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Evening star., 1943-03-14
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

What Is the movie business going
to do to make the customers forget
the absence of name" leading men?
One striking answer manifests on
every major lot today and it's all
summed in a four-letter word:
LEGS.
Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Victor
Mature, Tyrone Power, John Payne
dozens more in the hero and lead
ing-lnan category-have gone off to
war. In another few months drama
may be left high and dry for want
of boy to meet girl, so in the interim
Hollywood is concentrating on
movies stressing release, relaxation
and amusement. And the film folks
learned long ago to abbreviate that
phrase with-LEGS.
A look-see around the lots today
is revealing. AS never before, Holly
wood is up on its toes. The slogan is
bring on the dancing girls"
They All Shall Dance.
The toes are light, fantastic-and
feminine-and, when it comes to
psychological warfare, probably as
good for civilian and soldier morale
as any number of the super-duper
war epics currently in release and
production.
Feminine stars who have never
thought OF dancing before are being
called into front Offices and told that
forthcoming movies will require their
Evening star., 1943-03-14

did account of herself as a dancer
in Riding High" especially with
one fantastic routine logged out in
full Indian regalia, and doing what
amounts to an Indian hula.
At MGM and at Goth Century,
Fox, they not only dance, they roller
skate. At MGM we find Miss Melva
Block, 18, who holds the national
roller skating title for women, per-
forming before chorus of roller
queens in Private Miss Jones" "
There's competition at Goth Gen.
tury- Fox, where blonde Gloria Nord,
Western champ. is also featured in
an elaborate roller revue for Sweet
Rosie O'Grady" They not only
skate-they dance. Makes it lot
faster on rollers.
Greer Carson, as conservative a
dramatic actress as they come, as
tonished her clientele, as we'll as
her sponsors, when she broke out in
a snappy Highland fling for scenes
in Random Harvest" Now the pub
lie wants more dancing from Greer.
Hedy Lamar, who has never had to
do more in pictures than be Hedy
Lamar, danced, too, in white
Cargo"
Such pictures as "Coney Island"
with Betty Cradle in unusually lus-
cious and costly settings, and "Du
Barry Was a Lady," with Lucille
Ball, are already giving evidence
that Hollywood is no wallflower this
wear,
Evening star., 1943-03-14

presence in speciality stepping num-
bers. They are rushing off to dane
ing teachers, frantically putting in
long hours rehearsing intricate steps
and movements to meet the oncom-
ing cycle.
Joan Leslie has just danced her
self all the way across town, from
Warmers Thank Your Lucky Stars"
to RKO's THE Sky's the Limit" !"
Dinah Shore, who makes her film
debut in Thank Your Lucky Stars"
also makes her dancing debut in
the same picture.
AS a matter of fact, that picture
puts taps and pumps on a lot of
girls who heretofore have confined
their dancing to night club floors
around town. Ida Lupino, Olivia
de Havilland, Alexis Smith and even
Bette Davis, renowned tragedienne
of movieland, all appear as steppers.
A few weeks ago, Dorothy Lamour
was hurriedly called into conference
at Paramount. Much to her genu-
inc fright, she learned that orders
were out for her to do three dances
in Riding High" Now. many times
before, as all movie customers know,
Dorothy has appeared in scanty
little outfits known as sarongs and
looking for all the world as though
she were about to break out in a
dance of some sort. Never, however,
has she actually danced in a movie.
She has just finished giving splen-
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Horror Holds the Stage
And a Woman Writes War Play
That Catches Its Meaning
Rv Lawrence Perry.
BY Lawrence Perry.
NEW YORK.

