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Evening star., 1943-10-31
.5O>Year Vet
Now Making
Film Debut
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
After so years in show business,
John Philliber, at 10, Is making his
movie debut. But the sprightlv.
foXy-grandpa type actor, is about to
conclude he's a lost ball in the high
weeds.
A casual remark a studio execu-
tive made to him recently backstage
IN New York that IF you ever come
to Hollywood, be sure to look me
up was all the old boy needed to
bounce him on the first flicker-land-
bound train. And now that he's
here, Philliber is dumbfounded by
the magnitude, complexities and
ldlosyncraSieS of the cinema indus
try, but like many a screen hopeful
so years his junior, he thinks he'll
stick around and give the old town
a whirl.
In the first place, the wealth that
Phllllber saw floating in and out of
the high walled studio gates prac-
tically bowled the timid, almost
apologetic-appearing fellow off his
trembling pins. Right away, they
knocked him pop-eyed by paying
him 81 500 week, fortune COM
pared to the As cents he collected
for his first nine days behind the
footlights when he started his
theatrical career at the age of 90
And Philnber can't get used to
HollyWood's already outmoded trans
portatlon system. So he walks sew
eral miles to his studio each day
Last week he trudged 10 miles to
another studio and. while there
talked his way into another pic
ture.
Il like to walk" diminutive Philli-
Der says with a squeaky laugh, be
cause at one time I got pretty tired
riding trains. In the early days
they wouldn't let me play in towns
where there wasn't train out after
the night show. Theater managers
I guess, didn't want to take a
chance"
But in his current picture, 1T
Happened Tomorrow" the CASH
conscious Elkhart. Ind, actor gets
plenty of opportunities to mingle
with wealth, 100000 in newly made
currency even though it is all phony
Evening star., 1943-10-31
|DetailedPlans
Save Studios
Many Woes
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Production design is new in
making films. 1t has nothing tc
do with putting curlicues in the
backgrounds, or around the hens OF
stars dresses, but with the plan
ming of every scene in detail before
it goes before the cameras.
1t sounds terrifyingly elaborate
compared to filmdom's early days
when a camera, comic, a pretty
girl and a handsome leading man
went out on the rural streets OF
Hollywood without even a plot, and
just began to shoot.
Planning saves time, labor anG
money. Every scene passes a screen
test before it is made, including
everything from the set itself, the
costumes, the lines the actors speak
the moves they make, the lighting
the sounds, the position of the cam
era.
Louis Milestone was the first di.
rector to employ production design
several years ago, in making "Oi
Mice and Men" He employed the
artist, Nicolai Remisoff, to make
hundreds of sketches. Artists for
such work must have strong sense
Of theater, and experience in it, tc
do film production design.
Stand-in Service.
On the current Since You Went
Away with Shirley Temple. Clau-
dette Colbert. Joseph Gotten anc
Monty Woolley, the careful blue
printing system is being used tc
spare expense on the heavy salary
overhead This advance has beer
made: Rehearsals are carried or
with secondary cast. which might
be called the group 2 stand-ins
players who were not selected fol
resemblance to the stars they under
study. AS they act, careful notes
are taken on camera angles, light
ing and all the other details. Wher
the real actors go before the cam.
eras, their instructions are complete
William Pereira is the production
designer on this film. which will
cost $2000,00O; previous to his film
work, Pereira was a successful ar.
chitect.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
NEW YORK.


Manhattan Nocturne" is a quiet
natural, deeply moving play, which
came to the Forrest Theater thi.
week without much advance fan.
fare.
1t is the simple, often-told story
of two persons desperately in neec
Of the other and of their struggle
to find happiness, beautifully actec
by Eddie Dowling, the well-knowr
actor producer, and Terry Holmes
who is making her first appearance
on Broadway. Excellent Is the wore
for Miss Holmes, and I have never
seen Mr.. Bowling in better form.
Manhattan Nocturne" opens II
"a cheap hotel room. Peter Wade
(Mr. Dowling> is fifty-ish, broken
down writer, no longer desired by 6
younger wife. He has come to ths
room to provide evidence for tht
divorce action.
He orders in Ann Stevens (Mis:
Holiness, through the bellhop-vice
ring lieutenant, for the scene neces.
Isary for divorce evidence. HI
changes his mind, instructs that the
girl not be sent, decides on suicide
The girl comes anyway, in time te
pevent him from killing himself.
Sordidness But Understanding.
Admittedly sordid background
but Roy Walling has written his
play with depth and understanding
of human nature. Mr.. Dowling and
Miss Holmes play 1t throughout with
similar Interpretation.
Theirs must be listed as among
the best of the seasons per-
formances. And to Stella Adler
goes credit for just the right direc-
ton.
shall not tell you Of the tragedy
which led Ann Stevens to prostitu-
ton. Nor go into the details which
result in her arrest when she at
tempts to break away from the
vice ring to go away with Peter
Wade for another start in life.
The scene in the magistrates
chambers during which she wins hel
freedom is exceedingly we'll done
Howard Smith, last seen on Broad
way in Kicked Upstairs" is the
magistrate and his performance
helps bring the play to fine eli
max. 1t is in this scene that Miss
Holmes definitely establishes her
self as an actress to be watched
now and in the future.
Perhaps I should tell you some
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Coming Attractions

