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Evening star., 1940-10-08

Orson Welles. if not the most
highly unionized man in the world,
will do until that fellow comes
along.
Now engaged in making his first
movie for R-K-O Radio, Citizen
Kane" he is actor-write producer
director, just as was the case with
his stage and air productions. AS a
consequence, he holds membership
in.
Screen Writer'S Guild, Screen Di-
rectors' Guild, Screen Actors Guild,
Radio Writers Guild, American
Federation of Radio Artists and
Equity Association.
In the latter organization, which
controls the stage, he holds a Junior
membership, as he has not yet
worked long enough to qualify as a
senior.
Evening star., 1940-10-08
And Now Mickey Is a Man,
But Studio Whispers 1t
MG.M Wants Its Rooney to Be
A Boy Several More Years;
OrSOn'S Thin and Handsome
By SHEILAH GRAHAM,
HOLLYWOOD.


Mickey Rooney 81 old
The to keep Mickey three until
begins taller which likely he left
police
benefit He 7yearod
Evening star., 1940-10-08

Europe who never will have to worry
about his future is Albert Basser-
man. The elderly Basserman, one
of Europe's great actors, is one Of
Hollywoods most busy players.
And distinctly to the credit OF
Hollywood it is.
From the elderly. gentle, wise and
hopeful diplomat in Foreign Cor
respondent" Basserman has stepped
into that of Notre Dame University's
scientific genius, Father Niewlands,
in "Knute Rockne." Against all the
competition of Pat OBrien's Rockne,
all those swirling football sequences,
takes quite an actor to give per-
formance that remains memorable.
Basserman's does.
The evidence piles up that serial
pictures sneak up on Hollywood
That was the case of the Annabel,
Blonde, Hardy and Maisie series, to
name but a few.
Who glistens forth in the latest
but Lupe Velez? With Lupe on its
hands last year, R-K-O decided to
make an unpretentious, little sort of
photographed thing called ''Mexi-
can Spitflre." 1t never got around
to the downtown houses here, unless
during one of our absences. but it
did so we'll elsewhere-includin the
nritinc tho cty,lio RIGHT
on from there.
Mexican Spitfre Out West" is
the title of the latest one 1t re-
sembles a Hardy title sufficiently
that one might logically expect Love
Finds Mexican Spitfire" almost any
day now. It's a natural!
Kenny Baker may not have been
making many screen appearances
lately. but Mrs. L. E. Odum is a
loyal Baker fan She is organiz-
ing the local admirers of Baker into
a Kenny Baker Fan Club In
cidentally, he has just finished a pic
ture for Republic Studios . Hit
Parade of 1941' it's called . Brig
ham Young - Frontiersman, not
The Westerner." will be the Loew
screening subject today 1t is the
Capitol's feature, starting Thursday
. Villainy, the screen kind one
hastens to add, is not permanent :.
Charles Laughton is a lovable char
acter in his next picture, They
Knew What They Wanted His
last one of that kind was in "Ruggles
of Red Gap"
Evening star., 1940-10-08

