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Evening star., 1940-08-18
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

You don't think the general pub
lic-meaning about SO per cent of
those 100000 people popularity
supposed to attend the movies every
week-take their screen fare serious
ly? Have another guess!
When Mickey Rooney was shown
in the last Hardy family picture,
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante,"
delivering Judy Garland to her home
at break of dawn a storm of pro-
test came from parents all over the
country Hardy writers won't do
that one again!
Antics of Roscoe Karns, comedy
truck driver in They Drive by
Night" were criticized by other
factions A running gag in that
picture has Karns under the per-
petual influence of pin-ball games.
That, some fans thought, encour-
aged gambling among the young.
A recent comedy drama in which
the hero browns his domestic sor-
rows by tossing down one bourbon
after another elected a barrage of
Evening star., 1940-08-18
Toduy's Film Schedules

CAPITOISouth of Pago-Pago the tropics
Hall: O. ABS, tbs 10 Stage shows 345 $50
9:l5 pm
$40 745 and 9:45 pm.
EARLE-They Drive Night the truckoad
725 and 10:05 Stage shows: $40 6:25 and 910 pm
KEITH Boys From Syracuse" Allan Jones twins in
after Shakespeare 235, 420 610 7:55 and Gas
March of Time: 215 $50, 7:35 and s25
LITERose Marie that Macdonald Eddy hit back
$40 pm.
METROPOLITAN White plus
top Disney shorts: 2:45, 5, 7:20 and Gas pm.
PALACEI Love You Again Myrna 10y and William Powell in
form romantic comedy: 240 455 tbs and 9:35
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts continuous from o'clock.
Evening star., 1940-08-18
GoeringHans
His Role in
Nazi Film
And Adolf Is Not
Well Cast as
Herr H.
By Ira Wolferf.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
This departments observations
among amateur actors are limited
by choice, but things just seemed
to run that way last week. Edna
Ferber, the author. made her debut
on the stage in the dominant role
of the play she wrote with George
Kaufman THE Royal Family"
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering
and assorted Nazi generals essayed
a bit Of make-believe, complete with
scenario, before movie camera.
The Nazis, as you no doubt know,
have been trying to build up their
jockey so that everybody will be-
lieve he is the boss general and the
genius of their successful military
campaigns as well as whatever else
people believe he is. This scenario,
tucked in amongst Nazi documen-
tary film c'Feldzug in Polen') about
the campaign in Poland, seems to
be the climax of the build-up, since
it is the only visual-aside from
verbal-evidence that could be Of
fered.
incidentally, this "Feldzug In
Pollen" is the film that is supposed
to have been shown to Norwegian
officials last spring to convince them
of the futility of resisting German
arms but that is another story and
beyond the scope of this column.
Whoever wrote and directed the
scenario followed the approved Hol-
lywood technique, but this is no
test of his ability. His actors were
not actors at all, merely Hitler and
Goering.
Amazement and Awe.
The scene is a private car Of an
armored train. and the opening shot
takes in the whole of it-tables run
ming down the length Of one side.
with maps spread out on it and
generals surrounding it, and among
them. in the center Of them, don1i-
mating them the voluminous figure
Of Marshal Goering; on the other
side is a row of office chairs. only
one of them occupied and that by
Hitler, who sits struggling somberly
among his thoughts.
The generals and Goering are to
make suggestions to each other and
point to the map, and there is to be
a bit of chit-chat back and forth,
the net effect of which will define
the strategical problem as insoluble.
They are then to turn to Hitler and
he Is to step over to the maps and
solve the problem while all the
others stand in amazement, awe and
reverence at the blitz from on high.
It's not a particularly inspired or
trying scenario. With, say, Edward
Arnold as Goering and perhaps
Edward G. Robinson as Hitler if
Mr.. Arnold and Mr.. Robinson OBJ
ject, they can blame the American
habit of letting Eddie do it,, this
is a scene that could be tossed of
between bites on an apple.
In the picture as made. 1t de-
velops rapidly that the generals are
all right. Just as horse always
looks like horse in the movies, so
with a Nazi general But Goering
was an unfortunate choice for the
role he portrayed, the role of
Goering He is a vast man with
a shape that can be useful only for
swallowing an opened umbrella and
the general effect of him is low
(See WOLFERT, Page F-2D
Evening star., 1940-08-18
nea Fans Vote Vvien Legh Face the Most Beautiful on the

