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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
STAYING HOME

Madeleine Carroll is making our
war her war and staying right here
10 help in defense work in
America Naturally. Paramount is
happy over her decision for she
had told the boss. Y. Frank Free
man, she wanted 10 return to her
native England 10 see her parents.
Her sister was killed in one of
the first air raids over London
and she hasn't seen her family
since that tragic event. When our
war was declared Madeleine said
she wanted to do what she could
here since the United States of
America has been her home for
so many years.
Her next at Para is Forest
Ranger" technicolor opus in
which she co-stars with Fred Mac.
Murray, with Robert Sisk produc-
ing as his first Paramount
assignment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26

recital Of il had the Arsenic and
Old Lace set in Mysteries,
Seems as LORE was playing
symphony music on his automobile
photograph and didn't hear the
sirens warning everybody to douse
all lights.
The actor continued 10 burn the
normal amount Of electricity until
the concert was interrupted by
a knock at the front door.
1t was the neighbor's japanese
houSeboy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
a SAD STORY

Maybe she was A little unhappy
about the story which M-G-M Sc
lected as her comeback vehicle,
because Kathleen" is really a
pretty insipid story, trimming over
with sentimental cliches.
Shirley is the poor little rich
girl whose father Herbert Mar
shall neglects her because he is
too busy. He must be because he
looks so tired all the time. Shir-
ley's only companion is a snarling
bag Of woman who is even try
ing 10 Shirley's famous DISPOSE
ton. She makes friends with an
old junk dealer 10 whom she con-
fideS her dreams.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Claude+te in Tub

CLAUDETTE COLBERT. who
once bathed in a pool Of milk for
a Cecil B. De Mile picture. now
has a comedy scene hiding behind
shower curtains in a tiny bathtub
for The Palm Beach Story" IN
which she stars for Preston
Sturges.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Gable Preferred

IS IAN HUNTERS face red!
His two young sons. busy fixing
their room in the Hunter cottage
at Catalina, had just one request
for the walls of the room-two
nnrtraitS- Of Clark GiahtA---
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Woman Trouble

HOW THE pursuit Of an attrac-
tive cafe singer leads two rival
devil dogs into the midst of an
enemy spy ring is told in Call
Out the Marines service comedy
teaming Victor McLaglen and Ed
mund Lowe. Binnie Barnes is the
woman in the case.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
GOOD IDEA

Part Of the radio and screen
earnings OF Eddie (Rochester) An
derson are going 10 build The
De Luxe Rest and Exercising
Home for Fine Equine Animals.
Layout, when completed, is due 10
cost 100000.
Rochester, now doing part In
Tales of Manhattan, says:
THE only way 10 make money
off horses is 10 board them"
With a Red Cross nursing course
already completed. Rosalind Rus
sell is spending two nights week
learning how 10 take an ambulance
engine apart and put il back to-
gAther. In other words. she is 10
be a mechanic.
And after the star finishes
Take a Letter, Darling she'll
study radio
She's known in the Women's
Emergency Corps as Private
Brisson."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Relies on Aides

Oracle ALLEN is the hair
dresser's and makeup girls de-
she refuses TO look in a
mirror on the set of Mr.. and
Mrs. North, claiming they know
their job better than she.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
By CHARLES GENTRY
KYser
Barrymore
'PIayma+es

ITS A strange assortment Of
"Playmates' at the Michigan this
week where Kay Kyser. John Bar
'rymore. Lupe Velez, May Robson
and Patsy Kelly are all conSorting
with one another in rather fantas-
tic fashion.
They couldn't have found a COM
bination so weird if they had in
.cluded Secretary Knox and the
Andrews Sisters. but at least these
characters get along amusingly to-
gether.
As in all the Kyser pictures, his
band is featured and plays an I'M
portant part in the story.
In "PlaynateS, John Barry
more, playing himself. is per-
suaded 10 coach Kyser, playing
himself. 10 become a Shakespear-
can actor This dilly Of an idea is
dreamed up by TWO press agents,
Patsy Kelly and Peter Lind Hayes.
over an old Tom Collins.
Barrymore revoltS in his fiery
style, but is persuaded that the
publicity which VIII accrue from
such abSurdIty VIII gam him a
long needed radio contract.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
THE only way 10 make money
off horses il 10 board them.n
NOT AFRAID

