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Evening star., 1940-04-14
The Yearling'
Poses Some
Problems
Studio Still Seeks
An Unknown for
Leading Role
HOLLYWOOD,


If you happen to know the hiding
place Of that unknown, untried
youngster eventually expected to
turn up at M-G-M in the title role
of THE Yearling," you'll be con-
ferring an unforgettable favor on
Billy Grady and several exhausted
crews Of talent scouts by notifying
the studio at once.
Not since the worldwide search
for q young David Copperdeld in
1884 has the studio been faced with
such titanic casting assignment.
In that one they luckily managed
to pull Freddie. Bartholomew out Of
hat IN faraway England. But this
yearling hunt is much more limited
as to type. The boy must be about
IL years Of age, tall and thin for his
age. He must have pathos in his
face and cracker drawl to his
voice. And (this is the stickler)
he must display an immediate apti-
tude for movie acting. There can be
no time for preliminary training.
In other words, M-G-M must dig
up a sensational find or no dice.
Five Are Hopeless.
Small wonder that panic is writ
ten over the faces of Grady and
his wanderers. They've been search
Ing Southern States for six weeks,
have interviewed more than a thou
sand boys (to say nothing of twice
that many aggressive parents) and
turned up no more than five BOYS
considered worthy of further testing
at the studio.
A few days ago the last Of the
quintet was sent home-all branded
hopeless-and detected Grady hur-
riedly organized three more testing
companies which have Just taken
to the road. All are moving fur.
ther north and east. One troupe
Is securing the New England States,
another is making the Middle West
and the third is concentrating on
the Virginias and Tennessee.
Animals a Problem, Too.
The studio is determined to cast
an unknown in the big role rather
tnan place ponderous, tipping han
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familiar Hollywood face into it. II
the boy can't be found this MONTH
shooting is scheduled to start May IS
the studio will doubtless again
shelve the story until the right lad
does turn up.
Animal roles for the film are Of
fering obstacles almost as difficult
to surmount. These include a black
bear weighing 600 pounds (most
trained bears weigh no more than
$500, tame deer-one in particular
that must do everything except talk
l-and assorted raccoons, wolves and
other denizens of the woods.
In the midst OF a recent confer
ence over the manifold problems OF
"The Yearling," one studio execu-
tive looked sternly over his glasses,
pounded the desk and inquired,
who bought this thing, anyway"
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Evening star., 1940-04-14
Gary Loses
A Round as
Boys Play
Preston Foster Is
A Weighty Problem
For Mr.. Cooper
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Over on Cecil B. De Miles
North West Mounted Police" do
main, Bob Preston and Gary Cooper
are waging jolly feud. Nobody
has been hurt yet, but the picture
is still fairly young.
One day, Preston, as q young
mountie, was supposed to be wound
ed and unconscious dead weight
and Cooper, as Texas Ranger, was
to carry him over a 50-yard stretch,
into a cabin, and deposit him at
the feet Of Madeleine Carroll. De
Mile shot the scene exactly nine
times.
MY, Gary" said Madeleine after
the last take, you must be all in
yeah" grunted Cooper, dropping
into a chair, 'he weighs more than
you'd think"
Preston grinned fiendishly.
"Us mounties," he said, "took
an awful ribbing from you when you
marched us back and forth all after
noon in that hot sun the other day.
Cooper looked at him, his eyes
widening.
''Well," laughed Preston, nov
we're even"
And from the voluminous cloak
he wore, Preston removed three lead
notwithstanding an even 80 pounds
unwittingly, Cooper had been car
rying around 232 pounds of Preston
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Evening star., 1940-04-14
Producer Plans
Outdoor Musical

