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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-06
Emancipation

Continued from Page u
committee, Charles B. Berry, ex-
ecutive secretary.
Sheriff. Says Let Down
Your Bucket Where You Are"
Under the sponsorship Of the Ju-
venile Protective association, Luther
C. Keith, president; William L.
Sheriff., associate editor of the
Michigan Chronicle, spoke at Mace
donia Baptist church, st. Aubin at
Clinton, using as his general theme
the old Booker 7. Washington adage.
Let down your bucket where you
are" Citing the fragrant discrim-
nation directed against the Negro
in America, Sheriff. urged the black
man to use this pressure as a chal-
lenge to higher achievement; to
let it have the effect upon them
that a throw has upon a ball, the
harder its thrown. the higher it
bounces.
Achievements Of the Negro OBJ
tanned under pressure were cited by
the speaker as proof of the fact
that 1t can be done Sheriff. was
also Emancipation speaker in To-
ledo, Ohio. Monday night.
Rev. Settles of Cleveland
Calls Past" A Challenge
Referring to the past as definite
challenge to the best that is within
todays Negro. Rev. Glenn T. Set
ties Of Wings Over Jordan" fame.
told the audience assembled at ST
Stephens AME church. Stanford
at Cobb. in a lecture from the sub
iect, For Their Sakes." that it was
our privilege as well as our duty
TO achieve for our foreparents' sake
Praising the fathers and mothers of
the slavery and post slavery period,
the speaker cited their struggles an
an-impetus 10 the Negro Of today
With special reference to some Of
the social problems Of the day. Rev,
Settles spoke prayer for better
homes. meaning better people; for
more intra-racial cooperation. Men
-tioniuE- -fr1trr-rseial -aspeet-ef
the social problems the pastor came
out as being personally opposed 70
inter-marriage. but described the
matter as being more or less per-
sonal.
Rev Settles is director of the
Wings Over Jordan radio pro-
gram heard each Sunday morning
over nationwide hook-up. He
s,.ae ,raeor4aJ no tho uyaz4 Cido In
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-06

REV. WIN. BELL, Prophet
For God hath not given us the
spirit Of Fear. but of Power. and
Love and a sound mind. Delight
myself also in the Lord: and He
shall give thee the desires Of
thine heart.
Reading and divine healing
daily-from 9 ain. to g pm.
BELLS BUILDING
s4l-s43- E. Vernon Highway &.
Phone ca. SOFA
Detroit, Michigan
Evening star., 1940-08-25

they have to work too hard to get the
ill-equipped beach stages into shape
for first-rate productions and that
this effort doesn't allow them time
to get the sun tans the actors get.
But the summer theaters have
definitely revived the institution of
star companies, where one personal
ity takes out a troupe and holds it
together through season or
through several plays.
Tallulah Bankhead is trouping
with a permanent company, one that
moves from play to play with her.
Ethel Barrymore has almost the
same thing in that she has carried
most of her supporting company over
into her current production of The
School of Scandal" She has found
the summer theater a profitable
rostrum. When she finished her IS
weeks of touring In "Whiteoaks" she
decided to do an extra week in
summer theater to close it and that
week stretched to seven more weeks
on country stages.
Joe E. Brown, the man with the
big mouth, picked Elmer the Great"
and "The Show on" as plays he
would like to do a. brief personal
sppe1aucek J.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

airports, to raise huge, orange-col-
ored captive balloons whenever pic
lures were being taken on outdoor
lots as signal for pilots to please
stay away. The plan works swell
now, but at first so many unin-
formed pilots few over to see what
the balloons were all about that the
noise of all their motors just about
ran the studios nuts.
Pity poor Truex-Alcohol may be
the root of some evils But in
this case it certainly was a blessing
to Ernest Truck =. For the first
time in his life he had to do a
scene more than 20 times, although
he hadn't made bobble -.
1t was during the filming of Call
ing All Husbands and all poor
Truck had to do was just open the
door of his home And say
hello" to his wife .. That should
have been simple enough
But the scene was of midwinter
And. as the door opened, the
wind howled outside PhOny
snow, in the form of cornflakes and
goose feathers, flurried past the door
Truck was bundled in sweater,
heavy overcoat and scarf And
on his feet he wore pair of heavy
rubber boots
Retake after retake of the scene
went into the ashcan until the Goth
was reached Then Director Noel
Smith sent for a bottle of alcohol
But do you think he or Truck
stopped and took a drink? E. .
No D.. They daubed it on Trucks
face 1t stopped the drops of
perspiration that had been spelling
the cold" winter scene for which
poor Truck was so heavily bun
Did you know that-Marjorie
Main. in order to play her role as
the lady blacksmith in Bad Man
of Wyoming" actually learned how
to forge shoes and shoe horse =.
Roland Young had to consume six
steaks in one sequence in "Dulcy"
Nazimova, who is cast in
Escape" plays her first screen role
in Is years.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

