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Evening star., 1943-07-04
This Isn't the First
Film Career Start
For Julie Bishop
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Now that Julie Bishop, redheaded
beauty, is advanced to playing lead
with Humphrey Bogart and is to be
given further assignments of equal
importance, it Is interesting to note
that this is jules third film career.
AS a child, under her own name
of Jacqueline Wells, she was selected
by Cecil B. De Mile to play role In
1.-The Golden Bed" She played many
parts that called for a beautiful
child who could take direction in
telligently.
Then she was withdrawn from
films by her family, who felt she
needed to grow up in a good school
and in q home environment. School
plays and such things occupied her
dramatic talents.
Grown up and married to socialite
Walter Brooks III, she again re-
turned to films and played leading
lady roles in unimportant films,
some at independent studios. Her
beauty brought her attention, but
nothing else.
She and Brooks parted amicably
after time. Jacqueline Wells soon
was forgotten. So she started all
over again q Julie Bishop. After
about three years st warmers, abe
0nAy = Oeeong tho heeoh
Evening star., 1943-07-04
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

Everything, of course, happens to
Hollywood-andn now look what it Is {:
Those few leading men left in the
movie business are kicking up their
heels in rebellion. Imagine it-they
don't want to play heroes! They
want to be heels!
You can hardly blame them,
either Records speak loudly. Pop
ularity and big money, it would
seem, spring from shooting and slap
ping folks around the scenery.
Look at that Humphrey Bogart
and Alan Ladd," said tall, hand
some 4-F who has been playing po-
lite, deferential. heart-o'-gold lad
dies for the past seven years. Its
enough to make guy groan. Those
two birds get more mail than all
the pink-tea heroes of Hollywood
put together. And they get more
dough than We ever thought of max
ing. I'm for grabbing a part where
I can sock some dame right in the
jaw!"
Most of the polite part boys feel
the same way, too. One producer
reported this week that he had Of
fered a typical. routine hero role
in a big movie to six available
prospects and had been turned
down by all-for the same reason:
Too sweet and sticky; not enough
villainous action.
Warner Bros. congratulated them
selves when they outbid all other
studios in grabbing Robert Shayne
off the New York stage, where he
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Mr.. Mann SCOTS
At tCurrent Crop
OfMovie Stunters
HOLLYWOOD.

The lot of a stunt man in Holly
wood today is much softer than it
was 30 years ago. In fact, Hank
Mann, former Keystone Kop, and a
stunt man, of and on since 1913,
looks with deep disdain on the
current crop of so-called daring
demons.
Waiting for action on the set of
Saratoga Trunk" at Warner Bros,
along with more than 100 of
the 1943 brand of stunt men, Hank
brandished wicked-looking club in
few practice drives and recalled
the times he drove open automobiles
off piers into the Pacific Ocean
for SO.
I'm those days" said Hank,
doing stunts was a regular part
of picture work. If fellow couldn't
stunt he couldn't act. We got 50
a day-and the thrills. We also
trusted to luck, and not mechanics,
to get away without broken necks."
Today, Hank and his stunting
mates are getting $35 day, plus
bonuses for extra rough work in
railroad free-for-all scenes for
Saratoga Trunk" There are few
little odds and ends. such as Jump
ing off moving trains, to accompany
the fighting. To the lay eye, it
looks mighty dangerous.
Science Does It.
Nothing much to it." said Hank,
"if you know how Everything is
worked out scientifically to avoid
injuries. It's the amateurs and
the guys who want to get adjust
ments (raises in pay for extra
hazards) who make it tough, and
simetimes really dangerous.
Nov, when I drove that first car
of the Venice Pier back in 1918,
1t was just a case of step on the
gas, pray for luck, and jump clear
before the machine hit the water"
Mann said he got the customary
s. a day. a wrenched back and a
soaking for the stunt. The same
scene was subsequently used in two
dozen or more pictures.
"Only adjustment I ever got in
those days." he recalled, was when
I hauled a bear down from q tele-
graph pole. The bear was trained
to a degree-and was supposed to
follow me back down the pole. But
my belt got caught on one Of the
pegs. I couldn't move, and the bear
kept coming.
when he hit my shoulders, the
belt tore loose and we both fell
the bear on top Of me. After I'd
been revived, the directors said the
scene was no good and we'd have
to do it again.
IT got temperamental and said I
wouldn't do it. They finally offered
me an adjustment and I did It.
They gave me an extra dollar"
Oslsassa by The North America Nsws-
naoQ A1ansA NJ
Evening star., 1943-07-04
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Evening star., 1943-07-04

