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Evening star., 1939-08-22
Grim Mornings Exchanged
by RivoI Monocers

Let WE'LL beware of putting the
customary iron 'gimmick' in Amber's
glove" bawled Mr.. Mead a couple
of days ago, "or I will tear him
from limb to limb"
LET Mead have a care" hollered
Mr.. WE'LL. IF he pulls any of his
famous dirty stuff in this fight
will shave his ears Off"
WE'LL is up to something!" shouted
Mead.
Mead is pulling strings!" yelled
WE'LL.
WE'LL consorts with gamblers!"
hissed Mead.
Let Mead repeat those remarks in
the ring" said Mr.. WE'LL, scratching
the egg off his weskit with fury,
"and will pull his nose"
All that prevents the two managers
from replacing their boys in battle
for the full Is rounds is the fact that
tonight's fight is billed for the light
weight championship of the world.
Neither Mr. Mead nor Mr.. WE'LL can
get close enough to the lightweight
AAAA1o w oAlnhC 1ld1luS WiGlI ~. N1l =.
Mead represents two lightweights,
statistically speaking, and Mr.. WE'LL
is the gross equivalent of one light
weight and three quarters.
And just to set your fears at rest
for a Weill-Mead fight, though
copious, would be all-fired duH-Mr
Armstrong and Mr.. Ambers will shed
brotherly love with their bathrobes
and do the real fighting of the
evening the second the bell rings.
Poets and troubadours In their spare
time, they spill blood when they get
down to business. Both are good,
both are tough, and neither of them
likes the other.
Little Too Much Emphasis
Put on Mouth Injury.
Ambers. like Lou Nova in the
heavyweight division, is cutting
puncher. He doesn't hit hard,
though his right uppercut is no spray
of talcum powder. But he Sits and
tears, and Armstrong; hide is by
no means one whole piece of cloth as
we go to press. There's a scar here
and stitch there. Twenty-t three
stitches, in fact, were embroidered
into the region of Henry's mouth i'm
rediately after his first fight with
Ambers.
Ambers found an old cut there in
the late rounds of the contest, and
went to work on it, with far-reach-
ing effects. He almost stole the
claim which Armstrong had staked
out stouuly In the fifth and sixth
rounds by knocking Lou to the floor
He made Henry sick, and had him
groggy.
But it seems to me that little toe
much emphasis has been placed or
that cut mouth. Ambers opened the
wound simply because he was hitting
Henry repeatedly in the last part o1
the fight and Henry was not hitting
him at ali. The cut did not have
quite as much to do with Louis rally
as Armstrong supporters would have
you believe. Lou rallied because he
had more stamina, stronger legs, anc
a little bit more science than the
winner.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

when she sang Smoke Gets in
Your Eyes"
The husky Miss Tucker is smart
about such show business. She
doesn't indentify herself with one
song, or with one group of songs.
She changes season after season,
show after show, and perhaps 1t is
such charm of variety that has
kept her name In lights so many
years.
Miss Tucker not only varies her
songs but also her way of singing
them. She can be rough and ribald
in a comic number, and a few mo-
ments later excite tears with the
way she can softly Groom a romantic
melody.
Another example for Miss Martin
just to advise winsome lass on
the upbeat of her career, is Helen
Morgan. When she firsts won the
hearts Of the town she sat with
her feet lolling across the footlights
in a revue called Americana" about
IL years ago. Her tremulous, warm
voice was exciting. just as 1t was
few seasons later when she sang
MY Bill" in ziegfeld's operetta
Show Boat" But. the tearful-eyed
Miss Morgan sang only that one type
of song and soon the audiences
must have tired of it, for they left
her sitting prettily on a diminutive
piano and moved on to listen to
other singers.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

