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Evening star., 1940-06-03
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Flight Angels" story OF
the airline hostesses: 11:05 am,
las, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, $3.50, 6:15 and pm.
-"Earthbound," the ghost
won't 60 west: IL am, 1:45, 4:30
7:20 and 10 pm. Stage shows
1880, $40, 6:25 and 9:O5 pm.
Waterloo Bridge" Vivien
Leigh in a poignant romance: 11:55
am, 2:20, 4:25, 7:15 and $40 pm
Keith's-"Irene," film version OF
the popular musical, with Anna
Neagle: 11:30 am, 1:30, $3.50, $50
7:30 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"Buck Benny Rides
Again." making the Wild West
wilder: 11:45 am, 1:45, $50, $50,
7:50 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Typhoon," the ele-
ments VS.. Dorothy Lamour: 11::45
am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and $50
pm.
Little-"Grand Illusion" the IL
lusion being that wars will go away:
11:55 am, 2:25, ASS, 7:25 and 9:55
pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-06-03
Seeing Films
Days Work
Down South
In South America,
That Is, Western
Star Finds
HOLLYWOOD.
BY the Associated Press.

HULL WOOD.
BY the Associated Press.
South Americas the place where
they like their movie queens on the
buxom side.
Going to picture is days work.
Senor and sonora pack lunch and
take the kids. It's not double fea-
ture they go to see, but a quintuple
feature.
IT'S a fact" says Western star
George OBrien.
"On one bill, for example, they had
two OF my pictures, Bill Boyd, a
Garbo and a Mickey Rooney.
Out to Lunch.
When a picture the family doesn't
care about comes on they 60 outside
and eat lunch and maybe visit
around while. Then they come
in later and catch the other shows"
OBrien says he was in too much
of hurry that particular day to
check up on whether most of the
patrons ate lunch or the time of
Rooney, Garbo, Boyd-or OBrien.
George and his attractive wife.
Actress Marguerite Churchill, left
Hollywood by airplane for Mexico
City last January and for four
months flew up and down and
around and across Central and
South America
Travelled $4,000 Miles.
They visited every major city in
every Latin American country, went
alligator hunting up the Amazon as
far as Manaos and in four hurried
months travelled some $4,000 miles.
OBrien says he was amazed to
find that Hollywood film stars were
favorites Observation-Disclosures a
common complaint was that the
Dietrichs and Durbins and De Havil-
lands were much too thin.
They like 'em buxom, but George
is pretty certain the girls aren't
going off their diets, if any, in order
to get more fan mail from South
America.
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Ldppou his klluCkleS dRdlIlSG UIle
wooden desk and added: Without
too many cracked skulls or tenders
we hope"
But Klnes department isn't near
ly SO cold or colorless as he seems to
think. Three million miles, more or
less, is the yearly mileage piled up
on company business in his records.
He sends whole truck trains to loca-
tons and he sends fancy limousines
with natilly uniformed drivers to the
fountain inside the studio to take
curious visitors who merit such at
tention, to visit the back lot, less
than a quarter of mile away 1t
all adds up in the years total.
The typical studio driver is a
patient soul-and an expectant one.
He stands and waits for many hours
daily and he always expects the un-
expected. He may be called on to
rush studio executive to train
or a preview in some distant town
outside of Los Angeles-or he may
be sent to take new frock from
the wardrobe out to a stars home
for fitting.
Studio drivers, says Kline, who
has been with Warmers since Rim
Tin-Tin was a pup" hear lot. but
they're always supposed to forget.
If they become talkative about what
they hear in the back seat they're
fired. Chauffeurs who handle the
studio passenger cars all have their
favorite players. When Bette Davis
asks for a car to drive her home
from night location, she always
provides hot coffee and a smack"
for the driver in her own kitchen.
Bill Ranaldi is the one who usually
gets the call and if it's late they
raid the icebox together. But, re-
member, there's long waiting line
for these driver jobs.
According to Herb Green, veteran
driver, who sat in the boss Office
awaiting his next call, players and
executives all seem to talk more
freely in an automobile than they
10 clS6WIlcIc. 1llC III ltCI CdllllOG
help but hear, but he knows he
mustn't tell. Green remembers one
seven-mile trip to the station in
which two famous executives sealed
a movie making bargain involving
a million dollars And again an
other shorter dash to Bel Air, in
which a pair of married stars
threshed out domestic difficulties
and agreed to call it quits. The
headline story broke two days later,
so they weren't kidding, as the
driver first thought.
X X X
Sometimes when we drive young
players to location" he continued,
I'VE have to play cupid and be blind
like he is, too. We've had a hand in
several romances. remember driv-
ing two young stars out to the
studio ranch-a 45-mile trip-sev-
eral years ago. It was their first
picture together and first scenes
Evening star., 1940-06-03
Any Atoms to Split
Today, Mister?