1T will be Just as funny here"
she insisted. ut may be even fun
nier. Why, they are much better
playwrights than even I thought"
"Or we," said this department,
moving out to the edge of its seat,
where 1t will be until the passage
comes up Tuesday night in Mr..
Stones version of the comedy which
seems destined for decades Of pop
ularity-war or peace-in the sum-
mer theater.
It's Laughter That Lasts.
The durability Of the Kaufman
Hart comedy intimates, among
other things, that the dramatist
who would write with an eye to
being commercially successful
should start with the notion that
there is nothing like being light
hearted. If he writes successfully
from that slant on life, he not only
creates the possibility Of long
run in the regular theatrical seaA
son, but of royalties piling up sum-
mer after summer in the provincial
theater.
The serious, or contemplative,
play which views humanity and its
problems as something Of moment
has small chance Of finding itself
in the libraries from which dramas
circulate among the summer GUS
toners. That is as true when the
summer theater comes to town in
periods of gasoline shortage, as
when it dons slacks and polo shirts
and wanders out into the meadows
as it does in peacetime.
Illustrations Of the public's un-
willingness to bother it's head
about what the sober dramatists
think at this season of the year
are plentiful in the recent Broad
way play closings, either for good
or just for the warm months.
Miss Hayes Takes Recess.
Miss Helen Hayes, for instance,
found it expedient not to bother
herself or her normally clamorous
public with Harriet" during the
summer months. The play was
doing excellent business, but Mis-,
Hayes figured it would continue ia
do so If she took a five or six weeks
recess. The Playwrights' Company
took the same attitude in the case
of "The Patriots" critics prize
play. On the other hand, tho
Kingsley plays chief rival, the fam
tastic comedy. THE Skin of Our
Teeth" is running merrily along
in spite of change in the three
principal parts which eliminated
Tallulah Bankhead and the Fredric
Marches in one sweep.
An examination of the Broad
way play roster, indeed, reveals that
but one serious drama is daring
to defy the summer theater tradi-
ton of light-heartedness.
That play is Tomorrow the
World" which, among its other
triumphs. can be written down as
the exception to the rule that sum-
mer is a time for comedy.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
1t Is Probably
The Reflectors
And the Gloves
By Villa Gray Martin.
NEW YORK

