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Evening star., 1945-10-14


Handsome, rugged Bill Williams,
following in the steps Of his close
friend, Van Johnson. as bobby sox
hero, views the prospect OF such
acclaim with distaste and alarm.
Bill went through all that when
he and three other players had an
act which toured the vaudeville cir
cult and the better night clubs.
That career included a command
performance for the King and Queen
of England and he was slated to tour
the continent, but the war sent him
home.
Before than he had been an ex-
hibiticn swimmer and he had had
two seasons with the st. Louis Mu-
nicipal Opera. So movies are just
another job to him and good way
of making a lot of money.
Bill comes from the williamsburg
section of Brooklyn and works hard
at his career. He has taken dancing
lessons twice week and voice daily
for five or six years and he reads
aloud for a half hour before bed
time to help his diction coach get
the Brooklyn out Of his voice.
He's a Sophisticate.
Williams, born william Katt, Is a
husky young fellow with blond curly
hair, light brown eyes, face full OF
dimples and a cleft chin. He likes
checked sports coats, not too loud
and plain shirts.
He has great personal charm, talks
well and easily in a soft, low voice
and moves with a catlike sureness
of an athlete. There's a smooth
sophistication in his impeccable
manners and the way he wears
clothes.
Bill makes friends with every
body. On the set he ignores Holly
woods caste rules and eats his lunch
with the crew most of the time
waving off people who try to advise
him that sit isn't done" He rarely
sees the inside of his own dressing
room; usually one Of the gang is
catching some sleep there.
On location Bill got extra blankets
heater and those other attentions
which come to actors well liked by
the crew. When his birthday rolled
around huge cake and two dozen
roses appeared on the set with cards
ITO Willie from the Gang" When
the film was completed and he want
ed to treat, his money was no good.
The cutters saw that his shots got
in and it was the studio messenger
girls who started the swooning be-
fore film fans had had good look
at him.
Served Briefly in Army.
Bill comedies that his anxiety to be
liked made him go overheard in his
vaudeville days. "I was a goodtime
Charley" he says, land when I quit
to go into the Army I didn't have a
cent" Now he puts his money into
annuities.
His Army service was short. An
old back injury brought a medical
discharge and he works out at q
gym daily to keep the injury from
stiffening him. But Bill says the
time in the Army, though short, was
good for him because he had to take
orders and like it.
Bill prefers not to dress up and Is
happier in old clothes putterine
around the machine shop he owns
with two partners. He was educated
Evening star., 1945-10-14
|Flvnn Is Beaten
Just Four Times
In New Picture
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
A reverse twist is being pulled on
Enrol Flynn, the big bow-and arrow
man, in his new film. Past roles
have always found Flynn display
ing amazing prowess and agility,
and publicity handouts have had
him an Olympic boxer, a tennis
champ unofhcially and all sorts of
an athletic hero. He may be all of
these, but his new role in Never
Say Goodbye" will show him tan
Cling with a returned Marine, who
used judo, commando tactics and
catch-as-catch-can. Also cab driv-
er knocks him cold in the street out
side his house. In all, he gets
whipped In four encounters.
This may be smart planning on
the part of studio folk, who can
thus disarm criticism from service
men made jealous because their girl
friends gasp over the handsome
Flynn. Flynn was rejected by the
armed services due to recurrent
tropical fever. Six-foot-six Forrest
Tucker is the man who tosses him
around.
Who wants to win all the time
anyway?" says Flynn.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
To Film Great Son
BY the Associated Pres

