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Evening star., 1942-08-09

they are" he says, "but they're not
tOo-o-o-o-o smelly.
Admittedly a home-lover, Horton
is regarded as perhaps Hollywoods
most persistent house builder upper
and ultimate tearer-downer.
His home at Belly-Acres has only
IL rooms, yet for the last eight years
and, until recently when his resident
carpenter enlisted In the Army, the
sound of the hammer never was
stilled In the Horton menage-ex-
cept after dark. and then only in
observance OF an Encino city ordi-
nance.
"It's not an obsession with mel
just get ideas. of changes I want
made, and then Peterson, the car
penter, tears things down and we
make changes"
Now that Peterson - Horton
thinks" his first name is Joe, but
isn't sure-has joined the Army,
Horizons Folly will undergo no
change for the duration.
He Will Wait for Joe.
ut wouldn't be the same to have
another carpenter" Horton explains,
80 I'm holding the Job open for
Peterson. Nobody but Peterson
could put up with me. He was
marvellous. 1t wasn't so much the
way he put thing up, but the way
he tore it down that I liked
And it wouldn't be fair, either, to
describe Horton, with his 81 acres,
his varied livestock and his precious
Evening star., 1942-08-09

Chekov. Monere. to recent Broad
way hits to titles like: Aunt Cindy
Cleans Up" Aunt Susie Shoots the
Works" Curse You. Jack Dalton y
The Rag Carpet Bee Grandma
Fought the Indians" and Ma Simp-
kins of Simpkinsville,
Probably the most successful play
ever reprinted for amateur use was
Clifford Goldsmith's What a Life" ="
It's run on Broadway was counted
in months. not weeks. but 1t has
already netted its author more in
royalties from the amateur theater
than it brought him in It's Broadway
run.
Hits Always Profitable.
The various reprint houses can
lay down no criterion for plays
wanted by this theater, but there
are some general rules:
Broadway hits are nearly always
good. but their use is often limited
to universities with big stagecraft
workshops. Fantasies are usually
unpopular. Light comedies are in
the greatest demand.
The plays must be within the
technical abilities of the amateur
groups. For that reason there is a
demand for plays that have only
one set or can be changed to one set.
With the authors permission,
such changes are sometimes made
by him or by play doctor. Other
changes are made to conform with
the taboos necessary for production
before home groups.
References to controversial poll
tics, labor-versus-capital arguments
religious arguments, sex. swearing
divorce. usually are deleted.
Occasionally plays with a cast
that is balanced in favor of one Sc,
will be changed to use a maid in.
Evening star., 1942-08-09


is still paying royalties to play
wright when the actress who was
cast as an ingenue in his play on
Broadway has been assigned perma-
nently to matron roles.
He's talking about the productions
Whicn-war or peace, boom or de-
pression-are staged each year by
the 100000 groups in universities,
high schools. churches. womens
clubs, civic theaters, all kinds OF
organizations.
This fall those theater groups are
going to step into one fundamental
role.
Aggregate Is High.
From October to January the nom
professional theater, in country
wide effort, will give performances
to raise money for the establish
ment Of other stage door canteens,
for servicemen, like New York City's
highly successful one.
Five thousand Of the groups are
expected TO respond, With their
dime and half dollar returns they
may raise $50 performance. That
alone would mean a net Of quarter
of a million.
When audiences pay to see these
shows, they will not only be attend
ing benefit, but looking at that
phenomenon of "a theater that is
an end in itself"
Barrett Clark proved this to him.
self by taking a 10,000-mile tour
and surveying one branch Of the
amateur theater-university thes-
pianism.
He reported that 95 per cent Of
the actors and actresses had no
intention of making the stage a
career, didn't see college dramatics
as "a tributary to Broadway"
Not only is this theater acting for
acting's sake, it is sometimes writ
ing for writings sake.
William Saroyan offered Jim
Dandy" for professional pro-
duction. Maxwell Anderson. who
several years ago gave "Seawife" to
the non professionals, has finished a
new play expressly for the same
groups. Years ago, when Elmer Rice
turned his back on Broadway, this
other theater" produced his mot
for Children"
Authors Are Free.
BY so doing authors can see pro-
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Baseball
WOnen's Side

