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Evening star., 1941-08-21

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all the bustling activity attending
a Sunday service hour. Techniclans
have been there since dawn, placing
lights and installing equipment.
There is no congregation in the
pews, for in this scene Freoric
March, playing the star role OF a
Methodist minister, is not in the
church to conduct a service. He
has been invited to become the
church pastor and before making
his final decision is giving the place
a thorough inspection. His wife,
played by Martha Scott, is there,
too.
AS the scene opens, March and
Miss Scott stand in the center aisle,
looking forward toward the altar.
Everything you've hoped for
Miss Scott says softly.
"A magnificent church." March
replies. "A life of comfort for our
selves and our family. And all 1
have to do is say Yes
That's all, Will" Miss Scott en-
courages.
It's very little word" March
says thoughtfully. Perhaps too lit
tie"
The camera pans with them as
they walk up the aisle toward the
altar.
AS they reach the altar, March
drops to his knees, bows his head
in silent prayer and Miss Scott,
lust behind him, does likewise. He
is asking divine guidance, and as
he rises to his feet there is look
in his face that indicates he has
found it.
Slowly March walks to the pulpit,
stands for a moment looking out at
the silent auditorium, the empty
pews. Plainly. he is visualizing the
vast congregation. But the decision
In his face remains unaltered. He
shakes his head slightly as he turns
from the pulpit and walks to Miss
SCOTS side.
It can't do it." he tells her. "Ac-
cept the fruit of another mans
labors! 1t would be like stealing.
And I can't quit IN the middle of a
fight-and become known as man
who couldn't finish job. I'm 60
Ing home"
He looks at Miss Scott with
silent question. Will she mind too
much? He gets his answer i'm
mediately.
I'm glad, Will" she answers
simply.
Outside the church a crowd of
several hundred persons has as
sembled. Police are now on the job
rigging up curb ropes to keep them
back. The sight of motion picture
equipment on busy Wiltshire boule-
ward has brought this audience.
BY noon the milling crowds will be-
come a real problem.
X -. -
Much of the ribbing off stage
dialogue exchanged by directors and
players is more entertaining than
carefully planned material recorded
on the sound track. For instance. go.
In a scene for The Shadow OF
the Thin Man." latest of the William
Powell-Myrna 10y laughing detec-
tive series, Powell is supposed to lie
fat on his back with Asia, the
famous wire-hair fixture OF the
series, perched on his chest.
But Asia wouldn't stay put. After
much consultation, Powell went to
his dressing room, rearranged the
collar of his shirt and returned. This
time Asia sat on Bills chest through
Evening star., 1941-08-21

vival of one of the groups top hits:
$50 pm.
Cross Roads-"The Old Soak"
comedy, with Arch Mcdonald: $50
pm.
Evening star., 1941-08-21

and Leslie Howard: II am, 12:45
2:35, 4:20, $40, 8 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
R0adSide-"To Die at Dawn" re-
Evening star., 1941-08-21
San Carlos Artists Give !.
Aida in Colorful Manner
Miss Lushanya Both Stunning
And Artistic in Title Role;
Scenery Effective Feature
By ELENA DE SAYN.

1t not difficult to imagine that because OF Its grandeur Verds
aida the Water
performance
the flowing exactly match the Nile,
scale
illusion EgyptS
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Famed Hollywood Church
Setting for Film Scene
Fredric March and Martha Scott
Play Part of One Foot in Heaven
At Wiltshire Methodist
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.


Scene of Holywoods spectacular refe weddngs-noaby
the Jeanette MacDonadGen Raymond
Wiltshire Methodist Church
Heaven" biography of a typical American minister.
Monday morning inside the
Evening star., 1941-10-27
BARBARA KENT

Foous British oviotrx touring the United Sotes
junction with the Knit for Britain be
our Art Needlework Department tomorrow from 10 Am.
10 l.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29

