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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-06-01
BattZeship
Nelson Is
ReportedSunk

Berlin, June 1.-.(AP)-An auth
orized German spokesman said today
that the battleship Nelson, 1885,
ton flagship of the British home
fleet, had been sunk with the loss OF
700 of her crew Of 1920.
The statement was made in re-
spouse to a question at a press con-
ference and was not volunteered.
A correspondent told the spokeS-
man that there had been rumors
that the battleship had been sunk,
whereupon the spokesman replied
that the rumorS were true and that
700 crewmen had gone down with
the ship.
The spokesman declined to give
any further details for military
reasons"
The Nelson is Britain's biggest
battlcship. She carries a normal
crew of 1.361 men.
Last February the British admit
ted she had been damaged by mine.
She reached port under her own
power, was repaired and reloned
the fleet sometime in March.
The Nelson and her sister ship, the
Rodney, arc the only British war
ships mounting l6-inch guns. Each
carried nine of those huge guns.
Laid down in 1922 and completed
in June, 1927. the Nelson co T.
504,O55 pounds (thcn about S31,-
500,000).
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-06-01

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Evening star., 1940-01-14

seing her as very grown-up young
lady on the receiving end of William
Holden's kisses in Good Old ST.
wash" And Judy Garland. Yes
terday she was a plump. boisterous
tomboy. Today you spell her name,
Glamour Girl Garland" :. Edith
Fellows, Freddie Bartholomew. De-
anna Durbin and even Jane With
ers and Shirley Temple-it's hard
to believe they have changed so
much in the four short years that
I have been in Hollywood.
Mickey Rooney is modelling his
manhood on Clark Gable-a swell
model. His acting hero is Spencer
Tracy. He owns a tuxedo. but pre-
fers loose sport suits. The studio
says he is 1S-but Mickey is actu-
ally in his goth year. He lives with
his mother and his stand-in in a
two-story, Spanish type house in the
valley. A man and his wife take
care of house and garden. There are
10 acres of land and swimming
pool The family car is light
blue sedan, but Mickey prefers to
drive his station wagon L. Hobbies
composing songs-two have been
published - Oceans Apart" and
Have a heart"-and he plays prac-
tically every instrument in an or
cheStra-piano, drums, etc. Sat.
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urday night is his big evening-he
allows himself $50 with which to
entertain the lady He smokes
cigarettes, drinks an occasional cock
tails good at repartee-he de-
scribed Rosalind Russell as "a dry
martini without the olive" He
was recently upped to $4,000 a week
and is a matrimonial catch in any
language. I wish you luck, Dorothy
Bonita Granville will be II on
February 2 She is very beauti-
full, alert and rather coy. AS long
ago as 1887 she was voted the most
popular girl with the Dead End
kids! Jackie Cooper thought she was
all right, too. Her first unchaperoned
date was at the press preview OF
THE Great Victor Herbert and
the party at Victor Hugo's after
ward Describing her first screen
kiss, Miss Granville said, 1T was all
right, but my corset hurt me-"
Like Rooney she lives with her
mother on small ranch in Encino
She drives her own cara
coupe Contrives to spend about
S q week on magazines and candy
:. Is 4 rabid moviegoer Reads
q lot cycles. roller skates, studies
(See GRAHAM, Page F-29
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Thurber Play
Fun
To Broadway
The Male Animal
Funniest, in Fact,
Of the Season
By Ira WoUerf.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
The male animal supplies half
the fun in the world, the rest being
supplied by his better half. A new
play called The Male Animal" is
even an improvement on that. 1t
is supplying not only half the fun on
Broadway, but the better half
James Thurber, the cartoonist,
and Elliott Nugent. the actor. are
the authors. What they have
written, and, in the case of Mr..
Nugent. acted as well, seemed to
me, at first inspection and on second
thought, the funniest play of the
season. In case that sounds like
soft Impeachment. read that this
way: It's very funny.
Oddly enough, the play has been
thrown together out of stock situ-
ations. There is an absent-minded
professor and he is the worm that
turns Although it does not seem
possible while it's going on, that is
what the play is about Most of the
time the worm turns on the athletic
male he suspects of wanting to steal
his wife. But he also gives turn
or two to a pack of red-baiting
trustees who interfere with academic
freedom.
The characters, too, are people
who have been on the stage before.
There are the football boys and the
scholar, the flip coed who turns
out to be quite wise, the comic maid
and the college boy radical with
man-o the world ways.
Nothing new there, you see. Per-
haps it all goes to prove that. in
comedy, it's not what you say that is
said. Then 1t might prove something
else as we'll. If one-half of American
humor is irreverence, the other half
is surprise. A man falling down.
stairs is unexpected, and we laugh.
A fat banker falling downstairs Is
unexpected and irreverent, and we
laugh twice as hard. If we have
seen a fat banker fall downstairs so
often that we cannot laugh at it
any more, then there is only one
| (See WOLFERT, Page F-30
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Film Stopped
By Question
OF the Falls
Story Conference
| Worries Over
Niagara
Bv Harold Hefernan.
} Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD,

