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ing into the windows of our homes
at night to rape and murder"
A single light picks out the bones
of his face as he talks and turns
it into a deaths head. After that
the light fades and again there is
only darkness. The velvet hang
ings open and still there is dark
ness. The darkness thins slowly
and, as it thins, an alarm clock
goes off and the dreadful story of
Bigger Thomas begins.
Thomas, you may remember, was
a colored boy with discomfort in
him. His father was preacher
who had been lynched for trying to
stop a lynching. His mother threw
herself into the worship of God
and was grateful for all white folks
philanthropies and ignored all white
folks oppression.
Bigger's home consisted Of one
room. His mother, sister and little
brother slept on the bed. He him.
self slept on the floor. The home
was rat hole and only rats found
an outlet in it. There was none for
Bigger. There was no outlet for
Bigger outside the home. Work is
the natural outlet of man, but. for
the Negro in America, jobs are hard
Evening star., 1941-03-30

not make sap Of myself for any
movie script"
Yesterday, the watchful Gable
came to grips with a questionable
line of dialogue written for him in
The Uniform"
What in thunder" he demanded
of Director Clarence Brown, lis a
two pip walla?"
Brown nosed protectively into his
copy of the script, confessed he
didn't know and hastily called. for
Maj. George Remington, technical
advisor on East Indian aspects of
the story. Gable didn't wait.
Get load If this" he said, get
ting to his feet. There is Miss
Russell (Rosalind Russell, his leading
LADY,. I'm making a play for her
It's love. Love, see? I stand there
and slowly compose my face into q
calf-like expression. Then I say
and it's supposed to be very touch
ing, because I'm barking back into
my better past: I was a two pip
walla once"
When the company's roar of
laughter subsidized, Gable demanded: !:
Am I being ribbed? Or am I be-
ing ribbed-where's Remington
The technical advisor Strengthened
his face.
"As a matter of plain fact, you're
not" said Remington. The ex-
preston is a common one in India.
Evening star., 1941-03-30

volt against her parents. She took
up with radicals, but she did not
understand them. She sympathized
with them only because they, too,
we're in revolt against people like
her parents. She sympathized with
Negroes because they were the VIC
tins of people like her parents.
So. she vented her neuroticism
on radicals and alcohol and, finally,
on Bigger. She made him take her
up to her room when she was too
drunk to negotiate the stairs her
self and she kept him in her room
while she expressed her neurotic
affection for his race. Being
Negro, he was in terror OF being
found in her room. When Mary's
blind mother, hearing her daughters
voice, came into the room. Bigger
became frantic with fear. To pre-
vent Mary from revealing his pres
ence to her mother. he smothered
the girl with a pillow.
1t Was no Weakness.
Richard Wright, the author of the
novel, is a Negro incidentally, as
the lady on my right pointed out,
he is the first American Negro to
emerge as writer rather than as
a Negro writer. Yet, the fact Is he
Evening star., 1941-03-30

No. /, he is a minister of the Ken
lucky hills.
This is the first time he's ever
played parson. and far cry, by
the way, from his own corporal's
service in the World War Many
of his parts, in fact, have been at
the other end of the social scale
such as Old Atrocity in "Barbary
Coast" Judge Roy Bean of The
WeSterner' or the dyed-in-the-wool
bum of Meet John Doe"
So far as he is concerned, he'll be
pleased to go on winning Oscars"
as long as people think he deserves
them. But they'll all be of the sup
porting variety.
Why" he asks" should I want
to be a star? I live comfortably, I
think I'll live longer and last longer
in pictures as a character actor and
I don't have the worry of carrying
an entire production.
"a good 2-minute scene is worth
a lot more-to me and an audience
than two hours of being just $3.50
big shot"
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writes OF the white world largely
from hearsay. He knows hunger
for it without knowing what it IS.
This was not serious weakness
of the novel. The novel concen-
trated heavily on Bigger, not only
on his actions but his thoughts and
the reasons for them, and concen-
trated on the Negro slums and the
rapacious longing it created for the
white world. When the white
characters appeared, one did not
mind that they were quite pale.
However, in the play. the white
characters take up more of the scene.
Paul Green has done a good job of
changing Mary, sharpening her up
and putting her in proper perspec-
tive, but the other white persons
are what they were In the novel
-four -souled.
But. all this is considering the
play as work of art. 1t is not a
work of art, but it is a famboyant
and malignant drama. played at
scorching heat and packed full of
about as many heart-squeezing
tricks as even Orson Welles could
think up.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1941-03-30
He Says No.,
But Does 1t
Gracefully
Harry St. Alwyn
Is Extras Idea
Of a Gentleman
By Vern Haueldnd,
By Vern HanqIdnd,
Associated Press staff Writer.
HOLLYWOOD