Is it possible that any response
ble statesman ever really went be-
fore the American people with that
ola cry that in time of danger "a
million men would spring to arms
overnight? And is it possible that
he was not laughed out of the pic
tUre?
Yes, it is possible 1t is true. Mere
ly to recall it seems like dream
of innocence, a fraementary re-
collection of a golden age
The hard. stern realities of to-
day recall US from such vaporings
like a blow in the face. We nave
seen a million men spring TO
arms" in Yugoslavia overnight, and
be crushed to earth in less than
two weeks. We have seen 1t IL
other countries. We have learned
OF we hope that we have learned
that war today is a business that
has to be learned The bravest.
finest million men cannot stand
before men better equipped, better
trained, better led. The French
were brave enough, and the Nor
wegians. and the Dutch and Poles
and Serbs and Greeks. But valor Is
not enough today.
Many people were perturbed last
year when military training was
begun on a gigantic scale in time
of peaee. We are only now be-
ginning to see why. The words Of
Chief of Staff Marshall are some
what reassuring when he says that
l l.250,000 men with the highest
morale I've ever seen are now be-
ing organized and trained. War is Il
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
Uranium Crackers
War Mathematics

Mathematics often figure in the
strategy OF war. See how good q
general or admiral you would make
by solving this tricky trio of prob
lens about planes, Warshlps ana
troops on the move.
l. A British Wellington bomber
flies $50 miles from London 10 Ber-
lin, drops its 27,000-pound bomb
load on railroad stations and power
plants there, then flies back. If the
entire trip took five hours. includ-
ing &c minutes spent finding OBJ
jectives and releasing bombs, what
was bombers average speed on ac-
tual flight to and from Berlin?
9. The British cruiser Orion tray
eled 600 nautical miles from its
base at Alexandra, Egypt, to the
Ionian Sea. 1t cruiSed around fOl
three hours locating Italian war
ships, then spent five hours Turing
the enemy vessels to contact with
other British vessels and in fighting.
After the battle, it steamed back to
Alexandria. If the Orion averaged
80 knots nautical miles per hour)
on the trip, how far did she travel
and how long was she away from
her base?
3. 1t is $50 miles from Diredswa,
Ethiopia to Adds Ababa. The Ital
ians fled from Diredawa Monday
morning and the British left there
Tuesday morning. 1t the British
catch up with the Italians at Adds
Ababa Saturday morning, how fast
was each body of troops travelling?
ANSWERS
l. The bomber's average speed
was $50 miles an hour. 1t flew ll00
miles in hours "a minutes spent
remaining time over Berlin.
g The Orion travelled 1440 nauti-
cal miles 600 miles each way for
to Ionian Sea, and 240 miles for
eight hours of cruising and fighting1
1t was out for 48 hours, or two full
days.
3. The Italian troops travelled
30 miles a day taking five days to
travel $50 milees. The British av-
eraged 62l5 miles a day.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
by Willis Thornton =.
4 Million Men. to Arms. .OVerniqht

terrible thing at best, but it has
no more terrible aspect than when
men have TO fight without adA
quate training or equipment.
The present new army" is one of
which we have every reason to be
Lroud The men have made amaz-
irg progress, considering that they
have been in camp, most OF them
only since last fall. 1t is good but
not enough.
The core of the amazingly sue
ceSsful German army of today is
the nucleus of 100 thousand SER
geants" developed in the skeleton
army permitted under the treaty of
Versailles. These were siX-year men.
The army is right in attempting to
persuade as many as possible of
the one-year men to serve volun
tarily for a three-year term. They
will thus develop skills beyond the
6lcmentary training of one yea
men. That Will be valuable, per-
haps decisive, if a real war should
be faced.
The Germans are not braver or
better than the men they have re
peatedly beaten. They have more
knoW-how, and better tools.
America will never te without
the millions which the ancient
orator assured us would spring to
arms. But unless we make the alb
soulte most of the present oppor-
tunity to develop the know how and
the tools, we might be caught sud-
denly and hopelessly without them
in some desOlate daN.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29

WASHINGTON. April 90 -
There are no two ways about II
functions Of the administrator o..
your federal government az Sc
complex that it is impossible lor
anyone not entirely familiar witt
the workings OF any particular
agency to keep track of what it
does. Even most members of Con
eress who passed the laws Great
ing most of these agencies, or at
least appropriate the money to keep
them going, are just as confused
as a taxpayer
This sad observation is made to-
day after watching Sidney Hill
man for the fourth time appear
before a congressional committee
to tell the story Of his job as as
soAate director general of the Of
flee of Production Management.
In all four acts, Hillman had to
go through the same routine, eX-
planning with superhuman patience
things which every congressman
should know but obviously doesn't
It's enough to make you cry.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
ALL GET
THE SAME

