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Evening star., 1944-11-05

never be rated one of Hollywood s
great beauties, although her fea-
lures are good and her figure near
perfect, but none can deny that she
Is interesting. Coming out of that
first preview men agreed they would
like to meet her, women, orally OF
silently, seemed to hope that she
would stay out of their precincts.
There have been, all told, not
more than a bakers dozen such
women on the American screen. Tc
those mentioned might be added
Lana Turner, the sweater girl, and
Ann Sheridan, once known as the
"oomph" girl. But they have not
made consistent capital on the
screen out of their original atten-
tion-attracting appearances.
Careers Are Shaped.
How greatly the first public i'm
preston potential star -siren makes
affects her career and the pictures
In which she will play can be
cleaned from brief survey of the
titles each has made we'll known.
Theda Baras last listed appear
ance was in "Unchastened Woman. "
which may have been intended to
indicate she had not repented of
her many former screen sins. Garbo
made screen history in such warm
ly named pictures as THE Tempt
ress," Flesh and the Devil" Love, !"
Divine Woman" and THE Mysteri-
Gus Lady," all within the first three
or four years of her Hollywood ar
rival.
Marlene Dietrich had been seen
by countless thousands in The Blue
Angel before she was brought from
Europe bv Paramount and asked to
display her famous legs and her
sophisticated manners in "Dishon-
ored" and THE Blonde Venus" She
is still working hard along the same
lines, but with some apparent re-
duction in her old screen allure.
Jean Harlow, famous first for her
platinum" hair, made good use of
other physical charms before her
brief career in films ended with her
death, and Jeanne Eagels, who made
comparatively few pictures, was seen
on the screen-when she was seem
in Jealousy" and The Letter" The
last named was more potent screen
fare than the title indicates.
Just how far along parallel lines
Lauren Bacall is destined to 60 can
only be determined in the future.
Her first appearance with Bogart,
who has been almost consistently a
fortunate co-star for ambitious
young actresses, seemed to her first
audience to indicate sure-fire prom
ise as a potential screen siren who
might well be expected to 60 far
along the route previously travelled
by these other women who have
successfully portrayed sex appeal
on the screen.
Released By North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1944-11-05
|Foxhole Colt
Will Become
Movie Hero
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
One OF the greatest human inter-
est stories to come out Of the Pacific
is about . man and q horse.
Bosn Arthur L. Parker found q
|colt, -blooded Arabian, on Flor
ida Island in the Solomons after
our forces moved in on the Japs.
The colt was starving and covered
with sores. But Parker nursed 1t
back to health and 1t followed him
around like o dog.
He dug foxhole for the colt and
trained 1t to dive In the second jap
planes were heard. Somehow, he
got the colt back here on q trans
port. Inspectors at Los Angeles
Harbor refused TO permit him to
take the animal on the ship. Park
er asked for permission to use q
phone to call the White House. He
explained:
"Mrs. Roosevelt was down there
and she liked the horse very much,
SO I want to give 1t to her" He
made UP that story at the moment.
Anyway, red tape was cut and the
colt was put in quarantine while
Parker went to naval hospital for
treatment.
Parker told the story to 1t. Mar
vim Park, who was in an adjoining
bed. Park put the story ON paper
and sold 1t the other day, for Park
er, to M-G-M for $25 900.
The studio Is hiring Parker to
work on the picture and, Of course,
the colt has been hired, too. One
problem Is remaining the horse. He
answers only to Flicka, which is a
horse Of another studio. This Flicka
will be appropriately renamed Fox
hole.
Evening star., 1944-11-05
He Makes Adventures of Ideals
By R0salind Shafer

