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Evening star., 1946-09-29
By Harold Heffernon

about passing up the now famous
beauty queen.
The point of this little recital is
that the talent scout has his occu-
pational hazards, too. and one OF
the most prevalent is the possibility
that he may report unfavorably
upon some young man or woman
who is later picked up by another
studio to make big hit. This
happens to all talent scouts. Nc
matter how they may boast, all OF
them have skeletons in their closets
like the experts who passed up
Gable, Milland, MacMurray, Power
Fonda and scores of big timers
Still, a talent chief can't have things
like that happen too often.
The passing up of Miss Buferd by
the movie-making citizens of her
home town is of no particular dis
credit to the judgment of scouts OF
studio heads. Although most of the
winning candidates have been ex-
tremely beautiful, it is a matter of
record in the 25-year history of the
Atlantic City pageant that no Miss
America" has ever been successful
on the motion picture screen. After
their victories, several have been
placed under studio contracts. None
ever remained after. the first six
months option.
The requirements for winning the
crown of Miss America" are con.
siderably different than those de-
manded for success In film work,
The Atlantic City affair originally
got under way as bathing beauty
contest. Gradually it took on other
aspects. Talent is now said to be an
important factor in rating the girls
Still those who parade most beauti-
fully and gracefully before the
judges are not necessarily the ones
who can repeat such triumphs for
the discerning eye of the camera.
AS Hollywood scouts point out
contenders who failed to win the
Miss America" crown have Jared
far better in the movies than. the
queens. Claire James. Miss Holly
wood of 1888 was beaten out of the
crown at Atlantic City, but came
back home to a nice film contract
and featured roles for a couple of
Evening star., 1946-09-29
They're Never Routine
When Hecht and Macarthur Like an Actress
They Prove 1t
By Jack O'Brion

NEW YORK,
Ben Hecht and Charles Mac
Arthur, authors of The Front
Page" now in hilarious revival, and
possessors of q theatrical legend
rooted deeply in antics of a most
pyrotechnic sort, apparently can
accomplish nothing in routine
fashion.
When they write a play, movie
or even letter to an editor, sparks
flash, feelings are shattered, critics
get called names and every one looks
up in delighted anticipation to what
is sure to be a great deal of literary
fun.
Even when faced with reviews
which certainly mean to. any sane
persons, even playwrights. that the
end cannot possibly be other than
financially fatal, Hecht and Mac
Arthur are likely to throw their
wallets after their sentiment and
keep a show running. Just because
they happen to be paternally fond
of 13-year-old girl their Swan
Song" was kept at the Booth The
ater for 155 performances; 1t closed
last night.
How these cultural Dead End Kids
got interested in Swan Song" in
the first place is story not exactly
true to Broadway's traditionally
brittle legend Hecht and Mac
Arthur were called in by producer
John Clein to have a look at a play
he had produced but which was
doing along listlessly in Phila-
delphia in the wake of discouraging
reviews. 1t originally was tossed
together by two other persons en-
tirely, Ramon Romero and Harriet
Hinsdale. The central character
was played by the aforementioned
13-year-old moppet, Jacqueline Hor-
ner, talented pianist with an at
tractive thespic ability, and ap-
parently, a monumental amount of
personal charm. More than none
tary Establishments, she decided the
supposedly calloused writer's that
they might be able, using a few of
the original ideas, to kick together
a play suitable for run of per-
haps a year or so.
After the first-night reactions ar
rived in an almost unanimously dis
couraging tone, the lads got mad
and decided to kick in their own
money to keep the show running.
And it would have kept on after
last evenings swan song had it not
been for Jacqueline's inf1amed ton
sils. When little Jacqueline has fin
ished with her minor surgery, she
almost certainly will head for Holly
wood or another Broadway show,
for her sponsors feel that while her
tonsils will be removed, her talent
must remain and improve, and that
she will be future star of the same
commercial aptitude as the Misses
Durbin, Temple, Garland and
O'Brien.
Evening star., 1946-09-29
The Angles Grow Dizzy
Camera Caprices of Hollywood Find Some
Strange Slants on Life
By Joy Cormody
By Joy Cormody