S n aV1n& nlS
beard, is so good-looking-Well. It's
lust incredible. Incidentally, Orson
cannot marry Dolores Del Rio just
vet. There is still that matter OF I'LL
Ing for divorce from her estranged
husband, Cedric Gibbons. 9.
Olympic Bradna is going to the
fisure-reducing sanitarium in Santa
Barbara, the same place that re-
shaped Patsy Kelly, Iona Massey
and Miliza Korjus. Whlch re-
minds me. Dorothy Lamour has
been ordered to wear girdle to i'm
prove her figure and walk.
Vivien Leigh occupies the dress
ing room bungalow Mae West used
to have on the general service lot. A
few wards away is Laurence Olivier
in the dressing room that was built
for Bing Crosby. A high fence has
been built to link the two bunga-
lows. but you can see through the
chinks of wood. And every time
Laurence calls for chat with his
wife. every stenographer on the lot
knows about 1t, and Is there to
waylay him as he returns to his own
little home. Cute?
Claudette Colbert and Ray Mil
land have some pretty racy scenes
and dialogue in Arise, My Love"
but these may be blue-penciled be-
fore reaching you. I understand that
Will HAYS has asked for a print to
be sent to him in New York. Movie
dialogue has been creeping slowly,
but surely, back to the free stand
ard of the early 1930s, or haven't
YOU noticed? Anyway, it is expect
ed there will be an edict from the
Hays Office for general cleaning
up of risque situations.
Lana Turner was given another
of those long talks by well-Wishers
at her studio. But at the end of
1t Lana said, Whatever I do is
wrong, so 1 might as well go on
doing it" Lana, by the way, has
highly dramatic role in "Ziegfeld
Girl" and dies at the end of the
picture. I think this is her hrst
movie demise Douglas Fair
banks. jr.. says "ain't" several times
in his latest picture, angels Over
Broadway" but even that fails to
hide his "Oxford-cum-Ronald Col
man" accent. However, this is the
first time that I have thoroughly
enjoyed Doug's performance as an
actor. The picture is refreshingly
different, and was authored, di-
rected and co-produced by Ben
Hecht.
Marlene Dietrich has the biggest
fight of her film career in Seven
Sinners" 1t beats the scrap in
"Destry" by several bruises and a cut
ear. In order to get 1t in one take,
Director Tay Garnett advised Mar
lene to hit Broderick Crawford, her
sparring partner, as hard as she
could. That will make him mad"
said Tay, land then he'll lam into
YOU" Crawford overheard this and
decided to give" in a big way.
After the slap, he hurled Marlene
onto a settee, but she missed it, and
her hip is now a mass of bruises
He shook her, as per the script,
and Marlene's arms are now in a
high state of discoloration. Then
he had to hit her jaw, and acci-
dentally hit an earring, which cut
her ear. "And yet" concludes
Garnett, there are some people
who say that Marlene didn't CO.
operate with us!"
overheard a new way Of evading
an embarrassing answer to the
question, How do you like my pic
ture?"
II haven't seen anything quite
like i'll" I've already used this
with great success.
Relessed ~ the North American
lssVDapsr Alliance. Ine.)
Evening star., 1940-10-08

CNt UITCCuON OF I
In a way, 1t is
(the nature Of
Evening star., 1940-10-08

IIIIS IS UIIt OF IIIt ItSpUHSIDIIIlItS'
of greatness!" Rita describes Mickey
as very nice, very considerate and
Evening star., 1940-10-08

One political exile from Central
Evening star., 1940-10-08

Oakle did not jay Carmody.
mind when he was called upon to
play Napoloni, the second dictator
in THE Great Dictator" It requires
a minimum Of mental effort to re-
call that two years ago Oakie was
one of the busiest funny men on the
screen. 1t requires less to remember
that he has been doing nothing.
apparently, since.
The kind of exile involved in
working in a Chaplin picture was
we'll known to Oakie. He knew of
that standard Hollywood assumption
that the actor who is not around
for couple of seasons either has died
at the box office or gone to Chaplin.
But he also knew that for all the in
tense focus of the audience on the
master comedian in one of his own
pictures, subordinate characters
were developed with all the perfec-
ton Director Chaplin can muster,
which is a maximum of perfec-
ton. He never was afraid of being
forgotten as a result of going over
to work on Production No. 6 (as
Chaplin's picture was known for
many montho in the role of the
second funny man in the script.
Oakie's confidence in the Napaloni
part was such, indeed, that he did
that un-actorish trick of leaving a
serial, which was doing very hand
somely, too. The serial, if you have
forgotten it during the great Oakie
shortage, was The Affairs of Anna
BEL" "Annabel Takes a Tour" etc.
Nothing but a Chaplin assign
ment could have pulled him out Of
the cast OF that popular little
number.
Npo yo1itiraI nYile from Central
Evening star., 1940-10-08

aCLOTS) 10 lake q
Chaplin casting
a Ssi 6 n m e n t.
Chaplin pictures
take time, enor-
nous hunks of
it. Working in
one means a
] on 6 absence
from the public
eye, a condition
under W h | c h
players i've with
a haunting fear
of being forgot
ten.
However, Jack
Evening star., 1940-10-08
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON I. TUESDAY,
Oakie Finds Chaplin Film
A Happy Place of Exile
That's What All Masters Pictures Mean
Basserman Turns in Another Good Role
BY JAY CARMODY.

