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Evening star., 1940-02-28
" seen With . girl without reading

Uo seen Win . fri WltnOut fe201n4
that I'm going to marry her. It's all
80 silly. I'm too young to get mar
ried. Besides I've got to look after
my mother. When and II I want to
get married, I'll be the first to know.
! won't learn about 1t in the news
papers"
The boy is right. The current sys-
TEN Of linking in holy matrimony q
movieite and the companion Of one
evening is rushing matters-to put 1t
conservatively. On the other hand
Lana Turner eloped with Artie Shaw
after one date with him. And VIII
liam Powell didn't have many more
premarital appointments with Diana
Lewis. wish we Hollywood column
lists were clairvoyant.
X \ \ 4
Another brief glimpse on the
Mortal Storm" set finds Margaret
Sullivan, Jimmy Stewart and Robert
Young sitting around a table in q
Munich underground beer cafe. They
are dressed in skiing clothes and
having fun until a storm trooper
jumps up. beer mug in hand. and
yells, Lets sing the Adolf Hitler
song" All except Stewart, Miss Sui
ivan-and IA extras go into their
He'll" The extras are non-Gentiles
and would sooner forfeit their $3.50
than sing a song in praise of Adolf.
Rsleased b. the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Ine.)
Evening star., 1940-02-28
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showind

National-Cornelia Otis Skinner In
"The Loves of Charles H.: 2::30 and
$50 pm.
Earle-'Little Old New York" !"
Mr.. Fulton invents a steamboat: /:
II am, lao, 4:25, ITO and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, 3:35, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Keith's-"Swiss Family Robinson -
screen account of that escape from
civilization: Ills an, 100, 3:25,
$50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm. March Of
Time: l, sos, $40, 7:15 and
9:20 pm.
Capitol-"The Light That Failed"
Ronald Colman in the Kipling
story: 10:45 am, 1875, 4:30, 7:20 and
Evening star., 1940-02-28

just likes to see Bette walking. To
Judge by the light in his eyes as he
gazes at Bette, he likes to see her
walking. P. Swatch this romance.
Between takes" Boyer shows me
q letter received from hopeful club
woman regarding that tour Of prop
aganda Charles was supposed to do
on behalf OF the French government.
Dear Mr.. Boyer" began the note,
I'VE want you to come and talk to
us-about yourself"
"Ninety-nine out of a hundred
letters are like this" says Charles.
The other tells me I must not try to
Evening star., 1940-02-28

MQ m ] 5 Z T e 3 3
quarreling b e.
hind the closed
door OF tn cir
bedroom. (The
d u c ess dies
myst ertously e
shortly after
wards. Director
Litvak has had
B e tie walking
down that corri-
dor for three
hours. I'm not
sure whether his
motive is abso-
lutte perfection
or whAther he
Evening star., 1940-02-28

AdPPy CAPCl IcIlCc. MISS MaCOOualO
terday afternoon, quantity enough
in the Garbo room of the Shoreham
the No. rendezvous Of celebrities
and press at Gardiner Moore's far
flung hotel.
Miss Macdonald, who sings here
tonight at Constitution Hall, is In
full accord with other stars on per-
sonal-appearance tours that the
chief charm of travel is the contact
1t gives one with ones public. It is
one thing to have box-offlce stand
ing that removes all doubt as to the
peoples love and another to 60 out
and get the cordial expression of 1t.
That American fans, which she
began to collect when she was a
chorus girl, are among the finest In
the world Is one of the things she
will have you know.
Their placidity (our word, not
hers, Is preferable to the passion
(again our word, not hers), which
she found several years ago among
her European enthusiasts. She re-
members vividly that in one place
the unrestrained admiration of an
audience which heard her concert
left her gloveless after one sort Of
hand-to-hand encounter.
American fans are more reserved,
Miss Macdonald finds, quality that
represents a distinct advantage In
the wear and tear Of a 30-concert
trip covering 5000 miles and, Heaven
knows how many ardent enthusiasts.
X X X X
Cagey Is the word for Miss Mac
Donald on the subject of politics.
With a diplomacy that would be ad-
mired on both 18th street and
Massachusetts avenue, tact's most
famous local boulevards, she refused
to comment on the question of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's acting ability.
He is photogenic." she said, an
observation sufficiently restrained to
pass muster in the least restrained
totalitarian state.
Tact, which may or may not have
carried an overtone of candor, did
creep into another part of Miss Mac
Donald's chat with the press. That
was when some one asked her If she
was planning to visit Capitol Hill
today, such calls nearly always being
productive of news photographs of
celebrities being kissed by some
elected representative of the people.
Miss Macdonald was quite brisk,
but in no unf1attering way, to Con-
gress, in giving the impression that
she would save her kisses for hus-
band Gene Raymond.
OF Mr.. Raymond, another cinema
artist, she is pleased to say that she
is including one of his compositions
on the program which she will give
tonight. The one thing they find to
disagree on in the composer singer
arrangement is the little matter of
accompaniment.
'He wants to play it one way and
I want to sing it another" Miss Mac
Donald says.
One respect in which Miss Mac
Donald differs from so many Holly
wood visitors to Washington is that
ofsbeing a -sight-seer. For one
thing, she knows Washington is a
beautiful city and remembers it very
well from the days when she was in |
musical comedy. The main reason
for staying close to her hotel-to
practice and sleep this particular
days that she became allergic to |
sightseeing as youngster in show
business. Her mother travelled with
her in those days and, in the way of |
mothers, virtually bounded chambers
of commerce for schedules of places
to 60, things to see. etc.
Evening star., 1940-02-28

