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Evening star., 1944-03-26
Hurok Dudgeon
Covers Several
Ballet Points
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES.
You've heard it said: THE Ameri-
can people are learning to like bal
let"
Now there, says Sol Hurok, is a
nice, SNUG statement. Hurok, who
used to be a streetcar conductor, is
the impresario of Ballet Theater,
and he maintains that Americans
have liked ballet for quite a while.
They're liking it better every year,
too, he adds. Ballet Theater, now
swinging North and East for its April
9 opening in New York'S Metro
politan Opera House, crossed $780,
900 in it's recent five weeks in Cali
fornia.
It's true that direct American con-
tact with ballet dates back compare
lively few years. In the old days
the Imeprial Russian Ballet didn't
come to you, you went to Russia
But ultimately Ballet Master Sergei
Diahilev sent it on world tours
Then Hurok brought Col. Vastly de
BasiIs Ballet Russo to the United
States In 1888, and Americans have
since had a fairly consistent diet OF
dancing.
Hurok, for all his close association
with arts musical and terpsichorean
is practical fellow. He has no more
patience with intellectual snobS
than with scoffers who ignore, OF
laugh at, the ballet. The facts, he
says, belle both. The ultracultural
crew, fond of declaring categorically
that only Russians-particularly
Russians of bygone era-can dance
irritate him particularly.
1.-The ballet" he says, lis interna-
tional. In our company We have
dancers of American, British, Rus.
sian, West Indian, Danish, Latvian
Cuban, Canadian and Mexican ex.
traction.
But especially interesting is tht
development of American dancers
Many of these, it is true, studied
abroad, but America also is develop.
ing good ballet schools Some o1
these are conducted by once-famou.
European dancers"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Coming Attractions

Yankee" elaborate
scale. Starts April 8.
CAPITOL-The Purple Heart" with
Conte Thursday.
COLUMBIAA Guy Named Spencer Tracy and Irene
Dunn, returning Thursday.
EARE-shne On Harvest Moo with Ann Sheridan
Morgan
KEITHSA Baba and the Forty Thieves" Marie Montez
and Jon Hall.
LTTEMajor Barbara" with Michael Redgrave and Wendy
Higher" Frank Snatra and
Michele Morgan returning
PALACE-Lady with Ginger Rogers and Ray Mil
land.
Px"Grand Illusion" with Eric stroheim Cabin
starting Tuesday.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Recent Pictures
Inspire Debate
On Good Taste
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
In a. town already loaded with
censorship, it begins to look as If
still another code will have to be
formulated to guide the presenta-
ton of all film material dealing with
the war. Good old common sense,
so often referred to and so seldom
found, doesn't seem to have filled
the bill. judging from comments on
pictures like 'Lifeboat," Passage
to Marseille" and up in Arms"
"Lifeboat" drew comments from
many who felt that it glorified the
Nazi; others judged it wanton ex-
hibition Of brutality when he was
murdered. Some consider 'Desti-
nation Toxic" too civilized and in
ternational in its thesis that we
must not hate Japs, but the system.
Passage" gets the criticism that if
we are going to horrify over the
Japs' shooting Of our unarmed para
chute men, it Is also villainous for
the French, our Allies, as repre-
sented by Humphrey Bogart, to
shoot unarmed airmen (Nazis)
scrambling on the wings of their
sinking plane.
In up. in Arms" serious efforts
OF those attempting to promote en-
liStment of women in the armed
forces receive a setback, because of
the situations involving many ir-
Irregularities, including the presence
of girl in the mems sleeping quar-
ters. No matter how funny, this Is
warranted to make many a mother,
already not in favor of allowing
Mary to 60 into the WACS or
WAVES or marines, purse her lips
and set down her foot. Granted it
is comedy, it is in questionable
taste in these times when old
fashioned families stand in the way
of many recruit.
The answer as to how all these
problems are to be treated is not
an easy one.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
With Never a Flutter
By Frances Long.

