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Evening star., 1940-12-29

Constance Moore is a newspaper
photographer in Il Wanted Wings"
In The Devil and Miss Jones"
Jean Arthur gets down to earth-or
f1oor-as a shoe saleswoman.
Even the westerns, in which
heroines have been traditionally
clinging vines, are feeling the mod
ern spirit. In Arizona" Jean Arthur
does more work than Bill Holden,
and in Santa Fe Trail" Olivia de
Havilland, though she does it
daintily, is the manager of wagon
freight trains In Gene Autry's
Melody Ranch" Ann Miller Is a
hoofer and singer. and in Ride On.
Vaquero" Cisco Kid" Romero loses
his heart, though not permanently,
to a dance hall girl played by Mary
Beth Hughes
There's one jobless heroine in
town, though. That's Mary Martin
in New York Town She's jobless
only because she can't get a job,
and that's the point.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
HOLLYWOOD

1t was half past the noon hour
and the three who pushed through
the door Of the Green Room Res
taurant at Warner Bros. found all
the tables occupied.
At one table, meant for four, a
lady sat alone. 1t was Miss Bette
Davis. She was studying her script
Not any too avidly, it seemed. be-
cause she nibbled crackers while
she read.
All the other tables we're filed and
the babble of voices, the smell of
good food and the occasional flash
of a photographers light made the
place seem even more invitingly full
of excitement than 1t really was.
Miss Davis looked up and saw us
standing there, looking hungry per-
haps, and certainly i'll at ease. She
knew us all and of course we all
knew her.
Come sit here" she suggested
We sat. I'm too hungry to study
lines" she added. closing the script
While we ordered our lunch Bette
expressed herself pointedly about
the Hollywood habit of adding new
scenes to script after a picture
has started. She despises 1t.
She was asked about her plans
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Just Never Mention New England Again
The Subject Arises Lunch and Thereby Bette Davis
Finds Afternoon Ruined by Yearnng

after THE Great Lie" which she is
just now finishing.
I'm just getting acquainted with
my river house" said Bette. III
probably stay right here and en-
Joy it,"
And not go sailing away to
Hawaii?"
You know" said Bette. butter
ing a piece of rye toast. Il don't like
Honolulu TOO well. I don't like any
warm climate as well as I like New
England. I'm a cold-water child,
you know"
She straighted up suddenly. Now
I've done 1t. Why did I say that?
I've been trying to keep New
England out of my mind all week.
Why did we bring the subject up
anyhow"
I'VE were talking about Hawaii
some one explained, lamely-
II can't get back to my farmhouse
for any length of time until next
October said Bette unable to turn
the conversation. That's terrible
I Just don't want to think about it.
Well, She'd not Starve.
There isn't any lawn" continued
Hollywoods first lady, "just trees
and wild flowers and grass. And
nuts!" she added suddenly. Butter
nuts! Twenty years from now when
I'm forgotten by HOLLYWOOD, you'll
probably find me selling butternuts
along one of the roads near my
house. I'll tie them up individually
with pink ribbons. I can just hear
me. Bette Davis pretty pink butter
nuts-home grown"
What a picture"
"Yes, isn't it?" agreed Bette, her
eyes shining. "At least I can't strave
as long as I have butternuts."
mo cranberries?'
Young man, my house is in New
England, not New Jersey"
The rebuke was accepted what
will you do with your new house
here in the river bottoms when
you retire to your farm in New
England?"
"Oh, 1t may wash away years
before that" said Bette.
Have you tried the pool?"
"Of course I've tried It, I'm in 1t
every day when the sun shines and
I'm not working"
"Is 1t warmed water2"
Definitely Not.
Bette put down her fork dehb-
erately. Nothing makes me so mad"
she declared. Didn't / tell you I'm
a coltl-water child? Why would
anyone want a pool in this part
of the country heated?"
Lots of them are"
"well, mine isn't, snapped Bette.
II waited for years to get q house
and I pool Of my own and then you
ask II the pool is heated. How
could your
Lunch ccutinued "a silence tx :
m0,nGnf hn 1oeto elfped
Evening star., 1940-12-29

