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Evening star., 1940-01-20

MI. 4am1rOu looks ana acts more
ike Akin Tamiro6 made up to
impersonate . man of science than
. man Of science, his genius still
excels Miss Lamour's somehow in
bringing drama to Disputed Pas
sage"
There are some good sequences in
disputed Passage" scenes you will
enjoy watching. When Mr.. Tami-
ro1's complete scientist and the
young doctor portrayed by John
Howard are calling each other the
nasty names conjured up out of
their mutual personal hate and
professional high regard the pic
ture has to 1t zing Of life.
Disputed Passage" for all the
punch Mr.. Tamiron and Mr.. How
ard give some Of it, is not so ef-
fective as previous screen transla-
tions Of other Lloyd c. Douglas
novels, however. It just isn't quite
believable. partly because of an in
ability to believe the eyes when they
see promising young scientist
desert the laboratory to chase Miss
Lamour to China. Then, too, 1t
isn't quite believable because the
script telegraphs its every move.
Nor Is Mr.. Douglas latest attempt
to prove the existence of the human
soul to q populace composed gen
orally OF those who believe In the
Evening star., 1940-01-20
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showins

National-san Carlo Opera Co. In
Madame Butterfly" 2:30 pm, and
II 1rovatore::" $50 pm.
Palace-"of Mice and Men, !"
screen version of the John Stein
beck novel and play: 1l:55 am,
2:2o, 4:45, 7:lo and s:35 pm.
Earle-"A Child is Born" drama
IN the maternity ward: II am,
1:40, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 12:40, $3.50. 6:15 and 8 pm.
Capitol-"Disputed Passage" film
adaptation of the Lloyd Douglas
book: 10:45 am, 1870, 400, 7:05 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1920, $40
6 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"Another Thin Maa. !"
more fun with Mr.. and Mrs. Nick
Charles: 1910, 1885, 5, 7:20 and
9:45 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Great Victor
Herbert" his music especially, at
11:l0 am, lis, 1925, $50, 7::3o and
$40 pm.
Keith's-"Green HE'LL romance in
the jungle: 11:15 am, l, 2:45, 4:30,
Sis, sos and $50 pm.
Little-''Naughty Marietta" with
Nelson Eddy and jeanette Mac
Donald: II an, 1:10, 800, $50,
TAO and $50 pm. "Ski Chase" ;"
12:45. ass, sos, 7:15 and 9:25 pm.
Evening star., 1940-01-20
Now Mary's Heart
Belongs to Bin6

A new starring combinat ton, Bine
Crosby and Mary Martin, has been
announced at Paramount by VII.
liam LIE Baron, managing director
OF production. The crooner and the
MY Heart Belongs to Daddy" girl
will be co-starred in Ghost Music. /"
Crosby's next Paramount picture.
Crosby has completed Road to
Singapore" In which he co-stars
with Bob Hope and Dorothy
Lamour at Paramount and soon be-
gins work in q Universal picture.
Miss Martin, who became the
toast Of New York as q result Of
her performance In the Broadway
musical show Leave It to Me-" re-
Gently achieved further fame for
her work In her first motion pic
ture, Paramount's 1.-THE Great VIC
tor Herbert" -
Ghost Music" is an original story
by Billy Wilder and Jacques Thery
and deals with the adventures Of
q music writer who ghosts tunes
for better-known composers.
Evening star., 1940-01-20
To Stage Pageant
At Gone Benefit

A short Finnish pageant will be
staged at the Palace Theater next
Saturday night as q prologue to the
evenings Finnish relief fund bene-
fit performance Of Gone With the
Wind" Featured will be . chorus,
singing the Finnish national anthem.
After the nrst four days Of public
sale Of tickets for the benefit more
than 70 per cent Of the available
2,300 tickets had been sold, the COM
mittee In charge announced.
Evening star., 1940-01-20

