sudden Death.” Bing Crosby and Prances Farmer in “Rhythm _on thl Range.”_Cartoo! Simone Simon ythm ol Range.”_Cartoon. mmm Farmer "Ton lnnl !lr Ou: Btmdln: in “The Return of!flnhl! Serial. ‘S8ky Parade.” Charles Starrett in “‘Stampede.” Lee Palls Church, Va. Dark. Jimmy Allen in Jimmy Allen “The Sky Parade.” | “The 8ky in Parade.” xnhnlne Hepburn in Katharine Henburn in “Little Women.” | “Little Women.” William Bnm “Heart of the West." James Dunn ovrmed Gen- o Nelson Eddy and Jeanewe Macbonald in “Naughty Mariett: Little 9th between P and G Welson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald “Naughty' Marietta. aeanesie uui:.? Naughty Marietta “Myrma Loy and Nelson Eddy and te SDoni William Powell Jeanette MacDonald n ‘Naughty Mariet! n Crawford Melvyn Douglas i “‘Gorgeous Huss cast, Novelty. N Milo | Joan Crawford and ‘Melvyn Dougls M brgcony Husty." Cart. Novelty. News. Joan cnvford and Malvn Douglas in Cove Novelty. News. Pat O'Brien and nev'm-y Roperts 2n , Cligper. Joan Orawford and | Melvyn Douglas in “‘Gorgeous Hussy.” Cart. Novelty. Hewe _Gi Myma Loy and Wllllll‘ln Powell “Thin_Man." umn Loy and William Powell in ““Thin_Man." Pat_O'Brien and Beverley Roberts in "China, Clipper.” wun-m Boyd in “Thi a Trail.” ane. Imhen in ‘Gentl Rockville, Md. Palm Dark. ~.W. O Pields and Rocheile Hudson in “Poppy. . Com¢ Joan Bennett ry Grant in o “Bi Ey ‘Aded attraction. Del Ray, Va. Penn 650 _Pa. Ave. Alice Faye and Adnxmu njou sx | “ging, Baby. Sing." Alice Faye and Adolpbe Menjou “Sing, Baby. Sine. d Al h‘lfl:‘:u “Sing, Baby. Sine* 'I 1 Rogers and Janet Gaynor "D[lu Fair.” ® Nc Ities. Will Rogers and JAHER'EI “State_Fair.” aire -rmor i “Human Cargo.” Wiliam Eoyd in 5 n_the Trail® ane Wikhers snd Irvin 8. Cobb 4 “‘Pepper.” peye. ‘Return ewnnrnl ot S vic Theater Cast ‘HE Washington Civic Theater has found its Cleopatra, its Caesar and the rest of the people of Shaw's comedy, “Caesar and Cleopatra,” to open the group’s segson at the Ward- man Park Theater October 21. ‘Yvonne Kushner will be Cleopatra, George Farrington will play Caesar and other roles will be filled by Elinor Cox Karsten, Thomas M. Cahill, Paul Bradbury Walter, Norman Rose, Har- rold A. Weinberger, John Rappolt, Mannix Walker, R. J. Watson, Gren- ville Longerbeam, Wilton Mendelsohn, Wade Robinson, Charles Grunwell, Sam Schor, Harrison Libbey, Roland Gaylord, William Jordan, Paul Mur- phy and Edgar Kloten. Apollodorus, an important role, has not yet been cast an d'.heremother Barry amongst them, have handed him duds, but he has had the satisfaction of smaller parts still to be filled. Director Day Tuttle is rehearsing his mm»mmm- workshop. id Dark. Richmond Alexandris, Va. Predric March in “Anthony Adverse.” n. Novelty. News. Predric March in “Anthony Adverse.” llouny News. lony verse.” Cartoo Fredric March in “Anthony Adverse. n. Cartoon. Novelty. News. s will s in “'State Ir." Cartoon. _News. Brian Donievy and A Bhact In ““Thirty-six Hours to| . Savoy 3030 14th 8t. N.W, pod | Jeanette MacDonald Glmh Stuart 1 and Clark Gable n rhlpiyaix Hours to 7R Jeanette MacDonald and Clark G in hn Prlnehon Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond in “The Bride Walks Jtln Hll'lhl and Tgne in Sllver Spring. Md. “March Of Time* O'Brien_and_| Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone in u-?