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long experience Hollywood news
gatherers know what not to do on
set.
The nerveless Zorina made no OBJ
lection to visitors on the rehearsal
sets where she and Eddie Albert and
80 or 40 young people leap and pivot
and cavort in their comedy dance
numbers for "On Your Toes" AS
result the lovely Zorina's red-and-
black wooden tights, in which she
rehearsed, have become famous
among studio tourists. But when
the numbers were actually filmed
in more elaborate and less concealing
costumes, the doors were closed to
visitors.
James Cagney, like Bette Davis, Is
in no way temperamental about Wis
itors He is working now in the pic
ture, The Roaring Twenties," a
story dealing with the prohibition
era and its problems. Hundreds of
people apply at the outer doors OF
Warner Bros. studios each week
asking particularly to see Cagney at
work.
He is beginning to weaken. When
he found small party of tourists
who had escaped from their guide
wandering through the trenches OF
France-where his picture starts
he baked. Now tourists are led by
and around the sound stage where
the picture is being filmed, but not
across it.
Visitors on sets have learned from
experience, or from the experiences
of others, that they must be quiet
while the camera turns. What many
of them have not learned, and prob
ably never will, is that needless OF
foolish questions, addressed to q
player who is trying to memorize
lines or work out a piece of bust
ness or submerge himself in his char
acterization, will sometimes produce
tantrum.
So far during this present rush OF
visitors no one asked Pat O'Brier
on the set of City of Lost Men the
question that upset him so much q
| few years ago.
Mr.. O'Brien," queried a sweet
! young thing one day, tell me, please
Do YOU sleep with your makeup on?'
| Pats answer was civil enough, but
the assistant director found him q
few minutes later biting hole
! through his script.
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II am-WMAL, John Herrick, baritone, and
Henrietta Schumann, pianist share
guest honors with the Radio City Music
Hall String Quartet.
2:0O-WRC, W. C. Handy, composer of the jazz
classic st. Louis Blues conducts his
famous work in its first performance by
an all-electronic orchestra.
3:30-WRC, geological study of lizards, sur
vivors of an ancient animal kindom, is
undertaken on the World Is Yours pro-
gram an educational feature by the Office
of Education and the Smithsonian 1nstl-
tuition.
5:00-WJSV, songs and variety of so years ago
is heard on the Gay Nineties Revue.
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Singing Swing Songs Is Springboard to Stardom
Today Orchestra Leaders Are Ever the Lookout for New
Personalities Tours of the Hinterands
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press Stati Writer.


