Evening star., 1940-11-04

ences informed Of what is going on
as the votes are counted in the
greatest democracy's most exciting
adventure.
Warner Bros. houses, downtown
and neighborhood, in cooperation
with The Evening Star and radio
station WMAL will make regular
announcements throughout their
programs of the latest ofiicial re-
turns. Beginning at o'clock the
trend of the voting and the official
figures will be announced from the
stage and by public address systems
to the audience as they are received
from The Stars newsroom and
transmitted to the theater. An
nouncements will continue periodic
ally until IL o'clock, by which time
climactic figures are expected to
have been received. All theaters in
the Warner group have arranged
special extended shows for election
night.
Keith's, also receiving it's bulle-
tins from The Star, will provide q
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Loew's Capitol and Palace thea
ters, running extended programs
through until am. Wednesday,
will provide similar coverage Of the
election. Announcements in each
house will begin at 8 pm. and con-
tinue until the decisive result is
known.
On its part the National has re-
cruited the services Of Arthur God
frey, radio commentator, to keep its
audience informed. Godfrey's an
nouncements will be spotted before
and after the play and between acts.
When movie fans think of teams
In film making, the first names to
pop into the mind are likely to be
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland,
jeanette Macdonald and Nelson
Eddy, or some other combination
of players. When Hollywood itself
meditateS on the subject, 1t Is likely
to concern that more rare, lesser
known combination of director and
writer. And, when 1t Is thinking
in that groove. it is most likely to
be contemplating John Ford and
Dudley Nichols.
No association of basically crea-
tive talents in picture making has
been more productive of great screen
drama. Nor does any represent the
collaboration of two more diverse
personalities than Ford, the ex-
seagoing, huge. energetic, deeply
feeling Celt. and Nichols, the re-
served, somewhat ascetic looking
intellectual
The picture which comes to mind
as most representative of the Ford
Nichols collaboration is "The Infor-
mer," but among the others of which
they have made at least one a year,
are such notable items as Seas
Beneath" Men Without Women"
Pilgrimage" "Stage Coach" and
other honors winners.
Latest of their works is another
which fits dramatically among the
same group. 1t Is The Long Voy-
age Home" dramatic character
study based upon a series of Eugene
O'Neill's one-act plays. Both pro-
found admirers of O'Neill, it long
has been the ambition of Ford and
Nichols to be the first to bring his
earlier work to the screen.
Black Magic Department.:
Dear J. c.: Did you ever hear
a teakettle talk? I mean, did you
ever sit down at night club table,
have a golden-haired lass tell you
to ask her teakettle something then
have it answer you? Well, I did up
at the Club Troika the other night
and I advise you to do the same;
it's an experience. Hurry, before
Sonia Zaranoff, the proprietress of
the talking teakettle is burned for
a witch.
you sit down, Miss Zaranoff says
ASK the kettle something You
feel sort of silly talking to the
darned thing, but you feel sillier
when you hold the spout up to your
ear and hear it talking to you.
think there is skulldruggery afoot
at the Troika. My guess is that short
wave radio, like those gadgets that
play records and the music comes
out of your radio across the room,
has something to do with it. Then
again, maybe it really is magic.
But however supernatural the
kettle may be, know it isn't omnis-
cient. asked it how old I am and
it told me risque joke. The jokes
as old as I am, though, so maybe
it was code. Anyhow I heard a
teakettle talking and I don't care
if you do send for the man with the
strait jacket. H. M"