type of beauty. He expects a re-
naissance of the Jean Harlow period.
when thousands of young women
rushed to the drug stores and
beauty shops and became platinum
doll babies practically overnight.
Factors is the only poll of this
type conducted from Hollywood. It
is not gauged in the slightest on
talent. Figure or even hair is not
mentioned-only the face.
Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1940-08-18

handed Vivien Leigh, Britain's lynx
eyed contribution to Gone With
the Wind" very tidy compliment.
They vote her the actress possessing
the most beautiful face" on the
screen today.
Rating second place in the pull
chritude sweepstakes is another
brunette, Hedy Lamar: while third
position is corralled by flaxen-haired
Madeleine Carroll. Norma Shearer,
Claudette Colbert, Greta Carlo,
Evening star., 1940-08-18

stern warnings from women's clubs
and prohibition groups.
TOO much promiscuous drinking
in pictures today" charged one Ohio
club leader.
The same scene was complained
about for a much different reason.
A Public Relations Bureau protect
ing the interests of the Scotch
Evening star., 1940-08-18

Joan Bennett and Merle Oberon
follow in that order.
Responsible for this all-feminine
finding is Max Factor. jr., who has
just tabulated results of a question
naire sent out two months ago to
1000 women who at one time or
another have visited his beauty
studio in Hollywood.
Hedy Lamarr's place position came
as a surprise to Factor because
she has long been considered a
mans beauty" The fact that
Evening star., 1940-08-18
Some Fans Take the Movies Seriously
Film Players Closely Identified With Characters
They Portray, They Learn From Their Mail

whisky trade pointed out it was
unfair for the hero to demand re-
peated bourbons to the exclusion
of Scotch.
From all over the world-or that
portion of it still permitted to view
Hollywood pictures-come letters di-
rected TO the studios and to the Hays
Evening star., 1940-08-18

women rallied so strongly to make
her the runnerup is a significant
sign of her universally appealing
facial qualities.
Appended comments of the women
voters in many cases proved them
keen students Of appeal" in their
own sex Most women liked the
vitality" and Intelligence" re-
flected in Vivien Leigh's face. Her
particular style of bobbed hairdress
came in for further praise.
Evening star., 1940-08-18

Also interesting were answers to
one question which asked which of
the younger actresses the women
thought most beautiful? Lana
Turner, Brenda Joyce and Rita
johnson topped this particular
category. From this, and the fact
that Madeleine Carroll made such
a strong race for top honors among
the leading stars, Factor is led to
observe that there is a definite lean
Evening star., 1940-08-18
HOLLYWOOD,

American women, or at least a
fairly representative cross-section,
residing in scattered points through
out these United States, have just
written in their say-so about Holly
wood screen beauty-strictly from
the feminine standpoint, of course.
These ladies-the same ones whose
stern after-dinner decisions control
the showgoing notions of irresolute
husbands and boy friends-have just
Evening star., 1940-08-18

able offsprings. own the first of the
Hollywood makeup establishments
Papa Max Factor came here in
1907-before Hollywood was Holly
wood. They have supplied make
up and wigs for practically every
actor and actress in the business.
Evening star., 1940-08-18

(See WOLFERT, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1940-08-18

Their current output includes the
fright toupee worn by Harpo Marx,
Orson Welles is now aging in a
Factor wig for Citizen Kane'D,
tSee GRAHAM. Page F-2)
Evening star., 1940-08-18
Theater's First Strings
Hint a Season of Melody
And Mirth Is the Idea
Like the Movies Big Men, Producers
Have a Notion Their Public Prefers
: Flesh and Deviltry on the Stage
By Jay Carm ody.

