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Evening star., 1940-01-21
Ex>Gridders
Hold Many.
Film Jobs
Most Plentiful
AS Directors
Assistants
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
What with the football season out
OF the way, and lot of gridders
out of work, the boys are starting
their annual game Of bucking the
line at studio gates.
It won't be long until the studio
football campaign-that off-season
when they film football pictures for
next fall release-w1ll begin rolling.
It's a chance for pro and college
boys alike to make an extra dollar.
or SO. For many of the collegians
there will be more work next sum-
mer. provided by athetically minded
alumni.
But many ex-gridders don't need
to depend on seasonal employment
they're making careers out Of the
movies.
Geography probably has a lot to
do with 1t, but the University of
Southern California seems to rate
distinct edge. In assistant directors
Jobs, and doing all right, too, you'll
find such one-time Trojan greats
as Jesse Hibbs, Aaron Rosenberg
and Racehorse Russ Saunders.
Hibbs and Rosenberg, a couple
OF burly gents you probably wouldn't
choose for nursemaids, have had
marked success with the youngsters.
Hibbs is an expert at easing babies
into the proper moods-laughing
or crying as the case may be. And
Rosenberg is favorite of Shirley
Temple. He's been the assistant on
several of her pictures.
Sam Ruman, time Indiana
quarterback, is another assistant di-
rector. And Paul Schwegler, whose
name is still revered on the campus
Of the University of Washington,
was a highly successful one until he
stepped into the music publishing
business.
AS for actors, such ex-gridders
as John Howard from Western Re-
serve, John Carroll, Tom Neal and
Allan Lane from Northwestern, Don
Ameche from Columbia College,
Gordon Jones from U. c. L. A., Pat
OBrien of Marquette and. of course,
Johnny Mack Brown from Alabama
have little trouble keeping busy.
If you stepped into cutting room
you might find the once mighty
atom of Southern California. Cotton
Warburton. Another notable son of
Troy, Nate Barranger, is prop
man. Bill Middlestet, from Wash
ington, is an ace special effects man.
Producer Joe Mankiewicz won his
football letter, and basket ball and
baseball, too. at Columbia. Nick
Lukats, erstwhile of Notre Dame,
started out to be an actor but wound
up as trade paper reporter.
Even the stand-in battalion has a
few veterans of the fall wars. Stats
Wyrick, who substitutes for Ian
Hunter, was a three-year tackle at
U. c. L. A., and Chet Bartosch, who
does the same for Albert Decker,
performed at Notre Dame.
And don't forget Mickey Rooney,
who still plays the game-a triple
threat role as captain, quarterback
and coach of his own team.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

rarity-one in million" said Isabel.
But when the word got out that I
had put on all that weight, letters
began pouring in from other women
who were having difficulty in casting
a shadow. Living in Hollywood,
among members of the acting pro-
fession, was under the impression
all women wanted to lose weight
certainly not gain it.
There were perhaps 100 letters in
the thousand I received, in which
the writers wanted to know If I
could tell them how to reverse nv
system of weight-building, so they
could reduce-but the overwhelming
majority simply wanted to know,
how can I get fat?'"
Isabel isn't so very big even yet,
for all her newly added poundage.
Five feet one. she could still carry a
bit more-but those 101 precious
pounds are all very nicely distributed.
Movie directors must think so, too,
for the actress is getting all the act
ing proffers she can handle these
days.
The actress was found at R-K-O
the other day. working with Anna
Neagle and Ray Milland in a remake
Of the musical, Irene" The set was
appropriate enough, too-a restau-
rant. And the scene called for Isabel
to sit at table and eat, with SEEM
ing relish. meal that would have
stymied longshoreman.
rs all that part of your regular
diet?" she was asked between takes.
Il haven't any diet at ALL she ex-
planned. Il just eat what I like
whenever I'm hungry. But in addi-
ton I take these tablets. They're
what put on the weight"
The tablets proved to be small,
ordinary pills-but they're highly de-
ceptive. and Isabel hastened to ex-
plain So
mo one should consider taking
anything like this without first con-
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Important Roles
Go to Alan Hale

Alan Hale's work in ''The Fighting
69th" at Warner Bros. has brought
him two important assignments at
the studio. The veteran actor, who
has begun his 29th year in motion
pictures, will start in Three Cheers
for the Irish" Immediately, going
directly from that film into THE Sea
Hawk" starring Enrol Flynn.
Hale appears with Flynn also in
Virginia City, to which he was as
signed on completion of the re-
Gently previewed THE Fighting
69th."
Evening star., 1940-01-21

