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Opens New Department for
Curtains and Draperies
Max Poulson Announces Appointment
Of Miss Bess UlreY As Manager

Following several weeks Of redeeorang and renodelng
Max Pauson, Of q. u. Pauson company announce. the
opening Of department which will feature complete
line Of drapery and curtain materials
Utilizing balcony Ished What really amount. 10 .
'ere which located Hs drapsry ,p.csty
Medical shop
Evening star., 1941-12-14

tons of its historic heroes. But
Jesse L. Laskey, Warner Bros, and
especially Sergt. Alvin C. York him
self, dared admit the human truths
that the hero's youth was dotted
with alcoholic binges and a sturdy
disdain for the preachments of Pas
tor Pyle. The admission contribut-
ed amazingly to the warmth of the
affection which the picture won
from those who saw it.
Movie goers accustomed to pap
may have been startled to find
themselves in the theater with a
story so ruthlessly ugly as that told
of the Giddens family in THE Little
Foxes" Not, however, those who
were sick of Cinderella-just tenn
porarily, of course-and who want
ed something sturdier. They re-
garded it as very brave of Samuel
Goldwyn to have produced Lillian
Hellman's story of murderouS ac-
quisitiveness without single one
of it's punches pulled. They, the
discriminating type of customers,
will not mind finding 1.-THE Little
Foxes" running third in any mans
revelation of his whimsical judg-
ment of best" motion pictures.
Miss Hepburn Comes Back.
1.-The Philadelphia Story" one OF
those sophisticated WITNESSES which
always come off better than Philip
Barrys worthier dramatic efforts,
was something more than one of
the best pictures of the year. 1t
was also the screen play which en-
abled Katharine Hepburn to so
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Their Names Mean Little Today, but
They'll Be Spelled in Lights Soon, Say Directors
Who Have Selected Six Bonfire Starlets'
By Harold Hefernan.

+ distinct glamour appeal Cast prop
erly and, most important, treated
to heavy exploitation campaigns,
they should go far"
The new design for glamour, as
tipped off by the directors ballot
ing, offers some interesting, even
surprising, ingredients. For in
stance:
Tall Girls in Demand.
Tall girls are in greater demand
than ever before in the "looker"
market. All six girls named by the
film makers are five-feet-six or over.
If gentlemen still prefer blonds,
then these Is directors are not gen.
tlemen. Their balloting went five
to one for the brunei. And two of
the five dark-haired ladies are def
nitely of the sultry latin school. The
solitary blond to win recognition
is actually a red head.
Glamour girls seem to draw upon
experience In the modelling field for
that cool poise and come-hither
magnetism. All six were photo
graphic models at one time or an
other.
A glamour girl may be II or she
may be %. Those are the age ex-
tensions noted in the directors slate.
The remaining four, however, ring
the bell at exactly 81.
Here are brief, closeup studies of
the girls Hollywood directors think
Evening star., 1941-12-14

See HEFFERNAN, Page E-3.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

Ishmen-and by some magic of his
own makes it seem like the part of
his lifetime.
Nothing Out of Place.
The formula operetta is a Ham,
merstein- Romberg intrigue yclept
Sunny River" and as old-fash-
ioned seeming as joy in an airplane.
Nothing is out Of place-no curl
Of the score, no twist of the plot.
don't happen to know anbody
who ever liked an operetta-unless
it had been written by Gilbert and
Sullivan or Offenbach. But there
must be operetta fans, else operettas
wouldn't get produced quite so often.
Well, the sweet, dear people who
like these dull. taffy-pull contriv-
ances very likely find Sunny
River" both sweet and dear and no
taffy-pull at all.
Love in the r. A. F.
This brings us down to the serious
business of the Week-"G ol d en-
Wings" by William Jay and Guy
Bolton. Unfortunately, the play is
much less about the R. A. F. than
it is about the love life of the boys
therein.
1t occurred to us abruptly the
other day under rather special cir
cumstances that there are certain
things about wartime flyers which
are more absorbing to the on-looker
than their love life.
The thought popped into our
mind as we were driving to Mitchell
Field during an air raid alarm.
Mitchell Field is regarded as the
primary bombing objective around
these parts and we had been dis
patched there to watch the bombs
fall. The country roads were empty.
All motorcycle cops were standing
glued to their posts. So we were
going along at better than 80 when
six planes came alongside us in a
v-echelon. They were war planes In
war paint and we couldn't tell
whether they were theirs or ours.
We were pretty sure they were ours
until they broke out of formation
anu iAAtO q Oh diSIiG luIc d4lO DcSdll
to dive bomb. Then We were pretty
sure they were theirs and it wasn't
until $50 pounds of blood pressure
later that we realized the boys were
only practicing.
We didn't mind telling the boys,
when we got to Mitchell Field that
we thought they could have picked
better time to practice dive bomb
ing than during an air raid alarm.
But the boys didn't agree with us
at all. Not at all In fact. they
seemed puzzled by our attitude.
\ A fact which we, personally, found
more interesting than all the to-do
in Golden Wings" about how er-
ratio the amatory emotions of young
men become when they climb out of
murderous clouds and get down to
the murdered earth.
(Reeased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-12-14
HOLLYWOOD.
"Bonfire starlets of 1912"

