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Evening star., 1941-03-24
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

Through his several appearances
as soloist with the National Sym
phony Orchestra Percy Granger
has established himself as a prime
favorite from among the visiting
artists of the season. In spite of
the entiCing weather his admirers
gathered yesterday afternoon in
Constitution Hall to hear him play
the Saint-Saens Concerto No. 2
in G Minor" with DR.. Kinder con-
Quoting and to applaud him rap
turouSly afterWard. The concerto
divided the program, which was
made up of the symphony's recently
recorded works, the first part con-
sisting of William Howard Schu-
mans american Festival Overture"
and Corellis suite" the second
half being given over to TSchaik0w-
sky's Symphony No in D Ma jor"
Mr.. Granger is the first pianist
to make his instrument sound like
an orchestra. The fullness of his
tone holds its quality throughout
and the ring and vibrancy of it seem
to embrace all the sections of an
orchestral body. The saneness of
his playing and its healthy vitality
is highly communicative. and yes
terday he led the orchestra with
superb assurance in a performance
that had not the shadow of a dull
moment in it. Crashing chords and
delicately fashioned passages fol-
lowed each other with rhythm in
flexibly exact yet buoyant and
unforced.
There IS nothing manufactured
about Mr.. Grainger's playing-it is
naturalness itself and very much
alive. 1t dominates the orchestra
even in the Softest measures of
which the artist took advantage to
display the ripping purity of tone
that is as much at his command as
is the laundering power used for
climaXic effect. The familiar con-
certo has seldom been so clearly
presented or made so eloquent as
in Mr.. Graingers reading, for every
phrase had its reason and its re-
lationShip to another, while every
touch of sentiment in it was made
to reveal itself. Before the final
chords brilliant presto was sounded
the applause started, continuing
without decreasing volume until the
artist, after several modest bows,
one Of which DR.. Kinder was COM
PEELED to take with him, played the
encoreS for which the audience
pleaded. The first was his own
Colonial Song" in which he in
corporated the characteristics of his
country, and the second his popular
Country Gardens"
The members of the National
Symphony have never played bet
ter than they did in the numbers
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
NatiOnal-Ruth Draper and Paul
Draper in a program of her sketches
and his dances: $50 pm.
Earle-''Footsteps in the Dark" {"
Enrol Flynn in a mystery comedy:
II am, 1:40. 4:2O, 7:O5 and Gas
pm. Stage shows: 1855, 3:35, $40
and pm.
Capitol-"Topper Returns" and
meets another vanishing woman:
10:45 am, 1:30, 4:20. 7:05 and 9:55
pm. Stage shows, 12:45, $50, Sis
and 9 pm.
Palace - The Great Dictator"
Chaplin looks at today: 10:45 am,
1:25. 4:1O, $50 and s:35 pm.
Keiths Nice Girl?" Deanna
Durbin indulges in romance: 11:15
am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7::35 and $40
pm. March of Time: /, sos, $40,
tbs and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"High Sierra" last
days of killer: IL am, los, 3:15,
5:25, 7:35 and GAS pm.
Little - Might Train" melodra-
matte and comic British thriller:
IL am, 12:45, 2:30, 4:20, sos, 7:55
and 9:40 pm.
Columbia-"Andy Hardy's Private
Secretary" and he gets out of high
school: II am, l, $40, Sis, 7:25
and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

