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The guardian., 1941-06-28

Suppose they had married hur-
riedly. Wedding bells, a taste of
marriage bliss-and none of its
comedy and reality-and then de-
parture! For II months there would
be little that he could do for his
bride at home.
And how about the husbandless
bride during those first IL months
of marriage? She's won her man!
Why worry? Why scheme and plan
for home? Why bother herself ?
1t would be but human to drift and
dream, feeling that there is plenty
OF time later to prepare for home.
Do you see the difference in the
two situations? Do you see the
many complications which can de-
velop? Do you see that married or
unmarried, the soldier is occupied
many hours day with the business
of making himself better soldier ?
My young friend understood my
meaning, and gradually smiled
through her tears. Together we out
lined a busy routine for her, schem-
ed and planned unusual notes and
letters and gifts which she could
prepare and send to her man at
camp. l helped her budget her earn
ings so that when the year closed
some funds would be available to
help their dreams come true. And
we also worked out sewing projects
for those little knick-knacks that
make a house home.
Will they drift apart during that
year? If they do, how fortunate
they are that they aren't married!
But busy people do not drift. And
people with a real purpose in mind
do not change their minds. Instead
forsee the development of great
er understanding between the two
a greater desire for each other, a
Strengthening of the characteristics
and personal traits which have SC
much to do with successful marri-
ages.
The guardian., 1941-06-28

wear. You will find handknit tech
nique of heavy cable stitch in stun
ming colors, the stripe effects such
as white with red or with navy be-
ing especially intriguing
There is also a strong revival of
wool jersey. These stress dress
maker styling which now is so pro-
nounced throughout the entire swim
suit program. Most of the jersey
suits have practical upper fasten-
ings.
Designers are turning out perfect
ly charming suits dressmaker-fash-
ioned after the manner of the Bal
lerina type of waffle pique centered
in the group. Note the coin dot
banding. Dot trimmings are very
smart this season.
Floral prints and various cotton
weaves make front page fabric news
for swim suits and beach togs. The
more audacious the coloring, the
more daring the patterning, the
smarter! This is especially true of
the gay and fascinating Hawaiian
prints now so fashionable. The sa-
rong drape skirt in exotic prints
with bra top showing bare midrif is
leading style. Novelty types are
often styled with "grass skirts" in
spired by Hawaiian native design.
A lei necklace of flowers added, is
the final glamour accent.
Bathing suits of elasticised fabric
are to be had by the score. The
newest thing in these types is two
color effects done in white with
bright colored godets or inset verti-
cal bands. Allover shirred lastique
insures a sculptural figure fit. Bright
applique of gorgeous flowers on
white jersey is especially effective
with long matching beach cape.
There are endless cunning dress
maker-styled gingham shantung and
crinkled seersucker suits. In knits
and lastiques girls love the suit that
zips up the back from the waistline
to give perfect fit.
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The guardian., 1941-06-28

The birth of a glorious smile
midst a shower of tears is as beau
tiful and as gladdening as the sight
of a colorful rainbow at storms
end I know, because it was just
Yesterday that a young friend came
to me to tearfully explain that her
heart was breaking because her
young man had to leave for the
Army.
Lonesome and heartsick, she
doubted her wisdom in refusing a
hury-up wedding just before his
departure. Instead she had chosen
to wait until he returned.
I think she did exactly right! I
told her that she had chosen wisely.
That the years delay, if viewed
sanely. could be a tremendous bless
ing to both of them g. could prob
ably help them to find greater hap
piness when they did marry.
Here is why l argued as l did.
l wanted to give her the best coun-
sci and advice l could summon. l
wanted to give her some thought to
comfort her during the II months
Of loneliness separated from the
man she loves. Patriotic duty?
Yes! But also, there is terrific
element of personal duty.
The young man will return from
his II months of service much more
of man than when it begun, bring-I
ing greater maturity, and more
mental and physical strength into
the marriage.
The young woman will have IL
months in which to prepare herself
for marriage, and its obligations
and duties. Dreaming, scheming
and planning for that marriage -.
anxious lest something happen to
interfere with it when the young
man returns to civil life, she will
waste no time in preparing for a
marriage and a home-something
she did not have time to do before
he left for the Army.
The guardian., 1941-06-28

