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Evening star., 1941-12-07
By Hubbard Keavy,
Wide World News.

II am not witty and I am not
funny. But I do have a reputa-
ton as a smarty pants. .. 1>say
hardly any of those clever things
that are attributed to me. wouldn't
have time to earn living If I said
all those things"
"You said some of them, didn't
you?" I persisted.
There's the one about the time
studio sequestered YOU"
"Yes, I did that, but"
Some years ago Miss Parker was
employed to write movies. but she
didn't get much writing done be-
cause she encouraged other writers
and folks around the lot to use her
cubicle as a sort of town hall. In
order to curb her gregarious in
stincts, the studio moved her to
an Office at the far end of the
writer's kennel. Her name was not
put on her door.
But Dorothy was not without
company for long. She got sign
painter to letter one word on her
door: IN E N"
". But the hundreds of others!
I am responsible for less than l
per cent of the stories attributed
to me.
Not too Harmful.
II am serious about my writing
The reputation I didn't earn and
don't want has been embarrassing
and harmful"
The title of Mistress of the Sally
may have been embarrassing. So
often in a group people look at
Dorothy with be-funny -or-else
expression. But it seems not to have
been so harmful as she thinks. Her
alleged gift for neat phrasing and
retorts proper has got her a great
many jobs in Hollywood
She is something of a script doctor.
She and her husband, Alan Camp
bell, dress up dialogue. making
smart characters smarter and bright
young things less puerile. They'll
Evening star., 1941-12-07

Putting on all the clothes we could
carry we walked out into the night,
and believe me it was black.
Luck Changed.
Then came the light. At an audi
ton at the Roxy Theater all was
quiet except for girl named Eve
Ross. She laughed at my clowning
and signed me to emcee show at
the Lido Club in Montreal. That
was something new for me; in fact
1 don't think I'd ever been in a night
club. But right then I'd have fought
a cageful of tigers for a sandwich if
it included coffee.
My lucky star started to shine.
Signed for a week, stayed six at
the Lido and one night Harry Anger.
at Loew's Montreal Theater, looked
in on my act. He put me in the
theater and I stayed 26 weeks,
record for the house.
But pride leads to a fall, and at
my next stop, the State Theater in
Chicago, 1 fell with a thump that
should have been heard around the
world. I've never known why, but
nv act smelled so bad that they're
still burning incense in the balcony.
To make it all the more puzzzling I
moved over to the Stratford in the
same city and went over like four
alarm fire. That's show business.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
A Reputation Unearned and Unwanted
Dorothy Parker Is Not Too Happy to Be Known Only
AS a Wit and Master of the Quick Bon Mot

take a rather dull dinner table
scene, which is in there for plot
purposes, and enliven it with whimsy
and jest.
Often the Campbells work to-
gether, sometimes they have sepa-
rate jobs. Campbell is a former
actor with a fine sense of humor.
Dorothy says she never has written
an original story for the screen.
Just now she is giving the girl
more to do" in script Alfred
Hitchcock will direct. It's THE
Saboteur" and is about spies, or
the cops and robbers formula and
something entirely new and differ
ent to this script polisher.
There for the Money.
Although she has been in and
out of here for years. Dorothy
said she never will get used to Hol-
lywood and she wonders why any
one would prefer Hollywood to New
York.
Il don't prefer it," she said with
her usual positiveness. I'm here,
I'll candidly admit, for the money.
But I wonder what happens to the
money? Everybody know is always
broke. You work hard and earn
a lot of money and then you're
broke. 1t doesn't make sense,
does it?"
She doesn't like Hollywood also
because it's mall-townish, q preju-
dice she explains thus:
ALAN has been here 18 months
straight, but I 60 home between
jobs. The other night he was read
ing Noel Coward's The Blithe
Spirit and suddenly he said, I
haven't seen a play in 18 months.
Guess I'll 60 to New York tomor-
row.
Before I could drive him to the
airport the story was out that the
Campbells were separating.
That's what I mean, small town.
ish."
Evening star., 1941-12-07

