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Evening star., 1939-04-08

Maureen O'Sullivan is girl with
a conscience, and, when her weekly
salary check continued to arrive
without her working for it. Maureen
called the studio (Metro) to report
the mistake. No she was told,
there is no mistake. You have
always been good and obliging.
This is our way of saying thank
YOU" All of which proves that the
day of miracles is not past .. Talk
ing about good performers
Woody Van Dyke, who has directed
every big star in the business, tells
me that he would sooner work with
Jimmy Stewart than any one else.
He never complains. Everything
that happens he considers part OF
the job of acting says Woody en-
Enthusiastically.
Paul Lukas lost his voice through
shouting in the best Hitler man.
ner during the making Of Con
fessions of a Nazi Spy But what
hurt him most was when Director
Anatole Litvak said sarcastically,
Il though you were an actor, and
Lukas couldn't answer! Rich
ard Arlen reads trade paper
while breakfasting in a drug store.
Suddenly he grins and says. Gee,
that's SWELL Whats sWell?' I
asked him. Virginia Grey's 60
ing to get leading parts at Metro"
he crows. She will also get the
role of Mrs. Richard Arlen after
Dicks divorce Make Rosen-
bloom is highly indignant when I
meet him on the Warner lot. They
have gone too far he mutters
angrily. who and how?" I ask.
"They"-he points in the direction
of a sound stage-"want me to
whistle. 1 can't, so they got
whistling stand-in for me- Am I
insulted!" Ned Sparks, who
has appeared in rs pictures, tells
me he has not seen any of them.
whats the use?" he adds morosely.
ut would be too late to do any
thing about them
4
Charles Boyer dimes alone at
Dave Chasen's. But he is not alone
long. When Boyer gets outside
the restaurant, he is surrounded py
80 youngsters who thoughtfully
provide him with folding chair
in which to sit while he signs their
autograph, books! Lew Ayres
has a strange phobia. He will not
allow photographs of the whole of
his house. But it is all right to
photograph parts of it. Which re-
minds me-ever since the marriage
of Clark and Carole Gable, the air
above their encino home has been
filled with planes containing pho
tographers swapping the house and
the couple for newspaper 'syndicates
and magazines.
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Rousing Tale
By Hoover
At the Met
Persons in Hiding
Proves Crime
Does Not Pay

j. Edgar Hoover probably is never
happier than when he is proving
that crime does not pay and he
can spin yarn to support his the
sis. Now from. one of the F. B. 1.
heads tales-it looks very much
like the story of "Machine-gun'
Kelly-Paramount has contrived a
good. rousing cops -and-robbers
drama in Persons in Hiding the
new film at the Metropolitan.
Persons in Hiding is almost that
picture which has been due to sty-
mie the film reviewers. The re-
viewers. you know, clamor for ac-
ton in the cinema and when they
get action ask for character. And
vice versa and present company
not excepted. Well Persons in
Hiding is no epic but it does boast
some character development along
with the action of its melodra-
matics.
Mr.. Hoovers original story, the
script by William R. Lipman and
Horace Mccoy. Louis Kings brisk
ly-paced direction and the honest
playing of the leading roles COM
bine to lend credence to the whole
tale. The people become more
than just fiat cinematic puppets
shooting guns and fleeing scream
ing sirens.
You can understand the small
time crook who is driven to big
things and low public enemy
number. And you can recognize the
motives by which the woman who
drives him is guided from her pov-
erty-stricken early life to the ego
mania of her master-minding May
be it is because Mr.. Hoover drew
from life for his Bobbies-vs. Boobies
yarn, but at any rate it makes salts
Tying film entertainment
Persons in Hiding is notable, too
for introducing a new personality
whose name the Paramount people
should be glad to have ON a con-
tract. for she should 60 places. The
name is Patricia Morrison and, while
a touch of resemblance to Dorothy
Lamour may not be exactly an
asset. she has about her suggestion
OF fires smouldering within and she
can be convincing. The Gunner"
Martin of Persons in Hiding" is
an effective character portrait by
j. Carroll Naish, and the Oman
who tracks him down is Lynn Over
man. Mr.. Overman. still equipped
with his drawing wit, is not so
completely given to humor this
time, and he gets the very essence
of Mr.. Hoover's thesis in his voice
when he snaps on handouts with
a calm and quiet Take it easy, it's
all over now" HIM.
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Young Love
Blooms at
Picture Presents
Miss Lombard
In New Role

