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Evening star., 1940-04-16
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April 16.-Infuenced
by European war news, all wheat
contracts and July and September
corn futures rushed into new sea-
sonal high ground today with gains
ranging up to cents a bushel.
At the peaks profit selling in
creased. but the markets retained
their strong tone throughout the
session.
July and September wheat con-
tracts, new crop deliveries. climbed
to sl.0912, both up Is to the high
est level for the contracts in nearly
three years and Il. above season
peaks set week ago when German
troops invaded Scandinavia. May
contracts reached s11O12, up Is to
the highest price for any wheat con-
tract since last December.
July corn reached 63l2, up 134,
and September GAS, up cents.
Wheat closed Halls higher; May,
S1.101s-h4; July, s109-s1 O91s; corn
19s-2 cents up. May, 62ls-A; July,
63Ss: oats, ss-12 higher.
Evening star., 1940-04-16

New Orleans Prices,
NEW ORLEANS. April 16 (R-A steady
trade demand found cotton futures bare
Of offerings here today and prices advanced
to 40 cents to 20 cents a bale At noon
the market was at net gains of 8 to IA
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Potomac Electric
Power Sales Rise
Sharply in March
First-Quorter TotuI
Also Well Above
Record in 1899
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Sales of electricity by the Potomac
Electric Power Co. in the District of
Columbia in March totaled 50 zoos. .e18
kilowatt hours, according to COM
pany reports, compared with 61,-
49,, ITO kilowatt hours in March, 1889,
q substantial gain OF 7,823.148 or
1919 per cent. This was the highest
March total on record and one of the
best compared with any other month.
In February The gain was 1894 per
cent above February 1899
The extra heavy sales in March
wound up an exceptionally fine first
quarter. Electricity sales in the first
three months of 1910 totaled 2O8,-
970,552 kilowatt hours, against 1885,
214,366 kiloWatt hours in the corre-
spending three months in 1899. an
increase of 23,756,18e hours. BY
months Potomac Electric Power sales
IN the first 1910 quarter compare as
follows with the like periods year
Evening star., 1940-04-16
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 16.-Cotton
futures advanced sharply today on
reports of extensive replantir1g made
necessary by damage done during
recent cold spell. Firmness in spot
cotton and talk of a higher loan rate
were influencing factors.
Nearby positions Jagged and hedge
selling and profit taking were at
tracted by the advance. Late aft
ernoon prices were 4 to 13 higher.
May (ol6 traded at 1916; October,
1918, and March, 9.93.
Evening star., 1940-04-16

ChicagO Cash Market.
Cash wheat. No. . mixed ftough), LIE:
No. 3, 1.lO. Corn, No. l yellow 63i7-65l4
No, =, 63i2-644: No. J. 63i2: No. >
white 13. Oats, No. 3 mixed. 43; No. 3
white 43s4-44ia sample grade, white.
41l4-43. Barley, mailing. 1864 nominal;
feed. 40-50 nominal.
Evening star., 1940-04-16

Unit Of trading shares
In oankruptc, receiveship under
BANKRUPTCY Act or securities assumed
Rates Of dividend foregona are annual dis
ousements based on the last quarterly
ton Unless otherwise noted special
included. " ~
xh dividend n kx rishts Also or extras
Accumulated dividends paid last Declared
far this year Payable In stock Paid last
stock kAoenuaeed dvi6ends paid declared this
Evening star., 1940-04-16

Approximate Soes OF Stocks the NJ Y Stock Exchonoe
1l:OO AN $4,000 1900 Noon $4,000
1:OOPM. 100000 2.OOP ION Ono
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Winnipeg Prices.
z A.l q n

Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE, April Is CP,.-Wheat, No.
2 red winter, garlicky. spot, domestic, 1.16.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
COttOnSeed Oil

proved again in early dealings today, and
showed aggregate gains Of - to ~ cents q
pound from the seasons low levels made on
and grains stimulated renewed speculative
buying and covering which found relatively
light offerings Realizing checked the ad-
to 10 points higher; May traded at Z 90:
July Ill; September. 7.15. and October.
Il6. Crude oil was 5Es cents bid at in
5ss-a4 bid. according to location.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Cornell Operetta
To Be Seen Tonight

