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Evening star., 1944-06-23
Days of Glory Traverses
Russia's Zone of Combat

DAYS OF GLORY,"~an RKo picture.
starring Tamara Toumarova and GREGORY
Peck, directed BY Jacques Tourneur. pro-
duced and Written by Casey Robinson
At Keith's.
Evening star., 1944-06-23

SymboliSed union between peoples
| In terms that were understandable
to tormented and terrified hearts
on both sides of the Atlantic. That
was the appeal--straight to the
heart-~of Susan Dunn and Sir John
.Ashwood's story. and the mind was
very well left out of 1t. as the mind
should be on occasion.
Neutrality-suspicious. has made
motion picture now of Ars. Mill
er's poem. 1t. too, is richly senti-
mental and will please-.he heart
with Its proud and poignant mes
sage that the English and ourselves
are the joint heirs of the tradition
of freedom. The mind may ask
few questions, perhaps. after the
impact of Iren Dunne's smooth per-
formance on the Palace screen has
lessened bit, but, as we said, 1t
was not M-G-M'S intention that
the mind should come into this.
To that end, 1t allowed the screen
script authors to pull out all the
stops on a love story that lasted
through two wars with ever-deep-
ing pathoS, understanding and wis
dom.
Miss Dunno it Is who carries the
heavy burden of the story, but
her support is the best that the
studio could muster from q roster
which this time includes Alan Mar
shall, Roddy MacDoweIl, Frank
Morgan, c. Aubrey Smith and a
dozen others of its doughtiest
pl8verS
Dramatic. or cinematic, license
has been employed to endow the
Palace version of THE White Cliffs
OF Dover" with those elements which
are deemed imperative to a great
love story. 1t has reached out here
and there for comedy contrast and
the Dieppe commando raid is
brought into the flow of the story
to give succinctness to the travail
that love means to Miss Dunne's
Susan <Ashwood The additions are
primarily the work of Robert Ma
than and are sufIiciently in keeping
with the spirit of Mrs. Miller's poem
to satisfy her public.
With the ample Justification that
the poem represents hard, sharp
memory of an American woman's
dramatic years as the wife of an
upper-class Englishman, the film
makes lavish use of the flash back
technique. Frequently to the tones
of her own voice on the sound track,
Miss Dunno reliyes her English life,
the sight of Dover's white cliffs for
the first time, her first acquaintance
with. the English In a Bloomsbury
boarding house, her meeting with
Sir John at the great ball which the
King and Queen attended. These
are essentially gentle memories, liv-
ened rather than marred by echoes
OF her fathers dudgeon at the Eng
lish climate, and his Yankee sense
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

stage.
National - "Abie's Irish Rose:
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"TWo Girls and Sailor:
10:15 am, 1:10, 4:10. 7:05 and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 1890, $50, 6:25
and 9:25 pm.
Three Men In White:
1870 am, 1:35, $40, 5:45, 7:5O and
9:55 pm.
Earie-"Mask of Dimitrios":: II
am, lao, 4:20, 7;05 and $50 pm
Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50 and 9:15
pm.
Little-"Palm Beach Story: II
am, 1880, 2:35, AIS, 6;10, 8 and
$50 pm.
Keith's-"Days of Glory: HIS
am, 1:20, $50, 5:35. TAO and $50
pm.
Palace-"White Cliffs of Dover: ,:
Ills am, so, 4:25, and 9:35 pm
Observation-Disclosures Glory: :
1855, $40, $40, 7:30 and $40 pm
Pix-"The Cat and the Canary:
2, 4:45, 7:30 pm. and 1925 am.
/ Trans -Lux-News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-06-23
By PATRICIA SIMMONS.

