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Evening star., 1940-04-07
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.

1t takes one good role to make q
star. But it takes one good star
discoverer to bring the good role and
the star together. The discoverer of
stars with all hits, no misses, and
very few errors on his record is
David Selznick, who In his years Of
producing pictures in Hollywood has
plucked dozens of unknowns from
obscurity and given them a chance
in big productions.
Here are some of the thespians
who owe their screen success to the
opportunity given them by Selznick
Joan Fontaine, Katherine Hep
burn, Fred Astaire, Freddie Bar
tholomew, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid
Bergman, Mickey Rooney, Hattie
McDaniels and Jean Arthur.
1t was also Selznick who gave
Myrna 10y her first straight lead-in
Animal Kingdom" Before she was
merely an Oriental menace. It was
Selznick who resurrected the careers
OF Joan Crawford, William Powell
and Janet Gaynor when the trio
were at the low ebb of their respec-
tive careers. He starred Joan in
Dancing Lady" after her dismal
flop in '.Rain," Janet in the Acad-
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Toduy's Film Schedules

BEaAscoouise" lm veon with Grace Moore: 2sso $780,
and 9:35 pm.
CAPITo1Young Tom Edson Mickey Rooney to biography:
$780, 720 and 1910 Stage shows $685. $40 and e0
Passage" Spencer Tracy the Indians:
2, 4:25. z and $40 pm. ~
EAIE-I All Came True" Sheridan the Louis Bromnsd
story 4:35 tbs and s55 Stage shows: S4o $40 and
0pm.
Pinocchio" the length Disney
$50 545 TAO and s35 March Of Time: $780, 526
TAO and 9:15 pm.
Human Beast" Cabin simone Simon
dark drama: 2. 4:05. 5:55, 7:50 and o:40 pm. II .
METROPOLITAN City" Enrol rides again. 72o
4:4o 705 and s:40 pm.
WRATH honest and dramatic nlm version Of
the novel; 3 4:25, 7:06 and 945 pm s>s s@ss5
TRANS LUX-News and shorts continuous pm.
oPENAA Side Of Bing crosby: ana
1o:25 PM n
Evening star., 1940-04-07

went into production. But its lead
ing-lady troubles were not over.
And She "Stele" = Film.
II thought Joan was terrible in
the part and told her so continually
during the first week." continues
Selznick. "She told me she was
going to quit. I told her no one
quit David Selznick; that when I
was good and ready to fire her, I'd
fire her. She was furious and
wouldn't talk to me for a couple of
weeks"
To cut a long production short,
Miss Fontaine stayed with "Rebecca"
and "stole" it from Laurence Olivier,
which is larceny on grand scale.
She is now under solo contract to
Selznick fer seven years, and Sell
nick has received offers for Joan
from every producer IN town, includ-
ing Sam Goldwyn, Hal Roach and
several from Metro!
There isn't much space to tell
more of the stories behind Selz-
nick's star discoveries, but how he
gave Mickey Rooney his first i'm
portant part must be included. We
60 back six years.
II am crazy about ping pong"
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Ethel Barrymore Finds
An Author Who Permits
Her to Act Her Age
And an Audience Loves Her, Though
Vincent Sheean's Newest Play
Is Not All 1t Might Be
By Ira Wolfert.

Ethel Barrymore has
her evening
falls in love her.
The thing may be blind it not also
deaf That Miss Barrymore play
very good is play
thing OF really great importance to But
least to have told them
They knew all about it before the play written
An International play and it was
written by Vincent Shan
shean going on and enstne the
people Of the earth actually
Germs the people Mr. living That other
M ,a
people they know None of
he Mr. sheean declares knows anything people
and further than that is willing to find anything
Mr. sheean develops from this the people
nave been swallowed in the game and much lost
significance OF what they doing people fighting
with knives the justice ruling the people
oy sticking to their warthe lvng-thy
only people with chance to win and thus the
ut the Play Just Wasn't
Written for Speaking.
The major payhe one that makes all its others
just mere deuge that Mr. sheean
speak for normal audience play itself lies be-
tween the lines of dialogue dialogue lis only
the fta shadow of the play More impossible
see through the shadows the play
win Government and
cuson about them as the author.
The story the dialogue tells about Mrs Rochester
Indiana tender engage that
the cvedn set to hounds virginia to the
dogs Mrs Rochester was married England
figure among the social kncknack where the mem
learn and practice government
The play takes with Mrs Rochester
about to begin extensive lecture through States The
lecture
greatness and not war propaganda at ALL but
make people like England according reporter disanty
related Mrs enough wartime and he sets out
10 convince her that she doing countyme
He falls in love with her. hut ne does
conv1ncs her ostag in odd taking
Detroit She pckes knukes tries
pull OF them of policeman
hghens her. but sheean explicit about
her enlightenment.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

