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Evening star., 1941-03-18
Arlington Requests
Senator Of Own in
State Redistrictinq
Roanoke Spokesman
Also Present PIeu to
Fuller Commission
BY the Associated Press.

by lIlS ASSUCldJcu TItoS
RICHMOND, Va, March 18.-
Arlington County and City OF
Roanoke spokesmen asked the Fuller
Redistricting Commission today to
recommend to the General Assem-
bly, that they each be given a Sem
ator Of their own.
The requests were among several
notifications of the commissions S
tentative plan proposed at a public
hearing attended by many members
of the Legislature and citizens from
areas that would be affected.
Opposition also was recorded
against the tentative plan of break
ing up the Prince William-Stafford
House district in reShuffllng OF
counties to obtain one OF seven
delegates for redistribution else
where.
Meeting at Roanoke.
The commission, headed by Sen
ator E. r. Fuller of Richmond, an
nounced at the close of the hear
ing another meeting would be held
in Roanoke, June is when south
west legislators and citizens would
be invited to apear.
The commissions tentative plan,
made public March 5, called for a
second Senator for the 29th sena-
torial district, made up of Arlington,
Prince William and Fairfax Counties
and the city of Alexandria, and an
additional Delegate for Arlington,
Roanoke and Tazewell Counties and
the cities of Lynchburg and Norfolk
Delegate Charles R. Fenwick OF
Arlington County and Senator w.
D. Medley of the 29th urged that
Arlington be given its own Senator
while Delegate Maurice D. Rosen-
berg of Alexandria proposed a fur
ther modification to give Alexandra
and Fairfax a Senator. Under MS
suegestion, Prince William would be
transferred to the 28th district, now
composed of Culpeper, Fauquler ana
Loudoun Counties.
Population Growth Cited.
Mr.. Medley said he felt 1t was IN
advisable to have Two Senators at
large for the district, the largest IN
the State, with nearly 10000 resi-
dents. and because of the rapid in
crease in Arlington's populatlon,
which he said now was in excess OF
10000, a separation OF the county
from the rest Of the district would
be an equitable arrangement. The
1910 census showed the Arlington
population as 57,O40, but Mr.. Fen
wick said probably 1000 persons had
moved in since the enumeration.
Both Mr. Medley and MIR. Fen
wick urged that the additional Dele
gate allotted Arlington under the
tentative plan be made permanent.
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DR.. Gewel,r to Speak

DR.. Wesley M. Gewehr of the
University of Maryland will give
the third in a series of lectures at
the Episcopal Church of Ascension
parish hall, Silver Spring, Md, to-
morrow at pm, when he will talk
on Latin American Realities" An
open forum will follow the lecture.
The public Is invited.
Evening star., 1941-03-18

Food produced more State sales
tax revenue than any other item in
Missouri during 1910. 1t yielded
$5,779, ,958, automobiles 1858 ,244.
Evening star., 1941-01-01
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National "Yokel Boy" musical
comedy, with Joe Penner: $50 pm
Screen.
Palace-"Comrade X" American
Clark Gable reforms Tovarich Hedy
Lamar: u, 2:30, 5, 730 and 10 pm.
Earle - Santa Fe Trail" Enrol
Flynn and Olivia de Havilland VS..
John Brown: II am, 1875, 4:25, 7
and $40 pm. Stage shows: los,
3:45, 6:35 and 9:15 pm.
Capitol Flight Command" Rob-
ert Taylor takes to the air with the
Navy's ''Hell-Divers" 10 am, 1855,
3:55, $50 and $50 pm. Stage
shows: 1905, 3:05, and 9 pm.
Keith's - Kitty Foyle," Ginger
Rogers as the white collar girl" of
Christopher Morley's novel: 11:25
am, 1:25, 1925, 5:25, 7:25 and 9:25
pm.
COlumbia-'Tin Pan Alley" Betty
Cradle, Alice Faye and a raft of old
hit tunes: 1l:15 m, Is, 1928, 5:35.
7:45 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"He Comes the
Navy" Cagney and O'Brien fight
with the fleet and each other: 1870
am, 1870, 3:35, 5:35, TAO and GAS
pm.
Little-'The Great Waltz" the
last local showing of the spectacular
musical: II am, los, 3:15, 5:25,
7:35 and $50 pm.
Trans Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 m
Evening star., 1941-01-01