man would heat the driller until it
on an iron base while two others
pounded the face of the tool with
16-pound sledge hammers until the
drill point was back into shape.
Those were wildcatting days and
life in the oil towns was pretty
rough. The story of Boom Town"
is of wildcatters and frontier like
life. so Gable served as a sort of ex-
ohcio expert on the subject
He remembers living in tent with
his father and other oilmen for
months and recalls the hub-deep
mud of the roads which, at times,
was so tenacious that it was best to
drive a team out through unbroken
fiat country to keep from getting
stuck At first, he did such driving,
hauling huge loads of wood, because
steam had to be generated by wood
fires
Later, he became a tool dresser
and eventually had seven strings of
tools to handle. He was making $12
a day, but even those wages did not
dampen his desire to be an actor.
When he did leave his s12-a-day
job year later to join the Jewel
Players out of Kansas City, he re-
ceived $l2 week for his histrionic
efforts.
He Cleaned Up!
The monotony of dressing tools
forced Gable into trying a job in
the refining branch of the oil busi-
ness. Again he had to start as one
of the labor gang. His work was
around the huge stills which refined
oil. The season was summer and
the weather was hot. The work was
even hotter
Gables job, along with crew Of
other workers, was to clean out those
stills. The tanks would be allowed
to cool for u hours and then the
men would go to work. Only one
man could enter the small space at
a time and each worked for 2 min
uteS. This meant turn in the tank
every 16 minutes-2 minutes of labor
and IA of rest. Gable says, smil-
ingly, IF a fellow didn't come out
at the end of minutes, some one
went in and dragged him out"
The laborers also cleaned out stor-
age tanks with a pick and shovel.
They were lowered through a small
manhole one at a time. 1T wasn't
a whole lot of fun" Gable comments
That was the extent of Gables
actual work in the oil fields. How
ever, it was his first job and he
built up enough vivid memories dur
ing that year to make him invade
executive Offices for the first time in
his career and ask for role that
would put him back, cinematically,
where he started.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

pictures like Gabriel Over the
White House" and The President
Vanishes," and produced Block
ade," which was daring by Holly
wood standards because it tackled
the then delicate question of in
ternational relations.
Aimed at the Margin.
Some of his unusual" pictures
have made money; some, like "Pri-
vate Worlds" just broke even, and
some, like Blockade" despite cita-
tions for excellence money.
But Wanger cons ,m all
worth while, both and,
from a long-run S. r.. n
mercially, because they Quilt up
good will for the movies among
the specialized-t taste, irregular mo-
viegoers.
Wanger has just finished a sea
picture, The Long Voyage Home
not to be released for some time
based on several of Playwright Eu-
gene O'Neill's stories.
He realized 1t wouldn't carry the
same appeal to the basic 50,OOO,0 900
movie-going group as picture
along the collegiate Rhythms of
1899" order, replete with crooners
and swing bands, but he was aiming
at the marginal 10000. 900, and it
was to interest them that he staged
the seemingly impractical stunt of
hiring a half dozen of the Nations
leading artists to paint scenes from
the movie and sending the collec-
ton of paintings on tour.
Wanger acknowledges that turn
ing out nothing but specialized
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Even the Veteran Players Must Face Tests
It's No Reflection on Reputation or Ability, Rather
A Device to Save the Studios Time and Money

his early days in Hollywood and
most of them brought no results.
One, however, got him his contract
with Warmers and started his limp
ing career off in high gear. That
was the test he made with Ruth
Chatterton whom he married later
for The Rich Are Always With
Us"
Bette Davis tested Strenuously for
her role in The Letter. not be-
cause any one doubted her ability
to act the role, but because Director
William Wyler and many others
concerned with the picture wanted
to check all details of production
before the budget went into force.
With new. untried players, the
screen test means more than this,
naturally Those first tests are
meant to show producers. super
visors, directors and scouts what the
player can do. An entire career may
depend upon those first screen tests.
Many young players don't survive
them. Those who do have so per
cent better chance to succeed in
HOLLYWOOD.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

