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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
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In War Effort
By the Associated PYess
HOLLYWOOD.


HOLLYWOOD.
From giving away dishes to SELL
ing War Bonds, from holding bank
nights to running blood banks, from
promoting popularity contests to es-
tablishing Red Cross booths in the
lobbies-that's the changeover that
has hit the country's $4,000 motion
picture theaters.
1t will be their part in the fourth
War Loan drive, to begin January
ID.
This changeover is part of the
planned mobilization of the motion
picture industry. It's slogan for the
drive is "A bond sold for every the
alter seat"
Lobbies Are Gold Mines.
Men in charge of the drive here
say Treasury Department figures
show that movie theaters, with 10
per cent of the bond-selling facili-
ties, peddle 20 per cent of all bonds
sold. More than 1000 times as many
people attend movies as go to sports
events, and to these the Treasury
figures to sell the bulk of the e
bonds. considered the hardest part
of the selling project. Theaters are
the ideal sales spots. since its's easy
for a customer to buy his bond while
still impressed by the speaker, stunt
or film at the rally
Studio participation is channeled
through special shorts James Gag
ney, Edward Arnold. Ginger Rogers,
Bob Hope and Ann Sothern are
making such films.
The largest bond caravans ever
are planned carrying top picture
stars as well as special war hero
caravans aided by motion picture
celebrities
Honors for Corn.
With Abbott and Costello third on
the list of top money makers at the
boxoffice, the team has received an
other honor, as tops on the show
mans trade review poll. for the Sec
ond year. and third place on radio
comic shows. This estimate was
made in spite of only two films anc
four radio shows last year, due tt
Costello's illness.
Corn, pure corn, did it, says
Honest Lou. Their next film will be-
laid in Persia, Iran to you. ITS the
only place we could find outside OF
the Los Angeles city limits says
Costello.
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Coming Attractions
Stage.

Stage
with Mary Jane Walsh and Ernest Truck
starting tomorrow evening
CAPTTOI-Cry Havoc with sothern and Joan Blondel
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA-Iost Angel" Margaret OBrien Craig
returning Thursday.
EARLE-"What Rosalnd Russell Brian Ahern
starting Friday.
KEITHS-"Fesh
Mitchell; starting Thursday
LITTLE-"Abe Lincoln in illinois," with Raymond Massey
Observation-Disclosures Bondage" Gail Patrick
Nancy Kelly; starting Friday
PALACE-me. Carson and Walter Pidgeon
PIxEscape from Yesterday" with Cabin Annabela
starting Wednesday.
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HOLLYWOOD

Actresses aspiring to Academy
honors should steer clear of CLAM
orous, biographical or historical
roles. Figures show the odds are
four to one against them in such
transformations
On the other hand, actors aiming
for an Oscar should seek exactly the
sort of roles actresses should avoid.
Otherwise, the odds are two to one
against them.
As 10000 members of the Academy
of Arts and Sciences prepare to
ballot on the various "bests" of 1943
with the citations due early in
March-any prognosticating done at
this time should consider the two
surprising, contradicting conclusions
to be drawn from the evidence of the
past 10 years Acadamy winners.
This year, as usual, the prenomi-
nation gossip mentions many con-
tenders. AS always, most of it SIM
mers down to very few inside
crackers.
Favorites for this years feminine
honors include: Ginger Rogers in
R-K-Os Tender Comrade," Greer
Carson in M-G-M's Madame
Curie,' Ingrid Bergman in Para
mounts For Whom the Bell Tolls, "
Jennifer Jones in goth Century -Fox's
1.-THE Song of Bernadette.
The Look Around.
Now, then, let's look at the record
for substantiation of the conclusions
drawn in our two opening para
graphs.
The past two seasons winners are
similar cases. Greer Garson's por-
trayal of Mrs. Miniver," the 1912
winner, paralleled Joan Fontaine's
winning role of the previous year in
Suspicion" Both played English
wives, entirely without glamor, minus
elaborate costumes and without his
toric or geographic significance.
Year before that Ginger Rogers
walked of with feminine honors via
Kitty Foyle." an Irish girl whose
very lack of wealth and glamor cut
her off from Philadelphia's Main
Line, thereby making the story.
The preceding year, 1889, Vivien
Leigh played a role which "handi-
capped" her with two standard, ira
ditional antidotes for glamor.
Throughout Gone With the Wind
Miss Leigh was either poverty
stricken or married.
Bette Davis won the Oscar In
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Fun on the Set
AS MaCMurrav
Dies in Prison
HOLLYWOOD

