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Evening star., 1943-06-06

who says she was born to play
Claudia I was told. I tested her.
She was wonderful. I was advised
to let Mcclure 60 and put in Jenni-
fer. 1 said: No, Jennifer could be
a star In other pictures, but Nc
Guire was this little pixie. Claudia.
When I sold the play to Goth Gen.
tury-Fox. again they wanted to put
Jennifer in the role. They had by
this time borrowed Jennifer from
me for Bernadette in The Song of
Bernadette.'
Now. Take Miss Jones.
AS for Miss Jones. when Seiznick
met her in his New York office she
burst into tears and repeated the
story of how she was born to play
Claudia. She told the producer that
she had never done anything before
except tent shows with her husband.
He signed her with the stipulation
that she stay two years in New York
to be coached and groomed for star
dom, She appeared briefly at Santa
Barbara in Selznick's summer thea
ter. then returned to New York.
II was struck by Joseph Gotten in
Citizen Kane" Selznick tells me.
After that picture he was obviously
going to ruin out here. They all
marked him off as character actor;
they forgot how good he was in the
earlier scenes" Gotten had mean
while signed with Alexander Korda,
who released him, then Selznick
grabbed him.
Alan Marshall was signed by SelZ-
nick seven years ago. At that time
the producer told him he wouldn't
be a star for 10 years. Marshall is
now playing the lead opposite Irene
Dunno in white Cliffs of Dover"
But Selznick still feels that it will
be another three years before Mar
shall really finds his peak on the
screen. Like Ronald Colman, he
needs maturity to develop as an
actor says David.
His recent signing of Shirley Tenn
pie grew" according to Selznick,
"out of the Hollywood Bowl affair
for Nine. Chang Kai-shek. I
was watching the girls in the dress
ing room and how they walked
across to greet Madame. My re-
action was that the two most Won
derful personalities were Bergman
and Temple. I think Shirley is
enchanting She is one of several
stars to be in Since You Went
Away to be produced this summer
by Selznick himself.
The story of how Selznick signed
Vivien Leigh for Gone With the
Wind" is too well known for more
than brief mention here. She had
come to Hollywood to be with Lau-
renee Olivier. who was making
"Wuthering Heights" Selznick had
been searching two years for Scar
lett O'Hara. He was shooting the
Atlantic fire on his lot one evening
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Hard Working Vera Bewas Those Missing Steaks

dancing. But Zorina. after years OF
discipline with the Russian Ballet,
would be the last to complain Bal
let, she SAYS, is 80 per cent work, 10
per cent glamour.
Even a short engagement must be
preceded by six weeks of constant
rehearsal And the star must be on
hand from 9 in the morning until
midnight. Unlike the legitimate
theater where the hard work ends
after the premiere. in ballet there is
never a let-up; the dancers spend
about an hour limbering up each
night before going on stage.
She Hates to Count.
Zorina loves everything about
dancing except counting the beats of
the music. She prefers to dance
by ear.
"Stravinsky must have been vexed
with a dancer who didn't like to
count when he wrote Petrusko"
Zorina laughed "if he was, he GER
tainly got even with her"
Zorina, whose sensitive spirit is
geared for undertaking. doesn't smile
on stage except for special passages.
This attitude got her in trouble
when she opened as Helen in Helen
of Troy" a few weeks ago. Several
critics said "she danced well. if not
startingly, but with cool aloofness."
Sensitive to criticism, she tossed
in some more smiles the next night.
Every one seemed happier.
The mild notices hadn't surprised
her friends. They told her she might
except GOODNESS from the dance
critics, as she returned from Holly
wood to star again in ballet. For
critics, they argued, are dedicated
to the dance and unconsciously re-
sent any one deserting ballet for the
movies.
If the critics thought Zorina was
being casual about the whole thing.
they didn't know Zorina. The girl
isn't casual about any thing, least
of all ballet.
Like many European-born actress
es, she is an introvert. Her emotions
are deep down inside her. Her man.
ayers don't ask her to turn on charm
for the press or the public that meet
her in the rehearsal halls of the
American Ballet School. She runs
shyly from strangers who, recog-
nizing the classical profile and large
eyes, speak to her in restaurants or
on the street.
She isn't Indifferent to their ad-
miration; she just doesn't know
what to say to them. -
Evening star., 1943-06-06
BY Villa Gray Martin.

