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had to sleep in his shoes because
the simple boarding house In which
he lived didn't have a blanket long
enough to cover all of him.
The prize inspiration for these
hopefuls, however, must be that
zany pair of comics, Olsen and
johnson, who will tomorrow night
celebrate the beginning Of the third
year of their "Hellzapoppin'" musi-
cal on Broadway.
A Hit Overnight.
Although they had been playing
in vaudeville across country for
years Olsen and johnson tried time
after time in vain to get their names
up In lights on Broadway. And
when they opened "Hellzapoppin'"
here on September %. 1898, it almost
seemed as If they we're doomed to
failure again, for some of the critical
reviews were rather apathetic about
the whole berserk revue.
But overnight 1t became hit and
steadily has been playing to sold-out
houses so much that Olsen and
johnson now az advertising it. and
very likely rig ghtly. a. "Hellzapop-
pin never stoppin'.
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players as she works with Ray Mil
land in Paramount's Arise My
Love-" And Milland, who has al
ways aspired to be an actor was
making his living as subaltern in
a British cavalry brigade only a
few short years ago!
Running down through the list
of motion picture players who at
one time or another have been
faced with jobs which had nothing
to do with pictures. you find Guy
Kibbee, famous character actor,
working as a printer. Wallace Beery,
believe it or not. once was an engine
wiper in q roundhouse at Kansas
City. Mo.
Fred MacMurray worked in the
fields near Beaver Dam, Wis, har-
vesting peas. Later he worked In
a stove factory in the same city
while he waited for his chance as
an actor. 1t came several years
later, simply because he had learned
music "on the side"
Fliers and Cartoonists.
Ellen Drew was working In s.
and-10-cent store. longing to be an
actress. Later, she came to Cali
fornia from Illinois and worked In
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you see on tables or walls of some
movie sets are only those of some
extra" players or remote studio
employees :. . who have given per-
mission for their use. because If they
were real likenesses of outsiders.
they might have grounds for a
suit :. People of prominence, how
ever. seldom object to their photo
graphs being displayed by the
movies
The Cinema Educates.
Silly sortie: For the filming of
that Western opus Arizona" Di-
rector Ruggles needed two Apache
Indians who were experts at smoke
signaling so he travelled 100
miles across the hot desert to an
Indian reservation where he found
just the two he was looking for :.
So pleased was Ruggles with their
fine demonstrations that he asked
where they learned smoke signaling
so expertly E. Their laconic reply
was, From the movies"
jeanette Danced.
Chitter chatter: Clark Gable and
Spencer Tracy play the most stren-
uous roles of their careers in Boom
Town. having to engage in five fist
fights. dive face first into a sea of
mud, fight an oil fire while wearing
water-soaked burlap, be doused with
oil, and work among clouds of dust
and through windstorms w. S.
Van Dyke, who directed M-G-Ms
musical "Bittersweet, made his
stage debut as a babe in arms with
his mother, Actress Laura VIM
ston ;. jeanette Macdonald, who
stars in the film, started her stage
career as a dancer and not as a
singer and Nedson Eddy, who
plays opposite her. is an accom-
plished sculptor :. He spends much
Of his spare time modelling heads Of
fllm celebrities Cary Grant
began his acting career at the age
OF II as a silt walker.
Evening star., 1940-09-22
Judy Garland
TOCOntinue
Schooling
Now College Work
Will Occupy Her
Spare Time
BY Franklin Arthur.
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLY WOOD.
There's a new institution opening
the o-Goldwyn-Mayer COL
lege. And for the fall term, its
star and only student is red-haired,
golden voiced Judy Garland.
If you knew Judy, the fact that
she's going to school after her 18th
birthday would surprise you Even
a year ago. Judy was joyfully look
ing forward to the day when no
law could make her go TO school.
But the date came early in June
and Judy decided that, with only a
couple Of weeks to go, she should
finish her high school course. She
did, and graduated, without pub
licity or photographers, with the
class at University High.
Now she's decided she wants more
of the fountain of knowledge. She's
called back her private tutor, Mrs.
Rose Garter. and saws:
Even though my motion picture
work keeps me from going 10 COL
lege, I'm going to try to make col
lege come to me
An Ambitious Program.
State laws require private instruc-
ton for all juveniles working in
pictures. But no one, at least at
M-G-M, has ever continued past
high school. Judy's college won't
be recognized by any associatio of
universities, but that isn't bother
ing her.
Shes mapped out an ambitious
program. Music, naturally, will he
one of the subjects. Her interest
in singing has brought her a music
library containing $500 records
from Bach TO Benny Goodman.
She's studying piano, too
The curriculum also includes
third year French. art, a second
year Of English literature and first
year economics, law and philosophy
Sounds heavy, you say, for girl
who must spend hours of almost
every day on a movie set? Let
Judy tell it:
Law has always interested me,
and there's no reason I shouldn't
know more about it. Law and
economics will help me manage
my business affairs, or at least know
If they are we'll handled. Some day
I want to travel, and I should know
AT least one foreign language.
Literature. art and music will
broaden my interests, believe
She'll Miss Some Things.
But how about the college life
she'll miss-the classroom contacts,
the sorority house, the proms?
Maybe I'll miss some things"
she says. but III have advantages
no student in a regular college
will. Here in the studio I meet
people who have been all over the
world-men and women in public
life, in the world of music and art
Much of my education in the
past has come through them. With
Mrs. Carter. I have often inter
viewed a visitor, then discussed him
and his views just as I would dis
cuss chapter in history or
English
And, Judy adds, pictures are their
own inspiration 10 learning. Now,
for example, she's the heroine of
Little Nelly Kelly" And she's
delving deeply into Irish history
and customs
It's surprising" she laughs. "how
much you can learn that way-and
how painlessly."
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women and Just Stage-Struck
amateurs as they try for the too few
roles.
Unless they are featured players
they find it almost impossible to get
past the reception clerk in the front
ONCE. Even if they succeed in pass
ing that seeming impossibility the
new ones, the players who have yet
to give Broadway performance in
at least second or third role, en-
counter the usual answer from a
manager: I'm sorry, but I can't
consider you for a part until I've
seen you work on the stage. How
do you get start on a stage?
don't know. It's usually pure blind
luck, I think"
Slept In His Shoes.
But the youngsters can look at
some of the current stars on Broad
way and realize that they, too. once
faced the same impasse and kept
going on to glory.
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne,
now starring in Robert E. Sher-
woods hit drama, There Shall Be
No Night" found. the only way to
start was the hard way. Lunt, be-
ginning " 4 Boston stock company.
Evening star., 1940-09-22