Plans for a spectacular outdoor
musical, In Old Monterey" have
been announced by Charles R. Rog-
ers, to be made, probably in color,
following his current Columbia pro-
duction, Jane Addams and Hull
House."
I'm Old Monterey would have
for its setting California's first cap
ital during the years 1850 and its
people would include such colorful
figures as Lola Montez, Gen. John c.
Fremont, Lotta Crabtree, Joaquin
Murrtetta, Johann Sutter and Kit
Carson. Rogers is particularly anx-
ious to cast Rita Hayworth in the
role Of Lola Montez, exotic stage ac-
tress and world adventures OF the
period.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

ter Of a wealthy tycoon in the East.
In order to protect her against
kidnapping or overenthusiastic suit
ors, father hires four au-American
football players to accompany her
to college as bodyguards. The body
guards are mistaken for students,
get tossed onto the football team
and little Pottawatomie begins roll
ing up an unbelievable amount of
scores and victories with the re-
sultant rich box ONCE figures at the
athletic stadium helping the coll
lege out Of its dire financial con-
dition.
The Music Is Bright.
Aside from its story. "Too Many
Girls Is selected because 1t has
perfect musical comedy technique
a stage filled with pretty girls who
can sing and dance, a few good
comedians who do not try to DOM
mate the show and songs that are
both witty and melodious. For in
stance, the Pottawatomie co-eds
wear yellow "beanies" (skull caps)
to show that they are innocent of
any experiences with love. Diosa
Costello, Puerto Rican girl of
fire, is still wearing one of these
''beanies" year after she is mar
ried. It seems her husband Is one
Of the stars Of the Pottawatomie
football team, whose training regi-
men forbids love.
j. Rodgers and Harts score has much
commentary on present day events.
One Of their numbers, remarking
about a popular orchestra leader
and the stout and bubbly woman
who gives fantastic parties, refers
to them as Eddie Duchin and Elsa
Maxwell's two chins."
Then there is their delightful
song attacking swing, which Is sung
with such pleading warmth by Mary
Jane Walsh, q Davenport 0owa)
girl, who bounced from a Milwaukee
night club to Broadway stardom.
1t is I'D Like to Recognize the
Tune" lyric which complains
about the way that swing orchestras
can take a tune you know so well
and distort 1t so that you can't even
identify its origin.
The show has q good cast with
Misses Costello and Walsh, ably
aided by Hal lie Roy, an artful
dancer who learned to tap by watch
ing the Negroes dance In his IA
theris lumber yard In Cincinnati,
and blond Marcy Westcott, q Chi
cago girl, who went to Paris to study
operate singing, but was persuaded,
happily, to become q dancer when
she returned to Broadway.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Ian Hunter Added
To 'Vova9e Home

Ian Hunter, who has played Bibn.
cal characters, bankers, lawyers,
horsemen and double-dealin inter.
national agents with equal success.
is the latest player added to the
distinguished cast assembled for
John Ford's new Argosy production,
"The Long Voyage Home"
Hunter will play Smitty, a sea-
weary sailor of the merchant ma
rine with an unhappy faculty for
getting himself in trouble at the
wrong time on the long, perilous
cruise Of the tramp freighter Glen
cairn.
In the new screen drama Hunter
will have as his rugged but colorful
associates John Wayne as Ole OLE
sen, Thomas Mitchell as Driscoll,
Barry Fitzgerald as Cocky, Arthur
Shields as 'the donkey man." Ward
Bond as Yank and John Qualen as
AXel.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

SIOIuACIA, VI, dt 4ceaSG, yOu WOu1uu
be subjected to anything that would
cause you to think very much.
What happened to that excellent
plan? I have been trying all week
to find out what has become Of all
those projected musical comedies
and the like. Something happened
to the program, because you can
just about count the out-and-out
musicals on the toes Of your feet,
and have bunion or two left over.
The comedies number no greater
than ever and, all In all, the movie
schedule doesn't look much changed
from that of six months, or six
years, ago.
Maybe the fellows who were going
to write all this bubbly stun don't
feel SO bright and chipper. Maybe
each producer thought he'd be diff
ferent and let the other fellow
worry about helping the world for
get Or perhaps the movie doctors
decided the war isn't serious enough
to require an antidote.
AL know Is, I'm going to quit
making predictions. Do I hear an
offer for q nice, inaccurate crystal
ball?
Girl Meets Boy.
Vacationing at q nearby desert re-
sort were Greta Carlo, Marlene Die
trich and Spencer Tracy. Said Greta
to her friend Tim Whelan, the di-
rector, when she saw Tracy (who
has worked for years in the same
studio): There Is man I'd like
to meet"
Whelan did the honors.
Greta: 1T would be q pleasure, Mr..
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Consolation