Jean Cagney and her mother
live in A penthouse on top Of r.
story apartment building. The
night Of Hollywood's first black
out. Jean worked late on Yankee
Doodle Dandy" in which she is a
screen as well as a real sister 10
Brother Jimmy.
When the lights went out, the
Starlet. knowing that her mother
would he nervous, called the house
What are you doing,
mother? she asked.
Mrs Cagney replied:
I'm sitting here with my hat
on and my medicine in my bag.
Where are We going
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
TOO MANY FIANCEES

Cummings dilemma is some
thing terrible His real fiancee
turns up but he still has 10 pre-
tend that Deanna is his bride-to-
be. Wise old Laughton catches On.
but he is so fond Of Deanna that
he pretends that Deanna must be
the right one.
All of this assembling provides
some hilarious situations. the false
love scene between Durhin and
Cummings being probably the best.
Deanna has really turned into a
beautiful young woman and her
voice has matured 10 a point of
warmth and surprising richness.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
WHAT A DOCTOR.

Figuring on A better companion.
Marshall engages LARAMIE Day,
who claims 10 be child psycholo-
gist. although they never had any
as beautiful AS that when we were
reading Freud.
At the same time Marshall
brings home Gail Patrick. whom
he intends to marry. although
Shirley can't stand the sight of
the woman.
BY spilling coffee, making faces
and finally running away, Shirley
manages 10 fix her fathers ro-
mantle life so that il suits her.
Just a nice thoughtful child TAX
INC care of daddy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
LIKE IN 4 DREAM

The dream sequences are pretty
far-fetched, hut then we suppose
YOU Just can't stop little girls and
film producers from wishful
thinking.
The companion picture, Flying
Blind" has only action TO recon-
mend. Dick Arlen and his finance.
Jean Parker, find tn a { their
Honeymoon Air Service" which
flies couples 10 Las Vegas 10 get
married. has been taken over for
less romantic purposes
Foreign spies storms, brush
fires. forced landings and crippled
takeoffs make this improbable
story one which. at least. travels
at a high cruising speed
The cast also includes Nils
Asher, Marie Wilson and Roger
PRYOR.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Wallace TO Star

IT Is umored IN Hollywood
that Jean Wallace. the recent
bride Of FranChot Tone. may CO.
star with Richard Arlcn In Wild
cat" Ii would be her first leading
role.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Two in One

The screens famous actor
ravens. Jimmy and Coco double
for each other in the single role
of Sgt Crow. in True 10 the
Army with Allan Jones. Judy
Canova, Jerry Colonna and Ann
Miller.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
BY HARRISON CARROLL

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 26.-Fun-
niest blackout story 10 reach this
desk was the experience OF Peter
! LORE. She movie horror mans
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
LAUGHToN's PERFECT

Laughton's performance as the
grumpy old man is one of his best.
his dry humor, sly wit and mar
Vicious makeup make him tops in
this picture. Cummings lets loose
and the whole company JOIN him
IN this romping, roaring comedy
with music.
The second picture, Cadet
Girl has Carole Lands trying to
persuade George Montgomery to
give up his popular music interests
and continue his military career.
He finally does in a flag waving
finale which has all the patriotic
music. parades. etc. that you could
possibly get into one movie.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
Peter LORE Told of Coast BlackOut
By Neighbours Japanese HOuseboy

Turn out the lights" he said.
There's a blackOut."
HOPES STORY
And then there was Bob Hopes
crack on the My Favorite Blonde
set. Madeleine Carroll asked the
comedian what he did during the
blackout.
"Me ." replied Hope. II helped
a ScOtchman develop film"
Director Clarence Brown has n
bomb shelter on his ranch that
tops Harold Lloyd's subterranean
Browns cellar was
built purposely for shelter. II
has concrete walls II feet thick.
And underneath this. the dlrec-
tor has a sub-cellar fully equipped
for living quarters, including air
conditioning.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
JiUe King
To Make
Film, at Fox
BY LoUELLA o. PARSONS

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 26,-News
10 make the 1--WE hounds jump for
10y is that Glenn Miller and his
band are all wrapped up and de-
livered to Twentieth Century-Fox
for a picture with Betty Cradle.
Betty docs things 10 the rug-cut-
tiers blood pressure herself--so the
should be hotter than
hot when they get together for
some solid sending in Melody
Mad" The movie is based on the
life story of Miller and was writ
ten by Stanley Rauh. who knows
Glenn and his gang like a book.
More and more I think studios
will be going in for musicals,
comedies and other escape" pic
lures as a welcome relief from the
flood of war pictures that are on
the way. Comedies, I predict, will
have great popularity. Hear the
audiences at the ALEX Theater in
Glendale practically tore down
the house over two recent pre-
views-"The Fleets In" with
Dorothy Lamour and William
.Holder) and "Hellzapoppin" with
Olsen and Johnson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
THE NOBLE GESTURE

