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Evening star., 1943-05-23
Air-Ground Cooperation
Beat Nazis, Says Gen. KuteI

BY the Associated Press.
The air ground cooperation which
won the Battle of Tunisia was su-
perior to anything evolved by the
Germans and set the pattern for
future operations against the enemy,
Brig. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter re-
ported yesterday.
Gen. Kuter, at 81 one of the young
est generals in the Army, was deputy
commander of the Northwest Africa
Tactical Air Force under Air Vice
Marshal Sir Arthur Cunningham and
the only American on the head
quarters staff.
Describing the Tunisian operations
at a press conference, Gen. Kuter
explained the air components were
employed as "a true air force" in
mass attacks and not only as the
tactical air force used to support"
drives by the ground forces. The
ground forces also "supported' at
tacks planned by air commanders.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

home ownership should be en-
couraged among the middle and
lower income groups" Mr.. Porter
said, because under certain condi-
tions it is probably economically
more profitable for them to rent
than to buy.
1T is clear that under present
conditions ownership of old housing
presents many uncertainties to the
worker, in that he must take on the
burdens of maintenance and repair
for which he is not financially
equipped.
Hardships Are Cited.
During the depression attempts
to maintain home e-ownership by the
middle and lower income groups
caused great hardships where homes
purchased at high prices, were helc
to the bitter end"
Furthermore, Mr.. Porter said, dur.
ing the postwar period workers
should not be tied down to any
spcClliC lOCdAltleS, especially since
many of them are migrants.
THE labor demands of thi.
period" he said, will necessitate 6
relatively mobile labor supply, ane
no one at present can prophesy tht
nature and distribution of the labol
demand.
If war workers in congested key
production centers continue to con.
tribute their best to the war effort
it is essential that they be provided
with the housing they require. Il
is therefore desirable to encourage
conversions, which will increase thu
number of housing accommodation.
In a given number of structures"
The Smith Committee will re-
sumo its hearings Tuesday. OPP
officials have been invited to testify
at that time.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Policeman Draws Gun
As Statue Blinks
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LYNN, Mass.-Patrolman Edward
Ray arrested a "statue"-when it
blinked.
Making his rounds, he looked into
an antique shop window and saw
what appeared to be a statue with
one arm upraised He was about to
move along when he saw the eye
lids move.
He drew his gun and ordered the
statue" to come out. 1t turned out
to be man. who was arrested on
charge of breaking and entering in
the night time, with intent to COM
NIT larceny.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
AFL Asks Restoration
OF Powers 10 WLB
And Curb on NLRB
Committee Named to
Negotiate Bosis for
Mine Workers Return
6y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The American Federation OF
Labor last night asked restora-
ton of the War Labor Boards
former powers and called on
Congress to restrict the vast
discretion" of the National La
bor Relations Board.
Expressions of dissatisfaction with
the present status of the Govern
ment's two major labor agencies
were adopted by the AFL Executive
Council and were made public by
President William Green at a press
conference at which he also:
l. Announced appointment of a
committee to negotiate basis for
the return of John L. Lewis United
Mine Workers to affiliation with
the AFL.
2. Said the miners, If readmitted,
would be bound by the AFL's war
time mo strike" pledge.
TdVOTS ACtiOH Dy WILD.
;. Reiterated that he believed the
miners wage controversy should be
settled by the WLB which Mr..
Lewis thus far has snubbed, though
the board is proceeding toward a
decision in the case. The WLB
has said it expects to decide the
case early this week.
1t was indicated that it might
be next August before final action
on Mr.. Lewis petition for return of
the miners to the AFL, from which
he led them in 1885 when the CIO
was founded.
Mr.. Green said the committee to
consider this application would re-
port to the AFL Executive Council
whose next regular meeting is in
August. He added that he did not
know whether a special meeting
might be called to receive report.
Members of the committee, all
vice presidents of the AFL, are
Chairman Daniel J. Tobin of the
Teamsters, Matthew Woll of the
Photo Engravers and George Har-
rison of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way and Steamship Clerks.
Mr.. Green said the principal
duty of the committee is to adjust
conflicts of jurisdiction between
Evening star., 1943-05-23
First-Aid Reviews

Two first-aid reviews will be held
from $50 to 1870 am, and from
to 10 pm. Wednesday at the
Chevy Chase Womens Club, it was
announced yesterday by Mrs. Nc
Henry Mosier, chairman of first aid
for the Chevy Chase Red Cross
branch. The reviews are for those
who have finished first-aid courses
and wish to review their work.
Evening star., 1943-10-17