Hollywood has taken love serious
ly in Made for Each Other which
returned yesterday to the Columbia.
And. after all these months in
which the cinema has made the
grand passion a slap-happy affair. it
is a genuine pleasure to see James
Stewart and Carole Lombard being
sweet about it all.
Miss Lombard, incidentally. turns
in performance as young wife
and mother which shows she knew
what she was about in asking the
movies to let her stop being mad
cap. She is exhibited in moods
that are deep with feeling and in
one of them she actually gets that
expression which Garbo uses to
signify that this is love.
Mr.. Selznick's romance is prettily
free from pretense. 1t is senti-
mental tale of two young people,
desperately in love. who wish they
knew what to do about the economic
system There is room in the story
for considerable poignance, but that
does not mean that comedy has
been crowded out. 1t represents
no great invention. but somehow
or other it seems better that way.
AS the misfit young husband. the
boy voted most likely to succeed
by his college classmates. Mr..
Stewart turns in very creditable
performance especially in those
passages where he obviously is the
boy least likely to succeed.
Made for Each Other" is no epic
affair. unless it is epical to cast Miss
Lombard in a dramatic role. but as
a comedy romance it does a lot
better than a great deal of the more
pretentious drivel that comes out of
the studios. j. G.
Evening star., 1939-04-08

meSQdmeS, ne HAS SHO"! Eli
thusiasm in an equal measure can
not, however, be accorded the
cinema attraction, -Four Girls IN
White" but that is something to
speak of later.
Anyhow the Waring gang merits
about all the enthusiasm it would
be proper for any one to use IN
one day. The boys and girls just
seem to have so much fun with
their varied doings that you must
be infected with the spirit OF 1t
all and have fun with them. Humor
seems to have more to do than IN
past Pennsylvania shows and 1t
is a graceful combination OF sophlstl-
cation and utter daffiness-com-
pletely slap-happy wit that peeKs
from behind the sleek veneer hld-
ing it to thumb its nose.
The BOSNIAN, of course, is the
fellow who gives the show its mooo
and keeps it moving apace with MS
easy and affable performance OF the
master of ceremonies chore. MT.
Waring can even take the old gags
and make them funny with his OIL
hand manner. That one, for IN
stance, about the singer who Is
drowned out by the band and finally
heckled into giving it all up is not
exactly a novelty, but Fred makes
it something hilarious.
The whole gang has a raft OF fun,
too, with a satire on Kay Kyser's
College of Musical knowledge. And
there are other fine contributions
by some other fine people-tricky
doings with a saxophone, a lariat
and a pair of tap shoes, by Ray
Sax: general heckling by Policy Nc
Clintock, songs by Donna Dae, Stu
art Churchill, Gordon Goodman and
some others; swing by the Les Paul
Trio and Jimmy Atkins, and some
clever vocal novelties by the Two
Bees and Honey. There are guest
performers to join the Waring Glee
Club at the last show each night,
too, this evenings being the mixed
chorus from American University.
Evening star., 1939-04-08