will be present. He will be working
that week at the Earle. whose Roxy
cites, incidentally, are teaching C.
US chorus lads and lassies some
intricate routines.
X 4
Moreover:
Starting last Friday night, and
ever so gaily, Wardman night club
habitues will do their week -end sup
pering watch those PSI and dane
ing in the new Burgundy Room
That's the big, handsome room
which John Koch carved very
brightly out of what used to be
hardly more than a wide corridor.
sometimes curtained off for special
affairs. E. The opening marked the
debut of Jack Coffey'S band, which
not only plays the way good bands
should, but also stages spirited
floor show. The Metronome
Room will function from Monday
through Thursday nights. The
Earle reiterateS that their public
is not to worry, the Roxyettes will
be back next Friday. . They scat
tered for two weeks vacation all
the way from Ohio to Florida. 9.
A glance at compilations on Friday
should make clear who went where.
. And maybe how the weather
was.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Twentieth Century Fox branch man.
ager in Washington, D. c., and says,
The Brazilian Ambassador has just
seen That Night in Rio and wishes
me to congratulate Mr.. Ameche for
his perfect Portuguese and true
Brazilian accent" Maureen
OHara, most intense actress in
town, standing unprotected in a
rainstorm on the R-K-O lot while
she discusses her career with a
neWSpaperman.
The red-faced man, pushing his
station wagon from the middle of
busy Beverly Hills intersection
into the curb, is Robert Young.
He's out Of gas James Cagney
staring at the menu in Warner
Bros green room. He beckohs to a
waitress and points to the card.
Just what is James Cagney sand
wich?" he inquiries Standing
on a precarious ledge, so feet above
a tank full of dirty water, Clark
Gable tussles hand over hand with
a heavy cable releasing a lifeboat.
Gable speeds this action up, take
after take. Finally he glances at
his hands. They are covered with
blood Three -day-old blisters have
broken.
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stan
wyck arrive early at the premiere of
Meet John Doe" and take their
seats in the center of the house. A
supercuriOus and nervy doWager
from the paid fan section shuff1es
into row of empty seats three rows
down from the stars ana lifts a pair
OF binoculars TO her eyes. She stares
at the Taylors full five minutes.
Early arrivals litter. The uneasy
TayIors. unable to stand this ocular
cross-examination any more, arise
and stroll casually up the aisle.
Charles Boyer sitting alone at
Lucey's, munching a sandwich and
slipping champagne. When he isn't
mastlcating, Boyer's lips still move.
Propped against a catsup bottle is
the script for Hold Up the Dawn. "
The Frenchman is getting up on his
lines for the afternoon romancing.
One of the prettiest sets of
limbs in town draws more attention
than ever from male eyes on the
Paramount lot as Paulette Goddard
Sklps from one office TO another
with a winding run in her stocking.
Tears stream down Joan Craw-
1ords face as she stands with a
publicity man looking over some
Evening star., 1941-03-24

ing the damage suit his one-time
ward brought against him-and lost.
THE judge called it a holdup,"
crows Beery. Ronald Colman
grabbing a quick sandwich at
drive-in. Gent in an Ohio-licensed
car next to Colman's chuckles to
his lady friend, That fellow looks
enough like Ronald Colman to be
him" Robert Taylor complain
ing to Director Norman Taurog on
the set of Billy the Kid" that he'll
have to start flying lessons all over
again when the picture is finished.
It's been shooting 81 days and Tay-
lor hasn't been able TO fly his new
plane in all that time. James
Stewart, who doesn't look the 10
pounds stouter the draft board says
he is, nibbling at a fruit salad in
the M-G-M commissary just before
his induction
Edward Arnold, who takes his
dialogue bloWups more calmly than
most actors, got real mad after the
third consecutive take-killer. He
stamped his foot >. Bette Davis in
variably says the naughty word, the
real naughty one An ear-to-
ear grin breaks out on Don Ameche's
face when publicity man hands
him a telegram. It's from the
Evening star., 1941-03-24

without a date when there's dance
at camp. And no draftee who would
conga need tap his feet in vain.
But that isn't all. Those looking
after military morale also are we'll
aware that there may be soldiers
who will not consider their lives par
ticularly brighter just because there
is some one to dance with. And
there surely will be recruits who,
after pounding dust from the dirt OF
a drill field all Gay all week, Will be
in a mood to watch others punish
their feet when evening falls. For
these, entertainments they can look
at without participating in are being
arranged.
A group with the rather imposing
title of Radio and Show Committee
of the Federal Employees Services
Committee of the District of CO.
lumbia Council of Defense comes
along with an announcement in ref
erence to these entertainments. The
committee. under the direction of
its chairman. Lee H. Shugar, is
Sldl llIlS q llld jul Stal I'll loI al
ented Federal Employees 10 dis
cover singers, dancers. comedians
specially performers, minstrel play
ers, masters of ceremonies and
Whatnot to participate in amateur
night performances for the draftees
at one of the Government audi
forums. The players also will
present their shows at nearby
camps. Additions will be held at
Central High School auditorium
Wednesdays at $50 o'clock.
And on Tuesday, April l, additions
are to be held at Thomson School
at 8 pm. for employees who wish
to become part of the newly organ
lied Dancing Chorus" which will
entertain at nearby Army centers.
There will be an Hawaiian and a
zap chorus. under the direction of
Helen Nicholson of the Department
of Agriculture. Previous expert
ence not necessary is the last ad-
monition in this note. You, too, can
learn to hula.
Winning plays in the recent one
act play-writing contest of the Cue
and Curtain Club of George Wash
ington University will be staged
April l and 2 at Pierce Hall. First
place in the contest was awarded
Some Walk Crooked" by Ray Ar
ceneauX. 1t will be performed by
Evening star., 1941-03-24

