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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04
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It was st. Valentine and talking
to Barry Fitzgerald that gave US the
idea for today's story about love,
and love In Hollywood in particular.
In most cities love Is an emotion
that makes the world go round and
the heart beat faster, In Hollywood
It Is grade-A production, with a
Ibuildup, high point and usually a
letdown. It is an extremely public
pastime. For instance. where else
would you walk up to person you
know but slightly and demand. Tell
me about your love life" Or ask
who are you in love with this
week." ! have to do it all the time
in Hollywood.
why have you never married?"
this reporter bluntly asks Mr.. Fitz-
gerald, who hit the star ceiling In
Going My Way" and now is play
ing the top role in "And Then There
Were None" t''Ten Little Indians. y
Too Poor to Marry.
when / was young and in a mind
to marry" Barry replies, Il always
was too poor and too busy. No one
would have me now. But wait a
minute, the. other day Walter
Huston told me he wanted me to
inject his sister and he thought she'd
make good wife, and / said really
now, tell me more about her. He said
she was fine woman, but perhaps
she might be little bit old for me.
How old Walter? 1 asked him. She
Is SO. so you see he was fooling me,
Just like you are.
mo, don't think I ever shall
marry now When I was young
man in ireland there was a red
haired girl I liked somewhat, but as
said, / was busy and poor and the
combination does not lend itself to
much romance Then suddenly ]
found I was older than l thought
You know the time between Is and
40 passes faster than you think. And
now I'm set in my ways. I'm con-
sentative, that's what I am-and
contented. One thing I don't like
about wives, they hate you to leave
ashes In ash trays. What else are
they for, I'd like to know. I don't
think I'd make good husband now
I'm reconciled to remaining lonely
old bachelor"
remember thinking how difficult
| 1t was to be in love in Hollywood
when listening recently to a CONVEX
sation with June Allyson. They were
kidding her over her romance with
Dick Powell, asking when she had
last seen him and if he was the only
man in her life. She blushed. really
blushed, and said earnestly, There
are some things you just don't talk
about, it's embarrassing" It was
even worse for June when a col
umnist printed that Dick Powell
had bought her a mink coat. This
is distinctly untrue In the first
place, June is not that kind of q
girl. In the second, Dick is very
careful with his dollars and has
probably saved more of them than
any other actor OF his size and
weight in Hollywood.
| Lana Victim of System.
| The love troubles of Lana Turner
are another warning not to fall in
love in Hollywood-if you can help
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04

Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews,
is recent example of what music
can do in the tender moments. Its
theme number, an original, also
titled Laura" brought thousands
of requests to Goth Century-Fox for
copies of the score-forcing the
studio to turn it over for publica-
ton.
Next time you see a love scene,
think how frigid it would be with
out that kiss music. Shakespeare
must have had something when he
knocked off that line about music
is the food of love-" Hollywood
agrees.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04
Dream Assumes Reality
Bv Jaw CarmOdv

