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New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Dec. 7.-Persistent
trade price fixing and limited sup
ply of contracts lifted cotton futures
today. Early hedge selling and Bom-
bay liquidation diminished in the
afternoon and with some support
from Wall Street prices advanced 4
to IL points, December, 1925; March.
9.92; October, 878.
Evening star., 1939-12-07

with q similar period in 1898. No
sales for foreign nations at war
were included In the statistics, the
company said.
Evening star., 1939-12-07

Cottonseed oil opened steady. Decem.
May, 6.55b; July. 6.63b b Bid.
Evening star., 1939-12-07

Baltimore Quotations. 8
BALTIMORE, Dec. : tP.-Wheat. No.
red winter, garlicky, spot domestic, los.
Evening star., 1939-12-07
Cottonseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures ad-
vanced to II points by noon today on
active trade July established a new sea,
lard influenced increased buying from out
side sources. December moved up to 6.s7.
January was up the most at 6.S3.
Crude oil was bid 5ss cents in the South
east and Valley quoted 51z-ss, nominal in
Texas. There were indications of stiffen-
ing prices due to the action Of futures.
Evening star., 1939-12-07
New Orleans Prices

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 7 UP.-Trade and
foreign buying orders absorbed proht
taking and hedging in cotton futures here
today and at noon prices we're to 9
points net higher.
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Babson Conference Planned.


Charles Delmar, president Of the
Lincoln Service Corp, entertained
his Board of Directors at a dinner
last evening at his home, 2438 Bel
mont road NV. Special guests of
honor we're George Boncesco, Finan-
cial Councillor of the Rumanian Le-
cation, and the Rev. Albert j. Nc
Cartney of the First Pres
byterian Church.
Receiver John F. Moran of the
Park Savings Bank began payment
today of a 100000 dividend, which
goes to II 900 depositors. The divi-
dent amounts to 1912 per cent and
brings total payments to 371a per
cent.
Capital Traction SIS registered two
more 81, 900 transactions at 81 on the
Washington Stock Exchange today.
Two 100-share sales in Real Estate
Mortgage g. Guaranty preferred ap-
pesred on the board at 5A.
Washington Gas preferred was
strong. 20 shares selling at l05M.
Evening star., 1939-12-07
Unit of trading 1O shAr


Bankruptcy Act securities by such conpanes
Rates Of dividend table
ment based the quarterly declaration
Unless otherwise noted special extra dividends
cuded
last Payable stock Declared paid far this
Evening star., 1939-12-07

Half Q billion sandbags are being
made In India for Britain.
Evening star., 1939-12-07

Winnipeg Grain Prices.
WINNIPEG Dec = tPb.-Grain range
Evening star., 1939-12-07

of heavy-duty trucks showed an in
crease Of 50 per cent during the hrst
| 10 months Of this year, compared
Evening star., 1939-07-02

