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Evening star., 1945-06-10
Miss Gish Resumes a Career
Bv Harold Hefernan

New York, the sisters met D. w
Griffith and began the association
that was to carry them all so far ir
the new show medium.
There was big to-do, Lillian re.
members, about changing her name
to something more fossy.
"Gish, said the movie barons Of
the day with great scorn, rhymes
with tish, pish and fish"
1T was good enough for our
grandfather, Dorothy Gish sale
stoutly, and it's good enough
for us"
So Gish it remained
Pictures were then decidedly E
horse of another color; but there
were points of similarity
I'VE did our own makeup and
hairdress, made our own costumes
and even helped paint the scenery,
says Lillian.
This brought big smile from the
dozen or so h irdress, makeup ano
wardrobe people who were present
at the moment working over hel
on the set.
Job Still Exciting.
She finds, she says, a new sort OF
excitement in pictures, now that
she's back. The people are new, and
so are the methods But they are
still making pictures. The product
is the same
She laughed a little at the notion
expressed by some one standing
near us, that movie actors make
more money today than they did
yesterday.
why, it wasn't anything for us
to make S650,000 in a year. she said
Il often had Is per cent cut on the
gross income from my picture, and
taxes were almost negligible COM
pared with what they are today l
don't believe any one makes as much
money now as we made then
Her picture, The White Sister
made In Rome, introduced Ronald
Colman to the screen, and the pic
ture was great success. The year
after, she made "Romola" in Flor
ence. bringing young man named
Bill Powell to the films for the first
time.
Il don't believe there ever was a
a picture made before or since as
beautiful as that" she says.
Asked If the fan mail of the big
stars didn't impress her, she GRIN
kled the corners of the famous Gish
mouth into smile. Her own mail
she said, had been we'll over 10000
letters week-but, even more i'm
portant, more than half of it hac
come from abroad. There were nc
fan clubs then.
I'VE firmly believed we had an In.
ternational language" she said
"and I believe it yet
Spanning the years across two
great phases of filmdom's history
is just in the days work for Lillial
Gish.
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Evening star., 1945-06-10
AndreWses Lament Those Films
By R0saiind Shafer

clothes and have different tastes.
Patti and Laverne live in a modest
6O,00O hut in Brentwood with Papa
and Mamma, Greek and Norwegian.
respectively. One-fourth of their
earnings from all three go to their
parents. Their yearly take is a half
million from recordings, their radio
show, Eight to the Bar Ranch
films and personal appearances.
The girls rehearse for their radio
show three hours daily, like to go up
to Maxene's for coffee and sand
wiches later. MaXene and Lou
bought Jimmy t"SWingin' on a
STAR McHughs house and you
know where he got the title when
YOU look out of the windows. Sun
day nights they give supper parties
for their collection of characters
and friends from show business.
Mamma cooks for them and Papa.
who used to run restaurant In
Minneapolis, oversees things.
All three are crazy about Bing
recordings before they finally made
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Bing ad libbed and broke them up.
The girls started young; they
were not into their teens when
Maxene suggested they try part
singing on "Dinah" as they sat
around the kitchen table one night.
They sang all over town for every
body and at everything. Edgar
Bergen heard them and wanted
them for his vaudeville act, but
their parents said they'd have to
wait few years.
They sing naturally because they
get a kick out of it. One day. want
ing to fill in the other side of a
master recording, they improvised
background music with maraccas
played by a tired trumpeter and a
girl singer on their show, and did a
piece in 20 minutes. That's the
Rum and Coca Cola" that's wear
ing out the juke boxes all over the
country today.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
"A Few of the Local 'BeSts
Bv Jaw CarmOdp

