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Evening star., 1940-08-04
By Carlisle Jones.
HOLLYWOOD,

AAoAA "OA0.
It has long been noted and fire.
quently reported that movie stair
ways never lead anywhere and that
once player ascerds one of them
he must stay on the platform pro-
vided at the top until the scene is
finished. Then he can come down.
In spite of the fact that this makes
most movie stairs practically useless,
studios spend a great deal of time,
money and ingenuity in building
them. Some of them like the stairs
shown in "All This. and Heaven
Too" are really beautiful examples
OF the stair designers art, while
others are purposely made of rough
lumber and left '"in the rough" for
picture purposes. Steps of this kind
lead to and from the porch where
Bette Davis kills man in her new
picture, 1.-THE Letter"
All set designers, art directors and
interior decorators know that a
stairway is the most important arch
itectural feature in set. The COL
lective eye of any audience is at
tracted to 1t automatically and, as
a consequence, 1t serves as an ex-
cellent setting for dramatic episodes
in the picture. Even the circular
iron stairway which climbs around a
post out of the newspaper office
shown in Frank Capra's new picture,
Meet John Doe," will get much at
tention from future patrons.
No two motion picture stairways
are alike except in the fact that they
lead nowhere. They can be re-
vamped and changed slightly and
then used again. Very few are ever
destroyed. Movie stairs sometimes
cost several thousand dollars to
build The stately marble stairway
shown a number of times in "All
This, and Heaven Too" and the wide
carpeted stairway Of Rhett Buffers
Southern mansion in Gone With
the Wind" were examples Of how
much money producers will some
times spend on such details. In fact,
Bette Davis very often has been seen
walking up or down elaborate stair
ways in her pictures. notably in
"Jezebel," in Dark Victory" and In
1.-THE Old Maid"
All Of those were rich and costly
sets, with wrought iron trim, velvet
covered hand rails, circular design,
broad steps and small rises. They
are stored now, under cover, on the
studios back lot. They await the
time when some new art director
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Capra Plans Film
Of Don Quixote'

Don Quixote," famous classic by
Cervantes, will be the next picture
Riskin, who now are making Meet
John Doe" at Warner Bros studio
for release by that organization.
Capra views the celebrated story
by Cervantes, chronicling the adven-
lures of the medieval Spanish knight
and his faithful servant, Sancho
Panza, as Offering an opportunity
for an uproarious satire upon chiv-
airy.
Riskin already has completed a
preliminary script and present plans
call for Don Quixote" to start soon
after completion of Meet John Doe, :"
in which Gary Cooper and Barbara
Stanwyck are co-starred.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Coming Attractions

Drive By Night tale of adventure in the lives
the lads who haul things big trucks with
Lupino and Humphrey Bogart Friday There will be
the stage, too.
CAPITOL-"The McGinty," Preston
Surges with bit Of satire politics. arrives Friday
Donlevy is the Great McGinty, Muel Angeus AKIN
rolf important the There will stage show
METROPOLITAN-"An This and Heaven Too film
Rachel Field novel, with Charles
here Friday after its successful the
PALACEI You Again." with comic
starring Myrna 10y and William Powell will follow Pride and
Prejudice" this weeks attraction.
Boys Syracuse"
Hervey scheduled for "he future which
time the highly successful
Watch"
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Perfection
Calls for
HurnOr
That's What a Mate
Must Have, Says
Ann Sothern
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
What's the test of q perfect hus.
band? In Ann Sothern's book, it's
his sense Of humor. But you'll ex-
cuse her from being afiicted with
that brand Of perfection.
She's well satisfied she says, with.
her present model, Bandsman Roger
Pryor. He is, she adds. far from per-
fect-but most suitable.
What makes mate with a sense
Of humor?
well, first" she suggests, 'he
mustn't laugh at your hats. It isn't
a sense Of humor If he outlaws. It's
just plain nasty.
He Mustn't Object.
Then he must be able to sit in
beautiful silence while his wife drives
from the back seat. And he mustn't
object to her cleaning up his desk,
or hanging her clothes over his in
the closet, or reading a newspaper
with the bargain ads clipped out.
And he mustn't hide his birthday
ties and Christmas socks in the top
drawer, or head for the nearest bar
just because she's Is minutes late
for an appointment, or object to
walking the dog and the baby, or
dressing up Sunday afternoons to
go calling, or taking in a surrealist
art exhibit.
Just Grin and Bear 1t.
IF he can speak to her after four
hours of shopping, he has a real
sense of humor. Ditto If he toler-
ates his wifes crush on a Gable or
Taylor, or If he acts unenthusiastic
when they meet the old beau his
wife often tells him has all the vir.
tues he lacks.
"And he must smile pleasantly
If she invites friends over for bridge
when he wanted to see Hedy Lamar
at the corner movie, CT If she ruins
the ducks he spent all week end
shooting, or if she insists on straight
ening his tie, patting his hair in
place and brushing candruf of his
coat collar.
Fact is" she laughs, "if he can
stay married to her, he's got a sense
OF humor. And that works in re-
verse, too."
Evening star., 1940-08-04

