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Evening star., 1941-01-26
from Grocers' Stocks to Airplanes
Walter E. klines Clients Are Many His Business Getting
Advertisers Products and Services Noted in Films

by the Southern Pacific Railway
In First Lady" Kay Francis
comes right out and says, Henry
Ford always makes good cars"
In Food for Scandal" Ralph
Bellamy speaks many an institu-
tlonal line for life insurance.
Worth $4,000, 900.
In The First Hundred Years"
Robert Montgomery and Virginia
Bruce lovingly demonstrate a home
electric organ.
In confessions of a Nazi Spy"
Western Union gets a four minute
sequence in which its method of
transferring a message from one
district to another is dramatically
portrayed.
The head of a major studio de-
clared the other day that the plug"
given in forthcoming picture to
a well-knoWn brand of automobile
would be worth $l0,000,000 to the
company"
Maybe you think this is all the
bunk, that movie audiences aren't
impreSSionable All right, then. next
time you attend the movies try this
simple test When bird like Charles
Boyer or Clark Gable lights up a
cigarette see if you don't have an
urge to remove yourself to the
smoking section and do likewise
Or, if you're not a smoker. and Bette
Davis begins munching from nice
looking box of chocolates, can you
restrain a sudden desire to stoke
your own appetite with sweets?
Or ask the telephone folks A few
years ago they had millions tied up
in wall and upright instruments.
Joan Crawford and Claudette Col
bert began talking in the talkies
over those French" or cradle style
phones. What happened? Every
body wanted some of the same-so
production and installation had to
be speeded up. Now the phone COM
pany is worried about Technicolor.
Those cradles come in tints. too.
you know.
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Evening star., 1941-01-26
Coming Attractions


NAT1ONAl-Claudla. comedy by
Claudia and David of two of her most popular novels,
weeks engagement tomorrow night.
plays the title role which Frances Starr
Donald Cook Olga Bacanova.
the technicolor
to her native State from the North learned the
much of which filmed down the Charlottesville neighbor
hood opens Thursday Madeleine Carroll Marie Wilson,
MacMurray Stirling Hayden
CAP1TOL-Second Chorus musical fable which
and Burgess Meredith make practice of mkng college
they continue lucrative with the college
Thursday Paulette Goddard
stage bill
METROPOLITAN victory motion picture based the Joseph
Conrad novel, opens Friday Fredric March Field Sir
Cedric Hardwcke jerome
of the tale of adventure and romance.
KEITHS-"The Invisible Woman still scheduled
Ginger Rogers hit Kitty Foe sometime the distant
future.
PALACEThe Philadelphia Story Hepburns
of the Philip Barry which she
the end of the current of Gone With the Wind
Evening star., 1941-01-26
No Musician, He's Made Noteworthy Success of Music

cords an average of one number
week and the records. are among the
best sellers
His plain tWO-rOOm suite at the
Waldorf Astoria is always Uttered
with piles of music. books. papers.
letters and miscellaneous impede
menta like bottles of pills (he's a
vitamin hypochondriac), a $40 bag
of pennies for his new niece, or a
case of Frank Martinelli's wine. for
which he is a volunteer promoter
Members of the band-who work
for Kyser on guaranteed yearly
salaries considerably above the
union hourly scale-are always
dropping in to hash out perform
ance details. and Kyser's secretary
sits patiently by jotting down inter-
mlttent dictation ranging from
booster letter for some band KySer
is helping along to congratulatory
message to the coach of a victorious
team at Chapel Hill
Kyser's main recreation is the
movies, in which he likes anything
and everything. He recently spent
an entire afternoon and evening
daShing from one theater to another
taking IN six shows in a row
His most frequent companion is
Virginia Simms, who sings with the
band, and to whom he is constantly
reported engaged or married. which
he denies.
A Hometown Hero.
Kyser's closest feminine attach
ment always has been his mother.
a bright lady of 70 who was North
Cardinals first woman registered
pharmacist. and who lives in Rocky
Mount eagerly receiving the latest
reports of Kay's accomplishments
His father died three years ago.
and Kay's deputy in charge of Mrs
kySerS welfare is remarkable COL
ored boy, with Kyser since his COL
lege days, who describes himself on
answering the telephone as: Ulford
Madison Maxwell Clementine Cor
dell Riggsbee, chef. chauffeur. valet,
personal secretary and chaperone to
Mr. James K. Kyser, better known
as the man from the South
Kyser naturally is the local hero
of Rocky Mount-postcards show
the big white Kyser homestead and
identify the town as his birthplace
and is also a major pride of the
State of North Carolina.
When the movie people went to
Rocky Mount two years ago to whip
up the regulation hometown pre-
miere for Kays first picture. they
were astounded to find their plans
superfuous and themselves swept
aside by the spontaneous celebra-
ton that burgeoned.
There was a three-day fiesta of
packed streets, a continuous round
of parties. tons of banners and
bunting and fiercely competing brass
bands. The Governor of North Car
olina interrupted the duties of State
to come and pay his respects.
Evening star., 1941-01-26

