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Evening star., 1942-04-17

shout to their villainous henchmen,
Head for the border. boys" That's
been heard in a hundred Westerns.
But censorS said no because the
line would indicate that Mexico
was haven for outlaws. and the
international situation today for
bids such hints Hedy Lamar,
dining at the Brown Derby with
fiance George Montgomery, proudly
holds up third finger, left hand 10
a procession of friends stopping at
her table. All gasp their admira-
tion-and well they may for George
has done right well by his bride-to-
be. It's five-karat square cut
blue diamond and must have set
the young cowboy star back all of
10 weeks salary
Barbara Stanwyck dropped in on
the set of The Major and the
Minor" to visit Ginger Rogers They
are good friends, once being under
contract at the same studio at the
same time And also-Billy Wilder.
who directs Ginger. wrote Ball of
Fire" for Barbara. And Barbara S
hairdresser, Hollis Barnes, for the
past seven years, is sister to Ginger's S
hairdresser for the past eight years,
Louise Miehle. And-the male star
with whom Barbara has been
teamed more than with any other
five times is Joel McCTea, whose
stand-in, Carl Andre. is the hus-
band of Gingers secretary. And
but Hollywood is a mixed up enough
place as it Isl
The scene is mud-soaked Ger
man countryside. Enrol Flynn and
Ronald Reagan are two r. A. r.
flyers eluding pursuit. So far their
luck has held out. Flynn pulls out
bottle. Here's mud in your eye, ="
Evening star., 1942-04-17

he toasts Reagan. Just then Q
tethered horse stamps a foreleg and
a spot Of mud lands just below
Reagan's right eye. Print" yells
Director Raoul Walsh hilariously.
So when you see Desperate Jour-
ney" watch for that mud splash.
It's an impromptu bit Of comedy,
ad libbed by horse!
Every cooks night out, Joan
Crawford dimes in a quiet family
restaurant in Beverly Hills with her
adopted daughter. Christina.
Although Tina" is only 4, Joan
believes that she should learn the
social graces now and she thinks
that dining out helps give the little
girl poise.
The youngster is a great favorite
with habitues of the restaurant and
she and Ma Crawford occupy the
same table every Thursday night.
Of the cuff: If Paramount's
Buddy de sylvia can swing the deal
with M-GM, Lana Turner will go
over to that studio for the title role
in Texas Guinan" Bonita
Granville goes grown-up in The
Glass Key" She is playing the role
in which Ann Sheridan skyrocketed
to fame M-G-M has hired
checkers In various parts of the
country to sit among audiences and
jot down fan reactions to "Dr. Kill
dares movies-because of the Lew
Ayres incident, of course.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Incl
Evening star., 1942-04-17

Power during the next couple Of
years Ty is now in the Navy All
that material must be reaSsigned or
put on the shelf until the wars over.
If Clark Gable makes good his
avowed intention of joining up with
Uncle Sam after his current chore
at M-G-M. the big Culver City lot
would be left with three unproduced
Gable stories. including the recent
six-figured purchase of The Sun is
Ny Undoing," a best seller which
carries hero role built for Gable
and Gable only.
When George Raft in Broadway
followed the American custom of in
dicating "okay" by forming a circle
with his thumb and index. every
body thought it cute but the Hays
ONCE. They rule 1t out because
that gesture means something else
in South America -. Hays watch
dogs have put an end. also. TO a
famous old Western phrase-For
good neighborly reasons. The script
of I'm Old California" called for
Albert Decker and Dick Purcell to
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Invaders
Gets Local
PrevieW
Guild to Sponsor
Showing at
Press Club

The Invaders" fictionsl film
story Of an invasion of Canada by
the crew of a Nazi submarine, will
have a Washington preview showing
Sunday night, April Is. at $50
O'Clock at the National Press Club.
under the sponsorship of the News
paper Guild.
It is hoped that one of the stars
of the picture will find 1t possible
to attend the showing OF The
Invaders" Mrs. Roosevelt already
has accepted an invitation to be
present and invitations have been
extended to Philip Murray, James
B. Carey and other c. l. o. officials.
The committee sponsoring the
preview includes Kenneth Crawford,
chairman: Mrs. Roosevelt. Elizabeth
May Craig. Marquis Childs, Alfred
Friendly and Tom Stokes.
Stars of The Invaders" are Leslie
Howard. Raymond Massey and
Laurence Olivier.
A portion Of the proceeds from
the ticket sale is to be given to the
United Service Organizations.
Evening star., 1942-04-17