obviously just theaer but is busy one
Busy enough that the
the harassed chance
create by making
There much doubt example play
appearance stage Late
George Apey The John Maquand
life of Boston family in the mind of this
fagrantly
Of the houses other attractions
For Personal Reason Too
had whatever
palms might personal sentimental
Our constant companion the theater
rapidly typewriter professed
certain resemblance between and the hero of the
Marquand work One small aspect of is h of driving and
the Office by
Look. Apey" night after the review was
why you 60 by set of streets? You
where he ended by always doing thing
We argued that Apley right that all like him with
to rouinng certain minor living
found the
1t bigger
things.
Unlike persuaded
ewith the result that the intersections
ride taxcab backed into and virtually side off the
family automobile.
almost boundless
boundless.
in Play.
Two other first prizes of the the National should
be awarded the
performance of Leo Carroll in the title supera
piece poraure only year locally
Of
kaufman did not detect it in the tenancy
g. B-4
Apy the aristocraic sufedshrt conformis
senay comic figure His slavery to the traditions of Beacon street
his effort they
accepted by him his bohood and adolescence extraordinarily
funny spectacle.
CAROLS portrait of him, however
dramatic Somewhere
break with
world the children bumbling
of something tragicany
and he pahetay powerless anything
Carroll, who of the big
the acting profession of its craftsmen.
aspects Apey
The memorable piece of mining by
onals season is far more difficult
A fol
Our strongest temptation in that direction to elect Tauah
Bankhead the Theater Guilds
Philip Bays brave confused fantasy
of critics Broadway that
Bankheads of the
Without they
production would have folded quickly been forgotten
they themselves
modify that judgment from anglenamely whether Miss Bank
head the ideal actress for Bays fantasy She the play
without doubt doing could be she wrecked
At this point that Barrys principal should
been the errant wayward husband Henry Hull He
quiet figure however played capable
that virtually blown off the
Miss Bankheads portrait of the conscienceless
1t the of feeling that makes question
Miss Bankhad the Guild did
all the who the there
be to efendh iudqn
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Now, the O'Brian Awards
Br Jack O'Brian

now gone from Broadway. Billy
gave a performance of great author.
ity for such youngster. And An
ma Lucasta" has other notable Thes-
plan accomplishments besides Fred
erick O'Neals, particularly that OF
Hllda Simms.
In the extremely funny bit OF
theatrical lightheadedness, Dear
Ruth" Howard Smith obviously is
among the finest acting craftsmen
about Broadway. And in the same
comedy. John Dali, Warner Bros
iexpatriate, gives one of the best per-
formances among juveniles. Vir-
ginia Gilmore, who plays opposite
Dali manages to remind theatel
fans that Margaret SULLIVAN is not
the only excellent player of hel
type.
/ Fredric March in "A Bell fol-
Adano.' proves again to his fans
that he is one Of the finest actors
extant And in minor roles in this
Paul Osborn dramatization of John
Hersey's Pulitzer prize novel. memo
rable vignettes are played by Tito
Vuolo. J. Scott Smart, Leon Rothier
and Bruce Macfarlane.
In Il Remember Mama" out
standing performances are given by
Oscar Homolka and Mady Chris
tians.
Arnold Moss as Prospero in the
Margaret Webster version of the
seldom-done Shakespearean play
seemed to us the high point of a
somewhat dubious evening.
In "the Hasty Heart" John Lund
gives an admirable account of him
self, and Richard Lachlen as the
young Scotsman also comes through
nicely
Evening star., 1945-06-10
COMING Attractions

CAPITOL - Brewster Mil
lions" with Dennis O'Keefe,
Helen Walker, starting
Thursday.
lCOLUMBIA-"Dillinger," with
Lawrence Tierney, starting
Wednesday.
EARLE-"Pillow to Post" with
Ida Lupino. Sidney Green
street, starting Thursday.
KEITH'S- That's the Spirit"
with Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie.
LITTLE - Emperor JONES'"
with Paul Robson, starting
Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN-"The AZ
fairs of Susan" with Joan
Fontaine, George Brent,
starting Thursday.
PALACE -" Salty O'Rourke,
with Alan Ladd, Gail Russell.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Boo RooS Is Man Behind Futures of Many Star

sell the Brentwood home-at an
other profit, of course
Johnson Is Handicapped.
With an eye on the bobby-soxers
ask Mr. Roos, How about the in
vestments of Van Johnson?" But
these will have to wait awhile until
Van is in the more than 100000
a-vear bracket. This is how Vans
under 81 000-a-week salary vanishes:
There is the initial 20 per cent
Withholding tax, plus 10 per cent to
his agent, plus 3l2 per cent to
his business manager, 10 per
cent for War Bond purchases
one-haf of l per cent to the Mo-
ton Picture Relief Fund, 5 per cent
for outside publicity-which totes uE
to so per cent of Vans earnings
Supertaxes and State taxes eat ur
another 20 per cent So 10 per cen,
has gone without single dollar
for living expenses. But it won't
be too long before Van is in the
big money, and I predict he viii
be another MacMurray in the mat.
ter of saving and investing it. He i.
thrifty, cautious and with no ex.
pensive vices.
I ask Mr. Roos how he came jntt
his present line of work, and how HI
contrives to capture the confidence
of his clients. He tells me: II usec
! to be a construction man and tal
expert. My first company was IL
/ l922-'The Beverly Wiltshire Con
struction Co. Several years late
Bebe Daniels was having some trou
BILE with her real estate and I helped
her out. and she suggested I hell
other stars and make it a regula,
business. OF course, you know
don't make any money on the 81:
per cent I charge Mem. That-anc
more-ls swallowed up in operatins
expenses. You'll find that a Swedt
never stays in job he doesn't like.
Maybe I shouldn't tell this to Mr.
Roos money-saving clients. But-he
owns a yacht! Aren't you being a
trifie extravagant, Boo?
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Evening star., 1945-06-10
Broadway in Brief

