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Evening star., 1940-12-15

conceptions are trodding the streets,
standing in store windows and on
corners all over the continent. How
can parents blame small boys for
kicking these phoney Santas in the
shins and uttering scofflng re-
marks?"
The makeup expert points out
that Santa Claus suits, boots and
hats have been of uniform pattern
for years, but that the wigs, whisk-
ers, mustaches and complexions-
together with the size of the men
who wear them (Which is all-im-
portant)-are as varied as the clouds
in the sky. He thinks sucn disil-
lusioning discrepancies must be cor
rected and feels that Hollywood, as
the accepted center of makeup ac-
complishment, should logically start
the ball rolling.
The Qualifications.
The standard formula for a per-
| feet Santa Claus, Factor says, de-
Evening star., 1940-12-15
They Want Different Gifts Than You, Perhaps,
Could Make Some Cinema Personalities Happier

that?" Who'll change places with
Deanna?
Gary Cooper Christmas wish
concerns his boss, Sam Goldwyn.
Goldwyn was the lad who discovered
Gary,s stellar potentialities IA years
ago. in THE Winning of Barbara
Worth" But now, according to
Gary, the producer is the lad who
has given him a series of fops.
To name a couple The (awfuD
Adventures of Marco Polo" and
THE (worse) Cowboy and the
Lady"
What does Joan Crawford want
for Christmas? For the first time
in years I don't think Joan has any
very special request. She has
adopted a new tranquil view about
her none-too- bright film career.
Her attitude today is, What does
it really matter? I've had good
long time at the top. I've made a
lot of money and lot of friends.
I've taken it ('The Bride Wore
RedD, and I've given it. CDancing
Daughters" Susan and God," etc.
Personally wasn't crazy about Joan
in the Gertrude Lawrence role. To
those of us who knew the tense
overly-nervous Joan of the past
the new one sounds interesting. I'm
looking forward to seeing her again
A Memory Eraser.
I bet Myrna 10y this Christmas
would like to turn the clock back tc
1885, when she was seeing the sights
of New York with Arthur Horn
blow, and her marriage was before
and not, as now, behind her
still can't get over the breakup o1
this union. They seemed so happy
Lana Turner would like a new
kind of eraser for Christmas, 1910
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Standardized
Santa Claus
Proposed
Makeup Experts
Say He's Getting
Too Shabby
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD

HULL WooD'
Santa Claus hit the headlines OH
. new front last week. He crasheo
into prominence in a sudden anu
unexpected manner.
Makeup experts of Hollywood oe-
cided to 60 into huddle over San!a
and see whether they couldn't 90
something to save his face ana ny :
ure and dress-which, they say are
getting shabbier and more uncon-
vincing from one holiday season 70
the next.
Led by Max Factor, jr., the pow
der puff warriors put aside their
routine duties of embellishing the
boys and girls of movieland while
1.-The worst made-up man in the
world" as they labeled the univer-
sally-revered Yuletide saint. was
criticized from the tip of his hat
to the toe of his boot.
What the world needs is a uni
form Santa Claus" said Factor
"And if one isn't forthcoming soon
every child in the land will lose
his illusions.
"A thousand and one misfit mis-
Evening star., 1940-12-15

mands first of all that the man Sc
lected to portray the role must
basically fit the makeup. 1t Is
out of the question for this formu-
la to be reversed. .
Following are Factors tips for the
ideal Santa Claus portrayal:
/. Characterization should be
aged to around 10 years. Conse-
quently makeup effects should be
created with that age in mind.
2. Wig, whiskers and mustache OF
pure white, yak hair, with a def
mite wave and curled ends.
8. Whiskers 16 inches long, meas
uring from the point of the chin
They should cover the jowl, but
leave the cheek surfaces bare.
4. The wig should be shoulder
length, its forehead hairline con-
cealed by the Santa Claus cap.
S. Refrigerated white eyebrows
are best If they can be obtained
Evening star., 1940-12-15

