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business wits in case that first mill
lion dollars is dissipated some day.
Hats-Joan Crawford. Her new
Westwood establishment dealing in
women's natty headgear carries the
name 'Kasha le Seuer," but It's
Joan's money that stocks the place.
Kasha is her sister-in-law, stand-in
and business partner. The shop Is
too new to get profit or loss rat-
ing.
Model planes and gliders-Reg-
inald Denny. This busy little fac
tory -salesroon has been thriving 10
years. Denny could retire and live
on its earnings.
Then There's the Track.
Pottery and decorative knick-
knacks-Wallace Beery. New shop to
open soon on Sunset boulevard as
lure to tourist trade.
Groceries-George Brent His
'-Green Spray" market on Pico
boulevard isn't much to look at, but
is said to be breaking even. Brent
keeps his name and personality in
background: didn't even turn up for
opening night festivities. .-
Automobiles-John Carroll. Be-
fore the breaks came to him with
his hit in Congo Maisie'D Carroll
fell back on an auto agency. He
still maintains it to increased pa
tronage and commissions sometimes
matching salary at M-G-M.
While these are some of Holly.
woods best known merchant-actors,
they're not the head boys and girls
Of movietown's side-rackets-not by
any means. There's bit Of an en-
terprise 10 minutes from the center
of town known as the Hollywood
Turf Club that has score of big
movie names listed among its stock
holders. It opens its summer sea-
son Of racing Memorial Day and
If you really want to enrich some
starry Golfers come out often and
keep stepping right up to the $50
window. Make life little easier for
Harry Warner, Bing Crosby. Pat
OBrien, Robert Taylor and the rest
of the studio boys who don't mind
If this little avocation pays divi-
dends. And how 1t does!
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Score Is Composed
By Aaron Copland

Aaron COPELAND, the Nations FORE
most composer of modern American
music, has planed into Hollywood
from New York under contract to
Producer Sol Lesser to do the mu-
sical score for "Our Town."
Copland's work has been highly
praised by critics and he Is given
outstanding mention in Oscar
Levant's new book, "A smattering Of
Ignorance"
The score for "Our Town" will not
be Copland's frst. He did the music
for "Of Mice and Men" and for the
documentary aim, 'The City,
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The toughest villain to catch up
with Is Basil Rathbone, who Is
always slipping out Of police clutches
just as escape appears impossible.
He's f1lmland's leading sef-destruc-
ZIONIST.
II don't believe any Of US has ever
arrested Rathbone," said McMurphy
in disgust. The nearest I came to it
was in "A Date With Destiny over at
Paramount. But he jumped OF 40
story building just as I reached out
to nab him. He always bumps HIM
self OF just as we start to make the
pinch"
To a man the boys in the Green
RAoom are solidly In favor Of the
parole system. They think . movie
villain should have every possible
chance to start life anew.
I'VE don't care what their crime
or how tough 1t 10 arresting fellows
like McLaglen and Cagney," Nc
Murphy explained 1t, "just 30 long
as they let EN- right out Of the
clink as soon as the picture Is over.
That's swell then-because it means
we get more jobs putting 'em right
back in again.
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sion for their working" at less than
the union scale-and where are they
going to get the money to pay them
selves?
One group recently did get va
cant theater, economical drastical-
ly on technical expenses (at the
union rate), put on an unpaid (for
themselves) performance Of Hotel
Universe" for private professional
audience-and took q whole column
in the New York Times drama Sec
ton, afterward apologizing to Equity
for mwittingly breaking its rules.
A sizeable portion Of the union
memberships is reported to favor
making special provisions for such
performances, but so far nothing
has been done.
So the Bootleg" Theater.
The result has been the boot
leg" theater.
Brooks Atkinson, the Times drama
critic, was invited to bootleg per-
formance recently and reported on
1t, without divulging any details,
even the name Of the play.
The show was given in q mid
town Manhattan apartment, dimly
lighted and with curtains drawn.
The open sesame was two rings ON
the bell and the password friend
Of win Shake"
The audience sat around on par
lor chairs and divans. drinking high
balls. The stage was simply one
end Of the room, the actors max
ing their entrances and exists to
and from the next room.
The performance was given with
theatrical dignity and formality.
Afterward the audience and actors
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on McLaglen riot squads. Romanoh
is an old-time heavyweight wrestler,
while Dine once held the Pacific
Coast lightweight title. But both
always need help In getting the big
fellow out, they say.
why, I remember one time in
some pictures we had to go into a
cafe to bring McLaglen out in hand
cuffs" said Dine. There were IL
of us. We got him out, but four Of
us cops went to the hospital. I had
a sinner myself for two weeks.
