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Evening star., 1945-05-27
Elizabeth Is Missinq
By Lillian de la Tore. "A. A.
Knopt; $780,
Reviewed by SARAH FLINN.

Reviewed by SARAH FLINN.
Christmas night, 1853, Bet Can
ming, a quiet, we'll behaved English
servant girl, said goodnight to her
Aunt Alice and disappeared into the
London darkness, not to be seen
again by her family until January
%, when she stumbled into her
mothers house, starving, ragged
and blue.
The story she told startled all
England-and the back fence mur-
muring and pub speculation about
the famous unsolved mystery hasn't
stopped yet. Books, pamphlets and
articles have been written about it
in abundance. 1t has somewhat the
same fascination for England as the
disappearance of 4-year-old Charlie
Ross, kidnapped in Philadelphia al
most a century ago, has for Amer
leans.
But Bet Canning's story is better
because more is known about her
Did she go to the old baWd house of
her own will-bent on pleasures de-
MED her by the standards of her
class? Was she Whisked away by
the gypsies and left to starve, as
she claimed? It's the kind of story
a mellowed group of mystery addicts
would enjoy discussing around an
open fire on a rainy evening.
The mystery reader who likes a
smooth flowing story, with all the
strings carefully tied up at the end,
may become impatient with the con-
fusion of names, dates and places,
and may be dissatisfied with the
ending, which is as inconcluSive as
history of real people and events
must be. However, the reader who
wants all the facts, and who enjoys
specula ton, will be delighted.
In her book Mrs. de la Tore gives
her own convictions of what hap
pened to Bet Canning during those
four Weeks-but she is careful to in
clude all the other theories, too, and
to leave leeway for the reader to
decide for himself.
She succeeds in combining care
fully documented facts with a fic-
tional handling of detail, and even
those who do not like run n-of-the-
mill mysteries will find delightful
reading here because of the 18th
century English atmosphere which
Mrs. de la Tore creates-and be-
cause Of the personality of the writ
er which asserts itself in whimsical,
raffish asides and comments, to the
characters and to the reader.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
The Brick FoxhoIe
By Richard Brooks. Harper &
Bros; $780,

Bros; $780,
Reviewed by J. A. FOX.
The people who move through
these pages seemingly spend most
of their waking hours thinking and
talking about matters connected
with the Sixth Commandment, and
fracturing the same. There are
interludes of sexual perversion and
sadism; preachments and religious
tolerance, and some overtones from
Lillian Smith, Sinclair Lewis and
Steinbeck.
The locale, which is not too-thinly
disguised, and not exactly favorably
pictured, is a Marine base not a
thousand miles from Washington,
and the Capital itself, designated as
ID. c." on Saturday night.
The brick foXhole'' is "a barracks
somewhere, anywhere in America, -
where men who want to see action
on the battle line are forced instead
to spend their days in the unglamor-
Gus pursuits which make up the un-
publicized but necessary side of the
war.
The principal character is Corp.
jeff Mitchell who used to work for
Disney" and now draws maps in
stead of Mickey Mouse because the
powers decided he could be more
effective behind pen than a gun.
Denied the pleasure of killing Japs,
Mitchell, with too much time on his
hands, starts worrying about his
wife and wondering if she is true
to him.
In the end, murder and bedroom
take care of everything.
The work is the writer's protest
against the "foxhole" he has known.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
New Books

The Bank of England (Two Vols.). $3.50
May %.
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The Townsman. S275. May 81.
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Crack a. Crunch, Sl.15, May 2S
Bay Mild, 81, May -
Guaranteed Annual wages, 50 so, June >
Men at Work, s., May 81
Ensineering Preview. SIS, May 20.
All Our Lives. 81 May 2S
Hold Your Mani, 50 so. May %
The Coming Age of Rocket Power, SO 50.
Nav %
The Fall Of the Old Colonial System, S3
Nav "a
The Collected Stories Of Ben Hecht So,
May 23
Trout in the Milk, 81 May o5
Book About the Bible, S3 so May %.
Proof of the Pudding, s.. May 25.
The Yogi and the Commissar, S275,
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Brief Reviews
GHOSTS

