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Evening star., 1940-04-21

nesday, 8 pm, Hospitality Com
mittee sponsoring benefit moving
picture program.
Twentieth Century Club-Tomor-
row. II am, literature section,
Y. w. c. A. Book reviewers, Mrs.
James T. Jardine and Mrs. Will
liam R. Chapline. Wednesday,
10 am. to IL M, Red Cross surgi-
cal dressings unit at Chapter
House, 1880 E street NV; 1890
am, nature section, TO meet at
Cabin John Bridge for trip into
Maryland.
Argyle Study Ciub-Tuesday, pm,
home Of Mrs. Samuel Moore.
Capitol Hill History Club-Wednes-
day, with Mrs. j. E. Hummer, 1908
Evarts street NE.
Community Clubs
Woman's Club of Bethesda-Fri-
day. pm, clubhouse, annual
style show and card party.
Woman's Club of Chevy Chase-To-
morrow, 9:30 am. to 10:30 am,
physical education section; folk
dancing group; 2 pm, music Sec
ton tea and style show. Tues
day. i0:30 am, international re-
lations section. Speaker, Mrs. I
c. Gardner, Panama, Central
America and Colombia" We'd
nesday, $3.50 pm. to II pm, physi-
cal education folk dancing group
Husbands night. Folk dancing
and songs of different nations
Artists, Mrs. Walter Couper and
Mrs. Ida Hanson. Thursday
10:45 am, music section. Music
appreciation group. Artist, Mrs
st. Clair Thomas, Program on
Schubert.
Takoma Park Women's Club
Tuesday, 1890 pm, bridge, with
Mrs. Stanley r. Lynn. 80 Colum.
bia avenue. Wednesday, 10 am.
choral group rehearsal at 10i
Tulip avenue; 8 pm, drama de.
partment with Mrs. John G. Sut.
ton, 7137 Seventh street NV
Speaker, Mrs. J. w. Hayles, I'm.
terpretive Play Readings"
Kenilworth Ladies' Guild-Wednes.
day, 1880 pm, with Mrs. v. E
Reuss, 1907 Bass avenue NE.
Park View Womans Club-Tues.
day, with Mrs. A. II. O. Role
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Business, Professional Clubs

Newspaper Women's Club Of WASH
ington-Tomorrow, S pm, tea
Raleigh Hotel. Honor guests, Mr.
and Mrs. Nicol Smith.
Business Women's Council-Tues-
day, 8 pm, Covenant-First Pres
byterian Church. Speaker, DR.,
Joe Shelby Riley, Inspiration
From James Whitcomb Riley"
Business and Professional Women's &
Club-Tomorrow, $50 pm, annl-
versary dinner, Admiral Club
Speaker, Mrs. Florence Kerr
Meeting Human Needs in De-
Yn0cracv
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Future Meetings of Women's Clubs Announced

1922 Buchanan street NV. Book
review, Mrs. G. F. Dalwick; Mrs.
Harry Gutridge to read story.
Petworth Woman's Club-Thurs-
day, / pm, with Mrs. Frank M.
Stuart, So Hamilton street NV;
Friday afternoon, fine arts group,
Constitution Hall for National
Folk Festival Mrs. Mildred Con-
way, 412O Eighth street NV, in
charge of reservations.
Petworth Mothers Club-Tuesday,
8 pm, with Mrs. G. E. Hudson,
622 Allison street NV.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
ROYAL TO SHOW
GREEN HE'LL
Doug Fairbanks And Joan
Bennett Starred In Mon
days Offering

