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Evening star., 1941-10-05

board, along with supporting mem
bers of the cast. Every morning
when Eleanor drove into the studio
she felt better. That one strategi-
cally placed sign was a tonic.
The Warner Green Room is cozy
little cafe taken over entirely at the
noon hour by the stars and distin-
guished guests of the studio. Its
walls are lined with lovely photo
graphic studies of the Warner stars,
mostly the works of George Hurrel
The north wall is the choice posi-
ton, but it is short and can display
only half a dozen frames. 1t is the
ambition of every star and eatured
player to get hanging" there and
many and devious methods were
used by performers to procure this
preferred billing.
The situation broke into open war
fare a few months ago. SO a diplo-
mat in the publicity department hit
on fine scheme for rotating the
art. Once week, each picture
moves, clockwise, around the little
room. Last week Bette Davis por-
trait was in a dark corner at the
rear, obscured by hat rack.
Blue Plate Special.
The players are now happy, en-
Joy their lunches and do better
work. The Green Room plays" to
less than so people day.
For more than two years the menu
at the beautiful Cafe de Paris,
where goth Century Fox players eat,
featured salad named after a
prominent star on the lot. In re-
cent months the player has been
fading. Without warning, the menu
appeared the other noon minus the
glamour-named concoction. The star
hit the ceiling, sought out the cafe
manager and demanded an explana-
ton. The quarrel reached the front
Office. Nevertheless, that salad has
lost its billing for good 1t has
been replaced by the Gene Tierney
blue plate"
Operators of the Vine street Brown
time because of some 500 framed
cartoons of stars, past and present,
featured on their walls. Actors are
especially jealous of their Brown
Derby billing. The manager was
| approached a few weeks ago by one
of the hammer stars, who wanted to
know if his frame couldn't be moved
from the far end of the restaurant
to a position near the entrance.
The manager agreed TO do So
Next time the star dropped in he
beamed, for he noted that his line
| sketch adorned prominent spot on
the wall just adjoining the CASH
ier's booth. Almost every one had
to pass it. What the ham didn't
know was that this section is re-
served for stars who have passed
to the great beyond. He was and is
among the revered dead ones. He'll
probably never know, because he
never pauses to look at any but his
own picture.
Tear down stars billing in San
Francisco. Chicago, Washington,
Detroit, Philadelphia. st. Louis
anywhere-but don't do it in Holly
wood. You'll break the guys
heart.
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part Of that meeting is their friend
ship.
Il liked Joan the minute I saw
her" said Patty as the two children
busily sewed on doll dresses in their
stage dressing room. We've been
playmates ever since"
Champ Salesgirl.
-Four years now" added Joan.
with Patty as my stand-in We
can play together on the set-when
we're not working. that is"
1t was Joans childish but natural
selling ability that got Patty her job.
Joan had made three pictures for
R-K-O Radio. attended the studio
school, While Patty stayed at home
and went to public school. Then the
studio loaned Joan for Panama
Hattie" the New York stage hit.
Joan was on Broadway seven months
and made an enViable reputation
for herself as stage actress. She
missed her playmate Patty. When
she was called back to Hollywood
for her next picture, "Obliging
Young Lady" Joan decided to do
something about her friend. She
went to the casting Office, gave a
selling talk on Patty that sounded
like an agent selling a s3,000-a-
the job. Until Patty walked on the
sound stage for the first days shoot
ing she had never been inside
studio.
For that matter, when the chill
dren first met, Joan Carroll had not
been in many studios either. Her
mother, Mrs. Freda Felt, was try
ing to get Joan her break in pic
lures. The roles were few and far
between, but that didn't worry Joan
much. She had her new playmate
Patty, they had their dolls, they
liked the same games, and they were
having fun. Then Joan's ability was
recognized by producers. She was
called for more and more pictures,
with less and less time to play with
Patty.
Almost Opposite.
I'D no sooner get home than I'd
nave 10 eat my dlnner ana go 10
bed said Joan. Patty and I used
to miss each other when I had to
be at the studio all day"
Joan's climb to screen fame has
made no difference in their friend
ship. which has been close and con-
tinuous ever since they first met
To Joan, Patty is her best friend and
playmate. The same goes for Patty
as far as Joan is concerned. In ap-
pearance and actions they are al
most opposites. Joan is a sturdy
youngSter, well developed and ac-
lively aggressive in everything she
does. Patty, though about the same
height, is frail and bit bird-hke
extremely reticent in speech and &C
! ton. Their coloring in hair and
skin are much the same, two quail
Evening star., 1941-10-05
HOLLYWOOD.

