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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Pointe Sale
OF Books

CROSSE POINTE branch of
~ of the American Association
of University Women, a newly
organized group, will hold a
Christmas book sale Friday and
Saturday in the Orchard mar
ket. Kercheval at St. Clair. Pro-
ceeds will be used to finance a
fellowship for post graduate
study by university women doing
higher research in educational
fields.
Mrs. Kenneth Beardsley and
Mrs. Joseph Todd are co-chair-
men. Mrs. John Pear is making
posters. and Miss Florence Sew
ers, librarian of the Crosse
Pointe Public Library, will clas-
sify and price the books donated
for the sale.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03

NoRTHw E s T f r \
WOMENS CLUB will meet at
On. m. Monday in the Calvary
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Chinese Morale Aide
To Speak in Detroit

LIU LIAM GIN o. former
Chinese army morale officer,
will be guest speaker on the
Christmas program by the In
and About Detroit Music Edu-
Gators Club following 12:15
p. m. luncheon Saturday in the
Statler. Gen. Chang kal-shek
ordered him TO teach singing
TO the Chinese soldiers as a
morale builder.
The A Cappella Choir OF the
Royal Oak High School will
present a program of Christmas
carols. and music will be pro-
vided by the Cass Concert
Ensemble.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Moving to Illinois

The Max L. Hilmer family of
Westmoreland road is moving
this week 10 LAGRANGE. Ill. The
w. II. Nash family of Grand
vile road will move into the
Hillmer home.
Pfc. John Kinley, son of the
Harry A. Kinleys of Rosemont
road came from Camp Maxey,
Tex. for the weekend and
brought as his guest, Pvt. Don
Mcclure, also of Camp Maxey.
They were joined by Pfc. Kin
ley's fiancee. Katherine Carl
son of Toledo.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03

road and the Edward w. Po-
raths of Breton drive.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Hassett
of Westmoreland road have
with them their son. Cpl. J. S.
Hassett, home on furlough from
Marshall Field, Fort Riley.
Kan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hassett re-
ceived word from another son.
Pvt. Robert d. Hassett, that he
has arrived safely in England.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hassett and
daughter. Peggy, on Jan. l will
will go to Albany, n. Y, to
make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Moons
of Avon road had as their house
guest, Miss Marie Fallon of
Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clair D. Reason
of Glastonbury road are COM
bining business with pleasure
this week while in New York.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Service De Luxe
Provided by USO
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they are accompanied by a
member of the rotor corps.
The motor corps now has a
recruiting drive.
I'VE have between 500 and
600 active members but we
could use as many more as we
could get" said Capt. Brown.
Gray Ladies are an innova-
ton at Romulus. They run the
games in the service club, sew
on chevrons and visit patients
in the hospital there.
Mrs. Ula Rosevear. chairman
of the Eloise Hospital group, is
in charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Son Is on Eurlouqh

Cpl. Jerry Kulling has re-
turned to Boca Ration, Fla, fol-
lowing furlough with his par
ents. the II. c. Rulings of
Warwick road.
Two Rosedale families plan
ming to go to Florida immedi-
ately following the holidays are
the Karl Prestons of Edinboro
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Hear Talk on Books

TWENTIETH CENTU r Y
CLUB will meet at 2:l5 p. m.
Thursday TO hear Mrs. c. West
lake Jones speak on important
New Books for Christmas Civ
ing"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03
Jean e5vAy lied
% Richard Rollins

i impressive wedding. Saturday at 4:30 p when Jean
Maryn Lepey daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lepey of
Woodnont road Rosedale Park married to Pfc Rich
ard II Rollins son of Mrs. Donald Carleton of Gchrist
avenue also in the park
The Rev. Roger Eddy Treat oficiated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03

FULTON CIRCLE of the
Kings Daughters will meet al
f:30 a. m. Friday in the
Women's City Club. Mesdames
T. K. Taylor and w. Z. Sexton
VIII be co-hostesses. ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-03

Northwsstern Womens Club Lecture Monday

Presbyterian Church house TO
hear q lecture by Charles Nor
gan. artist and architect.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Usually You Will Find Her Caught in the Rain
By Villa Martin.

