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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-07
STRAND

Entertainment in every Seu4e ol the word is what theatergoers VIII find at Warmers Strand tAeater to- day when they see One Foot ID Heaven" which Is scheduled Tor a tour-day stay at lhaJ tAeaIer.
 Co-staTns Frederic March and Martha ssott the film tells the s.ory Of . paron and his typical American family Typical in that they mugh at the same th'ngs, share the same joys and surroHs. aro have tAe same problems aS any family, anywhere ig the ur.teo states, It is quaint rosta.ele tale containing much warm hum0f, with the average Mld%estern small town for lts baokfrCuld, IL opens ln those gay days Just after the turn ol the century and continues through Che rlotous days alter the Afmistlee oi World War l,
 March, always ohe ol tho best 0f ihe screens dramatic actors plays the role Of Father, a benevolent tyrant whoSe outward okclpilne anG inward sympathy mases him one 0f the screens most loYahle chRfac- lers, His constant struggle io keep both his family and his eongroga- ton !n line proves a lifetime task 1nAi H Esgsht with ae-lLlehes and
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POLl'S

Hedy Lamar, playing an Amer ican girl for the first time. teams with Robert Young and Ruth Illus sey in Metro-GoMwyn- Mayors III. M. Pullman, Esq" based on J. P. Marquand's best-seller novel, and opening Thursday at the LoeW Poli theater
 The story Of Boston and a Bos- tonian who settles into the groove of routine and tradition after one great lcye experience, was brought 10 the screen by King Vidor, literal- , ly from the pages of the book.
 Miss Lamar plays Marvin Myles, the careergirl who becomes the one great love in the life of Putnam, played by Young. The story covers span of years, tracing Young'S eX- periences from youth to middle age It is told in retrospect as he prepares biography for his Harvard class alumni magazine.
 Miss Hussey plays the Boston girl whom Pullman eventually marries, as destined by his family Van Heflin. Katharine Hepburn's leacing man on the stage in Philadelphia Srory" portrays Pulham's friend and con- fident, Bill King. Charles Coburn Is saen as Putnam, Senior, and Fay Holden aS Young's mother, Bonita Granville plays his sister Mary, and Leil Erikson "Bo-Jo" Brown, his football idol at college.
 Boston. in the picture as in the novel, shares importance with the cast. Vidor'S research in Boston brought rich results The sets are Boston. the Boston Of today and yesterday. Contrasted with this are the bustl.ng sequences in New York, it's night clubs and it's pleasure-lov- ing people, and the excitement that followed the first World War
 The companion feature on this great program is another thrill packed Michael Shayne drama. "Bne, White and Perfect, with Lloyd Nolan and Mary Beth Hughes In this picture Michael Shayne is on the lookout for blue-white dia- monds and blue-eyed blondes.
 Current at the LoeW Poll theater is the smash musical hit Of the sea son Babes on Broadway" starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland also MT. and Mrs North" with ra- dio comedienne, Oracle Allen.
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berS of the local press receive their invitations to the affair. For a stunt the handsomely done-up invitations were shipped to Shanghai to be mailed back to Hollywood from there. Nobody knows where they are now. Another embarrass- ment caused by the war was short almost completed at Metro based on Michel Nostradamus' predictions. According to it's interpretation. the United States was going to get into the scrap next spring.
 For some reason. there's 8 big cycle of film biographies in the Offing. with subjects ranging from Jim Corbett and Mark Twain to Will Rogers and George Gershwin. Best bet of the year, though, will he Warmers screen rights for a life of Winston Churchill.
 Lana Turner is still collecting orchestra leaders First 1t was Artie Shaw, then Tony Martin, Roger Pryor, and now Tommy Dorsey. Sev- eral Of the local wolves. I hear, are hurriedly organizing bands. |. !. Jane Withers will be a top-flight ingenue star from now on. Her seyen-year contract at 20th-Fox expires in Feb ruary, and she's going. free-lance. Her current wage is $275O a week. Remember F'arina (who was a boy and Joe Cobb, in the old Our Gang" comedies? They're both ill the Army now.
 