themselveS-some Of which, Incl
dentally are just ordinary questions
in musical disguise as. - Now
Miss Filbert. the opera Aida is laid
on the Rivel Nile Mrs. Edgar
Greenbower of Ames, Iowa wants
to know what country the Nile
flows through Albania? . d.
That's Wrong-you're right! .. :"
On the important factor of max
ing the questions Just hard enough,
ana the many other elements OF
the show involving popular psy-
chology, Kay is grateful for his
arduouS years OF batting around
the country. becoming familiar with
the mental backgrounds of people in
all sections.
No advertising man cooped up
on Park avenue can tell me how
people IN Dallas or Denver think
about things" he says. L know,
cause I've lived with EN-
He's Kept Busy.
Off stage, KySer subsidies from his
hilarity into a serious, albeit genial
businessman. His many years of
hard going, which would have made
many people tough and gruff, have
deepened his sympathetic under
standing of human frailties and
heightened his natural kindliness,
evident in his treatment of even the
dumbest quiz contestants.
Kyser spends most of the time
from his daily 1:30 pm. breakfast
until 2 or 3 the next morning in
band work, checking over music,
scripts, itineraries and plans. Two
movies in the last two years and
phonograph recordings have kept
him hopping even more. He re-
Evening star., 1941-01-26

Booked into the BlackhaWk Res
taurant in Chicago in the fall of
1887, Kyser was cropping for an idea
to build up a following for a week
ly radio broadcast
Quiz programs were burgeoning
and Lew WaSSerman. an M. c. A.
executive. suggested a musical one.
why not said somebody. have
it like schooiroom? You look like
a professor" And Saxophonist
Sully Mason. the one man who has
been with the band since its start.
thought up the euphonlous title,
On the first program they offered
diplomas TO listeners who sent in
the correct answers to some musical
questions and the idea clicked phe-
nOmenally. At the end of five
weeks they were drawing 5000
letters a week.
Has Flourished Three Years.
Kyser had a hard time selling
the program commercially. never
thelcSs. He finally got results by
dumping a bushel basket of thou
sands of letters over the head of
shocked agent, screaming. That's
just one days mail to the College
of Musical KnoWledge" A few days
Later George Washington Hill.
American TobacCo's president and
shrewd advertising impresario
after hearing only II minutes of the
hour show, signed on the dotted line
The show. on radio. stage and
band platform, has been flourishing
for three years, but Kyser still
doesn't. know exactly what makes it
click. 1t may be the quiz idea, the
Kyser hi-jinks or the questions
Evening star., 1941-01-26