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Evening star., 1940-01-21

S:0o-WJSV, orson Welles presents a radio
dramatization of The Citadel" by A. J..
Cronin.
9:0O-WJSV, Helen Traubel soprano, is soloist
with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
under the baton of Victor Kolar: .N
Overture to The Merry Wives Of Windsor"
Du Bst der Lenz from Die walkure" WaSner
Miss Traube1. orchestra.
Bacchanale from samson and Dalah' Tor
Caprice viennois torchestra) Kreisler
Lone Long AGO Miss Traubel. chorus.
Hora staccato Orchestral o''
~ Dinicu- -Heifetz -schmio
Love Went Abiding Bridge
On Winss Of Song ----------- Mendelssohn
Goodbye Tost
Miss Traube. orchestra
Artists Life (orchestra) j. Strauss
God a,! Bless Our Land tensemble and audi:
c:3o-WRC, A vocal version of Drigos "Sere-
made" is presented as a duet by Jean
Dickinson and Frank Mum on the
American Album of Familiar Music
1o:o0-WRC, Miss Moina Michael originator
of Poppy Day" is honored as the woman
OF the week on the Hour of Charm.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

Helen go to bed Immediately after
the final curtain every night.
At IS, Miss Hayes, trying to ap-
pear like a grownup young lady,
went on tour in her first leading
role when she headed a company
OF "Pollyanna" playing through the
South and West.
But she frequently gave herself
away in this mask of being a So
phisticated, adult star. First, she
took her kitten and puppy on tour
with her. Second, in a hotel dining
room in Rochester. N. Y, she was
taken over to meet George M. Cohan.
Cohan, as star to star. rose and
held out his hand to her.
Miss Hayes. nervous for the mo-
ment, stepped back and made a
childish curtsy to him.
Later, when she returned from
tour, Miss Hayes found a leading
Evening star., 1940-01-21

role on Broadway In Dear Brutus. -
but she was 20 frightened by the
task that on ner way home from
rehearsals she would 60 into Z tele-
phone booth to have . cry.
The Broadway critics were en-
chanted by her performance, Burns
Mantle saying: "She has the fairy
grace, the wistful-childish charm Of
the Barrie dream children"
The late Haywood Broun wrote
Miss Hayes is as eager as Christmas
morning and as dazzling as Christ
mas night"
Miss Hayes, her mother reveals,
really inherited her enthusiasm for
the theater from her grandparents.
Her grandmother continually was
showing her how Sarah Bernhardt
played certain scenes. Her grand
father. Mrs. Brown says. was a
great Shakespearean student, and II
he had q nip or two he would recite
and act all the great scenes from
most OF Shakespeare's plays"
Mrs. Brown thought at first Miss
Hayes was destined for a musical
rather than q stage career, and she
tried to persuade grandfather to buy
her q violin, but he demurred.
One day he took her to hear q
violin concert by Mischa Elman.
They returned home with little
Helen flushed Of cheeks and babbline
excitedly.
Look how excited she is," Mrs.
Brown told grandfather. You can't
deny her a violin any longer"
Shes not excited about a violin, -
grandfather calmly answered. Shes
got the measles"
Grandfather was right.
Only once did Mrs. Brown attempt
to be an actress, and this was in a
road company in which 6-year-old
Helen was playing.
In an emergency, Mrs Brown took
over a role from an experienced
actress, the part of an impoverished
woman who was dying of tubercu-
losis. Mrs. Brown thought she was
giving quite an expert performance
until, when she was supposed to be
dying Of hunger, she was carried
onstage with her legs exposed.
You cried beautifully, mother. +"
6-year-old Helen commented, but
you shouldn't wear silk stockings If
you are poor"
And. the new generation, 9-year-
old Mary Hayes Macarthur miss
Hayes is married to Playwright
Charles MacArthur), began her
stage career touring.
On her mothers tour in Victoria
Regina" little Miss Macarthur Joined
the cast, playing Princess Ena at
matiness In the stands from Seattle
to Los Angeles and giving a per-
formance that her candid father
said was "amateurish, or what we
call ham around the house."
Evening star., 1940-01-21

