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Evening star., 1946-12-11
Post Office Extends Hours

The Kensington (Md.) Post Office
will stay open evenings until
9 o'clock beginning today, in order
to meet Christmas mailing demands.
It will also be open Sundays from
8 am. to Q pm.
Evening star., 1946-12-11

among spectacular achievements
credited to Mr., Wilson. He has
been responsible for protection of
Roosevelt and Truman
and took part in safeguarding all
other Chief Executives since Pres
ident Wilson.
Counterfeit gangs that mulcted
the American public of more than a
Evening star., 1946-12-11

the late Eme
Marie Ross. Mr..
Ednonds W i'll
handle relations
between civt c
groups and the
department.
Mr.. Ednonds
comes to tn e
District govern
ment from the
" ct e,rans' AA1i-
mini Mon
where he wns =
. D U n seifo9.
Before that, he
Was q captain IN
kA W. ~ -
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Edmonds Named Huff Aide
In Welfare Department

Leonard s. Edmonds yesterday was
appointed administrative assistant
to Ray L. HUFF, director Of the Pub
lie Welfare Department, succeeding
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Fronk J. Wilson Retires at so;
Secret Service Chief Since 80

Frank ]. Wilson will retire as chief
Of the secret service on December 81
and will be succeeded by james J..
Maloney,. assistant chief Of the
Evening star., 1946-12-11

thorities and Commissioner Tlr-l
mage, Hamil intimated IN HAs ~
EtIl bat driving after q 11ve-day Ell
to Warrington from the
Coast which he said he made
without sleep.
Commissioner TurnAge ordered .
mental checkup for Hamil while heI
awaits grand jury action.
Evening star., 1946-12-11
POS Office R0hbe
A|apt Bunqled;;
Nan Held 900

An outsized bandit, 8 feet inches
tall and Weighing l85 pounds, was
captured by armed postal clerks
yesterday in City Post Once in =
Evening star., 1946-12-11

agency, @Cre-
tary OF the
Treasury Snyder
announced to-
day.
/ A Tre a Sury
law enforcement
officer for 26
years, Mr.. VIII
son, who Is go,
has headed the
S ecret Service
since 1886.
Gin c hing Of
the ov ern-
ment's tax eva
sion case against
Al Copoy,o iS
Evening star., 1946-12-11

S1 'sss n . lIaeads. he ChapIAf1
q Army where he serve1
Tor tour SeaxA he was also 3 fcrA
mer chaplain 1T 1orton Refcrmatory.
He was at one time connected with
the Council for Clinical Training,
an organization for the training Of
theology students, and the Volunteer
Prisoner Sponsorship Service, under
the washington Federation Of
Churches
Evening star., 1946-12-11

pungie0 nooup
attempt.
The prisoner,
Hugh F. Hanil,
40, Of B q in
bridge. Ga, now
in District Jail
In d e ia ult of
5000 bond, NE
portedly stepped
up to a postal
savings window
at the post ONCE
shortly after !
pm. yesterday.
Harold E. Erwin,
IS, of 833 South
Evening star., 1946-03-24
He Who Gets Slapped Slapped Again
By Jock O'Brion

