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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-28

poCtleS of night club tables when taking pictures of the stars" In the same issue were photos of Merle Oberon and Alexander Korda with laughing milk on theirs! Tsk-tSk A New Jersey man dropped S7e,OOO at the Florida track in the last { weeks Reynal & Hitchcock will publish those veddy sinful sketches, skits and lyrics Gin 8 private edition) of the Dutch Treat Club shows Saw John Mason Brown at the theater. He told me this grand definition of an aptimist: "A fellow who thinks the future Is uncertain" Have one by Bobby ByrneS: Limitation is just plagiarisn-with an odor." I looked up the For Whom the Belles Toil' crack. We used it or November 27th, l04O, in case any body wants to bet 1t originated in Hollywood :. |. The Book of the Month selections in June will be Darkness at Noon" and "Junior Miss" There's @ swell piece about 8 small-ttine m. c. (and the Miami joint atmosphere) in Col Hers of last week Gertrude Lawrence has a nine-inch statuette of Churchill, sculpted by Suzanne Silvercruys. The first that the Bri- tish-Ainerican Ambulance Corps will sell for g Despite their denials, their friends contend Stu art Kellogg, of the flakes tribe and Jayne Manners are meddied . Life is doing an 8-page spread on Vic Mature. Say, he's broken the record for male free ads, hasn'! he?
 Before she left for the coast Wendy Barrie had her gold ciggie case autographed by the Stork Club crowd - scratched in the metal with a heavy needle But she can't show 1t to her mother because one of our incest glam- mer gals added a word (to hel name) not in any deb's dictionary In exchange for the courtesies given by the Army and Navy (te H'wood Studios for making the studios that own Broadway plays will send road shows witt, name players to the California camps for one-night stands The reason Airline Judge has beer itemed for the lead in the movie version of "Out of the Frying Pan Is that her dear friend, Hunting ton Hartford, II, Is the beeg back CT of that play .. Brenda Frazier bossed the decorating of fiance Kelly's new Gramercy Park apt. Hi boodwah is in vrey velvet. Fency thet!
 Marcus Goodrich, whose bool "Delilah" is such 6 click, thinks Ger trude Niesen is soooo nize Peeni's layout on socialite Irene Denham won her a Paramount screen test [. Irv Hoffman's per- feet capsule criticism of Irwin s Cobb's book: "Cobb-webby." Ouch Americans in Haiti are com. planning about the home just bull for the U. 8. Minister down there Cost the govt $160, ,000-a lotta coir in these times, wot? .. A French restaurant in midtown did 8 smell! thing to @ group of respectable Chinese bankers the other day Peppered the soup heavily, r,iinet their meal and, obviously to dis courage a return visit - put brok en eggs in their overcoat pocket in the cloakroonl Ken Robert! of CBS was just in with the on, about the three card-sharps. The, were playing poker for plenty. Sud denly one of them slumped for ward in his seat. The second gam bier turned to the other who wa! dealing, and shrieked: "M'Gawd Sam's dropped deadl Wot'll we do?' Don't get excited" said thu dealer, well just take out the two. and threes."
 YOUR GIRL FRIDAY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-28

There are O,00O kinds of butter flies in South America; only 700 kinds in North America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Bette Davis Aids Protegee
BY Backing an Operetta
But Doesn't Get Her Money Back;
Frances Farmer Now Decides
To Stay in Hollywood
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.


Frances Farmer the gal who didn't like said So
will costar with Preston Foster in
prison Widows story of the who live outside prison walls
because the they love inside them This yarn familiar and
IL months But maybe Paramount
angle. Anyway glad is remaining in
a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
But Broadway, Not Pacific,
Was Where Play Ended Up
5OOth Performance of Separate Rooms
Sets Critic to Thinking That
Critics Can Be Mighty Wrong
BY JAY CARMODY.


on new play or sometimes within 10 minutes after has been raised
sealing
Usually like those respected profession are
buried quickly leaving nourners them profess
exceptions ago. there
was "Which ased*
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

