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Smyrna times., 1940-12-12
Death of Mrs. Annie e. Conard

Mrs. Annie E. Conard, 70, died
at the residence of her son William
Conard near Dover, Tuesday, De-
eember TO- She was the daughter
of William and Sarah Davis Cruson
formerly OF Smyrna. Mrs. Conard
is survived by her husband John R.
Conard and the following children: ::
Mrs. Maggie Emert of Smyrna;
John and William, of Dover; Mrs.
Annie Voss, of Townsend; James,
of Smyrna; Fred of Wilmington,
and Isaac, of Chester. Funeral
services will be held at FAIRIES Fun
eral Chapel on Friday. December
18th at 2 o'clock, with Rev. James
w. Colona officiating. Interment
will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Funeral of j. Earl Barber
Funeral services for j. Earl
Barber, age 26 were held at Far
les Funeral Chapel on Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock with inter
ment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Rev. Norman Nickalas Of Odessa,
offciated. Mr.. Barber was drown
ed while trapping on December 3
but the body was not recovered un-
til the following Monday, Decem-
Der 9th He was the son of George
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Evening star., 1940-12-16
Experiment Is a Success
On Trip to Somewhere
Sky Screening of Flight Command
Comes Off on Kitty Hawk Jaunt,
But That Was Pittsburgh
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

1t was fine night for noble experiment was last night So
Merle
pilot for this division pointed Of the arne shiny transport
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
NatiOnal-"Flight to the West" "
new adventure drama by Elmer Rice,
with Betty Field in the leading role:
$50 pm.
Palace-"Tin Pan Alley Betty
Cradle, Alice Faye and some famil-
lar hit tunes: II am, los, 3:15,
5:25. 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Earle-"East of the River" sturdy
drama with John Garfield: II am.
1:40, 4:30, tbs and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, 335, 6:25 and 9:1O p IN.
Capitol-"I Want Divorce -
marital comedy with Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Powell Joan BlondelD: IL
am, lao, 4:25, ITO and 9::55 pm.
Stage shows: 1855, $40, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Keith's-"Trail of the Vigilantes," f"
Franchot Tone invades the Wild
West: 11:55 am, 1:55, 3:55, 5:55,
7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Metr0pOlitan-"The Letter" Bette
Davis in the Somerset Vaughan
story: II am, los, BIS, $40, 7:3O
and $40 pm.
Columbia - "Bittersweet," with
jeanette Macdonald and Nelson
Eddy: 11:20 am, 1:25, $50, $50,
7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Little-"The Bakers Wife, who
runs away and causes crisis in this
bright French film: II am, ITO.
3:20, $50. TAO and $50 pm.
Trans-LuX - News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

Miss Hayworth is partly to blame
for the spot she is in. The studio
wanted her to wear wig, but Miss
Hayworth got to thinking. as what
woman would not, how nice it would
be to have strawberry hair. She
insisted upon its being dyed. 1t was.
She liked it so much she is going
to keep it that way, which reduces
the number of raven tressed girls by
one
1t is a mere beginning. Maybe
there won't be anything else but
strawberry blonds as soon as the
studio can devise a printed color
sample and send it around to the
beauty shoppes which transform the
fairer sex.
If w. C. Fields were an insurance
company. which is one of the few
things he hasn't been, he would
regard stage and film people as
virtually the best health risks.
Don't tell him an actors hours
are crazy. that working all night
and sleeping until midafternoon are
contrary to natures intentions.
1t is Fields theory that the lights
under. or behind, which actors work
gradually have the effect of toast
ing him. In that condition, take it
from Fields. man is impervious to
a lot of things that the untoasted
layman cannot resist.
The best toasted class of pro-
fessionals. he thinks. are jugglers,
who have to work close to foot
lights. AS juggler who has ap-
peared in virtually every theater
in the world during his 81 years,
he thinks he is perhaps the most
thoroughly toasted fellow in the
business.
Incidentally. Fields does bit OF
juggling in his next picture. The
Bank Dick" AS a matter of fact,
he does a bit of everything in the
picture-one which doesn't have
Mae West this time
For all her practice of aloofness
and the quiet life, Miss Katharine
Cornell is no lady to resent it when
her name creeps into the dialogue
of a play. She doesn't mind at all.
enjoys it quite as much as any
other customer in the house would.
Miss Cornell is the subject of
three speeches in two Broadway
hits at the moment Two of them
are in The Man Who Came to
Dinner" but the best of the lot in
laughter production is one of the
maddest moments of Ed Wynn's
Boys and Girls Together" 1t oc-
ours when Wynn is rolling out that
special carpet in tribute to the
beauty of his chorus girls. Lying
on the floor Wynn looks up in wide
eyed blandness to ask: Would
Katharine Cornell do this?"
1t brings down the house.
Incidental intelligence: Among
the better screen comics the only
one who is purely movie product
is Andy Devine . -. . All the others
had stage experience Henry
Fonda, who never could understand
even the simplest of card tricks, had
to learn complicated one for his
picture, The Lady Eve" Now
he does virtually nothing else
Robert Taylor who flies so furiously
In Flight Command" has COM
pleted his flying course and is now
building up his time for a license
With that Kitty Foyle" role
behind him Dennis Morgan now is
being chosen as the up and coming
movie hero of l94l 1t will be
quite different from his early ex-
perience Of making only one picture
in three years, that one a minor
gangster drama.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Strawberry Blond Fad
Latest From Hollywood
Warmers Hard Put to Find Sample;
Fields Has Theory That Actors
Are Healthy From Toasting
By JAY CARMODY.

