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formances. These shows can hardly
be classed as vaudeville, but they
are taken as proof on Broadway
of the interest in live shows as set
against the movies.
Keith Started the Idea.
Vaudeville, as an American lnstl-
tuition, started in Boston in 1883
when B. F. Keith, former circus
employe, opened a small museum
and show in a vacant candy store.
His principal attractions were Baby
Alice, a pound-and-a-half midget,
and an ancient (stuffedD mermaid" F"
He later added "the CircasSian
Beauties, a Chicken with a human
face" and a pair OF comedians,
Weber and Fields, who became top
notchers.
The names of the stars of vaude-
vile in the past included the Four
Cohans, of whom George M. Cohan
was one; Montgomery and Stone,
w. C. Fields, David Warf1eld, Gal
lagher and Shean. grand opera
stars from Europe, Ethel and John
Barrymore, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Drew, Sarah Bernhard, Lenore
Uric, Nazimova, william Faver-
sham. and. of course, Jack Benny,
Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Sophie
Tucker, Bob Hope and many others.
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SUNDAY STAR WAsHIN GTON, D. C., MARCH 15 1912

lineup. He walks slowly up to
the microphone, which has been set
right in front Of the camera. He
shifts nervously from one foot to
another. He tugs at his belt and
cap. But it's Cooper's face that
tells the story Of Gehrig's torturous
emotion. His mouth twitches and
his eyes I'LL with tears.
For a full minute of shooting,
while the introduction continues,
Cooper stands there wavering, at
tempting to fight of a collapse.
There is no sound from him, for
all this is in pantomime. When
the announcer finishes Cooper's
head is bowed. He stands rooted
to the spot-until the men imi-
tating Farley and La Guardia step
forward to shake his hand.
Then Bill Dickey walks over. pats
him on the back and returns to
the lineup. Now Cooper struggles
to pull himself together-to give
out through the mike with those
memorable words OF gratitude.
That was all for the day. Dark
ness was creeping over the park
and the order came to hold every
thing until next day. But every
spectator realized he had witnessed
a scene that may prove just as
moving on the screen as it was that
real-life day in 1889 when one OF
baseball's finest passed from public
life.
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Newspaper Alliance, 1nc)
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costume pictures. Most gold braid
came from France and had to be
repleniSned because it soon lost its
luster. In most recent musicals,
dancing girls wore skirts of cello
phane. Today costume departments
are planning dresses made of syn
thetics, a constant worry because
they're fragile and must be proc
essed every night during production.
Dyes and other chemicals. color
pictures and glamour girls will be
chief sufferers here. All water
scenes, lakes. swimming pools, etc,
photographed in color must first be
treated with special dyes to make
them properly opulent. The make
up departments will be forced to
overcome shortages in glycerin "a
cold cream base and other essential
items to rouge and permanent-wave
fluids.
What have Hollywood's master
minds so far come up with in the
line of substitutes? To be frank,
very little. But there's a happy,
hopeful note here and there, so don't
be too quick to sell your double
feature short.
To help circumvent the lumber
headache, Columbia is experimenting
with the novel idea of using paper
furniture as a substitute for the real
thing. The script of He Kissed the
Bride" called for an elaborate suite
of offices with unconventional fur
niture. Construction specifications
indicated the amount of lumber
necessary would be prohibitive. So
one smart workman devised the
paper scheme Frames were first
built to give the pieces base. Then
they were neatly covered with heavy
paper, which was painted to give the
appearance of fine-grained wood.
If some unlucky actor should at
tempt to give them practical usage
the show, of course, would stop.
However, most set furniture is for
appearance only, and Hollywood is
much heartened about this posi-
bility.
Such makeup experts as the
Factors and Westmores are expert
Evening star., 1942-03-15

