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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27

because : he was theoretically too
young to fight. That tale was
usually quite funny, and it is par
ticularly so in "Snafu," which came
to the Metropolitan yesterday as a
movie. It is an adaptation, of
course, of the two-season stage hit,
but it does not look shopworn to
the degree you might expect. 1t is
an unlikely story but laughable
one, and with Robert Benchley,
Vera Vague and young Conrad jan
Is giving it their artful best, it
should enjoy a modest popularity.
1t still carries the hallmark of Pro-
ducer George Abbott who is a past
master in exploiting the hilarious
spectacle the young can make of
themselves and their parents.
The situation, which is wrung of
Its last ounce of merriment in "Sna-
fu," revolves about the Stevens
family, which has just rescued its
l5-year-old son from the Army. He
does not appreciate being rescued,
for while the elder Stevens still
think of him as a baby, he comes
back as a sergeant who has killed
Japs. shot dice in foxholes, picked
up a few nuggets of wisdom in
barracks small talk, and developed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27

ert Benchley, Vera Vague and Conrad
Janis, produced and directed by Jack
MOSS; screenplay by Louis Solomon and
play Of the same authors. At the Metro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
NEW YORK.


Champ Max Baer will turn
comedian in Broadway night club.
Tiny Bradshaw's Band will be
first to tour Japan. Sol Hurok,
the ballet impresario. says Nijinsky
will be ready to tour the United
States as soon as the State Depart
ment okays visa. Sol says
Nijinsky's mental ailment, which
forced the great Russian dancer to
retire Is years ago, has been re-
lieved. . He now is SIS.
New York visitors: 1t. Gene
Kelly, Herbert Marshall, Charles
Butterworth. Sonia Henie, Victor
Borge, Robert Benchley, Greer Gar
son and husband, 1t. Richard Ney;
Jimmie Durante, Hal Roach, Joan
Crawford, Mango, Peggy Ryan,
Charles Buddy" Rogers, Jack
Oakie; Sinatra is due any day to
appear at the Waldorf's Wedgewood
Room.
First CT theater in Yokohama was
opened by Maj. Lanny Ross, peace
time star OF radio, stage, screen.
Song of Norway" will have a Lon
don company as soon as it completes
a shakedown tour beginning No
vember 20 in Bristol, England.
Jazz concerts, no longer novelties
now are held every week at Carnegie
and Town Halls. After taking
look at the Boston reviews, George
Abbott called off his production of
Mr.. Cooper's Left Hand" at least
for a while. 1t may try again
after Author Clifford Goldsmith,
who also writes Henry Aldrich,'
finishes revisions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
THE CAST.

military mans aversion to ci-
villains and their ways. A domestic
misunderstanding of that sort, with
a few asides of mistaken identity
tossed in for good measure, can be
played for a lot of laughs. Trust
Abbott and Columbia pictures to
have done that.
1t sharpens the sense of his recent
loss that so many of the laughs in
the farce at the Metropolitan re-
volve around Benchley. As the
male parent, who does not welcome
the job of rehabilitating son who
should not have gone to the war in
the first place, he is at his off hand,
comic best. He knows when to be
deft and when to be broadly lu-
dfcrous, and his manner seems hap
PLY to infect the other members
of the cast. His being around
come to think of it, is what makes
"Snafu" seem better on the screen
than it was on the stage. At GER
tain moments at least.
1t was one of the flaws of "Snafu"
in its original form that its compli-
cations piled up a little too slowly
and too high Members of the
audience sometimes felt an occa-
sional flash of boredom, or unwill-
ingnesS to go along with the authors
in their dizzy introduction of more
confusing story angles. Sad to re-
late, the screenplay sticks so faith
fully to the first text that 1t has the
same defects.
Luckily, however, in addition to
Benchley, there's young Janis to play
the returned hero. He is quite an
acting find as acting finds go. He is
a lad of such normality that he can
make you see that all he needs is for
the silly relatives and friends to
whom he returns to let him alone.
That is what he spends all his time
trying to tell them, but no one ever
allows him to finish sentence; not
that particular sentence at any rate
\ X 4 X
There are several good passages in
"Snafu" which show that a fresh
facade can be given to some fairly
ancient situation comedy If every
one gets his heart into it.
One of these is the opening Sc
quence in which the fathers effort
to see that the boys homecoming Is
simple and undramatic is so thor
oughly frustrated that it is virtually
a mass meeting which greets him.
Others which come off we'll include
moment of furore in girls school
when soldier goes counting, the
sudden appearance of an Australian
girl WHO is going to have a baby and
arouses the parents worst fears, the
purchase of an automobile with crap
game winnings which can only leave
the older Stevenses thinking their
son is an embezzler.
In setting up the complications Of
"Snafu.' Producer Abbott has clearly
impressed upon his cinema associates
his theory that what any production
needs is speed The only times re-
taxation steals into the farce are
those when James Wilson as the
varsity aunt of the girl next door
seizes occasions to voice her sus-
picions of what is really going on in
the younger generation.
The showdown is justified by the
fact that what Miss Wilson has to
say is one of "Snafu's" more anus
ing features.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
I82d Airborne Porudes
In New York Jan. II

