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WHAT STOCKS DID
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-(R-Cotton
futures dipped at the outside today
and stayed down the balance OF the
session. Final prices were unchanged
to 3 points lower.
Trade buying furnished the chief
support. Offerings consisted of south
efn hedges, liquidation in March and
selling by Bombay.
Exports Thursday 6,115 bales; sea-
Son so far 700, sos. Port receipts 20
1893. Port stocks 3,472,7 TAB.
Range follows:
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NEW T T

AhW ORLEANS, Feb. 7.-LP-
NuGlon futures were easy here today
rl huer long liquidation and hedging.
nv ; prices were steady 2 points
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CHICAGO LARD

CHICAGO, Feb. 7.-R-Lard
tierces 6.32; loose 5.57; bellies
II LIS.
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PEANUTS

SUFFOLK, Va, Feb. T. R -
Peanut quotations iumbos 3 IA to
$40 bunch 3 1-8 to 3 LAP; run.
ners 3 to 8 1-S. Market continues
firm.
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The Douglas Bib has a top
speed of 20 miles an hour, but
can carry a 4400-pound load of
bombs nearly 1000 miles.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-R-Live
poultry, by freight, nominal; no
sales. 4
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Southern Railway will discontinue
passenger service between ,Hender.
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row.
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COTTON

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 7.-OP-Spot
cotton 1885,.
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STOCKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Spot nominal; middling 1899.
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60.Stock Range Since 1927
Evening star., 1941-09-14

recent run-in- with-the-law of her
eX-stepfather.
Consistently she has refused to
discuss her private affairs. explain
ing: MY mother used to say. If you
want to have nice time and make
friends, don't talk about yourself.
That's the way I've been brought
up"
She talks about her career freely
and enthusiastically Work absorbs
her. Il live like an athlete she
said. When I'm not on a picture
I swim, play tennis. golf and ski.
When I'm working, l sleep nine
hours at night and never go out to
dinner because I must be up at in
the morning I haven't time to go
shopping. haven't bought a new
dress in six months. I haven't even
had my Sundays off,
Now she must start her next pic
ture at Paramount-"The Lady Has
Plans" The title can be applied to
d auICtIC O"il olOly A>O4 liId hoilCo4 Il
used to be the most ambitious
woman in Hollywood, but today you
can say that of Paulette Goddard.
She plans today what she will do
tomorrow, and she does it.
Her success secrets are iron de-
termination, foresight. courage, dis
arming strategy-plus hard work.
Beauty and shapely figure got her
into pictures-but only as far as the
Goldwyn chorus. Her personality
attracted Charlie Chaplin, her intel
ligence got her screen test for the
feminine lead in his Modern
Times"
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When she hitched her wagon to
the genius who is Chaplin, she
served the best apprenticeship pos
sible in the business. Refusing to
bask in his reflected glory, she broke
loose professionally and signed a
Paramount contract for three pic
lures year. She pulled herself out
of threatening oblivion by teaming
with another comedian-Bob Hope,
from whom she learned more about
tempo and pace.
Coached by Ouspenskaya.
CharacterizationS and dramatic
roles were her next stepping stone.
She was coached III dramatics by
that hard taSkmiStress, Nine. Gus
penskaya. Her friend, Constance
Collier, coached her in the social
amenities when famous persons like
H. G. Wells and Einstein came to
visit Chaplin.
She took a course in English and
public speaking at U. c. L. A. She
studied ballet with Theodore Kos
loft for grace and movement. Later,
she spent weeks studying tap
dancing before she put in a bic for
the role opposite Fred Astaire in
Second Chorus" When she wanted
a part, Paulette got ready for it and
went after it.
The girl who runs her own yacht
the Panacea-Who knows enough
about navigation to take it to Cata-
lima and back in the dark, is right
at the helm of her career. She is
making fast time along a carefully
charted course.
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They Nearly Die Trying to Live Their Art