inal" is the objective Of the
scrambled affairs of these occupants
Of an undoubtedly novel movie scene.
1t Is the pictures flaw that the
essential effect is too well achieved,
that its attempts at comic relief are
sadly inadequate.
Individual performances somehow
manage to come through the beset-
ting sins of the script with some
degree Of excellence. Best Of them,
naturally, is that Of Miss Fitzgerald
who makes a touching thing Of the
despair Of the fragile girl who passed
on her life to her child in the hope
that the latter could make some
thing better Of 1t than q criminal
mistake. Good, too, is Gladys
George in the role Of the hard
bitten show gal who accepts mother
hood with all the fierce resentment
that she can find IN the bottles Of
gin which are smuggled in to her as
she waits her turn at the delivery
room. It Is q great tight she puts
up to inject some merriment into
the situation, but the situation 1ust
does not have room for merriment,
"A Child Is Born" would be much
better II it did.
+ 4. 4 4
The zaNy Mr.. Skelton never allows
a gloomy moment, dull moment or
for that matter a quiet moment.
With the full enthusiasm of happy
young man who would gladly draw
and quarter himself on stage if he
thought 1t would give you a good
satisfying laugh, Red fires away with
a sheaf Of his old tricks and a sheaf
Of his new ones. Daft doings are
those Mr.. Shelton performs, with
and without the aid of Edna Still
well, and it is nice to have them
back.
There's something of freshness
about the other turns in this little
revue Harry Anger has staged, too.
Most definitely In the novel category
Is Flo Mayo, who does some prac-
tically amazing antics high up Gas
high as she can get on the Earle
stage) on trapeze. Then there arc
some dances (mostly in a comic
vein) by the nimble Three Samuels
and Harriet Hayes; some musical
diversions (also with the comic
touch) by the Four Squires.
The Shelton elan has infected
even the Earle's Roxyettes, who be-
come as boisterous as they have been
Evening star., 1940-01-20

nullif1es some incidental minor
virtues Of "A Child Is Born" one
OF them being fine performance by
Geraldine Fitzgerald against the
handicap of q role which makes
maternity more melodramatic than
the fall of Rome.
In marked contrast to the somber
goings-on in this meeting place Of
incipient mothers, the stage bill
Is explosively on the fey side. Its
tone is set and maintained by the
Infectious Red Shelton, one of the
most violent enemies of gloom
among the younger generation Of
comedians.
"A Child Is Born" for which the
studio assembled a talented cast Of
latent mothers, actually is the story
Of the birth Of some dozen babies,
only one Of which Is permitted the
dubious honor Of coming into the
world automatically. That one,
Of course, counts very little in the
unfoldment Of the story which
focuses attention mainly upon the
child to be born to Grace Sutton
(Miss Fitzgerald). Miss Sutton Is
an extraordinary mother to be,
being (a) q convicted murderess
who killed for honor's sake, 20 q
woman Aff1icted with all sorts Of
physical handicaps to maternity
and Co so filled with a sense Of
disgrace and despair that she
hopes to die in childbirth.
The one force in the world which
operates to save her from this set of
circumstances is the love of her
husband, an unemployed neurotic
whose whole -souled devotion gives
him piteous appeal.
With that dramatic material to
work on, the average script would
be satisfied to concentrate, but not
this one. It's maternity ward Is q
kind Of madhouse, its occupants
being vaudeville dancer who has
twins against her every drunken
wish; woman who has wanted q
baby all her life but knows that
this one, too, will be born dead; q
child bride who is terrified that
motherhood will give away her mar
riage; a kind Of ancient Ophelia
whose cracked fancy is that she Is
going to have baby If she has to
steal one; and an assortment Of
others who could not possibly ever
meet anywhere at one time.
The narrowing effect that was
achieved in 'They Made Me q Grim
Evening star., 1940-01-20

existence Of the human soul exactly
what Gilbert Seldes would call q
movie. The movies, Mr.. Seldes al
ways says, must move. Disputed
Passage" just leaps, as q mountain
goat from crag to crag, from scene
to scene.
Perhaps the intervals apparently
leaped over are just Dorothy La
mour, though we would rather not
say anything more about Miss La
mour. Our admiration for her seems
to have developed into some sort of
phobia which gives us an almost
uncomfortable urge to shrek with
wild, hysteric laughter when emo
ton develops her. For this reason
as matter of fact, we enjoyed
every minute Of disputed Passage. y
though we have a notion Director
Frank Borzage would not have liked
the manner in which we enjoyed it.
\ \ Il \
The Capitol's stage show is
Major Bowes' Fifth Anniversary
Revue" and here we've been think
Ing 1t has just seemed that long,
And we did not enjoy every minute
OF 1t, though we are not going to
fly in the teeth of the majors fol-
lowers, who obviously like these
things and do not care that each
looks just like the one before it.
only sometimes worse.
Best Of the performers in this cur
rent affair Is lad who calls him
self the Man With the Mandolin, "
who was q Bowes amateur" Thurs
day night and who was Immediately
sent for by the Capitol manage
ment. This was q smart move on
the part Of the Capitol manage
ment, for he can whang the day.
lights out of a mandolin. Ted
Claire, the master of ceremonies
contributes some bright spots, too
Evening star., 1940-01-20

