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up popularity in one picture after
another.
Most daring expose-Joan Craw-
fords ghost-written autobiography,
Il Couldn't Ask for More" Para
phrasing the title, Joan couldn't
have told more" about her sordid
start in life.
Best publicity stunt-MGM's ma
tional campaign on Mrs. Miniver" :"
Big names from all walks submitted
lists of their 40 best pictures of
all times" No dice if Mrs. M"
wasn't included-and it had to be-
Most ado about nothing-"The
Great Mans Lady" a five-star flop
preceded by one of the years live
liest publicity drives.
Industry's greatest war achieve
ments-Production of training shorts
for service arms; victory caravan,
with its 50-star travelling show and
scores of individual tours by stars
to stimulate War bond sales. Holly
wood gave all in a personnel way
and is still doing it.
Best adaptation of stage play
my Sister Eileen" 1t improved
the Broadway original by writing
a prologue and moving the players
around a little.
Right on the Nose.
Timeliest headline title-"Casa-
blanca" ready and into movie
houses two weeks after American
troops stormed and captured that
port. Warner Brothers were just
plain lucky. Day before the North
African drive they were huddling
about changing the title.
Best performance by a child
Little Margaret OBrien in Jour-
ney for Margaret"
Most surprising matrimonial ad-
venture - Joan Crawford's third
plunge philip Terry, announced
by actress few hours after ceremony
when she reported for work on set.
No one knew she was keepin' COM
pany.
Best soldier entertainer - Carole
Lands. She got leave from her
studio and, with her mother, made
a business of feting the boys at her
home.
Best musical film-"My Gal Sal.'
or, If you insist, Orchestra Wives.
(See HEFFERNAN, Page E-2)
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lIlelI COllipdIly III 1910
But it's not the purpose of this
dispatch to dip too deeply into the
serious side of Hollywoods 1912.
On the other hand, we're going light
and perhaps balmy. Just for the
sake of good-natured controversy,
we insist upon exercising the year.
end prerogative of Hollywood
espondent-that of presenting a
slate of personal opinions.
What did Hollywood do best in
1912? What did it do worst? And
what were some of the outstanding
vagaries of this citadel of celluloid
ballyhoo in 1912? You can't stop
us now-so let's go:
Best picture of l942-"Mfs. Min
iver." Can you name another that
even looks like contender?
Tossup Among Males.
Best performance male)-Walter
Pidgeon in Mrs Miniver." How
about Brian Donlevys wake
Island" for runner-up?
Best performance female)-Greer
Carson in Mrs. Miniver." Other
academy contenders will find her
about 5-to-1 shot for the big oscar.
Best comment on California CHI
mate-"It's like, beautiful blond
running out of a Turkish bath;
either too hot or too cold and can't
make up her mind" Chase,
professional Hollywood critic.
Best supporting performance
(male)-Henry Travers, the rose
growing station master in Mrs.
Miniver."
Best supporting performance fe-
male)-Teresa Wright as the trag-
edy-bound daughter-in-l law of Mrs.
Miniver."
Silliest publicity Columbia s
photographing Of a contract actress
with seeing-eye owl "for use during
blackouts."
Most imaginative picture-"Tales
of Manhattan" Lots of stars, lots
Of episodes, but not much box Office.
Best war picture-"Wake Island"
Grim, but pretty factual
Rozs Comedy Tops.
Best comedy-''Take Letter,
Darling" with Fred MacMurray and
Rosalind Russell romping at top
speed.
Most exciting thriller-"Across the
Pacific" with good-bad Bogart pitted
against Jap-loving Sydney Green
street In battle to save Panama
Canal.
Best find of year (male)-Gene
Kelly, dancing demon of For Me
and My Gal' or (as many will vote)
William Bendix, lovable dumbbell
comic in Wake Island"
Best find of year 0emale) )-Elon-
gated, handsome Alexis Smith, who
got her chance and carved her mark
as leading lady in Gentleman Jim"
Now she's a star-all in one year!
"Miniver" Again.
Sourest performance outside of
| pictures Second Guesser Charlie
Chaplin's oratorical outbursts for a
second United States war front. The
North African expedition caught
Charlie with his mouth open.
Best direction-William Wyler for
Mrs. Miniver." Almost sure shot
to grab the oscar next March.
Most patriotic actor - Henry
Fonda, father of three children,
who left his home and career to
enlist as apprentice seaman In Navy.
Best-wearing leading man-Wal-
ter Pidgeon. who keeps on piling
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father wheel-chair invalid. Bes-
