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Evening star., 1944-05-26
SomervelI Tells Entertainers
I 0 Stop Crying. Toke War Job

Is being employed in beauty shops
and perfume factories, as we'll as
poolrooms and bowling alleys, and
said there's been lot OF moaning"
over the loss of jobs recently by
some $4,000 night club entertainers
because Of retrenchments following
the 80 per cent Federal excise tax
on such entertainment.
The countIy's railroads. Gen.
Somervell told the conference, are
short" more than 10000 men and
many other industries already are
below the minimum manpower they
must have to do their essential part
in the business Of victory.
Let's put hrst things first. Let's
get our men home"
Evening star., 1944-05-26
Victories Poee Boy Dies

BUCKFAST, Devon, England,
May Is R.-Viscount Torrington,
81. who rs boy was page of honor
both to Queen Victoria and King
Edward VII, died at his home
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1944-05-26

Especially Pink with Block Pale pink dress in royon crepe
with its decote print etched block black velvet trinno
at the neene perfect for your dress-up Sizes
u to ~
Wide brim hst dainty and feminine os fine oce Smu-
lated black hair bonded With black velvet-----S6
Esht button length glove. dusty pink soft royen odd
charming touch. Sizes 6 to observation-disclosures so
W&L-Down Stairs Store. Millinery Gloves
In rouns end Psessn striped seeueker dirndIe with
ITS two little pockets trimmed with white washes like
q charm red or blue stripe; sizes to IA 4---SI65
Sheer white cotton blouse dony oee trimmed about the neck
and sleeves Sizes to
W&L-Dosn Stairs Store Apparel
Ia Betty Hartford Bebes Sheer design created
from wonderfully cool royon obc into dress happily suited
tor many OCCASIONS Sposhed with eoy doisy print on
background Sizes II to 2o------------------S6
w&L-Dovn stofs sporHwear
Evening star., 1944-05-26

Comfortable Fun Clothes
for Dad and Son
osd weshebe cotton slack suit in sturdy cotton keeps him
cool ond toIored looking the same time Lo or dor ton
and blue. Sizes 80 to 38--- Ss Ss
Boys rough and reedy washable cotton soek comfortable and
practical Brown, navy or teo| sizes 10 to 20 ---S4
Also white cotton duck sIocks; sizes 6 to lo- S.
Fine striped cotton shirt oored convertible coo ho may be
worn with or without tie Ton blue green; to le-Si75
W&L-Down Stairs Store andB Apparel
Boys ton Leather oxford military pe shoe leoher sole.
rubber heel Boys sizes to 6; B. c and widhs--s3e5
Mems sizes ga to ~ 3, c and widths -----s4.ss
Please bring yo"r ration book that may detaeh
coupon at time Of purchase.
W&I-Down
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Love Also Has Made History

launched Vivian Le1gh and Laurence
Olivier ~ o romantic team.
Charles Boyer first came to the
attention Of American fans, together
with Danielle Darriel,xs when the
French picture, "Mayerlin0," was
imported to this country. One OF
the greatest love tragedies to come
to the screen, 1t detailed the story
Of the Archduke Rudolph, son Of
the. Emperor Francis Joseph Of Aus
trta. and his love affair with q girl
OF the people whom he could not
marry. Chalk up two more violent
deaths.
kA# y
Double death, this time On the
gutllotine, was the fate which ended
the love OF Marie Antoinettes and
King Louis XVI, Is depicted In
Marie Antoinette," J" in which Norma
Shearer played the title role.
The short lived and only romance
IN the life Of Queen Victoria came
TO the screen In the English picture,
Victoria the Great" with Anna
Neagle in the role. There were
several premature deaths here also
The lusty Catherine the Great OF
Russia also had her innings in Aims.
Marlene Dietrich played her In THE
Scarlet Empress" and Elisabeth,
Bergner scored In the same role
through the British Gather
Inc the Great"
So long as great persons live inter-
lesting love lives, Hollywood will
never run short of tragic epics
Nest Of them have paid well at the
box ofiice, too.
tRelessed b. the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc,
Evening star., 1944-09-13
z aSa
Oscars for All in the Air
AS H'wood Factions Battle
~ Jay CARMODY.