one would be happy to see them
again.
No one has much time to act in
Dodge City," but all of the princi-
pals put on excellent performances
in exhibiting a wild kind of vitality.
One of the best Of them is villainous
Bruce Cabot who, with Victor Jory,
constitutes the toughest pair ever
beaten to the draw by stalwart
hero like Flynn. They think they
are the law, the dirty killers, until
Flynn is prevailed upon to become
sheriff-a job no other man Is
brave enough to assume. Subduing
them is a terrific task. but the script
called for 1t and, by tarnation, 1t
has to be done.
There are a dozen magnificent
action sequences in the drama Of
Dodge City" The most explosive
is that in which the boys OF the
North and South, forgetting the
Civil War ended shortly before at
Appomattox come to grips in the
saloon. If ever a saloon and all its
occupants were reduced to q. sham
bles. that one was. What 4 fight!
And what a lot of workmen's
compensation must have been its
aftermath!
Unlike the romance in "Gunga
Din" the last super-thriller to visit
town, that in the Earle film is not
a mere sop to the lovelorn. Love is
in there fighting all the time. just
like everybody and everything in
the Aim. 1t is a very pretty little
affair, one that starts badly and
ends happily. that is handled by
Miss De Havilland and Mr.. Flynn.
The latter seems much more at ease
than he once did in the more tender
sequences which he Is called upon
to play.
Not only with respect to princi-
pals. but right on down through the
bit parts, the brothers Warner have
done an excellent casting job. With
out calling on single graduate
student in wickedness, which is to
say James Cagney. Humphrey Bo-
CART. the Dead End" kids. ETC.. they
assembled as mean a gang of cut
throats as Dodge City did in its
palmiest days.
The picture also has been blessed
with some magnificent landscape
There are occasions when the beauty
of the background. especially as con-
trasted with the ugliness of the
human nature involved. fairly
takes the breath away. Maybe the
prairies are not that beautifully
blue and gold, but who cares?
Fact is nobody has time to care
Things are happening too fast on
the screen every minute.
The stage show introduces Miss
Ethel Barrymore Colt as vocalist,
thing that should have been its
high light an might have been If
Miss Colt had a better voice and
more effective delivery of her two
songs. Otherwise. this part of the
bill is notable for its apparent sue
cess in wiping out unemployment
among dancers. Every type Of
dance, including some burlesqued
snatches Of ballet, is represented
1t is most happy in its effects, never
deliriously so. understand. when
Katharine Harris. Emilee Andrian
and the Tryon Sisters are doing
their acrobatics and adagio bits.
The three Ryans and Johnny Coye
also do their steps, both leaning
toward comedy.
With so many strangers dancing
around on the stage, the Roxyettes
have been asked to do less than
usual. They do 1t, however, with
their usual skill.
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Kyser Sets Mark
In Earle Week

Kay Kyser and his College of
Musical knowledge proved a rec
ord-breaking attraction at the
Earle Theater last week.
A new high in attendance was
established, when $1,000 people
crowded into the theater during
the seven-day engagement.
Previous high mark in attendance
under the Earle's stage and screen
policy was established in 1882, when
"42nd Street" was presented during
inaugural week and more than
81 900 persons attended.
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Diseuse to Appear

Ardis Alling, gifted young Amer
ican diseuse, will appear at the
Church of the Holy City, Sixteenth
and Corcoran streets, Monday eve
ming in program of costume
dramalogues of Palestine.
Miss Alling's mastery of dialogue,
her identification with her char
acters, her costumes. lighting effects
and accompaniment of specially
arranged music combine to make
her program novel one.
In preparation for the work Miss
Alling lived in the Holy Land where
she absorbed the atmosphere of ORR
entail scenes and personalities and
brought back large collection of
authentic costumes.
The musical setting will be played
by Maud G.. Sewall. organist of the
Church of the Holy City.
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Special Matinees

Easter week matinees will be held
at the majority of Warner Bros.
neighborhood theaters starting
Monday with special attractions
booked for the holiday season.
Theaters which do not regularly
have matinees, including the Apollo,
Avenue Grand, Colony, Savoy and
Seco, will have matinees all week
at l pm. The Avalon will begin its
matinees at 2 pm.
Evening star., 1939-04-08


that title is completely fascinating.
1t is stormy, wild, grim, CORY, louder
and often funnier than any Western
In years. Although it has an his
torical background, it is not neces-
sary to believe word of it to have
a fine time watching Enrol Flynn
subdue the wicked, WOO beautiful
Olivia De Havilland, and turn himself
into superswashbuckler of the kind
you used to read about when the
family was not looking.
The general excellence of the film
probably is not responsible for it,
but the stage show seems to have
been arranged with a casualness a
cynic might call indifference. 1t is
neither good nor bad, which is an
exasperating thing for a stage show
to be.
The cry for moving pictures that
move is fully answered in Warner
Bros violent venture into recre-
ating the old West. This one never
stops which is very good for, if it
did, it might be noticed that the
script writer's have utilized every
Cliche in the book of thrills.
Frightened horses drag a child to
its death, villains leap to horses
from moving trains. the hero and
heroine are trapped in flaming
mail car, an editor is killed for
printing the truth. men take JUS
tice into their own hands as readily
as they take the neck of an enemy
in a death grip. All of them are
there and without apology because
the producing studio knew every
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Dance for China

