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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-07-16
Vim. Stanley, ga,
Passes At Fig

William Stanley, "a, of Fig, was
buried on Sunday, following his
death which occurred on Satur-
day at his home. Rev. Cicero
Ashley was in charge Of the SER
vice.
The deceased is survived by the
following sons and daughters:
Abraham Stanley, Fig; Mrs. Dora
Hosier, Fig; Henry Stanley, Glade
Creek, Va; Mrs. John Miller,
Crumpler.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-07-16
Registering OF
Truck Owners To
Start Here Fri

Truck owners may register for
their gas, at the office of the 10
cal rationing board, beginning to-
morrow, members of the board
stated this week.
Registration will continue for
several days, but those who reg
ster under this classification are
asked to do so at their earliest
convenience, beginning Friday
morning at 900 o'clock.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-07-16
COUNTY TO GET SOME
STATEWIDE PUBLICITY

Carl Goerch, editor and pub
Usher of The STATE magazine
and Helton H. Smith, advertising
manager of this popular publica-
ton that has a good circulation
in the county, were in town this
week, collecting information for
a special section on this county to
be published next month.
Ashe county will also be the
subject of Mr.. Goerch's radio
broadcast on Sunday night, Au-
gust %.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-07-16
Friday To Be Last Day To
Register For Canning Sugar

do you plan to can this year?
So. How many quarts of last
years fruit do you still have on
your pantry shelf"
The places of registration are
open from 900 a. m. until 500 p.
m.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-07-16

Lessel L. Toliver, who entered
the Army in February this year,
continues i'll at Starks Hospital in
Charleston. He is the son Of
Charles Toliver, of Toliver.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
All Kinds Of Proposals in Hollywood
When Boy Meets Girl on the Screen Stars
Have Various Ways of Popping the Question

Undoubtedly the cleverest and
most natural proposal scene ever
devised for a motion picture feature
was that dinner-table sequence in
Mrs. Miniver," where Richard Ney,
playing the role of Vim, the young
Raj flyer, was heckled by his A.
year-old brother into a romantic
clinch with Teresa Wright. That
one combined comedy, romance and
pathos in an inspired piece of writ
ing and acting that become one of
the high lights of what probably
will prove the Academy Award win
ming movie of 1912.
George Montgomery draws a,
strange proposing assignment in
"Coney Island''-in fact, he thinks
he's setting some kind of an all
time record. George must propose
to Betty Cradle in a saloon! And
as if the bizarre surroundings were
not enough, he has to ask her to
marry him in the midst of a wild
quarrel.
Proposes by Cable.
In "The Immortal Sergeant,
Henry Fonda woos and wins Maui
reen O'Hara-by cablegram. To say
nothing of Tyrone Powers kid
Evening star., 1942-11-22

mapping this same Miss OHara in
The Black Swaziland making her
propose to him.
Hollywood would have you believe
that even in 1859 not all the maidens
were clinging vines. In Dixie -
Bing Crosby's latest excursion into
musical Americana, Dorothy La
mour, as a girl who runs a New
Orleans boarding house for deadbeat
actors, takes the initiative after COL
lecting the rent from Bing, follow
ing his first performance. If you
were an experienced actor, would
not have gotten 10 feet without being
kissed" remarks Dottie as they walk
along together. So what can Crosby
do but kiss her CP. She mar
ries Marjorie Reynolds, thought
In THE Glass Key" Alan Ladd
is packing to leave town when
Veronica Lake walks into his apart
ment and calmly announces that she
is going with him. So that's that.
Quick Action Follows.
When Robert Preston meets Ellen
Drew, Red Cross nurse, in Might
Plane From Chungking," after six
years in the back country, he wastes
(See HEFFERNAN, Page Ed
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Eyes of Columbia
On New War Zone
HOI,1,VWnnT


With the eyes of the world on
North Africa, Columbia announced
today it was readying Sahara" as
one OF its seasons biggest produc-
tlons. Zoltan Korda has been signed
to direct, Melvyn Douglas will star
and the story, of tank warfare in
the desert, has several unusual high
lights.
Douglas will head an all-male
cast.
Finding the 20 male PRINCIPAL,
will give Columbia an acute casting
problem; the players must range
from American and English types
to Italians, Germans, Arabs and
Soudanese.
Further, Sahara" will gain In
authenticity by inclusion of official
footage OF the past two weeks cam
paign in Egypt and Libya.
Harry Joe Brown will produce the
new Columbia drama. zoltan Korda
is considered happy choice for the
dlrectorial assignment because of
his handling of -Four Feathers.
which also had desert warfare a.
its background, and Sanders OF
the River" likewise African in locale.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

