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Evening star., 1943-01-17

books to read, places to go, people
to see, letters to write, things to do
.. to help make the next peace
take?"
Tanker Crew Writes.
The above letter is from a girl
with whom I have been correspond
ing recently. I did find a job for
her-she is now doing maritime his
tory research for me and discover
ing the most exciting and wonderful
seafaring traditions which I, in my
turn, will impart to the young men
training to be merchant seamen.
This one is from the crew of the
S. S. Pueblo. a tanker: 1t
is ironical that a woman has to
convince the men of our country
of the hardships a seaman en-
counters and their dire necessity
of reparation after a hazardous
trip, or weeks in an open lifeboat.
I'VE are certain you are doing
more than your share and will be
amply rewarded by seeing men,
broken both physically and mental
ly, restored to normal healthy
human beings, so that they may
resume doing their job. May God
bless you. Gratefully yours, crew
of the S. S. Pueblo"
That letter needs no comment.
Letter From a Widow.
Though this one wasn't sent to
me, it eventually found its way to
my desk and I quote it because I
think it is so amusing: Read your
Sunday write-up about Miss Carroll
and the merchant marine and Join
with my shipmates in thanking YOU
tor the same. My appreciation of
your column was very deep as l
have just finished a voyage in
something that the Japs overlooked
when they were buying scrap iron
in this country.
Il would like to call attention tc
the fact that many of us in the
M. M. are unfit physically for other
services. AS for our high pay????
shore workers get treble and do not
have to sleep with lifebelts See
you some time respectfully
yours"
Then there is this kind of letter.
MY husband was machine-gunned
and killed recently when one of our
largest tankers was attacked by a
submarine. He was chief mate, only
"a, and had been with the merchant
marine for the past II years.
My first reaction was refusal to
accept the news, then complete des-
pair followed by the realization that
life has to go on, and that there
must be work in this world for me
which will help to assure that his
life was not lost in vain. Naturally
my thoughts had already turned te
the merchant marine seamen ano
what could do for them. I had nc
contacts with them here despite the
work of my husband because wher
we were together we wanted to have
time to ourselves"
The rest of the girls letter was
equally as touching and l realized
that could find something tangible
for her to do to help the men of the
merchant marine, she would be hap
pier. Her next letter began: your
letter was one of the incest things
that has ever happened to me
Since I last wrote you we have
been working to get a united sea-
mems service club located here in
Houston. Certainly the need is
(See CARROLL, Page E-3)
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have caused more of pictorial SEN
sation than her fine acting in the
movie. You see them on the screen
for not more than few minutes, but
every review Of the film carries
still of the kilt-clad Miss Carson
Every poster of the picture shows
the lady in her brief phase as
vaudeville artistic, with legs from
here to there on view.
Mary Martin, who finally per-
Suaded her producers that her legs
are as pretty as her face, shows
them in Happy Go Lucky" She
wears skirt that is slashed open
in front to reveal panties with ruff
fles on them. The picture is in
technicolor, and the soldiers and
sailors will approve.
In Best Foot Forward" Lucille
Ball, playing the role of the faded
and jaded screen star played by
Rosemary Lane on the stage, has
her dancing dress ripped from her
by the jealous co-eds. And this will
be duck-soup for the Army and
Navy-she will be revealed wearing
the scantiest and prettiest of un-
mentionables.
Fantasy Is Revealing.
"The Arabian Nights" was made
expressly to please the boys at war
in the matter of feminine and
fleshy charm. You've all heard of
the dance of the seven wells? Well,
that was much too dressy for Maria
Montez who performs a number
titled THE Dance of the Single Veil"
in the film. Needless to say, you see
a whole heap of Maria. The six
harem beauties in the picture dis
play their limbs in huge r-lined
bath tub, of all things. ut puts
my teeth on edge, how about you?)
A leopard stands guard over them,
and l can understand why-they
might want to get OUT
In White Savage" Miss Montez,
who has obviously taken up where
Dorothy Lamour left off in her old
jungle pictures, wears what the
studio calls "sheerong." It's a
combination, or construction, of
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITOLIfe Begins $50" the acid Wooey comedy
2:05 445, 1925 and 1915 Stage shows
9:20 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Whistng in Dixie" gage for Shelton l. $50
4:40. $50 $40 1910 pm.
EARLE-Road to Morocco the Crosby Hope cycle
nues 1880 ESQ $40 735 and 9:55 Stage shows 2l5
ABS, and $40
KEITHs-Once Upon Honeymoon Ginger Cary
Grant all over Europe lao, 4:20, and
LITTLE-'Waeroo Bridge" tragedy wartime l.
3:05. Sis. pm.
METROPOLITAN-"NoU, Voyager' Bette
psychosis: 1:40 4:20 $40 pm