this trail led him first to the Quaker
offices in Paris. where he worked
actively while earning his living In
film studios as a cameraman and
assistant director.
When the Spanish revolution
broke out Korvin went with the
Lcyalist troops as a photographer
Says Korvin, Il think of no ma
tionalities, only ideologies. I learned
that early in European life"
He was at the battle of Guadala-
jara with DR.. Norman Bethune,
making a film to demonstrate use
OF the mobile blood bank. Called
Heart of Spain" this was released
under the auspices of the Canadian
Blood TRANSMISSION Institute. He
cut and assembled it in New York,
where he became a close friend of
James Hilton, the novelist, and
fellow idealist
Found Buses Engaging.
Geza had become enchanted with
buses after seeing the film, "It Hap
pened One Night" and rode across
the country in one to try for a job
as cameraman or assistant director
in Hollywood. He couldn't break in.
Selling many of his Spanish war
stills he managed to eat, but went
back to London, later returning to
New York. There he got chance on
a radio show, I'VE Refuse to DE-"
with Erich Won Stroheim, based on
the catastrophe of Lidice, which
drew talent scouts from Broadway.
Then followed his engagement in
Dark Eyes"
Korvin is mildly unhappy because
the studio is changing his name to
Charles; he feels it a trifle artificial.
He dislikes phonies and thinks
glamor girls are pitiful, arguing that
they debase the innate nobility of
womanhood by the use of artificial
ity.
His wife, Helena Fredericks, was
understudy and assistant stage man.
ager on Dark Eyes," but their ro-
nance began at the Stage Door Can
teen. He worked as a bus boy and
dishwasher, and admired the trim
young lady whom he chauffeured
around to buy supplies for the COM
missary. She now buys the Korvin
groceries, but Geza helps cook; he's
wonder with Hungarian, French,
Polish, Russian cooking. I've seen
him at the famous Farmers Market
here, choosing produce with all the
care glamour girl would spend on
blending face powder.
While in New York, he was In
Quoted into the Army, later dis
charged.
Geza Korvin is one of the few
people I've known who can make
sincere idealism an exciting adven-
ture.
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Lauren Bacall, Newest Screen Siren, Different

Ballyhoo- minded Hollywood has
been battered into a stupor by the
sensational rise of newcomer
named Lauren Bacall-a girl who
scored a hit without advance pub
licity and without her flrst picture
being in general release.
The Warner Bros, who spent q
quarter of a million dollars ex-
plotting Ann Sheridan as the
'oomph" girl, are especially stupefied
by this phenomenon OF 1914. After
spending all this money on Ann they
had to wait for the public to agree.
In the case of Lauren Bacall,
however, they seemed to have Stun
bled onto something big for free"
Unheralded, except for routine
studio advance notices, Miss Bacall
made her first appearance on the
screen recently in "To Have and
Have Not" This is a Humphrey
Bogart starring picture, but the cor
respondents, critics and curbstone
experts gathered after the showing
to stammer over the appearance and
performance Of the Bacall girl. Bo-
CART was completely forgotten.
Since that preview showing more
copy from legitimate sources has
been written about Lauren Bacall
and more pictures shot of her from
every angle than any one cares to
estimate
She's a Sensation.
If you've merely scanned the
movie columns or glanced at roto-
| gravureS and picture magazines you
must be acutely conscious of new
conner Bacall. The phenomenal part
OF the whole business is that ITO
Have and Have Not" is running only
in New York and won't get into gen.
eral release until after the holidays.
1t is no exaggeration to say that
never in screen history has an un-
seen performer had such a vast
ready-made audience waiting an
xiously to have look.
Paraphrasing Miss Bacall's debut
vehicle, this appears to prove an old
theory that you either have it or
haven't it-and Miss Bacall, by
unanimous opinion of previewers,
certainly has it.
Volumes have been written in the
attempt to explain the Elusive quail
ity that made Cleopatra appeal to
Julius Caesar or that marked Theda
Bara as an early day screen menace
when such menaces were called
vampires" But the fact remains
that 1t Is something a woman Is or
isn't, has or hasn't-something that
words seem to be inadequate to de-
scribe, but which every human being
recognizes at once.
The previewers went clear back to
Bara for their comparisons and
then came down the chronological
list through such successful depict
ers Of screen allure as Greta Garbo
In the Jack Gilbert days, Marlene
Dietrich in 1.-THE Blue Angel" Tai
lulah Bankhead, Clara Bow, Jetta
Goudal, Jeanne Eagels, Renee
Adoree, Jean Harlow, Olga Bacla-
nova and Lili Damita. Others have
shown flair for the exotic in one
or few roles, but those named
specialized in sex appeal and made
it pay handsome dividends.
The quality, whatever 1t is, is not
essential to Screen success. Mary
Pickford didn't have it, even in her
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Actors Dialogue
Just a Greeting
To His Relatives
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD,
They were shooting a scene of the
winners circle in front of a horse
track, where several hundred extras
were jumping up and down, cheer
ing like real racing fans.
A radio announcer called various
people to the microphone to say a
few words to the air audience
Among them was william Demarest,
the winners trainer.
Just say anything that comes to
your mind" suggested Director
Raoul Walsh as the camera focused
on the actor.
Hello, Maggie and Millie. Hi. Jo,
Art. Bill and all the gang" Demarest
spoke into the soundtrack.
Say" remarked Walsh when the
scene was completed, who were all
those people you were talking to?"
oh, them!" grinned Demarest
They're some of my in-laws back
In Hackensack, N. j., where I used
to live. thought they'd get a kick
out OF 1t when they see the picture. u
The dialogue will stay in the
movie.
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Simon and Zaif
Are Famed'Comics;
Know Them?
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
If you're an ardent movie fan,
you'll probably agree that Xonapos
and Asnoe are two of the funniest
comedians on the screen today.
What! You've never heard of 'em,
you say? Well, maybe you know 'em
better as Tikhin and Roufain, or
Bucha and Estica, or possibly Siman
and Zaif
Well, that's funny! They've been
one Of the biggest money-making
comedy teams for the last 20 years!
Haven't you been to a movie in
that time?
But perhaps you've seen 'em billed
as Bim and Boom, or erik and
Crok, or Cog and Cokke. Some
times they're known as PifI and
Paf or Hashanen and Haraze and
occasionally as Helban and Halvan
or just plain old Flip and Flap.
Okay, kiddies, time is up, so before
there's any coaching from the audi
ence you may as we'll know that the
boys are none other than Laurel and
Hardy.
This is the only country in which
they are billed on the screen under
their own namei
Evening star., 1944-11-05

