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Evening star., 1938-03-20
TRAIN COACHES OFFER
CAMPING FACILITIES

LONDON, March 19.-Similar in
fact to the highway tourist camps in
America is the use to which railway
cars in Great Britain are put.
The London and Northeastern Rail-
way will provide 119 camping coaches
and 10 camping apartments at rural
and seaside stations between Essex
and the Western Highlands of Scot
land, while the Great Western Rail-
way has so camping coaches, which
are placed at so selected cities in
Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset,
South and Central Wales. Cambrian
Coast, Worcestershire and the Sew
ern, Wye and Thames Valleys. The
coaches are fully equipped and fur
nished for camping, accommodate 6,
8 or 10 people.
Camping accommodation is also
available in certain country station
buildings, the rent varying according
to the number of rooms. In every
case the only additional expense is
the cost of provisions and train fares
to the sites.
In addition to the above form of
stimulating tourist travel, the railways
are using touring camping coaches,
accommodating six or seven people,
which make a weeks tour of the
Yorkshire dales and moors, starting
and finishing at York.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
ISLE ENLWENED
BY DARING MUSIC
Feet Can't Stay Still as
Puerto RiC0's Jbaro
Orchestras Play.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March
19.-Puerto Ricans have a word for
their haunting dance music. They
call it 'musica brava."
Tourists, now visiting the island
In greater numbers than ever before
In its romantic 400-year-old history.
are entranced by the music, dances
and numerous other recreational IA
cilities.
Dashing tangos from Southern
Spain and Northern South America
fused with the vibrant melodies of
the ''jibaro" music of Puerto Rico's
mountaineers produced the rhythmic
"musica brava," which means daring
music.
Echoes Over Island.
1t is heard these spring evenings
In the smart seacoast resorts and up
in the spectacular mountains Of this
Old World island in the New World.
In the flower-scented gardens Of
the country estates near San Juan
and in the plaZas of mountain viii
lagos. musica bravo is played nightly
by jibaro orchestras attired in pic
turesque wide-brimmed straw hats
and vivid shirts.
Like European minstrels, these
jibaro orchestras travel from town
to town with their peculiar but melo-
dious instruments. Oddly constructed
native guitars Of high. medium and
low pitch are the chief musical in
struments. No Puerto Rican orchestra
is complete without its maracas, gourds
filled with small beans and pebbles,
shaken to the tempo OF the dance
music.
Another indispensable instrument
which contributes much to the in
describably seductive strains OF the
Puerto Rican rhumbas and boleros,
is the guiro, a hollow. bottle shaped
dried eourd played with wire fork.
Draw Street Crowds.
These travelling orchestras have only
to set up shop on street corner
or in small store and In a few
minutes they have an appreciative au-
dience, for music Is part Of the makeup
Of every Puerto Rican. The natives
Of the island have developed as fine
a sense Of rhythm as there is in any
people in the world.
The favorite type Of dance which
Evening star., 1938-03-20
NATURE PROVIDES
DAYLIGHT SAVING
Midnight Sun Bathes Norway
With Summer Light "a
Hours Daily.

OSLO. March 19-In Norway, Ma
ture provides daylight saving" sys-
tenn which should be the envy of all
Americans who seek to prolong the
days of summer
Americans in many States set their
clocks ahead an hour during summer
to capture enough additional daylight
for golf match, a swim, an evening
drive after work Norwegians, on the
other hand. simply let Nature take
its course, for here the midnight sun
gives the northern part of the coun-
try perpetual daylight in summer and
makes all but two or three hours of
the entire "a light even far to the
south in Oslo.
At North Cape, for example. the
midnight sun rises May IL and keeps
right on shining until August /. At
Ironlso it becomes visible May 18 and
continues until July 25, and at Bodo
it shines from June l to July 10.
Most travellers begin their voyage
into the region of the midnight sun
at Trondheim. sailing through a
placid sea which mirrors massive
cliffs and mountains AS the cruise
vessel crosses the Arctic Circle it
usually fires cannon shot and the
crew points out the location of the
imaginary line, which passes over
the island mountain Hestmanden, or
the "Horseman' At the great Vest
ford the Lofoten Islands come into
view. with colorful fishing hamlets
and towns. This archipelago is so
lovely that artists have come here for
generations to paint it.
Ships leaving Tromso often time
their departure so that passengers
may see the midnight sun between the
islands of Vannoy and Annoy, just
before midnight At this spot the sea
horizon is broken by solitary sum-
NIT. the Fugloy. so that travellers
have an unobstructed view as the sun
traces path of FURNISHED gold over
the shining sea.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
80 CENTS BUYS BANQUET
If VISITOR IS WISE
Paris Correspondent Saws One
Need Only to Know Where
TO Co

