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Evening star., 1938-01-23
Todoy's Film Schedule

EARLET"Hollywood Hotel" Dick
Powell in q lavish new musical;
2, 4:35, 7:25 and 1918 pm.
Stage shows, $40, 6::35 and
9:25 pm.
cAPITOL-"Thoroughbreds Don't
Cry" youngsters In a human
adventure drama; 2, 4:25, 7:20
and 10:05 pm. Stage shows,
1925, $40 and 8 pm.
METROPOLITAN wells Far
CO." transportation pushes
frontiers westward; 2:25, 4:45,
7:05 and $50 pm.
COLUMBIA THE Last Gang
ster," the fall of Public Enemy
No. 1; 2, 4, $50, 7:50 and $50
pm.
PALACE -" "Mannequin,' Joan
Crawford and a role that's right
down her alley; 2:40, 4:55, tbs
and $50 pm.
KEITH'S-"Wise Girl" romance
in the Slightly slap-stick comedy
vein: 2:35, 4:25, $40, 8 and
9:45 pm.
LITTLE The Eternal Mask"
psychological study of q man
in search of himself: 2, $50,
sos. $40, 8:l5 and $50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts,
continuous from 2 pm.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Wives Of the Hollywood
Stars in COlumniSt's
Spotlight Today
An Intimate Glimpse of the Blends
And Brunettes Who Have Won the
Hearts of Screen Romeos.
By Sheilah Graham.
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.


wonen who capture the
- hearts and bank balances of handsome
Tracy
height the outdoor type considered the
only
the valley and own II horses
Mrs MacAurray one the Hollywood wives with puhrude
extremely
Lamont
the stage production Fr mother lives with them in their
The idy personined by Paul NUM- his Bella
pumpsh
NUM- star of the Yddh Ihe in New York But to be
fulme wife to her Paul Mrs MUM one Hollywood wife who visits
her husband the SET his hobbies
housekeeping, table tennis and Paul NUM-
the pale silent
currently dedicated to giving the biggest and mosakedo parties
Hollywood.
around head German fashion reared and
horseback plays devoted Donnie
Ameche aged and 81 months respectively.
a
Veronica Balfe
Mrs Scott prefers long
type
minded and a little older than husband Randolph.
young prematurely
incidentally noticed how Hollywood
brunetes?).
TOUGH Edward Robinson hand donecal Gladys
goodlookug,
WELL and has daughter 81 by previous
Robnons-luckly
for
middleaged brunette who also the show
divided children
dress shop Beverly Hills and the desire to give parties as we'll attended
as thoeeo of Mr.
Bryson 20
She domestic hear health has not been good this
good pianist plays little tnnisbut with her husband
considered And, Of she brunette
light heads) nirsh
nonvorking Has
friends Hollywood New
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and in the earlyth
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Evening star., 1938-01-23

side will be 20 or 80 people waiting
with papers in their hands. They
are the autograph hounds, and they
have a ferocious technique of thrust
ing their books in a persons face.
The stars may get big money, but
they have much to do with 1t. They
must keep up wardrobe, smart and
extremely expensive. And they give
literally to charity.
These people maintain homes grand
enough and cars big enough to satisfy
the public love Of display in their
favorites, almost as royalty must do
elsewhere.
Moreover, there are always hordes
of relatives and friends who turn
up In the wake Of success, and they
must be supported.
In a business which depends on
the approval of John Public, anything
that looks like niggardliness carries
the threat of unfavorable publicity,
and this is the writing on the wall
which spells the death of any star.
These people work 80 hard they
must have relaxation In their OF duty.
And that is the reason Of the Holly
wood party"
Every one gives parties and though
they are far from being the extrsva-
Evening star., 1938-01-23

