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Evening star., 1941-02-01
'Hudson's Bay Back
At the Columbia

Paul Mum In the role of a roll
licking and swashbuckling adven-
turer is something to see and also
phenomenon you can see at the
Columbia, where "Hudson's Bay"
has turned up for a second F street
week. The film which brings Mr..
MUM back to the movies after his
stage sojourn is considerably lighter
in mood than those in which he
has most recently played, "Pasteur,' -
''zola," and the like. The master
of the cinematic biography does not
desert that particular field of en-
deavor. to be sure, but in "Hud-
sons Bay" he brings us a light
hearted Characterization, portrait
of a charming scouridrel named
Pierre Radisson, who plunged into
the north countree to found a fur
trade for Charles of England. 1t
isn't a dramatic biography, nor is
it anything near action packed, but
it is interesting to find NUM- being
engagingly humorous and some
thing of a scoundrel. H. M.
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he grabs his hair, cries a little, ana
shouts pathetic" Once or twice
he says something a little stronger
but we won't go into that now:
At the beginning of each take"
he has to gulp a glassful OF water.
So far the scene has been taken 80
times, and Mickey Is rapidly Turn
ing into water. 1t is hard TO realize
that this drowning wreck Is the
1910 box office champion and was
ditto for 1899. And surely will re-
peat in 1941-what with Boys
Town" and this current Andy
Hardy" dt sounds the best to date). =.
Ann Rutherford says Hello" and,
'It's so strange to be Polly Bene-
dict after being a married woman
in my other series c'Keeping Com
pany'D, but it's nice to wear young
dresses and fiat heels again."
released By the North American
EevsrN Nper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1941-02-01
De Miles Picture
On Met Screen

II the man the North West
Mounted Police were trying to get
was the one who could tell their
story in the most colorful terms.
they got him in Cecil B. De Mile.
At any rate, De Miles North West
Mounted Police" now at the Metro
politan, is the biggest and bright
est account of "mountie" life ever
to reach the screen. With such
stars as Madeleine Carroll and Gary
Cooper to help it to popularity, it
tells a stormy story of revolt and
romance along the vast beat pa
trolled by Canada'S adventurous po-
lice force
In true De Mile proportions,
which always are colossal, North
West Mounted Police" is picture
literally with everything-some OF
which could have been dispensed
with to its advantage. j. c.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National-"Claudia." a new COM
edy by Rose Franken: 2:30 and
$3.50 pm.
Wardman Park-"Gentle People, "
produced by the Washington Civic
Theater: $50 pm.
Screen.
Earle-"Virginia," romance in the
new South: 9:15, 11:4o am, 2:1o
ABS, 7:o5 and 9:35 pm. Stage
shows: 1l:05 am, l::35, 4:05, 6:35
and 8 pm.
Capitol-"Second Chorus" musi-
cal frivolity with Fred Astaire and
Burgess Meredith: 1880 am, 1:35,
4:2o, 7:05 and $50 pm. Stage shows
12:40, 1925. $40 and 8:55 pm.
Palace-"Gone With the Wind, "
first anniversary showing: $50 am,
1:20, Sis and 9:10 pm.
Keith's-"Buck Privates," Abbott
and Costello caught in the draft:
1880 am, 1:35, $40, $50, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Little-"Daybreak," grim, but fas-
cinating, tale of murder: II am,
l2:45, 2:35, 4:20, sos, 7:55 and 9:45
pm.
Metropolis n-"North West
Mounted Police" De Mile adven-
<lre in the Far North: 10:15 am.
1925, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10 and 9:35 pm
Columbia-"Hudson's Bay" PAU
Muni founds the fur trade there
1l:25 am, 1:30, $3.50, $50, 7:35 and
9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Pretty Aquabelles
In the News, Too