As another tale of Russian hero
ism and Nazi brutality, Days of
Glory" which opened yesterday at
RKO Keith's employs the too IA
miliar props Of death and destruc-
ton, but also offers contrasting ideoI-
ogies delineated through two new
screen personalities who provide the
pictures love interest.
The two newcomers who look
enough alike to be brother and sis
ter are Tamara Toumanova and
Gregory Peck. At, times Mr.. Peck S
high forehead and clearly outlined
features, in Miss Toumanova; s face,
take on a madonna like serenity
and beauty, especially when she
dons those shawls of the Russian
peasant women. Peck coming from
the New York stage, brings with
him not just the lean gaunt Gary
Cooper type of good looks but a
gawky sort of freshness that re-
minds one of Cooper as we'll.
Both have much to offer the
screen, especially when used, as
here, to complement one another
Like two notes combining in har-
mony, the two personalities blend
throughout the picture. Miss Tau
manoya may not be an accom-
plished actress but as dancer she
knows the tricks of projection and
uses them.
The other woman In the picture
blond Maria Palmer, was obviously
chosen to create contrast for Miss
Toumanova.
Y *
AS Nina, the renowned dancer
from Moscow, Miss Taumanova en-
bodies the old Russia of life and
light She's the product Of the
theater, a child of the fantastic and
the unreal who suddenly finds her.
self transported from her familiar
world of creation and beauty into
the midst of fellow countrymen bred
by destruction and imbued with
hate. She becomes the symbol OF
life IN an area of death. How the
Evening star., 1944-06-23
odd DR.. Gillespie
Carries On in
Columbia Film

THREE MEN IN WHITE" an MGM
picture starring Lionel Barrymore with Van
johnson. Marilyn Maxwell and Ava Gard
ners directed by Willis Goldbeck original
screen play by Martin Berkeley and Harry
Ruskin. At the Columbia.
Evening star., 1944-06-23

Regardless of what category your
sense of humor fans under-so long
as you have one-you can't go wrong
on Three Men in White" which
opened at Loew's Columbia yes
terday.
Many of the rowdy comedies
lately have tangled themselves
around involved situations and got
less and less funny as they became
more and more complex. But the
three men In white were too smart
to let this happen. AS a result.
whether you happen to see it from
the beginning or arrive in time for
the last five minutes of its Commute
running time. the picture is re-
|freshingly intelngible. Another
thing too good to be true, there's
not a single slap-stick scene.
story, certainly not on the cast lex
|cepting veteran Lionel Barrymore,
and not on some timely message
which Hollywood wants to put
across to the movie-going masses.
Situations provoke some OF the
laughs, but the dryly delivered dia-
logue of gruff-voiced DR.. Gillespie,
accented by just the right degree Of
eyebrow shifting and chin screwing
in the best Barrymore tradition,
provides the majority of humorous
touches. This is especially true
whenever DR.. Gillespie finds any of
his aptitudes in danger of being
usurped by his favorite hospital
"snooper," Nurse Molly Byrd, played
by Alma Kruger
Replacing Lew Ayres as the young
and handsome intern in the Gil
lespie series, and doing good job
of 1t, is Van johnson.
For decades now, and for reasons
no one has bothered to decipher,
Orientals have been portrayed on
the screen, and therefore accepted
by all without question, as dignified,
taciturn individuals who at the very
most. occasionally smile wise smile
and return again to deep thoughts.
Perhaps this is one reason Keye
Luke makes such good comedy cast
ing, for he breaks all such tradi-
tions.
The story as usual takes place
within the walls of Blair General
Hospital and If what script writer's
Evening star., 1944-06-23

that the English carry their arro-
gance to an extreme in deliberately
eating the wrong foods, badly
cooked.
In this early area Of the film, to
which the comedy is largely con-
fined, Miss Dunno is hard put to
keep down the intimation that the
screenscript is being both trite and
cute. That she contrives 1t so well
is as effective an exhibition Of her
talent as her performance in the
more touching passages between
herself and Marshall, as Sir John.
The Susan she portrays Is often,
though not always, just the Ameri-
can girl to reflect the fire, temper
and freshness that would make her
appeal to Sir John as his romantic
ideal. There is pride In her which
enables her to explode destructively
when she thinks the time Is ripe
to demolish the aloofness with
which she is regarded by her patri-
clan in-laws. There is touching
loneliness in her when a second
war casts its shadow on England
and she decides to return to Amer
lea to save her son, If she can, from
his fathers fate of death in battle.
Miss Dunno is superb in catching
all the facets of the part, but she
is not capable always of draining
the excess Of sentimentality from
the many turnings of the plot. She
is the latter.s victim on several
occasions. most notably in an end
ing which you may have trouble
regarding as likely or reasonable.
The rich dramatic moments of
"The White Cliffs of Dover" are well
and wisely distributed among the
other members of the cast. Allan
Marshall will strike every one as an
extremely winning Englishman,
quite worthy of his American bride,
and young MacDowell, as their SON.
The veterans Smith and Morgan
are hagrantly standard English and
American oldsters, but the lesser
parts assigned to the others have
appealing qualities of freshness.
Metro clearly was carried away
by it and the odds are that you will
be carried along.
Evening star., 1944-06-23

