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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
To Top Once More

Then came Sergeant York.
and today Jesse Lasky is again
one of Hollywood's top execu-
tives with offers hitting him
from all sides.
1t couldn't happen to sweller
guy. but it's a little chilling 10
realize that n man with Lasky's
talent had to prove himself a
second time in an industry TO
which he had devoted his life.
The war situation has affected
everything. and that applies
prominently TO the business OF
television. Commercial televi-
sion is very close 10 the practi-
cal stage and, while no great
distance has as yet been
achieved, there is little doubt
that key cities would be able 10
encourage and support television
from the very first.
AS 10 how long we'll have 10
wait now--well only Mr.. Hitler
and his murderous crew can
answer that one,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Movie Fare

MICHIGAN - kiss the
Boys Goodbye" starring Don
Ameche, Mary Martin and
Oscar Levant; out of the
Fog" starring John Garfield
and Ida Lupino.
FOX - Tom. Dick and
Harry" starring Ginger Rog-
ers, George Murphy and Bur-
CESS Meredith: "Ellery Queen
and the Perfect Crime" star
ring Ralph Bellamy.
PALMS-STATE - "Shep-
herd of the Hills" starring
Harry Carey, John Wayne
and Betty Fields; Topper
Returns" starring Roland
Young, Joan Blondell and
Carole Lands.
ADAMS - Sweetheart OF
the Campus" starring Ruby
Keller, OZZie Nelson and
Harriet billiard; ''Bowery
BlitZkrieg." starring Leo Cor
cey, Bobby Jordan and Huntz
Hall.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Gary Tops
Income of
SrnOOthiieS
BY SARA HAMILTON
Special 10 THE DETROIT TIMES

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 9.
WELL, we read in the papers
w Gary Cooper was the big
gest money maker among the
movie stars for the year 1899,
the returns for that year now
coming in. OF course, about all
the gravy Coop got out OF his
huge hunk Of earnings when the
income tax man got through
were a few spots on his vest.
But what impresSes us is the
fact that Slow-thinking, plain
talking. former cowboy from
Montana rakes in more Shekles
than all the smooth, sophisti-
Gated lads rolled into one.
America likes its movie folk
plain-that's what IL about
boils down 10. and the sooner
producers realize that fact the
better. Jimmy Stewart is a star
because he's local yokel in any
community. One of the boys in
front of Smiths drug store or
Hank Potter's crosSroad store.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 9.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 9.
THE scream of JOY on the
Il M-G-M lot after Red Skel-
tons first movie, 'Whistling in
the Dark" was previewed, could
be heard from New York and
back again. Not that the pic
ture is great movie, nor is
there anything wonderful about
II, but Red Shelton is so funny
and such a definite comedy find
that M-G-M bosses started a
JOY chant. That's because come
dams today are the most valua-
bic commodity in Hollywood.
If you look back over the past
year you'll find all the outstand-
Ing successes, believe it or not,
have been made by the clowns
and not by the glamour girls.
Glamour girls are a dime a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Plan Comebeeks

Jack Oakie is another popular
comedian. j have known him TO
be in a perfectly serious movie
and when 1t was finished Jack
was so funny that they had 10
do a rewrite job and make the
picture into a comedy.
Laurel and Hardy and Harry
Langdon are coming back, and
well they should, for the world
needs laughs-instead OF propa-
ganda pictures, which tear at
the heart strings and ruin many
a peaceful evening in the
theater.
Judy Canova Is the funniest
woman comedian spn the screen
today. All she has 10 do is to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Life With Father to
Close August q
BY MAURICE WALKER

EI IFE WITH FATHER" has
- been a long and pleasant
one but like all good things, it
must come TO an end. And so
word now comes from the CaSs
Theater, where the play has run
for the past 10 weeks. that Sat
urday, August %. is the closing
date. This will give the Oscar
Serlin production a dozen weeks
in Detroit.
After a well-earned vacation,
the local cast will reassemble
late in September for a coast
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Play About Mrs. Pat
lowering on Horizon
BY JOHN ANDERSON
International News Service Dramatic Critis