late snacks in the Brown Derby
and buzz until closing time about
the old and better days.
To hear them talk you get the
impression that this Hollywood of
TODAY is mild, prosaic. unutterably
dull place when compared to the
lusty, absurd and impoSslbly ldloIc
little boom town that il used TO be
They hark back TO the days when
Swanson was feudlng with N2grl.
and one day dumped a load Of cats
in the black-haired sirens dressing
room; when Sam GoldWyn threw
that colossal wedding for Roo La
ROGUE and Wilma Bankv: when
Murphy McHenry arrived q the
premiere of The King Of Kings
with a little tailor who looked Ike
Prof. EmStein. introduced him over
the radio that Wav and hOayed the
whole town, When-oh, well You
take it from there.
Yes, there's a new generation III
Hollywood, all rlght-a wiser, 0Weter
generation But there's no dOdgiug
the fact that the place IS fast
losing most of its color
Still Picturesque.
Sure. there are some Of the old
guard stilI left. but they've changed
All that Is. but one That man is
Cecil B De Mile. He remains about
the only real glitter personality IL
the town
He continues TO live. talk behave
even dress-lust Ike the plctur-
esque fellow who brought Camels
from the Holy Land to play in The
King OF Kings. who forced Tom
Meiahan to tote a chlorOlOrmed
leopard on MS shoulders for a scene
in Male and Female who mad
vertently led six YES men up to
Their shoulders in the Pacific when
he Waded out to find camera
angle for The Ten Command
ments." and who once collected a
Evening star., 1941-01-26

shouldn't speak his piece, he wrote
a letter to Harry Cohn. his boss at
Columbia Studio.
During the next five years" he
related, 'I hope I'll be making at
least 10 or maybe 20 pictures. This
fact set me to speculating on just
whom I'd be appearing opposite, and
beyond that, whom Id like to ap-
pear opposite if I had my choice
"As final selection rests with you.
may l presume to suggeSt-my list of
personal preferences in this matter?
1t may not be my good fortune to
play opposite all of these young
ladies. but if I can strike a so per
cent average. that will be fine.
They are: Lana Turner, Judy
Garland. Maureen OHara, Betty
Cradle, Patricia Morrison, Rita
Hayworth, Susan Hayward, Gene
Tierney, Brenda Joyce and Suzanne
Carnahan.
Please don't misunderstood my
motive. I'm not trying to tell you
how to run your business. I'm Just
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Graham
Continued From First Page

NSOIllulueu rIOiIl T II Sl rage
Pressman to a throat infection He
cured the throat. won the lady.
od-Faddist Greta Garbo asked
her pal Salka Viertel whether she
knew of a good health diet. Il
doctor who does. And so-Dr Gay
lord HauSer! Mrs. Bing Crosby
met the father of her four boys at
the Cocoanut Grove. where he toiled
as a singer But she didn't say
yes until he crooned through the
telephone, Il surrender. dear"
Sonia Henie was on skating tour
She decided TO break training Just
for once and went TO a night club
and was there introduced TO Dan
Topping
A night club. TOO. was the flrst-act
setting for Rita Havworth and Ed
ward JudsOn The little girl had
never been to a night club before.
and when Man. About Town Bill
Hollingsworth asked her to go with
him. she heSitated prettily and said.
DO YOU think I ought to?" We'll.
if YOU feel like that" said Bill
III go said Rita quickly. Judson.
wealthy broker. was then Staging
it. He sauntered to their table said
10 Bill, Dye mind if I move in?"
Later on he married Rita.
Went to School Together.
Humphrey Bogart disliked Mayo
Methot when he met her some years
ago during his New York stage era
They were reintrOduced in Holly
wood And celebrated their second
marriage anniversary a few months
ago. Don AmeChe and his heroine
were Sophomores at college.
Brenda Joyce and Owen Ward went
to the same high school. Lii
Damita met Enrol Flynn on boat
and the romance was on-and off
and on. Anne Shirley went to
a party with Lee Bowman. who in
troduced her to John Payne
Robert Taylor was seated next to
Evening star., 1941-01-26
A Step Toward a New Shakespeare
Lynn Riggs Play Points Dramatic Literature in Which
Complexes and Obsessions Are the Engineers of Fate

