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unupSettable team. They fell out
however, over his handling. of the
script which she produced for 1.-The
North Star" Warner Bros. became
Miss Hellman's producer after that
with the superb Watch on the
Rhine" as their first common ad-
venture. 1t turned out highly sue
cessfully.
There will be no change in the
practice of having Miss Hellman
write her own screen adaptation of
THE Searching Wind" That is q
good idea since no one but Miss
Hellman can write like Miss He'll
man.
Night club department: The crowd
that came to bid adieu to Hide
garde at the Statler the other night
not merely packed the Embassy
Room, but packed the corridor out
side with hundreds of others who
could not get in. 1t was larger even
than the crowd which saw her en-
gagement open there six weeks be-
fore. And possibly it was even more
distinguished.
Two of Washington's prominent
Evening star., 1944-09-11
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HNIJ.vWOOn

Rocked wide open by last weeks
charges that Hollywood studios are
wasting one out of three dollars
spent on producing motion picture
features, industry leaders were
making attempts today to round up
concrete facts with a view toward
plugging up the leaks.
The declaration made by a ma
jor studio head, as revealed in this
column, stresses overwritten scripts
and extravagant directors as the
principal reasons for a condition
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will succeed Lawis at that spot On
Wednesday night.
The foresighted already have call
ed Mischa about their tables.
MN
Commissary department: There Is
q tale, sad, being told. that one OF
the great feminine stars of pictures,
who has been absent from the
screen for four years, may, never
return. It is matter of diet ec-
centricities over a long period OF
years that have resulted In the
complete deterioration OF her cnce
great glamour.
She could be a great actress with
out glamour, of course, but Holly
wood would not hear of it,.
"AI \ 4 1888
Production department: It Is
quite possible that one of the plays
Washington will be seeing early in
1945 is ''The Hasty Heart" for
which Howard Lindsay and Russell
Grouse have just closed q script
deal. The MesSrs. l.. and G. have
been content during the past few
years to have such hits as Life
with Father" and Arsenic and Old
Lace" on their hands The one
moment of discomfort through the
seasons. occurred in 1912 when they
produced strip for Action" Neither
the discomfort nor strip for. Ac-
ton" lasted very long.
"HaSty Heart is a drama by
Capt. John" Patrick who laid his
play in an Army hospital overseas.
BY January, no doubt, more than
that will be revealed about it.
Miscellany department: Hail the
Conquering Hero" Earle's successor
to JAMIE" was screened for critics
last week, thing that sometimes
does not happen with comedies If
there is the slightest feeling that
audience reaction" would be a
thing critics should get. One of
the most active amateur groups in
this winter will be the
Mt. Vernon M. E. Church players.
=, They have picked up not merely
a great many ambitious thespians,
but considerable audierne. i
Mangrum, erstwhile G. u.
drama figure, is in charge. 'Iue
best WEIGH choir money can hire
mas been assembled in HOLLYWOOD
TO sing the background music which
will be one of the most artistic
parts Of "The Corn Is Green" :.
Men of Harlach" will be one of
the featured numbers in the picture
which finds Bette Davis In the role
played for several seasons by Ethel
on the stage.
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II an. 12:55. ass. 40. 9, 7:sS and
o:50 pm.
Palace THE Seventh Cross:
1890 an. l2:40, ass, sos. 7:20 and
9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con.
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
LIGHTER, FASTER FREIGHT CARS
OF PLyW00D, STEEL AND LUMBER

cars is under way by Great Northern
Railway in its own shops.
Another symbol of progressiveness-
one of the many things which make Great
Northern great, 900 of these new,
bright orange painted freight cars will
be in wartime transportation service
before Winter.
Developed by company technicians,
the modern, 5O-ton capacity cars are a
combination of steel, Douglas fir ply
wood and lumber.
Lighter than conventional steel was
utilized for underframes, while lumber
and steel form the superstructures. Out
side and inside sheathings, including
ceilings, are of 5s-inch plywood. To
prevent warping, the plywood is treated
with ''sealer."
Two tons lighter than the conven-
tionai boxcar, the plywood- steel units
roll faster because Of high-speed trucks,
non-harmonic springs and wrought steel
wheels. Steel ends and metal roofs add
to sturdiness.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Miss Hellman Makes a.Deal:
Stars Pack DC. Night Spots
By JAY CARMODY.

