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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18
Ann Arborites
In Bridge Fete
AtDunbarCenter

ANN ARBOR-The TAG. Bridge
club was host last Thursday eve
ming at bridge party he'd at Dun
bar Center. Several rounds OF
bridge were played and refresh
ments added the necessary "oomph"
TO the session.
Officers and members OF the
group include Lawrence Carrington,
vice PRESIDENT, Make Mclaughlin,
treasurer; Merle Pratt, assistant Sec
rotary; Nelson Owens, president;
Earl Williams. doorkeeper; Roy c.
Petty, recoroing secretary; James
Gully, critic; James Beckley. Ber-
nice Price, Clayton Owens, and
Carries Whitman.
Guests in attendance included
Miss Annie l., Smith, Mrs. Merle
Pratt, Mrs, Bernice Price, Miss Mar
garet Bostic, Robert Lee Smith Jr..
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Black, Mr..
and Mfs-Jan,es OVERLY BE-, James
Beckley, Mrs. Harry Churchill, Mrs.
James Gully, Mrs. Ray Petty, Mrs.
Clayton Owens, and Mrs. Make Nc
Laughlin. Several members Of the
ladies' clubs, LOCO. and Indepen-
Mt were present.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18
Feminine FOibles
And Fancies
By GLADYS


beads A Delicate Tinted Rose
of porcelain on a gold stem
A baroque dragon clip Its
body mammoth pearl solitaire
A turquoise and gold evening bag
TO hang around your neck a
chatelaine made by dangling from
a huge Indian ring, all the vanity
equipment a modern women likes
to lug cigarette box q.
match box powder box .
pill box good luck charm q.
a mesh bag for keys ct al A
remarkable golden bird to
perch on your shoulder or in your
hair sways gently on flat
clip.
"SOBRANIES" are the perfect
after dark cigarettes they are
jet black with gold tips -
and very expensive.
A NEW CIGARETTE CASE
is made OF pigskin will hold
sixty cigarettes flying over
the top is lone wild goose q.
made of lizard skin p The grain
ing in the reptile skin sug-
gests the birds feathers
CHARMING FOR THE COFFEE
TABLE -. is a tiny china hand
just large enough to hold a
single rose,
AN INGENIOUS DESIGNER q.
brings US a gold chain necklace .. 3.
believe l. or not o.. real baby
fox's head in the front ex-
cepting for the artistic touch Of
giving him gold ears. he looks
very lifelike and cunning.
FOR THE GORMAND Who
likes hamburgers ... 4 New York
restaurateur calls his idea
Hamburger Heaven and
serves them made Of beef from
the finest Hereford cattle
grilled exactly 10 taste . and
sandwiched between halves Of rolls
that are baked TO a special
recipe some OF them have
been stepped all day in burgundy.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18
Mrs. GIendora
Jackson Feted
AT Surprise

~ -l,
mis. SleIuors 5dchson was the
81. prlse lsuy Oh FRIDAY "hen she
Ieturnea rom the tneatre and ner
en 'a ming ino'her hso surprised her
wv, WI" parry II was SWEEP 70 see
, ne Iseep'iVe appreciation Oh me
mnole diialr. mere were loaos Oh
p-eSen's' anu plenty oil gooo 1000
a'.u VI i'i IN, On ndnu LOT lhe merry
liiaNIns 'ndl Starleo as soon as she
1 reieu,
-. bangor avenue was oeVy oil tun
~ -. W., anu Nis, 'onh JACKSON Mrs
'oln C0loerl. Mrs' John Evans, ia
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18

HIGH SPIRITS FOR THE WIN
TER SEASON-HIGH HAIR is still
good and it is here that the
mode begins . The new Golf
fure has conquered the old =.
Beauties know that they lose moth
ing by it e.. The less attractive,
snatch at a new chance for glamour
HIGH COLLARS The higher
the hair the barer the neck
and so an era OF ornamentation
dawns collars and necklaces
choke the throat Pie-frill col
larettes frame the face Dog
collars of velvet or jewels cover the
neck modestly and the ears
will rarely be minus earrings.
HIGH SLEEVES Sleeves
go up too Leg O. mutton
sleeves straight out of Grandmoth-
er's attic angel sleeves puff
high, but they are long de-
corously hiding the hands down
to the knuckles.
HIGH GLOVES Grandmoth-
er called them opera" gloves .
long ones that stretch almost to
the shoulders there are finger
less lace ones Victorian mitts,
that act as sleeves
HIGH BOOTS AND SPATS d.
The high buttoned boot, has turned
I'D again the button hook
appears on milady's dressing table
again If boots are not worn
there are spats or CATERS,
laced up the side . some lined
with Persian lamb.
HIGHER SKIRTS Skirts
are up because, many are fuller.
pleated gathered or
flared like a skaters skirt The
basic silhouette is so simple
that you can let yourself go over
details.
HIGH FEATHERS On up
swept coiffures, at night BY
day, binding fringes OF glycerin-
lied feathers falling over the face,
Single quilts stabbing the air like
semaphores Pinwheels OF feath-
ers shooting from fur skull caps.
COSTUME JEWELRY is
important it is smart 10 wear
rings and bracelets on top OF your
opera" length gloves.
A FLEXIBLE CATERPILLAR q.
Of gold metal pinned on the front
of your frock
A LACE COLLAR Of imita-
ton jewels Berry Cluster
earrings OF red, green and pearl
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18
ST. John c. ME-.
League Hears
Mrs. Posties

