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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

the entire evening talking to Nor
man Kerry; Constance Moore was
the sensation of the place with a
wrist watch. radio which she
dropped into a glass of water and
it played a tune. Imagine how
that would affect an alcoholic. He
would probably be off water for
the rest of his life.
Connie was at the Lynn Fontanne
opening at the Biltmore earlier
and she looked like a picture.
Alfred Lunt took IL curtain calls
at the theater and made "a speech
that delighted every one. All the
Pasadena socialites turned out for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
NeU Story

"The DAM" which captured the
fancy of Louis B. Mayer because
II had the feeling of Boom Town"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
High Price

! told you the other day that
Paramount had the inside track
on THE Louisiana Purchase"
the Buddy de SyiUo-IrUins Ber-
I'm musical. Well. today the deal
was closed and Pare handed out
a nice little $4,000 for the
privilege Of putting the hit musi-
cal on the screen.
This, combined pith the $685..
900 paid for Lady in the Dark"
eiDes Para a new high of prices
paid for broadway hits. Buddy
said today that he still hoped to
get Victor Moore, rOho played in
the stage play, and that he had
Bob Hope in mind for the male
lead.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

Daryl Zanuck. who is a lieuten-
ant colonel in the reserve. handles
the entire production. That re-
minds me, Daryl is flying 10
Washington 10 confer with the
general staff OF the United States
Army about the defense shorts
that are being made here.
Capt. James Adams of the r.
A. F. acts as technical adviser in
"A Yank in the r. A. F." which
will have the official stamp of
Lord Beaverbrook, head of British
aircraft production. Shots have
already been made in England Of
the r. A. F. in action. so you see
you'll be seeing il soon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
Theater Group
Presents First Play

THE DETROIT COMMUNITY
THEATER of the Mackenzie Eve
ming School will have It's debut in
Detroit, Friday. with the play,
Room Service" by j. p. Murray.
This organization is a new little
theater group in our city and will
use the new Mackenzie auditorium
at 9275 Wyoming as its playhouse.
Under the direction OF Leonard
Leone. Room Service" will have a
cast of Detroit actors. among them
being Rex Sutton. Robert Baker.
Eleanor McGuinness, Eileen Fox.
Harry Washburn, John Stevens,
Victor Ayoub, Alex Macy and Cliff
Reynolds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

baton tvirier from the u. c. L.
A. and she does her speciality in
the show. Bert Wheeler, Fran
eetta Malloy, Hank Ladd, Bob
Williams with his dog, RED
Dust" and Frakson the magician
are all in the cast in addition to
the most beautiful"
IL pas thought at first that the
show couldn't be Travelled on ae-
count of its size, but mechanical
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

idealistic young
d octor. bu I
Twentieth has
a few up their
sleeve. too. In
"A Yank in the
r. A. F." N
will w e ar a
British uniform.
This isn't just
one of thos c
m oV les with
maybe. if and
but, for it goes
into production
one week after
" B 90 d and
s a n d" is fin
ished.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

matched pearls in a necklace. The
girls are not allowed to expose
their bodies to the sun although
they spend a lot of time in Cali
fornia and Florida. AS a result
they can't 60 in swimming.
Whirling BdtOns
Jetsa Parker, one of the show
girls, is champion majorette
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
Tyrone PO,Uer tODO
sYank in X. n. f.
Star Also Wanted
/ y w arr ers
Z for Movie
BY LoUELLA O. PARSONS

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 27.-The
ramor has persisted for months
that Warmers are trying TO borrow
Tyrone Power for Kings Row"
but something tells me Twentieth
Century-Fox would rather loan
their sound stages than TO let Ty
leave the home lot.
He would be good. there's no
doubt. in Kings Row as the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
False RunOrs

Had long talk with Charlie
Chaplin. wish some Of the
doubling ones vho have init.
mated that he has said adieu TO
Pouietts Goddard. GOULD haze
heard him speak Of her. He is
planning neW picture and
PouIette Wii haze big part. In
fact, I rather suspect he is pre-
pairing it Wifh Pauletts in vieU.
He 10 extremely proud Of
Dhot abe has accomplished on
the screen and says shs has done
IL completely on her own Nth
out his aid. He recalled the
pleasant day he and Pauiette
had at -MnLson,s- Farm said
they would be out very soon
asoin.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
At Random