Bonfire starlets of 1912"
That was the burning brand i'm
printed last week on half a dozen
of Hollywood's prettiest, shapeliest
young actresses girls whom Is
leading motion picture directors
voted the most physically attractive
young women to come before their
gaze during 1941.
Inaugurating movietown's annual
riot of roundups and year-end
polls" the directors decided to bal
lot themselves a slate of six girls
basing their selections on physical
appeal rather than acting ability
who might be expected to cut the
widest swath in celluloid glamour
circles during the coming IL months.
The "delectable Six" as voted by
the men who make pictures by day
and study screen tests by night, are
Suzanne Ridgeway.
Ava Gardner.
Faith Dorm.
Janis Carter.
Alaine Brandes.
Maria Montez.
These are names that mean lit
tie or nothing to the fans today
explained one director, but by the
end of another year one or all
could be up pretty close to the
bright lights. In physical way. all
have what it takes to attain fea-
tured notice. Each is a beauty with
Evening star., 1941-12-14

thoroughly re-establish herself as q
screen star that she may win the
Academy award for 194l. The drama
of Miss Hepburn's comeback after
she had been rated tops in a box
Office poison" list just two year!
previously heightened the drama o1
her portrait of Tracy Lord, the ice
and-fire heroine of Barry's slickly
contrived play.
The sleeper picture Of the year
or of all the years since THE In
former" was Might Train" the
British-made thriller, which the
public literally jammed down the
throats of distributor-critic who
scorned it when it first appeared in
this country. Its nine-week down.
town run in Washington and its
subsequent months of running in
neighborhood houses established il
as a screen play of universal ap-
peal. In its obedience to the first
law of screen entertainment-that
movie must move-it set a stand
ard that other pictures may shoot
at for years.
Flight From Destiny" which
Warner Bros. deemed not quite suit
able for general audiences on the
ground that its story was too intel
lectual, turned out to be one of the
most brilliant character studies yet
achieved by Hollywood. It's hero
an elderly philosopher with six
months to live, who decides to ac-
complish socially useful murder
gives Thomas Mitchell chance to
win that major acting award which
heretofore has eluded him while
winning prizes for best supporting
performances.
Montgomery Scores Again.
There will be those whose en-
thusiasm for the brilliant fantasy of
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan" will dis
pose them to argue for it a higher
place than seventh on this depart
ment's list. If they were here right
now they would not need much
argument. Rarely has a studio
dared to be as bravely capricious
as Columbia in making this picture,
which introduced Robert Montgom-
cry as prize fighter who was killed
by a tragic mistake on the part of
destiny. Handled with less skill,
the film might have been night
marish instead of a brilliantly or
dered, fascinating adventure into
fantasy.
Social significance is a theme
that studios do not accept with
relish, which makes it all the more
admirable of Metro-Goldwyn-M May
er to have made an excellent piece
of worthwhile entertainment of
DR.. A. j. Cronin's "The Stars Look
Down" Brilliantly directed by Carol
Reed c'Night Train') and superbly
acted by an English cast, the pic
ture must serve as an inspiration
to other studios to venture into the
terrifying. to them, area of So
ciology. If it does not lot of Gus
toners will be sad, although the
movies may be richer.
Suspicion" despite that phony
ending which left the principals
living happily ever afterward, merits
See CARMODY, Page E-3.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