One of the amazing things Men Shadow" presented by
Max Gordon
Mary Hayey England
the running it
piece d suspense physical
pebond gripping play Broadway
and only those of of its audiences who be
possibility derive this macabre offering
1t brings and what oseoo closeto
those whose acquaintance with armed conflict has been gained through
lectures returned from various fronts from the daily
press pictorial weekles and motion pictures
cannot leave the Morosco Tea with detached about
war and its human effects for you have been made part Of its cruelty
Guadacanal been perhaps
Shadow which, incidentally comfortably If
enses at all delicate Yet who that we Americans
far from the do not need sit through 1t? o there 1t waiting
for n West Fory-hfth street.
Three men of nations unidentified
have been member of the famous American Eagle SQUADRON have
hideout old windmill Occupied France where lives French girl
Che the only female member of the cast At oppone times the
sally forth to engage in sabotage II
Horror orror as Play
loft baed
out of his plane the mill has broken leg Word that
within hours the injured aviator
leg Accordingly this those untuoed
imagination will suffice to picture that dreadful scene
literally full
the audience which hear the cracking of the
and spinal column the neck slowly broken realism farher2
canand does when Naz soldier umbes the retreat
ALL short pnitey vengeu ferocity overlaid with dramatic
unoded with literary SKILL albeit at times the action depends
the artistry skilled than things
like provide
pretty primitive japery
escape throughout
the Hagave leader
Harens the injured contributes notably indeed does
the entire including Mhelee Buani the French girl
establish the mood of the
NeverD Proves
Memo to Jews.
They had draped the Madison bunting
the oneke
tablets bearing of
solemnlty all the grandeur
Jews slaughtered by Naz terror echoed the
upon thousands of those assembled
I'VE Will Never the slain
of the Jewish
Written by Ben Hech staged by
was demonstration
emotional by
cantors chanting Hebrew
Inc memorial divided into three
the present.
e. Robinson their
Naz
throughout the building Luther
Rudley, participants
deep sincerity their Men Ams
unforgeable
y the NorthA American Nevspa
Evening star., 1943-03-14
HOLLYWOOD

A pudgy. moon-faced little fellow
with thinning hair, his face sneared
with brownish makeup, waddled
into the Paramount commissary
one noon recently and sat down
alone at a long table.
He slipped pair Of glasses over
his nose and was Immediately i'm
mersed in the menu-so impressed,
in fact, that he failed to note that
the long table had suddenly filed
up. Studio executives, directors and
a scattering of actors had quietly
joined the little fellow.
1t was not until a waitress appear
ed at his elbow that the little fellow
looked up. He looked up at huge
pink and white cake, its frosted
top covered with burning candles.
The strains of Happy Birthday"
floated into the room through a
phonograph recording and every
body began to sing.
1t was Victor Moore's 9th birth
day and his friends in the Holly
wood end of show business, of which
Victor has been SO much a vital part
for so years, were out to do him
honor. Y. Frank Freeman, the gen.
eral manager was there and so were
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing
Crosby and many other actors. Victor
Moore'S eyes were damn as he looked
into the faces of his filmtown we'll
Wishers. His timid little voice seemed
even more wavering and apologetic.
Comedy Sense Flawless.
Few actors in the business can
look back on such a record. Fifty
years in show business is a lot of
years to look back on. 1t was in 1893
that Moore began his professional
career-as a super in a Boston stage
production. He is starring today in
film musical called Riding High"
with Dorothy Lamour and Dick
Powell. He plays gentle CRATER
who can't resist making beautiful
Evening star., 1943-03-14

come back to sunny California and
the bright lights of a studio. I'll
never forget the Wistful note in
Richard Greene's voice when I saw
him in England nearly two years
ago as he reminded me that he was
still under contract to Goth Century
Fox and would report for work as
soon as he was discharged from the
Army. And you can look for David
Niven, the wife, and the new baby
boy after the war. David is now ap-
preaching his forties, but I think
he can continue the same amusing
type of character he played before
he left. II only because he hadn't
had enough of them. Greene is
actually in better spot, because he
still is in his tWenties and his pres
ent life has removed the pretty-boy
cast from his face.
I'm not as sure of the return of
Laurence Olivier And if he does
not come back, wife Vivian Leigh
stays in England, too The couple
prefer stage work, and it's my guess
that they will first of all appear in
a play together in London, take it
to New York if a success, and then
they might come to Hollywood.
The war interval should be
career godsend to Freddie Barthol-
NEW and Jackie Cooper, and Dead
ender Billy Halop. They were too
young for good, leading man roles.
They will be men in every sense of
the word when the fighting is over.
II Van Hef1in has any hair left by
the time peace Is declared, and even
II he hasn't, there will be a big well
come awaiting him from the fans
who had only small chance to
sample Vans cinematic wares before
Uncle Sam took over. This boy is
good and it seemed pity that he
could not have made a few more
pictures to establish himself firmly.
But he Is better off than man like
George Reeves who got his first big
chance with Claudette Colbert in
$50 Proudly We Hail" before report
ing for service with the Paratroop-
erS.
Some Have No Worries.
Men like Tyrone Power, Ronald
Reagan, William Holden, Henry
Fonda, Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; John
Payne, and perhaps Victor Mature,
have nothing to worry about. They
are all young and were at the height
OF film fame before they left Holly
woo6 Boys in the secondary movie
brackets-I mean players like Robert
Preston. John Shelton, Dan Daily,
(See GRAHAM, Page E-3)
Evening star., 1943-03-14
To Victor Belongs
When Its Moore, What Belongs
Is the Love of a Nation