, football, took the job of promoting
Bowen Tufts III. Thompson turned
him over to chum, Jack Donnelley,
hotel man, of the Sherry Neither
lands and Ritz-Towers, who knew
people in Joe Eglis office, Joe being
casting director at Paramount in
Hollywood.
Incredulity Unfounded.
One fine morning, Donnelley took
Bowen Tufts III into Egli's ofice
and introduced him:
This is Sonny Tufts; he'd like
to get in pictures
"Oh, he would, would he?" said
Egli.
That finishes me, from here on"
said Bowen III to himself, as he
tells it. He got out of the Office as
best he could, and very depressed.
The next week he was called for
an addition, the second week he
got contract. the third week he
was playing the male lead in so
Proudly We Hail" with Paulette
Goddard, Claudette Colbert and
Veronica Lake. You can't knock a
cast like that.
Tufts plays soldier from Kansas,
on whom the Boston accent sets
slightly awry, but people forget
about incongruities as they look at
him, and listen to the quality of
the voice behind the slight Bos-
toneee.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
No Seats, for a Fact
BY Jay Carmod,.

On the other hand, all that is gold
does not glitter, either. Not even
such golden thing as oklahoma r'
1t Is the most spectacular theatrical
production of a generation. 1t is
coming money. 1t is as artistically
pralseworthy as it is financially a
triumph. 1t is expected to run for
years and eventually it will be turned
into a motion picture which will
have been more discussed than
Gone With the Wind" Offers for
the film rights, which may never be
sold because the Theater Guild it
self NAV make the translation. al
ready have reached astronomical
plus figures.
All these things should combine to
make life a condition of unalloyed
bliss for those associated in the pro-
duction Of the Guild-Rogers-Ham
erstein-Riggs-etc. operetta.
Sad to relate, they do not.
The Space Is Limited.
Unfortunately for the content
ment of every one concerned, the
number of people made happy by
"Oklahoma!" is not limitless in
space although it may be in time.
That is to say, for the number who
see 1t on a given night in New
York and elsewhere, several times
that many are made miserable be-
cause they cannot see it at the same
time
The reaction of the person unable
to get seats to oklahoma is not
Evening star., 1943-10-17

the normal one. The normal one is
regret. 1t is experienced by persons
who cannot get seats to homecoming
football games, World Series open
ing contests, and on big nights in
the case OF popular theater or mo-
tlon picture attractions. 1t is an
emotion that can be dismissed with
a shrug, or a wry smile. Not so the
reaction Of the man who cannot get
seat to Oklahoma"
He's a Wretched Man.
There, indeed, is wretched hui
man. There is no passivitv left in
him. He has to do something about
it. He will not accept the fact that
there is nothing to be done. He calls
the ooXoftlce and wants to fight
about it. He goes to the theater
shortly before curtain time and Joins
the queue waiting for tickets that
might be turned back. He knows
somebody who knows somebody who
knows somebody, and come high
water. he is not going to give up
until he has had it straight from
them-lnnocent bystanders though
they are-that there is nothing they
can do.
To have induced this state and
degree of disorder in so large a Sec
ton of the body polite is not de-
signed to make even the most
crassly commercial theatrical enter
priser comfortable The guild, which
tsee CARMODY, Page DID
Evening star., 1943-10-17

a risk for Uncle Sam to spend money
training him for the Army.
In his senior year at Yale, he
started studying for grand opera in
New York, inspired by the operatic
music he had heard in Italy. He
threw away his collection of band
music and his drums and went to
Paris for six months for more opera
work. He had an addition at the
Metropolitan, then went at it hard
for almost three more years.
Meanwhile, those voice lessons at
Sl5 apiece, one a day, whitfield into
the patrimony so that he began to
wonder why not try Sweet Sue"
and Egyptian Ella" who had been
such a help before, and get back
into the earning class? After all,
he reasoned with himself, there's
only one top opera company in the
country, and where would he 20
from there?
Where he went was right into
musical comedy. The Broadway
musical who's Who" was his first
spot, followed by others, in which
his ability to horse around with his
operate training went over well,
and night club engagements in New
York and Palm Beach.
About this time, Alexis Thompson,
also from Yale and a sportsman
and promoter Of everything from
bridge tournaments to tennis and
Evening star., 1943-10-17
espite Back>Bay Munificence, Sonny Tufts Got Ahead
By RoSalind Shafer.