Si-lan Chen and Lily Mehlman
will present a program of modern
and dramatic dances Tuesday eve
ming at $3.50 o'clock at Pierce Hall
Fifteenth and Harvard streets, for
the benefit of the Chinese Red
Cross. Their appearance is being
sponsored by the Washington Com
mittee for Aid to China.
Evening star., 1939-04-08

fathers f a C e
does not belong
to him. The
little lady means
that her papa
cannot 60 any
where without
being recognized
and m o b b e d.
Her brot h e r.
aged 81. is Of
the same opin-
ion regarding
the demerits Of
being an actor.
He is currently
working as a
n e W S p a p e r
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Fred Waring Makes Music
And Fun at the Capitol
Presents Top.Notch Stage Show;
-Four Girls in White Is the
Screen Attraction
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Mr. Fred Warng has been around for long time times
the that Wang
emphatica show
Evening star., 1939-04-08
Leslie Howard's Daughter
Will Never Be an Actress
Says Fathers Face Does Not Belong
To Him, and She Does Not
Want the Same Fate
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Barbara sanvc in brown and plaid sport jacket brown skirt no
shopping Robert
nail Cologne andbicarbonate of soda Leslie
Beverly Hills
Evening star., 1939-04-08
dodge City, Earle's Picture,
A Super>Super Thriller
Good and Evil Come Fiercely to Grips
In Glorifed Western Film
Starring Enrol Flynn
By JAY CARMODY.


the next comes to life on the Earle screen tins week IN Dodge
of the pretties techncoor
addition being highly dverng entertain
with wild action that It
said technicolor
ma attached
Evening star., 1939-04-08

Of ever becoming an actress. Il
want to keep my life private she
says. Il think it's horrible that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
WRONG YOUTH IS <
 UNDER ARREST

Boston, Jan. 27--(UP)-A boy who enlisted under the name of a Postal Telegraph company messen- ger who vanished with $28,000 in securities, checks and cash was seized today in Colorado CCc but investigation proved that he wat brother of the suspect.
 A police teletype message from the sheriff of Laplata County, Col. said George E. Derome, IS, the miss ing messenger had been taken intf custody at Dolores, Col. A second message, however, said the boy had satisfied authorities that he was brother of George. The brothers name was not given. n. N
 Derome, bonded for $500, had delivered millions of dollars III stocks and bonds in the Boston fl. nancial district during the past year Last Friday he was sent to \; ;SL Putnam & Co, investment brokers who gave him $23.l5 in negotiable bonds for delivery to Chandler Hovey & Go, $4,103 in other negoti, able bonds for delivery to other firms, and $686 in cheeks to be cashed at Q local bank. @
 Police said Derome delivered the bonds to the Hovey firm and re- ceived two certified cheeks in pay
 ment. He also cashedl the $586 ir checks but failed to deliver the N,- 103 in bonds, they, ssid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
HITLER IS VOTED
 MOST HATED MAN

New York, Jan. 27.-tUP)-The Boys Athletic League announced today that 60O00 New York chill dren between the ages of six and l6 had voted Hitler the most hated man in the world today. closely follow by Mussolini. President Roosevelt was ranked the most loved, just above God.
 The two dictators received 88 per cent o fthe boys votes and oe per cent of those cast by the girls. In third pace sdwrcb ylfwypnpnpn third place the boys placed the devil, followed by Stalin and Franco.
 The boys gave President Roose- welt 30 per cent of their votes for the most beloved man. God got a per cent. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln 15 per cent. The girls gave the president 47 per cent and God 24 per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
HEIRESS SEEKS
 TO GET DIVORCE

Bridgeport Conn.,, Jan. 27.-(UP) -The divorce petition of Helen Dal- ton Brown Haggerty 52, heiress to a Baton Rouge, La, plantation for tune, against her 33-year old car- penter- husband. was taken under advisement today by Superior Court Judge Carl Foster who ordered briefs filed by opposing counsel within two weeks.
 Mrs. Haggerty charged cruelty and habitual intemperance and asked custody of their five chil- dren. They were married July g, 1923 and live in Westport.
 Haggerty, contesting the action, said the divorce was suggested by his wife's brother, Edward E. Brown, president of the First National bank of Chicago who arranged for coun- sel before the petition was filed in May, 1887. Brown denied this.
 Haggerty testified he still loved his wife and had sworn off liquor nearly three years ago. He asked the decree be denied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
NO INFORMATION
 ON KRAFT CHARGE