question the Judge will have to
decide (Frieda claims Ed deserted
her; he says the opposite is true)
as well as who wooed whom.
Eds version of 1t is that he took
her under his wing" because he was
the star Of the show and she but
a poor chlorine who needed COM
fort and advice" back in 1929
His interest was purely platonic,
he says, and he tried to marry her
of to milwaukee merchant" but
she insisted on marrying him.
He told me his troubles-I con-
soled him." is the way she describes
the friendship, which went on for
seven and half years before Wynn
divorced wife No. /. To prove that
Ed was doing the wooing, she offers
letter.
This letter is signed, II love you,
Ed"
In fact, all the letter says is IT
love you" but it says 1t u separate
and distinct times.
The first "a Of these Il love you's"
are written in one column. right side
up The second "a are written in an
adjoining column, upside down. The
last "a are in third column right
side up again.
Frieda submits that there can be
very little doubt that in this letter
Ed Wynn says he loves her. So the
next month-June Of l937-she mar
ried him.
At this point in the court pro-
ceedings Ed observes:
Then her mother dropped In for
tea and stayed the rest Of the sum-
mer."
1t was not Eds first meeting with
Mrs. Mierse. According to his rec
ord he saved her from the sheriff
two years prior. when Frieda came
to him and related that "only the
house stands between us and starva-
tion."
So. Ed says, he paid off the S4,50O
mortgage on the Mierse home in
Flushing and provided diamonds
emeralds and chauf1eured limou-
sine to shoe the wolf from the door
Frieda does not mention this, but
she does say that before their mar
riage he gave her pin money-$50 a
week at first and $625 month later
on.
The happy days of the marriage
came before Mrs Mierse dropped ir
to tea" They were the honeymoon
days. spent on Long Island on the
small yacht Ed playfully called the
Sea Wynn.
Ed bought the boat originally tc
acquire q coat Of tan. A better fire
chief than a sailor, he set his course
across the top of some rocks on ar
early excursion, and promptly lost
the bottom of his craft. Lifeguards
in a rowboat rescued him that time
and he has not needed a life pre-.
server since.
Frieda and Ed went on the rock;
Evening star., 1939-05-07
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAM


IL a.m.-WMAL, Tenor Jan Peerce. Sopranos
Viola Philo, AnneIes Won Molnar Rose
marie Brancato; Baritones Llopis de
Olivares. Eugene Frey: Basso Lorenzo
Alvari offer tabloid version Of Mozart's
Don Giovanni"
IL 80 a.m.-WRC, Refugees" is topic of Univer-
sity of Chicago Round Table discussion
Noon-WMAL, Maxwell Anderson's elizabeth
the Queen" with Wesley Addy and Mady
Christians starred, concludes the Great
Plays series.
1:00-WMAL, Rose hampton and Robert Weede
\ are soloists, with an orchestra conducted
by DR.. Frank Black.
2:00-WJSV Bach's B Minor Mass" Is per-
formed by the Mendelssohn Choir OF To-
fonto. Canada: a symphony orchestra
and soloists.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Moving Day
In Hollywood
Is Any Day
Stars Never Stay
Overlong in
One House
By the Associated Press.

6y tne AsSoc1eCe0 Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
The residential procedure, when
an actor arrives In town, runs from
hotel to apartment to rented house
to his own houses. That Is, II he
Is successful.
Any day then is moving day in
Hollywood. People always are NOV
ing. The Clark Gables and the
Tyrone Powers moved into their new
places the other day. They'll stay
in those houses, unless they get
the bug to move to something bigger
and better.
Stars are the movingest folks.
They pick q new location, buy or
build q house, furnish it, have q
housewarming and then begin look
Ing around for q spot where they
can start the process all over again.
1t Is good for the realtors, perhaps,
but 1t is hard on the guides to
stars homes and the people who
manufacture scarves with Holly.
wood maps on them.
Local photographers have had Diff
flculty keeping up with the Dick
Powells. who move every few
months. Bette Davis has lived In
just about every section Of Los
Angeles and environs during her
years here.
George Brent, a real recluse-
only the Davis girl has his phone
number-moves as soon as the pub
lie catches up with him. It's an
unusual year when he doesn't call
the transfer trucks at least three
times. Greta Garbo-who once had
Brent's phone number-always rents
house with a wall around 1t. II
the wall isn't there she builds 1t
She has lived in at least dozen
places. William Powell is q buyer
and remodeler. But as soon as he
remodels a house, he wants an.
other one.
Alice Faye likes small houses. She
refuses to buy and she thinks it..
silly to rent big and expensive
places. She moves because she
thinks houses wear out. She call.
people who pay high rents or buy
mansions foolish. Alice invests hel
dollars in fur coats.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