AS kid. Sonny saw Eddie Can
tor in Broadway show, and was
impressed. He asked his father,
Bowen Tufts II, a banker, if he
would mind very much if he, Sonny
would be a stage singer when he
grew up.
mo" said Bowen II to Bowen III,
"but you'd better be good"
In prep school at Phillips Exeter,
Sonny organized an orchestra; he
played the drums and sang. The
first year he was approached by a
steamship company to take his or
chestra on one of those excursion
ships then making summer tours to
Europe and the Mediterranean.
That was the first of 26 such cruises,
during the summers of his prep
school and college years at Yale
In his spare time, Sonny majored
in anthropology, wrote humor for
the Yale Record, and serious dra-
matte criticisms for the Yale Daily
News. He also had two books of his
stories privately printed.
He played football, was member
OF the Yale crew, and managed to
be an expert skier. One day he in
advertently tried that trick of going
on both sides OF tree at once. He
broke his breastbone, knees and a
few other long and short bones here
and there, so that he Is too much Of
Evening star., 1943-10-17
HOLLYWOOD.

Sonny Tufts is a good example of
the equal opportunities in America,
where even rich mans son can be
success.
Now meeting the people in so
Proudly We Hail." Tufts undertook
the job with his knees sending q
steady tremolo through his 6-foot-
frame. It was his first leading
role, and his first appearance be-
fore the camera.
Tufts hadn't gone to any little
theater schools, had done no COL
lege dramatics. He had done some
singing with his own orchestra and
in Broadway shows and night spots.
That made it inevitable that Holly
wood would visualize him as a dra-
matte actor.
Tufts himself thinks he laid the
cornerstone for his success the day
he decided to go to Yale instead of
following the family tradition to
Harvard. or the family tree to Tufts
College, founded by an ancestor.
He Fled Stuffiness.
Born of very, very Boston Back
Bay family, dating back to 1888,
Sonny, christened but never called
Bowen Tufts III, has spent the most
active years of his life trying to get
away from stuffed shirts and big
egos.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
In the Future
It's New Faces
|IWo-to-One
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
When the war ends, the greatest
percentage of popular favorites on
the screen probably will be the new
faces now replacing drafted actors.
This move has affected feminine
stars as we'll; the young 4-F leading
men are too much of a contrast to
feminine love interest perhaps Is
years older. The older woman stars,
still clinging to their precarious
heights of fame, must choose these
youngsters or be content to have
different stories that allow them to
use the overage male stars.
Since audiences still like stories
about young love, the pressure Is to
push the older stars out faster than
would be the case If the regular line
Of screen heroes hadn't been taken
of to war.
Audiences Lost.
Some of this has happened be-
cause older stars have not kept max
ing Aims rapidly enough to supply
an audience demand for them intent
on evading those highest income
brackets, they have made few Aims
and in many cases have lost their
audiences.
There is saying, "On the screen
for six months, and you're forgot
ten," and while this isn't exactly
true, it does mean that a star has to
face what amounts to a comeback,
for the pressure Of new faces is in
tense and time does not stand still.
Being of the screen for long Pc
RODS is recognized by wise stars as
a danger. That is why some do not
like to be in the superproductions
that take year or more to make.
Even when the flm is q hit and a
prestige winner, the public has
learned to get along in the mean
time without the old favorite.
Gary Cooper, who thinks instead
Of talks, is now hunting a chance
to get few films out quickly-the
8-to-12-week schedule kind-to fill
up the gap made by the long shoot
ing schedule Of For Whom the Bell
Tolls" and the shorter but still too
long Saratoga Trunk" and "Dr.
WaSsell."
Audiences ReEained.
1t is not intended to imply that
Hollywood will forget her war
heroes, any more than the public
will. Clark Gable, Robert Mont
gomery, Jimmy Stewart and Burgess
Meredith, with many more, no doubt
will have more draw with the public
than before. But there will be many
player, on his way up but not es-
tablished, who will be a war casualty
as far as the cameras are concerned.
And many older stars whose careers
have been extended by the dearth OF
leading men due to the draft will
fade out quickly once the men re-
turn.
One comforting thought for a
sentimental fan is that many older
players, brought back by the war
stringency from a too-early oblivion.
are getting chance to fill up that
old sugar bowl with War bonds,
empty since the depression years
swept away so many Hollywood for
tunes.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
A newly risen star emerged from
midtown hotel into the mellow
light Of the autumn morning. You
don't as rule, see stars in day.
time. You saw this one. all right.
They paused to stare because Of
the loveliness Of the apparition. It,
or rather, she, was Mary Martin,
who has just brought Broadway to
her feet in tribute to brilliant sing
ing and acting in the Kurt Weill-
Ogden Nash-S. J. Perelman musi-
cal hit at the Imperial Theater.
"One Touch of Venus" it is called.
Success casts an aura about any
personality. When it radiates from
a young woman as beautiful as
Miss Martin, regally tall, alluring-
ly. slender; eyes luminously brown:
vivid red-gold hair, do you wonder
that passersby stopped to look at
her as she stepped to the curb and
into a waiting taxi. With all due
humility, a high sense of honor,
your present scribe followed her in
to that cab for a ride downtown
to the City Hall where she had an
appointment with Mayor La Guar
dia. Throughout the trip we talked
about herself and about the new
musical comedy which has been so
generally acclaimed.
Like Gertie, Like Mary.
AS to the play: It's most strik-
ing element is modernity. 1t goes
much farther in breaking away
from pattern than does okla
homa," Just as it exceeds the lat
ter in stylized effect. Which is to
say it is as arty as a Greenwich
Village batik shop. 1t is as arty
as Lady in the Dark" the success
OF which, as you know, was chiefly
due to Gertrude Lawrence. Pre-
cisely the same thing may be said
OF Miss Martin as Venus" the
statue brought to life when an at
tractive young barber, Kenny Ba-
ker. places upon her finger the ring
he has bought for his mortal fiancee.
In her beautiful performance
Mary applies logic to fantasy and
substance of imagination. Her por-
trayal of goddess returned to a
world 5000 years older than the one
she knew expressed values found
only infrequently in her lines, or
in her character as written. She
informs the role with a luminous,
ethereal quality which is purely
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Today's Theater Schedules

