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Evening star., 1943-11-07
All Is Befuddled, Confused
BY J. NJ. Kendrick.

ance to the family; and a funny
Negro maid.
The play ends with the young girl
attempting suicide after her be-
trothed breaks the engagement and
goes off to write music; the wife de-
cides that, perhaps, her husband is
the man for her, after all Poor
Bert: The red-headed Wench dies
just as he is falling in love with her.
If all this is difficult to follow, its
Just as much of a muddle on the
stage.
1t is good to report that Miss Fer
guson is still a handsome and ex-
cellent actress. She's the woman
with the past. Nine. Ouspenskaya
is the matriarch; Margalo Gilmore,
the wife; Adele Longnlire, the un-
happy girl, and Brent Sargent is Ju-
lian, the abnormal brother of Bert.
Miss Franken is the director Of her
play and William Brown Meloney
(her husband, the producer. The
one setting is by Raymond Sovey.
Mary Elizabeth of Sherwood
opened a season OF stock company
presentations at the new Amsterdam
Theater with revival Of Robert E.
Sherwood's The Petrified Forest"
which was played here originally in
1885.
Back in those days, the late Les
lie Howard, was the tramp writer
with heart of gold, and Humphrey
Boeart, the gangster.
In 1885. found the play very ex.
citing and timely, too, with the nu-
n1erous gun-shoottng gangsters We
then had with us. This week The
Petrifled Forest" was only mildly en-
tertaining. The best performance Is
given by John McQuade, as the
killer.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITO1"Young Ideas, clever
l0:05 Stage shows los 3:45, pm
COLUMBIAPas After George Sanders egroundste
l, 2:35, 4:25, $40, 7:55 and GAS pm
EARLE-Lets Face tt Bob Hope in the musical 315 $50
7:50 and 1910 Stage shows: 2:4O m
KEITHS-Phantom of the Opera CLANCY $40
$40, 7:30 and 9:45 pm.
LITTLE-"The men do.
7:25 and 9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Sahara" Gen Monteorery
LIS, 3:25. $50, 7:35 pm.
PALACEsweet Rosie oGady pert Betty oGrable: 45
3:45. $50, 7:50 $50 pm
P1xstrange Death Of Adolf Hitler 1t could happen
TAO and 1918 pm.
TRANs-LUx-News and shorts: from pm.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Before Cameras
Actresses Baths
Are Fabulous
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
| Ever since Cecil B. De Mile took
bathing beauties out Of oceans and
sat them in champagne-f filled bath
tubs. the technique of how to make
body dunking more alluring has be-
come mighty fine art.
| 1t used to be an actress donned a
| itight-fitting white bathing suit,
shipped the shoulder straps off and
did some tricks with transparent
adhesive tape, then she'd be covered
with shower spray or tub suds.
| However, when Olivia de Havilland
staged bathing epic for Princess
jORourke' you never saw so much
secrecy in all your life. Every door
was locked and guards were posted
around outside But from some one
who was there, we can report that:
| On cue, Olivia emerged furtively
from her dressing room. wearing
flesh-colored bra and trunks. Over
her shoulders she wore a robe. and
gathered closely around were half
dozen hair dressers and makeup
girls who almost completely shielded
her from view.
Assured the doors we're tightly
locked, the water heated to her
| favor1te temperature and fragrantly
scented, Olivia edged forward under
cover of her feminine encourage.
shed the robe cautiously at the tubs
edge then stepped gently into the
porcelain and slid down to her neck
/ in bubbles.
In an instant, the shielding FEM
mime entourage stepped back =.
electricians quickly nodded high
lights and shadows into the delicacv
of her makeup. the director shouted
Action" and the cameras began to
roll.
And that is how a lovely movie
actress takes a bath!
Evening star., 1943-11-07
So Near, Yet So Far,
Was the Cemetery
BY the Associated Press,

