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The union times., 1943-09-11
an AbS0VeS Co., Baldqvin Of Blame On State ager Ac
President Reports On
 Lend-Lease Operations

WASHINGTON - Since the be- ginning of lease-lend operations, which applied to the British April 1, 1941, and to the Soviet Union beginning in December, 194l, the British have re- ceived $4,458000,000 in supplies, and the Russians $2,444,000,0OO, through June 30 last, the President announced.
The union times., 1943-09-11
Men Who Lead Labor:

ment, according to BOntempO. are interested participation of all mem bers in the affairs and problems of their locals and of all organ ized labor; and honest, sociaI-vis- toned leadership.
 BOntempO joined the New Haven HOd Carriers and Common La bOrers Union in 1908. Two years later he was elected financial sec retary.
 After the 1916 strike that broke the local, he set out almost single handed to reOrganize the building labOrers. With the aid of others, Local 455 was created. He served as vice-president for nine years, and has been elected unanimously every year as secretary since I935.
 In l933 and 1884 he was the locals delegate to the Conn. Fed eration of LabOr's conventions.
 FOUGHT FASCISM
 We'll aware of the fate of or ganized labor in Italy under the Facists, Bontempo enlisted early in the cause against this evil that befell his native land. He has been a prominent New Haven Anti-Fasc- ist, and contributor to the New York Italian-language newspapers, La ParOIa and H PrOLetariO.
 BOntempO was born in 1882, went to work on farm at l2. and migrated to the United States when 2l. He became a citizen in 1928. He is married and the fath- CT of three children. One son, Jo- seph, is a staff sergeant in the U. S. Army. Another, Edward, is a mem- Der of Local 6, New Haven Brick IaYers
The union times., 1943-09-11

Buying Union Label goods is a declaration of a dividend on your annual income.
The union times., 1943-09-11
Joint Labor
 Group Meets In Hartford
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Public Affairs Committee Holds Con
 ference Sunday

Delegates of organized labor in the Greater Hartford area will con- vene Sunday, Sept. I2, in Hotel Bond for the first city-wide confer ence of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Public Affairs Committee.
 The purpose of this conference is to discuss and work out plans for the most effective home-front action of Hartford workers in the war program. Since it's inception last fall the Com mittee has concerned itself with activi- ties of vital interest to the working people of the city.
 Among the issues to come be- fore the conference are a stand on:
 Repeal of the Smith -ConnalIy Law.
 Equitable taxation for financ- ing the war.
 Rollback of cost of living and possible renewal of campaign for grade labelling.
 Plans for the conference include several speakers who will discuss vari- ous phases of the war program as they affect the lives of working people 1; resolutions putting the Public Affairs Committee on record and outlining future activities.
 The Hartford Central Labor Un- ion has elected the following dele gates to represent it at the confer ence:
 Joe Lombard, Meat Cutters, 371 {; Henry Dauphinais, Teamsters, 559; Knute Hoagberg, Painters, 481; Tim othy Crowley, Musicians, 400; and Charles Ryan, Postal Clerks, 147.
The union times., 1943-09-11
Says Legislature
 Is Responsible

Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin was pOwerless to influence the l943 session of the General Assembly to pass the State Labor Relations Act proposed as its Number One piece of legislation by the Conn. Fed eration of Labor, John J. Egan, told the GEL. cOnven- ton this week.
 In his legislative report, Egan stated that both major branches of organized labor in the state supported the GELS bill. The Governor, according to Egan, indicated in a conference with organized labor that the bill might be acceptable to the legis- lators if modified somewhat.
 A.F.L. representatives told Gov. Baldwin that they were opposed to modifying the GEL. bill which they considered the best ever offer ed for the protection of Conn. workers. They also stated that the State A.F.L.'s traditional policy is to refrain from asking the Gov ernOr to intercede in behalf of any labor legislation. The representa- tives told the Chief Executive that they would not break this policy, but in event the bill was passed, the Federation expected him to sign it in line with his campaign pledge.
 The GEL. legislative agent out lined in detail his fruitless efforts to have the General Assembly pass the S.L.RA. The Federation's bill was reported out of committee unfavor- ably in the Senate, where it was plac- ed at the foot of the calendar. An effort to have it taken from the cal endar failed by Y to IA vote in the closing days of the session
 Egan stated that he worked harder than ever to carry through the 1943 legislative program of the GEL. The burden this year was especially heavy due to the strong anti-labor sentiment that swept the legislators of the nation. Egan said that he was satisfied with the fact that there was no relaxing of any of the state labor laws, nor were any repealed.
 ssThe Workmen's Compensation Law as amended is a great step forward" declared Egan. Maxi mum benefits were increased from $25 to $35 week making them the highest paid in the country. The bill to establish WOrkmen's State (Insurance) Fund was de- feated after being reported out of committee unfavOrably.
 He outlined the amendments of the Unemployment Compensation Law which include increasing the maximum benefits from $2O to $25 weekly; extension of cOverage to sailors and students, and reducing the waiting period to one week.
 A change was made in the old age assistance law to include hospitaliza- ton for recipients.
 am forced to bring to your attention the fact that one of the main reasons why the Workmen's Compensation and the UnempIoy- ment Compensation acts have not been extended to cover employers of less than five and four, respec- lively, is the fact that small busi- nessmen of this state are anti-tax to such an extent that they want the service of the state and nation but they feel they shouldn't be burdened with the taxes paid by large industries.
 Egan thanked the members of or ganized labor in the General Assembly for their full cooperation. He pre- dicted special session of the Legis- lature early in 1914.
The union times., 1943-09-11