CAPITOL-I Dood It," phrase
pm Stage shows los, $50, 6:35 $40 pm
CoLuMBlA-"Bombers Moon" Annabela and pilots $780, alo
4:50, $50, $40 and $50 pm.
EARLE-A Lady Takes Chance" Jean Arthur $40
o5o 40 and 9:55 Stage shows: 23O
KEITHsH the Costello on skates l. 245 43o
6:15, sos and > ~ "
Alfred Hitchcock,s
4:5O, TBS and pm ' saw
METROPOLITAN-My Kingdom Cook" Charles Cob,rn AZ
bearded lion: 135 $40 $40 TAO and GAS pm.
Whom the Bell Tolls Miss Bergmans showpiece:
los. $3.50, 6:35 925 pm. p'
$50 and 1920 ~ ~ ~ '
1RANs-LUx- News and shorts: Continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
IA Nice Change.
But Drawbacks
Are Apparent
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
One of the pleasing changes of
scene wrought by the war in Holly
wood is the introduction of mes
senger girls, Of pulchritudinous form
and face, to replace the pert boys
of past times.
Many Of these girls already have
made canny use Of their nearness
to studio executives to turn on the
charm and obtain screen teses and
contracts. While the percentage
of such cases isn't large, 1t does
serve as an inspiration to the rest
who have cultivated a smiling will
ingness to run any and all errands.
This happy state has some draw
backs, however. 1t is rapidly put
ting an end to the free-and-easy
antics Of studio folk, which date
back to earliest film days. Mascu-
line and uninhibited adjectives are
pulled right back in the throat when
a door opens and a pretty girl in
uniform enters. Feet, long used to
desk rests, are hitting the polished
floors.
The civilizing influence OF the
feminine is beginning to invade
mans last stand, his Office. The
messenger girl is not like the Sec
retary, who as the Office wife has
learned to disregard and to be dis
regarded. 1t may be a different
girl every time the bell is rung.
Practical Jokes End.
Most lamented of the rapidly
passing features spun into the dis
card by the messenger girl is the
old horseplay so beloved of studio
males. Actors and other employees
alike don't have fun in sending a
pretty, willing youngster to get
quick service on a film shrinker.
This commodity, be dt known, is
purely imaginary one, like the left
handed monkey wrench a new me-
chanic is sent for, or the pie
stretcher with which q waitress is
hazed.
Employment OF the hot foot, and
the chair snatching has ceased.
Practical jokers like Alan Hale and
George Tobias. Andy Devine, Jack
Benny, Wallace Beery and the rest,
stay their hand, and the gleam
dies in the eye. After all, who
wants a pretty young thing to burst
into tears because of some meanie?
The few male messengers left
are no longer the sassy, gum-snap-
ping, ise-cracking kids Of yore.
They are young ex-servicemen whom
the studios are helping to rehabili-
tate. One such is Earl Jacobs, at
the Warner Studio, veteran of
Guadalcanal, whose right arm was
blasted by Jap grenade.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Back to the Past