Station when the Armistice was
declared. y
Many Served Before. "
Adolphe Menjou, Bob Burns and
Jimmy Gl.ason were in the Infantry.
-. . Walter Pidgeon served in the
Canadian Field Artillery. Alan
Mowbray was decorated for bravery
for his feats in the British Army
Ray Milland is another who
served in the British Army-also,
Maj. Basil Rathbone, and 1t. Claude
Rains. Richard Arlen flew planes
from England to the front lines for
the r. A. F.
Director William Wellman was In
the Lafayette Escadrille and was
invalided home with broken back.
:. Brian Donlevy was with the La
fayette group. :. Directors Howard
Hawks, Clarence Brown, Norman
Mcleod, Tay Garnett and Merriam
Cooper rode the skyways. Dance
Director LIE Roy Prinz flew for the
| ace Eddie 2ickenbacker's Gath
Squadron. Lewis Stone, major in
the United States Army, was in
structor at Plattsburg He first saw
service in the Spanish American
war. And today, he is at the head
of the Civilian Evacuation Service
with squadron of station wagons
at his commando
Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Three for O'Brien

Pat OBrien, one of the screens
most popular stars. has been signed
by R-K-O Radio Studios TO star
in three pictures which will figure
Importantly in the company's 1912
3 production schedule.
First vehicle for OBrien under
his new R-K-O contract will be
Pay to Learn" screen adaptation
Of the only story ever to be pub
lished twice by the Saturday Eve
ming Post, and scheduled for produc-
ton this summer by Islin Auster.
The story by Borden Chase first
appeared in the Post in January,
1899, was reprinted in September,
1910. in response to popular request.
Screen adaptation now in prepara-
ton by John Twist has O'Brien in
the role of a United States Navy
gunner assigned to protect a
London bound freighter from the
maraudings Of submarine wolf
packs.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
ANU EN- ENTS.
A Great Public Idol Says Farewell
And 1t Is Poignant Scene as Re.enacted
For Picture by Gary Cooper as Lou Gehris

for that elusive Southern California
sun. Cooper unwrapped a fresh
stick of gum and went to work
masticating it. Wood glanced at
the sky, then at the packed stand
You people up there!" he shouted
through the loud-speaker. Look
like baseball fans-if you can.
Watch my handkerchief. When I
wave it, stand up and yell. 1 want
to hear about $4,000 people. Re-
member, cut out all the card play
ing
Now the directors eyes roved
along the line of Yankee players
in E. last-minute inspection. He
grabbed the loud-speaker.
You down near the end-the
fellow playing Gomez-stop tossing
your hat in the air. Cut out the
monkey business-or get out!"
The Man Was Fired.
Wood looked away and the fellow
playing Gomez laughed and did a
backbend-but he wasn't quick
enough. Wood turned and caught
him. And never in your life have
you seen a ball player fired faster
than this masquerading Gomez got
it!
The director turned purple and
sprinted up the third base line. He
didn't notify the front Office, he
didn't wait to ask any waivers. He
simply shook a finger at Gomez"
and shouted, You're through.
Leave that uniform in the locker
room and get out of the park
Well. I was two hours in the big
league, anyway" the extra yelled,
disappearing under the stands.
Like magic. another and more
placable Gomez" was brought out
from the Yankee bench. The clouds
suddenly parted and a ssEd burst
OF sunshine drenched the field.
"Action!" cried Wood.
The man at the public address
system begins his Iaudatory intro
duction. Wood waves his handker-
chief The extras stand and cheer
noisily. They wave their arms
and their straw hats.
Now, hand cue from Wood and
Cooper steps hesitantly from the
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plays are distinctive in their crafts
manship.
Over their live, 1.-the, graceful ans
handsome bodies Mr.. Barry has
come to a mede Of recognition that
would satisfy the aspirations OF al
most any playwright. Not, however.
Mr.. Barry. He drops them. some
times for years on end, to grapple
with the concerns of other charac-
ters who might be deemed more
significant because they are of
smaller fiscae dimensions.
These of his plays, of which Here
Come the Clowns" was the most
recent, are less successful. They
represent to critics who admire and
respect him for never doing care
less or unworthy play, a field m
which Mr.. Barry is cropping, where
his thinking Is hazy, his writing
obscure. But for all their faults and
their lesser success, it Is in these
plays that Barry provides intima-
tions of his final, and higher rank
ing as a playwright.
In the meantime, it is enormously
to the advantage of the theater that
he continue writing plays like THE
Animal Kingdom" "The Philadel-
phia Story" or tomorrow nights
without Love-"
That, incidentally, is play in
which Mr.. Barry moves his gilt
tering people onto a Washington
setting As its heroine, Miss Hep
burn plays brilliant young hostess
in official, diplomatic and social cir
cles here; as its hero, Elliott Nugent
is an irrepressible young Irish ideal
ist, properly named Jameson.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
HOLLYWOOD.