Let logicians split hairs. The
movies can split rain drops.
1t happened on the set of R-K-O
Radios Dance, Girl, Dance" when
Maureen O'Hara had to seek shelter
from a shower under Charles Es-
mond's umbrella. The sound mixer
complained he couldn't hear a word
they said because the sound of the
rain drops. in the t1ansmitter, was
like marbles on a drum
"Shucks," said the prop man,
that's easy"
He spread mosquito netting, sieved
the shower, and the rain drops were
split to whisper.
Evening star., 1940-06-03

eral Playhouse Drama Group, meet
ing every Tuesday night at Thom-
son School, is preparing to cast
a play to follow the recent "A Doc
tor in Spite of Himself" The
drama department of Mount Ver-
non Seminary will present Noel
Coward's Hay Fever" tomorrow
night at the school in honor of the
graduating class as a feature OF
commencement week. Students
taking part in the comedy are
Betty Forsling, Betsy Smith, Kath-
arine Cary, Martha Francis, Alice
Stewart, Sue Sheriff., Esther Co.
burn, Polly Koenig and Virginia
Kieselbach.
Evening star., 1940-06-03

LAWS, IL dlly ""' >~'"ouS'
one has forgotten that fact, did not
always bask in the glow of the hap
piest critical superlatives. On the
contrary, in the fore part of her
film career eight or nine years ago.
she was pelted with plenty of anto-
nyms for the lyrical adjectives now
used to describe her art. Playing
sister" roles, it took her several pic
lures to work up to even such a
nondescript descriptive word as
adequate" OF all the ways of being
praised with a faint damn, if the
coiner of that expression does not
mind its appropriation, none is more
effective than that one.
Patiently, Miss Davis survived.
Another currently successful play
er who collided head-on with some
of the most dangerous beasts in the
Jungle of criticism was chap named
Cagney. Even casuel passers- by
Evening star., 1940-06-03

job and how seriously short of ideas
a columnist can be, especially in
Evening star., 1940-06-03

early June.
Most recent OF
the Jones no.
tions for assidu-
Gus research and
emphatic report
Is that criticism
never killed off
q good actor.
Thumbing his
way through the
history of stars
Immediately ad-
jacent to his
typewriter. h e
ca me first to
Bette Davis. Miss
Evening star., 1940-06-03
Local Drama Groups
First Roadside Production
Sets a Standard
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

First Of the Roadside Iheater productions Of this already
thing OF the and maintain
for the remainder the its continued
satisfying show the Roadside staged primarily
Tor members with
to lend dignity permitted might
Evening star., 1940-06-03

James Stewart has been flying
since he was 10 years old. He paid
for his first flight with money saved
from selling papers.
Evening star., 1940-06-03

Gary Cooper is spending four
hours daily learning the manner
isms and form of q baseball pitcher
for his role in THE Life of John
Doe"
Evening star., 1940-06-03
Studio Drivers Hear Much,
But They Mustn't Talk
Glamour and Romance Are Found
Even in the Department
OF Motor Transportation
HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
transportation L
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