NEW YORK.
The scarcity of steaks in New York
is blow to out t-of -towners who once
returned nostalgically to their favo-
rite steakhouses. But it is no more
missed by masculine epicures than
by Dancer Vera Zorina.
II shouldn't admit it," Zorina
smiled and rubbed the neck of her
prize winning Yorkshire terrier. She
was resting backstage before get
ting into costume at the Metropoli-
tan for Helen of Troy" People
expect ballet dancers to live on
what was it the Grecian gods ate
-nectar?"
"Ambroisa," I suggested. AS the
daughter of Latin and Greek pro-
fessor. tried not to let father down.
yes. ambrosia. That's it. 1t
wouldn't keep dancers muscles
strong. I eat steaks. salads, honey
steaks, salads. honey. And then be-
tween rehearsals 60 to the automat
for coffee and doughnuts."
1t is rather surprise to see 70
rina up close.
The long, slender arms that move
so fluidly and bonelessly as she
dances are sinewy and the deltoid
muscle at the shoulder is as defined
as it is in gangling boy in his early
teens. And her legs from hip to knee,
usually so bulgy in ballet dancers
who've spent hours leaping on and
on their toes, are straight and
shapely and so free of bulges that
one wonders if she has taken any
special exercises to soften them.
It's Well Distributed.
She hasn't. It seems that since
her limbs are long for her torso, the
overdevelopment is stretched out
unnoticeably.
Zorina appears quite tall on stage
especially when in the midst of
average-size ballet dancers. But of
stage she is slight and almost thin.
Her incredibly large eyes seem made
AVA Adlsci AdCc dLu HcI AsAC
brown hair is so fine (she's probably
the only actress who ever left
Hollywood with the same color hair
she took there) that she always adds
an extra cluster of curls. Her skin
is pale: 'onstage she wears a body
makeup Of pwoder mixed with
water. 70
No phase of the theater demands
more personal sacrifice than ballet
Evening star., 1943-06-06
The Man With Magnificent Supply of Talent

the part. Cukor later thought she
had possibilities. and he gave her
a role in The Women After that,
I called Metro and suggested they
sign her, but they said No
The Girl Nobody Wanted.
Then I asked Sam Goldwyn to
sign her. He looked at her picture,
Duke of West Point and called
me to say l was crazy! then offered
to sign her jointly with Metro. They
refused. Then Joan called me, said
she'r been offered second feminine
lead in a Republic western and
asked If she should take it. DO you
need the money! I asked her. Yes,
I need the money very badly she
told me. Then take it. I said. And
again she had the life panned out
of her by the critics.
Joan was very discouraged by
this time. She said to me: If only
l could get a chance to test for
something goodn BY this time I had
bought 'Rebecca,' and John Crom-
we'll tested her for it. He said she
was good. but the studio verdict was
'Terrible' I then signed Hitchcock
to direct 'Rebecca,' and he ran the
Fontaine test but didn't like it. My
staff looked at the test; they didn't
like it either. I took a poll of all the
tests. Margaret Sullivan was first
choice, Vivien Leigh second, Anne
Baxter third. Loretta Young fourth.
and Joan fifth! In New York it was
worse. No one in my Office even
considered joan. There everyone
was for Vivien Leigh. This was after
Gone With the Wind and I was
told it would add million dollars
to the gross to have Vivien as Re-
becca. Laurence Olivier, who was
the star of the picture, wanted vi
vien In it. Vivien pleaded for it. But
thought. she wasn't the right one
for the part; that she was too know
ing. I told her: I'm sorry: it's for
Fontaine.' Margaret Sullivan's
agent-husband offered to bet me
$1,000 that Id pull Fontaine out of
the picture in three days.
mcoll"Illle. ledl -bTdBeQV 0aQ
occurred. just before Selznick de-
cided to give Joan the role it was
discovered that his option on her
had lapsed. Also, she had married
Brian Aherne.
Il called her. Selznick said. 'to
break the good news to her. I'm
not sure 1 want to do it, replied
Joan. She wanted to retire and
be wife to Brian. I now had to
work like mad to get her. And
had to increase materially the
termS!"
Selznick saw Dorothy Mcclure in
the stage version of "Claudia." Il
bought the play and signed Nc
Guire,' says David. Meanwhile.
Jennifer Jones came to my New York
Office. I walked in there one day
and saw her. Who is the girl?' I
asked. That's some peculiar girl
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Irving Berlin
Almost Forgot
That Ditty
A Tune About Gybsies
Which He Wrote
In World Var |
HOLLYWOOD.


