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Evening star., 1940-02-25
Mr.. Thurber Puts His Madness on Stage
That Madness Incidentally Is Marked by Considerable
Sanity The Male Animal Also Proves
By Jack Sfinneh,
Associated Press star Writer.


NEW YORK.
James Thurber has not been leav-
Ing his mind alone Gas he counseled
others to do-a few years ago in one
Of those chuckling tones he dashes
of at intervals). With the spur and
disciplinary guidance Of Collaborator
Elliott Nugent, he has yanked from
his pate one Of Broadway's maddest
comedies.
What the former wit Of Ohio State
did for the New Yorker magazine
and contemporary literature with
his cartoon -and-word sketches, he
now has done for the stage with
THE Male Animal'-which has
playgoers holding their sides but not
their pocketbooks.
Although still young man, Thur
Der is almost q New York legend.
As in the case Of Dorothy Parker,
If he thought up all the witticisms
attributed to him, he would have no
time for CARTOONS and sketches. And
If he authored all those practical
jokes there would be nothing but
goats In his flock Of friends.
Actually, he is q painfully lank
fellow, with brush of graying hair
and nervous demeanor that is COM
ical only in its seriousness. When
In New York Che has q country place
in Connecticu), he lives in an ordi-
nary hotel apartment. works on a
plain card table, over which he
lunches, his nose close to the paper
to compensate for his near-sighted-
ness.
II must be out Of drawing paper"
he calls to his wife in the next room,
whereupon Mrs. T. puts in an ap-
pearance and patiently shows him
that the cabinet of the desk, where
1t is usually kept. is well stocked. Or,
Il wonder why the publishers didn't
send that anthology" he wonders.
And Mrs. Thurber hands it to him
from the bookcase with the COM
ment that he received it himself at
the door that morning. Such epi-
sodes seem never to rune the Thur
Der calm. Probably by now, it's an
old Thurber custom.
When he and co-author Nugent
had got their play on Broadway, the
latter commented: Il used to think
the Nugents were the maddest peo-
pie in the world. until worked with
Thurber." Perhaps-but it seems
there's good deal of sanity mixed
up in the Thurber madness.
For all its foolishness and hilarity,
'"The Male Animal" is a forceful plea
for intelligent liberalism in our COL
leges and the only successful dra-
matte effort we have seen yet to
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Barron
Continued From First Page

Fontanne. contributed the S23,287
from a weeks engagement of their
hilarious production of The Tam
ing of the Shrew" to the Finnish
relief fund. Bert Lahr and Ethel
Norman brought in another $2,717
with a special matinee of their hit
musical, "Du Barry Was a Lady"
That George Abbott musical, "Too
Many Girls" added another s3,918,
and Clare Boothe's comedy which
ridicules the Nazis, Margin for
Error" contributed $2,387 per-
formance to the aid of the Firms.
So Broadway actors feel about
Finland and such causes as strongly
as they do about labor causes that
concern their personal welfares.
Bioff goes back to prison and the
actors go to work for China and
Finland just as enthusiastically as
they did so many benefit shows
about three years ago for the suffer-
ers of the Ohio and Mississippi
River floods.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Graham
Continued From First Page)