on the picture, they couldn't make
her stop. She had become hysteri-
cal. The director was scared SICK.
After that session Priscilla went
home and to bed-and the film was
held up 10 days.
Alice Faye, whose name is right
up among the big box Office 10"
seldom eats square meal because
Of worry over current or coming
movie assignments. Hers is the
most complete inferiority complex
in Hollywood The obsession that
she is deplorably bad actress makes
Alice miserable. She would be much
happier out of the profession.
When Jack Benny walks out on a
stage radio or screen) you uncon-
sciously feel that here is a fellow
who has complete command Of him.
self and any situation. Suave, easy
going. lingering that cigar in the
most nonchalant manner, Benny's
purring contentment is Just a great
big pose. He sleeps badly, worries
endleSSly over material and when he
comes out to face an audience or the
camera he is plain terrifed-some-
times to the point of near-collapse.
No wonder his hair is thin and gray
and that he seems occupied off
the stage.
Yes, many of your favorite actors
not only live their art"-they suffer
for it Actually!
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ship? Was it admiration for his
ability as an actor? Was it love
but love that must be controlled as
long as Mauritz Stiller lived?
Even at the height OF this "ro-
nance" that caused hundreds of
thousands of words to be written,
Jack and Greta quarrelled bitterly.
After one of these quarrelS Jack
would throw himself into his dress
ing room and call to his secretary,
IF Miss Garbo telephones say I'm
not in" She never called and the
rift always ended with Gilbert's
calling her.
Once they almost married. At
that time Santa Ana was Cali
fornia's most famous Gretna Green.
Gilbert and Garbo were actually in
a car headed for the windy little
town. Garbo, so Gilbert said, had
promised to marry him. But what
happened en- route Jack would not
reveal. At any rate five miles out
of Santa Ana the car was swung
around and they returned to Holly
wood.
His marriage to Ina Claire is his
tory. Garbo was on location in
Catalina filming The Single Stand
ard" when the elopement was an
nounced. A reporter flew to Cata-
lima, tracked Garbo down and told
her the news. Graciously she ex-
pressed the wish that they would
be happy.
These tWo-the most romantic
screen lovers of all time-did not
see each other until years later
when, divorced from Ina Claire, his
film career at a standstill because
he had made a "talkie" with too
little preparation, Jack received
telephone call. Garbo was going
into production for Queen Chris
tina 1t was her special request
that Gilbert be her leading man
Undoubtedly the knowledge that
Carlo had thought of him and
wanted him for the role added hap
piness to the last years of his tenn
pestuous life.
Many Names Mentioned.
After Gilbert there were rumors
and counter rumors. Director Rou-
ben Mamoulian, George Brent, Leo
pold StOkoWski-theSe names have
all been linked with Garbos. But
since Garbo, herself neither affirms
nor denies any rumor and since the
men themselves will not discuss the
situation, it remains rumor.
Vast open spaces terrify Greta
Garbo. Crowds send her into state
of jittery nerves. Explaining this,
psychologists have said that she is
the victim of agoraphobia which
is the opposite of claustrophobia
This is the reason she goes i'm
mediately to her portable dressing
room on the set the minute she has
completed a scene. This Is why she
refuses mass interviews, travels in
cognito.
OF "Garbo stories" there aAe hun
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few stars who still applies her own
hair.
Exotically gowned on the screen
as she is there are always fashion
sketch artists in the audience get
ting clothes tips from Garbo. yet
her off-screen clothes are far from
glamorous. What has become
practically a uniform consists of a
pair of slacks, a loose sweater and
a floppy straw hat In this garb
Garbo takes long hikes walking
as somebody once remarked "as
if she were being pursued
Another Legend Is False.
Although the legend is that Carlo
never leaves her home when she is
not in production, it, like so many
Garbo legends, is untrue. She has
no projection room at her house,
yet she sees innumerable movies
and all the good plays. She dimes
out often, joined in last years
Christmas crowd at big Los An
geles department store.
She once explained it to an in
innate friend. They do not notice
me because I look just like other
people" This is not quite correct.
1t is the others who look like her.
Garbo slips by unnoticed in the
group of amateur Carlos.
Headlines about Garbo's romantic
gestures scream out. Garbo. herself,
has never confirmed or denied a
single one. Yet in all the mass of
fiction there are a few facts which
can be culled.
Garbos first taste of glamour
a word later to become synony-
nous with her name-Was had when
she was a little girl living with her
family in the workingman's section
of Stockholm.
At nights when her family was
in bed-her father, a machinlst,
had to 60 to work early in the morn
ing-Greta, unbeknoWnst to them
would leave the house stealthlly
and make her way to the theatrical
section of the town.
Carl Brisson was at that time a
great opera singer. She watched
him most often, even dared to write
fan letters to him. He was, I'M
doubtedly, her first crush.
Her next great crush was Stlller,
the Swedish director. His death was
one of the greatest tragedies of her
life.
But it was her romance with John
Gilbert that piqued the imagination
of the American people and pro-
duced some of the greatest love
scenes ever filmed-those in Flesh
and the Devil"
She Never Called Back.
That Gilbert was madly in love
with her there was no doubt. Vital,
impulsive, hot-headed Jack had not
learned TO conceal his emotions.
How Garbo felt about him was an
other matter. Was 1t mere friend
Evening star., 1941-09-14
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