but ut the show we saw he appar-
emily had some fear of the dark
ness Of the wings; just wouldn't get
on the stage.
Dorothy Dorr turns In q novel
swing dance routine, the White
Twins sing pleasantly enough
Woody and Betty do some tricky
skating and among the others are
five lads who play harmonicas and
ring bells, not exactly in a manner
to make you any happier for not
being tone deaf.
Best moment Of all is the Victor
Herbert overture by the Capitol or
chestra and Sam Jack Kaufman,
but he's no Major Bowes amateur.
Evening star., 1940-01-20

in weeks in q trio Of fresh workouts.
They are not only loud and good,
but good and loud, first with bells,
then with out-and-out swing and
finally tapping on stairsteps.
Evening star., 1940-01-20
Akin Taniroff Lends Life
To Disputed Passage
He's Better Than Dorothy Lamour
In Capitol's New Picture;
Bowes Unit on Stage
BY HARRY MACARTHUR,

AKIN Iamlron handy Lad to have around cinema studio
at oews Capitol owes all its lively
up SOFT warm romantic pacts in favor hard
when his hancee died. Maybe this
time Mr. Tamro not Granting thai
Evening star., 1940-01-20
Maternity a Melodrana
In Earle's New Film
"A Child Is Born Is Grim Affair;
Red Skeletons Zany Comedy on
Stage Relieves Screen Gloom
BeVond do,

Beyond doubt there Is drama in the maternity ward
hospital Warmers however will find
ayman there into "A Child Is
which opened Yesterday the Earle
keeps pounding the audiences
have become wead they die
Evening star., 1940-01-20
Steinbeck Reaches Screen
With Full Power On
OF Mice and Men, at Palace, Keeps
Faith With the Gloomy Genius
OF Current L. S. Literature
BY JAY CARMODY.

~ ne snewy dramatic literature Of John senbeck not too tough
nrst screen translation Of senbeck novel, which yesterday
N ne aace Ine bleak OF the story which
fascinating writer found the
trd the picture Milestone directed and
Evening star., 1940-01-20

ADJUSTMENTS,
Evening star., 1940-01-20

STANTON 9Th and C SITS. NE.
u AASAOIV Finest Sound Eauipmenk
Continuous From 1 Pm.
THE WITNESS VANISHES.s
With EDMUND LOWE. WENDY BARRn
Also
Heritage Of the Desert"
With DONALD WOODS. EVELYN VEN.
ABLE RUSSELL HAYDEN,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16

iEy Associated treSS)
Washington. Sept. l6-AP-Head-
ed by President Roosevelt, official
Washington paid its respect today
to Speaker william b. Bankhead at
a state funeral in the House cham
Der
The 66-year-old speaker, an Ad-
ministration stalwart for the past
seven years, died early Sunday after
an internal hemorrhage. He was
stricken a week ago in Baltimore a
short time before he was to ad-
dress a political rally.
The Houses choice TO succeed
Bankhead was Sam Rayburn Of
Texas, the chambers present Dem
ocratic leader and a close friend Of
the dead speaker. The brief cere-
mony elevating Rayburn to speaker
was to precede the funeral sery-
ices.
At the conclusion of the services
a special train will leave the capital
/ bearing Speaker Bankhead's body
to his home in Jasper. Ala, for
burial at $3.50 p. m. Tuesday Pres
ident Roosevelt. a committee Of so
House members. and other repre-
sentatfves of officialdom will ac-
company the body south to attend
the final services. a three-day
House recess meanwhile will be
taken.
Lose Proven Friend
Mr.. Roosevelt. who received word
OF Bankheads death while cruising
on the Potomac. said that every
American loses a tried and proven
friend of our system of govern
ment." The Presidents tribute was
one OF the many mourning Bank
heads passing.
Bankhead. who had served as
speaker since 1886. was the third
to die in that office during the
See NKHEAn-paqe &
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
HURRICANE HEADS
At EAST COAST
AID PUSHED TO SWEDISH
FRElGHTER CAUGHT IN
STORM CENTER

