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Evening star., 1946-01-06

and out, all the shadings of char
acter, all the niceties of diction.
She taught me how to act a lady of
quality. I think I can say she
taught me all I now know about
acting. At the time I had done but
one picture, Modern Times silent
film, although, of course, talkies were
in full vogue"
Well, time moved on. Paulette be-
came a star-and MISS Collier still
awaited recognition as the fine ac-
tress she is.
Then" Paulette went on, Para
mount gave me the script of Kitty
to read. When it is released, 1 will
be seen as the model for that great
18th century painter, Gainsborough.
But this is not so important as the
fact that Constance Collier will ap-
pear as Lady Susan AS soon as
read the play I simply shrieked
out loud in peremptory demand ::
Constance Collier has got to play
Lady Susanr
why? Because Lady Susan on
the screen does exactly what Miss
Collier did to me in private life
she coaches that humble little ar
lists model in the social arts; makes
definite, poised lady of her Now
she will be in Bob Hope picture
She is on her way, God bless herl"
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Evening star., 1946-01-06
More Colorful Than the Stars They Boss

ture is as much fun to watch as his
actors. He crouches near the cam
era and recites every line with his
players. You get two scenes, the one
the players are doing and that
Keighley is doing. When Keighley
thinks his performance is better, he
has actors do theirs over again.
Innovation in Script Writing.
Not long out of the Army, in
which he served four years, Mr..
Keighley is now ensconced in an
enormous house overlooking Beverly
Hills with his wife, Genevieve Tobin
Keighley, who has retired from
screen and stage. His next picture
will be Il Love You Truly" the love
story of Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond,
Americas only great woman song
writer. 1t was considered a scoop
when he obtained the rights to her
life, including all her songs, of
course. such as Just A-Wearying
for You and The End of Perfect
Day" Other directors and pro-
ducers had never realized that Mrs.
Bond, now 83, has been living in
Hollywood for years.
Keighley has employed Fannie
Hurst to write his story, from which
he will make the screenplay This
is an innovation. Miss Hurst has
been provided with the facts and
will write as she pleases, probably
turning out novel. Keighley and
aais associate, Ralph Jester, will
make their motion picture from this.
They are thinking of casting Irene
Dunno in the chief role.
The director knows, of course, that
when his picture comes out, Mrs.
Bond will receive thousands of let
ters, and he will be lucky if he gets
three. AS matter of fact, Mrs.
Bond has already received hundreds
of letters about her projected screen
biography and Keighley has re-
ceived none.
Still, he knows what to do now
Just announce in this newspaper
that his name means cow pasture"
and the fans who have neglected
him for years will take pen in hand.
That is, they will If their name is
Keighley, too.
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Evening star., 1946-01-06
A Note on Unmatched TURKEYS
Bv Jack O'Brfan.

Dark Eyes" of several seasons ago,
also was listed among the seasons
playwriting catastrophes when her
Caviar to the General" gasped its
last in Philadelphia on October 81.
Miss Leontovich, who, in private life
is the wife of Screen Producer Greg
ory Ratoff, was to appear in the
comedy opposite Sidnay Blackmer.
Theron Bamberger, who presented
the successful Tomorrow the
World" was the producer.
1t Shocked Enough.
The normally successful coupling
of Producer George Abbott and
Playwright Clifford Goldsmith, who
started Henry Aldrich's radio-thea-
ter-screen career, called it a day
with their play" Mr.. Cooper's Left
Hand" in Boston last October 6.
Adele Longmires Forever Is
Now" starring Vivienne Segal and
produced by Gertrude Macy, was
sent packing off to Gains from
Philadelphia, where it petered out
September Is.
The Shuberts and Alfred de Cour-
vile, who produced Ten Little In
dians," decided a supposed psyche.
logical shocker called Emily" had
shocked just about enough people
by its theatrical ineptitude and de-
clared 1t a Philadelphia casualty
September %. It was written by
John Cotton and Robert Harris, who
started work on another play di-
rectly.
These are but a few of the most
recent out-of town fops. Glad to
See You" was the costliest recent
turkey, a huge musical which had
exactly nothing to encourage it's
Broadway success when I saw it in
Philadelphia. 1t went on to Boston,
where it called quits after an ex-
penditure of S285,0O0. In the last
year there have been about 20 shows
which didn't dare attempt to come
IN and defy criticism, for which first
nighters, who this season have had
to sit through an uncommon num-
Der OF theatrical horrors, can give
solemn thanks.
Evening star., 1946-01-06
BY Harold Hefernan