ToLL1 WooD.
Here is a brand-new formula for
breaking into the movies.
You walk down a tree-shaded Bev-
erly Hills street, a block below your
house. You see a girl about your
own age playing in her front yard.
You admire ring she is wearing,
a large, bright blue stone. You say,
"Hello!" She says "Hellow You
make a remark about the ring.
She takes it off to let you get the
thrill of it cleaning on your own
finger. You learn you both like the
same radio pragrams, and pretty
soon you are playing together on
the broad lawn.
Then there is lapse of four years
of romping and having fun together.
when suddenly you find that the
little girl has asked a studio to hire
you as a stand-in. Before you real
ize it you are working on an honest
to goodness motion picture set.
That is how 9-year-old Patty Pyle
got her break an the movies. 1t is
also how Joan Carroll, 9-year-old
screen star, met her closest friend
To both of the youngsters the best
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Friendship Remains in Spite of Fame
Joan Carroll, Nine Year Old STAR Gets Her Chum,
Patty Pyle, Job as Her Stand.in

ties necessary for good stand-in
because Of the necessary lighting for
the camera.
We're not together on the set
as much as thought we'd be-" said
Joan. It forgot that when I wasn't
in front of the camera during a set
up, Patty would have to be there
for the lighting. But it's much bet
ter than having Patty home and me
here"
School Is Fun.
Their favorite pastime between
scenes is playing with their dolls,
sewing for them and playing Chinese
checkers. Every time the company
moves onto a new set, the children
usually find some part of it around
which to invent games. They found
that an exterior with trees. lawn
and hedges makes a wonderful pri-
meval forest in which to play In
dian. using coat hangers for bows
and arrows.
I'VE don't play all the time
though" said Patty. I'VE have to
go to the studio school, but with us
having the same teacher, it's fun"
Patty was very self-conSciouS dur
ing the first few days of her new
work. She found it difficult to meet
so many strangers, was shy and re-
firing. AS she watched Joan being
right at home on the set, making
friends quickly, Patty soon forgot
her backwardness. In a few days
she was calling grips and prop boys
by their first names like any actress
Il don't think I'll ever be an
actress" said Patty. II want to be
a musician first, and If not that
then an artist"
We'll, I want to be an actress,
chimed in Joan.
Evening star., 1941-10-05

cided that, this time, It was TO
stay.
He'd buy a house, settle down and
concentrate on pictures. For q
starter, he had a nice role in Co
lumbia's Bedtime Story" with
Fredric March, Loretta Young.
He secuted around. Nothing
suited, so he huddled with an archi-
tect, came up with plans for a
Hillside home next door to Ronald
Colman.
But he's run into complications
pleasurable ones.
A pair of University of California
field chemists notified him the other
day that his property abounds in
titanium, valuable mineral used
IN mixing paints.
JoSlyn contemplates with mixed
emotions the prospect of making
more money from the land than
from the screen for awhile.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
WILL PAY
$4,000

lust think of all the things you could
do with S5,OOOi The makers OF Vicks
VapoRub and Va-tro-nol will pay
$1,000 for a name or title for their new
radio play which is the living diary OF
a living American family. For details
of how you may win 5000 be sure to
tune in radio station -.
Evening star., 1941-10-05

HOLLYWOOD.
When Actor Allyn Joslyn quit
Broadway's arsenic and Old Lace"
and headed for Hollywood he de-
Evening star., 1941-10-05
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billing trouble on Lady Be Good" ."
Miss Powell felt Ann Sothern, with
whom she feuded during most of
the picture, and who had a much
better part, was getting too big a
play in all the ad material. She
stormed plenty.
A few days later, in driving to
work, Miss Powell turned a corner
and her eyes fell upon the largest
signboard in Culver City. 1t car
ried gorgeous colored reproduction
of Eleanor in one of her intricate
dances. Her name was emblazoned
over the whole thing in 3-foot let
tiers. The name of Ann Sothern was
buried somewhere far down on the
Evening star., 1941-10-05
Casual Career

