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Evening star., 1942-04-05
|Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
FRIDAY
Closed for alterations

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Dorothy Lamour and
William Holden in
The Fleets In"
Olsen and johnson
and Martha Raye in
Hellzapoppin' :"
"Tarzan's Secret
Treasure" and
"Flight Command"
Grant Taylor and
Betty Bryant in
100000 Horsemen.
Bing Crosby and
Mary Martin in
Birth of the Blues. +"
Below the Border"
and
ROusn RIDERS.
Kathleen"
and
"Sleepytme Gal"
Arthur Lake. Penny
Singleton. "Blondie's S
Blessed Eyant -
Evening star., 1942-04-05
For ST 900 Week, She'll Learn to Sing
Jinx Falkenburg, the Super.Girl Is Calm About
Preparing for Personal Appe Tour

an expert swimmer, and during her
residence in Chile was swimming
champion of that country.
She also has an amazing fair for
wearing clothes-all of which are
made by her equally gifted mother.
And jewels
Ever since was kid I've loved
jewels" Jinx says, displaying a
huge blue gem, set with diamonds
and rubies, on non-compromising
finger. When I showed this to
Paulette Goddard" she continues,
"she said, HIM, a heavy sender!'
Paulette's an amazing girl. AS you
know, she no longer lives with
Chaplin, and she called him the
other day and said Life seems to be
all work and no play. I can see
where I'll be a lonely old woman at
40, sitting by myself at the window,
polishing my jewels!' Charlie told
me that he still considers her the
most wonderful woman he's ever
met and there1l never be any one
quite like her"
Returning to her own problems,
Jlnx says that she was recently
%, feels she's getting on in years
and ought to be getting married.
The trouble with that is I want
to keep on with my film work, and
most Hollywood marriages are
ruined for that very reason" she
says. Men don't like their wives
to get up and go to work at 5 in
the morning. The way out would
be to marry an actor, but I'm
against that on principle
She's Being Groomed.
Jinx began her professional career
as model. At one time she was
the highest paid exponent of her
art, drawing $2,5OO for one beer
campaign and a similar sum for
posing with a famous brand of
cigarette. Incidentally, she is a
teetotaler and non-smoker.
Her name "JinX," given her be-
fore birth by her parents, started to
live up to its implication a few
years ago, when she had the bad
luck to crash through the glass
roof of a hotel in Honolulu. This
would have killed most girls, but
Evening star., 1942-04-05

sort of spotlight" Kay recalls.
The first thing I knew, the boys
had wheeled in one of those Big
Bertha seachlights with about a
million candlepower that they use
for spotting planes two or three
miles in the sky. Boy, that thing
would have blinded us for life"
They compromised on a smaller
model
Entertainers Enjoy 1t.
From what I've seen, the men
aren't taking their training lightly
and I haven't heard a whimper from
any of them. They know what
they're working for now that we're
in the war-but that doesn't mean
they don't enjoy and deserve some
relaxation and entertainment"
And. he says, the entertainers not
only enjoy playing before the boys
but regret to see a tour end.
Every one I've worked with"
says Kay, feels grateful for the
experience"
Kyser's entertaining technique is
a throwback to the days when he
was a cheerleader in the Rocky
Mount, N. c., high school and the
University of North Carolina. Be-
fore an audience realizes it, he has
them taking part in his show.
During one pep rally he hit
collegiate high by kidding the pres
ident and five deans into leading
the cheers.
He has found that sailors and
soldiers get the biggest laughs from
jokes on military life, their superior
officers, the military police and
the K. P's.
But some jokes, Kay says, are
fact instead of fiction-as in the
case of 1t. Comdr. Perry Wood at
the San Diego Naval Training
Station.
The commander was making the
rounds one night as senior officer
Of the watch when a recruit chal-
lenged: Halt! Who goes there?"
Perry replied, The senior officer
of the watch"-and then waited for
the recruit to complete the ritual.
The youngster was silent.
Il can't stand here all night"
Perry said sharply.
by damn" the recruit replied,
you're a-gonna stand there till
I think what to ask you"
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Yes>Men Just
Old Arab
Custom
Sultan's Congress
Was Composed of
Nodding Dummies
Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Director David Buffers pals are
kidding him about having outdone
De Mile.
Butler has eight yes-men on his
current set who constantly nod in
the affirmative all day long.
The scene takes place in THE
Road to Morocco" where a long
corridor leads to the boudoir of
Princess Shalmar, played by Dorothy
Lamour.
Four white pedestals stand on
either side and atop each is the
head of bewhiskered and betur-
baned Arab, made of wax.
Rugged up mechanically, they
nod constantly in solemn, rhythmic
agreement to everything that goes
on-as a prop to gag that comes
later IN the film.
The dummies were arranged at
the suggestion of Technical Director
Jamiel Hasson. He said they rep
resent the only sort of congress
acceptable to an old-tine Sultan.
The Sultan was a cinch to put
over any piece of legislation he
chose with such a congress, Has
sons research found, because all
he had to do was take up the
matters with his mechanical yes
men, got the nod-and the thing
was done.
Like many other notables, Direc-
tor Cecil B. De Mile frequently
is kidded for having a number of
so-called yes-men among his associ-
ates.
But who would ever guess that
that wel-known present-day prac-
tice originally was an old Arabian
custom.
Evening star., 1942-04-05

