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Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
MariIIac Guild
Has Games Fe+e

MARILLAC GUILD Of st.
Marys Hospital will have their
annual games party. for the
benefit OF the war emergency
fund. in the Wayne Medical
Auditorium today.
Mrs. Henry Platz is chairman
and her assistants are Mrs. Yer.
non johnson. Mrs. Elwood Sharp.
Mrs. Hugh Bevier. Mrs. Fred
Allor. Mrs. Les Winslow. Mrs.
Vincent Keeley and Mrs. William
RooSeen.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Air Group TO Hear
WAVES Speaker

A. DINNER at 6 p. m. in the
Florentine room of the Detroit
Leland Hotel will highlight the
meeting of Women's Aeronauti-
cal Association, Tuesday.
1t Helen Stewart OF the
WAVES will be guest speaker
at the meeting which follows the
dinner.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
No Cooking School
Next tuesday

NEXT THURSDAY being
Thanksgiving. there will be no
cooking school on the preceding
Tuesday. November "a.
However, cooking school will
be resumed the following week,
December /
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Miss Rosen+haI's
Engagement Told

THE ENGAGEMENT of their
daughter, Mary Ann, 10 1t.
i. e. Leslie VERIFY, USNR, is
announced by Mr.. and Mrs.
Maurice L. Rosenthal of Park
side avenue.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21

praying and singing, waiting for
God 10 hand them salvation on
a1 SILVER platter - just because
they} haven't ever busted into
Jail. '
Meek mice who have never
risked anything, or started any
thing and think they should
therefore be entitled 10 an eter-
nifty Of bliss. But if God favors
that kind of Cream Puff. He
can count me off His campaign
list. What | like and choose TO
follow is the stout hearted sol
dier vho shouts
Praise the Lord and pass the
ammunition!
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Change Shoes

ANY one whose feet perspire
freely does well 10 change TO a
fresh pair Of shoes every day,
OF even 10 change again during
the day Otherwise. tho same
pair can be worn every day pro-
Nded The stockings arc fresh.
Have your stockings rnomy
enough 80 that. there is no pres
sure on tho ends of tho toes
when you stand. The correct
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Get Feet in Condition
For Walking Days Ahead
BY IDA JEAN KAN

WITH GAS rationing soon to
be in effect, our feet are due for
co-,.,,,,N
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
o Frances
y Drake

in Your Birthday Comes In and Find What
Your Outlook Is According TO the Stars,
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Fighting Heart

7 wasn't at Pearl Harbor.
have never been engaged in a
major military fracas. But this
l know:
No great cause has ever been
won unless there was a fighting
heart behind IL.
You need more than devotion
TO win any righteous war. You
need commotion-and plenty of
il. You need sweat and tears
and blood - as we'll as the
Twenty-third Psalm And Faith
without Fireworks is phooey.
l repeat didn't learn this in
war. But l learned il in life,
with many an uppercut.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21

notion. Certainly not Christ. II
ever a man paid dearly for hin
goodness. He did. But before
He paid. We performed.
He didn't SllSt SIT around NUT.
tering prayers. He went into the
Temples and larruped the tar
out of the chiselers, parasites
and racketeers. He praised the
Lord" yes. But he also "pass~A
the ammunition"-and how
And I'm thinking this nat9N
had better remember that fact
and quick, The greatest hope
in human history is Christianity.
But nobody is going 10 get IL
free. You'll either fight for IL or
take the count.
Ethically speaking. we're q
pretty good nation. Few OF US
rob or murder or indulge In
nefarious practices. SO. as
people. we are quite sure that
we'll win this war. But we
won't,
Well win this war only If and
when we pass the ammunition"
and raise hell with the rats
who are opposing us.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Low Heels for Work

II your lower extremities
function normally. you can wear
either high or low heels. But
YOU should not buy heels that
arc very high for work or for
walking any great distance.
After YOU have been accus-
toned TO high heels for a long
time. il may be that you VIII
need prescribed exercises Ito
shift TO low heels.
Besie+<~ seeing that the heel
Is a comfortable height make
sure that the last is right for
your foot. The height of the
uccl and the last are a i'm
portant 10 the fit OF the shoe as
width and length.
IL Is the person who stands at
her lob this specialist tells me
who has the worst trouble. II
YOU have 70 stand 10 work, YOU
can case the strain by wearing
sensible heels and by standing
with feet parallel, toes slightly
turned IN
Foot exercises, friction baths.
and resting with feet elevated
for few minutes at the end Of
the day are all a great help.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
He Performed

