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Evening star., 1942-09-20
Vaudeville
Walks Again
On Broadway
Variety Shoes
Finding Appeal
With Audiences
BY MARK BARRON.

NEW YORK-A visitor to Broad
way during the last couple of fort
nights would come to one Of two
conclusions-or else coordinate the
two of them.
First, there is definite nostalgia
among audiences for performances,
songs and other scenes witnessed in
the theater in seasons past, and
especially from that empire of
vaudeville that was thought long
since buried.
Second, and this may be q side
clue to this sudden enthusiasm for
the past, is that recent new plays
and musicals, with few exceptions,
have not been of more than ordi-
nary quality.
OF the newer shows, the major
musical hit on the Rialto is Star
and Garter" which, with Bobby
Clark and Gypsy Rose Lee in the
leading roles, is essentially nothing
more than high-class burlesque
show efficiently produced. But the
lines at its box Office are equaled
only by the lines at the gate of
Irving Berlins soldier show, This
Is the Army"
Vaudeville Returns.
A few weeks ago, one of the most
popular attractions on the Rialto
were several Victor Herbert revivals.
Now vaudeville, which long since
was sadly placed away among the
rose leaves for remembrance, has
suddenly sprung to life with the
enthusiasm of young colt.
Harry Richman, Bert Wheeler
and Carol Bruce are doing most
excellent with their New Priorities
of 1943,' which is just a revue of
good vaudeville acts. There isn't a
great deal of new material-for in
stance, Richman's most popular
number is medley of the song hits
he has had in THE F'ollies" and
other Broadway musicals over the
years past-but that is an excellent
idea.
These acts and songs from shows
In the past arouse sentimental mem
ories among the veterans in the
audience, and they have been miss
ing from the Broadway scene long
enough so they have a touch of
freshness for the younger genera
ton.
Another variety show, one with
an air of inforrnality and fun, brings
George Jessel, Jack Haley and Ella
Logan together in "Show Time"
Haley Tells Audience.
Preceded by such standard vaude-
vile acts as wire-walker and an
acrobatic dancing team, it is a first
rate variety bill that used to play
the two-a-day and five-a-day per-
formances.
Things have changed" Haley
told the audience. You may say that
vaudeville is dead, but it is BOOM
ing more than ever. Instead of
two-a-day, we recently played 10
a-day in Chicago and had to get to
the theater early enough to wake
up the neighborhood statesmen who
had come in there to sleep until
lunch time
ed. Note: Old, but still good.)
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Small>Town Origin Good
Basis for Film Success
Lillian Hellman.S .Shumlin
Combination Has Steadily
Achieved Blazing Victory

Remember also that ball boy at
Hollywood tennis court recently
wrote a script and sold it for $50 900.
It's one of those things: You never
can tell who'll write or produce
hit play, and most of the people
who do are the ones you'd least
suspect.
Gets 1t the Hard Way.
Now we come to the strange story
OF Lydia Sophie Kapturkiewicz, an
actress who skaters any stray con-
ceptions you may entertain that
working in the movies is a soft job
with heavy pay and light hours.
Miss Kapturkiewicz-maybe we'd
better start calling her Lydia-came
to Hollywood from Chicago five
years ago with one idea in mind:
To crash the movies. What's more
she succeeded. This year she'll pay
Uncle Sam a tidy income tax, but
not for looking pretty or posing
dangerously in boudoir scenes.
Most of Lydia's income is earned
the hard way. During the last year
she has collected salary checks for
such screen chores as jumping on
and off moving freight trains, leap
ing into lakes fully clothed and
having fire hoses turned on her.
Couple of weeks back Lydia en-
gagged in fight with another girl
for a picture in which they threw
beef stew at each other. In another
film she was cast as girl hobo and
had to engage in battle in which
she hurled tin cans gathered from a
dump heap. When we saw Lydia
the other day she was on vacation"
as stand-in for Jane F'razee, Uni
versal starlet, in movie titled
Moonlight in Havana"
Dawn Movie Show.
Just returned from the high
Sierras shooting on For Whom the
Bell Tolls" Director Sam Wood was
recounting some incidents of the 10
weeks location. Most amusing was
this one:
To get the right light for a wood
| land scene, Wood had his cast go to
bed at 7 o'clock, to rise at for
early morning shooting. Gary
Cooper, Ingrid Bergman and Katina
Paxinou showed up at that terrify-
ing hour, and since it was still too
dark, Wood unreeled picture for
them on screen stretched between
two trees. They watched the pic
ture as they had breakfast outdoors,
we'll absorbed in it, and began to
worry for fear the sun would bob up
and call a halt For once, day.
break was late, the sun obliged by
hanging back until just S o'clock,
when the show ended.
Wood smiled when asked the name
of the picture.
What else could it be?" he re-
piled. Hold Back the Dawn"
tCopyright, 1912, by North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Coming Attractions