Novello, having little magma
tion for anything else, sticks at
least to the brutal facts.
The facts include enough allu-
sions to make the portrait of
Donna Lovelace in his play in
escapably the portrait OF Mrs.
Pat. There is her performance
in a wretched play called "Age
of Redemption"
One Of Mrs. CampbelPs New
York fiascoes was called The
Dangerous Age"
Donna Lovelace late In life
played in Electra" and Mrs.
Pat played Clytemnestra TO
Blanche Yurka's Electra" and
drove James Reynolds, the scene
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

forecast tour which will take
them from New England TO
Hollywood.
Clifford Goldsmith's comedy,
What a Life" starring Gene
Reynolds, will remain for an
other week at the Will-O-Way
Playhouse. Sarting Tuesday,
August 19. and continuing
through August 81, the attraction
will be The Ninth Minute" a
musical.
Wednesday evening the Irish
Hills Playhouse will present the
old melodrama The Drunkard."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

with them. that comedians who
IN be listed are indeed few and
sar between. The mind OF Cos
tello works like chain lightning,
~ my dear mother used 10 say,
and Abbott, in a twinkling, gets
what Lou is trying TO put over
and together they are unbeat-
able.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Hunt Funny Men

The ambitions OF all the stu
dos these days are TO locate a
funny man. l suppose you might
" Bob Hope started 1t. Two
'ars ago he was just another
actor. Today his name is
household word and he is so
popular that every one of his
pictures does a merry clink at
the box Office.
AS for those two "baaaad
boys" Abbott and Costello, /
have written SO much about
them that people are going 10
start thinking l ann their press
agent. / know, having worked
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Boosting Nova

Here and There in the World
OF Sportse ] see by the sport
ing pages that a number OF
fistic experts have suddenly dis
covered that LOU NOVA is
quite a fighter. Quite few are
picking him to beat JOE LOUIS
next month and. after he does,
Lord only knows how many ex-
perts will claim credit for say
ing first that NOVA would one
day be champion.
We again repeat our predic-
tion that NOVA will one day be
the heavyweight champion-and
don't say we didn't tell you.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Billy Conn Good Kid

Jack Townley, who directed
Billy Conn, says the scribeS are
all wrong in calling him a cocky
kid. He says Billy is a good kid
and very easy 10 work with. BY
the way, Twentieth offered Conn
movie job before he left town
and If the Pittsburgh Kid is
as good as l hear. he'll probably
return for Twentieth picture.
Really. there's no more SEN
'sible youngster in Hollywood
than Jackie Cooper. After
little heart-to-heart talk with
him just the other day l think
j understand better the status
Of his romance with Bonita
Granville.
These two kids are not Off
cially engaged and the illness OF
Jackie's mother has nothing TO
do with il. They both feel they
are far too young TO even think
OF marriage now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
He S Only I8

Jackie is only 10 and he tells
me he feels no boy should think
OF marriage until he is at least
Il. But there's no doubt that
he and Bonita are in love.
'If she'll just walt for me TO
reach voting age" he smiled,
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
MOVE
Gloria Vanderbilt Jr.
Gipes Girls Run
as Cbarmer
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 9.
- ANDOM thoughts OF the

DANDOM thoughts OF the
IL week:
Gloria Vanderbilt Jr, Is giving
the movie glamour girls a run
for their money as the best
dressed charmer.
Gloria, who is Is. dresses with
the sophistication of 35-year-
old
Victor McLaglen looks like a
juvenile after shedding IS pounds
IN four months.
Jean Cabin wants 10 meet
Hedy Lamar after some one
told him ii was just as hard for
Hedy 10 diet as II is for him.
Katherine Hepburn is up to
her old stunt Of lodging camera
men. Wonder why?
She made so many new
friends out of old enemies when
she was making philadelphia
Story" and seemed TO have for
gotten her trick Of running out
on the boys.
Since Joan Crawford adopted
two children she's never seen at
the night spots any more.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Plain Actors for U. S.

