Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 39

AMUSEMENTS. “Birth of a Nation” Would Be Expensive Today Archie Mayo Estimates It Couldn’t Be Refilmed for Less Than $1,250,000. which cost D. W. Griffith $85,000 to ess than $1,250,000. r{s HE BIRTH OF A NATION,” make and which grossed approximately $12,000,000, could not be duplicated at this time for I This estimate, which compares the motion picture produc- THE EVENING STAR, SUES COMPOSER’S SON Mrs. Clifford V. Herbert Files Divorce Action. = LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4 (#).—Mrs. Helen Meher Herbert filed suit for divorce yesterday against Clifford V. Herbert, wealthy son of the late com- poser, Victor Herbert. She charged he admitted associating WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1937. with other women; that he was surly and abusive and told her he no longer loved her. 4 Mrs. Herbert said he left her after & court decision in his favor in a recent $50,000 breach of promise suit filed by Miss Lillian Kinsinger. She said the suit caused her embarrass- ment, The Herberts were married Decem- ber 19, 1919. Mrs, Herbert would have custody of their son, Donald, 6, by agreement. AMUSEMENTS. “Angel” says: '1I WANT LOVE AND I'M GOING TO GET IT!" tion costs of over 20 years ago with fllming expenditures of toddy, was made by Archie Mayo, director of Samuel Goldwyn’s “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” Mayo's picture, budgeted at $1,500, 000 is a graphic example of what union wages, overtime, star salaries,- And does she?...Wait'll you see how she does in the most human, the most real. the most thrilling Dietrich picture authenticity and modern production | methods have done to boost costs. “The Birth of a Nation,” filmed largely in the open on whatever vacant space was available and with two- sided sets lit mainly by the sun, suf-| fered under few of today’s problems. Its extras received an average pay of $250 for a 10-hour day, whereas Mayo, in compliance with Actors’ Guild regulations, paid a minimum wage of $8.25 to 400 Chinese actors and $11 minimum to 350 cowboy riders on & night location scene. Overtime, | plus traveling compensation, boosted | the Chinese salary checks to $14 and | the riders to $19. The old-time film paid electricians $3.50 per day of uncertain hours; grips and property men got $3, labor- ers $2, and the highest priced actress, | Lillian Gish, received $300 per week. Billy Bitzer, the great cameraman of the day, who photographed this early epic, was paid $75 per week. “Today the average first cameraman | earns close to $500 weekly, with some of them reaching as high as $1,000, with guarantee as high as $20,000 per picture,” Mayo said. “The make-up budget for ‘The Ad- ventures of Marco Polo' alone was $50,000,” he revealed. “And this one item represents more than half of the total expenditure incurred producing the Griffith masterpiece. “Every single item connected with filming has advanced tremendously. Twenty years ago it was possible to buy a good. original story for $100 and a published book or play for $500. Today these old figures are ridiculous. Originals average $5,000 each and|® books and plays that are outstanding have begn bought for as high as $300,000. “Under the present conditions, the big salaries of stars and the living wage for extras, the advanced cost of build- ing materials, etc., it would be impos- sible for Griffith to refilm ‘The Birth of a Nation’ at less than $1,250,000.” Mme. Chiafig Warned of Raids By Air to Devastate Shanghai; 500 More Planoa Reported Ship ped to Port by Japan to Complete Destruc- tion of Teeming City. MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, | Wife of the Chinese Generalissimo, NANKING, Nov. 4—One of the jmsl of these dispatches comes from the Jetters I receive from readers through- out the world. Iam glad to tell many well-wishers in foreign countries that T am now convalescing rapidly from the injuries received in the recent automobile accident and that I will be returning to work shortly. It is very urgent that I should get ‘ back to my desk, for, as commander in chief of