ticular one of life's tragedies is f1c-
ton.
Ill-starred love was, of course, an
old story when it was set down as
Romeo and Juliet" but it still is
an old story that can bring lump
to the throat when it is told as
convincingly as Mr.. Morley, Miss
Rogers and Director Sam Wood tell
it in Kitty Foyle" Girl meets boy,
girl loses boy, girl does not get boy.
Kitty loves the scion of one of those
Philadelphia families-one of those
old, old Philadelphia families-even
marries him. And she loses him,
purposely, finally, because he just
can't help being the scion Of one OF
those old, old Philadelphia families.
Kitty really is rather wonder
full character as she emerges on
the screen under Miss Rogers tender
mlnistrations and with D t n
Trumbo's adriot translation Of the
novel to guide her. Sitting in her
mirror while she talks to herself
and makes up her mind about life,
decides where she has the greater
chance for happiness. is an expert
ence worth while There is many a
moment to set the heart aching and
there is many a smile, too, in this
record of Kitty Foyle's reconcilla-
ton of a dream with reality.
Mr.. Wood, as any one who has fol-
lowed his career as a motion picture
director knows, has knack for
just this sort of thing. He can keep
a sentimental scene always in the
mood intended. as he has demon
strated in a number of films, even
Evening star., 1941-01-01

"oo NuihIllS uOWH HldSlllllCent
lot of-stairs and saying hello" to
Robert Montgomery and George
Sanders. I went there Yesterday
and Ingrid was still walking down
the stairs and saying hello" to
the same two actors. The only diff
ference between last week and YES
terday is in the director. Last week
it was Robert Sinclair. Now it's
our old friend Woody" Van Dyke,
who left two and one-half months
ago with his Marine Corps for
San Diego. Woody" is using up
all his Army leaves for the next six
months in 14-day burst of speed to
help out his Metro bosses, who were
in a non-heavenly rage because the
film was proceeding too slowly.
1t is interesting to compare the
different methods of the two direc-
tors with the same star. Sinclair
addressed the lady formally as Miss
Bergman" Van Dyke says, Ready,
darling?" Last week Miss Berg
man" blew" her lines IL times
while I listened. Yesterday, OAR
ling" did it in one take"
X X X x
Howard Hughes, famed for "Hell's
Angels" and aviation exploits.
clashed with his director, Howard
Hawks, over cost, time and method
of shooting The Outlaw" the
Hughes version of the Billy the
Kid yarn. Mr.. Hawks wanted an
expensive, glamorous production.
MI Hughes insisted on a vigorous,
down-to-earth horse-opera with
plenty of gun-play So here again
is a change in dictatorship. Mr..
Hughes is now megaphoning his
opus. This picture is quite con-
trast to Metros version of the out
laws adventures.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Ine.)
Evening star., 1941-01-01
Tin Pan Alley
At Columbia