Elaine Barrie came into the Mo-
canlbo with one escort and spent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

w DIS DOuSHl To-
day by M-G-M,
and the talk
now is that the
studio will try
to get the same
set : up. Clark
Gable. Spencer
T racy a n d
Claudette Col
bert for it's
stars.
The author,
Lester Cohen,
a d a pied the
never = to = be :
forgotten "Of
Human Bond
age" and also
a u I h o r e d
rs W e e pings. "
This story is
u n pu b ! ished,
but it's good
movie stuff. &C.
cording to those
who have read
il. and il will
be filmed later
this year with
the imposing
lineup, or one
just as good,
[ h at m a d e
" Boom Town I"
one of the best
movie sellers of
last year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27

difficulties haVs been overcome.
and so Detroit wW see IL on a
four that has extended from the
West Coast to Minnesota, Che
eaRo, and some of the larger
cities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
A Third Week

Gone With the Wind" natu-
rally DiH stay for a third week
and probably so many more that
customers wiH begin to think
relatively that the Civil War was
a pretty short affair. The United
Artists, in fact, is beginning to
settle doUn to a nice long cruise
on the return engagement of this
Margaret MiteheH-DaVid Selz.
nick "best-seller."
Kitty Foyie" and High
Sierra" Which make an ideal
combination of light romance
and heavy meiodran,a at the
Poims-State wiH begin a second
week at the Pains-Stats Friday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-27
No Sun-Tan

When Detroiters see the most
beautiful girls in the world" in
Earl CAROLS Vanities, at the
Michigan Friday, March Z, they
will see the show which has been
rated one of the best ever pro-
duced by Carroll.
The beauties who pass through
the portals and onto the stage. al
though coming to Detroit from
California, will be absolutely minus
sun-tan. For it is one of the strict
Earl Carroll rules that the girls
who line up on the stage will be
all of a creamy whiteneSs, like
Evening star., 1941-03-06
The Seethinq Balkans

The Balkan kettle seethes and
SINNERS hotly, though as yet 1t has
not boiled over. Throughout that
strife-torn peninsula and in adjacent
Turkey more troops are being called
to the colors, while endless columns
of German soldiery pour steadily
across the Danube into occupied Bull
garia. The air Is thick with rumors
of impending conflict on a large
scale.
Nevertheless, no actual blow has
as yet been struck. Britain has
formally severed diplomatic relations
with Bulgaria and the British Min
lister to Sofia describes this act as
"the first step toward plunging Bull
garia into war and her territory into
bloody battlefield" The Bulgarian
Army is modified and, like the gov
eminent, is taking orders from the
German high command, though con-
siderable unrest is reported among
the civilian population. Local Com
munist agents are said to be inform
ing the peasants that "Uncle Ivan,"
as Russia is traditionally called in
Bulgaria, is much displeased by what
the politicians have done. Except
among some FasciSt-minded stu
dents, there seems to be no popular
approval of the German occupation.
But, with the government on the axis
side and the whole country in the
grip of Germany's mighty war ma
chine, there is little or nothing the
Bulgarian people can do except obey
orders.
Neighboring YugoSlavia has de-
creed what amounts to general mo-
bilization. This, however, does not
seem to imply an intention to fight
Germany, but rather a precautionary
measure of defense. British subjects
have been ordered to leave the
country. German and Italian sources
predict that the regent, Prince Paul,
is about to visit Hitler at Berchtes-
gaden.
In sharp contrast to Yugoslav
weakness, Greece seems to be hold
ing firmly to her British allies,
despite German warnings, while
Turkey is evidencing similar firm
ness. Adolf Hitler's special message
to President Inonu has been duly re-
ceived and formally acknowledged,
but the official atmosphere at An
kara, the Turkish capital, is distinctly
chilly toward German Establishments,
while the Turkish press is openly
hostile to any policy of "appease-
ment."
Thus the diplomatic campaign
moves swiftly toward its dramatic
climax. How soon the tragic moment
will arrive when notes and confer
ences give place to bombs and bull
lets cannot be predicted. But it
looks as though the fateful hour
cannot be far away.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Tells of Greek Claims
To DodecaneSe Islands.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial on February %, headed
"Going-The Dodecanese," has accu-
rately placed the matter before your
readers.
However, while on the Dodecanese sub
ject, I would like to say something
of the background of history since
Italy took possession of these islands.
The annexing of Tripolitiana and eyre
naica by Italy from Turkey on November
5, 1911, under the new name of Lib1a,
and from April 18, through May 4, 1912,
when all the Dodecanese Isles were
occupied by Italy, under the understand
ing and express official declarations, on
the part of Italy, that these islands were
to be autonomous or were to be returned
to Greece, is a matter of record. At that
period, not only the inhabitants Of the
islands, but the whole world was hailing
Italy as the foremost hberating nation.
BY the treaty signed at Lausanne on
october Is, 1912, between Italy and
Turkey, it was stipulated that the two
governments would recall all their Off
GERS, their army and their political
employees from Tripolf and Cyrenalca, on
the part of the Ottoman Government,
and from the islands in the Aegean Sea
occupied by Italy, on the part of the
Italian Government. This somewhat dis
appointed the inhabitants of the islands.
as the official expression and the under
standing was that the islands would be
declared autonomous or be awarded to
Greece, and not returned to Turkey.
italy did not carry out her promise but,
on the contrary, kept the u islands
and subjected the natives to all sorts
of humiliations and restrictions. Sub
sequently, on April 26, 1915, when Italy
signed a secret treaty at London and
betrayed her allies of the triple alliance,
1t was stated therein that Italy should
keep possession Of the Dodecanese as a
consideration for siding with Britain
and France. However, subsequently, the
League Of Nations Covenant was signed,
Evening star., 1941-03-06