NATIONAI"Sons
evening.
CAPITOoung Ideas with and Herbert MARSHALL
starting Thursday.
COLUMB1AParis After Dark with George
Marshall
EARLE Princess oRourk with
Cummings
KE1THsPhantom Of the Opera with Eddy
ter and Claude Rains: starting Thursday
L1TILEIhe Little Foxes" with Betty
shall; revival starting Wednesday,
with Humphrey j. Carroll
Nash; starting Friday.
PALACE-"Sweet OGrady" Rohsrt
Young starting Thursday
P1x-The Strange Death Of Adolf Hitler starting Saturday
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Sunday summary


Most embarrassing thing that ever
happened to critics, a minute group
of people living on the Atlantic coast,
occurred five years ago. The scene
was the Wintergarden Theater in
New York, the attraction something
called "Hellzapoppin.' Almost to a
man, in fact to a man in view Of
the attitude toward the single ex-
ception, the critics thought it was
awful. This, they tried so hard to
say, was not merely the ultimately
corny thing. but the crib of corn
that never should have been al
lowed to reach New York.
For all their acidulous effort to
dispose of it before the first Satur-
day night, however, the attraction
survived. It's name was perfectly
definitive of what it was, the thing
the critics had been trying to make
America forget.
The critics, indeed, never were
more sure of themselves. At last,
they, had something whose awful
ness would be perceptible corn to
those who thought nothing that was
brave could be awful This was the
legitimate slaughter, the killing
which would demonstrate there was
such thing as an unwritten law,
an honor for -the-craft relationship,
beyond which no producer dared
to go.
Yet, when they had had their
last bitter say, "Hellzapoppin'" sur
vived. 1t went on to make millions.
On its first anniversary, the critics
went back to see it and wrote hum
bly, in praise of it. 1t was better
than they had thought, they ad-
mitted and they suddenly thought
better of it. 1t was their first ad-
mission that they might be wrong.
Thus did Olsen and johnson, a pair
of corn-belt comedians, triumph
over the opposition which had
ruined all previous upstart produc-
tions on Broadway.
That was not the end Of the tri-
umph, however. In the course of
"Hellzapoppin's" run in New York,
Olsen and johnson changed their
material. They had a second edi-
ton Of the show and that, too, ran
for longer than any one except the
customers thought it deserved FL
naly, new editions of the first show
were not enough and it was deemed
necessary that the title be changed
Evening star., 1943-10-31
How to Write a Movie Star
Br Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD. Idenor+,oen+