The date was July 4, 1889. More
than $4,000 baseball fans, national,
State and civic dignitaries among
them, packed the Yankee Stadium in
New York to pay their respects to
Lou Gehrig, iron-man first baseman
who had come to the end of his
record-breaking career.
1t was one of the most dramatic
and colorful athletic ceremonies
ever held. At the same time it
turned into one of the most poign-
ant. A great baseball player,
stricken by disease, wept as he
struggled to thank the assemolage
for the unprecedented tribute.
Sam Wood, one of Hollywood's
very best directors, re-creates this
scene now as a key sequence in
Pride of the Yankees" which ne
is filming with Gary Cooper playing
Gehrig. And those who were there
on that memorable real-life occa-
sion will doubtless marvel at the
dramatic and atmospheric accuracy
achieved by Wood in the duplicate.
He did 1t with these implements:
The Los Angeles Baseball Park.
A background crowd of $500 extras
Fifty uniformed actors representing
the New York Yankees and their
opponents, the Washington Sena-
tors. Several tons of fancy camera
and lighting equipment. A squat
little fellow who looked like Mayor
La Guardia. A tall, bald-headed
man who passed for Jim Farley
And. the main show himself, Gary
Cooper, playing Gehrig
Mechanics Were Problem.
The mechanics of this scene were
mighty important. 1t took Wood
and dozen assistants. racing back
and forth across the diamond and
into the stands, the whole morning
to set it. The $500 extras had to
be packed into one section They
had to be instructed what to do and
when. The Yankees. with Catcher
Bill Dickey himself in the fore
ground, were lined up from plate
to third base.
With everybody cued and ready,
1t was now only a matter of waiting
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NATIONAL-"Without Love-, new Phillip Barry play with
Katherine Hepburn in the leading role starts weeks engage
also largely involved in
affair.
CAPITOShanghai Hollywood version the
well-known play Teney Walter Huston Victor
Mature Thursday There will be variety bill
the stage.
COLUMBIA-"Woman of Katharine Hepburn and
Thursday another downtown week
EARL-Dangerousy in which John Garfield up
difficulties with the Nazs starts Friday There also
will be a stage bill, Of coarse.
KEITHS-"Rde En- Cowboy in which Abbott and Costello turn
UP the will follow Fantasia
the Of that tragic affair at the hunting
lodge with Charles Boyer and Danee Darrleux Will follow
Citizen Kane" which. meanwhile, just goes on
Purchase the lavish echnicolor ver
musical scheduled to move here in the near
future Ar a third downtown week.
Caroe Lombards last film in which
play noted stage couple OF warsaw facing
Geeman INVASION starts Thursday.
Evening star., 1942-03-15

menting with various substitutes for
priority chemicals. and declare
there's no danger of a Photographic
epidemic of double chins or facial
blemishes, at least not in the very
near future.
Other hard-hit departments hope
to have surprising news about plastic
substitutes in the near future. For
a time there were some fears that
the loud speaker in your theater
might even go silent, but electrical
wizards have already whipped that
one. They've just announced a new
12-cell high-frequency horn made
entirely of wood, except for its
throat.
And in its darkest shortage and
priority moments. Hollywood can
always take comfort in the fact it is
listed an essential" industry. In a
real pinch your Uncle Sam might
come through with keg of nails or.
a set of retreads.
released by North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Broadway Starts

