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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-23

VS.. No. 2942SS)
STERLING MCKINNEY,
Defendant
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-23

CUSPlNO LIBERATO.
Plaintiff
VS.. No. 292. SO
THELMA LTBERATO,
Defendant
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-23

IHN NNl.
CNSPAR j. LlNGEMNN. ClrI
By b. DcNosetair, deputy clerk
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-23

CORA LEE SCOTT, Plaintiff
VS.. No. 2Q3995
CHARLES SCOTT, Defendant
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-23
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF MICHIGAN
THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
THE COUNTY OF WAYNE
IN CHANCERY

PAUL KEITH. Plaintiff
VS.. No. 2059Jl
PEARL KEITH, Defendant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-12
Raleigh, Roger Smith
Employees Designate
Bargaining Agent
Overwhelming Majority
For Union CIoimed, but
Figures Are Unconfirmed

Employees of the Raleigh and
Roger Smith, Hotels, who voted yes
terday in an election held by the
National Labor Relations Board, Sc
lected the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees International Alliance as
their exclusive bargaining agent by
an overwhelming majority, the un-
ion announced today.
At the Raleigh, an announcement
from the union stated, 200 votes
were cast. OF these, 1853 were for
the union, 20 against the union and
II were challenged, it was stated.
The Roger Smith employees cast
70 votes, 81 of which were for the
union, 5 against and / challenged,
the union announced.
The local offices of the Labor
Board were unable to confirm these
figures. 1t was said that they prob
ably represented an unofficial count
and that the of1lcial findings Of the
board would not be announced until
the challenges were disposed Of.
Meantime, the elections continued
in local hotels as an aftermath OF
the strike which last month affected
Is hostleries.
Ballots were being cast by en-
ployes in the Ambassador and Will
lard Hotels today on the question,
do you wish to be represented
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-12
BIood-Test Services
Topic Of Broadcast

The function of public and pri-
vate health agencies in the conduct
of free chest X-ray and blood test
services was to be discussed during
radio broadcast over Station
WMAL at 11:45 am. today.
Speakers were to be Ross Garrett,
director of the Health Security Ad-
ministration; DR.. James G. Town
send, president of the local Tuber-
culosis Association; Mrs. Josephine
P. Prescott, director of the Public
Health Nursing Bureau; Ray Ever
EFT, executive secretary of the Social
Hygiene Society; DR.. Paul B. Car
nelly, director of the Howard Uni
versity Health Service, and DR.. Mar
vim M. Mclean of the tuberculosis
Clinic staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-12
Gallery Privileges
For Radio Asked

A resolution extending gallery
privileges to radio on an equal basis
with the press was introduced in
the House of Representative today
by Representative John Dempsey,
Democrat, of New Mexico. The
resolution is similar to one intro
duced on the floor of the Senate by
Senators Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa
and Barbour, Republican, of New
Jersey, extending press gallery priv
ileges to radio at that end of the
Capitol.
Both resolutions resulted from an
application by Fulton Lewis, jr., Of
the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-12

by the Local Joint Executive Board
Of the Hotel and Restaurant I'm
ployes' international Alliance and
Bartendels' League Of America, anil
lated with the A. F. of L., as the
exclusive representative for collec-
tive bargaining7"
Further elections were scheduled
at other hotels as follows:
April II, Lafayette and CONT
mental; April 10, Carlton and May
flower; April 10. Shoreham and
Harrington; April 81, Wardman
Park, Lee House and New Colonial.
1t is expected that approximately
5000 persons will cast ballots in
these elections. The elections were
stipulated as part, Of the terms Of
the settlement of the hotel strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-12
Better strsomIinind

Americans spend lsss On food than
20 years ago, wear fewer clothes,
use more automobiles and have
more hair waves, Each Of which Is
= step toward better Streamunins.
Food Industries.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Daughters Keep
Downtown Address

Those bright, vital young people OF
Daughters Courageous dallled not
moment in getting down to the
Metropolitan after their engagement
at the Earle. The picture opened at
the former yesterday after a fort
night at the sister house, an opening
happily designed to keep the quality
of downtown movie entertainment at
the pleasantly high level OF recent
weeks.
A domestic comedy, favored pleas
antly with poignance, Daughters
Courageous" represents a reunion OF
the cast which made such hand
some thing of last seasons -Four
Daughters" The folksy quality OF
the original has been supplanted by
large dash Of sophistication in the
actions of every one concerned
father, mother, and the capricious
daughters. The change, however,
does not alter the fact that those
people, the Lane sisters, Claude
Rains, May Robson, Fay Banter
John Garfield, ETC., are highly enter
tanning performers when they all get
together.
The story concerns the effort OF
the wandering father of the girls
to take up his abode at home again
after a 20-year absence and their
negative decision on the matter IN
spite of pops undeniable charm
That's why they called 1t Daughters
Courageous. It's fine in spite OF
that title. ). G.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
MIR. Chips Adieu
Again DELAYED

