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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-12
INCOME 5000; Wan TAX, 500

Remember The old slopstick movie
octors IN tfs eorly rouoh-ond-tunble
movies-how, wi,en the property vose
had been broken over their skulls they
shook their heads with doxed look4
Thot's the way the overooe American
reocts to the news thot 6ritoin IS going
to have wartime taxes Of so per cent
and up. And up means up-rich people
will be paying as high as l9 shillinos
out Of every pound 40 shillin9s) OF in
come.
But it is worth while to shake off the
dozed feeling and consider whot this
really means. This is q greet deo' more
than simply tax. 1t is more thon Sim
ply an effort to roise money to run the
war.
It is an effort to guide the recon
struction otter the war" period. II is an
effort to prevent inflotion, now or loter.
II is q piece Of sociol engineering as
we'll as means Of raising the money to
run the war;
Many months ooo John Maynard
Keynes, the British economist. proposed
q plan Of enforced savings" in wor-
time. Il drew laughs and hot comment
as too rodicol." But now, under Sir
Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the ex-
chequer. the British ore odoptine q plan
thot is olmost the some thing.
The exemptions on income tax ore
cut down to almost nothing. admitting
1000. 900 people to income tox liobil-
ity who never poid it before. But the
payments these people moke as q result
Of lowered exemptions will be credited
to them in postal savings accounts. poy-
obIe to them oeoin otter the war. So
with higher incomes. 1t is estimoted,
for instance, thot an income OF
$4,000 will poy q tax Of 1924; Of which
$l352 will 90 into the treasury as q
straight tax, with $l72 deposited as
compulsory but repoyobIe 1oon."
1t is hoped to accomplish two things
by this system.
First. to prevent present initiation.
Keynes figured thot wortime inflotion
is eoused largely by the foet thot mony
RCOk/sS UNOssCS tsSS W WIZ stSy
are obIe to bid against one another for
goods; therefore the price Of goods
rises. BY tokine from everybody proc
ticolly all the money they receive above
whot il takes barely to live, this compe-
titive bidding for goods is restricted.
and prices have less reason to rise. In
short, If the amount of money left to
the public is kept in proportion to the
amount Of goods available for them to
buy at present prices, there is not likely
to be much infIotion.
Second. it means thot everybody will
have some savings to his credit otter
the war. There will be q Iet-down then.
II people have some money to spend,
even though out Of job, the releose Of
thot money will cushion the shock.
Thus Britoin is laying down the most
drastic war taxes in history, is using
toxotion not only as q source Of money
to run the war, but in an effort to guide
the economic present and future.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-12

Lacie Neville Is pinch-hitting
for Pdxl Harrison. n0D touring
army camps and defense indus.
tries.
Evening star., 1941-04-05

large hooked rug with these colors
predominating.
The top floor and the basement
floor of this house are unusually
well done. The top floor has bed
room and unfinished bath and
across the hall another room which
is cleverly arranged as a study or
game room.
The space below stairs has very
smart recreation room with fireplace
and snack bar equipped with run
ming water and base plugs for elec-
trio griddles. The room and the
bar are panelled in pine, and the
furniture selected for this room is
handmade of pine that is most in
formal and sturdy in appearance.
This is pleasant, livable house,
which will be ideal for family.
There are closets where you need
them, there is easy access from
room to room, double-doo
wardrobe, as well as the usual closet,
in the large bedroom is gratifying
The bathrooms have tiled floors and
walls that are so we'll laid that they
will be no trouble to clean. Fix
lures and hardware throughout, as
we'll as all interior furnishings, are
of the type that will give pride of
ownership as the years go on.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Wider Interest Seen
For Radiant Heating