department to turn it over to the
actor for a personal reply? Well,
let Gale Beatty tell us in COM
pilation of dos" and don't"
Here. first, is Beatty's list of
don't:
What Not To Do.
Don't use endearing terms. Don't
request their aid in getting you
into pictures. This is asking the
impossible. New talent is almost
never obtained through this chan
el. Don't ask for money. Don't in
clude face powder in your letters.
This is in the same category as
the kiss-letter. Don't write dag
.onally on your stationery. It's diff
flcult enough to read most peoples
handwriting straight across. Don't
ask one star for another stars pho
Itograph. Stars can be jealous, you
know Anyway, it's often impossible
to comply for the other star prob
ably is working at another studio
Don't ask personal questions about
the stars private life.
Now, here are Mr.. Beatty's DOS" "
Make your letters short as possible
Typewriter if possible, otherwise use
ink. Never use pencil. Write to
each star separately. Beatty ex-
Iplained that some fans address four
and five stars in the same letter
In that case none may be reached
Inclose a sele-addressed envelope
when requesting autographs Put
your name and address on both the
letter and envelope and don't for
get to include your zone number.
Case In Point.
! Beatty cited the following as a
letter which observes all the Don't
and Dos" and which has the ad.
ditlonal virtue of sincerity. 1t came
from & private in the U. S. Army
and was addressed to Joan Leslie:
Dear Miss Leslie:
Il have been a follower of yours
from 'Sergt York up to your most
recent pictures, which we have
had the pleasure of seeing at the
post theater. l want to let you
know that all the fellows enjoy
your performances, too.
Il would appreciate it if you
tSee HEFF'ERNAN. Page CO
Evening star., 1943-10-31
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WooD.
Here certainly is a cool, poised
and very handsome man." I said
to myself as I looked at Ronald
Colman, one of HollyWood's finest
actors, as he sat next to me on
the "Kismet" set. In the picture
hee ealternately plays a beggar and
a prince, but somehow the latter
seems the most beftting for man
of his culture, refinement and
aloofness.
The red turban he wore on his
head was at least a foot high, and
the pearls around his neck, If you
could judge by size, were worth a
kings ransom.
Isn't it odd" he smiled in a
faraWay manner, "but in my own
life 1 have challenge fate, or
kismet, as the Arabs call it, just
as I do in 'Kismet'? Only the
results were not so immediate or
startling as in the motion picture
Starvation Abroad.
'"In fact" he recalls, "for my
rashness I found myself in q
strange country, and almost starved
for two years trying to get a start
on the stage, which, when I did
get it, I decided to chuck as fast
as possible!"
Colman was in his early 20s
in England when he did his fate
defying. InvaIded out of the Brit
ish Army during World War l.
after being wounded in action
he turned to the stage for employ
ment because there was nothing
else to do"
1T all went pretty we'll for some
time" he told me, because men
were scarce during those days
When the war was ended I had
to start living off my savings. One
day, I counted my cash for the
umpteenth time and realized ]
just had enough for steamship fare
to the United States. I had made
the rounds of the theaters and
agents offices, with only one more
agent to see. If he has nothing
for me- I vowed, I'm going tc
take the next boat to America.
1t was a. bluff. in a way-and fate
called it. took the next boat
While Colman paused I had a
chance to look at the fantastically
beautiful set. AL the colors r
Evening star., 1943-10-31
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
Paulette Goddar Is easily the
most Overwhelming personality
among the women of Hollywood, bar
none, and this in town where per-
sonality rates higher than acting
ability.
1t is difficult to estimate whether
her courage or her charm is greater,
but together they represent an un-
beatable something, the combination
that has made famous charmers
from then to now.
Paulette is not great beauty,
though her figure gave her her
start as show girl. While her fea-
lures are good, there are plenty
better, either by classic or by pref
ty standards.
AS an actress she Is adequate,
but she is surpassed in that depart
ment by stars less successful than
she. Yet she remains the most in
teresting and challenging woman to
speculate about, to analyze and ap-
praise, that one Is likely to meet in
lllSllIIlc VI lIlOVlt SldTS.
Absence of Restrictions.
A piXielike lack of inhibitions is
the essence of her charm. She meets
each person on whatever level they
set. She doesn't care what people
say about her, and she doesn't find it
necessary to answer questions. "I
never talk about myself" she says,
blandly
Goddard maintained her own
smart home through long period
of her marriage to Charlie Chaplin,
preserving for herself absolute free
dom.
Unlike most film queens, Paulette
has chosen a most eclectic set of
friends. Skipping producers, actors
and plain millionaires, she has been
the intimate of writer's, painters,
scientists, adventurers and social
figures. Michael Arlen has described
her as "the only living civilized per-
son in Hollywood"
This does not preclude Paulette's
having strong friendships with wom-
en-. She and Freda Rivera, wife of
the Mexican ainter, are close COM
panions. At the moment, Jinx Fall
kenburg of society-tennis-ch cham
pion family, also a film actress and
artists model, + making her home
with the exciting young lady. I've
had three proposals of marriage
since I came to Paulette's," says
link
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Today's Film Schedules