emy winner, "A Star Is Born" after
the town had said she was all washed
up, and Powell in Manhattan
Melodrama" after a series of bad
pictures had just about run him out
Of Hollywood.
But if you think it is a simple
matter to create star from nothing
or to put back star who is slipping,
a conversation I had with Selznick
will be very Illuminating. Take the
case OF Joan Fontaine, whom Selz-
nick gave one of the big acting plums
OF the year. in "Rebecca."
Tested Reluctantly.
Il tested Joan two years ago for
'Rebecca,'" Selznick tells me. "She
was washed up at R-K-O Radio,
who considered her no good whatso-
ever. For the test we had her do q
scene from "A Bill of Divorcement'
and 'Rebecca.' John Cromwell, who
directed the test, was the only one
who liked it. I offered to buy half
her contract from R-K-O. They
were delighted. I was discouraged
by their alacrity and the general
reaction to Joan in my studio, so I
cancelled my offer.
"A little later" continues Selz-
nick, II thought of Joan for the
role OF 'Melanie' In Gone With the
Wind I asked George Cukor to
test her for it. He said she had
no talent and he would not waste
time and money on q test. But I
insisted that at least he read the
part with her. He did, very re-
luctantly. He changed his mind
about her acting ability. He thought
she was good, but not for .Melanie. )
Later when he made The Women
George gave her a part in that.
when Alfred Hitchcock came
over here, I showed him Joan's
tests. He said she was all right,
but he showed no violent enthusi-
asm. So we tested every one else
IN Hollywood. The tests narrowed
down to Margaret Sullivan, Loret-
ia Young, Ann Baxter and Joan
Fontatne. I ran them all for my
Evening star., 1940-04-07
If You'd Write for the Movies
The Best Approach Is Not
To Write for the Movies
Manuscripts Are Stunned, but
Virtually Everything Printed
Is Read at the Studios
By Jay Carm0dy.
By Jay Carmody.
HOLLYWOOD.


So you would like to write you? Well don't
the way to write for the movies actually movies
story for almost other medium form; as play
nove snort story % biography or radio script Have fear that this
OF t studios They read everything Lucy
And perhaps where she puts them The
movies lust material the most
fabulous institutions which the eye
and "
The oldwynMayer which is huge and typical
headed by Kenneth cKema Before spectacles
and started pursuing drama through
and thousands writer's
@ VINO wanted to DO so could snatch of cenns glasses today
ana still nd fellow who could give impressive
In one OF those autumn type play
pasture dramatic literature As matter Of fact that
knd wouldn't do his job all for of the require
ments OF heading department.
First point that person job wants
to make aboutmovie writing is that the they
enduring as Hamlet hut nd;n never would sn tht - s s M
regarded vial OF plagiarism deadly very
which ighens the wits unopened
though $50 years from now its author might
crowded Shakespeare place literature
W. Don't turn on the gas however for Mckenna and else in
movies shop otherwise for
Every Writer'S Work
ones despair in the scope Of
studios reading In the of MGM typical large studio
the OF paid
warmers Universal United Artists and ths tdi % u s Wp
Even allowing for the huge proportion duplication
nat covers enough territory give writer whose worthy
crack at movie gold.
should appeal McKennas be
drama is kind of mad thing competve speaking and time thne
which goads staff like McKennas
spotted perhaps by reader who sits in
little cubcle the building wing Immediately
reduced synopsis started its
the final synopsis pages
complete and dramatic specialists this kind writing
them After they contemplated
contemplation
reduced
producers and AT meeting that and the head
OF the story the latter reads describes explains and other
Evening star., 1940-04-07

