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Evening star., 1941-07-27
IOanLeslie
Can Only Say
'Jeepersv
Thus She Reacts
To Glamour Girl
Stills of Herself
BY Mary BarnsIey,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
When Joan Leslie wants a good
laugh she gets out sume glamour
girl pictures of herself.
This one" she'll giggle. holding
up sultry pose, kills me. Jeepersl"
No matter how pretty the girl, a
publicity staff has hard shedding if
she dismisses the glamorizing pro-
cess with "Jeepers!" But Warmers
determination didn't falter until
Joan's fans wrote suggesting that
glamour be saved for some one who
needs it.
Thirteen years in show business
have taught Joan to swallow pub
licity with grain of salt. She's
less susceptible to flattery than most
16-year olds, and can spot a phony
like a fly in soup. She takes life
as it comes. Calmly
Even playing opposite Gary Coop
er in Sergeant York" didn't i'm
press her much. Joan was told the
big news on her birthday.
1T was the incest present I ever
got" said Joan. But I worried
about the love scenes. I was afraid
I'd seem too young, Wearing black
wig helped me look older, though" J."
Lives With Parents.
The afternoon I talked with Joan
she wore green sports dress, bands
on her lower teeth. and polish on
three flngernails. Cute was the word
for her, not glamorous.
Il hate polish" she explained. II
was just taking it off. 1 wear it to
help keep from biting my nails.
Isn't that terrible?"
Joan lives with her parents and
two older sisters, Mary and Betty,
in modest house few blocks from
the studio, where Mary also is un-
der contract.
Betty does radio work. The fam
ily's name is Brodell, but Joan's
name was changed because of its
similarity to Joan Blondell.
The Brodells have a hkable take
-leave-us attitude Friendly,
but independent. After Betty had
introduced the three wirehairs, Ac-
ton, Camera and Mike for micro
phone) she departed for the back
yard and a sun bath.
The Family Comic.
Joan'S father was washing the
family car in the driveway. He
came into the living room long
enough to grin, Don't forget to put
in that owe my bread and potatoes
to my daughter"
Pop, you look terrible" Joan
giggled. Pops the family come
dian"
Mrs. Brodell wore kitchen apron
while she served tea, then sat on
the floor to reminisce about the
days when the three girls were in
vaudeville.
I'VE started in our home town,
Detroit" put in Joan. That's where
they make the best ice cream sodas
in the world they make cars
there, too"
Joan's father used to be an ac-
countant in Detroit. He lost his job
during the depression and decided
to launch the girls into show busi-
ness.
Touring in vaudeville made Joan's
schooling a series of quick changes
from public and parochial schools
to tutoring by her mother.
u learned lot Of geography, the
Continued On Page F-30
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Outspoken
Is heWOrd
ForOlivia
She Knew Those
Scripts Were Bad
And Said So
Rr Mary Hale.
By Mary Hale,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.
HOLLYWOOD

41O4I4 L W oOA%.
When Olivia de Havilland, who is
5 feet 3 inches tall and ordinarily
tips the scales at mere ITO pounds.
showed up at Paramount weighing
l26 the studio was shaken to its
foundations.
You'd have thought the sky was
falling" chuckled Olivia. who obvi-
ously enjoyed the general consterna-
ten. Edith Head, the designer, had
phoned that she was delighted to
work with me because she knew
my figure would be no problem.
You should have seen her expression
when I entered the fitting ROOM
This situation was mitigated by
a girdle. a very tight girdle.
Il could hardly breathe" sighed
Olivia. And I knew what the
critics will say when they see Hold
Back the Dawn; De Haviland's
performance was very good-for a
pigeon That's what I looked like
fat little pigeon"
1t Was Becoming.
This was practically Olivia's first
experience with girdle..
Reason for extra poundage was
Olivias appendectomy. after which
her doctor wouldn't allow her to
exercise or diet. But Olivia said
she wasn't worried because she
knew that as soon as she was able
to swim and ride horseback again
the avoirdupois would melt away.
But in a chartreuse chiffon hostess
gown with a narrow cerise belt, her
plumpness was becoming. The extra
16 pounds were well distributed. and
her waistline looked almost as slim
as when she played Melanie in
Gone With the Wind"
Melanie, however, might have
WINGED at the way Olivia tossed
out several forceful words.
She referred to quits" when she
spoke of stage roles she'd have liked
to play before attempting pictures.
Other mild and popular expletives
came out when she described her
alterations with the Brothers War
ner about year ago, when she
was suspended for refusing to ap-
pear in Saturdays Children and
Flight Angels"
Worries About Her Roles.
It told the studio those scripts
were lousy and wouldn't make
money" The De Havilland big
brown eyes flashed with indigna-
ton. And the box office proved I
was right"
Olivia confesses that she worries
lot about getting good parts. Also
about her extravagances and taxes.
But she denies worrying about
romance or her boy friends (who re-
Gently have included Franchot Tone,
Bob Stack, Burgess Meredith and
Gene Markey-the latter the ex-
husband of Joan Bennett and Hedy
LamarD.
Unfavorable publicity used to
worry her, but no longer.
THE papers used to say that
Joanie and I spit at each other like
a couple of cats" she said. "Abso-
lutely untrue. We're very good
friends"
Joanie is Olivia's younger sister,
Joan Fontaine, who once was quoted
by an interviewer as saying that
Olivia's success had ruined her own
chances In pictures.
Evening star., 1941-07-27
COMING Attractions .