Tin Pan Alley" that melodious
history of popular music starring
Alice Faye and Betty Cradle, took
up its second downtown stand yes
terday at the Columbia.
It's chief merit derives from that
that it revitalizes for a moment
number of the turns which were
popular just prior to, during. and
Immediately after World War I. Miss
Faye participates in singing most of
them. notably Moonlight Bay"
"Sheik of Araby," etc. In several
she has the assistance of Miss
Cradle, who not only has way
with formerly popular song, but
also an ability to dance.
In the best tradition of Goth Gen.
tury-Fox song cavalcades this one
is lavish, long on melody, short on
story. j. c.
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being a matinee idol.
1t is especially a pleasure to re-
port that Mr.. Taylor comes off so
we'll because he is in what the BOYS
used TO call fast company in
Flight Command" Walter Pidgeon
is here, falling so naturally into his
role as the commanding officer of
the Navy's crack pursuit squadron
that you'd salute him If you saw
him on the street tomorrow. Paul
Kelly. Nat Pendleton. Dick Purcell
and Shepperd Strudwick are
around. too. and they are four of
the ablest cinema performers who
ever made any film look better.
Ruth Hussey shows she can be a
star any time the M-G-M folks
want TO put her name in that big
type. And Red Shelton has an op-
portunity to be a top-notch movie
comic, too.
Mr.. Taylor. his admirers will be
happy to know. does not fall by the
wayside. He is quite equal to any
demand made of him by the script
and his portrait of a cocksure
young chap who gets the rough
edges knocked off the hard way
should win him any number Of new
friends
Flight Command is. of course.
that standard service yarn, the one
about the lad who must learn that
words may speak louder than actions
but they also make more enemies.
The locale this time is. as the title
of the picture family suggests, the
air, specifically that part Of the air
occupied by the Navys Hell Divers"
pursuit group with reputation that
is both great and cherished. Mr..
Taylor comes along from Pensacola,
his freshly sprouted wings shining,
and you should be able to guess the
rest.
Even if you do guess, however.
and stay several jumps ahead of
the plot. there is much that is di-
verting in Flight Command" The
performances of those involved, as
already has been hinted here, are
glib ones. of the sort which lend
something of life to a story you've
heard before. They make it all
believable, even if it is a bit too
familiar to win you with its novelty.
The director. Frank Borzage, is an
able hand. of course. a lad who
knows that the motion picture
should live up to its name. When
ever the business of Mr.. Taylor and
the suspicion that the wife of the
C. o. is falling in love with him
gets too dull. Mr.. Borzage just takes
to the air. And in the air he has
some exciting times - some SO
realistically exciting that you will
be hoping the fellow flying that
plane in which you seem to be riding
knows what he is doing.
Variety is a good word for the
Capitols stage bill this week, and
about the only word which can be
applied to a vaudeville program
which presents both Lucy Monroe
and Lew Parker. Miss Monroe, as
you don't have to be told. is the
very popular soprano Of the radio.
And Mr.. Parker is hardly operate;
he is just one of the funniest of
the comics and masters of cere-
monies loose today. During those
moments when Miss Monroe is not
singing and Mr.. Parker is not
making you laugh like a mad thing
there is sundry other entertainment,
by Paul Sydell and Spotty, Prichard
and Lord, Collette Lyons and the
Rhythm Rockets.
Evening star., 1941-01-01

thing if not one of the truly inspired
comedies of a season that needs
comedy.
That refreshing turn of mind
which makes one look for the name
of Ben Hecht as author, or CO.
author, of a script is apparent
throughout "Comrade x And,
quite logically, the name of Hecht
turns up as co-author with Charles
Lederer, of this particular story.
Patiently, he is the writer on this
project who thought how amusing
it would be to dress the appealing
Miss Lamar as a Streetcar motor
man in Moscow, juXtapose her
against Gable as an American news
paper correspondent. The result is
not merely satire on the Russian
Evening star., 1941-01-01

great actress, belonging to the ages.
but she is lass who can breathe
life into a role such as-this one is.
Kitty Foyle, of course, is a girl
after any actress heart, for she is
a girl whose story talks to any heart.
Kitty's life, as any one who read
the novel knows, was no dream come
true There was a dream, all right,
but it was dream that went the
way of so many dreams, even as
yours and yours. She is not COM
pletely tragic figure, to be sure, this
young lady of Mr.. Morley's story;
rather she is completely human
figure, a girl whose sense of humor
and whose balance are not lost when
her heart is 1t is a role many an
actress might cherish, but it also is
a role in which many an actress
might find herself merely entangled.
Miss Rogers is not entangled. She
is so sure always, always so exactly
right that one shouldn't even talk
of acting with reference to her
performance. Ginger is Kitty Foyle
and that's that. Mr.. Morley and
all those who bought his book to
make it a best-seller should be very
happy with her.
kitty Foyle' is, it should be re-
ported for those who have not come
across it in print, one of those
stories which manages to be full of
human heartbreak always, for all the
fact that it also seems to be always
just story some fellow wrote.
Something like this might happen
to any pretty secretary, you feel,
even while knowing that this par
Evening star., 1941-01-01