missing her.
1t was almost too authentic,
although that's what the script
called for.
AS Ann Darlington in Topper
Returns" another of the Topper
pictures, Carole walked across the
floor OF the huge set representing
a room in the menacing. danger
fraught home of her. father. High
above hung the chandelier, all glass
and metal
AS Carole progressed, eyes
straight forward, to a designated
spot, the chandelier was released.
The room was enveloped in dark
ness, as specified.
There was a terrific crash. The
lights we're snapped on. Carole lay
on the floor beside the twisted,
shattered chandelier, a sprinkling
of glass over her.
The script called for her to faint
She followed it to the letter. II
took almost two minutes to bring
her to.
This life of so-called glamour
girl isn't what it's cracked up to
be- muttered CaroIe as she picked
herself of the floor.
She had reason to grumble. In
the last year she has been kicked
around like a football before the
cameras.
One year ago she was cIambering
around the rocks of Fire Valley,
Nevada, with two elephants dressed
as Woolly msmmoths in pursuit.
She was a prehistoric woman in the
picture "One Million B. c."
Came the Roach comedy Turn
about" She had to climb pole
perched high above the street on
the ledge atop an apartment build
ing.
She suffered great indignities in
her last picture. Road Show She
was dunked in the mud. thoroughly.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Expert Advice

Reminiscing on the Hal Roach
Topper Returns set with Joan
Blondell and Roland Young re-
garding peculiar fan mail, H. B.
Warner topped them with the fol-
lowing: While touring with the
famous crook play, Jimmy Valen-
tine" Warner received letter
commencing him on his perform
ance and the play. But the writer
thought his safe-opening technique
was abominable. After an exchange
of letters, Warner finally met the
fan. He was a reformed safe
crackerl Before they parted, the
actor received a lesson in opening
safes from the professional. War
ner opened the theater managers S
safe, under his bulging eyes. while
the expert stood on the other side
of tn room and called off the COM
bination!
Evening star., 1940-12-29

newcomers than ever before Some
estimates run to s30,000000. Yet
most of the bets have been cashed.
Linda Darnell is example No l
A year ago, she was just another
prospect at goth Century-Fox. She
had bright future, but no brighter
than a half dozen actresses on the
same lot and tWoScore or so else
where in Hollywood.
Yet 20th risked S5,000,000 in four
starring pictures for the Dallas
postman's daughter, and she came
through. Today she's second only
to Alice Faye on a lot where you
see a pretty actress every time you
turn a corner.
Laraine Days story is almost a
PARALLEL. Born in Roosevelt, Utah,
she moved to nearby Long Beach
and studied for six years with one
thing in mind-to become a movie
actress. She showed promise in
M-G-M's "Dr. Kildare" series and
shot to stardom in MY Son, My
Son" and Foreign Correspondent" ."
Hers Is a brilliant future.
Warmers is betting heavily on
Joan Leslie, who at Is played second
lead to Ida Lupir1o in High Sierra"
and earned a better chance in the
new THE Wagons Roll at Night ="
The Detroit born Joan won the COW
eted selection as Southern Cali
fornias winter "sun goddess" too.
and if by now you haven't seen her
picture Warmers and California's S
All-Year Club are mighty disap-
pointed.
They are but a few. Some of the
others:
M-G-M'S Ruth HuSSey of Provi-
dence, r. l., excellent in supporting
roles in "The Women" and The
Philadelphia Story; R-K-Os Irish
find. Maureen OHara, currently
turned South American for They
Met in Argentina; Peggy Moran,
latest choice for the Midas-like
touch of Universal's Joe Pasternak;
Gene Tierney, the New York debu-
tante whose film debut was the
feminine lead in "The Return of
Frank James"
Skyrocketlng male stars are less
numerous. Not a one has achieved
the prominence of Darnell or a
Day in II months. But Pssternak
thinks he has another winner In
Robert Stack, who gave Deanna
Durbin her first screen kiss and has
been doing big things ever since.
Warmers nominates Arthur Ken
nedy, a Worcester fMass0 youth
who came to the movies from the
stage and played Jimmy Cagney' S
brother in "City for Conquest" SO
successfully that he's starred in his
second film. Knockout"
Dennis Morgan, who couldn't get
started at M-G-M because his voice
was so like Nelson Eddy's, left
Evening star., 1940-12-29

brightly, you must come over be-
fore take the tree down. You see
I got it from my own farm in New
Hampshire. Shipped all the way
here and arrived just in time for
Christmas Eve. The holly, too And
the turkeys we had on the table.
Were they delicious! Goodness,
what time is it2 When did we start
this lunch?"
The hour was up and other mem
bers of the cast and crew of Bette's
picture had left the green room.
I'D best be scooting," she said,
rising.
At the door she paused and looked
back menacingly. Don't any of you
ever mention New England to me
at lunch again. It's broken up my
whole afternoon. Goodbye"
CReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Tnc.)
Evening star., 1940-12-29