As there not enough things in the world to give the species
ntimaton Warmers
strawberry If it does it will be the
a Blond" announced
a female
Evening star., 1940-12-16

lWO IlOtlOIl plCIulc OpCl dtho, PAdo
one pretty airline hostess known
variously as Miss Cox, Miss Flight
Command" and Hey-Adelaide how
do-I-fasten-this-belt, nosed toward
the overcast which was hiding a
bright moon from Washington, and
the experiment was on.
The experiment was to consist OF
the first successful showing of full
length feature film on a transport
plane in fight. And, in the way Of
such experiments, this one was a
success, with reservations. The res
ervations included some minor trou-
BILE with the projection equipment,
which made the film run just fast
enough to give the dialogue a touch
of Donald Duck, and a loose con-
nection in the speaker, which had
the operator moaning for a soldering
iron with which he could have made
permanent repairs in minutes.
Miss Cox could not produce a solder
ing iron, which fact alone probably
makes the jaunt a landmark on the
pages of history for being the first
on which an airline hostess could
not bring forth something one of
her passengers wanted.
X X X X
The round-trip flight from and to
Washington Airport was something
more than just an air line expert
ment, of course. It also was one
Of those stunts designed to call at
tention to new motion picture
this calling attention to the hemi-
spheric premiere at the Capitol
Theater tomorrow night of Flight
Command" in which Robert Taylor
joins the Nays Hell Divers" to
meet Walter Pidgeon, Ruth Hussey
and many brave adventures in the
air.
The plans called for a flight tc
Kitty Hawk, N. c., where the Wright
brothers first flew, a symbolic ges.
ture what with tomorrow being Pan.
American aviation day, as well as
the day of the hemisphere premiere
of Flight Command" Being or
top-in the bright moonlight above
the fleecy cotton blanket of the
overcast-for most of the journey
there probably is no one aboard the
Penn Central airliner Capt. Estes
excepted) who could swear We die
not go to Kitty Hawk OF course
the C. A. B. might want to know
why we went to Kitty Hawk, weather
being what it was down there. And
some one might have looked out a
window once while reels were being
changed and seen little tubs of fire
that looked like blast furnaces might
look from a mile in the air.
But Kitty Hawk or no Kitty Hawk
the success of last nights expert
ment had Mr.. Ray Bell of the Loews
publicity forces feeling mighty hap
py by the time the lookout shouted
Land, ho!" and there was the
Washington Monument through the
Evening star., 1940-12-16