after they got of the Sea Wynn
and entered the Wynn apartments
at 277 Park avenue. There, six days
after the ceremony, she objected be-
cause he objected to her reading
newspapers at the breakfast table.
Eds objection was to Frieda's
manners; not to Frieda's reading. He
had encouraged her to read to i'm
prove her mind. He says:
He had bought her a dictionary,
and helped her pick out two new
words each day.
He had given her lists Of books, for
the acquisition of culture.
He had advised her In the social
graces'-how to introduce people and
what to order at meals.
And what was her reaction? As he
tells it:
She took OF her clothes in her
room and paraded around with roses
In her hair.
She fled to hospital to rest, but
packed her luggage with evening
dresses so she could go out dancing
at night after sleeping all day.
At the hospital she raised a row
because nurses refused to admit a
case OF liquor to her room.
To Frieda, Eds talk about "culture'
constituted reflections on my limit
ed aducation." From there, she says,
1t developed into constant nagging"
which undermined my health"
She lost is pounds, she asserts.
Sure she did, says Ed: She was on
q diet"
She says he never took her any
where.
He says he even had his first wifes
son keenan,, now %, take her out.
To friends of Ed Wynn who look
on, it all boils down to the fact that
the famous comedian enjoys himself
most in the quiet kind of life least
commonly associated with the thea
ter. He likes nothing better than to
sit at home talking, just talking,
about the history of the theater-
about the lineage of jokes-about
the philosophy of humor.
He is proud that his brand of
humor is clean. He used to boost
that between the time he marrriSd
| his first wife, Hilda keenan,
| daughter of Actor Frank keenan,,
described by some as the first real
matinee idoD in 1914 and the time
she divorced him at Reno, in 1896,
he never once told her a shady
story
He shrinks from discussing any
personal details of either his first
marriage or his second. Conse-
quently he broods, over these mar
ital failures more than he might
If he were less self-contained. He
says his present unhappiness will
! take him from the stage. forever.
He already has turned down one
of1er OF a prosperous road tour.
But his closest intimates predict
that all he needs is the sound of
applause to set him of, in his dis
reputable shoes and misfit hats, on
new and madder inventions.
Remember the cigarette lighter,
equipped with box of safety
matches?
And the cash drawer which closed
before it could be robbed?
Perhaps you preferred his muf-
fed soup spoon.
There was also the moth trap,
made up of SO brass rings. You
tossed the rings in a closet at the
beginning of summer. and the moths
spent the season eating at the
holes IN the rings.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Graham
Continued From First Page)

