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Evening star., 1942-01-09
Blood Bank Benefit Pin Event
Scheduled for February 8

Leonard Pearce of the Elks, in an
nouncing today that the third an
nua1 fraternal blood bank bowling
tournament will be staged at Con-
vention Hall February 8 appealed
to all Washington duckpinners to
give full support to this benefit for
Children's Hospital.
Pearce has calleed 6 meeting of all
bowling league heads at the Eiks'
Club, 919 H street NV, Sunday aft
ernoon at $50, when plans for the
sale Of tickets among the city's TO-
600 league bowlers will be MADE.
Among the speakers will be Supt.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Next Time 1t Won't Be nexperience and ReckIessness

Only did himself in this position
tn 1886 when he made the mistake of taking Max Schmeng lightly
the able absorb the bounce
hospital after only and fighting
But time the nexpeience
youthful reckness Schmelng
probably will has that Incompatible
muscular coordination his those
things fighters recall.
that
this all the
of all
belong
the
a actually,
lifted the Jimmy Braddock in 1887 He is
sixth champion and he only a. but this
IA tonight
Evening star., 1942-01-09
title Chance Seen for Ber Against LOUIS Shpened His Best Fight
Win, Lose or Draw
Mr.. Whiskers' Boy, Joe
By FRANCIS {. STAN
Star Stan Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Jan. 9-Posby in his last title defense
civilian Heavyweight Champion the
tonight Concedng inches in height and 40 pounds
In weight Louis will Buddy Baer of California second crack
at his realizing full well that mistake might
his reign the king of the prize because Bae overzed
gandular freak hitter and rugged and courageous
The fact that he whipped bigger after
being knocked the himself plenty for the
Negro boy Alabama
Madison
back the because Cd he all mooh
sble share of the entirety will
Relief
Louis must realize that day he will himself the middle
hurt helpless hsing
glory and cash. moving upon him with determination beat him to the
floor Louis himself destroyed that he quit his job
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Soldier Quintet Booking

Twenty-ninth Division at Fort
Meade has formed an unlimited
basket ball team of former college
and high school players and is
booking games. Contact Maj. Sam
uel r. Turner at headquarters.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

to the vote Of the players, them
selves. rate in this order:
1. Here Comes Mr.. Jordan"
2. Sergeant York"
8. Citizen Kane"
L., How Green Was My Valley
5. "The Little Foxes"
6. "The Maltese Falcon" ..
7. Hold Back the Dawn"
8. "Dumbo."'
8. "Fantasis
10. Man Hunt"
In most channels, this years poll
ran true to advance dope sheets, but
nevertheless there were upsets that
will confound many who attempt
to reckon movie winners In advance
Notably is this true in the best
pictures" division. Here an out
slider, but by no means a rank one
carried of first honors by sub
stantial margin. If the stars turn
critics" poll had been a hoss race
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan" the win
ner, would have paid of at odds
of about 7 to l.
Critics generally had been touting
Sergeant York" How Green Was
My Valley" and Citizen Kane" as
the trio from which a winner would
be chosen. York" was q slight
favorite. And yet "Mr. Jordan
galloped away with IA per cent
margin over the second place film
an indication that it will be up
there screaming for official recogni-
ton when the academy votes are
tabled.
york" and Kane" Close.
The first four were well punched
Especially close was the contest be-
tween york" and Kane" fol
second place. A definite sag was
noted between the fourth-place
Valley" and THE Little Foxes.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Citizen Foster, Calm Chap,
With a Yen for Farming
Whose Basic Yearning Is for Future
Full of Just Simple Security