Goodbye Mr.. Chips" the picture
which has drained all critical type
writer's Of superlatives, went into its
third week at the Palace yesterday.
Moreover, it went into it with vigor
that ought to be vastly heartening to
customers who want better movies
and to studios which would like to
make them.
An utterly faithful retelling of the
best seller which James Hilton gave
the world several years ago, the pic
ture derives most of its excellence
from the performance of Robert
Donat in the role of the timid
schoolmaster. In finding the great
ness inherent in the compassion, the
kindliness, the wisdom and the
haunting terror of the little teacher,
Mr.. Donat achieved what is certain
to be the best film acting per-
formance of 1899.
Almost equally as good, though
briefer, is that of Greer Carson in
her impersonation of Mrs. Chips. Her
introduction into the film represents
an amplification of the original
story, but it is one that adds vastly
to the charm of the years most
charming screen accomplishment.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Man About Town. come
dy and song with Jack Benny and
Dorothy Lamour: II am, LAO, 4:25
ITO and 9:55 pm. Stage shows:
1880, 1885, $40 and 9:O5 pm.
Palace - Goodbye, Mr.. Chips
screen version of James Hiltons
great novel: l1:30 am, 2, 4:35, 7:1O
and 9:45 pm.
Keith's-'I Stole a Million" crime
with romance angle or vice versa
HIS am, l, 2:45, ABS, $40, $40
and 9:55 pm.
Capitol "On Borrowed Time
earth-touched fantasy: II am, l:45,
4:3O, TBS and 10 pm. Stage shows:
l2:45, $3.50, Sis and ppm.
Metropolitan Daughters Coura-
geous," cast of -Four Daughters" in
another family drama: IL am, los,
3:15, $50, 7:30 and 9:4Opm.
Columbia-"Maisie," that explosive
blond is back again; 1875 am, lao,
3:45, $50, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Little - Animal Crackers" zany
Marx brothers comedy: IL am, 1:3O,
1886, 7::35 and $40 pm.
Open-Air - "Showboat," musical
with Irene Dunno: $40 and 1926
pm. and 1890 am.
Olney-"Tonight or Never" COM
edy, with Kitty Carlisle: $40 pm.
ROadside-"The Fatal Brand" an
old-tlme melodrama: $40 pm.
Cross Roads - Seven Keys to
Baldpate," the familiar George M
Conan mystery comedy: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Rebuilding in China
Caught bV Lens

Japan's efforts to re-establish gov
ernment in the captured Chinese
cities is a high light of the Trans
Lux bill this week, with cameramen
recording formation and training OF
the peace preservation corps"
Other shots from overseas include an
interview of President Roosevelt's S
mother in Paris, new hat fashions,
the latest English dance craze, the
meeting of Italy's Count Ciano and
SPANS General Franco.
In these United States during the
past week the cameras caught to-
bacco auctioneering championship
competition in North Carolina,
planting" fish by plane, preparation
OF Admiral Byrd's new ship, Doug
Corrigan's wedding, Michigan's Gov
Dickinson loosing a blast at sin,
East Side IN. " mothers leav-
ing for their first vacations; conven-
ton of Crouch club; many other
incidents of greater and lesser
moment.
The short subjects are on the usual
Trans Lux entertainment plane,
which is high enough plane. The
daily routine of jockey is shown;
fox hunting is filmed in color; the
always interesting Stranger Than
Fiction" series this time deals with
the worlds tallest horse, a miniature
merry-go-round; Donald Duck and
Pluto 60 on a Beach Picnic"
G.. A. M.
Evening star., 1939-07-22