where. of Clare Booths Margin for
Error Last year the group did its
most notable work in You Can't
Take 1t With You" and Our Town"
the latter winning such plaudits
that it merited repeat engagement.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights. December 26, d and %, are
the dates set this year for perform
ance of DR.. Henry Van Dykes The
Other Wise Man. for IS years the
Capitals outstanding Yule festival
drama. The place. as has become
customary, will be the Luther Place
Memorial Church.
Bess Davis Schreiner, who ar
ranged this dramatic version of DR..
Van Dykes Christmas legend, is di-
recting it again and Denis E. Con-
nell is playing the leading role
that of Artaban the Median, the
other wise man-for the eleventh
time. Katherine Riggs, another
veteran of many past performances,
will again be the narrator.
~ X X
The week:
The Falls Church Community
Theater will present Emlyn Will
liams' case history of psychopathlc
killer. Night Must Fall" tomorrow
and Wednesday nights at the Mad
ison School in Falls Church. Ray
mond A. Soderberg, who has be-
come, with no previous theater eX-
perience. one of the mainstays of
the Falls Church group, will be
playing the role of Danny, the lad
created on the stage by Mr.. Will
hams and for the cinema fans by
Robert Montgomery. Others sur
rounding this chap, who carries the
head of his victim around in a hat
box. will be Ruth May, remembered
by Cross Roads Theater audiences,
Mildred Hill, Margaret Bledsoe,
Meredith Capper, Robert Gray,
Jennie B. Hill, Lilirose Edmonds
and Parry Grubb.
Three one-act plays-Ned AL
brights farce. Murder in Holly
wood; Wilber Braun's melodrama.
Fireman. Save My Child" and
Kenneth Sawyer Goodman's fan
tasy, Dust of the Road"-will be
presented tomorrow night at the
Commerce Department Auditorium
by the Census Bureau Dramatic
Club. Mary Bord is directing the
opening play, Archie Davies the
melodrama and Ruby Allen the
fantasy. Sundry musically talented
members of the club will provide
entr'acte entertainment.
The Dramatic Committee of the
Arts Club will stage scenes from
Minnie Frost Rands' Prince Of
Peace" Thursday night at the clubs
intimate theater.
X
Future weeks:
Sidney Howard's The Silver
Cord" has been selected by the st.
Pauls Players as their next offering,
to be staged February 5, 6 and at
ST. Paul's Auditorium. Rehearsals
are set to get under way this eve
ming with Arthur S. Harvey direct
ing and Bernadette r. Norris, Doro-
thy Stilwell, Eleanor F. Boylan. Jack
Evening star., 1940-12-16

broken clouds. Every one aboard
knows now how it feels to land on
the deck of an aircraft carrier, the
fact Of being inside an airplane
lending no little realism to some OF
those trick air shots. And every
one knows how Mr.. Taylor wins his
spurs with the Hell Divers"
Even with interruptions, the film
ran from start to finish, the first
time, so far as any one has been able
to determine, that that's been done
in the air. 1t had Mr.. Bell beaming.
He was envisioning that day in the
not so distant future when all the
boredom of travel will be eliminated,
when tiresome hours will be made
pleasant for all travellers, when every
airliner will be a little cinema thea
ter hurting through space. Dogs of
unbelievers. he considered those who
mildly suggested that some one might
want to read book or just travel
and not look at a movie. He had
no words for the chap who was pic
turing a businessman calling the
airport to ask whats the picture
to Chicago today" then being forced
to postpone an important journey
because it was Dorothy Lamour in
"Her Jungle Love-"
Anyway we still like to think we
went to Kitty Hawk. There would
have been something beautifully
symbolic in the thought of modern
commercial aviation expending all
its considerable skill in taking
group OF passengers whose point of
embarkation was their destination,
who neither knew nor much cared
where they were going, over the
birthplace of the airplane, which
they would not have recognized
could they have seen it.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Elmer Rice Play
At the National

Flight to the West" Elmer
Rices newest play, in which he
delves into the possibilities for
drama and adventure aboard a
transatlantic clipper plane,
opens at the National tonight,
presented by the Playwrights'
Company.
Betty Field, who left the stage
not so long ago to become
something of a name in the
movies. has returned now from
the films to play the leading
role in Mr.. Rice's play. Others
in the cast are Arnold Moss,
Paul Henried. Hugh Marlowe,
Eleanora Mendelssohn, Con-
stance Mckay, Boris Marshalov.
Karl Maiden, Helen Renee and
James Seeley.
Mr.. Rice is directing his own
play.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

