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bad acting. 1t depends on who's
hamming, anyway"
A bit more personal was Rudy
Vallee: "A ham is certain curly
haired actor who tries to play Ham
let when he should be singing
through his nose"
It's Better Roasted.
Speaking of getting personal,
Carole Lombard did it in a large way
after she saw Gable in "Parnell."
She sent him a very large ham
Lionel Barrymore answered in this
wise: Ham is that variety Of artis-
tic diet that the critics prefer thor
oughly roasted" But brother John:
"A ham actor? All of my friends!"
Hes bad actor who's sure that
he's good" is the way Jeffrey Lynn
looks at it. Edgar Bergen likes this
definition: "a ham actor is a pimple
on the dimple Of the theater mask"
There are sundry explanations Of
the term. but the most generally
heard is that it comes from the old
days when actors removed grease
paint with ham fat. Some believe
it originated in the declaration Of
some forgotten player that he'd
work for ham and eggs" And an
other version is that it is a collo-
qualism from England: A shortening
Of amateur to am.
Anyway, there are hams and hams.
It apparently depends on the inflec-
ton you use when you say ham.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Coming Attractions


NATIONA-"GamoU Preferred" Pemberon produced
comedy which Authors Florence Colin Clements
take Hollywood for sairic ride night for
weeks engagement prior to its Broadway debut
Dictator picture produced
Charlie Chaplin, arrives
Thursday morning The scale of admissions has been
raised showing of the much discussed film but
there will be reserved and showing will be continuous
Voyage Home" the John Ford directed film
adapted from four plays by Eugene ONein next
the schedule following Too Many Girls Thomas Mitchell
Fitzgerald and John Wayne important in the
EARLE-Dspatch the the who built
Englands agency, with Edward G. Robinson in
another biographical role Friday There also
will be variety bill on the stage.
CAPITOL-"Hulabaloo" musical comedy starring Frank
Morgan arrives Thursday Virginia Grey, Len Lynn, the
singing sensation and number Of young newcomers
have featured roles Pan Americana the title of the
show to accompany it.
METROPOLITANAbe Lincoln in Illinois, motion picture version
the Robert Sherwood play, with Raymond Massey
his original starring role, here
Friday.
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PembertOn Aims His Third
Sock at Hollywood
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play night Ryerson
years the Hollywood
private them
fiction; that of
old inhabitants they could write
their home Frorm the record little
black book which faithfully recorded the gauche and
quickly grabbed material
private
affairs which turned out not be private The Cementses say he
him life they had
set n
logically producer for whom they wrote the play
they sent it to him, and he is sending it here.
Nancy a Scheduled
So Really Started.
respect the individuals and institutions who have
bringing plays the National for the past several weeks this
department regards the season as definitely open " play press
Richard Nancy makes its Nancy character
personal publicity and of than other
man in the business usually has nan oozen on m oue
Lille almost before
opens ml in which bodd i'll for the
it boded deserved rest for him.
however and any worries which may
have
10, National will house Herman shumlns
starring Ethel Barrymore Manys
nonconomist herad the offering the work OF
Emlyn Williams Williams should any one nave 1ogote Is e ACTOR
Might Must Fall the play which
subsequently Montgomery the movies
odd these days.
this country for the that
yened himself with Dame May Witty in the role
What with his important
duties as Guard that possibility out
Richard will play the role which Williams wrote with an eye on
author-acor properly should
ubertM MuicalP Star
Is a Lodge Born in Capital.
That name
shubert musical due here November H. should have familiar ring to
voegettng and voting residence his father Henry Cabot
maintained Massachusetts, Lodge born in WASH
ngton.
Until 1882 he going the Of the other Lodges the Senators
practically hard Of John decided that movie acting his
sting of it. well as to satisfy desire to travel
the continent He made good
three languages English French ana aan ana was DONG better
helpless
Lodge home then all American professionals did His asso
his first professional
the stage of his home town.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Fans Make a Star

Warner Bros. is humming with
the excitement of a new star dis
covery-an actor who has been
on the contract list all the time
A sneak preview of THE Letter"
revealed not only what many claim
is Bette Davis greatest perform
ance, but a bid for stardom by
James Stephenson, a tall English
man. On three occasions the pre-
view audience broke into spon-
taneous applause at Stephenson's
work.
Stephenson was brought to the
United States three years ago by
Warner Bros. and has appeared
in many character roles since The
Letter" offered him his most i'm
portant opportunity.
Evening star., 1940-11-03