NEW YORK.
Michael Todds first film as a
producer at Universal Pictures will
be Edna Ferber,s novel, Great Son. -
rights to which Mike has owned for
more than a year.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
By the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
Orson Welles entertained at his
Sunday morning broadcast: Rita
Hayworth received the breakfast
guests on the terrace, and intro
duced 8-month-old Rebecca, the
picture of her father. Adolphe
Menjou rented his $1,000 watch to
RKO for the filming of Heartbeat"
and insisted it be insured. It's an
important prop, for Ginger Rogers
as a pickpocket, takes 1t from
him in q theater. Menjou gets his
salary, the rental of the watch,
and insurance on the watch is paid
for a year. Thrifty fellows, those
French.
First shipment of hair from China
since the war contributes the wig
for Louise Albritton, which she'll
wear in ''Tangier." . Viola Broth
ers Shore, famous author, was on
the picket lines in the Hollywood
strike one night recently. -. Pres
ent dispute over the will of Lupe
Valez may make it as celebrated
as the long -protracted litigation
over that of Rudolph Valentino
-. Children become stars quickly
in films: latest is 4-year-old Kay
Grimes, Bing Crosby's screen daugh-
ter in Blue Skies" Director Stuart
Heisler is looking for a story in
Evening star., 1945-10-14
'PoIonaise'
Not Admired
In New York
By Jack O'Brian
NEW YORK


Two shows opened this week
which, despite almost general critical
may have some chance
of moderate success by reason Of the
drawing power Of their stars.
''Polonaise," which opened at the
Alvin Theater and received not q
single critical back pat, has Jan
Kiepura and Martha Eggerth
starred, plus, on its credit side, an
opulent production, Chopin music
and several good ballets. 1t also has
some of the looking young
ladies seen on stage hereabouts in
some time. The reason for the
unanimous journalistic veto was one
of the most horrible oDeretta IL
brettoes ever, some totem pole act
ing by Jan Kiepura, an immensely
unfunny supposed comic named Curt
Bois, erstwhile Of Vienna and Holly
wood, and direction which is as un-
theatrical as the movement of herd
Of blind hippopotami.
"Therese," dramatiZation by
Thomas Job of the Emile Zola novel,
"Therese Raquin," has only its play
ers to bring in the paying guests.
They include Dame May Whitty, one
of the stages finest actresses: Eva
LIE Gallienne and Victor Jory. 1t was
directed by Margaret Webster, who
is Dame Mays daughter and gener-
ally accepted as the finest Shake
spearean director of all. Miss Web
ster was not directing anything re-
sembling Shakespeare this time. In
fact, she didn't seem to be directing
anything at all, but that may be the
fault of an immensely verbose script,
which precluded much action of any
sort, real or implied. Miss Webster
staged "Therese," however, mostly
in reds and half lights in pre-
tentiously arty fashion, apparently
setting her signs for some sort Of
French Guignol quality. 1t resulted,
conversely, in penny dreadful
effect, rather old hat for this day
and age, even considering the time.
of the play was 10 years ago.
"Polonaise" concerned the Polish
Patriot Thaddeus Kosciusko, who
helped us out in the Revolution and
then returned to see about putting
Poland's political house in order.
The story, as put into libretto form
by Gottfried Reinhardt and An
thony Weller, is sorry affair and
is helped not at all by the grammar
school dramatic posturings of Kie-
pura, who plays Kosciusko.
"Therese," is a psychological melo-
drama about an artist and his lover
who contrive to drown the lady's
husband for the traditional triangu-
lar reason only to discover their
deed will not permit any ease to
conscience Their mutual recrimi-
nation finally brings their crime to
book and in the end they are to be
guillotined.
I If there is to be any success for
this gloomy dreadful, it will result
from the stars, all three of whom
; are well known on the Nations
stages. Each turns in the perform
ance one might expect; Dame Mays
is magnificent even in such tire
some play.
The ticket agency fellows. how
ever, think both "Polonaise" and
"Therese" have better than fight
ing chance.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL-"The Southerner,"
1:55. 4:35, tbs and 1915 pm.
Stage shows, LOS, $50, $50
and $50 pm.
COLUM MBIA-"Anch hors
Aweigh," 1:20, 4, $40 and
$40 pm.
EARLE-"Over 81" 12:45, 8,
Sis, 7:20 and 9::35 pm.
HIPPODROME The Mad
Emperor" 2:lo, $40 and $40
pm.
KEITH'S-"Johnny Angel" /,
$50, 4:40. $50, $40 and 1910
pm.
LITTLE-"skylark," /, $40,
Sis, 7::30 and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN - 1T All
Came True" 12:45, 2:55, sos,
tbs and $50 pm.
PALACE-"State Fair" 1, sos,
Sis, 7:20 and $50 pm.
PIX-"Flame of Barbary
Coast" 2:05, 4:10, TBS and
1910 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"The Next Half
Hour" with Fay Banter, start
ing tomorrow night.
CAPITOI-"The House on
92nd Street" with Lloyd holland
and william Eythe, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Her Highness
and the Bellboy" with Hedy La
MARI and Robert Walker, start
ing Thursday.
EARLE - Mildred Pierce"
with Joan Crawford.
KEITH'S-"That Night With
You" with Susanna Foster and
FIR anchot Tone, starting
Wednesday.
LITTLE-"Hold Back the
Dawn" with Olivia De Haviland,
Charles Boyer, Paulette God
dard, starting Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN - North
West Mounted Police" with
Gary Cooper and Madeline
Carroll, starting Thursday.
PALACE "Duffy's Tavern"
with Ed Gardner.
PIX-"Heart of Nation" a
French picture, starting Tues
day.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Another Team Starts Cinema Climb