caprcous brings the nights
be that Of Edmund Plohn
press annual of life and
donkey has brayed all Signs
pont these that is time begin thinking of autumn and the
theater
In the silent recesses of their cabnas yachts
their garret the guiding genu the stage have
been thinking thinking like
thinking cstald In spite that however there
intimations of what autumn will bring.
Departmental spies solemny that
the Nationals opening tentatively September
the which probably the employment
entirely of before brings what
bring forbid
After start usual array of items inherited from the
Broadway hits The Male Animal Ladies in Retire
heaay locally looks like
the movies the
big Of the thea have come to the broad the flesh and
constitute the models entertainment in terror haunted
world
Eddie Bowling May Go on Tour
But Won't Stop Producing.
Up from word Of veriable har
vest OF @ mus eonoe If among g r % T one musical is The 1tfe DOG
Laughed producer Eddie Bowling Washingonns have been
ued lying westward that Dowlng
fall with William saroyan THE Time Of Your
Life" years double Well the fact that Mr. DoWlng
back to his old love- medous fppey means no change
that program dine with him; nothing inter-
the provinces the philosophical achomaniac
derec Uttered barrom Moreover the mere TACT that
ghm entertainment does not mean that he
Let another Paul vincent White
along and Down would snatch up like lightning
If only for reference rather than immediate action
Dubiey in the profession
has revival of Showboat with an a-star
for revival in these disoned times are more
maybe
with TOO Many Girls spirited
not have been Its lnsplra-
general The old grads of M who hrs attained
renown taken cods the theme OF
their latest work
Fa of
Show Is Doubt.
Still the subject make the winter
sending shea Barrett from crossroads CROSSROADS
over customers notion that she
merely solo performer however
not been that the producers Of dither
Broadway box office and make an immediate
call o income tax experts
entertainment that
the when the moves were
still about the old dramatic
sophomore hafback De sylvia
the profits of louisiana Purchase and similar
noects into Hattie 1t will produced with
glitter personnel inghe De Sylvia omuawhch would
Syva includes primarily Ethel
notion that the finest thing he could DO Tor
the Shirley The Temples OF might
feel differently, De Sylvia dream, can't he?
his contribution the melodiousness OF Broad
planning the Grating and shipping OF his
Hold New York After consider
deemed quite mt for an
bavck from which Hollywood
quite the
tic h-n has found o
Evening star., 1940-08-18
A Makeup Expert Advises
Max Factor, Jr., Who Makes the Stars
Lovely, Passes on Some Hints
By Sheilah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.


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type
SCHOOL, natural? l6?
And 10? All
Hollywood house
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
ShelIs Don't Yell Fore"

Come the first honest-to-goodness day of spring and the robins are really around to stay, no fooling, and the weather is warm enough for you to run to the corner grocery store without your muffler, golfers will breathe deeply three times and will start fondling their clubs in way all fairway artists get to learn. The next thing you know, all the country clubs and public links will be swarming with people who are going to break 90 or quit = and never do either.
 Not so in war-ravaged Madrid. Many golfers there are without equipment and 700 clubs have been sent ever by New York sportSmen. Those Madridlinos who still have few sticks around have got to be careful that they don't smack any unex- ploded shells lying around the courses. The Puerta de Hiero course is so full of holes that weren't made by divot-diggerS that only nine greens can be used. You can stack all that up as just another good reason why wars would be much better left unfought.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
THE OLDEST DOCTOR
\(New York Herald -Tribune)

The nations most venerable prac- ticing physician, who helped in- numerable fellow citizens to finger longer on earth than they otherwise might have done, has now departed this life himself at the age of 104. All his years Dr. William Eberle Thompson dwelt in a white house in the village of Bethel, Ohio, and there he had occupied the same of- flee since 1860. In that long period, before the universal use of the tele. phone. 1t was usual to send nes- senger for the doctor, and his office hours had no end until the job was done. In the interval since he began practice he had experienced the ad- vances in surgical and medical science which have largely trans- formed those arts; had witnessed the change from bad roads to good and from horseback for the country practitioner to horse and buggy, and then the automobile. Tn the early days there were difficult journeys, with dangerous lords, shaky bridges over swollen streams, and fallen trees. Sometimes it was impossible for pr. Thompson to reach a pat tent: the symptoms were then de- scribed by shouts across a chasm, and medicines. weighted with a stone, were tossed across. to be given as directed. Percentage of cures must have been satisfactory. for the old physician continued in practice for seventy-five years. Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
Still Waiting