EALESergeant York Jesse Laskys film the life of the
hero of World War with Gary Cooper Joan Leslie
ing roles opens Thursday night with gala premiere perform
ance There will be stage show accompanying the pic
starting Friday.
PAIACE-"Booms in the Dust motion picture biography
Edna Gadney with Greer Carson Walter Pdgeon and Marsha
Hunt featured will follow the current They Met Bombay
KEITHS-Tom, Dick Harry" comedy
Rogers between
di5h and George Murphy follows Dsneys The Reluctant
Dragon, now showing.
lady Thursday Ann Sohern the Maisie the series
Robert Sterling Murphy John Boes
will be the of the show.
in Society," episode in the life of
weknown family Friday
gleton Arthur Lake Smms the principal
players.
Robert Dona
back will follow There's Magic in Music
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Seldom Does a Player Get
lust One More Chance
At Hollywood Stardom
Latest Who Does Is Arleen Whelan,
Whose Studio Never Has Lost
Faith in Her Ability
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


shining
Hollywood seldom a
few But the who make that ongsho rebound
can be counted the fingers of hands,
Twice they kicked Walter Hollywood
with him But Walter dismayed He kept right trying
himself solid box
Look Bette Davis record that two
out the she opeesy pop
eyed 1t took the George Ass to pluck her from
hundred candidates for his leading
There's the classic instance director lifting
from the cast of the first picture he attempted hiring another fellow
his explanation few months later back
They Said Rita Could Dance
But No
year
notation This girl dance but otherwise shows promise develop
months this company
s75 900 for the privilege of using Rita featured role
The classic boot of all time however spiked applied
passing up option
towns leading talent
singers this is" Within picture
lifting another studio of the bankruptcy
Once studio goes sour on newcomer it's all Almost
Hollywood
Maybe you've forgotten Arleen Whean by this time
can recall the terhc oayhoo only to that given nna
Stem by Samuel Goodwin behind Aeen by goth
beautiful but inexperienced manicuist the studio
tempted to mold her into dazzling star overnight
approximately representing picture publicity
partmen COSTS the attempt create paying public for Arn
But ArIeen Didn't Set
The
The campaign because Arleen didn't live
Although Cinderella
girl the
shop to set the movie world with
max
First Arleen
kidnapped 1t would
heroine role Critics
movies Subsequently,
customary for studios to drop hg-priced dsappointmens with
all stiffness
fade off the monthly
on But Aeens dropped
taken For she studio
And then casting wizards,
suddenly supporting
"Charley presumed
important efforts of
No disappointed gamey Questionable
discovery"
Evening star., 1941-07-27

say. they go IN Tor Violent over
acting in the summertime because
New York's July and August audi
ences are not used to theater-going
and demand that everything be
made plain. But we still think,
knowing actors as we do, that the
boys and girls are just having a
holiday for themselves while the
boss is away.
We sat in the last row at THE
Corn Is Green" But Ethel Barry
more was whickering, whinnying
and wimpeling and throwing ex-
pressions, pouts, FUCKERS and
dimpleS at the audience with such
abandon that we thought she was
trying to kick her face for a field
goal. The current stages greatest
masculine love interest the's in an
other play was equally guilty. He
spent the evening in imminent dam
ger of swallowing his upper plate
to say nothing of his toupee. The
stage manager informed us that
the stickum on the toupee melted
and the hirsute boutonniere became
unstuck in the heat, but there was
no excuse for the caroming of the
false plate. That was just plain
mugging.
"WelI, He's Good, But
So we went on our sleepless way
and wandered into musician, who
told us this about the great Horowitz
and the great PaderewSki:
When Tgnace Paderewski made
his first concert tour of the United
States, all musicians who heard him
went frantic with delight. 1t seems,
too, that every musician who did
hear him made a beeline for
Horowitz to tell him that he must
not miss Paderewski, that Pad
erewski was the greatest thing that
had happened to the piano since
the clavichord, that he was the
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Studio Visitors Banned
By Hays Office to Miss
Far Less Than They Think
Movie Making More an Engineering
Project Than an Art and 1t Becomes
Costly and Tedious in Presence of Guests
BY Jay CarmOdy.

