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Evening star., 1944-12-31
Benjamin Wilkinson,
l)nce State S Attorney
|Af Rockville, Dies

Benjamin G. Wilkinson, jr., 81
former States attorney for Mont
gomery County and a member of
the Maryland House of Delegates,
died yesterday at the residence of
County Commissioner Lacy Shaw
at Meadowood, near Silver Spring,
Md. He had made his home with
Commissioner Shaw for several
years.
Although Mr.. Wilkinson had been
in i'll health for some time, he was
still able to be about and his death,
caused by heart attack, was un-
expected.
Born in Lincoln, Nebr., Mr.. Will
kinson was brought to Takoma
Park, Md, in early childhood and
lived there almost all of his life.
He was graduated in 1928 from
Washington Missionary College, of
which his father, DR.. Benjamin G.
Wilkinson, is president.
Practiced Law IL Years.
In 1882 he was graduated from
Harvard Law School and for the
last II years had practiced law
here and in Maryland. During the
early part of his career he was as
sociated with the law Offices of j.
Bond Smith here. Later he took
charge of the law Offices of Smith,
Lamar and Wilkinson in Rockville
and was assistant attorney to the
commissioners.
Mr.. Wilkinson also had been ad-
mitted to practice before the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
He was elected States attorney for
Montgomery County on the Demo-
cratic ticket in 1888, and in 1912 was
elected county member of the
House of Delegates.
AS States attorney one of his
outstanding cases was the prosecu-
tion Of the engineer of a Balti-
more & Ohio locomotive involved in
a wreck September "a, 1912, at Dick
erson, Md, in which IL persons
were killed.
Appointed defense transportation
administrator for Maryland by Gov.
OConor in 1912. Mr.. Wilkinson was
active in mapping transportation
plans in the nearby areas in
cooperation with District and Vir-
ginia administrators.
Was Active In Masons.
He was a member of the Mary
land, District and Montgomery
County Bar Associations, of the Ia
koma Park Masonic Lodge and of
the Maryland Minutemen. Active
IN Democratic politics, he was a
charter member Of the Young Mems
Democratic Club of Takoma Park.
His widow. from whom he was
divorced over year ago. was the
former Miss Gypsy Belle Elliott of
Takoma Park.
Besides his father. he is sur
Vlved by one son, Benjamin G.
Wilkinson, 3D., student at Nc
Donough Military Academy, Balti-
more: a brother, DR.. Rowland Will
kinson, resident surgeon at Gallinger
Hospital, and his stepmother.
Funeral services will be held at
IL I'M. tomorrow at the New Sligo
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Carroll and Flower avenues. Takoma
Park. Burial will be in Washing
ton Memorial Cemetery.
Pallbearers, who are members of
the Montgomery County Bar As
sociation, are Mr.. Smith, Joseph B.
Simpson, jr, James w. Gill, Judge
Albert E. Brault, Joseph A. Cantrel
and Alfred D. Noyes.
Evening star., 1944-12-31
Sam DoIan, so, Former
Notre Dame Athlete, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CORVALLIS, Oreg., Dec. 30
Sam Dolan. so, former Notre Dame
football star and Pacific Coast grid
iron official for 26 years, died last
night after several months illness.
Mr.. Dolan, born in England, was
an outstanding player at Notre
Dame, where he received his civil
engineering degree. A 1907 Oregon
State graduate, he returned to o.
S. c. in 1910 as assistant football
coach and civil engineering instruc-
tor. He was head coach in 1911
and 1912 and has been on the staff
ever since.
Evening star., 1944-12-31
YugosIovio Invasion
Leader Is Killed
6y the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 3o.-Col. John
Robert (Jack) MacNamara, 80, who
led an invasion of Yugoslavia with
Is men to prepare the way for
British land and air assistance to
Marshal Tito, has been killed in ac-
ton in Italy, it was announced to-
day.
At the time of the invasion. he
was chief of staff of the Adriatic
command. He had been a Conserva-
tive member of parliament since
1895,
Evening star., 1944-12-31
Brighter New Year
Hoped for by Veteran
After Month of Grief
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3d.
Leroy Kelley hopes the New
Year will bring a change Of
luck.
Discharged from the Army
month ago because his wife was
too Ill to support their four
children, Mr.. Kelley is still
hunting job.
One Of the children fell Fri
day and broke his arm.
His Sister-in-law died today.
Then, while making funeral ar
rangements, his home was de-
stroyed by fire.
Evening star., 1944-12-31
Policemen Appointed