AAoAIA L vVoOD.
After six weeks of the most fiend-
ish depradations on several Para
mount sound stages, the law finally
caught up with Fred MacMurray.
Yep, they finished Fred off in the
San Quentin gas chamber, or at
least mighty excellent imitation
of same
One deep Whit of those cyanide
fumes. or what passes for them at
Paramount, and Fred was out like
a star of silent pictures.
If you're not up on your James
M. Cain, let it be mentioned that
they got Fred for the murder of
Tom Powers in the authors Double
Indemnity" and to make it certain
they got him also for the murder
iot Powers wife, played by Barbara
Stanwyck. Barbara had helped Fred
finish off the husband, but any time
two people know about a murder.
that's one too many. So she tried
to kill MacMurray, but Fred was too
fast. He took the gat away from
her and let her have it.
Into the Chamber.
Despite the sober atmosphere on
the stage, Freds execution in this
next-to- the last scene of the film
brought forth it's quota of wise
cracks. We won't even bother to
mention the one about We're cook
ing with gas today"
! AS Fred, in white shirt and dun
garees, entered the chamber, there
was a wreath in the chair to greet
him. with a placard in the center
reading, goodbye, old chum."
AS he goes in the door, do you
think the warden should ask him
for his gas coupons?" inquired Mark
Sandrich, who was over on the set
visiting.
when the warden gives him the
gas, have him check his oil, too,
countered Director Billy Wilder
And to Wilder's credit, it should
be mentioned that he apologizeo
Immediately for the bromide.
Lunch for Condemned.
To make long story sickly, Mac.
Murray was finally strapped to the
chair under the supervision of C
l.. Doose, captain of the guard al
San Quentin, who had been brought
all the way down from the prison
to make sure everything would be
automatically gruesome. The wit.
nesses gathered The lever was
pulled Fred took a deep breath
strained once against the straps
his head sagged forward, and that
was that. He looked plenty dead
But it required five takes before
Director Wilder was completely sat.
isfied with the scene which will
show the gas execution on the
screen for the first time.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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Girl Makes Up Her Mind
By Inga Arvad.

want a man who is my superior
mentally.
What do I want to do with my
money!" and Betty looks a little
startled Il don't really know. You
know how it is nowadays. Salaries
can't be raised, and 1 am working
for the fun of it-more than for dol
lars. But, as already said, the only
thing want is security. I like to
see those figures on the savings
account grow. I like to know that
there is money in the bank.
And Betty concludes, people
may call me tight because they don't
see my name among lists of contrib
utors to charities. But I don't want
those who might receive money
from me to know about it. I don't
want them to get down and kiss my
feet"
(Released by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc)
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|Air-Minded but
Wouldn't Look
lat a Plane
By Jean Meegan.
HOLLYWOOD.


Moss Hart, who dramatized the
Army Air Force in the hit show
Winged Victory" hates flying, and
couldn't be cadet anyway-he's
never been to high school and he's
more than decade over the age
limit.
He hates flying, but he did re-
search for the show in an Army
bomber. In all, he flew $4,000 miles
Up until now, Moss Hart has been
notable for his binding gold mascu-
line gadgets, his very public psyche
analysis, his prosperous collabora-
ton with George S. Kaufman or
huge successes like The Man Who
Came to Dinner" and You Can't
Take 1t With You" These, plus Il
other plays, have made him well
known, but not as celebrated as this
one show (Which won't earn him a
cent? is making him.
This wider recognition finds him
80 years old, single, broke, beloved
He has a pronounced black, curly
widows peak Caused by a receding
hairline) and a lean, bony profile
When he talks (and he loves to- he
seems to be all little fingers.
At Great Sacrifice.
Patrolling the mezzanine of the
Forty fourth Street Theater, where
his hit is now selling out, he re.
called his Winged Victory" expert
ence. Il looked like the oldest cadet
they ever had seen, but I Utter.
plugged and drank beer, which
loathe, because I wanted to do every
thing they did.
Writing the show was like a prob
lem in algebra. 1t was challenge
to get the story Of the boys in the
AAF on paper without an arplane
to be seem"
Some Broadway wit remarked
Hart is doing for the Air Corps in
Winged Victory what he did for
psychiatry in Lady in the Dark
His father, Barnett Hart, an English
Jew, and noted among Moss friends
for the funny things he has said
simply looked at his son the night
the show opened in Boston and said
Timely. Moss-very timely"
The Harris used to live in the
Bronx. The father, whom every one
calls the Commodore, had a news
stand and cigar store there, and
Moss went to Public School ISL.
Navy Didn't Know.
While he was ripping of big
moneymakers like "Once in a Life
time" (another collaboration with
Kaufman), "As Thousands Cheer
and Face the Music" with Irving
Berlin, no one ever noticed any
(See MEEGAN. Page C-90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Authenticity the Goal
With Reservations
BY the Associated Press.