Style creators are discovering new
and novel ways of using fabrics.
Materials which were never asso-
ciated with smart costume design
are now being utilized in ways never
dreamed of in the past. Today it
is considered ultra modern and
swank to create fashionable apparel
out of such amazing things as stripe
bed-ticking (the regular old fash
ioned kind, plain workaday jeans
(you can get it in several colors
with special style accent on yellow
denim), or quilted calico in bizarre
South American colorings. Uphol-
stery glazed chintz and humble
gingham have come to be fabric So
cialites, going to parties and gala
events everywhere. The dress pic
tured announces a new discovery in
fabric uses. 1t is made of checked
tablecloth linen. The border is eff
fectively used for the yoke and
about the skirt hemline. It is a
smart style by one of Americas
foremost designers. Comes in vari-
Gus color but looks newest in green
or brown.
The guardian., 1941-06-28
.GODEFROY EMPLOYEES HAVE
SIMULTANEOUS VACATIONS

ST. LOUIS, Missouri-For the third
consecutive summer, colored employees
of the Godefroy Manufacturing Com
pany at st. Louis, Missouri, manufac-
turers of Larieuse -coloring, will
enjoy simultaneous summer vacation
period, Charles w. Godefroy, president,
has announced.
This years vacation period is from
July A to July 10, with employees
selecting those dates by popular vote.
The vacations are granted on a full
salary basis. Success of the Godefroy
experiment in simultaneous vacations
for all employees during the summers
of 1889 and 1910 has been such that
Mr.. Godefroy expects the practice to
be observed in the future.
The guardian., 1941-06-28

Cover and boil rapidly till dumplings
are done. May be served with or with
out sauce.
Give the men folks these cheese
sandwiches with a cup of coffee some
time when they are looking for a snack.
4s lb. cheese, put through food
chopper
1 green pepper, chopped
A few drops of onion juice
Salt and pepper
Mix all ingredients together and
spread generously on buttered bread.
The guardian., 1941-06-28
CHERRY BETTY

3 cups cherries, stoned and chopped
21a cups stale bread crumbs
l cup sugar
2 tbsp. melted butter
Grated rind and juice of half lemon.
Marinate one half cupful of crumbs
in butter and set aside for top of betty.
Add the lemon rind and juice to the
cherries. Fill casserole with alternate
layers of cherries and crumbs, sprinkl-
ing each layer with sugar Have cherry
layer on top. Now sprinkle buttered
crumbs on top. Cover and bake in
moderate oven for about 80 minutes.
Uncover and bake about Is minutes or
until top is Drowned. Serve hot with
your favorite sauce. N. B.-Almost any
fruit makes a delicious betty.
The guardian., 1941-06-28
QUICK BLUEBERRY DUMPLINGS

QUICK BLUEBERRY DUMPLINGS
l qt. blueberries
q cup sugar
l cup -four
1 tsp. baking powder
L tbsp. shortening
Milk to make stiff dough
Y tsp. salt.
Put blueberries and sugar in sauce
pan and cook until syrup is formed.
Sift dry ingredient together, rub il
shortening. Add milk enough to make
dough a little sitter than biscuit dough.
Drop by spoonfuls in boiling syrup
The guardian., 1941-06-28
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HOUSEWIVES
TESTED RECIPES
Edited by "CORALIE"


Since this is cherry time and blue
berries look so luscious in the stalls a
few cherry and blueberry recipes seem
timely. Strawberries too, are here.
Next week recipes for that favorite
berry will be given.
CHERRY PUDDING
2 cups cherries, stoned
2I3 cup sugar
cup -four
l tsp. baking powder
tbsp. melted shortening
a tsp. salt
/ egg
e cup milk
Sprinkle sugar over stoned cherries
which have been spread in bottom of
mould. Sift together dry ingredients.
Cream shortening, add beaten egg and
blend, Pour batter over cherries. Cover
mold and steam for one hour. Serve
hot with foamy, or hard sauce.
NB.-the cherries may be stirred
into the batter if preferred.
The guardian., 1941-06-28

Jersey is regarded as ideal for
travel wear.
Black linen, black shantung 60
tops" in summer town fashions.
Evening sweater is important
fashion, the newest in bra effect.
Completely beige from head to
foot is latest high-style color mes
sage.
Tropical flowers on white
ground is a leading choice in
prints.
Printed cotton broomstick skirt
with white blouse is popular with
young girls.
The guardian., 1941-06-28
Enormous Brims Versus
The Pretty Little Hat

The problem is up to milady
whether she will go hated this sum-
mer in the fattering little frivolous
flower concoctions she loves to
wear or whether she will top her
costume with a hat of enormous
brim and look chic and sophisticat-
ed. Each type is attractive and the
fashion-right way is to include both
in this summers wardrobe of hats.
The guardian., 1941-06-28
BEAUTY HINTS
FOR OLD FACES
By Nina Temple

