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has been stocking up with just the
right people and situations to make
plays that make fun of love in It's
chemically pure, or purely chemical,
aspects.
His people perhaps are Lonsdale's
greatest asset. They have always
been the same. The women have
been lovely and lacquered, or just
grown out of that phase into the
acidulous one which succeeds it.
Their conversation, regardless of
age, has been as highly polished as
it was limited. It has dealt primarily
with other persons, taken the form
of barbed gossip, concerned itself
with the nearest amour, its aim
no more lofty than an ironic or
devastating laugh at the expense
Of its subject.
The 4, Lonsdale. males have been
equally restricted. They are. orna-
mental men, if anything, whose lives
are dedicated equally to the con-
sumption of spirits. the perfection Of
the social graces including light and
witty conversation, and the pursuit
of the Lonsdale girls.
Mr.. Lonsdale may have been as
aware of their fundamental useless
ness as Irving Shaw, Clifford Odets,
or any other natural enemy-among
dramatists-of the type. In pre-
senting them for the amusement of
large, sometimes shocked and some
times irritated audiences, he has
never bothered to say just how he
feels about them beyond the fact
that they fit perfectly his pattern
Of light comedy. Their posturings,
their dalliances, their suavity, and
their jaded attitude toward every
thing except themselves and their
chases are what he likes to write
about.
They have always been his
people and, though wars are pop
ularly supposed to wipe them out
or drive them to complete reform
and conformity with the basic hu-
man pattern, he can see no reason
to give them up now.
In his hands, they always have
dealt gracefully or with semi-subtle-
ty with an emotion that is of
universal interest. If their play at
love has been special kind, it has
had its fascination for others who
(See CARMODY, Page C-9)
Evening star., 1943-09-26
MIR. Robinson
Firm Against
Propaganda
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
A Russian picture in Hollywood is
far from news, but Russian picture
with no propaganda slant-and the
first top budget picture with cast
of new faces-is an accomplishment.
Casey Robinson, screen writer
turned producer, is putting this
project together painstakingly; it is
entitled Days of Glory" His idea
is that the people of Russia must be
better understood by Americans.
Robinson himself disclaims all po-
litical bias and will have none of it
in his film, for he is not a Com
mu1aist, and has only criticism for
the American brand. His subject Is
the Russian people, which he in
terprets as blend Of peasant, aris-
tocratic, artistic and scholarly
strains, and how they have reacted
to their national crisis.
Incidents and characters In the
story have been selected from cur
rent heroes, heroines and incidents
OF the Russian war. Robinson has
built In the character of the Russian
woman sniper, who toured the United
States recently, and has used the !
story of the boy hero hanged by the
Germans. The tale starts with the
destruction OF the Tolstoi Museum,
40 miles from Moscow, when that
city was making stand against the
Nazi invader, and concerns a group
of guerrillas drawn from various
stratas of Russian life.
Russians Will Know.
when the film is shown in Rus
sia, the people will recognize the
characters and the Incidents" says
Robinson. "All have basis in fact"
Further verisimilitude occurs in
using Tamara Toumanova, famous
ballerina, as the star, for she por-
trays a dancer rescued half dead by
the guerrillas; at first useless to them,
she learns to handle a gun, and be-
comes one of them. In real life,
Toumanova's father, the first tank
expert in the Russian Army under
the czar, had tried for years to
teach her to handle gun. 1t took
lllill IOle 10 10 IL.
While practically all of the cast
is new to films, none is inexperi-
enced. The leading man, Gregory
Peck, is from Broadway; following
this role, he goes into the starring
role in "The Keys of the Kingdom"
an important film Lowell Gilmore is
another Broadway Star; Alan Reed,
from radio, is the Falstaff Openshaw
of the Fred Allen show; Lou Crosby,
also from radio, was with the Lum m
Abner show as announcer for six
years; Igor Dolgoruki is from the
Soviet stage and screen, Maria Pal
mer is from Broadway, and Ed
burst is from the Pasadena Play
house.
New Faces an Asset.
Objects of the new faces policy Is
a more sincere effect in presenting
the story, so that star names will not
be hindrance to realism, which is
the thing Robinson hopes for.
Another departure in the unusual
undertaking is the the use of the
old-fashioned love scene of silent
films, which made Garbe and Gill
bert such a popular pair of screen
lovers.
The public has had enough
sophisticated love scenes" says Rob-
inson There are too manN sincere
ones being played in every port, in
every railroad and bus station in the
country. Love without wisecracks is
being rediScoveEed"
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dena as Charles, under instructions,
hung on the lower step of the Pull
man waiting to be filmed. However,
the photographers had learned that
Twenty Grand, famous race horse,
was in the baggage car ahead. They
deserted the star to take pictures of
horse.
Cats Don't Cooperate.
When Paramount signed Sari Ma
rita and brought her on from Eu-
rope, the press boys puzzled for days
on a reception keynote. Due to her
name Ca phony) and the mysterious
background already built up around
her, they agreed everything should
be along the bizarre pattern.
How about having her bring in a
Siamese cat?" was one suggestion
from the floor They're big and in
teresting if we can get one" After
long search, a small animal man
turned up with huge Siamese cat.
1t weighed 20 pounds or more and
had a ferocious CLEAN in its eye. On
the morning of Maritza's arrival, a
press agent carrying the cat in a
big basket met her train Is miles
out of Los Angeles and rode in with
her. She agreed to carry the cat
as she alighted in front of the news
men and photographers.
Everything was fine until the
flashlights began popping. The cat
became frightened and clipped the
star across the face with one of its
paws. At the same time it made
one great leap and was never seen
again. 1t was week before the scar
on Maritza's face healed enough so
she could 60 before the camera.
The late Lew Cody was another
reception casualty. Before vast
crowd gathered at the depot, two
strong men in tights presented him
with a 500-pound key to the city.
Lew figured it was all gag, that the
key was nothing but cardboard He
grabbed it away from the two
muscle men, it fell on his feet and
mashed three toes. Cody had to be
carried to his reception car.
Maybe, after all, it's just as we'll
that boys like John Campbell come
to town unheralded, ungreeted. The
new order seems a lot safer.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.D
Evening star., 1943-09-26
NEW YORK.

