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Evening star., 1941-02-23
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Then the Bissen family moved
West. Ninas beautiful face and
figure were engaged for decorative
purposes at all kinds of public events
from rodeos to Fourth of July cele-
brations. She achieved a dozen
mythical championships, from Miss
Pacific Coast" to Miss Golden Gate
Turf Club; and her pulchritude
was ubiquitous at the Golden Gate
Fair for two years, SO that when
it came to picking beauties for this
picture, Nina was practically a
certainty.
Frances Gladwin's budding movie
career grew out Of just one title,
and a daffy one at that-'goose
girl" couple of years ago, of
Inglewood, Calf.
Studied Dramatics.
Just what the sponsors of the
goose girl-of -Inglewood sweepstakes
may have had in mind is a matter
of great mystery to everybody now,
even Frances. Possibly it was some
kind of publicity stunt.
Anyway, it changed Frances ca
reer. Her family had moved from
New York to Los Angeles some
years before and she had been going
to high school, modelling in her
spare time, and ushering in movie
theater.
AS Goose Girl" she went into
dramatic school and then came back
East and played in stock COM
panies and little theaters in Rye
Beach, N. H., and on Long Island,
and on the strength of that ex-
perience landed a few weeks ago
back in Hollywood, in the movies.
Blond Irma Wilson'S movie debut
hangs on several developments just
as unpromising as being a goose girl.
While in high school in Brooklyn
she was thumbing through the paper
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NSOllGllluCd I'll Jill TlIoG L age
out what it is like to be kissed by
another man, and she finds out.
Then her husband finds her out and
is quite exasperated with her child
iShneSS.
So now we are in the second act
and it's time to break the audiences
heart. This happens when the moth
er discovers she has an incurable
disease and not much time to live.
Mother wants to go away and die
alone, to keep things from Claudia.
but the husband insists that Claudia
learn about the problem that has
come into her life and grapple with
it. 1t is something she must face,
he says. The death of a loved one is
nearly an invariable part of life.
Claudia discovers the truth by &C
cident, faces the situation and
emerges splendidly, leaving the au-
dienCe to emerge splendidly from
the theater.
John Golden has produced the
play. Miss Franken has directed it
herself and the cast is really equal
to it. Dorothy Mcguire, an Omaha
girl, creating her first important
role here, is not merely good to look
at but inventive and mettlesome.
Frances Starr as the mother is
thoroughly remarkable, playing
throughout in low key that unlocks
all mysteries. She and Donald Cook
as the husband and Frank Twedell
and Adrienne GeSsner as hired
couple have rather preposterous
parts, stuffed tight, as shirts are
stuffed. with the kind of gallantry
featured by those long. languid
characters whose romances are re-
lated on enameled paper.
(Relsased BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1ncD
Evening star., 1941-02-23
By GiadsVin Hill,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.
How can a girl get to Hollywood?
Well, here are five methods, all
of which must be good, because
they are the ways five girls actually
got to Hollywood.
The five constitute one-sixth of
the glamor line of 80 girls chosen
by the movie moguls for the picture
"ziegfeld Girl as typifying the late
Flos ideas of pulchritude.
What the five have in common is
that they are all from New York
now or formerly, and all models
now or formerly.
Neither attribute, curiously, seems
to have been exactly responsible
for their getting into the movies.
That hinged on more incidental,
unpredictable matters.
Take Nina Bissell, for instance
Nina's arrival in Hollywood is trace
able to the seemingly irrelevant
facts that long ago some one got
the idea of naming pretty girls
Miss 1941 Prune Queen: and that
a couple of years ago Nina's family
moved from New York to Redwood
City, Calf.
Then She Went West.
When Nina was a little girl, her
grandmother, once a leading New
York model, took her in hand and
taught her how to walk properly
and other graces of modelling, so
that when Nina got out of school,
lit was an obvious way to make a
living.
But modelling didn't plummet her
into the movies. She worked around
New York for a couple of years
without so much as a nod from a
talent scout.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
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Caught the Proper Eye.

