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Evening star., 1939-04-23
Tarzan Gets
A Yen for
Indoors
HOLLYWOOD


Tarzan Weissmuller wants to say
good-by to the forest primeval and
take whirl at civilization. He's al
ready cultivating a dignif1ed mien,
and, after marriage to a socialite
this summer, Lupe's ex-spouse wants
M-G-M to take him out Of the
jungle and put him into drawing
room stories.
Johnny's the most -emphatically
typed actor in Hollywood. No one
can approach him. His record since
entering pictures back in 1882 shows
nothing but an unbroken string OF
features bearing Tarzan preflxes, in
all Of which he played the simple,
uncivilized title character.
I'D like to get into a tuxedo and
play regular role-just once" said
Johnny as he turned up on the
stage the other day for a retake
on his latest, "Tarzan in Exile"
after all, I have worn a tuxedo
and don't pick my teeth in public
I think could show some of these
fancy heroes q thing or two.
Don't get me wrong. I like the
Tarzans, but I've got a lot of time
on my hands between them. While
playing golf with Bing Crosby is
lot of fun, I'm anxious to show
the fans that I can actually talk
and that I don't eat with my knife
All the fan mail I get indicates folks
think I can do nothing but babble
and let out blood-curdling yells."
Whenever Johnny broached the
matter to M-G-M directors In the
past, they merely laughed, very
loudly-as though the idea Of Weiss
muller playing anything but . Tar
zan was preposterous. But nov
there's q serious little movement
afoot In the studio to lift him Out
Of the wilds Of Africa, possibly In
q college story which would serve
double duty In giving him a chance
to swim and at the same time dis
play his marvellous physical develop
ment. So, while Johnny may moi
get to wear the tux, at least he
has chance Of getting into q pair
of slacks and q sweat-shirt.
(copyright. 1899, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-04-23
HOLLYWOOD.

| x1OxAA "O\S0s
This particular meeting proved one
Of those rare occasions when Paul
NUM-, man Of many moods, was in a
mood to talk. Since art" has begun
to weigh heavily on his shoulders,
Muni's periods Of fluency have be-
come increasingly scarce. Usually,
he's hurried, worried, almost curt
and anxious to get away. .
But on this, Hollywood's first really
warm spring day, he was light-heart-
ed, nimble- -witted and in no rush at
all. Only a few days before he had
finished final scenes for "Juarez,"
and that morning had approved the
temporary script Of another picture
which will be built about the life
of Beethoven. So, at the moment
he was free-as free as any import
ant actor who takes his work seri-
ously could be.
In spite Of published announce.
ments, MUM says he does not intend
making Beethoven" for some time
to come. He wants to act on the
screen for a long time yet, and he
fears long succession of biograph-
ical films will certainly make him q
typed actor. If he doesn't make
break for himself in between. And
now's the time to do flctional bit,
he believes.
'It's just as easy and just as dan
gerous for an actor to become typed
in the kind of stories he uses for
1{e ~ }C IN
typed as an actor who plays only one
kind of role" he said. II certainly
don't want to be known as a biog-
raphical star, but, If I should fol-
low up 'JuareZ' with another life
story, I'd certainly be ticketed for
life"
NUM- revealed he was seriously
considering going to England within
few weeks to make the James Hill
ton story 1--WE Are Not Alone" which
would be handled under the super
vision of Warner Bros, to which he
Is under contract.
incidentally, Muni holds one Of the
most unusual player pacts in Holly
wood. Under it he can, If he wishes,
make two pictures each year for the
studio. But the studio cannot force
him to make any picture he doesn't
want to make. His word Is final on
the approval or disapproval OF
scripts. He Is paid certain amount
for each picture and does not draw
salary by the week. This all gives
him a very pleasant feeling of in
dependence, he declares.
playing 'Juarez' has been inter-
esting," he went on, "and have a
feeling 1t is going to turn into my
most important picture. The paral-
lei with present world conditions is
too close to be ignored, and, as
patriotic urge, 1t should carry
plenty of weight"
He explained, further, that, in the
play which had been used as the
groundwork for the script of the
film, Juarez, the Mexican leader,
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Todoy's High Lights
fAN time PM. unless indicated.
APRIL q AND ~, 1889

