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THUBSPAY, SEPTEMBER-IT, 1936
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CASINO IHEATRE
MONDAY AND TDESDAY,
81 and M 1
ifTTie King Stqwl
Out
9f
Wafthinirton, Sept. 14.—One of the
With GRACE MOORE and FRAX-
THOT^TONE. ^
Again ker
world ... in the grandort mnsical
lore drama of the year! jQiw gayeat
ih^ts of entertainment ... the heart-
tkrimng romance of the merry aiad-j »>«. with which to carry on
cap who tempted a monarch! Hearl^ow^rd C^pletion the building pro-
ker sing ‘‘Store In My Eyea.** “CaU
To Arms,” “Madly In Lore, *TTie End
BRUCE BARTON
SAYS...
jour dlmb^t boundless viitolity is true.
I Into the making of Amdrioa has been
poured the best blood of the mo^ m4“
venturous members of all people. Any
idea t^t the opportunHSes are over,
the frontiers all crossed, is nonsense.
~1Heh^
OiiceT had an interview with Lloyd
JJwrie, when he still was the Grand
Old Man who had saved the Empire.
A year or two later he was just a
neglected ex-polHician (great na
tions are not so grateful). He spoke
talked retenUy withjl yqiing Ei
i^'"uii, wr
agic voice thrills the ’■which 'will 'b;jpr<>biWt»h:«*i<I it nevw would*- If we have ain^r.depression 'I
made upon the 75th Congress when!J?® t*™' want thU piece to be around where
it convenes on January 3, 1937, will
Begina,” “Learn How To Lose,
Old Refrain.”
Comedy, “Donuts.” MGM News.
10 A, M. Show^MONDAY.
10c and 25c
‘The
: WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY,
September j23 and 24
“The Cwmtry
Beyond”
\ From JAMES OLIVER CUR-
WOOD’S great adventure story. Star
ring ROCHELLE HUDSON. PAUL
EECLY iSrROBERT KENT.
Through trackless snows and men-
ncing ‘wilderness . . .to the end of the
trail, where love ... or death .
might wait! Thrill again to the dog-
hero of “Call of the Wild” in even
more exciting adventure!
“March of Time.” “Queen’s Birth
day.”
10 A. M. Show-i-WEDNESDAY.
10c To All .
gram to house federal woricers here.
There never’ has been a time in
recent years when the Government
offices were not cramped for space
in which to house their files and
records and provide adequate desk-
room, air and light for everybody.
{Congress has always been slow to
provide mdney for new buildings.
As a result almost every department
and independent bureau of the Gov
ernment was overcrowded, and many
of them quartered in rented space or
lish Workman must have his daily
grog to keep going. -‘^But in
marvelous country, where the
shines and there is so much'sparkle"
In the air and such boundless vitality j
manTnow in business amoi
tells me he never really knew the
thrill of opportunity until he landed
on these shores. If write also as a
r^ord and a reminder.
these lines no later than yWterday.
were held up for two weelto
whiting ‘for one par^ular jiiece of
material,” '^"''’^kd^med. *Tirst
they told ns it had l^n shipp^ ten
days before. _Thm they said it was
Landon Leading
In Digest Vote
New York, Sept. 11.—Governor Alf
coming down on a special troek.„..J)ay-lMi landon recgivad fil,19ft of the 98,t? .
after day it was to be on the job to
ft was losV somesil^ in a freight
yard.
734 ballots tabulated by the Litorary
[Digest '4a tks ssesad-gepoH ea' ito—^
presidential poll announced today.
President Roosevelt received 33,423,
If they nad given us the straight William Umke, Union party can-.
ate is so disagreeable that the Eng- I can read it and remember that, in
ypur
ttto
in the people—ah,, there anything is
possible.”
the darkest hours of 1932 I decided
that ascertain Great American in
dustry was hi^lessly over-built and
never would come back. Being very
ise and far-sighted, T sold.s^.out • my
facts at the beginning we dbuld have
gore on with some-other parts of the
work. But workmen were idle, and
my blood pressure was around 400,
didate, 4,169.'
The'magazine said that the second
week’s count oi the. incomplete poll
indicated a gain for Mr. Roosevelt,
'V
k at the bottom.
' EVery time I look at the current
all because some one just didn’t have cutting down= Landon’s first week
the guts to tell me the truth.” lead of more than 2 to 1 to less than
Some poKticans and statesmen act j 2 to 1.
as if they -were alh^mucontractors. Ballots in the tabulation announced
The first rule of stiteeiMnriMp seems-today were. Yrom nine states, includ-
Well, as it turned out, anything j quotations 1 think: ‘TTris is the
is not possible, even in our marvelous silly
country. .Prohibition was not posrible | notion that the vitality of America
and probably will not be until t^ere
has come a Vast change in the make-
to be “never tell the voter anything
unpleasant. Give him thexold sfuCm-
POQi”
This kidding is odd stuff,-and wkh
ing the first two Southern statM to
report—(Hilahoma by 712 for Roose
velt to 618 for Landon, and Texas by
930 for the' president to 186 for Lan-
' I
up of human nature. ^
'But what Lloyd George said about
... .... Columbia—well, if they want to vote
in structures which CM hardly be ^nd have retained their legal resi-
I dignified by the name of “shacks.
