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best position to judge have slight
expectation that this hope will be
more than partially realized. After
two weeks, during which the new
superboard has been functioning
this feeling has grown. The notion
that at last Mr.. Roosevelt has moved
to rectify the basic defects in the
organization, finally placing 1t on a
sound and solid foundation, Is no
longer entertained.
In his restrained way, the ex-
tremely patient Mr.. B. M. Baruch
has made it clear that the latest
reorganization is phony business
without much substance. Discard
ing his habit Of silence, he spoke his
mind. Two things give his words
weight-first, his unparalleled expe-
rience; second, the fact that he
has neither personal nor political
ak TO grind. He is that rare thing
in public affairs-a detached and
disinterested man
Merely Reshuflled Deck.
Actually what the President has
done Is merely to reshufiie the
deck of defense cards-not change
the deck. The same cards, includ-
ing the jokers, are close to the top.
And some of them are marked.
The new organization represents q
victory for Mr.. Harry Hopkins and
Mr.. Leon Henderson, which means
that the left-wing New Dealers are
in control of the machinery and that
all idea Of making the national de-
fense an effort from which politics is
barred and prejudice ruled out has
been abandoned. 1t never was
anything but a pretense; 1t is hardly
that now.
Four Of the seven members of the
new board, constituting q majority,
are complete New Dealers of the ex-
treme type-Wallace, Hopkins, Hill
man and Henderson. OF the other
members-the Messrs. Knox, Stim-
son and Knudsen-the first two are
immersed in the duties of the de-
partments which they head, and the
third is q large, amiable and able
gentleman who likes to avoid trou-
BILE. The net of this is the sort OF
New Deal domination of the de-
fense effort that the left-wing radi-
Gals have been striving to achieve
for more than . year.
The Dollar-a-Year Men.
The latest shuffle puts them firmly
in the saddle. Definitely, industry
has been given q subordinate role.
The New Dealers are to formulate
policy and supply the managerial
genius.
The dollar-a-year industrialists
are to carry out orders or get out.
Some Of them would like to do the
latter, but feel that to take issue
with the New Dealers or question
the competency Of the new arrange
ment would expose them to White
House indictment rs unpatriotically
unwilling to serve unless they could
serve on their own terms. None
wants to take that kind of risk. In
brief, they can be kicked out, but
they can't get out.
1t Is interesting to note the neat
way in which the reshufiie has elimi-
Evening star., 1941-09-08
The Great Game of Politics
Reorganization Of Defense Setup
Called Just a ReshuffIe and Nothing More