mid Massines Russian eyes, Freddy's
dancing was perfect.
When colored movies were made
Of Cate Parsieinne" and Spanish
Caprice out West it was found
Franklin screened well. First thing
you know, role had been written
into Caprice" for him. His "typi-
cally American" dancing in the bal
let, THE New Yorker" brought him
flock of Broadway offers. He re-
fused them. No snob, he still UNDER
stands that his forte Is true ballet.
The war tested Freddy Franklin's
luck hardest. He and part of the
Ballet Russo were rehearsing in
Paris when it broke out in 1899. For
weeks the rehearsals went on. then
the tension began telling and in
small groups the dancers began
escaping doomed France. Franklin
arrived in New York at noon of the
day the 1899 season opened, and
went directly to rehearsal at the
Metropolitan Opera House, still
wabbly from sea-sickness. That
night he danced the role of the
beggar in the ballet he was rehears-
ing in Paris.
The ballet was Devils Holiday"
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Gotham Also Is Booming
By Jay Carmody,
Drama Editor of The Star.

impuve washingtonian suddenly decides that It
would spend catching up
Washington totally Indifferent
to the wm of those who think it would be good idea
may sleeping park bench and 50
of the popua dramatic offerings concerned
that is Fantastic Hotel dfcu hit shows impossible
panner the other accomplish pr-
neither undue cost the chance of disappointment
1t at luncheon at sards that submitted the proposition
informed characters, likes
theater admits defects who from
have ny connection with the thea We know No agents
producers with business
human who seized by whm New York week
starting Friday hit
been reading about What chance would we have?"
Chance Art Negligible
MY impulse chance the said "but that
concerned those with hits have weekend tickets Neither do
the agencies the regular price plus the 75-cent allowed service
charge weeks notice and
might get them for anything Give the four and
might be able pair of the less desirable produc
still classed hits"
He stopped there evident
speech he were to be encouraged to go encouraged
Suppose" supposed still don't know
associated with the thater but with lots OF money
which is wild supposion Where does that leave us?"
In good you spend money.
know what kind of deals worked
spectators money conscious these days
They large large bills there always
perfect chance that will take them both When
says always saying particular e
that is object there usually around who
believes it.
a speech at point the
obviously minutes
continued it,
a o Money.
Oklahoma, instance" producing
strictly the side of than the
Guild. would still make guess
with unlimited spend for them might find himself
with weekend tickets the show he mentioned that
object is practice which the guild would
oudest most sincere condemnng it takes
make practice of that kind One OF them has to be the
production without reference the
distinct
the two involved but don't know
what to do about It,"
substitute imiess money counselor suggests careful
planning.
In the of such hits Oklahoma"
Zone Touch of Venus Boomer Girl" opened
week and became nstananeousy h his suggestion
mail order addressed to the box office with the
week end left to the ability of the theater fill the
That set he he next to make hotel
They crowded. Just like the teaers
receives them
should be ample"
We sat there waiting the end of story.
We did not have to wait long
The point is the concluded that while
New York not industry community political capital it
still Is the busiest port in the
They than welcome of
their plans instead of being merely whimsical
1t is an extremely sound piece of advice
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Vallee Film Song
Has Pertinence
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
AS singing waiter in Its In the
Bag" Rudy Valee, who has been in
and out of more than one love affair,
had to sing a song that goes, I've
gambled in the game of love, I
played my heart and lost" while his
wife, Bettyjane Greer, from whom
he has had several separations, sat
just offstage tittering with . girl
friend.
Evening star., 1944-11-05
StudiAd in ENGLAND