With the arrival this month Of
the big 1941 building season, ma
tional heating authorities say they
anticipate concealed radiant heat
ing will make still further gains In
popularity among home builders.
This method requires no radiators
or registers. Heat is developed
through floor surfaces by means Of
coils of pipe concealed beneath the
whole floor and leading from
steam, hot water or vapor heating
plant using any type Of fuel.
The idea is development Of the
"panel heating" principle which
has long been popular in England.
1t has been gaining added atten-
ton in the United States during the
increased residential building ac-
tivity of the past three years. Heat
ing authorities say it is the greatest
advance in wet heating" systems
since 1890.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Star Home
Continued From Page BID

shelves and very fine architectural
detail on either side. All the wood
work is most perfect white enamel,
which with the soft yellow and dusty
rose tones of the living room and
dining room, tied together by an
attractive wall paper in the dining
room, is very effective. The kitchen
also keeps within the color scheme
with yellow walls, warm brick-red
counter tops and a marble floor
combining the two colors. 1t is a
gem of convenience, with plenty of
space to move around in, a COM
Portable corner where the children's
lunch may be served and a stove
that is so wonderful with its glass
front ovens and other good points
that it might have evolved from
fairy godmother's wand.
Expansive Second Floor.
On the second floor there is again
a feeling of wide, expansive rooms
full of sunshine. The master bed
room is connected by bath to an
other smaller room, which in turn
opens onto a sun deck. This would
make an ideal arrangement If there
is a small child in the family, as
the baby's bed would be immedi-
ately accessible from the parents
room, and the sun deck could be
used for play and sun baths without
the necessity of using the stairs.
The large room is furnished in
mahogany, with sheer, pale pink
curtains at the three windows,
which are attractive with pale blue
walls with punches of white flowers
and touches of yellow and pink.
Bedspreads are glazed chintz of
the pale blue with flowers of many
colors. The adjoining bath is in
yellow and peach color, and the
small room next to it is peach color.
Across the hall are two other bed
rooms, one most attractive one, with
pale gray walls and a cut-out wall
paper border of ruff1e design with
touches of clear yellow in it. Sheer
curtains in this room match the
yellow notes in the paper, and the
upholstery fabrics and bedspread
combine the gray and yellow most
effectively. The other bedroom Is
yellow and green, built around a
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Most Of Building Here
IsNon-Goyernment Is Work

Private ownership was responsible
for most of the construction con-
tract valuation in the Washington
Metropolitan Area during January
and February. The level was more
than $lO,OOO,OOO higher than it was
during the first two months of 1910
and was ahead of the contracts at
tributed to public ownership by
about $4,000, 900.
H. A. Jones, the Federal news
manager of Dodge Reports. the
daily construction news service,
made a special analysis CT last
months contract awards to deter
mine the strength of private ac-
tivities and has just revealed his
findings.
Private ownership was credited
with contracts amounting to s19,-
10000 during the first two months
in this year. A year ago, the cor
Evening star., 1941-04-05

responding total was s8,730,000. jan
uary and February had individual
increases over their 1910 counter
parts.
Contrasted with the private &C
tivity publicly owned work had a
contract valuation of s5,993,000 in
the two-month period. The CORE
spending 1910 total was S9,977 900.
The combined total for both pri-
vately and publicly owned construc-
ton in the January and February
contracts was s25 ,089 900. That in
cludes a huge increase over $18,-
TOT 900, the total in 1910.
Evening star., 1941-04-05

it is thickened by mixing in 20
pounds of powdered whiting. An
other is mixture of pounds of
powdered whiting, IS pound glue
dissolved in z gallon of water, z
pint of light-colored paint and y
pint of varnish. If the mixture is
too thin more whiting is added.
Mr.. Whitman is sorry he can no
longer answer personal letters. He
does, however, offer readers leaflets
on a variety of subjects. Today's
leaflet concerns doing over natural
furniture. Be sure to send a Scent
stamped, self addressed envelope
with your leaflet request to Mr..
Whitman, P. o. Box $50, Times
Square Station, New York, N. Y.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Fiber Insulating luth