Ronald Reagan is the young hy-
ing devil and while his intentions
are of the best, his indiScretionS
cause two flerS 10 lose their lives
and two girls to break their hearts.
Contrite. he sacrifices himself
on a dangerous bombing mission
along the French coast.
The final scenes are particularly
exciting and lots of the background
foOtage is authentic.
Reagan is good and the support
ing cast is headed by that splen.
did actor. who. unfortunately
passed away recently, James Ste
phenSon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
POSTPONE FILM

David Selzniek doesn't start
Claudia" until July and l am
awfully glad because I just
couldn't bear to think of the pic
ture being made without Dorothy
Mcclure.
She is Claudia and-the best
news I have heard in a long time
lis Ben Lyon really has the in
side track on the role of her hus-
band. David told me he has been
trying TO get cameras in London
TO take a test Of Ben but it is
difficult-the government has most
of them. Frances Starr would be
perfect for the mother, of course.
as she is on the stage, but David
will take a test before he makes
a d ecision. How charmingly
Frances has grown older. I used
10 be one of her fans when she
was a David Belasco star.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
LUPE SCUTTLES PLAN

In order not 10 actually have 10
appear with KySer, he gets his
lady toreador (only she's no LADY,
Lupe Nelez. 10 Scuttle kySers sud
den friendship for the Bard.
We can honestly state that we
have never heard Shakespeare
read so badly and that includes
our high school production Of The
Tempest but II IS so bad that it's
fairly funny, KySer evidently be-
ing allergic 10 phonetics.
Most amusing 10 US were the
Barrymore scenes, however. With
Lupe and Patsy as stooges. he
really goes 10 town and ne also
has the funniest lines.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-26
SOME CUTE TUNES

Miss Simms displays that tooth
paste smile and gives out with the
lyrics for some very tuneful num-
berS, "Humpty Dumpty Heart"
and Romeo Smith and Juliet
JoneS.' being the most original.
The other half of the new bill
takes 10 the air with "Interna-
tional Squadron as the feature.
This. like a Yank in the Raj. "
deals with carefree hier who
ferries bomber 10 England and
then is persuaded by two Of his
buddieS 10 Join The International
Squadron Of flierS recruited from
exile ranks helping England To win.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
Correspondent of The Star and North
American Newspaper Alliance

American Newspaper Ailiance
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-German
girls in uniform have been imported
into Nazi-occupied France-"to
teach Frenchwomen how to dress
and how to behave" French
cooking is now an excellence of the
past. The French birth rate is
shrinking to point Of national sui
eide. Babies born in France since
June, 1910, are an average 2 pounds
lighter In weight. In Paris,
only S of a normal $50 bus lines are
running. Night clubs In
occupied France are doing a SELL
out business. The expensive
restaurants in Paris are patronized
only by Germans and their fifth
cOlumnist friends. Houses Of
ill-repute are blossoming like weeds
in every corner Of occupied France.
This word picture of France to-
day was painted for me by a French
man who. until a few weeks ago,
was a resident of Paris and is now
living permanently in this coun-
tiy. TOi OUNLUuS lCdSOllS-Clllclly
because members of his family are
still living in France-the name OF
my informant must be withheld.
Paris" he said, lis full of Ger
man women, mostly in awful gray
uniforms and without makeup.
They are supposed to set a pattern
of behavior for Frenchwomen, who
don't like uniforms and who do like
using makeup on their faces"
Women Must Work.
The reason for the preponderance
of uniforms on German women is
the Hitler decree that every woman
in Germany under go who has one
child only or is childless must work
for the state. She must be pre-
pared to 90 anywhere and work at
anything
only the Germans can afford to
go to the good restaurants in Paris.
like Maxims and Fouquet's," said
my informant. "A meal without
wine costs from 300 francs upward
and, apart from the fact that French
people avoid all places patronized
by the Germans, there are very few
Of them who can afford 300 francs
for a lunch or dinner"
Some of the famous French res
taurants closed after the German
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Ninth Circus Elephant
Dies Of Arsenic POISONING
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Nov. 8.-Another Ring
ling Brothers and Barnum and Bal
ley Circus elephant. making nine in
all. died here today of arsenic poi
soning.
Seven of the big beasts died dur
ing a two-day stand of the show
Wednesday and Thursday. Four
others. seriously i'll, were left behind
when the show moved on. One of
them, Liz, died within q few hours
and Clara, one of the largest in the
herd, died late today.
DR.. Standish Piper, local veter-
mary, said Peggy is out of danger,
but added that Palms, the fourth
animal, is still very sick, showing
symptoms Of pneumonia"
Circus officials have been unable
to discover how poison got into the
diet Of the elephants, each of which
is valued at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Hides Of the elephants will be con-
verted into leather.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Nozis Send Girls in Uniform to Teach Women
Of Paris How to Behave, Frenchmon Asserts