The. funniest behind-the-scenes
affairs in all Hollywood are the So
called story conferences.
They can and do break out on a
busy sound stage at any moment.
They'll halt an important sequence
almost between syllables, while all
hands-director, writers. cast, even
crew members-huddle and haggle
over the silliest problems imagin-
able.
We happened on the stage Of "Too
Many Husbands" at Columbia the
other morning just as Producer
Director Wesley Ruggles, suddenly
stricken by indecision, called on his
players to help solve this one:
What's become of that fine old
American institution-the Niagara
Falls honeymoon?
And the stars of the movie, Jean
Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Mel
vyn Douglass, along with Ruggles.
couldn't for the life of them decide
why this awe-inspiring spectacle has
lost its prestige as the Nations
number one honeymoon setting.
During the debate Niagara was
labeled a has-been and an inconse-
quential factor in the plans of the
modern newlywed.
The subject came out of clear
sky when the Ruggles company
reached a point in the script where
MacMurray leaves alone on his
honeymoon, a sea voyage, rather
than accede to Miss Arthur's wish
for Niagara Falls sojourn. On his
sailing trip MacMurray is believed
drowned. The bride marries his
best friend and business partner,
Douglas, only to find out shortly
that her first husband is alive-and
kicking.
When Niagara was mentioned in
the exchange of dialogue between
Miss Arthur and .MacMurray, Rug
giles interrupted the action. Would
audiences consider the heroine old
fashioned if she insisted on forcing
her husband to take the Falls trip?
Why not have Miss Arthur take an
(See HEFFERNAN Page F-30
Evening star., 1940-01-14
'Gulliver' Is Tops
"Gulliver's Travels" Paramc

"Gulliver's Travels" Paramount's
feature length, animated cartoon
and technicolor fantasy, adapted
from the Jonathan Swift classic,
has been selected by the National
Screen Council as winner of the
box Office blue ribbon award for
December.
Selection of the box Office blue
ribbon award is made each month
by members of the National Screen
Evening star., 1940-01-14

Council, who Ease their choice of
the outstanding film among each
months releases on merit and suit
ability to whole family entertain
ment. The council membership in
cludes 225 motion picture chairmen
of the International Federation of
Catholic Alumnae, the motion pic
ture chairmen of the State Chap
ters of the Federation of Women s
Clubs and newspaper photoplay
editors.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Todoy's Film Schedules

EARLEBoher Rat and Baby further adventures of those
M folk; O. 40 7:20 and 1905 Stage shows $780, $40 and
8:55 pm.
CAPITOL-Judge episode life the
popular family: O. 435 720 1905 Stage shows $780,
615 and pm
KEITH He'll the Jungle 2:2O,
745 and $50 pm
PALACE-"swanee River" Stephen 5o 7:2O
and $50 pm.
NETROPOIITAN-"Th Night Nights" Broadway
250 S. 720 and $40 pm.
Travels" and his adventures in 1lput
"a, 6, 755 and 9:55 pm.
Challenge starring the Materhorn and how 230
420 6:10, and 955 ski Chase" g. 355 $780, TAO and
$50
TRANS -LUX-News shorts; continuous o'clock.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Theater's Prodigal Son,
John Barrymore, Due
For Triumphal Return
Heads Toward Broadway Once More,
After More Than Decade Absence,
In Dramatic Caricature
BY Jay Carmody.