Fiber insulating lath should be
applied horizontally across framing
members in a continuous line with
all end joints staggered and CEN
tered on framing members.
Evening star., 1941-09-28
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Every one knows that some Of
the very best acting in Hollywood
takes place away from, not in front
of, the camera.
There's Maria Montez, whom I
nominate as the best commissary
actress in town.
Dining, for Maria, is an intensely
dramatic experience She puts
tragedy into the slicing Of steak
and she buffers bread with wild
abandon. There's passion in the
way she consumes a dessert.
Talking to her friends is dramatic,
too. So is walking down a studio
street, or slipping soda water. Her
friends suspect she even emotes in
her sleep.
And it's not pose," they insist.
"She's intense and emotional all
the way through. Everything In
life, to her, is out Of a play"
Perhaps it's because Maria is from
Haiti, where life, they say, is more
deeply lived than in Hollywood. Her
father was Spanish Consul and
Embassy delegate to the Dominican
Republic.
Maria was modelling in New York
City, however, when she was signed
by Universal Studio last year. Her
first film role was in "The Invisible
Woman" and She might have had
the title part for all you saw Of her.
She's been In four other pictures,
In tiny roles, but her acting In front
Evening star., 1941-09-28
The Open>Mind Policy Rears Its Head
Five Years Ago 1t Was Different but Now the Film Studios
Will Consider Any Story Least Possibility sa44

1t would have been amazing to
have heard a story agent telling an
old-tim producer that he had .
great piece of literary property with
this idea, mot a single love scene
). Everybody in the story behaves
horribly to everybody else -. There
are several divorces and only one
real love affair . and not a single
man anywhere in the cast" That
was THE Women" one of the most
successful movies of a year ago.
Imagine Clara Bow or Norma Tai
madge or Betty Compson making a
movie without man in it. Couldn't
have been done
Or an agent could have said,
What about putting one of your
light comedy stars in a nice little
story about a psycopath with a
suicide complex who is constantly
working to complete the perfect
crime?" Or the same hero in the
story of dead man who comes back
to earth as four different persons?
These are couple Of characters
Robert Montgomery has played re-
cently-in Rage in Heaven" and
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan" Both
were big successes.
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Evening star., 1941-09-28

better to appeal to the gift OF laughter to the hear
direct There is that advantage in buffoonery. Il
is quite advantage.
Miss Hellman Thinks Movies
Should Have More Spirit.
In view of the lack of amity between them
despite the regular exchange of goods for gold II
might be thought that Broadways sympathies would
lie with Senator Nye in his peep-show inquiry into
Hollywood's ways But no. Not if Lillian Heman
Americas foremost woman dramatist, is qualified to
express Broadway's sentiments, as she most EN-.
phatcaly is
Miss Hellman, here this week for the premiere OF
her THE Little Foxes at Keiths, has high regard
for the movies Their lack Of spirit originality and
other qualities which she believes the drama should
possess irritate her considerably.
But she is quite irritated by their bad judg-
ment in connection with the Nye investigation. She
thinks it very foolish of the cinema to take the
defensive in the situation.
They should have stood up and insisted upon
their right to make pictures with ideas, any ideas,
she says. And if they have made propaganda pic
lures they should have held out fatty for the right
to make more. That's what we really need.
The same principle of freedom Of artistic express
sion should apply to the movies and the stage, as
Miss Hellman sees it.
She thinks it may when the movies willing
to light for it. She also thinks that unless they the
stage will have difficult time maintaining that
right for itself.
Catholic U. Scores Beat
With New Saroyan Drama
The professional theater which made him q
name every lip in the past two years singlarly
empty these days of the works Of William Saroyan.
The prolific Armenian, who is to the theater what
Salvdore Dali is to painting undoubtedly could cor
rect the situation at virtually moments notice.
Plays to him are just something to be dashed of Of
an idle evening when is in the mood He just
does not seem to be in the mood Hence, the empti-
ness of the theater.
The non-professional theater, local one. is
preparing to take care OF the situation to the limit
of it's abilities. new Saroyan play, Jim Dandy" :"
today is announced the first production OF Catholic
Universitys fall season.
The play is available by virtue of Saroyan having
turned it over the the National Theater Conference
for amateur group production. Catholic U. probably
will be the first to present 1t.
What is it about?" this department asked Walter
Kerr, acting head of C. us drama school.
I'll send you script as soon as possible. ;"
countered Mr. Kerr in the best tradition OF people
asked to explain Saroyan plays.
But it is wonderful" he added.
Evening star., 1941-09-28
Buffoons Are the Ones Public Really Loves
There Is Genuine Warmth in the Welcomes Josons or
Wynn While Great Actors Get Only Open Mind at Best
By Jay Carm ody.

