Evening star., 1942-12-07

miral A. j. Hepburn, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Randall Jacobs, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. L. z. Denfeld, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. H. c. Train, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. A. c. Pickens,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. John H.
Newton, Rear Admiral E. L. Coch-
rane, Rear Admiral and Mrs. w. H.
P. Blandy, Rear Admiral w. s.
Farber, Rear Admiral Ross T. Nc
Intyre and Capt. Leland p. Lovette
and many others, expected to fin
to capacity the Archives audi
torium.
The films national premiere, an
nounced by Howard Dietz, MGM
vice president in charge of publicity
and advertising, will be held on
December 81 in Washington, San
Francisco. Chicago, Norfolk, San
Diego and Boston, linking the great
naval stations of the Nation in one
eventful opening.
Petrillo Paid the Bill.
When This Is the Army played
the National Theater, the seven men
IN the orchestra pit were replaced
by melody makers in uniform. Un-
der the law these musicians could
have looked to the War Department
for reimbursement, since the mill
tary is forbidden to compete with
civilian arts and crafts. But James
c. Petrillo of the American Fedora
tion of Musicians had promised to
cooperate with Army Emergency
Relief, opposed making this an is
sue. He solved the problem by
writing out his personal check for
the idle musicians, each getting
weeks pay.
Scissored by Censors.
Now it develops that Hays Office
sliced but four feet from the Noel
Coward picture, IN Which We
Serve" The production code seal
was granted after the word has
tards," used three times, was elimi-
mated. Some aspersions on the
courage and quality of the Italian
soldiers, using up three lines of dia-
logue, was also scissored. This latter
deletion was made at the request
of Lowell Mellett. chief of the film
division, Office of War Information,
lest it offend Italian Americans.
Fact that the King and Queen of
England saw, and apparently ap-
proved, an uncensored print may
have weighed in the Hays decisions.
Radio City Music Hall made its
own deletions from the print of the I
new Ginger Rogers-Cary Grant pic
ture, once Upon a Honeymoon.
Jewish sequences were eliminated |
from the print by Gus Eysell, man.
aging director. These scenes, far
cial interludes, have also been cut
out of the negative This picture
will be the Christmas week attrac- !
tion at RKO-Keith's Theater.
Campaign on Hooliganism. |
Hooliganism and gate crashing by |
unprincipled juveniles has aroused |
the parent-teacher associations of
the country, and they are being
urged by Parents Magazine to spon-
sor a radio campaign for better
manners by adolescents. Two hun
dred and fifty stations have already
broadcast this appeal for more con-
ventional conduct by young movie
goers. The appeal recites:
Have you ever checked up on
how your teen-age boy and girl
conduct themselves at the NOV
les? We don't mean to be an
alarmist, but vandalism is in
creasing in motion picture houses
and somebody's children are
responsible. You may think it
couldn't possibly be your son or
daughter who destroys property,
disturbs the patrons who have
come to enjoy the film, and
otherwise acts in a hoodlum
manner But young people in a
darkened theater sometimes
cease to be individuals and take
on the characteristics of mob
so that, without thinking, they
adopt manner quite foreign to
their usual selves. I'm sure you'll
agree that the local motion pic
ture theater brings much pleas
ure to your whole family not to
receive your help in putting a
stop to this regrettable behavior
on the part Of thoughtless boys
and girls"
The oxford Boys. originally booked |
to open at the Earle Theater Fri
day, lost one of their number to the
armed forces, bowed out until a