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the human young should be well
up on Aristotle, Chinese, RATIONAL
ism and such things at the age of 6.
X X X
Bless little Miss O'Brien's heart,
the point is thoroughly proved. At
6, she is ready for the measure
ments of Harvard scientist, but at
that unfortunate moment, happy
go-lucky reporter interviews her,
or rather is interviewed by her.
When he assures her the world is
full of Leprechauns, magic and
strange wonders which her private
faculty have kept from her, it vir-
tually undoes the whole of her
miraculous education She insists
upon being shown, and in the process
Evening star., 1943-12-30
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

AAOASA 4 VvN<N<A~s
Although fantasy and the super
natural have never paid screen
dividends in repeated experiments,
Hollywood appears in the throes
of just such cycle right now.
In their efforts to reduce war
movies to a minimum in 1914 and
hit on something novel as a sub
stitute, studios ares going strong for
death and the hereafter-most of
the efforts being treated lightly.
Probably one of the slickest of
the current fantasies Is "A Guy
Named joe" co-starring Spencer
Tracy and Irene Dunno. Tracy,
killed after the first 80 minutes of
action, wanders through the rest
of the story unseen by the cast,
but offering advice to his former
associates, proving that pilots
never die"
On the heels of "A Guy Named
Joe" will appear Paramount's THE
Uninvited," which is chock-full of
ghosts and other supernatural
appurtenances.
Others on the fire are Warmers
new version of "Outward Bound"
which will be known as Between
Two Worlds; Jack Benny's comedy,
"The Horn Blows at Midnight" with
a slapstick treatment, and "The
Song of Bernadette," starring Jenni-
fer Jones in one of the years biggest
dramatic efforts.
Columbia is also plotting sequel
to Here Comes Mr.. Jordan" most
successful of all previous fantasies,
and RKO wants the box office
wrecking combination of Cary Grant
and Ginger Rogers to co-star in
Angel on My Shoulder" The latter
is by Harry Segall, who wrote
Jordan"
The big guns aren't going to roar
in movie houses as they did in 1913,
but therell be plenty of lively spooks
around.
From the preview OF "Song of
Russia it's observed that Robert
Taylor finished his chore in the
nick of time before being grabbed
by the Navy. In the last scene Bob
appears with a startling haircut.
Seems a retake was necessary after
the star had joined up, hence the
G. I. trim flashed in the fadeout. :.
Although he'll be under doctors su-
pervision for many months, Director
Ernst Lubitsch is back at his desk
mulling over stories. George
Jessel and Pat Rooney are at RKO
recreating turns they did at the
Palace Theater in 1917, for Eddie
CantorS musical movie, Show Busi-
ness =. Hedy Lamarr's John
Loder is popular fellow with cast
ing directors since his marriage.
He'll be seen next in The Hairy
Ape" Phil Bakers Take 1t or
Leave 1t" radio show will get
novel treatment in It's movie trans
lation by Goth Century-Fox. Woven
into the film will be excerpts from
top productions made by the stu
dio during the past decade.
David o. Selznick tolerated no delay
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she falls In love with the scampist
young man and decides that his dis
ordered world is the one she wants
to live in.
It is a decision full of complica-
tions which have way of being
very, very funny. It is funny, fo1
instance, when he lugs the child of
to gaudy night club where she
confounds the management by
answering all the questions on the
Information Please program before
Mr.. Kieran can, where she eats heI
first bowl of spaghetti, weeps loudly
when she learns the reporter is in
love with the night club singer.
The inventiveness of the scriptists
who adapted Miss Enters idea is
not always of an evenly high order,
but they do rather well for the
most part. They come up with an
excellent situation when they inject
a gangster into the precocious child's
life and have him read fairy stories
to her at the point of gun in which
she corrects his pronunciations
and, inferentially, corrects his moral
standards. That, of course, has
been done before, but never with
such grave-faced charm as Miss
O'Brien brings to this occasion.
The single flaw in Lost Angel" is
the assumption that the story can
be kept going forever. Toward the
end-a very happy and quite pretty
end-the whimsy slows down almost
to the stopping point and not even
Miss O'Brien is able to whip it up
to suitable pace.
The role Of the prodigy. which
Miss O'Brien is just the prodigy to
play, is one of the most elaborate
and subtly shaded things any movie
child has ever been called upon to
handle. From beginning to end,
however, she never misses a trick,
not even the difficult one of indi-
eating that she understands what
she is saying when she leaps off on
distractions which con-
found her adult associates. 1t is a
completely engaging piece of pre-
costly which should make life lot
easier for precocious children.
Craig, Miss Hunt, Philip Merri-
vale and a host of other adults
to impersonate the char
acters assigned to them In an in
gratiating way when they might
have been excused for standing
in open-mouthed awe watch
ing Miss O'Brien be so brilliant.
Lost Angel" Is probably just the
escape item you have been looking
for.
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Used Cars Abound,
But Try to Get Them
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Those who fancy antique auto
mobiles could find a greater collec-
ton Of such old cars in Hollywood
than anywhere else in the world.
Making of period pictures has en-
couraged the preservation of these
relics, of all types and makes, in
presentable and good running con-
dition. A call for 80 model T Fords,
all in working order, was filled this
week for "Once Off Guard" for a
scene dated 20 years back.
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wAiooC AiipCl SoIidtioIl VI o-yedT-
old prodigy is truly a prodigious
performance and merits special
prize. Miss O'Brien is assisted by
some able adults such as James
Craig and Marsha Hunt, but they
seem incidental, for the full burden
of the clever story is something she
carries in her own doll-like hands.
Lost Angel is based upon an
idea dragged prettily out of the blue
by Agna Enters, who is a very clever
woman.
1t is the story of a scientifically
reared little girl, the capricious ex-
pertinent of group of doctors, psy-
biologists, teachers and other apes
ties of perfection. 1t is their notion
that If caught young enough and
worked on hard enough, one of
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Wartime Abolishes
Old Barriers
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