PARIS. March 19.-After many
years OF "gastronomic exploration" in
Paris. Philip Carr. Paris correspondent,
OF the London Observer. has come te
tfe reasoned conclusion that the
cheapest restaurants are usually the
best, that is IF you know where tc
60" With this proviso, he writes in
his weekly Paris letter. the cooking
is hard to beat. and a complete ban
quet with three wines, can be had fol
the equivalent of SO cents.
Il took party of six to one of these
restaurants the other night" he writes
There was only one room. opening
directly onto the street, and part OF
it was occupied by the "zink,' as the
French workman calls the pewter
covered bar. We had no tablecloths
on the handicapped tables, and the
very uneven floor was strewn with
saw-dust.
THE landlady was the cook ano
her daughter the only waitress. Here
for an inclusive price of the equiva.
lent of 3 shillings and pence head
including tip (this is about 80 cents)
I'VE had a dinner of oysters. fish
chicken, vegetables, salad. sweets
cheese and fruit. washed down with
Alsatian wine, Cotes du Rhone and a
bottle of excellent Volnay, and followed
by coffee and lidueurs"
Evening star., 1938-03-20

has originated In Puerto Rico IL the
DANA" It is As daring as the music
to which 1t Is danced. But musica
bravo and the accompanying danzas
are not seen and heard only in the
mountain recesses. They are the most
popular wherever dancers gather, at
the Escambron Beach Club, the Union
Evening star., 1938-03-20
Rice in New Zealand

Success Of rice growing in Australia
has prompted an attempt to raise it
in New Zealand, Australian seed being
used.
Evening star., 1938-07-28

w YITH the usual summer dol
drums taking their toll, the
wv people who contrive to en-
tertain you of an evening
are making every effort to offer some
thing tempting. Inspired mayhap by
huge success enjoyed by any name"
band that plays one of the local vaude-
Vile houses. the Potomac River Line
has booked lineup of stellar musical
aggregations for coming week ends.
The parade of music masters starts
this Saturday night, with George Hall
bringing his famed dance crew and
Songstress Dolly Dawn to town to
play for dancing aboard the S. S. Po-
tomac, both on the 8:4S pm. and the
1890 am. moonlight cruises. Next
month at least two more dance orches-
tras whose names you know we'll will
be on hand for the same purpose
Sammy Kaye the night of August
and Paul Whiteman the night of
August 20
Elsewhere on the After Dark Scene
Angie Rodante, who sings at the
Ambassadors Hi-Hat and who has
no doubt the biggest voice in town,
has used it at the Tampa Theater,
the Royal Palms in Miami and the
George Washington in Jacksonville
Oscar says, She plays the accordion,
too-well. she hasn't yet. but she will"
Artie Humes' Cool Swing" at
Pete Macias Heigh Ho taproom Is
Evening star., 1938-07-28
GETS TAX CREDIT

BY the Associated Press.
The Internal Revenue Bureau de-
clded yesterday that William Ran
dolph Hearst, the publisher, had been
overassessed s242,75s in capital gains
taxes for 1890.
Inc bureau said the gain reported
in the tax return had been found to
be overstated enormously and the
amount OF the overassessment was
created against taxes for another
year.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
Pistol Team Benefit Cruise,

A moonlight cruise on the steamer
Potomac for the benefit Of the Met
ropolitan Police pistol team will take
place tonight, starting at 8:45 o'clock.
The members Of the team, who will at
tend the national pistol matches at
Camp Perry. Ohio, in September, are
Sergt. S. R. Mckee. captain: A. c.
Soulsen. g. M. Stewart. M. I. Bridges,
B. F. Dean. c. F. Thompson and j. B.
Layton.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
SUB TO VISIT HERE
New War Vessel Will Sail From
New London Aurust 4

