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Evening star., 1941-10-12
Even Great Playwrights
Find Share of Travail
Saroyan Sits Among Unproduced Scripts
Kaufman Makes Wrong Guess, and
Anderson Is Working Overtime
BY Jay CarmOdr.

1t difficult also be established playwright True the dcon
fort is different necessarily
the ears OF one receives certain degree of respect
from actors and the meal considerably
other hazards however from which there
exemption the recognby authors
Where today is William the
who pleaded guilty being the
figure dramatic literature backed with
two noble Time Life" Today
vee unproduced dramas maveng doubt the
mbec of producers others of his old associates the
of his
Moreover within infalIbe
of kaufman producer
called
first of the wherng glare
Anderson Has
Than a Neophyte
merely playwright
jected omenting
whose Candle
its hackers and the customers 1t has its faults which
Mr. Anderson is working with the skill and diligence of knowing
and playwright but it its them
appealing
There believe that Anderson his esab
hed position in the tea has worked harder Candle in the
Wind than neophyte might logically
the
difficult than
be devoured by bloodhy bru statement faith
play form higher faith, the
Contn on Page E-2 ollmn
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Broadway's First Musical Hit Arrives
Best Foot Forward Which Brings Rosemary Lane Out of
The Holywoods, Is Called Young, Tunefu and Gay

lens and growing pains, is now
impersonated by William Prince,
who will probably park his adoles-
cence in. Hollywood pretty soon.
Perhaps the best acting in the re-
vival comes from Dennie Moore,
who injects the needed seasoning of
salt with her gusty trolloping.
Rats for the Government.
"All Men Are Alike" wacky
comedy, opened Monday evening at
the Hudson Theater with Reginald
Denny making his Broadway re-
emergence after an absence of 81
years. His last New York appear
ance was with John Barrymore in
Richard the Third"
Between the acts, your footlights
reporter paid call on Mr.. Denny
and found him knee-deep in sta
tistics about his model alrplane
business.
I'VE are supplying the United
States Government with Rats" Mr..
Denny told me calmly. After help
ing me down from the chandelier
he explained that Rats are radio
aerial targetS-in other words, small
model planes controlled by radio
and sold by Denny to the United
States Air Corps for target practice
They go up as high as they like and
when hit, a parachute opens and
the plane floats down enabling the
marksmen to see how good at shoot
ing they are.
Denny and his associates worked
on Rats nine and half years, and
they are made in the shape of
bombers and pursuit planes. There
are between so and 10 men making
/ them in Denny's Burbank, Calf,
factory. I'm another three months
We'll have 600 workers." he said.
The story of "All Men Are Alike"
is much too complicated to tell. But
it concerns an Englishman and an
American who are in partnership
in wartime England. Their business
is to make marmalade out of
seaweed. Denny is the firtatious
type, has homely but wealthy wife
in the A. T. S. (Auxiliary Trans
port Service. Other ingredients of
the farce include a spy ring and a
lady's pair of panties on which are
embroidered-in code-the secret
formula of new incendiary bomb.
Do have to continue?
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Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1941-10-12
By Harold Hefernan.

the theater. Others traced it to a
general uncertainty over the fu-
ture. The so-called propaganda
cycle was blamed in many quarters.
Regardless of reason, Hollywood
is willing to forget all if folks will
maintain that "let's-go-back-to-the-
movies" attitude which began TAX
ing its unanimous swing late last
July.
New York counting rooms have
just flashed the astonishing news
that movie business today is at its
peak and that when all returns are
counted up September will be
chalked up as the healthiest month
recorded by the screen industry in
the past 10 years!
1t is estimated today that the
aters are selling more than 95,-
100000 tickets a week. 1t is further
predicted that weekly sales will
shoot past the l00,000,000 mark dur
ing October.
Naturally, the industry never
could have staged such a phen-
omenal comeback without the back
ing of extraordinary product. And
1t is getting just that this fall.
Pictures have never been better
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Surprised Filmdom Sees Happy Days Again
With Good Pictures the Nations Screens Customers
Turn Out in Droves and the Slump Is Ended

than today. Quick to recognize the
quality cycle, an entertainment
hungry Nation is doing the rest.
Here are pictures mainly respon-
sible for whetting jaded fan ap-
petites and causing that box Of
flee bell to ring again with a loud
toll:
Sergeant York" life story of the
famed World War hero, starring
Gary Cooper. Undoubtedly the No.
crossing film of 1941.
"A Yank in the r. A F." thrilling,
amusing tale of an American ferry
pilot who meets his fleeing American
sweetheart in London. Tyrone
Power, John Sutton and Betty Gra-
BILE in brilliant portrayas.
Lady, Be Good" delightful musi-
cal dish which overcomes hackneyed
backstage plot by diversified spe-
cialty performances, plus an ingra-
tiating cast headed by Ann Sothern,
Eleanor Powell, Robert Young,
Lionel Barrymore and that newest
Of zanies, Red Shelton.
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan" first
hereafter" story ever made appeal
/ ((See HEFFERNAN, Page E-3D
Evening star., 1941-10-12
HOLLYWOOD.