one night and saw an Models
Wanted So she became a model.
Caught the Proper Eye.
Now it is the fate of nearly all
models in New York to be dragged
around by well-meaning sWainS to
all the night clubs, and Irma did
not escape that fate
She walked into the Stork Club
one night, past a table where Joe
Pincus, Hollywood movie eXecu-
tive, was sitting. He asked who that
stunning girl was. The next morn
ing Irma's phone rang and in a
flash she was on her way to the
coast.
She played in some of the Jones
family pictures. Rose of Washing
ton Square" "Alexanders Ragtime
Band" and Daytime Wife" Re-
member her? You may, but the
studios didn't. because when it came
time to renew her contract they
didn't renew.
Irma went back to modelling on
the coast. bewitching people from
billboards and magazine covers, and
no sooner had her modelling career
started a second time than-the
movie people were after her!
A Texan Lass.
This fourth girl is one you ought
to know like an old friend-blond
Georgia Carroll, "the queen of New
York models" whose beauty has
been blazoned from the housetops
to the subway signs in behalf of
products ranging from cigarette to
silk stockings.
Georgia was born in Texas. but
bloSsomed in New York. On the
strength of her looks she landed
silent but scintillating part in the
current musical comedy hit "Louisi-
ana Purchase
That taste of acting whetted her
appetite and she hied herself to
Hollywood to screen-test for the
role of Daisy Mae in Lii Abner."
They decided she was too chic to
play a mountain sweetheart, but
Georgia kept plugging at the movies
and worked her way through PLAY
Girls" "Maisie Was a Lady" and
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" to "Ziegfeld
Girl"
Her recipes for beauty, incident
ally, are: Good old soap and water
and plenty of sleep
A Price on Her Head.
Anya Tarandas start was ever
more sinister than being goose
girl. She was the King Kong mys-
terry beauty.
When the big gorilla was first
soaring people from the screen
Anya, who had ballet-danced hel
way through high school here anc
Evening star., 1941-02-23
In West Point Film

Leading roles in Paramount's
West Point comedy, Little Miss
Muffett," have been assigned Rich
ard Carlson and Richard Denning
The picture, based on magazine
story called The Baby Had Hard
Day." deals with the complica-
tions that ensue when cadet and
nurse marry in violation of the
academy's famed regulation.
Carlson, last seen in Back
Street" will play a doccor, and Den
ming a West Pointer. Sol c. Siegel
will prodIIce
Evening star., 1941-02-23

one night and saw an ad-"Models
Wanted So she became model
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furnished Park avenue apartment
laid out on stage 7. And, fitting
enough considering Nils old spe-
cialty. his first work before the
cameras is a love scene with Miss
Francis.
Nils speaks in a voice astonish-
ingly like that of Charles Boyer.
deep and with decided accent:
"Adrienne, I'll make you happy.
e. promise you. ). Go to Reno,
get your divorce . .. marry me and
let me make up for the misery you
have known"
That's the kind of dialogue you'd
expect TO hear from Asther. For
those are the sort of words that
comprised the subtitles Of Nils love
dramas in the days when he was
No 2 glamour man.
When Asther bowed out Of Holly
wood he went to England to appear
in a picture. One led to another.
and these to stage plays in London
and on the continent. He was 60
ing pretty we'll until the war broke
out, when the curtailment Of movie
making and stage production led
him to seek work in America.
Advised Against 1t.
He stopped in New York TO make
arrangements for the production Of
play he had brought from Europe
with him. Then he came to Holly
wood to straighten out some OF his
old affairs.
L really had no idea Of trying
pictures again" he said during q
pause in shooting. Friends ad-
vised me against it, They said
such a long absence is fatal"
Asther recounted that he fixed
up his Hollywood affairs, packed
his bags, shipped them to New
York and was about to follow when
Universal called and invited him
over for a test. Now his bags are
back. and it's fairly certain he can
store them in the attic for a while.
No sooner had his signing been
announced than Hollywood began
reacting true to form. Everybody
wanted him. He was "hot." Be-
fore he'd played his first come
back scene he was signed for a part
at another studio, and negotiations
are now on with Paramount that
may land him long-term deal.
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine)
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gone into modelling, was hired TO
roam the streets of New York with
a price Of sl00 on her head for the
first person who would capture"
her and take her back to the the
ater where King Kong was holding
forth.
BY that good old ironic twist of
fate, the person who spotted her
was Christine Maple. former Zieg-
field beauty herself. who introduced
her to Earl Carroll, the producer.
who in turn gave her a job in a
show.
The songs for the show were be-
ing written by Harold C"Stormy
Weather. Arlen, and-you guessed
it-he and Anya fell for each other
and got married.
The Hot Dog Did 1t.
Arlen also was song writing for
the movies, and so Anya got to the
coast in no time But if that seems
like an unfair advantage, relax, be-
cause it didn't do her any good.
She got in one picture, and then
was forgotten.
She went back to the Arlen ranch
in Coldwater Canyon. One day she
threw a tea. and a directors wife
who came suggested that she'd be a
natural for a part open in Escape -
Anya got it.
That and a hot dog got her into
"Ziegfeld Girl" Something about
the way she ate the hot dog, at the
last Southern California; C. L. A.
football game, intrigued a talent
scout, and on the strength of her
past performance, he profered the
old dotted line
That, girls, is the way five other
girls got in the movies.
1t may not give you an exact for
mula for crashing Hollywood, but it
should encourage you by demon
strating that the big opportunity
may be right around the next lamp
post, or almost anywhere.
Evening star., 1941-02-23


