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Evening star., 1942-03-01
NEW YORK.

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Producers on Broadway enjoy
losing money. There is no other
explanation for the junk masquer-
aiding as plays presented with dreary
regularity these past weeks.
Mind you, good plays are being
written, but producers apparently
prefer to stage trash. I have read
two plays recently, both by the
same author, Edwin Justus Mayer.
The first. Sunrise in My Pocket, :"
was written several years ago,
kicked from pillar to producer post
and finally sold to the movies for
$4,000 and forgotten.
Six months ago. Mayer finished
THE Death of Don Juan" In the
intervening period, the play has
been read by the Lunts and the
Fredric Marchs and is now in the
office of Gilbert Miller. Yes, it's
a good play they all say. And then
give reasons why it Is unsuitable for
production. The role of Don Juan
is too difficult, the play is too ex-
p6nS1Ve eCC., ETC.
All I know is that both plays are
well constructed, brilliantly written,
and what a welcome relief either,
or both, would be from the taste
less diet served to critics and public
by timid, unimaginative producers.
Only a Play, At Least.
Let us review the play week on
Broadway. We had better look
quickly at "Plan NJ" by Hollywood
writer James Edward Grant, be-
cause it may have vanished from the
Belasco Theater, before you read
this.
The chief thing to be said about
''Plan NJ" is that I'm glad it was
only a play, albeit a silly play. We've
had some stupid generals in this
war, Heaven knows But if the
plays Gen. Sir Hugh winston really
had been in charge of the defense
Of England at any time since Sep
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Todoy's- Film Schedules

CAPITOLA Yank the Road" him:
435 735 and 1920 Stage shows: $685. $40 and $40
Remember the Day. Miss Colbert schoomarm and
lover: Q, $3.50, $50, 7:50 and $50 pm
EARECaptans OF the Clouds Jimmy Cagney and the A. F.
@ 425 705 and GAS Stage shows 1885, 635 and 9:15
the antic the
1885, 1885, 54o 745 s45 March of Time sos, Sos
7:10 and 9:15 pm.
LITTLECtzen Kane Weles in the best original
play: 2, 4:35. ITO and 915 pm
METROPOLITANA Through the Night Kaaren
Verne from the Geapo $780, 4:50, ITO and $40 pm.
PALACEWoman Of the Year Katharine Hepburn
Tracy in conists DUEL continuous afternoon evening
PIX4000o Horsemen AnSacs in action: g. and 10
TRANSLUX-News and shorts; continuous O'Clock.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

It's worst enennies-whoever they may he-hardly
find just ground for complaint against the Motion
Picture Academy for its l94 awards made last Thurs
day night Merit in entertainment still matter of
opinion and the various opinions Of the Academy
doubtedly are valid as any others.
There is not much room for quibbing for instance
over the choice of How Green Was My Valley" as the
outstanding picture of the year. Many critics including
this one, preferred Citizen Kane, being shown
locally at the Little. They chose It, however, not
the ground that it was better story better told
even an equally significant inspiring tale, but largely
upon the innovations represented comparison of
the glowing words they wrote behalf of each would
show only minute, if not imperceptible difference
in degree Of enthusiasm.
Moreover in selecting Citizen Kane" the best
original screen play of the year, the Academy rather
disarmed criticism If not, it put itself in position
to maintain that 1t meant almost the thing
those felt it to be the best picture Of the year
An incidentally arresting angle of the Acadeys desg
nation the picture original play that
1t sort of answers those who have held it to be a
biographical sketch taken straight from life 1t will be
remembered that there talk to that effect prior to
the pictures and correlatve chatter of legal
action.
WeIIes' Admirers Could Make
A Point Of Prejudice.
Admirers of Orson welles, if they want to be that
fierce about it, undoubtedly can work up feeling
that Weles personality might have had something to
after being nominated for prizes in nine categories
His long delay in producing his first picture gave him
period in which to be not always ngratiating to his
Hollywood neghbors Also his determination to pro-
duce different picture implied criticism OF existing
methods which gave of his fellow members in the
Academy the idea that he was an 'upstart"
In view of the fact that Citizen Kane" was the
one picture nominated in nine categores, personal
prejudice might be difficult point to sustain.
The Academys choice of Gary Cooper and Joan
Fontaine as the outstanding players Of the year will
prove universally popular.
Actors who profess to be the only persons qualified
to Judge acting always have insisted that Gary Cooper
was an outstanding member of the profession That
he could not win prize, even the prize they award
every year, was always attributed to a malign fate
which kept him from parts worthy of his talents Not
even his role in Mr.. Deeds Goes to Town picture
which was chosen best of its year. was deemed adequate
to earn Cooper the honor for which he always has
been a candidate.
The part of Sergt Alvin c. York was of the stature
Cooper needed to capture his first Oscar and he was
the actor sufficient stature to make 1t easily the out
standing portrayal of the year.
Miss Fontaine Easy Choice
As Outstanding Actress.
In by~passng Bette Davis, who is always safe
selection as the outstanding actress Of the to get
Evening star., 1942-03-01