PALACEFores Rangers" MacMuray spurs Jingle
jangle-jngle: l, BIS, $50, 7:45 pm
PIX-"Stage the
1910 pm
TRANS-L -LUX-News and shorts Continuous from l nm
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plOduICio nave poClCO ouV oPPioNA'
mately s2,000,0O0, have had many
political headaches" assembled
some interesting data.
The scenario presented the first
problem. On June 10, 194l, Louis
Bromfield, distinguished author, was
signed to make the screen treat
ment. Knowing the Hays Office pro-
duction code moral rigidities, it was
apparent from the start that the
famous sleeping bag scene in Hem
ingway's book would be definitely
out of the shooting script. There
was also the political front to be
considered
In Washington the United States
State Department was on friendly
terms with Franco of Spain, and
that dictator did not propose to let
the damaging implications Of the
novel, affecting his own ideologies
60 unchallenged. Eventually. the
shooting script was completed by
Author Bromfield and on october
IA, 1941, Dudley Nichols was en-
gagged to do a polishing job on the
manuscript. Victor Young was
signed to write a musical score.
Problem Of Casting.
Meanwhile, the front Office was
concerned with the casting problem
Hemingway, friend of Gary Cooper
felt he was the ideal selection fol
Robert Jordan. The author had beer
delighted with the way Cooper hao
performed in his other novel, Fare
we'll to Arms" But Cooper and Di-
rector Sam Wood were under con-
tract to Sam Goldwyn for Pride
of the Yankees" and this meant
more delay. To make it appear
like a contest, the company tested
Macdonald Carey, Rod Cameron
Robert Preston and Phillip Terry fol-
the role of Robert Jordan. They
also considered Stirling Hayden ano
Clark Gable; Joel McCrea, Erro
Flynn, Tyrone Power and Robert
Donat came into the discussion
Cooper was not actually signed fol
'Tne Belp' until March 6, 1912.
There were a good many heart
aches concerned with the tests fol
Maria. Zorina actually cut off he
luxurious hair and began the in.
depreciation of the role on Juns
"a, 1912. On July 81, 1912, Ingrie
Bergman was tested, selected or
August 3. She was on location ane
took over the role on August
This was another concession tt
Ernest Hemingway, who had orig
inally suggested La Bergman fol
the role. When Sam Wood backee
him up the graceful dancer zorin;
| faded from the scene, not helped
much my many confusing state
ments from the production center
Many Were Tested.
Actually tested for the role Of
Maria were Madeleine LIE Beau
Cecilia CALICO, Esther Fernandez
Betty Field. Susan Hayward, Bar
bara Britton, Margaret Hayes, he
sides Zorina. Fans suggested
Frances Farmer, Annabella, Louise
Rainer, Vivian Leigh and Barbara
Stanwyck.
BY this time global war had ar.
rived, and the War Production
Board had ruled that not more
than 5000 could be expended on
any one set. This influenced the
decision to photograph as much oil
the story as possible on location
Original schedule called for 38 days
in the Sierras. This extended tc
10 weeks, with location work cover
ing some 125 miles of territory, from
the top of Sonora Pass to Tuolumne
River Canyon, IS miles from Yo-
semitic.
Here Franco became a production
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irritation. His representative was
on the set and supervising eacn
scene. 1t is told that Director Sam
Wood got around this annoyance by
shooting Spanish version for the
foreign visitor. then shooting an
other with more fealty to the Hem
ingway book. Which version sur
vived the cutting scissors time must
tell. Always there was the thought
that Spain might become involved
in the world conflict, and always
the fear that what eventually would
be released must be automatically
circumspect and win approval in
Washington.
OBJECTION Is Raised.
After 1913 days of camera work
the picture was complete with Gary
Cooper and Miss Bergman depart-
ing in late October. Meanwhile
Franco had made it very plain that
he was in sympathy with Herr Hit
Ter, and out in California they rea-
ooiICN OAlC OpdIllSll lIillueLlCC lillsIib
be relaxed. Not so, according TO
the rumors. Don Juan Francisco
de Cardenas, Spanish Ambassador.
had protested, with certain hints
that the Rockefeller Committee on
Inter American Affairs Is not en-
thusiastic about the release.
The regulation job of whiting
down the immense footage shot to
the conventional theater evening
is completed, soon the executives
will load the cans into a truck, take
them to q remote and hideaway
| movie house and get the first public
reaction. Then they must win
Washington approval, for Heming-
way was savage with the Fascist
revolutionaries and pulled no
punches in showing his heart and
affection for the Loyalists. Out 4
Paramount they assert that Director
Sam Wood concentrated on fer
vent love story, treated politics as
a side issue. Meanwhile work is
going ahead on a popular edition of
the novel, with 100000 copies
ordered. Novel has also been trans
lated into Spanish and Portuguese,
with South American sales expected
to reach 100000. This latter point
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Shakespeare Adage
| Applied to Evelyn
HOLLYWOOD

