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Evening star., 1941-08-26
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Evening star., 1941-08-26
BOYS and Girls Awarded
Good Trophies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Aug. 26.-Kenneth r.
Karr of Des Moines, Iowa, and Miss
Patricia Borman of Chicago were
named, respectively. boys and girls
national automobile good-driving
champions last night by the Ford
Good-DriverS' League.
Young Karr and Miss Borman
were presented with $4,000 univer-
sity scholarships and silver trophies
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Woman Porochutists
To Garry Medical
Aid to Battlefield
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 90
Mai. Frank G. Nolan of the
California State Guard said yes
terday % members of a bat
TALON of 108 women to be mus
tered in soon will form a para
chute company.
They will be trained to Jump
and land at any point where
medical service is needed ur-
gently. and parachute blood
banks will be lowered with them
for field transfusions." he said.
The 1O8 who will comprise
the battalion will be a hand
picked lot-women under the
age of 40, none with children
under the age of 10. They must
be ready to serve as lawful bel
ligerents. 1t isn't going to be
tea party"
Evening star., 1941-08-26
omu-Argentinu
Air Route Opened
By tie Associated Press.

By TIE AsSOclale0 PfeSS.
The Pan American AirWays sys-
tenn announced last night further
important step" in advancing United
States air leadership in South Amer
lea with the inaugural ton of new
Argentina.
In doing so Pan American an
nounced it would supplant serv-
ice formerly operated by the Ger
man LufthanSa between Peru and
Bolivia.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Here Comes Mr.. Jordan"
comedy on the supernatural side,
with Robert Montgomery: II am.
1:45, 4:30, ITO and $50 pm. Stage
shows: /, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:05 pm.
Palace-"Shepherd of the Hills"
the classic story, with Betty Field:
10:45 am, 1855, 3:05, $40, 7:30
and s:45 pm.
Capitol-"Dr. Kildare's Wedding
Day" but he never gets to the altar:
II am, las, 4:30, tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: 1855, $40, 6:25
and 9:10 pm.
Keith's-"Hold That Ghost" Alb
bott and Costello haunt a house:
1l::35 am. 1885, $40, $40, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Jungle Cavalcade,"
through the wilds with Prank Buck:
11:40 am. 1:40, $40, $40, TAO and
$40 pm.
Columbia - "Whistling in the
Dark" house haunts Red Shelton:
11:55 am, 1:50, $50, 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Little -'Intermezzo, subtitled "a
love story" with Ingrid Bergman
and Leslie Howard: IL am, 12:45,
2:35, 4:20, $40, 8 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Roadside-"To Die at Dawn" re-
vival of one of the groups top hits
$50 pm.
Cross Roads-"The Old Soak" :"
comedy, with Arch Mcdonald: $50
pm.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

hot number in an abbreviated outfit.
Just the other day Betty started
work with Victor Mature in an item
called Hot Spot" and here her per-
formance is strictly facial and
mental
You can see what a state of mind
the Fox folks are in, for they've an
Song OF the Island" Betty will
wear sarong.
There's apparently some doubt
about Private Wilkerson's right to be
termed Americas champion movie
fan Maybe you saw the little item
here about the Hays Office bringing
this young man down from Seattle,
paying his expenses and entertaining
him like potentate because they
found out he'd seen 300 movies in a
year.
But. Judging by scores of indig-
nant letters we've received since that
line was printed, Wilkerson is just
an amateur movie-goer. For in
stance, listen to Bess Lerman of st.
Louis:
Il am not trying to gain any
publicity, but would like to make a
correction. You mention Private
Wilkerson as being Americas num-
ber one movie fan. I am sorry to
disillusion YOU. but that title be-
longs to yours truly. I see an aver
age of seven or eight pictures a
week. Does that make a total of
300 pictures or is it closer to 400 or
more? You can add that up your
self. If you like I can produce
witnesses"
And to Stanley Jucus of Chicag 60:
Il read in your column about Pri-
vate Wilkerson seeing 300 pictures
last year. I saw that many a year
before double features ever came
into popularity. I now average four
double features a week. And some
times have to see a picture twice
just for entertainment. I have seen
from cheap cowboy movies to the
supposedly super productions and
noticed that there are too many big
names in movies and not enough
entertainment"
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1941-08-23
COStellO.Abbott
STAY at Keith's