(Rv international News service)
New York. Sept. l6-INS The
Atlantic Coast battened down to-
day against a hurricane reported
By the Weather Bureau 20 be
sweeping up from Cape Hatteras
towards New England.
One Of the hrst victims was the
1909 ton Swedish frelghter La
ponia which wirelessed she was
caught in the center OF the storm
about 300 miles east OF Cape Hat
teras. The Laponia reported her
mast blown away, the steering
gear disabled, her tanks leaking
and that she was drifting
Three vessels, the T. $. liner
President Roosevelt. the coast
guard cutter Cara basset from Nor.
folk and another unidentified yes.
sci we're racing to the position Of
the Laponia
Shortly after Q O'Clock. the Presi-
dent Roosevelt was believed 10
have reached the buffeted craft
MacKay Radio reporting intercep-
ton OF the fbllowlng message 10
the President Roosevelt from the
Laponia:
Working hard trying get water
in afterpeak and storing engine
room. also crew quarters. Under
control Can you stand by few
hours"
All small craft along the coast
were warned 10 put into safe har-
por as the storm advanced at an
ls-mile an hour clip Storm warn
ings were hoisted from Cape Hat
teras 10 PASSPORT, Ne.
Heavy seas were whipped up by
the approaching storm on Long
Island and the New Jersey coast
capsizing severa, small fishing
vessels and taking at least two
lives. Victor Henry was drowned
when his rowbOat capsized on
Edgemere. Long Island. and John
n. Belize. 81. OF Princeton, y. j.
was killed when hurled against
lefty rocks as his boat likewise
capsized Of Barnegat, n. J.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
W|LLK|E CHARGES
ROOSEVELT HAS
LOST FAITH, GRIP
Declares Depression Made
Permanent by His
Policies

(Ry International N4ws servicel
Coffeyville. Kan. Sept. 16-lNS
Here where he tsgght-American
history in the Coffeyville High
School q years ago, Wendell VIII
kie today solemnly charged that:
Franklin Roosevelt has lost faith
In the people. 90 Weakened.
rather than strengthened. Democra-
cy throughout the world Lost
his grip on our American princi.
pies made our depression per
manent"
The Republican presidential can.
didate in a speech opening his cam
paign accused the President OF be.
ing the godfather OF the Munich
Pact. Of torpedoing the London Eco
nomic Conference Of 1893, Of mis-
representing the defense strength
Of the nation. OF being pushed by
cynical advisers toward unconstitu
tional government.
Willkie declared that the people
Of America are about to lose
faith" in President Roosevelt. and
promised TO protect democracy and
the celebrates right TO choose its
political leaders.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
SEVERAL INJURED
IN CRASHES HERE
WEEK END BRINGS HEAVY
TOLL OF SLIGHT INJURIES,
DAMAGED CARS

Several persons are IN hospitals
and several cars in garages as the
result OF week end traffic crashes
in this area
Earl B. Miller, 81. Jackson, vas
cut and bruised when car he was
driving west on Ecorse Rd. Satur-
day evening lefr the road and
crashed into a utilities pole after
skidding 200 feet Edward Clark
3s. sustained cuts and a leg in
Jury, and Theodore VOught, 81.
was cut and bruised. They were
riding with Miller. All three men
were taken to University Hospital.
Ann Arbor
Car Hits Pole
Malcolm Dean, Berkeley, was In
iured and was taken TO Detroit
Hospital for treatment after a
car in which he was riding. driven
BY Harry Covill, Berkeley, crashed
into a pole at the intersection OF
y. Territorial and Gotfredson Rds.
Saturday night Berkeley vas
locked in Wayne County jail over
Sunday and is 10 face reckless driv-
ing charges In municipal court here
today.
Crashes Into Tree
Henry r. Kellar. 49, Manchester,
See SEVERAL HUNT Page
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
SP|NSTER KILLS
LAWYER FRIEND
MONEY BELIEVED CAUSE OF
QUARREL BETWEEN
WOMEN

Hastings-on-Hudso n. Y, Sept
Zap Psychiatrists attempted
today to draw from the ineoherent
utterances of a socially prominent
spinster OF the details of furious
Sunday morning fight in 'vhich her
life long friend, woman attorney,
was dubbed to death.
The victim was Miss Eottie Wash
ington Booth, so, law graduate Of
New York University. and once a
specialist in patent litigation In
New York. Police held on charge
Of homicide Miss Mary f. B. Jones,
"A. They had lived together for ten
years in Miss Booths 100000 West
chester County home in which the
death struggle occurred.
When Patrolman Frank McCaf-
frey. answering neighbors sum-
mons, arrived at the estate, he said
he found Miss Jones still vigorous
ly raining blows on her victim.
On the basis of stories supplied
by neighbors and tradesmen. police
thought the pair might have quar-
relied over money.
Shattered and bloodstained furni-
ture and MISUNDERSTANDING an
oak stool, a heavy piece OF crockery
and an antique chair-throughout
the home indicated the women had
fought through many rooms.
Miss Jones was taken to the
phychopathic ward of nearby Grass
lands Hospital Dr. Frank Harnden
OF Pittsfield, Mass, brother-in-law,
said the woman had been commit
ted to a Long Island sanitarium
some years ago and had remained
there less than year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
Loss Of Men, Mechanical
Equipment Reported
Heavy
DIVE BOMBERS DESTROY
AIROROME AT MALTA
German Air Attacks On
England Reach New
Peak of Fury

