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Evening star., 1941-02-17

WIN tne nnalS 10 take place the eve
ming of March 8, all. as has become
customary, at the Roosevelt High
auditorium.
Twelve groups are entered this
year, their scripts already having
been approved by the Journeys Play
Committee, headed by L. zaff
Rogers. Competing will be the Bu-
chanan PIT. A. Drama Club, the
Census Bureau Dramatic Club, the
Coyenant-F Fellowship Dramatic Club,
the Falls Church Community Thea
ter, the F. B. I. Recreation Associ-
alton Theater Group, the Interior
Players, the Masquers Of Roosevelt
Community Center, the Pepconians,
the Players Club of Central Com
munity Center, the Pierce Hall Play
ers, the st. Pauls Players and the
Troupers of East Washington Com
munity Center.
The other contest is the WJSV
radio drama competition, which was
so successful last year it appears
to be another annual affair. At
the moment this is being taken
over by a certain Coleman family,
which has just twice as good a
chance of winning today as it had
a week ago. Yesterday afternoon
members of the speech and drama
department of Catholic University
performed Last Knight of Europe" F"
written by Bill Coleman, graduate
student at the school. The F. B. I.
Theater Groups entry, week ago
Yesterday, was an original play
called The Winnah." Its author:
Imelda Wall Coleman, who also is
Mrs. Bill Coleman.
The Blackfriars Guilds second
Washington premiere of the cur
rent season is Immediately at hand,
the groups production of the Rev.
Urban Nagle's Fog Over Mars
opening at st. Paul's auditorium
tomorrow night for three-per-
formance engagement. The author,
who is director general of the
Blackfriars Guild and its founder,
is expected to fly down from New
York tomorrow to have a seat in
the first-night audience. Players
in the drama are Dorothy O'Don-
nell Freund, Larry Freund, Peggy
Murray, Lionel Kirk, Julian Zier,
Bill Stack, Henry Dominioni, Bob
Dillon, Ray Maryman, John Kill
coyne, Hyla1t Bizot and Leon j.
Norris.
+ X s.
The Catholic University speech
and drama department will escort
its production of Gods Stage" to
the stage of the University Thea
ter the evening of February 26, to
run nightly through March 2. This
is the play which Walter Kerr has
Evening star., 1941-02-17

written, compiled and arranged from
works of great dramatists to show
the effect of the Christmas motif in
drama through its history. The
cast includes Mary Finnerty, Mimi
Norton, Isabel Molloy, Mary Vir-
ginia Shea, Concetta Alonzi, Padg-
EFT Schall, Mildred Baitz, Grace
Collifower, Tony Messuri, Fred Nor
ton, Bob Merkle and Abe Kinny.
For future reference:
The Washington Civic Theater
has selected satirical comedy as its
next effort. getting production under
way on George Bernard Shaw's
political extravaganza, The Apple
Cart" The play is scheduled for
the Wardman Park Theater the
week of March 9, with Rudolph
Watson playing the King Magnus
who has troubles with his ministers,
finally foils them by threatening to
resign and stand for Parliament.
The Woodside Dramatic Club Is
staging Sidney Howard's THE Late
Christopher Bean" February 27 and
28 at the Woodside Methodist
Church Social Hall, 1914 Georgia
avenue. Earl Hague is directing.
The G. P. o. Printer Players are
preparing "Rollo's Wild Oat" under
George VivianS direction and will
announce production date for the
Clare Hummer play in the near
future.
POST Road" is to be the second
major production of the season by
the Drama Workshop of the Jewish
Community Center. 1t will be along
in the latter part of March.
X
Casting note:
The Montgomery Players need, for
June Mad" a half-dozen players
who can fill roles calling for young
folk between IA and % years of age
Contact the director, Doris Dewey
Day, 405 Cumberland avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1941-02-17