Angelo BOntempO, recording and corresponding secretary of LO- cal 455, New Haven Building La borers, has been, an unremitting fighter for unionism among com mon laborers for the last 35 years.
 He feels that powerful, alert labor movement is demOcracy's strongest bulwark against totalita- rianism. Two things necessary to create and maintain such a move
Evening star., 1943-12-12
The Producers Accept, but Without Alacrity

pected to exercise profound effect
on the attitude of movie players
toward television. In the past some
OF them have taken one look at
themselves in the mirror and walked
out of the studio in disgust.
Descriptions Of Household.
To what extent television will
compete with films and radio broad
casting remains to be seen. A
woman who today listens to her
favorite daytime serial while work.
ing in the kitchen certainly won't
be able to do her housework while
watching television screen.
In the same way, family that
can watch a transmitter production
in the living room may not take
the trouble to patronize a neighbor-
hood theater to view a telecast OF
the same feature on the public
screen.
The film business is vitally con-
cerned about all this. Secretly. II
would like to take this upstart tele-
vision and give it a good kick in the
pants, setting it back a century or
so. But it won't. Once before those
tactics didn't work with radio.
AS a last resort, If nothing better
develops, the movies will fall back
on the gregarious instinct OF
the human animal. Crowds follow
crowds. And variety of attrac-
tlons and innovations in Snowman
ship may keep the theater as the
main gathering place.
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Evening star., 1943-12-12
Two New Categories.
To Mr. CABIN Orphans Are More Important Than Movies

before the war, who had Wallets to
anticipate every want.
Cabin comes from a romantic
background; his family claims de-
scent from Francois villon. Born
in the Greenwich Village section of
Paris, Of . stage couple, Joseph
Moncorge and Helene Petit, his
childhood was hard. His mothers
death left him without discipline
and he was q headstrong boy. In
the little town of Greil, north of
Paris, he finally apprenticed him.
self to an ironworker at the age Of
IA, following the disturbed years
Of the war.
Vow to = First Love.
At 20 he took . job in the chorus
Of the Folies Bergere at his fathers
urging, but was so shy 1t was q
relief to get away to military train
ing. He served In the marines for
three years, came back to the thea
ter, travelled to Brazil and vowed
never again to leave Paris. Mis-
tinguette discovered him, then came
an appearance with Elsie Janis at
the Moulin Rouge. He became a
great dramatic hit, then took up
film work.
Cabin, in spite of his strong ap-
peal to women, is not the conven-
tional handsome man. He really Is
slighter than he appears on the
screen. He dislikes having pictures
taken, strange a. this may seem
In q film star. He Is Ill 1T case with
strangers.
Cabin feels that the puritan ira
dition In America makes 1t difficult
to produce really great pictures
here. He points out that none Of
the films on which his reputation
Is built could have been made in
America, because of various censor
able angles. He adheres to the
Gallo outlook on life, free of too
many moral restraints and consid-
erations.
He is seen about Hollywood fire.
quently with Marlene Dietrich,
Dietrich has given up the idea of
three to five escorts where Cabin
Is, concerned; they go out alone.
When Marlene goes to the canteen,
he works as dishwasher, busboy,
waiter. The pair are regulars
there.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
A Critic Violently Doffs His Hat
By J. M. Kendrick.
NEW YORK