In banning all visitors
oce has done than solve the problem how pictures
with smaller exhibitors
reviewers editors other
most uncomfortable diemmas that sitting
be devoted the reluctantly
Myma 10y picture Sorry,
they but the Hays Office
hands will be definite spenddy
very good thing
think of it. which rarely the man with
some contact with the film studios knows that not all people Holly
wood papers, returning
tell him. that New England Pennsylvania and other
still DONG business with oaters However in view OF the number OF
sons who want letter to in studio it is almost
henbe that other
out.
That's Hays
visitors
PAS of Every Onet to See
Stars Gave Studios sympathy.
had been merely the stray who requested
e Suo ha would nave been one thing ones sympathy might have
been properly placed there and maybe letter written to who
might be willing guide with every
pathy o studios
Any who has
that enormously complex tedious unavodaby
process
view most of the time bunch director others
Just sitting around playing quiz wishing there something
keep them
in picture making There all techncian electricians
arranged shooting begin with the beautiful
in the world make
expensive With
complicated engineering projectwhich later
they the spent get
ting them dsenangled
the coste heard of The
wishing stranger gates
blamed however which
merely the individual
the industry.
world
possible the
likely be their dressing ralers mechanical
grinding neighborhood station
those who don't that will
walls which walls
One Rather Inspired Ruse
interesting
willing
years
publicity
the gate called
You know named Camody Washington" asked host
(See CARMODY, F-3)
Evening star., 1941-07-27

CAPITOL-"Dance singer:
Stage shows 3:45, pm
COLUNdBIA-"Caught
Hope: g. 1855, $50, 7:45 and GAO pm.
EARLEThe Bride Came D." comedy with Davis
Jimmy Cagney: 2:40 S. 72O and s4O Stage shows 3 AIS
$40 and pm.
KEITHS-Ihe Dragon" Benchley through
Disneyand 2:30 4:20 6:10 7:55 and GAS pm
LITTLE-There's Magic in Music" it's sung by
Foster: 205 4, $50 7:45 and $40 m.
the Good-by" Martin
Southern drawl g. 3:55, 5:55, 7:50 and $50 pm.
PALACEThey Rosalind
yarn: tbs and pm
TRANS LUx-News and shorts; continuous from o'clock
Evening star., 1941-07-27

Beethoven-Bach Chopin of the key
board, that, etc.
Further than that, it seems
Horowitz, who was busy with his
own concerts, didn't have chance
to hear Paderewski for long time.
Finally he did get the chance and a
group of musicians went along with
Horowitz to hear the final seal of
approval set on the great man.
Paderewski played. Horowitz listen
ed. Finally the concert ended and
all the musicians turned with bated
breath and asked as one man, well,
what do you think? Isn't Pad
erewski a veritable miracle?"
Hes good" replied Horowitz
sedately, but he's no Paderewski. !"
Before our musician friend could
get away, we grasped him by the
coat lapels with both hands and
told him this story equally old, no
doubt, only we get it as brand-new)
abouts the job-hunting actor who
came steaming up to his rival,
shouting: Did you tell the Shuberts
I was a so-and-so of a such-and-
such?"
why no." was the innocent re-
ply, Il thought they knew"
The Clerk Went Mad.
What with this and that, it was
along about 8 in the morning, may
be 9 or 10 or so, when we ran into
Russell Swami, the former Wall
Street customers man, who is now,
by process of evolution, a magician
at Radio City's Rainbow Room.
At the time we saw him, Mr..
Swami was buying cigarettes and
complaining there was something
wrong with them. He'd hold one up
and a big burst of flame would
bound out of 1t. He'd hold another
(See WOIFERT, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1941-07-27

Continued on Page F.30
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Actors, Also, Will Overplay
Once the Boss Goes AWAY
That's One Thing Decided During
A Sleepless Night Spent on
The Broadway Beat
By Ira WoIferf.
NEW YORK.

