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Evening star., 1940-03-17
Happy Days
Are Here
Again
For Film Beauties,
That Is, Who Now
Can Dress Up
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The dirty-faced vogue for movie
beauties seems to be over. The girls
who dripped mud and CRIME in their
last pictures are putting on their
glad rags today +'--
Only yesterday, Joan Crawford
was dirt-streaked in Strange Car
CO." Greer Carson and Ann Sothern
took muddy falls In Remember"
and Congo Maisie," respectively.
Dolores Del Rio waded through
swamps in ''The Man From Dakota, /"
Marlene Dietrich got messed up in
"Destry Rides Again" and Ida
Lupino was sloyenly in "The Light
That Failed" The screen was full
of deglamourization.
Today, Miss Crawford has IA
changes of ultra-ultra gowns and
10 different hairdresses in Susan
and God" Miss Carson is all silks
and satins in Pride and Prejudice"
and Miss Lupino is to be glamorous
dancer in Victory"
After getting cream pies in her
face in Hollywood Cavalcade" and
being doused with water in Little
Old New York." Alice Faye is wholly
the grand dame with dozens OF
gorgeous gowns in Lillian Russell y
Rita johnson. who had her share OF
drabness in a couple of roles as q
woman prisoner, looks like a China
Evening star., 1940-03-17

