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Evening star., 1943-05-17
By Mas Hill.
NEW YORI

NEW 1O0h.
Jitterbugs haven't been dignif1ed
yet with listing in the staid pages
of the dictionaries. but that's about
the only place they haven't crashed,
up o.and including the once-favored
haunt of the sober sides, Carnegie
Hall.
The current sample of their emo
tional outbursts is the Paramount
Theater where Harry James, his
trumpet and his band, are the mag
net. OF course, there's picture on
view, too. but that's just something
for the kids to squirm through while
waiting for their idol.
AS many as $500 of them Chats
an official police estimate) line up
outside, while another 4,50O pile up
in the seats, sometimes two in one
seat. The Paramount staff, en-
gulfed in this eager and not too po-
lite swarm of jitterbug addicts. is so
harassed that even the manager has
ceased to chuckle about the financial
gain involved.
The first day the tall and beaming
Mr.. James blew his shrill trumpet at
the entranced audience the take was
$14 900 pluS-an all-time record, and
the only reason it wasn't more was
that even standing room has a limit
Adults were lost and tortured in the
shuttle
Let's go back to the beginning.
Dawn is an eerie hour on Broadway,
and the wan glow of the wartime
dlmout only intensifies this weird
quality. But the day James opened
at the Paramount, two boys with
blankets under their arms picked
their way through the last of the
tipsy jewellers spilled out onto the
street by the 4 a m. closing hour of
the bars and nightclubs.
They were bound for hard and
cold beds on the lobby floor. there
to await the opening of the box,
Office at II o'clock Soon they were
joined by many others of their kind
hep cats, one and all-who wanted
to be sure they could get up front for
the first performance.
1T does things to you (psychol-
ogists and psychiatrists agree on
this),' said one lad. after thinking
the problem over solemnly.
1T does more to you up front.
Right there in the front row. Shiv-
ers run down your spine when that
trumpet gets hot
Ropes and Patience.
Thirty policemen with ropes and
plenty of patience and three mount
ed officers weren't enough to handle
the jitterbugs that first morning.
They broke through the lines, tried
their fancy steps in the street: a
score or more of them swarmed
around photographer the moment
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Mr.. Coburn Beautified
And He Snoozes Through It All
For the Sake of His Art

most Of them are terrifically coy. I
went out there the day after my
wife's birthday. On my way back
had breakfast in Trinidad, lunch in
Haiti, dinner in Miami and break
fast the next morning in New York!
That's how small the world has be-
come" Pats next trip abroad, he
thinks, will be to Africa (unless we
are on the continent of EuropeD.
But first he appears with Deanna
Durbin in His Buffers Sister, Pat
is the butler.
Joan Crawford has accepted the
Craftsmanship cat the request of
Actress Helen Menken) Of the mo-
ton picture division of the War
Dog Fund. The idea is cute (and
usefuD. The War Department needs
$4,000 dogs to serve with the armed
forces. They must be 18 or more
inches high. A lot of money is
required to train the dogs. 1t costs
$40 alone to give the enlisted dogs
PHYSICAL" But all dog lovers
can help and can enroll their dogs
even on the inactive list. For in
stance, for 81, your dog can be a
private. OF course, if you want
something fancy like a general, you
must pay $780, Joan's pooch is a
little too short for active service
but she paid $25 and now he's a
colonel with a 4-F rating! Spon-
sored by the War Department., all
checks must be sent to the War
Dog Fund, $50 Park Avenue, New
York City.
bump into Margo on the RKO
lot and she is practically screaming
with pain. She plays Jap in Be
hind the Rising Sun" and they've
pinned up her eyes to look the part
1t takes two and one-half hours
to achieve this torture. ''And ]
have to bathe them longer than
that at night to soothe them" says
Margo, who is really suffering for
her work these days, what with hav-
ing to fight off leopard in he1
Leopard Man" picture and hel
present role. But I'd rather crap
Pile with a leopard than jap
says Margo. And I think she has
something there.
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Evening star., 1943-05-17
So They Summoned
The Wrecking Crews
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLY WOOD.
Juggling Of the huge stock pile
of set sections is going on at goth
Century-Fox in order to provide a
| large, lavish interior set for Jane
Eyre" without violating the $1,000
limit on new set material.
Producer Kenneth MacgoWan and
Director Robert Stevenson have
been inspecting storage bins at the
studio in preparation for the con-
| struction of the interior of Thorn
field, the huge English mansion
which forms the background for
most of the story.
They will have to spend up to
the limit on new material for this
set, but it will be largely supple
mented by great number of Sec
tions stored away in studio ware
houses
Some of these sections actually
came from old mansions of bygone
days. In past years, the studio ac-
quired from wrecking companies the
interiors of California homes built
by men who became millionaires
during the gold rush period Most
of these elaborate Victorian and
Georgian interiors had been brought
piecemeal from Europe and sailed
around Cape Horn.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