The born Tamara vigor-
ously shook her little Slavic head.
said:
Il study them so I won't be like
them"
"Some" Are All Right.
Ernie laughed. opined that, oh,
women were all right.
Some said Tamara succinctly.
"Others are too petty"
The little beauty. with her deep
brown eyes. dark brown hair, short
upper lip, has a salty disposition.
Again the photographer adjusted
her pose. She was wearing an even
ing gown without shoulder straps.
Bachrach, a pair of peering lenses,
said it was surprising. but the fact
was, nevertheless, that her pose did
not create a shoulder hollow. With
most actresses, on the other hand,
it does.
Shows you are good and strong"
he complimented.
Evening star., 1940-11-03

lCokSOii0Co hAANAA1AeAJB oCAAS VA N~%SAA@
seriously.
"A ham actor" said w. C. Fields,
the unpredictable, "is one who is
not sincere. A real actor is a sin
cere man."
Edward G. Robinson put it this
way: "A ham actor is a player who
can't count to 10 without sounding
like Antony burying Caesar. He
clings to life longer than anybody
else. He wants to deliver the ora
ton at his own funeral"
"Modesty." responded John Car
radine, "forbids my discussing the
subject. But in a general way I'd
say he's any rival whose perform
ance wins an academy award
Depends on Who Does 1t.
Weeks ago, Fred Allen answered
1t this way: "A ham is anybody
named Jack Benny" Jack. how
ever, was not so specific: To an
actor, any other actor is a ham"
Eddie Albert pondered before he
said: Ham acting is that kind in
which the actor lets the gestures and
the mannerisms come before the
thought in his role. When a player
puts more effort into the flourish
with which he reads line, instead
of letting the thought of the line
create its own gestures, then he is
doing what I regard as 'hamming.
A Muni or a Barrymore can put
more into a line than was intended
by a shrug or wink or a gesture
They are hamming-but 1t is not
Evening star., 1940-11-03

stable. His pride is Onyx, black
stallion with thoroughbred blood
lines, a lot of style and a fiery
temper. His three other horses all
are picture trained and picture
wise.
"A smart horse knows exactly
what is happening when director
calls for action after two or three
rehearsals," Hudkins claims. Flynn
bears him out in that.
Onyx, once shown what is ex-
pected of him, will go through the
same routine each time a take is
made, always dances, prances and
rears at just the right time.
Best feat of horsemanship, timing
etc, that Hudkins can recall, and
one that called for real courage on
the part of cowboy stunt man
named Post Parks, was for an earlier
Flynn picture.
In this scene Parks and a driver
were on the seat of heavy Santa
Fe Trail freight wagon. drawn by
six horses, hitched as three teams.
When the horses were at a gallop,
the wagon careening behind them,
Parks left the seat, crawled from
team to team on the backs of the
charging animals. Then when he
reached the front of the rig he fell,
supposedly shot.
THE six horses galloped right
over him, three on each side, and the
wagon straddled him as he lay on
the ground. 1t took for lot of
doing, that scene. But not a horse
even brushed him with a shoe
They knew what they were sup
posed to do" Hudkins says.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
WoIfert
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ventive book-a fantasy about a
Negro rascal with a good wife. The
rascal gets cut up in crap game
for using loaded dice. Actually he
dies, but his wife is a mighty power
full prayer and De LaWd, as they
say, grants him six months more of
life to earn off all his bad marks.
The rest of the book unfolds, as
endlessly as an artiChoke, the story
of how he tries and fails and then
succeeds.
Vernon Duke has written at least
four good songs for the show and
John La Touche, whose Ballad for
Americans" you must know. makes
the music fizz all over with his lyrics.
Ethel Waters, who has a gift for
wild syncopation, sings three of them
fit to bust your heart wide open with
Joy; and then, of course, there is
dancing.
Negroes are invariably superb jazz
dancers, masters of the offbeat, but
Katherine Dunham and her boys
and girls-who do it for Cabin in
the Sky"-are extraordinary. Di-
rected by George Balanchine, they
concentrate on jazz ballets. In one
case, they are condemned souls, who
come smoking and jubilant into
Lucifer's air-cooled Office in hell; in
another case they are straight
boogie-woogie. scorching the boards,
and then, just thrown in as kind
of flip, they produce, with lights
and bodies that curl like paper in
fire. a hurricane effect Hollywood
might we'll study for when the wind
machines break down.
What the whole think adds up to
is a show that would have been
great with better book, but, as it
is, remains quite good
Then Anti Climax.
There was a third musical show
this week, "'Tis of Thee" 1t tied
the low-run record of all time (no
one has ever been able to beat it,
by opening and closing like the door
of an igloo in a blizzard in Little
America. That is, it opened and
closed on the same night.
And finally there was a straight
play, "Suzanna and the Elders" by
Lawrence Langner and Armina Mar
shall Everybody who goes to the
theater regularly has been waiting
for straight play, but not for this
one. The play is about sex among
the Utopians and has the painful
quality of bawdy tale told by an
adolescent, a snickering one.
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Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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vehicle-in other words, March was
back on Broadway with another bad
play and Miss Eldridge should know
better than to pick such weak
script.
So, Mr. March and Miss Eldridge,
who can take criticism in its stride
and who have a sense Of humor. also
booked an advertisement in answer
to the critics. 1t was a cartoon
showing a pair of acrobats flying
through the air from one trapeze to
another. and one acrobat missing
the other and plunging down to his
doom. oops, sorry" said the miss
ing acrobat as he passed by.
1t has now been two years since
a playwright punched a critic on
the nose. Perhaps the sport may be
encouraged.
Evening star., 1940-11-03

