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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
PHYSICIAN AT FUNERAL

With the relatives in the front
pews was DR.. Edward X. Carml-
chael Mrs Dodge's physician, who
was called TO attend her husband
during his last hours.
The body, in a bronze casket,
was surrounded by so floral pieces.
In the immediate funeral cor
tege were 10 cars, 7 of which car
ried the relatives and pallbearers
who were Howard +. LANCE. AL
bert L. Slower. Harry Woolley,
John Curtis. James n. lesson,
Daniel j. Donovan. Samuel n.
Jones and r. Patrick Russell.
Before the service curiosity
seekers came and went al the
chapel. None was kept out. The
chapel during the service con-
tanned only about $50 persons.
Outside an orderly crowd of be-
tween 500 and 1000 watched Po-
lice 1t. Thomas L. Gilby of Can
field Station with a 20-man detail
was in charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
SCOUT SECOND FRONT

Military leaders on This side do
not agree that the second front
must be opened now or never.
Many say that 20 start second
front on The heavily protected
European coast now would be
merely desperate gamble and
the Germans could meet IL with
80 divisions. 10000 men. without
divertinC troops from Russia.
Allied experts say that if Russia
can hold out for six TO eight
months United States forces in
Britain will have reached
strength which viii permit British
and American forces TO attack and
pulvcrize German dcfenScS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

Lowest price on our records for
chubby Of tnis fine quality!
Choice of Red and Grey Alpine
Lamb and Msnehurian Wolf in
Black. Deep and soft d. beau
fully lined. Sizes IL, Ia. l6, Is
to 20!
Evening star., 1942-06-14

that Stanley Timberlake is another
one of those wicked females in
which she specializes 1t is def
initely of piece with those which
have made her twice before an
academy award winner. She is the
completely de-humanized female of
The Letter" The Little Foxes"
Dark Victory" and "Of Human
Bondage" The orbit Of her kindly
thinking is herself. She has no
scruples about stealing her sisters
husband. driving him to suicide.
wrecking the career of the liberal
young lawyer who loved her blindly,
undertaking the murder of her de-
voted uncle by exciting him fur
ther during a heart attack, and
eventually by killing a child and
trying to pin the guilt upon an in
nocent colored servant. 1t is a field
day for Miss Davis, but it has the
defect that through repetition, the
character is always more or less
Miss Davis under the alias of Stanley
Timberlake.
In Tracy's case. it is Pilon you
are seeing, a completely engrossing
fellow whom you remember only
later was played by Spencer Tracy.
1t is quite difference and one
distinctly in Tracy's favor when it
comes time to vote.
Evening star., 1942-06-14
He Never Intended to Be a Movie Star
Joel McCrea Grabbed Film Roes So He Could Earn Money
To Buy Ranch and Now He Can't Let Go

last three years, with two more to
90. He also has expanded that orig
inal 500 acres to 2,400.
But since 1928, when Joel was
graduated from Pomona. he has
played in exactly three Westerns:
wells Fargo" Union Pacific and
"The Great Mans Lady" At the
moment he is starring as DR.. Will
liam Morton, the Boston dentist who
discovered anesthesia. in Preston
Sturges Great Without Glory"
Among his other hits which have
had absolutely nothing to do with
ranches and riding are Bird OF
Paradise" THE Richest Girl in the
World" Private Worlds" Bar
barry Coast" These Three" Come
and Get IT." "Internes Can't Take
Money" Dead End" Primrose
Path" Foreign Correspondent"
"Sullivan's Travels" and The Palm
Beach Story"
Cattle Were Profitable.
His wife, Frances Dee, lives out
on the ranch, too. She free-lances
in films, now appearing in about
two a year. When both are work.
ing at the same time they live in a
small house in Santa Monica. 9th
erwise, they commute, largely be-
cause their boys, Joel, jr., Z, and
David, So, don't like to live any
where else except the ranch. The
boys attend a country school of 35
pupils, 20 of whom are Mexicals.
They have no idle time before or
after school. McCrea believes in
bringing up his boys to know the
value of work with the hands. They
toll in the fields at odd jobs and
have a housework schedule.
On his 2,400 acres McCrea raises
cattle, alfalfa. wheat, barley and
citrus fruits. His cattle netted him
profit of $4,000 last year, which he
promptly reinvested in Hereford
bulls from Texas
The United States Government
has him listed not as an actor but
as a food producer" He has one
hired hand. Otherwise he does the
work himself, arranging. his film
schedule so that he will be available
at the ranch for spring plowing and
planting. spring calving, fall round
up and branding, etc.
He has Just turned down four
scripts because he didn't have the
time for them. He isn't even inter-
ested in the play offers which con-
stantly come to him. They would
take him away from the ranch.
Joels the original guy who got
what he wanted and then couldn't
let go of the means by which he
got it.
(Released by the North American News.
paper Alliance 1nc.)
Evening star., 1942-06-14
After TranSOcean
Career, Hit Tune
Is Still a Success
Wide World.
HOLLYWOOD.

