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Evening star., 1940-09-08
By Glad1Cin Hill,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
Imagine the chaos of a blitzkrieg
superimposed on already hectic Hol-
lywood and you'll get an idea of
what England's one remaining ac-
tive movie company has been going
through.
When they turn around to shoot
a love scene the hero likely as not
has been called off to war Or If
he's present his kisses are drowned
out by an air raid alarm. And that
isn't the half of it.
Some vicissitudes of camera
shooting amid the cannon-shootfng
were related by Marian Baldwin,
attractive young American assistant
to British Producer Gabriel Pascal
on her recent return from England.
Pascal, after more than a year of
work almost in the middle of the
war, is doggedly shooting the final
scenes of George Bernard Shaw's
Salvation Army lassie play, Major
Barbara"
The picture, unlike most of the
few British wartime films, is not a
deliberate propaganda picture. hav-
ing been started long before the
war; but its completion has become
government-backed project in the
hope that it will equal the $4,000, 900
American gross of Pascals "Pyg-
malion" and thereby give Britain
more credits in this country.
The picture, starring Wendy
Hitler. went into production in
April. 1899, and by September, when
the war started, Pascal was in no
mood to jettison five months work,
so he just kept on.
While the company was on loca-
ton in Devon, 400 miles from home
Evening star., 1940-09-08

1uler IN Cne CheSC, MS nalr was
more blond and less easily controlled
than Pats, he had a broken nose
that was never completely repaired
and his manner of speaking was
almost the exact opposite of the
O'Brien way.
Makeup played only a supporting
role in this remarkable deception
In addition to the hours Pat spent
IN the makeup chair, he put hours,
days and weeks of hard work into
the role before the picture went be-
fore the cameras. The similarity
Rockne's widow found so startling is
traceable to both elements.
Perc Westmore, Warmers makeup
chief, would be the first to say this
is so. He worked, he says, only with
the eyes. the nose, the hair and the
lower jaw line. While these things
were important in creating a physi-
cal likeness to Rockne, Pats own
work, his detailed study of manner
lsms. voice and characteristic ges-
lures, was even more important.
Acting More Important.
In explaining this, Westmore tells
one of his own more or less open,
but often forgotten, secrets
"A putty nose" he says, land a
white wig, and almost any man can
look a little like George Washington.
A set of potato teeth makes the one
who wears them resemble Teddy
PnnSPUn1t n1Nn - f,1
charade. It's an old axiom in my
business that the makeup is no
better than the actor underneath it.
The difficult job for the actor is to
be like the person he is playing, the
person whose likeness he is wearing.
That's more important than all the
rubber, hair pieces, nose putty, paint
and powder
Weeks before the picture was
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Denham Carries on Amidst the Blitzkrieg
Camera.Shoong During the Canon.Shootng Is Chore,
But Gabriel Pascal Nears Fins of Major Barbara

the longest location expedition in
British movie history-the American
photographer had to leave, and II
was week before another camera
man could be found.
A big gap in the cast-a missing
leading man-was filled only after
a frantic automobile tour of English
little theaters yielded Andrew Os-
borne, but by the time he was in
action an important character ac-
tor. David Tree, was called up for
military service.
BY luck Pascal spotted in a crowd
of location spectators vague "dou-
BILE" for Tree and they used him in
long distance shots until the gov
eminent finally released the orig
inal.
The day they got back to the regu-
lar studios in Denham. outside Lon
don, France fell, and the staff Of
e-shifters, property men and
technicians was decimated tempo
rarily by the draft.
Denham, Britain's Hollywood, is
near an airport, in restricted dan
ger zone, and afraid warnings
halted work several times a week,
lately with increasing frequency.
Nearly every member of the staff
there are about 85-has regular
military duties besides his studio
work." Miss Baldwin said.
Pascal a Parashot.
Pascal himself is chief parashotist
for the district. Some of the men,
after working from in the morning
to at night, have to go out on air
raid precaution duty until the next
morning. But every ones enthu-
siastic about getting the picture fin
ished."
Robert Morley, Hroadway's Oscar
Wilde of season ago, another MEM
Evening star., 1940-09-08