Plain everyday picture people
for plain, everyday people
that's the box office slogan Of
this country, which brings US
right down 10 some of those
fellows that Hollywood hears
little about but who keep the
industry going while the prettier
SmoothieS prittie-prattle around
with lot of pretty words.
Now you take Dick Arlen,
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Enough AIIu,ions

He shows her trying to make
a comeback; shows her in the
desperate moment when she
realizes, after all her scatter
Drained living and talking. that
she can no longer concentrate.
There IL no late act success
for the outdated old timer. Mr..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Lavish Wardrobe

DOROTHY LAMOUR has one
OF the most lavish wardrobes
created in many years for her
role in Caught in the Draft"
The gowns alone are valued in
excess Of &. 600.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Out of Focus

The truth about such heroines
as about all ARTISTS that
they are stricken with a tenn
permanent which amounts, in
varying degrees, to a disease.
Call it eccentricity, aberra-
ton, or what you Wilt is the
impulse which moves them away
from the normal and average
person, and when il is a great
power they cannot help il.
We delight in the heightened
awareness they give to life when
they interpret il. or just live it,
and consequently we must allow,
in strictest humanity, for the
bias their talent causes, the
warping which puts them. now
and then to the routine eye, out
of focus.
Since they are laws unto
themselves, it is idle to expect
them TO conform to the general
pattern.
But when we look at them
only in the light Of their own
distortion we get, naturally, a
distorted picture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

that's what counts in the movies.
He has his own distinct line.
Mickey Rooney. who discovered
Red, is as proud as punch over
his discovery.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Bobe Hope. Too

Working with their writer,
John Grant, they devise the fun
niest patter in less time than
II takes the average person 10
utter an ordinary figure OF
speech.
I also have worked with Bob
Hops and he, too. sees the whole
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

dozen but good comedian is
harder TO find than the proven
bal hens teeth. so Reds name
was Immediately put down in
the hopes that this company has
another Bob Hope or an Abbott
and Costello team.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
In Rorefied Air

1t Is just as true to say that
Mrs. Campbell was a lonely
person. hungry for human con-
tact. as it is to say that she
drove most people away from
her affections by the inhumanity
OF her comments.
She lived in a rarefied atmos-
phere, she spoke bluntly what
she thought was the truth, and
the truth has a way Of being not
only terribly uncomfortable, but
often land partly because Of
that hilariously funny.
Mrs. Campbell had & genius
for hitting both nails on the
head in one sentence.
In this play Mr.. Novello hon.
estly shows the great star for
the failure that, by all CONNER
cial standards, she undoubtedly
was.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
lasky Comeback

Odds and Ends in the Enter
tainment World: Producer OF
the tremendously successful
Sergeant York" is Jesse l..
Lasky-and if Mr. Lasky is
looking for another biography 10
follow York, he might do much
worse than film She story Of his
own life. Because the story Of
Lasky is the story OF Hollywood.
and I know Of no better locale
for bitter laughter, phony tears,
and none-too-gentle irony.
A pioneer in the movie game.
Lasky contributed much 10 the
building of the industry; in fact
you might name him as one of
four or five who actually Gre
ated the industry. In the past
few years. it's an open secret
that things did not break too
well for him-and even though
he had the same understand
ing, and culture, and movie wis
dom he had always held, Lasly
was regarded as pretty we'll
washed I'D. N
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
WallyBeery
Is Good Fun
In New Film
By MARK HELLINGER

- ANDOM Notes About Pic
~ lures You're Seeing: Wslly
Beerys latest starring vehicle.
"BARNACLE BILL" isn't ex-
actly the best thing the big boy
ever debut it's neat enter
tainment just the same. This
time Wally is a hard-punching
fisherman with a soft heart.
You know. lovable beneath It
all.
Marjorie Main Is the woman
who's always arguing with
Beery. but L don't have to tell
you that she loves him in spite
of everything. "BARNACLE
BILL" is longish in spots and
overdone in certain scenes. But
both Beery and Miss Main are
excellent, and there's plenty OF
action and comedy for every
one.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

