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waters next year One is a sister ship to the Jones, and the other a larger vessel. a sister ship to the steel survey ship Explorer.
 There are now six vessels of this fleet in operation in Alaska waters from Sitka to Anchorage and Dutch Harbor and Westward. Four ships are operating in the Aleutians. the ship Explorer, ship pioneer, ship Guide and the ship Discoverer.
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HAYNES SEED POTATOES

for sale at Bert's Cash Grocery. Phone l04 or 105. -adv.
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HEkL0(K HERE FROM
 SENTINEL LIGHT TRIP

Coast Guard lighthouse tender Hemlock, Capt. J. H. Jensen arrived in Juneau shortly before midnight last night after short trip to Sen tinel Island light.
 The vessel was scheduled to sail at noon today for Five Fingers and Petersburg.
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mon of Michigan" so the Ann Arbor
Hash can come to Hollywood i'm
mediately after graduation to finish
his stint, which will be biographical
and chock full OF athletics of every
description.
Two producers on the R-K-O lot
were almost fired the other night
when they attempted to screen Sc
cretly the disputed Orson Welles
picture, Citizen Kane" for cou-
pie of Eastern newspaper visitors.
The studio chief walked in during
the first reel and turned off the
current. Hays Office censors prick
up their ears over word that Rita
Hayworth and Anthony Quinn will
undertake daring matador-bull
dance in Blood and Sand" And
that Joan Bennett is wearing the
scantiest of scanty garb in "A Girls
Best Friend Is Wall Street"
Most unpopular male in Hollywood
last week was the income tax col
lector. Tardy actors on every set
were asking time off for last-min-
ute consultations with tax advisers.
All had their eyes on the United
States tax fraud trial of Joseph M.
Schenck, Twentieth Century-Fox
executive, in New York and were
saying, hopefully, "It can't happen
to me-"
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National The Little Foxes"
Tallulah Bankhead in a drama of
an unpleasant family: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Earle-"Honeymoon for Three"
which is a crowd, Ann Sheridan
and George Brent find: 1l:O5 am,
las. 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1910, $3.50, 6:15 and 9::35
pm.
Palace - The Great Dictator" :"
Chaplin looks at today: 1O:45 am,
l:25, 4:10, $50 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol Rage in Heaven" :"
jealousy and madness mar a mar
riage: IL am, LAS, 4:3O, 7:05 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1855, $40,
6::25 and s:l0 pm.
Keith's-"Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
marital comedy with Carole Lom-
bard and Robert Montgomery: IL,
2:25. $50, 7:25 and 9:35 pm. March
of Time: 1875 am, 2, 4::25, $50 and
9:l5 pm.
Lttle-"Night Train" melodra-
matte and comic British thriller:
II am, 12:45, 2:30, 4:2o, 6:o5, 7:55
and $40 pm.
Metropolitan - The Strawberry
Blond" romance Americana. circa
1900: 11:10 am, lis, 800, 5:25,
7:35 and 9:40pm.
Col u m b / a-''The Philadelphia
Story" Katharine Hepburn in a
witty frolic: 11:50 am, ais, 4:40, 7
and 9:25 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am,
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game fishermen in the world,
Warmers found it out, hired the
Lerners, and have made millions
flsh-conScious who might never
otherwise have gotten beyond gup-
pies. Paramount might never have
had the idea of putting a human
voice on a sound track, matching it
up with the facial expressions and
lip movements of animals and pro-
ducing thereby corking short
called Speaking of Animals" Nor
might Universal have gone into
those strange bypaths of life which
contribute the material for its
Stranger Than Fiction"
The short subject simply has
come to a new dignity. An newt
able new dignity which has grown
out CT the circumstance that it can
be as fresh, vital and entertaining
as the full-length feature may be
stale, tired and dull.
1t is very happy thing.
Anticipating Friday the 21st, the
Earle's stage door sign last Friday
read Through this door will pass
Charlie Spivak and his orchestra.
:. Or words to that effect But
the sign was in error, innocently
Wlthal Spivak's radio engage
ments conflict So Enric Mad
riguera's band will come instead
Senor Madriguera, as his name i'm
plies, Is a rumba -conga man .
Popular with those New York night
CLUB audiences, and radio audiences.
whose passion is Latin American
music :. Also wrong, but with due
allowance in advance for the fact
that it might be, was the plan for a
press session with William Wyler
