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Evening star., 1938-06-12

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picture in which I do not
skate all ALL What do you
Il think of the idea?" said
Sonia Henie to this writer few aft
ernoons ago. What do you think?
Should a star whose film fame has
been built on one particular founda-
ton stone dig it up and throw it
away?
According to the Marx brothers the
answer Is definite NO" For months
past Groucho, Chico and Harpo have
debated the wisdom of allowing Harpo
to speak, for the first time on the
screen, in Room Service" their next
movie. A week ago they decided that
speech would kill Harpo's universal
appeal, and he continues silent.
Charlie Chaplin has been toying
with talkie idea for two years with
out bringing himself and his voice
within the range of the microphone.
He is apparently afraid to risk his
reputation as the worlds supreme
pantomimist for what might be a
one-picture stunt.
1t has been proved time and time
again that a star cannot change his
or her Hollywood course in midstream.
To allow Harpo and Chaplin to speak
or to have Miss Henie emote without
her skates would be as erroneous as
to let Katharine Cornell sing the lead
in "Rigoletto" or to star Lily Pons in
"Abie's Irish Rose" The wisdom of
this was first proved by Theda Bara
1See CPAuA1 De- n . :
Evening star., 1938-06-12
The Saddest Of Words

Within the Law" in Chicago, the
role OF Mary Turner was played by
Emily Stevens and she was an instant
hit. Before the play reached Broad
way. however, the Selwyn brothers took
over the play from Brady and re-
placed Miss Stevens with Jane Cowl
who scored the hit of her life on the
opening night here in 1912.
Brady also once saved one of his
(see BARRON, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1938-06-12

QaDlC OF ClCkllnS CQaQWlCkS ear
(through the phone in the tonneau)
with sinister Oriental instructions, and
so he likes to sit in the rear. 1t keeps
him out of reach Of At Of rage.
Around town, in the Presidents case,
means up to the ball park and down
to Forty-fifth street. Well, when he
goes to the ball park, does he now feel
an urge to throw out the first ball?
The President pauses to consider.
You kiddtn' me or something?" he
asks. When it was understood no sucn
thing was intended, the President said,
There's a lot of things I'd rather
throw out Of the park than the ball"
On the way in to work, the presi-
dent uttered another pronouncemeut.
1t was matinee day. The sun beat
down like trumpet blast. A group
of actors and actresses were standing
about the stage door, their faces lifted
eagerly toward the sizzle. trying to
drink in a sun tan in the few moments
between breakfast and nightfall. The
president surveyed the crowd briefly.
If this keeps up," he said, looks like
we're going to have some smoked ham
around here" AS BELTS anything said
by some one who is called "Mr. Presi-
dent" during working hours and who
has the unique privilege of chasing
after Chief Justice Hughes of the
United States Supreme Court with
bean-shooter, the remark was received
in respectful silence. Two of the up
lifted faces bowed as the president
passed, one to get rid of blob of
chewing gum, the other to scratch its
nose.
TT HAS been said before that, in
impersonating a living head of
State, George M. Cohan is making
theatrical history, and, further. that
the United States is the only country
in the world, not even excepting Eng
land, in which such theatrical history
could possibly be made. I'D Rather
Be Right" is the show that names
names and has, in its cast, President
Roosevelt wrestling with the budget,
James Aloysius Farley up to his knees
in deserving Democrats, Secretary
Perkins tumbling with an acrobatic
Wagner Act. the Supreme Court doing
an adagio dance. and Mrs. James
Roosevelt, escorted by her butler. a
former Kansas Governor named Alfred
M. Landon, as she asks her son Frank
to fix traffic ticket.
How have those named taken it?
Well, James A. Farley came backstage
and told Mr.. Cohan his face hurt
from laughing. And how" asked
Evening star., 1938-06-12
By Mark Barron.
Associated Press Stan Writer. .


