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hght-hearted comedy. Mr.. Cspra is not around
now and his absence has not been good for the
quality of films ostensibly designed to sparkle.
Another man missing from the intelligent h,,mor
department of the industry is Sergt. Carson Kann
Sergt' Kanin, who could not possibly have been
understood by his bosses. who were rather dull men,
was instantly and invariably understood by movie
audiences 1t was his rather progressive notion that
moviegoers were intelligent people for whom directors
should turn out literate searching and somewhat
satlrical comedies on the order of THE Great Man
Votes o.. better still comedy of such decacv az
Bachelor Mother. That the public could be laughed
into aWareness Of whatever he wanted to teach was
one of Sergt. Kanin's most stubborn convictions
When he departed for the wars in the e-Pearl
Harbor days it sad day for comedy of the kind
that is infinitely better than slapstick.
Sturges Also Had Gay Way
With Significant Story
Another lighthearted teacher of sociology who
could be counted upon for at least one frivolous but
important, film every year was Preston Sturges One
OF the many things this correspondent does not know
IS whatever has happened to Mr.. Sturges 1t does
know that it has not any of his pictures recently
tragic deficiency of which "The More the Merrer'
is an impressive reminder Another THE Great Nc
Glnty" or "The Lady Eve'' would make fine sub
stltute for the noisy reminders of the which
Hollywood spaWns at such appalling rate
But, OF course it may be that the Army and the
Navy and the Marines took just the lght-hearted
people from the cinema and left the dour, war-con-
scious ones behind to carry on
That Hollywood should leave the war to the armed
forces and to the newspapers and radio-leave 1t
entirely to them that isis unreasonable After ALL
there also is such thing overdosage of escap-
ISM Movie producers know all about that too hav-
ing spent long, miserable periods Of being abused for
taking on unrealisc attitude in periods where real
ism is one of the most profound urgencies
The record indeed is repete with evidence that
lack OF realism is one of the things for which it's
severest critics always have been wont to pummeI the
screen.
Perhaps however, the discovery of the public anx-
lety to be enchanted with intelligent comedy may
inspire the cinema to undertake to strike balance
between the gay and the grim
1t never yet has failed to listen to the box Office
and there is no to assume that its hearing
has been impaired, by all the umult of its war
pictures.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
By Sheilah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.

4AOA1A@ L w oN(A,
Il want to treat woman rough"
said handsome James Craig. He was
talking about treating women rough
in his pictures-naturally. you get
nowhere in HOLLYWOOD if you're nice
to women" he continued-and again
James was referring to his work.
you've got to push the women
around for the women in the audi
ence to notice you. And that's the
sort of picture I'm trying to get"
1t is a fact that the most popular
men in Hollywood movie epics have
nearly all treate dthe ladies badly in
most Of their films. In real life it is
sometimes the same. I don't say
that Enrol Flynn ever beat up his Lii
Damita-he couldn't and he wouldn't t
but he preferred masculine COM
panions and was careless about in
forming Lii when he was off to
Honolulu until he was halfway there.
And that comes under the heading
Of treating woman badly. But Lii
apparently loved this sort of treat
men for years and only recently di-
vorced Enrol.
But this story deals mainly with
the tough boys of the screen. And
what it does for their careers.
Whether Jimmy Cagney had to push
a grapefruit into the features of
pretty Mae Clarke to further his
film career is open to question. But
the savage act certainly did Cagney
no harm and helped confirm the
fact that he would make short work
of any woman who dared oppose
him. This, of course, is a throwback
to the caveman. Fortunately,
grapefruit is a trife softer than a
rock
The newest tough-man-going-
places-on- he-screen is Helmut Dam
tine, who was born in Vienna and
is now near citizen of the United
States. In his most recent picture,
THE Edge of Darkness" the boy
who first corralled attention as the
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Today's Film Schedules

