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Evening star., 1944-08-13
Monte Carlo Decides
10 Add Movies to
Its De Luxe Cuisine
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
While the ,Stork Club generally is
accepted as the most famous nix. t
club in the world. certainly the most
lavish Is the Monte Carlo, Madison
avenues gift to luxury diners and
to Designer Franklin Hughes.
As If four changes of lush interior
decor q year-one for each season.
aren't enough, the Monte Carlo this
week Is trotting out its latest attack
on ennui: A motion picture theater
where diners and Slippers may sit
back in big easy chairs and see the
latest newsreels, shorts and an oc-
casional feature film.
The projection booth is set in a
wall and masked by mirrored walls
and ceiling. To a guest. it looks
like a richly upholstered dining
room
But. with the pressing of a few
buttons, the walls move and a screen
appears, not a portable affair. but
a full-size job with modern sound
equipment. Furthermore, the room
is set up for television projection.
1t may seem impossible, with the
sort OF equipment on view, but the
management insists it has used VIC
tory materials and reused it's plumb
ing, ducts and other vital utilities.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
Scouts Are Everywhere
By. Harold Hefernan.

she was clowning on the set, singing
We're In the Money" In pig Latin "
between camera setups. The pro-
ducer walked in, overheard her and
decreed the song was to 60 in the
picture. Ginger made the aisle
seaters pay strict attention with the
number and Hollywood was quick to
follow suit.
Most recent of the striking Cinder-
ella stories concerns Gail Russell
now an important Paramount star
but hardly more than a year ago a
schoolgirl with no movie ambitions
A talent scout at Paramount picked
up two hitchhiking boys, who dis
covered his identity and began raw
Ing about their classmate. who was
"prettier than Hedy LAMAR" The
scout, strictly on hunch, went back
to the school few days later and
looked up the girl. He didn't tell
Gail Russell to 60 to a little the
ater or study dramatics. He simply
signed her up and three weeks later
she had an important role in a
movie.
Most famous soda slipper in the
movies Is Lana Turner, and the best
known candy store clerk Is Ellen
Drew. There's some question about
where Lana was discovered. Some
say 1t was In a drugstore, while
others insist she was behind a rib
bon counter In Hollywood boule-
ward department store when that
man" walked in, feasted his eyes and
ran to telephone a studio. Anyway,
1t was strictly accidental" The
Ellen Drew clerkship discovery is
pretty well authenticated; In fact,
she sold box of candy to an agent
and that was cit" II either of these
stars studied hard" it was wholly in
tne interests OF impreSsing custom
erS.
She Was Followed.
Nary Beth Hughes, a star at
M-u-M and later at 10th Century
Fox, was gazing into a HOLLYWOOD
automobile showroom when she OBJ
served the reflection of a sleek
looking gentleman giving her the
double once-over. She hurried along
and so did the man. When she
stopped, he did also. She was about
to apply to the police, when the
man stepped up, handed her his
business card. and gave out with
the old line: How would you like
to be In the movies?" However, he
was a solid agent and landed her
a contract within a few DAYS.
Sue Carol, actress turned agent
switched on her auto radio while
cruising around town one dav. A
dramatic skit was coming over the
air. Something about the voice of
one OF the players attracted her
attention. When the cast was an
nounced she heard the name-AAn
Laid. Miss Carol looked him up,
later signed him and got Paramount
interested. The rest is history-and
Miss Carol became so interested in
his career she up and married her
discovery.
Messenger boys. gas station at
tendants, clerks, drive-in mattresses
there are scores of stars and fea-
tured players today who have come
up the fast and easier way without
even getting a glance at little the
aterS, radio studios or dramatic
| schools. However, nobody reaches
or stays on top without possessing
the stun 1t takes. combination of
talent, even temperament and great
enort. The first crack at screen
glory is often as haphazard as Slip
ping on a banana peel.
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Evening star., 1944-08-13

was as Tybalt in Romeo and
juliet IN 1908 and since then he
has been in l20 plays and over 200
films.
His full name is Herbert Halliwell
Hobbies, but he prefers to drop the
Herbert because as a child his play
mates chanted little rhyme about
Erbert" which rankles still in his
mind.
The name Halliwell was given
to me in courtesy to my godfather
HaiilWell Phillips, who was a great
Shakespearean scholar. ITS quite
respectable, he chuckles.
1t has been four years since
Hobbies has appeared on Broadway
He says he is glad Ten Little
Indians" has brought him back to
old familiar grounds, but in all
probability at the end of the run
ne will 60 back to Hollywood to
complete his golf match
Evening star., 1944-08-13
NEW YORK.

