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Evening star., 1944-12-10
This Is Hollywood for You

Producer No. 2 had a Western star
under contract when his own pro-
ducing contract was cancelled by the
distributors of his previous nlm.
Having paid producer one $500 for
the story, and spent 5000 on embel-
liShments, this producer two sold
1t for SIT 500 to producer three.
Producer three, thinking he had
a winner, took over producer No. Is
contract with the Western star, but
he then couldn't get his own studio
to film the story, SO 1t laid on the
shelf for year.
Then came producer No. 4. He paid
$25 900 for the story and proceeded
to rewrite it. But the more he wrote
the more he got away from the orig
inal plot, and into something en-
tirely different.
The yarn just f1t the Western star.
So producer No. took over producer
No. IS commitments for the actor,
and made a picture based ON his
own story.
The original yarn now is gathering
dust in producer No. Is files and he d
like to sell it, but the price now is
almost prohibitive. and, since he
made small fortune on his own
story, and the Western star is happy
because he got paid plenty for not
doing the original story, everybody
seems to have made profit.
But the original writer's are still
confused by what happened to their
story, which was good enough to be
sold three times at profit, yet never
reach the screen!
Evening star., 1944-12-10
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
Broadway briefs: Paul Draper,
who dignified tap dancing and
brought it to the more stately pre-
cincts of Carnegie Hall and the
Metropolitan Opera House, heads
the entertainment at the Waldorf
Astoria's Wedgewood room.
"Jacobowsky and the Colonel" has
passed its 300th performance. BY
a press agents count, Miriam Hop
kins and Victor Jory kiss rs times
during 1.-THE Perfect Marriage" Now
a tie-up with Hpstick firm is being
sought. Mrs. Claude Alphand,
wife of one of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's aides, sings at the Blue
Angel, an East Side smart spot.
Brock Pemberton announces mat
inees will be held every day during
Christmas week for his hit comedy,
Harvey. =. f. Tickets are so much
in demand for the bright fantasy,
which stars Frank Fay, that the
box Office had to be enlarged.
New York City Center will have a
gala celebration in honor of it's first
anniversary, with Jose Iturbi, noted
pianist, donating his services for a
recital, Proceeds will go to further
ance of the center's cultural aims.
Bad reviews and even worse word
of-mouth reports forced the Err
LANCER Theater in Buffalo, N, Y, to
Evening star., 1944-12-10
James Four Years of Anonymity Nears End

will direct the pictures. Hughes di-
rected THE Outlaw" and his per-
fectionist methods drove his as
sociates nearly crazy, with Thomas
Mitchell so mad at one point that a
fist fight almost resulted. Also
Hughes did his shooting" at night.
Jane looks forward to the odd ex-
perience of working by day.
But she won't hear a word of
criticism against her boss. Howard
Is completely sincere and honest"
she states. II think it's amazing
that even in New York society and
Hollywood with it's fake scenery,
Howard keeps his head" (and his
money. This reporter has never
yet met a more cautious person than
the multimillionaire. Many girls
have hoped to lead him altarward.
And failed. At one time it seemed
that he'd pop the question to Olivia
de Havilland Ava Gardner Rooney
almost became Mrs. Hughes.
The girl who gets him." says Jane,
who has studied him, will have to
be great beauty and one who will
not be doormat for him. That's
the mistake most of the girls who
loved him have made
In Young Widow" Jane wears
lots Of nice clothes. Probably the
works she says, which indicates a
negilgee or two. The locale is partly
in Baltimore (society); partly on a
farm and some in a doctors office.
Jane herself worked as receptionist
in a dentists Office before she was
discovered for The Outlaw"
THE best part Of making no pic
lures says Jane, sis that people
are now beginning to forget what I
look like. I mean people in the
street. 1 go to all my husbands
football games, and no one bothers
me. I guess that's nice"
Jane is % now. Bob is "a. He is
handsome, but does not want a
move career. He wants to be a
football COACH says his bride. And
that's what she wants for him. AS
said, she is happy lady. There
are three more years to 60 on her
Hughes contract (at the end of
which time he will be paying her
81 900 a week..
I can't think of anything more
Jane needs now to make her happy.
She has a career, money and love.
And figure-and what a figure.
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Evening star., 1944-12-10

