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was given the leading role in
Aim called The Island of Lost
Souls" story that might be most
quickly described as the adventures
of a feminine TarZan of the apes.
True, it won her movie career and
made her an actress In sarong. but
it also attached that Panther Wom-
an" label to her, although she SUBJ
seQuently managed to get into lead
ing roles of such movies as Bull
dog Drummond Strikes Back"
"Rascals" and Lives Of Bengal
Lancer"
Changes Her Roles.
Now she has decided to do some
thing definite about her career by
changing her roles entirely in the
summer theater at Great Neck,
Long Island. just a few miles away
from Broadway. and after tri-
umph in Night Must Fall" she is
preparing to open now in Eyes, My
Darling Daughter" Both plays pro-
vide parts far from any sort of
Panther Woman" role.
In Night Must Fall" she is an
effective and repressed young wom-
an who solves murder mystery.
In eyes, My Darling Daughter"
she is now rehearsing something
even further removed from pan
ther woman" atmosphere, in that it
is Mark Reeds giddy comedy about
giddy females.
This Is the story Of Ann Whit
man Murray, a belligerent advocate
OF woman's rights. who protests
when she discovers that her daugh-
ter Ellen Is leaving on a week
end with Douglas Hall. Ellen. IN re-
buttal, produces some of her moth
er's .autobiographical poetry which
shows that mama" also once had
similar ideas in her Greenwich
Village days.
Has Varied Talents.
In both Might Must Fall" and
eyes, My Darling Daughter" Miss
Burke reveals that she has much
more varied talents than "the Pan
ther Woman" label would conflne
her. She does good straight drama
IN one and ga-ga comedy in the
other and further proves that she is
her own best critic when, in an idle
moment at dress rehearsals, she
remarked. Il had to improve stead
lily as an actress. I've known that
since L was kid Of l3, when I
first realized that had too many
arms and knees
And, although 1t may seem an
odd step for an actress who aban-
dons a good movie career to advance
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But there also is q converse side
to stretching the time in film.
Kisses" explains lie Baron, "are
mostly shorter on the screen than
they are in reality. What seems
to be a substantial kiss between
John Payne and Betty Cradle, for
instance, and which seems to last
at least couple of minutes, is &C
tually telescoped into about 80 sec
onds, and perhaps that Is over
doing it.
IF the kiss lasts too long in 4
film, the audience becomes self
conscious and often embarrassed.
What this is. I cannot say. because
there probably are actual kisses on
or of the record that have lasted
q really pleasant good while"
Other scenes which must be con-
densed for best Aim timing include
sermons, lectures and those wherein
an orchestra is seen playing classi-
cal music.
Another which LIE Baron has just
encountered that had to be extended
was the case in which Victor Ma
ture takes just two minutes by the
script to knock out Payne in Foot
light Serenade." The scene actually
was stretched to last four and half
minutes on the screen.
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Coming Attractions