United States into civil strife that
there might be a settlement of the
slavery issue Considerably re-
moved from the category of one
more Western picture, Santa Fe
Trail is a thrilling excerpt from
Americas colorful past which sticks
close enough to the record to be
illuminating while it goes about
its major purpose of being enter
tanning.
p 1t is to the credit of the picture
directed by Michael Curtiz that
while it has such boX-office names
as those of Flynn and Miss De-
Havilland IN the cast, the major
character is that of Brown, played
by Raymond Massey. The man who
acted Lincoln with such success
comes up now with a portrait of the
wild-eyed Brown. which is something
to be remembered we'll beyond the
more conventional representations
of lesser characters by players with
greater box-office allure.
Purely secondary, in spite of the
fact that it gave occasion for titling
the screen play as Santa Fe Trail"
is that portion of the plot dealing
with the railroad.
Primary is the story of Brown
and six West Point cadets, who
were assigned to erasing the blood
stains of his fanaticism from the
fiat face of Kansas in the 1950s.
1t was a big job and a dramatic
one, for Brown was a disciple of
freedom and liberty who conceived
of nothing as too dastardly to be
practiced in behalf of the cause.
He is portrayed not sympatheti-
cally but UNDERSTANDABLE, as a man
who believed in principle so thor
oughly that the sacrifice of his
dearly beloved sons was no more
than logical. Massey brings to the
role a feeling that makes the pic
ture something considerably better
than just another movie starring
Flynn as hero, Miss De Havilland as
pretty heroine.
The focus upon Brown, to be sure,
has nothing to do with preventing
Flynn from some high-claSs. heroic
sWashbuckling. AS the dashing Jeb
Stuart, a fiery Southerner who had
way with women as we'll as with
treasonable citizens. he dominates
some of the most conspicuous pas
Evening star., 1941-01-01

sages of Santa Fe Trail" Most
climactic Of the lot, naturally, are
those in which Browns hold on
Kansas and. later, his Harpers Fer
~ affair are broken by the West
Point group headed by Flynn.
Miss De Havilland, who is highly
useful for romantic purposes in
volving Flynn as the hOt-headed
Stuart and Ronald Reagan as
George Custer Cthe last stand mani
is no glamour girl in this picture
Granted she has her moments of
being beautifully dressed, especially
in one Washington party scene. she
appears most of the time as Kan
sas gal with a dirty face and clothes
which patiently did not come from
Hattie Carnegie. 1t is a part more
robust than those usually played by
Miss De Havilland.
For all its seriousness Santa Fe
Trail is blessed with some logical,
inofensiye comedy. 1t is provided
for the most part by Alan Hale and
Big Boy" Williams as two scape-
grace sons Of Kansas who like their
liquor and their scraps enough to
keep them in the forefront of the
affair. The effortlessness of their
contribution to tightening the COL
ors Of Santa Fe Trail" is its best
quality.
CurtiZ'S fast-moying, hard hitting
picture is particularly artful thing
ness with which it avoids taking
sides on the slavery issue, the other
its varicolored painting of Brown
He is presented not as a saint but
as a passionate pilgrim, whose en-
thusiasm for principle permit him
seem pluasibly if not condonable.
Harry Anger's stage show is the
maticallv ideal as supplement for
the screen attraction. Lets Go
West" the show has been titled, and
go West it does. Its chief attrac-
tons are the Sons Of the Purple
Sage, who sing with feeling and
fervor those prairie numbers which
fit ideally into a story such as that
of Santa Fe Trail and the Whit
son brothers.
The very brief stage show also
makes generous and suitably topi-
cal use of the Roxyettes and local
song bird. Earline King. J.C.
Evening star., 1941-01-01

in addition to his Goodbye. Mr..
Chips" He has done a fine job Win
Mr.. Morleys yarn about the white
collar girl who was no Cinderella.
And this Dennis Morgan, incl
dentally, plays the lad who IS kltty
Foyle's dream not come true IN
manner that may we'll be described
as all apt reproof to that stuolo
which kept him under cover for SO
long.
Evening star., 1941-01-01

