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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
Strange, Vow Appointed
TO City Election Board
Assault Charges Are
Lodged Agar Earle

BERLIN, Feb. 26.-R)-DNB,
German news agency, reported
today in a Sofia dispatch that
assault charges had been made
in the Bulgarian capital against
U. S. Minister George H. Earle
as a result of last Saturdays
cafe bottle-throwing incident.
DNB said Earle wasaccused of
"inflicting light bodily wounds"
The agency added that "numer-
GUS Bulgarian citizens appeared
as witnesses"
(Earle said the alteration
arose when a man he identified
as German objected when the
orchestra played "Tipperary" at
Earle's request. The man was
hit by bottle and Earle suf-
fered cut on his arms i'm ward
ing off a bottle.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
NAZlS EMPHASIZE
new SEA WARFARE
Also Hail Action of Forces
In Libya as Turning Point
In African War

BERLIN, Feb. 26.-lRNGermans
emphasized the heightened tempo
of their sea warfare today with
accounts of new blows against Brit.
ish shipping and hailed reported
action of Nazi land forces in Libya
as turning point in favor of the
Axis in Africa.
With more than 25O,OOO tons of
British ships declared already sunk
lin the past few days." the fol-
lowing additional achievements
were claimed today:
Sinking of a British destroyer
by Nazi speed boat off southeast
England and destruction of an g.
00O-ton armored merchant ship and
Continued on Page Five; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
Army Orders

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-The War
Department released the following or
ders yesterday, dated Feb. 81:
COLONELS
Collins, R. W., (retired). Atlanta, Ca,
to Georgia School of Technology, on
active duty.
Foster, G. B., Jr., and R. c. Hefle-
bower, Med Corps, Hawaii, to San
Francisco Port of Embarkation, Ft.
Mason, Calf
LIEUTENANT CoLoNELs
Billing, A. E., F. A.. Caribou, Me-, de-
tailed, National Guard Bureau, Wash
ington, D. c., March 5.
Willoughby, R. E., Cav, Ft. Myer, Va,
detailed as a member of the General
Staff Corps, headquarters Panama
Coast Artillery Command, Quarry
Heights, c. e., via New York, May 20.
Rote. 7. c., Inf, Philadelphia, Pa, de-
tailed, National Guard Bureau, Wash
ington, D. C.
Fortier, L. j., (F. A., General Staff
Corps. Belgrade Yugoslavia. to Office
of Chief of Staff, Washington. D. C.
deLorimier, A. J., Cav, Campaign, III,
to 1st Armored Div'n., Ft. Knox, KY,
March 12.
Forster, H. W., Cav, Nation, Ill.,, to LIST
Armored Div'n., Ft. Knox, Ky.
June 1.
Muhlenberg, F. A, Q. NJ. c., Philadel-
phia, Pa, to Niagara Falls Plant,
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
CONTINUED on Page Five: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
fractice Of Hiking Rents
CondemnedBy CityBoard

s,r ~syor Thomas E. Cooper yester-
Of n.y.. sOnaemned the alleged practice
jn, Ns.'aln landlords said to be hik-
,ss leslaential rents as much as rs
leo.a senl as the problem of soaring
Soars @ was given official study by the
NJ ol city commissioners.
Chit s rent-hiking suoject was pre-
sddsa eo on the meeting by a letter
pissi essed to the mayor and COM
pr;nsh oh by Miss Inez Hopkins, s1s
civ ess 81, street, requesting that the
ips .ake some action TO curb soar.
tim 'eii's' Miss Hopkins communica-
a loc., Vas accompanied by letter of
to M;a al real estate agency, addressed
tent ss Hopkins, advising that the
iDcr,oh vi her apartment was to be
Nsrti eo from $40 to s35 a month
i'lns in March.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
Emergency Session Held
By Bulgarian Ministers

