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Evening star., 1942-08-30
Superstitions
Sometimes
Pay Off
Further Light Shed
On Mr.. Donlevys
Odd C0nUicfi0ns
BY Wide World.
HOLLYWOOD.


h.. HOLLYWOOD.
Superstitious actors in this film
capital are about as rare as flies
around a honey jar.
But Brian DonleVy says his latest
experience has strengthened his
faith considerably in omens. Re
Gently Donlevy read newspaper
account of renewed activity in the
California golf fields and wondered
how he'd like to become a miner
Later that same day friend called
and inquired if he take an interest
in a mining lease in the Piute Noun
/ tainS.
To Donlevy, that was more than
a coincidence. He considered it an
/ omen.
/ So he hired geologist and engi-
neer, and when their reports indi-
! Gated the presence of tungsten in
sufficient paying quantities the dea,
was closed Now he spends most
of his spare time at the mine.
Donlevys superstitions are legion
around the studios He wears. fol-
instance. nothing but solid colors
and always includes something
about his dress that once belonged
to the wardrobe of Clark Gable, e
close friend whom he considers the
finest type of actor.
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITOL-"Crossroads" William
Hedy LAMAR 2 435 720 10 Stage shows: 340 6:25
and 9:10 m.
COLUMBIA-"This Above All" Knights
the with Fontaine 225 AS ITO and $50
EARLE-"Tak
Coman comedy: O. 4:45, pm. Stage
4:l0, 6:55 and 9:35
KETHS SEage Squadron" the Raj: $780,
5:35, TAO and $40 PM
the story, Ingd Bergman
Leslie Howard: 220 425 $40, and $50
METROPOLITAN Girl" campus: S.
$50, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
PALACEMrs Mnver Jan Struthers family
with Greer Carson: Continuous from 80 pm
PIxLmre of the Islands," with Margie
9.10
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Greer Carson Eager to Show Her Curves
Ia Red-F1ared Irish Star Happy Over Emancipation
From Roles Featuring Bustles and Furbelows
BY Wide World.
HOLLYWOOD.


HOLLYWOOD.
After a modest but emphatic kick,
Greer Carson has at last got her legs
firmly planted on the screen.
This green-eyed, red haired Irish
actress, best known to the public,
perhaps, as the decorous Mrs. Min
iver and Mrs. Chips, had played so
many sophisticated roles in bustles
and old lace that she began good
natured beef" to her studio.
AS result she finally has landed
something 8 little more on the
spicier side.
It's not because she holds too
much of grudge against the
bustles. It's Just that she's got what
she, herself, considers is a pair OF
neatly turned ankles and, being q
girl, she'd like occasionally to show
them.
Her four years in Hollywood have
seen her in seven films, mostly
hustled Mrs. roles. But they've also
brought her three academy award
nominations, which just about estab-
fishes her among the highest rank
ing actresses on the screen.
Graves Versatility.
Il have enjoyed playing lady like
ladies" says Greer, crossing her
knees and modestly exposing the
finely contoured symmetry of a pair
Of sheer silk -stockinged legs.
But I've wondered whether or not
Id ever get chance to do other
types, the bad and the indifferent,
as well as the good, Maybe it's be-
cause am still bit surprised by
what the screen has done for me.
During my three years on the
London stage I was allowed to live
up to my red hair I usually had
lovers-a lot of them - and some
times shot one or two at the climax
OF the second act, just by way of
variety. 1t was most unlady- like,
and very exciting"
This brings up again the matter OF
Miss Garson's legs and the revealing
OF them for the first time on the
screen in her current picture, Ran
dom Harvest"
It's sort of test case, in which
she kicks up her heels time or two
and has a romance in which she
practically runs off with the man te
whom she has given her heart.
1t came about this way. At the
beginning of the story from which
the scenario was written, the hero.
Inc was shown as a showgirl who
later became lady by working ur
to it gradually.
But the author didn't dwell Ions
on the shoWgirl part. 1t was Greel
who saw the opening and leaped ir
feet first.
I'm not professional dancer O,
singer explains Greer, modestly
But playing showgirl seemed tot
good an opportunity to miss,
chance to be gay and spirited"
Some spirited story conference
Evening star., 1942-08-30