When Patricia Dane few to Los
Angeles on a spur-of- -the-moment
vacation, she had not intention Of
seeking 6 career in pictures. She
happened to hear Of the search for
calsAmerican beauties for eMtro-
Goldwyn- Mayors "Ziegfeld Girl"
and strolled by one afternoon when
she hadn't anything else to Go. Cast
ing directors were impressed-and
Patricia found herself with a new
career. -.
Evening star., 1941-10-05

Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland
as an advertising executive in Sky
lark" and recently completed a role
in the new Dorothy Lamour jungle.
romance, Malaga" Holiday Inn
will be one of Paramount's most
elaborate musical productions, with
an all-star cast, songs by Berlin,
direction by Mark Sandrich and a
script by the famed playwright,
Elmer Rice.
Evening star., 1941-10-05
In Berlin Musical

Walter Abel will join Bing Crosby
and Fred Astaire in the cast of
Paramounts Irving Berlin musical,
Holiday Inn" following an odd
home week" visit with his father in
St. Paul. MINI.
Abel now has two pictures in the
file awaiting release. He supported
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VANGUARD
(ContiaueA frsm page ~

(COntiaued froM page
ton pointing out that in many
instances when contests are con-
Quoted among children, there is
racial discrimination in awarding
prizes. Using the recent Howe
incident as an example--Con-
stance Howe, one of the winners
in the recent Citizen sponsored
spelling contest, was given a the
atre ticket marked Good only
at Neth's Cameo or Lincoln"
while other winners We're given
tickets to down town theatres
the unfairness Of this practice
was protested and the Board was
requested to take this into con-
sideration when granting permls-
sion for such contests. Up until
the last meeting Of the League
no reply had been received 50 .
letter was dispatched.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-23
What Now? Hampton
Graduates Learn How
To Get And Hold Jobs

the Hampton alumni.
Saturday will be the closing
day of Senior Career Week,
which ends as the four days OF
gala commencement events be-
gin. Among the speakers satur-
day who will discuss the Federal
Civil Service. Defense Housing,
and other fields Of interest to the
graduate, will be William J
Trent, Of the Federal Works Ag-
ency; DR.. Frank $. Horne of the
Z. S. Housing Authority; DR..
Robert G. Weaver Of the Once
Of Production Management; and
Theodore Poston. Of the Commis-
sion on National Defense.
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Columbus and cornelia Dixon,
Fayetteville.
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ton. Mr.. Leath told the members
of the clubs the value Of Union
organizations and the benefits
derived for the workers. A large
number from both clubs was in
attendance. Next week will be
the regular supper meeting for
both Industrial clubs.
The officers Of the following
Girl Reserve clubs for 1912 were
installed Thursday afternoon at
a Garden party at the West Side
branch. Blue Triangle club:
Thelma Hampton, president; Lila
Mobley, vice president; Jean
Parks, secretary: Garnetta Fields
assistant secretary. Independen
club: Burnice Wills, president
Pauline Butler, vice president
Letha Fillmore, secretary; Beck.
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lat;on with the Hampton gradu-
ate. Talks will be made on mis-
takes made by recent Hampton
graduates on their first Jobs; the
Selective Service System as y
pertains to college students; OPP
portunities III elementary educa-
tion. and opportunities IN the
church for college students
Speakers will be Miss Marie Nc
Iyer. Major Campbell @. Johnson
executive assistant Of the Seiec-
Chaplain Camille A. Chazeaua.
tive Service System, and Acting
n. B. DeFrantz, personnel secre-
tary of the National Council of
the YMCA, will discuss MA
as life career.
DIR. Malcolm S. MacIean VIII
address the seniors on Vediies7
day morning on Attitudes aiia
y
Careers. and Dean Fannie +.
Kittrell will speak on Personal
ity and Jobs" Some Of the char-
acteristics of aerlier Hampton
graduates who have become ma
tionally famous will be discussed
by Major Walter J. Brown, Dean
OF Men, and Don A. Davis, Bur
sar. will speak on Starting
Business Of Your Own. The op-
portunities i'll INDUSTRY will be
discussed BY Or. Russell A. DIX
on. Dean Of the College OF Den
tistry Of Howard university;
Journalism by Thomas " Young
Of the Journal and Guide, and
the field Of insurance by w. u.
Hill Of the North Carolina Mu-
tual Life Insurance company.
DR.. MacLean will also start
the Thursday morning session
with d discussion on "Overcom-
ing Mistakes Made in Choice oi
q Vocation Charles H. Wall
liams. supervisor Of Physical Edu
cation. will discuss Present OPP
portunities III the Recreation
Field, and Charles II. Flax will
speak on the adjustment a grad
nate must make to the eommu-
nifty. G. James Fleming, man
aging editor oi the Philadelphia
Tribune, will speak on Journal
ism and the graduates relation
TO the alumni.
All of these talks will be fol
lowed up BY ersonai conferences
and interviews and practical sug-
gestions for each Of the 234
graduates.
Friday morning will be devot-
ed to discussions on Careers in
Private Industry BY T Arnold
Hill; Training for the Needs Of
National Defense, by w. 4. Can
ter, director Of the Division O
Trades and Industries; and a:s
cussion Of the present occupati
onal picture with reference 4
National Defense BY Dr. B. A
Turner.
Mrs, Catherine w Adams. o
Baltimore, Md, will speak abou
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FRIDAY, MAY 23, l941

