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Evening star., 1943-12-23
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
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HULL Y WOOO.
Drastic curtailment by OPA of
Southern CALIFORNIA; gasoline con-
sumption, putting many an actor on
the streetcar or bus, has in no way
contributed to movietown's Christ
mas cheer.
Many stars living in the valley are
now faced with the problem of
moving into town, which is more
than problem because today there
are no vacancies within a 10-mile
radius of Los Angeles.
The OPA cut came without warm
ing and resulted in a hurried con-
ference among executives of the
Producers Association and the
Screen Actors Guild to discuss relief
measures. /.
The fact that the Los Angeles
area, covering more square miles
than any city in the world, is with
out adequate streetcar or bus trans
portation apparently wasn't taken
into consideration when the latest
gas cut was made.
The film industry plans to carry
its protest to Washington.
X \ X
Meanwhile stars and executives
continue to drive to work in any,
thing with two or more wheels
bidding spiritedly for small cars
principally of foreign make because
OF longer gas mileage-and burying
their ego.
Gone are the days when the visit
ing tourist could spot a star by the
swanky auto he or she drove.
Preston Sturges. who is 6 feet 3
inches tall, continues to create a
sensation as he wheels to work in
midget auto of foreign make. He
hasn't even room for his lunch
but he does get 40 miles to the
gallon!
Motorcycles which cost around
$3.50 new are being bartered second
hand at from $500 to $500. Foreign
wrecks, which once graced the used
car lots to be bought at any price,
now command from $1,000 to $4,000
because of superior mileage
Zasu Pitts continues to be COM
manding figure on the boulevards
because she manipulates an ancient
electric. mo gas worries for me-"
says Zasu as she whizzes by at IS
miles per hour.
Tops perhaps is Martha O'Driscoll,
who has been peddling a bicycle
steadily ever since the gas and
rubber shortage began. Martha
lives two miles from her home
studio, Universal, and makes the
round trip every day.
Il save money, use no gas, and
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Love Still Exists
Among Emotions
HOLLYWOOD.


BY the Associated Press
What has become of the old film
formula, Boy meets girl?"
In wave of realism, as exhib-
tied in war films, it would appear
that the old formula for gaining
interest in film doings had been
swept out with the clippings on the
cutting room floors.
Wake Island "Bataan," "Air
Force Destroyer, Corvette
K-22F' wasted little time on the
love theme Films with predomi-
nantly feminine casts, like Ladies
Courageous" so Proudly We Hail
and Cry Havoc" waste almost as
little time on the male element.
Yet love is too good theme for
the moviemakers to leave in cold
storage for the duration. Mervyn
Leroy still refuses to make his films
without some intelligent and believ-
able variation of the old and sue
cessful theme.
Leroy, in making Madame Curie, y
emphasized the love theme as the
motivating force behind the dual
careers that brought the world ra-
dium. Done in an unusual way, the
love story made welcome and light
ening lift to the long scientific
scenes which told the essential story
Thirty Seconds Over Toxic" is
Leroy's next celluloid. While it could
be told that 'ust as was "Guadal-
canal Diary and still pack a tre-
mendous wallop. Leroy decided to
tell the story with the factual basis
of Capt. Ted w. LaWson's own ro-
nance with his wife Ellen.
When Lawson made his forced
landing in a deserted section of
China's Seacoast, after the Toxic
raid, he received serious injuries
that neceSSitated the amputation of
his leg. His injuries left him with
out the will to live, and he was
slowly dying in the hospital when it
was decided that only the presence
of his wife and their newborn child,
whom he steadily had refused to
see, would give him back his emo
tional balance.
Spencer Tracy will play Jimmy
Doolittle, but Lawson's role is not
y cast.
Leroy is sold on the idea that any
picture to succeed with audiences
must touch them emotionally. A
love story, appropriate to the theme
of the rest of the story, is the an
SWer, he feels.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Relief for the Gasless Studied

