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Evening star., 1942-03-08

of us lose ourselves in one thing and
some in another. We look for a
dream world and when we can't find
one we make one of our own.
In this play We have a little
slavey who has no talent for writing
plays or doing the big things. but
who nevertheless creates a beautiful
little dream world of her own. You
know she isn't a strong girl. She's
really quite fragile and in poor
health and slightly feverish and
these dreams seem very real to her.
She has none of our reticences. She
speaks out. She lives her dream.
We hold back
Until the United States got into
the war, Miss Rainer had lived
under an intense nervous strain
She knew war was coming and she
wished it would come quickly.
TT was a release. And this play
helps. too. In wartime we must
fight for harmony within ourselves.
We must make a great physical effort
to keep going, to keep our balance
within"
War is an old and terrible expert
ence to Miss Rainer. Born in
Vienna. Austria, she was 2ia years
old when the First World War
started.
Made Debut at 16.
aT-oa uor For nc IL, E,,rope ,,ever
really ended" she said.
In 1928, at the age of 16, she made
her first stage appearance in Dues
seldorf, Germany. She played
Shakespeare's Measure for Meas
ure," Twelfth Night" and LAS You
Like It" and Pirandello's six Char
acters in Search of an Author" and
was a member of Max Reinhardt's
company in Berlin.
She came to the United States in
1885 and studied English with Con-
stance Collier, and in May, 1889,
made her first appearance on an
English stage at Manchester in
Behold the Bride"
That same year she went to
Hollywood to play in "Escapade."
But she says she finds the movies
too routine There is too much
tipping of players, she says, and the
work lacks the continuity which
gives an actress full command Of
her talents.
She likes Shakespeare and thinks
IbSen done for, since the social
problems he dealt with have been
settled. On the romantic side, too,
she thinks time has played its little
trick.
"A hundred years ago the ro-
mantle figure was the poet. Today"
she observed, ut Is the foreign
correspondent"
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Joins Musical Cast

Ann Miller, dancing star who will
be seen soon as the colonel's daugh-
ter and camp sweetheart in Para
mounts comedy. True to the Army
with Judy Canova. Allan Jones and
Jerry Colonna. has been added to
the cast of "Priorities of 1872" a
musical with a defense plant back
ground. In the picture Ellen Drew
and Paramount's new recruit from
the radio, Singing Guitarist Johnny
Johnston. will have the romantic
leads, with Colonna and Barbara 10
Allen contributing comedy. Albert
Rogell is directing.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
By Jay Carm0dy.

It would be ridiculous to think OF
ing to waste so long as he so con-
spicuously wins fame and fortune
as the outstanding Shakespearian
Interpreter of his time Manifestly
Mr.. Evans is doing quite all right
for himself and for patrons of the
theater from Broadway to Los An
geles Ell Captain.
The fact remains, however, that
Mr.. Evans would like a modern
play. He does not care to become
known exclusively for his associa-
ton with the bard. For both
artistic and practical reasons he
would like reputation for diversity
of skill.
The question might be asked
after season ranging from Hamlet
to Richard and from Richard to
Macbeth?
There is no mystery about it at
all. Mr.. Evans goes on making his
career Shakespearian repertory
&Ol tllC 4CdSOl4 lI1dI 1lIOA4N1 ploJ
wrights are providing him with no
opportunity to do otherwise. He
wishes they would more earnestly
than any one else, but his wishing
is just as prof1tless as that of the
avid Evans enthusiast who would
like to see him in modern dress in
other than the role of lecturer. Gt
was lecturer in dinner jacket that
Mr.. Evans was last seen in Wash
ington)
Last Modern Play Flop.
1t was several years ago that Mr.
Evans last found himself involved
In work by a modern playwright
The drama was "St. Helena" by
r. c. Sheriff, who perhaps always
will be best known as the author
of Journeys End" Sheriffs Ma
poleon appealed to Mr.. Evans as
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Coming Attractions
Stage.