lected Hollywood wives would take
advantage Of the California climate
to break up their boredom with ten
mis-, golf or horseback riding. But
very few, If any, are the athletic type
One woman I know-her husband
was a successful producer-tried to
console herself for the loss of her
mates companionship by taking a
course In philosophy at the Univer-
sity of California. The course appar-
emily didn't take. She divorced her
husband a few weeks ago on the
charge Of neglect! But this is an ex-
ception. Most Of the wealthy wives
here accept their boredom as the
price they must pay for marrying a
movie big-shot.
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Evening star., 1940-02-25
Famed Train
Makes Debut
In Pictures
Once Hauled Ore,
Now It's to Carry
A Load of Fruit
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
A train which once hauled $1,000 :
600 in gold ore from Nevada mines
is making Its movie debut.
A studio has purchased the 35-
ton, 1878 model steam engine, "Old
s." and five freight cars which un-
til four years ago trundled back
and forth over the now w-suspended
Virginia City and Truckee Railroad.
Flat cars brought the equipment
from Hobart Mills, Calf, terminus
Of the old line.
The narrow-gauge system, with
more than 2 miles Of track, has
been set up-ties, sidings, SWITCH
backs and all-on the Warner back
lot"
Soon 1000 banana trees will line
the tracks and "Old S" will tow
a fruit train through jungles to q
South American River port for
'Torrid Zone"
Evening star., 1940-02-25
But the Camera DoesLie, Says Martha Scot
Her Screen Test for Meanie Didn't Take but Another
Proved Her Just the Girl for Our Town
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLY WOOD.
When they made screen test OF
Paulette Goddard for the part OF
Scarlet O'Hara year or so ago
they tested another candidate for
the part of Melanie.
She was Martha Scott, a James,
port (Mo0 girl, who was currently
playing Emily on Broadway in "Our
Town"
That test not only didn't get
Martha the part of Melanie, it al
most kept her out of pictures for
good. Here is her version:
THE cameraman said my forehead
was too bulgy, and made me change
my hair style. He gave Paulette al
most his entire attention. The test
crew went over her minutely for
camera angles and lighting effects,
and I just sat there. I played most
OF the scene with my back to the
camera.
THE result was terrible-my eyes
stuck out. my chin was huge and
they gave me narrowed down, ig-
norant-looking forehead"
1t might be noted here that
Martha's eyes do not stick out, her
chin isn't huge and her forehead
isn't "ignorant-looking" In fact,
she's quite an eyeful
But the Melanie role wasn't the
only part that test almost cost her.
1t nearly kept her from Our Town" 4"
IN which she's currently playing the
lead as Emily.
when Sol Lesser decided to pro-
duce Our Town." she related, "he
heard about the other test, sent for
1t. and rejected me, too. I couldn't
blame him"
Then, after considering some 200
other candidates, he finally ordered
another test.
Il got just as much attention as
Paulette this time says Martha. l
even played with my own eyelashes
and own lips"
Martha, a University of Michigan
graduate who has called Kansas
City. Chicago and Detroit her home
town at various times in her % years,
has list of 18 persons she's been
told she reminds people Of"
On it are such varied personalities
as Janet Gaynor, Bette Davis, Erin
OBrien- Moore, Maureen OHara and
Helen Hayes.
And once at a hotel" smiled
Martha" an elevator boy said a man
asked him If I was Marlene Dietrich,
OF course, was bundled to nv
nose in a fur coat-but I was highly
complimented."
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Coffee for Betty

Preston Sturges, Paramount writer
director, has been assigned to work
on the screen adaptation of his orig
inal story. "A Cup Of Coffee" which
will star Betty Field and William
Holden. Sturges, who recently COM
pleted directing Down Went Nc
Ginty" from another of his original
scripts, also will direct the new
picture. The story concerns two
young lovers fighting for happiness
against overwhelming odds in the
big city.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Twas Ever Thus

When he was . senior in the
Berkeley High School at Berkeley,
Calf, Thornton Wilder wrote q one
act play-his first. A fellow student,
Phillip Wood, played the lead. In
the Sol Lesser production of Wilder's
Our Town" Wood, now an actor of
note, plays the feature role of Simon
Stimson, the organist.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Director Typed

Young Director S. Sylvan Simon
wonders if he's being typed by Hol-
lywood. The girls in movie titles
have a monopoly on him. It began
when he directed -Four Girls in
White" continued with These
Glamour Girls" changed only
slightly with Dancing Coed" Re-
Recently Joan Blondell and Lana
Turner started work in 1.-TWO Girls
on Broadway" You guessed it. ST.
mon got the job directing.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
UglyFat
NOWLOSt-
without strict diet lists,
0xorcising Or taking drugs

IF you want to take
1 off ugly fat easily
and pleasantly all you
have to do is
First. ,. eat sensibly,
which means you avoid
over-eating. Second :.
mix a Of a glass of
Welch's Grape Juice
with II of a glass of
water and drink before
meals and at bedtime.
Thus you reduce calor-
ic intake considerably.
But you do not suffer
a hungry moment.
There are no strict diet
lists, strenuous exer-
cises or taking drugs.
Yet!-in a test con-
Quoted by DR.. Damrau
of New York. with this
method among a group
of intelligent and coop
erative people who fol-
lowed directions implic-
lily, an average weight
loss Of seven pounds was
registered per month.
This remarkable meth
Cd is Just as beneficial
and effective for over
weight men as it is for
overweight women.
There is only one thing
to watch. Eat sensibly,
which means you avoid
over-eating; and be sure
to use Welch's Grape
1uice-always made
from the pick of the
grape crop; always full
strength; always pure.
Try This Asgsazing Welch
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Alliance 10 Offer Plan
To End Unemployment