lead you to believe is true, it would
be the only hospital left in the
country where there were plenty
of nice sunny rooms and no short
age of pretty nurses. Furthermore,
life in the hospital isn't disturbed
too much by the problem of a plot.
DR.. Gillespie has two special as
sistants, who, among other qualifi-
cations. show great promise as
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n - - g.
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doctors. To decide which will be
his personal assistant, Mr.. johnson
and Mr.. Luke are each given q test
case to diagnose and cure. How Mr..
johnson manages to do this and
head of a female "wolf-ess" at the
same time keeps the audience from
becoming bored. even with endless
interruptions from DR.. Gillespie.
p. S.
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Palaces white Cliffs Catches
POEMS Poignant Love Story
BY JAY CARMODY.

or all the feeling put
words the destnies of this England
December 94 richly
The White Cliffs Soaring all differences
II
of
Evening star., 1944-06-23

NOM production starring Irene Dunno
and Alan Marshall, directed by Clarence
Brown, screenplay by Claudine West Jan
Lustia and George Froeschel based upon
the poem by Alice Duerr Miller with ad-
ditional poetry by Robert Nathan. At the
Palace.
Susan Ashwood - Irene Dunno
Sir John Ashweod ,------- Alan Marshall
ftiTAu FuTter JQNn FRANK Mor&An
John Ashwood II tboy) - Roddy McDowail
Sam Bennett -------- Van johnson
Sam Bennett ------ Ven johnson
Colonel - C, Aubrey Smith
Nanny - Dame May Witty
Lady Jean Ashwood --- Gladys Cooper
John Cyouns mani ---- Pete Lawford
Reggie ---- John Warburton
Rosamund -------- jill Esmond
Gwennie --------s Brenda Forbes
MIS- NOIHhu VNFuCn
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Utica Tag Sale
Will Aid Library
Armistice Doy
Set for Project

UTICA-The annual Tag Dag
sponsored by the Utica Tuesday
club, for tho benefit of the Utica
Library, Will be held this year
on ATmIStrCc Day, Saturday,
Nov. IL.
1t was through the efforts of
the members of the club that the
Utica library was organized
nearly 10 years ago and each
year the club has contributed
substantially to its support. Each
year the ladies pledge a certain
sum and in order 10 raise the
amount a Tag Day mas been held
each year since November 1887.
The growth of the library is a
matter of civic pride, in fact, il
IS fast outGroWing its present at
tractive little building. AT the
last meeting of the board of man
ayers a committee was appointed
TO consult an archltcst regarding
plans for an addition 10 the
building, which will he carried
out as soon as times permit.
Mrs William Erwin and Mrs.
Russell German are in charge
of arrangements Saturday and
young women will aid in the
days sale of tags. They are look
ing forward 10 a generous re-
spouse from the public.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Police
Notes
AUTO Is LOOTED

William MCClintock, of Self
ridge Field, reported to the sher-
ifs office, Tuesday, that while
his automobile parked ON
the South River road near the
Shamrock tavern, hammer,
jack handle, wheel wrench, a
quart of black paint and a gal
lon of oil were taken from il.
The articles were in a beer case.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

He just walks. Like millions
of other refugees-Chinese,
Greeks, Poles. He and his
grandmother and his sister
have been walking for years.
That is the kind of people
you help when you give money
TO your local community war
fund. You give them clothes.
and shelter, and meals-reaf
meals TO children who may new
er have known what it is like
not to be hungry.
"And it isn't only our gallant
allies and many worthy home
front agencies who profit by
your contribution. A large
part-mOre than so per cent
of the National War Fund
goes to our men and women in
the service-tO the L. S. o.,
the United Seamen's Service,
War Prisoners Aid. The most
we can give is the least we
can do for these brave men.
It's our way of saying Thank
THANK you for giving up that
college scholarship to go TO war
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
RADIO STOLEN