With the largest feminine cast
since The Women" Ladies Day
on RKO-Radio's lineup of 1942-43
pictures, to be announced at next
weeks annual sales meeting, is now
before the cameras.
Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy
Kelly and Max Baer are the prin-
cipals In this comedy with the
accent on woman's side of baseball.
It's plot hangs on the preoccupation
OF some players wives to keep in
training too romantic rookie on
whose pitching proves depends a
world series.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

trees, to say nothing of his con-
stant mousy activity as lonely.
In one of the IA buildings lives his
82-year-old mother, Mrs. Isabella
Horton. while in another reside his
sister, Mrs. Horton Grant, and her
three children. Adjacent to Horton S
house lives his brother, George D.
Horton, who teaches physics and
chemistry in San Fernando High
School. It was George who is di-
rectly responsible for his brother S
folly"
In 1925" says Everett, George
found this place. There were 5 acres
then. He only wanted 3, so l took 2
Of them off his hands. Since then
it just 'growed' like Topsy.''
Although Horton may be so much
putty-,nouse in the hands of Car
men Miranda in their current pic
ture-hecause it's called for in the
actually he is far removed
from such role in real life. But
yet, now and again. he admits he
does find himself, out Of habit, play
ing the house role in reality.
He got his start on a theatrical
career by appearing in high school
plays and in extensive stock COM
pany tours. Later, with his brother,
Winter Davis Horton, he produced
his own plays. He appeared In his
first picture in 1921, when he was 80
Besides his film activities, Horton
collects valuable trees, walnut an
tique furniture and early American
glassware. And his house is filled
with treasures he has picked up in
his world travels. ..--
But Horton thinks he'll never stop
being a house-in pictures. AS
long as the studios ask for Horton,
the mouse" he concludes, you may
count on my answering. 1t really is
a lovely career"
Evening star., 1942-08-09
This Mouse Business Is Profitable
By Ted Gill.
Wide World
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Edward Everett Horton may be the
prize mouse-man of moviedom-but
he garners a lions share of its
coin!
For 81 years now, this tall. Brook
lyn-born bachelor. with his apollo
getic stoop and bumhling manner
isns. has been mousing his way
through pictures. and those timid,
self facing services have paid him
well.
"It pays to be mouse" says the
genial. erudite actor, "or at least 1t
pays me-and that is the chief prob
lem In my case. And, as long as it
pays, I'm going right on with my
mousing-and I'll take it!"
Currently, Horton is busily NOUS
ing through his Tooth film. in which
he plays a well-educated valet who,
in spare moments, is toothpaste
tycoon.
He's Wooed by Carmen.
This role, in fact, is a novelty in
nousing for Horton, since in it he
Is woodland wooed successfully
for the first tirne-by Carmen Mi
randa, the Brazilian singer and
dancer.
The picture is called "Springtime
In the Rockies" and Horton claims
to be something of an expert on
springtime titles, since he boasts OF
having played 80 weeks in his favor
lite stage role, "Springtime for
Henry
A contemplative man with a liter
ary background and free-lance
actor who won't tie himself up with
studio contracts, Horton offers some
interesting statistics concerning his
two decades of mousey film ac-
tivities.
oddly enough he muses., II have
played only six buffers In my 100
pictures. But I have been. on and
OF, IS 'best-friends,' % timid clerks
and 81 frustrated leading men,
'I have often wondered what DR..
Sigmund Freud would have had to
say about my case. 1t was his con-
tention that Illustration warped the
soul and thereby caused certain dis
turbances in the psyche which were
not good for their victims. Now, l
make living out OF Illustration.
His Home Called Names.
"If I ever become brash in film
the audience wouldn't believe 1t.
while others have piled up COM
plexes, have used this business OF
being a mouse to get what want
out Of life. I am both comfortable
and contented-and I have my place
tn the valley"
The place in the valley how
ever, Is often called something else
by certain of his critical friends.
They call 1t "belly-acres' and "Hor-
tons folly" but he doesn't mind.
There are u Of Horizons belly
acres" at Encino, In nearby San
Fernando Valley. And on those
acres are IA houses. barns and other
buildings, 600 various fruit and orna-
mental trees, 1ive prize Guernsey
COWS. 500 chickens. three dogs and,
to use Horizons own words, IAN un-
counted number of valuable pigs"
'T don't know what kind Of pigs
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Even Author
Turns Actor
For Saroyan
Max B0denhein Joins
Cast of Laners.
Play Cycle
Bv Mark Barron.
Wiie Whrld

