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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Film Time Clock

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Montgomery RecOUers
From Throat AiInlent

ALTHOUGH HE threatened 10
become the doctors dilemma
Douglass Montgomery. handsome
star of Night Must Fall al the
CaSs this week. has finally recov-
cred from his attacked laryngitis
enough 10 make his role even more
compelling than it was here on
opening night.
Il know oil debbil flu had me
by the throat Sunday night, hut
thanks TO Doctor Shurly. I've
regained my voice and feel fit
enough to commit all the muir
ders I'm supposed to execute in
Mr.. Williams play" Montgom-
cry told us in an interview today.
We were principally interested
in where Mr. Montgomery. who is
a splendid actor. has been hiding
for the past few years. so we i'm
mediately inquired as TO his where
abouts after he left the screen a
few years ago as Kent Douglass
and disappeared into the limbo of
foreign stardom.
ITS long story" Douglass
confessed. "but I shall try TO re-
hearse II rs quickly as ! can for
YOU. I changed nv name when I
started to work for M-G-M. be-
cause my full name IL Robert
Douglass Montgomery and at
that time tho studio WIS making
a big star of Robert Montgom-
cry, so Irving Thalberg helped
me pick new name and
launched me on n film career
which turned out much more
successful than had even
dreamed I returned to the stage
because I was convinced that IN
actor cannot he success at both
movies and legitimate thep'er.
You can make career Of either
one. hui mot OF beth and. while
! loved both. wanted to stick
to the stage, II IL would stick
with me-"
Tall, blond and humorous. Mr..
Montgomery next went TO England
where he made several films and
appeared on the London stage.
During the making of one of these
British films. he so injured his left
arm he had to retire for a year
and then came back TO this coun-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Wrong Number

Newest oneedote TO euanote
from the United Detroit The
alters switchboard is the one
Which Ruth, the charming opera
tor reports about the Woman Uho
called and inquired about the
STARTING time Of Gone With the
Wind" at the United Artists.
Regular Ruth. who rules over
m. said switchboard at Cherry
1891. replied "9 100, 100. 500
and 900" wh~-eupon the
womon said. "Oh. Cherry 9-f-5-9.
Thank you Uery much" and
hung up. According to the Greek
restaurant with this telephone
number, this womon called for
several hours after in order TO
find out tphen Gone With the
3 Wind" did begin.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Pick Kay Harris
For 'TiIIie' Role
Popular Cartoon
to Be Produced
by Columbia
BY LOUELLA o. PARSONS

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 26.-Kay
Harris, the dark-eyed secretary
whom Penny (Blondie) Singleton
discovered in Cincinnati. gets the
coveted "Tillie the Toiler" role
after all. Because the Blonde"
series, also based on a King Fea-
lures comic strip with Penny,
Arthur Lake and Baby Larry
Sims. has become so very popular
on the screen. Columbia has been
eager TO get the right "Tillie."
Marion Davies created the first
movie Tillie in the silent days and
what cute Tillie she was. leading
Mac a dogs life with her naive
mistakes.
Chic Young's cartoon Blonde"
has become a household word be-
cause of the screen and radio. and
Harry Cohn is hopeful that "Tillie
the Toiler" will have the same
success.
Blonde herself turned talent
scout and urged her bridegroom.
Robert Sparks, who produces the
Title series, TO make a test of
the Harris girl. She was first dis
carded as Not the Type but
after other intensive tests she was
finally selected.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Stars Signed

GLADYS GEORGE and Barton
MacLane have been signed for
leading roles in Hit the Road"
featuring the Dead End Kids and
The Little Tough Guys. Juvenile
performers assigned to the picture
include Billy Halop, Huntz Hall.
Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsley and
BobS Watson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Life's Story

What do you knoW about
Bette DaUis, wTfins the story Of
her life! Yes indeed, she is, and
she's calling IL This Ones on
Me-" When Bette WW get time
TO write her life story is a moot
question for II seems every day
Warmers are buying a new moVie
for her.
! saw the galley proofs Of
The Gay Sister" on Hal Wallis
desk a fsW days ago, they had
many seribbied notatioas and it
didn't take detective to realize
he practically had il before the
cameras as a noUie. Although
il sounds like Lane Sisters
opus, Hal told me il is for Bette
and he believes vhen IL is pub
Hshed IL wiH rank Nth Kings
RoW" and "The Sisters" Stephen
LonRstreet, its author, is on his
Uay here TO aid in the adoption.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
At the Cinema