Miss Norma Shearer and Mr.. Mel
vyn Douglas locked in embrace and
ever so ardent about it. 1t is a
dance, all right, this film, but about
as light and frothy as waltz per-
formed on fresh. warm tar by per-
sons frightened by Martha Graham,
who would rather have been sitting
this one out anyway.
The truth of the matter seems to
be that some script writer's named
Claudine West, Hans Rameau and
George Froeschel do not here reveal
themselves to be as adept with So
phisticated. brittle romantic comedy
as Mr.. Coward, or even Ladislaus
Bus-Fekete. Mr.. Douglas never had
any trouble before gayly kicking
brightly arranged comedy scene
around, but he does seem a trifie
dispirited here. 1t is enough to dis
courage any man, of course, to find
that the script calls for him to jilt
Gail Patrick in favor of a girl who
is smaller, lighter and who obviously
wouldn't know first baseman from
Texas Lacquer.
I'VE Were Dancing" you may as
well learn sooner or later, Is con-
cerned with the affairs of Vicki
Wilomirska, a Polish princess, and
Nicki Prax, Viennese baron, who
meet on a Charleston veranda on
is eve of her wedding and immedi-
ately run away to marry, The eco
nomic problems which arise from
the fact that hostesses. who have
been providing the baron's food and
shelter, prefer bachelor house guests
to married ones probably are serious
to Nicki and Vicki. Any one else
who finds the affairs of this pair
worthy of any interest is just able
to take more flagellation of the
brain than we can.
There are, none the less, many of
their affairs, none of which Mr..
Coward could have foreseen when
he wrote the plays of his series.
dragged across the screen as Nicki
and Vicki marry, quarrel divorce
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Current Theater Attractions
| and Time of Showing
National - "Hellsapoppin." with
Eddie Garr and Billy House: s:is
pm,
Catholic UniverSity-"Art and
Prudence. with Julie Hayden: $50
pm,
Screen.
Capitol-"we Were Dancing. ="
Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer.
sophisticates: IL am. las. 4:So.
tbs and l0p.m. Stage shows: 1880,
3:35. 6:25 and el0 pm
Columbia Bahama Passage. 4"
neurotics on an island; IL so am,
I:50. $50. S:45. 7:45 and GAS pm.
Earle-"Sullivan' Travels" Pres
ton Sturges' latest yarn: IL am.
lao. 4;30, 7.25 and 1910 pm. Stage
shows: IL AS. $40. s 6:3S and lis pm
Keith's-"All That Money Can
Buy" Aim version of The Devil and
Daniel Webster. HISS am, 2:2o.
4:45, tbs and $40 pm.
Ltttle-"Our Russian Front" as
seen in dramatic documentary
report: HAS am. l:s0. Sis. S. 6:45.
$50 and 1920 pm. Also Target
for Tonight"
Metropolitan-"The Male Animal, "
the Thurber- -Nugent frolic on the
screen: l1:05 am. lilo, $40, 5:25,
7:30 and $40 pm.
Palace-"To the Shores of Trip
Evening star., 1942-04-17

marines are invited to bring them to
Loew's Washington theaters today.
Books are being sought all over
the Nation and the public libraries
are serving as collection headquar-
ters. However, for the convenience
of those who do not live near a
library, the Loew houses have agreed
to act as collection depots.
Evening star., 1942-04-17

OIL" the U. S. Marines In action:
lo:4S am. lass. $40, S;2o, 1:ss and
$50 pm.
Pix-"Call Out the Marines" with
McL.aglen and Lowe: 2:30, +:3o. e:2S.
$40 and lo:lS pm,
Trans-Lux News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1942-04-17


