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Evening star., 1944-07-23
A Passing Grade for Cinema's First Semester
By Jaw Carm0dv

Along about this time it
desperately looking Sunday column that the
months with might be
good idea to check to what they them
Actually it bit than six months
nothing to qubble about.
feels grateful to the movies being
about for otherwise he might have just
at the head of the column.
In such mood he looks around thing he
about pictures during the Occasionally
cannot find blessed thing This different
whatever produced the wrought noble
compensation the form Going superb piece
Of human drama thing of all excellence
picture OF the to date and certain award
several awards will fall to f the prizes distributed
But the overall excellence Going My Way" very
OF its ability delight the lies
Fitzgerald. Time magazines critic,
frequently possible left in his enchanted
that Fgerald portrait Of crochey old Father Fzgbbon
of the six best things the had
would 100 1t demonstrates beyond cavi
merely legend that the movies hopeessy
in which the player puppet.
Performance Of Inspiration, Also,
To Others in Acting Profession.
Fitzgerald is being merely delight the
mass OF movegoers who appreciate the miracle
playing but an inspiration to his colleagues
Another virtue of Going My Way" which has
deserved of rhapsodic praise
dramatic the cinema be beings
instead OF the phony limitations magins Although
is easily the best illustration produced
the only
Two other rather startling illustrations found
In musicals released during the astounding
sort Of thing to be able for
always have been patiently human the relation of their
Evening star., 1944-07-23
The Loders Like the Loders
He LODERS DINING OUT.
BY Inga Arvad.

beautiful legs, but she just has had
longing for gorgeous costumes.
and naturally their rich materials
will add to the fragile beauty of
this Viennese- born star.
AS soon as the Loders finish their
respective pictures they are going
up into the mountains. 1T is so
beautiful up there" Hedy said
dreamily. I'VE don't see other peo-
pie, sometimes for a couple Of weeks,
and we have fun, such a gay charm
ing time"
The Loders have many more
plans, as John says, II just in
herited some money, and when the
war is ended in Europe we want to
go over there for a little trip. We
want to buy a house, too, just for
vacation purposes. And / wish
Mama" he said turning toward
Hedy, that you would settle down
and grow fat. Oh. how 1 would
love you when you haven't got to
bother about being slim"
i will still be good looking"
Hedy said teasingly. Il am sure at
IS will look better than today"
What on earth made you dare
to marry this woman?" l asked
John. Because she wasn't like any
of the other DANES" he said quickly.
And what about you?" I asked
Hedy.
She smiled prettily as she replied,
Because I thought he would be
easy to live with. I didn't really
know him-he has a vile temper.
and she laughted and put a slim
white hand over Johns big tanned
one.
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Evening star., 1944-07-23
NEW YORK.

NEW YUM.
Every one was deferential to
Walter Hampden as he went through
the Wednesday rehearsal of his title
role in Mutuals newest radio de-
tective thriller. AL concerned with
the workout were obviously sensible
of the eminence of a man, dean of
the American stage, who in the past
40 years has contributed many brill
liant pages to theatrica history here
and abroad.
Yes" he said, having finished re-
hearsing, seated at ease in loung-
ing room. the radio is really fasci-
mating to an actor-to me, at any
rate. Yet it is so different from the
stage. The time factor, the neces-
sity OF beginning and ending upon
an exact minute, every intermediate
half second of immense Importance
are very trying to an actor to whom
the Interpretation of a character is
very essential part of his per-
formance. The inexorably moving
hands OF a stopwatch give one very
iAeeAC eAiilC AOl eCtClilS W tllc lllSlOcS,
as we actors say, of role.
The Theater Will Live.
"Television. 1t will come, of
course, but do believe that public
preference, as it is my preference,
will always be to see a play acted
by living beings in front of an
audience. Audience reaction, as YOU
must know, is the very life of an
actor or actress and, of course, the
conditions under which one acts be-
fore a radio audience, reading a
part. no scenery. no costume and so
forth, are very different from those
that obtain on the legitimate stage"
Yes, he reads his parts in radio
acting, but. very often when the
lines are appealing. he can memo
rlze them at glance and thus
avoid, for a time, reference to his
script.
AS to his return to the stage, he
will come back as soon as some one
writes play for him, or an agent
provides him with one.
Il would like" he said, "to get
away from my old romantic roles
and, so far as I am concerned, am
afraid the time for light comedy
has got past me. 1 very much en-
Joyed playing Jefferson in The Pa
triots' on the road, and when there
was talk of my doing play with
Woodrow Wilson as the central
character was greately interested. !"
incidentally, Mr.. Hampden, as 1
can testify from personal acquaint-
Evening star., 1944-07-23
HOLLYWOOD !

