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New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Feb 20 UP,.-National As
Eociation Securities Dealers Inc:
CLOSING Quota tionS.)
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OaSn
Cash grain-Wheat No - hard, So
Corn, Nc. 3 yellow, 81 a-6374; No. 4. SIS
6lla;, No. 5, 56i2-59: No. 3 white. 62l2;
sample grade. 54i2-5594 Oats No. /
white. heavy 3s12 No 3 white, 371a. No.
3 white tough, 81; No. white 36l2
Barley, mailing SO nominal: feed AZ
81; No. > $3.50; No. 3, So Soy Beans.
No yellow. 81 Field seed, per hundred
9,50-12 90; fancy red top. 75O-S.0O: red
clover. s.00-l0.00; sweet clover, 1904 90
Baltimore Quotations
BALTIMORE. Feb. 20 LPl.-Wheat. No
: red winter, sarlicky, spot, domestic, 93
February. 80.
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Futures No closed n higher. Sales,

England will ask growers to plant
$4,000 more acres to onions.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, Feb. 20-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index of 80
commodities today advanced to 1928.
Previous day. 77.06; week ago, 77.37;
month ago, 1872: year ago, 1882.
194l 1910 1889 1933-
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BONDS ON n. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE

BY private wire direct to IN. Star.
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,,,-,,, Winnipeg Prices.

WHEAT High. Low. Close close
May 77sa TT3s 1TLs TTi5
July - 79L 10 TqI. 1pL
OATS
May = 35H 347s 35ls 351.
lash wheat. No. | hard, 1913 No, /
No. white oats, 337s: No. 3. 3oss.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

Approximate Transactions Todoy.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Chicago Stock Market

CHICAGO, Feb. 20 lP.-Foliowing IS
TIE complete list of transactions on the
CHICAGO Stock Exchange today:
a1n STOCKS High. Low Close,
Evening star., 1941-03-23
TEN PAGES.

BROADWAY is COMPOUNDED, AND DUMFOUNDED-It isn't
the usual thing in the eater in these recent gears and the
boys around Times Square looking m are Those many
Evening star., 1941-03-23
He Has Some Notions,
But Not the Practical Kind.

the brunette. Spencer Tracy was
in it, and it was a modernized ver-
sion of the inferno and on a ship,
and it was wrecked, and we all went
to h I mean to an inferno. But
before I got too hot, they put me
under a long-term contract. I
didn't do very well. 1t might have
been my name-Cansino-that was
against me-or the fact that I was
only 16. But I did awful things
like Under the Pampas Moon
And I played Jane Wither's emf
grant Russian mother in Paddy
CDsy.' l saw Jane for the first
time since then the other day on
the Columbia lot. She lowered
above me and said, My What
cute little thing you turned out to
be- Which was no way for her
to talk to her eX-mother."
During her 18 months at Fox. the
picture Ramona" was remade in
technicolor. Rita was promised the
leading lady role. Don Ameche
made his film leading man debut
in this, and for the role, raised his
forehead half an inch via elec-
trolysis. This hurt him lot, but it
was not as painful as Rita's awaken
ing when she read somewhere that
not she, but Loretta Young was to
play opposite Don Ameche. 'It was
the most depressing moment of my
life she tells me in her clipped
"elocutionized" accent. Il didn't
mind so much when I saw the film
continues Rita. Loretta Young
Evening star., 1941-03-23

poser Dana Suesse, has written a
tuneful new score for this revue and
especially a catchy new song called
Colossal, Tremendous, Terrific"
In assembling material for this
revue, Rose said he uncovered nu-
merous interesting and historical
facts about the beginning of the
silent movies.
"a Foolish Fad"
THE first personal appearance
made by screen stars" Rose said,
"was the visit of Florence Lawrence
and King Baggott to St. Louis on
March IL, 1910. They were greeted
at the station by riotous crowd of
fans who set the style for this kind
of reception by tearing the buttons
off Miss Lawrence'S coat and the
trimmings off her hat.
Like most actors in the early
days, Charles Chaplin considered
the movies a foolish fad with little
chance of lasting popularity. He
hated to give up the stage, but an
offer of $3.50 a week Che had been
making 500 and the guarantee of
full years work changed his mind.
"When D. w. Griffiths The Birth
of a Nation was first shown in
Washington, President Wilson said,
TT is like writing history with light
ming incidentally, it was the first
movie to be shown in the White
House."
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Broadway Sees Another Tradition Shattered
Being Strange Case of the Many Bakers
Of Arsenic and Old Lace Who Get Their Money Back
Inrue ndonso his about heon

