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Evening star., 1942-11-17
Bouncing Blackboard
Was All She Got
HOLLYWOOD.

: Ann Summer, who plays the ro-
mantle lead opposite Tim Holt in
RKO-Radios THE Avenging Rider" F"
wonders somewhat dazedly at the
vagaries of fate.
Recently, when she was cast for
the part, she assumed that since
the picture was a Western she would
have to do lot of horseback riding.
Accordingly, she spent three months
learning how to ride Western style,
having visions of fast chases, leap
ing across arroyos and chasms and
so on.
Imagine the lady's embarrassment
when it turned out that all the rid
ing she was required to do in the
picture was in a blackboard, and
that for only approximately 200
yards.
Evening star., 1942-11-17

get 1t. Brian agreed and lost the
toss. So he actually got only 500
a week as hit star of IS years
ago" ~ ***
Warner Bros. has a huge backlog
of pictures, actually produced and
waiting on the shelf for release.
Just in case that some OF the stars
should walk OF the lot and refuse
to work under the $4,000 wage
freeze. Today Zone Manager John
J. Payette can actually tell what
pictures the Earle screen will be
showing up to early spring. The
New Years attraction, for instance,
will be George Washington Slept
Here" X X \ X
Glamour for "Douxhgirls."
The Joseph Fields comedy, "The
Doughgirls," about wartime Wash
ington goes into rehearsal today. 1t
is booked for the National stage
week of December 7. Four girls
invited to play the leads are Arlene
Francis, Ruth Matteson, Arleen
Whelan and Virginia Field. George
S. kaufman will stage the comedy,
and presumably owns a piece of the
attraction.
Patriotic Short.
Following close on the heels of
the first This Is America" series,
Private Smith of the u. S. A."
which received wide praise through
out the country, comes the an
nouncement from RKO Keith's
Theater that the second of this
series, Women at War;" will be
presented this coming Thursday
supplementary to the screen fea-
ture, Abbott and Costello In ''Who
Done It?"
Thousands Of women are asking,
What can I do to help win this
war" This two-reel feature an
swers that question. It presents a
typical cross section of America,
showing the great work being done
by our women on the home front.
Women at War" is the real thing
not Hollywood make-believe. Lo-
cation shots are real locations, not
stage sets. Women's war activities
are real activities, not simulated
ones.
Phil Reisman, jr., whose Private
Smith" script drew much praise
from the critics, is said to have
scored again with women at War"
described as a fast-moving story,
convincing and human portrayal Of
the superb effort American women
in every walk Of life are making.
X X
''Priorities" Comes Friday.
"Priorities on Parade" Paramount
f1lmusical with munitions plant
background, will be the screen at
traction opening Friday, November
20, at Warmers Metropolitan The
ater. Flying Fortress" British mo-
ton picture starring Richard
Greene, which was scheduled to open
Friday. will follow "Priorities" at
the Metropolitan.
Stars of "Priorities on Parade" are
Ann Miller, Betty Rhodes, Jerry Co.
lonna, Johnny johnson and Vera
Vague.
Evening star., 1942-11-17

1t is the Mo-
ravian Embassy
in a Ii 6 h t =
hearted P a r is,
where Maxim's
n a u g h ty co..
qu e t t e S -four
ished and Prince
D a n lilo, W h o
danced so grace
fully, fou n d
companion ship
and diversion.
They call it a
. t r e a m | in e d
"Merry Widow, 7"
for in its mod
Evening star., 1942-11-17

ions and diplomacy is ever a
r in the romances. This time
Evening star., 1942-11-17