Through the Night" with Raft:
"One Foot in Heaven" opposite
March Mae Clarke, famous
as the actress who came between
Jimmy Cagney and a grapefruit.
has been signed to q contract by
Republic. She has part in Lady
for a Night" erstwhile Memphis
Belle" Never Give a Sucker
an Even Break" is the title of the
next w. c. Fields film Every
thing is set for the bringing to-
gether of Fred Astaire and Bing
Crosby In flicker. The present
title is Holiday Inn" with music
by Irving Berlin. Mark Sandrich,
who directed most of the earlier
Astaire- Rogers musicals, takes care
of this one.
Katharine Cornell, queried in
New York, says there is no truth
in the report that she will repeat
on the screen her stage performance
in 1.-THE Doctors Dilemma" This
was merely wishful thinking on the
part of Producer Gabriel Pascal.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Replaces Mitchell

Edward Arnold, character star,
has been signed for one of the
top roles in THE Devil and Daniel
Webster" which Producer-Director
william Dieterle and his associate,
Charles L. Cleft, are currently finn
ing for R-K-O-Radio release. He
replaces Thomas Mitchell. who was
injured recently in a fall.
Arnold, who will portray Daniel
Webster, is now completing a major
role in Nothing But the Truth"
His other pictures Of recent date
include THE Lady From Cheyenne"
1.-The Penalty" Meet John Doe"
and Lillian Russell"
Arnold joins a cast in 1.-THE Devil
and Daniel Webster" that includes
Walter Huston, Anne Shirley, James
Craig, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon.
Gene Lockhart and John Qualen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

i
National-"Fantasia," the much
discussed Disney, with music con-
Quoted by Stokowski: 2:20 and $50
pm.
Keith's-"Citizen Kane" the ini-
tial Orson Welles Aim venture: 2:30,
5 and $3.50 pm.
Earle-"Meet John Doe" Frank
Capra examines today: 1890 am,
lis, 4:05, SIS and 9:45 pm. Stage
shows: 1875, 3:25. Sis and 9:o5
pm.
Palace-"That Hamilton Woman!"
and her affair with Lord Nelson:
10:45 am, las, 4:l0, $50 and 9:35
pm.
Capitol-"Great American Broad
cast" musical history" of radio:
II am, las, 4:3o, 7:20 and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 1880. $40,
6:25 and 9:l0 pm.
Little-"Fqight From Destiny
crime without passion, with humor
II am, 1885, 2:2o, 4:lo, s, 7:55 ana
9:45 pm.
Columbia-"Road to Zanzibar"
Crosby, Hope and Lamour loose in
the jungle: 1920 am, 1:20, 3:25.
$50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan - They Dare Not
Love-" refugees have their trials:
11:25 am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
$40 pm.
Trans Lux News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

rageously unethical trick such as
selling benefits or taking advantage
of angels" but 1t works, rue 1t
how they will.
Where all this is leading, should
any one have been persistent enough
to have hung on this far, is to a
note from the Shuberts, which
points out that Separate Rooms"
has just passed its 500th perform
ance on Broadway.
That is virtually all the Shuberts
say, without the slightest sign of
glee or an even more modest express
sion of emotion.
But it is enough to take a man
back to hot night in Santa Bar
bara almost three years ago. The
man was an Eastern critic who had
been invited by a group of Holly
wood thespians, full Of yearning for
Broadway, to see their play and tell
them whether 1t was worth even
considering for a New York trial.
The critic demurred on the ground
that it was the OF -season, that he
couldn't think faster than a class
B picture, that it was a hot night,
and that he had date to eat
abalone at fresh fish place jutting
into the Pacific off Santa Monica.
Off-season? Hah! Heat? Hah!
Abalone? Tourist!
So the critic went to Santa Bar
bara, q meek little creature sitting
in the back seat of q car approx
mately mile long. Once there, he
went to the Lobero Theater Zone
of the prettiest in the country. Once
there, in turn, he saw play called
Thanks for My Wife" a romantic
comedy which he concluded instantly
was as rank as its title.
Back stage later, full of embar-
rassment, but sincere and earnest,
he regretfully assured all question:
ers that Santa Barbara was the per-
feet taking-on place for the drama:
that it should be taken OF and
kept that way.
Having passed the judgment, the
critic went away and forgot the
whole thing.
Years passed, a couple OF years
that brought only disaster to the
world. Then, one night, the same
critic found himself in New York
with nothing to do might baseball
not having yet been introduceO {.
Looking up, as is the wont Of critics,
he spied a theater marquee pro-
claiming Separate Rooms" with
Alan Dinehart. He had heard
vaguely Of it, how it was belabored
by the critics Of New York, how it
survived and was going along
modestly, but successfully.
"Ah. Dinehart," said the critic to
himself. Last time I saw anything
of him was in Santa Barbara. I
wonder if this is as good as that"
The words were no sooner out Of
the critics consciousness than he
was standing in front Of the box
ofice consulting the proper authori-
ties about a seat from which to
view the new Dinehart effort, Of the
nature Of which he knew nothing.
The management was happy to
see him, invited him in, and led him
to seat on the aisle.
In just two minutes, the critic was
trapped by feeling of I-have-been-
heretofore, an occupational disease
Of critics and bartenders. The d.
alogue, the settings, the business
Of the actors all was familiar, but he
would have sworn he had never seen
a play called Separate Rooms"
He would have been right, too.
When he saw it, three years before
and 5000 miles away in Santa Bar
bara, it was called Thanks for My
Wife,"
OF course they had changed the
title!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Films Little Foxes