HOLLYWOOD.
Over the back fence from the
Paramount Studios is the HOLLYWOOD
Cemetery, where many Of the screen
great, including Rudolph Valentino,
i are buried. There are 100 acres of
it, with headstones, mourning statu-
ary, stretches of turf and all of the
melancholy realities OF such place.
The past week, fog hung heavy
over the plot, making a depressing
scene Yet just over the wall, scenes
depicting cemetery were being shot
with papier-mache headstones,
thin layer of dirt and sod over wood
en- scaffolding and q mineral oil fog
shot out Of spray guns. The studio
couldn't use the real cemetery-for
several reasons.
One difficulty would have been OBJ
tanning the written permission of all
relatives Of inferred persons whose
names might appear on the head
stones in the film. And the fog
wasn't photogenic, for it rolls where
it will, not where the director wants
it. Then there was the matter Of the
ornamental palm trees. The cemetery
lis for a London scene.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
BY the Associated Press
4NSss
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLI WOOD.
Hollywood, driven to desperation
by limitations imposed by lack of
materials. is going back to one of
the earliest tricks in the industry,
that of taking materials
During the period of film pros
perity, beginning after the First
World War. such practice was dis
missed as impossible, because, said
the smart fellows, you can't fool the
eve of the camera. 1t sees and re-
veals cheap substitutes Yet today
it is being done with undreamed of
success on the costumes for the
lavish Oriental spectacle, "Kismet'
J. Stuart Blackton, early film
producer, used to use cotton satins
and painted fabrics for some of his
early films, including the first fea-
ture-length one, in five reels. titled
Moses" an imposing effort for that
period. which depicted the court of
the Pharaoh in full Oriental splen-
dor.
Paint Does 1t.
In the modern film, Irene, studio
designer. and Karinska. authority
on costume design, have resurrected
the old trick of painting fabrics,
and using much less of the expen-
sive and unobtainable ones. BY ac-
centing soft blends of colors. rather
Evening star., 1943-11-07
A Message for Schiaparelli

| than the brilliant ones used fire.
quentlY for color work, they are
gaining a dreamy ethereal effect.
The basic fabric employed is that
housewives friend. unbleached mus
lin, usually relegated to making
dishtowels, cheap sheets and such
durable and unesthetic objects
BY the use of tint dyes, or spraying
with paint, or stenciling, the fabric
is an excellent. screenworthy mate
rial: when designs in flowers or en-
broidery or beading or in rich metal
lie landings are put on the muslin,
it holds them well. hangs in pleas
ing folds and generally conducts
itself like an expensive silk or wooden
fabric.
Muslin Steps Out.
Costumes for the women employ
the basic tinted muslin in one color,
with two overlays in semitranspar-
ent fabrics like chiffon and tulle in
complementing or contrasting
shades. The result is most effective
when the wearer of the costume
moves, for the play of color and
depth of tone produce an indescrib-
able quality of softness and elusive
ness
Now the industry is waiting for
the one who can do something about
the ration shoes for the dancers in
the musicals so popular NOWADAYS.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
The most pointed, accurate criti-
cism that can be made of Miss Rose
Franken's Outrageous Fortune, ;
which opened this week, is that il
does not mean anything.
1t is a confused play about mixed
up persons and wastes the talents
of an exceptionally fine cast, in
cluding Elsie Ferguson, who has
come out of a 12-yearl retirement
to act one of the leading roles.
Miss Franken, as you will recol-
lect, wrote the successful Another
Language" and Claudia" Where
she exceled in the writing of these
she has wandered over too vast a
range in this effort. True, there
are some meaty lines. most of which
come from Miss Ferguson and
Nine. Maria Ouspanskaya, and a
few laughs, which fade in the filth
of the theme of abnormality which
she has injected.
Briefly, courageous Fortune" is
the story of Bert Harris well
played by Frederic Tozere), who
carries sincere pride of his race
as chip on his shoulder. He is
extremely conscious of prejudice
against Jews and finds himself, with
all his wealth at the top of a sue
cessful career, confronted with an
outragepus-and I might add, ex-
aggerated-state of life.
His wife is infatuated with a
young musician. His brother is a
homosexual. who blasts a romance
with lovely girl. The young mu-
sician is also PLAYING with the love
Of lusty, philosophical middle
aged ted-headed woman of loose
morals, who brags about her past
and tries to bring some sense to the
Harris household, Bert in particu-
lar.
There, too, are DR.. Andrew Gold
smith, who fails to get a hospital
post because he is a Jew, and his
comical Irish wife; two servants
who quit because of their dislike of
Jews; the matriarch, Mrs. Harris.
who, like her son, is proud Of her
race and has an understanding
which helpS bring a degree of hal
Evening star., 1943-11-07
No Tears No Anger But George Always Gets His Way
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
George Murphy is q hard -headed
Irishman who knows what he wants.
He never loses his temper or raises
his voice, but he always wins.
I've never had quarrel with L.
B. Mayer in all the time I've worked
for him." says Murphy.
That might be some kind OF an
employees record, but it doesn't tell
all the facts. Murphy gets the de-
cision without quarreling. He's
proved his ability to pick the right
parts for himself, and while there's
nothing in the contract about this,
it works out that he gets them.
Murphy has been in Hollywood
since 1896, doing a good job of act
ing in featured roles or song and
dance things for musicals but he
shot to star billing only in the past
two years. This is due to two cir
cumstances: The shortage Of lead
ing men and the prominence of mu-
steals in current production sched-
ules. There's just not enough OF
George Murphy to go around.
Story Of Father.
Directors like Murphy because he
always turns up with good dialogue,
works seriously, but with a spark.
He has written a couple of stories,
which the studio now owns, one of
which he would like to make him.
self as a tribute to his father, Mike
Murphy, famous athletic coach at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Murphy senior was famed for teach
ing his men to play fair.
Georges first dance steps were
learned as part of the limbering- up
exercises his father gave to Olym-
pic contestants in his charge, on the
deck of a transatlantic liner.
Years later George and his girl
friend, Juliette Johnson, decided
they were as good as the professional
teams they saw around New York,
and decided to try it. They were
just that good, and the pair, after
breaking in in New York cafes, were
hits in London at the exclusive May
fair and the Opera Club in Paris.
Juliette has been Mrs. Murphy since
1927.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
On 1mpressing Film Studios
Bp Harold Hefernan,

