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Evening star., 1941-08-02

Man Who Came to Dinner" She
tells this one on herself.
Happy at returning home after a
successful season back East on the
stage, she donned some old Slacks
the other morning and dashed down
to the corner market to pick up
some groceries.
Suddenly she saw woman pur-
suing her.
"a FAM" thought Miss Crews, "a
dear, sweet fan who has seen and
appreciated my work and wants TO
tell me about it."
Miss Crews stopped to smile be-
nignly at her fan worShiper, who
greeted her with. why, Sadie, 1
haven't seen you since we worked at
the creamery four years agoi How
va been?"
This ones on Dorothy Lamour.
And Dorothy also tells on herself.
1t seems the Sarong lady was
blithely driving to the studio at a
5O-mile-an-hour clip when a traffic
officer hove up, stopped her and
went through the usual formalities.
While he wrote out the citation
Dorothy's radio, which was playing,
suddenly switched to Moonlight
and Shadows" her familiar theme
song. The tune was waited softly
in the early morning breeze all
during the conversation about the
ticket.
It even sung few bars along
with it, too" said Dorothy, but
that officer wasn't the slightest bit
impressionable.'
Only thing hampering a per-
msnent comeback for one time
glamour girl Gloria Swanson. thinks
R-K-O, is her too-soft voice.
Studio officials are repeatedly well
satisfied with her looks and per-
formance in Father Takes Wife. |"
but feel her voice could stand much
more power.
So while Gloria is signed for two
more pictures, she'll lay off six
weeks before making another.
Meanwhile she'll take a half years
course in voice culture.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-08-02

creulL. On Jne call-SneeC ne s
referred to only as "fat man in
theater," fat man on bus" fat
man in street." fat man in air.
plane" or wherever the scene takes
place. At the moment he's fat
man in theater," playing a scene
with Mary Martin and Carolyn Lee
in Birth of the Blues" It's a
theater in New Orleans in 1910 and
Bing Crosby is singing on the stage,
with the help of a piano player and
some lantern slides Carolyn and
fat man in theater" get into a
small argument, which ends with
Mary carting the youngster out
when Carolyn remarks that the man
seems to be wearing his hustle in
the wrong place
He's competent, able performer.
and directors can depend on him.
There's only one small draw
back. -. It's the script writers. d.
They're always writing scenes into
which this fat man with the vapid
look fits perfectly. >. There1l prob
ably be ''fat man in lobby" or "fat
man in dugout" or fat man stuck in
Pullman berth" tomorrow. So
this fat man will always be working.
His name-Bert Roach. A
few years ago it was big enough for
marquee billing. E. To-Day he's just
description on the call sheet.
X X 4
When called on to limp or other
wise twist their bodies for a role
most movie actors resort to elab-
crate weights on trusses. But not
Flora Robson, who thinks up her
own tricks along that line.
Miss Robson is called on to limp
in Bahama Passage" AS Stirling
Hayden's intolerant mother, she is
supposed to have an old hip injury.
But before technicians could figure
out some elaborate mechanical de-
vice to fasten on her body, the
actress simply bundled some paper
together, made q tight little ball
of it, and placed it in her right
shoe.
NOW, ne SAID, It'll hurt and
I'll remember which side to limp on. :"
'That1l be uncomfortable, pro-
tested the director.
so it will. she answered, "and
that's what I want"
Miss Robson has been limping
perfectly for two weeks a
couple of Paramount technicians
who pride themselves on Goldberg
limping devices are pretty angry
about the matter.
X
Laura Hope Crews, that grand
character actress whose speciality
is the dizzy old society dame, re-
Gently returned from New York to
play in the movie version of The
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the pixilated roguish suiter, who
knows how to handle such a girl,
and Kanin is the director of the
two (and the others whose sense
of life and gayety and simplicity
brings out the ultimate laugh in this
rollicking, romantic tale.
Even a conservative critic would
feel like throwing it whole handful
of stars. Or, if he were the kind
who gives bells, he would jangle
them sweetly far into the night.
That's enthusiasm! And why not?
A large part of ones enjoyment
of Tom, Dick and Harry" is its re-
markable quality of newness, plus
its ability to be simple and smart in
the same breath. That is Kanin's
genius, an admirable kind which is
shown to even better advantage than
in Bachelor Mother" which was
the ranking comedy of its year.
X X X
The people of Tom, Dick and
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Plays Washington

