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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-31
New Building
Is Dedicated

PoULSBo 1t was Nav 50
1870 years ago Thursday
that the Martha and Mary CHI.
drsn's home vas opened here.
As the home celebrated its
golden anniversary on Memorial
Day. IL dedicated its new building.
upon which construction il expect
ed 10 be completed within a month.
The home is operated by q
board Of directors elected BY .
corporation. the West Coast Lu-
theran School and Charity asso-
citation OF Poulsbo.
The new structure. n beautiful
colonial type building OF brick
veneer. rectangular in shape. Is
located on the same grounds as
the old building. II faces west
TO the main highway entering
Poulsbo and may be seen on the
left a. one drives into the town
from state highway 81. II is just
north OF the old building. which
IL still standing and viii be va
Gated when the home moves into
the new structure.
Construction Of the $4,000 new
building was started last fall but
was held in allegiance during the
winter months after the walls and
roof had been completed.
The building Ia planned 10 in
,lude facilities for between IS and
70 children, but its immediate ca
oacity when completed will be Is
'r 20. At one time in the history
n the Martha and Mary home,
he old building was overcrowded
With go children. Eleven young
tiers now are on the rolls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-31
II ERE'S ORE ABOUT
Main Street
STARTS ON PAGE ONE

insurance adjuster living at Sos
No. 3sth st.
During the absence Of Sergeant
lincoln Bakken, who went with
the troops to California for ma
neuvers, Mrs. Bakken is making
her home with Mrs. Nina Eagan.
When Horace Geer leaves Pros
ecutor Thor TollefsOn's staff June
to become an assistant in the
office Of Corporation Counsel Har-
old Carothers, Marshall Mccormick
will become a deputy prosecutor.
Paul Walker, owner of the sun
set kennels and Pet Supply Co.,
will leave Tacoma Saturday for
Detroit. Mich, to buy four chow
dogs and a new car. He also will
buy other dogs for private parties.
Frank Hale, assistant u. S. dis
trict attorney. will keep shop alone
Saturday while his office staff en-
joys an extra holiday.
DIR. J. Henry Hook, president of
the Washington Osteopathic asso-
citation. is busy with plans for the
Northwest Osteopathic convention
to be held at Hotel Winthrop. Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday of
this month.
MIR. and Mrs. william T. Jones
had as guests recently members
of their family. including sons
Charles and Robert of Fort Wor-
den, Wash, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Jones and family, also of Fort
Worden; Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wal
ter and son of Bremerton, and
Mrs. Jones brother-ia-law, Z. A.
Stovall of Dayton.
Garry Koons, ls-month-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford koons,
1928 So. Park ave, is repeatedly
in Northern Pacific
hospital from an attack Of pneu-
monia.
Ralph Syyerson. Tacoma boy at
tending the u. of ". plans to
take piano lessons this summer
for the first time.
Sonya Loftness. who will be
graduated from CPS. this June.
plans to follow teaching career
or some other suitable profession.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. 4. Russell of
will devote the holiday
weekend to moving into a new
home at Olympia.
Capt. James Pryde of the state
patrol says the patrol will
be at fun strength during the hol-
iday and asks the cooperation of
the public in keeping accidents at
a minimum.
Marguerite Zach, former CPS.
student, is now attending the u.
Of W. where he is ASU.W. pub
locations secretary.
Attending the three-dsy cohven-
ton of Postal Supervisors in Bell
.ngham are the following Taco
mans: y. A. Bader. Clyde O.
Payne and Kari c. Snowman.
Payne and Snowman were accom-
panied by their wives.
Wellington Rupp, junior vice
Of the Washington de-
,artment. Veterans of Foreign
Vars. on Thursday presented a
medal for citizenship and scholar
hip TO Edwin Frank Price OF Sta
lium high school. In addition. "a
tudents received certificate
wards.
Howard Blodgett this week was
lected president of Lincoln High
'ehool Associated Student Body.
The Rev. Edward l. Pettus,
tate representative, addressed a
femorial day meeting Of the Old
.ge Pension union in Sesttle's
loose hall Friday afternoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-31
To Vote on New
Peace Proposal