l0:15 pm. Stage shows: 12:45, $40,
$50 and 9:25 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." red
skins bite the dust: 11:20 am, las,
$3.50, 5:35, TAO and GAS pm.
Palace-"Gone With the Wind"
with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
Continuous performance from GAS
am. through 2:45 pm. Reserved
seat showing at 8 pm.
Columbia-"Remember the Night" !"
light-hearted romance on the ten
der side: 11:35 am, 1::35, 3:35, 5::35,
TAO and 9:40 pm.
Evening star., 1940-02-28
Stellar Bed Plays a Role
In Bette Davis Picture
It's Paid for Itself Many Times;
Boyer Discounts Rumors
OF a Lecture Tour
By sHEILAH GRAHAM.
HQII,YWOQn

There three stars the setBette
Charles Boyer and Louis XVI sleeping couch history
the latter Is interesting Owned by wealthy
worth 81 200 and has already tag over The
lazy rents 1t to studios at $50 week
Wind IN the honeymoon mansion bought Rett
Miss Davis plays the part Of
the picture Bette is reporting for*--- - ~
e of work. Waksd Al
Evening star., 1940-02-28

walks down a
hears her master
Evening star., 1940-02-28

uttle-"Midnight," with the Bar
rymores, he and she: II am, ITO,
3:15. 5:25. 7:35 and GAS pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-02-28
Tryouts Toni8ht

Tryouts will be held tonight q
the Jewish Community Center for
A. A, Mines The Man in the
Bowler Hat" next presentation Of
the center's dramatic group.
Evening star., 1940-02-28
DANCING.

PERFECT Your Dancing.
Vidual instruction and group practice.
10 Lessons for $500.
Tap dsaeing for professionals er - exercise.
Capitol Dance Studio, 525 18th St. NV.
Evening star., 1940-02-28
Miss MacD DOnald Talks
OF Life, Travel, Etc.
Speaks More Freely on Those Topics
Than on President as an Actor;
Star Cured of Sightseeing
BY JAY CARMODY.

~ & mas oeen long time since the highways and bywys the
Jannee Macdonald However Miss Macdonald from the
loI concert tour ana apart from the weather.
sun has been missing
happy It ali over With the .
Evening star., 1940-02-28

HARD TO GET ALONG WITH EH?Heres the ansaper to those
stories that Vuen Leigh become dtcu since her success
as scarlet OHara and 1oouldn for STILLS" for
Sae1oatss OF London Ohich she made IN England
from the Paramount studio 1Dc flm comes
this brandne0 portrait for och Miss Leigh
Lduqhton.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

