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Evening star., 1941-03-22
British Raid Films
AT the Trans.Lux

The cameramen covering the va
riouS war fronts have sent along
another exciting news reel clip, this
the film account of that British
raid on the NaZi-held base in Nor
way, which headlines the new pic
torial news bill at the Trans-Lux
The pictures bring complete visual
account of the raid, the capture of
prisoners and the destruction of
German oil refineries. Other varied
items are reported-defense, snow
sports, fashions and the dedication
of the Mellon Art Gallery.
Heading the short subjects por-
ton of the bill is another of the
Washington Parade" series, this
touring the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis. Other
shorts are "Ice Capers," with Speed
Champion Irving Jaffee; Movie
Magic" and color cartoon. H. M.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Killers Obituary
At METROPOLITAN

When the Brothers Warner di-
verge in one of their reports on a
killers career from the melodra-
matte and attempt the psychological
they are likely to come up with
something called High Sierra. +"
That, as a matter of fact, is what
the studios latest gangster yarn,
now at the Metropolitan, is called.
1t is just about what you would rea-
sonably expect; slightly more a dull
obituary notice than psychological
drama, coming to life only when it
finally reverts to out-and-out melo-
dramatics in its climactic chase"
sequence. Humphrey Bogart en-
livens the piece considerably, Of
course, with his icy portrait of a not
quite-ruthless mobster who meets a
fitting end, after having been loved
briefly by girl and a dog. These
latter two roles are played quite
capably by Ida Lupino and an actor
named Zero. H. M.
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acters in recent years, one we are
not soon going to forget. His name
is Ahmed Throughout the first
several reels he turks suSpiciously
beneath a turban, behaving in
MUCK the manner of a man who
wishes to give the impression he
is about to bash the nearest by
stanoer with salad bowl. Then,
just as he is on the point of di-
vulgins some great truth, Ahmed
fees in wild fright. And never is
he heard from again.
It Is indeed fortunate that Foot
steps in the Dark" has Ahmed
about. Brooding over what in the
world ever happened to him is
something to occupy the mind and
the mind does need occupying when
it is confronted by such an item as
Footsteps in the Dark" Appar-
emily this has been designed for
the younger junior high school
girls. who will swoon with joy at
the sight of Enrol Flynn outsmart-
Ing detectives and who will learn
to distrust their husbands, who will
be staying out solving murder
mysteries those nights when they
say they have to work late. Pos
sibly some of the younger male men,
talities may also be made happy
by the photoplay. those. that is,
who find the spectacle of Mr.. Flynn
ut-wisecracking a police inspector
and burlesque queen more anus
ing than APPALLING.
1t is all so familiar. The hero
Is detective fiction writer who
comes face-to-face with real
life crime. He sees clues the police
fall over without noticing, giving
the impression that they are not
only stupid but blind and that crime
certainly would pay if 1t were not
for amateur sleuths. The police
see clues which indicate the hero
Is guilty. And there is a line OF
dialogue no cautious writer ever
would have allowed to creep into
a script.
Don't be silly" saws the hero's
mother-in-law to a detective. late
in the proceedings. People in our
set don't go around shooting peo-
Pile" The hero's retort:
No. we just go around boring
them to death"
Verify, from the mouths of babes
and movie stars
Mr.. Flynn can hardly be blamed
of course, for not making his char
acterization in Footsteps in the
Dark" believable one, though We
wish he would go back to costume
| pieces. being nervous and con-
tinually on edge for fear he will kick
| over a table or break a vase when
ever he is pictured in a modern
drawing room. But the point Is
that no actor could be convincing
| as a man who spends his evenings
tracking down a murderer when the
little woman waiting at home is
Brenda Marshall.
| X Il X
The Earle's stage show is some
thing called "Latins VS.. Manhat-
Evening star., 1941-03-22
The Cast,

