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Evening star., 1944-12-11

son thinks now, was harder than
getting into it.
II had seven widows" he says,
ticking off the names Of the out
standing feminine stars of the Pc
riod, lin the play, of course. There
IS, and always has been, but one
Mrs. Brisson."
And only one Mr.. Brisson, one
gathers, who can be grandfather
and maintain his matinee idol hold
on the public at the same time.
Beats even Sinatra.
y X X X
In the pristine and informative
prose of Marie Louise Van Slyke.
comes the following tale of the
Jackson who plays Inspector Jack
son in THE Woman in the VIM
dow"
The chap who plays the detec-
tive, Jackson, many years ago worked
as casing director for Jed Harris.
Harris was having great trouble
casting the famous detective in
Broadway Every one who turned
up looked like the old-hat version
OF a f1atfoot, which wasn't at all
what Harris wanted. He turned to
Jackson and said he wanted a sim
pie guy who could go any place and
not be spotted as a 'dick-a guy
like yourself, to wear a gray flannel
suit and look moderately well
dressed In fact, Harris continued,
why don't you go down and read
the part?'
Jackson did and as he walked on
the stage, devised that wonderful
piece of business, which 1 am sure
you remember, of putting the quar-
ter in the slot machine, pulling the
lever and walking on without find
ing out whether it hit (not like some
others. At any rate, jackson played
the detective and became a proto-
type of all suaye detectives there
after, scoring terrific hit for him
self.
He went to Hollywood and played
a couple Of more detective parts but
because he was not a professional
actor, professional actors began
playing his kind of detective much
better and Jackson faded into
obscurity.
I'VE fade to a year or so ago.
Harris was in Hollywood, where
jackson called on him to talk over
old times. Harris asked him how
he was doing and whether he was
still acting. I haven't played a
part in about 10 years. Jackson told
him. For the past nine years I
have been on the Los Angeles city
detective force
"Nunnally johnson, who is a
sucker for those twists of fate, de-
Ecided no one but Jackson could play
the detective in Woman in the
Window after Harris had told him
the story. So Nunnally got a three
week release for jackson from the
Los Angeles chief of police. Jack
son played the part and Is now
back to detecting"
Evening star., 1944-12-11

toward Mr.. BiSson inevitably comes
over them. His programs last any
where from 40 minutes to an hour
and leave no doubt in any ones
mind that he is quite a Snowman.
One of the odd things about the
master of nostalgia, however, is that
he really is not a nostalgia fellow
himself. %.
The Embassy Rooms current head
liner has had vivid, energetic
past filled with triumphs as pugi-
list, dancer, actor and, above all, as
a musical comedy-operetta head
liner, but the present and the
future are much more favorites
in his conversation unless his guest
insists otherwise OF his current
interests, Brisson's major one is his
grandson, whose parents are his son
Fred and Actress Rosalind Russell.
He is like any other grandfather
and unlike the usual entertainment
|star-in the readiness with which
he will flash his grandson's pic
lures at the slightest sign of in
terest on any ones part.
AS for the future, Grandfather
Brisson, who looks in his late 30s
at the latest, would like nothing
better than another musical COM
edy or operetta, the medium in
which he was Europes most cher
ished idol for Is years.
This routine (Which has included
every swank club from SD street
to Chicago and back again) has got
me, however" Brisson says. Il
never really have time to think of
anything else. I haven't had day
I mean a night-of in IA months.
I don't even have enough time to
find and work up the new material
I would like to put into the show.
incidentally, that's the hardest part
of this business, finding a new num-
ber that everyone else does not pick
up the first week"
X y *
BriSSon, a mountain of a man
whose grandson, he Is sure, also will
be mountain of man, will tell
you about his past If you keep
insisting hard enough.
He will tell you, for instance, how
he stopped being prize-fghter
when he saw an English middle
weight champion he had beaten a
few days before wobbling down a
Paris street in a terrifying state of
punch
Il was rather proud of the Brisson
face and figure" he recalls, "but I
was primarily worried about the
Evening star., 1944-12-11

Brisson brain. 1t was the best one
I had and I wanted to keep it un-
added the rest of what I hoped
would be long life. I decided then
to become a dancer"
BY the mid-tWenties he had added
acting and singing to his entertain
ment repertory and decided that
London was the place for a young
man to take such talents. The Eng
lish he knew consisted largely of a
few words and phrases he had
picked up in the course of knocking
the blocks off the Empires best
middleweights and light-heavy-
weights, but he thought he had an
aptitude for languages.
His first big success came when
he was signed for the male lead in
the revival of "The Merry Widow"
at, Of all theaters, Daly's. Not even
the fact that some scoundrel had
stolen his dress trousers, leaving
instead pair that were inches
short, kept his opening from be-
ing triumph.
Getting out of the operetta, Bris-
Evening star., 1944-12-11
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM.