(See GRAHAM, Page F-3.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
BY WINFRED RHOADES

to help her to build up a new and
better constellation of ideas Milk
is a needed food-"It is easy to di-
gest''-"Milk il delicious didn't
know milk was so delicious"-"1 can
drink it with entire safety"-"1 will
drink it''-"Here goes!"
She began to drink milk, and
she did not have the rash. 1t was
similar with other foods. Her dis
satisfaction with life. and her ex-
pectation of bad effects from foods,
those things, and hot the foods
themselves, had been the cause of
the difficulties she experienced.
You can apply the idea in many
ways. Take the matter of sleep.
Here is a lad constellation of ideas
to take to bed with you "Oh, how
dread these hours in bed!'-1
know I shall lie awake and think
about all my problems" shall
toss and tumble all night shall
be more tired when morning comes
than 1 am now"-"Oh, how nervous
1 feel!"-"I'm going to turn on my
light and read"
If you go to bed with such
thoughts and expectations clustered
about the 'dea of sleep is it any
wonder if you lie awake? Build up,
instead, such a constellation as this:
MY body needs rest and so does my
mind"-"HoW good it is to go to
bed!'-"I will draw down the cur
tains of my mind and shut out all
thoughtful the morning shall
feel refreshed" Your expectations
will lead you to have good night.
Here is another application of
the idea. Day after day when your
work is ove~ you suffer from head
ache, irritabil:ty, tears, nagging
pains, feeling of utter exhaustion.
The trouble may come from your
relations with your employer.
The thought of him brings up this
constellation of associated ideas:
Hes always finding fault"-"He
! picks me out more than anyone
else"-"I don't like him"-"I'm
afraid of hin 81 can't stand it
any longer"-"I shall break down If
I don't leave"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
Of Interest
To Women

Have you q household problem
to solve? Write your question
clearly, sign your name and adj
dress, enclose three cent postage
stamp and mail to The W0man's
Editor, Washington Service Blu.
reau, The Democrat, 1913 18th
Street, Washington, d. c., for 3
personal reply.
@. What kind of lighting L
recommended for a kitchen?
A. Diffused light, or one which is
as nearly like daylight as possible.
This is produced by an enclosed,
semi transparent unit placed neal
the ceiling to prevent shadows. In
an average-sized kitchen, 100
watt bulb is usually sufficient. In a
large kitchen, a 15o-watt bulb may
be needed; in long narrow kit
chen, two lighting units will give
better results. The size of the bulb
will depend partly upon the per-
centage of light reflected by the
walls and ceiling.
@. What is the chief difference
between patent and straight flours?
A. Straight -four is approximate
Iy 70 per cent of the total weight of
the wheat milled. Patents are classed
as long and short, depending on
what proportion they represent of
the total f1ou milled from the
grain. A short patent may contain
less than SO per cent of the total
flour, and is seldom made except
for commercial bakers. A longer
patent containing a larger proper
ton of the total flour is more COM
mon on the retail market, except
for cake hours, for which short
patent is generally used.
@. How deviled, fried chicken
prepared?
A. Use any good recipe for frying
chicken in which the pieces are dip
ped in flour and add one tablespoon
of powdered mustard to the flour
and a few drops of Worcestershire
Sauce to the greast in which the
chicken is cooked.
@. Should meat be roasted in a
covered or an open pan?
A. Tender meats with a good
covering of fat are better roasted
in an open pan at moderate tenn
perature. For tough meat use a
cover on the rooster and add water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
N's ~sS''Y
PATTERN 246
SMART TWO-PIECE
MATERNITY DRESS

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Pattern 246 is cut in misses and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

How unwieldly and awkward Mrs.
Stout feels as she climbs into the
bus. She can't understand why she's
so heavy when she's such small
eater"
Mrs. Stout would be amazed to
learn that on a low-calory diet she
could eat more-and still lose two
pounds week!
For, though Mrs. Stout doesn't
eat much, she gains because she
chooses only high-calory foods.
Chicken pie (40O calories) is one of
her pets. DEVILS food (40O is a
favorite dessert.
Her bulges wouldn't have piled up
if she'd favored instead a chicken
sandwich GOO calories), angel cake
Goo calories).
Only one thing to do-take fewer
calorieS for a while! And, with a
guiding calory chart, satisfying
reducing diet may easily be adapted
to family meals. At dinner, take
only a half cup of escalloped pota-
toes (160 calories a cup) but eat
freely of spinach Gao a cup, can
ned tomatoes $50 a cup).
Get your slim, young figure back
again! Our 32-page booklet has
AZ 4ow-calory menus, recipes for de-
licious low-calory desserts. Includes
calory chart, 3-day liquid diet to
start reducing, also menus for gain
ing.
Send 1Oc in coin for your copy Of
THE NEW WY TO A YOUTHFUL
FIGURE to the Waterbury Demo
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New York. N. Y. Be sure to write
plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and
the NAME of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