act than showing her some masks he
picked up in Africa, it is amusing
in the best tradition of Durbin films.
Even the first champagne drink has
the old bright innocence about it.
The usual allotment of songs. all
of which she takes in excellent
voice, are assigned to Deanna in
Nice Grip" The single reflection
of the ASCAP-BMI feud is "Old
Folks at Home" not JEANNE wtl.
bh.' The others are new; to us at
least. Love at Last" is the ro-
mantle one, bit too difficult to be
popular number in the shower.
Beneath the Lights of Home" is
more eligible for that destiny, un-
less it turns out to be Thank You
America" a march tempo number
with a captivating Tilt.
Richard Connell's and Gertrude
Lehman's script, based upon story
by Phyllis Dugenne, sets up the
other characters more as symbols
than as people. Tone makes a good
symbol as the eligible young scien-
tist, Benchley as the understanding
though absent-minded father, Stack
as the indifferent young swain,
Brennan as kind of simple
hearted, amorous postman. and Ann
Gillis as a typical brat of a young
sister.
The picture is produced on that
luxurious scale to which Universal
has accustomed Deanna's logically
devoted audience.
X
Keith's supplemental attraction
this week is another of those in
telligent issues of March of Time
dedicated to the proposition that
Americans are lucky to live in
country where all men are equal.
Its theme is that great Nation has
been woven out of the polyglot peo-
Piles who pioneered and have brought
to its magnificent destiny a Nation
now going all-out to defend its
democratic heritage.
1t is another telling piece of pic
torial journalism quite worthy of
the skill and talent of Louis de
Rochemont and his staff.
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the players are Franchot Tone,
Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan,
Helen Broderick, and Robert Stack
They almost succeed in laughing
you into the belief it is the best
Durbin picture of the lot. But only
almost
Young love, the sweet thing, again
provides the drama in Deanna's ca
reer in Mice Grip" The terrible
specter of spinSterhood, which is
worse at 18 apparently than ever
before or after, is her major worry.
1t is compounded by the fact that
her young beau takes her so much
for granted he uses her to hand him
wrenches while he tinkerS with his
beloved sports car. An unromantic
lug like that, plus the object lesson
of a father who writes tones on
rabbit diets, is enough to drive her
into a one-way attachment for a
young scientist who inVadeS her
sleepy home town.
The attendant complications beget
more stretches of comedy than OF
drama in Deannas latest. AS there
invariably is, there is something
funny. about the three sisters (smart
girls. alb launching an immediate
and violent competition to win the
straying sophisticated young man.
There is something funny, too, in
the interlude in which Deanna, alone
in his house with the Indifferent
young scientist. timidly undertakes
the strange role of being a siren.
She takes her first taste of cham
pagne, she dons a gown that Warner
Bros. might have designed for Anne
Sheridan. and she finally ends up
dangerously posed on couch topped
off with nice rectangle of animal
hide. When all these things fail to
entice the young man to more mad
Evening star., 1941-03-22

Oold
"Okay," said Paulette. 1T doesn't
matter. I'm not taking much bag
! gage with me anyway"
Rosalind Russell is sick, and The
Uniform is marking time until her
recovery. The film has another
three weeks of shooting, but they
still don't know how it will end.
But believe know. Clark Gable
a Jewel thief, marries Rosalind. who
is also a jewel thief, and they have
lots of little jewels and steal happily
ever after.
Talking about sick stars. Ginger
Rogers has not been well since the
excitement of winning the Academy
Award. She will take a long rest
after completing Tom, Dick and
Harry" Shirley Temple is un-
popular with woody Van Dykes S
little daughter, who also attends the
Westlake School. DO you like Shir-
ley?" the girl was asked She re-
piled, No, not much. She's always
signing her name!" Mrs. William
Powell dyed her hair a bright yell
low to please William, who prefers
blonds. However. the studio wants
to feature her as dramatic ac-
tress and has ordered the locks toned
down. Bill, incidentally, is currently
keeping his set closed for his woman
impersonation scene in Love Crazy
He is bashful about showing himself
in female clothing 1t should be
funny.
Baby Sandy started to sing Rock
a Bye Baby" in her film, Sandy
| Steps Out" and was rushed from
the set. Hush" she was told. III
you sing that song it will cost the
studio $3.50" (To ASCAP). In
the Robert Montgomery Irene
Dunno film, Finished Business,
someone sings Happy Birthday
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Current Theater Attractions
| and Time of Showing
Stage.
National - The Little Foxes, y
Tallulah Bankhead in a drama of
an unpleasant family: 230 and
$50 pm.
Screen.
EarIe-"FootSteps in the Dark" I"
Enrol Flynn in a mystery comedy:
IL am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and $50
pm. Stage shows: 12:45, $780, 6:15
and pm.
Capitol-"Topper Returns" and
meets another vanishing woman:
10:45 am, 1:30, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:55
pm. Stage shows, l2:45, $3.50, Sis
and 9 pm.
Palace - The Great Dictator" ="
Chaplin looks at today: 10:45 am,
1:25, 4:10, $50 and 9:35 pm.
Keith's Mice Grip" Deanna
Durbin indulgeS in romance: 1l:15
am, 100, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:40
pm. March of Time: /, 3:05, $40
tbs and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"High Sierra" last
days of a killer: IL am, los, 3:l5
5:25, 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Little Night Train" melodra-
matte and comic British thriller
IL am, 12:45, 2:30, 4:20, sos, 7:55
and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Andy Hardy's Private
Secretary" and he gets out of high
school: IL am, /, $40, SIS, 7:25
| and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuouS from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
The Cast