That is how Going My Way" and
THE Bells of st. Mary's" were made.
Alfred Hitchcock, the mystery
man, is the antithesis of McCarey.
1t is Hitchcock's hope to scare the
heck out of you. If he can't scare
you, he will settle for mystifying
you. He insists on suspense. And
to get his effects, he leaves nothing
to chance All his scenes are not
only worked out months in advance
Of shooting, but are carefully
sketched. Hitchcock himself draws
as many as 80 to 100 pictures of
what he wants the camera to show.
Michael Curtiz, on whose Office
door a wag once hung sign, Eng
lish Broken Here" is a director
who has been defined as minor
force of nature" Mike directs from
the heart. He has made the most
American pictures of any director,
from -Four Daughters" to Yam
kee Doodle Dandy" and he prob
ably knows more American history
than any other man in Hollywood
Made Air Force Films.
" lIIkdHl ! w" dSGulG , h6lSIllcS
is the actors director. That is be-
cause he was an actor once himself
and il you are old enough to have
heard William Jennings Bryan you
may remember him as. such. He
toured America in his extreme
youth, playing every State, and
then sent out his own companies
under the Chautauqua banner. 1t
was Keighley who introduced mod
ern drama to the Chautauqua cir
cults, long before movies and radio.
He then became New York stage
director, Hollywood director and
a colonel in the United States Army,
where he headed the Air Forces
Motion Picture Service He not only
supervised all the training film that
helped teach fledgling aviators how
to fly, but was responsible for one
OF the most amazing techniqueS of
the war. This was motion picture,
made from miniature models of the
islands of Japan, which showed B-29
pilots in advance precisely where to
fly and where to drop their bombs.
Keighley's. simulated bomb raids, all
done with miniature planes with
cameras at a height of 80 feet to
give the effect of 5000 feet, were so
precise that flyers recognized every
objective when they few over Japan
for the first time
Keighley directing a motion pic
Evening star., 1946-01-06
Miss Golfers
Success Makes
.Paulette Happy
By Lawrence Perry
NEW YORK.

= NEW YORK.
The old year was getting ready
to slip into the limbo of the past.
Club 81 was filled with lunchers
whose demeanor suggested that the
approaching demise of 1945 AID,
was all right with them. Most of
them, that is to say. One excep-
ton was Paulette Goddard. In a
secluded corner, upstairs, she was
thinking back into the past. Down.
stairs, her husband, Burgess Mere
dith, just out of the hospital after
an attack of pneumonia, was also
at table with two managers, both
armed with plays they wanted Bur-
CESS to do. And Burgess reaction
was firmly negative. He was going
back to Hollywood to produce more
film plays, he said, so at the present
time the legitimate boards held no
attraction for him at all. That was
that, definitely.
On the floor above, his wife's
reminiscent mood had been super
induced by word that Constance
Collier had got break, having been
signed to act in a forthcoming Bob
Hope film. Every playgoer of any
experience has warm feeling, deep
admiration for this highly accom-
plished veteran of the stage Out
on the West Coast she had been
one of that group of veteran players
of rich gifts and nluStrious back
ground so apt to be overlooked by
directors and producers. How
Paulette met her, what happened
subsequently, make. think, story
quite appropriate to holiday sea-
son not SO long vanished that it's
spirit does not nnger on. Let Miss
Goddard tell it:
"One afternoon" she said, when
Charley Chaplin was managing my
affairs, he did what he does so su-
premely well. I mean, taking play
and acting every part perfectly in
character, whether male or female.
The play he did upon the occasion
in question was oliver Twist One
of the actresses he initiated was
Constance Collier and, I don't quite
know why, but at that very instant
I wanted to meet her. AS 1t hap
pened this was quite simple. Miss
Collier was in Hollywood and had
been there for two years without
a job.
"She became my friend. She be-
came not only my friend, but my
instructor in the art of acting. The
medium was the comedy, 'Coquette.
She taught me Miss Helen Hayes
role backward and forward, inside
Evening star., 1946-01-06
Insurance Mr.. Young's Policy
By SheiIah Graham

