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Evening star., 1943-07-25
Virginia's Eyes Are A>Goggle
By Inga Arvad.

at her ease while we lunch at the
Astor Hotel. "It is simply terrific
But the automats are supercolossal.
We don't have them on the coast.
Just imagine all the wonderful
things you get for dime. If 1t
were not for my personal appearance
at LoeW's State, I would be roaming
around New York all day, just look
ing
mo, of course am not nervous on
the STAGE" continues this young
singing lady. We'll, I was one day,
but that was because Judy Garland
was in the audience. You could hear
my knees shaking. Judy is q friend
of mine and I hope some day to ar
I've not where she is, but well. some
where near that" And there is
great awe in her voice.
Not Destined for Movies.
II never thought Virginia was
going to be success on the screen"
says cameo-faced Mrs. Weidler. "All
my children have been in the movies,
because they were able to speak
French and Spanish, but when Vir-
ginia wouldn't take her dress off at
the age of said to myself, This
one will have to stay home She
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Evening star., 1943-07-25
HOLLYWOOD.

Know of some good stories whose
heroines are ill-tempered, conniving,
underhanded, undependable, tenn
peramental, vicious, grasping, ire
deemable so-and-sos? If so, kindly
call them to the attention of Miss
Susan Hayward, address Paramount
Studio, Hollywood, Calf. Miss Hay
ward will do the rest.
Probably no actress in Hollywood
history has ever taken such a stub
born land successfully stand about
the parts she wants to play. Susan
is young, beautiful and talented and
yet she will have no part of the
routine sweet and sticky impersona-
tlons the average star insists upon.
Her studio bosses gaze upon her ad-
miringly-and fail to understand.
AS result the Hayward career
it's rounding out it's fourth year
has been nothing short of turbulent.
One suspension has followed another
at Paramount So far as turning
down roles and layoffs are con-
cerned, she is the female George
Raft. This is strange, indeed, when
the Hayward chips are counted.
Every role she has selected has
turned into a scintillating triumph.
Evening star., 1943-07-25

was year old five days ago, and, as
Joan remarked at the beginning of
this column, it's been a happy year
for her.
1--WE haven't been to a restaurant
or night club for four months" says
Joan happily. why should we?"
interjects Terry. why go out and
get rousted around by lot of peo-
pie we don't like?" And the prices
in the restaurants are so high!" adds
Joan. THE last time I went out I
saw that steak was $3.50. You don't
catch me eating it at that price!"
Now the Work Begins.
was not in Hollywood when Joan
started her film career 18 years ago
as an extra in pretty Ladies'" but
I'm told that she has now made the
complete cycle and is as natural and
unaffected as when she first arrived
on the Hollywood scene. She is GER
tainly humble enough about her Ca
pabllities as an actress.
AFTER 18 years I feel as though
I've just served my apprenticeship"
says Joan. II feel I'm Just starting
my career and I'm just as anxious
to make good" In those early days
Joan was on the plump side and
was the incarnation of the lapper,
the jitterbug of the 20's.
I doubt whether Joan will get as
good selection Of leading men in
her new studio as she had at Metro
She made seven pictures with Clark
Gable. She has had Spencer Tracy,
Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor and
every important male star under
contract to Metro. In Dancing
Daughters her big success of 1929,
her leading man was Johnny Mack
Brown.
She has seen a lot of stars come
and go in her 18 years as film
actress. And she has seen Holly
wood change from a village to q
thriving, busy town.
Hollywood boulevard used to be
like Beverley Hills" Joan tells me.
Il went down there a few months
ago for the first time in eight or
nine years and I didn't know the
place. 1t was like cheap Coney
Island"
Perhaps the biggest change in
FINLAND during Joan's almost two
decades here has been in the make
up department.. when I started
you couldn't see the face of the star
for the paint and powder" says
the star who started a makeup
fashion of her own. Remember
those thick lips introduced by Miss
Crawford? Every year, it seems,
the makeup is lessened. 1 saw
myself in a picture I made six years
ago with Gary Cooper, land 1 had
enough stuff on my face to sink a
oattleship. And the clothes! MY
hat looked like a frying pan, and
my Waistline was all over the place.
1t was terrible
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Evening star., 1943-07-25