away together, becomes a clown.
Thereafter he takes on a success
fully slapstick guise of funny man
whose long suit is to be slapped 100
times performance. This is SYM
bolic of something, turn-the-other-
cheek plus a smattering of patience
of-Job as a penitent for sins which
aren't exactly clear, since his sug-
gested moral background before his
appearance on stage is supposedly
impeccable.
Adding to the Illustration, he falls
in love with a young bareback rider
who also is loved by half the cast on
the stage, including young eques-
trian, whose love is returned, and an
aged baron, whose marriage offer is
to be accepted by the girls grasping
foster parent. When the marriage
to the aging nobleman seems i'm
minent, the clown poisons himself
and the girl and the baron shoots
himself.
This muddled little synopsis is not
half so scrambled as the entire plot
The allegories are more than little
obscure and the motivations for q
good portion Of the detail are fuzzy
sometimes completely opaque. It's
greatest attractions are Tyrone
Guthrie's direction, which certainly
makes more of its possibilities than
reasonably could be expected, and
the acting, which is handled admir-
ably by an excellent cast.
The Years Discovery.
Dennis King puts more into the
role of the clown than was evident
when I read the play a week ago
Stella Adler is an effective animal
tanner, whose particular Illustration
is her inability to make her most
ferocious lion love her. John Alb
bott is splendid as the repulsive fos-
ter parent and little sprite named
Susan Douglas is the years discovery
as the girl. She is fragile, beautiful
Evening star., 1946-03-24
Moneys No Object
To This Producer
By the Associofed Pres,
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
Stephen Ames is one producer ir
Hollywood who is not in pictures
because of the money he makes
Actually Ames made a much larger
income from the stock exchange.
Now in his middle years, Ames is
following the career he had wanted
as a young man at the end of World
War I. An honor student at Prince
ton, he left college to become one
of two men chosen from the field by
George Creel for his Committee OF
Public Information. Following the
war Ames planned to return tc
Princeton for further work in writ
ing, but at the request of his father
took his seat on the stock exchange
Yet Ames never forgot his early
ambition.
Ames' first production, "The
Spanish Main," is rolling up neat
box office figures. His second, "Sin-
bad," with Doug Fairbanks, is now
before the color cameras. Working
on research and the story, Ames
is in his element. He intends to
film only color pictures.
BLACK and white films are like
the vision of a half-sighted man:
The full-sighted man sees in color u
says Ames. Film used now Is SEN
sitive enough to take any color.
Color creates and emphasizes more;
actually it is the co-star in every
picture and must be dealt with ac-
cordingly."
Ames, stockholder in one widely
used color process, welcomes rumors
that other color processes are soon
to be launched. Il prophesy," he
says. that as soon as color work is
available all pictures will be made
in color and black and white pic
lures will be as obsolete as silentS.
Ames' code for making pictures
is to include romance, adventure
and mystery in the scope of the
story. The plot itself he says should
be realism with the fantasy in the
BACKGROUND.
Evening star., 1946-03-24

NEW YORK.
Russian relations with the theater
this week needed a little liaison
work, particularly some which
harked back to before the first
World War when the author of this
weeks most notable disappointment,
"He Who Gets Slapped" was writ
Ing his morbid dramatic essays.
Our little sad gentleman of the
moment, Leonid Nikolaevich An
dreyev, has been dead since 1919,
but while he was alive he wrote some
unpleasant plays, filled with frus-
tration, death and probably taxes.
Andreyev's "He Who Gets Slap
ped" is listed as having been pro-
duced first in 1916, and probably was
written just little before that time.
He is generally credited with crack
ing up in a creative literary manner
just before the earlier World War,
and perhaps that is why this
tragedy, in an adaptation by Judith
Guthrie and produced by the Thea
ter Guild, comes of a little less
than successfully.
Morbidity is nothing to avoid in
the theater. 1t makes great drama:
Hamlet" for instance, is tragic
affair which is generally credited
with being the finest play written in
the English language. In modern
days tragedy and Illustration have
served playwrights in splendid fash
ion. Maxwell Anderson's Winter
set" certainly deserved its great ac-
claim and wide success. Currently,
another bit of dramaturgical frus-
tration, THE Glass Menagerie," is
in its second moody year and won
the Critics Circle prize last season.
Therefore the exceptions hereby
taken to "He Who Gets Slapped"
are not to any dearth of gayety and
fluff, but to its lack of effectual lit
erary content.
There Is Love, Too.
Andreyev, who combined a little,
or perhaps lot, of the mood of Poe
and Strindberg in his dramas Of
thwarted theme, set HE Who Gets
Slapped" into colorful background,
the backstage of q circus in French
city, circa, 1912. The story is about
a gentleman Of high degree who,
after his wife and best friend run
Evening star., 1946-03-24
Paul Henreid
Suspension
|Ended Fast
By SheiIoh Groham
HOLLYWOOD.


