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Evening star., 1944-02-29
Masquers' Club Is Host to Stars

Century-Fox, regardless Of his draft
status. That studio has given up
trying to outguess Uncle Sam. Idea
Is that when the wars ended they'll
still be making moving pictures and
will have a raft OF promising young
talent to sort from.
Frank Latimore, the lead In 'In
the Meantime, Darling" Is 18. He
finished his role and Is on his way
into the service. Lon McAllister,
lead In "Home In Indiana" has
gone. William Colby, James Engler,
Bob Ford and several others played
one picture before getting the draft
board nod.
One chap, Bill Marshall, whose
wife is Michele Morgan, was placed
under contract and Uncle Sam
snatched him before he could even
get In front Of q camera.
Seeking postwar male talent
Warner Bros. have combed colleges
In search Of future screen material
now in uniform. Young men have
been signed In several instances
whose contracts won't be effective
until six months after the war.
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Close-ups: Took two prop men
three hours the other day to wrap
all the Christmas gifts for scenes
In my Reputation" Greer Gar
son has never played any kind Of q
card game-bridge. gin rummy OF
casino-but she's now taking card
magic from an expert for scenes in
Mrs. Parkington." Picture can't
start until Greer learns to deal with
one hand :. Mary Astor is up and
around after six weeks bout with
pneumonia Arrival here of John
Hertz, jr., on business, without his
wife, Myrna 10y, is a further tip to
MGM that Mrs. Thin Man doesn't
intend to resume her career
Dating back to her career with Be-
lasco, Blanche Yurka has written
her autobiography. She calls il
Uneasy Steps,"
CReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Ine.)
Evening star., 1944-02-29
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

Is
Most fascinating array Of actors
in town gathers each noon at the
Masquers' Club for lunch. The club
Is o converted homestead Just on
Hollywood boulevard and well hid
den BY high shrubs.
At one Of its big, round tables In
the cedar Lined dining room Sit just
about all the types you could name
in the movies for years back.
There's the fellow who plays judges,
q couple of managing editors, city
editor, the mayor and several others
who specialize In detectives.
Charles Coburn is jabbering away
in the midst of this group, easily
its most distinguished member Of
the day. on at a smaller table sits
Antonio Moreno, the first time in
many months we've seen the one
time matinee idol without a hand
some woman at his side. But the
Masquer's is strictly stag and the
only occasions on which women are
allowed to participate are the Sat-
tlrday night shows for servicemen.
Joining Moreno is a huge, hand
some figure with q round, smiling
face. He can't be mistaken-it's
William Farnum ($15, ,000-a-week
hero OF the silent regime) just re-
covered from major operation.
He's little changed from that hey
day of rs or 30 years ago and wears
his added years more gracefully
than any old-timer we know. Kind
ly, gracious, thoughtful Of others,
Farnum Is undoubtedly the most
popular of this unique club.
Members take great pride In their
clubhouse and its grounds. Even the
most menial chores, such as DISH
washing, janitor work and garden
ing are rotated weekly among the
members.
On our way out, we spotted Luis
Alberni, famous Italian character
actor, in hip-boots and looking wet
and bedraggled. He was hosing-
down the driveway. As we paused
to chat, in walked the tall and dig
nif1ed Russell Hicks, whom we last
saw as a college president. Don't
talk to the help" chided Hicks, I'VE
have a tough time as it is getting
days work out Of him."
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Any good male prospect who
comes along gets a chance at Doth
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National &c "Jacobowsky and the
Colonel: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Song of Russia: II
am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and $50 pm.
Stage shows: los, 3:45, $50 and
9:10 pm.
Columbia-"The Lodger";; IL am,
l2:40, 2:30, 4:20. 6:10, and $50 pm.
EarE"The Desert Song: II am,
las, 4:30, 7:20 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: pm, $3.50, 6:35 and 9:15
pm.
Keith's-"Tender Comrade": IL :35
am, 1885, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35
pm.
Little-"Abe Lincoln In illinois,:
l1:l5 am, 1880, 3:45 and 6 pm.
Heart Of Nation. 8 pm.
Mctropolitan--"Nine Girls: II 80
am. LAS, 3:45, $40. TAO and 9:40
pm.
Paiace-"Jane Eyre: II IN, i.0s,
ais. $40, 1880 and $50 pm.
Pix--"Lifc Dances On: $3.50, s:4s
and o:<0 pm.
Trans Lus--NewH and shorts.
Contlnuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Creepy Gentlemen
Are interchangeable
Sy the Associated prass

