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Evening star., 1940-10-06
It's All Work and No Woo
For Poor Film Stand>Ins
They Merely Set Cameras for the Kiss
Which the Stars Actually Exchange;
Caresses Increase in Fervor
By Ted Gill,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.


for the sandns toll
final But
rolling stand and let the hero and
heroine do the kissing
obtain exactly the right camera
Evening star., 1940-10-06

angles ana ugnClng eHeCtS LOT SuCn'
delicate scenes. And those that are
precisely perfect for one player
could not be used for another.
Kisses More Fervid.
Speaking of oscillations. in these
days of war and short skirts. the
length and fervor of movie kisses
is increasing, says Director Michael
Curtiz.
This is as it should be-" he eX-
plains. In wartime, any kiss may
be the last the happy pair will ever
exchange"
That means that record-breaking
56.2 second kiss Ann Sheridan and
George Brent engaged in recently
in Honeymoon for Three" is liable
to be shattered to smithereens most
any day now.
Short snort: Bank robbers and
safe crackers in the movies come
in for a lot of heckling sometimes
from fans. Some professional is
always writing in to criticize the
technique of studio thugs" telling
them they don't know how to do the
"job" properly. But for some reason.
the critics always take care not to
reveal their identities.
It's Difficult Trick.
Orphaned: Movies certainly do
employ ingenious means in order to
take a picture of the face Of man
standing in the dark smoking a
cigarette. The cigarette alone doesn't
produce enough light, so a small
leather box is strapped to the actors
belt, hidden by his coat. A lighted
cigarette is placed in a holder inside
the box and from it tube extends
I'D inside the actors coat and down
his sleeve to his hand. On the end
of the tube is dummy cigarette
equipped with a f1ashlight. At a
given signal, the actor lights the
flashlight with a tiny button. And
at the same time draws in a pun
of smoke through the tube from
the lighted cigarette in the box
fastened to his belt.
Silly sallies: Those club sand
Evening star., 1940-10-06
These Are Brighter Days
For New Tunesmiths
Battle Between the Radio Chains
And Ascap Proves Boon
By Creating Demand
1y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

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The song writer's hopeful aspire
George Irving Berlin finding welcome" sign Tin
Nation and the radio which
their stan Of independent
Broadcast Music and the American Society Of Composers
Evening star., 1940-10-06

Playing the wife Of George To-
bias, she is bidding for the love of
George Brent. Not that she doesn't
wish to stay married to Tobias, who
happens to be doing well in the
diamond mining business. Later in
the picture, her chores will be to
double-cross Brent, then double
cross Tobias. incidentally, he will
get Brent bounded from hither to
yon by police for James Stephen
sons murder, which he didn't COM
init.
Mean and Soulless.
This deed is more dastardly, as
the old melodramas would put it,
since Stephenson plays the father of
Brenda Marshall, the girl Brent
loves. From all this 1t can be seen
that Miss Fitzgerald is playing .
character about as mean and SOUL
less as Bette Davis Mildred in "Of
Human Bandage."
This Is the stars first picture
since her return from Ireland, and
the birth Of her baby. Her Warner
Bros contract provides for a six
month uninterrupted interval each
year during which she may do q
stage play, If she wishes. Like John
GARFIELD, she originally told Holly
wood quite frankly that movie work
could not win her from her f1rst
love, the footnghts.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

