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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Winnie Sheehan has spent more
than quarter OF a million dol
lars in preliminary research and
writing fees for his projected life
story Of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
and yet in skeptical corners of
Hollywood they still insist the movie
never will be made.
Rickenbacker's straight-fro m-the-
shoulder recommendations to the
American home front following his
return from Government as
signed mission to the South Pacific
war area ranked certain elements
in organized labor. There was a
brief but embittered exchange of
opinions.
In the midst of the controversy
came Sheehan's announcement of
the Rickenbacker picture. Holly
wood was astonished. 1t was felt
that movie based on the life of
World War No. rs ace would be
antagonistic to labor, that the
united workers Of the Nation would
resent and possibly attempt to in
terfere with its making.
Nevertheless, Sheehan went ahead
with his plans. The teapot tempest
gradually died down to a fiutter
and today the all-but-forgotten al
tercation is more or less charged
off to the fiery determination on the
part OF most factions to get ahead
with the war effort. But still one
track Hollywood continues to NUT
ter, sit can't be DONE"
Almost Set to Roll.
Sheehan's answer to the skeptics
came today with an announcement
that his script is practically COM
pleted and that actual shooting will
start October /. He also outlined
to this writer, for the first time,
many Of the vivid passages in the
heros life that will be emphasized
in celluloid. r.
First of all, Sheehan points out,
the title of his picture, "Ricken-
hacker: The Story of an American"
comes by design and not by Holly
wood title legerdemain.
only America could have pro-
duced Rickenbacker," he insists,
only America could have opened
the doors Of opportunity for him.
Only against the background of free
America can the character and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

accruing from two road companies
in which neither I nor Chick
Johnson appeared-it has crossed
S12 100000
Sons o. Cash,
Sons O. Fun now taking its de-
parture, has crossed roughly s3,00o,-
600 in nearly two years on Broad
way, and who knows what the final
total will be?"
Freshly returned from Hollywood
with his partner, where the two fig
ured as protagonists in the forth
coming film musical, Cray House"
Ole is tanned, fit, sleek as a sum-
mer fashion plate. Certainly in ap-
pearance he bellies the years that
hare made of him the father of a
son in the Army and grandfather to
one OF his daughters children.
He and Chick will resume their
places in Sons O. Fun" until it's tour
concludes in January, and in Feb
ruary they will proceed to Holly
wood to make another picture.
Whereupon in the gladstone spring
they will return to Broadway to
open new stage show bigger and
crazler than ever. It's name? They
have not as yet fully decided. but
all probabilities are that Broadway
will know it as Puma Poppin'."
Meanwhile Broadway gives a
hearty hail and farewell to an en-
tertainment based upon a thought
wholly original, that playgoers are
eagerly willing to visit a lunatic
asylum-even if they have to pay to
get in.
tReleased by North American Newspaper
AlIiancel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Sonnet hideWillie' Judgment
BY Harold Hefernan.