Harry st. Alwyn is a man with a
great 'talent-he can say no"
He says mo" to ever-hopeful
movie extras, and yet these same
extras call him the outstanding
gentleman of Hollywood"
Harry. who organized the central
casting system in 1915, is the man
at the front entrance to R-K-O
Radio studio, buffer between the
directors, who have Jobs to give
out, and the small-part actors who
are eager for work.
Gentle Negatives.
Usually he sits at his Office win
dow and speaks in gentle negatives
to the anxious men, women and
children who come by or telephone.
But there is scroll in his office,
signed by a large group of extras.
which labels him the outstanding
gentleman of Hollywood" The
extras say they would make such
an award annually, except that each
year it would go again to ST Alwyn.
A Soft Touch.
A gray-haired, middle-aged bach
elor, St. Alwyn is regarded among
the n-and-outers of the film
colony as a soft touch. Hardly a
day goes BY without a request
usually granted-for a loan.
And as for saying mo" gently
sometimes" says Harry, II think
I must be the biggest actor in
Hollywood"
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to find and, once found, are more
oppressive than not. And, even if
he found job and, BY some nlracle
accumulated enough money to live
in civilized fashion, what could he
do with his money-shut out, as
he is. from the white mans world.
the only world there is in the United
States.
So Bigger was shut in within him.
self and, naturally, poisoned him.
self His spirit roved dangerously
in him like an animal in cage.
Yet, when he got good" job, a
s25-a-veek job, he was grateful for
1t and longed to keep it.
She Didn't Understand.
The job was as chauffeur for
the Dalton family. Mr.. Dalton was
white philanthropist He owned
the rat-ridden tenements in which
Negroes lived, among them the
Thomas family. and placated his
conscience by giving back to the
Negroes part of what he charged
them for rent. Mrs. Dalton was
blind and crushed by disasters in
her personal life. She resembled
a person the way a pressed flower
resembles a flower.
Their daughter Mary was in re-
Evening star., 1941-03-30
Here's One Actor Who Wouldn't Be Star

sonalities ever honored with three
Oscars" in the academy's major
award divisions. Yet dozen years
ago the Massachusetts-b one
time bank clerk and financial writer
plodded the streets, barely existing
with the extra parts he landed in
an occasional Western.
Last year he went back to hoss
operas and thereby earned his third
Oscar" The picture was The
Westerner" He won previously for
Come and Get 1t" 1885 and
Kentucky" Q94O.
In his street-plodding days Bren-
nan made the acquaintance of an
other extra, raW-boned Gary Cooper,
currently the star of Brennan's third
successive picture.
Nobody in Hollywood I'd rather
work with" says Brennan. He
makes everything so easy for every
one else, because he does everything
so easily himself.
In Sergeant York" the life story
Of the country's World War hero
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nary fellow who gets no scoops,
never makes lot of money, runs
his own little weekly into bank
ruptcy-is the hero and his wife is
the heroine. Cary Grant and Irene
Dunno are the players. l saw
reel or so and coupled with what
I've heard about it, I believe Penny
Serenade" promises to be a dis
tinctive film.
The title is that of the song the
two hear when first they meet. Mrs
CheavenS used the names of many
popular tunes land they're all ex-
pensiye ones, too" said Stevens. In
order to use these numbers, Stevens
studio had to buy the rights and the
total bill was $25 900. 1t cost as
much more for a musical score, in
cooperating these numbers and to
have the music played and recorded.
AIMS Last Laugh.
Ann Sheridan's 33Week layoff
didn't cost her a cent. When she
and Warmers got through being mad,
one of the first things her agent
did was to pick up her accumulated
pay checkS-almost $4,000.
Why did she get paid? Because
the studios telegram notifying her
she was suspended for refusing to
work for stipulated sum $500 a
week, and too little, said Annie)
never was delivered to her per-
sonally.
She reat it in the newspapers!
Joan Is Gagged.
Did you happen to see the pictures
of Sculptor Yucca Salamunich and
his bust of Joan Blondeu? Well.
anyway. Yucca did nice piece of
work But that isn't the way it
starts. The quotes are Miss
Blondells:
Il was told at the studio one day
that Salamunich was coming out to
see me. Was I fattered! Then he
told me, This is kind of silly, but it's
what they want. They want me to
do a sculpture of your armpit.' I
thought somebody was nuts. Then
Salamunich explained: I say your
armpit is the most beautiful part
of your body. I make a sculpture.
Then you sue me because you say
your legs are most beautiful
boy, was that a corny gag! I
thought press agents with ideas like
that were all in the booby hatch"
All can say, Joan, is yes and yes.
Evening star., 1941-03-30