costuming that was colorful and
bulgy rather than something of
quality.
Color, If Not Quality.
In bare black and white, how
ever, that would have looked unlike
Hollywood, which always has been
as notoriously rich as vaudeville
was notoriously poor.
That was where technicolor came
in. With it, the movies were in
the position Of people who. unable
to afford Duncan Phyffe, Sheraton,
or the better products of Grand
Rapids, could buy unpainted and
definitely primitive furniture and
color its crudity as highly as they
pleased. That is what home coun-
selors in the newspapers and else
where have been encouraging peo-
pie of limited incomes to do for
decades. 1t has created highly
favorable impression on the home
owners of America and their guests
ever since it started and the movies
concluded that it would work just
as well for them They turned,
therefore, to technicolor for its
decorative effect and what its ma
terials lacked of essential merit,
they made up in color.
1t has worked perfectly.
Until Paramount made Dixie" ;"
which stars Bing Crosby and Dor
othy Lamour. the trick of a vaude-
vile background plus technicolor
was employed primarily by goth
Century-FoX studios and utilized
for pictures starring Alice Faye and
Betty Grable-or perhaps. more ac-
curately. and or the Misses Faye
and Cradle.
1t would seem now that the idea
Is destined to become general with
the possibility that those old darl-
ings Of luxury and quality, jean
cite Macdonald and Nelson Eddy
both temporarily idle-will yet ap-
pear in a supermusical which will
be put together out of virtually
nothing.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
How Inspiration
At Times Comes
To Tunesniths
HOLLYWOOD

1oLL WOOD.
It's music, comedy and pretty
dancing girls all over the Holly
wood sets these days. Enter the
big stage where MGM is filming
Meet the People and there is
music coming from every distant
corner and from every Imaginable
instrument. RehearsaI-and bed
lam!
Dressed as shipyard workers. 200
girls are gathered in groups. Dick
Powell is draped over a piano.
Sammy Fain is stroking the ivories
and beside him is E. Y. Harburg,
who is Sammy's song-writing COL
laborator and also producer Of this
movie. They wrote the number,
In Times Like These" which Dick
sings with Lucille Ball. They're re-
hearsing it now, very casually.
FelieX Bernard. another noted
graduate of Tin Pan Alley, stands
with cooked head, listening with
professional ear.
Ought to be a hit" he remarks.
The lanky Miss Ball moves from
her dressing room across the stage,
ready to 60 before the cameras.
Then 1t Struck.
Come here a minute, Lucy" Dick
Powell waves to her.
She pauses, studying the group
suspiciously. This is musical
comedy set and in an atmosphere
such as this gags fly like hail in
North Atlantic gale. Miss Ball
is doubtful. Suddenly she decides
to play safe.
Don't waste my time" she calls
back merrily, and starts away to-
ward the set.
Bernard snaps his fingers and
drops on the bench beside Fain.
Don't waste my time" he re-
peats, dreamily. Then he becomes
fired with inspiration. Gosh" he
cries, that's hit title" and he
begins to repeat it, playing as he
huns.
Sounds okay," says Harburg, the
expert. Think you can make
something out of it?"
III give yoV the printed copy
day after tomorrow Bernard re-
plies.
And so Don't Waste My Time"
will be sung in the picture by Lucille
Ball, the party who unconsciously
named it.
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Evening star., 1943-07-25
Susan Stern About Roles
By Harold Hefernan.

The few she has accepted against
her better Judgment have proved
duds.
The whole trouble, of course, re-
wolves around Susan's appearance.
1t seems a little incongruous to
think of wholesome, frank, re-
freshing and gay young actress in
terms of unpleasant beazles who
specialize in making headaches for
other folks. But that is the type of
character she decided she must
play at the outset of her career.
And she's never once budged from
the opinion.
Susan's only Hollywood fame for
long time was her distinction as
the first candidate to be tested for
the role of Scarlet O'Haa in
Gone With the Wind" George
Cukor, first director of that big film,
saw Susan's red hair flaming from
a color Illustration in a magazine
article on How Models Come to
New York" and straightaway offered
her the chance.
Needless to point out, Susan
didn't get the part. She was tested
in Long Island and tested again in
HOLLYWOOD. And again. But it was
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Evening star., 1943-07-25
Short With a Moral
By Jay Carmody.