I started life, as most of my
generation did. with the notion
be good and you'll be safe" l
don't know who started that
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
Facing First Challenge

There's an old saying. 1T isn't
enough 10 be good; you've got TO
be good for something" And that
saying should be on the wall Of
every home in America today.
For we are facing the frst
real challenge. and the toughest
our system OF life has ever
faced.
SO far. we've done pretty well
by ourselves. We haven't had
much TO tackle. So we just took
II for granted that we were
Gods little pets.
But Gods calling our bluff
today. We've got to prove that
We Nave what il takes 10 carry
on His kingdom-or stop kid
ding. Fine phrases will no longer
see us through. There are guns
blazing and we must man them
or else, So its:
Praise the Lord"
And pass the ammunition"
Or take the consequences.
Copyright, 1912. by King Features
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21

One of the first of your new
rules for foot care should be 10
have them measured every time
YOU buy a pair of shoes They
are going TO get larger with use.
The increased, freedom of ac-
tIon will let the muscles and
soft tissues develop 10 normal.
But the size won't be ConSpicu-
Gus Thanks 10 organized ath-
leticS and greater care in the
fitting of shoes. all the young
StefS growing up nowadays have
blgeer-and better-feet.
1t is not unusual for one foot
10 be larger than the other and
your shoes should be fitted TO
that foot, whichever il is.
The pediatrist who checked
over these pointers for comfort
with me says it's possible TO.
have shoes too large. but un-
likely that any woman would
make such a mistake. However.
you can overdo on size.
a shoe that is too large causes
friction by slipping up and down
and does not give the foot
,,vorFf. ettt,rnrf
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-21
MARCH 2f ne APRIL eO

for Sunday Norembfr %
Evening star., 1942-06-07

in the American theater wing can
teen where she performed as a hos
tess, takes over Ann Sayer's role in
MY Sister Eileen"
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
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Heffernun
Continued From Page ED

was a way to solve the all-vital
problem of readjusting living ex-
penSes.
Sells Philosophy, Too.
With that drive werl under way.
Dorothy now volunteered for an
other swing around the country,
this time under the auspices of the
Motion Picture Committee for Hol-
lywood. to urge payroll savings so
that a steady flow rather than flash
sales would go to the Treasury.
While selling bonds, Dorothy has
been selling the philosophy of the
war and deftly interesting other
big businesses in the Hollywood
savings plan. She has turned into
a supersalesman and, more impor-
tant, a fine propagandist for the
overall war effort. If Hollywood
had 20 Dorothy Lamours, personali-
ties inspired from deep down within
their own souls to 60 all-out for
their country, they wouldn't be able
to print bonds fast enough.
In Gary, Ind. this girl who before
last December Z was known only as
a grooming movie star in sarong,
stood on the steps of the City Hall
for five hours and across her palm
passed $4,280 900 for the purchase of
War bonds. When she left that
city-and others in her current tour,
which wound up in Texas few days
ago-she left behind a hugh stack
of weekly payroll savings pledges.
When Dorothy arrived in Hunt
ington, w. Va, population $4,000
she found 100000 persons lining the
Evening star., 1942-06-07

nagerie store window. He bought
cake of ice every day and kept it
with the polar bear in the bathtub
of their hotel apartment. But one
day the animal frightened one of
the hotel guests, so Red had to get
did Of it.
~.-e4 Edna Never Complains.
But does Mrs. Skelton complain
about such things? No! She gets
just as big a kick out of his pranks
as he does.
Born In vincennes, md, % years
ago, the son of Jacob Shelton, a
circus clown, Red joined a medicine
show at the age of 10. Since then,
he appeared in Mississippi River
showboats, burlesque performances,
musical comedies and virtually every
other branch Of theatricals, except
grand opera.
In 1888 Red appeared in a movie
called Having Wonderful Time"
That picture smelled so bad"
said the comedian, '+it took me four
years to get back here"
Two other pictures followed. Then
he made "Whistling in the Dark"
which originally was intended as a
'quickie," but which made a barrel
Of dough. Recently Red made three
more pictures, including Panama
Hattie" as yet unreleased.
Now. despite his success in pic
lures and radio, Red still carries a
pocketfull of contracts that would
enable him to return to at least a
full years work in vaudeville, should
he ever decide to return to the stage
That's my pension money" says
Red, "in case my radio and picture
activities flop"
Shelton plans to start his summer
vacation next week. When he re-
turns to radio in the fall, he expects
to keep his present show largely in
tact, but with q few new characters.
One will be that of an aristocratic,
igar-smoking old Southern colonel,
which Red is positive will click.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