Can't Take Raft Alive.
Cagney is another tough boy, the
sound stage coppers declare. but he
usually keeps his head and flings few
wild blows.
The easiest star to arrest, accord
ing to Green Room chatter, Il
Paul Mum. It seems his scripts
always have him taken into custody
In the most quiet, Uocile manner
possible.
The most often killed" actor is
George Raft, with Humphrey Bogart
running q close second. These
habitual enemies of the Green Room
boys seldom are taken alive, 1t is
pointed out, but die dismally from
GODS eunf1re,
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her to avoid public places. He even
begged her always to eat lunch alone
in her R-K-O Radio dressing room
instead Of mingling with shop takers
In the studio commissary.
But maybe he needn't have wor-
ried.
It's going to be pretty hard to
brush the bloom from this wild Irish
rose.
This 19-year- -old with an amazing
wealth Of reddish brown hair, gray
green eyes and complexion kissed by
Irish mists, is not one Of those little
girls from nowhere who sometimes
bring beauty to the movie marts.
She's got background.
Others awed by the novelties of
Bagdad-on-the-Pacific may take on
new coloration like a chameleon on
a leaf. But Maureen comes from
fine Irish stock, Is too proud of it
to dream of posing as some one she
isn't.
Her father is a Dublin merchant.
Her mother, who Is here with her, is
Rita Fitz Simons, occasional actress
at the Abbey, Ireland's national
theater.
It was the Abbey-by many con-
sidered the finest dramatic organiza-
ton in the world-which launched
Maureen. She entered its player
ranks as an apprentice at Is.
Entrance is gained only by Irish
girls who can pass the most rigid
dramatic requirements.
"And did they put me through my
paces?" she said. II had to play a
half dozen scenes from famous plays.
I had to dance, too."
Oh, yes, she is trained dancer.
The Abbey demands physical grace
In its players along with everything
else an actress should have.
For two years the acolyte to Thes-
pis played minor roles in every Alb
hey production, danced in some OF
them, too. Then she was considered
ready for bigger and better roles.
She was offered the lead in a new
play, but never took it. Reason
London movie-makers had heard Of
her, beckoned with q screen test
Maureen elected to go to London
stayed to become Charles Laughton's
leading lady in Jamaica Inn," hel
first picture-and was on her way
to Hollywood. Her American picture
debut was again opposite Laughtor
In "Ihe Hunchback of Notre Dame. ,
Now she is going on to stardom
R-K-O Radio has so announced
Jimmie Fidler calls her the best
bet OF 1940." Best bet is success
won't turn her head. It's too vel
fixed on her shoulders.
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second lead, and they tested q lot
OF fellows and picked me. got a
big buildup, I was sensational, I
was the works. That was before
the picture came out. They pasted
a mustache on me to make me look
old enough to kiss the leading lady,
and they pasted q widows peak on
my forehead to make me look like
Robert Taylor. I sang with spirit
spirit gum. I was bad, and the pic
ture was bad, and wasn't SEN
sational any more.
Then Years 'In JAIL"
Il went to Columbia and for q
year I did time in jail. Gangster
stuff, the kind of part you play
with your eyes squinted, your chin
out and gun In your hand. I al
ternated jailbreaks and prison
terms. Once I wasn't in a prison
picture. but it had q night club set
and the club represented a prison
and I sang in stripes. Felt right
at home.
Il came to Paramount and it was
announcer year OF the Same-gang-
ster, crook, action stuff. This might
have gone on indefinitely until I
was dropped If I hadn't happened
to be at Lucey's, the restaurant
across the street from the lot, one
evening when some of the boys
were singing around the organ. I
joined in, and Louis Lipstone, the
music department executive, hap
pened to be there.
"They were looking for a singer
for this part in Dancing on a
Dime It's a show about a group
OF kids In w. p. A. show when
the w. P. A. Theater Project folds
up on them. They live in an aban-
doned. theater and put on their show
anyway. So far there have been
cops and counterfeiters, but no Jail
stuff yet. I feel like free man"
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Is concerned. There's a reason.
Run-of-the-mill prison movies are
cheap and quick to make. Some
OF the studios can whip them out in
q week, two weeks, or less. They
can use the same sets time and again
(and they do), and by using new
youngsters in the same old stripes
they fill out their usually inexpensive
casts. The resultant produce more
often than otherwise is just pro-
gram-filler, but 1t hasn't cost much
and 1t turns in a profit.
The youngsters in stripes get ex-
perience, and sometimes they get a
break on the outside" Robert
Paige, for instance.