When you hear OF actors who
"live their art" you Immediately
think of temperament-and ham.
But that isn't always fair. AS a
matter of fact, there are many Hol-
lywood movie actors who actually
do live their art" They take 1t
to bed with them. They can't shake
it off until the job is finished.
No one who knows Bette Davis,
Betty Field, Spencer Tracy, Ingrid
Bergman, Margaret Sullivan. Gin
ger Rogers, Cary Grant, Ida Lupino
and perhaps a dozen others who
fall into that "live their art" classi-
fication would call them hammy.
Despite the mechanical aspect OF
a craft which makes its scenes in
short takes" and allows plenty OF
time for breath-catching and re-
taxation, these performers are so
high-strung emotionally that they
do become completely wrapped up
in their roles.
Curiously, such players, with one
or two exceptions, are fondly re-
garded around the movie colony as
actors actors" And that's the
highest compliment you can pay
any performer.
Bette Davis can walk out OF
stormy emotional sequence in The
Great Lie" or The Little Foxes
light cigarette and carry on
Jolly converse ton with friends IN
her dressing room, but she suffers
nevertheless. Her casual attitude
is an act. Bette usually has a
series of such sequences on her
hands in each picture. She burns
up much nervous energy. invariably
losing from to IL pounds during
the course Of a production.
Tracy Another Sufferer.
Spencer Tracy, victim of chronic
insomnia, can attribute 1t TO a
uper-senSitivity which may make
him a superior actor, but which
also whips him into nervous
lather. After scenes such as his
Mr.. HYDE outbursts in 'Dr. Jekyll," +"
Tracy became as touchy as a cat
on hot bricks. Tracy has paid a
high price for his two Academy
acting awards. He has walked the
floor many a night and far into the
morning, shared in a vicious circle
strung by role-worry and sleep
worry.
Garbo, after year and half
between pictures. is reported to have
gained Is pounds. Now in the midst
of another picture she has lost most
of it. She is constantly dieting and
exercising in an effort to keep her
weight stable But it is naturally
high-strung nature that is at the
bottom of her weight troubles.
Ordinarily, heavy dramatic parts
send her home a nervous wreck.
Barbara StanWyck is another who
Lives her art" without a trace Of
'hamminess" about it. Recently. in
The Great Mans Lady" she lost
a husband, her children and got in
and out of a complicated CEN
| tenarian's makeup over long
period. She went TO bed for a week
after the film was flniShed-and let
it be known that she has forsaken
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arbo Story Probably Is Just Another HOLLYWOOD Legend