IdOSlS.
Men Who Wouldn't Stay Dead,
by Ida Clyde Clarke. Bernard
Ackerman0 Twenty eight ghost
stories, allegedly authentic, involv-
ing many famous characters of his
tory. For spook fans.
HISTORY.
The Fall of the Old Colonial Sys-
tenn, by Robert Livingston Schuy-
Ter. (Oxford) The story of the
growth of free trade as it brought
about the end of the Colonial sys-
tenn. Scholarly.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Reviewing I he New Books
Elizabeth Corbett's
New Heroine |so
Ruthless Redheod
THE RED-HAIRED LADY

By Elizabeth Corbett. Double
day, Doran; $275.l
Reviewed by MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Cassandra Blake, the heroine-or,
If you look at it another way-the
vlllalness of this longish novel, Is a
successful authoress Of the book-a-
year variety. There are many men
in her life, enough to weary even
the most romantically- inclined
readers, but as woman she's a flop.
The red-haired lady never quite
hlames herself for her peculiar i'll
fortune with the men who worship
at her particular shrine. In flashes
OF self-revelation, it occurs to her
that perhaps she values her freedom
too highly, but from first to last
she's completely convinced that her
true goal in life is love. She falls
deeply, desperately and finally in
love three times. The first man,
her college romance, she loses to a
rich girl with less inclination to
argue with him. Her second man,
a charming but weak character, she
marries briefly. He leaves her on
the eve of her Motherhood The
third man is her editor, conven-
tional and long married soul, who
earnestly wants to make an honest
woman of her. There are assorted
other men-one of whom commits
suicide and another she eventually
marrieS-but the only two men she
has completely satisfactory rela-
tionship with are her father and
her son.
Although Miss Corbett reluctantly
parts with her heroine only when
Cassandra is nearing her sos, she
never dips deep enough into Cas-
sandra's character to explain her
fully either as an authoreSs or as a
woman. Cassandra'S motivatiOnS
are always a little cloudy If she
not rationalizing herself, Miss Cor
bett is helpfully rationalizing for
her. Occasionally a male worm
turns and gives the redhaired lady
a piece of his mind, but these
diatribes are never as convincing as
Cassandra's responses. Whether she.
intended to or not, Miss Cor
bett has created a ruthless, ego
centric, selfish female who thinks
love is something that can be
turned on and off at will BY her
refusal to compromise and her de-
termination to be the aggressor in
every situation, she drains the men
in her life of all their strength.
Then she scorns them as Weaklings
Women might envy her but they'd
be fools to trust her.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
The Obscure Enemy
By Robert Reynolds. fMargent
Press; $780,
Bv Marp.Carfer Roberts

Press; $780,
By Mary-Carfer Roberts
Some years ago. Robert Reynolds
won the Harper prize with his novel,
Brothers in the West" Since then
I have not read anything which he
has written, though he has pub
lished three novels in the period.
It was with some curiosity there
fore that I took up the present
book In IS years lot of things
can happen to novelist But the
determining thing about "T'he OBJ
scure Enemy" seems to be its in
dication that nothing has happened
to Robert Reynolds. He does not
seem to have matured in any way.
THE Obscure Enemy" is a novel
which would impress you as prom
Using If you knew that it came from
a very young man.
1t is nothing more or less than
an indictment of our life today, the
materialism which lets us exult in
war prosperity while war itself
proves that we are spiritually bank
rupt. The entire action takes place
in one evening. The scene is a war
boom factory town. A young car
penter who, for his spirituality,
stands in contrast to the things
which Mr.. Reynolds deplores, meets
and loves a girl of his own un-
worldly quality. A former mistress
murders the rival while labor union
thugs beat up the hero because he
has resisted their racketeering. Thus
virtue is destroyed, both in the per-
sonal and the public relation.
There is a great deal of beauty in
Mr.. Reynolds descriptive writing,
but the ponderous sententiousness
of his moralizing and the utter
unreality of his conversations are
unforgivable. They are, as said,
redolent of immaturity. 1t is only
in the very young that one expects
to find such excessive seriousness.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
By YSabel F. Rennie. (Macmil-
Ian Co. S4.J
Reviewed by
LOTHROP STODDARD.