Photographed in technicolor. The
Shores of Tripoli' is a handsome
thing to look at and It's authenticity
Is the more impressive for its hav-
Ing been shot at the Marine base
al San Diego. The barracks, the
arms and huge sections OF the
troops are 80 actual that you have
a feeling OF sitting in on the real
thing. It is a very pleasant feeling
and Col. Daryl Zanuck, U. S. A.. is
TO be forgiven II the boy-meets-giri
phases OF his production are mucn
as they are In old-fashioned civilian
life.
The general spirit OF The Shores
of Tripoli" is a iocular one. War is
n serious business In the life oil MS
Marines, but they are young ano
fun of exuberance and the note oi
solemnity seldom creeps into theh
day TO day affairs.
The camera is kept focused upon
all phases OF their training Tor an
impressive amount OF the MIN
footage. They are shown learning
All those tricks which have mace
them famous and frightening ever
since Stephen Decatur led hand
full of their predecessors against
those Tripolitan pirates $50 years
ago.
When the focus is narrowed TO
give the story its dramatic personal
elements, It picks up three rather
standard characters. They are the
hard boiled. 25-year Marine IN
sergeant's stripes randolph Scott,
the spoiled upstartish son OF re-
tired Marine captain (Payne) ana
the pretty young nurse miss
OHara)
Between them they manage pair
of running conflicts which look much
the same in marine uniforms as they
do In mufti. The sergeant. friend
OF the upstarts father in World
War days, is assigned to making a
marine out of the young man.
There is natural antipathy be-
tween them as there very well might
be between a completely disciplined
adult and a completely undiciplined
adolescent. Under the antipathy, OF
course, there is something hopefully
more human and warm which you
know all the time will settle their
affairs happily before the end,
That rather robs the plot OF sus-
pense, but II has been doing that to
other plots too long to make a
protest valid now.
On the romantic side, the picture
finds slight element of novelty
In the circumstance that Miss
OHara finally is allowed to be her
virtually irresistible self, Her career
up to now has been devoted to
character parts which she has
played with more expertness than
glamour. When she finishes with
Payne on this occasion don't guess
how, one is left with the sense that
her cinema employers will have a
new notion of how to use her.
In addition TO several anonymous,
or virtually so. fellows who say and
do funny things. The Shores of
Tripoli" is made more humorous by
the presence of squeak voiced Will
liam Tracy as an inept, earnest
trainee and by Make Rosenbloom
portrait of a marine veteran with q
fine talent for gambling and i'm
pressing frowsy blonds with his
charm. They fit nicely into some
of the more jesting passages of the
picture.
Bruce Thunderstorm, who directed
"The Shores of Tripoli' has under
taken to give it an energetic pace
befitting his theme. 1t has come
Evening star., 1942-04-17

off quite successfully. no more so,
however, than his obvious effort to
make the thing conform to the very
worthwhile requirement of making
basic training aspects accurate.
That helps the films impressive
ness no end.
Evening star., 1942-04-17

,erine the art Of
war in a uni
form that i'm
plies 30 great
and dramatic a
trad ton. La
MARI Trottfs
script pays in
spiring attention
10 the details oi
Marine training.
Because IT does
that. H. Is easy
10 overlook the
intentionally
of its romantic
and other stock
Evening star., 1942-04-17
When Stars Join Service
Stories, Too, Are Lost
So Studios Are Buying No More
Expensive Yarns With One
Special Player in Mind
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

certain male in mind It's today
slipping suddenly
Nearly million dollars
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Mr.. Coward's Comedy
Becomes Valse TriSte
We Were Dancing at the Capitol,
Even Slows Melvyn Douglas;
Morgan Dancers on Stage
By HARRY MacARTHUR.

The art of Noel Coward probably not sacred as that OF
enthusiast for
admit something like at the sight of that
Coward spghy play cycle called Tonight at $50 has
tafter
opened yesterday the Capitol to reveal
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Now the Palaces Screen
Is a Marine Conquest
And an Agreeable One 1t Is, Too,
Despite Lack of Novelty in
Shores of Tripoli' Story
BY JAY CARMODY.

United Marines eee of The Palace
Tripoh.' picture principally
Payne Randolph Scott Maureen OHsrs phoopay
by
xfrke mink hlt
Evening star., 1942-04-17

THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI" Goth Cen
tury-FoY production. starring John Payne.
hsureen O'Hsra and Randolph Scott d.
recttd by Bruce Humberstont. screen play
by Lamar Trotti. based upon an original
story by steve Fisher At the Palace
Evening star., 1942-04-17

WE WERE DANCING" Metro-Gold
wyn-Mayer picture, starring Norma Shearer
and Melvyn Douglas: produced by Robert
q. Leonard and Orville o. DULL directed by
Leonard; screen plev bv Clsudine West,
Hans Rameau and George Froeschel: based
in part on Noel Cowsrd's play-series, To
nieht at sac" At the Capitol.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Books Wanted
ADJUSTMENTS.

Washingtonians who wish to COZ
tribute books to soldiers, sailors ar
Evening star., 1942-04-17

RoBsRT RSsGle FsYIos Fsstlesc9ni Isss s4Ia TJRsER
in JOHNNY EAGER" ROBERT
MONTGOMERY. CONSTANCE CUM
MINGS in HAUNTED HONEY
Moon"
Evening star., 1942-04-17

Is something fine about seeing 70
many robust young Americans mas
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
Bombers of Japan
Are Given Medals
At Boiling Field