OIL lIlt lOlhS dG iliS may al
some measure. suggests We olde cynic.
account for the heavy turnover of
husbands and servants in these
parts.
Always the same-that's my
motto" SAYS Lombard.
The Lombard picture OF the mo-
ment is one wherein such things
as this happen: Robert Montgom-
cry is unable to shave himself with
a straight razor so Carole. the duti-
full wife. learns to use a straight
razor and every morning gets her
husband in a comfortable position
on the floor and gives him the twice
over Meanwhile. they discuss The
plans for the day.
Never Talk Pictures.
1t is a hilarious scene. this one
in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but
played without any obvious attempt
at comedy. Even the calloused set
workers were doubled up watching
Evening star., 1940-09-22

full for this voice of mine-that and
my habit of being alone. That's
how he noticed me. After l8 weeks
of being on the same circuit. without
more than nodding to each other,
l rushed up to him one day and
shouted right in his face: DR.
Krebs. you certainly are a smart
man..
Father Gave in.
Then I turned. to run away in
rrassment-and fell fat into
mud puddle! How's that for
romance?"
But it was romance nevertheless.
Fourteen years of welded happiness
followed, with Dr.. Krebs urging his
wife on in the theater. 1t was he
who broke her fathers hatred of the
stage.
When dad realized Who's Who
listed DR.. Krebs as a preacher and
lecturer. he just naturally gave in" ;"
she told us.
While the two were reading Main
Street they decided Main" would
be fine for stage name, with Mar
jorie preceding it.
In 1884, Dr. Krebs died. and only
her work kept Marjorie from going
to pieces. She turned to the stage
and played the memorable tragic
mother role in Dead End" That
brought her to Hollywood to play
the screen version for Samuel Gold
wyn.
Il poured all my sorrow into
that old woman" she said.
On location recently at Jackson
Hole. Wyo, she was the life and hit
of the wyoming troupe. She sur
prised them by really shoeing a
horse and had them in stitches with
her voice and quaint talk.
They thought I didn't know"
grinned Marjorie. Il also knew they
laughed when I said sup for eat.
Let 'em laugh. I like to make peo-
pie laugh. That's why practice my
lines on the bus coming to work
1t amuses the passengers and keeps
my voice from softening.'
(Released by the North American News
paper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1940-09-22
HOLLYWOOD.

