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feet inches, weighs 1875 pounds
Hippo agrees with his Paramount
colleague that feet 5 inches in
height with a weight of 1875 pounds
is ideal for females. Both the Misses
Sheridan and Wyman are feet
inches tall. Ann weighs 120 pounds,
Jane 12l. but Ann can give Jane
2l2 inches in the matter of bust
measurement-3712 inches.
Bette Davis is the weakling (phys-
ically only of the Warner lot. Next
is Olivia De Havilland, but Olivia's
bad health is due to overwork,
Bette's to her vulnerability to cold
germs and sunstroke Anita Louise
is strong in spite of her excessive
thinness. Barbara Stanwyck is too
nervous for good health and suffers
from insomnia. Merle Oberon is as
fragile as good china and has a
perpetual cold when in California.
John Garfield has nervous stom-
ach. Ditto Joan Crawford. who is
underweight ITO pounds. Richard
Greene gets laryngitis.
Clark Gable, with a height of
feet l, weight of 100 pounds, chest
of 43 inches, is the healthiest star
in the Metro stable. He has had
one cold in four years.
It's toss-up between Carlo and
Eleanor Powell for the Metro ladies'
health stakes. Both extremely strong
girls are 5 feet inches high-Garbo,
at 25l2 inches, is an inch larger in
the waist than Miss Powell. Carlo
weighs 125 pounds, the dancer 1913.
Carlo has 35-inch bust, the other
"a inches. But guess what! Dancer
Eleanor Powell has a larger hip
measurement, 3812 inches, than
Carlo, 80 inches!
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Toduy's Film Schedules

PAAcEGoodbye Mr. Chips sensitive translation of the
James Hilton novel: 2, 4:3O 705 and $40 pm.
EARLEDaughters the -Four Daughters" in
another family affair: 425 Stage
shows: 345 6:25 and
CAPITOLStronger Than Desire melodama murder mystery
tbs 10 pm Stage 6:l0
pm
REIMBURSEMENT simple and satisfying smal-town drama $780,
540 TAO and $40 pm.
Raul NUNS portrait of Mexicos liberia
tor 2, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:35 pm
COLUMBIAInvaton Happiness" prize fighter
Murray the lady
LITTLE"South Riding Korda England:
$40 and 82 Private Life VIII the Laughton
portrait: $3.50, 6:45
TRANs-LUx-News shorts continuous from o'clock.
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up shop the same evening Only
one closing was scheduled for last
night and. counting from Monday,
we're five shows better off than
last year. Good shows, too, and
you can't go wrong on more than
one or two of them.
Three of them were around last
year. Pins and Needles is in a
new. better edition. Tobacco Road"
has a new jeeter lester. Everything
wears out down there except the
play and the dialogue. But What
a Life!' has weakened 1t is calling
performance No 535 last night its
last. Maybe because the high
school girl actors in the baby old
timer had grown up and were
getting shy about their short skirts,
The old times I'll years ago. when
New York's theater season started
in late July, the plays kept pop
ping in and out at the rate of from
four to nine a night and 81 eX-
pensive musical shows could run
shoulder to shoulder among the
towns packed IS theaters-good- by,
darling, say the managers, good-by
forever.
The managers do not get excited
over the fact that respectable list
of plays has fingered deep into the
hot weather. All it means, they
say, is that good plays are doing
good business. Good plays always
do good business.
1t is no coincidence. they point
out, that the theater's last smash
season was 1923, and they blame
the subsequent years of famine
more on the talking movies than
on the Nations unfortunate eco
nomic status. The year 1928 was
the year the movies began talking
like plays.
And this year it is television.
Broadway, maybe unwisely, regards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09
Screen Kiss
New Topic
OF Debate
Some Directors
Claim 1t Is
Passe
By Harold Hefernau.
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