designer, out OF the theater by
wearing an outlandish costume.
1t was in Hollywood that Mrs.
Pat reported that the star
"yurked and yurked."
Mr.. Novello has some one saw
TO his heroine that Bernard
Shaw. isn't it?" and she replies
that's what he says" thereby
paraphrasing one of the anec-
dotes Of the Lady to whom Mr..
Shaw wrote "Pygmalion."
1t was typical of her, I think,
that she told me once he had
never written anything else.
Nothing, at least, except hand
bag full Of love letters which he
refused TO let her publish with
the immortal rejection slip
mo. my dear Stella, at any
time of life / refuse to play the
horse to your Lady Godiva."
Perfect Title
When his play was produced
in London two years ago Mr..
Novello called IL Coincidence"
and it is the perfect title, per-
fectly ironical, for the story OF
a great tragic actress celebrated
the world over for her wit.
But at the beguiling little
Cape Playhouse on Cape Cod
where l saw its first American
production, they couldn't use
that title and so. through Moss
Harris courtesy. called it "Cur-
tain Going Up" Thereby hangs
as pretty a theater fable as you
may hope to find.
For the star of the production
at Dennis was another cele-
brated English actress, Con-
stance Collier. and IL seems
that years ago the title The
Coincidence" was used by ].
Hartley Manners on a play that
was not conSpicuously success
full.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
In Book World

In the book world. the best
Summer reading bracer we've
discovered is ABOVE SUS-
PICION," a most literate
thriller by Helen Machines. If
you've ever found yourself
yawning in the midst Of spy
tale or embarking on an icebox
foraging expedition al the So
called climax OF so-called &C
ton story, then you owe il to
yourself TO read Miss Machines
Offering.
II Will repay an previously
lost hours. An espionage-action
story. presented in a style as
smooth as a planters punch. IT
tells Of a youthful but wise don
of Oxford and his comely wife
who undertake 10 convert their
Summer vacation in Europe into
an amateur spy tour. IT is 1899.
the last peaceful Summer. The
panzer divisions are not yet un-
leashed. but another Nazi force.
the Gestapo. is actively engaged
in preparing the path of de-
struction.
ABOVE SUSPICION" be-
comes a contest between Rich
ard and Frances and the black
agents. Read il by all means.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Directors Masterpiece

HERE is A MAN" fash
toned from Stephen Vincent
Benet's THE DEVIL AND
DANIEL WEBSTER" is a mas
terpiece OF direction from Will
liam Dieterle-but it's doubtful
if the film will ever attain any
thing that resembles box office
popularity.
Story OF a farmer who sold
his soul 10 the devil and was
given chance 10 redeem IL
through the wise words OF Dam
iel Webster.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-27
Seeing and Saying BY William 4. Fosplks,

peoples in quiet check let down my faith no little.
1 am highly pleased to see rays Of hope that
Hitler perpetrator Of international violence, may
die through the workings of his own way of life.
OFFENSIVE ODORS
Last week started column offensive
doors among my pepole. | said to myself THAI
such a column would be offensive to few people but
that such barrage of "us' was not entirely too
out of place. Somehow the recent meeting of Ma
tonal Beauty Culturists' group in Atlanta caused
me to lend attention in this direction.
1 the beauticians in action, seemingly
principally concened with the matter of hairdress
and of the scalp. In their displays, there
noteworthy the matter of bleaching the skin.
There were few products designed to curb the
body odor, and soaps, just incidental ..
Now, maybe some of the beauty experts
haven't had the opportunity of being "closeted"
in public places with large number Of people,
such as has been my experience. (However, a good
trail of "skunkda' be left in the open pretty
wel.) But, whateber it is, great number of my
people need 70 be taught that eradication Of human
odOrs is as important (more important to me) as
packing down the hair with gluey prepara-
ton or in some twist la hot hair comb.
1t is contended by some that mothers fail
TO properly wash their young and that foul odors
"grow up" in them. Whether this is true or not,
] don't know. do know that it. is uncomfortable
ard embarrassing to be among those whose bodies
give off disagreeabe odors. I imagine that people
OF TIE other color who happen to come in contact
with ther' nTckly form the opinion that all of
"us' smell likewise. resent that.
Now if good soap will eradicate and simple de-
odorants aid in cutting down these prevalent
'skunkdas." | am calling the beauty cuturists
tc get brsy and start a campaign to sell more
produces for use AGAINST vile odors among my peo-
pie. "Sk"rkda" isn't necessary and it's disagree
able to the ''nth" degree.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-27
CHARLOTTE ADDS TWO
SCHOLARSHIP VERSUS
COMMON SENSE

