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Evening star., 1940-06-18
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showina

Palace - The Mortal Storm, -
Margaret Sullivan caught in the
one that engulfed Germany: IL,
2:25, 4:5o, 7:l0 and 9:35 pm.
Slightly Honorable" mys-
terry in the mad comedy manner:
II am. lao, 4:30, tbs and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50, $40
and s:O5 pm.
Capitol "Turnabout." Thorne
Smiths daft tale of the husband
and wife who traded places: IL m,
1:40, 4:30, 7:20 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 and 9:O5
pm.
Keith's MY Favorite Wife,"
Irene Dunno is Cary Grants: 11:15
am, l, 2:45. 4:3o, Sis, sos and
$50 pm.
Metropolitan-"2l Days Together" !"
with today's Romeo and Juliet, Lau-
renee Olivier and Vivien Leigh: IL As
am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and $50
pm.
Columbia - waterloo Bridge, -
Vivien Leigh in q poignantly dra-
matte romance: 1850 am, 2:l5,
4:40, 7:05 and $50 pm.
Little-"The Mill on the Floss,
screen version of the George Eliot
novel: II am, 2:05, $40 and 8:25
pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Cross -Roads-"Meet the Wife
comedy with q touch of bigamy
$50 pm.
Roadsfde-"The Sealed Wen,' rip.
roaring old-tims melodrama: $50
pm,
Evening star., 1940-06-18

ing last summer.
As an actors
play, that is, a
play written by
an actor, Meet
the Wife tells
a very little
story with very
little suspense in
a lot of words
a accompanied oy
a great deal of
movement. That
is a considerable
handicap for a
group of non-
pro f e S S / on a |
Evening star., 1940-06-18
Jacks Solution

When ribbed about the fact that
ne Will be co-starred with Fred
Allen IN a picture. Jack Benny
quipped: i've got that fixed. I'll
use my real name and there won't
be room left on the main title for
Aliens"
Evening star., 1940-06-18
Pioneers Two

Alfred Hitchcock, director of
Walter Wanger's Foreign Core
spondent," and Herbert Marshall.
one of the stars of the film, worked
together In the first English all
talking picture, Murder
Evening star., 1940-06-18
Plays the Flute

John Qualen of John Ford S
Argosy production, THE Long
Voyage Home" is a fiutist of note
In the picture. he plays the flute he
used when he was with a concert
orchestra in the East.
Evening star., 1940-06-18
Crossroads Opening Play
Offers Gay Coincidence
But Meet the Wife Has Period
Quality in Most of Its Aspects;
Joan Bennett Writes Rebuttal
BY JAY CARMODY.

Meet the Wife Lynn sta-ings play ceased to be
an actor and typical
CROSSROADS heaer on another last night
summer entertainment,
oemonra that Cathrne Ryan promising
enne tnerw while generating
like opening production than n*------ - 80 -
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on L0an>Out List
For First Time in Life
Warmers Reported as Interested;
Cagney Teaches Anatole Litvak
His Working Hours Hold
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.


I addressing picture
producers.
For the nrst time in Gretas long soourn at MA
the willing understand
interested
Lubitsch. who Is working
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lick. light-hearted
theater was Offer
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Bulletin Board: "2l Days To-
gether," with Vivien Leigh and that
tall, dark and handsome man in
the starring roles. supplants Con-
fessions of Nazi Spy" on the screen
of the Metropolitan today. -. That
was the picture in which Miss Leigh
and Mr.. o. first worked together.
-. It's new to- the American mar
ket. Conrad Veidt's Wander
ing Jew" comes tomorrow to the
Evening star., 1940-06-18

