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The sub., 1945-12-20

The representatives present At< the meeting including: New Haven Local 825, Norwalk Local 830, Stamford Local 786, Hartford Lo- cal 76O, and Bridgeport Local 8S4, delivered an application for a state charter to international vice president, Joseph c. Lehan.
 It was agreed that until bylaws were adopted and permanent dele gates were elected by each of the affiliated locals the temporary off, cers, John Speers, chairman, and Robert Carlson, secretary, should continue to function for the time being.
 Legislation Stressed
 The importance of legislation to accord recognition by municipal authorities of city employee or ganizations and the establishment of 48-hour week when ex- servicemen return was stressed by the delegates. Chairman Speers appointed Houseman, Edwards and Sherwin to draft resolutions to be presented to the forthcoming Con- necticut Federation of Labor con- vention.
 Secretary-Treasurer Harold V. Feinmark of the state federation, congratulated the firemen upon their move to form a state organ. ization,
 The other two locals in the state, In Bristol and in Waterbury were unable to send representatives to the meeting. Future meetings are to be held the first week of each month in New Haven. Hartigan of Local 825, related how the firemen, policemen, school custodians and teachers of the Elm City had united in a cam paign before election to acquaint the voters with their problems of the need for civic improvements, especially in the schools. He att tributed the defeat of Democratic Mayor John Murphy to the efforts of the city employees who bitterly resented his snubs to their or ganizations.
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dead issue In Hartford, he af- firmed.
 Representing Groton, Mrs. Ruth Denbo, president of the Franklin Delano Rooseevlt Club, made the observation that the Full Employ sole benefit of workers, but that ment Bill was not designed for the business prosperity depended upon the purchasing power of working people. Making a point for labor she said, Right now working peo- pie are facing a severe drop in take home pay which has dropped one third while the cost of living remains at it's wartime rise of 40 percent. The only alternative to full employment and rigid price control is imitation, followed by de- pression. The vets and working people will face bread lines and apple selling as after the last war. That is why our party, which Is the party in control now, gives full SUD- port to these policies"
 Mrs. Woodhouse discussed pend ing anti-laibor legislation in regard to the Smith and Hobbs Bills which have already been put through the Rules Committee. She warned that a battle would soon be on, with Connecticut's and New England's representatives firmly align e d against them, but with the South andMidwest solidly for them. Prais- ing Walter Reuther, vice president of the Auto Workers, she remarked that his idea of raising wages but not automobile prices was sound economic thinking and added that General Motors was saving money" on account of the strike.
 Mrs. Woodhouse also took stand against conscription, saying that with the volume of voluntary re- enlistmentS, it would become un- necessary, but at the same time, she warned against a premature slackening of effort.
 Echoing the sentiments of the en- tire group rallied by. additional speeches from Representatives Ed ward Rice, Perry Shafer and Row land Bishop, secretary of CLU of New London. Mrs. Woodhouse de- clared that i've can get the harbor. if we all get behind and push
 Potatoes lose the least vitamin c when stored between 50 and 70 F.
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The Yurd Stroller
(Continned from Pagl Foarl

(ContinuTd from Page Foar)
 Buster Baude, has opened the Rain- bow Inn, in partnership with Phil DeBono the famous New York cop who was proprietor of a place in Hartford for over four years. Bob and his car were also in the B. B. Hospitalization Service, and were used in transporting injured em- ployees to their place of residence. Most of us remember what a jolly kid was Bob's wife, Sally, who worked in the Temporary Light shop, second shift, Main Yard. We are glad to see so MANY EX-E. B. EMPLOYEES GOING INTO BUSI- NESS, for they are swelling the ranks of local merchants who are friends to LABOR. Good luck, kids, and we'll be out to see you in our Christmas holidays.
 George Adamson, former electri- elan 31-823, has returned to his home at 20 Virginia Avenue, Grot- on, after having had his larynx removed at the University of Cal ifornia Hospital in San Francisco.
 Machinists Local 1871
 A bouquet to "Steary'' Weaver, who has done such fine job since taking over the Financial Secre- tary's position in Local 1871.
 We hear that Lefty is about to take over anchor position on the Elks No. 3 team, if Al" doesn't improve.
 Local 1871 wishes to convey a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of its members.
 Sorry to hear that John 'Firpo'' Cawley has lost his job as safety inspector in the yard. We hope that he gets it back in the near future as there isn't a better liked or respected fellow in the yard.
 It would be a great help to Ma chinists Local 1871 if all of its members would try and have their dues paid right up to date by the first of the year.
 We hear that MT. Mckay of Dept. 303 and his supervisors are cooper ating 100 per cent with their stew ards. Good work, gentlemen.
The sub., 1945-12-20