What on?" asked Of
Warner Bros transportation department.
vehicles ranging from
He whitening
mo looking glamour
This We just
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was secured fro mthe w. p. A. sew
ing room.
Before the Christmas holiday
there will be another bed in the
home but this one is being made
from a wooden box and will be built
for a new brother or sister.
The mother would be very happy
If the family could have a holiday
dinner with more variety than the
usual cereal, apples, green's and
cornbread.
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thedter.
Case J
Mr.. and Mrs. H have seven
youngsters, Margaret, the Oldest is
IA; James, IL; Rose, 8. Then there
are the twins, John and Robert, 4,
and second set of twins, Thomas
and Louise, who are under a year.
The house in which they live is a
four-room frame building without
gas, electricity or water in the
house. All the water has to be
carried from a well some distance
away. The wood stove in the kitchen
is used for cooking and heating.
There is one oil stove to heat the
two upstairs rooms. The house is
situated between two tall buildings
20 that even on sunny days there is
.ery little day light. The three
older children crowd around a
broken oil lamp on the kitchen
table to do their studying. All
four rooms are used for sleeping
ana with little crowding there are
enough beds to go around, but there
aren't enough blankets, so the
family snuggle down under coats
and burlap bags.
Mr.. H is young man, but since
he had pneumonia two years ago,
he has not been strong. He works
as Waterman on w. P. A., and
earns $50 month. Mrs. H
takes the babies to the clinic
regularly. They are very cross and
irritable but the doctor can find
nothing really wrong with them
except that they are undernour-
ished.. They should have four feed
ings a day. Mrs. H is able to give
them only two.
Usually Mrs HIS sister sends some
money to help out with the chill
drens' clothes at Christmas time,
hut this year she has been out of
work and won't be able to help.
Send cash gift to The Star.
Take toy to a Warner Bros.
theater.
Case 8
The N children rotate their Sleep
ing arrangements every night. Mr..
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N and the three youngest children,
aged 6, 5 and 4, always sleep in the
two double beds in the front room.
Mrs N always sleeps on the cot in
the kitchen; the five other children
alternate between the double bed in
the middle room, and the sofa in the
kitchen.
This adjustment is necessary, be-
cause Mrs. N insists on washing
every night. 1t means that those
who sleep in the kitchen can't get to
sleep until very late, but Mrs. N
says it is necessary if they are going
to be able to go to school. The beds
do not have sheets, but the blankets
are washed almost every week. Mr..
N says his wife is foolish to work
so hard, but Mrs. N "just can't stand
dirt" The three rooms are usually
strewn with the makeshift toys Of
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then. He now is deaf, blind and
lame. Although Mrs. G could work,
she has to stay home to take care
of her husband and the six young
children.
The living room of the G home
has two large double beds and one
single bed and none of the things
one would expect in a living room.
Another large bed in a small side
room is being held together by a
strong rope to prevent collapse. 1t
is better bed than one they re-
Gently were forced to throw out.
The plaster on the walls is falling
down and the floor is of rough
wood, impossible to keep clean. The
house is so crowded that there is no
room to play and the children are
forced to play in commercial area
where gangs of boys frequent. Police
sometimes come to request mother
to keep the children OF the streets.
The oldest son, age IA, is taking
q mechanical course at. school. He
wants to develop a skill 50 he can
support the family which now lives
on $50 monthly relief grant.
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Dalton Urges U. s. Tighten
Export Controls on Axis
By the Associated Press.

6y tnS ASsoClhted EtcsS.
LONDON, Dec. Sunday A plea
to America to tighten and extend
export controls so as to insure that
no vital materials get through to thu
enemy" was voiced last night h
Hugh Dalton, Minister of Econone
Warfare and master of BritaiuJ
blockade of Germany and Italy
"You could refuse financial faad.
ties to our enemies" Mr.. DaEon
said in North American broadas.
you could immobilize all .psny
ships in your ports and Won odh
decline to trade with firms in n.atrsl
countries who are friends q the
enemy"
Mr.. Dalton contended that trough
the blockade the Germans ~srs now
back where they were six months
ago-or worse" He calld italy
much poorer than GERMANY
"1taly's heart is not in IBIS var
he said.
He urged America 10 send plane:
and more planes 80 and We shaw
bomb their war machine 10 piecas.
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Case 10

How to stretch a dollar just a
bit farther-that is the problem of
Mrs. D, the mother of five young
children. The 3-room fiat is neat
and as warm as is possible with a
wood fire, but $48 of relief money will
only 60 so far. especially since she
has to pay $28 of it for rent.
In a sanitorium is her husband
slowly recovering from tuberculosis.
Unknown to him, in another section
of the same sanatorium, is his son,
less than year old. Mrs. D would
like to visit her husband and baby
with fruit or q toy but none of the
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Cuse ! !