Such ingredients as excitement,
love and adventure are said to be
combined in the production of
Green HE'LL" initial Famous Pro
auctions film for Universal release,
which comes to the Royal theatre
Monday and Tuesday.
With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and
Joan Bennett heading an outstand-
ing cast of II principals, Green
He'll is declared to capture a real
ism seldom brought to the screen
in films of this type.
According to advance reports, a
part of this realism is due to the
authenticity of the enormous upper
Amazon jungle sets, constructed aft
er months of research. But the maj
Or reason PROBABLY lies in the play
ers Observation-Disclosures, Bennett,
John Howard, Alan Hale, George
Bancroft, George Sanders, Vincent
Price, Gene Garrick, Francis Mac
Donald, Ray Mala and Peter Bronte.
Each a distinct type, these play
ers invariably make their screen
Characterization ring true. They're
natural human beings who do
things in a convincing manner.
Frances Marion, for years n of
H%ollywood's ace scenarists, wrote a
story about a beautiful woman ma
rooned in the heart of an Amazon
jungle with six men. Harry Eding-
ton selected this story for his first
offering as a producer. He is said
to have produced it on a lavish scale,
sparing no time or expense in max
ing 1t one of the most outstanding
dramas ever filmed.
On the same program are when
a Nag was a Horse, a cartoon,
Home Movies" with Robert Bench
ley and latest World News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
LAUREL Hardy Movie
Is Billed At Biiou

Laurel and Hardy, Hollywood's
most prolific and popular comedy
team, will be on the screen of the
Bijou theatre Thursday in '"The
Flying Deuces," their first feature
length comedy in more than q year.
Boris Morros, it's producer, has
striven for distinction in this, his
first product as an Independent pro-
Queer; he offers the picture-loving
public a goodly dash of the old pan
tomimic comedy generously garnish-
ed with an unusually strong must
cal score. He calls the result a SILLY
Symphony with living characters"
1t is natural that Morros should
make music an important part of
the screen play. Before entering the
production field, he was a musical
director in motion picture studios,
and wrote more than 500 musical
scores. He won fame in this coun-
try as the composer and producer
of the famed "Chauve Souris," the
outstanding tune of which is the
still-popular Parade of the Wooden
Soldiers"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
SEVENTEEN

Quasimodo. the deformed but loyal
orphan who rings the great bells of
Notre Dame. A beauteous dancing
gypsy, Esmeralda, comes to Paris
the annual Feast Of Fools in
the winter Of 1882. She arouses
the sinister interest of the Kings
High Justice, Frollo, who pursues
her to the cat edral where, thanks
to the right 0. a%nctuary, she re.
ceives shelter md safety. Later,
Es1ieralda flers, Quasimodo en-
deavoring to bring her back. He
is caught and tlogged for abduc-
ton, while Esneralda finds refuge
with the powerful Beggars' Guild.
While entertaining at the BIRTH
day party of Fleur de Lys, Esmer-
aida attracts a soldier. Phoebus,
who is slain by the jealous Frollo.
Esmeralda is accused. tried and
sentenced to the gallows. The Arch
bishop Of Notre Dame learns that
his brother, Frollo, is really guilty
of the crime, but before he can Sc
sure her freedom, Quasimodo res
cues the condemned girl by swing
ing out of the bell-tower on a rope
and snatching her from the hang
mans moose. Then he drops molten
lead to keep away a frenZied mob.
However, Frollo steals into the
building, and Quasimodo faces him
in an exciting battle. Staying the
evil High justice, but receiving his
death-wound in doing so.
cedes the feature on the program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Mickey Rooney;s --latest
Opens Here On Thursday