3:0O-WJSV John BarbirolN conducts the New
York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
"violin Concerto Beethoven
Adolf Busch. soloist.
Seventh Symphony y'-------Schubert
ammo 1900" suite for string orchestra.
pubensky
tF1rst American performance0
4:30-WRC, the JNaro Indians of Ecuador, head
hunters, are the subject of the World Is
Yours dramatization.
7:00-WJSV Senator Wheeler of Montana dis
cusses Radio and the Public Interest"
with Commissioner of Education John w.
Studebaker and two radio men.
8:0O-WOL. Senators Mimic of Indiana and
Burke of Nebraska debate "The National
Labor Relations Act"
Evening star., 1939-04-23
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAM


Noon-WMAL, Of'enbach's opera comique. Tales
Of Hoffman," is sung in English by So
prano Rosemarie Brancato, Contralto
Louise Bernhardt, Tenors Jan Peerce,
Robert Landrum and Louis Purdey, Bari
tone Llopis de Oivares, Bass Baritone
Eugene Frey.
12:3o-WRC, Senator Nye of North Dakota par
ticipates in University of Chicago round
table discussion Of America and the Next
War"
1:3o-WRC, VOL, WJsv, Lord Halifax secre-
tary of foreign affairs, speaks during
Great Britains greeting to the New
York Worlds Fair
2:00-WMA1, Mimic Sheila Barrett Contralto
Bruna Castagna and Bill Robinson and
others from cast of "The Hot Mikado"
are presented.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Paul MUM Now Seeks Retreat From Life Sto1
At Conclusion of Jaurez He Looks Toward Fcona Film
Lest He Become Typed as the Biographical Star

several artistic exhibits notably
that one-man, ant-box omce fea-
ture known % Seven Faces':-and
then was kicked out Of the studio
Is . hopeless prospect. All NUM-
got out Of Fox was q new name
There they changed it from Mum
Weisenfreund.
Very often his wife, Bella Finkel
sits all day on the set watching her
husband work. On these occasions
when he finishes q scene, Mum will
look toward his wife for q nod OF
approval. II he doesn't get it, he'll
ask for q retake. Mrs. MUM is No.
critic in the MUM household, and
all his studio affairs are first
threshed out with her before he'll
give Jack Warner Q decision on any
thing.
(copyrisht 1888. bg the North Americsn
tSswspapee Alliance. Iuc)
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Evans Willing to Appear
In a Modern Drama
Continued From, First Paee.)

matched other actor His Hamlet which, Evans
avoids treating prince dyspepsia
greater portrait the opinion critics Fan
Washington Its opportunity
the National Capital That
other cities tried
found that there little interest Washington
cpton Boston another
the limit of the
Hollywood Wants
Stormy Daughter
Katharine It, laugh
relations with Hollywood performance Bringing Up
Baby last spring. the decided that
through that her appeal public and that Miss
burn could Miss stayed Holiday
In which brilliant
leave Of the sunshine and her sneering bosses
Now after her brilliant "The Philadelphia
which critics eating the
tered Hollywood cusyng
the asking and lot Of people hoping that
she will accept nothing less
certainty Hepburn through
pictures 1ushowthem attitude refusal
Discover America
And Riches in
stage "Knickebocker Hol
sharing profit would
"Stagecoach" Pacific Ring" alexander
films reflect the fact that
the makers reading their history finding dramatic
dshng cuod These ventures in Amer
pictures But
Hollywood lavish
its wealth.
Investments The Others due local
similarly returns elsewhere throughout the
with subject 1t will
great many dramatic lessons in history
Evening star., 1939-04-23

Wiling W SGd4VC. AAACJ oAS w.
rounded by group OF neighbors IN
similar condition. There is also the
berserk old man who tries to be-
lieve that he is a great actor. The
scene Is California in 1914, and 1t
Is a picture of those dream-flled
people who focked to that oasis
when they could live in beauty and
almost in the idyllic paradise OF a
desert island.
The play, MY Hearts in the High
land" was given vigorous thump-
ing around by the critics, and Is a
doubtful success. But, the general
impression is that all the reviewers
thought Saroyan a man OF such
mixed talents that he should be
Strengthened out for the good OF
the theater.
The critics really gave Saroyan
q worth while example of construc-
tive criticism. Burns Mantle, critic
of the Daily News, confessed that
the play was vague and then gave
the perfect answer by quoting a
review that Saroyan had written
about a movie he didn't seem to
understand, and it was a stupid
review that Saroyan had written,
for he only said that he resented
the fact that, in his opinion, they
had made an annoying movie to
annoy him. Mr.. Nantes hint
and, correct he is-was that Saroyan
is an amateur critic.
But there is this in Saroyan's
favor. He is willing to accept
criticism. Despite the unfavorable
remarks about his show from the
first nighters he persuaded one
dramatic critic to go back and see
the show with him and allow him
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Sonia Henie Marks
A Birthday and
Makes a Haul
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
A few days after her 26th BIRTH
day anniversary Sonia Henie's
household invoiced her presents and
reported she received:
Forty-eight assorted sweaters.
Eighteen boxes Of candy.
An ostentatious radio with rec
ords, including some Of Rudy VAL
lees from Rudy Vallee).
Thirteen bottles Of perfume Gone
from Friend Tyrone Power).
A wrist watch (from her mother)
One hairbrush.
Two hundred and twenty-eight
kilograms.
Two wire-haired puppies, named
Pride and Joy.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Three Sign Anew