March demonstrated that he had been
away from the stage little too long
for his own good am informed that
a suggestion in my flrst-nig1nt review
that Mr.. March might have selected
the play in part because it gave him
an opportunity to make his first ap-
pearance vaulting debonairly through
window, an entrance becoming a
film star. caused the sponsors Of the
comedy certain annoyance. I pro-
test that my intention was simply to
pay a compliment to Mr.. March. I
felt that he certainly couldn't have
picked the play exclusively for any
particular merit he thought he found
in 1t.
or COURSE it is not true that
there is any critical conspiracy
against screen players who return to
the stage Miss Frances Farmer Of
Golden Boy" Wallace Ford Of "Of
Mice and Men," Dudley Digges Of
The Ghost of Yankee Doodle" and
"The Masque of Kings" and John
Halliday of "Tovarich" can, among
others. testify to that from personal
experience. 1t may be pointed out,
however, that these actors are not,
in any Hollywood sense, stars, and
the contention might be that the
prejudice was against the stars par
ticularly. Even this is nonsense. If
the Hollywood glamour boys and girls
have not been successful on Broad
way. then the blame belongs to the
cinema. not to be stage or to those
who write about it. In the films play
ers are taught not to act so much as
to exploit personalities. That is quite
understandable. and it certainly can
not be said that the theater does not
concern itself with such exploitation,
too. The point is that on the stage
the player must, If he is to amount to
anything in his profession, also learn
something about getting inside Of the
character he is playing and presenting
that character to us with a certain
amount Of variety and understand
ing. On the screen the actor stands
far more chance of being an i'm
portant box ONCE star if he is salts
fled to present merely the exterior Of
character and concentrates on
dramatizing himself rather than the
particular role he is playing.
Mr.. March certainly is one of the
best actors on the screen, although
even there he is more comfortable
when playing modern role than
when donning a costume, as he did
on the stage in Your Obedient Hus-
band" Certainly his finest film por-
trayals have been in modern works,
such as "A Star Is Born" and Moth
ing Sacred" Anyway, in the cinema
he must naturally be concerned with
the picturesque facade of the roles he
is performing, and he must be salts
fed with a few characteristic man.
nerisms that will express him as a
personality to the film fans. For
years he has done this, and he has
done it so successfully that he has
become one Of the most important
figures In Hollywood.
Evening star., 1938-01-23

*gant debauches which fiction would
have you believe, they are often elabo-
rate and cost great deal Of money.
It is not unusual for q hundred
people to sit down to dinner in a
private home. But the best parties
are informal, and in the open air.
went to such a party, given by
well-known director, In the after
noon.
Guests were in the swimming pool
or rambling about that marvellous
farm; band of Hawaiian musicians
played in a kind Of arbor, an electric
amplifier hooked up to their steel
guitars, and later the pool instructor
from the Racquets. Club gave US .
diving exhibition.
1t was typical Of that kind of Holly
wood gathering; everything seemed
possible, money was easy. picture prob
lens could be solved, the world was
happy.
Yet I am forced to one great. and
truthful conclusion. For all the glitter
and glamor, one does not love Holly
wood; one never gets . passion for it
as for home.
pEOPLE come only to make money,
planning quick getaway. Try
ing to leave, they are offered more
money. One writer began at 81, 300 q
week, went up to $4,000, got tired and
tried to 90 back East, was stepped up
1see CRONTN. PaRe F.20
Evening star., 1938-01-23

of my wife's ribbons in the fashion
of the period
It was Mrs. Dekker's idea to take
snapshots of her husband She sent
the pictures by registered, special
delivery mail to Hunt stromberg, pro-
ducer Of Marie Antoinette."
Evening star., 1938-01-23

NEW 1oISA.
TT DOES seem at times that the
theater isn't very polite to visitors
from Hollywood. Whether they
L are playwrights, directors or
actors, the California expatriates usu-
ally are looked upon with a cold eye.
judged with lofty severity and pounced
upon with savage typewriter There
is, fear, something just trif1e cruel
about it. The boys and girls from
Lotus Land come to use with SUCH
eaeerness, zeal and beaming faces. In
their eyes shines fine light OF JOY
and confidence, and in their soul gloWs
a splendid determination to do some
thing big for us and for the theater.
It seems a little ungracious for the
reviewers and the paying public to be
so mean to them when their hopes
are so high and their conviction that
they are doing something idealistic is
so earnest. Even when you grant that
there frequently is more than trace
of condescension about their gracious
willingness to save the theater through
their lofty ministrations you must
confess that the drama takes quite
a savage vengeance on them for their
pretensions. understand that there
is even a suspicion in certain Holly
wood quarters that q local conspiracy
exists against visiting cinema prac-
titioners.
NV chief regret in the whole matter
is that two such admirable people as
Fredric March and his wife, Miss
Florence Eldridge, should have been
concerned in the massacre of the Cali
fornia innocents. There was nothing
condescending or patroni1ng or SNUG
about their return to the stage. Theirs
was merely the simple and logical
desire of experienced actors, who felt
that they had been too long away
from the theater for the good of their
souls and their talents, to return to
the old-fashioned footlights. There
were no false airs or pretensions about
what they did and they set about the
business OF returning to the drama
modestly and without chips on their
shoulders. The only trouble was that
the play in which they chose to
appear, sentimental comedy about
Richard Steele, the 18th-century
essayist and soldier, called "Yr Obe-
dent Husband" proved to be Q feeble
and unworthy one, and that Mr..
Evening star., 1938-01-23
.Carole Back
With More
Comedy
Miss Lombard Cav
Again in "True
Confession"
BY Harry Macarthur.