case was Sonia Henie-and she
really showed the way That was
seven years ago. At the time pro-
ducers scoffed at the idea of fea-
turing an ice skater in a movie-re-
gardless of the fact that Sonia had
won international honors and fame
Even the very obvious evidence that
she was cute little trick in the
bargain, and highly photogenic
weighed not in her favor. From one
lot to another went Sonia and her
agents. From all studios they re-
ceived the same answer-no room
for an ice skater.
Probably the shrewdest actress
ever to hit movietown, Sonia de-
cided Hollywood could be interested
in ice-skaters if the showcase was
properly dressed She poured out her
confidence to the extent of $35, 900 of
her own money in dolling up an
elaborate show which she staged at
the Los Angeles Polar Palace. Sonia
hired beautiful girl skaters, cos
TUNED the show with an elaborate
ness that made even studio design
ers gasp-and then, cagily, built
every number around herself. She
was spotlighted from beginning to
end OF the show.
Playing Hard to Get.
Within a week. Sonia Henie's ice
show was the talk of Hollywood
She had hardly completed her first
weeks run before the offers began
(See HEFFERNAN page C-a0
Evening star., 1943-11-07
A Reporter Drops In
BY Jay Carm ody.

There should be a law protecting
people from the necessity of writing
about Ernie Pyle. Only he is quail
fled to write on that subject and
only he can do it without feeling
like a fool.
The trouble with Ernie. however
is a footlooseness that is likely to
land him anywhere, even in the
domain of those who write about
Hollywood and it's doings. That is
just where it did land him with the
sale of his Here Is Your War" to
Lester Cowan. who will make a
movie of it as soon as he can set
up his people and his cameras. The
two of them, couple of old Middle
western boys, were in town this
week and had a meeting with the
drama press. 1t was not like any
other meeting the drama press ever
had with any one which seemed to
make it news.
Ernie, more than any other re-
porter who ever lived, looks like
reporter. He does not try to look
like a reporter. He Just does. It
was not the old hat, the one he
had been wearing for 10 years when
we met him first which was nearly
20 years ago. He had a new hat.
not because he wanted to but be-
cause his old one got lost in Eng
land when he debarked for North
Africa last fall 1t looked new, how
ever, only when it was lying on the
chair. The minute Ernie put it on,
1t looked just like the old one except
the color was little brighter. He
makes 1t big lie about clothes
making the man.
Erosion Effects Slight.
Ernie took off the hat while he
autographed copies of Here Is Your
War" which he did with such an
absence of self consciousness that
some one else might have written
the book. 1t revealed that his fore
head has grown higher and his di-
minished hair whittier since he went
away from Washington to write
about the world at peace and at
war. Otherwise he looked like the
same wiry, wisp of man who
could change the world more than
1T could change him.
Ernie's chief satisfaction with his
Hollywood deal is not the s75 1000
ICowan paid him for the movie rights
Evening star., 1943-11-07

