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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-03
Senator Harrison To
Make Address

Blue Mountain, Miss, Sept. 28.-
United States Senator Pat Harrison
will make the address honoring Moth
er Berry on her ninetieth birthday,
November 16, which will be the oc-
casion of the Blue Mountain College
Homecoming this year.
In accepting the invitation to join
in the celebration of Mother Berry's
birthday Senator Harrison said, g.. !.
all Mississippi honors the name and
fine work of Mother Berry it
will be very pleasing to me if
can on that occasion ad my praises
to her fine work and the invaluable
influence of Blue Mountain College
and the fine body of women it has
sent forth throughout the country"
Mrs. O. B. Taylor of Jackson,
National Homecoming Chairman, is
actively engaged in securing county
Homecoming Chairmen in Mississippi.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-03

A railway freight car may be load
ed at any station in the forty-eight
commonwealths of the United States
and the nine provinces of the Dom
inion Of Canada for uninterrupted
movement and delivery to any other
station in either of the two countries.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

would have been taken. Brenda
Joyce spent one evening celebrat-
ing at the Hollywood night spots,
now has retired into dateless Sc
clusion because her boy friend has
gone on two-month business trip
to Ell Centro, Calf. Cesar Romero
is involved in that yarn about the
props with a past, the six-guns he
is using in film being the ones
used by Wyatt carp in his battles
with t he bad men. George San
ders likes to play chess when he
wants to play chess, so he has OBJ
tanned gyroscopic chess board for
playing on his yacht while violent
storms are pitching it about. Gail
Patrick has been elected Americas
ideal tall girl" by the Modern Style
Guild of Chicago. Donald Meek
Is not really meek at all, but of
the screen he stands up for his
rights. Arthur Treacher has been
made honorary PRESIDENT of the
Staff Club. organization of gentle
mems gentlemen and ladies' maids
in New York.
Wearying of this? Then be happy
you do not have to read all of our
mail from the Hollywoods in the
silly season. But before you 20
there is one more yarn.
THE admirers of Lillian Russell,
the beautiful actress of old Broad
way, have stopped Twentieth Gen.
tury-Fox from putting tights on
Alice Faye.
Following an announcement
some time ago that Miss Faye, who
plays the title role in Lillian Rus
SELL would wear black tights and
$500 worth of embroidered hose
to show off her shapely limbs scores
of people who knew Miss Russell or
had seen her on the stage set up
a clamor.
Lillian Russell, they said, never
was so immodest as to wear tights.
my mother always said the
stages were too draughty,' reported
her daughter, Dorothy Russell, who
lives in New York.t
G. w. T. w.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
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ficult to describe and delightfully."-
exhausting to look at. She sings
her songs and at the same time
acts out the meaning of the words
with an unrestrained performance
worthy of the most athletic roles
of the late Douglas Fairbanks.
For instance, she gives 1.-TWO For
the Show" a champagne quality of
delight with her singing of Little
Miss Muffet," a comic version of the
children's rhyme in which she
pictures herself as an enrased
Little Miss Muffet who turns in
fury and gives the spider a terrible
beating.
Miss Hutton had a few difficulties
in winning her present top rank
ing position in Broadway musical
comedy, but she got by them with
a success instinct of Horatio Alger.
When she was more of an infant
than she is now-she was 20 on
February 26-her mother worked on
an upholstery assembly line in a
Detroit automobile factory. Betty,
audacious in her ambitions at such
an early age, said, MON, I'm going
to buy you a beautiful home and a
silver fox fur"
Found in Detroit.
Today Nom has the silver fox and
lives with Betty and her singing
sister, Marion, in a sumptuous
apartment near New York City's
Central Park.
Betty's energetic dancing, before
she had any idea they paid big
salaries for such joyful diversions,
started her on her Broadway career.
She was dancing with her Saturday.
night-young-man in a Detroit night
club when Vincent Lopez sew her
uninhibited swirls and steps across
the floor. He signed her immedi-
ately, brought her to Broadway and
now she's show in herself in 1.-TWO
for the Show"
Besides Miss Hutton, there were a
few other rather exciting perform
ances in the field of musical comedy,
but they all pale in comparison to
that of Sharkey, the trained seal, in
the new Rodgers and Hart musical
comedy, Higher and Higher"
Sharkey, Tapping his fms and yoick-
ing at Jack Haley all over the set,
gives performance that all human
actors could study well for tech
niQue.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
ADVERTISEMENT,
Noted Screen Author
To Train Writers