the authors were still running to
their school classes. One is pretty,
black eyed Leah Worth, who now,
when not writing songs, clerks IN
the toys section Of a department
store. The other author Is soft
voiced. blond Jean Barry. who clerks
in a dress shop when she can get
away from her piano. Owners of q
not too dependable flivver, it new
ertheless gave them the inspiration
for another song, THE Old Jalop.'"
Since B. M. I. started assembling
the non-Ascap song writers they
have had about 400 songs week
submitted, out Of which they find an
average Of about IA week they
think worthy Of publishing.
They have RemuS Harris, q
grandson of the noted Joel Chandler
Harris, who wrote the Uncle Remus
stories. A sales promoter for a
chain Of grocery stores in the
South, he refuses to come to Tin
Pan Alley, but he has written such
songs as Cry, Baby, Cry" Sweet
nedIt, Gll6 MOOll t1dS SOilc 1IOAl
Heaven" and You Made a Touch
down in My Heart"
Too, B. M. l. has Stuff Smith,
composer from Broadway's real swing
alley. He composed It's Wonder
full" and Use a-Muggin' and his
newest ones are Don't the Moon
Look Pretty" and do Whatchs
Wanna Do" Also, they have in
troduced Robert Sour, Princeton
graduate who quit his valuable seat
in the Stock Exchange because he
thought there was better financial
future in song writing than there
was in Wall Street. He wrote the
lyrics for Body and Soul which
Libby Holman sang into fame, and
his most recent hit Is Practice
Makes Perfect" which has been re-
corded by six name bands.
Sour also composed another B. M.
I. song. this one a bouncy, semi
ballad that is good for a dance fare
well. The title is III Be Goin'."
Evening star., 1940-10-06

he's been clothing feminine stars for
the camera. He knows whereof he
speaks when he observes:
You can find more curves on one
movie set today than in all Holly
wood five years ago. At a rough
guess, Id say the average feml-
nine stars weight today is higher
by II pounds than it was in 1885,"
Newcomers, too. show the trend,
he finds, mentioning Gene Tier
ney, Mary Beth Hughes and Sheila
Ryan-"whose alluring curves alone
might have disqualified them from
screen careers not so long ago."
The American public is response
BILE, Bantor believes, by rebelling
against rigid dieting. Women are
eating sensibly and like their Gin
ema tavorites to appear we'll fed,
too.
mo woman" he says, whether
she be movie star, coed or house,
wife, can look or be at her best If
she's half starved. Nervous break
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Take No Chances

On the hottest day of the year in
Hollywood, a bevy of snow hats to-
day Unexpectedly made their ap-
pearance on sound stage.
Hollywood snow " the artificial
kind-was falling literally on the
Love Thy Neighbor" set at Para
mount. Fred Allen, Jack Benny and
Mary Martin were ensconced in
cars, safe from the falling corn
fakes. But Producer Director Mark
Sandrich, and his crew were sport
ing hats. caps, berets and other
types of head covering. A test had
been the previous day and it was
discovered that some chemical in
the treated cornfiakes actually took
chromium right of the automo-
biles. The boys weren't taking any
chances with their hair.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Familiar Actors of Bits
Are Important to Films
The Little Champs Who Are Typed
For Character Roles Are Kept
Busy by Studios
By Harold Hefernan.
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

Little champs they're called by the casting directors You know
they're unstarred
they much
office all combined the annual 10 best box office stars
Clarke Gable and Spencer Tracy
the would lose
Evening star., 1940-10-06

downs were much more common
among feminine players when starv-
alton diets were the order of the
day.
And with the movies pronounced
effect on the habits and fashions
of the time, there must have been
millions of women who tried to
ape the stars by thinning them
selves to the point of emaciation.
We can only hope those days are
forever gone.
Not only that, cutfitting today
is less of a problem. A few years
ago it was a question of conceal
ment. Much of the feminine al
lure. which we try to accent by
proper styling. had to go out the
window Now we have freedom to
create"
Evening star., 1940-10-06

to be plenty Of acting scope" she
declared out on a location where
the San Fernando Valley doubles
for the African mining country and
is just about as hot.
Emphasis on Curves.
Attired in a white and lacy cos
tune which put lush emphasis on
curves, and sporting a hair-do and
makeup which would get double
take" even on Hollywood boulevard.
let alone in Africa, Miss Fitzgerald
was doing her first scenes in the
picture,
Evening star., 1940-10-06

wiches you see in the movies are
nothing but layers of bread and
lettuce. since that's all that shows
up in the picture and film caviar
is either plain buckshot or else it's
sago, made from the pith of East
Indian palm trees and colored with
India ink Chains never clank
just right for the movies Prop
men find that a bunch of jingling
keys sounds more like chains on a
sound strip than real chains :. And
whenever you hear what you think
are canaries singing sweetly in a
picture, don't think that that neces-
sarily is what it is Most time
the sound is produced by small me-
chanical devices that operate SINH
larly to a music box.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