to France from the Taffside in 1914
were men who knew the meaning Of
physical labor. Some were little
chaps" but all had muscles and
spirits of steel. Their relics are in
the National Museum of Wales, con-
sidered by most visitors the finest
building in the town.
When the Germans blast Cardiff
today, it is place dear to working
people that is hurt. Schooled to toll,
disciplined by the most exhausting
labor, the Glamorganshire folk are
slow to anger. But their wrath, when
it is aroused, is a passion not to be
treated lightly. The Nazi bombers,
it may be assumed, have stimulated
their resistance, rather than dimin-
ished it.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
McConchie Grange Corrects
State Budget Story.

state Budget story.
To the Editor of The Star:
In your Sunday edition of February 16
you carried special dispatch to your
paper, stating that McConchie Grange
had voted to file a request with the
General Assembly of Maryland that all
non-essential State expenditures be elm
mated. Your article goes on to state
that the grange. acted after member
of the Citizens State Budget Emergency
Committee had spoken to the group and
explained the present State budget now
before the Maryland Legislature.
We do not know who sent this dis
patch to The Star, but the information
contained in the first paragraph Is
entirely incorrect. 1t IS true that
Don Kirkley, representative of the above
committee, did speak before the McCon-
chic Grange and explained that the
committee he represented was desirous
of having s6,OOo,000 cut from the present
budget. However, the grange did not
take any action on the matter.
The grange has, and always will stand
for efficiency and economy in State ex-
penditures, but we think it is unfair
for any one to misrepresent the action of
our organization.
The committee signing this letter has
been appointed by the master of McCon-
chic Grange to submit this letter to you.
MILTON M. SOMERS, Lecturer.
JOHN r. GER, Jr., Steward.
P. D. BROWN.
La Plata, Md.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Promise of Spring

The ,Dind is cold today. FroSts tin
Cling chill
Touches against my face, yet I
can see
Aboue the quiet, blue curUe OF the
hill,
A softer light. The little maple
tree
Which stood so naked, looking dark
and dead,
Is ,Oaktng, for on euery slender
bough
Ne,U buds are saOelling, turning softly
red.
Although thin flakes of snolo ars
falling notD,
/ hear a starting ,0HiStle, high and
clear.
Along the ground the honeySuctle
Uine
Is frightening with ne1D life, fresh
blades appear
Upon the lat0n, green touches the
iooodbine.
I knot0 spring keeps her promise, I
haUe found
A crocus pushing upOard from the
ground.
BEATRICE RAW.
Evening star., 1941-03-06