Pretty aquabelles in Florida are
in the new newsreel bill at the
Trans-LuX, too, a point mentioned
just to provide variety from the
usual mention of war news in open
ing this weekly report. The war
news is here, of course-pictures of
Dublin's bombing, London training
women for factory war jobs, of all
civilians for fire raid defense; Brit
ain preparing for the Zero hour"
with camouhaged coastal defenses,
anti aircraft defenses inspected by
Churchill. Domestic news includes
part of the debate on the lend-lease
bill, note on plane engine produc-
ton, the Presidents birthday ami
versary celebration, blizzard In
the Sierras and, Of course, some
style comment.
Shorts are River Thames-Yes-
terday," a technicolor camera jour-
ney along the course of the river tc
the North Sea; picture People" q
note on Hollywood life; Feminine
Fitness" a Grantland Rice Sport
light, and Eugene, the Jeep," pre-
sented by Popeye. HIM.
Evening star., 1941-02-01

other familiar sequences, an Army
post boxing match and several ver-
sions of the one about the guilelesS
soldier and the tough top sergeant.
There is a romantic triangle in
Buck Privates," but with that the
comedy team has nothing to do. In
stead it is an affair embracing Jane
Frazee (who is new one on us, tool Z,
Lee Bowman and Alan Curtis. Bow
man is rich cad trapped by selec-
tive service into association with a
lot of chaps who are his social in
feriors. Curtis is an albright guy,
however. You can guess how 1t
came out.
The Andrews sisters keep bounc-
ing in and out of Buck Privates"
somewhat in the fashion of Utter
bugs who just happened to be pass
ing when the cameras were grinding.
1t undoubtedly will be quite all right
with swing lovers that they are there
for the girls do have a way with a
song. Their patriotic number turns
out to be one You're a Lucky Fel-
low, Mr.. Smith," having to do with
what swell idea 1t Is to be in the
Army. The girls give it the COM
plete Andrews treatment and it
could not have been better than If
it we're written especially for them,
as it was. They also go to town on
another topical melody called BOO
gle Woogie Bugle Boys" but if you
think that they can't swing an old
one just as well, you should hear
them on apple Blossom Time"
BY way of making 1t more like a
vaudeville show in spite of every
thing, the worlds champion boogie-
woogie dancers break into their stint
from time to time.
That Is lot of different things for
your money, don't you think?
Evening star., 1941-02-01
New Screen Team
To Play Comedy

Thirty Days Hath September" a
comedy play transcribed for the
screen, has been scheduled by War
ner Bros. as the vehicle for the team
of Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie.
The pair have worked together in
two previous pictures, THE Wagon
Rolls at Night" and Stuff Of
Heroes" neither Of which has been
released yet.
The story concerns a young man
who is given 80 days by his father
in-law to prove that he is able to
support his bride. Albert is the new
husband, Miss Leslie the willing
bride. Ray Enright will direct.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

The young playwright, IRWIN
Shaw, has drawn some admirable
portraits of little people in drama
and short story, portraits that
breathe and come alive with human
warmth or frigid inhumanity. He
knows how to call forth on the stage
most believably a harsh gangster,
glamour-Struck and lonely girl,
most especially a man prosecuted
but still unbroken in spirit. all
yearning after and struggling for
whatever it is they call a better life.
All of these and more, Mr.. Shaw
can make you believe, but belief be-
comes more difficult when, in his
sympathy for the little people" he
adopts his for ich-they-s sing at
titude and tries to tell us the fates
are unkind only to the downtrodden.
That is what is wrong, rather it
is one Of the things off-key, in his
"The Gentle People," which is
brought to Washington now by the
reorganized and again revivified
Civic Theater, to run through next
Wednesday night at the Wardman
Park Theater.
1t is, for all of that, an interesting
and sometimes moving comedy
drama, a r1nelodramatic comedy
drama even, that Mr.. Shaw has
wrought, and the Civic groups pro-
duction Of the play is not an mex
pert one. Leon Askin's direction,
for the most part, achieves an adept
translation of the Shaw drama;
William Girvan's settings are (no
matter how often it's been said, it
must be repeated true works of
art, and the cast is generally able
enough. What they have had to
work with is tale of two cronies
who have dreamed for years of
spending their pitiful combined saw
ings on the down payment for a
boat that will take them to the
warm Gulf Stream where the fish,
ing will be really good. Beset by q
SoA6obC4 WILL I'll cAAkCI G1OI1 IdCkcG,
they suffer nobly for awhile like
true Shaw little >eople," then fin
ally pitch the lug into Sheepshead
Bay.
Perhaps the playwright's best
friend in the present Civic Theater
cast Is Lansing Hall, who gives us
sincerely sympathetic and alto
gether fine portrait of the girl who
wants, no matter how she gets it.
something better than Brooklyn (for
which, who can blame her but her
father and Mr. Shaw?). Ted Tenley
and Richard Walsh are fine at times
and will be better when they get
their Jewish and Greek accents
set so they can start work with
the first scene instead of, as they
were last evening, chanting their
early dialogue as if it were doggerel,
Natalie Cores ardent italian restau-
rant owner; Rachel Sewall's hypo-
chondriac wife of one of the cronies
and Robert Langley's gangster are
other items on the credit side of
Civic's ledger this time,
Evening star., 1941-02-01