Oscar" situation q
with the
will getting
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Scenes of Home Life
In u. Pleasing
To Neighbors
By the Associatec Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
There are as many versions OF
what our Latin American neighbors
like in film fare as there are ways
Of curing a cold.
Latest, voiced by Producer How
ard Estabrook as the result of con.
ferences with a Brazilian educator
Is that films which reflect life in
the average American home such
as the Andy Hardy" series or Saro-
yan's Human Comedy" are most
popular. ..-s..
South Americans like to feel
they're seeing real Americans and
learning about how they live and
think. They're not too excited over
seeing their own entertainers sing
and dance, as that presents no nov
city, gives them no feeling of learn
ing American ways. Humor is the
most dangerous thing below the
border.
Evening star., 1944-09-13

would take no less than week for
the Academy dinner at which the
prizes are distributed, but q week
long dinner would be just one more
colossal, epic, and majestic concep-
ton Of the cinema capital.
The Oscar situation is q develop
ment Of the past few weeks.
1t began with a movement by
those associated with the produc-
ton OF Westerns, or horse operas, to
horn in on the annual distribution
of cinema honors. Spokesman for
the group, who probably began their
speeches with "Well, podner," let 1t
be known they could see no reason
why they should not cut in on the
year-end loot. From their standpoint
1t is more diff1cult to save q damsel
in distress from the hands OF q gang
of cattle, and girl, rustlers thsn to
fight it out with dirty destiny in
any other kind of movie script. It
is even harder on the horses in a
routine Western, the boots and sad
die set things, than on the average
hero or heroine of any other kind of
picture.
The Western people are quite We
hement and are backed by some
tough looking pearl-handled pistols,
but they are not likely to get any
where.
The fact is that they are held in
somewhat angry disdain not merely
because the rest Of Hollywood looks
upon them as occupants of an ar
tistic pit, comparatively speaking,
but also because they are an un-
speakably successful kind of compe-
tition in too many places. Actually
IN many community they enjoy a
virtual monopoly on public taste.
You have only to put yourself in the
position of producer of sophisti-
Gated comedies, problem dramas,
and other types to realize the orr
gin OF SO much of higher caste
Hollywood's feeling on Oscars for
cowboys and their horses.
4 **
Much more likely of success is a
project to give Oscars to outstand-
ing child actors. Agitation toward
that end started after the Western
people were well along on their own
private project. Actually it has been
in the air for many years. but in the
desultory, diSinterested manner of
people who live in a desert and
really don't want to be disturbed.
Now the subject has become active.
Our private suspicion of the orr
gin Of the sudden aggressiveness is
the press agent working for Lester
Cowan, independent producer now
engaged upon Tomorrow the
World" Or, it may have been Mr..
Cowan himself, he being a resource
full fellow with respect to promoting
public attention to his wares.
Tomorrow the World" you prob
ably remember, has very fine child
actor in the central role. He Is
Skippy Homeier who created
sensation-for a child-on Broad
way couple of seasons ago in the
same play. Mr.. Cowan has much to
Evening star., 1944-09-13
y HAROLD HEFrERNAN. :

II the great people OF history had
led progaic, humdrun lives the world
might have been Z better place In
which to live, but certainly the
movie business would have been
pretty hard hit for tragically excit-
ing plots. History has been good to
Hollywood, principally because the
course Of true love among It's Oig-
name folks never seemed to run
smooth.
Over ct Columbia at this moment
they're thankful that the reAl-iife
story OF Frederic Chopin was a
whole lot less serene than the beau
tiful music he wrote. Otherwise
there wouldn't be much sense TO
filming his biography, which is COM
ing out soon under the title. "A Song
to Remember"
The pusic in this movie is going
to be swell, but the Chopin story
really Is what counts. It concerns
a Madame George Sand. first woman
IN history to wear pants and smoke
cigars. who held the musician cap
tive with her love. That's Just a
starter. Merle Oberon plays the
George Sand role, Cornell Wilde Is
Chopin and Paul NUM- Is Elsner, his
teacher.
This same Miss Oberon owes her
present starring position to her Aim
debut m The Life Of Henry VIII" )"
In which she played poor Anne
Boleyn TO Charles Laughton's Henry.
Nobody twiddled their thumbs
around that household for lack OF
excitement. The romance ended in
decapitation.
Same fate befell another royal
lover In the Bette Davis Enrol Flynn
picture, Elizabeth and Essex" The
latter paid with his head for his love
OF England's most famous queen.
History always was the screens
most prolific source of tragedy and
for proof of that statement you can
go right back to the first feature
length subject. This was Queen
Elizabeth" with Sarah Bernhardt in
the title role and Lou Tellegen play
ing Essex, Imported from France
by Adolph Zukor, it created such a
commotion that the long movie was
born. Paramount studio was born
along with it.
There's no more tragic love story
In history than that of Cleopatra
and her two exalted Roman con-
sorts. Julius Caesar and Mark An
thony. In Cecil B. De Miles Cleo
patra," the Egyptian queens two
gomances were ably depicted. Lots
OF violence, toO-death for all three I
~
Two Of Greta CARLOS greatest We
hicles were based on historic trag-
|edy. One was the story of the Polish
Nine. Waleska and Napoleon in
Conquest" and the other, Queen
Christina" in which the late John
Gilbert played the sweetheart Of the
Swedish monarch.
II you need more examples, there
was Lady Hamilton which incor-
porated not only the history making
exploits Of Admiral Lord Nelson but
MS turbulent extramarital romance
with the beautiful Lady Hamilton
This was the springboard which
Evening star., 1944-09-13