George Raft and Pat OBrien have
started their co-starring roles in
Universals new Bruce Manning pro-
duction, Broadway" Appearing
with them in the cast are Brod
Crawford. Janet Blair. Anne
Gwynne. S. z. Sakall, Edward Bro
ply. Gus Schilling. Marie Wilson,
Marjorie Rambeau, Dorothy Moore,
Iris Adrian and Elaine Morey. Will
liam A Setter directs.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Film Completed

Camera work has been completed
on Edward Small's Friendly En-
emies," soon to be released by
United Artists.
Directed by Allan Dwan from the
successful play by Samuel Shipman
and Aaron Hoffman. Friendly En-
emies" features Charles Winninger
and Charlie Ruggles in the title roles.
with a supporting cast that includes
James Craig, Nancy Kelly, Otto
Kruger and Ilka Gruning.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Irish Star Signs

Geraldine Fitzgerald has been
signed to a new long-term, all-year
contract by Warner Bros. Hereto
fore she has had a contract calling
for her services only six months OF
each year. Currently Miss Fitz-
gerald is working in The Gay Sis
ters" with Barbara Stanwyck,
George Brent and Nancy Coleman.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
The New Fields
Is Different
Wide World News.

Wlde World news.
HOLLYWOOD.
It's w. c. Fields talking:
That Mark Hellinger, he must be
somebody. He rides on the lot in
fancy car. And look at those license
plates-N-l-0. I think I'll move to
New York. Can't get fancy num-
bers like that in California.
Know what I'll do, too. To cele-
brate my going on the wagon, III
ask 'em for H-2-0."
P. SIT really is the new Fields.
In Tales of Manhattan" he de-
livers a temperance lecture.
Evening star., 1942-03-15

Ann Sheridan presented him with O
Warner boys who enter the service. :
Burgess Meredith's going away
party was much more exclusive. 1t
was at the Little Troc Immediately
after the Academy dinner. 1t. James
Stewart, his. pal, brought Ginger
Rogers. Olivia De Havilland and
Mr.. and Mrs. Franchot Tone made
up the party.
The next morning Burgess, hav-
ing just completed street of
Chance" slipped quietly out of town.
Hollywood didn't know his destina-
ton until the news came from the
Army-a contrast between Burgess
departure and Jimmy Stewards.
They took newsreels of Jimmy's in
duction into the service.
It's No Longer News.
But so many Hollywood big shots
are going into the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps now 1t is no longer
headline news. Besides the hundreds
of technicians and others behind
the camera, more and more marquee
names are donning uniforms.
These include: James Stewart
who has won second lieutenant'S S
commission; Wayne Morris. ensign,
U. S. Navy; Robert Montgomery
lieutenant, U. S. Navy; Douglas
Fairbanks, lieutenant, U. S. Navy;
Stirling Hayden. U. S. Navy, convoy
duty: Jackie Coogan. U. S. Army,
buck private: Tony Martin, U. s.
Navy, seaman: David Nixen, Rich
ard Greene, Laurence Olivier. r. A
F.; Richard Barthelmess, lieutenant.
Naval Reserve
Producers: Daryl Zanuck, lieu
tenant commander, Signal Corps;
James Roosevelt, captain, Marine
Corps; Gene Markey. lieutenant
commander, United States Navy;
Merriam C. Cooper, captain, Army Air
Corps.
Directors: John Ford. command
ing officer, Photographic Presenta-
ton Unit, U. S. Navy; Carson Kanin
Office of Emergency Management in
Washington; Frank Capra, Photo
graphic Unit, Washington.
With Ford and Capra are num-
Der of Hollywood's ace cameramen
Nearly every player in Hollywood
has some member of his family in
uniform. Shirley Temples brother,
George, is with the United States
Marine Corps and was in the Pearl
Harbor bombardment. :. Gail Pat
rick's brother is the latest volunteer
in the Air Corps. E. The husbands
of Mary Astor and Maureen Q'Sul-
livan enlisted with the Canadian
service.
Gave Up Her Career.
Claudette Colbert's husband, DR.
Joel Pressman, is in the Navy Medi-
cal Corps. Brenda Marshell
whose honeymoon with Bill Holden
was interrupted so often the ira
gedy became joke, is about to give
him up to Uncle Sam for an in
definate period. He will be called
before the end of this month.
Ditto Louis Hayward. husband Of
Ida Lupino.
Bette Davis husband, Arthur
Farnsworth, is awaiting a call a.
instructor in aviation. >. Fred Bris.
son, Rosalind Russell's husband, get!
his citizenship papers so that he car
| enter the service soon. Eller
DreW's husband. Writer Sy Bartlett
| is stationed in Washington with the
Army Signal Corps. Ellen is one stal
who gave up her career to be with
her husbandl
| Hollywood has never confined its
activities to make-believe war. A
number of players, too old to serve
now, did their bit in World War No
/. Edward G. Robinson was in the
Navy. So were Pat O'Brien and
Humphrey Bogart. Lynne Over
man was an ensign on a submarine
chaser. Spencer Tracy was at
the Great Lakes Naval Training
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Cast in Air Elm