Drama department As always
Just purchased Lillian Hemans he Searching Wind
Wallis OF Paramount is the Samuel Godyn
Bros
Helmans dramatic literature esYs Il
Miss Hellman to be
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robustly comic couple, which is
usually Mary Treen and rough
and-ready sergeant going through
that knockabout romance, the girl
whose husband is overseas and who
is going to have baby just at
the moment when the husband is
reported missing In action. There
is even that amusement park
sequence, with its tunnels of love,
its crazy house, and those air vents.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, the greatest
leprechaun Of his time. is a bright
asset to II Love Soldier" In fact,
one might say that he was its
brightest. His role is that of
streetcar motorman, man who
makes a great romantic adventure
of running up and down the hills
of San Francisco. No pedestrian
(in a manner of speaking) motor
man is he. On the contrary, he is
one who participates vividly in the
private lives of his passengers. an
attitude that requires constant
and iaughable indifference to the
company's rules. When necessary,
he does not even mind leaving his
streetcar, heavily loaded, and block
ing one Of the city's busiest inter-
sections.
As corporal on courtship bent,
a shy mountain of man with a
completely single-track mind, Tufts
is another participant in the routine
who cuts rather a winning figure.
Writer Allen Scott has made him
the kind of suitor who rather more
Evening star., 1944-10-26

vided for them lacks both novelty
and the dramatic force that one
likes to find in such things. To be
blunt about it, II Love a Soldier"
seems to be quite a routine affair,
touched here and there with a
poignant moment, elsewhere with a
few that are quite comic. Most of
the latter revolve around Barry
Fitzgerald. the Abbey Theater vir-
tuoso who came into his own in
Going My Way"
One of the serious flaws in the
thinking of Paramount in connec-
tion with the Palaces picture was
that it would be fine idea to make
Miss Goddard welder in a San
Francisco shipyard. We would never
venture judgment on what the
female welder type should look like.
We will bet, however, that Miss
Goddard is not it, not even when
her face is smudged with crankcase
DRAWINGS and when she is wearing
one of those protective hoods that
make a welder look like a dragon.
That probably is an ungrateful way
OF looking at Miss Goddard. espe-
cially after she went to all the
trouble OF learning to use those fire.
eating tools. 1t is the best we can
do, however.
AS welder in the Il Love a Sol
dler" script, Miss Goddard finds her
relaxation in going to Roseland
dance hall, where her avocation is
sending soldiers away feeling that
they have something very special to
fight for. She does not mean it. of
course, being pretty dame who has
absolutely no intention of getting
entangled with any one during war
time, although she is willing to give
the opposite impression fleetingly
and for purposes of morale.
1t is not an uninteresting state of
mind for girl to be IN, as you prob
ably do not need to be told, but not
very much ever seems to come of it.
That is true even after Tufts shows
up as corporal who has spent IA
months in the South Pacific and
whose major furlough objective in
stantly becomes that of sweeping
Miss Goddard off her feet.
The courtship is ornamented by
the familiar adjuncts of such af-
fairs. There is the mature Lady
Bountiful, a warm-hearted spinster
type who opens her lavish home as
a canteen for the young warriors
and their girls. There is also that
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attroc tions
and Tine of Shoviaa

National-"The Late George Ap-
ley; $50 pm.
Catholic University-Franz Wer-
fels Song of Bernadette"; $50 p.m
Screen.
.Capitol-"Barbary Coast Gent;
10:45 am, lao, 4:30, 7:20 and 1910
pm. Stage shows: 1880, $40, $50
and 9:25 pm.
Columbia-"Greenw Village:
II am, ITO, 800, $50, TAO and
$50 pm.
Earle - THE Conspirator II
am, lao, 420, 7:05 and 9:45 pm.
Stage shows: /, $40, 6:25 and 905
pm.
Keith's-"None But the Lonely
Heart: 11:5o am, 2:l5. 4:40, 7:1o
and 935 pm.
Little-"Catherine the Great; IL
am, los, 3:15, $40, 7:30 and $40
pm.
Metropolitan The Impatient
Years: IL am, LOS, 3:15, $40, 7:30
and $40 pm.
Palace-"I Love a Soldier: 1l:40
am, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05 and 935 pm.
Pix-"Helene"; 2:l0, 4:50, 7::35 and
1905 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts,
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-10-26