other women. big and little, for
March Of Time.
She spent hours at the New York
docks listening to immigrants and
studying their voices and manner
isms. If she found a particularly
interesting person. she'd follow her
for blocks and blocks, or into store
after store, memorizing her voice.
Agnes isn't a pretty girl-and
she's first to admit it. She has high
cheek bones and an irregular mouth.
but she isn't unattractive, either.
She has a fine sense of humor
So she has played many an old hag
role, but she doesn't mind too much.
She has been doing that ever since
she was IL, when she put on red
flannels and a lot of petticoats and
makeup for church show.
Il never was pretty enough to
play a heroine. AS a little girl I
was the long. gangly type. almost
as tall as I am now Is feet g., sad
and pathetic. I have no vanity at
all, especially since Orson."
Orson, of course. is Orson Welles.
Agnes was in his first Mercury
Theater production and has been in
all of them since. He brought her
to Hollywood.
Agnes has no illusions about ever
becoming a glamour star but she
would like to do something really
fine, artistic"
She's 80. has chestnut hair. and
is married to Jack Lee, San Fran
siscan who became an actor and
radio director in New York but has
retired to their 320-acre farm near
New Concord, Ohio.
Her ambition is to become a great
actress and divide her time between
farm and studio. She has no in
tention Of giving up the farm, come
what may in Hollywood.
There's security on a farm. But
who can accurately predict Holly
wood?"
Evening star., 1942-06-07

scene that he soon had scores OF
| passersby in near-convulsions.
To him, it was just another act, of
course-one of the many he always
is pulling in an effort to get laugh
but in his show it clicked imme-
diately.
But all the fan letters don't con-
Germ junior alone. They comment
at length on such other characters
in the Shelton show as Dead-Eye,
Glen and Daisy June. The junior
role was Mrs. Skeletons idea; the
others originated with Red.
When a Shelton program goes
into preparation, Edna outlines the
general situation. Gag writer's then
fill in the jokes, with Red, Harriet
Hilliard and the little Negro boy,
Wonderful Smith chats his real
name), collaborating.
One gag writer assumes the role
of Junior and utters aloud whatever
dialogue pops into his head that
bad little boy might say. including
Reds trademark, "If I do, I det
whippin'-I dood It'll"
Other gag writer's assume the role
of Glen, Daisy June, Mommie,
Dead-Eye and Wonderful Smith.
And, when they all get going, it's
like a five-ring circus.
The program probably is the least
rehearsed of any on the air. When
the script is completed, they have
one rehearsal before it goes to the
radio station for approval. Then
Shelton and his gang give it dress
rehearsal and it's ready for the air.
Junior a Model-Of Sort.
There's one thing Red is extremely
particular about. He knows that
Junior has tremendous following
among youngsters, so he sees to it
that at no time does Junior tell
falsehoods, steal. or do anything else
that's dishonest.
Naturally, however, being an in
quisiive and energeic youngser,
Junior always is getting into trouble.
But Red takes care to show the
child realizes he is about to do
wrong, and that if he does, he is
bound to get that whipping.
The Shelton home is a large, two
story building that usually Is filled
with knick-knacks and visiting rela-
tives. Because Red has a habit Of
saving every little trinket that's
given him, the place soon got so
cluttered UP he decided to build on
large den. complete with fireplace,
where he can work
The Shelton family consists of an
Angora cat and two Boston bull
puppies, and Red likes to romp with
the dogs in the large, well
scaped backyard.
In the extreme rear Of the place
is victory garden, where Red
jokingly admits he grows his own
corn. To prove it. he actually has
a dozen little stalks, now about 4
inches high. He also has six tomato
plants and four short rows of
radishes, of which he is plenty proud.
But Red has few hobbies. He says
he's interested only in being a clown.
Once he came home with a baby
polar bear he had seen in a me-
Evening star., 1942-06-07
The Sons Are Just Like Their Fathers
Soldiers of This War May Have Rough Tough Exterior,
But Oracle Fields Finds Them Sentimental Too
Bv Don Whifehead,
Wide World.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
=, The rough, tough fighting men
OF the United Nations may have
a war-hardened exterior, but under
meath they're just lot Of senti-
mental lads to blond, loose -limbed
Oracle Fields, England's top CO.
medienne.
Oracle has entertained the SOL
diers of two wars and admits that
at the age of "A she's no spring
chicken" but she's still going strong.
For the past two and half years
she's been cheering up fighting
men in France, Britain, Canada
and the United States.
The sons are no different from
their fathers of the First World
War. she has found.
The tougher people are" said
Oracle, "the softer they are. 1t
doesn't make any difference
whether they're American or Brit
ish or Canadian. They like sin
cere sentiment"
This onetime Lancashire cotton
mill girl who became the best
loved comedienne In England has
made 391 personal appearances
since the war began and raised a
net total of $2,291 1897 for the Brit
ish War Relief and Navy League
of Canada, in addition to appear
.ances at Army and Navy camps.
Bundles for Oracle"
Now she's taking time out to ap-
pear in Keep En- Laughing" her
first Broadway appearance in IL
years. After this engagement, she'll
prepare for another cross-country
war relief tour.
II thought it was time to do a
Bundles for Oracle" she laughed.
She was able to bring only limited
amount of money out of England
and she pays her own expenses.
Despite the strain of such rigor-
Gus routine of travel and entertain
ment, blue-eyed Oracle shows no
signs of fatigue and gets a great
deal of fun out of her appearances.
Her comical gestures and dialect
have proved to be popular with
Americans. But Oracle never fol-
lows a set routine in any appear
-ance. She can switch from high to
low comedy or to sentimental num-
bers without break.
~ Il never know exactly what I'm
going to do" she said. 1T takes a
couple of numbers to find what
the audience likes, and then I give
it to EN-"
And They Love It."
- During recent visit to the
Stage Door Canteen Of the Amer
ican Theater Wing, Oracle was
warned against singing sentimental
numbers because the rule is that
sailors and soldiers must be kept in
a happy mood.
But they kept yelling for me to
sing Ave Maria and the White
Cliffs Of Dover" she said. so I
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Church Her Drama School
Agnes Moorehead Perfected Her Acting
Initiating Her Fathers Parishioners
By Charles McMnyry,
By Charles McMnrtry,
Wide World.
HOILYWOOD