Norman Krasna, who wrote the
screen plays Bachelor Mother"
"The Richest Girl in the World"
Fury" ats a Date" - newest
starring vehicle for Deanna Dur
bin-starts Hollywood school to
find and train new writer's.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

A1ooeCl P1CSC Aldo UCCll plOOuCcu W
outrage some and exalt others. But
that's not the case here. Heavenly
Express" is no more than the five
best plays of what has been a tired
season. The chances are it is no
great shakes as a work of literary
art, but it is an emotional extrava-
ganza full of furious and unreason-
able happiness. And if you've ever
been an underdog, you'll wag your
tail and bark all the way through it.
The play begins under a railroad
trestle with three hoboes warming
their hands over a fire in a junked
auto fender while waiting for a
southbound freight to take them
out of a blizzard.
They talk of a number of things
Of the melancholy Bo, who had
the road curse put on him when
he left a pal to die unattended
because he was in hurry to catch
a train; of Betsy Graham, widow
down in Winslow, Ariz., who
feeds all the buns who come
to her boarding house door with the
best Mulligan pies this side of para
disc; of the Overland Kid, the
Paul Bunyan of the hoboes who 18
years before fell off the icy top of
a freight train into a ravine and
was never seen again; finally of
the heavenly express, a train with
platinum wheels and a diamond
for headlight, that carries all good
buns, all out-and-out buns, to the
hobo heaven.
Fastest Trains Forever.
The heavenly express can out
race comets and the hellbound
manifest. And it's hurry is to get
buns to an evergreen land where
the jaybirds nest in unshorn hair,
the cigarette trees grow, whisky
flows from rocks and, most i'm
portant of all for real out-and-out
bum, the fastest trains in the uni
verse are running all day and all
night forever.
And suddenly there is a wild,
piano hoot that fills the sky and
comes from all directions and the
Overland Kid sits over the fire,
saying, "Hiya and hello" and the
other buns tumble away from him.
The Overland Kid is the advance
ticket collector for the heavenly
express and he punches his tickets
with a kiss. Those he kisses die.
He is there to punch the ticket OF
the melancholy Bo and his next
stop is Winslow, where he's going
to punch ticket for Betsy Graham
and make her chief dietitian for
the hobo paradise.
And at Last. Respect.
So there is huge delight among
the buns as the heavenly express
chooses to ride the Santa Fe tracks,
roaring at 1000 miles an hour, so
Evening star., 1940-04-28