AutllOIS dIIu 1uUAAoilCIo, VIC eWO'
groups which control virtually all
rights to songs which are popular
today, are now greeting with eager
ness the works of unknown COM
posers. Those who show promise
are given either a salary or ad-
vance royalties 50 that they will be
financed while they develop their
talents for song writing.
This boon to young composers as
q result of the quarrel between the
radio chains and the composers over
the fees to be paid for playing
music over the radio after next
January / when the current con-
tract expires. Where Ascap COM
posers received $4,142,0OO for the
use Of their songs over radio in
1899 they are demanding approx
mately double that amount for the
use of their music in 1941, and with
the new contract charging the net
WORKS 7l2 per cent of their gross
income while fees for about $50
individual stations will be reduced.
Where Ascap composers are paid
according to the number of hit songs
they have written and how many
times those songs are played on
the average, B. M. I. pays royalties
on basis of the actual number Of
times each song is played.
Opened the Door.
The radio chains, anticipating
that they might be deprived of the
use of Ascap music after January
/, set up their own group of Com
posers, Broadcast Music, Inc. This
rivalry opened the door for the
youngsters who had not yet won
their niche in Tin Pan Alley.
Joan Whitney, as B. M. I. exam
pie, is a golden-haired, blue-eyed
glamour girl who sang in the choir of
the Homestead Presbyterian Church
near Pittsburgh. She was sent to
New York to attend a fashionable
finishing school, but she went over
to Broadway instead and became a
singing show girl in The Great
Waltz"
Then she started singing her own
songs in a supper club and that's
where B. M L found her to write such
songs as Leave Me With Your
Kisses" so You're the One" "I
Could Tell That You Knew" and
"Serenade in Blue" This latter is
a modern melody in blues form, for
example:
There's a breath of ecstasy, and
plaintive rhapsody
Running through my serenade in
You've been gone so very long,
Now I'm alone and blue mood has
found me-"
400 Songs q Week.
Or. another discovery of B. M. I. is
couple of 19-year -old girls in
Brooklyn High School. They wrote
a song called I've Got a Date With
a Gate" which Russ Morgan in
troduced with his orchestra while
Evening star., 1940-10-06


The little champs" are important
to motion pictures because they are
80 expert in some particular style of
characterization that audiences cas-
lily and quickly get the idea of what
they're portraying, thus cinching
story points.
Some get typed in one character
and remain happily in such roles,
while others run wide range of
face-making. Most of them are
recognized Immediately by theater
audiences.
When Billy Gilbert flashes into
the action they'll whisper "Oh,
there's that sneezing man again"
Let the pompous, white-haired Ber-
ton Churchill stroll into a scene
and the fans realize at once from
his clustering appearance and long
record in similar roles that some
political skullduggery is afoot
Churchill is the screens foremost
stuffed shirt" type.
Cautious Fellows.
Just as stars get typed and can't
pry loose their shackles, so do these
little champs" of character fall
into a specialized groove. Hence
whenever a script comes up with
a demand for judge, lawyer, drunk,
motorcycle cop, minister, butcher,
baker or candlestick maker, there
are men and women whose names
Immediately pop into the minds Of
casting directors to fill that spot.
These are the little champs"
Casting heads are cautious fellows,
but examples of these big-little
folks we're pried from several. In
citing them, the casting director
says: Don't make us say no one
else can play such parts as the
ones we name or that folks we
mention can't do anything else" :"
The big-heartedness of casting
directors having thus been estab-
lished, let's make mention OF some
of the foremost specialists in their
line.
A few. it is true. have become
definite names to the public. One
such is Edgar Kennedy, champion
of the slow-burn and restrained
agony. Edgar has to burn" and
maui his face in every movie, but
he doesn't mind-he is rewarded
to the tune of $500 week and
is always busy.
Another is Herman Bing, who
gets first call when character
must grow sputteringly excitable. On
the "bittersWeet' set, where he was
chewing up his words in another
Nelson Eddy-Jeanette Macdonald
musical, he bemoaned his fate. "All
the time, every place, every one
makes me roll my RS he COM
plains. He can't escape it. But Her
man was once a European opera
singer. Some years ago he was a
Hollywood writer who sputtered IN
describing scenes-untii a director
made him do it in picture.
When you see comlcal drunk,
bleary-eyed, hiccoughing and stag
gering. the chances are it's Arthur
Housman. Ever since he did an
inebriated role in an old Harold
Evening star., 1940-10-06

