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| after featuring him on the difiicE,sss of acquiring the wherewithal in these troubled times, ruled that he would have to earn half of the price. That evening, when big Pat [returned from the studio, he found his lawn covered with automobiles and Patrick Sean proudly display ing enough cash to buy two bicycles. He had hit on the idea of using the O'Brien premises as a parking lot for people attending a nearby golf tournament. It cost Pat a couple of hundred dollars to re- place damaged shrubbery
 Chic Johnson (of Olsen and JohnsonD, who's currently lolling in Hollywood, stopped at my table in the Brown Derby the other noon, to show me pictures of his 1200- acre farm near Carmel, New York. Eighteen hundred chickens and 480 cows!" he boasted. asked how he happened to acquire such a place and heard the, following ex- planation. In 1889, at the New York's World Fair, he was one of six celebrities enlisted for milk ing contest. He bought the COW he milked-and, of course, had to buy a farm to go with bossy. From that point on, it just grew" he told me.
 Jimmy Stewart is chuckling about set encounter with the child actor, Larry Sinms T worked with you in one picture, but maybe you don't remember me-" said Larry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-26

Stewart tried hard to remember, failed and finally asked for help. "It was about 10 years ago-and I guess I've changed some," was the answer. Master Simms is now II years old.
 N *s &--sst. .-ss- -'. As long as one Barrymore still lives, there's small danger that the traditions of the theatre will die. Witness an incident on an RKO set the other day, when Ethel Bar rymore reported for work with a heavy cold and a slight tempera- ture. The producer tried to send her home for the day. Miss Barry more drew herself up in her most regal stance. Young man." she snapped, you're talking to an actress. I once struggled through an entire play with temperature of 104!" What happened then?" asked the impressed producer. They sent me to the hospital in an ambulance" answered Miss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-26
THE WATERBURY DEMOCRAT WATER BURY CONN., FRIDAY JULY 26 1946

shopworn wall of the studio bosses that there aren't enough good plots to draw from"
 I don't think there's any story shortage at all. I think there are merely too few producers who are willing to take the trouble to find good material
 MEMORIES THAT BLESS AND BURN: When Garbo,, having asked that her $150-a-week salary be boosted, and having been refused, enforced her demands by walking out in the middle of her second film and declining to return until studio bosses agreed to pay her $3,- 500 a week! =. When Lew Ayres, clad in top hat and tails for his marriage to Ginger Rogers, fortified himself for the very formal cere- mony by stopping en route at a roadside stand and devouring two hamburgerS. . When John Barry more wore phony beard and mus tache for week in order to dodge persistent process server. .. When Lupe Velez, engaged in a deadly feud with Jetta Goudal, hired a taxi driver to park his cab near her enemy's bedroom window and race his motor in the wee, small hours of the morning.
 Pat O'Brien's efforts to teach his 1O-year-old spring-off, Patrick Sean, the value of money, resulted in an amusing contretemps the oth- CT day. Seems young Pat had his heart set on a new bike, and papa,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-26
Famous Sparks Circus Back On Road: Here Saturday

Like the return of a long absent friend, the famous Sparks Circus is back on the road. It's back ir all it's pre-war glory, providing positive evidence that times are becoming normal once more It's heading this way and will be al American Brass Company lot Thomaston Avenue.
 With new equipment throughout and an all-neW performance, the Sparks Circus of 1946 faithfully ad- heres to the long established Sparks policy of presenting only that which is finest in circus entertainment.
 As in the days of old, the pro gram abounds in trained-animal acts of exceptional merit.
 Topping the list is Damoo Dhotre of India, appearing in a giant steel barred arena with a spectacular group of black and spotted leopards fromb Asia and India, black jaguars from Ecuador (the only speciments in the U. s. and pumas from Pa mama.
 An offering of vast popular ap- peal is the London Music Hall Chimps, those clever simian enter tainers that behave remarkably like human beings
 There also will be the indispens-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-26
CHOICE MORSEL It Says Here
By BOB HOPE
SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS

SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS
 The Hollywood Bowl opened it's silver jubilee season with Leopold Stokowski conducting Carmen" The Bowl has certainly come a long way since it's opening in 1922 <. In those days it was just saucer.
 I attended the opening, and it was quite an affair with all the celebrities present. Crosby, of course, wasn't invited it was for long-hairs only. Seriously, though it was an opening Hollywood will long remember =. Stokowski had a haircut.
 To celebrate the jubilee, every one paid for his ticket with silver coins. It was a nice gesture, but I had a heck of a time polishing my slugs.
 It's wonderful to listen to those symphonies under the stars" Of course, it doesn't rain here in California, but it's the first time I ever saw a base-fiddle being played with an oar.
 I was sitting in the very first row . from the rear. But I didn't mind :. every hour a heli- copter supplied my with oxygen. won't say was up high but when I began hearing harps, I wasn't sure if they were coming from beloWsor above. Yessir, the music was out of this world -. and so was l.
 Copyright, l946, King Features
 Syndicate. IncD
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able elephants, distinguished eques- arina features and performing po- nies, dogs, monkeys, mules, even goats.
 The roster of human talent in- cludes all manner of aerial gym nasts, acrobats, tumblers, jugglers, contortionists, equilibrists, tightwire artists and, of course, clowns in abundant array.
 Doors to the menagerie and horse fair open one hour before the main performance starts at 800 and 8 P. M.
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JIMMIE FIDLER M HoHy1Uood
Distributed sy McNauxh, syndicate. l.s

HOLLYWOOD, July 26-One of my neighbors, who has a flair for neatly expressing his thoughts, was discussing picture which he had taken the family to see the previ- ouS evening. "A poor investment" :" he said. There was nothing in it we could take home with us
 Critics are paid big salaries for writing movie reviews that say less than my neighbor expressed in that one sentence. Not only did he sum
Evening star., 1946-04-14

did the military situation improve.
The brave Russian soldiers, fighting
desperately, were sacrificed by scores
of thousands because of government
tai inefficiency. Stain had expected
Germany to win and had laid his
plans on an overthrow of the de-
mocracies at the hands of brother
totalitarians.
Beyond this, Mr.. Kravchenko ex-
presses bewilderment at the maso-
chistic attitude of innumerable
Americans who, as he says, delight
in abusing their own country by
comparison with Russia's supposedly
ideal conditions. Friends of the
Russian people in the United States,
he says, should regard the present
regime as the destroyer of the rev.
olution and betrayer of the peoples
hopes. Our liberals" are really sup
porting tyranny. he says, in one of
the best passages in his book.
I come back to my original point
as to the honesty of man who wore
the other colors for so long. Mr..
Kravchenko's own explanation is
simply that he would have been
killed If he had done anything but
conform. He preferred to live,
even at the cost of depressing his
fellowmen. He just did not happen
to be made of the stuff Of martyrs.
1t is understandable, but it keeps
me from believing his statement
that, while he oppressed, he also
suffered.
I conclude that Mr.. Kravchenko
was brutalized product of brutal
times, but highly intelligent. And
when he got to America he used his
intelligence and saw that, back
home, he had been taken for an
theological ride. I doubt his ideal
ism in his recantation. He has been
an opportunist too long to be much
else now. But, as I said, his facts
are in accord with the facts pre-
sented by long line of predecessors.
They are given fresh Importance by
the inside light which his erstwhile
position casts over them.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
And Another Thinq
BIZ Ho,Dard Sprino. (Harp

By H0Ddrd Spring. (Hdrper,
$2.50.J
Following the pleasant pattern
of the rambling essay, the English
critic and novelist, Howard Spring,
traces here his religious develop
ment from Plymouth Brethren to
Methodism to agnosticism to
churchless Christianity. 1t is excel
lent writing used to describe a
progress which many people of Mr..
Springs generation have followed.
He was of a poor family to whose
grim situation the grim primitive
creed of the Brethren was suited.
He remained in the sect until he
reached the stage of intellectual
curiosity and began to want to read
and visit the theater. Reading, ex-
cept for certain chosen religious
works, was anathema to the Breth-
rem and the theater was even worse.
Mr.. Spring accordingly took his
religious needs to the Methodists.
Becoming older, having acquaint-
ance with life and death, he adopted
an attitude of detachment. Man
could not possibly know his destiny
with certainty, he decided. There
fore religions were guesses. He held
this opinion until the time of the
recent war when, out of renewed
study of religious works and an
awakening conviction within him
self, he attained belief. He has
joined no church because, as he says,
a fixed creed is not necessarily
living faith.
Making the most Of his informal
method. Mr.. Spring spreads his per-
sonal spiritual history over con-
temporary questions and relates
their solution to spiritual regenera-
ton. Like Aldous Huxley, he OBJ
serves that to have a good society
we must first have good men. About
peace, prosperity. tolerance and the
rest, he says, Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God and His righteous
ness, and all these things shall be
added unto you" His book is sig
nificant reading.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Best Sellers
WIDE