always something
Barrymore the Of Broadway
Homecoming is virtually certain to be a sensation.
In of business is anything less than that expected
Barrymore heads toward New York my Dear Children The feel
ing universal that history will be made that the theatrical event of the
Broadway
opening is about to be ad by something boundless possibilities for
succession Of sensations
Barrymore of course is an old hand at making Broadway history
quite distinction for the main street of he drama has
worthy claimant the title which Barrymore with
prncey
Absent from the Of his first startling to fame and fortune
for than enormously
heighens the
the consancy with which himself public prints
Children presents BARRYMORE as himself kind of professional
magnicence heightened enomy joy
should have led the kind of life ymboz The
the greatest ala my
Dear Children has arrived at the where
himself his great fame his foles The world necessity
kind of that seldom
That the play the thing has been thoroughly droved
Dear Children" that probably place
history OF itself who during its first week recalls could
not have survived its Washington
gushing in National pro-
ducion Of the Civic Theaer tonight
Indeed there was considerable the part of
ciated with that would the play
opened here At the time however the question
identified with the drama its merit lack of
an nprossina arst neromance tho d d a' m m
At the prevailing odds which probably
have made fortune by taking available bets that MY Dear Children
upon overlooked the
amportan thing the situation namely
every player
infected with the profession
something
for all his established talent for mung opportunities this
exception.
exception thoroughly reported
theater news of the last
guessing Chicago merely
prelude cimacc
Helpoppn"
something enjoyable Broadway than
greatly that it will spite febeness critics
find in MY Dear Children"
Sherwood Added to Cast
OF "Abe Lincoln" Premiere Stars.
casting premier performance
Illinois, Keiths o. Playwright
visiting celebrities Of the
vong
probably will Raymond of the
be for the EVENT..
Sherwood production Madam, Will
interesting
the talest damatt the world today
important the fact that his points the
possible achieve artistic commercial certainly
dramatis should addition
idiots Delight ABE
Sherwood conved to become the Nations highest
playwright.
paid less than 100000 for
better about
than Hollywood?
that the deal for ABE Lincoln
profitable Shewoods
al-tme Unlike
this sold fiat price basis although the
reached the undenby tempting figure roughly s250O0
the finally acquired royalty basis which expected
to otherwise
previous fguref did amper with
movie will the 2520OO Room
which only the highest but also the ses
paid for piece of writing.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
All, Youth, Fleeting Youth
Film Moppets of Few Years Ago
Young Ladies and Gentlemen Now
Bv SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD

Mickey Rooney married man? Heavens alive must be getting
Mickey freckled faced younge
he has proposed
marriage to a tasty-looking Dorothy
Granville. Remember the These
long it? Well you'll
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Around the CircleWas
Initiated by Bryan in go

