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Evening star., 1942-07-06
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Capitol-"The Magnificent Dope"
Mr.. Fonda laughed at but loved:
II a m, LAS, 4:30, tbs and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1885, $40, 6::25 and
9:15 pm.
COlumbia-"Her Cardboard Low
err the smart set in action: 11:4O,
am, l:40, $40, $40, TAO and $40
pm.
Earle-'Larceny, Inc" Eddie
Robinson as another variety of
gangster: II am, 1:4O, 4::30, 7:25
and 1910 pm. Stage shows: 12:45,
$40, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Keith's-"Lady in Jam" Irene
Dunno and giddily so: 11;50 am,
1;50, $50, $50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Little-"The Man Who Seeks the
Truth" French comedy with the
indispensable Raimu: Il am, 1855,
2:4O, 4:25, 6:1o, 755 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan-"S "Sergt. York" saga
of war hero: 11:25 am, 2:05, 4:35
7:05 and 9:40pm
Palace-"Ten Gentlemen From
West Point" Hollywood founds the
United States Military Academy:
11:45 am, 2:10, 4:40, ITO and 9::35
pm.
Pix-"Mexican Spitfire Sees a
Ghost: 2, 445, 7;30 and 1918 pm
whispering Ghosts: $3.50, 6:15 and
Q pm.
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Fan Mail by Air
For Marv Martin

Mary Martin received fan letter
right out Of the air. today.
The actress and Dick Powell were
on location in the valley, filming
technicolor scenes for Paramounts
Happy Go Lucky" when a huge
alrplane, being tested by an airship
plant, flew overhead.
The plane flew over the location
troupe, throwing out a parachute
message. The "air" communication
landed close to Mary's dressing room
and the singing star chased through
brush and rock to recover it. The
message read
Il don't know what picture is be-
ing filmed down there, but would
you please have the star send nv
little daughter, Lillian, an auto
graphed picture. Thank you" The
pilots name and address was at
the bottom of the message.
Mary showed the fan letter to
Dick and the two Immediately auto
graphed a picture to the flyers
daughter. The photographs, how
ever, will be sent by regular mail.
Evening star., 1942-07-06

cracking with the men. One seri-
ously burned victim was swathed in
bandages from head to foot.
Hello" greeted Hope.
Say, you must make lot of
money! said the seaman.
why yes, but that doesn't mean
anything answered the comic.
Sure it does" the sailor shot back.
If you make so much money why
don't you buy yourself a haircut"
For once Hope was speechless.
We like the simplicity of some
people. Katina PaXinou, called the
Katharine Cornell of the Greek
stage, signed for her first film role
as Pillar in For Whom the Bell
Tolls" was brought to the Para
mount studio for her first portrait
sitting.
After posing in two dresses, the
photographer asked the black-eyed
actress if she had more wardrobe.
"Oh, yes" nodded Nine. Paxinou.
Gould we get them now?"
There are 18 trunks of them-at
the bottom Of the Atlantic" she re-
piled. THE boat on which I was
coming to this land of liberty was
torpedoed and am happy to be
here as am"
Released by the North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.
Evening star., 1942-07-06

lecting $1050 each just for the
written permission to use their
photographs on a wall scene. .
Without such permission, studios
that show peoples photographs on
the screen are subject to possible
law suits.
Pays to Be Ugly.
Orphaned Oddity-Glamour and
beauty have their own priced re-
wards, but there are a couple of
hundred rough looking guys around
Hollywood, known as "hardpans, +"
who make a fairly comfortable liv-
ing in the movies because they have
such ugly, battle-scarred faces. . i.
Casting directors used to pick up
the erstWhile oWn-and-outers from
rescue missions when needed for
prison scenes and other tough roles.
But now that the picture industry
has enabled them to become at
least partly rehabilitated, they don't
have to look to charity for food and
shelter. :.
And, they also enjoy the distinc-
ton of being classed as movie
Shouldn't Worry.
Daffy Dilly-A juvenile film fan
in Devon, England, hopes that
Actor Bill Boyd will keep his famous
white horse Topper safe from
the Japs. Topper is a very
nice horse" Master Peter Weeks
wrote the invincible Hopalong Cas-
sidy of the Paramount sleuth Sc
rial. . 1T is nice to see him in
the films. . I hope he will be
all right and safe from the Japs."
But little Peter doesn't have to
worry. &. If the Japs ever get
close enough to these shores to nab
the horse, they'll get kicked in more
ways than Topper can do it!
Chitter Chatter.-Lieut. Comdr.
Corydon M. Wassell, about whose
feat in evacuating American
wounded In the battle of Java the
movies are making a picture, has
the same birthday as the United
States. Fourth of July.
And was born In the same town
as Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
Little Rock, Ark.
Evening star., 1942-07-06

