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pictures, largely trends TO themes
dealing with the men and women
behind the men behind the firing
line.
Among these are such films as
MRS. Miniver," which details the
quiet courage OF an English woman
while her husband risks his life aid
ing in the historic evacuation of
Dunkerque.
Journey for Margaret" also with
British background. deals with a
mans dogged search for an English
war orphan to adopt.
Liberty Ship" about to 60 into
production. is a saga of wartime
workers in Pacific Coast shipyards,
much as Joe Smith, American"
dealt with men in the aircraft in
dustry.
Reaction OF women to wartime
conditions is the theme of THE War
Against Mrs. Hadiey," while women
again are the principals in Private
Miss Jones" and Flying Blonde"
The former is the story of girl
who finds an outlet for her patri-
otism in helping in a military train
ing center, while the latter has the
air force training program as back
ground and atmosphere.
Also with an air force training
background is "Skyway to Glory
which, however, is more concerned
with a mans struggle against des-
potism and fascism in America.
vengeance Of the Earth" Is an
other purchased for early produc-
ton. And, while this story is sill
houetted against guerrilla opera
tlons in Russia, it primarily is the
drama OF a PEASANTS life and his
eventual participation in the con-
f1ict.
One OF the most socially signifi-
cant productions planned for the
near future is America" which will
star Spencer Tracy. 1t is drama
OF an immigrant who finds in this
country the democracy and freedom
he has always sought.
1t Will be filmed against the back
ground of industrial America and
Will embrace scenes filmed in the
countrys great manufacturing CEN
tiers. King Vidor, who will direct it
now is on tour of Pittsburgh, De-
troit and other centers of heavy in
dustry, seeking necessary atmos-
phere
M-G-M officials say it will be one
OF the most pretentious screen ef-
forts it has ever attempted.
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his shirt on his investment in escap-
ism. And Mr.. Gordon, being gen.
orally astute. seems to know one
reason for the comedy's continuing
success; at any rate his publicity
department is stressing the fact
that MY Sister Eileen" is "as escap-
ist as the tired business man could
wish. No problems, economic
or psychopathic, are propounded.
No human i'll is revealed under the
dramatists scalpel.'
Any one who wanted to take the
trouble could of course, take step
in the direction of breaking down
the arguments being set forth in
favor of escapist drama fare merely
by pointing to the record of those
dramas which have attempted to
take note of current events. Too
often plays which have commented
upon some phase of humanity's pres
ent struggle have come off second
best in competition with the more
vital impacts of the actual drama of
current events.
Maybe 1t Could Be Done.
1t always has been easy to con-
done such efforts with pat on
the shoulder and a softly muttered
Good try" all the while feeling
that perhaps no dramatist, confused
or unconfused, could find words to
compete with those Of the newsboy
in front of the theater clamoring
for attention between the acts. And
this brings up again the above
mentioned MRS. Miniver' If, say,
some playwright should emerge
from the ranks of the confused
and send us a drama as human and
as honest as this screen play in deal
ing with the facts of life in land
at war, you can be sure he would
not be deserted by a public in
search of "escapism."
Maybe it is all a vicious circle,
with playgoers seeking escapist fare
because that is all they think play
wrights can cope with and play
wrights turning out escapist fare
because they think that is all the
playgoers can cope with.
AS a final note, without comment,
let us add the report of John Stein
beck's non-escapist THE Moon Is
Down." which Washington saw last
week, as set forth in Variety, the
theatrical journal. A flop on Broad
way but a success out of town, is
Variety's verdict on Mr.. Steinbeck's
dissertation, the poor showing on
Broadway being attributed both to
poor notices and to the fact that
the play was oversold by book re-
viewers who read the novel and
thought it would make a fine play.
Drama reviewers who saw the play
and decided maybe it would make
a fine movie seem not to have helped
it any. Maybe it WILL make fine
movie.
Evening star., 1942-08-16
But Draft Board
May Tackle Him
Before Long
By Mark Barron,
Wide World,
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Except for the fact that William
Saroyan is a brash young dramatist,
and an able If frequently confusing
one, these last days of summer
might have meandered along to a
quiet final curtain.
Bnt Saroyan had TO disturb the
peace by starting talking, and there
is no escaping his flood of speech
once he gets started.
Anyway, he is now In the midst
of his newest mixup. Subject to
immediate call In the selective serv-
ice he announces that he is staging
the formal Inauguration" of the
new theatrical season tomorrow
night by presenting two of his short
plays, Across the Board on Tomor-
row Morning" and Talking to You"
as the first shows to be given in what
is now known as the Saroyan Thea
ter. OF course. that playhouse also
bears the name of another man
who had considerable prestige in
the history of our stage, David Be-
lasco.
He Proved His Words.
Aside from his enthusiasm for
using the pronoun a." Saroyan
really has had an extraordinary
career in his brief time on Broad
way. His play, The Time of Your
Life" was the first to win both the
Drama Critics Circle and Puhtze1
Prize Awards.
And now. at the age of 80. he be-
comes as much topflight producer
as he is playwright. That Is, de-
pending upon whether or not the
Selective Service Board suddenly
decides that now is the time for all
good playwrights to get in training
| for kitchen police.
When Saroyan has got his plays
| opened and therby officially"
| started the season, other Broadway
managers, who have been in more
silent mood, hint that they will get
under way for what really looks
to be one of the most active times
the theater has seen in years. About
a dozen new productions already are
in rehearsal here in addition to a
| few plays that have had their try
outs in the summer theaters.
The answer is, of course, that the
producers are seeing much freer
spending among the Broadway
crowds bolstered by numerous war
visitors, so therefore they are plan
ming their new shows for much
earlier dates.
While business Is unusually good
at the moment at boxofices, the
producers also are turning over a
considerable portion Of the seating
capacity of their theaters to the
USO to be given to soldiers, sailors
and marines on furlough.
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Coming Attractions