OEUUICU III EHS IAHU.
He danced in London night clubs,
and first attracted serious attention
In a play called "Ballerina." one
whole act of which was classic bal
let. He never was in Russia. having
had most of his early training from
two sound British ladies named Mrs.
Kelly and Miss Clarke. Yet he made
the really big time because, in Leo
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Today's Schedules

NAT1ONAL-"Blossom Time,"
$50 pm.
CAPITOL-"Marriage Is a Pri-
vate Affair" 1880, 4:20, 7:l0
and 9:55 pm. Stage shows,
1855, 3:45, $50 and $40 pm.
COLUMBIA - "An American
Romance" /, $50, sos, 7::20
and 9:35 pm.
EARLE-"Frenchman's Creek
lao, 4::30. 7:05 and 9:45 pm.
Stage shows, lis, 4, $40 and
9:l5 pm.
KEITH'S-"None But the Lone
ly Heart" l, sos. $40, 7:20
and 9:35 pm.
LITTLE-"C atherine the
Great" ITO. 800, 5:25, 7:30
and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN -" Heavenly
Days." las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and GAS pm.
PALACE-"Laura," 1::20, 3:25,
$50, TAO and GAS pm.
PIX-"The Great McGinty,"
2:10, 4:50, TBS and 10:15 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Mielziner Returns
From Army Duties
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
Maj. 10 Mielziner, one of Broad
ways best known scenic designers
who has served as camouflage OH
Ger with the Army Air Forces for 80
months, has announced his first stage
stint to follow his honorable dis
charge.
1t is the setting for Now That
You're Home" by Budd Schulberg
and Collier Young. 1t will be pro-
duced by Victor Samrock and Will
liam Fields of the playwrights' COM
pany. Schulberg is the author of
the best seller of several seasons ago,
What Makes Sammy Run" He is
currently Navy lieutenant.
Evening star., 1944-11-05
One Need Not Be Russian
Bv John SeIbv

Freddy" Franklin is now the only
non-Russian balletmaster the ballet
Russo de Monte Carlo has had. He's
an Englishman, Liverpool born
largely British-trained, which is odd
for a first-string ballet dancer, and
a canny young man. Although he
was appointed to his new berth last
June, he waited to talk about it until
he saw how it was going.
The general public would have
shrugged of such an item a few
years back-those days when the
ballet was pretty exotic, and ballet
audiences went in largely for odd
ments such as gilded fingernails and
coiffures and light-green hair.
Now ballet probably Is second
most popular of all musical activi-
ties, and has overflowed into dozen
or more Broadway shows, and a
ballet audience is like any other
audience, except perhaps a bit
younger.
Nowadays a male ballet dancer
looks much like any other chap, too,
except that he's likely to be more
muscular and have more endurance.
Ballet likes Franklin, and Franklin
likes ballet. But he knows it's not
glamor on his side of the footlights
He Worked Too Hard.
Franklin is just recovering from
working too hard. The strain began
last summer after the winter tour
and spring season in New York. The
Ballet Russo went to California to
rehearse its road-tour repertoire, to
do some Hollywood odd jobs and to
do the extensive ballet in Song OF
Norway"
Nobody expected that show to be
such hit" says Franklin. Then
the New York scouts pounced on it,
and since we were committed to our
tour this fall, we had to train a new
Norway ballet in addition to every
thing else.
Wed hardly started our New
York season at City Center when
my right knee quit functioning. F"
Franklin grinned. Its not an acci-
dent. It's pure overwork-I can't
a odS lll yCdIS
haven't had rehearsals, and usually
one or two performances.
When my knee went bad in New
York had nobody else to put in,
but by luck James Starbuck was
dancing in Song of Norway and by
chartering pair of taxis to switch
one Of our boys who knew Starbuck' S
part to the theater and vice versa,
we managed"
Franklin's self-made career fits
him to manage dancers, to train
them and apportion roles. He's done
almost everything in theater but
dramatic roles-as kid in Liverpool
he even appeared in a dreary Christ
mas pantomime. Later he did va
riety. In Paris he played accompani-
ments for Mistinguette, who saw
him as member OF a music hall
aggregation called "The Lancashire
Lads"
Studied in England.
He danced in London night clubs,
and first attracted serious attention
In play called "Ballerina," one
whole act of which was q classic bal
let. He never was in Russia, having
had most of his early training from
two sound British ladies named Mrs.
Kelly and Miss Clarke. Yet he made
Evening star., 1944-11-05
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-Gilbert and Sulli-
van operettas, starting next
Monday.
CAPITOL-"Irish Eyes Are
Smiling" with June Haver
and Monty Woolley. starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"I Love a Sol
dier," with Paulette Goddard
/ and Sonny Tufts.
E ARLE Rainbow Island"
I with Dorothy Lamour and
Barry Sullivan.
KEITHS-"The Master Race"
|, with George Coulouris and
Osa MaSsen.
LITTLE-"48 Hours" with Les
ley Banks.
METR ROPOLITAN-"He4e
Comes Mr.. Jordan" with Rob-
ert Montgomery and Claude
Rains, starting Friday.
PALACE - Mrs. Parkington,"
with Greer Carson and Wal
ter Pidgeon.
PIX-Love Life of Beethoven"
with Harry Baur, starting
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Ina HOltzsCheiter
|Gives Recital at
Phillips Gallery
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.