sizes son, an artist of great promise,
is so very like Mara's dead lover
that upon first awakening, not
recognizing any of her immediate
family because of changes the years
have wrought, she takes him for the
man she was to have we'd She
flies to him, clings to him, and it is
rather an agonizing scene.
Bessie has never confessed the
circumstances under which Mara
lost her mind. The deceit weighs
upon her cumulatively until, in the
end, when her son goes to Wash
ington for long stay involving the
painting of a mural, she breaks
down and makes a confession to
her physician. Faithfully, if grudg-
ingly-alWayS burdened with pain
full memory-she has cared for her
befogged sister through the years.
Now she must be rid of this re-
minder of forlorn past But, as
the physician is arranging for
Mara's commitment to an institu-
tion, the thunderbolt brings her
back to the living world.
Play Divided Critics.
Later, in a scene as poignant, it
seemed to me, as could have been
written-and acted Mara admits
awareness of all that happened on
her wedding day. Then, releasing
the pent-up emotions of bitter
years, the widow assumes full claim
to her husbands past life, all that
he was, all that he may now be-
All his devotion, all his love. his
every thought were hers. 1t would
have been better for Mara, she
tells her, if her mind never had been
restored
In the end, evidence is uncon-
sciously vouchsafed by Mara's
nephew that his fathers love for
her, sealed in his heart, had always
endured So the final curtain.
1 suspect that play itself may not
endure, chiefly because of unevenly
divided press opinion. II it does
fail. the fault will lie with the
adverse press, rather than With the
play.
AS the two sisters. Martha Scott
as Mara and Barbara O'Neill, Bes-
sic, extract every possibility from
their parts. Gregory Peck in the
joint roles of Maras lover and then
as Bessie's son, is thoroughly fine
and surely he will win place on the
stage as an important personality.
Other characters are all we'll typed
and well acted.
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tiveness and force of the Leon Ames
performance as guerrilla leader.
The New York Theater Guild
does not pretend that 1t has a great
play in The Russian People"
What Theresa Helburn and Law
renee Langner do feel they sponsor
is good, salty melodrama. one that
inches the enemy Nazi in the
grooves where most people like to
see them. If this be hatred make
the most of it. For it happens to
be good theater.
A great many theatergoers hold
to the point of view that the good
war play will not be written until
the guns have ceased firing. They
point to World War I. which pro-
duced two dramas that are still
recalled as vital These we're the
Maxwell Anderson-Lauren Stall
lings play, What Price Glory" and
r. c. Sheriff's Journeys End"
GLORY" was written six years after
the armistice of 1918 and Sheriff's
play came 10 years after that
memorable November II. The An
dersonS tallings collaboration
brought two minds to the script
we'll suited to the purpose. Maxwell
Anderson completed the first draft
of the play well realizing that his
tone of banter and comedy lacked
a certain something-a real air OF
verisimilitude if you will. He gave
his play to St$lings, fellow editorial
writer on the New York World, and
that captain of United States
Marines who gave leg to the cause,
filled it with the earthly language OF
the Devildogs, the informality OF
the soldier at ease and ready to
combat for the smiles of a shady
lady. Some called it journalistic
playmaking, but it surely caught
the public fancy.
R. C. Sheriff, who wrote Jour,
ney's End was an insurance
assessor, dabbling in the drama as
an amateur in the interest of his
boat club. His play was first offered
in an obscure theater, as rejecting
the point of view of average English
civilians at the front, how their
minds journeyed back home. SOL
diers who were never really oriented
to battle. There were sharply con-
trasted characterizations. 1t taught
that wars are fought by ordinary
men and boys and not by grim
automatons in helmets. as histories
and bulletins impersonally imply.
AS civilization has advanced in
invention since 1917-l8, the folks
back home have better conception
of what goes on at the front. The
newsreels keep us partially in
formed, military intelligence and
censorship is more relaxed, and yet
there are the little intimacies of
the soldiers in far-off theaters. away
(See KELLEY, Page ED
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Coming Attractions