Paige is %, tall, blue-eyed, dark
haired, a native of Indianapolis,
where he'll be returning Che hopes)
on May 80 for the Speedway clas-
dc. Let him tell his story:
We've been living on the Coast
here for Is years, moved out when
by father came on business. I'd
always been crazy about movies,
ever since saw Wally Reid in those
race track pictures in the old days.
I tried acting in little theaters and
I never got anywhere, but I did
get on the air.
A Pre-Release Sensation.
Il sang as David Carlyle, and
announced under my real name of
John Page. That gave me a chance
to pat myself on the back. I'd in
troduce myself as that brilliant
young singer. David Carlyle, and
after I'd sung, I'd say, Beautifully
done, David' What a spot to
be in!
II got into pictures when Warner
Bros. was looking for a second lead
for Cain and Mabel with Clark
Gable and Marion Davies. Dick
Powell and James Melton turned
the part down because it was a
Evening star., 1940-05-05
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
After a two-year lull a new cellu-
loid crime wave seems to be cutting
wide and menacing swaths through
Hollywood plots-and you can bet
your last dollar the boys down at
movietown's police headquarters"
are feeling mighty happy about the
renaissance. They like to hunt down
actors and slap them into Jail. It
means less rummy around the
green-covered card tables, but many
more Of those $25 pay checks so
scarce in the last "a months.
This hangout Of the two dozen
men who try to make an honest
living chasing movie gangsters is
the oldest police station In the
world. It consists of three rooms
on the second floor Of a building
In the heart of Hollywood within
10 minutes driving time OF five
major studios. Technically 1t Is
known as the Green Room Club"
All day long the "cops" gather
around tables playing cards, hope
fully awaiting studio telephone
call that may send one or two of
their enthusiastically the en-
tire group-scurrying out for q fling
at synthetic law enforcement.
Decorating the club walls are
autographed photographs of nearly
every important actor and actress
In town, some long since retired.
All have been arrested" one or
more times by members Of the
Green Room "force" and have kidded
about 1t in the inscriptions below
their signatures.
Charlie McMurphy, who claims
to have arrested" more movie mis-
creants than any fellow member,
points out the photo of Clara Bow
and tells about the times he tossed
her in Jail for such pictures as
"No Limit" and Ladies Of the
Mob" In the latter foray Clara
scratched his eye-accidentally, of
course-an infection set in and he
was of the force 10 weeks.
McLaglen Is Respected.
Leering faces of all the screens
bad boys look down from the walls,
too. In the spot of honor is large
photograph of Victor McLaglen, a
highly respected fellow in the eyes
of the call-sheet coppers. Victor
not only has been arrested more
often than any other actor in pic
lures, they say, but in each case he
always puts up a much more bel
ngerent front than that called for
by the script. Then there are pic
lures Of Basil Rathbone, George
Raft, James Cagney. Humphrey Bo-
gart, Brian Donlevy and Pat
OBrien. In q group labeled "First
offenders" are the pictures Of Bob
Hope, Crosby, Enrol Flynn and Ty-
rome Power.
At one time or another members
Of the Green Room "homicide squad"
have arrested every major star in
Hollywood's history. Rhody Hath
away, president of the club, has
been in pictures ~ years; McMur-
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ulSA411@O q bA1S xS4d4bO Auuo4SNA0 VAIL
her hilarious antics opposite Jack
Haley in the musical hit Higher
and Higher"
Miss Ross, as she frankly admitted
while staring out at the Manhattan
rain, was practically . star without
ever starring In . picture; she was .
child prodigy until she realized she
was an adult without having cashed
in upon that distinction, and she
was the inspiration and high-pres-
sure saleswoman Of q new song by
the composers Rodgers and Hart
when the latter two were just trying
to sell a song and she was looking
for job because she had quit one
to help them sell the song.
1--WE started truckin' West from
our home town of Omaha" Miss
Ross said, "and here I end trying
to steal the show from Sharkey the
seal in my first show on Broadway.
It's fun, but it's always fun in hit. "
"a trained seal has one Of the lead
ing roles in this show0
Miss Ross, who dances Is well Is
she sings and acts, was making no
figure Of speech when she said
"truckin'. She went West from
Omaha in Q trailer hitched onto .
car driven by her parents.
So They Let Her Sing.
Mother had always wanted to be
an actress" she explained, so when
I began to get to that grownup age
she was determined that I would be
one, although she did wait until I
got over that child-prodigy period
when I would give q performance
with practically no urging at all. I
also played the piano, which got me
q Job in . night club singing In .
Little Blue Canoe They wouldn't
let me play the piano"
Then came her meeting with
Rodgers and Hart, composers Of
scores Of Tin Pan Alleys song hits.