career of the man be dramatically
focused"
Sheehan has had a corps of high
salaried writers delving into the
life Of Rick these past six months.
They've come up with an interest
ing case M dual personality, the
producer points out In business
and military affairs Rick is a hard
pan sort of fellow-austere, serious,
exacting, driver of himself On
the human side. he loves a laugh,
joke, a good time, and his family
relationships are IDEAL The picture
is to emphasize his human side.
And that, says Sheehan, calls for
laughs-lots of them. He adds:
Entertainment the Goal.
I'VE want nothing but solid enter
tainment in this picture, and that's
all. Noting else. Rick has had
spectacular career on land, at sea,
in the air. He hit plenty Of high
spots. We're not missing any of
them. He saw warfare and parti-
cipated in battle. He has risked
his life innumerable times-fighting
the famed Richtofen circus COM
manded by Goering over Verdun-
in racing cars against the worlds
most daring drivers-fying to the
political and military fronts over
enemy-controlled territory in this
war. He's still doing it. Probably
more-and better-drama has been
packed into his life than in that of
any living American.
AT times he's been q battered
wreck, as after the Atlanta crash,
in which his survival was almost
incredible, and the raft experience
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
No Monopolies
Anticipated
In British Films
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON
The British government has as
sured It's people, by an unprece-
dented action, that it would not
tolerate any monopoly in the motion
picture industry. thereby laying a
DOGGY that long has affrighted off,
cialdom. labor councils and the pub
lie at large.
Hugh Dalton, president Of the
Board Of Trade, told the House of
Commons recently that j. Arthur
Rank, head of l0o,o00.O0O film in
terests including several production
studios, had promised not to extend
his holdings without the govern
ment's consent.
Il informed Mr.. Rank" Dalton
explained, that the government
could not acquiesce in the creation
OF anything like monopoly at any
stage in the film industry. He as
Sured me that he fully understands
this and has been good enough to
give me an undertaking not to
acquire additional cinemas or studios
without the prior consent of the
Board Of Trade"
Their BOunden Word.
Dalton said the chief shareholders
in the Associated British Picture
Corp, the other large company in
the film industry, have promised
they would not sell their shares
without first consulting the presi-
dort nf tho pnocI ~ ry1,ol
News of the agreement SURPRISED
most OF the industry, but brought
swift commendatory responses from
newspapers and trade unions.
Never before had the government
acted in this manner to prevent
complete monopoly, put, as one COM
mentator said, Dalton was leading
from a very strong hand"
Had Rank opposed official wishes,
the president of the Board of Trade
could have revoked his authority
under the emergency powers of the
defense of the realm act to accom-
plish the same end. He could have
forbidden Rank or any person or
group OF persons to make any deal
considered to be detrimental to pub
lie policy
The Governments action was has
tened by representations from the
powerful trades union congress, es-
pecially the Cinema Technicians AS
ISOLATION, small but influential
unit.
At Least for Duration.
Daltons action means that so
long as the war lasts anyway, there
will be no fight for control between
the Rank dominated companies and
the Associated British Picture Corp,
$1,000, 900 rival, in which Warner
Bros, the American renters, hold
about quarter of the voting power.
Because Of its arrangement with
Universal Pictures Corp, Ranks dis
tributing organization has a definite
supply of Hollywood releases, which
still considerably outnumber the
featured British output in British
theaterS Most Of the other Ameri-
can producers have their own dis
tributing agencies here.
The chief figure in the Associated
British Picture Corp, with its 500
picture houses, is Mrs. John Max
well. gray-haired widow who never
attends board meetings or goes to
movie first nights, yet as principal
shareholder in the combine, exer-
cises great influence. Her husband
was chairman of ABPC.
Mrs. Maxwell has fought every
effort, whether on behalf of British
or American capital, to gain control
of the corporation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Comes Cole Porter
After Gershwin
HOLLYWOOD


Cole Porter, noted composer, has
given permission to Jack L. Warner,
executive producer at Warner Bros.
to film his life story under the
title Night and Day." one of his
biggest song hits.
Porter, who recently has been in
Hollywood writing tunes for Mis-
sissippi Belle" which Warmers will
make, will contribute new songs to
Might and Day" which also will in
clude all of his greatest past hits.
Hal B. Wallis will produce the
picture, but no cast assignments
have yet been made. Warner Bros.
currently has two musical biog-
raphies before the cameras, "Rhap-
sody in Blue" the story of George
Gershwin, and Shine On Harvest
Moon" based on the life Of Nora
Bayes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Jimminee, But She's Thrilled