life of a with insomnia:
After while IL
making 10 and after peeks
of them, noticed this The boss is
always tell when the then the
them they
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Toduy's Film Schedules

(See HEFFERNAN, Page F-3D
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19
VIBRATIONS In WOOD

You may, perhaps, have always believed that
Old Testament story Of the Hebrew youths pass
ing unscathed through fiery furnace was just
a bit of folklore But, Mr. Moon asks:
"Tf modern machinery is able to protect me
as / stand up there on the transformer, why
couldn't God protect the Hebrew yonths?"
He records human voices on a slender steel
wire by magnetizing 1t at voice frequency and
can then remove the recording by pushing a
button. 1t is perfectly logical. declares the
evangelist, TO believe that II we can do this. God
could do as much and keep a record Of our lives.
Faith Is the button we push God may wipe
out our sin record" he says, and adds Would
you be willing TO have every word, every act OF
your life come back to you as you stand before
the Deity?"
He quotes Matthew IL: SO and 81:
But say unto you that every idle word that
men shall speak, they shall give account thereof
in the day of Judgment For by thy words thou
shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned"
In his Sermons From Science Mr.. Moon
astonishes his audiences by making metal float
in space through opposing magnetic forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19

often shoots up to lO4 degrees and his nerves
are upset for several hours afterwards. The
point he wishes to prove by this dangerous
demonstration is 'the scientific necessity for
being born again" in spiritual life.
Looking like god of lightning as ne
stands barefoot atop five-foot frequency
transformer, the evangelist feels in every
part of his body the way your thumb feels
when you accidentally stick it in the light
socket.
Thimbes with sharp points protect his
fingers from being burned to the bone as the
electricity leaves Mr. Moons body through up
lifted arms. A stick Of wood bursts into flames
in his hand.
Mr. Moon explains he can do this without
being killed because he takes the voltage at
frequency OF $4,000 cycles. The human body
does not respond to this frequency,s where. at 90
cycles the charge would be fatal.
He quotes the Gospel Of ST. john 80: Jesus
answered and said unto him, verify, verify. say
unto thee except man be born again. he can
not see the kingdom of God"
AS Mr. Moon is "out of tune" withothe cleo
trio frequency so being born again puts you out
OF tune with Gods wrath, he explains, and In
tune with Gods blessing. He goes on:
IL have to obey the laws Of electricity. II
brings me immunity from almost certain death.
Just so, by following Gods spiritual laws as
clearly stated in the Bible, may have immu-
nifty from certain and eternal spiritual death"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19
SUPPORTS METHUSELAH

And as for Methuselah: "Pooh." say most of
u.s. "he couldn't possibly have lived 969 years"
Mr.. Moon believes he quite probably could
have. because, he declares many scientists now
think a canopy OF moisture covered the earth
before the great Biblical flood in which Noah
was leading man. According to this theory, the
moisture filtered out ultraviolet rays OF the sun
in the dangerous bacteriacidal frequency.
These rays. when powerful. are detrimental TO
life. After the flood the lives Of men, recorded
in the Bible gradually shortened TO our present
three score and ten years. the evangelist points
out
To support Methuselah, Mr.. Moon shows
what a concentrated dose Of ultraviolet will do
On q screen he projects the images Of
minute-living organisms enlarged 1000 900 times
by means Of microprojector. AS they swim
around the screen like guppes in q bowl he
turns an invisible death-ray on them-the ultra
violet. First the strange little things, that look
like prehistoric monsters on the screen, rush
around with accelerated motion. Then they slow
down and die before the eyes Of the audience
And all the days Of Methuselnh were nine
hundred sixty and nine years: and he died"
Photos from the Moody Bible Institute OF Chicago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19
DefieS Death to Prove Bible Truths

findings of science prove the entire accuracy Of Bib
a accounts As learn of the laws Of the universe
we find that no miracle is marvellous than fact
Tn view of the present national emergency think it
is high time we got back the foundation of faith upon
which this country built Let's keep In God We Trust
not only on our money but in our hearts
How many Of would let million volts Of electricity
pass through our bodies TO prove ponti
Mr. Moon thinks nothing of it, though his temperature
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-19
By FLORENCE VESSELS

