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Evening star., 1944-02-21

champion, To-Day
will present a
Red Gross pin to
President Roose-
velt. who as ma
tional head of
the Red Cross
will make the
first contribution
to its 1914 war
fund.
She has come
to washington
from Whining
ton, Del, where
she held a re-
union yesterday
with Mrs ,JOhn
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Furniture Renovotino
Glass Opens Thursday

A course IN reuphostering and
renovating furniture will start at
10 am. Thursday at the headquar-
ters for the Camp and Hospital
Service Council for Montgomery
County, 1908 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring. The classes will be held
each Thursday. George Shiffer,
Silver Spring furniture store owner,
will be the instructor. The purpose
OF the class is to show members
how to repair old pieces of furni-
ture for nearby camps and hospitals.
Musical instruments, current sheet
music, games and small gifts also
are needed for the camps, 1t was
said.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
loudoun Bond Issue Sold
AT ID Per Cent Over Par
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, Feb. 2l-The
Loudoun County Board of Super
visors has approved the bid of Alex
ander Brown g. Sons, Baltimore
for the $1070 900 county bond issue
to retire debt to the State liter
ary fund it was announced over
the week end The bid was $1O7,-
1850, with an interest rate of IA
per cent per year.
The School Board also has decided
to transfer high school pupils from
the Ashburn School, which was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, to Lees
burg High School for the remainder
of the session.
Elementary grade children will 90
to classes in the Presbyterian and
Baptist Churches in Ashburn.
Classes began today with the buses
running on the schedules used be-
fore the fire.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Office 10 Assist Veterans
Will Open March IS
BY the Associated Press.

bs lue ASSOClated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. Ala Vet
erans' Administration Office to expe-
dite services for veterans of this
war in the Sd Service Command
area will be opened here March IS,
officials of the organization said
yesterday.
The Office. similar to others
throughout the Nation, will have
no direct connection with mastering
out pay, but will deal with service
records. applications for hospitaliza-
ton and vocational training, the
officials explained.
Edward A. Kreck, Washington,
who has been associated with the
Veterans Administration since 1922,
will be in charge of the Office.
Evening star., 1944-02-21

of the Northeast
section of the
city, slaughtered
IA rabbits and
half a oze n
chickens in two
raids on live
stock pens of
suburban resi-
dents over the
week end.
In an attack
early yesterday
v | c l us dogs
turned on a sub
urban resident
who sought to
drivo floopo frop,
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Duplicate Names CONFUSING

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (P.-East
is East while West is confusing at
the Sylvania Electric Products plant
here-Mrs. Margaret West is mar
ried to Employe Lloyd E. West and
is secretary to Engineer Lloyd E.
West who is married to Mrs. Mar
garet West-no relation to the first
Mrs. West.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
HyuttsvilIe Man Found Dead

Mortimer F. Geary, so, of 4805
Rhode Island avenue, Hyattsville, a
guard at the Engineering g. Re-
search Corp, Riverdale, was found
dead early today at Baltimore
boulevard and Oliver street, River
dale, Prince Georges County police
reported. Police said he probably
died Of a heart attack.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Virginia Seal Sale
Sets AII-Time Record
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Feb. 21.-Sales OF
Christmas Seals in Virginia last
December hit an all-time high, ac-
cording to incomplete figures pre-
pared by the Virginia tuberculosis
Association.
Miss Ellen H. Smith, president of
the association, said yesterday that
1943 seal sales reported so far have
reached $264,225.97, and it is ex-
pected that the final report, to be
made on March 81, will bring the
total to more than $280,000.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Arlingtonions Plan
To Buy Bonds for
Residents in Service

The first in a series of variety
shows for the benefit of Arling-
ton residents in the armed
forces will be held at 8 pm.
Friday in the Washington-Lee
High School.
= Similar programs will be held
each month. The proceeds win
be used to purchase $25 War
Bonds for each serviceman and
servicewoman from Arlington.
Tickets for Fridays per-
formance are on sale at mo-
ton picture theaters and drug
stores throughout the county.
Additional tickets may be OBJ
tanned from 1t. Col. John A.
Russell, 1900 North Highland
street. Charles Stoneburner is
in charge of the affair.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
OF old newspapers and maga-
zines is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child in your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
LIQUOR Store Robbed