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1942-11-17

THE MERRY wDow'-Presented At
the National ThaAter BY the PRODUCING
AsSoctAteS. new version By Rowland
Leigh and Randolph Carter. Music By
xranE Lehar.- Dances and ensembles 81
.noots' HcKenna. Musical director.
Pierre de Reeder. =
= The Cast. st
I'm order Of appearance)
Raymond de 10 Fosse Donald Clarke
Natasha (wife Of AassD Virginia George
SouSe sSIA-----------Peter CookSon
eoms: c0mss a q. 4 s.ehse1d S5ssni 1.et stanton
Dianne lvife Of de Rochfordl Mary Dyer
~ OetvAl -----------. Austln EAlIman
Mms Derval- % KilssH zen
Nine. Nixon on------------- Nina olivette
Baron Maxsi - Edmund Dorsey
1snia GThe., Merry widow MHriel An9elus
Frnce DAnlO Aft0ur 9axWeh
1.olo La Touche Eonnie CUNNINGHAM
Prima Ballerina -Eleanore Tennis
JACQUES "a footman) Charles Dublin
NJ. Maxim m-------------. Len Mence
Fin Charlotte Ordway
Gso!e 1S9G e.sssrin: S:ssa Dsn%H1s cSnnln.h.m
Jou-Jou At Janet Banks
Frou-Frou ( Ma Patricia Anderson
Margot xim's Anne pae
Evening star., 1942-11-17
STAR WASHINGTON c. TUESDAY NOVEMBER H. 1sn
Loretta Young Abandons
Comedy for Deep Mystery
A Night to Remember
Is Movie Whodunit
With Brian Aherne
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

lOL1WOOD-SadengnS
"A NIGHT TO REMEMBERs-Whodun stun with popular
getting their Initiation into murder
Brian Ahene usually Loretta Young
living Village apartment
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Chance VS.. Choice

The latest country to 60 totali-
tartan on account of the war is
Monaco. A dispatch from the capi-
tai, Monte Carlo, says that through
out Monaco's entire 370 acres
forthcoming elections are suspended
as "inopportune considering present
circumstances" Thus there will be
no polling, although the croupiers
still preside over the little ivory balls
and keep 'em rolling.
So little is known about the po-
litical life of Monaco that it is not
possible to predict with any certainty
what the result will be. One can only
take a chance, which it is easy to do
in Monaco. It will be impossible to
oust from Office the Secretary of
Statistics or the Premier of Proba-
bilities, but in any case percentage
should prevail. After all, the main
business of the country is to receive
overconfident invaders, hold them
until they have been induced to part
with all Of their assets, and then
gently ship them back over the bor-
der. Presumably the only law Of
any real Importance in Monaco is the
good old-fashioned law of probable
ity, which will be administered
ruthlessly by nature no matter who
Is In power.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Conveys and Mines
The appearance of a new

The appearance of a new menace
to shipping of the Atlantic Coast,
the submarine mine, will complicate
the task of protecting our vital ocean
supply lines. 1t may be Hitler's
answer to our latest nti-submarine
tactic, the conveying Of supply ships
in coastal waters. The mine develop
ment probably occasioned little sur
prise in naval circles, however, for
the Germans used the same tech
nique in 1918 and it has been known
that the Nazis had built number of
long-range U-boats designed pri-
marily for mine-laying purposes.
German submarine mine layers of
the First World War first appeared OF
the East Coast in May, 1918. Appar-
emily they concentrated on mining
the approaches to New York Harbor
and to other large ports along the
Atlantic seaboard. The U. S. S. San
Diego, cruiser, struck one of these
mines off Fire Island in July of that
year and sank rapidly The battle
ship Minnesota was damaged by
mine, but not seriously. But for
these two outstanding instances, the
U-boat mine-laying campaign proved
generally Ineffective. This was
largely because of vigorous counter
measures taken by our Navy. A
mine-Sweeping fleet swung into ac-
ton and succeeded in keeping the
principal channels cleared of ex-
ploSiveS.
How well prepared the Navy is to-
day to deal with the mine problem
is not subject for public disclosure.
Since the Navy has had reason to
expect that mines would be laid,
however, 1t may be assumed that
mine sweeperS now will join with
anti-Submarine craft in patrolling
coastal waters. The fact that two
mines were planted near Virginia
Beach suggests the possibility that
many of the deadly devices have
been sown in the Norfolk area, which
is an important center of merchant
marine and naval activity.
Mines recognize neither friend nor
foe, as the Germans found to their
sorrow during some of the mine-lay-
ing operations in World War 1. Per-
haps the appearance of mines of the
Virginia coast means that enemy
U-boats intend for the time being to
keep clear of that part of the ocean.
There may be more than passing sig
nlflcance in the fact that a Berlin
radio announcer acknowledged Sat-
urday that our anti-Submarine meas
ures have strongly increased"
especially along the East Coast.
This may have been an indirect
reference to the new convoy plan.
Naval sources here have been quoted
repeatedly of late as declaring
that enemy submarines have been
pushed back a considerable dis
tance from our shores. But there is
no cause for undue optimism as long
as our shipping losses continue at
their present rate.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Guurdiun

