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She sends poor E. E. sprawling like
q rookie ball toter being dumped
by q Chicago Bear.
Ginger the Indignant.
Now take II Married a Witch" !"
wherein springs up the darndest big
wind ever put to comedy use. Little
witch Veronica Lake turns on her
miraculous powers to wreck Fredric
March's wedding to Susan Hayward
by creating q blow that whisks all
the stuffy. guests to kingdom come.
It's an ill-wind that blows no laughs
in q movie!
Ginger Rogers In THE Major and
the Minor" wastes no time in getting
down to the business at hand-slap-
stick. In the opening scene. she
gets mighty indignant at Robert
Benchley's. loye-making and slaps
both him and guffawing elevator
boy over the head with raw eggs.
In "You Can't Escape Forever" I"
George Brent picks up huge half
gallon bowl of vegetable salad, COM
plete with Russian dressing, and
tosses 1t right In the face Of Eduardo
Cianelli, precipitating q riot in a
night club. Later, In the same
movie, Roscoe Karns kicks q girl
(unidentifled) right where it hurts
the dignity and sets in motion a
free rail- that winds UP with 60
year-old dowagers-members OF a
lonesome hearts club kicking
each other around.
They go back to the earliest Sen
nett days for most Of the sticky
humor wound about Jack Benny In
George Washington Slept Here"
Jack steps on loose plank which
promptly rears up and sn1acks him
on the back OF the head. Enter
ing the house, Benny rips through
rotting wood and plaster and falls
from the second floor to the kitchen
sink below Later he SITS. on a
chair; it collapses. Not arty, but
funny-maybe.
Paulette Is Dunked.t
In Happy Go-Lucky" comes the
always popular burnt cork dinner
routine with Mary Martin and
Betty Hutton trying to cook up q
meal for Dick Powell and Rudy
Vallee. During the stove work, the
roast becomes charcoal, the rice
swells to room-fillins proportions
4
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8 sss u lsss l. n
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son, Richard, 10 months, recently
came to live with her 50 she wouldn't
be alone. Hickman. Is her business
agent and also her severest critic,
as far as her picture activities are
concerned.
It was her sister, Edith, who spent
part Of her. savings as q school
teacher, to give Dearlna singing
lessons when the latter was only
10 years old. Later, Deanna, who
was born In Winnipeg. moved here
and continued her musical educa-
ton.
AS she grew up, Deanna became
connected with Universal, where she
was assigned to Joe Pasternak, q
young European. He produced nine
Of her 10 pictures before he, too,
severed relations with that studio
about the time Of the nJ,rhtn alter
cation. @
Deanna Durbin has, few, II any,
affectations. It is trus she posses
much poise and she also Is extremely
courteous and polite.
But that doesn't mean she doesn't
Evening star., 1942-07-26

she never appears older than her
own 20 years, Deanna wears no
makeup lin keeping with old Chi
nese customs. And, since much Of
the picture is shot outdoors, she
keeps an attendant, with huge UNI
brella, beside her constantly to keep
her fair skin from getting sun
tanned.
Deanna doesn't think 1t would
be wise at this time for her to play
more mature or sophisticated role.
She wants to remain the budding
young miss that she always has been
to her fans, particularly In these
war-clouded days when she feels
the screen is badly In need OF young
entertainers.
Women VIII Be Featured.
Coming back to the films now at
q time when the war is drawing
heavily upon movie actors, along
with the rest of the Nations man.
power. Deanna says she firmly be.
lieves there shortly will be a marked
increase In the production Of "wom-
en-" pictures.
Evening star., 1942-07-26
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

Approximately As per cent of
Hollywood's current story purchases
are for war epics, but there's one
item that can't be counted out for
the duration. That's slapstick. Big
ger and st,ckier slapstick scenes are
what film makers are demanding
from their writers these days.
Anything which delights an au-
dience and carries it even mo-
mentarily into a world free of bombs
and sinking ships is thrust into the
category Of escape entertainment. I"
And that's where fashioned
slapstick is getting in its lusty
whacks.
SlapsticF in the theatrical sense
is a physical act which brings
laughter. and is thus distinguished
from comedy lines and even situa-
tions. The word "slapstick" came,
of course, nom ancient testers, cir
Gus clowns and burlesque comedians.
The original slapstick was two
boards fastened together at one end
and senarated at the other so that
when comic was whopped one
stick cracked loudly against the
other, creating a din that sounded
mighty painful.
So, let's see about this slapstick
business In Hollywood today, taking
rowing tour of the sets to check
up on the physical results of flock
of funY,y ideas.
Sturses Is artistic
In Star Spangled Rhythm" a
movie musjca! boasting the presence
Of every star and featured player
on the Paramount payroll (totaling
something like 60), the violence
starts early. Victor Moore, as big
fum-duddy executive. gets mixed up
with buttons on his new desk. The
desk suddenly whams forth as a
hidden ber. A phonograph starts
blasting a military march, all the
Venetian blinds begin banging up
and down and seven huge electric
fans and a ventilating outlet blow
everything in the room to the four
walls. That's slapstick.
Preston Sturges, writer director
has started new vogue for what
he terms artistic" slapstick. In
Palm Beach Story" he introduces
Evening star., 1942-07-26

