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Evening star., 1943-04-13
Laura La Plante Is Called
To Preserve a Film Series
From the Depths of Silent Screen Era,
She is Beckoned to Replace Miss 10y
AS the Wife of the Thin Man

leave for the studio, 4-year-old
Anthony asked where she was going.
When she told him he replied:
That's silly, mother Only men
like daddy go to thd (studio."
An Old Serial Hand.
Laura started IN Christie comedies
when she was IA and when Holly
wood, too, was quite young. Born in
St. Louis, she lived there until she
was 9, then moved to California,
where her beauty won her con-
tract with Christie. Two-reel West
erns and blood-and thunder serials
followed when she went to work for
Universal.
Gladys Walton was the studios
big star then and Laura played
second fiddle to her, until Miss
Walton married and decided to
retire. Laura then was given her
first break. Soon she played with
Charles Ray in The Old Swimmin
Hole" then in Clarence Browns
Butterfly" which established her
as a dramatic actress.
LlgnI COMEDY was her meter,
however, as she proved with Reginald
Denny in "Skinner's Dress Suit and
several other films. During her eight
years at Universal Silk Stockings"
Show Boat" Young Ideas" and
THE Cat and the Canary" were out
standing La Plante triumphs.
1t was the war and her husband s
assignment to overseas duty-he is
now stationed in England-that
prompted Laura's return to pictures
She has no hard and fast ideas
about the roles she wants to play
but Is hoping hard that the Mrs
Thin Man assignment falls in her
lap.
Her famous coiffure, which manv
will remember had a close-shingled
back and broad waves around the
face, now is modified with a sleek.
upsWept back and broadly-waved
pompadour in front. 1t looks little
different. You'll have no trouble
recognizing Laura La Plante.
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Evening star., 1943-04-13
Pan.American Music
To Be Broadcast

The 90-piece band and 45-voice
chorus of the United States Navy
School OF Music, under the direction
OF Ensign James M. Thurmond
officer in charge, will be presented
from $3.50 to o'clock this afternoon
by the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn in a salute to Latin American
countries. The program, one of
the School-of-the-Air series, is in
observance of Pan-American day
and will originate in the Pan-Amer-
ican Union Building. The broad
cast may be heard locally over
WTOP.
The lue-jacket musicians will
offer a musical toast to Mexico
Brazil, Honduras, Argentina and
Costa Rica. The numbers to be
featured include:
March-"Boys Scouts" by zelaya
coneert mareh-"Alvaro obregon.
Bana and ehoTusE'vidala; 'pbs15s0'' bs E,
March-'Louisiana aell-- High School
victory Corps March"
March-"Marcha 3 de Febrero'
by s. Roncal .-.----- (Bolivia).
Two Costa Rican dances
/. Ell Son de Ia Luna"
2. Mi Nata," by j. Quesda
Nautical medley-"Sea Chanty,"
arrangement by G. T Jones.
Musical high light will be the
violin solo "Cancao Sertaueja," by
Gamargo Guarnieri (BraziD, played
by Harry Thomson, musician (sec-
ond class, an accomplished VIOLIN
1st who has been heard on previous
broadcasts.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOI


II shall feel better" says Jennifer
Jones of The Song of Bernadette,"
now in production, when I've done
some real work in the picture So
far I've spent one day in bed with
asthma (the heroine Of the Franz
Werfel book is. if you remember,
addicted to asthma and I've been
in a procession. So I haven't had
a chance to work out my nervous
ness"
The new Cinderella star of Holly
wood manages to look mighty pretty
in her French peasant dress with its
tight little bodice and full skirt.
The thick Woolen stockings make
her legs itch, says Jennifer. For
the scenes where you can see my
feet" she tells me, II wear wooden
shoes. Now I wear fiat espadrilles
because I'm so tall" She is 5 feet
712 inches.
Like all the women in Song of
Bernadette," Miss Jones does not
use a lipstick for her role But
they've given her couple Of pig
tails that more than compensate.
Second feminine lead, Mary An
derson, is allowed minimum of
makeup, because she is playing the
girl of IL, Jeanne Abadie. I'm
another meanle," says the pretty,
dimpled actress. I'm an unbe-
lever; I throw stones at Berna-
dette." Mary thinks she has played
enough nasty girls for awhile and
wants to be a pleasant female for
change-"if it's big role"
After her hit in Guest in the
House" on Broadway, Mary was
signed to a long-term contract at
Goth Century-Fox. She married
Leonard Behrens eight months ago.
Hes seaman in the Navy and
awaiting assignment abroad" Mary
tells me- Il was able to fly up to see
him last week end, but now I can't
leave Hollywood, and I hate to think
he'll go away before I can see him
again.
Edith Barrett, whom I last saw
as one of the daffy sisters in Ladies
in Retirement" is playing the wom-
an whose small child is cured at
Lourdes. I'm so relieved" she
tells me, "The script reads that
throw the child into the healing
waters. and he comes out cured. But
I just couldn't throw a child into
water. In fact. I wouldn't. They've
told me I can throw a doll into the
water instead" Miss Barrett is the
mother of 2l2-year-old son in pri-
vate life.
wish you could come over to the
back lot of Goth Century, Fox where
the village of Lourdes has been re-
constructed at cost (mostly labor
of $250,000 They've put in river
and there are winding French streets
Evening star., 1943-04-13