Producers and theater owners are
pinching themselves to see if it
isn't all dream. Nope, 1t isn't
the slump is over!
AS a matter of statistical fact,
business at the Nations box Offices,
hitting unexpected and unexplained
lows over a six months period be-
ginning last February. is today con-
servatively summed up as slightly
terrific.
Walls and means of the movie
bag-holders have turned into yelps
of joy as pictures that played to
half-empty houses a few weeks ago
now attract standees and long lines
before the ticket wickets.
During April and May, national
weekly attendance at movie houses
fell off from an average 100000
to 60,O00,000 and the ak began
falling everywhere in Hollywood.
Industry experts were unable to
diagnose even a halfway logical
reason for such tremendous re-
cesSion of interest in the gallop-
ing celluloids. Some said the speed
up in defense industries gave fans
too little spare time to think Of
Evening star., 1941-10-12
So This Is How Girls Become Movie Stars
Sam Goldwyn Who Says 1t Isn't Secret Tells His Secret
For Discovering and Developing New Film Personalities

knew she could play it and wasn't
being given a chance in Hollywood
because she was playing straight,
like a good girl, as she was, and
wouldn't go out with fellows no
matter how important they were.
Then she began to cry.
so I had a test made of her and
it was terrible. There were rs tests
made of different girls-I think rs
altogether-ande everybody sat watt
ing to hear who would get the part.
I wanted Belle Bennett for it. When
she sat in my Office crying saw
Stella Dallas but in her test there
was no Stella Dallas.
The Riot Act.
ct sent for her to come to my
Office. know didn't get the part
she said. And I know why she
said. Then she goes into how she
don't get parts because she Is good
girl and makes it out like everybody
in the picture business is not like
normal business people, but wants
to take advantage of her.
you're phony.' I said to her.
That's why you don't get parts.
You're phony and sorehead and
make yourself Objectionable and
have no talent and shouldn't be an
actress, but should go home some
where and should stay home, where
you belong, not bothering people who
are trying to get their work done
'Oh, gave it to her good. spoke
to her like I never spoke to any one
in my life. And she got sore and
started giving it to me. Boy, did she
give it to me! In the middle of her
screaming, say Now, that's what
I want to see when you go down
stairs for your screen test. Give it
to the camera the way you give it
to me and the contract is waiting
in my drawer"
Belle Bennett in Stella Dallas"
was one of the most successful pic
lures ever made.
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hance, Inc.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
By Ira Wolfert.

what these 20,000,OOO people would
like to be.
And after that. you have to be
somebody that 60,000,000 other peo-
pie would like to visit with for an
hour or two every chance they get.
so you see how rare it is, what a
rare. beautiful and wonderful thing
big movie personality is. Well
where were we? Oh yes, at the be-
ginning. You see it in face some
where and you recognize it. That's
the job, to recognize it. After that
you go ahead and work.
She Had to Smile.
You go ahead and work" is a
phrase that covers lot of ground.
Virginia Gilmore, a San Francisco
girl just now getting lead parts, is a
case in point She is pretty girl,
but pretty girls are dime a dozen
out here and the camera requires
more. Her teeth were too widely
spaced for the camera and, although
you might never notice it in private
life, every time she smiled the
camera would make her look as if
she were eating a harmonica.
So the man in charge of her test
told her, please, not to smile. But
Virginia Is a naturally bubbling girl
and did smile, but remembered to
keep her lips fastened over her
teeth. The result was startling. Her
face crinkled. CUTE" the experts
said.
That was how she got a contract.
Then work began ON her teeth.
some thousands of dollars were spent
on dentists and Miss Gilmore wore
braces for months. Her teeth were
made photogenic, but it was dis
covered that her tongue was not
used to operating in such cramped
quarters and kept hitting the teeth,
producing an effect on the sound
recording apparatus of goulash
dropping into custard pie.
All sorts of things were tried to
cure the lisp until some one came
up with the bright idea of teaching
Miss Gilmore French to strengthen
the muscles of her tongue.
Sometimes" Mr.. Goldwyn said,
''you got to do something else besides
work. Like, remember-I never
told this to any one before-when it
came to picking the title role in
Stella Dallas A woman walked
into my office, Belle Bennett-and
said she wanted to play the role.
She said she had read the book and
Evening star., 1941-10-12
By Sheiiah Graham.