NEW YORK.
For years people have been laugh
ing themselves into helplessness at
the bewildered eccentricities OF Zasu
Pitts, at her naivete, and, especially,
at her futtering hands.
Actually, she is quiet, unassuming,
sensible. A visit to her New York
apartment would find her relaxed in
a comfortable chair, or, perhaps, at
the dsek, quietly writing a letter to
her son in the air force-certainly
mot bouncing around the room ex-
citedly as she does in her current
lstage role in "Ramshackle Inn"
Miss Pitts famous hands would be
resting quietly in her lap. Only oc-
casionally would she raise one to
reach for her pet vice"-a box Of
chocolates.
Family Comes First.
She would speak in soft voice
She would be wearing a smartly
tailored suit.
She would rather talk about her
family and her home than about her
acting career.
II am mother first and then an
actress" she says.
It always has been that way with
Zasu Pitts, who is Mrs. Edward
Woodall in private life, and that is
the reason she has never signed
any contracts.
Il always felt that if another Of
fer didn't come along, I wouldn't be
disappointed. I was just as happy
staying at home with my two chill
dren, Don and Anne.
After all am no glamour girl
My parts in the movies were only
small comedy and character ones
After the completion of Lets
Face It." which starred Bob Hope
zasu thought her career as char
acter actress had ended.
But up popped 'Ramshackle Inn
and here am on Broadway stage
for the first time 1t really is ex-
citing, too, although that sounds as
though am contradicting myself. y
Evening star., 1944-03-26
HOLLYWOOD.

I1oljb Woob.
If you want to know how tt
be happy with your divorced hus.
band, how to kill that demon jeal.
ousy so that you'll go out with hin
and the new girl friend when &C.
casion demands-stand by!
I've just got the stuff on these
perplexing problems from Edna
Shelton, completely divorced fron
Red Shelton, and managing very
nicely in all departments above
mentioned.
Edna has the distinction of being
the only feminine gag writer in the
business. She is pretty brownette
%, tall, slender and snappy dress
er. She has blue eyes that dance
and she can get a chuckle out of
anything, including her troubles, if
she thought of them as troubles
Beating around the bush is a
needless operation with Edna; she's
more likely to take your breath away
with her frankness. She's not what
grandma would call bold; she's just
honest. She's got more common
sense than most women could find
use for, but she's needed it.
Admits She Was Angry.
Referring to her friendly relations
with Red since the divorce, Edna
says, I'm not so modern; I got
good and sore about a couple o1
things, and I'm still sore. But Tn
not going to kick everything we've
won together right out the door.
Then, lapsing bit into senti.
ment, she added, Il can't hardly
remember what life was like be-
fore knew Red; we met when
was ID, cashiering in a move the
ater, and Red was in a burlesque
show up the street. We got mar.
ried just after I was Is. Gee, we've
had fun We hadn't any place te
go but up.
You see, the thing works both
ways. If Red weren't cooperative
we couldn't carry on as we do to-
gether. He's got some mighty won
derful qualities"
Then, like mother apologizing
for naughty child, she explains
Red is Junior, like on the air show
really. You can't judge Red unless
you've been with him like I have
''Yes, I know it seems funny
about my appearing with him anc
Muriel (Muriel Morris, one of Reds
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Picture Debut

Marguerite d'Alvarez, daughter of
Peru's Minister to Great Britain,
who has sung in opera in Europe
and this country, makes her movie
debut in war picture in which
she didn't sing q note and you
could practically plant a national
forest with all the dough that's be-
ing spent on the picture, "A Tree
Grows In BROOKLYN"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
HOLLYWOOD.


