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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
MARRIAGES

One white couple secured
riage permit during the pas + S p''
at the office of Adrian B DIV, Veg
register of deeds, as follows. 'V's'
Burnell Curtis, -, of soo =
F1fth street and Miss Narsuer wv, !.
Stokley, %, of Sunset parl, !.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Cinema's 'Ziegfeld Girl
To Be Minus a Ziegfeld
HOLLYWOOD.
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN

Their not too private affairs:
Common sense and good showmanship applied
into production shortly a M-G- ' e
Since the story about the girls glorihed great Snowman
Evening star., 1940-07-08
National Symphony Offers
Choice Initial Program
DR.. Kinder Appears to Be in Specially
Inspired Mood at Concert
Benefting Red Cross

ter. Sibelius always aims. first and
foremost, to assert himself. While
this particular symphony has not
lost any Of the composers char
acteristic traits, its entire outline is
much more plant. Many melodies
are OF great beauty and vibrancy,
inspired by the sunny skies of Italy,
where 1t was written in the spring.
time of 1901. DR.. Kinder added
luster to these and especially to the
theme of the last movement, bring
ing the whole to stirring finale.
Matching Sibelius' work in power
of expression and strength was the
Introduction, Choral and Love
Music" from Moussorgsky's Boris
Godunov," arranged for concert use
by Dr. Kinder, a composition which
will ever stand as monument to
old Russia with its pealing church
bells, chanting mendicants and its
romantic historical figures. Two
waltzes by Brahms, mo. IL and 12";;
Smetana's poetic "Moldau," Stravin-
sky's "Berceuse and Finale" from the
Fire Bird Suite" and Shostakovich' s
humorous Golden Age Polka
concluded the program, to which
several encores were added: Kreis-
ler's "Liebesleid," Wedding March
from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro,
arranged by DR.. Kinder; prelude
to Act 3" to Wagner's "Lohengrin'
and Moussorgsky's "Chanson Russo.
The next Sunset Symphony con-
cert will take place Wednesday eve.
ming, with the participation oi
Jessica Dragonete, famous radio anc
concert singer.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showins

Palace-"New Moon" with jean
ette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy:
11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, ITO and 9:35
pm.
Earle-"Untamed," a man and a
woman fight for the right to love:
IL am, LAO, 4:25, 7:20 and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 12:4O, 1925, $40
and 9:05 pm.
Capitol-"Safari," Madeleine Car
roll finds Doug Fairbanks in q
jungle: II am, lao, 4:25, tbs and
10 pm. Stage shows: 1880, 3::35
6:25 and sos pm.
COlumbia-"The Mortal Storm"
Nazidom bursts over Germany: II
a m, los, BIS, 5:25, 7:35 and Gas
pm.
MetrOpOlitan-''The Ghost Break
ers,' the Hope Goddard team again
11:20 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
GAS pm.
Keith's my Favorite Wife"
Irene Dunno is Cary Grants: 1l:35
am, 1:35, $40, $40, 7:45 and $50
pm. March of Time: HAS am,
lis. 800, $40, 7:25 and $50 pm.
Little-"Storms in a Teacup," gay
British farce about the pup without
a license: II am, ITO, 3:20, $50
TAO and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

ably the decision of the Cross Roads
producers will not be known until
next Monday night. Then if, say.
Ted Fields ears come out of the
wings without the rest of Ted Field,
you will know the Hoheins and
Linger have decided to be men, not
field mice.
Tonight the Roadside Theater re-
verts for the coming fortnight to
its and its audiences first love
melodrama in the manner unre-
strained. This one is to be Sweet
brier,' an affair which, according
to all advance reports, rumors and
out-and-out publicity yarns, is just
what melodrama should be. 1t
has two dyed-in- -the-crepe hair
mustache Williams, plus several lesser
experts in evil deeds; the heroine is
young, beautiful and spirited; the
hero is handsome and noble; the
emotional and physical struggles be-
tween good and evil are strong and
replete with excitement.
And that isn't all. For the first
time since Wizard of the Wave"
back in 1887, there is a dual role,
involving, as in the earlier produc-
ton, twin brothers, one good and
one bad. Kenneth Banghart, new
to the Roadside but well known to
Civic Theater audiences, plays the
twin part, and it's getting him down.
He dashes in and out, fighting first
as a good man, later as villain,
finally has named the theater the
Roadside Reducing Academy"
Claims his belt has been frightened
three notches since rehearsals
started.
No Roadside melodrama would be
complete, Of course, without its
entr'acte. This one will be Don't
Go in the Lions Cage Tonight" +"
sung by Betty Brunstetter, Ted Til
Ter, Natalie Core, Norman Rose,
Florence Konold and Larry Law
renee. Others in the play, who won't
care hoot vocally whether or not
you go in a lions cage tonight, are
Anne Ives, Ralf Nicolson, John
Hand, Jack Salamanca, Frank Gro
min and Robert Colvin.
There is considerable other ac-
tivity afoot this week, too. Tomor-
row night the F. B. I. Players stage
their production of Robin of Sher-
wood" and Thursday night the
speech and drama department of
Catholic University, just finished
Evening star., 1940-07-08

