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Evening star., 1942-08-09
Hear Ye Mr.. Maney's Tart Reply
Ace of Press Agents Uses His Sunday Words
On Behalf of Escapist Drama

presented after our entrance into
the war. Both plays would have
been less moving, less eloquent, less
timely had they been dedicated once
this country was plunged into the
cataclysm.
Inasmuch as it is a rash prophet
who undertakes to say what may
transpire within the next year, so
the playwright would be making a
desperate cast of the dice who wrote
war play dealing in anything be-
yond speculative generalities OF the
perils which lie ahead.
The theater, then, should not be
castigated because it is seemingly
mute in our hour Of travail. AS an
tidote, as anesthetic, as tonic, it has
its place, serves its purpose, con-
tributes to civilian morale. There
are more theaters open in London
this August than there are in New
York, a London which has brutal
evidences Of the war on every side.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1942-08-09

surcease in the maiden ladies' Gel
lar, and that audiences laughed up
roarously throughout these macabre
proceedings, that student might well
arch an inquisitive, not to say in
credulous eyebrow.
Yet this is the case history OF
arsenic and Old Lace" play
dedicated to the wholesale slaughter
of aged innocents. This gold mine,
operated by Howard Lindsay and
Russell Grouse, has no relation to
life in either wartime or peacetime,
yet it provides complete escape for
its patrons. Thus, also, Life With
Father" MY Sister Eileen" Angel
Street" Junior Miss" and Uncle
Harry" in varying degrees.
Since last September four plays
have employed the war as a back
drop for their argument. OF these
"The Wookey," play dedicated to
the stubborn courage, sublime in
dependence and fundamental wis
dom of a cockney tugboat captain,
was the only one to enjoy even
moderate popularity. THE Wookey"
provided its auditors with pretty
lifelike reproduction of a Luftwaffe
raid on London, but starting with
the Monday after Pearl Earbor, its
customers vanished. The Wookey''
could not compete with newspaper
headlines in either drama, suspense
or sound effects.
Heart of City" paid tribute to
the people of small London thea
ter who kept up their performances
through bombings and raids ano
terror ridden nights-the theatel
and the plays characters were taker
almost literally from hfe-and it,
run was brief and economically dis.
astrous.
So, to, with Paul Vincent Car.
rolls The Strings, My Lord, Arr
False" in which that eloquent Gel
undertook to salute the valiant peo
pie of Scotland's Clydeside unde
the shock of death and desolatior
from the air.
Even the complexities, the some
times humorous, sometimes tragl
impact of the war on a girls schoo
in Switzerland came box -offic,
cropper when set up as Letter
From Lucerne" by Dwight Wiman
Playwrights Exonerated.
One suspects that no playwright
is equipped to write a satisfactor.
} play about a war of which, willy
nilly, he is part. To write sucl
5 a play would demand detachment
a studied serenity. and cool per
| spective impossible to possess il
these passionate times. Playwrights
: even as you and I, canont see tn
| woods for the trees. Only from
! remote planet could he observe tn
! convulsions OF the world we live Il
! with any degree of wisdom. In
: deed, it is doubtful that Watch o.
I the Rhine" and There Shall B
No Night" would have enjoyed tn
! success they achieved had they beel
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Girl and Show Get Two Premieres
It's Little Complicated but Nan Fabray's
Life Always Has Been Rather Odd
BY Marx Barron,
Wide World.