NE" OEth.
According to the thermometer
according also to personal diScom-
fort, it was one Of the hottest days
of the summer. West 44th street
would have been completely sop
orific, sunk in the silence of SUM-
light and shadow, had it not been
for the long, parboiled queue out
side the St. James Theater where
Oklahoma" Surges toward autumn
at high tempo and file of ticket
purchasers extending from the
Broadhurst Theater box Office to the
curb.
1t was matinee day here for Aga
tina Christie's mystery thriller, Ten
Little Indians" and I entered back
stage to see how the eight doomed
players were feeling
We" remarked Nicholas JOY
destined to suffer lingering arsen-
ical translation from this life in
the second act-"who are about to
die are thoroughly resigned to our
fate. For it will keep us here in
the air-cooled theater for some
thing over two hours before we are
again exposed to Manhattans tor!
rid temperature. Nor do I overlook
the electric fans which Mr. Shu-
bert has provided to lessen the
pangs of dramatic diSsolution-nor
the ice box over there filled with
well-known soft drink which !
forbear to advertise
Drink Has Varied Uses.
incidentally. that refreshing drink
has uses at the Broadhurst aside
from its employment as a beverage
1t is the fluid in the hypodermic
that sends Miss Estelle Winwood
to that realm where-presumably-
acidulous middle-aged ladies are re-
warded for their years of spinster-
hood.
Haliwell Hobbies in shorts and
undershirt was adjusting an electric
fan so that it would bear directly
upon his dressing table No doubt
you have seen this accomplished
actor adding dignity and artistic
aplomb to stage and screen over
period of many years. Whoever
cast him as the agent of wholesale
murder with the idea in mind oi
absolving him from any suspicion
of lethal activity until the time
comes-third act-to expose him
picked precisely the right man. For
Hobbies is one in whom at first
glance you read benignity. toler-
ance, humaneness and lofty char
acter. How does he like a role SC
radically at variance with all the
amiable fundamental qualities which
mien and appearance suggest?
He Likes Evil Character.
Il love it" he said. For so many
years have played sanity charac-
ters-I am one of the few actors
who ever portrayed His Holiness
the Pope; it was in Hall Caine s
Evening star., 1944-08-13

HOLLYWOOD.
HollyWood's most ironic success
story is that of Alexander Knox
Fortunately, he has sense of hui
NOR. He is amused by what Is hap
pening to him.
He plays the biggest masculine
role of the year. in the biggest pic
ture of the year, Daryl F. Zanuck's
Wilson" which recently opened to
thunderous acclaim in New York.
Yet Hollywood doesn't know Alex
ander Knox when it sees him!
"A few weeks ago." he told me
drily, over cup of excellent coffee
which he brewed himself in his
small apartment in the Sunset Tow
ers overlooking Hollywood, Il went
to big dinner party. Practically
the only people knew were the host
and hostess After dinner, the guests
gathered in the living room in
chatty little groups. was standing
more or less by myself. A roly-poly
little man walked up to me and
said. Don't l know you?' I had
never seen him before in my life.
said. 'Perhaps-but haven't been
in Hollywood very long
He asked Didn't I meet you at
the MocambO about month ago?'
I said No, I hadn't been at the
Mocambo.' He mentioned some
other night club. Then he went
down a whole list of night clubs.
Finally, he said, Maybe I met you
at Louis B. Mayors dinner party.
I confessed I hadn't been at Mr..
Mayors party. He mentioned an
other party. Then a long list OF
parties. hadn't been at any of
them.
Fellow Just Confused.
BY this time, the man had a fur
row in his forehead, from trying to
remember where he had seen me.
He buried his head in his hand
and concentrated Then he broke
into bright smile. I'm so sorry
he said. I've confused you with an
actor saw on the New York stage
last year-a chap named Alexander
Knox"
Knox paused for my sympathetic
laugh, then continued
That sort of thing happens all
the time. Just after the picture
Wilson was finished, I went to a
local sports event. About so feet
away, I saw Director Henry King
and waved to him. He didn't wave
back, he looked right through me.
During the intermission. 1 went
over to him and said. Henry, fancy
meeting you here AS soon as u
spoke, he recognized me-from nv
voice.
The reason for this lack of recog-
milton is that in person Knox looks
nothing like the late World War u
President. His resemblance to Will
son on the screen is a miracle of
makeup. Actually Knox is a vorno-
Evening star., 1944-08-13

