davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Coming Attractions

Stage h
NAT1ONAL-"Yokel Boy musical show with head
ing the opens week night
will this
No Nanee Of
musical show of the title produced and directed
bert Wilcox with starring opens
The popular Miss Neagle will supported
Roland Young Broderick Pitts
and Eve Arden, among others.
Mothers latest episode in the lives of the consider
ably liked Lemp family priscilla, Rosemary Lane
Gale Page, Eddie Albert Jeffrey Rains
Robson, ct all, Tuesday. There stage
show
PALAcE-Thef of Bagdad" Alexander and
imaginative motion picture based
arrives Tuesday. Sabu Ingram Conrad Veid
Duprez are the important people in the cast
CAPITOL"Chad Hanna" motion picture
Edmonds best seller about the adventures of wandering
circus with Henry Fonda Linda Darne Dorothy
heading the cast starts Tuesday Sheia headline
the stage
Strip" action film telling
exploits of Of the adventurous gentlemen
badlands few back starts Christmas Richard
Dix the STAR Florence Rice and Victor Jory in the
represent the influences of good and evil.
COLUMB1A-Arise My Love-" the comedy which Ray
Mland Claudette Colbert against the background Of
recentday Europe returns street Tuesday for another
downtown week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

Previn, musical director at Universal
studios.
One day Mrs. Henville read a
newspaper story that the studio
was looking for a baby to play with
Bling Crosby in East Side of
Heaven" So the next morning
Papa Henville left a number of pic
lures Of Sandy, along with the Gus
tomary bottle Of milk, when he
called at the Previn home.
Doesn't Rehearse.
Sandy was signed Immediately for
the role which called for boy baby,
and it was not until sometime later
that studio executives learned their
potential starlet was a girl. That
called for slight change in plans,
but it didn't matter much because
by that time Sandy was a hit.
The slender little tot, whose bright
eyes and cute mannerisms have won
for. her the admiration of the pub
lie as we'll as her older co-workers,
plays most of her film scenes with
out rehearsals. She is accompanied
to the studio each day by her mother
and spends her free time playing
around the set, or sleeping.
Although she has her own indi-
vidual dressing room, Sandy's
proudest possession at the studio is
a miniature directors chair, which
bears her name on the back.
She has hundreds of expensive
toys, many of them sent by her
fans, but she prefers to play with
battered toy express wagon and a
small rubber doll Her favorite
treats are ice cream and graham
crackers. and she thinks that work.
ing in pictures is "a whale of a lot
of fun"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
LEM LYNN Signed

LEM Lynn, l5-year old songsueSS,
has been signed to a term contract
by Republic Studios and will report
for work the first of the year. The
brown-eyed, brown-haired girl was
sent to Hollywood by 10000 school
kids of Passaic, N j., who con-
tributed dimes for her trip. Leni
gave a guest performance at the
Trocadero and was signed to term
contract by M-G-M, for whom she
played in four pictures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

vorcing Elaine, says he's not out of
matrimonial running starts
fresh search for perfect wife" . i.
Helen Vinson divorces Fred Perry
Gail Patrick divorces Robert
Cobb, Brown Derby restaurateur
Constance Bennett divorces
third spouse, Marquis Henry de la
Falaise de la Courdaye Myrna
10y and Arthur Hornblow, jr., sepa-
rate Betty Cradle divorces
Jackie Coogan :. Lucille Ball-Desi
Arnez wed Paulette Goddard
fights fathers suit to double weekly
allowance Father of Joan Fon-
tame and Olivia de Havilland turns
up with Japanese wife and says
movie daughters won't support him.
December Deanna Durbin-
Vaughn Paul announce wedding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22


pleted her sixth picture.
when I grow up, I don't want
TO be an actress. I want to get
married and have a lot of babies.
None Of this glamor stuff for me-"
And with that, her mother, Mrs.
Roy Henville, agreed, adding:
IT want to keep Sandy in the
movies for awhile because it means
so much to her. But I think I
also would like to take her out of
pictures before she gets old enough
to know too much about them.
However, that is a question that
will have to be decided when the
time comes"
When interviewed, Sandy-her
real name is Standardized just had
two big thrills. She had seen
preview of her latest picture, Baby
Sandy Gets Her Man." which was
the first in which she was old
enough to recognize herself on the
screen. And she had just left
Santa Claus, who was walking
around the studio lot bearing a
slight resemblance to rotund Hugh
Herbert.
Milk Bottle Route.
Sandy assured Santa she was eat
Ing her spinach and drinking her
milk like a good girl and in return
was promised a rocking horse and
lot of dollies Her mother says she
really is a good girl generally, but
that this old Santa Claus stuff GER
tainly does work wonders on chill
dren.
Sandy made her debut in the
movies practically via the milk bot
tie route, Her father drove milk
wagon at the time and one of the
customers on his route was Charles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