5nOTG Cl UtuldIl.
1t meant a lightning change
in plans so that whole caravans Of
players and workers would be headed
off and ordered back into the studio
Hundreds of players, including stars,
had to be routed out of bed and
notified over the telephone of the
hasty change in routine brought on
by the cloudburst.
The heavy rain threw a monkey
wrench into the well-oiled produc-
ton machinery all over town, but
not for long Production managers
have long since learned to keep an
ear near the open window and a
weather eye on the barometer. Their
plans, always marked weather per-
mitting," can be changed on short
notice. But the fact that this par
ticular storm broke just before dawn
complicated matters for each of the
nine location-bent companies. 1t
forced their chiefs to act on the
double quick.
For a more thorough understand
ing of movie troupe's rainy-dawn
woes, let's dwell directly on the ex-
periences of Tenant c. Wright, pro-
duction manager of Warner Bros,
that soggy morning. Wright looked
tired, but cheerful when We caught
up with him a few hours later. He
would be pleased, he said, to tell us
exactly what happens when a hur-
ried switchover of this nature is de-
manded.
WrightS "baby" that morning had
been The Bridge Came C. o. D." in
which Bette Davis is teamed in COM
edy with Jimmy Cagney. The night
before all members Of the company
went to bed with the understanding
they would head out into the valley
for a full day of outdoor shooting
A light sleeper, Wright says he
heard the first bucket of rair
dumped on his roof. He lifted his
window shade and peered out. Rain
ing cats and dogs was no name fol-
this. Three minutes Of watching
and he knew the location jig was up
He grabbed his bedside telephone
Evening star., 1941-02-17

homes and rooming houses. Before
daylight really broke all the wneels
of production were grinding In re-
verse, bringing that picture IN out
of the rain in time to start the
cameras promptly at 8 o'clock-on
an inside set.
Although Bette was the most M
portant person to be notified, the
studio manager delayed calling her
as long as he dared. But the change
in plans affected her more than
most, since it made necessary q
change in wardrobe and alterations
in hairdress and makeup. Her home
was called before 7. Bette answered
the phone She's been in pictures
long enough to know what to expect
when awakened by rain on the roof
Transportation was called, 100,
and ordered to hold all Trucks
headed for the location site.
Makeup men and women, prop
erty men, observation-disclosures OF
others had their plans changed by
the dawn cloudburSt.
The other star of the cast, Mr..
Cagney, was allowed TO sleep @ter
than Bette if he so wished. 1t takes
man less time to change his mind
and clothes than it does a woman,
and his "hair-do" is practically the
same waerever he works
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ton saw last week at the National.
"ONeill to me is the exception
which proves the rule that plays
are not so much written as re-
written"
His mention of ONeill reminds
Mr. D. of a personal animus he has
for Herr Hitler, a grudge he would
not mind settling personally in any
beer hall from Alexandria, Va, to
the older Alexandria. That is be-
cause, were it not for Hitler, Dowl-
ing might be having something to
do right now with O'Neill's The
Iceman Cometh." In view of the
world tragedy which Hitler has
wrought. the time is deemed not
right for a tragic drama by ONeill.
1T is the most exalted thing he
has ever written" Bowling says.
But it probably will not be pro-
duced any time soon"
One of the reasons DoWling IS
anxious to get to the Pacific Coast
with The Time of Your Life is that
Evening star., 1941-02-17
At Last Binnie Get
A Film Husband

Binnie Barnes, the movies peren-
nial "other woman" has won a
screen husband in Grant Mitchell,
we'll known character actor, who
was signed to play opposite her in
"Skylark," Paramounts film version
of the Samson Raphaelson play.
The stars of "Skylark," which
Mark Sandrich is producing and
directing, are Claudette Colbert, Ray
Milland and Brian Aherne, while
Miss Barnes runs true to form as the
frivolous and Scheming wife OF an
aging induStrialist.
Miss Barnes, a British-born &C
tress, worked under the Sandrich
banner a season ago in Jack Benny's
Man About Town" -.....
Evening star., 1941-02-17
National Symphony Joins
In Tribute to Paderewski
Guest Conductor O'Connell
Adds 'POlOnaise Militaire'
To Well.Received Program

Wagner's Tristan and Isolde" and
the impressive reading which Mr..
OConnell gave it was followed by a
veritable ovation. Appreciation of
his feeling, true in style and in
understanding, was voiced after each
number, proving that the conduc-
tors popularity already is firmly
established here.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Il
| and Time of Showing
Stage.
Road" with
John Barton as Jeeter Lester: $3.50
pm.
Palace-"The Philadelphia Story,
Katharine Hepburn in a gay and
witty frolic: 11:35 am, 2:10, 4:40,
7:10 and 9:40 pm. -.
Earle-.'Arizona," Jean Arthur
wins the West: 1890 am, lis
4:05, 7 and $50 pm. Stage shows:
12:4O, $3.50, $40 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"The Son of Monte Girls
to-" carrying on in the tradition OF
his father: 10:45 am, 1:30, APO
7:05 and 9:55 pm. Stage shows
12:40; $3.50, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Keith'sL"Back Street." Margaret
Sullavan and Charles Boyer in the
tragic romance: 11:40 am, lao
$40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Gone With the Wind,
first anniversary showing: $50 a m.
1:2O, 5:15 and $40 pm.
Little-"Night Train" rip-snort-
ing British thriller: IL am, 12:45
2:3O, 4:20, sos, TBS and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan - Virginia thu
South wins Madeleine Carroll, ir
technicolor: IL am, los, $40, 5:i5
7:20 and $40 pm.
|. .Trans-Lux-News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-02-17

