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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
Businessmen FIoy Strikes
 Price Ceilings
 Blamed for Loos

New Haven, Conn. Nov. 27-CUP) Strikes in supplier plants and OPA price ceilings are causing New England reconversion lags as high as IS per cent and are forcing some firms to operate at losses, Connecti- cut manufacturers rel 'rted today.
 Voicing the thoughts of most manufacturers, President A. c. Gill bert of the A. c. Gilbert Co. of New Haven told IA newsmen surveying the New England reconversion scene that unless labor and management get down to bedrock in their under standing, all hope for a speedy re- conversion must be put aside.'
 Officials of the Gilbert Co., man. ufacturers of educational toys and erector sets, and the General Elec- tric Go. reported lags. Vice-presi- dent H. L. Trisch of the Gilbert Co., said the firm was running 50 per cent behind 1941 production. Vice President H. L. Andrews of the Gen. eral Electric's Bridgeport works is producing only 25 per cent of its 1941 volume. Andrews said there was 50 per cent lag at the Bridge port works. Under present c1rcum- stances, he said, not more than 40 per cent of 1941 volume could be produced by the first of the year.
 Affects Dependents
 Nearly all officials agreed that nationwide strikes affected not only strikebound companies but plants depending on them for parts. The closing of conveyor line in the Gilbert Go. plant yesterday because of strike in another concern was only one of frequent" examples discussed by Gilbert.
 The Gilbert Co.,, the Bridgeport works of General Electric Co.,, the Bridgeport Brass Co.,, and the Win chester Repeating Arms in New Haven, a division of Olin Industries, Inc, all reportedly are operating at losses.
 "The war was a cinch-this is something we don't seem to be able to lick" Gilbert said.
 OPA Ceilings Blamed Charging that OPA price ceilings have caused reconversion lags, Thomas l. s. Boak, works manager of Winchester Repeating Arms said, 'OPA has failed to realize manufac- turing costs have risen." Boak as- serted price ceilings today are lower than actual manufacturing costs and you can't put costs up, keep prices down and stay prosperous" he claimed.
 All the firms agreed that another factor in higher production costs was a drop in individual employe productivity immediately after V-J Day. The drop wa ascribed to a loss of incentive and the necessity of learning peacetime skillS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28

Buenos Aires, Argentina, reports that a leading citizen celebrated the end of the European War by donating $100,000 to the British Red Cross.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28

Mexico will spend $8,0O0,000 in improving the port of Manzanlllo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
Veterans Advisory Committee to Meet

The regular monthly meeting of the Waterbury Veterans Advisory Committee will be held Monday, De- cenlber at 3:30 D. m. at the Veter- ans Center, 195 Grove street. Con- sideration will be given to the choice of two non-c commissioned veterans of World War II to serve as mem bers of the committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
Truman to Show On Map Shortly

Truman, Tex, Nov. 28.-(UP)- This village, named for the presi- dent, soon will be on the map.
 A worldwide map company at Chi cago wrote and asked all the details of the newly -christened town east of Dallas.
 Details were simple: Truman has 200 citizens and nine business estab- lishments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
National Income Is Needed High

Indianapolis, Nov. 28-(UP)- Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson warned yesterday that the interest on the national debt would become a heavy burden if national income is not kept at it's present high level.
 Speaking before members of the Indiana State Ccamber of Com merce and State War Finance Committee, Vinson said the inter est on the debt "Is well within the ability of the economy to bear.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28

Packages should be marked Christmas Gift" and may be sent directly to the Connecticut State Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut or left with c. D. V. Offlce, Church St., Waterbury. Packages contain ing gifts separately wrapped should be accompanied by a list of con- tents. Persons wishing to contribute to this campaign are urged to do so by December 10. All gifts will be promptly acknowledged.
 Local committee includes Mrs. William Burke, chairman; Mrs. A. s. Brown, Mrs. Sailsman Weller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
NaUo[ InUentor
 To Be Honored

Boston, Nov. 28-(UP)-The g. POO ton destroyer Fiske, second vessel to bear the name, will be commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard today.
 The vessel honors the late Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, USN, of Lyons, N. Y., a famed naval in ventor who was responsible for discovery of the radio-guided tor pedo plane, the electric range fin- der and umerouS other essential weapons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
KODIAK HAPPY

