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head with Studio cleaner which not
only smells to high heaven, but is
very inf1ammable, and furthermore,
puts me to sleep. The stuff has
a large percentage of ether"
unsomnia sufferers-don't copyD
History of car A couple of
years ago, Enrol Flynn purchased an
English-made roadster for $4,000.
Soon after he sold it to Johnny
Farrow for $1,000. Farrow spent
$500 on it for repairs and repainting,
and little later sold it to Robert
Coote for 5000. Coote is currently
loaning it to the Personal History"
production at a rate of $25 a day,
and hopes by this method to get
back his original cost-and still
have the car -. Constance Ben
nett Is another who has made 4
good investment on her foreign
make limousine. She charges about
$65 day, and by now must have
made back the original outlay.
Joan Fontaine emerges from RE
becca" as q star Of grade A dramatic
quality. Joan was unable to attend
the all-important preview (she is
IN the Good Samaritan Hospital re-
covering from a major operation)
and on the evening of the preview,
her temperature took a sudden jump
upward. She was given a strong
sedative, and didn't know until late
the following morning of the SEN
sation her acting had caused in the
theater. A sure sign that Joan has
arrived" are the dozens Of agents,
producers and directors who are now
claiming, Il discovered her!"
***
Herbert Marshall's little daughter
Sara Is being screen-tested. Her
half -brotherSEdna Best's 10-year-
old twin sons by a previous mar
riage-have apparently given up
their idea Of joining the Canadian
Army. and have settled for bit roles
in tom Browns Schooldays" :.
Which reminds me, the saddest girl
in town is Maureen O'Sullivan-
since Husband Johnny Farrow's en-
listment in the Canadian Navy.
Farrow has given up a lucrative
long-term directing job. He was re-
ceiving $3.50 . week with the pros
pect Of more to come.
X + X X
Charles Boyer does q fast polka
with Virginia Weidler in their cur
rent flicker, and at the end of it,
mops his brow and says to her,
I'm q good jitterbug, no?" mo"
replies Virginia :. wonder what
happened to the girl Robert Preston
was engaged to-before his romance
with Dorothy Lamour pushed her
into the background?
(Rsleased BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Ine.)
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National - Heavenly Express. -
new play bringing John GARFIELD
back to the stage: $3.50 pm.
Keith's - "Pinocchio," the new
full-length Disney: 11:15, /, 2:45
4:30, 6:20, 8:05 and $50 pm.
Capitol-"The Bluebird," Shirley
Temple in the Maeterlinck fantasy
10:45 am, 1:35, 4:3O, 7:20 and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 1885, $3.50,
6:25 and 9:15 pm.
Earle virginia City" Errol
Flynn rides again: 10 am. 1880,
$50, $50 and GAS pm. Stage
shows: 1905, 3, 6 and pm.
Metropolitan - "Chump at Ok
ford" two, in fact, namely Laurel
and Hardy: 11:55 am, 1855, 1855,
5:55, 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Columbia-"Gone With the Wind. !"
with Vivien Leigh and Clark Ga
BILE: 10 am, 2:45 and 8 pm.
Palace Northwest Passage, !"
Spencer Tracy meets adventure in
technicolor: 10:45 am, l:25, 4:lO,
6:55 and $40 pm.
Belasco-"Blrth of a Nation" the
silver jubilee showing: 11:1O am,
lis, 3:20, 5:25, 1880 and 9:35 pm.
Little - "Good-by, Mr.. Chips:
11:05 am, 1:25, 3:35, $50 and $40
pm. The Mikado," with the D'Oyly
Carte players: 10 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
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VlOIldl SIdkc AAoI IliS4!t lAdo NOuEN w
the wrong place. we are afraid.
Heavenly Express" is a flrst-rate
evening in the theater, sometimes
an hilarious one, but it also Is q
cross between william Saroyan and
q George Abbott farce and no one
can report lucidly on anything like
that.
It is not difficult to see why this
script of Albert Bein's has been
bouncing around the producers
offices for so long without finding
stage on which to romp. But 1t
is exceedingly difficult to see why
no producer before Kermit Bloom
garden realized that this fantasy
would be such a rollicking enter
tainment. Heavenly Express" Is
very strange, possibly the strangest
affair the National has played host
to in years. But it has some
stretches of the rarest fun in the
world, some tender moments and
some dramatic ones.
Really there is not a thing wrong
with it except the fact that it is
unfathomable and dares you to
fathom it. Mr.. Bein's play is not a
play at all. It is performed by
actors (and truly competent ones)
before scenery (and handsomely
contrived scenery and it is divided
into acts, just exactly like play.
But 1t is not play. A play is sup
posed to have a theme and of theme,
Heavenly Express" has none.
AS a matter Of fact, we are not
sure Mr.. Bein's fantasy has q plot.
It starts nowhere and 1t ends no
where. But it certainly Is fun to
60 with 1t while 1t does not 60 any
where. A woman dies-a woman
who has befriended all hoboes since
her son turned hobo is called on by
the advance ticket-taker for the
Heavenly express and that is all
there is to Heavenly Express"
That perhaps sounds as though
this might be dreary, or at best
none too gay, but nothing is further
from the truth. Betsy Graham
miss McMahon) is called on at her
railroad boarding house because,
as the Overland Kid (Mr. Garfleld)
tells her, everything is fine in the
happy land to which the hoboes
have passed on except that they
need a good cook.
The Kids call causes some con-
siderable disturbance among his
cronies, Of course, they being bit
startled to meet an old pal who
fell to his doom from freight train
10 years before. His call also causes
disturbance because the train the
Eternal 30" has sent down from
the top Of the world to carry a few
passengers to the land of the rock
candy mountain runs along the
Santa Re right of way a thousand
or two miles an hour. The Santa
Fe would be nightly startled If
Heavenly Express" ever came to
life, but no more than it is on
the sage Of the National this week.
While he has been busily writing
not 4 play, Mr.. Bein has invented
some engaging characters and con-
trived some thoroughly entertaining
situations for Director Robert Lewis
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It's the Men Who Suffer
In Forthcoming Films
Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy
Battle, While Greasepaint
Gets in Bob Taylor's Hair
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