NEW YORK.
Nanette Fabray-and don't let
that name get you too confused
because her name Is really 'Fa-
bares" is making her second
Broadway debut later this month
in the second premiere of the musi-
cal comedy hit, Lets Face It."
She changed her name because
no one could spell it correctly. Also,
she has found, few can spell She
new one correctly.
And don't let that get you dizzy
because Miss Fabray. who pro-
nounces it "Fah-bah-Ray, has had
such a varied career since she was
trundled from her birthplace IN
New Orleans to Los Angeles that
it seems only fitting she should
have two debuts In her introduction
to the Broadway musical comedy
stage.
Her career has been filled with
odd happenings, most of which have
worked out to her good fortune.
Her Accent Helped.
II got this Southern accent from
my New Orleans mother" she said,
although I had been taken to Los
Angeles when I was 2 or 3 years
old. The Southern accent attracted
attention out there, and I was given
roles in Our Gang comedies when
was child
Just as I was going good as q
child actress, had to withdraw for
an appendix operation and while
in the hospital my hair changed
from blonde to brunette
when talking pictures came in
I had to train myself for different
type of roles from which I had
been playing because as a result Of
serious illness my singing voice
changed entirely"
Another time when she had Just
come out of a hospital and was
recuperating from pneumonia she
heard of role being cast in a
movie called "A Child Is Born" She
decided to make an extra effort,
despite her convalescence, to get
up and win that role. She did
only to discover that her role was
that of an expectant mother, and
she played most Of her scenes in
hospital bed.
Max Reinhardt cast her in some
serious Shakespearean roles, and
then she played in the movie '"The
Private Lives Of Elizabeth and
Essex"
She Feels Serious.
Il went back to dancing and
singing because group of young
people I knew were organizing q
musical revue in California, partly
as a diversion and partly for stage
training" she said. II joined them
and sang a song called 'Hurdy
Gurdy Verdi
I'VE were success and came to
Broadway with the show. But al
though that venture won me my
present singing and dancing role
in Let's Face It I don't want to
type myself In such parts.
Il want to 60 back to Shake
speare and such serious roles be-
cause / think those are the only
parts that guarantee long career
in the theater. The musical show
queens, no matter how popular,
soon wear out their welcome.
II haven't the temerity to pre-
tend to be another Sarah Bern
hardt, but I want my career to
last as long" (Mme. Bernhardt's s
stage career lasted 60 yearsD
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Stars Shadow Gets Rough in Shadow Dance
HOLLYWOOD:

Betty Cradle kicked herself a
good one recently-after preparing
for it for more than a week.
Twenty people watched her land
the kick, and everybody applauded
her efforts-all except Betty, OF
course. She admits, though rue
fully, it was a solid one.
1t wasn't a fit of temper that
caused the blond actress to haul
off and land one. 1t was something
thought up by Rolla Flora for
musical film, "Footlight Serenade.' ,
Flora, a one time farmland from
Des Moines, Ia, is a genius itrickster
with the camera-no matter what
Miss Cradle may think OF him.
He dreamed up the number OF
having Betty do dance before
curtain on the stage OF theater
In the midst of the number. Betty,
shadow, which follows her faith
fully up to this point, rebels and
steps off the screen and lands q
beautifully timed kick.
Its a double exposure trick" ex-
plains Rolla.
But the trick was much. more
complicated than Rolla's brief ex-
planation, especially for Betty.
For several days Rolla and a crew
of 20 worked with the actress or
the number, exposing one-half Of
the negative at a time while Betty
danced.
Then she danced again, matching
the original steps. while the othel
half of the negative was exposed.
She kicked several times and re-
ceived several kicks from hel
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Coming Attractions

cAP1TOICalng Gillespie" Lionel Barrymore PACED again
Tommy his orchestra the stage also starting
Thursday
co1UMBIA-s Shirley Temple gets her first
buss; starting Thursday
EARIE-"Big Humphrey Bogart Irene Manning
opening Friday, with show.
Sarong another Abbott Costello vehicle
LITTIE-"Mr Deeds Goes to Town" the Gary Cooper hit
Lieutenant with Pat Q Ben ana Glenn
Ford as test pilots opening Friday. -
PAACErs Mniver the Jan sruther epic on the SCREEN with
Greer Carson Walter Pdgeon: starting Thursday.
Nevsk Russia the mid 18th Century opening
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Films Little People Have Their Day
There's Lot of Work. the Cafe Society Kind,
Tn Those Musicals All Studios Are Making