experience and develop versatility
Then the choice role in Two Yanks
in Trinidad" was handed to her.
She Wasn't an Actress.
When she's not working in q
picture, she's studying with Mike
Gordon, dramatic coach on the lot,
taking singing lessons, posing for
publicity pictures, talking to news
papermen and generally getting the
grooming necessary to any real cine
matte progress.
1t should be pointed out that Miss
Blair was not an actress when she
came to Columbia, but a personality.
Since it is often more important
to be an arresting personality than
finished actress, at least in the
movies, she was signed to her initial
contract. Give a personality, astute
directors and dramatic coaches can
develop ability, if a player is willing
to work and follow instructions.
The 20-year-old Blair girl is am
bilious, which makes her a pliable
student for both directors and dra-
matte coaches. She is willing to
forego an evening at Ciro's to mas
ter some facet of dramatic technique.
Most young ladies in Hollywood
would rather see and be seen in a
night spot than pore over dialogue
at home.
More. Janet looks like and acts
like a movie star. She has glamour
which may mean anything from
habit of smiling charmingly at
strangers to being lovely to look at
and delightful to hear.
A man from Gees Greek might
meet Miss Blair on his first trip to
Hollywood and go home happy in the
knowledge that everything he had
read about movie stars was true.
She's that kind Of girl. >
1t sounds as if Columbia has
something there.
Evening star., 1942-04-05

Sell GI1cn DlI II1I1SI1Oo W SCC GllC
Rita Hayworth treatment" A lot
of them couldn't stand up under
the pressure and attention which
explains the paucity of new players
who really reach top brackets.
That's why every one in Hollywood
is presently talking about Janet
Blair, whom Columbia Pictures, orr
ginators of the "Hayworth treat
ment," have designated as her sue
cessor on the firing line.
Her Fare Is Familiar.
From her first day on the Colum-
bia lot, Janet was a pet of the fan
magazines. Now, with less than a
year in the movies behind her and
her third picture in that period OF
time. the feminine lead in Two
Yanks in Trinidad" opposite Pat
O'Brien and Brian Donlevy just
completed, Janet is receiving more
than her share of attention from
newspaper editors and national mag
azines of general circulation.
The Blair form and features are
becoming familiar to millions of
newspaper readers of the country,
while of recent months, Janet has
been the subject of PHOTOGRAPHIC
layouts in most of the top picture
magazines. Since editors OF news
papers and news magazines reflect
this interest of the general public,
starletS who get beyond the scope of
the trade" or fan magazines into
general circulation publications feel
that they have really arrived.
Janet started her professional
career as a canary" meaning that
she sang with a dance orchestra.
The late Hal Kemp heard her sing
ing the "Alma Mater" of her AL
toona, Pa, high school and signed
her as the featured singer with his
orchestra. She stayed with the band
until the untimely death of Kemp
cember, 1910. In March, 1941, she
arrived in Hollywood and walked
right into a Columbia Pictures
contract.
won InfHcuIdte AtteHtlOH.
Following her screen debut as one
of Three Girls About Town." Co
lumbia didn't even wait for option
time, but signed Janet to a new
contract without the usual six
months clause That, in itself. is
significant, for studios don't fool
around when it comes to contracts.
AS a result of her first workout in
front of the cameras, the studio de.
cided to give Miss Blair "the Hay
worth treatment"
Miss Hayworth played a subor-
dinate role in one of the Blonde"
pictures, testing ground for many
new actresses and actors. Miss Blair
was Immediately cast in Blonde
Goes TO College" where she was
given enoagh foosage TO provide
Evening star., 1942-04-05