the rolling stone gathering no moss,
he might still he in a bank.
IT was bank runner for six
months" he says. Then I could
stand it no longer, 50 I went into
the insurance business"
But insurance bored him so he
turned back to his parents profess
sion-the theater.
He Started Early.
He wasn't born backstage, but
he might as well have been. His
father was John T. Craven and his
mother was Ella Mayer, stage people
Of distinction, members Of the FAM
GUS old Boston stock company. He
made his first stage appearance at
8, substituting for a child in his
fathers show. At 9, he was sent
to school in Reading, Pa That was
when he decided he didn't like the
theater.
But at II. he went back to the
footlights, playing an old man in
"Silver King" 1t was in 1911 that
Craven really started going to town.
He appeared as James Gilley in
Bought and Pair For" The play
ran for three years.
Il found myself getting tired of
acting, so I wrote a play" Craven
said. After that I kept changing
identities. I'd get tired of writing
and turn to producing. Then I'd
get tired Of that and direct a
couple of shows. If direction palled.
I'd write lyrics for songs. But I
always found time to go to ball
games and to play golf"
Craven's leisure, in fact, has be-
come legend among actor and
writer folks. One columnist labeled
him public spectator number one.
Another called him the best pipe
and pants pocket actor in the coun-
try" But Alexander Woollcott's s
phrase seems more f1tting-"the
most lovable specimen Of Americana
on our stage"
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her fiiance is killed, and poor Mrs.
Doll is left all alone.
Both Gladys George and Muriel
Angelus are in somewhat the same
predicament in their respective,
recent movie chores. Both are
married ladies, both are deserted by
their husbands and both are left
alone to support their children as
best they may.
Minds Afflicted, Too.
Insanity rears its ugly screen head
in two imminent movies-"Bill Of
Divorcement," a remake, with Maui
reen OHara surrendering her right
to happiness because of her Ito my
mind mistaken resolve to stand by
her father, who has been a mental
patient in a sanitarium, but is now
cured. And Metro recently pur-
chased Sidney Kingsley's "The World
We Make" (based on the novel "Out-
ward Room") for Norma Shearer.
The picture starts with the heroine
an inmate of an asylum for the
mentally afflicted. She escapes and
is cured, but the girls fear of her
malaise continues right up to just
before the end
The female ghost stalking soon
to-be-released epic is heard, but not
seen, in "Rebecca." The entire film
is permeated by the spirit of the
first wife of Laurence Olivier, sup
posedy drowned, in reality muir
dered.
Other strong feminine screen
players will be seen in "The Con-
slant Nymph," with Merle Oberon
expiring in the final fade-out; and
'"The Little Foxes" in which the
central character is just about the
most ruthless, cold and cruel female
of the year; Johnny Apollo (erst-
while Dance With the Devil"), in
which Dorothy Lamour is left wait
ing for her lover to be released from
Jail; II Married Nazi"'-where the
lady leaves her husband. And, Of
course, a couple of tragedies for
Bette Davis-"All This and Heaven,
Too" where she is involved in MUIR
der and scandal, and "The Sem
tence" (ex-"The Letter"), in which
she is convicted Of the murder OF
her once-lover.
Well, you can't say I haven't
warned you. ..
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cialiZe because q man can't 60
through life on one job. And when
I don't want to work at all, just
play"
Now, then, II Mr.. Craven could
be labeled q flop in lfe's batting
averages, his philosophy could be
held up as a red nag in the schools
and homes Of the Nation. You
could dangle Craven to your or
spring as an example Of what
happens to fellows who refuse to
buckle down to good. solid job.
But the trouble with that is Craven,
the do-as-I-please-wor -when-I-
wish standard bearer, has had
nothing but success since 1911. Not
just a moderate success-but a big
one.
| It's Been 4 Full Career.
| For instance:
He has written such hit plays
as THE First Year" New Brooms, u
''Too Many Cooks" and THE Nine
teenth Hole"
He has been starred on Broadway
for years and years-most recently
In Thornton Wilder's pulitzer prize
winning play, Our Town"
He has directed more than a score
Of Broadways greatest plays.
He has produced several outstand-
ing dramatic shows.
He has been a successful screen
writer.
He has been a favorite in all the
big cities where there are stock
companies.
He has written lyrics for several
highly popular songs.
He has written the books and
lyrics for musical comedies.
And right now he's in heavy
demand as screen actor, currently
playing the role of the narrato,
in the film version of "Our Town,
which he created on the stage.
Craven believes that If he hac
been a youth full of stick-to-it.
ness, If he'd needed the motto about
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stage many years, but his return
was treated as a serious, fine effort.
And look at the reception Kath-
arine Hepburn enjoyed when she
found "A Philadelphia Story to off,
set the bad effects of The Lake."
Among Hollywood headliners who
seem serious about a return to their
old haunts is Spencer Tracy, who
would forfeit couple Of academy
statuettes If he could get into
play with Helen Hayes. That is
Tracy's main ambition at the mo-
ment Marlene Dietrich is play
shopping and has been for many
months. Warner Baxter is almost q
certainty for the fall market, now
that he has no further Aim COM
mitments. Jean Arthur, jeanette
Macdonald (she wants a fitting
musicaD, John Garfield, Pat OBrien,
Edward G. Robinson, George Raft,
Jimmy Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck,
Melvyn Douglas, Basil Rathbone, the
Ritz Brothers, Nancy Kelly, Irene
Dunno and Brian Aherne are but
handful of those who feel the
nip of spring and the clarion call
of Broadway.
It's Not All Idle Talk.
Even youthful Lana dancing CO.
ed Turner, with only a few film
starts and no stage experience to
her credit, is looking toward "The
Road" with longing eyes. She wants
to take SIX months of and co-star
with her new husband, Bandman
Artie Shaw, in big musical pres
entation they have been discussing.
A check on attractions now play
ing the big stem and those in prep
aration prove that Hollywood's
spring stage fever is not idle talk.
It appears movie names will be
dominating the casts of most Broad
way offerings during the next few
months.
Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Chat
terton, Elliot Nugent, Bert Lahr,
Ethel Norman, Betty Field. Donald
Cook, Monte Woolley, Franchot
Tone, Lenore Ulrich, Burgess Mere
dith, 1ngrid Bergman (Selznick's
new Swedish f1nd), Walter Huston,
Simone Simon, Mitzi Green and
Mary Brian are either in New York
shows or trouping the road nearby.
Flora Robson will join the con-
tingent Immediately after finishing
her stint in THE Sea Hawk" at
Warner Brothers. Gladys George
has quit Hollywood for Brock Penn
berton's Lady in Waiting"
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Evening star., 1940-03-17
More Screen Stars
Than Ever Eye
Broadway
Lure of Audiences
To Face Blooms
In the Spring
By Harold HeFernan.
HOLLYWOOD