The New York parade of the 82d
Airborne Division, first unit parade
of a combat Army outfit in the
United States since the war, will be
on January IL, the War Department
has announced. The 82d Division,
with a heroic record of combat,
including fighting in Africa, Sicily,
Italy, France, Holland and Germany,
will be led down Fifth Avenue at
100 pm. on that date by Maj. Gen.
James M. Gavin of Washington,
division commander.
Many War Department officials
are expected to go to New York
for the parade. The 82d policed
Berlin during the early days of
Allied occupation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
Stage.

Stage.
National-"The Joyous Season"
$50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol "Yolanda and the
Thief: 10:45 am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:2(
and 1905 pm. Stage shows: 1855
3:45, $50 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Captain Kidd: liza:
am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and "a;
pm.
Earle-"San Antonio: 10:45 am.
1, $40, $40, 7;35 and GAS pm.
Hippodr The Human
Beast: 2:20, $40 and 8:25 pm.
keith's-"Bells of st. Mary's"
845, II m, lilo, 3:25, 5:35, 1850 anc
1905 pm.
Little "Bewitched":: II am.
1:5o, 4:4o, TAO and 1875 pm.
Metropolitan-"Snafu"::1 II 40, l 40
$40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Palace-"Fallen Angel: IL, 2:25
4:50, ITO and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"Gangs of the Water Front:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
The Broadway Newsletter

Largest night club on Broadway
Mike Larsen's Iceland Restaurant
open again after complete refurbish-
ing. It's just 10 years since the
Palace Theater abandoned big time
vaudeville. 1t quit two-a day
shows in 1882 and ended vaude-
film policy in 1885. Old time
vaudevillians still hang out in front
of the Palace nevertheless.
Concert Pianist Vladimir Horowitz
has bought Playwright George S
Kaufman's new home. Jackie
Gleason, big hit in Follow the
Girls" when it opened on Broad
way, has been signed for DR.. Frank
Blacks musical, THE Lady Misbe-
HAYES"
Lee Dixon will have a comic lead
in the revival of The Red Mill,
instead of Filmstar Michael O'Shea
who has Hollywood commitments he
can't escape. Dixon was "Will'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
n the ORIGINAL "okiahor,a :" com.

In the original "okiahonaa com.
pany. i. David Niven will return tic
Hollywood from England to take up
his war-interrupted film career as
soon as his baby is born. Mady
Christians, star of Il Remember
Mama" has written her autobiogra-
ply.
Mike Todd has bought the In
ternational Theater, one of Broad
ways largest. Comic Zero Mos
tel, who is a painter in his nom
funny moods, has branched out into
different medium by writing
book of short stories entitled, Don't
Tell Harry" Betty Field will
have the lead in Dream Girl" writ
ten by Elmer Rice, who also is her
husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Senior Girls Reserves
To Pick Snow Queen

Senior High School Girl Reserves
will elect a Snow Queen to reign
at the annual Christmas dance
tonight in Barker Hall, YWCA
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
Each of the II Girl Reserves Clubs
in the Washington area has chosen
a contestant. Among them are Pat
Abendschein, Washington and Lee;
June Milholland, Mount Rainier;
Suzanne Haar, Eastern; Edith
Harper. Mckinley Tech; Freddy
Gill, Western; Janet Maiersperyer,
Hyattsville, and Frances Sperdel,
Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
'Snafu' Still Engaging Farce
In Its Movie Form at Met
BY JAY CARMODY.

