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Evening star., 1940-10-06
By Marx Barron.
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
Bette Davis, who refuses to shush
the subject as her friends and ad-
visers would prefer admits that
there is still skeleton knocking at
her door.
Now that she has completed her
roles in the new movies of THE
Letter" and January Heights" she
continues to hear that still, small
voice of THE Woman Brown" tap
ping gently for recognition.
She has not yet given up hope
about this play, which she discovered
in a New England summer theater
a few seasons ago II was a failure
when it was presented on Broadway.
Despite her urging, her movie bosses
have refused to produce it.
II still think it is good play, and
I hope to do it sometime either on
the stage or in the movies" she said,
glancing over her shoulder as If she
were mentioning a forbidden sub
ject.
Miss Davis was stopping over in
4NCW j VI n Oll 11CA W0y U0tA 4AVNA AASA
farm in Franconia, N H., where she
spends four months every year.
Then she changed her mind and
went back to the farm
She, who was born in Lowell,
Mass, still hasn't gotten away from
her New England upbringing despite
many triumphs in hollywood (she
won the Academy Award twice for
her performances in Dangerous"
and "Jezebel") and on Broadway.
On q table by ner window overlook
ing New York's fashionable Fifth
avenue were q jug focider and .
basket Of apples.
Summer Theaters Helped.
81 bought the eide, to take back
to Hollywood and show some friends
what q really good New England
drink is. don't think you've gotten
everything out of life until you've
been on . New England farm for q
day In the open air With barbecue
Evening star., 1940-10-06

His style is to be overcome by life.
Events rush upon him and whether
he rushes forward to give events
battle or rushss away for his life,
whether he bares his breast or ex-
poses his flank, he is always run
over and left dazed
Everything about his work is in
tune with his style. That is to say,
his work is art. Form grows out
of content and content grows out
of form. Even his jokes fit in. Most
of them are bad and quite ineffec-
tual and this is exactly what they
should be- If they were successful
jokes, them they wouldn't be so
funny.
For instance, there is an enor-
nous build-up to enable him to
say that, as a producer. he bred
his cast upon the water" And he
does the same thing even better
later in the evening. when, in talk
ing about Long Island-which lies
between the Atlantic Ocean and
Long Island Sound-he goes sud-
denly shy at the climax and fumbles
and looks around desperately and
takes off his hat and looks at 3
prompt sheet and memories it in
a humble and then says pedanti-
cally: You can hear the No :. {.
See the No." and makes a
vexed sound and begins to count
on his fingers and resumes, You
can see the sea and hear the sound
That's it, he shouts happily into
the roar of laughter from the audi
ence. That's right hear the
sea and see the sound :. No, no 4.
see the sea and hear the sound"
And It's Always Clean.
But all this is heavy-going talk
about an extraordinarily funny
funnyman. And another extraor-
binary thing is that Mr.. Wynn is
invariably the gentleman. 1t is
not merely that he refrains from
being bawdy or in the least coarse.
Even in a dressmaker scene where
his prettiest girls arrive on stage
in their scanties and he proceeds
to attire them with bolts of cloth,
he manages by some inner JUNCTION
to leave sex out of 1t. But it is not
that alone. He performs the rou-
tine knockabouts of the clown with
gusto and yet exactly in the manner
Of gentleman, who finds himself
falling down stairs.
Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.
The, Lyric Opera Co.. under the
direction of Joseph s. Daltry, "hav.
ing toured the major cities through
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Coming Attractions

EALE-"Knue picture biography
Of the football COACH with Pat OBen playing the lead
ing and with Of the heroes Notre Danes
portrayed the starts Friday The stage show
will be headhned by the Andrews Sisters.
PALACE-"The Godwyns
with Gary Walter and Doris Davenport in
leading roles will follow the current attraction Foreign Cor
respondent" t>+-
CAPIrOL-Brisham -Froneman" of the Mormon
trek to the West with Dean the title role Tyrone
Power starred Thursday There will be variety
bill on the stage
METROPOLITAN-'Comin' Round the Mountain" comic tale Of
life among the hill bies with Bob Burns and his bazooka
actively engaged; follows THE Howards of Virginia
KEITHS-"They They Wanted" Lauehtons
picture in which he co-sared with Carole Lombard
and directed by Garsn slated follow Deanna
Durbins hit, Spring Parade"
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Hope Lavish With His Lavish Talent
When Friendship Calls He Answers With His Best
And for Nothing but the Fun of 1t