Wlu6 WUllQ.
HOLLYWOOD.
You've probably sung "Ta-ra-ra-
boom! -de-ay,' or at least hummed
the punch line, but do you know
where it came from?
It's history cropped up when they
decided to have Mary Martin sing
it in the picture she's now making,
Happy Go Lucky"
1t seems that Henry j. Savers. a
theatrical press agent. back in the
'80S, heard the somewhat lurid
original version in a colored cabaret
in st. Louis, and wrote a cleanedup
version for a minstrel comedy called
Tuxedo"
1t caused no great stir, but was
played at Tony Pastors famous New
York restaurant, where a visiting
British impresario heard it and
bought the rights for English
production.
Lottie Collins introduced it in a
London music hall in 1891, it be-
came a smash hit and eventually got
back to the United States.
Mary sang it on the radio two
years ago and says she got more
fan letters about it than on any
other number, not excluding my
Heart Belongs to Daddy"
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Bolger Again a Hit in Stage Hit
Actor the Movies Never Understood Scores Again
AS Comic and Dancer in BY Jupiter in Gotham

the mammoth musicals until the
war is over. And with one minor
exception the show is worth the
price of admission. Benay Venuta,
as Hippolyta. Queen of the ANA
IONS, is a good teammate for Bolger.
She puts over her songs-especially
Everything I've Got''-With a gusto
that makes a perfect foil for the
intimidated Bolger of her choice.
Veteran Actress Scores.
Veteran Bertha Belmore, who
plays Pompsoia, the Amazon mother
of poor little Sapiens, was seen in
the same role in the nom musical
version some 10 years ago. That
was when Katherine Hepburn first
yelled for attention and acclaim
with her performances as Antiope,
now played with less happy results
by Constance Moore, of whom there
will be more to say in a moment.
But first a paragraph in praise
of Miss Belmore The program does
not state Miss Belmore's age. but
you get a good idea of her birth
date with the information that she
Evening star., 1942-06-14
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