StaEe.
and Old Lace with Boris Karlo heading the
festivities; opening week from tomorrow.
CAPIToL-"The Key"
Brian Donlevy; starting Thursday.
COLUAdBIA-"The Major Rogers
Ray Milland; starting third street Thursday
EARLENow voyager" with Bette
ing Thursday
KEITHS-'Once Upon Honeymoon" Ginger Rogers and
Cary Grant; starting Thursday
featurees classic and folk
dance: starting Wednesday.
METROPOLTTAN-"A Remember" Loretta
Brian Aherne; starting Friday
PAACEStand BY for Action with Robert Taylor
Laughton and Brian Donevy; starting Thursday
PIxone Thrilling Night" Woman double ea-
ture; starting Thursday.
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Toduy's Film Schedules

CAP1TOJourney for Margaret story of orphans OF war; ll0
4:05 and 10 pm. Stage shows: $40, sos and 905
COLUMBIAWe the Marines what make the glorious
1:25, 8, 4:40, 6:25, 8:05 and $50 pm.
Loveier" with partner:
g. 43 ITO and "a Stage shows: 120 $50 and
twoster with Dietrich Scott Wayne
l, 245, A. 615 8 and Gas
LTTTLEA Christmas Carol" the Dickens story with Reginald
Owen as Scrooge: l, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15 and $50
METROPOLITAN Gentleman jim" with Enrol Flynn Mr.
Corbett: 120 325 $50 735 and $40
PALACESpringme in the Rockies music by Miranda Cradle
Harry 210 4:30 tbs and 9:45 pm.
Undyng Monster" double
horror feature: Continuous from 1:30 pm.
TRANS-LUx-News and shorts: Continuous pm.
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(See KELLEY, Page ED
Evening star., 1942-12-20
Bataan Colonel
Serves as Advisor
HOLLYWOOD.

IloLL NooD.
A man who was in command of
an infantry division OF Philippine
scouts on Bataan has been en-
gagged by Paramount as technical
advisor for so. Proudly We Hail"
A story about Army nurses on the
islands.
The technical advisor is Col
Thomas w. Doyle And so. pre-
sumably, everything will be accord
ing to Doyle.
1t will be. unless Col. Doyle runs
into the same difficulty most movie
technical advisors run into, namely
dramatic license. Generally their
license is known as altering the
facts"
ASSOCIATED Press.
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lilcllG vi Jlle BdSS lllty IidPc COll-s
cocted 1t explains, to a large de-
gree, Hopes continued excellence
A comedians life is usually not a
happy one, evidence to the contrary.
A guy like Hope, say, doesn't just
amble towards microphone come
Tuesday night and be funny. In
stead, he builds his show gag by gag.
1t all begins on the Thursday or
Friday of the week proceeding the
program. At that point, Hope and
his seven writers meet and discuss
the main comedy lines for the next
broadcast. This usually takes place
at Bob's house in an Office which he
has fixed up over his garage.
Trained In Comedy.
His seven writers?' I hear you
saying. Yes, seven. Oh, you think
that's lot? Well, he started out
with 13!
These men are all trained comedy
builders. They don't merely crack
jokes. They put gag together, ele-
ment by element, until it possesses
what they are seeking: humor.
However, don't get the idea that
Bob does nothing in the creation of
his scripts. On the contrary, he does
a lot.
Most comedians, as you may have
heard before. are extremely unfunny
away from the microphone. They
are serious men whose timing or in
Election or physical appearance make
them amusing. II they are funny
at all in private life, it is because
they have accumulated a vast store
of comedy lines through the years
which may come in handy in con-
versation.
Hope is genuinely funny, profess
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inadequacy In construction, with ac-
tion lapsing into wordiness; even
though the plot does not altogether
justify itself in its final working out
in sum, even though it could be
q better play-it is nonetheless a
thoroughly worthy one.
Involving a sharp and bitter psy-
Geological issue between two sisters
who love the same man, the play
reaches straight out toward Eugene
O'Neill. What a deeply organic
drama this would have been could
he have read it and been induced to
do some editing on tagging third
act with its too fragile denouement
and its somewhat dilatory headway
in act II but, as it stands, 1t is a
sincere and gripping piece of dra-
matte writing, credit to the Broad
way stage.
Set in a living room in the year
1900, Lemuel Ayres has contrived an
authentic museum piece, an en-
vironment and atmosphere contri-
buting signally to the spell of the
play. AS the story reaches into the
years the setting changes only in
respect to few Differences to mod
ernlty such as radio, electric lights
and, of course, costuming. Here
abide two sisters, Bessie and Mara
Sutro, and their father, addicted to
the bottle. Debt rides upon the
household and Illustration and un-
happiness. Immediately apparent,
develop progressively.
Sisters Are Opposed.
IN the sisters, we have the age-old
conflict of the extrovert opposed to
the introvert-one who is aggressive
militant, bitter, selfish, who takes all
she can and wants more, and the
other, sweet-natured, outgiving,
Enthusiastically king, from
whom everything she does not will
llngly give is taken.
After a Wavering start the piece
gets going with the appearance of
veteran family practitioner, about
to retire not because he is sick but
because he wants to get away from
SiiooC WLlo olC DIN, nc 10 tul IllIlS
his practice over to a young ply
sician of seemly appearance and in
gratiating personality. AS you may
suspect he falls in love with one of
the two sisters, both physically ap-
pealing but varying in type as they
do in character.
Mara the introvert. is the woman
OF his choice. For once in her life
Bessie, the younger sister, cannot
have what she wants. It is too much
for her to stand In the emotional
crisis of the wedding. day, as the
bridegroom takes his place under a
willow on the laWn-a willow planted
when Mara was born-waiting for
his bride, Bessie seizes a revolver
from the desk, Mara. in her bridal
gown, enters the room in time to pre-
vent the suicide. But in the strug-
gle for the weapon it is discharged.
Mara falls in faint. When she is
revived it is found that the incident
has unhlnged her mind. For 30
years after she lives in blankness.
Shocked Into Sanity.
Eventually shocked back into con-
sciousness by thunderclap in the
midst of terrorizing storm, she is
awakened to tragedy. She finds
that the man who was to have been
her husband has been dead several
years, leaving her sister a widow
with grown son and divorced from
his wife. She finds her alcoholic
Evening star., 1942-12-20
Simonov Advocates Hate
In Exciting Soviet Drama
Unlike Steinbeck, Enemy
Painted in Bitter Colors
For Russian Playgoers
Bv Andre,v X. Kelley.

