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Evening star., 1942-05-03
HOLLYWOOD.

w
One of the finest compliments
you can pay Veronica Lake is to
tell her she doesn't look a thing
like movie actress.
And If you could see her run
ming an electric vacuum cleaner
gingerly around her Manderville
Canyon home. dressed in cotton
slacks with her hair hanging down
in pigtails you couldn't help but
agree.
Off screen, she's just a modest
appearing, unassuming girl, who
never would be taken-by some one
who didn't know her-as the at
tractive blond actress who sud-
denly leaped from screen obscurity
to stardom In her first consequent
tial role.
Weighing only SO pounds, We
ronica stands feet q She prac-
tlcally lives in slacks and low
heeled play shoes and generally
vts;dia weaTa no makeup except at the
Always the TOmboy.
Before the cameras, however di-
rectors make her wear the highest
heeled shoes they can find be-
cause of her extremely small stature.
Slender and with large, sparkling
eyes. she sometimes is almost child
like in her actions. Always much of
tomboy, she invariably props her
feet up on a table higher than
her head whenever she sits down
Evening star., 1942-05-03

tnlng mas Deen grand.
It's Just that she doesn't want to
sing past her prime That sounds a
little premature when you note cur
rent reviews: More beautiful than
ever. With the best voice in
the cafe world. A Snowman S
dream"
Jane did quit four years ago.
For nearly year she was the farm
erette of Nyack She planted beans
and corn. chatted with neighbors
about curtains and babies-and ate
her own cooking till she attained
an alarming 1873 pounds. But the
offers came. and grew more enticing
So she started regaining her slender
figure.
Il like all the normal things, so
I don't think I'll miss it so much
Jane says thoughtfully, meaning
the public acclaim that won't rise
up from the corn rows of Nyack.
Only the Best.
For memories to take along To
her farm-when and if she does get
there-she can think back on more
than a score of commercial radio
programs for which she starred
guest appearances on top radio
shows, numerous recordings, spe-
cialties in the movies, Broadway
musical, outdoor engagements-one
of them drawing $4,000 persons tc
Chicagos Grant Park to hear hel
popular concert-and singing fol
the soldiers.
And now that she contemplates
taking it easy a new field for Jane
has opened wide its doors-that O.
singing in ritzy supper clubs.
Her shrewd hubby manager o
nearly II years, Don Ross, turned
down all night club offers until only
the best places, at highest fees
came along.
''Isl always sing" Jane says, still
looking into the future. I'll prob
ably finish up singing in a choir.
which would be appropriate. That
where she started.
II don't want to go on and on,
she persisted in the retiremen
theme. i've seen others do il
and it's so tragic. I'm willing +
1nova over for some younger girl.
ThiS interview did not take plac
n AM old ladies home. 1t was i
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Today's Film Schedule

