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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-20
Kelley Boasts
Second Triumph

BOSTON. April Pop -
At 81 and after IL tries. little
Johnny Kelley of West Acton,
Mass, today gloated over his
marathoning masterpiece his
second Boston A A. triumph in
decade with a crefully plotted
2:30:40 Is performance.
Since his first win in 1885,
Kelley has competed annually
in the Unicorn Clubs 26 miles
-385 yards classic.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
BY Harold Hetfernan

Your best approach to the
screen" Mealand resumes, lis
through books. plays, radio scripts,
short stories, serials-anything but
original screen plays"
He expands on this phase of your
dilemma by suggesting that you do
novel to develop well-rounded
style so essential to screen writing
1t will provide plenty of practice in
Characterization, background Incl
dent, dialogue, descriptive action and
plot.
Mealand cites Ketti Frings, Ayn
Rand and the late Rachel Field as
typical new writer's whose first pub
lished work skyrocketed them into
plush studio berths overnight.
She Wrote Own Story.
Introducing producer for fan
magazine, Miss Frings told him feel
ingly how she was committing daily
from Hollywood to Tijuana in vain
attempts to clear her husband
through immigration officials at the
border. That's very interesting, u
he commented. why don't you
write it?" She did-as a 5000-word
Memo to a Movie Producer" She
was paid 81 word. Then, encour-
aged, she rewrote 1t as novel,
which proved even more lucrative
You saw it as Hold Back the
Dawn" starring Olivia de Havilland
and Charles Boyer Today Miss
Frings' weekly check as a studio
screen writer boasts four attractive
figures.
Ever heard of Miss Rand-before
The Fountainhead" OF course,
you didn't. She was too busy BY
day she was reader in Para
mounts New York story depart
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Movie Writing Chores Open-With Many Butts

ment; by night she was learning to
write, by writing the novel for which
she received $4,000 and contract
from Producer Hal Wallis. Her first
screen play. soon to be released, was
Love Letters" starring JennifeI
Jones and Joseph Cotton.
Like Miss Rand, Miss Field lived
the arduous dual life of reader
by-day, writer-by- might. 1t paid
handsome dividends Remember
And Now Tomorrow with Alar
Ladd and Loretta Young? Miss
Field wrote it.
Another Scribe Joins Up.
Latest to be assigned quarters in
the writer's building on the Para
mount lot is one John McNulty
former New York newspaperman
about whom you will soon hear
Two or three pieces of his, just
teeming with color" caught Mea-
lands eye. There" soliloquizec
Mr.. Mr., sis just the lad to do some
stories for Barry Fitzgerald" Ar
exchange of letters ensued and be-
fore Mr.. Men could sputter a re-
fusal, he found himself on a plane
Hollywood bound. Before long his
first screen play, "O'Halloran'.
Luck" will go before the cameras.
Paraphrasing Shakespeare, Mea.
land insists that in movies "the
story's the thing"
He concludes his chat by stress
ing that if you have little faith ir
your ability to tell tales about peo.
pie who live" you'd better forget
the whole thing. But. if you have
great faith, drive, sticktoitivenes.
and originality-for Pete's sake, de
something about it!
released by North American Newspape
Alliance
Evening star., 1945-02-18
HOLLYWOOD.


How many people go to the movies
and come out secretly boasting, Il
could write a much better picture
myself? Hundreds of thousands
do just that. And lot Of them
far too many, according to har-
assed studio writing departments
send their literary brain children
out to Hollywood.
If you are one of those who have
sat in the theater and told yourself
you could write a better movie with
out half trying, maybe few words
from Richard Mealand, head of
Paramount's writing department,
will interest you.
They may help you to make up
your mind whether to pursue your
spic or simply to stick to that job
in the war plant and use your type
writer for strictly social purposes.
Calculating Your Chance.
What chance does an unknown
writer have to sell story to the
movies?
Come along to Mealand's Office
with us and you'll get pretty ac-
curate idea, with a few helpful hints
tossed in. You'll learn, perhaps to
your surprise, that mere obscurity
is not an insurmountable hurdle
In fact. some well-known eSta bliShed
novelists and dramatists have failed
as scenarists because they had too
much to unlearn."
You can't take a book from a
shelf, hand it to a director and say
Go out and shoot a seven-reel pic
ture.'" says Mealand. There's a
lot more to the writing end of the
movie business than just writing
To do a shootable script a writer
must know Characterization, dia-
logue. plots, cameras, sound, light
ing, set construction, direction-yes,
and costs
mo studio will buy direct from an
unknown writer" says the man who
for more than five years has bought
story properties for Paramount In
fact, no studio will even read un-
solicited material; instead literary
purchases, in the main, are novels
plays and magazine articles, all of
which are copyrighted"
In view of this policy, if you have
manuscript which you believe
would provide better entertainment
than that for which you paid last
night. the best thing for you to do
is to get an agent-a literary agent
of reputable standing.
Reporting Good Training.
Getting a job on a newspaper Is
an excellent first step" Mealand
suggests. Proof of the soundness of
this advice is to be found not only
in his own brilliant career but in
the fact that the vast majority of
/ today's successful writer's can proud
/ ly say. Il used to be newspaper
man myself
After college, Paramounts story
chief was a reporter for several
years on various Ohio dailies be-
fore joining the famous old New
York World. He spent year on
the editorial staff of the Paris edi-
ton of the New York Herald. Then,
successfully, he was managing edi-
tor of Pictorial Review, editor of
Nash's uondon), fiction editor of
Good Housekeeping and story editor
of Paramount.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Profile of a Lasting Love
BY Rosalind Shafer

