davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-06-23

his will in 1.-THE Milky Way" was
no escape.
Early in his career, O'Connell Of
the merry, round, bland face, made
one valiant but vain effort to get
away from his type He'd been
playing in Twin Beds" "Nightie
Night" and others of the memorable
succession of stage bedroom farces.
Dignity Was No Help.
ut seems that I was forever div
ing under beds to get out of em-
barrassing complications" he re-
marked with a reminiscent grin.
ut used to be my stock jest that
I spent so much of my working time
under beds that I was afried to go
home-my wife would surely sus-
pect me.
so I went with Leo Dietrichstein
into "The Great Lover" in the fond
hope that the dignity of white gloves
and dress clothes would streamline
my portrayal. But it was no use
I still looked befuddled. There was
no changing nature"
OConnell's best comedy perfor-
nance in pictures to date was that
Of the bewildered insurance agent
in MY Favorite Wife" a delight
full several minutes Of insanity in
volving him, Cary Grant and Irene
Dunno. 1t was in this picture that
fans began asking each other,
Who's the funny dope?"
But don't get the wrong idea
about O'Connell. Just because Holly
wood casting directors have him
definitely catalogued as a blissfully
befuddled character, slickers better
not try putting anything over on
him in private life. Born in New
York, he was educated in Green
Bay and Appleton. Wis, graduating
from business college in the latter
city. He's sharp on figures, handles
his own business affairs and has
made some pretty shrewd invest
ments.
MY only hope" says O'Connell.
lis that they keep right on calling
me a dumb dope"
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Evening star., 1940-06-23

thing but a thespian. If you ask
him about acting, he'll shrug his
shoulders.
Has No Complaints.
Look, my boy don't know what
to tell you" he'll say. You learn
your lines, you figure out the char
acters. you get in front of the CAM
era. II you're lucky, fans like you.
II you're not, they don't.
To date, no one has heard Hunter
complain about anything. Even a
story that leaked out that he owned
snake farm in South Africa
where he was born-didn't make
him raise an eyebrow. He said he
thought that was going a little too
lar, but didn't mind, even offered to
think up a better lie for the hard
pressed writer who had conceived
the tale.
He takes direction in the same
good-natured way. Luckily direc-
tors have enough confidence in him
to let him play scenes his own way.
II they insisted that he change the
Interpretation, he'd do it. Because
ne doesn't like argument and he
doesn't like unpleasantness
"All I ask is peace and quiet"
Hunter says. Il like this business
and I'm very happy. After all,
they pay me we'll and there's no
sense kicking up a fuss"
Hunter admits he is lazy. But
ne says most happy men are lazy.
sometimes he goes in for sports like
tennis and golf, but he feels they re-
qu!re too much effort. Sailing is
much better, he says. You can sit
down and sail. The wind does the
work.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Star Finds
A Chill in
The Air
Frances Farmer
Must Now Denv
Some Quotes
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
So far as Actress Frances Farmer
Is concerned. it's January In June
in sunny Hollywood. And although
she's acclimated to New York win
ters. she finds the chill downright
uncomfortable.
Frances left these parts a couple
of years ago for fling at Broadway.
Hardly was she out of town until
tales of her distaste for things and
people cinematic began to filter back.
Quotations such as this found their
way into type:
It's a Madhouse."
acting in Hollywood is the
nearest thing to slavery"
Hollywood is madhouse. Your
future depends on one thing-luck
first and last"
Clothes and make-up-they're the
twin gods of Hollywood. It lets the
real essentials go overheard"
Hollywood was irked. So when
Miss Farmer returned not long ago
the icicles-pointed ones-were hang
ing all over town.
The whole thing, the Seattle law
yer's daughter says, has her upset.
Movies Are Important.
IT don't dislike Hollywood, never
did and I never said I did. I didn't
try to deny even the vicious quota
tions. I see now that I should have
Why, didn't even see several Of the
interviewers who wrote about me
and quoted me.
There's nothing more important
for an actress than the movies. I
wanted stage experience because I
think it's invaluable to a good
actress. I wish I could straighten
out this mess"
That's her side. AS for the realism
she asks, she's getting it-and with
a stiff dose of irony.
The first scene in her new picture,
Flowing Gold,' called for her to
fall fiat in the deep and very dirty
mud of boom town street.
The girl who's been accused of so
much Hollywood mudslinging spent
two hours soaking off Hollywood's S
mud.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Broadway ana Snl1nng SuSplclOuSly'
at the strange fresh air they en-
counter in the country.
Ethel Barrymore is trouping
around the barns in THE School
for Scandal" a great If ancient
comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheri-
dan.
Laurette Taylor, who suddenly re-
appeared from the sweet memories
of her Peg O. My Heart" to score a
strong success in revival Of "Out-
ward Bound" is playing that worthy
Sutton Vane drama on many of the
roadside stages. "Outward Bound"
which was first presented in 1923,
still is popular bill for it dramatizes
life after death without making 1t
melancholy.
The Hartmans Try.
Too. the summer theater Is the
place for experiments. For instance,
Paul and Grace Hartman are pair
of the flrst-ranking ballroom dancers
in Park avenue night clubs. They
have a yen to act, so on July 8 they
are going to do Tonight at $3.50" at
Saratoga Springs. although better
choice of the Noel Coward plays for
them would have been Private
Lives" The most intriguing part of
the Hartmans' dancing is the way
they burlesque formal dancing, and
in Private Lives" they would have
had all those scenes of tumbling over
divans and falling with glee upon
one another.
Ina Claire, certainly still the first
comedienne of the dramatic stage
with her blond hair and witticisms,
will tour several of the rural play
houses in S. NJ Behrman's comedy,
Biography" This was hit of her
own achievement when she first
acted it for the Theater Guild in
1882, comedy about lovely woman
of personality who cannot succeed
as a portrait painter but who can
succeed as lover of many men. all
of whom she dismisses with emuse-
ment.
Some Are New Shows.
Jane Cowl, Peggy Wood, Gertrude
Lawrence, Diana Barrymore, Sylvia
Sidney. Edward Everett Horton,
Louis Calhern, Helen Menken, Pau
line Lord and Harry Carey are other
stars who are playing among the
summer theaters.
The hay-loft producers do not
confine themselves entirely to pre-
senting established Broadway sue
cesses. Many of them experiment
with new shows, planning to iron out
Evening star., 1940-06-23

