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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-31
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expressions. People who have seen
the show are often surprised when
they hear me sing onkey," she
chuckled.
She has visited many Army and
Navy camps around New York and
has appeared in several USO shows.
One OF her priced possessions is a
silved bracelet given to her by the
Coast Guard. On Wednesday nights
she goes to the Stage Door Canteen
and listens with interest to the SOL
diers' tales of Army life. She has a
soldier husband stationed some
where on the East Coast. "I feel
closer to him when I hear the SOL
diers talk"
Busy as she is, she finds time for
other, more honey things. Il like to
sew-I make most Of my own clothes
and I swim, but cooking is my pet
hobby. Probably If I acted as we'll
as I cooked I'd be a wow!"
Celeste has been offered movie
contracts, and she would love to
make movie, but she feels that
she always would come back to the
stage.
There's something about the
stage. It's warmth, the close friend
ship of the players, the reaction of
the audience
Besides" her blue eyes twinkled,
Il love being paid for making fool
Of myself"
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pronounced eXhibitionist must feel
the first time he or she acts in
public.
1 don't know what else can be
taught in school-except voice con-
troll. That, of course, Is purely a
physical matter and is mastered by
choir singers, fight announcers,
sports broadcaSters, peanut butchers
and innumerable other characters
who have no need of histrionic gifts
or training, including some house
wives.
An actor1s born with his own face
and can do nothing about it, aside
from bobbing the nose and such
minor repairs. He is born with his
voice. can do something about that,
yet cannot alter it completely be-
yond the ranges endowed by nature.
He Is born a certain size and des-
tined to be certain size Also, a
certain shape, which he can keep or
! not, according to his mastery of
appetite, but which he cannot
materially alter for the better. And
it's obvious these physical charac-
teristics are prime factors in the
making of an actor.
Apart from the purely physical
and more important, are the intel
lectual and spiritual characteristics
that enter into the compromising of
an actor, which equally are gifts
from nature Note I say "intellec-
tual," not educational.
Fate Sometimes Figures.
Even the opportunity is often a
gift, prank of fate. There are
hundreds, even thousands. of good
actors' who have never had an op-
portunitv to utilize their talent
There are many thousands more
who don't even know they are born
actors because they are devoting
their hiStrionic talents to selling
real estate or peddling shoe laces or
wheedling the rationing board into
few extra gallons.
I saw the best performance I've
seen in Years while working on
Mission to Moscow" Most film
fans have probs bly, never even heard
of Konstartin Shayne. He's a Rus
sian, graduate of one of the great
Moscow theaters, and in Mission to
Moscow" he plays Bukharin, one of
the principal figures in the purge
! trial.
In five years in Hollywood, Shayne
has had only two roles. Both were
bits in low-budget pictures. Neither
had more than three lines of dia-
| logue. Michael Curtiz directing the
picture) tested him for role as a
clerk. He cave Shayne the big Buk-
HARM speech to read in the test.
| Then he changed his mind about
Shayne. Mike gave him the Buk-
] harin role and told me he had dis
Evening star., 1943-08-15
BY Frances Long.
NEW YORK.