NATIoNALy Sister Eileen" second week. start
ing tomorrow night.
CAPTTOThe Lady Has Plans in which Pauee Goddard plays
lady a plans-on back-sarts Thurs
Miland the plans Jimmy Duante will head
line the stage show.
which calls upon varied
John Barrymore, Lupe Velez
Ginny Smms Friday. the stage will be Johnny
Longs Orchestra.
the Walt excursion into inepre
music will follow Helzapoppin" probably this week
LTTIE-Mayering co-starng Charles Boyer and Danele
Darreux, will follow the current Citizen Kane"
Of the Clouds story Of life in the
r. F. with James Cagney and Brenda Marshall will
here Friday
PALAcE-~To picture
comedy about famed couple Europe viii follow Son
Of Fury" Jack Benny Is Miss Lombard's o-star
Evening star., 1942-03-08

Everybody here is so full Of it.
love it like nothing else"
That phone again.
She would like to do something
serious for a change. she said
THE clown always likes to believe
he could play Hamlet she went on
But I really would. I've played
a lot of comedy parts in pictures
which were pretty hard to swallow
But when you take a role you must
believe in it, force yourself to be-
lieve in it, and do your best. AS a
matter of fact by first movie role
was serious. That was when
played opposite Abraham-I mean
Walter Huston. I was Ann Rut-
ledge. I died"
Teh telephone spoke.
Now with this war it seems hard
Evening star., 1942-03-08
NEW YORK

NEW Yum.
First there was the old friend
Then the woman who was buying
eirdles. Then the man with the
new play. After that 1t was the
eirdle woman again, and another
old friend, a threatrical agency, a
friend, a dress shop, the cleaners. -.
Obviously there we're difficulties
trying to interview Una Merkel
within 20 feet of a telephone.
Now where were we this time?"
che said apologetically.
Either on the girdles or the alge-
bra lesson in West Philadelphia
High School. Yes, the girdles that
time. You we're saying"
"Oh, yes" she smiled brightly.
"Girdles are hard to get in Cali
fornia, and I've been trying to buy
four here, peach, blue, black and
white. The peach and the white
were easy but I've been having trou-
Bile getting the others. Don't worry.
They'll call again"
The telephone rang and Miss
Merkel left her chair. walked into
the bedroom, talked briefly, emerged
and sat down again. The telephone
rang.
Just an old friend" she ex-
planned. Now that algebra lesson.
1--WE had moved from Covington,
Ky. to New York but my father
thought we wouldn't like New York
and would rather live in Phila-
delphia. So he took us there to
live. I went to the West Phila-
delphia High School and they put
an algebra lesson on the blackboard.
I had no idea what 1t was. 49,"
Good to Be Back.
The telephone.
"I was telling you about my
grandfather, John Alexander Phares,
who ran the New Orleans Time
Picavune from a flatboat in the
Mississippi during the Civil War
He got pneumonia and died. My
fathers brother, Ted Merkel. was
sports editor of the Cincinnati En-
ouirer about IS years ago. and an
other uncle, John A. Hanks, was on
the Post at Covington. He -. :"
The telephone.
The man with the play. told
him the only time I could spare to
read 1t tonight would be in the bath
tub. It's been so good getting
back to New York again. You know
] lived here IL years.
She rose and walked to the win
dow. The view Of Central Park and
Upper Manhattan from the 35th
floor of the Essex House was mag
nificent.
New York Is 30 full Of vitality.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

quite a dramatic fellow, even in his
st. Helena phase. Audiences and
critics felt otherwise, and the actor
reverted once more to Shakespeare.
His next seemingly promising
chance to escape came in the guise
of a drama labeled Jupiter
Laughs" For long time that one
appealed to Evans as a thing OF
sufficient merit to justify leaving
the bard alone for a season to let
him revert to the high school and
college students and to moscow
cred scholars Of more dignified years.
Eventually, however, he abandoned
the idea. and Jupiter Laughs" was
produced without him. Jupiters
laugh was weak and brief and did
nothing to fortify the actors hope
in modern play-writing skill.
Two Hoodoos Defied.
In producing Macbeth" this year
he successfully defied not merely the
traditional link" supposed to hang
over the play, but the widespread
notion that this was season for
escapist drama, represented most
ideally in light hearted comedy.
When it achieved 131 performances
in New York he was more than ever
regarded as Shakespeare's miracle
man of the goth century.
That sort of thing might have
given many another actor manager
a flxation to the effect that this is
the way to be rich and happy. Not
Mr.. Evans. He still yearns for
modern play.
Because ne is not too hopeful of
finding one, however, he has his
plans made for next season. Like
such others of the theater's great
players as Katharine Cornell and
Helen Hayes, he does not believe in
New York as the exclusive center
of the art. Prominently in his
philosophy is the conviction that
if there are not new plays for the
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Don't Mention Age to Her, Please
Veteran Grace George Just Doesn't Want to Be
Considered an Antiquity of the Theater