coral Oed DdlIle, ana DeIOTe lfldC, a
year and half with the Flying
Tigers in China. For a time back
there Army doctors thought Maj.
Murdock was going to die from the
six machine-gun wounds in his
head and three in the right knee.
But here he is, in Hollywood, Wis
iting the studios.
The once beautiful, still lovely
woman playing an extra role at the
rear of the set, which is a cafe
sequence, is Trudy Berliner, former
star for UFA in Germany. Trudy
got out just in time. Hollywood
means much more to Trudy than
a place to work in occasional bit
roles.
The other woman at the same
table with Trudy is Dina Smirnova,
tall, dark, tragic-eyed A great Rus
sian actress, a great dancer of other
days. She loves Hollywood best
when the Ballet Russo plays summer
night engagements in the starlit
bowl.
Hungarian born Michael Curtiz,
director of the picture, is talking
over the action with Ingrid Berg
women to come from Sweden. Other
principal players are Humphrey Bo-
CART, who has Americas favorite
dish of scrambled eggs and bacon,
crisp, every day for lunch; Paul
Henreid, an Austrian baron by
right of birth, and Conrad Veidt,
a naturalized Englishman, born in
Berlin.
Standing on the sidelines talking
with the hero-major, is S. z. Sakall,
moon-faced comedian, whose name
is really a nickname. In his native
Hungarian it means golden beard.
He was always known by that on the
stage in Budapest.
Over by the water cooler a tiny,
pretty Chinese woman. is talking
with Corinna Mura, famed song
stylist of South America. The
Chinese lady is the wife of the
former Chinese Consul in New York.
She is studying American motion
picture methods, playing occasional
parts in films
Richard Eisner technical director
on "Casablanca," is adjusting the
costume of Abdullah Karean, ma
tive Turk. Eisner, a French officer
stationed in the Maginot Line in
December, 1899, spent IA months in
German prison camp before his
escape and eventual dramatic flight
to America via Casablanca, in French
MoroccV, and Lisbon.
"Blimey, there's lot of bloomin
foreigners on this set,' said Property
Man "Limey" PleWs to Canadian
born Red" Turner, his helper.
Limey has never been able to lose
his English cockney accent.
X X X X
Bob Hope is back from another
coast-to-coast patriotic tour which
set new records in mass entertain
ment-and human endurance. Bob
was on the road So straight days.
There often wasn't time to unpack
between stops.
This catch-as-cat can mode of
travel resulted in one funny incident
in New Orleans. Hope had played
a golf benefit for the Red Gross
during the afternoon and one of the
committee women asked him to 90
to hospital that evening and meet
the wounded survivors of torpedoed
tankers.
He went from bed to bed, wise
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Kisses for Madame
And Raw, Too

Ray Milland, who has taken kisses
in the real movie-lover manner
from such stars as Claudette Col
bert, Paulette Goddard, Loretta
Young, Dorothy Lamour, Jean Ar
thur and Anna Nagel during his
career. has to resort to being kissed
by Ginger Rogers in the first pic
ture he has ever made with her,
The Major and the Minor"
The plot of the story has him
believing she is too young for him
when she is forced to carry out
a masquerade. So, at the end when
he meets up with her in her real
age clothes, he is bewildered as to
where he has met her before. She
gives the answer by walking up to
him and planting a kiss flush on
his lips while he stands there like
a ninny.
That's what script writer's will do
to a guy. And there is worse yet to
it all. Ginger does get soundly
kissed-from 16-year-old Raymond
Roe, who thinks she is his own age.
Evening star., 1942-07-06