ture was known to be ready for pre-
view, all Southern California was
apparently on the lookout for it.
1t reached the point where au-
diences actually hissed when pre-
view was announced that did not
turn out to be "G.WT.W."
When David o. Selznick finally
took the film to a Santa Barbara
theater, unannounced, he asked the
manager to inform the audience
that a four-hour preview was to be
leave might do so before the doors
we're locked No one left They in
stinctively felt that this was ''it."
And the comment cards, instead Of
being filled out for studio perusal,
were kept as souvenirs.
The difference between comments
written out by audiences at the
various preview towns around Los
Angeles is always marked. Long
Beachs vocabulary apparently con-
sists of two words: Swell" and
lousy" The same is true of Hunt
ington Park. Pasadena, home of
staid, wealthy families, is dignified
and conservative. Riverside and
Pomona offer a wealth of detail and
are the most literate Of the group.
But no American preview COM
ment could possibly compare with
that written by the indignant Eng
lishman, who, after seeing the
sneak" British preview OF Good
bye, Mr.. Chips" declared that he
considered the picture "a fiagrant
plagiarism of the book by the same
title
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paper Alliance. I1c)
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Is Ace, erStWhlle NeDrdSkd WllOCdI
of boxing circles Clyde supplies
"actin' hosSes" to the movies.
Horses are just like humans"
Hudkins declares. Some can act,
some can't. Some are ingenues,
some good only for mother roles.
There are horse heroes, villains and
comedians. Once in awhile you'll
find some awful hams. Some horses
are good for the kind of action roles
Enrol Flynn plays. Some are better
for dialogue actors, like Leslie How
ard and Herbert Marshall"
Hudkins has absolutely no doubt
that horses are reasoning creatures,
that they worry, feel happy, onery,
sad or playful just like humans.
ANY trainer of a racing stable
will tell you that" he insists.
sHorses that are worried about
something. or resentful of some little
slight, just won't run, even if they
could make the race a walk away.
Actin horses are just the same.
You have to sort of pamper them"
He's Trained to Box.
Stars of the Hudkins Stable of
acting mounts are WheeZer, a fine
bay ridden by Ronald Reagan, who
plays George Custer in Santa Fe
Trail" Jubilo, a fighting horse; "
Zane, a whip-broke rearer; Moon,
one of the finest dialogue horses
Hudkins ever owned; Banner, and
Silver.
The horse Silver, snow white, is
the authentic and original Silver
of Hi Ho fame. In Santa Fe
Trail he is being ridden by Robert
E. Lee, who is Moroni Olsen in this
case.
Jubilo, the fighting horse, has
been trained to rear and strike with
his forefeet like a boxer. He just
looks mean. Actually he is one OF
the gentlest animals in the Hudkins
stable and one of his tricks is to
crack a walnut under his hoof with
out smashing the meats.
Moon, the dialogue horse, is used
when a rider must speak many
lines of dialogue without changing
position. Moon will stand like a
statue for hours if necessary-an
important thing when big close-ups
are being made.
Know Their Business.
Enrol Flynn, like most of the big
stars who work frequently in out
door action pictures, has his own
Evening star., 1940-11-03
HOLLYWOOD.