mated the businessman from all
policy-shaping positions. Mr.. Knud-
sen finds himself confined to the
production end Of the now subordi-
mated o. P. M. Mr.. Stettinius no
longer has anything to do with
priorities, but has become q sort of
eide to Mr.. Hopkins in the lend-
lease operations. Mr.. Bait is to 60
to Russia and Mr.. Biggers is in q
new and limited area.
The one businessman Of the lot
who appears to have gained rather
than lost ground is Mr.. Donald
Nelson, named as executive secre-
tary of the superboard.
Explanation Of Nelson.
The explanation Of Mr.. Nelson is
q very simple one. 1t is somewhat
naively given by New Deal Journal
lists, who assert that he is "the one
businessman" who has played ball"
with Mr.. Henderson. At the moment
Mr.. Nelson is the New Deals favorite
businessman because, more than any
other, he has seemed sympathetic
personally and politically with the
New Dealers and their ideas.
Those who have observed him
closely since he came to Washing
ton say that while he Is certainly an
intelligent men he has been so anx-
ious to stand we'll with Mr.. Hopkins,
Mr.. Henderson and few others that
he has not used his intelligence
effectively.
The reason he has been given his
present position is because he does
stand well with them. That isn't
disputed by the New Dealers-it is
proclaimed.
While some classify Mr.. Nelson
with Mr.. Averell Hartman and Mr..
Thomas j. Watson, widely regarded
as administration businessmen
stooges, 1t is not denied that he has
ability nor that he knows what
ought to be done. What Is doubted
Is that he can or will do 1t.
For one thing, he has not been
given the power. 1t is absurd to
compare his position with that Of
Mr.. Baruch on the old War Indus
tries Board. Mr.. Roosevelt has dele
gated no authority to him such as
Mr.. Wilson delegated to Mr.. Baruch.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not made Mr.. Mel
son the boss Of the job and no one
thinks so.
Consequently, except for putting
the New Dealers on top and relegat-
ing the industrialists to the rear, no
basic change has been made.
Some Advance Seen.
1t is possible that later Mr.. Nelson
may be given the authority he lacks
and may use 1t effectively. That is
the hope. Certainly. he has the
knowledge and the capacity. Per-
haps he will make his own oppor-
tunity, but what he chiefly needs
Is to be backed up.
At any rate, 1t is no exaggeration
to say that the bungling of the de-
Tense management already has cost
Is per cent In money and 80 per
cent in time. If continued, 1t may
cost the war.
Under the new arrangement some
advance is assured. but only the in
curably optimistic believe that COM
potency has replaced incompetency
or that waste and friction are ended.
One reason for disbelief Is because,
however different the setup, the per-
sonnel has not been changed, nor
has authority increased.
There will be production, of course.
Increased production is inevitable as
result Of the immense outpouring
Of money and placing Of contracts.
But the cost in time and the risks
are not pleasant to contemplate.
(copyrisht, 1e4I.)
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placed on tile
m an n er In
which Berlin has
treated the ep-
isode.
Whether the
U-Boat struck
first or not is
not easy to YER
ify, for each side
can claim the
other took the
initiative. B u t
1t is far more
eioni6cant. that
the NaZi gov
Evening star., 1941-09-08
Mothers Believe England
Safer; Take Babies Back
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. S.-Confident
that the worst bombings of Eng
land are over and that Germany
will not attempt an invasion. two
British mothers were en- route to
Europe with their children today
aboard the American Clipper.
They are Mrs. Thelma Leigh. %,
and her daughter, Carol Diana, Is
months, and DR.. Pearl M. Goldman
and her son, Anthony John, 18
months.
Mrs. Leigh had been in this coun-
try and Canada for IA months, willis
DR.. Goldman. a professor of sociol-
ogy, had been here more than, o
year.
Evening star., 1941-09-08
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In the last article I attempted
to show that "interventionism"
Is the viewpoint Of those who be-
ieve the world is a closed system,
want to see it reorganized for the
anti-imperialist aim of approx
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q c o u m n o ]
notes today.
I am so lit
tered with littls
slips Of paper,
on which are
written notes
and reminders,
that I'm afraid
a man with one
of those spiked
sticks will start
jabbing at me to
clean me up. Or
that Soma ona
will use me for
Evening star., 1941-09-08

5000 900 for the first time since
December, 1910. ..-..
Mr.. McNutt released these July
figures for adjacent States:
Maryland-6,852 placements, So
per cept above June. 57.8 per cent
above July, 1910; s544.730 in bene-
fits, IS per cent under June.
Virginia-13,874 placements. 224
per cent above June. 1853 per cent
above July, 1910: s353.300 in bene-
fits, 12.6 per cent under June.
Evening star., 1941-09-08

machinery, re-
Gently put into
effect by the
President, " i'll
m e surab ly
lessen the con-
fusion and in
crease t he eff
cheney. Every
body must hope
that, because on
it the national
safety so clearly
depends.
Yet, the truth
4. that fhnsa IN
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mately equal
welfare for
a ii peoples.
and wish the
United States
to maintain
her historic
tradition of
defense by
s e a p o W e r,
with the Navy
as the only
large perma-
nent military
e S t a b Ii h
Evening star., 1941-09-08
Kostku Quits N. B, c,

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 OP.-Wil-
liam Kostka. publicity director for
the National Broadcasting Co.. has
resigned, effective September rs, to
accept a position with the Institute
of Public Relations.
Evening star., 1941-09-08
BY FRANK r. KENT.

The disposition among those
who grasp the degree to which the
defense job has been botched is to
express hope that the third
reorganization OF the defense
Evening star., 1941-09-08
McL-emore-..
About MussoIini
And Other Things
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

CHICAGO.--It Is dangerous for q
man TO 60 around looking like a
picnic ground after the picnic Is
over.
That Is why I am going to write
Evening star., 1941-09-08

HE opinion. OF the page are oun not
necessarily Ths star, Such opinions are presented II RE
readers although opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-09-08
Greer Bout
Called Nuzi
est Case
Hitler Believed
Trying to Find Out
If U. S. Would Fight
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The skirmish between q Nazi u
boat and an American destroyer
will not mean war If Hitler can help
1t. That's the Interpretation being
Evening star., 1941-07-20
For Stanwyck There'll Be
No Going Hollywood
She May Get Into Trouble Because
She's Articulate, But Stardom
Hasn't Changed Her Yet
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Staff Writer.