AASs WOOuLLOChSS pIdISGN tLk0 1SSs' ent revival of interest in the harbor development. Declaring that God helps those who help themselves, the Congresswoman asserted that the harbor, as well as the Groton airport. means jobs and prosperity for New London.
 Charles Silva, Democratic Town Chairman of New London, revealed that the Connecticut Terminal Com- pany "has turned away business on several occasions, making the point that shipping can be brought to New London once the facilities are developed. Using facts and figures to bear out his position, MT. Silva said the 1000 manufacturing firms regularly engage in importing and exporting goods, of which 75 per- cent of this business goes through New York harbor.
 We started 1t last night, he said, referring to Monday evenings Council meeting in New London,
 0AA0 WI w BO1 u41 I44G WoA CAAVuSC and dock space here we need. We haven't got the industry. but we sure can get the business"
 Bearing out MT. Silva. Senator Nick Spellman advised that legis- lative sub committee was investiga- ting the state pier, with the advis- ability of having the state resume control over the pier. Tt isn't a
The sub., 1945-12-20
SPECIAL NOTICE

William Carpenter, District Sec retary to Rep. Chase Going Wood house, will be in New London weekly on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 D. m. at Mrs. Woodhouse's office, SO1 Mercer Building. Persons hav- ing business with Mrs. Woodhouse may consult with MT. Carpenter at these times. MT. Carpenter has been associated with Mrs. Wood house for several years.
The sub., 1945-12-20
Eustern Conn. Democratic Leaders
 Nuke Progressive Postwar Pluns

Congresswonan Chase Going Woodhouse, speaking last week at the Italian American Citizens Hall in Groton at meeting of the New London County Democratic Or ganzation sponsored by the Franklin Deano Roosevelt Club and the Democratic Town Committee of Groton de- cared that Congress is Gin the mood to money in- dicatng that New London would have to fight for the proposed harbor and port development program but at the time indicating that New London with its nat ural facilities stood better chance of receiving federal appropriations than Bridgeport New Haven
The sub., 1945-12-20
Connecticut FTefighters'
 Unions Decide to Establish State Council, Seek Charter

New Haven, Conn-Uniformed Fire Fighters Assoca- ton of Connecticut was the agreed upon by tatves of Fire Fighters locals of the Nutmeg State when they at the Labor Temple here to report that their panzatons had favor of establishing state council
Evening star., 1945-04-04

working overtime as between TalM-
lah Bankhead in Philip Barry's
Foolish Notion" and the four prin-
cipals of The Searching Wind,
which comes to the National April
16 for two weeks.
The Lillian Hellman play, as you
may have heard, covers period OF
% years, the % years preceding
World War II. Styles changed fire.
quently in those onescore years and
two, with the result that Cornelia
Otis Skinner, Dennis King, Dudley
Digges, and Barbara ONeill each
make half dozen costume switches
during the six scenes.
The average time consumed pei
change is 60 seconds.
The character in the play who
appeals to us, incidentally, is com.
paratively lesser one, the news
paper publisher who retires when he
sees the way the world is going
The time of his seeing is before the
war has settled down to its postwar
aspects.
Bulletin board: The Yiddish Art
Theater's production of Three
G enera tions," with Maurice
Schwartz. will drop into the Ma
tional for two performances on Sun
day, April Is. :. Tickets are now or
sale :. The Arlington Little Thea
ter will give its first production
Junior Miss" at the Claude Swan
son Junior High School on Friday
Evening star., 1945-04-04

Exploration" to members and guests
Of the Washington Chapter of the
Izaak Walton League Of America
at s:15 pm. tomorrow in the Com
merce Department auditorium.
Evening star., 1945-04-04

Will Lecture on Arctic
Comdr. Donald B. Mcmillan,
U. s. NJ, will give an illustrated lee
ture entitled Pioneers in Arctic
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
Catholic University-"Peer Gynt";;
$3.50 pm.
National-"Winged Victory: 2:3C
and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol 'Thunderhead" II am.
LAS, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows, l, 3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Columbia-"Musi for Millions"
1870 am, D. 4:30, 7 and $50 pm.
Earle-"Hotel Berlin; II am.
1:50, AIS, ITO and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows, 1:15, $50, $50 and $40 pm
Keith's-"Here Come the Co-eds"
II: 40 am, lao, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 anc
$50 pm.
LittIe-"Random Harvest: 11:2s
m. 2, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:45 pm
Metropolitan-"T Tonight and Every
Night; 11:15 am, 1:20, 1928, $50
7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Palace-"Ill Be Seeing You"
10:45 am, 1855, $40, 5:25, TAO ane
$50 pm.
Pix-"Marceillaise";; 2, 4:35, I'll;
and 9:55 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-04-04

