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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-24

Dr.. Clcniening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, &nt :n;n only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-24
\ Coffee Legend
Wife Preseryers

1t is a somewhat more aristo-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-24

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

something for their Pains, how
ever. as South fu:nbled the play
OF his contract. which can b.
made The heart a won. then the
heart 5 to the 8 was ruffed by the
spade 2. Three tricks then went to
the spade \. Q and K. and the
crisis was at hand.
If South had now led a small
club toward the Q. he would have
made his contract. In case West
Won it. South could have ruffed
any return and then run the clubs.
If West ducked. the Q would have
won, and a club could then have
been deliberately lost to West.
But South first led the club A,
then a small one. West won and
returned a hearts making South
use his last trump. 4 small club
was then won by the Q, but dunn
my had no more to reach South's
hand. so the opponents got all but
one of the remaining tricks, the
one taken by dummy's last trump.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-24

East and West can make five
odd in either red suit, by simply
running that many direct tricks,
but didn't realize it. They got
Distributed BIZ KIM
Evening star., 1940-06-30
It's the Film Cutter Who Makes Kisses Breath aking

leisure in the background. draw his
pay and listen to his whiskers
grow That's a labor union re-
qulrement. -.
Mixed Oddities.
Bobby Walthour, jr. who once was
a famous six-day racing bicyclist, is
still riding a bicycle He pedals
cans of rolled finn flom one projec-
ton room to another all day long on
the M-G-M lot BY a formula
borrowed from old silent film days,
studios can now make some night
scenes in broad daylight and thus
save lots of time and money
Hollywood is full of herman cow
boys, but ironically it's against the
law to have a COW inside the city
limits :. That thin layer of ice you
see on some winter lake and river
scenes shouldn't fool you too much
. It's nothing but liquid paraffin
sprayed on the waters surface. i.
Tusk, Tusk.
The script for one mountain hunt
ing scene called for monstrous wild
boar with big, sharp tusks to vio-
lently maui hunter :. The scene
was exceptionally realistic, climaxed
by the hunter actually hanging onto
the animals swapping jaws Ex-
cited cameramen almost tainted
until the actor explained d. On the
night before, the boar had shed it's
tusks So a handyman cut up a
white-walled automobile tire and
from it fashioned set of huge imi-
tation tusks for the animal :. What
appeared on the film to be the hunt
Evening star., 1940-06-30

when the new order of things can
be more clearly understood"
It's Only Fair.
Wanger admits that he scarcely
believes Sheean will consider the
matter important at the moment,
for Sheean is still foreign cor
respondent-in London.
But We think it's important, and
only fair" says the producer, mot
to trade on Sheean's name for our
picture. Such trading has been a
bad practice in Hollywood and it
has hurt the industry"
More than one famed writer has
agreed with that thesis. Not always
did Hollywood find Margaret
Mitchell pleased with what Holly
wood did to a Gone With the
Wind" or a Rachel Field thrilled"
over a film version of "All This and
Heaven, Too" John Steinbeck,
especially, did the unexpected when
he approved the filmed Grapes of
Wrath"
On the contrary, it used to be
routine for authors of books to rant
and snort, and even sue, when they
saw Hollywood versions of their
works. AS when Theodore Dresser
sued Paramount over IAN American
Tragedy" and Ernest Hemingway
objected to film treatment of "a
Farewell to Arms"
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Barron
Continued From First Page.)

ing waitress who will serve them
some tea and something to eat.
Among the several new faces the
revue introduced were Ruth Mata
and Eugene Hart, pair of young
sters who seem to establish them
selves well with the critics with their
agile and humorous dancing.
Marie Nash, who plays and sings
and does practically every other odd
job around the show, is a lovely
blond who has voice of lyric quail
ity. She, an Ohio girl. is a new face
to this Broadway reporter, but sew
eral Broadway managers present at
this rural tryout said she has been
around the Rialto for season head
ed for the opera, and that she would
be included in those ranks rather
than in musical revue spothghts
when the new season opens in the
fall.
You find out such informal infor-
nation in the summer theater, Just
as you find out that a capable direc-
tor and such good players as Hiram
Sherman, Earl Oxford, Florence
Lake, Pat Harrington, Melissa Mason
and others can combine with the
composers and authors mentioned
before to produce show which has
great appeal.
Evening star., 1940-06-30