Lou Shaw, assistant secretary.
Willing Workers club: Helen
Jones, president; Thelna Baker,
vice president; Virginia L.ppls,
secretary; Beatrice O'Neal, assist
ant secretary; Betty Jackson,
treasurer; Mildred West worship
chairman; Catherine Ragland,
sergeant at arms. Happy Hour
club: Evelyn Cook, president;
Barbaretta Butler, vice president;
Virginia Revere, secretary; Fran
els Arnold, assistant secretary ;
Bernice Tripp, treasurer; Bernie
Dumas, sargeant at arms.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-23
YWCA NEWS
BUSINESS AND
CLUB
CLOSES YEARS ACTIVITIES

81 The Business and Professional
club Of he West Side branch
closed the years program with a
Banquet Monday evening. The
group Of thirty business and pro-
fessional women enjoyed a deli
cious dinner after which Miss
Louise Clark, president Of the
club, gave short resume of the
years activities. Mrs. Pauline
Parsons spoke on Music Appreci-
alton, giving demonstrations on q
phonograph Of the different types
iof music Of which she spoke
Group singing was lead by Mrs
Diana Dickens and accompanied
/ by Mrs. Sara Ellis.
At the joint meeting Of tn
Industrial clubs last week, Nh
Earl Leath, international repre-
sentative of the CIO, gave q yer.
interesting talk on the origi
sand function Of the Clio in Day
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-23
CARD or THANKS

The family Of the late Lans-
ing H. Moore wishes DO thank
their friends and neighbors for
their expressions Of sympathy
during the illness and passing OF
their beloved brother. Especially
do we thank Rev. G. w. Sherard,
Father Samuels-Bel Rev.
Ralph Bass, Rev. H. Laurence
Mcneil Of Dayton, and Rev. S. p
Jenkins of Springfield, Ohio.
THE FAMILY.
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BAPTIST

(Csatiausd from page -
Specialist Of Chicago; Dir. j. NJ.
Narbit, Nashville; Clarence A.
Burrell, David Nathaniel Licor-
ish, Judge William H. Harrison,
Dr. j. A. Bacoats, Baton Rouge,
president Leland college, and
Rev. Gardner G.. Taylor, New Or
leans.
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Dinner

A fried chicken dinner will be
given by Group No. 7 Of Way
man AME church Thursday, May
29th at the residence of Mrs.
Dan Cannon, 1913 Bank street,
from to 8 p. m. The price of
the dinner will be SOC per plate.
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Tabernacle Baptist

A very enjoyable evening was
spent last Friday when the Lit
lie Mems Glee club was presented
in concert at the Tabernacle Bap
tist church.
An Old Fashioned Doll Drii
will be held at the church tomol
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-23
MRS. cALLIE SUMPTION, 4s,


MRS. cALLIE SUMPTION, 4G,
Of 1920 Germantown street, died
at ST. Elizabeth hospital at $50
p. m. Saturday. She was born at
Fayetteville, Tenn. The funeral
was held at Mt Zion Baptist
church at 2 p. M. Wednesday with
burial in Greencastle cemetery.
Rev. j. II. Bubbart officiated. Sur
yivors are her husband, Clarence
Sumption, Dayton; a brother,
james Dixon, Fayetteville, Tenn,
and three sisters, Mrs. Alice
Burk, and Mrs. Lennie Bright.
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Deaths and Funerals