you'd seen little Agnes Moorehead singing choir
loft with angelic light in her blue Clinton
might eventually
the stage, in radio plays or before movie
However, might not be surprised
or 10 Of mikng members of the congregation
Evening star., 1942-06-07

But when Oracle returned, the
criticism changed to cheers. She
was the darling Of the theater again.
Before Dunkerque, she travelled in
France from Brest to Arras. 1t
didn't make any difference to her
whether there were three men or
5000. She always put on a show
for them.
Even now, whenever she meets a
British sailor or soldier on the street,
she stops and chats, giving him a
pat on the back. The British youths
love it.
But Gracie's casual friendliness
caused her no little embarrassment
the other day on Fifth avenue when
she mistook an American marine
for a British sailor.
Oracle stopped the marine to give
him a word of cheer. But he'd
never heard of Oracle Fields.
Say, sister," the Leatherneck
growled while passersby stared,
whats your game?"
Oracle beat a hasty retreat-re-
solved hereafter to make no mis-
takes about uniforms.
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Paul Henreid Cast

AS soon as Paul Henreid is fin-
ished with his role opposite Bette
Davis In Now. Voyager" at Warner
Bros, he goes into the cast of
"Casablanca" at the same studio.
"Casablanca," co-starring Hum
phrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman,
has just gone before the cameras.
1t is being directed by Michael
Curtiz. whose last previous produc-
ton was Yankee Doodle Dandy
the James Cagney film.
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Stars Babies Get
Top Billing Early
'OIIYWCOD

Wide World. HOLLYWOOD.
The babies of Alice Faye fMrs.
Phil Harris and Lee Russell mrs
Herbert MarshalD took front row
center in the hospitals glassed- in
room for new arrivals.
Nurses explained 1t saves a lot
Of their time to put celebrities
children up next to the window,
where visitors can get good looks
and "oh" and "ah' to their hearts
content.
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Finally, He 'Dood It
But 1t Took Red Shelton Time
To Get His Huge Fan Mail
HOLLYWOOD.