NEW YORK.
Since the day stage matinee idols
suddenly walled that the road was
perishing, the top flight dance Or
chestra leaders, being skeptical OPP
timlsts, began discovering a golden
harvest in both box Office returns
and new talent in the far-hung
fields that actors lamented as fallow
ground.
Rudy Vallee, who is generally
conceded to be No. / man among
band leaders who start beginners
on their way to stardom, found his
two prizes in Alice Faye and Fran
ces Langford.
Paul Whiteman started Ramona
as singer with his band, as Herbie
Kaye did with Dorothy Lamour.
Ann "Oomph" Sheridan found
her springboard to Hollywood star
dom by singing with a little band
in Texas.
Ginger Rogers began in vaude-
vile, but she quickly went to her
present stardom when she shifted
over to dance orchestras to sing for
Paul Ash.
Harriet billiard went on to movie
stardom from singing with Ozzie
Nelson's band. Then she came back
to sing with the band and to marry
OZZie.
"Orchestras are forced to keep
turning up new talent on tours"
Jimmy Dorsey said. IF they are
good, and they have to be for the
young folk of today are too expert
about singing and dancing to accept
anything that isn't good, they 60
right on up as soon as we get around
Broadway or Hollywood talent
scout.
Il found my present singer, blond
Helen O'Connell, singing in little
club in Greenwich Village. She was
good, and I especially thought so
when I gave her an addition and
she sang perfectly a lot of trick ar
rangements my band uses. Later
she told me she did them so we'll
because she had been practicing
with my photograph records.
so l brought her up to the Broad
way roof where I was playing and
she is a sensation. So what hap
pens? Twentieth CenturyF Fox came
along and signed her to movie con-
tract and now I've 60 to start look
ing for a new singing star for my
band
Miss O'Connell, known variously
as ''Dimples' or "Button-nose," was
born in Lima, Ohio, and then moved
to Toledo with her mother, brother
and sister. She started as dancer,
then began singing on a st. Louis
radio station.
You don't have to 60 looking
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Hill, riding like an Indian, took
after him. The rest of us stood
-mouthed. We didn't know
anything with such short legs could
travel so fast. l mean the pigs
legs were short, not Hills. He's
long-legged and rangy.
When he got within so yards Of
the guy, Hill nocked an arrow lin
bow with 110-pound pull. by the
way, which is some pulD and let
it fly. 1t caught the porker in the
right place and he rolled over and
over.
We didn't eat that pig because
Hill had faithfully promised his next
one to somebody who'd done him
high favor, but he kept telling
us how good wild pork tastes.
We settled for ham and eggs and
liked them, as who wouldn't after
such a strenuous adventure.
Flynn said he intends to have
bullet catch up with a Catalina
pig sometime and wondered when
I'd be ready for another trip. I
said vaguely. oh. anytime, but I'm
sure he knows I didn't mean it.
If he didn't, he does now.
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VOlCeQ young woman, SIanQlng at
his elbow perusing notebook,
tugged at his arm.
We're all wrong" said the girl
"Deanna was wearing a small fox
fur over her left shoulder when she
went home sick"
A halt was called while Deanna
retrieved the missing wrap.
OF course, the error eventually
would have been caught before the
picture went out to theaters, but it
might have escaped detection until
after the set had been struck. And
that would have been very bad
The watchful young woman who
saved mess over the little fur
wrap was a script girl-one of some
80 alert girls with miracle memo
ries" who have made careers out of
battling the boner-hunters. Every
day on every lot one of them is
saving some director from making a
horrible blunder-one that might
cost the studio thousands of dollars
In retakes.
No one who knows anything about
the mechanism of moviemaking
ever makes light of the duties of a
script girl. Throughout the eight
hour working day, she's the actors
best friend, while directors frankly
have come to depend on her almost
altogether to bolster their faulty
memories.
Irva Ross, a script clerk veteran
of 10 years at the Warner Studios,
was sought out the other Gay to tell
about her eXacting duties. Miss
Ross got into the script clerking end
of production the hard way. She
was an actress first and then an
assistant cutter. The record of
which she is most proud is her long
and satisfactory service as script
girl on eight Paul MUM pictures In
case you don't know, Mr. MUM, more
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attend one or both. An 1nSplfatlOnal
side-note suggests that Hollywood
is only 4O0-odd miles from San
Francisco and that the traveller
might as we'll run down to see his
favorite movie star at work.
From North, South and East they
have poured in, are pouring in and
will continue to pour in for while
longer. And the more that come
the tighter the studio doors have
had to be bolted. Even players
who enjoy public adulation and are
not made nervous bv a few visitors
have appealed to studio heads to
close their sets and permit them to
work in peace.
Every visitor has few favorites
he or she hopes to see emote for
easy to oblige. Paul MUM is one
actor almost every person coming
to Warner Bros. hopes to see in
action Mr.. MUM, however. is a
sincere and capable artist and his
current picture, I'VE Are Not
Alone" requires a sensitive, delicate
ly-shaped Characterization. A ring
of strangers watching from the side
lines would hinder his close appli-
cation to the role and delay pro-
ruction.
Delayed production is expensive.
Many important pictures involve an
