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Evening star., 1942-05-10
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON, D. c. NAY TO- 1912

Tyrone Power Yearns for Return to Romance
There Has Been Too Much Suseng Horsewhppng and Other
Manhanding in His Recent Films Scene
Evening star., 1942-05-10


hash for = Long Island studio.
Usher to Producer.
Sam Goldwyn began his business
life selling gloves, and Director
Mervyn lie Roy once was an office
boy for Producer Cecil B. De Mile.
Harry Sherman elevated himself
from q Boston opera house usher
to q movie producer. while William
Pine and William Thomas rose to
the same ONCE from the ranks of
publicity men.
B. G. (Buddy) De Silva, Para
mount executive, and Director David
Butler once existed in a one-room
hovel and lived of coffee and dough-
nuts for weeks while trying to get
break in the movies. Now they're
two Of the highest salaried men in
the business. De Silva used to play
q ukulele in small band.
An academy award winning direc-
tor, Frank Capra, once earned his
money selling newspapers. while Joel
McCrea, also working as a newsboy,
used to deliver papers to many movie
big-wigs before he crashed the films,
himself, as an actor.
Spoiled Scene, Got Job.
Norman Krasna now is a writer
director. But much Of his writing
background was gained while he was
a copy boy on a New York news
paper.
Richard Arlen was a messenger
boy for film developing laboratory
when his motorcycle overturned in
front of a studio, breaking his leg.
A producer saw him and gave him a
role in pictures when his leg had
Evening star., 1942-05-10
comment from William Koenig

comment from william Koenig,
20th's production manager:
The limitations will undoubtedly
cause great difficulty, especially in
regard to technical productions. But
somehow, I'm sure, ways will be
found to produce the same caliber
films as in the past"
One thing is certain. The ban Is
going to help the quickie makers.
They never spend more than q
thousand or 50 for any pictures sets.
Henceforth, their settings probably
will compare with the "A" creations
OF their big rivals.
OF course, even the w. P. B. can't
alter one outstanding fact
1t isn't the sets that count, half
so much as the actors they put in
front of them.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

mended.
John Wayne was a propboy and
once spoiled a scene. But instead
of bawling out the frightened young
ster, the director gave him a screen
test that sent him climbing the
cinematic ladder.
Alan Ladd is being groomed for
better things as an actor. but 1t was
only few years ago that he was
stagehand, as was Laird Cregar.
Henry Hathaway, now q director,
also used to draw q laborer's pay
check. Producer Paul Jones was
another.
Virginia Van Upp once was q tele-
phone girl. Now she's one Of the
highest paid script writers in Holly
wood. And Dorothy Lamour used
to operate an elevator in q Chicago
department store.
Incidentally, Hollywood. itself, is
something like an elevator. People
there travel up-and down-too, and
sometimes in hurry.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

inventories. They've been building
as they went. They'll have to rent
from the big studios or retire for
the duration.
Even some Of the majors will
have troubles. Studios like Para
mount, Columbia, R.-K.-O. have
comparatively small home lots. But
their big ranches. with a few mas
sive standing sets, will help.
Best prepared for the order are
such giants as MIG M. Warmers
and Goth Century-Fox. For years,
they've been accumulating used sets,
storing them on spacious acres. Now
those stock piles can pay dividends.
How does the 5000 limit COM
pare with past expenditures?
Let's look at Gone With the
Wind" If 1t didn't cost more than
any other picture ever made, it's at
least crossing more.
The sets topped $185, 900, OF which
$50, $50 went for new materials. La
Dor usually totals about two-thirds
Of any sets cost.
ways Will Be Found"
Those figures. of course, are only
for bare construction: Doors. walls
windows. The sets aren't dressed
There is no furniture, no other
props. But these can be rented, ii
they're not already in stock.
Typical of the reaction is this
Evening star., 1942-05-10