f1OAbx WS0OO.
II half the movie actors who've
expressed burning desire to trod
the Broadway boards in stage plays
this spring and summer manage to
make good their ambitions, the stu
dos may as well prepare right now
to close shop-and darken q few
thousand theaters along with them.
But, have no fears-they won't.
Spring, descending early on Holly
wood, has ushered in its usual attack
Of morbid ennui-and stageitis
However, the stage epidemic seems
more acutely contagious than ever
before. Young and old actors alike.
some with no previous platform ex-
perience, have fallen willing victim
to the germ.
The reason, according to veteran
diagnosticians who've been watch
ing the same situation for years, is
that soaring temperatures and
sluggish days have a tendency to
stir the ham in the average actor.
At this season he invariably begins
regarding the camera as a devas-
tating ogre-and thinks the only re-
lief Is a chance to strut his stuff be-
fore real, flesh audiences in the big
town. 1t isn't the money-for screen
actors are the best paid entertainers
on earth-but u desire to dangle
from the other end of the rope and
drink In that hoped-for applause
that doesn't attend their lonely, ma
chine-like efforts on the sound
stages.
Joan Crawford Has an Idea.
Inspired by a surprising revival of
Broadway activity and better busi-
ness all along the road, movie play
ers are scanning plays of every de-
scription, consulting agents and beg
ging their bosses for time off-just
in case the right sort of material
does suddenly pop out of nowhere.
Joan Crawford, who has just
scored one of the outstanding acting
triumphs of her l5-year celluloid
career In Strange Cargo" known
in the fiction field as mot Too
Narrow, Not Too Deep"), has been
pointing at Broadway altogether
hopelessly) for many years. Now
she feels so strongly that the script
of this jungle film can be revised
into a smashing stage hit that she's
camping on the thresholds of
M-G-M executives, imploring them
to let her take it to Broadway-after
the picture has played itself out. of
course.
The novelty of such a situation
has the studio intrigued, too, so
don't be too surprised if Strange
Cargo" goes into stage run with
the studios one-time Dancing
Daughter" now a matured and de-
termined actress. who fights dog
gedly for attention, enlarging upon
the role she played so brilliantly
in the film.
Most forceful argument advanced
by Joan is that her box Office rat
ing, in need of some rehabilitation
after series of disastrous flops.
would be heightened by the ir1nova--
ton. That is interesting to M-G-M
because its contract with Joan runs
three more years and at an extreme
" high salary figure.
Others Want to See Faces.
Most Hollywood initiates fear the
scathing rebukes likely to be hurled
their way by the critics, but not
Joan. She's willing and eager to
brave jibes and ridicule just to get
that one chance she's dreamed of
over the years.
Other stars by the dozen are hop
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doll in 1869-82 clothes in Edison,
the Man"
Claudette Colbert was begrimed in
Drums Along the Mohawk" but,
although Boom Town" is an oil fields
story, she'll get In no dirt and mud.
And Betty Fields, uncouth in "Of
Mice and Men" is quite the fragile
maiden in Seventeen"
Evening star., 1940-03-17
MORGAN Promotes

Frank Morgan becomes the fifth
star to step into the cast of Boom
Town" at M-G-M. Cast as q fast
talking oil promoter, he joins Clark
Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette
Colbert and Hedy Lamar In the
film. This story Of the Texas oil
fields will be directed by Jack Con-
Way,
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Coming Attractions

NAT1oNALIady Waiting" comedy presented by
Penberton and with Gladys
play the leading role tomorrow night There will be the
usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees
Screen.
Pmocchio, Walt Disneys uength
this the adventures of the woodcarver masterpiece which
to life to meet strange adventures, opens Friday
EARLEVirgna City, with Enrol Flynn, Miriam
Randolph Scott involved in turbulent history
arrives Friday The Easter Week stage will
Hay-Ride"
CAP1TOL-"The BMebud" technicoor film
Maeerncks classic with Shirley Temple leading
Friday the stage will Jimmy Fidlers Hollywood
starlets including Olympic Bradna Mary Iealy and Others
METROPOLITAN Chump at Oxford
tuition of higher learning invaded by
Hardy, is scheduled to arrive Friday.
PALACE-"Grapes WRATH the motion picture
version Of John Stenbecks novel, will follow the current
ing of Northwest Passage"
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ing soon to look out on the faces of
a, real audience from behind the
foetlithts Edward Arnold, one OF
the busiest OF the top-f1ight char
acter artists and earning more
money in HOLLYWOOD than he could
ever hope to draw down in a play,
epnfesxes he is growing restless and
wants "one more fling" If Nun
nally johnson can come up with
suitable material he'll appear soon
in a show patterned after the life
OF Diamond Jim Brady, which he
did in pictures several years ago.
Frederic March is eager to get
Susan and God," his first film in
nearly two years, completed so he can
again apply his full time to the
stage. March's success and enthusi-
asm is doing much to instill other
Hollywoodites with the drama urge.
But March cautions them all to be
certain they have a worthy vehicle
before attempting to run the CANT
let.
Mr.. March Advises.
There has been a lot of resent
ment on Broadway in the past
against trading on Hollywood repu-
tations," said the actor. But if
the movie name is capable enough
and the play worthwhile, no fears
need be entertained. You certainly
don't find any one castigating MUM,
or Walter Huston or Raymond Mas
sey. MUM has been away from the
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Donat's DR.. Jekvll'