By the Associated Press.
Irving Berlin, who has written
quite few song successes, recently
learned one of his tunes has been a
hit for 26 years without his knowl-
edge.
Berlin received a telephone call
from Winfield Sheehan, who is pro-
ducing "Rickenbacker, the Story of
an American" Sheehan wanted to
use as the pictures theme song IF
I Had My Way, I'd Live Among the
Gypsies," which had been the Off
cial song of the Gath, or Hat-in-the-
Ring, Squadron. which was COM
manded by Capt. Edward V. Ricken-
backer.
Il think you've got me mixed up
with somebody else" said Berlin
Il never wrote gypsy song for the
American flyers in 1917"
Sheehan said that the World War
pilots, who had been singing it for
years, said it was Berlin tune. He
repeated some of the lyrics.
"Oh. yes" said the startled Ber-
lin, Il had forgotten all about that.
I wrote TIT to fit the character of
Douglas Fairbanks. who was a great
roamer and world traveller. I got
the idea of putting his love of wan
dering into song"
Berlin was in the Army at Camp
Yaphank before he had a chance to
publish the tune. But he did re-
member that a Greenwich Village
youngster named Cole Porter had
heard the tune and was enthusiastic
about it.
Coles Long Memory.
Berlin phoned Porter to ask him
II he remembered the song.
DO T." said Porter. I'll sing it
for you right now"
Porter explained that he had
memorized the words. and when he
went to France as an ambulance
driver he sang it at camp shows all
over France. 1t was hit every
where.
Capt. Rickenbacker heard the
tune and introduced it to his COM
rades in cracked falsetto voice. It
was an immediate success in the
Gath and other squadrons. Ameri-
can flyers always sing it at reunions
The song was sung for Gen. Billy
Mitchell. Maj. Carl A. Spaatz and
visiting French generals by a quar-
tet of oath flyers: Rickenbacker, lie
Roy PrinZ, now a Hollywood direc-
tor; Jimmy Meissner, an American
ace now in Africa, and Hamil-
ton Coolidge. President Coolidge's
nephew who was killed in combat
after downing eight German fight
ing planes.
Another Of the piano-th -thumpers
who sang it in France was John G.
Winant, now Ambassador to Eng
land, whose squadron's hangar was
next to the Gath, when the Ameri-
can flyers were battling the famous
Won Richtofen flying circus near
Toul.
This week IF Had My Way, I'd
Live Among the Gypsies" was resur-
rected from an old trunk in the
Berlin home in Hollywood. It will
have new lease on life in the
Rickenbacker picture.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Bv LAWRENCE PERRY.
NEW YORK,