turer, however. When he was IA
he got himself q job that took him
on a three-month tour OF South
America. He didn't write to his
family because he was afraid they'd
worry II they knew where he was.
This sort OF thing went on for years,
during school vacations. IT always
turned up with good clothes, and
I never really was broke" says
George.
This adventuring even parted his
Yale career right in the middle.
One winter a friend took George
along to Florida on q business trip.
Walking In the moonlight under
the palms, they passed a Spanish
style house where party was 60
ing on. Soft music hoated out, and
they could see pretty girls in eve
ming dresses. The pair walked right
in. The host was Harvey Firestone,
jr., and before long they were pals.
They still are.
Hooters Sessions.
OF late years George has learned
f. be careful about forming friend
ships with important people, because
some one once made a crack about
his being social climber. To Soap
box Murphy this was intolerable.
One Of his pet circles is the Irish
mob headed by Pat O'Brien, Jimmy
Cagney, Frank McHugh and him
self. They love to spin yarns, sing
and play the piano, mostly corny
songs, and show each other new
steps and routines. All have been
hooters and love it. They talk about
their children; George has tiny Me-
lissa Elaine, aged a few weeks, to
declaim about these days, as well as
Dennis Michael, aged 6.
To demonstrate what an optimist
Murphy is, one need only mention
his belief that pigs can be raised to
be clean. He has pig farm up in
Oregon, near Ginger Rogers, and his
porkers are being very carefully
| raised
Evening star., 1943-11-07
By WWa Martin.

because he couldn't afford to be
away from the farm that long.
No amateur when it comes to the
theater, Don appeared with Helen
Hayes in Twelfth Night" was Capt.
Absolute in Broadway production
of "The Rivals" has sung in Earl
CAROLS Vanities, been master of
ceremonies in night clubs.
But last spring found him In a
position actors often get into: Be
tween jobs" While waiting a call
from a producer, he stayed on his
own New Jersey farm, laying down
flagstone walks, painting outside
woodwork
Friendly Compliance.
A neighbor asked him to help
build a chicken house. He did.
Then a friend, Capt. A. H. Corwin
Of the United States Army, asked
would he help with the hay on his
dairy farm. He would. After the
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"Unce Harry" Gaienne and Joseph
Schidkraut; starting week from tomorrow.
CAPITOLThe Robert Donat and Va
ere Hobson: starting Thursday
COLUMBIA-The Battle of Russia" documentary
Thursday
EARLE-Prncess ORourke" Havland and Robert
Cummings starting Friday.
KElIHsrNorth Star with Walter Huston and Ann Harding
LITTLEJeanie with Michael Redgrave Barbara Mullen
Leslie and David Niven
starting Friday.
PALACE-"G Crazy" Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Disney's Next
Is Animated
In Two WAYS
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Flesh h-and-blood charm and ami
nation in the person of Aurora
Miranda, sister of Carmen, will be
used by Walt Disney in his next
good-neighbor picture, The Three
CabaLeros"
Other outstanding South Ameri-
can entertainers are planning to
join Aurora in the Bahia sequence
of the filn, and some of the live
characters will join with Donald
Duck, Joe Carioca and new char
Acter, Panchito, a Mexican charro
rooster, throughout the film.
This combination of animated
characters with flesh and blood ac-
tors is something new in the car
toon field, and Is process on which
Disney has been working for several
years. The process has now been
perfected.
Lessons learned from the making
Of De Seversky's Victory Through
Air Power" were used to develop
the new process Already much Of
the work in the new process has
been done on the film. which will
tun 70 minutes, full feature length.
Twelve song numbers will be fea-
tured.
No Dubbing In.
Disney denies that the new process
utilizes the well-knoWn double ex-
posure trick for combining the liv-
Ing actors with the cartoon charac-
ters. Explanations as to the exact
process must await the release of
the film; but this much can be told:
The three birds, the duck, the
parrot and the rooster, appear In
the foreground of some film foot
age, with the live actors in the back
ground, and in other scenes, the
tive actors take the foreground and
khe animals the background.
The whole film will be in color,
and one of the novelties shown will
be the magic serape, on which the
three birds will be shown travelling
bver Mexico City and other spots,
including Rio at festival time, in
the manner that Douglas Fairbanks
used the magic carpet in his Thief
of Bagdad"
Evening star., 1943-11-07
HOLLYWOOD.