"Dr. Jekeyu and Mr.. Hyde" Rob-
ert Louis Stevensons dual person.
atty thriller. which has provided
screen starring material for John
Barrymore and Frederic March, has
been provided by M-G-M as star
ring vehicle for Robert Donat, latest
Academy Award winner. Donat will
do the picture after finishing
Ruined City" adaptation of Neville
Shute's "Kindling." which will be
made by M-G-M In England. :
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Frank Craven's Formula
Not Nil Nisi Per Aspera'
This Actor Has Achieved Success
Not Through Hard Work, But
By Doing as He Pleased

nothing story going good many
good them.
fumes whose "our Town pipe have perfud important teaef
in America. Mr. Craven:
anything doing something me-
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IN THE SPRING YOUNG STARS FANCY Mot thoughts
of oue but thoughts OF audiences than motion
picture the minds OF the film players these days.
Here 1H recognize Joan Crawford Arthur
Douglas Spencer Tracy Marene DIETRICH Nancy Kelly
Irene Dunne but of te of the cinema auoes yearn
the sound O. apnlduse
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DANCING.

PERFECT Your Dancing.
Fox Trot, Waltz. Tango, Rhumba. 1ndi-
vidual instruction and group practice.
10 Lessons for $500
Tap dancing for professionals or rs exercise.
Capitol Dance Studio. 525 18th st. NV.
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WEDDING GUESTS BURNED OUT
Continued from Page II

the occupants were guests here from
New York to attend the marriage of
Miss Helen Martin Holiday. The mar
riage took place Saturday night at
the home of the bride on Northamp-
ton Street and was followed by late
reception the same night at 558
Mass. Ave. Some of the guests elect
ed to remain over and found accom-
modations with friends as was the
case with those who obtained lodgings
at SOB Mass. Ave.
The upper floors suffered the great
est damage; for business in the Nor
rison Funeral Chapel continued as
usual. Mr.. Morrison, head of the
undertaking establishment stated that
the fire damage did not interrupt his
service and he was in charge of fu-
nerals at the chapel this week.
Considerable loss was reported by
occupants of the upper floors. The
guests from New York are said to
have lost expensive wedding clothing
in the fire.
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FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
Continued from Page u

lege, Hon. Edwin S. Smith, member of
the National Labor Relations Board,
Bernard Conal, director of the Ma
tional Emergency Conference, and
Roger Baldwin, director, American
Civil Liberties Union.
A special feature of the all day con-
ference is a discussion on "The Rights
of Colored People" at 1915 am, Rev.
George L. Paine, chairman. The
speakers will include Mr.. Houston,
Atty. Ray Guild, president of the
Boston chapter, N.A.A.C.P., Rev.
William S. Ravenell of Ebenezer Bap-
fist Church, and Julian D. Steele,
director of the Armstrong Hemenway
Foundation. At 11:15 am. the dis
cussion is on Academic Freedom"
with three Harvard professors speak
ing, followed at 11:15 by a discussion
on Freedom of Conscience in Peace
and War" Bishop G. Bromley Oman,
recently here at the Methodist unfit
cation meeting in Symphony Hall, and
Dr. Clarence R. Skinner, dean of
Tufts College School of Religion and
first leader of the Boston Community
Church will speak with others.
After the luncheon at 12:45 pm,
the general session ION 10th foor) will
be held at 200 pm. Among the
speakers are Alfred Baker Lewis,
state secretary, Socialist Party and
secretary, Boston Branch, N.A.A.C.P.
and Phil Frankfeld, New England
secretary, Communist Party.
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REV. HARTEN TO BUILD
CITY IN NEW JERSEY
Continued from Page u