Opening today is the latest
French film The Loves of Clau-
dine" Not unlike "Maedchen in
Uniform" this film at the Cinema
deals with the emotional problems
of a young girl faced with Adde'S
cent problems in European
school
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
BY BURDETTE JAY

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 26.-If
Scenarist Joe Swerling weren't
curbed, he'd write himself right out
OF job.
Unlike most movie authors who
like to fill script with all kinds
of eloquent speeches, he believes
that the best talkies are the most
silent ones and he uses more blue
pencils on his own dialogue than a
city editor would.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
Young Starlets
Seek Freedom
F ind Bre a k S
on Other
Lots
By CHARLES GENTRY

WHILE IT is the dream of
countless young hopefuls and as
pirant actors to get under a nice,
warm contract to leading motion
picture studio, many of the envied
flock who are already signed are
equally DESTROYS of being freed. or
at least being allowed to go visit
ing on other, greener lots.
1t has been proven repeatedly
that many film players don't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
On Their OWn

Judy Garland Uas making
pictures like "Pigskin Parade"
around the Fox lot until M-C-M
asked for her for a "Broodvay
Melody" and you know the rest.
Rite Hayworth. whom you wiI
see as THE Strawberry Blonde"
got nowhere on her home lot as
Rita Canine. bur became
glamour girl at Columbia and
started poine places.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26

hung around the M-G-M lot as just
another of Culver City's beautiful
fixtures until she was loaned TO
Walter Wanger TO make "Algiers"
and then did Leo start roaring for
Hedy TO come home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26

re "a lily get "A
break until they
are borrowed"
by another stu
dio for a film.
OF cour S e.
many who feel
they are unap-
pre- cia ted at
home. wouldn't
do a n y I h ! n &
spec tacular if
[ h ey w G r e
loa n g d to a
Byrd expedition
of a movie. but
eral, like
Hedy Lamar.
have been neg
lected by their
own studio and
h av had TO
have their tai
ents brou & h I
out by another
producing unit.
II e d y, you
m aV rec |,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26

BUDDY EBSEN. playing a fea-
tured role in They Met in Argen-
tina" was a soda-fountain clerk
in New York's Pennsylvania Sta
(tion, until he was discovered by
! the late Ziegfeld and started on
a comedy career
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26

try 10 do Cat and the Canary"
for Paramount.
His family lives peacefully in
the California foothills and here
he relaxeS whenever his present
busy schedule permits. He is very
athletic and has d keen sense of
humor.
Having begun his career as an
actor when he was only u years
old. he thinks that he's entitled TO
retire when he's 30. His ambition
is to settle down on a ranch as far
away from Broadway and Holly
wood as the country's limits will
permit. TO get married and raise
children and cattle.-C. G.
YOUNG PHIL BROWN. New
York actor playing a featured
role in Il Wanted Wings is writ
ing a text book on scene design
between scenes on the production.
Brown taught the subject at STAN
ford University after his gradual
ton in 1897.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-26
FOx Scendrist Believes Movies
Improve With Less Dialogue

Quinn. Why should we have
them talk: Their actions will
express more than a thousand
words.
Evening star., 1941-04-26
Strength Is Necessary
To Hold Peace, Knox
Tells Naval Engineers
Sees Courage Also as
Vital; 'CompIimented'
By Germany

Courage will defeat potential en-
emies, but strength will provide
peace, Secretary of the Navy Knox
declared last night in discussing ma
tional ideals which will carry this
Nation through threats from abroad.
Addressing the American Society
of Naval Engineers in the Willard
Hotel, Col. Knox said he accepted
as compliment" remarks from
Germany that he was a war leader.
Mr.. Knox declared that Il accept
that kind of a declaration from Mr..
Hitler"
He told the engineers charged
with providing better material, ships
and armament that there would be
peace only if you have the power
to enforce it,"
Though the United States Navy
now has more than 1000 units as
components of its combat and sup
ply organization, Mr.. Knox said the
most perfectly built ship is in
effective unless manned by men OF
courage.
Though there is an increasing in
crement of air force Mr.. Knox said
the "fate of a nation rests on sea
power
Capt Claude A. Jones, organlza-
ton president, told the group that
I'VE car not buy time and that once
lost il cannot be regained." Through
vision, he added, there must be
preparation. He pointed out that
the Navy is taking full advantage
of lessons of the present war and has
found that theories and experiments
have been proven.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
CHIEF of the Maritime Commission,
acted as toastmaster.
Evening star., 1941-04-26