OF flVe years ago, John Carroll Is
hailed as "singing-actor find" I'd
completely forgotten that John was
a singer.
Strike Aided a Newcomer.
Screen discoveries of 1935-Wini
Shaw in Broadway Hostess" with
Phil Regain. Miss Shaw faded away
from films shortly afterward.
Enrol Flynn received his first speak
ing role in Captain Blood"
Betty Cradle received lot of space
as college girl siren" Bobby
Breen collected complimentary-and
other-adjectives. :. . A young lady
named Rita Cansino appeared in a
little number titled Paddy ODay."
You know her today as Rita Hay
worth, and she's going up the film
! ladder.
In 1885, Myrna 10y "struck for
more pay She was receiving 1900
a week; she wanted $4,000. While
her Metro bosses were thinking it
over, they gave her role in Render
vous" with William PowelD to New
conner Rosalind Russell.
Among the more happily married
couples of 1885," wrote film fan re-
porter, "are Joan Bennett-G Gene
Marley; Helen Vinson-Fred Perry:
Margaret Sullavan-William Wyler.'
Exactly so per cent of them are still
happily married, but to other mates.
Maurice Chevalier left Holly
wood for France reputedly because
Ann Sothern did not reciprocate his
burning admiration. :. But here's
something that sounds familiar:
John Barrymore was divorced in
1935-by Dolores Costello. Is it 60
ing to be a continuous five-year-
plan, John? Joel McCrea and
Frances Dee were rated Holly
woods happiest couple" They still
are.
Remember That Diary?
Names that figured in my early
columns and are now absent-Mae
West, Marion Davies, Astrid Allwyn
James Dunn, Ruby Keeler, Jack
Haley, Rosemary Ames, Madge
Evans, Karen Morley, Adrienne
Ames, Ricardo Cortez, ELISA Landi
Nancy Carroll, Marion Marsh. Eliza
beth Allen, Richard Cromwell, Ger
trude Michael and Mango.
The big excitement of late 1895
and early 1886 was the Mary Astor
diary case. Running it close Sec
ond was the Ann Harding Harry
Bannister child custody battle
George Raft was on suspension at
Paramount for refusing to do THE
Princess Comes Across" He was
recently suspended by Warmers for
refusing to do THE Sea Wolf
Five years ago Carlo was going
back to Sweden-forever. (She
must be so glad she stayed in Holly
wood. Five years ago Deanna
Durbin was fired from Metro be-
cause that studio couldn't possibly
see her as a film actress. Five
years ago the Trocadero was the
place to go. Now it's Ciro's.
There was only one race track when
I first came here. Now there are
three, which doesn't seem to have
helped picture making. Five
years ago Kay Francis was the high
est paid actress on the Warner lot
Marlene Dietrich received $3.50, 00C
per picture. Both ladies have since
taken a considerable cut in salary.
On the whole, as you see, things
are pretty much the same now as
when I arrived on Christmas eve
1885. To paraphrase the French
saying, "the more Hollywood
changes, the more it is the same
thing
released by the North American News.
paper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

next summer veteran Charles
Richman dies Brenda Joyce
in hospital after fall on personal
appearance tour son born to
Andrea Leeds c. Henry Gordon
dies =. Andy Devine rounds out Is
years under contract to same COM
pany-Universal stores clamp
down on old practice of sending
Christmas merchandise to stars
homes for approval selections .
flu epidemic sweeps Hollywood, bed
ding actors and hating many pro-
ductions.
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Please Come Home,
Star Is Advised,
To Rest in Britain
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Another Letter From England
story:
Actress Anna Neagle received a
five-page epistle the other day from
an aunt living 10 miles from the
heart of London 1t expressed a
fear that the actress was working
too hard, land now you write that
you are to play circus bareback
rider in Sunny Please be careful,
dear. 1t sounds fearfully hazardous.
I do wish that before you begin
your next picture you might come
back here for little rest and
quiet"
Only mention of the air war was
the observation:
Tram schedules are sometimes
delayed-the air raids, you know"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
She'll Be No Glamour Girl
When She's Grown Up
Thus Says Sandra Henville, Known
More Familiarity as Baby Sandy
In Her First Interview
HOLLYWOOD.
By the Associated Press.