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 26.-tRH
The chief of staff of the Bulgarian
army, General Nicola Petkoff, con-
ferred late today with Premier
Bogdan Philoff and foreign minis
ter Ivan Popoff, and tonight the
cabinet met in emergency session.
AS the cabinet members as
sembled, the government issued
still another in it's series of denials
that German troops poised at the
Rumanian frontier had entered
Bulgaria.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
BR0UCHT0N LAUDS
BRITISH AID PLAN
Governor Addresses Assem-
bly, During Short Visit
To Elizabeth City

ELIZABETH CITY, Feb. 26.-R
North Cardinals general assem-
bly,, paying a one-day visit to a
section in which English colonists
made their first stand in North
America, heard pleas today that
the United States give all possible
aid to Great Britain.
Governor Broughton. speaking at
a joint session of the house and
Continued on Page Six; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
BY RICHARD L. TURNER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(R-
In a tumult of swapping tempers,
the Senate today heard Senator
Chandler D-KY) accuse opponents
of the Lease-Lend bill of endeavor-
ing to undermine public confidence
in President Roosevelt.
In turn, Senator Wheeler ID
Mont) angrily replied that Mr..
Roosevelt was trying to film
flam" the public. He repeatedly
described as Shocking" the presi-
dents statement of yesterday that
the task of winning the war must
take precedence over any talk OF
peace aims.
He called this indicative of an at
titude that the United States was
already in the war
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
PLUMBERS LICENSE
RULING IS DECLINED
M l. Supreme Court Re-
fuses to Decide on Consti-
tutionality Of Law

NALhlGH, Feb. 26. - Up - The
..'tV supreme court declined today
", " iuie on the constitutionality of a
-" i regulating and licensing plumb
tbs tbs contractors, in a case brought by
state against L. A. Muse.
rna Muse was tried in Haywood county
s'., iaef d warrant which charged him
,ns h.,A engaging in plumbing contract
M lrn "llhout obtaining a license.
.oas:. ase asked for a directed verdict IF
dsp;a. aais'al' and when his motion was
vaas su ne rested his case. The Hay
,n;t vTe court then entered a verdict of
Why Why and fined him $1O0, from
winch nc he appealed.
Nna opinion in the case said that
coa.V. wv apparently wished to test the
"''''utlonality of the law. It ad-
N'nllhued on Page Five. Col 9)
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
M0CADISCIO FALLS
TO BRITISH FORCE
Claims Control of 100000
Square Miles Of the Ital-
ian Somaliland

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 26.-R-
The British announced today the
capture of Mogadiscio, capital Of
Italian Somaliland, and unofficially
claimed effective control of all its
100000 square miles, picturing it
as the first entire colony to be
knocked out of the Fascist empire.
Mogadiscio, city of $1,000, fell
to British imperial troops who had
Continued on Page -Four; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
GERMANS, BRITISH
CLASH IN AFRICA
Nazi Armored Troops TAX
ing Over Efforts to Blunt
English Spearhead

ROME, Feb. 26.-CR-Germany
armored troops and fliers are taking
over efforts to blunt the British
spearhead driven deep into italian
Libya, the Fascist high command in.
dicated today in a report of the first
battle between Nazi and British
mechanical detachments in that
North African colony.
Enemy trucks and tanks were
destroyed" the Italian war bulletin
Continued on Page Six; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
ISLE.
SEIZED BY BRITISH
Is First Capture Of Island
Of Italy's Blockaded
Dodecanese Group

LONDON, Feb. 26.-(RHThe Brit
ish announced tonight the seizure
of the small Italian 81 n d of
Castelrosso, 10 miles off the south
west coast of the Turkish main
land and easternmost of Italy's
Dodecanese group in the Mediter-
ranean.
1t was the first capture of an
island of the blockaded Dodeca-
nese, although many of them
notably strongly fortified Rhodes
Continued OH Page Five; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27