after. ..
Recently, under a bright, sunny
sky, a group of actors and actresses
stood for hours beneath huge,
grotesque rain making machine :. . {.
while Director William Keighley and
Cameraman Ernie Haller, a couple
of sticklers for perfection, shot yard
after yard of film. Vi. But none of
it photographed exactly right &.
there either was too much or too
little rain and besides, it was
photographing merely as blur, and
not as clean-cu collection of drops
of water. 49,.
Finally, one of the actresses piped
up with: "Yay, look, Ernie! T..
Just what kind of raindrops do you
want. anyway? =. Come on, let's
get going -. we're soaked to the
skin!" =.
"Photogenic raindrops!" replied
Haller sharply =. land, by George,
I'm going to get 'em, tool" :.
So what do you think happened?
. Well, they took their problem
to super-raindrop specialist =.
who solved it pronto by merely sug-
gesting :. that they mix the water
with a little SKINNED milk -.
And would you believe it! 1t
photographed like the prettiest little
raindrops you ever saw! :. Golly,
but amt movies wonderful! 49,.
Iceland Hula.
Short snort: Last time Sonia
Henie was in Honolulu, she learned
the hula. which she later converted
into nifty skating routine on ice.
But in her very next picture,
Iceland" she was cast with a con-
tingent of United States marines
landing in Reykjavik, wherein a
hula hula dancer would be as out of
place as Hirohito. So they wrote
in series of sequences showing her
doing a number of dances on skates
that were native to all the foreign
places where the marines have
landed China, Panama and,
OF course, Honolulu. :.
Silly Sally-Censors made 'em
change "The Magnificent Jerk" to
THE Magnificent Dope" but it
didn't keep Is of the more hand
some studio Office workers from COL
Evening star., 1942-07-06

master. after all, he's done lot
of acting in pictures and its not
altogether different. True, most
of our shooting is outdoors, but the
director, cast, camera crew and the
dozens of others around always con-
stitute an audience Then, of course,
we have done lot of sound-stage
work-about one-third of the total
and that has taught him not to
be afraid of lights.
II was most worried when we
started the trip about what he would
do on some of the small stages we
were to play on. He is accustomed
to plenty of room, even when we are
working on a sound stage, but the
small space in theaters does not
seem to have bothered him bit
The one exception to that rule of
adaptability was a fall on par
ticularly slippery floor in one thea
ter. The audience did not see it.
In skittering bit in the wings,
Trigger lost his footing and fell
rather heavily on his side.
Being an intelligent horse, he has
been careful where he skitters ever
since.
Rogers thinks it is partly due to
the fact that Trigger would hate to
miss a performance during which
he might have a chance to heckle
his master in the course of stealing
the act.
He thinks Trigger, at the age OF 6,
is smarter than many an actor 10
times his age.
And he likes him better for the
competitive instinct he shows.
The wars effects upon Hollywood
are evident in many ways. For one
of the currently more evident ones,
it is bringing Ray Milland back into
the publicity.
In normal times the personable
1rishman remains profoundly out of
print. No one writes of having seen
him at Ciros-when there is a Ciro's
Or bothers to imagine either mat
rimonial trouble for him, or even
hint at romance. His hobbies and
his favorite recipes are private af-
fairs and he never is interviewed
on cuffless trousers, women's hats,
the state of the Nation, of who is
his favorite leading lady.
He has had as little publicity as
any leading man of his caliber could
hope for and it was precisely what
Mllland had hoped. He is on the
quiet side whatever degree of gusti-
ness may be implied in the parts
he plays.
His exemption from public men,
ton seems to be threatened now by
new and sudden prominence in
pictures, roles that are suddenly
being forced upon him as result
of the shortage of leading men in
the cinema. Just as the producers
need leading men for acting pur-
poses, SO does the publicity depart
ment need them for subjects. l.e=.
Milland himself has been content
to make his reputation as an actor,
not as a private person with a
penchant for the limelight. Actually,
he never intended to become an
actor and only got into the business
through the accident of being
hungry at a time when no other
job seemed open. Up to that time,
he had been doing very we'll as an
expert horseman, a wild-riding
Irishman who had struck a number
of stage and screen followers of his
sport as very dramatic fellow
Now the publicity department is
going to make him dramatic.
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Maybe Marines Will
Win Back Wake
For Films Ending
HOLLYWOOD.

The ending of Paramount Wake
Island" will not be made until the
last possible moment-weeks after
the rest of the picture has been
filmed-Producer Joseph Sistrom has
announced. The last scene in the
story of the gallant marine de-
tenders of the tiny Pacific atoll has
been written in final form.
The reason for the delay is the
chance that Wake Island may be
recaptured from the Japanese or its
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Matinees for Rubber

Scrap Rubber Matinees" will be
repeated in Lust-opearted theaters
in Maryland at 2 pm. Wednesday
as means of boosting salvage rub
Der collections in the metropolitan
area which are far below quota.
Recent matinees of this nature net
ted more than five tons of rubber
scrap, proceeds from the sale of
which being turned over to Police
Boys Clubs and similar organiza-
tiOnS in the area
Evening star., 1942-07-06
ANUS EN- EN- rs.

