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Evening star., 1938-09-27
Leon Belasco Quits
Waving a Stick
To Be an Actor.

For the past 10 years Leon Belasco
- had one Of the ace dance bands
OF the country. For the past nve years.
combining radio. appearances, trans
continental broAdcasts, and hotel and
night club performances. he's consid-
cred It = poor week when he didn't
make $500.
, A. couple Of months, ago Leon rot
tired OF being an orchestra leader. He
wanted to be an actor. He came to
HOLLYWOOD ana today he is an actorl
He's been signed by Milton Bren.
executive producer It the Hal Roach
Studios, for . role In. Topper Takes
= Trip" He doesn't get the salary
he's been accustomed to. He doesn't
get one-tenth Of 1t. He gets $500 q
week.
Maybe" Belasco says, "I'm Z mad
Russian. But I'm sick Of playing 4
fiddle and leading . band. I'm sick
OF staying only / couple Of months
or weeks In one place. I've done It
all my life and now want to settle
down.
r don't expect 70 make much monsy
acting. But st lsast I can stay put"
Evening star., 1938-09-27

Czechoslovakia Is consuming three
times Is much American condensed
milk Is q year ago.
Evening star., 1938-09-27

Five and six-room houses have been
found two stories below the surface
In Peru. p.
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to coincide with those worn by the
different post commanders whom she
entertained.
Jascha Heifetz receives $125, 900 for
the six numbers he plays in 1.-THE
Reckless Age" for which the story
has yet to be written. It Is something
new in FINLAND to record the music
first, and then write plot to fit i.
Leo 0orcey, the eldest Of the Dead
End" kids, has been checking up on
his fan mail and finds he Is 18th in
popularity at Warner Bros. He wants
q salary raise. and has threatened
that, unless he Is paid $500 a week
when his option comes up for renewal
October IS. he will abstain from shaw
ing! Cleo was paid $65 a week when
he was on the stage-and glad to
get it,
Barbara Stanwyck has bought an
old oak tree for her ranch that cost
her, SO I am told, $1,000. could
buy q whole garden for that-and still
have something left over Sabu,
the little Indian actor, arrived at q
recent preview attended by his two
bearded and costumed guards. Sam
Goldwyn shouted Hello to him, but
the lad, looking neither. to the left or
right, stalked majestically into the
theater. Mr.. Goldwyn only happens to
be one Of the kind gentlemen who
pay Sabu his salary Talking about
Goldwyn reminds me Of another pro-
ducer's very ungrammatical answer
when some one suggested that Kay
Francis and Ronald Colman appear
in a certain picture together (way
back in the period when Kay played
unsympathetic roles on the screen)
Said the producer. "Ronnie don't make
love to no heavy woman!"
fCoryright. 1888. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-09-27
At Long Last
Love Finds
Mr.. Tracy
Spencer Has a Gal
In His Next
Picture.
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
~ EHIND movie headlines:
* Guests at dinner party tn
other night, Spencer Tracy an
Evening star., 1938-09-27

necessary by her recent shedding Of
4S pounds. Personally, think 1t was
Watch for Miss Kelly's per-
Torrance in There Goes My Heart"
She's great.)
Evening star., 1938-09-27