(See GRAHAM, Page E-2J
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Broadway Sees Another Dreary Week
Plan M Is Adudged Silly Bit of Business and Neither
Of the Other Two New Plays Seems Any Better

house little Evelyn Heath, q cute
little bundle of poison suffering
with heart trouble and q bit
fetched" i'm the head, only this
is not apparent to her nice pro-
tectors until she has driven the
entire household to the verge Of
insanity.
Mary Anderson Zone of the testees
for Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With
the Wind'0 plays the vicious little
mink with the right amount Of
hysteria and badness. I can see
where Bette Davis will long to dup
hcate the role on the screen. It's
right up her alley.
Under This Roof" takes us back
to New England in 1846. Cornelia
Warren barbara ONeiD is in love
with an abolitioniSt, but thinking
the cause has no future she marries
a man with money and less radical
ism. But later in the Civil War
her cowardice catches up with her
when her son, John, joins the
Northern Army. It was all rather
dull.
Hepburn Coming Here.
Notes and news of the theater-
Beatrice Lille Is wanted for the
new Cole Porter show, POT Pourri."
The last time heard of the COM
edienne, which was six months ago.
she was waiting IN Lisbon for some
kind official to give her place on
the Clipper for New York. I don't
know why Miss Lille should have so
much difficulty getting plane prior
ity. Broadway will be brighter
place when she arrives.
Without Love-" co-starring Kath-
(See GRAHAM, Page ED
Evening star., 1942-03-01
HOLLYWOOD.

1t was 4 pm. and a 81, 600, 900 movie
was pointing up to It's most preten-
tious sequence. James Cagney stood
ready to begin his song and dance
number in Yankee Doodle Dandy,
based on the life story of George M.
Cohan, greatest of all song and
dance men.
Two hundred gaily clad singers
and dancers were grouped in the
background. All day long Director
Michael Curtiz had been setting the
stage for this scene. He was weary
and hoarse from shouting orders.
Now the camera was poised, the
actors ready and Curtiz was taking
one last squint through the lens.
At this crucial moment school
teacher walked calmly between the
blazing incandescent lights, stepped
over coils of cable, placed herself
directly in front of the camera and
raised warning forefinger.
When teacher raised her finger,
Cagney stopped. Walter Huston,
Jeanne Cagney and Rosemary De
Camp did likewise. The dancers,
singers and chorus girls broke for
nation. Michael Curtiz, looking
hot, tired and beaten, shrugged and
sat down. A huge and expensive
production halted in midafternoon.
Joan" said teacher.
She's Done 1t Before.
Seventeen-year-old Joan Leslie,
playing grownup in scanties, with
star billing alongside Cagney, de-
tached herself from the chorus and
trotted off to school. It was 4
O'Clock. Pictures could wait-but
not school.
Miss Lois Horn, head pedagogue
at the Warner Bros Studio, has
stopped production like that before
and will again. She represents not
only learning but the law. Spe-
cif1cally, the Welfare Division of the
California State Board of Educa-
tion. She is one of 80 teachers as
signed to various studios to see that
child actors and actresses not only
learn their three RS, but work no
more than the maximum hours pre-
scribed by law.
Movie lot teachers are paid by
the studios-and they are the best
studio money can buy. Their word
is never questioned. Some directors
have discovered to their great sor-
row that it never pays to cross
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Clothes Hurt Man
When They Are
A Nazi Uniform
By Wide World News.