Joel McCrea, the boy who got lis
first important break in pictures
because a producer liked the natty
trench coat he wore. confesses now
that his movie career is all mis-
take.
He never intended to be a film
star. His best friends told him he
never could be a film star. All he
wanted was enough money to buy a
ranch.
Well, he got the ranch, 2.400 acres
Of it, at nearby Moon Park, plus
part interest in another herd of
blooded cattle on still larger ranch
in Northern California. And he
couldn't get out of pictures now if
he wanted to.
At the age Of 8, Joel, born in
South Pasadena and raised in
Hollywood. was attending grammar
school and earned spending money
with paper route. He delivered
papers to such celebrities of the day
as Cecil B. De Mile, Pauline Fred
erick, Sessue Hayakawa, Wanda
Hawley, Jane and Eve Novak, Wal
lace Reid, Milton Sills, Ward Crane
and Norman Kerry. Remember?
Ruth Encouraged Him.
Bill Hart was Joels idol. And for
that reason Joel learned to ride a
horse At the age of II, he was 5
feet 1917 inches tall and weighed
165 pounds. At 16, he was feet 2
inches tall-hiS present height-and
weighed 185. At 18 he weighed much
more than his present 100. And
during all that time he was picking
up occasional days work in horse
operas, for the magnificent sum of
81 per diem. Mostly, he was dou-
bling for Ruth Roland S leading men,
who were brought out from New
York. Ruth did her own serial
stunts, but her male leads didn't
know which end of horse to face.
Ruth, says Joel, was the only star
who ever encouraged him to seek a
film career. To the others he was
just that big, good-looking kid who
used to deliver papers.
His father finally persuaded him
to finish college course at Pomona
College and he returned to pictures
after graduation-but only with the
avowed intention of earning just
enough money to stake him to that
ranch he always wanted. He fig
ured that with any luck, and par
ticularly if he got chance to play
Western leads, he could do it in
| five years.
Nobody took him seriously. Since
he had grown up in Hollywood and
knew countless players and di-
rectors, he could always be sure o1
extra work, but not much more.
Now Conrad Laughs.
you're not the type, kid" hi
best friends assured him. Take oul
advice and get into something else
You're the Scotch type-reservee
and Unconditional, Your personalit!
just doesn't get across. You dom
have an expressive face. Believe us
we know what's best for you"
Conrad Nagel, who is still one o.
McCrea's best friends, used almos
exactly those words, and still laugh!
when they are recalled to him.
Through De Mile, Joel landed 8
stock contract at MGM. getting s6s
Evening star., 1942-06-14
The Patient Sufferer Returns to Supper
Ann Harding, Who Has Faced the Trbuatons of Life
AS Ann Harding Heroine Should, Is Back in Films
By GIadwin Hill,
Wide World.
HOLLYWOOD.

The word that Ann Harding was
back in the movies was something
of a nostalgia jolt.
Cinematically speaking, Miss
Harding was an era in herself; 1t
started when she appeared like a
golden vision in picture called
Holiday" in 1890, and ended when
she Withdrew to private life in 1887.
She was a unique mivie epitome
of sweetness and strength. With
her perfectly moulded features, her
corn silky hair brushed severely
back in madonna style, her low
pitched, poised voice, she typif1ed
that vague figure of old-school
fiction, the "gentlewoman."
She played in some 20 pictures,
including The Animal Kingdom"
Double Harness" when Ladies
Meet" and Gallant Lady" But,
with minor variations, it was always
the same part: the fine. noble girl
suffering in the midst OF some
tortuous domestic complication.
To the public and to Hollywood
observers, her off-screen life was
as unusual as her screen identity,
because it apparently was nearly
identical.
In private life she was, again,
the essence of spirited gentility,
coping, with consummate dignity,
with a succession of personal COM
plications.
Prominence on Broadway.
She was the daughter Of veteran
Army officer, Brig. Gen. George
Galley, noted for his two-flsted
leadership OF the Rainbow Division.
After a childhood amid rigorous
conventions of Army post life and
select finishing schools, Ann broke
with her father to 60 to New
York and, after brief spell as a
stenographer. to become an actress
with the Bohemian Provincetown
players in Greenwich Village.
From there she moved to stock
company in Detroit, married
fellow-acto named Harry Bannis-
ter, and won prominence in
sequence of boom-era Broadway
productions like "Tarnish" and "The
Trial of Mary Dugen."
In 1929 she and Bannister came
to the coast for road-cCmpany
engagement. Both got movie con-
tracts and settled down in Holly
wood, a process which Ann handled
with characteristic individuality.
She found site on mountain
top overlooking the San Fernando
Valley which no one ever had the
fortitude to build on, had the ma
terial hauled up the mountainside
and supervised the construction Of
a home in detail, even driving some
of the nails.
At her elegant parties she played
four handed piano arrangements OF
symphonies with any one good
enough to accompany her. but she
was equally at home sitting on the
living room floor talking with re-
Evening star., 1942-06-14