A4SAJ1 VNooO.
Things have come to such a pass
in Hollywood that even the most
exclusive of the stars are being
forced into personal contact with a
public that sees them only at a
price. War conditions have swept
away the last barriers.
No longer do secretaries, chauf-
feurs, buffers or maids do the shop
ping and errands for the movie
great. They do their own these
days, due to domestic help Short
ages. Epicures now are seen in res
taurants and the tired favorites
who used to get away from it all
by going to distant and exclusive
resorts go to the neighborhood
movies. even stand in line. Gas ra-
tioning did this.
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Box Office Varies
In Armed Forces
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Hollywood regularly gives So prints
of any film selected from current
products by the War Department
for entertaining men overseas. A
typical nights showing in all areas
were reported by officers in charge
to include 1859 different shows seen
by 100000 men.
Audience size and place varied
from II men on an Alaskan island
served with film by PIT boat, to
military secret) men in Guadal-
canal where 81 different shows
utilized 81 different pictures.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c.
THURSDAY DEcEMBER 80. le43
Lost Angel Top Flight Film
Full of Whimsical Humor
BY JAY CARMODY.

, whmsy @ about the last thing would Goodwin
at the Capitol Iheater What turning whimsical
decided to be brilliant about it touching
delightful comedies
by cast which headed minute Margaret
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months" says Mickey. After that
maybe they'll let me direct short
subject. Then, after year, maybe
I can tackle features. Oh, boy!"
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showino

Stage.
National "Over Twenty one":
$3.50 pm.
Capitol-"Lost Angel: II am.
las, 4:30, 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: los, $50, 6:40 and 9:25 pm
Columbia-"Guadalcanal Diary:
11:30 am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:35, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Earle - Northern Pursuit.; II
am, 1:45, 3::35, 7:20 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: ITO, 4, $40 and 9:25
pm.
Keith's Government Girl"::
11:25 am, 1:25, $3.50, $50 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Little-"Jeannie": II am, 1880,
2:35, 4:20, 6:05, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan Hostages: II
am, l, 3:05, Sis, 7::30 and GAS pm
Palace - "Lassie Come Home:
10:45 am, 1855, $40, 5:25, TAO and
9:55 pm.
Pix-"Never a Dull Moment"
1925, $50, 8:15 and 10:45 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
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Double Indemnity

Whenever it's necessary to show
rain striking against window,
double windows are used to reduce
the noise on the sound track.
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TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
Buy War Bonds and Stamps Any Local Theater

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros Ads Indicate Time Feature Il
Presented.
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Evening star., 1943-04-18
Russian Front

