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star travels into the buying field.
Last week also found other far
cities drawing "star-salesmen."
Lynne Overman, Muriel Angelus, J.
Carol Nash and Jean Cagney
headed for Galesburg, ILL.,, for the
opening of Those Were the Days"
with Overman and Miss Angelus
booked to proceed to Bridgeport,
Conn, to launch showings Of "Sa-
fari.H
Alice Faye and Edward Arnold
were in Pittsburgh to start their
Lillian Russell and the same pic
lures simultaneous premiere found
Alice's co-star, Don Ameche, with
Cesar Romero, Mary Healy and
Arleen Whelan in Clinton, Iowa,
honored as the birthplace OF the
pictures central character.
Even the Children.
Just returned from San Fran
cisco and Seattle, where they put
their Irene" of to happy crosses,
are Producer Herbert Wilcox and
his star, Anna Neagle. Wallace
Beery cavorted around New York
celebrating the opening of his
"Twenty-M Team" and Jack
Benny and gang did the same ex-
ploitation duties to foster interest
in Buck Benny Rides Again.
Billy Lee, the 10-year-old Of "The
Biscuit Eater" got two trips to
Georgia out of the film, one for the
making, one for the selling, pre-
miere style.
Ray Milland and Patricia Morrison
will be going to Minneapolis for the
opening of their "Untamed" and
Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan,
even If they're both working at the
time, will be excused for a jaunt to
Fort Worth, Tex, for opening festiv-
tiles of "The Westerner." Cooper,
lent by Sam Goldwyn to Frank
Capra for his John Doe" movie,
has it in his contract that he will
be free to make the trip. Goldwyn
will insist on the same clause for
Brennan.
Not Only Premieres.
If it isn't movie premieres that
call the stars from Hollywood it's
goodwill work of another kind, like
Dorothy Lamour's scheduled as
signment to the annual Tulip Fes-
tival at Holland, Mich. This event
always attracts a delegation from
the films.
It's the inconspicuous movie per-
sonality indeed who hasn't learned
the Importance of travelling bag and
overnight kit to his career. Exhib-
itors clamor, along with city cham
bers of commerce, to duplicate the
glitter and fuss Of the local pre-
mieres, and no star Is exempt when
the call comes. Irene Dunno was On
hand, In connection With MY
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Artists Daub
Canvases on
A Movie Set
Wanger Assemblies
Nine to Paint
What They Will
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Nine noted artists have arranged
to spend two weeks on q movie set.
painting away to their hearts con-
tent at subjects Of their choice.
Reeves Lewenthal of New York.
director of the Associated American
Artists, said it was the first time a
motion picture set ever had been
thrown open to artists in this man
ner. He added that it was to be
the largest working assemblage Of
name" artists on record.
Each to have his own studio on
the movie lot, they are:
Take Their Choice Of Scenes.
Grant Wood of Kansas City,
whose American Gothic" is the
most reproduced picture of the day;
Thomas Benton, director of the
painting division of the Kansas
City Art Institute; George Biddle,
Philadelphia; Ernest Fiene, South
bury, Conn; James Chaplin, Ha-
worth, N. j.; Georges Schreiber,
Gloucester, Mass, and Robert
Phillip, Raphael Soyer and Luis
Quintanilla of New York City.
The men will work on the set of
'"The Long Voyage Home" taking
their choice of the scenes and char
asters in the film based on a series
of sea stories by Eugene O'Neill.
Not only may they paint what
ever scenes they find under way
during their two-week visit, but
they will be shown "rushes" of all
of the pictures thus far completed
and any character interesting them
there will be summoned for a sitting.
"New Field Of Inspiration"
Lewenthal said Walter Wanger,
film producer, had engaged the
artists on a straight commission
basis of one picture from each artist
on any subject and in any medium
the artist prefers. The nine pictures
then will be taken on q two-year
exhibition tour.
The cost to Wanger, in commits
sions and in time and expense of
sittings, will be around $4,000.
Through this project" said Lew
enthal, 1--WE hope to open new field
of inspiration for the serious artist.
"A great artist could have found
splendid material, for instance, in
a film such as The Grapes of
Wrath We hope to see something
of this serious art work some day
on the set of every worthwhile
picture"
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Graham
Continued From First Page

