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Evening star., 1941-01-12

The public liked John @. Dohp,
and he next appeared in a satirical
version of New York's Easter pa
rade. Movie scouts took notice, and
soon Oliver found himself with a
contract at Universal Studio. In
one year there he appeared in II
pictures.
Oliver. whose style is reminiscent
of that of the late Lloyd Hamilton,
is -lancing now. In the Roose-
welt film he is playing a comedy
drunk. And already he dreams of
retiring on movie fortune.
When I make my pile" says Oil
yer, I'm going to buy a ranch over
in the San Fernando Valley.
I'll set up Akeley cameras all
around the place, and a lot of chairs
with loaded gun beside each chair
Then I'll invite newsreel cameramen
who are out of work to come there
and live.
Every time they think about some
story they had to cover and all the
sleep they had to miss, they can
reach out, grab a gun and take a
shot at one of the cameras"
Evening star., 1941-01-12

have heard of the law of the land.
The mo for an Answer" song is
sung as reply to the threats of
these lawless people
Mr.. Blitzstein. being politically OF
the left, has written from that point
of view. He writes with a growl
out of a burdened heart. But the
essential thing is that the writes
as an artist. His opera is a work
of art. just about the only serious
work of art to reach a stage this
season
Attempts are being made to find
some one to give the opera hear
ing on Broadway. But producers
are saying it's too grim, meaning
it's not at all pretty. That's quite
true. It's never pretty. It's very
funny in spits. really hilarious ano
warmly sentimental in others, but
over all it's furious and grim
Three or four years ago. when
audiences were less furious and less
grim about insisting on having fun
while fun lasts. mo for an Answer
might have won prizes.
Story Kills Itself.
For the sake of the record:
The play produced by Guthrie
McClintic was called THE Lady
Who Came to Stay" and was
dramatized by Kenneth White fror,
a book by r. E. Spencer. In it.
Mady Christians, Mildred Natvick,
Evelyn Warden and Beth Merrill
are nasty old ladies who die one by
one and return to haunt and thwart
each other until the last survivor,
catching up finally with the audi
ence, realizes she has gone crazy
and burns the set and herself to
death. The story has quality
which is machine-gunned stone
dead by the telling OF it.
Eight O'Clock Tuesday," by Mig
non Eberhart and Robert Wallsten,
was the mystery play featuring
Pauline Lord, one of our great
actresses. The trouble with it was
that its action consisted of cross.
examination by the detective, the
performers acting out their answers
to his questions. Most detective
story readers-anyway. those who
read to shiver rather than ponder
skip exactly what this play is
about, and so may skip the whole
play. Incidentally, why should
mystery plays be produced at $3.50
(see woLTYRT, Page F-50
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Joan Makes Debut
In Strange Alibi'

Joan Perry will make her debut
under the Warner banner with Ar
thur Kennedy as her romantic rum
ming mate in Strange Alibi." Vim
cent Sherman will direct.
This will be Sherman's first pic
ture since completion of Flight
From Destiny" Arthur Kennedy,
brought from the New York stage
play to play James Cagney's younger
brother in "City for Conquest" has
just finished Knockout" a saga OF
the squared circle, with Olympic
Bradna and Virginia Field.
Strange Alibi" is an original
story by Leslie T. White. drama
tized for the screen by Fred Niblo
jr., and Ken Camel. 1t deals with
the exploits of . police inspector
who joins q gang of criminals to
obtain evidence against them.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

was. This picture with Astalre was
not good) and "Gunga Din" which
wasn't much better.
The next onward and upward
surge in Miss Fontaine's screen life
happened a year ago when Hitch
cock and Selznick-after doubt and
hesitation - picked her for Re
becca.'
Joan. next to Mae West, is the
choosiest actress in Hollywood and
has made Boss Selznick good and
sore by turning down several loan
out jobs for which he would have
received a great deal of cash. But
everything now is serene. with Joan
playing Cary Grants girl friend in
Before the Fact" at fancy rental
fee of 100000.
Veronica Lake owes her movie
career and quick stride to stardom
in II Wanted Wings to having
nothing to do on the afternoon
that friend said, II have to 60
to Paramount for an interview, and
I'm nervous. Will you come with
me?" She went. she saw. she con-
quered a Paramount executive. who
liked her blond hair. A screen test
and contract followed
II Temperament Counts.
Diana Lewis took the happy route
of marriage from obscurity to film
fame. When she married William
Powell Diana was under stock con-
tract to his studio. M-G-M. But
doubt whether many executives
there knew this-until the elope-
ment. At that time she was one
of the 40 little mothers in the Ed
die Cantor film of that name. Her
role was made more important.
Since then Diana has played siz-
able parts in the Andy Hardy debu-
tante picture and in the latest Marx
brothers film riot.
Joan Leslie owes her present pre-
eminence at Warmers to "bit" in
Susan and God" and the fact that
Metro did not renew her stock con-
tract. Warmers not only gave her
leading lady status. but changed
her name. II was Brodel with
her two older sisters Joan was a
member of a vaudeville team If
temperament counts for anything,
the little redhead is destined for
big cinematic things. You will soon
see her in High Sierra"
Philip Dorm, currently Hedy La
marr's husband in "ziegfeld Girl"
came to Hollywood from Holland In
(see oRAHAM. Page F-20
Evening star., 1941-01-12

