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Evening star., 1940-08-11

N~-~-~
Of sleep and fresh air.
Most of the top-f1ight composers
are now busy in their Tin Pan Alley
workshops turning out scores for the
musical shows to open the new fall
season. And in the meantime
Broadway is carrying on with 4
quartet Of musicals which have note
worthy scores from eminent COM
posers.
Berlin's score in Louisiana Pur-
chase" the musical story OF the
shenanigans Of government in
Louisiana, is not one of his best,
but it is far better, than you get
from the average Broadway COM
poser. The fact that it brings Berlin
back as Broadway show composer
after years Of absence from the
footlights should excuse the fact
that 1t isn't the all-time classic that
one naturally expects from Berlin.
But, it is good and now the report
Is that he is so enthusiastic about
being back on Broadway he Is toll
ing away at his trick piano on q
new musical to open in the fall. The
piano is one that has the keys re-
arranged because he first learned to
play as . boy on one that didn't
have q standard keyboard-at least
that has been = legend around Tin
Pan alley that has never been dis
proved.
Mr.. Porter's Friendship"
In the current hit, ''Du Barry Was
. Lady," Cole Porter has one OF his
best scores since the revue, wake
Up and Dream" introduced his
classic torch song, What Is This
Thing Called Love?"
Porter shows his range OF talent
In "Du Barry" with q hit song called
Friendship" From the title one
should be aple to assume safely that
Friendship" is a homely song Of too
hearty fellowship, but 1t is really =
most biting and satirical song, also
Evening star., 1940-08-11

humorous, about that often nebulous
quality called friendship.
For American Jubilee" the
gigantic musical at the Worlds Fair
Arthur Schwartz has composed a
rousing. patriotic group of songs in
direct contrast to the sleepy torch
songs that he has turned out for the
many Broadway musical hits to
which he has contributed.
In American Jubilee" he has
marches. romantic arias in the opera
vein or patriotic shouts. And excit-
ing they are, although far different
from such plaintive musical hits OF
his In previous seasons as Give Me
Something to Remember You By
or II Guess I'll Have to Change My
Plan"
Talked Into 1t.
Schwartz was a lawyer until an
idle moment at q summer camp,
where he was trying to get some
sunburn and health, he was talked
into becoming a song writer by
Lorenz Hart, the latter having con-
tributed the songs to the musical
Higher and Higher" which has
closed for the summer, but will re-
open on Broadway in the fall.
Hart is a small fellow, who will
talk your ear OF with practically no
urging at all, and he persuaded
Schwartz that there was no future
In law and that he had better turn
to song writing. Neither one will
say If, at the time, either one OBJ
served that the only paying legal
client Schwartz had was Hart's
father, q man who would rather
spend his time arguing with lawyers
than with giving attention to his
several business enterprises.
Schwartz had planned to spend
Evening star., 1940-08-11