and getting to be quite grown-up
in the acting profession.
Delicate Story" interested me
steadily throughout, but / am
afraid it was for special reasons.
I like the story that unfolds expert
ly and with style and craftsmanship
attending its every moment. I like
that kind of theatrical craftiness
so much that I am willing to over
look the fact that. nothing ever
comes of it, that it's just a case
of a. writer shadow boxing with
material that doesn't exist.
! Mr.. Molnar tells his story largely
by holding his breath. The thing
begins in a Swiss delicatessen store,
presided over at the moment by the
shopkeeper's wife. The woman Is
at a dangerous age. She has mar
ried a stodgy man she Is fond of,
but does not love and she is getting
to the time when she feels that
soon she will be too old to become
the heroine in an affair of passion.
In addition to its being a critical
time for her, it is also a critical
time for the world, the war having
started just before. Quite naturally,
when a young man who has been
called back to his native country
to serve in the war becomes lonely
before her and sad, the woman
mlngleS her own crisis with the
worlds. She decides it is her duty
to mankind, as a female citizen of
Europe, to enliven their last hours
on earth. And what better way
than by yielding to the youthful
and handsome specimen of man
with whom she has fallen wildly
in love on the spot?
Well, the young man is very shy
and rather bewildered because moth
ing like this seems to have hap
pened to him before. The affair
(ses -WOLFERT, Page, FAD
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Todoy's Film Schedules

CApITOI-"I Want Divorce" marital comedy and drama with
Powell: 430 7:l0 and 9:55 pm Stage
shows 3:40, 6:25 and 9:05 pm.
"Bewee" with Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson
Eddy: 2, 3:35, 5:35 735 and 935 pm.
EARLE-Eas the River sturdy drama with John Garfield
Stage shows 345 $50 and $40 pm
KEITHS-Ta Vgantes Franchot Tone nvades the Wild
2, $685. $50, 7:45 and $40 pm
IITTIE-The Bakers crisis in
this bright French film: g. 1855, g. and 10 pm
METROPOIITAN-The Letter. Bette Davis in the Somerset
Maugham story 2:40, S, 720 and $40
PAACE-Tn Alley Alice Faye Betty Cradle and some old
tunes: 1885, $685. 7:20 and 9:35 pm.
TRANS LUX-News shorts: continuous from o'clock
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Next best is white crepe hair, which
can be applied with spirit gum.
6. If crepe hair or ready-made
artificial brows are not obtainable.
vaseline the natural eyebrows and
then dust them over with white
talcum powder.
Home Grown Variety.
For the particular benefit of those
fathers who wish to do Santa Claus
impersonation around their own fire.
sides on Christmas morning, Factor
says the proper materials for con-
vincing complexion and facial make
up can be drafted from the average
feminine dressing table.
For the particular benefit of those
facial application of makeup foun-
dation, followed by liberal coat
ing of face powder, preferably in
an olive tint. There should follow
a heavy rouging of the cheeks, clear
up to the eyes. Finally, an even
heavier application of full red rouge
to the bulbous portion of the nose
| If the mouth is visible through
whiskers and mustache, it can be
lipsticked in broad and dark red
pattern.
Fathers who wish to make Santa
Claus appearances at home definite
ly better 60 in for some eye disguise
Factor warns. Familiar eyes tip
off the youngsters quicker than any
other feature. BY neglect of the
eyes an otherwise magnificent Santa
Claus might become just daddy in
a funny red suit. So, watch those
orbs closely, you Kris Kringle imi-
tators, and read this carefully
To overcome such quick identifi-
cation, fathers eye wrinkles should
be enlarged and accentuated with
an ordinary eyebrow pencil. Il
(See HEFFERNAN, Page FAD
Evening star., 1940-12-15

WIN IL is GQdC IL ISL 1uIlIly.
After being away from Broadway
entirely too long, Mr.. Tracy makes
his entrance lying prone across a
chair, fully dressed in dinner clothes
except below the shin of the right
leg, where, it appears, he is stark
naked. It's promising entrance,
and the play picks up promise
steadily in the next few minutes
when it develops that Mr.. Tracy is
Hollywood writer who has been on
bender for four days and has done
all this without remembering any
of it: q,
He has become involved in a
gangster's plot to murder a big-shot
Hollywood producer; he sold a story
to the same producer for $4,000
and has forgotten not only the de-
tails, but what it was all about; he
has married a beautiful girl MAR
garet Tallichet. who makes the part
seem a job OF type-casting, but is
not able to do any more with it,
whom he has never seen before; he
has Joined the Navy.
Well, one thing piles on another
The actors chase each other up and
down stairs and in and out OF
breath. Gags explode among clat-
ter and uproar. Quaint notions
labor nightly. And altogether
nothing happens. That is, nobody
laughs.
Then there was Jimmy Savo in
NUNS the Word" For 20 minutes
in any show anywhere, Mr.. Save
is a fine pantominist. But this
show lasts two hours, costs $3.50
and has nothing in it, but Mr.
Savo's pantommiing. It's not your
moneys worth.
Just Shad0w-Boxing.
And finally Ferenc Molnar Of
fered Delicate Story" featuring
Edna Best (rememberO, Jay Fas-
sett and John Craven, Franks boy
Evening star., 1940-12-15
The Playwrights Flourished
Where the Others Flopped
Instead of Two Groups From Which
Much Was Expected, This From Which
Little Was Expected Has Survived
By Jay Carmody.