NEW YORK.
HalllWell Hobbies was playing golf
In Hollywood when the telegram
came that offered him the leading
role in the current Broadway mys-
terry comedy Ten Little Indians"
Darn it." he sighed, there goes
my golf match" But his regret
faded, once he had read Agatha
Christies script, and 67-year-old
Halliwell Hobbies was impatient to
hop the next plane for New York
and start rehearsals.
Almost ~ years in the theater is
no time to stop for a golf match"
he smiles Besides liking the play,
! was anxious to get back to the
am flesh and blood again-not just
some person seen on the screen
From Buffers to Bishops.
Tall and distinguished, Hobbies has
played lawyers, diplomats and bish-
ops and likes to be considered versa
llle Ill IOleS, Uut. lie ldIlSIlIS, 1
have played butler so often on the
screen I was afraid I would be typed
as such"
His character in Ten Little In
dians" is that of a slightly sinister
judge and he hopes the public will
forget about his butler days.
"Of course" he says with twinkle
in his blue eyes, my fondest ambi-
ton is to be in musical comedy
You know, the top hat, tails, a song
and dance with six beautiful girls
hanging onto my arms"
His long theatrical career has
taken him to all parts of the world,
including South Africa and Aus
tralia. but mainly, he says, he has
spent his time committing between
London and New York" 1t also has
supplied him with many amusing
episodes.
Like the time I was with the F..
r. Benson Company. We were play
ing in the old Shakespearean theater
in Stratford-o Avon and one day 1
managed to obtain rowboat. A
whole lot of us went for a little
JOY ride on the river between acts.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
Coming Attractions

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" with
Taylor Holmes and Lenore
Uric. starting next Monday.
CAP1TOL-"Double Indemnity"
with Barbara Stanwyck. Fred
MacMurray and Edward G..
Robinson, starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Going My Way"
with Bing Crosby and Barry
Fitzgerald, starting Thursday.
EARLE jamie" with Joyce
Reynolds, Edward Arnold and
Ann Harding.
KEITH'S-"In Society," with
Abbott and Costello and Mar
ian Hutton. starting Thurs
day.
LITTLE-"Mrs. Miniver' with
Greer Carson and Walter
Pidgeon. starting Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN - And the
Angels Sing" with Dorothy
Lamour, Fred MacMurray and
Betty Hutton. starting Friday.
PALACE-"Dragon Seed" with
Katherine Hepburn and Wall
ter Houston, starting Thurs
day.
They Were Five with
Jean Cabin. starting Tues
day.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL -" Home in Indi-
ana: las, 4:30, ITO and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: los.
$50, $50 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA = Bathing Beau
ty': /, sos, Sis. 7::25 and
9:35 pm.
EARLE Mr.. Skefington':
1885, 4:25, 7 and $50 pm,
Stage shows: los, $50, $50
and 9:15 pm.
kE1TH'S- Step Lively: l.
2:45, 4:3O, 6:l5, 8 and GAS
pm.
TTLE-"Scarface":: 1:2O, $3.50,
$50, TBS and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN - "Thev
Made Me a Criminal: 1870.
$3.50, 5::35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
PALACE-"A Wing and a
Prayer: /. $40, $40, 7:30
and $40 pm.
P1x-"Under Two Flags: !,
$50, $40 and $50 pm.
T r A N ST. U x News and
shorts. Continuous from /
pm.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
Blacked.Out Horses
Required for Film
: the Associated Press
JOI.I.VWON

HOLLYWOOD.
When Makeup Artist Garlic Tay-
lor was ordered to Utah with COM
pany making a cowboy picture, he
thought he was going to have a va
cation with pay.
Cowboys don't need makeup and
they certainly won't want me to
make up the horses" he reasoned.
He was only half right. The film
called for coal-black horses and
every morning Taylor, who is ac-
customed to making up such beau
ties as Alice Faye and Betty Cradle
had to touch out white spots on half
a dozen of the animals.
Evening star., 1944-08-13
HOLLYWOOD.