Mikado," by a Negro unit of the
Chicago Federal Theater, was an
amusing and frequently fantas-
tlcaLy comic joke on the unexcep-
tlonable style of Gilbert and Sulli-
van. Fully half the opera was sung
in traditional style, and none too
well, but several times during the
evening both the orchestra and per-
formers went creditably berserk.
Movies Shun Opera.
Notwithstanding the popularity Of
the English composers, which has
attracted audiences for more than
60 years, Hollywood finds that these
satirical harlequinades cannot COM
pete with today's hot rhythms. Ono
can recall an intrepid producer, An
drew L. Stone, who engaged an i'm
posing cast and presented "The
Mlkado" on the screen It was a
beautiful production, with good
voices. but when they counted up. it
was found that the regular movie
goers had passed it up consistently,
MIR. Stone called his screen opera
eta, for some strange reason, THE
Girl Said No." but even that tricky
nomenclature failed as box office
lure. Since then Hollywood has
shunned Gilbert and Sullivan.
though from time to time there has
been talk of D'Oyly Carte bringing
these musical frolics to the screen.
Practical-minded Hollywood show
men assert they belong to another
shoW-golng age. The average film
goer doesn't know anything about
the English composers, they say, and
care less about their political and
nationalistic theories.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Today's Film Schedules

CAP1TOLT Married Witch March haunted v v.ror.
Lake. 2l5 50 TAO and Stage shows lbs ass sxs
and 920 pm 80 ' A'N'' 800 o.4o
Jeanette Macdonald singing in Egypt: 1ao
Sister Eileen stage to screen 4a5 7s
ana $50 pm Stage shows: 1920 3:55, $3.50 10 pm
Done 1tP Legitimate and Costello.
las, 3:45, $50, 750 955 pm ~ 'eA1o.
LTTTE-"Shadows Beacon Hill" by Fnvn william. rt vr
Williams: 2, 4, 8, and 10 pm. ~ '
on Parade with Ann Miller a.r.,,
250 1885, $685. TAO 9:4O pm " 'e'
PALACETor Me My Gal" a-ot musical with Judy Garland
$40, $40, 7:30 $40 pm, 49, ~
Spitres Elephant" mart of dohls s.tr.
$40 750 and 1030 pm. -'
1sANs-LUx-News and shorts Continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Cornell Drama
Due Next Week
For Premiere
Chekh0v's Three
Sisters In Rehearsal
For Washington Debut

Katharine Cornell has entered
final rehearsals of her new produc-
ton of Anton Chekhov's The Three
Sisters" in which Judith Anderson,
Edmund Gwenn, Ruth Gordon, Den
mis- King, Alexander Knox, Mckay
Morris, Tom Powers, Eric Dressler
and Miss Cornell have the leading
roles. Guthrie McClintic, the stars
husband and director, is staging the
play, which Is Miss Cornell's 18th
since she became Americas only
actress-manager II years ago.
Casting has been completed, with
the addition this week of Alice Bel
more Cliffe and Stanley Bell. both
of whom played with Miss Cornell
in The Doctors Dilemma last sea-
son; Arthur Chatterton, who has
appeared in eight previous produc-
tions for Miss Cornell; Tom Nc
Dermott, Walter Craig, Amelia
Murphy, Patricia Calvert and Kirk
Douglas.
Following final dress rehearsals
the company will entrain for WASH
ington next week end, where "The
Three Sisters" will have its first
performance at the National Thea
ter on Monday, November 30 A
complete advance sellout is indi-
Gated for Miss Cornell's single week
engagement there, a feat which the
actress equaled with three other
productions, The Wingless Vic
tory"-the only other play under
her banner to have opened in Wash
ington-"The Barretts of Wimpole
Street" and her all-star revival of
candida" for Army and Navy relief
last year. Miss Cornell holds the
National Theater record for her
weeks engagement last season of
The Doctors Dilemma"
Following her week in Washington
the actress-manage will bring the
play to Ford's Theater, Baltimore,
week of December Z; then to the
Forrest Theater, Philadelphia, week
Of December IA. THE Three Sisters"
will begin its New York engagement
at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on
Monday night, December 81.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