Jane, as you may know, Is married
to Bob Waterfield, lately discharged
from the Army and now continuing
his studies at U. C. L. A., where he
was captain of the 1914 football
team. The couple was married last
Easter.
Returning to her picture career,
Jane continues, Howard told me to
have faith in him, that he would
eventually find me a part Young
Widow is postwar story of war
widow who adjusts herself to a new
future. "Just think" says Jane
philosophically, ''of all the bad
movies might have made in these
four years.
Hughes Busy With Planes.
To the natural question OF why
Boss Hughes did not make himself
picture with Jane, she tells me,
Hes too busy making airplanes.
That's why he's formed a picture
company with Preston Sturges."
This is good thing because Sturges
Evening star., 1944-12-10
This Hara-Kiri
Is Tough Scene
For Movie Makers

by the ASSOclateQ PfeSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
If you don't think it's a Job tc
photograph a Japanese statesman
committing hari-kari while Tojc
and Admiral Yamamato look on, ask
Director Frank Lloyd.
For whole day, Lloyd schemed
plotted and rehearsed the scene be-
fore a make-b believe Buddhist shrine
but it was only guessing. Neither hi
nor any one else on the cast knew
what Jap suicidal scene looked
like.
TOTO couldn't help because he was
only an actor, Bob Armstrong. Nei.
ther could the victim, Baron Ia
naka, played by John Emery. Philip
Aim might, they thought. He was
born in Korea and his father was
executed by the Japs. But Ahn didn't
know, either.
The hari-kiri sequences as pho.
tographed for Blood on the Sum
will be authentic as far as they're
able to show them. The studio re-
search department located some
photographs of an actual Jap suicide
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Time EffaCes Kern's MOdestv

compartment of our present-day
musical comedy?"
In 1911 came "The Red Petticoat,'
then at least one musical production
a year; frequently two or three
were playing concurrently in New
York, London and Paris.
Some OF his most memorable
scores were for Sally" Sunny
THE Cat and the Fiddle" Sweet
Adeline," "Ziegfeld Follies of 1916
Music in the Air" and Roberta.
His film scores include II Dream
Too Much" "Swingtime" and Gov
er Girl"
His latest score is for a new Uni
versal technicolor film starring
Deanna Durbin: Cant Help Sing
ing" A perfectionist and self -critic
of renown in Hollywood and on
Broadway, Kern says he thinks it's
pretty good" He expects More
and More" one of the tunes, should
have no trouble getting into the
hit class.
"At my age, there is no use in
having false modesty about my
tunes" he said. THE public has
seemed to like them all along. I
see no reason why they won't like
my latest score
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL - THE Cherry
Orchard" with Eva LIE Gallienne
and Joseph Schildkraut for two
weeks beginning next Monday
night.
CAPITOL-"Abroad With Two
Yanks," with William Bendix
and Dennis OKeefe, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA "Maisie Goes
to Reno" with Ann Sothern,
starting Saturday.
EARLE-"Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay" with Gail
Russell and Diana Lynn.
KEITH'S-The Princess and
the Pirate" with Bob Hope.
LITTLE "The Magnificent
Ambersons," with Joseph Gotten
and Dolores Costello, starting
Wednesday.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." :"
with Tito Guizar and Virginia
Bruce, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"30 Seconds Over
Tokyo" with Van johnson.
PIX-"Swing Hostess" with
Martha Tilton.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
|Hersey Novel
Gives Gotham
Hit w ar Play
By. Jack O'Byian.
NEW york,

II
The theater now has 4 brilliant
war play. A Bell for Adano," which
opened last Wednesday at the Cort
Theater.
Paul Osborn's dramatization Of
the John Hersey novel arrives on
the theatrical scene Just when
practically every one was resigned
to waiting until the wars end for
Q superior martial drama.
But Paul Osborn has taken the
excellent Hersey novel and has
transferred 1t to the stage with 4
firm, dramaturgically accustomed
hand. The result is superbly fit-
ting in the light Of recent head
lines, but not because Of them. Its
thesis will stand the rigors OF time Is
wear and tear; Its excellence as
sharply -textured and literate drama
will stand the equally rigorous ques-
ton of public approval, I'm sure.
March Highly Praised.
Producer Leland Hayward is ex-
tremely fortunate in having for his
star an actor Of the unquestioned
perception and acute sensibilities OF
Fredric March.
March plays ajor Of the Amer
ican military government assigned
to direct the Italian town Of Adano
after 1t has been taken by the
Yanks. 1t is his patient belief that
sympathetic intelligence rather than
phoney coddling will straighten out
the political ills of the toWnsfolk
This shrewd sense Of justice, never
mealy-mouthed or mawkish, turn.
the natives to his manner OF thought
and he in turn becomes q trusted
friend.
The bell in the title is one tina,
was confiscated by the Germans
before they left. to be turned into
Nazi bullets. Despite the need fol-
food and water, the first thought OF
the entire community is another
bell. AS the play progresses, it be-
comes apparent to the major that
1t was symbol that regulated ano
gave meaning to the life Of the town
Support Is Excellent.
1t is March's play, all the way
but the dencacy with which the
proceedings was staged is a credit
to the artistic taste of Producer
Hayward and Director H. C. Potter
The supporting roles are incredibly
well cast; Margo, absent too lonf
from Broadway, provides a warmly
touching portrait of young Italiar
II girl. The others are uniformly
brilliant, but the cast is too large
to attempt any small selection; i
would not be fair. since all are i'm.
portant.
The single set by Motley is a fit.
ting frame for the elegant produc.
ton and polished performances
Broadway has one more hit.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
HOLLYWOOD