 The battle around Honolulu is being continued here, with half a dozen studios and producers scrapping for the title, "Remem- Der Pearl Harbor." About 100 sOngwriters also have tried to reg ister the same title. Have you heard Goodbye, Mama-I'm Of to Yokohama? Next will be Watch the Boys in Khaki Knock On Nagasaki" And here's a brief
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M The Local Theaters
STATE
"No.' she said.

Fun galore is in the offing for sleatergoers at Warmers State the- ater where The Man Who Came 10 Dinner" opened a four-day en- gagement this afternoon with Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty WocIley in co-sta,ring roles.
 Adapted from the Broadway hit by G. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the new picture has been hailed as one Cf the most uproariouS comedies of Of the decade
 Monty Wooiy. who created the title role on the stage, was brought to Hollywood to reenact his part for the screen. Bette Dav.s and Am Sherioan, each of whom is cOnSid- cred plenty Of feminine interest to carry a picture all by herself. are co-starred with him; Bette as his a.l-knOWipg secretary, and Ann as very g4amorouS stage star. Sur rounding the StaI5 iS one Of the most brilliant supporting casts ever assembled in ons picture. Included are Jimmy DuranJc, Billie Burke, Richard Trays, Reginald Gard d-ner, Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Fraser, and Ruth Vivian and Mary W.ckes, both of whom were brought co Hollywood to play the roles they did in the stage play
 Briefly, the story of The Man Who Came to Dinner $ about a noted lecturer who accepts, very reluctantly, an invita- son to dine with the leading family i'll mid- western town where h. is to lee Lurc. Entering the house, he sips and irjures his leg and has to re- main, an unwilling and, before long g most unwanted guest. He takes over the household in much the same manner that Grant took Richmond.
 The pictl,.e is loaded With chuckles and is a comedy hit that concludes it's engagement Saturday should be seen by every member oI the family Remember \ positively night so put it at the top Of your must list"
 F'ast-moging eptertaLment that grips it's aud-enccs' attention from start to finish is the second hit oI the program steel Against the Sky" featuring A.eX4s Smith, Lloyd Nolan and Craig Stevens.
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Chapter l

The man at the crossroads gas sery came out to the pump.
 why, it's Nom Baumer," he said "Hiya, Mom?"
 "Hiya, pal" said. Fill her up.
 Must be five years since see, you" he said.
 "All of that" I said. You've go good memory"
 "Oh, nobody ever forgets you Mom," he said.
 I guess that's right, too. I'm { sort of institution on the roads. H, took a gander at my trailer.
 Flows the feed trader" he asked being polite.
 I'm still giving satisfaction" told him.
 While he was polishing the wind shield I said, What's this I heal about Tambay Plantation?'
 "It's right" he said. Life among the ruins. Poor relation"
 What sort?"
 "Yankee. Keeps herself to her self"
 Would she take in tourist, dc you reckon?"
 Would the White House?" he said. "Tambay's still Tambay'
 "Okay, pal,' I said. But that's where I bunk tonight. I've got q particular reason for wanting tc sleep there tonight"
 Coming into Tambay Plantation rolled along quietly. Opposite the mansion dropped the trailer. I didn't want to startle the poor rela = ton too much. She might have a weak heart.
 Before turning in at the big en- trance, switched off my lights What with the rain and the wind there wasn't much danger of my be- ing heard before I was ready. I got out of the car and hung q gadget of mine that had been a good old standby many time when l wanted a lodging, OH the gatepost.
 Through the intended shrubbery between the live oaks could make out Tambay Mansion. IL was like a tired old lady. tired of everything even of pride. but witt, the everlast- ing guts to keep her chin up against all corners. no matter how shabby and sad. and poor she might be Well, was feeling a lite like that myself. after 10 years on the road. could use some rest.
 One light was burning. If there's anything else i'll creation as lonely as single light in the dark and the wet, I don't want to see it.
 knocked on the door; good hard, honest knock. The light moy- ed and the door opened.
 Who is it?"
 was all set for 8 scraHny old :
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"tambay gold"
 by samuel hopkins adams