He determined then that If he ever
got a dime, he'd save it. That Is
one of the reasons he didn't a-farm-
ing 60.
He Failed at All Jobs.
After he got out of high school,
Pres worked at more jobs than he
can remember. Having failed at
about everything else, he became an
actor. He almost failed at that,
too. During three or four years
on Broadway, he averaged $50 a
week. He made as much as 5000
some weeks, but there was one long
stretch of six months when he didn't
make a cent. Fortunately Mrs.
Foster (the same Mrs. Foster since
1925 was school teacher.
The scene changed to Hollywood
10 years ago when, by one Of those
rare pieces of luck, Pres was called
to Hollywood. He calls it luck "and
maybe some talent"
Here Is where I save some mon
ey," was the first thing he. said
when he drew his first movie check,
But he didn't.
Gee, there were SO many things
I needed-or thought I needed" he
recalled. II guess everybody goes
little haywire when they get some
money"
1t took Pres a year or two to real
ize that the thousand dollar checks
could stop rolling in anytime. Mean
while, he had bought autos and a
big house and a yacht and horses
and all kinds of expensive geegaws.
Things he could pay for, but which
he couldn't afford.
Has Many Bank Accounts.
Now he has bank accounts for
every item: Christmas, insurance,
income tax. wife's birthday, house
hold expenses, farm upkeep and
(See FOSTER, Page ESD
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Gaslght Charm Hangs Over Latest 1bsen Revival
Hedda Gabe With Katna Paxnou, Famous Greek Actress
Is Full of Too Much Quanness For One Reviewer

for goodness sake, will be thought
Of as a good play?
Cast Has Charm, Too.
Around his star Mr.. Greene has
grouped q velvet-tongued but gilt
tering galaxy of satellites-another
gracious, old-fashioned gesture
from the days when none but the
best could do homage to a star
Henry Daniel has returned from
Hollywood to play the part of the
author driven to suicide by horrible
Hedda. Cecil Humphreys, as Judge
Brack. and Ralph Forbes as the
lethally dull husband are playing
the parts that contribute to the
suicide of Hedda. Karen Morley is
the blond beauty of the piece.
AS for Miss Paxinou-wen, the
Greeks as we know are remarkable
people and not even Miss Paxinou
Is going to put this ally in the
position of slapping them around
Perhaps 1t is her unfamiliarity with
our language that caused her to
bite at her dialogue with relish
and ferocity as If it were steak
Perhaps it is the European tech
nique to stalk instead of walk and
emphasize and underscore every bit
Of business until it glares where 1t
should shine.
Anyway, as actors make clear
generally at the tops Of their voices
nobody knows anything about acting
except actors and everybody now
writing about acting for the papers
Is just plain d-n (for darn fool
This particular d-n fool thought
Miss Paxinou a woman of good
voice and unmistakable beauty. He
was ready to fall in love with her
at first sight but, on second sight,
was discouraged by her style OF
acting, which he found not to his
taste. However. many of the d-n
fools on the other papers around
think she is q great addition to
our stage.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, me.)
Evening star., 1942-02-08
The Firing Grows Heavier
In Attacks on the Critics
Miss Hayes Adds Few Careful Words,
Mr.. Hecht Some Less Careful Ones;
Plan M Defes Tradition

