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Evening star., 1945-11-10
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

\ Il1lJtl Ft1NtAt
What's the recipe for becoming a
great movie director? Well. the
scholastic pattern is changing. Many
|of today's directors are graduates of
the hard-knocks school
For instance, Archie Mayo got his
start by selling shirts. Sam Wood,
who contends for an Academy "Os-
car" every year, came up from the
silents. Lloyd Bacon, termed one of
the most consistent movie makers in
town (his current film is Capt. Ed
die"0 began as slapstick foil for
the fat and funny Lloyd Hamilton.
But Hollywood is getting on its
high hat about directional back
grounds. The old timers are hang
ing on, but the new director crop
seems to be springing from stage
and radio.
Otto Preminger, now going great
guns for Goth Century Fox, Is an
outstanding example of this infiltra-
tion. If you were around New York
a few years back, you probably
hardened your arteries hating Nazi
officer in Glare Boothe Luce's Mar
gin for Error" You guessed it; the
arrogant, obnoxious SIS man was DR..
Lotto Ludwig Preminger, who had
studied the Nazi at first hand. This
wasn't Preminger's first acting go by
any means, nor his last. At the age
of II he was attending law school in
Vienna-at the request of his par
ents-and working in the theater on
the side to satisfy his soul.
II went bald very young" he said
on the set of Centennial Summer, /"
80 I couldn't become a leading
man. Now If I'd lost my money in
stead of my hair, I'd have fallen
back on law. AS it is" he shrug-
ged and left us to finish the thought,
Il Y y y
If Otto hadn't lost his director
on Laura" he would still be only a
producer and the industry would
have been minus one of its most
ingenious directors. Preminger was
firmly in the producers seat and
Reuben Mamoulian was directing
Laura" when production began.
Then Mamoulian and Otto couldn't
see eye to eye. And Otto is one of
those people who not only knows how
thing should be done, but can also
deliver. So he directed Laura
himself.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Comedion Oliver Hardy
Sued for Back AIimony
M the Associated prass

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.-Film
Comic Oliver Hardy was sued yes
terday for back alimony payments
which, his wife charged, date back
to 1941.
The suit, latest of several brought
by Mrs. Hardy since the couples
divorce in 1888, said an alimony
agreement called for $3.50 weekly
as long as Mr.. Hardy's income re-
manned above $1,000 a week and
for one-fourth of the income if
it fell below $1,000. The suit did
not specify the alleged arrearage,
but asked for an accounting of the
actors earnings.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

strip creators whose fancies coined
Superman and the other rocket
jockeys.
"R. U. R." (Rossum's universal
robots), in case you have grown hazy
on the plot, or should happen never
to have heard of 1t, deals with the
discovery of method for making
synthetic humans. Old Rossum, who
made the first machinemen, was a
madman. His son, who inherited the
works-the robots and the plant for
making them-was merely crafty.
He figured to turn them out in huge
patches to be sold to industrial
barons as slaves, a means of elm
mating the labor item altogether in
production costs.
This nasty fancy leads to higher
development of the robots by the
sons successors. They are brought
closer and closer to man, until they
stop short of him by the absence
of souls and the apparently happy
inability to reproduce themselves.
That is quite a stymie for man to
have laid them, so man thinks, but
the robots turn into tough Gus
toners just the same. Using their
great strength to outwork man, to
outcreate him in dozens of spheres,
they eventually develop a superiority
complex, which inevitably leads to
revolt. Mans weakness-of which
the playwright is always warning
him-betrays him inch by inch until
the robots drive him off the face OF
the earth. ct still may be possible
for Capek to say: See, what did !
tell you?)
1t takes a large cast to animate
Capek's robot fable and it is this
reviewers painful duty to report that
not all of them have been able to
lose themselves in the playwright
fancy. In consequence, they have
not been able to reproduce precisely
the total effect he had in mind.
Those who attain the best results
from where We sat were John P
Mcclure as the robot factory boss
who never was quite morally secure
in his position; Jane Drew, a pretty
thing, in the difficult role of his
sympathetic wife who gave the ro-
bots their revolutionary notions;
Bill Mcclellan as the gentle fellow
Alquist who, like the robots, worked
with his hands, and Bob Mcbride as
the robot who was so human that
he thought his kind should. have
dominance in the universe.
Cue and Curtains "R. U. r." pro-
duced with imagination enough to
give it a musical background and q
ballet support, is one of the most
effectively set of the groups pro-
ductions. Credit for that goes tc
Ramona ]. Tallman. that for the
dances to Elizabeth Burtner and
for the music to Everett Stevens.
"R. U. R." will be presented again
tonight if you think you would like
to see what Capek's fancy looks like
in the early days of the atomic age
Evening star., 1945-11-10

