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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
. In Hollywood
BY ERSKINR JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent

Things had been peaceful around Paramount for a long time - mo- body realized just how peaceful un- til the other day. Then the racket began. Startled secretaries threw open their office windows and cran- ed out to see what the trouble was. Stars rushed from their dressing rooms. Passers-by paused apprehen- sively.
 Cecil B. DeMille had just started another production. The studios big "A" tank had been converted in- to Yangtse river set, crowded with junks and sampans, and with hordes of Chinese extras, slightly outnum- bered by the hordes of assistant dir estors and other aides flanking the great DeMille.
 Shots rang out. Explosions shook the stage. Men shouted. Women screamed. And owed 1t all, the voice of DeMille, who was using public address system in lieu of the old fashioned megaphone, could be heard halfway to Hollywood and Vine.
 Few mind, though It will be a welcome break in the monotony- like carnival time in a small town. For when DeMille is in production, there is never a dull moment. It is always the best show in town, which is why stars, producers, department heads, secretaries and Workmen keep dropping in to watch.
 STAR SNOWMAN
 To tourists, a motion picture stu dio in action is usually disappoint- ment. That's because modern pie ture making is, for the most part, a cut and dried workaday process. But DeMille, still wearing boots and riding pants, brings back all the color and excitement of the old days. He appears less like director than a ringmaster, a Barnum of the sound stages And at 61, he has lost none of his Showmanship or his man-killing drive.
 He is Mister Hollywood himself
 "The Story of Dr. Wassell" is his 67th production. It stars Gary Coop CT as Commdr. Corydon M. Was sell, the one-time Arkansas coun- try doctor, and former missionary doctor in China, who won the Navy Cross for the feat of evacuating nine wounded American sailors from Java during the Japanese invasion.
 It took Dr. Wassell just 58 days to do the job. Counting the three months which a second camera unit spent in Mexico, filming action and background scenes for the picture, it is taking DeMille 187 days to re- create the exploit for the techni- color camera-or more than three times as long as it took Dr. Wassell.
 The doctor had no help at all. DeMille has two first" assistant directors, an associate director, a second assistant director, third assistant director, dialog director, rehearsal director, dance director and seven technical experts on his personal staff, not to mention technicians and other functionaries.
 On the set are the makings of what could develop into one of the choicest feminine feuds Hollywood has seen since Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
In The Local ThelterS
STATE

The gayest, most glamorous en- tertainment the old south ever knew, the great minstrel show, was re- produced on the screen at the air conditioned State theater today when the technicolor musical TO- nance Dixie" began its engage ment at that theater with Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby in CO., starring leads.
 Replete with songs, gags, stars and romance Dixie" is one of this years biggest sensations and pre- sents Crosby as Dan Emmett, the first of the nations beloved minstrel men.
 Bing, who is co-starred with Lamour, does lot of singing and all of it in his best and most in- gratiating style. He is perfectly cast as the loveable troubadour, Emmett, whose music has lived a hundred years so far and will probably live forever. Miss Lamour and Mar jorie Reynolds who appeared with Bing in Holiday Inn" provide the feminine romantic interest in the film.
 The story of Dixie" is the story of how the song came to be written and of how the first minstrel show shocked and then thrilled the south, and subsequently, all America. It tells of Bing who leaves his f1ancee, Marjorie Reynolds, in their home town while he goes to New Orleans to make his way. There he meets Dorothy Lamour, landlady of a boarding house for deadbeat actors. Dottie's father, played by Raymond Walburn, is an ex-a ctor who, much to his daughters disgust, attracts members of that profession to their house, among them Billy de Wolfe, Lynne Overman and Eddie Foy, Jr.
 The minstrel members of the film, oddly enough, offer something entirely new in screen fun. We say oddly" because the minstre! show hasn't been new since 1843, hundred years ago. It's so old that to this generation it's new, and we've a huncl1 that some of the old tunes by Bing in Dixie" are going to make the hit parade just as will the new ones.
 Thrills galore will highlight High Explosive" the second hit of the program which features Chester Morris, Jean Parker and Barry Sullivan. High Explosive" is crammed full of action and tells the exciting story of the men who drive trucks delivering nitroglycer- inc to our war plants.
 Don't forget the States early bird show will be held Thurs day morning as usual with doors of the theater being opened at g o'clock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
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"Salaam aleykoom!" suddenly shrieked the Niam-Niam.
 "Oh - you know Arabic?" the American rejoined in the same language.
 "Yes, yes!"
 Years earlier-the small savage explained - he had been captured by Moroccan raiders; had been exhibited in cidcuses in Tangiers and Fez; had finally escaped, and. somehow, found his way back to his native jungle.
 Lincolns grip frightened. He felt sorry; felt ashamed of himself. But he knew these dwarf aborigines knew that, since every hand was against them. their hands were against everyone; knew, therefore, better than to employ kindness just then, Kindness would be inter- preted as weakness.
 He shook the man until the juju amulets rattled and danced and clacked.
 T shall kill you, O pig and father of piglings,' he announced almost casually, unless you .''
 He paused; and at the word unless" an expression of hope eddied up in the medicineman's eyes. There was. evidently, a chance of bargaining for his life
 What do you wish?" he de- handed Tell me-and it is done!"
 Very well. I shall grant you life On one condition
 Name it!"
 Show me the quickest way to Lake Tchad and the Meeting of the Elephants"
 "I'he - the Meeting of the Ele- plants - Lake Tchad ?" came the pygmy's stammering echo.
 There was no fear in the words such as the American had heard on the lips of the Yorubas, back at Yebba. There was only aston- ishment; a rather amused aston- ishment. It was clear that the Niam- Niam knew nothing about the hykmoot ameez or, at least was not in awe of him. Then the medicineman laughed shrilly, as he had before.
 "Comei' he said.
 No tricks!" warned Lincoln releasing him and drawing his re- volver.
 Gro Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28