CAPIToLDr Gilespie Criminal Case experience 445
7:30 and TO- Stage shows: los $780, 635 and $40
COLUMBIA"For Whom the Bell Tolls" life and death
ITO, 1855, 6:35 and 800 pm.
EARLE"Lets Face It. Bob Hope in the musical l. 35 $780, 750
and 1910 pm. Stage shows: 240 455 tbs and 9:35
KEITHS-"The Skys Limit"
4:30, 6:15 and GAS
LITTIE-E Gande" Spanish Guizar 1:2O
1925, $780, 7:35 and $40 pm
METROPOLITAN Lady Takes Chance hazards of Jean Ar
thur: 1885, $40, $40, 745 and 9:45
PALACE-Johnny Come Lately his
Sis, 7:25 $40
PIXSeventh Victim murder 2:10 4:55 1885 and 1920
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts: continuous from pm
Evening star., 1943-10-31

telephone. Film making also gets
done somehow.
Il do one thing at time, but
whatever. it Is 1 let that be the
thing says Paulette.
Paulette's practical sense is no less
amazing than her personal attrac-
ton for great personages. Burgess
Meredith named her Enterprise
Incorporated" Endless stories have
Evening star., 1943-10-31

4loCh "ooD.
Fan mail to movie players has
almost tripled since the start of the
war, Hollywoods major studios esti-
mated today in pointing out that
an average of 100000 individual
pieces are now being distributed
to actors every month.
This is staggering total. un-
paralleled in any other period of
the motion picture business.
This Whopping increase is due
fundamentally to a Is per cent in
crease in theater business, says
Gale Beatty, who operates the fan
mail department at Warner Bros
People are seeing more shows
than ever before because they have
more money and more time on
their hands" Beatty declared.
'Hence they are stimulated to write
letters to their favorite actors. Sol
dier mail, of course, accounts for a
large percentage of the increase.
But the women at home are doing
all right, too. They have plenty of
time to take up pen or pencil and
dash off notes they hope will win
the individual attention of the star
and merit an answer
There's the Rub.
And right there, bemoans Beatty
Is the trouble with the whole fan
mail business. Practically no one
knows how to write an interesting
letter to movie personality.
I'VE run through literally thou
sands of these letters" said Beatty
before coming up with one worth
turning over to the star for an in.
dividual reply. 1t is pitiable and 6
great waste of time, paper and post
age"
Some time ago a national maga-
zine demonstrated to its feminine
readers exactly how to put theil
lip prints on letters to soldier sweet.
hearts.
Immediately thereafter, Beatty
says, every studio in town was del.
uged with girls using the same
technique in writing their screer
heroes. From every lot went a CRY
for help. The imprints were smery
and sticky and the letter opener.
dropped them in disgust. They wer,
not only messy but unsanitary.
What sort of a letter should {
ian write to induce the fan mai
Evening star., 1943-10-31

1t would take an Anita Loos to de-
scribe adequately even a days 60
ings-on at the Goddard manse,
which could be expected to include
everything from doing needlepoint
to dishwashing on the domestic side,
with diplomatic intrigue maturing
on the sun porch, a business deal
by telegraph and a romance on the
Evening star., 1943-10-31
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
By Jay Carmody.

>
With the new material, of course,
although it was merely a march
through the oldest gags in the
theater, Sons O. Fun" eventually
became the title. 1t comes to the
National tomorrow night after two
triumphant seasons on Broadway.
1t will stay for two weeks and the
critics are reconciled to the fact
that 1t will be the closest thing in
popularity to 'Oklahoma!" since the
latter concluded its fortnight last
night.
Who Will Pay Pyle?
The most sensational announce
ment Of the past week was that re-
lating to the purchase of Columnist
Ernie Pyle's Here is Your War"
by Producer Lester Cowan for s75,-
900.
Entirely apart from the Washing
ton neWspaperman's inability to
conceive of Ernie knowing what
to do with $4,000 in lump
sum was the worry that Mr..
Cowan might miscast the cor
respondent role in the script. That
would be a double error OF all the
Hollywood producers who ever pur-
chased an Fasteners script, Cowan
is exempt from boxoffice necessities
II he really means to make the
author the hero of his film. Any
fragrant 4-F actor will do. That is
to say any fragrant Al who weighs
100 pounds, no more, and who looks
his size and weight will do. ANY,
thing else will not do, not in Wash
lngton. at least, from which Mr.
Pyle stemmed to do his aStoundinglv
human job as a war correspondent
The fear that Mr.. Cowan will i'm
personate Mr.. Pyle with a Holly
wood glamour actor is based upon
the circumstance that no one in
real life could be less like a Holly
wood actor. Those who know him
were never more certain of any
thing. To them, for 16 years, Mr.
Pyle has been nothing more nor
less than a cadaverouS little man
who could write like a fiend and
sound like the human being that
every one in the newspaper business
wanted to be.
Next to wondering what Producer
CoWan will do about that, the local
newspaper fraternity has been con-
cerned the past week with what Mr.
Pyle has been thinking when finding
(See CARMODY, Page C-9.)
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Standup, Not Standin,
Required for Bill
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Bill Edwards, 6-foot-5 leading
man who is getting the rush build-up
for possible stardom, has trouble
because of the height that helped
get him his break. He can't get a
stand in his size. An assistant d.
rector obligingly stands on a box
when one is needed, but Edwards is
getting tired Of the ribbing. Looks
like a job for q dependable Silt
walker.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