nude notions
Thus far he hasn't got to first base with them
didn't have the practical
the of the Empire Building
E. Smith and the photographers
"Why?" he asked.
Get the shows the he explained good
"Why?" he was questioned further.
Cant U?"
reeng back frightened Don't
answer
Mr. Sullivan
Ideas of Money Matters.
Paul Streger, with It
the whose last
attention The stockholders he pictures
and in the lobby frames
second curtain cahe lady hackers pull the
wanted gold
Wine Social
title partly elderberry
Frank Sullivan of being himself
all kinds
disappointed of his formal letters
"$l1" "s
about how money is pronounced that amounts to
calculated
The dot
angels feel their
All distinctly the harsh
Clare Boohe Bokaw the the
maes carried by of the players in her Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Washington
midget
Oh she that spelled
the pronounced She Connecticut for her
maets that the theae
clash
now i of
stockholders felows
Alliance
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Gets New Role

Frances Clifford, young Para
mount actress, will play an irnpor-
tant role in support of Albert Dek-
ker in the Sol c. Siegel "shocker," /"
Among the Living" after she COM
pletes loan-out assignment in Re-
public,S jungle Girl" Miss Gift
ford's most recent job at Paramount
was in kiss the Boys Goodbye, "
film version of the Clare Boothe
play, whose stars are Don Amache,
Mary Martin and Oscar Levant.
Evening star., 1941-03-23

and that's just what's worrying
producers of blood-thunder melo-
dramas. All the toughies today want
to give their characterizations a
touch of sentiment or softness be-
fore they die or 60 to prison.
They'll abuse poor old parents,
kick helpless children-although
that isn't permitted. by the Hays
Office any more-but in the last
reel they want a chance to prove
themselves human by petting the
dog, doing the supper dishes or de-
stroying the mortgage.
They Get Away With 1t.
incidentally, the mortgage on the
homestead, good old-fashioned de-
vice to show the williams true COlors
and to give the heroine a chance
to decide between virtue and wealth,
seems to have died out as anaccept-
able screen plot. We haven't seen
mortgage foreclosure in a movie
in many years. Perhaps it's the
effect of the F. H. A.
Practically all the top screen heels
have served formal notice on en-
ployers that they do not intend
to be "an bad" any more. And lot
of them are getting away with it.
Bogart, for instance, refused to
appear in High Sierra" unless GER
tain cruelties written in for him to
perform were slashed and a few
scenes substituted.
Among other compromises, they
(See HEFFERMAN, Page F-3D
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Offered Film Test

Harry Carey's 17-year-o1d daugh-
ter, Ellen, who appeared with her ac-
tor-father last summer in "Ah, Will
derness" at the Skowhegan CMe.) J.,
summer theater, has been offered a
Paramount screen test. Miss Carey
got her chance when studio execu-
tives spotted her at a preview show
ing of shepherd of the Hills" in
which her father is featured with
Betty Field and John Wayne.
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By SheiIah Graham.-
HOLLYWOOD.


Rita Hayworth, the modern ver-
sion of the Theda Bara-Nita Naldi
vamp, shivers in a thin nightdress,
sneezes and apologies. Il have a
cold Don't sit too. pear me-" Which
is not the way Vamp, modern or
ancient, is supposed to behave.
The gown is part of Rita's $4,000
wardrobe for her siren role in
Blood and SAND" and we are sit
ting in her fancy dressing room on
the Twentieth Century-Fox lot
awaiting her call for little vamp-
ing of Tyrone Power.
This is where I came in sniftles
Rita. Il mean I started my film
career at Fox six years ago, but
I didn't have a dressing room like
this. I was with B players in a
tiny two-by-four room. 1 was known
then as Rita Cansino, and I was
signed to a contract by gentleman
who saw me dance in Aqua Caliente.
My first picture was 'Daddy's In
ferno.'" She was trying to say
"Dante's Inferno" but she has a
cold.
Remember the picture?" queries
Evening star., 1941-03-23

such stars as Mia Ndldl, Carlyle
Blackwell, Mae Murray, Gilda Gray,
Lila Lee and other names which
have been missing from the world
of show glamour since talking pic
lures came in.
Two Famous Dances.
Miss Murray, still with her bee
stung lips and blond loveliness,
danced her famed Merry Widow
Waltz" with all the charm and
gracefulness with which she did it
in so many silent pictures. And
Miss Gray once again danced her
celebrated shimmy.
But, although the first-night au-
dience applauded them for numerous
encores, it was revealing to note
the contrast of these famed dances
of another day when compared with
the fast and almost acrobatic mod
ern dances done by the youngsters
in the chorus line.
A Tuneful Score.
Along with these picture names
of past era Rose has added to
this night life parade such Broad
way names as DR.. Rockwell, the
comedian who doesn't stop talking
even to hear the laughter he wins;
Ross Wyse, jr., who dances like a
man on a flying trapeze, and Della
Lind, the blond Viennese singer.
Rose, in collaboration with Conf
Evening star., 1941-03-23
She's Almost Perfect Right Now
Rita Hayworth Back Where She Started Six Years Ago,
Finds Her Film Career Becoming Interesting