ters. Mail orders have come in,
mostly from servicemen who pur-
chase gift tickets for their parents
or sweethearts, from such places as
Guatemala, India, England, Brazil,
Ecuador, Alaska. Belgium, Ireland,
Newfoundland, New Guinea, Ger
many and South Pacific points.
Harvey" has established itself as
such a definite hit that Producer
Brock Pemberton has had attached
to the wall of the Forty eighth
Street Theater's lobby a sign read
ing: "All seats sold for this per-
formance," as a permanent fixture.
Shep Fields Orchestra will go
overseas on foxhole tour Mike
Todd broadcast from Paris last week.
Dear Ruth passed its 200th
performance and Harvey" its
250th. . With Sister Joan already
Hollywood starlet. Betty Caulfeld
last week followed her older sister S
high-heeled path from the stage hit,
Kiss and Tell to the film city.
. Michael Road takes over John
Dall's role in Dear Ruth: Dali is
off to Hollywood for another film.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
LONDON.

The London home of the first
citizens of Waukesha County, Wis
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine-is
a bright, river-front suite of the
Hotel Savoy; the battle of the flying
bombs was frequently waged just
outside their windows.
Il slept wonderfully during all the
racket" Lynn says, but now that
everythings so quiet I have trouble
sleeping at all
In the late summer of 1943 the
Lunts sailed out of Philadelphia on
a small Portuguese passenger ship
reached Lisbon after stormy voy-
age Of three weeks, came to London
by plane, and soon began playing
Robert E. Sherwoods There Shall
Be No Night" They later toured
in it and then turned to Terence
Rattigan's Love in Idleness," with
which they have been packing the
Lyric here.
Now they'll soon be closing at
the Lyric for a USO tour on the
continent. When that's done they'll
be heading for home-Genesee
Depot, Wis, via New York. Their
Broadway season will probably be-
gin in October.
What? ... Wonderful! -. Where
are you?" cried Alfred when I called
the Savoy. Get up here as fast as
you can-youre joining us for tea.
Reunion at Tea Time.
So my first London meeting with
these famous visiting players was ir
their rooms above the Thames-s
tea time reunion on the Strand
When the first rush of conversation
had subsidized, after few minute:
during which all were talking al
once, asked about their plans.
Yes, yes" said Alfred, well be
happy to get back to New York
but we've also been very happy here
Well do our present play and will
probably revive The Guardsman'
And we'd like third play,
broke in Lynn. L wish we coulc
find an exciting playa melo-
drama"
1--WE would like to have our owl
company" said Alfred. You know
repertoire company. And we wish
we could get some of our wonderful
people back. Hasn't Sydney Green
street been marvellous in the films
. Does Noel know you're here, Mr.
M? Does he?"
We're giving you party" sait
Lynn. who would you like to hav'
us invite? Noel, of course, and whit
else?"
I suggested George Arliss ant
Olga Nethersole. And if Ellel
Terry were alive -"
What mass of enchantment sh
was" said LINN She helped 10
Evening star., 1945-06-10
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.
Business was off in Broadway the
aters last week, with bad weather
mostly blamed. =. Even some hits
had empty rows Z. the entire COM
pany of Oklahoma! saw a matinee
performance of another Theater
Guild hit, "Carousel" as guests Of
the guild.
Ten years ago Willie Howard
bought a home. figuring on little
rest now and then away from the
aters and night clubs. j.. Last week
he went there for the first vacation
since he bought 1t best he
could do up to now were scattered
week ends. It's a many-acred
Long Island estate with menagerie,
zoo, aviary and kennels.
Movie tough guy Lionel Stander
will produce and direct Albert Bein's
new play, Love and the Census
Taker," in the fall. He wants
Ernest Truck for the census -taker
role.
Box Office of the Playhouse The
ater. where "Glass Menagerie" is
set sturdily for run, is getting to
be stamp collectors headquar-
Evening star., 1945-06-10
HOLLYWOOD.
| fhnSe Ancreurc sic