DC HIUc1 eStITIB 20 Sce WTIcUIIeT OHT7
away from the home lot. At Metro, q
the little gal has them all trained
to leave her strictly alone. But in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-10

day may, on the second succeeding
day, be operating from Rhodes
against Alexandria. Gibraltar can
not be reinforced by air from
Egypt, or vice versa.
Axis Fleets Nullified.
On the other hand, the axis sea
forces are hopelessly separated;
Germany cannot reinforce Italy by
sea, or vice versa, while Gibraltar
holds. And even without Gibraltar,
this can be done only with great
difficulty and by means of evasion,
as with submarines. The British
home fleet Is in between, and is
superior to either the Italian or
German fleets or to both together
IN concentrated fighting strength.
The Germans and Italians cannot
combine against the British Medi-
terranean fleet for the same reason;
nor, even If Germany acquires con-
troll of the Dardanelles, can she set
up naval force in the Black Sea,
because she has no means Of getting
one there The new axis partner,
Japan, cannot do anything to help
because Japan does not dare send
her fleet away from home while the
United States feet remains in the
Pacific; nor could the japanese risk
the sole defense of the empire in
the Red Sea and the Mediterranean
In any case. Torpedoes, bombs and
mines might take such a toll of it
that there would be little left to
go home again.
On land the axis is supreme in
Europe; but its land power cannot
get into the island Of Great Britain
except by overcoming enormous
obstacles and dangers, nor can 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-10

get into Egypt excepting by defeat
ing Turkey or crossing q wide and
waterless desert. These things may
be done, some or all of them. The
point is that they will not be easily
done.
Command of the sea keeps open
Britain's supply lanes, impedes the
supply of Libya, practically pro-
hibits any German Army reinforce
ments to Libya, isolates Italian
East Africa, prevents axis penetra-
ton of the French, Belgian and
Dutch colonial empires. 1t is this
great advantage, which the axis IS
seeking to diminish by its attempted
blockade of the British Isles by its
threats to Gibraltar and Suez.
While Britain retains this sea COM
mand, all the continental conquests
of the axis, like those of Napoleon,
will be in vain.
Copyright 1910. New York Tribune Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-10
Eliot Sums Up Possibilities
For Axis in Three Areas
Military Commentator Sees Fleet as
Biooest British Factor in Mediterranean

is the one natural route of communi-
cations which passes from Equa-
toral Africa through the desert to
the Mediterranean, and Is OF great
strategic importance.
80 The Western Mediterranean
Here the British control depends on
their continued possession of Gil
braltar and ability to use the rock
as naval base. 1t appears from
present political developments that
Spain is not yet ready to allow the
passage of German troops to attack
the rock, or to take part in such an
attack herself. This does not, how
ever, preclude another possibility
and that is the use of bases on
French North Africa by German and
Italian aircraft for a series of in
tensive air attacks on the dockyard
and harbor works. which might
make these unuSable. Such attacks
would not make Spain belligerent,
which would give the British no ex-
cuse for Selling the Canary Islands
as an alternate base for watching
the straits. On the other hand, air
attacks could hardly drive the Brit
ish out of Gibraltar altogether, so
that it could still be used as a point
of support for submarines and light
naval craft. 1t would, however, be
much easier for the Italian fleet to
break out into the Atlantic, If British
capital ships could no longer be
based at Gibraltar.
French Colonies in Picture.
This consideration is connected di-
rectly with the future of French
North and West Africa. Once British
tenure of Gibraltar has been even
partially neutralized, it might be
possible to establish axis submarines,
aircraft and surface raiders outside
the straits. at Casablanca or even at
Dakar, which would be a serious
threat to vital British supply lines.
Such a threat could, of course, be
countered by the establishment Of
an interior control of these regions
by a French force friendly to Great
Britain, if this should prove pos
sible, in which case a struggle might
ensue on land for possession of this
area. This would divert from the
European and Middle Eastern
theaters large forces of axis troops
and aircraft. All this seems at the
moment, however, to be in the realm
of rather distant speculation.
"a General considerations. The
axis occupies the central position
between the three theaters of pos
sible operations. Especially as re-
CARDS air power, the axis can there
fore shift its forces from one to the
other as the needs of the moment
may require. As an example, 1t
would be possible for the Germans
to concentrate force of 500 bomb
ers in the Aegean for use against
Egypt, operate there for several
weeks, and return these bombers to
the western front before Britain
could by any available means send
a similar reinforcement to Egypt.
Britain cannot fly bombers direct
to Egypt but must proceed by sea
around the Cape of Good Hope.
An Italian squadron operating from
Sardinia against Gibraltar on one
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04
HANGOVERS