possess q mind Of her own. At times,
she has been known to be downright
stubborn, and will argue her point
at length II she thinks she Is right.
Otherwise, she seldom displays her
emotions and admits that, generally,
she has few strong likes and dislikes.
One Of those strong likes Is cook
les. Once while appearing IN q film
where q lot OF cookies were used
In q dinner scene, Deanna sneaked
up to the table when she thought
no one was looking and ate some
of the pastry.
But just as she gulped the last
gulp, out stepped . foreman from
behind the scenery. Trying hard to
stifle a smile, he firmly informed
her that the cookies not only had
been kicking around the studio prop
] department for months but that
they also had been sprinkled with
. fly spray just to prevent studio
folks like her from, eating them.
That was the last time she ever
touched anything to. eat around q
movie sound stage!
Evening star., 1942-07-26
By James Lindsey
Wide World.

HOLLYWOOD.
When he contemplates the dra-
mates departments of American
universities Charles Coburn, veteran
stage and screen actor, can hardly
repress q well-bred snort.
On second thought, he can't re-
press 1t.
'sWhy," he asks, should these
schools 20 on graduating amateurs
to teach amateurs how to become
amateurs?"
When university accepts stu
dent in Its college Of medicine, law
or engineering, he reasons, 1t un-
dertakes eventually to turn out a
doctor, q lawyer or an engineer.
Is this true in the school Of dra-
mates? He answers with re-
sounding NO. The school Of dra-
matics turns out man or woman
filled with the desire to attain sue
cess OF the stage or screen but with
out the equipment to do 50.
Only One Way TO Learn.
Coburn Is no idle critic without a
solution.
There is only one sure way of
learning the art of acting" he says.
THAT is by training in a company
of competent professionals, starting
at the bottom, learning first things
first and learning them right"
So, he says, why should not uni
versities giving dramatics courses
obtain the services of competent
professionals, forming stock COM
panies with them as the nucleus
and sending them out on the road
with the aspiring actors and ac-
tresses?
There was a time, points out Co.
burn, when the theater didn't have
to worry about its source OF acting
talent. That was In the day OF the
stock and repertory company, where
youth, playing minor roles, coule
absorb the experience necessary fol
success II he had the requisite tai.
ent. But this source has beer
largely cut OF, placing it squarelS
up to the universities and colleges
to fill the gap.
He'll Guarantee Teachers.
Several universities have Listened
TO Coburn's ideas, and more thar
one Is reported ready to strin(
along II finances can be obtained.
Coburn says he will guarantee
personally to obtain competent pro-
fessionals for 10 such stock com
panies rs he proposes.
The commercial theater ism
giving work to all the good actors,
he says. I'm Hollywood there ar
hundreds Of good actors drawing
el5 q day - extras-when the1
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his most slam-b bang scene when IL
old buffers belonging to the Ale and
Quail Club get tight and go berserk.
They start shooting the lights and
windows out of a private railway
car. Each Is armed with shotgun.
Sturges even turns Rudy Vallee
and Claudette Colbert into slap
stickers by having Claudette step
In his face and break his specs
while climbing into an upper berth.
Even the venerated Mark Twain
comes in for q taste Of slapstick in
the story Of his life which Warmers
are now filming. Mark Tin the per-
son of Frederic March, doesn't get
hit In the face with q custard pie
just few squares of dark Cali
fornia dirt. Prospecting for gold
In the Angels Camp diggings, Twain
chambers into the shaft hole, awk-
wardly pitches out few shovelfuls
of dirt and then with his last heave
manages to bring it all down on
himself. Later some one plants a
frog in his hat.
Slapstick Tragedy.
Several current films feature bouts
between enraged female rivals. In
Orchestra Wife" Carole Lands
makes grave mistake by slappine
Mary Beth Hughes face. Mary
Beth seethes for 10 seconds and
then boots what on any gridiron
would have been a perfect field
goal-that is If football had been
substituted for Carole.
Don Ameche reaches for an ever
successful old device In Girl Trou-
ble." He drops an ancient blunder-
buss to the ground with such dex-
terity that the piece is fred. Its
monstrous load Of slugs blasting q
beautiful new automobile tire to
shreds. This is expected to elicit
terrified gasps from auto drivers
when it reaches the screen.
The long suffering Edward Everett
Horton takes some nasty falls In
"Springtime in the Rockies"-all
for the art OF slapstick. He is pur-
sued by a determined and NOON
struck Carmen Miranda--until Mi
randa. remembering the antics Of
. rowing guard during 4 football
game she once viewed, hurts her
enticing hgure at the fleeing Hor-
toms ankles IN shoe-string tackle.
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Amateurs Teach Anna teurs-but Little
And That, Says Charles Coburn, Is One Thing Wrong
With Dramatics Departments in Universities