French" Among the night clubs
open and filled to the rafters with
Representatives of Hitler's new Or
der" are the Scheherazade and the
Casino de Paris. The famed Boeuf
Sur lie Toit was closed but reopened
on Nazi orders.
There are still about 1,25O,OO0
Frenchmen prisoners of war. On
the whole, the wives of prisoners
are behaving we'll. 1t is consid-
cred unpatriotic to betray the hus-
band who Is in German concen-
tration camp. The consequent de-
clining birth rate is one of the
major clubs used by the Nazi high
command in its negotiations with
Marshal Petain.
The problem of working and play
ing is further complicated for the
French by the few busses on the
road. by the lack of automobiles
and the curfew hour of IL midnight.
Cleaning 120 Boots.
French people found on the
streets after H." said my informant,
"are liable to arrest and a night in
police station. They are usually
put to work. A woman friend of
mine was arrested after curfew, and
she spent the night cleaning 100
high boots belonging to German
officers.
THE conduct of the Germans to-
ward respectable Frenchwomen has
been fairly good, but there is the
case Of three drunken German SOL
diers who assaulted the 80-year-
concierge of their apartment house
believe that one of them was
punished.
Some of the houses In the red
light district of Paris have the
sign Forbidden to Germans But
there are some PLACES opened by
special Nazi request for Germans
only. The latter are populated by
derelicts of all nations, including
German and Italian refugee women"
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Whether the delegates to the COM
mission or the governments OF the
countries themselves would be her
hosts was not indicated by the gen.
eral resolution.
Mrs. Roosevelt several times at
press conferences has mentioned
her ignorance OF South America, IN
turning aside detailed inquiries on
the subject.
IL Delegates Attend.
Although officially concluded yes
terday, meetings of the commission
to clear up details Of its own con-
stitution were to continue at the
union at II o'clock this morning.
During the three-day session the IL
delegates actually attending the
meetings reported on the status of
women in their countries.
In addition specific resolutions az
fecting the welfare of women and
children in Latin America were
passed, to be submitted first to the
governing board of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union and then to the Confer
ence OF American States meeting
early in 1912 at Bogota, Colombia.
The commission urged that train
ing centers for domestic work should
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Veteran, Al, Back In Army
As Private 10 Join Sons
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 8.-After ~
years In civilian life, Raymond I.
Young, II, OF Vineland, N. j., a first
lieutenant during the World War,
Is back in the Army as q private to
JOIN two OF his sons in military
service.
One son, Raymond, IT,, 10, Is a
Navy airplane mechanic at Norfolk,
Va. and the other, John, 18, is q
corporal In the 18TH Field Artillery
a$ Fort Dix, N. j.
The father, former banker and
clothing merchant at Lewisburg,
Pa. enlisted in the Air Corps in
August. He now is serving as q
clerk in the 28th School Squadron
at Jefferson Barracks, the Air Corps
replacement center here.
A widower, Mr.. Young has two
other children, Jeanne Marie. IS,
and James Richard, 6, in Vineland.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Army descended on Paris, Fouquet's
among them. When the conquerors
commanded the reopening of Foul
quet's its aged proprietor committed
suicide.
Many of the German officers have
their wives and families with them
in Paris and there are also large
numbers of German civilians. "They
speak German at the top of their
voices" the Frenchman told me
bitterly, but the French ignore
them completely. Even when a
Frenchman bumps accidentally into
a German, it's as though he were
the invisible man Of H. G. Wells.
The Frenchman says nothing, just
walks on as though he hadn't seen
the German"
Most People Look Hungry.
My informant, who last % pounds
while living under Nazi dominance.
told me that most people in France
look hungry. There is no milk ex-
cept for babies and people past s..
Everyone is supposed to get two
eggs month, but is lucky if he
gets one. German soldiers go to the
farms and pay up to five francs for
an egg, and this explains the short
age.
ITO get any food at all, even in
the restaurants, you surrender
precious ration tickets. For in
stance, the butter and fats ration
Is only about six ounces a monh,
including cooking fats and marga-
rine. But you have to give these
to the waiter along with tickets for
meat and bread. You are allowed
meat twice a week. but never In the
evenings. On three days a week.
alcohol is forbidden. Wine is lin
tied to one bottle a week and you
must return the bottle or you don't
get another. Butter and wine are
the chief base Of French cooking
and you can imagine what has hap
pened to the cuisine of my coun-
try"
Most of the night clubs still op-
Grating In Paris are run by White
Russians, who are the sole section
Of the community to benefit by the
German occupation.
Expect Return Of Property.
Most of the White Russians well
coined the Nazis," I was told. They
are convinced that the Germans
will restore their property in Rus
sia. Several Of the Russians in
Paris are friendly with the Ger
mans, and some Russian women act
as hostesses for Nazi generals, who,
with the rest of the Germans, are
cold -shouldered by French women.
The Russians get good jobs as in
terpreters for the Germans with the
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Funds Soughtto Take
British Children
To Safe Places
Goal Of $4,000 Fixed
By Scottish Clans
Evacuation Plan