‘;:ez Lindsay in “March of Time.” | Stanton 6th and C Sts. N.E. Robert Tavlor in | Number. an’ A!g 'l'h! Oenllemln ‘Brien an nret Hndlu i lk" Anne Shirley In Dick Foran in “Trailin®_West.” Pnne,el Dee in | R n'.'." eohens APt Lady. Chegter Morris in Counterfelt,~ Bob *Trall of erm" State dolphe M “linl. Blb.v. llnl Tim snd Irene com- edy. News. Tim nd Ifene com-|in edy. Return en:u:ment of| OttoKrul MacDonald “!'l 's_Daugh! Jeaneite hty Mari. lvehlue e in “DTRC- Jas. Oliver Cur “Gountry W. O, He _ Flelds in Ja Ollnr urwood's ““Country Beyond.” ‘Bethesda, Md. State Palls Church, Va. Sylvan 104 R. I Ave. NW. Onwfori and Joan Rovers Taglor "oorremu Hussy.” c-mon.“ fibvdcy. Joan Cl‘l'lord and Robert_Taylor “‘Gorgeous Hussy.” Bette Davis and | Warten Wittam in “Satan Met a Lady.” comd: nonlue- J Crawford and **Robert Tayior in |_““Gorgeous Hussy.” | W. O Fields and Rochelle Hudson in |_Cartoon. _Novelty. Takoma Takoms Park.D. O._ Tivoli 14th and Park Bd. Kay Prancis in w’mu Deel? l "llnl. !lh!; Sing. Iee P‘ghlnd Jlice Faze and ‘Whalen n»y. Sing.” Bogart and B leve?l‘g"mb'e: T Word. i Charlic Rusgles and| < nd| l-‘r.el f" f Bed sertal, ‘G _Comedy.__ Parade.’ George O'Brien in “Border_Patroiman.” [Edward “Arnold n “Moet, Nero Wolfe.” Ruth chnmmn rmi- Ruth c‘n:mmn “Olfll' Dnnnl- bars_Stanwyek in Barba Wllll: Bride ro ln “High Tensjon. Will T !I’l and Jm ynor atate Pair “The Out.” Glenda Jane Withers and *[vin 8. Cobd bt l! Jfigu and luu&umn. | storing away what he doesn't need. | { His temperance along these lines is | probably the chief reason contributing ! to his longevity. Some entomologists | | have kept ants as long as seven years. Feed your colony & bit of sugar or | honey every day with a funnel through | the cork hole in the top of the ante- | rium; clean the glass with a cloth on | & wire when the glass becomes mudy, and moisten the soil a very little when | | it becomes dry, and you can maintain | | & colony indefinitely, Mr. Barber says. Ants should want no better home than | right here in Washington, for they thrive on humidity. Watch your ant community behind its glass walls and you will learn that the little inhabitants—usually about 20 in number—have a definite system | of living. Did you know that an ant colony | | has something in common with a bee Myrmicidae family boast two such nodes at the walist, whereas other less impressive families show only one | hump. Scientists have described more than 8,000 different kinds of ants. Mr. | Barber believes that the new ant craze will turn up interesting new specimens of the ant world and do much toward introducing new ant habits and even new families into | the science of these tiny insects. . Hummingbird American. The hummingbird is a distinctly New World bird, being found nowherc other than the Americas. About 500 known varieties have been | classified, but only one type, the ruby- throated, is ever found east of the Mis- sissippi. Interior of an ant nest, showing eggs, larvae and pupae in different chambers. World,” by Hanns Heinz Ewers. Mead Co., publishers. F An_illustration in “Wonders of the Ant Reprinted by courtesy of Dodd-