NEW YORK.
Authors. as actors, are usually
bad. You can depend upon that,
There are few exceptions, such
as Alexander Woollcott, but Wooll-
cott is only a good actor when he is
playing himself. which is the only
ror he will ever consent to play,
AS a good. chubby. acid comic he
is marvellous. AS an attempt at
smooth. parlor comedian he reveals
that he was a better dramatic critic
than he is an actor.
All of this leads up to the fact
that the poet and novelist, Maxwell
Bodenheim, will have one of the
leading roles in the new William
Saroyan play, Across the Boards on
Tomorrow Morning" and Boden-
helm probably will be very good if
only he will act himself as Wooll-
colt does and not try to be a pro-
fessional actor.
Bodenheim, the author Of l3 nov
els as we'll as numerous books Of
poetry, is going into this proposition
of acting one Of the leading roles
with the questionable viewpoint
that his model is William Saroyan.
"Saroyan is the most original
writer on the American scene in the
past II years" Bodenheim says,
Far from being the arch egotist
which some call him, think, on the
contrary, he is shy, modest, unas-
suming and self -effacing."
After that statement your CORE
spondent, who knows Saroyan sug-
gests that Bodenheim get better ac-
quainted with the young man who
is now about to produce his own
plays on Broadway, one with the
leading role to go to a hat-check
girl he discovered in night club
and the other to be played by a
concert harpist. Saroyan is a top
fight playwright, but he is not shy,
etc.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Dance Master Signed

Seymour Felix, noted dance direc-
tor, has been signed to create en-
sembles for Canadian Capers," )"
Paramount's technicolor musical,
which will star Mary Martin, Dick
Powell. Victor Moore, Dona Drake
and Richard Denning.
Felix did the dance numbers for
Yankee Doodle Dandy" THE Great
Ziegfeld" and "Alexander's Ragtime
Band"
Evening star., 1942-08-09
But the Total Is High
Amateur Groups Enrich Authors
Years After Play Run Ends
y y NUT III { y W.T. U
Wide World.

Did you of fundamental
Barrett Clark director of the Dramasts Play
talking particular kind OF theaer
that neither Broadway stock
norr
talking half dollars
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21

among inc kcffaCtf 70 ne DtltE-
ed In the new recreation center
are a lounge with reading mater
iai, radios and writing desks,
checking service, Information
desks, comfort station, game room,
and facilities Tor moderately sized
parties and dances.
The huge Interior. which At one
time was used for the Air Corps
supply, has been partitioned on
into several rooms, but leaving the
large central part open for dane
Ing purposes Within this area a
cabaret- type dance floor was con-
structed. IS feet by 40, almost
twice the size originally contem-
plated.
Heating was installed as well as
new light fixtures. and the entire
Interior painted. A new entrance
10 the building has been designed
BY John T. Collins. local architect.
while the area in front of the
building viii be TILED in with
oyster shell furnished by Mayor
Louis Braun Of Biloxi. In addition,
two more light poles will be erect
ed in front Of the building.
Under the policy Of the national
Y. S. o., the preparation and OPP
Grafton Of the facilities are assign
ed to one Of the six member
sgeneies which include the Jewish
Welfare Board, Salvation Army,
Y. NJ. c. A.. Y. W c. A.. Travel
lers' Aid, and the National Cath
Ollie Community Service.
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
Clarity
Rating
Change