accepts the bid of a timid college
boy for dear old WinsockD to be
his date for the senior prom. She
is desperate for publicity, poor
thing.
She Sings, Too.
When the well-bred boys and girls
of Winsocki get through embracing
her to their collective bosom, the
Lane gal is left with only her STEP
ms to call her own. And, by the
way, why didn't Hollywood publicize
her legs while they had them?
In the course of the show Miss
Lane gets off Gin addition to the
aforementioned clothes) a ditty,
That's How I Love the Blues"
that should be popular this winter
And you will also be hearing Don't
Sell the Night Short" put over
with tremendous verve by June Ally
son and Nancy Walker. The two
latter, together with Victoria Schools
(of the modern boogie -woogie
schools are the best united item
in the show. Their song, The Three
BIS" corralled the major applause
of the evening Another good tune,
Shady Lady Bird" was launched
by Maureen Cannon.
This department seems to have
neglected the masculine side of the
show. Gil Stratton, jr., the boy who
invites Miss Lane to the prom, is
& little ar1d To
him up and take him home His
pals, Jack Jordan, jr., and Kenneth
Bowers, aren't bad, either, but Gil
is my boy.
BEST Foot Forward" should be
marching for quite while.
Mr.. Carey Is Good.
And now we have the Theater
Guilds revival of Eugene ONeill's
"Ah, Wilderness" which this re-
porter first saw eight years ago with
George M. Cohan in the starring
role. I remember thinking then that
George was a little too whimsical
and hammered Il had made the
mistake of reading the play in book
form before seeing it on the stage).
Harry Carey is the new Nat Miller
in the family oversweet play of
1906 life in New England. In spite of
ruggedness that suggests the great
open West rather than the trim tidi-
ness of Connecticut and an obvious
anxiousness to please, Carey as the
small town family man gives good
performance.
Richard, with his loves and prob
Evening star., 1941-10-12
HOLLYWOOD.

Tyrone Power has little unem-
ployment problem in his home.
It's name, Annabella, was adapted
from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Since April %, 1899, Annabella has
been Mrs. Tyrone Power.
Before that, Annabella had been
doing quite we'll in pictures. She
starred in French films, then made
several in English despite an ac-
cent. But since her marriage she
has been idle.
A recent engagement with her
husband in summer theater on the
Atlantic Coast has Whetted her ap-
petite for return to greaSe-paint.
1T isn't that she's getting rest
less" said Power, the other day.
She keeps very busy, what with
English lessons, social engagements
and so on.
But if the right part comes along,
she would take it and I would like
to see her take it. She is wonder
full actress"
If Annabella hasn't found her
niche in pictures, her husband
makes up for it by keeping doubly
Evening star., 1941-10-12
That Old Lure Is Still Strong Old Lure
Annabella (Nrs. Tyrone Power) Looks Again Toward
Stage Screen Role After Success in Lilom'
By .Tern Haugland,
Associated Press Staff Writer.


busy. He recently finished a modern
aviation picture. Now he is back in
costume-Where his employers pre-
fer to keep him-aS an early 18th
century Englishman. After that he
does a Sabatini story which also
calls for period apparel.
was talking to Power several
weeks ago when a friend informed
him the studio had changed the
name of his new picture from it's
book title. Benjamin Blake" to
"Son of Fury" He was sharply
critical then, complaining it didn't
mean anything. But now he doesn't
seem to mind.
But back to Annabella, Tyrone
says she is especially good on the
stage; that she manages to project
the full warmth of her personality.
And her accent does not trouble
her. as in films.
For one thing" he remarked, con
the stage you don't have to hurry
through lines. You can express so
much with a pause, or gesture.
My wife has been somewhat self
conscious about her speech. She
was all right before a small group,
Evening star., 1941-10-12