A small green frog 1Dith jeUelled eyes
Lipes in my garden, unatraid.
We greet each other iOith surprise,
Yet each comedies the Others aid
He blends so ,peH ,Uith earth and
grass
I neDer see him till he leaps,
Not frightened, but alert; / pass
Him, startled, Uhere the pilloto
sDeeps.
/ Ddlue him; think he kno,DS
Ho,D Ddrn his ,Delcome midst the
foUers.
His brilliant eye still brighter olo,Us,
1t seems to n1e-his ego to,Ders
As I 1Dalk carefully, nor dare
Disturb him further, Dhile he
pduSes
With dignity, to see me fare
Beyond his righttul haunts. II
causes
His troggish pride to stoeH apace,
And sends him, eager, to his duty
OF clearing insects from this place.
Which might destroy blossoms
beauty.
MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
THIS AND THAT
Bv Charles Z. Trdce1Uell.

they are not very much at home. Many
cats, In fact, do not know how to come
down q tree.
The knack consists Of backing down,
but surprisingly large number of house
cats do not know this. They insist on
going down head first, when the back
of their claws contact the bark. This
does not give them the ability to dig into
the bark. When they back down, the
sharp points dig in, and they get down
very easily.
1t is said that every kitten should be
placed on tree, tail down, and pushed
down by hand, so that it gets the idea
Of going down backward
In this way it will be saved much grief
in its later life.
Nuthatches, especially, and chickadees
and titmice, too, relish a small feeder on
trunk Of tree.
The nuthatches like to come winding
down the trunk.
They never fly into the shelf boldly,
but always approach 1t in this circuitous
fashion, reaching in from the side.
Then they walk up the trunk, until
they come to limb, on which they pro-
ceed to eat the seed.
Since there is no prettier bird, nor a
more friendly one, in any garden, every
person interested in the birds should see
to it that some feeder is put up especially
for the nuthatches
This does not mean that only nut
matches will be admitted.
Squirrels, as much at home in tree as
any bird, always will be present. They
are such restless creatures. however, that
they will dash down and away once every
30 seconds more or less.
Nothing is more futile, in the home
yard, than to spend time and brains
trying to devise "squirrel-proof" feed
ing station.
The better way is to look upon them as
part OF the show.
Sometimes birds which winter here will
insist on going to the woods to the north.
no matter how well they have been fed
all during the cold.
This is natural, a part OF the life
cycle, and there Is nothing to be done
about it,
Often those which leave are replaced
by others of the same species to which
ones own yard is far north"
This is wholesome thought to keep
In mind.
Every place is both "far south" and
"far north" to the birds. 1t Is all a
question of relativity.
The National Capital is strategically
located in this respect. Birds from Mass
achusetts find this an acceptable south, -
and those from Florida discover it to be
excellent north"
Thus we get them coming and going.
Evening star., 1942-06-23

Capital Transit Employe
Defends Employers and Fellow Workers.
To the Editor of The Star:
Is Inspector Miller of the Metropolitan
Police Department Trafic Division
psychic phenomenon? How else could he
issue the statement that the recent accl-
dents in which buses or streetcars were
involved were due to inexperienced op-
orators?
consider this statement a slap in the
face for the Capital Transit Co., and, as
an employe of that company, resent 1t.
I defy any one to show that any public
transportation company in the world
spends more money or time in training
its prospective operators in proper and
safe methods of handling its equipment.
Furthermore, 1 would gladly wager
two weeks of my pay against any ones
two dollars that less than one-half of
! per cent of Capital Transit Co. public
accidents actually are due to inexperi-
enced operators.
We bus and streetcar operators are
human beings, too. We try to give the
kind of service we would like to have
we're we riding to and from work. Our
one desire is to get our passengers to
their destinations safely and comfort
ably, but, If I fail to do so, the fault
rests on me, not on the Capital Transit
90. r. E. BERRY.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
King of the YuqosIovs