OF 'TOlable DAVID IN 19Zl, was COL
umn-reading between scenes in The
Mayor of 44th Street." his first pic
ture in two years.
At noon, over bacon and an ONE
let, he went more deeply into the
state of the world, disclosing con-
nection between it and his return to
films.
These are no times he said,
gloomily, ito be sitting around.
I'VE all should work no one
should say he has enough for the
future. We don't know what the fu-
ture will be, these days"
Despite his dark outlook. Barthel-
mess apparently is well off financial
ly. After he dropped out of pictures
five or six years ago, he Travelled
widely. He has many business in
terests, he said, among them an au-
tomobile agency, a share in his
wife's interior decorating shop, and
considerable real estate.
His son, he said, recently quit med
ical school of his own accord to
work in an aircraft plant. His daugh-
ter Mary, 18. is opening in Boston
in her first play this month, and he
will fly back to watch her
Tennis, swimming and long hikes
in the hills keep him looking dec
ade less than his 46 years.
Evening star., 1941-12-07

Two years ago BarthelmeSs came
out of retirement to play in Only
Angels Have Wings" Critics well
coined him and he saw comeback
in the offing. But this is his first
film job since then.
Il haven't been able to get the
right kind of a part" he said. I'm
the heavy in this picture, and that's
what I need-character roles.
Herbert Marshall can play De-
anna Durbin's father, but they won't
accept me in those parts-I still look
too young. My stomachs fiat, I'm
not getting gray and 1 have my own
hair-but can't 60 on playing lead
ing men forever"
Barthelmess said he still receives
the Difference and consideration he
got when he was a star, around the
studio.
Il used to have a publicity man"
Barthelmess added, but l don't now
IF my parts aren't good, Id just
as soon they'd be forgotten. If they
are good, then it will be time to
plan my campaign"
Evening star., 1941-12-07

Pretty soon Harry Anger beckoned
again from Montreal and We went
back for six weeks, and surprise.
A couple of hours before the first
show Harry announced he wanted
all new routines, and a complete
new show every week. That fioored
me, but again it was Edna to the
rescue. She said she could write 'em.
I said. well, now was certainly the
time for her to display her hidden
talent. If any, so We went over to
coffee shop to contemplate.
Got a Diploma.
Edna noticed man at the counter
dunking doughnuts in coffee and
Edna said, There's our first rou-
tine" Darned if the gal wasn't right.
We whipped up doughnut dunking
bit right then and there that's prob
ably the best thing I've ever done.
So, Edna took over my writing.
and she's been at it ever since, and
there's no better. She's also handled
all my business and even got her
high school books and taught me
enough so that I captured high
school diploma in Chicago. Now
I'm doing courses by mail for North
western University and I'm afraid
Edna will hound me until I get a
degree. The gals impossible. but I
couldn't live without her. wouldn't
want to.
However. back to business. From
Montreal I went to Shea'S Theater
in Toronto and then shuttled back
and forth between Toronto and
Montreal. Then came the merry
go-round: The Palace in Chicago.
etc, etc, until Gene Ford booked me
with top billing at Loew's Capitol
in Washington.
Gene had put on an advance
campaign building me up as a
glamour boy until don't know what
Washington expected. but I Ger
tainly was not it. especially when I
went out right off the bat and fell
into the orchestra pit.
However, the. critics were kind.
They said I was no heartbreaker
but I was funny. That satisfied
me. The wheels of fortune were
spinning like top now I even
tually put in So straight weeks in
vaudeville as a headliner in the
country's biggest houses. including
New York, and I think that's a
Evening star., 1941-12-07

end of the business. We quit" We
did.
And there were the Presidents
Birthday shows. 1 emceed four Of
them, for which I'm indeed grateful
and proud. 1 have an autographed
picture of Mr.. Roosevelt, which is
priceless to me, and l told White
House breakfast: BE careful. folks;
was rolled once in a joint like
this" at which the President
laughed.
Then one day We were in Holly
wood, I under contract to Metro
Goldwyn Mayer and not long there
after read newspaper which said :
Red Shelton, the new comedy star.
That must be somebody else, ]
thought, and I still think SO. for,
as I've often said, Edna and I came
to Hollywood solely because she had
a pair of slacks she wanted to wear
under a mink coat.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1941-12-07