AAOA-S l w SOO
Some movie directors insist the
screen kiss has outlived its useful
ness as dramatic weapon and that
it should be chopped out of all love
scenes
An equal number stand up to ar
que stanchly in its defense. These
dle-hards declare that movies be-
reft of the familiar fadeout clinch
would prove about as popular with
the public as a lemon in orange
juice.
Listen, for instance. to William
(anti-kissJ Wyler. who produced
that haunting love tragedy, "Wuther-
ing Heights one of the most SOUL
stirring romances made out here in
several years
Il believe kissing as a necessity in
motion pictures is a thing of the
past" says Wyler. THE kiss is
strictly outdated. Up to a short time
ago we always designed eight reels
of film to eliminate in that last
osculatory clinch which signifed the
end of the picture Today. however.
we must be more subtle. We're
catering to audiences that don't
want their drama painted with a
thick brush.
The torrid embrace typical of the
early Rudolph Valentino films would
be laughed out of theaters today.
Recent reissues of Valentines old
pictures clearly proved that. The
kids nowadays jeer this sticky sem
timent and the adults feel trife
embarrassed when too much foot
age is devoted to it,
Il might add that kissing is merely
incidental in most Hollywood pic
lures today. We have, as a matter
of fact, reduced kissing footage to
an almost negligible factor-not
more than two seconds where for
merly we gave it from 10 to IS"
Wyler points out that he achieved
his best love scenes in "Wuthering
Heights" without resorting to the
kiss. The love expressed between
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon
was on mental basis. 1t was
played with looks more than action,
he said.
"The movie kiss belonged to the
pie-throwing era of films when
exaggerated sentiment and comedy
were necessary" he concluded. "A
few years from now it will be
obsolete"
Leo McCarey, who directed Love
Affair" Is another who is con-
vinced that screen kissing is definite
ly on its way out. Despite its title,
Love Affair" is almost kissless. The
exceptions are two scenes-both
f1eeting-in which Irene Dunno and
Charles Boyer daily with the time
honored fixture.
We were on the set when McCarey
went about his elaborate prepara-
lions to film one of the two kissing
moments in the picture. It was to
be one administered by Charles
Boyer in Irene DUNES stateroom
aboard the ship outward bound from
Europe to America. Maestro of
delicate nuances, McCarey wanted
the stateroom door to swing open
just as the kiss began, with the lip
locked pair then hidden and Miss
DUNES hand rising to push the
door-and Boyer-away.
McCarey discussed the scene at
great length with his principals be-
fore letting them face the camera.
This was to be an all but kissless
kiss, yet one which must Undue on
lockers with a swift tenderness he
said. 1t was plain to see he con-
sidered 1t would be a far more
difficult scene to play than the
conventional passionate closeup.
TT must make the audience i'm.
(See HEFFERNAN, Page Fly
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got the flu that time
Martha Raye, on the other hand,
has the appearance of a feminine
Samson, but she burns up too much
energy and her resistance to illness
is below par.
According to Jim Davies, physical
health conditioner of Paramount,
Fred MacMurray and Patricia Mort
son have the ideal male and female
physical measurements at the studio.
Judith Barrett is the healthiest
woman on the lot, Robert Preston
the healthiest man.
Here are the Davies ideal meas
urements female): Height, feet
5 inches; weight. l25 pounds; bust,
"a inches: waist, "a inches; hips,
81 inches; thigh. 81 inches; knee,
1872 inches; calf, 121a inches; ankle,
inches.
Which makes all the leading Par
amount ladies on the too-thin side.
Dorothy Lamour, whose height is
the perfect 5 feet 5, weighs 1T
pounds, but makes up in width what
she lacks in weight. She is 212
inches over the perfect measurement
and l !. inches too large in the waist.
BY and large, Dorothy's health is
good, although she tires fairly easily.
Madeline Carroll has the largest
walstline at Paramount, 281s inches,
and ties with Martha Raye for the
hip record, 3712 inches. She is an
inch smaller than Martha Raye in
the bust, which is 38 inches. But
Medicines health is better than
Martha's. She conserves her energy,
preferring to let others take the
exercise.
Claudette Colbert is underweight.
lO8 pounds, and will never be a 100
per cent insurance risk until her
sinus trouble is completely cured.
Victor McLaglen is the heaviest
leading man in Hollywood, 230
pounds, with magnificent chest
measurement of so inches. I can't
remember if or when McLaglen has
held up picture through ill health.
His physical fitness is in the super
class. To keep in trim Victor hunts,
fishes, rows a boat, punches bag,
boxes, plays tennis and rides a
horse. Not bad for man of SO.
Carole Lombard is much
healthier specimen of femininity
than before she met Clark Gable.
I remember she was very ANNOYED
when noted two years ago she had
dieted herself into health break
down, and was coughing between
takes of Swing High, Swing Low"
Now, it would be hard to find a
chink in her health armor. She
has put on weight she tips the scale
at 100 pounds, eats when and what
she likes and spends most of her
waking hours actively out of doors.
Twentieth Century-Fox Studio
has the highest percentage of cold
in-the-head sufferers. with Alice
Faye the most frequent victim.
Tyrone Power recently held up pro-
duction of THE Rains Came" with
protracted siege of the sniff1es.
George Brent had three colds in the
same picture. But Shirley Temple
has had only two colds in the last
six years and Jane Withers only
one in her entire picture career.
Sonia Henie was robust until this
last year when an overdose of hard
work pulled her weight and health
down a trif1e.
Enrol Flynn captures the mascu-
line health prize at Warner Brothers,
with Ann Sheridan and Jane Wy
man neck and neck for the feminine
physical perfection award. Louis
Hippo. the Warner physical trainer,
puts his estimate Of the perfect male
at 6 feet, 1875 pounds. Flynn is 6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09
Good Acting Also Evident
Among Screen Players
During First Semester
Donat's Mr.. Chips One of Numerous
Portraits Proving New York Stage
Has No Corner on Talent
By jay Carm0 dy.