sweeping changes In the Army's
system OF grades and ratings
which saw the abolition Of special
isi ratings and the substitution Of
technicians In the third, fourth
and fifth pay grades, have been
further clarified by War Depart
nent releases this week.
When Col. Arthur w. Brock Jr.,
Commanding Officer. receives new
strength authorizations, enlisted
men then holding specialist ratings
viii be disrated, effective on the
first Of the month following re-
ceipt Of authorization. On the
same date, appointments Of tech
picians in accordance with the
allptmsnis viii be made.
But, former specialists will not
necessarily be appointed 10 the
new grades.
The plan Will leave only seven
pay scales for enlisted men. They
are: Grade /. Master Sergeant;
grade 2, ist or Technical Sergeant.
grade 3. STAFF Sergeant and Tech
nician Bird Grade. grade I, Ser
geant and Technicisn 4th Grade:
grade 5, Corporal and Technician
5th Grade; grade 6. Private First
Class. and grade 7, Private.
Newly enlisted men, however.
viii get the same old s2l . month
unless Congress changes that IN
itial rate.
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
More Mess
Open
ForBusiness'

With the contemplated reopen
Ing this week Of Mess Hall No. I
Keesler Field will have all Of is
Q Mess Halls in operation.
Last Tuesday, No. Q, feeding
some 300 soldiers at each mesl,
and the Guard House Mess Halls
operated for the first time.
In charge Of Mess Han No. . IS
ist 1t Morris B. Goodfriend. He
is aided by Mess Sergeants An
drew J, Shiver and Gene K. ShB-
Law. End 1t Julius J. Law heads
the Guard House Mess and Is as
sisted BY Mess Sergeant Michael
2, Gepnsrdt.
According 70 znd 1t Charles W.
Sigerson, General Mess Adjutsnt.
all mess halls viii be using trayz
in the very near future. Plans are
also under way leading to the
re-opening Of the tent area mess
There are many opportunities
open in the Mess Department
for qualified men. Numerous
adyancements are available
Permanent personnel 10 this
field work one dsy out Of
every three. Men inserested
should Apply 70 the Mess Office,
Block 10. Building 40
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
KEESL-ER'S
POST BAND
Is BORN

Keesler Field soldiers are now
marching to the music Of the Post
Air Force Band
For the first time. the band
played review and retreat Sat-
urday, Jan. 10, when they per-
formed Tor a 45-minute review Of
5000 members OF the Replacement
Training Center and later. for
retreat by Flight 60 of the 415th
Technical School Squadron.
The Post Band, 28-instrument
marching outfit, viii perform AZ
all reviews, nightly retreats and
other formal field functions, an
nounced fst 1t. Aubrey VI. Foltz,
Band Administrative officer.
The entire organization win
play q concert FOR the officers and
enlisted men Of the field as soon
as arrangements can be made, II
has been announced.
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21

The show features Ross and
Bennett, Broadway comedy team.
The Dennis sisters-Diane. Helen
and Cal, former thermometers with
ihe Ted Lewis band. Jack Powell.
novelty drummer, Lane and Ward,
James Evans, and a cast Of musi-
clans, dancers ana comedians
The fifth Of the usO-camp
Shows, Inc. entertainment units
70 play here, Happy Go Lucky,
il one of the % shows and $50
name bands which viii visit 206
Army Camps and Naval Stations
this winter playing 70 an estimat-
ed audience of almost n, 600. 900
service men.
Ada Leonard, her band and
revue, all girl show which enter
tanned Keesler Field soldiers yes
ierdsy and Monday before packed
houses, wss the latest Camp Show
production to be staged here.
Lovely Miss Leonard, who Is one
of the couniry's three ouiafand-
ing girl 7maestras." presented an
"All American Girl Revue" which
featured June ssger Josnn Kau-
pis, Cele Touney. Edith Leonard,
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
Reduce Age Limit to l8 for Cadets
Bands Pets Have
Taste for Rubber