will bowl over the boys out front
| during the coming year:
Suzanne Ridgeway-Paris born,
spent most of her childhood in To-
ronto. Later moved to Vancouver,
thence to Santa Monica, Calf. A
gorgeous brunei with a perfect
| figure, she stands f1ve-six and
weighs 116 pounds Only free-lance
player in the group, Suzanne has
been spotted in some of the most
important movies of 1941-most of
them not yet released. These in
clude Panama Hattie" ''Rio Rita" !"
H. M. Pulham, Esq" Tortilla
Flat" and "Juke Girl" First at
tracted screen attention as model
for George Hurrel, famous portrait
photographer. She's 81 and unwed.
Ava Gardner-Born in Smithfield,
N. C. Con Christmas eve), she was
schooled there and thereabouts, in
Guiding year of college at Atlantic
Christian. Had modelled for John
Powers in New York only 10 days
when M-G-M's New York Office,
seeing some of her first sittings,
sent an invitation for a test. She
was rushed to Hollywood in July
and since then has appeared in
only a couple of small roles, "Joe
Smith, American" and 1--WE Were
Dancing" Her real glamour debut"
comes in ''Du Barry Was a Lady"
to be filmed next month. Ava is
half an inch over feet in height
and weighs 118 pounds. She'll be
81 this Christmas eve and is un-
wed-although her engagement to
Mickey Rooney has been announced.
Faith Is Youngest.
Faith Dorn-youngest of the ode
lectable SIX" Faith is just turning
II and has been under contract to
Warner Bros. for nearly a year.
She made her debut recently in
Flight Patrol" and in a very small
role attracted the attention of
Howard Hughes, millionaire sports
man who recently returned to pro-
duction. Hughes is now attempt
ing to buy her contract from War
ner Bros. She is 5 feet 6, weighs
116 pounds, and was born in New
Orleans, La. French, Irish and
Spanish blood flow through her
veins. Hughes has indicated he will
attempt another overnight star ele-
vation-a Ia Jean Harlow-should
he be able to buy the Dorm con-
tract. She's unwed also but
Hughes interest is reported not
entirely professional.
Janis Carter-only blond win
ner in the race is a Goth Century
Fox importation from Broadway
See HEFFERNAN. Page E-3.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

late Douglas Fairbanks. three of
the most influential film names of
that era.
Birth of an Idea.
1t was through the bond-selling
crusade of these stars that United
Artists was organized. The trips
established close friendship between
Mary, Charlie and Doug and the
late William G. McAdoo, then Sec
retary of the Treasury.
During one of their bees, McAdoo
said, why don't you folks get to-
gether and distribute your own pic
tures-you are certainly big enough
to do that"
That was the kernal of an idea
from which sprang United Artists,
a star banding group that has sur
vived and prospered through the
years.
Released By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, mo-
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NATIONAI-The Gilbert Sullivan Opera Co. American
group being by the Shuberts will present
starting night The weeks program
will Mkado" "Iolanthe, Pirates of Penzance
and H. NJ S. Pinafore"
Screen.
Corsican Brothers motion picture version OF the
Alexander adventure has its world premiere Thurs
Fairbanks plays the brothers, and the girl IN
his (ther) life is Ruth Warrck.
EARLENew York Town comedy about life in the big
CITY, Friday MacMurray Mary Martin Robert Pres
are Comedian Billy De
Wolfe will the stage bill.
KEITHS-Dumbo" Walt Dneys fantasy this one about
little elephant sensation when he learns to fly
starts Wednesday
Body Disappears called "a fun and thrill
show Friday Edward Everett Horton
scientist with formula bringing the dead to life which he
tries still much alive Jane Wyman
also is in the
CAPITOL-Swamp Water" in wilderness in the deep
South Thursday includes Walter Huston Walter
stage bill will be
Bob Evans, Helene Denizon and the Her7ogs.
Evening star., 1941-12-14


so that at least a dozen important
box Office figures could be made
available for appearances as soon
as the Government machinery can
be set in motion.
Already Listed.
Mickey Rooney, Clark Gable,
Spencer Tracy. Gene Autry, Ty-
rome Power, James Cagney, Bing
Crosby, Wallace Beery, Bette Davis
and Judy Garland are names al
ready on the list as pep" speakers
at rallies planned in principal CEN
ters throughout the country.
It will be recalled that similar
use of Hollywood's leading stars
during the early days of Americas
entrance into the World War stim-
ulated sales of Liberty Bonds be-
yond the most enthusiastic hopes
of Treasury officials.
The Hollywood sales contingent
OF "a years ago was headed by Mary
Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and the
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Toduy's Film Schedules