tans," perhaps because it has Latin
Carlos Molina's orchestra pitted
against that of Joe lombard, who
used to be an Atlantic City boy.
That isn't exactly right, either, be-
cause it is the lombard orchestra
that is pitted, where it always is,
and the Molina boys are on the
stage, where they display consider
able melodious subtlety with South
American rhythms. The other en-
tertainers are France and LAPEL,
who do some exceedingly exciting
balancing stunts atop a high pole;
Gene Sheldon, the banjo playing
comedian; Kay Hamilton, who
sings: the Lathrop Brothers and
Virginia Lee, who tap dance, and
the Conga Dancers, who conga.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Athlete to Sing
ry the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTE HALL, Md, March
22.-Frank Cady, Charlotte Hall
Military Academy five-letter ath-
lete, will assume a different role
tonight.
Cady will take the spotlight be-
fore 400 guests at the Charlotte Hall
alumni banquet in the Mayf1ower
Hotel, Washington, and sing Irish
ballads. He appeared on the radio
three years ago.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

is my guess that
Betty Field will
play it. Betty is
a good actress
and, in addition,
is under contract
to Paramount,
who is making
the film.
Paulette God
dard has to go
to San Francis
co, and she call
ed her studio to
ask, Are you
sending a press
agent with me?'
aNy -
Evening star., 1941-03-22

problem C n ii d.
Not acutely, un-
derstand, jus t
more so in Nice
Girl?" at Keith s
than in the old
almost too per-
feet days. 1t is
the more strange
that one should
feel that way in
view of the fact
that the film is
one of the most
humorous a n d
lavishly cast of
the nine she has
m a d e. Among
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Errol Flynn Turns Sleuth
In the Earle's New Film
But He Never Solves the Mystery
Of Ahmed's Disappearance;
Carlos Molina on Stage
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

people will be happy well as surprised to
learn discovered enyen that old old one about the bright
right under the noses Of
uncomprehending accidental feel
at
Earle have brought intriguing film
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Betty Field Is Considered
Another Possible Maria
Annabella Has Asked for the Role,
But Miss Field Is Under
Contract to Paramount
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.


when Wife
working
emoting ability Nelson Eddy
dispatched Christmas his
fan club England The batch he December at
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Deanna Natures Happily
In Latest at Keith's :
Not Even Less Adequate Script
Can Diminish Her Young Charm;
NJ. of T. Tells of America
By JAY CARMODY.

eight
rule that children
studio could
In
could mpole things
Well corresponding dimnution
Evening star., 1941-03-22

FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK Warner
Bros. picture, starring Enrol Flynn. Brenda
Marshall and Ralph Bellamy; directed by
Lloyd Bacon screen play by Lester Cole and
John Wexley from a STAGE play by Lazlc
Fodor, Bernard Merivale and jeffrey Dell
At the Earle
Evening star., 1941-03-22

NICE GIRL?" Universal picture,
starring Deanna Durbn and Franchot
Tone, produced by Joe Pasternak. directed
by William Setter, original story by Phyllis
Dugenne. At Keiths.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

CARLTON HOTEL, New Cosmos Room, 18th
and X SITS. ME. 1895. Music by Carmen
CavalIaro's Orchestra. Dancing 81 and 10
RAINBOW ROOM. Hamilton Hotel. 14th 4tn
supper dancing to Milt Davis Orchestra,
10-1. Min. Saturday only 81. DL 2h80.
HAY-ADAMS HOUSE-OverlookinE White
House at 18th and II Sts. Dining in an
atmosphere of charm. dignity and gen
tility. Luncheon, S5c; dinner from Sl.25
Organ music nightly during dinner.
SHOREHAM BLUEROOM, Connecticut at
Calvert. Dining and dancing. Two floor
shows. $40 and l1:30. Dinner So in
c1udng cover. Supper cover 81. AID. 0700.
THE WYOMING CAFE. 2O22 Columbia Rd.
NV. tUnder new management) Excellent
food: experienced walters. 5:3O-S pm.
daily. 55c up. Special Fried Chicken Dinner
Sunday 15c
Evening star., 1941-03-22

NIIS. yIUIIt TUNtI 0NIIIIdUtIIdI
is begging for the Maria role in
For Whom the Bell Tolls But it
Evening star., 1941-03-22

and appeal, the other children have
their inning. The lovelier- -than-ever
singing star has turned up as story
Evening star., 1941-03-22
SEC0 8244 Ga. Ave, Silver Spring.
shep. 254O. Parking Space.