center, 1On-nunSry SOlOleFS anu
sailors give them a thunderous
welcome.
They're so hungry for entertain
ment that you can't look at those
kids and not want to break your
neck to show them a good time, "
saws Kay KySer, the old professor
of radios "Kollege of Music Know
ledge" who Is back in town after a
tour Of military centers with his
band.
Sure, there's some ham in all OF
us. We like the cheers and the
pats on the back. But it's more
than that. Why, you can't help
but be touched when you see tears
of genuine gratitude in the eyes OF
a tough old brigadier general for
the show you've given his men.
LAS a matter of fact, we don't feel
that we're doing the boys a favor.
They're doing us a favor instead.
Between his Wednesday night
broadcasts, Kay has visited more
than 20 Army and Navy camps
across the country, but none of his
experiences quite touched the visit
last summer to Camp Roberts, in
Southern California desert country
where there are few opportunities
for diversion.
A Red-Hot Show.
The show was scheduled for 2 pm
Soldiers began gathering on the side
of a n-parched sand hill two hours
ahead of time, hundreds of them.
Marlene Dietrich, Linda Ware and
other Hollywood stars were in the
Kyser troupe, and they performed
for three hours and ten minutes
under a temperature that would fry
an egg on bare rock.
A burlap canopy over the crude
little stage didn't shield the players
from the slanting sun rays, and the
Kyser face began to look like ripe
tomato. The orchestra's metal in
struments became so hot the musi-
clans could hardly hold them.
"If those soldiers could endure the
sun for five hours" says Kay, 1--WE
felt the least we could do was to
give them the best show we could
At Phoenix, Ariz., hangar was
converted into a temporary theater
The drop lights threw shadow
on the casts faces, so I asked
II we couldn't arrange for some
Evening star., 1942-04-05
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. c. APRIL s. 1912

Jinx survived a threatened re-
moval of her left kidney. This was
a cinch, as she was born with one
kidney only, and that her right.
I'VE found this out when the
doctor wanted to take out the nom
existent kidney" she says.
After wasting a year or so in Hol-
lywood waiting for a film career
Jinx accepted a small role in the
Al Jolson Broadway show, Hold
On to Your Hats" thus bringing joy
to her local fan club, headquarters
for the myriad Falkenberg fan clubs
all over the United States.
She has f1ve-year contract with
Columbia Pictures, and in the past
year has appeared in three minor
movies.
Il am being groomed for bigger
things" she says, hopefully.
Jinx recently completed Sweet
heart of the Fleet" Her next is
Cover Girl" with Rita Hayworth
and In technicolor, a medium that
should benefit Miss Falkenburg and
serve as showcase for her S feet
7 inches, 125 pounds of vivid vital
ity.
Released by the North American News
paper Alliance, nc.)
Evening star., 1942-04-05
NEW YORK.