HULL WOOO.
John Carradine knows his
Shakespeare. And Evelyn An
kers will be the first to admit
it.
On the set one morning Eve
lyn was showing a paper in
which two OF her husbands
new pictures were reviewed. She
was pointing to the words RICH
ard Denning's role showed :"
and 6. capably handled by
Richard Denning 49," And was
thoroughly happy.
Didn't you notice that your
own picture, The Great I'm
personation,' is right there on
the same pager" asked Car
radine.
Heavens, no!' Evelyn ex-
claimed.
Carradine struck a pose.
When love is blind" he
said, lovers cannot see the
pretty follies they themselves
commit Shakespeare, Mer-
chant of Venice act /, scene s.
Look 1t up for yourself"
ASSOCIATED PressJ
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sarong and lurlong. The latter
covers the form of Hedy Lamar
in White Cargo" Main feature
about both is that you can see most
of the female behind them.
Talking about Hedy, her un-
dressed role as Tondeleyo in white
Cargo" is a reminder that she first
burst upon the gaze of film-goers
wearing her birthday suit only in
the film Ecstasy" I was under
the impression-from Hedy-that
she wanted to live down, or rather
dress up, that first movie, but I
suppose she decided that a girl has
to be in the swim and follow the
prevailing fashion in order to keep
her place in pictures.
Acquanetta, the Indian girl, is
said to be feuding with Miss Montez
on the Universal lot. Their quarrel
is probably about who wears least
in their films. Acquanetta does not
do too badly with some native
dances in South Sea Island" She
wears the usual strands of straw.
strip Tease" Story.
I have bone to pick with the
publicity department working for
Hunt Stromberg. The day I visited
the set of String Murders" >"
Barbara Stanwyck's getup would
have left some space in an average
sized thimble. If you have read the
story by Gypsy Rose Lee you will
know that the leading character is
a strip-tease artist. And If you had
seen Miss Stanwyck IN her dress % i.
it would not have taken you longer
than half a second to guess that
the gal was strip "teaseuse" from
way back. Which was how l was
going to write it.
Until - Please, Miss Graham"
said the charming publicity boss,
please don't use the words strip
teaser when writing of your visit
to the set" I put up a bit of a
struggle, but finally consented, COM
promising on the word dancer"
So what happens? Every other
columnist who did or did not see
(See GRAHAM, Page E-31
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NAT1ONAL-Sprng Again the comedy with Aubrey
smith and Grace George opening tomorrow tonight
CAPITOAndy Ann Rutherford too
starting Thursday
COLUMBIA"Sand Action with
Laughon; third downtown week starting Thursday
EARLE-"Commandos Strike Lillian
KEITHS-"Aabian Nights" with and Sabu: start
ing Thursday
LTTTLE-"The Bakers Wife" with
PALACE"The Black
and Tyrone Power; starting Thursday.
P1x-"Typhoon with Dorothy
Evening star., 1943-01-17
New Playmate