Sunday, November 10, the ST. John
CINE, Epworth League, under the
leadership OF Rev. Charles L. Round
tree, will present Mrs, Ernestine
PoStles as guest speaker.
Mrs. Pos.les who is a graduate Of
the University of Michigan, mem
Der Of the Delta Sigma Theta sor-
orlty, member Of the St Cypians
church and is Or. of the foremost
speakers in Detroit World Youth
Conference" will be her subject. At
q conference held in Amsterdam,
Holland last summer, Mrs. Postles
was sent as a delegate.
An excellent supporting program
will be rendered with vocal selec-
tions by Misses June Baber, and
Magdelene White, the Cheeseboro
sisters quartette and Paul Kenneth
Holt, youthful dramatic reader
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18
Youth Is Host At
Halloween Partv

Robert Beamon was host to
group OF youngsters at Halloween
party at his home on Gratiot
avenue. Despite the rainy evening,
among the youngsters enjoying the
fun were Misses Minnie and Lou
ella Rosemond, Hazel Sharp, Gene
We've Cochran, and Loretta Jones;
Lorenzo Tansil Jr., Cleveland Glenn
aons, Charles Clemors, and others.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Tansil, Mr., and
Mrs L. Jones and Mr.. and Mrs. D.
Reed assisted Mrs. Irene Beamon.
mother OF the host, with the enter
tanning.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-18

Sunrise Tennis
Club Chooses Heads

The Sunrise Tennis club held its
installation Of officers for the ensu-
ing year at the home of Mrs. Harris
Officers elected were as follows:
Messrs F. Belfon, president; A. Bel
fon, vice-president; R. Searles, Sec
rotary; M. Mahon, assistant secre-
tary. and L. Downs, treasurer.
Guests OF the evening included:
Mr. and Mrs. Henkins. Misses E.
Bell, M, MCGOWAN, E. Kelly, Mrs.
NJ. Mahon, V. Willis, NJ. Marks, NJ.
Belfon, Mr.. Carrecker, and Mr.. R. L.
Wright.
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Birthday Fete

In the lovely home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George S. Baker of Mack ave-
nue., Al E. Baker was IGNORED al
q birthday party last week Mr..
Baker who is a native OF Chicago is
the popular brother Of George S.
Baker.
The guests included Clifton tBu-
herr Woodson. VILLA Miller, Ben T.
Irwin, Middle Roberts, Alonzo Nc
Kassick. Josh Watkins. Frenzy Har-
per and others.
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In Birthday

Azrean Frazier OF Russell street
entertained Miss Daisy Smith last
week on her birthday.
Covers we're spread for 20 guests
Lovely Miss Smith presented a
stunning picture in canary satin
gown with matching metallic bolero
and was wearing corsage Of gar
denias.
Birthday greetings and gifts were
unusual and useful.
Games we're enjoyed Throughout
the evening.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

(see BARRON, Page F-30
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Some Stars
Rise While
Others Fall
Hollywood Scans
Its Assets As
A Year Ends
BY SheiIah Graham.