While on her shakedown cruise the
ne" submarine Skipjack will visit
washington. the Navy Department an
nounced today. Sailing from New
LONDON, Conn, August 4, the Skip
JACK will visit also New York. Hall
lax, Nova Scotia. Canal Zone. Cuba
ne" Orleans. Panama City, Fla:
newport, r. l., and Provincetown,
Mass.
Inc cruise will end at Portsmouth,
~ H., October 8. The Skipjack was
at the New London SUBJ
marine base June 30.
Evening star., 1938-07-28

w YITH the usual summer dol
drums taking their toll, the
wv people who contrive to en-
for oi Of
Evening star., 1938-10-30
placid surface of the tank into a raging

placid surface of the tank into raging
sea.
Perhaps the oldest job Of all is that
Of the young man in bathing suit
who plunges to the bottom of the tank
and retrieves objects which fall there.
So far he has located a red leather
notebook, cramme1 with glamour girls
phone numbers, which dropped from
Dick Greenes hip pocket; Elisha
Cook, jr.'s key ring; Preston Fosters
wrist watch, and, of all things, War
rem Hymer's shoes, which he had re-
moved for tween takes siesta on deck
and which were kicked into the drink
by Doug Fowley and George E. Stone.
Then there is the seaWeed distribu-
tor, who sees to it that the proper
amount of kelp Is strewn about, well
within camera range
The job of the technical director on
Submarine Patrol" 1t Comdr. Val
entine Wood, U. S. NJ, retired, is not
exactly an odd one, but it has its odd
moments. For instance, he is required
to point out to actors such nautical
locations as the whereabouts of the
galley scuttle butt
Another very odd job, since the pic
ture is being made good 5 miles
from the ocean, is that of the man
whose duty it is to stand by with sea
sick remedy for the squeamish players
made i'll by the motion of the ships.
Evening star., 1938-10-30
There Is Still
Found
On the Road
Plays Start Tours
Early This
Season.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
With the splurge of life in the
Broadway theater at this time man.
ayers are looking eagerly to the road
and that is news, indeed, this early
in the season.
until spring closed the Broadway sea-
son before they started trouping their
shows, but recently they have changed
their attitude. Now they are bidding
for road business as energetically as
they bid for Broadway trade
Monday Fred Stone will start a
coast-to-coast tour of "Lightnin'" in
Boston. John Golyden. the producer,
says he will bring Stone back from
his travels in time to appear at the
New York World Fair next spring.
That Pulitzer Prize winner of Thorn
ton Wilders Our Town." will start
coast-to-coast tour when it closes
November 19. 1t has just passed its
Booth performance on Broadway and
Producer Jed Harris says that the
New York company, with Frank Craven
in the leading role, will be the only
one on tour.
Another that begins touring after
next week is "On Borrowed Time" with
Dudley Digges in the leading role.
This has been running for more than
year and is the drama this reporter
selected as the best of last seasons
plays.
Curiously, both "Our Town" and
"On Borrowed Time" have similar
themes. Both deal with the philosophy
Of human beings after death. Both
Of them attempt to show that death
is something that happens as natural
as taxes and, while perhaps unpleas-
ant. is something that cannot be
avoided and might as we'll be &C
celted with grace.
Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt
also are planning an extensive tour
which will include repertoire of their
plays. including Maxwell Anderson's
elizabeth the Queen" They will
alternate, in their tour, between six
of the most popular plays they have
performed in the past. The Lunts
(Mr. and Mrs) are one of the most
popular starring teams remaining upon
the stage and the only one that still
snubs movie stardom. They like tour
ing and they like Broadway as a try
out ground to test plays in which
they want to travel later.
Most of the top Broadway stars
like to troupe. Helen Hayes has car
ried Victoria Regina" from coast to
coast and Katharine Cornell is still
working on her plans to troupe a
repertoire around the world, despite
the fact that her manager, Ray Hen
derson, was killed in an airplane crash
while he was organizing just such a
tour.
The stars who cling to the theater
also are clinging to the road. They
believe the trouping shows remain
as prosperous medium as they have
been since Shakespeares day.
Evening star., 1938-10-30