I'VE w O1k1A
Hildegarde is the highest paid
night club singer in New York and
has sung for kings, yet she never
has been an overwhelming success
in radio.
1t seems that the delight in her
throbbing, intimate singing and
signing is more visual than might
be suspected, that the allure of the
piquant blond who left her last
name in Milwaukee and picked up
an accent between Paris and Lon
don is dependent on a provocative
view of her pretty shoulders, her in
sinuating pantomime and even
those 16-button gloves she wears
while playing a piano.
But Hildegarde is nothing II not
a hard worker. So she's tackling
radio again-this time as mistress
Of ceremonies on a revival of Beat
the Band The program is a musi-
cal Quiz with listeners sending In
queries to be answered in song titles
by members of the orchestra.
All through the program Hide
garde has those little qulps to pull
off. They are cooked up by a spe-
cial writer who knows what people
expect from her.
The radio audience is deprived
Of one pleasure which the cafe pa
irons enjoy-Hildegard doesn't really
play the piano on the air. Instead
of sitting down and going right
through number, she plays a few
bars (as a gesture), then jumps up
and dashes to the nearest micro
phone and forgotten man, stand
ing by. slides onto the bench.
When Hildegarde put on a swal-
low-tailed white dress and came
down for the premiere from the
Plaza. where she sings for her sup
per. she was glad to have Bob
Grants orchestra with her. Having
worked with her for years. they un-
derstand her, know her timing as
their own heart beats.
It's not generally known but this
Milwaukee girl who once sold hair
pins and cold cream over counter,
has a contract to sing In what she
wittily calls "the rejuvenated Persian
room" for the next six years. So the
patrons who've been turned away
lately by Fred, one of the towns
most polite headwaiters. may be re-
assured. She'll come floating through
that little white door beside the
orchestra stand for many another
night.
A Substitute Soprano.
Hildegarde attained her first sue
cess because her German mother was
a choir conductor. When Mrs. Sell,
wife of a grocer, needed some So
pranos she called in her second
daughter. When she was 16 the
vivacious blond with the slanting
eyes was playing piano accompani-
ment in local movie house for
silent films. Shortly afterWard she
toured in vaudeville as the only girl
member of l2-piece orchestra.
She was plugging songs in Irving
Berlin's Office when Producer Gus
Edwards heard her sing, told her to
drop the last name and become a
Dutch comedienne. Later London
cafe owner in New York to find
talent signed her and she went to
England.
But it was in Paris that the demo-
cratic King of Sweden heard her.
returned to find her gone, insisted
that she be rehired. The next day
Evening star., 1943-07-04
By Laurence Perry.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
Music rules the hour here these
early summer days Seldom, If ever,
have the Broadway caves of har-
mony echoed so tunefully. so volu-
minously. To the song and dance of
Johann Strauss, Cole Porter, Tom
Fats) Waller. Sigmund Romberg
and Richard Rogers has been added
the romantically robust melody of
Rudolf Friml's operetta, "The Vaga-
bond King" last seen here 18 years
ago. Really. II this trend continues,
we may expect soon to see Broad
ways street sweepers advancing to
their tasks with stirring song of
the broom: stenogs trilling as they
skip and dance to their desks; po-
licemen beating time with their
nightsticks as they troll lusty
song.
Be that as it may, "The Vagabond
King" is very, very welcome and
that welcome. sincerely believe, will
endure for a long time.
Beautifully costumed, sumptuous
in decor, we'll sung, capably acted,
this musical version of Justin Hunt
ly McCarthy's tale Of a mad rake
who saved kingdom is sheer de-
light. Returned to Broa dway for
the first time since its run OF SOB
days at the old Casino Theater 1t
stands unique among revivals in
that 1t has every aspect and gives
every impression of freshness. 1t
IS not track sore.
Russell Janney, who produced 1t
In 1925, retained ownership through
the years. Thus holding the piece.
he cherished 1t. guarded it as one
nurtures priced possession. 1t has
never toured the road with medi-
ocre singers. tawdry settings, pro-
duction generally inadequate. Only
upon special occasions has 1t been
seen and heard-at the St. Louis
Open Air Festival two years ago;
once in the Los Angeles Auditorium
and, finally, as a tryout in view of
the present revival. at the Paper
Mill Playhouse in Jersey.
Janney's Prime Love.
Loving it as he does. Janney has
bestowed lavish production upon his
operetta. Manifestly, money has not
been stinted The best available
principals were engaged and r don't
know when the eyes of a Broadway
audience have been so delighted by
scenic effect and costume In all
ballet numbers. so important to this
operetta. grace and beauty and corus-
eating color are joined with the
poetry of rhythmic motion, and it is
enthralling The famous waltz
Huguette" is done beyond criticism
and all the well-remembered songs,
"Only q Rose" and Some Time"
are heard as gratefully as though
they were brand-new.
Musical addicts who have forgot
ten the past or those who hold brief
for nothing but brassy blare and dis
sonance-hepcat music-will sneer
at our enthusiasm. Well. let them.
Personally, we ate up THE Vaga-
bond King" and so did-and so
villa lot of others.
Dennis King is missing from the
role he created of Francois Villon,
the drunken poet, most attractive OF
history's rogues, most persuasive Of
history's smooth -tongued scoundrek.
The part is now in the hands of
John Brownlee, noted baritone Of
the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Perhaps in some minor degree he
lacks the rakishly clustering swag-
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Ingenuity Vital
In Property Man
For Shelton Film
By Ted Gill.
HOLLYWOOD.

You hear about propmen practi-
cally knocking themselves out max
ing wacky gadgets some directors
use in pictures. But here's one about
a studio handyman who became so
perplexed over one assignment. The
director, a practical joker, pitched
In and helped make some Of the
screwy props himself.
The propman is Harry Edwards
and the director is S. Sylvan Simon.
They're collaborating on "Whis-
tling in Brooklyn Red Skeletons S
latest
Prize prop which Edwards had to
produce was a phony talking ma
chine record It not only had to
play music, but had to be made OF
such material that Shelton could
pick it up and MUNICH on it when he
remarked in the film, "I'll eat that
record if that's not my voice"-then
discovered it's some one elSe's voice.
Simon suggested a record made Of
rock candy and licorice. and they
think they've really got something
there.
Other props for the picture i'm
clude a wedding cake and a wind
shield wiper that squirts water. a
dog trained to stand on his hind
legs and stick out his tongue de-
risively. a mechanical crab that
bites Shelton on the nose. a baseball
that explodes, another made of q
substance the comedian can eat and
q third made of celluloid that he
can catch in his beard, a brick and
suitcase that explode. fountain
pen that turns into a knife, shirt
whose buttons pop off simultane-
ously on cue and a batch of imita-
ton mustard that won't stain his
clothes or irritate his eyes when a
bottle of it is thrown in his face.
Edwards says there's more, too
hut the rest are easy.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
ATime Comedy
By Jay Cavmody