KING Peter II comes to the Capital
of the United States as the repre-
sentative of the brave and gallant
people Of Yugoslavia He also will
be welcomed cordially in his personal
character as gentle and chivalrous
young European who, even in
private station, would merit appre-
citation.
Born September 6, 1923, the first
son of King Alexander I and his
consort, Queen Marie, he was des-
tined for the crown of the Serb,
Croat and Slovene state established
under the protection of the Allied
powers at the close of the First World
War. Descended from Black George,
the famous head of the Karageorge-
vich dynasty, he is endowed with the
spirit of restless freedom which Is
symptomatically Balkan. But it
happens that he likewise is great
great-grandson of Queen Victoria
of England and was educated in
Britain. The influence of the Anglo
Saxon race, therefore, is conspicuous
in the pattern of his mind, his bear
ing, his attitude toward events.
Much sorrow has been the lot of
the youthful monarch. He attained
the throne when his father was
assassinated at Marseille in France,
October 9, 1884. Then, until he de-
cided to assume royal responsibility
on March 81, 1941, he was subjected
to the relatively kindly but nonethe-
less forceful domination of his uncle,
the regent, Prince Paul. Internecine
struggles disturbed his country, and
he was a prize or hostage sought
by each of half a dozen different
parties. Sensitive to the conditions
OF his environment, the boy, natu-
rally enough, felt himself a prisoner.
His actual reign lasted only eighteen
days, during which time Yugoslavian
territory was overrun by German
armies. Retreating from town to
town until he reached the Greek
frontier, he finally arrived in Athens
on April IA. While en- route to Jeru-
salem by plane a week later, he was
attacked by enemy fighters and one
of the members of his staff was
killed. King George VI greeted him
as an honored guest in London on
June 81, 1941.
What the future holds for Peter
is a matter of speculation. The re-
sistance of the valiant 100000
Yugoslavs continues. BY no stretch
Of the Imagination can it be claimed
that they have been conquered by
the Axis aggressors. Their sovereign
remains their leader, in exile though
he be. His experience, the discipline
of the ordeal through which he has
passed, should qualify him to rule
his country wisely and courageously
Evening star., 1942-06-23
SEQ Otter Aaoin

The Sea Otter, In revised form,
may still justify the hopes of its
creators that 1t will be at least
partial solution to Americas wartime
shipping problem. Word has come
from the Capitol that the revolution
airy type of cargo carrier, which de-
pends on a gasoline engine and
vertical driveshaft for propulsion,
will be built in large numbers for
coaStwise and South American trade
This large-Scale adaptation of the
outboard motor principle is the
brainchild of a naval officer, Com
mander Hamilton Bryan, who sue
ceeded in interesting Government
officials to the extent of having
test ship constructed last year. Pre-
liminary trial runs indicated that
certain changes we're necessary in
the design of the ship, it was re-
ported.
When naval authorities lost in
terest in the Sea Otter, a congress
sional inquiry was made into reports
that the ship had not been given
adequate tests. Later it was an
nounced that experimentation with
the craft would continue, after
alterations In design. According to
Senator Brewster of Maine, member
Of a Senate committee which has
interested itself in the Sea Otter,
tests with new models have proved
so successful that number of full
size vessels will be built, under the
lease-lend program.
Use Of the ship In trade between
the United States and South America
will avoid one of the difficulties
which would be encountered in
transoceanic voyages-the necessity
Of stocking large supplies Of gasoline
for the return trip and thus dimin-
ishing hold capacity. In runs to
South America, the ships will be able
to refuel in South Atlantic ports and
carry maximum cargoes each way.
Since the vessels can be built rapidly
and cheaply, sponsors of the uncon-
ventional ship are quite enthusiastic
in their claims.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Farm Boy Project

Faltering leadership, unusual in
Montgomery County, has been evi-
dent in the handling of the plan
to employ city boys to help relieve
the acute county farm labor shortage
during the harvest season.
The latest action of the coun-
ty commissioners in appropriating
funds to initiate the program for a
week and then consider the matter
further is nothing more than a stop
gap arrangement. 1t is unsatisfac-
tory to the farmers, to the boys in
volved and to those responsible for
getting the program under way.
Nevertheless the County Agricultural
War Board rightly concluded it had
an obligation to the parties con-
cerned and decided to start the pro-
gram at least for a week, hoping
the commissioners will decide to keep
it going.
The plan was advanced by farmers
who believed their harvest labor
problem would be largely solved if
the boys from the District of Co
lumbia and the suburban sections of
Montgomery County we're permitted
to work on their farms. 1t was
agreed that the boys would be paid
25 cents an hour and given their
monday meal by the farmers. They
would be quartered in four rural high
schools, where their breakfast and
supper would be served at cost of
about S. week to each boy. School
buses would take them to the farms.
Accommodations for only 16O boys
we're available and that number was
quickly obtained. Farmers claim
that by using the boys in large
groups In rotation on extensive
farms, much-needed crops could be
harvested. If that is true, failure of
the program would be no minor item
to the farmers. The failure, too,
would cause the boys to lose conf
dence in their elders.
Those in authority seem to have
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Proper Procedure