~.
starlet first
interview said she would much rather her backyard making
bother
to be glamour" girl in the movies
the glamour girls said fair
who got her first film assignment disguised while still
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Graham
Continued From First Page.)

out screen debuted in Rose of the
Rancho with John Boles. All Of
them have flown the Hollywood
scene. And while we are talking
about singers, here's a funny one:
Looking back at my screen notes
Evening star., 1940-02-25

Washington this yeor represented for the first
time in the national figure skotne championships when
the Washington Figure Skone Club sent Dorothy Smell
to Cleveland for her first year Of senior competition
Miss Smell is q l7yeor- r-od Montgomery BIoir High
School student and has been instructed by Bill Swolende
skotine professional for the post two yeors. She wos
ru"nerup for the notiono junior championship 1893
ond 1882
The figures demonstrated BY Miss Smell ore AxeI
Pousen jump. European toe spin, sproI and the
Joekson Hoynes spin Star Staff Movies by Ewood Baker
Evening star., 1940-02-25

Below: Movie strip Of Miss Smell demonstrating the
Axel Pousen jump The skoter eIdes forword. leops
into the Dir and mokes and hoIf revolutions using
the shoulders to check the speed Of the spin otter
ondne
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Up the Ice!

Left: Miss Smell, in spite Of rough ice.
goes into spiroI with eroce and poise.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

Below: Londne ot the end Of on Axel
Poulsen Jump In this. one ond holt
revolutions ore mode in the Dir with the
skoter's feet free Of the ice.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
ASHEVILLE AREA.
FLOODS RECEDINC
Rayon Plant Is Damaged;
Highways East OF City
Reported Open

ASHEVILLE, Aug. 31.-tR-Bun-
combe county counted its II o d
damages in the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars today as muddy
waters of the French Broad and
Swannanoa rivers and their tribu-
taries oozed back into their banks
leaving a trail of filth and destruc-
ton.
Hardest hit was the huge Ameri-
can Enka corporations rayon plant
where unofficial estimates placed
damages to machinery and stocks
at half a million dollars.
Asheville officials estimated city
streets and storm sewers suffered
approximately $50,000 damage
from the heavy rains and flood
waters.
County Farm Agent C. Y. Til
don said losses to farmers will run
into many thousands of dollars,
with greatest damage to corn, to-
bacco and hay crops. Several
barns and outbuildings went down
with the flood waters.
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
~ G. Moose Association.
Opens WrightsuilLe Rally
WADE IS PRESIDING
Pilgrim Recorder Meikle
Will Speak Tonight;
Fellowship Dinner

Members of the Carolina Moose
association 40 strong gathered at
the Ocean Terrace hotel, Wrights-
vile Beach, last night for tn e
opening of the 18th, annual con-
clave of the association.
After a day devoted to fun on
the beach the members gathered
at the hotel for the opening of the
conclave at 7 pm, with ]. E. L.
Wade, Wilmington commissioner
of public works, and president OF
the association, presiding.
Cooper and Herrin
After an invocation by the Rev.
Alexander Miller, of Wilmington,
addresses of welcome were made
by Mayor D. J. Herrin, of Wrights-
vile beach, and Mayor Thomas
E. Cooper, of Wilmington. t h e
was made by Walter l..
York, of High Point. The member
ship was lead in a pledge of al
legiance to the American flag by
women of the Moose, with Mrs.
Annie Neighbors, Capter 49,, Hon.
or chapter, in charge
Charles A. Kirby, of Baltimore,
regional director Of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia and
Tennessee, made an annual mem
bership report and members OF
the High Point lodge and chapter
presented a dance travelogue.
A fancy drill by the e n r
regents escort of North Carolina
concluded the opening
After the opening there was a
led by the senior re-
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
HUTCHINS LISTS
DRAFT BENEFITS
Puts Right Man In Right
Job, Saves Youth; He
Would Ban Vols

CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-lR-Dr.
Robert M. Hutchins, president OF
the University of Chicago, said to-
day that he favored reliance upon
selective service for national de-
fense to the point of prohibiting
volunteer enlistmen.s.
''The whole effort in any selec-
tive service" he averred in an
interview" is just what the name
implies-to put people where they
belong. Volunteering defeats that.
You can't leave it up to the
people to select the places o r
which they are best suited. Men
volunteer, as a rule, not because
they have aptitudes Tor C r n
branches of military or naval serv-
ice, but because relatives or
friends have enlisted previously,
and they joint up, usually, with
the outfits closest to their homes.
eff we go. to war again, there
will be tren-endous social pres
sure to volunteer. The only way
to prevent that, and to be reason
ably sure that persons are placed
Continued on Page Eight; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
SENATOR ERNEST LUNDEEN
FRENCH COLONIAL
REVOLT SPREADING
Vichy Government Admits
Indo-China And West
Africa Rebellious