looked beautiful, but she just wasn't
Ramona"
It's the Way He Looks.
When Fox declined to renew Miss
Cansino's option, she went to Co.
lumbia, who told me to change my
name" The Hayworth is almost
her mothers maiden name-Ha-
worth-without the y. 1t took Co.
lumbia to see the vamp lurking
meath the quiet. girlish exterior of
their new player. She was the bad,
but exciting girl in only Angels
Have Wings" She didn't have much
to say in this. Her role consisted
chiefly of draping her arms around
Cary Grant and letting him look
at her.
Cary shows a girl off we'll" says
Rita. He looks at her as though
she is beautiful, and she becomes
beautiful in the sight of the audi
ence." That reminds memo man
has made Hedy Lamar seem as
beautiful as Charles Boyer did in
"Algiers," and do you remember
how he looked and looked and look
ed at her?
To return to Rita and angles and
wings. THE critics were wonderful
to me. And I naturally expected
things to get exciting But nothing
happened for 10 months, and then
I was put in a Blonde picturei"
She was the vamp in Blonde on a
Budget" Il was too Debated by
that time to rebel or 60 on strike.
(See GRAHAM, Page F-3D
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Todoy's Film
Schedules

CAPITOL-"Topper Returns" !"
and meets another vanishing
woman: 2, 4:25, ITO and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: 1925, 6:10
and 8:55 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Andy Hardy's
Private Secretary" and he
gets out of high school: 2:55,
sos, tbs and 9:25 pm.
EARLE-"Footsteps in the
Dark" Enrol Flynn in a mys-
tery-comedy: 2, 4:30, 7:05 and
GAS pm. Stage shows: 3:45,
$40 and 9 pm.
KEITH'S-"Nice Girl?" Deanna
Durbin indulges in romance;
2:40, s, 7:20 and $40 pm.
March of Time: 220, 4:40, 7
and 9:20 pm.
LITTLE-"Night Train" melo-
dramatic and comic British
thriller: 2, 4, 5:55, 7:45 and
9;40 pm. .
METROPO N-"High
Sierra last days of a killer,
with Humphrey Bogart: 2:35,
4::55, tbs and 9:45 pm.
PALACE-"The Great Dictator" !"
Chaplin looks at today,
searchingly and wittily: 2,
4::25, 7:05 and 9:45 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts;
continuous from 2 o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
BY Ira Woiferf.


Broadway ence angels into rushing
in where fools dread to tread.
office After 10 profitable weeks Mr. Buck Grouse
himself but in completely with
of checks to the angels
the investment in full and promised come
and have secretaries to their mail
check The feathered band erepn became
opening night For the rule on Broadway that Whe money
last 1t the sinking fund was invented
the first realize angels not only can't swim" but don't nave
| water wings.
So the whole proceeding irregular the
manager enterprise little puzzled but said he thought
Mr. Grouse had the interests OF the heater at ha ana Wa"
campaign induce moneyed people to invest in
List of the Plays Backers
Is a Long, Varied One.
experience Originally they
impulse putting reacherou enterprise
The question of who's scattered up
Immediately thereafter
chief backer the vice chairman OF the Port of New York
Authority Cuman dollars and His
Karof the who has been known sqander
the actress widow Walter Connolly Lester
Meyer the and Richard Huber who prints the heater
programs
Clarence Day. , whose late husband wrote
mounts feguad the literary SWIM Gilbert Gabriel the drama critic
writing fiction Also they in the society
Wndust the stage director waiter wagner stage manager ana a
executive chorus equity Alison Smith, the news
and wife of Mr. Buck Grouse and Frank Sullivan the
Saratoga
He Notions
But Not the Practical Kind
point they sturdy among
behaving
of the people
for mind offered him $4,000 for his share This prac
ticaIy
was turned down.
culman giant affairs
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AAobC kAAoC PA oSSANaAAy ehiA AAo'S eSAAN
in for reform.
Time was when Jimmy Cagney
would just as soon slug an innocent
female as look at her.
Humphrey Bogart would grin
when told that a script called for
him to kick an old lady down three
flights Of stairs.
Wally Beery was never in better
humor than when slicing throats and
shooting people in the back.
Bruce Cabot, George Raft, Brian
Donlevy, J. Carroll Naish, John Car
radine. Lloyd Nolan and a dozen
other topline experts in cold-blooded,
deep-seated villainy never used to
bat an eye over the foul deeds they
were called on to perform.
But today all that is changed. The
Hollywood heel has gone Softie. He
is thinking about his art and how
the public may regard him if he
continues those ruthless tactics on
celluloid.
They Want Sentiment.
It's not that any of the established
group has refused point blank to
accept a movie role catalogued as
heavy" AS of old, they'll shoot,
stab, slug and otherwise make life
miserable for any outstanding young
hero-but lately they've been de-
manding that story writers fix them
up with touching little sequences
designed to show that they're not
100 per cent bad.
Nobody, any more, wants to be a
complete heel if he can avoid it
Evening star., 1941-03-23
The Drapers Also Create
Their Stage Material
Famous Diseuse and Dancing Nephew
Are Author and Choreographer;
Relief Show Program Is Set
By Jay Carmody.