Paulette Goddard fought it out in "The Women"
 TASTY TRIO
 This one involves Laraine Day. who plays opposite Cooper; spark ling, red headed Signe Hasso, SWed- ems No. glamor girl, and a tooth some little newcomer named Carol Thurston
 Miss Thurston has the m o fought-over role since that of Scarlett OHara. She plays Three Martini, a sarong-clad native siren who in real life gave her blood to save the life of one of Dr. Wassell's wounded patients and then fell in love with him.
 Naturally, the black-eyed Miss Thurston, who comes from Montana, is the current curiosity on the Para mount campus. DeMille says she can become a star overnight. He also says that so far as the three fem mine roles in the picture are con- cerned, "The Story of Doctor Was sells" is anybody's picture-let the best woman win.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
THE NIAM-NIAM CHAPTER xxx

She chose a path at random.
 He walked on for a while, found 1t crazly, sardonically 1g-zagging- and knew, all at once, that he was lost.
 His horror grew. Despair came. Then, gradually, 1t faded into dull indifference, something like . decay of his senses, his heart, nis soul.
 He shrugged his shoulders.
 Listlessly he sa, down. He was primly amused as he realized that his own death did not even strike him as dramatic. It seemed to be somebody else who was dying; somebody whom he liked in a curiously impersonal manner.
 This somebody else thought of his former life: America, Paris, Africa. Thought of politics, Hit fer, Roosevelt, de Gaulle, Eisen- hover. Churchill. Thought of auc- ton bridge and golf and salmon fishing and women.
 Thought of the girl whom he had met just the other day.
 Nice little American girl. What was her name? Nancy something brother.
 Didn't matter.
 But how lovely she had been, with her wheat-colored hair, her red lips, her frank boyish, eyes!
 He loved those eyes. Loved the whole girl
 "Oh!" He gave a cry of pain As a horned beetle bit him on the wrist.
 "Dapn the double damned iuck!' he yelled.
 Then he laughed, little hyster- cally:
 'Ho, ho!'
 And 1t seemed to him that the wilderness was echoing the sounds:
 ''Ho, ho. ho, ho.
 There was, quite suddenly, si- Hence; and as suddenly, he knew that the echo of his laughter was zeal, was coming up from the ground. from the waist-high grass
 At the same fraction of a sec ond, he saw a flash of color gid lng away. Still at the same frac- tion of a second his hand, ans wering the hurry call from eye and ear to brain, shot down and clutched something that wriggled and twisted
 His hard came out of the grass and in it's grip appeared tiny figure, fantastically hideous, but human and still, on it's broad tothy mouth, a physical indica- ton of the merriment which Lin- coin had heard.
 Lincoln held the captive at arms length, He knew at once what he was; one of the Niam- Niams, the tribe of pygmies, who despised as well as feared by the other Negroes, live in the depths of the jungle.
 Tie man had smeared his small muscular, naked body with thick layer of ochre and orange in an extravagant pattern. His face fiat-nosed, the ears pulled out of shape by great pieces Of bone h. serted into the lobes, was daubed with white. From a string around his neck depended mass of clanking barbarous juju amulets
 By all this the American knew that the other was medicineman thus a big man; indeed, a very big man, perhaps more important to lds own people than Lincoln was Go the United Nations.
 The Niam-Nia continued twist ing and Wriggling, He chattered furiously and a notion came to Lincoln; there pygmies were fa- miliar with all the wilderness trails. Therefore if he could make the little man understand and obey but first he'd have to keep stil and listen.
 So Lincoln yelled at him in a mixture of Negro dialects he hao picked up here and there.
 'Moyekoro! Moyekoro! Hey angrily don't you understand your own bloody lingo? Oh - fol cryin' out loud! N'jumah-n'kuna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
POLI'S