By Jay Carmody
me long interval Of study and planning in connection with
Washngon Municipal
with the filing of Incorporation
States Attorney and general counsel Of the organization
This week the dimensions of reality will further
the project when campaign to raise 100000 viii be launched
committee headed by Mrs. Emil Hurja
At long last therefore,
the OF their feeling that the National Capital
class dedicated fostering
its citizens association with outstanding czen
parity with New York ST. Angeles other cities
Prominent Citizens n Board.
The heater project under the general Craftsmanship Of Com
missioner John Russell sponsorship following
Robert Fleming president Of the Riggs National
Hartke director department speech DRAMA
University; Leo A. John Payee
Warner prominent in social activities
Harry Anger managing director the Earle eater Miss Adah
Brady and Charles sofberg special assistant to Commissioner
Young
purposes contemplated
Municipal Theate first the provision wholesome entertainment
prices and second
through which local talent Of all types may be by
the highest of professional standards.
The latter the the which the widest and
most immediate interest manifested when the original study
undertaken than destined receive the
earliest possible part
theater additions shortly
selection which
ducion To get line the available s among ambitious per-
formers the additions will include all dancers vcas
musicians dramatic players choral and specially acts
Highly skilled members of the professional teaer will be in
charge OF the direction and staging all productions IN the NUM-
them will have another distinct advantage That will be their ao
citation with prominent of who will be chosen
leading the offerings the theater.
Young Talent to Be Developed
In announcing the personnel project will be
under the executive direction of Father Hake
placed emphasis the intention of the theer everything
possible to develop local dramatic talent Heretofore
it has been left largely its
Now will enjoy wares
the Municipal which young
players singers the attention of scouts cobng the amateur
class for prospective performers.
It shall be part of the provide scholarship funds
further the education especially promising
uncovered in the additions and productions contemplated
function of the Municipal Theater will be the establish
mnt clinic for remedial speech that expected
especially valuable in assisting the rehabilitation for
returning service personnel
While the immediate task ahead of the
OF the organization and promotion fund 100000
will be undertaken coincdentany together with
production The date of that
the intention of the
They will be Sylvan Theater of
which President Franklin Roosevelt suggested letter
missioner Young giving his enthusiastic Endorsement proposal
for Municipal Theater.
connection with the outdoor which
the point
wolves around operation plan.
Offices of the Municipal Theaer will be
Theater Building, Fourteenth and Park road Northwest
Members of the staff will be duty there at all times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04

NEW YORK.
Primarily, concerning Michae
Todd's new musical up in Contra
Park" let it be said-as a famous
statesman once said in reference
to a much more important matter
throw away the book" Whether
the story which Herbert and Dorothy
Fields have fabricated as back
ground for the show at the Century
Theater is passable, as some say
or dull, as others in great majority
say-will be matter of complete
indifference to those who react
gratefully to an evening of music,
dance and song, gorgeously invest
ed in scenic background and cos
tune, enlivened by interludes of
sheer beauty-the skating ballet
scene. for instance. on the lower
park lake is the very spirit OF the
New York winters of our grand
fathers time, veritable Currier and
Ives print, embodied and imbued
with plastic grace.
Also the bandstand scene and the
one portraying snowy day, looking
out from the glass doors of the Old
Casino. Indeed, much Of the set
ting and action of this nostalgia
piece is in the Currier and Ives vein;
eliminating in an alluring series Of
living pictures taken from these
masters of quaint color print.
Romberg Draws Praise.
Now don't mind Cole Porter, the
Gershwins and all the moderns. I
like them. And while I don't know
too much about music, can appre-
ciate the sense of esthetic beauty
they induce; all the effects they
achieve. And yet, and yet, it is a
pleasant change to sit in theater
free of musical dissonance, broken
rhythm and slick discord. In other
words I relished the melodious
chorals, arias and orchestration
emanating from Sigmund Romberg's
tuneful soul. The caves Of harmony
echoed and the larks sang. Some
one, searching for criticism. has
evaluated the score as having a
sameness. Truly, there is a same
ness. But this impression of lack
of variety arises because the entire
score is rooted in melody: Cup From
the Gutter" "It Doesn't Cost You
Anything to Dream" when She
Walks in the Room" 1.-THE Big Back
Yard" April Snow"
The photograph will claim them
an-if Mr.. Petrillo. is willing-and
whenever a sweet young thing sits
down at the piano to play and sing
you will hear these songs-and
others. You will hear, too, that
alluring May-pole dance.
I left the Century with music In
my souE-and what more do you
want Of musical show, even grant,
ing that there Is much more in "Up
In Central Park?
Cast Is Pleasing.
Both in singing and acting VIII
bur Evans entertains. He displays
a pleasing baritone and a romantic
presence. Betty Bruce is revealed as
a versatile coincidence, so accom-
plished as to make you wish she had
even more to do; while Maureer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04
HOLLYWOOD.