Gregg Toland, cinematographer
praised by Orson Welles for his
camera work on Citizen Kane" is
photographing THE Little Foxes"
film version of Lillian Hellmans
Broadway hit which will be the
first of the Goldwyn productions to
be distributed by R-K-O-Radio.
Toland has 20 years Of camera
work as a background. He was
the cameraman ON Dead End"
Grapes OF WRATH" "Wuthering
Heights and THE Long Voyage
Home" His career started as as
sistant to George Barnes. For the
past is years he has been under
contract to Samuel Goldwyn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

ones confessed to an actual barrass-
ment at being present, an embar-
raSsment that was superseded by
another and more acute one as the
item ran through its first year, it's
second, and then its third.
X X X X
Not all of the critics errors are so
conspicuous, however. Sometimes it
Is an innocent, weak little item en-
tirely undeserving of their most
desolating onslaught that survives to
show them they didn't know what
they we're talking about. The
critics may feel that the survival
Is unfair, the result of an out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

from which 1t was taken James
Cagney is now up for the title
role in Captain Horatio Horn
blower" with Rosalind Russell as
Lady Barbara. If these two do
the picture, there should be lot
of fun on the height question.
ROE is very tall. Jimmy, very
short Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald
Reagan (Jane Wyman) have the
leads in Background to Danger"
from the Eric Amber novel.
y
Ann Sothern helps the defense
effort with Comm at You for
Metro. The locale is a shipyard
James Craig, the handsome
doctor of Kitty Foyle," continues
his film climb with a starring
assignment in "Unexcelled Uncle"
Capable Actress Ellen Drew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Johns; 'Nocturne'

John Garfield has been assigned
by Warner Bros. to play the male
lead in Hot Nocturne," film adap-
tation Of a play by Edwin Gilbert
about swing musicians. Robert
Rossen elaborated with Gilbert
on the screen play. Anatole Litvak
will direct.
Garfield recently completed role
in Warmers ''The Gentle People"
(now called Danger Harbor")
screen version Of Irwin Shaw's
stage hit, in which he Is featured
with Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell,
Eddie Albert and John Qualen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

raj of the critics
had written its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

o D j I u a ry o n
opening n i 6 h t.
L a ter cam e
Tobacco Road"
which now, after
seven and one
h If We ar S on
Broadway, drifts
toward the doom
predicted for its
first Saturday
night. Still later,
there was Hell
"a oppin B"
which the critics
felt was CORNER
than Iowa. A few
Of the hold o r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

gets q respite from horse operas
with the lead opposite William
Holden in 1.-THE Remarkable An
drew" Citizen Kane" is not
doing as we'll as expected at the FL
Captain Theater here, I hope this
is not a straw blowing in the wind
of non-success. The picture is new
and refreshing, and deserves to be
seen.
Walter Huston's writer son, John,
has joined the director ranks. His
first assignment is remake of
Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese
Falcon" 1t has a new title, Knight
of Malta" with Mary Aston getting
leading role with George Raft
.. Talking of Hammett, his Nora
and Nick characters in the Thin
Man" series have been sold to Metro
for $4,000 outright. and from now
on the studio can continue to star
William Powell and Myrna 10y
without further payment to the
author.
Olivia de Havilland's film future
is divided between George Raft
and Fredric March. She does "All
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Bette Davis invested $4,000 in a

local operetta,
S t airing her
pr % t e 6 e e, Pa
mela Caveness.
Which is my
idea Of a fairy
godmother. I'm
fortunately, the
production did
not return Bette
her money :.
I wonder why
t ey changed
the title of 1.-THE
Gentle People"
to "Out of the
Fog? The for
mer had been
Evening star., 1941-03-08
philadelphia Story
Now at Columbia