HOLLYWOOD.
would like you to meet Mr.. and
Mrs. John Loder because they are
such a charming couple. and GER
tainly don't want you to miss any
of the nicer people around here.
You know very well who they are
You have read about her as being
the most gorgeous. the most beauti-
full, the most-well, the most out-of-
this-world woman on our planet.
OF course, it's Hedy Lamar.
Let us grant that the above is
right before we pull her down a peg
or two. before We take some of her
glamor away, and make her just
plain Mrs. John Loder.
Mind you, am doing this with
her consent. You see, to her, being
Mrs. Loder, married to that hand
some Englishman, is more impor-
tant than all the top roles in Holly
wood and the acclaim of the entire
male population of the world.
Her Theme Is John.
And how do I know? Well,
have talked to Hedy many. many
times-on the set, in her dressing
room, at lunch. And wherever we
have been the main topic of con-
versation has always been her John.
The other day, John snatched an
extra hour from The Brighton
Stranger" and Hedy didn't happen
to be working, so we all met at the
Players restaurant. Hedy and John
were on the dot. rare thing among
stars. Mrs. Loder wore her hair
very simply. put up and giving a
rather inconspicuous effect, but the
males at the other tables were all
eyes when this beauty in the slacks
and red coat walked in.
So there we were. We talked
mostly about the stranger" John)
Hedy and he had gone through the
script together and when they. came
to the line. Why. oh, why didn't I
strangle you before?" Hedy calmly
'ad libbed, Yes, why didn't you?"
We talked about everything under
the sun-from the war to the stran-
gler, to Hedy's and Johns house
and to babies. There has been a
rumor that the couple wants to
adopt another baby. (They already
have 4-year-old boy, called
Jamesie.)
why adopt one?" John asked.
Hedy didn't seem surprised. She
said. "Yes, I would like to have
children. Only there are two pic
lures must do first and them
Well, she didn't 60 any further. but
don't be surprised if after those two
pictures there will be a pause of a
year or so.
You see" Hedy went on, Il
couldn't possibly work half the time
if was going to have the baby. 1
haven't got the strength, or maybe
I am just highly strung"
Likes Her Next Role.
This changed the subject of con-
versation to Hedy's next picture,
Experiment Perilous," with George
Brent
L like the story" she said, and
she looked like the cat who swal-
lowed the canary, as she went on, Il
have been promised that 1 can play
the part in period clothes, a thing
I have wanted to do for years"
Believe me, it isn't because Hedy
wants to hide anything; she is
enviably slim, well shaped and has
Evening star., 1944-07-23

Character
production while but always
accident notable break with the fashion
Cover Girl which beautiful
to enough recognizable people
another
successful musical whose ability begue upon
the players like the charmed by it,
Even Mr.. Zanuck Now Willing
To Modify His Musical Pattern.
of the interesting Girl" is its
pact Daryl zanuck Of goth Century producer
has found financial
tried deceive the simplest Betty
Betty Cradle though might called
script The best illustration of Mr. Zanuek indifference
acer when he making musical provided
Russell in which Alice Faye played the title
played against background of Miss Russels
costumes that reproductions of the lavish originals
photographed in situations vaguely
Miss Russell But in her life did
Since Cover Girl Mr.. zanuck thinking
musicals must have hencefort people
to change his formula despite admirable
cSion and doubt will When first
OF them comes to town with Carmen Miranda cast
Melodramas Also Well
In First Half Season.
Another successful films
oil human emotion dramas to human audiences
With such pictures Gasigh Double Indemnity"
tom Lady, mention but three Hollywood
even in its baer aspects reality has appealing
in for good measure nclnes
lowers to forget such other items Jeep Heavenly
Body Cobra Woman" which have stark
tendency to pull Holywoods passing
That is pretty good. however, considering number
times it has funked % ~.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Temperament Means KIP
By Harold Hefernan.