Short subjects in the movies these
days usually are related, and quite
properly, to some phase of the war
effort. If they do not deal with the
fighting front they pick up some
thing going on on the home one.
Usually they are pretty dramatic
things, touching as they do the lives
of every one.
Month after month these shorts
have appeared on local screens, here
and elsewhere, until they induced
kind of forgetfulness that there
ever was time when filler items on
theater bills were not completely
topical in nature.
If Hollywood had not remem-
bered in a short currently at the
Earle, Three Cheers for the Girls, v
probably no one ever would have
remembered when short subjects
were not related to their time-a
March of Time dealing with an
Ohio war factory, or Seventh
Column having to do with safety
in the home, the munitions plant
and the like.
But in Three Cheers for the
Girls Hollywood did remember and
it turns out to be a very arresting
form of remembering.
The picture deals with the pre-
war cinema, when the producer of
movie musical could afford to hire
an army of chorus girls, set them
on stage of almost repulsive opu-
lence, dress them in plumes or silk
which is now used for parachutes
and generally adopt an attitude of
the cost be damned, it's for the
customers, isn't it?"
The picture is not new, something
mad which HOLLYWOOD did behind
the backs of the WPB and the OPA
It is just series of excerpts from
old musicals, the prewar kind. 1t
is not even strung together on too
substantial a script
Things Past and Promised.
But, even so, it comes off as a
powerful, if inconsequential, re-
minder of how much fun it was to
be free-and how much fun it will
be to be free again.
In fact, it makes you notice
Three Cheers for the Girls" which
might easily be the short of 1943,
and which, in 1888, would have been
just an irritating interruption in a
movie program.
1t shows how values change in a
changing world.
One current and one impending
picture, which has been screened
for critics, provide almost spectacu-
lar illustrations of the change that
has come over the cinema since the
DAYS of its opulent, prewar musicals.
The first picture is "Coney Is
land" now at the Palace: the other,
Dixie" which will succeed it when
Washingtonians have paid their
respects to Betty Cradle.
Both are impressive illustrations
OF the resourcefulness of the pic
ture studios in that they meet
Washington requirements of limited
use OF materials without betraying
the Hollywood requirement of SEEM
ing opulence. The trick by which
it is accomplished is a very simple
one. 1t has two elements. The
first deals with story, in each case
very simple story of vaudeville
which always has been known for
its stark simplicity, a mere matter
of few painted backdrops, plus
Evening star., 1943-07-25
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Y. Frank Freeman usually is too
busy to spend much time talking to
himself, but he recently found him
self in a spot where he was asking
the questions and giving the answers
much in the fashion of Edgar Ber-
gen talking to Charlie Mccarthy.
On the one hand, Freeman was
head of Paramount Studios and re-
sponsible for the handling of For
Whom the Bell Tolls" Ernest Hem
ingway. the author never has been
noted for reticence in discussing the
lives, loves and indiscretions of his
characters.
On the other, Freeman also was
head of the Associated Motion Pic
ture Producers. Inc, which is just
a high-toned name for the Hays
Office in Hollywood. This organiza-
ton has pretty much the final say
on what you and I may see on a
movie screen.
In the beginning, Freeman wanted
no part of For Whom the Bell
Tolls"
You are looking at the man." he
said, who opposed the picture right
up to the end" 1t couldn't be cast
properly, he argued. and it couldn't
be produced correctly. But finally
he gave in and went to work. And
before he was finished he spent
around 100000, with more to come
for explorations.
Freeman is rather chubby man
whose conservative suits, usually Ii
steel gray. and modest demeanor
never would disclose he ever had
left his native Georgia for more
than a vacation trip. Nor would his
voice betray him. for it still is as
Southern as 'possum and sweet po-
tatoes.
He doesn't drink and frowns upon
employees who do. He smokes cigars
one after another and frequently
gestures with the one he is smoking
as he talks. 1t seems to add en-
phasis to what he says.
Freeman's hair is on the thin side
and a little gray. but his eyes, which
peer from behind steel-rimmed
glasses, are as quick and as bright
as those of a youngster. He has
been in the theater business, off and
on, since 1914 Before that he was
a telephone lineman.
Deep South Beginnings.
His first venture in the theater
was as the obscure owner of a movie
house in Fitzgerald. Ga, and until
he was called to Hollywood in 1888
he always was in the business end.
1t might be noted that he is one
of the few strangers" no matter
whence they came. who has lasted
in Hollywood, and there is no indi-
cation he won't be on top there for
some time to come. The experiment
made by executives of the then
newly reorganized company has
been q success.
Freeman thinks the reason for the
current popularity OF the movies is
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Today's Film Schedules

cAPlIoILady of Buesque after Gypsy Rose Lee: 155 45o
7:45 and 1885 Stage los, T. 655 and $50
CCLOMBIA-Stage quantity scale: 1245
3:05, 5:25, 7:55
EARLE-"China"
TAO and 955 Stage shows: 2:30 445 7 and 9:15
OBren the sights 1:20 $685. 525
7:30 and 935 pm
LITTLE-Mr. W. 73o and pm
METROPOLITAN intrigue Turkey
lis. 3:25, $780, 735 $40 pm.
PALACEConey Island" Cradle technicolor: 310
$40, 7:30 and $40
PIX-"Lost 3,
and 9:45 pm.
TRANs-LUX-News and shorts Continuous from pm
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Bv Sheilah Graham.