There's nothing better for older
skins, that is skins that have begun to
have lines and wrinkles than cocoa
butter. After the cocoa butter cover
with good stimulating cream then
pat in an astringent.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
By Harold Hefernan.

of industry tribulations. Hollywood
was shocked to its foundations in
May by the conviction and Jail SEN
tence handed Joseph M. Schenck
for income tax evaSions. Schenck
was head of the Goth Century Fox
studio and one of the Oldest, most
respected film pioneers. His con-
viction was a direct slap at the in
tegrity of movie leadership. Holly
wood lost caste.
On the very same day celluloid
rectitude took another baShing, but
in a more direct way. Joseph I.
Breen suddenly resigned his post as
supervisor of censorship in the Hays
office. On the face of it. Breen's
withdrawal might have seemed
minor personnel matter-but it was
much more than that. For seven
years, or ever since his appointment
to enforce a code of morals devised
at the instigation of the Legion OF
Decency, Breen's honesty and cour-
age lifted movies to a new moral
plane.
That Silly Probe
Although he denied it, Breen's
resignation was regarded as tacit
admission that studio pressure to
broaden" the code had become too
great for him to bear. Repercus-
sions were predicted at that time.
They are possibly now taking form
in the new flicker from the legion.
There followed the silly Nye-Clark
U. S. subcommittee investigation
into movie "Warmongering." This
utterly failed to prove charges that
Hollywood leaders were in a great
conspiracy to rush this country into
war. 1t did the sponsors more
harm than it did the movies, but
nevertheless it was a pain In the
neck to the industry - in wasted
time and money. Some very bad
publicity for the business eked out
of this inquisition, too.
Most destructive event of the year,
from the standpoint of public con-
fidence. came in financial exposures
from the trial of Willie Bioff and
George Browne, union leaders
Evening star., 1941-12-07
One Remembers the Bad Ones First
Hollywoods Most Wretched Efforts Leave Mark
On Those Whose Duty Is to Review Them

in Washington That, even at tho
risk of reopening old wounds, was i
fantastic account OF politics, love
and journalism in Washington
starring Herbert Marshall and Vlr-
ginia Bruce. Mr.. Marshall, English
accent and all. was a member OF the
Senate and Miss Bruce was woman
radio reporter Of such extraordinary
unethical demeanor and generally
bad manners as to be wholly in
credible AS a picture Of life IN
Washington, it was the best gro-
tesque turned out by Hollywood IN
several years.
Another item almost as sadly mem-
orable was Little Men" a tardy,
but not tardy enough, postscript to
Little Women Its single arrest
ing moment was that in which Kay
Francis. she of the old icy regality.
sat down beside Elsie prize winning
COW, to give a demonstration of the
art of milking. That, truly, was
something to treasure. but 1t could
have been done in single still pic
ture instead of u confused and
corny reels. Even the energetic
children. seemingly hundreds OF
them, marched through the slow,
lugubrious story with a pathetic
kind of WEAKNESS as if they, too,
could not believe a word of it.
An Impressive Mistake.
Another of the more impressive
missteps taken by Hollywood was
that represented by its version of
Kiss the Boys Goodby." II was
Hollywood's idea. adapting Clare
Boothe's sardonic caricature of the
movies search for Scarlet OHara,
that here was chance for pretty
revenge. Accordingly, the story was
rewritten to show how tough it was
for girl to get ahead in the theater,
how her life was beset by the un-
principled heels in that branch Of
the entertainment business. There
was the further change, resulting
from the casting of Mary Martin
and Don Ameche in the principal
roles, that the original farce became
tSee CARMODY, Page E-3)
Evening star., 1941-12-07

sters of arsenic and Old Lace" bag
Is room hunting gentlemen who
drop into their modest quarters.
The victims make the mistake OF
imbibing poison-spiked wine which
the ladies urge them to drink before
inspecting the room.
But when the picture is screened
you'll see only one corpse. The gen.
tleman who wins the distinction of
playing this single inert role is
George Atkinson, an old-timer who
served as stand-in for George Arliss
during the latter's Hollywood So
journ.
Director Capra, filming one scene,
is using a dummy for Mr.. Spen-
ALSO" one of the IL dead men ac-
counted for by Raymond. Massey
and his henchman, Peter LORE
Massey enacts the part Boris Kar-
LOFT is playing these days on Broad
way. From a cast made of Kar-
lofts head, Massey has been treated
Evening star., 1941-12-07