German Minister Richtofen was
understood to have talked during
the late afternoon with Popoff.
British citizens who had no i'm
perative reason to remain were
advised by their government to
leave Bulgaria tonight. Blackout
restrictions and threatening anti
aircraft batteries cast about the
city an aura of sharp and immi-
nent events.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27

cloudy.
(By @. s. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
enGing 7:3O p. m. yesterday
Temperature
1 80 a. m. So; 7:30 a. M. 80: 30 p. m.
"a: 7:30 p. m. 45: maximum "a; mini
mum 80: mean 43: normal 40.
Humidity
1 80 a. m. "a; Z 80 a. m. 91 1:3O p. m.
3S; 7:30 p. m. 81.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending. 7:30 p. M.
600 inches. Total since first OF the
month 2.7O inches.
Tides For Today
fFrom Tide Tables published by O..
s. Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low
wilmin gton 10:46a 5 :335a
II :O3p 5:55p
Masonboro Inlet ------ S;3Sa 2:2lf
S:47p 2:43p
Sunrise :43a; sunset 6:06p; moonrise
z :27a; moonset Alp.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette-
vile on Feb. 26, at a. M, 1925
feet.
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-27
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Mostly clouGy and
slightly colder, snow in extreme west
portion Thursday; Friday partly
cloudy.
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CONTINUED on Page -Four; Col. 81
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Heffernun
Continued From First Page)

war. The new order should dispose
Of such petty situations.
But it used to be much worse in
years gone by. There was a time
when theater and distributing fac
tions stopped at nothing short of
physical violence to gain their
points.
He Screamed for Mercy.
Almost unbelievable was a situ-
alton 20 years ago. where one man
controlled all the first-run theaters
in a thriving Midwestern city of
100000 population-and kept Charlie
Chaplin, Norma and Constance
Talmadge, Mary Pickford, Charlie
Ray and Anita Stewart, then in the
heyday of their screen glory, away
from his fans for nearly three years !!
This top-notch group, releasing in
dependly through the old First Ma
tional exhibitors circuit, finally at
tackled the provoking situation them
selves.
They sent an agent into the city,
and he rented vacant store only a
few doors down from the chain
owners No. de luxe house. In a
surprisingly short time the old
store blossomed into q movie house
and there came a deluge, under
terrific advertising pressure. of such
memorable movies as Charlie Chap
lin in THE Kid" Mary Pickford in
Daddy Long Legs" and Pola Negri
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Ferris
Continued From First PageD

ladies maid, $1,000: car and up
keep, $4,000; hotel and food, $4,000,
and incidentals, $1,000.
The band played here at LoeW's
State and the Paramount and got
numerous one-night engagements
out of town. The S50-a-week kid
dancer was getting S3500 with her
band.
1t was terrific. But terrific.
Here's an all-neW femme combo
that spells potential box Office for
ward and backward" raved Variety.
Ina would wave her arms as
though she knew every last note,
then she would do her solo dance
number, wearing the white spangled
tights and lacy pajamas or gor-
geous, revealing evening gown.
She moved into an East Side pent-
house and lived like the star they
said she was
Ina Began Studying.
But she was synthetic and she
knew it, for she was smart enough
to realize it couldn't go on forever.
Moreover, as she knew we'll, girls
bands have definite limitations
They are good in the theater, where
their playing is confined to a fixed
number of faithfully-rehearsed num-
bers. But the experts say they are
not so hot when they have to play
through night of dancing for criti-
cal young people.
So Ina began studying music.
Hyde and Mills quarreled about
the business arrangement, but Ina
carried on.
Still, her early suspicion that the
public might be interested merely
in seeing her instead of hearing her
grew stronger every week. And her
curves were no good on the radio
and for phonograph recording pur-
poses. And those are two spots
where plenty of money is to be had.
Two years ago she felt that she
had learned enough to drop the
synthetic role.
She began assembling band of
male musicians. She picked them
carefully. There was no need for
any one to advise her now. She
had learned plenty. She decided
to let her hair go back to its nat
ural chestnut color. She discarded
the lacy things. She determined to
Evening star., 1941-07-20