through high school that she'd like
to be an actress, SO she entered pro-
fessional dancing school in New
York
She turned up for the tryouts OF
the famous first Little Show in
1929 equipped with exactly one-half
dance routine, and warned the
producers, with fetching Candor, not
to be surprised if she stopped hall
way through the addition. They
liked her anyway, and taught her
enough to get by.
Her first dramatic part was q
brief walk-on in Marian Hopkins
His Majesty's Car" and in her
first year as an actress she landed
in five flop shows which ran two
weeks apiece.
But even if show is a flop,
you can get something out of it,"
Peggy says, explaining her casual
attitude about choosing parts. ITS
almost impossible for me to tell in
advance whether something is 60
ing to click or not, and 1 just figure
whether part is right or wrong,
I'll always learn something"
She took the role of Prudence
Kirkland in The Pursuit of Hap
pinesS' only reluctantly, and 1t turn
ed out to be a success.
She went into The Petrified
Forest" eagerly Il thought it was
the most exciting play in the world.
I didn't see how it could fail" And
1t didn't, either.
A Typical Romance.
On the other hand, she didn't
want to play in Yes, My Darling
Daughter" and did so under protest.
1t ended up smash hit that ran
over year.
And that brings up sad news for
the stage-door Johnnies. Just as
Yes. My Darling Daughter" closed,
Peggy got married.
1t wasn't a professional thea
trical marriage, but a typical girl
next door romance On the pro-
sale occasion of Sunday dinner at
some friends. she was introduced
to young broker named James
Thompson. They played tennis that
afternoon, and he took a shine to
her.
Going backstage to see her in
New York a couple of days later,
to his dismay he heard her address
some man as darling" and, not
being familiar with theatrical
terminology. assumed that she was
engaged. He was so elated when
he found that darling" was just
a stagehand or somebody, and that
Peggy was about to take a vacation
trip to Bermuda, that he Cancelled
all his engagements and caught the
same boat.
Soon after getting back they
were married, in Bedford, N. Y.
Peggy had been in movies off and
on for couple of years, and the
Thompson honeymoon at Mount
Desert Island in Maine was halted
after two days by hurry call from
Hollywood. Peggy. under contract,
rushed out there, and found that
the momentous mission on which
she had been summoned was to
play the part of a Park avenue
mistress and aunt to Freddy Bar
tholomeW
Dealings at a Standstill.
That is only one of the things
that has bewildered her about the
movies. She considered her pic
ture work a fair success. especially
after Having a Wonderful Time"
and wondered why she was getting
showed around rather aimlessly in
Hollywood.
What" she asked a producer one
day. docs a girl have to do to get
somewhere around here?"
oh" he replied, the same old
thing"
That sort of concluded that colo
guy, and Peggy's dealings with Hol-
lywood are more or less at stand
Evening star., 1941-02-23