Almost
from all the
all publicity
sympatzed telling Barbara that Taylor
be the right thing.
would have said letters The
in HOLLYWOOD 20
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was as the drummer boy IN Romeo
and Juliet" with Eva LIE Galhenne.
but in two years he had graduated
to Montague himself.
Playing the Romeo role as cur
tain-raiser to a strip-tease act was
one of Warnings earlier experiences
in New York. when the balcony
scene only was used in a variety
show.
However, he did the whole tragedy
in other cities but sadly recalls
that he was unable to see as much
of America as he wished at that
time because when he ventured
forth with his wavy hair grown
long for the part, rude citizens
whistled and hooted.
Waring also played opposite lie
Gallienne in Camille and WIS
seen on BroadWav last season in
two short-lived turkeys-"The Non
Who Killed Lincoln in which be
played Booth, and The Stroke Of
Eight" IN which he was an epileptlc
murderer
1t was no cinCh getting his present
role from Herbert Shumlin. per-
fectionist and producer. Waring
relates. Shumlin accused Waring
of resembling Byron rather than
coal miner when he reported for
first reading, so Waring came next
time in a sweater and without a
shave.
Knows His Wales.
Shumlin finally told Waring he'd
let woman who did not know his
work decide.
After he'd gone through scene
for this stranger. Shumlin asked,
"hoW do YOU like him. Lillian?''
/ Il like him very much she r.
piled.
80 do /" said Shumlin srd
turned to Waring and added, "tle
part is yours"
The stranger was Lillian He'll
man, author of another prize-vin-
ming play. The Watch On the
Rhine" produced by Shumhn.
Although Waring did not know
it at the time. he studied for this
part for five years. That was when
as a child he lived at Cardiff,
Wales, where his father. Thomas z.
Stephens, now New York portrait
painter, was staff artist for a news
paper.
! Waring dts his legal name now
planned TO be an artist, too. and
attended art school in London but
changed his mind when his family
emlgrated to America. He still
paints, however, and fences. boxes
and swims three times weekly at
the Y. NJ. c. A.
Favorite recreation OF Dickie and
Florida is going to the movies. They
particularly like the midnight ones
on Saturday, which they invariably
attend after the final curtain Of
"T'hp Corn ic
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Outdoor Amusements

GLEN ECHO PARK-The
Capitals popular free-admis-
sion amusement resort boasts
more than so attractions among
its midway diversions and re-
sort devices. There is dancing
nightly, except Sundays, in the
Spanish Garden Ballroom, with
music by Paul Kain's Orches-
ira. There also is swimming
daily in the Crystal Pool.
WILSON LINE-There is
dancing nightly on the moon
light cruise" down the Potomac
to music by Davey MacWil-
liams' Orchestra. The S. S.
Mount Vernon sails at $3.50
O'Clock. in addition to making
two daily trips to Mount Ver-
non at 10 am. and 2 pm.
POTOMAC RIVER LINE
The S. S. Potomac sails nightly
at 8:45 o'clock for moonlight
dancing on the river. Ralph
Hawkins Orchestra provides
music on the boat.
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WoIfert
Continued From First Page)

Ready" All these are by Nancy
Hamilton, and both Miss Hamilton
and the casts of youngsters her pro-
ducers select seem to be very cafe
society minded In the past, they
have pointed out what they were up
to with lifted pinkey and their
humor seemed to be of the kind
which stirs haw-haWs in the narrow
purlieus of the Monte Carlo saloon
and harrumphs elsewhere. Perhaps
the war will have shaken Miss Ham,
ilton. etc, down into the world in
which the rest of US guys live and
want to live.
George Abbott is up to his ears
in plans for musicals. He promises
three of them and has one-"Young
Mans Fancy"-already booked for
September. She, the young mans
fancy We mean, will be Rosemary
Lane. John Cecil Holm, the man
behind the Three Men on a Horse" :"
has written the book for this one
around a Philadelphia prep school.
Another George, name of Jessel,
says he will trot out Sophie Tucker
in The High Kickers" and has bailed
Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby out
of Hollywood to prepare suitable
environment for the last of the red
hot mammaS.
A. P. Herbert and Herbert Kings
ley have worked up for the fall an
all-Negro version of Offenbachs
comic opera, Die Schoene Helene. ="
1t will be called, Helen which is
an improvement already. Then, too,
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the
Hellzapoppers, are going to do
Crazy House" complete with noise
enough to drown out the jokes and
music-a formula which seems to
amuse millions.
Last year, we had II musical
shows-seven of them money!
makers. With nine in the works
this early, the tired businessman
can't complain.
released by the North American News
paper Alliance. IncD
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vacation and take the best of
several offers.
So confident are L. g. H. that
the public still likes EN-, even
after the two or three bad pictures
that preceded their retirement, that
they are making Great Guns" for
comparatively small salaries and a
percentage of the take. They be-
lieve their cut will add up to more
than the $4,000 a week tS2,500 for
Laurel, who wrote the gags, and
$500 for Babe) they used to get
from Roach.
Never an Argument.
They proved to their satisfaction
that they still are box Office by
going on three months vaudeville
tour. They carried a company of
35, so they didn't make any money,
but the tour gave them confidence.
Both reside in the country. Slim
Laurel has a plot of ground about
100 feet by 500. A high brick wall
surrounds it and there is much
brick walk. Stan says it took 100000
bricks. Bricks cost a cent and a
half. Babe, Just as fittingly, has
a square acre.
They visit each other almost daily,
exchanging products, ideas, jokes
and gossip.
We've always gotten along fine" 4"
Laurel said. I'VE like each other"
Never had an argument" Hardy
said. mo, sir, not even one teeny-
weeny fight. And we've known
each other for 20 years"
And worked together for II, in
1876 pictures" Laurel declared.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