Every other key witness before
these cimmitteeS has had similar
experience. John D. Biggers was
persistently asked about labor and
priorities, though he is the expert
on production. Secretary of War
Stimson and Secretary of Navy
Knox were both asked about pro-
duction, and SO was William H.
Davis, vice chairman of the Media
ton Board. Irrelevant and unnec-
essary questions fly all over these
committee rooms and what good
trey do is something impossible
to tell.
An obvious explanation would be
that congressman are perhaps woe
fully uninformed on even the Things
that get printed in the newspapers
the fact that Ford strike offered
to let the men on defense jobs
keep on working, the fact that the
coal miners offered to keep on
working the mines if terms of set.
tlement were made retroactive to
April /, the fact that A.F. of L,
building trades have already out
lawed jurisdictional strikes. And SO
on, unendingly. More purposeless
questions have been asked in these
investigations, based on lack of in
formation, than you will hear in
any slXth-grade Schoolroom.
Lack of information on current
affairs is not the only reason for
this waste of effort. AS stated be-
fore, the government has become
too complicated fer anyone to keep
up on and congressman are too busy
with political appointments, jobs
seekers and affairs of their own
district. Too many men are sent
TO Washington just because they
can get elected.
The result is that we have g
Congress ruled by emotions and no
by facts. Everyone is all eXcitec
about labor trouble now and some
new legislation will be passed III al
effort 70 do something about it
What is overlooked is that Bethle
hem Steel has already been cited b,
the National Labor Relations BoarC
81 times, and that the time to hav,
settled the Ford strike was fou,
years ago, when trouble first be-
gan.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
SHOULD
DRAW PICTURES

What these congressman have
trouble in fathoming is the simple
fact that OPM was set up by the
President as a purely advisory
board, and that it has no judicial
or executive powers. Equally in
comprehensive has been the fact
that although the OPM has labor
division which Hillman heads, the
function cf that labor division is
principally TO insure an adequate
supply Of labor for defense indus
tries and not to settle labor dis
rutes- a function assigned to the
Cancellation Service in the Depart
ment OF Labor, and to the National
Defense Mediation Board.
Inability or unWillingness to re-
tain this picture is most apparent
in the questions which Hillman
answered repeatedly: Why hadn't
he personally moved in to settle
the coal strike Or the Ford strike
o. any other strike? The obvious
answer that he had no authority
tc do SO had no standing what
ever before the committee.
Hillman was head of the labor
division Of OPM and OPM was
:unning the defense effort, wasn't
it? Therefore Hillman should have
done something about it. The in
ference was that Hillman was per-
sonally responsible for all this and
it was now up to Congress to set
things right. No wonder perspira-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
by Paul Harrison :.
HOLLYWOOD Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

plain in military terms. The only
language he speaks is plain Holly
woodese, but the navy learned to
translate that, understood when it
heard him say to his assistant dir
ectOr, sherry, there is one thing
more | know | cannot have, but
will you get it, please?" An official
asked Sherry what was wanted, OBJ
tanned it in a couple of minutes.
FROM FOE
TO FRIEND
This combination of firmness and
friendlinesS made a tremendous i'm
preston on the little director He
has been a naturalized citizen for
eight years but still was overwhelm-
ed by cordiality of navy flyers and
their wives who came to his cock
tail parties and invited him to
theirs.
Just think!" Curtiz said. mar
yelling. In the last war, am in
the Hungarian artillery. And now
E. look! they like me-
It's to the credit of Curtiz and his
company that navy officials and
San DleganS were as friendly be-
cause some studios which have made
flying films there have given Hol-
lyWood a pretty sour reputation
The snooty hotel recalled with dis
taste the antics of some players
and stunt men who delighted III
shocking the wealthy winter resi-
dents.
Best proof OF the hotels accept
ance of the olive Bomber COM
pany wasn't Eprol Fiynn's hobnob-
bing with society. 1t was the regu-
lar afternoon sight OF "Limey," the
prop-man, having tea with a clique
OF be-diamoned dowagers. They re-
membered that he liked his brew
double strength, piled him with
sandwiches and sugar cakes, and
asked no questions about the cine
ma
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
Barbs