|
The most publicized girl in Holly.
wood Is starting work in a picture
that will actually be seen by audi
ences throughout the Nation. re.
fer to superduper pinup girl Jane
Russell, who began a picture called
The Outlaw" four years ago and
who in one year received more pub
lic1ty than any other woman in the
world dncluding Eleanor Roosevelt
Clare Boothe Luce and Nine. Chang
kai-shek), and who is now about
to start work for Hunt Strombere
in Young Widow"
1t Is two years now since the ILL
fated Outlaw" had its one and only
presentation in San Francisco. The
picture was panned by the critics,
the public scrambled for seats and
the Hays Office set up howl that
effectively barred further release OF
the Howard Hughes production.
Howard is an obstinate man."
says Miss Russell to this reporter
There was just one scene that the
Hays office wanted cut-the part
where I'm leaning over a bed. But
Hughes knew a good thing when he
saw it. and refused point blank to
perform the minor film surgery that
would have given his epic a clean bill
OF health and brought back (per-
haps) some of the millions invested
in it.
Bitterness Turns Sweet.
AS year followed year and Miss
Russell received nothing but pub
licity on which to nourish her film
star ambitions, the lady of the out
size sweater became trile bitter
about her boss and picture life in
general. But Jane is now a happy
girl, and swears that Mr.. Hughes
knew what he was doing all the time
HE was looking for suitable movie
for me-" says Jane. In actual fact
Hughes wanted to show Jane to the
public in THE Outlaw" before any
other picture. So I guess he has now
decided "his baby" as Jane calls
the picture for him, is dead and
buried.
Howard has been paying me fol
four years." Miss Russell tells me
Il started at $50 a week and now it's
$3.50. That's nice for doing nothing
except living with my husband and
mother-in-law on ranch in the
yalley."
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Nantes 1O-Best
List Is Announced
BY the Associated Pres
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
"The best plays of 1884" an
nual compilation by Burns Mantle,
drama critic emeritus of the New
York Daily News, of the 10 out
standing Broadway plays, includes
these last-season offerings:
Winged Victory" by Moss Hart;
The Searching Wind" by Lillian
Hellman; "The Voice of the Turtle -
by John Van Druten; Decision, F."
by Edward Chodorov; "Jacobowsky
and the Colonel" adapted by S. N.
Behrman from Franz Werfelis novel: ::
The Innocent Voyage" by Paul
Osborn, based on Richard Hughes
book, "A High Wind in jamaica;
over o." by Ruth Gordon; out
rageous Fortune" by Rose Franken:
Storm Operation" by Maxwell
Anderson, and Pickup Girl" by
Elsa Shelley.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Cigarette Shortage
Conserves Butts
In Movie Scene
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated treSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
Hollywood studios as we'll as har-
assed citizens, are painfully aware
of the cigarette shortage.
One of the scenes in Paramount s
'The Lost Weekend" with Ray Mil
land, calls for a smoke-filled cock.
tail bar. The time Is 1898, wher
you could buy 'em a carton at 8
time.
First a prop man blew a smoke
pot filled with burning charcoal
about the room to provide a reason.
able facsimile of cigarette haze
Then he doled out one cigarette
apiece to the so couples working ir
the scene.
Now don't puff hard" admon-
ished Director Billy Wilder, "anc
save the butts. We may have to dc
this scene over"
Evening star., 1944-12-10
By the Associated Press,
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Thinking about writing that great
American screen play? Listen to
what happened to this one!
Two writer's wrote a new type
cowboy yarn. A second-rate stu
dio rejected it but leading inde-
pendent producer snapped it up for
$2,250 for his No. star. The
agent took his 10 per, cent cut.
The writer's, splitting the remainder,
waited year for their story to be
filmed, then dissolved partnership
Having made two Westerns in two
years, the No. l star decided he
didn't want to make another. There
was an argument and the actor and
the producer parted company.
The latter sold the yarn to q sec
ond producer, who hired one of its
co-authors to do the script, and paid
him more money than he received
for his original story.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Mama Truly a Gracious Lady
BY WiLla Martin.
NEW YORK,