Immediately not what is her tele-
phone number, but is she mar
ried?'
Peggy turns thoughts to home and
hearthside and ideas of permanent
attachment. She is the archtype
of that great American institution,
the Girl Next Door-the childhood
sweetheart, the girl whose hair Is
always little awry from daShing
around; who is enthusiastic rather
than sophisticated; the girl you'd
like to spend the rest of your life
with rather than just date couple
of times.
The most conspicuous consequ-
ence of this quality of Peggy's is
that. whereas lot the glamour girls
of 10 years ago are bending over
hot stoves or wondering where their
next mink Is coming from, Peggy
after 10 years, at the age of %, is
going stronger than ever.
She was Gabby Maple, the little
fllling-Station girl, in The Petrified
Forest: the summer-resort girl in
the movie Having wonderful Time" 2"
and, after a dozen other successful
plays and movies is playing, appro-
priately, a typical young American
wife in Mr.. and Mrs. North" a
dramatization of Richard Lock-
ridges amusing magazine sketches
about married life.
An Average Girl.
Peggy has always approached her
career in the breathless. catch-as-
catch-can but victorious manner
characteristic Of the girl next door.
Ask her how she sizes up the parts
she chooses to play and she is
baftied. She just into 'em, willy
nilly, like the G. N. D. falls into
a paint bucket or finds a lO-dollar
bill.
Peggy started life as just an
average girl in suburban Dobbs
Evening star., 1941-02-23

those careers for three years before
entering motion pictures. Wanda
Mckay was an airline stewardess.
1t is estimated that at least 20
per cent of the stars and players
currently in Hollywood could fall
back on their other professions if.
by any chance, their screen careers
were terminated suddenly.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

The picture is The Man Who
Lost Himself" co-starring Brian
Aherne and KAY Francis. The set
ting is the living room of lavishly
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Star of a Dozen Years Ago
Returns to Hollywood
Nils Asther, Who Went Away When
Sound Arrived, Now Finds
The Studios Clamoring
HOLLYWOOD.

Among gnng stars of the in 1929 (the year taes vers
fewEm Jannngs John Gilbert Clara Bow
Barheme Daniels Monte Blue
Remember?
had caught with all Of them
clipped The ponderou German who
Evening star., 1941-02-23
In This Day of Glamour
Peggy Just Hasn't Any
But Miss Conklin Who Is Very Much
Like the Pretty Girl.NeXt.DOor,
Is a Successful Actress
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.


In these days when that strange called glamour
tay requisite selling beautfer
making school sorority Conkln refresngy distinctive
successful without gmorous all
that attractive looking dark
laughing
Evening star., 1941-09-07
All The Newe

WASHlNGTON's magnificent new National All
terminoIs-ond porodise for people with
ore concentrated virtuoIly oil Of the utromodem
ond operation But the eosuol visitor, wotchinel
go, sees only few of the operations connected vii
the scenes. a force of 10 oirport employees pl
Necessary for sofe opd efficient operation.
Nerve center Of the oirport is on automatic 4
troffc control office on the third floor Of the tel
this boord. which resembles those used in stock
direct and control sky troffc have before them
picture of troffie oIong the oirwoys in the Woshtl
of this progress board is duplicated in the con|
and the operator who controls the Iondne of al
orrivoI Of the next 20 pIones due. Two-woy void
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31
FLAG MOTIF

Hollywood, Calf. - A new kind of fashion flag-waving could be seen In Mona Maris' stunning gown for the recent "Red. White and Blue" charity ball held In Holly wood Mona wore Q formal with peg top skirt of heavy white linen, q bolero of navy linen, and a red carnation on each lapel of the bo. lero jacket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31

WATR-NFRs fentures today 230 Braves PhlIies Aso Tommy Dorsey Belmont S.45, Delaware Race =. First offender 7e,SO Contact Dave Eman i;So sen War;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31
STRAND

Performances this evening at Warmers Strand theater conclude the engagement of Bette Davis in "The Great Lie' with George Brent and Mary Astor; also William Lun- digan in "A Shot in the Dark"
 Tomorrow the Strand ushers in Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedy "the Great Dictator, in which the popular comedian talks and dances,
 Critics have lauded "The Great Dictator" as Chaplin Chaplin's greatest comedy "The Great Dicta- tor" in which the popular com- edian talks and dances.
 Critics have lauded "The Great Dictator" as Chaplin's finest com edy, and he proves once again that he is truly king of the clowns, You'll find "The Great Dictator" a ver- itable three-ring circus, as Chaplin perpetrates masterful travesty on an easily recognized ruler. But more than that, 1t Is Chaplin, the timid little man, looking at power war; fly cycling the big shot. It Is the ancient privilege of clowns.
 The little figure with his derby,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31
In The Local
 The0teYS
STATE