thousand-dollar bills without Gov
ernment sanction. Oldtimers and
newcomers alike watch him on the
set and marvel at the fawless sense
of comedy timing which puts a
punch into every one of his scenes.
Victor Moore could tell them how
he came by Through half a CEN
tury Of trouping, here. there and
everywhere, and in almost every
branch Of show business from side
show barker to the galloping cell
lulolds. And that half a century
adds up to a collection of memories
so rich and varied any trouper
might envy him.
Not all of them are pleasant men,
ories. Victor has had to play bene-
fits to get out of towns in his day.
He's had show close right out from
under him because the leading lady.
husband committed suicide by leap.
ing from their hotel window. He's
| done as many as 40 shows in a single
year.
Once, in Newark, N. j., he tried
being manager as well as an actor.
After playing two of the hottest June
weeks on record in that city, he had
exactly $1710 to split up among the
company. Then and there he de-
termined never to be show man
ager again. He never has.
Excerpt From a Diary.
His famous vaudeville act, Change
Your Act" was purchased for the
sum of SIPS. He played it on and
of for 25 years. Through most of
them his wife was his partner. He
has kept sort of career diary. The
description therein of the beginning
of the great romance of his life is
touching in its simplicity. 1t reads
like this:
"A sister act was playing at Hen
derson'S Coney. 1t was called Lyton
and Littlefield. Littlefield was little
and cute and nice and I fell in love
with her. We were married June %,
1908, at Jersey City"
They celebrated their 25th we'd
ding anniversary with party for
800 guests at the Belvedere Hotel
in New York. They had been mar
rted IA years when their first child,
a daughter named Ora for Victor's
sister, was born. Three years later
along came son, Robert Emmet
Moore, now a private in the United
States Army. Two months after his
birth Emma Littlefield Moore re-
joined her husbands vaudeville act.
They carried both children and a
nurse with them over the Orpheum
circuit, cooking all the youngsters
food in hotel rooms.
Moore was in Hollywood making
picture for Universal In 1884 On
(See MOORE, Page E-3J
Evening star., 1943-03-14
War Puts Feminine Stars On Their Pretty Toes
Servcmen Demand That Favortes Shall Dance and They Do
No Matter How Many Lessons and Strains It Means

Harriette Olson, who can do bal
let, tap. ballroom or shuttle in her
stride, has recently created a new
dance for pictures, a combination
of ballroom steps with ballet. 1t is
called the Hollywood Ballet and
will be introduced shortly. A profile
of this number leaves the impress
sion of nymph involved in a series
of swirly bends and extraordinarily
high kicks. Harriette is the girl who
taught James Cagney his George
M. Cohan stepping routines for
Yankee Doodle Dandy"
More dancers-Betty Hutton in
Let's Face tt at Paramount; Bar
bara Stanwyck, doing pretty close
to strip tease routine in Hunt
Stromberg's Lady of Burlesque";
colored chorus with Bill Robinson
in Stormy Weather" at Goth Cen
tury-Fox: more dancing girls than
you can shake slipper at in stage
Door Canteen"; Mickey Rooney
and Judy Garland stepping high
In Girl Crazy; Lucille Ball in
Best Foot Forward" and the
United States Army in This Is the
Army"
No doubt about it, Hollywood is
on its toes. Maybe, when the hand
some boys come back they'll have
to dance, too.
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paper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Some Refnements
In Vocabulary
Since Army Advent
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
The cast of This Is the Army" is
changing Hollywood's slang habits.
To them a soldier with glasses is
automatically ':Dr. Cyclops."
Any one who displays tempera-
ment is referred to as "a demented
character"
A soldier who goes visiting for a
free meal or sponges generally is
described as being ION the schnorr."
The origin of this expression is the
loW-German phrase for "beggar,"
"schnorrer."
To come to the point of discus
sion is ito put the Finger in it."
A sloppy soldier Cor civilian Is
known as &c. I. Creep"
The halcyon day when soldiers
are paid Is termed tapping the
uncle's till"
And a top sergeant Is now known
as q poor mans gremlin."
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Today's Theater Schedules