er's act of bravery actually was
merely his kind cooperation in
keeping the poor boar's phoney
dental plates in place. ...
Ice Illusions.
Speaking of winter scenes, remem-
Der to watch for the one in Escape -
soon to be released by M-G-M
Clark Gable skates romantically with
Norma Shearer on lake in the Alps
but no matter how realistic it
all appears the scene was shot in
Hollywood, the lake is made of pIas-
ter of paris and the snow is powdered
gypsum . and the players actually
are roller skating because the blade
of the ice skates is divided and
equipped with tiny rollers Simple,
isn't it? -.
Painting the Desert.
They looked like men from Mars,
swarming over the Arizona desert
regions with a weird collection of
paraphernalia during Columbia's S
perturbation of early days of that
State .. What happened was that
since natural desert colors do not
film very well, Director Wesley Rug
giles ordered out a crew of men,
armed with buckets of paint and
long pressure sprays to actually
paint all the plants rocks and sand
with more photogenic colors. :.
Fishy, Fishy.
Over on a Long Valley movie loca-
ton a Paramount camera crew got
all set to shoot a river scene when
they spied lone native fisherman
flycasting for trout -. They argued
Evening star., 1940-06-30

"That-that would make me the
most conceited ass in Hollywood"
he stormed. why, there are any
number of extremely fine actors
worth watching for pointers.
Why ="
Name TO- interrupted the worm,
turning slightly. And did John
do so? He did, forthwith.
He put his brother Lionel first.
because with competition like that
in the family I prefer to be gracious
rather than argued with"
And the others are Spencer Tracy,
George Sanders, Paul MUM, Henry
Fonda, Roland Young, C. Aubrey
Smih, George Raft, John Cara
dine, and Maria Ouspenskaya.
Maria, said John, transcends any
sex difference in the art of acting
"and is an example for both men
and women to follow"
Whereupon John went back to
his favorite diet-scenery."
Evening star., 1940-06-30
By Ted Gill,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Getting perfect kisses from CLAM
orous screen actresses may seem
difficult job to some OF you boys i. =.
but once you learn the secret of how
it's done, it's no greater trick than
some of the other behind-the-screen
scenes that go to make the film in
dustry a veritable toyland of daffy
oddities. ..
Some screen directors will shoot
miles and miles of film to get one
kiss that will leave the girls back in
Canarsie starry-eyed and breathless
But no matter how realistically
the actors and actresses play at ro-
nance, it's the film cutter who has
the final say so in screen love
Sometimes he has to wade through
thousands of feet of celluloid kisses,
shipping and patching to keep love
within the bounds of the censors and
kisses down to permissible lengths
:. In that recent well-knoWn Gable
Leigh Civil War picture only one out
of about ever 200 feet of film orig
inally devoted to love was finally
used. 80.
Dumb Dummies.
Imagine human stand-in for a
sawdust dummy! -. Sounds screwey,
but nevertheless Hollywood has 'em
For every one of those dead
dummies you see out there on
screen battlefield, for instance, the
studio has to hire live extra player
who does nothing but sit on his
Evening star., 1940-06-30