~ pNAS SAooOSldtCtl HT6SS.
HOLLYWOOD,
It's always been risky to switch
stars in familiar portrayals in such
a series as 'The Thin Man." and the
refusal Of the studio to make the
next story in the series without
Myrna 10y and Bill Powell was
founded on what they judged was
audience reaction on the subject.
Yet in horror films, this is not
true. Bella Lugosi, Boris Karlof
Lon CLANCY, jr.; Claude Rains and
George zucco Rotate around as
Draculas, invisible men, wolf men,
or what is your favorite horror role
without anybody objecting. Prob
ably the reason is that makeup and
special effects create such large
part Of the character that the play
er's identity is subordinated.
Evening star., 1944-02-29

incapable of thought until Jacobow-
sky insinuates into it both the
method and the urgency of think
ing. AS the fiercely patriotic, un-
derstanding French girl, Annabella
gives another altogether satisfac-
tory performance, as does Mr..
Bromberg as the coloneps sly Or
derly.
Director Ella Kazan has done an
intelligent and sympathetic inter-
probation of the widely varied
moods Of "Jacobowsky and the
Colonel" one which has been great
ly facilitated by Stewart Chaney's
imaginative and appealing settings
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Keith's Goes Over

RKO Keith'S becomes the sixth
Washington theater to meet its
Fourth War Loan Drive quota of
selling a bond for every seat, the
War Activities Committee of the
Motion Picture Industry announces.
A total of 1857 bonds, 119 over the
1888 seating capacity Of the theater,
were sold.
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Europe with the fall of France in

His portagonists are q wonder
full pair. The most winning is ia
cobowsky, an intelligent, kindly, re-
sourceful Jew who has spent his
whole life looking for a country that
would let him be citizen. In q
Paris hotel, just before the Ger
mans come, he meets naughty
Polish colonel, Tadeusz Boleslay
Stjerbinsky, the perfect symbol of
the 18th century mind. The colo
mel Is brave, stupid and contemp-
tuous but he finds that his world
and That of the Jew he disdains
have been telescoped by Hitler's
1uggernaut. Both now are men
without country, with only a COM
mon road on which death stalks
them.
They have much to learn of each
other, these strange companions,
and they learn 1t not only through
immediate contact. the one with the
other, but through the diverse ef-
fects they produce upon their COM
panions In flight. Primarily these
are a wealthy French girl (Anna-
bella) and a sly, self-conscious
orderly of the colonel q. Edward
Bromberg).
The road to understanding which
the several characters travel is es-
sentially a tragic one, as Is that of
all refugees. Wisely, however, the
authors Of "JacobowSky and the
Colonel" have viewed it with humor
as well as hope. They have made
the conflict between the principals
highly comic one. Jacobowsky is
philosophic, the thinker. The
colonel is the man of action to
whom thought is impossible or re-
peuent. They have no common
meeting ground, a sad thing that
IS turned into something delightful
by the wit Of the playwrights.
The first act of the Guilds latest
production but lightly intimates
the gayety that is to come. It is
dark with the threat of the Nazis
entrance into Paris, of the flight
that Is to come. It is in the fight.
IN an ancient Renault that runs on
an of the stage, that the comedy
is found. The colonel is in love
with Annabella, but there is no
time Tor love and he Is qualified for
nothing else at the moment. ia
cobowsky gets the gasoline, outwits
the police and the Gestapo, finds
the food, shyly falls in love with
the girl, and gradually transmutes
the contempt Of the colonel to q
feeling of respect and affection. The
situation Is one for the playwrights
to revel Inland the audience shares
the revelry.
1t here, too, that the authors
imagination Is up to the task of
introducing Nazi gauleiter who
is really a comic figure, a short,
corpulent character who wears
Tyrolean tourist costume and lisps
"thivilithation" with no less than
hilarious effect.
The momentum carries over nicely
into the third act, if it loses pace
toward the end, manages neverthe-
less to resolve things quite salts
factorily.
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No play this season has been
blessed with happier performance
than that Of Mr.. Karlweiss as ia
cobowsky, the Jew who has always
been hunted by never altogether
without hope or happiness. Equally
excellent IS Mr.. Calhern as the aloof
ar1stocrat whose medieval mind is
Evening star., 1944-02-29