on that lot Pola liked cats. Gloria
despised them. When Pola found
that out, she brought a dozen tab
bies into the studio and gave them
complete run of the place Dressing
rooms had to be moved to far cor
ners of the place and flunkies as
signed to keeping the two stars from
meeting.
There were the times when a
pampered Academy Award winner
overrode her directors and insisted
on giving her personal ."okay" to a
take before allowing the camera set
up to be changed. MGM finally
broke with the star because of her
dissatisfaction over roles and her
habit Of discussing her woes with
the press.
Somehow, with development of
talking pictures and the influx of
stage and radio trained entertainers
to form the bulWark of studio ros-
tiers, temperamental flares have
been more or less subdued Most of
the players today would be ashamed
to stage anything like those old
exhibitions for fear of being laughed
, out of their careers.
Battles over cameramen, hair
dressers and makeup men were
once frequent causes of walkouts.
George Raft has been known to
walk out on picture because he
couldn't get his own cameraman.
So have Claudette Colbert and even
Mary Pickford One time Mary
started work on picture, after a
long absence. and became furious
with Charlie Kosher, her cameraman
of many years, because he turned on
l8 arc lights. Mary thought. the i'm
plication was that she had wrinkle
or two.
Jetta Was a Fiery One.
Jetta Goudal was always good for
a show of some kind when she.
worked at Paramount. The boys
over there recall how she came on
the set, ready to shoot, in dress of
a lovely lemon shade. The actress
began looking over her dress, de-
cided she didn't like it-and pro-
ceeded to tear it off until she stood
with the gown in shreds at her feet.
So, with all these memories crowd
ing up, it's small wonder that the
old timers watch the soldier actors
on the double quick, with their "Yes.
sir" and mo, sir" on the set of
Winged Victory" At the end of
the first three weeks, Director Cukor
dazedly finds himself five days
ahead of schedule!
! George Reeves played opposite
Claudette Colbert when he was a
civilian, and Pvt. Lon McAllister
worked with some of the top screen
lovelies. They're not playing star
roles in Winged Victory" but do
! you think any agents have called on
the colonel to protest? Not exactly.
/ No plush-lined trailer dressing
rooms, no contract billing clauses.
no chauffeur driven, pearl-handled
limousines.
And when Dorothy D. Dimple of
Film Flam Magazine, the Voice of
the Fan, wants to interview Sergt.
Edmond O'Brien, that's also easy.
Just suggestion, the merest hint
from the lieutenant, and Sergt. Ed
mond will be there. Unless he's on
KIP duty.
(Released by the North American News
/ paper Alliance Tnc
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Hampden MUSES. on Radio
By Laurence Perry.

ance with Woodrow Wilson, bears
close resemblance to our World War
I President-except for the nose,
which could easily be modelled
and his speaking voice in its rich
ness and culture is very Similar.
For a National Theater.
Yet, Mr.. Hampden thinks the
theater has come to be Of minor
importance compared to its past
estate. Too many counterattrac-
tions, too many countermediums.
The Shakespeare-to-Shaw cycle
has ended and I don't know what
the future holds. A national thea
ter? I think that would be good,
provided care were taken not to
make it a nationalized theater. Per-
haps you get the difference, which
is great. State theaters have devel-
oped great artists. But they had
their troubles and grievous prob
lens. Sarah Bernhardt, you know,
walked out of the 1heater Fran
caise."
The current theater, Mr.. Hampden
thinks, must be reconstructed phys
ically to meet modern standards of
buildings designed to contain enter
tainment. Now they are either old
barns, or structures better suited to
horticultural exhibitions, horse
shows and the like. The modern
theater should be a beautiful place
wherein audiences can see and hear
comfortably"
No, he has not seen the current
"Othello." which has broken the
record OF Broadway endurance pre-
viously held by the Hampden
"Othello.' He has no belief that
Othello was a Negro and thinks
Hamlet was sane, but a highly
emotionalized man. Make him in
sane and you have no play"
(Released BY North American Newspaper
Alilance)
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Actually This Chap
Spends Forever
Blowing Bubbles
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
Whenever Jack Gaylord sings I'm
Forever Blowing Bubbles" he isn't
foolin'. That's how he makes a uv-
ing in the movies.
A special effects trick shot expert,
Gaylord constructed some elaborate
bubble blowing machines, and is
having a field day in the musical
extravaganza "Ziegfeld Follies."
For certain fantasy scenes, he has
the contraptions blow single bubbles
2 feet in diameter. then in clusters,
then they build up walls of tiny ones
20 feet high
BY controlling the temperature Of
air stratas, Gaylord can make the
helium-fllled bubbles practically do
what he wants them to in perform
ing intricate gyrations.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Carol Ann Follows
Beery Acting Routine
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated PreSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
Carol Ann Beery, Wally's adopted
daughter, is continuing her vaca-
tlon-time movie career-playing
grown-up role in her fathers Air
ship Squadron T."
Now 13, she has appeared previ-
ously in Beery films, but only be-
tween school terms. BY agreement
with her father, she is postponing
serious acting bid until she finishes
high school, three years hence.
Evening star., 1944-07-23