interrupted to announce that she
knew the part perfectly.
She did not GO on with a half
hours notice. She had q whole
afternoon in which to rehearse. So
now that the show has resumedsits
run without Marta Eggert, she is in
there regularly and the understudy
who missed her big chance is still
the understudy.
AS for the show itself, 1t seems
to have improved rather than de-
Perforated with time. It's one of
those unusual Broadway musicals
that features a lot of. nice young
people who seem to be having q
nice time amusing you in a nice way
Left Erickson, the actor who is
new to musical comedies, seems to
have Strengthened himself out in the
part of the juvenile and has become
genuinely robust addition to the
show in it. AS matter of fact, he
is the only musical comedy juvenile
that ever amounted to an asset in
my book.
Mr.. Haley at Work.
Jack Haley, of whom the lady to
my left remarked, "he must have
been beautiful baby. because he
still is still carries the fun of the
show in his nimble hands. Most
people think the scene where
Sharkey, the trained seal, makes a
flank attack on Mr.. Haley is the
high point of the nights uproar.
but III take the one where Mr..
Erickson throws Mr.. Haley out of
his girls bedroom by the seat of
the thousers and the scuff of the
neck.
Mr.. Haley is lifted of the ground.
His feet dangle abjectly and his
face is sad and resigned. BE a pal"
he says to the outraged Mr.. Erickson
IN the course of his rapid, but re-
luctant progress to the door, my
hat is on the chair over there"
Abatlng not one bit neither his
air OF manly outrage nor his fero-
cious clutch, Mr.. Erickson changes
his course, steers for the chair,
allows Mr.. Haley to pick up his hat
and don it, throws him through the
door and then turns to the girl with
that 1-have-saved-y -you-from- a fate
worse-than-death look.
Mr.. Haley reappears through the
door. Would you mind" he asks
Mr.. Erickson, cutting your finger
nails?"
This was the second time I had
watched that scene and the second
time the usher had to pick me out
OF the aisle and dust me off before
returning me to my chair.
tReleased BY the North American
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to Act
Is Not Easily
Ed Buchanan, at 81
Drops His D. D. S.
For Film Work
By the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
In nearby. wealthy Altadena he's
w. Edgar Buchanan, D. D. S.
But in Hollywood, he's plain Ed
Buchanan. bitten by the movie bug.
Buchanan, husky, pleasant-voiced
and 81. has been successful dentist
for a decade, all the while nursing
yen to be an actor. But unlike
others who never breck away, he's
on the verge of tossing over a career
OF pulling teeth for one of extracting
laughs.
Studied at Pasadena.
He isn't in pictures by accident.
He became a dentist mostly be-
cause his father was one, but found
during college that a dramatic read
ing course attracted him far more
than drills and forceps. Although
he headed clinic In Eugene, Oreg.,
for eight years. he couldn't rid him
self of his acting urge.
Twice he spent summers in near
by Pasadena, studying at the Com
munity Playhouse, famed spring.
board for so many to the movies.
Finally told myself" he says,
ED, you're not getting any younger.
If you're going to do anything with
acting. it's time you got started.
So I quit my job, moved my practice
south and here I am"
Patients Like 1t.
He's had two major roles in the
past few months, when the Daltons
Rode" and Arizona" Both are
Westerns and both required a beard
At the moment he's sporting as
luxuriant a crop Of chin and cheek
foliage as one finds in many . day,
waiting to see whether the adorn-
ment will At In with his next role.
What do his patients think
about 1t?
They seem to like the idea" he's
found. Its novel and believe It's
brought me patients. Only trouble
is, they want to ask questions. And
that slows me UP In my dllings."
Evening star., 1940-08-11

stallment on Beverly Hills home
a surprise birthday gift to her
mother, with whom she and a
younger sister live.
But if I had it to do all over
again" concluded this comely wet
eran" OF 19 years, I'D get into some
little theater company, even if. 1
had to live in a barn and eat hay.
I'd try to play as many different
parts as I could get-and I'd study,
study. study! As for bathing suits,
the only time I wear them now is
when I 60 down to the beach for
a dip"
tReleased BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1940-08-11