1t is important in "Frenchman's
Greek" for Ralph Forbes to be
shown in portrait as a much
younger man than he is at the time
that the action takes place. Forbes,
as Harry st. Columb, was too busy
before the cameras to sit around
and have his portrait painted. ANY,
way. he wouldn't look the right age.
So the prop man turned up a still
OF Forbes made in 1926 for Beau
Geste." and the portrait was painted
from that.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Her Dream House
Come True
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Just by writing about an empty
house, Daphne DuMaurier has made
herself enough money to buy the
place, and furnish it besides.
Two of the lady's most successful
books, 'Rebecca," and "Frenchman's
Creek" both picture subjects as well,
were writeen around an old manor
house in Cornwall, which piqued her
imagination. The house appears as
Manderley in "Rebecca" and as
Navron House in "Frenchman's
Creek"
1t recently passed into the au-
thor's hands on the terms Of 90
year-lease, as it is too involved in
litigation to make outright purchase
possible.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Frederick Lonsdale's Another
Love Story" Is a weak play and its
only excuse for opening in the
Fulton Theater this week is that it
brought back that fine comedian,
Roland Young, and revealed Mar
garet Lindsay as an excellent ac-
treSS.
Just how long Young and Miss
Lindsay, who are co-starred, can
keep it going is question. The
Young followers are in the thous-
ands and, certainly, Miss Lindsays
performance will help.
This marks her stage debut, one
Of the few players to be starred
in first appearance. Beautiful
in face and f1gure-indeed, her legs
have been described in magazine
advertisements as of the million
dollar" variety-her chief appeal
nevertheless is her acting ability
and her deep, clear voice.
, One wonders why she hasn't been
in on the New York stage long be-
fore. Up to now, she has been in
motion pictures. Regardless of the
fate of Another Love Story" it is
a safe bet to say Miss Lindsay
will be back.
Retreat to Artificiality.
Mr.. Lonsdale, who has given us
many plays, including the anus
ing The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,"
has filled Another Love Story"
with a lot of artificial dialogue.
Each bit of conversation is sup
posed to have wit. In addition
to creating an unnatural atmos-
phere, a large part of it falls fiat.
His other mistake is in giving
Mr.. Young so little to do. In his
usual dropping, sad but funny way,
Mr.. Young wanders on and off
the stage at infrequent intervals
and has little material to employ
his talent. He makes the best of
what he has.
AS George Wayne, Mr.. Young, in
his cups on moonlit night, finds
himself suddenly engaged to the
flghty daughter of the president
OF his bank. He is already en-
gagged to his blond secretary, who
has the customary love letters and
a willingness to use them, if neces-
sary, to get her man.
Mr.. Young's antics center around
his efforts to break his engagement
with the bankers daughter. He
finally succeeds, although losing his
lob as vice president of the bank,
only to be caught again by the
daughter as the last curtain falls.
So we leave him with his troubles
still as great as ever.
Swarm Of Romantics.
This is only one of the romantic
episodes in Mr.. Lonsdale's play.
Miss Lindsay, as Diana Flynn, cast
OH in a foreign land as the mistress
OF Michael Foxx (played uncer-
tainly by Philip Ober), returns to
America and the home of wealthy
Mrs. Reginald William Browne (well
acted by Doris Dalton) to find him
engaged to her daughter.
She plots to revenge herself by
wrecking the romance of her former
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Coming Attractions


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
Seats starting tomorrow night. ~
CAPITOL-"The Adventures Robert Donat
Valerie Hobson; starting Thursday.
EAfslE-Sahara with Humphrey Bobart Carroll Naish
starting Friday. '
kEIIHSIhe Skys the Limit" with and Joan Leslie
ILE-E Rancho Grande with Tito GUITAR Spanish start
ing Wednesday,. ' ~
City That Stopped Hitler Russian doc-
mentary OF Stalingrad; starting Friday.
PALACE-Johnny Come Lately" with James Cagney and Grace
George starting Thursday ~
P11-H-ya Sailor Of double feature starting Saturday
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Three-Minute Vet

Tony Gaudio's current picture is
Days of Glory" Russian guerrilla
war love story with Ballerina Tou-
manova and former University of
California crewman, Gregory Peck.
Ironically, no member of the entire
cast has ever appeared in pictures
before, except Maria Palmer. She
is veteran of three whole minutes
on the screen, accomplished in her
recent first movie, with another
Russian locale.