afternoon Mr.. Wvler.
who will direct the screen version
of The Little Foxes" was expected
here, coincidental with the arrival
OF the cast headed by Miss Tallulah
Bankhead Mr.. Wyler was
grounded in Cleveland, although the
weather here would have been per-
feet for a get-together As last
Monday, so this, attention is being
called by the Theater Guild to the
fact that Twelfth Night" is playing
in Baltimore this week Ford's
is the house.
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llllQlng OUT LOT nlmSelI.
Gone With the Wind" passed the
30,000000 attendance mark a few
days ago. 1t will hit 40 900 900 before
the end of the year, sponsors predict
E. Potential stars occasionally turn
up at just the right place and the
right time Louis B. Mayer, head of
M-G-M studio, was the dinner
guest of friends one evening when
he first heard Kathryn Grayson
get up to sing. Kathryn was IA at
the time. She was in" from that
moment. Today, at II, she looks
like another Judy Garland bet for
Mayer Mary Pickford's house
hold is determined to get back into
the amusement business. Mary is
going over plans to produce and per-
haps play one of the featured roles
in a story for United Artists release
this year. Meanwhile, husband,
Charles Buddy Rogers, who recent
ly made a neat enough comeback
appearance in a Jane Withers pic
ture, IS planning personal appear
ance tour in movie theaters. He'll
break In his "act" next week in 4
Los Angeles house.
X 4 X
Asked at his recent press confer
ence whether he would ever make
another comedy presenting the
down-and- tramp character that
has been synonymous with the
Chaplin name for 25 years. Charlie
replied, Il can't. President Roose-
welt has taken him away from me.
What with the w. P A. and other
relief groups there's no such thing
as the forgotten man any more!"
. Hollywood will do nice "dou-
BILE take" on today. Dame May
Whitty and her equally well-known
actor husband, Ben Webster, cele-
brate a unique dual anniversary
go years each in the show business
and their golden wedding anniver-
sary. When Myrna 10y and
Arthur Hornblow, ir, decided to for
get the past and try again as hus-
band and wife they had to rent an
apartment. Their beautiful Cold
water Canyon home had been sold
during the rift Columbia is
rushing work on the script of "Har-
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Journey" is the perennial "Able'S s.
Irish Rose" the rose that never
fades
Howard Wentworth, who will di-
rect the play, will be at Pierce Hall
tomorrow night from 8 o'clock on,
to. addition all available brogues.
The familiar story of Able Levy
and Rosemary Murphy and the
furor they caused by marrying is
scheduled for presentation April q
and "a and is the fourth major
production of the Pierce Hall groups
season Mr.. Wentworth, inciden-
tally, has directed it before, in the
summer of 1899 at the Cross Roads
Theater.
Another tryout this week is
scheduled for Wednesday evening,
when L. zaff Rogers will addition
prospective players for the East
Washington Troupers' forthcoming
production of The Rafferty, Racket"
The place is Eastern High School,
Seventeenth and East Capitol
streets, and the time is pm The
Rafferty, Racket" is a new play by
Howard Chenery.
Tonight is the night of the Bum
dies for Britain benefit performance
at the State Theater in Falls
Church. Va, by the Villagers of
Falls Church. The play is Can
dido uyitI Roroioa Cob,,1f, ,>Jo,,;,,o
the title role.
The Montgomery Players have
completed the cast of June Mad"
and are rehearsing it against an
April 19 production date at Leland
Junior High School. Doris Dewey
Day is directing and the players will
be Clara Kenner, Willard Christen-
sen, Virginia Wilkinson, Ed Wilkin-
son, Edward McAlister, Louise Ap-
pie, Melissa Child, Irving Day. jr.;
Ben Hamilton, Dorothy Mathews,
Hartley Day and Betty Simpson.
The Greet Academy of Dramatic
Art announces today the addition
dates for the three annual scholar
ships Director Maurice Greet awards
as tribute to his uncle, the famed
British actor manager, Sir Philip
Ben Greet Applications must be
made by letter to the academy. 20l7
S street NV. then the contestants
will be examined further at COM
petitive additions to be held March
26.
Note to Rita Anne Wall:
We will gladly tell every one lis
tening that the Harlequins Dramatic
Group of Friendship House has Sc
lected "T.he Tramp Tells the Tale"
as its next play. that the players
are Cloyd Hamm, Betty Mclean,
Paul Blaine, Alice Newheiser, Anna
Mary Patton and Eddie Lincoln,
and that Joseph Stanley, who is di-
recting, is also the author.
Now will you tell us when and
where?
Evening star., 1941-03-17
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