legitimate year having
fully justified their ultra superve
Massey Abe Lincoln Maurice Evans Hamlet and Faf Tauah
Bankheads
for Comedy and the several others already mentioned
The fact that there been uperlav
cs N e moves 100 OF ate AS mater coio nara uut wMch
of the admirable varieties truth the accomplishment of the
their brethren the living eater At the end the fiscal
which with the
marker they have left greater number of unfogab
than comparable of make believers
Currently audiences being
eaon of the beloved hoomaster in Goodbye Mr. Chips Nothing
that contributes the magnhcence ordinary
from the portrait which Donat subet
ovabe spirit captured in Donat performance
touching affecting aspect of the the compassion the
the humor and the haunting which
story interpret the
greatness of the character He fashioned with marvellous artistry out
the experiences of little whose whole
the attention Of his fellow beings That is acting to be and
The thing zone of easy memory Spencer 1racy
performance Captains
accomplishment general
though hardly was Edward Ellis of the simple
country
Among the ladies of the cinema this departments prize Gf had
would this Hitler
Pygmaon still continues the most memorable achievement the
part OF an actress during the first semester OF 1889 Out OF the character
the little cabbage of flower girl she created
distinction vivid lasting
NE was little thg ou lor what she mace OF II MISS Hitler can nave
this unqualified
portraiure hardly
the world deliberate
Comparatively
bit part depicting the clash between aor
played
stood out with crystal clarity Rich emotonal the
Victory" although probably
departments
stubborn stand in favor Of Miss Hitler
Revertng Juarez another honor likely fall
quality of its Interpretation will be Brian Ahernes selection best
performer of
fawess creation excellent that Mum
the pictures title role.
challenge
those mentioned
baloting Olivier
Heathele interpretation The
of Geraldine Fzgads performance Isabel the picture
bit playing likely will
Fitzgerald
Victory upon
consider
for the colleen who learned the art of acting Dubn famous Gate
the places
The period especial acting excellence has been marked also by
by Cary Grant looming the
which landed Hollywood only
dimensions those
him in popularity.
great many below professional
and other standings along the of them
is appeal
correavey 1889
Conquest" thing
role of Houston.
good performances them that Chester Morris
recognition discussion the quality
of todays
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KOrda BOner
Film Worlds
He's Competition
For Hollywood
In Large Way
By Paul Eve.
Associated Press staff Writer.