~ HERE was time when her face
was so badly cut in an auto
crash she thought her budding
screen career was at its end
almost before it began. There was
time when she was bathing beauty
and romped the warm white sands of
the Mack Sennett Studios. There was
time when she was not one of Hol-
lywood's most sleekly groomed women.
There was time when you probably
considered her just an attractive and
competent ingenue who would play
straight dramatic roles the rest of her
professional life.
But not until my Man Godfrey"
burst happily and insanely upon the
world did the great body of film fans
ever think of Carole Lombard as a lass
who was totally daffy in addition to
being rather luscious. But now YOU
can hardly mention her name among
(See MACARTHUR Page F-o1
Evening star., 1938-01-23

Va Sulll ullPOSulk StdtluC dS W ulS I'd tS
the terms of their employment, the
studios are taking command of vir-
tually all phases of the performers
lives
Operating on a get 'em-young pol
icy, the producers are Incorporating
in the contracts of newcomers clauses
which control every revenue producing
activity of the players. Warmers and
Metro have their own radio programs,
and in anticipation Of their entrance
into the broadcast field they have
been drawing their agreements for
over a year with the ether in mind
In case television is as imminent as
some think, the studios have placed
such work under their control Testi-
monialS on the good points of mer-
chandise for which substantial sums
are paid are now almost wholly in the
hands of the producers. Some studios
are permitting their players to share
in the proceeds from these extraneous
activities. while others are demanding
the entire revenue About the only
victory won by the artists is the aban-
donment of the marriage clause, which
meant nothing. While the legality of
such restrictions was never tested, it
was assumed by the industry that such
clauses would have no standing in
court and they, along with other freak
provisions, were used for publicity
purposes.
DISSEMINATION Of adverse criti-
cism of pictures has long been a
sore point in the industry and is some
thing over which control has been
sought by Hollywood Pressure has
been exerted on the local critics and
on the publications printing their opin-
ions, and while the campaign has been
effective in some quarters the crusade
cannot be termed an unqualified sue
cess. The industry operates on the
theory that something good can be
said about any picture and that these
virtues should be sought out by the
reviewers, with the sins ignored. The
endeavors on the part of the producers
to control criticism seem to come in
waves. and what may be the start of
new surge has been threatened by
Paramount. The studio has indicated
that it will file suit against a radio
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Photograph
Gets Actor
Fat Role
Resemblance to a
Prince Lands
Part at M.G.M.

HOLLYWOOD.
~ NE of Hollywood's $4,000 strug-
l.. Cling actors today has a
~ featured role in Marie An
toinette" and is in line for
q contract at the Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer studio-all because he devised
q novel system Of cracking those
barricaded walls and centering some
attention upon himself.
Zinc ointment for makeup, blue
hair ribbon and a dressing robe for
a costume, a 81 camera and his
wife as the photographer brought
Van Dekker, formerly of New York
City, one Of the leading roles In
the film, as Prince Provence, cousin
Of King Louis XVI.
With plenty. Of spare time on his
hands, Decker decided to amuse his
wife one night by making up as q
Bourbon.
II shaved off my mustache," he
said. II had no makeup, so I found
some zinc ointment and used 1t to
hiehlight my nose and cheeks. My
hair was long and tied 1t with one
Evening star., 1938-01-23
All Is Not Gold, Visiting Celebrity Finds

Impressions of Hollywood, as
Uie,Ded by Dtsiti1,g British celeb
rity. are set forth here by a world-
renowned novelist, DR.. Cronin, ,oho
has Just returned to London from
the flm capital, is the author of
l"The Citadel" "Hdtter's Castle"
and other best-sellinq novels.
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Hollywood Sends Stars
To Warm Presidents
Birthday Festivities
Celebration Begins Tonight With
Playing of Between the .
Devil" at the National. -
By Jay CarmOdy.