expenditure of 100000 or more each
week. This means a cost of more
than 100000 a day and from 81
900 to $4,000 per hour Obviously.
money can be lost rapidly when
visitors disturb the players. So the
1--WE Are Not Alone" sets are closed
when MUM works Now the COM
pany is alone on the stages and pro-
ruction is proceeding as scheduled.
The Bette Davis-Errol Flynn pro-
duction. The Private Lives of Eliza
beth and Essex" in which Bette
plays the powerful but crotchety
Queen Elizabeth in wig, rufus and
hoop skirts. while Flynn struts about
the English palaces in doublet and
hose. was a mecca to many anxious
studio visitors.
Both Bette. and Flynn are even
tempered and good-natured on the
set. The growing ring of people who
thoughtlessly stared at them during
their love scenes. however, soon dis
comflted them to the point where
their set was closed to all visitors
except the working press. From
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man who Is so good with the bow
and introduces him right and left
as the man who
Flynn sent Hill down into MeXi-
can waters to make movies of shark
and tuna fishing with a bow m
arrows and the pictures were so good
they decided to film more hunting
subjects
Hill invited us over to shoot a
pig and have a feast. His offer
seemed like a splendid idea, mas
much as neither of us ever had shot
a pig and both of us were due a
feast. However, in order to eat, we
were told, we had to bag our own
meat.
One of the reasons I never will
take up boar hunting is the hours.
Hill insisted we be up at 3 a m, a
most unreasonable hour, and be-
cause he was the host he saw to it
that we were. You must hunt boars
before they 60 hiding to escape the
heat.
We ate lightly, in view of the i'm
pending gastronomic delights out
lined by the archer, and set off up
a steep mountain road from our
lodge to a ranch to obtain horses.
AS I never have been on anything
with four legs that wasn't fastened
securely to a merry-go-round, I VOL
unteered to drive the station wagon
to haul back the kill Every one
called my suggestion most thought
full, but there still was a little ar
gument. I won, however.
The mounted men started up a
canyon and I whirled around a
mountain road to meet them at a
spot where. I was assured by Hill
a boar soon would come tearing
! along in high gear, grinding his
tusks like a coffee mill and deter
mined to do some damage. Be sure
/ they cautioned me. to hit him in
| the heart If you don't down him
| he'll charge
/ Pretty soon an enormous pie
/ came charging my way, heading d.
rectlv toward the agreed point. ]
watched him with interest anc
amazement from my vantage point
/ of safety on the roof of the auto
The gun "a 30 80, they told mel
was in the rear seat The pig was
/ 7 suppose a magnificent specimen
if you care for such specimens. HI
ran off into the brush, thank good.
ness.
In a few minutes Flynn. Hill anc
the cowboys rode up. shaking theil
perspiring heads in disappointment
Too bad, they said, and we though
that pig was headed this way Well
better luck next time Heavy, and bt
sure your gun is loaded
We rode and drove over most O.
Catalina's $4,000 acres, it seemed
We saw dozens of boars and man!
sows, followed by their filters. Mont
of the hunters ever got close enough
for shot. The only non-hunte
might have hung up a record If h
had known how to shoot a gun.
The pigs have been on the ISLAM
for eight years. Fifty of these wilt
dIllIlldlS NlllOSl dulllOI lIlCo Say tIlC,
were the Observation-Disclosures
of domestic pigs which got ava,
from the early Spanish settlers
were captured on another islam,
and brought here. They were al
lowed to propagate FOR five year
and today the Catalina people be
lieve they have 4000-odd pigs il
their domain.
1t was getting we'll into the day
it must have been all of 9 o'clock
when we decided to call it off: Blu
Hill, a very determined fellow, SAT-
he's show us or else.
He directed a cowboy to the ia
end of a gully which widened int
fiat. open plain. Before long
pig sho. out of the underbrush AM
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orchestras to move up to movie or
stage stardom.
For instance, Brunette Paula Kel-
ly. who was discovered by Al Dono-
hue and made singing start with
his orchestra in the sWankiest night
club in New York's Rockefeller Gen.
ter. He found her as one of the
three Kelly Sisters singing on Maj.
BoWes amateur radio show.
AS an individual star she became
an instant hit, but fell in love, got
married and now has retired be-
cause she is about to become a
mother,
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hard for this new talent when you're
on tour" Woody Herman says. THE
kids come in droves and poster you
for additions. They get records OF
all the bands and they know each
individual style of playing. Nat
urally, you try to give all OF them
additions because you never can be
sure when you might be saying No
to an undiscovered Dorothy Lamour
or Alice Faye"
The singing star with Herman S
Band is 24-year-old Mary Ann Nc
Call A red head, she was going
to a religious school in her native
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Philadelphia when friend per-
suaded this quiet, rather pensive girl
to enter an amateur show in a night
club called, of all things, Benny the
Buns. Lew Levy, music pub
Usher, happened to be in the club
that night and recommended her
to the other brother Dorsey. Tommy.
From Dorsey she went with Her
man to be starred with his band.
She says she is going to sing for
a few more years, then retire and
marry drummer.
Not all the girl singers quit their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Todoy's High Lights
(AH time PM. unless indicated)

