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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
WiIIkie Interrupts Hoover Talk
To Greet Elliott Roosevelt
Presidents Son, Stopping at Same Hotel, Gets
Call From Nominee to Come Up for Visit

during his brief chat with Mr.. WILL
kie the subject Of broadcasting came
up. Young Mr.. Roosevelt is under
stood to have expressed the view
that radio broadcasters should fol-
low the lead of newspapers by CIV
Ing as much opportunity as posi-
BILE for free political discussion by
the candidates. He is said to have
indicated this is especially desirable
now that the Hatch Act limits cam
paign expenditures by the political
parties.
When photographers heard that
the Republican nominee and the
Presidents son were together they
hurried to the Willkie headquarters.
Mr.. Willkie offered to draw the line
against pictures, if young Mr.. Roose-
welt wanted it that way. but the
Presidents son said he had no OBJ
lection, and they were photo
graphed together.
Later. Elliott Roosevelt said:
Il was very happy to have the
opportunity of meeting Mr.. Wilkie,
and admire him as an individual.
But. naturally, 1 will be pulling
intellectually for my fathers sue
cess in November"
As the RooSevelts we're packing
luggage in their car to leave. Mr.
Willkie came down to bid them
good-by. and newsreel camera
ca1zsht. the farewell: -. -. s;
Joke About Fish.
I'm glad you stopped over this
way" said Mr.. Willkie, as the two
joked about the size Of .sflfe fish
young Roosevelt hopes to catch in
the Snake River.
When Mr.. Willkie said IT may
drop In on you later" bystanders
interpreted it to mean that the
nominee expects to go into Texas
during the campaign.
After the Roosevelts had departed
Mr. Willkie had dinner with Mr..
Hoover and Gen. Hugh johnson.
Mr.. Hoover told newsmen the
question of third term is only
one of twenty issues" involved in
this years presidential race.
He declared there has been
STEADY progress away from real
American institutions" and added
his belief that the people resent
it,
There is feeling in the country,
he said, that we are in another
Blum administrator of the
French regimes that preceded the
present war.
Asked what he thought would be
the effect of a third term for the
New Deal, Mr.. Hoover predicted "it
would see this Government trans
formed beyond recall"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
War Prisoners Help
Harvest French Crops

NEW YORK. Aug u P).-The
German wireless, quoting the
French newspaper, Paris-Soir, said
today that German authorities in
occupied France had placed whole
contingents of French war prisoners
at the disposal of French farmers"
and were predicting record har-
vest.
The German broadcast was heard
here by c. B. 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Mistoking Beer Keg
For Wife, Swimmer
Learns Thing or Two
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HULL. Mass, Aug. IA
man who mistook a submerged
beer keg for his wife was wish
ing today that Nantasket Beach
lifeguards had not bothered to
roll out the barrel"
Because when they did, in
response to his cries that his
wife was drowning" she ar
rived safely from another part
of the beach just in time to
learn that he had thought the
keg was she.
Spectators retreated dis
creetly while she shrilly told
him . thing or two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12

without hesitating, DIR. Lowe thrust
his hand into the fire and pushed
the machine away.
The second. degree burns on his
hand went untreated until the
operation was finished.
Asked how serious his burns were,
DR.. Lowe said later, "Oh, they're
not so bad. The important thing
is that the child never knew q thing
about it."
Firemen responded to box alarm,
but members Of the hospital staff
had subdued the flames before they
arrived. Damage to the machine
was slight, hospital authorities ssid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12

Weather Conditions Last "a Hours.
The South Atlantic Coast disturbance
moved inland Sunday afternoon q short
distance north of Savannah: Ga. attended
by hurricane winds near the center. II
is central this morning over Centra al
Georgia. Macon. 99a.1 millbars t2a So
inches). Pressure is low and falling over
the Plateau region, Boise. Idaho, 1907 &
millibars cars inches). A high-pressufe
area is advancing slowly southeastward
over the Middle Atlantic and North At
lantic States, New Haven, Conn, 1890
millibars (30.42 inches, with another
high-pressure center over Lake Superior
Marquette. Mich. 1924 millibars t30.22
inches). During the last "a hours showers
have occurred in the Middle Atlantic,
South Atlantic and Gulf States, in the
Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys.
the Southern Plains States and in the
Southern Rocky Mountain resion. Tenn
peratures have fallen in the Southern
Rocky Mountain region.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Club Plans OUTING