F, FICTION.
1st--David the KinK, Gladys gchmitt.
2d--The Kings General, Daphne
Du Maurier.
3d-Arch Of Triumph, Erich Maria
RemAroue.
4th-The Black Rose, Thomas B.
Costain.
bth-Wasteland. 10 Sinclair.
NoNFICTIoN.
l't-rA' .Fa! tss and l. Betty M''D0n-
2d-The AutobioEraphy Of william
Allen white.
3d-starlinE Of the White House.
Edmund Startling.
4th-The Anatomy Of Peace. Emery
Reeves.
6th-Burma Surgeon Returns, Cor
don Seagrave.
IN WASHINGTON
FICTION.
1st-This Side Of Innocence. Taylor
2d-David the King, Gladys schmitt.
3d-The Kings General, Daphne du
Maurier.
4th-Arch Of Triu mph, Erich Maria
Remarque.
5th-The Foxes Of Harrow, Frank
Yerby.
NONFICTION.
1st-The Egg and 1, Betty MacDon-
aid.
2d-StarIing Of the white House, as
told to Thomas Sugrue.
3d--Autobiography Of william Allen
White.
4th-One World or None, edited by
Dexter Master and Rather
inc Way
| 5th-The Case Against the Admira
William Bradford Huie
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Gen. Woinwright's Story Is a Record
One Will Want to Keep in Book Form
GENERAL WAINWRIGHTS STORY

tains the most sensible argument
for future tolerance, one which
should 60 far beyond the pleas of
the sentimentalists and professional
tolerators when they get to work.
The general, summing up, says
that the bestiality of the Japanese
sprang from the inspiration of in
sufficiently worldly" men-the Jap
anese war leaders. I think his
choice of words very fine. They
could be applied to many other
countries which keep up barriers
against foreign influences and in
doctrinate their peoples with sus-
picion of all cultures and nation
alities except their own. For the
policy of frightfulness is the essence
Of tribalism. 1t comes from the
primitive terror of knowing that
other people are different. 1t is the
state of mind of man emerging
from the cave. Gen. Wainwright's
dispassionate apprehension of the
reasoning which was used to make
him suffer is, on the contrary, the
attitude of civilization. It calls for
education where the sentimentalists
will certainly call for sentiment.
One hopes that his wise Judgment
will not be forgotten. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

armed forces for the same reasons.
The book probably should have
been written by Maj. Gen. Hugh j.
Knerr, on whose views 1t Is patiently
based. Mr.. HUE, great admirer OF
Gen. Knerr, says he wrote it because
military regulations prevent any one
in uniform from writing such book.
The book should be read not only
in this light but also with mental
reservation to the effect that 1t Is
admittedly biased in favor of one
weapon for national defense rather
than the ground-sea-a team which,
in view of the outcome of the recent
unpleasantness. will probably have
to be proved obsolete by actual test
rather than military opinion.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Among
the Authors
By CoroIyn Coooins

Total printing of James Ramsey
Ullman's THE White Tower" is now
$4,000. Those two beloved stories
by Mary O'Hara, my Friend Flicka
and "Thunderhead," have sold three
quarters of a million copies each
100000, in other words. Yale
University Press has decided to dc
something about neglected but nev-
ertheless indispensable works OF
famous scientists and philosophers
Plato, Machiaveln and Sir Isaac
Newton are among those whose books
will now be brought out in a series
called Forgotten Masterpieces OF
Science and Philosophy.
OPAL WHEELER
Opal Wheeler, whose Sing Moth
er Goose" has been such a hit with
the musical infant set, has been in
Buenos Aires and elsewhere in Souti,
America for several months. She
will be home in time to hear the
Philharmonic's young peoples con-
certs in New York this spring, for
which she wrote the program notes
IRVING 7. MARSH
"The Best Sports Stories of 1945,'
edited by Irving T. Marsh with Ed
ward Ehre, will be out in May. This
is the second year these stories have
been brought out in a book. Quen-
tin Reynolds, John Chamberlain and
F. P. A. were the judges who selected
the stories.
FRED BECK
Fred Beck, whose new book Is
Second Carrot From the End" felt
a bit frustrated when he got out OF
the Navy and back to his own name
over the column he had done in the
Los Angeles Times every day for the
Farmers Market. He found people
telling him his wife wrote the best
copy. Her name had appeared on
the column during his service days
Now publisher has invited her to
try turning out better book than
her husbands humorous volume and
she is seriously considering it.
MUNRO LEAF
"Flock of Watchbirds," Munro
Leafs latest, was published for q
special reason. The pictures are sup
posed to discipline the children OF
hard-boiled soldiers who try to be as
tough as papa.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Man of Brittany
By SelDyn James. (Simon 6
Schuster; $2.5O.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