That rotund zany, Mr.. Lou Cos
tello, is land this is a compliment,
If you are not sure) 4 burlesuue
comic with few peers and q fellow
who can romp around in a photo
play neither knowing nor caring If
1t has a plot. For that matter q
good plot probably would frighten
Mr.. Costello and his straight man,
Bud Abbott, they having learned
their trade the hard way, where
they had to do all the work. All
of which leads up to the fact that
there is nothing to frighten them
about Hold That Ghost" which
now goes into a second week at
Keith's. They make a very comic
thing of many moments OF this
amiable slapstick thriller about q
haunted tavern and a bunch of
crooks after a dead thief's swag.
Joan Davis helps them haunt the
place. H. M.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Philippine Report
At the Trans.Lux

Paramounts Arthur M EN- N
sends back a reassuring report from
the Philippines to provide the head
line item in the new assortment Of
news reels at the Trans-Lux Mr..
Menken doesn't quote any figures,
Of course; but he has found the
Army and the Navy and a goodly
quantity of ammunition at our Gil
braltar of the Pacific" where they
may be needed any day. From sun
dry other points come other news
items, views of soldiers learning
modern warfare. of airplanes in pro-
duction, of girls on beaches, of
ships being launched, of Lou Nova
readying that "cosmic punch" which
is certain, he says, to fell Joe Louis.
The short subject portion of the
program is topped by THE Battle"
an account of war games with our
Navy in combat with q mythical
enemy. H. M.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Is he goes about his chosen career

Is he goes about his chosen career
that 1t almost seems too easy A
python, for instance, is several hun
dred pounds of bad news, but Mr..
Buck knows just where to gra bit.
with considerable nonchalance, so
he won't become a blue plate special.
Knowing tricks like this, of course,
has enabled Mr.. Buck to return from
the jungles, so we're not really COM
planning. Any how, lest you think
pythons are easy to handle, Mr.
Buck has included In this film that
amazing sequence which, If memory
serves, gave the title to Fang and
Claw" the battle between the py-
thon and the tiger. You may have
thought you'd never pull for a
tiger in a battle, but you will before
this exciting business is over. Or
maybe we still are marked by the
memory of that evening a night
club performer sneaked up behind
us and placed in our unsuspecting
Evening star., 1941-08-23
More Jungle
Adventure
At the Met
Frank Buck Brings
Back a Live Film
In 'C.avalcade'
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Frank Buck may have known it
all along, but now it is being re-
vealed to the rest of us that the
jungle, where q python turks behind
every bush and the quickest live the
longest, is an ideal place to escape
to from the more civilized corners
of this world of 1941 A. D. Even
taken vicariously, jaunt through
the Malay wilds with Mr.. Buck is
exciting escape. And If you think
we really mean EVEN vicariously"
you're crazy, because thu balcony of
the Metropolitan Theater, where
jungle Cavalcade" Is the new
screen attraction, is approximately
as close as we want to get to some
of Mr.. Bucks dainty little chums.
But there does seem some sense to
the manner of life and death in the
jungle; even tiger can get hungry
Mr.. Buck has brought back this
time picture that is alive 1t may
be short on plot. but 1t moves, which
is more than can be said for num-
Der OF recent so-called movies" I"
which have been encumbered with
plots. or something with slight
similarity thereto. Jungle Caval-
cade," OF course, represents the
cream Of Mr. Bucks crop, having
been compiled from a selection of
some Of the best scenes culled from
his Fang and Claw" wild Cargo"
and Bring En- Back Alive" plus
some new shots. You have seen
some of these adventures before,
surely, but that doesn't take the edge
of them, for animals in a jungle
are much like young feminine star
lets in Hollywood in one respect, at
least: you often are not sure whether
you have seen that one before or
another one bearing an exception
ally close resemblance.
jungle Cavalcade" gets right
down to business, the first reel
hardly being warm in the projec-
ton machine before Mr.. Buck is
setting his first trap. Prom thence
onward the preying upon the beasts
of prey continues at rapid rate,
recounted in the accepted cinema
technique, a dramatic moment being
punctuated with a comic one pro-
vided by the monkeys that are al
ways about to provide comedy relief
in a jungle. If there is any COM
plant to be registered in the midst
of the excitement, it must be that
Mr.. Buck is so darned businesslike
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Ballet Russo Here
For a Full Week,
Starting Tonight