CAPITO-"Piot the air. 315 535 BIS
and 10 80 Stage shows: 2:25 4:40. 7:2o and $40
COLUMBIA-"The 1870,
535 7:35 and 935
EARIE-The girl Washington:
and $50 Stage shows: 1lO 1885, 645 and
9:15 pm
Miss Russell flies for Uncle Sam:
/, 5:25, 7:35 and GAS pm.
from England:
2:45, 425 6:10 7:55 and $40
METRoPoLITAN-Edge of Darkness helps
wegians 400, Z and $40
PALACEHelo Frisco Heo Alice in the plush 435,
7:l0 and 9:45 pm.
P1x-I zombie Dee keeping company:
2:30, S. TAO pm.
TRANS LUX-News shorts: Continuous from
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Of electricity that contacted the
females in the audience of the
-Four Daughters preview when
John hove into view looking as
though he hated everything in the
world, including women. In his
most recent picture, The Fallen
Sparrow" John goes back to type
by punching Patricia Morrison on
the jaw which should make a big
hit with the women.
George Raft has made fortune
from the screen, most of 1t be-
cause-to put it in Rattan lang
uage-he would stand for no non
sense from no dame. Not even
Georges most fervent admirers
could say he was a brilliant actor.
Neither could his worst enemies
deny his appeal on the screen.
Raft was one of the men men,
toned by James Craig when he
sighed for shortcut to fame via
a blow to the female jaw divine.
George was fairly tough with his
girls in private life-by this I mean
that he usually said "good-by" to
them before they were ready to call
it a day with him. Betty Cradle,
however, reversed the tables by Civ
ing George the air before he was
quite ready to breathe it.
TOUCHES Also Act.
Edward G. Robinson, who in pri-
vate life is a harmless collector of
paintings, is one of the few tough
men OF the screen who can really
act. CBogart and Cagney are a
couple of the others) Even when
Robinson plays a thoroughly nice
character on the screen, he infuses
it with sufficient toughness to give
1t the necessary appealing quality.
Paul MUM is good example of a
screen bad boy Tin "Scarface) who
diminished his popularity by desert
ing to the ranks of the good boys.
He looks better bad, if you know
what I mean.
Even the critics reversed their
(See GRAHAM. PAGE ELI
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Her Objectivity Does 1t
Shirley Booth Projects Characters Only
Thereby De.emphasizing Herself

comes Miss Duffy again as soon as
she pulls into the Blue Network
studio for the West Coast broad
cast.
She seems to pull both characters
over her until none of her own per-
sonality filters through, and yet not
one infection or characteristic is
carried over from one to the other.
During luncheon of scrambled
eggs at Sardi's on matinee day Shir-
ley talked about her approach to
the parts she has played and the
two she is playing currently.
Student of People.
Il don't believe I have very
strong personality; some actors have
and project it from the stage. My
(See MEEGAN. Page E-2.)
Evening star., 1943-05-16
By Jean Meesan.
NEW YORK

Shirley Booths greatest dramat tic
ability is her most serious personal
liability.
Most actors are remembered for
the personal traits that are car
ried over from their private lives
and show up in their performances.
But not one gesture of the Shirley
who lives on East Sixty-first street
has ever been allowed to harden
into a stage mannerism.
The roles she has created have
been done with such thoroughness
and depth that they are true Gre
ations: Ruth in MY Sister Eileen;
the girl photographer in The
Philadelphia Story; Mabel in
Three Men on a Horse" The
average theatergoer thinks those
three roles we're played by three
different girls.
I found out about that when the
lights came up in the Ethel Barry
more Iheater after the second act
of Tomorrow. the World" The
girl at my right thumbed into her
program and then asked, in un-
believing voice, ''Is Leona the same
girl who played Eileen?"
Yes, she is. And she is Miss Duffy
on the radio show "Duffy's," too
representations that couldn't be
further apart. Yet this sprightly
little redhead with the shining
brown eyes melts in front of you
into Leona, warm-hearted, ideal
istic, Midwestern school teacher.
Shifting from Miss Duffy into
Leona and back again on Tuesday
nights is as much problem in speed
as in dramatics. From until $3.50
o'clock Shirley is the silly, shrill
cashier on the radio program. The
minute she goes off the air she
runs for waiting taxicab in
Rockefeller Plaza and races for the
theater six blocks away.
For the next two hours she Is on
the stage almost continuously as
Leona. Then, still in makeup and
her third-act costume, she swings
into another waiting taxi and be-
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Paulette Is Fate's Fairest>Haired Child
She Always Was a Girl to Know Where She Was Going
And She Never Missed Trick in Reaching Her Goal