(By International News serviee)
Rome, Sept. l6-lNS- Driving
British troops back. the desert
army OF Marshal Rodolpho Gra-
ziani has penetrated further into
western Egypt. and fighting is now
raging beyond Sollum, the high
command announced today.
British and native troops. seek
ing to stem the advance OF the
-EaseiSt- mechanical Units. have
sustained heavy losses OF men and
equipment. IL was claimed. -
Occupation OF Sollum, a British
base near the Libyan-Egyptian
frontier, was confirmed by a mill
taEy bulletin.
A communique. issued earlier to-
day, reported new Italian bomb
ing attacks on Malta. British base
in the Mediterranean.
Destroy Alrdrome
The Rome radio said Italian
dive bombers attacked the Halfar
Airdrome at Malta, destroying
hangers and other equipment.
An Official communicate asserted
Italian advance detachments had
crossed the Egyptian frontier and
engaged In heavy fighting.
Editors Note: The British COM
mand in Cairo admitted the loss
OF ground near Sollum but said
artillery fire and bombing raids
inflicted heavy casualties on the
ltalians.)
New Peak OF Fury
Germany's air attacks against
England, and especially London.
reached new peak OF fury and
violence today as two new air
raid warnings sounded in the Brit
ish capital after an all night raid
IN which IS areas OF the city were
bombed
Nevertheless. British authorities
claimed that 1S6 German raiders
had been brought down during the
past "a hours.
! A major air battle developed Off
the southeast coast OF England
today as r. A. +. planes and Brit
fish fighters repulsed large for
nation OF Nazi machines trying TO
penetrate TO London A few more
German craft were believed
knocked down in this encounter.
In which about 100 British and Ger
man planes participated.
The ranks OF the German planes
were broken, British sources said
and they were forced to "high.tail'
back toward the French coast.
The first warning OF the day In
London sounded at 9:59 a. m and
the all clear IS minutes later.
The second warning sounded at
1854 A. m. and was still in pro-
gress shortly before noon.
Blast at French Ports
German planes we're not the only
ones taking the offensive, however.
All during the night and early to-
day waves OF British bombers
swept across the English chan
mel and delivered colossal past
Ing TO German held ports In north
ern France and the low countries.
Barges. steamers. docks and
military equipment heinz prepared
for an attempt to invade the Brit
ish Isles felt the fury Of Brltain's
hard hitting bombardiers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
WORLD SUNNI
tBx As:cciAtsd PrsssA =

war w NC nv
British claim 1876 Nazi planes
shot down over England in Sab
bath raids. largest bag" for
single day since war began; Ger
man pilots acknowledge they are
meeting stiffening resistance at
London: buckingham Palace hit
again by bomb. but pilot who
dropped the missile plummets 10
death. two daylight air raid
alarms sound in London before
noon.
Time Bombs
English say Nazi dropped time
bombs in clusters Sunday; a l.
l00.pound delayed action projec-
tile in the vicinity Of historic st
Paul's cathedral Is removed and
exploded harmlessly by suicide
squad q"
Itslisns In Egypt
Fascist troops under Marshal
Rodolfo Craziani widen spearhead
thrust into Northwestern Egypt,
British harass advancing columns
with BON bers. armored cars and
artillery fire and discount Italian
successes as occupation OF desert
wasteland
Mexican Celebration
Mexlcans. celebrating I30th
anniversary Of independence from
Spain. hear President Lazaro Car
denas proclaim Pan-American
solidarity and denounce Some
people" trying 10 start rebellion
in Mexico; Adolf Hitler sends
best wishes
Blum Arrested
The Vichy government takes
former socialist Premier Leon
Blum into custody In connection
with French war guilt" cases.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-16
Annual Flower Show to be
Thursday in Starkweather

one OF the most widely visited IN
Starkweather Hall.
Mrs. Clark Ferguson has charge
OF fruit and vegetables; Miss
Mayme Panek, foliage: lba S. Bias
sett, house plants; Mrs. Nathan
Munro. miniatures: while Mrs.
Velena Perry. assisted by Mrs.
George Norman will arrange a
showing OF weeds. This has al
ways been very popular. To Mrs.
r. G.. Vorce has been delegated the
preparation OF labels; to Mrs.
Perry S. Brundage, the assembling
OF tables; to Mrs. John Sellers. the
table from which punch will he
served: and 10 Mrs. Frank Minniss
Mrs. Everett Dicks and Fred Lind
assistance in replacing furniture
starkweaiher Hall will be open
Thursday morning from 10 TO 2 O..
c,ocr in the afternoon. for the re-
ception OF exhibits.