Negro painter, and his present en-
thusiasm is for Morris Graves, a
Seattle painter, whom he helped
discover. Laughton likes to sit
down with one of his pictures and
attempt to copy a part of it. He
doesn't think of himself as a painter
he says, but it's his way of studying
and enjoying a good picture.
Though Laughton has played
everything from the villanious Capt
Bligh in "Mutiny on. the Bounty
to the psychological murderer in his
recent The Suspect" he's a little
more like Henry VIII" in the light
er moods Of that film in private life
At the moment he's having fun be-
ing Captain Kidd" the famous
pirate. I've never seen a man have
such a good time being an actor
Part of it, of course, is that he has
a finished mind, which makes
every new role a project for study
and whimsical highlighting.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Miss Stafford Makes
A Glittering Debut
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
The biggest night club opening in
recent months came with the debut
of 10 Stafford at the La Martinique.
Every one of any standing around
the saloon Whirl was there, including
Frank Sinatra. who worked with 10
when both were with Tommy Dor
lsey's orchestra. Her recent record
ing popularity and radio success
convinced Dario and Jimmy Ver-
non, owners of La Martinique, that
she would be good bet for their
fashionable cellar saloon.
La Martinique has been the scene
of many night club successes. in
.cluding Danny Kaye, Zero Mostel,
Jackie Miles and Danny Thomas
and the emergence of Baby" Rose
Marie as a grown up and beautiful
cafe singer
Miss Stafford has peculiar vocal
style, simple. rhythmic, insinuat-
Iingly bouncy in voice that is clear
and almost without vibrato, very
similar to the effect from an un-
fretted viola.
Evening star., 1945-02-18

school attached to the church. I
wear nuns habit all the way
through"
After that she is to star in. NO
.torius," a spy story by Alfred Hitch
cock and Ben Hecht. Then comes
THE Scarlet Lily" in which Ingrid
appears as Mary Magdalene, with
Joseph Gotten as Roman. Also
on her schedule is Sarah Bern
hardt," But" says Ingrid, I'm
saving that for when I'm bit
older" 1t adds up to quite a career.
Miss Bergman was born in Swe-
den. She is in her late Dos and
wears very little makeup in private
life. She is shy, but when she lets
up is natural and gay and talks
with sort of laugh in her voice
She was big star in Sweden before
Selznick signed her for Hollywood
in repeat of "Intermezzo. ;" which
she had already made in. Stockholm
Treats Child as Adult.
In 1887 Ingrid married Medical
Student Peter Lindstrom They
have daughter, Pia from the
initials of Ingrid and Peters Chris
tan names Pia is 6, and" says
her mama, Il have always treated
her like an adult. My husband Cnow
doctor in California; ALWAYS warns
me, You'll be sorry you didn't treat
her like child And sometimes it
is difficult when she treats me like
one of her age equals. But I think
it will work out"
On the days Ingrid is without a
nurse, and when Pia is not at school
she's in the first grade-she goes
to the studio with her mother
shes very interested in my work, y
says Ingrid, and when I was max
ing 'Gaslight' there was a scene
where l had to lie down. For a
minute I sat up. Pia Missed, Lie
down; the director said you must lie
down. She tried to do it SO George
Cukor wouldn't hear her"
Ihgrid likes to eat very much.
And gains weight between pictures
But always lose it before I start
work David tSelznick) used to bt
worried, but now he knows the
weight will 60" She is 5 feet 81:
inches tall in her stockinged feet
but she doesn't appear so tall. ",
never seen her in a hat =. or in 6
night club >. or in evening clothes
in private life.
Miss Bergman recently Learned
about America on cross -countr,
bono-selling tour. And she liket
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Today's Schedules