Higher and Higher" is the show
that has leading leading lady and
a leading lady. Shirley Ross was
the one and Marta Eggert, a prima
Donna who reached Broadway via
Hollywood was the other. Whether
Marta or Shirley was supposed to be
the leading lady is question that
ran down Broadway like a knife
blade. The tattle columnists stamped
their columns at each other and the
amount of hair that was tossed and
the number of eyes that were rolled
and epithets coined made the most
recent heat wave look like a revival.
The question was never settled
properly, although it did get to the
point where blades in rival camps
were prepared to pop champagne
corks at each other at dawn. Marta
Joined her husband, Jan Kiepura, in
tour of South America and neg
lected to return, and now Shirley
Ross is leading leading lady and Miss
Nash is the leading lady.
High Notes Bounce.
Miss Nash is an opulently curved
and good-looking blond of "a with a
buxom voice. When she hits high
note, it bounces. That's pretty good
to hear in this time of languid sing
ing when the idea seems to be that
the songs should be felt rather than
heard. Miss Nash has another
talent that is becoming rather rare
on Broadway. She puts her face
into song. The face is to a song as
a shoulder muscle is to a punch.
Miss Nash's face is supple enough
to look anguished in a beautiful way
during the anguishing songs. and
merry in beautiful way during the
merry songs.
She is West Medford, Mass.
girl who grew up in Chicago and
then came East and knocked around
"a process that involves being
kicked around-for quite a while.
She was hired for a small part in
Higher and Higher" and while the
other girls were upstairs powdering
their noses and putting each others
dates on the pan, Miss Nash stood
IN the wings and studied Marta
Eggert's role as it was being unrolled.
This is not unusual in Broadway
show. There are always kids in
1.-The line" who learn the leading
songs or speciality dances and prac-
tice them on their friends. What
was unusual was that Marta Eggert
and the regular understudy both
became i'll the same Gay, and while
Dwight Deere Wiman, Richard
Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were tear
Ing each others hair out, Miss Nash
Evening star., 1940-08-11

ASoSAlAaS oP Wy lldiI UTedQlt1 10
runner-up position for the Miss
America" title of last year.
Sure enough, dozens of girls have
made their initial bid for screen
fame on the strength of beauty con-
test winnings and with titles ranging
all the way from Miss Panther
Woman" to Queen of the May"
Not the least of these is Ann Sheri-
dan, with whom Claire recently
, played role in "They Drive by
Night" Others are Gail Patrick.
Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Joan
Crawford, Mary Brian and Joan
Blondell.
But Claire has an answer for that.
too. She points out that none of
these has emerged from a contest to
gain any recognized position in
Hollywood during the past five years
and that therein lies the key to
the whole situation.
Takes Personality, Now.
an the old days" (referring back
as far as 1880, says Claire, "a girl
with good figure. set of nice teeth
and pair Of false eyelashes had
an even chance for q screen break
But not any more.
"The answer Is that you must have
that good old personality plus these
days and be able to register some
thing beside toothpaste grin.
Scouts and casting directors nova
days have the idea that any girl
they see in a bathing suit has moth
Ing but figure to offer and there
is nothing you can do to unconvince
them
No one knows the wisdom of those
words better than Claire herself
Earl Carroll, famous glorifier, spon-
sored her appearance as Miss Cali
fornia In the Atlantic City pageant
He called her the most beautiful
girl Of the year.
Her photographs, all in bathing
suits of course, were flashed from
coast to coast, decorating scores of
rotogravure pages and magazine
covers. Hollywood at last looked like
cinch to conquer. But when Claire
returned, casting directors merely
shrugged. Just another bathing
suit girl" they Missed.
Perseverance Wins.
It was bitter discouragement to
realize that pretty figure and an
ornamental face to match seemed
like lemon in orange Juice to the
movie casters. But Claire didn't
quit. Instead she tossed her so
bathing-suit creations and the eye
filling reproductions of herself
garbed In them up on the shelf and
began wearing regular clothes.
Even so, it was months before
any studio casting people would talk
to me-" said Claire. II couldn't
seem to live down my horrible past.
Perseverance finally won, I guess,
for I made a nuisance of myself by
bounding producers and directors.
I got nice little part in The Road
to Singapore then a better one in
Forty Little Mothers Since those
breaks I hardly have been out OF
work more than a week"
just now, Claire has a featured
spot in George Abbott's TOO Many
Girls" at R-K-O, and at the same
time is appearing with George Brent
and Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon
for Three" at Warner Bros. Any
way, since turning her back on
bathing paraphernalia she's banked
enough money to pay the first In
Evening star., 1940-08-11

this summer writing the book for
a musical ana training himself to
be a radio master of ceremonies, for
he has performed in improptu ex-
hibitions few times and did rather
we'll. But when seen the other day
he had postponed all that because
Producer Max Gordon wanted some
songs for a new revue to be done at
the end of the summer. And, so to
the plano.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
They'll Not Type
Mary Martin