Hollywood is hard put to find switches m the
standard plots characters and
been remss lately discovery camera angles has
found SO slan dizzy
of its beginning to think thew should
depoe Eventually all depored and it
sheer that
angles question are not those master
scene painter such Esensen
pioneers in the a
this respect There
always something refuab of their
camera positions sort of universal hss they
supervise So far Hitchcock but
one questionable angle charge against
In thriller which showed the villain slipping
hands of the Statue of Liberty Hitchcock
characteristic frankness questioned rghtness
There's Limit
1t is the sheer construction
which raises the issue of whether the situation becoming
berserk than necessary
screenplay of marks of capcious
worknot all of them any the
musical Holiday Mexico apparently rejected single
whm that occurred to the the missing
the silhouette which skipped ground
that shadows things
inspiration Of the trick ants en-
poyed IN this opment opus to avoid showing Jose Iurbi
through Rachmaninofs
naise requirement of movies
of that they the one thing concert
created for the cameraman is to
photograph the lightning hands of the musician
uninteresng but has its limit the long ago.
Eha notably of Irbi become an
habitue of big musicals.
Compensation Is Achieved.
the Holiday themselves moved
its similarity to that
which picture They literally tried
thlng different shots film his
image of Iubi reflected
impression of the artist through the
variations these themes
variations if that which
doing wonderful dvh dance
Iturbi playing.
1t is doubtful that music thoroughly photographed
but in the transformed novelty something
easy to see, but corespondingly difficult
Music lovers position whether
this proper treatment of the better compositions
ever better artists who being brought to the
takes skill coordination
Complementary
set OF Tchncoo strings perhaps musicals
made by Hollywood.
"Yoanda and the Thief"
This diverting camera angle not merely
frequently damaging the musical picture
OF upootng the spectators story film stories
being what they this spectacular purpose
OF a film remains that of telling a story
TOO many and too odd angles purpose
1t quite possible the completely leave
the effect of show Salvatore
VINO SET OUT merely to spend
the case many nonproeonal critic thought the
Thief produced by Vincent
This was fragile tale to begin camera
hnshed with it it sequence lovely fragments
Some one probably should check up on this.
Evening star., 1946-09-29
HOLLYWOOD.

| lAoAL L WAoD.
The average fan conception of q
motion picture talent scout is that
of knoW-all-see-all mortal whose
pleasant mission in life is to inter-
view beautiful women and hand
them fame and fortune on a silver
platter.
In large sense this is true, but
as in everything else about life, there
are complications. The talent
scouts path is not always strewn
with roses. He is not applauded
hourly for his supposed uncanny
ability to pluck potentially great
box office kings and queens from
driftwood in the hinterlands.
Yes, the talent scout makes his
mistakes. Occasionally they develop
into humiliating errors of judgment
causing him to toss on his bed many
a night, wondering why he didn't
plunge into some other racket, where
quick mo" wouldn't cost his bosses
million or more.
On the other hand there are times
when the scout is unjustly raked
over the Goals for alleged errors of
judgment in rating one budding per-
sonality or another.
Consider, for example, the case of
Irving Kahn, chief talent scout at
Goth Century-Fox. Mr.. Kahn, out
of self-defense, is carrying around
in his pocket these days a little card
containing record of his interviews
with a young woman named Marilyn
Buferd.
On the Spot.
Miss Buferd was recently crowned
Miss America" at the annual At
lantic City pageant and newspaper
reporters interviewing her had lot
of fun pointing out that while she
had lived for the past eight years
in the very shadow of the big movie
studios, had played bits" in several
films and had been interviewed by
various directors. she had always
been passed up in her home town
of Hollywood
Mr.. Kahn of 20th-Fox and Direc-
tor Mervyn LIE Roy of Warner Bros
were especially put on the spot by
the quotes Miss Buferd gave out and
this caused Mr.. Kahn to 60 back in
his indexed records and drag out
the ,sketchy details of his business
contacts with Miss America"
Kahn's record shows that after
| several interviews, a reading and so
on, he recommended that she be
given a screen test. However, ex-
ecutives upstairs did not act on his
advice. Kahn says he carries the
report around now because some of
his bosses have been ribbing him
Evening star., 1946-09-29