the Chinese air force, news | reached me yesterday that 500 more | Japanese planes have been shipped to | Shanghai with a view of mmplete]v obliterating that whole area by their‘ raids. ‘ These machines have been shlpped‘ to them from Europe. They are heavy | ‘bombers of the latest design. I there- fore must make plans to remove all Chinese refugees, the wounded from | our hospitals and all supplies rrom‘ the Shanghai area before these un- parelleled raids and destruction begin. Finances Stand Strain. of Japan has failed to accomplish its !axm when pitted against the armed Chinese at Shanghai. By bringing an overwhelming mechanized force in | | contact with our provincial Chinese troops, Japan was able to make a superior showing on but one battle front, although totally unable to dom- inate the situation along an extended | front owing to the tremendous area m\'olved. “Bogey” Exposed. The bogey of the Japanese army is exposed, for it is now obvious that the Japanese militarists would not be sucressful in a military engagement against any first-class power. Finance Minister Kung told me that in America he found pacifists who are unable to realize what the conquest of China by Japan would mean. This situation would involve America in | war immediately, whether she would | Fortunately the major- | like it or not. ity of Americans are more farseeing and they realize that this imbroglio in the Pacific created by Japan must. be settled in our favor. The puppet AC, ADEMY Of Perfect Sewnd Phstesiay . Lawrence Phillips’ Thellre Buumux Sontinuous From 4:3 ANNABELLA. HENRY F NDA and LESLIE “Wings of the Mommg g Srepentine JOHN McCORMACK. oLaDys DYS SWARTHOUT, snd FRED M CAROLINA 11th and N. Alz-Co DUMBARTON '3 DORIS 'NOLAN, JorN' FAIR[AWN AN Commitionea cEoRcE “LONDON URPHY in CLAUDETTE COLRERE MET VYN, DOUG. LAS. ROBET. YOUNG in * IN PARIS."' 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[HIPPODROME =5t~ Today-Tomor.-Sat. Paul Muni, Luise Ramer in “GOOD EARTH.” CAMEQ ™™ E"”?':‘ == “MAKE A WISH.” ARCADE RYATTSVILI _fi;m.' Gary Cooper, Geo. Raft in “SOULS AT SEA.” RICHMOND **5iyem WARNER BROS. THEATERS o g:ané:z.,, enna.” Avi Linc. 2179 *TIFE BRGING " Alio. Maren of PENN o0 % 14th Park R4 N.W. Phon"! Col. 1800 IFE BEGINS TIVOLL stinee. RITZ m:vmam IN COLLEGE." JORK g o, iy Quebec Placs MA n“! E‘NE (‘fll 4618 RANCT! NEWTON R e “SOULS AT SEA,’ GARY _COOPER. GEORGE RAFT. JESSE THEATER '3 &3yine Carrier A(r-(‘nndltlnn:fl “Artists and Models,” JACK_BENNY. GAIL PATRICK. SYLVAN 3tane N.W. Carrler_Air-Conditioned “BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938,” ELEANOR POWELL and _ROBERT TAYLOR PALM THEATER P, v ‘Manhattan Melodrama CLARK GABLE. ._WILLIAM POWELL. _ARLINGTON, VA, WILSON 1720 Wilson Bivd. Opp._ Colonial Village GARY COOPER and LTS | GEORGE BRENT 1_ For _Additional Information Phone Theaters Direct BERNHEIMER’S Yesterday my brother-in-law, Fi- |states they are setting up must be nance Minister Kung, returned from a | abolished. Japan has counted on the tour of the states and reported to me. | 150,000 of their countrymen in Hawaii ASHTON AMES rLusoN in “ANN. mous SALUT "~ FALLS CHURCH. VA dey. Deanna Durbin. “i0 Men and a Girl.” REED o ON STAGE e Presenting An Hour of Charm stazrs TOMORROW He told me he was amazed to observe how the economic resources of China | are developing to meet the tremendous strain imposed on us. In his opinion, China will be enabled to continue to defend herself for an indefinite period. I feel that the Sino-Japanese war situation must be heartening to those | European powers which have been alarmed by Japan's military strength. As yet, Europe does not seem to realize how significantly the military machine | | Rescue of Fish in Flood Areas Toldin Re port. 41 Million Left Strunded by Receding W ater, Are Saved. Tlood rescue work in the Mississippi Valley involves not only human beings and live stock but also fish, it was Tevealed in & report by Commissioner Frank T. Bell of the Bureau of Fish- eries, which shows that since July more than 41,000,000 stranded fish have been saved there. The great bulk of the rescued fish | were returned directly