personality, not necessarily pre-
pared to be convinced
Mckinley in 1896 and 1900, like
Harding in 1920 and to some extent
Coolidge in 1924, won by a front
porch" campaign. The strategy of
saying little rests on a belief that
speeches leave too many loopholes.
President Roosevelt wishes now that
he had not condemned deficits and
unbalanced budgets in 1882 cam
paign speech, and President Hoover
in the same campaign sent forth a
boomerang when he predicted that
grass would grow in the streets if
the Democratic tariff program were
enacted.
In one of his dialogues with Hin
Messy Mr.. Dooley tells of the Boy
Orator who was defeated for alder
man. He complained to his victor,
a taciturn old-timer: II can't I'M
derstand it; why. I made almost
$500 speeches." Replied the latter
softly: my majority was Just about
1900"
In 1892 President Hoover had
planned to conduct a front-porch
campaign, but in September Maine
went Democratic, and Mr.. Hoover
took to the stump in October. He
tried at first more or less to ignore
his opponent, at least not to men
ton him by name. Gov. Roosevelt
had broken precedent by going in
person to the convention which
nominated him and there accepting
the nomination. On August 20, at
Columbus, Ohio, he answered the
Hoover acceptance address Of Au-
gust IL; in mid-September he opened
a speaking campaign which con-
tinued until election day.
The Roosevelt technique in 1882
was to devote one speech and, in
some detail, to one topic in local
ity interested in that topic. In 1928
Gov. Smith spoke more often and
covered more ground than Mr..
Hoover. He believed that the end
of the campaign told the story, and
he discharged his heaviest artillery
in the closing days: but the election
was already IN the bag.
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installed to facilitate development of
pictures by the corps of photog-
raphers.
A barber. Vincent Gengarenelly,
was brought along from New York.
Shower baths also were included in
the equipment of the train.
A lounge car was converted into
working press room, in which the
steady clatter of typewriters re-
sounds throughout the day and
evening.
There is also the customary per-
sonal staff of candidate and en-
ployes of the National Committee
about 80 in all-including secre-
taries. stenographers and research
experts, who have brought with
them file cabinets of reference ma
terial and equipment for getting
out speeches.
104 Passengers.
In addition to the newspa permen,
there are telegraph company repre-
sentatives to arrange for the send
ing of news dispatches wherever the
train stops. The radio networks
and some of the weekly news maya
zines also are represented.
In all, there are 104 passengers
making the entire trip. The Re-
publican organization, of course,
pays only the expenses of the candi-
dates official encourage of 30, which.
one official estimated is not likely
to exceed $4,000. In addition to the
railroad travel, the trip includes
several overnight hotel stops.
But, taken as whole, the West
ern tour will enable Mr.. Willkie to
speak directly to and be seen by
many thousands of voters for about
the cost of one Nationwide evening
radio broadcast OF course, some
of his speeches will be on the net
works, too. as the campaign pro-
crosses, and will enable him to reach
much greater unseen audiences. But
the appeal he makes in personal ap-
pearances will continue to be an
important factor throughout his
campaign.
Patriotic Strains.
Loudspeaker equipment on the
rear platform of a campaign train
is not new, but an added attraction
on the Willkie Special is the in
stallation of amplifiers in the press
car. 1t brings to the correspondents
the brief platform talks, when the
train does not stop long enough to
permit the newsmen to get off, run
to the end of the long train and
back. AT these 1O-minute stops the
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train begins to move as the candi-
date reaches his closing line.
Then from the loudspeaker floats
the patriotic strains Of God Bless
America" as the train pulls away.
1t fits In with the main issue Mr..
Willkie has raised on this trip-the
preservation of democracy and how
it would be endangered by a third
term.
Near the candidates car is a
lounge car for the political leaders
Of the 10 States through which the
train will pass before the Western
tour ends, back in Chicago, Sep
TENDER 81. AS the train crosses a
border one group gets off and an
other gets on. Usually these tenn
porary travellers include the Re-
publican candidates for Governor
and for Congress.
Local Aspirants.
Between stops Mr.. Willkie spends
part Of his time meeting these To-
cal candidates and exchanging in
formation on political conditions in
the State.
These visitations have long been
part of the ritual of a national
campaign. 1t works to mutual ad-
vantage. At the next stop the local
aSpirants for public Office urge the
home folks to support Wendell L.
Willkie. whom I introduce to you as
the next President of the United
States" And the candidate always
responds by appealing to his audi
ence to send Bill So-and-So to
Congress to work with me next
January"
Mr.. Willkie saves part of the time
between towns sketching in his
mind an outline of what he will say
at the next stop. but seldom does he
write it out. He dislikes reading
prepared manuscript, because he is
at his best when he can look down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
By Bertram Benedict.

