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Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14

! They dealt with natural civilian
resentment to army life, regimen
tation. fear and adjustment fac
tors and included sessions in which
the men were invited TO discuss
their personal problems or adjust.
Iments. A second or control grouT
received no such talks during the
same period.
Continued Mai Cohen:
The experimental group lost
only SO man hours from the
training while the group which
received no instruction showed
a loss Of 587 man hours"
a similar experiment on a group
of 1000 showed a loss of SIX man
hours for the talked to men,
while the control section lost 81
man hours
Even the normal individual is A
potential maladiuStmcnt problem
when he enters the army, the Off
Ger pointed out.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14
Highway Workers Strike

BENTON ffARB6R, May 4
(UP) - Berrien County highway
repair work was at a Standstill
today as the result of a strike Cl
35 employees seeking pay boost
from So cents an hour to 20 cents
an hour.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14
.EHb and Sapc....,
CEILING PRICES FOR SOAPS

$4,000 to $25O,0OO Class 3: Chain food stores with
gross volume of less than $250000, and Class 4: All
food stores with gross volume of more than $780, 900.
Sales in drug and other such stores will be made
under the general maximum price regulation; e. at
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14

ADVERTIsEMEN7
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14

These are the ceiling prices determined by the
Office of Price Administration and effective May 2i.
1913, for sale Of soaps and washing powders by four
types of retailers (ClaSS Independent food stores
with annual gross less than $4,000; Class ,: nde-
pendent food stores with annual gross of from
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14

Adjustment Lectures
Speed Army Training
BY DOROTHY WILLIAMS

As much as 53l man hours were
iadded to the slX weeks. basi'
training time of single company
by an experimental series of lee
lures explaining TO traineeS the
reasons for army regulations
members OF the American PSychl-
atric Association learned today.
This IS the claim of Mai r.
Robert Cohen, chief Of the neuro-
pSychiatriC section, station hospi-
tai at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground in Maryland.
Morale was noticeably improved,
he added
Said Mai. Cohen:
"This same ratio which added
966 man hours 10 the basic
training time Of five companies
would, If applied Ia the entire
army, be enormous"
NATURAL RESENTMENT
The talks were given 10 a group
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-14
ITCHING. BURNING,
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happy and without that almost unbearAbls
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Rub on Emerald OIL tonight freely: n
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II not satisfied. Good drlgglstE syery vhere.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
of Camp Tours Are Bilateral

wonderful stages, with professionals
to run them. At one place it was a
former Boston Symphony conduc-
tor; at another, a noted magician
Nothing amateurish about the way
Uncle Sam puts on his shows. Sound
equipment and lights are the latest.
We did run into a transportation
snag once in awhile, but to a Rus
sian who experienced the revolution
that was child's play. At every
camp, of course, there would be
some soldier who would start talk
ing to us in Russian from the audi
ence. And that always brought
down the house"
Tamirof said he got his greatest
thrill when asked to visit q rifle
range, where $50 instructors at
tempted to show their appreciation
OF his show by staging an exhibition
in sharpshooting. Now, If there
is one thing Tamirof isn't modest
about it is his ability with a rifle.
One of the officers gave AKIN a long
talk about the new carbines and
then handed him one. The actor
shot some rare patterns for the boys
and became bigger hit than he
was in the auditorium. He wound
up with a certificate showing him
to be an expert.
"The thing that impressed me
most of all the training and DEM
onstrations we saw at the camps
was the instruction in Judo. I
wouldn't like to meet any American
serviceman who knows Judo. He
would kill you with his hands, and
while you were dying explain to you
scientifically why you were in such
a condition. Which reminds me,
after the war who is going to un-
teach them all of this?"
boy, I never felt better in my
life. am the greatest actor in the
world. The greatest audience In
the world has just told me so. Be-
lieve me. 1t will be a great effort
from now on not to decide to ap-
pear exclusively at the camps"
0sleassd b. the North American
Ssvspapse Alliances. IusJ
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Child Hour Lengthens
By Jay Carmody.

presenting Lily Mars" began to
.ose meaning.
Maybe, people suddenly thought,
= was rather that the simple spec
tacle Of the American dream-par-
,nts and children and homes, ETC.
was the perfect escapist entertain
nent. Perhaps in day when
homes were broken and their men,
bers scattred across the face of the
whole globe, things like that had a
new meaning. Possibly it might
not be that it was the brilliance of
the Broadway actors that made
their plays q success. At least, not
that alone.
Mr.. Big" quite a different thing
in its approach to childhood, being
as it is, the story OF, a hepcat group,
furthered the impression. Now at
Keith's, 1t is furthering the convic-
ton that the theme is the one the
movies should dwell upon for the
time being.
It fits in marvelously with the
situation which finds so many adult
cinema players away at the wars.
The children's hour apparently
will grow to many before the trend
runs its course.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Today's Film Schedules

