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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Profile of a Piano PRODIGY
Bv Frances L0ne.

testing with the noted psychiatrist
Babinsky.
Yet, Leon Leonardo remains an ALL
around musician, a gifted interpreter
Of both Bach and Gershwin and q
conductor who can do justice to a
Beethoven symphony or a Broad
way show.
Short, stocky and with an ener-
getic personality, Leonardo was per-
suaded to come to the United States
by an old family acquaintance, sup
posedly connected with the famous
Metropolitan Opera in New York. >
But he arrived to find the "influen-
tial' friend had disappeared, leav-
ing him stranded with Is cents, and
unable to speak a word of English.
Then. I take many jobs" con-
tinues Leonardo, counting on his
fingers, "a barber in the Italian
quarter, cook in an Italian restau-
rant, a car washer and then l get
break and become a private chauf-
feur for an Atlantic City family"
Employer Aided Him.
1t was while on that job that
Leonardo went into his employers
drawing room to play the piano fol-
few minutes. His employer found
him there, and was so impressed by
his playing that she got him a jot
as pianist with an orchestra.
From then on, Leonardi's career
gained momentum. At Is, he was ir
charge of music for three large the
aters in st. Louis. He has conducted
for broadcasts and now is genera,
director of the Warner Bros radio
station in Hollywood.
He's on leave of absence from thai
post to conduct "Bloomer Girl"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Skeletons Have
ACeiling Price
In Hollywood
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
In Hollywood, some actors make
more money dead than alive.
That's the word direct from Uni.
versal, where more skeletons play
in more horror pictures than at any
other studio.
And listen! Did you know the
OPA has even set ceiling price or
skeletons? :. Yep, $3.50 each.
And furthermore, whispers Prop.
man Russell Gausman, there's also
black market for 'em where you
can buy a nice Al skeleton fol
$3.50 but, of course, studios dom
patronize it.
Before the war, the movies coulc
buy skeletons for from $50 to $15(
each from surgical supply house:
that imported them from Europe
Now the imports have ceased ane
the firms are reluctant to sell d.
They can make more money renting
them.
When universal wants a perfec
skeleton for closeup shots in some
Frankenstein horror picture. the
rental is $50 a week But fol
scenes such as in the Joan Davis
thriller, She Gets Her Man." where
the skeleton gets tossed out a win
dow, the rate is only SIS weekly fol
a second-grade one.
Once the studio made a skeleton
Of its own. but it gradually disap-
peared. joint by joint, to curic
seekers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Broadway briefs: According to
Tin Pan Alleys underground, the
first number played by an American
band in Occupied Germany was
Count Basie's "One O'Clock Jump"
The 16-piece Army band was con-
Quoted by Sergt. Russell Wood of
Lansing, Mich, while artillery fire
beat out a distant obbligato to the
drum solo by Walter Bird of Indian
apolis, Ind.
Sammy Calm, the song writer,
was pressed into service in Philadel-
phia when Eddie Davis, star of the
new Dave Wolper musical Glad to
See YOU" suffered a broken collar
bone, result of a taxicab accident,
!. Hotel Pierre is planning a new
glass-inclosed room on its roof, A
stories up. . Paul Whiteman is
writing his autobiography.
Betty Garde, only major player to
remain In Oklahoma" since the
beginning, will leave the cast on De-
cember 5. -. World premiere of the
film Winged Victory" last seasons
patriotic smash stage hit, will be
held at the Roxy Theater here on
December 20. -. Charming Pol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Small Has Payoff Formula

Even when his show is going well
enough Small lets no chance pass
to bolster the drawing power. He
figured few weeks ago that good
box office name was needed to boil
ster the already imposing array OF
talent in the show, which included
Lou Holtz, the dancing De Marcos,
Minstrelman Benny Fields, the
Berry brothers and others. So he
signed Connee Boswell and receipts
Immediately took that extra little
jump which means a nightly sellout
Small already is planning his next
vaudeville revue. He wants Morton
Downey, but Morton has turned
down $4,000 a week and insists he
doesn't want any more work no
matter what is offered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
'Apley' Is a Broadway Hit
By Laurence Perry