with Italy signatory party Article XII
of the Covenant abolished all secret
treaties. 1t was understood that the
readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
should be effected along clearly recog-
nized lines of nationality and that the
nationalities which were then under
Turkish rule should be assured an abso-
lutely unmolested opportunity for auton-
omous development. All the allied
nations endeavored to induce Italy to
evacuate the islands. The American
commission on the Italian boundary
settlement recommended that the Dodec-
anese be assigned to Greece, as over 80
per cent of the population are Greek
orthodox and they are bitterly opposed
to the italian occupation.
Italy consented to give the Greek
islands to Greece; and on August TO-,
1920, the Treaty of Seyres was signed
by the representatives of Italy and
Greece. This treaty gave to Greece COM
plete sovereignty over the Hellenic Isles
of the Dodecanese. Turkey also affixed
a signature to this peace treaty of the
Allies, renouncing in article 122 all
her title. rights and interest in favor of
Italy, so that the Italian government
could effectuate and assign the same
rights of the islands to Greece. But
Italy again violated her official signature
and did not evacuate nor transfer the
islands.
According to the facts above stated,
italy never had a legal right or title to
these islands, but kept them simply by
force. Systematically, Italy endeavored
to exterminate the Greek population in
the Dodecanese. The Greek schools and
churches were closed and the Greek
people were prohibited from speaking the
Greek language or worshiping their God
in the Greek orthodox way.
SOTERIOS NICHOLSON.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
ANNAPOLIS, Md.

Dear Sir:
1.-THE inclosed Is of interest in several
ways. Andrew is six years old, and
bird lover.
1.-THE a-tless enthusiasm OF those who
love the birds gives one thrill of SYM
pathy like nothing else in its quite
touching sympathy and trust.
"Your management of your column is
a gift to civilized thinking. You deserve
the thanks you receive.
MY delight Is especially in the SPAR
row. No more jolly philosopher lives,
with so much humor in him, and
gayety.
I'm the bitter cold season, counted
fifty, all frozen, lying in the deep snow
of old st. AIMS churchyard, among the
tombstones laid down before the Revo-
luton.
They live in the heavy ivy that covers
much of the brick walls. The little dead
feet, turned up to the sky in such num-
bers, were sad sight.
"A bright morning in my garden:
n tCllldlC cpd4LOW dl1o IOuI IIloICo
carried on Irritation, two males were
driven off and perched on a spray of
vine.
THE two billed and peeped when
cat skunk along the wall. At once the
males jumped to the tip of the spray to
keep watch on the animal. The two
males returned to counting, the female
f,,r
cat withdrew, and romance took charge
again.
Sincerely yours, L. T. A"
X II II
The clipping, from the Union-Star of
Schenectady. N. Y, under date of Feb
ruary 8, told of robin being seen by a
small boy.
The schools of the country are doing
a great service to bird life, by teaching
the children about them, and enlisting
their enthusiastic cooperation.
In this Nationwide work the schools
of the District of Columbia and nearby
Maryland and Virginia are cooperating.
The work being done in the grade schools
is the keynote; here marvellous things
are being accomplished.
Boys and girls today know great deal
more about bird life, how to identify
birds, and how to feed them, and help
them in other ways, than their parents,
except in particular cases.
Notebooks are kept, and birdhouses
and feeding stations are built and put
into operation.
Too much praise cannot be given this
work
Our correspondents fifty sparrows
which met death through freezing would
not have died had they been fed regu-
larly.
Birds only die in winter when they
cannot get enough food.
A birds metabolsm is so high that it
must have a constant stream of food
to keep it warm enough to stand the
cold.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Objects to New Deal Plan
For Taxing Savings.
10 the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF Tne Star:
According to report in The Star,
Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to
the Secretary of Agriculture, appeared
before the Monopoly Committee of the
Congress recently to give the members
the benefit of his erudition and wisdom.
His suggestions were gems, indeed, but
bore little resemblance to those "of purest
ray serene the dark unfathomed caves Of
ocean bear" I could get neither head
nor tail out of anything he said except
ing one statement His theme was how
to prevent "oversaving" If post-defense
depression is to be avoided. Among the
three suggestions offered by him in re-
gard thereto was the following:
you can close the gap and at the
same time keep the budget balanced by
having the Government tax away the
boarded savings and spending them"
If this isn't confiscation, I don't know
the meaning of the word. But We
should not be surprised at such sugges-
tions coming from New Dealers.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Cardiff