Seen and heard:
Charles Coburn in a beauty par
lor with his hair in bobby pins and
snood! Charles sleeps while the
girl does the curls. He's doing it
all for his art-in without No
tice" Eddie Lowe, all dressed
up in stiff white shirt, black tuxedo
coat, follows after Lady Furness
into Romanoff's =. Observation of
the week: Hollywood has haunted
look. Stars don't make entrances
any more, they fairly creep into
places. Always, of course, with the
exception of Maria Montez, who
sweeps into a room, waves ex-
travagant "hello's" to every one
she knows and stands on the spot
and laughs until you are abso-
lutely sure she has arrived!
Roly-poly Alfred Hitchcock, looking
more like barrel than ever,
emerges from his car and directs
his secretary on the finer points of
how to park car in a few inches
of space. He contrives to inject all
the mystery and suspense of his
films into the proceedings.
Pat O'Brien, currently playing the
I hero, Frank Cavanaugh, in 1.-The
hero, Frank Cavanaugh, in 1.-The
Iron Major" has just returned to
Hollywood after entertaining the
boys in Dutch and British Guiana
In all he flew 1000 miles. II don't
like flying" Pat tells me, "but you're
got to get to the boys. One place
was a jungle outpost. Had to GO
there in river boat all day. Then
out came the head-hunters to greet
us. Sure, I was scared! One bunch
was called the three fingered tribe
When their men are 16 they have
two fingers cut off. The women are
all tattooed."
According to Pat, the natives In
the Caribbean and the Dutch jun
giles are crazy for hats. Il gave an
old hat to chief and in exchange
he was willing to give me every
thing he had If I'd known I'd have
taken along more hats. The tribal
language in Dutch Guiana is called
'talkie. talkie' The girls begin tc
look old at IL or IL, but before that
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Happy Chronicle
OF a Cinderella
HOLLYWOOD

1AoLL WOoD.
The Cinderella stuff is all right
but sometimes you can't always tell.
That's why Lynne Baggett, black
eyed, raven-haired Texas beauty,
didn't get too excited when a Warm
er Bros. talent scout "discovered''
her a year ago and gave her a film
contract-with options. Neither did
her mother, Mrs. Ruth Baggett.
you 60 on to Hollywood" Mrs.
Baggett told Lynne, "and I'll stay
here. Let's see what happens"
The mother went to work for a
Texas cosmetic company and Lynne
came to Hollywood with her fingers
crossed. She took lodgings at an
inexpensive girls club and saved
her money.
Today, the Cinderella business
looks all right to Lynne. Because,
after her performances in "Air
Force" and Thank Your Lucky
Stars" her contracts been renewed.
And when her mother gets to
Hollywood few days hence Lynne
will greet her in a swank little
apartment land the Baggetts will
be permanent residents Of filmland.
Evening star., 1943-05-17

Lane is co-star, with Cary Grant
in Arsenic and Old Lace" which
has been waiting on a shelf at
Warmers for more than a year.
The picture cannot be released
until the stage production is closed
1t gives no indication of closing and
by the time it does. the studio fears
people will be asking themselves:
Who is this Priscilla Lane?
The answer. of course, will be that
she is blond girl who once worked
for Warner Bros. but when it came
to showdown between marriage
and her career, she decided in favor
of the former.
That should be almost enough to
make her remembered forever after!
But Warmers are jittery.
Foresight department: Rationing
priorities and things like that might
be worrying you, but that is be-
cause you are not foresighted like
Think a-Drink Hoffman. Mr.. T-a-
D. as we have shortened his name
star of the Nationals The Merry
Makers" is the man who concocts
any drink you may order out of ap-
parently thin air You name it and
there it is, from a chocolate milk
shake to Singapore sling.
The trick is the private knowledge
of the master, but he will admit
that it takes ingredients. Antici-
pating the day when the war might
interfere with the production of the
ingredients, he long ago laid in a
supply sufficient to last for any
reasonably long duration.
He might be the only place in
the world where YOU can get a drink
some day. Or at least, he might be
some one terrific to do parlor tricks
when no other bartender would have
materials to work with.
Music department.: Next actress
to surprise you-as she surprised her
bosses by being able to do it-with a
song-will be Michele Morgan.
When RKO asked Miss Morgan if
she would mind, she said no, why
Evening star., 1943-05-17