NEW 4S1b1As
A week ago beauteous, bouncing
Jinx Falkenburg was spreading good
will and cheer in Mexico. Between
assignments she discussed favorite
topic with young womanhood-the-
kind of-man-I-want-to-m
What you're really looking for, y
said fellow Hollywood actress, "is
a man on night-Shift who is never
home in the day time"
Not exactly" said Jinx "but I
want some one who works all day.
I don't want him around the house
He must make more money than I
do, and must look like Joel McCrea u
At this interesting point, Miss Fall
kenburg was called to the telephone.
How would you like to earn 81 900
a week." her agents voice de-
manded. Jinx has strong physique
and she stood up to the blow.
Where and when?" she crooned.
It turned out to be a little matter
of four personal appearances a day
in Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland
and Boston, one week in each city.
That's a lot of money, most
ever earned" the brunei ex-model
revealed prior to her departure from
New York for Philadelphia. She
had just landed by plane from Los
Angeles and said the trip was rough,
but you would never guess this from
the bloom of vitality on her healthy
face.
What are you going to give the
customers?" she was asked.
I'm doing a singing and dancing
act" replied JinX.
ct didn't know you could sing or
dance"
Neither did l." confessed Jinx,
who is getting a day and half in
which to whip up an act worthy OF
q four-hgure salary.
A Champion Athlete.
But this is a super girl, who can
do practically everything, except fly
And she is learning that from pilot
who tolls for the Douglas Aircraft
Co. in California.
Recently JinX won the women's
doubles tennis championship OF
Southern California. She is also
Evening star., 1942-04-05

experience and develop versatility.
Then the choice role in Two Yanks
in Trinidad" was handed to her.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
That Cowboy Garb
Attracts Attention,
So Attracts Stars
Wide World News.

Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.
That was no cowboy! That was a
movie star.
Maybe it's the Hopalong Cassidy
or the Gene Autry influence, or
something, but such leading male
players as Clark Gable, Joel McCrea,
Fred MacMurray, Robert Taylor and
others are discarding their drape
cuts, imported shoes and hand-knit
socks for cowboy boots, 10-gallon
hats and plain shirts.
Give any of 'em a Western outfit
and he's as happy as a man with
a new automobile tire. 1t gives
them an escape from their studio
Evening star., 1942-04-05

routine-but they Also don't over
look the fact that such garb at
tracts attention.
Others who have fallen for the
Wild West fad include Abbott and
Costello, who have a wardrobe
packed with such trappings; Dick
Arlen, Don Wilson, Allan Jones, Leo
Carrillo and Preston Foster.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Richard Dix Signs

Richard Dix has signed a four-pic-
ture contract with Producer Harry
Sherman at Paramount, after get
ting the offer on the basis of his
performances in "Tombstone-the
Town Too Tough to Die" and
American Empire" both large
scale frontier dramas produced by
Sherman. They will be released
soon: Dix will make the four pic
lures within the next two years and
the first subject will be announced
shortly.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NATIONAK-"Clauda with Dorothy Mcclure
Frances original returns for week
starting tomorrow night.
Screen.
cAPIrOI-e which William Holden and
Ellen problems solved by ghosts from the past
principally that of Andy Jackson arrives Thursday Tnere also
will be new variety bill the stage.
with Carole Lombard JACK
Benny, here Thursday
EARIE-The Fleets musical froic with Dorothy Lamour
Eddie Bracken and Cass Daley arrives FRIDAY
a show accompanying It, OF course
KEITHS-"Au Money version OF Stephen
Vincent Benets Devil and Daniel Webster with Walter
Huston and Edward Arnold is next on the schedule.
LITE-Ou Front documentary account OF the battle
ON democracys important today compiled by Lewis
Milestone commentary by Walter Huston starts Tues
night
METROPOIITAN-"Aways with Walter (the same)
Francis, introducing young singer
named Gloria Warren, opens Friday.
Tripo with Marines John Payne and
Randolph Maureen OTara, follows "The
Courtship Hardy"
Evening star., 1942-04-05
From Songs to Stardom
Janet Blair, Former Band Singer,
Carves Herself Film Career
HOLLYWOOD.