In which the, judge, for the first
time in the five-year, nine-picture
history of the series, administers a
scathing bawling out to his son.
The judge doesn't mince words,
but hops on the young man with a
verbal TRADE certain to surprise
fans accustomed to the judges
quiet, compromising way Of ham
ding Andy's many problems of the
past.
1t appears Andy had funked Eng
hsh in his senior year and wouldn't
be able to graduate. His mind ad-
mittedly had been on the incidental
pomp and splendor of commence
ment. He couldn't concentrate on
the questions. At least that's what
Andy told his dad in stormy little
scene in the judges bedroom.
"No matter how you're disap-
pointed with me-" walls Andy, the
bottoms dropped out of my whole
life-and man-to-man, if you'll only
realize how terrible I feel, I1l-I1l
take any way you want to punish
me-and I'll thing it's not good
enough"
There's no flicker of a smile at
the corner of Judge Hardy's mouth
this time. He stares coldly, almost
fiercely at his fiunking offspring.
Andy Gets Nowhere.
"Man-to-man," he says with
heavy emphasis. mo, this isn't a
man-to-man matter! This is father
to-son! Last week you blithely
couldn't decide about college. I
was willing to be reasonable. But
no longer. From now on you'll
do as say. You'll go back to high
school in September. You'll do your
senior year over again. and you'll
pass next June with flying colors
or I'll know the reason why! A
whole year of your life wasted and
lost foreverl"
Mother Hardy calls the two down
to eat. james! Andrew! Din
rler's ready"
Andy, weeping and hardly able
to speak, asks his father to make
hts excuses. He's too i'll, he says,
to go down. But he gets nowhere.
I'm sure you're not feeling
good" the judge goes on implacably.
your mothers got to know about
this sooner or later. And I'm par
ticularly anxious for you to see
that 1t will hurt her, too"
Andy hesitates. Come on-you
you heard me-" The judge briskly
shoves his son stumbling toward
the door. There the scene ends
Stone smiles now. This rough
housing of Andy is something en-
tirely new for him. He steps of
the set and chuckles as he slips
into canvas chair next to ours.
Some Want the Rod.
"The judge really gets tough
there, don't you think?" he asked
But, why this sudden turn on
Andy?"
well, the background goes like
this" explained Stone. You see
we get thousands of letters after
each picture. Most of them seem
to agree that. we're handling the
relationship between Andy and his
father on an exemplary basis for
the average American household
But recently we've had some COM
plants.
Many seem to think the judge
is altogether too easy with Andv
that he should check him up Sc
verely from time to time. Some
Evening star., 1941-02-01