C. C. Marbury, DR.. William B. Ma
son, Mrs. Rose Wallach Merriam,
Benjamin S. Minor, DR.. James F
Mitchell, DR.. Daniel B. Moffett, DR.
A. B. Moore. DR.. Thomas E. Neill
Mrs. Chauncey G. Parker, jr.;
Thomas H. Reynolds, DR.. Sterling
Ruff1n, H. L. Rust, jr; Mrs. George
P. Scriven, DR.. A. r. Stands, Rich
ard Stands, E. Russell True, DR.
John w. Warner, DR.. Charles STAN
ley White, Stanley D. Willis.
Evening star., 1941-04-26
Plan Palestine Fair

Young Judea Clubs of Washington
have arranged a Palestine Fair, "
to be held from to 10 pm. tomor-
row at the Jewish Community Gen.
ter. Proceeds will be used to aid
the organizations scout project in
Palestine.
Evening star., 1941-04-26
Listen for the
Nancy Dixon
Radio Program

at o'clock in the afternoon on station WJSV
Monday through Friday stortins Mondoy,
April 28th (insteod of 9 o'clock in the morning,
the time you have been accustomed to heoring
her report on "Whot 10 New in the Stores
Today'0.
Evening star., 1941-04-26

Added to the sheer Joy Of strong through famous eorder
Jefferson, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson and
Monroe) the thrill of knowing your costume is port of
ture . :. that it blends beautifully, belongs truly
rotous blooms, the eIistenne foIioee be-brimmed
pretty prin-odded to your chorn1-ond you walk in
through garden otter garden.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12
MEMS 2.98
FALL SWEATERS
2ss

What do you like' Stripes'
Neat figures' We've got EN-
all! Non wrinkling rayons or
woods. Stock up at this price.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12

Closely woven combed cot
ton. Crew neck style. Light
weight for comfort full
cut for action. Stock up now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12
Mythica al Locale

WISTFUL VISTA, the mythical
midwcstern town in the Fibber
MCGEE and Molly program, pro-
videS the main background for
Look Who's Laughing. which
also stars Edgar Bergen. Charlie
Mccarthy and Lucille Ball.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12
Horseman

JOEL McCREA, who rides fire.
quently in The Great Man :
Lady" learned 10 ride cowboy
style when only 9 years old.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12

FRANCES FARMER, a natural
blonde, turned brunei 10 pl y
her role opposite John Barry
more in World Premiere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12

Wear a tougher, huskier pair
of cotton coverts and save
while you're at it! Reinforced
seams! $3.50 shrink proof.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12

Get a couple of pairs now while
they last! High-count luxury cot
ton broadeloth - easy to look at,
easy to sleep in. Full, generous sizes
A TO d.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12

The most comfortable shorts a man
can wear--now sale-priced for An
niversary! Trim, snug-htting -.
Tapped front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12

Down ICONS Pioneers price for this
great Anniversary sale! Get wear
tested cotton covert or chambray.
$3.50 shrinkproof. Double eIbous.
Full cut.
Evening star., 1941-02-25