it should have been "Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Bannister."
Los Angeles city editors were duly
bewildered one day in 1882 when
they received envelopes containing
individual statements by Miss
Harding and Bannister that they
were separating.
Because of Miss Harding's movie
renown, they said, Bannister was
gradually losing his identity" as
an actor, so they had decided to
part before this unfortunate sit
uation has a chance to destroy tho
respect and loye we have for each
other"
Like the perfect marriage" they
went through a perfect divorce" :"
Miss Harding saw Bannister oil to
Reno with q kiss, went to join him
when his residence period was up,
had dinner with him the night
(see HARDING, Page ED
Evening star., 1942-06-14

porters, riding horse or plotting
an airplane.
mo Less Than Perfection"
Her initial reputation for over
austerity was dispelled by incidents
like the time when, after RKO
officials complained about her not
eating at the studio commissary,
she advised them with mock seri-
BUSINESS that her insurance COM
pany wouldn't permit it.
Like every Hollywood matri-
monial venture that lasts more than
48 hours her union with Bannister
came to be known as the perfect
marriage" But with Ann Harding
nothing less than perfection seemed
fitting.
She took pains to preserve this
impression. protesting, when their
social doings were reported as Ann
Harding and her husband" that
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Today's Film Schedule

Married Angel" by jeanette Macdonald and
Eddy q 43O tbs and 10 Stage shows $40 e:25
9:10 pm.
COLUMBIA-Ship and by Red Shelton and
Eleanor Powell 2 4O5 6O Sl5 and 1920 pm
novel with Bette Davis 240
sos 725 and Gas Stage shows: 2:05. 425 GAS and
pm.
KEITHs-"The original with commentary
by Chaplin: 2 4, 6, 8:O5 and 1905 pm
LTTLE-A Farewell Arms after Hemingway with Helen Hayes
and Gary $40
METROPOLITAN-R the Wild Wind" Cecil B. Mile
2:2O, 4:45, tbs and $40 pm.
Stenbeck with Frank Morgan,
Spencer Tracy al: q, ABS, and GAS pm
PIX-"So Night with Margaret SULLIVAN Fredr
2, 4:l0, $50, 7:50 and 10
Evening star., 1942-06-14

a week. But in the six months he
was there he never had a chance to
wear his Western outfit. Because
he owned a dress suit, he was
always used in ballroom atmosphere,
or something similar. At the end
of six months he was released, hav-
ing done nothing worth recounting.
What did we tell you, Joel?"
asked his pals.
But he still wanted the price of
that ranch.
He was signed for stock by RKO
Studio, and again this deal threat
ened to be repetition of his MGM
experience. Then came the episode
of the fancy trench coat.
Joel had just treated himself to
this colorful bit Of apparel and was
walking proudly down the lot when
he was halted by producer named
William Sistrom. Sistrom wasn't
interested in McCrea. He liked that
coat. His eyes fairly sparkled as
he asked McCrea where he made
the purchase. They fell into con-
versation about the price and ma
terial. McCrea took off the coat
and let Sistrom try it on. Well,
that trench coat broke the ice
plenty.
Il Could Use You"
Il keep seeing you around here"
said Sistrom as they walked toward
his office together. What do you
do?"
I'm supposed to be an actor" said
Joel.
rs that right" exclaimed Sistrom
in great surprise. Say, I can use
a big kid like you for a fine spot in
The Silver Horde'-some real fight
stuff, too"
So, fancy trench coat and all, joe
went on an Alaskan location for his
first featured part.
His second break came when Di-
rector Henry King, whom Joel sus-
pected of being an insurance agent
ano nearly ran out of his dressing
room, invited him to play the juve-
nile lead with Will Rogers in Light
nin'." Joel jumped at the chance
Besides, Rogers owned ranch.
At the end of the appointed five
years, Joel had the price of SOC
acres in the section known as Hid
den Valley. He snapped it up. He
might have retired there had not
Samuel Goldwyn signed him to an
other flve-year contract. But Gold
wyn loaned Joel out more than he
used him, so when that ticket still
had a year to run McCrea obtained
his release. He bought the adjoin-
ing 500 acres and signed with Para
mount, where he has been for the
Evening star., 1942-06-14