II YOU want career In motion
pictures and find yourself doing
something which seems remote from
the business of acting, don't de-
spair-things will work out for you
to have your chance.
This sounds strictly Pollyanna,
but the years have proven the state
ment true. Many men and women
who are stars on the screen today
once had jobs which had absolutely
no connection with the motion pic
ture industry and. from a geographic
standpoint, also were far away.
Consider Claudette Colbert. She
wanted to be an actress In those
days when she lived in New York
city with her mother. But nobody
ever gave her q chance. At one
time she was forced to sell fashion
designs which she had drawn. for
81 apiece. She also taught French.
One Of the women to whom she
taught the language arranged for
her to have her first chance on the
Broadway stage!
He Was . Subalttrn.
Today, Miss Colbert Is admittedly
the highest paid Of motion picture
Evening star., 1940-09-22
Oakie Begins
TOWOnder
If He's Real
He Hasn't Seen His
Name in Lights
In Two Years
Bv RObbin Coons.
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Jack Oakie has hunch he's in
pictures, but sometimes, he says,
he thinks it's all dream.
Jack has been putting his all into
movies, and he's been looking at
screens in vain the past two years
for the proof of the putting. Here
he is now. much in evidence on the
set of Tin Pan Alley" but
"Sh-h-h,' he whispers. his long
round face scanned with laughs.
Don't spread it>around, but I think
its gag. That's not real camera,
It's hallucination."
It's been two years since Oakie.
like all actors ever alert for view
of his name in lights, has seen his
name in lights Two years since
he's had new picture released
locally And he's had scarcely an
idle month in the period.
In Chaplin Film.
II make 'em, but nothing hap
pens" he muses.. I'll be a dead
pigeon before they ever out on
Oakie picture. The tickle public
bless 'em!-forgets quickly There's
no reason why it won't exercise its
prerogative on Oakie. What1l l
do?"
Jacks last new picture was
Thanks for Everything" in 1898
After that he went into the Chaplin
picture. on which he spent about
five months. Reginald Gardiner
also played in this one.
He's Heard Reports.
He's heard reports that his next
picture. Young People" has been
seen around some places-but not
around here. The one after that
was Little Men, (the Oakie-Kay
Francis Elsie the glamour COW pic
ture) and they, so far as Jack has
learned to date, are the little men
who aren't there.
He's not giving in without a
struggle. however.
Il bring an armload of Oakie
photographs to the set each day."
he says with do-or-die air, "and I
autograph 'em. I pass 'em out to
everybody. It's one way to keep
your name alive-even if they throw
'em away, somebody might pass and
notice the face"
Evening star., 1940-09-22

beeIN ' llOl lSe-SllOthlS SNcClilcoiI " AL
wyoming
You see, I've lived with lot of
EN- in my time" said Marjorie in
that same fascinating voice that
rumbles up and down the scale
high and shrill one moment and
raspy as file against steel the next.
You don't go trouping around
the country as I did without meet
ing lot of strange landlady types
Landladies have way about them
especially if you accidentally meet
up with them in the hallway when
you're two weeks in arrears.
Naturally, they and their various
mannerisms got to be an obsesslon
with me- But it makes me laugh
a little today to think that those
narrowing experiences of the past
are now paying dividends.'
An interesting parsonage. this
Marjorie Main. She's exactly the
same of as on the screen-voice.
gruffness, strut and all. And about
those vocal pyrotechnics: They're
no. sham-they've been coming up
on her since childhood.
Brought the House Down.
The w. K. rocky road to success
had nothing on Marjories climb to
fame. She was a farm girl, born
Mary Thomlison, near Acton, Ind:
her father was a minister. who OBJ
jected violently to her slightest stage
urge. But that wasn't all. She lit
orally brought the roof down on her
head during village recitation,
narrowly escaping with her life.
"A lot of us youngsters were
drafted for parts on the program
said Marjorie. Il was to recite
blood and thunder Western epic
called 'Pard and Ruff Now that
was right up my alley-and I gave
it more than blood and thunder.
That's when the roof caved in-and
plunked right down on my head. I
was in bed two weeks"
Then came boarding school at
Franklin College, Franklin. Ind. and
later Hamilton College, Lexington,
KY. BY this time her father was
reconciled to her becoming teacher
of dramatic arts She toured on the
chatauqua circuit with a Shake
spearean company. OF this era she
says:
Il not only drew $l8 a week. but
met my future husband, DR.. STAN
ley Krebs. That's why am thank
Evening star., 1940-09-22