Deadline date for withdrawing from the Illinois preferential primaries has passed with nary word from the Tus- caloosa, which is carrying the President around Central American waters. Febru- ary 25 was supposed to be the day when Roosevelt would say yes or no. He said nothing. Nor did he say anything on Thanksgiving, at the Hyde Park library dedication on Christmas at the Jackson Day dinner, at the opening of Congress on the dozens of other occasions it was predicted he would speak history.
 It must be pretty wearing on people who tensely await all the crucial days only to learn that nothing has happened. It's lot like reading serial story that never ends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
Burning The Bonds

At the State Capitol in Hartford last week they burned big batch of state bonds. once upon time those bonds were worth $1,250,000. But the state re- deemed them and in accordance with custom and law they were properly burned. State Treasurer Joseph Talbot of the neighboring borough of Naugatuck was the presiding officer at the cere- mony of cremation. There's story be- hind those bonds, long one if it was ever completely retold.
 They constitute the first inStallment of the states very recent $25,OOOOOO bond issue An annual custom will be made of this burning for the next 19 years when the state will have completely re- tired this issue. The purpose. of floating this amount of bonds, as all of us should know by .this time, was to pay off the states deficit, first of all; then the re- maining millions were to be used to de- fray the expenses of gigantic building program. Of this latter phase Of actlV- ity much has been written and said.
 There was praise and criticism both for the $25 100000 bond issue. Many old-line Republicans, under the spell or the Rorabackian pay-as-you-go theory refused to give ground on the subject or improving our state institutions. They couldn't believe that the Republican gov- ernment of Connecticut had been so derelict as the facts proved it to be when Dr. Wilbur L. Cross and other interested persons came along and took over con trol. Yet the facts are substantiated Tn the intensive building program going on and the demands stIll being made for more improvements, more repairs, more expansion.
 Our very adherence to the pay-as.you' 20 method resulted in nice clean ledgers at Hartford, but it retarded institutional growth in the state ten years. We are trying to overcome that now and the scene at the Capitol last week when those first patches Of fctlred b0ndg were burned ls ample proof that we are succeeding. For % more years, though. we can bc re. minded that failure t0 plan for the future iAfl0t always balanced by 4 tight hand on tbe purse.strlnes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
Money for Rent Again

o People who go around looking for mort
 gage money usually have a reasonably
 lair idea just how good times are. If the moneys easy to get, they know things
 aren't so bad; if capital can't be readily
 pried loose, conditions aren't so good So the recent report of the National Asso-
 citation of Real Estate Boards, to the et-
 feet that capital is again looking TOT
 takers, offers hopeful footnote on tne signs of the times. In 81 per cent ot 261
 representative cities, the report said, cap- aital was readily available for mortgage
 loans In II per cent of the cities, the
 supply was keeping up with the demand, and in only per cent was there a snort age of money. In fact, the situation has
 never appeared more favorable during
 the 17 years in which surveys have been
 made, the association said
 Of further cheer to the prospective home owner should be the fact that mortgage interest rates have dropped off generally
 from per cent to per cent. In some places, money can be had for 1-2 per cent. The decline of l per cent ln the ssstandard rate may seem like drlopie, %but calculated over long term 1t IS noth- ling to sheer at On a $12,OOO nome, financed on 2O-year plan the difference between and per cent would amount to $2,4OO after 20 years.
 V Tn only per cent of the cities sur ssyoyed is there current tendency for the sinterest rate to rise. In Al percent ot the Communities on the other hand, the ten dency is toward even further reductions, and in B per cent, it is steady. The fact that mortgage money is plentiful, despite the fact that interest rates have dropped, :, would be encouraging during any era. That it should come at time when war -4las struck the world is regarded by real estate men as an extremely taVoraole -sign. It is an indication that war influ- ence has not yet gripped the nation and $that mortgage money is showing no ten- dency to become scarce, as might be ex- pected in period of unstable economic and political conditions.
 Connected with the government pro- grams for expanding and improving hous- ing and with the current campaign to !, trim building costs, the reduced mort. . gage rates and the abundant supply or ! capital offer genuine incentive to the {, man who is thinking of building. Most , home builders are dependent on the use , of someone else's money to get thelr proJ- ( ect under way. If such money can be easily obtained, the confidence of capital , in the building program is pretty well !: established. Nothing more wholesome , could happen to the American people m the spring and summer to come than substantial increase in building activity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04