Imagine New York both the sole
metropolis and the Federal Cap
ital of the United States, with a
population of 100000, possessing
in or about itself all the Nations
industry and draining into itself
virtually all the wealth and energy
of the outlying provinces, most of
them being relatively poor and back
ward. That, in a nutshell. is the
amazing and essentially abnormal
basis of Argentinas national life,
as portrayed in Mrs. Rennie's COM
prehenssive book on that country
and its inhabitants.
The author points out that this
situation existed from the very be-
ginning, owing to the decision of
Evening star., 1945-05-27

make a pretty
face. The indi-
vidual a attributes
are bad but the
final re S III t is
good.
The basic in
terest inherent
in the story of
a friendless girl,
of fine breeding
and in inpecu-
NOUS c lrc C u M
stances, driven
into a loveless
maria ge with a
k i II d ly b u t
earthly yolln o
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Among
the Authors
BY Carolyn C0geins

James Hilton will have a new
novel in August. so Well Remem-
bered,' which will be a Literary
Guild selection for that month.
There he goes into the half million
class right away-books not dollars.
. The last novel by that cheer
fu! wit, Margery Sharp, was "Cluny
Brown" 1t is being made into talk
ing records for the blind with
Brenda Forbes reading it. Miss
Forbes was with Katharine Cornell
in her recent production of The
Barretts of Wimpole Street"
Gerald Kersh. English author of
Sergeant Nelson of the Guards" !"
may not know it yet, but Esquire has
arranged to reprint part of his book.
1t is the first time they have done a
reprint, we hear, after a book is
published.
AS The Virgin With Butterflies"
says-in Tom Powers book by that
name-"The funny thing about peo-
pie that are different from you is
how different they are"
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Put off Thy Shoes

By E. L. Voynich. macmillan, -,
So
Evening star., 1945-05-27
The Coming Age
OF Rocket Power
By G. Ed10ard Pendray. (Har.
per G. Bros: $500
Reviewed by HARRY LEVER.

Reviewed by HARRY LEVER.
To any newspaper reader, it has
become amply evident in recent
months that jet propulsion, rockets
and rocket power may hereafter have
an effect on the life of every person
in the world, whether he is inter-
ested in the technical aspects of the
subject or not.
This book presents the story OF
rocket power, what it is, how it
works, how it comes to be, and what
it promises for the future. In an
interesting style which the author
endeavors to keep as nontechnical
as possible, he outlines tremendous
possibilities for rocket power, both
in peace and war, and infers We may
some day even travel through inter-
planetary space IN rockets.
By that future time, the reader
assumes, the conveyance of pas
sengers, freight and mail over our
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Good Advice Needed by Vets

The American serviceman. according to The
Red Cross. is the best provided for of any fight
ing man in any army, but it is a highly de-
veoped skill TO be able 10 sit down with him and
advise him which is the best benefit available
for him.
In wartime every one is on the "bandwagon
all patriotic organizations are ready 10 help the
serviceman.
But in peacetime there will be fewer re-
sources and fewer helping hands held out TO him.
The Home Service of the Red Cross is ready
and equipped to assist him, 20 see that his wife
and children are properly looked after and, in
fact. to solve family problems.
There is no limit to the number Of volunteers
who can be assimilated i'm this service They
must be women of sound intelligence and UNDER
standing hearts Upon acceptance. they are
given a 30-houT training course
Volunteers in various branches of the service
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Birmingham Musicale Thursday