Whitty was q popular little ingenue
when they met. He still chides her
for keeping him waiting seven
years before she'd marry him.
In talking with the beloved
couple, one gets the impression that
their life together-their interest
In the English children they have
had brought to this country, their
friends, the career of their daugh-
ter-all come before movie work.
Wherever they go, they establish
in their hotel rooms an air of hos
pitality with the inevitable teapot
and cake and crumpets. They like
to take quiet rooms overlooking a
park. With typical English love of
atmosphere and places, they can
gaze for hours at park whether
it is covered in pale gray mist or
splashed with sunshine.
Mingled Impression.
New York, says Dame May, has
everything but fireplaces. Not near
enough fireplaces. She loves Amer
lea, too-thinks its dentistry and
architecture and fresh fruit are
wonderful. But she doesn't under
stand women's clubs and is appalled,
by the "funnies." She has notion
that the "funnies" distract our
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Wide World Photo.

youth from reading good fiction.
She loves acting in movies, but
is afraid of radio. She did consent
to go on Gertrude Lawrence's pro-
gram and play again the part of
the murdered old woman in Night
Must Fall" 1t was easier, she said,
to be murdered in the movies than
on the radio where it had to be
done with mysteries, and gurgles.
Earning an Award.
About that dame" the title is
a reward-for work in the last war
when she and her fellow-volunteers
built homes for disabled soldiers
and sailors, opened work rooms for
making bandages.
Her eIfergy and ability for or
ganization were SO appreciated that
in 1917 the King pinned a gold
and enamel decoration on her-a
large star and cross. Her title is
the feminine counterpart of knights
of the Grand Cross, and she was
the first commoner and first actress
to win it. She thinks the decora-
ton handsome, but she rarely
wears it, not even on formal
| occasions.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Hollywood Is Gradually Losing Landmark
Wide World Photo.

Club, limited to peers. Laird also
has such an honorary membership.
1t was a far cry from this to the
back seat of sedan, offered by a
poor but sympathetic friend, as a
lodging place.
Cregar first began getting atten-
tion when he played in Lee Shippey's
"The Great American Family" at
Pasadena, during the sedan n-sleeping
stage of his career. Realizing some
thing violent had to be done if he
was to keep eating, he promoted a
production of the play, oscar
Wilde" and clicked with it.
Barrymore Noticed.
John Barrymore sent a fan letter
which told Cregar he was the most
gifted young actor Barrymore had
seen in 20 years. The play got him
a contract with Twentieth Century
Fox, and out of the sedan into a
bed of his own.
Cregar ascribes his tenacity in
trying for a career to the friendship
and counsel of older people. A IL
year-old actress was his friend and
mainstay during the Pasadena epi-
sode. He doesn't regard acting only
as a quick way to get rich, but as
an almost sacred craft, to be studied
diligently.
Moss Hart's Winged Victory" so
stirred him that in defiance of doc
tors orders, he took six immunizing
shots for various things, signed up
to take troupe to the South Seas
to entertain servicemen. 1t was a
great disappointment when the
troupe was broken up by studio
needs, and he was obliged to wait
for another overseas assignment.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Byyames Lindsey.

world before he went into newspaper
work. He was graduated from the
University of Kansas-it must have
been around 1926 or 1927-and didn't
feel like settling down right away.
So he and friend set out on a
Nation-w wide sightseeing tour, dur
ing which they relied extensively on
boxcars for transportation and
struck up a wide acquaintance
among the better class Of freight
brakemen.
Later he spent a year or so as d
merchant seaman and visited most
of the worlds principal ports, some
times getting back to ship before it
sailed.
He conceived a liking for news
paper work while still attending COL
lege, so eventually decided to settle
down and find himself newspaper
job. His newspaper background is
sound and varied; he has served
variously as sports writer, police re-
porter, feature writer, copyreader
and columnist, as well as movie
critic.
Jim has precise, orderly mind
for anything he considers important
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Movies Wage Better War
By Jay Carmody.