They were under contract at the
time to write songs for movie musi-
Gals, but they couldn't get the Holly
wood studio to accept one number
called Prayer" This irked them
because they liked the song very
much and at this moment they
strolled into q rumba night club and
heard Miss Ross sing . torrid trop.
ical number. So with that curious
reasoning Of song writer's they de-
cided she was the one to sing
Prayer" and sell 1t to the movies.
II quit my rumba job, sang the
song and for the next season made
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aeaQ ana 0eaQ, 1oe beauty 6On0rS-'
contest which ended in . dead
heat when the two retired almost
simultaneously after the arrival Of
sound. Both are happily married,
have kept most Of their, good looks
and are wealthy. Tenants in mos.
l and 2" are always hoping against
hope that Cortnne viii drop in to
collect the rent money, and some
even contemplate holding out for q
whils just to experience that thrill.
Norma Talmadge Is doing very
well also with several apartment
houses scattered around town. OF
the modern stars, Tyrone Power is
the outstanding name" landlord.
He owns and takes an occasional
look-see around the Tyrone" which
he purchased with some Of his first
star earnings. It's in q reason
able rent district: word Of its gla-
morous ownership has spread and
there's seldom q vacancy to rufde
the stars brow while he's love-
making on the set.
Which is . reminder that the
movie actor or actress without q
sideline today is q rare parsonage,
indeed. Almost every day an ad-
ditional player or two Is added to
the ranks Of acting merchandisers.
Mostly, these endeavors are sheer
experiments, inspired by the vanity
Of the actor. for the average big
time player likes to feel he isn't en-
tirely dependent on the movies and
wants to prove 1t to the satisfac-
ton Of himself and friends. Un-
fortunately, few Of the starry side
lines are paying their freight.
Jane Sells Hot Dogs.
However, If you're coming to
Hollywood this summer and want
to spend that vacation allotment
with the big names, here's q list Of
studio tradespeople and what they
have to sell:
Flowers-Judy Garland. Her busi-
ness seems to thrive because she
gets an exclusive" on posy orders
from the M-G-M studio and its
players.
Hot dogs and nutburgers-Jane
Withers. Her mother gave Jane
81 900 to 60 into business with
another girl in . stand on Sunset
boulevard-just to sharpen her
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Quit a Job to Sell a Song
And, Finally, Shirley Ross
Is Going Places Fast
By MARI Barron.
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
Shirley Broadways best example ga fetching
blond with infectious huor s-who getting nowhere
sizzling with impole remarks about New Yoks climate
HOLLYWOOD hoe Miss setting the
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She's Really a Natural
Maureen O'1ara One Lass Who
Will Never Pose as Some One Else
HOLLYWOOD.


has what directors cry for
Naturalness.
IT like fine height Of man said the 5feet7 lass arriving
opposite him"
That gives some idea.
Director
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Cl1aC way uuIIIIB IUI1II8 Oh II 0I11
Of Divorcement."
He tried to keep her away from
actors and adulators. If he could
have placed her like Simon Stylites
atop q rock in the desert he'd have
been satisfied. But that way he
couldn't have had her services In
his picture.
So he compromised by ordering
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Prison Drama Graduate
Hopes Freedom Lasts
Fugitive From Many Cinema Jail
AT Last Has an Opportunity
To Express Musical Talents
By Robin Coons,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.


Robert Paige feels like fellow who's fresh out Of
He ought to- for he fresh
stripes and bars behndforev he concentrating
bars e ~
Paige prison him apart from other movie
Juveniles Doing prerequisite service
an The
Evening star., 1940-05-05
It's a Rare Star, Indeed,
Who Has No Sidelines
Some Add to Incomes in Real Estate,
Others Sell Everything From
Automobiles to Hot DOGS
HOLLYWOOD.


ThA busiest landady would ex-samour girl
Coenne ozfath he Hedy Of the mid
smart buildings
Beverly Hills proved erecting third
Grouped together they're designated
and 81 In the late pretalke 0rh
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POINTS FOR PARENTS
By EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.

Fathers absence from home
offers good opportunities for
treating ddolescent son as a
young adult instead OF as a child.
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Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.


Farmer Brown and Farmer Browns
boy were studying and studying
the ground down in the cornf1eld
on the edge Of the Green Meadows.
AS soon as she was sure that they
were not chasing him, Happy Jack
Squirrel sat up on a fence post to
watch them. At first he couldn't
make out what they were doing
but suddenly 1t popped into his
head just what they were doing.