NEW YORK.
Unvarying popular appeal over
g period of l8 years of the Dorothy
Donnellv -Sigmund Romberg oper-
eta. The Student Prince" which
will be revived by the Shuherts at
the Broadway Theater Tuesday
night, is one Of those phenomena Of
stage entertainment which simply
cannot be explained,
Consistently lovely music it GER
tainly has, but other less enduring
musicals have been as we'll endowed
with melodic charm 1t contains
romantic interest but the theme of
a kingly throne standing as paltry
in regal eyes blinded by love of a
lovely maid has been employed in
legend. song and drama time out of
mind. Simple, sweet, playful, tune
full, this operetta has never stood
alone in possession of these quail
ties.
Yet. since that evening in the
early spring OF 1874 when the piece
was produced here at the Jolson
Theater, not year has passed
without its appearance somewhere
in the United States and through
out the world-England. South At
rica. the Antipodes. the European
Continent-before audiences ever
adoring. Like Tennyson's brook. or
Jerome Kern's "Ol Man River" it
has just kept rolling along making
new friends everywhere and enjoy
ing the answering fealty of old
ones.
Now, due to appear in New York
next week. it thus concludes coast
forecast tour occupying the winter
of 1923 in which standing room
only signs have been so common
place as to exist without comment
This migration followed an opulent
Evening star., 1943-06-06
So Mr.. MacMurrav
Couldn't Escape
HOLLYWOOD.
11Od' VON
BY the Associated Press.


BY the Associated Press.
Fred MacMurray bought a ranch
in Santa Rosa for peace, quiet and
it's lack of motion pictures or their
makers. He was going to raise
prures and stock. between movies,
and forget that he had ever heard
about HOLLYWOOD
He kept telling himself that, any
way.
One movie crew has just used the
nearby coast because the cliffs are
like those of Dover. Another will
shortly go there to make believe
California is the Cornish coast.
"If enough troupes head for Santa
Rosa" Fred says, I'm going to sell
the ranch and rent me some space
on the lot. It'll be nice and peaceful
there!"
Evening star., 1943-06-06

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Evening star., 1943-06-06
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITOL-They Came to Blow America" saboeurs 445
and 1910 Stage shows: 1l5 1885, 635 915
COLUMB1A-"aeo Frisco, Helo plush music 3o5
TIPS and 9:35
to Moscow Hollywood Russia 13o Ais and
9:40 pm. Stage shows: l, 3:45 6,25 9:1O pm.
Hay 545
7:50 and $50 pm
LITTIE-"Lady Distress pursuit $40,
1910
METROPOLITAN-"Ihe guys
H. $40, $40, 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
PALACE-Bataan" activities patro
9:35 pm.
velez the park: 1885, sl5
and 1920 pm
RANs-LUx-News and shorts: continuous pm.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
A British Role Finally
Binnie Barnes, Briton

HOLLYWOOD.
BY the Associated Press.
Binnie Barnes. born in London
and unmistakably British, is row
playing an English girl for the
first time in a Hollywood movie.
It's in film called The Hour Be.
fore Dawn"
Always before I was either sup-
posed to be from Boston or a gal
who was affecting broad accent"
she explains. And most of the time
1t made very, very little sensel"
Evening star., 1943-06-06
BarnDramaCO COmestOTOWn
Even New York Will Get Straw Hat
Drama This Gasless Summer
BY Jay Carmody.