Sunday I call my washday," she
says. II sleep late. wash out few
things. including my hair, see few
friends, and perhaps take in show
ip the evening. I don't get much
time to 60 TO other peoples plays.
I want to see Angel Street very
much, but don't know when I'll be
able to-"
Would Do Shakespeare.
Miss George tells me that she did
not want to appear in Spring
Again" She did not think audiences
would be interested in a Civil War
general. She thought it was too
remote from this war. To be truth
full, the people in front are not crazy
with excitement with the specter Of
the Civil War general who hangs
over the life and marriage of Hal
stead and Nell Carter. But they
are very interested in the perform
ances of Miss George and Mr.. Smith.
The actress in particular is utterly
delightful in her role.
Il did the play" she states, be
cause it was given to me by Guthrie
McClintic (who long ago played
small parts in repertory company
headed by Miss George and because
I thought it was time someone other
than my husband paid me a salary"
Brady recently presented his wife in
the revival of Kind Lady"
After Spring Again I would Like
to play Catherine of Aragon in
Shakespeares Henry VIII" says
Miss George in whose mind the
word retirement" does not exist
(thank heavens. 81 asked my hus-
band to put it on for me. but he
doesn't want to because of the ex-
pense. After all, I'm not a Maurice
Evans: people don't associate me
with Shakespeare.
When this reporter suggests that
she can get her husband to change
his mind, Miss George says. "oh no;
whatever he decides to do is right"
Which makes the lady a model
person in every respect.
(Released by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1942-03-08
He's Got a Reader

Shirley Temple has a crush.
London papers please copy be-
cause the object of her crush hangs
around over there. --
It's George Bernard Shaw.
Supposed to read one page OF
Shaw's "Pygmalion" for a scene in
her new picture, Annie Rooney"
Shirley became so interested in the
romance of the slavey heroine that
she took the book off the set and
finished the play before the end OF
the day.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

at the Music Box Theater, of her
feelings and thoughts about Barrie s
"A Kiss for Cinderella" in which SHE
will make her first stage appearance
in New York, of the war and Of her
self, but principally of the play and
its meaning today.
There was certain shyneSS,
kind of difference in her manner
which seemed altogether out OF
place in an actress who had won
two motion picture academy awards
for acting.
And the adjective "elln" kept OBJ
truding itself until she suddenly
reverted to a thought which had
crossed her mind earlier-the idea
of playing Shaw's Saint Joan" II
New York. She knows the part, since
she played 1t in Europe and once in
Washington. at a Red Cross benefit
A Peasant Mystic.
She began speaking of this. rap
idly and almost feverishly. her
hands deftly shaping ideas in the
warm scented air.
Il see her as woman, a French
peasant who is also a mystic, with
her feet planted in the earth"
The hands slid down her thighs.
the long expressive fingers extended
toward the floor.
Strong and determined. she
would be. But from here up she
is all spirit -. and divinely guided"
The hands touched lightly her
Waste and stretched upward.
Feet on the earth. Hands reach
ing for heaven. A figure. both firm
and light. A woman with the fist
of God in her back"
The hands, clenched for a mo-
ment, relaxed. The fingers flew
open and she smiled.
No Fairy Tale.
Acting, of course, but superb act
ing with face. body and hands,
chiefly the hands, and without STIR
ring from her chair.
In moment the word "elfin" had
been erased as completely as if
she had jumped back into makeup
and the role of the world-weary
wife in The Good Earth" or of
Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld,"
the parts which won her Oscars" in
Hollywood.
Il love this Barrie play she said,
turning again to "A Kiss for Gin
derella," which Cheryl Crawford
will produce next week.
And I don't think it Is a fairy
tale even though some people call it
fantasy or fancy. It's truth. 1t IS
reality"
Again the hands started moving,
again in consonance with her words
and thoughts, quietly.
Our own times are so dramatic
that no play about things today can
be half so dramatic to people. They
60 to the theater to see play which
poses a problem. But the problem
isn't as big and terrible as our own
and people leave the theater unset
tied and unsatisf1ed. They want an
answer, a solution.
6aTTle olQnC WanC tnlS 10 be q
mere fairy tale"
(The play was first produced in
London in 1915, the second year of
the First World War, and save for
changing Zeppelin" to "Messer-
schmidt" needs no editing to make
it sound as though it had been writ
ten today)
Lives Her Dream.
AL Of us require some warmth in
life. All of us need illusion. Some
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Elfin Is a Word for Luise,
But It's Only One Word
Miss Rainer, Always the Actress,
Becomes Something Else as She
Talks of Saint joan
By John Ferris,
Wide World News
NEW.YORK.
ne word for Luise