One Of the happy
willingness every give least
hm Another of delight oppor-
unity a picture w. Van Dyke
Less we'll known and naturally
but two pictures in
with, and under the direction
Evening star., 1940-10-08

d sweet DOy.
She lso re-
v e a ! e d t h a t
Spencer TT a C Y
gave him this
advice: If you
get In a fight.
hit quickly-and
leave quickly"
And, by the way,
Mickey is ell
gible now for the
draft.
Orson Welles
has S h e d 40
pounds of flesh,
and what with
Evening star., 1940-10-08
Film for McCrea

Second OF the series of pictures
Joel McCrea will make for Para
mont under his new contract is
Pioneer Woman" the William A.
Wellman production which will CO.
star Barbara Stanwyck. Decision to
cast McCrea in Pioneer Woman"
was made after a number of vehicles
had been considered.
Evening star., 1940-10-08

ADDED ATTRACTION-LolitG
Cordoba, colortul South Amer
ican singer and dancer, 1oiH
be on hand tomorrow night to
add her sparkle to the OPEN
ing night glitter at La Sale
Versailles, L'Escargot'S supper
club, starting the ne1D fall
season.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Catholic Students
0ratoricaI Contest
Starts Wednesday
Students From Four
Schools to Compete at
Holy Cross Academy

Representatives of Immaculate
Seminary, st. Paul's High School,
Immaculate Conception High School
and st. Roses Technical School will
compete at pm Wednesday at
Holy Cross Academy as the eighth
annual oratorical contest for students
in the Catholic schools of the WASH
ington-Baltimore diocese opens.
During the last few days contests
have been held at the various schools
to choose a school representative
Three public contests will be held
prior to choosing a Washington WIN
ner to compete in Baltimore,
April %.
The second contest will be held at
8 pm. Friday at st. Paul's
School, where representatives of ST.
Anthony's High School, st. Cecelia's
Academy, St Patrick's Academy,
Holy Trinity High School will meet.
The third contest, April 8, at ST.
Patrick's Academy will complete the
series and the winners will meet
April IA at Sacred Heart Academy.
From this contest will come the win
ner to represent Washington,
April %.
Subject of the contest will be
personal views on a religious life.
Presiding over the contest We'd
nesday will be the Right Rev. Msgr
G. Barry OToole. professor of
philosophy at Catholic University.
The Right Rev. Msgr. Francesca
Lardone of Catholic University will
be presiding prelate at the second
contest. Dr. Martin R. P. Mcguire,
also of the university, is chairman.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
NEWS OF THE MOTORING WORLD
Automatic Choke Are Provided With Thermosas for Ras
Control and Accuracy Is Chief Requirement-Odor in Car

rear tires Of my car. Is there anv
way I can make sure about this?-
7. N.
A. Your tire service man can de.
termine this for you by using what
is known as tire bulge gauge. This
looks like pair of special calipers.
With 1t the service man checks the
bulge first at hub level, then at
the point Of contact with the road.
Not only can the safe bulge be de-
term1ned for car in this way. but
equalized bulge for all four tires.
@. The oil does not stay clean in
the engine Of my car. I suspect
that this is due to the rings being
In bad condition. Which ones would
you say need replacing?-K. ID.
A. The top ring is the one that
has most to do with holding COM
preston. While the other rings
probably will need attention, espe-
cially if oil mileage is low, at least
the top one for each cylinder should
be replaced. Gas vapor leaking past
this ring allows blowby in the
crankcase, thus darkening and
diluting the oil.
Mr. Russell 1DiH ansWer ques.
tlons regarding the safe care and
operation OF your car. Just ad-
dresS him, care of The SUNDAY
Star. and inclose stamped, self
addressed envelope for personal
reply.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Tri-Betu's S Science
Show Opens April 18

The biennial science show spon-
sored by Beta Beta Beta, honorary
biological fraternity, in cooperation
with the science departments of the
American University, will be held
April 18 and 10 in Hurst Hall, on
the campus.
Classes in science at high schools
and private schools in the District,
as well as in nearby Maryland and
Virginia, have been invited by Beta
Beta Beta to attend the show. Dem
onstrationS and exhibits will be pre-
sented by the departments of biology,
chemistry, mathematics, physics,
psychology and education.
Students and instructors cooper
ate in presenting the program for
the show, which was visited by sew
eral hundred interested students and
teachers when it was presented two
years ago. Beta Beta Beta has its
Alpha Epsilon Chapter at American
University. The officers are Adele
White, Cabin John. Md, president,
and Hariette Christie, 4525 Cathedral
avenue NV. secretary-treasurer.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
University 10 Honor
Accounting Seniors

