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Evening star., 1941-08-24
Star Doubles Are Happy
As Another Legend Dies
Some Talented Newcomers Conquer
That Old Bogey of Resembling
Established Film Favorites

reported Hollywood his role opposite
Man Who Can't Dinner studio executive
astonishment and gasped:
you're the image of Joel McCrea!"
resemblance McCrea. He
Evening star., 1941-08-24

THE BALLET STAYS A
WEEK-The Original Ballet
Russo, Which last night pre-
sented its first program at the
Water Gate, remains through
merit Friday night. The dane
erS here are Roman YaSinSky
and Marina SUetloua upper
lett, in "LeS Sylphides";;
DaUid Lichine and Tatiana
Riabouchinska upper right,
in "Grdduation BuH"; Mile.
Suetloua in angelic guiSe for
q classic role (lo10er lett,
Tatiana LeskoUa adding q
comic touch to "Graduation
Ball. NoUer right and Dinlt-
tri RoStof as "Paganini."
Evening star., 1941-08-24
HOLLYWOOD.


On Broadway they call Producer
Buddy" De Sylvia The New Z1eg-
field" simultaneously his three
smash-hit musicals were reaplng
all the available shekels.
De sylvia sold the screen rights
of "Du Barry was a Lady ana
panama Hattie" to M-G-M. Louis
tana Purchase" his pet play, went
to Paramount, and shortly there
after he followed it to Hollywood as
production head of the studio.
This musical is now before the
technicolor cameras, with many OF
the original stage cast. For the
benefit of those who did not see
Louisiana Purchase" during its 3D.
week Broadway run, De sylvia would
like to point out that it has practl-
callv nothing to do with the 5,OOO,-
900 deal by which Thomas Jefferson
purchased the territory from Napol-
con Bonaparte in 1903.
In fact, the prologue will say that
# there are any such places as the
CITY of New Orleans and the State
of Louisiana, it's certainly news to
Mr.. De Sylvia!
1t is a modern story, telling OF a
second Louisiana Purchase-the SELL
out by group of corrupt politicians
and their investigation by New
England Senator Oliver P. Logan
berry.
The latter they try to frame with
a series of charmers and what
charmers! From the point OF view
of pulchritude Louisiana Purchase"
probably will turn out to be the
most spectacular girl show yet.
The nation was combed and more
than 1000 tests made, to find II
front-line show girls who could pass
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but I wasn't quite expecting him to
tell me So"
Huston, the star of such films as
"Dodsworth" and Gabriel Over the
White House." is a character actor
these days-and glad, he says, to
let some one else carry the burden
of stardom as long as he's still get
ting $4,000 a week in supporting
roles.
'I have 300 cattle on the place."
said Huston, resting in the nom
agricultural environment of his
dressing room.
You have to have a bigger herd
than that to make any money, but
the normal average is 10 cattle to an
acre. 1t looks like I'll have to buy
more land"
Huston said he had had no par
ticular interest in the Porterville
area, but bought the ranch because
it was near his laws
property.
Il built a small house there-just
a cabin, really" he said. And no
swimming pool.
when the man brought the lum-
ber for the cabin. he said, What is
this? I thought movie actors always
built their houses on hilltop. This
guys picked out spot that isn't
even hard to get to-"
Does Rancher Huston rope, ride
or shoot?
We'll" said the tall, craving ac-
tor, cautiously, you might say I
rope.
"If a calf stood perfectly still and
was no more than 2 feet away. I
could snag him."
Evening star., 1941-08-24

1t takes role that will stand
comparison with all the other me-
morable portrayals of his career to
coax Frank Craven from the COM
fort of his new Hollywood home, set
in the midst of f1ourishing orange,
fig and avocado trees - and three
minutes from some of the finest
golf courses in America. For three
years the famous stage and screen
comedian would not be budged from
his enormous collection of pipes
and golf clubs, except for motion
picture assignments which kept him
close to home.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