A program Ito end unemployment
and poverty in America" will be pro-
posed by the. Workers Alliance Of
America at public assemblies in
cities throughout the country and in
a national radio broadcast Saturday,
which the alliance has designated
National End Unemployment Day"
Details OF the program have not
been revealed, but 1t is understood
that the alliance claims that its
suggestions, if followed, would in
crease national income to $85, ,O00,-
100000 within a year and would
eliminate unemployment in two
years without increasing the national
debt.
The radio program over the Co.
lumbia Broadcasting System net
work from Washington at 2:30 pm.
will include addresses by Senator
Pepper of Florida and David LASER,
national president of the alliance.
Besides its unemployment pro-
posals, alliance officers said the
organization would ask immediate
resembling Of the w. p. A. order that
will lay of some 100000 workers by
June.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MARCH H. 1s~-PARr ONE

and Wilson Teachers College in the
third division plus the following coll
ored schools: Dunbar. Banneker,
Shaw, M. M. washington, Military
Road and Wilson. They will see
the circus April II.
3. All white schools Of all levels
IN the nth division plus the follow
ing colored schools: Miner Teachers
College. Bruce, Bundy, Cleveland,
Cook, Garrison. orimke. Harrison,
Slater Lansston. Morse Twining,
Monroe and Mott. They win 60
April 1s.
I. All white schools Of all levels
In the sixth division plus these col
ored schools: Garnet Patterson, Ter
rell, Phelps, Burrville, Crummell,
Deanwood, Douglass-Simmons Lo-
gan, Lovejoy, smothers, Walker
Jones and Young. They viii attend
April 10.
5. All white schools Of al levels
IN the seventh division plus the fol-
lowing colored schools Browne.
Randall. Bell. Birney. Brown, Am
bush-Smallwood, GARFIELD, 0iddines-
Lincoln, Payne and syphax. They
VII 60 Saturday. April 20, at 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Eiqht Robbers Lashed
By Delaware Warden
BY the Associated Press.

ny Inc ASSCClAteo FIebk.
WILMINGTON, Del, March 16.-
With snowflakes moistening their
bare backs. eight convicted criminals
stood at the whipping post today
and received Delaware's ancient
penalty for robbery-10 lashes well
laid on"
The group was the largest ever to
receive the punishment in the yard
of the 40-year-old New Castle Coun-
ty workhouse.
Fourscore witnesses saw lash
welded by Warden Elwood H. Will
son rise and fall 80 times, raising
broad welts on the prisoners backs.
The youngest prisoner, James
Stewart, 81, glanced pleadingly at
the warden but took his punishment
without a whimper. He was con-
victed Of the Christmas Eve kidnap-
robbery of a filling station operator.
For the first time within the
memory Of prison officials, two
brothers went to the whipping post
on the same day. They were Hugh
and Robert McClelland, who pleaded
guilty to school robbery.
Another white man and four Ne
groes also were flogged. All must
also serve 10-year prison sentences.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
evening, April 16. which has been
designated gala night.
District Night April l6.

evening, April 10. which has been
designated gala night.
District Night April l6.
Other specially-designated nights
according to Admiral Train, will
be District night. April is; Fed
eral employer night, April n. and
Business and Professional Mems
Club night, April 10.
Tickets for the circus perform
ances, through which the hospital
hopes to raise funds to meet On
anticipated deficit Of 5000, may
DO bought at Admiral Trains head
quarters, 1858 Pennsylvania avenue
NV: the American Automobile As
sociation, Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, and the
Keystone Automobile Club. 1e4a
Connecticut avenue, NV.
School Group Division.
The division Of the school groups,
as scheduled by supt. Ballou. fol-
lows:
/. All white elementary Junior
and senior high pupils In the 1irst
division and the following colored
schools: Francis Junior High, Arm
strong, Cardozo, Briggs Montsom-
cry, Chain Bridge, sumner-Ma-
gruder. Morgan, Phillips -Wormley,
Reno and Stevens. These will see
the performance April is.
2. All white elementary, Junior
high. vocational and senior high
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Schools Are Grouped
To Attend Benefit for
Children S Hospital
Pupils to Be Excused
On Showing Of Note
From Purents