Lawrence development, but more
than one-third of the Senate, suffl-
cient to block ratification OF a
treaty, has persistently opposed 1t.
Specifically the Senate vote, when
a treaty was last submitted by Pres
ident Roosevelt in 1884, was As for
and AZ against. OF the opposition
votes % came from States along the
Atlantic seaboard, which fears the
diversion OF shipping from its ports,
and most of the remainder from the
lower Mississippi Valley, which
would like to see its river become
the major water access to the great
Middle Western interior.
II presented in the form of a
treaty now it is likely that these
same elements would combine to
defeat the project. But if the job
can be done by concurrent resolu-
ton, passable by majority vote Of
both Houses, the odds are strongly
on the side of its accomplishment.
The major obstacle in the latter
case may be Senate filibuster, but
it is doubtful whether this would
hold in the face of the President S
current contention that quick COM
pletion of the waterway is essential
both for American defense today
and for American economic defense
after the war"
Earlier Stand Recalled.
Mr.. Roosevelt may be somewhat
embarrassed by the fact that he
himself previously rejected the legis-
lative method of authorizing the
waterway. Submitting the issue to
the Senate six years ago he declared
that power on the international
sector of the st. Lawrence cannot be
developed without a treaty between
the United States and Canada"
The reason the President took that
position, it is now explained, was
that Canada insisted on stipula-
tions which could be met only by a
treaty. One of these was a prohibi-
ton against diversion of more than
1900 cubic feet per second of Lake
Michigan water into the Chicago
River, and another that only Ca
madam labor and materials be used
on work done by the United States
on the Canadian side of the border
These two provisions Of the treaty
were said to have been removed a
year ago following withdrawal by
Premier Mitchell Hepburn of On
tario of his long-standing opposi-
ton to the waterway. Ontario pre-
viously had been the chief stickler
for the water diversion and labor
restrictions.
Based on 1909 Treaty.
Whereas the administration ir
1884 took the position that a treaty
was necessary to accomplishment Of
the project, part of the opposition
in the Senate was promised on The
contention that treaty was un'
necessary. Senator Wagner, Demo
crat, of New York asserted even tha
| the st. Lawrence power project
could be carried out by agreemen
between New York State and tn
adjoining Canadian provinces Of
Ontario and Quebec without inter
vention by the Federal government
on either side.
The position Of administration
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Non Career Diplomatic Talent

Inc Foegn Service Journal "does believe
@ @ posi- shouo be hed BY an officer of career
nave oeen IN the undoubtedly
SONS When distinguished or talented citizen
country effectively
Government
TO mead diplomatic missions outstanding abe
ta 10 1olego their entirely
the United States Nevertheless when TOP
sldoe competitive
AS demonstrated by current events
qaled by discharge
eou While so per cent notable posts compared
pygone
De resumed weighing
Career ambassadors Japan) Armour
entna johnson (China MacMuay
WeddeA SPAIN Caer tBaz Noweb Panma)
among non-caree ambassadors
eXco stelnhaIdt Soviet RUSSIA and Bowers Che)
terS nclude Me MoH (Canada
traa schoenfeld Fnand Atheon and Harrison (sv
>~"-N-
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Britain Sets Up Price
For Christmas TURKEYS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-The Food Min
Ministry yesterday fixed the price of
undressed Christmas turkeys at 2
shillings 10 pence a pound (about
81 cents because butchers we're
raising their prices.
The ministry's order indicated a
change OF heart on what was to be
regarded as a necessity.
Lord Woolton, food minister, in
reply November 26 to a question
whether turkey prices would be
controlled, asserted it was not his
business to control luXuries.
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Ruse May Aid Waterway
New Roosevelt Move for Legislation Instead
Of Treaty With Canada May End Deadlock