NE w xSxLkAs
Weeks pass, months pass, some
times even q whole sason goes by,
without a play possessing a real
and natural charm appearing on
Broadway.
So / am sure you will pardon me
III I toss hat in the air and beat
out few hearty typewriter cheers
for "The Voice OF the Turtle" John
Van Druten,s comedy, which opened
this week at the Morosco Theater.
The voice is that of the turtle
dove, as you know, and 1t comes
from the Songs Of Solomon" be-
speaking the coming of better
times (for, 10, the winter is passed,
the rain is over and gone; the
flowers appear on the earth; the
time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice Of the turtle is heard
in our land)
Four Heads Together.
It is a human play, with all the
warmth and humor of naturalness.
1t is beautiful and charming, writ
tCIl dAiQ Q1C CCICO Will lAlC-1 Woul0
say with almost perfect-skill by
Mr. Van Druten, and acted splen-
didly by Margaret Sullivan, Elliott
Nugent and Audrey Christie.
The tale Is simple: Two actresses
and q soldier on a week end. The
soldier (Mr. Nugent) comes to town
on a leave, meets his girl friend
(blond, frosty Miss Christie at Miss
Sullavan's apartment, anticipating
shall we say, rowdy and lively
lparty. Miss Christie, however, has
just received a more remunerative
bid and she stands up" the SOL
dier. Her story is that her husband
is in town on his last leave before
going abroad.
Miss Sullivan and Mr.. Nugent are
left with the apartment and not
too much desired romance in the
ofing. I need not tell you that the
love story develops nevertheless. !
can tell you, however, that it moves
forward smoothly, naturally and
with good humor and great beauty
Heavenly All Around.
This is heaven, isn't it?" Mr.
Nugent says, as he pours cham
payne for Miss Sullivan just after
winning her love. She replies. Yes
| it is heaven" And 1t Is heaven
Evening star., 1943-12-12
By Harold Hefernan.

gineers have whipped one of the
biggest mechanical problems.
No one in the film business or in
radio today seems able to venture
Sound prediction as to what tech
nique will be employed in telecast-
ing; whether live shows will be pro-
duced in studios or whether features
will be put on film for delayed
telecasting.
Summons to Memory.
One thing all hands do realize,
and that is this: The problem of
presenting fresh television produc-
tions with live talent will be mon
umental, because actors and ac-
tresses will be forced to memorize
their lines as they do on the stage.
A theater production takes many
weeks of preparation.
The question of monotony of an
image in such programs can easily
be overcome, it Is pointed out, by
using more than one iconoscope, for
crose-upS and middle shots and long
shots of an orchestra.
Long strides have been made, too,
in the veXatious conundrum con-
corning television makeup, and Max
Factor, jr, who knows more about
such matters than any other indi-
vidual in Hollywood, summed up
the most important ones for us.
Heretofore, movie actors pioneer
ing in telecasting had one serious
ground for objection. Their pride
was hurt by the fact that the type
of makeup applied to their faces
made them look, in the studio at
least, like a cross between a clown
and cadaver. The actor today
will look very much the same in
the television studio as he does on
the television screen.
Lighting to the Rescue.
There are two major reasons for
this advance from the Zombie stage,
according to Factor. One is that
lighting used for television is now
much better. The other is a marked
progress achieved in makeup ex-
periments.
However, as television now stands,
the blonds won't get too good a
break. Pronounced brunets or
very dark redheads appear to much
better advantage on its screens than
do blonds or light brownets. For
some time to come, Factor says
blonds will need to wear dark wigs
for such broadcasting. Also, extra
definition will have to be provided
for all performers eyes with eye
and lash makeup.
Naturalization of NJ i. e2-
Evening star., 1943-12-12

for audiences who have seen and
heard so many bad plays among
the few good ones this season. I
do not offer this as a statement in
contrast, because even in a healthy
season of plays, Mr.. Van Druten s
THE Voice of the Turtle" would be
outstanding.
Miss SULLIVAN has spent most of
her recent years in Hollywood, i'm
proving steadily and rapidly as an
actress.
This is her first stage appearance
since stage Door" If any one tells
you motherhood is handicap to a
stage career, point to Miss SULLIVAN.
She has three children, and TODAY
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Studio Solves Evil
OF School Bells
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Complications set in on any film
set where an underage child is en-
ployed. Stringent rulings set the
time which must be devoted daily to
education. Production must be
shaped around this need.
Dianna Lynn, in a cast that in
cluded Dorothy Gish, Charles Rug
giles and others, Is only IT, and
highly essential to Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay" All sorts of re-
hearsals have to be held daily and
the ringing Of the school bell seems
to chime just about the time the
director needs Diana Something
was finally evolved Diana learns
her lines. gets her part rehearsed
and goes to school.
The rest of the time she is absent
stock player who volunteered for
the thankless job takes her place in
all the cast rehearsals. Judith Glib
son is very important to the progress
OF the film, but her name and face
| will never be seen on the screen.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Hobby Did Profit