Charlie Ray, Ethsl Clayton. Stuart
Holmes, Barbara Bedford, Maurtce
Costello, Vera Lewis, Betty Blythe.
May McAvoy. Clara Kinball Young.
Mildred Harris Chaplin and Her
bert Rawlinson.
When members Of "cafe societys
are paid to work on set they must
follow orders of an assistant di.
rector, who seats them 4 Ia maitre
dhotel. There are instructions
which the headwaiter never issues
to ordinary society. While dancing
the dress extras must wear rubber
heels, even though the resulting
friction may break OF many q
French-heeled slipper. II the sea-
son IL spring. orders are issued for
white clothes. All wardrobe, of
course, must be supplied by the
extra-never the studio. unless it's
q costume movie.
The assistant may even dictate
the kind of makeup the extras
must wear. II it's q black-and.
white feature, they daub 1t on be.
fore leaving home. Should It be q
technicolor. however, they report
"as is." and are treated to q suecial
face-coating upon arrival In the
studio. =
A Word Worth Money. =
Applause is demanded Of the ex-
tras many times during the course
OF q days work on . musical. When
Bing Crosby. for instance, sings be-
fore . crowd In night club set.
ting, he must be rewarded with
plenty Of handclapping. It used
to be that extras were given a spe.
cial bonus for displaying such an
thusiasm, but = recent agreement
between the Screen Actors Guild
and the studios put an end to that.
Only way today an extra can rsise
his check from $3.50 to $25 Is 10
speak hne-even one word-that
Is recorded by the microphone.
There never Is much noiSe on =
dressy set. A certain dignified mo.
rale pervades the cafes where the
extras work. But occasionally an
assistant director walks around be-
fore scene and gives few orders
to keep the girls and boys on their
toeS-or on rubber heels.
Arthur Black, assistant on "Star
Spansled Rhythm" who happens
to have sense Of humor, ratified
out = few rules before Mary Martin
went into one Of her cate singing
scenes: f
"Remeuabsg now hs cautioned.
NO glasses. No .papaFs. No gum.
d. Aa51AdlXle - f-3J
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Bv Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

Wartime has doomed business for
Hollywood's exclusive cafe society"
In case you don't know. the movies
have cafe society" all their own,
q smartly dressed, cosmopolitan
group OF handsome men and beau
tiful women who spend their work.
aday lives chatting in gay restau-
rants-and finding 1t all very dull,
indeed!
There are approximately 1000 Of
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Caldwell a Fast
Man With a Pen

Erskine Caldwell, who wrote three
books In five months after he re-
turned from the Soviet Union, is
displaying the same literary speed
on his rush job of scripting Mis-
sion to Moscow" at Warner Bros.
After a week spent studying the
voluminous material sent the studio
by x-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies
who wrote the book, Caldwell took
just two days on his first script
treatment, turning in 51-page
story outline 48 hours after he
| started writing.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
controversial Is Right
For Steinbeck's Play
It's Just as the Press Agent Said
When He Began His Cropping
For Descriptive Word
By Jay Carm ody.

stop being press agents
almost Immediately and
They they devisng stunt to
call attention the theatrical product
quesng
play
great thrilling spectacular hilarious
lift the reviews
bllboards marques.
thrilling spectacular
hit that
language for the word
Therew a Lot of lords
But None Right
problem press staff
report submitted The play
evoked than other of the last
write about written about until the critics
acduous
valiant and they said
they added that he had carried by bad
quote in to find
designation play.
did the agent9 slightest
of
mously provatve Controversial"
finely descriptive word the which opens
Nage
principal
better from the standpoint of financial interest in the
implicit element "The Moon
which yearnng
inviolabe being steinbek the
victim his misunderstanding
freedom and mans ncorruptbe love for it.
will quarrel with Mr. steinbk that but controversy
disdan
bare handed fight against him, is his defeat.
Controversia word for the word indeed
German Commander
A Subject Argument.
On the surface his the author has left himself most widely
in his implication that his Col comandan
Of the and occupying forces noble kindly or whose
element Of his his Fascist
chiefs officers the that Senbeck imagined
this instance there probably indeed there nothing In the
history Of Czechosovaka Holland Belgium
Greece Occupied France to support him. In h
that sporting naism has
able naonr Steinbeck identifies
dealing with philosophers, its
their important
positions them job If bothers te
Senbeck information which
been vouchafed to those closer to the than he
Time that that his critics
until judicial mind will his
nton that gentle the policy stark brutality the last
of who stolen whole nations freedom
From the standpoint Of sheer literary craftsmanship Mr. Snbeci
written well in Ie Moon Down. His words make good music
his nd but the kind that soohes the mind
which terrified merely passive resistance
which peented deadly
largest tanks the fastest fahest flying planes today
contempaes his the convinced that
it fine controversial thing with which to start
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Cast in Thriller