WOuiu ICJCCI ~.
The racketeer then would watch
every movie the actress made after
that, and If she ever happened to
do any of the things on his list.
which the studios had turned down,
he'd Immediately file a. plagiarism
suit.
OF course, some Of these ltiga-
tions never got very far, the stu
dios report. But 1t cost some Of
them so much money in legal fees
to handle them that a few sus-
pected 1t would be cheaper to pay
the racketeer a few hundred bucks
rather than be bothered with q
court case 5000, it became some
what of a shakedown, they say.
with occasional pay-offs.
Now, if an individual submits
manuscript to a studio, he can be
virtually assured 1t will be returned
Immediately, unopened and by regis
tered mail The same is true with
musical numbers submitted.
Studios now maintain special de-
partments for the handling of just
such things. Most manuscripts the
studios accept are handled through
reputable agents.
The Camera Discovers.
Slow motion: Have you ever had
q suppressed desire to hurl an egg
into a whirling electric fan -. just
to see what happens? :. Well, Pete
Smith did . :. and you'd be surprised
what all he learned Commentator
for feature shorts, Smith has been
having a lot of fun out at M-G-M
Studios experimenting with
new stroboscopic movie camera that
takes 800 exposures a second .
Such film, when normally run
through protector, SLOWS 100-yard
sprinter down to where he looks like
your poor old grandpap, creeping
along with lumbago.
When egg met fan, all four blades
were shown to have actually struck
the shell before it finally broke and
began to disintegrate E. And, by the
same extremely slow-motion pho
Biography, a bullet was shown to
fiatten when it struck a thin steel
plate Then, after passing through
the plate, the bullets terrific force
caused it to assume virtually its orig
inal shape.
The camera also showed that when
a cat laps milk it doesn't scoop it up
on top of its tongue >. Instead, the
tongue Stimulates an outside loop d.
over and down and the milk is
Evening star., 1940-09-08

Frank Morgan must impersonate
a dozen other stars in his new pic
ture, "Hullabaloo. Only one re-
quired imitation stumped him. 1t
was of Charles Boyer's voice. The
situation was solved by using an
actual sound track of Boyer's voice.
So clever was the trick done that
word has gone around Morgan is an
expert at duplicating Boyer's voice
and he's getting requests to do the
act in public.
Evening star., 1940-09-08

same week for pre-Broadway try
outs in the summer theaters and
the results were something like that
old vaudeville actor who made his
grand entrance in tall silk hat and
to the music of a rousing march and
ended by falling head first into the
orchestra pit and through the bass
drum.
Saroyan's three new plays-"Swee-
ney in the Trees" Hero of the
World" and Something About
Soldier'-were all given a severe
chiding by most Of the critics who
journeyed to the rural playhouses
and found them confusing and show
ing poor dramatic technique. From
Evening star., 1940-09-08
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Short, dynamic Billy Grady, whose
40 years as a theatrical talent
scout have made him one of the
best in the business, closed his Of
flee door with bang, sat down at
big broad desk with heavy sigh
and pointed to framed epigram
on the wall that read:
"a halo has but to fall a few
inches to become a moose"
The little man, with the sharp
est eyes and nimble wit, had just
finished interviewing the last of
1000 men and women who had
come to Hollywood to find jobs in
the movies under the mistaken be-
lief that they could act. And from
Evening star., 1940-09-08

THE AFTER-DARK SCENE BR1GHTENs-With September
activity in the ohere Washington
feStiue after nghtaH MADGE MARLEY and DEE ORR (d-
recty aboue aO be found singing Nth GRANT THOMP
SONS ORCHESTRA at the neDyreopened Metronome
The peekS preneres bring out HELEN HAMILTON upper
gt who opens the doors OF her Club Troka Thursday night
and BEN YOUNG ho brings his orchestra to the Cartons
Cosmos Frdau
Evening star., 1940-09-08

Waiting actors let off excess
steam in various ways. Players lit
orally Gagged for more than an hour
on a set were watched as they
whiled away the time in what
seemed a most restful sort of fash
ion. A scene in -Four Mothers" at
Warner Bros, required the entire
cast of principals to remain in the
living room of the now-famous
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Playwrights Producing,
Whether Good or Bad
By Marx Barron,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