the rainbow were represented either
in the walls, on the ceiling or the
floor or in the skirts of the dane
ing girls.
No Fare to California.
Then I came over here" Col
man resumed. "And though I in
tended to 60 to California, frank
ly couldn't seem to get enough
ahead for train fare.
In New York. I got break
an important supporting role Ia
Evening star., 1943-10-31

the Shubert production of La Ten
dresse,' starring Ruth Chatterton.
And, mind you, I got $500 a week.
BY that time I decided that If
could just get out with a small
sum OF money, I'd do anything but
continue on the stage-even book
keeping, which I had previously
tried and didn't like"
When Lillian Gish was going to
make The White Sister" In italy
she saw Colman on the stage.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

tSee HEFF'ERNAN, Page CO
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-11
Prices Remaining Steady
On State Tobacco Marts

RALEIGH, Nov. 10. - up -
Prices generally remained steady
on North Cardinals flue-cured to-
bacco markets, although the War
Food Administrator poI e d
slight Increases on those markets
operating in the Old Belt.
The WFA said only few mar
kets would remain open for sales
tomorrow. Armistice Day, but that
all would resume operations Fri
day. -..
Sales yesterday on Middle Belt
markets totaled 2,153,844 pounds,
for an average Of 1919, bringing
the season total to $4,000, $40
pounds, for an average of 80. 40.
Eastern Belt sales yesterday
were 1,618,672 pounds, which aver
aged 40.55, while seasons sales
have amounted to 281, $40, 1853
pounds for an average of 4O.O3.
Old Belt markets North Car
olina), sales yesterday totaled
3.667,07 pounds, for an average of
1883, bringing seasons sales to
100, 1856, 22S pounds for an average
Of 40,19.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-11
pest TREATMENT
OUTLINED HERE
State College Official Tells
Farmers OF New
Methods

After making tWo-day survey
of the insects infesting the fall
crops of this vicinity, J. Myron
Maxwell, extension entomologist
from North Carolina State college
at Raleigh, advocated the follow
ing treatment of them:
Dust the plants thoroughly with
nicotine dust at the rate of Is to
80 pounds per acre. On heavi-
ly infested plants, two applications
may be necessary to kill all the
aphids.
How to mix nicotine dust:
Use pounds of nicotine sulphate
(40 per cent? to so pounds of hydra
ted lime. Place the lime in the
mixer (either barrel mixer or
special dust mixer) and pour the
liquid nicotine sulphate over the
lime. Mix thoroughly for several
minutes until no humps can be
found in the dust. The nicotine sui
phate will be well distributed
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-11

through the lime and can be salts.
factorily busted from small hand
busters or large power busters.
A Is foot cloth drag should be
arranged back of the power dust
ers to confine the dust over the
plants for a few seconds as it is
drawn down through the field,
Best results from busting can be
expected during the heat of the
day, and air should be calm.
The nicotine dust should be used
the same day it is mixed for best
results. If any dust is left over or
stored for several days it should be
placed in an air tight metal con.
tainer.
The most satisfactory control
material for aphids (plant lice)
said Mr.. Maxwell, on vegetable
crops is 3 per cent nicotine dust
The turnip aphid and the cabbage
aphid are the most destructive on
cole crops in this area.
Mr.. Maxwell made a satisfactory
demonstration of the use of this
at Wrightsboro on the Geo W.
Trask and Son farm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-11
SUBSIDIARY PAYMENT

Any person who has sold as
much as $50 pounds of milk. %
pounds of butter, 20 pounds of but
ierfat. or 50 quarts of cream dur
ing the month of October are eligl-
ole to receive subsidiary payment
amounting to 40c per hundred
weight of milk if application is
made to C. NJ Wa1D in the county
agents office before November 80,
according to an announcement
Il ade Wednesday by County Agent
Galphin.
The next payment period for this
VII be Jan. 100 for products sold
during November and December.
To receive this additional pay
1nent dealers must bring sales
slips, route lists, or some other
evidence Of their sales during Oc-
sobera