Resorting to the plain Anglo-Saxon
Of his literary youth when his prose
was attracting much more flattering
attention than any of his plays since
The Front Page" Mr.. Hecht OBJ
served succinctly that the critics
stink" True, Mr.. Hecht was writ
ing his riposte Ito the reviews Of
his Lilly of the Valley') in verse
and was in dire need of rhyme for
ink" but the use of the word was
construed more as an evidence Of
berserk anger than of poverty Of
vocabulary.
The couplet in which the word
appears further indicates anger in
that it contains a painfully patent
contradiction, to wit:
I'D below bitterly you do me wrong
Were not suffocated by your stink"
1t sounds pretty bellowy for q
man in the final stages of suffoca-
ton, but Mr.. Hecht, no doubt, Is
the best diagnostician of his condi-
ton at any moment of writing, or
even his after writing.
At least he is better than his crit
les, by his own word.
Variety Takes a Look.
The controversy, which so far has
found the critics merely going
calmly on from review to review re-
gardless of any excitement their
work may cause, took on greater
significance during the past week
as a result of Variety's comment
on it. Usually it Is the przceice vI
that redoubtable trade journal
merely to report the facts in such
cases-that so-and-so called so-and-
so such-and-such. Comment usu-
ally has been avoided with either
an admirable restraint or a feeling
that 1t would be silly to interfere
In such q semi-family row.
Variety rather hoped into the
thick of the fray this time, taking
the side of the theater, If any.
Soundly enough, 1t recognizes crit
icism as purely personal opinion,
save for one point in connection
with the acting of Katina Paxinou
in the revival of "Hedda Gabhler."
Even there it does not reject the
element of personal reaction, merely
observing in connection with two
unequivocably opposed estimates Of
Miss Paxinou's merit: There must
be such a thing as good acting, or
bad. - . Obviously, both extremes
cannot ne right. One Of the critics
apparently can't distinguish good
acting from bad. How about 1t.
boysa"
From this distance IN tfae country,
(see CARMoDY, Page Esq
Evening star., 1942-02-08
By Jay C0rm mody.

After some initial skirmishing,
duly recorded in this corner a couple
of weeks ago, in which neither side
suffered anything more serious than
a feeling of assininity, the war
between the theater and the critics
assumed larger proportions last
week.
The former, taking the offensive
in a manner of speaking, drew up
some of its heavier artillery in the
form Of Helen Hayes and Ben
Hecht. When they finished pum-
melting the critics. in their respective
ways. the latter stood quite as un-
rufaed and certain Of themselves
as before. Apart from the fact that
the results were negligible, however,
it was quite a pummeling.
AS quoted in Pittsburgh, where
she is touring with Candle in the
Wind" which scurried quickly
away from Broadway, Miss Hayes
tested to the effect that 'it's prac-
tically obscene Tor q Weu-KnoWn
author to have a success this sea-
son." Just what she meant is some
what dubious, as so many jests are,
but when she added that great
common bond has sprung up be-
tween her husband, Charles Mac
Arthur, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford
Odets and Hecht, several people
started making deductions. They
went to the general effect that all
had been victims, rightly or wrongly,
justifiably or unjustifiably, of critics
VINO are regarded as more severe
and less friendly this season than
ever in the past.
Mr.. Hecht Less Ambiguous.
If Miss Hayes was being ambig-
uous, the undeniable privilege Of her
sex, Mr.. Hecht certainly was not.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
By Ira W0lferf.
NEW YORK.

AVE-" O4b4As
There is something old-fashioned,
rather quaint and quite charming
about the method Luther Greene
has used to present Katina Paxinou,
Greek star, to New York. Electric
light picked out her way for her as
she stalked on stage, but otherwise
all was gaslight.
Miss Paxinou, a woman of forid
beauty, is well known to European
theater-goers, but here she has
been naught but a rosy, buxom
memory to the boys and girls who
II years ago took their ponies and,
whipped by their Greek professors,
trotted downtown to see her as
Clytemnestra in a modern Greek
version of Electra"
The quality of gaslight spread
even to the program notes, where
Mr.. Nat Dorfman noted that Miss
Paxinou is "the daughter of a dis
tinguished family in Athens" and
when she decided to seek a perma-
nent stage career she was
promptly disowned by her family"
Then follows this wonderfully
mauve sentence, something that
might very well be right out of a
yellow book synopsis of "trilby"::
"Hardships followed, but the in
domitable will to conquer finally
brought her to the attention Of
Nine. Cotopouli."
Play Changes Mild.
Mr.. Greene has brought her to
our attention in a version of He'd
da Gabler." specially translated by
Ethel Borden and Mary Cass Can
field. These two ladies are of the
social elect. Their version seems
to have been improved over all the
others chiefly by substituting ''im-
agine that" for the fancy that
that has been uttered so frequently
by Ibsen characters In past transla-
tions. For the rest, it may be said
that Ibsen's play has not suffered
at the ladies' hands.
But what Is really charming In
Evening star., 1942-02-08
By Harold Hefernan.