ANG" Io1ILA.
1--WE been in front of an audi
ence since the age of g." Celeste
Holm explains. Yet Oklahoma" is
her first musical And she's playing
her first comedienne role.
Although I have had four years
of singing lessons, I got this job
by forgetting all I'd ever learned" !"
She laughed @as she recalled how
she stang straight, serious songs In
the addition. by the looks I re-
ceived from the producers I thought
I would never get the part. But
then they asked me if I could sing
offkey little bit. 1 tried it, and for
good measure I rolled my eyes
around and pouted my mouth. And
then I got the part!"
Young, tall, pretty, Miss Holm is
warmly enthusiastic over her role.
II love to hear the audience laugh.
I always want to laugh with them,
and it is often hard to keep a
. straight face"
Spirit Is Contagious.
The show is so lively" she con-
tinued, something is happening
every moment. I wouldn't change
my part for the world
Aside from Oklahoma" she sings
nightly at the night club La Vie
Parisienne, and Il love to do that,
too. I sing some songs where I don't
have to twist my face into funny
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Here, Private Hargrove," from the
best seller by Marion Hargrove, and
starring Robert Walker. In pro-
duction also is "Rationing," with
Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
teamed. And don't have to tell you
what to expect of this one.
At the moment, Metro only has
two musicals in the making. Lu-
cille Ball, Dick Powell, Bert Lahr
and Virginia O'Brien are singing
and acting funny in Meet the Peo-
pie" And George Murphy dances
while Ginny Simms sings in the
technicolor Broadway Rhythm"
In the "escapist class" at this studio
are The Heavenly Body" co-star-
ring William Powell "a welcome re-
turn and Hedy Lamar. And there
is Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble -
with you-know-who. For patriotic
drama Metro has America" on
which Director King Vidor has more
or less worked for the past 18 years.
Ddttlng the MllllOnS.
Paramount's "Frenchman's Greek"
is said to cost as much as Lady in
the Dark" and For Whom the Bell
Tolls" And that adds up to about
100000. Like the other two films,
it's in technicolor, and that always
shoots the price up. Joan Fontaine
co-stars with Arturo Cordoba. This
is a de luxe escapist film. On a
lesser esapist scale is the studio S
Henry Aldrich's Code of Honor"
Paramount touches the war in three
of its coming films: Hail, the Con-
quering Hero" is comedy war
story; The Story of Doctor Wassell'
is more serious, and a comedy of
wartime Washington is the theme of
Standing Room Only" starring
Paulette Goddard and Fred Mac
Murray.
The war and music is combined in
Kay Kyser's Around the World" for
RKO. Kay takes his Kollege uf
Musical knowledge On a world tour
of Army camps. The music in
Revenge" accompanies the story
but is not part of it. RKO's Gov
efnment Girl is about wartime
Washington. and has Olivia de
Havilland as a secretary to Big Shot
Sonny Tufts The studios No
musical is Higher and Higher"
with Michele Morgan and Jack
Haley.
Samuel Goldwyn having finished
-finally-his Russian war picture
''The North Star" is now concen-
trating on his musical with Danny
Kaye, up in Arms" :. Twentieth
Century-Fox is comparatively quiet,
with only three films in production:
"Pin-Up Girl" with Betty Cradle
starred lin technicolor); Buffalo
Bill" also in technicolor, and Tam
pico,' with Edward G. Robinson and
Victor McLaglen.
Comedy With Music.
Universal sets a record with six
comedies-some with music-and a
Western. There's not war picture
in sight. The musicals include
Deanna Durbins His Buffers
Sister" Crazy House" and Set to
Music" Maria Montez is currently
showing her shapely figure in the
technicolor version of cali Baba and
the Forty Thieves
Warmers have three war pictures:
"1n Our Time" with Ida Lupino and
Paul Henreid; Destination Toxic,
starring Cary Grant and John Gar
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covered "the greatest character actor
-. -

covered 'the greatest character actor
in HOLLYWOOD"
I agree with Mike. So did every
body else in the Mission to Mos
COW" troupe When Shayne finished
that scene every soul on the set
burst into spontaneous applause.
never saw anything like it on a
movie set. Every actor in the COM
pany, and there were about 80 of
Hollywoods best character men In
this single scene, offered congrat-
ulations.
I asked him: How did you ever
learn to act like that, with such SIM
plicity? It's marvellous" There were
tears in his eyes
And then I knew that here was a
prime example of everything I've
been saying. He hadn't learned how
to act. Here was a man born with
the gifts.
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the usual bridesmaids, neighbors
friends and relatives.

the usual bridesmaids, neighbors
friends and relatives.
Fun With Drinks.
Act No. 18 tthere were 20) pro-
duced a Russian sailor, Simeon
Karavaeff, who got some laughs as
he made fun of American drinks,
which seem no competition for
vodka to him. And a young woman
with piquant profile, named Vera
Pavlovska, kept turning up in al
most everything and got good hands
for her singing
The producers of "Chauve-Souris'
are proud of their claim that it has
no stars, that every one is part of an
ensemble. That may be key to
what is wrong with it, for it is a
patchwork of things Russian, bring
ing back such familiar songs as
Dark Eyes" Two Guitars" "Ka-
tinka." A patchwork with a bit
from the classics, folk dances from
the peasants. romances from the
drawing rooms (TschaikowskD, a
parade of wooden soldiers from a
child's nursery.
1t has more sincerity than ma
turity
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Boeie Abashed

They've just played trick on
Humphrey Bogart. After promising
to take him out of villainous gang
ster parts, his studio turned right
around and Immediately cast him in
Conflict" where he kills his beauti-
full wife by plunging her car over q
precipice. Snorted Bogie: This is
the meanest role I've had to play
yeti"
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NEW YORK.