OF kits, designed for ample shin
bone display.
The mirror shocked me when I
first saw myself in that outfit" ad-
mits the actress with half a blush,
'and I found myself more than once
a bit embarrassed
II seemed to be all legs, and for
once I wished there was a hoop
skirt handy"
But, for better or for worse,
Greer's legs now are on the screen
and she likes 1t. And she also hopes
she's as right this time as she Was
wrong about sMrs. Chips
'.I was so terribly wrong about
Mrs. Chipps," she admits. "I
frequently doubt my own Judgment" :"
1t was just four years ago that
Greer, having completed Good by,
Mr.. Chipps," in London, cabled her
bosses in Hollywood that she didn't
want to come back unless they had
definite assignment for her. This
was the result of a stagnant and
fruitless first year in the film capi-
ital.
"Idleness in any form destroys me
spiritually and physically" explains
the actress.
Il had to come to Hollywood from
three magically busy and successful
years on the stage, eager to work.
months went by, and no picture.
There was nobody to blame. The
right film just didn't come along.
so I twiddled my thumbs and became
miserable.
When my contract had week to
run, I was rushed back to England
to play Mrs. Chips I felt that I
had spent a yeer in Hollywood and
travelled 10000 miles with nothing
to show for it.
"And was sure that Mrs. Chips
was too small and quiet role ever
to be noticed. have never been SO
happy to be wrong"
So Greer became Mrs. Chips"
dripping with bustles, and the pic
lures that followed seemed firmly
to establish her in like caracter.
Actually, she says she's no more
Mrs Chips" than she is your Aunt
Addie.
Sparkling, fun-loving and witty
conversationalist, she wears such
colors as shocking pink and en-
arald green, and she's a vision in a
red gown to match her hair.
Poor at Figures.
She speaks fluent French, learned
as student at the University of
Grenoble in France, plays the piano
with professional dash and never
failed at anything in her life, ex-
cept mathematics.
Left fatherless as a baby, Greer
was educated to be a teacher, be-
cause her mother thought it was
the safe and sane course. She es-
(See CARSON, Page E-3D
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Coming Attractions

SCREEN,
CAPITOI"Sunligh Seenade" with Betty Cradle Mature
John Payne; starting Thursday
Piper with Monty Wooley Roddy Mcdowell
and Ann. Baxter starting Thursday.
EAREAcross the Pacific with Humphrey Bogart and Mary
Asor; starting Friday
KEITH S-"Pardon Sarong,' with Abbott and Costello
mystery with Marguerite
Alfred Hichcoks Woman Alone, with Sylvia
Sidney Wednesday.
METROPOIITAN-"Talk with Ronald Coman Cary
Arthur opens Friday
PAIACE-somewhere III Find YOU Gable
farce Sig HerAg. with Jose Ferrer
Uta Margaret Menauer Taylor Holmes Frank Conan
others Monday night, September T.
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Crawford
Returns Again
To Old Habitat
Which Isa Pair
OF Mans Arms
Or the Old 'Clinch'
By Wide World

BY Wide World.
Joan Crawford. the girl who has
been in more torrid screen clinches,
perhaps, than any actress in Holly
wood, is back in a mans arms again,
Although she made her film fame
in romantic roles, she abandoned
them temporarily for light comedy
and heavy drama,
Now she returns to love-making
again in Reunion" playing oppo-
site Philip Dorm In Europe he was
known as a matinee idol and a lead
ing screen lover, but has been given
no romantic roles in this country
until now.
Because it has been so long since
she has indulged in screen love-
making, Miss Crawford says she
actually blushed the day she and
Dorm exchanged their first kiss for
the benefit of the cameras.
The trick to love making for the
films" the actress explains, is tc
make the scenes seem. intimate and
cozy, and that is done by shutting
off the part of your mind that is
aware of outside influences"
But whatever the trick is, Joan
appears to have mastered it, Di-
rectors who have worked with her
are almost unanimous in their opin-
ion that her love scenes are among
the finest ever recorded in celluloid
Evening star., 1942-08-30