youth-has developed into twice
the stuffed shirt his father ever
was.
There is the play about which I
have but one regret, to wit: That
whereas the eligible girl cousin
Margaret Phillips) has the most
gripping scene of the play, second
act, she is never again on stage,
is merely referred to in the epilogue
as having married the Harvard
sprigling after all.
Carroll Playing Praised.
Leo G. Carroll contributes a por-
trait of George Apley so delicate in
its light and shading, SO compelling
in its moments of robustness, so
convincing in diction, mannerism
and demeanor, as to insure its en-
durance among our more glowing
memories long after he has ceased
to act the part, departure years
and years away, I am quite sure.
Percy Waram, brother in-law of
George Apley, Is as poised and Har-
vardian behind his frequently raised
highbau glass as you could imagine.
Janet Beecher (Mrs. Apley) is a
Beacon Hill chatelaine to the life,
and I recognized the Harvard boy
David Mckay instantly. Harvard
men will SAVIOR the mountebank
garb worn by the Yale boy and,
in fact, I am advised by one who
knows that the costumes are mainly
caricatures of the 1912 mode.
Unfavorable reception of Law
renee Stallings' war play, THE
Streets Are Guarded" is an unjust
and uniformed reaction of those
who probably never heard the
whine of an angry bullet, or sat
around with men of action in a
combat zone. True, intrinsically, it
is less play than a human docu-
ment, an album of portraits of men
dying SO that other men can sit in
comfort in a theater; nonetheless
it is what the theater, in part, at
least, is for. was moved by it.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
1t is no secret that musical shows
are the worst risk a Broadway
"angel can take Usually it takes
six months to year just to pay off
the initial investment, which ranges
anywhere from $175,000 to 100000
Therefore, the feat accomplished
by Paul Small, producer of the
vaudeville revue "Star Time" has
most Broadway managers muttering
in their red ink.
On the evening of "Star Times"
opening Small added UP the receipts
and announced he was "off the nut, "
which is showmen's jargon for hav-
ing paid off the initial investment.
Smalls formula is fairly simple.
It's worked four times for him, pro-
ducers have tried the same idea and
Topped. Small puts several stars
into his show, using only simple
blackdrops and the most economical
scenery. The stars have their own
material, so he is not burdened with
the cost of book, score or libretto.
There is a minimum of scenery
changing, so he avoids the heavy
backstage expense of dozens OF
stagehands such as the normal big
musical must carry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Brooding on the 1O-Best
By jay Garmodv

Thu deod,;n. .or cr;ts 5 ~ ~ -. ,. !, ~,
away the professional moyeoer
starts turning titles mind
He begins rather laziy indnerenty actually
no pressure upon him to make choice pictures
that he licked of earlier possible
negligible distinction of making his topic list
There question any associated with pic
ture reviewing as to the No picture
That will be Going Way"
no qbbng The Leo McCarey production the RELIGIOUS theme
OF which made studio
for several months slated whole series
guessing incorrectly McCarey
Academy Award winner direction authorship
outstanding script 1t is certain Fitzgerald
supporting by male actor
is likely to Bling Crosby his first
star performing
Second Choice Harder.
1t is not until past the first choice that he begins
into trouble.
place could go-mdersand this is not final but merely
sort trial heatto he Song Bernadette That quite
dramatic ITEM difficult project story telling
with by CenturyFox
special year.
in time ennifer the acting award but did not
on the general release list until in January
If "only because~
reviewer promised to eat the first reels Of it it hono
Hail the Conqueng Hero" will place the final listing of this
departments
Preston strge making masterpiece satire the
American practice of unesaned heo-worsp 1t represents the
full Towering the Hywoods outstanding intelligent laugh
Swift ceuloid Ironically title of the picture
perfect from literary standpoint reacted against its popularity by
creating impression that another drama That
less successful than strge other productions at the
nowise minimize its quality of We cast VOTE
therefore for Hail the Conquering Hero and before leave
sturges Mogans Creek"
become the
Critics pet happens to be sound conclusion He
the Navy
candidate honors Its
the director who held the dubious distinction of
being also absent
fln-rnaking officer in the Army.
Fantasy Gets Vote.
another fantasy OF the
caber Jordan several
wardng creating candidate for
top honors Named joe which became
but otherwise imaginative and
flmmakng Without such superb playing as that
Spencer Dunno could have been
exouisey Happily without Them which makes
the conjecture Named Joe firmly ntrenched
in the first 10.
rugged of the few pictures with theme
that worthy attention feboa from this reviewer
No picture aroused than Leboa which numerous
unattering Allied through its
the Na the only organized
capable human display in the Alfred Hitchcock opus
before the last critic has his
Is The Purple Heart That
tale OF the original Tokyo bomb the capves
hands Of the japanese
ravesty human dignity morality
that challenged Hollywood upon
indignation.
Hollywood did no such thing however picture
quiet that THE Purple Heart probably will hold
years best pictures
"oaslight" round out the list in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
NEW YORK.