should she. Her first job in the
theater prepared her for just such
thing, her first job being that
of singer and dancer in French
musicals.
Forecast department.: Hollywood
has made some good musicals along
with lot of bad ones, but the best
OF the lot is likely to be the one
around the life of George Gershwyn.
The legacy of tunes left by G. G..
for any picture that might be made
Of his story is just about the richest
thing ever to fall into the laps of
the movie makers.
For a local check on that. see
the passage in Billy Roses "Dia-
mond Horseshoe" revue at the Capt.
tol in which Aunt Jemima goes into
her Gershwyn medley.
X
Absenteeism department: Accord
ing to Director Sam Wood. the male
actor, not the female one. is the
more prone to take a day off.
Actors humor themselves more
than actresses" says Mr.. Wood.
And you would have sworn it was
the other way, wouldn't you?
Regrets department.: Its going
to be the years best party at Variety
Club tonight" says wire from Fred
S. Kogod. TT is stag and for men,
bers only, but there will be plenty of
fun and fine food. Kings for the
night will be Paul Young and Jimmy
Lake"
On the night when the years best
party is held, and with fine food to
make 1t worse, the critics all will be
busy covering the National and
writing their reviews.
But that's the way life goes, more
and more every party.
X X
Flash department: A bulletin from
Warmers since this column started
says along toward the end of the
summer is a good guess as to the
release of Arsenic and Old Lace"
1t does not say anything about
people trying to remember Priscilla
Lane, at least until then. Perhaps
1t is not necessary in view of the
fact that the studios press depart
ment will dig up some pictures of
Miss Lane-old and new-to recall
your attention to her.
A fan never really gets chance to
forget.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Memories of Miss Lane
Are a Warner Problem
It Doesn't Want Her Forgotten
Until 1t Can Release Her Film;
Hoffman a Foresighted Man
BY JAY CARMODY,

enscne ] @ IA bre inventory Of the people have
Priscilla Lane has not been one Of them That circumstance giving
warner Bros their ckest
Miss Lane
found former grows
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing


Stage.
NationaI-'The Merry Makers"
vaudeville show: Tonight at $50
Screen.
Capitol-"Pilot No. S." Franchot.
Tone in the air: II am, lao, 4:30,
7:2O and 10 pm. Stage shows: II AS,
3:35, 6:25 and 9:l0 pm.
Columbia-"The Moon Is Down" {"
Norwegians VS.. conquerors: 11:30
am, 1:3O, 3:35, 5:35, 1885 and 9:35
pm.
Earle-"More the Merrier," two
men and girl in Washington: IL
am, 1:45, 4:30. 7:20 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: Ito, 4, 6:45 and 9:25
pm.
Keith's-"Flight for Freedom"
Miss Russell flies for Uncle Sam:
11:l5 am, 1:25, 1928, 5:25, 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
Little-"Somewher in France"
more suspense from England: II
M, 12:45, 2:30, AIS, 6, 7:50 and
$40 pm.
Metropolitan-"Edge of Darkness" !"
Enrol Flynn helps the Norwegians:
11:15 am, lao, 4:20, 7 and $40
pm.
Palace Hello, Frisco, Hello,'
Alice Faye in the plush era: HAS
am, 2:15, 445, 7:15 and $40 p.m..
Pix-I Walked With a Zombie,' v
Frances Dee keeping company: 2,
4:3O, $50 and 9:20 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Why Miss Colbert
Disliked That Phrase
HOLLYWOOD


Producer Mark Sandrich gave a
dinner the other night for the cast
of 80 Proudly We Hail" and later
fell into a discussion with his star,
Claudette Colbert, about her French
background.
Seems when Claudette was a
youngster playing in 'The Barker"
an Al Woods production. Sam Hof-
fenstein was Woods press agent.
Despite all the sex angles of that
show, I was just frightened kid"
said Claudette. "And the most
frightening thing of all was this
dude Hoffensteir1, who would stop
me in the hall, leer, chuck me under
the chin and then growl: Say some
thing in French"
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Studio Chiropodist
Will Be BUSY
Ry the Associated praee

BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.
Director Edward Dmytryk has
added chiropodist to the staff OF
Behind the Rising Sun"
This specialist will take care of
Margo, J. Carol Naish, Tom Neal
and other members of the cast who
are developing blisters wearing Jap
anese shoes.
Two types cause the trouble: The
Zorl, a fiat, soft-soled sandal, and
the Geta, a wooden clog.
Evening star., 1943-05-17

