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SIG 1t
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
loyALAND9o AND
|slIAL ITEMS
/. u, Come and Go,
[',s7o Our Community
1 Former Smyrnians
kND CLUB PARTIES

nj Ms. william N. Ford !
\. Emma Cummings OF
NJ, Mr.. and Mrs.
sT. Biting and Miss l1:,3. D0ris Or
Cd Stonehurst Hills, "a.
IN R, Gibbons, Mr.. John H.
!, M Miss Mary Ennis of
T. we're weekend guests
Tatsr Ford and family
| b. and Mrs. James W.
|, n on Tuesday for Viii
4 where they will attend
|gtDtst Conference for the
! There viii be no preaching
Ia Asbuy Church on Sun
L to lie absence of the pas
J Nary HynsOn, Mrs. Ken
| ss. Nj. and Mrs. William
attended the funeral ser
We Mills Church Of Mrs.
L Roe on Thursday. Inter
kw ID Chesterfield Cemetery
E,rsIIe, Nd.
\ I'd Mrs.. Elmer Taylor Of
Nuge N. j., and Mr.. and
|Gre Taylor, Of White Plains,
!. lave returned home after
h. several days with Mr.and
|CL Harmonson.
! lawrence Appleton of
/ City, N. j., was hostess at
EsrlurCheOn at the Wayside
q Wednesday, when she en-
nfd friends from Smyrna and
! City.
!. lszs L. Corley Of San
dx1 California, spent last
say md Friday with his
Y D.. R. F. Corley and Mrs.
ind Mrs. J. Rich Holland of
ans, were guests on Sunday
b Alice Read and Mr.. and
Villain ]. Holland.
nd Mrs. Ernest Bennett Of
~ Park, Pa. were guests
D weekend Of Rev.and Mrs.
Calura.
Id Mrs. |. S. Fallin and
va Cotton Of Lansdowne
'as guests over the week
~ and Mrs. Glenn S. King
I. " A. Winford and Miss
Sirford returned Tuesday
! Fnefe they spent several
anna T. Thomas spent the
s1' With her parents, Mr..
u N W. Coleman.
lnliy Larabee Of Portland.
:, y q guest over the week
" and Mrs. L. NJ. Price.
,' - MIS-. 5. NJ. Hoffecker of
.plla' 'ssla are visiting Mrs. r.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
Mary Emma Haines, Clayton

Mrs. Mary Emma Haines, age
SO, died at her late residence in
Clayton yesterday. She was the
widow of Herbert Haines and has
lived in Clayton all her life. She
is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Lulu Waller, Clayton, and Mrs.
Charles P. Hodgson, Flint, Mich
igan. She was a member of
Ewell's Church. Services will be
held from her late residence in
Clayton on Saturday at 2 p. M,
Rev. Van Cleaf officiating. Inter
ment will be at Odd Fellows Gem
etery.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends, also the Oak Hill Com
munity League for the many beau
tiful and useful gifts received at
the shower given us on May End.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Beck,
5-16 1t r. D. Townsend. Del.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
Miss Celia Denney, Clayton

Miss Celia Denney, Clayton
Miss Celia Denney, age S3, died
at her late residence in Clayton,
May 10. She was the daughter of
Samuel Denney and Celia Pratt.
Funeral services were held from
the FAIRIES Funeral Home, Monday,
May 18th, at p. m, Rev. Robert
Van Cleaf officiating. Interment
was in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
FOR SALE

Holstein COW, End calf by side,
from clean, T. B. and Blood Tested
herd. Good mixer. Am discon-
tinuing the Holsteins for a Guern-
sey herd.
E. D. MOORE,
Pen-Mar Farm,
SIG 1t Smyrna, Delaware
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