Lk
When as happening this early in the theatrical the
established paywghs hawking their with enthusiasm
you may be assured that the dramasts going be
exhibionic than obseeking
for all this winter be inferred following
of better-known writer's
Case No. Eugene ONe working cycle of nine
Evening star., 1940-09-08
It's the Waiting That Hurts
And Stars Have Various Methods
Of Letting Off Excess Energy
HOLLYWOOD.
of the essential

Patience long recognized essential
requisites acting Hollywood
experts second only to actual hisrionc ability
The successful sound daily demonstrate his
lighting setup being
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Makeup Only a Small Part
Of ROckne Resemblance
For Makeup Never Can Be Better
Than the Actor Beneath it,
This Time Pat O'Brien
By Carlisle Jones.


Not who knew think that
Pat O'Brien could be
Rockne the
RocknA American made
making love to her, completely realistic was he
taller SLIGHTLY
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Studios Stop a Racket
That Has Been Costly
At Least Film Men Hope They Have
Solved Plagiarism Shakedown;
Note on a New Camera
By Ted Gill,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

Movie studios plagued with troubles than shake
them dough-
instance they report that rackeeer would sit think
of things
picture
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
HOW ABOUT THIRD STREET?

W1ILM1NGToN's truck lane still begs solu
w ton. Various routes have been suggested
but without decision on any, chiefly because
none appears to meet the need.
The thought is advanced, with many argu'
ments in it's favor, that Third street offers
the best way out. 1t is already an established
federal highway, and rs such would be sure
of federal aid for widening. Twenty feet
could be added without imposing a handicap
Of the plaza would be deplored by many, it
must be remembered that when normal de-
velopment of trade is concerned, landscape at.
fractions must be sacrificed.
With twenty feet more traffic way, Third
street would take care of all automobile and
to be noted that trucking in Wilmington in
wolves much more than transport of gasoline.
Trucks engaged in general freighting come
to Wilmington in great numbers, and have
had a beneficial effect in helping to reduce
freight rates. They are entitled to every
convenience the authorities can give them.
Were they compelled to circle the city, Will.
ul1u6IoA ~ PASAoPo a. " ~
tarded, and there is no reason to doubt that
operators would not take the city off their
itineraries if barriers were raised against their
adequate accommodation. Altogether, it ap.
pears that Third street, which is destined to
become a business street Of Importance, Of
fers the line of least resistance to expansion
of the city's trucking patronage.
At the same time, If it is ultimately chosen
for the truck lane, safety from fire dictates
that the fire department be equipped with
necessary materials for combating any flames
which might spring from accident to a gaso-
line truck.
While approving in principle the use of
Third street by trucks, the Star believes that
no decision should be made until state and
city authorities confer with truck operators
and arrive at a plan which will be s~atisfac.
tory to all interests involved. No decision
should be made which will work a hardship
upon any group, to the benefit of another.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
NATIONAL DEFENSE WEEK

National Defense Week, which in reality is
to extend from February IL to February %,
will be sponsored in Wilmington by the Re.
serve Officers association, and will be fea.
tured by special meetings and addresses be.
fore the civic clubs by men peculiarly fitted
to discuss this vital subject.
Its observance can mean much for Viii.
mington, but only in proportion to the inter.
est the people at large take in it. If there is
a general disposition to let the reserve off.
GERS, the legion and similar military units
carry on without wholehearted support from
the citizenship, the long week will be just
one more Of those things On the other
hand, if the people join with the officers and
legion in a study of the defense needs and
draft a program for meeting them, in com.
bination with the nations entire loyal popula.
ton and government, then National Defense
Week will indeed accomplish great good.
II, at the same time, Wilmington presents
it's case for some form Of defense station, an
army or navy air base for example, SO force.
fully that Washington bends a willing and
receptive ear to the proposal, the week will
have marked a distinct advance in the de-
tense provisions of the nation. That such q
station is needed is indicated by the long
stretch Of c~oastline on either side of Will
mington which has nc protection against
invasion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
A SCHOLAR LED ASTRAY