HOLLYWOOD.
The Nazi movement is an in
creasingly painful subject with Allyn
Joslyn. His newest pain is in his
posterior.
Joslyn plays German major in
Highly Irregular" During one
sequence, trying to act like a gen.
tleman, he drops to his knees to
retrieve Joan BENEFITS scattered
pearls. Franchot Tone, unable to
resist, plants a kick where he thinks
It will do the most good.
The next time you boot me-"
Joslyn grimaces, will you please
try to think of my feelings instead
Of this uniform?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17

It might as well be admitted
at the start and have it over. This
is to be biased testimony, shot
through with unashamed prejudice.
Witold Malcuzynski, the Polish
pianist, who opened the Cooper
ative Concert Associations season
at the High school auditorium,
played such a concert as his mas
ter, Paderewski, might have equal
led in his youth but certainly, as
far as this commentator obser-
vations go, never bettered it be-
tween 1898, when we frs theard
him, and his final tour.
This is not snap judgment,
reached while Malcuzynski was
playing. Some hours had passed
after his final encore when this
was indited. The spell was over,
the magic past. Reflection had
arrived. Memory returned, mem
cries of PadereWski in Chicago
in New York, in San Francisco, in
Kansas City. And memory revived
thrills long dormant. But, after
ali our considered judgment is
that the young Pole of today need
never kneel before the stature of
the great Pole of yesterday, save
in gratefulness for tn e lessons
learned under the elders tutelage.
1t has been "a cherished belief
of this reporter that Paderewski' S
greatest attribute was his ability
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
u. S. FLIERS HIT
AXIS in EUROPE
Continued From Page One)

One pilot of a four-motored Hal
lax said he saw fire start at
one end of line of warehouses
on a strip of land jutting into
the inner harbor and spread along
the whole line.''
Raj fighters also made small
scale daylight raids on the conti-
nent, shooting up. and bombing
trucks and locomotive near LIE
Trepert and factory near Brachy,
sou'nw est of Dieppe in France,
ard targes on the Bruges-O -Ostend
canal in Belgium. =
Ore of the Americans flew so
low over a factory that his plane
hit d tree, but he managed to re-
turn to base.
The Nazis scattered under the
rain of machine-gun and cannon
fire turned on them by the Ameri-
cans, led by First Lieut.. Eugene
M. Potter of Chicago. U. S. air
Headquarters announced that cas-
ualties were inflicted among the
Germans and war stores were de-
sir ,yed.
The Air Ministry reported that
Raj fighters and fighter-bombers
also made number of attacks
during the day on railways and
other targets along the occupied
French and Belgian coasts, while
Mosquito planes of t h e bomber
command attacked objectives in
western Germany.
In one of the raids German
TRANSPORT plane was intercepted,
and destroyed. Not an Raj plane
was lost in the days operations.
In both last nights 1,500-mile
2AF round trip to Genoa and in
todays American raids not sim
gle Allied plane was lost.
In carrying out their fourth at
tack this month on the Italian in
dustrial city, the big Bri i h
planes were believed to have con-
centrated their bombs again on
the huge Ansaldo works, where
munitions and engines for war
ships are manufa ctured.
An Air Ministry communique
said that "a large force of bomb
ers. including Halifaxes," partici-
rated in the raid, and that good
results were SEEN" Weather IA
vcred the raiders, and for the
third time since October % they
completed the long round tr i p
across France and the Alps with
out leaving a plane behind.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
BRITISH CLOSING
IN ON AXIS ARMY
Continued From Page One>

Continued From Page One)
hump 120 miles southeast of the
supply port.
The haggard enemy forces were
scattered all along the coastal
area from Tocra, just east of Ben
gasi, to Agedabia, and British
and American planes were pound
ing them without mercy, adding
ready officially listed
hourly to the $4,000 casualties al
Eighth Army planes from Malta
spanned the 200 miles of Mediter-
ranean to Tunis, destroying six
large grounded German planes and
damaging others in low-level at
tack on the airdrome at dusk Sat-
urday. Medium bombers returned
that night to attack repair shops
and hangers. Their action was in
in support of the British First
Army and its U. S. Allies moving
through western Tunisia in coor-
dinated drive to clear all Africa of
the enemy.
The British think the shattered
Africa Corps may attempt stand
at Ell Agheila, 400 miles east of
the chief Libyan supply base OF
Tripoli. There the geography ap.
proximates that of the Ell Alamein
line in Egypt where the British
drive started.
RommePs survivors, however
have lost so much equipment that
they are virtually. impotent, the
British say. But a determined real
guard stand at the defile might
slow the British into a frontal at.
tack. This would be costly to both
armies, but the British believe Rom.
mel imperatively needs time to land
reinforcements and materials or see
his remaining force utterly DESTROY.
ed or surrendered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
Rose Hill Farmer
Injured In Wreck