CAPITOL"The with Wooley Roddy Mcdowell
Ann starting Thursday with a stage show.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Blue Horizon" with Dorothy IAmour;
opening Thursday.
EALE-Acros Pacific with Humphrey Bogart and Mary As
tor opening Friday
Squadron" story the first Americans 10 hight
with Diana Barrymore.
1ITE- Deeds Goes Town." with Gary opening
Wednesday,
METROPOLITAN-Ihe Gay Sisters with stanwyc
aldne Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman: opening Friday
PAIACE-SomewhAre I'll with Clark Gable and Lana
P-Heart Michele Morgan: opening
Wenesday.
STAGE ..
Sister Eileen" Gordons hit comedy; opening
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Mr.. Saroyan Kicks Off
And Others Plan
To Jump Early
On Broadway
.By Ira Wolferf.
NEW YORl

NEW 4ORh.
There's no dimout of anything
but lights on Broadway. Ihe tnea-
ters are having their best summer
time in 10 years and, for the nrst
time in longer than that, the new
season is looking forward TO an
August launching,
Launching is not too enthusiastic
a word. 1t is true boats going down
the ways get champagne on the
beak or refuse to move. However,
boats are rather important now
adays and can insist on special
treatment. The theater is in no
such situation. Even If the two
events of the week beginning Mon
day night do not turn out to be
champagne and are more busts on
the nose, the theater will be con-
tent. August openings have not
happened since 1929.
The two theatrical events are
s4.4O affairs. William Saroyan gets
first crack at the plush money when
he presents Across the Board on
Tomorrow Morning" and Talk
ing to You" tomorrow night. These
are two short plays, financed by
Saroyan himself in order to present
himself as a one-author repertory.
They will last two weeks at the
Belasco, or so she plan is. and if
there are still people left who want
to see them they will be given the
opportunity at another theater.
The Belasco will be reserved for
other short Saroyan plays, the titles
of which. anyway, make attrac-
tive reading: ALTON Water" Jim
Dandy" Get Away, Old Man;
Elmer and Lily" and the following
magnificent counterpoint, Happy
Birth, Decent Funeral"
New Moon Returning.
The other event, due to follow
later in the week, is Joseph S. Tu-
shinsky's and Hans Bartsch's effort
to start kind of New York stock
company by reviving THE New
Moon"
Two openings do not make a
season or even a bottle-opener for
one. But there are other shows now
painting through rehearsals. Oscar
Serlin has finally got the script of
Russell Crouse's and Howard Lind
says strip for Action"-a piece
long in the creation stage-and has
placed 1t in the mouths of actors
The Shuberts have two already In
the works. Oddly enough, these art
called Count Me In" and Il KILLED
the Count" It was learned from ar
unimpeachable source who is yer,
close with anything over a nicke
that the count who is killed is no
Count Me In," who, it may b,
stated, is no relation to Include M,
Out"
Brock Pemberton and Columbis
Pictures are also knee-deep in {
| play called jamie" And l hope