Washington, June q. - (AP) -
TWenty-thrce army filters who took
part in the American raid on Japan
last April received distinguished
flying crosses today at nearby Boil
ing Field. The airmcn. who returned
to this country recently. brought adj
ditional details of the havoc and con
fusion wrought by the air invaders
in raiding Tokyo and other cities on
April 10. They also Disclosed that
the secret Nordan bomb sights were
left behind because of risks they
might fall into enemy hands,
An improvised bomb sight cost
ing only 20 cents to make, but ACE
quate for hitting targets from the
extremely low attitudes at which the
raiders flew, was substituted in each
of the planes.
THE lack of pursuit opposition.
the lack of warnings between cities
and the inaccuracy of anti-aircra1t
fire we're factors which mystified.
and continues to mystity, all who
took part in the raid" the War De
partment said in a statement
prompted by the return of the filters.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
And Churchill
Assert New Plans
To Divert Germans
Joint Statement Also
Hopes for Reduction
in Toll of Merchant
S%hipping; Methods
Against Japan Also
Adopted to Aid China.

Washington, June 27.-(AP)-
President roosevelt and Prime Min
ster Churchill of Great Britain de-
clarcd in a Joint statement today that
Coming operations of the United
Nation" viii divert German strength
from the attack on Russia
"WbJIc exact plans, for obvious
reasons. cannot be diSclOScd.' sald
the JDHt statement, released sinful
tancou>iy IN Washington and Lon
don, IT can be said that the con-
ing operations, which were discuss
ed In detail by our Washington con-
ference between ourselves and our
respective military advisors, Will dl-
vert German strength from the at
tack N Russia"
The statement also said it was
hoped that as a result of the steps
'pla0ned at the week Of Roosevelt
Churchill conferences, concluded
Thursday. the respective naNicS will
furthcr reduce the ton of merchant
Shipping"
Withholding the time and other
details of what may come now, the
statement declared the United Ma
tons, as Il result of the conferences,
have never been in such hearty and
detailed agreement on plans for Win
nlng the war as they are today
The two leaders applauded Rus
sla'> gallant resistance to the "maln
attack" being made by Germany, and
reJolced in the "magniticent resist
ance of the Chinese armies.
They added that detailed discus
slonS We're held with military ad-
Nsors of the United Nations on
methods to be adopted against Ja-
pan and for the relief of China.
Calling attention to the fact that
the two war leaders had met twice
bcloIt- before and after the United
State entered the WARTIME JOINT
statement declared there was no
douDt in the minds of Roosevelt and
Churchill that the %"oVerall picture
Is more favorable to victory than 1t
Wa either in August on December of
ldst year,, the occasions of their two
previous conferences, the first IN the
Atlantic on board Warships and the
second at the White House.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
British Are
For Defense
U. s.. and British Air.
men Hamper Rom
mel's Advances; Rus
slams Admit German
Wedge at kharkov;
Sevastopol R e p e | s
Nazis.
(Ry The Associated PrcSS)

Italian headquarters said today axis
motorized forces . have made con-
tact with the dercnsea on the Mat
ruth" indicating that Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel has opened his grand
assault in the four-day-Old battle Of
Egypt.
Matruh, 1870 miles inside Egypt,
is the main British stronghold barring
Rommel's path TO the rich delta lands
OF the Nile and the Suez canal.
With mastery Of the entire middle
east perhaps hanging in the balance,
General Sir Claude Auchinleck's Brit
ish imperial armies We're said to have
been reor9anized and reinforced to
meet the axis onslaught.
Dispatches from Cairo said damag-
ing blows by Z. S. Army and Raj
bombers had already gained precious
hours for the realignment Of the hard
hit British eighth army, borne by the
long retreat across the sands of the
Libyan desert.
Striking at Rommel's major Libyan
bases at Tobruk and Bengasi, Ameri-
can and British airmen were said to
have hampered the flow Of vital food,
water, oil and munitions to the axis
invaders, delaying the lightning pace
of Rommel's advance.
An Italian communique emphas-
lied the "repeated and violent en-
counters with enemy bomber and
fighter formation and asserted that
axis planes had shot down 43 Brit
ish aircraft, while anti-aircraft de-
lenses sent another crashing into the
desert in flames.
As Rommel lunged forward into de-
cisjNe battle. Adolf Hitler's Ukraine
armies H~ynchorinzcd with it a vio-
lent and developing offensive below
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
Three HeldmR Rape
OfBessemerGirL,1 IL