especially Washington birthday
Before the falls signed the
Of the hhghs will provided by the on @ M cs ne nen ST
that brilliant touch Hollywood represented
slamorous figures ~
The people the
warmth of Gayno Powell
Ray Boser Tommy Kelly Ann Gns sezncks
taxes the prediction Sunday
morning the number of citizens chasing greatest
ana OF 'he streets since washington stopped being pasture
braion That nnforsettaby ~old he the % @ % m @ @ Yea s , @
Ing horde of Hollywood celebrities
stampede
most certainly will
ACTUALLY Friday the ce-
braon Committee
begin ESQ this afternoon That the hour set for the arrival the
special which
musical there will be of chorus girls shubt
bringing Washington for one performance will
being the the week
Kelley
pished something
huge number setting down here for single night and taking back
New York for night nothing had happened
finally has summoned mounain
oNTENP1AT1NG
Meredith the There doubt the
Msv+b, m the n @ in tho ts ETY. t t mention tho Woman With him
Meredith place So instead rushing
demanding his they puzzled look
passed on They knew thev had seen someone but
place him.
Meredith who fellow not his least amazing
clothes He like the movies
the His
hat which three years DID, to this own noWeoee pcho
hair
musd all which general impression dsdan for
pearance ~nch Mereoh once gave monitor at the exclusive ooy seno
dangling ele collar
Of dsarray bUled critic with the retort
II" subject dropped there and
has remained dropped ever since.
THE documentary with
- wel
and the like pretty bright inning here last week Con-
titng vigorously Mr. Paul Rotha documentary film pioneer
world today.
prior showing interesting
subject diff
the ordinary something almost
wanted his audience
showed
comedy pahos
would be hard his picture sum clearance
their
without including Clifford Ods could
have handsomely the Without the aid
dramatic
sku direction and writing find So don't dodge dou
menaes.
a at
the National tomorrow night one stage figure who does not
will Abbotts
director his when making him
director the welfounded
And
giving the studio balance
the side the ledger filled with solemn Marked Woman
"1hey Won't Forget and several others which recall
Brother which Abbott could
~. o.n ~ anrth.na -. ant s.s @ ~ @ 90 , WIN ..n m ,a - s
box office appeal less than that of the zlch girl
~ the fashion
Evening star., 1938-01-23

Der of Commerce Studios have
clamped down tighter than ever on
visitors and the stars themselves are
crawling deeper into their shells. The
tourist is getting bad deal"
The little man was right. The aver
age visitor to filmtown these days is
not doing so well with his eyes. So
far as Hollywood glamor is concerned,
the 1888 sightseer is going practically
sightless. And no one realizes better
than those public spirited gentlemen
engaged in the task Of Turing money!
spending vacationers to Southern Cali
fornia that something's gotta be
done"
Until the last four or five months.
(See HEFFERNAN, Page F-2.)
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Studios Take All
Contract Clauses Cover Every
Avenue of Income.
By Douglas ". Churchill.


ONTRACT clauses that have the
being deed the
being substituted producers
restrictions such obdng
ng radio and teevison
advertising testimonials
Evening star., 1938-01-23
Star Hunters
Hunt inVain
This Year
Personalities of
Screen Don't
Go Out.
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
~ We GOTTA do something
A about it." said the little
wv man behind the counter
at the Hollywood Cham
Evening star., 1938-01-23
.Theater Is Not
Polite to Its
Expatriates
Film Stars Have
Not Been Met Too
Cheerfully.
By Richard Watts, J.
NEW WORK

NEW YORK.
TT DOES seem at times that the
theater isn't very polite to visitors
from HOLLYWOOD Whether they
Evening star., 1938-01-23

(See HEFFERNAN, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1938-01-23

(See CRON1N, PASe F.2)
Evening star., 1938-01-23

(see MACARTHUR, Page F-2)
The Washington times., 1938-09-06

nations, that saw the map Of
Europe made over in such a way
that many believe there is graver
danger Of a new world war today
than ever.
King Peter, whose uncle, Prince
Paul, is regent Of the nation. has
had for the past several years the
benefit OF, being brought up under
American guidance.
Nine. Slavko Grouitch, widely
known in Washington's social and
diplomatic circles as the former
Mabel Dunlap, Of West Virginia,
for several years has acted as fos.
ter-mother to the boy monarch,
directing his education and super.
vising his upbringing.
The former Miss Dunlap mar.
ried DR.. Grouitch when he was
attached to the legation here. It
was DR.. Grouitch, as a young sec.
retary at the legation in Vienna
who received first word of the Aus.
The Washington times., 1938-09-06
COBB TO TEST
BIC SPEED CAR