NEW o1blA.
The great play of this war is yet
to be written. I went to the Land
of Fame" which opened this week
at the Belasco Theater, hoping that
I would find a really fine drama of
the conflict. I came away. disap-
pointed.
Here you have all the elements of
sympathetic appeal: The long and
courageous fight Of the Greeks
against the German and Italian in
vaders, the sacrifices, the sufferings
which these people endured, the
underground fighting they have con-
tinued since their defeat.
Naturally, you want to see a play
which portrays part of this trag-
edy succeed, but Land of Fame, -
though striking and dramatic at in
tervals, is unreal and amateurish
through its three acts.
The story is about German in
humanity inflicted on the people of
Talon during 1912 and the daring
battle of the guerrillas. 1t deals
with the massacre of all the people
in one village, the threatened execu-
Evening star., 1943-09-26

Ct11CAIO.
The hillbilly farce, Maid in the
Ozarks," has become the second
California stage orphan this year to
reach a full 12-month run in Chi
cago.
The other public favorite is the
all-time long-run success, Good
Night Ladies' which still is piling
up a record at the Blackstone.
When play runs year here, it
automatically writes a footnote to
Chicago theatrical history since only
five have been sturdy enough to pull
that long
However, when show reaches the
start of second year by making cut
rate tickets available at any place
from ones bootblack to his broker,
it stirs up a controversy among those
who keep theatrical archives, posing
the question Should it join the list
of other legitimate record holders?"
Maid in the Ozarks" has gone a
years route, and at cut-rate prices
so it adds up to both record and
controversy. But, when a show hauls
in more than $425 900 in IL months
as the Maid" did, there's no use
being arbitrary about its price
range.
After blistering critical baptism
on the coast, Main in the Ozarks"
slipped into the Great Northern
Theater September IS, 1942. 1t had
played six months in Los Angeles
and seven weeks in San Francisco.
spiting all critics and gleefully pad
ding its jeans.
Critics Bitter Tears.
The critical reception of the West
must have seemed a milk bath COM
pared with the unrestrained butcher
ing Chicago critics administered.
One reviewer warned IF the Great
Northern doesn't watch out it will
soon be parking lot"
Staggering for the first few weeks,
the Maid" slowly caught on until,
after 10 weeks, sophisticated play
goers were more astonished than
amused to see the unpretentious
vehicle playing to capacity audiences.
Then the management began stick
ing out its tongue to the critics with
a series of advertisements quoting
some of the stronger indictments
and dire predictions made for the
play.
In January the original backer,
Woolever Enterprises, sold the East
ern production rights to Chicagoans
Dan Goldberg and Julius Pfeiffer.
They struck out the week-to-week
rental, signed lease for the Great
Northern.
They beckoned to flush war work.
ers, bid for people who never had
seen a legitimate show-and they
came. Soon, strange tales were
heard abroad the Rialto:
Customers called the theater to
Evening star., 1943-09-26
All, Love Is So Bitter
Bv Jaw Carmodv.