1t refers to lieutenant-'walla' be-
ing an officer and two pip meaning
that he wears two insignia designat-
ing the rank of lieutenant.
"Of course" continued the T A,
abashed, as Gable continued to level
on him. lit would be proper to say,
I was a lieutenant once" but in
India"
"Ha!" interrupted Gable, I'll take
1t the way the most folks will under
stand it."
And so in the script 1t was
changed to IT was a lieutenant
once"
Released BY the North American Newspaper
Allancee, Inc.
Evening star., 1941-03-30
Three Are Tested

Paramount is screen-testing three
popular young Hollywood actresses
for the leading role opposite jim
my LSdon and Charley Smith in
the next Henry Aldrich picture.
Henry for President" The girls
vying for the part are Mary An
derson, Rita Quigley and Gloria De
Haven.
Miss Anderson made a recent hit
in Cheers for Miss Bishop" Miss
Quigley has played "girIhood edi-
tions" of many famous stars. and
Miss De Haven is the daughter of
Carter De Haven, famed vaudeville
and stage personality.
Evening star., 1941-03-30
HOLLYWOOD


There aren't many three-time
academy award winners who can
walk down Hollywood boulevard
with seldom head turning, almost
never an autograph hunter grabbing
his arm.
For that matter. there aren't
many three time academy award
winners.
But Walter Brennan fills both
bills.
Not long ago an ordinarily we'll
versed observer of the Hollywood
scene remarked:
Experience is everything in this
business. That's why old men like
Walter Brennan. for example, are
always so good"
If Brennan is old. so is every
one else of AZ. But he doesn't mind
that kind of talk. It's tribute to
his artistry Che spells it l-u-c-A
that his characterizations of old
men are so real.
Brennan and Frank Capra, the
director, are the only Hollywood per-
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uellIlIleIy tur1leu uoWH sUoIleS ne IeIC
unsuited. He began checking over
his still photographs and throwing
out all the silly poses that still
man habitually takes. If "Parnell"
did nothing else, it made shrewd
Snowman of Clark Gable.
In his current picture, The Uni
form"-which title will be changed
better one-Gable plays the role of
an English adventurer. They wanted
him to assume an English accent.
You'll take my Ohio twang or
nothing" was Gables retort. III
Evening star., 1941-03-30

THIS Is The way lJ mas been brought
to the screen by George Stevens.
Before he would agree to direct it,
Stevens insisted that the other man
be cut out; two men-one of them
offering the girl security and the
other what is known as life in
ouotes-have been used too much
already.
Stevens says he is sure that those
who read Penny Serenade" will
find the flavor of the picture the
same. A newspaperman-an ordi-
Evening star., 1941-03-30
1t Made Him a Snowman
After His Experience in 'Parnell,'
Gable Watches His Stories
HOLLYWOOD.

Five Clark Gable caoed into making stufy picture
called Panen He fought bitterly against Finally
being branded he in The results vndcated his
proved the knockout blow.
after Parne studio Gable
began taking keene interest his affairs He
Evening star., 1941-03-30
Triangle Comes to Screen
Without Third Corner
There Are Too Many Stories About
A Girl and Two Men, Director
OfPenny Serenade' Says
BY Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Staff Writer.
HOII,vWOOn


story editors Martha Cheavens Penny Seranad
began their with This
the end of
going al a
of
able
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
Minister CHARGES
Anti-Nazi Plot

ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, July rs.
CUP)-Ernst Wendler, German min
lister to Bolivia who was expelled
from that country for aiding re-
volutionary plot against the govern
ment, charged today that he had
been framed by a foreign country.
He named no country but his
statement seemed to imply that he
had the United States in mind.
Wendler said that the only docu-
ment connecting him with subvers-
i've activities was letter he is al
legged to have received from Major
Elias Belmonte, Bolivian military
attache in Berlin, who, it is alleged,
would have been made the totali-
tartan dictator of Bolivia, had the
plot succeeded.
Il doubt that such a letter exists"
he said. Il never corresponded with
Belmonte and never wrote him nor
got a letter from him."
Because Wendler is persona non
grata to an American republic, Chile
is permitting him to stay here only
long enough to make arrangements
to go elsewhere. He probably will
be here several days, however, until
he can get plane for Europe
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
William D. Moffaft
Dies in Lakeside:
Funeral SATURDAY.