during the latter part Of his wife's
expectant motherhood.
Loretta Young, when under con-
tract to Twentieth Century-Fox,
averaged five pictures year and
received around $35, 900 a year. Now
as a free-lancer, Loretta makes
three pictures a year and earns at
least three times the salary.
Carole Lombard Is another lady
star who believes in freedom to de-
eide when and what she will ap-
pear in. Lately Carole has cut
down her output to two pictures q
year, against the four or five she
made when under contract to Para
mount.
Other important free-lancers in
clude Fredric March, Charles Boyer,
Randolph Scott, Barbara Stanwyck,
Roland Young, Brian Aherne and
Adolph Menjou. All of them swear
by their present status, urging that
from Observation-Disclosures good
pictures, health, vacation and finan-
cial viewpoint, they are better OH
than their long term contract COL
leagues.
Personally, I think the only time
it is advisable to sign a term ticket
is when the player is unknown-or
when the player is slipping. To the
first it ensures some roles. To the
second it provides a soft cushion.
Rsleassd b. the North American
Nsvspap1 Alliance. maj
Evening star., 1940-05-19

swing across the giant stage with
the assurance of conquering army.
And, getting into circus statistics,
American Jubilee" demands Is
acres for its show, plays on q stage
312 feet wide, changes its settings
on a 270-foot turntable and has q
cast Of $50 singers and dancers.
1000 Jitterbugs.
Nearby is the dancing campus"
where 1900 jitterbugs can shag and
swing to the tunes of Ben Bernies
Orchestra. The dance floors have
been stationed on springs this sea-
son so that the more enthusiastic
dancers will have a base to absorb
their shock.
Roses Aquacade is his usual SWIM
ming show and very good one.
His chief change from last season
is a shower water curtain 40 feet
high, which costs more to operate
than does an average production
set.
So far this season, 1t can be hap
PLY reported, there has been no
trouble with the censors and the
fair shows. Last year sheriffs fire.
quently raided the fair shows to
arrest girls who were wearing only
little more costume than appears
on girls in the average Broadway
show. This year the girls are cos
TUNED adequately, and the sheriffs
apparently have gone back to their
checker games.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

with and married Clint Garvin,
saxophonist, and so Teagarden had
to start his search all over again.
A girl orchestra leader, Ina Ray
Hutton, has worked out her own
plan. Once. when a blond, she di-
rected a band composed of all girls.
Now, a red head, she leads an all
male orchestra.
II do my own singing and I'm
conductor and boss of the band"
she said. so it's more than lust
a job to me. It's both a career and
business and I never allow
romance to mix with business"
Bobby Byrne, young orchestra
leader with a new band, has in
Dorothy Claire what he thinks is
the solution about the girl vocalist
problem. Miss Claire, Fort Wayne,
Ind, girl who started with Bob
Crosby's Orchestra, is serious about
her career and is eschewing all
romances and such outside distrac-
tions to concentrate on her singing
So as long as Miss Claire is SO serious
about her career Byrne thinks he
stands little chance of losing her
to some passing Romeo.
That's what Byrne thinks.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

from her fash that Illuminated
mere words and inspired them with
passion and emotion. That is the
kind OF light that cannot be hidden
under q bushel."
Other colorful gems of a remi-
niscing Arliss:
only two world-staggering events
ever happen in Hollywood One is
an earthquake and the other Is the
arrival of a new star"
Il have never been quite able to
discover why the producers and
their press departments go to such
trouble to get headlines in the Los
Angeles papers about the enormous
Importance of their stars"
"The effect on the population of
the arrival of the star is generally
greatly exaggerated in the press,
while that of the earthquake is dis
creetly diminished"
About Mr.. Zanuck.
Daryl zanuck, then in his 20s,
was production chief at Warmers
when Arliss was signed. The actor
deVotes an Illuminating chapter to
his impressions of the man.
II first met him in 1928, when I
was playing 'Shylock' in Los
Angeles" he writes. "Jack
Warner brought a party to the
theater and afterward they all came
to our rooms at the Biltmore. We
talked of the possibility of my play
ing 'Disraeli' on the screen. Zanuck
was tremendously enthusiastic about
lt-Walked up and down, outlining
with much gesticulation an entirely
new opening to the screen version.
Jack Warner chuckled and
said: He does all the work at the
studio now. I just add up the
figures"
Although Arliss first regarded
lanuck with mixed misgivings, he
later recognized his talents and cast
his lot with him when Zanuck joined
Twentieth Century-Fox. The Arliss
contract was the first signed by the
new company.
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-05-19