screen tests were devised to prevent.
Details can be worked out to per-
fection before cameras turn. If
they are left until after the cost of
delay in production mounts rapidly.
Directors want to see the sets pro-
vided for their picture as the camera
sees them before they start actual
work. They like to experiment with
crucial scenes. Frequently they have
their stars 60 through a few lines
from those scenes in advance of the
starting date in order to see how
their players work together.
That was true of Honeymoon for
Three" now in production at
Warmers. George Brent and Ann
Sheridan are the stars. Since they
have been interested romantically
for some months it was to see how
they appealed to the camera as
couple, rather than to each other,
that Director Lloyd Bacon put them
through their PAGES in several screen
tests.
Before the Budget.
Brent, incidentally, hates screen
tests heartily. He made many in
Evening star., 1940-08-25
By Glad,cin Hill,
ated Press STAFF Writer.
NEW YORK.


NEW YORK.
Producer Walter Wanger thinks
the movie industry can make more
profits by making more non-proflt
pictures.
That sounds upside down, but
there's a logical explanation.
"The radio industry finds it worth
while to put on non-profit sustain
ing shows and carry them until an
audience has been developed that
warrants profitable commercial spon-
sorship," he says, so why shouldn't
the movies?"
It's his answer to the prime prob
lem harassing the movie industry
today: How to compensate for the
loss of foreign markets and the re-
cent severe decline in domestic au-
diences due Tin his opinion) ap-
parently to inferior pictures-an
estimated drop from 10000, 900
moviegoers down to only $4,000, 900.
THAT 5O,OOO,OO0 is your basic ma
tional movie audience" says Wan
ger, "and you can't increase their
number by just giving them more
of the same kind of pictures.
Not Often Profitable.
Gas see it, that missing 10000 900
is the specialized audiences who
don't care for the general run OF
stuff and the only way to get their
patronage is to turn out specialized,
different pictures"
The out-of-the- ordinary picture
often isn't profitable. Wanger real
izes-from bitter experience.
But he thinks that such pictures
would pay the industry in the end
by turning the bloc of specialized
infrequent moviegoers into steady,
profitable trade.
He has been working with the idea
himself for 10 years since, after
long career as stage producer and
producer for several of the big
movie companies, he turned inde-
pendent.
He made Private Worlds" one
Of the first pictures dealing with
psychiatry; took cognizance Of the
new public interest In politics with
Evening star., 1940-08-25
By Carlisle Jones'.
HOLLYWOOD.


Even experienced screen stars Of
undoubted ability and popularity
make screen tests before each new
role. Unless one understands the
reason for this it seems to be need
less reflection on a players reputa-
ton and ability. It's no such thing.
The screen test is meant primarily
to save time and money, to get a
picture away to a flying start.
When it was officially announced
by Warner Bros. that Humphrey
Bogart would play the starring role
in High Sierra his first in the
stellar bracket, he spent several
days making screen tests.
This procedure is not unusual in
Hollywood and the wise player is as
anxious to see those tests as the
director and producer.
A dozen studio departments are
interested in those screen tests. The
makeup men and women want to
experiment with hairdressings, face
lines, boards, If any, mustaches,
sometimes with wigs. There is no
way to tell how those things will
look on the screen in the final pic
ture until they have been seen on
the screen in tests.
Directors Experiment..
The wardrobe department and the
stylists and designers also have a
very real interest in the tests With
out them they would have to guess
how a certain dress or costume
would appear. With them. they
know. If the effect doesn't please
them the gowns or costumes can be
changed without delaying produc-
ton
Production delay is the thing
Evening star., 1940-08-25
only is coincidence but also an
awful headache.