| NEW YORK.
Echoes of Broadway's unanimous
approval of the stage version of
John P. Marquand's popular novel,
THE Late George Apley," undoubt-
edly have reached theater lovers
far and wide. For it is one of those
hits that reverberate.
In the play we find an unusual in
stance of a novelist dealing deity
with high comedy into which a CO.
adjutor, George S. kaufman, has in
terpolated wit and shining facets of
Characterization Their joint labor
has resulted in the most delightful
dramatic entertainment since Life
With Father"-of which George
Apley' is the Boston version.
| George Apley is one OF the Beacon
Hill mandarins-more numerous in
the past than now; yet by no means
extinct-of circumscribed viewpoints
and negligible tolerances. The COM
edy involves chiefly his son. John
| Harvard, of course) and daughter
Eleanor, each of whom falls in love
with young persons ineligible by
every Brahmin standard. At length,
however, for several reasons, includ-
ing remembrance Of a violent but
hopelessly unsocial love affair in his
own youth, he softens to the point
of giving consent to both matches.
Epilogue Still Retained.
Thereupon develops the soundly
dramatic expedient of having the
father of the girl whom young Apley
loves refuse his consent to the
match. A hard-boiled manufac-
turer, 10 years away from Kansas
City, he advises Apley that the al
lance could by no possibility work
out. Apley's immediate reaction is
gratitude, as one to whom the light
has been shown. He then forbids
his daughter to see anything more
of her swain, a Yale graduate-who
hates Emerson-and informs his son
ne is sending him abroad to get rid
of his infatuation, while at the
same time permitting him to see the
girl and try to win her over against
Philistine father. Here ends the
third act.
Follows an epilogue, 10 years
later, revealing that the daughter
eloped with the Yale man, living
happily with him in Greenwich
Village, while the boy who reverted
to type and married an eligible
Boston cousin-just as had hap
pened to George Apley In his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Husband Critics a Problem
By Harold Hefernan,

the most harmonious circumstances
Is, of course, only one Of the thou
sand and two problems constantly
popping up to threaten the marital
relations of the movie-wedded.
Judging by separation and divorce
statistics of the past year, the ham
dicaps are too often insurmountable.
When Claudette Colbert married
DR.. Joel FRESHMAN, some 10 years
ago, they attended Claudette's pre-
mieres together. Pressman took a
keen interest in his wife's career
But every time he showed up in
public with the dazzling Claudette
on his arm, battery of cameramen
snapped away. And so when Clau-
dette's picture appeared in the pa
pers and magazines, there was her
doctor husband right alongside
That was quite all right for Clau-
dette, but the Los Angeles Medical
Association took different view In
regard to DR.. FRESHMAN.
Unethical, they Missed, when hi
was identified in the outlines as Miss
Colbert's husband So DR.. Press
man retired from public life. He
took the criticism to heart and fol
long time refused to attend any
public function with his wife. Il
| he did, he would leave her before
arriving and sink in back way
However, he does attend screening
room showings of her pictures and
according to Claudette, is a free
minded and loquacious critic.
He Likes Wife's Plumpness.
One of the most amusing nus
band-wife tales in Hollywood con-
Germs Maureen O'Hara, brilliant
Irish actress. and her mate. Capt
viii Price, United States Marines
Maureen is inclined to take or
weight and feels her best at aroune
AS pounds. This, of course, is 8
little too much weight for a lovely
heroine, especially when the Gamers
is known to add weight by illusion
Husband Price, however, likes hi.
wife plump and when he sees hel
sinking through a romantic seem
at a mere l25 or 130 pounds, HI
wakes indignant. Husband Prize
has way about him, too, in getting
results. He is a rotund fellow wht
Graves sweets. Maureen likes moth
ing better than chocolate parfaits
rich cakes and pastry Price neve
loses an opportunity to bring thes'
delicacies home. ..s
William Thin Nam Powell
married to Diana Lewis, never saw
one of her pictures until few
months ago, afraid he would be dis.
appointed in her work. Seeing hel
performance in an Army camp show
he was delighted, and then had sew.
eral of her old pictures run of fol
him. Rosalind Russell's husband
Maj. Fred Brisson, will see his wife's
pictures under any circumstances
but never until he has first
familiarized himself with the script
Barbara Stanwyck's most severe
critic is her husband. 1t. q. g.
Robert Taylor. She never makes 6
major professional decision without
asking his advice.
When Irene Dunno married DR.
Francis Griffin they agreed nevel
to discuss their separate careers.
Paulette Goddard has been mar
ried only few months to Capt
Burgess Meredith, but she admit
he has become very succinct criti,
where her movies are concerned
Told about the Col. Tom Lewis
Loretta Young arrangement, sh
sighed: IF I could only trail
Burgess to keep quiet like that"
tReleased by North American Newpspape
Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Out of H'wood
Comes Latest
of Hamlets
By James Lindsey.
HOLLYWOOD.