6 :OO-WMAL, what Europe thinks of us is re-
vealed by Hugh Gibson. former United
States Ambassador, during broadcast
from London.
6 30-WMAL, The Radio Guild presents Words
Set to Music a rural comedy.
7:00-WMAL, music by American composers is
featured by DR.. Howard Hanson guest
conductor of the N. B. c. Orchestra.
7:OO-WJSV, Orsen Wells producer-star, shares
honors with Helen Hayes in a radio YER
sion of Peter Ibbetson.'
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Cowgirl Graduates

June Storey, who has been Gene
Autrys leading lady in most of his
recent pictures. has been signed by
Universal for supporting role in
Deanna Durbin's current picture,
First Love"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
At That Early Morning Hour
Boar Hunting Is a Bore
ItAlso Is Unsuccessful, AS Far
AS Enrol Flynn and This Writer
Are Concerned
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.

porcine population Mr. Wigleys Catalina Island
o. credit Eron
motion enterprise Howard Hill
getting
wild Hill lad
doubling ALL including
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She's an Important Person
Script Girls Miracle Memory
Battles Boner.Hunters
HOLLYWOOD.


Before she could finish her
shooting the
grinding.
hardly had gnaled
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Tomorrow Night
At $40

OLNEY Libby Holman and
Clifton Webb are the guest
stars of the week, joining
the resident company for a
production of "Burlesque,"
which has been enjoying
successful revivals this sea-
son throughout the New
England summer theater
belt.
ROADSIDE-The barn theater
group enters it's final week
of the season, with its re-
vival of the favorite old
time elodra ma, "The
Drunkard."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Film Folk Call This Summer
The Year of>the Big Push
Visitors Swamp Picture Studios,
Giving filters to Even the
Best.Natured Stars
Bv Carlisle Jones.
By Carlisle Jones.

The in Hollywood history
the big push"
bullying inward each
en1edh od admittance there
Worlds Fairs and that rail-
the public
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SHORT-WAvE PROGRAM
(Beamed at the United States daily in Engish)
LONDON4:40 pm, 1881 meg, 1876 Ills 255 (Sun-
days 4:05 PM.
BERL1N-6 pm, 1923 meg, 254 m; Is 20 meg 1877 m
PRAGUE-655 pm, 1928 meg, 1877 m
BUDAPEsT-7 pm. ola meg. a2s m.
LONDON-73o pnu Ills meg, ass n.
Evening star., 1939-12-28
Dickinson Names
Niece Secretary
For Autographs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich, Dec. 28.-Gov.
Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan to-
day appointed his 19-year-old grand
niece, Miss Velma Jean Spots, as his
personal secretary in charge of,auto-
graphs.
At 80 years of age, Gov. Dickinson
said, I'm too old to stand the
strain of handing out autographs
and shaking hands with hundreds of
well-wishers. So he employed Miss
SPOTS at his own expense to accom-
pany him on public appearances.
Miss SPOTS will continue her pres
ent job as a stenographer in a
Lansing law Office, her new post be-
ing a part-time affair.
The Governor said his practice OF
"ducking out of back doors to avoid
handshakes and autograph seekers"
had caused an unfavorable reaction
In the future. he said, handshaking
periods will be limited to from 10 to
Is minutes.
Evening star., 1939-12-28
Catholic j. Is Host
To 300 Professors
Of Philosophy
Convention Opening
Today Pays Particular
Attention to State

The PHILOSOPHY of the state"
was the general theme today as more
than 300 professors of philosophy in
Catholic colleges, universities and
seminaries throughout the United
States and Canada opened the 18TH
annual meeting of the Catholic
Philosophical Association at Cath
olic University.
On the program this morning were
DR.. William P. O'Connor, president
of st. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee;
DR.. John F. Mccormick of Loyola
University, Chicago; DR.. Joseph v.
Trunk, president of Trinity College,
Sioux City, Iowa, and Prof. Goetz
Briefs of Georgetown University.
Round-table discussions were to be
held this afternoon and DR.. William
Commins of Catholic University was
to deliver paper, The Psychology
of Propaganda"
The Right Rev. Joseph M. Cor
rigan, rector of the university, will
extend greetings of the university
to the conference at the annual
dinner at o'clock this evening in
the graduate dining hall.
Two radio broadcasts are sched-
uled for tomorrow, the final day of
the conference. The Rev. DR.. Charles
A. Hart of Catholic University will
speak at is pm. over Station VOL
on the subject of The Church and
State" and at 10:45 pm. Prof.
Francis E. Mcmahon of Notre Dame
will discuss the subject, The
Philosophy of the State" over
Station WRC.
Discussions tomorrow morning will
center about the philosophy of the
totalitarian state. the cooperative
state and the church and state, and
in the afternoon the problems will
be public conrtol of private property,
the metaphysical basis for political
action, and the relations between
ethics and politics.
Evening star., 1939-12-28
VI age-Hour Hearings
On White-Co||ar
Workers Planned
{ CoI. Fleming Takes
Sep for Improving
enforcement Of Act
Enforcement OF Act