play in two acts based by it's author,
KEITH Frings, upon short story by
Robert Ayre, presented by the The
ater Guild. one can be both captious
and cordial. To delve into the origin
of the piece, Mr.. Ayre happened
upon one of the sweetest little stories
that Thomas Bulfnch culled from
Grecian mythology - the fable of
Philemon and Baucis, who were
turned into linden tree and an oak
tree by Jupiter and Mercury. Out
of this fantasy was devised the story
of an old postman out of patience
with humanity. its sordidness. its
petty failings, its major defects, its
squalor His soul. therefore, turns
to trees, He admires their beauty,
their sturdy dignity. their sweet
serenity in spring and summer and
autumn, their bravery in winter
storms.
Becomes Tree.
So, at length, he decides to plant
himself in his back yard and become
a tree. This he does, and the effect
upon various village characters pro-
vides the amusing phases of the
comedy, while deeper note is
struck by the concern of his adoring
wife. His bare feet soon take root,
and by degrees he turns into a tree
until. in the final scene, We find him
lofty sycamore, providing grateful
shade for the villagers. with
framed epic by the village poetess
hanging upon the trunk, while, still
adoring. the good wife contemplates
its beauty.
Humor we have in plenty, and
lines of wit appropriately homely,
and some delightful characterize
tions. But whimsy of this sort
demands more. 1t demands winged
Imagination. Mrs. Frings' fancy be-
gins where the postman plants his
feet. but it does not develop with
him. 1t remains pretty near the
ground. In essence wonder tale,
you never feel the atmosphere of
wonder. None the less, it does
amuse.
AS the postman, stuart Erwin, bor-
rowed from Hollywood, whence he
Jared from the spoken stage about
seven years ago, leaves nothing at
all to be desired, and. while Lillian
sGish, as the wife, has little call
upon her undoubted powers, she
performs the role with pervading
humanity.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Coming Attractions
Stage.

Stage.
NATIONA-A solid of Gilbert and Sullivan, presented by
the Boston Comic OPERA opening tomorrow evening.
Screen.
with Gene Terney starting Thursday
COLUMBIA-A Mickey Rooney for second
street week; starting Thursday.
EARLE-Gentleman J with Enrol Flynn and Alexis Smith;
starting Friday.
Days Leave Lucille
IITTLEt"Carnet Bal" with Raimu, revival; starting
Wednesday.
Fortress with Richard Greene start
ing Friday
PALACE-"The Major Minor with Ginger Rogers
Ray MNland.
P1X-You With YOU" revival starting Wednesday
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Both Handle Brush,
Paint Each Other
HOLLYWOOD

AAOAAA4 / VvS\|Os
Few people know that one of the
qualities Diana Barrymore inherited
from her late father, John Barry
more, was that of painting. Diana
is fine young artist.
Her brand-new husband, Bram-
well Fletcher, also does all right
with a brush.
Bramwell is going into the Army
shortly as buck private. And by
strange coincidence his last role
for the duration is that Of the lowest
form of Army life in a picture
called The Immortal Sergeant"
now being made by 20th Century
Fcx.
Diana is therefore about to put
two and two together. She is doing
a portrait Of her husband In khaki.
And Bran Is doing q portrait Of
her painting him. The two pictures
when finished will face each other
ut opposite ends of their living
room.
ASSOCIATED Press.)
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Young or Old, They
Thirst for Hopalons
HOLLYWOOD

HULL WOOD.
William Boyd's champion fan Is
not youngster, surprisingly enough,
but man of the famous Western
stars own age.
When Bill, as Hopalong Cassidy,
was doing his stuff recently during
filming of "Bar-20 Three" on loca-
ton at Lone Pine, Calf, he met a
man who introduced himself as a
fireman with the Santa Fe Rail-
road. Formerly of Chicago, he
claims he never missed seeing a
Hopalong Cassidy production. He
was able to quote to Boyd dialogue
from his very first Hoppy, made
more than eight years ago. He was
able also to describe every detail of
action which had taken place in
the more than 43 pictures already
released.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
By Harold Hefernan,
North American Newspap per Alliance.


HOLLYWOOD. - Marriage pro-
posal scenes in the movies are grow
ing more and more fascinating these
days. AS in real life, the tempo of
Horace Hornahan's bid for Gertrude
Gulchs life partnership, on a basis
OF love, honor and (maybe) obey,
has been vastly speeded up.
It's merely a sign of the swift
moving times in which we're living,
say the scenario writer's. Lovers
simply don't have the time to go
through those complicated motions
and speeches and fol-de-roil which
used to wind up with coy maidens
protesting that this was so sudden
and she would have to take a few
days to think it over. Today's
suitor would tell her to make up
her mind pronto because a guy down
at his draft board had already made
proprietary passes at him.
Nevertheless, the writing boys say,
it's tough grind whacking out neat
and nifty ideas for movie marriage
proposals-almost as troublesome as
designing novel ways of getting boy
to meet girl in the opening passages.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