The Draper nephew Paul. might seem to have
little in from the excellence which represents
its particular field Yet those relatively
in view the diffusion of their
There family trait that dominates artistic
and nephew quality that
Miss outstanding greatest
The quality interps
Draper has able interpret writing
S his choreographer.
Draper and her inability
10 deal her inimabe
the beginning of her Henry James, could write virtually
anything and did, Miss Draper perform night
impressed her skill Immediately
sketch for her Miss found
and did her audiences Yet after few trial performances
forced drop from repertory despite
that which
the Characterization.
Experience Taught Actress
To Be Her OWN
then, Draper writer
exquel
expression ranking
virtually
paid a respect the classical music tradition the lives of his
parents and Muel has been his theory handsomely
theory
interpreted the piece composed yesterday afternoon perhaps
late last night Accordingly he dances the strains of scaa
Debussy, exciting
effect as he does the works Of Cole Porter the late George Gershwn
Heretofore Her Appearances
Solo Performances.
Her association nephew program comes
engagement
has other than solo performance
building herself position
nothing plush drape
hats nothing
rehearse in the accepted sense of the word
Paul. however has led gegariouS professional
deciding which
his artistic family he with skill
viduaty landed his Eddie Downg
That something that happened pretty long in the
comparatively Draper however has been dancing
Capitol
spots
from the only thing the customers want
low
Comb Stage
Washington theaer operators and unctOnarieS allied fields
today selling their first for the Greek Relief
The project undertaken that would
Presidents Birthday Ball talents
Capitol theater midnight
E.
admissions the price of which will be ST.
The Earle Thaes contribution the talent of the
will take the lovely forms the Singing Powers Models the houses
the feminine and Jane
Maysy
Capitol will
popular dancer Alan Gale comedian 16 Rhythm Rockets and
Hubert.
combined will play coconductorshp Of
10 Lombardi and Sam Jack kaufman.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Revue Woos Nostalgia
Famed Film Stars of Silent Days
In New Billy Rose Show
BY Mark Barron,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

musical together 1t likely to
gala style And this is true again with his
Th Silver Screen Broadway first
nighters at diamond horseshoe playhouse.
nostalgia
movies his PRINCIPALS include
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Villains Won't Be Villains
And Producers Worry
Bad Boys of the Cinema Suddenly
Get an Urge to Show Audiences
They're Not So Bad After All
BY Harold Hefernan.


Unless the develop entirely
vllans-vian with preconceved ideas "ahe odash
ioned melodrama is due for gradual fadeout.
Producers and writers agreement that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
Japan
Offers
Mediation
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Continued from Page One)
scare last week to achio roliti.
cal aims.
In his formal statement today
the Toxic spokesman declared
that wise and generous states
manShip wou!G be required TO save
world peace and civilization, and
that Japan would be willing TO
initiate mediation If events war
rant
I'VE are utterly unable to see
that any good purpose is served
by prolOnging the war, whatever
the motive may be-" Ishii said.
I'VE want to make it clear
that Japan Is fully prepared to
act as mediator or take what
ever action is calculated to re-
cover normal conditions, not
only in Asia but anywhere in the
world"
Declaring Japan was ready to
mediate in any war If invited 10
do so and if the situation appeared
favorable, Ishii deplored reports of
tension in the Far East.
He sought 10 stress what he
called Japan's desire for peace in
contrast with alleged "warlike
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
British Get NAVY,
Army Bombers
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continued from rage One1
lease bill under paragraph 2. sub
division "A of section three was
designed 10 prohibit transfer OF
any existing defense item by the
Chief Executive without consulta-
ton with the army or navy chief
of staff or both.
WAS SIZING TON, Feb. IS.
-uNS) The army and navy
conceded today that a substantial
number of military bombing
planes have been transferred IN a
roundabout way to the British.
Service spokesman. however,
denied A statement in the English
magazine. The Airplane that
these ships had been turned over
10 the British direct from the
naval and army air forces
The planes they said. were Ger
tilted as obsolete and turned back
10 tho manufacturers from whom
this country received credit to-
ward new planes.
That j. as far as the official
version goes. but army and navy
officers said they preSur,-4 the
planes were then resold by the
manufacturers to the British
The navy said last Summer il
turned back 50 Curtiss light
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
Blank Ballot Vote
Keeps Mayor on Job

