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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
Little white Books" Give
Choice To Courteous Firms

Thew are keeping track of the
places where their business is OBJ
viously appreciated - even when
demand exceeds supply. And of
the places that give as much SER
wise as possible, instead of using
the war as an excuse for unneces-
sary careless or sloppy service.
They have in their white books
the restaurants that don't turn
up their noses at guests with chill
dren, and the places where cigar
cites are put out on counters in
stead of being hidden for favorite
customers.
Courtesy Not Wasted
In their white books, too, is a
place for the firms that don t
promise more than they can give
and then shrug off failure to keep
a promise with, We'll, you know
how it is these days"
The white books as well as the
black. books are going to guide
shoppers wnen the war is over.
While it is human nature to re-
slight longer than
kindness. the buying public has
put up with SO much and numbled
itself so many times, it is bound
to remember where it has met
with appreciation and courteous
So the white book concerns
needn't feel their courtesy is being
wasted just because the other
places are getting by with muir
der these days. There are just
as many persons keeping white
BOOKS as black books and they
are going to be loyal customers.
~anYrioh 1914 NEA Seruice Inc
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
P R SON AL S

Robert H. Northrop, yeomar
first class, USNR, VINO has beer
visiting his aunt, Mrs Morrison
w. Divine at her home on South
Front street, for the past week
left yesterday afternoon for Char
lotte to spend several days before
reporting to New York for reas
signment.
AT Jennings C. Byrd, son o.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Byrd of Viii
mington, stationed at Spence Field
Moultrie, Ca, is spending a ten
day furlough with his parents.
Mrs. S. w. R. Langdon oil
Stockton, California, is the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Berry al
their home on Market street.
Lieut.. William MacIlwinen,
USN, who arrived from the west
coast recently to visit his mother
in Fayetteville, arrived in the city
yesterday for a visit with his aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. o. F.
Cooper at their home on Chestnut
street.
Mrs. Sherwood Dudley and young
daughter, Ann, of Knoxville, Tenn,
will arrive Monday to spend the
season with Mrs. Dud-
ley'S parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O. F.
Cooper. Mr.. Dudley will join them
for Christmas.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
Family Has Grand Time
Searching For Grand,

VERONA, N. j.. Dee
f ia tbyo of Rudo odd j. wicIe t1g.,.
rejected that there must !. nd
easier way to earn 81 ooo Ne an
And the Postofflce no..,
me that when the books . %,,I. tel
ing in from the West nm . con-
have some mail, slenod W.T., really
Ralph Edwards. rad.0 "'yAe.
ter who once sent WfckIe ~ n
oke, Mass, on a fajIo ~, ~ Hoy
hunt, mailed him a hook r aSa$ !
urday night and told tn1 I'd ,aS' Sa',
find $1,000 bill on Pace e r, You'd
The catch was tia, -
urged each of lister rs "a -1@a:1'
book at the same time IT, ,''al- a
sands of books ultimately VII. r'oa'
sent to servicemen, VI" De
Well find the right oss,
Wicket said cheerfullv tod.,' IL
the nelghbors' children are bo,.
We're finding the darnde,tr s .l
on the other page 13's-confed5.,-.a.s''
money, German marks. Al I0..a,'
of stuff" al Sorts
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
BY VIVIAN BROWN

Junior knows his toys, so let him
choose his own. This is the advice
of Dora Zarovich, designer of
stuffed, washable toy animals.
No. he doesn't necessarily have
to shop with you, but you can test
his likes and dislikes, preference
for color, and what he can handle
by bringing him in toy store and
giving him free rein.
That's the way Mrs. Zarovich
decides whether to market a par
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CLOCK

Letitia Rebekah lodge No. 3,
IOOF, will mold their annual
bingo party and Christmas
sale this evening at o clock.
Fancy work, candy and drinks
will be on sale. There will be a
small admission charge and
the public is cordially invited
to attend.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08

tlcular toy or not She gets the
judgement of her young nieces and
nephews by studying their rear
tons to toy before she makes her
final decision.
AS result, she has definite
guide to the toy taste of children Of
various ages.
When baby is very young, says
Mrs. Zarovich. he has no known
preference, SO his mother usually
buys him gently, cuddly animals
such as lambs, in soft pinks ans..
blues. This is fine, he says, as long
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08

items are cutting
their own Threats,
because a lot of
customers a r e
keeping a black
book of S u C h
insults and are
going to consult
it when the war
is over and they
are d e C i d i n g
where to trade.
He's right. But
it S h o u | d be
pointed out for
the sake of the
firms that nave
-. .Irn
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
ZAP DEFEAT PLANS