Household Hints
Family Names OutsparkIe GIamor
On New Seasons Debutante Roster
By NEA Service

New York = The annual fall
meeting of georges (glamor girls) Is
off to fast start. Tuxedo Parks
socially sacrosanct Autumn Ball, Of
ficially the opening of the debutante
meeting, has been run. Now the
glannor fillies are in for a continu-
Gus workout on luncheons, teas, DIM
ner and supper dances until Lent.
A first glance at this years so
cial thoroughbreds, as they lined up
at the post, showed well-matched
field. There seems to be no new
Brenda Frazier to knock down all
the odds by the certainty of her
winning.
The glamor of this years 18-year-
olds emanate from their names Y
]. p Morgan's granddaughter is on
the list; so is Pamela Tower, grand
daughter of a Whitney and VAN
derbilt. There is Mortimer of Tux
edo; a Paul OF Philadelphia with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

Drexel and Bidd1e in her veins; the
daughter and the great grand
daughter of two cabinet members
are in the Washington spotlight.
Anne Morgan, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Jrlnius Spencer Morgan,
was named for her famous aunt, the
friend of France and founder of the
American Woman's Association.
PREFERS COLLEGE
TO CAFE SOCIETY
Pamela Tower, great-granddaugh--
ter of William G. Whitney, Secre-
tary of the Navy during Cleveland's
administration, was to have been
presented in June at party given
by her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney, on Long Island. She
begged that the money be spent for
ambulances instead of music and
champagne. 1t was.
Pamela, daughter of Mrs. c. Mac
Culloch Miller and Roderick Tower,
prefers her studies at Bennington
College to to the New York night
spots. Unlike her cousin, Gloria
Vanderbilt, next years glamor deb,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

One of the useful conceptions of
present-day psychology is that of a
constellation" of ideas. Every idea
has others associated with it.
It is impossible to think of the
original idea-or even to have it
Subconsciously alive in your mind
without beil.g influenced in your
reaction tendencies by associated
ideas.
An illustration will help to make
this clear. Around the idea of milk,
in Mrs. G's mind, was this constel-
lation of associated ideas II don't
like milk"-"I don't like the taste
of milk"-"I don't like the smell of
milk"-"Milk brings out rash on
met can't drink milk"-"I won't
drink milk"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

of body tissues. Possibly due to fire.
quent inhalation of air polluted with
small amount Of air nnonoxide. Send
twenty-five cents in coin for booklet
How to Breathe; ten cents in coin
for booklet 'Blood and HEALTH" In
close stamped envelope bearing your
address.
(Protecetd by John F. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

Picked PIGS FEET
(Serves A.

-Four pigs feet, cups vinegar,
l onion, IL peppercorns, 6 whole
cloves, l bay leaf, l tablespoon salt.
Split pigs feet, scrub thoroughly
and cover with cold water. Add
vinegar and bring to boiling point
Skim. Add seasonings and simmer
for 2 hours. Cool in liquid and
serve cold
SALT PORK WITH CREAM
GRAVY
One pound salt pork, S table
spoons flour, y teaspoon pepper,
2 cups milk.
Have pork cut in Y inch cubes
or in thin slices. Remove skin,
dredge with tablespoons flour,
and saute in heavy frying pan un-
til crisp.
Remove salt pork, drain on alb
sorbent paper. Pour off all but
tablespoons fat remaining in pan.
Blend in remaining flour and pep
per, and when well blended, add
milk, slowly, stirring constantly
over low heat until mixture thick
ems and boils.
Add pork, reheat. and serve with
whole hominy or baked potatoes, OF
southern spoon bread.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

she is seldom, If ever, seen in the
elite cafe society night clubs.
Harriet Aldrich is another seri-
ous-m minded deb with ambitions to
study biozehemistry at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Her father is winthrop w. Aldrich.
the banker, whose sister Abby is
married to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Harriet spent the summer on a
wyoming ranch after being pre-
scented at a large supper dance
given by her parents at their Long
Island home in June.
Katharine Mortimer's grand
mother is Mrs. Henry Morgan Til
ford, matriarch of Tuxedo Park,
stronghold of American aristocracy.
Kay, winsome blonde with 1.-the
figure, is sister of Stanley Grafton
Mortimer, Jr., who recently was
married to beautiful Barbara Cush-
ing.
BUT NO NEW
GLAMOR PRINCESS
Pauline Curtis of Washington, is
a daughter of James F.. Curtis, As
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
milk is needed. It is deli
CiOus. / will drink it. Here goes"