because she knew she could always
60 back and explain If some one
didn't understand her. But before
big audience, she'd tighten up"
Annabella didn't tighten up when
they played 'Liliom" in the East
this summer. 1t was a pleasant ex-
perience and Power was sorry his
film commitments made its run so
short.
There was talk of them making a
picture of the Molnar play, but
Power doesn't think he would
care to.
MY wife is reading a couple of
plays that have possibilities" Power
went on.
And she's being considered for
Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls
She would be perfect in that-wind-
bloWn-bare feet-the gamin type.
1T may seem strange to you that,
if she wants to act, she doesn't get
a part. But you see, there's no point
in her doing a picture or play just
to be doing it.
She'll wait for something really
worth while"
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Happy, Happy Birthday

say who he Isl is going to call at
Z, and they're going out for dinner.
She's going to have pate de foie gras,
vichyoise and lobster and one glass
of champagne.
They they're going to the theater.
(The boy friend, by the way, will
be in white tie) After the theater
they'll do supper club, and if
they feel like it have another glass
Of champagne. Twelve O'Clock will
mean nothing. They'll stay as long
after II as they ike-just so she's
home by /.
During the two years Linda has
been in pictures she can recall being
out after 1880 only three times.
And each time her mother was
along. This, then, will definitely
be an occasion.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
NEW YORK.

4NGN 1OIbIN'
A violent controversy is raging
around Best Foot Forward" the
first new music and dance show of
the season. There are some, most
of the flrst-string critics among
them, who jabber paeans of praise
when you bring up the subject.
But the detractors of the George
Abbott show are just as violent in
their hymn of hate. william Goetz,
big-shot Hollywood producer, left
the theater and did not return after
the first act, dragging his lovely
companion, Merle Oberon, with him.
My own escort, gentleman from
Baltimore, conceded that the show
wasn't bad, but spotty." A mil
lionaire Wall Streeter was heard
to remark: There was no story
worth mentioning, the girls weren't
girls, they were hags, and the dresses
and decor were an insult"
And now I will tell you my own
reaction to the show. I enjoyed
every minute of it from curtain up
to the final bow It's fresh, it's
young, ltS tune1ul, lts gay. And
very attractive.
The leading lady is our old Holly
wood friend, Rosemary Lane, who
has dyed her hair yellow and is now
a dead ringer for sister Priscilla.
Rosemary has a sweet soprano voice
and formerly crooned with Fred
Warnings banda fact I had prac-
tically forgotten because the film
moguls who hired her just because
of her singing ignored that fact
during most of Rosemary's four
years in Hollywood.
BY one of those condolences that
usually happen in the movies, Miss
Lane plays a film star whose option
is about not to be taken up, if
you know what that means. She
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Coming
| Attractions

CAPITOL - international
Lady," story of some espio-
mage doings, with Ilona Mas
sey as the lady and George
Brent as the fellow who be-
comes involved with her,
starts Thursday. There will
be a new stage show, too.
EARLE You'll Never Get
Rich" the new Fred Astaire
film, in which his new dane
ing partner is the hSsome
Rita Hayworth. arrives Fri
day. Willie West and Nc
Ginty will headline the stage
bill.
KEITHS unfinished Busi-
ness" new romantic comedy
co-starring Irene Dunno and
Robert Montgomery, will fol-
low the currently successful
The Little Foxes" now in its
third week.
PALACE-"A Yank in the r. A.
F." with Tyrone Power i'm
personating a Yank in the
r. A. F. and Betty Cradle as
his reason for being there, is
set to follow the current
Gable Turner heat wave,
"Honky-Tonk."
Evening star., 1941-10-12
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Come Thursday night, the Gin
derella story comes out of the
mothballs again, with variations.
For on the 10th Linda Darnell will
be 18. And in California 18 is when
you come of age.
The dark-haired little Texan,
who's played married women on the
screen, is going to the ball. But
unlike Cinderella it isn't all 60
ing to end at midnight.
Linda has been planning the oc-
casion for weeks. She has a So
phisticated black gown all ready,
and she'll wear an orchid on her
shoulder.
Her escort, lucky fellow (she won't
Evening star., 1941-10-12
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.