Paul Henred is good. When he
refused to play the lead in "The
Beast With Five Fingers" Warner
Brothers had to replace him with
two other actors! And in addition
to splitting his part in two and
giving the roles to Robert Aida
and Peter LORE, the brothers, fear
full of losing the rebellious actor
quickly took him off suspension and
gave him a whacking big, new con-
tract to make two pictures a year
for five more years. And you have
to be good-at the box offlce-for
Warmers to capitulate like that. 1t
took them six months to come
around for Bette Davis and 1s
months to forgive Ann Sheridan
And they'll never forgive Olivia de
Havilland. With Paul, the recon-
ciliation happened after only a few
weeks on suspension.
MY next picture for Warmers,
says Paul during lunch at Roman
offs, lis with Bette Davis. I'm
cast as a genius" He plays a
cello and Bette plays the piano
The movie is called Deception. u
Paul portrays a good man and
marries Bette.
Couldn't Get Film Job.
Unlike most leading men In
Hollywood, Henreid does not want
to slap women around or be vii
lain. The nearest he came to ii
was in Spanish Main," where he
manhandled Maureen O'Hara.
II was a heavy in the picture
that was responsible for my COM
Evening star., 1946-03-24
For Authenticity
By the Assoeiofkd Press
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLIYWOOD.
When San Franciscans go to see
Ann Sheridan's new picture "The
Sentence" they will be able to make
no complaint about the background
shots. Director Vincent Sherman,
anxious to get away from the
stereotyped studio sets and familiar
extras, laid careful plans for shoot
ing his scenes in the exact locales.
A skeleton crew would precede the
company proper to select the exact
location. Having determined their
spot they would return to the hotel
headquarters and signal a truck
with a hidden camera to follow to
a designated parking spot. The car
containing Ann Sheridan and Kent
Smith would follow. Assistant di-
rectors standing in doorways sig
nailed the cameras to start rolling
as Ann and Kent came within
camera range mingling with the
crowd.
Evening star., 1946-03-24
Dream Girl
And Other
affairs
by The Associoied Press
NEW YORK.

Elmer Rice's Dream Girl" de-
spite sporadic absences Of its star
and wife of the author, Betty Field
has been tripping along delightful
ly and solvently and last week
passed its Tooth performance. AT
the rate it is going, it will be Elmer's
biggest money maker.
Mr.. Rice, who in the past has
been at harsh terms with the critics
over their reception to various of his
plays, has been singularly and un.
derstandably amiable toward the
aisle -sitters in the face of their ap-
proval Of his latest effort. Mrs
Rice, or Miss Field, as you choose
has been frequent victim of cold
germs and has been unable to ap-
pear at all performances, which is
unfortunate for the young and tall
ented actress, but a benson fol
Haila Stoddard, who is her under
study.
His Tenth Hit.
Haila has done excellently, ac-
cording to those who've caught her
appearances, which the manage
ment hasn't announced in advance,
taking the possibly stuffy attitude
that the announcement of Miss
Fields absence might be deterrent
at the box Office.
Dream Girl" is Rice's 10th pro-
duction to pass the Tooth perform
ante mark. His Street Scene"
played COL times, Counselor at
Law" 4l3 times in the original 1881
production and "On Trial. racked
365 performances. His others, all of
which made it past the Tooth, or
hit-class mark, are: "The Left
Bank" 242: Flight to the West"
1856; 1T Is the Law" 100; wake Up,
Jonathan" 104; Cock Robin" with
Philip Barry, an even 100. The
10th production was John Golden's
revival of "Counselor-at-Law," 26O
performances.
While on this statistical binge i.
THE Voice of the Turtle" has
passed its 800th performance.
Maurice Evans version of Hamlet"
has passed John Barrymore's record
OF 10l performances as the melan-
choly Dane. Evans production
will play here until April 6, when it
will take to the road.
Capacity Every Week.
And still at figures Arsenic
and Old Lace" which ended a 40
month run in London March 2, will
resume in the British capital this
week. -. The Lindsay Grouse gold
mine, "State of the Union" crossed
a handsome $26, ,661 in Boston, which
is capacity. 1t brings in capac-
ity every week here at the Hudson,
where the gross doesn't vary more
than few cents from $24,5O0.
''The Red Mill" bounced past its
175th performance this week. :.
Harvey" in its West Coast version,
starring Joe E. Brown, busted a lot
OF records in its San Francisco en-
gagement, Producer Brock Pember-
ton advises. The longest run of any
straight play in the history of the
Geary Theater in San Francisco.
Also bigger gross than any nom
musical to play the house. "Har-
vey" therefore passed the records of
Helen Hayes Harriet and Paul
Robeson's "Othello." The COM
pany now has its bead on the rec
ord of the Biltmore Theater in Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1946-03-24