I1oliI WoO1s
Long, lean John Carradine, one Of
the better movie actors and probably
the very man William Shakespeare
had in mind when he wrote Ham
let" is getting ready to take Bills
play out with a company Of his own.
John looks forward to combing
Hollywood out of his untrimmed hair
for while and getting back to what
he considers real art.
When Carradine goes out, prob
ably around Christmas, he will take
as baggage carloads of props and
costumes, worth about $40, 900, which
he bought for $500 from an unnamed
man who paid $3.50 for them when
an auctioneer sold the effects Of the
late John Barrymore, also quite
Shakespearean actor.
They were used by Barrymore
and his company in London in 1926"
Carradine said. They include prac-
tically everything we need"
Carradine originally intended to
take his company out in September,
but the bookings didn't suit his
financial hackers and they finally
pulled out. John had to make other
arrangements.
Own Money a Worry.
"Of course, I could finance the
tour myself" he said, "but I won't
want to. I did that on one tour
and, you know the worry affected
my acting. Oh yes, I worry about
my hackers money, too, but some
how it doesn't seem to affect me the
same way"
Carradine always was more inter-
ested in the Shakespearean theater
than in the movies. But" he ex-
plains, when I didn't have a name
! couldn't get any hackers. Holly
wood gave me name and now
can get hackers"
Judging from his last tour, Car
radine thinks about half his audi
ences come because they genuinely
love Shakespeare and the rest from
curiosity, to sneer or because they
haven't anywhere else to go.
But that's good thing" he COM
mented. 1T doesn't hurt anybody to
learn a little about Shakespeare.
And if a man wants to scott he still
has to pay his dough at the box office
for the privilege"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL - Dark Ham,
mock" with ELISA Landi,
starting next Monday.
CAPITOL-"Three Is a Fam
ily," with Marjorie Reynolds
and Freda Brady, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Irish Eyes Are
Smiling" with June Haver
and Dick Haynes, starting
Thursday.
EARLE-"Tne Very Thought of
YOU" with Dennis Morgan
and Eleanor Parker.
KEITH'S-"Tall in the Saddle"
with John Wayne and Ella
Raines.
LITTLE - "The Gold Rush"
with Charles Chaplin.
METROPOLITAN - French
mans Creek" with Joan Fon-
tame and Arturo De Cordova,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Kismet," with Rom
aid Colman and Marlene
Dietrich.
PIX - ABUSED Confidence"
with Danielle Darrieux, start
ing Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
History Has Its Hour
In Frisco Sal Film
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Movie history and world history
were in evidence on the street scenes
for Susanna Fosters Frisco SAL"
A victoria, that old-style open car
riage, always used two generations
ago for the ultimate in swank dis
play, was being used as a sightseeing
vehicle for visitors to the Barbary
Coast. Closer inspection disclosed
it to have the crest of the Emperor
Franz Josef of Austria Hungary on
the carriage lamps and inside the
carriage in the trim. It is authentic,
and was first brought to Universal
in 1923 when Eric Won Stroheim i'm
ported it for use in Foolish Wives"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
The Trolley Song
Due for Long Run
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
The latest novelty hit song to
start radio listeners rushing for ear
plugs is THE Trolley Song" and
any hoped-for respite from its pop
ularity rapidly is disappearing. Eight
recordings are available and five
more are set to be waxed in the next
10 days.
The tune is featured in the new
Judy Garland film, Meet Me in st
Louis" which has not even been
released nationally to date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Pemberton Says NO
To Pleas for Harvey
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
Brock Pemberton is spending most
of his time discouraging movie COM
Ipanies from attempting to buy his
latest smash hit Harvey" for any
of their stars.
Among dozens already mentioned
for the lead role, played so SUI
perbly on Broadway by Frank Fay,
are Danny Kaye, Cary Grant, Bing
Crosby, Bob Hope, Ronald Colman
even Gary Cooper.
Pemberton insists he has no in
tention of turning Harvey" into a
movie for at least five years. He
feels sure it will run that long on
the stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Broadway in Brevities