been earning his keep at whatever
jobs he could get. But he already
had five years acting experience be-
hind him.
A Los Angeles native, born Rob-
ert Meservey, son of a downtown
clothing store owner, Preston got
his first drama training at Lincoln
High School. At IS he was taken
Tor tryout before Mrs. Patio Pow
er, mother of Tyrone Power, and
given job in her stock company.
Ihus, unwittingly, Mrs. Power
launched the career of youngster
who some day may give her own
son race for top box office hon.
ors. In Mrs. Powers company the
l5-year-old portrayed the title role
OF Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"
the same character in which Bing
Crosby made his debut as a high
school actor.
1t was while at the Pasadena
Playhouse, playing the Alfred Lunt
role IN Idiots Delight" that Pres
ton was spied by Crooner Crosbv.
who ordered his brother-manager.
Everett Crosby, to put the youth
under contract. A few months lats.
paramount tested and gave nip a
long-term contract. And after Sree
Gays OF work in Union Pacific"
De Mile made a cash offer of
$500 900 to Paramount for Preston's
contract. But the studio wouldn't
give over.
Its confidence in the young actor
is reflected in current castings. He
already has completed one of the
three starring roles, with Gary
Cooper and Ray Milland in Beau
Geste" and in week or two will
start work as hero to Dorothy La
mour in South of Samoa" And all
this within a year!
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. InoJ
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Hollywood's
Chorus Girls
Amazing
George Balanchine
Calls Them a
Phenomenon
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYW WOOD.
The Hollywood chorus girl, who
must be more versatile than the
utility player on a baseball team. is
the phenomenon of the entertain
ment world, according to George
Balanchlne, internationally famous
dance master, one-tim maitre OF
the Ballet Russo and now head OF
the American Ballet.
Unbelievable" and amazing
are the two words Balanchine re.
peats again and again in describ.
ing his impressions of the compare
lively small group of girls who TO,
several years have circulated from
studio to studio as various produc.
tlons required their specialized
| services.
Balanchine found occasion tc
speak OF them one recent after
noon at Warner Bros, Just after
he had finished interviewing" two
score of the girls for the ballet he
will stage for "On Your Toes" in
which his wife, Zorina, is starred
with Eddie Albert of Brother Rat
and The Boys from Syracuse" fame
What struck me first and oddly
was the fact that at least six of the
girls came onto the stage where ]
was holding the interview with shoes
fltted with ice skates. 1t was OBJ
vlous. their reason. Many calls re-
Gently at various studios have been
Tor expert ice skaters, girls who
could skate dance numbers on a
frozen surface. They did not wish
to come unprepared in case we
were having an ice ballet in our pic
ture.
Il made inquiry of one of their
captains, marvellous general dancer
named Louise Allen, a girl who
appears to be around 16 or II but
who has been dancing in Holly
wood pictures for 10 years or more.
Here are some of the things I
found out. Every girl who makes
her living by dancing for pictures
can do any kind of tap, soft shoe,
rhumba, tango, ballet, Spanish, &C
robatlc, eccentric, ice ballet, clog
or any other kind of routine that
one could mention Choose any six
or a dozen girls from group at
random, strike up a piano. and they
can do these routines in almost
perfect unison at once.
II found out, too, that the moment
Sonia Henie struck town, and
word went around that a ballet
on ice would be the next big pic
ture "a big picture is one with jobs
for many almost all the chorus
girls in this strange unofficial Hol-
lyWood guild or union went as q
group to local ice rink. Day and
night for three days they helped
each other to learn to dance on
skates. Came the day that Miss
Henle's studio sent out a call for
trick skaters, not expecting to find
enough, the whole troupe swooped
down, and the director found more
than enough available.
For that very simple reason ]
am not at all worried about get
ting enough highly trained ballet
dancers for my numbers with 70
rlna in On Your Toes All have
to do is ask the Warner Bros cast
ing director to say Come on, kids.
In half an hour I'll have one OF
the most highly trained ballet groups
one could find"
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Now Singers
Get Breaks
In Films
Tell a Microphone
Latest Advice of
Talent Scouts
HOLLYWOOD

loJL WoOD.
Hollywood talent scouts have
changed the formula of their advice
to screen-struck girls who have a
certain promise of future film sue
cess. They used to suggest stage
training first, preferably with a
little theater group of high rating.
Even to get this far along, where a
studio representative would notice
them. they had to be chorus girls
or lingerie models or the type sought
by commercial photographers to
pose for stocking, cigarette and bath
soap ads.
Now it's the little girls who do
the vOcalizing with the dance bands
who are given great big helping
hand in Hollywood. If you have
the looks and can sing like any one
of a dozen girls whose voices come
over the radio you have more than
half chance in the studios.
Helen Morgan was one of the first
of the vocalizing Sisterhood to be
grabbed by the screen talent scouts.
She literally was lifted right down
off a piano for one of Reuben
Mamoulian's first productions, pic
ture called Applause"
Dorothy Lamour was singing
with the band of her then husband,
Herbie Kay, when Paramount
signed her, wrapped her in her IA
nous sarong and delivered her
shapely person to the screen gazers
OF the world at large. Alice Fave is
another who stepped from micro
phones to cameras. Judy Garland
rode to Hollywood on the airways.
So, in a manner of speaking, did
Martha Raye. 1t just happened
that Martha was broadcasting with
a band right from a HOLLYWOOD
night spot, with directors and talent
scouts surrounding her, on the
night her recognition came.
Few, even in Hollywood. know
that Ann Sheridan got her first nod
as singer with college orchestra.
but that's the way it happened.
Ann was singing, and singing right
smartly, with a musical group in
Dallas when she drew the attention
OF a local editor, vino. in turn,
cleared the path toward her screen
career.
Most notable of all the former
dance band warblers now riding high
In Hollywood, however, are Priscilla
and Rosemary of Fred Warnings ag-
gregation. Priscilla Lane and Rose
mary Lane, rapidly on their way to
stardom for Warner Bros, are Ger
talnly proof of the new order of
things.
But notice this, and it lust goes
to prove how funny are Hollvwood's s
ways sometimes. Only Priscilla gets
to sing in Daughters Courageous, y
their latest film at Warner Bros.
Rosemary, Lola and Gale Page. the
fourth of the famous -Four Daugh-
ters, are given a chance to chant
a brief Happy birthday to you' in
one gay little scene with Fav
BANTER, their screen mother. But
they don't care. They sang their
way into the movies. That was
singing enough for a while.
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Outdoor Amusements