Patented kitchen devices save
American women 10000, 900 house
wife hours a day.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Psychology
Requisite of
The Rag Man
He Dresses Sets
And Must Express
Personality
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD
An inside rag man in the movies
has to be something of a psycholo-
gist.
Fred MacLean is an inside rag
man at one studio. That means
he's set dresser for interior
scenes. The man who dresses ex-
teriours is an outside rag man.
MacLean recently has been dress
ing interiors for Bette Davis in The
Letter Bette's home, in a Straits
locale contains mixture of British
belongings and Malayan furniture
To Express Character.
Its my job says MacLean, "to
express the heroines character in
the setting. The furnishings here
in Bette's bedroom and in her living
room-numerous little gadgets, fine
paintings, dainty little fgurines-
reflect the personality of the
heroine. Before the lines and
action of the play can establish
character, these little articles give
hints on her personality and help
set the mood of the film"
MacLean also helped as outside
rag man on the set because the
exteriors in this particular scene
lead strongly to the action within
Bettes house.
Painted Shadows.
An oak tree, for example, serving
as a rubber tree. drips its white,
milky fluid into pals in the tropical
moonlight night. The scene called
for especially strong moonlight
shadows on the white sand, so deep
Shadows" were painted on the sand
with black oil
"An interesting or distinctive
central character calls for par
ticularly interesting or distinctive
setting says MacLean. And that's
where we rag men come in.
It's the sort of work interior
decorators should do but usually
don't-make rooms expressive of
their owners"
Evening star., 1940-06-09


until Ford, who saw him first, put
him in "Stagecoach" and made a
Then he was relegated to Westerns
new star of him. Since then Wayne
has been able to write his own
ticket. In THE Long Voyage
Home" by Eugene O'Neill. he has
the best part of his acting life-that
of Ole, the inarticulate Swedish
seaman.
Jane Darwell was well-nigh for
gotten when Ford cast her as
Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath"
She's well remembered now.
Carradine Is Another.
And so is Russell Simpson, one
of the really fine character actors.
Simpson was pretty much "lost in
the shuttle" until Ford rediscovered
him in Grapes of Wrath"
John Carradine is another fine
actor who won't be forgotten because
of Ford. He's "Stagecoacher" and
a Grapes of Wrather" too.
Then there is Ward Bond. Bond,
ex-college football hero, has been
playing undistinguished bits around
town for several years. Ford, who
has great confidence in him, cast
him as Yank in The Long Voyage
Home" and those who have seen
Bonds dramatic scenes declare they
are among the finest the screen has
presented this year.
Ford Is the Answer.
After Thomas Mitchell made such
a hit in THE Hurricane" he might
well have joined the ranks of the
forgotten if Ford hadn't given him
the character of Doc Boone in
"Stagecoach." He had been idle 10
months. "Stagecoach" won him the
1899 Academy award and also won
Evening star., 1940-06-09

him another rich part in THE Long
Voyage Home"
If one asks John Qualen why he
is in demand right now his answer
will be John Ford" For it was
Ford who directed him in one of
the finest scenes of the year in
Grapes of Wrath"
Tracy Says So, Too.
The list of players Ford refuses
to let the fans forget is long one.
And so is the list of stars he had
made.
Ask Spencer Tracy what put him
where he is on the screen. He'll
say it was his performance in up
the River" directed by Ford. John
Gilbert made his first hit under
Ford's guidance in Cameo Kirby"
George O'Brien was a stunt man
when Ford starred him in THE Iron
Horse" He's been doing all right
ever since. Victor McLaglen owes
his place at the top to The In
former" a Ford production.
1t is easy to see why players like
to work in Ford pictures. They
know they'll be remembered for a
long, long time
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Successful at, Not One, but Three Careers
(udrun Hansen Exed From Her Copenhagen by the War;
Makes Good as Writer Model and Showsirl

zines that are the acme Of models
achievement.
2. An advance from a publisher
for her first book, which-surpris-
ingly-is a series of fairy stories.
She plans to go on writing Danish
fairy tales throughout her careers
as a model and showgirl.
3. A job in the line of a forth
coming musical show, from a pro-
ducer who finally said, II guess
you're not too short" (She is S
feet 9, but some of the girls" she
said, ARE as tall as houses. I stand
like shrimp and look at them and
then my chances, up to now, are
gone"
Then Came the War.
Gundrun's occupation several
months ago was correspondent for
a Copenhagen newspaper. She came
over on a freighter, not knowing
a soul here, on visit during which
she planned to pay her way by free
lance writing.
Soon came the war, her paper
ordered no more stories, her checks
stopped coming and she set out to
get job.
Since then she's learned a lot and
formed many impressions, "and
now" she laughed. Il don't know
whether I'm shoWgirl or a model
or a writer. I'm mixup of every
thing. I'm confused myself"
you know" she said, briskly eat
ing smorgasbord at luncheon in
terview in a Swedish restaurant,
IF I had daughter 1 would forbid
her to be a model or 60 in the
show business.
I'D make her sit in an Office at
a typewriter!
There must be 1000 girls in New
York trying to get jobs as models
and shoWgirls-most of them pretty,
sweet, Well-educated And although
I now have some jobs, I'm sure that
what I've made so far can just be
compared to my expenses.
You 60 to model agency and
they say, You have to have pic
lures
Il spent almost $45. CHer eyes
widened) You wonder where you
get this money from
Sometimes You're Lucky.
"They say, oh yes. we like to see
new faces You leave them and
close the door and are out of their
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Coming Attractions