Major Departments Crowded
dences in their old home states where
they used to live before they came
was all used up.”
%
Prartically all of the activities of | work for Uncle Sam, they can
L the.-. N^vy ..Depactm^ut, £oi;..exAxnpi^| of absence^to go borne over
are still conductod in one of the ^ election day—at their own expense—
‘temporary buildings which werej^j. ^^eir ballots home where their
constructed hastily at the time of the
World War. Eveni with the Navy
crowded out of the/ State, War and
Navy building, next door to the White
House, the-War Department “over
flows” into other rented buildings.
Perhaps’the most crowded of all
the Federal offices is that of the
Fedieral Trade Comnii.ssdon, which
occupies another of the war-time
“shacks.” The Trade Commission’s j
activities have been expanding enor
mously in recent years, and now it.
has had wished on it the adniinUtra-
tion of the Robinson-Patman <Act, [
! which promises to call for some hun-
state laws permit voting by mail.
Most of them don’t bother to vote
nor worry about not having'a say in
local affairs. Uncle Sam does a pret
ty gqod job of making life pleasant
for them.
Speak Man, the Truth
Maybe'Mr. Kipling was unfair to
an unknown contractor when he
penned the^ lines:
The anihitoct and builder kidded -
Cheops on bis pyramid,
“Ready next week, sir, have no
And this went on for thirtj^ years.
Contractors are not often dishon
est, Their real fault is a certain ex
cess of tender-heartedness. They hate
to disappoint the man who is paying
for the work,
A friend, now engaged in' fixing
over a hou.se, spoke feelingly along
the'younger generation it does notidon.
sit well. For these youngsters are a^ Lem^e’s greatest strengtli, thennag-
new thing under the sun—they telllazine said, was shown in Minnesota
the truth. Pleasant or unpleasant, j where he received nearly 9H per cent
they blurt it out. I of the total vote. The count announc-
When they jtake charge of the led today for the three leadihg candi-
world, feeKn^i niay be more often'dates in the nine states for which
ruffled. But there may be an end to
the aggravation and nuisance of lies.
SyPPER AT HURRICANE
There will be an ice cream and box
supper at the Hurricane school house
Friday evening, Sept. 25, at 8 o’clock.'
ballots were compiled follows:
Landon R’velt Lemke
2,542 1,690 128
.... 4,826
Indiana ....
Maine ;
-Mtim«8bar.T
N. Jersey ..
N. York ....
Ohio
177
W’hy not keep your money at home
by giving your anbscriptions-—either
new or renewal—to
....16,715
.... 3,293
.... 618
Pennsylvania 14,989
Texas 185
2,179
.'’^,620, -5;930' i;W4
. 9,402 5,733 485
7,194
2,193
712
6,853
930
975
271
7
578
4
Total
61490 33,423 4,169
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
September 25 and 26
“Earthworm Trac
tor”
With JOE E. BRO/WN, JUNE^dreds of additional workers and acres.
TRAVIS, DICK FORAN and GUYfof storage space for files and records.
KIBBEE. -I W.P.A. funds are being used to
Come on, you millions who met j complete the “apex” building of the
BOTTS in The “Post”! Now let him [“Federal Triangle,” which w'!l house
sell you a scream a second on the the Federal Trade Commission when''
screen! Yesair, it’s none other than [it isjcompleted. This will be n^rest
the hilarious hero of those celebrated to tne Capitol of the great group of]
Saturday Evening Post stories—the | white . palaces which have already ]
dumbbell salesman with the super-;made of Washington the most im-j
ego . . . who sold a bill of goods to'pressive national capital anywhere in
the wrong customer . . . and a marri-|the world; but the plan under which
age license to the wrong girl! jthe present buildings between Penn-j
Comedy, “Happy Heels.” j.sylvania Averflie and Constitution
“ADVENTURES OF FRANK MER-j Avenue have been bufll calks for still ]
RIWELL”—LAST CHAPTER. further construction .southward of
Mickey Mouse, “Thru the Mirror.’’*Tl^ Mall, toward the Potomac, where
10c and 25c' ! the.. I>epartment of Agriculture with7l
its annexes U already on the ground,’!
with the Smithsfinian Institution and I
COM4NG—
“The Fifst Baby, Suzy, Little National Museum.
Miss Nobody,” “Rhythm pf the[ I X
Range,” “Green I'astures," “W^allktrig
On Air.”
Broadw:aiy
Theatre
MONDAY AND TUESDAY,
September 21 and 22
“One Rainy After-
.99
Planned For Beauty
Eventually, it is expected, the en
tire triangle, a mile long and a mile
across, My ing between the Capitol atj
the ajiex and Fifteenth Street at the
ba.se, bounded by Pennsyvania Ave
nue’ on the North and Maryland Ave
nue on the South, will be occupied by
{Government, buildings, while . to the
I West, beyond Fifteenth Street, the
{beautiful old Treasury Building, the
White House and the State Depart
ment building will remain at the
northern edge of the great park
of 'which Washington Monument
marks the center, and in which the
noon
_With FRANCIS -LEDERER. RO-| Lincoln Memorial* stands a.s one of
li€~ most beautiful ami impfesltve
fj
HUGH HERBERT. I structures ever built by human hands.