DURHAM, Dec. 7.-(P)- Bright
Green, a painter of Durham. Route
!. will leave tomorrow for Pearl
Harbor where he will paint Navy
ships slate gray. And when the
Japs are defeated he says, I'll
naint Pearl Harbor red it was
announced by Civil Service Repre-
sentative Floyd Shaver.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08

toward horse. COW, pig or chic
ken.
But at four years she says g
change takes place, particularly in
little boys, who begin to switch
their taste to wilder animals like
lions, tigers an polar bears.
Next, they show pr eference for
technical toys. Little soft stuffed
gaily colored balls are enjoyed by
children of all ages. A boy of four
or six has just as much fun with
these as the little toddler for whom
they were created.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08

time to give courteous, conslderate,
even though perhaps limited ser
vice that customers are keeping
"White books too. And in those
books they are keeping track of
the places where I'm sorry
eases refusals, and where thank
you' isn't a discarded phrase.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
BY RUTH MILLETT

A sales expert recently told
group of retail grocers that trades
men who GO in for smart cracks
to customers who ask for scarce
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
ESSENTIAL TRAVEL

One Canadian railway carried
II, 652,920 passengers in the first
four months of 1914, more than
it carried in the entire year of
1910.
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Mothers club by Mrs. c. N. Brew
er, and will be used for the first
time at the January business
meeting.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-08
FIRST CARRIER TAKSOFF

An American, Eugene Ely. made
the first airplane takeoff from the
deck of a ship, in 1910, and the
first landing on the deck of a
ship, in 1911.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
 MARCH 1, 1943
(By United Press)

British RAF raids Berlin.
 General Douglas MacArthur re. ports a convoy of IA Japanese ships has ben sighted approach ing the coast of New Guinea.
 In Northern Tunisia, British troops drive back German at tempts to take Beja.
 Moscow announces 3O2 areas i'm 300 square miles of position built up by the Germans south of Lake Ilmen have been captured in an 8-day Russian assault.
 In Finland, President RistO Ryti asks the Finnish people to continue fighting; expresses doubt of speedy peace.
 Axis radio announces that Ger man Foreign Minister Joachim vOn RibbentrOp, and . German mission have just completed five days of conferences at Rome.
Evening star., 1944-09-24
Coming Attractions

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Heav-
en-" with Ethel Barrymore,
starting next Monday.
CAPITOL-"Sensations of 1945,"
with Eleanor Powell and
Dennis O'Keefe.
COLUMBlA-"Seventh Cross"
with Spencer Tracy.
EARLE-"Arsenic and Old
Lace" with Cary Grant and
Priscilla Lane, starting Fri
day
KEITH'S-"C Christmas Holi-
day." with Deanna Durbin
and Gene Kelly, starting
Thursday.
LITTLE-"Voice in the Wind"
with Francis Lederer and
Sigrid Gurie, starting We'd
nesday.
METROPOLITAN-"Hail the
Conquering Hero" with Eddie
Bracken and Ella Raines.
PALACE-"An American Ro-
NANCE" with Brian Donlevy
and Ann Richards.
PIX-"Kiss of Fire" with
Raimu, starting Tuesday.
Evening star., 1944-09-24
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Have you always suppressed that
urge to write nasty letters? Maybe
that's the biggest mistake you ever
made.
Louise Randall Pierson, author
of the popular autobiography,
Roughly Speaking says carping
critical missives spanked the belated
career that has landed her in Holly
wood, writing her book into film
for Rosalind Russell and under con-
tract to do more.
Mrs. Pierson, a sprightly, good
looking woman, slightly over so, with
neat figure and remarkably lively
eyes, has set the Warner writing
staff on its ear. She's had more
rights, privileges and opportunities
on her first writing assignment than
many of them have had in years of
hard typewriter labor. It's that
Pierson personality.
She Was a Failure.
About those letters. When
rounded off the half century mark, 4"
says Mrs. Pierson, Il made a resolu-
ton never again to do anything I
didn't want to. I'd been a failure at
everything I had tried, and I was
tired Of it all. I like writing letters;
in fact, my friends all enjoyed our
home calamities thoroughly. through
the letters / wrote them. They
waited breathlessly for more calam-
tiles and letters. So, started writ
ing to people who irritated me. I
wrote to Philadelphia editor when
that city refused statue OF Tom
Paine because he was suspected Of
atheistic leanings."
The fortnight lady told the editor
that something in Philadelphia be-
sides the Liberty Bell must be
cracked, and got job as industrial
editor OF the paper. Another letter
to flour company complaining
about the design of the firms floul
bag netted her an assignment tc
do some lucrative writing for that
concern in her spare time.
But the important missive-writ-
ten on yellow piece of scrap paper
with the corner cheWed off-was one
that started correspondence with
the editor of New York newspaper
He carried the letters around with
him, with his coat collar turned
up, like a Paris postcard peddler
asking people, Wanna see some let
ters?'" laughed Mrs. Pierson.
"Schuster, of Simon & Schuster
saw the letters, wrote me and asked
me to write book, inclosing a ia,
check.
Il thought it was a phony, until
on practical second thought I tried
to cash it. When I got money fol
it, I was in a fix. Write a book
Evening star., 1944-09-24
Grabbing Made Her Career
Rp Rosalind Shafer.