year ushered in, symboncally, by a
movie called Kitty Foyle," which
is the saga of girl born to the
white collar. The ivory lowered
existence, once Screen-peddled con-
stantly to glamour hungry patrons,
survives mainly, in yarns (like The
Philadelphia Story'D about heroines
getting yapked from said towers.
No More an Objet dart.
You'll find the girls in today's
stories proving that, in this respect
if you conCede no other, the movies
can be true to life. For examples:
Hedy Lamar, in "Comrade X" is
a streetcar motorwoman. You re-
member Hedy in "Algiers"-the Hedy
who was practically an objet dart.
Ellen Drew, in Reaching for the
Sun is hamburger wagon wait
ress.
Barbara Stanwyck, in THE Lady
Eve" is a working girl of sorts
living by her wits and the theory
that, as cards with wealthy victoms,
the hand is quicker than the eye.
Paulette Goddard is a secretary in
Second Chorus Ditto Lucille Ball
in "A Girl, A Guy and a Cob.
Carole Lombard was a waitress in
'"They Knew What They Wanted"-
ditto Ann Sheridan in They Drive
by Night"
Barbara Stanwyck is a newspaper
columnist in Meet John Doe"
Ciaudette Colbert, in Arise My
Love- is a foreign correspondent.
Even Out West.
Dorothy Lamour and Linda Dar-
nell are circus riders in Chad
Hanna"
Evening star., 1940-12-29

Warmers "B" ranks long enough to
win his spurs with a sparkling per-
formance opposite Ginger Rogers in
Kitty Foyle'; Tim Holt, son of
Silent Star Jack, launched a career
which may take him to the top of
the Westerns ladder; Laird Cregar,
3O9 pounds, and John Sutton, Brit
ish educated American, both Of
them surprises in 'Hudsons Bay"
are among the others.
Then, of course, there's that other
new face Hollywood awaits impa-
tiently. The waiting had begun
this time last year. This time next
year who knows?
It's Orson Welles. Rumor has 1t
he's a handsome fellow behind the
now vanished beard.
Evening star., 1940-12-29

She had to perform on rope 80
feet above the stage.
And during the shooting Of a
free-for-all carnival fight. in which
break-away missiles were useC
Carole was mistakenly conked on
the head with "practical"-a gen.
uine kewpie doll.
She was completely "out" for
about three minutes that time and
when she was revived was sent
home suffering a slight conclusion.
Its a living" sighs Carole.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Actors Son Signs

G. P. Huntley, jr., son Of one OF
Americas best-known actors, has
turned to the screen for a career.
He has been signed by Warner Bros.
for a featured role in Winged Vic
tory" based on the DR.. A. j. Gro
min play.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
They Are Working Girls,
Not Glamour Girls, Now
The Old Film Heroine, Dependent
Upon Some Male, Gives Way
To the Lass Who Tolls
By Robbin Coons,
Associated Press stan Writer.


New Year paraphase Heaven help the nonwong go movie
like this
Once time perhaps herones job SOFT recurring labor
little than glane infinite
being She
copped from Milton: They only
You seldom You'll a
Evening star., 1940-12-29
1t Was a Year of CANDLES
On Cinema Newcomers
And the Studios Have Discovered
Some Promisingly Talented
Young Players in 1910
BY Franklin Arthur,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD


Gables and the Lombads and Fay still
1940s awaya fine of youngsters started pushing
stardom.
another
all forgotten Either
Hollywood.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
EDITORIAL
Perpetuating Wholesome Relations