Sight Of the week William Powell rehearng picture
Love You Again with Wife Diana Lewis Playing Myrna Loy
Myrna
she is good actress is now
the happy mirrors on all four
sides This completes another dream recently
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'Mikado' in Preview
At Little TONIGHT

THE Mikado," technicolor pro-
duction of Gilbert and Sullivan's
most popular operetta, with the
D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. and Kenny
Baker, screen and radio star, will
be previewed tonight at the Little
Theater following the last showing
of the current Goodbye, Mr..
Chips" starring Robert Donat.
Produced in England, the films
cast includes Jean Colin, Martyr
Green and Sydney Granville. Faith
full to the original script, the film
contains the familiar Three
Little Maids From School Are We,"
"A Wandering Minstrel I" "The
Flowers That Bloom in the Spring"
and others.
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to whip around. His Overland Kid
Is just the lad to lure MIR. Garfield
back to the stage, a gay wanderer
who Is happy In his hobo Heaven
because he has naught to do but
ride the rods of train that whips
between the clouds and races the
comets. And Mr.. Garfield is Just
the lad to give the Bein fantasy
the ring Of truth it needs so that
you will not believe 1t and the touch
of the fantastic it needs 50 that
you will believe every word Of it.
Miss Mcmahon and Mr.. Carey are
so right 1t is hard to fancy Heavenly
Express" without them. And all
the others-especially Philip Loeb,
James O'Rear, Nicholas Conte and
Harry Bratsburg-enter into the
mad spirit with gusto. But Of the
entire supporting cast we liked most
Russell Collins. He is the poor,
matter-of-fac representative OF the
Santa Fe and he has one terrible
time reconciling his orders and his
schedules with Albert Bein's dreams
the night the Heavenly Express"
Is riding his rails.
There is still some Tightening,
some editing, to be done on the
fantasy. Something ought to be
done about the first scene, a slow
prologue which takes too much time
getting under way. But then by
the time the second act was over
last night this first scene was for
gotten by the lobbyites, most Of
them being busy asking the nearest
neighbor, in an awed voice, What
is this all about?"
Heavenly Express" is not a play,
but It's bang-up show. Maybe
we're just crazy but we laughed and
laughed and laughed.
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Cast Problems

BY the time THE Yearling" gets
under way it will undoubtedly hold
a record for genuine searches. I'm
der way now is hunt for a boy to
play Jody, role secondary only to
Spencer Tracy's. Talent scouts are
now combing the Nation. Also in
progress is search for a yearling
deer. A minor hunt goes on for a
6O0-pound, 7-foot black bear, tough
assignment, since few trained bears
weigh over half that. The studio
must also find a battle-scarred bear
hound to do the role of Julie,
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dogs, children, motor cars-and
Charles Laughton >. The males
and not the females are currently
suffering for their art. Clark Gable
and Spencer Tracy have a terrific
fist fight in Boom Town" and
founder up to their eyes in mud
(this is usually reserved for the
female Of the screen species) I.
And In waterloo Bridge" Robert
Taylor has to use white mascara on
his hair to make it look an aging
gentleman. II don't mind putting
it on" Bob tells me. "the hard part
is taking it of. I have to douse my
Evening star., 1940-03-26
All.Cartoon Bill