" NEW YORK.
"HE saddest of words for some
Broadway stars, as they look
back upon the just completed
theatrical season, are 1T might
have been"
There is wailing as they contemplate
the glamorcus roles that they might
have played, the hit shows in which
they might have appeared for long
runs.
But, sadder still, are the stars who
refused or walked out of roles In
which another scored a resounding
success.
One of the most striking examples
In Broadway history is the current
hit drama, "On Borrowed Time" in
which Dudley Digges' performance
was so highly praised by critics that
his name was emblszoned in lights as
. star for the first time in his long
career. And this role was turned
down by Richard Bennett after a few
rehearsals.
On the other hand, there are occa-
sional examples where star Is wise
In walking out of part as did Miriam
Hopkins last season when she quit
the cast Of s. N. Behrman's comedy,
"Wine of Choice" The role, which
was taken over by Claudia Morgan,
was insignificant in this comedy Of
minor importance.
Eddie Carr, the comedian, quit his
role during the try-out of the current
George M. Cohan hit, "Td Rather Be
Right" and Arthur Shields retired as
director during rehearsals of Shadow
and Substance" which won the critics
award as the best foreign play Of the
Broadway season.
Such happenings are not peculiar
10 this past season only. They happen
every season.
When william A. Brady opened
=
Evening star., 1938-06-12
It's Not the Publicity Staff
But the Photoplay Fans
Who Make the Stars
But Still the Producers Bring On
More New Names to Try to Make
Up for Lack of Stories.
By Douglas ". Churchill.
HOLLYWOOD.

ME blast Of the thr provoked
healthy discussion within the industry
screen founded Living in world all its Hollywood stand
ards opinions that cncep-
ton entertained the
patrons arbitrarily called
when Hollywood millions
nth-
the Billie O the
people Lucille Ball. Marjorie
Weaver Frances Mercer Olympic
other hand such people as Rod La Roou Charles rn n cn Un n
Harding and Conrad
the public.
The industry perfected publicity machine That
most effective creating illusion
pont to producers than the Except
isolated publicity
that much of the material own
a M ~ % .ne past were punt In degree by publicity their fame and the
OF their public from
part o. the fans lives their such
personalities by merely deciding o 10
Striving to find thought unnecessary the
producers seek the lack of
stories It has long been the policy people crawford
Robert Dietrich and katharine Hepbn some
s TO 90 through 5000 feet film with little
IN which they appear They have believed
this belief that the regardless of the
~ .he surge OF unknowns has been that
een advocated that numbers placed
players without a
BENG most greatly system many of the pro-
dcers have attempted daring handling
established people There has untypng
There that their favotes appear in
% a % + s that nus p pu age was
ing m who started waitress
ana the for pictures that have adult among
those who have undergone unpng Dne Janet
aynor Cary Grant Ginger maophoss will
made shortly with stanwyck striving vaantv to
Robert Taylor prettyboy category Conflicting with this
trend pihed played variety
OF roles but who has limited the
priest in San Francisco Still departure
from the things they have
Cman Miss Dietrich Baxter Richard Dix
and Chester Morris
)NE OF the finest examples of
the use OF miniatures
picture Ground Crew. Actually filming
demoshng several arplanes with
o the technicans who
vested with reality than could
planes miniature Alaskan
and of LOG
R-kO model Lockheed
500
and it manipulated
scenes filmed showed forced landing
effort takef
action
lens at surface level and from moving
inches above the ground this plane
during the take-on.
Over the Hollywood
which almost anything filmed
cliffs such used Anthony
buildings railway
hegs hundred the
Way filmed
thrilling
and there is hardly picture of proportions
realism created by the Merlns of the
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Change Their
Course and
Stars Fall
Fans Want Cinema
Players to Stay
Familiar.
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD

SSDHEY want me to make a
picture in which I DO not
skate all all. What do you
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Evening star., 1938-06-12
Propaganda
Behind All
Soviet Art
Survey Shows 1t
To Be Basis for
Theater.
By Richard G. Mass0ck.
MOSCOW
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
~ OVIET RUSSIA frankly propa-
- gandizes its people through the
theater, cinema and art, as well
~ as the press.
political classics are few on the
stage. Cases in the desert of drama
tized patriotism, industrialization and
collective farming are the plays Of
the Moscow Art 1'heater and the
ballets Of the Bolshoi, or Grand The
ater.
The outstanding play Of the past
season is Leo Tolstoy's Anna Kareni-
nj" as produced by the Moscow Art.
The ballets follow the tradition of
Czarist days with such non-political
works as Sleeping Beauty" from the
fairy tale, and Swan Lake..
With those exceptions, propaganda
stalks the Soviet boards. Foreign
residents are thrilled by good acting
in what, to them, are mediocre plays
about the trapping of foreign spies
or the happy life Of collective milk
maids. f.~--
The Greenwich Village type of arty
dramatics is definitely taboo as rot
ten esthetics" Trick stage effects are
out, so far as the Soviet theater is
concerned.
Vsevelod Meyerhold, the noter the
ater director, is in disgrace because he
went in for "esthetic. mystical formal
ism" and neglected the. realistic the
ater."
THE Soviet authorities have ordered
dramatics in the raw. Agents of
the secret political police in every day
uniform. making spies confess by clever
questioning and a wealth of coinci-
dence, are the dramatic heroes of the
day.
Gala performances are staged of
the national folk plays from the
provinces, unadulterated by modernis-
tic tricks. The folk plays and operas
of the Ukraine. Georgia and Azerbaid-
jan get the official approval and at
tendance of Joseph v. Stain.
The Russians obviously love the
theater They go at 7:30 in the
evening and stay sometimes until
past midnight. They have more than
700 theaters for their amusement.
The workman sits in a box for
merly reserved for the rich merchant
and apparently enjoys every minute of
the spectacle. >-.. .
Children have special theaters. There
are 104 of them, II fixed and 80
travelling, with adult actors perform
ing classics and specially written
propaganda plays.
CovIET films, once applauded abroad,
have deteriorated, in the opinion
Of oficial critics, who blamed wrecking
in the film industry which caused 1t
to be shaken up in the past year.
Three films in the past year have
had outstanding success in Moscow.
Two were Soviet films, Peter the
Great" and. "Lenin in October" The
other was an Austrian film, Katrina,
(see MASSOCK, Page F-2.)
Evening star., 1938-06-12

(See GRAHAM. Page F-2)
Evening star., 1938-06-12
, HE event Of the week on the
cinema calendar comes up
Wednesday night, when at 3

i o'clock 1.-The Rage of Paris"
will have its advance preview showing,
its world premiere no less, at Keith's.
THE Rage Of Paris" you must know,
Is the Universal picture which serves
as the Hollywood debut vehicle for
Mile. Danielle Darrieux, who seems
to have been something Of the rage
Of. Paris herself and who. like other
French fllm lassies, rates a set Of
pronouncing parentheses after her
name. Hers is Dan-yell Dare-yuh).
II you are one of the people who
saw and admired "Mayerling." you no
doubt will be on hand at Keith's
Thursday eve, for "Mayerling" showed
ed Mile. Darrieux to be an extremely
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Hollywood's Stars Shine
Seldom After Dark
And That's Just Fine
It's Sleepy Time Early Every Night
A Chase of Celebrities Shows
The Visiting Reporter.
By jay Carm0dy.

"a you great many questions
after making that discovery are that impossible to reduce
Hollywood to anything less thar fabulous
that will have another
gesture at any rate
unbelievable
something dramatically
one the first things one wants to investigate In consequence
it of you
the from end end and the
is that the
Hollywood M E boulevard the towns Broadway street whatever you prefer
crawford Of playing polo
on Daryl zanucks favorite ponies
PUT night The 1rocadero and cocoanu
are the best known of them They are packed nightly mostly
disappointed
to get sde in the hope Of seeing pack of cuo But the idols
bed probably exhng with noise other mortal
the puzzled the face of this tourists obviously
identify away.
You must Chasen told
the who took chasens
There either something with bad night for
the thing celebrity hours determined eating
and waiting Buddy Ebsen Mr. identity because
looked so much like the man who delivers coal
Bad night" said host. Wen consa"
La conga practically colossal its tropical lansuo obviously
that New Yok night look
telephone
THE
discovered that expected begin shining the
studio o'clock the When make exception the
fall chairs candid hend will them the
middle of a 1t is better that
chasens sapie
occupied others At which
kind that giving the dishes
the solitary nearce Scott Fitzgerald who Hollywood to
improve the iteacy entertainment
Knckerbock sleepy
thought would
membership particular
recognized 1--WE
IF gtteng public places
made As visiting only the
kind etiquette involved entirely
logical the making
the shall that the
possible working
something ways
the constant question: Did tne
the contrary unke
consumed would easier and
lany
written its $500
miles 1880 He the studio o'clock digging
terial for the
them standing
usually until
you spent
day watching them be glamorous.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

(see -MASSOCK, Page F-2.)
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Not to Be Taken Lightly
Presidential Cares Rest Easily
On George NJ. Cohan.
By Ira WoLfwf.
NEW YORK.