shape of 15-months-old Linda. also
adopted from the cradle II months
ago Tony's new home is an English
farmhouse. built by the Hopes last
year. on 2 acres of land-"And paid
for" says Bob-in North Hollywood.
Here's another change in the Hope
status. Two years ago Bob had to
take any picture he was assigned
to-and some of them were pretty
bad. like college Swing" Give Me
Sailor" etc. Nowadays, not only
does Bob get the pick of Para
mounts "A" movies, but when and
if he does not like them. he says so.
He was to have made another pic
ture right now with Paulette Cod
dard-his association with Paulette
has been successful in The Cat and
the Canary" and Ghost Breakers"
but Bob didn't like the story of the
next one. 1t has been shelved.
Which leaves him away from the
camera until November, when he
does THE Road to Zanzibar" with
Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.
It's follow-up to the trio's success.
full Road to Singapore.
Will be Loaned Out.
Early next year Hope will be loan.
ed out to the aforementioned Mr..
Goldwyn. who will star him In An
Intimidate Musical Comedy" for the
fiat sum of 100000.
And here's more surprising
change in the Bob of 1888 and 40.
He is now an American citizen. It's
always a great surprise to me when
Bob tells me he is, or was. a Brit
isher. His quick wit and looks are
so hundred per cent American. But
Bob was born in England and came
to this country with his family when
he was 4 years old. They lived in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Bob has changed the story Of how
he became a comedian Story num-
Der one-He discovered his wise
cracking talent in Newcastle. Indi-
ana. when the manager of q theater
asked him to announce the show for
the following week He ad-nbbed.
The audience howIed. And Bob
gave up hoofing for gag-telling.
Story number two-"My mother
asked me to sing a song to some
friends of hers. I did it with q
serious face. But the! laughed
and I knew I was a funny man."
Both stories are probably correct.
But here's something new to me
and it may be to you: Bob's name
is not Bob. It's Lester
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Evening star., 1940-10-06
Toduy's Film Schedules

CAPITOI-Strike Up the Band with Mickey Rooney
435 TBS 10:15 Stage 3:55
940 pm.
Gable Colbert and strike
oil: 2:1O, 4:40, 7:10 and $40
EARLE-No Time for Comedy" Rosalind Russell and Jimmy
Stewart in cntlating 430 and $50 Stage
shows: $40, 6:15 and pm.
KEITHS-"Sprng Parade" Deanna Dublin in Blue Danube"
4:10, g. 75O and 945
LTE-The Story of Cheat by and with the expert Sacha
Gutry: 2:l0, 4:05, 5:55, 7:50 and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"The Virginia" Martha Scott and
Cary romantic Of the beginnings Of freedom
24O 5, 7:20 and $40
PALACE-Foreign Correspondent melodrama and adventure by
Alfred Hitchcock g. 420 7 and 9:35 pm.
TRANSFORMERS and shorts: continuous from O'Clock
Evening star., 1940-10-06
FranchOt Tone Cast

