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Evening star., 1946-05-12
Today's Schedules

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
That's Where the Money
Goes" $50 pm.
CAPITOL-"Dragonwyck,' 1:55,
4:45. 7:35 and 1925 pm, Stage
shows, los, 3:55, 6;45 and
935 pm.
COLUMBIA Whistle Stop"
l.. 2:40, 4:25, Sis, 8 and
9:55 pm.
EARLE-"Road to Utopia l,
$40, 5:25, 7:25 and 9::25 pm.
HIPPODROME-"These Three"
230, 4;25, 6:25, $40 and
10 pm.
KEITH'S- The Spiral Stair
case" 1:20, $50, 5::35, 7;;45 and
$50 pm.
LITTLE-"Prisoner of Zenda,"
lis, 800. $40, 7;25 and
9::35 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
Sherwood Forest" l:30, 3:35,
$40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
PALACE-"Kitty," 1:05, 3:15.
$40, 7::25 and $50 pm.
PIX-"Dr. Syn" 220, S.. 7:35
and 10:15 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm. =
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Many a Film Career Is Based on Hoax
Regulations Made Up Out of Fertile Imagnaons Have Opened
the Doors Hollywood Fame
By HorodH ehenon

tors convention as one OF several
starlets scheduled to take bow be-
fore the theater owners. Instead,
Susan made a speech.
I've been at Paramount for a
year." Miss Hayward told the the
ater men. I've always played
nothing but minor roles. Do you
see any reason why I shouldn't get
better parts?"
1t was daring maneuver, but 1t
paid off. Thereafter, Miss Hayward
got more important roles.
For downright prevaricating
though. it would be hard to tie the
method by which Tay Garnett be-
came director. Now rated as one
of the top 10 movie-makers in Holly
wood. Garnett admits he probably
would have been nowhere today had
he not lied and did little thieying
back in 1915.
Must Be Moral.
At the time Tay was working
nights as messenger for the Mack
Sennett slapstick studio. He heard
Hal Roach rival pie tossing COM
edy maker, was in need of a direc-
tor. Gaining an audience with
Roach, Tay fbbed that he was then
employed by Sennett as director.
<Bring over one of your comedies
tomorrow and I'll have look at it
said Roach.
Garnett hurried back to the Sem
nett lot. 1t was nighttime and no
one was around. He slipped into
the film vault and took out a two
reel comedy. He cut the directing
credit line from the start of the film
and substituted a stretch of cellu-
loid bearing his name as director
1t was good comedy. Roach
thought so and hired Garnett on the
spot.
There may be moral some
| where to the way got my start as
director, but I can't find it," con-
fesses Garnett, wryly.
| tRealeased by North American Newspaper
Alliahce)
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to Wed" Two Smart People" THE
Dark Corner" and her recently COM
pleted picture for Universal, Lover
Come Back" That title shouldn't
happen to dog" says Lucille about
the last-named.
Lucille started in Hollywood as
Goldwyn girl. L was the ugly duck
ling" she says, 'and that in itself
is claim to fame In my first pic
ture l just wore a long blond wig"
From there she went to RKO and
proved herself as a comedienne in
Stage Door," but it remained for
Easy to We'd at Metro to con-
vince the big shots.
I'll be married to Desi six years
next November says Lucille, who
simply adores the man-and he re-
ciprocates. She was desperately un-
happy land so was DesD during
their brief separation last year.
They live on a ranch in the valley,
and at the moment have l3 chick
ems, a rooster. a COW and an assort-
ment of dogs and cats.
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1946-05-12