Broadway's torchy Tamara re-
clined gracefully on chaise lounge
in the picture gallery and told the
photographer she knew more than
he did about women.
This stirred the curiosity of the
still photographer, Ernest Bachrach,
who was making some pictures of
her with which to advertise R-K-O-
Radios filmusical, mo. No Nanette," ="
in which Tamara plays principal
supporting role to the star, Anna
Neagle.
Ernie, who has photographed in
his still gallery at R-K-O so many
women stars and players through
the years, that he sometimes for
gets all their names, has picked up
few facts about women himself.
He came out from behind his
siege gun, asked:
Mean you study women so you
can portray them?"
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Heffernun
Continued From First Page

theater. When the lights went up
seven brave people were still in
their seats.
Gone With the Wind presented
major problem for preview the
aters in the sneak area of Los An
geleS County. When the big pic
Evening star., 1940-11-03
A Popular Sport Passes
By Marx Barron,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

days when enraged authors would challenge
the reviewers had Of
parous occupation Today unlike the time in the nees when
his then red beard because OF cac
by the
yrehts through advertisements their newspapers
Slept Here opened BROADWAY the
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Among the Screens Horses
Are Heroes and Hams
There Are All Kinds, Trainer Saws,
And Those That Are Real Actors
Know Their Business
HOLLYWOOD.

Crosb greatest weakness for running horses of
troters
Director doesn't like horses all being aegc
at onet time. now
the three Hudns
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Actors Have the Answers,
But Too Many of Them
Attempt to Define the Term Ham
Results in Wide Variety of
Opinion on the Subject
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

calling actors hams" for and think
we do not know what talking about.
they overacting, undertaking acting well
acting abomnably?
relegate this to the file Of things
pished question a of them
ndedkidd dirl sona Of ten&
Evening star., 1940-11-03

Enrol Flynn, like most of the big
stars who work frequently in out
door action pictures, has his own
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
VETS MAY RECEIVE
DEFENSE DUTIES
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probably veterans and such organ
izations as the American Legion
and Veterans of Foreign Wars
would form the nucleus of the
home guard.
The plan is contingent on con-
gressional passage of legislation to
allow the government to call out
the Guard and give the citizen
soldiers intensified training.
Veterans then would face the
prospect of being asked to serve
in any instances in which a gov
ernor proclaimed martial law.
They might go on duty in strikes,
riots, or disasters.
The President kept to himself
plans for additional inspections Of
defense activities. Detailed plan
ming is necessary, he said. but a
final decision must be withheld I'M
til the last minute. He would not
say whether he might start off
this week on an inspection trip.
Guests at todays luncheon we're:
DR.. Leo Poldo Melo, chairman
of the Argentine delegation at Ha-
vana. and Sonora De Melo; DR..
Pedro Manini Rios, Uruguayan
chairman; DR.. Tomas A. Salomo-
nj, Paraguayan minister of foreign
affairs; DR.. Oscar Schnake, Chi
lean minister for development, and
Sonora De Schnake; Joseph M.
Patterson, publisher of the N e W
York Daily News, and Mrs. Patter-
son; and George T. Summerlin,
state department protocol officer.
Mr.. Roosevelt said beforehand he
expected to talk over with his
guests the general aspects of what
was an extraordinarily interesting
and extraordinarily successful con.
ference in the Cuban capital.
He added that n good develop.
ment of the last few years was
that for the first time the United
States, had been getting on a soc.
ial footing with her Latin Ameri-
can neighbors, so that things were
not purely official, as they were
for years, but more personal and
social.
We've learned, he said, to talk
the same language. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Boost In Export-lmport
Bank Capital Favored