Lltvak, Burgess Meredith, Harry
Hopkins-and Charlie Chaplin. The
matter of whether Chaplin and God
dard were married was a constant
public debate for years and the
parties themselves never actually
admitted anything until divorce
came along.
Paulette seems to be one of those
persons to whom things just nat
urally happen" She was one of
flock of so chorus girls on a movie
set when Chaplin walked on. He
was looking for girl to play the
lead in his Modern Times" He
could easily have noticed any one
OF the dozens Of other beauties. He
didn't. His eye found Paulette. She
got test, the part and fame,
Things had happened to her be-
fore. Originally. at the age of ID,
she had sat in that prop moon for
ziegfeld's Rio Rita" She got a
better part in ziegfeld's next. Archie
SelWyn saw her in that and gave
her the lead in The Conquering
Male" 1t ran only three weeks. so
she became a society wife, marrying
Edward James, president of the
Southern States Lumber Co.
Things That Happened.
BY the time she first saw Holly
wood she was a divorce just visit
ing. Sure enough, in typical God
dard manner, she got noticed by a
talent scout while on the dance floor
of the Cocoanut Grove. The T. S.
said she was cinch to get a screen
test, but she didn't. So she went out
on her own and got a test. Hal
Roach put her under contract. But
the only time she went in front of
his camera was to have her legs
photographed for cheese cake"
publicity art.
Nevertheless, Hollywood folks be-
gan noticing Paulette and chatting
about her A small string of fashy
automobiles saw to that. They be-
longed to Paulette, who had a pas
sion for autos and the money to pay
for quite a few. She was always
Evening star., 1943-05-16
By J. NJ. Kendrick.
MEIM VOPK

There is no need of the customary
debate over which of the years prize
plays is The best. Both should be
seen and after seeing them the
chances are you will conclude there
is better or as good entertainment
in numerous other theaters along
Broadway.
You should see The Patriots" !"
which won the critics circle award,
because of the Jeffersonian prin-
ciples it expounds. You should see
THE Skin of Our Teeth = which won
the Pulitzer Prize, because it is a
cockeyed comedy with Tallulah
Bankhead playing Tallulah Bank
head.
Sergt. Sidney Kingsley, of the
Army. has written in The Patriots
a drama that is frequently stirring.
1t is based on the discords and an
tagonisms which beset us after
Yorktown, beginning with 1890 when
Jefferson returned from Europe.
The action is around Jefferson's in
tense fight to preserve our newly
won democracy and his rivalry with
Alexander Hamilton.
I found myself wishing about the
last of the second act that Kingsley
had given more rounded, a more
human characterization of Jefferson.
Kingsley and Raymond Edward
johnson, who plays the role, make
him more troubled speechmaker,
spouting his great political philos-
ophy at every turn, than the many
sided, warm personality that he was.
There are some touches of this,
however, such as the time when
Washington and Jefferson slipped
out to fish while discussing matters
of state and in the occasional ref
erences to Jeffersons inventions.
And the writer and actors make
Washington and Hamilton very real.
Edwin Jerome was playing Wash
ington and House Jameson was
Hamilton when I saw the play and
their performances were excellent.
Jerome has since withdrawn from
the cast. thought, too, that Madge
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-07-08
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Evening star., 1943-09-16
Heiress Seeks Release
From Mental: Hospital
Blythe Associated Press.

bs%tHe Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.-Cece-
liza Grant Mccormick, Pittsburgh
steel heiress, is seeking release from
a Philadelphia mental hospital in
which she charges she is uniustly
confined.
A habeas corpus writ on her be-
half, issued by Presiding Judge
James Gay Gordon of Common
Pleas Court No. 2, is retWnable next
Wednesday, when hearing is
scheduled in the judges chambers.
The writ was served yesterday on
DR.. Earl Bond, acting superintend-
ent of the Pennsylvania Hospitals
department of mental and nervous
diseases.
Earlier, a Philadelphia attorney,
William A. Gray, charged in court
that Miss Mccormick has been held
virtual prisoner at intervals for
IA years.
Mr.. Gray said letters from Miss
Mccormick were ''intenigently writ
ten" and appeared to have been
penned ''by person who is sane"
Formerly popular member of
Pittsburgh society, Miss McCor-
mick, now 81, is the adopted daugh-
ter of the late John S. Mccormick,
head of a steel foundry business
| which Is still operated.
Evening star., 1943-09-16
Eight Army Officers
From D. C., Arlington
Win Promotions

Six Washington men and two
from Arlington have received tenn
porary promotions, War Depart
ment announcement revealed today.
The men and their new ranks are
Maj. Robert H. Bates, 1922 Ingomar
street NV: Capt George v.
Thompson, 1882 Twenty sixth street
NE: Capt. Herman w. Luth, 1419 R
street NV; Capt. Francis E. Dugan
1901 Connecticut avenue NV; First
Its. Paul B. MCGEE, 210l New
Hampshire avenue NV; and
Charles r. Link, 1922 @ street NV;
Capt. Francis W. May, 1891 North
Fourth street, Arlington, and First
1t. Dolph Hays, 1862 North Rhodes
street, Arlington.
In Research Branch.
Maj. Bates, 80, is stationed here
with the research and development
branch of the Quartermaster Corps,
and has had experience on scientific
Evening star., 1943-09-16

made as stated above. Our laboratory method
has been checked with 81 other representative
food laboratories.
Our tests this year show the average Vitamin
requirements for bread set forth by the Federal
Food and Drug Administration. These tests
will continue.
While these analyses have been limited in
Evening star., 1943-09-16