resorcefu as those who have given
for price, their lives the theater
Brown and PAWS Harold Ickes could pocama
tons with of rparaby damaging
put up their gas signs and walk iantv home with
the feeling that ingenuity co-operative
answer and that business would be
The for that that, all the which
refused to die under wartime restrictions
been the summer theater
otherwise the summer heaer should have died in the
late summer of 19 Gasoline began problem
since dramatic art as pacticed
In the pastures the shortage of the should
extinction of the other Every
every one that is except those who operated heaters
Managers Said Natural Laws
Responsible Business.
AS they willing give lp ANYTHING
else in preference to bedroom
fare of the hineand theater People
could otherwise Meats gasoline tires
all these they could yet dramas
about sophisticated murder would
the United States without these and nature itself said il had to
be summer. Who Ickes war
against the specifications Of nature itself?
So the theater
found way to reward them. They lived thus
season but with foon hope that the
fmctioning.
When summer of 942 arrived some had surrendered
others opened usual and small paradox
that in 193 has shown them wav ont The naradox in a,estion
Is that OF bringing the theater
from the remote barn to the nearest downtown hotel.
Every law of logic manelver but those
associated notoriosv naive
with respect to the laws of logic.
Their best friends told them charm of the
summer theater ruralty City people
paronized it not art which profoundly
relaxation recreaon from smodng
cool velvey backness of the rural night that
The summer theaer they said people
who such theaters would they
the of drama the opposite setting.
Unaccustomed they listening
perhaps dlsgrlnted
make themselves heard the theater
to town matter what might
decision amounted conclusion that
than Just die
To the surprise of many a very
thing.
II Wasn't Matter of Setting
But One of Human
The country moved last year did
quite we'll they had days
demonstrated
which made phenomena
of the
People with and money, seemed
of thing that in the eaer regardless where
located They demonstrated appetite the
sophisticated
repertoy
hotel ballroom the
Hollywood glamour girls who could be ured from their
shed meu their face former
idols natched from the mothba by producers who knew that
curiosity irresistible makeup theater-
goers
was just encouragement Boston Philadelphia
theater right the heart of town. That people
because Philadelphia Washington
York they insisted would for
They right until this when the first straw hat
first theaer do
old typical repertory.
Clearly the hat theater has
come to
Evening star., 1943-01-24

-VIM MULCAHY heard the distant sounds OF
a cruisers guns first, then he felt the lift
- and fall of passing wave; but when he
opened his eyes and tried to, see where he was,
he saw only fog and dancing lights.
He tried to remember what had happened
since his plane was catapulted from the Mon
mouth, but another kind of fog was IN his
brain. He couldn't remember. May
be-" he thought vaguely, I'm dead and
don't know il"
Then he heard another salvo from the
cruiser At the same time the sea fog around
him lifted, and he could see that he was in
his battered plane riding gently on the ocean
swells. Gradually he began to remember what
had happened. He-remembered going out on
patrol, and sighting the Jap carrier. He had
radioed her position to the Monmouth, then
slipped into cloud.
When he came out of the cloud, the Jap
carrier was sending Zero fighters up after
him. His slow, pontoon-equipped job was
clay pigeon for the Zeros. He'd thought,
"Well - this is it,
At that moment Bradley. his gunner-radio
operator speaking out of turn, said, Take
that big fat-top - sir
"Just my own idea he'd thought - and
gone into a seventy degree dive, sighting Just
ahead of the elevator which was bringing
plane to the Jap carriers flight deck. He'd
watched the carrier grow larger and larger,
seen angry jets of fame dance all around as
her AA went into action, and felt the blasts
of air as wind followed shrapnel through the
Evening star., 1943-01-24
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he thought something stuck in his throat,
and he forgot death from heat, thirst, sharks
or the enemy He waited for the destroyers
to finish off the carrier, but they changed
their course, searching for more dangerous
game THAT fiat-top's already out of action,
he decided.
The destroyer's waves lifted his boat hlgn,
and he saw large ship approaching. After
a while it looked like the Monmouth. 1t mds
the Monmouth. He stood up, waved his arms
and yelled. She was the most beautiful signt
he had ever seen, with her bow throwing ASIDE
great slabs of water. He saw the guns throw
sheets of angry, golden flame as they came
back from the recol.
Evidently he had been seen, for someone
came to the bridge wing and semaphored with
his arms, @Well donew There was no higher
praise in the Navy
Tim Mulcahy noticed that the cruiser 5.
catapults were empty, and he wondered now
the other pilots had Jared. Then he heard the
scream of enemy shells, and great columns OF
water lifted from the spot where the cruiser
had been minute before. You'll have to 40
better than that Tojo," he said.
The cruiser had tossed mountain oil
wave at him in parting, and now the ruoDef
boat began climbing. When it reached the
Tw-i-A-1
Evening star., 1943-01-24