John Kodiak las received good news.
 After bringing his mother and father to California to live on his ranch at Tarzana, he has received word from his sister, Mary, that she will join the family in Hollywood. She has been working in Detroit defense plant,
Evening star., 1945-01-21
From The Met to Broadway

riety also turned to Broadway
Maurice Abravenel, conductor in
Europe and more recently at the
Metropolitan, is waving an antic
stick at the pit orchestra and stars
of Billy Roses Seven Lively Arts
Alexander Smallens, also of SYM
phony and opera, conducted the
original and revival versions OF
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Fritz
Mailer, nephew of the great Gustav
Mailer. was batoneer of the ill-fated
Rhapsody" Fritz Zweig of The
Merry Widow" and Wolfgang Mar
tin of "Rosalinda" were European
opera conductors.
Robert Stolz, who will conduct the
orchestra as well as write some
music for the imminent musical
Mr.. Strauss Goes to Boston," also
has been concerned primarily with
more formal musical fields.
This listing is by no means any
suggestion that the Metropolitan
Opera is in shabby shape. But the
immense popularity Of the musical
comedy stage brings financial re-
turns with which the Met Is unable
to compete.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
'TheVOiCe'Aids
More ThanOne
Young Actress
BY the Associated Press,
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
The Voice of the Turtle" is get
ting to be constant springboard for
young actresses ambitions. K. T.
Stevens stepped into the Margaret
SULLIVAN role few months ago
when Miss Sullivan was stricken i'll
Subsequently she was starred in the
Chicago carbon of the John Van
Druten comedy.
When Miss SULLIVAN abandoned
the Broadway cast, Betty Field was
returned to her first love, the legiti-
mate theater. Recently her illness
set up another opportunity-this
time for Florence Rice, young Hol-
lywood actress and daughter OF
Grantland Rice. sports columnist.
Miss Rice was not the official un-
derstudy. Last year she informed
Producer Alfred de Liagre that she
had fallen in love with the part and
was learning it out of sheer admira-
tion for its bright gayety. After
seeing the show many times ano
memorizing the 125 sides of dia-
logue, she informed De Liagre that
she would be around a while and
should the occasion arise, coulo
step in at a seconds notice.
Only one performance was missed
when Betty Field became ILL., That
was so Miss Rice could learn the
business" of the comedy with its
two other stars, Elliott Nugent and
Audrey Christie.
The result was critical applause
from the Broadwayites who went
over to the Morosco Theater.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Broadway Rich in Good Acting
By Jack O'Brian

ows the more theatrically impress
sive principal part played by Rich
ard Baseheart.
Elliott Nugent has been the re-
cipient of many encomiums, but he
cannot be omitted from any listing
of this sort; his furloughing SER
geant with the wandering libido in
THE Voice of the Turtle" is quiet
undemonstrative achievement OF
charm and effectiveness.
Standouts In Musicals.
Among the musicals, Joan Nc
Cracken and Celeste Holm are
standouts in "Bloomer Girl" Nancy
Walker, Sono Osato and a. dozen or
two other youngsters make "On the
Town" Broadways most welcome
recent tune show. Gertrude NieSen
/ in Follow the Girls" Bobby Clark
| in Mexican Hayride," Mary Martin
in "One Touch of Venus" and every
last person in "Oklahoma!" are
hereby patted on the back for their
bright accomplishments.
| Beatrice Lille is an antic head
and shoulders above every one else
! in Seven Lively Arts" and Burl
Ives is the single flash in the panned,
at least by this reviewer, Sing Out,
Sweet Land" a musical which wan
ders all over America to waste few
bright moments amid general ennui.
Lawrence Brooks, fra Petina, Rob-
ert Shafer and Sig Arno are as
memorable as the music in Song of
Norway"
In THE Searching Wind" which
left New York after last nights per-
formance, is one of the major acting
canoes of the year: Montgomery
Cliff as the young soldier. And to
hit lighter note, Lou HoltZ in the
touring Star Time" is one OF the
funniest men in the world.
1t is list which should make
even the most sated drama critic
look back in contented reverie on the
last few months of theater attend
ance. 1t even made going to all
those stinkers worth while
Good Night, Ladies'" which ran
100 weeks in Chicago and had a sec
ond company on the road at the
same time, arrived Wednesday eve
ming at the Royale Theater It is SO
unbelievably dreary and completely
without theatrical reason or conse-
quence as to make one wonder just
what kept it alive so long. The an
swer is, of course, its leeringly bawdy
material. But even that is showed
below the submerged standards OF
bad taste. 1t is rehash of the 25-
year-old Ladies Night in Turkish
Bath" I defy any one of decent
mind to be even mildly entertained
Evening star., 1945-01-21
NEW YORK. oy