The audience which attended
Vladimir Horowitz's piano recital
at Constitution Hall yesterday aft
ernoon sat amazed at a display Of
virtuosity rarely matched by any
pianist before the public today.
Making use Of technique trained
to the highest degree. he dazzled his
listeners with the manner in which
it was bent to the finest purposes
in the Interpretation of a program
that was confined to works of
Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and
composer little known in this
country, the Russian, Jelobinsky.
From a mechanical angle, if from
no other, it was a superb perform
ance from start to finish, and quite
naturally almost all of those present
waited at the end of the concert
for the encores to follow.
There is moment of nervous
tension before Horowitz begins to
play as he tries to make himself
comfortable for the next tour de
force. Yesterday the piano bench
was changed three times before he
was satisfied. But once he is started
there is no feeling of undue hurry
or excitement. All the brilliancy of
his performance is accomplished
under keen mental direction and in
proper proportions. However he is
not pianist who reaches out to
his audience or projects for their
enjoyment the ideas he is develop
ing. He plays for himself, In an
intimate way, as though nothing
mattered but his own satisfaction
in his performance.
This popularity of his fits in es-
pecially well with Chopin's music
and it was in the group of mazurkas.
etudes, the "Barcarolle, op. 60' and
the "Polonaise in A fiat major. op.
SO" that he excelled. The etudes
were particularly fine in the deli
cate, subdued way in which they
were performed.
TO Beethovens Variations in C
Minor and Schumann's Ara
besque" he brought great fnesse and
an amount of imagination that
raised these often-abused works to
their rightful artistic statue. Mr..
Horowitz's tone is fine, but lacks
depth and beauty and in these works
and also the Schumann "Toccata,
Op. 7" there were no wings to it
to give it a soaring quality. It
remained in both soft and loud
passages entirely within the boun-
daries of the instrument.
Valerii Viktorovich Jelobinsky is
a young Russian composer now 80
years of age, who early showed evi-
dence of a great talent. The per-
formance today Of his six Etudes.
Opus 49, introduced his name and
his particular style to local public.
The etudes are named "Nocturne,
"Valse," "Reminiscences" 'Danse,"
"Recitatif' and "Toccata," and are
vividly imaginative, sincerely in
spired and markedly original. In
their construction as well as in the
poetic expression of the idea to
which they were dedicated individu-
Evening star., 1941-03-17

feature attraC- Jay Carmody
tions. Such a treatment of the rela-
tive merits of filler and feature
items is based upon that fine old
canon of journalism which says the
important thing should come first.
That is about as far a cry as one
could get from a last line to the
effect of short subjects completing
the bill. 1t reflects the enormously
changed attitude of producers since
the day they looked upon the short
as mere time conSumer-and made
it perfectly just that. 1t is further
significant of the fact that intelh-
gence, Imagination and highly in
genuous use of the camera have
finally come into the field.
The new pre-eminence of the
short subject in the calculation of
the studios is due in part to their
concern over the double feature.
That bogey. which still is teaching
a lot of discriminating customers
how much worse two movies can be
than a mere one. has been a power
full asset to talented people like
Robert Benchley, Pete Smith, John
Nesbitt. James A. Fitzgerald and
dozen others.
The new importance OF talents
such as these is conveyed somewhat
subtlety to the newspaper visitor to
the Hollywood lot. A few years ago,
the maker of shorts was the fellow
forgotten by even the forgotten man.
That he might be worth a story was
as inconceivable as that he might
ever have his name on door plate.
He had less personality in the eyes
OF the press department than an ap-
prentice animal actor, say a goat
in the sophomore class.
That is not true today. Even those
glamour girls and boys whose self
consciousness is deep enough to hide
from them their own lack of talent
are proud to know the men who
make shorts. They accept them as
both social and artistic equals. And
the publicity department is never so
faded. or whatever that malady is,
that it cannot think how fine it
would be to set an interview with
the sports reel, the odd occupations
reel, the travelogue, the science,
crime or some other shorts subject
man.
The odds, incidentally. are roughly
two to one that the man who takes
the suggestion will find the interview
subject more writable than the latest
blond on the studios pay roll.
TIE industrys attitude has in
spired the brevities geniuses to such
heights that they can take highly
specialized subjects and make them
universally interesting. The field
has been combed like mad for eX-
perts who might have died unknown
and unsung had not the cinema
discovered curiosity as a quality of
the human mind.
The Lerners, Michael and Helen,
for instance, might have gone on
forever being merely two of the
best known (among flshermen) big
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Merit Of Current Shorts
Abolishes That Cliche
No Longer Can Reviewer Dismiss
Brief Films With a Curt Line;
Spivak Engagement Cancelled
By Jay CARMODY