The Birmingham Musicale will meet Thurs
day. at 2 p. m at the Community House TO hear
a Schubert-Schumann program given by MIS-
Abraham Cooper soprano, Of Detroit and Mrs.
Evelyn Scheyer pianist of Birmingham. Mrs.
Royal Mas of Detroit will accompany Mrs.
Cooper.
fIostesses for the day include Mrs. SyVer
Thingstad Mrs Alex Gray Mrs. Bernhart RoSen-
otIist and Mrs NJ $ RoSenberger. Mrs. Whiting
Raymond is program chairman for the day and
Mrs H. NJ Brnghurst will be in charge OF the
tea following the program.
There seems 10 be constant shifting IN
housing now with many residents moving away
and others arriving Mr. and Mrs. Albert /.
Horn are moving from Detroit Nov. l to their
new home in Frank street and Bishop and Mrs
Donald Aldrich have purchased the Harlow Da-
Vock home in Dewey street.
Mr. and Mrs. c. V. Williams are leaving soon
for their new home in Dayton, O.. and Mr. and
Mrs Charles w. Metcalf, who have been IN the
CONTINUED on Page TwO)
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Detroifers Leave for Washington

Mrs J. DWyer klnnuCan head of all.Noun-
teer services and Mrs Phelps Newberry. chair
man of the Gray Ladies. are leaving this Sunday
evsning for Washington D. c.. 20 attend meet
ing of the National Red Cross Committee on
Volunteer Services.
The entire week will he devoted TO discussions
Of problems and innovations.
Mrs. Knnucan and Mrs Newberry alert and
enthusiastic as they are. doubtless VIII return
with many new ideas and plans.
The Home Service. headed by Mrs. Fred
erck c. Kdner. perhaps is regarded as the
most important in the postwar period.
Among Mrs. Kidner's most faithful assistants
arc Mrs WesSon Seyburn Mrs Paul Weadock.
Mrs Meredith Randall, Mrs. Seden Dickinson.
Mrs Howard Freeman Smith and Mrs. Ralph
Stoepel.
The biggest job" Of this service will be 10
assist ex-servicemen and their families to get
the government benefits to which they are en-
titlad
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Other Guests Of The Van Dusens

Other guests Of the Van DusenS are Miss Rlta
Ann Rotering and her brother Sayre Roterlng.
Of Minneapolis Mr. and Mrs. Robert TAFT OF
Pittsburgh and Don Springer of Toronto. Mr.
and Mrs. Austin Harmon VIII accompany me
group 10 Ann Arbor and additional guests viii
ioin the Van DuScns al their Puritan road home
after the game for cocktails and buffet supper
DR. and Mrs William Lloyd Kemp returned
Thursday from Santa Fe \ NJ. where they
spent two weeks al the La Fonda Hotel. They
were also guests there Of DR.. Frederick Alex
ander, formerly of YpsIlant.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. who viii be IN
Detroit Nov. II 70 speak at the luncheoh OIL
the Michigan citizens committee at the Book
Cadillac Hotel Will be the house guests OF Dor
othy Kemp Roosevelt and her daughters IN
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Birmingham
Turns Out
For Game
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. ;

BIRMINGHAM Nov. d
NOVEMBER 3 was marked on many cal
Y endars and all roads led TO Ann Arbor Tor
the Michigan-Minnesota game. Mr. and AIS
w. A. p John have as their house guests th!5
weekend and for the game Mrs A. p. Baston
and daughter, Priscilla, Of Minneapolis lCoI'
Baston is still overseas) and Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon Lefebvre Of Mt. Vernon, o., formerly
Of Birmingham. Mr., and Mrs John have
asked a few old friends Of their guests for
cocktails at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club
after the game.
Mr. and Mrs c Theron Van DuSen also nave
weekend guests Their son. Ensign Richard van
Dusen who plavs on the Minnesota team is here
until Tuesday and Will return 10 play with ms
team Nov 10 against Indiana University before
leaving for California, where ne Will go on
DESTROYER.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Briggs T ca
On Tuesday
By THE CHAPERON

