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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1938. 8 Miss Tolstoy Sees Religion Saving Russia Lecture Here by Daughter of Novelist Sponsored by Grade Teachers Club Dog Shows OfWeek-End Stir Interest Member of Former Russian Nobility Lectures Here Movie Man Is Sued By His Butler Film On China Opens Today At State Four of Five Important to State Exhibitors; Leroy Says Trouble Started When He Said Rhett Butler and Servant Thought He Said 'Red' Shepherd, Welsh Terrier Events Today n4l JOHN" J. BAIRD. Today starts another heavy weekend for the canine competitors of the eastern show circuit, with four of the five shows being of major interest to Connecticut exhibitors. Two specialty events share the spotlight today, with the main feature being the annual event of the Shepherd Dog Club of New England, held on the spacious grounds of the Blind Brook Turf and Polo Club, Port Chester, N.

Y. It divides attention with the summer specialty of the Welsh Terrier Club of Amer-! "The only nemy of the Bolsheviks today is this religious movement that is coming out of the heart of Russia, and it is this movement that is going to save Russia," Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of Count Leo Tolstoy, greatest of Russian novelists, declared Thursday afternoon in a lecture in the West Middle School auditorium, sponsored by the Hartford Grade Teachers Club. The countess, who said she prefers to be known simply as "Miss Tolstoy," drew a contrast between the educational principles laid down by her father, who she said "was at This is a scene from "Opium Dens of China," which opens an of three days at the State Theater. AVflP if I correct the printed impression that he is romancing with stock girls ir-ma Wilsen and June Wilkins. "This is how that story started.

I was. seen buying them a soft drink apiece during 'Alexander's Ragtime So someone calls the press and reports I'm in love with both of them," says Tyrone. "I was brought up to believe that love was such a glamorous, wonderful thing. By the time rin fall tn 1ov thpre'll Vip nnfh- Los Angeles, June 2. (AP.) "Rhett (or is it Red?) Butler" continued today as the star of the courtroom performance involving movie man Mervin Leroy and the man who used to buttle for him.

Rhett is one of he characters in "Gone With the Wind," but when Leroy jokingly referred to his butler, George Ungurian, by that purely literary name, Unguarian thought he said "Red Butler." Ungurian is suing Leroy and Blayney Matthews, chief of the Warner Studio police force, for damages of $125,000, charging them with false arrest and a forced mental examination. Leroy contends It all started with the Rhett Butler incident and that Ungurian made threats against him. On the stand today in Superior Court, the ex-butler was questioned about a letter he wrote to President Roosevelt about his troubles with Leroy. Ungurian revealed he had enclosed a poem praising the New Deal in his letter to the President, with the explanation that he believed his employer had read the poem and gained some mistaken impressions from it. "I think he believed I was a radical or a communist or something like that," Ungurian testified.

He also told about a dinner party in the Leroy home at which the Rhett or Red incident occurred. "Mr. Leroy was late for the dinner and he was nervous," Ungurian testified. "He asked for some more butter and I asked him if he wanted one or two pieces. Then he jumped and said, 'Don't bother Then I brought In the main course.

He glanced at me and I thought he said, 'Red I went right on serving. When I was serving the vegetables. Mr. Leroy again said 'Red "You interpreted that to mean." Ungurian's attorney asked, "that you were a communist and a red politically?" "Yes," the witness said. He added that his application for citizenship papers was pending at the time and that he became alarmed.

Previously. Ungurian said part of his uniform was a red coat. Courant Photos. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, who taught for 12 years in Soviet schools and who for the past six years has lived on a farm in Haddam, lectured on "Russian Education" Thursday afternoon in the West Middle Schooi auditorium. Left to right, Miss Marie K.

Page, who introduced the speaker; Countess Tolstoy, and Mrs. Augusta H. Hoyt, president of the Hartford Grade Teachers' Club, which sponsored the lecture. Huge Clam Subdues Blackbird in Joust Leominster, June 2. (AP.) A blackbird, which engaged in a joust with a huge clam, lived today only because of the intervention of witnesses of the bout.

Members of the Santa Maria Del Campo Society vouched that while they were enjoying an afternoon of sDort a clam, intended for a bake, got a toe-hold on the bird. The squawking bird, they said, was unable to fly and only the intervention of a couple of boys saved it as a cat appeared on the scene. The clam had to be smashed with a rock, they said, before It released its grip. HRR tel1 --the-giri the news. papers will have beaten me to the punch." Mr.