Stage.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of 1922 musical OF the shuberts:
230 $50 and $50 pm.
CAPITOLThe Crystal Ball. Pauee Goddard gazing: 23o sos
745 and 1925 Stage shows las
COLUMBIA-"Meanest
$780, 305 4:50, 6:35, pm.
EARLEAir Force Flying the Japs
and s35 pm. Stage shows $3.50, $40 and 9:1o pm.
KEITHS"Shadow of Doubt" thrills Hitchcock: 3:05
7:20 and 9:35 pm
Town" the Wilder story: l. 20
$780, 5:35 TAO pm
Doodle Dandy" biography George
Cofan: 1870 405 $40 and 9:35 pm.
PALACE-"Random
AIS and pm
PIX-"Bringing tiger:
$685. 735 $50 pm.
-LUX-News shorts: Continuous from / nm
Evening star., 1943-03-14

nc SdAu IIc uAuIl AAhC tllC tAIlSSl Sllt-'
ter of the place and would never re-
turn. II he changes his mind (which
would be only at the prompting of
his wife, Madeleine Carroll, and 1
don't think she will prompt him)
Hollywood would welcome him back.
There is still long future for Stir
ling in pictures.
But how about Tony Martin, who
was recently in spot of trouble re-
garding his enlistment in the Navy?
Martin, as soon as he was able, re-
ported for induction in the Army.
But I still think his future in films
has big question mark.
Lew Ayres, who has also rehabili-
tated himself with service in the
Medical Corps, has stated that he
will not return here after the war.
George Montgomery says the same,
but I think he will come back to
work out the remainder of his fat
contract at Goth Century-Fox. 1t.
Robert Montgomery will probably
sidestep his Hollywood career after
the war and devote himself to poll
tics, his real love. In any case, there
will be no more drawing room COM
edies with Bob.
Age May Affect Stewart.
1t Jimmy Stewart Of the Army
Air Corps was one of the first film
ties to be called by the draft. He
went willingly but I think he will
return yet more willingly to Holly
wood. Whether he can pick up his
career where he left it off is another
question. Jimmy is now around 35-
and even the conservatives think the
war will last another two years. Will
Jimmy be able or want to play the
Boy Scout type of role that made
him famous in the past? He was the
sort of Boy Scout before, in the way
that Gary Cooper still is. The blood,
thunder and prosaic reality CT war is
liable to change him. And then he'd
want to play more mature screen
roles.
Another thing, will there be room
in pictures for all the returning
screen stars AS each man is called
to service some other man or an
old timer gets an opportunity to
make good or keep going. viii men
like Sonny Tufts, Orson Welles, Don
Ameche, Kent Taylor, Enrol Flynn,
Walter Pidgeon, Humphrey Bogart,
George Sanders, Eddie Lowe. Spen-
Ger Tracy and Van johnson be able
to hold their own in screenland
when the boys in khaki and navy
come back? After all, there are
only SO many pictures made a year,
and the supply of men will ex-
ceed the demand after the war.
The younger men in the services
will probably have better chance
of re-establishing themselves than
the older film actors. Although
boys of the Clark Gable caliber will
always be popular, no me tier how
old they get or how long the war
lasts And Gene Raymond who is
currently distinguishing himself as
captain in the Army Air Forces.
Gene will reverse the order of
things think. He was just about
through in pictures. put aside as a
pale personality. He has proved he
is far from that, and If I were a
producer I'd sign him quickly for
an action film after the war.
Most of the players who returned
to fight in England are just pray
ing for the day when pey can
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Personal Unbendine
Of Will Hays
HOLLYWOOD