things
recent item which
1t sentence which picture review
Usually 1t the last line Taken directly t,eaters
brb and because supplied irony perfectly
read: - '
Selected short subjects complete
Evening star., 1941-03-17
The Little Foxes
Back at National

Lillian Hellman's The Little
Foxes" the drama which final
ly gave Talullah Bankhead her
opportunity to show American
audiences something of her
ability as an actress, returns
tomorrow night to the Ma
tional Theater, from whence it
went on year ago to a sue
cessful New York engagement
and road tour.
With a single exception, the
cast is the same as that which
started the play off on its run.
The addition is Marie Carroll.
who now plays the Birdie Hub
bard who symbolizes the fate
of the aristocracy of the old
South. Other players are Frank
Conroy, Charles Dingle, Carl
Benton Reid, Eugenia RaWls.
Dan Duryea, Lo- Baker. Abbie
Mitchell and John Marriott.
The local engagement of The
Little Foxes" is for one week
only, with the regular Wednes-
day and Saturday matinees.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
HOroWitz's Recital Shows
Technical Perfection
Audience at Constitution Hall
Is Dazzled by Technique
OF Pianist in Program

ally, they are unique among the
varied modern musical literature.
Mr.. Horowitz played them superbly.
answering with his phenomenal
technique and innate musical feel
ing the demands which they made
upon. the performer.
Although no encores were given
during the program, several other of
Chopin's works were played at the
conclusion of the program, climaXed
by the brilliant arrangement of the
"Habanera, from Carmen" There
was hardly vacant seat in the
house, and the enthusiastic welcome
given Mr.. Horowitz was general.
Evening star., 1941-03-17

complete every
motion picture
bill. They are
not the kind,
however, which
can be dismissed
so curtly. AS a
matter of fact,
to the almost
suicidal conster-
nation of an ex-
hibitor here and
Urlere, cOllSClen-
tious critics have
been known to
review certain
IS orts' over
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Directs Air Film

Gordon Wiles, well-known direc-
tor and former Academy Award
winner, has been assigned to direct
the Paramount aviation drama,
Forced Landing" which William
H Pine and William Thomas will
produce. Eva Gabor, Paramount S
startling new importation from
abroad, and Richard Arlen were re-
Gently awarded the leads.
Evening star., 1941-03-17

the Dill.
Today, selected short subjects still
Evening star., 1941-03-17

Local Drama Groups
Two Plays to Be Cast at Tryouts
Tomorrow and Wednesday
By HARRY MacARTHIJR,.

supersous FOLK these heater people so is no surprise that
production until ST. Patricks Day had blessed
possibly spending today in silent contemplation
which
Happy
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Linda Darnell Is Worried
BY Romantic Problems
Pairing of Her Name With Roonev's
For Publicity Not Understood
By Her Latin Bow Friend
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.
In and out of focus


Mickey Rooney taking his publicity planned romance with Linda
Darne much TOO seriously to suit the Texas admits shes
love with Spanish refugee Jamie
Mexico
understand publicity gettogers rportedv having time
Evening star., 1941-08-11
HaIIeck Heads Committee
To Study Small Business

House Minority Leader Joseph
w. Martin. jr., today announced
the appointment of Representative
Charles A. Halleck of Indiana as
chairman of 16-member Republic
can Small Business Study Commit
tee organized to investigate the
dangers now confronting the small
businesses of America"
Americas small enterprises
those employing less than 200 work.
ers and comprising SO per cent of
all business-are hanging on the
ropes" Mr.. Martin stated, because
they have been deprived of a fair
share in the war contracts, almost
strangled by priorities, stifed by
regulations and taxes"
The committee, he said, also will
make a comprehensive study of "the
perils which will beset all American
business when the wars end. and
the national preparedness program
is completed"
Serving with Mr.. Halleck will be
Representatives Bates, Massachu-
setts; Smith, Maine; Cole, New
York; Hall, New York; Vreeland.
New Jersey; Graham, Pennsylvania:
Mott, Oregon; Bender. Ohio: Ar
ends, Illinois; Hoffman, Michigan.
winter, Kansas; Ploeser. Missouri:
Dworshak, Idaho; Burdick, North
DAKOTA, and Baumhart, Ohio.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

panded, she said. to replace silk
withdrawn from the market by sew
ering Of trade relations with Japan
and freezing Of all raw silk in this
country for parachutes and powder
bags.
Price increases in small speciality
shops here were general all last week
and are expected to 90 q little higher
this week. Large department stores
have so far maintained prices at
normal level.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Consumer Aide Warns Women
Not to Pay Higher Prices