Tyrone concludes the conversation with the Information, l'Katharine Hepburn has more sex appeal than any other star. I'd like to make a picture with her." (I'm afraid you've already been beaten to the punch, Tyrone. By Howard Hughes.) The latest Shirley Temple picture (as yet untitled). "In this picture, Shirley does what she has always wanted to do." savs Shirley's mother, Mrs. Temple.

"She pushes a man into a pool. She kicks a reporter. And she gives little Benny Bartlett a haircut." Which latter operation Is in progress when I enter the set Shirley wears a large apron tied round her neck. In her hands are a large pair of shears. On her face-pure bliss.

On Master Bartlett's face pure apprehension. On Master Bartlett's mother's face pure agony, which gets worse when half of Benny's hair comes away in Shirley's hand. (Some of It is a wig some is not.) "I guess the hair will grow again I hope," says Shirley nonchalantly. Director Irving Cum-mings tries to comfort Benny. "Bov.

are you going to redeem yourself soon! In the next scene, you sock your little friend." "You mean Shirley" queries Benny hopefully. "No," says Cummings very hastily, "the little boy over there." "Oh," says Benny, and there is disappointment in his voice. "You'll be awfully glad tonight, Benny, when this is all over," comforts Mrs. Temple. But, from the look on Benny's face, he thinks tonight Is a long way off.

IT. S. Buying Chinese Silver. Washington, June 2. (AP.) Sec retary Morgenthau said today toe Treasury has concluded a new agreement with China for the sale of Chinese silver to the totted- States.

He declined to give I ft4 fl ica. held on the attractive estate 01 Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Clark, Goshen.

N. Y. The Shepherd specialty offers one of the best cash prize lists of the year, by putting up nearly $300, as well as six sterling silver iropmea to be won outright, and points toward the seven valuable trophies awarded each year by this club that has a host of Connecticut members. John H. Hodes.

Kansas City, will judge the event and should be faced with one of the best German Shepherd entries of the year. The 1937 edition was won by Cosalta Kennels' Jessica of Cosalta. Green wich, in what was regarded as an upset, but Jessica proved her mettle by easily gaming ner oencn snow championship after this start. The Welsh terriers be pas-ed on by John McOwan. Far Hills.

N. find it is rumored that several of the leading kennels will spring 'y-ers" on the judge and the many spectators who regard this as one of the friendliest specialties of the year. Greenwich Club Show. Saturday the leading dogs of the east will gather again on the Blind Brook grounds at Port Chester. N.

for the annual all-breed show of the Greenwich Kennel Club. This club, composed mainly of Fairfield County franciers, having earned the reputation of staging "the sporty show of the year," have had to stage recent shows over the stateline because there have been no local grounds large enough to bench and show the usual entry of more thim 1000 dogs. Good management, excellent cash and trophy awards and a fine judging list, are the main factors in the success of this event, which draws heavily on all parts of Connecticut. Josef Weber To Judge. Greenwich has scored a ten-strike in securing the services of Josef Weber, Princeton, N.

as judge of the obedience test classes. Mr. Weber is regarded as the best judge of professionally-trained dogs in the United States, as well as the most competent of those who pass on obedience work. He judges but twice each year, at Greenwich and the annual specialty events of the Obedience Test Club, at Rye, N. in September.

These two shows drew the largest obedience classes oL 1937. The club is making another smart move in having two classes for amateurs only, a utility class open to all, and no professional classes. This show was the first to stage children's handling classes, and there will be six classes this year, judged by the noted Cocker Spaniel and Cairn terrier exhibitor. Mrs. H.

Terrell Van Ingen. Greenwich. Miss Frances Thord-Gray, of Glen Antrim Irish terrier fame, Greenwich, is chairman of the bench show committee, with Miss Marie J. Leary, Greenwich, world famous breeder, owner and exhibitor of the Cosalta Kennels' German Shepherds as secretary-treasurer. Two Attractions Sunday.

Sunday, June 5, is another split date, with chief interest centering on the annual show of the Longshore Kennel Club, to be held on the grounds of the Longshore Beach and Country Club. Westport. This live-wire organization is out to hold the title it earned in 1937 as Connecticut's largest show, and stands a chance to set a new record through its selection of judges and the excellent prize list. Obedience test classes, to be judged by Miss Frances Thord-Gray, Gree-nwich, will be a new addition to the program. Two members of the Nutmeg Dog Club are big factors in this show, for Mrs.