$4,000 for eight performances is
considered hit. In Al weeks she
took in $1,200,000.
Touring really has been a happy
experience for Miss Hayes since she
played opposite John Drew when she
was only IA years of age, so her
mother, Catherine Hayes Brown, re-
veak in her recently published BIZ
ography, THE Story of Helen
Hayes" C"Letter to Mary"-Random
House,.
Drew, like Sarah Bernhardt, was
very particular about the supporting
company that accompanied him on
tour and insisted that it be either
the same one that appeared with
him on Broadway or one equally
good.
He was equally insistent that Mrs.
Brown Tor Brownie" as she is
known to all Broadway make young
Evening star., 1940-01-21
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CONTINUED From First Page }

Ladies and Gentlemen" which she
played on the West Coast before
bringing to Broadway.
Since these stars have gone in
so avidly for touring In the last
several years, the Lunts (Alfred
and Lynn have. perhaps, been the
most consistent about travelling.
Broadway has really become little
more than just another stop or start
on their tours.
Tobacco Road" among the plays
that do not feature stars, has been
the most widely Travelled play of the
last five years. 1t has played in
many hamlets so small they hadn't
seen a blood show for the
past Is years.
The record for exhaustive troup-
ing of an idividual star, at least
in our times, is probably held by
the late Richard Harrison, who was
DE Lawd' in The Green Pas
lures" In that drama he played 81
different cities in 100 consecutive
days.
Miss Hayes current tour of IL
weeks of stands as far West as
Kansas City precedes what likely
will be sabbatical for her from
the theater, although If she does
take this vacation, she will still
make occasional appearances in
radio dramas.
Touring has been a happy adven-
ture for her since the 1898 season
when she played in Victoria Re-
gina" for Al weeks in Al cities. She
began this tour in Hartford, Conn,
and In two nights played to $l3,O44
receipts. In one performance at
Des Moines she played to $9,452.
The magnitude of these figures is
realized when 1t is considered that a
show which does an average of
Evening star., 1940-01-21

acter actress, who recently scored
q brilliant triumph in a weight
building campaign. Frail all her life,
Isabel started at "a pounds last July
and in less than four months built
herself up to 101-a net gain of
q pounds!
After passing the 100 mark for
the first time in her life, Isabel
gleefully mentioned the weight
building feat and the information
was duly passed on. So what hap
pens? Isabel is deluged with letters
more than a thousand to date
from ladies who want to put on
weight!
II thought all the time I was
Evening star., 1940-01-21
No Time for STAGE

Rita johnson has been forced to
refuse an offer to play the leading
role in Might Music" Clifford Odet's
new play, to be produced by the
Group Theater in New York. Miss
johnson is too busy currently with
the leading role of Eddie Cantor's
new Metro-oldwyn-Mayer starring
vehicle, Forty Little Mothers"
Evening star., 1940-01-21
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DANCING.
PEYTON PENN sTUDI.

PEYTON PENN STUDIO
11i5 ST. N.W.-MET. $3.50
Modern dancing, ballroom a speciality,
standard routines. all tempes, call eve
nings for appointment.
The Edward F. Miller Studio
814 18th ST NATIONAL xO03
UnerceHed Instruction in DANCING
Learn to dance tango, vienrese waltz and
rhumba. Special 3-month course Of pri-
vate and class lessons now forming.
Copitol Dance Studio
5?5 18th ST. NV
MAE DAWSON
BALLROOM CLASSES TUES AND SAT.
Besirners and P--~ticn. to 1880 PM
Tar. Ballet, Toe, Hath Exercises, Private
lessons any how. Children'S Classes
1929 NJ st. 4 Thomas Circle. NATL 33a1.
Evening star., 1940-01-21
He Never Lives

A man who has never finished
motion picture alive has been signed
for the latest Crime Does Not Pay"
feature at M-G-M. Joseph Down.
ing, character actor. has been killed
for evasions of the law in "a success
sive pictures.
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Makes $50 a Week
Fixing Radios
Trained ut Home to Be
4 Radio Tochnjcjan

II am making be-
tween $50 and 500
a week after all ex-
Penses are paid" II.
". Spangler writes
to J.E. Smith, Presi-
dent of the National
Radio Institute. II
am getting all the
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Marriage License
Applications