THE HIGGINS FAM1t:Y ~ in "pE1-rr.
COAT POLITICS" Al l3:l5. 3:65.
5;30 s:35: CHARLES STARRETT.
LOUISE CURRIE in PINTO KID
A. II, AS. 4:3O, 7:I5. 10, Looney
Iune Cartoon. Junior G Men," No,
Evening star., 1941-03-22
C0IONY 4935 Ga. Ave, NV
KENNEDY Kennedy, Near 4th NV.
RIA cGAA

/ Ms btDUU.
| Matinee, PM
ranTSInE rnbI n,- Space Available to Patrons.
| BARD. CAROLF LANDS in "PSID
| SHOW At 1:40, $50. g. $50. o?40,
| Green Hornet Strikes Again" M
| i serial. Free Candy Bar. Unusual
Evening star., 1941-03-22
SHERIDAN Ga. Ave. & Sheridan.

oLeID1lN RA. 2iOO. Mat. Jpn.
LOUIS HAYWARD JOAN BFNNETT
GEORGE SANDERS in "SON OF
MONTE CRISTO." At $50. 4:25, :,
n;4O; Green Hornet Strikes Again.
NO. /. Serial. Cartoon and Comsdv
Evening star., 1941-03-22

PENN Pa. Ave. at eth Sc,
FIR. 500. MAT. ] Pm.
Parking SPACE Available TO patrons.
tsI trsRIEDRIC MARCH, BETTY FIELD in
EiSIOhf. At |, 3:20. $40, 1.40,
S:40 Serial, Comedy, Looney Tune
Evening star., 1941-03-22
CENTRAL 425 9th st. NV.
MET. 2SiI.
Opens 9:J5 AM

Bill 81 ] BOYD N IN OLD COLORADO.
e. 10, l2;40: $40. g. S:45' ANN
S-S11 SC1 1H1EHN: IN LEW AYREs. MAUREEN
aaAL2f- q ~ At 11:O5. 1:45, 4:25. T:O5.
Evening star., 1941-05-16

Lord Halifax looks like composite
of Fred Astaire and Sinclair ReO
Lewis with dash of Socrates. There
may be power behind that dour
cavernous mask. I thing Charlotte
Bronte wrote him. There's fleet
ing humor in the folds of his heavy
mouth. Every one says I made him
too young. I told him as I drew
l curiously saw him as a lad, not
too popular, and if he didn't fancy
himself that way, 1t was just too
bad!
He left the room in the middle
of my sketch. When he returned I
said that time out couldn't be in
cluded in the IS minutes he allowed.
He smiled a winter smile:
How long have you had?"
About nine and seVen-tenths
minutes"
will two minutes more do?"
He Met DIR. HUI.
told him I was going to keep
on til he told me to get the hell
out! Which practically happened.
I wouldn't have had it different for
farm! He little knew, or, of
course, cared how amused / was.
Evening star., 1941-05-16

bassy. Detours and road building.
There I found Georgian pile. A
man was on scaffold over the front
door gliding the crown on the uni
corn and other repairing was 60
ing on.
After long wait, butler opened
the door and I was shown up the
grand staircase flanked by gigantic
portraits Zone of Queen Mayor
Alexander-I forgot which, waited
quite a while in the secretary's
office. I noticed on bookcase a
cardboard jigger that said at the
top may the beautiful flags of the
democracies wave forever" or some
thing along this line, and below
three flags-American, Greek, Brit
ish.
A Dash of Socrates.
In the spacious sunny elegance
of the place-except there was
dearth of servants-I felt I might
have bean" in England in some
ruddy castle (by mistakeD.
Well, in a beautiful high-ceiled
study I at last drove me quarry to
earth. He was quite insistent on my
not drawing him with his glasses on.
Evening star., 1941-05-16
>.ls@sa soW sssesa 1lAa