When Maxwell Andersons Storm
Operation" succumbed last night
after % performances in New York,
the war was virtually swept out of
the theater. The war, that is, as
la serious subject. Except for
Winged Victory" the men in uni
form on Broadway's stages are deal
ing in one form or another with the
comic side; hilariously in the case
of THE Voice of the Turtle" blithely
as in "Over Twenty-One." and sim
ple-mindedly in Jackpot" to men,
ton few illustrations.
AS a serious subject, the war is
likely to remain out of the theater
until peace removes the overpewer-
ling actuality as competitor for
the initiative effort of the dranatist.
If Mr.. Anderson cannot write it
adequately, it would be well for
lesser playwrights not to try.
The general deduction from the
failure of Storm Operation" is that
the war Is too big a theme for the
limited dimensions Of the tira-
Imatist's art. That itaiwas beyond
even the scope and disciplined
craftsmanship of Mr.. Anderson was
indicated in the major complaint
against his play, namely, that it
was disordered, tumbled haze of
vaguely related ideas with enough
plot for three plays.
General Assistance.
In the light of his failure. the
accomplishment of Moss Hart in
writing Winged Victory" becomes
an even greater triumph. The
origins of the two plays were not
dissimilar Mr.. Anderson wrote his
at the suggestion of Gen. Dwight
| Eisenhower, Mr.. Hart at the re-
quest of Gen. Henry H. Arnold. Both
Evening star., 1944-01-30

and quite the opposite for matters
he regards as trivial. For example,
when he married two or three years
ago he bought new house and,
moving In, he didn't readily find a
place for big box of books, so he
put it down in corner OF the living
room.
The last time I called several
weeks ago it was still there.
Then there was the Christmas
during his bachelor days when Jim
went culinary in big way. He de-
cided to prepare his own holiday
feast and spent hours poring over
cookbooks and more hours buying
the provender, which included a
magnificent turkey.
Early Christmas morning Jim
popped the bird into the oven. A
few hours later, however, some
friends invited him to dinner. Jim,
figuring he'd eat the turkey next
day, accepted.
The turkey, still in the oven, was
discovered by his landlady early the
next spring after Jim had COM
planned about musty odor In the
apartment.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Robinson and Cohorts
Face the Real Thing
In New War Film
b the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

r.r. HOLLYWOOD.
Warwise criticism of scenes in
Sahara" generally considered in
Hollywood to be a criticism-proof
piece of war portrayal, have made
Hollywood doubly CONSCIOUS of the
necessity for realism in such scenes.
So, for the first time in a major
film, which means not a documen-
tary nor training film, an actual
Army infiltration course was usesd
in scene for ''Mr. Wrinkle Goes to
War. ------
Eddie Robinson, along with mem
bers of the cast and Screen Actors
Guild veterans of this war, so in all,
went through the 100-yard course
at Camp Santa Anita. It was strewn
with land mines and BOBBY traps,
loaded with powder instead of dyna-
mite, but the barbed wire had no
rubber teeth, and the shell pits made
travel on the horizontal plane rug
ged. Blank fire from emplaced ma
chine guns swept overhead, missing
the men by a few inches. Four
cameramen, strategically placed,
made retakeS unnecessary.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Costly, indispensable Minutiae
By Harold Hefernan.

bedroom suites were purchased by
Warner Bros. from the Mark Hop
kins estate in San Francisco, and at
a fancy figure. They will be
glimpsed only f1eetingly and Ger
tainly few will take time out from
the plot to get excited about them
Animals and birds can cause
more grief and expense than any
other property item. On French
mans Greek" it was the seagulls
which caused all the furore Be-
cause the pirate ship of the story
is named La Mouette" meaning
The Seagull," and. gulls contin-
ually wheel and glide around it,
Director Mitch Leisen wanted to
obtain spectacular shots of the birds
in flight around the ship. Permis-
sion was obtained from the Cali
fornia Fish and Game Commission
to catch some of the birds and use
them in scenes. On one occasion
500 pounds Of fish were bought and
scattered behind fishing boat, in
the hope of Turing the gulls away
from a cannery and down to the
spot where the pirate ship was
moored.
Too Content Gulls.
The net result of this trick was
enough to make a director see pur-
pie the rest of his life. When the
gulls were liberated before the cam
era, they were so full of fish that
they tapped idly to the deck or
plopped into the water. Finally
background shots Of the gulls had
to be filmed separately and the
effect processed.
The gaslight in MGM's "Gaslight"
provided the major headache in that
film, as that type of illumination
had to be used in all the sets and
a complete gas system hooked up to
elaborate chandeliers of the 1880
period. The whole story hinges on
the fact that at certain hour the
lights dim. When 1t was discovered
that California's natural gas wasn't
photogenic, special chemical FORM
ula had to be prepared. One man
did nothing but mix the gas, which
was given more Photographic tests
than the stars, Ingrid Bergman and
Charles Boyer.
Once in a while a sequence pops
up that can't be re-shot. During the
big feast scene in Dragon Seed" in
which Katharine Hepburn poisons
the Jap soldier, Actor Sheldon Leon
ard came down with the flu. While
most of the food on display was
actually made Of plaster, enough of
1t had to be real to make the scene
authentic. So when Director Jack
Conway was in favor of sending
Leonard home and re-shooting the
sequence later, Prop Man Johnny
Miller protested. We've got to fin
ish it" he urged. II haven't enough
ration points to do it over" Leon
ard swallowed a few extra aspirins
and staggered through the remain
ing footage.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Today's Theater Schedules