Lana Turner, Laraine Day and
Dennis OKeefe have signed new
M-G-M acting contracts. Both
girls appear in Calling DR.. Kildare. -
Miss Day made her debut in "Sergt
Madden" OKeefe has just COM
pleted 'The Kid From Texas"
A new long-term contract has also
been signed by Pete Smith, noted
commentator, who celebrates his 18th
year with M-G-M. During the past
five years, he has made 100 short
subjects for M-G-M and will make
13 during this year. Plans are under
way for him to combine his commen-
tation with a Harman- Using cartoon
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Olivia in 'Rames'

Samuel Goldwyn announces the
acquisition Of Olivia de Havilland
for the feminine lead opposite David
Niven In Rallies" Miss de Havil-
land was borrowed from the War;
ner Bros. Studio to which she is
under contract.
The screenplay Of 'Ra11les" Is
now being completed by John Bla-
derston.
Evening star., 1939-04-23

collects $l5O,OOO Tor making q SIN
gle picture, you aren't SO likely to
blink at the figures in the public
prints. Not If the press agents can
help it, anyway.
It's an open secret in the film COL
ony that publicity departments again
this week were ordered to crawl into
a shell in the matter Of dollar pub
ucity.
Once before, about five years ago,
the Hays Office promulgated q SINH
lar command, but 1t was quickly
routed. This time, however, there's
q must" rider attached. Weird
salaries paid to stars and million
dollar blurbs about production costs
aren't just the thing to publicize any
more-they haven't been for the last
seven days.
You may have guessed the real
reason behind this sudden reversal
In ballyhoo methods. Trace it to
those income revelations for 1887
They struck official Hollywood like
q bombshell, and, while the figures
are well of the front pages and the
Nation is again perusing ominous
news from Europe, the tycoons OF
movieland are still staggering dizzily
from the effects of what they term
undesirable publicity"
Considering the legal and political
entanglements facing the business al
present, news that two thirds of all
salaries Of 5000 900 or more reported
for 1887 were collected by executive.
or personalities of the screen worlc
couldn't have come at a more mop.
perfume time.
Frankly, the Nations fourth in.
dustry has just about arrived al
the crossroads Of its comparatively
short existence as the worlds mos
popular amusement medium.
Federal and State suits and in.
vestigations are heckling 1t on every
side. The Government is preparing
to launch court action against eight
major companies, charging then
with being a million n-dollar monop.
oily. Anything can happen in tina,
suit.
The Nicely anti-block booking bill
which many believe would wreck
present-day distribution methods, 1!
being pondered by a senatorial com.
mittee.
An Illinois legislator wants a bill
passed forbidding any theater owner
from showing a picture in which
the principal actors have beer
divorced more than twice.
In 80 other States of the Unior
censorship and other regulatory leg.
islation are being pushed for imme'
diate action.
And then this high-salary bomb
shell had to drop" moaned a Hay
ofnce spokesman. "The reaction
throughout the country can't b'
anything but bad. Each year thes,
lists are printed 1t undoes all ou
efforts to pubncize the real facts
that 80 per cent of our wage-earner
never get get more than $1,000 ,
year. The average fan unconscious
ly gets an idea that our Office boy
must be fabulously wealthy"
The heaviest publicity blow, o
course, fell on Louis B. Mayer, VIII
put the movies on top of the salar,
heap as the highest-paid person il
the country.
Like so many other pioneers VIII
led the infant out of its penn,
arcade paroxysms, the European
born Mayer came up from humbl
surroundings. He's a man of abou
IS, who rose from q glorif1ed junl
dealer to head of the richest pro
ducer-distributor organization in tn
film field.
At IA he was in command of :;
force Of 200 men in New Brunswick
raising sunken hulls and selling tn
reclaimed metal to manufacturing
concerns. At 18, his imagination
Evening star., 1939-04-23