CAPITOL-Jackass Male another series Of Wallace Beery
Marjorie Main hckers Martha Raye heads the stage
COLUMBIA-Take Letter Darling" third
Rosalnd RusseFred Macurray comedy Opening Thursday
EARIEThe Gay Sisters George stanwyck
aldine Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman tangle
Youth Parade Of 1892 on the stage starting Friday also
KEITHSPde Of the Yankees" the
life of the ball player. Premiere Wednesday
LTTTLEAfter Men Kampf" English documenting rise Of
Hitler. Opening Wednesday
MEIRoPoII1AN-T1ieht Lieutenant" story OF
pilots with Pat OBrten, Glenn Ford and Evelyn Opening
Friday
william serious role with Hedy
LAMAR Starts Thursday
P1x Grove with Edmund Gwenn
wicke Opening Tuesday.
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in his forthcoming novel that he
has decided to HE himself away to
his Nyack IN. Y.) home to spend
q year In writing 1t.
He plans to leave after finishing
his producer-writer work on China
Girl" and the writing Of the screen
play for Voyage to Nowhere"
Besides producing and writing
with Charles Macarthur such pic
lures as "The Scroundel" and
Crime without Passion" Is well as
the first outstanding newspaper play,
1.-THE Front Page" Hecht also has
written screen plays Of such Aim
successes as "Scarface," Design for
Living" viva Villa" Twentieth
Century" and "Wuthering Heights" ("
Directors Conserve.
Motion picture directors, taking
celluloid conservation seriously, are
using from 30 to 70 per cent less
aim today. than they, were before
Pearl g Harbor, George Stevens,
Screen Directors Guild president,
reports.
Studios, which once sedulously
concealed marriages Of their CLAM
our boys, now say married leading
men today are at premium.
One film factory, In fact, has Z
special corps Of talent scouts out
combing the country for benedicts
with possibilities Of being developed
into leading men. Especially sought
are married men with children.
Ben Piazza, 4 talent department
head, says more than half the
prospects signed up last year are
now in the armed forces-many
Of them getting into uniforms be-
fore they had . chance to don
grease paint.
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the wheels of one of the biggest in
dustries in the country at work, or
whether you're seeing a snail race
IN slow motion pictures
You conclude that. maybe pro-
ducers are right when they say they
consider they've put in a good eight
hours If they can deliver three
minutes Of finished film in a day.
But time and timing are two
vastly different things in the movies.
Listen to how Producer william lie
Baron explains it:
IN . motion picture, or in any
other descriptive medium, which
makes an appeal to the Imagination,
there Is no such thing as actual
timing. An event is only as long as
It seems.
ITO a man watching a horse race
On which he has staked his house
and car, the finish seems to come in
less than second. To the boxer who
is faring badly in the ring, it seems
hours until the bell is rung, and he
can catch his breath.
THE old saying that in the mo-
ment before death, a man reviews
his whole history in less than a Sec
ond, Is fairly close to the truth. In
dream, for example, you can live
years In the space of few minutes. :"
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Raft Back Home

George Raft and Sydney Green
street have been named by War
ner Bros. as the leads for Back
ground to Danger" Aim adaptation
Of the similarly titled Eric Amber
novel. This will be Rats first pic.
ture at his home studio since Man
power" in which he co-starred with
Edward q. Robinson and Marlens
Dietrich.
The screen play Of Background te
Danger" Is being written by Philir
Mcdonald, and 1t will be produced
by Jerry Wald.
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For Authenticity

The private Journal Kept BY Lt.
Comdr. Corydon M. Wassel during
his two week journey from Java to
Australia with nine wounded Amer
ican sailors, for which he won the
Navy Cross and q radio tribute by
President Roosevelt, has been added
to the voluminous material from
which Cecil B. De Mile will fashion
a motion picture of the exploit for
Paramount.
The document which has impor-
tant historic value contains the fact
ual log of the 1,500-mile journey
through the Japanese blockade and
anecdotes of reaction and behavior
James Hilton is drawing upon this
Evening star., 1942-07-26
A Deeper Voice
Endowed Superman

Superman's voice is changing.
The omnipotent, pmnipresent and
omniscient idol of millions of
youngsters has had his voice low
cred, on the threshold of his second
year as screen star in Paramount
feature shorts.
The new speech style of the man
OF tomorrow will be heard for the
first time in Volcano" Techni-
color cartoon, eighth of series.
Evening star., 1942-07-26

UpO1 Will AaVOI ny washington kIlO
the Soviet government.
One Of them, due about October,
Is to be based on the book and per-
sonal memoirs Of Joseph E. Davies,
former Ambassador to the Soviet.
Most studios are paying careful
attention to original stories, dealing
with the Russian situation and
locale, to make sure o screenable
property doesn't slip through their
hands.
The Valuable Cagneys.
That decision by the Cagney
brothers to produce their own Aims
has got the whole cinema colony
talking.
Experts at United Artists, where
they now are producing. after check
ing records Of Bill Cagney as box
ONCE producer and Jimmy Cagney
- star actor, estimate that the last
SIX pictures made by the brothers
viii gross nearly $2l ,000, 900.
Mr.. Hecht ut Work.
For the first time in IL years that
he has been writing scenarios for
the movies, Ben Hecht shortly viii
retire for . year to write what he
hopes will be the greatest novel Of
his career,
He already has titled it "Child OF
the Century" which he says will
take its heroine from 1025 up to to-
day, against . vivid background Of
boom, depression and war eras.
Ever since 1880 when Hecht
started devoting q great deal Of his
energies to writing and producing
pictures, he has averaged three Aims
Q year.
He also has found time to turn
out IS novels and five plays. But
now he has become 30 interested
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her training on the stage, she wants
now to go back to an early page in
her life.
Il was born in Hammond, Ind"
she said, land my career on the
stage began at the age Of Is as soon
as got the notion out of my head
that I could be q champion SWIM
mer. So at Is I was in Castle Park,
Mich, and played the Jane Cowl
role in 'Smilin' Through and now
! want to play that role again"
Well, nothing could be further
from Panther Woman" role than
the romantic lead In "Smilin'
Through"
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So One Film Studio
Did Get a Horse
Wide World.