SHE FAVORS REPERTORY
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minor bits. The Old Vic has none
of this stuffing
The players are uniformly fine.
and in some moments, incredibly
good. The stature of the lesser
players might be suggested by the
fact that even Laurence Olivier
takes over slight acting stints in
some of the dramas, such as Tues
days Part g."
Best in Light Moments.
The troupe was at its easiest and
best during the lighter moments
of the Henry w. series. which
brings us to Ralph Richardson.
American audiences are more
familiar with Olivier, who is a fine
actor Richardson having been seen
here infrequently. l had seen him
only once, as Mercutio in Katherine
Cornell's Romeo and Juliet" in
1885 He has been seen more fire.
quently in British films. but not
having the facade of pretty lad,
which apparently is necessary for
wide renoWn in the films, he has
been cloaked in the anonymity of
character parts. @es-sz
He is. however one of the finest
acting instruments on the English
speaking stage today His Falstaff
on the weeks two Henry" evenings
lightened the aural load to a most
delightful degree AS the ROSTER
ing, rollieking, Rabelaisian SirJohn
he provides rich, broad and au-
| thoritative performance such as too
seldom is enjoyed in any theater.
Compliment to Broadway.
|. Olivier certainly one of the best
timportations to be seen here in
this generation, played Hotspur in
Mondays portion and the briefly
seen but excellently conceived Just
ice Shallow in Tuesdays. Nicholas
Hannen certainly deserves special
mention for his performance as
Henry" as do Miles Malleson as
Northumberland and Joyce Redman
as Doll Tearshot, the latter kicking
up her heels and her on stage morals
in such sprightly fashion as to
| make you forget momentarily the
excellence of Richardson's Sir John.
1t is fine company and compli-
ment to the Broadway theater for
all concerned to go SO far out of
their way, geographically and finan-
cially, to give us this dramaturgical
| treat.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
HOLLYWOOD

For 10 wears I've been telling EN-.
Will you please type me so l can get
going? Go ahead, type me, and get
1t over with"
Lucille Ball is speaking She and
her husband. Desi Arnaz, are taking
off by plane for New York, and Lu-
cille is in a jubilant mood because
she has finally, at long last, proved
her point-that she is a comedienne.
And if you have any doubt on this l
advise you to see Easy To Wed" in
which Lucille sweeps all before her
and the AL" includes Van john
son. Esther Williams and keenan,
Wynn.
L waited 10 years for Easy To
Wed says Lucille. What makes
me so happy is that I knew I could
do it if had the chance. Her drunk
scene with Van johnson alone is
worth the admission price. At three
previews in California, the scene
elected spontaneous applause from
the audiences. And she did it all on
ginger ale-in Technicolor it looks
IKE champagne. And l hate ginger
ale-it makes me ILL.," says Lucille.
Describes Her Role.
Here's how Miss Ball, the blond
redhead. describes the role that
netted her a straight seven-year
contract without options at Metro,
and put her right at the top of the
heap in Hollywood.
I'm a night-club performer in
love with keenan, Wynn. who is a
newspaperman. I can't say I'm a
nice, normal girl, because I'm not.
I'm slightly gullible, with heart as
big as all outdoors I have a terrific
temper, and I can stand only so
much kicking around
The height of picture bliss for
Lucille would be another comedy
with Mr.. Johnson. Mr.. Wynn and
Evening star., 1946-05-12

mancured hand to learn to speak society English
Kitty who heretofore has been able to get along
with a string of expletves OF which Lord love a
duck was the most useful And to be slapped and
cuf1ed and kicked when she cracks under the strain
OF trying to talk like lady!
Tumultuous Career
That she was soundy guided by her instincts
in wanting to remain guttersnipe is even more
clearly indicated by subsequent events Marriage
f1rst. to an iron monger. rich iron monger, but
one who has to be killed in the wedding reel of the
picture lest he kill Kitty. And from that to the
marriage bed of senle, jowly old Duke whose sole
concern is the begetting of male heir who in turn
will some day become senie, jowy old Duke, etc.
All the while. of course, there is the gleeful
hand OF fate wiping out Kttys husbands almost as
rapidly as they can make their wills, but where is
that to lead? To an eventual marriage the one
she has always desired to the worst scamp in Lon
don, the one who discovered her in the gutter and
will always carry his first impression of her
guttersnipe in burlap.
Always seeking never finding and most of the
time getting socked in her prettv face that's the
lesson of Kitty should any one of her sex and age
care to be guided by it,
Only One Male Beast.
Things are slightly less rough for the heroine
of 'Dragonwyck. At least she is spared the misery
of discovery that all men beasts She is lin
tied in this knowledge to mere one, but he is mad
man enough 10 make nef DUBIOUS OF the entlre Sex.
Like the old Duke in Kitty" his craving is for
male heir lin which there probably is another i'm
piled lesson for females), and when his wives fail
to crafty his yearning, the only course open to
him is poisoning them
This is dismal thing
1t is quite in keeping. of course with what hap
pened to another beautiful cinema heroine of rea-
sonable currency, the one played by Barbara STAN
wick in My Reputation What did her beauty
get her? Widowhood. country place big as
buckingham Palace, tidy private fortune for three
things. But it also gave her terrible yen for
George Brent. That was the joker in fate's deck
for her. Brent turned out to be the kind who did
not believe in marriage, of all things.
But do these experiences teach women movie
goers? Hunh? They can't wait for Amber Amalie,
Joan and score of other beauties who are in for
ia lot worse.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
It's HideOuS to Be Beautiful
But No Matter How Many Photopay Suffer- They Teach
No Lesson o Their Fans
By Joy Cormody