LONDON.
Hollywood's "Korda boner" has
become the film worlds biggest
boomerang.
A few years ago Hollywood let
the Hungarian-born producer Alex
ander Korda and his brothers Vim
cent and Zoltan slip through it's
fingers.
Now Korda is at the top of the
British film industry. His pictures
are gaining ground in the American
market and the British insist moth
ing short of legislation will stop
him taking big slices out of Amer
ica's future box office returns.
just back from his Riviera mar
rage to Merle Oberon, Korda is
working long hours on policy he
evolved last year of concentrating
on four pictures a year. Each will
cost about 100000, and Korda is
making them with his eye on the
American market.
A few years ago it wouldn't have
meant a thing to Hollywood. But
D lCSCllb SubCCSoCo lldNC EOllC
too close to the million gross mark
from the United States alone, and
his latest, -Four Feathers" might
even exceed seven figures.
Hollywood never had any serious
competition from Britain until it
let Korda get away. The majority of
pictures made On this side of the
Atlantic up to Laughton in The
Private Life of Henry the Eighth, !"
were oddities in HollyWood's eyes
The magnates there were content in
diligently to let the British film pro-
duction baby prattle along, confident
1t couldn't produce anything good
enough for American audiences.
But Korda has changed all that.
"Drums," made last year with his
find Sabu. the elephant boy, crossed
over $850.000 from the American box
Office, and there's more to follow.
Back of all this is the brain of
Alexander Korda. You don't hear so
much about Vincent and Zoltan,
though in their own way they are
just as integral part of the Korda
SeUup as lflelI UTOUlleI.
Alexander is one of those ire
pressibles who bob up just so often
in the world and refuse to be leg
roped. They tried to make something
steady of him in his native Hungary,
but he took to being not very good
reporter and spent his spare time
being film producer In barn. Then
he shifted west to Berlin and Paris.
He starved. Vincent and Zoltan
came and they starved until things
began to look up a bit and they got
work in Berlin.
Adolf Zukor, then one of the top
names in Hollywood, heard about
Alexander Korda while the latter
was beginning to do well in Berlin
and wrote him to come to Hollywood.
Korda, who had never heard OF
Zukor, didn't bother even to reply.
Zukor didn't press it. Later Korda
found out who he was, wrote, but this
time Zukor didn't reply.
First National Pictures did, how
ever. Korda went to Hollywood on
contract, kicked his heels for a year
as many Hollywood importations do
and finally made his first picture
there-"The Prince and the Plumb
err"
The story smelt more like the
plumbers workshop than the
princes perfumes. Although Korda
did make some good films there the
bad ones-assertedly pushed on him
by the higher-ups- predominated,
and he left.
He took with him a pretty clear
definition of the experience in film
production Hollywood had gained
(See EVE, Page F-2.)
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Broadway's Happy Now
A Respectable List of Plays
Lingers Into Summer
Rv Ira Wo{orf
By Ira WoIferf.

Prosperity note Fourteen heaters barking hopefully
toners along the as with II
on the same Saturday night
Progress that
catching up the world of it's better
than seems Three the that
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Weakest Looking AreNot
Some Notes on the Health
OF Cinemas Stars
By SheiIah Graham.



Who the healthy Hollywood? physical
policy?
illness years trip
Evening star., 1939-08-12

delinquencies, the costs of fore
closure and of reconditioning prop
cries which deteriorated over
period OF years are written into our
capital losses.
We still have more than $1,000
properties on our books. The great
majority are rented, awaiting sale.
Most OF the rest are being repaired
and remodeled to make them attrac-
tive to the me-seeking public. We
are making sales as fast as the mar
ket warrants. The fact that we
nave, been disposing of properties
at the rate of more than 1000 a
month recently, without affecting
the stability of that market, speaks
we'll for business conditions through
out the country. If our figures on
both collections and sales can be
taken aas barometer they are
considerably better than in the best
period of 1877
Evening star., 1939-08-12
H. 0. l. G.
Continued From First Page)

per cent of the monthly billings
and for the siX-month period were
nearly 81 per cent-far above the
938 per cent figure for the first
six months of 1897 and 1913 per cent
for the first six months of 1888 and
topping the previous high figure of
the last six months of 1887, which
was 965 per cent, according to
Charles A. Jones, general manager
of the corporation
The sale of homes was still more
significant as barometer of busi-
ness conditions and recovery in the
real estate market, Mr.. Jones re-
ported A record sale of 1888
homes in June brought the cumu-
lative sales by the corporation to a
figure of 55,303. During the fiscal
year the corporation disposed of
3777l properties, as compared to
1882 sold prior to June 30, 1898.
approximately 20,70O sales were
made in the last six months of 1899.
Borrowers of the corpora ton
have paid back approximately
s6l5 100000 of their principal in
debtedness," said Mr. Jones. More
than 81 per cent of our active ac-
counts are in satisfactory condi-
tlon-current or less than three
months in arrears or in a liquidat-
ing class, which means such bor-
rowers are meeting all current bills
and making regular monthly pay
ments on their arrearages.
About 726,000 of our borrowers
Evening star., 1939-08-12

all of whom were facing the loss
of their homes a few years ago
now are clearly on their way to home
ownership or already have paid up
their accounts in full. More than
l25,000 others have kept their ac-
counts open for a period ranging
from three to six years, and the
great majority will come through.
Congress gave the corporation a
double job-of rehabilitating home
owners and liquidating the losses
inevitable in foreclosures. Both are
being met. AS was to be expect
ed, the corporation has sustained
capital losses on the properties it
has acquired and sold, but not be-
cause it has failed to retrieve the
money represented in the loans it
made. The loss of principal and
interest incurred in extending le-
niency to borrowers who failed to
rehabilitate themselves, large tax
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Domp-Proof easements