UpfOOIeO ana lying SlQeWlSe. we
didn't listen. A man in Sandwich
began telling us of Max Gordon's
vexations in raising money for the
new Romberg operatta.
So we went on to Yarmouth,
where they have the most beauti-
full trees lining the main street. A
girl was walking her dog among
them and a man was at her side.
"I hear it's going to be all comedy
this year." she said, comedy, COM
edy, nothing but comedy" That's
a tough break" he said. "A tragedy"
she said. Il don't know what's more
tragic-to have begun a career in
1880 or to begin a career as a
tragedian in 1941." We'll" he said,
maybe there1l be a place for you.
Don't comedies have to have a little
tragic relief?"
We caught the last words as we
we're hightailing down the road to
Dennis There the talk was of
Gertrude Lawrence and Lady in
the Dark" and John Van Druten's
Behold, We Live!" (seems it lives
at great length) and of Richard
Aldrich's big new house. Next stop.
Truro-where Max Eastman, the
late Leon Trotsky's right hand, and
Robert Minor, the StaliniSt Com
munist, have homes across the way
from each other and can hear each
other breathing hotly at each other.
Just News and Arguments.
Even that seemed too much drama
for a vacation from the drama, and
we were driven on to Lands End.
which is called Provincetown. The
house we rented had Josephine
Herbst in the garden. She had just
had another novel published and
was turning back to short stories,
and at the moment of our entrance
seemed to be looking for them fiat
on her back, eyes closed and face
lifted to the sun.
II find it hard to go back" she
said. I'D like to do play" We
began to tiptoe away. Short
stories" she shouted after us, seem
so light after a novel and so con-
stricted." Why not another novel?
Oh, no, novels are not doing we'll
Nobody is buying them. The war
and so forth. No one wants to read
any more-just the newspapers and
radio and arguments, interminable
arguments.
Of course, she said, up here at
the end of the land of the world,
one feels out of things and the
war seems so distant, everything
seems so distant as not to be worth
bothering about. We said we hoped
so. She said oh, yes, we'd find that
quite true. Il went up to New York
awhile ago and called up my pub
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Outdoor Amusements

GLEN ECHO PARK-The Cap
ital's popular free-admission
amusement resort boasts more
than so attractions among
it's Midway diversions and re-
sort devices. There is dane
ing nightly, except Sundays.
in the Spanish Garden Ball
room, with music by Paul
Kain's Orchestra. There also
is swimming daily in the
Crystal Pool.
WILSON LINE-There is dane
ing nightly on the moon
light cruise" down the Po-
tomac to music by Davey
MacWilliams' Orchestra. The
S. S. Mount Vernon sails at
$50 O'Clock. in addition. to
making two daily trips to
Mount Vernon at 10 am. and
2 pm.
POTOMAC RIVER LINE-The
S. S. Potomac sails nightly at
8:45 O'Clock for moonlight
dancing on the river. Ralph
Hawkins Orchestra provides
music on the boat.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

semblance hasn't hampered in the
least.
Mr.. Leroy Was Fooled.
Outstanding in this look-alike
success story is 1nez Cooper. daugh-
ter of an Atlanta minister, who came
to Hollywood on visit few weeks
ago. She was at the Mocombo night
club with a friend when Director
Mervyn Leroy and party came in
to sit few tables away. Let Leroy
tell the rest:
II took look and asked my guests
to excuse me. I'm going over to
say hello to Hedy Lamar, I ex-
planned. was right at her table
looking straight into her face before
I realized I was a victim of mis-
taken identity. But here v'~~ a Tirl
who looked so much like Hedy that
every one in that room was under
the same delusion. In all my life
never saw such a resemblance"
At Leroy's request, Inez reported
to him at the studio next day. He
SdNC llCl dll dudIJlOll. IlIdbC a J-cis
And so today, on the very same lot,
M-G-M, where Hedy Lamar holds
forth in queenly state, this startling
look alike is under contract and
getting away to an auspicious start.
She not alone looks like Hedy. but
she can wear her wardrobe without
the slightest change. Four days
after her contract was signed, IneZ
had a role with Red Shelton in
"Whistling in the Dark" and was
undergoing tests for the lead in
"Tortilla Flats"
The old order changeth-and the
look k-alike, once doomed, gets a
reprieve.
CReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1941-08-24
There Seems No Escape,
Except on Broadway
Even Out on a Sand Bar Off Lands End
At Provincetown, Theater Intrudes
On Critic Trying Only to Rest
By Ira WoIterf.

the woods echoed
10 the theater resting.
and tried not to listen
told mustach the frightening
Big looking like beach grass
Evening star., 1941-08-24