DR.. WILLIAM E. DoDD, former ambassador
to Germany, whose death on Friday was not
unexpected, was essentially a scholar. It was
not until he had been in the diplomatic serv.
ice for some time that he became a fighter.
He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute with a bachelor degree in 1895 and
received his master degree in 1897. After
three years at the University of Leipzig he
was awarded the Ph.D. degree. Thereafter,
until ROOSEVELT sent him to Berlin, his life
was devoted to teaching and writing.
Then came his political career, and though
1t started placidly enough it was not long be.
fore he uncorked the walls of his wrath
against naziism, then raising its head under
HITLER, and only a short time later was at.
lacking the Presidents court reorganization
scheme, with such telling effect that Senator
BoRAH denounced him as an irresponsible
scandal monger." He was in trouble with the
state department over the assumption Of his
duties by the charge d'affairs at Berlin, and
experienced the humiliation Of being overrul.
ed by Secretary HULL. It was shortly after
that, and almost upon his return to the Ger.
man capital, that he submitted his resigna.
ton.
Again at home, he lectured forcefully and
often on the menace Of naziism, both in this
country and Canada, exposing the trickery OF
H1TLER's regime and forecasting with peculiar
accuracy the events which have since trans.
pired to throw much of Europe into war.
Recently he had been engaged upon a mon.
umental history of the South, a subject he
was eminently fitted to discuss and upon
which he labored so hard and necessarily
that his failing health could no longer with.
stand the strain.
An able man, he offers a sad example of
great talent misapplied, with the inevitable
result of diminishing returns. Notwithstand.
ing his lack of success in politics, however,
Americas store of historical learning has
been enriched by his writings. For this he
will be held in grateful memory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
Editorial Comments
From Other Anqles
STRIKING AT SAFETY
Raleigh News and Observer

1t would be difficult to conceive of a greater
blow to highway safety in North Carolina than
the admitted charge that the head of the state
highway patrol, acting in his official capacity
Suggested" to patrolmen that they contribute
to the campaign fund of his and their superior,
Revenue Commissioner A. j. Maxwell, candi.
date for governor. Mr.. Maxwell properly dis.
avowed the activities of his misguided subordi-
mates.
OF course, Major John T. Armstrong, com.
handing officer of the patrol, merely suggest
ed' that patrolmen contribute, but such a po
litical suggestion from a superior carries newt
ably with it the impression that if patrolmen
may be asked for political contributions, poll
tics might operate against them If they declin.
ed to contribute. Obviously such request and
the natural response to it mean the POLITICAL.
zation of the corps set up to serve safety and
not the politicians. A politicalized highway pa.
troll would inevitably become a corps which
recognized the necessity for politics in job-keep.
ing. And when an officer of the law works
under political pressure, law enforcement must
expect to come off second best in any contest
with political power and influence.
The state has gone to a great deal Of trouble
in trying to pick and train a body of men
who could make a corps of the highest morale
devoted to public service and public safety.
But not even the best men can be shaped into
such a corps unless they are freed from the
pressure Of politics and given example by thei1
leadership that nothing but devotion to duty
counts in their jobs. The revolt among them
which resulted in the disclosure is evidence
that the patrolmen themselves are anxious to
be left alone in their activities for safety, free
from the pressure of politics.
Not long ago the officers Of the patrol very
properly and promptly discharged a patrolman
alleged to have solicited a bride from a law
%violator. Obviously, such conduct could not be
tolerated. But if the patrol is to have the high
standards it needs it's members must be freed
from attitudes which are legal, but not much
less dangerous. Let politics permeate such a
police force and, as sensible men know, every
evil may be expected to, follow.
The corps is shamed by it's leaders willing
ness to inject politics into it. It will have the
respect which safety in this state requires only
when the people know that 1t is as free from
politics as it is from cruder corruption.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
GARNER TO NAME
PROBE COMMITTEE
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Continued From Page Oie)
Hampshire and Reed of Kansas.
Gamers friends said he would
choose the three democrats from a
list submitted, at Gamers Request
by Senator George (D-Ga), chair
man of the senate elections COM
mittee. Few new dealers thought
that George, whose denomination
was opposed by President Roose.
welt in 1888, had included any Of
their number on the list.
No senator from a state where
there is a senatorial election TINS
year may serve on the committee
This leaves only % democrats eli
gible. Of these Senators Bailey "
NC), Gerry ORD, johnson W
Colo), Smith (D-SC) and Walsh
(D-Mass) reported to be uH'
der consideration.
Walsh served on the 1888 cam
paign committee headed by Senator
Sheppard (D-Tex) which Wa'
sharply critical of methods employ.
ed by some candidates in senator@
primaries. Its finding were cred'!eo
with having had much to DO "!'n
winning congressional approval loi
the Hatch law banning pefhlc4ou, '
political activities by federal e~
ployes.
There was continued specuIaVV'
today over the entry of James ~
Farley into the M~assachuSe's
democratic primary. Some lnlollnss
politicians believed that ran!
would not make it a general pa
tice to enter primaries, n iaa
gone into Massachusetts mercy
make it clear he was a cano'o''
for the presidential nomination,
There have been widespread
ports that many uninstructed dfs,
cations to the 1910 convenuv'
would be sympathetic to fai,sI
The postmaster general wa Sal
by some associates to be hopu yin.
of obtaining a number OF sucH om,
gates from key states without N"'
paigning publicly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
THE SOUTH ANSWERS