oS Inc ASoOCldGSG FIeSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
Hair-dos, perennial anchronisms
in films, are going to be authentic
as far as announced intentions fol
Greer Garson's Mr.. Parkington.
laid in the '7os, are concerned. Movie
designers are always under com.
pulsion in this matter, because au-
thenticity more often draws a how
of glee, rather than a sigh or tear
Thus movie styles and decor as
we'll must be styled in perioc
films, not only to be becoming te
the star, but to keep from inter.
fering with interests in the story it.
self. A case of this is the recent
casting for the second Mrs. Wood
row Wilson in Wilson," News
photos of the lady showed her as
the handsome full-figured Lillian
Russell type. Films will show her as
the beautiful and talented, but de-
cidedly slender, Geraldine Fitzger-
AID
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HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WOOD.
Eddie Cantor is playing dual role
these days, and it's an open question
whether his off-stage act. producer
on his first film, isn't funnier than
his usual transformations.
The major dif1iculty on the new
'setup comes when Cantor, the pro-
ducer, has to see that Cantor, the
actor, isn't scene stealing, or other
wise getting away with anything. AS
I came on the set. Cantor was in a
huddle with the director, the leading
lady and the leading man. Constance
Moore, tine lead with George Murphy,
wanted to wear a certain dress in a
scene.
The Producer Cantor was holler-
ing, You can't do it; the dress isn't
made for a dancing sequence, and
it won't look right"
Cantor and Hyde.
Then Eddie the ham cropped out,
as he looked into Miss Moore's big
bAuC eyes. ANCfCl 1Il1lQ DdDy, ~ ~
makes you happy, you wear the
DRESS" he said soothingly.
What am I saying?" He yelled at
himself, reverting to the producer
role
And another thing" this time,
his piercing producers eye was bent
on Joan Davis, Il understand you
wore that expensive dress of yours
in only one shot. What goes here?"
Cantor has proved to be not so bad
with those columns of figures, has
employed the juggling tricks of his
fellow comic, w. c. Fields, to shake
$4,000 out of the cost sheets so far.
He takes his responsibilities on the
million dollar production seriously.
Democracy Among Players.
One Of the sights of the set is to
see Producer Cantor coming from
the telephone on the run, when
called for q scene, slipping into his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

In the sensitive souls of some &C
tors. there is a feeling that their
return from engagement in Holly
wood or on the radio will inevitably
be greeted with hostility. Numerous
illustrations of what they think is
proof of this attitude and its effect
are at the tips of more tongues
than any one ever has bothered to
count. Even writers have been
known to succumb to the same i'm
preston, the most vehement case
on record being that of Ben Hecht
who once wrote piece in scathing
reproof of drama critics whom he
designated ring LEADERS of the SUBJ
versive movement. Mr.. Hecht, an
able man and possessed of substan-
tial self control later recovered his
|composure and generally benign
latitude toward his lascerated VIC
tins Less discerning people return
ing from Hollywood addresses per-
|sist in the fiction that they are re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Today's Film Schedules

cAP1ToIrue to Life" 1850 435 tbs and pm. Stage
1:05. $50, $50 and 915 pm.
COLUNBIA-"Thousands Cheer: L. 255 725 pm
EARLEDestinaon Tokyo: l. $685. 10 Stage shows
3:l5, $40 and 900 pm.
KEITHS-"Government Girl: 6:25 pm
LITTLE-"Jeanne": l. 240 420 7:50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"N :35, 1885, 5:35,
$40
PALACE-"The Gangs All pm
PIX-"Hod Back the Dawn: l, $40. $40 and $40
TRANS-LUX-News Continuous pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
By Harold Hefernan.