verbatim testimony of any witness
On the printed page, word for word
as spoken, the testimony seems re-
mete from the reality from which
ID was Transcribed. The legal pro-
fession recognizes this fact and
courts of appeal, with the spoken
word of witnesses available to them
only on the printed page, deliber-
ately refrain from evallating it be-
cause they know it has no reality
in print.
But here we have Saroyan, a
professional writer and a Successful
one, wanting real people in his show
and going around the town hiring
them. Why not? What's realer
than real person acting Ike a zeal
person? Well. an actor is. Being
unreal, an actor is able to create
the effect of reality through all the
tSee WOLFERT, Page E-2)
Evening star., 1942-08-30

It is new art Accepting Will H.
Hayes as an authentic historian, the
first substantial motion picture
house unlocked it's doors on April 2,
1902, on South Main street. Los
Angeles. and was called, appropri-
ately enough, the Electric Theater.
There were, of course, converted
stores and honky- tonks, but this Is
officially recognized as the exhibitor
incubus.
The late Sam Silverman, founder
of the Broadway bible known as
Variety. claims to have been the
originator of the movie review, typ
ing his critical ratings on January
l9, 1907. so that the art of the screen
editor is just approaching middle
age.
AS fast as the Army has grown
since the first troubled DAYS of
1910, the motion picture industry
within the military establishment
has grown with it. Thus if these
training graduates of Hollywood
belles-lettres will stroll around the
camp they can relieve their nostalgia
for the small sum of II cents. and
perchance see flrst-run movie that
has yet to spread its delights on
F street or at Radio City Music
Hall.
Circuit Is Larger.
Without divulging vital military
information it can be stated that
the Army Motion Pictre Service is
now the largest theater chain in
California. Filling the motion pic
ture screens in the military estab-
lishments is big business, and the
most efficient operation sponsored
by Uncle Sam. For more than 20
years it has been sustained by it's
box office, existing without any
Federal appropriation, and having
sufficient surplus to provide the en-
tertalnment for soldiers in distant
outposts in l6-millimeter form. SOL
diers beyond the confines of the
continental United States see their
movies without charge.
The heart and center OF its ad-
mlnlstration is here in Washington
IN the Tower Building at Fourteenth
and K streets. There they know, by
scientific tabulation and attendance
charts, just which of the HOLLYWOOD
stars rate as reigning favorites with
men in uniform.
Critics with bulging foreheads
may acclaim Orson Welles and his
DiOneerino a1Veptllrecs in ariti1op
Kane" as a step in cinema progress
sion, but don't tell that to the SOL
diers. They will have none of the
so-called "arty'' pictures, and not
even the glamorous Hedy Lamar
provided sufficient allure to carry
H. M. Pullman, ESQ.," to box Office
victory.
On the other hand those who are
(See KELLEY, Page E-3D
Evening star., 1942-08-30
d lance Shoes
a Way
About Them
Gene Kelly Also
Has Found This True
In Leap to Movies
BY Wide World.

BY Wide World
Dancing shoes once more have
proved to be the seven League boots
with which an actor has bridged
the gap rom theatrical obscurity to
a movie role.
Latest addition to the roster is
Gene Kelly. He was appearing on
Broadway when his rhythmic foot
work caught the dancing eyes of
Judy Garland She put in a plug
for him with her studio executives
and now he's making a picture.
But does he do a dancing number
in the film? No, this is Hollywood.
He does straight acting as the sec
ond male lead In "Skyway to Glory"
Evening star., 1942-08-30

mould man. From the time man
can remember, his main memories
are those given to him by women.
His mother, his sisters, his first
sweetheart, his wife. Even those
women he might like to forget---even
they give him memories that might
help some time.
mo, there's nothing I can say
tSee HEFFERNAN, Page ED
Evening star., 1942-08-30