Claudia" David and Claudia" for
Goth Century-Fox, as we'll as a pic
ture for j. Arthur Rank in Eng
land.
Credits His Wife.
Il want to do the Rank picture"
says Bob, because I'd like to send
my older daughters to Switzerland
to school for a year" Hey, Bob.
don't you ever do anything because
you'd like to do it for yourself?
And now I'll tell you about the
married life of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Young and you will understand bet
ter his remark, Il have no worries.
| have everything I want in life"
He married the former Betty Hen
derson the day after she was grad
uated from college They have four
children. Bob gives credit for his
happy marriage to his wife.
She has a theory" he says, "of
never going to sleep without making
up a quarrel" Their bedroom fea-
lures double bed, very necessary
piece of furniture, in Bob's opinion,
for happy married life. This
sounds corny,' continues Bob, but
it's true. Betty and I share every
thing. We talk together of work,
OF money, of pictures, of the children
of everything. We never 60 out to
a party without each other. The one
time did, because Betty wanted me
to-She was tired-started the one
rumor of divorce. And I'll never
do that again. This summer at the
beach, when Betty was pregnant, she
said to me, 1t must be boring for
you down here with me and the chill
dren; why don't you go into town
and have some fun?' I told her,
mo, if want drink 1 can get it
here and I won't have to drive
home"
/ Bob sums up the success of his
working and married life with one
Word-"Luck." Which. by the way,
happens to be the title of his recent
film, Lady Luck"
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Evening star., 1946-01-06
Always a Way
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Realizing that the Cradle fans
won't be satisfied with only sug-
gestion of an ankle exposed when her
long skirts swirl in "The Shocking
Miss Pilgrim" her studio has had to
figure some camera angles. The pc
riod, the 70s, and the story, that of
the first woman typist, don't allow
for any musical numbers showing
those beautiful legs. Canieraman
Leon Shamroy has solved the prob
lem by the proverbial method of
being given an inch and taking
yard; clothed in overalls, he spends
most of his time on the floor, ang-
ling his camera upwards when Betty
uses her feet on the treadles used on
the first typewriter.
Evening star., 1946-01-06
NEW YORK,

NEW YORK.
A new type of show business has
cropped up this season, with the
result that goodly number Of
small fortunes have been lost on
the harsh hard rocks of the tryout
circAit.
In other years, with the usual ex-
ceptions to prove a rule, a producer
would bring show to Broadway
whatever its merits. This year, how
ever, only the most daring man
ayers of products inevitably headed
for Gains Warehouse. have had the
temerity to bring their turkeys to
town. None of these has Weathered
the double hurdle of critical and
public apathy.
While it is but slight recompense
to the producers who have tossed
away hundreds of thousands of good
American bucks in the process,
Broadway generally must salute
their good judgment, not to mention
good taste, in keeping their unfortu-
nate and hopeless plays away from
New York.
A healthy amount Of cash has
been lost on these aborted VEN
lures. Monte Proser and Walter
Bachelor, for instance, dropped al
most 500, 900 of their hackers bucks
when "Of All People" written by
Ralph Spence, who wrote "The
Gorilla" closed December II in Bal
timore. Bert Wheeler and Walter
Catlett headed the cast.
Spring" Hopes Eternal.
Producer Ted Ruskin abandoned
Murder Without Crime" in Boston.
Spring in Brazil which Monte
Proser is producing with the Shu-
berts, very nearly gave Monte an
added reason to hate show business.
1t closed on the road, but reopened
again in Chicago when Star Milton
Berle was persuaded to stay with it.
Monte and his hackers again are
hopeful of recouping at least part
of their investment, which now
totals $350,000, probably the largest
layout of money for a Broadway
show in a decade.
Actress Jean Carmen had double
disappointment when a play she CO.
wrote with Irish Owen, called Last
House on the Left" closed in Bos-
ton as rather hopeless affair. She
also was to appear in it.
Eugene Leontovich, an actress of
considerable stature and play
wright of some success since her
Evening star., 1946-01-06
HOLLYWOOD.

| HULL I WOob.
Shirley Temple gets fan letters
by the thousands each month. Van
Johnson's letters are delivered in
bales. When he was supposedly at
his lowest ebb of popularity, due to
an escapade, Enrol Flynn received
10000 letters in single week. Will
liam Keighley received so letters
last week and was delighted.
Mr.. Keighley, in case the name
escapes you, is a director, one of
the best. AS matter of fact he
has been among the top 10 box
Office money-making directors for
10 straight years. He made THE
Man Who Came to Dinner" THE
Bride Came COD" Robin Hood, "
THE Fighting Sixty-ninth" and
40-odd other such films.
But his so fan letters in one week
was record for him. Directors may
be king sized in Hollywood, deferred
to, bowed to, stood in awe of, but
the moviegoer wastes no devotion on
them. Fifty letters in week would
be a record not only for Keighley
but for De Mile, Lubitsch or any
other director.
1t made Keighley little sad. You
want to know now how he managed
to get his so letters? Well, he got
them by explaining to press and
radio that his name means COW
pasture" Forty-nine of the letters
were from persons named Keighley,
who said they were delighted to be
cow pastures. The 50th was from a
gent named Keigh, who wanted to
know If he was COW.
Just Sits and Thinks.
Actually, many directors are more
colorful than the stars they boss.
Leo McCarey, for instance, the mag
nificent improviser who made Co
ing My Way and followed 1t up
with 1.-The Bells of st. Marys," is
half French, half-Irish, the son of
a fabulous West Coast prize fight
promoter and failure as a lawyer
He tried and Topped at everything,
including acting and song writing,
until he became a movie director.
His methods of work are astonish-
ing. He comes on the set and sits
and thinks. If there is a script, he
consults it only casually. Stars like
Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby
wait until Leo has an inspiration,
Finally, he mutters: Now, kids, how
would it be If we did thus and SOP"
Evening star., 1946-01-06
Whorf on the Lunts
By Jay Carmody