lup was interested but not to the
point of signing deal. On his
own responsibility, he formed an
organization known as Audience Re-
search Institute, and went to work.
For 18 months he did movie re-
search on a wide basis. Results OF
his private polls proved so plaus-
ible, it is understood, that he did
not hesitate a few weeks ago to
complete negotiations with R-K-O.
Fans Re-unite Team.
Meanwhile, R-K-O has profited
in great many channels through
Gallups preliminary Investigations.
One vital Indicator is that fans in
great quantities seem to be clamor-
ing for return of the Ginger
Rogers-Fred Astaire dancing pic
lures. Acting at once on this sur
vey, R-K-O, which dropped Astaire
a year ago, has just signed him to a
new contract. He and Ginger will
be reunited as team in 1941.
The audience research phase of
Gallup's work will continue indefi-
nitely and will be confined to no
limited set of questions. His workers
under studio direction, are now
compiling long lists to cover many
phases of Interrogation.
For instance, last year an Eastern
theater official published list of
stars he called poison at the box
office" There was great indigna-
ton in Hollywood and many hurt
feelings. If poll had included the
question, What stars do you con-
slider poison at the box offlce?'"
the answers might have been dis
astrous to any stars named.
But, by the same token, if Gal
lup asks, What players do you
feel deserve stardom and would you
support them if they are starred"
a number of new players would get
bigger chances. This might spell
f1nis for the present Star-making
policy, which is largely based on the
social system" where Hollywood
sWivel-chair opinions mean more in
judging a prospective stars rank
and ability than the inarticulate
voice of the fan.
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worldwide news service, whose story
is being told in "The Man From
Fleet Street" Mum doesn't get
entirely out of his role during the
lunch hour, either.
There is more fun at Ann Sheri-
dams table. More people, usually,
as well. Lately Ann has been lunch
ing quite regularly with George
Brent-in his favorite corner when
1t is available or at one of the center
tables when it isn't. This twosome
usually grows to a sixsome before
the meal is over.
Others Take Pot Luck.
Enrol Flynn doesn't eat in the
green room regularly, perhaps be-
cause others have taken over MS
favorite corner. He eats in the
larger, general cafe along with many
OF the directors and some other
actors, including John Garfield,
Wayne Morris and the Lane sisters,
Priscilla and Rosemary.
James Stewart has been eating in
the { cen room during the filming
OF mo Time for Comedy" Olivia de
Havilland, who may or may not
marry him shortly, has eaten there
with him once of twice. Jane Wy
man and Ronald Reagan, wife and
husband, have special corner ta-
ole. for two. All others take pot luck
with Katherine's blessing.
Most nf tho cauovo
resses who serve the players in the
green room have been with the
studio for many years. The players
know them well They know the
players, their specialties, idiosyn-
crasies and diet problems. Rita
Morrison, for one, has been waiting
on players there for more than 10
years. Diet doesn't worry her. She
is a husky young woman who weighs
as much as any two feminine players
on the lot She is one of the most
popular people in the green room.
Shames the Soundproofing.
There is less dieting in the studio
cafe than there used to be. Kath-
~ A4AAC oSCo W II IIldt players 40 IlOC
eat too many fattening foods. She
sometimes serves as dietician for
new players who have tendency to
be too fat or too thin. Katherine
herself is lean and energetic.
The green room is air. conditioned
and soundproofed. 1t is not always
cool or quiet, the machine age being
what 1t is. Bette Davis laugh, for
instance, would put any soundproof-
ing system to shame.
Players may work on the Warner
lot for weeks, months perhaps, and
never see one another except in the
studio green room. 1t is the place
where pleasantries are exchanged
and mean digs are camoufaged.
Notes on the races, vacation plans
and marriage or divorce prospects
are discussed there.
Which makes it one of the most
interesting eating places In the
whole wide world.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Just in Sentiment

Many Hollywood players change
their names when they start in pic
lures. Some do it because they are
superstitious and numerologists sug-
gest a new grouping OF letters as
being lucky. Others are changed
because they are unattractive. Lar
alne Day, feminine lead in Walter
Wagner's production of the thrill
drama, Foreign Correspondent"
changed hers purely out of senti-
ment. When her studio suggested
switching Lorraine to Laraine for
the sake of euphony, she insisted on
changing her last name from john
son to Day. Elias Day, famous
dramatic coach, started her on her
theatrical career.
Evening star., 1940-06-30

A dozen writer's, eating at one long
table, make more noise than all the
players do.
Hard-working mattresses, under
the watchful eye of Katherine Hig-
gins, restaurant manager, work
against time in the Green Room.
They know that delaying an actor
who must return to his set within
the hour may mean dismissal.
The telephone there doesn't ring
at all, but the players and others
eating in the Green Room are PACED
over a public address system when
they are wanted. Oddly enough,
Eddie Albert, the young man who
gets lost in Mexico, receives more
telephone calls than almost any one
else while he Is working in a pic
ture.-
In the Green Room there are no
favorites, except that Katherine will
save a table against argument and
force at all costs for a player who
has expressed a preference for it.
: Most of the tables seat four people
each. A few along the sides can
accommodate only two or three. Yet
when players arrive in groups they
will drag chairs from all corners of
the room and six or eight will crowd
around a table intended for four.
Katherine permits that, too. Her
chief purpose in life, it seems, is to
keep the actors happy.
Bette Makes Noise.
That isn't easy. The favorite
table with many is in a corner out
of the line of traffic. When Bette
Davis is working she wants that
table saved for her. She gets it, too,
unless Jimmy Cagney is also making
picture and asks first. In that
case Bette takes neighboring table
and makes faces at Cagney when
she sits down. Bette's director-iust
now is William Wyler for THE Let
ter"-usually eats lunch with her.
Her mother, her sister, her secre-
tary or her hairdresser or all of them
join them very often.
Bette is about the only regular
Green Room luncher who can, when
she wishes, make more noise than
the writer's do at their long table.
Bette laughs loudly when amused
and many visitor. sitting nearby,
has been startled into spilling his
soup by her laugh.
When neither Bette nor Cagney
is on the lot, the corner table goes
to George Brent or George Raft. Pat
OBrien often sits there, too. He
never sits down without starting
funny story. His supply seems to
be inexhaustible.
Stay in Character.
Edward G. Robinson is always one
half OF twosome at a side table.
Others often stop at Eddies table to
visit, but not to eat Robinson is
one of the quietest stars to visit the
restaurant. Paul MUM runs him
close second. Robinson seems to
take on some of the characteristics
OF the man he is playing. Just now
he is Julius Reuter-, founder of the
Evening star., 1940-06-30