me. They'd say, oh, yes, anything
will do for joan I did The Wom-
en- after a battle-and without pay.
1t was also fight to get Susan
and God (Which husband Terry
considers Joan's best picture). And
"A Woman's Face, how I had to
fight to get that one!" Recently
Miss Crawford fought for a pic
Evening star., 1943-07-25

But at Warmers it will be three a
year" In vulgar parlance, she's not
kidding. New boss Jack Warner be-
lieves in working his players-some-
times to the point where they scream
for a vacation. First picture for
Joan probably will be Might Shift"
which," she says, "I'm now reading
between changing diapers. I try
Evening star., 1943-07-25
LeOnOre Is Up

Lenore Aubert has been chosen
for a featured role by Samuel
Goldwyn in the Danny Kaye Tech
nicolor film up in Arms" which
RKO Radio will release. Her screen
debut was in They Got Me
Covered"
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Two for Davenport

Harry Davenport, veteran stage
and screen actor, has been signed
to a two-picture contract by RKO-
Radio.
Evening star., 1943-07-25

ture in which she would play Grip
pied girl, but Metro said, mo, all
you want to do is to play crippled
and manned people" 1t was after
this that Joan obtained her freedom.
Il was supposed to do three pic
lures a year for Metro she says,
but it was three in three years.
Evening star., 1943-07-25

Continued on Following Page0
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Auction 10 Raise
Funds for Dog
Photo by Times STAFF Photographs

A blind Detroit soldier is going
10 have a feadeT-doE 10 make ms
existence more hearable, thanks
10 members Of the Children De-
tenders.
With a goal of $3.50, this youth
ful organization, led by l0-year-
old Susan Pernick AS chairman.
will hold a block auction next
door 10 POPS w. Euclid at $50
p. m. this Sunday proceeds of
which viii purchase the dog.
Several thousand persons are
expected 10 bid on a score or
more Of articles collected in the
neighborhood by the children
They were aided by the neighbor-
hood war club.
A feature Of the auction will
be a demonstration Of dog-train-
ing by Harold Warman, manager
of the Eeadef-Deg League. and
an address by Councilman Billy
Rogell, who will be one of the
auCtiOneerS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Faculty Changes
Made at j. Of D.
Are Announced
Fathers Ssmuel Wilson
and Daniel OConnelI
Head New Teachers

Changes IN Tho T. Of \. faculty
were announced Saturday. Head
me the new teachers are the
Roy. Fr. Daniel NJ. O'ConnCU. for
ner associate editor of America. 20
national Catholic magazine. and
the Rev. Fr. samuel IS. Wilson,
former president OF Loyoia TIM
Ners.ty. Chicago.
Father OConnell replaces the
Rev. Fr. Marshall LoChbiler,
librarian and moderator Of The
Varsity News. and Father VII
son VIII augment The history de-
partment
Other appointments arc the
Rev Fl. George kmeck, assistant
oean OF the college Of arts and
sciences. 20 the philosophy depart
ment. the Rev. Fr Paul l.. O'Con-
nor. who replaces Fr. kmleck; the
Rev -. Bernard Wuellner, d.
rector Of philosophy assigned TO
LoNola University. and the Rev.
Thomas &. Bicker and Vincent
(. ffu-r7rrrrr- Trrr-''-t+ti become
instructors IN physics and English,
respectively.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Mothers Friend

Highly praised by users. many doctors and
nurses. just ask any druggist for Mothers
Fricnd-the skin lubricant. Try IL tonight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
j. 5. Warns Autoisfs
Who Lack s. Stamp

WASHINGTON. July II (UP)
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
does not want 10 get tough
about the unpopular 50 auto use
tax stamp, but officials warned
today that violatorS of the law
are subject 10 fines up to $50.
NiolatorS are detected by depu-
ties on the street If the violator
buys the stamp. no action is taken
but If he refuses or shows any
"recalcitrant attitude. the col
lccior must cite The case to the
L. s. attorney for action.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Gas Tax Shows
Rise in Driving
During Summer
6-Monfh Collections
Drop 2s Per Cent; June
Down Is Per Cent