fContlnued FROM rage OneJ
& Rafters union (CIO) and oper-
ators Of some is local log dumps
and log storage booms was ex-
pected this week, although the two
factions met in day-long conference
Thursday with a federal mediator.
As the strike approached the end
of its second week, curtailment of
local lumber production wa S
spreading due to a shortage of
logs. Shut down were six plants
including st. Paul & Tacoma Lum-
Der Co., Northwest Door Co.,
Wheeler-Osgood Co., Tacoma Har-
Dor Lumber Co., Gange Lumber
Co, and Peterman Manufacturing
Co.
SEATTLE - The International
Woodworkers of America (CIO)
today rejected a proposal of the
national defense mediation board
to send $4,000 striking lumber
workers back TO mills and camps
in western Washington.
o. M. orion, president Of the
union, telegraphed Chairman Clar-
ence A. Dykstra of the NDMB that
he had no authority to call the
strikers back to work, since the
membership already had rejected
the boards settlement formula.
Employers had offered to reopen
the mills next Monday. Orton said
the boards proposal was based on
operators arguments.
The employers negotiating COM
mittee telegraphed the So lumber
and logging operations it repre-
sents, recommending that all en-
ployers be prepared to start work
Monday. 1t was believed many
would invite their employees TO re-
turn to work regardless of union
action.
The union had authorized re-
sumption of negotiations on the
original demands of a ia cent
hourly wage increase, a closed shop
contract, a weeks paid vacation
and elimination of piecework.
OLYMPIA - A supreme court
injunction Friday prevented the
International We o dworkers of
America (CIO) from picketing
three Port Angeles business con-
Germs which contended they were
not involved in the northwest lum-
Der strike.
Chief Justice John S. Robinson
issued the temporary injunction
TO the Rayonier, Inc, Foss Launch
Il Tug Co, and Crown zellerbach.
At the same time he set June 3
as the date for reviewing
Clallsm county superior court
action in which Judge Ralph
Smythe refused to enloin the
piekets.
The companies declared no labor
dispute was present at their plants.
but that the union threatened
violence and planned TO import
"goon squads" To prevent workers
from reaching them. The injuno-
ton barred the unionists from
pieketing the mills, or their boats.
interfering with employees or with
the use of logs In their ponds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-31

and Robert Williams. Following the
confirmation ceremony holy COM
munion viii be celebrated for the
new members and members Of the
congregation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-31


June 10. has ben named - the
GATE fer the annual strawberry fes-
IVA kivsn - Rhododendron court,
Order e Ansr.nth. This h known
- &ftE30& UIEnt and II an OUT
standing event IN valley fraternal
activities. TIE affszr win BE- held
IN Masonic haIl.
On Sunday. June G. waffle
broadcast win be served from .
q m. to : ?. m. 1t the home Of
Mrs J. c. Reynolds. col sth ave.
8. W. 70 which Amaranths and
their fr1ends srs invited. Assisting
Evening star., 1941-05-04

etc, at a rate unprecedented in the
history of tenors, sopranos and
baritones.
Poor indeed, was the piano which
did not hold its copy of Golden
Days." "Serenade," Deep in My
Heart" Just We Two" and Drink
ing Song Rich correspondingly
where the sheet music publishers
ard those who split the royalties
with them.
Prince Was Peoples Passion.
The peoples passion for the prince
torn between his love for the tavern
maid, Kathy, and his duty to the
state was no surprise in these days
to those who remembered the origi-
nal version of the operetta
That was because the people Of
an earlier day had just as much
passion for the story, which with
out music was a play called "Old
Heidelberg"
The century was turning at the
time and one of its quirks was lax
copyright laws. American play
wrights, actor-managers, actors or
whoever else got the notion, could
snatch a European play OFF the
bookshelves, adapt it to suit him.
self, and produce it without any re-
striction of any kind.
At virtually the same moment, "Old
Heidelberg" came to the attention
See CARMODY, Page F-30
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Typical American Boy Isn't So Typical

his male parent, progressive schools
and a radio kiddies' hour.
The slight lisp which serves him
so well on the air launched his
professional career.
His father sent him to an elo-
cution instructor at the age of Z
to get rid of it, which, he thanks
goodness, he didn't.
At 8 Ezra was on kiddies' pro-
gram in Philadelphia, which he
calls his home town, although he
was born at New Bedford. Mass.
Inspired by Hit Play.
His first theater part, at 9, was
the role of an impish child in Mol
mars Phosphorus. He also has
been a brat in such plays as
Three Men on a Horse" Room
Service" and Brother Rat" and
the movie Those Were the Days"
His current character, Henry,
made so many friends in the Broad
way hit, What a Life" that it in
spired the Aldrich Family series,
now nearly three years old.
Ezra is an unwilling product of
progressive schools.
Once when aptitude tests with a
lot of true and false questions were
being given by student teachers,
Ezra conspired with his classmates
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Sar0yan Has Faith.

