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Evening star., 1944-08-05

the rest of the vocabulary that lies
across the East River. Maybe the
Brooklyn Board of Education should
just turn the whole thing over to
Hollywood and start speaking an
other language.
MacMurray's contribution to the
merriment with which Paramount
hoped to plaster And the Angels
Sing" Is that of impersonating a
band leader whose favorite past
time is getting innocent country
girls drunk. At first blush, it may
seem funny way for a chap to
exc out an existence, but 1t event.
ually has a tendency to seem mere
ly strange.
Otherwise, he is left to cut the
comic figure for which he is being
paid by performing a dance routine
in night club through which ne
and Eddie Foy. jr., contrive to
raise enough money to pay the
Angel sisters the $3.50 which they
SO urbanely snitched from one Of
them at carefully calculated
SAioAARu6AiC PdA
The vocal additions of Johnny
Burke and Jimmy Van Heussen to
the singing of the Angels get pass
ing grade, nothing, more. The once
popular tune from which the title
of the picture comes never appears
in 1t, but not unpleasant are such
others as Mary, Mary How Does
Your Garden Grow?", q scat num-
ber called I've Got Blue Birds in
My Belfry," for Miss Hutton, and
a ballad 1T Could Happen to You" 4"
which Miss Lamour chants in her
throaty way.
The cooling system helps the gaps
a lot.
Harry Angers stage show de-
parts from the usual formal this
week and not at all to its advant-
age. 1t runs considerably longer to
allow for a jam session by Ralph
Hawkins band, which, outside of
its leaders drumming would seem
to belong more in an cozy night
club than large theater. Other
wise 1t introduces Rita johnson, a
tap dancer of real talent, Ben Beri
one Of those rare souls who has
made juggling a nice comedy act,
Larry and Lynn with their unicycle
acrobatics. The Roxyettes are
utilized in only one routine, at least
one too few for this part OF their
public. It is humane to limit their
work in such hot weather, but it
spoils much of the fun of the usual
stage program at the Earle.
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C.. u. Names Moliere
Comedy as Next

Tagged as a laugh riot" and a
17th-century "Hellzapoppin," Cath
olic Universityis next production is
The Doctor In Spite of Himself
Molieres satire on the medical pro-
fession. The production which falls
close on the heels of the more seri-
Gus Song of Bernadette" concludes
the University's summer season.
The Doctor In Spite of Himself
which opens for five performances
Wednesday August 9, is full of slap
stick comedy and good-humored
horseplay of the type associated
with such previous University pro-
ductions as The knight of the
Burning Pestle and The Miser."
The Mollere script has been given
a musical treatment by director
Alan Schneider and the production
includes a number of authentic
French folk songs and dances.
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equally dany and trusts that you
will find them as amusing as he has.
His latest undertaking Of the sort
will be found at the Earle this
week under the title And the An
gels Sing" It Is q musical some
thing with Fred MacMurray, Doro-
thy Lamour, and Betty Hutton as
its top Fighters and while it is
definitely not the best grade Of
Binyon, it is more comfortable than
being out In the sun. There are
intimations, indeed, that Binyon
may have written it as an excuse
to keep from wedding the tomatoes.
The Angels to whom the title of
the Earle's opus refers are four sis
ters of that name who live in a
hamlet in New York State. get in
volved with MacMurray who is an
itinerant band leader, and who
manage to give themselves and him
one Of the most strenuous workouts
since movie directors learned to yell
Action"
The most refreshing departure
from normal in the picture is its
reintroduction of MscMurray in his
pre-Hollywood role of singing -saxo-
phonlst band leader. Not much
stress is laid upon these recently
submerged talents. They are
dragged out to show that he prob
ably could go back to his old job
with bit of brushing up, more on
the sax than vocally. He sings
without self-consciousness and with
enough voice to work the average
bandstand.
"And the Angels Sing" Is more of
comedy with music than a mu-
sical comedy and Is inclined to stake
its all on the assumptions that Miss
Hutton is convulsive hoyden and
that Brooklyn people have an accent
that will kill you. Up to point, the
first one is not too difficult to grant.
Miss Hutton is pretty and ap-
proaches her obligations to make
the public laugh with the same
spirit of recklessness that made Red
Shelton a national figure. When
she starts turning on what Is
roughly known as amour, the
chances are that any male actor in
the vicinity will be drawing work.
mans compensation tomorrow af-
ternoon. She is that willing to
abandon herself for her art and it
does give a motion picture action
one of its supposedly fundamental
ingredients. =
AS to the Brooklyn accent, there
can't be more than four or five
laughs left in the universe at the
sound of 'yez", "Moider", "erl', and
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Bara's Best Picture
In Workshop Group