studios, they've been thinking of
5000 In terms Of the cost Of . single
set, not the many that go into q pic
ture.
What will be the effect? Here is
the consensus of expert executives
and property department men:
Sets viii be simpler, smaller,
fewer.
You'll see your old friends. the
stock streets. more frequently. These
are standing sets on the back lot,
adaptable to neighborhood scenes.
New York street, Paris street,
Shanghai street, Main street, for
example.
More attention will be given to
outdoor locations, subject only to
the tire ban.
Rent or Retire.
And, probably most important, 1t
viii be hardest on the producers of
the good independents-fellows like
Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin,
David o. Selmick.
They have no back lots, no huge
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Model Airplane
Finds Its Wings
In Flying Film
BY Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
A unique model, submitted by q
youth in a miniature airplane build
ing contest, has found its wings in
the movies. q
It was used as the pattern for
building six streamlined but dummy
pursuit ships shown in Flying
Tigers" fllpi story Of the American
war flyers In Burma.
The planes. standard size but
made entirely Of wood, cost $500
each and required two weeks to
build. That was more time than it
would take q big airplane factory
to turn out q whole squadron.
The studio also spent 5000 build
ing q miniature Japanese battleship,
complete with gun turrets that fred
blank shells and torpedo tubes that
hurled miniature torpedoes.
The ship was supposed to be sunk
by Actor Don Berry, duplicating the
historical aerial feat in miniature Of
Capt. Colin Kelly.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

in the days of the Spanish inquisi-
ton.
Insisted on Realism.
Just take look at those welts
on my bare back-from having
spent too much time stretched fiat
on those ropes. And my wrists are
so sore I can hardly move them
as the result Of the pull from the
chains around the windlass."
Slanting on 45-degree incline,
the rack consists Of large wooden
frame across which are woven
knitted ropes. They press agoniz-
ingly into the back OF the victim
when a windlass at the top OF the
apparatus is turned, tightening
chains that pull arms out Of the
sockets Of the victim, whose feet
ate firmly incased in firmly fixed
wooden stocks.
And, for every shot, Director King
insisted that the chains be pulled
as tightly as Power could stand it
to make the scene more realistic.
Besides his growing dislike for 50
many torture roles, Power also would
like to put an end to remake pic
lures.
Public Remembers Original.
I These included blood and Sand" :"
which originally WAS played by Ru-
dolph Valentino. and THE Mark Of
Zorro" which starred Douglas Fair
banks, r. There also have been
many versions Of Jesse James"
Decidedly I don't like remake
pictures" says the actor with de-
termination. at puts too much
pressure on you.
The public always remembers the
original, which may have made a
great impression on them, and no
matter how good you are you can
never do as good as the man who
originally played the role
But Power wasn't feeling very
good when ne was talking like that.
He was just getting over cold,
caught as result of a swimming
scene he did in his previous picture.
That's the way these studios do"
he jokingly remarked. They hold
back making the swimming scenes
to the very last of the production
then II you catch cold you can lie in
bed and suffer on your own time"
Evening star., 1942-05-10
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Those beautiful, fragile wisps of
feminine loveliness - more COM
monty referred to as glamour girls
aren't the only movie notables
studios like to have shown getting
slugged or otherwise kicked around
In pictures.
The great big, handsome matinee
idol actors get their share, too!
Typical is the case of Tyrone
Power, who started out by playing
drawing room lover roles in half a
dozen pictures, in which he wooed
and won the modest maidens with
all the tenderness and f1nesse that
script writer's and research workers
could think up.
Now his studio has decided to
have this handsome palpitater Of
feminine hearts either get bumped
OF or badly slugged, horsewhipped
or otherwise manhandled IN prac-
tically all his latest pictures.
It's the old reliable throwback,
perhaps, to the early days Of the
movies, when screen heroes dra-
matically were shown getting killed
or mauled. That created intense
emotion and sympathy on the part
of the audience and boosted the
stars popularity.
Broken on the Rack.
Now. after a brief respite from
death and bruises in This Above
All" Power is back undergoing
more excruciating pain in The
Black Swan" the story Of that old
swashbuckling pirate, Henry Nor
gan.
In this opus he gets beaten and
broken ON the rack after being
captured by Spaniards in Jamaica,
who torture him in an effort to
make him tell the whereabouts OF
Morgan. played by the ponderous
3O0-pounder, Laird Cregar.
But Power, who springs from a
long line of theatrical ancestors,
likes such roles, although he says
he'd Just as soon get back into some
particularly good loving scenes with
q beautiful blond. Who wouldn't!
Those roles in which the hero
gets killed or he takes a bad beating
always have held great appeal for
the public" says the 28-year-old
actor-husband of the French star,
Annabella.
"They build up and hold consid-
cradle interest-or at least that's
what they're supposed to do, any
way-and they're all-'round good
entertainment, generally, for adults
and children, alike.
Just the same, though, I've had
30 many of these rough-and-tumble
roles I'd welcome a change. I like
variation. and it's pretty easy to get |
typed when you play the same gen.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