and called several numbers and
spoke briefly to each person who
answered.
Hear the rain?" he would ask.
"Uh-huh," the person at the other
end would say. I'll get busy"
Then Wright called the studio. A
night watchman answered.
Location call is cancelled" said
Wright. Don't let any one leave
the studio gate. Keighley's company
will work on stage a."
Within 20 minutes telephones were
ringing in dozens of Hollywood
Evening star., 1941-02-17
BUYS Hecht Story

Alexander Korda has purchased
Ben Hecht's original story of pres
ent-day German occupied Paris,
titled THE Forbidden City" Hecht
is now at work on the screen-play
with the picture scheduled to go
into production in the near future.
The cast will be announced shortly
Evening star., 1941-02-17

the manuscript.
h at play
wright is Eugene
O'Neill.
"I can't think
Of another one,
n o t Anderson,
S h e r W o o d,
O'Casey, Carroll
paul Vincent),
Saroyan, or any
other, " said Mr..
D. as he stood
poised for h S
journey to Balti-
more with Time
of Your Life, "
u.nich Wa Shinp-
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Tobacco Road
Is Back Again

Tobacco Road" the record
breaking Jack Kirkland dram
atization of Erskine Caldwell's
story of life among the share
croppers, returns to Washing
ton tonight for another week
at the National Theater.
This will be the eighth Wash
ington week the play has had
and it is announced as posi-
lively the final engagement
here"
John Barton is the Jeeter
Lester of the company. others
in Tobacco Road" are Sara
Perry and Eugenia Wilson.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Local Drama Groups
Play Tournament Preliminaries
Get Under Way Next Week
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Competition the life also OF good portion OF the local heater
annual the District Of Columbia OneAc Play Tournament
the Community Center and Fairgrounds
weekThursday
preminaes
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Patter of Rain on the Roof
Annoys Some People
Especially Production Managers
Of Film Troupes Scheduled
For Location Jaunts
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

other morning from the broke
Angeles vicinity raned steadily hours and for at least
cloudburst
downpour it
Hollywood
scheduled for nothing
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Only O'Neill, Says Mr.. d.,
Does Not Need Rewriting
Sees Him as Exception Which Proves
Rule Dramas Are Not Written;
New Producers to Pay Call
BY JAY CARMODY

Eddie Dowlng the actor producer husband and
field fellow payWr1ghtS
In admiration the
will
the or personal
all
Evening star., 1941-02-17

you only one dramatist who can
write a play productable without
changes after "finiS" is written on
Evening star., 1941-02-17

ADJUSTMENTS.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
MRS. CARRIE RAY JONES
DIES In CREENBACKVlLLE

Mrs. Carrie Ray Jones, after brief
illness, passed away at her home in
Greenbackville, Va, Saturday night
at 10 o'clock, at the age of SO years.
Although she had not been we'll for
some time yet her death came as a
shock to her family and friends and
the community in general.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Greenbackville Church Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev.
Mr.. Birmingham, and interment was
made in the Goodwill cemetery near
Pocomoke. The pallbearers were:
Messrs. Russell Sharpley, Frank
Sharpley, Lawson Justice, Charles
Crowley, Stanley Short and Martin
Ards.
Mrs. Jones is survived by three
daughters and one son: Mrs. Lester
Hall, Mrs. Ohio Brown, Mrs. William
Nelson and Elton Jones.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
RURAL PETTY ROBBERIES
BOTHERINC THIS VICINITY