Farmer Browns boy was squatting
down and pointing to something
and Happy Jack did not need to
hear him say IT'S just like the
footprint of a baby" to know that
they had found the tracks of Bobby
Coon.
Yes, sir, that is just what had
happened. First they had surprised
Happy Jack sitting on brown corn
tent stuffing himself with bright,
yellow corn and had started to chase
him out of the cornfield. At least
Farmer Browns boy had. Farmer
Brown himself had laughed and
shouted: Go it, Bushy Tall I
guess there's corn enough for us to
spare you little!"
And just then Farmer Browns
boy had stopped running. You
see he has tramped about over the
Green Meadows and through the
Green Forest so much that he has
learned how to use his eyes, which
is something that many little boys
and girls never do learn, and though
he was watching Happy Jack whom
he was chasing, he was not so fool
ish as not to look where his feet
were going, and so he saw those
queer little footprints in some soft
earth He forgot all about Happy
Jack right away.
They've been made this very
morning and only just little while
ago, said he as he and Farmer
Brown began to follow them.
Il guess you're right, son." replied
Farmer Brown. Il reckon that Mr..
Coon is somewhere in this cornfield
this very minute. If we had Bowser
the Hound here we'd soon find out. p"
I'll 60 back up to the house and
get him!" exclaimed Farmer Browns
boy eagerly.
No" said Farmer Brown, 1--WE
haven't time. Perhaps we can track
him and find him ourselves"
So slowly and carefully so as not
to make a bit of noise they began
to follow Bobby Coons funny little
footprints which looked so much
like baby's. Happy Jack Squirrel,
sitting on the fence post and watch
ing them, felt his heart sink way
down as he thought of Bobby Coon
somewhere over in the middle of
the cornfield not knowing that dan
ger was anywhere near. What could
Happy Jack do to let Bobby Coon
know? He didn't dare go over there
himself. No. sir, he simply didn't
dare. Just then some of the Merry
Little Breezes of Old Mother West
Wind came dancing along. Happy
Jack had a happy thought He
would send them to warn Bobby
Coon.
So Happy Jack called to the
Merry Little Breezes and when they
had gathered around him he told
them as fast as his tongue could fly
how Bobby Coon was over in the
middle of the cornf1eld and didn't
know anything about his danger.
The Merry Little Breezes waited
just long enough to understand what
it all meant, then away they raced
to try to find Bobby Coon and warn
him. Happy Jack gave a great sigh
of relief as he watched them go.
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EVENING STAR FEATURES TO-DAY
Star Flashes Latest with Bill Coye WMAI 4:30 pm.
Star Sports Late sports by Ray Michael WMAL, 800
staff others review
the facts pertaining to selective service
Gounods Faust To
days Prelude" between 6:45-7 each morning this week.
THE EVENINGS HIGH LIGHTS
S00pm.-WRC Johnny Musical show with Johnny
Green's Band
S30pm-WMAI Information Louis NJ Hacker, hsto
author, the regulars.
830pm-WJSV First Nghter: Drink for the Damned, blood
curdlng pirate adventure.
tells life
and few ballads.
n Swing Club: Music and foolishness
n
935 Rockefeller connection with 4lst
lauds American highway
improving friendly relations with the Latin
pm-WRc. Hope Show.
W. Norris talks Issues OF
the 1910 Campaign"
1890 pm-WRC, Candidate Wendell Wilkie speaks
SHORT-WAVE PROGRAM
$3.50 pm-LONDON Britain Speaks Talk by B. Priestey
Csc, meg, 313 esd, II rs meg, 255
S:4Opm-RONIE, Orchestra cRO3, 963 Bill
254 EROS. 1873 meg 1876
S45 pm-LONDON Headline News commentary Csc 958
255
Bells lit 254
DXB 1911 meg. BIG m
in English 2RO3, 963 311 m;
2RO4, 1181 meg, 254 2RO6 1880 meg, 1876 M
1870 pm.-BERIIN News English DJD u.77 meg, 24 M;
1911 316 m.
pm.-LONDON. Newsreel Csc, 958 313 M;
esd, ITS meg, 255 GSIl GIL meg, 49.1 m.
11OOpm.-GUATEMALA Hawaiian music TGWA 1858 meg, 81 M
12:2Oam-TOKIO Drama, 80 254
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Six Bodies Given Away
As Prizes in Oklahoma
his i

What is believed to have been the
oldest sort of prize given away was
six live babies!
A store in Tulsa, Okla, actually
gave away the infants, after dis
playing them in the store window
with doctors and nurses in attend
ance.
The contestants had to qualify
as parents'-another way of saying
"adopting"-but all expenses were
borne by the store.