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Evening star., 1938-05-29

During this same period in 1887,
no less than rs players had inscribed
their names on Hollywood's mad"
book-and a long percentage were
won back to the cameras only after
studio heads had either compromised
or acceded in full to their demands.
Temperament In its widest state Is
no longer a salable commodity that
can be hawked from one studio to
another" said the general manager
of lot that has had more than its
share of player alterations in the last
10 years. q
II believe actors and studios are in
greater accord today than at any
previous time because it has been
proved so often that actors get
nowhere by failing to fulfill their
contracts. lo.t
Suppose an actor walks out because
he doesn't fancy the story selected for
him. What happens? The studio
nowadays lets him walk-and casts
someone else in the part. Meanwhile
the rebellious actor Is suspended, draws
no salary. He soon gets sick Of that
situation. sac
Some studios have been fearful Of
treating actors that way, but they're
all coming around to it. In . year, I
venture to say, there'l be precious
little temperament left" .-s
TEMPERAMENT. as 1t exists in the
movie studio, Is a product Of the
foreign star. Pola Negri, first Of tho
famous European screen importations.
set the first rules. It was she who
started the business Of throwing chairs
at directors. flying into tantrums and
otherwise getting into print through
acts that startled the American movie
going public. But Negri came to this
country prodded with nisapprehen.
sions by her German friends. They
told her she would be handicapped IN
Hollywood. that there were any nums
ber Of American girls more beautiful
than she. To surlnount this. .pllH
deliberately decided on temperamenk
as q weapon-and by virtue oSJstA
1sss H17XaNAN, Raes 1-sl
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Todoys Film Schedule.

Earle.-"The Adventures Of
Robin Hood" splendid technicolor
version of the famed legend:
2:35, S, 7:25 and GAS pm. Stage
shows: 205, 4:30, $50 and 9:15
pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lady" en-
gaging romance done in the farce
manner: las, 3:45. 5:45. 7:45
and Gas pm. March Of Time:
800, $40, 7:20 and 9:20 pm.
Capitol.-"K en- tucky Noon
shine" starring the Ritz Broth
ers: 2, 4:30, 7:10 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: $50, 6:l5 and 9
pm.
Metropolitan.-''Torchy Blame
in Panama" with Lola Lane play
ing the adventuresome young
lady: 2:45, 4:35, $40, $40 and
9:55 pm.
Palace.-"The Adventures of
Marco Polo," with Gary Cooper
as the first Ambassador of good
will: 2:25, 4:50, tbs and 9:35
pm.
Columbia.-"Test Pilot" Clark
Gable, Myrna 10y. Spencer Tracy
and thrills in the air: 2, 4:35,
ITO and 9:40 pm.
Little.-"The Wave" splendid
photography and powerful story
Of a fight for existence: $40,
6:15 and 8:45 pm. "The Gay
Desperado," revival Of a favorite:
2:05, 4:40, ITO and GAS pm.
Belasco.-"The Life and Loves
of Beethoven" with much of his
fine music: 4:30, 7:25 and 1920
pm. "Mayerling." fine film story
of the tragedy: $50 and 8:45 pm.
Trans-Lux.-News and shorts;
continuous from 2 pm.
Evening star., 1938-05-29