Hmm. not bad" and departed
Mrs. Waring confided over her hus-
bands protests.
Ultra-ardent fans of Warlng S-a
Midland Englishman by birth and
an American by adoption-are the
girls at Lafayette High School in
Brooklyn.
Waring consented to address the
drama class there one morning at
$50. He arrived without enough
sleep, and battered from an unac-
customed struggle with the morning
subway rush, and announced to the
expectant youngsters, Lafayette, I
am here!"
They kept him answering ques-
tions for two hours and have been
popping up at the stage door ever
since. Once so many came that the
management uShered them to the
stage for an impromptu reception
with their hero.
His Wife Cooks.
Veteran theater-goerS declare that
Waring, who is white -toothed. slim
and dark. resembles f. H. SOthern,
matinee idol of a bygone era, as a
| young man.
Waring and his wife, Florida
Friebus, a Boston girl and a stage
and radio actress, live in one-room
! Greenwich Village apartment, right
above a basement cafe which sports
a garden restaurant in the summer
Usually Mrs. Waring does the
cooking and serves their meals on
bridge table, but all she has to dc
when the guests arrive is run to the
two-bv-three back veranda and call
refreshment orders down to q
waiter
"Of course, Dickie will wind up in
HollvVood," saws Mrs. Waring. He
has refused several motion picture
offers since his success in The
Corn Is Green" At hast unit
Emlvn williams prize winning hit
| closes.
II is challenging and exciting tc
work with Ethel Barrymore, Warlne
declares. because she does not gel
set" in a part. She sometimes alters
manner and tempo, requiring a cor
responding change in response from
everyone on the stage with her.
La BARRYMORE gives Waring valu-
able pointers about acting, he says
and discusses the war and prize
fights with him in the wings. Il
Waring is offstage when she's on
! i-I, cto the TQGl(
so he can relay blow-by-bloW ac-
count to her later.
Miss Barrymore was fit to be tied
Waring declares. the night of the
Louis-Conn fight.
Waring is great admirer of Johr
Barrymore work, has a fan col
lection of his photographs on dis
play in his apartment and believes
that the great profile still could bt
a matinee idol if he cared about 1t
Warnings very similar profile wa!
we'll concealed in some of his frs
roles as an apprentice at Eva Ii
Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater
where he studied with Burgess
Meredith. John Garfield and one
Florida Friebus,
1t was as the crocodile in Peter
Pan" that he received his first New
York notice, which he will quote
for you word for word, Richard
Waring Did the Crocodile Beauti-
| fully"
81 had to crawl about the stage.
explains Waring, throwing himself
on the floor to illustrate, operating
spring under the crocodile's Jaw
to make it open and close, and 6
string which made one eve wink
Moved Up Swiftly.
As a result Waring never has beer
able to rid himself of the habit oi
doing his reading reposing on hi;
stomach.
He also played the duck and the
dormouse in Alice In Wonderland.
Warnings first stage appearance
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Happy, but Upset

While Rosemary De Camp is over
joyed at being signed for one of the
most important roles in the new
Sabu starring picture, The Jungle
Book" she is nearly heartbroken
over the fact that she will have to
dye her hair. Miss De Camp was
married recently to Municipal Judge
John Ashton Shidler, and it seems
that one of the factors that at
tracted him to Miss De Camp was
her gorgeous blond hair. Now, for
the first three months of their
welded life, he will see her only
with coal black hair, and she Is
5000 upset.
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Ruth. She really has to act, she said,
because her real life personality fits
into the mold of Ruth.
Now in a light role, K. T. yearns
for more dramatic portrayals. Her
previous work in three years on the
stage was as Alice, the sane member
of the family in road company of
you Can't Take 1t With YOU" and
as the eloping daughter in the West
Coast production of "The Man Who
Came to Dinner"
Evening star., 1941-07-20