lives of five young studio meSsen-
ger boys, who are struggling along
in the ranks of the nobodies, who,
if they don't some day surprise their
bosses and become motion picture
directors. at least will have had
themselves lot of fun. At least
they have little to lose.
Inspired by what they have
learned of the movie business by
hanging around sound sets or chas-
ing messages through the various
departments, these young chaps
have decided they're going into the
flicker business themselves in a big
way. Or at least in a big way for
them.
They have their own little l6-mm.
camera. have invested S735 each
for film and other equipment and
have lined up Raoul Walsh, a lead
Ing Warner Bros. director. as their
faculty adviser" They've got their
whole company complete, from seem
artist to press agent, and already
have been taken by Walsh on one
location trip" to Santa Monica
Beach, where they used up 100 feet
of their precious film.
Script Is a Secret.
I'VE wasted only two feet of it so
far" they boasted boyishly to Walsh.
to whom the shooting of thousands
OF feet of film on one of his regu-
lar sound sets is all in a days work.
The boys have named their pic
ture Let's See a Movie" but so
far no one outside their own little
group has seen the script or been
told the story, although they did
reveal they are using IS other mes
seneer boys as extras"
Some of the studios regular stars.
upon learning of the unusual prof.
ect, have offered financial assistance.
bit the boys say they want to handle
II all by themselves. They admit.
hu~ever, it probably will cost them
another eight or ten bucks apiece"
before it is finished.
This" said the youthful press
agent" for the little group. lis not
panhandling enterprise. 1t is
strictly promotional. We all want
better jobs
Unpublished Novels
Orphaned oddities: Almost all
newspapers you see displayed in the
movies are phonies studios
which print them up themselves
say the regular orthodox pubhca-
tions might object. for policy rea-
sons, on how they play up the movie
version of synthetic news when
ever the f1ickers want to take
scene showing scores of volumes of
some novel. they save a lot of ex-
pense by merely obtaining cheap
copies of the outside jackets and
pasting them on light novel-slze
blocks of wood
Nine times out OF ten those casual
Photographs of nobody in-particular
Evening star., 1940-09-22
Knows Whereof She Acts
Marjorie Main Plays Landladies
Well Because She's Met Them
HOLLYWOOD,

II
that Main Holywoods living breathing
prototype comicstrp andlady boarding
keeper.
squinteyd had-boiled
Evening star., 1940-09-22
Never Tells Her Husband
Carole Lombard Doesn't Talk of Her
Work When Cables Around
By Hubbard Keavy.
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOLLYWOOD


is mmateria to Caroe Lombard her home life
engaged a
adds "depresser'
doing requiring
condition reputedly making tough
Evening star., 1940-09-22
They, Too, Faced 1mpasse
BY the Associated Press,
NEW YORK.


If,
actor
heater and finds merely
glance the lights should
With
overown with steady parade ngenues leading character
Evening star., 1940-09-22
Studio Messengers Film
Is Promotion Scheme
Group Making Picture in the Hope
1t Will Catch Executive Eyes
And Mean Better Jobs
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

By the Associated Press HOLLYWOOD
of the oldest things
OF all and little about the plain
In
Right there the makngs possible
Evening star., 1940-08-25

baking dish; sprinkle with cinnamon,
nutmeg. half the sugar and water.
Mix zwieback with remaining sugar
and tte butter. Spread this mixture
over fruit. and bake in a moderately
hot oven (375 degrees F.) until fruit
is tender and top is delicately Drowned,
about 40 minutes. Approximate yield:
6 portions.
Note: Crushed gingersnaps may
also be used in this recipe.
Suggestions for Quick Cooksry
Fig NeWtons: ~ Add crumbled Fig
Newtons to soft custards just before
serving; (2) Add to ice creams just
before freezing, or (3) fold into gelatin
mixtures before chilling.
Graham Crackers: Ginsersnabs;
Rnsks; Vdnilld Waters: Chocolate
Waters: Zwieback: To make pie crusts
which do not require baking: Roll
desired cracker, or cookies very fine;
measure out ~ cups. Add y to n
cup softened butter, u cup sugar and
teaspoon cinnamon (optionaD. and
blend thoroughly. Press mixture firmly
to the bottom and sides of we'll but
tered 8 or 9 inch pie plate. Pour in
desired filling and chill until set.
Graham Crackers. Rusks, Zwieback,
and Vanilla Waters are especially
appropriate for lemon. chocolate chif-
fon or other gelatin pie filings, vanilla
waters for butterscotch pie, and
gingersnaps make an excellent crust
for cooked pumpkin pie filling.
Shorfbreod: Break shortbread into
small pieces, and place in a serving
dish Moisten with sherry, and spread
with raspberry or cherry jam. Pour
cooked custard over it. Chill and
serve with whipped cream.
Salty Craekers:: Crumble and use in
place of bread cubes in scalloped
dishes, especially corn.
Chocolate, Lemon or Vanilla Waters:
For quick crusts for custard, cocoa
nut cream, lemon cream and other
pies which do not require final baking:
Line the pie dish with waters. Cut
several additional waters in halves anG
stand them up around inside edge of
plate dixie fluted crust) Pour the
cooled filling into the wafer-lined
plate; chill, and serve.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