: JOuleQ the CITY
post Office as a
mail clerk. He,
later transferred
to the national
office. From 1890
to 1927 he at
tended George
town and Ma
tional Universi-
ties, receiving his
degree from the
latter institution
and passing THE
bar in 1927.
Capt. Dugan
left here a wear
ago and is sta
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at fanY4
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expeditions, He
came here two
years ago to
work as a civil
ian in the Army
and was later
commissioned. 1
D ng the
summer of 1912
he was; exec1-'
tive officer of an
Army expedition
10 MI. Mchln-
ley, which tested
various types of
e m e r g e n c y
equipment f or
the Air Force
Evening star., 1943-09-16

He also participated in six expedi-
tions to, Alaska and one to India for
the National Geographic Society,
the American Geographic Society,
and the American Alpine Club. He
is a Harvard graduate and q native
of Philadelphia.
Capt. Thompson, 40, is stationed
here in the Adjutant Generals Of
flee. Before being commissioned a
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hrSt lieutenant
in January 1943,
he was employed
by the Federal
Power Commis-
sion. A native
of Maryland, he
spent most of
his life in the
District. Before
] o / n i ng h e
FPC, he worked
Tor the Agrlcul-
ture De p a r t :
ment an d the
r e S e t t | e.
ment Admins
Evening star., 1943-09-16

their scope, we believe, because of our stand
ardized method, that they are representative of
all Wonder Bread.
This means that we are spending time and
money to protect you from baking loss of Vita
minis in Wonder Bread.
Serve this richer, better bread today and
every day for its generous food value and its
precious vitamins. You'll be glad you did!
Evening star., 1943-09-16

Capt. Luth, 43, also is stationed
IN the Adjutant's Generals Depart
ment here. Before his entrance into
the Army on December T.; 1912, he
was an assistant superintendent in
the Division of Motor Vehicle Serv-
ice in the bureau of the fourth
assistant post Office general.
Mail Clerk in 1920.
: A native of Long Prairie, Mimi,
Capt. Luth5 came here in 1920 and
Evening star., 1943-09-16

army In May.
l 8 2, he was
with the Wash
ing Bureau of
the Chicago Sun.
A native of New
Y ork, he h a S
lived in the Dis
trict since child
hood.
Lit, Link, "a, is
in the Air Forces.
He entered the
Army in Sep
tember, l94l. He
is a native of
Raleigh. N G.
Evening star., 1943-09-16
First Woman Nurses
Lund in SuIerno Areo

WITH THE 5th ARMY IN ITALY,
Sept. l6.-The first American Army
nurses to debark on European soil
since 1917 landed In the Salerno
sector of italy yesterday afternoon
and Immediately went to work in d
field hospital.
CARRIED in G. I. steel helmets and
wearing fatigue uniforms with long
trousers. they first attracted little
attention until one soldier noticed
them wading through the water to
the beach and cried, Wow, women
are here
Flfty-seyen nurses were, in the
first contingent to land.
Evening star., 1943-09-16

AODAY EVERYONE KNOWS you need
all the vitamins you can get in available foods.
That is why vitamins have been added to
bread.
But many women know that precious food
~itamins are lost in cooking and baking.
In bread baking the loss of Vitamin B, can
be from go to as much as 1920, as shown in
recent tests.
$50 how can you know what you are get
ting" women ask.
OF course, no one can guarantee the future
but Wonder Bakers can and do guarantee the
accuracy of Vitamin B, tests that have been
Evening star., 1943-09-16

brother, Staff Sergt. John c. Link,
who is stationed at Roosevelt Field.
Long Island
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IIUH6u at AtIdntd, ga.
1t. McGhee is stationed at Palm
Beach, Fla. Before entering the
Evening star., 1943-09-16

Sales OF coffee pulp, once con-
sidered = waste, are mounting In
Mexico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-29
Christmas Nail Reaches Samantha Swamp
After Petrol SiIences Six jap PiIIboxes