directed by Frank Capra. On it the
studio lavished every possible care to
make 1t the ultimate in entertainment,
1t Is not . photograph of the stage
play, but 1t is = motion picture which
retains the spirit Of the original. The
characters are substantially the same,
the philosophy Of the drama il the
same. 1t differs primarily in the fact
that the stage Is larger, the medium
much more flexible. In the transla.
ton there are bound to be losses, but
there also are gains. The picture Is .
product styled for . vastly. larger
audience, deserves that audience. and
undoubtedly will get 1t.
And for those who want to make
comparisons. whatever meaning they
may lack. there IS the stage version
of the same play to be seen all this
week at the National.
AS for this department, 1t Is think
ing 1t will try to drop the comparison
for a while. Well try. anyhow.
4 X X X
WASHINGTON probably will have
tts chance to see Gertrude Law
renee, practically its favorite actress,
again this season. It is not assured
definitely, but the chances are good.
When Miss Lawrence headed West
In Susan and God" the idea was
that she would do the play here on
the return trip despite the fact that
1t already had been seen here. Since
then, however, John Golden has found
a new drama for the scintillating
Miss Lawrence. Like Susan and
God" it is the product of a woman
dramatist's pen, the woman being
Lenore Coffee.
Miss Coffee played a trick on Mr..
Golden In submitting to him the
manuscript Of THE Birds Stop Sing
ing" She put the name of Rose
Graham on the title page. just as if
she were an amateur named Rose
Graham, joining the other amateurs
in conspiracy to intrude upon the
time Of producers. The story goes,
however, that Mr.. Golden read just
few pages before he saw right through
Miss Coffee's ruse.
The play already is in rehearsal,
will be presented at matinee per-
formances during Miss Lawrence's stay
there and probably will drop of here
and several other places en- route to
New York.
X X
THEY do come back. Winfield r.
Sheehan, pioneer motion picture
executive, Is on the job again. The
former Fox production head has
moved over to M-G-M, where he has
q producer contract. Just how
much more glamorous Hedy Lamar
has become soon will be revealed in
celluloid instead of just ink sprayed
by the publicity department. Her
first American-made picture, "Algiers."
was screened yesterday as a prelude
to its early showing at the Palace.
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tho Alne arc pdSeQ upon the preCtlCe
Of the studios Of converting successful
stage dramas into pictures. There Is
no reason why they should not do 20.
And there are dozens Of reasons why
they should. But invariably, inevi-
tably and insistently they are met with
one Of two Criticisms:
l. The effort to adapt the original
TO the large scope Of the camera repre-
sents . butchery Of art.
2. The neglect to recognize the
larger scope Of the camera makes the
1inal product no more than . mere
photograph Of stage play. And 50.
bah!
Both are equally pernicious treach-
cries to those who have voices to raise
against the practices of studios. Either
way. the producers are damned. They
photograph = stage play or they do
not photograph a stage play, and the
result Is spanking regardless.
WHAT are the studios likely to do
about it? Nothing. They will
60 on making pictures out of stage
plays and being criticized either for
not following the original or for follow
ing 1t. One reason they will continue
Is that the great majority of nom
professional movie goers, unlike critics,
do not consider the comparison at all.
The adaptation results in good enter
tainment or in bad entertainment, and
that is that. The original does not
figure In the calculations at all.
Take, for example, the current
Room Service It does two very
interesting things in that it achieves
an excellent entertainment level and
attempts to find new comedy pattern
Tor the frenetic Marxes. It needs no
apology, justification nor comparison
with the original, not even from this
department., which at first blush seems
to have thought 1t did.
Coming up this week IS "You Can't
Take It With You," Columbia's version
Of last years Pulitzer prize play,
Evening star., 1938-09-27
Star Importations
In Cinema CityHit
A New High.

HOLLYWOOD IS practically in a
state Of siege by reason Of the
greatest foreign talent invasion In
years.
From most of the countries Of
Europe, Canada and Mexico, the po-
tential star material has been pouring
In during the past year as perhaps
never before In the history Of the film
capital.
And the "payo1" came when Para
mount imported ventriloquist's
dummy named Goliath from the Eng
lish stage to be teamed with Punkins
Parker in the Dorothy Lamour-Lloyd
Nolan picture, "St. Louis Blues"
From France new importations are
Danelle Darrieux, Fernand Gravel,
Georges Rigaud and Jacqueline Lau-
rent: from Italy, Isa Miranda; Hun
gary, Franciska Gaal; Austria, nona
Massey and Melisa Korjus; Germany,
Hedy La Mari: England, G. v. France
and Robert Morley; Ireland, Greer
Carson; Canada, Beatrice Little, and
Mexico, Tito 0uisar.
Scarcely less recent than these are
Olympic Bradna (France), currently
starring in Paramount's "Say It in
French; simone Simon (who has
already returned to France, Gustav
Wally (gone back to.Denmark). Enrol
Flynn (IrelanO and Luise Rainer
(Austria).
Then, Of course, there are the old
guard members Of the foreign colony,
including 0rets Garbo, Marlene Diet
rich, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman,
Herbert Marshall, Ray Milland, Akin
Tamiron and Basil Rathbone.
But Hollywood manages to maintain
. favorable trade balance" on this
score. Not only do its own stars
frequently do pictures In other lands.
but Paramount has just determined to
increase the siss Of it, studies In
England and France and viii now turn
out major pictures IN both plants.
Evening star., 1938-09-27