IT LOVE SOLDIER" a Paramount
Picture with Paulette Goddard and Sonny
Tufts produced and directed BY Mark
Sandrich: screenplay by Allen Scott. At
the Palace.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1944-10-26

e. Mutch-You have made a couple
Of music devotees very happy, for
which thanks. -. Last nights Alex
Templeton concert brought to town
the third of this departments ia
vorite satirists. The other two
are at the National this week, John
P, Marquand as author, George S.
Kaufman, as director of THE Late
George Apley." In which, Incl
dentally, we award all Of the sea-
sons acting prizes to Leo G. Carroll
invariably our favorite actor, regard
less of the size of his role. Va
riety Club will be previewed in its
new blue and gray dress on Satur-
day night. when, Carter Barron, we
shall be in Baltimore hearing Alex
Templeton again. But we shall
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than deserves Miss Goddard before
he manages to extricate himself
from an unhappy earlier marriage.
Mark Sandrich, a director who
can get more out of most movie
scripts than most of his group, ac-
complishes that in the case of the
current one. 1t is not enough to
make Il Love a Soldier" distin-
guishable from several similar items,
however.
Addenda. To C. G. Cappel and j,
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ADJUSTMENTS,

Addenda: To C. c. Cappel and
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come around to add our obs and abs
next week. 4
Telegram of the week, or decade
even. comes from Paramount's Rufus
Blair, as follows:
"Airlines finally swept me off my
feet in Washington Saturday around
noon. Please see that Penn Central
Airlines, TWA and American staffs
Evening star., 1944-10-26

receive 10000 each, and eternal bor-
rowed time for good behavior. Don't
know how could have forgotten to
mention this before, but the trade
names on those two caskets in my
Detroit hotel room were The Cava-
lier' and The jolly Rodger.' Latter
was the gray number, the sports
model"
Evening star., 1944-10-26
Another Wartime Love Tale
Ornaments Palaces Screen
By JAY CARMODY.

Estrangemen has into the relations between HOLLYWOOD and
wartime Soldier up
the Of Palace today time 1t is Paue Goddard
Tufts fine shambes
man They are quite attractive script
Evening star., 1944-09-01

. fighting man from Oregon, IN
infantryman who knows what 1t
means and takes to slug 1t out with
the Wild, barbarous hordes the i'm
perial government Of Japan calls an
army.
Col. Finn has had 4 little more
than average contact with the
enemy. He knows what . Japanese
soldier looks like In battle. acts like
in captivity and smells like when
dead. He succinctly adds up his ex-
perience In one brief sentence.
"They fight to die; We fight to
live"
And this is the story Gen. Arnold
told the President as he stood beside
his car and Mickey's regiment
marched by. I don't claim that this
Is exactly as Gen. Arnold told It
Men have their own ways OF telling
Evening star., 1944-09-01
tories but the facts are the same.

oVNA0o O0t t11S 4oCt0 uIo TIC boSuc.
Mickey Finn would get mad II
you were to call him tender hearted.
You can't be 4 dogface-an Infantry
man-and be tender-hearted. There
was . time when the young, lean,
brown-eyed colonel thought he heard
= baby crying in = dugout.
The battle had been rough going,
but now the Americans had the
japanese on the run. The dugout
had been shelled until 1t was heap
of tumbled timbers and caved-in
earth. Nevertheless. experience had
taught Col. Finn and his men to
approach any ruins with caution.
As he reached the tiny opening.
barely big enough to pass . mans
body through, he heard whimper-
ing. It sounded like . frightened
hungry. hurt baby. He peered in
through the opening and saw, star
ing at him from around the corner
for the cave proved to be U-shaped
. wild-eyed dirty Japanese. There
was nothing at this distance to
identify him Is = soldier for he
was stripped to the waist.
Cigarettes for Bait.
Mickey motioned to the Japanese
to come to the opening. He called
to him in the inexpert phonetical
japanese words he had learned
from his little language book. It
had no effect on the man.
Finally he tied a package Of
cigarettes to a string and dropped
1t down toward the staring Oriental.
This bait proved irresistible. The
Japanese came forward and reached
up for the package. AS he did,
Mickey slowly pulled 1t back to-
ward the opening and the Japanese
followed. He got up 50 close that
the colonel was able to get hold of
his wrist as the japanese reached
for the cigarettes.
But Mickey had only one hand in
the opening-and perhaps 1t is a
good thing-for the Japanese twisted
his wrist free and grabbed the
colonel's hand with both of his. He
gave terrific tug and pulled Mickey
against the side Of the opening.
There was q struggle before he was
able to free himself. When he
stepped back from the opening, the
soldiers with him wanted to toss in
. few satchel charges.
Hes a soldier all right" said
Mickey rubbing his wrist. There
must be more in there but that
crying sounds like q baby"
Let EN- Have It."
Just then the japanese, who had
tried to pull him through the OPEN
ing, unmouthed q vile torrent Of
abuse in perfectly understandable
English. Mickey turned and looked
In the cave. All he could see was
the hideous, distorted face of the
cursing Jap.
"Okay." he said. facing his men
with an odd expression Of regret on
his face, "let 'em have It," And the
ready and willing dogfaces tossed in
their satchel charges. When the
debris was cleared away, there were
28 dead Japanese, enough to have
made = sorry hole in a platoon of
Americans.
Mickey Finn doesn't like to have
any one mention a crying baby to
him, but the fellows in his outfit
told me they bet he'd do the same
thing all over again. Like the ma
jority Of our soldiers, he prefers to
tight men.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Mickey Finn, Tricked
By 'baby's S|ugs
L Out With q Japs
BY PEGGY HULL.