Minna Gombell, who Is married to
Banker Joseph Seton, believes all
actresses should have theatrical
husbands. Emerging from recent
preview, boiling and fuming because
her role had been chopped to q
more fash. she lost her anger for
laughter when her husband re-
marked, well, at least, they can't
blame you because the picture Is
badn '4-a
Evening star., 1940-04-14


and one that cheers because it is q
reinsurance Of the joys Of a home on
these shores in contrast to the trou-
bles of family life abroad, as Broad
way audiences saw in several anti
Nazi and anti-Fascist dramas of this
season.
The nomination for the best mu-
sical comedy is TOO Many Girls" a
happy Valentine of a show over
flowing with vivacious and lovely
girls and group Of youthful and
not-too-well-known principals who
have triumphed in vigorous compe-
tition with many Of the Rialto's
veteran and established lyrical en-
tertainers.
life With Father" is the drama
tization by Howard Lindsay and
Russell Grouse of Clarence Days
stories, and Lindsay's performance
Of father gives as much excitement
to the play as he gave in the writing
Of 1t.
Father is head of a New York fam
lily In the 1905, an affluent and
worthy man. He is just emerging
from that class Of citizen who is
constantly worried by debts and
taxes. having no time to worry about
death, and looking forward to q
period where he may possibly be-
come one of the unworried wealthy
class. He hasn't quite reached the
latter happy state yet, but there Is
promise.
Sons Are Trial.
Father, a roaring man with a
handsome head of red hair and mus
taches, is constantly excited. His
wife's relatives are always moving
in to live with them. He has con-
slant troubles with the maids, and
they are always quitting or getting
fired. He has troubles with the
Methodist minister because his wife
wants him to be baptized and father
isn't the slightest interested in re-
ligion.
He has something like a half dozen
red-haired sons in the teen ages.
He has troubles trying to dictate
how they shall conduct themselves,
and they have inherited just enough
Of fathers sbravado to determine
how they shall personally raise
themselves.
One rapidly maturing son, for in.
stance, has q single objective in life
and that is to get SIS cash for new
suit instead Of taking one Of father
old suits which has been cut doVn
to his size.
Father is q rugged individualist
intent on bossing his family, but, in
contrast, he is such an adoring hus-
band and father that his kindly wife
and obedient sons manage him much
as they please.
Elmer Rice's new comedy, 1.-TWO on
an Island; william Saroyan's THE
Time Of Your Life; 'The Man Who
Came to Dinner" the comedy in
spired by Alexander Woollcott, and
Samson Raphaelson's "Skylark" are
other meritorious plays Of the season
At Pottawatomie u.
The musical comedy choice, 'Too
Many. Girls" is George Marion, jr.,s,
book considerably helped by one OF
the best musical scores that Richard
Rodgers and 'Lorenx Hart have writ
ten in their long career Of Tin Pan
Alley hits.
It Is the story Of Pottawatomie
College. q minor school In Stop Gap
N. Mex, which Is on the verge o.
fotng bankrupt until II % selected
q. the schpol for the pretty daueh-
Evening star., 1940-04-14

Are going 10 say flgnC now ana get
it over with, in the matter of guam
tity and the latter in the matter Of
quality.
Each, too, is the screen transla-
ton Of a widely-read best-seller
with hordes of admirers who would
actively resent any tampering dur
ing the transfer Of the story to the
screen. The resemblance goes further
in that each novel was q spanking
good yarn about some people the
readers knew rather well by the
time the last page was reached,
though neither Che said, leading
again with his chin is exactly a
timeless masterpiece as timeless
masterpieces of literature go.
The point is that each was vastly
popular, hence was assured of q
ready and willing audience-an au-
dience ready and willing either to
praise highly or castigate severely
II provided but slight reason.
There has not yet been time to
hear the hue and cry made py
"Rebecca's" lovers, to determine how
pleased they are with this new
cinema masterpiece of Mr.. Selznick's,
but, In this comparison limited above,
We feel that Daphne du Maurier
and Alfred Hitchcock have been
more successful than Margaret
Mitchell and Victor Fleming. And
none of the Gone With the Wind
readers we have encountered has
had aught but enthusiastic words
to say for that filln.
Every Hour of 1t.
Certainly &c. w. T. W." is an out
standing achievement in the cinema.
It Is stirring drama, and it is fine
entertainment-every last hour of
1t. But we cannot come to the
believe that &C. w. T. W." is the
mightiest achievent in the history
Of the motion picture, as it has been
called. 1t certainly is not as mighty
Is it is downright gigantic.
"Rebecca," of course, it not the
mightiest achievement in the his
tory Of the motion picture. But
we prefer it in this current argu-
ment, and not merely because you
do not come to the conclusion
while watching it that you and this
same theater seat have been to-
gether through a lot of travail.
"Rebecca" is the story of two char
acters you can recognize and in
whom you can become intensely
interested.
There can be nothing abstract in
your attitude toward Mr.. and Mrs.
Max de Winter, in the persons of
Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine,
as you live through the tortures of
the misunderstanding marripg their
romance. This is partly because
Daphne du Maurier wrote it that
way, partly because of Alfred Hitch
cocks deft handling of a first-per-
sona1 point of view in his direction
and partly because of the sincere
playing of the principals.
But 1t is there, this feeling that
this is alive, not just q tale the
projection machines are spinning
And we are sure there will be those
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Basil Turns Nice