by a trusted Confederate spy, like
this:
Next Monday night Director How
ard F. Wentworth hopes to unveil
his treatment Of The Skull" Cross
Roads shriek-and-groan special of
the season. This bargain bundle
of horror contrived by Bernard j.
McOwen and Harry E. Humphrey
contains virtually all the induce
ments to chills capable of being
paraded across the stage, but the
Hoheins and Linger are playing with
an idea involving extra added
hair-raisers.
The hayloft impressarios have
been comforting oft these evenings
with citizen who claims he can
make anything and/or everything
on stage disappear-and it is done
with mirrors, plus lights and some
special element about which he is
very secretive.
According to the spy's non-confi-
Dental report this mysterious citi-
zen. who, legend says, made Brad
docks army disappear as it passed
through BaileyS Gross Roads, only
to Danish this shame the other side
of Leesburg, then d grove of naples,
invented his system a number of
years ago. Nothing has disappeared
so far, however, but customers.
Houdini, so the story goes, was
about to buy the disappearing act,
but Houdini died just before the deal
was to have been closed. Thurston,
also pretty fair magician in his
way, next was approached. But he,
too, passed on without signing a
contract.
The Hoheins and Linger are no
end enthusiastic about the prospect
of making things vanish at will, in
cluding actors, or parts thereof
but the thought of the fates of those
previous illustrious prospective Gus
toners gives them pause. The Ho-
helms and Linger harbor within a
fiery devotion to the stage and their
theater. Heretofore, however, they
have not been confronted with the
prospect Of making the supreme sac
rifice for their art.
All things are being considered
pro and con, including the INVENTOR
assurance that no jinx would be
men enough to attack three produc-
ers at once, and the suggestion that
the poltergeist of mirrors and lights
might get out of hand and make the
whole hayloft theater disappear one
minute before curtain time. Prob
Evening star., 1940-07-08

with giving you Sara Allgood in
THE Far Off Hills" stages Moliere's S
farce, The 'Miser," at the Univer-
sity Theater.
Several members Of the cast of
"The Far Off Hills" are to be seen
also in THE Miser" Thursday eve,
among them Mary Finnerty, Fred
Horton, Charles Grunwell and
Louise Fox. Title role in the daft
l7th century farce will be played
by S. Carleton Ayers and others in
the cast will be Alfred Loritsch,
Edgar Kloten, James Graham (the
George M. Cohan of Yankee Doodle
Boy'D, Beatrice Prince, Mary Vir-
ginia Shea, Dorothy Dupler and
Leo Brady, one of Washington s
better-known playwrights.
Walter F. Kerr arranged this act
ing edition of The Miser" and is
directing it.
Robin of Sherwood" being staged
tomorrow night at the Sylvan Thea
ter as a summer festival attrac-
ton by the F. B. I. Players, known
more formally as the F. B. I. Rec
reation Association Theater Group
was written by Prof. j. r. Craw-
ford of Yale University. 1t has been
arranged for Sylvan Theater pres
entation by Paul A. Neuland and
William A. Coleman, who are direct
ing the F. B. 1. cast of more than 40
players.
The Cross Roads Theater's pro-
duction, of "a Woman's a Fool"
with Izetta Jewel, jr.; Reginald
Allen and Elizabeth Winburn, starts
its second week tonight.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
BY ELENA DE SAYN,