FROM A CENTRAL PACIFIC
BASE (By MaiD.-When President
Roosevelt visited this base, Maj.
Gen. Archibald v. Arnold, com.
mander Of the division which the
President reviewed, told him about
Mickey Finn.
Mickey Is 1t. Col. John M. Finn,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-31
CMAPTEE

Judy Va his partner. Twice he
spoke - her a little sharply and
h recovered herself and rctorted
with spirit. But there was no
doubt of the justice of MS accuse
iIon: she was woolgathcriug.
Don't tell me-" said Matthew.
frowuing at their score, that
you've gone and fallen in love too,
Judy. | have enough trouble"
She said ~serenely, Il haven't.
don't worry"
judith hadn't. She WdS in love.
she had been as long as she could
remember. even if she hadn't
huown it then. She had tried very
hard to avoid Matthew and Mary
Norman. She had returned to Palm
Beach directly after the services
for Irene and had not come back to
New York until some weeks later.
She managed to be very busy.
She had refused Jimmy Tread
ways offer of marriage but he was
not taking it as a final answer.
Aunt Ella was rather annoyed with
her. Treadway was a very good
catch and, she warned. you aren't
getting any younger, my girl"
Tired of me?' Judith had in
quired.
Don't be silly. As far as l am
concerned I hope you dry up and
wlther into a nice, ld-fashioned
spInster. looking after her mother
and her ancient and dishonorable
aunt. Unfortunately, however, |
rather like YOU said Ella, shifting,
and | want to see you happy
Il am happy, darling, | am"
Oh, but she wasn't. judith was
having fun. she was killing time by
every means at her disposal. and
still she was not happy but vas
carrying a torch. She thought: Ne,
carrying a torch! That's funny,
isn't it? No, it isn't, it isn't funny
at all.
She said, at Mary's that night,
Aunt Ella is taking a place in
Greenwich for the summer, com
plete with loggla, fruit trees, hooks
and mazes, also a swimming pool.
It's pink stucco and devastating in
q minor way. We're moving up
shortly -. l voted for the Cape or
Maine but Auntie's something of a
Cockney. She doesn't want to be
too far from town"
Mary, dealing. looked up with in
terest. She said. "That's wonder
ful. I've been thinking I'd Ike to
have a little place myself this sum-
mer, near enough for Matthew to
come weekends or whenever he
could"
Judith spoke before she thought.
"There's a darling cottage on the
place; it was built for the owners
mother. Aunt Ella would love -"
She caught herself and thought
gloomily: Now, why did | say that?
But Mary had cast down the
deck, while Lynn smiled and Mat
thew groaned. "This is a card
game" he grumbled, mot a real
estate agents conference"
Mary vas silent, remembering.
judith SAID, after a minute, OF
course you might not like it at
all There was something in her
voice -.
Mary looked at her, puzzled, and
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-09-07
Informal Party

Informal Party
Ann Elizabeth Jones invited severa
of her friends in Friday evening to en-
JOY a barbecue supper in the yard. Al
evenings fun was enjoyed and a bounti
full supper was served. Mrs. Jones as
sisted her daughter in serving.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-09-07

freely with anybody else at barber
shops, movies, restaurants, buses, post
exchanges. bath houses. Should a white
soldier protest he would find himself
in serious trouble. Governor Sparks of
Alabama. who lives near Maxwell Field,
and Congressman Wilmington who has
two Air Fields in his district are re-
ported to have protested to the Army
and the President. Governor Sparks is
especially bitter. Neither has reported
even an acknowledgment of his protest.
Why should the President bother with
either? Have not they, and the other
office holders, announced that "all of
US are for him., no matter what he
does? Having our electoral votes al
ready in his bag as he thinks he very
naturally proceeds to play politics in
sections where he does NOT feel safe.
He does feel that he can safely spit in
h face Of any southerner and proceeds
to do just that in order that he may
receive the applause of the ignorant
the self seekers (for negro votes in
northern states) the %venal, the starry
eyed twho are one with the ignorant)
What can we do about it? Vote for
electors pledged to Senator Byrd of
Virginia. There is no other danger to
the country half so great as a fourth
term.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-09-07
Tin Salvage
Is Stressed

