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Evening star., 1944-01-16

The additional ironing seems to
have smoothed out Storm Opera.
ton" to the satisfaction Of virtu.
ally none Of the kiss-of death squad.
one Of the pet names applied to
professional critics.
Perhaps by way Of setting OF the
week as one with an inescapable
curse upon 1t so far as the theater was
concerned, Marianne" fiuttered to
at least temporary halt at the
National last night. Only temper.
ary, the management said referring
to the fact that the projected New
York opening this week is of. Just
enough time for rewriting and re-
working. it added.
But the people involved, which
was lot of people of whom the
most talented was Mary Jane
Walsh, were already wondering
where they would catch on next.
New Procedure.
For whatever satisfaction 1t gives
them now, the. crowds who vainly
stood in line at the National
Theater Wednesday to buy tickets
to the command performance Of
Voice of the Turtle" may know
that it never will happen again.
Just which Of several expedients
designed to prevent it will be
adopted is not apparent at the
moment, but the Nationals man.
agement is determined there will
be no repetition of Wednesdays
Indigenous fiasco.
One after-thought of the incident
Is that hereafter all tickets to the
performance shall be sold by the
Presidents Birthday Ball Commit
tee by whatever method 1t chooses.
1t will leave just as many people
seatless provided the attraction is
equally popular, but the theater
itself will not have the RESPONSE
bility which it found on its lap
this year. ...-
The entire house could have been
sold by mail order for several per-
formances had that procedure been
decided upon. as it likely will If the
committee takes over next year.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
HOLLYWOOD.


Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet"
is a sweet old song, one that will
bring back flood of nostalgia men,
cries when it is hummed and sung in
the production of Wilson bio
graphical movie of our President
during World War I.
But, to Frank Tresselt, 1.-The old
music master" at Goth Century
Fox, where Wilson" is being filmed,
that number is just a series of sour
notes which cost him seven months
of worry and a mountain of corre-
spondence. It's all right with him
If he never hears it again.
Officially, Tresselt is business man.
ager OF the studios music depart
ment. His biggest job is clearing
the rights to old song numbers,
sometimes dating back half CEN
tury or more, so that parts or all of
them can be used in pictures made
by that company.
His job on Wilson" finally COM
pleted, Tresselt ran weary hand
through his shock of white hair and
leaned back in his chair. He had
earned few moments Of rest. In
all, he had acquired rights to use 27
old songs, at cost of approximately
$32,250.
Wilson Liked 1t.
Patience, money and tact are the
greatest requirements of this Job"
said Tresselt, "but it's getting more
dificult every day. Trying to land
that Gray Bonnet number was
Evening star., 1944-01-16
By Mildred Faulk.

jacket, obediently did what the
photographers told her. For one
shot she held baby up to admire
a picture of his father which the
press agent brought along in case
some one should get such an idea.
I'm glad he's a boy because
that's what Frank always wanted, a
Junior" she said. when he was
told by. telephone last night he was
so excited he couldn't even talk"
He did say, according to the press
agent, Holy smokel" He also has
been on the telephone from Holly
wood four times since 4:50 pm:
yesterday, when Mrs. Sinatra came
Evening star., 1944-01-16
By Jay Carm0dv

been to criticism what the Martins
and the Coys were to American
feudist literature, q pair whose mu-
tual disdain became half-classical
when Mr.. Gibbs, accused Of pla-
giarism by Rascoe, countered that
he never robbed poor box"
On Miss Gordon's play, however,
they constituted the oldest minor
ity ever to file critical opinions on
anything so palpably merely blithe
in spirit as over Twenty-one."
A churl about the premises who
was expecting demolition bomb
from Mr.. Gibbs thus summed up his
disappointment: Gibbs can't pos
sibly be reading Rascoe any more. "
Jackpot" Hits Lightly.
Another recent Washington ex-
hibit. Jackpot" met a less spec
tacular reception, but a much more
unanimously negative one in New
York during the past week. Vinton
Freedly's eye-appealing musical,
starring Allan Jones, was deemed
by virtually every one to be dull,
lifeless affair, a point of view terse-
ly summarized by the Associated
Press Villa Martin as follows: The
freshest thing In the show is tall
ented, beautiful Billie Worth, who
deserves q lyrical setting worthy Of
her dancing talents.
The most prominent playwright
Of the week to meet with the most
wan words at the disposal of the
professional theatergoers of CO.
than was Maxwell Anderson. His
Storm Operation" a title given
to him by Gen. Eisenhower upon
whose North African campaign the
play is based, was rated as a spot
tily excellent piece of journalism
which overlooked the fact that it
was supposed to be a play.
The Playwrights' Company, which
presented the Anderson drama on
Broadway kept it on the road an
additional several weeks to iron out
the inherent weaknesses which
were revealed in the Baltimore
opening In mid-December.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
The Teapot Has Another Tempest