Your two favorite screen lovers
square away for their powerhouse
scene-the clinch and kiss. For
many days they've been working up
to this. The director orders a big
sign posted on the sound stage
door-"Positively No Admittance u
And he makes it stick on this day
for even the most calloused film
lovers resent having their synthetic
intimacies displayed before the pry-
ing eyes of strangers. Fifty or 60
grips and carpenters, okay, but no
visitors, please!
Well, we find Charles and Irene
or Paul and Hedy, or whatever COM
bination it might be, taking their
prescribed ENTHUSIASTICALLY on
a divan-the lights flash on and the
director softly calls for action. The
lovers play coy for split second,
then begin their signs. murmurings
and cooings. A few seconds more
and they've worked up to the big
clinch and kiss.
You look at this scene among the
rushes that night and you want to
laugh. 1t looks fiat, almost gro
tesque. It needs something's
wholesome dash Of seasoning. In
other words, it needs a sound track
chock full of tender, sentimental
| kiss music"
Music Is Imperative.
Without kiss music" any love
scene. nc, matter how torrid or how
tender, would be hooted out Of the
movie houses Kiss music is some
thing that composers, arrangerS and
conductors of studio orchestras wor-
ry about in almost every production.
The background music Of ro-
mantle moment in any picture can
make or mar the effect the director
may have worked for weeks to
achieve. There are many rules to be
followed, generally speaking, and
even more pitfalls to be avoided
Background music for a kiss scene
must in most cases be soft enough
to permit the dialogue of the lovers
and even their signs to register on
the sound track over and through
the melody. All the studios employ
q oCd4 VI AluolC ChPCI 10 W WIAtC
original scores for their pictures.
This takes care of the kiss music
because the composer follows the
story, both from the script and on
the shooting stage, and provides a
theme that seems to smack of ro-
nance in just the right places.
It's All in the Song.
"A screen kiss" says Leo Forbe-
stein, musical director OF. Warner
Bros. for many years, "can be made
to appear tender, romantic and be-
lievable with the proper background
music-or ridiculous by using the
wrong theme music"
Forbestein, who conducted theater
orchestras long before talking pic
lures eliminated them from movie
pits, recalls that the softly played
Il Love You Truly" would help
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04
Dix's Account Sturdy
fJNYJ vuN0n

Veteran Actor Richard Dix can
quit playing in pictures any time he
wants and still won't have to worry
about the wolf at the door.
Ever since his success in "Cimar-
ron" Dix has invested his earnings
in real estate and has a healthy in
come from his holdings. In one re-
cent deal he sold two apartment
buildings for nearly $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-04
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL Between Two
Women: $50, 4:30, ITO and
$50 pm. Stage shows: los,
3:45, 6:25 and 10 pm.
COLUMBIA - Guest in the
House: 1910, $50, sos, 7:25
and $50 pm.
EARLE ITO Have and Have
Not: 1::55. 4::30. ITO and $50
pm. Stage shows: lis, $50,
$50 and 9:10 pm.
KEITH'S-"Can't Help Sing
ing: lis, 3:25, 5::30,7:40 and
GAS pm.
LITTLE-"Bill of Divorcement":
/. PAS, AIS, $40, 8 and $50
pm.
Observation-Disclosures
Canteen":: lao, 400, 7 and
$40 pm.
PALACE-''Meet Me in st.
Louis: 1:50. 4:25, 6:55 and
$50 pm.
PIx-"Captive Wild Woman:
l, 3:25, $50, $40 and 1925
pm.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-20
Monday Before
Holidays Not
Official Holiday

The Macomb County Buliuing
will not close on Christmas Eve
and New Years Eve. officials
determined today after reading
an opinion from Prosecutor VIII
bur F. Held in which Held Stated
that neither day is a legal holi-
day and the entire building may
not be closed.
However, personnel in some
county offices saw a glimmer
of hope for a Saturday-to-
Wednesday holiday in a "sug-
gestion" which Held added to his
opinion.
The Prosecutor pointed out
that any offices which receive
legal documents for filing or re-
cording, or which take in money
on taxes or bills must remain
open. Others could be permitted
to close or operate on skeleton
staffs.
Those which must legally re-
main open are the County Treas
urer's office, County Clerk and
Register of Deeds.
County Controller Sherwood
]. Bennett when informed Of
Held's opinion said he expected
department heads will follow it
according to their judgment and
the requirements of handling the
public.
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Washington Notes