short strokes, instead of merely
drawing a line. After apphca-
ton, brush it out with an eye
brow brush.
Eyebrows should only be
thinned, not plucked or shaved
off. Even in thinning, care should
be used to follow natural line of
the eyebrow.
Lip rouge should always be
applied with a brush. Use of
lipstick smears it beyond the
lip lines and gives mouth
greasy appearance.
However, proper shaping of lips
to fit the face is very difficult.
Each woman should get expert
advice on the shaping best suited
to her contours.
This applies also to cheek
rouge. Some faces require appli-
cations in a triangular shape;
others in an oval, and others in
spherical form.
Always apply cream powder
base before using either rouge or
powder. Unless this is done, the
natural oil in the skin causes the
powder and rouge to flake.
Stars Put in Time.
Use extreme care in selecting
your powder, to avoid shades too
dark for your complexion.
Westmore particularly emphasized
the need of expert advice on shaping
of lips.
only five per cent of the women
have mouths shaped to fit their
faces" he said. For some reason,
that is the one weak point in ma
lures artistry. Consequently, ma
ture must have help. Few women
know how to do it. Almost inevi-
tably woman with narrow face
will use lipstick to broaden her
mouth, fancying that she is broad
ening her face. Broadening the
mouth on narrow face only makes
the face narrower in appearance"
The man who has been making
HollyWood's most beautiful women
even more exquisite for the past 10
years or more was asked to name
those actresses who in his estima-
ton take the most studious and in
telligent care of their precious faces.
Most of the smarter stars put in
lots of time on makeup" he re-
piled. Those inclined to be lazy
or slipshop about the condition of
their faces don't seem to last long.
From my own observations
would select Dorothy Lamour, Olivia
de Haviland, Ellen Drew and Linda
Darnell as among the most intelli-
gently made-up stars in Hollywood.
AN hour day is not too much
for an actress to give to her face.
I know the actresses I have men,
toned do-and the results speak for
themselves"
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paper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Jean Parker Signs
For Warner Film