With such ideas in your head all
the while YOU may indeed break
down, and anyway you make it
much harder to do your work. You
must build up new and better
constellation: my boss provides me
with my job" He pays me my SAL
airy regularly will try to under
stand him better"-"I will be too big
to let the unpleasant things hurt
me"-''I'm mighty lucky to have the
job"-"I will do my best to please
my boss and not let other things
matter"
That new constellation OF IDEAS
will not only help you to do your
work better but will also react
healthily upon your physical condi-
ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

That, it is easy to perceive, was
a bad constellation of ideas. Every
thing was negative. Everything
helped to produce revulsion to
milk. 1t is not difficult to under
stand why Mrs G. was starving her
self to death when it is revealed
that similar consultations of ideas
were associated with other kinds of
food.
What was done with Mrs. G. was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
ToMoRRow's MENU

BREAKFAST: Sliced ba-
nanas and dates, Scotch oat-
meal, rye toast. marmalade,
coffee, milk.
LUNCHEON: Spaghetti with
meat sauce, romaine salad,
fruit bowl tea, milk.
DINNER: Salt pork with
cream gravy hominy grits,
green beans, celery, apple pie.
cheese. coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
Apricot and Pineapple 1apioea

balancer:
Apricot and Pineapple Tapioca
y cup dried apricots; cups
apricot juice and water; a cup
quick-cooking tapioca; Y cup gran.
ulated sugar; Y cup brown sugar,
firmly packed; u teaspoon salt; 2
slices canned pineapple, finely cut;
Is cup pineapple juice; " table
spoon lemon juice.
Cut apricots in half, cover with
water and soak 2 hours. Cover,
and simmer is minutes, or until
tender. Drain, measure liquid and
add enough water to make 3 cups.
Combine with apricots, tapioea, and
remaining ingredients in creased
baking dish, mixing thoroughly.
Bake in moderate oven (375o FL
20 minutes, or until done, stirring
every 10 minutes, and again when
removing from oven. Serve with
cream. Serves s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

sistant Secretary of the Treasury
under President Taft
Elizabeth Fish, daughter of Rep
resentative Fish, is a great grand
daughter of the late Hamilton Fish,
who was Secretary of State.
Isabel Paul, one of this years
beauties, will divide her time be-
tween Philadelphia and New York.
Her mother was a Biddle and her
great-grandfather, the late Anthony
j. Drexel, founded the Drexel In
stitute. Her brother. A. j. Drexel
Paul, Jr, married a cousin of the
President, Margaret Delano.
This years debutante roster is
impressive with important Ameri-
can names. But no new glamor
princess no new Brenda Fraz-
Ter looms on the social horizon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30


earning At the end of his freshman year he'll know
more about women than any member of Phi Beta
Kappa or the varsity football team.
HE SEES WOMEN "AS is"
For he's seeing women where they are really them
selves-in beauty shop He is seeing them as Isl
and not after they've spent three hours getting beau
tiful for date.
This experience ought to be worth four years of
psychology.
And think of the lucky girl who arries this young
man.
What could be better than to have husband who
could not only create hair-styes just for you, but
would give you shampoo and set right at home?
And the joy of having to fix the stray curls
that go hay-wre just before you're ready to step into
hortf for hiu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
PIONEER TRAVELS TOLD

The manifold dangers and priv
tons encountered by pioneers who
drove the huge covered wagons
across prairie wastelands and des-
erts to far-t1ung outposts of the
early West are graphically depicter
IN RKO Radios Wagon Train
Tim Hollis first starrer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

That's It's better from the mans point
just about much har
a spends clothes.
THINK MONEY YOU SAVE
struggling young husband could that would be
wouldn't it?
Maybe Jim Order persuadng the college
lei the
After all I'VE must make education
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30

so our favorite
last-bite can be
more nutritious
without fear Of
over = eating.
Here is a dish
that is so filed
with fruit and
fruit juices that
it acts as an ex-
cellent cal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
ANSWER:

Wait spell drinks little which he probably
jobs which he certainly will do
by will be nearly agreement with your
will give opportunity to think
will realize that takes more than fun and
laughter comfortable of security in love- And
II you haven't it love is more pain than pleasure