National Theater. It's wisdom and
Its tenderness, one may surmise, are
from the pen of Franz Werfel: its
glowing gift Of laughter from that
lof S. N. Behrman. Between them,
despite an occasional cropping per-
formance, the authors have taken
the essentially tragic theme OF to-
days refugee aristocrat and the
eternally wandering Jew and trans
muted it into a hopeful and light
hearted drama. Toward this end,
they receive the happy assistance
|of Oscar Karlweiss, Louis Calhern
and Annabella, to mention the three
principals among the cast Of the
imaginative production.
The road of the refugee is a
strange place to find Mr.. Berman, a
man who has lived in the wittiest
of drawing rooms since he began
his playwright career. With Mr..
Werfel as guide and philosopher,
Mr.. Behrman needs only part of an
act to find himself at home, and
thereafter the old merry companion
o41do AlC always lldS UcCIl.
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"Jacobowsky and the Colonel" Is
almost certain to evolve as the
perfect treatment Of theme that
has been sadly botched by so many
playwrights and scenarists. It's CEN
tral figures are those often-used
symbols, the wandering Jew whose
centuries of being hunted have
taught him wisdom along with guile
and the aristocrat whose security
has been so automatic that he
needed to learn neither. Their re-
appearance after so many dreary
tellings of their story is disconcert-
ing only for the few minutes that
1t takes "Jacobowsky" to prove that
this time there will be meaning
and merriment and drama in them.
Mr.. Werfel, the story goes, found
the theme of "Jacobowsky and the
Colonel" in his own final flight from
Evening star., 1944-02-29

No play this season has been
blessed with happier performance
than that Of Mr.. Karlweiss as ia
cobowsky, the Jew who has always
been hunted by never altogether
without hope or happiness. Equally
excellent Is Mr.. Calhern as the aloof
arlstocrat whose medieval mind is
Evening star., 1944-02-29
Werfel- l-Behrman Comedy Joins
|1heater Guilds Hit Parade
BY JAY CARMODY.

gods who preside the recently destiny
the Tneater Gudr perhaps
LANCER who responsible
ana the Colonel Here wse tender and play
seems an altogether worthy
Oheo which it after its fortnht here at the
Evening star., 1944-02-08
DR.. Bocock Testifies
AT GaI|inger Theft Trial

DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, former super
intendent of Gallinger Hospital,
testified before jury in District
Court today that Waldo O. Kuhn,
supervisor of grounds and buildings
at the institution, had no authority
to remove materials from the
grounds.
Kuhn is charged with taking hos
pital property. DR.. Bocock, in reply
to cross-examination by Defense
Attorney Abraham Chaifez, declared
Kuhn was AN excellent employe"
The jury was selected late yester-
day. Justice Matthew F. MCGUIRE
is presiding at the trial.
Kuhn was one of two men indicted
last December after an extensive
grand jury investigation of alleged
law violations at Gallinger Hospital
Both he and Clarence A. Camp
bell, colored, a former employe OF
the hospitals supply department
are charged with larceny and en-
bezzelment from the District Gov
ernment and also charged with
larceny after trust.
Specifically, Kuhn is accused of
taking 80 sacks of cement, rolls
Of tar paper and Is gallons of tar
Campbell is charged with taking
100 pounds of sugar, which he is
said to have returned. Campbell is
scheduled to be tried at a later
date.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Lack Of PIasma Cartons
Costs Lives, Walker Saws