There. were many thousands to
greet DR.. Hans Kinder at the
Water Gate last night, as he stepped
on the platform to conduct the first
concert of the National Symphony's
fourth summer season. Long before
the hour, people came from all
directions to obtain point of vantage
on the road, on the adjacent bridges
and to push their way into the
amphitheater, where q new, i'm
proved seating plan assured better
view of the stage. Set farther
away from the shore by many feet
stood the shell. Mounted by an
American and Red Cross flag at
each end, a leisurely watercraft at
its sides, the shell formed a grace
full center in a peaceful landscape,
shaded by the slopes Of Virginia in
the back
AS the orchestra broke into the
National Anthem followed by the
festive strains of the overture to
Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla," +"
more natural volume of sound,
than usual, fioated through the
improved accoustical devices, which
at times, however, was wanting in
power. At their leaders bidding,
the musicians struck at the music
unconcerned about the present
strife in some of the countries from
which 1t came. A choice program
was offered for the benefit of the
Red Cross. After the intermission,
Mrs. August Belmont, member of the
Red Gross General Committee, ap-
peared on the stage with other
ladies serving under it's banner
There was a certain solemnity. in
the procedure, enhenced by the
orchestra's playing of America. -
Mrs. Belmont made an impressive
address, describing in detail the ac-
tivity OF the Organizat ton in behalf
OF the war sufferers on the other
side of the Atlantic, and thanked
DR.. Kinder for his contribution in
the form OF proceeds from this
concert. She also thanked the
Washington public for oversubscrib-
ing its quota.
DR.. Kinder seemed to be in spe-
cially inspired mood last night when
he approached Sibelius' Second
Symphony in D Major, Op. 49," re-
veallng brighter aspect of the
composers heroic nature. There
was great deal of sympathy and
understanding in his treatment of
the essentialities of this particular
work, so unlike others by that mas
Evening star., 1940-07-08

"Oomph Cow" has provoked the
wrath of Ann Sheridan's Warner
Brothers, who claim everything but
dictionary rights to that term.
They'll battle through the courts if
necessary to protect it y. The An
drews Sisters, blues-singing radio
sensations, are getting top billing
over the Ritz Brothers in Argentine
Nights" at Universal-and the latter
don't like it one little bit. It's the
sisterly trios first movie, but their
audience is considered ready-made.
A. 100000 record sale is something
not to be sneezed at. Maureen
O'Sullivan, in Canada visiting her
husband, John Farrow head of that
countrys propaganda service), wants
to make war benefit picture during
her stay. Admission would be by
war, savings stamps only. M-G-M
refuses because she is wanted back
shortly for another "Tarzan."
* X *
If you have any antique sheet
music you don't want send it to Ann
Sothern. Her current hobby is the
collection of old-time ditties which
she'll play and sing with only the
slightest urging J.. Greatest rivalry
on the Paramount lot now is that
between Jack Benny and Bob Hope.
Benny had no competition year
ago, but in less than IL months
land with only two pictures) Hope
has smashed through to the front.
His recent cleanup, personal ap-
pearance trip establishes him as the
best money draw among the comics.
On the other hand, Benny,s i. film
triumphs have been shared by his
popular stooge, Rochester Mar
shall Neilan has made q striking
comeback In less than three months.
The one-time ace of all directors
dropped out completely when the
talkie hour struck, and was gen.
orally considered through. Today
he's associated with Universal in q
writer director capacity and looks
ukA his old self.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

6ICS1Slo lOlC CdIlllOO DC q illd JOT OIle.
Naturally, star like William Powell
couldn't be placed in minor part,
yet the world remembers Powell as
Ziegfeld in "The Great Ziegfeld" of
five years ago. Hence, throughout
the picture, Ziegfeld never appears.
The audience, however, will always
be conscious of the fact that he's
close at hand and that his influence
is felt.
Actually everything in the plot
will be motivated by Ziegfeld-yet
he'll never be seen. There is some
talk about giving him an occasional
of-stage voice, but this hasn't been
decided upon. Regardless of that,
1t promises to be a unique unseen
character.
X \ X X
Elsie, the personality COW of the
New York Worlds Fair, soon to
travel cross country for role in
Little Men," has already set of
a furore among the publicity men.
R-K-O's attempt to label Elsie the
Evening star., 1940-07-08
War Between the Sexes
More Violent in Films
Hollywood Arranges Brilliant Series
Of Bouts Between Boys and Girls,
Some of Them in Glamour Group
By JAY CARMODY,

violence personal kind involving
lady to lady Hollywood fairly dotes that today
fairly doent with the kind action that usually under
Actually,
bit biting
r.. H.. .o.L ,, Ill, ..,,.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

what a fool he'd
be II he said it
now.
Most promis-
ing of the vio-
lences on tap is
the CO. educa-
ii o n a |, so to
speak, C o m b a t
between Paul
cite G o d d a r d
and Lynne Over
man. That one
will be found in
IN orth h w e S t
Mounted Police, y
which is being
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Generals Wanted