.record, at least for the past 10 years.
And right now I'm carrying around
about so weeks of vaudeville con-
tracts in my pocket. I'm taking
no chances on this movie business.
Finally Hollywood.
There were guest shots on the
Rudy Vallee Hour and a year on
my own coast-to-coast air show for
q cigarette company. Edna and I
even took out our own theater unit,
a wonderful unit, with Enoch
Lights Band, a line of 16 girls,
six acts of vaudeville and the most
beautiful costumes and scenery in
the business. We broke house rec
ords everywhere and lost about
$500 a week. 1t was all very
thrilling to me, but one day Edna
sharpened up her pencil and said:
We've dropped $4,000 in three
weeks. We spend too much. Break
ing box Office marks and losing
money proves we're in the wrong
Evening star., 1941-12-07

TRULY A PROTEAN ARTIST
Versatile tellotD is this Red
Shelton. You ,Uill readily
recognize the "Great Louer"
upper lett practicing his
,0iles upon Inca Cooper. And
that is Red Shelton, traoedian,
in the scene from "Panama
Hattie" NTH Ann Sothern
upper right. Belo,U: r. Skel-
ton, playboy, at home NTH his
electric trains, and (right in
q more familiar role, falling
for Ldraine Day and Alma
Kruger in one OF the DR.. Kill
dare pictures.
And then it came time to move on
to St. Louis for another walkathon.
Then New York.
I thought was in love with Edna
and that it might be a good idea
to get married. But it was Edna
who made up my mind. I inquired
sort of casual-like if shed ever
thought of wedding bells and she
said, Yes, III marry you" Just
like that. But she lived to rue the
day of that hasty decision.
Many valuations later, we lit out
for New York and career in the
theater. which was not forthcoming
as promptly as we expected. In TACT,
for nine months I tramped the
streets looking for ANYTHING and
and finding nothing in large way.
Wed rented a frowsy place for 81
a week, but Edna had fixed 1t up
with curtains and things.
This almost became our tomb as
we finally looked starvation in the
eye. I had to sell all my joke books
for a total of 81. But on the day
we were frying our last egg on the
electric iron 1 landed a few days
work in Washington.
When we returned to New York
we met two maddening situations.
The landlady of our apartment
wanted sl4 for it instead Of the 81
we'd been paying, on the ground it
was so much nicer than when we'd
first rented it. The fact that We
were the ones who'd made 1t nicer
cut no ice with her. We went to
hotel. Then when I went after my
books I discovered the man was ask
ing s24 :or them. He turned a deaf
ear to my plea that profits were
profits, but that was holdup. I
never got the books
In the hotel we hit our all-time
low. One night we were, owing 50
room rent and Edna said: We've
been through lot, but there's one
humiliation I hope never have to
face-being put out of hotel" Her
words were still echoing when the
phone rang and it was the manager
telling us to scram and at once.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
HOLLYWOOD.