/ final years he founded "The Come
die" a tiny tteater. with q fellow
actor. Both theater and budget
were small and Preminger was q
one-man whiz who did casting and
directing, planned the lighting and
music and wasn't above pushing q
broom If the occasion arose. But
the theater built fine reputation
and Max Reinhardt eventually
drafted him for one Of his play
houses. Here he directed such stars
as Luise Rainer, Alexander Moissi,
Oscar Karlweis, Albert Basserman,
Oscar Homoloka and scores OF
others.
When 2oth-Fox first signed Prem
niger he came into movies with no
previous knowledge of the American
scene. He realized that most Of our
screen plays are purely American
with5 getty backgrounds, so he
took leave of absence, lived in New
York to get the feel Of this country.
He's an all-around character
whose interests include sports
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National-"Sta of the Union"
2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Catholic University-"The Liar"
$3.50 pm.
Capitol - Guest Wife,: 10:ls
am, 1880, 3:25, s, $40 and 1l:1s
pm. Stage shows: IL, 2::35, $40
7:30 and 1925 pm.
Columbia-"Duffy's Tavern: II
am, los, 3:10, Sis, 1920 and 9:3(
pm.
Earle-"Love Letters: 10:45 am.
1855, $40, $40, 7:30, 9:45 pm
and 1910 am.
Hippodrome-"Irene' $50 ano
TBS pm.
Keith's - This Love of Ours.
1l:15 am, 100, 3:25, 5:35, TAO and
GAS pm.
Little-"Love on the Dole: HOS
am, lis, $40, 5:25. 7:35 and GAS
pm.
Metropolitan Mildred Pierce:
10:30 am, 1880, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45
1910 pm. and 1920 am.
Palace-"The Dolly Sisters: IL 80
am, 2, 4:30, Z and $50 pm.
Pix-"Topper":: lis, 3:25, 5:45
$40, 10:30 pm. and 1855 am.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

ana WHAT ne mas accomplished be-
tween then and the atomic bomb
makes the creatures of Capek's i'm
agination miscroscopically insignifi-
cant.
The drama of his play at this late
date lies outside the play, in the
realm of its relation to what has
happened since it was written and
first produced In selecting it to
open Cue and Curtains season, Di-
rector Floyd Sparks got something
more dramatic out of Capek's work
than ever Capek bargained for. Or
had right even to dream of.
"R. U. r." which launched the
Broadway career of Spencer Tracy
back in 1922, is more accidentally
than dramatically interesting today.
1t was hailed as different" in its
original presentation. 1t still is diff
ferent and in another way.
4 + * Y
The Cue and Curtain presenta-
tion, best in its production aspects,
cannot escape the effects of time,
and all the indications are that 1t
does not try.
1t assumes that audiences Will De
aware of the spectacular develop
ments not merely of wartime science
but of the mechanical monsters in
the images of Capek's robots which
the movies have been spawning at
mad rate ever since they discovered
Boris Karloff, Bella Lugosi and the
other members of the horror set.
On that premise, it plays the fam
tasy straight, and that seems a wise
thing to have done. If it makes
Capek look slightly absurd and lack
ing in imagination in terms of sub
sequent events, and that is what it
does, the play remains nevertheless
as it was written. Thus does mod
ern science teach lesson to pre-
sumably foresighted, imaginative
playwrigtts just as it did the comic
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Next for Boearts

stallion Road" Warner Bros.
newly acquired story based on the
novel by Stephen Longstreet, has
been scheduled for projection by
Jack L. Warner, executive producer
The film will be the third CO.
starring picture for Humphrey Bo-
CART and Lauren Bacall. The couple
first appeared in ITO Have and Have
Not" in which Miss Bacall made
her screen debut. They also are
paired in 1.-THE Big Sleep" film YER
sion of Raymond Chambers novel
not yet released.
Stallion Road" will precede "Tht
Devil Was a Lady" on the Bogart.
Bacall schedule.
Raoul Walsh will direct Stallion
Road" and Alex Gottlieb will pro
duce.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Smoker to Mark 1O6th
Anniversary ofX. MI.