George Washington, whose REIN
carnations on the screen have been
as rare as Abraham Lincoln's have
been frequent, will be impersonated
by Montagu Love in Paramount's
The Remarkable Andrew"
The picture, based on the novel
by Dalton Trumbo, deals with q
confused young man in a modern
community who is guided out of
his predicament by the shades of
such assorted American heroes as
Andrew jackson, George Washing
ton, John Marshall, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Benjamin Franklin. Cast
in the lead roles are William Holden,
Brian Donlevy and Ellen Drew.
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Whirlaway Loses
At the Trans-LuX

The real news at the Trans-Lux
this week, judging it by the man
bites-dog theory, probably is the shot
from Arlington Park-the clip show
ing Whirlaway losing that race. On
other news fronts there is still, of
course, the war, the scene switching
now to Japan for report on the
Tutuila bombing and recollection of
the Panay incident. The v for
Victory drive is sweeping the news
reels, too.
Short subjects include Fighter
Pilot" story of the training of mill
tary flyers: sport short titled Mat
Men," a cartoon, 'The Cute Re-
cruit," and a new Screen Snap
Shots"
Evening star., 1941-08-02

still, however, delight admirers OF
Carole Lands, music, Betty Cradle,
dancing, Don Ameche, technicolor,
Robert Cummings and sets that are
lavish beyond the dreams Of any
one but a Hollywood set designer.
It's about couple of girls who
inherit some money ana go to
fabulous place called Miami TO trap
a millionaire. 1t isn't very bright
about it.
H. NJ.
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Sergeant York." inspiring
biography of a heroic soldier: 10:45
an, 1:25, 4, $40 and 9:25 pm.
Stage shows: /, $40, 6:15 and 9 pm.
PaIace-"Blossoms in the Dust" :"
the Happy return of Greer Mrs.
Chips" Carson: IL, 2:2o, 4:45, 7:10
and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Tom, Dick and Harry:
Has am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
Gas pm.
Capitol-"Ringside Masie," in
which she meets, of course, prize
fighters: IL am, las, 4:30, tbs and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50
and 9:15 pm.
Little-"There's Magic in Music" /"
when it's sung by Susanna Foster:
1925, 3:15, sos and 9 pm. "The
Great McGinty": II am, las, 4:35,
7:30 and 1920 pm.
observation-disclosures in Socie-
ty," latest adventure of the Bum
steads: 11:20 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35,
TAO and, 9:45 pm.
Columbia-'Moon Over Miami, /"
Betty Cradle, technicolor, music:
11:40 am, lao, $40, $40, 7:35 and
9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Roadside-"The Bat" the old Bat,
remember: $3.50.
Cross Roads-"Private Lives" Noel
Coward's play with Izetta Jewell.
Evening star., 1941-08-02

trouble with his boss. Allowing
slspstick to take the place of inven-
tiveness hasn't frightened the script
any too much, especially since it's
rather unfunny slapstick. Admirers
Of Blonde may not be angry, but
they will be terribly, terribly hurt
that she has been accorded such
treatment.
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Moon Shines on

Neat but not ungaudy, full of
beautiful young people exuberantly
going through the motions of a
tired old plot, the musical called
Moon Over Miami" has now turned
up at the Columbia for it's second
week on F street. Not a strong con-
tender for the years Academy
Award, Moon Over Miami" may
Evening star., 1941-08-02
The Cast
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Once upon a time it was rather
pleasant to spend little time with
the Bumpsteads of the Blonde"
film series. But that was once upon
a time before Dagwood's Weakness
had been replaced by complete stu
pidity and before Blonde had be-
come something of shrew, which
is what has happened to them in
Blonde in Society,"" the new pic
ture at the Metropolitan. Now it's
downright uncomfortable to sit in
the same theater with their blunder-
ing antics, and they argue so shrilly
there's no sleeping.
This time there's some trouble
about Great Dane named Chin
Up-White- Tie for Dinner. 1t fol-
lows the usual pattern, Dagwood
(Arthur Lake. getting into trouble
with Blonde penny Singleton)
after he inherits the pooch in re-
payment of loan, then being driven
by Blondes nagging antics into
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Wanger's Fourth