Modern dynamic gospel preaching is the speciality Of
Irwin A. Moon speaker for the Moody Bible Institute who
spectacular demonstrations from science to prove that
miraculous stories in the Bible really could have happened
He calls this First century gospel with 10th century
Illustrations and two tons of scientific equipment TO
put his points
Says Mr.. Moon:
Il attempting to show that the highest and best
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
WPA DinOSaur Hunt
Oklahoma Congressman Attacks Prehistoric Probe
in Demand to Curtal Relief Jobs

blocks containing dinosaur tracks
-1l2S large dinosaur bones, 3,57C
small bones and fragments, 37e
blocks of dinoSaur and alligator
bones. three buettneris skulls, one
skeleton Of diplocaulus and one
skeleton Of elephas columbi.
In addition, the report listed
cleaning of rs dinosaur bones, pre-
pairing 100 fragments, making AIS
Photographic prints and work on
two other dinoSaur mounts.
II the project continues 10 oper-
ate, the report said, planned future
work include:
Excation Of two new dinosaur
bone sites, survey of new creta-
ceous dinosaur sites and prepare
lion Of papers, murals and prints.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31


of the state department
and Nelson Rockefeller. the Con
gressmen will spend some $1,000
and eight weeks getting a first
hand report on the following:
What South America really
wants from North America.
. Whether the S10,000,000
expended in the name of diplo-
macy is being wisely and well
used.
. How our attempts In estab-
fishing cultural relations are
faring
. And how this nation can
beat the Nazis 10 the political.
social and economical punch in
a land still tied to the old world
by close bonds of temperament,
language, culture and viewpoint.
n lot OF people have been
sent down on job like this"
Rabaut said. ACTORS and fell
lows from the state department
and Nelson ReckefeIler's outfit.
But we are typical Americans.
As 1 have often said, none of
that monocle-cheerio stuff for
me- I'm an old = fashioned
American, the father of nine
children and proud of IL.
Anyway, i think we can get
lot OF information where
others have failed. They always
like to see the fellow who holds
the purse. YOU know"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
Rabaut
To Lead
Latin Tour
international News Service Wire

WASHINGTON. July 29.-Led
by Louis c. Rabaut CD of Michi-
gan, group of five Congressman
leaves on August IL for a two
month observation and goodwill
tour of the Latin-American re-
publics.
For two months Representative
Rabaut, chairman Of the House
approximations subcommittee on
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31

s I tate depart
Iment funds, and
his colleagues
will fly from
on g American
embassy and le-
Pgation TO the
next. applying
typical Ameri-
can methods TO
the job of OBJ
serving our pro-
& r G s 3 IN be-
friending a n d
influencing the
Latin h alf of
n @ w e s tern
Hemisphere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31

MASHINGION.I july 3l-==DInO-
saurs or American welfare?
That is the question posed in
the House today by Representative
Disney tD) OF Oklahoma. who con-
tends that the WPA is paying
more heed 10 things prehistoric
than 10 relief for things living
Disney. who recalled that be- was
one OF seven members VINO sup
ported a proposed S5O00o0000 cut
in WPA funds. inserted in the
record what he says Is "a list OF
accomplishments OF the commun-
ity service section OF WPA in his
state.
In this list, WPA reported il
had uncovered IN Oklahoma: a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
Treasury Asks
Another Billion
In Tax Bill
BY JOSEPH A. BORIS

. 1879
WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Con-
gressional leaders predicted today
that when the new S3,500,000,0OO
tax bill reaches the Senate an adj
ministration effort will be made
20 increase 1t by a billion dollars
or more.
The prediction came as the
House continued debate on the
record high revenue measure
under a gag" rule which dras-
tically curtails the possibility of
the bill being altered on the floor.
Leaders agreed TO bring the
matter TO a final vote Monday,
after which the Senate finance
committee, under its new chair
man, Senator George CD of
Georgia will take il over.
Basis for the plea for more
revenue, congressman said. will be
a statement that when the treas
ury set $500, 100000 as the new
tax goal some three months ago.
defense expenditures were not
nearly so high as they are now.
At that time treasury Secre-
tary Morgenthau declared that he
wished 10 finance two-thirds Of
total government spending out Of
taxes and one-third by borrowing.
MORE MONEY NEEDED
Federal expenses have now in
creased so vastly, II was pointed
out. that in order TO do this some
81, SOC, 100000 or more will have
10 be raised in additional taxation.
Meanwhile. the House prepared
for showdown Monday on the
most controversial provision of the
present bill the one requiring
husbands and wives 20 file Joint
income tax returns
Under the compromise gag"
rule, an amendment to delete this
section will be the only amend
ment permitted except for minor
changes approved by the House
ways and means committee.
The provision. forbidding hus-
bands and wives from Hing lndl-
Wdual returns IN order 10 avoid
the higher surtaX brackets. is ex-
pected 10 raise $500 600 600 Of the
money contemplated In the bill.