situation but upon Hollywood, which
has had an entirely different idea of
Miss LamarrS allure heretofore. 1t
makes the picture twice as amusing
in case any one wants to look at it
from that angle, which really is not
imperative.
"Comrade x" is a tale of two
people in one city. The two people
are an American newspaper cor
respondent agile enough mentally
to outWit the stern Russian GEN.
sorship with officially unprintable
tales and a beautiful daughter of
the revolution who goes so far in her
social philosophy as to wear mems
clothes and call herself Theodore.
Gable, obviously, is the newspaper
man, Miss Lamar the d. O. r. who
becomes a motorman taking the
proletariat home at night and to
work in the morning.
The script writer's have allowed
their imaginations to run somewhat
riot in writing "Comrade X Thus
freed. the imaginations have gone
to some highly amusing lengths,
The most startling, of course, take
the form of dressing Miss Lamar
not merely as a motorman in cap
and overalls but. for few mo-
ments, in a nightgoWn that looks
like a precise copy of Shelks tent,
Beneath this ironic wardrobe Miss
Lamar turns out to be a sort of
caveWoman, the kind of female who
acts like a person who knows her
Marx better than she knows her
Shelley, but not too much better.
She never has had so much fun in
a movie before. and audiences are
likely to seize the occasion to wipe
out the memory of that strange,
none too good picture, Ecstasy"
which resulted in her employment
in America.
AS the newspaperman who frus-
trateS censors and hidebound Of
ficialdom with a Gable-like fair,
Gable also has an effective part in
"Comrade X" And such is the art
fulness of the writing of the picture
that it seems only fitting that he
eventually should be tripped up and
eXquisitely victimized by perhaps
Russias dumbest citizen, valet,
played by Felix Brossart.
Political commentary is not the
primary purpose of "Comrade X"
but it could not fail to creep into
the picture. Hecht and Lederer
write it knowing very we'll such
would be the case. Best of their
scenes, therefore. are pair in
which the democratic American
neWspaperman and a Moscow police
official exchange highly human
points Of view and another in which
the scribe's escape is engineered
through the widest series of tank
corps maneuverings which ever ap-
peared on the screen.
For all the action with which the
script is endowed. and which was
realized fully in King Vidor's di-
rection. there still is time for a
pause in which love is defined by
Hecht as ''the failure of the human
mind to understand nature"
The whole thing is done very
slickly and for sheer lighthearted-
ness is something to jot down
against the day when current events
may have become momentarily, at
least, unbearable.
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which h e has
lent to many a
c o - S t a rri n g
+ e m a l e. Miss
Lamar demon
strates that she
Is a much better
rounded actress
than her previ-
ous pic tur e S
h a v e indicated.
There is fun, in
a wacky sort of
ay. a b ou t
&C ON r a d e X
that makes it a
bright, a gree
a b ! e. satirical
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ton and falls weakly into a chair
Rooney rushes off to his dressing
room to dictate letters to his real-life
private secretary. And I think I
ought to tell you about his dressing
room It's a miniature palace on
wheels and once belonged to Norma
Shearer. The interior has pine pam
cling, and there are coolies of full
length mirrors. His name is painted
on the door in pale gold lettering!
Last week I visited the Rage in
Heaven" set, and Ingrid Bergman
Evening star., 1941-01-01

nervous at the
moment. She is
in the kitchen of
the Hardy home,
and it's her first
day before the
camera. She has
to discuss high
school problems
with M a S t e r
r oon ey, who
helps her along
W i t h patient
kindness. Kath-
ryn finally does
the scene to Di-
rector George
Cait1'c coticfop
Evening star., 1941-01-01
Now Look at Andy Hardy;
He's Hired a Secretary
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD


is a picture
titled
Andy Hardy college the
duces little beauty Kathryn
musical party goomed for chance
at film
n:
GLIDING Sons" Lucia ~ r.; , .
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Ginger Rogers Brings
Kitty Foyle' to Life
Her Portrait of Morley's Heroine
Makes New Film at keith's
Something to See
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

about who still thinks of Miss Ginger Rogers as
Foyle, the
Rogers has before
feet tapping
as the Moleys
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Bob's No Glamour Boy
In New Capitol Film
Mr.. Taylor Even Fails to Get
The Girl in Flight Command;
Lew Parker on Stage

The degamorzaton Mr. Robert Taylor contnu-one might
the He exceedingly
that
Evening star., 1941-01-01
Santa Fe Trail,' at Earle,
Dramatic Bit of History
Flynn.De Havilland Screen Drama
Is Story of Zealot John Brown,
Not Just Another Western

Another nsamen of the movies in history made
the attraction That starring Enrol Flynn and Olivia
like tale
Evening star., 1941-01-01
Hedy LAMAR Breaks Bonds
OF Being One More Type
'Comrade X at Palace, Shows Star
AS Having Comedy Talent Beyond
That Previously Suspectable
By JAY CARMODY.

world found
permitted
the world that the studio finds Hedy
fgreWel
,, h E w situation Hollywood
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ing from Lucia
She is a little
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