faced Bernhardt, may win
another Academy award this
IL year. So, of course. may sew
eral other actresses, but Miss Rainer
has the inside track for she is playing
once more the role which for two
consecutive years earned her the prize
for finest feminine screen performance.
In other words, Miss Rainer again
is O-lan. She was O-lan last year.
remember, in THE Good Earth" She
was O-lan the year before in THE
Great Ziegfeld," although the name
of the character was Anna Held. She.
will be O-lan again as soon as Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer finishes THE Great
Waltz" in which she is playing the
wife of Johann Strauss.
Miss Rainer is a kind of perpetual
O-lan; the Chinese one, the American
one, and now the Austrian one. She
is the woman of great love and great
suffering. Her screen life is one of
heartbreak until she has learned to
portray heartbreak as no other actress
in the length and breadth of this
(finally) sun-drenched land of make
believe. Not even Garbo can flood the
cinema palaces of the world with such
poignance. No one knows it better
than o-Goldwyn-Ma That is
why the company cast her as the wife
of the big waltz man in a picture
which overruns with a beautiful spirit
of sacrifice Overruns, too, with some
of the most glorious music ever
brought to the screen.
We heard the music played by a
90-piece orchestra in an M-G-M pro-
lection room. The screen was blank.
Only the sound track was being run
off for us. But the picture was un-
necessary. We did not need to see
Miss Rainer playing O-lan to Strauss
itinerant love. The music was enough.
It put us in the mood to award Miss
Rainer the prize before seeing her
register the first faint signs OF tired
and troubled heart.
TRAVELLING around the magnif1-
L cent distances which represent
the setting of THE Great Waltz" we
were impressed with the prospect that
they shall represent q new era in
film making; the era OF understate-
ment or the part of picture studios.
The current title of the f1lm hardly
seems adequate to anything so awe
inspiringly elaborate as that back
ground. At the very least. we think
the studio should call it THE Great
Great Waltz"
Two of the largest stages on the
Metro lot are being devoted solely to
the picture. In one of them. there
has been reproduced the Imperial
Theater of Vienna, q setting that
dwarfs the one which a great many
will remember having seen at the
National Theater when "The Great
Waltz" was on the legitimate stage.
Real gold leaf decorates the royal box,
Evening star., 1938-05-29

film exhibitors as one Of number OF
people whose name on a theater
marquee was sure to drive droves OF
people to the nearest miniature golf
course or anywhere but into the
theater; that Columbia Pictures, at
the time those fireworks were set of,
was ready to release a picture called
Holiday" whose star is young lady
yclept Katharine Hepburn; that the
studios publicity department took the
dilemma by the horns and began
shouting, loudly enough to be heard
anywhere the exhibitors had been
heard, "Is it true what they say
about Katharine Hepburn"
The point of all this is that now
the Earle Theater management, be-
ginning next Friday, can look at the
box office returns every night and find
out if it is true what they say about
Katharine Hepburn, for Friday "Holi-
day. comes to the Earle. The best
advice to be given you right now is
that Miss Hepburn, for all her angu-
larities, has never looked exactly like
a package with a skull and cross
bones on the label. She has had some
lulus, to be sure, in the way Of films
and she In turn has not done so well
by some of her vehicles. There was
that portrayal in Little Women" for
instance, which has been the basis
for every caricature of Miss Hepburn
since perpetrated by those people who
70 about and impersonate people on
stages. And some of her costume pic
tures-remember MARY of Scotland?
have not been endowed with what
could be called transcendent perform
ances by Miss Hepburn.
But one really good film, happily,
has q tendency to make the fans for
get, or at least forgive, past wrong
doings on the part of star. And
If it is true what they say about "Holi-
day." Miss Hepburn has now turned
out to be the antidote for her own
poison. The whispers on the grape
vine claim the young lady has come
through with q performance as good
as hers in Morning Glory" If your
memory goes back to 1888 you know
that somewhere about the Hepburn
Evening star., 1938-05-29
More and More Revivals
Of Vintage Photoplays
Demanded by the Fans
Movie Stars and High School Kids
Alike Are Interested in the
Old.Time FavOrites.
Bv Sheilah Graham.
By Sheilah Graham.

Spencer Chaplin presence required in
-
Gold Rush" the fan would take
q synchronze
sound forget
avalanche
Never before history
made anywhere
recent slowing production studio here and b the
Filmare Theaer experimental
she 1921 that hbeake Rudolf Valentino
opened
many
Lila
favores
Robert Taylor and Tyrone
Will give 1t worldwide reease You will laugh at some OF the situations
clothes and workout think will also realize that those oldtme
pictures be today?
Pictures that have already at the rlmarte
ish, Hearts of tho 1u,d" 1a cihl oil +h Io chanv n;cu
myself on the screen"
UNFORTUNATELY not many of the old pictures be shown with
much exhibitor, which bookings
into buresque And proper equipment is too expensive
Buddy Rogers Clara Bow and bears 1927
Western Way Passage smn Through
Miriam opinion
made And "els Angels starring the late Jean Harlow James
Incidentally reissues old which the leading
popular Patrons cannot be
entertained when conscious of the stars demise
5 national of "A Farewell
s Cooper and Helen Hayes ROado enters
Columb-A Mans Castle Q934, with
$685. starring
Colbert THE Whole Towns Talking 1885, with Jean Arthur
and Carole
INDEPENDENT theater showing "caacade Death Takes
Holiday" produced Cecil De Mile and Morn
Hepburn the Aademys 1888 award
1884 35 should be again
Coppeh Treasure Island "Viva Villa
Night brought recognition to
wmpoe Street. Captain
of Bengal Lancer
theaters where old pictures are shown by request the
OF the asking vogue
successes
school students who babes arms
Schools frequently
Cities and David Copperhd
with the boys
vintage pictures have been Wlthdra"n que
Billy instance
and Wallace By has been ecaeo
making all again Win
Robert Taylor playing the Johnny Mack " pa
suggestions for reissues OF OLD 1aVo1e
~ Newspaper Alliance inc)
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Behind the Cinema Scenes
Are the Geniuses Whose
Names Remain Unknown
They're the Teams Who Make the Movies,
Whether You Realize 1t or Not.
Paramount Is Irked.
By Douglas ". Churchill.
HOLLYWOOD,