You tell about the theaer couple
of the public One the Thea dedicated
conscious drama Great things
Mercury Theater coor mpuden and highly successful enterprise
which was out crack the ncrstng the American drama Great
Without buspjna the five hest m ] ~s f ii DC ] r]u
expectation assumption
that five paywrigh could possibly get along
commonay viewpoint among them the expectation seems
illogical the confidence in the other groups
composed of far wider variety tempments and points
Its two best the Messrs odes Ardrey
oeaed little people whose little lives their dramas dea with This
not stated in condemnation of the Mes odets
ts a mea1 to locate them with reference " the high hopes once held for
the Mercury far less of secret thanks to the ~
latene of Wele
to Hollywood After he
picture announced that the cinema the truly
and that that Mercury
Playwrghts
Has Been Financial Too.
In the two that those lofty DOOM
the Playwrght Co. became regard
substantial element in the whole
Its success susceptible indeed that most universally
OF all forms OF proof to w.t. the statistical
When the Flight opens night at
the National will represent the tenth production
the Group OF the nine hitherto produced five have been outstanding
successes three smash hits Only fortnight
their ideals.
course was Robert
prize in its first of operation the
William saroyan prize judges last the playwrgts
the distinction sherwood There
Shall Be No Night It nod
subsequently mbarrass some of the
voters
Financially without
fu of the
in which Katharine Cornell provinces
phenomenal results
The Average High
| Unbelievable.
The other though
Holiday
Largo" latter
principal happy was
Elmer Rces
far from failure.
To S
heardof average
The three paywrighs
right side Anderson Journey
play member of the American
Sidney Howards Madam
closed Washington at the
| circumstances auspcious
date Rice is the playwright of the
not the
offering
the locally.
introduction
have him
ton director whose
! Of the company
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Three Fell on Their Faces
Nothing Much Happens Here, Even
In MIR. Molnars Play
By Ira Wolferf.

tripping Broadway
all fell their faces The casualty list follows
showed hard-wokng by Milton
Every fourth Hollywood
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12

grace, and beauty uf rrm
queen. j. d. Letf0n. chazruar
of the entry committee. Is lufornl-
ing Jayoees throughout the
state.
Previous Orange Bow gueeus
have been selected m Mann dur-
ing festivities prior 70 the an
nual football game but tins Tcar
the Orange Bowl cummIttee RS
asked the Orlando Junior Chan
Der Of Commerce 10 spunso- 1he
competition
From among the beau1les en-
tered. one vii be named gueen
and viii be honored Al all fesflEl-
ties IN Miami during the year-end
holidays. -Four others VIII D.
named as her court uf h0nuT and
will accompany the queen un her
official tours.
Junior Chambers Of Comm
in thirty cities are spunsa-lnE
Representatives for Their luczh-
ties and IN cities without Juula-
Chambers Of C0mrnerce u1hE
civic organizations are selecting
entries
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
Third Term Was Never Bugaboo To F.D.R,
Say Friends Who Point To Cases In History

of from five to five-and-a-half
million.
When Roscoe Conkling, in his
prolonged feud with James G.
Blaine, looked about for a suit
able candidate to run against
Blaine, he picked Grant, although
only four years before, Grant had
just finished his second term.
Conkling, considered one of the
great politicians of his day, didn't
hesitate a minute over the third
term issue and although Grant
couldn't get a majority in the
convention, the third term had
nothing to do with it and Grant
held his block of votes for more
convention ballots than any one
had done before him 1t was
compromise on Garfield by war
ring factions in the convention
that finally broke the deadlock,
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
HEARING And
INQUEST TODAY

Peace Justice Franklin Aren-
berg called the hearing on the
drunken driving and auto-steal-
ing charge placed against How
ard E. Dimmick, second class
quartermaster of the naval forces
here, to order this afternoon at
200 o'clock in the county court
rooms.
At press time, the hearing was
still in session and no disposition
of the case could be learned.
Dimmick ran amuck in an ap-
propriated car last Friday night,
running into two cars and ending
up against the store window of
Lewinsky's Mems Shop on Duval
street, causing an approximate
$500 damage.
The coroner'S inquest into the
death of Gilbert ''Gibby" Demer-
lit, who died Sunday from the
affects of a brawl in which Rob-
ert Sawyer was held on assault
and battery charges, is scheduled
to open in the same courtroom,
following the Dimmick hearing.
Sawyer was turned over to
county authorities yesterday.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
EXPLOSIONS ROCK
THREE FACTORIES
in NATION TODAY
G-MEN INVESTIGATING CIR
CUMSTANCES: COMPANIES
HAD DEFENSE ORDERS;
MANY KILLED
GBy Associated Press)