Scheduled for the first time for a
full weeks stay in Washington, the
Original Ballet Russo presents the
first program of its engagement at
the Water Gate tonight at Sis
o'clock.
Les Sylphides," the traditional
opening ballet, gets tonights pro-
gram under way. 1t is to be followed
by Les Presages." the Massine
choreographic in ter p rotation Of
Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony,
and the classic romantic ballet,
The Blue Danube"
Principal dancers with the group
are Tatiana Riabouchinska, Mana
Gollner, Lubov Tchernicheva, Vera
Nemchinova, David Lichine, Paul
Petroff, Dmitri Rostoff and Roman
Yasinsky.
The National Symphony Orches-
ira will have as its guest conductor,
for all the Ballet Russo programs,
Alexander Smallens.
The repertoire for the remainder
OF lne week engagement is as lOl-
lows:
Tomorrow night, Swan Lake"
"Scheherazade" and Graduation
Ball"
Monday night. "Cimarosiana,
"Paganini" and Prince Igor"
Tuesday night, "Aurora's We'd
ding" The Eternal Struggle" and
Graduation Ball"
Wednesday night. LES Sylphides," !"
"Scheherazade" and "Cimarosiana. +"
Thursday night, "Aurora's We'd
ding" 'Paganini" and The Blue
Danube"
Friday night, The Swan Lake"
Lies Presages" and "Aurora's We'd
ding"
Evening star., 1941-08-23

ton in having discovered the hui
man imagination fairly bowls you
over.
Montgomery is not merely q char
acter in Here Comes Mr.. Jordan"
He is soul, you know, a soul: one
Of those wispy, wraith-like things
that can fit from body to body
with a hilarious disdain for time
and space and what man has de-
cided is the natural order of things.
Now it Snatches the body of a
callous young millionaire who has
just been drowned by his wife and
her lover, now it contemplates TAX
ing possession of a carcass which is
about to be deserted by a prize
fighter in an automobile accident,
later on it does inhabit-quick like
f1ash-another prizefighter who
has just been shot in the back.
If you've been thinking all your
life that souls are solemn things, just
get a glimpse of the capriciously
comic one of Joe Pendleton. You
will know just how stupid and dull
the movies have been in not having
taken up souls long ago.
Joe Pendleton's soul is by far the
brightest thing the camera has
caught in whole season of trying
to make people laugh and forget.
II talks in simple declarative SEN
tences, almost out of the corner of
its mouth. 1t is essentially good and
kindly, although given to moments
of anger and bewilderment. But
the important thing is that it is
always funny and Montgomery's in
depreciation of it is worth one of
the biggest prizes of the season.
Even If there was not an ethic
against taking the suspense out of
such a story by snopsizing it, it
couldn't be done with that of Here
Comes Mr.. Jordan" A man would
sound like fool trying to do it.
But artful use of the camera. ex-
cellent acting and the intelligent
direction with which the film is
blessed make it look entirely logical.
Adapted from the play Heaven
Can Wait" the Columbia film gave
writer's Sidney Buchanan and Seton
I. Miller about as tough challenge
as fantasy every does. They not
only met 1t with as neat a dove
failing of wildly assorted elements
as you ever saw, but they took full
advantage of the opportunity offered
for as fresh and quick dialogue as
any film has had this season. Or
last season.
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan" is the
kind of thing an actor can play
with relish. That of Montgomery,
fine and warming thing it is to see,
is no greater than the quiet, laconic
fervor which Claude Rains imparts
to the heavenly messenger, Mr.. Jor-
dan; or of Edward Everett Horton
as kind of celestial oaf; or lovely
Evelyn Keyes as the beautiful young
thing with which Joe's soul falls in
love; or James Gleason as a fight
manager who is going nuts trying
to figure out the whole maddeningly
spooky business.
Better see them. 1t will be good
for you.
The Earle's stage show is brief,
paceful thing that involves nice
amount of variety considering it
is built of but three acts: plus, of
course, the resourceful Roxyettes.
1t is danced by Jay and Lou Seller.
favored with acrobatics by Ray and
Arthur and sung by Lucille johnson.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Shelton Comedy
At the Columbia