HOLLYWOOD.
There's one studio that literally
10 going back to the horse-and-
buggy days for transportation.
Paramount has discontinued use
Of automobiles to carry Aim be-
tween the studio and its laboratory.
several miles distant. In their
place, horse drawn wagons are
being used In order to conserve
tires.
When Bob Hope first saw them
he remarked: That's Just like Bins
Crosby. He would sell OF his old
nags to his studio!"
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No Muzzles

Wide Werld. HOLLYWOOD.
A farmer in KernvI1e, Calf, who
has loaned his cattle many times
to film companies for their West
erns, was surprised because Pro-
ducer Harry Sherman wouldn't per-
init his wranglers to use moo
muzzles."
Sherman, filming q picture with
his Hopalong Cassidy troupe, re-
fused to use the gadgets, which are
taped in the mouths Of cattle to
prevent them from making too much
noise while the camera sound
tracks are turning.
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Cummings Gets Role

Robert Cummings will play the
male lead in Princess O'Rourke." :"
the picture that will mark the
debut on the Warner Bros. lot Of
Norma Krasna as writer and d.
rector. This will be the second
time within . year that Warmers
has borrowed Cummings from Uni
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Times a Relative Thing
So Screen Does Not Follow Life
In Duration of a Kiss or a Fight

~ wiae World HOLLYWOOD
Time. heratvely speaking little in
But just let picture timing,
70 put the slug producer
literal
most OF the and sitting
couple of electricians adjust the
In fact
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material In writing an authentic
screen treatment from which D.
Mile will Aim the picture.
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versal. the previous occasion having
been for Kings Row."
Also announced for the cast Of
Princess O'Rourke" Is Charles
Coburn.
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Flight From a Trademark
Kathleen Burke Comes East to Rid
Self of Panther Woman Title
Wide World.
NEW YORK.


movies jungle
setting bakng peaceful rural settings of Long Island
haunts theaers rid trade
pinned upon the
Panther
That title the winner OF Nationwide contest Of
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Muscovy Rediscovered
Movies Turn to Soviet Locales,
AS Russia Stays in the News
By Ted Gil,
Wide World
Wide World.


Russia the daily being
partly being planned
A
They high lighting the Russian side
and are using cooru incidents both from the
history country
The productions be looked
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Total se59, ,s24.42e $3.50. .442.02o s1.3ss
sE.stimateS

Total s6b9.s24.42s S3eo.442.o20 91,3s3
Estimates.
Building in the coming year will
be restricted mainly to priority prof.
ects, but the Governments $100, ,000,-
600 housing program. which Is to
provide $4,000 low-cost home units
and $500 dorrnitory units by the
end of next June, will keep most Of
the larger builders busy.
Living costs in Washington ad-
vanced substantially in the last year
and are expected to continue their
climb in 1912. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics indices for November IS
this year showed costs of wage earn
ers and lower-salaried workers here
were 8.8 per cent above December
IS, 1910.
Foods were up 1873 per cent. cloth
Ing was IS per cent higher, rents had
advanced IL per cent. fuel, elec-
tricity and ice, "a per cent; house.
furnishings, Ill per cent, and mis-
cellaneous items. 81 per cent.
Except for rents, housefurnish-
Evening star., 1942-01-01

inRs and miscellaneous items, costs
here were still well below levels of
the first World War. Compared
with December, 1918, the cost Of liv-
ing index for November Is this year
was 81 per cent lower. Foods were
20 per cent lower while clothing was
down 1876 per cent.
Rents were 1877 per cent above
1918 levels, fuel, electricity and ice
were down 116 per cent, house.
furnishings were up 3b per cent and
miscellaneous items were 1T per
cent higher.
Arlington and Prince Georges
Counties, with large additional Gov
ernment office establishments,
showed the largest percentage growth
in the Metropolitan Area during
the last year.
Washington department store sales
for the year stood at new high
mark. around II per cent above 1910,
los per cent ahead Of 1888 and So per
cent ahead Of 1929. The November
report from the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond showed store col
lections running slightly behind
both 1899 and 1910.
New peaks also were set during
the year by hotel sales, postal re-
ceipts, railway express shipments,
gas and electric power sales, bank
clearings, deposits and assets, build
ing and loan assets and loans, gas
| oline consumption, transit, railroad
Evening star., 1942-01-01