being turned blond with sort of
upsWept smile. In between, she has
been several other things, none OF
which seems to have furthered her
movie career particularly.
A glance back over her Hollywood
record shows that she scored rather
impressively in her first real part
that of the girl in "Of Mice and
Men" In that she played just as
she did on Broadway, a distinctive
looking girl, rather more patrician
shall one say, than most of the
glamour females in the cinema.
Immediately afterward, her en-
ploying studio, Paramount, started
tampering with Miss Fields face,
more especially with her hair.
The fact that she is going to play
now in a mask of herself indicates
the summit of something or other
having been reached.
OF her career, maybe.
X X X X
Sam Jack kaufman, who waves
the baton so successfully at the mu-
sicians in the Capital Theater's pit,
is spending the week wondering
just what Dr. Hans Kinder of the
National Symphony is going to do
for HIM. The wonder of Mr.. Kauf-
man grows out of the circumstance
that the kaufman overture this
week is dedicated to the National
Symphony.
1t would be nice if hardly prob
able, he thinks, if DR.. Kinder and
his musicians in their turn PLAYED
a number dedicated to the Capital
Theater on their programs next
season.
When it was offered as a novel
last season, the book critics said
The Moon Is Down" would be all
right as a play. In their turn, the
play critics said it undoubtedly
would make a good movie. Today,
the movie critics will have a chance
locally to see who. If any one. is
right. THE Moon Is Down" will be
screened for them at the Capitol
Theater's screening room.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
Blossom Time" with
Everett MARSHALL Tonight at $50
Screen.
Capit0l-'The Young Mr.. Pitt"
Robert Donat eloquently he: IL am,
1:45, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: LOS, 3:O5, 6::35 and 9:2O pm
Columbia-"Tennessee Johnson ~
the President who was impeached:
II am, LOS, 3:15, $40, 7:30 and
$40 pm.
Earle-"The Hard Way" tale of
two diverse sisters: II am, lao
4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows
l, 3:45, 6:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Hitler's Children" vir-
tues of not being one: 11::25 am,
1:25, $3.50, TAO and GAS pm.
"ziegfeld Girl" return of
a musical: II am, 1:30, 4:1O, 6:55
and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan -"S star Spangled
Rhythm" resume of Paramount S
talent: lilo am, lis, 3:20, 5:25,
7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Palace - The Human Comedy, !"
the people through Saroyan's eyes
Ills am, 1:50, 4:25, 7 and $40 pm.
Pix-"The Ape" impersonated by
Karloff: Continuous from 2 pm.
Trans ux-News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Bane of Wooden STOCKINGS
Jennifer Bravely Affects Espadrilles,
But Itchy LeSwear Draws a Plant

and shops with long French loaves
of bread and several churches. All
the French people in Hollywood are
working in the film. The scene is a
reminder of free Europe where
people can live simply and with
out fear.
"You look fatter," I tell Michele
Morgan on the set of 1.-TWO Tickets
to London" Don't say that" says
Michele, lingering her round chin.
But she finally admits that she has
gained little weight. It's be-
cause I'm happy" she explains. Il
married William Marshall nine
months ago. And it's made such a
difference to my life here. I'm not
lonely any more" It's been quite
awhile since the pretty French
woman faced camera-for Joan
of Paris" She was then under con-
tract to RKO, who, after the initial
success, were unable to find Michele
suitable pictures.
They paid me too much" says
Miss Morgan. They paid me $4,000
a picture. And it bothered them. I
was willing to work for less, but my
contract said I couldn't. Now I'm
free-lancing. And guess where 1
go after this picture? Yes, I return
to RKO! Now that am not under
contract to them, they've found me
picture. It's a musical, Higher
and Higher But that's all right, I
just want to work"
Co-starring with Miss Morgan in
the London epic is Alan Curtis, who
sits in chair with his name on it
only it is spelled wrong. q thought
only columnists made that sort of
mistake) Il don't mind them
changing Alan to Allen" says the
boy, but what's this 1 hear about
Mike Curtiz changing the spelling
Of his name to Curtis? With his
murder of the American language,
we really will get confused"
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Evening star., 1943-04-13
HOLLYWOOD.