Members of the senior class of the
Benjamin Franklin University ac-
countancy school will be guests of
the university at round-table
luncheon to be held April at the
Mayflower Hotel. 80
The luncheon is given to bring
members of the spring graduating
class into personal contact with ac-
counting and business executives and
to enable these graduates to obtain
f1rst-hand information concerning
opportunities and requirements in
business and government.
Forty local accountants and execu-
tives have accepted invitations to sit
down with the 300 members of the
class and to act as vocational ad-
visors. The guest advisors will in
clude auditors, chief accountants,
comptrollers and other accounting
and administrative officers from pri-
vate business organizations and Gov
eminent Offices.
The luncheon is the second in a
series arranged by John T. Ken
nedy, president of the school, to as
sist accounting graduates in PLAN
mir their careers At a previous
round-table luncheon held earlier in
the year certified public accountants
acted as advisors to the members of
the postgraduate class.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Monument to Fechner
To Be Unveiled Fridoy

A monument in memory of Robert
Fechner, former director of the
Civilian Conservation Corps, will be
unveiled at $3.50 pm. Friday at a
ceremony at G. G. c. Camp No. Z,
Anacostia road and E street Sc,
celebrating the 7th anniversary of
the C. c.. C. Boys at the camp
erected the monument during their
spare time.
James J. McEntee, present director
of the G. G. c., will speak.
The public is invited to go on
supervised tours Of the camp from
10 an. until noon and from z to
1 pm.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Vermont u. Alumni
Banquet Thursday

The 46th annual meeting and
banquet of the University of YER
mont Alumni Association of WASH
ington will be held at pm. Thurs
day at the Kennedy Warren Apart
ments, Paul j. Lacrosse, associa-
ton president, announced yester-
day.
Prof. Paul D. Evans of the uni
versity's history department will
represent the institution at the
meeting. Among alumni invited to
attend are Senators Austin and
Gibson and Representative Plumley
of Vermont. .<
Evening star., 1940-03-31

glng the rear end Is to cause the
front axle caster to change. That
results In wandering and q most
annoying tendency for the car to
seem to steer too easily. Correct
this with re-arched rear springs, if
survey of the car shows that the
springs have sagged. This isn't an
expensive job, and In addition to
better steering you'll get marked
improvement in riding ease.
Not Just a Holder.
The hand brake can be used for
more than a holding brake even If
you wisely do not use it as means
of actually stopping the car. For
one thing, 1t is useful when trying
to pull out of sand or mud. While
the engine is accelerated and the
car is in second gear, engage the
clutch and hold the hand brake
partly on. The effect is to further
reduce engine power as it reaches
the rear wheels. Rear-wheel spin
ming is thus greatly reduced and
your chances of getting under way
are far greater.
Also the hand brake is the logical
aid to prevention of roll back when
the car is starting forward on an up
grade. There are other ways of
handling this situation, if your car
isn't equipped with an automatic
device to prevent roll-back, but
using the hand brake is simple and
logical. If the engine stalls or the
situation becomes further compli-
Gated you have merely to pull the
hand brake lever further back, stop
the car securely and then take a
count of things.
Where's That Spare?
Where do you keep the spare
keys of your car? A friend of mine
hides his in the felt of the air
cleaner, but this plan wouldn't be
useful where the hood locks from
the inside of the car. You could
wire the key to a bolt on the inside
of either bumper or hide it between
the license plate and its cover
holder.
Perhaps you are one Of compar-
atively few motorists yho have no
ticed that the stop-signal may not
be as effective a warning at night as
it is by day. If so, this suggestion
will be just reminder that at night
when the tail lights are lighted the
stop-light isn't so noticeable to the
man behind. He is accustomed to
looking at the red lights and may
not be sufficiently stimulated when
the lights become brighter. Smart
idea to get around this situation is
to remember to dab the brake pedal
when you are slowing down. Flash
ing of the stop lights may attract
his attention.
From the Motor Mailbag.
@. If knocking from carbon can
be prevented through using anti
knock gasoline, is there any harm
in postponing carbon removal
job?-K. L. B.
A. Remember that carbon pre-
vents proper heat dissipation. The
engine may not knock, but it will
run too hot for efficiency in warm
weather if loaded with carbon.
Also when there is excessive carbon
there will be need for valve recon-
dltioning. Get rid of the carbon,
boost compression with a good valve
JOB. use anti-knock gas. and get
maximum results from the engine.
q. 1t has always seemed to me
that there is an overload on the
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Kappa Sigmo Dinner
Will Honor Austin