CAPITOL-"Mr. W with Leslie age Scarlet
Pmpenel: 430 7l5 and s:55 pm Stage shows 3:4o
and 9:10 m.
COLUMBIA-"We Were Dancing" Mevyn
Shearer partners: las 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 9:45
EARLE-"Kng's film Beamans dramatic novel
$40 pm.
KEITH SSaboteur Hchcocks latest melodrama: :3o
335
Story of the Vatican"
Also Disneyis The Reluctant Dragon"
METROPOLITAN-"Two Yanks Trinidad" OBren and
Brian Donevy: q 355 $50 7:50 and GAS pm
PALACE"Gone With the
1:45,5 and $50
P1XGhost OF Franknstein with CLANCY the
2:4o, 4:4o, $50, $40 and 1920 pm.
TRANS -LUX-News and shorts: continuous from 4 nm
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Newest PLAY
Inspired by
Dem Buns
The Life of Reilly
Is Not Immortal,
But Has Laughs
By Mark Barron,
BY Mark Barron,
Wide World News
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Naturally, Broadway audience
cannot be impartial about a play,
story. song, poem or any other con-
ceivable expression concerning the
Brooklyn Dodgers For the Giants
and Yankees all of us have respect,
but for the Dodgers we have de-
voted affection since the days when
Dazzy Vance was pitching remark
able and unbelievable games on
Ebbets Field and since Babe Her.
man was roaming that eccentric
outfield to catch fly balls largely by
the simple procedure of letting them
bounce off his willing head
So when a Broadway play like
William Roos' comedy, The Life of
Reilly" comes along to bring
Glenda Farrell again from her
Hollywood chores back to the stage
and concerns itself with the Brook
lyn Dodgers. you can expect indeed
a sympathetic first night audience
such as greeted this play which is
filled with both flaws and laughs.
The story is that of Rocket Reilly,
a pitcher who is a one man team
in himself but is no mental giant.
The inspiration for this character
shouldn't be difficult to guess.
A Berserk Plot.
The central point of the plot
which rambles as much as do the
Dodgers, is that Rocket is such a
good pitcher that gambler who is
getting into difficulties by betting
on the team finds it necessary to
get rid of this ace pitcher just long
enough to allow the Giants TO win
game.
The gamblers wife. Miss Farrell
is aiding in the plot and further
complications are that there is a
nice girl in love with the dumb
pitcher and also a dizzy blond who
hops onto this merry-go-round OF
(see BARRON, Page E-2J
Evening star., 1942-05-03
HOLLYWOOD.

Springtime is here, romance is ir
the air, and come war or highwatel
Hollywood script writers are instinc-
lively giving more profound thought
to the kiss than ever before.
What would the movies be with
out kissing?
Trace the box Office fate of pictures
short on kissing and those long on
kissing and draw your own con-
clusions. Producers and exhibitors
agree that, the most important
component part of this whole
fantastic business of canning drama
for the masses is the screen kiss.
Today, ways and means of varying
the screen kiss constitute problem
which keeps writers awake far into
the night. In line with its constant
search for novelty in all depart
ments, Hollywood must see that the
kiss is not reduced to a mere routine
meeting of two human lips. 1t must
have moods and trimmings.
Always pleasant subject for dis
course, let's take look around the
sound stages today and see how the
more important screen kissers are
getting along with their work" and
see also what sort of departures the
smart boys up in the writing de-
partments have contrived for spring
time. 1912 The difference in style
Is as wide as the ocean.
Have a look at this fellow Paul
Henreid. for instance. He's the
newest thing from Vienna, baron,
no less, a European stage star be-
fore he came to Hollywood to debut
with Michele Morgan in Joan of
Paris" Henreid is now making love
to Bette Davis in Nov, Voyager," !"
and before that picture is finished
will have kissed her more times than
she has been kissed in any previous
picture.
He begins by Offering small bottles
OF perfume. He asks casual favors.
He speaks softly, a little huskily,
even when asking the girl to meet
him in the cocktail bar. He caresses
Bette with his eyes for a third of
the picture before he lures her onto
q balcony, under a Bermuda moon
and then, well, even then, he takes
his time.
Wanted q Stunt Check.
1t begins to look as If he'll never
kiss the girl. Joe Doaques of Cedar
Rapids would have kissed her half
an hour ago. Joe Doaques would
probably have got his face slapped.
1t finally happens. very gently.
Considering the Importance of
Aim bussing to both Hollywood and
the public, it's an amazing fact that
Veronica Lake went kissless until
her third movie. What could they
have been thinking Of? Robert
Preston was the chap who had the
honor of breaking the ice, as it
were. He smacked the Blond
Bomber the first day they worked
together on This Gun for Hire"
Nine smacks were required before
the desired Photographic effect was
attained. Afterward Preston re-
marked that he should give his days
salary to charity. This was We
ronica's comment: II should ask
for a stunt check"
Before leaving for the Army the
other day Ronald Reagan in "Juke
Girl" wanted to kiss Ann Sheridan.
That was obvious to anybody, espe-
cially to Ann. They walked in the
moonlight-Florida moon, this time,
inst as pood as Rermuda-and made
meteorological observations.
I'll bet the corn is high in Kansas
about now" says Reagan, by way
of romantic preliminary.
The Patient Approach.
You'll always be a dirt farmer -
says Ann. looking luscious.
So Reagan puts his long arm
Evening star., 1942-05-03
By Harold Hefernan.