A mile east of ST. Elizabeth S
Hospital live a father and his three
boys. Their home is three upstairs
rooms in farmhouse. They live
there because the rent is cheap and
the boys want to be near their
mother, q patient in the hospital.
The fathers w. P. A. job is far
out in the northwest section so he
starts for work at 5 am, leaving
his sons to get their own breakfast
and 60 to school. Before the boys
leave in the morning, they must
haul buckets of water from a
hydrant 400 feet down the road.
The oldest boy left high school to
work part-time. The second goes Z
miles to school. After school, he re-
pairs cars, delivers groceries and
washes dishes in a restaurant TO
buy himself clothes. He hasn't
made enough yet to buy himself a
coat and all through the winter he
has had one cold after another and
sore Threats.
The youngest boy tries to make
money like his older brothers. He
runs errands, cleans yards and
washes cars for the people Of Hill
crest. His brothers have to make
him 60 to school. The eighth grade
boys laugh at him because his toes
Continued on Page AID
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done thelr SNARE IN supporting the
Red Cross, the Community Chest and
other worthwhile detectives, feel that
they want to give a little something
extra just because it is Christmas
time. Many feel that their own
Christmas will be happier one If
they know they have aided in giving
to some needy family the extra Joy
which all should experience at the
Christmas season.
To all who have this very natural
urge I heartily commend the annual
Christmas Campaign sponsored by
The Washington Star. I know that
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the two younger children who are
not in school.
Mrs. N is a large cheerful woman.
She enjoys every one of her eight
children, and is seldom cross or i'm
patient with them. Mr.. N is a quite
"worrisome" man. 1t is a great
blow to his pride that he cannot
provide adequately for his family.
He is conscientious worker. en-
ployed on W.P.A. and hopes that q
regular job is coming along soon,
through no fault of Mr.. N this hope
does not seem to materialize.
Send cash gift to The Star.
Take a toy to a Warner Bros.
thedter.
Cuse 3
Four years ago Mr.. G became Ill
and has been unemployed since
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gifts made through this medium will 60 long way towart
making many needy families happier.
NORMAN H. DAVIS, Chairman,
American Red Cross
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Send a cash gift to The Star.
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precious $48 can be used for this.
There are still three girls in the
home, aged Is, 10 and 8 years,
and a boy of 2 who need food
and clothing. The little 8-year-old
has just returned home after sew
eral months in the hospital with
tubercular knee. Although her leg
is still in a cast she is attending
school regularly and doing we'll in
her classes.
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A Little Something Extra
At Christmas Time

At this the year many people who have already
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Cuse 9

Four years ago Mr.. G became Ill
and has been unemployed since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-01

Send a cash gift to The Star.
Take a toy to a Warner Bros.
thedter.
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Case a

Mother and the three children
have one dingy, dark room with
two windows, in a congested ROOM
ing house area renting for 81 week
~. All sleep in one bed to share
the warmth of WORKOUT cotton
quilt. Furnishings consist of one
double bed, a dresser and two chairs.
The children study at school be-
cause wood and oil for the lamps is
limited at home. Father is sepa-
rated but makes an effort to con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-01

Send a cash GIFT to The Star.
Take a toy to Warner Bros.
thedter,
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Send cash gift to The Star.
Take toy to a Warner Bros.
thedter.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-11
Britain Is In No
Fear of Starvation
Food Surplus Put AlUay In
Secret Storage.

LONDON.-Great Britain does not
fear starvation in the present war,
according to government economic
statisticians.
Secret purchases and storage of
foodstuffs during the last II months
have been so successful, it was said,
that even if, in the future, ships
were unable to reach British ports
With supplies from abroad the ma
tion could be fed for more than IL
months-certainly until after another
harvest was gathered in.
The full extent of the government
stocks has not been revealed, but in
ports where wheat is stored in silos
and granaries stocks are known to
exceed 11,600,00 hundredweight.
This is 73 per cent higher than a
year ago. Holdings of wheat flour
are nearly 40 per cent heavier.
If the whole of Ireland is included
the stocks of wheat are 10 per cent
greater than a year ago.
Purchases of wheat from abroad
are reaching record figures. Dur
ing the seven months ended July 81,
70.841 900 hundredweight Of wheat
had been delivered from countries
overseas.
In addition, there is Britain's own
harvest yet to be gathered. 1t is
estimated at more than 10000, 900
hundredweight which is much great
er than the harvest of 1914, taken
at the outbreak of the World war.
Large quantities of frozen meat
from Australia. New Zealand, Bra
I'll. Uruguay and the Argentine are
stored in London, Manchester, Bir-
nlingham. Liverpool. Cardiff and Not
tingham. apart from canned foods
placed in reserve by leading manu-
facturers.
On British farms the total live
stock is greater than at any other
time in many years.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-11
Radiant Living
KIMBERLEY
DIAMONDS
By Rev. c. NJ. Griffeth
Pastor Ridgely M. E. Church
Ridgely, Md.