The best motion picture produced
by Hollywood in 194l was Here
Comes Mr.. Jordan" an after-death
fantasy, filmed by Columbia Studio.
with Robert Montgomery as iSs star.
Gary Cooper. in Sergeant York"
delivered the finest performance by
an actor.
Bette Davis, in either "The Great
Lie" or "The Little Foxes" was
credited with the outstanding por-
trayal by an actress.
These were the more important
results Of the fourth annual Stars
Turn Critics" poll, just completed
by this newspaper through a ballot
OF approximately 100 Hollywood
stars, featured and small-part &C
tors.
It is a yearly roundup incorpor-
ating the personal selections of the
people who make motion pictures,
giving them opportunity to honor
each other and the distinguished
achievements Of their industry for
the preceding year.
Announced several weeks in ad-
| vance of the annual-and offlcial-
motion picture academy tabulations,
the poll also serves as possible
sneak preview" of oscar" win
ners in the various departments OF
motion picture making.
Best Picture q Surprise.
In the past it has proved an ac-
curate prophet Of these winners. 1t
may play q similar role again this
year. If it does a few thrilling
surprises are in store for the in
dustry. as well as for the critics.
many Of whom, 1t would seem, have
been barking up the wrong trees.
The complete results of the poll
follow:
Best motion picture Of 1941-
Here Comes Mr.. Jordan"
Best performance by an actor
Gary Cooper in Sergeant York"
Best performance by an actress
Bette Davis in THE Great Lie"
and THE Little Foxes"
Best performance by a support
ing actor-James Gleason in Here
Comes Mr.. Jordan"
Best performance by a supporting
actress-Mary Astor in THE Great
Lie"
Best achievement In directing
John Ford for How Green Was
My Valley"
Find" Of the year-Roddy Nc
Dowall In How Green Was NY
Valley"
"Sergt. York" Runner-up.
| The 10 best pictures produced in
Hollywood during l941, according
Evening star., 1942-02-08
100 Babies Tested,
No. l Is Chosen
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL Y WOJD.
The famous old tale about Joe Won
Sternberg making the scene of Mar
lene Dietrich behind the gauze in
Scarlet Empress" Sc times and, at
painful last, deciding that take No.
2" was the best, has an equal.
Universal tested 100 youngsters
Tor Butch Minds the Baby" and
then, after looking at all the tests,
chose baby No. /. He Is Harold
Michael Barnitz, 13 months, a cute
rascal who wants to laugh all the
time. He's the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Blair BarnitZ, who came here eight
years ago from Pittsburgh.
Baby Sandy is too old for the
part; she's 4! Baby Sandy's brother,
doubtless named Baby Andy, was
in the running for the part in
Butch, but was outmugged by
Baby BarnitZ.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Toduy's Film Schedules

CAPTTOJohnny Eager" Robert Taylor becomes underworld
tough 435 720 and10:10 PM Stage shows 345 635 and
800 pm.
COLUBIAThe Bugle Beery still prefers horses to-
tanks 2:45, S, tbs $50 pm
EARIEAH Through the Night" with Bogart hero g. 43o
7:15 and 1905 pm. Stage shows 3:45. $50 and 95
of Fire Barbara Stanwyck knocks the dignity out
Of Gary Cooper: $780, $780, 5:35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
TTEThe King with that Incompatible Frencman Raimu:
ais, 4:05, 5:55, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Observation-Disclosures York" the great
adventure 2:10, 4:35, Z and $50 pm.
Gene Terney lodging bullets In widest
Africa 2:20, 4:45, ITO and 9:35 pm.
PIX-"Balalaika": 2, $50, $50, 7:45 and o:45 m.
TRANs-LUX-News and shorts: Continuous from O'Clock
Evening star., 1942-02-08