It Is quite probable that a balanc-
ing effect in the diet of theater-
goers will be achieved in Washing
ton this week. That Is the intima-
ton, at least, of the circumstance
which brings Another Love Story"
by Frederick Lonsdale to the Ma
tional tomorrow night. The author
ship of the play, its title, and the
cast which includes Roland Young,
Margaret Lindsay, Philiop Ober, etc,
implies that the light, amourish
comedy is about to burst into flower
again. Perhaps to delight the heart,
perhaps to wither quickly. It's des-
tiny is on the lap of the gods, as
the destiny of new plays always is.
However, here it comes again and
1t arouses special interest, a kind
of anticipatory fondness based upon
relatively long absence. Even the
movies, which used to make SO much.
of the theme just prior to the war,
seemed to have given it up for the
duration. 1t has been as if amour,
per sc, had lost its grip as a drama
tic theme, had become something
not quite proper to deal with in
such serious times.
Until Mr.. Lonsdale turned out to
be writing again, it seemed that
plays stemming from, or dealing
with, the biological urgencies of the
species were destined to be rep
resented by Noel Coward's "Blithe
Spirit" That one, now in its third
season, was the kind of success that
normally should have inspired no
less than flock of limitations. That
it failed to do so left a great many
observers slightly stunned. Granting
as they did, Mr.. >Cowards great
grace and facility with the subject
generally, and his provocatively
fresh treatment of it in "Blithe
Spirit" that seemed hardly enough
to have quieted the opposition in
normal times. 1t left only the con-
clusion that the times were abnor-
NAL and that whatever dealing there
was with the subject would have to
be in terms of music, say with Ethel
Norman.
Those Piquant People.
Next to Coward, no other play
wright is so handsomely endowed as
Lonsdale to look upon love as the
theme of light comedy or farce.
Through the years, many more than
the author of "Blithe Spirit" he
Evening star., 1943-09-26
Dubious Employees

Sam Goldwyn, who once adver-
tised for cats at so cents each for
use in a picture and wound up with
thousands, is about to be swamped
with a herd of pink, blue and green
goats. The pastel kids, handicapped
in vegetable dyes, are being used for
a fantasy sequence in up in Arms"
When some bewildered studio en-
ployes first saw the things, they
offered to sign the pledge.
Evening star., 1943-09-26
Bine Well Flanked

Not only does Crosby sing opera
in his next picture with Rise Stew
ems, but the director, Leo McCarey
used to be a song writer, himself.
And Fortunio Bonanoya, playing a
grand opera conductor, appears for
the first time in such a role since
he made an operate debut years ago
in Barcelona, singing "Escamillo" in
Carmen"
Evening star., 1943-09-26
Unwelcome Phrase
Out of the Past
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Five years ago Willard Parker left
Hollywood because his acting was so
bad they threw him out of his first
picture. Today, he's back playing
second lead opposite Rosalind Rus
sell in Ten Per Cent Woman"
In one scene, he has to say in an
extremely listless manner: Il love
you"-as if he wasn't interested.
When he finished, Director Irving
Cummings yelled enthusiastically:
That's it! . That's wonderful, old
boy! Now you're really stinking!"
Somehow" replied Parker, shak-
ing his head, "I feel this is where I
came ini"
Evening star., 1943-09-26

tSee ROBLING, Page CD
Evening star., 1943-09-26
Another Orphanage Hit
BY John S. Robline.

find out when the feature" was
going on. Few, if any, bought
tickets in advance; they insisted
upon lining up before show time
and milling in as they did at movies.
They came in sweaters and work
clothes; they tried to crawl under
the velvet ropes or give their tickets
lSee RORI ING Page Cal
Evening star., 1943-09-26

THE LONSDALE GALLERY-In "Another Story aDh,ch
tomorrow night at the National the gay, sophisticated
characters 1oth authors precious
bu the faces The the picture the right
those OF Philip Ober and Margaret Lindsay That in the center
is that of Roland Young and the pair to the left those
Arthur Margetson and Doris Dalton Light comedy
say, is the idea of "Another Lope Story"
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Dinner Party
Among Events
In the Suburbs
Greenes Hosts
Last Evening in
Honor of Visitors