"A Fool There Was" with Theda
Bara will be the first feature on
the Washington Workshops August
series of film revivals tomorrow eve
ming at $3.50 o'clock at the air-condi-
toned South Agriculture Audi
torium. Succeeding Sundays offer
the following film fare: August 13.
The Eternal Mask" August 90
Chess Fever" and Mother" from
Gorki's famous novel, August 81,
"The Thin Man.
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attraction +
and Time Of Showing
Stage.
National-"Kiss and Tell; 6:3(

Stage.
National-"Kiss and Tell; $50
y@tI Screen. 90
Capitol-"Canterviile Ghost: 10
am, 12:40, 800, 6, $40 and Ills
pm. Stage shows: HAS am, 2:25,
sos, 7:45 and 1925 pm.
Columbia bia-"Somewhere I'll Find
YOU; 10:45 am, 12:45, 3, $40, 7:2O
and 9:35 pm.
Earle-"And the Angels Sing;
l0:l5 am, 12.40, 3:05, $50, 8, 1925
pm. and 1855 am. Stage shows:
11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, tbs and $40
pm, and 1910 am.
Little-"Scarface";; II am, 1910,
2:30, 4:2o. sos, 7::55, and GAS pm.
Keith'-"Step Lively; HAS am,
las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and Gas pm.
Palace-"Going My Way; 11:25
am., 1:55. 4:25, z and 9:35 pm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I'm
known; 11:35 am, lao, $40, $40,
7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Pix-"Girls Under 21";; l, 1925,
$50, 800, 10:45 pm. and 1:10 am.
Trans-Lux News and shorts,
continuous from 10 am.
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mad q EN- ana has blocked all
their ellances 70 get ahead"
There were tail mothers on that
set and short oneA skinny ones and
ut ones, Americans and foreigners,
pretty ones and homely ones, we'll
dressed and poorly dressed. But
they all had one thing IN common.
Zach was the mother Of Q star--il
only somebody wasn't mad ct them.
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Columbia and 2Oth Century Fox
have completed . deal to take ad-
vantage Of the expected popularity
of pair Of new biographical stars.
Fox borrowed Alexander Knox for
the star role In wilson with the
understanding they could have him
for one picture each year. In the
same deal, Cornell wilde went to Co
lumbia for the role Of Chopin In "A
Song to Remember" and under the
same one-a-year borrowing arrange
ment.
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Joan Blondell says she's having 4
vacation. 80 far. on "A Tree Grows
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'AND ANGELS SING. Paramount
was bsstS Hutton ou
By E. D. Leshin. directed BY 0eoree Mar
shall, screen play BY Melvin Frank, and
James Van Heusen and musical direction
BY Victor Young. At the Earle.
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By HARoED HE1ERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.
Zen behind the scenes:

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Men behind the scenes:
You've seen the name Arthur
Freed on the covers Of hit songs,
over the production credits for
Broadway plays and bllywood mu-
sical movies. He's one Of the really
big guns behind the ramparts ol
M-G-M studio. M
Freed has the worried look that
al song writer's wear. But he also
looks like q distraught smali-town
businessman who is having troubles
with the OPA. Once q tin-pan elley
song plugger, Freed also was q
stooge in the Marx Brothers, act. e
top sergeant In World War / and
q successful song writer t"I Cried
for You, Pagan Love Song, ? "Wed-
ding OF the Painted Doll" etc. He
is q businessman-but q big busi-
neSSman.
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In his capacity as producer. he is
right now conducting noble expe-
riment In picture making that Will
probably put his company back sew
eral million dollars before the first
nickel comes In. The experiment is
"Ziegfeld Follies, the first big musi-
cal hit without story, without q
backstage plot, an orchestra pit, an
arplauding audience or any OF the
other stage tricks that have been
adapted by the screen In order 70
excuse the photographing OF stage
play.
In the "Follies" there Is No story at
all. It's just photographed revue,
the way ziegfeld would have staged
1t. but with much more talent and
glamour than could be put on one
stage. Freed began his experiments
when he first started as producer.
His broadway Melody of 1929" one
OF the first singing-talkies, was a
staged revue but with a story. It
cost about 1880 600 and made mil
lions. One Of the numbers in Pol
lies, 1t is claimed, costs more than
that figure.
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in Brooklyn" si,eb Norkod . weeaE,
|reste4 . week, worked 3 week and
then had another week Oh. On this
thought, Joan Offers the quote Of
the week.
I'm my first 81 months In Holly.
wood ! made n pictiires." she said.
With things rs they are now, I
not only have some time With my,
children, but / also have had time
to get 4 divorce"
(ReleaseA by North American Newspaper
Alliance, Incl
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Joan Blondell says she's having 4
vacation. 30 far, on "A Tree Grows
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jority Of movie-goers are not aware
of its emotional tie-up. However,
here Is one feature 1t would seem
difiicult TO sit through without be-
coming alert to Ernst Toch's beau-
tifully balanced score, especially in
those scenes where Mr.. Lukas Is
alone on the screen without the aid
of dialogue The music literally
speaks the emotions written on his
agoniZed and terror stricken coun-
tenance. 1t is certainly one of the
finest movie scores to date and an
indispensable asset to the picture.
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AlGUSEllHNTs.
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.lI r. A Treat fer the Entire Rausly.
1900 Shows ILL.
AAN FROM TUMBLE WEED. I"
"SLIGHTLY TERRIFIC"
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B8 THE EVENING STAR. washington D. q
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And the Angels Sing Proves
Strenuous Fable at Earle
BY JAY CARMoDY.