of The Man Who Came to Dinner"
But Woollcott also is very much the
thing called Sheridan WhiteSide,
fabulous creature whose exhausted
patience with the human race eX-
presses itself with literate, ex-
ploSive and hilarious violence which
should be incredible, but isn't.
Around Mr. Woollcott's road COM
pany of Mr.. Woollcott, Producer
Sam Harris has arranged a cast
eminently qualified to frame the
great man as he should be. It
helps greatly to make Moss Harts
and George S. Kaufman's diabolic
biography merry and memorable
thing.
Just how accurate a portrait of
Mr.. Woollcott the playwrights have
created is hardly a thing vouch-
safed to any one who happily has
escaped the fate of being imprisoned
with him, an invalid with a frac-
tured hip, in the home of a guile
less best family in Messalia, Ohio
A fool would realize, however, that
tllC odlllCIo ollAA tiACil SuDJOSCd
model in the principal role when he
might otherwise have sued them
for libel and collected less collab-
crate to make it vastly amusing
and only slightly less baWdy. Sub
ordinately, the busy stage is stocked
with numerous other characters
whose resemblance to some highly
publicized humans either is not
purely coincidental," or is one of
the happiest condolences that ever
aided malicious comedy.
There is a highly self conscious
young (but now recovering) English
playwright. a world-famouS author
comedian who has fitted the mask
of fantasy to what some people call
vulgarity, a symbolic actress who
could be identified as several ac-
treSses if any one dared, and a
number of others. Surrounded by
the routine Ohioans, they make a
fascinating and representative ex-
hibit of the unfettered life of the
Intellectually privileged. It's accu-
racy Is something quite beside the
point. which is that it is very easy
to sit there and laugh ones head
off at the exchange of insults. The
exchange is one in which neither
the remote and immediate ancestry,
nor the current morals. of those
involved is spared nothing. Pat
emily, the Messrs. kaufman and
Hart were not writing for the pure
In heart.
In the role of Sheridan Whiteside,
vituperative, crafty egomaniac who
can speak the language of Satan
with the tongue of an angel, Wooll-
colt has an ex-critic's dream role
There, in the full flood of the spot
light, he speaks his bitter denun-
citation of the whole of creation,
sparing only gift octopus and
some penguins, his only solaces in a
miserable universe. 1t is a trium-
phant misery that the playwrights
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Ballet Russo
(Original)
Returns
Baby Ballerinas'
Supplemented by
An Able Troupe
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Last night was Tatiana Riabou-
chinska's evening. a sort OF per-
sonal triumph for her. as the Origi-
nal Ballet Russo returned to Wash
ington after an absence Of several
years. Miss Riabouchinska pro
nounced easily by clipping it hard
on the CHM was busy throughout
the entire program (the first Of two
at Constitution Hall by the group
and busy with a variety of roles
which put her virtuosity to test.
She was at her brightest, perhaps,
in David Lichine's Graduation
Ball" a frolic set to Johann Strauss
music, which is an excellent setting
for RiabouchinSka's vivacious droll-
cry Mr.. Lichine's ballet is, in
fact, an admirable vehicle for a
number of members of the company.
being one of those heartily frivolous
affairs which give dancers every
opportunity to dance their heads off
with all the spirit at their disposal.
Lichine himself appeared last night
to dance with Riabouchinska in his
tale of a graduation ball at fash
ionable girls school.
This seems altogether an admir-
able ballet troupe which Col. w. de
Basil sends us now, the three baby
ballerinas" of several years (the
Misses Tamara Toumanova, Trina
Baranova and Riabouchinska) be-
ing bulwarked by several capable
male dancers. supplemented by some
new and truly baby ballerinas and
surrounded by lovely corps de bal
let. This latter department is where
you will find it if you are seeking
Evening star., 1941-02-25

have imagined for him and Woolcott
is Just the man to relish 1t to the
last stinging observation to which
it entities him.
Most eXquisitely participating in
his torment, and the audiences en-
joyment. are people of such compe-
tence as Edith Atwater, as the great
mans wise but sentimental secre-
tary: Teddy Hart as the sly, raffish
movie comedian; Doris Nolan who
would be good even If she were not
Don Craig's cousin) as the actress
menace who would scuttle an inno-
cent young author as readily as an
imbecilic British noble; and, bless
us, Minnie Dupree as venerable
old hammer murderess. The others.
down to the chap who delivered the
penguins with a leering exit line,
are quite effective, although too
numerous to mention.
The Woollcott company of The
Man Who Came to Dinner" like the
other branches of the project, was
directed by kaufman, than whom
no one is so able to get those aston
ishing results with a Kaufman-H Hart
play-or almost any other kind of
play. What he has whipped up for
action on Donald Oenslager's single
and highly effective set is some
thing to see even if these additional
ecstatic words we're not placed in
the plays record.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Chaplin Not Comforted
By Somerset Vaughan
Age Comes to Us ALL Says Author;
Another Publicity Romance
Is in the Ofins
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.
a rlec WriOhtcpoon