f1Aoiy aiSWoPdpNl dIlA ilC dllFCltCu
no less than 40 experienced writer's
about the Hollywood and Broadway
f1eshpots, all eager to continue their
frothy babblings for the military
/ circulation.
Times have changed since the
lamented Percy Hammond wan
dered into The Washington Star
with a letter from Senator Sherman,
was promptly put to work as a cub
reporter, departed for Chicago with
out his genius for buttered adjectives
about the drama given birth. They
have changed more since Charming
Pollock wrote sonorous and resound-
ing verdicts on the new plays from a
Washington perch. Indeed the
irascible and frank Mr.. Pollock was
moved to declare that the profess
sion has descended to Ignorant and
invidious nobodies"
Today the drama and motion pic
ture critic in most areas doubles in
brass, and deals mostly in celluloid.
Evening star., 1942-08-30

spectacle of MIR. Saroyan grlmaclng
at himself with anything lesss than
alteration is a startling one, may
indicate that the hard school of eX-
periellce in giving HIN his Jumps
has raised a new bump of knowledge
on his dome.
You will notice little weaSeling
amid the language up there. That's
because knowledge is only one of the
possibilities of the case. It's much
more likely that Mr.. Saroyan's dis
like for his work is merely lovers
spat and will be made up before he
fluffs home to mother. Williams
love affair with himself is one of the
celebrated romances of our unhappy
day and few harsh words spoken
in q moment of great trial are not
likely to break it up. Not even the
war has been able to distract our
will from his ceaselessly rapturous
emotion about himself.
The Hams That Amt.
One of the more expensive geS-
lures Mr.. Saroyan made in his un-
happy production was to hire as ac-
tors people who had never acted
before--a hatcheck girl taxicah
driver. a bartender and so forth
This cost him. according to Variety
$3.50 in initiation fees and dues to
Equity, the people themselves not
having the money. Variety is a
kindly newspaper. In fact, it has A
heart full of schmalz, So variety
schnalzes it up by saying that
Saroyanes probably never will get the
money back because the new actors
have little chance of getting INTO
other shows" Variety saying little
chance is ominous indeed.
Mr.. Saroyan, in addition to loving
himself, claims to love people.
don't think he does. although
think he thinks he does A mar
who loved people could not pers!s'
tently refuse to learn anything ahou
them or the world they live in Of
the lives they lead. However, II
thinking he loves people, he seem:
to have fallen into the common erro
Of believing that all things are pos
sible TO them Many things arr
possible to people, true, but 1t i
not possible for a person to be al
actor, as Saroyan would know if n
knew more about people. Only 81
actor can be an actor and an acto
Is no more of a person than
naked ham, unfrocked Of bread, i
sandwich.
Live and Learn.
Even though Mr. Saroyan know
very little about people, he shoult
have known this from his own busl
ness as a writer. The only way tn
writer can create reality is by Great
ing the appearance of it, If h
merely transfers the sounds of lii
TO paper. he defeats himself.
For evidence of this. read tn
Evening star., 1942-08-30
She Dresses
At a Table
That Has 1t
IT in This Case
Is Anything
You Can Name
Wide World.
[OLLYWOOD.

Wide World.
HOLLYWOOD.
Paulette Goddard boasts the fam
ciest studio dressing table in Holly
wood.
1t is a mobile chromium table on
wheels, which can be rolled from one
part of a sound stage to another.
as needed.
Bordering the mirror are tubular
lights, while fitted compactly into
the table are radio, miniature ice box
and sandwich tray.
Paulette acquired the dressing
unit before the imposition of war;
time restrictions on metal, but only
recently started using it for the
first time.
Evening star., 1942-08-30

OF Wake s defense, he takes Time on
to break to one of his men the news
of his wife's death in the Honolulu
raid.
The writing here is good, but it is
Donlevys brilliantly timed delivery
that throws the final kick into its
message. The lines are well worth
repeating, over and over.
II know there's nothing I can
say that will comfort you. You know,
memories are funny things. They
Evening star., 1942-08-30

developed, too, because producers
and directors simply refused to con-
slider anything for her but lady
roles-prim, proper and good-and
preferably bit redolent of lavender
and old lace.
Still, she was stubborn about
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Saroyan on the Griddle
Mr.. Wolfert Snorts at Williams
Abashment and Other New Whims
BY Ira Wolferf.