44OAjI4 w OO~s
1t was a sad financial sock to
M-G-M when Myrna 10y got mar
ried last summer and decided to
leave her screen career behind. The
studio was thinking about its pop
ular Thin Man" series. Where, in
all the film world, could they find a
satisfactory perfect wife" to team
with William Powell? The series
has been held up all this time while
casting experts interviewed and
tested one actress after another.
No dice. No candidate seemed to
match the requirements.
Everything, in fact, was gloom
concerning the Thin Man" project
until a couple of weeks ago when
somebody conceived the bright idea
of having a talk with Laura La
Plante. That slim little blond with
the mischievous eyes who used to
spark so many light comedies in
the silent era has been in retire.
ment since 1880. An M-G-M official
ran into her in a restaurant and
noted with pleased amazement that
she was just as pretty and slim and
blond as when she was a top star
of years ago. Next day he reported
back that logical Mrs. Thin Man
or Nora Charles, if you prefer-had
been found.
Time Has Changed Little.
So, with one wheel and another
having been set in motion, Laura
La Plante has landed back on the
M-G-M lot-as the insiders dark
horse candidate to replace Myrna
10y. OF all the so-called old timers
to essay return to films, Laura La
Plante has been treated more kindly
by the years than any previously
observed. The incest compliment
that could be paid her came from a
tired producer in the commissary
who lifted his head and mumbled
THAT girl, whoever she is, looks Just
like Laura La Plante did Is years
ago"
1t was a great reunion day fol
Laura. She was out to sign hel
contract and report to the studio
gallery for portrait sitting. First
person she bumped into was Walter
Pldgeon. He sang at her wedding
nine years ago. That was before
Walter gave up singing Next she
met up with Clarence Brown, who
directed her many years ago, with
Pauline Frederick, in Butterfly.
Directors Wesley Ruggles, Norman
Mcleod and Ed SedgWick and Fred
Datlg and Bob Webb of the casting
department, all now of M-G-M
were other universal alumni on the
welcoming line.
Laura's children, Jill and Anthony
Asher, don't understand all the cur
rent conversation in their home
about acting" the actress reported
It's all very new to them. Both
mother and father-Asher was an
M-G-M producer before he Joined
the United States Signal Corps for
overseas duty-have up to this time
limited the children's movie-going
to a few Walt Disney cartoons.
Laura reported that a neighbor
saw her 7-year-old Jill on the street
and said, You look just like your
mother, dear I knew her when she
was an actress"
My mother an actress? What's
that?" the child asked. "She just
washes dishes now."
When Laura was preparing to
Evening star., 1943-04-13

that cutting In that wears you and
the shoes down. Switching partners
at flying clip, and about Is times
a minute, results in lot of tram
pling. Innocent bystanders can't
help stepping on my feet when I get
practically thrown under theirs.
Those three pairs year under ra-
tioning wouldn't last me three weeks
at the canteen. So, hope the boys
will forgive if I wear out my old
ones down there"
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Evening star., 1943-04-13
Betty's Old Shoes
Will Have to Do
For Canteen Bows
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLL WOOD.
Although she said she didn't like
to complain too much about it, shoe
rationing has really hit Betty Cradle
harder than any other screen star.
I'm naturally hard on shoes, es-
pecially dancing pumps" said Betty,
land when you go to the Hollywood
canteen three or four nights week,
as I've been doing, that's where shoe
leather goes to pieces"
Down at the canteen Betty is in
greater demand than any other film
personality because she is the only
top star in Hollywood who is actu-
ally a jitterbug specialist. Others
play around at it, but Betty really
knows how to go to town with that
jive.
THE boys are pretty good dancers
on the whole" said Betty" but it's
Evening star., 1943-04-13