to the high cheekbones and sunken
eyes of Karloff. He is about as
frightful as you'd want to see, even
on a bright, sunny day.
= Massey Is handing "Mr. Spenalso"
through the window to Lore. Here
tofore, he's been resting in the rum
bic seat of Massey's car, parked just
beneath the window.
Capra has the set Lit dinly. It's
pretty eerie stuff.
"Okay, hand him to me" whispers
LORE.
First the legs, then the rest OF the
body comes into view. Lore strug-
giles manfully with the heavy
dummy.
Hey" he whispers hoarsely,
where's the rest Of him? Where's
the other Lego"
"It's there, you fool Massey
answers.
LORE looks the dummy over, finds
the other leg and then shoe falls
Evening star., 1941-12-07
The More Murdered the Merrier, Is Capra Thesis

off the dead" man. 1t rolls into
the center of the set, to provide a
bit of business" later in the picture.
Capra explains that this is long
master" or key" scene. to be
"broken down" later in closeups, The
lighting is superb. The tension is
enough to grip every one watching
from the sidelines.
After one take. Capra tells LORE,
"Boy. you almost had me scared"
Again and again Capra shoots
this scene, changing little details
or the tempo in one way or another.
Before another take, the director
says to LORE, Now this time you
spend a little more time looking
for the guys leg"
And all this grim killing and
burying, mind you, to make all of
us laugh our heads off in some
movie theater come next March or
April!
tReleased by the North American News
paper Allianee. 1ncD
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Coming Attractions

Stage
NATIONAL-The Gilbert
including
zance Trial starting Monday
December 5 THE Student
night
Julian Duvivier directed picture the and
his French Bal" Friday
.Oberon leading lady life Joseph
Gotten George Alan Marshall and Yaray Bob
Hall will headline the stage bill.
Scandal" Rosalind comedy
Thursday. She's judge involved in various legal affairs
Walter Pidgeon Edward Arnold and Mary Beth Hughes
Harrison and Fisher the dancers will be the stage show headnr
METROPOLITAN-B Blues musical of the begin
nngs musical form. here Friday Bng
Brian Donlevy the principal players
Corscan Brothers, motion picture version OF the
will follow CARLOS Two-Faced Woman
Douglas jr, the brothers.
Walt DisneyS fantasy OF the little flying ee-
phant the next attraction following
the Abbott-Costelo Keep En- Flying"
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Everything Happens to Hollywood
What With Trials, Censorship Threats and
Senate Probe, It's Been Bad Year

charged with extorting more than a
million dollars from movie execu-
tives. The racketeers were found
guilty and handed Jail sentences, but
during the parade OF witnesses to
the stand some fantastic testimony
was set down as to how weirdly the
big movie companies can keep their
books-in a pinch. Not only was
the public astounded, but stockhold-
ers in several companies became in
terested in starting suits.
Now q New Threat.
The consent decree and how to
meet new selling conditions imposed
by it was a year-long worry that
resulted in a thorough cleaning
house, not only in Hollywood and
New York Offices, but in branch
film exchanges throughout the coun-
try. Old methods of selling pictures
in season blocks, sight unseen, had
to be abandoned, new systems set
up. Block booking was out, as Of
September /, and every studio had
to come up with heavy reserves Of
completed pictures-so exhibitors
could see before terms were talked.
Now, in the closing days of 1941,
comes the dire threat of another
censorship storm. The Legion OF
Decency's sudden cracking down on
the Garbo picture, "Two-Faced
Woman" by giving it a &C" or
condemned" rating-the first time
in many years it has so severely
rebuked a major film-was followed
by municipal banning of the films
showing in scattered cities.
Riot Act Rumored.
Grave concern over the posi-
bility OF another boycott" and
pledge" drive by the legion was
expressed all over Hollywood and
Will Hays Immediately rushed
eastward to call his production
members into conference. 1t was
recalled that the 1933-1934 cam
paign by the legion ate into box
Office receipts to the ravenous ex-
tent of Is per cent or more.
There were rumorS that the nOn-
committal Hays was reading the
riot act to code violators and that
he was even attempting to prevail
upon officials of R-K-O to relinquish
their claims on General Manager
Joe Breen and permit him to take
up that censoring job right where
he left OIL six months ago.
With Santa Claus riding nightly
on the boulevard and man-planted
Christmas trees throwing a soft
glow over the entire community
there was little peace-on- earth
spirit among moviemakers today
If they could voice their sentiments
through the talking picture the
movies would cry out, Everything
happens to u.s."
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
Evening star., 1941-12-07