Walter Wanger has purchased
Cheyenne" an original story by
Winston Miller and William Rankin,
for his fourth production on his
new seasons schedule. The film,
which dramatizes the story of the
worlds champion rodeo rider, will
star John Wayne and Bruce Cabot,
with Henry Hathaway directing.
Evening star., 1941-08-02


rected if you will
only allow your
self the time to
see it.
1t takes a COM
bination of the
talents of the
principals of
"Tom, Dick and
Harry to make
it what it is.
Miss Rogers is
the lovely, dizzy
opportunist with
a magnificent
C a p acity for
ruthless inn o.
Evening star., 1941-08-02

Harry" are such splendidly human
creatures. Foremost among them is
jamie miss Rogers. A haZy,
dreaming telephone operator, she
stands on the threshold Of her
feminine destiny with the most
varied notions of what her dream
husband should be.
There's Tom George Murphy
who might be it, personable, ambi-
tious, energetic Tom, who is deter
mined to sell million cars year
to provide her with what she wants
Then there is Harry Meredith),
who is happy-go-lucky dope who
could take her fishing every day if
he could only have the good fortune
to lose his job which keeps him
tied down.
And, as the title has it, there is
Dick. He's the rich one, the chap
with the double talk" foreign car,
fabulous money, social position and
all the advantages of which you
dream when you don't have them,
as jamie does not.
Between the three. the uncertain,
tickle, dreaming Cinderella has
those moments for which every girl
yearns. The suspense of the film
lies in the carefully developed point
that eventually she must make her
choice Which it shall be is thing
that is not too thoroughly con-
cealed after you have the answer
at the end of the film. Until you
have it, however, Kanin's film keeps
you on much the same spot as the
girl. Since that is pleasant and
unpleasant place to be at one time,
it is beyond the province of the
reviewer to tell how it all comes out.
Tom, Dick and Harry" is the
perfect vehicle for Miss Rogers. 1t
gives her rich opportunity to be
the innocent, naive, but intuitively
wise female, engaged in the worlds
most fundamental exploration.
The unconventionality of the
film, the treatment which gives it
its freshness, is the old dream trick
in which she experiences the future
as each of the young men repre-
sents it. Kanin has been clever
enough once more in his direction
to keep the trick from being irri-
tating despite its repetitiveness. 1t
is a kind of exciting fun to live
through the actual experience of the
various meetings and the subSe-
quent dream of what each may
lead to.
The dialogue of Paul Jarrico's
screen play and the incident with
which he has dressed it are items
splendidly designed to keep it from
having dull moments.
So is the playing of not only Miss
Rogers and the facile Meredith
(they're a comedy team to keep in
tact, RKO) but of such others as
Murphy, Alan Marshall, who plays
Dick, and many more subordinate
characters.
See it and regain the gift of
laughter-or discover you never
lost it.
Evening star., 1941-08-02
More Additions
Set for Tonight

Further additions will be held
tonight at $50 o'clock at Gen.
trail High School by the COM
mittee arranging shows to be
sent to entertain draftees at
nearby Army camps.
Singers, dancers and other
speciality entertainers who have
registered during the past week
and those who were not heard
last Saturday night, as well as
other performers who may wish
to contribute their talents, will
be auditioned tonight.
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Great Dane
Is Blondes
New Trial
She Also Faces
Slapstick in
New Met Film

picture featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur
Lake Larry Simms: produced by Robert
Sparks: directed by Frank r: Strayer:
screen play by Karen De Wolf: original
story by Eleanore Grimm. At the Metro
Evening star., 1941-08-02
A Few Years Can Make
A Whale of a Difference
Once His Name Blazed on Marques,
Now Casting Directors Know Him
Only as Dependable Fat Man
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
In the Vacation Absence of Sheilah Graham)
HOLLYWOOD.

perpeualy shifting expression of
weighs 245
diet he doesn't dare diet
practically pound nearly
20 q top flight player.
works pictures but he longer
Evening star., 1941-08-02
Miss Rogers Again Proves
She Really Is Cinderella
And 1t Is Hilarious Form the Proof
Takes in Tom, Dick and Harry Keith
Comedy Directed by Carson Kanin
By JAY CARMODY.