Cuff stuff: Hear That Trumpet" ="
which opens October Z after a Buf-
falo tryout, is about a jazz band
leader and the romances. reverses
and triumphs of his mad musicians.
l.. Producer Arthur Hopkins was
faced with the problem Of finding
either six musicians who can act or
six actors who have sufficient swing
savvy to play the roles. :. The
former turned out to be most feasi-
BILE, and the musicians thus en-
ployed include Bobby Sherwood on
trumpet. Sidney Bechet on clarinet,
Marty Marsala on drums, Bart Ed
wards and Phil Edwards on bass
and trombone and Ray Mayer at the
piano. The nonmusical section
of the cast includes Frank Conroy.
Lynne Carter, Audra Lindley and
Ray Bramley.
Evening star., 1946-11-08
Bette's the Deceptive One
By Horry Macarthur

Hollywood, seemingly determined
to throw into disrepute any one
who can read music, has sent along
now another glimpse of that sordid
life hack of the concert stage. This
one, which opened yesterday at the
Earle, is called Deception" and 1t
sends Bette Davis, Paul Henried and
Claude Rains through as dreary and
depI essing retelling Of the triangle
routine as you have encountered in
some time.
Miss Davis plays young lady
with a moderate talent for the piano
and an inspired talent for false
hood Mr.. Hendreid is a young cel-
list who has spent the war years in
European concentration camp and
has emerged noticeably jumpy. Mr..
Rains is supposed TO be the villain
of the piece, but he turns out to be
the only character you would be
willing to spend more than 5 minutes
with.
Their three lives are Drawn to-
'gether here when Henried comes to
this country, is rediscoyered by Miss
Davis and their old love flames
anew. The deception begins i'm
mediately. She hauls him off to her
apartment, lavish establishment,
expensiyely furnished, hung with
rare pictures and strewn with rare
carvings. Shortly Mr. Henried grows
moody and remarks that this is
hardly the setup in which he would
expect to hnd a poor music student.
After some argument, Miss Davis
confesses. She hadn't wanted to tell
him, she says, but she had been
giving few lessons. Oh, she knew
she had promised not to. but a girl
has to eat and things are different
Evening star., 1946-11-08

10y intimating from time to,time that
he will break up this connubial bliss
Finally. to the enthusiastic strains
of cello concerto supposedly COM
posed by Rains but obviously bor-
rowed from every one from Beet
hoven to- Charlie Barnet. "Decep-
ton" ends as unhappy as 1t has
progressed.
X X
The central role in an affair like
this is the sort of thing to be en-
braced eagerly, If not happily, by
Miss Davis. When 1t comes to
anguish, she is the, lass who can
supply it, but even her skill can not
bring depth to two -dimentional
character. Nor has Mr.. Henried
been treated any more happily by
the scriptwriters, being called upon
merely to express depressed moodi-
ness.
This leaves Mr.. Rains in the po-
sition of appearing to be the best
actor of the three. when in reality
Evening star., 1946-11-08
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time OF Showing .