Franchot Tone was handed one of
the prize screen roles of the year
when he was signed to play the title
role in the Jack London novel,
Martin Eden" which goes before
the cameras the first week in De-
cember. Martin Eden" is generally
acclaimed as the greatest novel
from London's pen. so Mr.. Tone in
the title role will have one of the
most important parts he has ever
played.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
By Ira " 0lferf.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
The chances are that Ed Wynn is
the great clown of our theater. AT
least having just come out from
under the spell he casts in his new
show. Boys and Girls Together y
I can't think Of any one entitled to
pull the chair out from under him.
This is Mr.. Wynn's 18th show in
80 years of top-lining and it did not.
seem to me exactly his best. Al
though 1t has plenty Of vaudeville,
there is not enough variety. Since
Mr.. Wynn is in everything that goes
on from curtain to finale and leaves
the stage only to change into
another one of his ridiculous cos
TUNES, everything else seems pale.
No doubt, this is measure OF Mr..
Wynn's greatness for everything
else is really quite good. The De
Marcos, for instance, have famous
flair for ballroom dancing. Jane
Pickens is nice to listen to and
better to look at. Dave Appolon can
make mandolin more success
full instrument than anybody else.
There are a number of vaudeville
acts which would be headlining at
the Palace If vaudeville had Pal
ace anymore and the chorus is the
most beautiful and the showgirls
are the most beautiful ever seen
anywhere since the days of Zieg-
field. The clothes they wear are
quite nice, too.
But, having to work in the
presence>of Mr.. Wynn. they are all
stars in the sun and don't seem
what they are. When Ed Wynn
sits down to watch the De Marcos
dance. the De Marcos might as we'll
sit down, too. And when Mr. Wynn
rides out on bicycle to which a
piano has been fastened and ac-
companies Jane Pickens in even
such a gay song as "Catsup on the
Moon" then Miss Pickens might
Just as we'll be singing over the
radio.
The result is that the evening is
Ed Wynn all the way and along
about HAS 1t begins to seem too
much of a good thing.
Ed to Become Grandfather.
The report is that Mr.. Wynn is
soon to become a grandfather. To
date he has had a sad life and he
cries about it in private. Like all
the great clowns, he has tragic
face. It is long and swollen and
droops like a bulbous. pendulous
tear from the little hats he wears.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Ed Wynn Wins Again Comedy's Crown
Even if He Is Less Funny Than in His Bright Past,
He Still Is the Funniest Figure in Theaer

out the East during the past few
years the program notes, with
Phenomenal success. now makes its
New York debut in a Gilbert and
Sullivan festival"
1t is to be feared that no phe-
nomenal success awaits them here
The company is young. attractive
and full of effort, and has a few
good voices in it. The director, in
forcing them to caper and prance
with their faces through The Con-
doliers," succeeded in making them
trample it to death
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Evening star., 1940-10-06

and apple cider. Just before I left
the farm we had a marvellous bar
becue, with so pounds of beef on the
grill at once. We don't make cider
on the farm, but we dc know how to
cook barbecue"
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Bette Davis Is Persistent About The Woman Brown

Miss Davis, who hasn't appeared
on the Broadway stage in about 10
years, also thinks its largely due to
her training in New England sum-
mer theaters that has pushed her
ahead in HOLLYWOOD.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Those Great Movie Ideas
Frighten the Wits Out Of
Studio Story Purchasers
They Do, That Is, if Unprotected, and
Jacob Wilk Has an Anecdote Which
Shows How Things Can Go So Wrong
By Jay Carmody.


you great movieau ideas. for movies being
satdont bounce the head Of studio department. no
matter well him. chances that he will want
conditioning enable him
to restrain the impulse.
chief will be
ideas
contrary pure Actually what to
will him and that entirely inno
will the studio plagiarism
occupational
all this much horse
should talk
Jacob Wnk This which encountered
poached egg recently ready
ne will and
lay idea eadum When he that the hard
fascinating welpad he makes
beievabe when isn't foolng
the middle poached that Wk started the
anecdote illustrative of the horror that stalks such function
approached a
idea, plus yen to tell Wik about it.
don't please" said Wilk. Write it,
proved be much stubborn Wk finally agreed to
proso what happened he to
responsible outline concerning
history
greatness
reputable writing gentleman, Wilk
publisher might offer the produc-
ton of the book He sat back then to why
still
day when another dealer words and ideas or vice versa came
him asking permission to outline story he had mind about
overlooked character American
Without other identify the
told him who
WIKI who himself
not likely in this particular case subsequent plagiarism suit
and somehow did not have
the temerity to ask who it was
Joe to a Subject
For C.. Musical Biography
Speaking subjects
found musical biography for this The whose
Doodle
always with his gadgets
fixed
his worthy biographical subject
Gilbert Hartke
in last enterprise.
Shine" Hold
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Hen her model ice show, 1T Happens
comedy relief important which
qualified.
by young
Brady from
lmecks extremely affair began
favote clown of the Evansville Ind) Fire Department.
nights finally
But o. Always Carnovsky
That Fine Stage Dction.
acting
his instrument which he invariably excellent effect 1t
week.
There time that other time Carnovky
Washington University At
virtually with
Of con something profoundly favored with
a
into New York Job hunter with fine
rid Of the thing
He has spoken straight Carnovsky ever since.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
New York Produce