CpiSOucS VI IIldG rugged state.
For the setting, which is IN Rattle
Snake Pass, % miles outside Tucson.
Ruggles rounded up the huge herd
of believing cattle, 100 whooping
Popago Indians and approximately
that many swashbuckling cowboys.
But Film Was Blurred.
The first few times the stampede
scene was tried, the cattle, driven
into snorting, thunderous charges by
hard-riding, gun-f1ring cowboys and
Indians, performed perfectly before
the cameras-just like the script
called for.
Unfortunately, however, the film
for those early best scenes was
blurred by huge clouds of desert
dust and sand, kicked up by the
pounding hooves. So, to combat the
blur, Ruggles sprinkled hundreds of
tons of gravel and water over huge
sections of the cacti-studded desert.
Retake after retake was necessary.
Refused to Perform.
Finally the cattle, now irked by
so many trial stampedes or false
starts. decided to get temperamenta
and "go Hollywood" They didn't
like the Indians and they had about
as much use for the cowboys. After
all, the temperature on the desert
was plenty high and, besides. they
didn't ask for the job to begin with.
They fatty refused to perform as
the script called for them to do.
Every time the cowboys and Indians
started yelling and shooting, the
cattle glowered at them with that
doggone-you look and, instead of
laundering past the cameras in
sweeping mass formation, they
scampered off through the cacti in
all directions.
This went on for two weeks before
poor Ruggles got his stampede scene
the way the script wanted it.
Temperament " moaned the di-
rector. How sweet is the most
temperamental star in Hollywood,
compared to a cow"
Evening star., 1940-06-30
IuneSniths
Are Cupids,
Says
Mack Gordon Sure
Songs Send Many
To the Altar
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Mack Gordon believes the Ma
tion's song writer's should be given
credit for an assist every time Dan
Cupid scores a hit.
The portly Gordon, who can
qualify as an expert because his
pudgy fingers have helped write
many a ripping tune success, put
it this way:
Every week I get letters from
some young man or woman, telling
me I have unwittingly acted as a
little cupid. They fell in love to
the strains of some love song I had
written.
I'm willing to bet that Irving
Berlin's piece, "A Pretty Girl Is Like
a Melody has sent more young
sters-and old ones, toto the
altar since it was written than you
could count in days"
"Any Fool Can Guess"
Gordon, who is putting the finish
ing touches on several romantic
ballads with his able helper, Harry
Warren, for Down Argentine Way"
admitted he couldn't illustrate his
point with statistics, but added:
when song like What's New
or The Wind and the Rain in Your
Hair is played any fool can guess
there'n be run on the Marriage
License Bureau the next morning"
Gordon, friends disclosed, won his
present wife, known in her show
girl days as Elizabeth Cook, with
his song, Locke, Locke, Locke,
Here Comes Cookie"
But he actually proposed to her
while dancing to Berlin's Dancing
Cheek to Cheek"
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Young Lawyer Likes Movie Acting More
BY the Associated Press


