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Evening star., 1941-11-09
ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

olic youth organizations in Chicago
when she was 13 and sang in Tales
of Hoffman" at the Chicago Civic
Opera. She was the youngest sololst
at the Presidents Birthday Ball in
in Chicago this year and, just in
case, she also was studying tipping
and shorthand before she came East.
Down at Richmond. Va, Abbott
found l8-year- old Victoria Schools.
whose name was Earleyne until she
changed 1t because Yankees couldn't
pronounce II.
Victoria left home at IS TO sing
with Rudy Vallee and as result
got one of those Hollywood con-
tracts which result in folks staying
in Hollywood for time without
appearing in any movies at all.
Best Foot Forward" is her first
stage role and in it she scores sing
ing The Three Bs' barrel
house, boogie-woogie and blues.
She Just Asked.
Lovely Rosemary Lane of the
movies plays the role of the movie
queen who visits prep school
campus, but. after all. Rosemary S
name is we'll known already and
she is 25 and can no longer be called
one of the kiddieS.
Nancy Walker, 18, girl comic in
the musical, is the daughter of
Dewey Barto, dancer in 'Hellza-
poppin" She got her job playing
the character billed as Blind Date
by walking into Abbott's office and
askin'.
Nancy was born in Philadelphia
Both her mother and father are
troupers and she has been on 6
radio program called The Lady
Next Door for four years. Best
Foot Forward" is her first try al
stage production.
Plump, blond and cute Betty
Anne Nyman. 16. whom Abbott
found in the Teaneck IN. j. High
School, has been acting in Warner
Bros. shorts and dancing profes.
sionally since she was g. Tap anc
acrobatic dancing is her speciality.
June Allyson is one of the few
New Workers in the cast. Unit
Evening star., 1941-11-09
They're Having Fun While They Work
YOUNGSTERS Lend Wealth of Life Broadway Musical
Just by SO Enthusiastically Putting Best Foot Forward

she joined she was understudy to
Betty Hutton in Panama Hattie"
After years of seeing 30-year-olds
play juveniles. playgoers find the
lads In Best Foot Forward as
fresh as paint and really and truly
prep school in spite of the fact that
some have long professional careers
behind them.
Gil Stratton. jr., l6, who plays
the juvenile lead. lives with his
grandmother in Garden City. Long
Island. and intends to take courses
at Columbia this winter.
He finished one year at 81. Law
renee University, Canton, n. Y,
where he was captain and goale OF
the hockey team, but left 10 take
this job Gil is crazy about base
ball and has earned money as
umpire for semi-pro clubs. He got
hsi first job on stage in What a
Life"
A Young Veteran.
Jack Jordan, jr, is New Yorker
whose parents were vaudeville head
liners and he has been on the stage
since he was 8 years old, when he
played for the Theater Guild in
Tomorrow and Tomorrow" He
already has been in 25 radio shows
and he is a senior at the Profes-
sional Children's School in New
York.
Kenneth Bowers, 18, another OF
the principals, has been in vaude-
vile since he was 5. when he ap-
peared in a minstrel show in his
home town. Jersey City. In Best
Foot Forward he grins engagingly
plays the flute and tap dances. Ker
danced one week in Jersey City
with Bill Robinson and he has
worked in numerous vaudeville
houses, night clubs, hotels and
resorts.
Lee Roberts is a tap dancer dis
covered by Abbott when his talent
hunt took him to Norfolk, where
the boys family resides.
Best Foot Forward" Is proof
that the provinces are filled with
talent and that nothing can sub
stitute for performers who have
fun while they work.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Glamour Is
Economical
In This Case
1t Is Provided
Anne Shirley
For S5.95
Hy the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Glamour comes cheap these days,
at least for Anne Shirley.
Her form-htting white evening
dress-one of those things studios
usually spend $500 and up for-is
costing Just s. 595.
A sequence for Street Girl cata-
pults Anne, out of work and broke
into a Job singing for band. Bu'
because she appears on the band
stand only a few minutes after
she's pictured as a ragged urchln
the writer's couldn't figure out
logical way for her to acquire
gown matching the style Of the tux
clad musicians.
Which is where Dancer-Actor Ray
Bolger comes in.
Told re problem. Ray dashed
forthwith to his locker, came back
with a Chinese silk dressing gown
draped it around her. changed the
neckline with pin. plucked a sash
from somewhere and Anne was Mis-!
Glamor in person.
"Whatll it cost. Ray?' queriec
Producer John Twist.
Just $685. Bolger replied. "Tha'
is what I paid for it."
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Producer George Abbotts astute-
ness.
Said he to himself, I'll show New
York something really 100 per cent
under the age of discretion"
AS the story goes, he had looked
around Times Square for youthful
leads and failed.
He took to the road and after
several months had tracked down
the kind he wanted.
First Manhattan Visit.
AS a result, meet some OF the
musical comedy stars of the fu-
A cute colleen from Chicago,
Maureen Cannon, just 16. Ezra
Stone Henry Aldrich of radios
"The Aldrich Family'D auditioned
her first out there and arranged for
Abbott to see her in New York.
Maureen, whose father is a Chi
cago streetcar conductor, Edward
Cannon, came on with her mother,
who still has a strong Old Country
accent first trip to Manhattan
for both of them.
Maureen began singing for Cath
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Marlene Has
Answer to
APrOblen
Dietrich Memory
Saves Day for
New Player
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
One good turn, thinks Marlene
Dietrich. deserves another.
Ten years ago, when Marlene hit
HOLLYWOOD she was the worst of all
possible types-different.
Makeup men, she says. didn't
know how to do my face. Camera
men didn't know how to light me
They said I was the toughest prob
lem yet. I believed it myself after
months of self elf-experiment."
But in the decade since. that
difference has brought her for
tune.
On the set of The Girl Is Will
ing" the other day. Marlene saw the
same problem arise. Her maid was
Ruth Ford, new contract player
from the New York stage Striking
but off the beaten path, too, she was
a makeup and lighting problem.
Marlene stepped in. From her
own experience she suggested angles
and high lighting. Then she saw
the rushes.
"See?" she enthused. See? I
knew what I was about, didn't II"
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Story for Bette