Diana Lynn will play the sweet
heart Of Henry Aldrich in Para
mounts next Aldrich Family picture
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid" sched-
uled to start early next year. with
Jimmy Lydon and Charlie Smith
playing Henry and Dizzy.
Miss Lynn, who scored in The
Major and the Minor" now is acting
as Betty Hutton's sister In The
Miracle of Morgan's Creek"
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inform you that you have been
chosen by the Columbia students, as
the most desirable person to be
wrecked with on desert island for
six months"
will have to admit that the for
mer type of letter mostly found it's
way to the waste-paper basket, but
the latter I shall cherish to my
dying day. I have an idea it may
come in very useful when one of
my grandchildren gets fresh with
me and starts telling me I'm old
fashioned and don't know anything
about life" At that moment I
shall whisk out the Columbia stu
dents letter.
Today's Mail Is Different.
Today my mail is very different.
1t is mail I am very proud of-mail
which encourages me to work hard
er every day for a cause I know to
be good. 1t is mail which makes
me at times feel very unworthy to
be intrusted with my present job
This mail Is so human and en-
crossing that almost every letter
merits individual attention. What
do you think of this letter:
". Participating in the war
effort to the full extent of my
energy That phrase from your
published letter of last week struck
with force, and because of 1t, l am
writing. I am
20 years, clerk-typist in the Signal
Corps. I am asking you, the fabu-
lous Madeleine Carroll, for advice.
Last winter I attended YMCA lee
ture course called, After the War,
{. What?' That started it. The
lecture and discussions were stimu-
lating. We participants became
alive
! Can you tell me how? Are there
Evening star., 1943-01-17