Saboteurs In camp The Air
Force Band has two.
With utter disregard for the
recent rubber rationing pro-
gram. the Bands pet squirrels
ate of an eraser unconscious
ly poked through the cage BY
a Keesler Field reporter, this
week.
The Air Force Bands pet
baby squirrels. .ohnny and
Beta. were caught In A04asb
near the old tent area Housed
in cage outside the Bands
barraek, the pets. notwith-
standing their subvcrsive ac-
tivities. are doing nicely.
Other than rubber, they are
fed nuts and bread
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
Printing
Plant Set
For Field

i Constantly becoming a more and
more self-sufncient city within
Itself, Keesier Field viii soon
boast its own reproduction plant
To be operated for the Academic
Department. the plant viii pro-
duee the multitude Of forms and
printed matter necessary Tor the
operation Of the Keesler Air Ne
ehanies School.
Three principal types Of work
Will be turned out. Mimeograph
Ter limited quantities. multilith
for reproductions in unlimited
amounts and muliigraph Tor such
work a. letserhesds and blank
forrnz-
The plant viii be located Just
iouth Of the new Academic De-
partment headquariei3. in the
tenter Of the Az Schools aeu-
uiies.
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
THRILLS WERE SPEED
WRILEY'S DAILY BREAD
Driving 10 Per Gets In His Blood

That familiar slogan, Uncle
Sam Needs You has brought
men into ne Army from various
walks Of life However. few have
had the experiences and thrills
81 % year old PVT Wriley 2.
Bergman. Now an Az student
in the 307 Technical School SOD.
Bergman mas been q stunt auto
pilot IN more than score Of
Thrill Shows"
Speeds and thrills have been his
chief stock in trade. Officially
CLICKED by the AAA at i27 m. . h.,
which Is equivalent 70 spproxl-
mately i70 m.p.h. on a speedo-
meter, Wriley gayssne "spori just
gets IN your bloocr. Accidently
wrecking . car al the age Of 10,
he got thrill out Of 4 and made
i sideline profession. In TIE
interim, ne mas wrecked between
20 and 70 regular stock cars and
has suffered nothing more than q
broken nose.
Speed Wriley, as be Is known
In the Thrill SHOW world. has
done soou. everything possible
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21

pass, 500 miles behind the main
battle sector, thereby gaining a
direct route Of supply to speed the
drive toward Tripolitznia for a
showdown.
Striking hard at the rear and
fianks Of perhaps loo, 900 imper-
lied Germans In the Mszhaisk re-
gion, 81 miles west Of Moscow, the
Russians are reported dropping
clouds Of parachute troops In a
new and smashing gain. This Ia
the last remaining advance posi-
ii0n Of the Szzis which has held
out against the Soviet onslaught
President Roosevelt's statement
that the Yanks will return to
England after IS years in q new
AEF mas convinced many British
observers that the island kingdom
viii be turned into 3 huge base for
invasion Of the continent
Adequate bases for the United
States battle fleet can be mad in
Northern Ireland, where American
technicians have been building .
tremendous base. its reported.
Secretary Of War Stimssn last
week announced that we are al
ready started on an expansion
program FOR 1852 whicf VIII swell
the Arny's ground and Air Forces
10 approximately 3.600,0 900 Off
GERS and men. More than double
The NUMBER Of air combat units
win be created, : large increase in
men n training center1 wiil De
made and 1900 officers viii be
commissioned in special officer
candidate schools mis- yess
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
Here's S One Soldier
Who'll Admit
Defect

you get en-, We III EN-,
should be the slogan Of the
Quartermastef Corps here
Recently G. NC. received an
order to NJ a recruit with an
odd-slzed pair Of shoes. The
recruits feet were Of different
sizes. with one foot requiring
size %, and the other a u
shoe a short while later the
soldier walked out, with y
perfect impair" OF shoes.
The largest sized shoe issued
out OF the Q NC. 10 date Ia
"a. with the smallest ..
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21