Many political observers are wondering what is behind the movement, brought to the front last week, to make eX-Senator Fuller Barnes of Bristol chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. AL though it has been rumored from time to time that the incumbent, Benjamin E. Harwood, wished to retire, somehow or other he just didn't and all factions in the party seemed to agree that by not making change no damage was done the party organization within the state. Whether or not change at this particu- lar time is guaranteed to keep party soli- darity remains to be seen. The Re- publicans, as do the Democrats, face the task of naming delegates to the National Convention. Following that they must prepare plan of defense for the state fall campaign. A change now might be disastrous in view of the 1888 successes. Or would it increase chances of retain ing control?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
Hanging On To Experience

Among many of the nations employ CTS, new movement to retain older and experienced hands has become evident recently. Not forgetting the problem of jobless youngsters, many industrialists realize that the post-forty worker is en- titled to just as much consideration.
 They are also aware that the man who has spent 10 or 20 years in 3s; the same ne plant is normally pretty well equipped to % asset to the firm; his years of service, a tribute to his craftsmanship. Wedding out faithful old-timers who are still capa- ble is not an answer to the unemploy- ment enigma. The youngsters them selves don't want to get jobs that way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
. HlGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Peaceful Valley of Miners Poverty Struck

The beginning of Richard Llewel- lyn's How Green Was My Valley" Macmillan: $2.75) is the end. But this pleasant folk-tale of a Welsh miner and his family loses nothing by such technique, perhaps because there is succession of episodes which over shadows the gradual building up to final climax.
 Huw Morgan tells the story. A man of 60, he is leaving this once-green valley. But before he departs he must survey in memory his own life, the lives of his family and friends.
 There was peace in the valley when Huw was a boy. His father and brothers came from the pit, depos- ited their weekly earnings in his mothers money box. There were TO- mances, marriages, quarrels. Strong voiced Welshmen sang in their choirs. worshiped a might Jehovah God. and Dada Morgan ruled with a hand of iron, tempered by the gen- tleness of his wife.
 The first strike and its failure sug- gested the poverty and depression that are ultimately to blot out the green of happiness and prosperity.
 Huw talks of his love for his sis- ter-in-law, Il years his senior, of his years in bed, crippled in an heroic attempt to save his mothers life. There Is the tragedy Of Marged and Owen; HIw's vigorous defense Of the adulteress agalnt the condemnation Of the ehurehmen,
 Vigorously drawn is Father Mor. gan's admonltlon to HuW, whipped for fighting in seb0ols-'Vight. son, and if fighting is against the rules, take your beatlng--kut light"
 But the beauty Of the novel Hes not 70 much in tho story How MoFs gnn tells as Co the way he tells G, Here ls a wealth 0f Welsh ldl0m. z richness Of glowing descFlpll1ll, Upon aflalyhls, you may zee the iaeb Of something so ebew oil, h0ineih'ns t0 dieehis bus Ike spun sugar candy lt tastes seod eeing down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04

News that the Wilbur L. Cross Parkway would actually be started within the next few weeks recalls to mind the long years of debate that lowered over the Merritt Parkway. Many motorists thought they never would live to drive over this Fair field County road. Perhaps some didn't, but most of us have seen the realization of long-cherished dream in this parkway. We now look for similar reenactment further along this road and all through the state, AS should be done the new parkway will be built from its western end, where it links with the Merritt Park way at the Housatonic river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04

It is with regret that Connecticut of- ficialdom read of the announcement that Harry w. Marsh was submitting his resig nation as State Personnel Director. He will return to the field of Civil Service af- ter May 1. He has been a fine man in the exacting position which was created sev- eral years ago and his selection reflects great credit on former governor Wilbur L. Cross and others who recommended him. He has done good work; it is to be hoped his successor will continue in this way
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
Views of The Press

testimony to his skill, doubtless, and to the fact that counry folk did not imagine hat rifling ailmens needed dosing, and so got well unaided. pr. Thompson continued in good health until his one hundredth year. not withstanding broken rest. irregular meals and the hardship of his early days. He neither smoked nor drank It is a safe guess that as wise man he also took very little medicine.