and gets up and goes though bits
of business.
After the reading was over, every
body said the play was very de-
lightful piece Of work, something
like you Can't Take It With YOU"
only not so cockeyed. And the odd
thing is that the chances are good
this is true.
incidentally, the play has a young
boy in it; he is supposed to be Just
about the toughest, inpiest, sophisti-
Gated brat ever let loose on a
stage. Mr.. Hart is a bachelor. Mr..
Kaufman has q 15-year-old child,
but she's q she.
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Evening star., 1940-08-04

VI SS1ccAlOoIu lcduIIlS PERSONALITIES
heading back-to-nature hegira.
The trend began a few months
ago when the always just-so Mar
lene Dietrich shocked FINLAND with
her farewell-to-glamour appearance
In "Destry Rides Again." The girl
with the legs" went the whole hog,
discarding all appurtenances of the
siren to play q honky-tonk gal ex-
actly as she was written into the
ncript. In other words, Marlene
acted-for the first time in her life
instead Of being herself. The re-
suit probably was as surprising to
La Belle Dietrich as 1t was to the
public at large. The crowds seemed
to love her-and a new Dietrich
was born.
However, that was only the start
Ing bell. What really rocked Hol-
lywood was the announcement by
Columbia that Jean Arthur, prac-
tically the last bulwark of the
glamour line" was to portray
Phoebe Titus in Arizona" Miss
Arthur, most of whose previous Aim
gowns had been designed by Holly
woods nominal style leaders, COM
mitted herself to a part in which her
wardrobe was limited to a pair of
faded jeans, a tattered straw hat
and blouse which any self-re-
specting sea hag would scorn. Dur
ing much of the production Miss
Avfh,yr,e fora ic nouernJ uy;fl, Mud
and her cheap wearables are sadly
tattered. Hollywood gasped, because
1t has long been an axiom here
abouts that even in the rain Jean
Arthur would wear the latest thing
In fashion.
Nor Did De Mile Wait.
Joan Crawford was another to
sense public sentiment and revert
to type in Strange Cargo" In that
picture it was tossup as to who
was literally the dirtiest, Miss Craw-
ford or Clark Gable. Close OBJ
servers awarded the palm to the
one-time Dancing Daughter" by an
eyelash. Not that she was actually
dirtier, but the strange sight Of Joan,
the style-setter, groveling in mud
completely disarmed the most syn
tcal critic.
Miriam Hopkins is another erst-
while glamour girl who really went
to town in reverse. There were
rumors Of alarums and disturbances
on the set during the filming of
Virginia City," but, despite the
rumblings, Miss Hopkins emerged as
q true Western heroine, a gal who
could take it in the approved sage
brush saga style.
Cecil B. De Mile, one of Holly
woods most astute showmen, wasn't
long in jumping on the good by
to-glamour" bandwagon. When
he commenced filming Northwest
Mounted Police" he realized the
value Of putting an out-and-out
glamour girl into the hoydenish
half-breed Characterization outlined
in the script. BY a master stroke
he signed Paulette Goddard for the
part. Film bigwigs again went over
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Life Also Begins at 81
That's the Age at Which Florence Bates
Finds Herself in a New Career
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
When you're old the plump and smiling lady with the curly
hair laughed, nothing will surprise you"
careerwe launched gathering
though only nothing farther mind than
didn't movies than three
Evening star., 1940-08-04
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Evening star., 1940-08-04
Stars Forsake Glamour
And a New Cycle Starts
Actresses Shock Fashion Experts
By Donning Old and Dirty
Raiment for Film Roles
By Harold HeFernan.