Haywoh Hoywoods
studio promising actress and
build-u films through publicity.
from the meeor of Miss Hayworth
and featured player stardom within
8 months
young carving cnematic would
Evening star., 1942-04-05
It's Work But It's Fun
Broadway and Hollywood Stars
Enjoy Playing Camp Shows
By Don Whitehead,
Wide World News.

and Hollywood discovering it's lot Of
o for nothing.
GUYS their contract under
serving their glamour and laughs free 10 uncle
fighting men-and getting a bang out Of it.
this when they Army Navy
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-07
Success Story
g. .,..
Seen In Reverse

TORONTO, Canada -(C)--Manv
Of you may not remember, but those
who have g terrific memory for
names will know Jamaica Joe Pet-
erscn who was one-tin3e famous
bandleader and now al attendant in
the mems room at the Pala15e
Royal ballroom here. His IS q story
from riches to rags. Speaking of
his band and the past:
"rt was the first. ail-ukule band
in the United States" renir1isced
Jamaica Joe, land organized it in
Chicago over ten years ago" Peter
son said they played such Chicago
spots as the old Kenton Tea Gar
dens, the Orient and several Chica-
go theatres Billed as Joe Peterson's
Sig Dark Clouds of Rhythm they
later toured the United States, ap-
pearing along with Ted Lewis, Ben
Bernie and others.
My home is in Jamaica,' said
Joe, "but most of the other boys
hailed from st. Louis. It was long
ago, SO long ago, that I can't re-
member all their last names. We
disbanded after two years together
when Morris White left to join the
Missourians." The Missourians later
served as the nucleus of Cab Gallo
ways present band.
Last heard" smiled Joe, White
is playing guitar and has his own
small con1bo in New York" And
that was al lie had to say about mis-
past.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-07
RATING THE RECORDS

beautiful, and so is his golden trurn-
pet on the turnover, I SUEREN-
DER DEAR, thoroughly commercial
and slow with the singing cornbo Of
girl and chorus e., It sounds as if
Ray Scott had q hand in FLAG
WAIVER, by Tony Pastor on Blue
bird. A killer, it has unusual voicing
and phrasing and the boys ride
strongly. Companion piece, RATA
GACUE, is a bouncing excuse to
show off the drummer.
CAB IN YIDDISH
Now it's r1i-de-ho with Yiddish
accent. Cab Galloway gives that
treatment to MAIN MAIN on Okeh
with the boys helping. Lots of sock
Discnate is TAPPING OFF, a jump
jamboree with popping tenor sax -.
Give Bob Crosby hand for re-
turning to the righteous stuff ir1-
stead Of that sickening twaddle Of
recent moons. His best Decca in
months is IT WAS ONLY A
DREAM, the Big Bill blues number
with Eddie Miller singing and blow
ing terrific tenor. The other side,
TAKE TT EASY, jumps siaartly
above an easy riff. There's good
growl trurnpet<and excellent full or
cllestration. Not Dixieland but solid
anyway. .....s ....
Playing piano in tbs sophisticated,
Carmen Cavallaro style, Arturo Ar
turos is heard on Victor album
called "Cubano Rhythn1s" featuring
fascinating bolero, rupba, beguine
and Afro -Cubano rhythmnastics, all
African in origin. The sides are
JUNGLE DRUMS, MISIRLOU,
THE LADY IN RED, LAMENTO
BORINCANO. BEGIN THE BE-
GAME, SILENCIO, ISLE OF
CAPRI and TABOO. Anybody who
likes smart" music will enjoy this
collection.
The new Andy Kirk Decca is
mainly a display of Henry Wells
talents as q ballad singer. Titles are
I'M misunderstood and NO
ANSWER, both slow and torchy
with Wells also grooming on the lat
ter Featuring his electric guitar
Alvino Ray is heard on the Blue
bird Of LIBERSTRAUM (Which
bows to Jan Savitt's recent Decca)
and NOT A STAR IN SIGHT,
sweet and soft but ordinary . .
Woody Herman is always competent
even when playing such pop tunes
as I'LL REMEMBER APRIL and I
THINK of YOU, a Decca The
Erskine Butterfield Decca Of MAMA
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-07
Chicken Shack
Is Never Empty
EY ALVIN MOSES