ing to Hollywood, explains the for
mer Baron Won Hernried, born i'll
Trieste, but now an American citi-
zen. Il was a Nazi Gestapo man in
Night Train A British picture,
directed by Carol Reed, it was shown
in the United States at a time
when every studio in Hollywood had
resisted Paul's fight to become a
movie actor. They wouldn't hire
me-not even for $75 a week" At
the time, Henreid was appearing
in his first American play, Flight
to the West" and as with every
thing he does, he was trying to
prepare his second line of defense
"a job in the movies in case the
play was a flop. 1t wasn't-but it
remained for the picture to prove
to Hollywood that Paul was star
timber.
"They all wanted me to play a
heavy" said the blond, blue-eyed
actor, land were willing to pay me
then up to $1,000 a week. But you
make more money in the long run
as the hero-you last longer" He
held out for the lead in RKO's Joan
of Paris" in which two other stars
also were born-Alan Ladd and
Michele Morgan. Henreid still owes
RKO three more pictures on his
one picture -a-year deal for seven
years. In Flight to the West" by
Elmer Rice, his leading lady was
Betty Field, and 1t was during the
run of the play that the now Mrs.
Rice Iell in love with Mr.. Rice.
On the Nervous Side.
Talking about love, Henreid has
been married to his Viennese Eliza
beth-"Lisl" for short-for IA years.
They have two children-Monica, 3
years old, and baby Mimi Maria.
They live in good film-star style in
Brentwood, with a swimming pool
and tennis court. Paul rather fan
cies his tennis game He used to
ride lot, too, but gave it up six
months ago when he strained his
back.
Henreid is on the nervous side,
but says he is much better than he
used to be. II used to worry terribly
about my pictures" he tells me, "but
it all ends up on Forty second street
two features for Is cents" He was
so scared when he went from Vienna
for his first play in London, "Cafe
Chanteuse'!- didn't speak a word
Of English and learned his role par
rotlike-that, when I opened my
mouth to speak at the first rehear-
sal, no words came out! But that
isn't why he prefers living in the
United States to England. It's a
question Of climate and food. And"
says Paul, "the Americans are more
Evening star., 1946-03-24
The Frustrated Athletes
Many Cinema Stars Would Rather Earn
Their Livings in Sports Arenas
BY Harold Heffernon

