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Evening star., 1943-10-03

MacMurray, Cary Grant and w. @.
Fields.
On the other hand, just to prove
the rule, there are few young
movie players who do quite all right
in spite of being sons and daughters
OF stage and screen professionals.
For instance, beautiful Maureen
O'Hara finds 1t no handicap being
the daughter Of Rita -Simons.
talented member of the famous
Abbey Players. Diana Barrymore
has proved herself in half a dozen
pictures. Noah Beery, jr.. and Jack
Holt, jr., today are box office names
almost as important as their fathers
were in their prime. ..
The less said Of the acting
achievements of the children of
some of our foremost acting families
the better. In most cases they have
failed miserably to uphold the
standards of father or mother.
The youngsters of Dolores Cos
tello and John Barrymore, for in
stance, have done nothing, although
they have had plenty of opportuni-
ties. And where could you find bet
ter acting blood than a combination
OF the Barrymore and Costello
families?
Illustrations of Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplins sons have also
failed to show the slightest trace Of
their fathers remarkable talent.
This, incidentally, is one of the most
bitter disappointments in Charles
life.
The same holds true Of Leatrice
Joy Gilbert, daughter Of John Gill
bert and Leatrice Joy, two of the
most-loved stars Of the silent days.
Harold Lloyds children don't ap-
pear the least bit talented in a his
trionic way. They have no interest
in the movies, seldom attend shows.
And this despite the fact that acting
is in their blood from both sides of
the fanily-their mother being the
former Mildred Davis, popular star
Of the silent screen and leading
woman for Lloyd in many Of his best
comedies.
More examples could be cited on
both sides of the fence-but the evi-
dence is conclusive.
So far as the movie business Is
concerned, it's everybodys game.
| And your chances of winning Sue
cess are far better if you spring from
the homes of bakers, butchers or any
/ one who hasn't the faintest con-
nection with the thea-tah.
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Evening star., 1943-10-03
Competitive Neighbors
By John LIoyd.

rome Power. Mickey Rooney and
Fred Astaire. In Mexico, Enrol
Flynn, a frequent visitor, enjoys
great popularity. along with Gary
Cooper and Carey Grant of Holly
wood and Jorge Negrette, songster,
Of Mexico.
In Mexico the alI-time record
drawing card wa, The Three Mus
keteers," starring Cantinflas. Next
came Mrs. Miniver" and third was
"CaSablanca. In fact. Mrs. Mini
YER with its subtle touch, enjoyed
success throughout Latin America.
Dlsney'S "SaludoS Amigos" with a
Latin American backdrop, ran for
six and one-half weeks at firSt-run
cinema in Buenos Aires, where a
picture that lasts more than two
weeks ranks as a hit.
Slated for Bolivarians.
Some Latin American audiences
have likes and Gislikes that can't be
tampered with. In Colombia the
fans demand repeats of those por-
lions of a picture that strike their
fancy. Hence, Deanna Durbin may
sing a song and then come back for
an encore-if the audience stomps
and claps loudly enough. One movie
impresario who dared defy the Gus
tom of turning back the reel on such
occasions was sorry later. A riotous
crowd wrecked his new theater.
A e-in-aWhile motion picture
industry which claims TO be the
Oldest in Latin America. ard has as
its stars and extras local business
people with a flare for acting. is
getting ready to produce the 18th
and 18th feature-length films in its
11-year history.
The pictures, to be made in sound
a. a cost Of less than $4,000 each.
will. like their predecessors. play
Venezuelan movie houses and those
OF other Bolivarian nations of Co.
lombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
If they are like the previous pic
lures made thus far in Venezuela
they will gross about three times the
amount spent on them, please Vene-
zuelan theatergoers and provide a
lot OF fun for the local dramatists
who will take part in their produc-
ton. The venture is more like the
Little Theater movement than the
establishment of a movie industry
But its sponsors have hopes.
Evening star., 1943-10-03