An informal smoker to commemo-
rate the 106th anniversary of the
founding of Virginia Military In.
stitute will be held by Washington
Chapter, VMI Alumni Association
at the Army and Navy Club at 8:3(
pm. Monday.
Guest speakers will include Maj
w. w. Lewis, who was one of the
defenders of Wake Island and was
captured by the Japanese; 1t. Col
H. M. Read, Herbert Jacobs ano
Smiley Denton.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

tennis, swimming and horseback
riding. He reads voraciously-isn't
satisfied with synopses of current
books. His library OF plays and the
ater history is one OF the finest on
this coast. When he attends a night
club he's on the dance floor every
moment the band is playing. He
does practically everything except
practice law. so feels he's probably
still disappointment to his parents.
released by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc.l
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Dr.. Marshall to Speak

The Philosophical Society of
Washington will hear DR.. w. H.
Marshall, department of physiolog-
ical optics, Johns Hopkins Hospital,
discuss the dynamics of the central
nervous system, with special refer
ence to vision, at meeting at the
Cosmos Club auditorium at BIS to-
night.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

KYNNrnV Kennedy Mr.. @th NV.
sAsA Rk $500. Mot. I PM.
Parking Space Available to Patrons.
Last Day - FRED MacMURRAY,
LYNN BARI in CAPTAIN EDDIE ''
At 1, $40, $50, 7:25, $40. Get
your name in our Victory Bowl. You
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-10
Work Starts
at Ford Plant

Production OF starters and gen.
orators at the Ford Generator
Plant was resumed today after a
layoff OF three days. Over 700
workers were called back. Tho
employees were notified Wednesday
not to come to work until further
notice.
Contrary to recent reports, re-
placement parts are up to the re-
CURED schedule. The company
previously had reported that a
months production would be re-
quired to supply the $4,000 genera
tor requirements needed for Ford
cars built before the war.
or the $4,000 employees laid off at
the Rouge Plant. $4,000 were called
back today. and some 1000, includ-
ing the Generator Plant. returned
TO work In the smaller plants in
the Detroit area. Assembly plants
in other parts OF the country are
still down. however.
The layoffs we're caused by the
strike in the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel
Company. Although the Ford Mo-
tor 60. would not make any state
ment as to where parts were
found. they did say that the back
to work" order was the result Of
acquiring the needed parts from
other sources.
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Washington, Sept 1o-AP-Ad.
miral Isoroku Yamsmoto : who
boasted he would dictate peace In
the White House-met flaming
death in the Solomons in April,
1913, because this country broke
a Japanese code.
The commander In chief Of the
Japanese navy was shot down by
American airmen who knew in ad-
vance the course his aerial convoy
was to follow. They set an elab-
crate trap, then sprung 1t from high
above the Admirars tishtly-guard-
ed bomber. 49,
The Japanese themselves told Of
Yamamoto's death. but they did
not tell the part American intelli-
gence played in reading coded or
ders.
]. Norman Lodge, veteran Asso-
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Historians May Disagree on Real War Reponsibilt

able to name him now. But histor-
ians 500 OF 1000 years from now
may Judge differently
Changing the subject, he said
that he himself had narrowly eS-
capped death May rs when a Super
fortress fire raid ringed his house
with flames.
Tojo's home is new, In the Yoga
district about an hours drive from
the Imperial Palace and a half
hour from the Meiji shrine where
the L. S. First Cavalry division Is
bivouacked.
When we first saw him, TOTO was
lying back in a rickety rattan gar.
den chair. supervising a solitary
laborer who was filling in cellar
like air raid shelter OF concrete.
TOTO subsequently said that he
and his family had saved them.
selves in that shelter in the fire
raid which burned a small out
building within five feet OF his
home and wrecked the surrounding
district.
"You burned my three best pine
trees" said the man whose armies
destroyed most Of Asia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-10
Japs Told to
Yield Puppet

Marking, Sept 10-AP-Japa-
nese leaders who surrendered their
million-man force in China yester-
day, were faced today with a blunt
demand from the victorious Chi
nese that they give up the Tokyo.
appointed puppet president of Chi
ma and seven Of his aides.
A few hours after Gen. Yasut-
sugu Okamura, commander of all
Japanese forces in China, signed
the surrender document which
formally brought to a close the
eight-year Chinese-Japanese war.
he was handed an order directing
him TO produce Chin Kung-po and
seven other puppet government Of
hcials who, the Chinese said, ARE
now hiding in Japan"
Chinese authorities said a Japa-
nese report that Chen committed
suicide on Aug. % was false and
that he and his companions had
fled to Japan.
As the Chinese celebrated the
end Of the bloody conflict, longest
phase OF World War Two, a decree
was issued multiplying all laws and
orders issued by the japanese and
their puppets. Another decree res
cinded all taxes and other levies In
Marking. pre-war Chinese capital,
which until a few days ago had
been In japanese hands.
The surrender document called
for the capitulation Of all Japanese
troops in China excepting Russian
occupied Manchuria) and in north
ern French Indo China and on the
island OF Formosa.
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.HateEnemyof
Peace Warns
Club Speaker