about what?' I wired Schuster.
About your life,' he answered.
Book Took Two Years.
Now that was to expose myself as
the great failure, but who was I to
hold back If could get some money
for my family? 1t took me two years
to write the book, because when I
was a kid 1 was so smart skipped
fifth grade where they teach you
grammar.
Now, much to my surprise, the
story of my life has turned out to
be one of those inspirational things.
I get letters from people who say,
I am one Jump ahead of the sheriff,
but 1 don't worry any more since
reading your book Now that wor-
ries me, because maybe they should
worry more.
When I came to Hollywood, I
got shock when I saw Rosalind
Russell made up as me. They had
painted a lot of lines on her face,
and had given her a dropping chin.
They'd look at me, and paint a few
more bags under her eyes. I be-
gan to feel uncomfortable and ran
for the mirror to reassure myself
II I'd known what cameras can do,
and this is no dig at Rosalind Rus
sell, I'd have lost weight and played
the role myself in the first place" "
Mrs. Pierson has reared five chill
dren, four of them infantile paraly-
sis victims. only one of whom is
crippled. Her life has been long
running and jumping contest
Il never had time to have a
breakdown, I was so busy brushing
my teeth and catching streetcars,
and there was nobody to wash the
dishes, anyway" she says.
Evening star., 1944-09-24
Stars Words No Longer Can Be Idle
By Harold Hefernan.

his songs, dances and anecdotes. He
had several players in support, but
soldiers declared he could have got
by on his own, II necessary.
John GARFIELD toured North
Africa and Italy. With him went
Eddie Foy, jr., and three New York
showgirls-singer, mimic and ac-
cordionist. It was unit vaudeville
show, In which Garfield was mas
ter Of ceremonies and did solo skit
in which he burlesqued himself as
seen in pictures. Not once did he
make reference to his latest movie
or say he was going to star in
Hollywood Canteen" at Warmers
when he got home. If the Victory
Committee hears of a star plugging
his studio or picture it goes bad
with him.
Ann Sheridan would have been
another How do you do-so glad
to be here" personality If war
hadn't sent her overseas as an en-
tertainer. Accompanying her to
the Far East area were Ben Blue,
an accordionist, night-club mas
ter Of ceremonies and young movie
dancer. Ann danced, sang a couple
Of songs and did limitations, proving
the real hit Of the show. The boys
already had seen her in Dough-
girls" so Ann didn't have to at
tempt plug for that movie.
Marlene Dietrich, who recently
starred in "Kismet." was the first
film celebrity to play on the Anzio
beachhead. When she went to
North Africa and Italy, Marlene
carried 10000 garters with her. And
as she sang See What he Boys in
the Back Room will Have" she
tossed the little leg souvenirs to the
boys out front. But that was only
part OF her show. She took several
Evening star., 1944-09-24
Associated Press Drama Editor.
NyU,IIT xy0nD