CAPITODesign for Scandal" with Rosand Russell lady
Judge: 4:30, tbs and 9:55 Stage shows 1885, 625
and 9:10 pm
COLUMBA"Shadow of the Thin Man." about Mr. and Mrs
Nick Charles: las, $40, 5:35. TAO and 9:45 pm.
EARLEydia story of loves remembered $780, 3o and 10
Stage shows: 1:50 420 GAS and 9l5 pm.
KEITHSKeep Flying Abbott and Costello in the Air Corps
1885, $50. 750 and GAS March Of Time 2:o5, 43o
6:55 and S25
LTTTLE-"Don Quxote the musical version with Don Quixote
2:30, AIS g. 750 and 940 pm.
the Blues with Mary Martin and Bng
Crosby attendance: g. $685. $780, 7:50 and GAS pm
PALACE-Two- Woman with Gabo doubled: Continuous
afternoon and evening.
of the gangster revived 22o 40S sos
sos and 10 pm.
TRANS-LUx-New shorts: Continuous from o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Another Year, Another 1O>Best List
And 1t Is Topped by Orson Welles Citizen Kane
AS Most Original Contribution of the Season

Take it all in all, than which
there is no other way, the movies
have dealt kindly by those of their
critics who feel compulsion to
end the year by selecting the 10
screen plays which they regard as
the best of 1941.
1t was not always thus. Inevita-
bly, in year in which even IL pic
lures are produced there is such
a thing as a 10best list. But in
many years of 400 to 500 produc-
tions it has been difficult to find 10
that We're unreluctantly deemed
worthy of being set apart from the
mass of the cinema output. 1t was
so easy to find flaw that marred
the choice. that left the selector on
the defensive. Thus when he came
to his seventh picture, or perhaps
at some higher level on the list, he
had a sense of making a fool of
himself or being made fool of by
Hollywood.
Not this year!
"Citizen Kane" Tops List.
Even a timid fellow could stand
his ground, for instance, on his
choice of Citizen Kane" as the prize
bit of screen storytelling in 1941.
It is true that Orson Welles' rose
bud" symbolism may have been
somewhat obscure-drama depart
ments did receive calls asking them
to explain-but it was fascinating
dramatic character he created and
refreshing method that he devel-
oped for creating it. Welles' de-
parture from the normal method
of storytelling, and the even more
radical ones in use of the camera
developed by himself and Camera
man Greg Toland, had Hollywood
laughing up its sleeve during pro-
duction of the picture. 1t stopped
laughing and started copying the
Welles technique after the pictures
release.
Entirely apart from its inspiring
excellence as a piece of Americana,
"Sergt. York" was as fine a piece
of entertainment as Hollywood has
found in the well-thumbed library
of heroic biography. Its singular
honesty alone, apart from its other
qualities, made it impressive. There
tofore, even in the case of heroes
long dead, Hollywood was profound
" disposed toward timid idealiza-
Evening star., 1941-12-14

Nieil lcdAies' AAC 81 dPpAC IOiiiCN
out to be a lame thing, hardly
more than a finger exercise around
the throat of history. I hope Vi
olently managers will not conclude
from this that people want only
escapist drama because they are
at war.
No one can argue against a
certain amount of escape as being
wholesome and morale building
But neither can any one argue
against large scale examinations
into realities and illuminations of
subjective truths as being even
more wholesome and even better
morale builders.
Everybody now alive in this
country may find himself standing
in his accustomed place. but he
is being rushed headlong. never
theless, into a suddenly uncertain
future. The theater has a duty
to itself and to its audiences in
such times. Providing at $3.50 the
kind of escape that can be found
in dime rental libraries, 25-cent
movie theaters and s110 athletic
arenas is only a small part of that
duty. Illuminating the present
upon which our future will be based
Is the better half of it.
Over His Dead Body.
The thriller which is off to a
good start in our midst is called
Angel Street" and was written by
Patrick Hamilton. Most of the
quality of the play seemed to come
from the acting and directing
directing by Shepard Traube. act
ing particularly by Leo Carroll and
Judith Evelyn.
There is a kind of unwritten law
in the profession barring a thriller
plot from being unveiled in public
So we'll have to let the plot go
with a simple declarative sentence
to the effect that its principal char
acter CVincent Price, has married
his wife for her money (although
she seemed quite charming to me) =,
WdilSCo liCl III lllc 1llSG DidCS
for shockingly dangerous purpose
and attempts none to subtly to drive
her crazy by convincing her that
she is crazy.
At the conclusion of the first act,
I made up my mind that this play
was going to win my heart over
my dead body. 1t had violated the
primary rule of thrillers. The rule
is that the author, after getting
you to accept his original premise,
must make everything after that
absolutely logical.
Mr.. Hamilton's logic was strained
throughout, but his play sure must
have left me corpe somewhere
in there because it walked right
over my dead body in the second act
and gave me heart murmurs and I
could recover myself only in the
third act.
Mr.. Carroll plays the part of a
detective-one of those SNUG, pipe
smoking, square booted, solid Eng
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Pictures of the Year
BY Jay Carmody.