Red Skeletons Il Dood It. has become international
If don't believe It, O
carrot top comedian receives from
in
Evening star., 1942-06-07

said to myself what the devil. II
that's what they want, why not give
it to emp and the boys loved it.
There's nothing wrong about being
sentimental"
The thing that irritates Oracle
most during her appearances is
for the master of ceremonies to give
her a big buildup as England's
greatest comedienne. While the
description fits her, she thinks it
gets her of to bad start with
audience looking for entertainment
and not personalities.
Sometimes, Oracle tells her au-
dience after such an introduction,
you'd think I was the Queen of
England. Nonsense! Forget i'll"
and Oracle proceeds to give.
In Pre-Dunkerque France.
During the phony phase Of the
war, Oracle came to Hollywood with
her husband, Monty Banks, to do
some pictures for a British concern.
There was considerable criticism
In England when she wasn't at
home as the bombs began to fall
on London.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

sidewalks. every school and store
closed. She sold $3,430, 900 worth of
bonds there. Showmanship had en-
tered the business of selling bonds.
Dorothy's success can be traced di-
rectly to that inner Lamour urge to
do something. She feels, actually
and ,sincerely-and modestly-that
selling bonds is the greatest thing
on earth today.
Wouldn't for Selves.
It's this same urge that's putting
Hollywood on wheels and back "on
the road" again. What else could
possibly send more than a score OF
the screens greatest stars on three
weeks Of one-night stands? Celebri-
ties like Claudette Colbert, Joan
Bennett, Joan Blonden. Bob Hope,
Charles Boyer, Cary Grant, Bing
Crosby, James Cagney. Olivia De
Havilland and many others spent 10
of those q nights on board train.
They did it without pay and they
raised more than 100000.
There isn't money enough to get
them to do it in theaters for profit
to themselves. In days of silent
movies 1t was customary for stars
to make occasional theater appear
ances, merely bow and smile at the
patrons and live like kings and
queens for five grand or more salary
a week. These stars today were act
ing, singing, dancing, trouping as
their part in the war effort.
The same urge to make the lives
of men in uniform more pleasant
has prompted folks like Jack Benny,
Rudy Vallee, Bob Hope. Kay Kyser
and dozens of others to take their
entire radio shows to camps. travel
ing hours by motor and going to days
of trouble when they might relax
in a broadcasting studio few blocks
from their homes. And that's why
Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin,
jeanette Macdonald and many more
have appeared at faraway camps
and why every feminine star in
Hollywood is willing to travel to
some soldier, sailor or marine can
teen and serve coffee and dough-
nuts and dance and talk with the
soldier boys.
Yes, Hollywood has really "hit the
road" again-and loves it.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

next theatrical venture will be an
other revival, this time Chekhov's
Three Sisters" The Moon Is
Down" finally is down and out,
having left Broadway this week end.
-. Spring Again" will close for the
summer to give veterans Grace
George and c. Aubrey Smith a
needed vacation. Present plans call
for reopening on Labor Day. {.
Several cinema stars are eying
legitimate plays with a view to So
journing here next fall. Charles
Boyer has consulted the Theater
Guild and Jack Oakie is hoping to
find something that will justify a
New York acting fling. Next
week. Peggy Knudsen. discovered
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choir vantage point.
Agnes father was a Presbyterian
minister, the Rev. DR.. John Moore
head. He encourage her as an
actress-but insisted that she not
slight her education. That's why
Agnes owns not only B. A. degree,
but masters as we'll, from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
MY father was quite a Snowman"
Agnes recalls with pride. so he
was very sympathetic. He said it
was only a step from the pulpit to
the stage"
School Came First.
Agnes made her first public ap-
pearance at 3, singing a solo in
church. At IL she was in a ballet
chorus at the ST. Louis Municipal
Opera. She wanted to plunge into
professional acting Immediately, but
father. said school came first.
She continued mimicking parish
toner's until father was in stitches
I" but he wouldn't let me
know that he was until years later.
He almost burst sometimes, hid
ing 1t.
when was naughty, he'd set me
up on shelf of the hardest ency-
clopedias you ever saw and gave me
a psalm to memoriZe. There I sat
until could recite it. 1t was won
derful memory training. And 1t
made me think before I'd do some
thing wrong again."
Agnes went from Wisconsin to the
American Academy in New York
because i can't sell myself-I'm
still scared to ask any one for
part. If I was good at the academy,
some one would see me and give me
a chance"
Some one did. Agnes was playing
in "Candlelight" on Broadway when
the depression hit and producers
virtually quit staging plays. She
took a role in mystery melodraYna
at NBC at S2250 a week, hoping
1t would lead to something more.
That did, too.
Several radio breaks and a 20
week tour of one-night stands with
Seth Parker followed. She got the
Parker job on her ability to initiate
Ma Parker twho didn't make the
trip reciting chapters from the the
Bible at high speed. She had
learned a lot of those verses perched
on encyclopedias in her fathers
study.
She developed her art of mimicry
so we'll that she initiated the voices
of the Duchess of Windsor. Queen
Wilhelmina, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
Nine. Chang Kai-shek and a lot of
Evening star., 1942-06-07

ADJUSTMENTS.