9th ~; variety reporter they can together
made Claude Bnyon familiar with
business
couple Of hands into plots that are
Evening star., 1944-11-04
Four States Hold Kew
BY George Van Sirke,

The national election comes to a close
with the candidates and campaign man.
ayers focusing attention and claims to
victory on New York and Pennsylvania
in the Atlantic seaboard States and on
Ohio and Illinois in the Midwest group
The only point on which all appear
agreed is that those four States with
total OF 135 electoral votes are the KEY
to the result.
And in this unusual and unpredictable
campaign with its unknown cross cur
rents which have smashed party lines.
those four States are classed on both
sides In their private estimates as close.
doubtful or are claimed by amazingly
slim pluralities in proportion to the
size of the ballots to be cast.
The national and State chairmen as
usual will issue their final statements
over the week end. all claiming substan-
tial victories in all foCI of those as in
all other debatable States. but their
confidential figures from the district
leaders and the hustings do not sustain
any optimistic claims
There are two tremendous voting
blocks In the election which the keenest
politicians have been unable to probe
and either one or combination of
which may easily turn the result. These
are the soldier vote and the vote of the
women.
Democrats count heavily on getting
preponderance of the soldier vote, their
estimates running all the way from two
to six to one. But they don't know.
Soldier ballots are stacked up in the
four States named and in any or all a
decided majority would give a State to
Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr.. Dewey. That is
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equally true in other States with smaller
electoral votes.
This Is the first war election in which
women have voted. They did not have
the ballot in the 1915 war election won
by Woodrow Wilson. Women ortnumber
men in registration for the first time in
this country. How will the women vote
on. the war? If the politicians had the
answer to that question they would not
have to be guessing today. Traditionally,
women are more violently opposed to
war than are men and the unknown
equation here is whether they will carry
that prediction to the booths this year
or be swayed by other influences.
Three Nationwide polls give Mr..
Roosevelt lead in 20 States, Including
the Solid South, with a combined cleo
1oral vote OF 1873. Gov. Dewey leads in
13 States with l43 electoral votes. Three
OF the national polls do not agree on
who leads in IS remaining States, in
cluding many of the smaller States. and
admit they cannot forecast which candi-
date will get the 266 ma jority of the
electoral college.
In such a tight election obviously the
fnal count may turn on the result in
two or three of the big four-New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio end Illinois. The
Democrats stake their hopes on their
conviction that an even break in those
four will let Mr.. Roosevelt squeeze
through with slim margin and three
OF the four would give him an easy win.
1t Is their conviction that Mr.. Dewey
has to win three of the States to get
an even break with the Democrats and
throw the deciding ballot into the Is
smaller States
Evening star., 1944-11-04
The MESA Strike