Pull up your chairs and listen to
the success formula of Monty Wool
ley, the bearded film starlet who
came up the hard way.
81 was 48 years old, broke, jobless
and practically hopeless when I
severed all ties with the only town
I love, New York, and came to Holly
wood for the sake of my ailing
sinuses," began Woolley.
The best break hoped for was
job as bartender in some saloon
with a discriminating clientele. 1t
is in the record that I climbed from
an income of nothing a week to-
let's see, call it 100000 a year, give
or take $4,000 either way.
This is a success story of the
first magnitude for mine has been
a success of art and not low money
grabbing. I cling to the view that
the successful man has no right
to withhold his secrets from others
who may aspire to the heights he
has attained
It shall therefore gladly make
available to your readers, one anc
all, and at no charge, the Monty
Woolley prescription for becoming
a film star"
Has a Choice Role.
The redoubtable Woolley, in al
clipper a mood as we've ever founc
him, is currently enacting a role
dear to his heart in Irish Eyes Are
Smiling" for Goth Century Fox
His name in this opus is Edgar ]
Brawley, but initiates will readily
recognize a very thinly disguised
portrait of the late Wilson Miner
an extremely versatile character who
was in his time raconteur, wit, hare
rock miner, impresario, medicine
man, bartender, bon vivant, equally
at home among the idle rich ano
the industrious poor.
There's gravel in Woolley's voice
which sounds when he's in a testy
Evening star., 1944-03-26
She Got Her Purse
And Also Reward
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
This little piece could be called
either "the case of the returned
wallet" or "the press agents dream, u
depending on whether you believe
it or not.
Gloria De Haven lost her wallet,
containing S. bill.
She didn't care about the five
spot, but the wallet was keepsake
from her father, Actor Garter De
Haven, so the story goes, SO Gloria
advertised her loss.
Well, she got her wallet back in
the mail, but instead of the SIS bill
it contained seven ones, and even
the press agent lacked an explana-
ton,
Evening star., 1944-03-26
% Years Were Happy Ones
Bv Yard Moreh0nse.

here to San Diego. It's OH the way
to a million.
Funny" she continued, "but J
was in Washington, just sitting
around with my husband, when
started the play. We were living al
the Statler. T told the idea tt
Madeleine Sherwood and then tolo
it to my husband again. I did about
20 complete drafts. I got it al
finished and came to New York. ]
first read it to Ned Sheldon and
then sent it to Max Gordon, who was
in the hospital. Max called me early
the next morning, all excited. He
sent the script to George kaufman
and that was all there was to it 4.
I've loved it all Now I'm working
on another. I also want to make 8
play out of my Atlantic Monthly
stuff"
Miss Gordon picked up small
photograph of the late Alexander
Woollcott, a study of him in g
rickshaw on his Vermont island.
Thinks A. w. Wonderful.
"This over Twenty One >" she
said, 'is the first show I've done ir
which Alec hasn't been part anc
parcel. Funny, none of us somehow
never feel that he's gone. He die
have such a personal hold on his
friends and such an evaluation oi
all of us. His greatest talent was
his capacity for friendship. He
did many wonderful things for peo-
Pile. When he saw "A Dolls House
in Chicago we had our doubts about
it but Alec guaranteed it would be
hit in New York. He finally made
it hit when he bought time and
made a 15-minute broadcast. And
then that wonderful Lynn Fontanne
stepped out before the curtain o1
her own play and told everybody tt
(see MORETIOUSE. Page C-9.)
Evening star., 1944-03-26