IlobL WoOO.
Nobody around Hollywood favor.
military dictatorship, but since
they've started filming Winged
Victory" the gentlemen who rur
the show and pay the bills over al
Twentieth Century-Fox admit thai
1t may have its points.
This picture is all CT and there's
a colonel in charge who has beer
in the Army a long time and the
300 men of the Army Air Forces
who comprise the cast know better
than anybody else that they're ir
the Army.
Winged Victory" is being made
at the request of Gen. Henry H
Arnold. who sees it as the air forces
report in dramatic form to give par
ents and public graphic picture
of how more than 100000 boys
have been prepared for combat.
So, although 300 members of the
sir forces are acting in the picture
they're still living on a regular
Army post at Santa Monica. getting
rigid Army training to fit them as
overseas replacements.
It's All Efficiency.
What makes this project interest
ing to all Hollywood studio heads is
the snappy manner in which the
movie is being put together. No
lost time. No lost motion And 1t
brings to mind more than anything
else possibly could how much pam
pering the civilian stars receive at
the hands of their bosses
If Carmen Miranda, for instance
doesn't like the design for a certain
gown in Something for the Boys
she says SO. And it's expected o1
her. a,.
II Monty Woolley feels the dia-
logue in the barber shop sequence
81 Irish Eyes Are Smiling" has a
bad oder,, he's likely to- make ii
clear-and loud. Nobody thinks
anything of it,
If an actor doesn't like a certain
take" of himself in a closeup, even
though it's been approved by the
director. he is permitted to act it all
over again, to suit himself.
But what a different atmosphere
prevails on the set of Winged Vic.
tory" One of the leading men is
Don Taylor. Corpl. Don Taylor, anc
when Director George Cukor makes
suggestion he does it quick like
Not that he wouldn't, anyway, but
also because there's large, lumpy
sergeant who's there on the side.
lines Just to keep the boys i'm
pressed with the fact that what the
director wants is what the sergeant
wants. Just because you're the lead.
ing man doesn't mean you cant
spend the night peeling potatoes OF
scrubbing the mess hall
Veterans Are Amazed.
Two veteran producers, men who
have seen Hollywood and its strange
methods develop over the last q
years, stood on the set watching
this phenomena in picture making
They couldn't help remembering
temperamental stars and f1are-up.
on the sets that delayed important
productions for weeks and cost the
studios barrels of money.
They remembered the electrifyinf
days when Gloria Swanson, queer
of the Paramount galaxy, and Pols
Negri, proud imported star from
Europe, fought for the top position
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Coming Attractions

NAT1ONAL-"Early to Bed"
with Joseph Macaulay, Doris
Patston and Amy Arnell,
starts tomorrow.
CAPITOL-"Home in Indiana"
With Walter Brennan and
Lon McAllister.
COLUMBIA - Somewhere I'll
Find You," with Clark Gable
and Lana Turner.
EARLE-"And the Angels Sing"
with Fred MacMurray, Dor
'othy Lamour and Betty Hut
ton, starting Friday.
LlTTLE-"Taxi to Heaven"
Russian film, with Mihkail
Zharof and Ludmilla Tschi-
kovskaya, starting Wednesday.
KEITH'S-"This Is the Life"
with Donald O'Connor, Su-
sanna Foster and Peggy Ryan,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"A Wing and a Pray
err with Don Ameche and
Dana Andrews.
METROPOLITAN-"Mr. VIM
kle Goes to War" with Ed
ward G. Robinson, starting
Friday.
PIX-"Moontide,' with Jean
Cabin and Ida Lupino, start
ing Tuesday.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Now that swing music is a mil
lion-a-year business for the TOP
band leaders in the trade, the gen.
tlemen who swing batons and have
the same worries as corporation
presidents-and oftentimes rake in
more cash per year-Will get togeth-
er Friday for a wartime meeting tc
discuss their problems.
The highly skilled-or at least
highly paid-leaders will convene in
Broadway's most famous dancery
Roseland ballroom, to null over such
nefarlous practices as raiding per-
sonnels of orchestras by offering
larger wads of long green.
The committee in charge of this
unusual meeting are Louis Brech-
er, owner of Roseland, and Band
leaders Ted Fiorita, Clyde Lucas and
George Paxton.
Ina Ray Hutton and Ada Leon
ard, girl leaders, discuss the womans
place in the orchestra world It's
hoped some agreement can be
reached to stop the practice of raid
ing orchestra personnels, which has
changed the lineup of some of the
top outfits as many as three and
four times.
Miss Abba Returning.
Marta Abba, distinguished italian
actress who retired six years ago
after redoubtable stage successes to
marry Severance A. Milliken, a
Cleveland businessman, has been
lured back to the footlights by the
bantam Bsrnum, Billy Rose.
Miss Abba, who created sparkling
role in fine play. 'Tovarich," will
play the part of Katherine Of Aragon
in Roses production of Henry the
Eighth"
Before Gilbert Miller brought her
to America for "Tovarich," Miss
Abba was the most important young
star of Italian drama.
She had appeared in all Of Luigi
Pirandello's plays, several OF which
were dedicated to her. The Rosen
production will be directed by Mar
garet Webster, the hugely successful
director of most of the recent Shake
spearean successes, including the
Paul Robson starring vehicle,
"Othello." Robert Edmond Jones
will design the sets.
One Of Broadway's longest running
musical shows, "The ziesfeld
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Another Peace Conference
By Jack O'Brian.