An all-cartoon show will be pre-
sented tomorrow afternoon at the
Seco Theater. This special program,
presented for one performance, will
begin At 2 pm. Donald Duck,
Mickey Mouse, Popeye and other
cartoon favorites will be presented.
Evening star., 1940-03-26

m or sided
room. She's got
most of them
now with Bill
included for good
measure! There
are still six rings
to me, bu t
Diana is doing
all right with
the four she has
"a dia m on d,
ru by, emerald
and pearl.
Alfred Hitch
cock says the
hardest things to
photograph are
Evening star., 1940-03-26
THE EVENING WASHINGTON C., TUESDAY, MARCH 2e
Heavenly Express No Play,
But 1t Has Some Rare Fun
Fantasy Starring John Garfield
Proves First.Rate Evening
Of Theater at National
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

BY HARRY MACARTHUR.
I'm the CarnodvJ
1t has diamond for headlight platinum
shoots curves like meteor also plays hob with the schedules the
Railroad This the Heavenly
Garfield back the along with Ane
Harry couple people soourning
the lotusland of the cinema
looking
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Deep-dish apple pie q version - and is il good!
Here are recipes from Vivien Kellems, expert
in science, industry and running her house
<w 9>0oe 31.s',e>

Stir in rest of flour. Stir in ralSlns and
nuts Turn onto Toured board: knead
until it is elastic and bubbles form
under surface, about 7 to 10 minutes.
Form into ball; grease, and place in
creased bowl. Cover, and set bowl in
a warm place. When dough is doubled
in size, shape it into a rectangle the
size of the bread pan. Fold one of the
short sides of the rectangle toward
the center. Then fold the opposite
side to the center, making certain that
the ends will overlap. Press this down
firmly with the fist. Pat it out again;
repeat process. Then press out to
length of pan. Roll up tightly. as for
jelly roll. Place in creased bread pan
with the overlapping end underneath.
Grease top: cover, and let rise in
warm place until double in size. Bake
in moderately hot oven (375 degrees
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
ENGINEERING GOOD MEALS

since | had many friends in all the
electrical-eQuipment companies, used
equipment from each of them. And
last and, perhaps, most important of
all, | consulted the people who were
going to work in that kitchen. In my
case, they are a Danish man and
wife.
IL remember thinking it was stub
born of them to want the drain in the
corner of the pantry-slnk instead OF
the middle as is customary. But when
saw how much easier it is to be able
to stand glasses inside the sink. when
you are washing them in hurry. and
still drain off the water without inter
fering with them, | realized that my
servants were right.
When she entertains Nivien prefers
buffet parties, because service is more
simple and the food attractive. usually
we have a mixture of hot and cold
dishes then, probably cold turkey
and a whole hot ham. like the ham
brought on whole and sliced when we
are ready to eat" she says. ut looks
better and seems to taste better Be
sides the fowl and meat, we have a fish
or shrimp salad, scalloped potatoes, or
the very delicious wild-rice casserole
which is our own invention and for
which l will give you the recipe, if
you would like it."
One of the most successful parties
Vivien ever gave was an lmpromptu
supper on New Years day. 1t amuses
her, because one of the main dishes
was baked beans - and not home
baked, either. "They were canned
baked beans which we Tossed up a
little, and the way those people fell
upon the beans would astound you,
she says.
Among the recipes Vivien gave us
is one which we include because 1t is
interesting, as well as good, and which
we recommend if you can get protein
Tor cottonseed) flour We have made
the bread ourselves and tasted it and
found it extremely good. Another
recipe which Vivien calls deep-dlsh
apple pie is an attractive version OF
that American favorite. You will
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N HE only woman manufacturer in
the electrical industry, an en-
gineer herself, and one of the
three women belonging to the Amer
lean Institute Of Electrical Engineers,
a competent cook and enthusiastic
housewife - this is Nivien Kellems.
When Nivien's brother invented
the cable grip" which is now used
all over the world to pull cable
through conduits, she persuaded him
not to sell the patent but to let her
start cable-grip business. The device
works like this: an end of the cable or
rope is inserted in its mouth; then the
harder you pull, the tighter becomes
the grip. 1t was Nivien in person who
took the new invention around to
electrical concerns and got SO many
orders that she started a factory,
though she had to do it on the proven
bal shoestring
From a relatively small beginning
the business grew tremendously and
now takes her all over the world and
brings her in contact with the leaders
of great industries Last July she re-
turned from England where she had
been comforting with government Off
Gals going through munitions fac
tories and, incidentally, getting first
hand views of Europe at war.
Vivien sounds like a Titan or a
Twentieth Century Amazon. But on
the contrary, she is pretty, still young
and very feminine. She cares lot
about clothes and has such a strong
flair for them that she sometimes de-
signs her own. She is also deft-tingered
enough to alter the dresses or even
the suits she buys - and frequently
does so. MANY and many time I've
sat up till midnight taking out
sleeves, lifting a neckline, changing a
waistline,' she says. Lately, however,
she has trained a young girl to do these
things for her.
About household matters she is
equally adept and one of her great
brides is her kitchen AS you might
guess, the kitchen is electrically
equipped and worked out for comfort
and efficiency.
81 did the kitchen with three things
"a mind" Vivien says. First | con-
suited other women including the
experts in utility companies. Then,
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Deep-Di,h Apple Pie