The War Production Board has made
ar urgent request for an increase in
waste pape, and tin salvage. The Mis-.
sissippi War Council cooperating with
this request is asking all local civilian
ut.v1se councils and other community
agencies to emphasize, for the next six.
ty days the collection and proper pro-
cessing of these two important items.
Governor Bailey, Chairman of the Mis-
sissippi War Council, recently SAID:
Demands continue undated and sal.
wage must be gathered and processed so
that Mississippi will meet her quota.
When salvage collections may be stop.
ped without e~ndangering the war effort
the public will be notified. In the mean
time every effort must be made to emp
ty a%ttics, basments, garages and other
store places of their scrap"
Waste paper includes wrapping paper.
newspapers, magazines, cartons, boxes
and bags. Empty tin cans comprise the
principal source for tin salvage. Each
community has definite instructions IN
how these two items should be prepar-
ca Ior inc salvage COlieCtiOH. lneSe H.
structions should be followed carefully.
The War Production Board has set
up a Paper Trooper Program which
makes school children virtually official
members of our war production machin-
cry. This plan proposes to recognize &C.
complishments Of schools and Of indi-
vidual pupils in meeting assigned gu ,tSs
in connection with the war effort r.
for other outstanding achievements.
And so in view of the seriousness of
the waste paper and tin shortage, I am
calling attention to the importance of
this drive in each school and comlnun-
ity in the state. l feel sure that county
superintendent and school leaders #
the state will be glad to cooperate IN
the local plans of their community ior
waste paper and tin salvage. This is an
other contribution toward the war eff
fort that is within the range Of our
ability to make.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-09-07
LOCAL UNION II. O. w. l. 10

Fox Hounds form Union, make de
mands on the hunters-They demand
prewar food, no dried or canned rations
are to run or chase the Red Fox only
three or more bones a week. with Corn
Bread-Clabber and Pot Licker, Rabbits
IN season.
This demand made on the hunters was
acclaimed by loud yspping, and a thump'
ing applause, which afterwards turned
out TO be only Flea scratching.
The old Hound that made the speech
was greeted with a bowling applause
most Of those present was in favor OF
demanding Jour bones instead Of three
this was the bone Of contention. =
Other demands are hat the Pure
Bred Hounds, as the Walker and TriGgs
the Greys are to be run or chased by
the Pot Lickers-they are in turn de-
manding that the area to be hunted is
to be cleared of Rabbits and Skunks by
Beagles, so they will not have to follow
false trails. This is strictly in accord
ance with the Union regulations, which
demands that the hunters carry the
following pounds on each chase;
First, there are to be two cold trail
ers, who are to be fitted out with cleo
trio foot Pads to give them the hot.
DOT, SO they can warm up the trail.
Second, there are to be two back
where the Fox was raised and trail il
to where the cold t~railers can take hold
the cold t~railers are to trail it to
where the Jumpers can carry, there are
to be two Jumpers who will trail the
fox until it is jumped.
After the Fox has been jumped, the
runners or chasers are to run or chase
the fox for not over a period Of 4 hours
after which they are to receive a bone
and a half over time, unless relieved
by other runners or chasers; This is
strictly in accordance with Union regu-
lations and any violations thereof will
meal the loss Of membership in the
Union and all seniority or priority
rights.
Any hunter violating these regula-
tons will be picketed and his hounds
will be attacked by other members and
severely beaten.
The Bird Hunters and Deer Hunters
are very much worried over the situa-
tion as they are afraid their Dogs will
make similar demands on them before
the season opens. They have petitioned
the President to intervene and have the
Army WAGS take over.
(The matter of initiation fees and
dues was never discussed as a strange
Lady Dog visited the Hall-the Labor
Organizers claimed she was a spy sen,
by a rival organization).
Vas sub,
Uncle Dunk Dickens
Prosperity Hill U. S. A.
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return home.
The Woman's Auxiliary met in the
Church Monday with eleven members
PRESENT. The president, Mrs. Baine call
d the meeting to order. Hymn, Open
Ny Eyes. Responsive Reading, Psalm
g. Lords Prayer, In he business SEES
ion reports were given and the Treas.
drs. Ray reported a balance of $2S.97.
Pledges were paid and the treasurer
vas instructed to send IS for Student
workers. at M.S.C.W.
Loyalty meeting is planned for the
bird Monday night. Mrs. A.. c. Conger
will be leader of tne program.
World Wide Communion Day will be
deserved the First Sunday in October.
1t the conclusion of the business ses-
sion the meeting closed with prayer for
5ervice men by Mrs. Hamlin.