from England to avoid pirating of
the work of unscrupulous Ameri-
can publishers. There existed in
those days no international COPY
right, and "Pinafore" was presented
in 1878 all over the United States,
without a thought of royalty for the
authors and composers.
Ames Venture Failed.
Since then Gilbert and Sullivan
operas have been hardy ANIMALS in
the American theater, occasionally
before war days, by the periodical
visits Of D'Oyly Carte companies,
more often by seasoned veterans
with voices who have sung these
comic satires with music over and
over again.
Winthrop Ames one of the earlier
G. & s. enthusiasts. once conceived
the idea of giving these operas with
lavish scenic investiture, rich and
colorful costumes. He invested a
small fortune in productions of
"Iolanthe" and Pirates of Pen
zance"-Mr. Ames being a man of
great wealth-but the public re-
sponse was not sufficient to guar
antee a dividend on his investment.
Liked by Regulars.
This columnist's first expenditure
for footlight entertainment was 10
cents, for which admission he en-
tered the theater of Boston's indoor
Zoo where a performance of Pirates
of Penzance" was given. 1t is now
the site of the Colonial Theater on
Boylston street. This dime brought
a lot of enjoyment. though probably
not great voices. Since then q score
Of Pirates" have passed in review,
some good, others mediocre, but 1t
has never destroyed the appeal of
the music.
Tomorrow night at the National
Theater the Boston Comic Opera
Co. presents the comic capers with
song, and while r. P. A. will not be
there, you may recognize in the
front rows Gilbert and Sullivan ad-
diets who know almost every word
of the libretto, every verse of the
songs. There are regulars in Wash
ington who never miss a G.. and S.
performance.
M0dernizinE Fails.
Efforts to popularize Gilbert and
Sullivan by modern transfusions
have not been eminently successful.
Producer Michael Todd engaged
Hassard Short to bring THE Mi
kado" in jazz time, to New York
Worlds Fair audiences. Modern
adaptations and jazz orchestra ar
rangements were provided by
Charles L. Cooke, and Truly MCGEE
staged the dances la jitterbug.
For all Of this anachronistic polish
the producer engaged Bill (Bo-
jangles) Robinson, outfitted him In
q golden suit, and his supporting
cast IN gay masquerade costumes.
The venture was a mild success, but
not sensational enough to induce
further G.. and S. innovations,
The Mikado, or rather "The Swing
Evening star., 1942-11-22

and humor and its superb charac-
terization one would be tempted to
define it as a more or less refined
'Hellzapoppin' At any rate. speak
ing with reserve, it is unorthodoX in
its various expositions of theme
which is perfectly sane and sound
the thought that mankind will, as
so often it has from the ice age to
the present time, rise supreme over
sdversity. Illustration, disaster and
defeat if only very often by the skin
of It's teeth. Processes of the will
to survive are traced in various
scenes dating back to prehistoric
times.
Novel and Exciting.
The underlying thought OF this
eiece is not new, but certainly the
manner in which the playwright de-
veloped it is novel and exciting.
The result is dynamic, weird, a
daringly brilliant conceit, the fate
of which remains for ensuing weeks
to decide. In all probability the
decision will be favorable; for the
difficulty which fair percentage
Of any audience will experience in
catching all that goes into the work
Ing out of the meaning of this COM
plex comedy should be offset by the
thrilling novelty of the production,
by the numerous occasions Cor
mirth and. finally, by the superb
acting of a galaxy of outstanding
actors and actresses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Antrobus are an ave-
tage couple going through the ca
tastrophes and vicissitudes of the
ages with their two children. boy
and a girl and with their maid. Sa-
bina. Morals are pointed in allie
porical action, much of which
amused the audience to the point
Of boisterous hilarity and much, also,
of which puzzled and amazed It,.
But, since the idea of the play was
set forth in an explanatory para
graph at the head of the program.
not a great deal of difficulty was
experienced in following Mr.. Wild
er's thought-even granted it was
often couched in bewildering terms.
Triumph for Tallulah.
Tallulah Bankhead as Sabina. the
maid servant. grasped every oppor-
tunity for expressing her genius, or,
If you will. talent, as well as her
physical attractiveness. She scored
q personal triumph. For sincerity,
charm and general appeal, Florence
Eldridge was outstanding among the
highly qualified personnel of the
company assembled for this produc-
ton.
Fredric March was fine as the
man of human frailties, who in all
great tests rises in rugged, indom-
liable manhood to carry life on and
on into the ages. Montgomery Cliff
and Frances Heflin. as the Antrobus
children. adequately met the chal-
lenge .of difficult juvenile parts, and
Florence Reed. as a Boardwalk for
tune teller, was very effective in a
comparatively brief appearance.
Concerning Mr.. Sycamore" a
Evening star., 1942-11-22
After MANY Years