If the movies are the peoples opiate, which
their most implacabe enemies say there are times
when that seems to be good thing. This might
easily be of those times
That is because the major deduction to be
made from the current crop of screenplays is that
it is a dreadful thing to be a beautiful young
woman. To be SUCH indeed. is to court sudden
death and en- route to that death, several possible
fates which are even worse.
Were the lesson of these films needed it would
mean revolutionary changes in feminine social
conduct Nylon lines would disappear, probably CIV
Ing way to cotton lines perhaps to rayon lines
which were the beginning of those wrnkled femi-
nine knees which women abhorred during the years
OF the war. Manufacturers of cosmetics would have
sound reason to be fearful of what the movies are
doing to their sales. Certainly, it would drive the
coutouriers to suicide. and undoubtedly it would
result in the release of woolen fabrics to the manu-
facture of mems clothing.
Nothing More Painful.
None of these things has happened for the
reason that movies probably are the opiate of the
female public which goes thinking it pays to be
beautiful regardless of how many lovely necks are
snapped how many classic skulls are bashed in
today's film plays.
couple of current screen exhibits of which
there are dozens more to follow leave little doubt
that there is nothing more excruciatingy painful
than being beautiful.
Kitty" probably is the most exaggerated illus
tration of the dire things that can happen to a
youthful female who has the misfortune to be born
better than ugly duckling. "Dragonwyck" of
course is carnival of disaster for poor beauti-
full heroine, but Kitty is the girl who appears to
suffer the more
Consider for moment just what her life is.
1t begins in Houndsditch hovel, place of such
squalor that the word squalor" itself resens being
employed to describe it. When the picture opens
Kitty is EMBODIED in filthy piece of what appears
to be a low grade of burlap To be sure she is
rescued almost Immediately from that environment
and that wardrobe but to what end?
To what end, indeed To be taken to OF
London's great houses where the noble residents
are so debt ridden that they can't buy a stick of
wood to keep them warm where the lady of the
house is forced keep alive GIN of all alcohols,
and where Kitty is forced at the point of we'll
Evening star., 1946-05-12
HOLLYWOOD.


No movie tycoon likes to be
hoaxed, or even slightly deceived,
but records show that more sup
posedly astute makers have
been taken in by their charges than
they'd care to admit.
Probably the most sensa tional bit
of righteousness ever played on a
Hollywood front office was that
perpetrated by Sigrid Gurie several
years ago. Under another name,
the girl had been around filmtown
several years, trying without success
to catch on. An imaginative agent
took her in tow, built up tall story
about her blue-blooded ancestry and
her scintillating. career in Norway
and, with tremendous ballyhoo,
offered her to Hollywood at boX-car
figures.
No less keen Snowman than
Samuel Goldwyn fell for the bait.
He signed Sigrid, put fancy cam
paign of words and art behind her
starred her in a costly story and
then, six months later. discovered
the ruse. Sigrid Gurie wasn't the
great European tragedienne her
agent had claimed. She'd never
been across the big pond. She was
born in Brooklyn. And Sigrid Gurie
wasn't her name at all. 1t was the
top hoax of all time, but Sigrid Gurie
had gained such a head start she
kept right on acting-and getting
well paid for her chores before the
cameras.
Paulette Tested Self.
Few aspirants to film fame resort
to such elaborate deceptions. but
lot of them are not against telling
a little white lie, if it will help their
chances toward stardom. To be
kinder let's call it ingenuity and
imagination.
Paulette Goddard is one star
whose ambition, coupled with re-
sourcefulness, have placed her among
the ranking feminine players of the
screen. Ten years ago she took
job as chlorine in the Eddie Cantor
musical film, The Kid From Spain"
She knew that. chorus girls Gf
pretty) usually get couple of close
ups. even though only flash on the
screen. She got into several close
shots, promoted the film from the
cutter and put it together into a
screen test.
That test won for Paulette the
lead in Modern Times
Not content with this triumph.
Miss Goddard decide ner best pos
sible break would be role in a
Cecil B. De Mile picture. She be-
gan writing postcards to De Mile,
suggesting herself as his next lead
ing lady. De Mile was amused,
but not impressed
Some years later, when De Mile
was preparing Northwest Mounted
Police" Paulette had become a
Paramount contract player. She
made herself up as "Louvette." the
tempestuous half breed, and strobe
into De Miles Office, waving her
arms and spouting scene from
the film in dialect. Where postcards
had failed, her performance won
the part. Nowadays, Paulette, cur
rently starring in Suddenly It's
Spring" can just about name her
own stories and price
Robert Cummings came to notice
through a double hcaX-one for the
stage and, later, one for the screen
Turned down by Broadway producers
in an era when British actors were
in demand, Cummings went to Eng
land and had himself photographed
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Coming Attractions