The Cornell University Musical
Clubs operetta, "Co-Ediquette," will
be presented tonight at the new
ballroom of the Shorekam Hotel.
The performance here is being
sponsored by the Cornell Club of
Washington, and the proceeds are
to be turned over to the scholarship
fund to aid needy Washington stu
dents at Cornell.
Written and composed by Wash.
ingtonian, Richard H. Lee, and di-
rected by Eric Dudley, "Co-E
quette" is played by cast of 10
students. The story of the operetta
has to do with the coed situation
at Cornell, with male students be-
moaning the fact that they have
made poor academic showings be-
cause of the presence of co-eds in
their classes. 1t goes on in some
thing of the fashion of Gilbert and
Sullivan, the reports have it.
The performance of "Co-Edk
quette" at the Shoreham will be
the initial event marking the grand
opening of the Shoreham's new ball.
room. There is a modern stage in
the newly completed room, and
seating facilities can be arranged
for 1000 persons.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Like Father,
Like Son
Out West
BY ROBIN COONS,
Associated Press stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
It was about 81 years ago that
Jack Holt walked on a movie set,
in his arms pink faced chip of the
old hitching- post.
The fellows ganged around to
look. just as people always gang
up on a baby.
"Betcha he'll grow up to be a
Western star himself-and further
more. we'll be working in his pic
lures" some of the boys said.
Today there were two of the boys
actually carrying out their boast.
Earl tSlim) Whitaker and Monte
Montague, who rode with Jack Holt
through much of long career in
the Westerns, were frisky and tough
as ever in support of the one time
pink-faced chip-Tim Holt, newly
launched western" star.
Jack himself, who has been in pic
lures since that day in 1913 when
he jumped a horse off a cliff into
river for $35, was on hand for the
reunion. 1t was his first visit to q
Tim Holt set.
ITS fine with me-" he said Of
Tins career.
Dad has an interest" Tim
elaborated, "in seeing that I eat
regularly
Hes the Only One.
Along the Rio Grande" is Tins
third Western in contracted series
of six. The first two were well
enough received to promise that
not only Tim, but good many other
people at R-K-O, would eat
regularly on his pictures.
Tim, a sturdy good-looking boy.
who smokes pipe with a studious
air, is the only son of Western
star to become Western star him.
self-and he's also the youngest
hoSS-operator in films. R-K-O
decided there must have been boys
of 81 in the old West as we'll as
middle-aged riders. and took a
chance on Tim. This suits Tim
fine, too. He's been working for a
chance at dads hoof-steps for a
long time. He's been riding horses
since he was a kid. and today on his
own ranch near Hollywood he
raises his own blooded steeds.
What Tim doesn't talk about Is
the fact that the studio is hard
put. sometimes, to find heroines
who look young enough to play
with Tim. The current choice is
petfv 1apo Phndnc tho oir apd
television singer.
Tim himself doesn't sing. He
rides, fights and shoots.
Il had guitar once" he says,
"but I stepped through it getting
on my horse one day"
Although he had roles in other
features, Tim Holt is sold" on the
hoss opera for a steady living, and
for q chance to build name.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

day books which now circulate freely
and bring ringing cheers from the
critics and cheerful cash register
music in the book stores would have
seemed a lot more scandalous than
his own Sister Carrie to the peo-
pie who suppressed that novel 40
years ago.
Nor could these modern books
have stood against the assaults
which beat on his later books, par
ticularly The Genius" and THE
Titan" he believes
Dreiser's explanation is that
each period has its standards" and
that now these are mostly political,
social and economic, with religious
and moral considerations largely
ignored. Even in the movies, he
declared, the Hays standard Is fire.
quently mot lived up to-
His example was Steinbeck's THE
Grapes of Wrath" which deals with
the philosophy, behavior and Ian
Evening star., 1940-12-28

pupils. Ditto Rita Hayworth and
Joan Perry.
Joan Fontaine has been ap-
preached for the role of Maria in
For Whom the Bell Tolls" I think
she'd be good, don't you? But before
Joan can accept cinematic chores
she must get well. She has been
sick in bed this past week. Her next
film Is Before the Fact" with Cary
Grant, but the starting date will be
delayed until Joan is we'll again
Thomas Mitchell is trying to buy
his way out of his 5,000-a-week
contract at Warmers. And this is in
spite of his near Academy Award
picture for them, Plight From Des-
tiny" Mitchell wants to make sure
he will never have to do another
Three Cheers for the Irish"
Stop me If you've heard this Gold
wynism. This script" said Sam, "is
the most perfect script ever written.
I want you to know this before we
start altering it,"
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1940-12-28