Isaac CHASER, proprietor of a
liquor store in the 1900 block of
First street NV, reported to police
yesterday that thieves who removed
iron window bars to gain entrance
to the store over the week end stole
six cases of whisky and q case Of
brandy. a
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Eastern Stur to Meet

Charter members of Naomi Chap
ter, No. %, Order of the Eastern
Star, Bethesda, will be honored at
the 32d anniverss ry meeting OF
the group at 8 pm. Wednesday in
the Masonic Hall at Bethesda,
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Mary K. Browne 10 Present
Red Cross Pin 10 Roosevelt

Miss Mary K. Browne, supervisor
OF Red Cross canteen service in the
South and Southwest Pacific and
former internationally known tennis
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Packs Of Wild Dogs
Raid Livestock Pens
In Northeast Section
Police Kill 3 Animals
Of Group Which Turned
On Resident

Savage dogs, believed by police to
be abandoned and strayed pets
which have reverted to a semiWild
marauding existence in wooded areas
Evening star., 1944-05-07
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Those who do not go to a play
to be set face to face with disturb
ing facts literally translated from
life's dark underside had best keep
away from Pickup Girl" by Elsa
Shelley, produced at the Forty
eighth Street Theater. But, so do
ing, they will miss a fine-if har-
rowing-document, a contribution
to a timely, vital sociological prob
lem the more valuable because it is
also excellent theater.
The piece is laid throughout in a
courtroom where we find a girl, the
daughter of an impoverished FAM
lily. While other children of her
age-15-have been running about,
having lots of fun, she has been
submerged in onerous household
duties, including care of younger
brothers and sisters. Harassed,
borne down by a mother too over
worked to be sympathetic or un-
derstanding, the girls sad destiny
is in her own hands.
An Often-told Story.
In all, it is story heard every
day in the Juvenile Court of any
city. So is the inevitable result
nights out when the children are
in bed; tie-up with an abandoned
little trollop; pickup by a service
man in Times Square; abortion;
entrance OF middle-aged roue;
disease; arrest. So
Action of the play involves
whether or not the girl shall be
sent to the reform school, and this
is done-while the writer, not too
successfully, I think, tries to make
Evening star., 1944-05-07

NEW YORK.
No one envied Phil Spitalny 10
years ago when he formed an all
girl orchestra. The Broadway smart
les said he would do himself some
good financially, but soon would be
back directing a collection Of less
temperamental males.
AS Spitalny takes his all-distaf
band into the Capitol Theater this
week he can laugh at those predic-
tions. He has operated the outfit
exactly 10 years, and is in the more
stratospheric reaches of the income
tax brackets.
Not that it's all been easy-Spi-
talny has had his rocky moments.
He may not have the draft to worry
him, as has practically every other
top band leader, but neither do
those harried gentlemen have the
Inylon. rubber garter and girdle
problem.
Ten years ago, after making more
than 100000 leading male Or
chestras, Spitalny found he had
$4o,o0 and an idea. He auditioned
more than 1900 girls, finally pick
ing 18. The first engagement was
at the Capitol Theater and within
a year he had a commercial radio
Evening star., 1944-05-07
A Dramatist Tackles Delinquency
Bv Laurence Perry.

it clear that, inasmuch as the girl
is not fundamentally bad, but q
victim of conditions-so eventually
she will be restored to society re-
deemed. A boy friend-a nice one,
too-will await her release.
To say that portrayals by William
Harrigan as the Judge and Pamela
Rivers as the girl stand out In this
tensely moving play is to pay them
high tribute because of the excel
lence Of the entire cast of 10 players,
depicting a wide variety of types.
Another Ghost Arrives.
"A Highland Fling" written by
Margaret Curtis, presented and
staged by George Abbott at the
Plymouth Theater, brings vet an
other ghost to the Broadway stage,
Ia spirit so robustly physical despite
gray face paint--a spirit SO peril
naciously earthly as to destroy any
spiritual illusion.
Fortunately for this comedy, its
author and for all concerned, any
impressions the piece seeks to make
upon an auditors mood is unre-
lated to phantasm. One falls into
the conceit which is humorously
mischievous and accepts the whim-
sicality of "hant" (Ralph Forbes,
perfectly splendid) whose fieshly ap-
petites keep him earthbound until
an angel-his wife, dead for mat
ter Of 100 years-convinces him that
Heaven is filled with hosts of the
loveliest girls, awaiting feverishly
his ascent to elysium.
Meanwhile his love affair with
a half-witted lassie-only dafties
and children can see a Scottish
ghost-makes his sojourn in and
Evening star., 1944-05-07