Lindsley Tappin; oi the Tapscot Kennels. Wilton, is president, chairman of the board of governors and of the bench show committee, while Emery L. Wolfe, Hartford, is secretary-treasurer. Few shows of 1937 were better handled or more cooperative with exhibitors, Miriam Hopkins, Rav Milland "WISE GIRL" Joe E. Brown in "FIT FOR A KING" Louise Farenda.

Himiphrev Bozart "SWING YOl'R LADY" Heather Anrel. Smith Bellew "WESTERN' GOLD" MT. PARK BALLROOM HOLYOKE MASS. TONIGHT! OLD-FASHIONED MODERN DANCING With HAPPY HALE "The Sinking Prompter" ADMISSION 35c TOMORROW NIGHT! ALLEN'S Royal Arcadians 14 SEASONS ON BROADWAY 14 ADMISSION 40c some times more interested in his' schools than in his writing." those of the present-day Soviet school system, under which she taught for 12 years before coming to America, and declared: "If my father were alive todav, I believe he would say, 'It is better to have no education at all than to have the principles of education as proclaimed by the The purpose of education in Soviet Russia today, she said, has been publicly announced as follows: To develop hatred of the enemies of the Soviets among the students, to gain new members for the Communist Party and to fight against Christ and religion. Countess Alexandra, who for the past six years has made a Hadrtam farm her home, told of the educational tenets which guided Count Tolstoy in his fight for schools for the poor peasants under the Czarist regime.

Says Father Taught Gospel. "For my father," she said, "the moral side of education was the most important. He taught the Gospel to the children, in his own words." "What is awful today." the speaker declared, "is the terrible opying, spying even among the children. This spying is so widespread among teachers and among pupils that there is no fresh air in the school. Youths, as well as many Communists and those who love the movement, now are all mixed up.

All the old friends and supporters of Lei.in, the idol of Russian youth, have all been exiled or executed by the dictator Stalin." Decrying the forceful suppression of Christianity in Russia today, and the state-fostered "militant Godless" movement, Countess Tolstoy declared: "The youth of Russia nowadays want a moral basis for their life." And she said that they are determined to have religion, in spite of the opposition of the government and in spite of the GPU spies. The speaker was introduced by Miss Marie K. Page. Assisting Mrs. Augusta H.

Hoyt, president of the club, in preparations for the lecture, were the following women who acted as co-sponsors: Miss Clara Lake, Miss Mary Llpps, Mrs. Henry D. Rollins, Miss Louise Elmendorf, Miss Alice Brooks, Miss Bess F. Graham, Mrs. Philip Nason, Mrs.

Wallin G. Foster, Mrs. C. W. Goff.

Mrs. Harold Jaquith, Mrs. George E. M. Bean, Mrs.

Evelyn Cranska, Mrs. Thatcher W. Worthen and Mrs. Corwin Butterworth. Eleanor Powell May Wed Bandman Lyman Hollywood, June 2.

(AP.) Eleanor Powell answered "not yet" today to a report she and Abe Lyman are engaged. The dancer admitted Bandman Lyman telephoned her from Washington, D. C. a night or two ago about the matter of becoming engaged. She says she hasn't made up her mind yet.

"Abe's coming out here in July." she said. "After we've gone around together for awhile I I mean, we will decide about a formal engagement" a 7 A I a a atA 4iaiaak VAAi vvvrsrt HELEN HAYES AFAREWHL TO ARMS AMLPHEMHJOIJ i I "The Phantom President 1 Le 34th Annual Concert by the Choir of H.P.H.S. Choir Composed of 250 Voices and Assisted by 30-Piece Orchestra Tonight at 8:1 5 P. M. Bushnell Memorial Hall Admission 50c imi roup m.iit WITH PARADE II OVAL IUII COUPS IIAZAAII 1801 Park St.

Next to New Park Avtntie School Grounds free Admission Come Bring Your Friends Studio Takes Sting Out Of New Picture scenes tut rrom Three Comrades' After Threat; Hepburn Rated No. 1 in Sex Appeal BY SHEILAH GRAHAM. Hollywood, June 2. "Three Comrades." The Remarque novel gave just a glimmering of political events to come In Germany. The picture was intended to be a smashing expose of Nazism until the German government threatened to boycott all of MGM's product unless the stings were removed.

So the scene showing the burning of books (with those of Remarque on top of the bonfire) was cut. Also the sequence in which an aged Jew of 1920 was to say. "Thank God. This is one country (Germany) where the Jew is safe!" The original three comrades were Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery and Spencer Tracy. But Tracy entered hospital for a major operation his part going to Franchot Tone.