NEW YUM.
There was a time, up to a few
weeks ago, when a drama critic
could be reasonably certain of a
chance to sharpen his literary seal
pei on the cadavers of constantly
still-born theatrical absurdities.
Now the situation is much to the
contrary. Where once it was a fair
bet that any arriving show would
be something at which Thespis could
turn up an already irritated nose,
an almost constant procession OF
welcome successes recently has
marched into Broadway.
These successes brought with them
some of the most auspicious acting
accomplishments of not only the last
year, but of the decade; in at least
one case, of the theater's entire his
tory.
The latter is Frank Fay's tri-
umphantly inspired romp as Elwood
P. Dowd, companion and confidant
of the 6-foot-1 u inch Rabbit "Har-
vey." 1t is a brilliantly whimsical
sauce brewed by Mary Coyle Chase
with the unquestioned help of some
hysterically delighted pixies and
seasoned with something more than
vaguely alcoholic.
Comparisons Are Rife.
Already Fay's brilliant perform
ance has stirred the most redoubta-
Bile memories around Sardi's, the
Lambs and the Players into COM
parison with John Barrymore S
Hamlet" Frank Bacon's Light
nin'," David Warfield's THE Music
Master" and George M. Cohan's
Little Johnny Jones'"
A definite, if not close, second
among the portrayals is Leo G. Car
roll as THE Late George Apley.'
His is one of the most delightful
stuffed shirts in decade, an almost
justified, if slightly farcical, libel on
the good escutcheon of Boston S
Beacon street.
Fredric March ir "A Bell for
Adano" rings the bell as surely as
the Adano chime peals forth eXcit-
irgly at that plays curtain. Fred
erick O'Neal and Hilda Sinms in
Anna Lucasta" actually make that
smash hit better than it is.
Ao Iile UelIluScu, DeWllueIGu ldIlleI
of Dear Ruth" Howard Smith
brings solidly brilliant talent to a
comparatively sugar-spun role. Il
Remember Mama" has several ma
jor acting portraits, including Mady
Christians as Mama, and Oscar
Homolka and Joan Tetzel
Little Oscar KarlWeis as the first
half of the title of "Jacobowski and
the Colonel is a sheer delight
John Lund as a Yankee doughboy
In "The Hasty Heart" far oyershad-
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Miss Durbin
Happy to Do
las She Wants
By RosaIind Shafer.
HOLLYWOOD

110AL Wo01.
Deanna Durbin, who grew up In
the Hollywood hothouse, again is
free to do exactly as she pleases.
She Is doing a lot of little things,
but-now that her divorce is final
the betting is that she will get into
a Whirlwind courtship and marry
again.
Deanna has been center of ro-
mantle interest ever since her
parting from Vaughn Paul, whom
she married at Is.
Deanna is now %; she's prettier
than ever. Her figure is slim and
shapely, with no suggestion of that
childish plumpness from which both
she and Judy Garland suffered
when they were youngsters singing
their way to fame.
Has Even Disposition.
Her doll-like face is a trifle full
on the screen, but she has a dazzling
pink and white complexion, clear
blue eyes, well-cut features, with
evenly shaped brows and lips, and
white, even teeth. Her golden hair,
worn in a loose bob with feathered
curls, heightens the doll effect. Her
disposition, one of the evenest, gives
her a calm expression, but her eyes
still hold the twinkle that made her
first pictures so memorable.
The blond hair, she says, was not
her idea. 1t is medium tone, re-
placing her own natural brown, be-
eras to photograph.
Her early marriage, and its fail
ure after year and half, hasn't
made Deanna bitter or disillusioned.
She's been the center of many ro-
mantle rumors, but Deanna denies
any serious intent.
I'm enjoying my girlhood," she
says, because never had any. Now
l have my own household, my house
keeper and maid, and Sister Peter
the cocker spaniel, and my first
freedom to live exactly as I like"
Deanna lives in the English brick
married, though she's closed off a
couple of extra bedrooms. Her own
bedroom, where she likes to relax
and read, is a sort of living room,
with fireplace, comfortable chairs,
books, radio and huge four poster
bed with flowered spread and
drapes
Doesn't Take Exercise.
Il don't take any exercise if I
can avoid it" she says, because
singing is physical work, I take an
hours lesson daily
She never lets up on the voice
training; she admits she has her
eye on opera but she isn't pushing
too hard for it at this time. Il just
go along, and see what life brings,
she says.
She began to grow up, she says,
when she was Is. up to then, !
thought everybody was my friend;
then few experiences disillusioned
me, and I've learned that it's only
possible to have a few real friends
who are close" Anne Shirley is her
main chum these days, the girls
are neighbors and find much in
common.
Deanna's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
James Durbin, live not far from
her; also close are her sister Edith,
who helped pay for her early singing
lessons by teaching school, and
Edith's two children. A few months
back, when Deanna closed her radio
show with the words, Good night,
Dicky boy" a lot of folks around
town thought it was romance with
Dick Powell Dicky proved to be
Edith's small SON.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Want More Winners
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
For years nearly every one in Hol-
lywood has been complaining about
various things concerning the acad-
emy awards-the food at the ban
quet, long winded speeches. neces-
sity of formal dress, ETC. Last year
the awards were given without food,
with one-minute speeches ard in
formal attire.
Now nearly every one is complain
ing about the awards themselves.
President Harry Cohn of Colum-
bia bought pages in trade journals
to propose that the second and third
winners also be named. A group of
stars and executives formed an or
ganization to name the top four
pictures of the year. Nobody's hap
py but Oscar.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Today's Schedules
CATHOLIC uNTvERSTT,