fast 1t Is invisible, and invisible
hands throw switches, toss through
flyers to sidings and cause a vast
amount of confusion and uproar
among all railroad executives
between Albuquerque and Palm
Springs.
In the end, the heavenly express
picks up the good lady dietitian
and roars off, leaving behind a
parcel of railroad men who are
scared to death and must, of course,
forever after look upon all hoboes
with respect, knowing that the Al
mighty Vagabond has good eye
out for them.
That's the play. It's the kind
that talented man, with a taste
for fun. lying fiat on his back in
the middle of nothing, down and
out and suffering and helpless,
might dream up out of his pain.
Mr.. Bein, the author, has been
that way many times, having given
up hoboing as profession only
when he parted company with a
freight train and leg at the same
time.
No Reality Wanted.
The thing that a helpless man
wants most to do is to reward his
friends and scourge his enemies.
And that's exactly what Heavenly
Express" does. The few railroad
men who are on the side of the
hoboes are promised almost good
riding" on trains when they die
and the others develop burrows of
fear along their bald skulls.
Rewarding friends and scourging
enemies is, of course, childish oc-
cupation even when indulged in by
adults, and Heavenly Express" be-
comes child's play in the hands
of the actors. They act their fam
tastic story in a fantastic manner,
the one side shivering with wet
Tipped glee, the other side shiver-
ing with wet-eyed fear. They break
into songs and two THE
Gila Monster Route" and "The Hobo
Convention"-that brought down
the house both times I saw the
play. And there is no reality at
all in most of them. None is want
ed. When an underdog is fulfill
ing his soul, reality would only be
uncomfo Portable.
John (Jules) Garfield plays the
Oakland Kid like Antaeus, touching
the earth only to have his strength
renewed. John is the boy who went
to movieland, with the group the
ater crying Hollywood has stolen
| our Jules"
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Evening star., 1940-04-28
Macarthur
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California students selected RE
becca" as the picture of perfection" !"
U. S. c. is a place for which we
have only respect, to be sure, but
we cannot work up any enthusiasm
over the news value of the fact the
is persons who go to school there
like "Rebecca."
Oh, So Witty, These Lads.
One of the strangest aspects of
the silly season is its effect on the
sense of humor. A case in point?
Right here is the table about how
that great ribber, Adolphe Menjou,
had the tables turned on him on
the set one day by Bill Gargan:
Hey, Turp,' he called across the
stage. You'd better get rid of that
Brooklyn bargain you're wearing.
You're rich dope in this picture.
"Unabashed, Gargan looked up
and down the impeccable Menjou
and answered: I'm willing if the
floor walker you hired that get-up
from has BROTHER"
Cards, those lads. Boy, bring us
an aisle; we want to roll.
The mail is full of these items,
which must have been of vast i'm
portance to some one, else all this
trouble to spread the news never
Evening star., 1940-04-28
StOkOwski's
Daughter Is
Career Girl
She Is Preparing
Already for Work
On the Stage
By Mary E. Plum mer,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
Sonia Stokowski, blond daughter
OF Leopold Stokowski, the conduc-
tor, and Nine. Olga Samaroff -Sto-
kowski, pianist, is going to be an
actress and at 18 already has COM
pleted several years work toward
a stage career.
You've got to do something In
ife-you can't just sit around" she
said. II know I have a lot of hard
work ahead-the harder the better.
But I plan next winter to go on
studying and start playing small
roles, until SLOWLY hope-I get
there"
Ever since she was a tiny girl
Sonia has loved the theater and
she has been before audiences oc-
casionally from her early child
hood.
AS tot in Philadelphia she
sometimes went on for her fathers
chlldren's concerts, augmenting tie
instrumental chorus with the CHEEKY
clack Of little gold rattle.
Now slim, blue-eyed young lady,
she has no illusions about the
amount of effort that goes into the
making of career in the arts.
Shed rather do straight than in
genue roles, but is willing "to do
anything possibly can I don't
care if it's comedy as long as the
play says something"
This summer she expects to Join
some summer theater company. She
already has spent a summer with
the Cape Playhouse in Massachu.
sets, where she appeared with a
student group in Night Must Fall"
and THE Distaff Side" and did
"walk-ons' in the regular produce
tions.
Last summer she also played the
leading feminine role here in the
amateur comedy clubs revival Of
The JEST" in which John and
Lionel Barrymore starred 20 years
ago.
At IL Sonia had decided to be an
actress. At IA she started working
on it. Her dramatic training has
been by special arrangement with
her regular school at the neigh
borhood playhouse.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
DANCING.

PERFECT YOUR DANCING
Fox Trot, Waltz, Taneo, Rhumba, Indi-
vidual instruction and group practice.
10 Lessons for $500
Tap dancing for professional or as exercise.
Capitol Dance Studio, 525 18th st. NV.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

W tdhC ONCI lIlc gOp uldSCullQC TOleS.
All this means golden opportuni-
ties for the current crop of juvenile
male actors in Hollywood. I've al
ready mentioned in previous COL
umns the meteoric rise of William
Holden, who within the space of q
year jumped from obscurity to the
lead opposite Jean Arthur in "Ari-
zona." A survey of the Hollywood
scene reveals at least a dozen other
young hopefuls for whom the cur
rent dearth of leading men spells a
lucky break.
Alan Curtis has just been grab
bed ty zanuck and padlocked
under a long-term contract. The
ood-looking Curtis-dark hair, blue
eyes, 6 feet l inch tall-hails from
Chicago. He started his working
life as bill collector, graduated
to a taxi-driver job and from that
into an advertisers model. The
magazine ads won Curtis the i'm
portant role of sailor in the movie
version of "Winterset." His first
important role was the husband of
Joan Crawford in "Mannequin." +"
Since then he has appeared in "Yel-
low Jack" "Shopworn Angel"
Hollywood Cavalcade" and Ser
geant Madden"-among others. His
curren chore in -Four Sons" has
impressed Daryl Zanuck to the
point Of buying Alan's contract from
Metro. The lad has been promised
. starring build-up.
Came Up the Hard Way.
Robert Stack - remember the
name. You'll be seeing him often
In juvenile leading man roles. Stack
made his screen debut opposite
Deanna Durbin in First Love" and
earned celluloid glory as the first
man to kiss Deanna on the screen.
The blond, blue-eyed, 21-year- old
Robert is one of the wealthier of
the current bunch of juvenile heroes
His hobbies include polo and skeet
shooting. He was a member of the
all-American skeet team in 1861
In the following year Stack en-
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Underdogs Wag Their Tails
Over Heavenly Express
By Ira Wolferf.
NEW YORK.