NEW YORKWlam Saoyan $4,000 and possibly,
With his
a
public 1
them myself"
during
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Donlevy Speaks a Piece
To Arouse Fighting Spirit
By Harold Hefernan.
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.
Behind movie headlines:

Behind movie headlines:
recruiting shifts
probably
Donlevy always
in
Evening star., 1942-08-30
Army and the Movies
Critics and Editors Will
Find JP-to.Date Screen
By Andrew X. Kelley.

Uncle Sans bugle calls have penetrated to the pabum the
could called
When 1t Col Egber
Evening star., 1942-08-30

wanting to dance and show her legs
and finally she won her point. So
they selected Scotch number, with
bagpipers. and Greer singing a Har-
ry Lauder favorite.
Came time for the rehearsals, and
Greer was outfitted in the skimpiest
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Directors Quirks Are Varied
But Each Has a Foible
By Wide World
HOLLYWOOD.

here IN Hollywood gossps gossip about directors
wheel fortune Directors tell
when walk
look make break
They paid
q the
Evening star., 1942-01-04


drawing 5000 q year.
What sort Of gossip is dished out?
Well, Mitchell Leisen was an interior
decorator when Cecil B. De Mile
drafted him to put together the
De Mile sets. After IL years Of that
he moved up alongside De Mile,
became q director himself cDeath
Takes a Holiday" for one).
There's talk that he owns the
towns swankest mems wear shop.
It takes $3.50 to get one tie away
from the salesman.
The Leisen's threw one Of the
towns most fantastic parties. In
vited 20 people to their beach cot
tage, moved them to . yacht and
shanghaied them for the whole week
end. The guests woke up the next
day to find full sailing outfits
perfect fits, awaiting them.
But most gossip sessions start with
William Dieterle CPasteur," "Zola. 4"
"Juarez," to name q few he's di-
rected. He has two quirks that
endear him to this quirky town. He
always wears white gloves when he's
directing. Why2 He doesn't know.
What's more he won't start a pic
ture until the star-gazers have
picked him q day. Sometimes the
production ONCE isn't sensitive to his
beam. Like the time they set a
date to start Florence Nightingale" |"
Dieterle's star-gazer said the right
day was 10 days OF. 80 Dieterle
spent the intervening nine days
shooting inserts"
Alexander Hall-he directed Here
Comes Mr.. Jordan" now making
nice sounds on the cash register
always works with silver baton in
his hand. Why? Nobody knows.
Henry King Is one Of the quietest.
He looks like a kindly, retired bank
er. But he's been In business 80
years.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
All in the Family

Howard Hawks has been signed by
RKO Radio for the direction Of
Cheyenne" romantic drama with
. rodeo background and locales
ranging from Cheyenne to Madison
Square Garden. With William
Hawks Is producer, 1t will mark
the nrst time that the brothers are
engaged on the same picture.
The central character Of ''Chey-
enne" Is . "no-good guy" who
nights his way through rodeo vicb-
situdes. The story Il an original by
William Rankin and Winston Miller.
Evening star., 1942-01-04

How long" pursued yoH pursuing
reporter, have you worn the
charm?"
"Ah-h-h-hl" Eros hu9hod. Add
to 5 and you know my age. That
Aerit.
Even maybe not ten husband ny
age"
Husband?
"Wen I get one. He won't be
'and-some Must have right look in
hees eyes. Maybe blond, maybe
brunei"
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Well. It's Healthy