Screen rights TO Ethan Frome, :"
Edith Wharton's famous novel. have
been purchased by Warner Bros. as
a starring vehicle for Bette Davis.
The purchase was made at the sug-
gestion of Miss Davis after she did
a radio show based on the novel.
Current plans are to co-star Ray
mond Massey with Miss Davis.
Massey, now acting in Arsenic and
Old Lace" at Warmers, was starred
in the stage adaptation of the
Wharton novel.
Ethan Frome" has been placed
on the Bette Davis schedule to fol-
low IN This Our Life" film yer.
sion of the Ellen Glasgow best SELL
er, which is scheduled TO go before
the cameras next week. Featured
with Miss Davis in that will be
Olivia de Havilland, George Brent
and Dennis Morgan.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Strawberries Romanoff Are No Mystery to Him
But Alfred Hitchcock Old Master of Suspense Manages
To Get Some Suspense Into His Preparation OF Them
By James Montgomery Flag.
HOLLYWOOD.

By James Montgomery Flag.
HOLLYWOOD.
Alfred Hitchcock, the English
maestro of melodrama, is built very
much like football player.
If you see his name on a picture.
you know it will have expert direc-
ton and handling. He is tops in his
own field.
Mrs. Hitchcock and young Eng
lish woman, Joan Harrison. do his
writing for him in their very busy
house. MY impression was that
there were no two rooms or the
same level
His FavOrite Dessert.
Hitch" they they call him, stood
behind his bar and mixed drinks
and after dinner he got up and stood
at a buffet with his back to us
mysteriously concocting something
which turned out to be wonderful
mixture of ice cream, fruit and
liuueurs served in huge goblets.
Just strawberries Romanoff." said
Hitch. as though it were nightly
occurrence Afterward I learned
it is the almost regular Hitchcock
dessert
Then suddenly there was clat-
ter and voices beyond the dining
room doors. When we went out we
saw men and women rushing into
different rooms with typeWriters
and manuscripts, taking over tables.
chairs and lounges and at once
starting to work feverishly, paying
no attention to anybody but them
selves.
Mystery at the Circus.
It seems this is an ordinary pro-
cedure and they work till midnight.
While my host was posing for me,
every so often some man rushed in
with a handful of papers and said
something like Just moment-but
when Peters comes into the pub, is
| he wearing a trench-coat?"
Yes"
That's all I want to know.
/ Thanks Then he'd rush out.
Hitch told about mystery story
he is preparing with circus back
ground. A good point in it, think.
is that Siamese twins will disagree
over the identity of the villain.
Mr.. H., who looks like a character
out of Dickens, was fast asleep
when I put the last stroke to my
/ charcoal head Of him.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