Actors to portray Gems. Robert
E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, George
Custer and Pierre Beauregard are
being sought by Warner Bros. for
roles in "Sante Fe Trail" Enrol
Flynn's next starring picture.
Flynn will play Jeb Beauty"
Stuart IN the successor to Virginia
City"
Production of "Sante Fe Trail" is
awaiting the stars return from his
South American tour.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

auspices of Cecil B. De Mile, a
director who heretofore has handled
the war between the sexes with kid,
rather than boxing, gloves. Fresh
from. her struggle with Rosalind
Russell in THE Women" Miss God
dard takes on the paunchy Overman
with no weapons or holds barred.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

OF IWU IS dS UdItU dS dII EUBtIIIt
hat. Last year, one could have
said as dated las the bustle," but
Evening star., 1940-07-08
In the Countr,

In the Country.
Cross Roads - "A Woman's a
Fool" comedy attempts to prove it:
$40 pm.
Roadside - "Sweetbrier," mellow
melodrama about the flower girl of
the old New York: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Local Drama Groups
Cross Roads May Try Mirrors;
Roadside Back to Melodrama
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Today we ponder the aes Charles and George Hhen and Neil
Linge Fate, of
about which these three gentlemen who
producing umvate sensitive The
ordinary
forebodng smugged Virginia
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-24
ARGENTINE CRISIS
EASED BY S0LONS
Factions In Congress
Decide To Reject The
Resignation OF Ortiz

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 23.-R-
All factions in congress today de-
cided to reject the resignation Of
ailing President Roberto M. Ortiz,
easing a crisis over an army land
purchase which threatened to split
the country.
Rejection of the resignation and a
vote of confidence for the president
by 1856 of the possible 100 votes in
chamber and senate were forecast
tonight.
Liberals and conservatives, who
have been pickering for more than
ten years, were in agreement on a
major issue for the first time in a
decade.
Victor Guillot, radical QiberaD
party deputy accused of profiting in
the land purchase, committed sui
eide today before what amounted to
a united front to reject the presi-
dents resignation was shaped. Gull.
lot, whose expulsion from the cham
Der had been asked by a congress
sional committee investigating the
land deal, was found in his study
with a bullet wound in his head. On
his desk calendar, he had scrubbed
"a note: MAY God forgive me-"
Political observers believed that
the Ortiz offer to resign, submitted
last night, had served it's purpose in
rebuking officials who were impli.
Gated in the land transaction, and
had won additional support for his
attempt to pacify factions that have
been at loggerheads for years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-24
Italy To Invade Greece
IF British Take Islands
N. C. Schools Plan To-
Emphasize Democracy

RALEIGH, Aug. %. - @
Democracy, its privileges and
obligations, will be emphasized
more this year in North Carolina
schools that ever before, DIR.
Clyde A.. Erwin, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, said
today.
DIR. Erwin said the political
theme would take precedent over
other new emphases in public
education, such as art %apprecia-
ton, music, health and physical
education.
1--WE been saying this in my
conferences all summer with
school officials" he said. Demo
cracy will be taught especially in
out civic classes"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-24
WILLKIE CHARGES
WPA ROLLPACKED
Saws New Deal Intends To
Add Men In Politically
Doubtful States

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-R-With
the approach of the November cleo
ton, Wendell L. Willkie said to-
day, 'there is already definite proof
that the Roosevelt administration
is planning again to pack the RELIEF
rolls, especially in those states
which are politically doubtful"
At a press conference, the repub'
lican presidential nominee said relief
rolls had increased in election years
and declined in others and termed
this "a very interesting and striking
coincidence" He called on Attorney
General Robert H. Jackson to de-
termine whether current WPA ac-
tiyities involved any violation of the
Hatch anti-politics law.
Later Willkie issued a statement
saying:
During the month of July of this
wear the relief rolls have Increased
bv nearly 80, 900 for the country as
q whole over the month of June de
spite increased industrial activity,
Increased employment and the 1act
the summer naturally would tend TO
reduce relief needs.
TT is generally conceded that one
person placed on relief may a11ect
(Continued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-24
NEW THREAT PRESENT
Italian Claims On Nation To
Be Announced At AL
banian Council Meet