turf. Such stars as Crosby, Ameche,
Fred Astaire, Lou Costello and
George Brent are among horse own
ers. Most frequently seen In the
winners circle is MGM's Louis B.
Mayer, whose horses piled up huge
earnings during the recent Santa
Anita meet.
They Even Go Swimming.
There's hardly sport that hasn't
its devotees among the he-men of
the celluloid business. Hunting is
a favorite pastime, with Clark
Gable, Fred MacMurray, Wallacs
Beery and Gary Cooper among the
most active nimrods. Yachtsmen
include Dick Powell, Humphrey
Bogart, Flynn and others. Tennis
courts are almost as common as
two-car garages, with both male
stars and such feminine players as
Jinx Falkenberg and Ginger Rogers
standing out.
In Mack Sennett's day swim suits
were worn but never wet, but local
Australian -crawls have improved,
especially since the screen captured
Esther Williams, Johnny Weiss
muller, Buster Crabbe and other
natatorial champions.
The stars are frequently seen on
the bowling alleys, too, Harold Lloyd
being generally regarded as the
towns best. Lloyd is also a golf fol-
lower. his estate including a sporty
9-hole course. He also can top any
actor, with the exception of w. G,
Fields, over a billiard table,
A Wartime Casualty. ID
Boris Karloff once organized a 100
team cricket league among British
actors and the game still fourishes
locally, although on lesser scale. C.
Aubrey Smith, now we'll past 30, is
sharpshooter at bowling the
green, and on many chill night can
be seen in rollicking action over
Beverly Hills greensward.
Polo was wartime casualty, but
prior to hostilities one could find
Spencer Tracy, Big Boy williams,
Frank Borzage, Daryl Zanuck and
others astride polo ponies. and it is
expected that the game will soon be
revived among the stars.
Meanwhile, movie personalities
are consistently among the specta-
tors at sports events both locally and
nationally. They are regular ring
siders Friday nights at the Holly
wood Legion boxing stadium and
several stars have owned fighters. Al
Jolson once held purse strings on
Henry Armstrong, worlds cham
pion in several divisions. Frank ST.
natra now manages what he pre-
sumes to be promising pug.
A sports-minded town, this Holly
wood, cluttered with handsome boys
who want to 90 things in a big,
rugged way. But what it wants above
all-and take note Happy Chandler
is a pair of major league baseball
franchises. One from st. Louis, says
George Raft, and one from Phila-
delphia, says Dennis Morgan.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1946-03-24

and graceful and has more authority
than any youngster to arrive on
Broadway since Barbara Bel Geddes
won deserved acclaim in Deep Are
the Roots"
Earlier in the week a dreary af-
fair called "Flamingo Road" opened
at the Belasco Theater, which seems
to be getting in a lengthy rut of un-
fortunate productions. 1t was pro-
duced by Rowland Stebbins, was
written by Robert and Sally Wilder
from Mr.. Wilder's novel and featured
Francis j. FELTON,, who used to be a
band leader and radio quizmaster
under the name Of Happy" FELTON,
He seemed very unhappy in the very
unhappy drama, which already has
closed after unanimous demolishing
reviews.
Evening star., 1946-03-24
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL-"The Sailor Takes
a Wife," l:50, 4:35, 7::20 and
1905 pm. Stage shows, /,
3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA - "The Daltons
Ride Again." /, 2:45, 4:3O,
6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
EARLE-"Saratoga Trunk"
1855, 3:45, $40 and 9:30 pm.
HIPPODROME-'Man of AZ
fairs" ,2:30, AIS, 6:l0, sos
and 10 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is For
ever" /, $50, $40, 7:25 and
GAS pm.
LITTLE-"The Last Chance"
100, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:45
pm.
METRoPoLITAN-"The stork
Club" lis, 3:25, 5:35, 7:35
and GAS pm.
PALACE - Adventure" 1880,
4:10, $50 and $50 pm.
PIX-'Double Indemnity" ITO,
4:10, 7:10 and 1910 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1946-03-24
Coming Attractions


NATIONAL-"West of the
Moon" with Donald Cook;
starting tomorrow night.
CAPITOI-"Abilene Town."
with Randolph Scott; start
ing Thursday.
EARLE-"Miss Susie Slagel's,"
with Sonny Tufts and Veron-
lea Lake.
KEITH'S-"The Seventh VEIL"
with James Mason and Ann
Todd; starting Wednesday.
LITTLE-"Jane Eyre, ~ with
Joan Fontaine and Orson
Welles.
METROPOLITAN "Tarzan
and the Leopard Woman"
with Johnny Weismuller;
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Sentimental Jour-
ney," with Maureen O'Hara
and John Payne; starting
Thursday.
PIX" School for Husbands"
starting Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-03-24