some of the rebellious showmen that
they may have to hustle, against
stiff competition, to get enough pic
lures to keep their houses open.
And they're already resigned to the
fact that pictures, purchased In
lots of from one to five, will cost
them much more in rental fees.
Fandom should benefit through
the new independence bestowed on
the exhibitor in being able to pur-
chase on a merit basis. Rejecting
the wants of his clientele. the eX-
hibitor will not only shop for his
pictures but shop for his stars.
And producers here in Hollywood
will be told, in no uncertain terms,
that certain unboX Office stars who
have been foisted on the public re-
peatedly must be relieved of top
billing and either subordinated or
thrown out.
Offhand, we can think of five ac-
tresses currently designated as stars
by Hollywood who definitely will be
dof1ng their halos in the next few
Evening star., 1941-07-20

in Passion" Within few months
Chaplin and his colleagues had the
theatrical dictator screaming for
mercy.
If it does nothing more, the con-
sent decree promises to put movie
distribution on sound, businesslike
basis-with no more of the dog eat
dog tactics which have given the
whole business a black eye for many
years.
Frankly, neither the producers
(who fought it every inch of the
way nor the exhibitors (who hailed
it as their salvation) know today
whether it will work out in their
favor. Another six months prob
ably will tell the story.
Fans Should Benefit.
Based on preliminary expert
ences in packing up the first par
GELS of five" this summer, some
producers profess to believe better
pictures and better financial re-
turns for them will result. At
least, they've admitted as much to
their confidantS.
On the other hand, many of those
exhibitors who led the long battle
against block booking are now
looking slightly dazed and speaking
skeptically of its possible benefits
IN tho tbeater ourer
1t is just beginning to dawn on
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Secretary
Continued From First Page)

get an appointment for a scalp
massage. he asked me to rub tonic
on his thinning hair. I did.
A few executives prefer male sec
retaries. One reason is because
there's no gossip when they travel
together. Very often man secre-
taries get much better jobs. The late
Irving Thalberg, one of the most
important men in the industry,
once was Carl Laemmles secretary.
Some of the girls have done all
right too. Screen writer's Doris An
derson, Virginia Van Upp and Mar
guerite Roberts once were secre-
taries. Dorothy Wilson and Mar
garet Tallichet graduated from
typing to acting A few secretaries
have married their bosses. Mrs.
Bob Burns and Mrs. Richard Dix
for example
I've no complaints about my sal
ary. I started at $l8 week. Now
I collect SAT so from the studio and
my boss pays me SIS week.
Many secretaries earn less; few
more. Louis B. Mayors executive
secretary. Ida Koverman, probably
gets a three figure salary Daryl
zanuck's secretary who has two
secretaries of her own probably
does, too. But a s75 weekly check
is considered extremely good.
People often ask me If movie
bosses make passes at secretaries
Some do. But a girl doesn't have
to take this. One girl complained
to the head of the studios legal
department. He arranged for her to
work for someone else.
I used to hate Christmas at the
studio. 1t seemed depressingly COM
nercial Girls frankly compared
notes on the number and value OF
their presents.
I don't mind Christmas now. I've
become commercial, too. Last yeal
j got Sl00 bonus, S35 in purchase
orders, six months supply of hose
and enough perfume and cologne tc
submerge a submarine.
I earned it. For two weeks the
only work I did was my boss
Christmas shopping-178 presents
And I wrapped about so myself.
even helped him select a fur coat fol
bis wife.
: One day he went to San Francisco
for o preview, then wired me Il
catch the next plane. He wanted {
Evening star., 1941-07-20
,iriev ard naei Arpsz