'1f democracy Is to go on, It will
be because We nave learned the
lessons of the spirit. their applica-
ton to our own hearts, and that
hate destroys" That was the mes
sage OF Malcolm w. Bingay, De-
troit columnist and commentator
who spoke to a joint meeting OF
Rotarians, Kiwanians and men,
bers of the Lions Clubs with their
guests at Hotel Huron this after.
noon.
Mr.. Bingay, who went 10 Europe.
at the request OF General Dwight
Eisenhower, with a group OF Amer
lean press representatives. 70 see
first hand the horrors OF the Nazi
prison camps. saw in the program
Of hate developed over twelve
years by the Nazi leaders its posi-
bilities In the American scene. He
saw in the program OF hate devel-
oped by Huey Long. the unbridled
contempt for charity as evidenced
by a Frank Haag. with his Il am
the Law" the type o. leadership OF
an Ed Krump OF Memphis--in all
Of these the vicious design to kin
die baser emotions. exact counter
parts OF the Nazi program in cul-
tured. educated Germany.
Mr.. Bingay believes that the con-
trol OF mass production, the prob
lens OF atomic energy and the fu-
ture possibilities OF radar are sec
ondary TO the real question whether
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-10
Capital Cheers Gen. Wainqvright
Fmrn Control
Spreads in
Japan, Korea

Tokyo, Sept. lO-AP- General
MacArthur's softly firm control
spread through the length OF Japan
and southern Korea today-but his
policy Of retaining and using the
existing Japanese government set
sparks flying in Korea.
Koreans demontrated In Seoul
(Keijo) ad termed 1t "a slap in the
face" VIXEN 1t. Gen. John r. Hodge,
whose oath Army Corps landed at
Jinsen Saturday, proclaimed that
Japanese administrative officials
would continue in Office. They had
expected quick freedom from the
Nipponese.
Hodge, after accepting surrender
of southern Korea (the Russians
control the northern half), quickly
explained that the japanese COVER
nor-general and his stan would re.
main in office only TO carry out
American orders and would be al
lowed no independent action.
Vice Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher
and his North Pacific Naval Forces
accepted Japan's surrender OF all
northern .Honshu and the northern
most home island Of Hokkaido at
Ominato Naval Base Sunday. Japa-
nese were ordered TO disarm and
to continue their civil administra.
ton. Patrol boats and carrier
planes circled alertly. pending the
arrival OF occupation troops.
Statement Issued
Macarthur simultaneously issu-
ed two statements from his new
headquarters in the U. s. Embassy
in Tokyo. One pledged that Japa-
nese militarism would be elimin-
ated. The other assured his troops
they would go home as soon as
peace could be made secure.
In his first statement he explain
ed that the Japanese would rule
themselves, subject to his orders
and with occupation troops ready
to enforce his decisions IL neces-
sary.
Occupation troops will be sent
home, Macarthur said, "as speedi.
iy and al effectively as the conso-
udation and securing Of peace can
be accomplished through orderly
occupation OF Japan and the demo
Utilization OF japanese armed
forces"
The date will depend TO a great
extent upon how the troops carry
out their occupation duties. he add
ed, reminding them that I'VE fought
and won a war to protect the nights
OF the individual. for all peoples
OF the world"
Naval Bases Occupied
In addition to Ominato, 400 miles
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failed and Major Koga himself
committed suicide. Tojo's wife
said. "He did a brave. honorable
thing"
1t seems evident that under the
clannish family relationships exist.
ing In Japan. TOTO himself had d.
rected Major Kogas actions.
We were taken to the place by
Jiuiji G. Kasai. a liberal parlia-
mentarian who was graduated
from the University OF Chicago in
1913 and who acted as interpreter
for US. Kasai lost his seat In the
Diet in 1912 through pressure
brought by Tojo's Totalitarian par.
ty, the Imperial Rule Assistance
Association.
TOTO said we were the first Am
orleans he had seen since Jspan's
surrender.
Asked Who was responsible for
starting the war, the man who was
premier and virtual dictator OF
Japan from before Pearl Harbor
until the Americans took Saipan,
replied:
you are the vic, Srs and you are
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as he had made his expected court
defense.
Other sources reported that
ToJo had amassed . fortune Of
millions Of yen during his tenure
Of office, most OF II coming from
the Illicit opium trade In China,
where high generals acted as eour-
iers TO take the drug from North
China TO Shanghai markets.
Despite his power, Tojo's down
fall vas a soregone conclusion to
the japanese after the loss OF Sal.
pan. These sources said that for
days after the island was lost, To-
JOS telephone rang and anonymous
voices asked his wife, Hasn't TOTO
committed hara kiri ye;?"
Even thus In disgrace, however.
the man who began the war made
one final strong gesture to try to
keep japan fighting.
One OF the conspirators who
killed the commanding general OF
the imperial guards division in an
effort to prevent surrender news
from reaching the public was To-
JOS son-in-law. When the plot
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-10