in the mind but in the back Of nc
neck where II gives pain
Owen Davis has a nice way Of
presenting the history OF how tnls
great thing came about. He JI7
fellow who has written all KIND, Of
plays for more than 40 years mo.
of them very successful. He said
he knew Dion BouCicault. the George
kaufman Moss Hart-Clyde Fitch
of the Victorian era. and the great
man told him THE audience mast
VII the last act OF the play" Thai
is. the last act must be the sum Il
the first and second and must be
exactly what the audience wanted
to happen.
Then. said Nh Davis. standards
changed. In fact, they vanished
altogether and NOWADAYS YOU can't
find 1000 people who agree on what
they want as the outcome of a
situation. For instance. if a woman
was naughty in the first ard second
acts in the old days, then everybody
wanted to see her get hers in the
third act. But NOWADAYS. some
would want her to get hers and
some wouldn't. nor would there be
any agreement on what getting hers
should consist of or even what not
getting hers should consist Of.
So, MI. Davis said. authors. BEING
people who reflect their times. lust
had to turn from writing about
situations 70 writing about Char-
acters in situations, and II vas quite
a lift for the artistic level Of the
writing business.
But that's another. infinitely
longer story and we'd better get
back 10 The Cream in the Well. ."
which. YOU remember. is about a
group OF people whose PSYCHOLOGICAL
reactions to their environment de-
StrOv them TIE major fault of the
play is that the environment is
barely stated. no less described and
made livable for the audience After
overlooking this matter-Which is
like a man overlooking the fact that
he is sitting down in a chair that
isn't there-Mr RiogS goes on to
sketch taboo passion that grew
out of this environment. He Goes
this tactfully, with some of that
silver fuzz touch Of his. But he
Just boots what comes next right
up through his hat.
What comes next. of course Is how
this abnormal relationship poisons
the lives of those involved in it
and Mr Riggs and all his actors
martha Sleeper, for instance. and
Ralph Theadore and Left Erickson
and Myron Mccormick can't make
any of this sound any more than
like words.
So The Cream in the Well"
wasn't worth a pleasure-hunting
theatergoer's time, but it was worth
thlnTino about. wasn't it?
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Evening star., 1941-01-26
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

The phone rang in the Hollywood
Office Of Walter E. Kline, listed as
"advertiser'S agent AS it hap
pened. this call was from the prop
erty department of the Twentieth
Century studio.
We've cot to stock a London hat
store for scene in Scotland Yard "
said the studio man. Can you fix us
up"
Kline said he could He hung up
the receiver and buzzed his stock
room, an immense storehouse as
roomy as the largest sound stage in
HOLLYWOOD He ordered $50 empty
hat boxes and half a dozen real hats,
of assorted design. delivered to the
studio at once
On receipt of the cartons, studio
sct-dreSserS proceeded to prepare
the BACKGROUND for a scene showing
John Loder walking into a nifty
hat emporium and selecting new
bowler Much Of the films action
takes place ripht there.
Very ohli9ine of Mr. Kline. but
where does he come in? Is he
philanthropic fellow who maintains
that bic establishment just for the
fun of contracting movie people? Not
much. He expects a break" and
usually he gets it.
If he's lucky. the studios set
dresser will edge out one Of those
empty cartons so the trademark and
name of a famous brand of head
gear VIII stare into'the cameras S lens.
Spectators possibly will make sub
conscious note to buy one next time
they're in the market for hat. If
Kline doesn't get his break" in
Scotland Yard" that's all right, too.
Maybe next time he will. It's the
percentage that counts.
4 Business Coup.
Kline is a movie ad planter" for
wide variety of merchandlserS. all
of whom are deadly anxious to get
their products in front of prOSpec-
tive buyers via the movies He guar
antees nothing. but simply by offer
ing properties. equipment and tech
nical advice to the producers, sue
ceedS in getting wide representation
for his clients.
If movie company wants to fur
niSh a big Office set, Kline steps in
with all the latest equipment in
files, indexes. etc, hoping as he
Evening star., 1941-01-26