HOJLY WOOD.
In "Our Hearts Were Young and
Gay" there is one border-nne situa-
ton in the travels Of the two author
heroines that Producer Sheridan
Gibney was doubtful about getting
on the screen. He spotted VIII Hays
dining in Hollywood cafe one night
and conf1ded his fears to the movie
czar. You have my word for it that
the scene will be passed." says Hays.
If you film it exactly as you've
described" Which is probably the
first case on record of a producer
getting blue ticket before his story
has been adapted.
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Shipping Wife

Adolphe Menjou has been going to
the same barber. in little shop on
Hollywood boulevard, for the past
% years. A few weeks ago the bar
ber became i'll. Adolph wouldn't
accept a substitute. He insisted on
his wife giving him = quick trim
and she did.
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Coming Attractions

Stage
NATIONAL-"The Corn Williams
Barrymore; opening
CAPITOL"Tennessee
starting Thursday
COLUMBIA-'Random Harvest" Carson and Ronald
Colman; third downtown starting Thursday
EARLE-"Star Spangled Rhythm" nnumerabe
KEITH Htlers Children" with Bonita Granville
LITTLEThe by Chaplin revival
starting Wednesday
PALACE-"The Thomas
Henry Fonda; starting Thursday
PIXKng Kong" King Kong revival starting Wednesday,
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Let There Be Darkness
In Effect That Was Welles' Word
To Cameraman-and Good One
Bv Jaw Carmody.


Mr. Harde Meakin, ound YOU
cannot quite identity sequences of Shadow
Doubt" last Thursday
You whispered Meakin but this
fellow good for pictures"
The tense seemed dispose Wenes thoraghlya
than is called for by the actors job in the
ha OF the general attitude of producers exhibitors
is empeamentaly uncertain that
VI " Np "
The good to which referring do the
the lighting by
Alfred Hitchcock They good and lighting in
seeming freakish They like being
written by an observan and artculate author thing
and various depths The degree light
sciosy by director who
1t in short good photography and
Mr. Meaknthe feeling that directors writing
with cameras these days.
Welles Went to HOLLYWOOD
With Many Pertinent Questions.
The credit that might huge,
Wos who is going into the Army after
cinema public.
Perhaps he solely to Holly
wood with pertinent Hollywood
right they mpernen questions they
Welles wanted
He curious of.nsvey
the dark Why did all scenes have to be leted
getting up the
morning? Couldn't Hollywood find the the fact
Miss Crawford might look rumped under certain circumstances
Why did have ceilings? either
midnight the movies far lighting concerned
couldn't be 73 in IN a January night?
In life, Weles reasoned beautiful smudged
made them look little
Like all
funny lines belong Sges) remark that light
the movies But having laughed he went right thinking that the
should be like life
the
hole thinking
right seeking 10 questions
He found lot Of .hem and them
picture which lot CT cid
of
photography writing with
hev diked the nmaon that thew had tean en ' al thi way
menting. He
regarded dsaeeeable
Objectionable
Wele tempeamontaly oahsomel
Mr. Meakin probably capped
week Wees call the
for pictures"
And, undoubtedly. will
Flamenco Dancer
Gloria Swansons Show.
When al tomorrow night
'Prcties OF l9A' Will Of
1t will he that o. Carmen Amaya the
Snbac character might will
that of Glora performer suddenly
framed Willie
more suitable for the standpoint O
Miss Swanson the show, which she
comedy note, without
Analysts
judgment which
appeared
of Prandeno
Miss Amaya who practices complex should
n
Evening star., 1943-03-14
After the War, What?
Male Movie Stars Careers Remain
"A Higher Unsettled Problem
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD


When this
wood-what picture
Hollywood?
rience little with
Stirling Hayden Will fighting
over? Marine HAYDEN left HOLLYWOOD months before Pearl
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