William Little has been appointed
by the Mayor and Town Council as
a member of the Hyattsville police
force. effective January 2. He will
succeed Stanley E. Rickard, who has
moved. With Officer Little's addi-
ton, Hyattsville will have five full
time policemen. 1t Is planned to
appoint another policeman soon.
Evening star., 1944-12-31
Club to Elect Officers

Election of officers will feature a
meeting of the Woman's Demo-
cratic Club Of Silver Spring at
pm. Tuesday at Jesup Blair Com
munity House Mrs. Robert M.
Poole, president, will preside.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

entered the observatory as a COM
puter.
Current observations which he
makes are used to revise tables pre-
dieting the position of celestial
bodies which were compiled half a
century ago by Simon NeWcomb,
then in charge of the Nautical AL
manac Office. The tables, appearing
in the Nautical and Air Almanacs,
are used by navigators and aviators
throughout the world in charting
their courses.
DR.. Morgan's work has called for
highly specialized mathematical and
astronomical training 1t has re-
quired rugged physical constitu-
ton too
On cold winter nights when the
city slept, he was often one of a
small group of men at the Naval OBJ
Iservatory who made tours" of the
stars for hours at time in build
ings open to the sky.
In the winter we had to bundle
up DR.. Morgan recalled in an in
terview yesterday. We couldn't t
heat the building beca Use it would
spoil the images"
Dressed in his sheepskin- lined
coat, fur cap and felt boots, he
might have been taken for a North
Pole explorer. The only thing that
gave him away ?re his good
warm gloves" with the ends cut out
Of all the fingers to allow him to
manipulate the delicate mechanism
of the nine-inch transit circle tele-
scope through which he made his
observations.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Dr.. Morgan to Quit Observatory
After 43 Years of Sky Study

An astronomer for nearly so
years, DR.. Morgan has been active
in international astronomical or
ganizations. In 1928, he was rep
resentative to the International
Astronomical Union at Leyden, Hol-
land. At that time he visited the
famous observatories of the Old
World Among them were the
Greenwich Observatory, which in
1910 was forced to close down be-
cause of the German bombing of
London, and the Pulkova Observa-
tory destroyed by the Germans in
the siege of Leningrad.
In this country he has served as
vice president of the American
Astronomical Society and the Amer
ican Association for the Advance
ment of Sciences. He is member
Of the Washington Academy of
Sciences and the Astronomical
Council. an advisory body of the
observatory A frequent contrib
utor to astronomical publications.
he is an associate editor of The
Astronomical Journal. He is con-
sidered an authority on the preces-
sion of the equinox, the position of
the Equator and other investiga-
items.
To this veteran astronomer, who
will reach his 10th year next
March. retirement means one thing
more work.
Il want to carry out some research
along the same kind of work. I al
ready have several projects in mind =
he said enthusiastically.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Pity the Poor Agent, or Don't

under an agreement to take q $780,
a-week cut In salary-if he made
good. If he didn't make good he
was to be dropped.
THE boy did make good and the
picture will be success. Fortu-
nately he was able to have the
contract broken. He is now free
agent, and mighty lucky to be one. "
California's ralnless summer has
eliminated all the wild flowers. but
the man who wrote the script of
Experiment Perilous" didn't know
or care about that. So he wrote in
a scene where Hedy Lemarr and
George Brent talk love while roam
ing through a huge field of daisies
and left it to the prop department
to come through. And props" did.
as 1t always does.
It's a rare spectacle In movie
magic to open the door to Stage 10
at RKO and gaze at all the daisies.
The studio bought Is, 900 square feet
of bent grass, $50 tons of sod and
transported it all from a Hollywood
hillside, we were told. Midst of all
this they buried at artistic intervals
some 5000 pots and cans containing
daisy plants. right out Of the
nursery
1t looked fine. Everybody came
from all over the lot to admire the
daisy field But there had to be
trouble, OF course. Before the two
stars could begin their romantic
stroll arc lights had wilted the
daisies. They had to be sprinkled
back to freshness. When this was
done Miss Lamar took her place
and promptly let out scream, ac-
companied by smart little dance.
Spiders" she yelled, hundreds
OF spiders in this grass"
1t was true Apparently the i'm
Evening star., 1944-09-30