The Loew Poli theater opens to- day with another gala stage and screen show with a cast of your favorite stars of radio, stage and screen.
 Headlining this great bill is Jerry Wald, soaring to new heights as the clarinet sensation of the nation, and his popular orchestra. Having completed successful country wide tour they are now, brought back to you by popular demand. They swing your favorite tunes in the way you like best to hear them. vue in technicolor News events and coming attractions. "Coney Island now playing for its second week. Don't miss it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Baked Stuffed Pike

Wash fish; sprinkle inside and
out with salt. Place moist bread
or celery stuffing between two
fillets. Bake in hot oven (425
degree0 40 TO so minutes. Serve
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Children Help
With Housework

WHEN MOTHER teaches
first aid and father is an air
raid warden, young members Of
the family may also become in
spired with patriotic ardor and
want very much to help.
One mothers way TO make
this possible was a Cleanup
Squad" with a military title for
each member of the family.
Her 6-year-old girl was
dubbed a table lieutenant" with
responsibilities that included
setting and unsetting the break
fast table; scraping and stack
ing the dishes for washing;
soaping and rinsing the linoleum
cover on the kitchen table, and
putting clean linens on the din
ing room table for other meals.
To her S-year-old son went
the title OF cleanup captain"
with such assignments as keep
ing his own room In order,
emptying the waste baskets,
cleaning out fathers ash trays
and washing them with soap and
water, removing soiled towels
and wash cloths from the bath
room and putting fresh ones in
their place.
After months OF cleanup duty
under the direction of the com
mander-in-chief." the children
are still enjoying their titles
and the duties that 20 with
them.
They are also forming clean
illness habits that will help
to make life pleasant when
they leave behind the world Of
make-believe.
Right now. they are making a
real contribution to the war eff
fort by enabling their mother to
put extra time into her defense
work. M NN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
nation. Coll Cherry $500, Line 347
Come to Cooking School
Armed With a Bread Knife

judges and prizes for the victors.
And If you like, you can even
get in a few practices between
now and Tuesday.
Before the contest begins a
demon tration Of the true
science of bread slicing will be
given by Bruno Boscacci, one Of
the Statler chefs. Then the ladies
will do their stuff.
Come and take part or come
and watch-there'n be plenty Of
excitement.
And the second feature Of the
cooking school, Prudence Penny's
demonstration of wartime dishes,
will help solve menu problems.
Among the dishes you will see
prepared are kidney loaf and
praised beef kidney, meat turn
overs, a creamy cheese entree
and fried corn and squash with
kauteed onions
Prudence Penny king
schools are held every Tuesday
on the fifth floor of The Detroit
Times Building at 100 in the
afternoon. Your ticket OF ad-
mission Is your Homemakers
Club membership card.
If you are not a member Of
the Homemakers Club, join in
the lobby of The Detroit Times
Building, Tuesday, before cook
ing school starts. There is a
10-cent charge for a life men,
bership card.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Foods
Plentiful
This Week