: Stage.
NATIONAL-"The Student Prince: $3.50 pm
Screen
CAPITOL-Ridng High" 1885, 4:so. 7:l5 and s55 pm Stage
shows: 120 H. $40 and pm
CoLUMBIA-"The Gangs All Here: l. 3o Sis. 7:so and
GAS -
EAsLE-"The Fighting 215 s. 7:45 and lo4o pm
Stage shows: 1:25, Ais, and s:55 pm.
KEITHS-"H Buffers Sister: 3:1o 5:2o Gas pm
LTILE-"Jeannie" /, 2:40, 420 7:5o and $50 pm
METROPOLITAN-Tarzan's Desert Mystery: 1885, $685. $780,
750 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"Madame Cure": 1885, AIS s:55 and s:3s pm
PIX-"Dark Command: 1:10, 4:05, $50 and $40 pm
TRANsLUX-News and shorts: Continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Dame May Whitty often Is intro
duced as the first actress to be
called before the King and made a
dame" Sometimes she's the actress
mother Of Actress-Director Mar
garet Webster. Occasionally she's
known as Lady Belden from MRS.
Miniver."
But Dame May, 78 and as English
as Yorkshire pudding, thinks her
real fame will come as THAT sweet
old lady who's always in the rain"
She waded in mud up to her
knees in "The Constant Nymph. :"
In 'Lassie Come Home" she pulled
Lassie out of storm and nursed
her back to health. She endures
precipitation In "Gaslight" - re-
Gently filmed. She had a reprieve
in Madame Curie"-but she Is not
at all sure that it will be permanent.
She told me this a few days
ago at the Algonquin, where she
and her husband, Ben Webster, are
living.
Ben Was Patient.
The Websters celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary in
1912. Ben was a distinguished actor
on the London stage and May
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Poor Mr.. Merivale Had to Stav
By J. NJ. Kendrick

trying to keep up with the new gen.
Grafton.
The ugly duckling, of course, final
ly gets her man. And, she does it in
about the funniest and most obvious
way. Beyond that, I don't think it is
just to you or to the play to reveal
the story.
Sunnie O'Dea is the pretty duck
ling; Mary Rolfe the not-so-beauti-
full one. The expression is used ad-
visedly, for the very simple reason
Miss Rolfe appeared very attractive
to me. mot to mention the guy-in the
play who finally found out she had
become his wife, 60 -
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Coming Attractions

NAT1oNAL-fe with Father starting two weeks from tomorrow
~ night. ....31 . jn.a...4ia-sr r,- =
~0ff'- ScFech'
CAPITOI-The Lodge George Sanders:
Starting Thursday.
COLUBIA-"Cry sohern and Joan Blondel;
returning Thursday.
Miracle of Morgans Creek" with Betty
Eddie Bracken
KEITHs"Egher and Higher" Morgan and Frank
Sinatra.
LITTIE-"Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Massey
Gordon.
METROPOLITAN-"W Rosalind Russell and
Brian Ahern; returning Friday
PALACE-"Sandng Room Only with
MacMurray; starting Thursday
PXEape from Yesterday" Cabin and Annabea:
revival starting Friday.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
By Rosalind Shafer.

tumbling into his lap: The devil in
Heaven Can Watt" the urbane and
crooked art dealer in Holy Matri-
mony," and the title role of THE
Lodger."
PrOtege of a Club.
Originally the protege of the Phil
adelphia Rotary Club, which had
faith in his ambitions to become a
playwright, Cregar came here three
years ago to enroll in a playwriting
course for which he had seen a
beautiful brochure. He found the
school had no such course, settled
for training as an actor at the Pasa-
dena Playhouse.
Cregar's family once was wealthy
and, he says, still is socially prom
inent in the East and in England
His father was honorary member
of the exclusive Marylebone Cricket
Evening star., 1944-01-30
HOLLYWOOD.