If you've seen those Andrews SIS
ters in pictures, don't you believe
it! The girls themselves are a little
sensitive about it. I'VE know we're
not photogenic, they say, but do
you honestly think we look tina.
bad?"
Personally, the girls have nothing
to worry about: all three have large,
dark eyes with heavy black lashes,
nice figures, pretty legs and loads
of personality But they're finding
that those Is low-budget pictures
which brought them that first mil
lion are making it a bit hard for
them to get the kind of film con-
tract they'd like.
They're a colorful and amazing
assortment There's Patti. the little
| blond, who sings the solo parts;
she's quiet and cuddly.
Laverne, the oldest. is tall and
dark: she collects Dresden china
and perfume. and won't read her
favorite thrillers unless she's safe
in her specially made siX-foot bed
with the family in the next room
and the doors open.
Maxene, the middle one, with red
hair. and a weakness for checked
sports coats, likes modern furniture
and Chinese bric-a-brac.
Maxene is married to Lou Levy,
their manager, whom they call "our
husband" He has shouldered the
responsibility of advising them on
all personal and business matters
He talked that tall blond pompadour
off on Patti, the shoulders out of
Maxene's sport coats and worked
other innovations and improve
ments. When the girls first went
to New York, it was Lou vino taught
them the Yiddish song, Bel Mir
Bist du Schoen,' which put them
over
MaXene'S marriage. a couple of
years back. gave the two other girls
"a chance to develop our own per-
sonalities,' as Laverne puts it All
three girls wear different sizes in
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Lunts Are Coming Home
BY Ward Morehouse

along lot and was very revealing
as a tutor"
"Arliss Nethersole," murmured
Alfred. What an actor, Arliss!
Beautiful actor. Shall I find his
address for you? He's living out
in the country. Anc we could find
Nethersole, too-if she's alive. Why
one of my earliest memories in the
carried upstairs in that Clyde Fitch
play, 'Sapho.' And back in 1896 -"
Alfred, darling" interrupted
Lynn, you simply couldn't have
been going to the theater in 1896"
Il certainly could have-and did.
I was 4. . Do you think I should
retire? I've known some won-
derful people-such wonderful peo-
Pile. I was with Margaret Anglin
when I was starting. And what a
fine actress she was! Yes, we'll
be with the guild in New York"
Lynn poured another cup Of tea
for me and passed the toast. The
Lunts always have tea in mid
afternoon while in London.
We've been away from Genesee
long time" said Alfred. I'VE want
very much to get home again.
These English people, murmured
Alfred. These wonderful people.
So good, so kind, SO courageous, SO
heroic, so marvellous. They're Won
derful to the Americans, too."
Pleased by Gotham News.
News of New York? Had they
heard of the guilds new big hit,
"Carousel'? Did they know of Lau-
retUe Taylor's great success in THE
Glass Menagerie"?
Yes, yes!" cried Lynn. And we
were very happy and excited to
hear it"
Alfred exhibited a long cigar,
present from Winston Churchill.
He saw our play and sent this back.
Gen. Patton came, too. He got into
town one day at o'clock and at
was calling up for seats
Tell me something and be very
truthful" said Alfred, looking me
straight in the eye as I prepared to
leave. We're tired, but do you think
we look too tired? Do you think I've
begun to look old? Do you think I
should retire? -. Do you think we've
changed?"
The Lunts, am happy to report,
are unchanged and changeless. And
this is the good news for New York's
theatergoers and for lovers of the
theater who visit New York: The
Lunts will definitely be back in the
( fall.
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Evening star., 1945-06-10
By NheiLah Graham

eral of the Roos clients. And the
usual lineup has new name-Lloyd
Nolan. The latter also owns work.
ing farm in Camarillo.
Mr.. Roos is the father of two
children-they are now grown up,
and his experiences In that line
stand him in good stead with his
fllm-star clients. For instance,
when they live in expensive houses
which eat up every cent they earn.
he does not use the frontal ap-
proach. He attains his objective
in less obvious fashion. Sell your
estate, live in an apartment and
save your money" he counsels. He
Evening star., 1945-06-10