Jill Esmond, British cinema star,
has been added to the cast of Walter
Wanger's Eagle Squadron" at Uni
versal. Robert Stack and Diana
Barrymore have the leads, and other
principals now include Jon Hall.
Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce. Evelyn
Ankers, Left Erickson, John Loder
and Richard Davies.
Evening star., 1942-03-15

HOLLYWOODS NEWEST DIRECTOR-Thomas z. Loring
yoang American educated middle Westerner pic
tued here OHh Actress Shea Ryan, fl1dos neoest motion
thinning the the result studio erperi
ren former instructor in draaicS at the University of
Nebraska Loring brought to Hollywood from Kansas
Ciu NTH the Resident Theatr for eight
years. year holt he kept salary permitted to
studying the motion picture technique from
nu aroles Wide World Photo
Evening star., 1942-03-15
The Wearin' of the Khaki
Top.Flight Film Workers Serve
In Country's Armed Forces
By Mayme Ober Peak.


Jeffrey Lynn
be drafted Both went in without fanfare
Macarthur.
JEFF whose current address card him. Oklahoma
Ann Sheridan presented him with of the
Evening star., 1942-03-15

Down Mexico Way"
and
Johnny Eager"
Outlaws OF Cherokee
Trail" and
Mob Town"
Stick to Your Guns"
and Week End for
Three"
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Ferris

Continued From Page ELY
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
SATURDAY
o be announced.