but actually gift from the property
room.
I believe it was at this point that
Robert put his foot down, or maybe
Irene had met up with Allan Jones
without benefit of the publicity
Department.. Anyway, Robert and
Irene ceased to exist as couple
A few months later, Bob met
Barbara Stanwyck, and, in direct
opposition to the studio. fell in love
with her. He was told that marriage
with Miss Stanwyck would ruin
his career. But that was only the
smallest part of the studio peeve
Barbara was not under contract to
Metro, so why give her publicity and
build up her glamour when there
were several unattached maidens
at Metro in need of both? But moth
ing could be done. Bob wanted
Barbara-and that was that.
Poor Virginia Field. She barely
had time to accustom herself to
being the publicity passion of Doug
las Fairbanks, jr. while both were
co-starring in THE Sun Never
Sets'D, before Doug went and got
himself married to a non-movie
lady. Several columnists were
caught with paragraphs on how Vir-
ginia loved Doug and vice versa on
the day that Doug took out the
| license for-Mary.
Even the young of the movie
species are not spared in the ro-
nance department. Mickey Rooney
and Freddie Bartholomew are al
ternately paired with Judy Garland.
I think the time has come to
put movie love on the level.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.J
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Two Singers
Examples for
Mary Martin
She Can Learn From
Careers of Tamara
And Sophie Tucker
Hy the Associated Press,
NEW YORK.

BY the ASSOcleteu Pre1S.
NEW YORK.
Now that the wistful. red-haired
Mary Martin has launched herself
far on the road to stardom In the
current Broadway musical comedy,
Leave 1t to Me-" she might profit
herself by needing the examples OF
two other ladies in the same cast
Sophie Tucker and Tamara.
This season when the appealing
Miss Martin enchanted a first-night
audience with her singing Of my
Heart Belongs to Daddy" she began
attracting ovations that put her
name up in lights and won her lucra-
tive offers from the same night clubs
and movie studios that scoffed at
her talents when this Weatherford,
Tex, girl first went to Hollywood
trying to realize that fabulous dream
of becoming a Star overnight. She
didn't quite achieve 1t on the sound
stages, but she has captured all that
luminous glory on Broadway just
with the fetching way she sings that
Daddy" has her love. emphasizing
the number with strip tease dance
that reduces her to a nice and re-
spectacle near nude.
But, MY Heart Belongs to Daddy
is the number that definitely coaxed
Miss Martin to the footlights of
Broadway fame, and it is that tanta-
lizing song that continues to make
her one of the prime torch singers
of musical comedy lane.
Each night as she dances into the
Leave 1t to Me" spotlight Miss Mar
tin can glance to right and left and
see two talented performers, each
excellent examples of what to do
and what not to do The first is Miss
Tucker and the second is Tamara.
The hefty, frolicksome Miss Tucker
began singing in her fathers cafe in
Hartford, Conn, in 1905. A couple OF
years later she was starred and she
has been star ever since. Always
she has sung one song after another,
changing her tunes with the times
and trends. shifting from jazz to
blues to swing with the ease OF ver-
satile trouper who knows that she
must always meet the mood of her
audience.
Tamara is a lovely, delicate Rus
sian brunette who won the same
pleasing ovation six years ago that
is greeting Mary Martin today
That was when Tamara suddenly
blossomed on the town with her
singing of that hauntingly beautiful
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in the
musical Roberta" 1t was lovely
number and one that made Tamara
the toast of the town that season
but Tamara never found a song in
the same tempo and mood to follow
it. True, she appeared in other
musical shows, but she never basked
in the success again that she found
Evening star., 1939-05-07
All Is Lovely
And No Hair
Is Pulled
Yet, That Is, for
The Women Has
Just Started
N tie Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