! dull, I work twice as hard. If it is
an enthusiastic audience, I ride on
their enthusiasm. But no matter
what kind of audience, no perform
ance is ever the same so the OBJ
eretta never gets monotonous for
me.
TT is strange, though, how little
things can throw you sometimes.
For instance, once I couldn't sing
for a split second, because I no.
ticed that three seats were empty
In the front row, 1 had become so
used to seeing the first six rows
filled that it stopped me for a min
ute"
Miss MscWatters' first operate
appearance was in Philadelphia
where she played the part of Gretel
in "Hanesel and Gretel." She stud.
led at the Zeckwer Hahn Musical
Academy and the Curtis Institute.
financing her singing lessons by
teaching piano. In 1912 she won sec
ond prize in the Metropolitan Opera
additions.
She Annoyed the Guests.
Although I started out as a piano
teacher, I always wanted to act.
When was 5 years old I used to
stand up on a chair and perform for
the family. Sometimes I was a
nuisance because I always wanted
to show guests how I could act!
Johann Strauss music lends it
self so beautifully to my role as
Adele, the maid, and it always seems
to me as though laughter is run
ming through the very words sing.
This is the first time 1 have had a
comic role"
Coming from an artistic family
her father was a musician and her
mother an artist-MiSs MacWatters
dabbles with the brush when she is
free from her acting and singing.
1 love 20 paint portraits, and I
have done many charcoal sketches.
I decorated our home in Philadel-
phia with murals."
In her spare time she sings over
the radio. And she is still taking
singing and dramatic lessons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Lovableness of Wally
Also Exists Off Stage
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Fondest movie papa in town is
Wallace Berry. He was more nervous
than his 13-year-old adopted daugh-
ter Carol when she made her film
debut the other day in his cur
rent "Rationing." Berry has always
contended that Carol would make
a great actress and has been care
fully grooming her toward that end
No parent in Hollywood has shown
greater devotion than Wally. A
bachelor most of the time since
Carols adoption, the big, burly star
has watchged over her like mother,
even to washing and ironing her
clothes when forced to take her
with him on location trips.
Carol has developed into a good
looking, blond youngster, large for
her Is years. MGM contemplates
putting her under contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Starting So Soon

Indications that the film version
of the highly successful Broadway
stage comedy. THE Doughgirls, will
soon go into production is seen with
the announcement that Jack L.
Warner has assigned Mark Hellinger
to produce the picture.
James v. Kern and Sam Hellman.
who recently completed the script of
"The Horn Blows at Midnight"
have been assigned to start the
screenplay of the new picture i'm
mediately. The Horn Blows at
Midnight" stars Jack Benny and will
go into production as soon as he re-
turns from his European tour Of
Army camps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Julie as Mrs. G.

AS another step in the stellar
buildup Warner Bros. is giving red
haired Julie Bishop the actress has
been awarded an important role in
Rhapsody in Blue" life story of
George Gershwin. She will play
Mrs. Ira Gershwin, wife of the
composers brother and lyricist.
Miss Bishop won the role through
her work with Humphrey Bogart in
Action in the North Atlantic" and
with Enrol Flynn in the recently
completed Northern Pursuit" She
also has the approval of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Gershwin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

mantle. warmly human, with lausi,n
and plenty Of heart interest.
And Sheehan Indignantly denies
that this is to be a war" movie
Not shot is fred" he insists.
Not battle cry is heard. There
are no marching soldiers, no COM.
bats, no waving Of flags or stirring
calls to patriotism.
ut Is just the story of man.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

in the South Pacific. Always he has
come back stronger than ever. Some
call 1t charmed life. Rick says
it's luck-and calculating the risks.
With the story still incompleted
and open" for possible big-time
events that the unpredictable Rick
yet may chalk up, Sheehan declares
it is impossible to relate details of
the script. He does emphasize,
however, that 1t will be neither
episode. documentary nor histori-
cal. Above all else, it's to be ro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
War Bonds and Stamps at Anu Local rraoa4A~

Al Time Schedules Given In Warner
Sros.. Ads Indicate Time Feature Is
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1943
New Years Day.
And what does it mean to us?

And what does it mean to us?
 Does it mean that we have appreciated the real worthwhile things we have endured during the past year in order that country may out top, does it mean that want to garner everything we can possibly gather in~order that might furbsh ourselves for future years.
 Does it mean that the increased wage value for our services has become the most pertinent angle of our existence or does it that because of this priv lege given us, are eXpendng our extras in bonds So that Uncle Sam might have the privilege of giv- ing Us once aoain the land have fought valiant Y '71 V .al Ic-1,
 Does tas exiqency mean tha, we are going to s5r cur sespons ,ility by hoarding our wealth for ona t3ou0ht in Vew-or does 1t mean that are go ing 10 use our extras for Uncle Sam in order that we may achieve our purpose-that Of defeating our enc r1ies-because we as civilians, have but one way of do ing so-that through our purchase of war bonds
 And War Bonds are the necessity of winning this war Are We going to be the proverbal 'pikers" or are we going to be the loyal citizens Uncle Sam is in need of at he present tme2
 Albeit--his is the New Year.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