Although when she first came to
California she complained that the
ever-warm climate depleted her
vitality and she longed for cold
weather she was the first member
of the movie colony-if Garbo can
be said to belong to any colony-to
take sun baths by the hour. Far in
advance of the present vitamin fads
Garbo has been drinking fruit and
vegetable juices, sopping up vitamin
D from the sun and taking all sorts
of healthful exercises for years.
Interestingly enough she reveals
these health secrets in her new film
in which she impersonates-as one
of the dual roles-a ski instructor
with a fetish for health.
Although she attempts to guard
her private life Zealously she does
not mind kidding herself on the
screen. In "Ninotchka" she deliv-
cred the famous Il want to be alone"
line as dialogue and in the present
film she wears slackS, sweater and
an old straw hat, which costume
is reminiscent of her favorite private
life attire.
More initiated by vaudeville and
legitimate stage impersonators than
any other film star, Garbo deliber-
ately seeks out such entertainment
and her hearty laughter can be
heard above all the others in the
theater.
1t was seeing her early interviews
in print-and in those days Garbo
did read what was written about
her-that caused her to fear pub
licity. Looking up from them with
that slow quizzical smile so typical
of her she asked one day, But why
do they care what 1 eat for break
fast or how I wash my hair? What
do they care about my life? was
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She Is Artistically Grown Up
By Mayme Ober Peak.
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
Paramount didn't know that
Paulette Goddard had flown to Lake
Tahoe until they heard it from an
sirlines company. She told this
columnist a month ago that she
would 60 to Mexico.
When I finish this picture
meaning Reap the Wild Wind
I'm going to spend my vacation
In Mexico to brush up on my Span
ish," she told me.
What finally happened was, she
went to Lake Tahoe for what she
called "a two weeks nap" This was
the best place to get away from
it all"
Paulette has done six pictures this
year-four of them big superS. No
other star has such record. She
was so weary that during the last
two weeks on the set she had a
trained nurse with her.
However when 1 interviewed Miss
Goddard in her dressing room, she
looked anything but worn. She had
on an off-the- shoulder bouffant
gown of white dotted swiss, with
flowers and black velvet bows in her
hair. I had Just watched her do
love scene with Ray Milland, while
one of the crew stood in the back
ground tanning her with a huge
piece of cardboard to give her hair
and the ruffles of her dress the ap-
pearance of being breeze swept.
New Role Is Varied.
Paulette's role is a varied one She
portrays the daughter of salvage
man. On his death she takes over
his ship and supports the family.
She wears dungarees most OF the
time. Now she was dressed for
visit to New Orleans. She looked
lovely, very allurmg,
Paulette not only is developing a
new depth to her beauty. but even
more assurance than she effected
before.
Il think I've grown up" she told
me. Mr.. De Mile probably ex-
planned It when he said to some one
the other day:
"'Paulette is coming along as an
actress. She has lost her fearn
That's true. I'm no longer afraid.
and because of that feel my career
Is Just beginning. I can work toward
something now"
What was Paulette Goddard afraid
Of? Some one close to her revealed
that she feared criticism by the pub
lie of the suit her father brought
against her for non-support AT
first she was fearful of public reac-
ton to the mystery of her marriage
to Charlie Chaplin. She was nervous
over that sordid story about her ap-
pearance in Hollywood nightclub
which kept growing like the pro-
verbal SNOWFALL rolling downhill
Also she was embarrassed by that
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dredS. 1t is inevitable that an
actress who believes that what she
does when she leaves the studio
comes under the heading of strictly
her own business should be the VIC
tim of rumors and legend that en-
circle the globe. However, it is pos
| Sible occasionally to separate the
wheat from the chaff.
Once she was shopping at the
salon Of a famous Hollywood cou-
fourier. She and the designer left
together. Come home to dinner with
me tonight" he said impulsively.
Surprisingly she said, I'D love to,
but will you walk?"
1t was a good three miles from
his shop to his home The designer
is not exactly the athletic type but
he kept up with Garbo's long strides
manfullv. His mother. a gentle little
lady who seldom sees movies was
at home. The designer said to her,
I've brought a friend of mine for
dinner"
1t was simple, home cooked meal
which Garbo enjoyed. Later in the
evening the mother said, MY dear,
you are so pretty. Why don't you
go into the movies? I'm sure my
son could help you. He knows many
of the Hollywood stars"
Garbo was highly entertained, but
never told her who she was.
But She Takes Pictures.
Enormously shy Of news photog-
raphers, she herself was an ardent
candid camera addict. When she
first arrived in America she bought