GLEN ECHO PARK Only
local outdoor amusement re-
sort, with all the usual park
rides, a midway and a picnic
grove. There's dancing
nightly Except Sundays in
the Spanish Garden ball room
to a name band.
SEASIDE PARK-At Chesa-
peake Beach Md. In addi-
tlon to the amusement park
attractions there's a mile OF
boardwalk and half-mlle
pier out into Chesapeake Bay.
CITY OF WASHINGTON-The
Wilson Line steamer sails for
Marshall Hall Park and
Mount Vernon daily at 10 am.
and 2 pm. Other cruises are
the sunset" at $50, stopping
at Marshall Hall just long
enough to load and unload
passengers, and the nightly
moonlight at $50, with
dancing to McWilliams' Or
cheStra.
S. S. POTOMAC-There's a
three-hour moonlight" dance
cruise every night at 8:45
pm. with midnight" Sat-
urday nights at 1890 am.
Every Sunday morning the
boat makes the trip to Co.
lonlal Beach, leaving at $50
am, returning in the evening.
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Coming Attractions

EARLE Daughters Courage
GUS" The same Lane sisters
and John Garfield of -Four
Daughters in, not sequel,
but another tale of an Amer
ican family, arrive Friday.
On the stage will be the Lake
Placid Ice Show" with even
the RoXyettes on ice skates.
CAPITOL-"s Stronger Than De-
sire" a New York society
melodrama," opens Friday.
Its stars are Virginia Bruce
and Walter Pidgeon, and it
has Irritation, blackmail and
murder mystery. There will
be a new variety stage show,
too.
KEITH'S Career" story of
the influences philosophical
country storekeeper exerts on
two young romances, follows
Five Came Back" Edward
Ellis and Anne Shirley are
the stars, and it introduces
Alice Eden and John Archer.
the Gateway to Hollywood"
winners.
PALACE-" Good bye, Mr..
Chips" the highly praised
screen version of James Hill
tons novel. with Robert
Donat and Greer Carson. is
scheduled to follow "Tarzan
Finds a Son"
METROPOLITAN -" "The Kid
From Kokomo," comedy tale
of farm lad turned prize
fighter, is to follow "Juarez."
Wayne Morris is the farm
hand. and Pat O'Brien, Joan
Blondell, Jane Wyman and
Nav Pohcor, orc II, tho ooet
Evening star., 1939-07-02
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAM


LOO a.m.-WMAL, Anne Roselle, soprano Hen
rietta Schumann, piano virtuoso, and
Florence Wightman, solo harpist of
the Metropolitan Opera Company, are
the guest artists on the Radio CITY
Music Hall program of au-French
music. The following program is
heard:
Piano Quartet" - Chausson
Henrietta Schumann pianist
Danses Sacree Profane' Debussy
Three French songs Szulc
Anne Rosele, soprano.
Two pieces for string trio Jean FrancaiS
Pavane Pour une Enfant Defunte" Ravel
Miss Wighman. Miss Schumann and
"Scherzo' Lain
Miss Wightman Miss Schumann and
quartet.
Last movement from Quintet
Miss schumann and quartet ~
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Who, Me?' Says Hedv