Tn response to tremendous public acclaim the management of War; ner's State theater announces c three day fold-over engagement of the thrilling aviation spectacle T Wanted Wings.
 T Wanted Wings" is currently the rave of Waterbury. Everyone's talk ing about the stars, thrills and ex. citement of this sensational picture, so if you haven't seen 1t to date plan to do so before the closing per- formance Tuesday evening.
 The picture was filmed with the cooperation of the United States Army Corps with Randolph and Kelly Fields providing the back ground for most of the scenes.
 Starring Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris and Brian Donlevy, T Wanted Wings" tells the story of how three young men 90 through the process of winning their wings, in the Army Air Corps. We see them ct ground school, ex- perience the thrill of first flight, feel the first burgeoning of wings with them as they prepare to solo, adven. ture with them, 90 through the pangs of love affairs, experience their terror as they crash and bail out in parachutes.
 Veronica Lake, the sensational newcomer to the screen, who has oc. casloned as much comment pretty nearly as has been given to any screen personality in the past few years, appears in the role of ruth. less gold-digger with e devastating effect. You really have to see Miss Lake in action to fully appreciate her characterization. Balancing this role is the one played by Con- stance Moore who causes dlther with her beauty when she arrives at the Army Flying Field.
 The second hit of the program Is 6 tip-top comedy "The Great Mir. Nobody" with Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie heading Q big cast.
 Don't forget. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the hilarious team of Buck Privates", will be back at the State Wednesday in their latest laugh hit Tn The Navy" with the Andrews Sisters, Dick Powell and Q giant cast of funsters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31

poems for her American debut at the Library Of Con- gress in Washington. One of them he calls "Mr. Baudelaire and Ills Green Hair" another "Mr. Lin- coln and His Gloves" another MT. Longfellow and His Boy"
 William Saroyan saw Lorraine and said, "She takes her poetry from the streets and whispers and shouts 1t back ct the world" and sat down to write poetry of the American streets for her to whisper and shout A LAUGH AT ADULT WORLD
 Archibald MacLeish, poet-librarian, arranged he Library of Congress appearance and asked her to include in the program excerpts from his America Was Promises"
 She rounded out her first performance in Eng fish with the pouting complaint of fouryearold boy that he twill just laugh" at the adult world, and will not do as they tell him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31
MOVIE NOTES
PUBLIC DEMANDED IT

Walt Disney,s combination full- length "live-action" cartoon "The Reluctant Dragon" Is the result of e popular interest in the workings of the Disney plant. Walt, himself, Robert Benchtley, Frances Clifford and many other Disney artists ap. pear In the RKo Radio release.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31
PIQUE-A-BOO

Hollywood Calf. - Lucille Fair- banks, launching the light opera season at tho Philharmonic with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31

BY NEA SERVICE
 New York-Mademoisele Lorraine wants to become an American citizen so she tell other Americans from coast to coast rhs is the oniest place for de- moeracy to lve" tell them with her hands, her face, her body and from inside" as she says
 Before she came to the United States on visit, when France was free, Mile. Lorraine developed Her style of cafe vaudeville skts But" she says, vaude- vile in France is not like In America 1t Is not only to entertain 1t Is art"
 French poets Cocteau Andre Glide, Paul Fort and others saw this redhaired stick of dramatic dynamite and wrote pieces especially for her. POETS HAVE WRITTEN FOR HER
 Tn the United States, Carl Sandburg saw her and took his pen in hand to do several still unpublished
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31

his tiny mustache, his floppy trous- CTS and elongated shoes, plays two characters in his new film. First he is c barber, a quiet little man who just wants to be left alone in the ghetto, where in his shop he strives almost pathetically to please. And then he is Hynkel, the raging, neu- rotic dictator. He raves and rants and emits the most violent of gut. teral explosives.
 Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Regi- naid Gardiner, Emma Dunn and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31

Maurice Mosovich are ct the head of the big supporting cast.
 And for your further enjoyment the management presents Here Comes Happiness" with Mildred Coles and Richard Norris heading the featured cast.
 That Night in Rio" with Don Aneche, Alice Faye, Carmen Miran- da and @ host of other favorites Is coming to the Strand on Wednes. day. Put 1t on your must" list and be sure to attend the opening per. formances,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-31

her fair presence, wore 6 sufnmery gown in white pique. The skirt was heavily embroidered with white roses on lattice work which gave you . peek ct the under-skirt of pink pique.