Until right now Dorothy Parker
has been a very convenient person
to have around because any with
cism could be attributed to her and
that made it seem so much funnier,
she being such wit,
Good story tellers never attribute
bon mots, especially if they are even
slightly risque, to some unidentified
wag; it gives them color and Gre
dence to hang them on some famous
person, the better known the better.
And so for great many years now
the smartest dialogue, both remod
eled and new, but seldom of the type
you tell the kiddies, has been at
tributed to Dorothy Parker, who, II
you look among the clippings. is in
variably described as wit and
writer"
The story tellers, beginning right
now. will have to get new goat.
Miss Parker hereby serves notice.
Hope Was in Vain.
I went to her home the other
cocktail time full of anticipation
and hoping all the way out to 602
North Bedford drive that I'd be able
to remember all the pearls she was
about to cast.
The worry and hope was wasted.
Miss Parker is smallish and early
fortyish. who does up her hair in
tight knot in the back and bang-y
in front. She was wearing peasant
blouse. full candy skirt and
low -heeled cloth sandals.
Come right in and have a drink
and what do you drink" she said
in one breath. Then we sat and
talked about the weather and the
movies. the two subjects We discuss
out here.
And about those quips of yours, !"
I began, anxious to get the epigrams
rolling.
"Quips! Oh. Ridiculous, isn't it?
To have such a reputation, I mean.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
MacMurray's S Next

Fred MacMurray has been as
signed to the male lead in The
Forest Rangers, following the COM
pletion of his current role opposite
Rosalind Russell in Take a LETTER,
Darling" In Paramounts Techni-
color perturbation of the Thelma
Strabel story MacMurray will por-
tray a modern northWoods fire
ranger who employs airplanes and
parachutes to battle the blazes.
George Marshall, who directed
Texas" "Destry Rides Again, The
Ghost Breakers" has been engaged
to direct The Forest Rangers" The
film is scheduled for a start in
January.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
And Property Men
Get Well Paid, Too,
For These Tasks
BY Wide World News,
HOLLYWOOD.

by WlOe WOTiQ NeWs.
HOLLYWOOD.
It's a pleasant task-from Lake to
mermaids-for one set of movie
property men.
They had to carry Veronica Lake
onto the set because, in one scene,
she is bound hand and foot.
Then they began totin' mermaids.
The mermaids are chorines encased
in skin-sight trunks which extend
from the hips and fan into enor-
nous tails. They're in a night club
scene in the same picture. This
Gun for Hire" for an underwater
effect.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Every One Must Work
Thus Speaks Richard Barthelmess,
Before the Cameras Again
By Vern HaneIan'
Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.

specaces stood up
smiled nroducos and then tro"o
reading avorite columnlst he said
you'd call this comnist pessmst but mes no-hes
bad shape"
paentather kid Of 1928 the medal star
Evening star., 1941-12-07
A M u Sc NJ E N is.
Waxing Autobiographical,
Red Shelton Tells ALP
Presenting His Own Story of a Career
Guided by Wonderful Wife
To Hollywood Contract
By Red Shelton.
By Red Shelton.
HOLLYWOOD.

th ripe old age OF - already veteran of medicine show and
troupe Missouri showboa
the interest
wide the quality skipper
when fell
He promptly pitched me
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-02-07

Sonny's statement for O'Regan.
There were-what police term-many
holes in it.
An hour later Sergeant O'Regan
went back to question Sonny. She
was quiet now, but shaking as tho
with ague. GIVE told you every
thing" she gasped.
Glow much money did Tom
have?"
I don't know. A lot. I saw a roll
of bills. The man took them-and
his watch"
"You saw that? 1t was dark"
"The lights of the car were on"
O'Regan watched her closely. Dur
ing lull in the questioning, Sonny
asked for another dress. "Please
don't make me keep this on. His
blood" she broke down again.
O'Regan called his home, asking
his wife to bring over one of her
house dresses. She was about the
girls size.
Mrs. O'Rggan came with the frock.
and helped Sonny change. The stain
ed dress was put away carefully. The
girl was then given sedative, and
she slept fitfully with the trooper
watching. Now and then she cried
out in her sleep: "Tom, Tom, told
you it couldn't last!"
The trooper felt little sick. He'd
have to report that. When he did,
O'Regan looked more grim than ever.
The hours crept on. At dawn, the
men came back from the trailer.
They had bundle of stuff. O'Regan
checked it all. There were some pa
pers taken from travelling bag. He
locked them in the safe and stood
up. His duty was clear.
O'Regan went back to Sonny. She
was awake. "Why did you quarre1?"
he asked.
Quarrel? We didn't"
"Why did you think your mar
riage couldn't last?"
eve were too happy"
Something in O'Regan's eyes made
Sonny start, but she controlled her
self. Then he said, eve must try
to find your husband. Do you feel
we'll enough to come out and help
u.s."
eyes" responded Sonny. She
O'Regan and two other troopers, got
into a police car. There was a blaze
of flashlight bulbs; a carload of
newspaper men trailed them. Other
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-02-07
"THURSDAY'S CHILD" by B xeHA
FROM THE OLD RHYME: THURSDAYS CHILD TO CO"