For is elfn had seemed
catchword describe the
appealing laughter
that hour she had talking
Evening star., 1942-11-22
More Policemen
For No. II Precinct
Urged by Citizens

Citizens of Southeast Washington
are planning to urge reallocation
of the present personnel of the
Metropolitan Police Department TO
provide more officers for the
18th precinct.
In letter to Chairman Burton OF
the Transportation Subcommittee
of the Senate District Committee.
Francis J. Burns, on behalf of the
Southeast Council of Citizens Asso-
Citations and the Randle Highlands
Citizens Association, declared;
1--WE heartily agree with you in
your statement of the acute shortage
of manpoWer prevalent throughout
our Nation and further drain Of
same within the coming months.
Under existing circumstances. We
hesitate to request 200 additional
men to our police force. We will,
however, proceed to request realloca-
tion of the present personnel so our
immediate precinct, No. II, will be
adequately stated"
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Senator McCarran
Favors Hospital
In Southeast Area

Chairman McCarran of the Senate
District Committee has informed the
Randle Highlands Citizens Asso-
citation that he is heartily in favor
of procuring a suitable site and &C
qulrlng enough land in anticipation
Of building an adequate hospital in
Southeast Washington, east of the
Anacostia River, at a later date.
Senator McCarran sent a letter to
the association in reply to the
groups resolution requesting the
hospital. Association officials quoted
the District Committee chairman as
saying that he fully realizes the need
for the hospital in that rapidly
developing area.
Chairman McCarran also is con-
cerned with present inadequate hos
pital facilities and lack of proper
first-aid stations and equipment in
the Southeast area and "is investi-
eating all phases of this vital mat
ter the association said.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Benning President Scores
Overcrowding Of School
Enrolment Has More
Than Doubled Since
1910, H. l.. Wait Says
By CAMBRIDGE CRIST.

Heading the list of community
problems in the Benning Citizens
Association is the crowded condi-
ton of the Benning School, Howard
L. Wait. president said yesterday in
an interview.
It's in terrible shape" he ex-
claimed.
The school enrolment now is
something like 430. Mr.. Wait pointed
out while only two years ago it was
l80. Two hundred were taken to
another school at the start Of the
year, he said, but the total was ris-
ing again.
The association has been in
formed by District officials, Mr.
Wait said, that three other schools
had to be completed before the
one promised in their area could
be built. It was indicated that
plans for the new school would be
completed by December IS, and
that it would be am eight-room
temporary building, constructed OF
brick
reputation 1r1pled.
The population of the area covered
by the association has tripled in the
last two years, Mr.. Wait estimated.
In the River Terrace section, where
he lives, some 1000 homes stand on
what was once farm. There have
been other building projects, too
Mr.. Wait, who has lived in the
community for four years, is now
serving his second term as presi-
dent He was formerly delegate to
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions. In fact, he has held office
ever since joining the association.
Aside from being an assistant
zone warden, Mr.. Wait has some
more of his time taken by playing a
cornet in the Redskin Band. Last
year the band used to travel out of
town with the team. but, with trans
portation difficulties, Mr.. Wait said
they would just stay here this year.
A native of OsWego, N. Y, Mr..
Wait is a florist by trade and is at
present salesman with a wholesale
florist firm. His wife, incidentally,
has a flower shop of her own in
Cottage City, Md. While in New
York, Mr.. Wait said he was on
the election board and things like
that"
Traffic Light Needed.
Although Mr.. Wait said the asso-
citation feels that there is need
for a traffic light at Thirty-fourth
street and Benning road NE, he
said it was not pushing the matter
because of the shortages of ma
| terial.
In the matter of transportati ton,
Mr.. Wait said that there were
plenty of streetcars" on the Ben
ming line. but that the main
trouble was at the transfer point
at Thirty sixth and Benning road,
where buses unload from Capitol
Heights, Seventeenth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Sheriff road"
During the rush period he said that
there were not enough cars to take
care of this transfer point.
Mr.. Wait described as nuisance"
the dump on the east side OF the
eastern branch of the Anacostia
River. When the wind is in a GER
tain direction it "smudges" us out,
he explained, adding that the smoke
is so dense at times they have to
use fagman on the road.
Mr.. Wait came to this city in
| 1882. He likes nothing better than
to 60 fishing" but doesn't get a
chance for that any more. AL
though he sees flowers all day long
| in the shop, he likes to work in Z
Evening star., 1942-11-22
EightAssociations
Hold Meetings
This Week
Talk by Maj. Kelly
To Feature Takoma
Park Unit Session
Park Unit Session