Oddly, it was a tragic role in the
silent movie Greed" that first won
her recognition in the film world.
She doesn't recall exactly how she
turned into a comedienne "but it
was just after talkies came into
existence. I guess it was just my
face!"
When young girl living in Santa
Cruz, Calf, Zasu had dreams of one
day becoming a nurse, but that am
bition had to be pushed aside when
her father died and Zasu and the
other children of the family had to
60 to work.
Mother suggested I try the
movies. landed job as an extra
and my ambition sailed out of the
window
MY Anne, though, is taking up
nurses aide work, SO in a sense my
dream did come true"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
"The first time I ever put my dear
little foot on the stage" said Ruth
Gordon, was the night of Decem-
ber 21, 1915. When December comes
around again I will have been in the
theater twenty mine years. And just
think-it took me all that time to
get a hit, my own hit. mean when
you can unpack and know you're 60
ing to stay"
Our Miss Gordon, wearing beige
jersey frock, earrings and cultured
pearls, fingered flock of pencils as
she sat at the bridge table in the
living room of her apartment. I
had come into the presence of the
towns new playwright and success
story, the author of "Over Twenty
one," and also its principal player.
Eyes" she said gayly, "it's the first
play ever wrote. Nobody was writ
ing plays any more so that's why I
did it. Now it's all so wonderful you
can't believe it. There's money
around here in every drawer. Busi-
ness is so good at the Music Box
that on the night of big rain
storm recently two foolish people
paid to stand up."
Now She's a Dramatist.
The New York theater has known
Ruth Gordon for many plays from
the time of her first, the revival of
Peter Pan" in 1915 to "Over Twen-
ty-one" in 1914. She made impor-
tant appearances in Seventeen y
and ''The Country Wife," in Ethan
Frorne" and "a Dolls House" She
belonged to Katharine Cornell's
glittering Three Sisters" cast. Now
she must also be considered as a
dramatist for "Over Twenty-one" is
q comedy that will be played in
most Of the legitimate theaters from
Evening star., 1944-03-26
No Sips-No Stifs

Glasses of colored gelatin now
substitute for fancy drinks in many
nightclub table scenes They
cost less, don't spill and photograph
better than the real stuff
Hangover House" will be filmed in
color, which ought to make the pink
elephants more realistic.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Today's Schedules

Stage.
NATIONAL-"The Doughgirls" pm
cAPIToIswing Fever 435~ 72o and 10 pm
Los, 3:45, $50 and pm.
COLUMBIA "Ratoning" 1885 1885, 535 735 and s35 pm
EARLE-"Cover Girl" las pm Stage shows
los, 3:45, $50 9:15 pm.
KEITHS-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" 14o
800 and 10
LTTTLEThe Pimpernel' 315 Sos 72o and $40 pm
METROPOL1TAN-"None Shall Escape" 3:1o 520
$40
PAIACE-The Song of Bernadette" 3:4O $50 pm
P1X-"A Star Is Born" 1:45 425 7 and $40
TRANS-LUx-News and Shorts. Continuous from 1 pm
Evening star., 1944-06-24

inscription They dedicated to mothers gave
for their country to Elizabeth Porter Edwards daughter
of Gen. Clarence Edwards; to Margaret Wicke Brown
to Mrs Larz Anderson to Jane Deano and 296 to John
Boyd Woverton, his tribute to American
of the District of Columbia Chapter
York County Model Red Cross Workroom The offices
District Chapter here also huge workroom for
sewing knitting and packing of kits for servicemen Trucks
and of the Motor Corps Canteen ready
depart and night trips regular tours
for soldiers guarding Washington
Evening star., 1944-06-24

p r ! e S thOod at
services at IL
a. m. tomorrow
at the church.
The most Rev.
Peter L. Ireton
D. D., Coadjutor
bishop of Rich
mond, will pre-
side at a solemn
high mass at IL
am, and also
will speak at aft
ernoon services
at 4 o'clock in the
st. James Hall.
Mayor M. H.
H a ert Ell, Ray
Evening star., 1944-06-24

validated every four weeks instead
of every two weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound Of waste kitchen fats you
turn in. The fact that lard. short
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection Is less
essential.
Sugar-Book No. stamps 30, 81 and
80 valid for 5 pounds indefinitely.
Book No. stamp 40 good for 5
pounds for home canning through
February %, 1945.
Gasoline-No. 10-A coupons good
for 3 gallons each through August
Evening star., 1944-06-24