Stage
NAT1ONAFrankln Street" comedy American life In
light era; opening tomorrow night.
CAPITOL"The War Against Hadey" Fay
Edward Arnold starting Thursday.
COLUMBIAFootght Seenade with Betty Cradle and Victor
Mature returning Thursday for week
EARLE Husbands Necessary Betty
KEITH SBambi" Walt Dsneys Interpretation
story.
L1TIEhs Is the Enemy Soviet film rejecting the feeling
Russians for the Nazis; starting Wednesday.
Tombstone" with Richard
Strikes Back, Soviet documentary; starting Friday.
PAACEIoiday Inn Irving Berns musicale
Bing Crosby and Rita Hayworth; starting Thursday.
PIx-Meet the Stewards" with William Dee
starting Wednesday.
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITOL-Tish' the Rmehar character with Marjorie Main:
g. 430 tbs and 10 Stage shows 3:40 625 and 9:10
CoLUMBIA-rs Minver" epic English family
Continuous pm.
EARLE-Yankee
M Cohen Stage 6:35
and 9:25 pm
Sarong' another:
1:39, 3:35, $40, 7:45 and $50 pm
LITTLE-They by Duvivier, with
Cabin 215 AIS. 605 7:50 and GAS pm
METROPOLITAN-Word At Government film showing the
the march: 20 525 $40 Across the
Pacific" Bogart VS.. Japs: 3:15, $50 945 pm.
PALACE-"Somewhere I'll Clark
newsf1awks less g. 4:30, 7:05 and 9:35 pm.
PIXBatteCy of China documentary China
2:30, 450 7:10 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Minnie Fiske Kin
A Faithful Shade

Louise Fiske, granddaughter of
Minnie Maddern Fiske, knows the
answer to whats in a name?" for
she was whisked from an EXTRAS lot
to the dignity of an actress through
her relationship
Producer-Director Allan Dwan,
scanning list of extras for a scene
In RKO Radios Here We Go
Again" reached Lou.se's name anc
paused, wondering if she might be a
shoot of the distinguished Minnie
Maddern Fiske. Investigation dis
closed that such was the case.
Louise was asked to read some lines.
She acquitted herself creditably, and
now makes her debut in the picture
that co-stars Edgar Bergen, Charlie
Mccarthy, Fibber MCGEE and Molly
Evening star., 1942-09-20
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN,

North American Newspaper Alliance.
Behind the celluloid scene: Want
to be playwright? Want to be a
producer? Want to see your name
magnifed in brown lights and hear
your thoughts dramatized by fa-
nous and beautiful actresses?
Ten easy lessons at home won't
do it, but you probably have one of
the chief qualifications for Broad
way and Hollywood success right
now. That is to say, you don't live
in either place and possibly never
saw the inside of a studio or the
backstage of a theater. For in
stance:
The most blazing successes on
both Broadway and Hollywood for
the past couple of years have been
accomplished by Herman Shumlin
and Lillian Hellman, producer-di-
rector and playwright, respectively.
Their names may not click with
you, but their plays will: THE Chill
dren's Hour" THE Corn Is Green, -
THE Little Foxes and Watch on
the Rhine, all of which were Broad
way hits and then sold to the movie
makers for enormous sums.
She Began on Books.
Well, Mr.. Shumlin fought his Way
to Broadway from Atwood, Colo,
by way of Newark, N. j. His first
appearance on any stage was as a
Sioux warrior reciting an ojibway
ballad in school play. This was
an interesting dramatic episode,
since the play was Alice in Won
derland." Mr.. Shumlin has been
doing things his own way in the
theater ever since
AS for Miss Hellman, she halls
from New Orleans, the daughter OF
a shoe merchant who eventually
moved TO New York. She got into
the theater bv the side door oil
book reviewing, while Shumlir
tackled it by press agentry and trade
paper work. Both failed several
times before they met.
Valuable Properties.
Their four most recent properties
will net them close to a half mil
lion dollars from screen rights alone
probably topped by Watch on the
Rhine" which Bette Davis has just
finished for Warmers. The show
played a year in New York, three
months on the road and is hi
in London. THE Corn Is Green
has been purchased and will be
movieized when the run of the play
is completed
If you want to write and produce
plays don't get the idea you must
be Of, by and from the big stem
Miss Hellman still fingers over g
Louisiana accent, and Shumlir
never forgets that he started out
in Colorado-by way of Newark.
Evening star., 1942-09-20