"Chauve-Souris," which opened
Thursday night on Broadway, is a
Russian musical revue with French
name. 'Letutchaya Muish" to you,
if you speak Russian.
1t would be pleasant to report
that this presentation by Leon
Greanin was a success We are try
ing so hard to understand Russia
these days.
However, the show was very dull.
And halfway through the first act
every one in the audience-except
the most loyal friends of the cast
was shuff1ing his feet and worrying
about the dilute r-conditioning.
"Chauve-Souris," first produced in
1908 by the Moscow Art Theater, is
actually series of acts which start
with each curtain rise) as tableaus.
Those who went unprepared got the
impression that they were witnessing
an over-long overture, which would
soon break into something less
wooden and predictable. But it all
ended in the same manner, with the
inevitable Ukraine wedding full of
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field as the intrepid boys who bomb
the Jap capital, and Passage to
Marseilles," with the one and only
Humphrey Bogart. Bogey is also
working in a domestic drama titled
Conflict with Sydney Greenstreet.
There are two musicals in produc-
ton at this studio: Shine On, Har-
vest Moon" with Ann Sheridan, and
the celluloid biography of the late
George Gershwin, Rhapsody in
Blue"
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Lavishly Unlavish
BY the Associated Press

There's one movie biggie in Holly
wood who doesn't mind spending
thousands of dollars an evening en-
tertaining party of friends, but
who Is SO frugal that every time he
sees a stray nail while walking
around his studio lot he picks 1t up
and turns it in the carpentry shop.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
New Road Built

By the Associated Press.
There must be gold in them thar
roads. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
are coming out in their fourth CO.
starer, Road to Yukon"
Evening star., 1943-01-24
Garbo Excited
About New PLAY,
May Go On Stage
Boa0s Ont of Picture
To 'Tisit Broaduay
About Production

HOLLYWOOD.-Greta Garbo is
so excited about a play she read
while in New York that she decided
to forego the lead in Joe Pasternak' S
movie and will soon pack her bags
again and depart for the big city.
At least, this is the reason given by
Greta for bowling out of the cast of
Russia"
Joe tells me he is just as pleased
II not more so, to get Hedy Lamar
IN place of Greta. II Carlo ac-
tually does the play on Broadway it
will be her frs appearance in the
flesh in any theater in this country
The Woman Pays.
Victor Natures ex-bride, Martha
Stephenson Kemp, is paying all the
expenses of her divorce from the
beautiful hunk of man" Martha
was so mad at the conditions Ma
ture tried to impose in connection
with the divorce-one of them was
that she had to get it within SIS
days, although heaven knows why
that she almost didn't go to Nevada,
but her feeling of dislike for her
husband was too strong to permit
of further delay Martha is telling
friends that Mature will marry Rita
Hayworth just as soon as both are
free to wed Eut the last time !
spoke to Victor re said mo more
marriages for me" I guess Miss
EcyWorth feels differently on the
subject You can eX~cct them tc
marry just as soon IS she is legally
apart from Edward Juiscn, hel
former mate.
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is>Hopkins
.Feud Reveals
A Stark Fact
1t Came About When
Miriam Stepped
Into the Car
HOLLYWOOD.

HOBb1 WoOO.
The script of odd Acquaintance, y
which is really rolling along in spite
Of Bette Davis snd Miriam Hopkins
both trying to direct the picture
said that Miss Hopkins must reg
lister high state of hysterical ex-
element" Under the conditions this
would not seem a difficult task for
either Miss Hopkins or Miss Davis.
Miss Hopkins easily rises to the
occasion. She is to Jump into an
automobile and demonstrate her
emotional state by grinding the
gears noisilv end by backing into a
parked truck with sufficient violence
to get destructive results.
The results are neatly achieved by
Miss Hopkins. A grateful of doves
is smashed open and the birds joy
fully take to the heavens. Several
cans OF milk and assorted pieces of
luggage 60 flying into the gutter.
A proud pair of tenders are turned
into accordions. Miss Hopkins her
self is draped across the steering
wheel. Director Vincent Sherman
jumps to his feet
"Perfectl" he says. And on the
first take!"
He congratulates Miss Hopkins on
her expert handling of the car. The
actress stems out and leans heavily
against the door.
Didn't think I'd come out alive"
she said. Il haven't even got a
drivers license. This is the first
time I've driven a car in my life!"
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HOLLYWOOD.