Another week of heavy fighting along
the entire Russian front has resulted
in little change in position. The most
important development, perhaps, was the
rather impressive signs of greatly in
creased Russian air power signalized by
the raids on East Prussian cities in
cluding Koenigsberg and the supremacy
in air duelling over the battlefronts
The Russian fighter pilots have received
a quantity of Airacobra fighters from
the United States and find these speedy,
powerful little planes much to their
liking.
Heavy artillery duels occurred at many
points all the way from Lake linen on
the Stsraya Russa front to the Kuban
Peninsula. Several German efforts to
push forward, especially at Volkhov, were
thrown back with considerable loss. The
German strategy appears to be to feint
in some force in the hope that the
Russians may be trapped into rushing
reserves to the wrong spot thus paving
the way for a break through at the
intended point of concentrated attack.
This has failed, partially because Ger
many lacks the numbers required for
such tactics and partially because the
Russians are maintaining strong de-
fense all along the line with plenty OF
rapidly moving mobile reserves ready to
rush in support at the first signs Of
weakness.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
ell You About Mosc u|oture of Immature Coeopt

The worlds No. quiz kid . Uncle
Sam answers questions on almost
any subject from prenatal care to post
war planning.
Despite curtailment by the Office Of
War Information of more than 42,3l7 900
copies of International publications and
press releases in adjusting Federal pub
fishing operations to wartime, the Gov
ernments "HoW-to-do-i and "What's-
it-all-about" booklets still cover practi-
cally every front of American life ..
From nursery to jungle :. from fire.
side to farm E. toys to turbines
petting to propaganda {. feas to wind
mills imitation to cheese from
blood plasma to fuel conservation i.
victory gardens to vice control D.. from
ratioA arithmetic to good neighborliness
Nell give you the answers :. free,
in most cases.
What material you can't get from your
Congressman, you can get from the
Government agency that prepares it, or,
for small fee, from the superintendent
of documents, Government Printing
Office.
Whenever enough people request infor-
nation, a Government agency will get
out publication. For instance, if 800
to 1000 people write in asking how to 20
about raising rabbits, refining an old
coat, or getting job in an aircraft fac
tory, the Government prepares pamph-
let on the subject. After considerable
complaint by Congressman about Gov
ernment expenditures for unnecessary"
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Invasi0nR0utes
Cross.Channel Try Is
Most Practical
Bv John Grover.

~ VOHn oIOICSs
France tops the list of probabilities as
the site for the expected invasion OF
Europe because it is the enemy territory
closest to a major Allied base
The factor of distance cannot be dis
counted. The supplies an army must
have to fight are limited by available
transport and the distance to be
traverSed.
With that in mind, the perimeter OF
France becomes the most important from
tier in the war world Somewhere on
her borders the attack may fall
The perimeter of France divides into
seven military segments. Two can be
scratched, the Spanish border and the
Italo-Swiss border. They are too far
from vital objectives within France and
in contiguous Germany. The Alps and
the Pyrenees constitute formidable ma
tural barriers.
A third segment, the northwest coast
from Cherbourg west to beyond Brest, is
also less favored as an invasion site
The forbidding cliff bound coast, and the
greater distance to key objectives, mill
tates against it.
Calais Is Closest.
From standpoint of distance and
threat to the enemy, the beaches on both
sides of Calais take top rank as invasion
possibilities. The Nazis themselves have
given ample evidence that they fear the
blow will fall here
They forced permanent cession of the
departments of Pas de Calais and Nord
from Laval. The civil populace has been
moved from the territory while slave
labor concentrated on fortifying the area.
This segment of the French perimeter
following the Belgian border and thence
along the Meuse-Moselle River lines to
the Rhine, is the most direct road to
Germany proper. The Germans know it
we'll. 1t has been their highroad on three
invasions of France, in 1871, 1914-l9l8
and 1910.
Northeastern France is country we'll
suited to modern offense. The Nazis
proved it in their sweep through Sedan
and the Low Countries in 1910.
The road back is no harder, If the
army on offense has the same superiority
the German hordes enjoyed three years
ago. Slowly the Allies are building up
that superiority in machines and NUM-
tions and available men.
The submarine coast" of France, along
the Bay of Biscay, cannot be discounted
as possibility. Germany has concen-
trated her major sub bases here, and the
world knows how heavily she counts on
the 43 U-boat campaign to keep her safe.
Invasion of the submarine coast, If
successful, would drive the subs back to
the German North Sea coast, and i'm
measurably tighten the pressure on Allied
supply lines.
Once the African campaign is con-
cluded with the ousting of Rommel and
Won Arnim from Tunisia, the Mediter-
ranean coast of France 'looks ripe" The
Germans are rushing work on fortifica-
tions there
The disadvantages are the length of
supply lines from African bases, and be-
hind them from the United States and
Britain. The advantages are the relative
weakness of the lately begun defenses
and the longer German supply lines.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