The ZOning Commission, in moving
to empower the Board of Zoning Ad-
justments to permit the lodging of
more than four tenants in temporary
clearinghouse in restricted residen-
tial areas for the duration of the ma
tional emergency, has taken the
proper approach to solution of one
phase of the Districts wartime hous-
ing problem.
Under existing zoning regulations
these establishments cannot have
more than four occupants, and it
was in part because of this fact that
legislation recently was introduced
in the House to throw open restricted
areas to rooming and boarding houses
while the war lasts. AS pointed out
In The Star at that time, however,
the proposed legislation was unneces-
sary and undesirable because the
Zoning Commission already had am
pie authority to modify the reStric-
tionS in accordance with need. That
Is WIldI GIlc NOlil-
mission now has undertaken to do,
and, needless to say, it is far more
desirable to accomplish this purpose
by the exercise of existing authority
than to seek the same objective
through a congressional revision of
the basic zoning law, which would
serve no better purpose than to grant
power which is not needed.
1t is important to note that the
proposal as advanced by the Zoning
Commission seems to provide ade-
quately against abuses which would
tend permanently to impair the
quality of restricted neighborhoods.
The first and most important stipu-
lation is that the operators of all
temporary boardinghouses in re-
stricted areas, including those which
may accommodate more than four
persons, must agree Internationally
that the establishments shall be dis
continued within one year after the
end of the war. A second safeguard
is that permission to take in more
than four persons may not be granted
if that would require the erection of
exterior fire escapes or if it would
otherwise tend to blight permanently
the restricted character of the neigh
borhood
These qualifications, application OF
which would be left to the discretion
of the Board of Zoning Adjustments,
should serve to protect those persons
who have substantial investments in
homes in restricted areas. At the
same time, however, the proposed
change may be expected to result in
a substantial increase in suitable
living accommodations for war work
ers. 1t may be noted, parenthetically
that the demand for accommodations
of this type has not yet exhausted
the existing supply, but if future de-
velopments should bring change in
this respect, the current action of
the zoning Commission gives assur-
ance that the increased demand for
lodgings will be satisfied.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
LuvuI's True CoIors

II doubt existed in any quarter as
to the true role Of Pierre Laval in
this war, 1t has been removed by his
categorical assertion that he desires
a German victory. OF greater sig
nificance than this cynical commit
ment to Nazism by the chief of the
French government, however, are the
implications of his appeal to the
French people.
M. Laval told his fellow country
men that Adolf Hitler has agreed to
the liberation of IAN important num-
Der" Of French war prisoners who will
be able to return to France "as soon
as French laborers 60 to Germany to
help the Reich"
One Of the cruelest forms of pres
sure that Hitler has applied to beaten
France has been his refusal to re-
lease the prisoners Of war. BY hold
ing them in concentration camps he
has deprived the French nation OF
their services in repairing some of
the ravages of war and by keeping
these men as hostages, he has sought
to bend their friends and relatives in
France to his will. But it now ap-
pears that this particular form of
Nazi terror has been something less
than successful. for Laval, with all
his vices, would hardly have lent
himself to this peculiarly heartless
blackmailing of his own people ex-
cept as last resort.
When he promises the people of
France that some of their relatives
in the German prison camps will be
freed as soon as they 90 to work for
the Reich, the implication is clear
that other methods have failed and
that the French people have given
very little in the way Of cooperation
to their conquerors. And it Is also
clear that LavaIs own influence in
France Is nil, for this latest attempt
OF his to do the bidding Of his Ger
man masters can be regarded only as
an act of desperation.
Certainly 1t will do nothing to en-
dear Laval to his fellow Frenchmen.
Some, perhaps, will pay the price that
he demands for the liberation of
sons, brothers and husbands, but it
Is hardly likely that the Nazi cause
will benefit materially from the serv-
ices OF workers who may be induced
to migrate to Germany from France
under the conditions which Hitler's
puppet has laid down.