The colonist who went to South
Africa ard settled as farmers N
the region of Kimberley grew very
disheartened over their lot. They
found the soil so poor and rocky
that they could raise but the small
est of crops.
Only the children seemed to nave
a good time. They were amusing
themselves by throwing at each
other the peculiar stones that lay
around everywhere.
Many farmers left the region.
Those who stayed died in poverty.
Yet all the while, those peculiar
stones with which the children
played were huge diamonds in the
rough, while under their shovels lay
a wealth that was too vast even to
estimated
Had they only been able to recog-
nize this wealth.
Like those Kimberley farmers,
we too are living surrounded by an
Continued on Page Six)
Smyrna times., 1940-04-11
FROM COnGRESShhAN
GEORGE S. WILLIAMS

| APPROPRIATIONS = Efforts
were made in the House last week
to increase the appropriations for
/ the Wage and Hour Division and
for the National Labor Relations
Board but the Committee success
fully pointed out that current ap-
propriations provided amply for
such activities and would in no way
hamper these two programs de-
signed to improve the status of
labor in this country. The debate
! of these proposals reflected wide
spread dissatisfaction with the ad
ministration of the National Labor
Relations Act and indicates an
early proposal to add two members
/ to the present board of three and
other amendments as may be con-
sidered necessary to administer
this law more quickly adm more in
accordance with proper protection
/ for rights of labor.
Political observers predict that
recent action by the Senate and
I House in ignoring economy trends
forecasts a maneuver by the Ad-
ministration later this session.
With prospects of another huge
deficit in 1941, it is obvious that
the President will seek to transfer
responsibility for spending from
the White House to Congress.
SILVER BILL-The bill intro
duced by Senator Townsend of Del
aware to nullify the provisions for
the purchase of foreign silver in
the Silver Act of 1884 threatens to
focus attention on the failure of
the Administration gold and silver
purchase program. The United
Kingdom has placed an embargo on
silver imports into Great Britain
and India, stressing the isolation of
the United States treasury in its
task of supporting the silver indus
try of the world This country has
been subsidizing foreign producers
on the basis that credits thus es-
chase American agricultural COM
modities. Mexico was one of the
benefciaries, but retaliated with an
oil appropriation program. The
United Kingdom has sold vast
amounts of silver and gold to the
United States and obviously will
adopt policies ultimately making
our metal boards of dubious ex-
change value. Uncle Sam has been
paying premiums on foreign silver
and gold, and other nations may
soon let this benevolent gentlemen
hold the sack.
ALIENS IN THE UNITED
STATES Official estimates avail
able here indicate that there are
about 3,6228, 900 aliens in the Unit
ed States who are unnaturaliZed.
During the fiscal year 1889, $4,000
aliens were admitted and 26,000 de-
parted, leaving a net gain of popu-
lation from this source of $1,000.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-11

VISITORS to the Worlds Fair of
1910 in New York, which opens on
May IL, will find the now famous
Futurama, hit of last years Fair, "a
more dazzling and breath-taking
world of 1860 than ever" according
10 William S. Knudsen. president of
General Motors. in revealing details
Of GINS participation in the 1910
Fair.
Throughout the winter months.
Mr.. Knudsen said, workmen. art
lists, designers and craftsmen from
many fields. have worked on the
Futurama changing and improving
it in many many ways. The Futu-
rama is the highlight % the Cor
poration's Highways and Horizons
exhibit, which during the 1899 Fair
was visited by 100000 persons.
Covering an area of $4,000 square
feet and extending for third Of a
mile, visitors tour" the Aladdin
like, miniature world of the future
in moving sound-chairs.
An outstanding new feature of
70 Futurama will he the 10000