maid type with slit-eyes and a New England-yellow skin. This wasn't it, at all The voice didn't have a poor relation whine, either.
 Could I get a room?" l said.
 "No," she said. You're in the wrong place."
 Tourists Accommodated" I said Going to make liar out of youl sign?"
 There's some mistake" she said
 Gan I read plain lettering or can't IF" said. Come and see"
 She got an umbrella and we sloshed through the long grass. ] switched my pocket Hash onto the piace where I'd done my picture hanging.
 'What about it?" I said.
 Instead of answering, she put up a hand and felt the woodwork back of my sign. Naturally, it hadn't had time to get wet. Nobody's fool, that gal.
 Do you get away with 1t often?" she asked.
 More often than you might think" told her.
 I'm afraid your batting average is due for slump" she said.
 I guessed that maybe she didn't have entire confidence in me. So I put the spotlight on myself.
 "Mom Baumer," said. Fat and 50; wet and tired"
 She kind of hesitated. There s only the north room furnished" sine said. Tt leaks"
 "So does this sky" I said.
 T don't know" she said to her. self. Why do you pick on Tam bay?" she asked.
 "It's a long story" I said. "Id do a lot better by it in the morn- ing
 I'm Jane Ann Judson," she said.
 "Then I can bring in my nightie and my toothie?"
 "All right. At your own risk"
 That north room would sure have been risk fer anyone in weak health. Pots and pans did their best to take care of the dribbles. The bed was pretty clammy, and I spent some active moments playing tag with one of those slippery silk spreads that ought to be in jail for abandonment. But a good conscience is better than shot of dope, and I was still dead to the world when some highclass breakfast smells woke me up with a twitching nose.
 thought back to my first sight of Tambay Plantation 25 years ago. I wasn't on my own at that time. I was with carny show. Acrobatics, an animal turn, and touch of par Tor magic oil the side. We pitched by the streamside at Tambay Bend, and when I sneaked out after the show and saw the old mansion, with all the lights going and the saddle
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horses hitched to the big trees, and heard the music and the soft, young southern voices, got yen for il that never died out. You wouldn't expect the proprietress of a travel ing nosebag to be romantic. O. K I'm as God and the roads have made me.
 Years later, I hear that all the Mauries of Tambay are dead, and their friends and kin that kept the place warm and happy with love are scattered or broke. But it would always be the old Tambay for me.
 Jane Ann Judson was already at the table when I got down. In the morning light she looked younger than I'd figured her. Two long, thin, darky girls that I spotted for GullahS from the islands as soon as heard their talk were busy about the breakfast.
 Good morning. Jane Ann Jud- son said. How did you make out?"
 Swell" I told her. I had the night of my life"
 Was it as bad as that?"
 "No; mean it. I said. "You wondered why I picked on Tambay Remember about the little girl in the story that wanted to sleep in the queens chamber just once, even if she got her head cut off for it? Well, that's me and Tambay. After first saw it; and that was before you were born, I used to have a dream. I'd got rich, and I'd bought Tambay, and could see myself sitting in the drawing room ill a dark red satin gown with brooch, and lifting a finger to an old silver -whiskered darky, and saying in cultured voice, You may now fetch the ju- leps, Erastus.' Do you wonder I got kick out of last night?"
 "You couldn't sit in the drawing room now" she said with a sort Of sigh in her throat.
 "No?" said.
 Nothing to sit OH. It's all been sold to the antique hunters. Be- fore I got here
 "The place wouldn't be for sale, .maybe?"
 Not if can help It." Her face went quiet and secret. There were things back of the look that she didn't want to think about.
 Mind if I snoop around little?"
 Go anywhere you like"
 After breakfast she took her fly rod and went down to Tambay Bend to get a mess of fish for dinner, leaving me with the two Gullahs. I've always modelled my life on the fella that made big success mind- ing his own business. What mean to say. I never ask questions except, of course, when I want to find out something. Because what other way is there? I went to work on Ollie and Nollie.
 How long have you girls been here?'
 US? We been Twin lieah sence Mist Clement Maurie's time." With Miss Judson?' "Oh, nom! Miss Jane Ann, she ony been heah a little piece. She let us stay on cause we aim got no othah place to res. An she gotta have sumbuddy."
 Hasn't she got any folks?'
 "No'm. Her pa an ma was killed i'll q accident. I don reckon she had no othah kin. Her ma was a Marie. That's how-come she heired Tambay.'
 Well. I looked the place over and located sweet spot for my trade between road and river, a high jut of land with nice trees. So lowed the trailer in and was ready for Miss Jane Ann when she came back. Gro Be COntinued)
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Iu - Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON

Hollywood Behind the Screen The moviemen have been warned that although pictures may be con- Sidered essential to public morale the pictures had better De good Otherwise no film.
 The same materials which go into film also are used for explosives; so ii Hollywood wants priorities con- siGelation, movies will have 10 be as effective as shells in the prosecu- tlon ol the War, At least, SO sait. ex-Dlrector Carson Kanin, now in ' government management job He's the only one who has told the producers that Hollywood, up to now, hasn't been doing as much as it should have done,
 
 No GESTURE
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happiness Martha sgot., famous for her stage and screen performances in "Our Town is cast as the par sons wife, . role Tor which she is perfectly suited
 Besides March and Miss Scott In co-starFing roles the grand cast ln- cluCes such iayortes Qs Beulah BQnGi, Gene Lockhart, Elizabeth Fraser, Harry Davenport, Laura Hope Crews Molonl Olsen, Frankie Thomas and host of other fine players ln the supporting parts
 And for your further enjoyment the management presents Swing II Soldier hugh-parado of gaGio reyelry with Ken Murray Fiapeos LaDgtord Don Wilson, Brenda and Cobina and many other rndio favor. i,es,
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PAGE JULES VERNE

Cecil B. De Mile, who parted the Red Sea like George Raft.s hair in The Ten Commandments" goes in for more aqua-spectacle in his cur- rent Technicolor opus, Reap the Wild Wind" The picture has a scene laid on the ocean floor in which Actors Ray Midland ard John Wayne, wearing diving suits, battle
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DISNEY TO MAKE FILMS

Twenty single-reel films, under a cost-only contract, will be pro ouced for the United tSates Navy by Walt Disney. They will be shown, when finished, to Navy personnel at all ship and shore stations, aug menting the established method of learning plane and ship outlines by the study of silhouette charts.
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ERUDITE

Ia giant squid, tentacled monster o1
 the deep.
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ELEANOR PARkER-the Cleveland Ohio girl making Hollywood has liking for animals and her her own way about it would include Danes saoeu of horses and barrel aooVe seems think was chosen as d the children Playhouse For experience a stock Marhas vineyard Mass Alter school she beele dna Community Playhouse where mas the deep throay voice of Margaret height weighs hundred pounds and is decided
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No GESTURE

Shanghai Gesture" was proyiew, ed the other evening, but it'll prob ably be n year or two before mem,
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Mouie Notes
MILLER SETS RECORD

TWinkle-toed Ann Miller hits an 840-taps-to-the-ninut pace for 21 seconds of her target range tap rou- tire in Paramount's True to the Army" thereby setting an all-time speed record.
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Macdonald Carey, Broadway star who makes his screen debut in Paramount's 'Dr. Broadway" con- pleted work for masters degree at the University of Iowa but left to start his career before the degree was conferred.
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poem the lyricists might use: Hitler
 Is litttler.

Some of the movie celebrities have made blackout preparations or a typical Hollywood scale. When stores ran out of ordinary black cloth, there were plenty of buyers of black satin and velvet-up to $7.50 a yard. The uppity dressmak- CTS and tailors have been doing all right, too, with war-working movie queens coming to them for uniforms that look like something out of a film epic. Michele Morgan had just moved into her Beverly Hills home, smack up against a noun tainside, when a guest said, "The first big rain will wash this whole place down 10 a better address
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l was all set for a scraHny old
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Allies Position Seen Greatly Improved
On This Memorial Day, Compared With 1o41

worst attacks on London. and no
man could then forecast that those
were the last serious air raids which
Britain was to suffer for a year.
Hitler and Mussolini were on their
way to the Brenner Pass for the
meeting at which, in all probability,
the invasion of Russia was deter
mined, but the world was thinking
rather In terms of increasing Ger
man-Russian collaboration.
Mighty Alliance Formed.
May 80, l94l, was . black and
dreary Memorial Day, when free
men wondered whether the dead
whose graves they honored might
not after all have died in vain.
Now let us look at the world as on
May 30, 1912. A mighty alliance is
in arms against Germany. The
two most powerful nations OF the
world, the United States and the
Soviet Union, have joined with the
British, and China Is also Ger
many's enemy. In return, Germany
has gained only the active partner
ship Of Japan, impoverished by the
strain of almost five years of con-
slant war and capable of no more
Evening star., 1942-05-31