KEITHS-"My Favorie Wife" the comedy which Cary
Grant finds he Dunne returns
from seven years desert island will follow Irene"
other wife Gail Patrick another Randolph Scott
EARLE-Sighy Honorable story
with the accent heavily on humor Friday Pat OBrien
the fellow cleaning Ruth give
tive Comedy the stage show Keep Cool" too
with sundy speciality performers and the providing
CAPITOL-"Turnabou film Thone Smith tale
of the and wife who screamed I'D
only to wake there arrives Friday
Hubbard the urnabous The Clyde
Mccoy and his Sugar Blues Orchestra
PALACEIhe Mortal Storm perturbation Phyllis Bottomes
dramatic Of the Germany Margaret SULLIVAN
James Stewart Robert Young Morgan follows Lii
liam Russell"
Navy Spy" with certain changes
and new ending to bring date opens
ally based New has Edward G. Robinson
as the Oman breaking the espionage ring.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

reasons may be that it hasn't gone
to the head of Mother Darnell.
Mother of six children, Margaret
Darnell is pleasant person with
craving hair, done in braid in the
back. She wears simple clothes,
unaffected hats, little makeup But
most paradoxical, viewed in the light
of activities of other movie mothers,
is the way she leaves Linda's career
to the studio
Il think they know more about
the movies than I do" she says.
Folks around Twentieth Century
Fox didn't see her, in fact, during
Linda's first picture, Hotel for
Women" Finally, at her daughter S
insistance. she stepped on the lot to
watch Daytime Wife"-partially
she admits. because wanted to see
Tyrone Power"
Leaves 1t to Those Who Know.
Linda's busy now on Brigham
Young" but the director doesn't find
Mrs Darnell underfoot. She stays
in their modest home a few blocks
from the studio and leaves movie
making to those who know how
She isn't entirely happy, although
critics see for her daughter one of
the brightest futures in filmdom
For Hollywood is a long way from
Texas, and she's separated just that
far from her husband. C. R. Darnell,
who is in the Dallas Post Office.
Misses Her Husband.
II miss him" she says. ''and so do
the children. But we both feel that
I belong here
With her husband are Richard
Darnell and Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, the
Evening star., 1940-06-09