work. Among them are names that
used to be famous. They would well
come service in the universities, and
the universities would welcome
them"
Coburn feels so deeply on the sub
ject he recently issued q brochure
through the universities of Cali
| fornia, and more than 100 actors
and actresses, numbering some Of
the foremost names Of the stage
and screen, subscribed to his senti-
ments.
Why" he asks, should student
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with potential acting talent incur
the expense Of going to a university
to spend four years learning how
to become an amateur actor. an
achievement that has no market?
He could do as much In his home
town In the little theater.'
why should a student desiroui
Of developing taste, an under
standing, an appreciation Of the art
Of the enacted drama seek out 9
university for that purpose, the
(See LINDSLEY. Page Ed
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(See LINDSLEY, Page E-3
Evening star., 1942-07-26
The Saga of Orson Welles
Might Make a Picture
And Lot Better One Than Envious
Colleagues of Disesteemed Producer
Have Been Able to Make Before
Bv Jaw Carm0dv.

yeah" saying the corner of its mouth
Thus does the thing the writings
TO the effect that is constantly overlooking
Just beyond its
Well to keep the conversation
dramatic narrative awaiting strange on weles
The Strange Case of Wees" would
That naturally would involve getting weIe
HOLLYWOOD from using the prove bay
faced the same problem making his first
certain notorious successful publisher biggest
since discovered that
of their private lives That did
myth merely magnificent fiction magna-
saying and all the elaborate precautions of the
distributor of Wees
sibity etc-seemed little foolish for
HOLLYWOOD could do the thing it chose to make feof
orson wenes picture could just Wees
would know it was and maybe think Hollywood
denying it all with
Picture Would Take Honesty
And Other Qualities
picture around oson in Hollywood
1t would require honesty portsmanshp
qualities which do not always into the making pictures
moy town two years
extremely dubious Hollywood
csy to its collection of highly pubcized
anathema from the start He instantly guilty of the cardinal
sins Of residents publicity
second being rather free in his ntmons that he did
established wel instantly as
IN psar in the shall minds his colleagues industry
fact that his genius
the mans versatility wees could act He could write direct and
When he slow in doing te Hollywood hope that he
aes % creg nuy bl esr snd making n
chubby with Hollywood coumnsts who found him both agreeable
Intelligent suspected his Hollywood
suspects accepted intelligence
and artculateness a authentic
Accordingly the they wrote Of Wes the the envios
who himself before
around to making picture
He Disappointed eEnyiou
And Took His Own Good Time.
disappointed which
finally
product quite buldup
least honest and the most recnt We colleagues in Hollywood
o that 1t q superb achievement.
negligible left the critics Citizen
al Its exceence hardly looked like conIercaly successful pic
might make It's And
Q standard to live to-
question that 1t
Citizen did
Hollywood
All told dramatic affair BRIEF intense and vvid
It, pognance fine
contrasting elements out OF which Grade
literature could be made.
probably likely the
epressbe enormously creative Wees will make
picture of Hollywood he learned about.
probably better picture than Hollywood might
his brief
1t would be a cnch.
Evening star., 1942-07-26

See WOLFERT, Page E-3J
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Yanks, laps Plan
Prisoner Exchange
No Detoils Of Plon
Revealed at Present