gain from creating q special child
actors Oscar and he is not likely
to let the matter drop, not II he has
to get new press agent.
The whole thing probably will be
whipped up into something quite
superfcially exciting before 1t all Is
over.
\ \ \
Every week brings its platoon of
theater press representatives to let
drama departments know that
things are about to pop all over
the place.,
The Playwrights' Company, once
certain to have been here BY this
time, has not yet appeared and the
record shows that SO far 1t is en-
gagged upon but one project. That
Is Elmer Rice's adaptation OF Ira
Wolfert,S novel, fuckers People.
Mr.. Wolfert will be recognized as
the erstwhiie New York drama critic
OF The Star, one of several in the
trade who left Ii to become q war
correspondent, and coincidentally to
produce two best sellers simultane-
ously. fuckers People" was one,
Torpedo 8" the other. The latter
was nonf1ction, of course, being con-
cerned with his experiences with a
Navy air combat group in the Pacific
Maxwell Anderson, once the most
prolific playwright in the Play
wrights' Company, has no plans
known to this department save q
determination to prevent the re-
election of Hamilton Fish as his
Congressman.
If he would take a suggestion, he
might write a play about Mr.. Fish.
The suit filed against him for a
poem on the same subject has just
been dropped.
*H y \
Bulletin board: Hail the Con-
quering Hero" Preston Sturges new
est satire, will open at the Earle on
Friday =. =. Soldiers Wife," which
comes to the National on September
rs, will have Martha Scott, lately of
the movies, as its heroine Eddie
Dowling's play, Men to the Sea, "
about the lives of five sailors wives,
is having all kinds Of censor trouble
in New England The Ghost
Goes West" the most reliable re-
vival picture at large. will remain a
second week at the Little Theater.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Where and When
cfsrsat ThGetsr Attf1etiens
end Time 81 Showing
Stage.
Natienal- while the Sun Shines"
2:3O and $50 pm.

y 2 L s
National while the Sun shines".
2:30 and $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol Wilson: 9:30 an,
1885. $40, 6:45 and $50 pm. Stage
shows -12:l5, $40, 6:25 and $50 pm.
Columbia Home in indiana: IL
am, Los, s:l5, $40. 7:3o and s:4o
pm.
Earle-"Janie":: 11:l0 am, 1850
4:30, 7:10 and $50 pm. Stage
shows: ITO. $50, $50 and OILS pm.
Keith's-"Casanova Brown: ILLS
am. 1:20, 3:25, 5:35, TAO and o:45
pm.
Little-"The Ghost Goes West:
II am, 1880, 2:35, 4:25, $40, and
$50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Crime by Night:
1l:25 am. 1:30. 3:35. 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Palace THE Seventh Cross:
1880 an, l2:40, 2:55, sos, 7:20 and
9:35 pm.
Pix-"La Maternelle":: 3:45, I and
10 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con.
tinuous from 10 an.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Sonja's Zee Is Thin,
But Looks Pretty
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Z ~ IL HOLLYWOOD.
Sonia Henie was skating today
on thin ice-or rather on thin slabs
of melted hypo crystals. the kind
photographers use in developing So
lutions.
Ordinarily. Sonia does her skat-
ing for ITS a Pleasure" on a regu-
lar ice rink, but for interior close.
ups in which she and Michae
O'Shea merely walk" on skates
studio chemists devised the ice SUBJ
stitute.
1t serves photographically, but
will never take the place of Ice for
real SIX eating. both stars agree. 1t
cracks too easily.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
Eddie Davis Raised
To Second Power
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK


When the new Dave Wolper mus
ical, Glad to See You," arrives on
Broadway later this season, the, Gus
toners will get two Eddie Dayises
for the price of one. 50,
Eddie Davis. the ebullient gentle
man with the sly and slightly blue
tinted lyrics who has been half of
the ownership and most of the en-
tertainment for 16 years at Fifty
second streets Leon IL Eddie's, has
been signed for the show, The au-
thor Is another Eddie Davis, who
abandoned his job as a cab driver
when he started selling sparkling
gags and amusing. dialogue over the
back seat Of his taxi to such come
dians as Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle
and George Jessel and others.
Evening star., 1944-09-13
The Food Is Varied
And So Are Prices
BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
+ What is believed to be the largest
concentration OF restaurants in q
single block anywhere In the world
lies along Forty-ninth street be-
tween Sixth and Seventh avenues
There are 80 restaurants with II
different cuisines. including drug
store, frankfurter. French, Italian
Chinese, delicatesSen, and sundry
gustatory types indigenous to Man
hattan's easy-going eating habits.
The price range. too, is almost q
complete financial tour de force
You can get a satisfying meal from
Is cents to $40.
Evening star., 1944-09-13

Goebbels called our Flying Fort.
resses Flying Cofflns." We need
more Of them over Germany. Let's
all back the attack. Buy more Wal
Bonds.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20

cially so in treatment, the book presents a fascinating picture of the climatic, physical and ethnological life of the countless islands which dot this vast ex- panse. Their peoples, their strange animal and bird life, and the extraordinary multitudinous life of the ocean which laps them, are reviewed through text and striking cartographic and illustrate treatment in a way which seems certain to lead to a better under standing of an area which thousands of our fighting men are seeing at first hand and to which thoughts of most Ameri- cans are turned with hope and speculation. "The Pa cific World"- should help our knowledge of a region that must plan an import
 ant role in the future of the
 United States. = (New
 York Times).
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20

the North Central States will be hardly enough.
 However, some action has been taken by both Federal and State agen- cies. Montana, South Da- kota, North Dakota and Massachusetts have ap- jointed committees to work on the problem and the "GI Bill'' as approved by Congress offers veterans a loan of $2,000 for farm ing ventures. = Juneau Empire).
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20

Transport Co.,, are due. The Vic toria sailed from Seattle for Nome. All are loaded with car goes which will last until June.
 MELBOURNE, Australia - In the Australian Air Derby Scott and Black, exhausted English men landed to receive the $5O,- 900 prize. They averaged 176 miles an hour.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20
"THE PACIFIC WORLD"

From the beginning of the war there has been evidence of a new spirit of cooperation in many fields of endeavor. Industry has achieved it's astonishing production by whole hearted cooperation be- tween peacetime rivals. Scientific societies, and scientists of many individ- ual companies, have shown a commendable spirit of mutual help in research. The newest example of such cooperation has been among nine societies con- cerned with the physical and natural world: The American Geographical Society, the American Mu- scum of Natural History, the Arnold Arboretum, the Blue Hill Observatory, Carnegie Museum, Chica- go Natural History Mu- scum, the Museum of Con- parative Zoology, the New York Geological Society and the Smithsonian Insti- tuition. This teamwork has resulted in a book, "The Pacific World,' the earn ings of which are to go to the American Committee for International Wildlife Protection.
 Edited by Fairfield Os- born, the new book is pub lished at a time when, as never before, interest is centered on the great re- zion that stretches from our own Western shores to the Orient, from the cold mists of the Aleutians to the South Polar Seas. Un- usual in concept, and espe- ,S. ly.l |. S,N..y ,S..S ,e.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20
MEMORY
 LANE
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
 October 20. l944)

The Bureau of Indian Affairs vessel, 'The North Star," an- chored in the roadstead, as well as the Coast Guard cutter North land" The Dellwood and Depere of the Alaska Line, are discharg- ing and the Forest King and Arthur J. Baldwin of the Arc
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20
LAND FOR
 VETERANS

Land grants for return ing war veterans has al- ways been an American tradition. At the end of the Revolutionary War soldiers made homes on the frontier beyond the Allegheny passes. The from tier had moved further west after the Civil War but the procedure was re- peated. And at the. close of the last World War, the same offer was made but was not taken up because the makeup of the nation had changed from rural to urban with approximately 75 percent of the people making their living in cit ies.
 Today the idea of farms for returning veterans is again being promoted, and today the only real frontier left to the United States is the Territory of Alaska. Whether the tight-fisted Department of the Interior will loosen up and offer some land to the soldiers, we don't know. Rep. liar vey J. Smith of Anchorage during the last session of the Territorial Legislature petitioned Congress to make land grants to all veterans who wanted them, but nothing has been done along this line so far as we know to date.
 There is not much suit able land left for such pur- poses in the continental United States today. A few areas where dam con- struction has made irriga- tion possible and the scrawny cut-over lands of A ,S,,
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20
SUSPICIOUS sAUsAcEs