Or, another discovery of B. M. I. is
a couple of l9-year-old girls in
Brooklyn High School. They wrote
a song called I've Got a Date With
a Gate" which Russ Morgan in
troduced with his orchestra while
Evening star., 1940-10-06
No Redeeming Features
Geraldine Fitzgerald Is Happy
To Be That Type in New Film


Fitzgerald great satisfaction, has at last
embarked a of unmtigated cinema sin.
namboyant creature she playing in Warner Bros film south
Fitzgerald hasn't redeemng feature socially
speaking tremendous his
possibilities.
first in pictures that has given what feel
Evening star., 1940-10-06
The Mode Becomes Curves
Or Curves Become the Mode Again,
Whichever Way Public Likes 1t
By Franklin Arthur,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.

Travis Bantonwho designs the
which such vees Alice Faye Daeu and Betty
Grable-is mighty happy about it.
healthier another
freedom the best of
offer
stylis than decade
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Lead for Garean

Richard Rowland has signed Will
liam Gargan for the masculine lead
opposite Martha Scott In his new
production, Cheers for Miss Bishop,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-28
FAMINE IN EUROPE?

If Germany will property distribute the food supplies available in Europe, there will be no star vation on the continent this winter evidence pre- sented by the English reveals The fact that Hitler has the reserves to feed both Germany and the conquered nations brought out in answer to demands by former President Herbert Hoover and others the United States that food be sent through the British blockade to avert famine in Europe.
 According to British sources Europe normally imports only 1O00000O of foodstuffs to add to the 278OOOO0O usually produced. Granting that agriculture suffered when laborers mobilized for war believed that Europe still has enough food providing Hitler will allow it's fair distribution instead of hoarding it to feed his soldiers. It is pointed out that the Nazis boast of a 7000o00-ton wheat reserve, and that this, plus the live stock slaughtered in the Low Countries, would furnish enough food for Europe.
 The English admit that the winter will bring suffering to thousands upon thousands of subjugated people-even to German civilians. But they reason that Hitler made himself responsible for these people when he conquered them England cannot relax the blockade for such action would immeasurably strengthen the enemy
 Much of the continental food supply goes into German war production. It is estimated that million tons of potatoes have been used produce fuel alcohol milk is used for casein and fats go into the production of gycerine and nitro -glycerine.
 Most of Hitlers conquests made under the name of protection" Yet Holland footed of 90 percent of it's butter reserves in week. Den marks pigs and poultry being slaughtered, canned and sent to Germany Norway's entire catch of fish is reported seized while Belgian farmers received notice that a large percentage of grain and live stock would be taken the good of the state The western grain reserves of France, confiscated by Germany yielded 100000 tons of food for the Naz army
 Hitler apparently openly admits that he is look
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-28
"No One Can Stop Me"
Philadelphia Record)