took an iced coffee gently out of my
hand and said: Champagne is
better" I said, mo, champagne
was for women and seasickness.
Not for me"
So he got me Scotch. Then he
asked DR.. Hu Shih, the Ambassador
to let me draw him. He would be
delighted If I would call him any
time. I was leaving the next day so
that was out. But I got q slight
sketch Of him while he was saying
good-by to his guests. He saw 1t
and begged me to send a photo of
1t to him and he would have it
framed.
Nothing could have been more
lavish than the tables of delicacies
and drinks on those crowded lawns.
One man said to me: What a lot
of Chinesei" I said: What do
you expect at the Chinese Embassy
Turks?"
The Chinese I met were all so
sensitive and spoke an unaccented
English-except Joe Chang with his
Mister Frad"
My next man was the Right Hon.
Richard G. Casey, the Australian
i Minister,
The average New Yorker would
vaguely picture the foreign en-
bassies and legations as being in the
city proper. The three most i'm
portant ones were out in the wooded
hills.
When my taxi driver got up the
winding road to the Australian Lega-
ton in the trees he didn't know
which was the front entrance.
We whizzed around the house, a
handsome Georgian brick mansion
took chance on one of the doors
and guessed right.
The inside was charming, spacious
and iyable looking and in the
paneled softly lighted library was
| Mr.. Casey, an exquisite in sombre
British elegance, looking as if he
had just come in from tea at Wind
sor Castle.
Like most Americans I know little
about Australia but what I read
and, while I didn't expect to see
him in q wide-awake carrying a
wallaby pickaback or leading a koals
on leash, ill-Australian? Well,
| well! Likely enough the way Eng
lishmen feel on their first trip to
the States-expecting to see all New
Workers in 10-gallon hats riding
Evening star., 1941-05-16

madly down Fifth avenue, chasing
mavericks!
The first thing Mr.. Casey did was
to offer me a drink. And what's
more he realized the natural history
fact that bird can't fly with one
wing.
Casey showed me a modernist
water color over the mantel of
bushmen hurting spears and asked
me if it made me i'll!
I told him it didn't as I had a
strong stomach. Then in his nervous
manner. he showed me four charm
ing water colors done by woman.
These were climbing up the stair
wall in the main hall. He explained
how the artist had tried to get the
feeling of the kangaroo using his
heavy hind legs and tail as base
for the movements of the feebler
upper part of the body. She had
done we'll They were swell
Mrs. Casey came in from a
woman's party and was a bit
sardonic about it. They we're charm
ing and fortnight and we did a
little mild ribbing. I told them ]
was astonished they didn't have q
cockney accent! They claimed that
the word roger" was going to
supercede "okey," which they
thought was a splendid idea. They
hoped the Australian "goodo" would
come into use over here. So express
sive and stuff.
I told the minister they" hao
told me that he and Anthony Eder
were supposed to look and dress
alike and he remarked that it was q
sore subject between the two wives
Neither likes the comparison.
As a matter of fact, while Casey
is very good looking Urish eyes with
long lashes, bramble eyebrows, box
mustache and curly black hair HI
is not comparable in masculine looks
to Eden,. who is to my eye the tops
There are many others in Wash
ington I wanted to see and sketch
Secretary of War Stimson and
Knudsen and Hillman, the o. P. M
men, among them.
But getting and arranging ap-
pointments here, where history
making events are breaking so
rapidly, Is almost an impossibility
unless you have considerable time
Every one busy. Every one rushing
So back to New York for J. M. F
Artists must work, too.
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Roosevelt Has 'Cheapened'
Court, Gannetf Asserts
By the Associated Press.

BY tne ASSOCIATED RreSS.
PITTSBURGH, May 16.-Frank
Z. Gannett, terming the "preserva-
tion OF our Constitution" more i'm
portant than any problem in the
world crisis, declared last night the
Supreme Court has been Cheap
ened to a sickening degree" and "a
change just as alarming has come
over Congress-
In an address before the Pennsyl-
vania League of Women Voters, the
New York State newspaper publisher
said the Supreme Court has ceased
to be an independent judicial body"
through the appointments made by
President Roosevelt. He added:
Mr.. Roosevelt has ap-
pointed no one to the court from the
opposition party. He has not ele-
waited single judge drom the lower
courts) None of the five he
has named was judge when ap-
pointed"
Mr.. Gannett continued: "A change
Just as alarming has come over Con-
gress. Granting to the President
billions of dollars to spend in any
way that may please him has given
him unlimited influence with Con-
gress members. 3 ."
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Efforts for Mediation
Continued by Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey, May IS de-
layed (P).-Iraq Defense Minister,
Madji Shefket presented Iraqs case
to President Ismet Inonu in an
hour-long conference today and a
spokesman for the Iraq Legation
said Turkey was continuing her eff
forts to mediate the conflict between
the Iraqis and the British.
The spokesman added. however,
that no basis for a settlement had
yet been reached.
Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru
Saracoglu and the IraQ Minister in
Ankara were said to have attended
the Shefket-Inonu conference, which
followed by a day the delivery. Of
Adolf Hitler's message by German
Ambassador Franz Won Papen.
This message was displayed promi-
nently in the press, but there has
been no official comment thus far.
Turkey professed to be relieved by
the message, but still was taking
all precautions. Uncertainty over
Soviet Russias attitude also was
causing concern.