<EE INTEREST Of fans in the industry the
person in thousand knows the
Evening star., 1938-05-29

boudoir, or wherever she keeps such
trifles, there is an oscar" awarded
her for her performance in that one.
\ MOTHER picture in the ofing is
4 = Kidnapped" one of two films
which have been tagged important
productions by their studies, and
(See MACARTHUR, Page E-2.)
Evening star., 1938-05-29

shadows that Hollywood more than
one person in thousand knows the
and who make the studio
genses the producers publicity
include their names in all stories released the
for the shock would be pretty
them for they know that the great American movgoe
ones Press agents under orders
from for their
made public
Although genuses alone over the wears there have bn
combinations Of renem-
bered phop While Others of the most
important that Of Hunt stromberg
Metro At the moment Srombeg producing
Marie Anonette They Naughty
Rose Marie The Thin Man and After the Thin Man
Dyke Roe" with another
scheduled to unite their talents in sweeh Northwest
Oldest MACPHERSON which
Don't Change Your Husband" and why
followed by Ten Commandments King of Kings"
Suope produced and directed Tb % s % n1.s M years " ASSOCIATION associate nm IN
onbn
that
they working on
eighth
The united endeavors Of Henry Banke William
the William
the flag
Navy Dogs Air and submarine Dr.
Wesley Ruggs and Claude
explaining that "he good
Mark have produced and all musicals
William srom and Ben Holmes successful combination with
pictures they
they split generally Jealousy Each felt
sponsibe combinations
ties that for Generally
Of limited
failure
himself willing
million
Columbia serial wild
practically the carbagge the cattle drives the
Chisholm working for months
offerings the
declined
indicated will formal
understood that injunction will be sought.
pubcs
undergoing You With YOU Columbia
philosophical
and in Service"
impossible by trying to subdue the Marx brothers.
Evening star., 1938-05-29

than at any time In It's history.
Since January exactly five players
have elected to walk out of their
studios carrying grievances, fancied
or factual. One remained away five
weeks; another four. The others
repented and returned in less than a
week. In each case the rebellious
player was docked in full for time out
All went back to the grind with de-
mandS unheeded.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Temperament No Longer
Rules the Movie ROOst
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD

DATE 1888 is remarkable in movie
These oncencorgble acting children becoming
| mama dolls
whatever
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Katharine Hepburn May Be
Antidote for Own Poison
Bv Harry MacArthur.

event looming on the meoate cinema M
of Katharine Hepburn IL is not only
that by have grown
what about who poison and VINO Is not
daily do not have 10 o
tagged by certain group OF
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-11-11

door in China" The phrase, indeed,
was invented away back in the Boxer
rebellion days, when our Secretary of
State used it to head off the partition
of China. 1t has been basic principle
of American diplomacy. But where is
the open door now?
There isn't any. Japan has for
mally closed it. Japan, group of
islands of less than 10000 square
miles and perhaps 100000 people,
announces herself as the ruler, master,
dictator of region more than half as
large as the United States, with 400,-
100000 people. All trade Of other
peoples with China is to be controlled
by Japan-which means that there
won't be any worth mentioning.
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A PLAIN WARNING