players III lIlC SlliCuid "iooS SA'SS'
of most of their colleagues. And
who are not above the resort to
sheer trickery when they are in
capable of mastering true respect
for the parts assigned to them.
Tracy's Pilon in the Steinbeck
story is the much more likely
Academy Award winner Of the two.
1t represents all the difficulties OF
the completely simple character,
the high drama of the inordinately
ordinary. In comparison. Miss Davis
impersonation of Stanley Timber
lakes wanton, murderous Self1shness
is a strictly routine assignment, re-
gardless of its eXcellences.
It's a Work of Love.
Tracy's Piion is work OF love as
we'll as a work of art. He is clearly
the most challenging material that
has come Tracy's way since Manuel
in Captains Courageous" the SIM
pie Portuguese fisherman who was
adjudged the most fascinating char
acter in the 500 movies made during
1887.
Pilon. of course, is no Manuel. He
is the arch rogue, that ignorant wise
man who wins and holds the love
of every one no matter how ruth
lessly he exploits it to his own sell
fish ends. There is no wickedness
in Pilon. He philanders, he cheats,
lies, fights and steals, but as he con-
vinces his victims OF the lofty
Christianity of his motives so he
convinces himself And those movie
goers wise enough to see "Tortilla
Flat"
The almost Biblical rhythm Of
the speech which Pilon uses in
committing his depredations against
his fellow man is part of the high
comedy of the character and Tracy
relishes it as no dialogue that has
come his way in his whole movie
career.
The extreme skill of Tracy's act
ing as Pilon is the more marked for
the quality of the competition which
he is given in the picture. The cast
which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as
sembled for the Steinbeck story is
virtually an all-star affair. Its
members, which include John Gar
field, Frank Morgan, Akin Tamil
rolf and Hedy Lamar, reflect the
respect in which Steinbeck's paisa-
nos were held by the producing
studio. And, to man, they relished
their assignments, Garfield as
Danny, Morgan as the Pirate,
Tamiroff as the slow-witted Pablo
and Miss Lamar as the much
expanded character of Sweets
Rameriz Each of them represented
the acting possibilities of a charac-
ter which Steinbeck wrote with love
and eloquence and deep under
standing.
But it is Pilon that one remem-
bers, the scoundrel who spent his
entire time fattening his friends
for the kill, killing their hopes with
an unctious self forgiveness that is
masterpiece of cunning.
Accordingly IL is Tracy as fllOil
that most likely will be remembered
when it is time to award the prize
for the best masculine acting per-
formance in 1912.
Miss Davis Handicapped.
The cumulative effect represented
by that role plus his portrait Of the
sports writer in Woman of the
Year" should be virtually ire
sistible unless some one pulls a
miracle out of the last six months Of
the year.
The fact that hers is such q fine
Interpretation Of the major role In
the years prize novel should help
Miss Davis overcome the handicap
Evening star., 1942-06-14