of as the nurse opposite Lew Ayres
In height, ability and sympathy
they were an ideal team. Sonny
Tufts should have been cast with
Paulette Goddard indefinitely after
so Proudly We Hail" Paulette's
essential toughness went we'll with
Sonny's easy-going noninhibited
personality. :. Claudette Colbert's
partnership with Fred MacMurray
helped to make him the star he is
today and a $400 ,0O0-a-year Garner
When Fred first began with Claud-
cite he was earning exactly 5000 a
week.
And then, of course, we have with
us the team of Bogart and Bacall
They were wonderful when they
weren't married to each other. How
good will they be as a married
couple? Will the edge Of their pub
lie love making be somewhat blunt.
ed after private use? The studio ii
wisely releasing Lauren's ''Confiden.
tial Agent" ahead of her big Sleep
with Bogart. We are supposed X
get used to seeing Mrs. Bogart in the
arms of man other than her mate
In Confidential Agent" the arm!
belong to Charles Boyer
(Released by the North American News
paper Alliance, 1nc.)
Evening star., 1945-10-14
HOLLYWOOD Notebook

which to star her. Esther Will
liams due for her final divorce pa
pers. plans to wed huge Ben Gage
s foot sergeant, former radio
worker. j.. Martha Vickers was re-
quested by Warmers Brothers to de-
lay her marriage to AL Herd, auto
man. until the studio could get a
couple of her pictures on the mar
ket, and thus establish her as an
ingenue before she becomes a ma
tron. John Garfield, dramatic
actor, longs to play a comedy role
Evening star., 1945-10-14
He Dislikes the Swooners
Bv Rosalind Shafer