4AoxiA WoN0.s
Greta Garbo is selling her Beverly
Hills home. She wants $45 700. Any
offers? -. Betty Field bought up
her contract with Paramount. She
will go to London with Elliot Nugent
in Voice of the Turtle" following
the New York run. Betty replaces
Margaret SULLIVAN in the Broadway
success on December II. !. If the
Navy refuses to lend Robert Taylor
for the lead in "They Were Expend-
able," John Wayne will take over in
the John Ford movie for Metro.
Every time I see Wayne he has
his fingers crossed--hoping for the
role. . Anthony Quinn expects
the call into the Army any day now.
If called. Tony, in whatever time
he has free from Army duties, will
probably hunt up more paintings.
His latest purchase is a Renoir.
Joan Blondells Bon Voyage" was
shelved after 10 days of shooting.
But wait until you see Joan's per-
formance as Cissie in "A Tree
Grows In Brooklyn"
Jack Benny completed "The Horn
Blows at Midnight" one year ago,
but last week retakes on the celes-
tial million dollar piece were added
at a cost of 100000. Most of the
retakes consisted of Benny and Allyn
Joslyn falling off a roof. The latter
strained his back, but not his sense
of humor. Next time he will let a
double do the falling, as Benny did.
Next for Joslyn is Colonel Efing-
hams Raid" Dana Andrews has
been taken up by the bobby soxers,
who discovered the lads S. A. in
Laura" . Charles Bickford has
the part of his life in Blood and
Cuts" in which he plays 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton. jr. The much
publicized incident of slapping the
soldier will be played as it really
happened-which should please
Patton.
Greer Carson, anent the false
rumor OF her appendectomy, tells
me, IT'S my hustle they are cut
ting off. I've been in so many
hustle pictures, it's beginning to
q ~" VA AAAS'
repeats as Santa Claus at the Hol-
lyWood Canteen on Christmas Eve.
Judy Garland is expected back
in Hollywood today and returns to
live at her mothers house on the
colony's wrong side of the tracks" +"
After two years of residing alone in
stately luxury Judy went back home
and lives in house with rental
OF less than hundred a month with
her mother, grandmother, sister and
the latters daughter. There are
only four bedrooms. When discuss
ing the move, Judy said to her
mother, Il hope you won't mind
the friends bring here" To which
the lady replied, Il hope you won't
mind the friends I bring here. If
you do you can always go out that
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

SI3&es
National "Over Twenty one:
$3.50 pm.
CapitOl-"Kansas City Kitty:
11:10 am, 1855, 4:40, TBS and 11:05
pm. Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50 and
9:l5 pm.
Columbia - Something for the
Boys: 11:45 am, LAS, $40, $40,
7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Earle-"The Very Thought of
You":: II am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and
$50 pm. Stage shows: los, $50,
$50 and 9:l5 pm.
Keith's-"Woman in the Window:
11:35 am, 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35
and 9:35 pm.
Little-"The Gold Rush: HOS
am, 1855, 2:40, 4:25, 610, and
GAS pm.
Metropolitan "Frenchmans
Creek: II am, los, 3:15, $40, 7::3O
and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"And Now Tomorrow: II
am, ITO, 1920, $50, TAO and $50
pm.
Pix-"Swing in the Saddle: 2:10,
4:35, 6:55 and 9:20 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
1Garbo Offers Home for Sale
evening" So far the arrangement
is working fine.

evening So far the ARRANGEMENT
is working fine.
Gene Kelly wanted one last fling
OF fun before he left for the Navy.
So, with his wife's permission he
went with a friend to San Francisco
for tour Of the gay spots. III he
had done this in Hollywood it
might have caused comment) Gene
had fine time, but when it came
to getting room to rest in after
the whoopee, there was no such
thing. So he spent the rest of the
night asleep in his car!
Sight of the week: Binnie Barnes
with her hair cut close {she plays
a pirate) on "The Spanish Main"
set, tearing of the negligee from
the form of beautiful Maureen
O'Hara. Binnie then stuffs the
fllmy garment down the throat of
male pirate Paul Heinreid, and
tells him, Eat It'll"
Margaret O'Brien was asked, do
you enjoy your own pictures?"
NO." replied the little thespian,
you see I already know the end
ing!"
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Evening star., 1944-12-11
Bond Keeps Humor
HOIJ,YWOOT