READING Feb. 1S.-Because
the only candidate who qualified
10 run for mayor withdrew. the
voters received blank ballots on
which they wrote in the name of
their candidate The race was
close with Adelbert f. Hakes. in
cumbcnt. returned the victor over
Glenn u. Gage. l32 votes to l27.
Tho election was special one,
called because the mayor elected
last November Byron Berry, was
unable 10 qualify.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
SPRING DRIVE SEEN

CHUNKING. China. Feb. is
CNS)-Asserting that a red ball
has been hung up over the South
ern Pacific, the Chungking news
paper Central Daily News pre-
dicted today that Japan will
launch her anticipated drive TO the
south simultaneously with a Ger
man Spring offensive.
The paper added that Japan will
attempt to use Thailand Siam
as a base for an attack on the
Dutch East Indies and the great
British base of Singapore, but Will
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
Defense 10 Be Topic
OF Round liable Talk

Total Defense. What Does II
Mean p will be the subject of a
round table discussion at S p. m.
today in the Jewish Community
Center. Participants in tho discus
sion will be Prof. Edward w Mac
Farland of Wayne University.
John L. Lovett, general manager
of tho Michigan Manufacturers
Association; Walter p Reuther.
UAW-CIO General Motors de-
partmcnt head: the Rev Ernest
f. Piper of ST Matthias Episcopal
Church; Alfonso Rodriguez of
Wayne University and Capt r T.
Brodhead of the United States
Naval Reserve.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
Block Kept All Of $4,000 Graft,
CoIburn Lawyer Charges
CONTINUED from Page, One)

bought this apartment building
for $4,000"
Maiullo asked:
Didn't you spend 100000 re-
furnishing your home
NO" Block chuckled. 81 may
have spent $1,000 or $4,000.
II also bought $4,000 worth
OF Federal Asphalt Company
stock in 1886. Twas selling il
on a Is per cent commission
basis and Colburn and McCrea
bought some, Though not
through me.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Other hiGhlightS of Blocks toSti-
mony in which he implicated about
a third of the defendants:
Each month between the
tenth and the fifteenth I met
Colburn i'm the Broadway Market
or in the basement of a down
town department store and
turned il tthe graft money!
over to him.
II never knew the prosecutors
office to raid any place il got
protection from.
"Once COlburn told me: You
know, all this money doesn't go
to me-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18

preparations of Britain and the
United States to meet supposed
contingencies in the Pacific South
Seas"
1shii also asserted that if the
United States government could
be persuaded to restrict its activi-
ties 10 the Western Hemisphere.
and to avoid causing unnecessary
anxiety in the minds of the Jap
.anese" the situation would be
greatly mitigated."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18

"Yes, I've made five or six
trips to Florida recently"
QUIZZED ON BETS
The witness appeared calm and
unruffied by Maiullo'S questions.
The attorney asked:
Isn't II true You lost SIS, 900
or $4,000 betting ON your
horses at the Hialeah track in
1902"
II may haver replied Block.
The Well-dresSed witness said he
kept books which would show
records of all these dealings, but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18

bomberS TO the Buffalo. n. Y.
plant of CurtisS-Wright Corpora
ton. while the army asserted that
almost year ago" II sent back
an undiSclosed number of North
rup bombers TO the Northrup Air.
craft Company of Los Angeles.
The English magazine listed 90
Curtiss bombers as having been
received from the United States
Navy. but officers in Washington
said fatty today that only so OF
the ships We're involved.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18
ROUND UP CHINESE

SHANGHAI, Feb. 1S.-GNSl-
japanese military authorities to-
day began rounding up hundreds
of Chinese civilians in Japanese
occupied Shanghai for work OF an
nature.
Reliable sources, however, said
the Chinese press gangs were
working on Notifications in the
Woosung region and also along a
defensive line leading to kashlng.