incognito Nor does he announce
he's going to sign up Memphis best
singer. Only the phony, who has
some kind of film test racket gives
out interviews and plasters up "a
sheets.
The scout first looks for photo
genie faces. When he discovers a
face that should film well. he finds
out what the personality behind it
is like.
Doesn't Find Much.
Many a pretty face he knows
from experience, would 60 blank on
the screen because there's nothing
behind it. A scout seldom gives a
second glance at so-called interest
ing faces. character faces, because
Hollywood's full of EN- now. What
he wants is beauty that is more
than skin deep.
He doesn't find much of it. Kahn
and Moore probably see 10000 posi-
bilitieS year. Remember, they
may see Is or 20 youngsters in a
single showD They'll interview
about 1000. Out of this number
they will write favorable reports of
800. Half of these will be elimi-
mated upon further study and re-
Election.
Four hundred newcomers (this is
the annual average in each studio)
will be tested
Ten out of the 400 will be given
six months contracts.
Half of these will survive that
training period. Maybe one of
them will become a star after three
or four years hard work.
Just maybe, Kahn added.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

populated and mace 10 tlCK Dy gam
our, Williams, comics and grumpy
old Businessmen who, when you
tickle them under the chin, their
crust cracks and you can see the
gold shining in their hearts. Now
that isn't America as Americans
know it and live it, but its the
America that has been photographed
for all the world to see.
Then, just the other day, JOCK
Whitney dropped by to see me with
some Harvard professor, an expert
on South America. I'll tell you the
truth. l don't remember how to spell
the professors name very well, II
was a Spanish name, but these fel-
lows are interested in counteractlng
Nazi propaganda in South America
Their idea was that one good picture
on the United States. what the
country was like, what's up here
what the heart and mind of the
country is and all that would dc
more good down there III South
America in the way of propaganda
| tla0 lne DOdlIOdCS Ol SIdIilOui wv
send there and good will ambassa-
dorS and salesman mentalltles.
A Right to Be Quoted.
THAT pleased me quite a goot
deal because ever since l was las
in England. being ashamed TO sa,
I was from Hollywood, I've Deel
scratching up ideas for a photograph
of America. I'm not a fag-Wave
and don't go for propaganda. don
like propaganda. All l want Is I
make a good picture, but If its go
patriotism in it, why should tina
make me sore?"
So then the question becomes
what Is the heart and mind c
America as King Vidor sees 1t
There are not many picture-make1
who have proved as much OF rlgf
TO be quoted on that subject. l
the course of his career as a movl
fashioner, Vidor has spoken tn
Evening star., 1941-11-09
You'll Have to Start Cooking With Gas
No Sucker for Succotash Can Dig This 1--WE
Today's Youngsters Use in Place of English

you're afraid and If you're from
hunger" you're very low in the
social or professional scale.
When you're told to stay in the
ice box" it means to keep cool and
"off the cob" is very bad humor.
"What's buzzin', cousin?" asks
what's happening and if you blow
your top" you get excited.
If you talk "jabber-wacky" you
talk jitterbug slang, a sucker for
succotash" is some one who likes
old jokes and rat fight means
everything's mixed up. When you
get squirrel fever" you're acting
silly.
Dig me?"
Chop chop"
Evening star., 1941-11-09

"P. S-He also dances"
So Astaire didn't 90 to work for
the movies then, but year later he
was cast in Flying Down to Rio
and he has been doing all right
since.
This is not story about Fred
AStalre. 1t is about talent scouts,
who work like a well-organized fifth
column. except that their objective
is definitely benign. The Astaire
report is not amusing so much be-
cause Of its irony: rather. because
scouts usually do not overlook any
such possible bets.
For the loWdoWn on the talent
finding business you can thank
Ivan Kahn, who. with Tom Moore.
the one-time star. digs up new
people for Lew Schreiber'S talent
department at Twentieth Century
Studio.
They're Just Bored.
Every studio has its talent seekers
Among them, they don't miss many
college shows, night clubs, radio
programs and such. They don't Just
60 to night clubs and amateur plays
willy nilly. They investigate tips.
They don't pay much attention
to letters about new Shirley Temples
written by preludiced mamas. Notes
from enthusiastic aunts about
nephewS who tap better than Rob-
lnson, or who are handsomer than
Taylor. or about nieces more tai
ented than Durbin merely bore the
scouts.
A buSinessike letter from pro-
fessOr of speech about a girl in the
class play is the kind that starts the
scouts day right. He can tell Just
about how good an amateur is from
the tone of the letter and the in
terest of the author. When the
scout has a bulging bundle of pos
sibilities, he takes to the road.
Kahn never goes travelling with
out his wife. Good policy" he
laughs. Last time he was out he
swung down through Texas he
likes Texas. because that's where he
found Linda DarnelN, stopping at
this school and that college. He
went on through Oklahoma and
then to Baton Rouge and New
Orleans.
A scout never goes into a town
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Rapper's Next

Irving Rapper, who directed "One
Foot in Heaven" has had his op-
ton lifted for another term by
Warner Bros. and then was as
signed to direct "Humoresque,
Warner production to be based on
the famous Fanny Hurst story.
Some critics who have seen "One
Foot in Heaven" now rolling up
sensational crosses in pre-release
engagements. have nominated Rap
per as we'll as the two stars of the
picture, Fredric March and Martha
Scott, for Academy Award honors.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
By Testa Keeling,
Associated Press Staf Writer.
NEW YORK.