/ around her waist and kisses her.
Many young men have found this
method very successful. 1t saves
time.
Charles Boyer, in THE Constant
Nymph," is in no hurry. Patience
marks the continental approach
here, too. He looks somberly at TALL
blond Alexis Smith. He droops his
famed eyelashes, seems to lean
toward her. He doesn't kiss her. He
dismisses the mood casually (an
old Boyer trick, then brings 1t
back. In the end he makes it look
as if she kissed him. Maybe she did.
Bob Hope has been rather cheated
on screen kissing. Funny men often
are. But he's doing all right now.
Bob gets kisses from both Dorothy
Lamour and Donna Drake in Road
to Morocco" The first one he
shares with Dottie has an ingenious
accompanying stunt Hope wears
fancy Arabian slippers with toes
curled UP like a pretzel for the oc-
casion. AS Dottie's pursed lips meet
his those toes straighten out and
snap back with bang. That's
what's called visual evidence OF
mental reaction. But Hope pays for
his fun with another and far less
pleasant stamp of affection in the
same picture. Bing Crosby is IN
on it, too. They both receive kisses
from a camel, believe 1T or not.
Lamour has the distinction of
having been all wet during more
kissing scenes than any other girl
on the screen. She always seems
to be coming up out of a South
Seas pond to receive the embrace.
For the big love scene in Beyond
the Blue Horizon" both she and
Richard Denning climb out of a lake
dripping like Monday mornings
wash.
The Serious Comic.
Dennis Morgan, who would rather
be playing first base with the White
Sox anyway, sits on resort beach
with Joan Leslie. They talk Of
everything else-everything else but
making love. They move closer.
They smile at each other. And so
Morgan reaches over and kisses the
girl. That's the big buss scene in
"The Hard Way"
Jack Benny, the well-known great
lover-and he proved it neatly in
ITO Be or Not to Be"-kisses Ann
Sheridan not less than 81 times in
George Washington Slept Here"
All the Benny kisses are good, old
fashioned American smacks, but
delivered with lingering intensity
as the picture progresses. Mr.. Ben
ny takes his kisses straight and seri-
ously.
More Novel examples of the touch
lips game are plentiful in the cur
rent Hollywood crop. For instance,
Jerry Colonna sends kiss by car
rier pigeon to Judy Canova in True
to the Army" After John Gar
field kisses Hedy Lamar in "Tortil-
la Flat" she turns on him with a
jab from pair of scissors. Fred
MacMmray demonstrates so force
fully with Rosalind Russell in Take
Letter Daring that she goes kiss
Slappy and starts running out of the
mountain lodge where the exchange
takes place. She runs all the way
to New York.
Another walk-away kiss will be
seen in Random Harvest" Donna
Reed walks completely out OF the
picture at the conclusion Of her first
serious kiss in that one. 1t ends
her romance with Ronald Colman.
The Embarrassed Touch.
A new record in the length OF time
consumed is established in THE
Palm Beach Story" Preston Sturges'
latest. Joel McCrea, who plays
Claudette Colbert's husband, picks
her up at the beginning of a torrid
Evening star., 1942-05-03