St. Michaels Mems Club will
meet tonight at st. Michaels School
Silver Spring. Nd. to complete ar.
rangements for an all-day outing
and moonlight cruise to Marshall
Hall August %.
A program of athletic events ano
a ball game between ST. Michaels
Parish and Nativity Parish will be
features. Eugene e. Rupert. presi-
dent. has appointed. L. H. McKim
general chairman; Leo Koepfle
chairman of the Ticket Committee
and John j. Reed, programs and
athletic director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Red Cross Unit to Meet

The Forest Garden Clubs Red
Cross Unit, now engaged in knitting
garments to be distributed abroad,
will hold it's weekly session tomor-
row at Holy Trinity Church, on
Defense Highway, in Prince Georges
County. Mrs. A. H. Taylor is in
charge Of the unit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Postor Exchanges Posts

LEONARDTOWN, Md. Aug. II
fSpeciaD.-The Rev. Franklin Lee
Metcalf. pastor Of the All-Faith
p E. Church, Huntersville, has left
to take a parish in Summerville
N. j., during August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Wild Creatures Add Zest
To Life in Winchester
Special Dispatch to The Star,

special Dispatch to Inc star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. H.
Some one left q screened door open
at the home of Mrs. Julia Beavers
here and while members of the
family were reading in the living
room they were startled to see three
skunks stroll in leisurely, make a
circuit of the room and walk out
again.
The Beaverses sat motionless and
nothing happened. However, the
door was closed quickly ct the first
opportune moment,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY.

Senate:
Continues debate on CONSUMPTION
bill
Appropriations subcommittee re-
sumes study of $4,963, 000, 900 defense
bill. 1890 am.
House:
Debates minor bills.
Military Affairs Committee con-
siders National Guard mobilizat ton
bill. 1890 am.
Ways and Means Committee re-
sumes hearings on excess profits tax
bill. 1890 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Hoover Urges Agency
To Feed Conquered
European Countries
Former President AssoiIs
Recall Of Cudohy for
Stating q Fact
~ the Associated Press.

~ the ASSOCIATED Pre3.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. Ia
The organization Of a neutral, nom
governmental agency to keep IT,
100000 persons In the little countries
ton, death and disease" was pro-
posed today by Herbert Hoover.
Mr.. Hoover, chairman of the
American Relief Committee in the
World War, said somebody must
raise voice for food supply during
the coming winter = in Norway,
Holland, Belgium and Poland"
(Mr. Hoovers statement elic-
tied no response today from the
State Department. Acting Sec
rotary Sumner Welles when
questioned about it said he had
read Mr.. Hoover's statement
Every carefully and added he
had no comment to make nor
does he intend to authorize any,
The former President. who con-
ferred with Republican Presidential
Nominee Wendell L. Willkie here
yesterday, declared that some organ
isation must be formed If these
people are to be saved"
Action on Cudahy Assailed.
He added:
1T Is impossible to understand
what the administration in Wash
tngton means by statements that
they do not have any facts, or why
they recall an Ambassador because
he states a fact"
John Cudahy, Ambassador to
Belgium, was called home to re-
port to the President after he ad-
vocated last week that the United
States feed Nazi-occupied coun-
trieSD
Mr.. Hoover said in an interview
at Salt Lake City earlier yesterday
that funds which the occupied coun-
tries have in the United States could
be used to defray costs of a relief
organization.
Consent Required.
He stressed the fact that consent
Of the governments Of both Great
Britain and Germany must be OBJ
tanned before any plan could be put
into operation.
Un London, a spokesman indi-
Gated in the absence of Official
comment that Britain would pe
averse to the proposal. The
spokesman said Britain would
vigorously maintain its blockade
against Germany and Nazi-
occupied European countries. and
that food for $4,000 900 non-Ger-
mans in the occupied territories
depended on fair distribution by
Germany. which has an album
dance Of supplies'D
Different From World War.
Mr.. Hoover said European food
fationing today lis just about
where 1t was In the second or third
year Of the last war"
Mr.. Hoover said this conflict was
tremendously different" from the
World War because European
countries were giving out of food
earlier.
Mr.. Hoover declared representa-
tives of the governments of Nor
way, Poland, Belgium and Holland
seek organization Of the World
War conmittee.+ s-ss,~--,
Mr.. Hoover said the proposed
organization would purchase food
surpluses in the United States. for
distribution among the peoples of
the war-torn European nations.
He said the fugitive govern
ments" of the four nations have
proposed reorganization of the
World War commission and that
former members of the commission
had contacted him regarding its
formation. Possibly France also
will be in difficulties" the former
President asserted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Weather Report