Ask the movie talent scout or the
big producer what boy or girl
should do to break into the movies
and what do you hear? The same
old routine:
Work study join a little
radio. Remember, Hollywood has
many talent scouts all over the
country. II you have talent for the
movies. never fear, you shall be dis
covered.
| Ask Joel McCrea the same ques-
tion and what would you be likely
to hear:
Get a good-looking trench coat
and walk up and down a movie lot.
Some producer is certain to like 1t
and stop to ask you where you got
same. And that's your entree."
Pose the same question to many
other big-time film stars of today
and you'd get replies almost as
unique as McCrea'S.
Actually, for every one of today's
stars who has followed the con-
ventlonal route-little theater. radio.
night clubs and that sort of show
case suggested by long -winded studio
oosses-there are at least a couple
who have made their mark purely
by accident-or "the breaks"
Trench Coat Did Trick.
McCrea's break toward fame was
probably the oldest ever encoun-
tered by Hollywood aspirant. He
had been doing extra" work for
months and had just about given
up hope of getting anywhere. He'd
saved enough from his meager SAL
ary TO buy one of the first trench
coats shown in local stores. He was
walking along Cover street. lust
outside the RKO lot, when he
accidentally bumped into Howard
Hawks. the director. BY way of
apology, Hawks admired McCrea S
f1ashy coat, asked him where he got
1t and the price. Then the director
was struck by the good looks of
the chap" wearing it. The windup
was that Joel landed his first big
role in a Hawks picture, The Silver
Horde"
A little girl named Constance
Keene, recently arrived from Flor
ida, accompanied a friend to a Hol-
lywood casting ONCE. The friend
was applying for a bit part. She
didn't get 1t. But Constance did.
Not too long afterward she got
something else, a chance to test
for a part that was earmarked for
fame. And when she made the test
her freshly-shampooed hair fell
over one eye What an accident
Constance Keene was renamed We
ronica Lake. Of course, the peek-a-
boo-bang girl.
Ray Milland assaulted the studios
in vain. became discouraged and
decided to give up. He boarded q
bus one morning with the intention
of taking job in service station
Casting director Joe Egh of Para
mount was on that bus because his
car had refused to start. Egii was
looking for specific type for a
specific part. And when he looked
across the aisle at the tall, hungry
looking Milland, that was the end
of his search.
Flynn Dived Into Job.
Who can say 1t wasn't by accident
that a scientific expedition out II
photograph headhunters happened
to hire a boat belonging to an out.
at-the-elbows soldier of fortune
named Enrol Flynn? Flynn pilotee
them up the Sipek River in New
Guinea and once when they wanted
a picture of somebody diving over
board Flynn obligingly arched his
handsome chassis into a perfec,
dive. In due time the picture came
into the sight OF movie producer
and Mr.. Flynn was on his way tc
romance, on and of the screen.
Ginger Rogers had the merest bit
in The Gold Diggers" until the day
Evening star., 1944-08-13

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Evening star., 1944-08-13
JOBS Always Interrupt His Golf Games

ny FRANCES Long
We hadn't changed our costumes
and the business manager of the
theater fined us half a crown for
that little escapade."
Born at Stratford.
Stratford-on-Avon is his BIRTH
place and the Shakespearean at
mosphere created in him the de-
termination to become an actor
HIS father had law ambitions for
MS son, but Il told the governor
actor 1t had to be and actor it was. -
His initial London appearance
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-04-29