James suite in the hotel where she
relgnS nightly IN an uppity dining
room.
When Jane ends her engagement
here, she heads for home, Columbia
Mo, where she studied voice under
her mother and sang in the church
choir
There Are Training Camps.
A starring role in a University
OF Missouri Journalism school musi-
cal sent her TO st. Louis theater
as The Blues Singing Coed of
M. u From there is was back to
serious study at the Cincinnati Con-
servatory of Music-she was still
headed for concert work.
But radio and popular songs
called, followed by contract with
Paul Whiteman, and from then on
the offers just rolled in. They
| still do.
| AT Columbia, Jane plans to ease
/ INTO retirement with six concerts
/ IN one Week-at the university
/ Christian and Stephens Colleges, to
boost War stamp sales.
/ Will it be Nyack then? Well
Jane has another hobby just as
fascinating as gathering petunias-
collecting Army rank insignia at
training camps where she sings
she was among the first asked by
Uncle Sam 10 60 on tour.
Those boys are so fine" she
said. They're starved for music
It's thrill to sing for them
II Don goes into the service-anc
they'll know soon-Jane says, -
couldn't bear TO be at Nyack alone
l have only my voice. but I'll give
that. I want to 60 on singing fol
the soldiers
That about takes care of Jane!
retirement plans.
Evening star., 1942-05-03
She's Just Plain as Any Little Girl You Ever Saw
You'd Like Pay Veronica Compliment Doesn't
Look kAnythi at a Actress
By Ted Gil,
Wide World News

in her slack suit or else tucks them
up, crossed, underneath her.
I'm just as plain as any little
girl you ever saw" says this o.
year-old actress with a big smile.
I'm no great actress. I just had a
movie job dumped into my lap. the
public seemed to like me, and that's
all there was to it,
Evening star., 1942-05-03

She took cigarette from q. sill
yer case and Lit 1t slowly.
And I'm as lazy as can be-" she
continued. But now that I've done
fairly well in the movies. think I
really will try to see what can do.
But I'm not going to 60 about it
the way lot of actresses do.
I'm not going to go out and run
Evening star., 1942-05-03
March to Be Twain

Fredric March has been signed
by Warner Bros. TO play the title
role in The Adventures of Mark
Twain" screen biography of the
great American humorist, to be pro-
duced by Jesse l.. Lasky.
Assigned to direct the Mark Twain
picture Is Irving Rapper.
Evening star., 1942-05-03
But She'd Rather Retire
Jane Froman Dreams of Her Farm
AS Singing Offers Pour In
By Jack Taylor
By Jack Taylor,
Wide World News.

Maybe the kept dreaming IN the
glories of o Nf ~
Inc lovely still
stage longd
There related xcd old clothes and work in the
gardensans makeup spotlight
Don't get her he work
"Its
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Borders Named Director
OF 0PA Hawaiian Office