script which had been tailored to
fit Miss Lamour and vice versa.
"An Angel From Texas" which
was George Kaufman's Butter and
Egg Man" rewritten to suit the spe-
cial talents of Morris and a few
other of Warmers effervescent juve-
niles, was a hopeless failure from
the moment it was so cast. It is i'm
possible even now to conceive of
group of players less capable of
capturing the zany, but never dumb,
spirit of Kaufman's writing. Eddie
Albert was the one member of the
cast who could have done so, but
he was pretty much trampled to
death in the effort.
X X X X
If this was the most inept cast
ing job of the year the distinction
of being the most inept in the writ
ing category belongs to the authors
of South of Suez." There never
was moment when one intelligent
word from any of their melodra-
matte characters could not have
sent the whole plot topping to
earth. The pictures sole attraction,
in spite of some resolute acting, lay
in seeing how far improbability
would be carried before the authors
also wearied of the whole thing.
"Swanee River" the biography of
Stephen Foster. was one of those
idealized, sweetly pitying portraits
of genius which never has made
successful drama anywhere. Not
even Fosters music, with which the
drama was heavily dosed, could save
it from being cloying bore.
The indignation aroused by
Sandy Is Lady" is based upon an
admiration for child far too cute
to be trapped in any such standard
trlpe. Even such a hardy soul as
Beery could not survive the same
diet in wyoming"
Xxx X
Life in our time or in any other
time is not so different note, via
memo to the drama editor from q
fellow who went to night club:
Dear J. c.: You remember vaude-
vile? Well, in case it ever comes
back and you want to get in it
there's a trick you ought to know
which you might have forgotten,
though it is seven years older than
vaudeville. This little stunt hasn't
been seen around in long time
at least around these parts, podner
but the Gay Blades, singing out
at the Shoreham Blue Room this
week, use it handily. The GAY
Blades are three blades who sing
olde time ditties in the olde time
manner and well, but even so they
wouldn't sing as many as they do
without the trick. At the end of
each number Barnee's orchestra
bounces into background music in
that rhythm to which people have
automatically beaten their palms to-
gether since the jungles were young.
Sounds just like applause. Result:
Encore. H. M.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

guage of the farm migrant with
Elizabethan frankness.
WAS there moral uproar?"
Dresser demanded. mo. Steinbeck
was not called a moral menace but
a liar. They didn't believe the
okies' plight was true to life. 1
do. I've seen 10000 of them. also
consider Steinbeck very solid
young man."
Even coatless, bare-headed and
wearing a bow tie slightly askew,
Dresser seemed the center of an
aura of reserve and contemplation
yet he occasionally burst into
schoolboy chuckles. He has been
mere two years, calls it lotus
land" and is undecided about stay
ing.
One of the chuckles came when
he declared that one reason why
the influence of professional moral
lists has slumped might be that few
notable members of the group are
making a good living"
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Trans.Lux Reviews
This Ending Year

The news reels, too. look back as
this wear ends, the Trans-Lux fea-
tuI now pictorial review Of
1940's important events. 1t seems
to have been quite year, in case
you have be- Ii too breathless with
it to recall Chamberlain, Churchill,
sleeping France and Norway's end.
The Battle of Flanders and Dun
kerque's heroic evacuation, then
Frances fall. the Battle of Oran
and air war over England and on
to the Americas and preparation
in the United States.
Short subjects on the current bill
include another Information
Please" this with Elmer Davis as
guest expert again; "Sojourn in
Havana the weeks travelogue, and
Disney's cartoon, "Goofy Glider"
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National-Dark.
Palace-"Thief of Bagdad," color
full fantasy, with Sabu plotting the
magic carpet: 1l:55 am, 2:20, 4:45,
7:l0 and 9:40 pm.
Earle-"Four Mothers" a further
adventure of the popular Lemp
family: $50 am, 1l:55, 2:25, 4:55,
7:25 and 10 pm. Stage shows: II
am, l:30, 4, $50 and 9:05 pm.
Keith's-"No, No, Nanette," film
version of the hit musical, with
Anna Neagle: 1875 am, 1::35, 3:35,
5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"Chad Hanna" pictur-
ization of the best-selling tale OF
life with the circus: IL am, las,
4:30, tbs and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, $50. 6:15 and 9:lO
pm.
Columbia - Arise, My Love"
comedy-romance set against a mod
ern European background: 1885
am, 2:05, 4:40, ITO and $40 pm.
Metropolitan - "Cherokee Strip"
Richard Dix meets adventure in the
old West: 1885 am, 1:35, 3:35,
5:35, TAO and $40 pm.
Little-''The Great Waltz" the
last local showing of the spectacular
musical: Ii am, LOS, 3:15, 5:25,
7:35 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