Montgomery got lost in the fever of "Yellow Jack." Robert Young took over his role. All the comrades play Germans, but only Tone wears his hair cropped in Berlin style. The barber had just removed the last vestige of it when Tone was told It was okay to keep" his hair. "Three Comrades" Is approximately the 110th film directed by Frank Borzage, who this year celebrated 25 years in pictures. Robert Taylor gets married in it for the first time, in or out of the movies.

In the original story, the character played by Taylor was called "Bobby." To avoid confusion with his own name, the movie Bob was renamed "Eric" after Producer Joe" Mankiewicz's 2-years-old son. Margaret Sullavan makes her picture comeback after a two-years absence, during which time she marrt starred on Broadway In "Stage Door" and had a baby daughter. When the trouble with the German government was at its height, a gentleman in the Hays office created the remark of the year by suggesting, "Can't you change the Nazis into Communists? You see, we have no trade agreement with Russia!" "Suez." Tyrone Power asks me to GOLD DIGGERS IN PARIS PLUS "BELOVED BRAT" 25c 10:30 A. M. to 1 P.

M. WILLIAM POWfXL, ANNABEIXl "The Baroness and the Butler" JANE WITHERS STUART ERWIN 'Checker H.MAni POWELL, ANN A BELLA 'The Baroness and the Butler" JANE WITHERS STUART ERWIN "Checkers" tOVV. O. KUHIOii "A Slight Case of Murder" WAYNE MORRIS PRISCTLLA LANE "Love. Honor and Behave EDM; i.

ROBINSON "A Siirht of Murder" Wayne MORRIS, P.iscilla LANE "Love. Honor and Behave" EOW. G. ROBINSON "A Slltht Case of Murder" WAYNE MORRIS PRISCILLA LANE "Love. Honor and Behave Katharine HEPBURN Cary GRANT "Brlncinif l'n "aby BOBBY BRFEN "Hawaii Call'" 12 000 In Youth Parade.

Philadelphia. June 2. (AP.) Twelve thousand high school students will participate in a parade of youth as part of Philadelphia's observance of the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution. The parade June 18, will open a four-day celebration. PRINCESS WED THURS.

FRI. Kenny Baker-Ann Miller In "RADIO CITY REVELS" Also Gail Palrirk-Aklm Tamiroff In "DANGEROUS TO KNOW" Start "Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm" and "Lone Wolf In Paris" davat-sTn I til 6 Eve, 25c CHILDREN 10c ANYTIME NO. 2 GANGSTER BORN TO THE GCN! TODAY SAT. SUN. 2h5S FIRST TIME ON ANY SCREEN! Startling! Eicluslv.l Auth.nticl Film On Life In China Opens Today At State Now when China's defense of her lands against the Japanese invasion is making newspaper headlines, the State Theater brings to the people of Hartford a true picture of China's people, their habits, their ambitions, and their struggles in "Opium Dens of China," taken from "This Is China" which opens today for a three day engagement.

The picture brings to the screen scenes never before filmed! It gives the insider's view of life as it is in China. It shows addicts in an opium den. the strange Trial Marriage rites of the the human drudges of China slaving all day for 3c, the street of the Shanghai sing-song girls. Everything is authentic, nothing glossed over and dressed up. At last here is a picture that will give you a true understanding of Chinese life and ideas.

As a second "feature, the State brings back Edward G. Robinson's most popular picture, "Outside the Law." Gladys Swarthout and John Boles in "Romance in the Dark," Laurel and Hardy in "County Hospital," and several fine shorts make up the program. Second Suspect Held In Greenwich Slaying Grenewich, June 2. (AP.) Police had a second suspect behind bars tonight in the slaying of Franlc Scaramuzzo. 52.

whose bullet-riddled body was found lying outside a Boston Post Road gasoline station where he was employed as an attendant on January 8, 1937. Detective Captain James J. Fahey announced today the arrest on a murder charge of Richard Boucher, 24 of (60 Oak Street) Bridgeport. He said the man was being heW as an accomplice of John Greenwood, 23-years-old Bridgeport handyman, who startled police last Friday by walking into the Greenwich station and calmly confessing to the killing. The new arrest caused Greenwood's arraignment in the Greenwich town court on a murder charge to be continued to June 9 and the indefinite postponement of an inquest mto Scaramuzzo death which had been scheduled for today at Bridgeport.