locks new play, Tangled Web" has
been postponed indefinitely; cast
trouble plus shortage of theaters.
nka Chase's play, I'm Bed We
Cry" is selling out despite unani-
nous thumbs-down by the critics.
There will be third company of
"Voice of the Turtle" for the West
Coast. Main problem is finding some
one for the Margaret SULLIVAN role.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Really It's Simple
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Here's how movies make old suits
out of new ones for scenes where
they're supposed to be "aged"
treat with burnt lumber, oil, grease
and plain dirt, fray with sandpaper,
then soak in water and hang up to
dry, bullying with rocks and iron
weights in pockets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

THE SWEET LAND SINGS OUT-Elaborate production
been conferred Walter Kes Catholic University
"Sng Out Sweet Land" process of being polished
Boston Colonial Theater To OF the outstanding
hoon here At the left is the speakeay sequence in hch the
hero Alfred Drake (seated Is forced the gangster
and his naoH Alma Kaye Right shown the ShoDboat
ohich Is high lighted by the singing "Frankie
JOHNNY Drake the center figure among those at the table
1Uh Miss Kaye and Burl ICES at the right
James Westerfed, aDho plays Oregon gold miner.
Wide World Photos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Today's Schedules

NATIONAL - "Rebecca,' 2::30
and $50 pm.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Lutte Song" $50 pm.
CAPITOL -" Maisie Goes to
Reno" $50, ass, 1920 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows, LOS,
$50, 6:35 and 9:10 pm
Observation-Disclosures Is a
Private Affair." 12:45, 2:45.
sos, 7:30 and $50 pm.
EARLE - 1.-THE Doughgirls,"
lao, APO, 7:05 and Gas pm.
Stage shows, los, 3:45, $50
and 9:10 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Climax" lis,
$40, $40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
LITTLE-"48 Hours" lilo, 800,
SOS, 7:35 and Gas pm.
METROPOLITAN - Straw
berry Blond" Ills. 800, SIS,
7::30 and 9:35 pm.
PALACE Mrs. Parkington,"
1:35, Ais, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
PIX-"Trade Winds 2:20, sos,
7:;55 and 1890 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1944-06-12
Reynolds 10 Organize
Group 10 Fight Drift
Ito Infernationalism

Senator Reynolds, Democrat. of
North Carolina, who has announced
he viii not seek reelection to the
Senate, revealed today that he was
attempting to form an organization
of American nationalists" to op-
pose what he called "the drift into
internationalism."
The organization foreseen by Sem
ator Reynolds, chairman of the
Senate Military Affairs Committee,
presumably would oppose the ad-
ministration's plans for United
States cooperation with other
countries in the organization of
postwar security. In his statement
he referred caustically to "the dis
sipation of United States resources
and independence under the leader
ship Of world do-gooders who al
ready have gone far in that direc-
ton and promised to 60 much
further II they continue In au-
thority."
The American nationalists," the
Senator said, will attempt to pre-
vail on both the Republicans and
Democrats to adopt America First"
platforms "in the interest Of plac-
Ing America first in American