Some people with fire insurance
have burning desires.
Retormer says every girl in short
skirts is in danger. Yet every man
locks after her.
New taxes are going to make the
income tax blank a blankety blanke
France Under German Heel'-
headline. We've heard Hitler call
ed worse than that.
Why is it people always speak
of bad colds? Ever hear of good
enc?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
TRADE WALLS SHUT OFF
STATES THAT BUILD THEM
Oakland Post-InQuirer)

Passed by the legislature and now
waiting for signature or veto by the gov
ernOr is Assembly Bill 1614-an mno-
cent little bill on the surface, but full of
concealed dynamite for California.
1t is another attempt to erect a trade
wall around this state, and to keep out of
this state the products of other states
This time it is aimed against beer. 1t
proposes a direct and wholly unnecessary
interference against shipping beer into
California from other states.
1t would impose upon foreign" beer
manufacturers trying to ship beer INTO
California all kinds of superfluous red
tape-Superfluou because there IS al
ready complete state jurisdiction over
all retailers and wholesalers selling beer
within California, including those who
sell out-of-state beer.
There is no question of added guaran-
tees concerning the quality of the beer,
or the tax revenue, or the conditions un-
der which it may be sold. Existing laws
take care of all this.
The real purpose Of the bill Is merely
to make it difficult to ship out-of-state
beer into California.
Well. many persons may wonder what
is wrong with that. Why shouldn't we try
competition arising in Washington, Wis
consin. Missouri and other beer produc
ing states?
There is great deal that may be
wrong with it; great many factors that
should be given more intelligent consider
alton than they apparently received IN
Sacramento
For one thing, these interstate trade
walls are against the American COnStl-
tuition. which says that mo state shall
without the consent of congress lay any
impOsts or duties on exports or imports,
and that congress alone shall have pow
er to regulate commerce among the sew
eral states"
But various states have found there is
more than one way of skinning a cat, and
they make use of several kinds of govern
mental power to hamper imports from
sister states.
One state starts this dangerous game,
and soon other states are passing retail
iatory measures against the products of
that state.
This goes on and on, and it has result
ed in the economic "Balkanization' of
large areas of a nation that prospered
and grew on the principle of free trade
between the states.
1t results in immense and obvious harm.
The federal government, in the interest
of national economic welfare and more
lately in the interest Of national unity
and defense, has been trying to stop the
operation of this vicious circle.
California itself in the past two or
three years has been moving toward the
elimination of some of these interstate
trade barriers.
This has been wise, since California is
essentially an Exporting" state, with
huge crops of vital products that it MUST
sell to other states.
Suppose other states, in retaliation
against trade barriers erected by Califor-
MIA against their products, begin erecting
their own barriers against California
oranges, grapefruit, lemons, avocados,
walnuts, grapes, wines, and a thousand
ether things?
Il L
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
Did You Know?

Land snakes seldom bite under
water, but the cotton mouth moe
c2sin snake can and does.
A meter is approximately 1897
inches.
Americas feminine clothing in
dustry is conservatively valued at
$3.5OO,OOO 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29

EDITORS NOTE: The foliorring
editorials are presented as Interesting
opinions UOiced by editors eiseUhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29

Government freezes steel prices That's
going to leave any potential war profit
GERS right out in the cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

ton popped out on his forehead
nd a roll OF his neck stood out
asove his coat collar as he patiently
.lingly argued it out without
Guce losing his temper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29

Famous Sayings

Through survival of their children, happy parents
are able to think calmly of a world in which theY
are to have no direct share-Marius
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
Thought for the Day

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days
may be long upon the land which the Lord thy Goa
eiveth thee-Exodus 20.12
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
gy LUCE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, April %. - The
"DiVe Bomber" company and Dir
ector Michael CurtiZ are back from
location at the naVy's San Diego
air base, and Curtiz Is a changed
man. He didn't try to break rules
and get his ears slapped down, but
after five weeks of iron-clad discip-
line, studio red tape looks like pink
satin ribbon to him.
He was completely confused and
baffled by a strange new world
that neither knew nor cared about
the way things were done in Holly
wood, if they didn't coincide with
the naVy's way. 1t was painful to
the hard working Curtiz, especially
on sunny days, that camera could
Mt turn after 4 pm. The movies
work as long as a director holds his
company. but naval base hours are
am. TO pm.
To understand Curtlz' beWilder-
ment, realize that he lives, thinks
and talks only in terms OF pictures,
and, director of some SO films, his
slightest wish is a command. Worst
shock he got was the day 200 planes
and 1000 men were being lined up
for a magnificent display and he
was told You can have one shot. "
That was impossible, he protested
Any scene was filmed at least twice,
if only for protection. One shot,
said the navy calmly. He could have
a couple of rehearsals but that was
as long as they would paralyze the
air base His reward was a perfect
take.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting
for Paul Harrison, now touring
army camps and defense indus
tries.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
RIGHT SMOKE
WRONG DIRECTION