The strikes which have been called
by the Mechanics Educational
Society of America in Toledo and
Detroit, as we'll as the proposal to
strike Monday in Cleveland, con-
stitute a threat to the prosecution
Of the war which cannot and pre-
sumably will not be tolerated.
The membership of this inde-
pendent union is composed of key
tool and die workers and other
skilled craftsmen. For this reason.
the strikes which have been called
are capable of working an injury
to the Nations war effort far out of
proportion to the number of men
involved. This accounts for the
strong language used by Under
secretary OF War Patterson in de-
nouncing the walkouts and calling
for a resumption OF work.
Without in any way condoning the
action taken by the union, however,
1t is worth noting that this strike
is a direct outgrowth of one of the
War Labor Boards most widely
criticized policies. The MESA con-
troversy began when six employees
OF the Toledo plant OF the Electric
Auto-Lite Company were discharged
at the behest Of C1O union under
the terms of maintenance of mem
bership clause which had been
ordered by WLB. MESA officials say
that the discharged men were MESA
members who happened to be work.
ing in department covered by a
CIO contract. According to these
officials, the men had joined the
CIO as required by the contract, but
that the CIO demanded that they be
discharged because they also re-
tanned membership in MESA.
If this is true. 1t raises a question
which cannot be lightly brushed
aside. A basic purpose of main
tenance of membership is to facili-
tate the collection of union dues.
Ordinarily, the question whether a
member has or has not paid his
dues is controlling in the matter Of
his right to work under the main
tenance clause. In this instance the
news reports fail to make it clear
whether the discharged workers had
or had not paid their dues to the
CIO. II they had refused to pay the
dues, as required by the WLB, that
is one thing. But II they had met
their obligations In this respect, and
were discharged on the ground that
their dual membership placed them
in bad standing in the CIO, an en-
tirely different aspect is presented.
And this Is the more true because
OF the open hostility Of the CIO
Evening star., 1944-11-04
Discusses Plan for Prosperity

Discusses Plan for Prosperity
10 the Editor of The Star
President Roosevelt won his third
term on the promise again and again"
that our soldiers would not fight in for
eign wars He must think that the elec-
torate is pretty stupid to think that he
now can win fourth term on the
promise to bring the boys back from
overseas as promptly as possible after
the war.
incidentally, Gov. Dewey is wrong in
stating that the New Deal has no plan
for making jobs after the war. In his
Chicago speech Mr.. Roosevelt stated
that, with the consent of Congress, it
would be possible to triple our foreign
commerce and provide jobs for 60, 0,OOO, 900
people. This can be only a reference
to the fantastic scheme of the New
Deal exposed in the Readers Digest and
recently confirmed in the Iron Age,
whereby We would extend huge long
time credits or lease-lend to our Allies
as we'll as to all the backward nations
of the world in order to reconstruct
and industrialize them and raise their
standard of living. Our 60 000,OOO work.
ers would support the world under this
scheme. This Is swell idea and it
should work-at least as long as our
natural resources and raw materials last.
But who is going to play Santa Clause
after that? HENRY c. PARKER.
Evening star., 1944-11-04
The Rood March

The beat of the rain is in these muscles,
The fame of the sun is in this face
,odlk on, mile upon mile. rigorous In
foot and hand,
The tight press OF the pack on my
shoulders,
The Tightening cords OF the belt at my
iDdist.
About me the mountains OF the land
raise up.
Truly great poiDer lies In them, q
stirring nplitt,
The life in the trees shading me, the
broad and n,oping trees,
The CLINT OF the soft green grass, ths
dust
And the tiny pebbles under my feet.
Truly song
OF potDcr Is in this clean increment. ths
shifting a,oay of the hills,
The naoUing OF mountains and the clouds
OF the sky.
The unrolling OF long horizons con.
nected NTH neD horizons.
And that song is beaten out BY these
marching feet,
Feet like drnmstfcks tapping the board
OF the ground.
DANIEL eMYTHE.
Evening star., 1944-11-04
The Po

Once again the Po is the scene of
the making of history. 1t is natural
that it should be important. Rising
In Monte Viso and flowing four
hundred and twenty miles to the
Adriatic, it is the largest river in
all Italy. The system of waterways
to which it belongs irrigates both
Piedmont and Lombardy. In the
geography of the Apennine Penin-
sula the position assigned to it is
that OF a dominating factor. The
area Of its basin is estimated at
twenty-six thousand square miles.
Long before written records were
kept a numerous population lived
in pile villages along the swampy
shores of the main stream and it's
more notable tributaries. Then, as
now, fish abounded in what the
ancients regarded as a series of
bottomless channels.
But the rich plains through which
the Pc moves give it the economic
significance for which it is most
commonly celebrated The Romans
appreciated its value to their agrar-
ian prosperity and developed a net
work Of engineering works for its
control in periods Of flood and
drought. Among the cities which
grew up in relation to that long
continued enterprise are Turin,
Pavia. Milan, Mantua, Parma,
Modena and Piacanza.
Excellent roads even in remote
antiquity bordered the Pc and made
easy the movements of invaders of
its terrain. The Huns, the East
Goths, the West Goths, the Lombards
and the Franks swept over the
plains again and again, looting and
pillaging as they came and went.
Yet the soil of the valleys yielded
wealth inexhaustible to successive
generations of farmers. The diffi-
Guilty in the Middle Ages was that
the cities fought each other for
possession OF the fields. A long
sequence Of little" wars wasted the
substance Of the nobility to the
vanishing point. Bat the art which
the mobiles favored remains to prove
their generosity. Beautiful churches,
palaces. universities, monasteries,
Evening star., 1944-11-04
Star Writers Cited

