Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1937, Page 14

A—14 » PAGE SURPRES PRESDENT'S SON Senator Reynolds’ Banquet | Guest Not Helping Make U. S. Demecratic. BY ROBERT A. ERWIN. The Republican page from New Hampshire took the President’s son by surprise in the main act at Sen- ator Bob Reynolds’ banquet last night. Fourteen-year-old Harry Burke, Jr., slight and rather soft-spoken na- tive son of Nashua, was one of the 22 Senate pages entertained at the Rey- nolds festive board. Reynolds, James Roosevelt, the President’s son, and the page boys staged the main act in the glare of lights turned on them in the Senate Office Building dining room by the sound movie men. “I understand there is a boy here from New Hampshire—that's closest to Maine and Vermont,” spoke James Roosevelt. Harry nodded—he was the boy from New Hampshire. “Do you think you can ever make the whole United States Democratic?” . asked Roosevelt. “Well, sir,” replied Harry, Republican myself.” The guests laughed and Roosevelt Joined them, despite his surprise. Harry didn't speak with enough vocal force and the movie men called for another “‘take.” This time Roosevelt led off differ- | ently | “I understand there are three pages | here who are Republicans,” said the " Presidept's son. Harry and two other boys, sur- rounded by the New Deal, nodded as- sent. | “I hope during your stay here that | the other boys will convert you,” James Roosevelt told them. And off the record he promised to “make sure the next time which are Democrats and which are Republicans.” [ The President's son then spoke | briefly to the pages and this part of “I'm a FLOYD GIBBONS SUED FOR §250,000 Script Writer Claims Com- mentator Made Mislead- ing Interpolations. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—A $250,000 damage suit against Floyd Gibbons, radio commentator and foreign corre- spondent, was disclosed yesterday when the defendant’s counsel argued for a dismissal of the action before Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pe- cora. Decislon was reserved. Charles Locke, the plaintiff and a writer of radio scripts, charged that Gibbons had damaged his reputation by interpolating “improper and mis- leading” statements into compositions he had prepared for Gibbons’ com- ments on the Ohio flood last January. Sensational Insertions Claimed. Locke claimed that Gibbons had made the insertions “for the purpose of making melodramatic situations and falsely indicating that sensational THE EVENING happenings were taking place at the scene of the broadcast.” The suit charged that on the night of January 28 from Station WLW, Cincinnati, Gibbons had broadcast “that he was reading the script by the light of a railroad lantern, whereas ® * * he was reading the script by * * * the usual and customary electric light.” Locke charged, also, that Gibbons had told the radio audience “that he was actually talking to a diver * * = Jocated 5 miles away under 20 feet of water, whereas in truth and in fact Gibbons was talking to an actor * * * in the studio talking through a lard can.” Doubts Slander, Leo P. Dorsey, Gibbons' counsel, told the court that the suit “had serious possibilities and consequences supposedly in libel” He said that “it is doubtful in all jurisdictions whether a defamation over the radio is libel or slander, but, if not libel, 1t is not necessarily slander.” He argued that “the plaintiff was not held * * * in the light of a cheat” and that “there was nothing in the interpolations far fetched.” “The audience believed it,” he said, “and still believes it.” Pittsburgh of Spain. Bilbao, seaport capital of the Basque republic, is known as the Pittsburgh of Spain because of its iron foundries. Paint Up Time Is “Murco” Time Make the most of Paint Up week by using “MURCO” Lifelong Paint! Every “MURCO” product gives you beauty that endures. “MURCO” is 100% Pure. Made from pure Linseed Oil, Pure White Lead, Pure Turpen- * the show was over. The Senator pre- viously had gone extemporaneously, | as is his forensic custom, through a brief tribute to his boy favorites, the Senate pages. Introducing Roosevelt Reynolds &aid he polled the pages for their | choice of “the speaker of the eves ning” and they voted to the last boy for the President’s son. Roosevelt told the youths they had the privilege to “see and hear written the greatest pages in the history of the United States.” Referring to the Supreme Court struggle, Roosevelt said this great issue had been reduced to simplicity so every one could under- stand it, and declared the page boys “have been offered the opportunity to hear a great public debate—probably the greatest in the history of our country, made great because of the radio, and to understand the great issue at stake. Reynolds read a message of greet- ing from President Roosevelt to the Benate pages. “These fine youngsters were chosen for their duties,” the President said, “because of their honesty and straightforwardness in addition to their alertness and intelligence, and I like to think that while they are rendering such faithful service to the members of the Seante they are also heing trained for good citizenship and further public service in the years that lle ahead.” | MODERN ART TOPIC OF GOODYEAR TALK A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, will discuss the work of the museum and contemporary art be- fore a group of prominent Washing- tonians at the home of Mrs. Dwight Davis. 2300 Foxhall road, at 5 p.m. next Monday. Mrs. Davis recently was appointed out-of-town chairman of the museum’s Membership Committee for this city. Late next Fall Mrs. Davis, in associa- tion with Mrs. George Garrett, plans to open an art gal]er‘n Washington, it was announced. 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