was ripe TO revive the story. done
last in 1882 with Fredric March,
Tracy was offered the part. Fully
alive TO his antipathy to modifying
the Tracy face and flgure-not that
he looks upon them as beyond i'm
provement-the studio made the
condition that the actor should be
willing to wear the monstrous dis
euise which makes Mr.. Hyde out of
DR.. Jekyll.
Tracy said yes So for the first
time in his film career he will ap-
pear outWardly as some one other
than Spencer Tracy.
Tracy's attitude is a purely per-
sonal prediction. He has not
looked upon makeup for other
actors as sign of inferior ability.
As a matter of fact, his favorlte
PLAYER in HOLLYWOOD is Paul MUM.
Few actors have so rarely appeared
In their own face and form as MUM,
but that has not minimized his
ability in Tracy'S eyes. 1t just hap
pened to be necessary in Muni's case
because of the familiarity of the
public with so many Of the his
torical characters he has brought so
vividly to the knowledge and SYM
pathy of the average man.
Admiring MUM and his method so
much, Tracy nevertheless stuck to
his own.
The most radical departure from
It was represented by the curly wig
he wore when playing Manuel. the
magnificent Portuguese fisherman,
in Captains Courageous"
One by one, Hollywood celebrities
are summoned to Washington by
the call of charity. Tomorrow it is
the turn Of Maureen O'Sullivan. the
diminutive Irish lass, who is such
a happy bit of evidence that it's
possible to combine marriage and
q career. Miss O'SulliVan will ar
rive tomorrow morning by plane,
be guest of honor tomorrow night
at the Greek societies dance at the
Mayf1ower Hotel.
The local Greek relief fund drive,
don't forget, will be climaxed next
Saturday night by midnight show
which will combine the talents rep
resented by the Capitol and Earle
stage productions.
The national atatention which
was attracted last year by Catholic
University's musical autobiograp ply
of George M. Cohan, gay item
called Yankee Doodle Boy" carries
over to this years production, The
Cook Book" which deals, naturally,
with Joe Cook. Life Magazine al
ready is grooming its cameramen to
photograph the result, which it rates
as one of the outstanding events in
collegiate theatricals. Mr.. Cook also
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Two Join Lynn

Mona Maris and Martin Kosleck
have been signed by Warner Bros.
for important roles in Under
ground" The leads are Jeffrey
Lynn, Karen Verne and Philip Dorm.
Vincent Sherman is the director.
Miss Maris, whose last role at
Warner Bros. was the adventures
in Flight From Destiny" will be
seen as a glamorous spy involved
in an anti-Nazi plot in Germany.
Kosleck, who made a memorable
impression as Goebbels in Comics
sions of a Nazi Spy" will also be
cast as one of the plotterS.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Novelist Signed

Stephen Longstreet, whose latest
novel, The Gay Sisters" was pur-
chased recently by Warner Bros.
has been signed by the studio to a
long-term contract as a scenario
writer. The Gay Sisters soon to
be published by Harcourt- Brace. is
scheduled by Warmers as a starring
vehicle for Bette Davis.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

In which Tracy
fans and the
az tor himself
may find con-
ISOLATION. TIL e
role, you guessed
1t, is that of
gentle DR.. Jekyll
whose maniacal
alter ego was
Mr.. Hyde. Tracy
has wanted to
play the char
acter, or charac-
ters, for years.
w h EN- Metro
Goodwin Mayer
6ecidpd the time
Evening star., 1941-03-24

pictures of Joan Crawford. She's
taken time off from a heavy crying
scene in "A Woman's Face" to okay
her stills and the menthol is still
functioning.
tReleased by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc).
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Draper Program
At the National

Ruth Draper and Paul Draper
appear at the National Theater
for a week. starting tonight. in
a program Of her famous
sketches and his unique tap
dances.
Heretofore the noted diseuse
has made only solo appearances
in the country's theaters, and
the program she shares with
her talented nephew marks the
first time she has shared
stage with any one.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
In MelOdrana

Walter Catlett, after completing
role in the Gregory La Cava pro-
duction Unfinished Business" was
retained by Universal for an impor-
tant part in Horror Island" mys-
terry melodrama.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Local Drama Groups
Government Employees to Stage
Entertainments for Draftees
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

The welfare and happiness OF the Army rom
attended nob The so-caled
enthusiastically the colors which bightens
the Washington
where they ounumber the men by
frantic No dancee need moon ABOUT the mousse
Evening star., 1941-03-24
The Weather Grows Warm,
Wally's Steak Grows Cold
Being Few Close.ups of Stars
AS Spring Arrives, Too,
In the Cinema City
HOLLYWOOD.
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

yellow convertible slowly
boulevard
colorful Hollywood of 20 Way
Derby
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Tracy Finally Is Stymied
On His Makeup Rule
DR.. Hyde Role Puts Another Face
On Actor Who Dislikes Them;
Miss O'Sullivan to Pay Visit
BY Jay CARMODv.