Red. Skeletons popularity here
abouts being what it is, 1t is not
surprising that "Whistling in the
Dark" moves over now to the CO.
lumbia to, continue its downtown
run with a second r street week
This is the film. you hardly could
have failed to learn by this time,
which gave Mr.. Skelton the oppor-
tunity to prove to Hollywood and
to audiences that he is very funny
fellow. It's minor affair, really,
telling . rather familiar yarn about
q detective" on one Of those radio
programs, who becomes involved
with some solidly real criminals. But
with the lanky Mr.. Skelton at its
helm it's as gay a frolic as you have
made q fool Of yourself laughing ut
in weeks. II. N.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

a trunk at the rear OF the car ana
guiding it by means of special steer
ing apparatus brought back and in
stalled in the trunk. An ingenious
array OF mirrors will provide sight.
He will be packed in ice to keep
him COOL
The stunt will be, staged on Los
Angeles main street, with so motor
police in control. This is Parry's
trickiest effort to date, and will. if
successful, enrich him by $3.50. The
wife and kids, to say nothing of
Parrys insurance agent, are hold
ing their breath.
The most daring stunter in fast
diminishing little brigade of Holly
wood dare-devils, Parry has smashed
up more than q thousand automo-
biles for reckless film sequences
And yet. when the Parrys go out
driving Sundays, 1t is Mrs. Parry
who takes the wheel. The stunt
man won't trust himself among Los
Angeles drivers. They make him
nervous.
On one stage at M-G-M - for
Babes on Broadway" - Mickey
Rooney is busy initiating Carmen
Miranda. Ginger Rogers and half a
dozen other famous entertainers.
And just across the street-for
"Kathleen"-Shirley Temple is i'm
mersed in the same sort of business.
This picture will display Shirley in
the most elaborate dancing routine
she's ever attempted. 1t will be in
the form of a dream sequence and
will run close to Is minutes. Fred
Astaire, Eleanor Powell. Zorina.
Ginger Rogers, Bill Robinson and
Ray Bolger are the dancers Shirley
will impersonate.
y r
A crisis is approaching at goth
Century-Fox. They're going to have
to put their heads together and de-
eide whether the Cradle legs or the
Cradle dramatics are the thing
Ever since she arrived in Holly
wood from her Broadway triumph
Betty has been going up like a
rocket in leg-revealing musical COM
edies. Came q chance at drammer,
In "A Yank in the r. A. F." and
she filled the bill to the apparent
satisfaction of Messrs. Zanuck, ct al.
At the same time she tossed in one
Evening star., 1941-08-23

how fine the movies can be and you
marvel that they so rarely are.
The picture at the Earle, which
gives Robert Montgomery that ex-
citing, different and humorous role
he always is seeking, is perhaps not
great. But it sparkles with wit and
humor and is more agile than
dozen df there have been that
many great pictures. Its distinc-
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Joins Marlene

Next important screen produc-
ton to be put under way at Column
bias HOLLYWOOD studios will be
Miss Madden Is willing" q mod
ern romantic comedy which delves
into the private life of a glamor-
GUS Broadway star.
Originally announced as star
ring vehicle for Marlene Dietrich,
the film gained added stature with
the acquisition of Fred MacMurray
as her co-Star,
Evening star., 1941-08-23

hands the major prop" of his act,
a seven foot Mexican blue snake.
which looked like python's grand
father when we didn't know 1t was
sleeping off a heavy meal at tbs
moment.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

th e re C o m e S
along a whimsi-
Cal comedy like
Here Com e S
Mr.. Jordan" a
t h / n & + ii of
imagination and
fan t asy an d
wonder. 1t takes
full possession of
you, wings you
from earth to
heaven and back
again, and your
en- o t | o MS are
having the time
of cir life.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Cameras Don't Scare Him,
But Sunday Drivers Do
Stunt Man Harvey Parry Let's His Wife
Take the Wheel When He's Not
Wrecking Cars for Cash
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Harvey Parry Holywood stunt wrecker of automobiles
will attempt oudo himself
Topperke in The Black Widow" big cabolet
speed hopes manage by inserting himself in
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Whimsey Has Its Gay Day
In Earle's New Comedy
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan Is Screen Fare
With Imagination, Robert Montgomery
And an Infectious Good Humor
BY JAY CARMODY.

e strange how many motion pictures sits through entirely
eonVous designed
uump there dreaming your private dreams ess Of the film
something
about making noises neither
deeply than the
Evening star., 1941-08-23

W IIIUIB IIdIIUII WIIICII SIIUWS JUSl
what powerful narcotic Hollywood
manufactures.
Then one day, q very rare day,
Evening star., 1941-08-23

HERE COMES MR. JORDAN Columbia
production starring Robert MONTGOMERY,
directed BY Alexander Hall. produced by
Everett Riskin. from the screen play Of
Sidney Buchman and Seton 1. Miller. At
the Earle.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