AN IMPORTANT benefit tea
N of the Sodality of the Chill
dren of Mary Convent of the
Sacred Heart to raise funds for
Vestments for war stricken
countries will attract many TO
the home of Mrs. Walter O.
Briggs in Boston boulevard
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Briggs
has asked her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Walter G. Briggs Jr., and
her daughters, Mrs. w. Dean
Robinson, Mrs. Philip Hart Jr.
and Mrs. Everell Fisher, TO pour.
along with Mrs. William F.
Connally, Mrs. William Hendrie.
and Mrs. Edward p. Hammond.
Chairman of hostesses, Miss
Alice Dowley, will be assisted
by Mrs. George Savage, Mrs.
Alfred Doughty. Mrs. Henry
Kinnucan. Mrs. Michael Dowley.
all past presidents, and Mrs.
Howard Rahaley, Mrs. Joseph
Cavanaugh. Mrs. Maurice Quinn
and Miss Jane Doughty. Miss
Ethel Welch and Mrs. Bernard
Clark are co-chairmen while
others include Miss Mildred
Feely, Miss Gertrude Healy and
Mrs. Edward r. Fisher,
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Motor Corps Girls Meet Trains

The Motor Corps girls meet tho hospital
trains and take wounded veterans 20 their homes
or 20 hospitals They also GO through the hos
pital trains passing out magazines, papers. gum
and cigarets
Mrs Herbert Doolittle is captain OF the Motor
Corps.
The camp and hospital committee of the De-
troit chapter of which Mrs Howard Bennett IS
chairman has been making an appeal 10 other
organizations for donations of special type OF
wheel chairs and has received quite number
although u still needs 300.
These chairs become the property of iho BOYS
who on being discharged from the hospitals
take them home.
Each boy il seems becomes attached 70 his
own chair and even gives it name.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Weaving Taught in 3 Hospitals

The Arts and Skills headed by Mrs H. Lee
Simpson with Mrs. Clarence DaNock as a>s!st-
ant chairman teaches metal and leather work
and weaving in Marine Fort Wayne and RomuluS
hospitals
About so professional teachers from the df-
ferent schools have volunteered their Services.
Several, including Miss Grcta Pack. MISS Marion
in this work for two years
The convalescent department at Fort Wayne
Hospital has been doubled and az the Marine
Hospital there is a fine new studio
The Red Cross furnishes the materials Tree.
Many OF the men have made lovely cvcIN.
leather goods and mats as presents tor relatives
and friends Nothing can be sold.
Mrs George kampcman. AN export weaver
has large weaving classes in the different hos-
DitalS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Junior Dance

OFFICERS AND girls-with
Il8ck velvet ribbons on pretty
Vrists-will dance in the Crys-
tai Ballroom of the Fort Shelby
Hotel Thursday. when the Ju-
NOR Unit of the League OF
Catholic Women gather with
their escorts from Selfridge
Field. RcnuluS. Crosse lie anc
other bases near Detroit.
Among the dancing couples
.ll b. the patrons for the
r4r'y Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas j.
Joyce Jr, II. Col. and Mrs.
Frank CouZens, Mrs. James p.
Cur-u<Ecy. Mr. and Mrs. Clars
7 TODBin. Mr.. and Mrs Fred.
erick Lyons and Miss Veronica
Conway.
GOOD NEWS from the mill.
ta} front has Mrs. Ray L.
Wyatt In state of excitement
meeting her husband, Capt
Continued on Page Two,
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
White Shower

FROSTY WHITE chrysan-
themums tumbling from a huge
white satin pafasol. each tied
with a tiny ribbon, will deco
rate the table at Miss Helen
RiSdon's linen shower this Sum-
day afternoon, given by Mrs.
David Dawson of Santa Barbara
drive. Satin bows on huge
tapers will carry out the theme,
while fall colored chrysanthe-
NUNS placed throughout the
rooms will complete il. There
10 shower Miss Risdon with
hucn will be Mrs. Norman
Gockel. Mrs. Robert Brown.
Mrs. IIowarth Gilardy, Miss
Mary Sue Bee. Miss Betty
Wilson and Miss Joan Columbo,
Mrs. Robert Steiner, Mrs. WI
liam Fralick and Miss Janet
O'DOOupU
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04


Quarters in f. Elizabeth street and with an eN-
panded and accelerated program for caring Tor
eN-ser,icempn disabled veterans and their iami-
lies.
Volunteers are being recruited daily for the
Home Service. the Cray Ladies. the Arts and
Skills. the Nurses Aides and other branche, OF
tho work
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04