There thing about the whatever happened always
seemed right under the
waiting there record its comedy
smallest thing we'll the largest itself written
other.
There for instance, the
sneaked into the service became hero then
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
Core Center To Terminate Long Hill Unit
 Closing S0turdoy
 Sept. |

The Long Hill Child Care Center will close here Sept. 1, Miss Marion Hunt. chairman of the Waterbury centers, revealed last night, at the same time expressing the hope that the Kingsbury Center will remain open at least Until January.
 Despite the end of the war, at least one nursery is needed in Waterbury to care for children of working mothers, she declared. Of 52 children enrolled at the Kings bury Center, 13 of them have fathers in service, while others are children of widowers, widows, or mothers who must work.
 The Long Hill Center was opened in July, 1944, primarily to accom- modate out-of-town persons living in the Warner Gardens Federal Housing Project. Many of these persons were among the first to be laid off when war contracts were cancelled, Miss Hunt com- mented, hence the center has out grown it's usefulness.
 The Kingsbury nursery has ca- tered to children from all over the city.
 It is possible that the Kingsbury project might be continued even after the first of the year, Miss Hunt explained, since President Truman yesterday announced the administration will seek congress sional authority to maintain child care centers necessary to accom- modate working wives of service men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
Police BIotter

= Pleading guilty to . charge of operating . gambling game, Oscar LavaIley of this city was fined S25 i'm New Milford town court when he was brought to trial be- for Judge Robert L. Sullivan.
 DOmenic BaItromitis, B, 352 Savings street was turned over to Watertown police yesterday after being charged with breach of the peace. He was arrested by Patrol man william Lixak and OfE1cer Louis Jordan of the WatertOwn police.
 A ring valued at S and S cents en pennies were stolen fin break yesterday at the home 0f Mrs. Howard Curtis, 90 Thomas street, at the Porter Housing Project.
 Detectives James Stack and Paul MOynlhan reported that the thief smashed . rear window in the house in order to gain en- trance.
 Charged with possessing . dam gerOus weapon. Henry Carraghers a, 97 W0odbine street, OakviIIe. was held without bail pending ac- tion by the New York county grand jury when arraigned Mon- day in felony court before Mragis- trate Morris !. Rothenberg. I've others accused, Robert B. Fischer, 17, Gloucester, Mass, and John SlnoIen, 21. Pertha Amboy, N. T., were slse bound over to the grand jury, the latter on 95.000 hail and Fischer on $1,oo0.
 The men were arrested by De- tectiye Henry FitxsImm0ns oe the 18th Squad when the olfieer dis. covered the three in Central Park New York, ln possession 0f Q gun which they admitted had been ssed by Them in . robbery.
 William hxaFoinno. go2 Wilson street, received q fime oe @ when he was brought te trial Monday before IrlaI Justice Harry RIl- beuFH ln Justice eeuFE. Llsehnela, en c elas&e ef violation of ths Suiss ef the Fead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

United States Employment Serv- ice. He always has plenty of calls for dishwashers, ditch diggers and carpenters.
 Most of the ones who are going home broke said they spent all their money in California.
 Everything costs too danged much out there," declared A. B. Todd, ex-iron worker at the Cali fornda Navy base. I'm going home to Colorado where man can pay for food and clothes and rent and still have little left over."
 Make Big Money
 Others, making big money for the first time in their lives, had themselves a good time. Morris Knudsen, who worked in a Petaluma war plant. said he was going home almost without cent.
 T bought me new car and spent the rest for flIn," he said. That's how I am. If I have a few dollars I'll have fun on that If have 8 few hundred I'll still blow 1t all on 8 good time."
 Knudsen was headed back for Arkansas.
 Don't know what kind of work I'll do," he admitted, ''but I'll find something"
 Now and then party of hitch hikers struggled across the border. Mary Ellen Higgins, 20, and George Berry, 21, said they just had enough money left from their war jobs to eat.
 Sam Meyers, who worked in Bell, Calif., was taking his wife and kids back to Kansas.
 "You can't save any money out there when you got kids to feed" he said.
 Want to Go Home
 Some of them felt the quicker they go out of California the better. H. L. Coon said he lost no time packing his family into his truck
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
Puppet Leader Offers to Quit

San Francisco, Aug. 29-(UP) = The puppet emperor of Viet Nam, one of the states carved out by the Japanese from French Indo- China, has offered to abe.cate and has asked "full-fledged Commun- ist" to form a new government, Radio Tokyo said today.
 Tokyo in broadcasts recorded by United Press at San Francisco and datelined Hanoi said that Emperor Bai Dai had completed all prepar- ations'' for abdication and had ask ed leaders of the Viet Nam Inde- pendence League to call at Hue "as soon as possible so that he can transfer the reins of government"
 Meanwhile, Tokyo said, it was reliably learned" in Hanoi that Yuan Aikuo, "a full-fiedged Com munist who was believed dead long time ago." was the leader of the Independence League, described by Tokyo as the country's "revolu- tionary party"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
Bradley Worms COP
 On Future