status otherwise favorably altered
by the swift changing fortunes OF
war before the release Of the film.
With the United Nations taking the
offense on a widening scale In the
Pacific, Paramount decided to be
prepared for any eventuality.
Paramount has made Wake
Island" as the first completely au-
thentic and factual film drama OF
the war. The script is based on the
latest official records of the battle
of Wake. ~
Heading the cast of the picture
are Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston.
Macdonald Carey, Albert Decker.
William Bendix, Walter Abel, Bar
bara Britton and Mikhail Rasumny.
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Workshop Resumes

Activities of the Drama Workshop
of the Jewish Community Center
will be resumed at $50 pm. We'd
nesday when the group begins pro-
duction of series of informal pre-
sentations for the summer and one
major show slated for the fall Those
interested in acting, writing or stag
ing are invited to attend the work.
shop meetings.
Evening star., 1942-07-06


ton is almost strictly manand-
horse affair which the audience
does not quite sense.
Trigger, being very coy, simply
refuses to carry out his instructions.
He lets cues slip all over the place,
not enough for the customers to
see it, but enough to convince his
master that he's enjoying himself.
He does not spoil the act, being too
good an actor for that, but he modi-
fles 1t just enough to make 1t more
enjoyable for himself.
X
Trigger, who is in point of time
q novice at the personal appear
ance business, took to it with COM
plete naturalness, Rogers says.
Il was not surprised" says his
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Phyllis Ruth's Lead

Samuel Goldwyn has engaged
Phyllis Ruth for an important fea-
tured role in the forthcoming They
Got Me Covered" starring Bob
Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
Miss Ruth has been borrowed from
Paramount, where she appeared in
minor roles in Caught in the
Draft" and Louisiana Purchase"
Evening star., 1942-07-06

or stage or on
q movie set," the
singing cowboy
says. of stage
when we are
running through
the act he Is
perfect. Every
trick comes off
just as 1t is in
tended. Then we
20 on and he
knows immedi-
ately that there's
an audience out
there for which
he will compete"
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Trigger Is a Fine Horse
But He Will Steal Acts
Roy Rogers Proud of His Palomino
Even if Latter Is Competition
Instead of Pal on Stage
BY JAY CARMODY.

think liking atten
on talked the
Earle with palomno
Trigger that good for them
Trigger he has picked several tricks that not intended
which
some of
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Babel 1t Might Have Been
On Set of 'Casablanca'
American Back From Pacific War
And Refugees From Many Others
Mingle on Warmers Stage
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.


types
Brothers
standing watching
recently
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Now Photogenic Rain
And a Specialist Achieves 1t;
Other Notes From the Studios
BY Wide World.
HOLLYWOOD

ID ID
Movie studios always trying think ideas
"photogenc" bit
photogen bond bnettes
phoogenic
other kind Photographic
Evening star., 1942-07-06
DANCING.

DON MARTINI-1Over 10000 pupils in
U. s. Fox Trot, Waltz, Jitterbug, Rumba,
Lessons low as 81. Start today! Air
Evening star., 1942-07-06

tie the same horse
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Co-ordinator for Tennis
Already Named in Virginia

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March 17-Vir-
ginia does have a tennis co-ordina-
tor, after all.
Maj. Eliot v. Graves, who has
charge of the physical fitness pro-
gram for the Virginia Office of Ci-
william Defense, said he had appoint
ed Allen Ferguson of Richmond to
promote tennis playing and other
sports in Virginia during the war.
Mr.. Ferguson, employe of local
paper company and district repre-
sentative of the American Lawn
Tennis Association, will serve with
out pay.
Mai. Graves said he made the
appointment about a month ago and
that a principal duty of Mr.. Fergu-
son would be to urge private clubs
to make their courts available to the
public during the war. The idea is
that this will help the public keep
in trim.
Maj. Graves is supervisor of health
and physical education for the State
Department of Education. He said
he may appoint assistants to pro-
mote swimming and other sports.
Gov Darden received a request
from the o. c. d. to names Virginia
tennis co-ordfnator, but refused.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Grow Big and Healthy, Goods
Told by Physical Fitness Aide
Miss Mary K Browne, Ex-Tennis Stor.
Lectures University of Maryland Chorm Sehoo