The people Of Brittany are very
much race unto themselves. For
centuries all true Bretons have
looked with a certain amount Of
disdain upon all human beings who
did not hail from that sector of
France. German occupation and
ensuing brutality brought many
politically divergent Frenchmen to-
gether, even Bretons.
Louis Travadel watched the first
German trucks rumble along the
road toward his village. The first
few days of the occupation of St.
Pons had little effect on him other
than to fill him with uneasiness and
to set him wondering whether hav-
ing German soldiers in the place
would be any more troublesome than
the French garrison which had
marched away in untidy formation
a few days before. His indecision
was soon to be rudely shaken, by
the arrival Of 1t. Brubach who
promptly declared his intention to
avail himself of his home as a
lodging and his daughter as a mis-
tress. That night 1t. Brubach met
his death at the hands of Louis
Trayadel.
From this point the novel de-
velops into an exciting narrative of
resistance to the enemy and of
underground efforts. 1t is then
that Louis, the Man of Brittany,
shares danger, terror and hate with
men of all political faiths: Com
munists, Socialists and other fervent
Frenchmen. Even children take part
in the struggle.
Man of Brittany" does not quite
reach it's full climax but it has
atmosphere and excitement in it's
pages. The author has done con-
siderable work as foreign cor
respondent on the continent of
Europe for London newspapers and
more recently in the foreign de-
partment of New York City daily.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Collection of Bowen
Short Stories Hold
Escopist Trend
ivy GRIPPED THE STEPS
AND OTHER STORIES

AMI OIdEH SIOhlES
By Elizabeth Bowen. (Knopt;.
$2.50.)
Elizabeth Bowen is one of the
gifted .short-story writer's of our
time. A collection of her work
therefore, deserves the attention of
any one concerned with the muta-
tons of the story form. The COL
lection named above consists alto
gether of stories written during the
recent war. and taken as whole
seems to represent Miss Bowen's
desperation over the tragedy as it
affected her familiar world.
The stories take a markedly es-
capist trend. They are concerned
with the effects of war on non-
combatants and frequently hinge
on supernatural resolutions. The
English people, she seems to say,
were driven beyond endurance dur
ing their long ordeal. They began
to look beyond the material ruin
which they could see. They became
aware Of vistas beyond their nor
mally understandable world.
Escapism is understandable but
a volume Of 1t is somewhat delicate
fare. The tenacious strength of
Miss Bowen's past work. a strength
which was based on a profound
understanding of the contemporary
human scene. is regrettably absent
from this collection. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
GENERAL WAINWRIGHT'S STOR
Edited By Robert Considtne
/DoubTodnn. e2l

Edited By Robert Considtne
doubleday; s3J
Gen. Wainwright's story has al
ready been published in newspaper
serial. The Star carried it. Its
calm report on series of hideous
barbarities is therefore probably
well known to Star readers. I COM
mend it. however, in its book form,
even to those who have read it. 1t
is record which it will be a good
thing to keep. We are going to
hear a lot about exaggerations of
atrocities, about war hysteria breed
ing tall tales and so on. Gen. Vain
wright's account Of the captivity of
American officers in Japan can
never be so described. 1t stands as
unquestionable fact, and 1t also con-
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Brief Reviews
CURRENT EVENTS

If You Ask Me, by Eleanor Roose-
welt. ID. Appleton Century, The
former first lady answers any kind
of question. Read and learn.
HEALTH.
Psychiatry for You, edited by Rob-
ert v. Seliger. (Oakridgeo A little
book on the use of phychiatry in a
number of ailments. Question-and-
answer form.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
The Case Against
The AdmiroIs
By William Bradford HUE.
(E. P. Dutton; $780,
RUDOLPH KAUFMAN II.