When they wrote "You Can't Take
It With YOU" George 8. Kaufman
and Moss Hart undoubtedly did not
anticipate its durability. They are
. pair Of playwrights who do not
write with posterity in view. Or, II
subconsciously they do have an eye
upon audiences yet unborn, or even
yet unacquainted with the theater.
the attitude Is unjustified. The
Messrs. Kaufman and Hart are enor-
mously clever men, but they are Of
the ontemporary scene, write about
1t and are emphatically limited to it.
Today may belong to them, but to-
morrow they must leave to others.
That, at least, Is one Of the most
defensible deductions to be made
from even the more successful Of
their plays. Like todays paper,
they are wonderful (advt.), but
after that there Is tomorrow.
Attitude Raises . Point.
It was this assumption that made
this department curious about Ger
tain aspects of "You Can't Take It
With You" which opens Tuesday
night at the National, with Fred
Stone playing the amazing charac-
ter of Grandpa Vanderhof.
There is, for instance, the matter
Of Cramps and the income tax. It
was very funny thing several years
ago, this attitude Of the old gentle
man who found simple retirement
from business a kind of Utopia. He
never had liked income taxes and
when he stopped being in business,
he simply ceased to file his annual
returns.
Eventually, 1t will be recalled, the
internal revenue people catch up
with Cramps and undertake to prove
that his attitude is not merely illegal,
but illogical. When he Is told that
his tax money goes to maintain a
Navy for his protection, he points
out that he needs neither a Navy
nor protection.
Every taxpayer laughed like mad
at the time and the exchange be-
tween Cramps and the internal rev.
enue man was, clearly one Of the
most hilarious interludes the imag-
ination Of any playwright had ever
achieved.
Stands Test Of Time.
Today, this department was sure,
the playwrights must have been
forced to do something about the
scene. softened it. or maybe made
Cramps look a little bit more wacky
if possible in order to justify talk
like that.
They have not done a thing to
the scene" Helen Hoerle, company
manager, says. Its funnier than
ever. I know 1t sounds strange
although never thought Of 1t be-
fore, but that has been the reception
all through the Middle West. AS a
matter of fact. it is the funniest
thing in the play"
perhaps that is because it was the
Middle West" it was suggested to
Miss Hoerle "1t does not have the
same attitude. maybe, that we have
In this part Of the country"
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Not All Is Humor
In Benchley Clan
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Humorist Bob Benchley is prepar-
ing a new short subject for films,
happy that the Benchleys, jr., are
doing their part in the war effort
while he carries along on the home
front.
1t. q. g. Nathaniel Benchley,
U. S. NJ, is on a destroyer in African
waters. Bob, jr.. disqualified for ac-
tive service by auto injuries. is an
employe of the Norden Bombsight
Corp. in New York.
All three began their careers as
editors of the Harvard Lampoon,
famous comic magazine of their alma
mater
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Coming Attractions

NAT1oNA1-"You YOU" with Fred Stone:
starting Tuesday.
CAPITOL-The Youngest Profession" Virginia
Edward Arnold starting Thursday.
COLUMB1A-"Presenng Lily Mars with
Hefin; returning Thursday
EARLE-Desperadoe" Randolph eileen Ford;
starting Friday.
KEITHS-Mr. Big" with Gloria Donald OConnor
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nevsky Serge Eisensens masterpiece
METROPOLITAN Parade Of 1s43" Hayward
Carroll
PALACE-"Coney hand with Betty Cradle George Mont
Evening star., 1943-07-04