lose pounds" she says, summing it
all up.
Some kind of record in screen
loving is being set by Spencer
Tracy.
I'm "A Guy Named joe" he makes
love to Irene Dunno as ghost.
In THE Seventh Cross" he has
a rapid-f1re 24-hour romance with
Signe Hasso. But he shares his
most exciting love scene with Karen
Verne-in dream!
* X 4
A former subproducer OF the Bing
Crosby Bob Hope pictures, used to
follow newspapermen around on the
set and tell them that the quips
Bing and Bob were pulling between
scenes were all written by their
gagmen and not to think the stars
originated them. He wanted to
fiatter his writer's.
Now there's a new subproducer on
the Bing- Bob pictures who doesn t
make such claims.
Instead, he has a shorthand ex-
pert follow the faSt-thinking, smart
cracking stars around to take down
every word they say that might
make a laugh in the picture!
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1943-12-23
.Durante Is Sensitive
TO Initiation Talk
HOTI,YWOOD


Durante rants: I'm mortified! In
one of the few scenes in which they
forget to put me in Two Sisters and
a Sailor, I'm sittin' around dis
cussin' the war and politics and
other hysterical events with some
Iof the boys. We gets to talkin'
about War bonds. but of course that
amt enough. We got to do more
than talk, SO We all decides to buy
at least one, extra bond every week
If we does that I tells them. well
be doin' plenty to keep from havin
imitation after the war is over Then
some guy ups and says. If you ask
me, imitation is already here. Well
every man is entitled to his own
opinion, but when he expresses one
like that, does he have to look
straight at my schnozzola?
Evening star., 1943-12-23

when asked where she is now, II
don't know"
Comeback department ditto: Ann
Harding, who was away from Holly
wood much longer than Miss Rainer,
before she returned to play Mrs.
Joseph E. Davies in Mission to
Moscow apparently is destined to
stay there now. At any rate, she
has been assigned to one of the
major roles in JAMIE" the Broad
way success which Warner Bros.
produced in conjunction with Brock
Pemberton.
The studios exhibitors, polled on
! the subject of Miss Harding, re-
ported that audiences seemed very
happy to see her again after all
those years.
Technical department: Helmut
Dantine, the Scandinavian refugee
actor who relishes playing Nazi roles
as form of revenge upon Nazi in
vaderS of his native Denmark, is one
OF the cinema's most rapidly rising
young actors. AS such, he is prob
lem to technicians who work on the
same films.
The problem lies in the circum-
stance that Mr.. Dantine is rather
on the noisy side in his camera kiss
ing, the result of his intensity
political, not emotional, it should be
understood.
AS the story goes around Warmers
studio, his first and only screen kiss
was when he kissed Eleanor Parker's
hand in Mission to Moscow" 1t
was so noisy that it all but blew
fuse In the recording mechanism.
The cinema's more skilled people
in osculation are very silent about
it, the Boyers, etc.
Mr.. Dantine is being urged to
copy them against the day when he
ceases to be the fellow in the menace
role and becomes the hero.
y
Juvenile department.: Critic s
with the longest memories are going
far beyond Shirley Temple, Deanna
Durbin and others of the more re-
cent juveniles when they try to find
a youngster to compare with Mar
garet O'Brien's performance in
Lost Angel"
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Production department: Critics
who saw Flesh and Fantasy"
screened yesterday were much more
engrossed by the fact that Charles
Boyer was its co-producer than that
he appeared in one of the leading
roles. 1t was not that M. Boyer
has lost any of his skill as an imper-
senator of the tormented lover, but
rather that the film indicates the
curiosity of the Gallo mind in
stories dealing with the metaphys-
ical, the dreamlike, the abstract, or
whatever one prefers to call it.
Flesh and Fantasy" Is none of
your boy-meets-girl material. It
deals with the stuff that dreams are
made of-and so, for that matter,
did Universals steak luncheon which
followed the screening.
Evening star., 1943-12-23