about an ancestral castle SO pleas
ant that he rather questions the
desirability of exchanging mortal
sweetheart for the uncertainties of
celestial beauties. But, at length,
yielding to his wife who tells him
he may attain heaven il he can
convert one human being from ad-
diction to whisky, women and cards,
he concentrates upon Rabbie, the
village rake-married and one child.
Rabbie fakes reform so that the
ghost can get to hell-heaven, rather
out of the village and leave him to
pursue his vices without interfer-
ence.
Wife Finally Wins.
Everything goes well until, in the
last few minutes of reform, Rabbie
absent-mindedly pinches his tempo
rarily abandoned sweetie, the bar
maid. This brings the ghost, al
ready en- route to the skies, back to
earth, to the great concern Of
Rabbie and every one else. But
eventually the angel-wife, through
a hilarious device, takes him among
the clouds, there forever to remain.
Perhaps this will give you an
idea of the quaint charm of a
comedy as Scottish as a bolt of
Stuart plaid, a dish of haggis, a
couple OF scones, or a nip of the
good old dew, which is consumed
by the gallon throughout the play.
The comedy goes forward with flaw
less acting and perfect direction,
aside from the first act which at
times is a bit heavy. Margaret
Curtis, the author, plays the daftie
with sweet appeal.
(Released By NANA)
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Films GlamOrOus Stars Turn Faces Toward Politics
Bv Harold Heferman

give up an actors dressing room to
live in the executive mansion at
Baton Rouge.
Another film composer who would
give up the West Coasts Tin Pan
Alley for the more august environ
ment of legislative halls is Jack
Tenney, the bard responsible for
"MeXican Rose" which everybody
sang the life out of a few years
back. Tenney is now running for
the United States Senate to replace
the incumbent, Sheridan Downey,
on the Democratic slate. The ex-
composer has just completed a term
in the California State Assembly.
Brown Gets Office.
Getting back to the thespians,
however, Joe E. Brown returned
from an overseas entertainment
tour to find he had been appointed
a county Fairgrounds commissioner
Leo Carrillo, the dialect comic, has
been more or less important fac
tor in California politics for the
past 10 years. Recently Carrillo
has been spending as much time as
Evening star., 1944-05-07
A Banquet Honors Cantor

until the last one of them is out
of his bed after the war"
He explained why he wants to
keep going on his hospital circuit.
Il was applauded once by fellow
who had only one arm and one leg.
He beat his palm against his thigh.
I never expect a finer tribute than
that. You can't quit when that sort
of appreciation is around"
One thing Cantor likes about to-
nights banquet is the representation
of theatrical groups of all faiths
and races: The Catholic Actors
Guild, Episcopalian Actors Guild,
Hebrew Actors Guild, Jewish The
atrical Guild, Yiddish Theatrical
Alliance, Negro Actors Guild and
others.
The committee responsible for
plans includes Jessel, who was with
Eddie when they broke into show
business with Gus Edwards; John
Golden, honorary chairman; Jim
mie Walker, Fannie Hurst, Alfred E.
Smith, Helen Mencken, Deems Tay-
lor, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Ted
Lewis, DR.. Randolph Ray (pastor of
the Little Church Around the Cor
ner), Basil O'Connor, Arthur Hop
kins, Louis Nizer and Gene Buck.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
More than 1000 persons will
gather in Hotel Astor tonight to
toss a banquet for Eddie Cantor
that he doesn't want any part of.
But his friends insisted his 35th
anniversary as an entertainer should
be done up right, so Eddie will sit
on a raised platform and squirm
while the usual bouquets are tossed
at him.
The toastmaster will be George
Jessel and Eddie has fewer qualms
about him than any one else.
Hell toss few barbs at me along
with a very few pats on the back" /"
said Eddie. That's what I like,
It's easier to take the compliments
that way. 1t will be hard for me to
listen to the ones who praise me
just because it's the thing to do"
Jessel will be just one of hun
dreds Of famous names who will
attend. Despite this to-do, Eddie
said this week that his major ambi-
tions these days are to see the three
single daughters of his famous five
married happily, and to keep on
entertaining wounded servicemen
Evening star., 1944-05-07
|Carole Admits
Glamour Has
Its Problems
By Rosalind Shafer.
Ey the Associated Press.