VIC odlllIlCoG l<C NldlCO CNCl, WCl z
virtually the perfect Illustration of
Pope's definition.
From the De Marcos and Pope
the human mind is absurd, isn't it?
we went on to think of the people
who are the opposite. They would be
the artistic phonies and crashing
bores who want to weep into your
beer because their self-assumed
gifts are not translated Immediately
into meteoric careers in the arts.
The difference between the two is
no less than cosmic and it might be
good for the latter to contemplate
just one detail of the De Marcos
preparation for their Shoreham
opening. The detail in question is a
matter of rehearsal which, in this
case, lasted for several hours. 1t
began with music, 1t included lights,
and it went on to include the De
Marcos adjustment to what they,
the orchestra, and the electrician
learned of all three during the re-
hearsal period.
When their show came off, the
first one, it looked like the easiest
performance that ever had been
given. The audience was breathless,
as the idiom goes, for the full 80
minutes that the pair danced. The
audience was not actually breath
less, of course, and neither were the
De Marcos, who are in tip-top shape,
but that is the best way of describ-
ing its reaction. The team did
dance, however, for 80 of the most
arresting minutes that ever have
been admired on a night club floor
And 1or all the apparent ease with
which it did so, it went back to the
Evening star., 1945-04-04

hours and hours of rehearsal tht
two have been doing since 1941 wher
they first began to dance together
the perfect illustration of genius a!
an infinite capacity for taking pains
If only more entertainers would
there would be more De Marcos
And Helen Hayeses, Kristen Flag
| StadS, etc.
That's what's wrong with enter.
tainment.
&* X
Even if his press agent thought OF
it, which we are sure is not the case
knowing Leo G.. Carroll, we like
the latter's statement in the April
issue of Theatre Arts:
Il became interested in the thea
ter as a youngster because I never
like to be me. I have always been
shy. 1t is very hard for me to walk
down the aisle of church If it is
full of people. I don't like crossing
the floor of a crowded restaurant
Even today. But when I'm on stage
all this vanishes.
MY theory of acting? I haven't
one. Honestly. I just put the part
together from the things I have OBJ
served"
Mr.. CAROLS lack of a theory of
acting is likely. nevertheless, to land
him this years critics prize for his
portrait of the title character in
The Late George Apley."
That is the guessing at this point,
at any rate.
Speaking of prizes, if they were
awarded for celeritous changes of
costume, stop-watches would be
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Those Snazzy Cars
Still Appear in
Films but Rarely
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Have you ever wondered what be-
came Of those high-powered Amer
ican and foreign automobiles which
disappeared from the highways
when gas rationing came in? Their
|gas-eating motors now purr strictly
on studio time, before the cameras
They're trucked in from the rental
agency which handles them, driven
sparingly for close shots only. -Four
Of them, rented at $35 to $50 a day
will appear in the Sherlock Holmes
drama Invitation to Death" They
include a Renault taxi, 1928; ar
Aston Martin taxi, 1929; Vaux-
hall cab, 1898, and an English M. G
touring model, 1898.
Evening star., 1945-04-04

and Saturday nights of this week.
The production was directed by
Walter Timmins. President OF
the Arlington group is Howard
Wentworth, who has been identified
with many in-town and suburban
theatrical adventures for more than
a decade.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
ADJUSTMENTS.
ADJUSTMENTS ADJUSTMENTS.
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros Ads Indicate Time Feature Is
Presented
Evening star., 1945-04-04
CothoIic Poetry Society
To Hear Rev. }. }. Jepson

The Washington Catholic Poetry
Society will present the Rev. John
J. Jepson of the Theological College
Sulpician Seminary, in a discussion
Of the works Of John Bannister Tabb
priest and poet of Richmond, Va.
whose centenary is being observed
this week at $3.50 pm. Sunday In
Evening star., 1945-04-04

the Study Guild Library. l725 Rhode
Island avenue NV.
The seasons last poetry contest
is now open and members may sub
NIT entries until April 30.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
A-l6 ~ THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
AY. l.
De Marcos Show the Perfection
OF Pope's Words on Genius
BY JAY CARMODY.