Rhine"
If that was a supporting per-
formance, white is black, Bette
Davis is merely promising cinema
actress although she played the
lead" in the picture in question:
and Caesar is the logical man to
lead the second front in Northern
Europe. or Gaul.
We should like to see Mr.. Lukas
win THAT prize to make all previ-
Gus and subsequent Hollywood prizes
look completely phoney.
X X X
Comeback department: Hos
tages," the picture in which Miss
Lulse Ralner makes her return to
the cinema, will open tomorrow at
the Metropolitan.
During the making of the picture
at Paramount's studios, there was
endless chatter on the part of the
publicity department about Miss
Rainer's change of heart, how
she no longer was temperamental
thought the cinema was a great
institution, felt the artist had his,
or her, greatest opportunity in max
Ing pictures. The talk sounded
promisingly unlike that related to
Miss Rainers old career, the one
in which she won two Academy
Awards in successive years for her
performances in The Great Zieg-
field" and The Good Earth" Both
Miss Rainer and Hollywood had
grown wise enough to see that tenn
perament was a foolish thing, the
discerning said after reading the
stories of their new attitudes.
But since Hostages" was COM
pleted months ago, there has been
no mention of Miss Rainer in the
Hollywood columns.
The HollywoodianS who have
visited this department always reply
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

stage.
National-"The Gondoliers":: $50
pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Jack London: IL am.
1:40, 4:30, 7:20 and 10 pm Stage
shows: l, $50, $40 and 9:25 pm.
Columbia-"Whistling in Brook
lyn'; Ills am, lis, $40, 5:25, 7::3O
and 9:35 pm.
Earle - Northern Pursuit.: IL
am, l:35, 4:25, ITO and $50 pm
Stage shows: /, $50, $50 and 9:15
pm.
Keith's Government Girl:
11:25 am, 1:25, $3.50, $50, 7::35 and
$40 pm.
LittIe-"Jeannie":: II am, 1880.
2:35. 4:20, 6:O5, 7:50 and $50 pm.
tropolita n-"In Old Okla
homa":: II am, LOS, BIS, $40, TBS
and $50 pm.
Palace "Lassie Come Home:
l0:45 am, 12:55,.3:10, 5:25. TAO and
9:55 pm.
Pix-"Dr. Maniac; 3:O5, 5::25, 8
and 1920 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 az
Evening star., 1943-12-23

beer cellar putch in November, 1928.
The song, "Oh. Fatherland, Most
Holy Land" will be sung by 500
extras re-enacting the march staged
from the beer cellar to the Felderrn-
halle, in THE Hitler Gang" On No
|vember 8, 1923, Hitler attempted to
seize power and the next day
marched with his party troops and
Evening star., 1943-12-23
'Mendelssohn Kin
Helps a Studio
HOLLYWOOD.

Musical talent inherited from the
composer Mendelssohn Is helping
Hollywood to make an authentic
picture concerning the present day
rulers in his native land, Germany
Madeline Mcndelssohn, his great
Observation-Disclosures and herself a
music writer, translated the song
which Hitler ard his party troops
sang during the ill-fated Munich
Evening star., 1943-12-23

General Won Ludendorf into the
center Of Munich. They were met
by police and in pitched battle
II Nazis were killed and the putsch
failed
Evening star., 1943-12-23
3l6 THE EVENING STAR. Washington. D c.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER s4a
Supporting Is Hollywoodese
For Lukas' Prize-Worthy Role
BY JAY CARMODY.