NEW YORK. July 10 lP,.-Eggs, s,179;
weak. Mixed colors-Fancy to extra
fancy fancy 10, is,2s y: extras iisa storage
current receipts, 1874, mediums l5,.-1 "a;
dirties, No. l. 15-15M: average checks,
14-14h
Whites-tResale of premium marks.
24R-2O nearby and Midwestern premium
marks. 21a-24: specials. 21: standards,
l734; (resales of exchange to fancy heav-
ier mediums. 201a-24) mediums. 20.
Browns-Nearby fancy to extra. 20Ha-
26. Nearby and Midwestern specials, 20
standards. 17a4; mediums. 90.
Duck eggs, 1920.
Butter, $4,000: irmer. Creamery,
higher than extra. 27-27s4: extra (92
cations e s5ssA Isee Seconds 1s4s Ss ssa4 aha
Cheese, 116,525: Arm. Prices un-
changed
Boxes. chickens, broilers. i4h-ssA; Try
ers: rs: l42-20h: roasters. 1920: other
fresh and all frozen prices UNCHANGED;
Live poultry by freight, slow. Broilers,
Rocks and colored. 14-15. Fowl, coloTed,
17-1S: Leghorns. l4-15. Old roosters, a.
u. Turkeys hens. 20; young toms, Is.
Ducks 10. BY express slow and not
cleared; chickens. crosses, 17H2 broilers.
Rocks. 1920; crosses. 1917; some. 17a:
Reds 1917; Leghorns. II; small, 15-16.
Fowl. colored.. 17-17h: some 1S-1Sa;
Is Old roosters, 13. Turkeys. hens, 20.
Ducks 13
Evening star., 1940-07-19
New Frontiers Seen
In laboratories and
Machine Shops
Compton Calls on All
U. S. Firms to Boost
Research Spending
BY the ASsociat ted Press.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Today's
frontiers are in the laboratories and
machine shops of industry, DR.. Karl
T. Compton, president OF the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
said last night in a report calling
upon all companies In the United
States to spend per cent of their
gross income for research.
IF all the companies in the United
States spent 2 per cent of their gross
income for research the total would
amount to more than billion dol
lars a year-probably five times as
much research as is being done
now" he said.
In the research that has not been
done, America may have missed
many nylon (fiber). neoprene
rubber), polaroid PLASTIC substitute
for glass to remove the glare from
light or even an automobile in
dustry.
Industrial research not only pays
dividends to the companies which
engage in it, but 1t is a major new
source of national prosperity and its
potentialities are unlimited"
A survey of 1873 companies by the
National Association of Manufac-
turers Advisory Committee on Scien-
tif1c Research, of which DR.. Comp
ton is chairman. was said to have
revealed that 10 companies spent
more than 10 per cent of gross in
come for research, but the broad
average of all interrogated was 2
per cent.
Aviation manufacturers were found
to be among the most research
minded, DR.. Compton said. Among
the top 10 were two manufacturers
OF airplanes and airplane parts, two
machinery manufacturers, a manur
facturer of railway equipment, an
electrical equipment company, a re-
finer OF ores. manufacturer of
glue, a combustion and chemical
engineering company and one man
ufacturing chemist.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Sinclair Dep|ores
Uneconomica||y Low
Crude Oil Prices
Executive Opposes
Production Shutdowns
As Remedy
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. July 19.-Harry F.
Sinclair, oil executive, asserted today
that uneconomically low prices for
crude petroleum and it's products is
a basic factor in the industrys pres
ent unsettlement.
His views were made known In a
telegram to the North Texas Oil g.
Gas Association in reply to a re-
quest from D. H. Bolin, president of
the association, for suggestions for
stabilizing the situation.
Regarding recent cuts in crude
oil prices in the North Texas dis
trict, Sinclair, who is chairman of
the Executive Committee of Con-
solidated Oil Corp, said:
The fundamental causes for this
situation go far beyond North Texas
and beyond any power Of correction
that you or we can apply locally.
Shutdowns of production are
not the remedy. Retaliatory and
illegal reductions of allowable pro-
duction in isolated cases can have
no beneficial effect on our problems
"As to the crude price standing
alone as one factor in the situation.
in my opinion dollar is not enough
for barrel Of crude Oil. The price
should be higher. but by no kind OF
artificial restriction or regulation
can manufacturers continue indefi-
nltely to pay more for raw material
than they receive from the products
made therefrom."
Any consideration by State regu-
latory bodies of plans to contro,
production, Sinclair added, should
include discussion of the influences
that prevent the average refiner
from getting prices for his product
that would enable him to pay a
reasonable price for crude"
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Wool Dealings Are Near
StdndstilI for Week
BY the Associated Press,