NEW YOkSk.
Mady Christians Is exclusively q
Madonna Of Hausfrau accents and
aprons to Hollywood. And now New
York. where she has been every
thing from . lady lawyer to q queen
has her doing It, too.
Her new play, IT Remember
Mama, puts her right back In the
dirndls and hair braids, but she's
not doWncast about 1t. Il can smile
q little this time" she says, .al-As
though mostly It's inside"
In real life, Mady Christians Is
exactly what you'd expect from
seeing her on the stage or screen.
Five feet 7, she IS one Of our tallest
actresses, along with Katharine
Cornell, Lynn Fontanne and Judith
Anderson. Friends find her vital,
restless and wonnanly.
It comes rs q surprise that she
has no accent, for she rarely appears
on the stage-except in Shake
speare-without the accent OF some
Northern Europe country. Her nat
ural voice Is in cultivated stage die
tion-precise and fuller than aver
age. Years of acting have made it
impossible for her to achieve a stage
whisper. When she talks low on q
train her secretary frequently re-
minds her, Careful! You are broad
casting"
Miss Christians is fond of explain
ing that this trouble is q matter
OF diction rather than volume.
Wanted to Be Dancer.
She inherited the voice and acting
talent from her father, a German
born actor and manager. She was
born in Vienna.
Brought to New York at II, Mady
spent q pleasant childhood between
school and Gramercy Park. When
she told her father she wanted to
be . dancer he said he thought
getting married would be q better
IDEA: Her mother, more sympa-
thetic, rushed her to Europe where
she studied under Max Reinhardt.
Reinhardt didn't see her as the
warm kitchen corner house frau
that she became in Hollywood. For
him she played Viola of Twelfth
Night" Portia in Merchant of
Venice" Roxana In "Cyreno de
Bergerac." Then in London, she
did more Shakespeare before COM
ing back to New York as the queen
IN Maurice Evans Hamlet" and
Lady Percy in Henry VI"
But Mady Christians still was an
unknown to lot of playgoers until
Watch on the Rhine" AS the com.
passionate anti-Fascist wife of Pau
Lukas, she again had to absorb ar
accent and she gave a memorable
performance.
There is only one role which Miss
Christians comedies she can't play,
A Southerner. Once she was put ir
something called wicked Woman.
1t had a New Orleans setting anc
Miss Christians insists it was one ol
Hollywood's biggest flubs.
In later movies-"Tender Com.
rade" and Address Unknown'-sh<
returned to the familiar braids anc
German accent. Now in II Remem.
Evening star., 1944-12-10

Der Mama" she Is Norwegian. She
was unwilling to 60 on before she'd
read her lines to Norwegian friends.
Finds Norwegian Strong.
Norwegian" she says, "is like
Danish clipped between the lips
but less rushed. At first 1t seems
stern but it's actually warm and
reflects the strength of the ocean
and mountains Of its people. 1t has
a subtle sincerity and I love It,"
Though she scoops up accents with
a spoon, savoring the last vowel and
consonant, Mady doesn't let them
slip into her private life.
Its foolish and firing to impose
ones roles upon ones personal
friends and besides" she says, "they
can be as annoying as baby talk"
When she read the part of Mama
in John Van Druten's play adapted
from Kathryn Forbes book, Miss
Christians knew it was good theater.
The incidents were built around IA
miliar family Interpretations, grad
uation, marriage.
To put Mama across, she said. "I
even considered making big
scene by cheating a little, stepping
out Of character. But that would
have been letting Mama down. AS
it Is, the audiences seem to under
stand her the minute she comes on
stage"
She loves her dressing room, and
that Is fortunate. She may have to
sleep there some night. Because she
isn't in the quota Of an-year-round
guests at her hotel, the actress fears
the frequent calls from the hotel
ONCE asking when she can move.
She wonders If one day she'll step
OF the hotel elevator and find all
her clothes in the hall.
However, there's always her house
In New Canaan, Conn. There, Miss
Christians can dig in her garden
and plan the celebration of her sue
cess in her biggest co-starring part
on Broadway.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
For Once Bogart
Actually Solves
IA Movie Crime
By the Associated Press.
uorJvuooD