HOLLYWOOD.
Harry Davenport has been an
actor for 70 years. He's still an
actor, and a busy one.
Davenport, now rs, made his
debut at Philadelphia at the age
of 5 as the son of Damon in "Da-
mon and Pythias" His father
played the part of Damon.
He's one of the most success
full free-lancers in the films. Fresh
from two pictures at Warner Bros.
and one at Republic, he's now at
goth Century-Fox wearing filthy
rags and stringy whiskers-"to make
me look older'-as Tyrone Powers
grandfather in "Son of Fury"
when am I going to retire?
Never" he says, briskly. IF ! quit
work, I'd die"
Evening star., 1941-10-12

LOVE is so MANY THNGSAnd the currently to
be embracing OF its phases possible in eek
Aboue Miss Lana Turner and Mr. Clark Gable demonstrate the
torrid somebody loosen Uaety in "Honky Tonk
the Lett The Sober Charles Oluid
Hauand hare their tragic and poignant moments the Eares
"Hold Back the Right friUolous thing Ohen
subjected to the light banter of RoSand Russell
Anleche, in "The Feminine Touch" at the Capitol.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

Continued on Page Ed, Column ~
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-25
GRADING
FRIDAY

Grading of tobacco according to
standard grades viii be demonstrate
cd to Vance county farmers tomor-
row at two places IN the county, with
j. Q. Arlmlstead of the bureau OF
agricultural economies ! n charge OIL
the meetings.
A demonstration for white farmers
Will be held at 10 O'Clock daylight
saving time) at Hicks Crossroads
and a similar meeting tor Negro far
mers will be held in the afternoon at
23O o'clock at A. D. Bulloch'5 farm
near BullOCkSVllle.
All farmers in the county are urg-
ed to attend the meetings. N view
of the increasing Importance of cor
rect grading of tobacco, II Was statet
by County Farm Agent j y. San
| GerS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-25
Revival Ends
At Methodist

\ revival meeting that ran Tor ten
DAYS ended last night At the FIrSt
Methodist church. with Il number e.!
to the invitation of the
pastor, Rev. d. c. ReaviS, at the close
OF the sermon.
Rev. Mr.. Reavis has been preach
ing at the evening services through
out. The as lStant pastor, Key. Wal
ter Thompson, preached at early
morning services at $50 O'Clock five
days last week.
Special music has been provided
bv the choir at evening services and
attendance has been reasonably good
curing most OF the time, 1t was SAID.
Church members have made up the
congregation as a rule during mucn
of tie period Of the revival.
The pastor expects some dcceNslonS
10 the church roster as the result
of the revival meeting, though No
definite number was gwen IN thl-
respect.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-25
Homecoming at Antioch.

Homecoming will oe observed at
Antioch church Sunday afternoon at
3 O'Clock eastern Standard llme),
with Rev. j. p. Pegg, Methodist min
ister, preaching the sermon at the
service. All former members are
urged to attend.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-25
A YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page t'oW

!. In which country IS the famous
Barney Stone"
2. Who was vice president OF the
United States during George
Washingt MS two terms?
3. In time recording, what do the
initials, p, m. stand for?
4. The distance between the earth
and moon varies; true or false
5. What crop is grown in paddy
fields?
6. Nationality is determined by
federal or state law?
7. Monthly old-age retirement bone
fits under the Social Security Act
first became payable IN 1889
1910, or 1912
8. Is a postmaster empowered tc
open first class mail without per
missi.n of the addressed?
9. Name the twin brother OF tht
Biblical Jacob.
10. Chocolate and come IRON
leaves. stalks, beans, on tree sap,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-14
Concern Problems Wholly European

Our hates being famed hourly Our whole
being directed to problems that wholly European.
As told to hate kaiser and rid
OF kaiser, told must rid Europe of Hitler
and rid of dictators.
We have finally been forced to point where
ready to tolerate action by President who in utter vo
lafion OF the written of this
dspossessed of so desroyers which military auho
ties thought might day be essential
defense.
We have been euchred into position by OF
and fear that has permitted Of the Europe
manpower "a ~
Nov the last stroke, the last request. all of 1t
taking right to the brink Of actual another
European
The Indians have word: White fool Indian
shame white White fool Indian twice shame
Indian
To-day have leadership working closer
until OF these hours going find those
Americans successful who make WPA project of
the job Of checking European drifting shifting that
been going since the beginning of time"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-14
Last Recorder S
Judges in Race

All 10 Recorders Court judges
seek reelection today after filing
nominating petitions and deposit.
ing the 500 fees by the last five
yesterday. They are Judge:
Thomas NJ. Cotter. Joseph A. Gil.
lis. John V. Brennan. john. P
Scallen and George Murphy.
In addition to the judges Others
who have filed for the job are
Councilman Henry S. Sweeny
John Atkinson. former chief as.
sistant corporation counsel: Orer
A. Johnson, former assistant
prosecutor, and A. G. Jeffries, ar
attorney.
The last filing day had been SCI
at January II by the corporation
counsel, but a state amendment
set the last day as IS days before
election, which was made yester'
day the deadline.