Jim Wells, age 60, a farmer in
the Rose Hill section, was reported
last night to be in a serious con-
dition in the James Walker hos
pital as a result of an automobile
accident one mile north of Rose
Hill.
Mr. Wells car was hit by bus
as he was entering the highway
yesterday morning.
Mrs Wells who was with him
at the time of the accident, is also
in the hospital, but her condition
is repeatedly not as serious as that
of Mr.. Wells.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
Malcuzynski Performance
Recalls PadereWSkiT Touch

10 make the music sing, in all
circumstances, under any condi-
tjors. It might also thunder, and
wall; it might laugh and ripple,
anc storm or scream; but it must
always sing. Because Paderewski
performed this miracle he stood
apart from his contemporaries.
Because he impaired this gift
to his last pupil, Malcuzynski now
is separate in his own generation.
1t is difficult to be logical and
arslytical in retrospect, f o al
though the spell is broken t S
warmth fingers. We might say
thai there was something unfa-
inil1ar in the scherzo of the Chopin
Sonata in B flat, without being
able to tell exactly what it was.
pLt we would have to say also
thst perhaps it gained something
in its unfamiliarity. All that stands
cut is that the closing presto was
a thing of sheer beauty.
We might say, too, that the List
Spanish Rhapsody was woven of
royal purple, but we would also
nave to confess that Chopin's Noe
tune in F sharp major was cloth
of gold. The R h psody was
marked by musicianship that re-
calied Gabrilowitch, but in. addi-
ton it had that singing quality
that Gabrilowitch never acquired.
Probably twas the bond that
lil4ks teacher and pupil in gracious
accord that lent exquisite and lacy
Leauty to Paderewski's Nocturne
aud Cracovienne fantistin1Ie And
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
Columbus Farm Agent
Resigns From Office

WHITEVILLE, Nov. 16 S. c.
Oliver farm agent for Columbus
county for the past four years to-
day resigned that post. His resig.
nation is to become effective Decem.
ber 1.
Mr.. Oliver will leave shortly for
Suffolk, Va, where he will operate
a plantation he has recently pur.
chased.
The county commissioners are ex
pected to meet Friday to consider
the appointment of a successor tt
! Oliver.
The Italian high command said
that further very large damage
was caused at Genoa, and that
four persons were killed and % ir
jureo. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
American Navy Smashes
ian Armada In SOlOmOnS

Tokyo apparently meant it. The
Berlin radio yesterday quoted the
newspaper Asahi Shimbun as say
ing that it would decisively in
fluence the whole war situation. !"
Perhaps to pave the way for
acknowledgement of some of the
painful results of the latest Solo
mons fighting, the Japanese high
command issued today an exag-
gerated account of the Solomons
action of October 26, claiming to
have sunk three aircraft carriers
including the Enterprise and Hor-
net, one battleship, three cruisers
and destroyer and to have dam
aged six other American warships.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
U.S.. ARMY AIDING
BRITISH FORCES
CONTINUED From Page One)

The. German and Italian high
commands in simultaneous COM
muniques, announced h Axis
forces had LANDED in Tunisia with
the approval of French civilian and
military authorities
A few hours later the German
radio reported that these enemy
forces were engaged in Counter
action" against United States
forces "at one point which is strate-
gically and tactically important"
This may have been in the vicin-
ity of Bizerte, key Tunisian port,
where fighting previously. had been
reported by the Morocco radio sta
ton.
Actually the military situation
within the French protectorate was
obscure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17

it was probably the orthodox train
irg of the teacher that, enabled
the pupil to perform Beethoven S
Thirty-tWo Variations in C minor
with such mathematical precision
as Steinmetz would have employed
in solving Eucidian problem.
But it was all Malcuzynski, the
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
Strong Japanese Force
In Shantung Smashed
By Chinese Army Unit