ROME, Aug. 23.-R-An Italian
invasion of Greece will follow any
effort by the British to occupy the
strategic Greek islands, a high fascist
source declared in plain words today.
'Italy is not going to let the Brit
ish occupy any Greek islands," he
said, discussing rumors that Britain
was thinking of moving into the Is
lands of Crete and Corfu.
eff the British into Greece
we will do the same"
With Air Claims
Italian claims on Greece on behalf
of Albania, foreign sources predict
ed, will be announced at an early
session of the Albanian legislative
council, attended by Count Ciano,
Italian foreign minister. :
These sources expressed the belief
that Italy, in this way, would try to
get territory from Greece without an
invasion: (Italians have declared
Greece should indemnify Albania for
the recent beheading, allegedly by
Greeks, of a so-called Albanian
~patriot.)
CIn Athens, the Greek government
called up four more categories of
army specialists thus continuing
her steady preparations for the theat.
ened extension to her shores of the
war in the Mediterranean.)
The press in Italian-conquered
Albania took up, meanwhile, the cry
against Greece-who has a guaran-
tee of support from Britain if her
independence is attacked. (This guar
antee was refafirmed today in Lon
dom.
The Albanian newspaper Tomori
asserted that Greece had VIRTUALLY
closed the mountainous frontier
with Albania, thus barring Albanian
farmers from crossing into Greece to
cultivate their land.
The long fascist press campaign
against Greece has centered about
claims that the Greek district of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-24
HOSPITAL PROJECT
DECISION SLATED
Plans For Improvements AT
James Walker Memorial
Are Now Under Way

Final decision on additional facll-
tiles and departmental enlargement
planned at James Walker Memorial
hospital is expected to be made
within the next 60 to 80 days, New
ton Fisher, superintendent, said yes
terday.
He also disclosed that plans for
the improvements are going forward
at a rapid rate.
Architects for the work will be
Lynch and Foard, of Wilmington,
with Stevens, Curtin, Mason, and
Riley. who drew the plans for the
northeast wing of the hospital that
opened January, 1888, being Sc
lected as consultants, Fisher SAID
He said it has been estimated the
cost of the new additions and I'M
provements to the hospital WILL
range between $500, 900 and Sl2o'-
900.
Present plans, he said, call for
enlargement of all departments,
particularly the maternity depart
ment and the white wards for male
and female patients, together with
an additional operating room and
X-ray facilities.
Need for expansion Of the mater
nifty ward was particularly appar'
ent at the hospital this week when
during one 24-hour period, there
were eleven babies born there and
81 babies were quartered in the
tiny nursry designed to care tol
a much smaller number.
Cost of the enlargement and I'M
provement program will be borne
by the hospital from funds re-
ceived from the city and county
under a contract signed some
weeks ago in which the two gov
ernments agree to pay the hospital
a total of $40, 900 a year for a 6-year
period in return for hospital care
for hospital care for INDECENT sick
in the city and county. Previously
the two governments for a three
years period had appropriated a
$25, 900 a year for the hospital I'm
der an act of the legislature per
hitting such an appropriation, ar
with the general understanding but
without contract that the hospita.
should care for the INDECENT sick.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-24
GERMAN RADIO SILENT
British Meet Strong Anti
Aircraft Fire During
Raids On Big Berthas
DOVER SHELLED AGAIN
Low-Flying Nazi Planes At
tack Southeast, South
west Coast Towns

LONDON. Aug. 23.-R-New
raids by British bombers on Ger
man artillery emplacements onthe
Nazi-held French coastline were
signaled late tonight by the high
barking of German a~nti-aircraft
batteries across the English Chan
mel and the dull thunder OF bombs.
Flashes from the Nazi guns
could be seen first at 10 p. m.
a D. m. EST dotting the French
side for miles. Occasionally there
we're more diffused flashes, ap-
parently caused by the falling Brit
ish bombs.
Radio Silent
At that same hour, all German
radio stations went silent, suggest
ing British raids in the interior.
A single searchlight beam swept
the sky midway along the French
shore between Boulogne and Ca
lais, but after a few minutes was
cut off,,
The RATS counter-attack across
the channel-just % miles wide at
some points-was one of a series
first launched last night when the
Nazis opened up with their big
guns, bombarding the English
coast particularly in the region OF
Dover, which was heavily shelled.
Tonight, that old channel town
was abandoned by thousands of its
people as a front-line city in a new
artillery war zone.
Britain itself was under wide
spread air attack tonight. Low-fly-
ing Nazi bombers were over SOUTH
east and southwest coast towns,
and as far as Wales. One flight
dropped 20 bombs on a southern
residential district, causing some
casualties. ..
"Several" Killed
In a southeast coast town, "sev.
eral' were reported killed. Explo-
sions in that are e said by
residents to be very much loud
er" than those customarily heard.
Many homes were smashed or
damaged.
Bombed also were a town in
Hampshire and parts of the Isle
Of Wight. There, too, some" fata-
lities were reported.
These night raids were on a
scale apparently at least equal to
those which during the day had
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