JOHN MATTHEWS, 26, Of
233 Mound street. died Sundag
Funeral services were at Allen
AME church at 80 pm. We'd
nesday. with burial in Willow
view cemetery. The services were
conducted by Rev. J. Walker
stromes. Friends called at tie
home OF relative, Mrs. Rosalie
Ragland, SIS Greencastle street,
until the hour of the funeral
The deceased died from knife
wound allegedly to have been in
fiicted by Bennie Robinson.
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Visits Daughter

Mrs. Arthur T Giddings Of
Yonkers, N. X, is visitinp her
daughter, Miss Elizabeth r. Gid
dings Of Fitch street. Mrs. Gid
dings and her daughter viii leave
Saturday for Chicago where they
will visit Miss Giddings friends.
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row evening at O'Clock. The
sunshine Band is sponsor Of this
program and tickets are only l0c.
The Progressive Twelve club
presents "Plantat'ea Echoes.
.aturing the Southland Singers
At Linden Center tomorro wesen-
ing at s o'clock. Tickets are now
on sale at Csc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-20

BY far the greatest Diamond value IN years.
Mans ring With brilliant genuine diamond in
massive solid yellow gold mounting. Use
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IN THE
NEWS


they were In the gay twenties
when the companies were ex-
panding rapidly and when the
net cost of insurance to
policyhOlders was strikiDgly
lower.
Such changes as have been
under way grow to a large
extent out of the policies and
economic planning of politi-
clans temporarily in charge
of the government.
In the first place, federal
policy has fOstered cheap and
abundant credit and low in
terest rates. As a result,
MISUNDERSTANDING the. in
surance companies and other
financial institutions - are
confronted with a significant
fall in the wages of capital.
The cost of insurance Is
closely related to the amount
of interest that can be safely
earned on pOlicyhOlders'
funds.
Secondly, governmental
policies, which have tended to
freeze the national economy
and make the malad justments
persist, have made the legiti-
mate business demand for
new capital subnormal. Like
wise, the chronic depression
has affected the sOlvency of
certain railroads and other
industries, i'm which life insur-
ance funds have been invested.
AbnOrmally large write-downs
of sour investment and of ILL
fated real estate mortgages
have reduced the net income
earnings on which policy
holders and their widows and
orphans depend.
Thirdly, confiscatory taxa
ton on a rising crescendo
tends partly to "socialize"
private corporations, and, as
government taxes absorb a
growing ratio of earnings, the
margin of safety on corporate
bonds, in which the financial
institutions invest, has been
reduced.
Fourthly, while the income
OF insurance companies from
investments has proceeded at
a reduced rate, governmental
policy, including taxation and
social legislation, has added
to the cost of conducting
business.
Fortunately, the custom of
overcharging polio yholders
and then rebatihg the excess
charges in the form of divi-
dends still provides the well
managed companies with an
ample margin of safety, but
the cost of such protection
has risen. Moreover, new
obstacles have been placed
before thrifty citizens who
are battling for financial in
dependence for themselves
and their families.
These tens of millions of
pOlicyhOlders, savings depos-
itOrs and old-age benefit
participants will achieve their
personal and family detectives
only if the dollar, in which
their hopes are cOntractually
expressed, remains sound.
They and not merely a
handful of rich men-are the
capitalists who are concerned
with the threat to the dollar
from chronic federal deficits
resulting from extravagant
governmental spending.
No easy patent medicine
remedy, such as limited fed
eral regulation of the life
insurance companies, which
the SEC study proposes, will
provide a magic answer. No
serious study of the position
of the corporate custodians of
the peoples savings can get
to the root of things if the
misbehaviOr and fallacies of
the politicians are soft
pedaled. i
Life insurance executives
should Openmindedly examine
the specific changes advocated
in the report of the TNEC,
but, even If all the profrered
reforms are quickly carried
into execution, the main
hurdles to economic security
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-20

Passing of Natalle--the Most
Tragic Queen. The Once Beau
tiful Russian Girl Who Rose
From Obscurlty 10 Become Con-
sort Of One Mad Serbian King
and Mother of Another. Spent
Her Last Years as n Poor Reli-
gious Recluse. Read Of Her
Strange, Unhappy Career In The
American Weekly, the Magazine
Distributed With This Sundays
Issue of The Detroit Sunday
Times.