Jean Parker has been signed by
Warner Bros. to star in a special
three-reel film called young Amer
lea Flies"
The picture will tell the story of
the development Of pilots in college
and will be filmed at the Palo Alto
(Calif) air field, near Leland STAN
ford University.
Donald Woods will appear opposite
Miss Parker. Other players are Will
liam Lundigan, William Orr, Her.
berts Anderson, Frank Wilcox and
Tony Hughes.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

election drives, was again turning
his wrath on Womankind.
Women throughout this continent,
complained Westmore, have been
paying so much attention to their
figures that they have forgotten
a face goes with each figure.
"A woman will stand for hours
while modiste fits a dress to her
IN fashion that displays her form
to the best advantage" he said.
"She will spend days or weeks in
the hands of a masseur, trying to
lose a couple of inches at the hips.
She will starve herself to cut down
the waiStline.
"Then, she will 60 to the mirror
and ruin the work of the modiste,
the masseur and the dietician by
throwing powder and rouge in the
general direction of her face!
"She will sally forth confident
she will attract the attention which
every woman feels is her right. She
doesn't realize that the few careless
minutes spent before the mirror ruin
the entire picture, simply because
she applied her cosmetics without
thought of the contours of her face.
Cosmetic Crimes"
mo matter how expensive her
gown may be, no woman is we'll
groomed unless her makeup is ap-
piled in a manner suitable to her
face. This is true, also, of coiffures.
A coiffure that is ideal for one
woman may ruin the appearance
of another woman"
Westmore viewed with alarm the
rising tide of cosmetic crimes" He
also had few bitter words to say
about women who bleach or dye
their hair. Far too many of them
are doing so today, he warned.
THAT should never be done with
out long thought he said. Even
the stars make such mistakes"
The keynote in beauty makeup,
says this expert, is to use a mini
mum, but to use it only after a
careful study of the face has been
made.
Don't try to change nature" he
advises. Just help nature along
bit. But first get trained advice
on how to do so. The cosmetician
is just as much an artist as the
modiste."
Westmore gave forth the follow
ing hints of a general nature and
you might do worse than stick them
up on your dressing mirror:
Eye shadow should never be
used in the daytime Even at
night, it should be applied most :
sparingly.
Be careful with mascara. Too
much makes the eyelashes look
beady. And what looks cheaper
than that?
Watch Those Hips.
Never use a black eyebrow
pencil. Use brown. Apply with
Evening star., 1940-06-23

lift" Such fellow is Ian Hunter,
the tall, easy-going English star.
No matter what they give Hunter
to do, he does it so well that it's a
pleasure to watch him.
He's had a great deal of oppor-
tunity to save pictures since he came
to Hollywood to play Theseus in
"A Midsummer Nights Dream" six
years ago. He has taken every
part handed to him without COM
plant and some of the films haven't
been what you'd call class A.
Hunters career as picture saver,
however, seems to be over. Suddenly
directors are seeing him as more
than a prop for weak story. That's
because the fans rediscovered him
in Strange Cargo" Now he has one
Of the leading parts in John Fords
Argosy production "The Long Voyage
Home"
Hard to Live Down.
II 1t hadn't been for Strange
Cargo" Hunter might have gone
along for years running interference
for less competent performers. For
this picture saver business is a hard
thing to live down. Directors get
in the habit of saying: Maybe If we
put Hunter in it, it will help. Maybe
he can lift it up bit"
Not all Hunters pictures have
called for superhuman efforts. Some
of them have been fine ones, like
Call it A Day." THE Devil is A
Sissy" ITO Mary With Love" " Rob
in Hood" The Sisters" and always
Goodbye" And in these, as in the
run-of- -the-mill product, Hunter al
ways stood out. Not because he's a
big man but because he's an actor
one of the best to come out OF
England.
Hunter is a quiet, unassuming
man. Certainly he isn't the actor
type. When he isn't working you
can often find him around Santa
Monica harbor talking to fishermen
or sailing his boat and he looks any
Evening star., 1940-06-23