ed, but kills Basil Rathbone in a
duel; is knocked fiat by Don
Ameche's fist; gets badly burned in
a fire and is nearly drowned in
floods and earthquakes.
However, one Of his most humili-
ating scenes, he jokingly recalls,
was that time he got kicked down
a flight of stairs by a girl-Dorothy
Lamour-in Johnny Apollo"
Getting broken on the rack in
this current pirate picture probably
was the most painful experience I
ever endured before the cameras"
says Power, pointing to the crude.
cruel instrument of torture used
Evening star., 1942-05-10

eral parts like these all the time"
Actually, the actor, who Is the
third Of mis- family to bear the name
back to his great-grandfather in
Ireland-gets killed in only two Of
his pictures. In Jesse James" he
is mortally wounded in a gun battle,
and in Blood and Sand" he's gored
in a bullflght.
But in a sword-duelling scene in
one picture, Power kills George
Sanders, who actually was once the
interscholastic fencing champion of
England, while in others he gets
horsewhipped by Sanders; is wound
Evening star., 1942-05-10

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Economy, Courtesy w. P. B.
Being Report on Possible Effects
Of That Ceiling on Set Costs
By Franklin Arthur,
y Franklin Arfhu,
Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.

piled
coming into their
When the War Production Board 5000 ceiling the
OF which into the set Of set the
stage the thorough revolutions Holwood
They've talking they'll
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Their Humble Beginnings
Film Executives as Well as Stars
Have Risen From Lowly Tasks
wide World News.
HOII,YWOOn


They call this the land beleveand they're
Practically
stars elevator girls heae
they think, sometimes
not the only who worked from the bottom become important
instance star
Evening star., 1942-04-30
Russo-Jap War Sure,
Says Head Of Chinese
Mission in Capital
Gen. Hsiung-Fei Urges
United Motions to Sturt
Double Offensive

War between Russia and Japan Is
inevitable in the opinion Of 1t. Gen.
Hsiung-fei. head of the Chinese
Military Mission here, and the
United Nations should not give the
japanese enough time to exploit
their present conquests and strength
en- themselves for further aggression.
He did not attempt to time the
expected outbreak of hostilities be-
tween Japan and Russia but insisted
that their military positions and
| their whole histories pointed in
evitably to conflict between them.
At a press conference at the Chi
nese Embassy yesterday, he said he
thought the United Nations can and
should fight an offensive war against
both Japan and Germany, and
pointed out that diversion of our
naval and air strength would pro-
vide the needed offensive strength
in the Pacific area while the Brit
h-American- Russian land power
pean theater.
Here for Conferences.
Expecting to participate in Al
lied consultations here, Gen. Hsiung-
Fei expressed confidence at a press
conference at the Chinese Embassy
yesterday afternoon that the United
Nations would win the final victory,
but emphasized that there must be
unified and co-ordinated strategy.
I'VE all realize" he said, that =
lack Of coordination among our
selves at the beginning Of the war
enabled Japan, after more than four
years Of exhausting war with China.
to win notable victories in the
Southwest Pacific. And now, in
contrast, we see that Japan and
Germany. In pursuing a strategy
possibly designed to meet in the
Persian Gulf. have manifested their
striking desire in co-ordinating
their efforts.
at had been the aim Of your
country and every other country on
our side to keep the peace honor
ably as long as possible. and so it
was that not until Japan herself
took the initiative were we able to
begin to formulate a common
strategy. In consequence. losses
were sustained, but we must not al
low the Axis nations to exploit the
conquests they have already made
Japan's Gains Cited.
I'm particular, Japan has acquired
inexhaustible supplies of rubber. oil,
sugar and rice; and If given time to
consolidate her conquests, she will
become almost impregnable and the
war in the Pacific will be indefinitely
prolonged. Germany at present is
being held in check by Great Britain
and Soviet Russia, but under no
circumstances should Japan be given
a breathing spell to wax stronger
for wider conquests.
In our grand war strategy China
has her assigned responsibilities
Evening star., 1942-04-30