the same pair who created them on
Broadway, Josephine Hull and Jean
Adair. John Alexander, the crazy
Brewster brother who fancies him
self as Theodore Roosevelt and yells
"Chaaaaarge" every time he climbs
the stairs, gets even louder laughs
with his screen performance. He,
too, coined the role in the original,
and keeps it proportionate in the
new version.
1t is by no means harmful to
arsenic and Old Lace" that it no
longer is confined to the solitary
living room set which framed it in
the theater.
The Capra film is able to intro
duce visually number of the hilari-
ously ghoulish elements at which
the play could merely hint. Now
one sees the cemetery which helps
give the gentle old aunts their cozy
sense of death, the basement in
which Brother Teddy digs the
Panama Canal" in which the
victims are buried, and the simple
kitchen in which the fatal potions
are brewed along with the family's
superb broths and tasty cakes.
They are nice additions to the
murderous fable.
Other additions that the movie
audience will have no occasion to
protest include some of the cinemas S
better players in several of the
other roles. One of these is Ray
mond Massey as the murderous
Brother Jonathan, second genera
ton mass murderer who greatly
resents the competition of his aunts.
Massey is made up ideally to re-
semble Boris Karloff, who played
the original Jonathan role, and did
no better with it, Peter LORE is
another handy chap as Jonathans
alcoholic plastic surgeon; so is Ed
ward Everett Horton as the sani-
tarlum superintendent, and so are
Jack Carson as the cop who spends
his spare time thinking out plays,
and Miss Lane as the madly har-
assed sweetheart of the critic.
arsenic and Old Lace" adds up
to as many murders as ever. 1t adds
up also to great many more laughs
than the average cinema farce. but
not to as many, nor such subtly
achieved, laughs as did the stage
version.
Don't let that keep you away,
however, unless you saw the original.
Hal Raywin, a violinist who
dances while he plays, and joey
Rardin, a comic who looks like
Jimmy Cagney from the distance of
the mezzanine, impart the pictures
lively spirit to this weeks stage
show at the Earle. They are hand
somely abetted in that enterprise
by the Roxyettes, one of whose two
routines is that walking-ball trick
which is the most exciting In their
repertory.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
u0T VWNOn

HOLLYWOOD.
No one has seen fit as yet to shed
q crocodile tear over the sorry plight
OF the Hollywood talent agent. It's
the war, OF course. Dozens of top
salaried leading men have gone into
military service, their contracts and
pay envelopes automatically sus-
pended.
These things have hit the average
"l0-per-center" a terrific blow.
Imagine losing $5,000-a-week
client to Uncle Sam-thus crossing
$500 of from your income every
seven days. One leading talent
agent saw seven of his popular
clients disappear from the scene
within three months. His total loss
was $1,750 week.
Many have gone out of business;
others are hanging on with barely
enough small-time talent on their
lists to exc out Office rent and meals
at the corner drugstore.
AS whole, the agency business
in Hollywood, at best, has never
been much better than a cutthroat
racket, but today the fierce compe-
tition for talent has shot it to new
low levels.
Everett Crosby, brother of Bing,
and one of the towns reputable
agents, told us an astonishing tale
concerning a newcomer star signed
to play the title role in an impor-
tant picture soon to be released.
They agreed on salary of $500
a week to be paid the boy while the
picture was being made" cold
Crosby. Then, the day the picture
started, he was confronted on the
set by the producer who demanded
tnat ne sign a new contract before
ne went before the cameras.
The boy signed, only to discover
later that he had placed his name
Evening star., 1944-09-30
arsenic and Old Lace Hits
Hilarious Level at Earle
BY JAY CARMODY.

Joseph Keserinss idea that he could
OF ne spectacle OF two gentle elderly
mass murder brilliantly
Lhe play ARSENIC and Old Lace 1t
millions
the HOLLYWOOD pending the end If
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Treasured Documents
On Exhibit Tomorrow

At noon tomorrow the original
copies of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Constitution will
be returned TO exhibition at the
Library of Congress after being put
away for two years in a wartime
hiding place
The Library will open at II 80
a m instead of at pm. as is GUS
tomary. The brief ceremony during
which the documents will be re-
turned to their shrines will include
music by the Marine Band. Marine
guards will be posted by the shrines.
Besides the Constitution and the
Declaration, other valuable docu-
ments being returned to the Library
Sunday include the St. Blasius-St.
Paul copy of the Gutenberg Bible,
the original Articles of Confedera-
ton, Jefferson's original manuscript
of the Declaration of independence,
the Lincoln Cathedral copy of the
Magma Charta, and the manuscripts
of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, and
his Second Inaugural
Evening star., 1944-09-30

ported grass had been fun Of spider
eggs. Heat from the lights Matched
them out. A small army moved In
to swat spiders, knock down cob
webs and spray insecticide all over
the $1,000 square feet of daisy field.
The spraying brought on Brent's
hay fever.
When we left this beautiful sight,
Brent was still sneezing. Miss La
MARI was being sympathetic, quite
brave about the spiders and alto
gether lovely. The man from the
budget of1ce was chewing his nails
The rest of the company just sat
around waiting for $4,000 young
spiders to breathe their last.
The main gate at MGM studio
Is presided over by an efi1cient stu
dio policeman named Heating. In
real life he handles his job to the
great satisfaction of all.
But when Frank Sinatra and
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Where and When
Current Theoter Attroct tions
and Time Of Showino