John A. Hartford. our ability to
produce and distribute the foods
essential to national health.
In no field will the complete unity
Of agriculture and industry be more
important than in the food field,
for America must be the larder as
we'll as the arsenal of democracy.
Agriculture is prepared to produce
a greater quantity of foodstuffS than
this Nation has ever known.
Already. our armed forces are get
ting more and better food than ever
before in our national history, but 1t
Is equally important that all OF
our people working and living
behind the lines shall be better fed
and better nourished.
This means that food distributors
have a grave responsibility to re-
double their efforts to reduce the
cost Of moving merchandise from
producer to consumer. There must
be intensive effort to eliminate spoil
age and waste motion in the great
effort on which We are embarked.
Every effort should be made to
reduce unnecessary handling opera
tions and costs.
The experience of chain stores
has prepared them for this job
In recent years efficient mass dis
tributors have devised means OF
moving fresh fruit and vegetables,
eggs, poultry and dairy products
direct from farm to retail outlet
with a resultant reduction in the
cost to consumers and an increase
IN the returns to producers.
For example. our own company
today is providing food for our GUS
toners at the lowest gross profit
rate in the history of the retail
grocery business, This means that
more of the consumers food dollar
goes for food and less for overhead
expenses than ever before.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Paul Bunyon Feots
Up to Lumbermen

There is no need for the lumber
industry to enlist: it has already
enlisted, declares Wilson Compton,
secretary and manager of the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers AS
sociation. Paul Bunyan," the great
woodsman of American forest lore
will run his saws faster in 1912.
The goal of the lumber industry
during 1941, when production reached
q new high for recent years, was
defense This year the saws will
be humming a song of "offense.
and even greater production Is to
be anticipated. The industry Is at
battle strength now.
Evening star., 1942-01-01

and air passengers and many other
indicators.
New auto titles, an indicator Of
sales, declined sharply at the end
Of the year after q record-breaking
volume in the first seven months.
However, the years total is likely to
remain slightly above the previous
yearly peak set in 1887. Insurance
sales gained moderately over 1910,
but failed to equal the 1887 high.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
23,399 New Homes.

23,399 New Homes.
Spurred by fears of housing and
material shortages, and supported
by the growing stream of newcom-
ers, construction in the Metropoli-
tan Area scared to new peaks dur
ing 194l, an incomplete report from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
dicates.
approximately 23,399 new home
units were provided at a cost Of
around $85 ,282, $50. Total public and
private construction was increased
further by several large Govern
ment building contracts and reached
an estimated $l53,082. .642.
Since the start of 1885, extremely
active Metropolitan building has
provided a good foundation for q
larger National Capital. In those
seven years. around 1888 home
units have been provided at q cost
Of approximately $500, Az .020. For
the same period total public and
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Personal Air-Conditionina

NEW YORK, Jan. l (SpeciaO-
Another "air-conditioning" develop
ment to increase capacity Of mines
to permit operations at deeper levels
is a workman's suit patented by In
gersoll- l-Rand Co. The suit sur
rounds the body with a slow current
of cool air, but does not interfere
with movements of the worker.
Evening star., 1942-01-01

morale Oh our
people, and a
major factor in
m a i n t aiming
that health and
morale is food.
In these days of
total W ar. ma
tions, like ar
mics, march on
their stomachs."
The speed with
W h i c h W e
achieve final
victory will be
| a r G e ly deter
mined in 1912 by
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Wholesale Volumes
Well Above Year Aqo

Wholesalers canvassed by the
Census Bureau say that Novem-
ber sales were IA per cent under
October, but "a per cent ahead Of
November, 1910.
1t was the first month in 194l
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which did not exceed the comparable
month last year by at least 80 per
cent, and contractions were reported
in sales of groceries, clothing and
furniture.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Utilities Reflect Growth

One of the clearest indications OF
rapid Metropolitan growth is pro-
vided by a record of active gas
meters, electric customers and tele-
phones at the end of various years
Estimates for the end of 1941
showed gain Of 1881 gas meters
16,937 electric customers and 58,583
telephones since December, 1910.
Since 1885 around 69,176 gas
meters, 68,837 electric customers and
169, ,166 telephones have been added
Totals for the end of various years
are compared below, with estimates
for the close of 1941:
Evening star., 1942-01-01

