Evening star., 1943-04-04
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Joseph E. Davies in the flm version
Of Mission to MOSCOW

Joseph E. Davies in the film version
Of Mission to Moscow"
Pay to Walter.
Let's say your first stop is to pay
that electric light bill Waiting to
accept payment is Walter Huston,
one-time manager of the Charles
street branch of the Union Electric
Light & Power Co.. st. Louis. Mo
AS you walk in. you interrupt the
managers conversation with Pres
ton Foster. who is back at his old
Los Angeles job of meter reading.
On duty at the Office switchboard
is Marguerite Chapman. again at
her old post of telephone operator.
Since you're on shopping spree
today, you need some cash. The
next stop then is your husbands
office. In the lobby of his building
you pass a man taking an order for
cigars and cigarettes from the owner
of the cigar stand. 1t is George
Sanders. who once was a tobacco
salesman.
You notice-of course you do
that your husband has a new tele-
phone operator, You give her a
double-take. Well! It's Barbara
Stanwyck, one-time Brooklyn hello
girl She tells you to wait-the chief
is in conference with his lawyer You
wait and wait and wait. When
the attorney finally come out. you
wonder if the business was really
that important. The lawyer is Gail
Patrick. graduate in law from How
ard College, down in Alabama.
The elevator operator who takes
YOU and your husband down looks
familiar. Certainly she does. You've
seen her in The Gay Sisters" She
is Nancy Coleman, the redhead who
formerly operated an elevator in
San Francisco's Emporium.
Out OH the street you both dodge
to avoid colliding with a handsome
fellow stumping along on lofty stills
He is encssed by sandwich boards
advertising Noes Pressing Service
Cary Grant has returned to the job
he once held in Atlantic City, N. j.
Swedish Clipper.
Your husband ducks into barber
shop and climbs into chair
Through the window you watch a
lady barber tilt him back and slap
steaming towel over his face
That" you say, looks like Greta
Carlo" It's possible, for its been
rumored that the great G. G., was
once a lady barber in Stockholm,
Sweden. Trundling up her little
table to give daddy manicure is
raven-tressed Arleen Whalen back
at her old trade.
In the department store you find
Dorothy Lamour at the controls of
the elevator which shoots YOU up-
stairs. You recall that Miss Lamour
is an alumnus of Marshall Field S
Chicago store At the linen counter
the salesgirl is Mary Livingstone,
once of the May Co.. Los Angeles
At the ribbon courier you are
waited on by Carole Lands, for
mer five-anCten clerk in San Ber-
nardino But count your change
Carole says she was fired from that
job because she couldn't add
bOUill, you Stop W
pick up junior at school Raking
the school lawn is James Ellison
one-time assistant janitor of a
grammar school in Los Angeles. No
sooner home than the doorbell rings
It's Henry Fonda. He's come to fix
your telephone-a trouble shooter
again, Just as he used to be in
Omaha Nebr
Dad complains at dinner that he's
been bothered all day by steady
stream of statesmen.
Bob Hope came in and tried to
sell me one of his prize jalopies,' he
says. Hes back to selling cars
Made me sore. wasting my time
that way. Particularly since Id just
got rid of James Craig. who's col.
lecting for a finance company. Sale
he'd had the same job down ir
Houston. Tex. To top 1t off. Alar
Hale tried to sell me an advertise.
ment on a peanut sack. He's ped.
ding ads for the concessionnaire al
the ball park. Reckon he neal
starved to death doing that back ir
New York once before"
It's the maids night out. Dac
has business meeting and yoy
want to 60 to movie show. Sc