Be actors talent and his technique maches
his will
the first time Tracy has caught with which
portray char Witho trans
Evening star., 1941-03-24

IHHIIIE HIdkt-up.
1t took a dual role to do it, fact
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Japanese Deny Link
To War Mediation

NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (PY.-Donei
Japanese news agency said in a
broadcast from Toxic today that
Japanese public opinion continues
to protest energetically against any
attempt to connect Japan with in
ternational mediation action" in
Europe.
The broadcast said that such
action would be doomed in advance
to failure"
Domei failed to reconcile this atti-
tude with word from London that
a special message" offering media
tion services had been received from
Japan and with japanese Spokes-
mans previous expression of Japan's
readiness to mediate anywhere in
the world"
Domei said particular exception
is taken to the London version of
the peace offer by Japan to Eden
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
of which, in the view of the whole
Japanese tpublic) there could be no
question"
The broadcast quoted the news
paper Miyako as saying that the
peace mediation referred to in a
statement by the spokesman of the
Japanese Information Bureau was
his own and would be unlikely to
assume more concrete shape since in
the present situation any negotia-
tions in that direction would be
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Feb 20 dP Omitted States
Department Of Agriculture -Salsb BILE hogs.
nShe s aoG sTy tsde ssHy
closed with full advance lost: top, s. IS;
bulk lsO-240 pounds 7.s5-s.10: most 240-
270-pound butchers. 7.70-S .00 270-330-
pound averages generally 7.50-S5: smooth
440n-i2oo,pound 100 packing Xxi e soTs 6eo-725'
Wednesday. fat lambs closed slow, late
sales barely steady. with several loads still
in first hands: bulk good to choice S2-101 l.
early top. II 90; nothing above 10.s6 late;
most good to choice 95 pounds closely
shorn lambs unevenly lower at s; so; today,s
trade. scattered early sales and most bids
fully steady with Wednesdays average;
load good s0-pound fed western lambs
with some common sorted out. $50; gen
efadis choice aaE Randy weight fed lambs Sheep
iiSn' sslsbIa cattle. tn 1900: calves. sO0 me-
dium weight and weighty steers % lower on
very dull sluggish market: demand mar
weights: only meager supply good to choice
yearlings and yearling type light steers
Bidding as much as so lower on medium to
good weighty steers; these kinds having
fallen 25 or more on Wednesday: few
up to 1880. with 1880 bid on choice
sEe but al oher G
strong; heifers getting outlet at 1850 down
to 900: cutter cows and bulls as much
as 10-15 higher and good action on fat
cows at 7.00-S75:. heavy sausage bulls to
sesers ssG ony stfons at 1890 do1n
feeders very dull in sympathy with sluggish
market on fat steers.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
British Ships at Bengosi
Bombed, Germans Soy

BERLIN, Feb. 20 [P).-German air
force units in the Mediterranean
attacked British ships in the Lib
yam port of Bengasi yesterday, Ger
man sources reported today.
They asserted a fully loaded
8,0O0-ton troop transport was hit
twice on the stern, another vessel of
5000 tons also was struck and sew
eral bombs exploded in front of the
bow of cruiser.
Informed Germans yesterday had
reported an attack on Bengasi was
carried out the day before.
The high commands version of
yesterdays attack said merely that
Nazi planes had scored hits on two
large merchant ships" at Bengasi.
Five enemy" fighting planes were
officially reported downed in the
Mediterranean and the Germans
acknowledged two of their own air.
craft were missing.
The crew of a Nazi dive-bomber,
forced down in the African desert
by British fighter, turned it's guns
on the British plane from the
ground and shot it down in flames,
DNB, official German news agency,
said yesterday.
The Nazi plane was returning
from bombing flight over the dis
trict south of Agedabia, Libya, DNB
said that after destroying the Brit
ish plane the Germans made their
own plane unusable and then
started across the Libyan desert on
foot, carrying one wounded man.
They finally reached the Italian
lines safely.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Africa
Continued From First Page. >,