The public is being "gouged" by
unjustifiable hosiery price increases,
Miss Marriet Elliott, associate price
administrator, declared today in
urging women to refuse to pay
higher prices for hose.
Many of the Nations retailers
and wholesalers" she said, have
patriotically refrained from raising
the price of silk products on the
basis of the raw silk shortage. But
Evening star., 1941-08-11

others are deliberately taking ad-
vantage of the situation to reap
windfall profits for themselves and
do an injustice to their customers
by raising prices although the cost
of their existing stockings has not
changed In the slightest"
Miss Elliott urged customers to
buy only for current needs. The pro-
duction of rayons, cottons and ny
Ions suitable for hose is being ex-
Evening star., 1941-08-11
hospital Ship Torpedoed
By British, ItuIiuns Suy
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
ROME, Aug. 11.-TheItalian high
command declared today a British
plane torpedoed the Italian hospital
ship California, at anchor in Syra-
cuse Harbor last night, but said the
ship did not sink.
Syracuse is on the east coast of
the island of Sicily, a recently
much bombed target of the R. A. F.
Lloyd's register of merchant YES
sells lists an Italian liner California
Of 1900 tonA
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Willkie Says Victory
Is at Lost in Sight
By the Associated Press.

By tne Associated Press.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Aug. H.
Wendell L. Willkie, commenting on
the war, said yesterday, For the
first time can see victory in sight
because the United States has made
defense preparations.
A delegation from Hoosier organi-
cations was calling on him to in
vite him to speak at a defense rally
at the State Fair in Indianapolis
August % to September S.
He said he would 20 if he was in
Evening star., 1941-08-11

Owing to curtailment of supplies
and dwindling imports of sage and
other seasoning herbs and aromatic
seeds. their cultivation in the United
States is being stimulated.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

Indiana then. Visiting here. he
will 60 back to New York City TO-
morrow or Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29

bill would enable this Government
to actually deliver" or convoy"
war supplies to England.
Not by convoy" Mr.. Stimson re-
piled
We'll, for example, could the
President have airplanes flown
across the ocean,"
Mr.. Stimson replied the President
already has that power as COM
mander in chief and that the bill
does not affect that.
This prompted the Senator to ask
if the same power of commander in
chief would enable him to authorize
conveys.
Il think he has very broad power
over the movements of ships Mr..
Stimson answered. but suggested the
Senator put that question to Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox later.
The start of House consideration
of amendments found Republicans
on the committee with seven pro-
posed changes to offer. Like the
Democrats, the minority members
met separately yesterday to decide
on recommendations.
The Republican amendments in
cluded no-convoy ban, but pro-
posed one-year limit on the Pres
ldent'S powers. Other proposals
we're: Impose a $4,000, 600, 900 ceiling
on the expense of the program; pro-
hibit use of American shipyards by
belligerent warships: prohibit the
President from giving away" any
part Of the Navy; require Britain to
post security for the aid rendered
until her resources are exhausted,
and limit the section of the bill
which would allow it to supersede
existing legislation which conf1icted
The House committee ended its
hearings yesterday with a closed
session for testimony from Gen.
George C. Marshall Army chief of
staff. On leaving the hearing Gen.
Marshall told reporters he thought
Britain could triumph if she re-
celved the aid the lease-lend pro-
gram would provide.
He called the present situation
"one of the most critical periods in
the history of the world" and said
he expected Germany to attempt
Knockout invasion blow ct England
in April or May.
Senate Committee Chairman
George, informally discussing the
four amendments of House commit
tee Democrats, said he thought
there would be mo question" about
acceptance of three of them by a
majority of the Senate committee.
There might be some disagree
ment, he believed. however, over the
proposal to require the President to
consult with Army and Navy chiefs
before disposing of existing military
equipment.