Lack OF paper cartons for ship
ping blood plasma to war fronts is
responsible for the loss of MANY
American lives, Horace Walker. ex-
ecutive secretary of the District
Salvage Committee, told members
OF the Michigan Park Citizens AS
sociation last night.
Quoting Surg. Gen. Norman T.
Kirk to the effect that the supply
OF plasma is ample, but is not
reaching battle units in sufficient
quantities. Mr.. Walker urged his
listeners to increase efforts to sal
wage waste paper, as well as kitchen
fats.
Five boys in the Michigan Park
community were presented with
certificates Of recognition on be-
half OF the Salvage Committee for
paper salvage work.
Another speaker, Mrs. Catherine
Greenville, reported on activities of
the home branch of the Red Cross
and emphasized that application to
the service for aid carried no social
stigma.
Plans were launched for another
dance for Army men stationed at
Catholic University, after the COM
mittee IN charge reported one held
recently was successful.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
GaI|inger Inspected
By Visitors Board
Findings Held Up Until
Tour Is Completed

The Board of Visitors for the
municipal hospitals made their first
inspection of Gallinger Hospital
yesterday in a surprise tour which
lasted more than two hours.
Rudolph Berger, chairman Of the
board and head of the Welfare
Committee Of the Variety Club, said
the committee would make its find-
ings public after completing its
work of inspecting city hospitals.
Inspection of the Glenn Dale Sani-
tarium and the Upshur Street Hos
pital will complete the tour.
In their trip yesterday. in which
they saw the surgical, medical and
tuberculosis buildings, as we'll as the
kitchen and laundry. they were ac-
companied by DR.. Daniel L. Seek
niger, acting superintendent of Gal
linger.
Other members of the board be-
sides Mr.. Berger are Mrs. Stanley
Reed, Mrs. Harold N. Marsh, Mrs.
c. Ashmead Fuller, Mrs. Willis w.
Jones, Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld,
the Rev. Edward G.. Latch, the Rev.
Lawrence J. Shehan and the Rev.
E. l.. Harrison.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Maryland and D. {.
Federal Taxes More
Than Double in Year
Payments Here Increase
From S4l1,039,l32
To $874,045,801

Federal taxes from Maryland and
the District more than doubled In
l943 as compared with 1912, accord
ing to figures made public today by
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Taxpayers here increased their
Federal payments from SAIL OBS, 1872
in 1912 to 1914, ,045 ,801 in 1943, but
there was no separation of the
Maryland and District accounts.
For the country as a whole COL
lection from all sources showed an
increase from $l6,774 ,416, ,291 in 1912
to s3l 1924, $50, ,3l6 in 1943.
Nearby Virginia registered an in
crease during the same period from
$474, 4,120,411 to $735.5l0,3S2, and
North Carolina receipts grew from
$557, ,72l $3.50 to $8S2, 1876 ,161.
Pennsylvania taxes rose from ST.
400, ,926 ,030 to $2,797, ,754,770.
New York State as usual led the
Nation with gain from $3,3l3, ,462,-
Ito to $5,9O1, ,303, $40.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
.0PA Chief Cites Reduction
In Grocery Price Violations