what kind of a bite Uncle Sam Isl
going to take from those whose
earnings add up to six figures.
Those who write Of the drama
hold Mr.. kaufman in some awe, and
great respect. For it has been said
of a great many plays that have
to box Office anemia: IF
somebody like George Kaufman had
been around to fix 1t up we might
have had hit"
Some believe that much of the late
producer Sam Harris success was
due to the first mortgage he had on
the kaufman creative effort.
Whether it's true or not, the modest
Mr.. Kaufman has amassed sufficient
earned increment to be able to talk
on equal terms with Hollywoods
bloated movie producers.
Knows How to Charge.
His individual play royalties are
heavy enough and to this he adds
picture sales of the same plays. 1t
seems that Mr.. kaufman generally
owns one fourth of the productions
that command his attention, directs
them. and gets fees for both addi-
tional writing and advising In Holly
wood. An expensive fellow to have
around, but they seem to think he's
worth the price.
Yes, there have been failures
ONLY last season "The Land is
Bright" the Edna Ferber collabora-
ton about the robber barons OF
America. And there was that play
written backwards, "Merrily We
Roll Along" which Percy Hammond
timidly wished the authors had let
stand on its feet instead OF Its
head. When the lights were flash
ing in Lafayette Square one remem-
bers an opus called THE Deer
Tangled Wildwood" failed for lack
of box office nourishment, but in be-
tween have been glittering successes
many of them.
If you should have the oppor.
tunity of looking in at the Ma
tional Theater any afternoon thi
coming week you'll be certain tt
find a tall and gaunt prowler wan
dering up and down the aisles; {
prowler with thick black eyebrow!
and thick black hair worn in sor
of numbus effect That will b'
Mr.. Kaufman, putting the finishing
touches on Arthur Sheekman's new
play, Franklin Street" 1t is ont
of the rare occasions when he ha'
agreed to stage play not of his owr
authorship. So far as the record.
go this has happened only three
times and each of the trio of play
was a success, quite above the ordi
nary run. They were: "The From
Page" "Of Mice and Men" ane
MY Sister Eileen"
Flayed by Woollcott.
Perhaps the most devastating, ant
at the same time the most illumi
mating pen portrait of Mr.. Kauf'
man ever written was composed b.
that master OF malice, the ebullien
Alexander Woollcott. The Town
Crier was later to become the mode
for that volcano of vitriol, tn
supreme insulter of all time-Sher
idan Whiteside, central figure il
"T1ne Man Who Came to Dinner,
the comedy which Mr.. Kaufman
wrote with Moss Hart. Here is on
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Sets Precedent

Helmut Dantine, recently appear
Ing as the Nazi stormtrooper in
Mrs. Miniver," plans to file legal
application to change his name to
Lewis Miles, an adaptation of the
appehation Of Lewis Milestone, now
his director at Warner Bros. in
"The Edge of Darkness"
This is the first time on the
screen that a player has taken his
professional name from his director
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Mr.. Kaufman Comes High,
But They Pay the Price
Author and Director Has
Staged Franklin Street.
New PLAY at National
Nv ANDREW r. KELLEY.

time when George s. kaufman was aecusomed i, TO
Washington newspaper with the Initials
them but that was oelore ne He1
Marc Connolly and his playwring colaboratlons
Kaufman eye
the income tax and especially on
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London Reports
K. D. BOw Now
in the MAKING

LONDON, June 20 - (P) -
Britain and the United States
will launch a great, successful
attack on Hitler in the west
when the proper time comes, Sir
Stafford Grips, parliamentary
deputy for Pr m e Minister
Churchill, declared today.
1--WE can not say" when the at
tack will come, Sir Stafford told
meeting observing the ami
versary of the June % German
attack on Russia and the British
Soviet alliance.
Il am not going to help Hit
Ter by telling you or him" the
time of the attack, Sir Stafford
said, adding that Russian For
eign Commissar Vyacheslav
Molotov, who recently was in
London, knows much more
about it than I can tell you"
The attack must not fail, he
said
Sir Stafford, who was Brit
aims ambassador to Russia at the
time of the German invasion,
See CRIPPS-Page 2
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-Four Hudson
Strikers Fired
Navy Moves Swiftly
in Wake of WoIkout