~ TIE Associated RreSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
A new kind of whoop-te-do was
promulgated to stir up interest in
the filming of THE Women" Feuds
were hinted, verbal hair-pullings
were practically assured and news
papermen were invited to visit
M. G. M. studio to sympathize with
poor old George Cukor.
THE Women" has a cast of 1875
women-some of them Hollywood S
most prominent. There is nary a
man in the story, except by ref
erence, and Director Cukor was
supposed to have most delicate
task in preserving order whilst
steering the ladies through the
humorously biting sequences of
Claire Booths play.
Attention was called to the long
standing feud between Norma
Shearer and Joan Crawford, the
casts top names. Fireworks? Well,
they met on the set and shook
hands and exchanged compliments
But there are 1873 other women,
all vying for footage, each trying
to outdo the other, each trying to
outdress the other. The behind
the-scenes drama-the ballyhoo i'm
plied-would almost be the equal
Of that in the script.
Cukor (as though spelled with a
"Q." was cornered on the set one
day and asked how he expected
to police his temperamental charges.
Cukor, who weighs something more
than 200, shakes when he laughs.
He shook
II expect less trouble than on any
picture I've ever made" he said.
"The studio would be delighted to
have it a hair-pulling match, but
these gals are going to be on their
best behavior. l never expect to
even raise a warning finger to keep
'order."
Some possible fireworks were pre-
vented when Ilka Chase, who was
In the Broadway show, was taken
out of the film cast after being
brought here for her original role.
Studio talk had it that Miss Chase,
who would have given pretty formi-
dable competition, was removed on
Stockholder Shearers demand. The
announced reason for. the substitu-
ton OF Rosalind Russell was that
hers is box Office name.
Jane Murfin did most of the blue
penciling, since she rewrote the
play into a scenario. Some addi-
tional work was done by Anita Loos,
which. Cukor laughingly revealed,
included finding a new word for
that Hays banned "f1oozie."
Anita said. Goodness, that's an
expressive term" Cukor tattled.
"She didn't know what to do with
out it. So she invented new one,
made up word she's never heard
before. It's 'beazel' Some day,
suppose, beazel will be on the taboo
list too"
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Hedy Goes to Work

Amid the exotic lure of 1ndo-
China. Robert Taylor and Hedy
Lamar have started their first CO.
starring picture. Lady of the
Tropics" Miss Lamar plays the
most beautiful woman in that part
of the world. whose charms cap
tivate every man who meets her
Taylor appears as a reckless young
American who becomes the only
man the gorgeous Eurasian truly
loves. Jack Conway is directing and
Sam Zimbalist producing.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Barron
Continued From First Page.

deprived her of alimony and also of
a large income from relative. The
temperamental antics OF Barry
more were too much for his wife
and, seven years later, the marriage
ended in a California divorce.
Wife No. 2 Gn 1920 was Mrs.
Blanche Oelrichs Thomas. who
wrote under the pen name OF
Michael Strange. Helleu, the artist,
called her the most beautiful woman
In the United States.
AS an actor, she thought John
"an imaginative artist" AS an
artist (cartoonist) he was more
puzzling to her. as was shown when
he once illustrated a volume of her
poetry.
He is always trying to get the
ethereal into his drawings she said.
They lived together six years, then
separated. The divorce followed in
1929. Their daughter Diana is now
o New York debutante, with lean
ings toward the stage.
His third wife, movie star Do
lores Costello. wasn't interested SO
much in his art and other esthetic
gifts.
He is cruel, drinks too much
and deserted me-" the blond Miss
Costello said when filing her di-
vorce in 1885. Besides, 1 am being
dishonored by his amorous meander-
ings."
At that time John was on yacht
Ing trip to the West Indies. Aboard
were Elaine Barrie and her mother.
Barrymore said he was coaching
her in acting. They had met a
few months earlier, when she, as
a schoolgirl, interviewed him while
he was i'll in New York hospital.
A stormy courtship-very much
In the public prints-followed After
a spat Barrymore (Caliban) headed
for the West Coast, trailed by Miss
Barrie (ArieD. Finally reconcilia-
ton came and they went to Yuma,
Ariz., in November, 1896, for mar
riage.
A few months later Ariel was IN
the divorce courts.
Said she:
ut was beautiful while 1t lasted,
but we'll, don't want to
worry John"
She charged:
1. He struck her, thereby making
her woefully unhappy at a Holly
wood party.
8. He called her violent, vile, OBJ
scene, indecent, profane and oppro-
brious names"
8. He was jealous of her chosen
career"
A reconciliation ended this suit.
This newest shakeup now in the
romantic life of Barrymore fits the
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Todoy's High Lights
(Au time PM. unless indicated. J