FURNISH By the Bureau
District Of Cohmba-Cloudy tonight slightly
moderate shifting o
tonight
terror tomorrow
VirgnaCoudy with local showers south portion
slightly north portion
Vgna-Cloudy, with local
portion tonight: not much change in temperature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
port for Last ~ Hours.

Record Tor Last a 4ours.
prom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. 81, at noon today. Year
ago 60.
Lowest. ~, at 1:30 An. today. Year
ago, 20.
Record TsmDeraturs This Year.
Highest, 100, on July ~.
Lowest, z. on January 20.
Humidity fer Last - Hours.
rrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, % per cent, at 2 an. today.
Lowest, 81 Der cent. At 3:45 Pm. yes
tefday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy
Of Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy At Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished b. Omitted States Coast and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12

FOREIGN STATIONS.
(Noon. Greenwich time. today)
Temperature. Weather.
Horta payaD, Azores az Cloudy
tCurrent observarons)
San Juan. Puerto Rioe SO Cloudy
Havana, Cuba II Cloudy
Colon. Canal zons-- u Cloudy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In ths
Sapltal leurrent month TO datel:
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Todoy's Film Schedules

BEIAsCo-Touise" h opera
q $40. 4:5o. Gas, 7:5s and s:35 pm.
CAPrTOLD Cyops" diahoc tries reducing
cure: 435 TAO and 10 pm. Stage shpws:
o10 pm.
coLUAdBIAThe House Across the Bay which Bennett
awaits An imprisoned husband: g. 345 $50
EARIEIoo Husbands Arthur in that irregular
but exciting pedicament: 250 5o 73o and 955 pm stage
shows: 2, 400, $40 and pm
KEITHS-Tts the new Deanna Durbin adventure
$780, 75O and o:45 pm.
LTILEThe Human Beast" drama Jean Cabin and
Stnone Simon: ., 4:05, 5:55, 7:5O and $40 pm.
SINGAPORE laughs with Bins Crosby
and hob Hope Z, 3:S5, 5:55, 7:50 and $50 pm.
with and Joan Fontana
the leading roles: 3 as a7:o6 ana s:1S pm
1RANs-LuxNews and shorts: continuous from PM
"secrst Agent" With Lore and Madeetus Cas
ron: 7:9S ana l0o6 pm. 20
Evening star., 1940-04-14
By Ira W0lferf.
NEW YORK.

80. NEW YORK.
Edward Percy and Reginald Dem
ham are q pair of Englishnen with
a talent for creeping over their
typewriters. Only the other week,
they set up Flora Robson In busi-
ness as stranger and now their
attention is on Pauline Lord.
To Miss Lord they give Suspect"
a play with an axe to grind and
the necks already stretched to go
with them. If play like this sets
you to wondering why, when your
head went away, it didn't take your
body along, then you. know you are
In the presence of art. Nothing so
delightful as that happened to me
at Suspect" but at the end of the
play I did hesitate a moment be-
fore reaching under the seat in
the darkness for my hat. I had
wispy notion that maybe my head
was inside it.
The details are as follows: The
first act has nothing at all except
Miss Lord on the stage. Maybe
you're different, but that is enough
for me. In the second act, the
play begins steaming slowly to the
assistance of Miss Lord. Even those
of us who didn't have a head to
get separated from are pretty sure
by then tina 20 years before Miss
Lord had stood trial for chopping
up her father and stepmother and
that the jury, baffled by the testi-
mony Of Miss Lords favorite SER
want, returned that third verdict
possible only in Scotland-"not
proven" Painting along not far
behind the audience are the two
leading male characters in the play,
the father and godfather of the
girl who wants to marry Miss Lords
son. They find out in the second
act, with a little hankey-pankey
involving an axe and the strained
strains of Robin Adair," that she
actually is the one whose innocence
was not proven. As any father and
godfather might be, they are con-
cerned about letting their daughter
marry the son Of q homicidal fe-
male. They spend the third. act
trying to find out whether she
actually did the killing, and in the
end Miss Lord convinces them she
did not. But, she does not con-
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Hollywood Still Sells the World Its Films
From Iceland Iraq, American Photoplays Are Seen
= And Favored by Varied Foreign Audiences