HOLLYWOOD.
A Kansas Barrymore was sup
posed to become barrister, but law
is long and time is f1eeting, so we
now find him in movie makeup
making love to Marjorie Weaver.
His name is Ted North, jr., and
don't you wish you were Ted just
for the Weaver angle alone. But
of course the story is how Ted
North, jr., got to Hollywood and into
makeup and embraces with Weaver
and other cinema dolls when only
four-five months ago he was back
in Topeka wading through briefs
and Blackstone.
This Cinderella piece begins back
in Kansas, when Ted North, sr., and
Warner Baxter were cuts together
in the acting business. You prob
ably are away ahead of the story
already, because you now know that
Baxter had something to do with
getting his old acting buddy's son
inside the portals.
Test Is Arranged.
Ted came here, admired the gas
stations and wondered about the fog
for three days and then sent Baxter
a telegram at his studio. Within
an hour-"less than an hour, even,"
says Ted-BaXter telephoned for
young North tc drop everything and
come right over to the studio.
HE was busy in picture" con-
tinues our subject, "but Mr.. Baxter
showed me around, took me into
the casting Office, arranged for a
test and told me some of the things
I should and shouldn't do.
almost before I knew it I was
cast in picture"
And it was a lead, too, in a silly
sounding opus called THE Bride
Wore Clutches" At the moment
he's in For Beauty's Sake" in which
he cinematically woos and wins Miss
Weaver.
But You Won't Like It."
Ted's grandpa ran the stock COM
pany when Baxter and Ted, Sr., were
a part of it. When Ted turned
he began his bit of spear-carrying
and worked for his father every
summer, even while attending
Kansas U. He insists he gave up
law only because II saw so many
young lawyers working for a dollar
a day."
When he was handed his con-
tract Ted said he'd Like to take 1t
Evening star., 1940-06-30

WIFI IlOW Ill-1-uUlIlS 6AoAASC hC AAAH
apprecietive audience.
Why Not Charge?
There was among this audience
on a sound stage late that day a
handful of young movie players,
gathered to see how Barrymore
does it, or, as one cynic put 1t,
"gets away with it." There also was
a newspaper man. as you'll learn in
half jiffy, made rush suggestion,
Said he to the great profile;
"See those youngsters-why don't
YOU charge them dollar an hour
for lessons in acting. Make 'em pay
to come in here and watch you and
donate the money y" He was 60
ing to add ''to the Red Cross"
He Names Them.
Barrymore might have been
struck in the chin. He drew himself
to a great height, so as to look
down upon the worm who made such
an idiotic suggestion.
Evening star., 1940-06-30

The Prlnz technique Is justly
famed. The dark-haired, rotund
dance director, who ran away from
his st. Louis home when he was
Is and wound up in the French
Foreign Legion, has earned himself
reputation in nine years in Holly
wood. Successes such as college
Rhythm" ''Showboat," waikiki
Wedding" Artists and Models"
are his.
He Knows Them All.
He calls most of the girls by their
first names. All but few who have
worked for him before, are card
indexed in his file. There are few
things he needs to know about them.
First, he wants to make certain
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Alice Faye's
Operation
Illegal?
She Is Suspended
After Surgery
Sans Consent
HOLLYWOOD.


A new Interpretation of the famous
"act of God" defense introduced
several years ago when Helen Hayes,
despite a "run-of -the-show con-
tract, left a Broadway play high
and dry to give birth to a child,
may soon be brought to light IN
the case of Alice Faye, suspended
by goth Century-Fox, allegedly for
undergoing an operation without
first obtaining studio consent.
Miss Faye, one Of the 10 leading
money-making stars on last years
official tabulation, is repeatedly of
nav" for failure to appear "able,
willing and ready" for the star role
in Down Argentine Way" failure
which necessitated the substitution
a few days ago of Betty Cradle.
Studios Point of View.
The studio, it is understood, feels
Miss Faye could have postponed the
surgery and that she used it as a
means to escape a role she did not
relish. Whatever the results OF this
oldest of all Studlo-actor alterca-
tions, it does open up many new
possibilities and problems in fu-
ture employer-employe relationships
hereabouts. The studio claims its
first news of Miss Faye's illness
came after she had undergone the
operation-on the day she was slated
to appear for rehearsals.
An early settlement is predicted,
for Miss Faye is the very best fem
mine star on 20th-Fox's card and
is badly needed at this particular
time in as many pictures as it is
possible for her to produce. Mean
while the blond star is reported
recuperating rapidly and will be
ready for work-if there is work
within a few weeks.
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Evening star., 1940-06-30

they're the types he needs. Then
he must discover if they've put on
too much weight since he last saw
them, or acquired that pallor known
as night club tan"
Several things are distinctive
about the Prinz technique.
Some Names" Too.
"The way they walk up" he says,
usually hasn't a thing to do with
my selections. Naturally, every girl
is trying to make an impression. 1
do my observing as she walks away,
after she's at ease and the strains
gone.
Il don't want to embarrass them,