3 pounds apples 90 to II apples
tablespoon chopped orange peel
"a cup brown sugar
a cup chopped nuts
Il cup raislns
cup honey
tablespoon butter
Pie Pastry
Pare, core and cut apples in thin
slices. Mix apples, orange peel, brown
sugar, nuts, ralslns, honey. Place mix
ture in CREASED baking dish. Dot with
butter Cover with overlapping circles
of pastry. scored IN center to allow
steam to escape. Bake in a moderately
hot oven 1915 degrees F. about 10
minutes, or until apples are tender.
Pastry:
"a cups flour
u teaspoon salt
y cup shortening
3 tablespoon water (about
Slft -four and salt Cut IN shortening
with pastry blender or , knives until
evenly mixed. Add water. using only
enough to make PARTICLES hold to-
gether. Shape lightly in ball; wrap in
waxed paper, and chill. When chilled.
roll dough on lightly Toured board
about - inch thick Cut into circles
about 2l2 inches in diameter with
cookie cutter. Score center, and place
on top of apple mixture. Yield: 6
portions.
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Wiid.Riee Dish

Wild-Rice Dish
~ cups wild rice :
3 teaspoons salt
3 cups boiling water
slices bacon, chopped
onion, chopped
4 teaspoon pepper
egg yOlk. beaten
y cup cream
cup shredded carrots
, tablespoons butter
Wash rice thoroughly in cold water
several times. Add teaspoons salt
to boiling water; add rice slowly SO
that water continues to boil. Cook
about 80 minutes, or until rice is
tender. Drain and place in creased
baking dish. Place bacon and onion in
frying pan. and cook 10 minutes or
until brown. Mix with rice; add re-
naming salt, pepper, egg yolk, cream
and carrots. Dot with butter. Cover.
and bake IN a moderate oven $50 de-
grees F. about 10 minutes or until
carrots are tender Yield: 8 to 8 por-
tons
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notice that it gains an interesting,
delicate new flavor of blended apples,
honey, nuts and raislns. The wlld-rice
dish is even more unusual and is very
SavOry.
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F. for 10 minutes. Then lower tenn
peraturc to (325 degrees F. and con-
tinuc baking about ~ hours. Yield:
loaf bread 81 in. in.
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Protein Breed

Protein Breod
l tablespoon sugar
II teaspoons salt
l tablespoon shortening
cup scalded milk
yeast cake
3 cups protein flour
p cup raisns
u cup chopped nuts
Measure sugar, salt. and shortening
into large bowl; add sCalded milk.
and cool to lukewarm. Add some
warm mixture to yeast; stir until soft,
then combine with rest of mixture. Stir
in half the flour; beat until smooth.
Evening star., 1940-01-05

the new budget is to give the appear
ance of quite drop in the deficit
and it is probable that the campaign
speeches on behalf of the Democratic
ticket will be using all these revised
projections of the budget to assist
them on the stump.
It is also possible for the ad-
ministration to defer some Of its ex-
penditures in the present fiscal year
which winds up on June 30th next
and give out during the campaign a
roster summary Of expenses and de-
flcits than is now indicated for the
present fiscal year. The latest indi-
Gated deficit for the year ending
June 30, 1910, is about $1,000 900 900
which is one of the largest in the
whole Roosevelt regime. 1t may be
cut down a few hundred million by
deferment to the fiscal year begin
ming July /. next.
AS long as the borrowing con-
tinues, public opinion is not likely to
be aroused as much as when a real
effort is made to balance the budget
by taxation. This will not be done
prior to the November, 1910, elec-
ton. This is to be another pump
printing, borrowing year and a year
with restraint still retained upon the
opportunities of private business to
expand and furnish direct employ
ment.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
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Ex-Representotive to Speak