Mussoni's speech should have been made in Bologna
 Obviously it was necessary, to reassure the Italian people after the new Guadaajara in Greece The Duce had promised his people their armies would be the march; but none had supposed it would be a backward march. Even when he now cries, once I have started nothing can stop me, " raises the question: Tn which directon?"
 The Duce's loud. Yet we doubt they obscured for the Italian people the unpleasant sig nifcance of such phrases
 "Pacifism is outdated in this of cannon and iron The identity of Italys views with Germany's
 is perfect Every time the Fuehrer and meet it consecrates the harmony and friendship in all fields
 Or this succulent bit
 Germany did not need our aid Gin France), but am grateful to the Fuehrer for having accepted our aid, which consecrated our friendship with blood"
 More to the point Mussolini's insistence that he will fight the Greeks on his own and that:
 We will break the backbone of Greece. The war has just started
 Quite a few Italians suspect thought it almost finished They had been promised a swift conquest; they had been led to expect the kind of clean sweep Hitler engineered in Poland, Norway Holland and France
 Yet however thin Il Duce sliced the verbal sala- mi for his people, his speech confirms before the world, the truth of the reports of Greek victories and a Fascist rout.
 Up until this speech, had discounted the rosy reports We remembered how Finland won her in the headlines only to lose it in the field But Il Duces failure to deny the Greek claims ot success; his weak attempt to minimize the British victory at Taranto-those leave no doubt at all
 Italy yet may crush Greece. But the Duce him. self wants time All the while Britain gains time herself to rush endorsements and bolster her whole Mediterranean front.
 This bend in the Axis may be the break in the war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-28

ing out for himself first One authoritative German paper recently asked whether the British really imagine that Germanys food supplies, which are indeed great are destined to feed the friends of England this winter?" This despite the continual glamour of the Nazi propaganda machine that all the conquered nations hate England and hope the Empire is destroyed.
 In the face of these facts, it seems extremely unlikely that. any plan to ship food to Europe, as suggested by MT. Hoover would prove acceptable to England The alternative suggestion is made that England and the United States get together on a plan to ship huge reserves to the continent as as the war is finished
 Admittedly Hiter's pledged word cannot be trusted The record proves this. Thus any plan to ship food the strength of his promise not to confiscate any of it for his is obviously not acceptable to the British And, in the opinion of some such policy would be national suicide for the United States It is pointed out that the block ade is the weapon that is producing real offen- sve results against Germany and is the great hope of bringing eventual victory for England
 Any action that would weaken England before the United States sets it's defensive house in order is counting disaster.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-28

an antidote to Senator Hiram Johnson when he came out for Will kie. Downey also put in some tell ing licks for Senator Bob LaFol- lette in his very uncertain battle for reelection.
 Townsend, who tries to run his movement with an iron fist, was very peeved at Downeys independ ence and when the Senator tried t. see the "old Doc" in Chicago dur ing the campaign, Townsend gay him the cold shoulder. But the election returns changed Townsend's mind.
 This was the second presidential fight in which he took a licking. IT 1886 he had teamed up with Fathe, Coughlin behind William Lemke who wound up with a few hundred thousand votes. Also, the big Dem- ocratic Congressional victory was no solace to Townsend. So he hot footed it to Washington, and, hat in hand, went to Downey's office and made his peace.
 However, he still has to placate a number of Democratic members of the pension bloc in the House During the campaign some of them talked of replacing Townsend with someone more politically adept
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-28
20 YEARS AGO fHE {Ff% EMPIRE
NOVEMBER 28. 1929

NOVEMBER Lee J. Virgin, Nick Virgin, M K.
   on  at Sitka, T. Jackson and E. soliciting donations. application oil leasing prospecting permit
 
  Anchorage claim of 256O K T. field General Land
  Bill which would that
  December the Hall sponsored o
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-28
DIR. TOWNSEND ApPEAsEs

Senator Downey of California and Dr. Francis Townsend are pals once more They split during the cam paign
 The gaunt tycoon of the old age pension movement, after wangling a letter from Senator McNary which promised nothing. but which Town send claimed was an endorsement of pensions. pumped for Wendell Willkie. Whereupon. Downey, who is the No. l Townsendite on Capi- tol Hill, and who had been cool to the third term. jumped vigorously into the fray on the Presidents side.
 And the Californian cut a lot of ice. He not only offset the "old Doc among his followers, but was