Associated Press Drama Editor.
NEW YORK.
The combination of Max Gordon
as producer and George S. Kauf-
man as director brought one of the
most elegant flrst-night audiences
Of the year to the Lyceum Theater
Tuesday evening for the opening of
While the Sun Shines"
All the elegance of the first-night
audience was wasted. however on a
rather luke-warm charade written
by Terence Rattigan, author of
French Without Tears" and many
another lightweight comedy. while
the Sun Shines" also is running at
present in a profitable fashion at
the Globe Theater in London, where
audiences are said to love it.
The Manhattan first-night au-
dience took to it with welcoming
laughter for exactly one act. Then
the comedy began to sag.
1t concerns an earl who is engaged
to Lady Elizabeth Randall. Since
the earl Is wishy- -washy type and
not exactly a dashing romantic, she
calls off the betrothal. A young
American flyer thereupon takes over
and Free French lieutenant makes
it a romantic quadrangle. Thence
the business on hand is concerned
mostly with who wins the extremely
talky woo-pitching debate
The first act buzZes along with
smartly written lines, adequate sit
uations and is well-enough acted to
make an onlooker think something
even better is on the way. But the
lines from there on fell without a
laugh, the situations became clumsy
and obvious, the mood changed
from polite comedy to farce and
back again until no one knew exact
ly what was the main object.
Unfortunately, it received no great
help from the cast, with the ex-
ception of Melville Cooper, who
played an INDECENT duke with lean
ings toward slow horses and fast
women. His expert broad comedy
sense brought the doings up to a
point far beyond its actual stature
while he was on stage. When he
left, things begged badly.
The so-called kaufman touches"
were not evident in the direction,
but that may not be the fault Of
that eminent theatrical craftsman.
The play called for a brisk but quiet
mood, with emphasis on smart
Evening star., 1944-09-24
On the Writing of Wilson
Br Lamar Trotti.

they tell me the first time they
say it."
Surrounded by his family and in
innate friends-and it is surpris-
ing to discover how many in
innate friends this man who was
called cold, austere and unapproach-
able had-he was, in truth. the life
of the party. He enjoyed banter
and gay persiflage, laughter, and
the conflict of congenial minds.
He had a very good tenor voice
which would probably have fitted
well into a barber shop quartette
and he frequently INDUCED it, for he
liked nothing better than to gather
with his family around the piano
and to sing the old songs. He liked
to dance, too-not the bunny hug
and the turkey trot, surely. Nor
is there any evidence that he ever
danced the waltz, for he was brought
up in strict Presbyterian house
hold where dancing, no doubt, was
froWned upon, though it is difficult
| to understand how a socially eligible
student at the Universities of Vir-
ginia, Princeton and Johns Hopkins
could have avoided the endless
round of junior proms and senior
hops. But the Irish jig, we know,
! he loved, and Soft-shoe dance pat
termed after the routine of his IA
vorite vaudevillian, George Primrose.
Best of all he liked story telling,
and at that he was an artist-a
superb mimic" one of his biogra-
pliers called him-with a special
ability for Irish and Negro stories.
Perhaps this gift of mimicry eX-
plains his lifelong devotion to the
theater and to the people thereof.
Lacked Public Affection.
People who knew him we'll told
me that he had an overwhelming
desire to be loved by the people.
Many did love him with devotion
unparalleled in American public life.
Yet it must be admitted that he
never enjoyed the affection which
an admiring public gave to his pre-
decessors, Teddy Roosevelt and
William Howard Taft. The people
SHIPPED him. AS small boy he had
been called Tommy, but as a man
he was never to receive the accolade
of a nickname. Once during a cam
paign speech en- exuberant admirer
called out: That's giving it to them,
Woody!' He paused and flushed,
so the story goes, and that night he
retold the story saying: Il think
they really like me-" But the audi
ence did not know about that. They
had thought he was offended and
annoyed. At the next stop no one
dared call him Woody
But to himself there were mo-
ments when he was Woody
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Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1944-09-24
HOLLYWOOD.