Several petty robberies, involving
negroes, have occurred in this vicinity
recently and two perpetrators were
caught and sentenced.
One negro stole a car in Delaware,
drove to Pocomoke City and was in
the act of exchanging the license
plates for those on the car of Mr..
Hollis Dryden. 1t is also stated the
pay telephone was ripped from the
wall at the station and the negro
drove as far as Shady Oaks before he
was caught. Given a hearing he was
sentenced to the Maryland House of
Correction.
The Sunday night following the 4th
Of July a negro boy was arrested for
stealing approximately $11 from the
shirt factory, was tried before Judge
Price in Snow Hill and sentenced to
8 months in the Maryland House of
Correction.
Officers of Pocomoke are on the
alert and in almost every instance
have gotten their man." They are
to be commended for their quick ac-
ton in catching and arresting the Of
tenders.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
moved to Snow Hill with his parents

moved to Snow Hill with his parents
when he was a boy.
From 1921 to 1888 he served con-
tinuously as register of wills for Wor-
cester County, retiring from politics
because of i'll health.
For more than 30 years he served
as physician for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company on the lower East
ern Shore. He was an elder of Ma
kemie Memorial Presbyterian Church
in Snow Hill.
He is survived by his widow; two
daughters, Mrs. T. Howard Collins,
ST., and Mrs. Newell M. Corddry; a
son, C. Irwin Jones, all of Snow Hill.
One sister, Mrs. James T. Townsend,
of Philadelphia also survives.
Funeral services were held from
the home Wednesday afternoon last
at 8 o'clock with interment in Pres
byterian church yard.
The announcement of DR.. Jones'
death was received in Pocomoke and
Continued on Page 81
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
SHERIFF HALL IS
MAKING IT BAD
FOR VIOLATORS
Is Keeping Up His Record Of
Smashing A Liquor Still
Once In Each Month

Sheriff J. William Hall, of Worces-
ter County, is keeping up his batting
average of smashing a liquor still
each month.
The Sheriff, a resident of Berlin,
took office thirty-two months ago,
and a few days ago, hauled in for
ty-gallon bootleg liquor plant, the
thirty-second illicit liquor still he has
located and destroyed.
In addition to Sheriff Halls activi-
ties against the bootleggers of Wor-
cester County, Federal Alcohol Tax
Unit agents from the Salisbury dis
trict office have broken up sixteen
other plants in the last thirty-two
months. The Sheriff didn't partici-
pate in those raids.
1t is estimated that the still-a-
month average made by Sheriff Hall
since December 1, 1888, has cost Wor-
cester County bootleggers around
$12,800 in equipment alone, that total
being based on $400 for each liquor
still seized and destroyed.
Since becoming Sheriff, Hall has
made around sos arrests and 112 per-
sons have been charged with liquor
law violations. Arrests were made al
nineteen stills. Thirteen stills were
unattended when Sheriff Hall arrived
Receipts from sale of legal liquor
at the four Worcester County dispens-
aries have scared from $42,065.94 in
1938-19S9 to more than $50, $4,000
this year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
Agar Poultry Company Will
Establish A Business In POcOn1Oke

conducted a business somewhat new
in this community. It consists of a
chicken killing and cleaning process.
The birds are strung on a carrier,
and operators stick them as they pass.
Then they are carried through a mix
ture of a waxen nature which cools
as it passes through the cooling room.
In this condition the feathers can
be removed with almost a single mo-
ton, the bird left perfectly clean.
They are then packed in barrels and
shipped in refrigerator trucks to the
northern markets.
1t is understood that grading will
be started at once on the bluff over
looking the river and as soon there
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
DEFENSE COUNCILS
APPOINTED IN ALL
The COUNTIES
Charles L. Mason, President Of
County Commissioners, Is
Chairman Local Council

II am appointing District Councils
of Defense in the counties of the
State, under the authority given by
the recent Act of the Legislature"
Governor O'Conor has announced.
"The creation of the District Coun-
ellis is in accordance with the express
ed wishes of the Advisory Commits
sion to the Council of National De-
Tense in Washington. In addition,
the Administrator of Civilian Defense,
Mayor LaGuardia, also requested me
to set up these District Organizations.
Previously I appointed the District
Council for Baltimore City.
"The District Councils will act as
coordinating agencies, under the sup
ervision and direction of the Mary
land Council of Defense and in COOP
Grafton with local governmental agen-
cies.
I'm view of the increasing impor-
lance of all matters affecting our de-
tense preparations, the services Of
the members of the District Councils
Continued On Page 81
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
HARRY CUFF
DIES AFTER A
LONG ILLNESS
Was A Retired Farmer Living
Near This City About A Mile
And A Half Outside
FUNERAL SERVICES ON
THURSDAY MORNING