On those quiet, humid summer
days when she was writing "Over
Twenty -onep In her cool, soundproof
Washington hotel room, Miss Ruth
Gordon could have had no notion
that her play would create another
of those tempests in the teapot OF
Broadway drama criticism. Being
Miss Gordon, she most certainly
would not have felt the slightest
concern II she had been able to
read the future. No one in the the
ater Is more highly endowed with
aloofness for the petty chickering's
that develop among reviewers who,
on occasion, take themselves with
such a desperate seriousness that
they believe personal honor In
volved in the simple expression of
their sense Of q plays merits.
However. for all her innocence
and indifference and the coy in
nocuousness Of her comedy, Miss
Gordon was the cause OF the most
recent furor in Gotham's critic
circle.
To the establishment Of his most
hardened readers, among them
many credit him with the highest
nuisance value among working
newspapermen, Mr.. Burton Roscoe
of the World-Telegram found the
play not merely unsatisfactory but
an insult to his intelligence. dis
gustingly bad" were a couple OF the
words he used to describe it, a
phrase which sent many scurrying
to their dictionaries on the OF
chance that perhaps the meanings
Of both words had changed.
Majority Enthusiastic.
Mr.. Rascoe's vituperative prose,
which eiso included the word pre-
posterous," was the more surprising
in view Of the otherwise unanimous
praise Of "Over Twenty-one" as a
clever bit of trivia which Jumped
into the hit class instantly.
The real surprise, however, was
yet to come in the form of Wolcott
Gibbs review in the New Yorker
The Messrs Rascoe and Gibbs have
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Dorothy Gish Denies It's Ghost Returning
NEW YORK,

NEW YORK.
So far as great many people
know. Dorothy Gish came back from
the grave to play the part Of Cor
nelia Otis Skinner's mother in the
Paramount picture "Our Hearts
We're Young and Gay"
People are surprised when they
hear that Lillian and I are still
alive" the younger OF the Gish sis
tiers remarked recently and then
burst out laughing. She doesn't look
or behave like ghost.
Dorothy is the brunette Gish-and
the comedienne. She is slight, in
cisive, gregarious, a divorcee and As.
She claims to have been in motion
pictures longer than any one else ex-
tant and there is no one handy to
say she hasn't been.
Mary Pickford is the most conspic-
uous Of her celluloid contemporaries
and she now is on executive in the
industry.
Child Replacement.
Lillian and I were hired to re-
place some children who had out
grown their parts in the touring
company Of "The Convict's Stripes. T"
was 4 years old. The Smith chill
dren were our predecessors. A few
years later, the Smith children be-
came the Pickford children: Jack,
Lottie and Americas sweetheart.
Mary got to Hollywood ahead of
the Gish girls. Their big years in
the movie colony began In 1912
(after they had had a map Of the
United States imprinted upon their
child minds from trailing around
the country in road shows and ended
in 1918 when they headed East be-
fore Hollywood was Hollywood.
The technical development since
then is amazing" the actress who
started In one-reelers reported when
she returned from the coast this
time, The hours are obscene
imagine going to work at in the
morning. And another thing /
never did before was have some
one put makeup on me and dress
my hair and even put my clothes
on. 1t was all mighty fancy, I
tell you"
Miss Gish has the same trouble
distinguishing movie actresses that
a lot OF other people have. 1.-The
blonds look alike and the bru-
nettes look alike" she said quite
seriously. land I believe it is be-
cause of having one master cos
metician and that sort of thing.
I'VE did our own making up and
our own designing-it might not
have been good but there was a lot
more individuality"
Evening star., 1944-01-16
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Stewart Chaney learned every
thing Prof. George Pierce Baker
taugh at Yale's famed Al Work
shop and million dollar theater-
then he took his new thespic erudi-
ton to Lord a. Taylor's and dec
Grated store windows.
Prof. Baker surely would not have
tossed his hat approvingly into the
air over that. But he would have
enjoyed thoroughly the encomiums
tossed at his former student last
month when the hit show, THE
Voice Of the Turtle" opened to crit
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Start Slueeine