white clouds slowly revolve above his head.
He wondered if he would be picked up.
Probably not. He was only single human
casualty in a battle spread perhaps, over
thousands of square miles of sea. The black
smoke piling up on the edge of the horizon
might be the Jap carrier. He hoped so.
There were geometrically- dots thou
sands of feet above him. They crawled across
the sky and met other dots. and the forma-
tons broke up. and specks scattered and came
together, swirling and eddying like dust par
ticles in a whirlwind
But they grew larger and sprouted wings
and some added tails of smoke and fame,
and fell into the sea-
He heard cruisers guns again, and min
utes later destroyers rushed past. Our gangr'
Evening star., 1943-01-24

fuselage of his plane. Then he'd dropped the
bomb and pulled out - or tried to.
But something had been wrong. Suddenly
the carrier was behind him, and the sea leap
ing at him. That was all he could remember.
Now, speaking over the inter-com-phone,
he said, Bradley"
There was no answer. He turned and looked
back. Bradley was dead - shrapne. Maybe
you're the lucky one," he thought.
Tim rubbed his head gently. There was a
lump on it as large as lemon. He checked
on the plane 1t might remain afioat several
hours or several minutes. So he inflated
the rubber boat and showed off.
The effort caused a slight dizziness, and he
lay on his back in the boat and watched the
Evening star., 1943-01-24

Adrift on the broad Pacific, with
nothing TO save him but the memory
of an old wrong-and its lesson
bv Frank Richardson Pierce
Illustrated by o. f. Schmidt
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
Local Minister'S Sister
Returning On Gripsholm

Senator Josiah w. Bailey has
notified the Rev. j. F. Herbert,
pastor of the Grace Methodist
church. that his sister, Miss Anne
Elizabeth Herbert, for Is years
a missionary in China, is return
ing to this country on the S. S.
Gripsho]m. Swedish exchange
ship.
Miss Herbert has been for many
months in a Japanese concentra-
ton area in China.
The voyage of the Gripsholm,
now rounding the east coast OF
Africa after exchanging 1880 Japs
for 1900 Americans at Marmugoa,
Portuguese India, is currently the
center of interest of American
Christians. The ship is said to be
steaming without benefit of con-
voy and under safe conduct prom
Uses of all belligerent nations.
At night the safety of the Grips
holm is sought by brilliant light
ing, instead of the usual blackout.
She has made stops at Manila,
P. l.. as well as other ports, and
is expected to pause at Port Eliz-
abeth, Africa and Rio de Janeiro.
With good travel, the ship should
dock in New York around De.
cember 2.
Missionaries of all denomina.
tons are aboard the vessel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
Tom Young Starts Work
Of Rebuilding Carolina

CHAPEL HILL, Nov. 1.-LP,-
Coach Tom Young today started
rebuilding his North Carolina Tar
Heels. who lost 80 players via Ma
Wy transfers last week.
The Marines and seamen had
light schedule today because of
registration, and Young used the
opportunity to get in the seasons
longest Monday drill - covering
conditioning, blocking, tackling,
passing, kicking and signals.
Billy Myers and Bob Rockholz
missed practice. Eddie league
and George Grimes ran two varsi-
ties and did the passing and kick
ing. Freshman Joe Kosinki ran at
blocking back and Richardson at
center. Four VIZ stars, Hosea
Rodgers, Bob McCollum and Bar
ney and Oliver Poole returned to-
day along with several VIZ re-
, serves giving the Tar Heels
three full teams and few subs.
Grady Pritchard, who secuted
South Carolina last week, said
that the Gamecocks will be hard
to beat Saturday at Columbia, S.
{. Pritchard said the South Car
oinians have a big, fast line and
two classy backfieidS.