to the Missis- | #ippi River, but many carloads were shipped to various parts of the country 1o stock new lakes, such as have been ereated by dam building in North and South Dakota, Mr. Bell said. Although floods create special fish rescue problems, this type of work is normal in the Mississippi Valley a5 a result of the normal spring rise of the river. Fish move back into sloughs and backwaters at such times. When the waters recede pools are left behind which originally cover hun- dreds of acres but which shrink until in July and August they may measure only a few hundred square yards. Meanwhile, the fish have spawned and comparatively small pools may be teeming with hundreds of thousands of young bass, sunfish, crappie and eatfish, Mr. Bell explained. —_— NOMINATION OFFER SEEN Benator Reynolds Expects Effort to Draft Roosevelt. DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 4 (#).— Benator Reynolds, Democrat of North Carolina said in an interview here yesterday he believed President Roose- velt would be tendered a nomination for a third term as Chief Kxecutive “as & matter of courtesy if nothing else.” He added he believed it was largely up to the President to determine his successor, should he decline the honor. The Senator came here to address & meeting of the Des Moines Moose Lodge last night. 'WHERE TO WHOR! at the 1734 N ST. N.W. FRIDAY SPECIAL Waffles 75¢ ‘With Chicke: King or Creamed na Fish, | i ,§ e S S e e e vk e e e sk e e e ke e ek ke A to rise against the American adminis- tration there. It is not too late for this to happen. I would like to ask the American people this one question as one who has spent several happy years in that country and who has many friends there: “With the Philippine Islands in possession of Japan, what would happen ‘to the California seaboard?” (Copyright. 1937.) THAT EVENING DIRECTION OF SIDNEY LUST 1 DONT LIKE FLAT BEER! WHY CANT YOU BRING THE BOTTLE TO THE TABLE INSTEAD OF POURING IT IN THE KITCHEN ? ALEXANDRIA. VA, Today-Tomor <Bat. > Joan Crawford, F. Tone in “BRIDE WORE RED.” __Free Parking Space—800 _Car. MILO BOCKVILL!; MD. ‘Today-Tomor. JAMES CAGNEY in “SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT.” Pree Parkini WELL, | WONT HAVE THOSE UGLY BEER BOTTLES ON MY NICE TABLE. NO_ PARKING ORRIES LEE JAMES CAGNEY in ‘SOMETHING SING ABOUT. DOORS OPEN AT 10:30 A. M. PHIL SPITALNY : And His o ALL-GIRL ORCHESTRA “EASY LIVING.” COMEDY and NEWS THE BRIDE BALKS ! . 7wzt dhoma NEXT DAY FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE WHATS THE MATTER, MARY ? ILL TRY IT. JACK'S NOT CRAZY ABOUT THE KIND | GOT YESTERDAY. WHY NOT BUY GUNTHER'S BEER? THE BOTTLE IS AS GOOD LOOKING AS A FINE FRENCH CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE AND GEORGE SAYS PEOPLES TASTES ARE CHANGING TO DRY BEER ANYWAY. | HAD MY FIRST FIGHT WITH JACK LAST NIGHT-AND JUST BECAUSE HE INSISTS ON BRING- ING UGLY BEER BOTTLES TO THE DINNER TABLE. YOU'RE MARVELOUS DEAR, A GOOD LOOKING BOTTLE AND A REAL BEERY BEER, NOT THE LEAST BIT SWEET... HOW MUCH MORE DOES IT COST? ‘NOT A CENT MORE ! AND I'LL BE PROUD TO SERVE GUNTHERS TO ANYBODY ANYWHERE! NO MORE FLAT BEER NOW. DRY MEANS NOT SWEET! GUNTHER'S IS THE ONLY ‘“SPECIAL DRY LAGER“I Some beers are less sweet than others. But Guanther’s is the only “Special Dry Lager” now made in this part of the country. There is a beer made out in St. Louis that’s known as an “Extra,Dry Lager.” And in the last few years it has become as popular there as Gunther’s is here! So you see it’s no accident that Guather’s is by far the biggest-selling beer in these parts! Real beer drinkers simply insist on a dry beery beer. And as more and more people lose their prohibi- tion-day taste for sweet drinks, as more and more people become EXPERIENCED drinkers, you get an overwhelming number who &now how real beer should taste. That’s all the sécret there is about Gunther’s success. It’s just a drier beer-i-er beer. And the real beer drinkers know it! Switch to Gunther’s and find out for yourself how good a dry beery beer can be. Guather Brewing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. GUNTHER'S 2 BEER