Continued From Page One)
your thumbs out of each others
eyes," The King got under way
with the announcement that he
couldn't see the advantage of
spending $4,000 sinkeys to re-
lease ~, 900 iron men from the
State, which would, in turn, be
spent on the new dual highway.
With him, the distance Just had
to be from Hagerstown to Fred
erick and no detours. The Gus
toners didn't cheer that one and
finally the King compromised on
MyersVille, wherever that is.
At the bell The Kid got a hand.
Both boys staggered from
their corners when the bell
sounded for the Fifth. The King
was bleeding badly, his eyes
were swollen and he had taken
terrific punishment. The kid
had also taken a few on the
chin with telling effect. 1t was
obvious to the spectators that
the end was only a matter of
moments. AS they walked out
somebody heaVed towel. It
flew through the air. The Bat
tile of the Mayors was history.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04
M AR VI AN D
Merry-Go Round

CONTINUED From Page One)
the fact that many big farmers,
such as Basil Mobley and Lawson
King of Montgomery County are
openly declaring for straight
ticket endorsement, Byron looks
like an awfully good bet. And he
still has leeway to convince voters
that this is no time to send a
novice to Washington:
Even the feeling of Western
Maryland miners, who have had a
peeve against Bill for leaving the
Mines and Mining Committee for
the Military Affairs Committee is
cooling down somewhat.
John T. Jones of Labor's Non
Partisan League is personally
still cool toward Byron, but his
prejudices aren't necessarily shar-
ed by other Cumberland labor men
who led the 13-day Celanese Cor
poratiOn strike which has just been
settled ByrOn's forthrightness in
signing the Neely-Kellar petition
to bring the Mine Safety Bill to
vote despite Davey Wards
opposition, = should help on cleo
ton day. AS one Cumberland
union man put it: Byron may
not be all that labor wants but his
position on labor is favorable and
We don't feel there would be any
disadvantage in tossing his actual
experience aside for the glib
promises of an erstwhile baseball
herO!'
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04

The crowd yelled. 1--WE Wuz rob
bed" echoed through the seldom
used stadium. Slowly the
spectators left the hall and
the flood lights were turned off.
And the janitor, with broom in
hand, started sweepin' up the
peanut shells!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04

Americans ate more than II bill
lion pounds OF meat last year, the
largest amount in our history, and
an increase of II per cent over the
consumption of the previous year,
according to packing authorities in
Chicago.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04
LOW BIDDER ON STONE

Harry T. Goetz, Greencastle, was
low bidder for supplying 10000
tons of crushed stone to be used
on a road from the Roxbury bor-
ough line to the intersection with
the Timmons mountain road. His
bid was about $4,000.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04
KEEP A-GOiN'!

If you strike thorn or rose,
Keep a-gOin'
If it halls or if it SHOWS,
Keep a-goin'!
'Taint no use to sit and whine
When the fish amt on your line,
Bait your hook and keep on tryin'
Keep a-goin'!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04
LABOR AND WALLACE

In the industrial area OF Cum
berland in Allegany county, the
principal excitement of the past
three weeks has been the labor
trouble and strike of the CeiaNese
Corporation which turned into a
miniature battle of BritOns with
rhetorical Jimmy Blackwell, edi-
tor of the Voice of Labor. and a
native of Liverpool bIitzing away
at that other son of Britain. VIM.
j. Cameron, vice-president of the
British owned Celanese Corpora
ton. Most popular with Western
Maryland labor is COP Candidate
Harry Nice but his campaign is
not taken seriously and Radcliffe
will carry Garrett and Allegany.
Roosevelt, of course, is strong
with the labor vote which at the
moment gives him the margin
needed to pocket Cumberland. But
the rural and small town senti-
ment in both Garrett and Allegany
is, at this stage, hostile to the
New Deal and vigorously so toward
Henry Wallace, FDR's hand-picked
running mate.
This hostility is manifest in
many of Marylands rural areas,
particularly Carroll County, but
less so in Montgomery just to the
south where 1900 farmers are en-
listed in the AAA farm program.
Roosevelt continues to maintain a
definite edge here despite Wal
lace's unpopularity. Yet just to
the north in ultra-conservative
Carroll, the farmer and small mer-
chant feel that the Administra-
tons farm program is fiZzle and
would vote for anything rather
than some more of the same"
They say Willkie will carry the
county by $500 votes ~-
***
MOST TYPICAL POLL AREA
Most typical cross-section of
voting America proha bly, is Balti-
more County and the SittX. III the
combined areas of which are The
foreign labor elements, the bank
ing and business zones, the white
collar and government workers,
both dirt and gentlemen farmers,
plus the leisure station-wagon set
of Green Spring Valley. Here
Willkie sentiment is loudest, but
Roosevelt sentiment more numer-
GUS. While FDR does not appear
as strong as in 1886 when he car
ried the city and county by some
100000 he IS still far out in front.
In this respect it is curious that
in the prosperous town of ToWson
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04