Guarding Mary Martin against
"typing," the bugaboo of many a
promising film newcomer, Para
mount has assigned the talented
young singing and dancing star to
her first straight dramatic role.
As a vehicle for Miss Martin the
studio has purchased New York
Town." an original screenplay by
10 Swerling, and is readying the
story for production beginning
October /.
Anthony Veiller has been assigned
to hold production reins on the
picture and Mitchell Leison will
direct.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Film Tells the Story
of Escort Bureaus

Anita Louise, one of Hollywood's S
newest brides, and Roger Pryor have
reported to Columbia Studios to
begin work in I'm For Rent" in
which they are featured.
Frances Robinson, who recently
finished the lead opposite Joe E.
Brown in $50 You Won't Talk"
also is in the cast. The picture is
Evening star., 1940-08-11
John Is One
OF Busiest
In Cinema
Mr.. Gaines Forte
'Phoney' Gadgets
For Gambling
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
He never asks for screen credit
He doesn't crave pubncity-for rea.
sons which are obvious. Yet few
men IN pictures are buster than /,
John Gaines.
Right now John Is hard AT work
with some trick dice for scene be-
tween Eddie Rochester) Anderson
and Theresa Harris in Paramount:
Love Thy Neighbor.
Gamblers Don't Like 1t.
Johns job is to "phoney" the
gambling material used In the
movies. He'll queer" a roulette
wheel, Elk" a slot machine, prime q
pool table SO that the poorest duh
can make the most dificult shots
or stack a deck of cards so that any
desired hand will come out.
Professional gamblers, who abhol
Evening star., 1940-08-11
They Walk With Music
Actors May Desert Broadway,
But Tunesmiths Stay Home
BY tbs Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

FN.
hard to find with few exceptions
them either shufe hayloft
houses else in bed until the down.
With it's different for they
playing pigeon Ay-st the
Of tiny where irving Berlin composed Aexanders Rgtme
Evening star., 1940-08-11
What Price Beauty, Now?
Casting Directors Are Ignoring
Pretty Contest Winners
HOLLYWOOD,


All men like to pretty girls studio talent
scouts So you pretty fill right places
ana want to come to Howooddon
a bathing beauty " ~ F'
ms the sage advice OF Claire James Minneapolis younester
whose right to speak her piece backed trophies for pulcrtd
Evening star., 1940-08-11

an expose of the escort bureau
racket. with D. Ross Lederman
directing and Wallace Macdonald
as associate producer.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Stepped From the Chorus
To Musicals Lead Role
And Marie Nash, Who Was Ready When
Understudy Wasn't, Scores a Hit
In Higher and Higher
NEW YORK.
By Ira Woiferf.

There girl in Higher and Higher the musical comedy
which
She the kind tenacy
gorgeous dividends in the correspondence school
They laughed when learned the advertise
ments Marie Nash laughing
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
SATURDAY
Zanzibar" and
wall Street
CnuhOv -

Zanzibar" and
wall Street
Cowboy"
George Raft and Ann
Sheridan in They
Drive by Night.
Gambling on the
High Seas" and
Lucky Cisco Kid"
George Sanders In
"The Saint Takes
Over" /"
'"Torrid Zone"
BLACK Diamonds"
Madeleine Carroll and
DOUG. Fairbanks, jr.,
in "Safari,"
-
Manhattan Heart
beat" and THE Lone
Wolf Meets q Lady"
Penny Singleton in
blonde Has Servant
Trouble. "
Ranger and the
Lady" and
Remember"
| Jeanette Macdonald
and Nelson Eddy in
New Moon"
Nancy Kelly and
Robert Cummings In
Private Affairs"
Adventure in Dia-
monds" and Bullets
Tor Rustlers."
"Too Many Hus-
bands" and
Santa Fe Trail"
Ghost Breakers"
and
Sailors Lady
Doug. Fairbanks, jr..
and Madeleine Car
! roll In "Safari"
Robert Young and
Helen Gilbert in
"Florian."
Gene Autry and
Smiley Hurnette in
Carolina Moon"
ride En-, Cowboy"
and King of the
Lumberjacks."
Victor Jory in
Light of Western
Stars"
seventeen
and
Marines Fly High"
waterloo Bridge"
Irene"
wallace Beery
In
"2o-Mule Team"
"women without
Names" and
Curtain Call"
Hidden Gold"
and
SAINT Takes over.
CITY OF Chance"
and
Lucky Cisco Kid"
Madeleine Carroll and
DOUG. Fairbanks. jr..
in "Safari."
Man With Nine
Lives" and Opened
by Mistake"
viva Cisco Kid"
and
"On the Spot."
Evening star., 1940-08-11
FRIDAY
"xternally Yours