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS,
Utah, Sept. 6 GN.SJ.-Further
attempts Of John Cobb, London
fur broker, to wrest the world
land speed title from his fellow
countryman, Capt. George E. T.
Eyston. today awaited clearing
skies.
Cobb, after surveying heavy
damage done the speedway by
rains last night, announced In.
definite poStponement of his as
Sault on the record Of 345. 40 miles
per hour established by Eyston
here August 27.
A test Of the speed possibilities
Of Cobb's, 2,500-horsepower Rail
ton had been scheduled for this
morning.
The Washington times., 1938-09-06
YugOsIAO King is Lj:
birthday Mass Here
Envoy Groups
Conspicuous
By Absence
Rx CARROLL PEEKE

The birthday Of the boy king,
Peter II of Yugoslavia, whose coun-
try is one of the tinder boxes in
the present European crisis, was
observed in Washington today.
The boy, who mounted to the
postwar throne at the age Of IL
when his father, King Alexander,
was struck down by an assassin'S
bullet in 1884, became Is today.
And it was noted that no men,
bers Of the diplomatic corps, ex-
cept the staff Of the Yugoslav
Legation, attended the mass Of
celebration held in the Greek
Orthodox Church Of Saints Con-
stantine and Helen.
DIR. RYBAR HOST
This afternoon the diplomats
will assemble at a reception in
honor Of the boy kings birthday
at the legation, with DR.. Vladimir
The Washington times., 1938-09-06
Promise New Clock
To Calm Citizenry

ALBANY, Ore, Sept. 6 Q.N.SO.
A public furore over disposition Of
the Linn county courthouse clock
was stilled today, when county Of
ficials promised that a clock
would be installed in the new
courthouse to supplant the time
piece in the old building by which
an estimated one-half Of the towns
residents told time daily.
The citizenry also were informed
their ears would not be subjected
to the harsh notes Of new chime,
as the old clock chime was re-
moved and would be attached to
the new clock to be installed.
The Washington times., 1938-09-06

'trian ultimatum that started the
war.
MARSHAL OF COURT
After the war DR.. Groutich
served as Minister in Washington
and London, and on the death
of King Alexander it was found
he had provided. in his will that
the diplomat should be named
marshal of the court.
Thus Nine. G-ouitch, the Amer
ican woman who had been init
mately connected with the court
found herself placed in the posi-
ton Of guardian to the boy who
had succeeded to the throne.
Little over a year ago the inter
national situation was such that
DR.. Grouitch was needed in the
diplomatic service Of his nation
and was again sent as minister to
London, where he died following
a heart attack.
The Washington times., 1938-09-06
BLOOD IS needed
BY GIRL VICTIM
or RARE MALADY.
33d Transmission May
Save Her Life

A 17-year-old Washington girl is
desperately in need of blood to give
her strength for an operation
which may save her life.
The girl, Helen Elizabeth Beck,
3409 @ st. N. W., has been in a
hospital IL times since she was
found suffering from a rare NAL
ady II years ago, and is preparing
to enter Georgetown University
Hospital for the thirteenth time
next Friday.
30 TRANSFUSIONS
The appeal for the blood was is
sued by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Beck, and by her physician,
DR.. John Cavanaugh, who has
been attending the girl for five
years.
Miss Beck was found to be suf-
fering from a disease which causes
excessive bleeding when she was
only six years old, and since then
doctors have tried unSuccesSfully
to cure the malady.
Since that time she has had 80
blood transfusionS, and now DR..
Cavanaugh believes that an opera
tiOn will remove the cause of the
disease.
FEAR HEMORRHAGE
But the danger is, he explained,
that unless she is given tranSfu-
SionS before the operation she may
suffer a hemorrhage which would
cause her death.
Persons willing to donate blood
are asked to communicate with
her parents, the doctor or the
Georgetown Hospital clinic.
The Washington times., 1938-09-06

family finances were slim, and
Hollywood was a long way off.
Friends started contributing
dimes to make the trip possible.
A newspaperman who heard her
sing was so impressed that he
arranged a concert, and those who
attended became equally enthusi-
astic and contributed their dimes.
Finally when the thousand
dimes had been received the little
girl went to Hollywood, and pro.
ducerS who heard her gave her
tests which she passed and the
contract resulted.
The Washington times., 1938-09-06
FEAR HEMORRHAGE
Covered Wagon
Again Over Trail

PENDLETON, Ore, Sept. 6
U.N.SO.-Time slid back a notch
in eastern Oregon early this month
when the once popular covered
wagon, drawn by IL plodding oxen,
was substituted for modern meth
ods of transportation over the old
Oregon Trail between LaGrande
and Pendleton.
!. The trip took five days for the
pioneer vehicles, as compared with
a one-hour run by automobile.
The idea was part Of a promotion
stunt to build up interest in the
annual Pen dletcn Roundup,
which takes place later this month.