Bennett, Ralph A. Carrello and Lii
lian Murphy in the cast
A newcomer to the ranks of local
drama groups is Washington's own
version of New York's labor stage,
being formed under the sponsorship
of the Washington Industrial Union
Council. First item under its con-
sideration is a local talent revue in
the Pins and Needles" vein, in
which the skits will deal with "situa-
tions and problems distinctly pecu-
liar to Washington workers. both
Government and nom n-Government.
A meeting for writer's and composers
who would participate will be held
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the
Evening star., 1940-12-16

straWberfy bIond? How can one:
become strawberry blond? What |
is the masculine reaction to straw
Evening star., 1940-12-16

and their fate, but from beauty
parlors who've been asked if the
movies know the trick, why don't
they?
The only strawberry blond around
the place is Rita Hayworth. They
can't take her apart, handful by
handful of hair. to send her around
as samples to the curious. Even if
Miss Hayworth would not resent it,
which she would, the studio needs
her for the picture. A bald straw
berry blond wouldn't be worth a
darn to them.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

headquarters of the United Federal
Workers of America, Seventeenth
and F streets NV. Deadline for
completion of the script of the revue
has been set for January Is and
tryouts for casting will be held i'm
mediately after that. H. M.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

berry blonds?
And dozens more
questions of the
same ilk. There
has been MOTH
ing like it since
Jean H arl ow
turned platinum
blond.
Warmers q re
pre- t ty " G ii
messed up with
the straw wberry
blond mail which
comes not only
I 70 m " o m e n
who are bored
with their hair
Evening star., 1940-12-16

CHERIOAN Ga. Ave. e. Sheridan
OiiLNAOAIN RA 200. Mat. Jpn.
TYRONE POWER. LINDA DARNELL
in MARK OF ZORRO" AT l.l5.
:, - TX
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Local Drama Groups
Cue and Curtain Club to Stage
Another Broadway Hit

Washington Universys Curtain Club which has
recently vehicle
latter Broadway hit the recent Edna Ferber
Rehearsals
the direction Floyd Sparks graduate mentor Cue and
Hall
the first
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figure in composition of popular
songs.
He wrote the music and was
starred in half a dozen Broadway
musical shows, was featured with
Mcintyre & Heath and the Roger
Brothers, and often played as
many as half a dozen return en-
gagements in a single season in
Hammerstein's Victoria when ii
was the goal of vaudeville head
liners.
His close friendships included
the late Will Rogers, Marie
DRESSER and many other cele-
brities who shared the bills with
him at the turn of the century,
the Four Cohans, Johnny and
Emma Ray, the Four MortonS,
Charles T. Aldrich, Nat M. Wills,
George Sidney, Bernard Dillon,
Hilda Thomas. Some of the ia
nous singers of his songs were
Mccormack, Caruso, Schumann-
Heink, Tetrazzini, Lillian Rus
sell, Della Fox, Al Jolson, Emma
Carus, Spencer Kelly, Camille
D'ArVille.
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BATTERY e
TO PRACTICE

Battery "E', 18th Coast Artil-
lery, will conduct target practices
at Fort Taylor, firing 37mm Sub
caliber) ammunition on January
18, 10 ad %, and firing 3" serv-
ice ammunition on January Is
and 80, it was announced today
by Webster F. Putnam, Jr., ma
jor, 18th Coast Artillery, execu-
tive.
The target practices will be
held between the hours of loo
p. m. and $3.50 p. m. on the dates
listed above.
The danger area during these
practices will be up to about S.
900 yards for the subcaliber prac-
tice and up to about 10000 yards
for the three-inch practice, south
Of Fort Taylor. All craft in this
area should proceed with caution.
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Mrs. Phelan Is Chairman Of
Garden Club Flower Show

Mrs. Pauline Phelan this year
will serve as general chairman of
the Key West Tropical Flower
Show, it was announced follow
ing a meeting last night Of Key
West Garden Club and Tree
Guild. The show will be held
March l, 2 and 3.
A letter received by the club
last night from Commander w.
w. Demeritt of the Coast Guard
announced that authority to
use the old lighthouse building
back of Coast Guard headquar-
tiers had been granted.
Mrs. Phelan has been assured
of the cooperation of the men,
bers of the club in arranging this
outstanding Key West event. She
will call a meeting soon to an
nounce the members of the COM
mittees to be in charge of vari-
GUS phases of the show.
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hope that we may never have to
use our fleets and our army, but
we need them as insurance
against aggression in this
troubled world.
Il believe that Key West will
benefit substantially from the
expansion and development Of
our army and navy forces. ! be-
lieve Key West is destined to be-
come one of the most important
points in our national defense
system and to enjoy great
prosperity"
When last seen leaving The
Citizen office he was headed to-
ward Duval street with the idea
of finding somewhere along its
length a man willing and anxious
to give him a good stiff chess
battle.
'T'd rather play chess than
fish, although I like fishing,
was Mr.. Stern's parting COM
ment.
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JUST BEGINNING NOW