One day this week newspaper
man who had gathered notes for a
story on the Americanization of
Hedy Lamar" said he wanted to
ask the glamour girl one question
did she have any hopes. desires or
expectations of becoming an Amer
lean citizen? When he asked the
question every one within hearing
distance practically swooned. why,
OF course" she said. Il got my first
citizenship papers six months ago."
She took them under her real name,
Hedwig Kiesler, and even her best
friends didn't know. She says she
didn't announce it because no one
ever asked me before"
Evening star., 1939-07-02
She Can Say Kiss Me- and Love- and Money
So Somewhat Limited knowledge Handicap
To Fiery Carmen Miranda, Broadva Bombsheu
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
Brazilians know how to do a thing
with an exciting flourish, which,
perhaps, explains why effervescent
Carmen Miranda has arrived on
Broadway to be greeted with cheers
from critics and audiences ordinar-
lily reserved for long established
stars.
She speaks only about 20 words
Of English, and knows the meaning
of only half of those.
Il can say kiss me- and love
and 'money'-and I know what they
mean" the darkhaired, green-eyed
chanteuse said as she began taking
off the scores of bracelets and neck
laces comprising most of the slinky
costume she wears in the new hit
musical revue, The Streets of
Paris"
And today I learn a fine new
one to say, but I don't understand
what she means" she continued as
more beads and bracelets came of.
The new word is 'air-condee-
Shioned' and I memorize him off a
sign board"
At the start Miss Miranda said
she would speak through her in
terrupter," who proved to be young
Brazilian in her orchestra who
speaks English and acts as her
interpreter.
But this peppery Portuguese sing
er is finding no trouble getting
what she wants on Broadway.
She rolls her eyes and swings
her hips with such expressive elan
that she not only sells her songs to
her audience, but she is greeted
in the street with warming cries of
Hello, Potatoes"
The nickname comes because she
shouted, when the first might au-
dience called her back on stage for
many ovations, "Batatal." That's
Brazilian slang for Its the berries, !"
but it sounded like Potatoes" to
the first-nighters, and its what they
have been affectionately calling her
ever since.
MISS Miranda sings both romantic
songs and humorous songs. and
while singing she moves her hips
and hands and eyes in such a way
that it is almost a dance-anyway,
it is routine both international
and understandable to all.
When she was years old she was
brought from her native Portugal
to Brazil. For the past several years
she has been the musical stage star
of not only Rio de Janeiro. but
also practically all the other South
American capitals.
Her phonograph records outsell
those of any other singer in those
cities. She has made several mo-
ton pictures there and now she
thinks it will be "ho-kay" to 20
on to Hollywood as soon as she
learns to speak "Thees Hanglish."
My only handicap In this so
beautiful New York" she said. "is
that I break up nv songs with
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most of Paul Muni's modern picture
getups.
When Westmore got the signal to
go ahead on Laughton, it took him
less than three days to pattern and
make the rubber shoulder pad.
which takes care of the body de-
formity. CLANCY took four hours
daily to put on his complicated bodv
harness when the early movie was
made.
Westmore thinks Laughton wifi
make a fine Quasimodo, but he
nurses a pet notion that an actor
he knows might have been even
better. He pointed to large
framed painting on the wall-a re-
production of John Garfield in the
wig and facial makeup of the hunch-
back.
THAT guy would have bowled 'em
over in the part" he commented,
but they wouldn't listen to me-"
Released By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-07-02
Todoy's High Lights

loo p.m.-WJSV. Money and Credit" drama
tized version of Americas problems of
credit and finance from 1890 to the
present day is presented as the eighth
program in the series Democracy in
Action"
l;5o pm-WRC, the University of Chicago
Round Table analyses trends in regard
to civil liberties in the United States.
2:0o p.m.-WJSV, WORKS by Moussorgsky and
TschaikoWsky are presented by How
ard Barlow, conductor of the Colum-
bla Broadcasting Symphony.
100 p.m.-WJSV, Erich Leinsdorf guest con-
ductor of the N B. c. Orchestra.
chooses for his farewell concert the
Evening star., 1939-07-02

IlO eolu anu SeNeI al IledudCIleS. he
has now transferred his outside in
terests to a series of bow-and- arrow
short subjects, with Howard Hill as
collaboration and star They give
promise of considerable success.
Meanwhile, however, he has prac-
tically abandoned what was once
his burning ambition-to write fic-
ton and travel stories.
TOO busy is his excuse. (And ev-
cry other Wrlter's.-Ed) 1t is the
excuse of almost every player who
starts into other lines of business
As soon as his screen career reaches
a certain degree of success.
Joel McCrea and Frances Dee still
have their horse ranch, but find
less and less time to devote to it.
Mrs. Pat O'Brien is no longer vitally
interested in her hat shop and Ed
ole Cantor's name has disappeared
from the various store fronts it oc-
cupled when he was in the gift shop
business in and about Hollywood.
Alan Hale, who can more or less
keep his avocatlonS under his hat
he's a successful inventor and pro-
moter of inventionS-is making
money on the side from his pat
ented theater seats, which slide
back to accommodate late customers
without making the occupant stand
up. Hale has number of money
making inventions, but the idea he
likes to talk about, concrete wheels
on automobiles to be used as soon
AS the streets are paved with rubber,
Is not one of them. While at work
In ON Your Toes" Hale admitted
that his patented dark glasses,
which fit over other glasses with a
spring that holds them in place, is
also bringing him good financial re-
turns.
James Cagney was unwillingly
but actively in the real estate busi-
ness until recently. He owned prop
erty bought as an investment on
Marthas Vineyard, off the East Coast,
and an island near Newport, Calf.
He also has Beverly Hills home
and a yacht which are up for sale.
Now his brother-manage William
Cagney, has been put in charge of
them.
Evening star., 1939-07-02