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-GP-A
majority of the senate banking COM
mittee commended today that a pro.
posed $500, 000, 900 increase in the
Export-Import bank was IAN es.
sential measure of economic pre-
paredness for ourselves and our
Latin-American neighbors against
the uncertain future of a war-torn
world"
The committee made this report
to the senate at about the same
time that a minority of seven men,
'bers filed a protest condemning the
proposed Latin-American lending as
"unsound, futile and waste of the
peoples money"
The provides that the
banks capital shall l ne increased
from 5000, 000, 900 to $500, 600, 900,
with authority to make loans of
governments or central banks in the
western hemisphere. Earlier today,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Governor Stark Takes
Lead In Senate Race

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6.-R-Missou-
ri's Governor Lloyd c. Stark took an
early outstate lead tonight in the
three-way race for the democratic
nomination for United States
tor, but the returns were 90 few to
indicate anything in the nature of a
trend.
The first IS precincts reported of
4,447 in the state gave Stark a mar
gin Of $50 votes over the incumbent,
Harry s.. Truman, and both were
running ahead Of Maurice M. Mill
gan, who quit as United States dis
trict attorney in Kansas City to get
into the contest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07

filth to be thrown they get the
senator from Indiana (Minton) to
throw it," he asserted.
And when Hitler wants it
thrown, you throw it," Minton re-
torted.
mo, no, not at ALL" said Holt,
Il want to say this, that there
never has been a time in recent
history when the administration
wanted some dirty, filthy, low job
done that they could not get the
senator from Indiana to do it."
Barley Protests
Barley protested that Holt was
violating the senate rules by i'm
pugning Minton's motives. The u.s.
ual, formal motion that Holt be
permitted to proceed in order
was made, put and carried, and
Holt went on to deny Minton's ac-
cusation. He would produce the
military record of the Holt family,
he said, adding that it included
service in every war in which the
United States has participated.
IF he had a spark OF manhood
in him." Holt said of Minton, "he
would look up the facts and apollo
gize in the United States senate;
but he dare not do that"
Minton made no immediate re-
ply. But late in the day, he
brought in a photostatic copy of a
West Virginia paper, and various
congressional documents, which, he
said, proved the charges he had
made.
1.-The senator from Indiana is in
no shape to be on the floor (of the
senate)," Holt cried.
What does the senator mean
by that statement?" Minton de-
manded. 3
He got no answer to his question.
Holt announced he would reply to-
morrow, and disprove all the
statements made by Minton and
those contained in the documents
which Minton produced. They had
all been ,disproved long ago. he
added, but like lice they continue
to be carried by rats" 'a. "
Later Holt charged in an address
prepared for delivery over a ma
tional radio hookup that deliberate
attempts were being made to
smear" him in order to break
his opposition to the draft bill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
IS FREED
IN DEMENT, DEATH
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James Walker Memorial hospital
yesterday for treatment of severe
bruises and decorations. Attaches at
the hospital said last night that her
condition was satisfactory"
Funeral services for Dement, will
be held from the Yopp funeral home
this afternoon at 3 O'Clock, with in
terment following in Bellevue GENE
terry.
Honorary pallbearers will be;
Audrey v. Smith, J. Hendricks, S.
E. Elks, Jack Fenan, J. A. Old
ham, Joe Clendenin, j. c. Rose,
w. E. Bremen, Lester Marshburn,
Tom Tucker. Louis Finberg, j. G.
W. Tienken, H. D. Baird, c. D.
Cunningham, R. K. Weeks, R. M.
King, W. r. Glenn, Captain A. Reg
lister, L. C. Williamson, c. F. Wor-
rel, and Robert Morton.
Mr.. Dement, is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Lula Dement,, of Will
mington; two sisters, Mrs. Ann
Terrell, e Wilmington, and Mrs.
Lucille Smith, of New York; a
brother, Edgar Dement,. of Jack
sonyille, Fla,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Annual Meeting OF N: E..
Friends Gets Under Way

GUILFORD COLLEGE, August 6.
R-The 243rd consecutive session
of the North Carolina yearly meet
ing of Friends opened here today
with a modified program, reducing
routine business to a minimum to
allow more consideration and dis
cussion of "the belief of friends in
the light of world conditions today"
About 800 Friends are present. On
hand to aid the discussions are DIR.
David Henley, of Whittier College,
CAL; Leslie Shaffer and Hugh Moore,
of the American Friends service
committee; Kenneth Boulding, of
Colgate university; jefferson and
Helen Ford, of Kenya Colony, Brit
ish East Africa, and L. Herbert
Reynolds, of Amboy, Ind.