Ing all season. No need for hurry to
see it. 1t will be here long time.
In its genial glow you live apart
from so many grim, vexatious things,
pleasing to forget, even if temporar-
lily. So it is good for the soul. 1t
is wholesome and antiseptic. You
revel in the artistry of song and
dance, in the allure of engaging set
tings populated by performers of
varied high accomplishment with a
chorus background of some fifty
girls and boys gifted in the produc-
ton of tune and rhythmic, ,maneuver.
Inevitably you respond to the thrill
Of swift, dynamic action.
Cole Porter Music.
Cole Porter provides music which,
II not in the very forefront Of his
melo61ous sheaf is so near first
pick as to make no matter. The
book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields
is always bright, sometimes witty
and occaslonally-as though in du-
bious apology for show otherwise
immaculate delicately off-color.
Hassard Short has staged and lighted
the piece in a shining reflection of
his genius.
supported by a singularly gifted
group of women and men in various
important parts, Ethel Norman was
never so shrewdly tested as protag-
onist in any production since her
rise to stardom. But the irresistible
magnetism of this plump little crea-
ture, her Joyous bouyancy of spirit,
her infectious projection of mood
and whimsy, the raffish roguery of
her expressive eyes-in sum, the
wholesome comedy instinct which
informs everything she SAYS. sings,
or does. enables her to hold her
place undimmed as stellar deity in
blazing galaxy of performers.
She is one of three cousins who
have inherited Texas ranch. One
of them, Paula Lawrence, was a bur-
lesque actress; another, Allen Jen-
kins, was a pitchman. Ethel her.
self had been working in defense
plant in New Jerseys They turn
the ranch into factory for war
cadets and engage as lovely a crowd
OF lady defense workers as can be
imagined. Since Kelly Field. an
Army aviation school, happens to
edJoin and since San Antonio is
filled with tourists who have come
to see the historic Alamo, all the
authors of the book had to do was
to fashion a plot which they did
to the queens taste-judging by
musical comedy standards-and all |
Cole Porter had to do was to COM
pose a portfolio of love songs. songs
about Texas, about soldier boys and
q variety of dance music. all of
which he also did to the queens
taste, judged by any standard what
ever.
Nine Girls" Is Melodrama.
Place nine attractive. ebulliently
collegiate, girls in sorority cabin
high in the Sierra Nevada Noun
tains; have one OF them murder one
of her pals and then, in desperate
effort to conceal the act, murder, or
attempt to bump off the rest. Result
is a melodrama with at least one
major appeal-novelty.
But Nine Girls" written by Will
fred H. Pettitt, produced by that
veteran Snowman, A. H. Woods. at
the Longacre Theater, has other
phases of appeal There are. for
instance, few situations qualified
to make the hair rise along the back
of your neck. There are elements of
horror which seem to confirm
Rudyard Kiplings famous dictum
concerning the superior deadliness
Of the female over the male.
There have been better melo-
drama, plays with more impressive
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story value and more convincing
human content. But there have
been many worse ones, too. Nine
Girls" will do-if you care any,
thing at all about stage murder and
mystery fairly we'll contrived. This
melodrama was seen in Washington
recently as This Little Hand"
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Hollywood Exploits Legs,
Blames Display on War
Soldiers and Sailors
Want Beautiful Girls
Is Producers Excuse
By Sheilah Graham,

Oil are running riot again in Hollywood Something
10 40 believe Soldiers
studios by the hundreds legs on the
cenWe DON'T whose they
legs And SO they getting legs West
Greers handsome (mexpced undpnnngs viewed
Evening star., 1943-01-17
For Whom Bell Tolls Ends
AS Controversy Develops
Hemingway Novel Ready
For Release If and When
Washington Approves
BY Andre,o K. Kelley.

On october 2 1940 Ernest Hemngways novel, For Whom the
Bell Tolls purchased involving
additional be according the sold
october 81 1912 the picture completed
will sneak
Evening star., 1943-01-17
BY Madeleine Carroll.

NEW YORK,Tine when mailbag mostly composed
letters such as the following
Dear Miss Carroll You favore star OF
Betty Cradle
appeal and Garbo favorte please
Fill you send autographed photograph"
Or this kind OF letter
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Something for the Boys
Gratifying Musical Hit
Broadway Warmly Greets
Ethel Norman Singing
Cole Porter's Tunes
Bp LaUrence Perry.
y IT Z y =
North American NeWSna ner Alliance

NEW YORkHereWih Michael Todd of Star and Garter"
cited public
the
color and artistic embellishments and
salatory rhythm and above
which frequently bugeons hiay musical comedy
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Madeleine Carroll's Fan
Mail Comes From Sailors
Star Abandons Screen
To Further Interests
Of us. Merchant Marine

Madeleine Carroll, radio and picture
porkrg the merchant
months and In this story
it,
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Dodn are the blond tn OF juke Joint Anderson
play The EDe OF St. Marx coming to the National Thener
merit Sunday night feature OF the Presidents bhdau cee
oraon The girls ipe in small toon adjoining Army camp
ana the presence OF so uniform upset their nor
NAL routine Is OF the comedy nerudes in the mar pInv
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tSee KELLEY, Page ED
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(See CARROLL, Page ESD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-26

not cut off the crusts, depend
ing on your men folk 5 pref
erenCcS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-26