Mickey Rooney, with his por-
trayal of Thomas E. Edison as a
boy in Young Tom Edison" COM
ing to the Carolina theatre the last
half of this week, adds another
page to one of HollyWood's most
amazing careers.
Seventeen years old, Mickey,
whose screen hits in the last few
years have skyrocketed him to the
heights as a star, follows in his
variety performance in Babes In
Arms and his many humorous por-
trayals of Andy Hardy with a role
that shows him to be also one of
the screens really fine serious
young actors.
Mickey is a product of the stage.
He was born September %, in
Brooklyn, New York, where his
parents, Nell Brown and Joe Yule,
dancer and comedian, respectively,
were playing in vaudeville. Exactly
eleven days later he took his first
train ride, going to Albany with the
vaudeville troupe. He can we'll be
called a baby of the backstage.
At the age of eleven months, he
made his debut on the stage with
his mother and father in a bur-
lesque routine. He wore a specially
made tuxedo which he still treas
ures as a souvenir of his initial
stage appearance. He was in the
act for only three weeks because
his parents thought he was too
young to become an actor.
Mickey, or Joe Yule, Jr., as he
was christened, satisfied himself for
the next year playing around the
backstages Of theaters whiel his par
ents were performing. He still re-
members wildly how, as a baby of
two, he crawled out on the stage
interrupted his parents by
%sneezing. His father picked him up
gave him a French harp to play,
and he was an instant hit with the
audience. From that day on he was
a regular member of the act. He
was given a special work permit by
Alfred E. Smith, the Governor of
New York, because of his tender
age. He was also made a special
firman by Smith who remains zone
of his pals"
1t was while he was appearing in
Will Morrissey's Revue in New
York that he won the attention of
studio executive who signed him
to play the role of a midget in
mot To Be Trusted" He was four
at the time.
He next worked in "Orchids and
and again he portrayed a
midget. 1t was necessary for him
to smoke a cigar. Of course, a false
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
MAN From Sundown'
Will Show At Biiou

Reproducing a glorious chapter in
the history of Texas, Columbia's new
CharAs Starrett vehicle, THE Man
From Sundown,' has been hailed as
thrilling and outstanding western
entertainment. T h e film, which
opens at the Bijou theatre on Friday
for a two day engagement, is a story
of the Texas Rangers, whose coura
geous lives provided one of t h e
brighter interludes in the story of
the building of the west.
The daring and heroism of t. -,
Rangers are legendary and the pic
ture deals with their task in bring
ing law and order to the lawless
area which stretched from the Pan
handle on the north to the Rio
Grande IN the south. Intimate de-
tails of the Rangers are woven into
"The Man From Shutdown and pic
turesque characters, lifted from the
pages of pioneer history, live again
in the sweeping tale of man-hunter
against outlaw.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

one was used, but the continued
rubbing of the artificial cigar caus-
ed one of his baby teeth to fall out
just when he was doing his most
emotional scene.
Then came an avalanche of screen
roles which included EAST Com
panions," Love Birds,' Manhattan
Melodrama," Chained" Blind
Date" 'Hide-Out," the role of Puck
in midsummer Nights Dream"
"Ah, Wilderness" "Riff-raff," Little
Lord Fauntleroy," 1.-THE Devil Is a
Sissy" captains Courageous" "a
Family Affair."" Live, Love and
Learn "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry"
You're Only Young Once" Love
Is a Headache" Judge 'Hardy's
Children" Hold That Kiss" Lord
jeff Love Finds Andy Hardy"
Boys Town." "stablemates,' Out.
West With the Hardys," 'Huckle-
berry Finn" THE Hardys Ride
High" ANDY Hardy Gets Spring
Fever" Babes in Arms" and Judge
Hardy and Son."
His closest friend in Hollywood
is w. S.. Van Dyke, who was his di-
rector in "Hide-Out" and 1.-THE Devil
Is a Sissy" as we'll as in ANDY
Hardy Gets Spring Fever"
Mickey is Southern California
tennis and ping pong champion in
the division for boys of his age.
In the Pan-Pacific tournament he
was runner-up in the finals for the
Observation-Disclosures class. He
is an enthusiast for all types of ath.
letics, including swimming, football,
baseball, horseback riding, hockey,
golf, handball, and basketball.
He boasts of the fact that he has
always worn long trousers. He COL
lects stamps, old coins and odd
match boxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Three Wills Filed
For Probate Here