to be shot.
1T was during the Machado re-
bellion few years back" Oliver
recalls.
Il had photographed Machado's S
Porra in action, notwithstanding
students and had smuggled the film
out of the country, so the order
was out to get me.
II was lensing Porrista raid
when a rife barrel split open my
head, a hobnailed boot knocked out
my front teeth, and woke up in
a stone cell"
Kept His Camera.
Oliver was permitted to telegraph
his employer, Charles Ford, Univer-
sails newsreel director, in New York.
The case came to the attention of
President Roosevelt, says Oliver, and
Ambassador Sumner Welles, in Ha-
vana, called upon Cuba's war secre-
tary, Orestes Ferrara. His release
followed.
They tried to get me to give
up my camera and promise to take
no more pictures" says Oliver.
Il said couldn't give up my COM
pany's valuable property, but would
take no more pictures unless there
were major military developments.
There were-plenty OF them-and
I photographed them" ...
Oliver, a native of Newark, who
attended Lynbrook IN. j. gram
mar schools and once was a West
Point cadet, has been a newsreel
cameraman for Is of his 40 years.
He chased Villa in Mexico, ac-
companied Lindbergh in his South
American tour, flew for a year with
the airship Los Angeles, filmed the
Hauptmann trial and got some out
scsnding pictures of the 1886 Johns
town flood.
Dreams Of Retiring.
In 1898 he unwittingly gave him.
self a screen test. When the Irish
Sweepstakes winners were an
nounced, the newsreel company
hired a gag man to impersonate a
ticket buyer who didn't win. The
gag man was unsatisfactory, so Dave
stepped In and did the routine him.
self, billing himself as John q.
Dohp.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

lot OF them. You even get so yol
fx their weekly wage and tell then
how you want them to act in youl
picture.
Sounds great. doesn't it? But
wait minute Before you yank thai
nervous bank roll from under the
mattress and head toward Holly
wood for fling at picture making
better listen to what Gene Towne
has to say.
Towne is a writer turned producer
A year ago he was sitting in his
studio nook pounding out stories
for other producers to film. And
good stories they were, too. He
didn't know how we'll off he really
was. But Towne is nervous. am
bilious He wanted to be in at the
ringside. Little did he dream what
he was letting himself in for.
Recently Towne finished his thirc
picture-'Little Men" But Towne
didn't last long enough to get to the
preview. His doctor had sent him
far from Hollywood to nurse his
tICtIS. UdCh llOW albOl a 4ouA
week rest cure and looks lin the
pink"-but wondering whether he
can muster the courage and stamina
10 face another whirl on Hollywood
dizzy production merry -go-round.
Tantalizing Items.
"They call this place topsy-turvy
Hollywood-and boy, how right they
are!" said Towne. II thought writ
ing movies was the dafflest busines!
In the world, But that was before
had a taste of production. To bt
. producer you simply have to be
crazy. I guess almost any one who
has been through the fire will tel
you that"
In Little Men" for instance
Towne had to buck and compromise
with such tantalizing items as these
Perfumed hay.
Making up Negro to look like 8
Negro.
whipped cream doubling for soap
euds.
Stomach pills to help an actor
retain his dignity.
Wind machines vs. wind.
Most of the action took place
on a New England farm presided
over by Kay Francis as Aunt Jo,'
Towne resumed. when you have q
farm you have a haystack. This
farm was no exception. There was
g haystack. But because Kay
Francis is anergic to hay-she says
she's been that way since child
hood-we had to make our haystack
like no other in existence.
Every morning for four weeks
shooting on that set a prop mar
came along and atomized large
quantities of perfume into that
haystack-just to keep Kay Francis
from sneezing and spelling the dia.
logue. Didn't ! tell you this bust.
Evening star., 1941-01-12