A program that was departure
in every respect from the ordinary
was presented last night by Ina
Holtzscheiter. soprano, at the Phil
lips Gallery with the expert assist
ance Of Theodore Schaefer at the
piano. The research that went into
the formation of the program ano
the difficulties of execution for both
singer and pianist would alone
make the recital unique quite apart
from the artistry necessary to in
telpret the unusual songs with the
proper skill. Miss Holtzscheiter
showed both the increase in her ar
ustic stature and her musical intui-
ton in her performance.
With the exception of two unfa-
miliar songs by Bach and Brahms,
the selections were by contemporary
composers, with an especially inter-
esting group of new songs by Mary
Howe. Two French composers,
Georges Favre and Rhene- Baton
who have been considerably neg
lected, provided the material for
one group, the concluding numbers
being by the American composers,
Charles Ives, Paul Nordoff and
Charles Critics, and the English
man, Robin Milford.
OF the five songs by Mrs. Howe,
Now Goes the Light" and "Frag-
ment" were sung by Enya Gonzalez
some years ago in the Phillips Gall
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Richard J. Finnegan Named
Publisher Of Chicago Times
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 18.-Richard J.
Finnegan yesterday was elected ed
itor and publisher of the Chicago
Times to- succeed the late 8. E.
T'honnason, who founded the news
paper in 1929 and served as its first
publisher.
MIR. Finnegan had been vice pres
ident and editor since the paper was
founded. James A. Griffin, jr., who
had been second vice president and
business manager, was elected vice
president. John F. Shanahan, cir
culation manager, was elected to
the Board of Directors.
Election was by the Board of Di-
rectors who met after meeting of
stockholders. Mr.. Finnegan an
nounced there would be no change
in policy or staff and that the Times
would adhere to the liberal, inde-
pendent and realistic" course chart
ed by Mr.. Thomason.
Mr.. Thomason, also publisher of
the Tampa Fla) Tribune, died in
Tampa March 20.
Evening star., 1944-04-18

and she arranges grateful material
for the voice. The impression made
by the varied character of the songs
and the scope of her treatment
evoked an enthusiastic demonstra-
ton for the composer, who was
present.
The songs by Rhene- Baton, "Vous
ne pouviez savoir" and lie Claque-
ment bref des sabots" had a certain
individuality which, if not profound
yet was of more genuine source than
could be found In the two numbers
by Georges Favre 20 Toi, qui sais
aimer" and Sous lie ciel pale du
soir" are more artificial in style
Evening star., 1944-04-18

lery and the opportunity to hear
them again was welcome, as they
are among the choice works from
her pen. Mrs. Howe's gift for sens
ing the national nuance In adapting
texts in foreign languages was to
be appreciated in Ma Douleur,' .
Am Flusse" and Mailed" In
these songs the mood Is expressed
IN the elaborate background pro-
vided by the piano, which is given
more Importance in the full express
sion of the text than is customary
In contrast to the writing of the
French composers, her feeling for
the vocal line and coloring is strong
Evening star., 1944-04-18

in the composers effort to approx
mate the evanescent atmosphere
originated by Debussy.
The last numbers, Ives Evening,
Nordof1's "Serenade" and Critics
Symphony in Yellow" were excel
lent examples of new song liter
ature that has been formed through
Evening star., 1944-04-18

the last years in this country and
which Is distinctive in Its freshness
and imaginativeness.
Miss Holtzscheiter. whose piiabIe
voice retains its rounded quality no
matter how taxing the demands
made upon it. did some OF her most
artistic singing In Bachs Mem