An issue of the local daily paper early this week. carried
small article nconspcuous spot which wrote the final
chapter to story which just few weeks ago headline
material in the daily We have reference to the
ce which stated the conviction of the four defendants in
connection with assault and robbery
1t is within jurisdiction question the merit of
this case the justice melted by the verdict reached
by the jury We do admit however in the light of the great
number of uncertainties involved in the that there
room for question as to the charges set forth.
We do feel that is not only right but obiga-
ton to face another phase of this matter We feel that
are obligated to realize and fully comprehend the involve
men such We know that there great number
of people the czenry of city who make
the existence of certain types of businesses and places of
Sort However the fact that these people make these places
necessary does not relieve the popetor operators of
such places of business of the necessity of operating and
maintaining their business level which will jeopar
die the continuation of wholesome economic and social
aon between groups which constitute the population of the
city whole When these operators proprietors fail
to this obligation there arises conditions in which many
people suffer May remind you of the fact that due to
this recent nearly hundred people placed in the
ranks of the unemployed and faced with the necessity
of trying to find another of living May remind you
that great deal of unavorabe attention and consider
directed to the whole and not only to the
operators of these places of business This of publicity
in way helps the great majority to attain the desired end
that it has established for itself.
In conclusion feel that is an appropriate time
to call to the minds of the people who have chosen certain
fields of livelihood that they realize the full
implications of their choice and in order guarantee and
perpetuae wholesome relationships for all they meet
Continued on Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Seattle Welcomes Nat. Bap. Con. Inc.
FDR Asked To Defend
Minorities' Rights

NEW YORK, April (CNA)-
Dean William Pickens of the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People join
ed over 100 of the nations lead
ing white progressives this week
in petitioning President Roosevelt
to apply his own publicly-stated
declaration that "the important
thing is that everywhere and al
ways-particularly in democracy
-minorities shall have a means of
expressing themselves"
Initiated by a committee which
includes. Professor Franz Boas of
Columbia University, Theodore
Dresser, novelist; Rockwell Kent,
artist; and Corliss Lamont, the
petition expressed grave fears over
the threats to civil liberties SYM
bolized by 1.-THE star-chamber pro-
ceedings instituted by the Depart
ment of Justice against labor UNI
IONS" raids without warrant on
veterans of the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade, the badgering of Com
munist leaders, and the series of
''witch-hunts dire C t d against
those whose views express differ
ence with the government"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
.Quakers Condemn
Racial Intolerance

NEW YORK (CNA) Race hat
red and intolerance We're sharply
condemned at the New York Year.
ly Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends, which held sessions
this week at 221 East Fifteenth
Street, with an attendance of 700
members from New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsyl-
vania.
The meetings. emphasis on race
relationships foreshadows a move
ment among the Quakers, accord
ing to the secretary of the yearly
meeting, to include statement on
race relations in the only written
creed of the society. Although the
basic tenet of the Friends is bro
therly love, it is felt that emphasis
upon this aspect of brotherly love
is vitality important at this time
when race hatred is being propa-
gated by many reactionary groups
throughout the country.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Greetings to Nat. Baptist Convention

Greetings TO Ndt. BdPtlSt COnUentlOn
The Northwest Enterprise greefs the Nat
iOnaI Baptist Convention Inc. on its Good Will
Tour of the Northwest. a hearty ,celcome and
open doors aiUait the coming of Gods pre-
lates. Here you toiH find a generous people,
,UhO in IoUing God, I0Ue the fresh air and ,Uide
open spaces And here you ,UiH also find a
people with friendly attitude in racial coop
Grafton. Thrice Welcome.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12

Prentis I. Fraziar, organizer of
King County Colored Republican
club issues call for all Republican
leaders, precinct committeeman
and committeewomen and dele
gates to the King County Republi-
can convention to meet at 301 Ly-
ons building, 3rd and James ST,
at pm, Friday May 10.
The purpose of the conference is
to discuss party policies, platform
and the many raw deals affecting
our civic and economic rights. Our
many handicaps during the past
seven years should be made known
and remedy sought. Our only re-
medy is in the Republican party
and the most propitious time is in
the creation of the party machine,
says Frazier.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Lewis Flags Jim
Grow Oppression,
Relief Cut

MONONGAH, w. Va. (CNA)-
In a typical fighting speech, John
L. Lewis, president of the Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations
and the United Mine Workers I'm
ion, this week bitterly condemned
the Acknowledgement of Negro ci-
tizens in the South and demanded
the right of job for every Anne
rican, regardless of race, color or
political belief. 1t was the third
time within two months that Lewis
had spoken out clearly and sharp
ly in defense of the Negro people.
Speaking before $4,000 cheering
Negro and white miners and their
families at a Miners Day celebra-
ton here, Lewis declared that the
Democratic Party had failed to
heed the needs of the people,
roundly criticizd the Roosevelt Ad-
mlnlStrat1on Tor recommending ap-
preparations for an increased FBI,
while cutting work relief, and said
that "those who secretly hoped to
drag America into the war will
have fools awakening. America
will not participate in the Euro
pean war"
Declaring that unemployment
was the greatest question before
the country and that once the pro-
blem was solved all the political
and economic ills of the nation
would begin to disappear, Lewis
said:
"The right to job, the right
to participate in the rich natural
bounties of the nation, the right
to participate in the productive eff
ficiency of the country must be
recognized"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12