/ lawyers, now that the project can be
| consummated by legislative enact
| ment, is based on the boundary wa
ters treaty between the United
States and Canada, ratified in 1909.
Article 13 of this convention de-
| clares: In all cases where special
agreements between the high con-
tracing parties hereto are referred
to in the foregoing articles, such
agreements are understood and in
tended to include not only direct ar
rangements between the high con-
tracing parties, but also any mutual
agreements between the United
States and the Dominion of Canada
expressed by concurrent or recip-
rocal legislation on the part of Con-
gress and the Parliament of the Do
minion."
The recent destroyer-naval base
trade may be offered as precedent.
If it was legal for the United States
to acquire slice of Newfoundland
and to proceed to the development of
this as naval and air base, without
even so much as submitting the is
sue to Congress, the United States
certainly should be able, with con-
| gresslonal consent, to enter upon a
plan for development of the St.
Lawrence for purposes of mutual
national defense of the two coun-
tries.
Congressional opinion on the st.
Lawrence project may be materially
affected by the shift of emphasis
from navigation" to electric power
production" and national defense'
IN the debate concerning 1t. With
President Roosevelt the power"
factor always has appeared upper
most, but even as late as 1884 con-
gresslonal support of the plan came
Chiefly from the lake region and
the Western farm States, which
were primarily interested in the
cheaper transportation that an
opening of the Great Lakes to the
sea would provide.
Defense Main Basis.
Western interest in the seawav
latterly has declined, as indicated by
the disappearance from the picture
OF the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Underwater Association which. in it's
heyday, was supported by legisla-
tive appropriations from % States,
ranging from Michigan and Ohio to
Colorado, Montana and Idaho. The
successor to this organization is the
Great Lakes SeaWay and Power
| Conference, to which President
Roosevelt last week announced his
intention to push for authorization
OF the project.
Mr.. Roosevelt made it clear that
his advocacy of it this year is to De
principally on the. ground of ma
tional defense"
The world merchant tonnage"
he said, "is diminishing at the rate
OF tens of thousands of tons" and
sea coast shipyards already are
| overtaxed Shipyards on the Great
Lakes, with access to the ocean, yet
| close to the sources of supply of
labor, raw and finished materials.
further removed from possible at
task, may be the vital factor in de-
fense of this continent. They will
help to build the ships which will
bring back commerce to the harbors
of the Atlantic Coast ports"
Evening star., 1940-12-18

catlOn, II IL le-
gally holds, al
m ost certainly
will b r e a k a
deadlock which
has held this en-
terprise in leash
for more than 25
years.
Through all of
that time Amer
ican Presidents
and, as 1t ap-
peared, a ma
jority Of both
Houses of Con-
gress have fa-
49, CT
Evening star., 1940-12-18

United Kingdom. Today's an
nouncement puts the total casual
ties since Germany began raids on
Britain last June l8 at 1928 dead
and 27,252 wounded.
The official breakdown of the
November totals:
Dead-Men, 2,2S9; women, 1860;
children under 16, 493.
Injured and detained in hospitals
Men. 3493; women, 2,251; children
under 16, 458,
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Washington Observations
Reinsurance in Emergency Seen Thot 50 Per Cent
Of Diplomats Abroad Are Career Men
By FREDRIC WILLIAM VILE.

With United international critical
history per
lonlaic
Figures attestng this state affairs in the December
Foreign Service Journal tell
has broken with the system Of enrusng relations
politicians diplomatic
Half the rstne trenches in national defense
manded by carefully trained for the
Evening star., 1940-12-18

Mr.. CT apper
proposed tn a t
Thomas w. La
m o n t, e ] d e r
statesman of the
firm of ]. P.
Morgan & Co.,
should serve as
peace-maker be-
tween the New
D e a ! admins
tration and the
business com
munity.
1t was inevi-
table that action
along these lines
Sho,l16 he de.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

happiness could be Immediately full
filled. There will be, I firmly believe,
better and happier days for us and
for others, but they will come only
because of the unselishness and
enthusiasm with which we re-
dedicate ourselves to the service of
our ideals"
Mr.. Hulls message says: "The
test of great emergency is the
measure Of the strength of any or
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Record Inuuqurotion Interest

If advance for grandstand tickets anything
national
inauguration Melvin D. Hdh Washington
1888 1887
interest Hemisphere solidarity will be
inaugural The directly
designated the Court of Freedom will display the flags all the
81 Americas emphasizing World unity Roosevelt
which will
quarters
Evening star., 1940-12-18

Of
year happen
peace could be negotiated.
Mr. Churchill thinking in such terms; OF his
of obtaining
complete from the United States the few still existing
that fades
they might the Il told So boys and prestige
Evening star., 1940-12-18
November Air Raid Toll
In Britain Put at 1883