When John stenbecks play The Moon Down becomes screen
ceuod normally placid people of the occupied will Nor
wegians, and the hateful invaders will be
struck reviewer who Steinbeks three times that
Evening star., 1942-12-20
The Years Best Bug Bites
Heffernan as 1912 Wanes
1t Would Seem the Scribe
Found Much to Admire
sa In Mrs. Miniyer' :.
By Harold Hefernan.
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


Inventory time is here again will
1912 will the most turbulent
Like all other industries all other citizens Hollywood
confronted in 1912 by
unprecedented problems propelled the
solved others still
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Takes Seven Gag Writers
For One Bob Hope Script
Preparation of Material
For Radio Program Calls
For Abundance of Effort
Bv Kate Holiday.



HOLLYWOOD-"That bof. Leave in"
Such might barrel through the
Bob Hopes radio show bof information
brings belly laugh
which the public invited which
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Memory Of Willow and 7
Lingers On With Critic
First.Nighter Opinion
Was Divided, but Play
Had Artistry in Writing
By Laurence Perry,


YORk-MemoreS dram
dued by Blackwell and Curtis association
by Donald Blackwell
writings dramatic quality
In many of its inerudes it
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30

wife--to serve tempting food re-
CARELESS of food rationing and 10
have adequate service even
though we are losing our men,
and women-to the army, navy
and 10 defense plants.
GOT TO CARRY on
We've got 10 carry on, the
government needs us. We've a
bigger job than the hotel indus
try has ever known before.
'If the government needs a
block of 100 of our roOms-then
we must make arrangements TO
carry on, and find space for our
guests. IL the maids quit, the
beds still must be made.
THE travelling public is CO.
operating. We must look TO
women TO help us in this situa-
ton. One OF our problems is to
give interesting food. IL there
Is no ham and bacon, then we
must think of tempting break
fast substitutes.
IF there Is only vanilla ice
cream. we must plan ways to
make IL more interesting as a
dessert. believe there are
enough hotel dieticians with
imagination who can do this
job"
Mrs. Statler lives at the Penn
sylvania Hotel in New York.
Today the 400 visiting hotel mer
from all over North America haC
scheduled an armY-nayY Luncheon
at the Book-Cadillac Hotel will
Brig. Gen. A. r. Clancy. Brig. Gen
Donald Armstrong and Rear Ad
miral John DowneS as guests.
Tonight the hotel men will visi
their friends in Windsor. Thi
afternoon Alexander NJ C L e a n
president of the Canadian Hote
Mems Association, was scheduled
TO speak on hotels in war time.
ARMY HOUSING CHIEF DUE
The session will end THURSDAY
with dinner at the Book-Cadilla,
Hotel. when Mai. Gen. Walter r
Weaver, who heads the housing o.
the military throughout the coun'
try. will be the speaker.
In special one-day session o.
the Michigan Hotel Association
held in connection with the ma.
tional meeting, Michigan officer:
for the year were elected.
They are:
President, Eddie O'Brien of the
Winona Hotel at Bay City.
First vice president. j. K. Fraw.
ley of Hotel Fort Shelby.
Second vice president, Karl Kin.
sey of the Montague Hotel al
Caro-.
Secretary, Harry F. O'Brien OF
Hotel fuller.
Treasurer, Earl NJ. Johnson OF
Johnson's Rustic Tavern at Hough.
ton.
Mrs. 3. L. Thomas was re.
elected executive secretary Of the
association.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30
GIN Steamnes Arms Output Save Millions of Pounds Rubber Metal
Biggest Housekeeping job