existed apart from that treated in
the musical revue, This Is the
Army 1t was his further convic-
ton, and the more important one,
that there was adequate writing
talent to put the material into the
shape best suited for soldier enter
tainment.
More Right Than He Knew.
Mr.. Golden was right, but he did
not know how right. When his five
playwright judges were assembled
for contemplation of the soldier
playwrights' work they found them
selves confronted by total of lis
one-act plays. That not only was
many more than had been expected,
but the quality was startlingly
higher, suitable for production by
the most eXacting standard of the
professional theater.
This was so obviously true that
when the five winning plays were
produced in what was to have been
a one-night presentation to an
audience that had paid $780,
600 to see them) there was an i'm
mediate vociferous demand that
they be continued. For soldier audi
ences. yes, the critics shouted. but
for civilian audiences, too Offcial-
dom and the public joined in the
request, which the Army granted
despite the fact that it was a de-
parture from the original program.
The five one-act plays, by as many
different men in the ranks of the
Army. do not in any case represent
THE war play for all the enthusi-
asm of their reception. Three of
them are hilarious comedy sketches,
two more on the serious side and
exceedingly well done Dealing as
they do in most cases with camp
life or small segments of action in
war zones, they represent enter
talnment value Of an order that has
been ecstatically praised.
Their greater value, however, is
that they show the Army play
wrights are capable of dealing with
their experience expertly from the
dramatic standpoint. arousing high
hope that when that experience
deepens some of them will be up to
THE war play.
The five authors. incidentally, all
have had experience in the theater
OF the writing fields.
There are great many others
Just like them scattered among the
100000 men in the fighting forces.
That there should be Andersons,
Stallingses and Sheriffs among
them is more than safe bet. The
quantity alone, entirely apart from
the quality of them represented in
Mr.. Goldens prize plays, should
guarantee that.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
ublic Already Asks
Spiritual Guidance
OF the Croaner

BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.
Actors like Spencer Tracy, Pat
OBrien, and now Bing Crosby, who
play the roles of priests on the
screen, find themselves in a peculiar
position fraught with many conse
quences.
Their fan mail, asking for advice
on every spiritual topic under the
sun, bulges. Somehow these letters
must be answered, and secretaries
are few and far between these labor
shortage days
Between extra help to write the
letters and the cost of the stamps
and stationery, Spencer Tracy, after
a five-year spell since he did Fa-
ther Flanagan in Boys Town
says he has spent a small fortune
and great deal of extra time.
Bing Crosby's mail, even before
the release of the film in which he
plays the role, has already begun tc
leap, and the fifth studio secretary
Is now working with four others tc
keep ahead of it.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
War Play a Cinch
By Jay Carmodv.

One of the favorite subjects of
those in, Of and close to the theater
Is THE war play. The reference, of
course, is to the drama which will
catch the spirit and flavor of war
wrap it up in powerful package
and deliver it with devastating i'm
pact.
Out of World War I came two
such plays, entirely different in
treatment. but each rather justi-
flably regarded as THE war play.
One of these was What Price
Glory?'. lusty. guSty sardonic
piece of literature by Maxwell An
derson and Laurence Stallings. The
other was Journeys End" a poig-
r1ant account of triumphant death
in battle by England's warrior play
wright, R. C. Sheriff.
Time Has Not Run Out.
1t is too early to expect equiva-
lent works out of this war. The
soldiers who may write it out of their
experience are still too busy.
That obvious truth. however, has
not kept great many theatergoers
from hoping for THE war play
every time the theme is dealt with
by a playwright Nor has it kept
them from being disappointed when
play after play has failed to meas
ure up to their expectations.
Nearest thing to the play of plays
about the war. one which dealt
with soldiers in actual conflict
rather than with civilians as in
Watch on the Rhine. " There Shall
Be No Night" and The Moon Is
Down. is Anderson's The Eve of
St. Mark That one caught the
spirit of battle. of democracy's S
army, story of moral victory in
the midst of physical defeat. 1t
was cheered as the closest approach
In this war to THE play, but no one
rated it higher than that. 1t
showed the way while leaving the
expectations unfulhlled.
Anderson Hope Bearer.
Certainly it left Mr.. Anderson as
the hope bearer, the playwright
whose great promise has vhetted
the appetites for his forthcoming
Storm Operation" That is the
play which Anderson sifted out of
his experience il North Africa with
the enthuSia"., elaboration of
Gen. Ike -. 2nloWer who eX-
horted him 10 write it with ell speed
to acquaint the public with the facts
Of combat and the men involved
In it.
Apart from MI Anderson's first
successful project and his currently
hopeful one, the last few months
have produced other reasons for
optimism about THE war play.
One of the most prettily accented
of these is the set of five solder
plays which have been assembled
as The Army, Play by Play" which
opens q weeks engagement at the
National tomorrow night.
The history Of this highly success
full entertainment project is per-
fectly designed to inspire confidence
IN the ability Of soldier authors to
write of their experience in dra-
matte form.
1t was started with no such end in
view 1t began, rather, as a play
contest, limited to soldier authors.
with the object of finding material
for the entertainment of servicemen.
The idea Of Producer John Golden
was that there was some highly
dramatic material in camp life which
Evening star., 1943-10-03
MEXICO CITY.