Charles Ruggles always did think
those gaudy circus midway banners
he's been collecting as hobby for Is
years would come in handy some
day. Recently he talked a studio
into giving him a role in the Texas
Guinan life story picture, 'Incendi-
ary Blonde at pretty fat salary,
then persuaded it to rent the ban
ners from him as props, which paid
for the entire cost of the collection.
Evening star., 1943-12-12

RAMS as one of the best of our
youhg actresses.
IEhave never seen Elliott Nugent
givt better performance. He was
finF last season playing opposite
Katharine Hepburn in Without
Love-" but Mr.. Van Druten has
giken him far superior material with
which to work in this production.
Rou will remember Miss Christie
in Sailor Beware" II Married an
Angel" and numerous other sue
ceSses.
Alfred de Liagre is the producer
Of 1.-The Voice Of the Turtle" and
the one setting, excellent, Is by
Stewart CLANCY.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
By. .RosaIind Shafer.
HOLLYWOOD.

Jean Cabin, known to American
audiences mainly through his French
films, will return to the ranks of the
Fighting French as soon as he fin
ishes "The Imposter," the story OF
a man who fights his way acros!
North Africa to join the same Fight
ing French.
His real-life uniform will be diff
ferent from his film dress, however
Cabin Is a marine, and, before the
Franco-Germa armistice, served
aboard q minesweeper based at
L'Orient.
I had asked Cabin dts pro-
nounced Ga-bean0 whether he would
return to Hollywood after the wal
or go back to Paris. He reacted al
most is if he had been slapped
Then he answered:
II think there are going to be
more important things to do in
France when this war is over than
make motion pictures. There are
hundreds of thousands Of orphaned
children. Somebody is going to have
to do something about them"
Huns Have Come Before.
Cabin shakes you with his intens.
ity as he speaks.
I'm my own life, and I am a man
not yet 40, have been driven from
my home three times by the Ger
mans. When I was a child, twice
was a refugee. In this war, had
to flee again.
TN the France knew before this
war, no family was untouched from
the previous one. Women still wore
black for men killed then. They
lived in poverty, with their families
because none remained to earn q
living for them. Their lands had
been devastated. We had not re-
placed the men nor the property
losses when again the Germans
came.
Il want to be there after peace
comes. Where else should a French
man be? Making pictures in Holly
wood? Pictures will come later
when France is again a decent place
to live and people can be safe anc
HAPPY again. I don't know yet what
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Come the COunterraidS
Bv Jaw CarmOdv.

rived, the triumph has been scored
and 1t would seem that she and
Elliott Nugent "a Hollywood direc-
tor in his spare time) are destined
not to 60 home again. Not for a
long time.
Another acute sort of loss to the
cinema is Miss Mary Martin, who
brought John Boles and Kenny
Baker Che hardly of the movies)
along with her to make "One Touch
of Venus" one of the brighter sue
cesses Of the current season. =
Many Others Around.
Others who have established
themselves more or less firmly in
the theater include Muriel Angelius
Elizabeth Bergner, Raymond Mas
sey, John Emery, Mary Howard
Virginia Field, Arleen Whelan, Nick
Foran, Oscar Homolka and Louis
Calhern.
That makes quite a Hollywood
colony in itself, but that is not the
end.
The past week has seen the sign
ing of such other movie personali-
ties as Annabella, J. Edward Brom-
berg and Conrad Nagel, the latter
more of the radio than of the movies
but a Hollywood resident neverthe-
less.
AS we say, however, no one thinks
the movies are going to die as 9
result of the migration. Not ever
on top Of the much greater losses
OF star material to the armed forces
Now that the pail of shoddiness
which has hung over the theater all
season has been broken by the ar
rival OF THE Voice of the Turtle, ,
there is bit more of optimism that
the Critics Circle and Pulitzer prizes
can be awarded with a straight face
AS matter of fact, there is hope
for another hit right on the heels
OF the Van Druten drama, the hit
in question being Maxwell Ander-
sons Storm Operation, which
opens tomorrow night at the Mary.
land Theater in Baltimore.
Mr.. Andersons latest Is a wa,
play again and he has a way o1
being at his best on the theme OF
men IN conflict. 1t began a Ions
time ago with What Price Glory
and has carried on through this wa,
with THE Eve of st. Mark"
OF course, there was Key Largo
which dealt with the Spanish War
but 1t is hardly counted against Mr.
Anderson's record.
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Coming Attractions
Stage.