BERLIN (from German broad
castc,) Dec. 8 - R - The
American and Japanese govern
ments are continuing negotia-
tons for the exchange of more
of their nationals, Tornokazu
Hori, japanese govern m e n t
spokesman, said today, accord
ing to a Transocean agency dis
patch from Tokyo.
Hori added that no details as
to the time and place of the
proposed exchan. could be an
nounced.
(The first exchange was made
last summer, when japanese
held in America were taken to
Lourenco Marques, Portuguese
East Africa, and exchanged for
Americans from Japan and Jap
anese occupied territory. Some
1000 u. S. GHilians remain in
Japan, China and other Japan
ese-held areas.)
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Press Searth
for Two Mazis
Escaped Prisoners
forget Of Hunt

GRAvENHURST. Ont. Dec.
9-(P)-Two of seven German
air force officers who escaped
last night from a prison camp
near here still were free today
as police pressed a widespread
search for them through north
ern and Central Ontario.
Albert Waller. "a, and Hans
Strehl, %, were captured last
night after getting past the first
enclosure at the camp. Two
other officers were caught al
Barrie, 40 miles south of here,
after riding into town on the
snowplow of a train.
The fifth. Aberhard Wilder
muth, %, was caught early to-
day at Washago, ID miles south
of here. He was seen in a coal
chute by a night operator at the
Canadian National Railways sta
ton who turned in an alarm.
Those still at large were Otto
Steinhilper, %. who speaks only
German. and Siegried Schmidt,
"a, who speaks German and
some English.
Authorities indicated one may
be the same man as Ulrich
Steinhilper, who had escaped
three times before. Once he went
across Niagara bridge on a loco
motive and returned to Canada
on the same train without his
knowledge. He was recaptured
and again escaped at Windsor
station at Montreal, where he
hid under a railway coach by
tying himself to the rods. On a
third escape from an Ontario
camp ne soon was recaptured.
The Germans captured at
Barrie were Reinhard Pfundter,
FL, and Walter Manhardt, "a,
who were chased through the
town and caught on a highway
by a provincial! constable. Man
hardt was believed to be the
same prisoner who escaped from
camp at Bowmanville, Ont,
Dec. 80, 1941, and was recap
tured Jan. 2 by a United States
border patrol near Ogdensburg,
N. Y.
Police said both Pfundter and
Manhardt were carrying regis
tration cards and false identifi-
cation cards, as we'll as concen-
trated food and German Eng
lish dictionaries. They told po-
lice they wantei to 60 to Halifax
and get on a ship in an effort to
return to Germany.
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Is Ship SinkIngs
Claimed By Nazis
Big British Liner
included in Toll

BERLIN (from German broad
casts), Dec. @ R - The Ger
man high command reported to-
day that U-boats had sunk Is
ships totalling 100000 tons in
the Atlantic. including the 49,
700-ton British liner Ceramic
which, il said, was carrying
troops TO North Africa and sank
ir family in heavy seas.
"In view of the prevailing
storm and heavy seas" the COM
munique said, "la-s, loss of life
must be reckoned with"
(No such sinkings have been
confirmed by any allied sourc-
esq.
The communique said that
three other ships carrying war
supplies were sunk from the
same convoy and that two more
and a destroyer-escort were hit.
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British Social
Plan Won't Lead
TO Moscow..o u S.

LONDON, Dec. 8 - (PD -
Sir William Beverage told a
London audience today that his
recently published plan for
postwar social security would
not take Britain either halfway
to Moscow or New York"
This is a plan on British
lines - for security with re-
sponsibility and freedom" Bev-
eridge said at a national defense
luncheon. 1T is built wholly on
British lines unlike anything in
those other countries. 1t is a
move neither towards socialism
nor capitalism. 1t is straight
down the middle of the road. 1t
raises no party issues"
He denied the plan would de-
stroy individuality and enter
prise, bankrupt the nation, in
troduce socialism or serve as a
panacea for all economic all
ments.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-09
Draft System
Now a Bureau
Shifts to Monpower
Commission Todoy

WASHINGTON, Dec. q R)
- The once-independent Selec-
tive Service System today be-
came q bureau within the War
Manpower Commission, an d
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's
status changed from that of sys-
TEN director to bureau chief.
Chairman Paul v. McNutt, of
the Manpower Commission, in
ordering the change under the
broadened authority given him
by President Roosevelt, made
this comment:
1T permits the Selective Serv-
ice organization to continue its
present functions and duties
without change, subject to the
direction and supervision of the
executive director"
Formal incorporation of Sc
lective Service into the War
Manpower Commission raised
the number of employees under
McNutt, including those in field
offices, to approximately 10000
and made his staff one of the
governments largest.
In appointing Hershey as
chief of the Bureau of Selective
Service, McNutt departed from
a recommendation of his man.
agement-labor advisory COM
mittee that Hershey be made
vice chairman of the Manpower
Commission with full charge
over administration.
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Great Lakes Fa1ulo1y
Find US. Big Duyor