JERSEY CITY, Nov. IA
terrific explosion occurred in
the United Railway Signal Cor
poration plant at Woodbridge, N.
j., early today, according to an
nouncement made here this
morning, and Federal G-Men
were busily engaged in investi-
eating circumstances surround
ing the holocaust, which, at press
time, had resulted in at least
five known deaths and over
twenty severely wounded.
The Signal Corporation was
engaged in filling government or
ders for an unannounced product,
and Federal officials believed
that the explosion was the re-
suit of espionage work on the
part of foreign agents.
Two other explosions were be-
ing investigated by men from the
F.B.L. at Washington.
An explosion in a factory at
Edinburgh, near New Castle,
Penna., early today, resulted in
three deaths. Government or
ders were being filled here.
The other explosion occurred
in the Trojan Powder Company
plant at Allentown, Penna. Two
men were killed and a number of
wounded were reported.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
HARRIS CHILDREN
Parade Best One In Years
HAD BEST FLOAT

Harris School children "stole
the show" in the ArmiStice Day
parade yesterday afternoon, start
ing promptly at 4:20 o'clock from
Caroline and Duval Strets.
Described as one of the best
parades ever held in Key West.
stretching out for six blocks, the
Red Cross theme was carried out
on most of the floats which fol-
lowed the various military units,
a credit to the Junior Red Cross
workers who were active in urg-
ing entry of the floats.
Harris School entry carried out
the theme of America as a melt
ing pot of nationalitieS, with the
following children on the large,
Well-decorated truck:
Faye Bervaldi, Miss Liberty;
Thomas Swicegood, Uncle Sam:
George Bean, Englishman; Bar
bara Delgado, Maid of Brittany;
Sally Rhodes, Russian Girl; Felix
Davis, French Boy; Joy Ball.
Swiss Girl; Robert Archer, Swiss
Boy; Lorraine Acosta, Japanese
Maiden; Billy Woods, Japanese
Boy; Clio Ann Watkins, Chinese
Maiden; Manuel Munzon. Chin
csc Boy; Beverly Curry, Scotch
Lassie; Elsie Curry. South Sea
Girl; Nancy Norman, Dutch Girl;
Maxwell Davies, Dutch Boy.
Mary Elizabeth Johnson, South
American Girl; Lorraine Nottage,
Maid of Morocco: Conchita Va
rela, Hawaiian Girl; Gloria
Brown, Egyptian Girl; Shirley
Papy, Swedish Girl; Griselda Cal
leja, Spanish Senorita; Bobby
Sykes, Turk; Buddy Rodriguez,
Roman; Jimmy Register, Indian;
Clayton Papy, Mexican, and May
nard Daniels, Boy of Cuba.
Order of appearance in the
parade was as follows:
Motorcycle escort. official car,
Key West Guard Band, US.
Continued on Page Folr)
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
HAMS RIDE RADIO SHORT WAVES
HUNTING DOWN OUTLAW STATIONS

Feature SerVieeD
league is chiefly by official OBJ
servers" some 200 highly expert
enced 'hams" with elaborate
equipment wnosa self policing
is on a volunteer basis.
They watch for violations of
the amateurs code of conduct
which the League recently sum-
married thus:
l. Do not talk about the war
over the air, or discuss any hap
penings that might have a mill
tary significance.
2 Do not use any code or
cipher.
g. Do not permit anyone ex-
cept members of your immediate
family or other licensed amateurs
to use the microphone.
Continued on Page Fnurl
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
FOUR KEY WEST
PATROL VESSELS
RETURN TO DUTY
CANE INTO PORT EARLY
YESTERDAY NC:
THREE LEFT ON PATROL
DUTY IN LOCAL AREA

Commander Wilder G. Baker,
U.S.N., commander of the Key
West-WeSt Gulf Patrol, stated
this morning that four vessels of
his patrol arrived early yester-
day morning, three of them de-
parting Immediately for patrol
duty in the local area.
The destroyerS arriving, COM
ing in from Guantanamo, were
the U.S.S. MAC LEISH, flagship,
U.S.S. MCCORMICK, U.S.S.
SIMPSON and U.S.S. BROOME.
Leaving Key West on Tuesday
and Wednesday, October % and
30, under sealed orders, these
ships, with the U.S.S. TRUXTON
and U.S.S. BAINBRIDGE, ex-
pected to be gone two months,
with full provisions and amuni-
ton on board. Changed orders,
believed to be in the nature of
clearing of tension in the Carib-
bean area, stopped the local yes
sells at Guantanamo.
A new destroyer for the local
patrol. the U.S.S. WAINWRIGHT.
in command of 1t. Comdr. T. L.
Lewis, U.S.N., arrived here Sun
day. departing Monday for a one
days local cruise.
Six planes of the local patrol,
under command of 1t. Comdr.
T. ]. Storrs, U.SN., have not re-
turned to their base here.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12