He guns have stopped hut so far as the
Red Cross i, concerned the war Is not
over m the ETO or the Pacific and viii
not boz until the last scrviccman is back
VI Day found the Detroit chapter
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-11
Typographical Errors Good Reading

Publisher the newspapermans bible comments
typographical and quotes one we recently ran
The bible welcome to these which just to our desk
Phiy paper: Tannhaeuser Sunk by Metropolitan
From Boston gazette Hotel Burns. Two Hundred
Escape Half Glad From San Francisco journal:
Dead Officer Force Is Years From Springfield
paper "The annual Christmas party at the Ashley
Street School was yesterday afternoon From in
West Virginia: bride gowned in white lace The
bridesmaids gowns punk From Kansas sheet:
big Sunday school picnic held Tuesday at the park
hug success From Texas According TO her COM
ain Mrs OD her husband started amusing her three
days before marriage"
Jessyca Russell relays the about Oliver Wendell
Holiness who small in stature One day he attended
meeting which all the other tall friend teased
Holmes with
"We, doctor should think you would feel rather small
among all these big fellows"
81 do" his witty etor 81 feel like dime among
lot Of pennies
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-11
Owner Of Stork Club
a Wonderful Doorman'

CTORK cubman Sherman Bngsley and coyumist Leonard
~ Lyons of the club hit-chatter-
boxing The newspaperman pointed out Beardsley Rum
father of the Ruml Plan Lyons then identified
John PaFek,-the author of the hit, The Hasty
Heart" Bilngsey went and welcomed him into the
fold Lyons then said that novelist was among them
Eliot Janeway Biingsley introduced himself to her
and them returning to the scribe. he sighed:
Gee, you'd make a wonderful dOorman!"
Dear Walter passonately writes Burton Rascoe speak
commas, B. T. Bert Lesion Taylor to the
Juveniles of this journalistic generaon) quoted dis
patch in his column which read: Lebanon, Tenn: Prof
Bone head of Cumberland University, today
"To which coumnst TaYlors caption Taking IT
All in All, the Comma Is the Most Important Mark of
Punctuotion''
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-11
Agents Pay TO Get
Dana Andrews
HOLLYWOOD. March 10.

HOLLYWOOD. March 10.
Looks as if Dana Andrews is
securely on the top. The big
Hollywood agency of Feldman
and Blum just paid $50 600 for
the privilege of representing
Dana, for which they get 10 per
cent of his salary The man who
got the $4,000 was the stars
previous agent, Lew Golden.
Meanwhile, if the army
doesn't grab him, Dana's next
at Twentieth Century-Fox will
be Leave Her 10 Heaven"
He's doing State Fair" now.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-11
Still Has a Point TO Prove

group mdnghers remniscing about characters
gamblers. recalled the observation OF William TraV
Jerome, who prosecuted Harry K. Thaw:
"AH professional gamblers" said the d. A. will play
honestly If things going right nut not when they are
losing"
"Wel" asked listener, why did they call one of them
Honest John Kely?"
took the listener back to the year 1910 when
the rendezvous for gamblers and bgtme sposmen was
Wakeeys Sooon the northeast of AID and Sixth
1t where all the ceebs went too--and one
mgngh around the bar sened by the thunder
crash in the vicinity of a drunk.
kelly" said Mr. Jerome "went and picked some
thing the drunk and give it back to him 1t glass
eye"
what" asked the listener 81 don't get the pont!
That's why added Jerome "he named Honest John
Kelly!"
a magazine Dorothy Kigallen has novelette,,
Pygmaion Jones' which the hero tries TO transform
beautiful Brooklyn school teacher into smooth New York
glammer girl In the process he her advice
thing of clothes what periodicals
peruse, urging her to eschew the scholarly.
But" protests 81 always read a little Emerson be-
fore to bed!"
on" says, you will read little Wnchel'
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-11
FIynn's Next Film
HOLLYWOOD, March 10

Enrol F7ynn's next picture
will be The Adventures of Don
Juan" 1t will be romantic
comedy in which the star makes
love TO 20 women.