sure-fre recipe for success in the
movies:
# you've got what it takes and
can't get a nod from busy Holly
wood, try a showcase.
Put yourself in this shoUcase-be
certain it's plush lined and neon
lighted-start beating the tom-toms
and chances are before you can say
Daryl Zanuck contract will be
whisked under your nose.
Showcases are the modern short
cut to fat contracts Ask Sonia
Henie, Laird Cregar, Betty Cradle
Victor Mature, Orson Welles and a
dozen other successful ladies and
gentlemen of the fillums and they'll
tell you plenty
If Henie, Cregar, Mature e. Co.
hadn't designed special displays for
themselves it's hard telling where
they would be in the amusement
world today. They might be out of
1t altogether.
Haynes the Latest.
AdOSoU W u dSll 1SdGQl Gu lUl6S via
the showcase route is Dick Haynes,
king of the Juke Boxes" Two
years ago, the closest Dick could get
to the front gate at Goth Century
Fox was by driving a comedian to
work. For this he received 50 a
week and board. Finally he went
to New York, and on money ad-
vanced by his agent was booked into
q singing spot at La Martinique. y
His talents thus "showcased," it
wasn't long before scouts were on
Dicks trail. Four months after his
first appearance in the night club
Dick was signed to seven-year
contract that is paying him s25, ,ooO
for his first movie, -Four Jills in a
Jeep"
Tony De Marco, famous dancer
said he booked Sally and himself
into Ciro's Hollywood night club for
one reason only-to attract the at
tention of screen moguls. Hiring a
publicity agent, De Marcos engage
ment was soon the talk of small
town Hollywood. Within two weeks
the dancer had attained his ambi-
tion-a fat contract to be featured
In three pictures, starting with
Greenwich Village Follies."
Inventor of the Hollywood show
Evening star., 1943-11-07
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
When you see tall, handsome
Donald Burr flourishing cape and
white gloves on the stage in Rosa
linda" the last thing you'd expect
from him would be some first-hand
pointers on dairy farming. But he's
just the man to tell you how to milk
COW.
Every night, at 10 minutes after
9, Mr.. Burr steps on the stage of the
Imperial Theater as the best friend
of Rosalinda's errant husband
That's only few minutes after he's
been fast asleep on a train bringing
him from a full days work on a
New Jersey farm.
Don isn't living this double life so
he'll have something amusing to
talk about. He's very serious about
his farm work, so serious that he
turned down a big part in a play
which had m out-of-town tryout
Evening star., 1943-11-07

to his book. Because he could not
imagine himelf with that much
money, he paid the taxes on it and
put the rest in war bonds, and went
back to feeling like his old self.
Except, of course, for the feeling of
elatlon that Cowan's movie is going
to show the world the glowing
human fellow that Ernie found the
American soldier to be.
Here Is Your War" il YOU don't
believe that about the money. might
easily have been the highest price
piece OF literature Hollywood ever
purchased. The big studios admit
they would nave paid much more
for it than Cowan. After all, he
is an independent producer. He
was Er1le's choice, however, because
they feel the same way about
things, a feeling SO marvelouslv eX-
pressed by Ernie that no one else
can express it.
Are the other studios miffed at
the deal?
The answer to that question Is
found most forcefully in the remark
OF another studios representative
to the effect that it was too bad
the title This Is the Army" had
been used. The whole industry
felt a great pride in the picture
which bore that title, but the man
who was talking said it was a
shame that it could not have been
the title of the Pyle picture.
You see" he said lingering his
copy OF Ernie's book, this really
is the Army More than any other
piece of writing ever was, or will
be, / guess this is the Army"
Author Goes to Wars.
Ernie will not be around to super
wise the production of Here Is
Your War He is going back to
the war. the one he left in Italy,
and is going to stay there until it
is over.
He is confident that there will
be no distortion of the basic picture
of soldiers he has created He makes
no pretence of knowing anything
about making movies. That he
leaves strictly up to Cowan, whose
MOVES he has liked, whose human
ity and honesty he trusts as he
does his own.
The two of them have been all
over the ground the picture will
traverse. incidentally, Ernie will
be lmpersonated in it, by an actor
who is going to have an enormously
tough job in more ways than facing
the most exacting set or critics that
ever looked at a movie. But he
insists not merely upon being an
incidental character Just a cor
respondent among soldiers-but
that there shall be other correspon-
dents who are equally accented in
the screen treatment.
He wants it made clear that he is
just another guy at the front, not
hero.
official and unoffi-
cial-is enthusiastic about Pyle's
book for another reason than that
it was written by the greatest
humanist among reporters. 1t is
primarily about the infantry, the
least glamorous but most funda-
See CARMODV pace COY