North Of the Klon-
dixie" and
The Masked Rider. I"
Evening star., 1942-03-15

North Of the Klon-
dixie" and
The Masked Rider"
To be announced.
Down Mexico Way"
and
Johnny Eager"
Outlaws OF Cherokee
Trail" and
Mob Town"
Stick to Your Guns"
and Week End for
Three"
Walter Pidgeon in
How Green Was
My Valley"
Joan Carroll. Edmond
O'Brien. "Obliging
Young Lady"
You're in the Army
Now" and Ride,
Tenderfoot, Ride"
Arthur Lake, Penny
Singleton. Blonde
Goes to COLLEGE"
Riders Of the Tim
berline" and Land
of the Open Range"
Road Agent
"Glsmour Boy ="
Shirley Temple and
Herbert MARSHALL in
"Ks thleen."
Bob Hope and Paul
ette Goddard. Moth
ing But the Truth" :"
Shirley Temple and
Herbert Marshall in
Kathleen"
West of Cimarron"
and
"Busle Sounds"
Shooting High" and
Go West, Young
Lady"
Robert Taylor and
Lana Turner in
Johnny Eager. "
Jackie Cooper and
Susanna Foster in
Glamour Boy"
Freddy Bartholomew
in
Cadets on Parade"
Riders of the Purple
SAGE" "Ellery Queen
and the Murder Ring"
outlaws OF the Des-
ert" and The Perfect
Snob.'
william Boyd in
Secret Of the
Wastelands.
Fibber MCGEE and
Molly in Look
who's Laughing
Jackie Cooper
in
"Glamour Boy"
Week End in
Havana" and
Swamp Water
Gary Cooper and
Barbara Stanwyck
in Ball of Fire"
Today I Hang" and
Three Girls About
Town
Frank Morgan, Ksth-
ryn Grayson, Van
ishing VirEinian.
Moon over Her
Shoulder" and Man
From Montana.
Charles Coburn and
Anne Shirley in
Unexpected Uncle"
Cadets on Parade"
and Two Latins
From Manhattan"
Missouri OUTLAY W"
and "Tillie the
Toiler."
charles Boyer
in
"Mayerling."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-27

Again, she fortifies her larder
with an abundance Of the quick
cooking soup mixes and soup
tablets, particularly those flaw
ored with chicken and including
noodles, etc. A packet added TO
boiling water serves two or four,
and so on, according 20 the num-
Der of persons 70 be fed.
Under this tight food budget
plan, nothing is pre-cooked, and
hence nothing is wasted!'A meal
in ten minutes is this hostess
motto.
Irregular hours are the monkey
wrench which so often wrecks
the household routine and slows
up domestic activities such as
cleaning, etc. The familiar idea
of tray-meals can prove a veri-
table boon in households where
tray-meals may have usually
been confined strictly to the sick
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-27

or expensive club with the help
of only one humble home assist
ant.
Some day it is 20 be hoped
that all plate sizes will be stand
ardized; that individual butter
plates will be abolished; that the
service plate and other charming
but fast outmoded habits of the
table service will be dispensed
with along with the already dis
appearing fish plate, oyster serv-
ice, and the chocolate pot with.
out which no parlor Of the nine
ties was complete.
Too long have we been under
the sway of an inherited tradi-
tional etiquette formulated when
domestic servants were available
and inexpensive. If we haven't
the servants, why kill ourselves
following the etiquette?
If we are TO regard the Christ
mas and New Years holidays"
as days of joy joy and days of cheer,
and days Of recreation, then let
them be so for the homemaker
too, as we'll as for her family
and her guests. Let there be
fun. and asst and frolic for
every one, and best of all, restful
holidays for Mother, too.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-27

week. For instance, those tray
meals can be safely entrusted 10
the paper plate and the paper
cup which has collapsible ham
die. Eat it up. drink it down
-scrape the plates into the waste
can, and, hurrah, no dishes to
wash!
Or, for the young folks, for
the childen who rush in for
snacks, or plates Of this or that
Use paper and save all extra
dishes. This is particularly prac-
teal in the substitution Of paper
cups and paper drinking tum-
blers for the more fragile glass
of the pantry: pass the paper
cups TO the children, for their
cocoa snack, and save yourself
the burden of washing glasses or
china.
Holiday cakes, too. and candles
and cookies, etc, can be offered
on paper plates covered with
silver or gold lace paper dolly,
or a white lace dolly, always so
attractive as a background for
holiday goodies. Lay food and
paper plate away even in a tight
space, with no fear Of breakage!
Paper saves work, waste and
worry-make this a paper holi-
day in every way you can.
Moreover, cut down on the
number Of dishes and implements
used on the family dining table,
no matter what the etiquette
books demand In the writer's
opinion, it is nothing less than
silly TO attempt to follow an
elaborate table ritual when one
is ones own maid, or to try to
duplicate the service of a smart