CAP1ToLThe Youngest Profession domestic comedy
gina Wedler and Edward Arnold Stage 1:2O 355
6:35 and 9:15 Feature: 2:1o, 4:4o 72o and 10 pm
COLUMB1A-"Stage l. 3o5 525
1855 and 1015
EARLEhe Desperadoe frontier meodrama with comedy
tones: 31o $780, TAO and 955 PM shows 45o
7:05 and 9:15 pm.
KE1THSM Big jam session led by Donald oConnor las
3:45 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
LITTLE-Aexande
tnuous from pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COUSINS" musical
er Rochester and Freddy Martin 245 425 61O 755
$40
PIX-I Happened Night" Claudette
Colbert: Continuous pm.
TFANS-LUx-News and shorts: Continuous from pm
Evening star., 1943-07-18
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Apropos of Tallulah Bankhead's s
departure from "The Skin of Our
Teeth" last month, flippant COM
mentator remarked that following
the movements of this unpredictable
player was like trailing a hurricane.
We wonder if Goth Century-Fox will
sooner or later come to similar con-
cluSion.
Soon to leave the placidity of her
Connecticut acres for Hollywood, all
that now may be said is that the
picture people asked for whatever
they are going to get. Be that as it
may, about 10 days hence-July 26,
to be precise-a film drama pre-
dicated upon the presence in life
boat of survivors of a submarine in
cident will face the camera.
In that boat will be sailors Of a
torpedoed steamship, some seamen
of the foundered German undersea
craft that sunk it-and Talullah
Bankhead, the one female in the
picture. It is, I am told, one of the
fattest Of parts for dynamic act
ress; a role in which she can rock
the boat to her hearts content and
otherwise demonstrate the eternal
truth of the Kipling theory that the
female Is more dangerous than the
male.
This being so and also in view of
the fact that Miss Bankhead fore
saw the approaching end Of the
long metropolitan run Of Maj.
Thornton Wilder's bizarre comedy,
critical opinion holds that her de-
cision to desert the piece and hook
up with Hollywood was wholly wise.
For the film play, authored by John
Steinbeck, to be directed by Alfred
Hitchcock, is regarded by all who
have read the script as sure-fire.
Worth Meets Worth.
While, with perfect justice, 1t can
be said the actress has enjoyed far
greater success on the legitimate
stage than on the screen, it should
also he pointed out that fault in
dubitably has lain with the pictures,
and not with her. Now, it appears,
q film worthy Of the actress, sup
plemented by an actress worthy Of
the play, is on the tapis, so all is
well.
Looking back through the years
we recall Tallulah supporting Fran
cine Larrimore in the late Cosmo
Hamilton's comedy Scandal" How
lovely she wasl just . fresh South
ern bud with complexion Ike the
Evening star., 1943-07-18
A Film Role That Should Suit Tallulah

talk, 1t had been offered to and re-
jected by Ruth Gordon, Helen Hayes
and Fannie Brice.
Stamp of a Personality.
Tallulah did not have to read the
play twice. Once was enough to
convince her that Sabina was her
dish beyond any shadow of doubt.
Perhaps she recognized the posi-
bilities Of the role more clearly than
the sponsors of the piece. However
that may be, she snapped up the
proffered contract and rode into re-
hearsaS on wings of a whirlwind.
BY the time the show opened to an
amazed and bewildered public ''The
Skin of Our Teeth" had become
nothing more than Bankhead We
hicle.
This may not have been in ac-
cordance with the understanding
of author and producers. We have
heard it was not. We have heard
they wondered what had become
of the play they had envisioned. Be
that as 1t may, there is a school Of
thought which holds that without
Bankhead's completely abandoned
conception of the role of Sabina
the comedy would not have been
long for this world. In any case,
1t Is undeniable that she informed
the part with a sparkle, a zest and.
finally, human warmth lacking
fault Of the author-in most of the
other characters. Sabina was un-
derstandable and she blazed with
all the facets of brilliant per-
sonality.
Now comes "Lifeboat." It will be
a thrilling drift over the ocean
waves If Tallulah Bankhead has any
say-and we are sure she will have.
released By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Disney's Sober Side
By Mas Hill.