minds. Another pretty girl comes
along.
"Of course, once in a while you're
lucky. You get job. You make
S. an hour. But you must be up
to-date, with a nice hair-do.
Maybe you get call to bring
four or five sports dresses with you,
and four spring hats. You finally
get them, and get there, and find
they're modelling fur coats.
TITS a gamble whether you get
job or not.
But having a fine time? Yes.
I like it very much here-I think
may stay always.
Wherever 1 have benin model
ing, in the show business like
American girls very much and
think they're swell. All the models
and showgirls tried to help me, give
me good advices. And there isn't
very much Jealousy.
Has Friends Now.
American men? That's a great
question. I have met many nice
ones-a few I don't want to see
again. A few give me goose pimples
If I just think of them.
"It is not always possible to tell
who is your friend. So 1 have let
the people I met 60 through sieve.
Now I have many nice friends"
Gudrun comes from the Hans
Christian Andersen country, and
her fairy tales have animal char
acters, with some human character
istics All the stories have moral.
They are about such things as
the three little minnows who were
put in a tumbler and began to
believe they were goldfish; Miss
Frogs Confirmation" and The
Two Little Chickens who Wanted to
See the World
She isn't much interested in writ
ing novel or stories about young
people who are suffering about love
I don't think I would do we'll with
them. I like my little fairy t2les
because I can put something of
people in them"
StudiaA PHILOSOPHY.
She has witten and had published
more than 100-has been framing
them since she was a child, and
was asked by smaller girls, Tell me
a fairy tale-one of your own"
She was born in the village of
Skaerbaek in South Jutland, and
at 18 started studying philosophy
at Copenhagen University.
While there she turned in her first
article to Danish newspaper. about
a trip she made with a Danish
orchestra to watch them make rec
ords.
1t was published with double
page spread and illustrations in a
Sunday magazine section. She re-
ceived by-line.
She next wrote piece about
Christmas in Danish department
stores, and promptly sold it. After
that she wrote steadily, studying at
the same time with an apprentice
theater group called The School
Stage" and played some minor roles
in Danish pictures.
After coming to America, She
interviewed the leading figures in
swing music for her paper in Den
mark, and was particularly happy
to get by chance one evening in
radio studio an interview with Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Il didn't know she was going to
be there. l thought the interview
would be hard to get, but she was
awfully nice" said Gudrun.
In addition to her other jobs. the
enterprising Gudrun also has been
offered job with a circus.
But I didn't take that" she
chuckled. I'm scared from horses"
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Bill Powell
Not Babied
This Time
Back on the Screen,
He Finds His Role
Rigorous
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
A while back William Powell was
off the screen for two years because
of illness. Now that he's back in
the movies, though, no one is baby
ing" him. Just the opposite. rather
On sound stage the other day
someone had just poured bucket
of water upon him. Powell, smiling
at an interviewer, shook the drops
from his hair and mused:
Smacked in the Face.
Lets see-in this one I get hit
over the head with an oar and have
two fist fights
Il get chased by the cops and fall
over whole rack of pottery. Myrna
10y smacks me in the face with a
plateful of bacon and scrambled
eggs.
Hit on the Head.
II attempt to outrun a flock of
junior rangers. I get knocked down
and hit my head on door. Myrna
finishes off the job by breaking a
vase over my head"
1t makes him wonder, says Bill,
where the film gets a title like Il
Love You Again"
Evening star., 1940-06-09
He Directs
And Writes
His Films
Preston Sturges
Turns Out His Own
Screen Plays
BY Robbin Coons,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Eight years ago Preston Sturges
developed yen to direct movies as
we'll as write them.
Today he's the only director in
town who writes every word of the
pictures he directs.
Many top-f1ight directors, like
Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, Carson
Kanin, Ernst Lubitsch and William
Wellman put an active finger into
their scripts. Sturges puts both
hands.
He has one of these one-man Jobs
ready for release now Previewers
say Down Went McGinty" is a
humping good movie He is tackling
another in "The New Workers." q
comedy of coffee business in the big
town.
His first one lacked a name cast
His second has Dick Powell and
Ellen Drew, among others.
The Easiest Way.
The bosses gave writer Sturges his
chance on picture in the first place
merely to shut him up.
The story going the rounds, which
he denies, is that as writer he had
been squaWking so loudly over the
carnage of his scripts during the
filming process that letting him di-
rect seemed the easiest way out.
They were surprised.
Now SturgeS is Paramount's closest
approach to R-K-O'S Orson Welles.
All Welles does that Sturges doesn't
do is produce and act in his pictures.
and Sturges even gets in quota of
acting on the sidelines by way of
instructing his players.
"As a writer" he laughs, II think
my direction is terrible AS a di-
rector, castigate myself in the pub
lie streets for my writing"
Then Wrote a Hit.
After a World War term In the
American Air Corps, the 41-year-
old native of Chicago got into show
business as an assistant stage
manager in New York.
He stage-managed and acted in
Hot Bed" in 1928, wrote his first
play. The Guinea Pig" for a To-
week Broadway run. His second,
Strictly Dishonorable." was a hit.
This with other plays and pictures
brought him to Hollywood.
One of his first attention grabbing
exploits was the sale of his story,
The Power and the Glory" Local
legend says it was the first movie
story ever sold as complete screen
play, ready for the cameras. Spencer
Tracy and Colleen Moore were the
stars.
He got about $1,000 cash, plus
percentage which subsequently has
paid him $4,000 more.
Only Scenes He Wants.
Il still get royalty check every
three months-it was SO the last
time
The set of The New Yorkers" is
about the only one in town on which
the director isn't changing scenes as
he goes along. Sturges gets an idea
for picture, puts it on paper, and
trims it down to screen play form
before he gets into production.
His scripts contain Only the scenes
he wants in the final version, not a
handful of pages to be scrapped after
they have been filmed. When he sees
a spot for changing OF inserting a
line on the set. his story conference"
takes about one minute.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Did you ever buy sweepstakes
Then the goings-on at R-K-C
Ginger Rogers currently are engaged
Lucky Partners will be of interest
For this picture -the-making
Milestone, tells what happens wher
strangers to one another, become
joint owners of a ticket which wins.
Famed Sacha Guitry wrote it.
And that universal genius of the
French theater poured into it all the
ironic philosophy of a wit looking on
at the semi-annual madness which
seizes a world willing to gamble
$3.50 on a 10000, O,OOO-to-l chance.
Bushy-haired Allan Scott, screen
writer with the walrus mustache,
who looks like a junior Woollcott, is
uprooting Guitry's story from its
Paris milieu and transplanting it
to New York's Greenwich Village.
This permits the retention of that
bohemian Latin quarter atmos-
phere in the midst of American
background and setting.
An Informal Arrangement.
1t even permits Ronald Colman
to wear smock and beret.
1t also permits the carrying-out
of the highly informal arrangement
upon which this frothy satire is
promised.
The arrangement: If Colman, the
artist scamp, and Miss Rogers, the
girl in the bookstore across the
street, win on their ticket, they'll
go for a ride to Niagara Falls. Just
a brother-and-sister act. But some
what complicated due to the fact
that Miss Rogers is engaged to Jack
Carson, large young insurance man
with small sense of levity.
Twice a Year.
Beyond this, you won't learn now,
because apparently Producer George
Haight, Director Milestone and
Playwright Scott haven't yet settled
for an ending. Reason, for one
thing, the wealth of available ma
terlal.
Twice a year. they understand,
the young mans fancy land just
about everybody's else) lightly and
otherwise turns to thoughts of
sweepstakes winnings.
Then after the race come the
newsreels, picturing the happy win
ners as they put on their best
clothes, pose for the camera and
speak for the mike.
Many of these newsreels which
Evening star., 1940-06-09