Ice cream parlors along the Great
White Way have been doing rush.
ing business ever since Sc 'teen-age
Youngsters from l6 States hit Broad
way recently in the cast Of the mu-
sical comedy Best Foot Toward y
No night clubs for them d.
they iitterbug. they bowl, they drink
soft drinks and the out-of-towners
in the lot pile on buses and explore
Manhattan night and day eX-
cept when they are making the
rafters of the Barrymore Theater
shake with their hoohng and
singing.
Distinguished primarily for the
fact that it has a cast gaga with
vitality and some extra special
music, this show is tribute to
Evening star., 1941-11-09
De Mrut
Continued From First Page

OlIl L IL ob d6SP
ridiculous to see men managed by
their secretaries and gain the will
to struggle, create and almost to
live because of a woman. Perhaps
what confronts us here is the eternal
problem of differentiating between
reality and theatrical make-believe.
On the other hand, Hollywood
comedy is fine.
The dominant North American
filming technique is so we'll appre-
ciated for its sureness and style
that when one wants to praise one
of our Acknowledgements pictures he
says, 1T seems like North Ameri-
can movie"
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Home at Last

Lewis E. Lawes. former warden
of Sing Sing, will come to the War
ner Bros. studio to collaborate with
Daniel Fuchs on the screen play
to be made from MY Life in Sing
Sing Lawes' autobiography. The
former warden will also serve as
technical adviser during production
of the picture.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
In Robinson Film

Broderick Crawford has been bor-
rowed by Warner Bros. from Uni
versal for an important role in the
next Edward G. Robinson film. "A
Night Before Christmas" which Is
to 60 before the cameras soon, with
Lloyd Bacon directing. "A Night
Before Christmas" is based on the
play by Laura and S. J. Perelman.
Everett Freeman and Edwin Gilbert
wrote the screen version.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

mind of the whole run of the popu.
lation.
He made "The Big Parade" for
S25O.OOO ts45 900 of this was spent
on a night battle scene that was
cut out of the picture and the
movie crossed $4,000, ,000-thlrd
highest gross Of all time. That
established him as money mans
darling. He made THE Champ" a
picture so full Of sentiment that
audiences foated away from 1t on
their own tears. This established
him as the darling of the low brows.
He has also made such pictures as
Daily Bread" and The Crowd
and "Hsllelujah,' which caused the
art lovers to say in polysyllables
that this darling man spoke their
| language.
Zone Big Production Unit"
NY stepson taught me something
about this country Of ours" Vidor
| said. When he got out of high
! school last year, he decided he didn't
want TO go to college. He wanted
| to go over TO Douglas Aircraft ard
get himself 40 cents an hour work
| ing on airplanes. I had a time
with him, getting him to 90 to COL
lege The way we tipped him over
was to tell him that what he needed
was the kind of training that would
enable him to make job for HIM
self. whatever happened TO the world
in the future.
"Well, all right That's pri-
yate matter. But 1t says something
about the whole country AT large.
For the way l see this country is
production. Maybe I'm wrong, but
that's the way 1t hits me-one big
production unit, the greatest the
world has ever seen. with all the
fellows in it working with machines
and proud of what they can make
their machines do.
"a typical American guy doesn't
care so much what he produces or
why he produces it. He cares a
little. maybe gets a 10 per cent
satisfaction out Of that part Of il.
But 80 per cent OF his satisfaction
comes from Just working with ma
chimes, releasing the power in them
and controlling that power.
And that's what l think the
world ought to learn from pictures
about our country"
The Feminine Angle.
The stimulating part OF Vidor's s
notion is how it fits into the movie
sector of the battle of propaganda
now raging over the world. Nan
movie propaganda concentrates on
creating a terrorizing effect of
smash and power. British movie
). propaganda concentrates on Great
ing an inspiring effect of calm
strength. resolution and reserve. II
: Vidor has his way, American propa-
$ ganda will demonstrate TO the vorld
5 the power of creation that lies ir
Americas hands and brains.
: And where do American vomer
P. fit into the picture?
1t Yes, We have to have girl Ii
: the story" Vidor said. I'm think
7 ing OF having two. One will be &
/, girl. nice girl. who wants 10 ge
a married and have babies and have
a a life of her own by helping he1
: husband live his. The other will bt
a career woman, hard and on the
y loose, ranging through life trying t
grab off something for herself"
d Does that run the gamut of Amer
k ican women?
I. Maybe, but who can say? Wha
e man knows anything about women
h I have trouble enough knowing
IS about men"
(Relessed BY the North American
d Nevspap per Alliance. mel
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Prospective Movie Stars
Seldom Remain Hidden
A Note on the Talent Scout, Who
Misses Very Few College Shows,
Little Theaters or Nis sht Clubs
AM y S E M e N T s.
BY Hubbard KeaJy,
Associated Prass 81 q NNritar