Barbara StanWyCk at Walter Kane's
dinner table Barbara had come
alone. So had Robert. He escorted
her home. Ida Lupino went to
the beach with a bunch of people
They took over a roller coaster. She
was scared. Clutched the hand of
the male next to her May I have
your telephone number?' said Louis
Hayward at the end of the ride.
PLAYERS who met IN pictures in
clude Gable and Lombard mo Man
OF Her own, Lucille Ball-Desi Ar
naz TOO Many Girls Penny Sim
gleton-Robert Sparks the produces
the Blonde" series Jane Wyman-
Ronald Reagan rRrother Rat .
Francis Dee-Joel McCrea The
Silver Horde. Annabella- Tyrone
Power r'Suez'' Mrs ANDY Devine
was introduced 10 her Andy by VIII
Rogers on the set Of "Dr Bull
We also have a blind date on our
Girl Meets Boy" list. Twelve years
ago Mary Livingstone reluctantly
made up the fourth for thre"sOme
and found Jack Benny.
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Evening star., 1941-01-26

indicating what Id like if had my
way"
Independent action isn't unusual
with this Canadian-born youth. who
takes his name from his birthplace.
Glen Ford, discarding Gwylyn in
the process:
He decided he wanted to be an
actor when he had a Walk-on part
IN church play. in which all he
had to do was MUNICH an ice cream
cone, This, he decided, is the life.
He even did parachute Jump for
$50 when acting wasn't so good
and achieved such a reputation in
his home town of Santa Monica for
quitting good jobs to take a chance
on the stage that employers finally
refused him
The payof came a few months
ago, Glenn once had been suspend
ed from high school for presenting
a fan dancer to the student as
sembly But all is forgiven. He was
called back to lecture the students
on the opportunities in drama.
Evening star., 1941-01-26

$1,000 bet from Jesse Lasky BY
directing two pictures at the same
time
Al 80. this representative of the
Hollywood that was. IS preparing 70
don a diving helmet. descend to the
ocean AoOr and direct a scene under
water fer his next epic. Reap the
Wind ' Sounds ridiculous? Not at
all If YOU know Dc Mile. You
understand thoroughly that he
wouldn't tWiddle his thumbs on tho
surface while a couple Of his actors
were towing with the fate oi his pic
tue down below
Not art Minded"
Bald since youth De Mile Is So!
vigorous. bronZed torceful. domlna'-
lng-One Of the las, Of the feuGel
baronS created by the big movie
BONANZA OF 30 years ago Peor1r
around these parts REGARD him VIZ
queer mlr9llng Of suspicion ar
awe Legend ana press -aecntry haro
clouded his career and his rharar-
toy and mos actors in HOLLYWOOD
toHay regard him with terror
You're goine to work in the IT,
Mile plcture2' sayy one TO anotho~.
"Whe-ep-e-WWl' Thev believe I'll
the De Mile canarCs. too
Art-minded cri'i~s earn a LOT abor.
De Mile but he boasts that nc
doesn't make pictures for rhcn7.
They l7mbasted The PlaIneman "
Union Pacific and recen''v North
west Mounted Police " The la,tr~
Is dong more box office bueiuce-
than any f'm ot 1870 except Gone
With the Wind and possibly Boom
Town Ap,opos Of his last success.
De Mile caustLraIIy observed HE
other dav that every time 7 make
a successful picture the critics est
nation OF the American public goos
down
De Mile NAV acuaIlv surround
himself with G0cky of ~-rS mar "
as tradition COOS but hn's not s'r--
TO censure himself Ee wes terrirr
Us about looking again At The Cru
sa0orS 6U'ro reV.vsl here re-
Gently. From a pers0ective O. F-c
wears distance 1T Wa made IN
1885 he uttered q sharp critic5er-
The trouble with that nic'rra 10
said. is that you cant tell who
the villain is"
He meant rha, Ian Keith. q sa-
-T~- "-". --. r.r-~ .. ,rr-
'7e'reeea b 'la N7-.r An-r-an
EeVspspe. Alliance Ircp
Evening star., 1941-01-26
In New Wine

Alan Curtis and Billy Gilbert
have been added TO the cast Of New
Wine the first production for
United Artists release from the
newly-formed Gloria Productions,
Curtis will play the leading mascu-
line role opposite Ilona Massey.
Others already announced for the
cast CT New Wine" are Binnje
Barnes. Albert Basserman and
Sterling Holloway. New Wine" Is
under the direction OF Reinhold
SChuDZPl
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Selects His Favorites
Glenn Ford Names the Actresses
He'd Like to Appear Opposite
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.