Dudgeon department Among the other things that
Hollywood Journalists
Hollywood thinking generally the almost
certain to win this years Academy Award supporting
performance
The performance report so blandy
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
Jackson-Childs

Miss Ruth Elizabeth Jackson,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. ID. Jack
son of Principle Furnace, was mar
reid on the evening of June 10th,
at the home of her parents, to Pfc.
Robert w. Childs, son of Mrs. George
w. Childs and the late Mr.. Childs, of
Philadelphia, by the Rev. Ralph w.
Hopkins, of Port Deposit. The
couple was attended by Mr.. and Mrs.
Abbis D. Jackson of Perryville.
Mrs. Childs is graduate of Per-
ryville High School and PIERCE School
of Business Administration, Phila-
delphia. Since graduation from school
she has been employed by law firm
in Philadelphia until April LIST, when
she accepted position in the Office
of the Commandant, U. S. Naval
Training Station, cambridge. Mr..
Childs is a graduate of North East
High School, Philadelphia, and at
the time of his induction into the
Army in October was a member of
the senior class of Temple University.
He is now stationed at New Cumber-
land, Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
Young-Heath

Miss Margaret Alice You n g /,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren E..
Young, Claymont, Del, and Mr.. H.
Garrett Heath, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Garrett Heath, ST., North
East, Md, were married on Satur-
day in St. Stephens Evangelical
Lutheran church, Wilmington. The
Rev. Robert Miller, pastor of St.
Marks Evangelical church, oficiated.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. Matron of honor was
Mrs. Warren e. Young, Jr., sister-in-
law of the bride. Bridesmaids were
the Misses Elizabeth Bright, Doris
Pinder, Margaret Scully, and Doris
Wilson, all of Claymont and class
mates of the bride.
Mr.. Paige Hamilton of North East,
was the best man and Messrs. Earl
Cameron, Robert Phillips, Murray
Pritchard, and Nelson Heath, all of
North East, were ushers.
They will reside in North East.
Mr.. Heath is civilian employee at
the Aberdeen Proving Ground and
attended the North East High School
and the H. Fletcher Brown High
School. Wilmington. Mrs. Heath is a
graduate of the Claymont High
School and was employed by the
Worth Steel Company.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
July Meeting W.C.T.U.

The July Meeting of the w. G.. T.
U. was held at the home of Mrs. Amy
Logan, Thursday afternoon. Devo-
tions in charge of Mrs. J. r. Bicking.
Singing 20 Master Let Me Walk
With Thee" Scripture reading, Ro-
mans, IL chapter. Prayer, Mrs. Bick-
ing. Singing, Let the Beauty of Je-
sus Be Seen in Me-" Talk on the
topic, Learning in the School of
Christ" Singing, go Ye Forth and
Seed Be Sowing" The minutes were
read and approved. The usual gift
of the Young Crusader to the col
ored schools was authorized. The
county president, Miss Bertha Bal
derston gave her report ON law en-
forcement, also gave plans for the
county convention. Rainbow litera-
ture was distributed and plans made
for future distribution in churches
and public places. Program in charge
of Mrs. Ruth e. Ewing, who read
"a Soldiers Plea" "a Hymn to Air.
men," Miss Elizabeth Stephens read
an article on "Rationing Food not
Drink" Miss Bertha Balderston read
"The Upward Pull, Closed with sing
ing. The hostess served refreshments
of fruit juice and cookies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
State Toll Bridge
Receipts Drop
Ban On Gasoline Reflect
ed On The Susque-
hanna River Span
hanna River Span