CHUNGK1NG, Nov. 49, R -
Strong japanese forces which at
tempted the conquest of an ex-
tensive region in Shantung prov
ince have been smashed in an op-
GRAFTON which ? Chinese high COM
mand communique tonight describ-
a major victory.
The japanese, the cornnunique
said, assembled an army of 4O, 900
for mopping up operation in the
foothills o. the vi mountains. The
Chinese said they killed or wound
ed 5000 and forced the invaders
to withdraw many miles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
RUSSIANS KILL
1000 GERMANS
Continued From Page One,

village. The fighting has been 60
ing on there for two days.
On the nearly-stalemated Stall
lngrad front the Russians said the
Germans lost 1900 men, two tanks.
six guns, II trench mortars, II ma
chineguns and other booty yester-
day in attacks which gained NO
success whatsoever"
In one sector of the city the
communicate said the Red army
springing to the counterattack
"dislodged the enemy from line
he had occupied two days ago. .
Other results announced at mid.
night were the downing of 10 Nazj
planes in fighting on all fronts
the killing of several hundred
more Germans at scattered points
along the vast front, and the sink.
ing of an 8,00o-ton German trans
port tanker in the Barents Sea.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
MASONIC REUNION
OPENS HERE TODAY
Glasses For Degrees To
Consume Majority Of
Three Day Meet

The local bodies of the Ancien
and Accepted Scottish Rite OF Free
masonry begin their fall reunion
this morning.
During the day, and Wednesda,
and Thursday, they will confer de
grees from the fourth through the
thirty-second.
All candidates must assemble al
9 o'clock this morning in the Ma
sonic Temple.
The order of the comforting o1
degrees is as follows:
The fourth degree at 1920 o'clock
the fifth degree at 11:15 O'Clock; the
sixth degree at 1915 o'clock begins
the afternoon session. Lunch Will
be served in the Temple at lie
o'clock: the ninth degree will be
conferred at 200 o'clock the tenth
degree at 3:45 o'clock; eleventh de
gree at SIS o'clock, and supper
will be served at $50 o'clock
The fourteenth degree begins at
7::30 tonight.
On Wednesday, the class will as
semble at $50 o'clock in the morn
ing and the fifteenth degree will
begin at $50 o'clock; the eighteenth
degree at HOO o'clock, and lunch
will be served again in the temple
at 1870 o'clock in the afternoon.
The class will assemble for regis
tration at 2:45 o'clock and the nine
teenth degree begins at 500 O'Clock:
supper will be served at els o'clock,
and will be. followed by the con-
ferring of the twentieth degree at
7:15 o'clock.
On Thursday, the class will as
semble at 9:45 in the morning and
the tWenty-eiehth degree is sched-
uled to begin at 10:45 o'clock; the
twenty-ninth degree will begin at
11:30 with lunch in the Temple at
1870 o'clock: the thirtieth degree will
be conferred at 2:30 o'clock. Sup
per will he served at 6:15, and the
thirty-first degree will start at 1880
o'clock Thursday evening.
d.. Hubert N. Poteat of Wake
Forest eolle2e. Wake Forest. will
deliver a series Of lectures on the
work during the Reunion.
The following members and visi-
tors have alreads registered from
out of town and expect to attend
the Reunion:
John F. Lynch from Erwin; Jas.
=. Lee from Varina; A. E. Bag
g4lt. from Bunnlevel
From Dunn: c. W, Bannerman
Alfred J. Blalock, r. L. Cromartie,
Jr.. Dr. J. A. Jernigan, Hugh w.
Prince. Dr.. L. r. Doffermyre.
From Raleigh: DR.. V. S. Cavi-
ness. Rev. H. A. Cox. DR.. Chas. P.
+, E,dridce, DR.. A. A. Husman, Har-
rson Kaufman, Chas. S. Perry.
Roy T. Pool, DR.. H. NJ. Poteat,
Chas F. Separk, W. R. Smith
Frank l. Watson, Edwin W. Yates.
From Lumberton: S. D.. Sander
son, Dewey Williams, Oliver K
E ines.
From Goldsboro: Luther R.
Thomas
From Sanford: w. L. McIver,
VIM. Fl White. H. NJ. Wagner,
Max B.r7yn.