Husa Audrey p5es e Besa 81 Maesrs New Yoy T. c fnd
% setts ave. ' W. and Ruth wiikens. ssss'Hs IS.
Long Island. N. Y; the Rev. W. H
Charlie Hopkins, 3e. 1850 Thirtie.h street
sM eth sIeet ans ges ITSvR ,hs Rev lIS %bnr Th
sW.: the Rev G. + Toalson.D ~
wam sW and al 1G3Iss 9sss Hswkns 44 r. Ha at sFes
Robert G Bailey. % aie5 fifteenth street
street sM shs Rev II Leslie
Ho.srd ;: cook. So. Norwalk, Conn, and
the ReN Il M Anderson as Sarasota Fla
Charles E. Pettineall, .lr.. "a. 5000 F street
hSW Srs Gs1it snd E,nor liz. Rogers Is ssR Ca
Russsj! 81 - custis; bt %! t?nSfsiloS s street
Longtelow street NV; the Rev. j. A.
Philip j. Carter. %. s1s Fifth street NE
and Anne T DQbricky, "a 1101 Hol-
brook terrace NE; the Rev. P. J.
MATHEWS johnson. %, 1929 Bells court
Florence E. Peter. 50, 80 Fifteenth
Rob.ft street SCI the Rsy w. Nslson
"a Hove 4s Roehe5ter' s's n. y y Z. Jussice sRe
Thomas ON s..s s; dsTsss, jr;, %; 1850 Ngrthamp- @
443s, Garrison street NV; the Rev. R.
Robert L. Harrison, "a. 1925 Eishth street
Eighth street NV; the Rev. J. L. Bat
John ia' A: l. Nolan. "a, 45os Fifth street NV,
street NV; the Rev w. J. Sweeney.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Seven Scholarships
Will Be Provided
By 5trayer College
Winners Of Have Choice
Of SecretoriuI or
Accounting Course

DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintend-
ent of schools, has notified E. G..
Purvis, vice president of Strayer
College, that the Board of Education
will accept seven scholarships pro-
vided by Strayer College.
Each scholarship offered will cover
the total tuition cost of a one-year
day school course. A scholarship
winner may have the privilege of
selecting either secretarial or an
accounting course.
One scholarship will be assigned
to the June, 1910, graduating class
in each of the following high
schools: Central, Eastern, Western,
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ana
costa and Mckinley.
Certain reservations apply to each
scholarship that is being granted, it
was indicated, covering appearance
and personality, rank in the gradu-
ating class and eligibility.
The college prefers to have three
applicants designated and recon-
mended from each graduating class
An examining board of the COL
lege will then select the winners
after an oral examination counting
40 per cent, the other go per cent
being allowed for the scholastic
standing of the applicant.
This award will be an annual
event for each June graduat ting
class.
Winners of 1910 scholarships may
enter summer term classes June "a
or July 8, or may enter at the OPEN
ing of the fall term, not later than
September 16.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Autonotive Briefs

TWO hundred and fifty independ-
ent Shell dealers were entertained
at series of five meetings last week
oy mock radio skit conducted by
members Of the local sales staff
The meetings were held at hotels
IN washington and Alexandria.
The skit, take-of on the prev
alent news reporter type of radio
program, was used to demonstrate
the features of the 1910 Shell adj
Vertlsing program. Dean Sweeney,
local manager, was in charge. Two
sound movies also were shown.
Charles A. Foster central division
sales manager, and other repre-
sentatives of the central division Of
flces and the advertising depart
ment addressed the gathering.
A. B Mckee. president of the
Mckee-Pontiac Co, announced last
week the appointment of Eugene w.
BlackWood as sales manager. Mr.,
Blackwood has been active in auto
motive sales in Washington since
1922. He will take direct charge of
sales at McKee-Pontiac at Twenty
Second and N streets NV, and
supervise operations at the other
two Mckee locations, 2015 L street
NV, and 5000 Wisconsin avenue
Bethesda, Md.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
NEWS OF THE MOTORING WORLD
Traffic Advisory Councils Work Here Full Time Job in Interest
of Safety; Patman Bill Studied