Custom, that fine. old institution.
has decreed this to be the period of
summing up in the routine of the
professional moviegoer. Thus, in
stead of ravaging his brain for a
better idea on which to hang a
Sunday column, he merely back
tracks through the year trying to
remember a few of the things that
happened to him.
Certain ones stand out with par
ticular clarity. Usually the most
vivid of the lot is the dudgeon
aroused by certain profoundly
Wretched creations of those who
make pictures. In way it is un-
reasonable that the reviewer should
hold grudges against bad pictures.
1t can come to him as no surprise,
certainly, that such products are
coined by Hollywood. Moreover,
unlike most of his fellow humans,
he has the solace of being paid for
seeing them. However, because in
dignation is an occupational dis
ease, he takes them much harder
than any one else. In an impersonal
way, of course.
1t is the remembered sadness
Evening star., 1941-12-07
BY Jay Carmody.

created by the inferior movie which
inspires the critic to select his worst
pictures of the year before getting
down to that more constructive
column in which he chooses the 10
he thought best among the several
hundred produced in a 12-month.
Capital Takes FASTING.
There was, for example, a lovely
technicolored thing called "Aloma of
the South Seas" tragic mishap
involving Dorothy Lamour in a
flowered sarong. There are stories,
apocryphal and ironic, that Para
mount itself was SO embarrassed by
the dullness of the picture that it
advertised it only half f-heartedly-
only to have it turn out among the
studios big-money earners of the
year. Regardless of its box -offlce
success, however, it sincerely earned
its artistic rating as the No. l bore
of the year.
Runner-up to Aloma among the
pictures which this commentator
saw from the vantage point of
being able to pass along assign
ments to the truly bad ones) GER
tainly must have been Adventure
Evening star., 1941-12-07
HOLLYWOOD

There's something grimly fasci-
mating about watching the movie
makers do murder. Especially
when the crime is in the guiding
hands of such a brilliant technician
as Frank Capra. Mr.. Capra is busy
on stage IA at Warner Bros. That's
where they've been shooting ARSE
mic and Old Lace" an adaptation Of
the hit Broadway scare comedy, for
the past five weeks.
Once glance is enough to satisfy
that everything is okay. They're
still killing people all over the place.
And yet it's very funny business.
Such an experienced trouper as
Cary Grant can't stop laughing at
the antics of Josephine Hull and
Jean Adair, the two old ladies i'm
ported from the New York show.
Grant stands on the sidelines and
ruins perfectly good takes.
All told, the delightful old spin
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Todoy's Film Schedules

CAPITOLConfm Deny meets girl in blackout:
425 ITO and 955 Stage shows $40 625 and 9:l0
Soldier Rise Oscar Sraus
145 345 545 7:45 and GAS
EARLE-Apponment Boyer girl by
7:5O 1920 pm Stage shows 2:05, 430
Costello Air Corps:
GAS pm March of Time 3:35, $50 7:30
9:25 pm
Chicago Montgomery gangster
inherits title: 2, 3:55 $50, TAO and 945
Enrol Flynn
Gen. George Custer: 2, 4:25, 7 and 9:35
doubled and sizzling Con-
P1X-The Victor Herbert" with v. H. music: 22o AIS
955
X-N and Continuous from o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WOOD.
If the movie business could be
induced to make some official COM
ment about the way 1941 has treat
ed it, a concise summary might be:
Everything happens to us-but
we can still take it,
No doubt about it. Everything can
and does happen to the movies.
They take it-and bounce right
back for more.
Nothing particularly new about
the screens ability to aSsimilate
punishment It's been a punching
bag since birth. Dating far back
to its nickelodeon cradle days,
movies have been a stepchild among
the industries. to be kicked around
politically, socially and economically.
If anything goes wrong anywhere
in home, shop or on the street
chances are someone will step for
ward with a charge that the wicked
movies are to blame.
If Hollywood and the picture folks
have been taking it on the chin
previous to 1941, the current year,
when finally summed up a couple
of weeks hence, will make all pre-
vious attacks look puny, indeed. For,
IN 1941. the movie business took
what you might modestly brand a
thorough slapping around. Individ-
ual leaders and companies. but
mainly the industry as a whole,
were on the pan virtually through
out the year.
Year Began Calmly.
And as these lines are written,
screen leaders are girding against
what might logically prove its most
dangerous adversary of the year
Just settling back to enjoy a bit of
that peace-on-earth-good will-to-
men holiday spirit. wham. out of its
seven-year hideout comes the Legion
of Decency!
But more about the legion scare
later. Let's dwell chronologically
upon the screens worst year:
After deceptively calm start in
which the first few months brought
no more than a routine assortment