os tilc HSSuIldIeQ fTeSS.
BOSTON, July 19.-The CONNER
clal Bulletin today reported:
Rarely in the experience of this
writer over many years has the
wool market been less active than
now, so far as new business is con-
cerned. Considerable wool is arriv-
ing from the West for approval
and warehouse and much is being
billed out to the mills, but new
orders just don't exist. Many of the
largest houses have sold nothing all
week, unless some little oddment
which didn't typify the market.
Prices, however, are a bit softer.
THE coming Western auctions
may reveal the temper of the market
more clearly than anything which
has happened this week.
1.-The piecegoods market still is
disappointing. Further Government
orders may be forthcoming soon,
however, to break the monotony.
Foreign wool offerings are less
conspicuous and have little effect
on the market here for the moment.
"Mohair is dull, also, with prices
hardly changed for the week."
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Low Navy Bid Stirs
U. S. Copper Market
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July ia shaky
domestic copper market was jolted
severely yesterday when it was
learned the Kennecott Copper Corp.
was low bidder at 10N cents
pound on 2.000, 900 pounds OF metal
for the Navy.
1t was stated emphatically that
Kennecott's quotation to private
consumers would not be lowered
from the present 1112 cents, which
has been in effect for some time.
Metal circles said, however, that
such a large tonnage at such a
substantial concession tended to
undermine confidence in the price
structure.
The immediate effect was to make
copper available in the outside mar
ket at 1910 cents. Custom smelters
were said to have adhered to their
10A -cent quotation. but some fore
cast concession from that figure
might be had. Export metal wss
quiet at 1oH cents.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Royal Dutch Calls
Meeting Of Holders
Al Curacao
Session to Be First
Since Shift From
Hague Office
D. the Associated Press.

D. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 19.-The trek
Of refugees from war-shattered
Europe had a big business" rep
resentative today In the vast Royal
Dutch Petroleum Co., which in
formal announcement said It's next
shareholders meeting would be held
at Curacao, Netherlands West In
dies, on July 80.
1t will be the first stockholders
meeting since the Nazi invasion of
Holland and, so far as is known
here. the first to be held outside
its old home Office in The Hague.
1t will signify virtual completion
of hastily worked-out plans for
ktransfer of headquarters from The
Hague to the little Dutch island in
the Caribbean.
Flight of humans from the en-
battled continent has been going on
a long time and there has been a
great outward flow of gold and
other treasure, but the general i'm
preston in industrial quarters today
was that Royal Dutch's trans-At-
lantic shift of vital part of its
Organization marked the first in
clusion of an important corporate
power in the refugee sweep.
Best known of the Netherlands
business enterprises, the Royal
Dutch carries the somewhat pom
derous title of Royal Dutch Co. for
the Working of Petroleum Wells in
the Netherlands Indies"
American financiers familiar with
the corporations history, the world
scope of its operations and its close
identity with Hollands development
as an industrial and financial pow
|er, said they were sure that nothing
Hess than the Notwithstanding cata-
clysm that has befallen Europe
would have induced the Royal
Dutch managers to transfer vital
parts of it's control from The Hague
Ito the New World.
A balance sheet released with
the company's call for the stock
holders meeting showed Royal
Dutch had resources amounting to
p ,104. 4.072,1 florins as of December
81, 1889. The florin was last quoted
tn the foreign exchange market at
around So cents in terms of the
dollar. This was just before the
country was invaded in May.
AS reminder of the complica-
lions and threatened questionable
claims of ownership of Royal Dutch
shares growing out of the German
Invasion, the company's announce
nent contained this warning:
THE directors wish to call par
ticular attention to the fact that
rights of ownership can only be ex-
ercised in conformity with the royal
decree of May "a, 1910, also Curacao
trading with the enemy act of May
hi, 1910. ="