Therefore she should be supplied not
merely in the spirit of friendly
assistance but as definite con-
sideration in strategic necessity to
give to fighting ally supplies which
will be sufficient for the task
assigned and expected Of her"
China's principal needs. the gen.
eral explained, are for military air.
planes and heavy artillery. Her
own production facilities are ad-
equate for light arms and ammuni-
ton, he said, and the nations man
power is fully adequate If the fight
ing tools are made available,
Evening star., 1942-04-30
Charles Seignobos, SO,
French Historian, Dies =

By the Associated Press.
--VICHY, April 3O.-The death OF
the French historian, Charles
Seignobos, at his home at Ploubaz-
lance, near st. Brieuc, in Brittany,
was reported here today
He was SO and was best known for
his works. 'The History of Civiliza- =
tion," Introduction to Historical
Studies" The Historical Method
Applied to Social Sciences and "Po-
litical History of Contemporary Eu-
rope"
Evening star., 1942-04-30

FOR THE AID OF CHINAMoney saved by emitting coffee and
dessert from their weekly luncheon turned
yesterday by members of the Advertising Washington
at meeting at the Raleigh Hotel representatives United
China Relief Shown receiving the contribution
ing to about $780, from the club president Reid Wallace
Mrs Kuo-Yng Tsai and her 4zyearod daughter Yoando
Star Staff Photo
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to 22H. Just 9 coats in the group.
Evening star., 1942-04-30

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Evening star., 1942-04-30
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Evening star., 1942-06-28
Sports in England
Suffer From War

Sports and other amusements in Eng
land have not been curtailed by direct
action, but in general have suffered
heavily from the restrictive measures
in other fields. Gasoline rationing has
held down attendance at sports events
and greatly reduced holiday travel. A
large portion OF the seaside playground
of England has been put out of bounds
by military restrictions or made danger
Gus through the mining of beaches.
Football continues to be played, but
the drain on man power and the decline
in attendance have caused the big pro-
fessional leagues to be broken up. Cricket,
likewise, IS played on a reduced scale.
There is still good deal of racing, but
it is being increasingly frowned upon:
the call of Sir Stafford Cripps for
greater "austerity" of living appears to
have struck responsive chord. Some
of the race courses have been taken
over for artillery purposes. Ascot, for
one, is an internment camp.
London's movie houses and theaters,
thanks in part to the soldiers who
swarm into the city on leave, do an ex.
cellent business. The present theatrical
season is notable both for the number
of its plays and their better than.
average quality.
Evening star., 1942-06-28
Western Front

Winston Churchill and Franklin
Roosevelt. conferring at the White
House, saw beyond the reports of disaster
from Egypt and Kupyansk and framed,
in talks with military and naval experts,
the policy Of action which will guide
the United Nations in the months to
come. The Russians. who have been
left out of high Allied strategy talks in
the past. were admitted to the White
House discussions. Churchill few back
to London late in the week.
Harry Hopkins, who is so close to
President Roosevelt that what he says
is viewed as straight from the presiden-
tial chambers, made a speech in New
York Monday night in which he foresaw
the time when the Allies would open
a second. third and even a fourth front.
Whatever happens today, the Allies are
thinking of an offensive
A first step toward an offensive in
Europe was taken Thursday with t',a
announcement by the
European Department that it Lat
Theoter established European
theater of operations and
had put Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, chief of the Operations Di-
vision of the Armys general staff. at
Evening star., 1942-06-28
Clothes Rotionina
Tiqhtens in Britain