11SA04 "0SO.
~ EHIND movie headlines:
* Guests at q dinner party the
other night, Spencer Tracy and
Paul NUM- got OF in = corner
for tanning bee. They congratulated
each other gleefully on having been
able to escape love-interest burdens in
their movie roles. Next day Tracy
was notified he would carry the torch
to Hedy Lamar in Manhattan Gin
derella." Setting at rest rumors
that she'll continue her career at
another studio, Kay Francis Is buying
travel wardrobe and packing her trunks
for q European trip, which she insists
on undertaking in spits of the war
scare. E. Helen Broderick will be love-
interest for Wallace Beery In stand
Up and Fight" .. The Gary Coopers
expect second child within . few
months. Richard Carle, veteran
musical comedy star who retired from
screen roles year ago, Is seriously Ill
in his Hollywood home.
II nine producers able to run from
home plate to first base without use
OF standby car can be found, they'll
meet q combination team of writer's
and actors in . softball game next
week. William Powell is recuperat-
ing rapidly from his second operation,
but won't attempt q return to the
screen until next spring. And then
probably not for M-G-M, as he can't
get together with the studio on q price
ticket. Sneak preview Of The SIS
ters' brought 1t home to the Warmers
that the clinch-and-kiss ending Is still
the best bet. As shown, Bette Davis
and Enrol Flynn walked their separate
ways at the fade-out, but visible audi
ence displeasure caused the studio to
call the stars back for 4 balcony
sequence which makes them 'live
happily ever after"
Paul Muni and Perc Westmore,
makeup man, will have . standing
date for 6 O'Clock each morning at
the Warner studio when "Juarez" goes
into production. Cumbersome face
build-ups which NUM- will wear require
two hours and half to apply. Muni's
"zola" makeup was two-hour Job.
. After Claudette Colbert was
coached in the singing of torch song
for "Zaza," Paramount executives were
so pleased with results, they decided
the star should sing another number.
Song writer's were put to work and
turned up one in comedy vein titled,
I'm the stupidest Girl in the Class"
=. In 'The Oracle Allen Murder
Case" Oracle will appear without her
husband-partner, George Burns, for
the FIRST time. M-G-M Is ponderine
remake of "The Pagan" popular
South Sea idyll which starred Ramon
Novarro in 1929. Another title might
be drafted, but the sentimental, Pagan
Love Song" would be revived. Hedy
Lamar, who figures in nearly every
story M-G-M contemplates these days,
has first call for the heroine part.
Renee Adoree, who died in 1888, PLAYED
opposite Novarro In the original pic
ture. 49,
Copyright. 1898. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-09-27
Ear Trouble Again Bothers
Jeanette Macdonald
Other Stars, Too, Have Difficulties,
Both With the Medicos and
With Matrimony.
HOLLYWOOD.
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM.

MacDoNDs current opeaon reveals for the nrst
time the excrciang
Of the time she worked in "sweehear" This fourth
Jeante ear has proved troublesome Her doctor has promised that
his latest surgical attention
Even though william said to be
Evening star., 1938-09-27

Thin Man" series.
Excellent as these
gentlemen ~
be, ! for one pro-
test strongly at
the possibility Of
any other male
z < ept Powell
playing Nick
Charles In.
cidentally, Patsy
Kelley's medico
is urging her to
undergo an inter-
nal operation
which Patsy as
sures her friends
was not made
Evening star., 1938-09-27
Prize Comedy
Returns to
National
You Can't Take 1t
With You Again
Is Rare Fun.
By HARRY MacARTHUR.

~ you CAN'T TAKE 1T WITH
" YOU" still is q rich theat-
rical pudding, full to the
Evening star., 1938-09-30

Buckingham Palace to witness the
prime minister's arrival to report to
the King.
Greatest Victory.
The Munich accord to allow Hitler
to have parts Of Czechoslovakia' s
Sudetenland Immediately and to con-
duct plebiscites in other parts was de-
scribed here as Mr.. Chamberlain q
greatest political victory. Political
circles. believing the Prime Minister
within sight Of the other goal, felt the
69-year-old Chamberlain might retire
Evening star., 1938-09-30
ROM ME GIVES DUCE
SAv|OR'SGREET|NC
One of Greatest Welcomes
Ever Is Accorded Him
on Return Home.