| 6y tHc AsoOCidtSQ FEeSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
Carole Lands is as typical a
glamour girl as you'll find in Holly
wood. She is among the original
exponents Of the sweater as a means
to a film career. though her first
real hit was in a tiger skin, playing
cave woman to Victor Natures
cave man in "One Million B. c."
All the usual ingredients for a
glamour girl are there; she's tall,
blonde, has soft husky voice, start
ed as a torch singer and dancer in
cafes, has been married twice, di-
vorced once, had a whirl at Broad
way, bluffed her way into films on
a limited budget and more limited
experience.
Everything about her repeats that
glamour note. She admits that she
studies effects, that she has been
stagestruck since she was Z. Her
conversation is just right for a
glamour girl; she reads current
books, so that she's not dumb, but
fshe doesn't pretend to being erudite.
Her clothes are sensational, but in
good taste. When she goes out for
the evening, she is a one-woman
production.
Entertains Service Men.
Her blonde mop is a beacon for
servicemen, who crowd about her
everywhere, on the set, on the
streets, or in cafes, when they recog-
nize her. She stops everything to
talk to them, entertains them in
numbers in her spare time. Re-
Gently she had So to Sunday dinner.
Attention that has come to her
recently is not so much because of
her glamour, but because of her
book, -Four Jills in a Jeep," which
relates her adventures as a pioneer
overseas entertainer with Martha
Raye, Kay Francis and Mitzi May
fair. She had the book printed in
a national magazine, in several is-
sues, and played herself in the film
version she sold her home studio.
All this, she says, must be a great
surprise to her high school English
teacher at San Bernardino, where
she played hockey every fine day.
Becoming an author was simple
process, as she tells it. She kept
notes, then dictated everything she
(See SHAFFER, Page CO.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
New Producer Has Loud Praise for Garbo
Bv Inqra Arvad.

convinced it can be done. For the
part Of the man I would like Fredric
March; for Rima, the lovely, exotic
girl, I believe an unknown will fit
the purpose best. AS you know, a
lot depends on first-rate direction,
so it will either be Orson Welles or
Frank Borzage, both of whom have
great confidence in. A great part Of
the picture will be shot in Vene-
zuela to get authentic background,
and nearly every South American
country has volunteered to help us
in any way possible" n
What are the difficulties of being
an Independent producer?" / asked.
Mr.. Cassidy looked as if he
wouldn't mind going into q lengthy
Evening star., 1944-05-07