to New Orleans and write a play.
After many weeks of toll he accu-
mulated the money end bought his
ticket for New Orleans. He had a
little time to kill, went to the races,
put the entire 5000 on horse and
lost 1t!
Mickey Rooney is being coached
for his high school exams by Polly
Benedict" and his private secretary
Kathryn Grayson) In the latest
ANDY Hardy" flicker. It's the fun
niest scene in the finland the
hardest. For three hours Mickey
has hung over his desk, having
knowledge pounded into him by the
two women who love him. "Indi-
cate" says Kathryn Grayson, (which
sentences contain % predicate ad-
jectives; (2) an infinite phrase used
as an appositive; 90 a subordinate
conjunction; "a a compound per-
sonal pronoun used ref1exively. /"
There is nothing phoney about
Mickey's reply-a groan.
Mickey is an utter and complete
wreck. Each time he "blows up
Evening star., 1941-02-01

would even have me apply the rod.
That, of course, is out.
But the scene you've just wit
nessed-my storming at Andy for
his failure to pass final exams
was written in as a sort of gesture
toward those parents who feel that
Andy has been getting away with
too much"
But there's hint of trouble ahead
in this same Hardy film. M-G-M is
beginning to wonder how parents
of high school boys-especially those
who can't afford two cars-are 60
ing to react to scene where the
judge steps out and buys Andy a
brand-new job-a sport model, at
that.
Stone, who has reared two daugh-
ters now married) but no sons, be-
lieves there shouldn't be the Slight
est objection registered to that scene.
After all, this isn't a, horSe-and-
buggy age" Stone defends the script.
"If boy in school must travel long
distances and his parents can afford
1t, believe he should have a car o.
his own"
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paper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1941-02-01

they can't, there
Is at least the
solace that no
one else could
either.
Arthur P. Hor-
man is listed as
the m a n re -
sponsible for the
script of Buck
Privates." If one
can't a d m ! r e
him for any
thing else, he at
! e a S t deserves
credit for a game
struggle with as
diverse a set of
Evening star., 1941-02-01

knows as mucn
as Raft does Of
the gentle art
Of punching -.
Lana Turner,
with hay-colored
hair and a long,
gorgeous silver
fox coat, was
also Herewith
Tony Martin
Lupe Velez tried
to hurl herself
into the ring to
fight for tn {
Mexican b oxe T
she favored.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
No Short Cuts

Frank Capra is the foremost ex-
ample of the old adage that there's
no short cut to success" During
the filming of Meet John Doe" at
Warner Bros, f1lndom's most sue
cessful director spent from II to
il hours daily at the studio.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
That Matrimony Rumor
Points Now at Garbo
Report Says the Actress New Home
Is to Be Her Honeymoon Locale;
Ginger Hopes for an Oscar
BY sHEHAH GRAHAM.

Ginger Rogers concentrating winning Academy
KITTY Foye for the pleas
it, George Raft trying
get Virginia heartrob in his next picture
nights nights and Virginia letting George
Evening star., 1941-02-01
His Fans Take a Hand
Moviegoers Give Andy Hardy's
Father Some Advice
HOLLYWOOD.

Thousands serious letters written in by parents after the release
writers guiding
his
judge this worked set Andy
Hardys Private Secretary"
Stone Mickey just finished aten aherson
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Abbott and Costello Film
Mixes Odd Elements
Comedy at Keith's, Truth to Tell,
Tries to Hang Vaudeville Bill
Upon a Too Pallid Story
BY JAY CARMODY.

Abbott and Costello fans enough in this world to have
kept we'll supplied with doughnu coffee will find them
Keih this week The occasion item called Buck Prvates
What actually determined but be roughly est
styled nterspersng the
sisters medaions
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Civic Stages
Irwin Shaw
Comedy
Revivifed Group
Not Inexpert in
Gentle People

THE GENTLE PEOPLE" play in three
acts by Irwin Shaw, produced by the Wash
ington Civic Theater, directed by Leon
Askin, settings by William Girvan. At the
Wardman Park Theater.
Evening star., 1941-02-01

BUCK PRIvATES," Universal picture
directed by Arthur Lubin, starring Abbott
and Costello. Screen play by Arthur P.
Norman. At Ketth's
Evening star., 1941-02-01