Jane Randolph wins one Of the
top feminine roles in The Cat Peo-
ple," eery mystery with Simone
Simon, Kent Smith and Tom Con-
way, now In production.
A screen test for small part In
Highways by Night" secured Miss
Randolph tn . feminine lead.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

these men and women who regularly
move in the circles Of cafe society,
dancing, dining, wining.
Yet, more often than not they
dance without music, dine without
eating and sip cider, grapejuice or
coffee from glasses that appear to
hold expensive vintages.
, For Hollywood's "Cafe Society
is composed Of its dress extras, the
people who furnish atmosphere.
While the principals In the picture
get the closeups, they are little more
than gray blurs in the background.
They Are Busy People.
Today, the once-lowly dress extra
is at last attaining his and her place
in the Hollywood sun. AS a matter
Of central casting bureau record,
never In the history Of Movietown
have studios put up such a clamor-
Gus demand for this type of film
worker.
The dress extra bonanza can be
traced directly to the war. Pro-
ducers have decreed that musical
comedy Aims, with plenty of song
and dance-and lots OF people
sprinkled about-are the most SAL
able items in film theaters during
wartime. Therefore, the current
cycle is likely to exceed Gin numbers
at leas) the avalanche of song and
dancers unleashed Immediately after
talkieS gained solid footing.
More than a score Of big musicals
are before the cameras today.
Others are being hurriedly pre-
pared. Each requires the services of
dozens, scores-some even hundreds
of the cafe society" group, Cast
ing expertx dolefully predict an
acute sl1ortage OF dress extras within
the next three months.
Ambition Is Rampant.
Most Of the atmosphere players,
who collect a daily check for 1850
Crowded they're called to wear for
NAL clothes, are imbued with
fierce determination to elevate
themselves to featured or star roles.
AS incentives to that ambition, they
look to the records of Myrna 10y,
Clark Gable, Betty Cradle, Joel
McCrea and few other stars who
started out as dress extras.
On the other hand, there are
dress extras who have had their
taste of fortune and glory, have
lost both and are eagerly seiztng
upon stray atmospheric jobs. to keep
the landlord and the butcher up
to date. Among the dressy folks
observed On recent crowd sets we're
such once-idolAed o1d.tame9o -
Evening star., 1942-08-09
NEW YORK.

last.
NEW YORK.
The escapist theater now -four
fishes in New York to the complete
exclusion of all other forms OF
drama. Bar Lillian Hellman's
watch on the Rhine" and Robert
Sherwood's There Shall Be No
Night" no play since the invasion
of Poland which has sought to
catch something of the realities of
the crisis in which we find ourselves
has achieved either critical or box
Office kudos.
Plays Of social and political and
moral content and significance have
had short shrift at the hands OF
theatergoers, for the most part have
only excited the scorn or embar-
raised tolerance of the reviewers.
Those who argue that as an art
form the theater is derelict in its
obligations because, in this hour of
peril, it does not focus its eloquence
on the prosecutions. injustices and
stupidities which have brought us
to the brink of disaster are sound
observers, if Indifferent analysts. No
good or successful play about the
First World War visited Broadway
in the 1914-l918 span. What Price
Glory" and Journeys End" oaly
came when passions had cooled, per-
spective righted itself, and the wal
itself was a fading horror rathel
than a current one for the throng:
who enriched their producers.
It's Anaesthetic Time.
A playgoer in New York today car
sit through arsenic and Old Lace,
Life With Father" or "My Sistel
Eileen" the towns three most en-
during hits, without once being re
minded that the Axis is amok, tina
rationing Is restricting our activi
ties, that civil life is undergoing re
adjustments from hour to hour
These plays, along with the les
prosperous ones which survive tn
tneater's seasonal slump, provide
three hour anesthetic for those VIII
would have brief respite from tn
fears, the shocks, the suspicion
that endlessly torture us.
Was it soberly suggested to
student in psychology that the mos
successful play produced in NeN
York in the last two seasons ha
for its theme the perseverance wit
which two balmy maiden ladies fror
Brooklyn untertake to remove a
elderly male visitors from this val
of tears through the medium c
arsenic, cyanide and strychnin'
that the resultant. cadavers foun
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Bv Richard Nancy.