MEXICO CITY.
AS motion picture production IS
increasing and improving in Latin
America, the Hollywood product is
slipping in popularity from the Rio
Grande to Cape Horn.
A survey shows that, while United
States films still rank first, the vir-
tual monopoly they ofce held is
gone. More and more Mexican and
Argentine pictures, and to a less
extent productions of Chile. Cuba
and other countries, are entertain
ing the Latin fans.
The reason. say cinema critics
and distributors. is primarily the
Latin Americans preference for en-
tertalnment in his own language
and not any deterioration in the
quality Of HollyWood's output. The
latter, critics agree. are still dis
tlnctly superior to the Latin Amer
lean product, but there IS something
foreign about them, much as Rus
sian talkieS. no matter how excel
lent, would be to North Americans.
Buenos Aires is the No. / produc-
ing city in Latin America, with
Mexico close second and gaining.
Cantinflas, funny man of the
Mexican screen. who fights bulls in
spare time, steadily outdraws all
other actors, including Hollywood S
best, throughout Latin America.
Bette Below the Rio.
The most consistently popular
screen actress in Latin America is
Bette Davis. who has a following
from Mexico to Argentina.
In Argentina. Deanna Durbin and
Ginger Rogers are other popular
Hollywood feminine stars: in Chile,
Greer Carson and Ingrid Bergman,
with Dolores del Rio and Lupe We
lez. currently appearing in films of
their native Mexico, also drawing
fairly we'll
Among Hollywood male stars,
/ Charles Boyer enjoys perhaps the
most consistent popularity in Latin
America. Top-notch made attrac-
tions in Chile, besides Cantinfas
and Boyer. include Clark Gable
Paul Muni. Robert Taylor, Enrol
Flynn. Gary Cooper, Carey Grant
and Tyrone Power of Hollywood
and Luis Sandrini and Jorge Ri
goud of Argentina Argentina likes
Spencer Tracy. Clark Gable, Ty-
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Today's Film Schedules

CAP1TOL-Hoy Matrmony" mistaken identity :5O
4:3o tbs and 9:55 Stage shows ITO
COLUMBIA-So Proudly We Hail." Army
$40, 7:30 and $50
EARLE-Thank Your Lucky Stars" lampoon themselves
l:35, 425 ITO and 10 Stage
$50 pm.
KEI1HS-Behnd the Rising Japan: 43o
6:15, sos and $50 ~ "
L1TIEBack Sea Fighters Soviet $50 and
9:15
METROPOLITAN combat
los, 3:15, $40, 7:3O and s35 pm
PALACE"For Whom the Bergmans showpiece
los, $50, 6:35 pm.
P1x-Charle Chaplin laugh week." 2l5 455 725 pm
TRANS -LUx-News Continuous fro pm.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Pearls Antics
Brighten Show
On Broadway
Br Lawrence Perry.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Feeling among theatrical pro-
ducers that Broadway will accept al
most anything in this era of ready
spenders with plenty to spend has
not been altogether borne out by
facts in the season thus far. Thus
giving the season benefit Of mag
nanimity, We hasten to say there are
enough productions unWarrantably
enjoying life, liberty and pursuit of
dollars to lead to the above con-
clusion by sponsors of-weu OF
such a comedy as A. L. Berman has
been successfully tempted to sub
nit at the Bijou Theater. It is
called "All for ALL" an adaptation
by Norman Bruce of q play by
Aaron Hoffman which enjoyed pros
perity in the metropolis some 20
years ago
II 1t has any excuse for it's refur-
blshed resurrection other than that
it had need of success two decades
ago. it lies with the presence in the
company of Jack Pearl. who always
has reminded me of the funniest
comedian, in his particular vein,
ever knew, the late Sam Bernard
Such being the case, Pearl can get
a laugh in this quarter any time he
tries for one-Which in "All for
All is frequently. Then as a foil
there is Harry Green, who can be
and now is-funny. too.
Longevity Predicted.
In truth they are so funny and
they build so eXpertly upon a mass
of wacky humor, bequeathed by
Weber and Fields, that I should not
be at all surprised if some of the
clientele that made "Abie's Irish
Rose and Friendly Enemies" last
almost forever, carry this piece for
quite lengthy duration.
Pearl. as John Bauer, ST, is the
owner Of fruit cannery His fore
man is Albert Kruger Harry Green)
an old pinochle comrade of some 30
years standing. Their relationship
is sorely tested when young Bauer,
Jr-he has been to college-organ-
ICES the plant workers into an in
dustrial democracy, into which the
foreman is inducted as leader. All
principles of cooperative planning
and many heretofore unheard of are
applied to business already $3.50 900
in debt. With the president, now
on salary, and his former foreman
thus at cross-purposes, the back
and-forth recriminations. outbursts
of rancor, transient reconcilia tions
and various other manifestations of
comedy temperament are the life of
the play-and all the life there is,
really.
Preservation by Comics.
But even they cannot carry what
ought to be one-act play-and a
good one, too-through three acts,
bolstered by a faint boy-and-girl
love interest and the complica alton
of a rapacious banker who wants to
take over the plant for purposes
purely his own. In the end he is
foiled by the workers, who raise
funds among themselves to pay off
the mortgage, while a breezy 60
getter from the West starts the
plant off on new life with a novel
plan of carrying canned goods to
consumers via mctorcade.
BY no expansion of sympathy can
I say that the exposition of social
economics and class idealism con-
tanned in this piece provide food for
(See PERRY, Page CO
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Ridicule Customers Relish
By Rosalind Shafer.