Sometimes, as with the pressure In q steam
boiler, It escapes through an unseen safety valve
Instead OF battling Some innocent stranger, q mem.
Der OF ones family. or friend we just sit down
and tell some sympathetic and confidential listener
what we think about the dirty so-and-so that we
had the run-in with. This lets of steam. Some
times we report our justified beefs to organiza.
ton which gets revenge for US In q constructive
manner.
Another human safety valve that unconsciously
lets out hostility without making the situation
worse Is sudden destruction OF a cheap item OF
ones own property. mo! I'm not recommending
Many housewife. when her anger grew uncon.
rollable. has avoided smashing her husbands
head by dashing ten cent dish into smithereens
on the floor. She feels better after it--in the
same way that some persons feel better after hav.
ing slammed door or kicked chair "a soft one)
Which brings us to recreation, which also pro-
vides, among many other satisfactions the oppor-
tunity for letting out hostities in a constructive
socially acceptable way. When you kick foot
ball, or swat baseball, you are, say the PSYCHE
artists, unconsciously swatting or kicking that
enemy which in the real life situation you had no
liberty to kick or to swat. That is, you drain of
the hostility.
In other words, any city which fails to provide
adequate recreation for its citizens is asking for
human explosions. Recreation is not only con-
structive outlet for hostility already accumulated:
the lack of II is itself for increased dissat-
isAoSuohS. ouniialys CouSeSteu 8neCO housing Is
an ever present breeding ground for pling up hos
tities, while decent housing provides a retreat
for the person who in other situations Is dsad-
vantaged.
When one recognizes that our colored citizens
are, as group, the most disadvantaged of any of
our entire population that the lack of decent hous-
ing and absence Of recreatonal facilities is felt
most keenly by these, that in addition they suffer
discrimination in practically all other areas Of
human activity, and that they themselves are the
scapegoats for the hostility of other groups-when
one remembers these facts one can but marvel at
the continued self discipline Of our colored
citizens.
How much longer viii our city officials test
their endurance to hold out? Are they waiting for
breaking point? For an explosion?
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though We will have baseball il will be less than
top-notch. There is much moaning and crying and
specializing.
However there is not enough grief TO cause
clubs or managers TO sign up Negro players. The
usual picture on opening day Of Big Shot tossing
out the first ball showed Vice President Wallace
at the Washington game autographing ball for
a VENEZUELAN pitcher for the Washington
Senator's
Anybody can play in the big leagues except
Negroes have told this story once. but it bears
repeating: When the great Joe DiMaggio played
in his first Worlds series. they brought his mother
10 New York to see the game. But when reporters
sought to interview her they had to talk through
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an Italian interpreter because Mrs DiMaRgio. al
though she had lived in the United States for
FORTY years, could not speak English. But her
son "a great player and, so far as know a good
guy could play with the Yankees while the sons
of good, sound American Negro mothers couldn't
get anywhere near the Yankees
Nowadays the big clubs doing anything to
get players Youngsters gobbled from the
class u clubs. Old men like Crossetti are talking
about coming back. Even old Rogers Hornsby had
the nerve to give an interview. But when Golfers
magazine published two weeks ago the battins
average OF Negro basebars Josh Gibson showina
him to be far In front of American and National
League stars, no one rushed to Gibson with a con-
tract
Professional football Is also crying into its beer
and snatching players from everywhere-except
negro players The clubs being bossed by Elmer
Layden are even talking of taking 17-year.old
nigh school players They held their annual draft
the other day and drafted every PLAYER and his
cousin not in uniform-except Negro players
IL Is difficult to understand why professional
baseball IS so stubborn in maintaining the color
Inc. The arguments usually advanced don't sound
'errioiy important that southern white PLAYERS
OBJECT 10 Negro teammates. that hotels in border
cities like St Louis Washington and Cincinnati
VIII not accommodate teams with Negro members
The hotels are bluffing and are tagging behind
public opinion. As for the players baseball is
played for money. No one ever heard of a SOUTH
ern white boy refusing to fight Negro for money
In the boxing ring. They will do the same on the
diamond II they told that is the way il is 70 be
II Is time baseball became in truth the national
pastme.
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UNCLE TOMS CABIN

Of the Golden State Life Insurance
Co: IT is sheer folly for Jews "a
entertain the notion that they
Will escape the wrath which racial
and religious bigotry let loose when
tensions are increased by propa-
ganda novels like Uncle Toms
Cabin" Doomed the Negro press:
Uncle Tom was a socially significant
work in it's day. IL is just a re-
hinder 10 the Negro Of slavery and
discrimination.
Sharpest blow was struck by Los
Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowrons
Committee on Home Front Unity
polite name for the Los Angeles
Race Committee). II recommended
that the Hays Office ban Uncle
Tom on the grounds that the pic
ture would cause racial tens on. "
Promptly Producer Hornblow
bugled: 1t seems TO me tina: the
Negro press is prone 10 exaggerate
the Objectionable aspects Of the
book. They sometimes think of
Uncle Tom as nothing more than a
quisling" He also compared Mrs.
Stowe with Tolstoy. called the re-
sentiment OF the liberals and a sur
prising" number Of distinguished
Negroes an insult and an irrever-
ence toward the author.
Then M-G-M Publicity Chief
Howard Strickling quit hedging,
formally announced that the pro-
duction was indefinitely" post
poned-which is diplomatic dialect
for forever.
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Daily Press In
Praise OF Court

NEW YORK-A survey OF edi.
torial opinion OF some daily papers
on the Supreme Courts opinion in
the Texas primary case shows that
editors generally hailed the deci-
sion. with the Richmond. Va. Times
Dispatch being the most outspoken
of the southern papers yet exam
ined.
Hitting straight from the should
or and declaring squarely for the
participation Of Negroes in prim-
n'ieS. Editor Virginius Dabney
writes:
Since Negroes have been admit
ted TO Democratic primaries in Viz
ginia for many years. IL is little
difficult 10 understand the tremen.
dous amount Of indignation and
heat generated in the Deep South
by the United States Supreme court
decision that they have a right to
enter such primaries everywhere.
The skies haven't fallen oil the
Old Dominion because OF participa-
ton by colored citizens In our
primaries.
There is no evidence whatever
that North Carolina has suffered
any disabilities as a consequence OF
having neither a poll tax nor a
white primary"