The District OPA estimates that
Washington housewives are saving
$750,000 annually in grocery bills
through local grocers' increased
compliance with price controls, Rob-
ert K. Thompson, District OPA di-
rector, last night told a meeting of
the local board and District price
officials, students in the home
makers course in wartime food buy
ing and grocers, in the United
States Chamber Of Commerce.
He compared the results of a
grocery compliance survey made
last June with the results of a SINH
lar check in 800 stores last week
and pointed out that price VIOLA
tions have been reduced from 1e
per cent to 6 per cent in the last
six months.
Mr.. Thompson also disclosed that
compliance with the regulation re-
quiring retailers to post the ceiling
price of each item in or near the
place 1t is sold, has increased from
10 to "a per cent.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Anthracite Users Urqed
To Switch 10 Soft Coal

The coal division of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton today urged consumers who
have been using anthracite to order
bituminus coal because of larger in
ventories Of the latter here.
Anthracite supplies continue low
while dealers have a good stock of
bituminous, A. P. MARITIME, chairman
Of the division, said. Overall supplies
are sufficient, providing there is a
shift to soft coal, he said. Mr..
Martin said, however, that he would
not predict the situation a month
from now.
Meanwhile, Defense Transporta-
ton Director Joseph B. Eastman re-
quested crews in unloading yards in
Northeastern States to work on Sat-
urdays and Sundays through the re-
mainder of this month as part of an
emergency program OF relieve the
anthracite shortage.
Dealers here have been working
nights and Sundays for months un-
loading coal, Mr.. Martin said.
Evening star., 1944-02-08

When we were within two blocks
of our destination, Old Bilibid Pris-
on, I noticed that 1t. Col Will B
Short, U. S. A, was walking in an
unusual, stumbling manner. I was
not near enough to help him. Sud-
denly he fell forward. japanese
guards ordered two enlisted men to
pick him up, holding him under
each armpit.
The march was ordered to re-
sumo and the unconscious man was
dragged IN this manner the remain
ing two blocks to Old Bilibid, where
the Army enlisted men were Or
dered to throw him on the prison
floor. I started to kneel down at
his side, but a japanese bayonet
was showed at my chest in a very
businesslike manner.
Given No Medical Aid.
Col. Short had not moved, and
had been given no medical atten-
ton when, two hours later, was
ordered with Capt. Hoeffel and sew
eral staff officers to the elementary
school at Pasay, suburb of Manila
An hour after We reached Pasay
Col. Short was brought in and
placed on a mattress on the floor
Naval doctors worked on him for
nearly an hour, while the rest of
us stood about and wondered what
was to happen to us next, and what
was to be our fate. In all the entire
group only Col. Short had no
worries. He was dead.
Death was no stranger to any
of us who had gone through the
battle of the Philippines, but we
were to learn about a new kind OF
death. For instance, while I was
at Pasay group of 300 American
prisoners who had been captured
ION Bataan and had been at Camp
O'Donnell passed through on their
way to a work detail in Batangus
All were in deplorable condition
the story Of the death march" to
ODonnell, after the surrender of
Bataan, probably will come to rank
with the worst chapters in the story
OF human cruelty. And the next
morning after their arrival, 18 OF
these men were unable to walk. and
they were replaced by 18 healthier
prisoners already at Pasay.
Later on, we were to meet this
party again-at least, out of the
original party of 300, we were to
meet up with the 30-odd who had
not died from hunger, cruelty or
disease.
Tomorrow: Death March From
Bataan.
tCopyrisht, 1914 by Bell Syndicste Inc \
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Further Indictments
Filed Against Women
In Mann Act Case
Pair Awaiting Trial
In Connection With
Hopkins Institute