1t probably was inevitable that
Cardiff in Wales should be bombed
by German flyers. AS one of the
largest and busiest of British ports
of entry for goods from America, it
hardly could be expected to escape
such treatment as Southampton,
Bristol, Plymouth and Liverpool have
experienced at the hands of Nazi
airmen. Every harbor of any conSe-
quence is a more or less legitimate
target for enemy attention. The
people of beleaguered England un-
derstand their danger. The ques-
ton, then, is: How do tens of thou
sands of civilians reconcile them
selves to carrying on" where they
are subject to mass attack?
One answer may be discovered by
remembrance of the human charac-
ter of Cardiff. For hundreds of years
it has been a place where life never
was easy. A fortress to guard the
Maritime Road where it crossed the
Taft River was built by the Romans
about IS AID. Later the native lords
of Glamorgan had their stronghold
nearby. The SaxonS, the Normans,
the Scandinavian sea raiders sue
cessively came and conquered. A
long list of noble families-the De
Clares, Dispensers, Beauchamps,
Nevilles, Herberts and Butes among
them-held the castle begun in re-
mote antiquity and supplemented
through one century after another.
The town of Cardiff, meanwhile,
struggled for the rights without
which its inhabitants could not re-
gard themselves as free. Robert of
Gloucester granted the community
its earliest charter in 1147. His con-
cessionS were confirmed and added
to by the second, third and fourth
Edwards and the fourth and sixth
Henrys. A merchant guild was per-
mitted in 1340. Two fairs were al
lowed in Queen Elizabeth's reign and
third was licensed by James 1.
But it was to the coal industry that
the port owed its principal activity
from 1750 onward. Mules brought
the ''black diamonds" down from the
hills to docks where carriers waited
to receive them. Gradually "the
greatest coal exporting port in the
world" developed. Iron, copper, tin
and hemp works were established be-
tween 1850 and 1910.
Thus Cardiff became a Welsh
equivalent of Pittsburgh. Whole
sections of the city were occupied by
"aliens," including many newcomers
from Ireland. BY the date of the
opening of the first World War the
harbor boasted a larger tonnage
than New York. Troops that went
Evening star., 1941-03-06

decades ago by representatives of
some twenty citizen groups, under
the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce, to the large and energetic
group of delegates from sixty-five
member bodies representing more
than $4,000 voteless citizens of the
Nations Capital.
To these voluntary servants Of
their communities and of their city,
The Star offers its congratulations
for thirty-one years of constructive
work in behalf of the Capital City
and wishes a long continuance of
their fruitful endeavors.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. TrdceUell.

Their claws and legs are made Of a
horny substance, which withstands cold
very well, but inside in a complex system
of blood vessels.
1t is probable that the freezing begins
from the feet and works up, so that the
bird dies when the cold reaches the
heart.
To call the English sparrow Jolly
philosopher is good, for that fits him
exactly.
If one has these sparrows in the yard
and at first does not like them, he should
try to understand the birds in this
light.
They are, indeed, feathered philoSo-
pliers in the common sense of the term,
that is, they accept life as it comes, and
try to make the best of it,
All of us have some need of this sort
of philosophy, in ordinary times; and if
the gloomy forebodings of certain per-
sons are to be believed, as mans despair
drives the entire world into the madness
of battle, we will need it more than ever
in the times to come.
The common sparrow has been used
as a symbol in great literature.
1t has found place in some Of the
worlds loveliest music.
The great Beethoven used its song as
a model of melody.
Those who despise it, or pretend to,
1a h,rh hot tI,ny,oca1uoe ND
the sparrows if they would try to under
stand the bird and receive the lessons
which it has to give.
One good point about the common
sparrow which is seldom mentioned is
that wherever it is there will be other
f1nches, including that most marvellous
one, the cardinal and various other
sparrows.
These latter comprise, in this locality,
the beautiful and nappy song sparrow,
the white-throated sparrow and some
times the tree sparrow
Field sparrows and others, of the nine
teen species which come to this vicinity,
may be found in any yard, if the OBJ
server is careful to look closely and
properly.
Young purple finches look very much
like ordinary sparrows, at one point in
their existence; no doubt many of them
have been slain for English sparrows.
4 +
The English sparrow has never been
given enough credit for his song.
In most of the books, he is said to
have a harsh chirp." but the truth is
that his chirp is no harsher than that
of any other bird.
He is, with his friends and relations,
something of choral singer.
In yards where there is a constant
supply of food all winter, and where
no bird of any species ever freezes, the
common sparrows take time out in the
afternoon for a singing festival.
Then they make really pretty music
together, as they bask in the sunshine
with full stomachs. hymning their praise
and taking it easy like sensible birds.