VICHEY, France, Aug. 31-R-
The French government acknoW-
ledfed tonight that a rebellion has
broken out in French Indo-China
and French West Africa, following
the action of French, Equatorial
Africa in going over to the British
war cause.
The extent of the Indo-C Chinese
revolt-said by the colonial minis.
try to have been under the leader
ship of French General Catroux-
was unknown here. The uprising
in French West Africa, the gov
ernment maintained, was confined
to certain Europeans" and hao
not yet spread to the native popu
lation.
(Only last Thursday, Genera.
Charles de Gaulle, the French gen
eral who refused to accept sur.
force to fight on at Britain's side,
announced that almost the whole
of French Equatorial Africa hao
been turned into British ally.
(This occurred when the French
Cameroons and Congo followed the
lead of the had territory and de-
cided to become belligerents
against Germany. Thus more thar
100000 square miles of territory
were aligned with Britain, making
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
Hitler's Army To Take
Ouer Control OfRun1ania

nant of Czechslovakia, is virtual
military protectorate of the Reicho
Even as the minister broadcast,
confirming the supreme place Nazi
arms are to occupy hereafter IN
this country as consequence OF
the Axis-dictated settlement OF the
Transylvanian issue, most OF the
Runanian army's of 1900. COO was
being demobilized to make way 1or
German armored divisions report
ed coming here to occupy part OF
this country's territory.
Germany, said the foreign min
lister in a broadcast to the people
has given to Rumania and absolute
military guarantee unlike t n a
ever given any other country IN I,
the world except little Slovaha. :.
Manoilescu had just returned
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
five LOSE LIVES
AS TANKS FALL
Ten Others Injured When
Atlantic City Bath
house Caves In

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Aug.
31.-LR-Two tanks filled with 49,
900 gallons of water crashed
through the roof of a bath house
on the boardwalk today, killing at
least five persons and injuring ten.
The dead:
Mrs. Fannie Arbor, AZ, of 318
w. Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Sophie Sonstein, So, Of 4l9
Ritner ST., Philadelphia.
Hyrnan Shutoff, 420 Morris St.,
Philadelphia.
Two unidentified women.
Masses of Labor day weekend
visitors swarmed around the scene
on the boardwalk at the foot of
Florida avenue a block south Of
the convention hall, watching po-
lice and firemen striving to re-
cover bodies from the wreckage.
Police expressed fear there
might be more bodies in the base
ment, which was flooded with wa
ter and unreachable at late hour
tonight ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
LABOR'S GAINS
CITED BY F.D.R,
He Credits Democratic Way
With Advances Made
Since 1889

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 31.-R
Roosevelt said in a
Labor Day statement tonight that
wage earners, farmers and busi-
ness men could view with salts
faction the improvement in their
lot and that of the nation in the
last seven years."
That improvement has come, he
asserted, largely as result of a
far-reaching economic and social
program conceived in democratic
principles and dedicated to t h,c
common good.'
Because of the defense program,
Mr.. Poosevelt said, thi3 Labor Day
calls for more than ordinary
observance, and for the dedication
of labor, management, farmers
and government to a common pur-
pose of protecting and continuing
this great democracy"
He assured wage earners that
their contribution would not be
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
BY EDWARD E. BOMAR

The war that started just year
ago with the sudden invasion of
Poland has served as continuous
demonstration that surprise is still
the deadliest of weapons.
Statesmen, army general staffs
and military experts almost without
exception have been as mistaken as
the man in the street in anticipating
the conflicts course.
Even Adolf Hitler and his advis-
ers, who possessed the initiative from
the start. must have been startled
repeatedly at the power of the mill
.tary and psychological forces they
called into being.
The prestige of the prophets has
gone with the reputation of the gen
erals who erred. There were few
forgotten predictions of an eventual
burial of differences between the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
War Interpretive