Supt. Frank w. Ballou announced
yesterday the public schools have
been divided up into i've groups to
attend the Children's Hospital Bene-
fit Circus at the Riverside Stadium
April 1871.
DR.. Ballou said students, on
presentation Of = note from parents,
could be excused from school In
time to make the : pm. matinee
April IS to 10.
Rear Admiral C. Russell Train,
U. S. N. retired. chairman Of the
hospitals Circus COMMITTEES, said
advance ticket sales have been very
gratifying. Admiral Train an
nourced that Mrs. Roosevelt had
reserved ths first box for Tuesday
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Plans Made 10 Teach
700 Boys 10 Swim
In Annual Drive
Lessons to Be Given
Free in 'Y Pool
March 25-30

A Learn to Swim Campaign" for
boys, conducted for many years by
The Star and the Central Young
Mems Christian Association during
Easter Week, will be held this year
from March Is to 80.
Preparations are being made to
teach at least TOO boys to swim dur
ing the course of instruction in the
boys pool in the building at 1882
G street NV A corps of Is expert
kwimmers will serve as teachers.
Any boy from 8 to 18 is eligible
The instruction will be free. Boys
may register at the Office in the Boys
Building of the "Y," or by sending
in their names, ages and addresses
by mail. The registrations will close
at 9 pm. next Saturday. Colored
boys may apply at the Twelfth Street
Y. M. c. A., 1916 Twelfth street NV ;,
where corps of expert instructors
also will be on hand.
For the convenience of those wish
Ing to register, The Star Is running
a Can You Swim?" coupon. with
space for the necessary registration
data, so that any boy who wishes to
sign up may do so by simply clipping
the coupon, filling it out and then
presenting it or mailing it to William
T. Fry. Mr. Fry, assistant boys
work director at the "Y." is in charge
of the swim campaign for the third
successive year.
Under direction of Joseph E. Aro-
noff. aquatic director of the Boys
Department Of the Y M. G. A., the
instructors will use tested scientific
methods in teaching the boys.
The principal instructors, all Of
whom have passed Red Cross life
saving requirements, are Edward
Thacker, Leo Herndon, Harold
Beatty, Charles Hellriegel, Robert
Campbell. E. Holt Neese and George
D. Adams. Assisting this group will
be John Bender, Don Wyvell, Pau
Gilbert, H. Weiss, Tom Walton, jr.;
Murdaugh Walton. Robert Means
and M. Madden.
The swim classes will enter the
water on the hour from 9 am. to 8
pm. during the six days of instruc-
tion, with the exception OF the hour
from to 6 pm, when the pool will
be reserved for regular members Of
the Boys Department of the "Y,
Mr.. Fry announced.
The boys seeking instruction will
have all necessary equipment fur
nished them at the "Y," making IL
unnecessary for them to bring bath
ing suits, soap or towel.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Association to Meet

The Connecticut Avenue Associa-
ton will meet at $50 pm. Tuesday
at the Mayflower Hotel. A repor,
from the Style Show Committee will
be made. Plans for the annual in
stallation banquet and dance and
for the summer boat ride also will
be discussed,
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Pediutriciuns to Meet

Eastern leaders Of the American
Academy Of Pediatrics will hold a
regional meeting here April I, s
and s, with chairmen from II
Eastern States, Ontario and Que
bee attending. The child specialists
will confer with the Childrens
Bureau In the Labor Department.
Evening star., 1940-03-17

Built and currently operated by
Americans, q railway on the Island
OF Cyprus is Is miles long.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-15
Salvation Army Assists
MiddletOWn Firemen

Middletown, Ohio.-Much praise has
been given the comrades of the Sal
walton Army corps for their service
rendered recently when the Sorg Pa
per Mill caught fire, working from
Sunday evening and all through the
night until 5 p. m. the next day.
Three emergency stations were i'm
mediately set up under the direction
of the corps officers and not only were
sandwiches and coffee given the fire
fighters and policemen, but the Saliva
tion Army women assisted in the first
aid work for the injured. The corps
officer was the recipient of a very nice
letter of commentator from the pro-
prietors of the mill, expressing the
thanks of the company for the service
rendered.-Adjutant and Mrs. F. At
terton and Lieut.. Carolyn LentZ, The
War Cry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-15
Help to Protect Your
Home from tuberculosis
.NNNNNNNNnN