as structural engineer at Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn. He also has
a ranch property. He enjoys physi-
cal labor which helps keep him in
good shape, for he tends to weight
and his normal 21O pounds are about
80 pounds too heavy for his feet !
before the camera.
Bill is as factual about romance
as he is about his screen work and
isn't interested in going around with
different girls for the gossip columns.
His leading lady, Barbara Hale, also
from Brooklyn, is his steady date.
Williams was playing at Earl Car
rolls when scouts began to offer him
screen roles. He played in Thirty
Seconds Over Tokyo" and got his
first good role in Those Endearing
Young Charms" on Christmas Day,
1914. That landed him an RKO
contract and his second film, Dead
line at Dawn" brought star billing
over Paul LukaS,
Evening star., 1945-10-14
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Frank BorZage, the man who dis
covered the most popular cinema
boy-and-girl team of all time
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
is at 1t again. He has the girl
Catherine Mcleod, and the boy
William Carter, in the romantic
leads of his million dollar epic
Concerto" and he is selling them
as team. under personal contract
to him and will star them together
as long as they, paired, make money
at the box Office.
Some players hate to be part of q
team; they don't want to submerge
their individuality. Wallace Beery
for instance, recently refused to
make another picture with Mar
jorie Main, on the score that he has
already made many pictures with
ner. He had enough trouble re-
establishing himself after the death
of Marie DreSsler, with whom he
had been teamed in more than q
dozen films.
But teamwork can pay off. Nelson
Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald
were okay together; not very good
alone. Why were they good to-
gether and rated poorly when paired
with others? Neither is what you
would call brilliant performer but
in their heyday they looked like a
Story-book couple. and their voices
of course, went well together. I'm
sure that they regret the decision
to break up as a team.
Garfield Turner Teamed.
I'm wondering whether Greer
Carson will team up well with Clark
Gable in This Strange Adventure. >
I have some doubts. / don't think
that Clark has ever been better than
when he was teamed with the late
Jean Harlow. Director Borzage ex-
plains why.
They were each the personifica-
Ition of SEX" says BorZage.
Right now, John Garfield anC
Lana Turner are starring together in
THE Postman Always Rings Twice. ,
If the movie rings the box office bell
you can look for Metro to make q
gigantic offer to Garfield for series
of films with Miss Turner.
asked BorZage why Gaynor and
Farrell made such a superb team
Janet seemed so fragile and weak,
he explains. Farrell was her natu-
raj protector. She was little; he was
big. The old, old story of the strong
protecting the weak"
If you are like me, you would
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Ballet Starts Well
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK.
Ballet Theater, taking over the
Met" for a month, got off to pol
ished start as if they'd been rehears-
ing all summer. One new number
was presented during the week: Mi
chael Kidd's "On Stage" with origi-
nal music by Norman Dello Joio.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
No More Sleepers
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
Bernie Hart and Joseph Hyman,
producers of the smash comedy
Dear Ruth" are the latest enter
tainment managers to go air-minded
They are negotiating purchase of an
Army transport for trouping their
second company, now in Chicago,
about the country, putting to a final
end the long Irritating sleeper
jumps.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

IL, and anyway we would prob
ably get some OF the Japs.
II was a strange thing, but
most of us armed ourselves with
our toothbrushes. We figured
we might jab a guard in the
face with a toothbrush to start
the break.
We were marched out of our
cells and into another building
about so yards away.
Suddenly we realized there
we're only FIVE of us=oursetves,
Capt Nielsen, 1t. Barr and 1t.
Meder.
HALLMARK, we knew, was
IL in bad shape from dySen-
terry and had been taken back
10 the Bridge House prison
after our first court-martial.
But where were 1t. Farrow
and Sgt. Spatz? We recalled
that we had heard cell doors
opening the night before-Oct.
14--and heard men marching.
They could have been Farrow
and Spatz, who had been exer-
cising with us regularly.
We don't know what has be-
come OF our three companions.
We have never heard from, or
of. them. But nearly three
years later when we were lib
Grated at Peiplng one of US
(Sgt. DE ShaZer) was given
1t. Farrow's wrist watch by
mistake and we saw Sgt. Spatz'
leather jacket In the pile of
clothing which belonged TO us.
You viii recall that the JapS
announced some -of-the Doc
little fliers were executed Per-
haps that was the fate of three
swell guys-Dean Hallmark OF
Dallas. Tex. Bill Farrow of
Darlington, S. D.. and Harold
Spatz OF Leboe, Kan.
EDITORS NOTE, The wnr
department stated that an IN
tensiUe hunt is under Wdg
throughout nit prison camps
for the missing fiers.
When we realized that our
pals weren't with US our deter
mination 10 make a fight of il
II they sentenced US 10 death
was strengthened. You could
tell the guards senSed what was
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Seals Envoy
In Latin Dispute