The first swing around the circle
Of Mr.. Willkie comes considerably
later than that of Gov. Landon In
1896. The Republican acceptance
speech also was later this time-on
August IT in 1910. on July % in
1896. Gov. Landon got going on
August 20, when he delivered several
addresses on the way to his birth
place in West Middlesex, Pa: he
spoke also at Buffalo on his return.
At about this time of the year
four years ago Gov. Landon was
opening his second speaking cam
paign. This was confined to Maine
and he did help to carry the State
for the G. o. P. in the September
elections. A third Landon tour in
September was centered on the Mid
die West, as was a fourth in the
first half of October. Gov. Landon
then went to the Pacific Coast,
speaking in the Southwest on his
return. He ended the campaign in
New York. It will be noted the
South was omitted.
President Roosevelt, who now
keeps in the news by inspecting de-
Tense posts, kept In the news early
in the 1886 campaign by various
viAts-to Canada, to Chautauqua,
N. Y: to the Mount Rushmore
IS. Dak.) memorial, to the Harvard
Tercentenary celebration. TIL e
Presidents one campaign tour was
confined to October; it ended in
New York City.
Although Horace Greeley in 1872
and James G. Blaine in 1884 had
travelled around the country in their
presidential campaign more than
was customary, the modern swing
around the circle was really init
ated by William Jennings Bryan in
1896. Bryan spoke more often and
covered more ground than any presi-
Dental candidate before or since.
And he drew enormous audiences.
But. as in the case Of Alfred e.
Smith IN 1882, many came out Of
curiosity to zee and hear . striking
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national defense, the battle of 1910
will stand out as study in con-
trasts, entirely aside from the his
tory-making test of whether the
third-term tradition can be broken
There are several reasons why Mr..
Willkie was wise to choose the old
fashioned course of a swing around
the country
l. He is a neWcome: in the field
of politics and must let the people
see as we'll as hear him. 2. His per-
sonal magnetism ana forceful style
require that he be seen as well as
heard. 3. Being a newcomer, it is
desirable that he give the local party
workers in each State a chance to
meet him and pass on to them the
vim and vigor he has injected into
the Republican cause after eight
years of partial eclipse.
The Willkie special-a 12-car Pull
man-is one of the largest campaign
trains that has ever rolled over the
political trails.
Used by Dewey.
Its central attraction is the his
toric observation car, the Pioneer,
which, strangely enough, has served
in the past as the travelling home of
Mr.. Roosevelt. Twelve years ago it
carried former Gov Alfred E. Smith
of New York on his unsuccessful
campaign against Herbert Hoover
More recently it was used by New
York's district attorney, Thomas E
Dewey, who lost the Republican
nomination to Mr.. Willkie. but is
now supporting him Fundamentally
in his fight for election.
It's wide rear platform makes
better stage on which to present
the political drama than more mod
ern trains. 1t contains five bed
rooms and separate dining facilities.
One bedroom has been converted
into a sound recording chamber for
the loud-speakers that carry the
speeches of the candidate to the
crowds that line the tracks at every
stop.
Accompanying Mr.. Willkie on his
Western swing are Mrs. Willkie;
their 2l-year-old son, Philip, and
the candidates broad shouldered
brother, Edward Willkie, who was
once an athlete at the United States
Naval Academy and American
Olympic star.
A contingent of As news writer's
one of the largest groups to accom-
pany a candidate on an extended
tour-fill several coaches.
Shower PathS.
In the baggage car, up front, five
| temporary dark rooms have been
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into the faces in the crowd and
talk to them like the master sales
man he has shown himself to be.
He may have been an amateur
when he jumped in and captured
the Republican nomination from
veteran campaigners at Philadel-
phia in June, but he had a basic
understanding of human nature
and he is performing like an ex-
pert now that the campaign is on.
Knows Their Problems.
He has driven home to the people
of thu West, where the Republicans
used to be strong and hope to be
again, that he is one of them. a
Hoosier from Indiana, who taught
school in Kansas, harvested crops,
worked in the beet fields of Colo
RADIO and picked fruit in California.
You are the kind of people 1
grew up with" he tells the West.
Il know your problems.
II wanted to see you, and I want
you to look me over" is another of
his familiar greetings. And if the
impression of you is as good as my
impression of you, everything is
jake"
Although Wendell Willkie was
business executive in New York