SueZ,' with jay Sarmoo''
George Brent and Brenda Marshall
IAN Angel From Texas" starring
Wayne Morris, etc.
New Moon Nelson Eddy and
jeanette Macdonald.
These, of course. do not represent
the worst of all pictures of 1910,
merely the worst of those which
came within the ken of this COM
mentator. There undoubtedly were
others which were worse, but there
are ways of avoiding them. A man
may with honor and wisdom take
advantage of those ways, practice
which willing assistants forget even
If they cannot forgive.
On the list are pictures financially
more successful than some of those
which were chosen among the 10
best of the year. Most conspicuous
of the lot, patiently, was New
Moon" It's box Office stature, how
ever. could not keep the story from
being dull and labored and we'll
beyond the acting endowments of
either Eddy or Miss Macdonald, who
sang its old music well.
X X X X
my Little Chickadee," with Miss
West and Fields as its stars, drew
large audiences of the faithful. The
large audiences, however, found that
the efforts of Miss West and Fields
to steal the picture from each other
resulted in the theft of the whole
thing from the customers.
Little Men" which was close to
the dullest and most stupid item
of the season. might have won that
honor were it not for the burning
memory OF Green He'll" That one,
a tale of the tropics as its name
clearly denotes, was cavalcade of
cliches which, with more broad
playing. might have been outstand-
ing as a satire on its type.
"Typhoon," which made lot of
money for its sponsors. was nothing
more than an excuse for Miss La
mour to wear her sarong again. The
effort to conceal that fact behind
succession of spectacular special ef-
fects, fires. storms, etc, was futile.
In spite of it all. and the techni-
color, it looked like an old Tarzan
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Massey May Play
Practical ParsOn'

Raymond Massey will test for the
starring role in the film version OF
"One Foot in Heaven-The Story OF
a Practical Parson," the direct result
of a letter from Hartzell Spence
author of the novel. Spence's letter
said that he had met Massey and
considered him the perfect counter
part Of his father, the principal
character of the book.
He is" according to Spence's let
ter, fathers height; he has fathers
hands; he can wear clothes as father
wore them" Massey plays the
famous abolitionist John Brown, in
Santa Fe Trail"
Evening star., 1940-12-28

lures in London. Virginia Field
has lost 16 pounds (via three
weeks sojourn in hospitaD. She
tells me that Richard Greene will
shortly get q commission as second
lieutenant in a tank corps. {.
There are two rumors in circulation
concerning Clark Gable and Carole
Lombard-one, that they will shortly
adopt child-two, that they are not
getting on well. I prefer to believe
the former. Judy Garland is
taking a course In vocabulary
building" She learns several new
words day-and uses them. Cute?
Dorothy Lamour sent some OF her
"still' photographs in Chad Han
na"-in which she was fully dressed
to Paramount executives with one
word and question mark written on
them-"See?" Dotty was hoping to
prove that she looks pretty good in
clothes. too. There is slight
mistake in the publicity announce
ment of the church for Deanna Dur
bins wedding. The site of which
is yet to be selected" reads the
statement. Can you see the error?
Things are breaking well for Susan
Hayward. After long period of
doing nothing she is loaned by Para
mount to Columbia for Legacy"
and as a result of that is currently
screen-testing at Metro for DIR.
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" with Spencer
Tracy. And as result of that her
option has been renewed for an
other year-by Paramount . I'm
selling myself for money" says
Cameraman Gregg Tolard "Grapes
of Wrath" Long Voyage Home
etc He finally yielded to the plea
of Howard Hughes and Boss Gold
wyn and is lensing THE Outlaw"
for Hughes. He is receiving $2,250
for the chore, which makes him the
most highly paid cameraman in
Hollywood.
Marlene Dierich is still trying to
get repeat on John Wayne for her
next picture, PLANE of New Or
leans" But John is acting cool to
the great opportunity. BY the way,
just before Seven Sinners" in which
John headed the males in love with
Marlene, the glamorous lady of the
long eyelashes and fingernails took
her first-and last-dramatic lesson
from a once-famous German actor.
She liked the result so well that
daughter Maria is now one of his
Evening star., 1940-12-28

been featured or starred. The film,
taken from Christopher Morley's
much discussed novel. covers an IL
year period in the career of little
Irish stenographer whose heart is
constantly getting in the way of
her head. Dennis Morgan, James
Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli and Ernest
Cossart head the supporting cast.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

SANDY Is a
L a dy,' W t h
Baby Sandy.
ST Y p h H."
starring Dorothy
L a m ur a n d
Robert Preston
"Swanee Riv-
err" W it h D o n
Arneche and An
Grea Leeds.
"Green He'll"
starring j 9 a n
B e n n e tt and
Doublas F a r
banks, jr.
IS South of
Evening star., 1940-12-28
The Other Woman