44odb w VoS1,
When Laird Cregar heard two
women at a party planning to meet,
If they got separated, beside Laird
Cregar, he decided things had gone
far enough. Determined to be more
than a Hollywood landmark, he
took to bed, called a doctor and
whitfield himself from 315 to $50
pounds and is still losing.
Dieting could hardly be a bigger
calamaty to any one than to Cregar,
bon vivant, cook, a demon with
crepe suzettes and other delicacies.
The weight and height is a family
matter; he has five brothers, rang
ing from six feet to six feet seven.
Cregar's loss has proved Holly
woods gain, for roles that he could
not have played before have come
Evening star., 1944-01-30
HOLLYWOOD.

41ohh VSOO.
Greenbacks are still tossed around
movie sets with an apparently lavish
hand, but the facts are that Holly
wood is actually forced to be little
extravagant at times. Otherwise it
wouldn't be able to set forth the
effects it wants-those effects which
give the screen so much wider scope
than the4staee. - r.,
Producers continue to moan over
the fact that scenes costing the
most to film are frequently the ones
that appear most briefly on the
screen. And yet they can't be
skimped. The fans hardly notice
them but let the producer start
to cheaper up and listen to the
customers holler!
There's q dream sequence in
Lady in the Dark" for instance.
Cloud effects, Of course, are neces-
sary for movie dreams. But this
film is in color, so a lot of extra re-
search and invention were necessary
before a connection suitable to float
the leading characters was decided
upon. To produce these clouds, a
property shop worker named Cline
Jones invented a device known as a
cloud COOKER" in which dry ice was
immersed in hot water, a Jet of
steam was shot through at the same
time and the resultant carbon diox-
ide vapor rolled out like a carpet
to cover the floor of the stage to
any desired depth. A second device
known as the Britt" gun, sprayed
other clouds into the atmosphere
SO that they hung almost like a
floating balloon above the players
heads.
No Eyes for Mist.
Ginger Rogers does an interpre-
tative ballet in and about these
vapors and it's a cinch the eyes of
the fans will be on the star and not
on the high-class pink and gold
clouds. But they're mighty costly
background. They require IA tons
of dry ice each day and IS prop shop
workers manning the cookers and
guns over period of six weeks.
The amount of research for any
picture never shows itself on the
screen, nor is there any suggestion
to the paying fan of the costly
changes in plans so often necessi-
tated by circumstances. Last year
Cecil B. DeMille sent a camera unit
to Tapachula on the Guatemala
border, to film a volcano which was
to double for Javanese volcanoes in
"The Story Of DR.. Wassell." While
the troupe was in Mexico City en-
route, word came that a new vol
cano, Paracutin, was starting to
erupt in Michoacan State. Orders
were switched and the unit left for
Paracutin, where color cameras
were set up on a moving lava bed.
When the film is released the VOL
cano will be seen only in the back
ground, a mere flash. But the
troupe spent three months getting
that footage.
$4,000 Drenching.
The storm scene for Alfred Hitch
cocks 'Lifeboat" may run for 10
minutes. In order to build the in
tricate machinery which subjected
such actors as Tallulah Bankhead,
William Bendix and others to near
drowning In the enclosed outdoor
tank, Goth Century-Fox had to
spend $4,000 and build its con-
trivances out Of secondhand ma
terials.
For hotel scene in Saratoga
Trunk" with Gary Cooper and In
grid Bergman, two mother pearl
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Film Experts Outguess
The Book Experts
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Hollywood, rejecting readers
tastes in the purchase of books for
screening, owns or has already
filmed the bulk of the best sellers
of the past year.
The large market of escapist fic-
tien which publishers had been
prophesying for the wartime mar
ket has failed to materialize. Film
makers in their early purchases out
guessed the booksellers.