A story with amusing turns and j The architectural Scheme to which
twists that moves with lightning | all of the Federal buildings, except
Kpeid! Humor and romance go haiMi-|the State Departinent, are keyed is
in-hand and combine to make ’’One | a classic Greco-Roman style which
Rainy Afternoon” one of .the fineat! was chosen by George Washington
motion pictures destined to grace the; and Thomas Jefferson, wiho was a
screen during the coming year.
Shorts—“Two Little Pups,” “Mas
ter Will Shakespeare,” “Harnessed
Rhythm.” , .
, 10 A. .M. Show—TUESDAY.
10c and 20c
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WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY,
September 23 and 24
. “Counterfeit”
With CHESTER^MORRIST irAlt^
GOT GRAHAME, MARIAN MARSH
and LLOYD NOLAN.
Mighty man-hunters of the treas
, . ^ slum district has been transformed.
witk DHHKT or CohMlftt "
am In.America! Now see for the
first time how the amaziiic. T-men
operate . . . track down the cleverest
crooks of the underwarld . . . trap
tkem through their women . . . coil-
Tict them with microscopes and chem
istry!
Shorts — “Stranger Thin Fictioa,”
“Row, Mister, Row,” “Screen Snap
shots.”
-0 A. M. Show—'THURSDAY.
^ lOc To All
real architect, among his other ac-t
complishments.
The government’s building opera
tions were scattered haphazard
around the city, with no particular j
attempt to centralize them until 1910,
when President Taft proposed that
the Government should buy the land
in the worst slum section of the city,
from Pennsylvania Avenue south
ward. Much of this land was bought
then;
in 1925, a_.commis»ion appointed by
President (ioolidge, developed the
centralized plan under which the old
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
September 25 and 26 '
“Kid
, With BOB RTEELE, WILLIAM
FARNUM anf GERAINE GREER.
....Rapid fire/action, melodrama that
apemys punches like a machine gun;
laivl^ tl^ls and romance — there’s
to suit every meusber of
the faatly in “The Kid Ranger,” the
mew Steele WMtem, a . tale af
hmrgkaad speed and nerve-^rpddag
Now more money is needed /from
Congress for more buildings. It is
dheaper for Uncle Sam to own his
own buildings than to rent space, as
he has to do now for the overflow.
No matter how much real estate the
Federal Government owns, its taxes
don’t go up, for under an agreement
with' the people of the District of
Columbia entered into nearly sixty
years ago^.the Government pays half
of all the taxes. In consideration
for this, the people oT the District!
I
“Am'I having Fow”
«a>A:iKBST AFRICA” Na 7.
fllaval^Bhop.” v—
16c and 20c
COMING—
4jai ^^BrklaI Patli,”; “Deril
ths Moom.”
voted, in 1879, to abandon their demo-'
cratic form of government, surrend-'
er their right to vote ami let Uncle
Stm run the District for them.
Congress thus became the City
^uncil of Washington; or, more ac-
cutistely, the Legislature of the Dis
trict of Columbia. “Washington”!
is just the name of a post-office in'
one of the communities in the Fed^l
eral District. It is not chartered'
municipality, and has no distinctive!
city .^fficiala. Everything of an ad-
miniatrative nature is performed by
the Commissioners of.„,the District'
of Columbia, appointed by the Pres-'
ident and confirmed. byjCongress. --
Thus Congress can do' whatever
it pleases in the way of building or
anything else anywhere inside the
Dlkrict. It doM not have to ask h
Board of Aldermen for pensiaaion.
And t>be reaideoU of the District of
forauthimmi^
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Sturdy, black side leather up
pers. tough composition soles
and heels. Nailed Vslues!
: oxroaoa
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black side leather uppers.
Goodyear wek Bluchers that
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Steel shank fer strong sup
port. Black side leather up-
B ?rs, double leather sole,
arbour stormwelt.
miLUPIEES
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Soft, Mark kid comfort shoe.
Elastic gore at side for perfect
At. Stitchdown leather sole.
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\ French tot . . . wery cam-
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98*
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assd Girls
Sturdy black aide leather. Mark
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ititchdown ahoaa. They woort
OXFORDS
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atui Girls
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Dressy, Little Teacher stitch-
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Leather sole, waterproofed.
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haai Bigvahwal
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leather uppera,
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shoes that raallv leear
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For
Misses
The square heal is a new fea
ture, too. Black calf oxfords
wish alligator-print trimming.
J,C*P*Oxtords
*1.98
A sensation at this price. Black
calf-Anished leather. Famous
all-leather construction.
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Oxfords
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Womens
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suede brightened up with brown
patent leather. Cunfortabla.
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Women
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sy a
fords. New Plateau last and i
square suede
with' smooth- leather strapr
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laathar. Black
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