SYDNEY, Australia -(AP) = A flourishing trade in horseflesh for pets sprang up here after stringent meat rationing, but ru- mors that it was going into saul sages and pies resulted in bills be- ing passed enforcing strict con- trol of the meat.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20

The National Committee on Mental Hygiene estimates there are more than 100000 patents in mental hospitals in the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-20

U. s. cities named for promi- nent persons number about 575.
Evening star., 1944-05-10
japanese Barbarism
May Be Due 10 DIET,
Conference Is Told

The japanese may be the strange
people they are because of the soil
of their homeland, N. E. Dodd, chief
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration, told the Rural Urban
Womens Conference today at the
Statler Hotel The conference is
sponsored by the Associated Wom-
en- of the American Farm Bureau
Federation.
Perhaps before we get through
we will find that the rice and fish
which make up the diet of SO many
Japs lacks some of the essentials
required for proper development of
a civilization" Mr.. Dodd declared.
Food Problem Not Solved.
A warning that relaxation of
rationing does not mean that Amer
ican food problems are over was
sounded by Edward A. O'Neal,
president of the Farm Bureau, at a
dinner meeting last night.
Pointing out that this years pig
crop is well below last years record
production, Mr.. ONeal declared that
'it is entirely possible that within
year we may be faced with a
shortage instead of a surplus of
pork"
With a record number of cattle
on the ranges, a drought in these
areas could percipitate a movement
of cattle to market of avalanche
proportions" this summer, Mr..
ONeal warned. IF such a move
ment should develop, 1t would mean
big temporary supply, certain to
be followed by shortage some
months later" he added.
CompIaceney Unjustified.
MIR. O'Neal said the public should
not be misled by the present situa-
tion into a state of complacency
regarding food. At the same time,
Evening star., 1944-05-10
Grandmother Tells of Problems
In Operating 277-Acre Farm

Multiply by thousands the prob
lens of Mrs. w. C. Mcleod, the
operator of a 271-acre farm In the
rolling country of Western Ken
tucky, and you have an idea of what
farmers are up against today.
Here is the story of Mrs. Mcleod
an attractive grandmother who still
finds time to serve as president OF
the Associated Women of the Ken
lucky Farm Bureau Federation. She
is attending the Rural-Urban Wom-
ems Conference at the Statler Hotel
Her sole remaining farmland, a
24-year-old father of three children,
faces induction unless an appeal for
deferment is granted. Between the
two of them, they are growing hay
and corn and tending II head of
Evening star., 1944-05-10

beef cattle. She would like to build
up the herd to so or 100 head.
Because she is so short handed,
Mrs. Mcleod operates the farms
one tractor at planting time and
power baler when hay is harvested.
A seed sower has broken and can
not be replaced. More than 100
acres of pasture and meadowland
must be kept cleared of weeds, but
she has been trying since last sum-
mer to buy a power mower.
Fertilizer supplies continue short,
and she is unable to buy certain
other labor saving devices.
Despite all these difficulties, Mrs.
Mcleod has been carrying on since
Evening star., 1944-05-10

her husbands death in 1898. She
looks at her job as real war work" !"
but is afraid she might have to
sell the farm If she cannot get re-
placement for her present hand.
My son wants to come back to
the farm after the war" she said.
IF I quit all my six years work will
be undone." Her son is in India.
He enlisted with the Army Air
Forces months before the Pearl Har-
Dor attack.
Evening star., 1944-05-10
Joun Fontuine to File
Divorce Suit Today

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, May 1o-Counsel
for Screen Actress Joan Fontaine
said he was filing in Los Angeles
Superior Court today her divorce
action against Brian Aherne of the
films.
Her attorney, Martin Gang, said
Miss Fontaine charges cruelty. She
is currently touring Canada with
a USO unit, he reported.
Evening star., 1944-05-10

he urged Victory gardeners to re-
double the efforts which last year
produced large quantities of can
ming. Every pound of garden
produce that you can produce will
be needed before next years crop
comes to maturity" he said.
Evening star., 1944-05-10

Buy more bonds and bring victory
closer!