George Raft and Anr
Sheridan in "They
Drive by Night"
Madeleine Carroll ant
DOUG. Fairbanks, IT.,
in "Safari."
Gene Autry
in
Carolina Noon"
"Stagecoach War"
and
"Earthbound."
George Brent in
THE Man Who
Talked Too Much"
Glenn Ford and
Rochelle Hudson In
Babies for Sale"
Don Ameche and
Mary Beth Hughes
In Pour SONS"
Edward @. Robinson
and Ann Scthern fr
Brother Orchid"
Jeanette Macdonald
and Nelson Eddy in
New Moon"
Maureen O'Hra ant
Adolphe Menjou IL
bill enforcement
Gene Autry and
Smiley Burnette In
Carolina Moon"
'Flight Angels"
and
Gangs of Chicago
Susan and God"
and
Opened by Mistake
Virginia Bruce and
Dennis Morgan in
"Flight Angels"
Wayne Morris. JANE
Wyman. Gambling
on the High Seas. :
Warner Baxter and
Andrea Leeds in
"Earthbound."
Joan Crawford and
Fredric March in
Susan and God"
Fredric March and
Joan Crawford in
Susan and God"
Seventeen"
and
marines Fly High. .
French without
Tears" and
Curtain Cali"
Wallace Beery
in
"20-Mule Team"
Jack Benny in
Buck Benny Rides
Again"
Cary Grant and
Irene Dunno in .
my Fsvorite Wife
Bob Hope and Paul.
ette Goddard in The
Ghost Breakers"
Robert Cummings and
Jean Muir. And One
Was Beautiful"
Curtain Call"
and =
stare Of Chino
TITS a Date"
and
Hold That Woman"
Rose Marie"
Mickey Rooney in
ANDY Hardy Meets
Debutante."
Cary Grant and
Irene Dunno in
my Favorite Wife,
Irene Dunno and
Cary Grant in
My Favorite Wife ''
Phantom Raiders"
and
Girl in 3I3."
william Holden and
Fay BANTER in
Our Town"
Primrose Path"
and
"City of Chance"
BinE Crosby and
Bob Hope in
Road to SINGAPORE. u
Bette Davis. Charles
Boyer. "All This and
Heaven Too"
The Three Mesauit-
eers In Pioneers OF
the West"
Golden Trail" and
Out West With the
Peppers
Don Ameche and
Mary Beth HUGHES
In -Four Sons.
william Holden In
Those Were the
Days"
The Farmers sDsugh-
ter" and My Man
Godfrey"
Bing Crosby and
Gloria Jean in
III I Had MY Way"
Jack Benny in
Buck Benny Rides
Again.
Margaret SULLIVAN
and James Stewart In
The Mortal Storm"
william Holden and
Fay BANTER in
Our Town"
Don Ameche and
Mary Beth Hughes
in -Four Sons"
Madeleine Carroll and
Doug. Fairbanks, jr.,
in "Safari."
Pat O'Brien and
Ruth Terry in
Slightly Honorable Z"
Evening star., 1940-08-11
MONDAY
Strange Cargo"

and
"chasing Trouble. !"
Bette Davis. Charles
Boyer. "An This and
Heaven Too"
Evening star., 1940-09-01