HOLLY WOOD.
Ward Bond, whose leg is still in
a cast, but who is able to get about
hasn't lost his sense of humor. Il
guess I am the only actor in town, "
he says, who carries his supporting
cast along with him." However, it
may still be a few months before
his doctors will allow him before
the cameras.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
It's in Miniature
HOLLYWOOD

The loveliest dressing room in
town belongs to 7-year-old Mar
garet OBrien-who, by the way, will
be In next years who's Who" It's
all done in miniature, and Is painted
pale blue and coral. The ceiling is
striped to resemble fashioned
stick candy. All the cushions are
very small and round.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Bequest for Geraldine
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Geraldine Fitzgerald was left a
mansion in Ireland by an uncle Of
hers who hadn't seen her for IA
Years. Reason: Because she went on
the stage. He had sworn never to
speak to her after that, so you can
imagine Geraldine's surprise.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Brisson, Master of Nostalgia,
Has No Time for It Himself
By JAY CARMODY.

Carl Bron has turned the nostalgia the hearts night club
quite brilliant himself sings
every little happy
Evening star., 1944-12-11
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
Buy War Bonds and Stamps at Any Local Theater

ALI Time Schedules Given In Warner
Bros Ads Indicate Time Feature Il
Presented
Evening star., 1944-09-27
w'PB A||ots koIasses
For Livestock Feed
10 Ease Shortage

The War Production Board has
released about 100000 gallons OF
raolasses to the War Food Admin
1Stration for use by dealers and
mixers In move to bolster livestock
feed supplies in drought areas, it
was learned today.
MolaSSes released was from stocks
earmarked for alcohol production in
the rubber program, Commodity
Credit Corp, official said. Annual
consumption of molasses in feed
amounts to 100000 gallons.
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
representatives in the 81 Eastern
States affected by the summers
drought are receiving applications
from dealers for molasses alloca-
tions. Feed mixers have been di-
rected to apply to the VIA here
for their share.
With the Nations hay crop esti-
mated to be 100000 to 1000 900
tons less than last year. requests are
coming In from farmers in the
drought areas, including Maryland
and Virginia, for hay subsidy pro-
gram similar to last year. About
177,000 tons of hay were brought into
Atlantic Coast States hit by last
years drought at an average cost to
the farmer of about $40 ton. The
CCC paid an additional $13.28 on
each ton to absorb shipping and
other costs.
Officials indicated, however. that
the program would not be placed in
effect this year despite claims from
some sources that the hay situation
in the East was as bad as last sea-
son. They now take the stand that
"a Government program won't make
more hay"
The problem now is to DISCOURAGE
the consumption of hay in favor of
protein feed and grains, the CCC
official said.
1t is pointed out that pasture con-
ditions have been improved by re-
cent rains. Since September l, VIA
has increased subsidy payments to
dalrymen ranging from 80 cents to
ST hundred pounds of milk to help
offset increased feed costs and other
factors connected with the drought.
Evening star., 1944-09-27
RomuIo Is Promoted =
To Broader General

Col. Carlos P. Romulo, resident
commissioner of the Philippines to
the United States, was promoted to
brigadier general in the Philippine
Army yesterday At an official cere-
mony at the Philippine Common
wealth headquarters, 1917 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV.
President Sergio Osmena pinned
the star on Col. Romulo, who will
soon rejoin Gen. Douglas Macarthur
in the Southwest Pacific. 1t. Antonio
P. Madrigal, aide-de-camp to Presi-
dent Osmena, was promoted to cap
tain at the same ceremony.
Evening star., 1944-09-27
Travel Boom Is Predicted
By President Of B. & 0.
By the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND. Sept 27.-R. B
White, president of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, today predicted
the greatest travel urge in Ameri-
can history after the war
i In a speech prepared for delivery
at a meeting of the Great Lakes Re.
9ional Advisory Board, Mr.. White
declared American railroads "as g
whole are better prepared to face
the future than they have been fol
many years"
The financial position of the roads
Is improved and many have reduced
their debt and fixed charges during
the war, the B. & o. chief declared
saying:
The physical structure has with
stood the war traffic load unusually
we'll and once the load is liftec
both rail service and efficiency vii
steadily improve
Evening star., 1944-09-27

found hanged from shower curtain
rod in his room at the Houston Hotel
late yesterday. The shower curtain
was tightly knotted around his neck,
police said.
He was pronounced dead by DR..
Elizabeth McNaughton, Emergency
Hospital ambulance physician.
Evening star., 1944-09-27