lated with his pistol, taking angry
pot shots.
Contrast this with the cannon
and many machine guns and many.
ton bombs the airplane of today
carries to plague the. foe.
Seversky documents his story
with examples Of victories and de-
feats In this war through superior
air force or lack Of it-and he tells
q convincing story.
De Seversky Stumps.
But more important than thu
skill with which the picture is made,
and its dramatic sequences, is the
narration which outlines seversky's
plan for victory.
He Is convinced, for instance, that
only through a devastating aerial
attack on Germany proper can we
expect to make a successful inva-
sion Of Europe, and that only
through the utter destruction Of
Japan's industrial power can we
hope to conquer our enemy. in the
Pacific.
These are typical seversky quotes:
AS soon as the airplanes which
are already on the drafting boards
OF all the warning nations take to
| the air. there will not be q spot on
earth immune from overhead at.
tack.
These planes will transform
the entire surface Of this planet into
a battlefield. The distinction be-
tween soldiers and civilians will be
erased, and + believe it is only a
| matter Of time before we here in
America will suffer our share of
civilian casualties"
Seversky's words gain vitality from
the dramatic action sketches which
Disney has created to accompany
them. When Seversky says the
British Navy made mistake in be-
lieving it could cut Hitler's supply
lines into Norway and trap his
forces behind naval blockade, Dis
ney carries out the theme in graphic
and clearly understood sketches.
This Is true, too, about what Se-
versky has to say on the Pacific
situation, and how we should at
tack Japen-which forms the ter
rifying yet satisfying climax to the
picture.
In the Pacific" he says, I'VE left
the skies unprotected. - We
were prepared for traditional naval
warfare, but again the first blow
came from the air. In / hour and
40 minutes, a mighty battle fleet
was put out of action by a mere $50
planes"
Seversky believes that, so long as
we seek to fight on the surface of
the earth, we are at a disadvantage
both IN the Atlantic and in the
Pacific. Air power, he says, ignores
the battle fronts at the rim and by
direct action strikes at the hub.
He SCOTS at the theory Of carrier
based planes for an attack on
Japan, saying any such attempt will
only prove the superiority of land
based aviation" since "the land
based plane has the advantage Of
size, range and bomb load, because
1t can take of from a runway or
3 miles long. To destroy Japan with
these small doses Of TINT would re-
quire not hundred, but thousands
of carriers
Seversky's solution to problems Of
that sort is long-range air power.
when we increase the range of
our bombers, we automatically de-
crease the surface struggle. BY in
creasing the striking radius of our
bombers to 5000 miles we will be
able to reach Japan from the bases
we have today.
From the great industrial heart
Of America, our overland supply
line, the highway to victory, runs
to Alaska. And Alaska points
straight at the heart Of Japan"
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Bv Laurence Perry.


ripe peaches of her native Georgia,
a wealth of hair all a-shimmer as
though in sunlight. She could act,
too. But for some strange reason
her appeal to Broadway managers,
If not to Broadway itself, was neg
ligible. So very soon she Jared to
England where, as you know, Lon
don took her to its sophisticated
heart. Peers of the realm-peer-
esses, too-yielded Fundamentally
to the lovely and accomplished
American. Country houses were
open to her. No swagger function,
social or professional, was regarded
as complete without her presence.
She was the toast of the town
which means something that New
York knows nothing whatever about.
Why she ever left England I don't
know. At any rate, she did after
a period of eight years through the
urgency Of Paramount Pictures.
This was in 1881. Established in
Hollywood, she did, in order "Tar-
nished Lady" "The Cheat" MY
Sin," Thunder Below" and "The
Devil and the Deep" None of them
was too hot.
Nor was "Faithless," which she
did the following year for Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer, whereupon, per-
haps discontented with the brand
of filmfare provided her, she de-
cided to make another Broadway
venture. OF her activities here we
recall chiefly Something Gay"
Anthony and Cleopatra"-in 1938-
and then, finally, the opportunity
for which she had long been pray
ing, Lillian Hellman's '"The Little
Foxes" Following another dip into
the West Coast, a brief one, the part
of Sabina, the eternal hussy in the
Thornton Wilder piece, came to her
fortuitously after, according to the
Evening star., 1943-07-18
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
When the film Salute for Three"
Is released, the musical comedy
team of Lorraine and Rognan, who
got their first film break in it, will
not be on hand to take their bows.
Jeanne Lorraine and Roy Rognan
were among the entertainers bound
for overseas USO camp shows, who
were in the Clipper crash at Lisbon
February %. Rognan was killed and
Jeanne Lorraine, his wife, was in
jured so seriously that doctors told
her she would never walk again.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
HOLLYWOOD