unfair to a dieter he ordered a
whopper of parfait.
Ezra fights weight with steam
baths, massage and diet. He is feet
4 inches tall, and says, Il should
weigh 145."
After his Thursday broadcasts he
orders a big dish of spareribs at
Broadway counter, and he can
WELD chopsticks as deftly as the
Chinese.
His room, at his fathers Brook
lyn home, is fixed up like a ships
cabin. He sleeps in double decker
bunk. using the spare for guests;
has ships lantern and clock.
He slows his bedding in a duffel-
bag and has pirates chest e.
well, chest, anyway he un-
earthed in secondhand store.
Three Influences.
There's nothing of the Broadway
playboy about Ezra. He lives SIM
ply. There are no servants in his
home. His mother does the cook
ing. His father is an intellectual
who was an instructor of chemistry
at the University of Syracuse.
Ezra lights up his pipe, thinks it
over, and decides his personality is
the result Of three major inhu.
ences -. trying to be a. smart as
Evening star., 1941-05-04

81 stiu hate necking," she told me.
II even hate the word. I guess it's
all right to do when you're in love.
So far I have not necked." After a
slight shudder Judy continued, Girls
look so unattractive after a neck
ing session. I've seen them with lip
stick all over their faces and mas
cara running down from their eyes.
1t looks awful"
Judy will be 19 next month, but
is younger in many ways than the
19-year-old Miss Durbin, with whom
she started her movie career five
years ago in the two-reeler Every
Sunday afternoon" Deanna gives
one the impression of being in COM
plete control of every situation now
and in the future. Nothing can
disrupt her calm acceptance. Judy
is more mercurial. She goes up
and down, is depressed and gay with
whatever is happening around her.
Deanna is now passionately inter-
ested in clothes. Judy buys new
dress only when there is special
occasion for it, The errnine fur coat
she wore to Deanna's wedding was
borrowed. 81 do have mink coat"
she said, but I didn't buy jt-my
mother gave it to me for Christ
mas" -..
Judy's method Of taking her rolls
(see GRAHAM, Page F-29
Evening star., 1941-05-04

TO a cycle OF reVlVlng tnOSe Vener-
able tune shows which enchanted
the heart in a happier day. And,
to be blunt about it, the idea is
panning out very we'll, proving once
more that sons of Syracuse know
what they are doing.
Washington gets its first chance
to pay tribute to the Shubert wis
dom, as other cities have done,
when THE Student Prince" opens
at. the National tomorrow night, an
overture to Summer and Fantasia" "
Road Companies Active.
"The Student Prince" we'll on it's
way to being the Hamlet" of oper-
eta in it's ability to endure the
vicissitudes of time, is one of the
strangest phenomena in its cate
CORY in several other respects. Per-
sons whose memories go back IT
years without becoming completely
lost en- route recall that it was
the one show of its kind of which
one New York production was net
enough No sir, not The Student
Prince" The Shuberts found it
imperative to set up two New York
companies, one at the Jolson Thea
ter, the other at the Shubert, fit
tingly enough. Both did capacity
business for months. And while
doing it, the days being lush every
where, total of II road companies
were wiping out unemployment
among tenors. sopranos, baritones,
Evening star., 1941-05-04
This Horrible Success Is No Laughing Matter
Or the Strange Case of Moss Hart Who Continues Write Hit Plays
While Considering Himself Quite Failure Author