Is goodby glamour Are the lovely, dcey madeup
OF the motion
all the other
OF Hollywood gild the lily?
It's terrifying thought
IN the wind right denong the start
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
Roosevelt Revanps
u. Defense Setup
ToSpeed Program
knudsen Heads FOur-Man
Board to Take Charge
Of Arms Production

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.
(UP) = President Roosevelt
has scheduled his new SUI
preme national defense agen-
cy to be operative within 1O
days, and probably will inaugurate
it before congress meets with a re-
armament fireside chat.
The agency-the Office of Pro-
duction Management for National
Defense-will be headed by Produc-
ton Chief William S. Knudsen with
Labor Leader Sidney Hillman sec
ond in command.
Reorganization of the defense
set-up with real powers for the
four-man management board =
Knudsen, Hillman and Secretaries
OF War Henry L. Stimson and
Navy Frank Knox-WaS announced
by Mr.. Roosevelt yesterday, one
week after Knudsen revealed that
airplane production was tagging 30
per cent behind schedule estimates.
The plan, move to smash the
Dottlenecks, was announced COIN
cident with decision TO allocate s2O.-
100000 Immediately to 20 machine
tool plants to open that one-way
lane to fast armament traffic.
simultaneously. the war and navy
department again are reported to
be checking their stores of supplies.
arms and munitions to determine
what further material can be made
available Immediately to Great Bri-
tain where some persons believe a
German about offensive will hit
in from 80 to 100 days.
Reports that Mr.. Roosevelt con-
templated a fireside chat came from
one OF his senior advisers after a
White House conference. In that
chat-if it is made-the president
Continued on Page 3, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

Prime Minister Winston Church.
ills warning that Adolf Hitler must
do something" right away set the
Keynote for furious aerial warfare
by the British.
The seriousness of Germany's at
titude toward American aid to Brit
ain and the desire of Adolf Hitler
to beat Britain before American aid
can become fully effective were en-
phasized by war developments on
the Mediterranean front.
British military sources were
hopeful that Bardia would soon fall
as a result of the increasingly
strong drive of imperial forces into
Libya and that a thrust could be
made against the main Italian base
at Tobruk in an effort to break
the Fascist hold on the North Afri-
can coast. Italian forces were fight
ing strongly, however, at Bardia.
The royal air force in addition
to bombing an airplane factory and
other targets at Berlin attacked
the Italian naval base of Brindisi
and the Albanian base at Berat
1t was also disclosed to have at
tackled the Dodecanese Islands in
the eastern Mediterranean as part
of the continuing offensive against
Italy.
An uncertain situation in France,
where the Germans forced disso--
luton of the new super-police or
ganization known as the Garde de
Protection, added to German diff
culties. Nazis apparently were fear
full that the custer of Vice Prem
ier Pierre Laval might interfere
with their program for new order
in Europe.
An unceasing drive by the Greeks
Continued on Page 3, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

Christmas recognition burning at
YOUR home. Because, if you do you
lose out on a chance to capture
one of the "a CASH AWARDS that
will be distributed next week to the
winners IN the annual Christmas
Lighting contest.
Decorate that window, that door,
way that trellis, that tree in your
yard. Arrange an attractive Christ
mas scene with floodlights. Do that,
if you can, but at the least put
up a Christmas light!
Soon after Christmas Judges will
announce the winners in the six
divisions. Remember, there are four
prizes in each division: $40 first
prize, S. second, 50 third and 81
fourth. That is $l08 that will be
given away!
The donors were: Imperial Irriga-
ton district. NeV-Cal Electric, M
O. Simms, w. A. Scheniman, Ross
Hickcox Roy Womack, Ben Hulse.
Imperial Hardware. Sears. Roebuck.
Massie Horton and NJ. O. King.
Meanwhile, the Ell Centre cham
Der of commerce caught another
winner Friday night in the three
phone-call-a-night contest. With 50
to distribute to Whomever had their
Christmas lights up, the chamber
called l.. V. Hess of 862 Adams ave-
continued on Page 3, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
Desert Searched
For Aged Woman

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 81. CUP)
Miles of trackless, uninhabitated
d esert northeast of here were
searched by land and air today for
82-year-old Charlotte Mcqueen, who
disappeared two days ago from a
private suburban rest home.
Footprint believed those of Miss
Mcqueen were found near the home
last night and bloodhounds from
the state prison were brought in
to aid. The dogs led a posse into
Paradise valley, a sprawling desert
waste made up OF cactus and crumb-
led rock, where the spoor gave
out.
The posse resumed the search
again at daybreak. In addition, H.
M. Clark, operator of the rest home,
searched from the air by plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
Santa Pays Daily Visits to Sick
Children Here, Finds Some Excited
Beyond Words, All Highly Grateful