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 17.-Civilian air
raid casualties in the United King
dom in November were 1888 dead
and 6,202 injured, it was announced
officially today.
The report for October showed
1894 dead and 1886 wounded in the
Evening star., 1940-12-18

planes, DuI Illef
do not know yet
why this infor-
nation has been
withheld from
them until this
late date.
The episode
has in it lessons
of far-reaching
Importance to
the saving of
democracy. 1t
concerns the op-
erations of DEM
ocratic govern
ment and par
ticLla arlV the
Evening star., 1940-12-18

decided Improvement over the time
when only a handful of chiefs of
mission were men who had de-
voted their lives to the business
of representing the United States
abroad"
Entry into the diplomatic and
consular service by examination be-
came effective in 1906. From a low
OF S per cent in 1914 and 1917, the
proportion of career ENJOYS mount
ed to an all-time high of So per
Evening star., 1940-12-18
WELL THAT'S SOME n
fNcOURAGEHfN1/XS

cent IN President
] and mnihips @ more less regularly
and has been pursued has there been
more faithful adherence
though
ambassadorsp Kennedy Bui and
were assigned ~ '
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Tributes From Roosevelt and Hull

President Roosevelt
greetings to the Foreign Service Mr. Roove
ana efcenty through the drawing that
could write all
Evening star., 1940-12-18


Forelgn Service has met just such test praise
admiration that
clerks of the dangers
faced families
of work often tedious, which performed"
Evening star., 1940-12-18
BY JAY G. HAYDEN.

The latest Rooseveltian ruse of
having the st. Lawrence waterway
and power project approved by legis-
lation rather than by treaty ratif-
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Lamont Seen
In RoIeof
Peucemuker
New Deal Truce
With Business
Is Discussed
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

My colleague, Raymond Clapper,
made an interesting suggestion the
other day-a suggestion which de-
serves serious consideration.
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Opposition
Misses the
Boot
Defense Statistics
Turdiness Blamed
Partly on 6. O. P.
By DAVID LAWRENCE

The American people have been
shocked to learn that there is a
breakdown of 80 per cent in the
defense program as it affects air
Evening star., 1940-12-18

Mexico has announced that as
sistance from the United States
Government has enabled it to reduce
greatly its cotton pests.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

HE opinions OF the Oriters this their
necesary The Stars Such opinions presented in The
stars eDort to gtDe all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

SIIUI . UI WaI, CASH anu carry sup
plles-there might be reversal in
England which might induce many
to listen to peace proposals from
the Fuehrer.
The advocates of such a policy
are for the time being a minority
which keeps silent. But there is
no saying when this minority might
become vociferous and say that it
would be criminal on the part of the
government IN ipnOre neace condi =
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Morale of Britain a BuIwork

But what neither the Secretary Of State Secretary
admit for the time being
between responsible American officials and
mas been recently indication
help Britain the
one may have to consider the
The situation in nutshell follows continue
to hight provided there is somewhere glmmer
nave to the chin all
adm tnat the morale the nation which than
effective
against them In Asia
but there little beyond
And both food and cannot England
transport them and desoyers to the
lacking Canadacan
provide Britain with manufactured material
There
the offensive This be true
the optimistic
British
getting until effective outside help
Evening star., 1940-12-18


What they did publicly
credltsBan
are needed as badly the
All
can military and naval observers in London who
SITUATION blood
full last September not
pleasing to the British and the
them strictly getting
breath Immediately high question was
put to them private
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Wary of Repayment Promises

American soldiers needed but American
and
The British government does
nope 10 repay anything
be dishonesty
promise anything of the
this country should have of the war
Inc British treasury that
eded before the end of this the holes
wealth every country in the world is such
meet oDngatlon
pronlFory notes which 0'
Many hints have been given the spirit that the
United
Evening star., 1940-12-18
This Changing World
GIimmer Of Hope Of Outside Aid Seen VitoI
To Pull Brtoin Through PeriIous Crisis
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Stories published the United States month the effect
Britain breathing heavily and has reached the point when she may
confirmed highest
British and American authorities such stories
has
Evening star., 1940-12-18

that the United States provide the
oxygen and possibly the tent too,
the real truth about Britain's posi-
ton is being revealed
Sir Frederick Phillips, the spe-
c:al envoy of the British Chancellor
Of Exchequer, has put the cards on
the table with such frankness that
Secretary of State Hull and Secre-
tary of Treasury Morgenthau ad-
mitted that Britain was badly of
and needed immediate support.