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L. Greene
Of Drummond, Md, entertained 1T
dinner last evening in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Franklyn Roberts OF
Dallas, Tex, who are their guests
for several weeks.
Mrs. Roberts is the former Ann
Lois Greene, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Greene. Since going to Texas
four years ago Mrs. Roberts has
been a harpist with the Dallas Sym
phony Orchestra.
Mrs. Hugh B. Johnston of York
towne Village entertained at lunch
con yesterday in honor of Mrs
Floyd r. James, who has been the
guest Of Capt. o. D. Foutch and
Mrs. Foutch for the past two weeks
At the luncheon were Mrs. john
ston's neighbors in Yorktowne VII
lage, Mrs. Frank Whitehead, Mrs
Stanley E. Kappe, Mrs Charles B
Lawrence, jr., in addition to Mrs
Foutch and the guest of honor.
Miss Margaret Reid, whose mar
riage to Stan Sergt. Charles Brown
Is planned for February 81, was
given a surprise party last evening
when Mrs. william Wright, Miss
Eleanor Wright and Miss Eleanor
Brown entertained at the home OF
Mrs. Wright. The so guests were
all friends from the Thrifton neigh
borhood, where Miss Reid lives with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Reid. Following a buffet supper, a
shower of miscellaneous gifts was
presented to Miss Reid.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
University Women
To Hear DR.. Leiins

DR.. Peter Lejins, assistant profess
sor OF sociology at the University of
Maryland, will speak on Juvenile
Delinquency and the War" before
the College Park Branch, American
Association of University Women. at
its regular meeting at pm. Mon
day at Ann Arundel Hall on the
university campus. He will be pre-
sented by the education chairman.
Mrs. Leo F. Cain.
The branch announces that It is
planning a phantom" valentine
party as its annual fellowship bene-
fit, giving up real affair because of
wartime rationing. Mrs. C. L. Ever
son IS handling contributions.
A collection will be taken at the
meeting Monday for the Victory
Book Campaign. Arrangements also
have been made for members to
leave books in the local grocery
stores in College Park.
Members also are being urged to
cooperate in the blood donor CAM
paign when q mobile unit of the
American Red Cross goes to Hyatts-
vile February Is.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Canadian Airmen
Will Be Guests
OF Junior Guild

Members Of the Royal Canadian
Air Force from the Canadian Leea-
ton and servicemen from Walter
Reed Hospital and Fort Belvoir will
be guests Of the Junior Guild ut 4
supper party tomorrow evening. The
affair will be held from S to pm,
at the Women's City Club, 736 Jack
son place NV.
Entertainment Will be offered bv
local artists including the Enezawa
Trio, the Marian Chace dancers:
Maurice Cornell, Pearl Donnaur.
Edith Atkins and Mary Conroy,
vocalists, accompanied by Patricia
Morales at the piano, and Daphne
Stern, reader.
The committee in charge of the
supper comprise Mrs. John T. Luck
er, president of the Junior Guild !:
DR.. Margaret Miller, Mrs. Margue-
rite Preston, Mrs. Janet Tholfsen
Miss Amy Porterfield, Miss Roberta
Nelson, Miss Pauline Etzold Mrs,
Thelma Vernon, Miss Mary Bouldin
and Mrs. Anton Auth.
Plans for the spring program in
clude benefit concert for Russian
War Relief to be given early in
March, a style show and tea and a
benefit travel lecture.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
26 Dietitian's Aides
Begin Work Today
In HOSPITALS Here

Twenty-six dietitian's aides, the
first to be trained by the District
Chapter of the Red Cross to assist
professional dietitians in the hospi-
tails, began work today in Emer-
gency and George Washington Uni
versity Hospitals. They have just
completed a 10-hour course after
taking the 20-hour nutrition course
and have volunteered minimum Of
$50 hours per year, the same number
OF hours required of the District
Red Cross nurses aides.
The dietitian's aides will assist in
the hospital kitchens with such
duties as preparing menus, weigh
ing foods for diabetes and checking
trays.
Blue seersucker uniforms for the
dietitian's aides are being made now
by colored women donating their
services 1T the Margaret Washing
ton Vocational School at North
Capitol and o streets NV. The
women are working in two shifts, 20
during the day and 40 at night, in
order that the new aides may wear
the uniforms as soon as possible.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Mr.. and Mrs. Platt
Lease Home Here
For Duration