At this time of the year, with the
academy, box Office and motion pic
ture critics awards just around the
corner, Hollywood indulges in large
scale scanning of its human movie
assets and liabilities A new un-
written rating is drawn up-stars
who were big shots at the beginning
of the year have slipped on the film
see-saw. Others are going up. Some
are still holding firm at the head Of
the fame procession. Others, who
were halfway down the ladder this
time last year, have completely
slipped out of cinema sight.
John Boles-what has happened
to the producers who at one time
gladly paid Mr.. Boles $4,000 a pic
ture? This time last year, John was
still slightly in demand. Today,
there are apparently no takers for
the talents of the singer-actor.
And Grace Moore, Gladys Swarth-
out. Lilly Pons-not trace remains
of their one-time appeal for movie
goers.
AT the beginning of this year,
pretty Marjorie Weaver was con-
sidered to have a fair chance Of
film stardom. But nowadays you
hear very little Of the prospects OF
the cute little Southerner. And
June Lang! remember when the
beautiful June was hailed as the
(see GRAHAM, Page FAD
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Whose Style
Is Original
A AQuestion
Copying Another
Admitted Habit
Among Bands
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press Stah Writer.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
That clatter rumbling out of Tin
Pan Alley today is the echo of 200
top-flight dance bands starting an
other Nationwide trek of dance
floors, stage shows and other arenas
where melody-swayed audiences
rumba and shag to the rhythms of
an industry that takes in more than
100000 a night.
Orchestras, when they find a new
style of playing that becomes a fad
with the public, frankly copy one
another and change their styles as
often as women change their fash
ions. They have to change to stay
up in the big-money class, the top
name bands getting $500 to $4,000 a
performance.
Back in the days when all popular
bands we're jazz bands-not swing
bands, but just as loud and noisy
a 1O-year-old Canadian left his COL
lege classes in Montreal and came to
Broadway as dance band drum
mer. Banging away at his traps and
cymbals, he thought a soft, sweet
band would be a novelty and organ
lied one with him standing in front
of it and grooming through a meg
aphone. -.
His name is WIZ Osborne, and he
started something. His Grooming,
Evening star., 1939-11-19

you couldn't compromise, that you
had to play straight sweet or
straight swing, and you couldn't mix
the two. Some tunes, he said, could
be treated both ways, so with those
his arrangements would start out
sweet and end up swing or vice
versa. So Jimmy and Tommy split
up five years ago, but the successes
of their opposite styles haven't been
simultaneous, after their split
Jimmy was top man two years
Then Tommy was on top the next
two years. For the last year they
have been about neck and neck.
Similar in style and name are
Kay Kyser and Sammy Kaye, both
of whom claim to have originated
singing song titles" that is an
nouncing their songs by singing the
titles.
Around orchestras you get moi
only continuous pleasure, but also
continuous arguments. Blue Bar.
ron, who was Sammy Hayes man.
ager, once commented there was toe
much big money in the band bust
ness, organized an orchestra of ghis
own and made himself a conductor
overnight. Fs
He, too, sings his song titles
(see BARRON, Page F-3)
Evening star., 1939-11-19

soft singing and sweet music made a
big hit. Then Rudy Vallee, Russ CO.
Jumbo and Bing Crosby came along,
and the popular orchestra business
bounded up into big money brackets.
Osborne, just to be different,
switched back to jazz and then
worked out a third new style, a
melodic, rhythmic compromise be-
tween sweet and swing. More style
copying took place, and most top
band leaders are very frank about
copying good, new styles.
But Osborne wanted credit for his
new "slide music" He based the
style on an unusual instrumental
ton which included three trom-
bones and three slide trumpets-
really slide cornets-played into
megaphones and had United States
patent No. 2,059, 1893 granted to pro-
tect it from copyists.
While 1t is nothing unusual for two
or more bands to have single style,
there existed once band, one band,
which had two styles. 1t was the
original Dorsey Brothers Orchestra,
led by Saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey
and Trombonist Tommy Dorsey.
Tommy wanted to play compro-
mise between sweet and sing, a sort
or sweet swing. Jimmy said that
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Life of Garb0
Has Known
Its Trials
From Barber Shop
To 'NinOtchka'
Was Not Easy
By Harry Macarthur.