There Is large quite violent difference Of opinion Albert
Heavenly Express both the play itself acting
Garfield Harry Carey and Alne MacMahon among Others
Few content to let with a
evening either here there depending
matter of fact neither willing the play
flowers their hair that
the derdog has had in The underdog
the heart he belongs
is to suspect in opinion that
Evening star., 1940-04-28

With motion picture studios eager for
new stories and bidding tor the services
to q home-study school started In Hollywood
recently for the express purpose OF dis-
covering and developing amateur writing
talent. Founders of the school are Nor
man Krasna, playwright, and Warren E.
Schutt, formerly Professor at Columbia
University and one Of Americas foremost
teachers Of creative writing.
Experience of leading HOLLYWOOD pro-
ducers shows that the industry can no
longer depend on big name" writer's for
sudacient material. according to Krasna.
Studioo gates are now open to unknown
stories through the proper channels.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Free Brochure on Request

The schutt-Krasna School has prepared
PARADE. which outlines the steps BY
which stories may be sold to motion pic
ture studios; In offering this brochure
out that II you have imagfnation, an ahil-
ity to express thoughts with words and
fully complete the course. Previous ex-
perience In writing is unnecessary If
you want to read this story Of the op-
your name and address to Norman Krasna.
1904 HOLLYWOOD Blvd. HOLLYWOOD, Call.
fornis. Dept. 21. It will be mailed to you
Evening star., 1940-04-28

STUDY IN EVOLUTION-Since she entered pictures little
14yearold GIRL more than decade Loretta Young
appeared in than so films No just
hen that she had to defend her honor she
center photograph or in a picture Surrounding the
defense other stages in her Upper e
Footprints to Satan CENTER in Scarlet Seas
upper right portrait made nine later loer le The
SQua OF $780, oOer right in big Business ir and
loUer CENTER as she today in "The Doctor
Wife," at the Earle.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Shortage Of Leading Men
FilrmdOm's Current Wall
Pictures Often Are Abandoned
Because There Aren't Enough
Male Stars to Go Around
By Sheilah Graham.
By Sheiiah Graham.


Misunderstanding
And the louder Freelanng favortes Grant
Conan Douglas Fairbanks
had the inclination strength get the
strange situation pictures
World Cruise in point because there leading
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-24
The Training Base

The Wilmington area definitely takes place
IN the national defense map with the Official
announcement by the war department "
create a great training base occupying oo
square miles for coast artillery antl-alrcrai'
re giments in the Holly Shelter section Oh on'
slow. Duplin and Fender counties.
The project has been in contemplation ~
some months, with a group OF devoteo VIII
mingtonians in constant contact with te
Wa shingtcn authorities, but it was not until
Friday that it received the stamp OF depart
mental approval. 1t was a mere colnc'dent tnat
the announcement should have come almost
simultaneously with the arrival OF Santa Claus
but there are those who associate the TWO
events. They are alike at least in that oou
signal hopes fulfilled.
The initial force will consist of 10000 en-
listed men, according to word from Washlng-
ton. That means that Wilmington, the nearest
large trading center, will benefit by the spend
ing power of not only the actual force ltseH
but of the additional thousands who WILL sette
at or near the post and by the commlssary
and ouartermaster purchasing of supplies. But
it is not only in its financial advantages that
Wilmington welcomes the new training center.
It's benefits will extend far beyond that. 1t
will give impetus and new vigor to the entire
area.
Furthermore, it will afford the basis for
more extensive defense measures. A special
survey board of the mariue corps has already
voiced approval of this vicinity for a marine
training base. It is reasonable to believe that
the, decision to place the anti-aircraft base
near Holly Ridge will not be without its favor
able effect on the marines. Even better than
this, however, will be the opportunity Tor serv-
ice it's coming will afford the people of Will
who have long been on their toes to
do something constructive in the defense pro-
gram.
When advised by telephone by the Star
News of what had been decided, Lieut.. Col.
George w. Gillette, who had been active In
behalf of the project since inception Of the
defense program, said: 1T will change the
picture in Wilmington overnight" That is the
way all progressive Wilmingtonians are view
ing it.
There is a new spirit abroad already. There
is no doubt that southeastern North Carolina
has been introduced to a new era OF service
and development, and that full advantage will
be taken of this great opportunity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-24
Week Of Fox Hunting