who have always labeled him some
thing Of a hermit, Franchot Tone
has been injecting himself into the
Los Angeles political scrable, even
though in modest way. Mr.. Tone
has been doing some speaking be-
fore Hollywood Parent-Teacher
groups and the League Of Women
Voters. Naturally, Tone meeting
is packed to the doors and the star
has been giving out with some solid
arguments.
AN actor has the same rights
and duties as every other American
citizen" comments Tone. He
should participate in his local gov
ernment and do all in his power
for the cause of good government.
No one will ever criticize an actor
for that, no matter how his politics
is disputed"
De Mile on Committee.
Fact is, you1l find party lines
pretty evenly divided among politi-
cally minded screen folks. Decker,
Helen Gahagan and Lucille Gleason
are all New Dealers, but Leo Car
rillo is Republican and Producer
Cecil B. De Mile is G. o. P. ma
tional committeeman along with
David o. Selznick.
There are some actors whose po-
litical urges are far greater than
sectional. Orson Welles, for ex-
ample, has just returned to Holly
wood after speaking up and down
the Middle West In behalf of the
Free World Association, a group in
terested in postwar plans. Friends
say Welles would be doing even
more ''politicking' If his health per-
mitted.
Up to a few years ago a favorite
remark of the more substantial ac-
tor was that acting and politics
don't mix"
Just think what would happen"
they used to tell interviewers. The
world learns you are an ardent Re-
publican and you make a picture
and all the Democrats say, I won't
go to see any picture with that
ham-hes a Republican, Or vice
versa. 1t would be bound to hurt
an actor at the box ofIice.''
Apparently that day is gone for
ever. Whether an actor Is Repub-
lican, Democrat, die-hard or Just
an innovator, Hollywood might
just as well face the facts. Movie
actors are in politics to stay.
tReleased By North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1944-05-07

a Republican national committee
man and as a figure in State COP
affairs as he has before the film
cameras. Carrillo, often spoken of
as a candidate for Governor, would
turn down a screen role rather than
miss an important COP session.
But Albert Decker, whose vigorous
campaigning for the State Assembly
started these ruminations, says he
has no such intention of giving up
play acting for podium- acting. THE
Assembly is in session only three
months of the year." he says, land
I'd be willing to take a leave of
absence or even suspension If the
studio saw fit. But I could never
give up my acting career"
Decker has tied his campaign to
that of Hal Styles, figure in the
movie colony, who has whipped up
large following locally with a
radio program called Help Thy
Neighbor." The two have gone out
stumping together and have done
a mite of baby-kissing to Gull votes.
Surprising as it may seem to those
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Planes Engines
Too Powerful
For the Studios
By the Associated Press.

6S inc ASeOCl0teo fre6S-
HOLLYWOOD.
The war is making Hollywood's
expensive soundproof stages obso-
lete. Built to Withstand the sound
of 40o-horsepower motors, the stages
are now subjected to that of 2,40o
horsepower airplane motors.
AS the film town Is crisscrossed
by flights of the huge bombers and
other warcraft built in the factories
trimming the town, and using the
scattered airports in the region,
there are many work stoppages
while sound recording cameras
await the passing OF the noisy
planes.
Estimates kept on the five-month
shooting schedule Of Wilson" show
three full work days lost for such
halts in work due to planes, at a
cost Of $4,000 per day. Postwar
planning Of all studios calls for ad-
ditional soundproofing, as cessation
of hostilities will merely switch the
heavy wartime motors to peacetime
use.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Charm Brings a Profit
By Jack O'Brian

program. Within two years he
started q commercial for General
Electric. After eight years the pub
licity men for the program say the
band has listening audience Of
8,000, 900 each Sunday night.
Spitalny claims to have appeared
before 10000, 900 persons in tours to-
falling 100000 miles. In addition,
more than so cantonments have
witnessed his shows in the last two
years.
Spitalny governs his bands social
activities on the road. Evelyn, con-
cert-mistress and violinist, keeps q
constant check on the girls and sees
to it that they remain q credit to
Emily Post, their mothers and to
Spitalny himself.
The orchestra has given a concert
in Town Hall, has appeared in Aims
and now has grown to a member
ship Of. IS, all of the girls good
singers, most Of them graduates Of
conservatories. Besides musician
ship, they are chosen for voice, ap-
pearance, charm and personality.
Most play two or more instruments.
Jan Baker. for instance, plays tuba
primarily, but performs creditably
on IA other instruments.
AS other bandleaders continue to
worry over manpower shortage, Spi-
talny seems to be sitting in a pretty
spot.
Il have applications Of 5000 good
girl musicians on file, all anxious to
Join my band"
Spitalny's ambition is to tour the
world once the war is won. And he
is dreaming Of a huge transport
plane big enough to hold all his
girls, their instruments, nylons, gar
tiers, girdles and whatever feminine
trappings will be necessary in peace
time travel.