The body was found by Martin
Walker, manager of the hotel, when
q maid, seeking to clean the room,
notified him that the door was
chained from the inside and her
knocks brought no response.
Mr.. Walker said the man regis
Evening star., 1944-09-27
Man Is Found Hanged
From Shower Curtain Rod

A man, tentatively identified, from
draft card as Charles Alexander
Pringle of New London, Conn.,, was
Evening star., 1944-09-27
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Evening star., 1944-09-27

tered a week ago under the name
Of &c. Gordon, New London, Conn, !"
and paid his rent in advance. Police
reported he had left q note ad-
Evening star., 1944-09-27

dressed to Z brother -in-law COM
planning Of Ill health. The body was
taken to the District Morgue to
await positive Identification.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
"The Beard" Is Now Smiling
By Harold Hefernan.

humor good deal like crosscut
saw tearing through a knot in a
hardwood log. Woolley has panned
this gravel and come up with a rich
vein of box office gold
Audiences have loved him from
the first moment they discovered
him. His ascent up the stellar lad
der hasn't been without its up
heavals and disappointments. 1.-THE
Man Who Came to Dinner" really
started Woolley on his way to rec
ognition after a career in Hollywood
that he would like to forget.
During his first session in the
film capital, Woolley could lift him.
self to nothing better than bit roles.
To casting directors he was known
as man with beard" When parts
demanding a dignified looking per-
sonality came along, such as ambas-
sadors, college professors, ETC., Wool
| ley got the call There was also
Slightly erratic and downright screwy
characterizations to be filled and
into these Woolley fitted himself.
1t Had to Be Monty.
When the Hart play
was finished the authors concluded
there was only one man who could
properly play the lead. They had
seen Woolley walking pompously
around Hollywood and knew they
had their man-if he could be
argued out of his bit role career in
the movies. Bad sinuses and all
Woolley decided to take one more
chance on Broadway.
1t proved the smartest move he
ever made. "The Man Who Came to
Dinner" brought Woolley to Holly
wood in plush wagon. After play
ing the. picture lead for Warner
Bros, he was sneaked away from the
Burbank lot by a Goth Century Fox
offer. "The Pied Piper" gave him a
smart follow-up role and recently
(see HEFFERNAN, Page C-s.)
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Edna Reveals the Method
World Photo.
By Rosalind Shafer.

girl friends; but it's business.
have to be there. At first I stuck
my chin out by saying things about
Reds girl friends. But I got
smacked down and now I don't say
anything unless it costs over a dol
lar. Then holler and put my foot
down"
She Manages Money.
Out of sheer necessity, it seems,
Edna manages the money. Red
spends anything he has with him.
A checking account is useless, too.
He'll write "Damnfoolishness on the
stub: or 'Nosy!" or Don't you wish
you knew" No cashier can make
anything of that. So, Edna and
sometimes the girls in the Office that
handles their business, traipse along
with Red when he goes shopping
for anything from houses to a patch
on his tire, and to see that he
doesn't get into mischief. Leave
him alone, and you'll always find
Junior "dood it."
From their early days. Edna has
helped on Reds work. He develops
ideas to a certain point, throws
them to her to complete She knows
all his several hundred vaudeville
routines, can fit things together in
way no one else would.
Once, in the Yearly days of their
separation, Edna went to New York
4 for six weeks. She came home to
find things scrambled and decided
then and there that their future,
at least in a business way, must be
together.
Edna has trouble trying to man
age her own beauX They've just
got to understand when Red needs
me that I've got to go; it's our liv-
ing, after ALL" she says. 1t means
a dinner date broken up, pair of
show tickets turned back at the last
minute. Whoever takes Edna will
have to take Red, too, just as Reds
girl friends get Edna and like it.
Now that Reds going into the
Army, Edna would like to write for
Bob Benchley. Not for Bob Hope,
though; his style is too fast for her.
by the time 1850 comes, think
Red will be the biggest thing in
television; he'll be settled down by
then, the war will be over and his
talent for pantomime, lost on radio,
can show in the new medium. !
think he'll be terrific" says his ex-
wife.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