a factory. n. Rathblott and sons have
agreed to give sufficient money to erect
a building for a college and to make
annual contributions of $4,000 to
100000 a year for education.
"The church, the press, business en-
terprise and the ballot can change the
economic status of the Race" says DR..
Harten, "and unless we give more
whole-hearted support to our own bust
ness enterprises, and become producers
as well as consumers, it will be difficult
to survive. The black mans destiny is
in his own hands,"
He is planning a countrywide tour
in the interest of building a city" and
of giving impetus and encouragement
to Race business. He was principal
speaker at the N. Y. Baptists' Minis
ters' Conference, Monday afternoon at
Metropolitan Baptist Church. Revs.
Abner W. Brown, F. W. Irvine, Geo.
H. Sims, c. C. Adams, Leonard Carr
of Philadelphia, Pa. and dozen other
prominent ministers pledged their sup
port to his program.
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LEWIS-HOLIDAY NUPTlALS
Continued from Page u

guests making lane toward the altar
where before a background of palms
and cut flowers, the nuptial knot was
tied by Rev. W. S. Ravenell, pastor of
Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was at
tended by Mrs. Marian Phillips, ma
tron of honor, and the best man was
Mr.. Roger Gary. Miss Angelyn De
Vaughn sang 81 Love you Truly, ac-
companied by Miss Agnes Vanderzee.
Many beautiful gifts were displayed
in an adjoining room.
Leaving the home, which was beau
tifully decorated with palms and gladi-
olas and beautiful silver bell under
which the couple stood, the guests at
tended a wedding reception at 55S
Massachusetts Ave.
OF the 200 or more guests present,
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Jacksonville, Florida in the neighbor-
hood of the birthplace of the late
James Weldon Johnson. ABB. Fisk
University. President of the student
council; captain of the debating team
which met Northwestern, New York
University, Howard University, Wiley
College and many other schools. MA
Fisk University, with a thesis entitled
"The Racial attitudes of the History
textbooks of the South" which showed
how the race is mistreated in the Sou
thern school books. Ph.D. University
of Chicago with thesis "Anti-Race
propaganda in the Southern Press"
which revolutienized the methods of
historical treatment of propaganda.
At present, Assistant Editor of the
Journal of Race History and has con-
tributed more than a score of articles
to various scholarly and popular peri
odicals. Plans to double the number
of books in the Schomburg Collection
within the next five years. Has begun
collection of monograph records
documenting the race in music.
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there was goodly number who came
from out of town to witness the cere-
mony. Among them were Mrs. Bertha
Hawkins, Washington, D. c.; Mrs
Julia Faucet, Philadelphia, Pa; Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Jones, New York City;
Mrs. Beatrice Wallace Franks, New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Single
ton, Mrs. Frances Sayles, and Miss
Stella Fisher of Greenwich, Conn.
The mother of the bride, Helen Wor-
than Holiday, well-known Boston sing
er, wore a beautiful old rose crepe
dress with a corsage of orchids.
The couple will reside in Boston.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-27
The Foe Within

In orr battle for justice we must
realize that there are thousands of
traitors within our own ranks-men
and women who, having mortgaged
their own craven souls to our en-
emies, are willing and anxious to
sell out our group for a mess Of pot
tage. In myraids of instances they
have already done so. Many of these
beings are like moles which burrow
beneath the surface, and they have
by their perHicious activities placed
the entire structure of our rights in
peril. The vilest, cruelest, most bru-
tai, craftiest, most venomous, and
most cold-blooded outspoken enemy
is far less dangerous than the vile,
crafty, Sinking, snake-like burrOw-
ing foe within
-LLEWELLYN LEWIS.
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CALVIN c. DICKINSON PASSES
CONTINUED from Page u

Later he was transferred to Chelsea
Naval Hospital, where he died Friday,
January 10.
He is survived by his wife, mother,
a sister who is Virginia school teach
err, other relatives and host of friends.
Mrs. Dickinson is the former Lillian
Dundas Curtis.
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ACTORS GUILD

The Colored Actors Guild of Amer
lea, Inc, of which Bill Robinson and
Noble Sissle are honorary and active
presidents, respectively, has just an
nounced three of its major events:
Annual Membership meeting, Sunday,
Feb. 4, at the YWCA Auditorium;
third annual ball at the Savoy Ball
room, March and annual Memorial
Services, Mother Zion Church, March
"a. Edna Thomas is the acting execu-
tive secretary.
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One One Egg

Twenty co-eds at Texas College of
Arts and Industries breakfasted re-
Gently on single egg. 1t weighed
four pounds and was laid by one Of
the ostriches owned by the college
farm.