There hadn't been much sleep that
night for the tall, angular young
girl who tossed in the small, slant
ceilinged bedroom that was her
refuge. Haunted by doubts and
fears through the night, she lived
it all over again until dawn was
waking Stockholm; lived it all over
again and wondered why she ever
had thought she could be an actress.
Gustaf Molander, director of the
Royal Dramatic School, calling her
into his Office, telling her that the
great Mauritz Stiller sought an
actress for his film, THE Atone
ment Of Costa Berling"; telling her
he, Molander, felt she could win the
role. The days of seeking an inter-
view with Stiller, the doubts which
assailed her again after the Inter-
view, the Joy when there came
call to report to the studio for a
screen test. The long streetcar
ride to the film studio, lost in read
ing Selma Lagerlov's Costa Berling
saga.
Then the test. Stiller saying alb
ruptly, "Lie down on that couch
and be ILL.," Stiller leaping to his
feet, shouting, Don't you know what
it is to be sick?" Being ill in earn
est. Then flight back again to the
small, slant-ceilnged bedroom. And
anxious days and nights when the
dawn found eyes still open.
So morning came again and
Stockholm's aspiring young actors
and actresses assembled once more
for classes at the Royal Dramatic
School. But this was a different
morning; this was the morning the
school heard the announcement
which was to turn out "shot heard
round the world" the announce
ment that Greta Gustafsson had
been selected to play the Countess
Elizabeth Dohna, the leading role,
in Mauritz Stiller's Costa Berling
saga.
Costa Berling and this tall
Greta Gustafsson took Sweden's mo-
ton picture wise by something Of
a storm. Stiller was acclaimed that
moments greatest director of all
time; his youthful new star became
the toast of the town. For by the
time Costa Berling was completed
year of Stiller's efforts had borne
fruit and, his shy, awkward find"
had become a polished, competent
actress.
Greta, apparently, assumed her
new position with no fuss or bother.
She stayed In school, treated perhaps
with bit more respect from her
fellow pupils. And she was happier.
For gone from her eyes now was
that old haunting fear; her mother,
sister and brother could face the
landlord now; one might even have
second helping at dinner without
the possibility of another going to
still bed hungry.
Yes, gone was that old haunting
fear that started to settle in her
eyes even when her teens were not
long upon her. The story is a IA
miliar one to any movie fan. When
she was II her father died and the
! CONTINUED on Page F-3, Column y
Evening star., 1939-11-19
World Today
This Plays
Problem
Good Second Act
Major Asset of
Thunder Rock
By Ira Wotert.
By Ira Wolfert.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORk.
Thunder Rock is the fourth play
in which Robert Ardrey has shown
those tantalizing flashes of excel
lence which the reviewing business
labels promising. This time he has
written a good second act. But two
thirds of the play is hoarse and OBJ
vious and is successful only in be-
littling its subject.
The subject is-as what else could
it be for a sensitive writer in our
time?-man in the world today. Mr..
Audrey writes about two young men
and world that seems to them to
have come to the end. The young
always think the world is going un-
der, and, when they get older, they
learn better. They learn that it Is
the younger generation which is 60
ing under.
The two young men in the play
are an aviator and a journalist.
They both have analyzed the world
as a force whose life expression is
expansion. They believe. somewhat
obtusely, that the world has now
expanded to its outermost bound
aries and is being flung in on itself
meaning that our age has ushered
in an epoch of ever more consuming,
ever less escapable aggressions from
which none can be safe.
A certain amount of plausibility
Is lent to their forebodying by the
fact that the play is set in the month
of August, 1899, and ends with Sep
tember l. That was the day, If you
remember, when the world set its
foot on a horrible course whose end
no man now living can see. The
aviator and journalist believe there
is no way out of tragedy for any one
on earth except in some kind of
death. The aviator goes of in
search of. and finds, very factual
death fighting japanese aggression
for China. The journalist chooses a
less conclusive death. He buries
himself as the keeper of lighthouse
on Lake Michigan.
That is where the play, or rather
the second act, begins. Although the
journalist has buried himself, his
mind has remained alive, and, with
it. he recreates people who live in
what he regards as happier time.
The date is 1849. The world still had
room for expansion then. and. ex-
pansion itself being a form Of hope,
people could be hopeful.
There are some rather attractive
plot manipulations to make the peo-
pie he thinks about come to life on
the stage. The more significant of
them are feminist. who has grown
SCARED in the fight for women's
rights; an English pottery worker
who was dying at his trade and
rushed off to California to get gold,
so much gold that he could buy his
children back from the industrial
slavery Of that day, and finally a
Viennese doctor who Is genius
embittered by failure. Each has
come to America, the journalist
feels. to fight for a new life. But,
as he gets to know them better, he
realizes there Is no fight in them.
They have come to America to die
or hide from world they thought
was going to end.
They thought that the world
! (see WOLFERT, Page F-zJ
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Keaton Signed

Buster Keaton, long an M-G-M
comedy star of silent days, returns
to his old studio as Lulu" in the
musical production of New Moon,
co-starring jeanette Mcdonald and
Nelson Eddy. Nat Pendleton and
Keaton play as a comedy team in
the picture. w. S. Van Dyke will
direct. Robert z. Leonard is the
producer. Other players recently
cast for New Moon" include Grant
Mitchell, Miles Mander, William
Stack and John Burton.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
It Isn't Clothes

William Powell, one of the world S
acknowledged best-dressed men,
has discovered that Clothes don t
make the man." To test out a
theory, he asked more than so men
and women, after the preview of
Another Thin Man." how many
suits he wore. The general impress
sion was two, although no one could
name the color of more than one
Not even Myrna 10y, his co-star,
knew He wore six, now figures
four were waste motion"
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Todoy's Film Schedules