Keating and j. o. Martin will be
among those delivering congratula-
tory messages during the. afternoon
services when Father Mullarkey will
be presented $4,000 in War Bonds
collected in the parish to aid in the
construction of new school.
| Others who will take part in the
observance are the Right Rev Leo
j. Ryan, pastor of the Richmond
Cathedral, who will speak at Father
Muilarkey's jubilee mass; the Very
Rev. Robert Hickman, chancellor of
the Richmond diocese; the Rev.
Peter Schouten, Craddock, Va; the
Rev. Michael j. Cannon, Richmond; ;
the Rev. Leonard Roster, Alexan-
dria; the Rev. Robert Harmon,
Cherrydale, and the Rev. James A.
Brennan, Richmond.
A native of Milltown. County GAL
way. Ireland, Father Mullarkey was
educated at st. Jarlath's, Teum,
Ireland, and at st. Johns, Water
ford, where he was ordained.
He came to Virginia soon after
his ordination and first served in
churches in Portsmouth, Norfolk,
and Colonial Beach and at Harpers
Ferry, w. Va. before coming to
Falls Church in 1881.
A brother, the Rev. James F.
Mullarkey, is priest in the Arch
diocese of Taum, and a sister is a
nun in the order of the Sisters of
Mercy at Galway City. Another
brother, Harry Mullarkey, Is in
business in New York.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Sandy Point Highway
Section Completed
By The Assocjated Press,

BY the Associated Press,
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, June 24.-Tht
final section of the new Sand,
Point terminal ferry road connect
ing Ritchie highway with the west.
ern terminus of the Chesapeake
Bay ferry system was ready for use
today.
In announcing the completion oi
the work, which was speeded up Ii
anticipation of Fourth of Jul,
traffic, Gov. O'Conor said yesterday
the new highway marked the final
step, for the duration at least, In
the establishment of the new ferry
terminal at Sandy Point.
The Governor reported that the
removal of the terminus from An.
napolis reduced the water-travel
distance from 7ia to 4 miles and the
time of ferry travel from As to 2,
minutes.
He reported that since the open.
ing of the new terminal November
/ traffic over the Sandy Point
Matapeake route had shown
monthly increases up to SO per cent
with a total average increase for the
seven months of more than 20 per
cent.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
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., 1944-06-24
Details Of Larry Kelly
Death on Cargo Ship
In Pacific Awaited
Justice Department
Had Arranged for
Vessels Return to u. S.

Details of the death Of . man be-
lieved to be Larry Kelly, long-sought
District labor union ofilcial who has
been under Federal Indictment on =
charge of conspiracy to embexxle
union funds, were awaited here to-
day following the War Shipping
Administration announcement that
he was found dead Thursday aboard
a small cargo, vessel plying the Pa
|cific.
The agency said yesterday 1t had
been informed by the Army that
Leroy Kelly. believed to be Larry
Kelly" was found dead on the 8. 3.
Clarence Darrow. No details were
Igiven.
Ship Was Returning.
VISA disclosed that at the request
|of the Justice Department it had
completed arrangements-just be-
fore Kellys death--to have the
Clarence Darrow return to an
American port so that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation might arrest
Kelly.
The ship has been operating
among the Pacific islands In the
service of the Army. Kelly was
listed on the crew roster as second
cook.
Kelly, chairman of the building
committee of Local No. "A of the
Hod Carriers, Building and Com
mon Laborers Union, was indicted
last March. Assistant United States
Attorney John w. Fihelly has said
he would prove that $500, 900 Of the
unions funds had been misappro-
lpriated.
Widow Receives No Confirmation.
Kelly also faced a charge OF eva.
sion of liquor tax laws in connection
with the operation of Ell Patio Night
Club, I'll Thirteenth street NV. He
had been missing since last July,
when the first investigation of union
activities was launched.
Meanwhile Mrs. Kelly, who was
named In one count OF the indict-
ment. awaited word of her husbands
death from VISA. She disclosed at
her Berwyn (Md) home yesterday
that she last heard from him In
January. He was not then at sea,
she said, but refused to give further
details.
Mrs. Kelly informed The Star she
had received no official confirmation
Of her husbands death and said her
first news came from reporters.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Sedition Defendant
Loses 100000 Suit
Against Attorneys
CompIoint by EImhurst
Charged 'Sobotoeine'
Of His Defenses
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