For those who missed the per-
formance for which Jimmy Stewart
won this years Academy Award,
The Philadelphia Story" has been
returned to F street to continue at
the Columbia the already lengthy
run it started at the Palace Mr..
Stewards Oscar winning perform
ance, to be sure, is not the only
thing missed by those who have
not seen The Philadelphia Story
There also is a bang-up portrayal
by Katharine Hepburn of the Phil
adelphia lass with the complicated
love life. And there is bright Philip
Barry banter, tossed about with
considerable gaiety by Cary Grant,
Virginia Weidler, Ruth HuSsey
Roland Young and number of
others in addition to the principal
stars above named. H. M.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Phoebe Titus Film
At Metropolitan

Seeming just as large and quite
as impressive in its way as the State
of which it tells, Arizona" now has
moved to the Metropolitan for a
second downtown week. This is the
story of Phoebe Titus, belle of
Tucson, when Tucson was .uSt a
collection of frame and adobe
shacks in the desert. The only white
woman in all Arizona, Phoebe is,
so you can imagine the sort of a
gal she must be to hold the male
population of the State at bay until
the right guy comes along The
right guy turns out to be William
Holden, for he sees beneath Phoebe's
soot-smudged exterior and ap-
parently discovers Jean Arthur, for
Immediately he serenades her by
singing JEANNE With the Light
Brown Hair" Before the lure of
Phoebe's smile and her ranch, which
it takes several days to ride across
win him, there is considerable of
that dastardly plotting known to
all Western films. The Indians 60
on the war path now and then, too.
But not often enough. HM.
Evening star., 1941-03-08


man. Miss Bergman, who is as
sisted by cast headed by Warner
Baxter and Susan Hayward, is the
kind of person whose shy loneliness
would do something fine for a
movie if she merely sat in chair
throughout the action.
The surprise of Adam Had Four
Sons" is not Miss Bergman, strange
ly enough. 1t is rather the Hay
ward girl. Looking for all the world
like an Identical twin of Vivian
Leigh, Miss Hayward emergeS from
her old Powers model cocoon to
play a trollop with skill that
will make you ashamed for what
you thought of her ability in the
past. 1t is not a thing to win
her an academy award, or send
Bette Davis into Sulk, but it
does show that Miss Hayward is
coming along in this world; or may
be one should say that" world.
The Stoddards, Adam and his
offspring, are good substantial
Evening star., 1941-03-08
The Cast