Damp Easements are often due
to improper backfilling. When a
foundation is dug and later refllled
rubbish is sometimes used in the
fill. Water running down the walls
OF the house collects in pools and
seeps through pores or cracks in
the walls and into the basement
The remedy is to refill the trench
with clean, carefully packed dirt
In extreme cases 1t may be nec-
essary to install title drain at the
bottom OF the trench to carry of
the water. Damp -proofing of cel-
lars Is eligible under the Moderni-
zation Credit Plan of the Federal
Housing Administration.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Vopor- r-Resistunt Insulation

With the question of moisture
penetration into the framing of
structures becoming more acute
win the advent of modern heating
ana alr-conditioning, many builders
are advising the use of insulating
fabrics or materials which seal the
walls against penetration of mois-
ture vapor.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Mortgage Funds Held
Adequate Despite
FIJI. 4. Rate Cut
Lending Institutions
Reaction Favorable,
Mcdonald Says

Home financing money at the new
reduced rate on F. H. A.-insured
mortgages will be more than ade-
quate to meet demand, Federal
Housing Administrator Stewart Nc
Donald said today.
Mr.. Mcdonald based his statement
on the response of lending institu-
tions throughout the country to the
new maximum rate of AZ per cent
put into effect on August l on
F. H. A.-insured loans which make
for building or buying homes or re-
financing home debts. The new rate,
one-half of l per cent below the
previous maximum of 5 per cent,
represents the highest interest rate
which lending institutions partici-
pating in the F. H. A. program may
charge borrowers.
Reaction Favorable.
THE reaction of lending institu-
tions as whole has been highly
favorable" Mr. Mcdonald said. Re
ports which have come to use from
every part of the country show that
virtually all institutions which have
taken an active role in supplying
home financing credit on the F.. H.
A. plan are preparing to continue
this activity. The result should be
a stimulus to residential construc-
ton.
THE Federal Housing Admins
tratlon is now insuring only mort
cages which bear interest at Az per
cent or less. This interest rate, plus
the one-half of per cent insurance
premium, makes an overall annual
cost of S per cent, charge which
no potential home owner should
have to exceed in order to obtain
long-term financing for a high per-
centage of his property valuation.
Inc new maximum rate permitted
on insured mortgage loans for con-
struction of large scale housing
projects is 4 per cent, a low level
which should attract additional
amounts of private equity capital
Into this field of construction.
Many Below Maximum.
Many institutions, particularly in
the large metropolitan areas of the
East and Midwest, had been lending
at rates below the old miximum for
some time. But even from areas
where long-term amortized mortgage
credit, running up to 25 years, has
not been heretofore available below
per cent, the response indicates
that there will be no reduced lending
as a result of the lower rate. In
general lending institutions have
been prepared to see mortgage rates
decline In line with lower rates on
other forms of high-grade invest
ments. Some express the belief that
the new rate will be stabilizing
1nHuence in view of the fact that
many institutions already were
below the previous maximum"
Mr.. Mcdonald also recalled that
the F. H. A. had put into effect
hoerallzed home financing terms
early in 1888 when it eliminated an
annual service charge of one-half to
per cent which lenders could
charge borrowers up until that time
on F. H. A.-insured financing. Simul-
taneously the minimum down nav
ment was cut from 20 per cent to
10 per cent on new wner-occupied
small homes.
Evening star., 1939-08-12

. Oak-i1niSh floors laid in
new and exclusive pat
tern.
. McC0rd Timken OiI-fired
Copper heating system.
. Last word in steel en-
ameled kitchen cabinets.
. Insulated with Ferro
Therm, the last word in
reflective insulation eff
cheney.
. Furred walls. metal win
dows, bron Ie screens,
weather stripped and
caulked.
Evening star., 1939-08-12

Full, dry Easements with
laundry facilities.
Modern gas range, fully
insulated, with automatic
oven control.
Large lots. sodded and
HANDICAPPED.
Curb and gutter, side
wall ks, hard surfaced
street-in and paid for.
Ten-cent bus service
two lines.
Grammar . n d Junior
High Schools nearby.
Evening star., 1939-08-12

Q A generous domestic hot
water supply, economi-
cally heated by oil.
. Briggs Beautyware bath
room fixtures and gleam-
ing porcelain enameled
bathroom wainscoating
with solid brass chro-
mium-finished fittings.
. Wall and woodwork paint
and enamel in pastel
shades.