Stage.
NationaI-"Apple of His Eye;
$50 pm.
Lisner-"Joan of Lorraine; $50
pm.
Screen.
CapitoI-"I've Always Loved You.
lO:3O am. lbs, 4:15: 7:05 and 9:55
pm. Stage shows, 1910, 3:35, 6:25
and 9:15 pm.
Columbia. Rage in Heaven; II
am, 1880, 2:40, 4:30, $40, $40 and
10 pm.
Earle-"Deception'; 10:45 am.
1885, $40. $40. 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Hippodrome-'' Have You Nothing
to Declare; 2:40. 4:40, 6:35, 8;l5 and
$50 pm,
Keith's-'White Tie and Tails;
1885 am, 1:40, 3:45, $50, 7:55 and
10 pm, =,
LittIe-"Henry the Fifth; 2:3O
and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"T'he Strange Love
of Martha Ivers";; 10:45 am, 1855,
$40, $50, 7:30 and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Two Years Before the
Mast; 10:45 am, 12:55, $40, $40,
7:35 and $50 pm.
Pix-"All Laugh Show; 2, 4:45,
7:30, 1918 pm. and l2:4O am.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 1918 m.
Evening star., 1946-11-08
Johnny Burke Star
On Capitol Stage

Johnny Burke, the veteran vaude-
vile performer, dressed in 1917 GI
garb, headlines the new Capitol stage
bill with his familiar comic account
of his life as World W6r l. draftee.
Others on the bill are Harry Bah
bitt, the former Kay Kyser singer,
who shows of his voice in several
popular tunes: the Maxellos, two
girls and two boys who are one OF the
abler acrobatic acts, and the Bar
retts, who tap dance
The screen attraction is I've Al
WAYS Loved YolI"
Evening star., 1946-11-08

description and makes mockeries
of similar battle scenes.
The mere dexterity of the later
courtship scene between Henry and
Katherine is every bit as convinc-.
ing proof of Olivier's greatness as
an actor. The descent is straight
into the lightest of romantic comedy
in which the pictures hero is as
much at home as in the tragic,
triumphant passages which have
gone before
is quite as much an ideal movie
hero whether spelling for a. fight.
unhorsing Frances Royal Black
Knight, or jousting with a lovely
Princess.
The production of Henry ", dis
closes Olivier's genius best in the
Agincourt battle scene In the day
of the atom bomb, it is brilliant
thing to make the long bow, the
heavily armored knight, and the
Swordsman leaping from tree look
as exciting as they must have been
in their ancient day. Olivier's battle
scenes achieve this dramatic result
A fabulous sum was spent upon
this production of Henry "" but it
is not without its evidence of budget
limitations. Many of the scenes. ex-
cept for the magnificent battle pass
ages. are merely painted backdrops.
No effort has been made to conceal
this fact. Olivier's production
scheme. on the contrary, has under
taken to give this device validity by
having Shakespeare,s chorus, or mar
rator, put the. whole thing up to the 4
Imagination of the spectator.
1t works remarkably well.
The cast whose members voices
share the sound track of Henry v"
with a suitably heroic score by the
London Symphony Orchestra is ex-
pertly chosen from top to bottom
Renee Asherson is as arch as she is
lovely in making Princess Katherine
both romantic and humorous. Next
to Olivier, her performance might
well be the most remembered, for all
its lack of dimensions. Other por- |
traits to recall for a long time will
be those of Leo Gem as the French
Constable; Max Adrian as the weak
Dauphin: Valentine Dyall as the
ferocious Duke of Burgundy; Mich
olas Hannen as the courageous Ex-
eter; and Feiiz Aylmer as the Arch
bishop of Canterbury.
These, of course, are but a few of
the many performances that help
make Henry "" the picture of
lifetime to see and cherish.
Evening star., 1946-11-08

they probably are close to being
peers. The egomarliacal composer
Rains plays Is character Of some
life, whose emotions bear resem-
clance to things human. But the
grayness OF the rest of Deception"
Fls the grayer in comparison with
his color.
Evening star., 1946-11-08
CrippIes Hear Choir Tonight