for the sake OF Mr.. Pembertonl
| (See WOLFERT, Page Esq
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITOI-"Calng extension of Lionel
94o pm Stage shows
6:40 1855 1l:15 pm.
COLUBIAiss Annie Rooney the Shirley Temple sphere
larges: 145 340 $40 1885 and $50 pm.
EARLBig Shot, Humphrey Bogart In his traditional role: 2
52o TAO pm Stage shows: pm
KEITHS-Pde of the Yankees" Gary in the
Gehrg: 2:20, 4:45, tbs and 9:45 pm.
Mein Kampf the rise Of Hitler in all nfay
g. $50, $50, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Lieutenant" story test pilots
Pat OBrien: g. 3:55, $50, 7:45 and 9:40 pm.
with Greer Carson: Continuous from 13o pm
PIX-"Somethng Sing About" with $780,
7:50 and 10 pm.
Evening star., 1942-08-16

right back and answer the rebuttal
by pointing to the present state of
Broadway affairs.
playing in New York-everything
from Life With Father" to This
Is the Army''-and a seventeenth is
slated to return tomorrow, when
Lets Face tt ends the one-month
lay-off which followed a 38-Week
run. And not one of these attrac-
tions Drawing the summer months
could stand up in public and, with
a straight face, call itself anything
other than "escapist."
Angel Street" and Uncle Harry
are melodramas, one about a man
who tries to drive his wife mad and
the other about a murderer who
can't find any one who will believe
his confession. Arsenic and Old
Lace as any one knows, is one of
the funnier comedies of recent years
and it just goes on and on. Come
dies, too, are "Blithe Spirit" Junior
Miss" and Claudia" and even the
slight touches of a Women's maga-
zine problem which mark some mo-
ments of the latter can't take it out
of the "escapist" class. Life With
Father" the one adapted from the
Clarence Day stories in the New
Yorker tops the list of outstanding
items in the case for the lighter
side, leading the New York flock
with 143 weeks of playing time be-
hind 1t.
The rest of the field is made up
of revivals c'Porgy and Bess'' and
series of operettas at Carnegie
HalD and musicals, ranging from
fancified burlesque and slcked-up
vaudeville to the ice-skating exhibit
ton called "Stars on Ice" Not q
serious affair in the lot.
And There's "My Sister Eileen"
AS a further item in the case for
the "escapist" drama there is the
success being enjoyed by my Sister
Eileen" another of those comedies
which came out of the New Workers.
pages. The company which brings
the Greenwich Village frolic to the
National tomorrow night for its Sec
ond local engagement is one Of three
currently staging the play, which
almost sounds like what the boys
and girls around Times Square who
know of them only by hearsay
would call the good old days" The
New York run of MY Sister Eileen"
iS QS u,oekS nld and c0nnnanV
which has been touring what
Broadway calls "the West" for some
considerable time is just winding up
an even dozen weeks in Chicago.
The company coming here, with
Betty Furness and others, has just
completed a second profitable ses-
sion in Boston.
So Mr.. Max Gordon, the producer,
does not seem to be exactly losing
Evening star., 1942-08-16
By Harold Hefernan.