only is a coincidence but also an
awful headache.
Some studios say they actually
have been threatened with libel
suits over just such things. so now
they are careful to check and make
sure that every telephone number
mentioned in the movies is either a
dummy or they get written permis-
sion Of the owner to use 1t.
Balloons Barraged.
Assorted asideS-Movies don't
pay actors at so much per word of
dialogue. But Lee Wong. Chinese
extra, collected S25 for merely say
ing 10" a contraction for Hello" +"
in one picture Only four of the
many studios that make this place
a veritable fairyland of make-be-
lieve actually are located in what
is known as Hollywood. A colored
filter or piece of tinted glass, when
held before movie camera, can
make a player black as tar or white
as a ghost Talcum powder is used
as a substitute in the movies for
dust, which isn't photogenic.
Balloonatics - To keep movie
sound tracks from being ruined by
airplane noises overhead. studios
decided, with agreement of nearby
Evening star., 1940-08-25
By Franklin K. Arthur,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Three years ago, when Hollywood's
gossips appraised the hasty mar
riage of Western Star Bill Boyd and
red-headed Grace Bradley-and de-
cided 1t wouldn't last, they reck-
oned without Grace's grandma.
Not that granny took over the
domestic reinS. Not at all. It was
just that one day, when Grace was
little girl in New York, the elderly
woman waved her cane one day and
announced:
with all this modern life, a man
doesn't even have chance to get
acquainted with his wife. In my
time man took his bride out on
farm and like as not the only people
they saw for months on end were
each other. They had to get along"
When Grace and Horseman Boyd
were married, a couple of weeks
after they met. the actress remem-
bered that talk. She mentioned it
to her mate. He liked 1t, too.
Donned an Apron.
I'VE made up our minds to give
up parties and night clubs and
yachting" Grace recalls. Bill had
q ranch in the Santa Monica noun
tains and we moved out there, so
miles from town. We didn't even
put in phone.
Bill gave up his valet and started
taking care if livestock. l gave up
my screen career and put on an
apron.
"For awhile we had our squabbles,
1ust like any other married couple.
Evening star., 1940-08-25


idle during the sultry months. Now
they play in verdant settings, ac-
tually see real sunrise and receive
about one-fifth the salary they
would get for a similar part on
Broadway. The various producers.
who are as secluded as a life
termer in their Broadway Offices,
trudge through the marsh grass. to
see the actors perform in the beach
playhouses. The plays almost al
ways are by Noel Coward or other
top-ranking dramatists.
The rewards of the authors from
the summer houses are not too gen.
erous, but they are added and unex-
pected revenue A playwright gets
something like 500 week where he
would receive about $1,000 a week if
the play were a Broadway produc-
ton. But, that 500 a week is
found" money, for, excepting the
tryouts of new plays, the plays pro-
duced in summer houses are those
that have exhausted themselves as
q road or Broadway draw.
It is curious but, where the stars
relish an opportunity to 90 to the
country. the ones who rebel are the
managers, electricians and
other technical workers. Rhey claim
Evening star., 1940-08-25


with Spencer Tracy, Claudette Col
bert and Hedy Lamar.
Boom Town" takes Gable back
to where he started from in his
first full-time job. He was a
roustabout and tool dresser in 1920
in Bigheart, Okla. The town now is
known as Barnsdall The picture
begins in 1919 and confines large
part OF its story to that year and
1920 before moving on for seven or
eight more years.
Since the story does become a
brief cavalcade of the oil business,
the date is a fortunate one for
Gable, because the methods of that
day were vividly impressed upon his
Juvenile, amazed mind. Today, oil
drilling has become modernized with
huge rotary outfits, just as all other
industries have advanced and he
would not be quite at home with
such mechanical accessories.
From Thence Came Clark.
Gable never was a driller in real
life: he was an inexperienced youth
of II and the skilled job of drilling
could hardly be entrusted to noviceS.
In the picture, he is driller, and
Ford Alexander, old-time Gilman,
who served as technical adviser,
commented frequently on Gable S
knowledge remembered from youth
full years. and the ease with which
he looked realistic in carrying on
the early crude methods of cable
tool drilling. Gables expertness also
made the job much easier for Di-
rector Jack Conway.
The man with whom Gable worked
as an oil man also visited the Boom
Town" sets at Metro-GoldWyn-
Mayer, and was carried back to
those 1920 days. He is William
Gable, father of the star. William
Gable was an oil man at the time
of Clark's birth in Cadiz, Ohio. He
later turned to farming at Ravenna,
Ohio. but went back to oil after his
wife died. Clark went to Oklahoma
with him. Because of this, the star
now is known by his middle name
He was christened William Clark
Gable, but, in the Bigheart oildelds,
two Bill Gables were confusing, so
the son dropped his first name and
became Clark.
William Gable smiles at Clark s
oil experiences as compared to his
own years in this work. However,
he did admit on the set that CLARK
looks and acts like a driller." The
realism of the derricks was more
interesting to Gable, sr., because
those 1920 structures were authen-
tically wooden and only 80 feet high
in contrast to modern steel 120-
footers.
Clark's best oil job was as tool
dresser, 12-hour- day job. 1t was
work for men with stout backs: one
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Sales Resistance