tried Broadway, had two small parts
in two enormous flops. She came
back to Hollywood, was Sophie Teal,
a debutante. in a local stage ver-
sion of Roberta" From this she
graduated to couple of horse op-
eras at Republic,
I'm &etting nowhere fast" said
Carole and stared at herself in a
mirror. Whats wrong with me?"
she pondered and studied her face
from all angles. She decided to i'm
prove the shape of her nose and had
a slight surgical operation.
A month elapsed. Hal Roach was
testing girls fr the feminine lead IN
"One Billion, B. c." Carole, plus her
new beautiful nose, joined the mob
of testees. And won. She looked
good now from whichever side she
was photographed, and after the
historic celluloid romp, Roach
put her in "Turnabout She was
loaned to Paramount for a little
number titled Mystery Sea Raider .
Then back to Roach for Road
Show" and Topper Returns.
In addition to the new nose. Carole
also got herself new press agent
who cut wide swath Of publicity
for her via a couple of quite screWy
schemes. If you remember-and l
hope you have forgotte-Carole
was the Ping acknowledgements
girl" To make it sound more or
less authentic, Carole pretended to
be sore about getting the ridiculous
title and threatened a law suit un-
less it was removed. She garnered a
sheaf of publicity by refusing to
pose in a swimming suit after con-
tracing to do this for manu-
facturer the said garment. So,
of course. every paper published a
picture of Carole in the hated swim
suit.
Joan Had Name Trouble.
And now Miss Lands is going
to be star. It's as simple as that.
The turning point in Joan Fon-
taine's film struggle co-incides with
the changing-not of her nose, but
her name. Joan tried hard, for a
long time, to crash the film gates
under her real name of De Havil-
land. But there were no takers for
the younger sister of Olivia. On
the advice of a newspaperman. Joan
adopted her stepfathers name, and
very soon afterward received a small
part in Call 1t My Day" Then
R-K-O. signed her, and for them
she played the feminine lead in
"Damsel In DKtress" (she certainly
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Todoy's Film Schedules

CAPITOI-Co which brothers follow
vice: g. AS 730 1915 Stage shows: 345 $50
CTS pm.
Of Liberty the pageant history
from the film files 2, 3:55; 555 755 and $50 pm.
EARLE-Love Thy Neighbor Benny-Alen
2:45 73o and 10 Stage shows O. AIS 645 and
9:15 pm.
Ginger whiecolar girl
Christopher Morleys novel; las 345 545 75 and Gas
LITTLE-Pastor Hall hero of the church rests Naz paganm
2:10, 4:l0, 6, 750 and S:45 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Flynn Olivia de
Haviland John Brown: 230 4:50 tbs and $40 pm.
PALACEComrade * American Clark Gable reforms Tovarlch
Hedy Lamar: 2:15, 4:45, tbs and 945
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts continuous from o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Out Of Jail and In Again
News Cameraman Is Acting Now,
But 1t Was Real in Cuba
BY the Associated Press.


Franklin Roosevelt David Oliver Jail Now James
Roosevelt has put him back in
newsreel from behind his
of James Roosevelts first movie, POT Gold"
other JAIL Cuba, real divers plight
Evening star., 1941-01-12
American Opera at Last
Mare Blitzstein's New Work
Yields Drama and Music
By Ira Woiferf.

theaer kept throwing punches all week and kept
McCHntic did horror play with alsar cast OF ladies
Margaret did comedy with Alison SKpWoh ana lyo no
all fetwork ancient
Pauline Iordd a mystery play
thatSh
Evening star., 1941-01-12
She Won by Her New Nose
In Race for Film Fame
Carole Lands' Revamped Profile
And Joan Fontaine's Name Change
Helped Them Get Attention
By SheiIah Graham.
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.

asked Caro Landis recently signed by Daryl zanuck for
wou ly-n really tell: Its
changed my film prospects" I'd better explain.
Brothers
little for publicity pictures in the usual
Evening star., 1941-01-12
So You Think Film>Making
Would Be Just a Lot of Fun
Gene Towne, Writer Who Turned
To Producing, Can Tell You
Differently About That
By Harold Hefernan.
By Harold Hefernan.