Editors Note. Richard Nancy,
the best known OF Broadpay's
press agents, has spent practical
lp all Of the wnr calling the otten-
ton OF the press to the escapist
drama. Here, in response to a
tnu,,t from the Dacationing Ira
Wolfert, he explains himself at
last.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-21

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offering. Isaac knew he had beer de-
cc!vr1 and he told Esau what Jacob had
done. wherefore Esau wcpt exceedingly
and asked for Il blessing. too, saying.
Has thou but one blessing my fa'"tr?
Bless me- even m., also
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-21
PRE-fLlGHT SCHOOL
WILL GRADUATE 23S

Ch"rv, Hill. Aug. 2l.- lAP) -
Commander .. q. krS>Ing. of the
Nays rrv-ll!Ghi school here. will
award certificates 10 238 cadets Sat
urday morning IN tn" SchOu!'s first
-:aua"'.Hn exercises.
The ..,' battalion "r cadets Will
receive diplomas a; exercises begin
mig NJ 10 o'clock III Keenan, stadium.
Rear Admiral William Gla>>,urd.
Jr. %; Charleston. 5. C.. commando
ant OF the sixth naval district. viii
addrcsS The group. Aviation Cadc,
Frank Is. Harris. al Denver. Colo
cadet rrGimcn;al commander. Will
be speaker for the departing cla:s.
The cadets. who have been TRIMMING
mere Tor three months, will be trans
'"fi'd 10 six naval reserve aviation
IA { for primary training.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-21

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-21

d.. David y. l.ucim.ll"". head al
She Department OF History and Poi
teal ScicHcc at \. /. ST e has HC
crp;rd the Offer Of The presidency eff
the University OF Chalia -uoGa. high
ranking liberal arts school IN Chat
ianooga. Tenn. He i the third State
College faculty member called -
Tive presidency If another institution
col higher CdUCutinn WithiH III" past
three years. Others are DE-. Carlyle
Campbell. president al Meredith Col
irGr. I'D DR.. Robert Franklin Poole
president of Clemson College.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-21

tR!AlE-pc"u! Idmu.~'~s:.. . -
ar.u.." . highly technical ,..y...
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and H'a'I questioning decisions
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'ru'.HH .. Inc shv..ft~' convention
= me urn.n"ablc ircrruSr IN "mwd-
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announcement had been made of,
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homicide
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-21

1t is patriotic 10 help III" govern
mcnt in contributing all your OLD
scrap iron, steel and rubber.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-03
FORTRESS Co-PHOT

Lieutenant Pumpkin was Co
pilot of an American flying
Fortress captained by Lieut.. T. B.
Swanson of New York during the
Java fighting.
They first were shot down off
Borneo when their formation was
attacked by a squadron Of Is
Japanese Zeros.
The American formation shot
down five of the enemy before
Jap shelters hit the engine Of
Pumpkins ship, setting it afire.
The flying fortress crash-landed
on a lonely island several miles
south Of Borneo.
The men lived a week with the
natives, eating native corn and
shooting pheasants for more ap-I
petizing food. They slept on the
beach.
Their fortress was destroyed but
all the crew was rescued.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-03
Ydnks on Batdan
Push Jdps Back

WASHINGTON. April 3. -
Lieut.. Gen. Jonathan M. Vain.
wright's stalwart soldiers OF
Bataan not only are holding fast
under the latest Japanese land
and air attacks but also have
launched counter-thrusts that
have forced the enemy to give
up gains. the war department re.
ported last night.
Enemy assault troops, sup
ported by a heavy concentra-
ton OF artillery fire, advanced
against the left center of the
line held by General VAIN
wright's American and Philip
pine troops" the communique
said.
Savage fighting ensued, and
the enemy succeeded I'm pene-
trating our main line. In n
fierce counter-attack, our forces
closed the line, pocketing n con-
siderable number Of Japanese
units. These hostile troops are
now being mopped up"
And in the traditional Mac
Arthur manner, Wainwright's re-
port Of the battle disclosed that
our main line of resistance has
been restored and the enemy ad-
vance halted"
CorregidorS gunners brought
1own- three more Japanese planes.
fourth blew up in midair.
The forts artillery batteries
to duel with enemy
batteries on the Cavite shore.