Former Representative H. P. Kop-
plemann of Connecticut will be
guest speaker at a service at Bile
o'clock tonight in the B'nai Israe,
Synagogue. Rabbi Henry Segal will
conduct an open forum on the SUBJ
ject discussed by Mr.. Kopplemann
The service will be dedicated to the
Palestine Conference, to be held in
this city over the week end.
Evening star., 1940-01-05

nation. Il have started out on the
tasks that lie ahead" he said, by
breaking the absurd tradition that
the candidate should remain in pro-
fessed ignorance of what has hap
pened for weeks, until formally mott
fed OF the event many weeks later.
My friends, may this be the symbol
OF my intention to be honest and to
avoid all hypocrisy or sham, to avoid
Evening star., 1940-01-05

all silly shutting of the eyes to the
truth in this campaign! Let it also
be symbolic that in so doing I
broke traditions. Let it be from
now on the task of our party to
break foolish traditions. We will
break foolish traditions and leave it
to the Republican leadership, far
more skilled in that art, to break
promises"
Evening star., 1940-01-05

deficit OF nearly
$4,000, 10000 -
this tells the
story of Presi-
dent Roosevelt S
budget message
for the fiscal
year to begin
July l next.
Eleven con-
secutive years of
deficits, with a
depression cost
of nearly S30,-
OO0,000,0 900, con-
stituteS the larg-
est stretching
of ITnp1a Sans
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No Foolish Promise

influence the trade channels of the world This
included plea agreements,
significance regarded the
Department absolute post war necessity
Presidents declaration
United States will involved military
avoiding
military participation become sending
aid the democratic side BY its limitations the
indication Of the Presidents fear Of being another
wilson, his of the foolish promise of the 1916 election
Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Sirovich Leaves Estute
Of More Than $4,000
BY the Associated Press.

I By tne ASSoClAte0 PteSS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-An estate
valued at more than $4,000" was
left by DR.. William I. Sirovich, men,
ber of Congress and playwright, who
died last December II.
The will, filed for probate yester-
day, included charitable bequests
totaling $500, and 5000 to a niece,
Florence Geiger of 1417 Whittier
street, Washington, D. c.
Evening star., 1940-01-05

ed as nom Frederic william vile.
partisan speech. Within that defini-
ton could easily come a third-term
remuneration, for it could be launched
in terms of devotion to great
American tradition which has known
no party politics in its observance
The guessing contest as to whether
F.. D. r. will put away the crown
Monday evening or maintain his
nom n-committal attitude will rage up
to the moment he begins speaking
This column, risking discontinue
and confusion before history is four
days older, is confident Roosevelt S
intentions on the morning OF jan
uary 8 will be just as enigmatic
as they are on January 5.
X \ X
Waiting to Be Drafted.
One stab at the Presidents plans
is just as wild as another, and my
hunch about them is as good or as
bad as the next fellows, so alright
has the secret of secrets been kept.
I doubt If Mrs. Roosevelt. or Tommy
Corcoran, or Steve Early, or Harry
Hopkins-to name the four persons
probably closer to the President than
anybody else-knoWs at this hour
whether or not he chooses to run
in 1910. This observer does not
share the popular view that F. D. r.
wants" to quit. Like his distin-
guished kinsman-predecessor, Theo-
dore, Franklin has had a perfectly
bully" time of it in the White House
Two terms have aged, but not tired
him. Apparently the years can not
WitEer him, nor custom stale his
infinite variety. He loves his job.
But accepting the widespread
theory that Roosevelt does banker
for retirement to Hyde Park a year
from this week, I am still not able
to persuade myself that he really
dreams of resisting a genuine call
to remain at the helm. In short, the
conviction in this quarter is ironclad
that F. D. r. is only waiting suf-
f1ciently to be urged to respond to
what would be represented as the
irresistible summons of party and
national duty. I believe that in due
course, in some form or other, be-
fore or during the national conven-
ton. such summons will be forth
coming, and that it will be answered
affirmatively if the President can be
shown that no destructive Demo-
cratic rift will ensue from his
acceptance.
"The Pressure Boys"
Let no one underestimate the
Evening star., 1940-01-05

Capltal tnlS week
end and in the
country at large,
as completely as
the Washington
Monument DOM
mates the Dis
trict Of Columbia
skyline. Seventy
two hours after
these words are
in print, Presi-
d e n t Roosevelt
will address the
Jackson day din
ner in what is
officially herald