| WASHINGTON - Mrs. Allen
Cherry received a phone cali
rom her brother last week stat
ing that he had arrived at their
parents home in Toronto from
overseas. II was the first time
he had seen his parents in SIX
years. He served five years
overseas in the Canadian army
on active duty. Rev. and MIS-,
Cherry plan to spend Christmas
with the family in Toronto.
Mrs. Arthur Erdman has re-
turned from Pontiac, where she
spent last week caring for her
daughter, Mrs. Norman Tuscany
and three children. who were Ill
in bed with the flu.
Mrs. Tuscany's husband was
discharged from the Army Sat
urday and is due home directly.
Frank Parsons and mother
have gone to California to
spend the winter.
Mrs. Peter Valentgoed was
very pleasantly surprised last
Monday night, when her four
sons, who have been serving in
the armed forces overseas came
to visit her and the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Nc Cutch-
con, George McCutcheon and
Mrs. Minnie Hartley were enter
tanned at dinner Sunday in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lyons
at Mount Clemens and attended
the Civic Chorus at the Metho-
dist church there in the after
noon.
lila Erdman Of Lansing will
spend Christmas with her par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Erd-
man at Prestonville.
Davis Grange is having a
Feather Party Saturday evening
Dec. ~.
Staff Sgt. Henry Lomakoski
has received his honorable dis
charge from Camp Mccoy, Wis,
and is expected to be home with
his wife and family Christmas
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Geberl
- M
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Diselrod Christmas Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Williams
will entertain their sons and
daughter at Christmas dinner,
Dec. 25. They are: 1st. 1t. and
Mrs. Norman Williams, Detroit
1t. Comdr. and Mrs. Henry Will
liams, and Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
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There are more insect species
than there are species of all 9TH
er living things added together,
including both animal and vege-
table kingdoms.
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Roosevelt J left discusses veterans housing prob
Lauarda right and Joseph Patzker chairman
Housing Committee center Roosevelt is sp0kes
the American Veterans Committee and has urged that
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ard Grinnell and family of De-
troit.
The children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Taft have been quite Ill with
flu for several days and under q
doctors care.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Sable and
children will spend Christmas
day with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mike Harnack at Pinckney
Rev. and Mrs. Harry Clark will
entertain their children and
grandchildren at a family Christ
mas dinner Sunday, Dec. %.
They expect As will attend from
Toledo and Holland, Ohio, Mar
cellus. Howell, Yale. Inlay City
and Ypsilanti, Mich. and Cali
fornia.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert Cassels
will spend Christmas with their
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Cassels
and children. Guests of DR.. and
Mrs. Cassels last week were
Peter Olsen and family of Royal
Oak.
Mrs. Jack Pendergrass, North
Van Dyke road, Washington, has
been under observation at Ford
hospital, Detroit, the past two
weeks and underwent an oper-
alton there Wednesday.
Rex Dingman and little son
are confined to bed with flu.
S. K. 2lc and Mrs. Ivan Ware
and baby arrived at the home OF
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd
Ware, Tuesday morning, from
California. Ware received bis
honorable discharge Oct. 16.
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NIGH. s.
Notes
By Dick Perres

TOMORROW NIGHT Is the
night for the first big formal
and several punch parties Will
precede II.
THE ENIOR GIRL Re-
SERVES will carol through the
halls tomorrow morning, second
hour, according to IN age-old
tradition.
1T LOOKS LIKE q lot ol
students from M. c. H. s. will
have to put their formals In
moth balls since there are over
IS girls from this school and Is
from s. M. H. s. without tickets.
More students are going than
were expected and It II doubtful
whether that many will be turn.
ed in.
STUDENTS ARE ASKED to
walk around the football field
instead of over 1t. II it Is neces-
sary, the gates will be closed
and you will have to walk
around.
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HsFoism Is Old Stuff
to King the Monsrel