than one single great effort which
Is already showing signs of wearing
out. No day passes without indica-
ton Of closer collaboration and more
co-ordinated effort among the
United Nations, 26 nations in all,
with others coming in as time
passes-Mexico very soon, perhaps
Brazil In the near future.
Surely this Is a great change. and
In the long view not to be Offset by
the momentary victories of Japanese
treachery in the Far East.
Naxis Have Been Defeated.
But there are other changes.
The legend of German invincibility
first and most memorable Of all,
which had taken so strong a grip
on mems minds in May OF . 194l,
has been smashed on the steppes
Of Russia. The German armies
have been defeated. German troops
have been driven headlong from
conquered cities. The German
Fuehrer has made a promise OF
victory to his people which he has
not fulfilled. We have to think
back very carefully. We have to
replace ourselves In the state of
mind Of last May to realize what
this means to us.
Next, the American war effort
as whole is being perfected. organ
lied, streamlined, the deadwood cut
away, business as usual" thrown
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Navy Wants 600 More
Athletic instructors
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Navy Department Is embark
ing on campaign beginning June
to enlist between 500 and 800 robust
physical educators to help supervise
a program designed to toughen up
Navy personnel, particularly new
recruits.
They will be enlisted as chief Spe-
cialists under an acting appoint
ment, class VS., United States Naval
Reserve, for which base pay Is 500
monthly. Pending legislation would
raise this figure to $l26.
Physical education instructors be-
tween the ages Of 2l and IS who hold
degrees from recognized colleges or
universities and who have had prac-
tical experience in physical educa-
ton work are being considered for
enlistment.
Evening star., 1942-05-31

overheard, the power Of the isola-
tionists reduced If not broken.
America Is united, determined, on
the march. Look back to last May,
remember the state of mind Of our
people then and take heart.
Next, the island Of Great Britain
was last May only target for
German bombs. Today it is an Of
fensive base for a great and grow
ing air power. which has already
established almost complete air
dominance over the adjacent areas
of Western Europe and strikes at
will at Axis targets. There are
American troops in the British
Isles, too; and a powerful, we'll
equipped. high-spirited Britis h
Army. waiting only for the word to
attack the continent. Germany
has a war on two fronts; that war
on two fronts which is the penalty
of central position and the his
toric graveyard Of German aspira-
tions to conquest.
Short View Full OF Trouble.
These are long view considera-
tions. These are the conditions
which will enable us to exploit our
rising tide of production, our supe-
rior manpower, our vastly greater re-
sources. But the short view, the
immediate view. is full of troubles
like. stretch of storm m-torn sea
Evening star., 1942-05-31

q serene confidence in our destiny,
In our ability to overcome the OBJ
stacles Of the present, In our GER
tainty Of the victory to come. The
days of despair are behind, the days
of accomplishment Lie ahead. No
more viii any Of the United Nations
have to fight alone. The answer to
Russia's needs will be found not
only in direct support, but in
Western Europe and in the very
heart of Germany; the answer to
China's cry for help will come not
only by the trickle Of supplies from
India and Russia. but in the far
reaches of the Pacific and the crash
Of bombs amid the steel mills Of
Osaka and the shipyards Of Kobe.
1t is Germany which Is alone in
Europe, as Japan is alone in Asia.
We are United Nations, brothers in
common cause, a holy cause; ours
Is the power. and the future. Let
US be of stout heart.
tcopyrisht. 1s42, New York Tribune, Inc)
Evening star., 1942-05-31
By MAI. GEORGE
FIELDING ELIOT.

This total and global war Is so
vast, so complex and at times so
confusing that it is not always easy
to separate the big picture" from
immediate and pressing events. In
particular, 1t is not easy to sepa-
rate in our thinking the long-range
prospects of the war, which are on
the whole bright and promising,
from the immediate and short
range prospects which are full OF
anxieties and even of threats.
We cannot afford to look too long
and too far into the future, for
it is all-out effort now which the
future demands of us; we cannot
afford to dwell too much or the fact
of our mounting resources, because
we must preserve the present in
order that we may in the future
make use of those resources to the
best advantage.
In our thinking, therefore, we
must avoid dependency on the one
hand and complacency on the other,
and steer a straight and resolute
course. That this should be done