The Earle's stage show is brief,
paceful thing that involves a nice
amount of variety considering it
is built of but three acts; plus. of
course, the resourceful Roxyettes.
1t is danced by Jay and Lou Seller.
favored with acrobatics by Ray and
Arthur and sung by Lucille Johnson
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-06
"ALL OUT" IN DEFENSE

In these days when news columns tell
of the stoppage of national defense produc-
ton due to disputes between capital and
labor, it is encouraging to encounter an en-
tirely different kind of story involving
seventeen union executives and the head OF
a nationwide manufacturing concern sup
plying materials for our armed forces.
In this story we find both c. l. 0. and
A. F. of L. units coming together with
management to sign a formal pledge devot-
ing "the resources and facilities of the Rey
nolds Metals Company 24-hours a day,
seven days week to supply strong alumni
mum alloys vital to the defense program
Reynolds Metals is the biggest in
dependent aluminium enterprise in the coun-
try With its subsidiaries, it employs more
than 1000 persons, most of them skilled
metal workers, and in the entire history of
the company it has rot had a strike An
obvious spontaneity marks the signing of
the pledge by the union officials and
Richard S. Reynolds, the president, who
subscribed for the management.
To the fulfillment "of defending and
preserving for poSterity the right to 1--we IN
the freedom of democracy the document
reads, every employee and executive of
this company individually and collectively
pledges his energy and unfaltering loyalty.
AS Americans. we cannot do less; as human
beings we cannot do fnore:,g.sS
America needs more siaiDn officials
with the sincerity of those aNh6 Signed, the
Reynolds pledge-and more executives Hike
Richard S. Reynolds who takes the initiative
in fostering employer-labor-gQyernment CO.
operation in times of national defense prep
aration y
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-06
HOW THE U. S. WOULD BE ATTACKED

The standard of living in the United
States depends upon adequate foreign mar
kets for our farm products and our manu-
featured goods.
Realization of this fact indicates the
methods which would be adopted by the
Axis powers in an offensive against the
United States. Not only would Europe and
Asia be closed to our trade, but. through
economic penetration of South America, the
markets in that continent would also be
barred to American commerce.
Once this occurred, the United States
would be unable to export industrial or
agricultural products SURPRISES w@uld
pile up in this country. producing another
depression of plenty. Unemployment would
result. with workers on the farms and in the
factories losing incomes.
Such an economic offensive would
produce tremendous social unrest in the
United States. resulting in strikes, increased
radicalism ard a general breakdown in the
stability of the social order. This, in turn,
would affect the government and seriously
impair our defensive position.
An Axis war against the United States,
alter such an economic debacle had wreck
ed the morale of our people, would be a
puSh-over.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-06
THEY MUST COOPERATE

The protective bulletin of the Amer
lean Bankers association, discussing the
case CT bogus check passer John J. Phillips,
whose handiwork cost Key West mer-
chant 500 this week, brings up an interest
ing point. .
Ii is the failure of merchants every
where to press charges against those sWhe
swindle them and the consequent inability
of police officers to hold the swindlers after
they are caught.
Whether it is misplaced feeling of
pity or merely desire to avoid the trouble
of appearing in court the refusal of swim
dlers' victims to prefer charges is the most
important single loophole in the net of law
enforcement.
AS the protective bulletin points out,
profits from passing bad checks are high
and the possibility of escaping punishment
even when caught is an added inducement
to the INSCRIPTIONS to take up the profess
sion.
Aside from the question of checks, the
victim of any criminal who refuses to pre-
fer charges after police have brought IN
their man is hurting law enforcement for
everyone. In Key West, for instance,
sheriff's officers are paid on afee basis con-
tingent upon the number Of CONNECTIONS
Citizens who are satisfied With he4reeovery
Of their property but let,thA tMef go free,
are not only turning loose on the remainder
o. the population person who feels he will
not be punished for thievery, but are de-
gtroying the effectiveness of their own law
enforcement system.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-06
BLADDER IRRITATION
WAKE YOU UP?

It's not normal II may be
natures warning Of sluggish kid
neys. Make this 4-day test Your
25c back If not pleased. Kidneys
need occasional flushing as well as
bowels. Help increase elimination
during the day Drink lots Of soft
water Very little tea or coffee
Take a kidney laxer Just say
BUKETS TO any druggist Locally
al OlivaTis Drug Store, --advt