Aside from staging the circus
Lauretta has been busy with such
little chores as the staging of the
dances for something for the boys"
the "Siegfeld Follies" and Early to
Bed" all current Broadway hits.
Once during her lunch hour. she
taught several dance routines to the
chorus at the Diamond Horseshoe
Night Club.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Film Actors Hobbies
Have Gone to War
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Many film actors are making for
mer hobbies work for the war effort.
Jimmy Ellison is foreman in a
small bronze foundry at Balboa
which makes fittings for Navy utility
boats. He became interested at the
foundry in peacetimes, when he and
many other sea-loving film stars
kept boats in the Balboa Harbor.
John MILAN, character actor, uses
his skill at woodworking on the
night shift at a small defense plant,
running a lathe. John Frederick,
juvenile, does his screen roles on
leave from Lockheed-he works the
swing shift.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Aida on Long Terms

Bob Aida, musical comedy and
night club star, has been signed to
a long-term contract by Warner
Bros. to star in both musical and
dramatic vehicles. He has been
working as master Of ceremonies in
USO camp shows.
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Evening star., 1943-09-24
Gen. Butcher 10 Retire
From Duty in January
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, Sept. 24.-The i'm
pending retirement of Brig. Gen.
Edwin Butcher, Sd Service Command
chief of staff, and the assignment of
Maj. Kenneth E. Griffith as air
liaison officer to the command, has
been announced by Maj. Gen. Milton
A. Reckord.
Gen. Butchers retirement headed
list of approximately 80 officers in
the Sd Service Area who have passed
statutory retirement age and whose
release from active service has been
authorized by the War Department,
Gen. ,Reckord said.
Gen. Butcher, who will retire from
active duty on January 81, 1874, has
been an officer in the Regular Army
since his graduation from the United
States Military Academy in 1904.
Mai Griffith Of Indianapolis, was
one Of the two original organizers of
Universal Air Lines, Inc, which be-
gan a commercial passenger route
between Cleveland and Chicago in
1928. Universal later became known
as American Airlines.
Gen. Reckord said that Mai. Grif-
fifth was a member of the aviation
section of the Signal Corps during
the World War. He studied ad-
vanced flying in France and Italy,
Gen. Reckord added.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
.Work-Fight Law
To Be Tested in
Baltimore Court
Challenge to Center
Around Arrest of
Former Soldier
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 24.-The con-
stitutionality of Maryland's work.
or-fight law, effective in IA counties,
will be at issue in trial scheduled
next Wednesday before Judge Will
liam L. Henderson in Baltimore City
Court.
The stage was set for a test of the
law yesterday when attorneys for
Nelson Blades, a 27-year-old Cris-
field resident, filed habeas corpus
proceedings in the Baltimore court.
Mr.. Blades attorneys contended in
the habeas corpus application that
the work-or fight law was unconsti-
tutional because "it permits involun-
tary servitude, it abridges the privi-
leges or immunities of citizens of the
United States, it resorts in the
deprivation of liberty without due
process of law and it denies the
equal protection of the law"
Blades Is Ex-Soldier.
Attorneys Joseph I. Paper and
Charles j. Stinchcomb said that Mr..
Blades, former soldier, had been
convicted and sentenced to six
months in the House of Correction
and payment of a $500 fine-the
maximum penalty under the law
by Somerset County Magistrate Fred
NJ. Holland last June 26 while his ap-
plication for admission into the Sea-
bees was pending. They said no
witnesses appeared against Mr..
Blades at the magistrates trial.
. Mr.. Paper and Mr.. Stinchcomb. in
formal statements filed in court, said
Mr.. Blades enlisted in the Army
three days after the Pearl Harbor
attack and served until the following
July when he was discharged be-
cause of a criminal record. He later
received an induction call but was
rejected because of the Army dis
charge, they said
The statement said Mr.. Blades
application for the Seabees was
made on the suggestion of draft
board officials, but that while 1t was
pending he was suddenly arrested
without charges or complaint. and
he was held In custody until the time
of the hearing on June %, 1943.
when, he was convicted and ordered
in prison"
Law Is Questioned.
The application contended that
the law, instead of furthering the
war effort, might be detrimental
to it.
It "unreasonably curtails and re-
stricts the liberty of contract and
the right of an individual to engage
in such occupations, pursuits or en-
ployments as he may think proper,
but it makes mandatory upon an
unemployed individual acceptance
Of the first offer of employment
made to him, regardless of the type
and character of the employment,
his skill or lack of skill therein, the
working conditions connected there
with, and the personality of the
employer"
The work-o fight statute provides
that every male between the ages of
16 and 60 who is not in the Army
or professionally employed accept a
bona fide job at the prevailing wage.
Mr. Baldes' attorneys said the
Workers Defense League was inter-
ested in the case.