AVNG been Franklin Roosevelt president OF the United States
since the October the musical comedy I'D Rather
Right NJ to be taken lightly
rolls around black limousine official looking
President chauffeur while willy little
the valet sits enthoned plush in the Mike has
Evening star., 1938-07-07
Hurt tRghtFoot
Grated to Left
Thigh of II
Blood Circulation Is
Obtained, Operation
Seen Success.

Ry the Associated Press.
BOULDER, Colo, July 7.-Dr. Paul
R. harrington reported today the COM
pletion of pedicle skin graft during
which 17-year-old Ruth Gleissners
right foot was attached to her left
thigh by growing skin tissue for 26
days.
A rock fell on Miss Gleissners foot,
crushing it, while she was on a hiking
trip.
The blow tore all skin tissue from
the sole of her foot down to the ten
dons. The graft was made in an effort
to replace the skin. DR.. Harrington
said there was every reason "to be-
lieve the operation would be success
full"
The surgeon cut one side of flag of
skin from the thigh and placed this
against the sole flesh.
The flap, still attached to the thigh,
obtained blood circulation necessary
to aid the skin graft to take on the
sole Of the foot.
Evening star., 1938-07-07

EXPEDITION READY
TO LEAVE ARCTIC
MacGregor and His Party
Expect to Reach U. S.
in September.
BY CLIFFORD ]. MacGREGOR,
Commander. MacGregor Arctic
ExpeditiOn

1Aptultlul.
ON BOARD SCHOONER GEN.
ERAL A. w. GREELY, OFF REIN
DEER POINT, Greenland, July Z (by
N.A.N.A).-The MacGregor Arctic ex-
pedition has moved from its base camp
on shore to the schooner General A.
w. Greely. Every one is busy on board,
getting the ship ready to start our
homeward journey as soon as the ice
permits.
The ship is still frozen in the ice
about 200 yards from open water. The
edge OF the ice continues to break off
with each tide, and open water should
reach the ship in few days.
Comdr. I. Schlossbach and John
Wright-the latter of the British Arctic
eXpedition-returned at the end of the
week from a 300-mile trek up the
Greenland ice cap While flying over
the ice cap last winter Comdr. Schloss-
bach thought he observed some new
land projecting through the ice cap.
AS most Of the snow has melted from
the land now, the two men discovered
that what the aviator had seen was a
continuation of the land at the head of
Inglefield Gulf.
In making their descent from the ice
cap. via Brother John Glacier, they
found several streams had formed
while they were on the ice cap and
were unable to bring their supplies
down. Everything was cached and
they walked into camp, where they OBJ
tanned ice crampons and assistance
from several other members of the ex-
pedition to bring the instruments and
equipment down the face of the
glacier.
John Wright will remain with the
expedition until we reach Thule.
Greenland, where he will rejoin his
expedition. We viii pick up our stew
ard. John johnson, who has been in
the hospital at Thule with a broken
arm. Word has been received from
Thule that his arm is out of the cast
and the break is healing nicely.
The scientific instruments of the ex-
pedition are still ashore and in opera
ton. All other equipment and supplies
have been loaded aboard the ship. 1t
is planned to leave the instruments in
operation as long as possible to obtain
as much data as time permits. The
data collected have been very satisfac-
tory and the expedition highly success
full.
tCopyr,Rht. 1885, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-07-07
Million Lives, $4,OOO,OOO,OOO
First Year Cost IN C1,ina's War
Japanese Hold AU or Part of Nine
Prouinces-Fourth of $1,000, 100000
Foreign Investment Lost.