tern, dipping, but, THANKFULLY, not
wallowing in improbability. The
man with the cigar has been placed
in role allowing him generous
number of scenes wherein he can
hurl snappy comebacks in that
coasJ-to-coast network style.
Probably deserving place above
Mr.. Ryskind's contribution in the
totaling of this films assets is the
work of Eddie Anderson, otherwise
Rochester, Jacks dark-skinned
stooge of the airways. Casting of
this very funny sepian as butler
makes Man About Town" anus
ingly interesting when the other
inducements fall short. That Jack
Benny's best picture to date should
be stolen from under his cigar by
Rochester probably impresses Mr..
Benny as ironic, but it won't worry
many in the audiences.
Jacks role makes him an Ameri-
can musical comedy star playing
London. 1t also makes him would
be great lover who can't get date
with chorus girl in his own pro-
duction. Before the picture is over,
however, he has established repu-
tation as a wife stealer with his
own efforts figuring only indirectly
in the build-up. Two of the films
best bits are Jack .practicing what
he unblushingly calls his technique
on Rochester and Jack trading
places with an acrobat in the show
to elude two armed husbands who
are not seeking grouse.
Dorothy Lamour is not called
upon to act for many minutes, and
her work therefore is acceptable
She sings Strange Enchantment'
and That Sentimental Sand
wich,' the staging doing little to
make the latter number more than
one of the sillier recent songs. Bin
ME Barnes as the British noble
woman who invited complications
when she invites Mr.. Benny to her
estate for the week end is excellent
AS is Edward Arnold in the role OF
her husband. Other items of en-
tertainment are provided by E. E
Give. Isabel Jeans and Betty
Cradle
The Petty girls, a group of lovelies
chosen by Artist George Petty, ap-
pear in several elaborate ensemble
numbers of the usual Hollywood
musical type. The young ladies are
most attractive, as are the routines
but grooming of the show-Ujt in "a =
show exhibits causes the film tc
drag bit in its later stages.
The Earle's stage presentation
this week is one of nice balance
/ Wynn, Brach and Ames, stand
ard dance turn, offer a succession
of rhythm exhibitions; Texas Jim
Evening star., 1939-07-22

GWO Ol 4Olu AL VIC AAAOot SOAA-
crete and simple of terms, the
fantasy has all the qualities of
lovability in the film version that
made it one Of the stages outstand-
ing achievements season before last.
The supporting stage bill, headed
by the always lovely-to-look- k-at-and-
perfect to- listen-to Marjorie Gains
worth, is of quality to earn the
Capitol a minimum of two gold stars
this week
An excellent cast of players who
know how to act collaborateS with
Director Harold S. Bucquet in giving
the moving legend narration that
misses none of its comedy, its pathoS,
its warmth or the depth of the love
that exists between the stormy old
gramp and his highly initiative
grandson. For all the fact that
Death, called Mr.. Brink in this in
stance, is constant presence in the
movement of the drama, it Is no
grim thing Mr.. Brink is fellow
of gentle voice, wise and kindly
heart, and possessed at the proper
moments, OF very charming sense
of humor. Played handsomely by
Sir Cedric Hardwick. he really is one
of the more captivating characters
in the film
The outstanding characterize
tions naturally are those of the
irascible, lovable old gramp hionel
Barrymore and his bouncing mimic
grandson Bob Watson). 1t is a
great team they make of age and
youth combining in one of the great
est adventures man ever has un-
dertaken. That they should drive
Mr.. Brink up an apple tree and
keep him there because grampa
is afraid to die and leave his sons
child in a terrifying world turns
out to be an entirely plausible thing.
If the picture has weakness as
compared with the stage presenta-
tion it is that it moves a bit slowly
at times to make its complete COM
prehension easy. 1t probably should
be added hastily that it is an en-
tirely forgivable slowness that
never affects ones patience ad-
verSely.
The greater scope and resource
fulness of the camera has been
used skillfully in building the illu-
sion that love really might have
the power to repel death. The skill
employed is evident in the fact that
in some of the most far-fetched
areas of the story one is never con-
scious of the trickery
Director Bucquet has made the
most of the many rich scenes which
Paul Osborn wrote into his drama
Evening star., 1939-07-22
George Raft
Strings Along
With Crime
But Comes Clean
After Numerous
Clashes With Law