NEW YORK CAMP Since
lirnpid eyed LOUISE RAINIER and
pert ISABEL JEWEL, leaders in
Hollywood's screen colony visited
--J1rnrny Baoon's chicken shack.
the spot is never empty after mid
night. The floor show of Chauuie
Willet's Indigo room (New Ro-
chelle), has polished off the rough
edges and is now, a treat to the
eye and ear; Lee Crawford is the
rapid-fire gage man; Short and
Shorty are dancing dervishes: ABLY
supported by Inez Washirgton.
Sandra lthe girl who wiggles like
an electric eeD, Lakeeta and Satin
dra, Jack Meredith and the Rhythm
Aces orchestra-We're going to en-
deavor to see that MERCEDES
GILBERT receives an onportunitv
70 do a Jane Adams" First World
War actress), in the various army
camps with her-ONE WOMAN
THEATRE, we'd suggest she delete
the italian sketches and add origi-
nal poems and readings. what ?
grand morale officer Mercedes
would make eh?.. There are
115,000 Negro boys holding the fort
for Uncle Sam at present. it's not
fair for their morale Cor envthinp
eIse) fcr-THE DEPARTMENT. TO
COVER UP JUST ACTUALLY
HAPPENED WHEN NORTHERN
NEGRO sol D1FRi5 Couartered in
Louisiara). WE'RE SHOT UNDER
NAZr CFTSTAPO CONDITIONS >
JOE louis speech at the Nc
Neil Plaque award ceremonies
71earlv establishes the fact that he
10 longer is the ''little Joe" men
ta1 statue) he was held to he and
probably was) few short seasons
900 Actually. ,7oe's choice of word~
and diction-was excellent: Fosl1
are we proud of that hammer
handed Son of Ham; oh yen. oh
vezz-YES SrR.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-07
Br DOLORES CALVIN

New York--(C) -, LEW LESLIE'S
"Blackbirds" will be back again on
Broadway s Lew Leslie and the
"Blackbirds that made such a. sem
sation in 1928 are being seriously
thought about as q comeback j.
Now that "Porgy and Bess" Is do
ing we'll, as comeback, Leslie
thinks his show has the rnakings Of
what It takes to come back to
Broadway
INCIDENTALLY Speaking Of
"Porgy and Bess", the show that
brought the Majestic Theatre out
Of coma, it might be well to men
ton that the original goat, accord
ing to Carl Nelson, who stage
managed the show on tt1e road
would never travel in anything but
a yellow Cab and would make q
beeline for one on the street, in
variably beating the other members
Of the cast to it Catfish Row
Originally Cannage Row, the
sQualid tenement in Charleston, S.
c., from which the stage set for
'Porgy and BesS" was modelled, has
been made over into smart and ex-
pensive studio apartments; the sue
cess of Dorothy and DuBose Hey
wards play, "Porgy", started a
vogue for living in that quarter SO
the poor folks had to move out .
Every kind of backer is in back of
that play. George Gershwins moth
er brother and sister head the list
THIS IS NEWS e.. The u. A. f.
is giving little white kids :, prize
for the best What America Means
To Me- They say Cootie Will
lianls, one of the best trumpeters,
has left Benny Goodman That
Is u doubter Harlem is going to
have q new newspaper, a tabloid, for
q change So many newspapers
have been started here. They come
e.. an dthey go 80, All Harlemites
are betting on Joe Louis camp No.
374 But it hasn't come out yet
If it does, We'll have some mill
lionaires up here Maxine Sulli-
van put off ner South American
tour and is now doing it out with