which should be and is pro-Will-
kie, an air of defeatism has caught
up with~the Republicans.
The most wishful thinkers there
go no further than looking toward
the possibility that Willkie might
be elected by an electoral vote
even though he did not receive the
popular vote. Enthusiastic lieu
tenants of H. Street Baldwin, pres
ident of the County Commission
ers and new Baltimore County
boss, predict that their area will
whip the husky-throated w. w. by
5000 votes.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-10-04
HE WAS SCOTCH

They were just leaving the first
tee, when a heavily built man. hold
ing a handful of protectors, ap-
preached his caddie, and said:
DO you smoke, sonny?"
yes, sair", said the boy eager
ly noting the cigars.
Guess TIL carry them myself,
them said the man walking away.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

they crawled into the first rehearsal and dis
covered that it was really true that their star
was going to be that dramatic jalopy, young
Mr.. Septimus Cloud. Oh, there were actors
in the company, Also Curtiss Farr. that grand
old leading man, was to do the specialist, and
Goldie Wimble, who could play any age from
sixteen to forty and could even make an
audience believe that she was beautiful. was
the nurse But the Carnivals were as doubtful
about the society girl as about Septimus. She
was young woman named Eva Swain.
"Iknow that GIRL" said Mile to Matt 'She
was the model for the Old Pappy Bourbon ad
pictures, and she had almost as good figure
as the whisky bottle"
The rehearsals were a quiet series of
slaughters. The trained actors gave their lines
automatically, and Eva Swain was too fright
ened to be Objectionable. But Septimus was
as conspicuous as the measles. Mrs. Tawny,
the author. and her echo, the supposed pro-
ducer, had been able to get as director only
soft and cynical gentleman, given to liquor,
who was certain that the play would flop
anyway and didn't care how dreadful and
acrobatic that Topping would be.
f1E did nothing beyond trying to teach
Septimus how to cross stage and at down
in chair without being funnier than he
intended. A little YEARLY, patting the white
carnation in his lapel, the director crooned:
"Mr. Cloud, think perhaps when you sit
down. it might be well for you not to crouch
quite so low in your chair - know, it looks
very graceful and natural, but you wouldn't
want to deprive the balcony of the sight of
your celebrated face, would you?"
Certainly not! Septimus was generous fel-
low. He wouldn't want to do anything like
that to the balcony. So for seconds at time
he managed to sit upright. BY constant labor
the director also coaxed him to project his
voice so that the sharper ears could hear it
along the whole first row.
Throughout this training, which Matt
Carnival had undergone some fifty years ago
when he was ten, Septimus was not only en-
tirely satisfied with his progress but patroniz-
ing to all the cast.
To princely old Cutiss Far he conde-
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scended, 80 you didn't get on in Hollywood:
Well, never mind. We can't all have the good
luck to be photogenic. Personally, / feel quite
humble and awed by my success"
To Goldie Wimble he said, kid, swear.
admire your courage in sticking to the stage.
Any fool can be pretty. My advice IS to JUST
FORGET you haven't any looks and be proud OF
what you've done without them.'
Evening star., 1940-02-25

Matt and Mile he won over by yelling at
them. well, if it amt the Svenska chicken
farmers" And to poor Eva he caroled, "You
stick around with me, baby. and III teach you
all know"
So Eva promptly fell in love with him, and
all the rest as promptly fell in hate. But they
were troupers. They had learned not to tell
their companions what they thought. When
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Il Short Story Complete in This Issue