Stage.
Soldiers Wife: 2:3C
and $50 pm.
Screen.
Sensations of l945".
l0:45 am, lao. 4:35. 7:3O and 1920
pm. Stage shows: 1885, 3:45, 6:4O
and 9:35 pm.
Seventh Cross: 11:5O
m, 2:15, 4:45, ITO and $50 pm.
Earle-"Arsenic and Old Lace:
9:15 and l1:45 am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:3O
1905 pm. and 12:45 am. Stage
shows: 1l:20 am, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:4C
pm, and 1915 am.
keith's christmas Holiday:
11:l5 I'M, 1:20, 3:25, 5::35, TAO and
GAS pm.
Metropolitan-"Janie":: 11::25 am.
2, ABS, ITO and 9:45 pm.
LittIe-"Voice in the Wind: II
am, 1880, 2;3o, 4:20, sos, 7:55 and
$50 pm.
Palace-"Since You Went Away:
1l:25 am, 2:55, $40 and 9:25 pm.
Pix-"The Magnificent Dope:
2::30, $40, 8, 1926 pm. and am
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

For 43 years DR.. Herbert r.
Morgan has observed the sun, moon
planets and stars from the Naval
Observatory on the heights of Mas
Evening star., 1944-09-30

the dramas stage run. The film
appeared in Washington yesterday
at the Earle with Cary Grant and
Priscilla Lane, and 1t is destined to
be recorded here that Mr.. Kessel-
rings idea is even harder than it
was hilarious. That Is because 1t
has managed to remain pretty much
OF a bowling success in spite of
the fact that Hollywood was not
content to leave it as a farce, but
turned it instead into a kind of
traversty of a farce.
1t would be pleasant to record
that Arsenic and Old Lace" had
been improved in the screen adapta-
ton. Frank Capra made 1t just
before he went into the Army, and
Mr.. Capra always was director to
do irreproac liable things. In "hoking
up" Mr.. Kesselring's farce, un-
doubtedly on the false theory that
two sweet old lady murdererS might
be too much of a shock, he left
himself open to the reproach of
those who saw it in the stage
version. To others, who are more
numerous, 1t probably will make
much less difference.
X X
1t is possible that the Messrs.
Capra and Grant, having a drama
critic as their central character,
could not resist the temptation to
make him look like the hammiest
human in cinema history. At any
rate, that is what has happened
to poor Mortimer Brewster, the
sane nephew of the two murderous
old ladies. Grant converts him into
something of an idiot in his reac-
tion to his aunt's gently morbid
practice of killing harmless old men,
at least in the early passages of
the drama. 1t is a treatment that
leaves him about one-half as funny
as in the original, in which he had
the virtue of standing out as the
one semi-sane character in the mad
menagerie gathered in that
Brooklyn home.
Apart from the change in
Mortimer, the others in Arsenic
and Old Lace" remain substantially
their old uproarious selves. Aunts
Abby and Martha, who resent the
notion that there is anything but
kindness in their practice of killing
of a dozen old men, are played by
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Sanders Is Composer
Of Guitar Concerto

George Sanders, who co-stars with
Linda Darnell in the forthcoming
United Artists release Summer
Storm" shortly will publish a con-
certo for guitar based on a theme
he recalls from his early childhood
days in Russia.
In Summer Storm" Sanders had
to sing short solo with guitar &C
compartment. He submitted COM
position of his own to Producer Sey-
mour Nebenzal. who pronounced it
as ideal. Encouraged by his success
as a composer, Sanders Immediately
started work on an entire concerto
with Russian music rs the back
ground. Sanders was born In St.
Petersburg, and he still considers
the music of Russia among the most
stirring ever written.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Vaughan Gets Bid
To See New Version
of His Bondage
Ey the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Somerset Vaughan, the English
novelist. who is scheduled to visit
California in December, has been
invited to Hollywood to see the sec
ond movie version Of his "Of Human
Bondage" being filmed.
The invitation was given by an
other Englishman, Edmund Could
ing, the director Vaughan heads
a British committee which plans to
attend the dedication of the Robert
Louis Stevenson State Park at
Mount st. Helena, in Northern Cali
fornia, December 2 and 3. The au-
thor and Fanny Osbourne Steven
son spent their honeymoon at this
place in 1880.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Blush on Screen
Is Tough Problem
For Technicians
Fy the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Taking the picture of blush is a
tough assignment. First, you have
to get lady who can blush at will
and those are rare So rare that you
might as we'll give that up to begin
with.
The blush was necessary to put
over story point in Irene Dunne's
new film, Together Again Irene
Is shown. clad in a slip, being hauled
off to Jail in Black Maria. Blush
effect was worked out by means of
a light DINNER. and shadowing and
unshadowing Irene,s face as the
camera turned.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