| HULL WOOD.
In the final analysis Of dollars
and cents, the war has worked
fewer hardships on the movie busi-
ness than other industries (see box
office figures at your local theater)
but it has effected some radical
changes bound to be popular with
postwar audiences.
For one thing, and fans have a
right to cheer loudly about this, it
has doomed the old system of per-
Sonal appearances. Remember when
your favorite star came to town
probably at $1,000 for the week S
flesh" engagement-stepped out on
the stage, uttered few press agent
written words and in flash had re-
treated back to the wings.
The speech usually ran something
like this:
Hello, folks, hello. Well, we'll,
well-it certainly is great being
here with you tonight And in my
favorite city, too. How I wish
could walk right through the aisles
of this beautiful theater and meet
each one of you personally. Well,
all 1 can say is that hope you get
as much fun out of seeing my pic
ture tonight as I did out Of making
it," And SO on.
Occasionally, after being out for
two or three weeks, bewildered
star would get his geography all
mixed up and refer to you wonder
full people of Chicago" when he was
actually making an appearance in
Detroit.
Inarticulate to Stay Home.
That type of p. a. has had it's day
and will be seen no more. After the
war the actor who can do no more
than toss off few gushy. meaning
less phrases will be kept on the
lot Those who can entertain
legitimately will get the PERSONAL
appearance assignment and all the
gravy that goes with it.
It's all a result of the war, of
course. In steaming jungles, in the
frigid Aleutians, on the sands of
North Africa and on every war
front, GI Joe and CT jamie have
| come face to face with film stars.
And they've had to supply real en-
tertainment-no botched-up num-
| blings whitfield out before they left
| home. These stars have risked their
lives in battle zones to sell their
current picture. They've gone out
| to bring touch of home and what
it stands for to the boys at the
| front.
| Come the end of the war, Joe and
jamie will expect a lot more than
idle words from the film stars who
appear personally in their home
town theaters. They'll expect the
kind of entertainment they got
within shouting distance of the bat
tie line. And they'll demand and
get it, too.
The Hollywood Victory Commit
tee, born of wartime emergency, can
take full credit for making first
class vaudeville performers out of a
lot OF tongue-tied wallhowers who
got by solely on the strength of
their celluloid personalities. This
committee saw to it that not one
star or troupe went out without first
having prepared worthy program
of entertainment.
Gary Song and Danced.
Even Gary Cooper, who is the last
star in the world one would expect
to go into a song and dance, went
out on a South Pacific entertain
ment mission-and was a hit with
Evening star., 1944-09-24

HOLLYWOOD.
Much has been written about the
months-SometimeS in print they
become years-that I spent in re-
search on the man Woodrow Wilson.
BY consulting various reputable
newspapers and magazines, l dis
cover that 1 travelled anywhere
from $4,000 to 10000 railroad miles,
consulted from 25 to 500 acquaint-
ances of the late President, slept
for weeks on cot in the uncharted
caverns of the Congressional Lii
brary, and, at last, in a desperate
effort to clear up a disputed point
even tried to get in touch with the
man himself through the medium
Of a Ouija board.
AS long as they spell the name
Wilson correctly and associate 1t
with the S4,5O0,O0O Technicolor pic
ture which Daryl F. Zanuck re-
Gently released to the public, who
am I to refute them?
Suffice it to say I did travel, I
did read, I did consult and l do
have an abiding faith in the Ouija
board as a repository of all hidden
knowledge.
What l was searching for, how
ever, in New York. in Washington,
in Florida. in PENNSYLVANIA, in
North Carolina, in California, was
not so much facts-I had the facts
but the truth about the man,
about the character of the man.
1 suppose nine of every ten per-
sons who signified any interest in
the job I was doing asked how, in
heavens name, I expected to write
about a man, who, according to my
interrogators, was not a human be-
ing at all, but simply mind walk
ing around on two legs.
I didn't believe that. Even before
I set index finger to typewriter, /
knew better. l had read too many
of Wilson, own writings in the days
before the picture was conceived not
to be aware of deep and sensitive
nature, and I had come across too
many passages in which his wit
sparkled brilliantly not to give him
credit for having a rare and, to my
way of thinking, delightful sense OF
humor.
This faith was more than justified
ON the IUen ana WOIIlell WHO kllcW
Wilson and who were ready to tell
me about him.
He was a shy man and sensitive
man, and he was never a very well
man. During his Princeton days
he came close to having a nervous
breakdown and for weeks it was
feared that his public life was at
an end. In self-defense he had to
put a barrier between himself and
many of those who sought to ap-
proach him.
Had Aloof Quality.
This led to the belief on the part
of many that he was cold and stand
offlsh. And perhaps to certain de-
gree he was. Gerald Johnson, in
his excellent biographical sketch
says that Wilson's faults stuck out
on him like spines on a cactus. TIC
H. l.. Mencken he was the perfect
example of the intellectual cad
Sometimes his impatience led him
to speak sharply, and he had the
annoying habit of saying exactly
what he meant. He particularly dis
liked stupidity and he could never
condone dullness.
"Oh, why" he used to groan, cant
people pay me the compliment OF
thinking l can understand what