~. +. UuLLOn, SE.5OJ
Reviewed by
RUDOLPH KAUFMAN II.
William Bradford Huie, the author,
fronts for Billy" Mitehell's boys
and seeks to prove that it has been
the top brass of the Navy which has
stymied development of independent
air power in the United States all
along-with some help, of course,
from the infantry, artillery and
other branches of the Army.
| The Navy Department took the
rather unusual tactic of disputing
In advance of publication some of
Mr.. Huie's statements. This criti-
cism, however, does not seem to
constitute a refutation of his basic
premise:
That in order to retain a position
of comm|nd prestige and lions
share of national defense appro-
priations the Navy has blocked air
Ipower capable of fighting independ-
entity of ships and ground forces
and now is opposing merger of the
Ad-daleel., 1946-01-16

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things that can happen to the the
eter.
Lamentably enough, it happens
again in Windy HILL" sort of all
Hollywood project, which opened last
night at the National for a weeks
engagement. Kay Francis and Roger
Pryor are the principal players, Patsy
Ruth Miller is the author and Ruth
Chatterton is the producer and di-
rector. 1t is no doubt valiant of
them to have left their lovely lotus
land to come into these tempera-
lures, but they undoubtedly soon will
be safe and snug at home again.
The curtain is hardly up on the
opening scene, gin rummy game in
a living room full of well-dressed
drunks, before one knows virtually
all that is going to happen in Windy
HILL" A couple of dozen of its pre-
decessors, all marked for early doom,
have started approximately the same
way with the same people, all of
whom are going to say the same
things. Their ambition is to be smart
and little wistful, and that they
never make it suggests that some
thing must have happened to the
law OF averages. An occasional laugh
they manage to earn, but the total
merriment is woefully short of the
volume which justifles calling Win
dy Hill" comedy.
The effect of the writing is to leave
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shall instantly fall in love. He is
married and she admits having
learned discretion the hard way, but
this is it and what can they do about
1t? They can set up housekeeping
and that is just what they do with a
high disdain for the good name of
Nyack, not to mention the statutes of
New York against such a thing.
1t is absurd, of course, to 60 on
with the details of the arrangement.
but it should be added that the play
wright has go at gallantry when
she has them shake hands on that
fine old cliche of hayward love: IF
| 1t doesn't work, no scenes, no ques-
tons, no tears and no recrimina-
tions."
X \ X
Two tired war correspondents in
love are not exactly calculated to
carry on at pace to give play
dizzy action. In fact, their conduct
is almost the perfect reverse of that
fundamental. Their whole dis
position is to get a bottle of Ma
poleon brandy (where, indeed?) and
couple of glasses and sit down to
talk the thing over. That is pre-
cisely what Miss Francis and Pryor
do throughout most of the three acts
OF Windy Hill" 1t would be more
excusable If they had anything new
to offer on the subject, but the
brutal fact is that there is abso-
lutely nothing left to be said. Ger
tainly not the way it is said here.
Or in two dozen women's magazines
which say the same thing in at least
one story a month, IL months a
year, etc.
An idea of the wit of the exhibit
Is neatly condensed in spot of dia-
logue between a harassed young
bride of the neighborhood who is
having boredom troubles and the
couple who have not bothered with
marriage.
Il could have a baby" the bewil-
dered girl says trying to figure out
what to do next.
People do" she adds with a kind
OF desperate logic.
Especially women" SAYS the
jaded male war correspondent.
Within the probabilities of that
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| Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National-"Windy Hill: $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"The Harvey Girls: 10 80
am, lis, 4, 6:45 and $50 pm.
Stage shows: 1925, $40, 5:55 and
$40 pm. Birthday ball show: 10
midnight.
Columbia-"They Were Expend-
able: 10:45 am, l:25, 4:05, $50 and
9:35 pm.
Earle-"Kiss and Tell: 1855, 3:O5,
5:15, 7:3o and GAS pm. Birthday
ball show: IL midnight.
Hippodrome-"The Bargekeeper's
Daughter: 2:25, 4. $40, tbs, $50
and 1910 pm.
Keith's-"The Bells of st. Marys":
1915 am. 1885, 2:55, Sis, 7:35 and
Little THE Informer": 11:55
am, 2:20, 4:50, tbs and GAS pm.
Metropolitan San Antonio.
l1:35 am, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 and GAS
nm.
Pix-"Janie": 2, $40 and 800 pm.
Palace-''Leave Her to Heaven:
11:25 am, 2, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:4O pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts.
Continuous from pm.