Fifty crippled children OF the
Washington Kiwanis Clubs voca-
tional guidance group will be guests
of the club at the Boys Town Choir
concert at $50 o'clock tonight in
Constitution Hall.
Evening star., 1946-11-08
Henry " Brings Shakespeare,
In Full Majesty, to Screen
By Joy Cormody

audience for which William Shakespeare wrote but never dared
the perfect understanding The
Shakespeares Henry
opened delighted than
distinguished
Retween them the greatest
Evening star., 1946-11-08

over here. Rich pupils give teacher
all sorts of valuable presents.
Henried, portraying perhaps the
least perceptive cellist you ever en-
countered. not only accepts her story
but goes right on accepting it. He
even continues to have faith in his
deceptive love when Mr.. Rains turns
UP at the wedding reception in such
a state that it is clear he has been
paying the rent and buying the
clothes and that Miss Davis is not
merely a girl he likes to take to
concerts. ..e'~-
Well. Miss Davis moons about
telling lies, Mr.. Henried maintains
a sort of sbrooding, jealous faith in
her, and Mr.. Rains amuses himself
Evening star., 1946-11-08

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Evening star., 1946-08-25
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, AUGUST as

shortage of supplies and parts caused
by outside strikes.
American Telephone fell 81 when
the concern disclosed its huge finan-
cling program involving the issuance
of 1851 900, 900 in debentures and
the increase of its capital stock by
100000 900 shares.
A. T. & T. Extends Slump.
On Thursday the market ran into
the heaviest selling and sharpest re-
action since July % with American
Telephone extending it's slump by
1915 points and furnishing with a
net loss of points at $185 a share.
Aside from the relapse of the COM
munications stock, liquidation was
attributed to the darkening inter-
national picture, the cloudy labor
outlook and the refusal. lately. of
the market to adequately reflect
good business news including big
batch of increased dividends.
Offerings were so voluminous in
the second hour that the ticker tape.
for an interval, ran two minutes be-
hind floor transactions. Support
then arrived and casualties were
well trrimed at the close. Based on
stock outstanding August IS, the
telephone issues tumble represented
a loss of S163,112,144. At the worst,
the amount was 1854, 1862, ,725. None
too heartening was the sale of a
stock exchange seat for $4,000. off
$4,000 from a previous sale and
low since September %. l945.
Quotations for Telephone and
many other pivotals stiffened Friday
but most issues got back only small
part of the preceding days fall.
Dealings were sluggish after the
opening and timid bidding was cred
tied to the easing of foreign tension
and belief the list had been over
sold.
The Associated Press 60-stock ave-
rage was off IL points at IS on the
week and was but 2.S points above
the years bottom. Transfers for the
five days expanded to 4,505, $50
shares against 3,746,65 the week be-
fore. A year ago the total was 5,755,-
$50 shares.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Stocks Ease Further
In Week, but Recover
Slightly al Close
By Victor Eubonk
Associated Press Financial Writer


NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-The stock
market suffered another bad week
on balance, although selling dried up
in the final session and modest re-
coveries appeared for recently weak
leaders.
Commodities, on the other hand
occasionally exhibited strength dur
ing the five sessions, while bonds
softened.
The share division slipped cog
Monday as Wall Street awaited de-
cisions of the Price Decontrol Board
There were scattered favorites, not
withstanding, and the slight over
all decline was negligible. Volume
was a minimum for the week, with
$4,000 shares among the smallest
since early July.
Comeback Negotiated.
A fair sized comeback was nego-
tiated Tuesday after four successive
doWnturns, but there were many
losers. Scant comfort was derived
from the stock exchange compila-
ton disclosing a drop in the short
interest to the smallest aggregate
since October 20, 1943.
Steels and motors led a fast late
decline Wednesday, as DEGREES of
the Decontrol Board seemingly had
little effect on trends, and fears re-
garding the foreign situation were
accentuated by the Yugoslavian rift.
Chrysler hit 1916 low when the
company was confronted with new
wage demands and announced a
shutdown of passenger car and
truck assemblies next week due to