Nick VarSaS, Of the Wishing
Well tavern on South Gratiot
avenue, reported 10 the Sher-
ifs office Wednesday that a
built-in automobile radio and 10
packages Of cigarettes were TAX
en- from his car. The car was en-
tered by breaking a vent in the
left window, sherIff's reports
stated.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

community war IufluS.
The story by n. }. Heinz II,
president of the Allegheny
County United War Fund, was
told like this in a recent radio
broadcast
MANY dramatic stories Of
heroism and heartbreak have
came out of this war. But some
times you hear of an incident
some insignificant, home
~ story that gets to you. II
breaks your heart. One Of my
friends now fighting in Italy
told me such a story about
{ little boy who took three
quarters of an hour TO eat a
gum-drop. The gum-drop was
covered with sugar. And the
boy ate every grain Of that su-
gar separately.
He was only five years old
Just about the age of my
own son. He didn't lift his
eyes once while he ate the
gum drop. He never spoke
word. No use asking a
child like that where his par
ents are-Or where he lives.
He doesn't LIVE anywhere.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
HIT-RUN REPORTED

An automobile belonging TO
Arthur Niemann, of 26636 Me
man road, was slightly dam
aged, Wednesday, according to
city police reports, when it was
struck by a car travelling south
on South Gratiot avenue. Me
mann'S car was parked on South
Gratiot near Church street, po-
lice reports stated. The other car
did not stop.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

dearingly called his wife
Mother" and we once
presumbed that matronly Mrs.
SchwarzkOff had one or more
children. Early WedneS-
day morning an important
event in the lives of the Utica
family took place at st. JOS
eph Hospital, Mount Glenn
ems. A son weighing
nine pounds their first
child Sincere cOngratu-
latiOnS, .....
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

For many years since their
marriage, some 20 years ago,
Eddie SchWarzkoff has en-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

that good job the lit
tie business that was just get
ting started. Thank you for
standing watch in a freezing
sale while we draw our easy
chairs closer 10 the fire.
Thank you for giving up your
long, coy Sundays at home
and your dog and your
fishing trips in summer E.
giving them up 10 crouch in a
foXhole on some jungle Island
whose name YOU never even saw
in a geography book.
Thank you for making it pos
sible for US 10 walk down Main
Street without fear of bOmoS
Thank you for more than
we can say but most OF
all, Thank you for the hope 81
victory you've brought so near.
vii you who hear me join me
in these thanks? Give all you
possibly can when your neigh
Dor asks you TO contribute -
your Community War Fund"
Dated Nov. 6 at 1870 a. M,
the first letter to Santa Claus
in the 1914 season was re-
ceived by The Monitor-Leader
this week and turned
over to your cOlumnist, who
usually finds himself assigned
TO the role of Santa Claus
helper during the Christmas
season. II came from
lad who signed himself Gary.
and il seems that he wants
some warlike gifts, including
a rocket gun, a bomb sight and
bow and arrow. He'd also
like a small bowling alley
and blackboard. Par
ents should now make note of
the fact that there are only
as days between now and
Christmas.
AFTER THE TURMOIL Of
jangling telephones, Gathering
teletypes and vote -by-vote radio
broadcastS for the past "a
hours election mania, we
call it it was the most sat
isfying feeling 10 sprawl out IN
an armchair with a snack and
some refreshment and listen to
the soothing strains of Peace
full Valley" last night. We
think the whole of America felt
that way, too. It's good TO set
tie back to normality.
For many years since their
marriage, some 20 years ago,
Eddie SchWarzkoff has en-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
BUMBLEBEE's AIRwORTHY

NEW YORK (P) - The old
story that according TO aerodyn-
amIcS the, bumblebee should not
be able 10 fly because of exces-
Sive wing loading is disputed by
the technical department of the
aeronautical chamber of COM
merce.
with sufficiently rapid oscil-
latiOn it is possible for a very
small flat surface TO lift a much
greater weight, the experts re-
port.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
SEEK MOLESTER

City police Tuesday received
a report that a man in a black
car had been moleSting young
girls on their way home from
school. The report was received
from the Glenwood road area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
PUTTING Up SALE

CHICAGO up The post
office department is making ar
rangcmcnts for a banner turn
out at the auction of unclaimed
articles next Tuesday.
Among items listed TO be sold
to the highest bidder: Al car
tons of Cigarets.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

WPB has released 3,500.00o
pounds of aluminium for the
making of pans. This Is pie for
husbands of housewives whosO
old pans have worn out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
OLD FAITHFUL

TUCSON, Ariz. - up - One
Deweyite remains faithful. A
University of Arizona coed is
wearing Republican campaign
button-draped in a tiny black
ribbon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
BICYCLE STOLEN

Richard Murphy, of Is Gallup
avenue, reported TO city police
that his bicycle had been taken
from the downtown area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
& Mn the DAY ~
By d. A. ~