IN lnlS case is uTdIlSllOIy tlllilS
and that Blossom Time" probably
will live to the last baritone.
Even more than last weeks per-
formance, the second item in the
company's repertoire demonstrates
that the Shuberts (another family
Of the same name phonetically),
have put together one of the best
singing casts the old operetta has
had in years. AS actors inspired
by the Immortality of their vehicle,
they give it vociferous zest which
Is pleasantly surprising from the
first curtain to the finale. If he has
not already done so, which is i'm
pfobable, Sigmund Romberg can
write down Blossom Time" as his
most beguiling and enduring piece
Of composition.
sAs a piece of musical biography
although it adheres rather loosely
tothe facts of Schubert's life, Bios
som Time" enjoys exemption from
that fate of looking venerable which
oVertakes so many elderly pieces.
That is the wav it is expected to
look, sort of mildewed and wistful
and geniusy Any one who obpects
to- a departure from the norm OF
modern musicals-braSsv with Ethel
Norman or Benay Venuta-is simply
making a fool of himself and the
Shuberts (not to be confused with
SchuberD probably would not want
him around anyway.
Although it is far past the need
for saying, Dorothy Donnelly has
put together an ingratiating book
and some pretty lyrics to tell Schu-
bert's bright, brief life story. 1t tells
as tunefully as ever the tale of love
which sings most pleasantly and
memorably in Song of Love" which
Miss Barbara Scully sings with Mar
shall and in their subsequent duets
Tell Me Daisy" and only One Love
Ever Fills My Heart" These are
very ringing romance pieces, as
every one knows, none better than
the pair who sing them with more
distinction than they have had in
some of the other revival visits to
the National
The roles have been juggled just
as you might have thought if you
saw The Student Prince" last week
Frank Hornaday very properly has
landed in the part of Baron Franz
Won Schober, Ann Pennington and
Evelyn Ross as the other two of
the Kranz sisters, Detmar Poppen
as Poppa Kranz. Victor Morely as
Count Scharntoff and Lorraine
Bridges as Bellabruna.
They all are in their singing the
heart right out of you. Just as some
one always seems to be doing ever
since Blossom Time" became avail
able to singers.
Among the other things that never
will cease to worry this department
is what Hollywood finally will do to
Betty Field, the most overhauled
girl who ever signed one of its con-
tracts, AS illustrated in the adjoin-
ing column, Miss Field used to be
Wistful looking brunette, now is
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Blossom Time Rings Anew
On the Nationals Stage
Everett Marshall Gets Role Worthy
Of His Robust Talents This Week.;
Miss Field Gets New Face
BY JAY CARMODY.

Everett Marshall who Communicating above stealing
Prince the
completely this week Blossom
the robust Marshall
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Fans Disconcert

Paul Henreid's fan mail at War;
ner Bros. today tops that of all other
stars on the lot, including Bette
Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The
brothers are making overtures to
R-K-O toward buying out the other
half of Henreid's contract, but to
date haven't been able to get the
R-K-O boys to talk about it.
Evening star., 1943-04-13

BLOSSOM T1ME'-The schuberts pre-
MAJ Marshall. with the COMPOSERS music
book and lyrics. from the original of
A. M Wilmer and H. Reichert adapted BY
Dorothy Donnelly. At the National.
The Cast:
Kuppelweiser Lyndon Crews
E Emmy q flower sirD-----, Betti Davis
Belabruna Lorraine Bridges
Count Scharntof ------ Victor Morley
Franz Schubert ------Everett Marshall
Mltzl kranz -----------B Barbara Scully
Kitzi Kranz Ann Pennington
FRITZ Kranz ------------ Evelyn Ross
ErKman ----------- Howard Roland
Binder -------E Elliott Robertson
waiter ------------ James Radkey
Christian Kranz - Detmar Poppen
Rosl IBellabruna's id)----Jane Stanley
Mrs. Kranz Zella Russell
Greta (maid of 'Kranz) 80 Betti Davis
Novotny, Ga detective) Harry K. Morton
Mrs. Coburg --------- Zella Russell
Ballerina Virginia Mckay
Flower eirls-virginia Mckay Jane Stan
ley, Audrey Schrieb. Judy Turnbull,
Phyllis Manning, Virginia Atkinson,
Grace Taylor.
Gentlemen attendants-Colin Harvey. Eden
Burrows Fred Sheldon. Ernest Noble.
George Tallone, Max Plagmann. Kent
Williams, Gurney Bowman, Jimmy Rus
seH, Herman Magidson, Howard Roland,
Don Powell, Kenn Harlan, Robert La
Mari.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Poet Carl Sandburs
In Howard Recital

Carl Sandburg, leading American
poet and author, will be presented
in lecture recital tomorrow at 8 80
pm. In the Andrew Rankin Me-
mortal Chapel at Howard University
Twice a Pulitzer Prize winner, for
his "Cornhuskers" in 1918 and for
Abraham Lincoln, The War Years
in 1899, Mr.. Sandburg will recite
passages from his own works
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Thumbs and Ankles

Betty Cradle suffered sprained
thumb when window fell too fast
during the final days shooting on
Sweet Rosie O'Grady," which led
the champion "pin-up girl' to recall
other misfortunes that have beset
her on the last days shooting of six
preceding features. During the final
three minutes of "Coney Island"
Betty slipped and sprained an ankle.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Cradle for Henry