"Oh Santa :"
Bed-stricken Ell Centre children
have gaSped this many scores OF
times this week as Santa Claus paid
them visits. They have gasped in
delight and astonishment and been
SO overcome by happiness that
sometimes they haven't been able
to speak.
The merry gentleman has done
splendid job of visiting the i'll
youngsters every evening and af-
ternoon, hearing their troubles and
gathering lists of Christmas pres
ents. His visits have been sponsored
by the Ell Centre chamber of COM
merce, through the secretary Robert
Hays.
What do the children say when
1 arrive?" Santa was asked. well,
sometimes they are so excited they
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
Bomber Assembly
Factory Planned

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. CUP)-
The war department announced to-
day that Tulsa, Okla, has beer
chosen as site for a heavy bomber
assembly plant to be operated by
consolidated Aircraft corp, Sa n
Diego, Calf.
The plant is one of four which
will assemble bomber parts to be
manufactured by the automotive
industry.
The department selected Omaha,
Neb., as the site for a medium
bomber assembly plant to be op-
Grated by Glenn L. Martin Co.,
Baltimore, Md, and a similar es-
tablishment at Kansas City, Kans.,
to be operated by North American
Aviation Corp, Inglewood, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

HleT TO 90 an ABOUT lace IN re8drC
to predictions made earlier in the
week that Christmas in southern
California would be clear.
Moderately low day temperatures
VIII continue in Imperial Valley
during the weekend, according to
Jacobs, with cloudiness cutting the
danger of frost at night.
Meanwhile heavy rains swept
over northern California from the
Pacific ocean on winds approach
ing gale velocity. Disrupted tele-
phone and rail communications
and cancellation of plane trips were
reported in some areas near San
Francisco.
northwestern Pacific announced
bus and truck service from Willis
to Eureka would replace rail SER
vice on that section of the Sausa-
llto-Eureka line pending building
of trestle over the caved-in road
ped. Resumption of through mail
service was expected in two or
three days.
The weather bureau at Eureka
said the Eel river would leave its
banks hy noon, inundating a rich
loWland agricultural area without
damage. The water was expected to
recede rapidly. Highways remained
open in the area.
In San Francisco two persons
died in automobile crashes attribut-
ed to poor visibility and slippery
streets resulting from the rains,
John Ventura, a. San Francisco,
was killed when his car collided
with another driven by William w,
Bergman, 40, Sacramento trucking
contractor. Police said Bergman
would be charged with technical
homicide.
An unidentified man was struck
and killed by an automobile as he
was crossing a San Francisco street.
The California clipper, en- route
TO San Francisco from Honolulu.
was ordered to land instead at Los
Angeles. Pan American Airway an
nounced the clipper might proceed
to San Francisco during the after
noon if the weather cleared. There
were l3 passengers aboard.
United Airlines said westbound
planes were arriving in San Fran
cisco four to five hours late be-
cause of delays at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Other traffic was normal except
That San Francisco-Los Angeles
flights omitted usual stops at valley
towns on the route.
The rains extended far up the
sacramento Valley. Heaviest pre-
clpitation for the "a hours ending
at 5 a. m. was at Redding which
reported fall of Alb inches. Eu-
reka reported 1.31 inches and Rose
burg LIST.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
I.V. Organizations
Plan YuIe Parties
On Gigantic Scale
Elks Head List With
Work for Children and
Baskets for Families

If one child in Ell Centre
goes unnoticed on Christmas
day, he will have been we'll
hidden.
Several thousand will be
entertained in Christmas parties
that include Imperial and Holtville
Elks take the lead this year as
they have for more than a decade,
At $50 Christmas morning the doors
of the United Artists theater in e.
Centre will be open to all young
Sters who can cram inside to see a
series of comic moving pictures. At
the same time, the doors of the
Holtville theater will be opened for
another free performance.
AS the children leave the theaters,
Elks will pass out gifts of candy
and nuts. More than 5000 packages
have been prepared.
Also in connection with Elks
lodge activities will be distribution
of more than 100 boxes of groceries
on the day before Christmas. The
boxes, which include beans, flour
sugar, potatoes, coffee, candy and
nuts, soap, cereal, salt. bacon, ap-
pies and oranges, were packed early
this week by Elks and their wives.
The boxes will be distributed to
needy persons, listed through the
help of school nurses, preachers anG
Elks. 1t will take all day for the
job.
On Christmas day, Mark Wash
ourn Will lead an Elks delegation
to the county farm to hand out
cigars, cigarettes, candy and fruit
to the aged persons there as well
as to any children in the hospital
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
Ariz. Population
Boosted 1858