Favorite Wife" for the Kentucky
Derby, just as eagerly as were Clark
Gable, Vivien Leigh and other stars
for the Atlanta business on Gone
With the Wind"
Why this new Hollywood on
wings and wheels, with toothbrush
ready to pack on short notice? It's
concentrated ballyhoo for the home
markets, more than ever important
as the European war spreads.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
George Arliss Now Writes
OF a Hollywood Decade
Actor Who Had Part in Screens
First Artistic Venture Tells
All in His New Book


Fifteen the Ioly-
successive scandals were rocking the industry its foundations
With the moral crusaders stirring uneasy
hudde his producer associates deposited
brilliant IDEAS
Hays up the movies by making few
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Fair Audiences Demand
The Mardi Gras Spirit
'Barbary Coast and 'Aquacade'
Billy Roses Contributions to
This Years Entertainment
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press NEW YORK.
There carnival spirit
demand Of the Mardi Gras spirits this midway
Broadway
Billy Rose has two shows Barbary Coast and
the Albert johnson production American
other shows make the fair entertaining
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Barron
Continued From First Page.)

Girl singers have been box office
tonic for me ever since and I don't
have the romantic troubles with
them that many orchestra leaders
fear because I get them young and
train them how to behave around
a band"
Ina Has Her Own Plan.
Jimmy Dorsey, whose band fea-
lures blond Helen O'Connell as vo-
calist, and Jack Teagarden, who
features Marianne Dunn, an Akron,
Ohio, girl who had never sung with
q band before, have strict rules that
their girl singers cannot have dates
with members of the band and thus
they hope to stop romances and tri-
angles before they start. Teagarden
had an unhappy experience about
this situation when he invested
heavily in time and money to train
Kitty Kallen, a Philadelphia lass,
as his singer. Just as she got to
the diploma stage she fell in love
Evening star., 1940-05-19

money on them-plenty perhaps
but don't get discouraged. Wen
show a doubling public that we
know art and know how to dish it
out"
Hays staunchest hackers in the
plan were the Warner Bros, who
still stand today as the smartest
showmen in Hollywood. It was the
warmers who, in 1928, first managed
to tempt George Arliss from the
Olympian heights of the stage. In
line with Hays Office policy of sac
rificing profits for cultural citation
from the highbrow movie scoffers,
they decided to make "Disraei."
And nothing would do but Ariss
must come along to add the finish
ing touch of tone and aristocracy
to their ambitious pattern.
Mr.. Arliss' Decade.
Mr.. Arliss did make "Disraeli" and
H did serve the industry exactly
rs Mr.. Hays prophesied. People
who had never been to the flickers
before crawled out of their shells
and inquired the way toward
theaters showing ''Disraeli." Event.
ually the film did break even, but
the Warmers were more than re-
warded for any lost sleep by being
pointed out on the streets and in
the public prints as artistic" fell
lows. They liked that so well they
kept a firm hold on Mr.. Arliss-
and during the neVt 10 years he
made succession of fine produc-
tions which continued to elevate
Hollywood's I. @. rating in the pub
lies eye.
This is merely a preamble to the
announcement that Mr.. Arliss' il
Illuminating and entertaining new
book, MY Ten Years in the Studios" !"
Gittle- e-Brown has just reached
the bookstals. Written with mellow
charm and studded with many de-
lightful anecdotes, it deserves a
front niche among all volumes about
the film center.
Arliss, first to notice the embryo
talents of Bette Davis and award
her a leading role in his THE Man
Who Played God" writes that he
isn't in the least surprised to dis
cover Bette is now the most i'm
portant star on the screen.
"She Startled Me-"
"1t was in that film I first met
her" he recounts. 1--WE were hav-
ing difficulty finding a girl with
some ability who looked a little
different from the average ingenue
- I did not expect anything but
q nice little performance. But when
we rehearsed she startled me; the
nice little part became a deep and
vivid creation, and I felt rather
humbled that this young girl had
been able to discover and portray
something that my Imagination had
failed to conceive. She startled me
because quite Unexpectedly I got
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Another for Jim