DETROIT, June 20 - (P) -
Richard r. Frankensteen, re-
gional director for the United
Automobile Works-CIO, said to-
day sat fcT employees OF the
Hudson Naval Ordnance Plant
had been discharged for foment-
ing an unauthorized stoppage
of war production Thursday.
Frankensteen said the Navy
discharged the men, and that
the action had the complete sup
port of both International and
local officers of the Union.
Thursdays walkout was des-
cribed as a protest against the
employment of Negroes on pro-
duction line machines that had
formerly been operated by
white men.
Frankensteen said that he had
gone to the plant today with
other JAW officials to investi-
gate rumors of further trouble
There was further talk. of
stoppages but we were able to
avert them" he explained. ''The
plant is now operating 100 per
cent and we anticipate no furth-
er trouble"
Navy officers in charge of the
plant would not disclose the
names of the four discharged
employees, but Frankensteen said
one had been employed in each
of the four buildings affected by
the stoppage. The Union region
al director said an investigation
of their motives would contin-
he
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Churchill
Map Strategy
Plot Attacks to
Offset Axis

WASHINGTON, June 2O-tR
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill were believed
today to be mapping counter
blows to a desperate Axis sum-
mer offensive in Europe, Asia
and Africa.
The White House continued
the strict official silence impos-
ed when the strategy conference
es were announced Thursday
night, but the official encourage
ment to speculate on invasion of
the European continent. the
grave turn of the war i'm Africa
and the rising fury of conflict on
the Eastern front indicated to
many in the capital that deci-
sions were being made in the
knowledge that Berlin and Tok-
yo already were sending new
forces toward a battle whose
zero hour was drawing near.
The Allied High Command, it
See CHURCHuL-Page 2
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MaSOnS to Fete
John the Baptist

Mount Clemens Lodge No. g..
F. & A. NJ. and Selfridge Field
MaSons will celebrate st. John
the Baptist Day, Sunday, by at
tending the First Presbyterian
Church and then having dinner
together at Masonic d in / n z
rooms.
Masons, their ladies, and
friends are requested to meet
at the lodge hall by 1000 am.
for a brief ceremony. then they
will pass to the church auditori-
UNI by the stairway connecting
the two buildings. The church
service will begin Al 1890 am.
The Rev. Joseph l.. Kennedy
will deliver a sermon In COM
mernoration of the Day and the
Presbyterian choir will render
special music. I/
The ladies of the Order of the
See MASON-Page :
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Army (urbs Marriage
OF Troops Abroad

WASHINGTON, June 20 -
lP) - The War Department in a
terse order put curb today on
marriages of American soldiers
abroad.
No military personnel on duty
in any foreign country or pos
session may marry without the
approval of the commanding Of
ficer of the United States Army
forces stationed in such foreign
country or possession" an an
nouncement said.
There was no application,
but military circles noted there
had been numerous unofficial
reports of marital complications,
particularly in Australia, since
the arrival of American expe-
dictionary forces.
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(ounty5thool
Aid is Sought
Fraser, Roseville
Shores Mentioned

LANSING, June 70 - up -
DR.. Eugene B. Elliott, State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, has made public list of %
Michigan school districts for
which he is asking federal aid
to relieve classroom overcrowd-
ing, even though they may not
meet all federal aid require
ments.
Elliott asserted it would be
impossible or unWise to impose
hard and fast rule on all cases,
and that hardship would result
from refusals of assistance in
these instances.
Where children must travel
long distances to reach their
schools, he said, it would be un-
reasonable to attempt to conduct
classes in shifts" calling for
earlier than usual start of
See SCHOOLS-Page 2
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Pensioners, non Catholics,
city officials and neighboring
clergymen will hold a public
reception tomorrow at 8 p. m.
in st. Mary's gymnasium for
Rev. FIR. Leo j. Roberge, who
Wednesday became pastor of
st. Peters Parish after serving
st. Mary's of Wayne for is
years.
Fr. Roberge is the 18th priest
appointed to St. Peters pastor
ate since the parish was organ
lied on its present site in l843.
He succeeds Rev. FIR. Alfred
Hebert transferred to st. Cece-
las Detroit, more than a month
ago.
The new pastor comes to
Mount Clemens from Wayne
where he was beloved by the
entire community. Ardently de-
voted TO the welfare of his con-
gregation, he still finds time to
take an active part in the civic
affairs Of the town.
Born Oct. Ia, 1890, FIR. Ro-
berge was G d u c a ( e in st.
Anne's parochial schools. He
then attended Assumption Col
lege in Windsor and later was
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British Order Evacuation
Of Coast Nearest Holland
invasion Jump OFF Place
Deemed Possible; Army Silent