ROME, Sept. 80 (P).-Premier Mus
solini received one Of the greatest well
comes his followers ever have accorded
them when he returned to Rome today
from the four-power conference. at
Munich.
At the railroad station to greet II
Duce were many representatives of the
diplomatic corps, including William
Phillips, United States Ambassador.
and the Earl of Perth, British Ambas-
sador.
Mussolini strode from the station
through narrow path police cleared
for him amid the cheering crowds.
He smiled broadly and snapped the
Fascist salute in response to his
tumultuous reception.
BESIDES him was his son-in-law and
foreign minister, Count Galeazzo
Clano. who had accompanied him to
the Munich meeting that found ways
10 satisfy Germany's demands on
Czechoslovakia and save Europe from
war
He and Count Ciano entered an
automobile Immediately and sped
through flag-festooned streets to the
Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini's office.
Diplomatic circles considered that
a start toward withdrawal of Italian
legionnaires from Spain was likely to
result from the peace-saving confer
ence.
Diplomats. however, expressed the
belief that unconf1rmed reports of
immediate Italian withdrawal we're
premature, at least, particularly in
view Of denials from authoritative
Fascist quarters that any troops had
been ordered home from Spain.
But they said 1t was not improbable
that British Prime Minister Chamber
lain had found opportunity to raise
with Premier Mussolini the question
Of the Italian British friendship agree-
ment. The accord has been pending.
imperative, since it was signed last
Easter because Italian troops must
be withdrawn from Spain before the
British will put it into effect.
The belief In diplomatic circles was
that negotiations to hasten a settle
ment by the withdrawal Of at least
some Italian troops might come now
that the chiefs Of the Italian and
British governments have established
personal contact.
premier Mussolini and Prime
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sent many scurrying for shelter. A
he finished, there were shouts Of "for
he's a jolly good fellow!"
Mr.. Chamberlain then entered his
automobile and sped directly to
Buckingham Palace.
His cabinet was summoned to meet
tonight to hear his account Of the
Munich conference.
Britain. from her cabinet ministers
to her humblest subjects, rejoiced with
her Prime Minister.
Hours before Mr.. Chamberlain 8
plane was expected, roads leading to
Heston Airport were blocked with
automobiles, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Cabinet in Thronx.
In the throng was the entire cabl-
net, out to greet him on his return
from the mission to Germany, which
he started yesterday with his minis
ters' surprise send-off.
In the milling throngs were school
children waving Union Jacks.
Lloyds' rang the famous Lutine Bell
in celebration Of the peace settlement
and sent the Prime Minister con-
gratulatory resolutions.
A public inclosure adjoining the
landing field overfiowed, and thou
sands waited outside for a glimpse as
Mr.. Chamberlain was driven past.
Another special inclosure was erected
for dignitaries out to greet Mr.. Cham
berlain with hero's welcome.
Viscount Halifax, the foreign secre-
tary, weary from long hours during
the crisis, was given rousing cheers
by crowds in Downing street as he left
to meet his chief. Sir John Simon,
chancellor of the exchequer, similarly
was acclaimed.
Some boos and cries OF Throw them
out!" dinned in the little street as a
deputation representing a national
unemployed workers movement called
at No. 10 to leave a resolution censur.
ing the government for cooperating
with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Large crowds gathered also outside
Evening star., 1938-09-30
HAPPY WELCOME
FORCHAMBERLA|N
Premier Steps From Plane
to Receive Cheers
of Throngs.
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, Sept. 30.-Prime Minister
Chamberlain flew home today to vast,
cheering throngs with a peace pact on
Czechoslovakia and strong hopes for
a broad European settlement as the
fruits of his diplomacy.
He stepped from his plane at 5:39
pm. (n:39 am. E. S. T.) to mad
cheering by excited crowds that had
gathered at Heston Airport to give
him a triumphant homecoming from
his third flight to Germany.
The Prime Minister was handed q
letter from King George vi as soon as
he emerged from the airplane.
One of his first duties was to go to
Buckingham Palace and report per-
sonally to the King on the achieve
ments of the four-power conference
at Munich yesterday.
Prelude to Larger Settlement.
Settlement Of the Czech problem
which now has been achieved" Mr..
Chamberlain said, lis in my view only
a prelude to larger settlement in
which all Europe may find peace"
Smiling broadly. the Prime Minister
waved his hat at the excited thousands
with schoolboy enthusiasm.
He held up for the crowd to see,
the joint declaration he and Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler signed this morning in
a private talk after the four-poWer
conference.
The Prime Minister told the crowds
there were only two things he wanted
to say:
First of all, I have received an i'm
mense number Of letters during all
these anxious times.
so has my wife-letters of support
and approval and gratitude-and /
cannot tell you what announcement
that has been to me.
Il want to thank the British people
for what they have done. and next
want to say that settlement of the
Czechoslovak problem, which now has
been achieved, is, in my view, only
a prelude to larger settlement in
which all Europe may find peace.
This morning I had another talk
with German Chancellor Herr Hitler.
and here is the paper which bears his
name on it as we'll as mine.
Some of you, perhaps, already have
heard what it contains, but I would
just like to read it to you"
He had paused to talk to the
crowds despite sudden shower that
Evening star., 1938-09-30
COUP IS GREATEST
IN HITLER CAREER
Fuehrer Takes Long Step
Toward His Dream of
Greatest Reich.
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE,

| Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 30
Adolf Hitler has effected the greatest
coup of his career toward his dream
OF Germany greater than that OF
the prewar empire
10 hundreds of millions of simple
home loving, friendly folk in all coun-
tries the message We give you peace
which came from yesterdays four
| power conference was sufficient in
| itself.
To be spared the horrors OF another
war filled their cups to overflowing.
But, assuming that the Czechoslovak
government will agree to the Sudeten-
land cession plan, the four power
agreement has many and vital rami-
| flcations
Indeed, some of them bid fair to
create in the coming generation his
tory that may surpass implications of
the present decision against war.
View Of Situation Now.
Here is the way things look to many
statesmen and political observers to-
| day:
Hitler. having already gained Au-
stria. has made gigantic stride
toward his Germanic confederation
by which Nazis aspire to become a
dominant power of Europe
The war-born Czechoslovak republic
gives up territory of industrial wealth,
and may. therefore, be reduced to an
Intellectual small state over which
Germany can command economic
supremacy.
The reduction in size and economic
power of CZechoSlovakia will materially
weaken the powerful military machine
France sponsored in Eastern Europe as
a safeguard against German aggres-
sion. That machine was the Little
-Czechoslovakia, Yugoslovia
and Rumania.
A weakened Czechoslovakia would
eliminate her as what Germany in
the past always considered a spring.
board for potential Russian attack.
An over -lordship of Czechoslovakia
would open the flood gates for German
economic control of the Balkans. 1t is
an old dream of the former German
Kaiser more near than ever before to
reality.
Already Hungary, Yugoslovia, Bull
garia and Greece are friendly and
rapidly becoming members Of the
German economic circle.
Reich Continues Overtures.
Rumania Is outside that family, thus
| far, but Germany continues overtures
there with her eyes on Rumanian oil.
The war danger finally has drawn
together, at least for the time being,
the great relationships and democ-
racies of Europe, which long had been
| looking down their noses at one an
other and making nasty remarks.
Nothing, heretofore, had eased this
feeling. The peace conference may
mark the beginning of a period of
better relations and greater co-opera-
ton.
The conference, too, has provided a
high point in a new type Of diplomacy
in which the heads of government do
their own negotiating instead Of en-
trusting affairs to underlings.
1t is interesting to note that the de-
mocracies showed they, as we'll as the
dictators, could make decisions on the
spOt if necessary
Evening star., 1938-09-30
STRIKE settlement
SOUGHT AT MEETING
g. p. o. Cafeteria Issues to Be
Aired at Conference of
Committees.

Settlement of the 11-day-ol strike
Of employees at the Government Print
ing Once cafeteria was to be sought
today at a meeting Of committees rep
resenting the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Alliance, Local 781, and the
Cafeteria and Recreation Association
OF the G. P. o.
The cafeteria has been closed since
september 10, when the employees
struck for an increase in wages and
shorter hours.
=. The Cafeteria and Recreation Asso-
siation is represented by Thomas j
Ford, president; William j. Cassiday
secretary, and Maj Louis j. Vogt
treasurer. Garland P. Webb, business
agent; Morris Verbov and Mrs. Ida
Jiron represent the union.
The approval Of Augustus E. Giegen-
gack, public printer, must be obtained
before any agreement reached today
becomes effective.
Evening star., 1938-09-30

heritage Of the Czechs. Last night he
told how the Czechoslovakian state
was born.
The Star, with the cooperation Of
Station WMAL especially arranged
these broadcasts in the hope chat they
might serve to supply interesting back
ground of the rapid march Of events
that brought the crisis to Europe this
week
Evening star., 1938-09-30
Minister Chamberlain never had
met before yesterday
Ilolinur Hnl

Minister Chamberlain never had
met before yesterday
Italians Hail Duce.
Italians hailed their returning Duce
as conqueror and savior OF the
European peace"
For the Fascists the four power
Munich accord to satisfy Adolf Hitler
by cutting up Cechosiovakia was an
Italian victory.
From one end of Italy to the other
men who had held themselves ready
to march to war relaxed their tension.
They gave thanks in churches for
the eleventh-hour escape from war.
Gayda Strikes Keynote.
Virginio Gayda. authoritative Fas-
cist editor, set the pace for Italian
press comment in the Giornale
D'Italia with this sentence.
The accord, sacred to the peace
Of the people, vainly attempted in
previous diverse and prolonged efforts,
was concluded in a few hours after
Mussolini called to intervene per-
sonally."
Gayda called the Premier "the
savior of European peace" because
he telephone Hitler, after peace pleas
from President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great
Britain, and arranged for Hitler to
invite Mr.. Chamberlain, Premier
Edouard Daladier Of France and Mus
solini to the conference in Munich
yesterday.