The wills of Mrs. Jean M. Grit
fths, Rosa Josephson, and Anna l..
J. Faison have been filed for pro-
bate, records at the office of T. A.
Henderson, clerk of New Hanover
superior court, disclosed yesterday.
The will of Mrs. Griffiths, who
died February 26, names her hus-
band, DR.. George A. Griffiths, Jean
Long, of Los Angeles, Calf, and
Mrs. Thelma Parsley, of Bellevue,
Pa, as b~eneiciaries of the estate
which comprises personal property
valued at $3.50 and real estate con-
sisting of a house and lot at I'LL
Chestnut street.
The will of Rosa Josephson, who
died April 6, names a daughter,
Annie J. Dannenbaum, as benefi-
ciary of the estate which includes
personal property valued at ap-
proximately $1,000.
A nephew is named sole benefi-
ciary in the will of Anna L. J..
Faison, who died March 6, and
left an estate consisting of a house
and lot at 215 South 18th street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
10BACCO film
WILL SHOW HERE
Screen Story Of Golden Weed
And Men Who Grow It
Is Scheduled

is a unique and unusual OPP
p1,,,i+v for all movie fans. Two
,el and interesting pictures, a full
rls entertainment, absolutely
Nv" Everybody is invited and there
M strings to the invitation. Just
S' IN the Royal theatre next Wed
con uaov or Thursday any time be-
,Foan II a. m, and 9:15 p. m. and
hiring your friends.
THE first picture, "Tobaccoland-
A. shows us a full year in the
~. If q tobacco farmer as exeml Ii
ma Nv the Ellis Family, growers of
avo tobaccos since time immemo-
,o1u If depicts wildly and enter
I.,n;neIv the vast Importance of the
aroat tobacco industry to the social,
su1tural and business life of Ameri-
M beein with, we see tourists on
.,oir vav to visit "Tobaccoland'.
r,ov get a glimpse Of the thriving
:.a,strial life of the tobacco country
and visit two great southern univer-
,ities. There are S o m e beautiful
shots made on the campuses of both
Universities showing the students on
.or,nal parade, singing in the choir
and in lighter moments.
Then we meet the Ellises. We live
+bro,,gh q year of tobacco farming
NTH them and the longer we know
tbem the better we like them. Plain,
simple folk whose creed, come good
Years or bad, is 'Take care of your
+ohacco and your tobacco will take
care Of you
The Ellises take us along when
thew cut wood from part of their PSF
acres and burn over the seed beds in
early spring. We look over their
shoulders while they plant the seed,
follow them when they get up at
three o'clock in the morning to ret
o1t the seedlings and share their
nride when the Liggett & Myers O.
bacco Co. buys the best of their to-
baccos at public auction for Chester
field cigarettes.
The Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.,
who are sponsors of Tobaccoland, U.
s, A. take us through their great
factory and show us how Chester
fields are made. All the various pro-
cesses in making cigarettes a r e
graphically shown. We e the miles
of modern storage warehouses where
the tobaccos are aged two years or
more. We see the amazing machin-
cry that stems, cuts and prepares
the tobacco in various ways f r
smoking,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Job Office Placements
Show Increase In April

Placements of the Wilmington
office of the North Carolina State
Employment service increased ap-
proximately % per cent in March
over that of February, while the
232 new applications of March rep
resent a decrease of approximately
40 per cent from the February
number of 1862, which was also a
decrease of approximately three
per cent from the January total
of 415.
Renewals of previous applica-
tons were $50, January; 1,001,
February; 633, March. There were
$50 placements during the first
quarter of 1910. 100 were placed
during the month of January, 70
during February and 101 for the
month of March. During the same
period 70 public placements were
made and seven applicants were
affected by the interoffice clear
ance system.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
BIJ0U WILL SHOW
THE HUNCHBACK'
Perturbation Of Hugo's Fa'
nous Novel Will Open
Here On Monday