New England house and family Of (to them) exotic Creole girl who went to the family home to wait while her soldier husband played out his part in the war. (Messner; $3)
 Another very pressing prob lem is Arthur Koestler's text in Arrival and Departure" - to wit, how we determine the right, and why we are willing to work for it even when some times it means death? This sounds a bit dusty, and perhaps it is. But MT. Koestler is fully as much interested in people as he is in ideas, and he has the great good sense to present his ideas through the logical action of human beings. It is the req son his books are really novels, and not merely fictionized yer sions of some abstract problems. Macmillan; $2)
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
LITERARY CUIDEPOST
The lighter side
By JOHN SELBY

SALLY BENSON is, a gentle man from Hollywood remarked to me the other day, one of the best saleswomen of all time, Mrs. Benson sells herself, super latively. I have no doubt that sAe will dc well with Women and Children First" which is a collection of 38 miscellaneous New Yorker pieces, and not parts of such series as the Junior Miss and the Meet Me in St.
 Louis" groups. They are typi- cally Benson, which means that they keep ones literary innards quivering between heartbreak and belly laughs, and their en- joyment presupposes no brain
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
Trademark Registered U. S. Patent c

power whatever. (Random; $2)
 Another matriarch comes to flower in Ruth Power o'Malley's 2 Mrs. Cassatfs Children, ; which is ege novel set Cat first) in Tidewater Virginia which does not run to great length. Mrs. Cassatt was beauty and mar ried a Virginian who became governor, died, and left his wife penniless with four children. She dominated them flor their own good and the threads of her tough will ran through them into many odd corners and many tragedies. This IS the Virginia aristocracy as seen by the eyes of an Irish woman-and 1t is q ute slgnt, believe me. (Houghton Mifflin; S25O)
 Frances Parkinson Reyes is also telling the joint story of a group of children in Also the Hills" But these are New Eng land children caught up in this war. and the particular point of the novel is the Influence on a
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
LEAVES FOR THE STATES

Mrs. Jeanne Davidson left this morning via Alaska Airlines for the States where she will spend some time with her husband, Jim D. Davidson, who is with the ma rines. but will be on furlough. Mrs. Davidson has been working in the Miners & Merchants Bank for the past few years and plans to return in the spring.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

ward Barr and Mrs. Tom Roust from Candle,
 Capt. Shafsky and Pilot Hoia departed for Anchorage with Jeanne Davidson, Robert Connor, Edythe Johnson, Gene Jack and Alice Shivres.
 Pilot Weaver left for Candle, Deering and KotZebue with Mary Mae Clark, Daniel Harmon and Ralph Swanson, and mail.
 Pilot Emmons flew to kotzebue with three passengers and freight.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
AIRWI WIAYS
Wien Alaska AirlineS

Pilot Miskoff is scheduled in from Fairbanks with delayed Christmas packages from the States.
 Pilot Sig Wien is at Pt. Barrow making a search for hunting party reported lost on an ice flow from that point.
 Alaska Airlines
 Norman Weaver arrived from the Kotzebue mail trip with Ed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25

WASHINGTON. April ~ CUP)
Director Davis Of the Office Of
War Information appears to be
trying 10 stem the angry congress
Sional ands for reprisals
against loyal JapaneSe-Americans
as payment for the execution of
some of the Doolittie flierS
In his weekly radio review last
night. he answered not only de-
mands heard in Congress 10 strip
Amcrican-born japanese Of their
citizenship. but the recent state
mcntS Of military officials on the
West Coast that a Japs a Jap
Davis said that thousands Of
J Japanese Americans who were
born in the United States and ed
ucated in American schools are as
aroused as the rest Of the country
about the executions.
He read the following passage
from an editorial of a Salt Lake
City newspaper called the Pacific
Citizen. tho organ of the japanese
American Citizens League:
eve know today the nature
~ the brutal enemy we face
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Kenney Deplores
Jap Brutality
Challenges U. S. FIiers TO
Avenee Executions