HOLLYWOOD.
You think til lot of all movie
producers
You picture yourself with nice big office imported the floor
chrome bar hidden the wall.
dictate dazzling blond
secretary.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27
LEGACY ASSISTS
CHILDREN'S HOME

Legacies from the late Dick Chand-
Ter. Musselshell county rancher, will
enable the Montana children's home
and hospital and the Montana Deacon
eSs school at Helena to retire all out
standing indebtedness and increase en-
dowment funds.
Chandler left his $4,000 estate to
the two institutions for care Of chill
dren. After taxes are deducted. each
win receive about s75.00O
Ralph N. Lodge. chairman Of the
Deaconess school board, said about $780,
600 would be used to retire debts on
the present building and the remain
der added to the schools endowment
fund.
Milo F. Dean. superintendent Of the
children's home, said the legacy would
allow the home TO become debt-free
for the first time in IS years He es-
timated more than half the funds
would be necessary to pay debts. The
rest win be placed In the endowment
fund.
Chandler died in 1910. The funds
viii be available to the institutions
soon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27
BAKER GETS LIFE
FOR KILLING FOE

James Baker, IS, who shot Pat Bar
rows, Al, to death to avenge a five
year-ago grievance, pleaded guilty to
first degree murder at Malta and was
sentenced to life imprisonment by Dis
trict Judge John Hurley.
The killing occurred 70 miles north
Of Malta near the Canadian border.
No defense was offered when Baker
was arraigned He was represented by
counsel appointed by the court.
Sheriff Ray L, Campbell took Baker
to the state prison at Deer Lodge.
County Attorney Fred G. Gabriel said
Baker declared ''he CBarrows) threw
my wife down" in 1886. Baker did not
elaborate on this statement, the pros
ecutor said.
Baker drove to the sheep camp where
Barrows was employed and shot him
four times before the Mortified eyes
OF John Burrows, the victims brother.
Baker is the father Of three small
children. Barrows is survived by four
children.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27

tic size he pronounced 1t the most
perfect specimen he had ever seen and
vowed he would bring 1t to Dublin
with him. He was at the time angry
at his alma mater in Glasgow. due to
a disagreement over salary
When Bill Bowie saw the size of the
skeleton he recognized 1t at once as
the skeleton Of his father-in-law. He
forked his horse, rode to the cotton
wood and verified his conclusion.
we've dissicrated me father-in- laws
skilitin." he roared at the doctor.
Poor Bones RattIin'
IT'S an uneasy sleep now poor Long
Horses soul will have. with his poor
bones a rattlin around the country Z"
Bill looked out Of the corner Of his
eye at the doctor. as the latter jingled
some coins In his pocket.
Gamma we settle on a monetary
basts?"
The two dickered. Bill held out for
$500 but the Irishman finally sold his
Indian father-in-law's skeleton to the
Scotsman for $500.
The latter took it to the University
of Dublin, where 1t amazed Irish
and where Dr. McPhearson
was granted a full professorship, an
increase In salary and other honors.
Long Horse Is there yet
The Irish never exaggerate, but over
Long Horses bones is sign. It reads:
~GOLIATHS SKELETON"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27

in this. It was a monoplane and be-
meath 1t are still the stays that held
a rude seat. So light In construction
is 1t that a man can easily lift 1t.
So far as anyone knows, Bin never
tried out his airpiane. Before he ever
gathered the courage TO take to the
air, he became disguised with the pos
sibilitieS Of silver in his mine, and
moved to happier fields, where he
heard Of silver mines as had silver"
The principle Of flying his machine
was undoubtedly to take a flying start
from the long grassy slopes OF the
mountain, even as pilots OF gliders do
today.
Made JaWbOne Bet
Tradition has it that once in his
cups. he bet his silver claims that
he could fly from Castle TO Lombard
and beat the Jawbone flier.
Today the skeleton Of his early fore
runner OF the airplane lies beside the
ruins OF the old cabin. Only a heap
of rotten and disiointed logs marks
the cabin, and the lodgepole skeleton
is weathered but still dry and solid.
Ask a native about 1t and he1l say:
Sure Shot Bill-he built er. He never
flew 'er."
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27
SURE SHOT BILL
BUILT ORE PLANE
80 YEARS AGO