Anne Shirley and Desi Arnaz.
Earlier this year Holtz headlined
at Loew's State Theater in New
York. at the Versailles in Hollywood,
the Yacht Club, Pittsburgh, and The
Mayfair, Boston. He is currently at
the West Coast.
A product of San Francisco, he
made his professional debut in night
clubs, thence in vaudeville. For three
years he was with George Whites
Scandals"
Evening star., 1941-07-20

drop the bumps" She was going
to be natural.
1t wasn't easy, and when she be-
gan playing some of the old one
night stands, there were people who
were disappointed. But the band
definitely was superior to the all
girl unit, and after a while people
forgot to remember Ina's antics and
old lace and accepted her for what
she was-a good band leader.
That's how she stands on Broad
way today.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

script he'd forgotten. I arrived In
Frisco late that night without even
a toothbrush. When 1 phoned my
boy friend to explain why I broke
our date, he was plenty sore.
EverS few months I get the urge
to work in a business where Id
have regular hours and my bosses
wouldn't act crazy.
Once I did quit. But after two
weeks I left my job with an automo-
bile dealer and returned to the old
stand. I couldn't stand the mono
tony.
Working in a studio gets you. 1t
spoils you for other jobs. III never
work anywhere else.
Maybe it's because I'm a little
crazy, too. Do you suppose?
Evening star., 1941-07-20

He made it a goal for men who
might otherwise have merely gone
on writing for or about 1t.
Sinclair Lewis Tried.
The critic had become an actor,
and soon there was clamor by
writer's to get on stage-any stage
and to speak their little speeches
trippingly.
Sinclair Lewis, novelist and winner
of a Nobel Prize in Literature soon
could be seen hanging around the
theaters. At first his avoWed interest
was playwrights, but he soon dis
closed his hand and there was
makeup stick in it. Less expansive
and less paunchy than Mr.. Wooll-
colt, he had nevertheless become an
actor.
The virus was beginning to COM
municate itself to others. Monty
Woolley, for example, had never
the theater, Of course. as a drama
instructor at Yale and later as a
director, Then in 1886 his beard
put him in On Your Toes" later
| carried him to Hollywood and then
into The Man Who Came to
| Dinner"
Now it has come to a pass when
anything may be expected. Charles
| Hanson Towne, editor and author
of many books of verse and prose,
now "a, is playing the clergyman in
road company of Life With
Father" Out in Hollywood Robert
Benchley is walking around the
screen initiating Donald Duck and
guffawing at the animated cartoons
of the more animated part of The
Reluctant Dragon"
An Expert Opinion.
At Dennis. Mass, only this past
week, Moss Hart. co-author of the
play about Woollcott. played the
Woollcott part-a little belatedly,
because Kaufman played it in the
west when Woollcott got sick. Kauf-
man, by the way, also played for a
while in his own once in a Life
time" while his one-time collab-
orator, Marc Connolly, once took
a part in his own play. Wisdom
Tooth" and on the road played a
part in The Farmer Takes Wife"
another of his own.
At the Millpond Theater, Roslyn,
Long Island, Christopher Morley
likes to play in his The Trojan
Horse"
And William Saroyan, about
whom couple Of plays have been
written. introduced the etcher, Don
Freeman, as a cornet player in
The Beautiful People"
The imminent danger in this sit
uation called for expert opinion,
and so your reporter called on Rus
sci Buck Grouse, co-author with
Howard Lindsay of Life With
Father" ard co-producer with Lind
say of Arsenic and Old Lace"
Mr.. Grouse offered the opinion as
fact that many writer's have to be
| tied down to keep them off the
stage. He recalled little dreamily
/ his own experience as an actor in
Gentlemen of the Press" and, with
the right touch of modesty, that he
had gone on in Life With Father" ="
as the second physician, but that
Lindsay was wild with jealousy be-
cause he, Grouse, vowed the audi
ence
Rather than wound Lindsay,
Grouse said. he kept off the stage.
But, he added, sometimes the urge
to act Is so great he has to stay
away from the theater entirely-or
| tie himself up
Evening star., 1941-07-20
HOltz Is Signed