In opposing efforts by northern interests
to reopen the case for southern parity in
freight rates, which the Interstate Commerce
Commission recently established on a dozen
commodities, attorneys for the south categori
cally deny three claims offered as justifying
a review.
These claims are: That the ICC decision
was made while that body was under "politi
cal pressure"; that the differential against
the South is not too high to prohibit shipping
into the North, and vice versa, and that the
cost Of shipping is greater to the railroads
in the South, with the density of freight
traffic per mile less in the South than in
the North.
To which the Southern representatives
arguing that the decision of the ICC should
stand as made, reply: That the case as origi
nally presented was tried without appeal tc
political influence, and that to claim the ICC
could be influenced by matters outside the
record is an unwarranted reflection on its
integrity; that Commissioner Eastman, in
1881, ruled the differential sin open conflict
with the principal of equality Of opportun
ity," and a "cruel doctrine"; and that it can
not be shown on adequate record the commits
sion "has found that it costs more to hau
commodities in the South than in the North.
The ICC will have to choose between these
viewpoints in making its decision whether tt
reopen the case. With the date for putting the
parity rates in effect set for April 1, the
commission will have ample time to weigh
the evidence and arrive at a studied conclu
sion. AS it ruled the first time only after
thoroughly surveying the facts, there should
be no reason to assume it will reverse thai
ruling.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
What It Means:
Money For The Farmer

with Secretary Wallace's men. May.
be they might be persuaded 10
change their mind about the farm
bill, and vote more for the farmer
in exchange for a stamp plan.
Anyway, the squeeze play is on.
The next steps up to the Senate.
The final day of reckoning can be
put off a few weeks, but it's com.
ing-and that goes for every one
of the dozens of appropriation bills
in congress.
That's why it's hard to save the
taxpayers money in a complex
economy like ours. Especially in
an election year when everybody
wants something, and his vote goes
to the congressman who tries TO
give him what he wants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12
HOEY SAYS THAT
SOLICITATION OF
FUNDS IMPROPER
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i oSO oAhS
within proper bounds the candi.
date of their choice" He added,
however, that there would be mo
further solicitation among the pa.
troll or any other employees"
His statement follows:
IT had a conference with Com.
missioner of Revenue Maxwell Sat.
urday night and discussed the mat.
ter in detail. I have inquired rath.
er fully into the whole question
and have no hesitancy in saying
that T. am satisfied Mr.. Maxwell
had no knowledge of funds being
solicited from members of the high.
way patrol.
II find that while funds were So
licited there was no pressure ap.
piled or suggested to secure contri.
buttons. OF course the solicitation
was improper and ill-advised, and
there will be no further solicitation
among the patrol or any other en-
ployes.
"In this connection 1 think it
might be well to say at this time
that it must be understood that
all heads Of departments in the
state government have a perfect
right to support within prorer
bounds the candidate of their choice
for governor or any other office
in the primary, but it must like
,,;eo he recognized that +b;s -
right applies equally to every EN-.
ploye of each department, and no
pressure should be exerted by heads
of departments or those in author.
ity to control the action of en-
ployes.
"This applies not only to the
revenue department, but to the
highway department., unemployment
compensation commission, the EN-.
plovment service, and every other
state agency or department Of gov.
ernment,"