''The design of the 1910 Christmas
Health Seal should emphasize to US
the fact that tuberculosis is the foe
of YOUTH" stated DR.. Charles A. Doan,
president of the Ohio Public Health
Association, Columbus, when describ-
ing this years seal.
"Three children lifting up tiny
voices in carol of the season, their
cherubic faces expressing so vividly
the perennial spirit of youth and joy,
make an appealing picture" con-
tinued DR.. Doan.
Felix Lewis Martini, Los Angeles,
is the designer of this years Christ
mas Seal, though his hobby is land
scape painting He was delighted to
turn to this warm closeup to present
his charming portrayal of three
happy, healthy children SO earnestly
united in song. Inspiration, too, must
have come from Mr.. Martini's two
daughters and from a second hobby
which is music" said DR.. Doan.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-15
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1910.
ARE YOU TRUE TO YOURSELF?

Study that question Read it again.
It's important to YOU! You believe
in unions and union principles, don't
you? And you work under union con-
ditions-earn your wages as a union
ist and help boost the cause.
Do you know that the union label is
one of the biggest things with unions !?
Just think what the label meansl 1t
is an indication that the goods bearing
1T have been made under conditions
for which YOU stand. 1t shows that
the makers of those goods are paying
the union scale, and often more. 1t is
an endorsement of YOUR union prin-
ciples and benefits YOU.
Remember success for one helps for
success for ALL unionsi Cooperate
with your brother workers in the
clothing industry by demanding the
union label on all your clothing and
shirts.
Every time you buy goods with the
label, you strike blow at unfair man
ufacturers, sweat-shops and prison
warehouses. You help wipe out the
products made by NOM UNION peo-
ple-people who are working against
YOU.
Think, talk and push union labeled
products. You owe it to yourself
for your own benefit! Make the union
label as important as the price of an
article. Get the habit and give it to
your fellow workers. Uplift the good
cause and you uplift the welfare of
yourself and your family. Garment
Worker.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-15
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

position to "all aid short of war, to
Britain"
In connection with the reported
British request, it is interesting to see
that Ernest Beven, British union
leader and Minister of Labor, predicts
that within another six months Brit
ain will pass Germany in munitions
production and that the ugly Nazi
regime will crumple up in Hitler's
hands"
Give us another six months of in
tensive production" Bevin urged
workers, "and we shall have passed
Germany in production Of aircraft,
ships and guns and | venture to proph-
ecy that, Immediately we have done
that, the world will move back to
peaceful times, reconstruction, the
wiping away of privilege and the
growth of knowledge.
"The Hitler and Mussolini rats will
squeal and run directly their turn
comes"
If Mr.. Bevin's confidence is well
founded, it is difficult to see why the
British should be worrying particu-
larly about American production of
implements of war There is not much
doubt about their being able to hold
out against any Nazi assault for six
months and then, according to the
British Minister of Labor, they will be
in a position to carry the war to Hit
Ter aggressively and effectively, using
weapons made in their own factories.
Incidentally, Bevin's confidence
should serve to lessen the fear of those
in the United States who have been
vociferously viewing with alarm" for
months the alleged prospect of Hit
Ter triumph over the British Empire.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-15
PRAISE FOR PUBLIC HOUSING

The 1910 Yearbook of the Memphis,
Tenn, Real Estate Board says of the
local public housing program which
is developed with United States Hous-
ing Authority funds:
Probably no more constructive
work has been done in the City of
Memphis in the last SO years than the
attempt made in the past decade to
eradicate local slums."
The report concludes:
Memphis is proud of her slum-
clearance projects and hopes that
within another decade there will be
no slums left"
Enlightened real estate men every
where share the view of the Memphis
realtors whose stand on public hous-
ing indicates they are citizens of vi
sion and public spirit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-15
California Labor Asks
Removal OF AFL Aide

Los Angeles (ILNS) The Califor-
MIA State Federation of Labor exec
utive committee has asked removal
from California of Meyer l.. Lewis,
American Federation of Labor repre-
sentative in IL western states.
Lewis has been accused of trying
to influence voters to follow his choice,
of arbitrarily" placing concerns on
the A. F. of l.. unfair list and OF try
ing to supplant the California A. F. OF
L. labor publications with one of his
own. He has also met some objection
for assertedly lining up with certain
teamsters' union officials on matters
opposed by other union officials.