turned out just about every kind
of merchandise there is farces,
comedies of manners (bad manners,
that being the style today, musical
revues, book shows, operettas, seri-
Gus plays, fantasies and even those
humdrum rip-SnorterS known as
cavalcades. They've written for the
leading acting and performing tai
entS of our time, won the Pulitzer
Prize and have had. 1 think, enly
two shows that. didn't make what
is called a fortune. One of these
was a mystery play and the other
cavalcade.
Well, all this time Mr.. Harris soul
was beefing around inside Mr.. Hart
and he got into the habit of re-
ferring to himself in broken tones
as the Clyde Fitch of today. Mr..
Fitch was not a bad fellow, but he
was the Harold Bell Wright and
Gene Stratton Porter of his day.
Harold Bell Wright and Gene Strait
ton Porter were the Margaret
Mitchell of their day, so you see
what Mr.. Hart meant. They are all
gone with the wind and Mr.. Hart
wanted to be here to stay.
Same Old Bottle.
So Mr.. Hart cut loose from Mr..
Kaufman-who, if he has a soul,
keeps it to himself, revealing to
his public only such accouterments
of a gentleman as wit, sentiment
and theatrical craftsmanship-and,
cutting loose, proceeded to write
with his hearts blood out of the
inner recesses of his mind. In fact,
Lady in the Dark" is known as
Hart's blood :.
And, much to his dismay, Mr..
Hart discovered that, in pouring
out his inner substance, he was
pouring out of the same old bottle,
not producing anything more Gf
anything less than wit, sentiment
and theatrical craftsmanship with
high gloss on it.
"Oh fitch" cried Mr.. Hart. on
perusing the critics mentions, and
has been lettering palely ever since.
The point is, instead of saying it
was great work of art, they said
is was An attractive entertainment.
Lady In the Dark" is now in it's
fourteenth week and is still playing
to standing room only, but all those
people buying tickets are just vast
ing their time unless they're out to
do something more than convince
Mr.. Hart he is their idea of a great
writer. The more tickets are bought
the less Mr.. Hart is convinced.
We suppose something ought to be
done about this, but, my goodness,
what?
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1941-05-04
By Ira Wolferf.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
The successful writer's around
here sample out into two varieties
those who are sure they are sue
cessful and those who are sure they
are failures.
Moss Hart, who has made more
money writing for the theater in
less time than anybody else now
around, believes he is failure as
an author and can't find many
people whose judgment he trusts to
tell him he isn't. In fact, we are
told, the surest way to make Mr..
Hart lose faith in your judgment
is to tell him he is good writer.
Lillian Hellman, who has writ
ten three out of four plays in the
last four years that were extremely
successful with both the critics and
the box office, Is another who is in
the habit of marking herself off in
red ink She is a slightly different
case from Mr. Hart. Whereas Mr..
Hart goes around listening in mel
ancholy way, but at least listening
to anybody who tells him he is good,
hoping (alas, against hope thus
far the guy will make sense, Miss
Helfman won't listen I've failed
again." she says, and if you pro-
ceed to contradict heryou proceed
at your own risk
On the other hand, there are Cliff
ford Odets and William Saroyan,
neither of whom has ever heard
from the box Office that they are
worth much more than a dime.
Mr.. Odets will tell you that Odets
is very great writer indeed, and
Mr.. Saroyan will tell you that Saro-
yam is even greater than that-in
fact, is the greatest there ever was.
Both the boys mean it, and there is
nobody around who tells them diff
ferent. Everybody tells them to
their faces they are great and, more
than that. says it behind their
backs, too.
The really funny part about all
this-funny peculiar, we mean-is
that MOSS Hart ana, maybe Lillian
Hellman, too. although convinced
they themselves are failures, are
convinced Odets and Saroyan are
successes.
We have a theory about all this
which we are prepared to forward
in a plain, sealed wrapper on re-
ceipt of one box top. But We are
setting it all down here only be-
cause we hope you will cry with us
over somebody else's tears.
Only Two Missed.
The case of Moss Hart reached
kind of climax this season with
Lady in the Dark" which turned
out to be his biggest hit so far
and is regarded by him, privately
well, maybe not so privately, be-
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Todoy's Film Schedules

CAPITOL-"The People VS.. DR..
Kildare" the young medico
faces legal crisis: 2. 4:30,
7:l5 and 10 pm. Stage shows:
3:45, 6::25 and 9:l0 pm.
COLUMBIA-"The Lady Eve"
Henry Fonda VS.. two Barbara
Stanwycks: 2:55, $40. TBS
and $40 pm.
EARLE - Penny Serenade,"
Irene Dunno in a story of ro-
nance, plus stage shows with
Joe Cook; continuous after
noon and evening.
KEITH'S-"The Devil and Miss
Jones" bright comic affair
with Jean Arthur: 2::30, 4::55,
Evening star., 1941-05-04

though there happens to be some
dissenting opinion.
The Drama Critics Circle little
more than week ago picked Miss
Lillian Hellman's Watch on the
Rhine as the best production,
though six of the 19 members held
out for the Saroyan opus, THE
Beautiful People" and one liked
the Orson Welles production of
Native Son" so we'll he declined
to change his four star vote.
Saroyan is not the sort to lose
faith in his own work in spite of
the majority opinion, but the guesses
in most quarters favor Miss He'll
mans play, one of the most dra-
matte and intelligent to reach the
stage in a long time.
Herman Shumlin, producer of
Watch on the Rhine" and of Emlyn
Williams "The Corn Is Green" :"
(See FERRIS, Page F-3)
Evening star., 1941-05-04