I have managed to hold the feeling
Of importance in the real character
as strongly as 1t was felt in the
background of the play, then the
Aim will be success. It wasn't easy
to do. Every appearance and every
brief speech had to be written and
rewritten many times"
Muni has come a long way in his
10 Hollywood years, but he knows
the bumpy road to success. He ar
rived In the gold rush days of the
sound era via William Fox, put on
Evening star., 1939-04-23

did not actually appear, but was
kept as an "od-stage presence" SO
powerful that history in both Eu-
rope and the Americas was changed
by his influence. In the picture this
invisible influence had to be per-
sonif1ed through Maximilian and
Carlotta, as well as Napoleon III.
puppets dancing on the ends of
strings held by the powerful Juarez.
"As a result" he said, II have
fewer lines than ever had In q
picture. This will be real test. If
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Spirit of Rockne'

The Spirit of Knute Kockne"
will be the title of the Warner
Bros production known heretofore
as The Story Of Knute Rockne. /"
John Payne will join Pat OBrien,
who will portray the great Notre
Dame football coach; Wayne Nor
rls, Rosemary Lane, Jane Bryan
and Ronald Reagan in the cast Of
the picture.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
ndNowLook at Hollywood
Cringing From Publicity
HOLLYWOOD.


sdeiners along Aim week
crashing the movie
heavens involved, either
Instead the a industry
very structure built on bayhoo crying bitterly
publicity"
Hereafter star netting
Evening star., 1939-04-23
William Saroyan Turns Up
With a Play on Broadway
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

That young his first play in town and is
critics will recall
author out OF the California studios
sometimes
Now is his my Hearts in the Highland
S Broadway
The story in brief impoverished is
Evening star., 1939-04-23
In HOLLYWOOD

In Hollywood, the Indian dialect
is classified as q foreign language: /:
and Anna May Wong's father in
her latest picture is played by q
Scotchman.
Evening star., 1939-04-23

9:00-WJSV. Basso Ezio Pima is Sunday Eve
ming Hour soloist.
Overture to "Fodelio, ,-------Beethoven
Orchestra
LArgo from "Xer1eg' g'--.-Handel
Mr.. Ppsa and orchestra.
"Gisus IN O.
"Chi Vuole InnamorarM" "--ecarlatti
Mr.. PIMA and orcheatra.
''Che Eisro Costume" legrenxi
Mr.. Pima and Orchestra
oypsy song and fandanso frqm "soanish
Orchestra.
II Lacerato spirito' from Simon
Boccanegro''
Mr.. PIMA and orchestra.
'Valse Triste' .----------------si -sibelus
Orchestra.
Sweet and Low -Barnby
Capella Chorus.
Now Is the Month Of MayinE' -.----Morey
Capella Chorus.
Orchestra.
20 Beautiful. the March Of Days Cutler
Chorus. audience and orchestra.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
The Broken Strand

The trifling circumstance. the trivial
grief
Could not avail to break the golden
thread
On which my days. like shining
beads were sped,
But this is agony beyond belief.
The cord is snapped Upon Nfe's path
way lie,
Confused and meaningless, my scat
tered days.
How mend the severed thread that
twists and trays,
Resting the chain, withhold the des-
perate cry?
Alone, cannot. Like frightened child.
Too terrified and lost to understand.
grope to find reassuring hand
To lead me from this place, austere and
wild
TO offer me another thread and bring
Some newer, brighter beads for me to
string.
NN BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TracepeH.