In days Of old when Castle was new.
great we're its wonders. Montanas
premier silver camp, 1t lay at one
end of the Jawbone railway-that we'll
nigh tabled thread OF steel that wound
gnarled course up Sixteen Mile
canyon from Lombard and the North
ern Pacific.
Castle IN 1890-its boom days-had
all those wonders that could be offered
for a mining camp Of some 500 or
1000 persons. Now It has dropped to
cluster Of moldering cabins, but
those who heard OF 1t still tell tales
that bear the mark of the high COM
munity ambitions that only an early
mining camp-and the early mining
camps inspirational beverages-could
incite.
Such a story is that of Sure Shot
Bill Of the Castle mountains and the
airplane he built In 1890.
Sure Shot Bill left behind him as
evidence Of his early aeronautical ex-
periments and the veracity Of his re-
naming townspeople. the skeleton Of
his flier. 1t lies on the mountain back
of Castle.
Sure Shot Bill came to Castle in
its early days and was one Of the
builders of the silver camp He came
to take an exceeding pride In its
growth. But torn between municipal
patriotism and the promise Of wealth,
he was forced 10 leave Castle to de-
velop the mining claims he located on
the top Of the mountains four or five
miles distant and high above the town
Sought Quick Descent
Perhaps It was the desire 70 make
quick descent to the mining town,
perhaps to avoid the roughneSs of the
mountain trails that first led Sure
Shot to divide his time between the
mining work and building Of his air
plane. The lodge pole pine about his
claim provided the materials and to
all appearances 1t met the require
ments as well as the spruce wood of
the modern plane.
It was over so years ago that Sure
Shot Bill built his plane His neighbor-
ing miners scoffed and joked the prof.
ect. The laughter then Is reflected in
chuckles today. Yet so years ago Sure
Shot Bill built a glider. as shown In
the skeleton still existing, that was
not essentially different from the |
gliders that are now attracting at
tention in Europe and are being ex-
perimented with largely by aviators in
the United States. 1t utilized the ele-
mentary principles that the Wright
brothers, then hardly out OF knee
trousers. used in their airplane Of al
most 20 years later.
A long slender lodge pole. some 40
feat In rapoff y1rreffTaS fTaa cHfaF cfau /
Of the canvas wings. A deep groove
was carved In the length of the pole
and the stays Of bent pine were fitted
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27
Corpse Giuen Fastest Ride in History of Montana
When Pallbearers Let 1t Slip Down Logging Chute

About 50 years ago Tom Ross and
Frank Miles had a contract TO supply
tEnbeEs stuIIs poles, logging and
eordwOod-to the old Parrot smelter
Of Butte. They obtained their supply
An the highlands, a rough, broken
country, many p@rts Of which seemed
inaccessible. even In the summertime,
because Of the underbrush, ravines and
scattered bouEders-
One OF the employees, whose name
was John Brown, was stationed at the
source Of the timber supply Brown was
a keen lover Of nature, as was his
wife. The two built themselves a cabin
at the head Of Green gulch, over 1000
feet above sea level. Things went well
during the summer but In the winter
Brown sickened and was soon confined
to his bed
One noon while Ross and Miles were
repairing their shoe packs an anguish
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-27

on, with the latter scratched and
bruised but still intact.
Coffin Is Reassembled
The shattered coffin was reassem-
bled, the corpse replaced, ropes were
again bound around 1t and then Ross
and Miles set to work to build a sled,
procuring their tools from their cabin
in the valley. The sled completed they
found that the rough hewn runners
made the work Of hauling it too much
for their strength.
At some distance there was a settler
who had a team. A weary tramp to
this house, an explanation, and the
team was given them. The horses were
high-spirited through stable confine-
ment and had only drawn the sled
a short distance when they ran away,
throwing the corpse into snowdrift
where it was nearly buried out OF sight
It was reclaimed, the team recaptured,
and the trip to the little burial ground
continued.
Arriving at the place where those
who had died in their effort to carve
a state out Of wilderness were laid,
Ross and Miles were confronted with
the task OF digging grave IN the
frozen granite-like ground-and they
were not miners but woodSmen. They
managed the task by dint Of hard
effort and then sadly lowered all that
was mortal Of John Brown TO his last
abode.
Cant you say prayer" asked the
widow as the last clod was cast on
the grave. Ross looked at Miles. Miles
began to study the tall peaks. Clutch
ing his hat In his lap with both hands
Ross dropped on his knees.
20, Lord" he said, Il haven't prayed
for 20 years and youu have to make
allowances. have been to funerals
in Canada, Michigan and Mexico,
Lord, but never In all my experiences
have I seen SO much trouble in gettin
a poor geezer into his grave. I don't
like TO ask favors, Lord, seem that
you and me aren't any too well &C
but speakin' impersonal like,
Lord, IL you can see your way TO let
John Brown down easy, please do it,
Lord, because he sure had rough
finish on this side. Amen"