Ethiopia, had capitulated to South
African troops.
At this outpost, 40 miles inside
Ethiopia from the Kenya border,
600 prisoners, mostly Europeans,
were reported captured along with
rifles and machine guns.
South African airmen, striking
ahead of these land forces, reported
a heavy assault on Yavello, 200 miles
northwest of Moyale, on the Kenya-
Ethiopian frontier Direct hits were
said to have been scored on the
fort, camp, administrative buildings
and barracks.
In Northwestern Ethiopia, the
British have reported continued sue
cess for a spreading revolt of ma
tives of untamed Cojjam Province
against the Italians and said that a
British drive in that area might
reach Adds Ababa, the capital,
within a month.
British-trained tribesmen were re-
ported to have captured Njabara,
south of Lake Tana and the town of
Piccolo Abbai in the same region.
Jabara is 140 miles inside Ethiopia
from the western frontier and about
180 miles northwest of Adds Ababa.
On other African fronts, includ-
ing those in Eritrea and Libya, to-
days general headquarters war bull
letin said there was no change in
the situation"
In ETitgea, the stubbornly resist
ing Italians for two weeks now have
been holding up the British around
Cheren. 40 miles north of Asmara,
the capital of this East African
colony, in their drive toward the
Red Sea coast.
There still was no indication
whether Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wa
veil, having conquered Eastern Lib
va, would thrust on westward to-
ward Tripoli. (The Italians reported
yesterday that German dive bomb
ers had pounded British tanks and
troop concentrations apparently
poised for such a driveD
Evening star., 1941-02-20
S8,9OO,0OOEquipmen'
Program Approved
By B. & 0. Board
-Four Diesel Engines
And 2,400 Freight
Curs Authorized
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20-Directors
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
yesterday authorized the purchase
Of 2,40O freight cars at an estimated
cost of approximately $7,500,0o0.,
The board also approved the aqul-
sition under conditional sale agree
ments of four Diesel passenger loco
motives of 1000 horsepower each at
a cost of around $1,400,000.
To finance in part the purchase of
the new equipment the directors ar
ranged for an issue of equipment
trusts of about $6000,000. The new
cars will consist of box, hoppers and
gondolas.
The directors also voted to apply
Sl2 .909 1892 out of the 1910 net in
come of S16,895 OCT pro rata to the
payment of secured contingent in
terest on several of the roads bond
issues under the plan for modifica-
ton of interest charges and matur-
tiles adopted two years ago.
PAYMENTS will be made April 10
on these issues:
B. g. o. refunding and general
mortgage 5 per cent bonds, series
"A" %" and F" at the rate of
S72 Ct per $1,000 bond; B. & o. re-
funding and general mortgage 6s,
series &C." $87.21 per $1,000 bond;
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Railway consolidated mortgage 4l2s,
S2725 per $1,000 bond; Cincinnati,
Indianapolis & Western Railroad
first mortgage IS, 1864 per $1,000
bond, with bonds of these issues of
other denominations in proportion" ."
The b, R. e. P. and the c., I. &
w. are Baltimore & Ohio subsidi-
aries.
"As against the provision in the
plan,' said the directors announce
ment, permitting the setting aside
from income of not to exceed 212
per cent of gross earnings, which
would have amounted to S4,403 ,O60,
the board determined that $685. ,265
be set aside in the capital fund, and
the remainder of the income, aggre-
eating S12,909,832, to be applied pro
rata to the payment of secured con-
tingent interest.
with the application of the avail
able net income for 1910 as stated,
there remains unpaid secured con-
tingent interest in the amount of
s1,30l $50, and consequently no un-
secured contingent interest will be
paid on May l, 1941.'
Evening star., 1941-02-20

service headquarters said, but left
for Baltimore Immediately in pri-
vate car. !
Two other groups, 110 men tomor-
row and 81 next Monday, will COM
plete the city's February quota OF
353 selectees, with the exception Of
requirements for men who may be
rejected at the induction station.
Distribution Not Completed.
Distribution among local boards Of
the additional men to be called on
the March quota has not been COM
pleted Board quotas for the orig
inal total of 1,l00 men follow:
Board No. l, As; No. 2, 100; No. 3,
so; No. 4. 100; No. S, 100; No. 6, 50;
No. 7, IS; No. 8, At; No. 8, so; No.
10, none; No. II, 7; No. II, none;
No 13, S. No. IA, so; No. IS, 2; No..
16, so; No. IT. A; No. 10, so; No. 19,
none; No. 20, 100; No. q, none; No.
%, rs; No. %, none; No. "a, 100, and
No. rs, none.