those interested In this sport, so that no
one tries to tell bigger story than the
next, nor feels in the slightest hurt over
the discoveries of another.
Argument, in other words, is at a
standstill.
We have but to stop for a second to
realize that both men and women ordi-
narily argue their way through the day.
No two seem to have read the same
books, or seen the same shows, any
more. In the old days the man who read
the best magazines could be sure of
finding others who had, but today it is
different.
Difference of opinion today seems to
call up resentment, the modern idea
(not confined to totalitarian countries,
by any means) being. evidently, that
you not only are fool for disagreeing,
but positive enemy. This extends even
to such cultural matters as music Here
the bright boys not only tell you what
to listen to, but become angry when you
do not agree with them! One may sub
NIT that this is the first step, and a
dangerous one, in way of thought
which should not prevail in our country.
The interest in bird watching is CEN
tered on the bird, where it should be,
and the details of this are so interesting,
after one has got the habit, that there
is neither time nor desire for arguing
about it.
If you read book, it's why didn't you
read something else" The swing en-
thusiast is not content to hear his dance
bands, but somehow wants to compel
you to listen to them, too.
But in bird observation, as combined
indoor outdoor hobby, the single center
of interest is so visibly the single bird,
or bird scene, being observed at the
time, that positively no one who enters
the sport wants to do anything else,
or talk in any way but as to what is
seen.
This leaves this sport completely sooth-
ing to the mind. AS much science as
one can muster may enter the scene,
but it is not at all necessary.
oIu watching, tueTelOTe, is III tne ma
ture OF complete relaxation from the
cares of the world
In turning to the feathered folk of the
air in our gardens, or on our window sill,
or at feeding station, we are able for
the time being to forget all else, and
become absorbed in these Oldest of living
creatures whose ways were worked out
before the dawn of mankinds bloody
and continuing more bloody history.
In these days, more than ever before,
people need the release which this occu-
patton gives in such good measure.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Objects to Dissemination
OF British Propaganda"
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The fact that the writer has British
blood in his veins does not keep him from
pointing to the menaces of the British
propaganda which since the Spanish
American War has attempted to in
fuence American public opinion to join
England in any war to safeguard the
far-flung commercial interests of the.
British commonwealth of nations.
The writer's ancestors, who were of
royal blood in England before the Nor
man conquest, helped to reconstruct
England out of the disasters which over
took it. His ancestors held positions
of high rank in the English sphere and
some of their descendants are influen-
tial in the life of Great Britain today.
One was lord mayor of an English
city and several were members of Par
lament. But this does not mean that
the writer should place the welfare of
the United States below that of the
interests of the British empire. Eng
land and France and Poland can whip
Hitlerism, if given time. They do not
need our help in the form of soldiers
We need our soldiers and our ships to
safeguard the moral and physical inter-
ests of the United States Congress
alone will have to decide if we are to
shelve the present neutrality law and
the johnson Act All we true Americans
can do is pray that our own statesmen
will have the will to do what is rightly
in the interests of the Americas.
September 10. NATIVE AMERICAN.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Costly Delay

Once more the Landover (Md)
grade crossing has been the scene of
a fatal accident. Despite the pre-
cautions taken by the Pennsylvania
Railroad, which includes the service
of watchmen at the crossing twenty
four hours a day, a Washington
motorist lost his life there when his
car collided with a freight train
The menace of grade crossings,
however, cannot be measured by the
circumstances of single accident.
Human frailty being what it is, every
crossing is a menace. The Landover
crossing, traversed by electrified ex-
press trains, and a somewhat blind"
approach from the south, is one of
the worst remaining in this area.
Both the Maryland State Roads
Commission and the Pennsylvania
Railroad have conceded the desir-
ability of its elimination. Engineer
Ing studies have advanced to the
point of determining that an
overpass rather than an underpass
should be built so it can be closed.
Plans for the overpass and its ap-
proaches have been made, but for
some undisclosed reason the right
of way for the $15o,O00 project has
not been acquired.
There may be ample reasons for
the delay, but it cannot be denied
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Prominent Pedestrian Signs
Held Desirable,

To the Editor Of The Star:
One of the most common-sense ideas
for regulating traffic that has been
suggested is the conspicuous red walk"
and don't walk" sign, such as those at
Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Put in effect all over town, it
would produce results.
From observation, most citizens want
to obey the law concerning lights, but
sometimes their experiences are unfor-
tunate. For instance, at Pennsylvania
avenue and Eleventh street tempera-
mental young lady-doubtless with
plenty of time to reach her objective
drove into crowd already three-quar-
tiers of the way across the intersection.
She did not do this dangerously-just
exasperatingly, as they were moving on
the green light. Others, men-not so
many as formerly, it is true-are more
insistent on their supposed rights than
the young lady and drive far more care
lessly. Since the new law went into
effect, one class has earned my respect.
refer to the taxi drivers. Ninety
eight per cent of them will hold up their
cabs at intersections until pedestrians
get all the way over.
The new signs will not only serve to
let the pedestrian know what he can do,
but will also tell the driver what he
cannot do. and will engender more re-
spect for the law. This arrangement
will be even better than giving the
citizen an amber light on which to cross,
since it will serve the same purpose and
is more conspicuous.
September 20. r. F. BECKHAM.