He is reported the inspiration for
"You dope!"
Not a polite way to introduce
Hugh OConnell, the movie comedian
(you probably know him by face If
not by name), but Hugh isn't in
clined to care-not little bit. In
fact the dumber you picture Hugh
the better he likes it. For-all bro
mides about alertness and stitches
in time to the contrary-Hugh is a
fellow who has made his state Of
bundering bewilderment pay divi-
dends. And good ones, too.
Hugh, currently portraying the
sery confused desk clerk of a Nj
Agara Falls honeymoon hotel in the
Ronald Colman- Ginger Rogers pic
ture, Lucky Partners" is one Of
a dozen screen actors who are max
ing more money than some of the
stars because they are able to per-
form some idiosyncratic speciality
that sets them distinctly apart.
Edgar Kennedy may do his slow
burn, Roscoe Ates stutter, .Zasu
Pitts flutter and Herman Bing
sputter-but Hugh is the boy who
isn't "all there"
1t All Started Early.
During all his professional life
time, O'Connell remembers that he
has been in histrionic funk. 1t
began on the stage in stock with
"The Sap From Syracuse" Wisdom
Tooth" and other plays. He created
the first drunken newspaper report
er in the play, THE Racket" fell
low who covered his beat with H. l..
Mencken's American Mercury in one
pocket and bottle Of Scotch in the
other. He continued his reporter
characterization in the Broadway
production of Gentlemen of the
Press"
However, 1t was in "Once in A
Lifetime" as DR.. Lewis, the balmy
movie supervisor who had a habit
of cracking and eating Indian nuts
while making sound pictures, which
definitely sealed his fate as the
screens leading exponent of be-
fuddled impersonations. The role
of the mentally lethargic milkman
forced into a prize fight against
Evening star., 1940-06-23
HOLLYWOOD,

List Marlene Dietrich, Lya De
Putti, Lillian Harvey, Anna Stem.
And then add Lucille Ball.
Reason: Lucille is latest in the
Erich Pommer discovery" line.
The noted foreign producer, who
has been making screen history ever
since 1.-THE Last Laugh"-master-
piece of old silent days which
brought Emil Jannings to the screen
in a film without a single caption
is now in Hollywood where, at RKO-
Radio studios, he has no less than
three productions in various stages.
The one currently before the cam
eras is Dance, Girl, Dance" and in
it Pommer is co-starring Lucille
with Maureen O'Hara and Louis
Hayward.
"She Gives Out"
Lucille plays Tiger Lily, queen OF a
small-time dancing act in New York,
the girl who knows all the answers.
She sings two numbers and dances.
Said Pommer:
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Situation Recalls Fears
OF Hollywood Earlier
Continued From First Page.)

OF the Atlantic David Nven Just at the when he had
rdom series excellent
moned to
commission.
Its European market having collapsed
safely beyond the first shock full
year, next fiscal that There is the chance that
holders Of the strings in the East
laid
enterprise anticipation
sufficiently that adjustments
have taken of the situation
Federal Governments
derably than the Of the
resent
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Outdoor Amusements

S. MOUNT VERNON-There dancing nightly the
sreamlned cruise vessel leaving $3.50 for the moonlight
cruise Other scenic river daily Sunday
Mt Vernon and Marshall Hall Park $50 and
POTOMACNghtly moonlight cruises leave the dock Seventh
street and Maine SW. 845 Saturdays
two dance jaunts $3.50
at 1890, with name" bands supplying the
GLEN ECHO PARKThe full complement
fractions includes rides midway dancing
pavilion and picnic dancing nightly
except Sundays in the Spanish Garden Ball
by Paul Kain, with by Adele Van
SEASIDE-Amusement park at Chesapeake
long boardwalk host Of attractions
IN the bay in the saltwater pool dancing
pavilion beside the Chesapeake.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

the kinks before bringing them into
Broadway in the fall.
For instance, Nancy Hamilton and
Felix Jacoves will present this week
at White Plains, N. Y, the new musi-
cal revue, 1.-TWO Weeks With Paw"
to determine if it is in shape to pre-
sent on Broadway later. This, un-
doubtedly, is another edition of Miss
Hamilton's successful revues of the
last two seasons, "One for the
Money" and Two for the Show"
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Several Weeks, With Pay
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stah Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.


Fteenyea rod Len Lynn has just podded into
week Hollywood without having movie
you learning right way learning
talk with algebra and other high school
preparation
money
MGM Studio hasn't taken worried look
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Keeping Her BUSY

Lee Patricks third Warner Bros.
assignment in as many weeks is q
featured role in Ladies Must Live"
She is also in "City of Conquest"
and Money and the Woman"
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Some Are Film Savers
There's Ian Hunter, for Instance.
Who Gives Any Picture a Lift
HOLLYWOOD.