does while Bob is in the air, she
said:
Pray"
She gets a kick out of referring
to herself as Ruby Brough. Ruby
Stevens is her real name and Taylor
was Arlington Spangler Brugh.
She dislikes phonies and proved
it at a cocktail party once. She
heard a well-known actor who, too
obviously, had just acquired a COB of
culture. He was spouting about
modern art and Stanwyck listened
to his shallow profundity as long as
she could. Pardon me-" she said
finally, looking at the actor. "Yes?"
said he, annoyed at the Interrupt
ton.
Likes an Early Film.
Il just wanted to say, 'Aw, nuts"
Stanwyck retorted.
She boldly says her favorite pic
ture of all time is so Big A soft
soap girl wouldn't say that, since
the picture was her fifth, away back
in 1881. She should, to be like other
stars, mention current films such as
The Lady Eve" or The Great
Mans Lady"
She spends every other week end
with 9year-old Dion. who attends
military school. She makes it a
rule that Dion cannot have more
than three workable toys at one
time and friends must not give him
presents costing more than SO. Ex-
ira presents go to orphanges.
StanWyck went into business with
Agent zeppo Marx, the business of
breeding horses. The Marwyck
stable got some attention, but re-
Gently Barbara sold out.
L suppose told her the other
day, that that breeding farm was
your contribution to going Holly
wood"
Like h it was" Stanwyck re-
piled hotly. Il hate that going
HOLLYWOOD expression. I got into
the d fight with a writer once.
He said Taylor had gone Holly
wood, because when he got his first
raise from the studio he went out
and bought l6-cylinder auto. That
car was something he always want
ed, and, when he could afford it,
he got it. l was so vehement that
that writer has not spoken to me
since. But I don't give a d..
L like horses and I went into
the farm because I thought 1 could
make some money. Well. I didn't
make any money, but 1 didn't lose
any.
To get back to that going Holly
wood, its applied to everything that
happens here. But it means only
one thing! Going high hat
If that's what it means, Stanwyck,
you'll never go Hollywood.
Evening star., 1941-07-20


hates to peel onions, but would like
onion favored potatoes.
Babe Hardy, the FOUNDER, also
has been busy growing things. Beef
steak tomatoes-'This big, said he,
spreading his hands far enough to
hold a football.
The boys have learned more than
the names of plants and when to
water and when to cultivate during
this year. They learned to conserve
their assets. They formed cor
poration, with a lawyer as vice
president. who has to countersign
all the checks.
Sometimes we weren't so smart
financially said Stan, making
face. Gold mines and oil wells and
wives can be very, very expensive.
I'VE used to invest and then
think about it. Hardy added. Now
we think about it and don't invest"
Accents on Comedy.
The corporation has just ne
gotiated the actors first joint con-
tract. They were with Hal Roach
for II years, but as a team in name
and film only Roach proved the
value, to himself, of separate con-
tracts when he teamed Hardy with
Harry Langdon during salary
squabble with Laurel.
The accent is on comedy these
days and, additionally, every studio
is looking for comedy teams to
match the antics of Abbott and
Costello. 1t was a logical time for
Laurel and Hardy to end their
Evening star., 1941-07-20

2 sCloOSl cllttIl, IlOlul1lS IlSI OWL WIFI
a band of stage veterans and en-
Enthusiastically looking toward long
run here and a road tour.
Born Gloria Wood, daughter of
Sam Wood, K. T. took the name
Katherine Stevens.
Played Film Bits.
Every one called me Katie, so !
decided to shorten my name to K. T.
and be the first actress to use
initials" she said.
K. T. didn't pass up the movies
entirely. She played a bit part in
kitty Foyle" and the second FEM
mime lead to Barbara Stanwyck in
THE Great Mans Lady"
|. But I always wanted to be on
the stage" she said. MY fathers
help and guidance was priceless"
She said she could have taken ad-
vantage of his connections in the
motion picture field but felt the
public reaction in such cases was
unfavorable.
K. T. thinks acting in the theater
is easier than in the movies, ex-
planning:
She Has to Act.
I'm the theater the action is con-
tinuous and you build up to the
drama as the play progresses. In
the movies-while if you make a
slip, the scene can be redone-
some one aims camera at you and
you're told to get hysterical or
express some other emotion.
That's lot harder to do"
AS Eileen, K. T. is a beautiful,
naive small-city girl who moves into
a Greenwich Village studio with her
less attractive and guiding sister,