Evening star., 1938-05-27

So we start through the mail.
in the first envelope starts out Oracle
Allen did a surrealistic painting Of
Jack Benny which she plans to give
to Mary Livingstone" Enough. That
ones for the file; that file there IN
the corner. Drop it right on top OF
the envelope. So into the next. which
turns out to be a collection of bright
items from R-K-O Radio. "A new
style in evening coiffeurs has been
launched by Joan Fontaine, blond
screen star, who is - Whoah! The
wastebasket's still in the corner.
Try this one from Paramount. Sure
try it and find this momentous piece
of news: About 5000 cowboy songs
are extant, either sung now or in the
books. So it seems rather odd to hear
that Ralph Ranger and Leo Robin.
disregarding these, have written II
cowpuncher ballads for The Texans y
It seems odder still that we have to
hear about it; try another letter. SO
lust for variation we'll start at the
middle of this story instead of with
the first paragraph; and look at what
we will find. "On the wall Of my
den (it's Richard Dix talking have
a motto which reads: If you know
what you want . life's clnch. y
Yeah? Well, we want something in
the morning mail that makes sense,
and it's no cinch. Try another one;
for instance this page OF Candid
Camera Clips" fresh from the Colunl-
bia lot. How's this: "Melvyn Douglas
unwrapping fresh pineapples packed
in dry ice they came from his
friend Cary Grant, now vacationing
in Honolulu, who sent them via the
China Clipper" Touching. what?
But here, further down the same
page. is the item for which we have
been looking, the news flash which
makes wading through the rest OF this
worthwhile. "Rouben Mamoullan,
readying for his next picture at CO.
lumbia, buying new cord Tor the
silver whistle he wears when olrects
ingl Stop the presses!
But we are really not angry with
the boys out there for looking at their
world through magnifying glasses, for
not always do they do this to US. And
we certainly do not envy them their
Jobs when they have to get to work
and cannot look through the mail ana
get a column started like we just did.
IRON near and far, but mostly from
L New York, come the Roadsiders
back to the Roadside Theater. With
Sweeney Todd" the groups opener,
going into rehearsal Sunday night
and with the opening set for June Is,
the wanderers are returning home to
the red barn out on the Rockville pike
Director Tony Hardt is back in town
already, Designer -Technician Henry
Pearson is scheduled to leave Yale
University over the week end. from
Boston also will come Betty Wheeler
Hall, the new property mistress. and
Robert Beers, a mainstay of the back
stage crew. Already busy with paint
pots and fats and things is Karl Gay.
who left Broadway last week, and
Howard Wierum is back from New
York, too, with Virginia True and
James Rawls planning to desert
Broadway for the COW barn almost any
day now. It won't be long until that
cowbell will clang.
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THERE'S another note Of rosy hue
= in the news, q note which adds
further credence to the slight rumors
that the moviemakers are getting
ready to chop budgets SO films will
nav on American distribution alone
If necessary, then delve into the wider
field of picture material available.
Samuel Goldwyn already has an
nounced "The Exiles," dealing with
Nazi Germany today, and now Walter
Wanger, one Of moviedom's more
astute citizens, is taking stand. Mr..
Wanger's picture, Blockade" which
stars Madeleine Carroll and Henry
Fonda, Is even now in the hands Of
Joseph I. Breen, code administrator
for the Motion Picture Producers AS
ISOLATION, On its way to Europe for
showing to aim censors tn London and