New clothes rationing books recently
came into operation in Great Britain.
Instead of 66 coupons, men and women
now have only 81 for the next IL months.
How much to pay for clothes, and
where to buy them, are left to the in
dividual. But once the 81 coupons have
been used up there is no way of getting
additional ones, except for persons who
have been blitzed, until new rationing
period.
Just how are people using their clothes
coupons? Just what will 81 scraps Of
paper buy?
They will buy for woman: A win
ter coat, winter dress. pair of shoes,
n1ghtgown, set of underwear, two
pairs of stockings and four small hand
kerchiefs. If she substitutes a summer
dress for the winter one, she can also
buy slip or a corset. And If she lets
her old coat do another year, she can
buy a skirt, a cardigan and a pair of
ankle socks.
The man in the family can buy a suit,
an overcoat, a shirt, one pair of wool
socks and tie. If he leaves of the vest
OF his suit, he can substitute a pair of
shoes or an extra pair of non-wool
trousers. Or, if he is well fitted out
with top clothes and wants to invest
all his coupons in underwear. he can
buy two suits of winter undervests and
drawers, two pairs of pajamas bath
robe, pair of bedroom slippers and a
dozen handkerchiefs. Certain coupons
cannot be used before October IL.
There are allowances FOR special cases.
In addition to the bombed-out, who are
given enough coupons to make a fresh
start, workers in certain heavy indus
tries-of such varying categories as Ship
builders, chimney sweeps, quarrymen
and chemical workers-get a supple.
ment to the basic ration.
Children's coupons, as well as those
for boys and girls of teen age, are
worked out on a special scale.
A quarter of million tons of shipping
have been saved on textiles alone as a
result of the last IL months of clothes
rationing, and nearly 100000 men and
women have been released to the fight
ing forces and to industries directly en-.
gagged in war production.
Evening star., 1942-06-28
African Front

The Germans can thank their de-
spised ally, Italy, for their presence in
Egypt today. Italian colony Libya was
the field on which Rommel organized
his push. Italy and Greece are origins
of the anS-Mediterranean supply lines
which bring reinforcements and goods
to the Axis desert armies. The Italian
fleet, for all the jokes about it. has made
1t impossible for the British Navy to
establish that absolute dominance of the
Mediterranean which would have pre-
vented the battle of Egypt
Italian soldiers were among the first
to enter Tobruk last week when that
celebrated Libyan fort and port was
captured by the Axis from the British,
who had held it since January o. 194l.
Tobruk's fall was the signal to the
watching world that the current North
African campaign was different from it's
predecessors. Although the British
twice have penetrated deep into Libya,
they have never gone far enough to
make their advance decisive. The Ital-
ians were in Sidi Barrani, Egypt, in
September, 1910, but they never had
troops enough in Egypt to threaten the
British position there. Tobruk last year
withstood a historic siege.
The Germans crossed in body into
Egypt on Wednesday, moving over the
border to the south of Bir
Egypt sheferzen about 40 miles be-
PeriIed low the Mediterranean.
While the Axis went east,
American bombers in Egypt went west.
attacking, on Wednesday and Thursday,
the German-Italian supply base at Ben
gasi. Libya, $50 miles west of Egypt BY
Thursday Ronmel's tanks were so miles
inside Egypt. British Army headquar-
ters at Cairo announced that the British
Evening star., 1942-06-28

be definite enough in the African quar-
ter to put halt to them?
The 9th Army established itself for a
stand at Matruh, l3O miles within Egypt
at the western terminus Of
Motruh railway to Alexandria.
Barrier British covering units sta
toned west of Matruh Bit
terly resisted the German advance, but
by Friday the Rommel army's main ar
mored force had gotten 100 miles into
Egypt. British and South African
bombers and fighter -bombers operating
between desert dusk and darkness made
sir assaults on the two columns Of Ger
mans advancing toward Matruh-one
from the Bir Abu Misheifa area 80 miles
to Matruh's southwest and one along
the coastal route. At the same time
American four-motored Consolidated
Liberators and British Wellingtons
blasted Tobruk from the air.
Rommel who won Libya with his anti
tank gun that changed the nature OF
North African desert war as 1t had been
fought since 1910, is throwing every
thing he has into his advance. The
British seem to be pinning hopes of vic
tory on the geographical advantages of
their defense line and on Rommel's in
creasing problems OF communication and
supply. The Axis strength includes the
German 2lst and 18th armored divisions.
the Italian Ariete mechanical division
and a great supporting mass of motor
lied infantry.