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
The Tidings Brought to
Mary: $50 pm.
CAPITOL - This Mans
Navy: 1:50, 4:30, tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: ITO, $50,
$50 and 9:l5 pm.
COL UMBIA Fighting
Lady: /, 2::35, AIS, 6:25, BIS
and 10 pm.
EARLE-''To Have and Have
Not: 1855. ABS. tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: lis, 3:55,
6:35 and 9:l5 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Three Ca
balleros":: l, $50, 4:35, 6:25,
$40 and 10 pm.
LITTLE-"The Informer":: l,
$40, 5:25. TAO and 9:55 pm.
Observation-Disclosures
er Again: lis, 800, SIS, 7:35
and $40 pm.
PALACE - Keys of the
Kingdom: 100, 4:05, GAS and
$50 pm.
PTX-"Man About Town: 2,
4:35, tbs and 10 pm.
TRANS LUX - News and
shorts. Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Star Grants Allure,
But Crudginsly
BY the Associated Press.
H0IIVWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Eleanor Parker comedies that she
has legs and appeal but she doesn't
care to discuss them.
Now appearing opposite John
Garfield in This Love of Ours" she
declared she preferred that the
matter of her appeal be left un-
said
Maybe I'm fashioned, but I
think the girls of the gay COS were
a lot cleverer than We are today.
They made pretty picture with
their bustles, layers of petticoats
and fiounces. with the result that
your imagination had plenty to
work on.
Il think one of these days we're
going to see a big swing back to
clothes, and lots of 'em.
And frankly, like the idea"
Evening star., 1945-02-18

whaS she learned She came to an
important decision with her hus-
band. I'VE decided that We would
become American citizens she tells
me. We don't want to live any
where except in America, and
particularly in California" They
have purchased a house in Benedict
| Canyon with an enormous raftered
living room, where Mr. and Mrs
Lindstrom sometimes roll up the
rugs and dance.
I rather like this description of
Ingrid-by Cameron Shipp. the boy
who publicized her, and believe me,
press agents know their product
She's the girl next door" says
Cam-'if you lived in heaven"
(Released by North American Newspap per
Alliance
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Victory Written in Sky
BY Jay arm ody


Navy not except the enemy
observed after the screening Fighting
a picture the japanese should
The Navy ITSELF however apparently a
idea 1t letting the Jap the fighting ladies themselves
the planes which fly from their ectying decks whole mob of
fighting ladies gather
craft participating in the current assault Japans i'm
portant cities and industries enters 1t easily the most spectacular
ana depressing sight on which the Japs ever laid their oddly shaped
Fighting Lady, which rather cav the exciting
documentary film the has produced.
Secrecy Is Abandoned in Film
In its production the Navy proudly has unveiled the previous
huhush story of the striking might of the greatest and most
eru single instrument OF war; the aircraft carrier IL mas taken he
people aboard typical modern seamned carrier and
through the the allowed to scrune the giant new
raining mighty upon infamous
which have photographed the most har-rasng
Columbia those which went into the
combat the planes themselves They have ridden through the
devastating surface craft and land installations
- @ % ' ~ - rtai nhs m neration x too oreat for them to
their pilots They catch rather the po
trait of havoc wrought by the plane just ahead the lightning
attack Out of the great ootage of film collected in one OF the mighty
together such assault
Fighting such dramatic stories woven to-
geher motion picture that is undoubtedly the most timely
of the
commentary the drama of The Fighting Lady that
of the planes
decks the most exciting
e.. Attack Carrier Dramatic
the 81 minute unfoldment of the
itself the fighting lady herself is
this in the film at the
carrier has become perhaps the most
fascinating whole the motion picture
the affections of the audience almost
s firmly as she has absorbed those of the huge crew which
planes conducts the most exc
ing all flight her muitudnous
stations fires her huge protective battery guns
of these fighting ladies until
Taylor voice that is
familiar to millions of movegoers.
S wrong there much too modest.
the far
Justify modesty The Fighting Lady
mpy swing dive bombers and
fight deck altitude AS they
should aba but miracle shot of
Jap torpedo plane straight the carrier through
nensifes The final plunge of the plane
the ends the most sspensef sequence that this
reviewer in his years of moviegong.
Deck Landings Garry Thrills.
those life has the last three
fairly
safe any pilot could ask
The Fighting contradcts thoroughly
could hundreds shown
pulled fight There's
astounding efficiency shtningike operation
thereby to be tnglng dramatic.
passages that crippled
that reaches highest
Their controls their landing destroyed by
they for landings with the threat of fire
destruction present. But by miracle most of them
pushed the side after the pilot and
removed, occasionally in flames
all the documentary pictures and
every himself for here in the most
the skies
Evening star., 1945-02-18