Nazi and communist dictators, but
who aside from the principals them
selves anticipated the actual al
lance between Hitler and Russia's
Joseph Stain?
Hardly a military man foresaw
with any degree Of certainty the de-
struction. of Poland three weeks after
the first 'blitzkrieg was launched
last September 1. The invasion Of
Norway was as complete surprise
to the world at large as it was to
the unsuspecting Norwegians them
selves.
Not even the gloomiest of Allied
cassandras voiced a warning that
the army of France, which neutral
officers often termed the worlds fin
est, would be wiped out as an or
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
Pea Craft
Hits Blue
Ridge Hill
P Passengers, Crew Blown
To Bits By Explosion
Following Crash
NEAR WASHINGTON
Note Dropped By Hostess
Found In Field Not
Far Away
LOVETTS WILLIE, Va,

Low 7 S VILE, Va,
Aug. 31.-(P)-The Penn
sylvania Central Airlines
plane which crashed at the
foot of the Blue Ridge noun
tains near here today car
rying Is persons, including
Senator Ernest Lundeen (t-
L-Minn.), to their death,
was literally blown to bits
when it exploded after hit
ting the ground.
John Rhodes, 24-year-old
reporter of the Winchester,
Va, Evening Star, who went
to the scene for the Associat-
ed Press, said the clover and
alfalfa field where the plane
crashed presented an eerie
scene with parts of the plane,
dismembered bodies, and
clothing over a two acre
plot.
Those aboard the plane
realized they were going to
crash, Rhodes said, because
a note dropped by the
stewardess, Margaret Carson
of Pittsburgh, was found on
a farm some three miles
from the spot where the
plane went down.
"Going Down"
Rhodes said she asked that who
ever found the note notify the
Pittsburgh office of the airline
that the plane was "going down.
Investigating officers estimated
she barely got the note out OF the
plane, perhaps two minutes, before
it struck the ground.
The are where the crash occur
red is ., wild and rugged terrain
with many mountain peaks, not
very high but close together. There
was a binding rain at the time,
Rhodes said he learned, and visi-
bility must have been very, very
poor
Nobody in the area who heard
the plane crash seemed to know
what was wrong with it," Rhodes
said, but it was obvious it was in
trouble because it was flying low"
1t was on the farm of Clarence
Bishop, in a hollow by the edge
of the cloverfield that the plane
came down. 1t flew over Lovetts-
vile, Va, in the northern tip Of
Loudoun county, about ESQ p. m.
(E. S. T.), Rhodes said he learned.
Soon it was over Bishops farm
and getting lower. Henry Thomp-
son, who lived within an eighth Of
a mile, and his brother, Leroy,
with Bishop were the first to reach
the scene.
Continued on Page Eight; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
FRANK E. WALKER
GIVEN P. 0. POST
Roosevelt Selects Former
Democratic Treasurer As
Farley's Successor
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 81
tR-President Roosevelt announced
today that Frank c. Walker, New
York lawyer and formerly treas
urer of the democratic national
committee, would be the new post
master general, succeeding James
A. Fairly who gave up his cabinet
portfolio today.
The sitting for the announce
ment was an annual reception for
the President by members of the
Roosevelt home club, an organiza-
ton of his friends and neighbors,
several hundred of whom assembl-
ed on the lawn of Moses Smith,
a Roosevelt estate tenant.
With a broad grin, the Presi-
dent said as he neared the end OF
his informal remarks that he had
a "prefectly tremendous secret"
to disclose. He said he would send
to the senate next week the name
of "another old friend of ours"
'sHe came from Montana d
lived in New York." MIR. Roose-
welt said, land then because of
business interests, became citi-
zen of Pennsylvania, which is a
pretty good record.
'In other words, he knows the
country and is going to know lot
about the mails and communlca-
tions of the country from now on
and that is my old friend, who
has been a friend for great
many years, Frank Walker. Get
up, Frank
Walker, seated behind the chief
executive on the fag-draped plat
form, arose and bowed.
The President praised, the retir-
ing Farley, adding that 81 m, "
(COntinued on Page Eight: Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
LABOR DAY PARADE.
lis PLANNED HERE
F. R., Other National Fig
ures To Make Talks;
General Holiday

Tomorrow Wilmington and its
beach resorts will observe Labor
Day, with huge throngs anticipated
at the resorts as gala weekend
draws to close.
: A mammoth parade is to be stag
ed in the city by organizations and
business establishments under the
sponsorship of the Central Labor
Union.
The CLU, in sponsoring the La
Dor Day observance. is bringing
Gordon L. Chastain, of Spartan
burg, S. c., textile labor union Of
fetal, here to make the principal
address of the days celebration.
Generally the day will be hoi.
day, with city, county and federal
offices, as well as railroad, bank
and other offices closing.
/Cor@;n,,od m, Pape Two. Col 4)