It's been quite year in Holly
wood Good pictures have been
made, and bad ones. Some of the
best of old faces are gone-mostly
to the armed forces-and many new
ones have come into prominence.
A few comebacks have been effected
by people we are glad to see again.
Among the new stars we find
Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.
Veronica had made a slight sensa-
tion in the airplane opus II Wanted
Wings" but This Gun for Hire, "
with Alan really put her into the
celestial class. It also made the
ladies hearts thump madly for the
Ladd.
Thumping of different sort was
caused by William BendiX's Smack
skie in Wake Island" He stole the
show and proved once more that
stage training has merit. Among
the other unbeautiful people was
Humphrey Bogart, who finally
achieved the stardom he has de-
served for years in THE Maltese
Falcon"
Marjorie Reynolds was the years
Cinderella, stepping out of oat
operas into the lead opposite Bing
Crosby and Fred Astaire in "HoG-
day Inn" And, leaping to promi-
nence OVERNIGHT in the romantic
class were Michele Morgan and
Paul Henreid, two European stars
who clicked in the tender love story,
Joan of Paris" Jean Cabin also
proved that Gallo glamour talks
English in "Moontide." in which he
and Ida Lupino skipped makeup
for art.
Among the young and old was
Tim Holt, whose performance in
Magnificent Ambersons" proved he
could act as we'll as ride horse,
and Monte Woolley, who followed
The Man Who Came to Dinner"
with The Pied Piper" This film
took Mr.. Woolley very definitely out
of the character class into the actor.
Two other young shining lights
we're Janet Blair, who skyrocketed
from minor roles to the co-starring
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rector Mark Sandrich describes the
scene of chaos on the set of so
Proudly We Hail" It's supposed to
be hospital base somewhere in the
Philippines. Jeers race through on
the uneven earth. Army trucks
thunder across. Soldiers on horses
gallop by. Mules loaded with am
munition and provisions amble past
A messenger on motorcycle loses
control, whizzes right into the CAM
era, and there is wild dash for
safety on the part of Claudette Col
bert, PaUlette Goddard and Veronica
Lake, all of whom had been rapt
spectators at the rehearsal of the
scene in which they will-for the
"take'-get into a truck and emerge
as tired, dirty-faced, but willing,
nurses.
Watching the organized con-
fusion" with a smile on his good
locking face, is 1t. Col. TIC -ras
Doyle, who was commanding officer
Of a GrGup Of Philippine scouss. He
left C0rregidor by rowboat, then
suI3m rine, 33 hours before it fe7l to
the JapS. He has been loaned to
Paramount by the Army to make
sure thet everything regarding the
Philippine campaign is militarily
correct.
How do you like the placer" I
ask him.
Il love it," he replies.
"You mean you like the sunshine
and all that?" I continue.
"Sunshine?" says the colonel.
did you say sunshine? I haven't
seen any since I came. I've been
working too hard. I leave for the
studio in the morning before it's
light and I don't get out of it until
it's dark. No, like Hollywood be-
cause of the charming people"
I ask the colonel his opinion of
Veronica Lake (this is stock ques-
tion to every one who works with
her).
There is a twinkle in the soldiers
eye as he replies, But she's d mar
ried ladyw
I don't think the War Depart
ment has to worry about Col. Doyle
giving away any military secrets.
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Changing Face of Movies
Hollywood's War Year Marked
By New Talent, a Few Comebacks