Passing through Washington Biarrtz be sort
being weeks ago
Richard Whorf quick luncheon speaking unts
the last years large talent and
large family has Hollywood conspicuous
voluntary exile from the un acting
and while he has been happy and made money Hollywood
the association very
They're sad indicating that he had
not been corrupted by Howoods vocabulary of supeaves which
with colossal" there. lay
the estimate
hat you your years them2" Mr. whos
luncheon companion wanted to know
Everything" Whorf, by indis-
criminate unperceptive
They'll Try Anything"
Getting to gathered the brilliant actor
many seasons
liked them the wide orbit
They'll try anything and they bring it off, he
the things they have done"
through the Arms Man" Brothers
Kaamazov" Second Man" (Which by the way Berhman
equaed although many play
Reunion in Vienna THE Guardman Meteor Idiots Delight
"Th of the There Night"
Pirate"
Mr. whorf had a thought that made him laugh
There's plays most
eam the performer being typed your
movie team There have been quite number them years
they lasted Why? really
them given versatility
They themselves
seasons"
whof of teams making
that the
Walter Pidgonhad voluntarily He thought
of them and of the studio
popularity the successful of the cnemas
MOI Than Plays
have than 20 plays ogether?"
table recalled anecdote which
fitted perfectly into Mr. Whorf point about the
thing It
He (eferring Afred decided be the
manager. understand Pittsburgh
the Tanning of Shrew Pittsburgh
the Lun jinx city did the
popularity there that they everywhere Alfred
if they could profit
He had the words than
the
surprise every one profit really
thing talk talked Alfred
was pretty proud of himself
His pride didn't last however He forced eventually to admit
that of the baekness
that he had forgotten to pay the Lunts
dference-not the Alfred's
faith in himself manager"
The talk of the Llns clearly making Mr. Whorf homesick
He had done well Hollywood better director than
He making pictures satisfaction of its kind
Moreover working which him
He paints well He for high $780,
Il have kick against Hollywood None whatever he said
I has lot of things it, the least them
the fact that be with family than when
in the theater-especaly those long road tours"
But I've get back said 1 look
into that back.
"It would be marvellous"
former associates well those merely tickets
Evening star., 1946-01-06
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL - Vacation From
Marriage: 40, 4:30, tbs and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 1880.
$40, $50 and 9:20 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Fallen Angel: l,
3:05, Sis, TBS and 9:35 pm.
EARLE-"San Antonio: 12:45,
3, $40, 7:20 and 9:35 pm.
HIPPODROME III way
House: 2:l0, 3:35, sos, $40,
$40 and 9:45 pm.
KEITH'S-"Bells of st. Mary's":
3;15, 5:25, TAO and $50 pm.
LITTLE The True Glory:
l. 4:05, tbs and 1925 pm.
METROPOLITAN Danger
Signal: ITO, 3:l5, 5:25, 7:35
and 9:45 pm.
PALACE" They Were Expend-
able: 1:25, 4:05, 6:45 and $50
pm.
PIX 1.-THE Fleets In: /, 4,
7:05 and 1905 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1946-01-06
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"O Mistress
Mine with the Lunts. for
two weeks starting tomorrow
night.
CAPITOL -" Getting Gertie's
Garter" with Dennis OKeefe,
starting Thursday.
COL U M B I IA-"Yolanda and
the Thief" with Fred Astaire,
starting tomorrow.
EARLE-"The Lost Week End"
with Ray Milland and Jane
Wyman, starting Thursday.
KEIT HIS Scarlet Street."
with Edward G. Robinson and
Joan Bennett.
LITTL E-"The Battle for
Music" with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra.
METROPOLITAN - Dakota"
with John Wayne, starting
Thursday.
PALACE-"Leave Her to Heav-
en-" with Gene Tierney and
Cornell Wilde.
PIx-"Ragged Angels" starting
Tuesday.
Milford chronicle., 1946-10-18