Mischa Auer used to like to take
his vitamins via tomato juice, but
since his part in Twin Beds" with
George Brent and Joan Bennett
he's switched to pills. It's because
In . morning latter scene for the
picture he had to drink 18 four
ounce glasses OF tomato Juice. The
scene only called for him to drink
two glasses Of the love-apple fluid,
or ounces In all, but he had to
make three takes Of the scene in q
long shot. Then he had to make
three more takes in q closeup.
And finally he had to make three
takes of 1t in a close shot with
Miss Bennett. There wasn't any
point in using substitutes, because
the ersatz drinks didn't taste as
good as the real thing.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Her Dances Are Indigenous, Eros Says
By Hubbard Keavy,
World Wide News.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Eros Volusia Is a name you
might as well get used to. You'll
be seeing it. 1t Is pronounced Vo-
loose-e-ah in this country and Vo-
luz-e-yah in Brazil Eros likes our
softer pronunciation.
Eros dances. She is the best
dancer of her kind in Brazil and
she is very popular, but this coun-
try may have to cultivate taste
for her special art. 1t is good dane
ing and fine technically, but it isn't
spectacular or snowy.
Eros made her American debut
club here She wanted to dance first
in this country in New York, but
NON rushed her right out to
be ready to dance in a movie any
minute. The piece is Rio Rita"
revamped, until you'll hardly know
1t. to At the talents Of Abbott and
Costello.
Eros likes to talk about her dane
Ing. After her debut, she explained:
oh. Yes, Indigenous.
"Thees dance ees indigenous to
Brazeel," she said indigenous" all
right.
only In Brazeel we ave thees
kind Of dance. Indigenous" She
wondered if 1 knew what she was
talking about. She shook her head
up and down and her brown eyes
danced when I said, you mean,
they're native to Brazil?"
In a tiny little bit of English
and a great deal of Portuguese she
said that all Brazilian dances are
Influenced by the early Negro
slaves and Indians Of the Congo.
Her dances have primitive
rhythm, but they are not like the
congo or the rumba or the samba
or the tango.
AN in thees dance, native cos
tune mus be use, or she ees not
hokay. I bring so costume and all
are indigenous. I never met a girl
who was so fond Of one word.
A Rhetorical Question.
Eros costumes certainly are
nothing ever made in this country.
We expect a few more beads. Just
at this instant. as II by pre-
arrangement, publicity man came
in to tell Eros that she'd have to
be at the studio early the next
morning to pose for more photo
graphs. The Hays Office. he said,
had killed all of Eros pictures. Too
much Eros in them.
Eros was dumfounded.
what ees thees? Am not old
enough to know what to wear?"
A rhetorical question, but it sug-
gested another: How old is Eros?
Il kip that sicrit" She looks about
20 or 81 and she has slender body
that ripples with dancing muscles.
Eros has been dancing since she
was 4, learning and finally teaching
and now collecting 1000 M-G-M
dollars a week. Mainly she wears
Evening star., 1942-01-04

first arrive In Hollywood" explained
Director Archie Mayo.
Charles Boyer got his start here
that way. So did Claudette COL
bert, Annabella and others.
"The French are supposed to be
great lover-and We mustn't ruin
the tradition"
Replied Cabin: II won't lot my
countrymen down."
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Cabin Keeps Faith
With His Country
By Wide World News.

BY WIde W0fId NeWB.
HOLLYWOOD.
Jean Cabin spent two-and-a-han
days kissing Ida Lupino for q scene
in Moon Tide"
The kiss will last 40 seconds on
the screen, or 10 seconds longer than
the studio has permitted In the past.
"The movies always give big love
scenes to French players when they
Evening star., 1942-01-04

beads, although sometimes she adds
bells and geegaws.
Mex time make snapshots" Eros
announced, "weel wearing good lock
charm" So far as she was con-
cerned, that settled 1t: Her charm
would permit no evil to befall her.
such as having pretty snapshots
mixed by censors.
Still . Sicrit.
The charm is tiny hand Of ebony
with gold fingernails. A man gave
to it her when she was 5.