William Duncan Moffatt, 73,
rancher and beekeeper of the Nc
Cabe district for many years, died
in Lakeside late Thursday, rela-
tives telephoned friends in Impe-
rial Valley Friday.
Funeral services were scheduled
at the Anderson mortuary
in La Mesa at 2:30 pm. Saturday.
Moffatt lived in Ramona from 1890
until 1910 when ne arrived in I'M
perial Valley and settleu with his
family on a ranch in the McCabe
district. He was one of the best
known valley ranchers and took an
active interest in all valley develop
ments. His health failed several
years ago and he went to Lakeside
to live. His death was not unex-
pected as he had been growing
steadily weaker. A heart ailment
was given as the cause of death.
Among his survivors are his wife,
Mrs. Cathleen Settle Moffatt; two
daughters, Mrs. Irene McWilliams
of Ell Centre and Mrs. Vivian Bird
sell of Lakeside; a sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Ann Walker of Ramona and
a brother and four sisters, all liv-
ing in Canada.
Graveside services will be held in
Ramona.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25

Miss Peggy Kelly, who is leaving
for San Diego August l, was the
guest of honor at a farewell party
and personal shower recently at the
home of Mrs. Gerald Port, 794
He'll. Mrs. George Harris, jr., and
Miss Ethel Dannenberg were CO.
hostesseS.
After the opening of the many
lovely gifts, bridge was the divers
ion of the evening. Mrs. Robert
Carter had the high score. Miss
Emma Jean Payne was second,
while Mrs. Edwin Schlender was
low
Clever decorations were used by
the hostesseS in the serving of the
refreshments. The following guests
were present: Mesdames John Sal
ASST, Hal Johnson, Carter, Janet
Steiner, Woody Routt, Dave Lee,
Ray Dessert, o. L. Davis, Schlend-
er, Jack Penney, Ethel Hammers
laugh, Ray Schultz, Gene Davis,
Norris Young, Thelma Moe, and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
South of Market
B0y Becomes First
Honolulu Bishop

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. CUP)
-Monsignor James J. Sweeney, a
South of Market boy today was
consecrated bishop of Honolulu in
solemn and colorful ceremonies at
st. Mary's Cathedral.
Fifty bishops, hundred monsig-
nori, hundreds of priests and lay
men took part in the ceremony that
elevated San Franciscan to the
Catholic hierarchy as the first bish-
op of the newly created diocese.
In a front pew from where they
watched him ordained as priest
16 years ago, sat Bishop Sweeney's
mother and sister, Mrs. Catherine
Sweeney and Miss Loretto Sweeney.
Archbishop John j. NIFTY conse-
Grated the new bishop in the three
hour ceremony. Co conSecrators
were auxiliary Bishop Thomas A.
Connolly, San Francisco, a school
mate and lifelong friend, and Bish-
op Eugene J. McGuinness of Raj
eigh, N c.
The master of ceremonies was
the Very Rev. Monsignor Harold
E. Collins, and Bishop Duane G..
Hunt of Salt Lake City preached
the conservation sermon.
Bishop Sweeney, 43 years of age,
attended st. Patrick's seminary IN
Menlo Park and was ordained to
the priesthood in 1925. For the last
10 years he has been director of
the society for the propagation of
the faith in the archdiocese of San
Francisco.
His father, the late John j. Swee-
ney, was a stevedore in the days
when shanghaiing still was an
everyday occurrence on the San
Francisco waterfront.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 CUP)
Wendell L. Willkie last night
warned Americans not to let their
distaste for Communism blind them
to the value of RuSSia's stand
against Germany.
He said it is Russia-not Com
munism-battling the Nazis, and "a
smart bull that is charging a tough
toreador doesn't allow himself to
be diverted by red flag.
Willkie, crusading for national
unity, addressed more than 10000
persons who filled the civic audi
torium and stood in the streets,
at an Americans United rally
Russia is now the dam that on
one wide front is holding off that
Nazi force, which, like a flood, has
been spreading over the world" he
said. once that dam is broken
the waters will reach almost to
our western shores.
Some of our isolationist friends
are hysterically distressed because
Communism is presently, by the
grace of Adolf Hitler, keeping back
the flood. And they ask: why well
come help from the Communists,
when we like them no better than
the NaZiS?
Willkie said the answer is simple
Nazism is a powerful menace to
democracy, and Communism isn't
Its Communism appeal is
rapidly dying; its propaganda is
confused and futile" he continued.
1T is a dream that didn't come
| true.
To-day, Russia, not Communism,
is fighting Hitler. Russians all over
the world, forgetting their political
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
Imperial alley Press