In Leslie Reade's play at the Play
house. Jack-the-Ripper once more
stalks about Whitechapel adding
to his list of victims-and I wish
he wouldn't. I suspect every one
who has seen this new mystery
drama joins me in the wish.
Alienists tell us that If you accept
the illogical, or irrational premises
of an insane person, We are likely
TO find deductions drawn therefrom
perfectly logical and rational So
with your author of mystery play,
or melodrama. He may erect any
wild-eyed premise he pleases, but,
having done so. he must draw sound
conclusions from his farfetched
theme. On the other hand, if he
begins with a convincing premise
and thereupon develops unsound
conclusions he is lost.
This is what Mr.. Reade did with
The Stranger" Setting his play
in boarding house of sorts. of all
sorts, in the Whitechapel district,
when the Ripper is abroad. he
directs suspicion principally to a
Russian shoemaker. In order to
mislead the audience he has the
young man go berserk in the midst
of love scene with one of the fair
young boarders.
Fleeing about the room while the
lover pursues her with barred knife,
she is saved from whatever motive
the man had by the entry of fellow
boarders (what the knife motive
was is never explained. But. knife
aside, the shoemaker is typed as a
young Russian of dreamy tempera-
ment and amiable megalomania. Ro-
mantle interests between girl and
Russian are resumed until after his
arrest on the charge of murder and
his release from duranee when the
real Ripper is caught right in the
boarding house living room, where
he is about to slit the throat of
another inmate. a beautiful lady of
the streets. Thereupon the lover
lightly hands his enamorata over
to cockney suitor who, up to this
Evening star., 1945-02-18
HOLLYWOOD.


When Charles Laughton came to
Hollywood in the early 30s he was
rumored to be bit difficult to inter-
view.
In my first contact with him l
found a reserved diffident quality,
hut it shortly dissolved when we
ssdiscovered a common interest in
; Birds. His natural enthusiasm burst
I forth and Laughton began descrlb-
: ing his favorite English birds and
. giving limitations of them. A studio
! waiter bringing tea was obviously
alarmed by what was going on, as
Laughton leaped about and f1ut-
tered his arms.
He was still just that much tun
on my latest visit at his Santa
Monica home overlooking the ocean.
? His wife, Elsa Manchester, played
hostess. They make a wonderful
team, professionally as well as pri-
vately
Unfortunately, she hasn't worked
with Laughton in Hollywood and
studios seem at loss as to how to
use her highly individual talents.
She has been doing comedy songs
and numbers written for her at the
Turnabout Theater. Since Laughton
is doing well here she's content.
Pair Always Congenial.
They are amazingly congenial.
J bringing out the best in each other
in company. Laughton is frankly
devoted husband and a wonderful
audience for Elsa's pixie humor.
The LaughtonS appreciate all the
7 nuances of good food; we lunched
on a terrace overlooking the sea.
s-Iaughton mixed the green salad
himself. 1t was from their own
garden, and was sprinkled with
powdered herbs and rock salt and
spepper ground from a tiny grinder.
@Oil and vinegar were mixed with
slowing care The salad plates were
s-from Italy, gift of a friend, with
ehand-painted peasant pictures Des-
sert was a merlngue. filed with such
ice cream as only devoted cook
could make.
There are other masterpieces at
Laughton'S. An original Renoir, a
gorgeous, lusty nude in pink and
gold and white which covers hall a
wall in the living room, is Laugh
tons pride. Il have no business to
own it, for I'm not rich man, but
that's what l work in pictures for, v
he says.
Has Varied Collection.
That's not exactly an honest
statement, for Laughton admits he
loves acting and wouldn't do any,
thing else. He has other pictures
by Utrillo, Duffy, Cezanne, Rouault,
Douainier Rousseau, Surat and
Renoir, which makes him second
only to Edward c. Robinson as a
Hollywood art collector.
Laughton also goes in for Ameri-
cana; he has "a Cabin in the Cot
ton," by Horace Pippin, American
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"Foolish Notion" j"
with Talullah Bankhead and
Henry Hull, starting next
Monday.
CAPITOL - Naughty Mari
etta," with Nelson Eddy and
jeanette Macdonald, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Meet Me in st.
Louis" with Judy Garland
and Margaret O'Brien.
EARLE - objective Burma"
with Enrol Flynn, starting
Thursday.
KEITH'S-"The Suspect" with
Charles Laughton and Ella
Raines.
LITTLE - 1.-The Rainbow" a
Russian film, starting We'd
nesday.
METROPOLITAN-"Ente Ar
sene Lupin," with Ella Raines
and Charles Korvin, starting
Thursday.
Music for Millions"
with Jose Iturbi and June
Allyson
PIX - "Murlessee," a French
picture, starting Tuesday.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Another News Room
Is Cinema Bound
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Columbia Pictures has bought the
rights to Night Editor the Hal
Burdick radio series.
From city rooms of newspapers all
over the country comes the exhorta-
ton that the characters in Might
Editor" be not depicted as per-
petually drunk, wearing hats in
doors with the brim turned up and
press card stuck in them
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Ripper Returns-As a Bore
By Laurence Perry