LANSING, July 17-Summer
months have brought a very sharp
increase in the amount of driving
done by motorists, although it is
still 16 per cent under a year ago,
gasoline tax figures compiled by
Secretary of State Herman H..
Dignan showed today
In June of last year, the state
collected $2.67l 700 at the rate of
g cents per gallon on gasoline.
June collections this year brought
a decrease of 1863 per cent.
During the first six months Of
this year. however, the decrease
was much larger. Collections ag-
Igregated Sll $4,000 as compared
with Sl6,226,0OO for the same
period in 1912 for a drop of 2S.6
per cent.
MILEAGE UNESTIMATED
''rhtS would Indicate strongly
that persons are driving more In
the summer months despite gas
oline rationing," Dignan said.
There is no estimate of the
drop In actual mileage
1t would appear the trucking of
munitions has nothing to do with
the rate of increase in use of gaso-
line during June, since federal of
ficialS have just stated that war
production is down for the second
consecutive month.
There are 6 per cent fewer cars
on Michigan's roads this year than
last, according to Dignan'S figures.
In 1912 there were 1881 .87S We
hicleS registered which brought
the state S1S,206,0O0 in fees. This
year the number dropped 10 .683.-
DDS which brought in SIT, 046 600
COLLECTIONS DROP IN 'S2
Until the advent of the war
gasoline tax collections reflected
exactly the economic condition OF
| the state.
From 1925 TO 1929. collections
rose from SS,0O0,000 to S23, 600.
600. the latter figure varying only
slightly until the 1882 depression
when they dropped 10 sd .000. 600
then to S20,000,000 in 1888.
Collections climbed slowly Il
S30,000,000 in 1897. then dropped
10 S28,0O0O0O during the 1895
recession Climbing again ir
1889. collections reached an all
time peak in 194l with S37. 500. 900
With the advent Of Pearl Har
Dor, they dropped sharply again L
S33, 100000, a figure that appar
emily will nose dive to about S23
100000 this year. Obviously il
will descend even lower if The
OPA cuts the value of A coupons
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
ADVERTISEMENT
Mothers Friend
helps bring ease
and comfort to
expectant
mothers.

MO r n r r S
WI FRIEND. an
eXquisitely pre-
pared emollient. is
useful IN ALI condi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Henry Fonda S Ateuser
In Nervous Collapse

LONG BEACH, Cal. July Il
Barbara Jean Thompson,
who has accused actor Henry
Fonda of being tho father of her
month-old daughter. was recuper-
aung IN a hospital today from a
nervous collapse.
Municipal Judge Charles d.
Wallace ordered the 24-year-old
divorcee held in the hospital until
the court gets the results of phys
iCal examinations ordered at the
limo a morals charge was flied
against her last year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
CAP Chutists Praised
the WAVES arr

Activities of Detroit Civil Air
Patrol paratroopers were praised
Saturday in an article in Air Pilot
and TechniCian The squadron of
l4O is credited with $50 Jumps
without a casualty more serious
than an injured ankle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Eager to Yield
Italians Expected Capture
Two Weeks AGO

ALLIED FORCE COMMAND
POST, Sicily July Il CUPl- The
captain of one prison camp tells
this one:
A tralnload Of Italian prisoners
arrived AT his camp and noticing
each had a STABLE bundle Of per.
sonal belongings, he asked one OF
them about il.
What was holding YOU upc"
an EngliSh-SpeakinG prisoner re-
Piled We've been packed al
most two weeks"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
FIND WORK FUN

They say it's fun helping 10
service those smart little training
Sbipc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
BY VERA BROWN

taking over as the men leaN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Dean O'FarreII TO Talk

The Rev Dean Kirk e. Oar
rcii of ST. PautS Cathedral will
speak at a luncheon of the De-
troit No. ! kiWaniS Club IN the
Hotel Statler at noon Tuesday.
Or. Charles L. Tenant Will pre-
sent the speaker.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Z AC Spark Plug
Employees Discharged

FLINT July IL Twelve men
and women Al AC spark plug dl-
vision have been discharged under
tho fnantenance of membership
provision OF tine contract with
General Motors Cop tot non
payment OF dues. D. was an
nounccd TO-DAY b, Loo L8VrCnCc.
AC local 6j1 'UAN-CIOl dues
Official