Things are getting onto movie
screens never seen there before and,
at first blush, 1t might seem that
the movies code of morals is being
kicked around or ignored slightly.
The Hays Office is okaying occa-
sional scenes showing our enemies
forcing on their victims unwed
motherhood, sterilization and tor
ture; others presenting white slav-
cry, rape and the use of narcotics.
Some writers will tell you that
Hollywood is putting these things
and others into pictures only for
purposes Of propaganda. Not so;
Hollywood Is making movies to
make money. If, while making en-
tertainment, it also can put over
something to make us more aware
of the kind Of people we are fight
ing. that's gratuitous.
This account Is not concerned
with telling you there are such
scenes; If you 60 to the movies, you
see them. Rather, this is an at
tempt to explain how they are get
ting onto the screen.
The code that is the background
of the story was drawn a dozen or
more years ago, but nothing was
done about enforcing 1t until 1894,
when the Legion Of Decency de-
manded that the movies be cleaned
up, or else. ..
When the code was "reaffirmed"-
I always quote that word when re-
ferring to the code-Joseph I. Breen
was made its custodian. It is the
job to decide whether proposed
pictures keep within bounds.
The code Is based on two prin-
ciples: First. that right is always
right and wrong is always wrong,
and. second. that good taste must
prevail
- lz~----.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
NEW YORK.

4N6VV 4Sxe&As
Walt Disney once had nothing
more important to do than to amuse
the American public and make Dom
aid Duck and Mickey Mouse as well
known as the President OF the
United States. =. '-
Now, in this more serious era of
war, he has turned to the task of
pounding home the idea that vic
tory is possible through aerial
strength which will dwarf any and
all resources the enemy can mar
shall His new picture, Victory
Through Air Power" is a pic
turization Of the book Of the same
name by Maj. Alexander p. De Sc
versky; in 1t, Disney combines his
tory and q newsreel technique with
cartoon comedy and narration by
Seversky himself with terrific ef:
feet.
This new product Of the Disney
laboratories openly Is propaganda
Disney and Seversky are trying to
sell the idea Of air power as q
weapon for victory against the old
and, to them, outmoded idea of con-
quest through battleships, armies
and all other sorts OF weapons.
The picture begins with aviation
In its infancy, and, with broad
humorous touches, carries on from
the first flight Of the Wright BROTH
ers to the World War, when enemy
pilots were friendly fellows out on
scouting expeditions and waved a
greeting as they roared past each
other at the incredible speed Of
go miles an hour.
A story is included, probably
apocryphal, that weapons were
used in the air for the first time
after a French aviator got indig-
nant at a German pilot for making
faces at him and tossed brick in
his direction. The German retail
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Sam Woods Starkest Hour
Bv Eileen Creelman.

though he had the screen in mind"
Mr.. Wood remarked "He never lost
the dramatic values; and those
characters are described as though
it were picture.
THAT helped, OF course, in many
ways. But if we didn't get those
characters exactly right, all the
values were gone. Hemingway must
have had Gary Cooper and Ingrid
Bergman in mind when he was writ
ing, That's why I had to get Cooper.
Il always have sketches made of
all the characters" the director de-
clared, before we even start casting.
That is so we all know, actors and
wardrobe and every one, just what
the characters look like. We did
that with The Bells (The director,
unlike the rest of Paramount, makes
it The Bells instead of The Bell.)
Every one looked just his sketch, ex-
cept Pillar. I'd pictured her as a big
woman, tall, rather a tremendous
personality.
I'VE were looking for that when I
(See CREELMAN. Following PageJ
Evening star., 1943-07-18
HOLLYWOOD.