Barbara O'Neil, who was the
Duchesse de Praslin in "All This
and Heaven Too" with Bette Davis
and Charles Boyer, has been signed
by Warner Bros. to play the "other
woman with Geraldine Fitzgerald
and James Stephenson in Winged
Victory" Winged Victorv" is from
the A. ]. Cronin play. 1t will be
directed by Irving Rapper.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

Bill says no, he
doesn't want a
bonus, he wants
an increase in
salary. A bonus
in Hollywood is
used as a stick
or a caress. II
you're good you
get 1t. But not
if you're bad.
Which is why
players fight shy
of it.
Laurence Oil
vier and ViVien
Leigh will make
propaganda pic
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Censor's Reign Ending
That's What Theodore Dresser
Sees in Books and Films
HOLLYWOOD.
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
back
the Bible time he added,
which ultimate censorship
squirting
said he thought present.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

Ginger's Price Per Film
Scars to High Brackets
She's Now Asking 100000 for
One Picture, Which Would
Make Her the Highest Paid
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


told
highest paid Hollywood
jumped picture bring
And talking about of favorite pastme
Evening star., 1940-12-28
A 1O>WOrst Film List
May Also Be in Order
And So 1t Is Provided as Prelude
To the 1O.Best Selection;
Costly Efforts Make Grade
By JAY CARMODY.

his 10 best pictures
without selecting
his selfish consideration
dubious distinction
of pictures
Men," starring Elsie, the
"My Little Chickadee," with w.
Feus @ anu mae MvsI , tailored
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Her Fortv.Second

Kitty Foyle," Ginger Rogers new
vehicle for R-K-O Radio. is the
42d picture in which the actress has
Evening star., 1940-12-28

hOIOen mas been Oncreu DOnuS
that will bring him three times his
present salary of $500 a week. But
Evening star., 1940-12-28

wyoming" Wallace Beery.
The Lexington advertiser., 1940-04-11
Lemon Juice Recjps
Checks RheuIla /;
Pain Quickly

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Thrills or neuritis pain, try this simple
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by Peoples Drug Store.
The Lexington advertiser., 1940-04-11
LOCAL NEWS

Miss Minnie Jordan was listed
among the sick this week and absent
from her duties at the circuit clerks Of
flee. Miss Shirley brennan served in
her stead during the absence.
Leon Armstrong was absent from his
place at IGA Stores several days this
week due to illness.
Hugh Cowsert, prominent druggist Of
Goodman, was business visitor in Lex-
ington Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. d. Bruce of Acona
visited friends in Carrollton Sunday.
Get your sweet potato plants
early. Now is the time to plant
them. Frank Gwin, Phone 2O11,
Tchula, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. s. Darnell with Alax
Swinney made trip Monday Mrs. Dar-
nell stopping over in Greenwood while
Mr. Swinney and Mr.. Darnell went 70
Glendora to see d. e. Reynolds and buy
some hay from his well-stocked barns.
Little Mary Lee Pritchard was Wis
itor from Coxburg here Monday after
noon.
B. w. Lipsey Of Tuscaloosa, Ala. ac-
companied by his nephew, Chivsxs
Woodruff Of Alabama, were visitors in
Lexington Tuesday and paid The Ad-
vertiser a call to renew Mr.. Lipsey0
subscription. Mr.. Woodruff Is in tn
drug business with his father at Biz.
mingham.
The Lexington advertiser., 1940-04-11

Parker of Cruger, were present at a
breakfast Saturday at the Robert E. Lee
hotel at Jackson honoring Gen. James A.
Farley, chairman of the National Demo-
cratic Committee when he addressed a
gathering of over four hundred.
Miss Nell Smith of Greenwood, spent
Sunday with Tchula relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Hooke and little
daughter, Elba Ann, of Utica, visited
Tchula friends last week. /,
Get your sweet potato plants
early. Now is the time to plant
them. Frank Gwin, Phone POLL,
Tchula, Miss.
Mr. and Mrs. D. U. Owen of Brook
haven, and DR.. and Mrs. Griffin of
Clarksdale, were recent visitors Of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Owen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blanton Dye of Clarks-
dale, came to Tchula where they picked
up Mrs. Arno Branscome and son, Dex-
ter, and all went to Meridian to visit Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Gainey.
J. P. Lacy, of Jackson, spent Sunday
visiting friends and relatives here.
Miss Mary Jane Wilson spent last
week end at her home in Tippo.
Mrs. M. Lamson, who has been spend
ing the winter in St. Petersburg, Florida,