Isaac l.. ard Edgar Bennett Flu
neral services were held on Tues
day afternoon III the St Georges
Church with Rev. Fordham in
charge. Burial in ST Georges Gem
ctery
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Wells OF
West Philadelphia have been the
guests OF Mrs May Hearn.
Mr. and Mrs. David Steele and
son Junior have returned home
from motor "trip TO Niagara Falls,
y. y. They We're accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Simpler.
Mrs. Pasha Watson and Mrs
Minerva Pepper OF Selbyville Wis
tied the latter's sistcr-in-laW. Mrs.
Emma Richards on Sunday after
noon al the home OF Mrs Martha
ConoWay.
Mrs Norman Bunting and three
children OF Frankford visited her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. George &.
Keen on Sunday
Mrs. Gertie Keen has returned
home from a visit with her dau9h-
ter and sOn-in-laW. MIR. and Mrs.
Louis Schcrmerhorn in Winning
ton While there she attended the
football game with her son. Mau-
rice from Randolph-AI Macon College.
which WAS vs.. the University OF
DclaWar
Milford chronicle., 1946-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs HarleysBurbage of
this town and NIr and Mrs. Thomas
II. Dukes of East Lansdowne. Pa,
were dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Burton or Sunday.
George J. Cobb entertained his
buddy, Charles Perea of Albuquer-
que. New Mexico. who motored
here to visit George. The distance
he came was nearly 5000 miles.
The Weekend guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vernon Cobb were Mr.. and
Mrs Ronald James and Mr.. and
Mrs. Armel West of Millsboro. Dr..
and Mrs Jaftak of Wilmington and
Mr and Mrs. Clarence Richards
and daughter of Lewes. also Miss
Doris Parsons OF DagsborO
Mrs Elsie Hickman and Mrs.
Ethel Davidson mOtored TO George
town on Friday ON a shopping trip.
The address by a returned mis-
lionary from Africa. Miss Stella
Thomas was appreciated by a large
congregation on Sunday evening
al Bethel Church here. Mr. and
Mrs Bradley Landon. splendid Cos
pei singers from Crisfeld. Md.
sang several inspiring selections
Mr.. and Ms Horace West and
friend. Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips oi
Acadon. Pa spent the week end al
'hcir summer home here.
Milford chronicle., 1946-10-18
Robert st. John VIII
Speak at DOUer NOU. %
CONTINUED from first page)

The opening program of the
series. on November %, will feature
Mr.. St. John, tOp-flisht reporter
and interpreter of the news appear
ing on such outstanding NBC pro-
grams as News of the World. ."
Snapshots by St John" and "Pco-
pie"
AS war correspondent with the
Associated Press, Mr.. St. John an
rived in Paris on that fateful Sep
tember ! when Poland was invaded.
thus beginning an odyssey that was
tC carry him through % countries
involved in World War H.
Robert St. John is the author If
From the Land of Silent PeOple"
and It's Always Tomorrow" and I
popular contributor to such leading
magazines as Golfers, Liberty,
American Magazine. Cosmopolitan.
Readers Digest. etc
DR.. HOugh, who will speak Jan
uary II. is dean at Drew ThcOlO2i-
cal Seminary. which position H.
has held since 1894. Included i'll Il
long and distinguished career is his
paSt0rate at the Central Methodist
{ hurch. Detroit, and at the Amcri-
can Presbyterian Church, Montreal.
lie has lectured 1T many /. ;. Uni
VcrSitieS. as we'll as in Australia
ard in England, and has been =
frequent occupant of British pull
pits. both III Scotland and in Eng
land.
Mr.. Epson. who for many years
has been regalinG readers Of The
Post with the adventures of Alex
ander Bolts. the eNitOme ol all
statesmen everywhere. will appear
before the Brotherhood on Fchru-
AIRY A.
DR.. Durant. the final speaker Of
the series. will address the mem
hers ON March 81. He is the author
OF The Story of Philosophy" "Th"
Story of Civilization" THE Life ol
Greece" Caesar and Christ and
other works.
Admission to the lectures will be
by membership only Memberships
may be purchased for 50 from re-
representatives. OF the participating
lay groups from the Baptist, Pres
byterian, Methodist. Episcopal
Peoples and Lutheran Churches.
Paul +. Baker is president of the
Brotherhood. Directors are Ken
meth Roper. Frank Richardson
Victor Holpp. W II. Richter anu
Norman Morris. Francis Turner l.
sCcretary-treasure