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Platt OF Co
lumbus, Ohio, have leased = house
on Highland place in Cleveland
Park while Mr.. Platt Is at work with
the War Production Board. Mrs.
Platt spent some time here house
hunting and has returned to Co.
lumbus to close their home there
and bring their children East.
On her way home last week Mrs.
Platt stopped in Massillon, Ohio, to
see her mother. Mrs. Robert Day
and remained over for 4 few days to
attend funeral services for her
mothers brother, Mr.. PerLee Hunt
OF Massillon. Mrs. Platt Is q daugh-
ter OF the late Judge Robert Day
Of Columbus, who was the youngest
brother Of the late Associate JUS
tice William r. Day Of the SUI
preme Court. Mrs. Platt's mother
Is q cousin Of the late former Sur
geon General william Crawford
Gorgas who was chief sanitary Of
ficer Of the Canal Zone during the
building of the Panama Canal.
MT. FlatC Is y nephew OF one OF
the few White House brides, Miss
Emily Platt who was 4 protege Of
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes and spent
much time with her in the Execu-
tive Mansion. Miss Emily Platt's
marriage took place during the
Hayes administration when she be-
came the bride of DR.. Hastings
shortly after the celebration there
of the silver wedding anniversary
of the President and Mrs. Hayes.
The older daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Platt has been named Emily for Mr..
Platt's aunt.
Mrs. Platt and their children will
return to Washington the latter
part Of the month.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Jewish Auxiliary
Plans Member Tea

A member bring member tea
will be given by the Washington
Auxiliary Of the National Home for
Jewish Children at Denver Tuesday
at the Willard Hotel.
The program will include a group
Of solos and duets by Miss Jane
Davis, daughter Of Senator James
Davis, and Joseph Zeis. They will
be accompanied by Mrs. G. M. Bern
heimer. A group Of accordion selec-
tions will be featured by Miss Cath
crime Aurian. Admission will be q
new member.
Mrs. L. M. Bernstein is in charge
OF the program and reservations.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Miss Shepherd
Engaged to Wed
Ensign Scott
Bride.elecf Member
OF Pioneer Family
OF Vest Virginia

Mrs. Henry Shepherd announces
the engagement Of her daughter.
Miss Elizabeth Temple Shepherd, to
Ensign Henry Pepper Scott III. U.
s. N. r., son Of Mr.. Henry Pepper
Scott, jr., and the late Mrs. Scott Of
Wilmington, Del.
Miss 3hepherd, who Is the daugh-
ter of lArs. Shepherd and the late
Mr.. Shepherd Of Washington and
Shepherdstown, w. Va. was grad
uated from Saint GATHERINGS School,
Richmond, and attended Sweet
Briar College.
Miss Shepherds family have been
associated for many generations
with the eastern section of West
Virginia. She Is the descendant on
her mothers side Of william Naylor
Of Romney, w. Va, and on her
fathers side of Thomas Shepherd
for whom the town of Shepherds
town was named. She Is the grand
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roland
Carvel Ringgold of Shepherdstown
and New York.
Ensign Scott was graduated from
Lawrenceville and from Yale in the
class Of 1898. He IS the grandson
of the late Mr.. and Mrs John r.
McChesney of Everett, Wash, and
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Pepper Scott Of Wilmington. He
is a member Of the Alpha Sigma
Phi Fraternity. the Yale Club of
New York and the Wilmington
Country Club. At present Ensign
Scott is on duty in Washington.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Miss Montesi
Recent Bride Of
Ensign Mitchell
Wedding Held
In Lehi. Utah
In January

Mrs. Suzanne Montesi of this city
announces the marriage of her
daughter, Miss Pauette Montesi,
to Ensign Forrest r. Mitchell of
Lehi, Utah, January 18 at the home
IN Lehi Of Mr.. and Mrs. David r.
Mitchell, parents of the bridegroom.
The bride wore a two-piece aqua :
marine wool suit with matching hat,
black accessories and a corsage of
orchids. She was attended by Mrs.
Kenneth v. Lindstrom OF Montclair,
N. j.. who wore a beige dress with
matching accessories and a corsage
Of gardenias.
Mr.. Dean Mitchell was best man
for his brother.
A dinner was given at the home Of
DR.. and Mrs. E. Eddington and then
small reception was held at the
home of the bridegroom's parents.
The couple then left for a trip to
the West Coast.
The bride Is a senior at George
Washington University and is a
member Of the Delta Zeta Sorority
The bridegroom was graduated from
the United States Naval Academy in
the class of 1o43. He has seen ac-
ton for the past seven months In
the South Pacific and is a survivor
Of the U. S. s. Northampton He
Will return to active duty shortly.