George Raft is in trouble with
the forces of right again. This
time it is in motion picture en-
titled Il Stole Million" now being
offered to the public at R-K-O
Keith's. 1t requires many feet of
celluloid before Mr.. Raft becomes
convinced that he should give him
self up and take a few of the raps
police have been saving for him,
but he finally comes through nobly
for the Hays office The dapper
stars double trouble to the ump-
teenth power probably will hold the
interest of unreconstructed crime
picture devotees, but it hardly can
hope to satisfy those who take their
screen snarlings at law in widely
spaced doses.
Mr.. Raft is furnished reason for
a hunted look early in the pro-
ceedings, although he starts out as
an honest, plugging taxicab driver
who finally completes down pay
ment on shiny, new vehicle and
prepares to become his own boss.
Certain extra charges have to be
met, however. he is informed and
the fireworks begin. Cab Driver
Raft forcibly repossesses all the
money he has paid. Then there
is the business of being an increas-
ingly bad boy until the picture S
title is justified by a whirlwind
campaign to obtain funds to make
his child's future secure.
Claire Trevor is the young lady
who takes Mr. Raft in hand after
he set out to rob her as she pre-
pared to close the flower store in
which she worked but changed his
mind. She is forced to do a short
stretch" shortly after their baby
is born because of aiding her fugi-
tive husbands escape. Her acting
is acceptable. as is that of Mr.. Raft
and Dick Foran. the young lawyer
thrown over by Claire, who remains
in the vicinity to lend a helping
hand from time to time
Nothing new and different here,
though, and Il Stole a Million
must go into the books as just an
other crime picture The program
also offers a Mickey Mouse, with
Pluto becoming pointer.
c. A. M.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Rosennary's
Fright Was
No Fake
Humphrey Bogart
Induces Real
Emotion
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Directors differ on many things.
but there's one phrase you'll hear,
sooner or later, on every set
Come on, now. gimme realism" ="
the head man will below.
There was none of that the other
day, however, where they're filming
Warmers new horror opus, THE
Return of DR.. X"
The scenes were between Hum
phrey tBoogie Nam Bogart-Who
is dead but lives, after fashion,
on some one else's blood-and Rose
mary Lane. who is very much alive
and wants to stay that way
Miss Lane had a look of perfect
horror on her face as the gray
skinned Bogart stood over her, a
knife poised
Then, as she walked off, she con-
| flded.
That man used to terrify me,
just seeing him in pictures. He's
nice enough to know, I've found out,
but when he raised that knife and
looked at me with that look the
way I used to feel came right back
| to me-"
Evening star., 1939-07-22

yells mo smoking" Every one puts
out his cigarette-except Master
Cooper, who nonchalantly continues
to smoke his pipe. The odor from
the latter is pretty awful >. I stop
Ernst Lubitsch on a Metro street
and ask him, "How's the picture
cNinotchka) going?" They hold
up things for Holsters" he grumbles
1t seems that, in the film, Garbo
Melvyn Douglas and two Russian
commissars are eating fish dinner
in the Ritz in Paris. The sound ol
chewing is interrupted suddenly by
the technical expert. who moans-
This is terrible. They're eating
California Holsters, which have nc
claws. French Holsters have claws
Time out while the props depart
ment makes a quartet of French
Holsters.
Jack Warner acts as an usher at
the theater preview of his epic
Each Dawn I Die" His nasal voice
can be heard all over the theater
ordering people to move on into their
seats. 1t would be more dignified
Mr.. Warner, to leave that sort OF
work to those paid to do it-the
ushers. At the Beau Geste"
premier-preview, Joan Crawford
stops to say hello" to my male COM
panion. They talk for minute be-
fore Joan sees me. She apologies
profusely. Sorry I didn't see you,
but I was so fascinated with him. u
pointing to my escort. me, too,"
reply-and rush him away.
Another four months of purgato-
ry,' sighs Olivia De Havilland. She
means the four months of waiting
for the release of Gone With The
Wind" in which she gives an excel
lent account of herself as Melanie
She is hoping that, after her Warner
bosses have seen her in this drama
tic role, they will realize once and
finally that she is an actress, not
merely decorative ingenue.
Lionel Atwill, who is paid 81 500 q
week, Is not as happy as such re-
muneration should make him. 81
signed contract to act, produce and
direct. So far, they have only let me
act" he grumbles. He plans to strike
for his rights. I see by the Eng
lish newspapers that Alexander
Korda has given up his own house
and moved in with wife Merle Ober.
on. I hope he buys the house from
Merle. It swallowed every cent OF
her savihgs-approximately $65, 900.
The much-publicized fashion Sc.
quence in "The Women" may be cut
from the picture. It took six days tc
shoot and thousands of dollars ir
dresses. And would last six minutes
on the screen. Which is exactly
what is wrong with it. The dress
parade is too long, there is no real
reason for 1t, and it holds up the
action Of the story. Adrian, the lad
who designed the gowns, is fighting
tooth and nail to retain the inclu-
sion OF his brain children. But things
look bad for him at the moment.
released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1939-07-22