At the close of the American
Forum of the Air last week the audi.
ence got its biggest laugh just as
the program went off the air ano
Louis Nizer tangled again with
Norman Thomas. Thomas ques-
toned certain statistics put forth
by Nicer and Nicer heatedIy
answered: "Oh, you're doubling
Thomas!"
Evening star., 1944-01-16

The Gishes always were sensible
about relative values. Their mother.
who trundled them onto the stage
in the first place, informed them
at an early age that they were like
the stock market-they would 60
up and down and that the wise
thing to do was to hit a scale of
living that wasn't pretentious but
they could keep up for the rest
of their lives.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Wide World Photo.

into the hospital. Junior followed
at $50 pm.
Sinatra senior also said, later on,
his press agent announced, that if
there's one thing his son is not
going to be It's crooner. No fol
lowing in his fathers footsteps
stuff, you know.
Sinatra Junior is the 152d baby
born in Margaret Hague Maternity
Hospital in 1914. He spends most
OF his time in nursery with II
girl babies and II boy babies. No
disturbances, swooning or unwar-
ranted wailing have been reported
therein since yesterday.
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Evening star., 1944-01-16
PhOnetics Preferred

Director William Menzies needed
a name for a mailman villain who
was supposed to drop letters in a
mallbox, clunk' the door shut and
jingle bell to announce the mails
delivery. What did they name the
mailman? Chunk Jinplei
Evening star., 1944-01-16
TOday's Film Schedules

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EAaLE-What Woman" lbs 340 555 BIS
shows: l, $40. 5:25. TAO pm
KEITH SFlesh 535 735 and pm.
LILLTE-"Jeannie": l, 2:40. 4:2o, 7:5o pm.
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PIX"Return the Vampire: 755 and 10 10 pm
TRANS LUX-News and shorts: Continuous from pm
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

He said he found tufts OF this
wool in the hair of the Pajama Girl.
He believed the quartz was the
mate of an earring worn by the
Pajama Girl, also identified as Pills
by her mother. The rabbit fur, he
said, was from the collar of Pills
coat and matched a hair retrieved
from the ear Of the body.
DR.. Benbow then produced his
Shadow box" With this he super
imposed a life-size photograph of
the Pajama Girl over one of Philo-
mena, in an attempt to prove they
were one and the same person.
DR.. Benbow readily admitted his
device had no scientific background.
But, he contended, it proved con-
clusively that the contours of the
figure in the two pictures were the
same - forehead, cheekbones, neck
line, hands and finally the feet.
He summed up triumphantly by
declaring: Nature did not repeat
herself, at least not in this case"
DR.. Benbow introduced the corneI
IaletAaI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

coroner read 100000 words of evil
dence and eventually brought in this
verdict:
The victim was Linda Agostini.
Why? TIE coroner listed these as
the main reasons for his decision:
THE Pajama Girls eyes were
brown; so were Linda's eyes.
2Philomena'S bosom was small,
but the Pajama Girls was heavy,
the same as Linda'S.
3-The number and condition of
the teeth seemed most like Linda's.
Mrs. Agostini had peculiarly
shaped ears, similar to the corpses.
5-The Pajama Girl had three
spots on her arm, and witnesses said
Linda had similar spots.
6-Most conclusive of all-the
bones indicated definitely that the
victim was more than % years old.
Linda was %, Philomena, %.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

DIT. Benz DOW
checked election
lists for persons
named Quin or
Quinn who lived
near the road
where the body
was discovered.
This led him TO
an abandoned
cabin known as
Quinn's shack,
and in the de-
bris around the
place he found
Drifting In the
w aters of q
Quiet DON
Near Nj ur der
X GA d Were
Clothes Identi-
fled rs PhuO-
mena's.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

DR.. Benbow introduced the corner piece of the
bedstead the murder weapon. He found it
under water tank at Quinns shack. 1t fitted
exactly, he said wounds in the head of the Pajama
Girl. He also linked pair Of boots and clothing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