Follies," y" closed with tonight's tSat-
urday's) performance.
With 36 performers in Boston and
40 in Philadelphia prior to its open
ing at the Winter Garden Theater.
the Follies played a total of 629
times.
Milton Berle, star of the show, did
not miss a performance and, on his
of day each week, entertained at
military camps in the metropolitan
district, plus numerous bond rally
appearances and regular per-
formances at the Stage Door Cam
teen. He also has a weekly radio
show, just to keep him busy in spare
moments.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
=, Those j Wrong lyrics
Made No Difference
In Maria's Melody

HOLLYWOOD.
You should have seen Maria Mon
tez making singing scene. Without
a sarong, but in a silver bra, scanty
shorts and a long ostrich feather
train, Maria started down the stair
case. First time, the shot was spoiled
when the hand of the assistant di-
rector. guiding the train, got into
the camera. Next time, Maria
tripped.
After three more tries, it was
okayed, until the music director ex-
postulated that Miss Montez was
singing the wrong lyrics. AS the voice
is made in separate shot. and
dubbed in, the moving lips wouldn't
match
Who cares?" said the director.
Who's going to be watching her
mouth in this scenei"
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL-"Bathing Beauty"
1:50. 4.40, TBS and 1915 pm.
Stage shows: l, 3::45, 6:35 and
9:25 pm.
COLUMBIA-''White Cliffs of
Dover" 1:55, 4:35, ITO and
9:45 pm.
EARLE-"Adventures of Mark
Twain" 1:20, AIS, 7:05 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: /,
$40, $50 and 9::25 pm.
LITTLE-"Crime and Punish
ment," l, 2:45, 4:35, $40, 8:1O
and 10 pm.
kEITH'S-"Cobra Woman /,
ESQ. 4:35, 6:25, 8:l5 and
10:05 pm.
PALACE-"Going Ny Way"
1:30. 4:10, $50 and $50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"The Mask
of Dimitrios," 1:25, $3.50, 80,
7::35 and $40 pm.
PIX-"Swamp Water" /, 4, 7
and 10 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
In Reverse This Time
3 the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Abbott and Costello, the comics,
are taking no chances on offending
animal lovers in their new picture,
In Society,""
AS riders to the hounds, they're
staging a fox hunt. But they have
a new, humane angle on it. The fox
"a stuffed one-will chase them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-05
Catholic Information Look at that waitress crossing herself!"

Some lightningi" remarked Jim from across the table in the golf club grill. And look, will you, at that waitress crossing herself. I suppose that weird sign will keep her from being struck poor expectations creature.
 That weird sign" I answered, has a history. Let's forget the waitress for a moment and go buck 1900 years to 8 sunny day in Rome. Look carefullv at that old Jew standing by the side of the Appian Way. Isn't he too mak- ing that same weird sign? Yes, but a bit more secretive-just on his forehead or breast. Romans, Romans passing by some spit ting at the old Jew. others jeer. ing at his expectations sign. But herel-one Roman has stopped He is stepping toward the Jew. Ha!--he too is making the weird sign-the Sign of the Gross. by which one Christian knew another and SO could, with less danger, com- municate about Masses. or other im- portant events.
 When Rome became Christian, no longer was there need of sec-