Heternan.
wracked Chinese wife brought her a
second consecutive award
Miss Rainer had won top honors
the preceding year, 1856. with
an exception to our premise. In
THE Great ziegfeld," glamor girl
brought her the statuette for the
year.
Bette Davis characterization of a
hard-boiled, pistol-packin', strictly
anti-social and nonglamorous girl
in Dangerous" was voted top fem
mine performance for the1934-5
season.
During 1884 Oscar passed up
Claudette Colbert's lavish, exotic
portrayal of Cleopatra" for her
little hitch-hiking, auto-court ro-
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1878 for the least glamorous Of
three roles played during the year
Voters ignored the historic signifi-
canoe of her Carlotta in "Jaurez,
the pomp and splendor of her Eliza
beth in THE Private Lives of Eliza
beth and Essex" for her less CLAM
orous role in "Jezebel," which won
the award.
Sables Failed Luise.
Luise Rainer played two pictures
in 1867, THE Emperor,s Candle
sticks" which cloaked her in sables
intrigue, wealth and social position
and went unnoticed when they
passed out the Oscars; and 1.-THE
Good Earth" for which her por-
trayal of a work-bowed, famine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
4 PrOduCer-ACtOr in Conflict
BY ROSaLind Shafej

coat and yelling roll 'em" at the tor
of his voice as he runs.
Through the years, Cantor has
frequently had ideas to improve q
film, tighten a situation, contribute
a punch line. as members of the
starring casts of the. old Ziegfelc
shows used to do. 1t wasn't so gooc
in films, however, so Eddie stuck
close to his own business. Played
his own lines and roles.
Now. in this first production of hi!
own, Cantor invites everybody tt
make suggestions. 1t produces some
rare free for-alls at times, such a.
the one over the dresses. but Eddi.
is satisfied that it improves the pic.
tlIra
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Billy Confesses
Fortune
Came His Way
By Yard Morehouse.

NEW YORK.
Billy Rose was at his desk beside
his three telephones, one gold and
two black, in his top floor Office and
bedroom of his five-story house in
Beekman place. 1t was pm. He
wore dressing robe and slippers. Be-
low his windows and his terrace
purred the traffic of the East River
drive. Beyond the river lowered
the ghosts of the Aquacade.
And what I meant" he went on
quietly, reaching for a cigarette, lis
that here I am at A. I have money
in all pockets. I'm in love with my
beautiful wife. I have Carmen
Jones and the Ziegfeld Theater. /
have this house and the house in
Mount Kisco and the Diamond
Horseshoe, and what more could a
fellow ask? I'm pretty lucky"
Here is the little fellow who used
to be an expert court stenographer
and who became a writer of song
hits: who took over the Texas
Plains with the Frontier Centennial
who adopted the New York World S
Fair with the Aquacade, and is now
moving in on grand opera with
Carmen Jones'" And he doesn' t
stop there He merely goes out and
buys the Ziegfeld Theater with
Ben Marden and hopes to produce
there for the rest of life.
Hit Without Profit.
He got himself a fresh cigarette
and we took up Carmen Jones'"
If you want to know a little
about that show, it cost $685.
900. There are 100 Negroes in the
cast and the pay runs from S45 a
week to $3.50 Oscar Hammerstein
and have no intention of ever
selling it to the movies. 1t took us
six months to cast the show and
despite the fact that I worked a
year o nit, I can't make a dollar.
All the money that the Government
will let me keep 1 make in the first
few months of the year at the Dia-
mond Horseshoe. :. Sure, I'm work.
ing for the Government and pro-
ducing for the Government. The
billing might we'll read, Uncle Sam
and Billy Rose present or Billy
Rose and Mr.. Morgenthau present.
why am I working if there's no
money in it? Well, for the sheer love
of it. There may be smarter fellows
in this business, but there's nobody
who gets as much fun out of hard
work. . Carmen is now playing
to the biggest crosses in America
Lee Shubert thinks it will run two
years. Maybe it will"
Billy had another quick session at
the telephones and we got into
opera.
Opera for Slumber.
"You know, I sleep better at the
Met than I do at home, but there
come moments when opera Is more
wonderful than anything in the
theater. The opera is really a stunt,
but it has two things: A superb Or
chestra and great voices. I'm con-
tinually amazed that the Met has
a deficit. Here is an absolute mo-
nopoly in a city of 100000, and
still it's always in the red. Why, why
a deficit?
Suppose you had the only gam
bling house in New York? Or the
only grocery store or theater? The
Met should really be a gold mine
I'm not telling them how to run
their business, but take the opera
Carmen It's produced now Just
as it was several years ago
clothes, direction, lighting. I think
opera should be beautifully set ur
and directed in the modern manner
I think Carmen Jones' shows that
there is. enormous profit in opera
(see MOREHOUSE, Page C-9)
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Young Warmly Welcomed.
.SOOtless SCOT