maker in the comedy of Olsen and
johnson. They'd be the last to deny
this.
A prop list of requirements for one
of their scenes is a short cut to
realization Of what their comedy
means to a property man: Eight
African spears and shields, a dozen
goldfish, an electric chair, a cuckoo
clock, pair of snoWshoes, a set of
golf clubs, roWboat, cigar IL
inches long with stuffed bird
perched one the end, a bicycle, a
wooden machine gun. set of bur-
glars tools, two shotguns, a dozen
stuffed ducks. q pickaX.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Film Youth Rears
Ambitious Head
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Believing it takes youth to star
youth on the screen, universal has
assigned Felix Feist, only 80, to di-
rect the next Donald OConnor pic
ture, I'VE of the Theater," in which
the ages of 10 supporting players
and that of the director average
only IA years. A stickler for work,
Feist produced one recent picture in
l6 days, and another in only u.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Heart Is Elsewhere

Harry James really gives out with
some fast triple tongue, footing 900
notes OF "Hora Staccato" on his
trumpet in 80 seconds for scene in
Mr.. Co-Ed," a college comedy caper
about plenty solid songwriter who
is the only male student in a girls
school. James, one of the hottest
music makers today, is a softie for
the classics, and hopes some day
to conduct his own symphony or
cheStra.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Indian Ancestors
Prove a Mystery
BY the Associated Pres

HOLLYWOOD.
The only place that Indians can
get automatic Indian garb for use
in period pictures showing the sturdy
red man is in Hollywood. Worse
than that their souaws have no idea
about what is really what in correct
wear of ancestral flnery, and can
do nothing about remedying the sit
uation. Research experts working on
Buffalo Bill" fixed all tribal ward
robes, shipped 80 trunkfuls of the
real thing to reservations where
shots were made at Kanab, Utah.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Garbo Pell.Mell

Film folks say one of the funniest
sights they ever saw was when Greta
Garbo used to pick out a deserted
street, pull her skirts up to her
knees and run pell-mell down the
pavement-just for the exercise
with her chauffeur following closely
behind with her car. She wanted to
be alone!
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Avenue Outmoded

Stock shots made in peacetime,
before the rationing of gasoline
combed large percentage of traffic
from the streets of the country, are
now worthless. A shot of Fifth ave-
nue. needed for PIN Up Girl" had to
be rennade for 4 background scene
Of the famous street - Il y today.
Evening star., 1943-10-03

achieved their positions entirely
through training, rather than
through inherited talents. Among
them are such personalities as Gary
Cooper, Myrna 10y, James Stewart,
Bing Crosby, Claudette Colbert,
Spencer Tracy, Ginger Rogers, Fred
Evening star., 1943-10-03

from English nonprofessional act
ing parents So does Ronald COL
man. Joel McCrea's father operated
a chain of stores. Clark Gables
father was a laborer.
There are scores of other top
fight stars in HOLLYWOOD who have
The sub., 1943-10-07
Union Checking Up On Representatives