Pointing out that the criminal acts
of Richard Whitney, former president
of the New York Stock Exchange, had
continued for II years, and that
though many of his associates knew
of his rascality, none of them gave
him away, the Securities and Ex-
change Commission report sums up
thus:
"The attitude that the Stock Ex-
change was more of a private clut
than a public institution, and that its
responsibilities were to its members
rather than to the nation of investors
which it served, has had long history
1t was a well-entrenched customary
attitude. But although it can thus b'
explained, it cannot be permitted tt
continue"
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1888.
LABOR is PROVED RIGHT

The |. C. C. has approved plan for
remodelling S434,333, ,750 of the divers
and sundry debts of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Interest charges are
to be cut $11, 1,116,225 per year on these
debts, and considerable sum in an
nual charges on debts of subsidiaries.
The holders of these notes and bonds
are yet to be heard from; and nothing
is done about the debt of 2,771 ,578
which the B. and o. owes to the Recon
struction Finance Corporation. And
by this Juggling, it is hoped to stave
off a reorganization under the bank
ruptcy statute.
The scheme cuts the interest
charges, but it makes only trifing
change in the weight of the debt.
Again and again in the involved,
intricate, almost understandable
"plan,' reference is made to 50-year
bonds. Who, SO years ago, or even 10
years ago, knew anything worth men
tioning about what would happen to
the B. and Q. by this time? No one.
Then why substitute one series Of bad
guesses for another?
The mere announcement proves that
railroad workers were right in insist
ing that Is per cent wage cut would
not get the railroads out of the hole.
All organized labor, and the President,
and his emergency board were right,
too.
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Adolf Hitler has offered to France
and Britain no-war treaty for from
10 to 25 years. Chamberlain seems to
be considering the idea with favor,
though in France, even the tories are
baking at it.
1t is clear that neither France nor
Britain will get anything from such a
treaty, except doubtful guarantee of
peace which no civilized government
of Germany would break. Hitler, on
the other hand, will get free hand
to carry out his long-held plan of
Middle Europe. Berlin will be-if Hit
Ter can make it so--the real capital
not only of an enlarged Germany; but
of Poland, Hungary, all the Balkan
states, and as much of western Rus
sia as can be conquered.
Draw line on the map of Europe
from the North Sea at the border be-
tween the Netherlands and Germany
to the Mediterranean at the border
between Italy and France. Draw an
other line from the eastern end of the
Baltic Sea to the middle of the Black
Sea. Hitler, avowedly and openly,
means to rule everything between
those lines, and he is trying to stave
off trouble in western Europe until
this empire is established.
1t makes no difference whether any
one in any other country believes he
can do this. He believes it-he put il
in his book, "Mein Kampf'; and no of
fetal in Germany is allowed to believe
anything else, witness the retirement
of German generals who opposed the
raids on Austria and Czechoslovakia
Believing this, he is likely to try it
whether France and Britain agree tx
stand off or not.
Look now at larger map, a map O
the Eastern Hemisphere, and see i
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-11-11
TRADES COUNCIL