SAVE A corner of a kitchen
cupboard for lunch box equip
ment and you save good many
steps and minutes every morn
ing. Stock 1t with wax paper,
hot drink cups, jelly glasses with
tight-fitting lids, paper napkins,
a bread board, two or three
small mixing bowls, a few rub
Der hands, a roll or two OF
Scotch tape, some string, a
sharp knife and several spoons
OF assorted sizes.
If yeH use meat grinder
often, il. too, belongs in the
equipment center. And after
each using, replace the wing nut
so the grinder is ready for work
at a seconds notice.
Air Lunch Boxes
Buy set of small salts and
peppers for each lunch box.
Check on them occasionally 10
be sure they aren't empty and
that the salt really shakes"
Pack lunch boxes as late as
possible-food will be fresher
and taste better. Scald and air
metal lunch boxes and thermoS
bottles as soon as tn v re
brought home. Once every week,
rinse thermos and cork in Solu-
ton of hot water and baking
soda.
Cut sandwiches diagonally--
they're easier TO eat. Do or do
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-26
Elsie Robinson \.
Norman ROCKWELL Pictures
Symbolic Four Freedoms

isn't one family sitting around
a Thanksgiving table. It's all
free families, smiling, sharing
alike. It's you, in the friendly,
generous world of your dreams.
Freedom of worship. That's
you, too. bending in prayer
above your young knees or work
worn hands, asking for help,
each in his own way, from the
one who alone can gauge the
burden. having borne the cross
Himself.
Freedom of speech. That's you
again, assembled for town meet
ing, standing upright in your
shabby jacket, daring 10 state
the truth as YOU see IL without
fear or favor from any man.
Freedom from fear. An old
fashioned room. The quiet night.
Two drowsy tykes. And you
.tucking them in. secure against
bombs or butchers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-26
Print Address

II YOU suspect your handWrlt-
Ing Of being difficult 10 decipher
PRINT the address. IN plain
block letters If you have no type
writer.
Most important, ~ course. is
your care 10 include in the adj
dress every detail that should
he included. Check and double
check every one Of the details.
10 see that you have included
every one. The full name. The
serial number The unit 10 which
the Seryiceman is attached And.
most particularly. the APO or
Naval address. Every letter and
every figure has an importance
Of it's own. II you are uncertain
about any detail Of the address.
ask for verification from some
one who knows. Don't guess.
The post office has made II
simpler and faster for you 10
reach your loved ones by pro-
viding the V-mail forms, 50 you
really have no excuse for falling
70 give your fighting man what
ne wants moSt-mail from home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-26
Spring Waldorf Salad

Ono envelope plain unflavorcd
gelatin. - : cup cold water, / cup
hot water. J cup sugar Is cup
mild vinegar or lemon Juice. 2
teaspoon salt = tart apples cut
IN small pieces y cup chopped
celery and Il cup chopped nuts.
Soften gelatin IN cold water
and dissolve IN hot water. Add
sugar. vinegar or lemon juice
and salt Stir well. Cool. and
when mixture begins 10 thickon,
fold In apple. celery and nuts.
Turn INTO mold that has been
rnSCd out m cold water FIRST
and chill When firm. unmoId
ONO lettuce and serve with
MAJ onnaIse.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-26
Substantial Salad for Men

SALADS ALWAYS come into
their own with the advent of
spring. They are perfect for
luncheons. Sunday night supperS.
and evening SnackS. This is one
which will be bound 10 please
the men, too, for it's got more
than just pretty appearance,
and is a meal in itself.
Sweetbread Salad
= pound sweetbreadS
IL cups diced celery
2 chopped tomatoes
| cup cooked or canned peas