on Broadway. Helen Hayes. besides be-
ing wife and mother, is currently
starring in Victoria Regina" In her
spare moments away from touring and
Broadway she is directing the building
of not only her new country home, but
the primeval Indian lands in the
Kakiat country, about two hours drive
north of New York City.
Cornelia Otis Skinner, also wife
and mother, tours in her solo per-
formances, writes for magazines and
is the author of several books This
fall she will appear on Broadway in
the leading role of a full-size cast,
one of the few times she has ever
played with the assistance of other
performers.
In the lush gold hills of Connecticut
you will find Armina Marshall direct
ing the career of her huge formal
estate, or else writing a new hit play
Remember. she and her husband,
Lawrence Langner. the patent lawyer,
wrote the comedy hit The Pursuit
of Happiness" They are also two of
the leading spirits in the New York
Theater Guild.
Patricia Collinge, the Irish acterss
who has been on the stage since she
first appeared as Ching-a-ling in Lit
tie Black Sambo and Little White
Barbara" in 1904, has lately turned
author with success. She adapted the
current Theater Guild success, Dame
Nature"
A veritable one-woman theater is
Angina Enters. She is actress, dancer,
author, musician. painter and costume
designer. Lynn Fontanne not only is
the dramatic star of that Lunt -Fon-
tame team. but she also designs her
costumes and with husband Alfred
Lunt has built and decorated the Swiss
Evening star., 1938-10-30


sign OF success. People who ask Fred
to put his name on programs and
pictures and such don't exactly an
noy him.
Heck, 1t doesn't mean anything"
he said with great sincerity. Movie
stars autographs are collected by the
kind OF people who save match covers.
Or stamps"
MacMurray doesn't do things the
way stars are supposed to do them.
The rules of conduct don't mean a
thing to him.
Paramount used to worry about its
unconventional property. The press
agents got pretty sore at MacMurray
because lntervieWerS always COM
planned, after futile "uh- huh" ses-
sion, that "he doesn't give.s
Look, Fred" said one of the studios
publicity counsel, you've got to get
a story and tell it with interesting
variations, build up a fact here and
there, elaborate. In word, you've
got to dramatize your life"
Fred sputtered.
What have 1 ever done that could
be dramatized?"
The boys have long since given up
their efforts to put the life and hard
times OF MacMurray into scenario
form. He did various jobs, none of
them too well, until he decided to
be musician and singer. He wasn't
so very hot at that, either, because
he got the jitters when he stood
Evening star., 1938-10-30

fiftyish, probably is. Towne's formal
education was limited. He did odd
jobs until he drifted to Hollywood
Is years ago, breaking in as a joke
writer. Baker worked on New York
papers until 1914, when he started
writing scenarios.
Following the Hollywood tendency
to dramatic all things, Towne and
Baker say it was the latter's pleasant
task to fire Towne from the Warner
payroll several years ago for some
real or fancied literary offense, but
available evidence disputes that tale.
Baker was production executive at
Warmers. but if any firing was done
he didn't do it.
One can only guess what their
income is. For a complete SCREEN
play, they may get as much as $75,-
600; for a story, from $4,000 up.
They probably split something more
than 100000 year.
Their favorite Photographic pose
reclining, tall drinks within reach,
making writing look like soft snap
was Townes idea, but Baker has sold
him of that sort of publicity.
Evening star., 1938-10-30
'Lunatic' Team of Writers
Is Maybe Not So Lunatic
Gene Towne and Graham Baker Turn
Out, on Closer Inspection, to Be
Safe and Sane Fellows.
By Hubbard Keavy.
HOLLYWOOD.