Banality is just plain banality in SO cases out
Of 100 something to let slip into the but never
into the mind Occasionally however the reward for
giving heed to banal remark is to find that it has
dramatic undertoneS, sometimes tragic even This
department. for example, will always cherish such
the answer it got to churlsh quick question asked of
visiting movie staret who was being cued by her
press agent on all the other answers.
What" the beautiful and dumb one was asked
when the press agent had his back turned, really Is
your ambition?"
Quick a flash and uninspired by the press
agent came the answer:
ITO be a great actress and have the people
love me-"
And the Chances Are
They Never Will
Instead of being funny it seemed very sad Pretty
girls of the emotional and intellectual emptiness
intimated by the remark have never become great
actresses The chances are they never will.
And, even if they did, there to be valid
ground to doubt that great actresses actors,
loved They are respected and admired and cherished
but the warm sentimental attachments of the public
for its entertainers seem to be reserved for comedians
The buffoon appeal the to develop if would
have the people love you That's the one which goes
straight to the heart which establishes the difference
IN the pubcs affection between say; Charlie Chaplin
and Paul NUM-, Beatrice Lille and Katharine
Cornell. Miss Cornell and Mr.. NUM- are splendid,
between splendid" and terrific" as a measure of
warm sentimental regard is conspicuously large.
One evidence of the difference is to be found
among those detached Unconditional humans who pay
for their and board through employment as
reviewers. Just like other people, the who make
no pretense of being detached and Unconditional they
keep special place in their hearts for the bufoons
The best they give the great actor actress or
playwright Is open mind
Sometimes the Attitude
Is Just Willingness.
Specifically when an Ed Wynn comes back to the
heater after years of absence the approach of the
critic is of warmth and high expectancy. 1t is the
same with an AL Joson. Or Joe Cook And that
they have so marveously trumphed the initial
critical scorn that greeted Hezapoppin will be the
same henceforth for Olsen and johnson.
On the other hand, let Miss Cornell or Miss Hayes
Maurice Evans or Orson Welles "a quondam Broadway
actor, don't forgeD return. The reviewers best
welcoming attitude is willingness to be shown.
One attitude is kindly, the other merely curious
To have the people love you, therefore, it is
Evening star., 1941-09-28
Hollywood Does Have One Shortage
There's Beauty Beauty Everywhere, but Flmdom Still
Could Keep Some Not.So.Pretty Condolences Busy
By Harold Hefernan.

reaches the ripe old age of 30 but she'll never win any
beauty cups. That doesn't bother her, either. She
Farmer Takes a Wife" which brought prominence to
of leading screen gents of today Henry Fonda
Gangly and hawk-nosed, she known as the
youngest character actress the stage At "a she
cast in Father Malachy's Miracle" as whered old
lady of 80.
That nurse role in "The Man Who Came to Din
ner" makes Miss Wckes the most-insulted of
her time Her big moment comes when Monty Wool
ley bearded super-grouch Of the story snarls at her
MY Great-aunt Jennifer lived to be 103. When she
was dead three days she looked better than you do
now" Some of Woolley's sharper barbs seem to have
stuck to Mary. She has grown accustomed to people
inquiring of her, Are you Miss Stomach Pump" In
fact Mary loves it.
Old-timers in Hollywoods "homely girl" clan are
for the most part little sensitive than Mary
wickes about how folks discuss their appearance.
Any Grimace or Pose
Is Okay With Them.
Joan Davis and Judy canova don't seem to mind
and will allow themselves to be photographed in
almost any sort of grimace pose But Martha Raye,
Patsy Kelly, Charlotte Greenwood and Marie Blake
keep friendly terms with the still men and reouch-
ers. They've been known to throw out stills that make
them bit too ludicrous.
Martha Raye almost smashed her career to bits a
couple of years ago when she decided the movies had
made great mistake about her-that her face was
really beautiful instead of groesque She forgot that
Paramount picked her out of Hollywood night club
in 1885 and brought her up to starring parts because
she went through some aughabe singing contortions
with her cavernous mouth. Marthas glamour" career
short-ved Fans passed her up, and finally Para
mount released her. She wisely took the narrowing
makeup off her mouth and returned to clownng. Now
she has all the movie work she handle
All seven of "Hollywoods homely" at least
81, 900 a week and can't keep up with their work,
especially now that there's ever-increasing demand
for comedy and condolences.
So remember girls if your face isn't exactly what it
should be- don't write yourself off bust for Holly
wood. There plenty of pots O. gold waiting for
funny faces-who act funny, too.
CReeased by Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1941-09-28
HOLLYWOOD