A brilliant screen transmutation
Of Victor Hugo's renowned novel,
THE Hunchback of Metre Dame"
which plays Monday and Tuesday
at the Bijou theatre, with Charles
Laughton in the title role, with a
star-studded featured cast, with a
record roster of atmosphere play
ers. and with a vivid pageant of
medieval Partisan life staged against
dazzling sets of monumental pro-
portions.
Treating of that significant Pc
Rod Of European history just be-
fore Columbus discovered America,
when thinkers everywhere were
throwing off the shackles of super
stitioa and ignorance and we're
awakening to a new world of prog
ress, "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame has long been a classic of
literature. Written in 1S23-3O the
book created a worldwide sensation
and established the name of Victor
Hugo.
Its immortal tale deals with
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Spring Musical With Cast
Of Adult Stars Opens
Here Monday

Another spring musical comes to
the r Of the Carolina theatre
tomorrow, co-starring Gloria Jean,
the child artist who made such a
hit in "The Under Pup" and the
inimitable Bing Crosby. Supporting
the two are five stage stars of 9TH
er days-Blanche Ring, Trixie Fri
ganza, Grace Larue, Julian Eltinge
and the great minstrel man, Eddie
Leonard. Eight musical members
grace the production with Gloria
Jean and Crosby singing as duets
Meet The Sun Half Way" "I
Haven't Time To Be a Millionaire"
and "Pessimistic Character" Mr..
Crosby soloing eff I Had My Way"
and april Played The Fiddle;"
Gloria Jean by herself doing Little
Grey Home In The West" and
Eddie Leonard and Blanche Ring
singing respectively Ida" and
Rings Or. My Fingers"
Charles Winninger, Ell Brendel
and Donald Wood are other mem-
bers of the cast prominently fea-
tured in the unusual cast.
Little Gloria Jean who is only
twelve years old is another "find'
for the screen by Joseph FASTER
mack who is responsible for the in
PRODUCTION and development of De-
anna Durbin as a star. When
Gloria was brought to Mr.. FASTER
nack's attention, he states that he
just couldn't believe his ears.
cit can't be-" he said as he
heard the golden voice ripping
from the monograph.
His caller insisted that it was
so. The thrilling voice coming from
the instrument was that of an
eleven-year-Old-girl.
"In bring her here and prove
it," the caller offered.
The next day, shy and more than
a bit shaken at being in the pres
ence of the discoverer of Deanna
T-lrbin, eleven-year-old Gloria Jean
Schoonover stood before Pasternak.
At his request she sang.
Gloria soon was signed to a con-
tract with Universal studios. Her
name was shortened to Gloria Jean.
After six months of intensive
preparations she was introduced to
the public as a star, in 1.-THE I'm
der Pup" Her reception was over
whelming.
Now Gloria is appearing in her
second picture, co : starring with
Bing Crosby, in eff I Had My
Way"
Gloria was born in Buffalo, N.
Y, April IA, 1928, but when she
was still a baby, the Schoonover
family moved 20 Scranton, Pa.
At the age of fifteen months,
Gloria first showed her musical
propensities. She could hum Little
Annie Rooney at that age. When
she was three-and-a-half years old,
she sang with a radio-vaudeville
act, and at five she scored a def
mite sensation with her rendition
of the difficult Eli, Eli" Many
stage radio and church appearances
WCIO dlISduy W ISI CI0OlI. GduI
Whiteman offered her a contract
while she was in her sixth year.
In 1888, Gloria became the mem
Der of an opera company. But Mrs.
S~choonover believing the work too
strenuous for a child would not
allow Gloria to accompany the
troupe on tour. In the fall of that
year Gloria was brought to Joe
Pasternak's attention.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Hidden Power' Will
Show At Bijou Soon