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Tom Thumb the Great: $3.50
pm.
NATIONAL-"Startime":
8 and $50 pm.
CAPITOE"Guestin in the
House: lao, 4:35, 7:30 and
1925 pm. Stage shows: /, 1855.
$50 and Gas pm.
COLUMBIA-"The Thin Man
Goes Home: 1:20, 3:25, 5:25,
7:30 and $50 pm.
EARLE - Together Again:
1:55, 4:40, 7:2o and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1:20, 4, $40 and
9:15 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Princess and
the Pirate: l, $40, $50, 7:30
and $40 pm.
LIT T L E Three Russian
Girls: l, 4, 7 and 10 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Man in
Half Moon Street.: /, $40, $50,
7:30 and $40 pm.
PALACE-"Winged Victory:
lis, 4:05, 6:55 and $40 pm.
PIx-"The House Across the
Bay: 2:10, 4:45, 7::25 and 10
pm.
TRAN X-News and
shorts. Continuous from / pm.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
It's Birthday Ball Time
By Bill Hill
(In the temporary absence Of jay earn


This is the time year editor gets the least
attention from the people They're busy and they're troubled
Perhaps you run into of them the
ing along with his apparently shoetop
Hello" say, what's
He raises his head and gets
Lake and still working hoping Sheridan
but I'm afraid she can't make 1t :"
FirstBi Birthday Ball Held IL Years Ago.
BY this intelligence tell it's january and the motion
rendering every for l2 at this time If remember
recy it all the night Tuesday 1884
held the Shoreham Hotel with Eddie
star ana proceeds to hgh n1ae para lhat was
the grandfather all the Presidents Birthday Balls the
celebration honor the President by raising lessen
suffering.
changed years first
make thus people dances
who would otherwise never have thought of going dance there
insisted addressing Senators Your Honor
Another took special lessons be certain he knew who preceded
Capital Hollywood residents
sophisticated lost delightful navee and
them taken active in politics. recall radio
interview with Ginger Rogers just birthday
terribly excited about meeting the President More recently
campagned doubt she'd be excited today
Andr by Appearance.
Then there Andrea Leeds Remember her in the picture
stage Door? When arrived the birthday
balls she had made public She was
ST she said land know stand up in
front those people I'll forget anything I've been planning say
volunteered to
write little her She grateful but after she mao
She desperate frantic
finally the shoulder of surprised newspaper
talked terward she went about from one hotel to
Miss Leeds explained it, He told me to quit trying to tnnk
just to stand up when the Time came anu say
whatever I I loved it"
Mickey Rooney always good for around drama
posing with the head of the FBI
clicked Mickey struck though he
watch And another time when
frantic Mr. Rooney had dis
appeared While driving about that day he
had boys having fine time ice skating on the Lincoln
Memorial Rejecting Pool AS he had the opportunity he had
slipped to join them.
A Serious Side to Olivia
There serious side Olivia de Havland that
her making gamorou
might have suspected She very
nhcance in things ordinarily don't with
One of them the Augustus St Gaudens
Cemetery popularity Grief
the birthday balls Miss Havland
hotel drove through the the
talking the bench from the statue
It's different There's time time again.
the from Hollywood have crossed and recrod the
ing their best enlist public kind of wartime
tviy from selling bonds being aides Public
have become usual motion picture standing before
Nevertheless of them will be Washington
little than week. They'll be here for
member that. Will be seeing them?
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Bp Sheilah Graham.