Jim Thorps, who relived the days
Of his athletic glories in "The Life
of Knute Rockne" at Warner Bros,
has been signed again by the studio.
He will appear in Pony Express
Days" next in the series of his
torical short subjects being pro-
duced by Warmers.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
They Not Only Act in Them,
But They Sell Them, Too :
The Stars Task Does Not End These
Days Until After the Jaunt
To the World Premiere
By Robin Coons,
Associated Press Stan Writer.


In this quick moving world the getting
part Of movie actors tools He has to nowthen
Salesman Spencer Tracy
premiere showngs
acting another
Boom Town" to permit the nk
Evening star., 1940-05-19

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"Barbary Coast" is casino with
exciting memories for those who re-
member the old Western days, while
"Aquacade" is the swimming show
that Rose had at this fair last sea-
son and at Fort Worth and various
other fairs.
In "Barbary Coast" there are sing
ers and dancers of the sawdust trail
type OF recruits, while in the Aqua
cade" there are efficient swimmers
headed by Mr.. Roses elegant and
lovely wife. Eleanor Holm.
American Jubilee" is something
OF a spectacle, panorama of Amer
ican life, that is exciting and gives
a quick picture Of Washington's in
auguration, Lincoln reciting the
Gettysburg address and Theodore
Roosevelt riding ahead Of his Rough
Riders in the Spanish American
War days.
Brave and Sentimental.
Also included are p. r. Barnum,
Jenny Lind, Lillian Russell, "Dia-
mond Jim" Brady and other CLAM
orous characters of that era. There
is also the celebrated Joe jackson,
top clown Of departing era.
It is 8 brave and sentimental pic
ture of American life and when
acted on this huge stage, about 10
times as large as the average theater
stage, it has all the appeal that the
Buffalo Bill Wild West shows had
at the turn of the century. For one
Of the most thrilling movements in
this new show is the parade Of
scores and scores Of horses who
Evening star., 1940-05-19
DANCING.

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Capitol Dance Studio, 525 18th St. NV.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Outdoor Amusements

MOUNT dancing nightly the
lined cruise vessel leaving moonlight
Also scenic river trips daily at $50 m. pm.
POTOMACNghty moonlight Seventh
street and Maine SW. Saturdays
are two down. -thrver dance aun
at $780, with name" bands supplying the
GLEN ECHO PARK-The full complement park at
fractions includes various rides midway novelties, dining
pavilion and tree-shaded picnic is dancing
nightly except Sundays in the Spanish Room to
music by Paul Kan with songs by Adele Van.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-14
Shall We Feed Europe?

Americans have the biggest hearts in all the world. Any nation of Europe that has ever endured, suffering of any kind, from war or famine, knows that to be a fact. And that's why the problem Amer ica faces today is one of the toughest It ever had to decide: Shall Americans help feed European victims of Nazi aggression this winter?
 Under ordinary circumstances, the an- Swer would be easy. It would be thun- derous YES, punctuated by the clink of coins, gladly given. Under the usual conditions, boatloads of food and clothing and medical supplies would already be on their way. But these are not ordinary times. War still rages. The fallen na- tions are still fallen. And for the first time in American history, citizens are ar guing over whether charity might not turn out eventually to be slap in Uncle Sam's face.
 The need is unmistakably there. Some folks contend that this alone is sufficient reason for helping. But should the United States ask the British to relax their blockade of the continent and ob- tain a solemn promise from Berlin that food shipments to France and Belgium and the Netherlands and other conquered territories will not be appropriated by the Nazis? Opponents Scoff. Promises! Has Hitler ever been known to keep his solemn pledge? And even if he meant to keep this one, does it seem likely that he would watch unwaveringly the feeding of the conquered while the German peo- pie, the conquerors, subsist on insuf1- cient rationS?
 No matter, say those who favor aid to Europe. Unless Americans display hu- manitarianism, they point out, this country will sink in moral prestige. The act of feeding Europe cannot directly in- duence the conduct of the war, they maintain Oh, can't it? ask the oppo- nents. Suppose there is no food this winter. Hungry people become desper- ate. And desperate people revolt. Let Hitler feed them Even neager rationS of food among Europe's vanquiShed will keep them in state of beaten lethargy.
 Americans can never completely close their hearts. Even those who most vio- lently resist the idea of relieving Eu- ropes suffering must vince when they think of the hardships among innocent civilians. They take their stand not be- cause they are ruthless and barbarous but because they believe that aloofnesS to suffering now will work toward the ultimate preservation of liberty It's difficult decision to make. Whatever con- clusion we reach, it will take years be- fore anyone can determine whether it was. the right one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-14
Workers Share the Boom