SHIPMENTS OF new cab
bage from Arizona and Texas
have been increasing steadily.
punched new carrots are also
plentiful and the prices are
fairly reasonable. Head lettuce
supplies have increased this
weekend, and as a result, prices
are somewhat lowered.
THERE IS a plentiful supply
of: apples, avocadoes, grapefruit
tangerines, new cabbage, car
rots, celery, lettuce and potas
toes.
A moderate supply Of the fol-
lowing exists: oranges, lemons,
table grapes. beans, broccoli,
brussels sprouts. mushrooms,
onions. peas, peppers, rhubarb,
shallots. spinach, sweet potatoes,
tomatoes.
Bananas, beets, caulifiower,
celery cabbage. cucumbers, pars-
nips, rutabagas. squash, straw
berries and turnips are in light
supply.
THE MEAT situation still re-
mains unchanged. Livers, hearts,
kidneys and brains are more
readily available and should be
used as often as possible.
There Is little improvement In
the butter problem. Fresh eggs
are becoming quite plentiful
though, and can be used fire.
quently and profitably TO replace
meats In the average diet. New
cheese is rather scarce on the
market, but supplies OF aged
cheese are moderate.
OFFERINGS OF poultry are
moderate this week, according
10 the Detroit Municipal Bureau
of Markets.
Supplies Of fresh smelts from
Lake Michigan have increased
in volume this week. There are
also moderate offerings of fresh
SAUCER pike and winter-caught
whitefish.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
PATTERN 4sse

HERE'S THE ideal house
frock for a busy WON an who
likes 10 look neat and trim at
oil times. Pattern 1886 by Anne
Adams is unusually figure-flat-
tering and very easy to make.
SHINING lines are given by
the front panel and the long bias
side-front bodice sections. A
scalloped neckline is a gay. be-
coming feature.
Pattern 1896 is available in
women's sizes SO. 3S, 40, AZ, a..
<6, 4S, 50. Size SO takes ga
yards 35-inch.
Renc is cents IN coins for this
Anne Adams pattern. write
plainly size, name. address and
style number.
Address your request to The
Anne Adams Pattern Depart
ment 1225 Times Square, De-
troit, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Fad Shoes
A Poor Buy

IF YOU want 10 make sense
in the coming times of less
clothing. says Renie. Hollywood
designer, don't go spending your
money on shoes OF all colors,
even IL you can find them on
the market.
Soon all shoe colors will be
confined 10 blacks and browns
and with a boarded ward
robe Of colored shoes you'll look
both unpatriotic and behind the
STYLES!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

SHARPEN UP the bread
knives. there's going TO be a con-
test! It's scheduled 10 take place
at next Tuesdays cooking school
and all homemakers are invited
10 test their skill in the almost
lost art Of bread slicing. The
only entrance requirement of the
contest-bring your own knife.
Bread and the working space
will be provided. along with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Wartime Marketing
Stuffed Blue Pike FiIIe+s
Make a Hearty Friday Dish
By PRUDENCE PENNY

add vinegar. Let mixture stand
in refrigerator until it starts to
CONCEAL, then add remaining in
gradients. Turn into one large
or s individual salad molds which
have been rinsed with cold water.
Let chill until firm.
At serving time hold molds a
second in boiling water, invert
carefully on lettuce or other
green; shake sharply and mold
should come out easily. Serve
with cooked salad dressing or
mayonnaiSe,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Casserole Meals
From leftovers

I LEFTOVER VEGETABLES
need 10 be no problem II you
think of them in terms of cas-
seroles. Casseroles are easily
prepared and can be made W
in the morning and left unit,
dinner time TO be heated in the
oven.
The combinations are endles
and IL you also add meat, fir
or eggs, you have an entirp
meal in one DISH Z
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Accent Eyebrows

TO ACCENT pale eyebrows.
says blonde Anne Shirley, il is
best to draw a light line at the,
top of them with a brown eye
brow pencil - but never have
your line below the level of the
actual hair of the eyebrow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