LOS ANGELES - R - To
King, q mixture of bulldog and
terrier, heroism is old stuff.
Several months ago the dog
led : Russell p. Bomar, 18, to
safety from a burning house.
Today Leo Fowler told how
ktnsr dragged his four-year-old
daughter. Jacka. from the Fow-
Ter driveway as he was backing
The family car from the garage,
unaware the child was in dan
ger.
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FDR Jr. Directs Appeal to Find Homes
for 100000 Veterans in New York Area
BY JEAN GEORGE
NEA Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK - Franklin Del
ano Roosevelt, Jr., II q big.
broad shouldered fellow with
much Of the look and sound OF
his dad. He has tackled . post
war cause with the crusading
zeal Of the Roosevelts. It's the
cause of 100000 homeless war
veterans in New York City.
He straddled q chair in the
office Of the American Veterans
Committee and jabbed . finger
ut me.
Those fellows are a threat
TO the nation il we can't do
something for them," he said
earnestly. "A hundred thousand
veterans with no homes and
maybe many Of them with no
Jobs cannot be satisfied with
promises and good intentions.
"We've got to do something
for them - but quick. We've
got to get them some sort Of
housing Immediately. The quick
est and best scheme Is to take
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ROCHESTER, N. Y.-W.D -
William Murphy already has an
entry for the county fair next
year It is a most unusual chick
en-, equipped with four legs and
two tails, and Is now four
months old. They told me it
wouldn't live" he said, "but !
put It in with the rest of the
brood and it grew up to be as
healthy as any of them"
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care of war workers with
temporary housing units.
This also is an emergency"
MAYOR HAS PLAN
Roosevelt isn't worried about
his own housing. He shed his
lieutenant commanders bars for
a lawyers shingle and returned
to live in a house on Long Is
land which was in the family
before the war. But within a
month he had become prime
mover Of the American Veterans
Committee which is trying to
help the increasing number of
homeless vets.
Anxious to get New York
city moving on the problem i'm
mediately, FDR, Jr., who was
known aboard. his destroyer as
a "real joe, called Mayor La
Guardia every day for a week
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Navy Storing
Surplus Ships
Reserve Fleet
Reody for Action

SAN DIEGO, Cal. - W.D -
They're packing Americas war
ships away in mothballs at the
Naval Repair Base here today.
"We're not going to have any
Red Lead Rows here like those
after the first world war;" Navy
authorities say.
America cannot afford to
have hundreds of ships rotting
away to worthless, rusted junk
again. These ships must be
ready to put in action quickly in
case of national emergency"
Which makes the job q little
harder than putting Mrs. Jones
fur coat away for the summer.
When completely "dehumid-
flied" by new processes, these
ships can be put back into action
by stepping aboard, firing the
boilers, footing the whistle and
showing off," the Navy says.
KEEPS INSIDE DRY
Tied up in four and five-shir
divisions, destroyers are the first
craft to be subjected to the new
method. All but one destroyer
in each division are fully de.
humidified and the remaining
one left partly open for main.
tenance crews.
Every hatch must be sealed,
vents covered wit hmetal sheets
tack-welded and calked for easy
removal, smokesstacks closed
uup and a dehumidifying ma
chine installed in each ship.
Cmdr. Clyde Lovelace, head
of the Readiness and Preserva-
ton Department of the indust-
rial command at the repair base,
is enthusiastic over these new
machines.
"They can be operated for
only few cents day, keeping
all air inside the ships dry
which certainly is cheaper than
allowing the vessels to rust
away and having to replace
them," Lovelace says.
GUNS SEALED AIRTIGHT
After enclosing guns and other
exposed gear with webbing fish
nets, a rubbery plastic compound
just developed is sprayed on
them to form an alright casing.
Rust-preventative compounds
are coated on exposed bright
metal on the weather decks, and
all machinery Is given q protect
i've coat to keep it "in shipshape
order for years"
Some of the most famous de-
stroyers of World War II are al
ready in the "moth balls" in
cluding the Sullivans, Porter
field, Hazelwood, Hunt, Pick
ing, Tingey, Jenkins, Gregory,
Marshall, Preston, Lewis Han
cock, Trathen McCord, Miller,
Owen, HALEY, Pritchett and Abb
bott.
"We've only started the job,
but we're going to seal up the
retired sections of the Navy just
in case Uncle Sam has to draw
'em out again some time." Love-
lace said.