(Au time PM unless indicated)
6:0o-WJSV. George H. Houston, director of
the National Association of Manufac-
turers. and Assemblyman Robert F. Wag-
ner of New York, son of Senator Wagner.
participate in discussion Of the 30-hour
week
7:o0-WOL, Senator Wagner of New York speaks
on the National Health bill.
7:00-WMAL, the N. B. c. Symphony plays an
all-Mendelssohn program
"scherzo" fror Octet for Strings
Concerto in Minor"
,Vlolinist Mischa Mischakon. solodst
italian SYMPHONY
S:00-WJSV, Violonist Jascha Hefetz is soloist
Of the Sunday Evening Hour
Evening star., 1939-05-07
In Susan and God

Greer Carson, who portrayed
Robert Donat's wife in M-G-M's
British production. "Good-by. Mr.
Chips" has been assigned the lead
ing role in Susan and God She
will play the part in which Ger
trude Lawrence starred on Broad
way. Hunt Stromberg will produce
the filmization of Rachel Crothers
play.
Evening star., 1939-05-07
Studios Can't Take 1t
If implications
Are Too Personal
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Ridicule is one of the things
Hollywood likes least.
A studio had line OF dialogue
in one of its scripts in which a girl
described her new friend as IAN
Apollo.With Gable ears"
1t seemed like a good idea to
check with Clark's employers
Would they mind such a reference?
Indeed we would. answered
M-G-M. That would hold Mr.. Ga
BILE up to ridicule
The line was changed to: Hes
an Apollo-with very large ears
Harmless, but not very funny.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

Overture to "Oberon' 'vo Won Weber
Orchestra.
Romance in p Major Beethoven
Mr. Heifetz and orchestra.
'Rondo in Major Mozart -Kreisler
Mr. HeifetS and orchestra
March Miniature from Suite Op 43."
Tschaikowsky
Orchestra.
The Music Box --- Laidov
Orchestra.
Dance Of the Tumblers" from ''Sneeourochks"
Rimsky- -Korsakov
Orchestra.
Cappella Chorus
'Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair"
Foster -HeifetS
Mr.. -Heifetz and orchestra:
"Oid Folks At Home" ter-Heifetz
Nj Heiietz and orchestra.
Perpetual Notion Burleigh
MI Heifetz and orchestra
The Russian Sailors Dance" from the Red
Orchestra
when Morning Gilds the Skies Barnby
Chorus, audience and orchestra
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-12
Winona Rebekah Lodge Has Installation ofOMcers

R. s. V. G., Anna Crose; L. s. V. G., Ella Anderson; Warden, Anna Book;
 Conductor, Helen Dunlap; Chap lain, Hilda Rosevear; Musician, Dorothy Hockert; Assistant Musi- clan, Rose Foley; Drill Mistress, Juliette Granger; Inside Guardian;
 Grace Folwell; Outside Guardian, William Clark; treasurer, Eliza be tn Manville; Secretary (record- ing), Agnes Finlay; Financial Sec retary, Grace Richard; First Trus- tee, Lettie Flood; Second Trustee, Nellie Hayward; Third Trustee, William Wood; Press Committee, Louise Clark, Lena V. Gugliotti; Mistress of Regalia for Degree, Louise Clark; Past Noble Grand - Mabel Bachmann; Hebrew Women, Anna Engert, Willhelmina Engart; Rebekah, Mary Weiderman; .Orpha, Francis Owens; Ruth, Ellen Eyman.
 Odd Fellows Hall was beautifully decorated with an abundance of ferns and palms. Bouquets of flowers were presented to Mrs
 Grace Richard, district deputy pres ident, and Mrs. Edythe Loether
 noble grand, and numerous gifts were presented. Others receiving beautiful gifts were Mrs. Mabel Bachmann, outgoing noble grand, and Mrs. Susan M. White, past president of the Rebekah Assembly.