Henry Aldrich Rocks the
Cradle" original screen story by
Aleen Leslie, has been purchased by
Paramount and will be produced fol-
lowing Henry Aldrich Haunts a
House" Miss Leslie wrote Henry
Aldrich Plays Cupid"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
Two New Field
Continued from rage One

time percentage of food waste is re
duced to a wartime minimum. Ever
today commodity might be g
backed-up' surplus in one locality
and be in short supply in neighbor
ling area. We must use every means
to see that all food is distributed and
utilized"
AS an agency of the War Food
administration, the FDA is charged
with the overall ALLEGATION and man
agement of the nations food supply
after it leaves the farm. In the nine
western states and Hawaii, which
comprise the western region, the FDA
carries on lend-lease purchases, agri-
cultural marketing and diversion pro
grams, nutrition and food conServa-
ton campaigns, industrial feeding adj
visory service, school lunch program,
material priority service to process
sors, Federal grading and inspection
operations, market news service and
other related activities.
Maben has been connected with the
u. S. Department of Agriculture for
the past five years. He handled field
organization work in the west for the
Federal Surplus Commodities Cor
poration before being called into
Washington, D. G. He was appointed
regional director for the Agricultural
Marketing Administration at Mil
waukee, going from there to New
York to head the northeast region
for the Food Distribution Administra-
ton.
Leonard Trainer, formerly FDA di-
rector at Denver for the Rocky Noun
tain region was named a deputy di-
rector of the FDA western region
when Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wy
oming became part of the western
region on Dec. 1. Donald E. Wilcox
is the other deputy director.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
new WPB ORDERS
Benefit
FARMERS

Minneapolis, Dec. 14-F. Peavey
Heffelfinger, northwest regional d.
rector of the War Production board,
announced today that several actions
designed to benefit the farmers have
been taken by WPB.
The output of garden rakes has
been strictly limited in order to per-
nit the manufacture of more urgently
needed farm and garden tools. Re-
strictions on use of binder Irvine have
been removed to the extent that such
Irvine, previously limited to me-
chanical harvesters, now can be used
for growing, harvesting and shipment
of agricultural products. Valves used
in pasteurization of milk have been
removed from restrictions in an effort
to save man-hours and materials need
ed in their making, Hr. Heffelfinger
said.
Lumber stocks at sawmills showed
another decrease and action has been
taken to restrict makers of wood
furniture to "a per cent of the amount
used for goods and Grating in 1943.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
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but rather as a sound means of avoid
ing such clashes"
1.-THE principle of collective bar
gaining and the right of workers to
freely join unions of their own choice
are as basic to a democracy as the
Four Freedoms" wrote Dr. Harold A.
Ehrensperger of Nashville, editor of
Motive and leader of Methodist youth.
When anti-labor business men of
Winston-Salem called together some
"civic leaders" and issued a statement
branding unions as a destructive force
in the community, as 'unpatriotic, I"
and charged their outside, ''com-
munistic" leaders with engendering
industrial and racial discord," the
Southern Conference for Human Wei
fare, publishers of the Patriot, wrote
to a number of citizens throughout
the south, asking them to express
their views on unions. The state
ments in the Patriot article were TAX
en- from few of the replies
81 cannot but deplore the effore
to circumvent the peaceful processes
of the nations labor laws" said Tar
Teton Collier, of the Louisville Courier
Journal. And B. E. Young, president
and publisher Of the Journal and
Guide, Norfolk, Va, said, 1.-THE labor
union movement is as essential to
democracy as the manufacturers asso-
citation, the retail merchants associa-
ton, or the chamber of commerce"
A hearing officer of the War Labor
Board, DR.. Alva w. Taylor of Nash
vile, wrote that workers in their "ef-
forts to unionize or to obtain better
contracts have been reasonable,
peaceful, able and in every way pa
triotic and have asked nothing more
than the law allows"
OF all the replies received only one
took an opposite position. A. P. KEEP
hardt of Sarasota, Fla, said that un-
ionism was "discredited" beyond re-
covery" and that American were con-
WINGED that for union members union
loyalty comes before loyalty to coun-
try"
every worker should join his un-
ion, and all far-seeing and fair-minded
employers should welcome a union
and work with it," said the Rev. Ed
ward Maxted, retired Episcopalian
minister, Warrington, Fla.
Copies of the Southern Patriot, con-
tanning the article may be had with
out charge by readers of The Peoples |
Voice by writing to the Southern Pa
triot, Room 507, Presbyterian Bldg,
Nashville 3, Tenn.