Kappa Sigma Alumni Association
OF Washington will hold banquet
Thursday night to honor Senator
Austin of Vermont, who was a men,
ber of the fraternity at the Uni
versity of Vermont. Senator Austin
has been selected as man of the
year" by the national organization.
About IS members of Congress are
expected to attend the dinner, at 7
pm. in the Mayhower Hotel, it was
announced by Roy st. Lewis, local
president.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
1ri-Cih Lip.Reading
Tournament 10 Be
Held Here Saturday
Hurd-of- f-Heorine Society
Is Sponsoring Contest;
Cup to Be Prize

The Washington Society for the
Hard Of Hearing will be host to a
Tri-City Lip Reading Tournament
next Saturday, Miss Elizabeth
Brand, executive Of the society, an
nounced today.
About 200 visitors, representing
the interests Of those handicapped
by impaired hearing, are expected
from Baltimore, Richmond, and
Washington, gathering first for a
6 pm. dinner in the Highland
Apartments, 1914 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV. The lip-reading contest
Is cheduled to occur at 8:15 pm,
at the new headquarters of the
Washington society in Clifton Ter
race, $500 block of 14th street NV.
Competing at the lip-reading
tournament will be the two best lip
readers selected by each city. The
prize will be silver championship
cup, which is owned Jointly by or
ganizations of the three cities. The
cup is now in the possession of the
Washington society, having been
won two years ago through the lip
reading skill of Mrs. Marguerite Neill
and Mrs. Harriet A. Montague.
Miss Frances H. Downes. WASH
ington lip-reading teacher, will be in
charge of the contest, assisted by
Miss Florence Woolley, also a lip
reading tacher. The Richmond con-
tingent will be headed by Miss
Elizabeth Witherspoon.
All hard-of-hearing people as we'll
as interested onlookers are invited
to attend the tournament, the third
for which Washington will act as
host. The first tournament of the
kind was also held here,
Evening star., 1940-03-31
D. c. Cinemotogrophers
Will Meet Tomorrow

Oeveste S. Granducci, founder of
the Washington Eight Millimeter
Club and an amateur moviemaker
OF note. will speak at a meeting of
the Washington Society of Amateur
Cinematographers tomorrow at 8
pm. at the Mount Pleasant Library.
Mr.. Granducci will show one of
his favorite films, and in addition,
the society will view bullfght pic
lures recently taken in Mexico by
S. H. Emerson.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Graduate Students
Registering al 6. u.
For Summer Course
Admissions Limited
So Individual Work
Can Be Stressed

Graduate students from many COL
leges and universities are already
registering at Georgetown for the
second annual summer review course
In the school of foreign service.
Most Of them are enrolling for a
period OF intensive study before TAX
ing examinations for Government
service or teaching careers.
DR.. S. A. Dulany Hunter, director
OF instruction, said the review course
this year will stress greater attention
to the special problems of the indi-
vidual students and provide also for
more supervised round-table discus
sions than formerly In keeping
with the policy established last year,
a limit will be placed on the number
OF admissions. A large. unWieldy
group, DR.. Hunter said, would prove
a detriment to the purposes for
which the course is organized.
Course Opens June II.
Among the students expected to
attend this summer are one from
China and another from the Neither
lands, who are preparing to enter
the foreign service of their respective
countries. The course opens June
II, at time when most universities
have finished their collegiate courses.
1t extends, in three periods, through
September 6. History is stressed al
most entirely in the first period,
which concludes July II. Economic
studies are covered during the sec
Ond period, from July Is to August
9, while the final period, opening
August II, deals mainly with political
science, American Government, in
ternational, commercial and admi-
rally law.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., re-
gent of the school of foreign service,
Is chairman of the Board of Admis-
sions. AS formerly, the lecturers will
be drawn from the schools regular
faculty, augmented from time to
time by other qualified authorities
In foreign affairs.
Annual Prom Friday.
Miss Foreign Service will be chosen
at the annual prom of the foreign
service school Friday evening at the
Wardman Park Hotel. She will lead
the grand march.
Those in charge are Donald Forbes,
chairman; Thomas Hurley, John
Canova, George Jennings, Joseph
kruden, Francis x. Van Herpe, j.
Wilbur Buddeke, Richard Godfrey,
James Beemer. Harold Smith and
Raymond C. Miller, jr.
The all-Georgetown law school
prom also will be given the same
evening at 24OO Sixteenth street
NV. All classes are participating,
with w. o. Walker as chairman.