Instructions to "do everything you
can to build up the boys instead of
tearing them down" were issued to
University of Maryland girls yeSter-
day by Miss Mary K. Browne. who
80 years ago was national tennis
champion. but who today is ir smart
uniform as field representative of
the Governments Physical Fitness
Division.
Speaking at a Charm School"
sponsored by the Women'5 Recrea-
ton Association, she began by tell
ing her audience to push your hips
back in your chairs and sit up!'
Later she told them they looked un-
comfortable and said relaxation was
a keynote of physical fitness.
Walk with your breastbone fur
thest forward" she said. Grow
yourself good and big and healthy
Predicts Drafting.
Predicting that women from "a to
54 will be drafted for industry and
for an enormous land army" she
outlined five-point physical fitness
program:
l. Eat properly. Beware the hot
dog and pup lunch. Eat large meals
and work them of.
2. Get at least eight hours sleep.
End your dances by midnight.
8. Get exercise.
4. Have. AS"good workable philos-
ophy." So You don't worFy Yourself
sick.
5. Get a physical checkup. ~
Miss Browne. trim in posfsfre and
young for her years, estimated that
each month enough man-hours of
work are lost through Illness to
build cruisers. 448 tanks and 1890
planes.
Fitness ''No Easy Task"
Becoming physically fit is no easy
task, she admitted. She cited the
case of Alice Marble. another tennis
star who has become a Government
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Is Million Nest Eqq
Left by Assembly
In General Fund
Virginia Legislators
Greeted 200 Jobs,
Check indicates
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, March 17.-Despite
the heaviest appropriations in vir-
ginia history, the 1912, Legislature
left a general fund nest egg of
nearly s2,500, 900, which may be ex-
panded to more than $500, 900.
The appropriations from the gen.
eral fund contained in the $219,-
SOC, 900 biennial budget act amounted
to approximately $74,433,0 900 for the
two years beginning July l, but
of that amount s2,970,125 was in
conditional appropriations which
may not be spent.
If all the appropriations, condi-
tional and unconditional, are spent,
it is estimated that on June 80,
1914, there will be surplus of ap-
proximately $2,418,000. Should the
conditional items be withheld. the
surplus would be s5, 1893, 900.
Another $4,000, 900 was left within
reach by appropriation of that
amount in excess of acturial require
ments to. the sinking fund, If the
next Legislature saw fit, it would
recapture the sum, which would
boost the surplus to $40, ,388, 600.
200 New Jobs Created.
One of the strings to the con-
ditional appropriations would pro-
hibit the release of funds for addi-
tions and betterments at State in
stitutions until the Governor has
certified in writing to the controller
that the expenditure would not ad-
versely affect the prosecution of the
war.
That qualification was in addition
to clauses prohibiting the release
of the conditional items if they
would create or add to deficit or
if labor. materials and other facili-
ties could not be obtained at reason
able cost.
Estimated revenues of the general
fund for the two years, aside from
the surplus, were placed at $685.
1000, and appropriations for op-
erations and activities totaled $685.
049, 900, leaving an excess of reve-
nues over outlays of $4,000.
A part check through enactments
of the Legislature, which completed
its e0-day session Saturday, indi-
Gated that upward of 200 new jobs
were authorized, including As pro-
bation- parole officers under the
penal reform legislation and a fur
ther expansion of the State police
force.
The budget provides for continu-
ing the 81 members of the police
force now working under a deficit
authorization and provides further
increase of IS men the first year of
the new biennium and Is more the
second year.
Highest sS1aricd position estab-
hshed viii be tlae 1900 year COM
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Prince Georges Seeking
To Fill War Relief Quota

Every county in Maryland has
filled its quota in the Red Cross war
relief drive except Prince Georges,
Mrs. James B. Bentley, chairman
of the drive in Prince Georges, said
yesterday.
Only about one-third of The $20,-
900 quota for the country has been
filled, it was said. The drive ends
April l.
Recent contributions include $22
from the Avondaie Country School
and 500 from the Engineering Re-
search Corp of Riverdale.
A house-to-house canvass all over
the county will be instituted in an
attempt to obtain the needed funds,
Mrs. Bentley declared. A canvass
has already been made in Hyatts-
vile and several other communities.
Red Gross officials emphasize that
the war relief drive should not be
confused with the organizations
annual roll call.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Charles W. Ashford, II,
Retired U. 5. Worker, Dies

Charles w. Ashford, II, retired
Government worker, died today at
his home, 1907 Stratton road, Silver
Spring. Md, after a brief illness.
Mr.. Ashford, born in Fairfax, Va,
lived In Washington for about 40
years, and was employed at the
Government Printing ONCE for more
than 80 years, retiring in 1886, Active
in Masonic circles, he was a member
of the B. B. French Lodge, past
patron of William F. Hunt Chapter,
No. 16, o. E. S.. and was Shriner.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Lillian Ashford; two daughters, Mrs
Hubert T. Bisselle of Washington,
and Mrs. Arthur Reyrnan, New York
City, and two brothers, Samuel and
Joseph Ashford of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Friday at Ingram Memorial
Church, Tenth and Massachusetts,
avenue NE, of which he was a
member. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.