Jack D. Wamsley of Chicago was
Sergt Moehls -'unner and brought
in two wounded. Two other Chi
cagoans. John j. Mallizzio and Ed
ward Kargol. worked together guild
ing the returning patrol through
Jap lanes of fire,
In this attack Jack Sottile of Los
Angeles brought Sergt. Moehl's tele-
phone within IS yards of the Jap
pillboXes on the other side of the
creek while Jap sniper fire was in
ceSSant.
Edward T8llick of Chicago saw a
sniper's bullet stab the ground near
him, Judged its angle and looked
up. He saw Jap tied with vines
against e tree about 80 yards away.
He stepped behind a tree himself,
and the sniper's bullet Immediately
spatted there. Then he raised his
Garand and nailed the monkey man
above.
M. w. Schneekloth. marksman
from Napoleon, Iowa, got another
Jap in tree and saw him fall
Elsewhere in the same attack Leo
nard Rich, a young former Chica-
goan, now Of TERRA Amarillo, N.
Mex, when checking over shell
holes, Tommy gun in hand, saw
one of those dead" Japs sit up and
prepare for action. Rich stopped
him with spray of slugs.
Copyright 1913. Chicago Daily News Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-29
OpA TO Ignore 'AIibis'
In Canned Food Count

Canned food will be canned food
in the OPA declarations to be filed
in by the public no matter for what
purpose or at whose suggestion it
was acquired.
In response to inquiries an OPA
spokesman today explained that
stocks of canned goods to be ra-
toned, which were purchased in an
ticipation of air raids at the sug-
gestion Of the Office of Civilian De-
Tense last year, will have to be de-
clared in the application for a ra-
ton book the same as such goods on
the home shelves purchased at any
ether time.
This does not mean that holders
OF large stocks of canned goods will
not be able to buy more, the spokes-
man emphasized. They will lose the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-29

When the Americans tried to
cross here they were met by muir
derouS sniping ard machine gun
fire. Sergt. Moehl Immediately be-
gan casting plan of attack.
Sergt. Waite" Yates Of Sparta. III,
led a squad to the right which con-
sisted of Corpl D. r. Haanenberger
OF Orient, Iowa; Ward Nowlin of
Brady, Tex, and Chicagoans Ed
ward TyliCk end Clifford Toe Laer.
Covering Fire.
Thanks to covering fire from
those guys, the JaDS were forced to
keep their heads down. and snipers
were busy on them while we crawled
across the creek" said Sergt. Moehl.
After helping lay down a Comm.
mortar harrage beforehand, Vern
Richardson Of La Grange. Ill,
grabbed his Garand and went for
ward to follow Sergt. Moehl and
Corpl. Rummell
When the Japs got soap" on
what was happening they turned
their sniper fire also on Sergt.
Moehl'S supporting party, consist
ing Of two stalWart sergeants, Les
ter Burrell and Henry SWiec, both
Of Chicago.
Three men reached the creek bed
unframed, Sergt. Moehl, Corul.
Rummel and Corpl. Glen Staples
Of Chicago. Glen has a talisman
in the shape of a snapshot of
Wimpy's hamburger palace. where
he used to work, showing the street
covered with snow. He uses this
to cheer himself up in the teeming
sWemps.
we never knew that the Jap
system Of dugOuts was so extensive"
said Corpl Staples. When the fire
started coming all around us it was
a question whether to go forward.
If we had known how many we're
being picked off behind by snipers
we might have stopped at the
creek"
Toss GrenadeS.
Sergt. MoehI says: Two Jap pill
boxes in front were firing, and
snipers we're busy in the trees. But
l noticed that Sits in a left-hand
plllboX were so made that, although
covered on both sides, there was a
small triangle uncovered between
them. We fired our grenades and
without exposing ourselves from the
creek-much-rolled them through
the Sits from which the fire was
Corpl. Rummell says:
Then I noticed that another pill
box, off to the left, had seen us and
was giving rife fire"
"Corpl. Rummell got up with his
Tommy gun and walked straight for
that pillboX and blasted straight
through the slit from about IS feet.
and that ended that" said Sergt.
Moehl.
After grenading the first pillbox
the sergeant and corporal had no
more grenades. Corpl. Staples
passed them his from his chest
pouches and got more from the men
pinned down across the creek.
Using the Ieft-hand dugout to
shelter them from the fire now
coming from the middle and right
hand, Sergt. Moehl and Corpl. Rum
nell threw grenades in the rear,
blowing the Jap gunners to bits.
BY working from one dugout to the
next and using blind sides, where
machine guns are ineffective, they
in taking six pillboxes.
Mortar Barrage.
The patrol held them all night
within hearing distance of the Japs. .
retired. under heavy Jap fire. in the
and retook them with a
mortar barrage beforehand two
days later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-29
Fireman Speeds Up
Twas His Own Cor

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER - Fireman Carl Lund
climbed into the drivers seat and
headed for an automobile fire at
moderate clip.
After the truck got within seeing
distance, the boys were holding their
helmets.
Smoke was pouring from under
the hood of the Lund family car.
beside which stood excited Mrs.
Lund.