| No cause of action against 0. John
Rogge and Joseph w. Burns, Justice
Department prosecutors in the Sc
dition case, was shown In a COM
plant filed by Ernest F. Elmhurst,
one of the % defendants, asking
damages OF 100000 from the Gov
ernment attorneys and his former
counsel, Ira Chase Koehne. for as
sertedly conspiring to sabotage" his
defense, Justice James w. Morris of
District Court has ruled.
Justice Morris. however, studied
today other legal questions raised In
a preliminary argument over the
suit, and James j. Laughlin. attor-
ney for Elmhurst in this particular
proceeding, was granted Is days to
amend the complaint
A complexity of legal issues was
raised when Justice Morris heard
the arguments late yesterday on
this civil process, one of numerous
pieces of collateral litigation grow
/ ing out of the sedition trial. The
mass trial is in recess until Mon
day.
Delay Is Granted.
At Mr.. Koehne's request that por-
tion of the Elmhurst complaint re-
lating to him was held in allegiance
until Justice Morris determines a
question the attorney raised. This
was Mr.. Koehne's contention that
he is immune from such a proceed
ing while he is tied up in the sedi-
ton trial.
Mr.. Laughlin also is asking for
ElmhurSt an injunction restraining
Mr.. Koehne, Mr. Rogge and Mr..
Burns from interfering further with
the defendants defense. Elmhurst
now is represented in the sedition
case by M. Edward Buckley, who is
taking no part in the civil suit. Mr..
Koehne still has three clients at the
sedition trial-Lois De Lafayette
Washburn, Frank w. Clark and H.
Victor Broenstrupp.
Immediate relief sought from
Justice Morris by Mr.. Laughlin was
a restraining order preventing Mr.
Koehne from drawing down" 50 500
in cash which friend put UP for
Elmhurst's bail bond. It was brought
out. however, that a surety company
holds the money and Justice Morris
said the restraining order was un-
necessary, since 1t was inconceivable
the company would turn 1t loose
while this suit was pending. Mr.
Laughlin told the courb Elmhurst
had got his friend to assign the
money to Mr.. Koehne, but later
this had been revoked.
Plot Is Charged.
While Mr.. Laughlin said the plot
contemplated surrendering Elm
hurst into the marshal's custody and
having him thrown in Jail, the other
attorneys developed that Chief JUS
tice Edward c, Eicher, presiding at
the sedition trial, had, with the
consent of the prosecution, reduced
Elmhurst's bond from $2,500 to
$1,000, though he still was at liberty
under the original bond.
Philip r. Miller, appearing for
Prosecutors Rogge and Burns, said
he was at q loss to understand what
Elmhurst's complaint meant in,
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Liquor Arrests Rise

Arrests for Federal liquor law vio-
lations totaled 1,152 in May-largest
monthly total in two years-the Al
cohol Tax Unit reported today.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Priest at Falls Church
To Mark Anniversary
Fother MuIIorkey to Get
$4,000 Bonds for School

The Rev. Edward v. Mullarkey
pastor of st. James Catholic Church
Falls Church, will mark the 25th
anniversary of his ordination to the
Evening star., 1944-06-24

charging Government counsel with
"sabotaging" his defense, since this
presumably was prosecutors duty.
All the charges that the prosecutors
had conspired with Mr.. Koehne
against Elmhurst and that Mr..
Koehne had betrayed his duty to
his client were too vague to meet,
Mr.. Miller contended. The court
agreed.
Elmhurst, who lives in New York,
is described by the Government as
author of The World Hoax"