Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-15

feast your eyes on the charms of ia,
Sounds like travel ad, doesn't
a certain ex-house painter began
exercising his whim for world pow
er-but today it's Hollywood and
the movies coming valiantly to the
rescue Of US enforced stay-at-
homers. Nowadays when we're con-
fined to an area precisely bounded
by 1 gallons of gas, the movies are
doing their best to see that we can
at least travel vicariously.
Cooks Tour Of World.
Cast an eye over current and
coming pictures and you'll be quick
to observe that the output from
Hollywood is q veritable Cooks tour
Of the world. Not quite up to per-
sonal contact, perhaps, but anyway
the movies do move-and talk
and it's lot better than looking
at stereopticon slides in Aunt Jen-
MES parlor.
Let's 60 down the list of major
studios and see what travel arrange
ments have been made for us isola-
tionists. Pausing at Burbank, we dis
cover Warner Bros. have routed us
through tropical waters from Ber-
muda to South America in Nov,
Voyager." Bette Davis and Paul
Henreid are your guides. They
make love. Miss Davis and Mr..
Henreid, in fact, 60 on a kissing
spree in every port. No extra fare
for this.
The same studio offers Washing
ton, Germany and Mexico in an all
expense tour entitled Watch on the
Rhine" Turkey In background to
Danger" Russia In Mission to Mos
cow" North Africa in "Casablanca,"
Norway in Edge of Darkness" the
Mississippi In THE Adventures of
Mark Twain" and both New Orleans
and San Francisco in Gentleman
jim"
Bermuda in California.
Now that winter is making some
Of us think Of Bermuda or of red
f1annels, it's interesting to know Just
how Bermuda can be produced on
the screen. The scenery for Nov,
Voyager' was Laguna Beach, so
miles down the coast from Holly
wood, which the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce cordially in
vites you to keep in mind.
1t was another matter to capture
Norway-photographically we mean.
That involved considerable doing,
including snowstorms with wind
machines and pre-rationing corn
| flakes. watch on the Rhine"
showing Germany, Washington and
Mexico. was easy enough, though it
did involve erection of the WASH
1ngton Monument on a sound stage.
The monument lacked height, but
| you'd never know the difference.
AS for Mexico, that was California
scenery, cactus and all.
Metro oldwyn-Mayer, at the
other extremity of filmtown, can
take you places, too. The Philip
pines appear in Salute to the Ma
rines." France in '"Du Barry Was a
Lady," Scotland in "Lassie Comes
Home, England and France in "As-
signment to Brittany" Paris with
Joan Crawford as guide) in Re
union," the South Seas and Hedy
Lamar in white Cargo" and Jaya.
with Franchot Tone, In pilot No.
s."
Be sure to count your baggage
and keep plenty Of change for tips.
Here we 60 again:
Libyan Desert Scene
Twentieth Century-Fox has an
itching foot. We travel to the Lib
yam Desert with Henry Fonda in
The Immortal Sergeant" all over
the Pacific in submarine in Crash
Dive" to Coney Island in "Conev
Island" to London and San Fran.
cisco in Hello, Frisco" and licketv-
split to Yugoslavia with Philip Dorm
IN "Chetnik," picture in which YOU
may learn to pronounce the name of
Gen. Draga Mikhailovitch, Travel
Is very educational.
Paramount. besides certain eni-
sodes with bridges and sleeping bags
IN For Whom the Bell Tolls" takes
the tourists on a war-torn tour of
Spain and then leaps eastward In
China" with Loretta Young and
Alan Ladd. Might Plane From