Drivers who operate uninsured
automobiles in Fire are liable to
arrest and fine.
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4. &P. Head Stresses
importance Of Food
In War Effort
Hartford Sees Vitol
Role for Chains in
1912 Distribution
By JOHN A. HARTFORD,

President OF Great Atlantic g. Pacific Tea Co.
One of our greatest assets in the
world conflict into which we have
been plunged is the health and
Evening star., 1942-01-01

private construction in the area Is
estimated at $e50, ,924,42o.
+ Yearly totals from the Bureau OF
Labor Statistics are compared below
with estimates for 1871:
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Washington Faces
Busiest Year in
lis History
Further Rise in Cost
Of Living Expected
Here in 1912
CONTINUED From First Page.)

pared below with the 1929 census
totals (add OOO:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
Victory Aides
Announce
Meetings

ON MONDAY, September IA,
at 7:30 o'clock, Mrs. c. r. Muel-
Ter of the Consumer Information
Center will talk on price Con-
troll and Initiation" at a block
meeting of Victory Aides, to be
held in the home of Mrs. II. o.
Halstead, 1929 Old Mill place.
MRS. LAWRENCE ROGERS,
Sector d Aide of Area VI, Zone
2. announces a sector meeting to
be held at the Bushnell Congre-
gational Church, 15050 South
field, on Wednesday evening,
September Is, at 8 o'clock.
Mr.. Samuel Jacobs of the Con-
sumers Information Center will
talk on Price Control and Infla-
ton" at this meeting to which
women living within the boun-
daries of Lyndon and School
craft, between Greenfield and
Southfield roads are invited.
The women in Sector D have
just taken six weeks training in
civilian air raid precaution, Is
women completing the course
which was taught by Mrs. Harold
Bauer through the courtesy of
the AWVS.
In this sector, Mrs. Doris
Sayres of the Detroit Red Cross
will give a first aid course to 80
people beginning Tuesday eve
ming, September IS.
The class will meet at the
home of Mrs. Edgar j. Rich
mond, 14103 Mettetal.
MRS. ELLIS FISHER, $50
Lakewood, Sector X, Aide of
Area III, Zone 2, announces a
Victory Aide meeting to be held
at the Guyton School, $50 South
Marlboro, on Monday evening,
September IA, from 7:30 to $50
o'clock.
A special feature Of the pro-
gram will be the showing of the
film Before the Doctor Comes"
Mrs. Fisher invites women liv-
ing in this sector to attend that
they may discuss fall program
and meet the sector air raid
warden, Mr.. A. Onellette, who
will talk on Helping the Air
Raid Warden"
MRS. D. T. PRESSLY, Sector
F, Aide Of Area w, Zone 1, an
nounces a first aid course begin
ming this afternoon, September
IL, from l to 3, and continuing
for 10 weeks.
DR.. Anton Kani, osteopathic
surgeon, who is qualified as a
teacher by the American Red
Cross will conduct this Victory
Aide class at the Salem Nor
wegian Lutheran Church, Griggs
at Northwestern highway.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
Nutrition Course
Starts Thursday

PRUDENCE PENNY, home
economist of The Detroit Times
viii conduct another Red Cross
Nutrition course to be held on
Thursday afternoon from 1 20 3
o'clock. starting Thursday. Sep
TENDER II.
This Is the same course an
given at the Times last spring
the 20-hour Red Cross
Nutrition course. At the COM
pletion of this course. those who
pass their examinations will re-
ceive a Standard Nutrition Ger
tificate. issued by the American
Red Cross and will then be
qualified to 60 on to the Canteen
course.
We must ask that you tele-
phone your registration for the
course before September IT, so
we may limit the class to the
number we can accommodate In
our auditorium. For reservations,
telephone The Detroit Times,
Cherry $500, line BAT.
AND THEN there's our De-
troit Times Homemakers' Club
Red Cross unit which has been
closed for the summer but now
opens again for one day a week.
starting Wednesday, Septem-
Der Is.
There Is no more yarn for
knitting at the moment, but
there Is sewing to be done. viii
all members who wish to sew
for the Red Cross please report
for work next Wednesday,
The auditorium on the NTH
floor Of The Detroit Times
Building Is the place; doors are
open at 8 a m.