And so AgoStini went on trial Tor
the murder of his wife. Melbourne jury con-
victed Agostini of manslaughter and he was SEN
fenced to six years in prison.
Thus the case of the Pajama Girl was solved
after ten long years. But in the process, the law
had uncovered another murder mystery.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

the Inquest When He Used ''Shdd0o
BOr'' a N0reI Derice for SupeTim-
posing One Life Size Photograph ON
AnOiher-T ShOW That the Facial
Contours of The Pdjan,a Girl and PhiiO-
mena Morgan We're Identical
the Pajama Girl, he told the coroner, merely be.
cause of "a scientific impulse" lie determined
to solve the mystery, employing his own method.
The police had concentrated their energies on
first establishing identity of the Pajama Girl, but
DR.. Benbow first wanted to discover what had
happened to the victim. Or. Benbows procedure,
radically different from the police routine, pro-
Ctuced some startling developments.
His first clue was in weekly magazine which
printed picture of towel found with the body
of the Pajama Girl. He examined the illustration
closely and made out letters which he believed
to be DIN. They were the key, for he reasoned
they were phonetic spelling for QUIN or QUINN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-24

THE human hair came from suitcase tossed
among rubbish from the Quinn shack. Mrs.
Routledge identified the luggage as gift she had
made her daughter. The wool was linked by DR..
Benbow with a coat known to be owned by Phil
Evening star., 1944-03-07
Joe E. Howard Revue
Plays Here Tonight

One of the most popular sur
vivors of the horse-and-buggy and
candlelight days brings his show
to Constitution Hall for a one-night
engagement tonight when 77-year-
old Joe E. Howard presents his Gay
Nineties' Radio Revue under the
auspices of Fred A. Kirsch at 8:45
o'clock.
Howard, who has transferred his
talents from stage to radio of recent
years, brings with him a cast that
would steal the show from any
ordinary performer, and which will
be prominent on tWo-hour pro-
gram of 18 different numbers.
The name Howard is synonymous
with the music of the Gay Nineties,
and he will regale tonights audi
ence with no fewer than six of his
favorite songs.
Howard will be supported by a
cast that includes Lillian Leonard,
Shaw and Lee, Frank A. Mcmahon,
the Floradora Girls, the Gay Nine
ties Orchestra and Gay Nineties
Quartet.
Evening star., 1944-03-07

which combines the whole North
African campaign story in pictures.
It makes use of the footage of the
westward drive from Ell Alemein
which became Desert Victory"
that of the eastward drive by Gen.
Eisenhower's forces which landed
at Casablanca, Oran, etc.
X X X X
One of the big reasons that Sergt.
Dexter. a clean-cut young man
whose crutches he tries to hide
when his own picture is taken, did
not see any of his films was a
German .88-mm. shell which landed
directly under his jeep one day
when he had finished shooting all
the film in his pack. The sergeant
and the jeep were blown 80 feet
into the air. His left leg was frac-
tured in three places, which he
thinks was no worse because of
Army foresight. His jeep was sand
bagged on the floor and the .88
shell wore itself out on the sand
before it could get to him.
He has been a year recovering,
almost, but he hopes to go back
and follow the war with a camera
wondering the meantime, it it will
always be a cameraman's protec-
ton from the hazards Of combat
that he has orders just to get pic
lures of 1t.
X y ~
Guest Of honor was Sergt. Dexter
at yesterdays monthly Variety Club
luncheon A luncheon at which
the local critics, reversing the usual
procedure, provided the entertain
ment And at which Andrew
R. Kelley looked back over a longer
period than almost any one present
And John Maynard spoke of
briefer one d. From which Nelson
B. Bell had to be absent to admit
the paperhangers to his honey
moon home And after which
Sergt. Dexter was the busiest inter-
viewee who has been in Washing
ton since Col. David Macdonald,
who made Desert Victory"
Evening star., 1944-03-07
Hepburn Wants
To Scale a Tree
BY INCA ARVAD,
HOLLYWOOD