fAs~s-rt2tca s-Ee@z
WASHINGTON. N0T IL
When you are shiverIng In YER
boots al the first real cold snap
of winter, give q thought O. fne
Polar Bear squadron and tne
boys of the army ar Curps uho
Will be flying planes during 1he
frigid months al Uncle San S
first Arctic experimental ar held
al Fairbanks. Alaska
Maj. Dale Gsffney. commando
at Ladd field. Just out q Par
banks, was IN town recently T.
report TO air corps headguarterz.
and already IS WingIng ms zsy
back 10 ms post IN fhe flicker e
the northern lights
What the Major had % reP1-1-
Ladd field Will star the urln-
ter with "a officers and 20 ruen
Ito be increased 70 80 officers an1
300 men by spring) and N-Itn flEe
planes falso 70 be Increase1 n
number. Although adequste a.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-Add
to the now-it-can-be-told stories:
Friends of President Roosevelt
are saying that the President felt
certain all along that the Ameri-
can electorate had no appreciable
feeling for the so-called third
term tradition.
While no man actually had
ever tested it (either by seeking
nomination or election for a third
consecutive full term), they say,
the President, an astute student
of political forces, had twice in
his own lifetime seen how politi-
clans and the voters felt about
more than two terms IN office.
In 1923. Coolidge had been
President for five and a half
years, and there was no doubt in
the minds of the political OBJ
servers of either party that he
could have been nominated and
elected if he hadn't come forth
with his memorable "I do not
choose to run" statement
Only Is years earlier, FD.R-
had seen his own cousin, Teddy,
lunge into campaign that. had
he won, would have given him
II years in the White House. And
Theodore Roosevelt. in spite of
the fact that he split his own
party and got embroiled in a
three-way fight, polled more than
four million votes. only two mil
lion less than Woodrow Wilson.
If there was any voting protest
against the third term bugaboo,
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12

not fear that the electorate would
turn down former President
Grant.
President jefferson, generally
cited as chief opponent of the
third term. served only two
terms himself, but without pro-
test from the electorate, ne ran
the government" for "a years, even
deciding the order in which Mad
ison and Monroe would succeed
him.
List 10 Possibilities
Political historians usually list
10 men who either could OF might
have been elected for more than
two terms. They are Washing
ton. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe.
Jackson, Grant, Cleveland, TheO-
core Roosevelt. Wilson and Coo
lidge The fact that they didn't
was not important so far as the
third term tradition" is concern
ed What is important Is that In
not one single instance is there
a record that fear the voters
would desert them because they
wanted to stay in the White House
was the deterrent.
In other words. friends Of the
President say, he had weighed
ali these things long ago and de-
cided that if there We're any votes
against him because he was run
ming for third term. the chances
are 100-to-l those votes would
have been against If he were only
running for his second.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12
(ASsOciated Press


WEST HARTFORD, Conn,
Nov. 12.-Every hour of the day
and night sharp ears are listen
ing in on the Shortwave radio
bands, searching for the voices of
spies and traitors.
The ears belong to members of
the American Radio Relay
League, which has headquarters
here. The league has $4,000 ac-
tive members among the ma
tion's amateur radio operators.
Once a ''ham" overhearS an IL
legal station communicating with
foreign agents it can be easily
located with directional equip
ment.
League officials cautiously con-
cede they have an understand
inen with the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation under which MEM
bers report suspicious stations,
but the extent of such counter
espionage remains secret
Work With FEC
The leagues chief activity is
in a close relationship with the
Federal Communications Com
mission. which works with the
FBI Many FEC field observers
are former AR.R.L members.
Counter.espionage work OF the
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-12

Feature Service Writer
where was it? Wilson received
nearly 10000 fewer votes than
the Democratic ticket, headed by
William Jennings Bryan, had re-
ceived four years before.
Could Go Back Farther
If these things weren't proof
enough to the F.DR. friends that
the anti-third term cry was more
"a political expedient-in both
parties-than a ballot factor, all
the President had to do was to
dip into political history. It's
well known, too, that he has done
more swimming there than in the
pools at Hyde Park and the
White House.
President Cleveland. for ex-
ample. although he was elected
only twice. ran three times and
each time received a popular vote