Stage.
NAT1oNAL"over Twentyone" Ruth Godons play starting
CAP1TOLIhe Cross Of Lorraine with Gene
Kelly; starting Thursday.
"Whistlng in Brooklyn"
Rutherford: returning Thursday.
EARLE-Northern Pursuit." with Bishop
KEITS-Government Girl with Olivia Sonny
Tufts
LIfTLE-"Abe Lincoln of illinois," with Raymond Massey
Paul Lukas
PALACE-Lassie MacDoWsll
Evening star., 1943-12-12

1t seems as If 1t were only yes.
terday that the theater's favorit.
lament was that 1t could not keeI
its talent. No sooner would pro.
ducer unveil promising talent thar
Hollywood would come wolfine
along, chatting urbanely of 7-yeal
contracts and millions of dollar!
and whssssk would go the promis.
ing talent of to make movies ane
a fortune,
One week 1t might be Burgess.
Meredith and the next one Orso1
Welles. More often it would be {
tall, willowy blond of terrific photo.
geneity but there were more tai
willowy blonds than there were
Merediths or Welleses and the loss
while fearful, was not unbearable.
"The theater will die" the more
lugubrious would say, and Joe, the
bartender, would sympathize an6
mix another milkshake, or some
thing.
The theater did not die, of course
as it never has in all Of the 2O0(
years that people have been saying
its death was imminent and in
evitable
AS a matter of fact, in a quiet
sort of way, Broadway has beer
counterraiding so successfully tha'
you can't go into the Astor drug
store without thinking you are ir
Schwab's in Hollywood. There
never was time when Broadway
theater marques were SO agloW
with cinema names and yet so fal
as this department knows, no one
yet has predicted that the movies
are going to die. Truth to tell, nc
one has even said publicly that this
raiding of cinema talent has got tc
stop. It is almost as If no one
cared, but that is impossible, Of
course.
Miss Blondell Starts 1t.
In sort Of cursory way, this
department investigated the situa.
ton when it was in New York a
fortnight ago. The investigation
was superinduced by the circum-
stances of running into Joan Blon-
dell, Teresa Wright, and several
other cinema people in a space nc
wider than Tiffany's. Not as wide
actually.
Miss Blondell, looking very un-
crestfallen about it, was just after
being closed out of a play called
The Naked Genius" but she gave
no impression of a woman about
to take flight to Hollywood. She is
not the only one
A couple of hours later, some
people got together in the lobby oi
the Algonquin and started counting
on their fingers the number OF
cinema people who seem to have
decided they like the theater bet
ter after all.
There was Ralph Bellamy, for
instance, who is starring in TO
morrow, the World" Mr.. Bellamy
did not come East with the idea
Of starring in any such thing. He
was here, really, just to do spot
or two Of radio when some one
handed him q script and he has
been here ever since.
Some one else mentioned ROLAND
Young and Margaret Lindsay, whe
are co-starring in Another Love
Story" a play Of such timber that
every one except themselves was
pretty sure they could 60 home ir
few days If they wanted to.
Hollywoods big loss and Broad.
ways correlative big gain, it wa:
unanimously agreed, was to be thai
of Margaret SULLIVAN, who at thai
time was on her way into a New
York triumph in THE Voice of the
Turtle" Miss SULLIVAN has since ar.
Evening star., 1943-12-12

I can do, but I will be there to find
my place"
On the set, many Frenchmen are
working with Cabin; his director,
Duvivier, made five Of Cabins big
gest successes in France. The cam
eraman, Paul Ivano, is French. Be-
tween them, they keep up constant
goodnatured patter in their native
tongue.
He's His Own Valet.
When Cabin goes to his dressing
table to ready himself for q scene, he
combs his hair, applies his powder
Evening star., 1943-12-12
Type Snasher

Producer Arthur Hornblow, who
likes to break up typed" player
roles. has done it again. TN Cas-
light" he made pathological mur-
derer out of Charles Boyer, usually
suave screen lover, and converted
Joseph Gotten, who recently has
played diabolical crime roles, into
a honesty-loving Scotland Yard de-
tective inspector.