Receipts from the states two toll
bridges over the Susquehanna and
Potomac Rivers have dropped below
the amounts estimated by traffic en-
gineers as being a fair average
monthly income for the first time in
the three years the structures have
been in operation.
The greatest decrease was report
ed on the Susquehanna span.
According to a recapitulation by
William A. Codd, chief auditor OF
the State Roads Commission, the
bridges are now returning only
about two-thirds the revenue they
did before gasoline rationing.
For the first five months of this
year, Mr.. Codd revealed, the average
monthly revenue from the two
bridges totaled $47,044, or $4,000
less than the $49,166 estimated as
necessary during this year to meet
operating expenses and amortize the
bonds.
The average monthly revenue
since the bridges were opened three
years ago has amounted to $4,000,
as compared with the $39,584 esti-
mated as the average monthly income
necessary to amortize the bonds and
meet expenses during the entire 20
year life of the bonds under which
the structures were financed.
Revenue from the two bridges has
declined steadily in the past three
years.
The decline in revenue has result
ed from the sharp decrease in traf-
fic over the SusQuehanna bridge at
Havre de Grace. In May, 1941, tolls
collected there totaled over $4,000.
Last May they amounted to only
$4,000.
The number of vehicles travers-
ing the bridge during the same
month declined from 358, 900 to 1885,
900 during the same period.
While revenue on the Susquehan-
ma River bridge shas declined, toll
collections on the Potomac River
bridge have increased slightly, Mr..
Codd reported.
Income from the bridge during
May, for example, totaled nearly
$4,000, as opposed to the $4,000
collected in May, 1941.
State Roads officials anticipate a
continued decrease in overall reve-
nue. from the two bridges. On July
2, 8, 4. and 5 of this year only 21,-
600 vehicles utilized the bridges as
compared with the 41,000 which
crossed them on those days year
ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
Avistion Machinist Mate

A job helping to keep the air.
planes of the U. S. Navy in fighting
condition awaits Lloyd G. Clifford,
%, son of Mr. John X. Clifford, Ris-
ing Sun, Maryland, who was gradu-
ated from the Naval Air Technical
Training Center, Navy Pier, Chicago,
Ill, last week. Given an immediate
promotion to the petty officer rating
of aviation machinist's mate, third
class, he will be assigned to duty
aboard an aircraft carrier or at a
Naval Air Base.
Selected for this special training
upon the basis of series of apti-
tude tests taken during recruit
training, the Bluejacket has receiv-
ed instruction in the principles and
theory of flying, and the operation
and repair Of all types Of aircraft.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16

WOMEN OF CECIL
COUNTY WE
SALUTE YOU

You've scrubbed floors; you've
washed clothes; you've fed family;
you've nursed babies. You've done
all the things that are additionally
known as "women's work"
Now you will be faced with anoth-
er call. Your country is going to ask
you to help with the canning crops.
We have no fear that you, together
with the men and boys and girls will
rally to the call.
Because there is a shortage of
help-a shortage so acute as to be a
genuine crisis, 1t is going to be neces-
sary for this entire community to
pitch in together to handle the can
ming crops when they are ready,
The canned corn and tomatoes that
we ship from Cecil County are fight
ing foods-foods that go to war.
For more than every other can will
be shipped direct from here to our
government for our armed forces or
our brave Allies. Perhaps some of
these very cans from here will get
to some of our own boys who have
left Cecil County to fight the forces
of evil that are abroad in the world.
Stranger things have happened. But
at any rate they will go to some
other boys who will benefit just as
much.
You've lived around here too long
for us to presume to tell you what
kind of work it is-this picking of
the vegetables in the fields and can
ming them in the factories.
Because you know you're going
to work long hours, because you will
give up your freedom for many weeks
during sunny, summer weather; be-
cause you will come home night after
night, worn in body and in spirit;
because you know it and still have
the will to do tive salute you!
Food" our President said in his
Farm Mobilization Proclamation
is no less weapon than tanks, guns
and planes"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
Practice BlackOut
Monday Night July 10

A Statewide practice blackout will
be held on Monday, July 18th, dur
ing which an audible FALL clear" sig
nal-a steady Is second blast-on
air raid warning systems, will be
given trial, w.. Frank Roberts,
Chairman of the Maryland Council
of Defense, announced.
Mr.. Roberts pointed out that the
practice blackout on Monday even
ing, will follow the regular proceed
ure of all previous air raid tests, the
only change will be the sounding of
an audible "all clear" signal to ter
inmate the alert.
The audible "all clear" of fifteen
seconds, which will be tested Monday
evening, will signal that all danger
has passed, ending the alert
If the audible "all clear" trial
proves successful it will be consid-
cred for official adoption by State
Civilian Defense authorities, Mr..
Roberts said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16
Joins Youth
Caravan Service