to answer all of them incorrectly.
The girl instructors were hysterical
by the end of the day.
Unless he could think up such
diversions, school bored Ezra, who
found it tame after touring with a
juvenile act in Pennsylvania, per-
forming at firemen's carnivals, par
ties and the Steel Pier at Atlantic
City, N. j.
Fled From Education.
He ran away from school twice
because he was f1unking in chemis-
try, for which he says he inherited
no facility.
Ezra didn't want to go to COL
lege, and by a skillful series of
maneuvers, which included attend
ing the American Academy of Dra-
matte Arts and rustling up a job
in the musical comedy Parade" +"
he succeeded in postponing the
threat of higher education.
At this point it seems unlikely
that he'll ever get any degree not
conferred by Broadway box offices
or radio polls.
Ezra's aim is to be q first string
director and producer,
That's another way Ezra isn't
typical-you know darn well he'll
do It.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

house. "it will not be like Deanna S.
won't have it so publicly in a
big church. I'll have the ceremony
at home. There won't be the 900
or so people Deanna invited. I'll
just have a few close friends. 1t
won't be in the evening (Deanna's
was at $3.50 p.m0. I'd like. to have
the sun streaming through the
windows. And I won't have all
white flowers like Deanna did. I'd
like a gayer color scheme. Some
girls" continued Judy. dream of
big wedding and all the trimmings
that 60 with it. And that's all
right for them. But not me-"
All this led to the question: well,
when are you going to marry?"
Judy has been going with" Dave
Rose, former husband of Martha
Raye. for nearly a year. He will be
free to marry about as soon as this
story is in print, but from what
Judy tells me I doubt whether they
will become husband and wife. Il
like him very much" said Judy, but
we haven't talked about marriage.
And if we ever do, it won't be for
a long time yet" Cat least not be-
fore this story appears. I begged
Judy. and she said, Don't worry
about that"
Shes Mercurial.
And here Is more proof (perhaps)
that Judy will remain In single
hiessedness.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
By Vesfa Keeling,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW 1Onh.
Ezra Stone, who becomes typi-
cal American boy every Thursday
night as Henry Aldrich of radios
Aldrich Family, is anything but that
in real life.
In the first place, Ezra's I. Q. is
way above average.
He directed a refugees musical on
Broadway, Reunion in New York, y
before he was 81 years old.
When he was 81 he directed "See
My Lawyer" for Producer George
Abbott
At % he is member Of the facul-
ty at the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts in New York
Teaches young folks. to act.
Also, as star on a program rated
third in the Crossley radio popu-
larity poll, Ezra's pay check must
be much more than medium.
There are ways, however, In which
Ezra does resemble Master America.
Fights Against Weight.
The other day when I lunched
with him he started of with chefs
salad, but at the sight Of my choco-
late whipped cream pun definitely
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Life Is Less
Interesting
These Days
Even Simone Simon
Fails to Display
Temperament
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
HOII.YWOO

HOLLYWOOD.
Actresses don't throw vases or
fits. tear hair or scripts. get sud-
denly i'll or drunk, be sickeningly
sweet or bitterly bitter, play dumb
or act too smart. or put on any kind
of act to get more attention or less
of it any more. Life in these parts
therefore is less interesting than 1t
used to be-
There was a time when an actress
could display temperament in more
ways than horse can lose race.
Some of the dolls were even smart
er than horses. They had an end
less variety of ways to show Holly
wood they were artists first and ac-
tresses with job to do afterwards.
Badly Advised"
They used to get away with it.
Today a temperamental actress or
actor, is hot potato, to be dropped
quickly. Simone Simon's return to
the movies caused a revival of the
stories about her. Only two years
she seems to have been the calliope
in the parade of temperamental
toughies.
Simone's tune is different now,
she is affable, eager, cooperative.
Friends say she was badly advised.
That explanation is one of the most
patent for temperament. Frances
is here again. She, too, is said to
be thoroughly chastised. Ironical-
ly, she is playing the role of tenn
peramental actress in world Pre-
miere."
Harriet Hilliard, called difficult
because she walked out on a con-
tract, is back, too. Dietrich, who
sometimes used to give bad off,
screen performance, is among the