WASHINGTON, Sept. p (INS)
-Spruille Braden. United States
ambassador TO Argentina, il was
officially revealed tonight will re-
turn 10 Washington Tuesday. lie
will be confronted by several
problems in Pan American and
world relations.
Leading the list is the threat
by Guatemala 20 introduce
resolution at the forthcoming Rio
de Janeiro conference that all the
American nations refuse recogni-
ton of the Franco regime in
Spain.
Braden's tough attitude toward
President Edelmiro j. Earrells
government and the strong man"
Of Argentina, Col. Juan d Peron,
repeatedly has brought favorable
reaction in Latin America.
Guatemala. Mexico and Panama.
have recognized the exiled Spanish
Republican government.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Charity Fund
NeedsShdved
3 Nations Dropped
From Relief Program

The $115,0oo 600 1945 War Chest
budget, to be raised next month,
will be adequate 10 support Ma
tional War Fund agencies for Is
months because British. Russian
and Danish relief needs have been
dropped from the fund, Edwin J.
Anderson, chairman of the Detroit
drive, said Saturday.
Anderson voiced the hope this
plan of financing would eliminate
the necessity of conducting sepa-
rate appeals for funds for these
organizations next fall.
The local War Chest drive will
be conducted Oct. 8-31 for a goal
of SO, 400, 1886. OF this amount, 36.2
per cent will be allocated 10 the
national fund and 42.6 per cent 10
the Detroit Community Fund for
It's 80 local agencies.
The National War Fund will be
dissolved Dec. 81, 1916, Anderson
said.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
CHAPTER VIII

BY CAPT. ROBERT I HrrE AND M/sGT. JACOB DE sHAzER
Written Exclusively for International NsWs Special Service
and
TORTURE isn't limited to physical punishment. Soil
tary confinement in filthy little cell can be more
horrible than the most endish physical torments
We found that out after first court-martial Aug.
28 1912 We placed in solitary in the Civic Center
prison in Shanghai and had idea of what the Japs
had in store for We had nothing to read, to
talk to- nothing to write with. Our cells
cubicles with open hole for toilet in corner
Once day allowed to exercise for a half hour
but weren't in physical condition to do much We had
systematically starved for 20 days while Shangas
Bridge House prison before transfer the Civic
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

We had our second court
martial on Oct. Is. We weren't
permitted 10 wash ourselves
that morning, and that made
us suspicious.
A INTERPRETER had told
\ US that when prisoners
were TO be executed they were
first made TO dig their own
graves. That morning we saw
some fellows walking around
with shovels and spades and we
wondered if our number had
cone up.
1t was gray foggy day
About 9 o'clock that morning
a squad of guards, dressed in
their best uniforms and armed
with rifles and sabers took US
out of our cells.
Though we were in separate
cells and had no chance 10 talk
TO each other, we had all come
10 the same decislon--if the
verdict was execution we were
going TO try TO make a break.
We didn't have much chance.
we knew. but we might make
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Ex-Prisoner Of Japs
Hopes 10 Eat Plenty

Cpl, Sidney Wolf. Jap prisoner
since the fall Of Bstaan, today
informed anxious relatives he was
en- route home with a ravenous
appetite and a a-lot- eating 10
catch up with, so be prepared"
Cpl. Wolf is a son of Mrs. Yetta
Wolf, 2276 Taylor. and has not
been home since leaving Detroit
in March, l94l. He was assigned
to service Z in the Philippines in
September, l94l.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
$4,000, GOO Deal
For Pullman Reported

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %
(UP)-Thurman Arnold, former
assistant attorney general, today
said Cleveland financial group
had proposed the purchase OF the
Pullman railroad car interests for
SIS, 100000
Arnold said the financial group
is headed by Cyrus Eaton. Cleve-
land, and Robert Young, whose
Allegheny corporation controls
the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Gets Insurance Post