Department store sales are heading upwards again genuine sign of encour- agement to observers of business trends. Sales in August of this year were 10 per cent above those of August, 1889, ac- cording to the Alexander Hamilton insti- tute. The index of sales was set at 100, based on retail business during the 1923-25 period. There is nothing to in- dicate that the trend should not con- tinue upward throughout the remaining months of the year.
 This news is especially cheering to those masses at the bottom of the eco- homie scale It often takes little time for waves of prosperity to reach the workers. The best indication that the average consumer is beginning to enjoy better economic health is an increase in department store sales.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-14

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. But not always, as in the case of possible destruction. Such landmarks as St. Paul's in London are just hearsay to most of us, but to English people the famous cathedral stands out as the cen ter of life of medieval London. St. Paul's has been bombed as have other cathe- dralS in other wars. In the recent Span ish Civil War the destruction of old churches and other buildings was ap- palling and it is hard to realize that in the midst of daily life in these modern days that such destruction goes on. St. Paul's has noted history and is believed to be the site of the Roman Temple of Diana. It dates back to the early sev- enth century. Later new building was finished after the Norman conquest, about the early fourteenth century. It was destroyed in fire in 1866 and later re- built by Christopher Wren who died in 1723, and called at that time the new St. Pauls. Again it is undergoing some sort of destruction as may be seen in the pictorial sections of the daily press. St. Paul's is just one of many churches, Protestant and Catholic, in London that are experiencing the effects of enemy bombs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-14

Perkins? Or any member? The "brain- trusters". Are the Cohens or the Corcor- ans or the "exes", Felix Frankfurter and Raymond Moley and all the other racke- teers?
 The New Deal legislation? Was any one bribed to pass the Old Age Security legislation, the Wages and Hours legiSla- tion, the Unemployment legislation, the Farm legislation, much of which MT. Willkie approves? The beneficiaries of this legislation did not have a dime to bribe anyone.
 New Deal appointeeS? Consider those we know, men from Connecticut, such men as Thomas HeweS in the Treasury Department, Thurman Arnold in the Justice Department, Robert Hurley in the WPA. Are they racketeerS?
 Former Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley? He was chief patronage dispenser under the New Deal. Was he a racketeer? Not according to the uni versal tribute paid him'by political friend and foe when he resigned. Honor alone was all that he took from public office and at that no greater than the honor he gave to the office.
 Former Attorney General Homer s. Cummings? He is the one man AL American team who broke up organized racketeering. His official career ended the unofficial career of Al Capone, Der ringer, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the other gangsterS and kidnaperS who aSpired to rule the country.
 Calling New Dealers starry eyed dream CTS, economic crack-pots, impractical theorists, Washington Communists, and whole dictionary of other names may find an amused audience in politics, but to attempt to stigmatize them as racke- teers will find few people, even among the most violent partisans, indulgent enough to consider it fair argument.
 While MT. Willkie was member of the Democratic Party he might have made the charge against few members of the Harding administration, which has long since passed into history, but he is not justified in making the charge against the New Dealers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-14
Oomph Today, Boom Tomorrow

There's place for everything in to- days defense industry. Even old movie films. A new plant to convert old films into high explosives is about to be es- tablished at Lake Crystal near Minne- apolis. Here nitrate will be extracted from the smash hits of yesterday and will be used in the manufacture of TINT and other powerful charges.
 The thrilling sagas of the screen, over which you once laughed and cried and applauded, are about to be reduced to a poof out of big gun. And Clark Ga ble and Robert Taylor are about to go up in smoke. In defense, anything goes.