Waterford, Conn, Aug. 2e-(UP) -. Kenneth Bradley. Republican national committeeman and former state chairman, sounded a warning to the party today that it had "only year in which to rebuild and rehabilitate" for the state cam paign of 1046.
 Party Out-FOxed
 Bradley declared that the party was ''out-maneuvered and bolcked at every turn" during the recent General Assembly session, and that now is the time to prepare a plan so that we may never go through enother session in which the organization was so weak and so confused"
 Next year, he said, mot only the state, but also the congressional elections are at stake. Republicans must realize that these elections next year will be the highest irn- portance. Tn the last analysis, Con- gress runs this country, and only a Republican Congress will stop America from plunging deeper and into debt."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
Grapes or Wrath . Folk Return Home

Editors Note: This is the last of a series on the new migration of one-time farmers driven west by the depression of the '30's and into fac- torres by the war, who are now re- turning home.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

when his job in Richmond folded up.
 I'm going back to Oklahoma" he said, "and the farther behind me I put California the better I'll like it. It ain't like home, sister, it ain't like home"
 w. N. Royston, who'd been build ing planes at Douglas in Long Beach for three years, said he was going back to Louisiana and stay there.
 "The people in California ain't friendly" he said. T miss that southern hospitality" @e About six per cent of the workers heading east said they might come back some day. I. A. Coyle, of Okla homa, was one of them.
 "You betcha," he beamed. 'T'm going home for a visit, but I'll be back and I'm gonna bring the rest of the family with me-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
3,539 Troops Lond in Boston

Boston, Aug. 29-(UP)-A total of 3,539 troops from the European war theater landed here today aboard three transports.
 The Frederick Lykes carried 2,783 veterans while ali 39 passengers of the Jean Lykes were casuals. The third ship, the Muhlberg with TIT aboard, originally was to have dock ed last night.
 Veterans on the Frederick Lykes included members of an Infantry Reorganization Detachment, the 254th General Hospital, the 393rd Engineer Special Service Regiment,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

The shorter coat gets the longer look this year. This abbreviated length is definitely big news for Fall and Winter, and is sweeping the country. Wonderful wool shag shortie with free swinging bell back, deep armseye, deep cuffed sleeves, and novelty button closing. Colors of white and canary yellow. Sizes 10 to 1S.
 SECOND FLOOR
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

graphed message to her mother from this city.
 Text of the message was not dis closed by Mrs. Blache L. Platt, the girls mother. The girl disappeared from her home Aug. 20 and re- portedly carried between $500 and S400 in cash Her mother believed she might be seeking job in a night club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
BY VIRGINIA MACPHERSON

tOSSo " LIlc WAT, WIlO are uOW 1Ss turning home.)
 BY VIRGINIA MACPHERSON
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Kingman, Ariz, Aug. 29-(UP)-- Not all the migrant workers who earned big money in west coast war plants are going home rich. Some are limping back in the same rat tletrap trucks and flivvers they came in.
 Some are almost as broke as when they came to California a few years ago. Now, with their war jobs gone, they're heading back to the one tme dust bowl, to the east coast, and south to look for any kind of a job that will feed their families.
 Same Condition
 They are in the small minority. Out of the $50 cars that cross the border daily an average of % are full fo those who are down on their luck.
 When they came west few years ago over this same grapes of wrath highway, scarcely any had even the price of their gasoline. This time they've got enough to fill their tanks but not much more.
 Every now and then a big truck, loaded down with several families and all their household belongings, will drive up behind shiny new car of a workers who made good in California.
 The poor workers aren't bitter about the fact that some of the others hit pay dirt and saved enough to buy new farms in the md west. They just wonder how they did it, that's all.
 Just A Stake!
 With the ones who are broke it's 8 struggle to get home. But they've discovered that the people of King man can be persuaded to help out with cash and temporary jobs.
 Mrs. E. L. Henderson, head of the Kingman Red Cross, gets most of the hungry ones. All they want from her is enough money to get meal and buy some gas and oil.
 When they get to the next town they'll do the same thing" she said. And they'll keep it up until they get home. We know they're working racket. But every family we help is an emergency case"
 Once in while, she added, she gets 8 money order in the mail from people she has helped. But usually they accept the handout without any intention of ever pay ing it back.
 If the men in the family are willing to work Mrs Henderson sends them down the street to Henry Caron, manager of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

With only six states having aIn men as governors and only ono military officer seeking to bs rrl& dent of the country, it is predIs in Mexico that military rule Of Msz loo is near its end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
Missing Girl Contacts Mother

Boston, Aug. 29-(UP)-The nine day search for Miss Barbara L. Platt, 16, of (911 Quincy St., N. W.
 Washington centered here today after police reported she had tele-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-29
EARLY BTIouRTTF

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