SachuSettS ave-
nue.. Today he
will retire from
his position as
principal astron-
Omer of the in
Stitution.
While in re-
cent years the
Nations Capital
has hustled with
wartime activ-
ity, DR.. M or
gan's work has
continued at a
steady pace-the
same as it did in
1901, when he
Evening star., 1944-09-30

Gene Kelly. playing sailors, crashed
tne gate" for q scene In anchors
Awetgh," where they are supposed
70 get on the lot without pass. the
veteran Keating wouldn't do.
They built q fancy new informa-
ton booth just outside the gate and
installed three blond cuties as in
formation girls. Naturally Sinatra
and Kelly crashed. It was q cinch.
Policeman Keating still doesn't
understand the ways Of the moyie-
makers.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
BY GEORGE LILLEY

NEW YORK, N. Y. -. The big
names weren't always what they
are today. Ed Gardner, grammar
numbering Archie" of "Duffy's
tavern, used to be a male secretary,
no less! $3500-a-week Morton Dow
ney was switchboard engineer un-
til fired for speeding. Paul White
man for several years drove taxi
cabs in Denver and San Francisco.
An Irish lass named McGlinchey
was fired as stenographer because,
to squeeze in song rehearsals on a
small New Jersey station, she over
stayed lunch hours. Shortly she
moved directly to big time broad
casting, now is known as Lucille
Manners.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

night shows, usually by Friday eve
ming Is a girl for Henry" or
Homer" on the "Aldrich Family"
VERY LITTLE THINGS
Bing Crosby returned from the
European war fronts with requests
from two celebrities: General Omar
Bradley asked for a golf club to prac-
tice his putting. Kansan General
Eisenhower wanted a package Of
hominy gritS. Crosby has resumed
his Thurday night broadcasting-
with an audience Che originally
asked for none so he'd have no
need to dress up) Johnny Nor
gan, new Monday night CHS come
dian, once earned his living sleep
ing-24 hours on public display as
"stooge" in a hypnotic actl
The writer of radios rough-and-
tumble Death Valley Sheriff"
Thursday nights, CBS) is ma
tronly New York lady, Mrs. Ruth
Cornwell Woodman, graduate Of
Vassar, mother of two children. She
makes yearly trips to the Mother
Lode country, eating in beaneries,
hobnobbing with miners, for mate
rial.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
LITTLE THINGS about the stars

Ed Wynn, brOadcasting again Fri
day nights on the Blue network,
worked in his fathers millinery
house in Philadelphia. He got so
many laughs posing with silly hats
for employees, he became a come
dian, has featured crazy hats ever
since,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
BOBBY SOCK DREAM

When last summer Frank Sina-
ira was looking for singing part
ner for his Wednesday night radio
program changing to Mondays,
CHS. $50 pm, EWT, November 2O),
he spotted petite, five-feet, eighteen
year old Eileen Barton singing in
fighter Make Rosenbloom's Holly
wood night club. Immediately Eileen.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

To make rice whittier and more
fluffy add one teaspoon of lemon
juice to each quart of water while
cooking.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

Wood ticks viii not bother hunters
in western upper peninsula counties
this fall. Most Of the adult ticks
disappear during July.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

Brooklyn born, Hollywood reared,
got the job. Daughter Of show folks,
herself merely out of bobby socks,
blonde Eileen remarks about singing
partner Sinatra: HE has a swell
voice, but only a silly girl would
swoon over him"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
KID STUFF


There's a 12-year-old fellow still
in New York grade school who
averages $500 week playing his age
on the radio programs. But invar-
iably young girl roles on the air
aren't played by young girls. They
are handled by accomplished spe-
cialiSts, more than any other by
urban actress, Mary Mason, niece
OF Broadway producer George Alb
bott, four years married to Sgt. Carl
Fisher, ex-Abbott manager). She's
on most of the teen-time dramas,
most prominent at the moment pop
ular my Best Girls" where she's
exuberant. bobbysocker Penny"
one of three lively daughters who
keep life perplexed but interesting
for widower script father Russell
Bartlett" each Wednesday night on
the Blue network. Miss Mason re-
Stricts her kidding to the high class