"Ctizen Kane" R-K-O.
2. "Sergt. York" Warner
3. Little Foxes" Samuel Goldwyn RK-O
4. "The Philadelphia Story" Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer
5. Might Train"
6. Flight From Destiny" Warner Bros.
7. Here Comes Mr. Jordan" Columbia.
8. THE Stars Down" Metro Godwyn-M
9. Suspicion" R-K-
10. "The Maltese Falcon" Warner Bros
The Great Dictator Tom Dick Harry" "A Womans
Face "Comrade * The in
Heaven Girl in the News Wings" Underground"
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Hollywood Also Helps
Important Film Personalities
To Aid Defense Bond Sales

Taking successful Liberty Loan drives of the
motion
shortly launch Nationwide Defense bonds
Stamp of leading
informally ad
Evening star., 1941-12-14
One Hit, Several Errors
Thriller Is the Lone Bright Spot
OF the Broadway Week
By Ira Wolfert.


produced
satirical
AL this adds eapist grappe
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28
Green Corn
And Chicken Pie

IN THE SOUTHLAND, good
cooks dish up a tasty green
corn and chicken pie. 1t is made
with Is ears green corn. 3
Spring chickens, pepper, salt
and butter
Cut the corn from the cob -.
cutting close to get all the sweet
part next TO the cob. Season
with pepper and salt.
Cut the chickens into quarters
and parboil with their cleaned
gizzards and liyers. Cover bot
=teHf-ef buttered baking dish
with corn, then put in the
chicken and dot with pieces of
butter. Pour over water in
which chickens were parboiled.
Sprinkle with pepper and salt,
then add rest Of corn. Bake for
about an hour in a moderate
oven.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28
BY IRENE VI. HAWKINS
women's Editor, The Detroit Times

AND WHY, pray tell. writes
an irate homemaker does
the government consider wash
ing machines in the luxury class
and one Of the things we
shall be expected TO get along
without? Are we, she adds, 10
go back TO the old back-break-
ing method of doing our laun-
dry?
Blood, sweat and tears
Winston Churchill has told the
British people is all he can
promise them until the world
calamity is over. They are up
TO their necks in all three.
Americans, by virtue of geo
graphical good fortune, are not
being bombed out of their beds.
We do not wake up in the morn
ing to find our friends and fami-
lies have been killed during the
night. Our men are not march
ing through Greece, Russia or
some other battlefield that
we may never hear tell of tffef1t
again. Thus we miss the bi66a
and tears.
In for II!
Butwe are I'm for a-iittie=
sweating, lady. How little or
how much depends on how we
can take ii.
For instance. we are prac-
tically out of silk hose. Our be-
loved silk hose! We are nearly
out of hairpins. Soon We viii
have no containers for lipstIcks
-. and maybe no lipsticks. The
latest tragedy, we understand, is
no more peroxide and our
blondes will become brunettes
or worse.
No more imported champagne
or French perfume and we may
even be reduced TO driving last
years automobile.
Lucky Us
Yes, the even and happy tenor
efeHF ways Fl. is in for a
shakeup, lady, but if nothing
worse happens to you and me
than that we must he our
selves 10 the basement 10 do the
family washing in soapstone 49,.
with plenty OF soap n q hot
water with which 10 do il
we can still call ourselves lucky.
II the day ever comes when
! can't do a healthy washing ..
you'll know I'm nearing my
hundredth birthday.
Back TO the WaShtubi It's a
kindergarten game compared 10
sleeping on bench in an An
derSon shelter or in a sub
way, piled like cordwood, or
trudging the highway like the
refugees Of Belgium and France
with nothing TO eat for three
days and no place TO 30.
The women Of France would
do your weeks washing, lady.
for loaf of bread. For a pound
of butter they'd clean your
whole house, and bless you as
well or for the bacon drip
pings you perhaps throw away.
The Old Wash Tub
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28
Washing Machines in Luxury Class?
Then Back to the Old Scrubbing Board

we cannot do an honest wash
ing If need be-. to help keep
our freedom?
No more washing machines :?
Don't be silly. There are enough
of them in the country now to
launder America for the next
twenty years and even If
we have 10 60 back 10 the churn
and the pillow were still
lucky 20 live here =. so never
let il be said that we are raising
a rumpus over a wash tub.