Karl Borders, former director Of
the Rent Division in the ONCE of
Price Administration, who aided
District officials and the House Dis
trict Committee in framing WASH
ington's rent-control law, was ap-
pointed late today as director Of
the OPA Hawaiian ONCE.
He succeeds James H. Palmer,
who resigned last month.
Leon Henderson, OPA director
pointed out in tribute to Mr. Bor-
ders that under his supervision
OPA initiated program of volun-
tary control of rents through fair
rent committees.
Before coming to OPA Mr.. Bor-
ders was connected with the Re-
search and Statistics Division of
the Works Projects Administration
In the last World War he was a
chaplain in the Navy and taught at
the Union Theological Seminary in
Manila. After the war he did So
cial settlement work in Chicago and
was member of the Quaker Fam
inc Relief Mission in Russia.
Mr.. Borders came to OPA In
194l from the National Youth Ad-
ministration, where he was execu-
tive assistant.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Latvian Ship Sunk
By Sub in Caribbean
With Loss Of "a
One of ID Survivors
Swims for Four Hours
Before Being Rescued
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A GULF COAST PORT, Sept.
A small Latvian merchant
man was sunk by enemy subma-
rine action in the Caribbean Sea
In mid-August with a loss of "a
lives. One of IA survivors swan
for four hours before he was res
cued by a British naval vessel.
This survivor, Fricis Rusis, a Lat
Wan, was chief engineer of the
vessel. Thirteen others from the
crew of 38 found their way to life
RATS and were saved.
Rusis said the heavy death list
resulted when the ship plunged be-
meath the waves In less than one
minute after torpedo struck, the
port side.
Most of the men were drowned" !"
he said. Some managed to put
on life jackets. but most of them
simply had to jump into the waters
without anything to help"
Rusis, trying to cut away life
boat, was dragged beneath the water
and was knocked momentarily un-
conscious. He became separated
from the others who had found life
boats, but managed to stay afloat
unaided until rescue came.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Maryland Minute Men
Given Assignments
Hy the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Sept. A. Gov.
O'Conor said yesterday the Mary
land Minute Men had been given
military assignments by Maj. Gen
Milton A. Reckord. commanding
officer of the Sd Service Command
Gov. O'Conor said the service
command had furnished list of
hundreds of vital military and
strategic points in Maryland which
would be covered by the Minute Men
in an emergency,
The orders have been distributed
to the battalion commanders of
the State Guard so that assignments
may be given to Minute Men COM
panies by neighborhood, vicinity and
community.
Naturally" Gov O'Conor said, Il
am deeply gratifled at this recog-
milton by Gen. Reckord of the Mary
land Minute Men for such active
participation in the defense of
Maryland in an emergency 1t was
this very possibility which I envis-
ioned when the first plans for the
Minute Men were broached."
Evening star., 1942-09-04
New Tank Car Movements
Ease Oil Shortage in East

The East Coast oil shortage was
eased somewhat during the week
of August % by additional tank car
movements, it was announced late
today by Petroleum Co-ordinator
Ickes, but the increase is not re-
garded as sufficient to raise the unit
value of gasoline rationing coupons,
or to prevent the threatened ration
ing of fuel oil.
Mr. Ickes said in a statement re-
leased by the Office of War Infor-
nation that tank car shipments of
oil to the East Coast during the
week ending August % amounted to
1913 ,260 barrels daily. an increase OF
500,180 barrels over the volume in
the previous week.
In shipping 823,26o barrels each
day to the Eastern seaboard, Mr.
Ickes said "a companies loaded 81
442 cars. On the basis of an average
Of 210 barrels per car, these cars
carried the equivalent of 5,762 ,82C
barrels of petroleum and petroleum
products during the week.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Montana Lawyer Wins
Top VFW post;Counci|
Place 10 District Man
Add Encompment Ends;
New York Choice for
1943 Sessions, if Held
Rs the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 4.-The Vet
erans of Foreign Wars today elected
Robert T Merrill, Great Falls
(Mont.) attorney, their commander
in chief, succeeding Max Singer Of
Boston.
Other new officers named at the
43d encampments s final session were:
Carl J. Schoeninger, Detroit, senior
vice commander in chief; Jean A.
Drummer, Brooklyn, vice commander
in chief; r. B. Handy, jr, Kansas
City, adjutant quartermaster gen.
eral: Louis E. Starr, Portland, Greg :,
judge advocate general; DR.. George
M. Lochner. ST. Petersburg, Fla, sur
geon general.
Rabbi Michael Aaronsohn of Gin
cinnati was named chaplain. He
was wounded and totally blinded
while fighting in the Argonne Forest
as a sergeant major with the 147th
Infantry in the World War.
The veterans auxiliary named
Mrs. Marie c. Dewitt, st. Paul,
MINI, national president. succeed
ing Mrs. Alice Donahue, Glen Cove,
N. Y. Mrs. Amelia c. Kane, Pitts
burgh, was made senior vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Hazel Miller, Des Moines,
Iowa, junior vice president. Mrs
Grace H. Davis, Kansas City, re-
elected treasurer; Mrs. M. Frances
Anderson, Bridgeport, Conn, chap
lain; Mrs. Nell Moody, San Antonio
Tex, guard.
Officers announced that next
years encampment, unless Cancelled
because of the war, would be held
| in New York. ...
William Garvey New York, wa,
| elected to the VFW's Council ol
Administration, along with Smith
Biggs, Parkersburg, w. Va: William
Twigg, New Orleans; Otto Silver
Detroit; N M. Boyer. Deer Lodge
Mont: l.. G. Taggart, Bakersfield
Calf: Pat Kaeton, Dallas, Tex.
and e. j. Markham, Washington
| Hawaiian delegates won all foul
silver cups awarded for largest
growth of posts. Two were taker
by Pearl Harbor Post and two by
the Department of Hawaii.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Helen Bernhard 10 Meet
Louise Brough Tomorrow
Earlier Story on Page ca


BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Helen
Bernhard of New York defeated
Mrs. Helen Peterson Rihbany, also
of New York, 60, Ga, in quarter
final match of the National Wom-
ems Tennis championship at Forest
Hills today.
After dropping her first set of the
tournament, Louise Brough of Bev-
erly Hills, Calf, rallied to defeat
Mary Arnold of Los Angeles, 3-6,
Ga, 6-3, in another quarter final.
Miss Brough, top seeded in the
women's division was so badly off
her usual game in the opening set
that she once slammed ball up into
the stadium seats, and again tried
to knock the net down with her
racket, but she settled down in time.
Her opponent in the semifinals to-
morrow will be Miss Bernhard.
Lieutenant Gardnar Mulloy, Jack
sonville, Fla, reached the semi
finals of the mems division with a
straight set 60, 8-6, rs victory
over George Richards, young left
handler from Montebello, Calf. Null
10y was forced to the limit to beat
the kid VINO paid his own way East
to play. Mulloy's steadier ground
game was the deciding factor in
the end.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Hobbs to Press Measure
For Fingerprintine All
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
A renewed campaign to require
the fingerprinting of every man,
woman and child in the country
developed today with the announce
ment by Representative Hobbs.
Democrat, OF Alabama, that he
planned to draft legislation to that
effect.
Mr.. Hobbs, after a preliminary
conference with Justice Department
officials, said he would urge speedy
enactment of a mandatory finger
print bill as civilian defense meas
ure as soon as Congress resumes
regular sessions about the middle of
this month.
Mr. Hobbs reported that more
than 10000 900 persons-nearly one
quarter of the countrys population
already have been flngerprinted as
a result OF the war, and the basic
machinery is set up for obtaining
the records OF the others.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Maine Paper Manager
Denies Charge A. P.
Is Closed Corporation
Member Increase From
CAB to ! ,437 Held
To Refute Contention
BY the Associated Press.

PORTLAND, Me, Sept. Assert
ing that the Associated Press lis not
a closed corporation, Frank S. Hoy,
business manager OF the Lewiston
Sun journal, said today this was
shown "by the fact that in the past
40 years the number of members OF
the Associated Press has increased
from 648 to ,437"
Mr.. Hoy spoke before the Port
land Rotary Club, discussing the
functions of the Associated Press as
non-profit cooperative organiza-
ton, and the Federal Governments
recent civil action against it, which
charged "the service has been
denied newspaper applicants in
violation of the antitrust laws of
the United States"
I'm its action against the As
sociated Press" said Mr.. Hoy, "the
Government recognized the superb
ority of this great news-gathering
organization in these words:
There are three news agencies,
and of the news services supplied by
these three, that of the Associated
Press ranks in the, forefront in
public reputation and esteem
The two other news services
referred to are the United Press
and the International News Service.
Great Britain also acknowledged
the superiority of the Associated
Press one year ago in october when
Parliament voted to reorganize
Reuters, Britain's largest news
agency, and modelled the new or
ganization after our Associated
Press.
The Associated Press is un-
questionably the largest, most in
dependent and most reliable news
gathering and ws-disseminating
agency In the world" said Mr.. Hoy
who recalled that it was founded on
the premise that news should be
truthful, unbiased, balanced and
strictly objective"