Two women, who were among
eight persons indicted last year with
George F.. Whitehead of New York,
described as owner of the Hopkins
Institute, on charges of conspiracy
to violate the Mann Act, were
named today in indictments charg-
ing transportation of women for
immoral purposes.
The two named in today's in
dictments on charges of transport
ing we're Wilma Graham and Flor
ence White.
Eight of the nine previously in
dicted on the charges of conspiracy
to violate the act are scheduled for
trial February 49, Whitehead
pleaded guilty last year and was
sentenced to serve one to four years.
Held in Asphyxiation.
The indictments were among 54
returned by a District grand jury
before Chief Justice Edward c.
Eicher in District Court.
Andrew J. Watts, IS, proprietor Of
building in the 200 block of G
street NV, was indicted on
charge OF manslaughter in the
death Of Mrs. Margaret C. Wissman,
AZ, who was asphyxiated by gas
escaping from an allegedly defective
pipe last December. Police claimed
Watts said he had installed the pipe.
James E. Dougherty, 36, 100 block
Of Quincy place NE. was charged
with manslaugnter in connection
with the traffic death of Harry B.
HALEY, 81, first block Of s street
NV, who was said to have been
a passenger in Doughertys machine
when it struck a parked car.
Flora Woods. %, colored. $500
block Of o street NV, was charged
with second-degree murder in the
shooting of Artie Chambers. 80,
colored, of the l400 block of w street
NV. last December.
Others Named.
Joseph j. Haley, A, was indicted
on charge Of attempting to assault
a 63-year- -old woman in her room
in the 400 block of Seventh street
NV.
Sidney A. Chaplin and Dorothy
Chaplin were indicted on charges
Of false pretenses and grand larceny
in connection with allegedly OBJ
tanning $375 from nurse.
William Wesley Brown, 81, COL
ored, 1400 block of Sixth street NV,
was indicted on charges of sale. pos
session and facilitating transporta-
ton of narcotics.
Among other indictments were
several for housebreaking and lar
ceny, including one in which guam
tity of whisky was taken. Others in-
cluded charges Of passing bad
checks. one of delaying the mail by
temporary substitute post Office
clerk and several robbery charges.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
lsHRshioniinq
&Remiindery@1, )

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4, green stamps G, H,
and J valid through February 20
Stamps K, l. and M valid through
March 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. Book No. 8,
stamps v, w and x valid through
February 26. Stamps Y, which be-
comes valid February 13, and z,
good February 20, both expire on
March 20.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
every pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar-Book No. 4. Stamp 80 valid
for pounds through March 81.
Book No. 1, stamp 40 good for
pounds for home canning through
February %, 1945.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 in Book No. /
and stamp ! on the "airplane"
sheet Of Book No. 3 valid for an
indefinite period.
Gasoline-No. 8 A coupons good for
3 gallons each through today.
No. ga coupons good for 3 GAL
Ions starting tomorrow through
May 8. B, B-l, C and C-1 coupons
good for 2 gallons each. These
coupons will expire on date indi-
Gated on individual books. B-2
and CO coupons in books issued
since December / are good for
gallons each.
Tire Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders. March 81. For B
coupon holders, February 20.
Fuef Oil-Period No. 2 coupons ex-
pired yesterday. Period No.
coupons good through March IA.
Period No. 4 coupons valid to-
day through September 80. Nos.
2, 3 and coupons good for 10
gallons per unit According to the
District OPA. consumers in this
area should not have used more
than 81 per cent of their total
yearly fuel oil ration as of Feb
ruary 7.
Evening star., 1944-02-08

COmdr. Mccoy:
There were approximately 125
naval officers and men in the Navy
tunnel when the first Japs came in
three hours after the surrender
The Japs were ready with bayonets
and grenades. (They entered the
Army tunnel with tanks and fame
throwersD When they saw no sign
OF opposition they lowered their
rifles and became almost jovial and
started looting. This is officially for
hidden, SO japanese officers made a
point of not entering the tunnel for
almost two hours. BY that time
everything Of value had been taken.
The Japs seemed to prize our
wrist watches above all else. I saw
one burly Jap marine with watches
all tine way up to one elbow, half
way up the other, and with a
bayonet aimed at the stomach of
another Jap who was trying to beat
him to an additional prize. Besides
watches, fountain pens also were
highly priced. There were nu-
merous scufles between the Japs
over possession of these articles.
Some of the Japs could speak
a little English. They told us they
had been used as assault troops