Of have American sound equip
merft. 3 e
Although Germany, France, Dem
mark and England, whose Aims Ice
land also buys, are much closer, to
her than America, IS per cent of all
pictures shown carry the Hollywood
brand. Enrol Flynn, Mickey Rooney,
Bette Davis, Edward g. Robinson
and Shirley Temple are the top fav-
orites there. Pictures are shown
from two to four times q week,
varying with the fishing seasons
which regulate the flow Of life in
that harsh country.
For Catching Up.
In Costa Rica the plantation
country In Central America, there
are five theaters in the capitol city
of San Jose. Here one of the
strangest practices in motion picture
exhibition methods prevails.
Every Saturday from 8 in the
morning until midnight the movie
houses have continuous showings Of
feature pictures, with none shown
twice. At the end of each produc-
ton the theater Is emptied and
tickets collected all over again.
Or patrons may remain in the the
ater II they buy tickets to the subse-
quent unreelngs. This plan is fol-
lowed to give the people a chance to
catch up on their movie shopping,
since working on the plantations
week after week they do not have
the opportunity to come into town
very often.
Iraq fosters still another quaint
custom. Its 40 theaters are all wired
for sound and American films-es-
pecially adventure stories and musi-
cals-are great favorites with the
populace. Next to the regular screen
the exhibitor places a small one
and on 1t are flashed the titles,
translated into four or Ave different
languages. Theatergoers here are
trained to see their Aims that way,
preferring the separate screen for
titles, rather than looking at titles
superimposed on the picture itself
q custom followed, in American the
aters when foreign subjects go on
display.
In Papeete, Too.
Nigeria, on the African gold coast,
has II theaters, five of which are
sound equipped. Nigeria, being the
jumping OF point for hunting par
ties and expeditions into the in
terror, has definite tourist seasons
which regular the frequency and
number Of Aims shown.
The famous island Of Tahiti has
one theater, in Papeete, its capitol
city. A French possession, Tahiti
naturally grants favor to French
Aims, but despite this American
pictures are preferred and 20 per
cent Of pictures shown In the thea
tire .moderne" are American.
Taiwan, also known Is Formosa,
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Once Again Broadway Gets the Creeps
Now 1t Is Suspect With the Magical Pauline Lord,
Which Turns Up to ,ScsEe Play&oers So

vince us. For, as they drive of to
prepare the wedding; Miss~-kord
rushEs out and starts chopping the
limbs OF q piece Of wood, bowling
in a smAA way on, the While.
Miss lord u Magnificent. /
The writing Is rather startling.
At one point, the godfather is tell
Ing the father how Miss Lord ran
unclothed through the sand with
an axes8U get her father and STEP
mother. The portrait has the audi
ence's eyes rolling wildly, but the
authors bring US back to dead CEN
ter with the remark, "Ah, clever!
Then there were no blood stains
to explain" Maybe, this is Just
as well for Miss Lord later de-
clares that she actually wore a
bathing suit.
However, while the writing is of
that kind, Miss Lords acting is
magnificent. As killer, she makes
Flora Robson look like the kind of
girl who couldn't strangle an erratic
spaghetti. It is rather a pity that
she spends her talents on this kind
of art. There are good plays, I am
sure, that reu'lire the services of an
actress who has the magic to con-
vince an audience that she is both
good and evil.
New Musical Arrives.
There seems to be no question at
the moment that Higher and
Higher" new musical comedy
with music and lyrics by Rodgers
and Hart, will be a success. There
was no question about that from
the start, for the people concerned
from Producer Dwight Deere Wiman
to Vallen, Inc, manufacturers Of
curtain traveller carriers - seem to
have a formula down as pat as the
makers Of canned soup. Anyway,
they turn them out season after
season, one like the other, and the
odd thing is that on opening night
the boys and girls worry just as
much as II they were not turning out
canned soup.
Step BY Step. ~
.. Higher and Higher" has q for
mula book. The formula, as in all
these cases; seems to consist Of hir-
ing the kind Of authors who take
to punching typewriters because
they know the typewriters can't
punch back.
J. The next step in the business con-
Evening star., 1940-04-14