Mr.. Harry Cuff, a well-known and
very successful farmer of this coun-
ty, died at his home, near this city,
on Tuesday last, after an illness ex-
tending over some years.
Mr.. Cuff was born in Somerset
County, March 13, 1866, the son of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Cuff.
He had lived in that county, until
failing health caused him to retire
from a very active life to his home on
the Snow Hill road.
Besides his widow, the deceased is
survived by three children: Messrs.
Robert H. and Francis P. Cuff, of
Pocomoke; and Mrs. Mildred Burton,
of Cambridge, Md. Also by one
brother, Robert w Cuff; and three
sisters, Misses Nan and Maize Cuff,
and Mrs. w. w. Beauchamp, all of
Pocomoke. Funeral services were
held at the home on Thursday. Burial
in the cemetery of st. Mary's Epis-
copal Church, Rev. Mr.. Lester, of
Bethany Methodist Church officiating.
The pail bearers were Messrs. Eugene
P. Matthews, Roger w. Landlord, Ar
thur Landlord, Stanley Landlord,
Willard Stevenson, and George Mad
dox.
Mr.. Cuff was one of the substan-
tial men of this section; a man, the
like of whom constitutes a real loss
whenever the fell Destroyer swings
his scythe, and he is an example of
the sort whose influence lives long
after he passes into the Great Be-
yond.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
MISS JOHNSON
IS Welded TO
MIR. 0. c. GILES
Marriage Took Place In West
minister, Maryland, On Tues
day, The Twenty.Second
MIR. AND MRS. GILES
WILL RESIDE IN ELKTON

A very pretty wedding was solemn
lied in Westminster, Maryland, Tues
day, July twenty-second, when Miss
Eulah Mae Johnson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. S. Johnson, of New
Church, Virginia, became the bride
of Mr.. Oliver Caulk Giles, son of
Mrs. Oliver Giles and the late Mr..
Giles, of Elkton, Maryland.
The ceremony was performed in
Baker Chapel at o'clock by the Rev.
E. w. Sinms, former pastor at New
Church, Virginia.
The bride wore a Palm Beach suit
of powder blue with matching hat and
shoes and white accessories. Her
flowers were white gladiolias, blue
delphinium, pink rose buds and babys
breath. Her only attendant was Mrs,
John Cook, Of Easton, Md, who act
ed as matron of honor, while Mr..
Cook was best man.
The bride attended Western Mary
land Preparatory School and Western
Maryland College and has taught in
Maryland and New Jersey School sys-
TENS. At present she is member of
the Oaklyn Junior High School faculty
at Oaklyn, New Jersey, as Home Eco
nomics Supervisor.
The groom attended Wilmington
High School and Tome Institute. He
is owner of the business known as
Giles North Street Market in Elk
ton, Md. A similar business has been
conducted by the Giles family since
1875.
The happy couple are spending
their honeymoon on a motor trip thru
Western Maryland, Skyline Drive and
the Valley of Virginia, and will be at
home at 1926 North St., Elkton, Mary
land, after August LIST.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-25
POLICE
net QUINTET
OF BURGLARS
Bent On RObbing The COffman.
Fisher Department Store,
They Come To Grief
ALARM GIVEN BY
MR.. PAUL CUTLER

Five negroes are now languishing
in Snow Hill Jail the result Of a very
successful roundup, said roundup
reflecting much credit on the POGO
moke police department.
The prisoners were on q robbery
expedition on Friday night of last
week, their objective being the depart
ment store of Coffman-Fisher Com
pany, and the point of entrance to
the store being a rear window, open
ing on the vacant lot corner Second
and Willow.
The marauders parked their car OPP
posite the Armory on Second Street,
said car being Buick and carrying
a Florida license. Two remained in
the car, one stationed himself on the
corner Second and Willow, the other
two proceeded to crack the window.
Mr.. Paul Cutler sitting on the porch
acros the street about 11:45 P. M, op
posite the Armory, heard the crash
and then got busy. He soon contact
ed night Waterman Hickman, who
was soon on the scene and, to prevent
the getaway by the robbers, who had
become alarmed at the approach of
Hickman's car, parked his car in
front of the buglars and in shorter
time than it takes to tell il, all were
in custody of Hickman, Chief of Police
Birmingham, and Deputy Sheriff Hill.
man, the latter two being summoned
by Hickman.
The quintet of would-be robbers
were thoroughly searched by the three
officers, and then were hurried off 10
the county boarding house. Those
concerned in the capture certainly
worked with creditable rapidity and
high class efficiency, and are GER
tainly worthy of all the praise hand,
ed out to them.