Margo, star Of screen, radio and
stage, has just become an Amer
ican citizen. Two days after she
pledged allegiance to the stars and
stripes, she added one more notch
in her versatile career by acting as
commentator in Women at Arms, :"
the second RKO-Radio film in its
new two-reel series titled This Is
America
Evening star., 1942-11-22

(See HEFFERNAN, Page E-4.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Comic Opera Black Market
Hurt Gilbert and Sullivan
English Composers Were
Long Victims of Pirates,
Who Stole Their Works
By Andrew r. Kelley.

n IN oers and saans day there American Society
composers
operas might have made their heirs wealthy They victims
of comic black " ~ ~ ''
The Pirates of Penzance" produced
New Yoks New Years eve 1879 Sir Ahr
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Broadway Halls Bizarre
Thornton Wilder Play
Skin of Our Teeth Seen
AS More or Less Refined
Edition of 'Hellzapoppin''
BY Laurence Perry,

NEW YoRK-Ihonton Widers new comedy The Skin OF Our
Teeth trlnkngy staged
Wednesday
in
concocton of this piece its sincerity
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-21
Reds OverwheIm
khurkov Lines

ported by 10 or IS tanks and squad
rons of planes, in its unsuccessful
coulfterattacks.
In most sectors the Germans were
attacking with units ranging from
one battalion to a regiment of in
fantry, made UP largely of shock
troops and fresh reserves, including
youths of ID and 10.
After overcoming the main de-
lenses of Kharkov, it was reported,
the Russian forces were battling in
open fields and unfortified villages
outside Kharkov, overpoWering Nazi
strong points in knitting and encir-
cling hedgehog attacks.
The Red Star reported that fresh
German reserves were attempting
counterattacks at various points
along the 100-mile curving front
around Kharkov on the 10th day of
Timoshenko's spring offensive.
German shock troops threw them
selves into the path of crushing
Russian tanks, and tank claShed
with tank, as the enemy counter
attacked with almost unprecedented
ferocity in their attempt to ease
the threat to their entire line a
threat which had already set back, if
it had not spoiled, Adolf Hitler's
plans for a drive on the Caucasus.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-21
HoIIywood's
Funci les
By Paul Harrison

HOLLYWOOD, May q All
over the lot: There's a local adage
to the effect that you always
should be nice to the office boy
because, in this unpredictable bus
mess, he may be your boss tomor-
row. John Boles can tell you that
this is no joke.
While Boles was q big star at
Universal he made sort of pro-
tege of the assistant prop boy, an
alert, amusing kid named Phil
Karlste.n. Used to take him to
lunch occasionally, and on the set
would encourage him in planning a
career Later, a succession of bad
roles and poor pictures prompted
Boles to quit Hollywood for con-
cert tours.
A few weeks ago, when the sing
ing actor happened to be in town,
he had an offer from the. studio of
a substantial role as the elder male
III a romontic rectangle called
Love and Kisses, Caroline" 1t
turned out that he had been sug-
gested for the part by the pictures
producer, Mr.. Philip Karlstein.
TIRED HIM
Red Shelton reports he found a
way to beat the tire shortage:
bought a lot of tennis shoes and
dashed 'em around the wheels of his
car. Il couldn't stand it, though
he admitted. Il always had the
feeling that people were chasing
me-" l don't know what will hap
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-21
laps Mass for Big
Knockout Drive At
Allies in China
BY ROBERT p. MARTIN

CHUNGKING, May 81. CUP)-
Japan has massed at least 10000
troops in the east coast province of
Chekiang and concentrated 10000
more at the Kiangsi province capital
of Nanchang in an effort to knock
out Allied air and supply bases in
eastern China, it was reported Of
ficially today.
A Chungking military spokesman,
emphasizing the pressure of the
enemy offensive, said the japanese
we're using five plane supported div
isions in a six-pronged drive against
Chinese resistance centers in Chek-
lang.
Each enemy column, he said, was
covering an. area about 80 miles
wide, spreading the entire offensive
over roughly $1,000 square miles
snce the attack was launched last
Friday.
From Japanese-captured Chukih-
sien, Fengkiao and other towns
southeast of Hangchow, the Japa-
nese were reported driving toward
Kinghwa, a main Chinese strong
hold in Chekiang province. - ,-,.z.