She used to go regularly to the fights
with Richard Green and probably
Evening star., 1941-02-01

TtS UI hIIlIy IIIt. IT
costello can't do much
nation like that, and
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Bethesda Students Compile
County Government Report

A miniature "Brookings Institu-
ton report" on the government Of
Montgomery County, Md.-but one
not expected to create political is
sues-is to be made by staff of
68 researchers" at the Leland
Junior High School, Bethesda.
Sections F and H of the eighth
grade at the school are compiling
a report on the functions of the
various departments of the county
government, which probably will be
printed in mimeographed form near
the end of the school term.
1--WE are not going to attempt
to recommend any changes" Miss
Mary Fisher, eighth grade teacher,
said Our study will embrace only
activities now carried on by the
county departments"
Miss Fisher said prior to the
Brookings report, only one other
Montgomery County government
source of material had been dis
covered-a w. P. A. project several
years ago.
Much information obtained has
been from speakers who visited the
classroom to explain the functions
of departments.
Most of the data compiled, how
ever, have been collected by stu,
dents through interviews with
county officials.
IF the class feels the results ar.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Luzerne County Club
Will Hold Dinner

The fifth annual dinner dance OF
the Luzerne County ClUO of Penn
sylvania will be held at the Ken
wood Country Club on the evening
of Thursday, May l. Representative
j. Harold Flannery of Pennsylvania
will be POSTMASTER for the Luzernl-
ans and their guests from Wash
ington and back home.
The officers of the club and mem
bers of its Executive Committee
were guests Friday evening of Mr..
and Mrs. Michael J. Torlinski at
their home on Harrison street,
Chevy Chase, Md, when preliminary
plans for the annual get-together
were made.
Mr.. Torlinski is president of the
club, DR.. William v. Connors, first
vice president; Mr.. William j. Far
rell. second vice president, and Mr..
Andrew B. Glodeck, secretary-treas-
urer. Mr.. John B. MCKINLEY is
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee, the membership of which in
cludes Mr.. Thomas j. Mangan, jr.;
Miss Mary Frances Ward, Mr.. Dan
tel L. Boland. Miss Leona L. Riley,
DR.. Joseph F. Edward, Miss Rhea
McGarvey, Mrs. Frances Webb, Mr..
Charles L. Levi, Mr.. Phillip Maher,
Mr.. David E. McDonough, jr, and
Mr.. William J. Donohue.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Vermont Society
Will Hold Annual
Sugar Party
MISS MARIE JOROLEMON

The Vermont Association of tht
District of Columbia is perfectins
plans for its annual sugar on snow
party and dance which is to be held
in the rooms of the Washington
Club, Seventeenth and K Streets
NV, Friday evening, April 25.
In the home State, snow on which
to wax the boiling sugar can still
be found in the woods, but in Wash
ington shaved ice will be substituted
In addition to the sugar, which may
be waxed or stirred down according
to individual tastes, unsweetened
doughnuts, hot biscuits, sour pickles
and Vermont sage cheese are al
ways served and will be on the bill
of fare at the festival.
The guest of honor ana speaker
will be Mr.. Robert Lincoln OBrien
former editor of the Boston Herald
and until recently chairman of the
United States Tariff Commission. A
resolution adopted by the Legislature
of Texas congratulating Vermont on
the 150th anniversary of its admis-
sion to the Union and presented in
the Senate by Senator Warren R
Austin will be read by Mr.. A. A,
Morrissette. Mr.. Ezra Brainerd, jr
moderator of the association, will
preside, and officers will be elected.
The committee in charge includes
Mrs. Mabel Miles Pierce, Miss Ann
Berwin, Mrs. Marie H. Davis, Mrs
Albert E. Dieterich, Mrs. Albert G,
Dodge. Miss Kathryn B. Donahue,
Mrs. Frank E. Hickey, Mrs. w. W.
Husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel j.
Peet, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth r.
Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer B. Rose,
Mrs. Frederic I. Swift, Mrs. Charles
A. Webb and Edmund A. Freeman.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
World Fellowship
Luncheon to Hear
DIR. Karl Evang