much trouble she would have, her
courage might have failed her. I
don't think so. The thing that in
trigues Ann most about her daugh-
ter is her nose-"It's like a fiat
button" she says.
You could have thrown me for a
loop when the news circulated that
Gypsy Rose Lee was joining the
ranks. She seemed almost too So
phisticated for such going on. But
her remark-"It Is chic to have q
baby this year." summed up the cur
rent situation. 1t is chic to have a
baby in Hollywood. Every one seems
to have one or Is expecting one. Even
the male star ranks contain too
many fathers to mention them all.
Among the film stars newcomers
are the Hayworth- -Welles' Rebecca,
Martha Raves Melody, the ROE Rus
Evening star., 1945-01-21
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK

/ by IHe ASSOclSLeQ fTeSS.
| NEW YORK.
| Once it was Hollywood which
raided the Metropolitan Opera OF
its major talents. Now 1t Is the
Broadway legitimate theater.
| There are many reasons, most OF
them financial. 1t is no secret that
singers who annually exercise theil
tonsils at the Met do not assemble
the major portion of their income
there. The real cash is earned by
concert appearances, radio and 9TH
er gainful employment outside the
venerable opera house
Just recently, IRA Petina stepped
from the Met to the musical comedy
stage and scored a redoubtable tri-
umph in Song of Norway" as a
comedienne OF superior stature.
Jan Kiepura Outstanding.
Baritone Richard Bonelli toured
the provinces in The Waltz King,
a musical about the life of Johann
Strauss. Jan Kiepura was the lead
! ing attraction of THE Merry
Widow" successful concern with
three-quarter time, rather out OF
place at the Met, but very profitable
on Broadway.
Leon Rothier, venerable basso
has a featured role in "A Bell for
Adano," although, oddly enough
his singing talents are not utilized
in this straight drama. Annamary
Dickey was seen briefly in the ter
rifically expensive turkey, "Rhap-
sody," and has earned-as broad
way characters say. Boo COO moo,
meaning much money = in such
fashionable saloons as the Wal
dorf- f-Astoria's Wedgewood room
Jarmila Novotna was the Helen OF
Helen Goes to Troy" which had a
run of several months last season.
Played in Sadie Thompson"
Lansing Hatfield, Met baritone
was seen briefly this year as the
Missionary Davidson of Sadie
Thompson" musical version OF
Rain"
Other talent of the longhair va
Evening star., 1945-01-21
A Stork s-Eye Survey of the Hollywood Picture

sell son and heir, Juliet Colman,
said to be the prettiest of the lot.
the Loretta Young boy and the Lana
Turner girl. And Alan Ladd, Eddie
Bracken, Dana Andrews, Gene Kelly,
Enrol Flynn, Dennis Morgan, Ed
Gardner, Dick Haynes, Gregory
Peck all are recent fathers. With
Mickey Rooney an expectant one
and Chaplin accused of an extra
one! But why go on. 1t would be
simpler at this point to name the
married Hollywoodites who are
minus an offspring.
Family life always makes for a
more stable community. And I
think this is true now of Hollywood.
And this department promises not to
mention babies again-until it is
absolutely necessary.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Pickford Confesses
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Now that producers are tearing
their hair over the astronomical
prices asked for plays and books
Mary Pickford confesses that she
started it all.
In 1918 she paid $4,000 for Dad
dy Long Legs" her first picture as
"a producer. 1t was an unheard-o of
sum for movie rights at that time
Shortly thereafter she paid $4,000
and 10 per cent of the profits for
"Pollyanna."
Her next production, 'One Touch
of Venus" cost her s150,000 and 10
per cent of the gravy.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"The Merry
Widow" with Marcella Howard,
starting Monday, January 20.
CAPITO-"Between Two
Women" with Van johnson and
Lionel Barrymore, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Naughty Ma
rietta" with Nelson Eddy and
jeanette Macdonald, starting
Saturday.
EARLE-"To Have and Have
Not" with Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall.
KEITH'S-"Cant Help Sing
ing" with Deanna Durbin,
starting Thursday.
LITTLE-"Bill of Divorce
ment" with Katherine Hepburn.
starting Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN - Holy
wood Canteen" with 81 stars,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Meet Me in st.
Louis" with Judy Garland and
Margaret O'Brien.