Mrs. Alice Staer Attending Hotel Groups Sessions Rates Wartime
Much the Same That of Individual Home Maker
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30

A coal passer on a big lake ore
carrier at Is, William j. Martin
of Buffalo is in the Detroit Marine
Hospital today recovering from a
battering he took Sunday in a
storm on Lake Erie.
Undaunted by the biggest wave
I ever saw" young Martin said
he will be out of the hospital in a
couple days and 60 back to his
ship, the SIS Aganda of the b.
land Cornelius Lines.
Martin and his pal. Donale z.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30
BY VERA BROWN

Mrs. Alice Statler. who does
Americas biggest woman's house
keeping Job, is in town today for
the thirty-second annual meeting
Of the American Hotel Association.
Said Mrs. Statler:
IVY Job IN that OF each
American housewife today
10 carry on In wartime. Only
our problem Is bigger because
we operate a chain of hotels.
MY worries are the same n
those of each individual house.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30
City Will Send Envoy
To Phone Rate Farley

At the request OF Assistant Cor
poration Counsel James II. Lee,
Common Council today approved
paying the expenses of Prof. WI
liam A. Patton of the University
OF Michigan 10 attend the tele-
phone rate hearing before the
Federal Communications Commits
sion in Chicago October 8 and 9.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30
Photo by Times star Photographs

Crispen, IT, of 277 Seneca street,
Buffalo. took jobs on the lake
boats because of the shortage of
experienced hands. Crispen is a
deck hand. He. too, said the
severe storm which tossed their
boat in huge waves has not soured
him for the tough job of lake sail
ing. Crispen has a fractured
Icollarbone.
Young Martin, slight of build
said it was his second voyage as a
coal passer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30

John G. Martin,
33, of 1921 Be-
wick a v e n u e,
employed in the
Tim e S cashier
C a & e for the
! a S I 10 years,
r e ports for
service at Fort
Custer.
Martin w a S
indicted S e p
TENDER 81 and
was granted a
two-weeks fur
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30
S.Hunts Fraud
In Near Sale Of
Disputed Home
LandIsdy Found Guilty
Of Barring Door to
Tenant in Rent Fight

The quietly stern voice of the
federal government was heard to-
day amid the screams and walls
which have featured Mrs. Theresa
Barnfather's circuit court at
tempt to regain the premises she
rented from Mrs. Augusta Bartels
and which, she claims, Mrs. Bar
tells illegally took back from her.
i The voice OF the federal govern.
ment, in the person of Hicks Grif-
fifth, an OPA attorney. asked ques-
tons a bout real estate deal
|reputedly arranged by Mrs. Bar
tells with Mrs. Martha Hoenscheid,
4076 Lafayette boulevard, whereby
Mrs. Hoenscheid almost bought
the premises under dispute at
1851 Normandy avenue.
GIVEN FIVE DAYS TO ACT
Meanwhile. Commissioner Will
liam j. Cody found Mrs. Bartels
guilty of forcible entry and de-
tainer in slipping into the home
she rented to Mrs. Barnfather and
barring the door so her tenant
could not get into the house. He
lgave her five days to file an ap-
peal and said that eff you don't
act then, I will
Screams, weeps and shouts so
marked yesterdays hearing that at
one point Mrs. BarteIs received
first aid while opposing counsel,
two OPA lawyers and the COM
missioner yelled for the floor.
The transaction which drew the
ATTENTION of the OPA occurred on
May IL. Mrs. Hoenscheid is sup
posed, to have given Mrs. Bartels
81 900 for the property, then called
the deal off when Mrs. Barnfather
declined to be dispossessed.
ACTION QUESTIONED
"Are you sure this wasn't ar
ranged merely to get Mrs. Barn.
father TO mover" tartly asked
Leonard j. Burke, the Barn.
! father counsel.
That's none of your busi-
ness" said Mrs. Bartels.
4 Mrs. Barnfather refused to pay
rent, Mrs. Bartels testified, on the
ground that Barnfather m oney
had been used for an unauthorized
JOB of painting the house.