Lou Holtz, star of Broadway musi-
Gals who for the past few years has
been entertaining in leading night
clubs, has been signed by R-K-C
Radio for an important part ir
-Four Jacks and A Queen"
Holtz takes his place in an i'm
pressive cast which numbers June
Havoc, Jack Durant, Ray Bolger
Evening star., 1941-07-20

NlOlilCLlNs
There was a feeling of dismay
among many of Mr.. Woollcott's ad-
rnirers when he succumbed to the
temptation but the applausive
quality of the numerous mash
notes he received must have re-
assured him. and so for many
nights he reclined gracefully-or
sprawled, as some thought-on a
sofa, beaming cherubically across
the footnghts-or, as some thought,
simply looking owlish.
In perspective the Woollcottlan
mugging appears highly revolution
ary. At the time it was merely
amusing or unamusing, depending
on ones attitude toward the mug
ger. For him it was a change. a
new experience. Even so 1t might
have been laid away in lavender
with so many other memories. But,
SO insidious was the nature of the
taint, Mr. Woollcott was deeply
affected. He really fancied himself
an actor, as indeed he was and is
Then Came That MAN"
The really unfortunate part of
the affair was that, though Mr.
Woollcott was a drama critic and
profoundly aware of the changes
which take place in mems souls and
of their mortal weaknesses ever
lurking near the surface, he did
not understand-or less charitably
did not care about-the bad eX-
example he was setting in offering
himself to the public gaze in grease
paint.
Brief Moment" eventually closed,
and Mr.. Woollcott abandoned his
sofa. and then after one or two
abortive displays of his histrionic
(for want of a better word gifts
q play reached Broadway entitled
THE Man Who Came to Dinner" "
It was by George S. Kaufman and
Moss Hart. and its subject was this
same Mr.. Woollcott.
1t was produced. according to
Broadway gossip, with no little
trepidation, although it was under
stood that it had Mr.. Woollcott S
imprimatur, and it was reported for
q while that Mr.. Woollcott might
play himself. Nothing of the sort
happened Immediately. The role was
given to Monty Woolley. But Mr.
Woollcott was not to be restrained
forever.
Who's a Better Whom?
- tss,-
raconteur, companion had become
an actor: had become an inspira-
ton, a character in a play; finally
an actor in the play itself, playing
the part of Woollcott, the writer,
raconteur, companion, in a road
company.
Some people thought that Monty
Woolley was better Woollcott than
Woollcott himself, from which you
may gather that some people think
Woolley a better actor than WOOL
colt. But as st. Thomas Aquinas
said, it was futile to debate the de-
gree of sanctity of the saints.
Woollcott's claim to superiority
over Woolley lay in the fact that
he could be very much himself in
the play. if it weren't for the urge
to identify himself as Woollcott the
actor, and that Woolley, at best, like
Clifton Webb or any other man who
tried the part, must try to be like
Woollcott without his grease paint.
But all these considerations
diminish in interest when the effects
of what might be called Mr.. Wooll-
colts original sin are studied For
he broke down prejudices, In a
sense he made the stage respectable.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
BUSY PeOple

Four Uell-know character actors
have been given dual assignments
by Warner Bros. They are:
Gene Lockhart, cast in One Foot
In Heaven" and They Died With
Their Boots On" both now shooting
Harry Davenport and Ernest Cos
sart, also in One Foot In Heaven
and both set for the cast of Kings
Row"
Sidney Greenstreet, recent recruit
from the stage, who makes his film
debut in The Maltese Falcon" and
will also work in They Died With
Their Boots On"
Evening star., 1941-07-20

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Evening star., 1941-07-20
Our Theater's in Danger
If This Isn't Checked
Mr.. Woollcott Started Something,
Namely Deluse of Writers
Who Would Be Actors
NEW YORK.
p the Associated Press.

NEW YORK
and certainly alarming situation has been developing
theaer which implications OF dreadful
isn't checked.
1t bmgeoned when Alexander
brilliant ninabe
persuaded fling the in