small camera and took photographs
all around the M.-G-M. lot. These
she sent back to her mother to
show her what Hollywood is like. u
If prints of these were available now
they would be worth a fortune.
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born. am trying to become an
actress. What else is there TO say?
And besides no matter what I say
they write what they want to any
how"
AS it became increasingly difficult
to see Garbo the writer's wrote more
and more what they wanted to
anyhow" So Garbo refused to give
interviews. to see the press, to pose
for publicity photographs and it
was said even then that Garbo had
changed. that this was a publicity
stunt-to make her mysterious. 1t
was no publicity stunt. 1t was Gar
bo's own wish to avoid having any,
thing known about her private life.
Friends Find Her Gay.
Her intimate friends know her as
really gay person with broad
sense of the ridiculous. "Garbo is
the most observing human being 1
have ever known" Robert Alton, the
New York dance director. who led
her through the intricacles Of the
rumba. said. 1t seems as if even
when she is alone in her portable
dressing room she knows what is
going on on the set She is always
the first to laugh when some prac-
tical joke is pulled.
A mystery to others, Garbo is not
a mystery to herself. Il simply live
my life as it seems best that I do"
she once said to a friend.
She is invariably surprised when
she reads of the Garbo myth, the
strange legend, or when the press
spanks her for refusing interviews.
There are so many who love the
publicity, who enjoy seeing their
photographs in the papers and like
to be quoted for publication" she
says, why can't the press concen-
trate on these people rather than
on me who hates it so?"
And there is Garbo, 1941i Not "the
new Carlo" not the changed Garbo,
but Garbo as she is and has always
been.
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heavy dramatics in favor of light
comedy of THE Lady Eve" variety.
Joan Fontaine, the haunted wife
of "Rebecca," became an even more
pronounced mental case in Before
the Fact" another Hitchcock prob
m-thriller. A thoughtful, con-
scientious actress, Joan put every
thing she had into the part, even
though she had just returned to
the screen after long illness. The
new part was no tonic. She went
back to bed for several weeks after
the role was finished, hasn't &C
cepted an assignment since.
Powell's Calm a Pose.
Often the performer who appears
most complacent and self-aSsured
on the screen is actually the one
who suffers inwardly to an agonizing
degree
Take the debonair Bill Powell, for
instance. No one could seem more
completely in control of himself to
the customers out front, and yet
Bill is one of the best worriers and
Self-pity artists in Hollywood After
any kind of scene, dramatic or COM
edy, he goes to his dressing room
and lies down. suffering a plain,
fashioned stomach ache. It's
just nerves.
Jimmy Cagney falls into the same
| category. He struts and spouts
around the scenery in a perpetually
belligerent mood, but gain his con-
fldence and he'll tell you he enter
tainS an unholy fear of every role
he undertakes Jimmy is one of the
most studiouS actors in town, one
of the few who carry scripts home
with them. He walks the floor. re-
citing, gesticulating until far into
the night Look at him on the
screen and he seems to be merely
| romping through his job.
! In spite OF an aggreSSiveneSs that
leads her to fight for her rights and
/ the roles she wants, Joan Crawford
isn't the confident. self f-possessed
actress she appears TO be Invariably
she thinks everything she does in
films is pretty bad and is often so
wrought up by looking at the daily
''rushes" that studio executives long
| since have refused to allow her to
inspect them.
| Martha Makes Martha Ill.
Martha Scott, who SpecializeS in
those ethereal, wiStful partS-and
does grand job with them-is an
other who can't help letting the
mental strain of an emotional role
take its physical toll Miss Scott is
not strong and is often an absentee
on the set simply because she can't
shake of her make believe once the
whistle blows.
/ Priscilla Lane is substantial
/ well-fed Iowa lass, but an emotional
scene sometimes puts her under
Warner Bros. won't soon forget the
scare she caused on the set of Dust
Be MY Destiny a couple of years
ago In a tensely dramatic scene
with John Garfield, she was required
to laugh and cry at the same time
After liberal dosings of menthol
they got her to cry. but the combi-
nation of falsifying both tears and
laughter did something TO her emo
tional makeup. After a dozen takes
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Toduy's Film Schedules

CAPITOL"Bele Starr, biography bandit
7:l0 and 10 shows: 325
COLUMBIALe Begins Andy Hardy
3, $40, 7:25 and 9:40
EARLE"Our Wife Mevyn
7:25 and $50 pm. shows: $40 and COS pm.
KEITHS-Cizen Kane" the Weles opus: 4:3O,
Intemezzo" subled "A Love Story" with Ingrd Berg
215 4:20 sos 1855 and $50
Robert Montgomery: 2:4O, 5, 7:2O and 9:35 pm.
PALACE-When Ladies high places with
starry 425 $50 pm.
-LUx-News and shorts; continuous from o'clock