TWO WEEKS ago we featured
pollock steaks as the Friday
main dish. Since that time there
have been many questions as TO
what they are and something of
their background.
They are fillets Of a large salt
water FISH and .may be served
pan fried, baked or broiled. 1t
Is a meaty fish with the tex
ture of whitefish or pickerel.
Many of the large supermarkets
throughout the city are selling
1t for 25 cents a pound this
weekend.
We did our shopping for today
at Schaeffer near Michigan. Blue
pike fillets were being featured
ut this supermarket. Being par
ticularly fond OF this Ash, we've
decided to serve them stuffed.
Todsy's Menu
Baked Stuffed Pike FaIets
Mustard Greens
ScalIopsd Potatoes
Perfection Salad
Strawberry Shortcdks
MIX or Coffee
The pike nllets sell for 81
cents a pound and may be filled
with a simple bread stuffing and
baked until golden brown. Mus
tard greens were featured-very
fresh and priced at 2 pounds for
10 cents. This is often a neglected
vegetable when in reality IL is
delightful in favor and simple TO
fix-picked over, washed care
fully and cooked just until ten
der in the water which clings TO
the leaves.
A tart salad with fish Is always
a favorite. This perfection salad
is simple TO prepare and will
make a nice accompaniment.
Frozen strawberries are easy 20
use and when served with
Shortcake for dessert are a de-
lightfui combination with which
10 climax the meal.
Here are recipes for the baked
stuffed fish and the perfection
salad.
Baked Stuffed Pike
Wash fish; sprinkle inside and
out with salt. Place moist bread
or celery stuffing between two
fillets. Bake In hot oven (425
degrees) 40 to so minutes. Serve
with tartar sauce.
Perfection Salad
! package lemon favored
gelatin
III cups hot water
2 tablespoons vinegar
II teaspoon salt
/ cup finely shredded cabbage
2 tablespoons minced green
pepper
! pimento. II desired
/ cup chopped celery.
Dissolve gelatin In hot water;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

FOR SOMETHING small but
good. chill and stuff endive with
cheese and anchovies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-01
BY UNITED PRESS
". Y. STOCHS

NEW YORK, Dec. I fUpb--StockS rallied
today after seven sessions of decline had
carried the list down TO new lows since
the last week in March
Special issues had advances ranging to
more than 5 points in American Dstilling
which led another spurt in the liquor
shares. Unity preferreds were wide
gamers. War issues came back half
heartedly.
A move to merge some Of the so-called
Van Sweringen railroads sent most OF
those issues up I to more than 3 points
One Of them-Wheeling and Lake Erie
lost 3 points.
New highs were made by Common
wealth & Southern preferred and Standard
Gas 81 preferred. The latter rose .
points. Utility common stocks rose frac-
tionally. So did the motors, steels, farm
equipments, and tire shares. Sugars were
strong
Leading shares 10 rise a point or more
included American elephone. Allied Chem
ical Du Pont. Eastman Kodak, General
Foods. 1ngersoll Rand, John Manvlle,
Sears Roebuck. and Timken Roller Bear
ing. J. c. Penney was up 3 points in its
department. Curtis Publishing preferred,
gained points An exception, American
g. Foreign Power Sc preferred. declined 4
DOnfS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-01
IS New Records
Set by Amateurs

NEW YORK. Dec. l. UP)-The
amateur athletic union today an
nounced that amateur athletes es-
tablished 63 new records in recog-
nized competition in the United
States this year.
Gunder Hagg of Sweden led the
pack with three new distance run
ming records, established during his
all-victorious tour Ct this country
last sumner.
Paul Joroan, chairman of the
records committee, said the list
would be submitted to the 55th
annual AAU convention at Colum-
bus, o., Friday, and that all marks
accepted there would automatically
become new American records.
Hagg's Notwithstanding perform
anceS included a 4:05.3 time in the
outdoor mile, which replaces Glenn
Cunningham record of 4:057; his
3:479 in the 1900 event, replacing
Walter MehlS record of 3:47.9 and
his two mile time of 9:5l.3, which
eliminates the 1888 mark held by
Don Lash.
Bill Hulse of the New York
Athletic club, who ran a 4:06 mile
while chasing Hagg at Berea, o.,
will have his mark submitted for
approval as the fastest time ever
recorded by an American.
Other marks which will be sub
mitted Friday include Cornelius
Warmerdam's pole vault of Is feet
81. inches.