CAPITOAt the Circus Marx madness under the big
4:35 7:20 and 1910 Stage shows 1885, $40 and 9:lO
Elizabeth Essex" with Bette
British queen: 50 4:30 tbs and 10 Stage
shows: 340 625 and $40 pm.
Uprising excitement preevoution his
tory: 225 AIS 6; 750 and 9:35 pm.
in Arms" Mickey Rooney musical 2:4o
tbs and 9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN-Mr Smith to Washington" Frank Capra
at the local 2, AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
CoLUMBIA-"Hoywood Cavacade" cnemas history
3:25, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
LITTIE-Pygmaon film version of the Bernard Shaw
comedy: O. 1885, 555 750 and $50
TRANS LUX-News shorts continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Comes Now a Local Test
In the Theater's Battle
Over Price of Tickets
Success of Kiss the Boys Goodbye
At Popular Rates May Bear
Upon the Tariff Question

people debate most necey
group might constantly at grips with an
other which might be called the degna-
ons in the subject that
popular prices.
The liberals feel that the thater blankey naughty its
exclusion of the
their part the Tories defending
The tradionasts might
against bargain drama had
must have noticed did along however the liberals
Playvrghts Co.'S 81 top ABE Lincoln Illinois
bringing entirely audience to the
people starving for the drama while
the getting to-
gether price brought happiness both
Labor Stage another contributor the
Dsdanng growing
rich from its perennial though constantly changed Pins Needles
has rich That production beginning
theaer New York $3.50 larger
house to take care of the demand.
The theatrical
hands would have raised but the prawohy
Labor Stage did spite
selves And those naturally
have been much impressed
National Now Encounters
Popular Price Combination.
leading theater pair who have
been identified
Manager Plohn the
National posi-
ton whe setting prices that
Mr. Pon do much
being helpless but he
argument
Mr. Pohn united SO to speak the presentation here OF popular
priced of last
considerably deyng original production
New York and Chicago contributed deal with
to
washington see at one of the lowest top prices set for the
tour, SIS for night performances, ST matnees
The experiment being watched only here but New York
LuI Alabamy Beauty
Claire Role
touring company Boys Goodby" which
effectively
when she played the
exceent that the honsckle
belts memorable contributions to the stage.
Civic At Last Will Present
awake Sing"
Clifford
Something the
project in its tracks
impossible, malevolent
Monday through
Roll Along the final
People problem
something problem
Dillon officially that Director publicity and
idea that's Mrs Dillon the
Little association with
executive
Sidney Lust
addition getting ready for the opening
Tuesday Lust taking the
Club its chief barker last night at the
which still be the Willard for
this department knows.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Rollin b. Holden, Pastor
Phone 39l

1920 Combined morning service.
Worship, message, Bible study in
classes. Sermon theme, Good
Stewards Of the manifold grace OF
God"
$50 B. Y. p. q.
7:30 Evening gospel service. Good
singing, message by the pastor.
Tuesday evening service at 7:30
at Wallula.
Wednesday evening mid-week
service at 7:30. Choir at $3.50. New
members will receive the right hand
Of fellowship in the Sunday morn
ing service.
The special meetings were great
blessing to all who heard the mes
sages brought by Brother Null. A
substantial offering was brought
for his work on the closing night.
He begins work in Denver next
Sunday. Tune in to KGA, .l470
K.C. at 8 both morning and eve
ming this week and hear Rev. Oscar
Lowry in his radio revival.
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s s113oSSS1o $780,
TEN YEARS AGo-,s2s
SSN2&N2&GN9}N9

TEN YEARS AGOels2s
The city council decided to pur-
chase a 100-acre tract of land for
Kennewick's new airfield on Mob
Hill.
A rabbit drive was being plan
ned for February IL and would
cover the territory from the UNA
tilla road to Finley. C. c. Williams
was managing the drive.
Mrs. c. F. Winkenwerder was suf-
fering from badly burned leg.
Joyce Mulkey won the baby con-
test which was sponsored by the
Kennewick merchants and the Lib
erty theatre for children under five
years of age. There were more
than 40 entered in the contest.
The Kennewick Photographic
studio was to open under new man.
agement March l with A. M. Hay
let of Pasco operating it.
George and William Hallet were
considering the conducting of fly
ing school in Kennewick.
There were only three days dur
ing the month Of January when the
official thermometer reached below
zero.
Miss Gladys Sellick had gone to
Spokane to resume her duties as
nurse in the st. Luke's hospital.
F. V0lland attended the Benton
county school board directors meet
ing, which was held in Benton City.