The Cooperative Trades and Labor
Council met in regular session Tues
day night. The meeting was we'll at
tended and Charles Perrine, president,
presided
A letter was read from Dewitt Huff
man of the International Service of
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission who will address the delegates
of the council at the next meeting. He
urges all unions be informed.
A letter from William Green, presi-
dent of the A. F. of L., regarding the
Fair Standard Labor Act of 1888,
which went into effect October "a, was
read and ordered turned over to the
wage and hour committee.
A letter from the Cement Workers
| Union No. 1857 of Fultonham, Ohio,
| was ordered turned over to the Build
ing Trades Council.
| The action of Charles Perrine, presi-
dent of the Cooperative Trades and
Labor Council, to the effect that Trades
and Labor Council did not endorse any
candidate for political office, was ap-
| proved.
The delegates of the papermakers
reported that they are making and will
perfect good union.
The subject of paying a tax to the
Social Security Board on the salaries
of officers of local unions was dis
cussed. Delegates were advised to
take this matter up with their unions
at once.
M. M Morton, organizer for the
A. F. of L., was introduced and spoke
to the delegates for their support tc
| the Retail Clerks Union in their or
ganizing campaign in Hamilton. They
report they are again bannering the
Wilmur store as not employing mem.
bers of the American Federation OF
Labor and that J. c. Penney and Rob.
inson-S -Schwenn are still non-union.
The dance committee reported prog.
ress for the dance to be given at the
Moose Temple on December 3, and
that tickets are on sale at 25 cents
per person.
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7heCherry
- Where with our
Tree Lit.ns IL h Ha,sas' ,s1'.,
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes fiippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Important buying by the utilities
means more employment.
That's the big thing in the govern
ment-supported move of the large
utility systems to place Immediate
orders" for new electrical equipment
in connection with national defense
plans.
More jobs mean more business ac-
tivity, more prosperity for ALL.
Plans for the utilities buying were
announced by the Presidents National
Defense Power Committee following
conferences with utility industry rep
resentatives.
Too bad this move was not made
long ago.
There has been talk of it for years
but little or nothing was done beyond
necessary replacement purchases. In
stead, government and utility officials
wasted time and energy denouncing
each other.
1878 depression, after it had run
awhile, made some of the loud
mouthed ones begin to think bit.
Thinking has brought constructive
action, apparently. Thinking always
gets more constructive results than
abuse, name-calling and general hull
labaloo
A lot of people have yet to learn this
elementary fact.
War of words between government
and utilities has made the judicial
minded grieve, where it has not made
them laugh in derision.
SO much bunk was talked by poll
ticians and business men alikel
Now common sense is beginning
to reassert itself.
One utility leader said the plans for
expansion showed what can be done
when government and industry sit
across the table in cooperation.
Organized labor and employers have
been following this plan for long
time
1t has worked. 1t has pre-
vented industrial strife, led to
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HUFFMAN INVITED.
Will Speak For Compensation Com
mission of Ohie-Letter Received By
Secretary of Trades Council.
October %, 1888

October %, 1888
Mr.. Stanley Ogg, Secretary
Coop. Trades and Labor Council
343 Chase Avenue
Hamilton, Ohio
Dear Friend Stan:
Would it be satisfactory if l ap-
peared at and addressed your Central
Labor Union Tuesday evening, Novem-
ber %? According to the dates you
gave me at the conference several Sun
days ago, your meeting will fall on
that date.
would appreciate it if all unions in
your locality were informed about my
suggested appearance so that they
might have an opportunity to have
all interested persons at that meeting.
We will be unable to supply speakers
to individual locals because our men
who are competent to make good talks
will be busy making preparation for
the payment Of benefits. If you think
it necessary, can send you suggested
publicity for that meeting.
Fraternally yours,
DE WITT HUFFMAN
Dewitt Huffman
International Service
This letter was received and Brother
Huffman was invited. All members OF
all locals are invited to be present at
8 p. M, Tuesday, November %, 1898.
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you can imagine how Britain and
France can sign up to allow this, or
Italy can consent to be party to it.
Hitler as Lord of Middle Europe can
smash or capture the Suez Canal
whenever he wishes. He is right
across the track to British India, with
an easy march to the Red Sea and the
Persian Gulf. He is much closer to
India, South Africa, Australia and
New Zealand than Britain is. He can
block Italy from Ethiopia with a single
| bomb at Suez, can crush France by
sheer numbers.
Hitler believes he can do these
| things; and has made no small prog
ress in doing them. Keep that in mind
in reading foreign news.
The British National Council of La
Dor, the joint body of the Trades Union
Congress, Labor Party and Parlia-
mentary Labor Party, has passed a
resolution which reminds the govern
ments which gave their agreement to
the cession of the Sudetan German
districts of their moral duty to protect
the Czechoslovakian people against
acts of tyranny, against spoliation anc
injustice. The resolution also de.
mands the release from German pris.
ons of the political prisoners ane
hostages from the Sudeten German
districts.
/ The National Council of Labor ha:
also made an immediate start on tn,
:; practical work of helping those wht
are paying for the Munich agreement
A collection has been opened, to which
all sections of the population are urget
to contribute. The money is beins
sent to the Czechoslovakian Relic
Fund of the international Federation
of Trade Unions.
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WHAT NEXT?

Windows that can be raised or low
cred electrically by pressing button
may be household convenience of the
near future, according to John D. Big
gers, president of Libbey- Owens ord
Glass Company.