The true story Of old JueosIav boy who took
fortyfV minutes O single eum-drop the first deli
oocy he had enjoyed proved to be Of the most
effective pleas made for The National War Fund and local
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Worker Fined SIS
in Badge Dispute
Refused to Yield
Bodse to Foetory

VAN DYKE-Failure of a AZ
year-old Detroiter to observe
u. S. Government and factory
regulations in attempting to re-
tain his factory badge after be-
ing discharged, cost him SIS
and costs and a one-year proba-
tionary term when he appeared
before Justice Donald j. Parent
in Mount Clemens Tuesday.
The defendant, Ludgar Lev
esque, entered an innocent plea
to a disorderly charge but was
found guilty after a plant pro-
lection officer from the Vest
inghouse Naval Ordnance plant
testified as to the fight Le-
vesque put up with officers, and
also showed a bruised face as an
exhibit in the case.
Officers said the worker re-
fused to hand over his identifi-
cation badge "a government ne
cessity in a war plan) and put
up a strong fight at the factory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Carrier Flying
Ace In u. ).
II. vroeiu Bags 81
Jop PIones, Transport

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 Up
- The ..avy's leading carrier
plane ace, 25-year-old 1t. Alex
ander Vraciu, is back in this
country after a year of action in
which he bagged 81 Japanese
planes, 10 of them in the air,
the others on the ground.
Under the Nays scoring sys-
tenn, only the 10 planes knock
ed out of the air are counted;
the score does not embrace
those on the ground NOR two
"probables." To his tally of
planes, he has added another
bigger victim, a 1000 ton Jap
anese transport.
His biggest single day was the
turkey shoot" over the Mari
anas last June 10 when he
knocked down six dive bomb
ers, part of the $50 enemy
planes destroyed in a two-day
engagement which marked the
greatest aerial victory of the
war.
Vraciu, whose home is at
1853 Pennsylvania ave, East
Chicago, Ind, came back to this
country with his outfit, Air
Group 16. That group account
ed for $50 enemy planes during
its stay in the Pacific.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Dismiss Pro-Nazi
Hungarian Ministers

LONDON, Aug. 8-(P) - The
Berlin radio quoted dispatch
from Budapest today as saying
that Admiral Nicholas Horthy,
Hungarian regent, had dismissed
Bella Imredi, minister without
portfolio, and two other cabinet
members lat their own re-
quest"
The others dismissed were
identified as Antal Kunder, min
lister of commerce and transport
tation, and Andor JarosS, home
secretary.
The significance Of the de-
velopment was not Immediately
apparent. All three, however,
were strongly identified with
pro-Nazi elements in Hungary
and took office last March %
when a new government was or
ganized under Premier Doemez
Sztojay to intensity the war eff
fort.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Paris Faces Famine
Hungry Await Allied Victory

gion is said to be insignificant.
SPIRITS HIGH
Spirits are high-extremely
high, despite the fact that there
is less TO eat than at any time
previously in this war" This Is
how a report from resident
somewhere in France" dated
June "a, starts. THE bread ra-
ton in this town is less than two
ounces a day and we are in no
way the unfortunate exception.
But despite everything people
laugh, joke and seem pleased
with this wicked world"
Confidence in the approach
ing victory Is expressed in
many ways. Thus on the black
market there is rush to get
rid of all inferior quality goods.
A cut in prices is being demand
ed. Inferior shoes costing 800
francs (S1600) a month ago are
now sold for half that price.
Goods expected to arrive after
the Allied Armies, like razor
blades, also show an amazing
drop-a blade costing IS francs
(S1.50) a month ago can now be
bought for less than a dollar.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Defroit-Edison Chairman
Outlines Stand on Rate Cut

long been a temptation to our
local taxing authorities.
Two attempts have been made
by the City TO capture these So
called excess profits taxes from
The Detroit Edison Company.
One is by a rate reduction, the
other by a tax known as an ex-
else tax, designed to take these
profits (85l2 e of which go 10
the Federal GovernmenD. Here
tofore the Michigan Public
Service Commission allowed
taxes as an expense of doing
business.
Neither the ratepayers nor
the City can get this federal
money without taking from Ed
son a part of the funds we de-
sire TO retain TO carry us over
the postwar period of adjust
ment. This is a serious concern
TO our Company, our employees
and our customers.
AS it now stands by reason OF
the Commissions decision, the
City and the rate payers both