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1943-01-17
USO Offers
Training Course
For HOSteSses
Miss Cook, Director,
Announces Topics
For Si1 Lessons

To train and select hostesses to
assist in the constantly expanding
recreation program Sof the USO
Club at the Young Women's Chris
tian Association, Miss Mabel Cook,
the director, is offering series of
six lessons to start January 30.
Any young woman who has been
accepted during the past year for
USO privileges will be eligible to
register.
Although the subjects have not
yet been announced, Miss Cook
announced that the topics will
cover the aims and purposes of
the USO as well as instruction in
etiquette-in the Office, home. at a
dance or on date; health, ap-
pearance and the qualifications for
good hostess.
A demonstration will conclude the
series when the students will serve
as assistants at a tea to be given
by a local hostess in her home.
1H ID VIII pass tiic COuIoc WILL Uc
certified and put on a list from
which hostesses will be selected to
assist Miss Cook and her staff.
Registrations will be accepted at
the USO Club at the YWCA at
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
from 9 am. to IL pm. every day
this week beginning tomorrow.
The instruction will be offered
without charge. Glasses will meet
at 8 pm. each Monday and Satur-
day from January 80. to Febru-
arY Is
Evening star., 1943-01-17
TakOna ark Club
Plans Luncheon
To Replace Tea

The homemakers' department of
the Takoma Park Women's Club
is omitting its traditional tea an
nually given for the membership
this year and is substituting a de-
partment victory plate luncheon. 4"
The affair will be held at 1890 pm.
tomorrow at the home of Mrs.
Frederick Lewton.
The luncheon will contain one
third Of the vitamins, minerals and
essential foods needed daily by an
adult for good nutrition. 1t will be
served by Mrs. Lewton and her
committee, Mrs. c. Dwight Avery
and Mrs. Walter De Groot.
The nutrition angle will be car
ried out further during the roll
call when each member will an
swer with suggestions on short
cuts on short rations."
Mrs. Minnie Frost Rands, con-
sumer chairman for the club, will
discuss price ceilings and point ra-
tioning and Mrs. Henry Ewing will
report on a recent convention on
nutrition.
The art department will have a
varied program following luncheon
for members only at 1890 pm.
Tuesday at the Jessup Blair Com
munity House. Mrs. T. j. Slowie
will be presented as guest soloist
by Mrs. Russell Rideway A new
film, Our Neighbor Down the
Road" from the Pan-Americar
Union will be shown and Mrs. Ewing
will tell of early days of the de-
| partment.
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Ciuics and Study

Association of University
Women-Today, 3 to pm, junior
group, open house for officers.
Tomorrow, pm, club tea; 5 pm,
program: speaker, Mrs. Helen T.
Steinbarger, THE Problem of Re-
construction"
Washington Club-Tomorrow, II
am, book chat; reviewer. Mrs,
James G. Cumming. They Were
Expendable" and I'VE Took to the
Woods" Tuesday, II am, guest
speaker, DR.. Sigmund Skard,
Norway Fights On" Wednesday,
! pm, luncheon. Thursday, pm,
dinner: speaker, Mrs. Eugene
Meyer.
Twentieth Century Club-Tuesday,
Q pm, conference room, Wood
ward & Lothrop, art section;
speaker, Miss Celestine Hodges.
Interior Decoration Adapted TO
Present Conditions" Thursday,
IL am, YWCA, literature section
program, by Harriet B. Howe,
Harriet M. Cushing. Lucille O..
Mann and Jessie FAINT Evans.
Housekeepers' Alliance-Tuesday, 2
pm, with Mrs. Olive Madden,
Stoneleigh Court Apartments;
speaker, Martha Ellyn.
Business and Professional
Credit Woman's Breakfast Club
We ne day, Willard Hotel,
monthly meeting and breakfast:
speaker. J. P. Stakeholder, THE
Credit Office and Opening of New
Accounts"
Zonta Club-Wednesday, pm.
YWCA, luncheon mt Getting:
speaker Ambassador Cunon P.
Diamantopoulos of Greece.
Soroptomist Club - Wednesday, |
pm, Willard Hotel, luncheon
meeting; feature, sale of War
bonds and stamps.
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Miss Warburg
To Address
Hadassah Here
Formerly Headed
Care of Children
In Germany