juncture. had not received much
time from the miss.
SO it goes Interminable talk en-
sues throughout the three acts
sometimes about the Ripper, some
times about social economy-oh
almost everything. Without excep-
ton the acting, particularly per-
formances by Eduard Franz, as the
young Russian suspect; by Perry
Wilson, as the girl. by Wendy Atkin
as courtesan and Stanley Bell as a
policeman, are worthy of better
Dlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Plan Area Bridge
Repair Project

Renovation of 32 bridges in Allen
and surrounding counties at total
cost of about S22,660 is included in
the list of projects on which the
state highway department will re-
ceive bids Aug. 81 at Columbus.
Four bridges in Allen county are
listed in an $4,000 project. These
are the bridges on the Lima-Spen-
cerville road over the Erie railroad
the one on the Bellefontaine
road over the Erie railroad and two
bridges on the Lima-Ada-Forest road
Three bridges in Allen county
four in Putnam county and seven in
Van Vert county are set up in an
other project which will cost an esti-
mated $7,720.
Another project calling for an
expenditure of S6,940 provides fol
cleaning and painting eight bridges
in Paulding county and six in Put
nam county.
All these projects must be com
pleted by Nov. Is, the state provides
in its notices requesting bids.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Officials Survey Eagle
Creek Basin

Findlay and Hancock county Off
cials viewed part of the Eagle creek
drainage area in anticipation of
remedying the cause of spring floods
in south Findlay.
The officials viewed the Hydraulic
ditch which drains into Eagle creek
near the Hardin county line bringing
water from the Hog Greek drainage
area into Eagle Greek. On the way
back the men also checked along
Eagle creek.
County officials expressed concern
over the situation but said they are
at loss how to proceed in the mat
ter. In view of the drainage laws
they believe that for the county to
enter into the matter would require
a petition similar to the usual ditch
petition.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Hardin County Farm
ers Detassle Hybrids

With the labor situation in definite
contrast to that of last year, the
tedious task of detasseling hybrid
seed cord is we'll advanced and was
completed this week. The growers
in the Ada vicinity raised several
different varieties of seed hybrids,
all adaptable to the Ohio climate.
The labor this year was supplied
by the younger boys of high school
age, supplemented by some older men
and a considerable number of Mexi-
cans. Detasseling machines were
used by some of the operators, but
much of the work is still hand labor.
The acreage in the marsh and up
land farms surrounding Ada totals
better than 40 acres.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Holland Wheat Gifts
Reach Total Of $843

A total of S843.50 has been re-
ceived by the Eagle Greek Church of
the Brethren near Williamstown, to
be used to buy wheat for Holland,
Rev. ]. j. Anglemyer said.
The project undertaken by the
Churches of the Brethren to allie
viate the suffering of Hollanders
whose lands were flooded when the
Nazis broke their dikes, has gained
widespread interest and many outside
the church congregations are con-
tributing to the cause. 1t is hoped
now to fill two ships with the grain.
Rev. Anglemyer said donations
will be used to buy wheat at Cairo,
Ohio, and from Cairo to the port of
embarkation and thence to Holland,
the transportation will be paid by
the Holland government.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Find Mans Body Near
B. & O. Tracks

The body of an unidentified tran
sient was inferred in Harmon ceme-
terry near Ottawa last Wednesday,
after it was found along the B & o
railroad right-of-way south of OF
tawa.
The body of the man, whose head
and face were badly crushed, was
found by railroad employees. County
officials, who pronounced his death
as accidental, believe he was killed
when struck by some object extend
ing from a passing train. He car
ried no Identification papers.