HOLLYWOOD.
Humphrey Bogart, as might be
expected, is a detective story fan, but
despite his frequent super -sleuth
roles, he says he never tries to solve
the crimes he reads about
However, in Raymond Chambers
new mystery novel, The Big Sleep"
Bogart noticed that one occurrence
incidental to the plot never was
cleared up: The death Of the chauf-
feur, who drove his car OF a pier
When the movie script came along
with Bogey in the private detectives
role, he observed that the incident
again was left hanging. You can
get away with that in a book" he
commented, but not in a picture; /;
you'll get letters
He suggested that Director How
ard Hawks wire Chandler for an
explanation.
"Ill bite" Chandler wired back,
why did he drive OF the pier? You
boys figure that one out"
Evening star., 1944-12-10
It's a Headache,
This Producing
Ey the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Dave Wolper is having some of
the worst theatrical migraines ever
suffered by Broadway producer.
First Eddie Davis. one of the stars,
was injured in motor accident
while Glad to See You" was trying
out in Philadelphia. Then general
difficulties forced director Busby
Berkeley to withdraw. Sammy Calm,
songwriter for the show, stepped in
for a weeks performances until
Eddie Foy, jr., arrived from the
Coast. Davis now seems to be out
of the cast permanently, but other
obstacles are constantly cropping
up. A completely new first act was
written, several new musical num-
bers inserted and others heaved
out. Cy Howard took over the
direction and also Is writing new
situations and gag material as the
show plays the road before opening
here.
Topping all other headaches, no
Broadway theater has been def
nitely set for the premiere, sched-
uled for about January l.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Miss Garson's Bath
Floods Sound Stage
BY the Associated Press


HOLLYWOOD.
Movie making has been stopped
by low-flying airplanes, recalcitrant
babies and stubborn animals, but
this is believed to be the first time
production has halted because of a
flooded bathroom.
Greer Carson, rot-topped queen
of MGM's superspecials, has a por-
table dressing room to match her
grandiose roles. Even she was awed
at its sumptuousness and hadn't
used its elegant shower.
Like many other less glamorous
bathrooms, the thing went awry and
flooded half the Valley of Deci-
sion" set. Shooting ceased until
the stage was mopped up.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Americana's the Thing
By Jay Carnnody.

past seen another hest seller Translates ro h
encourage the bald statement that the sy to
Se neater audiences heart through its favoe
The play in question Adano. Paul oborns adap-
taon OF John Heseys military
forgotten Remember Mama John Van Datsns stage
version OF Msfnas Bank Account George Apley
Joint work OF its original author George
Kaufman.
One Of the strange extended
all three offerings that of them meets the rigid
OF theater writing All
indispensable
almost cinche of criticism to refer to
snch as staged novels not plays and the implication
the reference has unateng aught praise
Worse
profound cordiaIy which the Osborn
Van Den and projects have greeted
need look back the reception
which appearance spring
became of the of the
hamperng the stage
In their turn drama critics annoyed by the fact that dealt merely
with mood and character instead action paed
venting its sale to the cinema the then record price Of $5
1t did well motion picture quite properly since that
FORM
nmated stenbeck could with their
get with It,
violations a occurred and of them
almost bound win this seasons play prizes unless the fantasy r
veyr less piece Americana and consequently Of lesser
signihcance-should outscore them.
Straight
Financially looking the situation Stebeck nothing
caprice comparative
cepton would
unlikely result that
unadapted notoriouy deficient
contrast.
worthy of of that the adaptations which
trumphed Stenbecks failed
Americas outstanding theater craftsmen
question that choice bringing
Kathryn Similarly
Maquand less fortunate being blessed with
collaboration kaufman Gordon prevailed
ramate his gently ronc portrait
George Apley"
auspices Herseys
lated to its latest hit form equally promising
accomplished the taskwith the assistance Frederic
generally competent had another such triumphant adap
tation to his credit That the wonderfully whimsical
rowed Time the great hits of its which
years
Collaboration
the adaptations less the originals
fairly could collaboration
actually the
Each however dramatic composition which tells
action but Of and character quite expected
technically skilled dramatists
Osborn but universally appealing piece of entertainment
subtle fashion, outstanding
reflect liberalization of Standards critical general
which almost undoubtedly good theate
for such change for long time heretofore
with writing
largely of young Saroyan
Welles.
could be, that Americana unaingy
tractve subject theatergoing
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Stork's S Potential
Visit Makes Hedy
A Studio Dweller
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Hedy Lamarr's dressing room at
MGM is being fitted as an apart
ment and she's moving in.
No, this Is not a commentary on
the housing shortage. Hedy gets
carsick driving to and from her
home. Other expectant mothers
have the same troubles.