Miss Gisela Warburg, national
chairman of the Youth Aliyah Com
mittee of Hadassah, will review its
work in caring for the abandoned
children Of Middle Europe in Pales-
tine at two meetings here this week.
She will address the Washington
Chapter of Hadassah at las pm.
Tuesday and the Business and Pro-
.fessional Division of Hadassah at
$50 o'clock that night. Both ses-
sions will be held at the Jewish
Community Center.
A native of Hamburg, Germany
Miss Warburg was one of the prin-
cipal workers for the Youth Aliyah
(immigration) movement in Ger
many from 1895 to 1888 before she
came to this country. During a part
of that time she was head of the
Jugendhilfe Office in Berlin, which
had the important, but sometimes
unhappy, task Of selecting from the
thousands of applicants those who
were to be transferred to Palestine
Miss Warburg became interested
in the restoration and upbuilding
of the Jewish homeland through
Miss Henrietta Sold, founder of
Hadassah and at present head of
the Youth Aliyah Bureau in Jeru-
salem.
Miss Warburg has visited Pales-
tine three times and also lived for
while in England, where she
worked on placing and settling jew
ish children from Germany so that
they might receive training in prep
aration for their future work as
Youth Aliyah pioneers in Palestine
Since 1888 more than 5000 chill
dren have been sent to Palestine
through the movement. Although
only children between II and 1e
were accepted at first, the group now
includes some as young as 3 years
of ope
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Mrs. Eugene Meyer
To Be Guest of
Chevy Chase Club

Mrs. Eugene Meyer will be the
guest speaker at meeting of the
Woman's Club Of Chevy Chase fol-
lowing luncheon at noon Wednesday
at the clubhouse. The speaker, who
has recently returned from Great
Britain, will discuss "Britain's So
cial Revolution and What 1t Means
to Us"
The Rev. Joseph A. Little, pastor
of Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
will pronounce the invocation. The
program will include special music
by Dorothy Guion, pianist.
Mrs. Henry De Coursey Adams,
president of the club, will introduce
the speaker. Mrs. Claude E. Moss
burg will be the luncheon hostess
The literature section will meet
Friday for program of book re-
views presented by Mrs. Fred O.
Coe. Mrs. C. w. Freitag and Mrs
George Reid Shelton will be the
Evening star., 1943-01-17
COP Womenin Spotlight
At Press Club Supper
League of Republican Women Plans
Reception at Clubhouse Ne1t Sunday
By Frances Lide,
Women's Club Editor,

1T looks like Republican year commented presiding
at the
Cuo Tor the feminine legislators
1t wasn't planned that for all the
were invited but the five honor
label They were goodookng ooaU smarty
grooned and obviously of accomplishment
The superb performance"
members Representatives
well supported by the of the
the popular dean of the COP delegation
Rogers the versatile efficient
garet Chase Smith, who combines England
sense Of humo Miss Jessie Sumner the other Republican
had decline because
Illness the Democratic putting
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Catholic Daughters
Feature War Stamp
Drive on Tuesday

A drive to have members complete
partly filled War stamp books will
be one of the features of a social
and business meeting of Court Dis
trict of Columbia, No. 212, Catholic
Daughters of America, at 8 pm.
Tuesday at the Willard Hotel.
The social program will start at
9 pm. and will include bridge and
other games for those who do not
play bridge. Mrs. Elizabeth Big
ham, grand regent, will preside at
the business meeting and Miss Gene
We've Sweeny will be in charge of the
social program.
Urged to Bring Stamp Books.
Mrs. Bigham has requested mem
bers to bring their partly filled War
stamp books to the bond and stamp
booth. Mrs. Eva M Dakin, who is
in charge of the booth, reports the
sale of $18260 in stamps and ST.
243,75 in bonds since the opening of
the booth last September.
HosteSses serving at the January
meetings who will assist Miss
Sweeny include Mrs. S. Lillian
Acker, Mrs. Catherine Birmingham,
Mrs. Florence G. Cassidy, Miss En-
ma M. Faustlin, Miss Martha Fried
man, Mrs. Helen B. Gatti, Miss Mary
Hines, Mrs. Anna C. Hooking. Mrs.
Anna V. Jones, Mrs. Mary A. Logan
and Miss Mary c. OConnell.
Members of the court will partici-
pate again this year in the Church
Unity Octave to be conducted at the
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, Catholic University of Amer
lea, commencing tomorrow to con-
tinue until January 25. All mem
bers are urged to attend the closing
service at 8 pm. January 25.
Announcement has been made of
the election Of Miss Marie Vollmer
as chairman of the Junior Catholic
Daughters to succeed Miss Nellie
Zimmerman, who recently resigned.