then commit suicide In traditional
hara klrl fashion. OF this ToJo HIM
self sharply refused TO speak.
His whole attitude he expressed
In this statement:
Real soldiers fight to the finish
in the field. War ends when peace
is declared. Each respects an en-.
envy who fights hard and cleanly
and so Macarthur has respect for
myself as well as the japanese
people"
The politician who earlier In.
formed US OF Tojo's plan to accuse
Roosevelt OF war responsibility In
sisted that the former premier was
roundly hated by the Japanese pub.
lie because he had thus Ear failed
10 commit suicide.
The informant begged that he
remain anonymous. saying. "lf the
people knew | visited him they
would kill me-"
Quoting a friend in the foreign
office, this informant said TOTO
intended to commit suicide "a soon
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-10
Bataan Hero
bv


Washington, Sept. 10-AP-Con-
gress concerned itself today with
the hero OF Bataan and the culprit
If any-of Pearl Harbor.
1t started the first full week OF
its "reconversion" session by form
ally receiving Gen. Jonathan NJ.
Wainwright and acting on a resolu-
ton for a congressional investiga-
ton into the military disaster Of
Dec. Z. l941.
Otherwise on Capitol Hill there
was talk on such diverse subjects
as a peacetime Navy, surplus pro-
perty, airports, wages and hours,
the atomic bomb and presidential
appointments.
General Wainwright. who finally
surrendered the Philippines to the
Japanese after a valiant fight, was
scheduled to make personal appear
ances in both the Senate and the
House.
The House hoped to dispose OF Q
Senate-passed resolution calling for
the Pearl Harbor investigation.
Dissatisfied with reports OF Army
and Navy inquiry boards. the law.
makers want an independent study
by Congress.
Peaeetlme Navy
Congress heard today that the
Navy wants postwar fleet OF
1918 fighting ships Just 22s
less than 1t has now. The
chairman OF the Senate and
House naval committees - Sen
ator Walsh (D-Mass.) and Rep.
Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) - plan 10
introduce resolutions to permit
this. They added that their COM
mittees probably will hold OF on
a decision until members can stu
dy the effect the atomic and robot
bombs might have on future war
fare at sea.
The Nays idea would be to keep
all three of the 42,O0O.ton aircraft
carriers we now have, "a OF 81 1000
ton carriers, all ten of our II 900.
ton carriers. all 70 OF our escort
carriers and Is out of "a battle
ships. or the total postwar fleet,
however, only one-third would be
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By MURL1N SPENCER AND
RUSSELL BRINES

Copyright 1s45 by Associated Press
Tokyo. Sept. 10-AP-Gen. Hid.
ext TOTO. who as Japan's warmak-
Ing premier launched the attack on
Pearl Harbor. declared In an ex-
elusive interview today that the
American victors now could fix re-
sponsibility for starting the war
but that history might disagree.
The shaven-headed onetlme ter
ror OF Asia, who nov is living quiet.
ly on his comfortable farm outside
Tokyo. refused fatty TO discuss
such questions as whether he ex.
pected to be tried as a war GRIM
inal and what defense he was pre-
pairing, but was willing to talk OF
many things. In moods ranging
from steely-eyed impassivity to
hearty laughter.
A little earlier, q formerly high.
iy-plaeed Japanese politician hao
told us that ToJo expected 70 be
tried 40 a war criminal and hoped
to accuse President Roosevelt Of
being the worlds top war criminal