miles of railways, a gigantic network
of highways linking the chief cities
and all important ports except Canton,
Swatow and Foochow. Those three
ports have been bombed, shelled and
blockaded
China's exports have been cut in
half. The statistical decrease in i'm
ports, due to China's heavy purchases
OF munitions and an increase in i'm
ports of -four and cereal, has been
much less.
China still is mainly dependent on
agriculture for revenue, and in those
areas yet untouched by war agricul-
ture goes on as usual. This depend
ence on agriculture has aided China in
resisting Japan, even though industry
has been wrecked.
New Economic System.
In the area under japanese control,
meanwhile, a new economic system is
making its appearance. Enormous
semi-off1cial japanese companies are
being organized for North and Central
China, as the Rising Sun Empire works
at the task of getting some financial
return out of war.
New customs tariffs have been de-
creed, favorable to Japan. A new cur
rency has been established in North
China.
Whether Japan will profit by the
war, and whether the Nipponese can
succeed in their dreams of an Asiatic
empire are questions which still de-
mand an answer. There is the expense
OF pacification to be considered, quite
aside from the cost of military pene-
tration.
There is the matter of capital for the
development of conquered territory.
Billions of yen will be required. The
extent to which foreign capital can be
attracted, even if it will be welcomed,
has yet to be determined.
China Seen as Liability.
There are economic observers who
see conquered China as no more
than an economic liability for a japan
already seriously burdened with the
costs of war. There are other OBJ
servers who see the possibility that
Japan may succeed, with the combi-
nation of japanese organizing ability
and Chinese labor, in making herself
independent of both foreign trade and
foreign capital
For China the war has brought new
direction to development and indus
trial enterprise. Chinese capital is
being applied to interior provinces long
backward. New roads are being built.
If the war were to end today, it is
agreed, China would have a good
chance of rehabilitation.
Evening star., 1938-07-07
BY ELMER w. PETERSON.

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
SHANGHAI, July THE first year
OF the Oriental war has seen treasure
by the billions tossed into the gamble
for an empire.
China has suffered material damage
Of perhaps $1,000, 100000, counting
the dislocation of the nations eco
nomic life Her costs for waging the
war must be of similar amount, but
cannot be estimated.
Japan has poured at least $4,000
100000 into her bid for conquest
which has resulted in her nominal
occupation of all or considerable por-
tions of nine of China's richest prov
inces, penetration of her land forces
into two Others and heavy damage by
aerial bombardment in six more.
Foreigners Lose Heavily.
Foreigners have suffered heavily
too, and a fourth of the total foreign
investment of some s3,000,000,O0O is
believed to have been lost.
American citizens losses up to April
were estimated at $150,0OO,OO0; Brit
tsh losses at perhaps twice that.
These rough estimates take no &C
count of the vast tragedy that hai
oefallen the Chinese people and the
cost in dead. and wounded, civilians
and soldiers, which has risen well
above 100000.
Yet despite this China still func-
tions. as an economic and financia
entity in the areas still outside the
domination of Nippon's armies.
Nine Provinces Occupied.
Japan counts the return from her
vast speculation thus far In the oc-
cupation-only partial in some cases
Of the following nine provinces, the
occupied area embracing nearly 500,-
600 square miles, with population
Of 150,0O0,0OO.
Hopen. $4,000 square miles; 81 ,O00,-
900 population; cities, Peiping and
Tientsin.
Chahar, 100000 square miles; 2,Ooo,-
900 population.
Suiyuan, $4,000 square miles
100000 population
Shansi. $3.50 squire miles, 10000.
600 population.
Shantung, 55,984 miles; 34,375, 900
population; cities, Tsingtao, Chefoc
and Tsinan.
Kiangsu, $3.50 square miles, pop
ulation 34.624,0o0; cities, Shanghai
Nanking (capitaD, Chinkiang, Soo-
chow, Wusih. Sungkian, Suchow.
In Honan Province. where the
Japanese are slowly adding more
conquered territory to their conquests
they now occupy approximately 4,OOC
square miles, with a population oi
100000.
In Anhwei the Japanese flag al
ready floats over 36,6O0 square miles
with a population of 100000 and the
cities Of Wuhu, Pengpu and Hofei.
In Chekiang Province, after occu-
pying $4,000 square miles, chiefly
around Hangchow, containing a pop
ulation of 100000, the japanese
offensive has been brought to a stand
still.
The two provinces in which Japa.
nese land forces have just gained 6
foothold are Fukien, where Annoy, one
OF the chief ports, was occupied by e
landing expedition, and Kiangsi, into
which japanese columns driving
toward Hankow thrust their way in
the final week of the wars first year
1000 Miles of Rails Seized.
The Japanese also have seized ap.
proximately 1000 Of Chinas 5000