Tony and Sally think something
we should consult our but their dancing at the shorehas
liked either
pains"
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-30

that has made our lifetimes worth the living.
And that is the way their book will be written
What has that to do with the Victory Loan
Just this:
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-30

If this Victory Loan is snccess-it will mean
that our natioaal< credit has been kept sound,
that reconversion 'can proceed unhampered by
doubt concerning that credit, that inAationary
forces have been retarded and reduced that our
men still overseas will be brought back and
given a decent chance in life. 1t will mean, in
short, that we have taken one mighty important
step on the path Of nationaltsaniy.
You, Of course, know your own obligation--to
yos1 nation; your family and yourself. Will you in
vestfa41=,ths last and srprenely important time?
Evening star., 1945-01-14
NEW. ORLEANS.

NEW% OftLEANS.
A New Orleans priest who says
he'd rather live the truths he
write about than write about the
truths he tries to i've" sold his new
novel to Hollywood, while it still was
in galley proofs.
When David o. Selznick an.
nounced plans to film the Rev. Ed.
ward F. Murphy's THE Scarlet Lily
and to cast Ingrid Bergman in the
leading role Of Mary Magdalene
Father Murphy said he was most
amazed" Then he went quietly or
with his duties as pastor of the
Blessed Sacrament Church and pro.
fessor or religion and philosophy al
Xavier University.
Admires Miss Bergman. ~
II admire Miss Bergman's worh
tremendously" he says, land thinl
she'll be ideal for the part of Mary
But don't have in mind any one It
pick to portray Christ, In the book
there's lot Of conversation between
Him and Mary. My idea Would bt
to mirror Christ through expires.
sions and actions on the part O.
other characters.
The only help I can give Holly.
wood is from the historical and re.
ligious angle, so / don't know
whether or not I'll 60 there"
The soft-spoken, gray-hairee
priest wrote the novel. his interpre.
tation Of Mary Magdalenes life, be.
tween last Christmas and Easter
He penned 10000 words Tin long.
hand) during his off-hours.
Then when I'd finished, didn'
Evening star., 1945-01-14
I'LL Fortune
Fatal at Last
To- Musical
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The worst hard-luck show in
years, "Glad to See YOU" gave last
expensive gasp in Boston and folded
without even arriving on Broadway.
The first star signed by Producer
Dave Wolper quit before rehearsals
started; she was Lupe Velez, who
committed suicide just short while
later.
Eddie Davis, half the ownership
of Leon and Eddie's" Fifty-second
street madhouSe, was set to make
his legitimate theater debut; in the
midst of Philadelphia tryout, he
broke his collarbone in a motor
accident and was forced to withdraw.
One of his show girls fractured her
skull in an accident suffered in New
York during week end away from
Philadelphia's quiet Sundays.
Director Busby Berkeley quit dur
ing the Philadelphia engagement.
One of the authors of the show, an
other Eddie Davis-no relative to the
Eddie of Leon and Event to a
Philadelphia hospital with pneu-
monia during its run there. The
show received more rewriting than
any other musical in the last decade.
More than $4,000 went into the
production.
The shows performers - Jane
Withers, Eddie Foy, jr.; June knight
and about 100 others now are free
to pursue their careers elsewhere,
and Dave Wolper has the mightiest
migraine extant among Broadway
producers.
Evening star., 1945-01-14
Franklin's Formula Wrong Here
Ru TockO
By Jack O'Brian,
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Jean Dalrymple has pulled a
switch on Ben Franklin's old axiom
and has made it late to bed and late
to rise makes you healthy, wealthy
and glamorous."
The beautiful Miss Dalrymple
never takes her pretty blond head
from her silk pillow before noon
Then she hurries to breakfast with
some gilttering marquee name at
"2l" or some other MONDAY hangout
of the better-heeled cafe socialtes
Jean Dalrymple is the leading
lady pubhcist on Broadway. She
thumps the tub for such hits as
Anna Lucasta," "One Touch of
Venus" and Voice Of the Turtle.
She also guides the press destinies
of Mayor F. H. La Guardia's pet
theatrical project, the New York City
center Of music and drama; Levi
sohn Stadium, Jose Iturbi, Grace
Moore, a dozen or more other~proj-
ects and personalities.
Adds Producing to Jobs.
Now she IS adding another bit of
luster to her shining cap; she is pro-
ducing her first play, Hope for the
Best" in which Franchot Tone is
starred. If all goes we'll. other pro-
ductions will follow in swift order.
Jean Dalrymple's life flows as
briskly and as fashionably as q
Hollywood fiction of the smart, So
phistocated businesswoman. When
she awakens in her East Fifty-fourth
street home-not an apartment, but
an entire house-she picks up di-
rect-wire telephone to her Office high
up in one of Manhattan's tallest sky
scrapers and starts her business day
She then dictates letters over the
phone and clears her desk of all
imminent matters before she even
arises.
Miss D. began her Broadway Ca
reer with money amassed by playing
the stock market while she was a
$50-a-week Wall Street secretary
With that safeguard, she decided to
indulge her theatrical penchant, be-
came a vaudeville ingenue. Two years
later she was writing and producing
her own skits, later joined John
Golden's office to start an i'm
mensely successful theatrical press
relations career.
She's a Versatile Girl.
Well liked in show business, she
also is one of the "Reminiscences
figures who have come to power on
Broadway. She has helped more
than few shows to get produced
has raised backing for hits like
"One Touch of Venus" helps cast
plays and has put her own cash
into theatricals in which she has
complete confidence.
She now is at a point where she
Evening star., 1945-01-14
Ellington Launches
His Opera Scheme
With Melchior's Aid
Ey the Associated Press