By Harold HeHerndn.
HOLLYWOOD.
Lives of all remind make lives sublime
and the subject of motion pictures.
lived Longeow might
he wouldn't have stretching the little Bit
Actually, it's soldier,
scientist unendng glory
field is wide open today.
Until a couple Of
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Hemingway's S Bridge

Paramount technicians are build
ing lake in the High Sierras above
Sonora for principal scene in For
Whom the Bell Tolls" The scene is
water mill which figures prom
inently in the fight for the bridge
in the Hemingway novel.
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Everybody's Glory Road Today Leads
And It's Open Road for Sports Figures Stage Stars
Where 1t Once Was for Generals and Scientists

you may drop ceuoid gorihca
ons calling from saving souls punching chins
point widening field
biographical losing winning Office paths
Washington Lincoln other his
than
the red.
pictures praise studio
auditor would forget about them
AS brilliantly
(see HEFFERNAN Page E-3J
Evening star., 1942-08-16
This 'Linc0ln' Is Bitter
But Only Because Those Booths
Always Steal His Scenes


tall sedate 1rnman named Ed oNe has been playing Abraham
He posed for painters sclptors he wanders
bears great without
Evening star., 1942-08-16
It's Another War
And It Produces Another Type
Of Screen Entertainment
HOLLYWOOD.

By Wide World HOLLYWOOD.
Differing markedly from pictures produced during bal
conflict
blood
effects the social aspects of world life.
films the
The Kaiser Beast OF Berlin and my -Four Years Germany
Evening star., 1942-08-16
The Escape Artists at Work
Being Note on the General Trend
Toward the Lighter Side
By Harry Macarthur.
t1n the Temporary Absence Of jaw Carmod


probably rather thoroughly
this time when the heater had best
happy
pointing Mrs Mnver
of the times the record the
it likely to attain here
Evening star., 1942-12-13

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Evening star., 1942-09-20
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Evening star., 1942-09-20
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what | see in him."

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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
MIDWAY:
Melee

pearl Harbor has now been par
TALLY avenged. Vengeance will not
be complete until japanese sea pow
er has been reduced to impotence.
We have made substantial progress
in that direction"
With these blunt, stirring words,
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, command
er in chief of the Pacific fleet, an
nounced a decisive United States ma
val victory at Midway Island. In a
remarkable demonstrat of the CO.
ordinated power Of the three Ameri-
can services-navy, army and ma
rines-a japanese invasion fleet was
repulsed with the greatest losses of
the current war.
From IA to IL japanese warships
were sunk or damaged, according
to early reports. Included were two
or three aircraft carriers sunk and
one or two lost; three battleships
damaged, four or six cruisers dam
aged, three transports damaged and
one destroyer sunk. Continuing at
tacks on the fleeing enemy made it
impossible to state whether the ships
bombed in pursuit had been dam
aged previously.
At the conclusion of the four-day
action, Adm. Ernest J. King, COM
mander in chief of the American
fleet, limited that the United States
has chance to knock out Japan as
a sea power. The battle, he said,
may determine the outcome of the
war in the Pacific.
Hawaii, he said, must be held at
all COSTS" because it is the key
stone to the entire Pacific defense
system. Midway, 1872 miles from
Pearl Harbor, is vital outpost in
the Hawaiian defense.
In the opinion of Washington ex-
perts, the Pacific victory advanced
the United Nations far along the
road to ultimate triumph. However,
victory has not been clinched. That
depends upon continuing successful
offensive action.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
GAS RATIONINC:
Rev0It in House

The congressional fight against
nationwide gasoline rationing broke
into the open when Rep. Jed John
son of Oklahoma introduced a con-
current resolution opposing such a
step until the house gets proof that
the move is necessary.
The resolution declared that there
is a surplus of oil in Texas, Kansas,
Oklahoma and other producing
states and that nationwide rationing
would cripple the war effort. The
War Production board proposed the
rationing program to conserve rub
Der rather than gasoline, of which
there admittedly is no shortage.
The Johnson resolution was SUBJ
mitted following boisterous caucus
session of 100 members of the house.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
FOOD:
Netv Control