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. UP)-
The population of Arizona was
499,261 in 1910, an increase of 63,-
688 over the figure for 1880, the
census bureau reported today.
Final figures of the 1910 cerSus,
the bureau said, showed that Ari-
zona cities grew somewhat more
rapidly than the rural areas. The
population increase during the past
decade in urban areas was 16.l
per cent compared with 1873 in
rural sections, the bureau said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22
YuIe Fun Planned
For Rural PUPILS

Christmas for $50 needy children
attending rural schools in Imperial
county will be provided this year
by Santa Claus and a corps of his
assistants.
Heading the list of assistants
are Mrs. Liefy V. Upholt, county
school attendance supervisor, and
Mrs. Eva j. Payson, school nurse.
University women added 80 candy
and nut filled stockings to Santa S
pack, the D, A. r. of Altadena gave
$5, McCabe school gave toys and
food, and friends of the children
also gave gifts.
Mrs. Upholt and Mrs. Payson
planned to deliver the gifts to the
children's homes Monday, a task
requiring miles of travel.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

Cross, who asked for more Ameri-
can ships to replace tonnage lost
in the war and suggested possible
deal for Axis shipping tied up in
American ports.
This cross allegation, which was
directed to American press repre-
sentatives, means nothing else than
a demand upon America to engage
in a warlike act a warlike act which
one naturally can only call support
of England" the spokesman said.
I'VE are most tense as to how Am
erica will answer this brazen de-
mand for a warlike act"
The spokesman added that Ger
mans had recently been accustom-
ed to actions in certain American
circles which he described as petty
Jogging" and he emphasized that
the United States policy had reach
ed the point of "insupportability"-
thus raising the whole question Of
future German relations with the
United States.
There was no definite elabora-
ton in the official statement, how
ever, regarding the possibility of a
break in peaceable relations with
the United States.
The foreign office spokesman said
he was fully aware of the serious
ness of his statement and that he
made it as "the representative of
the foreign office and the respon-
sible spokesman for it,
I'VE are watching with great in
terest the attitude of a nation
which has shown only restraint and
friendliness to one warning nation
but whose attitude toward the other
has consisted of a policy of pin
pricks, challenges, insults, and moral
aggression which has reached the
point of insupportability," the
spokesman said.
According to the official agency,
the embassy attaches whose recall
had been requested are Miss Eliza
beth Deegen, an employe of the
embassy; Cecil M. P Cross first
secretary, and Leigh w. Hunt, sec
ond secretary.
They were accused of aiding a
British officer in his attempt to
Continued on Page 3; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

present system of selecting men
within The 2i-36 age group will be
followed until a sizable reserve man
power has been trained TO meet
any emergency.
This was taken TO mean there
wil be no radical change in the
present system until a reserve OF
5000 600 20 1000 0e0 men had been
trained. But should the internation-
al picture Indicate that the United
States would not need an army OF
this size the plan OF training men
on reaching a certain age-the Eu-
ropean method might be resorted
70 At an earlier date.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

Presldent ROOSEVELT and Draft Dr.
ector Clarence A. Dykstra had "ex-
plored' the question at a white
House conference Thursday No def
mite plan has yet been decided
upon, it was said
If a permanent draft system Is
formulated, they said, IL probably
would involve compulsory training
of all physically-ht youths when
they reach a specific age-probably
81.
Informed quarters said the change
would not be undertaken until the
international situation has clarified
insofar as this country's role In
the military picture is concerned.
For the present, it was said, the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-22

questions along with representa-
tives of the welfare directors as
ISOLATION.
The system originally was to have
gone into effect Jan. |.
Acceptance of the temporary sys-
tenn and civil service regulations
brought the states entire welfare
and charity machinery, with the ex-
ception of the state relief admin
istration, within official recogni-
ton of the social security board,
the state welfare board said SRA
does not administer relief functions
involving federal funds so does not
fall within the scope of the social
security beard, it was pointed out.