Basil Rathbone, sinister evildoer
In scores Of Aims, has been cast by
Paramount In sympathetic and
humorous role in "Ghost Music" He
win be seen as successful composer
who grows lazy In his afnuence and
hires Bing Crosby and Mary Martin
to ghost write tunes which are pub
lished under his name.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

PORTRAIT OF BUSY lRL-When Durbin ,0orkng
In picture she has little time for ocng about gay in the
manner OF other OF her At the studio by
73o her day Is tuH Here her haring
finishing touch put her by her taoorite
RELAXING beteen h Checker Champ Walter Pidgeon
discussing the days ,oo Its Date oith Director William
Setter and Producer Joseph Pasternak looking sketches
OF costume designed for her by Vera West Uuersaps costume
expert and finally not RELAXING, but studying betoeen
of the film, at Keiths.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
In Episode

Charles Winninger has been signed
by Warner Bros. to play a featured
role in Episode" in which Olivia
de Havilland will head the cast.
The picture will be Miss de Havil-
lands first at Warmers In several
months.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Oh, Where Is That Song?
Promised Musical Pictures ..
Are Not Forthcoming
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

Last fall the Europe getting under the studios
let they substituting fothy comedies and girl and
musicals
could,
tragedies that the take movie
guaranteed laugh you pain
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Nonsensical, Human Plays
Get Warmest Welcomes
So Life With Father and Musical,
---, Too Many Girls Are Called
Best of the Season
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press stan Writer.


In Of the busiest Broadway gaoped through the
past decade this plays
warmly welcomed to be those rather nonensa
produced with glorined lavishnes
So this corners award for the
Father 1t intimate hilarious picture life
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Comparison Is Inevitable
As Rebecca' Arrives
David 0. Selznick's New Picture
Inspirec Look Back at C. w. T. W.;
Mr.. Pidgeon Laughs at Last
By Harry MacArfhxr.

Is inevitable that comparisons though they be what the roverb
were made by David seck the former winning him
OF Academy and the already thought
strong contender for
again Both outstanding phoopa
Evening star., 1940-04-14
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Evening star., 1940-08-25

saying lot; for whatever other sort of
scoundrel he may have been, it was Truso's
pride that he had never broken his word or
told lie. Magnificent in red velvet and gold,
he drew his big body erect and glared at the
rabble in the waist
What do ye want?" he beloved.
Abruptly the mob's forward motion ceased
its leaders looked at one another uneasily
'Well?" roared Truso.
Jenkins, the cockney, wet his lips. We're
sick of yer Ugh 'anded ways" he clustered.
mo more of this unlucky venture, sly We Sail
to Tortuga, we s'y! Every blinkin' man of u.s."
Truso's face went dead pale. He held no
close rein on his temper at any time. Get
forward" he beloved. We'll make no port
until we take prize. That was my word, and
III live by my word if die for it!''
lHEN die for it, blast ye!" snarled Jenkins
His right hand went swiftly back, and the
bright blade of thrown dirk flashed out
from it. Turso felt stab of pain in his side.
where its blade grazed him. Then he shot the
cockney in the heart. He had his second pistol
in his hand, covering the others, when a
stunning blow took him in the back of the
head. Halfunconscious, but still realizing what
had happened, he fell heavily to the deck
"Alvarez!" he cried. alvarez ="
The Spaniard was standing over him with
dubbed musket. captain Alvarez" ," he said
Then, Two birds with one stone, amigo Two
enemies you and Jenkins He is dead, and
-" he spread his hands - you, seior, will
not live to fog another gentleman
The islet where they were going to maroon
him was little more than eighty feet long, and
Evening star., 1940-08-25