eldest of the six. With her are
another daughter, the recently mar
ried Undeen Hunter, and the two
youngsters, Monte. II "a girD, and
Calvin, jr, 10, who's Sonny to
every one.
Mrs Darnell sees in Linda (Whose
real name is Monetta Eloyse. but
who's "Tweedles" to the rest of the
family something of herself.
Still Does the Cooking.
Il always longed to go on the
stage" she says, but the chance
never came. When Linda's did,
though, I was as happy as she.
And because I feel that way, 1 be-
lieve I'm better able to help her with
her problems"
The Darnells have some help
around the house-mosNy from a
gardener. Mrs. Darnell still does
the cooking.
That's one thing I couldn't trust
to any one else" she laughs.
When Linda is working, her spare
time is her own for studying her
scripts or drawing or piano playing
She likes to dance. but rarely goes
out. Boy friends are pon-eXistent,
says her mother. Linda OCCASION
ally goes to previews or studio affairs
with Bob Shaw, a Dallas boy also
under contract to Twentieth, but
both agree it's just friendship.
When Linda isn't working she
does her share around the house
except maybe with the dishes.
She dislikes doing dishes more
than anything" Mrs. Darnell says
Maybe I see a little of me in her
there, too"
Evening star., 1940-06-09

in the past have caused the Gus
toners to roll in the aisles, are being
exhumed. critically examined. From
them are being received suggestions
for bits of universal folly. some of
which will be incorporated in the
picture.
Thus, for instance. the secondary
story of the two Nicks. proprietors
of the Pink Panda Cafe in Green
wich Village. who follow the fortunes
of the lucky partners with tender
solicitude. When M'sieu Colman
and Ma amselle Rogers draw horse,
the losing Nick has to play horsey to
the winning one and ride him
around the block-an extravaganza
drawn almost intact from news
reel of other days.