Five years ago there was solitary
story agent doing business in Holly
wood. Today there are dozen
most Of them prospering
Fact is that-today the story agent
trying to peddle his literary wares
to the studios is a hundred times
better off than a few years back.
He no longer has to worry whether
the stories his authors write are
film material"
There was a time when an agent
simply did not submit yarn that
had an unhappy ending or an un-
sympathetic leading man or woman.
But today, with the exception of
out-and-out off-color yarns, any
good story is looked upon as propi-
tious movie material.
1t would have been interesting.
for instance, to contemplate what
would have been said in story de-
partment in 1881 if any misguided
agent had offered the drama "A
Woman's Face" for consideration.
Such throwing up of hands and
such a throwing out of the agent!
The leading woman-a high-poWered
star like Joan Crawford, too-made
her first entrance with disfiguring
Evening star., 1941-09-28

scar on one cheek. She was black
mailer. During the course of the
plot she agreed to aid in the murder
of a 4-year-old child. This broke
all the rules. But the story and the
part carried acting meat. Actually II
lifted Joan Crawford out of the
doldrums, put her back among the
top-running box Office favorites.
A fabulous price was paid for
Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the
Bell Tolls" Only few years ago it
would never have been submitted,
much less considered.
Same is true of the Broadway
play, The Little Foxes" A grim
story about disagreeable people, with
the heroine little short of a muir
deress, Samuel Goldwyn was glad
to buy it-for a reputed S125 ,000
And he had no trouble getting Bette
Davis interested in the leading role
What agent would have dared
mention John Steinbecks "The
Grapes of Wrath" to any film pro-
ducer? Yet when the book achieved
its enormous popularity and all its
dramatic possibilities were realized
there was no hesitancy about the
purchase Even so, many diehards
predicted that Goth Century-F Fox
would never dare release it.
Evening star., 1941-09-28
HOLLYWOOD.


If it possible to fix a market price on feminine
beauty out here where glamour runs high wide and
handsome 1t might be tabled at about dime bushel
And you know why. Beauty is drawn to Hollywood,
as If by magnet from the four of the world
Even from world at war.
The market stalls are overowing. You beautiful
girls everywhere They serve you in the cafes shops
and drive-ins There even nlling stations where
gorgeous bonds brunettes and redheads I'LL your tank
and clean your windshield at no extra charge.
In the studios? Sure, you find them there, too but
only an infnitesimal fraction Of the beauty that
abounds all over the Los Angeles Undaunted
beauties keeping body and soul togetherunt the big
studio break comes
One OF the most important casting directors in town
emphasized this swamping of the Hollywood beauty
market to us and then added:
For more than two hours today have been trying
to find homely girl who act 1t seems impossible
to get one. The part is important, but it must be
played by unattractive girl There's beauty beauty
everywhere, but not hornely gal in town. At least
not one who can act
There Are Opportunities
For Fame and Fortune.
And right there you have an accurate report on the
girl situation in Hollywood today as it affects the
studios. Pretty flood the town. but the homely
to stay far far away. And in so doing lot
of unglamorous ladies pass up golden opportunities for
building fame and fortune the silver screen.
In fact once you have called the roll of Martha
taye, PAtSy keuy, Joan DAVIS, judy CanoVa Char
lotte Greenwood, Marie Blake and Mary Wickes you
have named just about every available female comic
In town.
Mary Wickes is mentioned last in the group because
she is the most recent arrival to join that thin little
band of degamorized condolences. She came from
Broadway, where she played Nurse Treen during the
two-year run Of The Man Who Came to Dinner"
Warner Bros brought her out to do the job for
the screen version, now in the making. Last week
she signed to term contract. now whenever
q Warner picture needs frst-class comedienne who
wears her glamour in reverse choice may be r1de
from two for Martha Raye Is also under contract TO
this lot.
Miss Wckes has q considerable way to 60 before she