Miss Dorothy Fell of Calvert, is
one of eighty college young people
preparing at Pottstown, for a sum-
mer of Youth Caravan service under
the auspices of the Board of Educa-
ton of the Methodist Church. DR..
Walter Towner of Nashville, Tenn,
secretary of Youth Work, is in
charge, assisted by a faculty Of five
young peoples specialists Repre-
sentatives from more than thirty
colleges and universities are in
the group.
The Pottstown group is part Of q
nationwide movement now in its
fifth year. Last year seven-week itin-
eraries were carried out by 50 Cara
vans touching STA pastoral charges.
The Caravaners serve without pay,
their maintenance and travel being
provided by the churches they visit.
After graduating from Calvert Ag-
ricultural High School, Miss Fell en-
tered the University Of Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16

Use common sense at all times.
A Red Signal will ALWAYS be fol-
lowed by another Blue Signal Gin
not less than five minutes).
All war industries and U. S. Army
or Navy installations, which have
demonstrated their ability to black
out on all test daylight air raids or
blackout for at least FIVE minutes,
(unless exempt by the Service Com
mandy
BLUE SIGNAL: (After the Red
Signal: Given to the Public by the
warnings as reviously given for the
first Blue Signal, indicating a RE-
TURN ATTACK PROBABLE. 1t is a
long note, like the first blue signal
two minutes long, at steady pitch.
Pedestrians and motor vehicular
traffic may proceed with dim or ow-
beam headlights. (Under actual con-
ditions, instead of tests, war indus
tries resume operations. ALL 9TH
Err BUILDINGS AND HOUSES RE-
MAIN BLACKED OUT.
Keep radio on for announcements
and the "ALL CLEAR" signal.
WHITE SIGNAL: A public signal
indicating ALL CLEAR, given by a
steady fifteen second blast of sirens
or whistles, by radio, telephone to
Civilian Defense Services and Report
Centers, and BY TURNING ON THE
CTSD nET TTNLITC Ct,oa+ 1;rIte ONO
only turned on when this signal is
received, and then lights may be
turned on in all buildings. The black
out is over.
Blue signals mean blackout, but
pedestrians and traffic may move; red
signal means blackout with pedes-
TRANS of the streets and traffic may
not move THIS INCLUDES DE-
TENSE WORKERS, BUSES, etc.
Ordinarily, Blue Signal, which
is followed by Red Signal, then
followed by a Blue. These are ordi-
narily timed at about twenty minute
intervals, depending on the speed of
enemy planes. It is possible that the
first signal received may be Red,
Because there is not sufficient time,
but a Blue Signal will always follow
a Red, and in turn may be followed
by another Red, indicating the re-
turn of the planes A White Signal
may follow Blue Signal, but not the
Red. The Red must always be follow
ed by a Blue, and then the White
will be given.
Civilian Defense Services should
always be ready to assist the author
tiles in the event of any emergency
or catastrophy, but when so engaged,
wear your arm bands.
Sirense, horns and whistles must
not be used for time signals, and If
used to indicate changing of shift,
ETC., there should be short blast not
exceeding 10 seconds. They should
be tested at noon Saturday, giving
the long blast for two minutes,
then at 1904, the, Red" or air raid
signal for two minutes and at 1903,
the long blast for two minutes indi-
eating the BLUE" after the "Red"
signal. At no time must these sig
nails be simulated,
Motor vehicles carrying the mail
to trains may proceed during tests
If they have the &c D." pennant dis
played on the bumper as outlined
above. These can be obtained by ap-
plication to the Chief Air Raid War
den.
Edward D. E. Rollins,
Chief Air Raid Warden for Cecil
County.