A goal of $4,000 to aid child
evacuation from the bombed areas
Of Britain to the greater safety OF
the highlands of Scotland during
the coming year was announced here
yesterday by the Scottish Clans
Evacuation Plan.
Mrs. Macneil of Barra, founder
and chairman of the organization
who formerly had her headquarters
on Long Island, N. Y, has moved to
her Washington home at 2211 Thir-
tieth street NV. where headquar-
ters have been set up.
Goal Will Care for 200.
Mrs. Macneil said that the coming
years goal is expected to care for
about 200 children. A total of $21 900
was raised in the past IL months
and several hundred children were
cared for at various times in private
homes and in three Inverness shire
castles supplied through the gen.
erosity of their owners.
The evacuation area is in the
heart of the Highlands territory,
said to be one of the safest places
IN Great Britain. The plan, organ
lied last year, is administered in
Britain by Cameron of Lochiel. K. T.,
chief of the Clan Cameron and Lord
Lieutenant of Inverness shire.
All Funds Go to Upkeep.
Mrs. Macneil in making an appeal
for donations, pointed out that every
cent given goes to the upkeep of a
child. The cost of cabling the money
to Britain is donated by a banking
firm. The original cost per child was
formerly more than SIG per month
but now has been reduced to about
$12, she said
A number of Scottish Clan men,
bers in the United States are organ
tzlng themselves into committees to
collect funds from their several
groups, she said. The Scotch whisky
interests in this country also are CO.
operating in the campaign.
Corcoran Thorn, president Of the
American Security & Trust Co., is
treasurer of the organization. Con-
tributions may be sent to him in
care of the trust company or to her
house, Mrs. Macneil said.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Mrs. Poterno Denies
She Will Wed MonviIIe
M the A ssociated pras,

By the Associated Press.
RENO, New, Nov. 8.-Mrs. Bev-
erly Palermo arrived from New York
today and said she would seek .
divorce from Joseph P. Palermo.
New York real estate heir, but de-
MED reports she intended to marry
Tommy Manville, the asbestos heir
The Paternos were married at
Armonk, N. Y, March "a, 1896
The wife said she and her husband
separated three months ago in an
action in New York which named
Lenora Lennon and Honey Child
Wilder, Cafe society girls, as his
frequent companions.
Mrs. Palermo said she understood
her husband would marry Mrs
Janey HALEY Compton after the
divorce. Mrs. Compton was divorced
here last May.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

be set up to develop the American
home as much as possible against
the day war might come.
Defense Training Sought.
Women should also be trained IN
national defense industries, 1t was
said, to be able to replace men
wherever possible.
Exchange Of students as basis
OF inter American friendship should
be made easier by uniform curricula
In colleges, 1t was said.
Women should be given the vote,