overture to Mozart's Escape From the
Seragio,' "Moldau," by Smetana; De-
bussy's Afternoon of a Faun," and
the prelude to Die Meistersinger." by
Wagner zade Skolowsky pianist, is
featured as solost in Richard Strauss
"Burlesk for Piano and Orchestra"
$50 p.m.-WRC, selections from Bizet's opera.
Carmen" and Schuberts "Serenade'
are high lights of the American Album
of Familiar Music
300 pm.-WRC, John Erskine. famous author
and educator, is guest artist of The
Circle
GAS p.m-WJSV, Francis Bowes Sayre Assist
ant Secretary of State, speaks on
Americas commercial policy and its
trade agreement program.
Evening star., 1939-07-02

comedy lines which are really very
funny jokes because I am, too, the
comedienne. But I am stopped
when I don't get laughs because
naturally the American audiences
do not understand what I say.
MY only laugh opening night
came when I said 'Souse America
and I was much puzzled because it is
not funny to me-" she said. Then
somebody tell me that I am 'souse'
If I drink too much whisky. So I
try to say 1t South, but my lips
they still say 'souse' and it makes
everybody very happy"
Miss Miranda said that she Is not
married, and she seemed a trife
piqued when asked if she had a boy
friend But, it seems that what
annoyed her was the inference that
she had only one admiring swain
lurking around her doorstep.
AS always when new star arises
Evening star., 1939-07-02

CdicCIS III Iilc MOVIES. fOCentldl lem
mime bets turn up in clusters-al-
ways have and probably always will
But the furtive male seems to seek
all other means of livelihood first
He must be scraped out of secluded
spots.
Discovery of a likely feminine
candidate doesn't stir ripple of ex-
element in studio circles any more
but just let the scout drag in young
man nodded to fandom's exacting
demands and great bonfres are lii
in the Hollywood hills.
Those two best male bets of 1889
are Robert Preston, who played one
OF the top roles in Union Pacific
and William Holden, just finishing
the title part in Golden Boy at
Columbia. Even so, Holden cannot
yet be handed an accolade because
Golden Boy" hasn't reached the
theaters and its new star must still
run the gamut of hard-boiled audi
ence reaction. If Holden flops his
studio may be forced to hunt up a
couple of new mortgages. Golden
Boy" represents one of its heaviest
investments and the story is built
entirely around the title character.
Both Preston and Holden are 20
years old and graduates of the
famous Pasadena Community Play
house, which has turned out such
important screen figures as Robert
Taylor, Robert Young, Lloyd Nolan.
Randolph Scott and Gloria Stuart.
or the two, Preston's rapid rise fur
nlshes much more interesting read
ing. Eighteen months ago he was
parking cars at the Santa Anita race
track for a living. Today he occu-
pies probably the luckiest spot of
any young film actor in town.
Up to the time Paramount put
him under contract and De Mile as
signed him to that semi -villainous
role in Union Pacific" Preston had
Evening star., 1939-07-02
H'Ya Greta, or Kid

For the first time in years, Garbo
is being called "Greta" by her di-
rector. Not since Monta Bell di-
rected her in her second picture has
any one used her first name until
Ernst Lubitsch began ''Ninotchka.
The only other director who ever
called her anything but Miss
Garbo' was w. S. Van Dyke. He
called her Kid"
Evening star., 1939-07-02
French Government
Okays 'Nazi Spv'

France has officially approved
confessions of Nazi Spy" with
out making a single deletion. War
ner Bros. has been informed by
cable.
This opens up an additional ter
rltory containing 4500 theaters and
Will augment tremendously the for
elgn gross expected from the spy
picture.
Leon G. Turrou, former Oman
whose investigation led to the ex-
posure OF the German spy ring, now
is in Paris to make personal ap-
pearances with the picture, which
was adapted from his own story.