Now the theater welcomes him
back as the star of Village Green
the new comedy by Carl Allensworth
which opens a pre-Broadway en-
gagement at the Maryland Theater,
Baltimore, tomorrow, for the first
time since his unforgettable enact
ment of the ."stage manager" in
"Our Town"
For several decades the name OF
Craven has been identified in the
minds of theatergoers with the
homespun virtues of the American
scene. Genial commentator, wry
funmaker, he has glorified the COM
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Just Suspicion

Suspicion" will be R-K-O Radios
definite title for Before the Fact.
the Cary Grant-Joan Fontaine CO.
starring picture directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. In the featured sup
porting cast of Suspicion" are Sir
Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce and
Dame May Whitty.
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Cast in Gesture

Arnold Pressburger has signed
Phyllis Brooks for his production
of The Shanghai Gesture" Miss
Brooks will act the role of Dixie,
the American chorus girl who is
stranded in Shanghai and taken to
the house of Mother Gin Sling.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
Number OF Subscribers Hits
Al-Time New High;
Calls Increase

The year 1910 was another IN the
march of progress of h SouIhei l !
Bell Telephone and Telegraph COIL
nany in Wilmington, for in hat year
if changed from the old manual eA-
change system t O the dial system
saw an increase in the unloe u
telephones to a new all-tlme nigh
and an increase in the number OF
telephone calls of ten percent.
In 1888. at the depth of the de-
pression, there were only 4,064 tele-
nhones in Wilmington. At the END Oh
1910 there were SAP and already lfo
additional phones have been install
ed since the beginning of 1941.
This is no sudden rise from a statlc
total. for the company has gained IN
the number of telephones in operation
each year since 1898. In 1884 it gam
ed a net 100 telephones; i n 1885 IL
added another 432; in 1886 anothef
AT were added; in 1888 the increase
was 270; in 1889 there was an IN
crease of 1856 and in 1910 and addl'
ton of 500 phones in Wilmington.
Telephone calls during the year
after the installation of the dial sys'
tenn, rose about 10 percent which,
according to telephone company OF
ficials, is normal in any community
in which the dial system is installed
Just why there is an increase IN tele-
nhone calls when a dial system Is
installed is not known, the company
officials said, but wherever it is in
stalled, a ten percent rise In calls
usually follows and Wilmington was
no exception.
The increase has put calls to the
point where they now range from
$4,000 to 10000 a day. j,
That figure, however, does not
incIude the tolls on long distance,
which now have risen to an average
of from 900 to 1900 a day.
More Expansion Seen
And the end of the expansion OF
business for the company here is not
yet, for shlpyards are rising at lle
southern end of Sunset Park and 1t
is anticipated this will call for many
additional telephones.
But the mechanical hands IN the
dial bank room of the beautiful new
telephone building which was opened
during 1910 do not mind. They can
handle many calls as easily as a few,
without mistake and without hurry.
Since the advent of the national
defense program signs have been
erected on various doors throughout
the building barring all save en-
ployes from entering.
But the visitor who takes a per
sonally escorted tour of the build
inc finds it a veritable mechanical
wonderland.
In the basement is a huge air con
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

tale, for when it burns out a spring
Immediately pushes a small piece
of metal outward from the fuse, so
that the faulty fuse can be located
in a moment.
Similar devices protect the user of
the telephone from almost every
other possible source of telephone
trouble.
For example, if after making a
telephone call you fail to hang up the
receiver of your phone properly,
there is a device which a few min
utes later will give the wire men a
signal. When it is determined the
trouble lies in the fact the receiver
is improperly hung up, this informa-
ton is sen to the test board in an
other room. Here the test board op-
orator puts a "howler" in operation
and the subscriber who has failed to
hang up the receiver hears a loud,
peculiar noise emitting from the re-
ceiver.
On the top floor of the handsome
building is located the toll room and
manual switchboard. Here all long
distance calls are handled through
the manual board, information is
given subscribers and telephone
numbers are dialed for those sub
scribers, such as the blind, who are
unable to dial numbers for them
selves.
The year 1910 was one CT progress
for the Southern Bell Telephone and
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
Pickets Withdraw From
Arms Depot Project