Writing q motion picture
q o. pants
You've heard Baker,
Evening star., 1938-10-30

tllCy lldFC IledIu UIldt SIlc Has dS
caustic a wit as Dorothy Parker.
She is the author of the current
Broadway success, Kiss the Boys
Good-by." and the touring hit, The
Women" She was one of the editors
of the magazine Vanity Fair. and still
writes for various other magazines
on virtually any subject the editors
mention.
Miss Boothe is the wife of Henry
r. Luce, publisher of Life, Time and
Fortune. She maintains luxurious
apartment high above Park avenue
and country homes at Stamford,
Conn. and Moncks Corner, S. c..
She plays golf avidly and is candid
camera fan.
The young actress, Helen Claire,
who plays the leading role of Cindy
Lou in kiss the Boys Good-by,"
which is something of a comic satire
on Scarlet O'Hara, is almost as ver-
satile. Born in Union Springs, Ala,
she came to Broadway eight years
oSo, Oov 1oulid ICW 1olCS ulilll SIiC
went to Cincinnati and trained her
self in stock company. When she
came back to Broadway she branched
out and also became a radio and
newsreel commentator on fashions,
careers she still continues, although
kiss the Boys Goodby" has at last
established her as an able ingenue.
Benay Venuta. a singing blond in
Kiss the Boys Good-by." is as active
as she is versatile. Besides playing
that role. she writes a Sunday radio
show. in which she also plays the
leading role. Married to a research
psychiatrist. she is also a camera
expert and globe trotter She has
done photography all through the
South Seas and along Mediterranean
shores
There are other women as versatile
Evening star., 1938-10-30
Naval Picture
Calls Many
Odd Tasks
Strange Chores
Seen on Set of
Sea Film.
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL I WOOO.
Odd jobs abound on the Submarine
Patrol" set at goth Century-Fox. AS
the naval picture, starring Richard
Greene and Nancy Kelly and directed
by John Ford. unwinds. numerous in
dividuals earn their keep in unusual
ways.
There are. for instance. a dozen sea-
going white wings" Their duty is
to clean up the man-made "ocean"-
huge tank. $50 feet long by go feet
wide, in which float two full-length
submarine chasers. Clad in rubber
overalls. the boys wade about in water
up to their armpits, cleaning debris
from the aqua-not- t-so-pura.
Another man is stationed in a row.
boat to catch bucket loads of tin cans,
which Slim Summerville, as a ships
cook, hurls overheard
A movie set is probably the only
place where professional agitators
would be countenanced, not to say
welcomed. Four Of them operate the
agitating devices which transform the
Evening star., 1938-10-30

up for a solo. He got to playing
his sax solos sitting down. It took
him years to overcome his self-con-
sciousness when he was singing. He
blew thousands of notes trying to
appear assured.
He wasn't nearly so nervous when
he was making Men With Wings"
his latest picture, as he was in THE
Gllded Lily" his first. Somehow,
though. he always gives the appear
ance of being completely at ease.
1t may come as a shock to the
MacMurray admirers to be told that
their idol is not very exciting guy.
He's always pleasant and good hu-
mored. He doesn't know what tenn
permanent is and probably can't even
spell the word.
Folks who see Fred a lot, like Actors
Ray Milland and Colin Tapley and
Writer Claude Binyon, like him be-
cause he is easy-going, affable and
eVen-tempered. He isn't a good con-
versationalist, but he is an enthusi-
astlc listener He doesn't, like so many
out here, have any set patter. He has
no social recitations, There is no indi-
cation of that nervous tension so COM
mon to these parts. He's restful COM
pany.
Lily (Mrs. MacMurray), who is Just
as unaffected and unmoved by it all
as her husband, and Fred are having
fun in their own backyard. They don't
like night clubs and seldom 20 to
them. They avoid big parties when
they can. Fred was asked why he
doesn't go to parties.
"Oh, don't know he said. "Just a
lot of people there that you got to
talk to-"
Fred is absent minded, and he has
difficulty remembering names There
was long period when people at the
studio thought he was getting dopey;
he seemed to be even more absent
minded. And then they learned that
Fred's Lillian was seriously i'll. Friends
later told how Fred rigged up a bell
over his bed with a string running to
Lllllan's. Whenever she wanted any
thing during the night Fred got up.
For months outsiders didn't know
how sick his wife was. When a public
ity man suggested story about Mrs
MacMurray's illness, Fred asked him to
lay off, explaining:
Please don't say anything about
Lily. You see, she might read it and
get the idea she's holding me down" :"
After you've talked with MacMur-
ray you can readily believe that state
ment.