70 standard car. He's aiken
them over high jumps driven
through BLAIR fires ln,en-
tionally overturned al high speeds
and rsmmed into brick walls.
In the quiet Of civilian life. he
ran an automobile agency in
M0nteueilo. California. Speed"
has been IN shows Nitt famous
performers such as jimmy Lynch,
But he Is more proud OF his work
on zome movie stars automobiles.
Even Hollywood's lovely June
Travis has called on him for mo-
tor fepairk.
Has he had any close calls7 Let
Wriley speak for himself
MY biggest thrill came acct
IDENTIFY when I was being clocked on
a track. Driving at q speed well
over 100 m.p.h. the right front
wheel came off. Ny car skidded.
then ern around madly. While 4
was very Iixxy from the exper-
iencc. suffered no injuries "a the
caF luckily did not urn over
Yes. Speed Wrile.~n. with
ael es Of steel. should make a
good man or the Y. 5. Air Corps
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21
.WORLD EVENTS today
Chinese Reiuvenated; Aussies Show Spirit
BY CORP. John r. PARSONS

- = - - y . =
Jap ships for their hit parade. The
Netherlsnders have been sinking
Nippon's craft at the rate OF one
day.
A U. 5. sub has carried the war
to the enemy and, in the fleets
most sudacious opera ton OF the
war, sank three Jap merchant
ships off Tokyo Bay, the Navy an
nouneed Saturday night. This
raises 70 27 the total OF Nipponese
ships sunk by U. S. Naval or Ma
rine action since Pearl Harbor.
Sinking Of a Pansmanian tan
ker in our own home waters of
the Long Island coast may be the
harbinger Of an all out U-boat
campaign. II is because of this
threat that the Allies hope 70 per-
susde Fire to grant, at long last,
the use Of naval bases on the Irish
west coast.
Eritrea. on he Red Sea. IS be-
ing converted into vast arsenal
for the Mideast arena and the foW
OF American war materials % The
British Middle Eastern forces con
tinued unabsted, through Eri.res,
despite the United States entry
into war.
Never again, the experts say,
win we be dependent ON foreign
sources for our essential rubber
needs The switch 10 synthetic
from native rubber planned last
week IL one OF the preaching
changes in the national economy
due 10 stick with US.
Most important North African
development Of the week saw the
British win Hzlfsya OHeilfirel
The Keesler field news., 1942-01-21

We may not have 70 take the
innumerable Pacific islands back,
one by one When the time ar
rives that the Allies can put
great force Of bombers over Tokyo.
the whole Nipponese structure may
collapse.
When thousands Of Australians
were flung into the Battle Of Sing
spore last week, Allied morale in
those troubled parts zoomed. Aus
sic troops, whooped into battle
with a song. This IS the same
fighting breed Of men who Storm
ed into Axis-held Tobruk last year
singing We are off TO see the
wizard, the wonderful wizard
Of Or
Outstanding example Of the
new born Chinese initiative Is the
disastrous defeat administered at
Changsha; reported 10 have cost
the Japs $4,000 casualties
This unexpected victory Is prob
ably due to uplift Of Chinese NOR
ale through acquisition of great
allies. the fact that Jap forces may
have spread too thin in Withdraw
ais OF men and materiel. and the
increasing war supplies from the
United States.
The Chinese will probably have
much to do with the Allied victory
In the long run. for their reser-
voir OF raanpower Is inexhzustfble
and China will provide invaluable
bases for operations against the
Jap mainland
Committing from secret bases,
Flying Yanks and Flying Dutch
men nave teamed Up 70 hunt more