GALLUP, N. H., Feb. 22|R-
Mounted pickets withdrew today
from the SO, 600, 900 Fort Wingate
ordnance depot construction prof.
ect.
The pickets, cowboy style, leis-
urely began riding their horses
yesterday along the line fence If
front of the vast military reserva'
ton, carrying printed slogans tina
the job was unfair to organized
labor"
Actual construction is not slated
to start until next month.
Union officials declined any com
ment concerning the Withdrawal
except to say:
This is Washington's birthday
no one is working"
Union leaders and army official
have been discussing suggestion
for a closed shop. ....
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
Dial System Installation
Marks Telephone Progress

ditioning unit, which controls not
only the temperature of the building
but the humidity and washes the
air before allowing it to circulate
through the building.
Ceilings in the building r per-
forted with thousands of tiny holes
through which the cool air comes in
summer and warm air in winter.
Separate Powder Plant
In the same room in the basement
is equipment which would allow the
company to operate its telephones
from one New Years day to the next
should the electric power service in
the city be turned off that long. An
interruption of power service OF an
hour or so has no effect on the tele-
phone service, for if and when such
Interruptions occur the telephones
are carried along on batteries.
But should there ever come a pro-
loneed interruption of power service
the telephone company would simply
start it's own generator plant n
produce its own electricity to operate
it's W plant and its thousands OF
phones until the regular power serv-
ice was resumed.
In this room also is found the bell
ringing devise, a mechanism Whlch
causes the bell of the phone you are
calling to ring at regular intervals
until it is answered, or which gives
Vol a busy signal if the line is In
use.
Practically all of the equipment
here is supplied in duplicate, for it is
always possible that a piece of equip
ment may go out of order and an
other must be had on hand immedi-
atelv so that service will not be in
terrupted. Such duplicate equipment
is %alternated in use, n piece being
used one day and another the next,
so there is always a test to show that
both pieces of equipment are in per-
feet condition.
Also in the basement is the cable
vault, which is one of the points of
pride of the company management.
Deep beneath the ground, safe from
attack, the cables which carry the
thousands of telephone conversations
daily, enter the building through a
huge vault.
Dial Mechanism
The room in which the dial mech
anism is located is on the main floor
of the building, which also houses
the business offices. In the dial mech
anism room the visitor finds that for
every possible ailment of the intri-
cate machinery which gives you the
correct phone when you dial a num-
Der, there is a warning signal which
notifies a wire man if and when
trouble develops.
Througout this room there are
thousands of tiny fuses. If and when
any one of these myriad fuses blows
out Immediately a gong begins to
ring and lights flash on to indicate
to a wire man where the blown fuse
is located. The fuse itself is a tell
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

expand production of crops generally
produced in the corn belt.
Wickard spoke at the National
Farm institute, which is considering
Economic Preparedness and Agri-
culture"
Here in the middle west" Wick
ard stated, 1--WE might as we'll recog-
nize that all indications are that
the south in the future will grow
more hogs, raise more corn and
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
Girl, Hurled Through
Culuert During Flood,
Is Rescued And Revived

LONG BEACH, Calf, Feb. %
LP-Hurled by flood waters through
a 60-foot culvert, 6-year-old Eva May
Landon was rescued in a nearly
drowned condition today. She soon
revived.
A motorist saw Eva May topple
into a big ditch a the culvert's
mouth. He leaped from his car, ran
to the other end of the culvert and
dragged her out of the torrent as
she was cast forth. In the excite
ment following the rescue, the motor
list disappeared unidentified.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
Expansion Of Crops In
South Seen By Wickard

DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 22.--P-
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R.
Wickard predicted here today that
the southern farmer whose cotton
and tobacco markets have been
choked by the European war. will
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

wheat and produce more H..
and dairy products ccre,.n %1'estoG
lhe south will srow more .. ..
products even ii it -e.s or'1 Ut tao'
W Na eotloh market hacln y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
RATION DOUBLED

LoADoN, Fen, 20 -.p-r,
day the weekly butter ,,. a.'.'' 10.
be doubled-to 4 ounces her. .o'.
beginning March 10. ps'slI
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

TELEGRAPH company in Wilmington
but even now plans are being maze
for other expansion which Will give
telephone service subscribers In and
near Wilmington better telephone
service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