desperate
is something blind deaf That
especially of the deaf for Sinaa followers
stdenty their worship constitute OF the loudest
phenomena of their time
taken critics Snatra picture to learn that they
with occupaonal hazardthe wrath ferocous
public to whom the young less than perfect
its initial phases of the Snatra set happily
the Of letters
imply that that inatra photographs like
presumably consider himself warned and must the
quences They sound pretty dire as consequences CO.
The Mail Carries a Special
Variety of Oppressive Fury.
A sample maternal which likely to blow in
lifts against Sinatra extracted from
piece of this departments recent mail:
IF can't think of anything better to write in column
up completely frankie does look like skull
ALL he looks better than Chats fact although
the and as for his singing it out OF
this world. whether you like it or not.
you movies and your first picture.
I bet offering today
Sunday)
intensity in which sinatra is held
experience cold boodedy
look his pictures from position just beyond the OF the
closest thing the loyalty of Nelson
Edd fandom before Mr. Eddy dropped out of pictures perhaps
mpermanenty Eddy, all critics willing concede
excellent unaninity
among his acting left much to be desired
part Of honesty both the merit
Eddy singing the lack of it in his acting the
most vuperave mail that dropped in the drama depart
ments slot.
HE not supposed to be an actor the outraged Eddy
would nkily.
Then, what the blank is doing pretending be pirate
swashbuckling ship captain?" critic would himself If
he supposed to be actor why isn't he Nelson Eddy
in concert artists cutaway singing to jeanette Macdonald?
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Nov Comes Feature
IOn Women at War
By the Associated Press

BY the Aseoclated PreSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
First of a series of films seriously
portraying the work of women in
the armed services, Ladies Coura-
geous," deals with the personal and
professional problems of women
pilots in the ferrying command.
While it has comedy touches, it is
a straightforward account of what
might reasonably be expected to go
on among women in the circum-
stances of war service.
Other pictures along the same
lines are in the making, A WAVE.
WAC and a Marine" and Here
Comes the WAVES" Such films
are tied into the Government needs
in stimulating recruiting among
women, and in attempting to change
public attitude towards the enlist
ing of women.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Glen Echo Starts
34th Year April l

Glen Echo Amusement Park
opening next Saturday for the 34th
consecutive year, will have more
than SO features. Included this year
will be a new thrill ride called the
"Octupus," device that whirls its
passengers around, up and down
simultaneously.
Located in Glen Echo, Md, the
park will provide dancing to Paul
Kain's Orchestra on week nights
from 8 to IL midnight. "A cafe and
picnic grove are provided. Admis-
sion to the 40-acre amusement re-
sort and use OF the car-parking
space Is free.
The parks swimming pool and
sand beach will be opened later in
May.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Some Peaceful Notes on Developing Feud
By Jay Cmmody.

Why the sheet
just as If he other acor?"
of Sinara in Higher Higher"
the critics. who left the opportunity merely
photogeneiy and his shyness).
Eddy Forced a Poll
On Jealousy Among Critics
relationship Eddy palpaby
that blinded the former the fact that honest criticism could
mpersona They could jealousy interesting
mcaculaton that this critic virtually
poll larger gather
ngs of critics. of which there prewar days.
1t point to dozens his colleagues
OF Nelson Eddy?
Are you crazy?" the usual answer
The answer doubt would be the in the
True Sinatra makes deal
critics accustomed making money
True he gets his picture in the papers magazines
than they do but most of them theirs their
until they get sick of looking themselves
fact that Snatra enormously popular
him the privilege of having his coat sleeves ripped
torn off, fate that would be for the critic usually
has only coat and tie
could contribute anything prevention the running
fued which to be developing between
professional commentators the quality
be pointed out that the latter very
In different Those who
has not to date
trying to find out something about him.
Whats he Ike?" the question answer
usually that he is pleasant
success, and not at all overcome by It,
You'll like him. is virtually the guarantee
known Snatra.
Being in show business another they mean that
probably will like the personally. they his
FANS will not assume that personal obgate
assert after that Spencer Tracy
Lawrence 1bbe Clark Gable James Stewart
Fact is he isn't and there is nothing it.