people, derivatives of a fine stock.
Life with them is secure and serene
until the pretty young mother of
the brood dies. Things become
dramatic then, the more deeply so
when the panic of 1907 knocks the
props from under fathers business
and robS them of their happy
Connecticut home. The story hops
a decade here to land in the middle
of 1917 and the first World War.
The sons have grown up and they
have Weathered all the storms in
the best fashion of worthy people
1t is at this point that the picture
begins to gather strength in one
way, lose in another. The former
comes in the guise of Miss Hay
ward, who enters the family as the
bride of one of the younger sons,
a wanton Scarcity sort of gal who
starts tearing the family honor
apart, breaking the hearts of all
the sons, and acting like a con-
temptible hoyden.
The script is less kind to Miss
Bergman. In this period of the
story she evolves into a kind of
Sacrlticlal heifer. In love, but very
unoStentatiously, with the head of
the family, she undertakes to foil
the selfish, heartless bride and to
keep the StoddardS on the path of
honor and rectitude. She is in
volved in all kinds of misunder-
standings which might have been
corrected with just a word; a word
that would save audiences a lot of
1mpatience and irritation regardless
of what it might have done to the
story.
Gregory Ratoff'S direction does its
best with the unreasonableness of
Bonner'S story, and the playing is
sufficiently first rate in every in
stance to diminish the weakness of
the plot structure in this area. In
addition to Miss Bergman and Miss
Hayward, workmanlike perform
ances are offered by Baxter, Johnny
Downs as the imposed-up young
husband, Jean Lockhart'S daughter.
June, and the always reliable Helen
Westley.
1t is pretty pleasant, take it all in
all.
Variety is the spice of the stage
bill Harry Anger has devised as the
supplement to the screen feature.
When Eileen and the audience have
finished singing the Irish airs that
comprise the Sing-a-song- with mike
program, the bill comes to Olson
and Shirley, a talented pair of
eccentric acrobatic dancers. 1t
works around from there to Jeanne
Brideson, who is 18, lovely to look
at and very adroit on the violin.
Vocal assignment is handled neatly
by the Vikings and Mary Dooley, a
quartet and a girl, who manage
we'll with some neat arrangements
OF college tunes and a medley of
popular songs. Frank Mayo, the
man who brought PanSy the Horse
to town last season, takes care of
the comedy portion of the program,
this time with Ferdinand, the bull.
of course.
The RoXyettes have two especially
noteworthy numbers, a brightly
dressed opening routine and
Spanish rhythm closing bit that
are very handsome.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Hitchcock Comedy
STAYS at keith's

Everybody else having taken his
crack at marital farce to make the
movies funnier, why shouldn't AL
fred Hitchcock? Well, Mr., Hitch
cock has. His achievement, Mr..
and Mrs Smith," at Keith's. with
Robert Montgomery and Carole
Lombard, may not represent the
finest of Hithcocks work, but a
second weeks stay intimates that
it is more than average comedy.
The tale of young married
couple who suddenly discover their
marriage was illegal is worked out
as something that is human and
humorous and rather replete with
amusing innuendo which is handled
with good taste
1t would be an even more robust
laugh at love did the second half of
the story maintain the brightness
and pace of the first. J.C.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
In New Wine Cast

Gilbert Emery and John Qualen
have been signed for prominent
roles in Gloria Pictures New
Wine" which co-stars Ilona Massey
and Alan Curtis. Emery will play the
part of a Viennese school master
and Qualen will appear as a timid
musician.
Emery, who came to Hollywood
after a distinguished stage career,
completed a role opposite Vivien
Leigh and Laurence Olivier in
Alexander Kordas That Hamil-
ton Woman!" Prior to going into
New Wine" Qualen, who is known
for his character portrayals, made
his Hollywood debut in Street
Scene" and recently appeared in
Walter Wanger's The Long Voyage
Home"
Evening star., 1941-03-08
New Forum
Is sTrans>Lux
Feature
Writers on War
Discuss Future
AS They See 1t

The movies having already bor-
rowed several of the quiz shows from
radio, it should not have taken a
l94l Nostradamus to predict that
sooner or later another popular
type of broadcast feature would find
its way into the short-subject field,
the discussion of world affairs by
those more or less in authority.
First of these is the initial one of a
series TO be called international
Forum" now featured at the Trans
Lux.
Patterned after the widely heard
University of Chicago Round Table.
this first international Forum"
short calls upon such noted COM
mentators as Dorothy Thompson,
Wythe Williams, William Shirer and
Linton Wells for discussion of the
affairs of Europe and occasional
predictions of the futures posi-
bilitieS. In the matter of the trend
of events in the Balkans the four
seem to have looked ahead cannily
when making their film, lending
their comments an especially timely
note. If they can keep that up they
will have something here.
The Trans-LuX neWSreels this
week include, of course, a further
report of the war-the capture Of
Libya, French warships at a Scot
tish port, more views of Briton still
preparing, with schoolboys train
ing for the r. A. F.; London'S waits
of war being evacuated, the coast
guard and motorized defenSes on the
alert. The war news on this side
of the Atlantic is induStrial-plane
engines, steel mills, new Army
equipment, etc. PleaSanter notes are
added by shots from training camps
of the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia
Athletics and Cleveland Indians
preparing for the coming season.
Other shorts on the bill are the
Disney short Timber" and Snow
Fun" visit to where it is had, at
Lake Placid. H. M.