like the Viennese-they are juicy
they have the same way of telling a
story"
Henreid was first meant for the
publishing business in Austria. But
when he decided to be an actor he
enrolled in the Vienna Konserva-
torium-"for two years. You have to
study two years in Austria before
you are allowed to be an actor, -
says Paul.
/ wish he'd introduce this novelty
to Hollywood!
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliancel
Evening star., 1946-03-24
MissGordon's Miss Jones
Comedy by Any Other Playwright
Would Be Quite Different
By Joy Cormody

tai coapsbe looking first nighters
came out OF Ruth Gordons three-act comedy Miss Jones"
oW on his face It
Judgments on the play a question
It, or behind it. Or wherever it questions frowns
1t turned out that what the young
the reaction to the play would about Just
any tasesruck youngstef instead Of Ruth Gordon.
The truthful question that no one knows The
play was about Ruth Gordon Woaan N6asso
girl and how to become great
There nothing comedy become famous
actress among the three foremost
York The fact was however that
the thaer become one of the
stage greats of her generation
Audiences knowledge . Help
That audience knowledge gave the play its greatest value With
movegoers the play had the highest impact
back
is merely mental exercise course conjecture
action to Miss Jones" Just been
Jones wolaston Mass who
actress But the impulse Irresistible
result Of it to hazard the that
would have been diveed of drama
have been produced in the produced
ably would have been quick flop.
There have plays stageruck
struck American females degree
the stories of them all ctona
to normal human beings who themselves thought they would
like to b.
suffered such handicap
real as the Author Ruth Gordon sitting the the heater
real the minds OF those in the National The value OF that to the
play is ncalculabe
Story Basicany Conventional
is that value which enables above the convntonaty
Of the normally
truth that point
and that the act is likely
shred at breath sigh probably would
have blown it right of the during the exposition
that
easily out to be triumphant playwright precisely the
fashion she did n actress.
Throughout delight to watch
for nothing than technical dexe Even bad
that in which display
perfect of theater virtually incompatible.
She taken that intact into
wright It doubtful that has the slightest dream of being
playwright
comedy over H. indicates clearly that she will be good And
successful.
just before she the stage Miss
Gordons Miss Jones' virtually abulge with the tricks the
wright learned during actress life back there
in Wolaston when she IT, Miss Gordon father actually
have been cooress suburbanie Miss Jones'
character arresting making
him expert au and simple For instance he reads
McClres Magazine Millions and did 93
But he ordinary Mcure reader He reads merely be-
costs nickel What he actually wants the Scientific
American At quarter it is too much for the family budget
Character Making a Craft
Miss Gordon putting together almost
three decades actress and watching other players them
learned the tricks of
the art of resorng plot that has tendency
tilt right of stage the theater.
diologu She able to talk Miss Jones' around
pitfalls that would trip dozen hopeful playwrghts
To get back to the young mans question: the odds that right
Miss could write amusing little
actress who took into her head become successful playwright
actually achieved write
Ruth Gordon so the audience would know.
Laurel outlook., 1946-03-13

Laurel Outlook, $3.50 per year.
Laurel outlook., 1946-03-13
ROtana Clubs Holds
Session OF Business

A regular business meeting of the
Rotana club was held Monday eve
ming at the club room with Miss
Hilda Ward presiding. A new mem
Der, Miss Jerry White, was admit
ted to the club and Mrs. Elsie Good
enbOur was reinstated. The pro-
ject for the coming year was dis
cussed.
Announcement was made that bal
loting for nomination of officers
was closed. The ballot box for
election is in charge of Miss Grace
Stadalman at the Billings Gas Com
pany office.
Following the business session,
dessert was served by Mrs. Mona
Pewitt. The next meeting is to be
Monday, March 25 with Mrs. Edythe
Teeters, who will be assisted in en-
PERTAINING by Mrs. Lois Deuse and
Miss Pearl Davis.