To the Editor of The Star:
In The Star of January 20, 1886, there
appeared an article by Frederic William
Vile, in which he said: President
Roosevelt Is deeply interested in the
project now before Congress to build
up the Naval Reserve to 10000 men, or
about five times its present dimensions.
What the Commander in Chief and the
Navy Department have in view is not
the needs of the immediate moment, but
the requirements of the feet six years
hence, when the United States treaty
Navy will be completed The expansion
plan Is notice to all the world that
Uncle Sam intends to maintain his
allotted naval quota at full strength,
in manpower as well as ships Although
the program has been launched at the
very hour the collapse of the London
Naval Conference opens the way to re-
neWed building competition, it was not
timed to coincide with that develop
ment. Japan and all others concerned
are nevertheless made aware at a psy-
Geological moment of Americas deter
mination to keep abreast of conse-
quences that flow from the breakdown
OF further limitation efforts"
In The Sunday Star. February 20,
1888, there appeared an article by Owen
L. Scott, in which he said: War talk
and war preparation talk Is almost a
semiweekly occurrence at the White
House. The deeper the depression be-
comes, the more the stress is placed
upon armament and upon alarms warm
ing of threats to the United States,
first in the Pacific and then in the AZ
lantic. The constant theme is that
dictators are lurking around every cor
ner. Europeans. with enemies next door
all armed and ready to pounce, discover
that they are calm and collected in
comparison with the ruler of a nation
5000 miles away from any possible
danger on one side and 1000 miles
away on another side
These two quotations, I believe
answer the question raised by Gov.
Dewey, CongreSswoman Luce and some
others as to whether or not the Presi-
dent foresaw Americas danger and
tried to prepare the country to meet 1t.
/. N. ELSA.
Evening star., 1944-11-04
America and Liberiu

Though accorded only the small
est headlines when it was disclosed
early this week, the agreement be-
tween Liberia and the United States,
granting us the right to build and
operate naval, military and air in
stallations there, is a development
of more than passing interest and
significance.
Negotiated almost year ago, the
understanding apparently lays the
groundwork for long-term American
defensive arrangements on the
vitality important west coast of
Africa for the first time in history,
the specific purpose of the installa-
tions being to protect "the strategic
interests of the United States in the
South Atlantic"
From the standpoint of sea power
and air power, especially the latter,
Liberals geographical location is
unquestionably significant. Mon
rovia, its capital-where port for
ocean-going vessels will probably be
developed-is nearer to Natal on the
Brazilian bulge than is Dakar in
French West Africa. To appreciate
the potential meaning of the agree
ment, therefore. we need only recall
how prominently Dakar figured in
our war calculations just few years
ago.
In return for the rights granted
by the understanding, the United
States is pledged to respect, in the
future as in the past, the territorial
integrity, sovereignty and independ-
ence Of Liberia" In addition, our
Foreign Economic Administration is
sending a special mission to work
out program designed to help the
country mot quite the size of New
York State) increase it's rubber pro-
duction, build roads, develop its
latent resources. and promote its
well-being In general
Apart from it's meaningful mill
tary implications, the agreement
thus raises the prospect of economic
betterment for the Liberians, a fact
which is particularly satisfying in
view of the responsibility the United
States bears for Liberals very birth.
The country "a Negro republic
whose political system is more or
less copy of ours-had its begin
ming back in 1921 when a group of
antislavery Americans established
refuge there for free slaves. Self
proclaimed as an independent ma
tion in 1847 and formally recognized
as such by Washington in 1852, it
has been from the start a kind of
protege of America. Most of it's
population, which is under 1000, ,000
is rather primitive, but perhaps as
many as 10000 are directly de-
escended from the original Ameri-
can Negro settlers.
With the agreement now in force,
our official relations with Liberia
have become closer than ever.