IF AS HAS BEEN said, Language
conceals thought, then scholarship
lust as often conceals knowledge
There are some things we seem to
understand until our scholars ex-
plain them; and then we are be-
wildered and confused with explan3-
tions that need explaining. The
human mind in the raw has a grasp
of situations that cannot be gain
said.
When we take Our world of
science where everything is sub
jected to scientific formulae. we
find that we have nothing new,
and what we are doing today only
represents improvements on what
the elders did without our modern
equipment. The man who arrives
in an oxcart is just as much there
as he who arrives over the air
lines.
SAVES TIME
The most than can be said OF
science is that it saves time; but
what we do with that time saved
is an other question. We are break
ing our necks to go nowhere in
particular and to DO nothing in
particular after we get there. I liv-
ed once near one of the south's
finest agricultural and technical
colleges where farming was carried
| on with all of the scientific knoWl-
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-27
Tolerance Is Not Enough
By RUTH TAYLOR

We talk about tolerance today though it great
virtue We prate of being tolerant people, We lecture
write books and articles and feel excessively
proud ourselves for tolerant attitude towards Others
But tolerance is enough 1t is negative in its virtue
and far too often carries with pharsalcal
which utterly foreign to the American of life Accord
ing the dictionary tolerate" to suffer to be be
done without active opposition; tolerant" is "Of long
suffering disposition and federation is he act of allow
ing that which is not wholly approved
Surely that is not what when We talk of toll
erance Nor it what DESIRE There for mere
tolerance of another, of in democracy
where the ideal forth governmental credo that
''al men created equal.
What need today is not "toleration' between the
of diverse natiOnaes and creeds which
go to make up this America of Oursbut spirit of under
standing, knowledge of the good and the beauty and the
wisdom each group contributes to the whole What
need today is mutual understanding "To understand
according the dictionary is to comprehend the relation
Of things, know through information And of the
definitions of understanding is possessing comprehension
and good sense"
Mutual understanding means mutual trust-the belief
in and knowledge of each other that is the uning
force which weld into nation invincble TO attack
from without because it mmunzes to attack from with
n The Fifth Column need to fear most that created by
racial and religious prejudices often held
sc0usy Tut far too apt to break out the wrong moment
and to destroy ability to think clearly and judge wise
ly.
No tolerance is NOT enough There must be no dividing
lines between people. We must be Americans alum
dersandng and believing in each other and working
gether to defend country from all threats dsunty
from whatever source they come.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-27

different behavior or the part of
the dog is, he knows it is all right
to eat what has been given him
and that it's wrong to steal what
has not. Thus in 30 seconds this
minister was convincing in way
scholars would have taken long to
even approach
Our elders used common sense in
bringing up children and produc-
ed the leaders of today. In these
modern times we are trying to do
It scientifically" and our prisons
and houses of correction arc JAM
med with the younger generations
and with the elders trying to keep
up with them. 1t may be scientific
to let child do about as he wants;
but common sense tells us that
so long as he cannot do as he
pleaSes out in the hard and heart
less world, why put him under this
false impression by letting him DO
as he pleases in the home?
FOOLISH ALIGNMENT
Science holds that minority and
submerged groups should ally
themselves with radicals. In other
words Negroes by this token should
be aligned with communism. But
common sense dictates that it
would be foolish for. the Negro to
rush into communism that
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-27

could not make headway during the
great depnession and certainly
cannot make it during a period OF
prosperity. Common sense tells
us that the world and all therein
must have a creator; atheiStic
scholarship tells us these things
always have been and leaves the
matter there-unsettled. ,
Common sense holds that in this
period of apparent prosperity. Ne
groes who have jobs should try to
"dig in for the seige that is
certainly ahead; scholarship tells
us as in the language of Sweden
bocgI Tomorrow comes and we
are where they let us live today ."
We must mol disparage scholar
ship too much but we must not dis
miss the possibilities of common
sense. The Negro preacher did in
thirty seconds what many scholars
could not do at all--prove that
dogs know right from wrong: Don't
be too quick to dismiss a common
sense view of thingS. s, }...~