It is common knowledge that all organizations most of the hard work rests on the shoulders of and is performed by a loyal few. In ouiry to Harold Tylor, Financial Secretary and Treasurer of the Shipbuilders' Union, reveals that this organization is no different from the others.
 Despite the fact that new mem ters are coming in fast, substant- ial part of the applications are coming from relatively few of the representatives.
 At the request of the executive committee the Union Treasurer Is preparing list to show how many members each representative IS bringing in during the current campaign This information Will be released to all union members in ''The Sub" SO that everyone will know who are the workers and who are the shirkers among the union representatives.
The sub., 1943-10-07
WLB To Scrutinize Incentive Systems

Vice-chairman, George W. Tay- Tor, of the National War Labor Board addressed a convention in New York last week and issued 8 warning concerning w. L. B. Ap- proval of incentive plans. He re- ported that many companies had submitted incentive plans based on nothing more than higher wage rates for increases in average out put and said "This type would not meet with approval" According to this authority, favorable action in approval of bonus systems could be expected only where total output was increased by extra work and not by management contribution through new equipment, etc.
 It was also indicated that the w. L. B. would very soon announce general policy covering this en- tire subject.
The sub., 1943-10-07
Kaiser Yards Get Nursery Schools

Henry J. Kaiser has already been conceded to be the most liberal, progressive, and efficient of all ship yard operators in the United States. His great prestige and fame have resulted not only from mod ern production methods setting new production records but also from a very liberal labor policy. Under this liberal labor policy, all employees are provided with very attractive health and accident in- surance under which all doctors bills as well as hospital expenses are fully covered. Kaiser has also led the way providing labor stabil- ity in all of his ship yards through granting of union shop contracts without the usual reactionary em- ployer resistance.
 The latest Kaiser achievement is the construction and establish ment of two large nursery schools, each capable of caring for 400 chll- dren at a time or 1900 during a "A hour working period. These schools are being rushed to com
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The sub., 1943-10-07

, The strike balloting will take place either on Tuesday, October 18th, 1943, or Wednesday, October 2Oth, 1943. The law requires that the balloting take place on the 3Oth day after the union strike notice is received in Washington but 1t does not state whether the so~ called cooling off period starts to run on the day the notice was re- ceived or on the day after the no- tice was received. Washington has acknowledged receiving the notice on September 20th, 1943.
 The Union Exexcutive Commit tee has firmly resolved that the strike vote will not be withdrawn by the Union unless a majority of the Union members vote to do so by a Union secret ballot re- stricted to members of the Union. Besides this, the Union Executive Committee has also inalterably decided that it will not recom- mend any withdrawal of the strike vote by the Union unless a satis- factory settlement is made, not only upon the contract question but also of the Ward case and the starting time and length of shift disputes.
 The attitude of the Union is that if there is going to be settlement everything must be strengthened out. This is the same attitude which the company took in the contract negotiations when it re- fused to sign a contract and leave the four unsettled points to the War Labor Board for decision. Ev- eryone realizes that relations be- tween the Union and the company have reached the breaking point, that the final showdown is here and that if the Union does not win this fight, working conditions will continue to be even more unsatis- factory and deplorable.
 The Union also firmly continues in it's position that there should be no actual work stoppages but that the Navy should take over the plant.
The sub., 1943-10-07

gone over the 1OO0 mark and should be approaching the halfway goal. The Union has already en- rolled and now has in good stand ing well over a majority of the eligible workers. Without any paid business agents or union shop pro- visions, this is a remarkable rec ord.
 Nevertheless, the Union is still in a terrific jam. It must get the inn mediate financial support of thou sands of additional workers or else it may have to give up it's battle with the Company, even though
The sub., 1943-10-07
CIO Officer Fired As FRED" At Convention

At the recent I. U. M. s. w. e. I. O. convention at the Hotel Com madore in New York City, Irving Velson, President of it's local No. 13 in Brooklyn and Secretary of its Atlantic Coast Bethlehem Com mittee which negotiated contract for eight ship yards was fired. This action followed a strong de- bate in which liar" accusations were freely hurled.
 The vote indicated decided diff ference of opinion between various delegates over this action and in the voting unit system was used. The votes of all delegates from a particular local were cast as one unit.