the files
well from much passing which abilities
possibilities
written by talent scout who had Fred
The enthusiastic.
he doesn't nave too good he is losing hair
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Jackie Cooper acts as a mechanic
on midget auto racers.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Betty Brewer skates from her
home to the studio every day.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Photograph Of America
Is This Directors Aim
King Vidor Airs His Views on Subject
Matter of Films Past and of the
One He COntemplates Now
By Ira Wolferf.
HOLLYWOOD.

last time in England King vdor the director sao
looked American pictures
o admit from Hollywood
"You when you're in foreign country You ee
American than an indian ana
here photographed for all the world to see as place
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-07-11
Bell Co. Taxes
in New High

The Michigan Bell Telephone Com
panys total tax bill reached q new
peak of nearly $S.OOO,OUO i'll 1910, it il
announced by Frank l.. Hall, tax at
torney Tor the company, as he handed
10 Auditor GENERAL Vernon j. Brown Il
check for $l.6lS. 1862. repreS, ntlng
half the company'> state property levy,
which i payable into the primary
school fund.
Hall sand that 1910 taxes of 81
3l9,OUU were - per cent above the
1879 total, The previous high. Of that
amount, 81 .-J6S}.UOO was chargeabie 10
operating EXPENSES, amounting 10 S9.1
per average telephone III service dur
ing the year. or IL Per cent of the
company'S Opel rating revenue.
In addition 10 Il total state property
tax OF S3.36.gt224, taxes Charge;Ible
To operations embraced the fede raj
income and capital stock taxes OF So
ISL .ttbi. and social security taxes, Ia
the federal and state governments.
$J9S .OOU Mi>cellant Gus taxes. primar-
lily municipal levie> on property not
used IN telephone operation. amounted
10 N41.UuU.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-07-11
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

The Civil Service Commission has
announced examinations of particular
interest To pea SOILS who know indus
trial methods and processes Registers
will be established for the following
POSITIONS: Principal industrial special
iSt, $500; senior industrial specialist.
$1,000; industrial specialist, $500 ::
associate industrial specialist. $500 {:
and assistant industrial specialist. ST.
600 year.
Senior carpentes. 81 $50 a year: ear
penter, 81 go a year: carpenters help
cr, 81 $40 year. Applicants must have
reached their 18th birthday but must
not have passed their 18th birthday
on the closing date for receipt of APP
plicatiOns. The age limits are waived
in the cases of those persons granted
military preference.
Assistant messenger (fOr filling va
cancies in the positions of assistant
messenger. 81 $50 year, and Junior
messenger, $500 Year,. in the field
service, Detroit. Applicants must have
reached their 18th birthday but must
not have passed their 18th birthday on
the closing date for receipt of applica-
tioRs These age limits will not be
waived in any case.
Examinations will be held for the
following positions in the ordnance de-
partment 1T laIge. War Department,
Chicago and Detroit ordnance dis
tricts: Senior Inspector powder and
explosives. $1,000 Il year; inspector,
powder and explosives. $500 a year ;
associate Inspector powder and ex-
plOsives. 5000 year; assistant in
spectOr. powder and explosives. 81 500
year; Junior inspector, powder and
explosives. 81 .62O a year.
Positions are now open at yards
and arsenals throughout the United
States az such varied lOcatiOn As Bre-
merton. Wash: Pensacola. Fla: San
Antonio. Texas; Springfield, Mass.
and Dayton. Ohio Over 100 qualified
machiniSts axe needed at WATERFOWL
arsenal. Massachusetts almost POO
lens grinders could be- employed i'm
mediaiely al Frankfort arsenal. Penn
sylvania: 10 ShipfitterS are being
sought Tor the yard al BremertOn
Washington: and over 40 aircraft
sheet metal workers are needed al
San Antonio, Texas.