Cinderella will
make look fresh omorrow bright and
sparkling worth
admirable ks with the told
Tom Dick Harry at Kh about the larkest comedy
Evening star., 1941-08-02

TOM. DICK AND HARRY" an R-K-O
production starring Ginger Rogers. pro-
Ksnin. story and screen play by Paul
Jarrico. At Keith's.
Evening star., 1941-08-02

gift of laughter
shot to be cor
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09

didn't you2" he asked, and I mo- ticed that despite his calmness he was having a time picking those sticky pieces of paper apart as he counted them out.
 "YeS," l said, and then, "There'll be an inquest, suppose2 Motives, cause of death, suspects, clews--"
 Guess the police haven't much to go on" He gave me the stamps and flshed around for change.
 "Oh, things always turn up," I said. "Once they learn about the man II mean his Independently, the police usually get lead" l sound- cd very snug and knowing. T mean in other murders that's the way 1t works out. They always find clews insignificant things we wouldn't bother with"
 He didn't seem disposed to talk and he still hadn't answered my question about Margie Dixon, sup- pose he had been pestered by dozens already today and I felt a little ashamed at my own display of curiosity. Maudie herself couldn't have been more nosey, I thought, going back to the cottage, but I didn't have long to consider my own reactions because when I arrived I found Maudie giving an interview to a young man. She was telling him all about her discovery of Her. bert Cords body.
 (To Be COntinuedl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
MARGUERITE GAHAGAN

lat 1t. Going to the inquest, sup- poser"
 said I hadn't been told to go, but I supposed both Maudie and I would be called since we-had found the body. He left then, but I stay ed few moments, slipping my gin- gerale and listening to the broken threads of conversation around me.
 You heard them arguing" a pretty girl, deeply tanned said, T was right there with you. Herb wanted to invite Jeanie to picnic he a and Margie were planning Jeanie was in the other room buy ing some cigaretS and Margie was telling Herb not to ask her to go. remember she said to him, What are you trying to do, play one against the other2' Herb laughed and asked her if she was jealous and Margie certainly didn't think that was funny"
 The rest of the crowd at the table nodded in agreement. Then Jeanie came back" she continued land Herb asked her if she could be ready by 10 o'clock. . Why, that would be this morning, wouldn't 1t? Jeanie looked bit surprised, and before she could answer Margie told her off.
 CT hope you won't think I'm rude, dear she said in that drawl- ing tone she uses when she wants to impress us, but 1 sort of want Herbert all to myself tomorrow. Jeanie got white, and Herb became simply furious. I'd never seen him really mad before, but he was mad then and he and Margie said some nasty things to each other and Jeanie stood a moment just look ing at them. Then she went away. She never said word, but she didn't look like herself, and of course she knew everyone had heard what they had said"
 And everyone had heard what the tanned, leggy thing had said, too, l decided, looking around the room.
 Miss Millie1l put the clamps on her tighter than ever after this" one of the boys said.
 Say, maybe the old womans breaking down." another of the girls added. Dick and were com ing home last night about Il and 10 and behold, who do we see but Miss Millie walking along the road toward home. Tn that long black skirt she looked like a witch"
 "If you saw all that on Pine road, then Dick must be losing his tech- nique," someone else said, and the whole group burst into laughter.
 Over behind the little counter that served as a bar I noticed that Chris Gordon, the hotel owner, wasn't smiling. suppose he got rather tired of summer romances and these flip young things who either roared up and down the quiet roads or parked in the shadows. He probably wasn't any too pleased either about the murder of one of his guests. He advertised the inn as being quiet and restful and murder wouldn't do that ad any good.
 l picked up the letters and re- membered We needed stamps. went up to him and while he was pick ing them from the cigar box under the desk I asked him how Miss Dixon was feeling. Tt must have been decided shock to her." I said. Tt was to me and didn't even know the man"
 You and your mother found him,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
MARGIE vS. JEANNE
CHAPTER W