In wartime, food for fighting men
is always of prime Importance. With
this fact in mind the government
has now moved to assure ample
supplies Of U. S. forces and the
armed units of United Nations. Gre
alton of a nine-member food require
ments committee headed by Secre-
tary OF Agriculture Claude Wickard
has been announced by the War Pro-
duction board.
This agency has been granted
power to designate what foods may
or may not be produced; what COM
modities are to be allowed for i'm
port or export; and to regulate the
distribution of foodstuffs.
While attention was thus being
drawn to the nations food supply,
the department of agriculture was
quick to declare that it should not
be assumed that shortages of food
or rationing Of most foods are in
prospect
An analysis of the step however
would indicate that this new board
might eventually find it necessary
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
U-BOAT MENACE:
On the Run?

Axis submarines operating along
the Eastern seaboard have been
driven out into the Atlantic, accord
ing to Chairman Carl Vinson (Geor-
gia) of the house naval affairs COM
mittee.
His disclosure came in a formal
statement which added that the
"anti-submarine warfare organiza-
ton has passed through its period
of growing pains and is now well
established and functioning effec-
tively.'
''In dealing with submarines we
have tough and clever enemy"
the statement said, land it does not
pay to be unduly optimistic. How
ever, the fact remains that in the
last few weeks the submarine has
largely withdrawn from our eastern
seaboard and is operating farther at
sea :"
1.-THE committee has full con-
fdence that we shall defeat the
submarine"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
LIBYA:
Tank Tangle

The battle of Libya entered Its
most violent phase as thousands of
tanks took part in raging fight in
the desert at Knightsbridge Two
heavy German tank attacks were
repulsed as the British struck an
other dent in the Axis salient in
their lines south of Tobruk.
Marshal Erwin Rommel was re-
ported in the Knightsbridge area Is
miles south of Tobruk, directing his
men in desperate attack against
the hard-fighting British. The Nazis
were sent Keeling back south and
west of Harmat, six miles south of
Knightsbridge.
Experts looked upon Harmat as
an extremely important position
since it was near an escape gap in
the British mine field. With the
British in possession, there could be
no wholesale Axis escape.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
POISON GAS:
Another Warning

Within a month after Winston
Churchill had warned Germany that
any use of gas warfare by the Nazis
would be met with the same tactics,
President Roosevelt has warned ia
pan that if she persists in using
gas against China the U. S. will re-
taliate in "kind and full measure"
This statement by the President
came as confirmation of reports
that Japan was using noxious gases
in battles with the Chinese.
He said sternly that if the prac-
tice continued the United States
would deal with Japan in the same
way.
This applies, said the President,
whether the Japs use gas against
China or any other of the United
Nations because "such action will
be regarded by this government as
though taken against the u. So
In what manner this retribution
might be carried out continued to
be matter of secrecy. However,
Mr.. Roosevelt's hearers immediate
ly thought of the American bomb
ing attacks upon key Jap cities.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-18
SEA RAID:
On australia

The cities of Sydney and Newcas-
tie on Australians southeast coast
were ,shelled by japanese forces in
the first sea raid on that country s
mainland since the beginning. of the
war.
Termed nuisance raids by Cen
eral Macarthur headquarters,
these first attacks caused little DAM
age and there were few casualties.
Submarines were used for the at
tack.
At Sydney the shells whistled over
the city so fast it was impossible
to estimate their number. Newcas-
tie was shelled for 80 minutes. Both
cities were BACKED out and resi-
dents hustled to their air raid shell
tiers.
The attacks came only a week
after four of the enemy's midget
submarines were destroyed as they
attempted a sortie into Sydney
harbor. Also in the same week
tlucS dIlu poSSlUly AOlI OUlGr SUBS
were destroyed in the southwest Pa
cifc.
Increased submarine activity off
the lower Australian coast was be-
ieved to be aimed at cutting AL
lied communications and supply
lines as well as an attempt to divert
United Nations naval units from the
more major scenes of action, I.E.,
between Alaska and Hawaii.