THE Pennsylvania Turnpike. Amer
ieo's "dreom road" built at cost
Of approximately S70,OO0,000. is re-
ceivino finishing touches preparatory
to dedication by President Roosevelt
ond opening TO the public about Oc-
tober !. Stretching $50 miles from
Harrisburg TO Pittsburgh, the high
way is to be porodise for both
pleasure and business drivers. At
the some time Army officioIs ond
Others guiding the Notions defense
proportions see in it's completion at
this time On importont step on the
woy TO q system Of super -roods for
swift movement Of motorized miIitory
units. They point to the military
effectiveness Of simiIor links built in
Germany under the kozi regime.
A. P. and Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1940-09-01

Dirt-surfoced rouds
such as this ore inode-
quote for movement Of
Army otorized d
columns. The heavy
vehicles soon .breok
them down,
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-05-04
CHURCH NEWS
FREE WILL COMMUNITY
METHODIST CHURCH, Inc.
107 Cabot Street
Rev. ]. S. Myrick, Pastor

new d D. VI IlCh- dSADI
Sunday at II am, Rev. J. E. Nor
ris preach and at 500 pm, Rev. Grit
fin was the speaker, Sunday School,
1890 pm. Pastor and church are
very grateful to Bro. Richard Trother,
for the candy he gives the Sunday
School each Sunday. 1t is gratifying
to have some one trying to make the
Children happy each Lords Day, come
to the Free Will G. NJ Church each
Sabbath Day and be happy, May ;, the
pastor will preach and Holy Commu-
Mon viii be partaken Of by all Of the
members. Mrs. Alzater Moore
Choir directress, will soon begin her
Wed. night choir rehearsals. Members
are Miss N. F. Word, pianist; James
Gaines, Miss Alberter Ross, J. l. Sla-
ter, Miss Mamie Ross, Mrs. Odessa
Williams, Miss Eula Gaines. Prayer
meeting each Sunday night led by Bro.
Richard Trother. All were glad to
have present Sunday night, Sister Ida
Matthew, who has been on the sick
list.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-05-04

Clubs in ". Medford. Apr. 10. Mrs.
Malinda Jackson, and Mrs. Nancy
Scott. Plans were also made for an
afternoon tea at Lincoln Halls, Sun
day afternoon, May 10. The hostess
served delicious repast.-The second
April meeting was held at the home
Of Mrs. Edward Smith, Friday April
26. Four cars filed with the club
members and their friends journeyed
to E. Weymouth to be the guests Of
Mrs. Nellie Smith. the president who
welcomed the party to her beautiful
home and served a splendid collation..
After the business, a fine program Of
information and fun was presented
The guests Of the afternoon were:
Mesdames Letcher, Lille Bell Ballard
Nora Sewell; Misses Gladys Holmes
and Bette Reeves. The club meets
next on Friday, May 10. at the home
of Mrs. Hattie Grievious, + Claremont
Park, Boston.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-05-04
ARMSTRONG
HEMINGWAY
FOUNDATION

Under the direction of its energetic
president Marcus James, young Har-
ward student, the Mutual Hour civic
forum of the Armstrong Hemenwav
Foundation 40 Rutland Square. Bos-
ton, consistent with its policy of pre-
sentlng programs Of educational and
cultural value, viii offer to the commu-
nifty Of Boston and vicinity on Sunday
afternoon, May 5, the unusual oppor-
tunlty Of seeing the processes by which
fabrics are manufactured.
Working in cooperation with the
Laundryowners' Bureau of Boston. a
film in technicolor entitled "The Life
story Of your Clothes" will be shown to
the organization and its friends. 1t
will depict the various stages through
fabrics pass, from the cotton field to
the show window of the department
store.
In addition, the most modern laun-
dering methods as used in the Laundry
owners Bureau, will be illustrated. Bv
these means extreme care is taken To