Boucher, whose detention without bonds was ordered, denied having any part in the crime, Captain Fahey said. Today At 9:35 KATHARINE HEPBURN if CARY GRANT a Added Feature "Game That Kills" 5 i sir jl Dorij Nolan kC Lew Ayrej ik Binni. ftcTjS'T IH fYVf I At Local Theaters ALLYN Farewell to Arms; The Phantom President. CENTRAL A Slight Case of Murder; Love, Honor and Behave. COLONIAL Baroness and the Butler; Checkers.

E. M. LOEWS Holiday; The Game that Kills. LENOX A Slight Case of Murder; Love. Honor and Behave.

LOEW POLI PALACE Yellow Jack; One Wild Night. LOEWS POLI Kidnaped Battle of Broadway. LYRIC A Slight Case of Murder: Love, Honor and Behave. PRINCESS Radio City Revels; Dangerous to Know. PROVEN PICTURE A Star is Born; Under Two Flags.

REGAL Checkers; Baroness and the Butler. RIALTO Bringing Up Baby; Hawaii Calls. RIVOLI Swing Your Lady; Western Gold. STATE Opium Dens of China; Outside the Law; Romance in the Dark. STRAND Crime School; Little Miss Thoroughbred.

WEBSTER Fit for a King; Wise Girl. -spectators and the press than the gala Longshore event which was a memorial tribute to the late unas-ley Tappin. The other canine attraction of the day will be the sanction match of the Rhode Island Boston Terrier Club, at East Providence, R. with Frank Toomey, Beverly Farms. as judge.

This match should draw a number of entries from members of the Boston Terrier Club of Connecticut. Allyn Brings Back Two Fine Pictures "A Farewell to Arms," one of the finest love stories ever told on the screen, its film play adapted from Ernest Heminway's best-selling novel of the same name, has been brought back to the Allyn Theater this week to head an outstanding revival bill which includes "The Phan'om President," with George M. Cohan and Claudette Colbert. Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes are the stars of "A Farewell to Arms." in which Adolphe Menjou also has a prominent role. The Allyn's new program opened Thursday morning.

Greece has limited the number of foreign passenger automobiles entering the countiy. 0 ti OPEN AT 9:30 A. M. COMT. 1IL (1:30 P.M.

A STAR IS BORN ALSO CLAUDETTE COLBERT Under 2 Flairs JANET GAYNOR STARTS SUNDAY 52nd St. Last Mohicans STAR'S BORN JO I VfiFR FI.AC.S RIVERSIDE GRILLE tn MiddltUwit and Hrtfrtf Hthwty North tf Ntw Mtddlttottn Bridge FRIDAY and SATURDAY 15th Sensational Week Starring SONNI SINCLAIR Jackie Lee Bobby Gaye Cay Artists of Deteption COME AND BE GAT Middletown 3460 Your Fatorite Cocktail 'Yellow Jack' Moves To Palace Theater The exciting medical picture "Yellow Jack" starring Robert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce has been moved to Loew's Poll Palace Theater. The plot is based on the experienoes of a medical corps under Mayor Reed (Lewis Stone) which was sent to Cuba, af-ter Spanish American War to find a cure Tor Yellow fever. Tense drama is built around the courage of five soldiers, led by Mr. Montgomery, who submit to experiments in order to isolate the cause of the fever.

Not only is this the most important role for Mr. Montgomery since "Night Must Fall." but it is also one of the mast provocatively thoughtful and thrillinglv dramatic pictures of the season. The co-feature remains "One Wild Night" with June Lang and Dick Baldwin. Poli's Daughter Seeks Divorce for Desertion New Haven, June 2. (AP.

A divorce suit was filed in Superior Court today by counsel for Mrs Adelina Poli Leonard of West Haven, eldest-daughter of the late theater magnate, Sylvester Z. Poli. The suit charged Francis J. Leonard, her second husband, with de-sertion. They were married 14 years ago.

JUNE 5 JIMMIE LUNCEFORD AND HIS ORCHESTRA Adm. 75c, Tax Inrl. EVERY SAT. FIREWORKS SKATING DANCING Mclntyre's Orch. Adm.

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M. SATURDAY NIGHT AT 9 TODAY Thimble Theater Starring Popeye Now Showing: "Don't Let It Happen Again." Tomorrow: "It Looks Like a Sailors Knot." i DOH'T i7 AX EVEv I ii ii i -M. II 35c-5dc I fill 2nd HIT Nv lw JOJU IfonEWILDlV JtH.