Just back from New York. Mickey
Rooney disclosed why Larry Clinton
didn't play Mickeys new song,
Loves Got Nothing on Me" Mickey
put on his selling act while Clinton
sat, dead-pan, beside a telephone.
Finally Mickey asked, Say, am I
boring you?"
No" Clinton replied, "but any
minute expect call telling me my
wife, at the hospital, has had her
baby. This is a terrible time to try
to sell me Loves Got Nothing
on Me-"
Evening star., 1940-08-25

you CdII JUSU dUUUU UtU yUUI IdoV ItdU
slug that it's phony. It's got to
be. or else the studios might come
In for a lot of grief.
Suppose a travelling mans name
Is Frank Johns He lives in Cleve-
land His telephone number is
Crabapple 812 green. And his wife
is suspicious and very, very jealous.
Get the setup?
Now, suppose this crabby old huS-
band walloper goes to see motion
picture that contains scene where
the script, through a strange COIN
cidence, calls for an actress,
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Glad
Of Chance
To Be Tough
Miss Marshall Says
It's the Only Way
TOGet Ahead
BY Robin CoonS,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
It's tough on tender masculine
hearts, but another of the movies
sweet young things is toughening up.
Brenda Marshall says being a
"toughie' is the only way to get
places on the screen.
She's looking at Marlene Diet
rich's comeback in roles of Cutlery
sin-suggestion. She's thinking OF
Bette Davis who hit her high stride
as a guttersnipe in "Of Human
Bondage" She's peeking into an
adjoining sound stage where Ida
Lupino, erstwhile campus cutie type,
is carrying on in High Sierra the
career of dramatic psychopathy she
discovered recently in The Drive
by Night"
And Brenda is wearing the come
hither bangs and tight. short,
striped skirts of an East Side belle
with a joy. she says. such as she
never experienced in the expensive,
lavish gowns of Enrol Flynns hero
inc in The Sea Hawk.
It's Harder Work.
"I drove home in costume the
other day." she says, and some
men on a street corner whistled at
me. It's the first time that ever
happened-so I must look the part,
anyway. This is my fourth picture.
In all the others I've played that
misty-eyed, dewy-lipped girl who
waits around to be taken in the
hero's arms. I hope I never play
another.
This is harder work, though. The
director (Alfred E. Green worked
on me from noon to O'Clock the
other day to get me through some
dramatic scenes-and I was worn
out, wished I could snap through
them the way Barbara StanWyck
can. Mr.. Green says, and I agree,
that these are the roles that teach
YOU things about acting"
The transformation of San An
tonio's Brenda from cllnglng nero
inc to scheming hussy occurs IN
East of the River new title for
the film version of Mamma Rlvloll.
and she's "degenerating' in the
company of Marjorie Rambeau.
John Garfield and William Lundl-
gan.
An equally startling turrabout Is
evident in the ranks OF screen
heavies and tragedians.
Bogey Men Reverse.
There's Burgess Meredith, whose
previous homeruns have been IN
those slightly lighter than cast-iron
movies "Winterset' and of Mice
and Men" You can find him now
with Fred Astaire and Paulstte
Goddard in Second Chorus" He's
playing a college trumpet player
who's been in school so long the
professors call him uncle. He's play
ing in with tousled hair. for comedy.
and he's passing patter with Astaire
that is lighter than beaten biscuits.
There's Basil Rathbone, the bogey-
man, who goes in for comedy in
Rhythm On the River There's
Bob Montgomery, who delights In
Macabre and sinister roles. con-
tributing to the light-hearted mys-
terry of Haunted Honeymoon" And
Karloff, Lugosi and Lorbe, top trl-
umvirate of professional scarers, are
together in the Kay Kyser comedy.
The gent who figured to challenge
the Kill combination was Albert
Decker, who made of DIR. Cyclops'
a first class baby-frightener. And
what's he doing? Playing a punch
drunk comic fighter in Rangers of
Fortune" and making love to Diet
rich in Seven Sinners
So there we are. While the girls
get tough, the bad men say 1.-The
laughs on us-we hope!"
Evening star., 1940-08-25

beautiful. voluptuous blond. to
pick up a telephone in Chicago, ask
the operator to get her Crabapple
812 green in Cleveland, and ask for
Frank" Remember, now it's still
just a coincidence.
Well. you're just crazy if you
think that salesman won't have a
pretty time trying to convince the
little wife, when she gets home
from the movie that night, that he
doesn't know any blonds In Chi
cago and that the whole thing not
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Hope on the Horizon
BY Marx Barron,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
IEW YORK.

hopeful sign Broadway the
the rural payhouses
suggested audiences outside the glare the White
indicate Broadway sowmen really will do something this
fall about supplying the road with shows.
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