Established April 20. 1901
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by the Sunday PostPress. es-
tablished 1866 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
State Street, FL Centro. Calf.
Paul Jenkins. publisher; A. c.
Johnst on, vice president and gem
eral manager; Z. A. Fitzhugh,
secretary and managing editor.
West Holiday Co., Inc, National
Advertising Representatives.
Entered at Eel Centro, California,
post office as second class mat
ter.
subscription rates: In California,
&c per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
Press (Sundays), per month 75c;
paid in advance, 8 months, $2.1O;
6 months, $4.0OI one year, $3.50;
outside California $1.00 per month.
NJ m b e r E. California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
SYNOD Names
New Moderator

! OAKLAND, Cal, July 25 (UP)-
The Rev. Hugh M. Jones, pastor
of the Westminster church OF
San Jose, was elected moderator
of the Presbyterian synod of CAL
ifornia, succeeding DR.. Ezra James
Egly of Riverside, at a session OF
/. tue California synod here last night.
~ The sessions underway include
the Goth annual convention of the
California synod, the 18th annual
convention of the women's synod
l,ral society for the missions, and
FGe 3rd annual meeting OF the
youth synod of California The
groups will end their meetings
Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
.Dairyman Dies;
Funeral Monday

Joe Pedro, 49, Portuguese dairy
man in Imperial Valley for % years,
died late Thursday and will be bur-
ried at Evergreen cemetery Mon
day.
Services will be held at the Lem
ons chapel in Ell Centro at $3.50
am. Monday and at st. Mary
Catholic church at am. Mon
day. Pedro was born in the Azores
and operated a dairy in the Ell
Centre area until he sold his place
a short time before his death.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
Walter LowdermiIk
Suffers Attack

DR.. Walter C. Lowdermilk, brother
of Herbert Lowdermilk of El Gen.
tro, is in a critical condition in a
hospital in Washington, D. c. He
recently suffered a heart attack, the
Ell Centran was informed in letter
from his sister-in-law Friday. DR..
Lowdermilk, who travelled all over
the world studying soil erosion for
the U. S. department of agriculture,
lectured in Ell Centre last winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
Bridge Section
Meets a+Home
Of Mrs. .H.L.Bush

Mrs. w. A. Swerdfeger and Mrs
Walter Wakefield were winners OF
first and second prizes for the bridge
game Thursday afternoon when the
bridge section of the Ten Thousand
club met with Mrs. H. L. Bush, 100
Hamilton.
Mrs Bush and her co-hostess,
Mrs. j. Wilson, served cooling re-
freshments during the afternoon.
Mrs. Howard Farnsworth was a
guest of the section, members pres
ent being Mesdames w. A. SWerd-
feger, Walter Wakefield, c. B. Swift,
Lyn Chandler, H. A. Spear, Will
liam Mitchell, Bert Mitchell, Frank
Hood, j. w. WEIGH and the hostess.
Mrs. H. A. Spear will entertain
the section at its meeting next
Thursday at her home on the CAL
exico highway. Mrs. Frank Hood
is cohosteSs.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
Lake on Desert

A lake formed north of the All
American canal west of the Ogilby
road when water poured down from
the Chocolate mountains after a
heavy rain Thursday, Mrs. R. P.
Garmire of the sandhills mainte-
nance station said Friday
About a, m. Thursday, she said
stream trickled down from the
mountains through the sandhills.
The stream grew until it became
a raging torrent, levelling acres of
the sand dunes and undermining
a portion of the highway
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25

in Ell Centre. At present she is on
the staff of the Soil Conservation
office.
Mr. Ingle also attended high
school and junior college in Ell
Centro. He was especially active
in athletics, being a member of
the j. C. 1910 winning football
team. Before leaving for the army
he ranched with his father in the
Heber district.
Mrs. Ingle returned to the valley
this week, and will make her home
with her parents until Mr.. Ingle
completes his military service.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-25
Swiss Celebrate
Holiday Friday

Imperial Valley residents Friday
were invited to attend the Swiss
independence day celebration at
the Swiss club north of Holtville
next Friday.
The program will begin at 8 p. m
and will include Independence day
rites as practiced in Switzerland,
a patriotic address, band music, and
a dance. This will be the 65Oth
anniversary of independence IN
Switzerland, President Paul Eggler
of the Swiss club said.