NEW YORK.
Duke Ellington soon will start
work on his most ambitious musical
project, an original American opera.
Having long considered it, the
Duke, leading exponent Of concert
lied jazz music, received the direct
encouragement needed when Lauritz
Melchoir, Metropolitan Opera Wag-
merriam tenor, promised that, if the
opera fits his capabilities, he will
appear in it.
The project would be the first
ever written by a composer whose
entire history has been confined to
the jazz idiom. Already the COM
poser of ambitious jazz suites such
as BLACK, Brown and Biege,' Ell
lington presented five new works at
recent Carnegie Hall concert. One
of them was a new suite, Perfume, 4"
which was received well by the
critics.
Evening star., 1945-01-14
Movie Script From a Pulpit
By Mary Francis Putnam

know what to do with it," he re-
calls. II entered it in the Bruce-Ex-
tension novel contest for the best
Catholic novel of the year, and al
most forgot about it,"
Two months later he was notified
that THE Scarlet Lily" had won
first place. Published November Is,
it is the November selection of the
Catholic Literary Guild.
Father Murphy gives this explana-
ton for writing the novel: when
my last book, 'Handclasps With the
Holy was published, one reviewer
remarked that I should have in
cluded vignette of st. Mary Mag
dalene. I decided to make up the
omission by writing book on her y
Story No Preachment.
The story is not "preachy," he
said, but he believes it does imply a
modern moral truth.
Interested in the theater and
movies, Father Murphy himself is
not "preachy" In the usual sense. In
New Orleans he's called everybody
father" and liked by Catholic, Jew
and Protestant
A native of Salem, Mass, he's q
Southerner "by adoption" and has
devoted q years to service among
Negroes in the South.
When I learned that most o1
Salem's beautiful old mansions were
built with proceeds from the areas
early Negro slave traffic, and that
the first slave ship was constructed
in Marblehead, Mass" be says, 81
felt that New Englandsowed the
Negro a debt for having been fac.
tor in his misery, and sought a way
OF paying my share I entered the
Society of st. Joseph, devoted to the
evangelization of Negroes in the
South"
Evening star., 1945-01-14
HOLLYWOOD

| HOLLY WOOD.
Wanting to be an actress" says
Diana Lynn, lis like wanting a per-
petual state of adolescence"
Diana is 18, and she enjoys being
an actress, but there is nothing
adolescent about her. She is wise
She Is grown up. She is calm. She
is nice. She is very pretty. And
she wakes up every day to learn
to her surprise-she is getting mar
| ried to any one of a dozen beaus
have lunch with her at Lucey's
Restaurant, just across the way
from Paramount where Diana tolls
for $3.50 week, and, first of all
we clear up the marriage business
They had me engaged to three
different men last week." Diana tells
me, and smiles. II gather" she
continues, that Maj Robert Liv-
ingston is number one. He's nice,
but I have no matrimonial plans
at ALL"
There is also Robert Walker
Eyes, I've been out with him." Miss
Lynn admits, "but I'm not in love
with him." There are also a couple
OF DOyS IN Gne navy. ana writer
at R-K-O and, adds Diana, 'peo-
pie keep coming in on furlough."
It's Just Wonderful.
To sum it up, Diana is having the
usual wonderful time that a pretty
girl of 18 has anywhere.
Il love dancing" she states, land
1 like night clubs for a couple of
weeks, then I get sick of going to
them. and just stop going. I have
a horror I might become bored
The most exciting event on the
youthful Lynn calendar was her re-
cent trip to New York for the open
ing Of her latest film, Our Hearts
Were Young and Gay"
Il had wonderful trouble with the
fans" says Diana. 1T was wonder