COLDWATER. Sept 22-Carl-
ton ID. Mckenzie, owner of the
Mckenzie flour niii at Quincy,
and president of the Mitfers Ma
tional Federation, has been elected
10 the board of directors of the
Michigan Millers' Mutual Fire In
Stiranra IN
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

THEY kept US at the Civic
Il Center jail until April II,
1913. We were hungry all of the
time. though the food was a
little better than at Bridge
House. small amount of rice
and a small bowl OF soup with
few vegetables in II three
times a day.
On April II, 1943, we were
blindfolded and flown 10 a
specially constructed prison in
Nanking. where we were again
placed in solitary. This was our
home for two years and three
months.
Copyright. is4s. BY kim Features
Tomorrow: How 1t. Barr
gave the Jap guards a boxing
lesson and got the strait
jacket penalty.l
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Doolittle Flers' Own Story
Japs Doom Yank Bombers

in our minds. Plenty OF tension
was In the air.
THE trial didn't last more
i than three minutes.
There were several high-rank-l
ing Japanese officers in the tiny
courtroom. They constituted
the court and there were IS or
20 guards. We lined up before
the bench and looked our judges
straight in the eye.
There were a few words in
Japanese, and then an interpre-
ter began to read from a paper.
The sweat was pouring down
his face and his hands trembled.
"For bombing and straflng
school areas you have been sem
fenced 10 DEATH" he read, and
then ne paused.
Every one of us crouched a
little and the guards moved
nervously, their hands on their
swords. But in an instant the
interpreter continued reading:
But through the gracious
majesty OF the emperor you
have been spared 10 life i'm
prisonment with special treat
ment."
This business about bombing
and strafing school areas was
an outright lie. We hit our tar
gets steel mills in Tokyo and
airplane plants in Nagoya--
right on The nose. And We never
even fired our machine guns,
THEN we were marched back
Il 10 our cells and put in soli-
tary once more. II took a long
time TO realize what life i'm
prisonment could mean.
Our lives had been spared,
but we believed that nobody in
the States knew our where
abouts-we were wrong because
word of US had trickled out
and we knew that the Japs
could stick us away in some
remote area and we might not
be found even when the Japs
were licked.
But we never lost hope. We
had chance 10 talk TO each
other a little during our ex-
ercise period each morning,
though we had TO be careful be.
cause the guards would strike
us If we talked too much. rut
even these short talks puoyed
lis up. We couldn't let ourselves
get down. A man will lose his
mind quickly in solitary. con-
finement if he loses hope.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1945-09-21
ICE CAPADES BUS DI.
DELE PRAMOGA
ARENOJ

Clevelando didzioji Arena pasiruo.
sus smagiausiam sio rudens per
statymui - ICE CAPADES of 1916,
pradedant Rugsejo 81, Xxi Spaliu 7.
Sis perstatymas yra pats puos-
niausias ir idomiausias is visu Xxi
siol atsibuvusiu. Niekad nesimate
tick spalvingu kostiumu, tokiu gra-
zyhiu kaip 81 karta.
Dalyvaus SUI savo naujais ir ido-
miais aktais Al Surette SUI savo vi,
sa ellie nauju juolu.
1t. Larry Jackson, izymus kome-
dijantas, gryzes is Afrikos ir TIA
lijos karo frontu, kur sugalvojo vi
sokiu naujenybiu savo aktui.
Larry ir Leo Loeb pora, ir ju
naujas partneris, Don Bearsor, prize
ju Chuckie Stein, Eric Waite, Ted
Meza, Esco I.aRue ir daugybe XII
tu su grazuolemis "ICE-CA-PETS",
kurios padaro visa vaizda nepapras-
tai zavGjaneiu. JUS pamylesit Sta
nuostahu perstatyma.