would you recognize him ?"
O'Regan asked.
"I'll never forget him as long as
l live!"
"What happened when he got into
the carr"
Gle talked to Tom. We drove a.
long. Then all of a sudden he shot"
Sonny's head bowed. She started to
weave in the chair.
GO on"
"He made me drive on. Tom was
leaning against me and he never
spoke. could see the blood"
O'Regan thought she was going
to faint, but she kept on in a queer
high voice: eve drove and we drove
over back roads. He made me! He
held thew gun at my SIDE"
what time did this happen?"
ut wasn't dark yet when we pick
ed the man up"
"And you have been driving about
since them"
eyes, driving and driving. Fin
ally we stopped and he took Tom out
of the car. l tried to run away; he
shot at me-"
"Your husband was dead?"
II think he was. He neve1
spoke"
go on"
"The man made me get back into
the car and we drove some more. W.
stopped at a gasoline station, ant
he kept the gun at my side while
we got gas"
"Who paid for it,"
"I did"
where was the gas station?"
81 don't know!"
Sonny was completely hysterica
now and O'Regan gave up. He pu
her in the adjoining office, where
there was a couch, and she lay down
O'Regan's men had found tn
wrecked car down the road and were
on their way to the trailer.
BY that time the local newspaper
men were at headquarters. Thu
place was a madhouse. O'Regal
would allow nobody to talk to Sonny
The stenographers was busy tipping
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-02-07

"He threw him out at the side of
the road"
Sergeant O'Regan arrived in five
minutes. He recognized Sonny i'm
mediately. whats al this about,
Mrs. Hollister?"
Sonny tried to tell him, but words
came in punches. O'Regan took her
into the chiefs office, got her a
glass of water.
Her hands were trembling SO, she
spilled the water. won't you help
me find him?" she pleaded.
1.-THE hitch-hiker?"
"No, Tom! We can't let him lie
out there"
"Where?"
81 don't know. / don't know. We
drove and-drove."
"Who was driving?"
II was. Tom was next to me-
the man shetland Tom fell against
mel"
She looked down at the blood on
her dress and her head dropped low
er.
"Where's the gum"
81 don't know-it was Toms gun
he kept it in the pocket of the car. u
O'Regan called in another troop
er to stay with Sonny while he went
out. He 'phoned some of his men
to search the trailer parked off the
road seven miles away. He finally
called the HOLSTER home. When he
came back, he sat looking at Sonny
for long time.
Then the chief and another man
arrived and more troopers. They all
looked at Sonny sobbing Historically
"We're going to take statement
Mrs. HOLSTER" said the chief. "AnG
we want you to know that anything
you say will be held against you."
Sonny looked up, her eyes glazed
give told you"
"Tell US again."
Sonny started, haltingly. She anG
Tom had started for Malone. They'G
picked up a hitch-hiker. He had 9
funny nose. What was he wearing ?
She couldn't be sure. But no coat
And blue trousers, she thought.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-02-07

cars, too, were securing that section
of the mountains.
"Ill know if we come near the
road where he made me turn"
"Would you recognize the gas sta
tion?"
CONTINUED on Page 81
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, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
Bv PAUL HARRISON
TsconA lines Correspondent.
p1E1 ere sfrprr {
HOLLY WOOD