The Northwest Enterprise takes
particular pride in announcing the
addition of Mr.. S. T. McCants to
its staff. He will head the Adver-
Using Department and serve as
associate editor.
The son of Methodist Episco-
pal minister, he was born in Spar
tanburg, S. c., and has resided in
Seattle continuously for 81 years.
He has been in business for 25
years, being the first of his race
to establish Mems Habidashery
in the northwest.
His interest in the human side of
life has long kept him active in the
religious world. He has always
been active in the welfare of unfor-
tunate and hayward boys and
young men in dire need and spi-
ritual advice. In his own early life
at the age of Is he was compelled
to not only make his own way, but
that of a widowed mother and two
younger sisters.
Here he organized the first
Church Ushers' Council, the first
Church Bulletin, the first male
quartette and the first Sunrise
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Prominent Negro
Democrat Quits
New Deal

Hobson r. Reynolds, Philadel-
phia Negro Democratic member
of the Pennsylvania Legislature, at
Republican Headquarters in Wash
ington tells John Hamilton, Chair
man Republican National Commit
tee, and DR.. Emmett ]. Scott, Re-
publican advisor on Negro Affairs
at Republican Headquarters, that
the New Deal has failed the Negro.
Mr.. Reynolds said that "like thou
sands of other colored persons,
I was lured into support of the
New Deal hoping the Negro people
would fare better; but the New
Deal has failed my people and
now I have decided the best in
terests of the Negro can be served
through the election of a Republi-
can President" He said he was
casting his lot with "the ava
kened, liberal and progressive
leadership of the Republican or
ganization. The Philadelphia leg
islator is head of the Civil Liber-
ties Committee of the Colored Elks
of America and was author of a
law providing civil liberties for Me-
groes in Pennsylvania.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Four Men Face
Long Terms

II want to congratulate you on
the very just verdict which feel
you have rendered in this case"
These We're the words which Super
ior Judge Howard M. Findley adj
dressed to the jury of men and
women which found four men gull
ty of criminal assault and ROBBERY
after less than three hours deli
beration.
James Gannaway, Junior Foster,
Fred w. Anderson and Chester
Cage We're arrested and charged
with criminal assault and robbery
which took place in a Japanese
hotel, January 27.
The complaint was made by M.
]. Edmundson and his wife, Adah,
that the men forced them into a
hotel room and there attacked the
woman while the husband was held
helpless.
Continued on Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Hutchen r. Hutchins Further Exposes
Wretched Conspiracy OF Boeing Plant
Continued from Last Week)
First

The state employment office will
not deal with certain Washington
Lumber Associations because they
blacklist white men, but they work
late at night with Boeing to black
list Negroes. Again, RACE is one
of the fine points asked an en-
ployer when men are requested. IF
the employer fails to specify, the
employment office demands that
he make specific request. Fur
thermore, evidence that suggests
the official force in the employ
ment office, works on the basis
that there are certain industries
for Negroes to work in is increas-
ing. Also relations between the
employers and the employment of
flee are secret. (Where there is
secrecy, there is dangr of corrup-
tion.) Experience has taught us
that Negroes sent to jobs with
groups of whites have no trouble
unless the boss starts it. Local C.
G. Camps are proof.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-04-12
Makes Bid To Negro

To the tremendous applause of
miners, both Negro and white, Lee
wis continued:
II am going to invite both the
National Negro Congress and the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People to af-
filiate with the Labor's Non-Parti-
san League"
Earlier in his speech, Lewis
threatened those politicians and
statesmen who are unable to cope
with Americas political, economic
and social problems" with the for
nation of third party to repre-
sent labor, the formers and the
people generally.
'In the event that the Democra-
tic Party does not nominate can
didate for President suitable to,
and a platform satisfactory to la
Dor, shall urge the assembling of
great delegated Convention of
the CLIO and the LNPL, the Negro
organizations, the Townsend move
ment and liberal organizations to
meet in some central city and draw
up a platform" he said.
AS for the Republican Party,
Lewis smiled and provoked laugh
ter as he said: IT don't expect any,
thing from the Republican Party.
Who pays the fiddler calls the
tune"