Hailed as a soaring indictment of
che sinister forces who seek to
profit from wars, Columbia's Hid
den Power will open at the Bijou
theatre on Wednesday. Starring
Jack Holt as the humanitarian
scientist who accidentally stumbles
on the secret of a terrible explo
sive, the daring drama tells of the
ruthless efforts of a group of NUM-
tons makers to make capital of
the destructive formula.
Advance reports describe Holts
dramatic Characterization as differ
ent from any that he has hereto
fore portrayed on the screen The
grim battle he wages to preserve
his ethical ideals is carried within
the sacred precincts of his home
and rendered more acute by the
Domestic situation. His wife, soci-
ally ambitious, urges him to desert
ms altruism and sell the death
dealng secret to the munitions
combine. Even when threatened
with the breakup of his family and
the loss Of his eleven-year-old son,
Holt still refuses to become a party
10 mass murder and returns to his
original goal $50. the search for a
chemical specific to be used in the
treatment of septic toxemia.
The program also includes an
Andy Clyde comedy, "Mr. Clyde
Goes to B'Way," and the current
"hapter Of "The Green Hornet"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Seuen Scouts Complete
First Aid Course Here

Seven Boy Scouts have complet-
ed the Junior first aid course under
the direction of William Troutman,
Jr.
They are: R. Harry Smith, Jr.,
Bill Stewart, George Daughtly,
Tommy Hawkins, Gerald Conrad,
Billy Dobson, all of Troop 9, and
Tyles Presson, Troop a..
These will be awarded first aid
cards for the junior course at the
next Court of Honor to be held
Monday ngiht.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
New Gloria Jean Picture
Will Show At Carolina
Birth Oh A Nation
Will Be Shown Here

"The Birth of a Nation" first
great spectacle film and the
only motion picture to be men,
toned in the same breath with
"Gone With the Wind" since
December Is, 1889, will flash
across the Royal screen in a re
vival showing starting Friday.
While the motion in this great
est of all silent pictures is a lit
tie fast when rum on the high
speed projectors of today, t h 9
same artistry which originally
made it the only picture ever to
gross $40, 1000, 900 is still there,
only slightly blurred by the pass
age of years.
A sound track has been added
and a 1O0-man orchestra, direct
ed b.. Louis COttschalk, who ar
ranged the music for the origin
al show, provides music and
sound effects for the reissue.
There is a sequence in which
Lincoln talks.
Chief benefits in reviving this
version Of Thomas Dixon's
'The Clansman" are: 1t furnish
es the movie enthusiasts a
chance to compare this silent
picture with the most recent
epic story of the war and recon-
struction period, "GWTW" 1t
is a great preachment against
war and it provides a generation
which never saw a silent movie
a chance to see film history.
On the same program Chapter
No. 2 on the SHADOW" also lat
est world News in Pictures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

Puss moth caterpillars squirt a
40 per cent formic acid solution at
their enemies,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-29
THE MEANING OF "3O'

While the symbol "30' has been used
for perhaps three-quarters of a century to
indicate "the end' by telegraphers and
printers, its significance has been unknown
to the public generally.
Since the well-known radio news COM
mentator, Paul Sullivan, has been using the
phrase Good highland 30' to end his
nightly broadcast, many inquiries have
been made by listeners concerning the
meaning.
Just why the symbol $50" was chosen
for the purpose is not yet known, but it has
been employed since the early days of tele-
graphy by operators to indicate that their
transmission of messages was finished.
Later on it was adopted by newspaper men
to inform the printers that there would be
no more copy for the day, or night.
By extension, the term has been used
to indicate death, and in publishers and
printers trade journals it is often used as
a heading for obituary notices. Also such
phrases as answered the call of 30' or
$50 came to-" applied to a person, simply
means that he died.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-29
WHENCE eoMETH UNITY?

TIE appeal for national unity, follow
ing the election, is a plea to the defeated
groups, in every State, as we'll as in the
nation at large, to accept the verdict of the
ballot box.
There is need for Americans to for
get the bitter words and the animosities
stirred in election wrangles. We must
realize that men, in the effort to win cleo
lions, often exercise a peculiar license in
viewing with alarm and pointing with
pride.
Naturally, the victors are satisfied
with the results. They are the winners
anxious for cooperation and unity. 1t will
be necessary for the losers to practice
patriotism in defeat in order that the
nation may move forward in the midst of
danger.