If Glenn Ford critics
slider him bright the
he thinks its only right that he pick make
Fresh from male lead in so Ends
Sullivan and with fveyea thinking
future
d1scardng here and there
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Old Films Recall the Past,
But There's Still De Mile
He's the Last Representative of
The Days When Hollywood Was
All Strange to Behold
HOLLYWOOD.

the Hollywood
acting thriving sometimes business 20
Old-tmers
really something behold like that
Parade Ioyds
1 1l nnrOIs
Afro-American courier., 1941-01-01

Lecturer cf the Afro-Amercan Sons Daughters, was
in Lexington, Miss, Route s. in installation service
with Marshall Lodge No. 80.
The following officers installed: Mrs. Ethel
Hart Presdent Mrs Eva Booker Recording Secretary
and Mrs. Sarah Randle, Financial Secretary.
Mr.. johnson gave fine address to a large audience.
Five new members added to the lodge After the
address a nice luncheon served.
Mr.. Johnson accompanied by Prof Young, a
teacher in Belzon Public School system The people Of
the lodge and community eagerly awaiting Mr. John
sons return.
SARAH RANDLE. F. S.
Afro-American courier., 1941-01-01
There were five new members added to cur lodge
THERESA BISHOP. President
CFASAR HARRIS, +. S.
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Please allow me a space in your paper to congratu-
late Mr. c l. Johnson for the great help when he
was with us the 18th of October when we had our IN
staation taking great interest trying to tell and show
as the good and worthy things the AfrOAmerican Sons
& Daughters were doing for
It was a help to our lodge and community and
we are expecting greater things for lodge in
1941 than before.
Lodge No. 1891, Bethlehem.
NJ l.. SEALS. President
EMMA JEFFERSON. Rec. Sec.
BESSIE SMITH, F. S.
Afro-American courier., 1941-01-01

Dear Editor:
Please allow space for Lodge No 245, Drew to say
hello to the many readers We had fall membership
drive October 3, and had nice program Prof l. f.
Edwards and several lodges were with us. Mr.
Edwards made wonderful address. One that will for
ever go on in cur hearts. We are always happy tc
meet Supreme Vice President who tolls night
and days for Prof. Edwards added fifteen mem
be1s to our lodge that night We had nice banquet.
ERNEST BROWN President
ESSIE BROWN, F. S.
BERTHA MAE CROCKETT, Reporter
Afro-American courier., 1941-01-01

Dear Editor:
Please ao wspace in the Courier for to say a
few words about Beautiful Star No. 14S. We had our
installation Oct. H. 1910, with most honorable Su-
rreme Vce-President Prof. E. Edwards present. We
had wonderful program from the Juvenile Circle af-
ter which listened to splendid address by Prof l.
+. Edwards.
Too much cannot be said Of this distinguished charac
ter about his honor and loyal service ne is rendering o
help the growth of this great organization.
The members and friends enjoyed nice banquet.
REV EDDIE MOSLEY President
REV S. l.. DEAN, F. S.
MRS LOUVENIA JOHNSON Rec Sec.
MRS. LULA WALKER Reporter
Afro-American courier., 1941-01-01
Letters To The Editor

VN8ditor: -.
Kindly allow space in your Courier to say 1eW
yadfds for our Cleveland Lodge No 481
We are growing. On October 13 we FIELD our install
ation BANQUET and membership drive with much success
Mr. 7 f. Edwards was in charge. Nineteen members
we're added to the lodge Many cheers were given to Mr.
Edwards and we hope he will cone to again, for No
ISL went the top
L. B. BLAYLOCK, President
HENRIETTA THOMAS, F. S.