CHICAGO. Dee. o.- Cu3Ee
Farmers Of the 0rss. Lake9 y!
gion have sold more than 4,ooQT
600, 900 pounds Of food pgo1ue(o
to the government since u
start of the lend-leaSe roDQna
March 10. 1871. IN official -
port said today. "
The report, from the asricpl-
tural marketing administrat3ooSD
lakes region office, said thet
pork meat products topped ~
list of purchases, totalinS mogo
than 1000, 000,000 pounds. TIA
products were bought for both
lend-lease and domestic pg0-
grams.
The report said that bean
growers, led by Michigan, mark
eted 1850, 900 hundred-pouu3
bags of pea beans. Pea growers
contributed 10000 hundred
pound bags and more than 81
900 cases of canned peas. !,
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Dec. 8, 1912
Mt. Clemens Mich
Dear Santa
My name is Donnie Caster.
am 3 and a half. / live at 178
Dickerson. ,am a good boy.
For Christmas l would like a
red wagon, a red horn, cut
out book, and a scissors. Thank
You Santa.
DONNIE CASTER
178 Dickerson
Mt Clemens Mich
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Mt Clemens Mich

Dear Santa Claus:
l am z years old and have
been a pretty good boy. l want
doctor set Lincoln log set,
truck and two-wheel bike. My
sister wants dolls trunk, baby
doll and some dishes and my
baby sister Bonnie wants some
toys to play with too.
Thank you
JERRY RICHTER.
"a Eldridge.
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DINNER .HONORS MCKAY

GRAND RAPIDS - up -
Business and political associates
of Frank D. Mckay, Republican
national committeeman from
Michigan, gave him a testimonial
dinner at the Peninsular Club
Tuesday night. Among the 220
guests were merchants, profess
sional men, clergymen, and pub
lie officials.
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Dear Santa Claus
! am z years old and have
been a pretty good boy. l want
a doctor set, Lincoln log set,
trucks and two wheel bike. My
sister Sandra wants a dolls
trunk, baby doll and some dishes
and my baby sister Bonnie
wants some toys to play with
too. Thank you,
JERRY RICHTER,
"a Eldridge.
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tie chair and a Christmas tree.
My little brother George is
three years old. He wants a
black board, a snow shovel and
little chair and what ever else
you want to bring him. Harvey
Alton is our baby brother. He
is two years old. Bring him a
little train that he can pull and
a roller chime. We all want
candy and nuts and don't forget
all the poor boys and girls.
Your little friend
MARYANN RUTH KRANTZ
r. r. No. 3 Cotton Rd.
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188 Coleman Ave.
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Dear Santa,
! would like to get a chain for
my bicycle, and one errecter set,
and one puck and a hockey
stick to go with it.
Age IL.
Sincerely Yours,
WILBERT JARVIS
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SHARON sCHIELD

Dear Santa
l think I have been q good
girl and if you happen to see a
pair of bedroom slippers or
gloves would you please stop and
put them under my tree?
Try and give all the poor kids
Merry Christmas.
Lovingly,
SYLVIA
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Dec 9th .

Dec 9th
Dear Santa Claus:
/ am five years old and ! 60
to the Wilson School.
/ want a cowboy suit, a gun
and holster, station wagon, a
train and climbing tractor.
Please fill my stocking with
candy and nuts.
Yours Sincerely
TOMMY HI. TAYLOR
244 Cass Ave.
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An ingenious device, resemb-
ling an ultra-complicated tea
wagon, has been developed to
test the accuracy of plane instruz
ments before flight.
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Dear Santa Claus:
Last year when I wrote you
I lived near Mt. Clemens, now
l hope you can find my new
house. It's at 351 Gardendale,
in Ferndale. Please bring my
little sister and l, chair and
table set, dishes, scooter, candy
and each a dolly. Thanh: you,
Santa.
SANDRA GAVE AND
EVANNE SHULOCK
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Dec. 8, 1912
Dear Santa Claus:
Please send ne a big doll, a
bike, a high chair for my doll
Mary Ann, train ard anything
else you can spare.
Also bring my friend Charles
Schmidt a train and candy and
nuts. Leave some candy for me
if you have any left.
Thank you and Merry Xmas.
SHARON SCHIELD