New Haven, Conn.,. Jan. 27 = (U. P.)--Details of $200,000 embezzle- ment charges against Albert w. Kraft. 56, resigned president of the United Illuminating Company. to- day awaited completion of an audit of company accounts.
 Kraft, arrested on a bench war rant issued by Superior Court Judge Kenneth Wynne, was at liberty un- der $15,000 bond until he will be ar- raigned for pleading when the full information is available. m A board of directors statement is- sued Tuesday said Kraft's resigna- ton was accepted after it was found he had borrowed and make unau- thorized expenditures totaling about $500 ,O00. About $2O0, 900 of this, di- rectors said, had been made up through creation of e trust of per- sonal property, securities and cash by the former ofiicial.
 Kraft started with the company 37, years ago as an ofiice boy and was elevated to the $30.0O0-a-year presidency in March 1887.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
COURT ASKED TO
 DECIDE PUZZLE
Mrs. Willetts Wants $l5,- 900 From Estate-But
 Will Give No Reason
Thousands of

The superior court was asked to. day for a ruling as to the powers of the Citizens & Manufacturers National Bank as administrators oi the estate of the late. Harry Will let's, local realtor, who died IS years ago, leaving sizeable estate to his wife, Mary R. Willetts.
 The bank wants to know if, un- der the terms of the will, it must surrender $l5,000 of the remaining approximately $26o,0o0 in the es- tate, to Mrs. Willetts, without an explanation from her as to her proposed use for 1t.
 Under the terms of the will, Will let's left the use of his estate in its entirety to his wife. It was stated that she could use 1t as she saw fit, for her happiness.
 .t More Stipulations
 It was also stipulated that after her death bequests of $l,000 each were to be made to the Waterbury Masonic Temple, St. Joh1's Episco- pal church and the Rippowan Lodge 24, I. o. O.. F.; and $500 to Was cusse Encampment, I. o. O. F. also of Stamford, $500.
 The residue is to go to brothers and sisters. William and Alfred Will let's; Pamilia Willetts Primrose ano Florence Willetts Primrose. All the brothers and sisters excepting Florence is deceased, but .theii heirs are apparently heirs to the residue.
 { Asked for s15,o00
 The complaint states, that Novem. ber 30, 1888, Mrs. Willetts, widow oi Harry Willetts, asked for $l5,000 but gave no explanation as.to hel reason for desiring that sum. Al requests for an explanation have been refused.
 The bank asks the court to rule whether 1t has the right to withhold the sum without obtaining a suf- ficient reason. It also asks that the other heirs set forth their claims on the matter. ...
 Attorney William W. Gager filec the complaint for the bank.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

Rome. Jan. 27-(UP)-Two hun dred Carabiniers and detachment of troops were called out today to prevent students from demonstrating ing against France in front of the French embassy and the French in- stitute. Hundreds of students had been released from classes to cele- brate the Spanish Nationalists' cap- ture of Barcelona. They had con- gregated in the vicinity of Farnese Square, where the French embassy is located, shouting insults against France. Soldiers swept down on the square, forced the students back. Policemen cardoned of six streets leading toward the square. The stu- dents crowded back of the cordon for time, continuing to shout im- precautions at France, then marched of toward the center of the city.
 They had paraded all morning through the principal streets, inter- rupted only at Il a. m. when . rain forced most of them indoors, After the rain, the demonstrations were resumed. At several places they threatened to smash windows of stores not displaying the Italian flag or bearing non-Italian names
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
PASTRY TRUCK
 DID SKIDDING

Boston, Jan. 27 --(UP)- When Jacob Shorts pastry truck skidded on icy Talbot avenue today, 1t:
 Snapped a hydrant, sending up a geyser;
 Crashed head-on into truck;
 Halted diagonally across street-car tracks:
 Caused a traffic tangle that de- layed commuters for an hour:
 Caused water to be shut of in many homes while workers, labor ing in 10 inches of water, repaired the hydrant and removed the trucks No one was hurt