tization of the Watkin novel. The
blasphemy which Cramps spread
with such telling effect across the
stage version is missing, but the
character played by Mr.. Barrymore
is not altered thereby. 1t is pretty
apparent that those Hayes office
words he Is substituting are only a
courtesy, that what is coming from
his heart is stronger stun. 1t is
the same in the case of the imita-
tive Pud, a circumstance that makes
some of those comedy scenes be-
tween them even funnier than they
were on the stage.
The tenderness in the scenes be-
tween Cramps and Pud, between
the two of them and Mr.. Brink,
which made the original so effec-
tive, is fully retained in the film.
In some respects the novel more
than the drama has been followed
more closely. More developed is
the love story between Marcia Giles
and Bill, the former played by the
long -absent Una Merkel, and actu-
ally introduced is the Rev. Muir
and Cramps lawyer. The two were
merely limited at in the Broadway
success
Fabricated of a legend that has
lived for thousands of years, a
legend now narrated in the most
modern of terms, "On Borrowed
Time" is a distinguished film that
should give its story an amazingly
greater vitality in our times. Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer has done the origi-
nal author of the fantasy a very
fine turn. And its patrons a fine
turn, too.
Miss Gainsworth dominates the
stage bill with her usual thorough
ness. A very generous lady, she
romps through program that
mixes old and new songs in a FASH
ion that delights the heart all the
way from the first bar of Max
welton's Braes" through the cur
rent when Winter Comes" The
audience eventually had to let her
go. but it was reluctant about it.
Another handsome item on the
bill is brothers. sister tap team,
the Robinsons. who actually are so
good they make one forget the ll9
bad tap teams until they came
along. Les Manning and that tai
ented pup, Mitzi. give the bill one
portion of its comedy flavor, Johnny
Burke the other. The audience
liked Mr.. Burke We joined it
again when it liked the slapstickery
of Les Chesterfields, pantomimic
pair from England.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
B Budget Picture
Is Grade A Fun

When a movie made on B picture
budget turns out to be grade A en-
tertainment, the studios shout OF
joy is one heard practically around
the world. That is what happened
in the case of 'Maisie," which re-
turned yesterday to the Columbia
The tale of a chorus girl stranded in
Gods country-the West-When what
Gods country needed was a fiery,
justice loving chorus girl, "Maisie"
is comic composition of very con-
siderable merit.
AS the girl who straightens out the
affairs of the ranchers, dude and
otherwise, ranchers who have a fair
for getting involved with the wrong
lacquered DANES, Ann Sothern gives
an excellent performance. She gives
such a performance, in fact, that
now she has nice long-term con-
tract with M-G-M which will be do
ing all right for both itself and her
if it finds another story as wacky and
amusing. j. c.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Ann Sheridan Gets
Still Another

Ann Sheridan will be starred by
Warner Bros. in Escort Girl" an
other original screen story by the
prolific Jerry Wald, dealing with the
lives of the attractive girls who work
in the escort bureaus of New York
and other large cities.
Wald has introduced an exciting
murder mystery into his factual
drama, which Miss Sheridan will
make after she completes Models. ?"
John Payne and Dennis Morgan
will play leading romantic roles op-
posite Miss Sheridan.
Evening star., 1939-07-22

Lewis and his crew serve up music
of the West and South a la hill
billy, with Jim demonstrating an
unconventional instrument COM
posed principally of automobile
horns; Motter and Davis are two
men of magnificent muscle; Ed
Ford presents Whitley, his amazing
little dog, and the latter's daugh-
ter, pup proving to be as timber
as the old man.
The Roxyettes have a new group
of dance numbers. one of them a
superb novelty. Each Roxyette has
puppet in this one. and the tiny
wooden jitterbugs are made to
swing out in approved Harlem fash
ion. The effect is one of the best
achieved by the Earle's troupe.
Evening star., 1939-07-22

think this way.
or there wouldn't
be much pleas
ure in life i.
Makeup Wizard
Perc Westmore
tells me that the
hardest part OF
ira n S f o rming
Bette Davis into
a so year old
Queen Elizabeth
was her eyes.
TIL ey persisted
in looking young.
T he difficulty
was solved by
Drumming q SO1ll-
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Jack Benny, a la Network,
Makes Pleasing Film
Play Keeps Comedian in Sunday Night
Character, Albeit Rochester Is
Key to Most of the Laughs
BY CHRIS MATHISEN.

Distressed that Jack Benny of the films usually has not
Rysknd which
character.
display a pleasing
Ryskind ground a motion picture pat
Evening star., 1939-07-22
19 National Centers

The International Center of the
University Of Paris has some 2,5O0
students Of 20 nationalities housed
In 10 national centers.
Evening star., 1939-07-22

On Borrowed Time Keeps
All Its Stage Warmth
Capitol Film Captivating Affair
Built Around Ancient Legend;
Miss Gainsworth on Stage
Ry LAY CARMODY.

Oldest pretiest legends been made into
the picture which
yesterday venerable
orphaned grandson
of