You hear lot about picture seaers Thomas Mitchell
one OF them John Qaen another Eddie Henry
Baby Sandy others.
don't picture There's reason
almost S
Now and picture and
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Cast in 'Rhvthm'

Christian Rub, character actor,
mas been cast In Paramount,s
Rhythm On the River" the Bing
Crosby-Mary Martin co-starrer
which William LIE Baron is produc-
ing.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

thLS expense, III auulJlUH 90 S1Uo
a week for vocal lessons from Ma
estro Romano Romani, plus other
incidentals which inclue a manager
and a tutor.
Leni is the fantastic almost-suc-
cess from Passaic, N. j., whose
neighbors' nickels and dimes paid
Evening star., 1940-06-23
In the Strange Fresh Air
Theater and Its Stars Again Take
Drama to the Countryside
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.


heater improvements the
transcontnena highway and Gypsy Rose
become major institution
City the Turing
audiences for dramatic nterude
playing for salaries that only fraction
Evening star., 1940-06-23
When They Call Him a Dope
1t Makes Him Very Happy
For Hugh O'Connell Is Doing Well
AS the Screens Leading
Befuddled Citizen
HOLLYWOOD.

They call n Hollywood.
In dramatic conversation he's invariaoly behind
other fellow He quite succeeds getting the drift
When casting directors comedy character
image of mental instability they chucke themselves
Evening star., 1940-06-23
They Forget Their Faces,
Makeup Expert Charges
Wally Westmore Complains Because
Women Don't Know How to Use
Cosmetics Most Effectively
By Harold Hefernan.

ID.
week on another Of his now famous spruce up
picking their individual looks small bits
recye measures to adopt before facing harsh
Evening star., 1940-06-23
DANCING.
MAE DAWSON

SUMMER CLASSES. BEGINNERS and prac-
tice, teaching all dances, fox trot, waltzes.
fuMba, tsngoes. Private lessons. 1879 M
81 and Thomas Circle. NAH. 3341.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-06-20
Ten Years Ago
From Issue of June 20, 1880.

Ely is proud of its constant increase
in population. Not so much on &C
count OF the number Of additional
people accumulated but because Of the
steadiness Of the accumulation. No
boom has characterized the growth Of
the city and there is practically no
floating population. Superintendent
Tormoen, in charge OF the 1880 census
in the Eighth district, notified The
Miner that the figures for Ely shows
our population TO be 6151. The 1920
census gave Ely 4SO2 or a $50 in
crease Of 1249 in the past ten years.
Arthur o. Knutson was elected dis
trict vice commander Of the district
meeting Of the Legion and Auxiliary at
International Falls, Saturday evening.
Delegates from this city to the district
Luther League Convention in Duluth,
which opens its sessions today, are the
Rev. Wendell W. Olson, Florence Han
son, Eleanor Sund, Myrtle Lem and
Clara Handberg.
Miss Marjorie James, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs Fred B. James, was graduated
| from the Winona State Teachers col
| lege last week Miss James was one Of
I Is honor teachers out Of 200 graduates
! of this institution
I Rev. Father Mihelcic was in Tower,
1 Sunday, whare he assisted in the cere-
monial Of the celebration Of the first
mass by the Rev. Frank Schweiger, a
Soudan boy, who was ordained as priest
in st. Paul. two weeks ago.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John Carlson, Joseph
+ and Ann Roman Of this city, accom-
4 panied by Mrs. Joseph Roman OF Sec
ton Thirty. notored TO Sheooygan
/ Wis, this week where they visited with
relatives and friends
L Mrs DeLana St. Marie and sons
Eugene and Tom, are spending few
weeks IT the St. Marie cottage on White
Iron lake Ruth Cocmbs Of this
city was graduated from Manchester
college, st. Paul, Monday. She majored
in music.
News has been received in this city
Of the death in Fairviev hospital, st
Paul. OF H J. Fatland, formerly of this
ely anu Cu4H4OS GU II b44C A1DOIdJOIy u
the Oliver Iron Mining company.
A number Of the members Of the
local lodge Of Odd Fellows were guests
Of Johnson Brothers at the lodge or
Eastwood over the weekend The
party, which left Winton. Saturday and
returned Sunday, was composed Of
Frank Vranesich. Leroy and Stuart
Schaefer, James Miglio, Frank Schuster
ST., and Frank Schuster, Jr-, Edward
Strom, Amelius Stenlund. Lloyd Goard
RENO KosN and William Pusari.
Tom Carey won the short stop match
play tourney held by the Shagawa
golfers last Sunday TO annex his first
tourney for the season Carey wa:
forced 10 holes by Ed Bolitho. his op-
ponent IN the finals. as was Bolitho by
-Scotty" bakers IN the semi-fina-
round Ray Harmon won the consol-
alton event but was forced TO Z holes
in the finals by Jim Laing.