Smudge around movie fireplacex
is only liquid backing applied with
brush because the fire always is q
gas flame spouting from plaster imi-
tation logs that makes no SCOT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

FOR THE GLORY OF "MARIANNE"-Some talented
formers O lend their sks at the National Thedte
night Among the headiners in the cast of the musical comedy
haung to do Nth occupied France Mary Walsh
participates prominently In its music Jerry Wayne
spcuous figure the comedy department. Sharing the latter
burden is Ernest Truer ,Dho is shoDn the inset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
After Mother
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

I1oLL "oOb.
Since they look alike, Deanna
Durbin uses her mother as a model
for the exotic coiffeurs the screen
actress dreams up. If they look good
on mother they're okay for daughter
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WANTED TO RENT Three room house or cabin.-Notify the Nugget.
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miles to gallon you'll get when you haven't got it. But all over town you find evidence to the contrary. You find orphan epics, bereft of titles.
 Al RKC you run into a movie described as the untitled Sinatra." 7" At Columbia you are confronted with an untitled Kay Kyser", and at the same studio that film about Chopin languished, nameless, for months although Paul Muni, Merle Oberon and Cornell Wilde acted as industriously as though they knew what they were doing.
 There was time when the set was closed. perhaps for fear some vieiting scribe might write line then shoot himself in frustra- ton because he didn't know what he was writing about. For while it was "the untitled Chopin" then
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THE NOME NUGGET

it was just Chopin" Out only ir private, because people might think the picture was really about Chopin, which 1t is, and Chopin isn't box-office). Then they thought about "The Loves of Georges Sand which obviously wouldn't do, though quite box official, as loves always are. Cur rently they're tagging it "The Song That Lives Forever'-but don't you believe that one, either.
 Universal has an untitled mum Der called San Diego, I Love You That's a title, but how long will it last? Though l too love San Diego, I still say the title hasn't chance-unlss they're counting on the war-swollen popu- alton of our southern neighbor to foot the bill.
 Titles that went with hit nov els or plays are about the only titles that stand a chance of stick ing, no matter how confusing they may be to non-readers. National Velvet'-which is about little girl named Velvet who races her horse in the Grand Rational stee- plechase-will remain National Velvet" despite the folks who may think it's a tale of nationwide luxury. And Lady in the Dark" , which sounds like murder mys- try to the uninitiated, never un- derwent re-christening.
 Terribly important matter, ti- ties. Probably the worst title pin- ned on a movie in recent years was "The Human Comedy"-un- til you'd seen the picture. So many people slipped past that title through the turnstiles, some of them probably expecting Mickey Rooney to do an Andy Hardy, that it became top title of it's year 1 Maybe there's an untitled mo- ral in the fact.
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Naming the Baby Keeps Movie Makers Cessing
By ROBIN cooNS

HOLLYWOOD - Just as if things generally weren't confus- ing enough. Hollywood is having its own minor wave of perplexity over one of it's perennial, funda- mental problems. Like newcom- CTS to parenthood, it's lowering over a flock of celluloid cradles muttering: "What'n we name it?"
 You might think that naming a movie is siraule business. like de- ciding what meat to skip on "Meatless Tuesday, or how many
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In 1943 it took about 166 cords of pulpwood to produce ton of pulp.
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NOTICE!

NOTICE!
 All bills owing the Lin- coin Hotel prior to Aug ust Ist must be paid on or before that date, or
 Il be placed for collection.
 JOE MULLINS, Prop.