Eight civic organizations have
scheduled meetings to be held this
week.
Maj. Edward J. Kelly, superin-
! tendent of police, will be guest
speaker at a meeting of the Takoma
Park Citizens Association next Sat-
urday night.
Harold B. Rogers, staff writer of
The Star, will address members of
the Society Of Natives on South
America at meeting tomorrow
night. Mr.. Rogers will recount OBJ
servations and events of trip to
the Latin American countries taken
last year with group of other
neWsmen from the United States.
After Commute business session
the Hampshire Heights group will
turn over a meeting Tuesday night
to civilian defense A discussion of
the milk situation in Washington
will feature a meeting of the Mid
City unit tomorrow night. The Bur-
roughs Association will discuss gas
rates and civilian defense activi-
ties and the Southeast group will
take up traffic problems at other
scheduled meetings.
Four associations regularly sched-
uled to meet have postponed ses-
slons. The Trinidad and Fort Davis
groups will not hold meetings until
December and the Macarthur
Boulevard Association will not meet
until January. The Anacostia unit
has postponed its meeting from Fri
day to Monday, November 30.
A calendar of the scheduled meet
ings follows:
Monday.
GeorgetoWn-St. Johns Parish
Hall, Potomac and o streets NV,
8 pm.
Mid-City Thomson School
Twelfth and L streets NV, Bpm.
North Capitol - Mckinley High
School, Second and T streets NE,
pm.
Society of Natives-Women's City
Club Building, 1876 jackson place
NV, 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Hampshire Heights 49, Barnard
School, Third and Decatur streets
NV, 8 pm.
Southeast-Friendship House. GIG
D street Sc, pm.
Friday.
Burroughs - Burroughs School
Eighteenth and Monroe streets NE.
Bpm.
Saturday.
Takoma Park ID. C.-Md) TIA
koma Park branch library, Fifth
and Cedar streets NV, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Boy Victory Volunteers
To Be |nducted Dec. 7

More than 100000 boys are ex-
pected to enroll December in the
Victory Volunteers of the Boys
Clubs of America. at special induc-
ton ceremonies to the held simul-
taneously throughout the country.
At 7:55 am, the exact moment
of the japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor last year. the ceremonies will
start. After passing health and edu-
cation qualification tests, the boys
will receive membership symbols, it
was announced, signifying that they
have volunteered their services to
their clubs and communities.
At the same time. the boys will
contribute toward purchase of a
jeep. to be presented to the Army as
q gift Of the clubs. The Boys Club
Of Washington will be one Of the $50
participating clubs.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

to assist, there began to grow UP
in this community an organization.
manned and trained, which I believe
is at this moment second to none
in the country.
Despite the wholehearted and
enthusiastic support OF many OF our
people, it is a fact that only a
small percentage of the residents
of certain areas have taken any In
terest whatever in this vital phase
of our country's war program. There
has also occurred a certain amount
Of belligerancy between members of
our population. 1t is no time for
petty squabbles, racial antagonisms
or territorial misunderstanding
We must marshal our full strength
against the common enemy"