part of Eileen with Roz Russell and
Teresa Wright, who consolidated
her position after The Little Foxes"
with beautiful portrayal of Mrs
Lou Gehrig IN "The Pride of the
Yankees" Diana Barrymore, too,
overcame the none-too- sharp sue
cess of her first picture, Between
Us Girls" with a creditable showing
In Nightmare
Another new star Is undoubtedly
Joe Cotton, whose screen debut in
Citizen Kane led to the lead in
The Magnificent Ambersons." He
looks as if he were here to stay.
Maria Montez showed that she was
not merely glamor girl but an act
ing threat in Arabian Nights"
To end thes roundup Of newcom-
ers, we have Gene Kelly. hit of the
Broadway production, Pal joey"
who went into ME and My Gal"
with Judy Garland and very nearly
stole the show; Susan Peters, who
showed promise in Random Har-
vest" with Ronald Colman and
Greer Carson; Sydney Greenstreet,
the fat man of Maltese Falcon"
and "Casablanca,' and Alexis Smith,
the long-legged gal who played op-
posite Enrol Flynn in Gentleman
jim"
On the comeback trail, we find
Walter Huston playing the father of
George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle
Dandy" Ann Harding in Eyes in
the Night" Rudy Vallee as a be-
fuddled millionaire in Palm Beach
Story" Simon Simone in Cat Peo-
pie" and John Boles, whose rapid
screen fadeout was ended by the
lead in Between Us Girls" Alice
Faye also returned to the screen
after an absence of a year and a
half in which she had a baby. She
Is starring in Hello, Frisco, Hello!"
And what were the 10 best pic
lures of the year? Well, here's my
list (take them in any order you
WANT:
wake Island" "Kings Row."
yankee Doodle Dandy" Joe Smith,
American" "Bambi," Mrs. Mini
YER" THE Magnificent Ambersons,"
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National Will House
Child Theater PLAYS

The Children's Theater, forced out
of the National into a smaller house
during Christmas week, announces
that the remaining four plays in the
series will be given at the National
Theater. The theater has housed
these attractions for all of their IL
Washington seasons.
Beauty and the Beast" the al
ways popular fairy tale, is the next
play in the series. 1t is scheduled for
one performance, Saturday, Janu-
ary 80, at 1890 am.
Tickets are now on sale at the
Children's Museum of Washington
Reservations may be made by mail
or telephone at the museum, 4215
Massachusetts avenue.
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day sending out photographs of
Miss Russell to her fans. And she
herself spends one hour every day
signing them.
And I know" she continues, that
publicity is a wonderful thing, but
If you haven't got anything when
your picture finally comes out, what
good is all the publicity?"
There's wisdom in them there
words Jane. But we'll soon see if
the publicity has been in vain. A
spokesman in the Howard Hughes
office assures me that you will see
the picture not later than spring,
he hopes.
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on the branches. And you get an
idea of the storm tossed turmoil
saving sweet Gloria from the wicked
clutches of Curtis. The branches
impeding his progress are made of
cotton wool, but the cut across his
chin is real-one of the boys on the
wire pulled the wrong branch, and
smack! he is brought to his knees
with grunt of pain.
This Mr. Boyer tells me, lis the
third of the four sequences in my
picture. There will be four alto
gether. The first sequence has Ed
ward G.. Robinson, Thomas Mitchell
and Anna Lee, and shows the re-
action to mental suggestion and how
it can affect peoples lives. The
second section of the film has Bar
bara Stanwyck with myself. I play
q high-wire acrobat" (Unfortu-
nately Charles does not wear tights.
He struts the high wire swinging in
top hat and tailsD
Will Cost S1,3e0.oo9.
Flesh and Fantasy" started
SLtOOIlLlb az OllC thu VI 1GoL mug uSb
after six months of prepare ton
Producer-ActorB Boyer does not know
when his picture will be finished,
as the fourth sequence has not been
written yet. The entire film will
cost 81 300 ,000 Barbara Stanwyck
received $4,000 week while she
worked.
II have been given all the time
want to make my picture" Charles
tells me, which is a nice way to
work, and the only terms under
which the handsome Frenchman
would consider the job. He watches
Miss Jean with the fond eye of
discoverer. Il hadn't seen her since
she appeared in The Underpup'
four years ago. She will be a great
surprise in her first dramatic role.
She Is SO sensitive, and a really fine
actress"
What the nearly IT Miss Jean
thinks about Boyer is best illus
trated by the fact that when she
was first introduced to him on the
set, her emotion was so great she
fell backwards into a bed of flowers!
Organized confusion" is how Di-
Evening star., 1943-01-24
Then MIR. Laughton
Became Kittenish
HOLLYWOO

41c4-A w N(|Ds
1t was a tense, dramatic mo-
ment in the filming of This
Land Is Mine" Four brutal
Nazi troopers had just crashed
through the door of a private
home in an occupied European
town.
Charles Laughton. timid cow
ering, was seated in the room
apparently scared hal to death.
The soldiers pointed their bay
onetS at Laughton's throat, The
set vas as still as a tomb. Sud
denly Laughton said, BOO" and
snapped his fingers at the
NaziS. A soldier laughed. Then
every one laughed.
I'm a bad boy Laughton
apologized to the director as he
returned to his characterize
ton of a shy, timid fellow.
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