sists Of getting athletic boys and
girls to display Their muscles in Z
manner thought up by Robert Alton,
tle t1ce director. and their smiles
and other accomplishments in the
manner thought up by the lingerie
artists. After that you hire people
with names,to carry the show.
The names invoked are Jack
Haley, who has an Incompatible tai
ent for looking anguished out of big,
baby blue eyes; Marta Eggert, who
has voice; Shirley Ross, who has
gusto and shape; Lee Dixon, who is
likeable, and Left Erickson, who can
act, and, surprisingly enough, sing.
Mr.. Erickson started out as a jazz
band vocalist, but nobody remem-
bered that once he got into the
movies and the Group Theater and
married Frances Farmer.
Everybody does exactly what is ex-
pected of him, and spent the whole
evening wishing they wouldn't. No
doubt I'm the one who Is crazy.
(Released By the North American,
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1940-04-14
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


-. In its annual survey Of the world
market (Which isn't staggering 50
dizzily as Hollywood would have you
believe), Warner Brothers foreign
department has come up with some
interesting oddities about movie
going habits in remote sections of
the globe.
Despite blackouts and mined ter
ritorial waters and political bans on
the Hollywood product in and
around Europe, some 10000, 900
people outside the United States
are still stepping up to the wickets
each week to buy movie tickets-and
a goodly share of this entertainment
still filters into those countries from
the American screen capital.
Take Iceland, for instance. That
country represents the northern
most point at which Hollywood films
are shown. There are 10 theaters
now operating. with an average
seating capacity of from ITS to $50.
The largest theater seats 100. Two
Evening star., 1940-04-14

powder her nose when 1t Is shiny
but that's ALL" said Mrs. Temple
And Shirley's hair is now completely
unbrightened. Personally, I like 1t
better in its natural shade. Il now
have complete charge of Shirley's
hair" her mother continued. mo
more visits to beauty parlors for
bleaching. I cut, wash and curl it. NJ
The receipt experiment of sending
Shirley to the Westlake School was
more successful than anticipated
II told the headmistress that !
wanted Shirley to be treated exactly
as the other girls. And after the
first shyness between Shirley and
the others had worn of they ac-
cepted her as one of themselves, y
said Mrs. Temple. "Shirley's hoping
to get this picture finished In time
to go back to school before the
summer vacation. She's keeping UP
with the same courses as her class
so that she can 60 back at any
time"
Future scholastic plans depend on
Shirley's. future in films, but Mrs.
Temple says, "She will probably
attend a college In the East-Wel-
lesley or Smith. That can't be de-
cided until the times comes. But
we are preparing her for college
anyway
It's Hard, Dull Work.
When and II Shirley ever says
good-by. to film-making, which
needn't ever be II she is given the
right material, I don't think Mrs.
Temple will exactly mourn. Picture
making Is fun for Shirley and al-
why's has been. But IT'S hard, rather
dull work for Mrs. Temple. who has
to stay on the stu6y set (aN sets
are conspicuous for lack Of air) from
8 an. until 8 pm, coaching Shirley
In her lines, dressing her, hafr,, but
mostly sitting In 3 chair doing
nothing. This might have been
amusing the first year. but Mrs.
Temple has been following this
routine for six and q half years, and
I gather that the novelty has worn
Oh. Sure, she is paid to do itr-her
income is In the $1.000-a-week
bracket. But I gather the novelty
Of that has worn Oh, too.
To sum up, / don't think there
is much real cause for complaint,
either from 20th Centlry-Fox or
Mrs. Temple. Until the past year
the studio made . fortune from
each Of Shirleys pictures. For four
years each movie crossed not less
than 42,O00 900. And, Of course, tl1A
Temple family is now wealthy be-
youd its most extfavaSant dreams.
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