to get yourself born in, say, Bear
Trap. Me, or Tallcorn, Iowa, and
then let the studios find you. That
gives the talent scouts something 10
do and permits them to return 70
HOLLYWOOD with their quarry ex-
claimed triumphantly, Look what
! found!"
Miss OBrien again showed her
individuality by obtaining her first
acting assignment by being 700
scared to act.
You remember her? Shes the
girl of Meet the People" who USED
to walk onto the stage stiff1y erect,
her face set in frozen lines, and give
off a torch song with all the emotion
of particularly imperturbaole
Egyptian mummy. Well, that was no
gag; she was just too scared to DO
anything else.
And then Virginia has never
drunk liquor or smoked, and she
doesn't care about night clubs. II
you need any more convincing that
she's little apart from the general
run of actresses, she thinks she's too
thin.
She Studied Law.
When Virginia became old enough
a few years ago to wonder what
she d do with her life, she decided
to become a lawyer. In this she
was aided and abetted by her father,
Thomas F. O'Brien. Los Angeles
county deputy district attorney who
has been in public life for some 40
years.
So this tall, slim. black-haired
prl studied business and commercial
law at North Hollywood High
School, where she was graduated in
1887. But somewhere along the line
her legal aspirations were side
tracked. and after leaving school
she took up singing.
IT always loved to sing. but I
never studied it until I was about
49," she says.
Well. then along came Meet the
People" in which a lot of Holly
wood youngsters pooled their money
which l., was scarce-and their
talent-which was plentiful-and
set out to produce show.
so I auditioned for a part" she
recalls. Il didn't expect to get it;
in fact, I didn't greatly care. and I
was really surprised when they
told me I'd do
The attack Of stage freight which
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Mccarthy Film

Producer Director Allan Dwan has
added Sterling Holloway and Ariel
Heath to the cast of RKO-Radio's
Here We Go Again." Fibber MCGEE
and Molly andt Edgar Bergen and
Charlie Mccarthy starrer.
Long noted for his highly wistful
voice, Holloway will play a Western
Union messenger boy caught in the
mad mixup which comprises the
basis of the comedy.
Ariel Heath, taffy-haired new
conner recently placed under con-
tract by RKO-Radio, will appear as
one of Charlie McCarthy's chief rea-
sons for joining the Girl Scout
movement.
Evening star., 1942-06-14
By SheiIah Graham.
NEW YORK.

Ray Bolger is back where he pc
Ioncs-behind the footlights on the
musical comedy stage. The star OF
'Bv Jupiter" which arrived with
a baeful of bawdy jokes at the Shu-
bert Theater last week, has been
wasting his talents in an unap-
preciative Hollywood for too many
wears. with only one good him role
that I can remember-as the scare
crow in THE Wizard OF o."
AS the sissy Sapiens, IN tne
Rodgers and Hart Interpretation OF
what wes once known as The War
rior's Husband" Bolger gives the
performance of his life, and conveys
more humorous girlishness with a
naughty smile than an army OF
females fed on sugar. And MS
seemingly effortless dancing is some
thing this reviewer could watch until
the boy dropped.
BY Jupiter" with rumored cost
OF sloo, 900. is probably the last OF
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Coming Attractions

CAPITOL-Maise Sothern after Red Shelton;
starting Thursday New lne-up for the stage
Gal SAL" Rita Hayworth returning for
week starting Thursday.
EARLEhe Wife Takes Flyer with Joan Bennett and
Franchot Tone, opening Friday. A stage show.
KEITHS-My Favorte Spy" with Kay Kyser and band.
IITT1E-The Who Seeks Truth film starring
Raimu
METROPOLITAN-Juke Girl" with Ann Sheridan and Richard
Whorf, opening Friday for second downtown week.
PALACE-"Ten Gentlemen Point with
Confidence French film with Daniee Dareux OPEN
ing Wednesday
Evening star., 1942-06-14
It's Tracy's Year Again
Pilon in 'Tortilla Flat Is Likely
Winner of 1912 Acting Award
Bv Jaw CarmOdy.

1t possible irresponsible character even say probable
would of
"Torla Bette Davis in I'm This Our Life Both
in the cinema than acting
Evening star., 1942-06-14

was to influence her career came
during rehearsal. Her nerves tied
up her muscles and she couldn't
manage bit of expression.
Il really tried to emote," she says.
IT just couldn't: it was awful, and
(see O'BRIEN, Page E-3)
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Rules Are for Breaking
And by Doing That, Virginia O'Brien
Got Started on Film Career
By James s. Lindsey,
By James s. Lindsey,
Wide World

bringing lot Of
broke all the
all
With hoth dainty feet the remains around.
To obeginw she right here in Hollywood
the approach to movie is