From colonial days the South has inherited
a tradition which has lost little of its pic
turesquences during the passage of the years.
of the trappings are gone and there is
less Of a social atmosphere. But the
excitement is as great now, and the thrill as
deep, as when pioneer gentlemen gathered at
the blowing of a horn. We speak of fox hunt
ing, which comes down to us of this generation
as a treasured heritage.
This week the cry of the hounds, the clatter
OF hoofs, the shouts of hunters, will be heard
in Brunswick county, for a full week of fox
hunting has been arranged, and many experts
are coming for the chase.
1t is to be not wholly a social enter
prise. 1t has its economic side as well. Farm
ers complain that foxes are stealing their
chickens and turkeys and living like lords
at their expense. But this will not detract
from the joy Of taking the brush or the ex-
liberation of following the hounds over fences
and through ravines and coming in tired and
hungry and happy to enjoy the hospitality of
S%outhport's welcoming citizens.
1t will be a great week in Southport, and if
there are more pink coats and red caps at
White sulpher there'll never be more fun or
more contented hunters in those fields than
right here in our own neighborhood.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-24
TOP o. THE MORNING

God saUed Paul not for his oun sake alone,
but for the sake of others. HE is q chosen
Vessel unto me to bear my name before the
Gentiles." Some OF us think that God rescued
Us because ne are important. Has it ever &C.
cured to you to ask orhy God brought you into
the lights? Is it possible that you hare been
led to Christ in order that you may lead others
to Christ! Is it not Gods plan for the con-
quest of the Uor1d that every man Who has
been pulled out of the ditch shall set to and
null his brother out of the ditch also?
PEI
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-24
VOICE OF A OLDIE

A soldier is nobody, we hear neo.
pie say.
He is an outcast in the world and
always in the way.
We admit there are bad ones from
the Army to the Marines.
BUT you will find the majority, the
most worthy you've seen.
Most people condemn the soldier,
"hen he takes a drink or two.
But does the soldier condemn >ou9
When you stop to take a few.
The government picks it's sold.
iers, from millions far and wide.
So place him your equal buddy, side
by side.
Now don't scorn the soldier, when
he takes you by the hand.
Fol the uniform he wears, means
protection for our land.
When a soldier goes to battle.
you cheer him on his way,
And you say he is a hero, when in
his grave he lay.
But the hardest time for a soldier
is in the time of peace.
When people mock and scorn him,
and treat him like a beast.
With these few lines we close,
hope We don't offend.
But when you meet a soldier, Just
treat him as your friend.
A SOLDIER.
(From Fort Jackson)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-24
Dies Raids Increase

Rep. Martin Dies, chairman Of the house
committee investigating unAmerican activities
in this country, who declares Chicago the hub
of the alien agent wheel, has increased the
total of raids on Nazi and Fascist social
clubs'' in that city to IS in two days. It is
presumed that he gained possession of docu-
ments and correspondence which will prove
useful to the FBI in its pursuit OF subversive
elements which seek to handicap United States
efforts both to rearm itself against foreign
threats and give valuable aid to Britain.
Naturally much that Dies discovers in his
is not to be given out to the press.
Its publication would be inadvisable from
many s~tandpoints, chief Of which is that, by
this means persons under suspicion would be
tipped off and so gain opportunity either to
suspend their operations for a. time or move
on to other fields of nefarious adventure.
But curiosity is aroused by his statement
that the testimony of a certain Mrs Blank"
understood to be a prominent society woman
whose story would rock the nation" may be
called as a witness before his committee.
Who is this woman? What does she know?
What can she be persuaded or forced to reveal,
and how much of what she tells will be made
available to the press? These are natural
questions, and we can only hope that Mr.. Dies,
who has not always been as circumspect IN
his revealments as the federal government
could wish, is not now seeking to create a
sensation merely for sensations sake, but has
actually hit upon a source of valuable informa.
ton concerning fifth column" activities.