UNITED NATIONS HEAD
QUARTERS. Australia, April "a
QNS) 1t. Gen. George c. Kenney,
American commander OF Allied air
forces in the southwest Pacific,
said today ne was mortified 10
learn of the execution of some of
the United States aiTmen who
bombed Toxic.
He added, however, that he was
not surprised, and said.
I'VE have been operating
against this unprincipled antag-
onist long enough 10 know what
he II like. This brutal action
was contrary to international
law. hut Japan's war lords have
already decided they ara law
unto themselves.
II hope any American airman
who gets Jap plane or Jap
ship In his sights will remember
what Japan did 10 his fellow
airmen"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Davis of Owl Defends
LOyaI u. S. Born Japs

across the Pacific. and this
knowledge should serve to in
tensify our efforts to achieve q
speedy and complete victory.
1.-The American people will
not brook a negotiated end 10
this war.
There can he no peace with
murderers. .N.
I'VE must and will gain the
unconditional surrender Of our
AXIS enemies.
THE enemy will give no
quarter. and the salvation of our
way ~ life rests only on COM
pIete and irrevocable military
victory"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Deaf School Official
RESIGNS finder Fire

FLINT, April 24-Alfrcd Gran
will has resigned as assistant
superintendent of the Michigan
School for the Deaf following
charges of administration al
the school. Eugene B. Elliott, state
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Sicily Welcome
Said 10 Await
Allied Invasion
Italian Anti-Fescist
and Liberation Leader
Tells Views in Lisbon
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Continued from Page TwO)
system the Italian people are div
iding into the ancient groups which
battled jealousy there from the
fall of the Roman Empire down
to 1870. when the present Italian
kingdom united the various peo-
Piles.
CRADLE OF OLD KINGDOM
In Sicily an autonomy move
Iment, smouldering for years, has
suddenly burst into activity. The
island. with Naples and Sardinia,
was the cradle of the Italian king
dom. which developed from the old
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as il
was called a 100 years ago. Sicily
and the Neapolitan littoral are
also the home grounds of the dread
secret societies - the Carbonari
and Malta which MuSsolini
boosted he had annihilated in the
first proud years of fsscism.
How much cooperation with an
Allied invasion can be expected
from the Sicilians Is secret Of
Our military intelligence. But ex-
lied anti-Fasclsts in neutral cen
tiers like Lisbon have their own
|fact-fnding agencies and these
have disclosed enough on which to
base an encouraging estimate.
BLLBOARDS SHOW TREND
The infiammatory character OF
the iHsarreetioHist movement IS
best illustrated by some OF the
posters which have recently APP
peared in the larger cities.
When Mussolini visited Sicily a
year ago, he was protected by an
army of 10000 troops and police
Before his arrival the island was
Invaded by the Italian secret
police. Posters and slogans were
erased from the walls and suspects
rounded up by the hundreds.
If and when a British-American
army lands IN Sicily it will prob
ably be met by the 35-year-old
underground leader, Wanna Rosa,
the "Sicilian De Gaulle." Rosa,
whose parents come from old and
important Sicilian families. was a
Self-eXiled revolutionary leader
when ne was l9, and for many
years lived and operated in New
York.
II would not he surprising II
Allied authorities have made con-
tact with him and are cooperating
with his movement in the plans
for the occupation OF Sicily first
stepping stone to HitleT's Euro
'pean continent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
MEN FROM WAKE HELD

In that prison, for example. are
reported 10 be four who al
tempted escape from the japanese
prison camp AT Woosung near
Shanghai These include Com
mander Winfield Scott Cunning
ham from Wake Island: Com
mandcr &. d. Smith from the u.
S. gunboat Wake; a Mr.. Teeters.
the civilian administrator of Wake
Island. and Commander Woolley
OF the British Yangtze patrol.
All were caught and sentenced
to 10 years in Jail each as we'll as
suspension of their military status.
II was fairly common word at the
time we left Japan that the treat
mcnt accorded them was not in
human.
As regards The 6lers, on the
other hand. there was one member
of the Shanghai municipal police
who said al the time we left China
For Gods sake. when You
get out. tell the American
people what il happening to
these men"
For obvious reasons. nothing
could be said until announcement
of the executions had been made
by President Roosevelt. lest the
japanese be led into excuses of
atrocities by charges of brutality
that might later he discredited.