LONDON, June 20 - (P) -
The British Wa Office disclosed
today that the Army is taking
over 36 square mile block of
East Anglia - that portion of
England nearest Holland - with
every civilian, villager and far
mer required to quit the district
by July 20.
The only explanation given
was that the whole area, includ-
ing villages, is needed for train
ing.
Declaring that there was mo
story in it, one military source
said the army needs such large
area for realistic training in
present day warfare.p
This source smiled away the
suggestion that Britain might be
preparing a special area as a
jumping off point for attack on
the continent.
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Jap Transports
5unkbySubs
Royal Navy Reports
Far East Blows

LONDON, June 20 - (P) -
British submarines have sunk
three large Japanese ships in
Straits of Malacca, the Admiral
ty announced today.
The Admiralty's com-lunique:
His Majesty's submarines OPP
Grating in eastern waters have
reported successful attacks on
japanese shipping in the Straits
of Malacca.
"One submarine attacked a
convoy consisting Of three ships.
THE most important of these
ships, a very large vessel, was
torpedoed and sunk.
Another of his majesty's sub
marines torpedoed and sank two
large Japanese suppl, ships"
The Straits of Malacca sepa-
rate Malaga and Sumatra, both
over-run by the Japanese early
this year.
The date of the British sub
action was not given.
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ST. LOUIS ST. Peters Parishes
Plan Welcome for New Pastors

in the Parish Hall.
FIR. Schramm will be the celc-
brant at the 6 and 8 a. m. Mass
es tomorrow.
FIR. Schramm, an ordained
priest since 1926, will be escort
ed to the hall by the Parish
committee. He is Al years old
INTRODUCTION
The presidents Of the Parish
organizations will be introduces
to the new pastor and Scrgt.
Jacob j. Brandner will welcome
him on behalf of the Parish
committee.
Rev. FIR. John Conway, form
er assistant pastor at st. Louis
and close friend of FIR.
Schramm, will speak. Mrs. Hen
ry LaCroix will pledge a con-
tinued growth of flower clubs.
Other program features in
cluded welcome from Richard
Miller, IL years old, in the name
of school children, a recitation
b.. Marlynn Seagram, song by
Fritzie Lozen and two numbers
by the combined choirs of boys
and girls.
The Mems Choir, directed by
j. Anthony Keils, will sing sew
See FIR. SCHRAMM-Page 2
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Seeks Million
Tons OF Idle
French Ships
Ancient Lands
ore Probable
New Backgrounds
BY ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor

British dispatches said today
that Adolf Hitler, apparently
bent on a full scale invasion Of
the Middle East, had requested
Frances Pro-Nazi Premier Pierre
Laval to cede 100000 tons of
French merchant shipping in the
Mediterranean to Germany.
Other developments indicated
strongly that the great battles of
this summer were to be fought
in the ancient lands of Egypt,
Iraq, Iran (Persia) and posi-
bly, Turkey.
In Washington, London re-
ports that Prime Minister
Churchill seeking quick United
States help in the Mediterranean
theater were taken to indicate
that the British believed a ire
mendous German drive against
Suez was impending.
SEVASTOPOL IN DANGER
While British North African
armies girded for the defense of
Egypt, Hitler's field headquart-
ers announced that 1.-The destruc-
ton of Sevastopol continues"
amid heavy fighting around a
Northern fort of tl4c big Grim
can Naval base.
With Sevastopol out of the
way, Hitler would be in posi-
ton to send his armies into the
oil-rich Caucasus and down that
land bridge to the Middle East in
a thrust synchronized with one
eastward against Egypt and the
SueZ.
A BIC broadcast quoted its
Moscow correspondent as say
ing "the Germans have reached
high road leading to Sevastopol
=. the danger is very great"
The correspondent said Nazi
shock troops had cut a wedge
pointing dangerously at the
heart of the city and were at
lacking furiously despite an estl-
See WAR-Page 2
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Borrowed Boss'
Liquor Stock;
Gets 60 Days

Because Joseph MAtchak. g..
is in the county Jail today sexv.
ing a 60-day sentence. ~ wis
key supply 1t the InselsDde I'M
bar Il believed reasonably -.
Matchak admitted yssoar.
to Justice Donald ruxsn4 ~
he snitched 80 veagln q ~ y
key while hi bon - & y
ter, looked tlse e()I1t & "
Slaughter. hoWoto. l1 Y
looked the right way - lon6A}
chalk, Is . result, u - ~ eo&1mQ1
Jail. "a
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LONDON, June 20 - U.D -
Germany may use parachute
troops in an about attempt to
capture the British stronghold of
Tobruk, on the Libya coast, and
thus clear the way for a big
scale attack on the main British
forces on the Egyptian frontier,
military quarters reported today.