I met an interesting character
yesterday. His name is Boo Roos
He is business manager for Van
johnson, Dorothy Lamour, Marlene
Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Ann
Dvorak, Leslie Fenton, Red Shelton
and Edna Cthe ex-Mrs. Skelton)
Joan Crawford, George Brent, Orson
Welles, Rita Hayworth, Ward Bond
and too many others to list here.
The main preoccupation of Mr.
Roos is to save and invest the
money earned by his glamorous cli-
ents, so that when the public has
had enough of their pretty and
handsome faces they will not have
to sell their homes and jewels and
subsequently make that dramatic
but sad trek to the poorhouse.
Il want all my clients to have
around $4,000 a year income-from
their investments-when they re-
tire" Mr. Roos, in his early 40s
blond, blue-eyed and Swedish, told
me. And if they don't it won't be
the fault Of Mr.. Roos, who believes
IN putting to work every dollar
earned by his clients. AS Lloyd
Nolan told me-"Boo never lets me
keep 50 in the bank"
MacMurray Is Partner.
Take the case of Fred MacMurray
| who, with Ann Dvorak and Leslie
Fenton. is a partner in Mr.. 'Roos
company. now called The Beverly
Management Corp" Last year Fred
earned in excess of 100000.
Fred is very conservative" says
mis- manager. He holds himself back
He gets spending allowance OF
between $40 and $50, but he never
spends it all His wife Lillian is
very conserva tive Fred's hobbies are
fishing and hunting. After buying
some fishing rods and some guns
his expenditure stops. Fred agrees
with me that you can parallel ex.
pensive hobbies with business enter.
prises. He owns several apartment
houses. For the Bryson apartment
house he paid better than $500 900
1t was on the market for $3.50, 900
he has the entire block on Wiltshire
boulevard.
Under the guidance of Roos, who
tells me he matches investments for
investment with his clients, Free
has financial finger In such di-
versifled enterprises as marketing
prunes, sweater factory and the
former Los Angeles Country Club
now rechristened Rolling Hills
Country Club" Stockholders in the
club also include Roos' clients John
Wayne, Frank Borzage and Mitchell
Leisen.
/ Then" continues Mr.. Roos, I'VE
have just bought the West Side
Tennis Club" BY we" he means
Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray
John Wayne, Directors George
Seaton and Frank Borzage and Mr..
RooS.
Oil Wells on the List.
I'VE have formed a syndicate for
the drilling of oil wells" This time
there are some new names included
in "we'-Red Shelton, Edna (ex)
Shelton, George Brent, John Wayne,
the ubiquitous Mr.. MacMurray and
Boo.
There is also a motion picture
company in Mexico owned by sew
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL-"Song of Berna-
dette": 2::20. $50 and $40
pm. Stage shows: lao, $40
and $40 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Diamond Horse
shoe: /. $40, $40, 7:3O and
$40 pm.
EARLE-"EScape in the Des-
ert": l2:45. 3:05. 5:25. 7:5O
and 1910 pm. Stage shows:
2:l0. 4:30. 6:55 and 9:l5 pm.
KEITH'S - The Enchanted
Cottage: 1:20, $50, 5:35,
TAO and Gas pm.
LITTLE-"Four Feathers: |.
$40, Sis, 7:20 and 9::35 pm.
METROPOLITAN - Roughly
Speaking: LAO, 4::2o, 7 and
$40 pm.
PALACE - Without Love-:
las, 4:20, 7 and 9::35 pm.
PIX-"Rain": 2, 4:35, 7::30 and
1905 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1945-06-10

gets them to buy an apartment
house, a beautiful apartment house
with a swimming pool and a couple
of tennis courts, a place with all
the comforts of home where they
can live rent free while collecting
rentals from the other tenants. Un-
der the advice of Mr.. Roos, clients
Joan Crawford and Phillip Terry
recently bought the swank Gros-
venor apartment house in Beverly
He has not yet succeeded in prying
Joan loose from her dollar -consum-
ing estate In Brentwood, but he is
hoping that when Joan buys the
cattle for profit ranch, she will
Evening star., 1945-06-10

sell the Brentwood home-at an
other profit, of course.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31

Empire Wnnt-adS orng results!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31

ators to attend the House hearing on it's Equal Rights" bill, the Sem ate got together again late yester- day to complete action on the reso- lution providing for pay of legislative help. Amendments offered by the author, Senator Walker, were adopt ed, to increase salary appropriations to allow the rates of pay to be as provided by latest Congressional sta- tutes. The amendments increased the total amount appropriated from S10,3 ,380 to S15,200. Senate Joint Reso- lution No. was then passed, as amended.
 Other action at yesterday after noon's Senate session included: Con- tinuing in second reading of Senate Bills Nos. and 8; introduction of Senate Bill No. 10 and a request by the Education Committee for the presence of Senator Leo w. Rogge at a meeting to act on his liquor license bill, immediately following adjournment yesterday. Adjourn ment was taken until 10:30 o'clock this morning.
 Senate Bill No. 10, by Senator Talbot Scott, would increase the eX- else tax on distilled liquors from $1 to $2, amending the existing law. It was referred to the Taxation Committee.