| The latter was closely pressed by
'The Maltese Falcon" the years
most unusual murder mystery.
The placing Of two Walt Disney
cartoon features, "Dumbo" and
Fantasia" among the first 10, was
an unusual note. And, indicating
that "out of sight, out of mind" may
have had something to do with the
voting, such excellent Aims as The
Lady Eve" and Blossoms In the
Dust" wound up among the also
rams. Both were released early in
1941 and could have been forgotten
or overlooked.
In balloting their "best actor" /"
the players gave Gary Cooper's per-
Torrance in york" handsome sup
port at the rate Of better than 2 to
/ over the closest opponent, Robert
Montgomery, in Jordan" Trailing
Robert by only a few votes was
Orson Welles, for his Citizen
Kane"
In "best actress" division Bette
| Davis, two time winner of an acad-
emy statuette, was liked at the rate
of almost 3 to / over Joan Fon-
taine in Suspicion" Bette had
two strong vehicles. 'The Great
Lie" and "The Little Foxes" as
vote getters. Ingrid Bergman's
barmaid in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" was third, but right on her
heels were Olivia De Havilland
C"Hold Back the Dawn"o and Clau-
dette Colbert's Remember the
Day." The latter got of to late
start, but did well considering the
short time allotted players to see
that movie.
Miss Stanwyck Also Ran.
Another upset was registered IN
the "best actress" division when
! Barbara Stanwyck's name failed to
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Coming Attractions

stare.
NATONA-Pan M Edward Grants play England
at war. opens tomorrow night for weeks stay.
the school teacher played by
Caudee Colbert John Thursday
show, too.
Lady Willing" Marene Dietrich cavorts Fred
MacMurray starting next Friday will fresh stage
Olsen johnson in the version
Of their vast antic sometime this week. doubt.
Story" the romantic comedy with
Loretta Young, will follow york"
PALACE-Woman Of the Year." with Spencer Tracy,
Thursday.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
There are so many people here
doing goofy things (but thank good
ness for themD that it is pleasure
to report occasionally on substan-
tial, normal citizen like Preston
Foster.
It's difficult to catch up with him,
because when he isn't making pic
lures he goes hunting or fishing OF
riding In a parade or all three
Parade riding is not goofy thing
but something we'd all like to do II
we had the nerve. Or the horse.
So one never sees Pres between
pictures, which is the best time to
talk to most movie people. When
they are working most actors are
too busy worrying about their
clothes or their hair or their dali
logue or the competition to discuss
themselves interestingly and coher-
ently-which may surprise the folks
who thought all actors could talk
about themselves any time.
If one has known Citizen Foster
for many years it is not difficult
to write about him.
He'll Farm Part Time.
He Is moving to a farm, but he
Is not-as he threatened a few
months ago-quitting acting to GO
farming. He was under contract
to Paramount and was paid regu-
larly every week, but he never
worked. Lean-outs were turned
down axd Pres became most un-
happy.
ct hen with 'em," said he, hav-
ing recently acquired $50 acres. 81
am going farming. I am going to
quit this crazy racket. They can't
do this to me-"
Pres stand-in, Harry Mayo, is also
q good friend. He pushed Pres
into a corner and said:
In three years you wouldn't have
q cent. You're not a farmer;
you're an actor" Pres still wasn't
convinced. "And wouldn't you look
fine"-this was Mayo's parting
shot-"coming into town in overalls
to peddle your milk and eggs"
It wasn't the overall thought that
changed Pres mind, because he is
no Beau Brummel on or off the
screen, but that of trying to sell
milk and eggs for q living. Or
maybe just trying to sell them.
II there has been an obsesSion
In this fellows life, it has been the
desire for security. He has longed
for security since he was boy in
New Jersey, 30-odd years ago. His
family was poor and he wore his
1Ather's trousers cut down and his
underwear was made Of hour sacks
Evening star., 1942-02-08

a gracious, old-fashioned way about
Mr.. Greene's enterprise is not so
much the new translation by two
of the socially elect as the fact Of
"Hedda Gabler" itself. This play
has been q stars vehicle since the
days Of buggies and it has been
really quite q long time since q
new star dared to gallop upon our
stage in a vehicle. These are gaso-
line days. They may not be for
long. the way things are going. but
even in Europe it isn't the vehicle
that has replaced the motor car, but
the gazogene-a car equipped to
burn charcoal.
Even though 'tHedda Gabler" Is
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Knows the Plot