Kings Mountain, June 27.-(AP)
Louise Mason, II, of Bessemer
CITY, was reported in serious con-
dl'lon today in CASTOR county hospl-
tal as a result or a criminal attack
allegedly made upon her at Lake
Montonia early last night.
Paul Johnson, 10, Leroy Cooper
and c. j. McCasslin, all Of Gastonla,
are being held in the Gastonia jan
IN connection with the attack, J.. a.
Burns, local chief Of police, SAID
Two other unidentified youths are
being sought.
Police Chief Burns quoted two
companions of the Mason girl as
saying that they were accosted by
i've youths in a car while they ere
at d drink stand in Bessemer Cny
ldSt ul.ht. Inc you)ns "freTea TO
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
Premier Is
Expected To
Defeat Foes
Quick Return Home
from Washington Is
Surprises; Attacks on
War Policy Continued
by Strong Opponents

London, June 27.-(AP)-Prime
Minister Winston Churchill came
back to London today from his his
toric conferences with President
Roosevelt and stepped from a trans
Atlantic plane into the most serious
crisis of his career.
He returned to a nation troubled
by the serious setbacks to British
forces in North Africa and the i'm
minent axis smash at Egypt.
The long held British stronghold
at Tobruk fell while the prime min
ister was discussing war strategy
with President Roosevelt and the
capture of some $4,000 British troops
there brought strong criticism of his
conduct of the war.
Facing him in the House of Com
mons is an insurgent motion for a
vote of mo confidence" in his direc-
ton Of the war.
Political observers believe the
prime minister will win a vote of
COnfidence-as he has before-With
some twenty votes cast against him,
and a number Of members abstain
ing from the vote.
All observers agreed that Church,
i'll, with the strategy mapped in
Washington fresh in his mind, would
respond to his critics in a fighting
mood, but they also agreed that his.
opposition has never been more out
spoken.
The conservative London Times
attacked Britain's war direction to-
day and called for a combined gen.
eral staff, in an editorial declaring
there has been "too many symptoms
Of reluctance to subordinate per-
sonal petty predictions or establish
ed interests to the urgent need of
bringing fresh blood and fresh ideas
into the conduct Of the war"
Although the prime minister's
early return had been expected, his
temperance so soon after the Off
cial announcement Of his meeting
with congressional leaders and the
Pacific. War Council in Washington
Thursday was surprising.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
(By The Associated Press.

Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek's
Chinese armies, reinforced by Amer
lean filters, battled Japanese spear
heads knitting toward the heart Of
China on a dozen fronts today, while
in the battle Of Australia, Allied air
men were credited with another
sweeping victory over the japanese.
General Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters reported that Allied
interecptor planes clashed with Is
japanese heavy bombers yesterday
over Port Moresby, key United Ma
tons outpost in New Guinea, and
probably shot down six to ten Of
them. Little damage was inflicted
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27

take them to Kings Mountain, where
the girls planned to visit relatives.
On the way the boys purchased
whisky, Chief Burns said the girls
reported. and soon after a llght
was stated in the car. During the
scramble the johnson boy and the
Mason girl were pushed from he
car. along with three of the other
boys. Subsequently, the girls report
ed, the Mason girls clothes we're
torn off her and Johnson criminal
~ attacked her.
Chief Burns said the driver of the
car and the two the girls came to
Kings Mountain to report the Incl
dent, and that later he and two other
Officers drove to the lake and ar
rested three o. the youths and carried
ne riaIon girl 10 a decor,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
Stock Trading,
Mighty Slow

New York, June 27.-(AP)-lt was
another case Of safety first in today
stock market, as most buyers merely
nibbled at taVorites, and sellers X
hibited equal tlmldity.
The war crises m Russia and Asia
remained as the principal argument
for conservative market operations,
In addition, many bullishly inclined
for the long pull kept commitments
light pending Qualification of the
forthcoming tax program. Transfers
were around 10000 shares for the two
hours, one of the smallest aggregates
since August, 1910 .
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
N<EAIf1ER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Continued warm tonight.

London. June 27,-(AP)-Ger-
man military leaders are urging
A0oll Hitler to occupy all France to
meet the growing threat Of an Allied
attempt to establish a second front
IN western Europe, an unusually we'll
informed foreign source declared to-
day.
At the same time the independent
French neWS agency at Beirut re-
ported that 500, 900 Italian soldiers
we're concentrated in northern Italy
ready to move into France to rem
force the German army Of occupa-
lOn.
The animation that the Nazls
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-27
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by the raiders.
The situation on the east China
war front remained serious, but
there were indications that General
Chiang's armies were stifIening
against Japanese invasion columns
in Chekiang and kiangsi provinces.
Significantly, the Japanese We're
silent on this important phase Of the
vast and complicated struggle.
Turning to other sectors, Japanese
dispatches asserted that Japanese
forces in the south China province
of KWangtumg have opened a gen
eraI offensive against Chinese troops
southwest Of Tstmgfa and sent the
Chinese l52nd and 53rd divisions
fleeing into the mountains.