aOLL1 WCOD.
Everybody seems to want a part
In "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. ~
The latest Is Katherine Hepburn.
who may do the part of the mother
Katie should be excellent, but a most
reliable report is that Norma
Shearer will get the role. But that
still leaves other prominent parts.
Who will do Johnny Nolan, the low
able but drunken young husband?
William Eythe is just dying to do it.
but the objection is that he may be
too young. However, Johnny was
quite boy when he married Katie.
and died in his late 20s. At present
1t seems plausible that Bill will draw
that plum. If Alice Faye does Aunt
Cissie she gets what she wants.
peach OF part-and SO different
from what she has been doing dur
ing the past few years.
Jane Ball, the newcomer, didn't
last long in 'The Keys Of the King
dom" as Nora. I saw her act with
Gregory Peck, and even to my in
experienced eye it didn't seem the
right part for her. Mary Anderson
has taken over. know Mary
wanted to play the role badly, and
she deserves it-her performance In
'Lifeboat" was tops.
Paramount has thought Of q nice
birthday present for 23-year-old
Betty Hutton-a raise In pay. But
first the Wage Sterilization Board
has to approve and they have said
a firm mo" twice already.
Imagine. the doctor who visited
Eddie Bracken during his session
with the flu said, shaking his head
seriously. 1T isn't the flu that is
so bad, Mr.. Bracken, but you need
more vitality" Vitality is one of
the main reasons why Eddie cashes
substantial check every week from
his studio Mrs. Wayne Morris
is back in town awaiting her baby,
due In April . Alfred Hitchcocks
postwar plans include taking his
find, John Kodiak, to London for
several pictures One Of our
Hollywood glamour boys, now in the
Army, wears toupee with a G. I.
trim.
Ginny Simms was asked for an
autograph outside MGM studios by
a marine. When Ginny learned
he had few hours to spend in
Hollywood she promtly showed
him around on the sets. The boy
was so grateful that he gave her
his good luck piece-his grand
mothers silver thimble. Ginny is
going to send him a silver four
leaf clover to replace 1t. Inciden-
tally, Ginny will probably marry
Pat Nierney when he gets a fur
Tough. Pat is now in the South
Pacific.
Leslie Brooks was given an en-
gagement ring by 1t. F. Mittledorf.
She returned it because it was too
large. But when it fits, you bet
she Is going to leave 1t on the
correct f1nger-happily and proudly
too Mickey Rooney and Ram
sey Ames were out together five
nights in a row When Jinx
Falkenburg returns there is a sur
prise awaiting her. The Little
Theater of Padua Hills is paging
the glamour girl to do the lead in
some old Spanish plays with Cali
fornia flavor.
Lost Angel" which stars g.
year-old Margaret O'Brien, is the
sensation of the year in London.
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Evening star., 1944-03-07
French Pianist's S
Recital Marked
BY Expertness
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

Pianism highly commendable for
its intelligent and sound musician
ship was displayed by. Juliette
Durant-Texte in the recital she gave
in the Presidential ballroom of the
Statler Hotel last night before a
large and friendly audience. The
French artist included but one nov
city in the program, Ravel's Fox
Trot," which otherwise followed the
well-known traditions. The famil-
lar numbers were performed with
meticulous precision and technical
expertness and were worked out
with due regard for infections.
Possessing a brilliant tone and a
fleet. accurate technique, Nine.
Durant-Texte employed these char
acteristics for the skillful modula-
ton of pianistic effects in each Sc
lection. There was, however, no
attempt made to give these effects
the individuality that belonged to
the composer and his style or the
nature of the composition, so that
the results were practically the same
whether it was the Chopin Der
ceuse," the Beethoven "Appassion-
ata' sonata Or Liapounow's Les
ghinka."
The pianist's reading of the
Beethoven sonata was well propor-
toned and dynamically clean-cut,
so that the climaxes and nuances
were legitimately achieved and with
sound musical effect. But the di-
recting force Of warmth and senti-
ment were lacking, with a restless
bravura acting as substitute. Not
inclined to linger on the beauty of
phrase but to present it with a
fortnight delivery, the artist could
not give the variety or the deeper
enchantment that comes from a
more emotional impulse.
This operated against a distinc-
tive approach to Chopin, whose
"Ballade in A fiat major" Der
ceuse" and waltz in G fiat major"
were played and left the Wagner
List "Isoldes Liebestod" and the
andante of the sonata, as excel
lently as were presented their
broader aspects, lacking in the fun
damental emotionalism.
The second part of the program,
which opened with the Liapounow
number, included MacDowell's ITO
a Water Lily" and I'm Autumn"
Debussy's La Cathedral engloutie"
and "Minstrels," de Severac's lie
Retour des Muletiers" and the
Ravel Fox Trot."