Edward Small has signed Charles
Winninger and Charles Ruggles to
play the title roles in his recently
announced production of the famous
stage hit Friendly Enemies"
Winninger played one of the lead
ing roles in the stage production
Of Friendly Enemies" many years
ago. For Small's film production
he switches characterizations and
Ruggles viii now play the part that
Winninger had behind the foot
lights.
The feminine lead In Friendly
Enemies" will be Sharon Douglas, q
young newcomer whom Small dis
covered in his forthcoming film,
"Heliotrope Harry" Her perform
ance in that new production has
won her long-term contract from
Small.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Film Stars Own Bests' List Has Its Surprise Choices
Is of in Colony,
and DavsOu standing Players

appear on the ballots with enough
regularity to make her q contender.
Barbara had three strong perform
ances during the year in Meet John
Doe, (" "The Lady Eve" and "Ball OF
Fire" and yet she received only a
scattered few votes. She had been
rated As one Of the top contenders
Fol- best supporting actor" the
fight ragged down through the last
few ballots, with Jimmy Gleason
and his Jordan" triumph pitted
against the suave crook Of new
conner Sydney Greenstreet in THE
Maltese Falcon Gleason had no
votes to spare. Laird Cregar and
Edgar Buchanan, each appearing in
several pictures during the year,
were tied for third place.
Mary Astor's brilliant comeback
In The Great Lie" was not over
looked by the voters; in fact, it was
well remembered, even though the
film was an early-year release. She
piled up a substantial majority
over Margaret Wycherly's primitive
mother in York" and Teresa
Wright's daughter in THE Little
Foxes" Many actors couldn't iden-
tify Miss Wycherly by name. They
merely wrote in "the mother Of
York"
Best direction" was a romp for
the veteran John Ford, whose poet
ically beautiful translation Of "Val-
ley" returned him q long lead over
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane"
Howard Hawks, for York" and
John Huston for Falcon" ran into
a dead heat for third place.
Another winner to come out of
valley" was 12-year-old Roddy
McDowall, the English lad. He was
decisively named the find Of 1941. J"
His closest competitors were Joan
Leslie and Teresa Wright.
(Releaased BY North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1942-02-08
us Greek Actress,

the fifth revival now current on
Broadway, Mr.. Greene Is not being
criticized for offering a revival
particularly Of so excellent and
timber -limbed an oldie as this re-
markable investigation into the
toxins of female boredom. The war
has scrambled our playwrights'
brains. There is q distinct shortage
Of new plays. Only 4,878 were
copyrighted in 1941. In addition,
1t has scrambled our producers
brains. They haven't the least idea
what kind Of new plays q warning
population would like to see. They
know only that good" plays this
year as ever are hit plays, but what,
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Paulette Thinks
Wasteland Needs
Chic Wardrobe
By Wide World News.

By Wlde world news.
HOLLYWOOD.
Fashion note, from Paulette God
dard:
Asbestos slacks for forest fires.
Miss Goddard packed q pair-to
wear in q fire sequence-as she left
for a three-week location trip in the
Santa Cruz Mountains. Her ward
robe also included red flannels, Just
in case it's cold. And. she added :
Just because I'm going into the
woods is no reason why I should
dress like a pioneer. No abandoning
glamour for me. I'm taking every
stitch Of clothes I own. Maybe 1t
will lend little color to the camp"
Evening star., 1942-02-08

for goodness sake, will be though
Of as a good play?