The famous white-haired comic,
the foreign actress who wants to
be alone and other members of a
small but not select Hollywood
group who have shown little or no
interest in our soldiers need for
entertainment should lend an ear
to AKIN Tamiroff. Mr.. Tamiroff,
who plays Russian characters fun
nier than any one else on the
screen, has just returned from a
tour taking him to "a camps. He
says:
All kidding aside, any actor or
actress who has the opportunity to
entertain our troops and doesn't
take advantage of it is just plain
crazy. Apart from the patriotic
angle, this camp show business Is
the greatest tonic for an actor that
was ever invented. We are sup
posed to go out and help keep up
the troops morale. You should see
what they do for ours!"
We never encountered an actor
returning to Hollywood from any
camp tour who reflected quite so
much enthusiasm over his adven-
lures as did Tamiroff. Many ac-
tors 60 out as matter of duty
and some of them, upon return,
seek rest in hospital. Not Tamil
rolf. He can't wait until he's on
his way again. And there's no
sham about it.
Leonid Kinsky, another expert at
Russian burlesque, was Tamiro1f S
partner on the tour.
Omitting the dialect, let's listen
to AKIN tell Of their experiences
and reactions:
Tonic to Their Souls.
II feel wonderful" he began.
IT am probably the best and most
popular actor in the world. During
the past weeks thousands Of service
men have told me so. The only
trouble Is they tell the same thing
to everybody else from HOLLYWOOD
But, oh. boy-dont let anybody tell
you 1t doesn't make you feel good!
Evening star., 1943-07-18
NEW vNPK

NEW 1OfLh.
It was, Sam Wood said thought
fully, here for the premiere tomor-
row night Of For Whom the Bell
Tolls" the hardest picture he had
ever directed. Everything about 1t
was hard, from the casting to the
physical discomforts of location
work in the high mountains. Every
thing had to be exactly right, Mr..
Wood explained. The casting was
Of major Importance. Ernest Hem
ingway had described in detail the
characters in For Whom the Bell
Tolls"
When Paramount offered Mr..
Wood the film, he started work. He
had to shoot the eel Sordo sequence"
before getting the script. as that
episode needed snow. The snow
was melting fast up in the Cali
fornia mountains. Sam Wood knew
want he wanted. He went up and
shot it, then let the snow melt and
planned the rest of the picture.
Consider the casting.
Hemingway wrote that book as
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Presidents Stature
AS Film Find Grows
BY the Associated Press,
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The President is fast becoming .
notable screen personality.
When James Cagney made the
life of George M. Cohan for the
screen in Yankee Doodle" the
character of the President was used
in the scene in which Cohan IS
honored for his patriotic contribu-
ton to the war effort in World War
I. In Mission to Moscow" the
character Of the President Is used
in several scenes, speaking to Joe
Davies, Ambassador to Russia. Now,
in "The Story of DR.. Wassell,"
transcription Of the voice of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, making the famous
freside chat In which he praised
Comdr. Corydon Wassell for his
heroism in getting wounded United
States men out of Java, will be used.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Niceties Of a Morals Code
By Hubbard Keavv.

The code says that sterilization
scenes never can be presented. Yet,
a recent picture had such scene.
How come? Breen, before he passed
that scene, had to ask himself what
was the intent. If the intent was
to sensationalize, it could not be
passed. However, the purpose was
to show the extent to which the
Nazis go to carry out their program
of creating new order. There was
nothing sensational about the scene
itself, although the advertising was
on the hysterical side.
Traf1cking in narcotics never has
been shown on the screen. The code
forbids it. The reason Is that there
Is something mysterious about the
use of narcotics and even a hint
might arouse an unholy curiosity in
some people. But now pictures are
showing the use of narcotics. Again,
what Is the intent?
In one, it shows a Hitler stooge
using drugs; the reason for such
scene is obvious. In another, Jap
spies are shown giving to unsuspect-
ing Chinese opium disguised as food
and medicine. It reduces them to a
stupor, makes them easy prey to
the soldiers. If the drug had helped
the Chinese. or had made them
strong enough, to turn back the in
vaders, or had had any other than
an evil effect, the scene would have
been blue penciled.
In another picture, a Japanese
family, in order to make an impress
sion on q general who Is courting
daughter, needs money, quickly, and
sells the daughter into prostitution.
The purpose Of that episode is to
show what kind Of people the Japs
are. There Is no glorification of this
grossnees, we are not shown the
enslaved daughter amid luxury. Be-
See KEAVY on Following PaSeJ
Evening star., 1943-07-18
For the Good of USO Tours
Bv Rosalind .Shofer.

But I'm walking, and better every
day." she says.
She won't dance again for some
time, at least. But the plucky little
Irish girl with the brown eyes and
red hair, born O'Rourke, has come
out of the tragic experience with a
plan and philosophy that is really
the old trouper's slogan, "the show
must go on"
"You gotta help people," she says
earnestly, with her crutches beside
(See SHAFFER on Following Page.