Alice have said Millionaire
jr because she currently drapng
Charles Chaplin bemoanng the other
than so would his
that to a we're lucky" Marene Dietrich
Evening star., 1941-02-25

here comparison between this COM
pany and the Ballet Russo de Monte
Carlo. There Is not, in this Original
Ballet Russo, any of that lack Of
precision noted on occasion in the
corps de ballet of the other troupe,
and these girls are trim, as If they
had eaten well without OVERRIDING it.
Miss Toumanova one appearance
last night was in the classic Michel
Fokine ballet, Les Sylphides," al
ways beautiful and made even more
so by Toumanova' dancing, both in
her solo moments and in her valse
with Paul Petroff. lad who knows
how to handle women. The other
Washington premiere Gt was the
first performance here of "Gradua-
ton Ball" too was of Fokine's PA
ganini," described as "a fantastic
ballet in three scenes" The adjec-
tive seems 70 have been used ad-
visedly, though Dimitri Rostoff, Ma
rina Svetlova and Miss Riabouchin-
ska made it brilliant as we'll as fan
tastic at times. But sometimes it
was just fantastic.
Tonight's program includes "Au-
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Mr.. WIS Man for Dinner
Also a COnvulsive Guest
Hart.Kaufman Comedy at National
All Those Superlatives, Including
Ones Demurring at Its Morals
BY JAY CARMODY.

Looking like the gaudy ruin of an old fountain Alexander WOOL
colt the the National stage this week spraying acid
trapped there with him. the
which
convulsvey
dramatic playing
Evening star., 1941-02-25


The Uniform" plays jewel thief,
but says she doesn't know whose
jewels she steals because that part
of the script isn't written yet.
Joan Crawford had to shake little
Richard Nichols-in "A Woman's
Face" and was worried because the
boys mother was on the set-watch-
ing. So Joan yelled to her. oh,
Mrs. Nichols, they want me to be
mean to your son. Is it all right?"
1t was all right. Irene Dunno
tells me about the two sets of twins
who worked as her child in Penny
Serenade." The twins at months
Zone was the stand-in) received $50
a day each. The year-old twins got
only $3.50 for the same period. 1t
pays to be young in pictures.
Lee Bowman and Helen Del Vale
must have had quite a quarrel be-
fore their elopement to Tia Juana.
Because I overheard her telling a
friend that she was off to Honolulu
and would never see Lee again. OF
course. the natural sequel to such
vehemence was the elopement. .
Constance Bennett. I am told. has
been offered a well-paying, PERSONAL
appearance tour in South America.
I think she ought to accept. South
America is an interesting country
Mr.. and Mrs William Powell
will appear in April on a joint radio
program-at Bills request. That
reminds me, Penny Singleton, a
great admirer of Helen Hayes, re-
Gently did her Blonde broadcast
in a perfect imitation of the first
Evening star., 1941-02-25
HYMN to Be Sung

Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise"
will be presented at the George
town Presbyterian Church tomor-
row evening at o'clock. Soloists
will be Mary Russell Williams. So
prano, and Barrett Fuchs, tenor,
with Nancy N. Poore at the organ.
A chorus of 30 voices will partici-
pate and the performance will be
under the direction of William o.
Tufts, jr., guest director.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.

Stage.
NatiOnaI-"The Man Who Came
to Dinner" with Alexander Wooll-
colt in the leading role: $50 pm.
Constitution Hall - The original
Ballet Russo, in Aurora S Wedding" ,"
"Choreartium" and Prince Igor:
8:45 pm.
Palace-"The Philadelphia Story"
Katharine Hepburn in a gay and
witty frolic: 1885 am. 2:l0, 4:40.
ITO and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Tall, Dark and Hand
some" Cesar Romero in satire
on gangster films: IL am, AS, ABS,
7::2O and 1905 pm. Stage shows:
1880. $40, $50 and 9:l0 pm.
Earle-"The Strawberry Blond" a
note on our past, circa 1900: ll:05
am, l:45. 4:25, ITO and $50 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, $40 and
9 pm.
Keith's-"Back Street." Margaret
SULLIVAN and Charles Boyer in the
tragic romance: 11:40 am, l:40,
$40, $40. TAO and $40 pm.
Littie-"Night Train" rip-snort-
ing British thriller: II am. 12:45,
2:30, 4:2O, SOS. 7:55 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"MaiSie Was a Lady"
in which the popular lass invades
high society: 1850 am, 1:50, 3:45,
5:45, TAO and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan Virginia" the
South wins Madeleine Carroll. in
technicolor: IL am, los, $40. SIS,
7:20 and 9:40 pm.
Evening star., 1941-02-25

roras Wedding" "Choreartium~
with DR.. Hans Kinder conducting
the Brahms music and Primes
Igor"