ing their hands"-and definitely, no
baby kissing!
One of the favorite publications gives
advice to parents at that trying stage Of
guiding the adolescent. This bulletin
tells how to deal with stealing, truancy,
day-dreaming, "crushes" and petting,
among other things.
AS for the last:
I'VE shall probably all agree that there
Is nothing particularly new about this
practice of petting, excepting for the fact
that it is now practiced more generally
among those who are considered nice
people, that it has become more of a
pastime and perhaps less well defined as
step leading to matrimony and finally
that it is no longer practice reserved
for the subdued lights of the family par
lor, the country wayside or other secluded
spots"
Uncle Sam offers a whole assortment
Of wartime advice:
A series of pamphlets on proper fac
tory jobs for young workers; how to
make wartime toys; how to take vaca-
ton in your back yard; how to run a
blood bank; how to be landlady or a pay
ing guest.
The Office of War Information says
that every single pamphlet it has issued
has been oversubscribed. It's Battle
Stations for ALL" a pamphlet on imitation,
is one of these.
War or no war, scientific investigations
continue along many lines. One of the
latest booklets published by the smith
sonian Institution is titled:
The Masculature of the Labrum, La
blum, and Pharynegeal Region of Adults
and Immature Coleoptera."
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Brown
Continued From Page B-1.)

more attention to the Nazi proposals
than they actually deserve.
History frequently repeats itself. In
the coalition against Napoleon Emperor
Alexander, who was as much master of
all Russia as Stain is the master of the
Union OF Soviet Republics, Joined the
British, then abandoned them and finally
joined them again. Much as our leaders
are convinced that the interests of Rus
sia are intimately linked to ours they
cannot altogether overlook history.
If Russia agreed to make peace the
Nazis would still have heavy war on
their hands. When Germany attacked
Russia in the summer of l941 America
still was neutral and Hitler believed she
would remain so until he could finish of
the Red armies.
Thus, while Russia would be able to
start her reconstruction work, the rest
OF the world still would be fighting. This
reasoning is selfish, but realistic nations
are bound to be selfish.
In order to dissipate all doubts as to
the durability of the present anti-Axis
coalition it may be necessary for Presi-
dent Roosevelt to have heart-to-heart
talk with Premier Stain in the near fu-
ture. This Mr.. Roosevelt realizes fully
and he is said to have had this situation
in mind when he announced two weeks
ago that he might meet the Russian
leader soon.
1t is probable that conversations re-
garding such meeting are now taking
place between Washington and Moscow.
There is no lack of enthusiasm on the
part Of the Chief Executive to meet the
Russian leader
1t Is up to Moscow to fix the time and
place. Distances are no longer a handi-
cap to the movements Of the President,
particularly when meeting with Stain
Is considered 80 essential to the success
ful prosecution Of the war.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Stettinius
Continued From Page B-l)

tiate s450,O0o,0 900 group insurance policy
for GINS 100000 employees. He worked on
employe housing. He directed institu-
tional advertising and publicity. And in
1881 he became vice president in charge
of industrial and public relations.
The fashion among certain OF Little
Stet's contemporaries and even among
some oldsters has been to derogate his
rise by references to pull" and family.
That was what they said after he left GIN
for Big Steel and started his rapid climb
up that colossus of Wall Street. True,
he was the protege OF the retiring board
chairman, Myron Taylor. The malicious
whispered that he was merely Taylor's
stooge. But actually he stood up against
considerable faction in Big Steel that
bitterly opposed his policies.
He had begun by refusing to attempt
to cut steel wages at the time that steel
prices were lowered and for this won
special commendation in a Roosevelt
speech for industrial craftsmanship"
That was only the beginning Of his break
with the black reactionaries Of industry,
In 1887 he signed for United States
Steel, long the anti-union bulwark. Of the
Nation, a contract with Philip Murray's
Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
It was as though the walls Of Jericho
had fallen down.
Through small jobs he had done In
Washington in the NRA period, stet-
tinius had come to know the President
and many Of the men around him. His
enlightened industrial policy won him
friends within the inner circle. It would
be far from correct, however, to say
that he was in any sense New Dealer.
Throughout he has tried to avoid beins
involved In the political feuds that rage
through the Capital.
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