Temple, would defeat the very, thing
we're trying to achieve. We wouldn't
think ot it1' d., - =. <1<..
anI asked Shirley, do you really
wqpt 70 make ma more pictures?"'' and she
answered. "Of course l do. | love
making pictdfes:'' Then .asked C"Buti
you don't love it more than SCHOOL,"
She said, Il love school more than |
love anything"
That's the real reason why Shirley
is quitting the movies - temporarily.
She'd rather have those AS.
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ever, that Mr.. Dawson longs to have
the American people understand. A
cracker and biscuit are not the same
thing, though Americans call them all
crackers Unfortunately. Even my
own children" he says aggrievedly,
reaching toward a box of sweet,
cream-filled biscuits, will say: I want
another cracker
The difference lies in the dough.
Crackers are made of fermented dough,
biscuits of unfermented dough- The
first step in the making of crackers is
to make a sponge. age it. and when it
has reached the right degree of acidity,
mix it with new -four. shortening,
malt - sometimes little sugar, and
with soda which sweetens it. The sec
ond mix is aged again but for short
time, and is then baked. The earliest
form Of fermented cracker is the old
3-inch square soda cracker, the father
of all present-day crackers.
The very beginning of the cracker
business in this country, however, goes
back to what we might call a great
great grandfather among crackers.
This was the thick, hard. unleavened
pilot or ship-bread which Theodore
Pearson began to make in 1892 at
Newburyport, Massachusetts. The
next version was made by another
New Englander. Josiah Bent. and was
known as water cracker - finer
grained and more tender New York's
first cracker baker. Ephraim Tread
we'll, took another step forward when
he introduced butter crackers. By the
end of the Civil War some Albany
bakers imported machinery with which
to make the sweetened biscuits which
previously were shipped from England.
BY 1890 the hundreds of small
cracker bakeries scattered over the
country began to consolidate in re-
gional groups until there were four
major companies. These merged
little later in national company.
Then another outstanding national
company was organized. These two
remain the leaders among the cracker
and biscuit companies, with one other
national distributor and about 100 in
dependent companies also producing
Evening star., 1940-08-25
These recipes simplify
things for you and
turn out wonderfully

|" HE biscuit and cracker business
in the United States is a great
u big modern. streamlined in
dustry - valued at more than $780,
10000 year. But it still preserves
the "folksy" tradition of the little
fellows who first made crackers. They
were the early craftsmen OF the busi-
ness, working up and baking their own
cracker or biscuit batch, and distribut-
ing biscuits to neighborhoodc clientele.
Each mans product was strictly
local, with its own special name and
Characteristic; and it established a ira
dition for particular type of cracker
in that region. Thus even today the
people of New England favor lunch
biscuits. the nearest equivalent of their
first pilot bread or ship biscuit Out in
Michigan butter crackers are the gen.
eral lavorite New Workers and other
bigcity dwellers go in for the crisp
Saline type of crackers. And the ma
tional cracker bakers know and cater
, to these deep-rooted preferences.
That is one way in which this ma
tional industry retains its honey
qualities. You come upon another
way, if you try to find out how many
types of crackers and biscuits there
are. Nobody. not even the owner of
big cracker business, can tell you
They can't tell you." says l.. NJ.
Dawson. former cracker baker, present
editor OF The Cracker Baker, and
authority on every aspect of the busi-
ness. ITS as it would be in your own
kitchen. If you were baking at home,
you could do anything you wanted to
with a batch of dough. putting in a
new flavor, coating it with butter or
cheese. changing it from day to day.
And that's exactly what happens in
the kitchen of the biscuit and cracker
factory. There are always certain
types being repeated on. of course.
but new types are added all the time"
There is one major distinction, how