He was allowed only a skeleton
picture crew and cast of so on a
three-day cruise aboard the air.
craft carrier Enterprise. The regu-
lar location company numbered $50,
but officials made some conces-
sions. When Curtiz requested that
picturesque black smoke stream out
of the tunnels, he got it-even tho
inky smoke is navy disgrace, in
dication Of bad firing.
Beaming, the director took q
squint through the lens, then gave
a gasp of dismay turned TO Lieut.
Comdr. Charles Brown and spread
his hands. But Commander" he
walled, the smoke is blowing in
the wrong di-recshon!" The officer
laughed until he was helpless and
ordered the carriers course chang
ed.
Curtiz hadn't known how to ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-29
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Evening star., 1941-08-24
Hobbies and H0bbyiSts
News of Activities Here and Nearby
Bv Edmond Henderey.

hinged cover. The job has been
done so cleverly that a casual ex-
animation reveals only that 1t Is
lighter in weight that other silver
dollars. Pressure on the proper spot
will cause the cover to swing open
and display the hollow interior.
Another odd item is an 1863 pen
ny bearing the legend, The flag of
our Union-if anybody attemps to
tear it doWn-shoot him on the
spot" His oldest United States coin
is dated 1909 and the oldest coin in
his collection is a Roman one from
about Is B. C.
Probably the most attractive of
Mr.. Thompson coins is new Cana
dian dime with George VI on one
side and beautiful picture of a
schooner on the other. In addition
to the coins, Mr.. Thompson has a
few pieces of Fractional Currency
the old paper money once made in
less than dollar denominations.
j. j. Patrick, vice commodore of
the Washington Model Yacht Club
is taking advantage of the midsum-
mer lull in model yachting to build
new class A boat. He hopes to
have it ready to sail when racing
picks up in the fall.
Several factors contribute to this
dull summer season. 1t is vacation
time and various members of the
club are in and out of town. The
wind is not at all dependable on
the mirror pool at this time. and
our well-known humidity doesn't
help, either. However, some of the
members of the club are to be seen
at the pool on Saturdays and Sun
days in spite Of every discourage
ment.
Last Sunday the Rejecting Poo
at the Lincoln Memorial was the
mecca for model powerboat en-
thusiasts from up and down the
Atlantic coast as the Eastern Rae
ing Circuit staged its second regatta
OF the season.
The Atlantic City and Reading
CLUBS were represented Tor the nrSl
time, and the regular members OF
the circuit were all present. Also
there were four tyro boatmen from
Buffalo who came as observers
They came all the way to Washing
ton to learn how to conduct a re-
gatta.
The Baltimore club brought 6
sound truck and broadcast the an.
nouncements and race results.
There were 35 entries, and the
fastest time of the day was made
by John B. Thorpe of New York
His class B boat won its event with
52.88 miles per hour. Dick Weld.
ner, also from New York, won ir
class A, and Martin Waller, jersey
City, in class c.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

to have their own stamps under
Crown Colonies management.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
This evening at 7:15-"Voice of
Philately" program, Station WINK.
C. w. Inglee, master of ceremonies;
George w. Hawse, secretary, Capt.
tai Precancel Club, guest Of honor
and speaker.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Capital
Precancel Club, home of Carl C.
Cook, lilo South Barton street,
Arlington Village, Va.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, residence of LIE
Roy Mack, 1912 Thirty-second street
Sc. Stamposium and program.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth and l. streets NV
General program, exhibition and
bourse.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Lee Sher-
atom Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets
NV Program, reports of Ameri-
, can Philatelic Society convention
Saturday evening at 8-Vikings
Crew Hobby Club, 42l3 Thirteenth
/ street NE.