News about the Traffic Advisory
Council frequently appears in the
columns of the local newspapers,
but the majority of residents of the
National Capital are unaware of the
work really being carried on in
effort to improve traffic conditions
here. The council is the most i'm
portant organization in the city
that is trying daily to cut down
fatalities and accidents and make
highway conditions here more pleas
ant for motorists and pedestrians
alike. At least, that is the purpose.
The council is composed Of more
than 80 men, representing all phases
OF business here and are the leaders
generally in their lines. They are
appointed directly by the Commits
sioners and serve without any pay
whatever. Regular meetings are
held monthly in the District Build
ing and are attended also by off,
cials Of the District government.
including the Board of Commits
sioners, heads of the Traffic Depart
ment, Police and Fire, Highway De-
partment and members of the Cor
poration Counsel's ONCE. These
officials are present as observers
and as sources Of information.
AT these meetings pressing prob
lens are discussed and when pos
slble action taken. The results of
these decisions are officially for
Warded to the Commissioners which.
if approved by them. may become
city regulation or law. If congress
sional action is needed the plans
are sent to the District Committees
OF the Senate and House for final
legislation. Once year the coun-
Gil hold a dinner with members of
the Senate and House District Com
mittees and judges of the Police
Court, which annual get-together
tends to bring out a closer feeling
OF friendship and greater Cooper
alton.
But this is only a part of the
work. Meetings once a month con-
stltute only small part of the time
freely given by the council to the
affairs Of the city. The council has
many committees to which many
questions are referred for study and
investigation. One or more COM
mittees may have meetings daily
The same committee may meet
twice and even three times a week
before any conclusion is reached,
When this is accomplished a report
is given at the next regular meet
Ing OF the full council for approval
IT immediate action is necessary the
Executive Committee OF the council
Is empowered to act.
The Council is a serious-minded
conservative body. No "steamroll-
Ing IS permitted. Both sides are
alWeays heard. This is particularly
true as to questions concerning mo-
torlsts and pedestrians. The Coun-
Gil IN no way favors one group above
the other. The Council does not
favor the drivers over the walkers.
1t primarily is not a motoring Or
ganlzation. Its aims are lust as
much, and often more so, to assist
the Washington pedestrian in all his
troubles. 1t does not confine itself
to Its own advices, but seeks the
opinions of others. officials of the
National Safety Council constantly
lend their aid.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Deaths Reported

Michael Mccormick SO. Garfield Hospital.
William Gilbert Sullivan. IS, Providence
Hospital
Eva Garner. So. 645 L st. s.w.
Lucy Pike. 80. Trinity COLLEGE
Eleanor H. Wheelwright, 70. 1916 N. H.
Charles, A. Collins. IS. 1852 Window pl
Ulysses Prather. so. 1855 S. Carolina
ave Sc.
Barnet saperstein. so, St. Elzabeth's
Eliza6eth w. WASHINGTON, es. a7a4 On
Florence lychlinski. IS, GEORGETOWN Uni
versity Hospital
John J. Shinn 81. Emergency Hospital.
Harry L. Stockman. 50. l4Oa st.
Elizabeth j: DuBose. 81. Westmoreland
Apartments.
MarRaret M. Downey, 81. Providence
Gladys 6. Mcguire. .4s. 1901 Mass. eve.
Gladys Davidson. A, Emergency Hospital
Rita v. Thompson, 40. 1889 H st.
George H. Wilson. 36. 5,3 9th st. ne
Cornelius D. Van Buren, 80. Taft Bridge.
Daniel Dindelbeck. /. Childrens Hospital
Logan Montgomery, 81, Freedmen's Hos
william Brown. so. Gallineer HOSPITAL
Jen Smith. 35. Conn. ave. and Military I'd.
Gertrude Jones, 90. 1927 21st st. NV.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Pediotriciuns to Hear
French Ambassador

Count de Saint-Quentin, French
Ambassador, and Constantine Brown
OF The Star will deliver the princi-
pal addresses at the regional meet
ing Of the American Academy of
Pediatrics at the Mayflower Hotel
on April 4.
Mr.. Brown will speak on America
and the War;" Dr. Joseph I S. Wall,
program chairman, has announced.
Four hundred child specialists from
the East, during their three-day
meeting, April 4, and 6, will par
ticipate in program dealing with
new methods of diagnosis and
treatment of children's diseases.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Boys Club Branch
Soon to Be COMPLETED

Fully completed and equipped, the
new $685. Eastern Branch of the
Boys Club of Washington at Seven
teenth street and Massachusetts,
avenue Sc. will be opened to all
activities about April /.
All activities carried on in the old
clubhouse pending completion of the
new building will be transferred bv
April l, it was announced. The new
club was officially opened in March
OF 1888, but the building at that
time was not ready for full occu-
pancy.
The new clubhouse conains a mod
ern indoor swimming pool, GYM
nasium, special exercise room, health
clinic, sun bath equipment, game
rooms. auditorium, shops and classes,
library and a log cabin room for
Boy Scouts.
Membership is open to boys be-
tween 6 and 10 years of age who
live in the eastern section of the
city. Otto Nielsen. former manager
Of the Northeast Branch, has been
appointed manager of the new club.
which receives its operating budget
from the Community Chest.