DR.. Karl Evang, surgeon general
of public health in Norway, will be
guest speaker at the world fellow
ship luncheon at the Y. w. G. A.
Thursday at 1890 pm.
DR.. Evang left Norway in June,
when the government moved to
England, and, after few weeks In
London, came to this country on a
special mission.
Appointed director of the public
health service for Norway in 1888,
when he was only 36, DR.. Evang
was confronted with new and serious
problems as the international crisis
approached With the outbreak OF
war, he directed the medical relief
work for the civilian population in
war-stricken areas.
He has specialized in nutrition
and industrial hygiene and planned
many campaigns against occupa-
tional diseases.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Miss Nichols Weds
Mr.. Billheimer

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard I. Nichols of
Takoma Park announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Miss Shirley
Rose Nichols, to Mr.. Irvine Bill
heimer, jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
heimer of Washington. The we'd
ding was held Saturday, March 90,
at the parsonage of the Hyattsville
Methodist Church. The pastor, the
Rev. w. Clark Main, officiated, and
the couple was attended by Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Groome.
The bride wore a navy blue street
dress with short fox fur jacket, navy
blue and white hat and beige acces-
sories and corsage of talisman
roses.
The following evening the bride
and bridegroom were entertained at
a buffet supper at the home of the
latter's parents.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
North Carolinians
Will Honor ID. A. r.
Visitors Tomorrow

Mrs. William Henry Belk, past vice
president general of the National
Society, D. A. r.; Mrs. Eugene N
Davis, vice president general, and
Mrs. Joseph S. SilverSteen, State
regent for North Carolina, will be
the guests of honor when the Native
North Carolina Women of Wash
ingtor meet for their monthly
luncheon tomorrow at the Parrot
Tea House at 1890 o'clock.
The date of the luncheon was set
so that visiting North Carolina
Daughters could attend and renew
acquaintance of former Tar Heels
now in residence in Washington
Those who plan to attend are re-
quested to be prompt as the State
meeting of the North Carolina dele
gates and alternates is scheduled
for o'clock that afternoon.
Mrs. o. Max Gardner, wife of for
mer Gov. Gardner of North Carolina
will preside at the luncheon and
Mrs. Josiah w. Bailey, wife of
Senator Bailey, will be a guest.
The Committee on Arrangements
includes Mrs. Newman A. Townsend,
wife of Assistant to the Solicitor
General Townsend; Mrs. Fred
Morrison, Mrs. Garland S. Fergu-
son, jr., wife of Commissioner Fer
guson of the Federal Trade Com
mission; Mrs. r. D. w. Connor, wife
of the national archivist; Mrs
Robert H. McNeill, Mrs. H. z. c.
Bryant, Mrs. Frank Garrett, Mrs
j. K. Mebane, Mrs. Hand James,
Mrs. R. L. Doughton, Mrs. Harold
Cooley, Mrs. Herbert Bonner, Mrs
w. o. Burgin, Mrs. A. L. Bulwinkle,
Mrs. Brent Drane, Mrs. j. D. Gill
liam, Mrs. Albert Pike. Mrs Floyd
Fletcher, Mrs. John McMullem
Mrs. w. E. Stroud, Mrs. Charles
Hackney, Mrs. John K. Slear, Mrs.
Albert Bauman and Mrs. j. F. Siler
Others assisting with the luncheon
are Mrs. Walter Gray, Mrs. Joseph
j. Love, Mrs. F. R. McNinch
Mrs. Tom MCGEE, Mrs. Sally
Thompson Petty, Mrs. Austin
Jeffries. Mrs. John London, Mrs. j.
Livingston Vann, jr; Mrs. Boydston
Satterfeld, Mrs. r. E. Ridenhour,
president of the American War
Mothers, and Mrs. Marion Sedberry