HOLLYWOOD-Behind the screen: Top executives Of a
stdo cot an awful shock when they viewed two pictures
lust completed by producer non-sho"msn VINO nao
hen shnnted into the lob BY meddng eastern oankes
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NOW PLAYING At
LOCAL THEATERS

RTALTo-rred Astaire In you'll
Never Get Rich" II 80, AIS. 500
745. 1890; also Left Erickson In
Blonde From singapore, l:oo,
3.5S. Gao. Gas.
Roxy-Gene Tiernev in shutdown"
1870, 3:2o, $40. $50, also Frances
II 80. ans. sos. 500 Punch and
Judy Quiz Show at 300 p. m.
MUSIC BOx--Alice Faye in "A Week
end IN Havana" 12:bo. s:SS, 7:io,
1920; also Dennis O'Keefe in Lady
Scarfaoe." so. also. $40, 1855.
BLUE MOUSE - Clark Gable in
--Honky ronk." i2io. 2'ss, 1855,
RIVIERA The Rough Riders in
.Gunman From Bodie, II 40, 2:25.
THE Richest Man In Town" 90,
CAMEO = Basil Rathbone in The
Mad Doctor" also George Huston
IN The Lone Rider Rides On"
RETURN SHOWING
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tone In This
Woman Ia Mine" also John How
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CApIToI.-warne Baxter in Adam
Had -Four Sons" also Chester Nor
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btftthA III wan
Hunt" and Richard Arlen in MI
tiny IN the Arctic"
KAY STREET - Abbott and Costello
I'm the Navy" also Arthur Ken
nedy in Strange Alibi"
LAkEWOOn--Loret Youns In Lady
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yon's Tight Shoes"
PARk--Frnnk Bucks Jungle Caval-
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tergood Pulls the Strings"
PRoCTOR-Dennis Morgan in Bad
Men OF Missouri" also Baby Sandy
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REAL ART Arthur Kennedy IN
Strange Alihi." also Virginia Oil
more In Jennie"
REN-Lionel Barrymore In The Pen
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st>sFT-Ida Lupino In "Out OF the
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ms Company"
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Begins For Andy Hardy" also Ann
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LIBERTY. Puyaiiup-Clark Gable IN
"Honky Tonk."
RIVIERA, sumner Clark Gable In
sHnnky Tank
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Ketch Route
Altered by
Dan Cupid

SUNA, FiB-This is the saga oi
the ketch Golden Hind and what
love did to H.
II. r. Jenkins Of Auckland, ~. e..
employed two native Tonga boys
to sail his ketch from Honolulu to
Auckland. What Jenkins did not
know was that one of his sailors
was desperately in love.
As the ketch sailed south
east toward Auckland the
Tonga boy grew increasingly
lonely. So at night, while the
others slept. he surreptitiously
turned the ketch around and
headed for Honolulu. Before
dawn he pointed the boat again
toward Auckland. He hoped
the nights would he longer
than the DAYS and the breezes
stiffer and that eventually
the ketch would land again ut
Honolulu.
Jenkins didn't discover the de-
ception until the ketch mysterious
ly came upon Canton island, 1000
miles from Honolulu and still
1000 miles from Auckland.
Tuesday he was back on the Pa
cific, with a chastened crew, en-
route to Auckland both day and
night.
A crew of the Pacific Clipper,
Just in from Canton, told the
story.
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Shutdown, Walter Wanger offering opened yesterday
s the Roxy heaier TO bring to the story which ran
IN the Saturday evening Post serial and which stars
Gene Teney and features such able talent Bruce Cabot
George Sanders Harry I'm going retire Carey Joseph
Calleia Reginald Gardiner Carl Esmond Marc Lawrence
and Sir Cedric Hardwicke