The Wage Hour Administration Is
conadering public hearings to deal
with the complicated question of
exehpting so-called white-collar
workers. from the overtime clause.
This was disclosed at a press
conference yesterday by 1t. Col.
Philip B. Fleming, the Army engi-
neei directing the activities of the
agelcy. At the same time Col.
Fleming revealed that he is estab-
fishing a direct line of adminlstra-
tive authority to improve the en-
forement of the act.
He indicated that through public
hearings. at which arguments for
and against the application Of the
law to certain white-collar groups
coud be given, an attempt would
be made to revise definitions COW
erirg the exemptions of executives,
professional workers and adminis-
trabrS.
The matter of exemptions, he
pointed out, has been source of
muLh concern and confusion in
the administration of the law. The
section covering white-collar work.
ers, he added, is one of the few in
the law which gives the admins
traDr wide discretion in apply
ing it.
When the rules covering white
collar groups were issued in October,
1888 provision was made for chang
ing them on application of those
affected. Only one formal appli-
catin has been received requesting
cfange. This was from the Amer
lean Retail Federation, asking for a
clarflcation of the status of assist
ant purchasing agents.
Newspaper publishers have made
informal inquiry as to the procedure
for requesting changes in that part
OF the law. They desire to obtain
exemptions for certain executives
and reporters, it was said.
No Hearing Dates Set.
HI said the matter is now being
studied, but no date has been set
for hearings.
Explaining his new policy of di-
rect administrative authority, Col.
Fleming said the administrator will
be in direct touch with regional field
Offices, with no intervening staff
divi'ion or other agency This new
procedure, he added. should provide
the maximum of elderly enforce
inert of the act through direct
contact with field pay roll inspec-
tors who watch employer compH-
ancs.
Although designated as admins
traDr, Col. Fleming now holds the
title of special adviser. Owing to
his status as an Army officer, an
act of Congress is necessary to give
him titular as we'll as actual charge
Of he agency.
Evening star., 1939-12-28
Quake
Continued From First Page.)

burning frustrated attempts to re-
cover bodies or to check the extent
Of casualties accurately.
Many towns and villages still were
cut of entirely from the outside
void by the wrecking of communi-
eaton facilities.
Expect Wave of Disease.
IN the crowded sections of cities,
the streets were strewn with bodies
of persons killed by falling debris.
Authorities prepared for an ex-
peded wave of pneumonia and other
illresses. Scantily clad men, wom-
en- and children were camping in
feds, refusing to return to their
homes in fear of new temblors.
President Ismet Inonu interrupt
ed tour of the country to rush to
the disaster area and take personal
charge of the hastily mobilized re-
lief organization. Other members
Of the government were joining him.
Army units, stationed at various
ceaters in the quake area, rushed
to the communities worst hit to
help dig into the ruins for bodies
ard fight the flames.
Parliament in an emergency ses-
sion set up commission to make q
worldwide appeal for funds.
Some Of the stricken towns still
bore the scars of more than a week
OF earth tremors in April, 1888, and
subsequent shocks in September and
November. this year. Some 800 lives
we're lost in the April, 1898. disaster.
The earthquake history of Anatolia
Is long.
Scenes of Devastation.
The flaring torches of the rescue
parties provided ghastly illumination
for the scenes of devastation. Rail-
way tracks and bridges were twisted
md broken. Fear-maddened cattle
aampeded in farming communities.
The first of yesterday mornings
four shocks came at o'clock q pm
Tuesday, E. S. t.. The last quiver-
ing of the earth from the final quake
was recorded at am.
Numerous observatories through
the world registered the shocks, in
cluding the West Bromwich seismo-
graph station in London, the Neu-
chatel and Zurich observatories in
Switzerland, the Uccle observatory
in Belgium and the Georgetown
University observatory in WASH
tngton.
The structure of Anatolia is VOL
canic. Mountain ranges border An
atolia, and the interior consists of a
series of plateaus with bare steppes,
salt plains, marshes and lakes. An
atolia's area Is 193, 500 square miles;
Its population some 100000.
Evening star., 1939-12-28

The Netherlands government is
trying to stop the shipment of
metal helmets from the country.
Evening star., 1939-12-28

Several million dollars worth of
munitions are to be made in Aus
tralia for the British government.