half that breadth. Captain Truso, stripped to
lay in the white sand under scorching
Caribbean sun. The crew were cutting down
the islet s four coconut palms. As the last tree
fell crashing, and its precious water-contain-
ing fruit was stripped from it. Alvarez turned
to Truso and waved his arm at the naked islet.
'As good as any place to die, no?".
Truso said nothing.
1T is unlike Truso not to talk" said
Alvarez. But no matter" He drew pistol
from his sash, and held it in his two hands.
my crew has voted to be merciful With my
own hands, have loaded this pistol for you -
pistol of mercy. In an hour, you will have
worked free of your bonds. Later, you will
die" - he threw the pistol on the sand - by
this, or by thirst
Truso looked at him, standing slim and cool
and insolent in black velvet, and suddenly
went berserk. In his rage, he forgot his help
lessness His whole being was caught up in
sudden white hatred.
"You treacherous Spanish dog!" he shouted.
you've heard of Trusos word! Well, l
promise this: I'll use your pistol But not on
me self. Mark that well! Not on me self Its
ball will rest in your own black heartp'
For an instant, touch of fear shone in
Alvarezs dark eyes. But then it was gone.
This man was helpless quite helpless -.
He threw back his head and laughed until the
tears came. "Dtos!" he gasped. "Dios! That's
one promise, at least, that Truso will never
keep"
Another, in Truso's place, would have lived
through the torture of the first day, and
through the cool night which followed; and
then, with the coming of the next noon, he
Evening star., 1940-08-25

would have turned the pistol to his head and
shot out his thirsty life. But to Truso that
thought never occurred Truso was stubborn
man.
It was not. however until the afternoon
of the third day that he discovered means to
save himself. He was lying, half-delirious, in
the meager shade of one of the felled COCO
palms, when he noticed that cloudy liquid
oozed from its trunk Instantly he was on his
knees. with his swollen lips pressed to the
trickle of water that oozed from the palm trees
heart. When he had partially quenched his
thirst. he sat for moment, quite still, and
looked long at the tree.
His weakness was such that he was two
days completing the raft. Its hull was three
palm trunks lashed together with tight-twisted
COCO fiber. Its sail was of plated fronds, guyed
firmly aft with strips torn from his trousers,
which he replaced with a breech clout made
from his under-linens.
n FROND shade aft protected him from the
rays of the scorching sun, and the stalk of
stripped frond was his steering oar. Finally, as
ships stores, the palm-hearts of all the trunks
were wrapped in the remains of his shirt.
Just before he embarked, he drew Alvarezs
pistol of mercy" from his breech clout and
carefully plugged its barrel and touch hole
against moisture.
Ten days later, the northeast trades blew
the raft ashore on the coast of Panama, six
miles north of Portobello. Twenty four hours
after that. he was picked up, delirious, by
Spanish patrol, and thrown into the rotting
cellars of Fort Lorenzo. And since it was in
conceivable to his captors that any man so
naked and miserable should be armed, they
did not search him.
So, through his months in prison, the pistol
of mercy lay hidden against Captain Trusos
belly.
Almost year after the day he was ma
rooned, Truso steered ragged shallop into
Tortuga and saw his frigate Arrow at anchor
under the guns of the buccaneer fort.
The twelve months had not dealt easily
with him. His big body was thin, and SCARED
with many wounds. His hair and beard had
grown until they enveloped his great head in
a shaggy mane and in his eyes burned con-
stantly the hot gleam of his hatred.
The shallop he captained had been Spanish;
the fourteen black men who worked her were
escaped cargo slaves. Truso had led them out
of the sinking prison at Portobello three
(Coniinvsd on pogo 13)