, ~aEpTlMUs CLOUD did not receive more
than hundred fan letters day. and
~ one lone secretary was enough to forge
his autograph on the pictures of his chiseled
and manly face which were sent out to ad-
mirers He wasn't, in fact, quite success in
Hollywood.
When he had first arrived in the modern
Athens, Septimus had promised to be rival
of Cary Grant and Enrol Flynn. But even the
art of being photographed requires enough
intelligence to understand such phrases as
Nov turn your head and look annoyed" and
Septimus's only talent was to widen his doe
like eyes and to murmur in the caressing tone
of a pigeon looking at handful of corn,
'Swell!'
He had never got beyond playing assistant
gang leaders and the younger brothers OF
aviators, and his agent was disguised. The
gas bills for the agents airplane were tre-
mendous. Septimus was doing little toward
paying for them, and just what higher purpose
can an actor serve than helping to pay an
aqent's bills? The agent took an hour OFT
from badminton and got an idea, and was
surprised and pleased by getting it.
Septimus had had no training on the spoken
stage, but the agent decided to do some
thing benevolent for the theater by lending
Septimus's profile to it.. and do something for
Septimus in the process. Happily dreaming.
he saw Septimus's artistic renown raised from
mere 81 900 week to $500.
Now the custom among certain theatrical
managers in New York is to look to Hollywood
for star. Their waiting rooms may be
crowded with competent professionals and
young people from summer stock, but the
managers will have no time to see them,
because they will be on the long distance
telephone to California, begging an agent IN
his gold-plated office, Don't you think you
could get me Hollister Hollyhock to play the
lead? thought he was wonderful as the Second
Penguin in Charley Chan at the South Pole. "
But even with this touching trust IN
Hollywood. the agent had his woes in finding
lead for Septimus Cloud The most cinemaniac
Broadway producers did not like star who
could not remember ten lines out of any play
without prompting.
1t was Mrs. Tulsa Tawny who led Septimus
to fame. Tulsa was broad and vigorous lady
who had lost her husband, inherited his for
tune and discovered that she was dramatist,
all together. She had composed script called
Love Cures All" which. she explained to
the home town newspapers, was going to bring
romance back to the world, and she was will
ing to show $50, 600 worth of faith
in it. She found in New York minor
producer who was willing to lend
his rather spotty name to its pro-
duction Both Mrs. Tawny and he
felt that Septimus's lambent eyes
would adorn such an improving
play.
1t was about Rich Young Man,
an aviator, who fell violently i'll of
nothing in particular, but who was
brought back to health by a Famous
City Specialist lit wasn't quite
clear what he specialized in, but ap-
parently he was combination OF
psychiatrist, otolaryngologist, and
chiropractor), Nurse and young
) lady who was a Society Girl all
through the first act but got better
As.~s tIe
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Septimus gaily invited them all out
for drinks, for dinner, for the first
night of film in which he could be
seen if you didn't happen to turn
your head at that moment, and they
all blankly refused, it did not occur
to him that they didn't w-nt his hospitality.
It was just that they were seeing as much
of their families as they could before they left
New York. He went around caroling, "We1l
all have dandy time together when we get
out on the road"
'Yes, just dandy" snarled Goldie Wimble.
II can almost feel it in my heart to be
sorry for that young human sacrifice" said
Matt to Mile.
There must have been moments when the
producer and the director were drunk enough
to be honest and to hint to Mrs. Tulsa Tawny
what turkey she was hand-feeding in Love
Cures All. But she was as blindly in love
with her own art, as was Septimus, and she
went on writing new and larger lines with
one hand and new and much larger checks
with the other - and the masterpiece actually
(Continvsd On nsxt poes)
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j HERE were also Country Doctor,
whose only function was to set off,
by comparison, the slightly sickening wisdom
of the specialist, and Housekeeper. whose
function was to look on while the rest OF the
cast dragged out the poor tender little body
of love and talked it to death.
This country doctor and this housekeeper
were played by an amiable pair of old troupers
named Matt and Mile Carnival.
Regularly, in September, Matt and Mile
came from their Wisconsin chicken farm to
New York, to look into every producers office
and hint that they would like to play together;
and regularly, in October, they sighed and
took separated jobs But this fall, when they
said mechanically, Don't suppose you've got
a place for the two of us in some production!"
the manager snorted, Eyes, l have in
Love Cures All"
Millie cried, WHAT" and tainted.
The Carnivals we're still in daze when