During the fiscal year of h e
government ending June 80, 1910,
1896 miles we're added to the
domestic civil anyways. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

atoms to meet these changing con
ditions. l
Evening star., 1941-11-24

resisting Fascist tank outfit, the
Italians appeared to have been put
out of the battle, the British said.
Two factors stood out sharply in
the British claims to succesS-tanks
and planes from the United States
and clockWork coordination among
the Army, R. A. F. and Navy.
AS evidence of the coverage given
the ground forces by British flyers,
air officials said not one vehicle in
any of the long desert conveys OF
army and air force trucks carrying
gasoline and supplies had failed SO
far to get through since the of1en-
sive began.
United States Tanks Praised.
Names mentioned for British air
mems accolades were American
made Boeing four-ergined fortress
bombers, the sharklike Curtiss Tom
ahawk and Grumann Martlet fight
ers, Martin Marylands and Douglas
Boston.
Rough-riding British Hussar regi-
ments called their 12-ton American
tanks moneys" and said these light,
high-speed fighting machines were
getting the better of the Germans
bigger. but slower, l8-ton tanks.
In the ceaseless clashes on the
western desert, the American-msde
tanks were said to have proved able
| to dart in at close range. break
the German formations and burst
the Nazi tanks steel armor with
their 37-mm. cannon.
German tanks, on the other hand,
were being captured for lack Of fuel,
the British said, predicting that
growing difficulty of Axis supply ul-
timately might decide the battle.
The air force was said to have
knocked out at least 100 fuel trucks
in one day alone.
The Germans seem to be IN a
panic" British Air Vice Marshal
Arthur Cunningham told an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent at the
front.
Cruiser Reported Hit.
| 1Ol Lis AtAoAh AAe'eA
planes were credited with q direct
hit on an Italian cruiser in an at
tack on a convoy in the Central
Mediterranean in which. COM
munique said, other ships were
straddled with shells and a large
freighter probably also was hit.
British submarines were said to
have torpedoed, and possibly sunk,
another Axis cruiser.
A communique said the cruiser
was one of force of three cruisers
and three destroyers in which only
two cruisers were observed by all
scouts later.
"A large area of the sea in the
vicinity was covered with oil fuel,
it said, and added that an Axis
destroyer probably had been sunk
by two torpedo hits and two
Axis supply ships also had beer
torpedoed.
Evening star., 1941-11-24
Germans Rushing All Available
Equipment to Libyon Front
Reporter in Bomber Sees British
Moving Up to Head OFF Enemy

tory In the destruction Of 8 column
of more than 100 vehicles, including
many oil tankers going to the rescue
of beleaguered panzer units.
The total of German tanks
knocked out Is now almost 200, ac-
cording to field reports.
We three are the first correspond
ents to witness operations in this
gigantic battle from the air.
Passes Over Barrier.
Donning parachutes, We took on
from an advanced desert airf1eld,
passed over the barbed wire fence
which Mussolini erected along the
frontier, and streaked northwest
ward toward the area where tanks
were battling and infantry was at
grips with rifle and grenade.
We flew so low we could see .
patch of red on the sand where
one soldier was shot Following
tank tracks 30 feet below us we
could reconstruct the engagements
which had taken place shortly be-
fore.
We encountered so many British
planes. later on as We few higher,
that they looked like schools of min
nows below us in a big pool OF water.
One Tomahawk (American-made
Curtis P-40 fighter squadron has
painted all its planes like sharks
with evil eyes, fierce teeth-and
since the TomahaWks are somewhat
hark-shaped the effect is astonish-
ing.
When one went by us we were
thankful it was a friendly shark
The pilots OF this squadron say the
appearance of their planes helps
disconcert enemy pilots.
Went Out Unescorted.
The Blenheim in which We few
outclassed in the last two years BY
faster planes, normally cannot be
sent out without fighter escort. But
we went unescorted and the only
scare We had was when the real
gunner suddenly let loose a burst.
Just testing he said by way o1
explanation as We looked about
| startled.
Big British transport planes daily
are flying tons of ammunition to the
tanks. The leader of this supply
squadron is c. S. Bartlett of Regina
Saskatchewan.
The four -motored Boeing fortres!
bombers have not been given full
play in this theater. but Coninghan
praised the work of American-madt
planes in the campaign.
The Tomahawk is especial,
valuable in the desert distances as
fighter because Of its range, he said
while the Maryland martini
bomber had proved of great worth.
The Douglas Bostons, recently pu
into service. also have done a gooc
lob at reconnaissance because o.
their speed and maneuverability, n
said