It was just as well that l had come for the mail because the little white frame inn on the beach at the end of the grove was anything but a scene of rustic quiet. The room where one could get ice cream and pop was doing rushing business Cottagers who ordinarily only came on Saturday night were there now and 1t wasn't even noon. Maudie would have had field day. shuddered to think of the dynamite she might have planted.
 I collected the papers and some letters and started out when Dr Crway got up from table near the door and came toward me. We sat down and he asked me how I felt.
 My knees still shake when I think of last night" I confessed, land being only human, I'm won- dering about a lot of things. This Is my first contact with murder and I don't think I enjoy 1t, but my feminine curiosity is bothering me"
 We're all curious" he said with that old-fashioned country doctor courtliness that went with his bushy iron gray hair and kind but piercing gray eyes. We haven't had mur- der around here in a good many years. This is a peaceful commun- ity and since was named coroner l haven't had much to do with crime"
 'Then it was crime?"
 Murder" he said briefly. "He was shot, The police have the bull let and 1t will be examined, but un- til they find the weapon they won't have much to 90 on. A nasty busi- ness" he added. shaking his head.
 Did he have any known ene- mieS?" I tried not to act too curious,
 "Ige's been coming here for about three years, but despite that no one seems to know lot about him. He was ongenial-liked to fish; sailed a bit in the races when someone wanted an extra man: danced, which made him popular with the women: played a good game of cards, and was accepted because Jeanie cared for him. You know about that angle, suppose"
 I nodded. "The first thing one hears at summer resort is re- port on the romances."
 well, Jeanie must have known him better than anyone else around here-that is, except Miss Dixon, who's collapsed. Made lot of wild accusations. Hysterical, of course, but damaging"
 "Vou mean things that would in- volve Jeanie2" My hunch had been right, then. That brown-haired child with blue eyes would be hurt.
 He nodded. i've known her since she was a little girl in pigtails" he said. Miss Millie was always a strict woman. Well intentioned, but she never remembered that girls grow up and want something be- sides weekly teas with a group of old people" He pulled out his old- fashioned silver watch and looked
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
D SERIAL STORY

THE STORY: Friendly, high sparited Mautlie O'COnnor, her gcottle, Finn McCool, and her school teacher daughter, Mary, enlOy week of quiet vacation at Paradise Lake before their discOv- cry of the murdered body of sO- phlstloated Herbert Cord spells trouble. Instead of phoning the police from elderly Chris Gordon's inn, NIaudle goes on to the home Of prim Miss Millie Morris and the pretty niece, Jeanie Morris, whom local reporters had believed engaged to Cord until he came to the lake this year with 8 fiancee, Margie Dixon. Both Miss Millie and Jeanie had reason to hate Cord. Mary, the next day, wOn- lers about a lucky piece her
 nOther has acquired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
ABOUT SCARABS

The Egyptians regarded the scarab beetle as the emblem of resurrection and immortality, the insect emerging and flying heav- onward as the soul emerged from the mummy. ScarabS frequently were buried with the dead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
cR ANll)M CRACKERS
WEIGHTY MATTERS

In the kitchen, at the grocery counter, or in the drug >store. weights and measures play an iIn- portant part in our daily lives. Don't let these questions prove to be too weighty for you to answer
 1. When is the term penny weight" used in weighing?
 2. How many gills in gallon?
 3, What is the difference be- tween avoirdupots, Troy and apoth- ecaries weight2
 4. How many cups Of granulated sugar, butter and coffee in pound?
 s. How many rods and how many feet in mile2
 Answers on Back Page
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
MILLIONS SAVED

Tn all the animals, performers and equipment drawn by Walt Dls- ney's artists for the comic feature "Dumbo" had been req linstead of drawn, the RKO Radio release half million dollars to make.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
SMALLEST FISH

Pandaka pygmes is the small- est fish known in the world. reaching a minimum length of 6il6-inch and maximum of 7ll6-inch, 1t Is found in the wa ters of the Philippines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09
MURDER IN PARADISE BY MARGUERITE GAHAGAN sSE s

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