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of the barracks, the Martello
Towers and Fort Taylor.
"ThiS place is packed with
military and naval history, the
admiral commented. Il was here
briefly in 1924, but did not have
opportunity to get around the
city like 1 did today. 1t is a
nice little city. I would like to
come back soon, and shall if it
can be arranged"
Admiral Allen also said that
the climate here, cold as it was
to natives, had helped him. He
had just recovered from an at
tack of flu when he started for
Key West a week ago. Admiral
Allen was scheduled to leave
Key West today en- route to
Charleston, S. c., his head
quarters, but was dallying with
the idea of remaining a day or
two longer when The Citizen
went to press.
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Miami, for if he did he might
lose his Miami merchants ac-
counts.
Perhaps I have dwelt at length
on something that has passed.
let it go at the time. Had hoped
that when the $l2,000.00 adver-
Using schedule started there
would be evidence of sincere and
experienced effort to prepare
copy that would create a real
desire in the minds of those peo-
pie in Miami and other places to
see the beauties of the most
unique automobile trip in the
world and wind up at the warm
est resort in America.
Smoother than an ocean
voyage, says a Commission ad in
the Miami newspaper. One can't
take an ocean voyage to Key
West without private yacht.
presume it is Key West that the
writer of the ad referred to. Isn't
practically every bridge smooth
er than an ocean voyage? The
State Road Department was sup
posed to continue construction
of the Highway to Key West. We,
who have travelled over the road,
know that stretch the State Road
Department is responsible for is
roughter than the English Chan
mel. The ad does state, however,
that if anyone wishes informa-
ton about the Highway and Key
West the reader may write a
letter to Marathon and ask if
there is any reason why he
should make or want to make the
most unusual automobile trip in
the world to the Southernmost
City in the U.S.A. And the only
inducement offered is the price
to go over a bridge smoother than
an ocean trip.
Surely the Commission should
know better than to allow such
a waste of money. The Commits
sion is paying around 100000
for Mr.. Byron to write copy to
bring traffic over the Highway to
Key West, and someone on the
Commission ought to see that the
Commission gets value received
or perhaps it is just another adj
vertising gift. If the latter be
true then, in my opinion, it
would have been better to save
the entire $12,O00.00 advertising
appropriation, rather than use it
in an apparent attempt to keep
people in Miami instead of send
ing them over the Highway to
Key West. In case the balance
of the Highway advertising is to
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BRIDGE ADVERTISING

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Key West than the type of copy
that has been released?
II have been watching the pro-
gress of the Commission since
the attempt to raise rates with
the hope of receiving additional
revenue. Then the excellent idea
of special weekend rates during
one of the fall months.
Greater Miami had more tour
lists at that time than at any 9TH
er fall period, yet think your
records will show fewer tolls over
the Highway than any previous
fall month since the road open
ed. There surely were thousands
of people visiting the Miami area
who might have been interested
in seeing Key West, but the
weekend ads, as run, did not con-
tain copy that would create a
desire in the minds of the read
erS to come to Key West. The en-
tire copy was addressed to those
people presumed to know about
the wonders of the Highway and
Key West, and it told them how
cheaply they could make the
bridge journey. 1t was just a
bridge going somewhere that had
special rates. 1t might have
! been the Candy Bridge or the
st. Johns River Bridge. The
copy was all right for The Key
West Citizen to carry, for through
that media Key Westers were re-
minded they could go to Miami
during the week-ends and spend
their money there instead of stay
ing in Key West and spending
that same money at home.
1T is my understanding that
the Overseas Highway was built
and financed by guarantees of
Monroe County to help bring
people to Key West. l am sure
that if you will write to any un-
biased advertising agency they
would prepare copy of such sales
appeal that tourists would leave
Miami and come to Key West.
But, of course, as Mark Byron
is dependent on a living, at the
present time, from the Miami
merchants he is naturally not in
terested in writing copy which
would take people away from