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with
Katharine Cornell, starting
tomorrow night.
CAPITOL-"Breakfast in Holly
wood" with Tom Breneman.
COLUMBIA-"ziegfeld Follies,"
with Fred Astaire.
EARLE.'Devotion," with Ida
Lupino and Olivia De Havil-
land.
KEITH'S-"Little Giant" with
Abbott and Costello.
LITTLE-"The Open City" an
Italian film.
METROPOLITAN -" The En-
chanted Forest with Harry
Davenport and Edmund Lowe.
PALACE-"Do You Love Me?"
with Maureen O'Hara and
Dick Haynes.
PIX-"Resurrection;" starting
Tuesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18

we'll have this summer will have to pay the tax.
 The tax will have to be paid on transportation fares.
 But most important the money will be coming in at once and the primary for it's adoption by the Senate. This money is needed as soon as possible.
 The income tax which is lauded by the Times would be paid next year-if anyone would bother to pay it.
 No means of collection is set up in the bill passed by the House. The only sure way of collecting the tax would be to send collectors to take census door to-door each year.
 The sales tax would be payable by the merchant and the exporter cutting down the field for the tax collector
 The sales tax" as contained in the Senate Bill, would be automatically repealed when the fund for the veterans reaches $3OOO000 But the proposed income tax would Dc with for the of lives, and you can be sure that it wouldn't remain at the low rate of F of 1 per cent gross income for long because such tax requires great deal of administration and collection and for Alaska the rate would have to be or 10 per cent before such tax would begin to pay off
 A parting word about the canned salmon industry. It is general knowledge that when the income tax was up last session. the industry all for it. The Governor testfying before the Senate said "deap had been made with the industry He told one Senator the same thing privately.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18

it's vaults of West Point, N. Y, making other customers for the metal buy it from the silver mines of Western states.
 They would also prefer to have it bought at the Silver Purchase Act price of $129 per ounce instead of the Treasury price of $O.7111 per ounce proposed in pending legisla- tion. Right now they are trying to figure out how they can block pas sage of this legislation.
 Authority for the director of the mint to sell silver to private users is contained in a rider attached to the Treasury Appropriation Bill already passed by he House and about to be approved by the Sen- ste Appropriations Con m t e e. Chief responsibility for the rider can be traced to Senator Green of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18
woRKMEN's COMPENSATION BILLS

Representatives of organized labor in Juneau act ing through the Juneau Central Labor Council, AFL and the CIO Industrial Union Council, have informed Rep. Warren Taylor in nice way that they feel he has more or less given them the old doublecross in introducing HB 50, bill purported to give the worker the same benefits which he would get under the Green Shattuck Bill, which labor has endorsed already.
 Taylors bill seems to be introduced more for the purpose of setting up political job for someone rather than to help the worker. It would create another bureau and another juicy political post filled by appointment.
 Taylors bill does not call for complete coverage for all workers as does the Green Shattuck Bill As far as we can sec only certain hazardous occupations would be covered
 While the Taylor bill calls for compensation when death results from occupational disease there IS no definition of occupatonal diseases and apparently no provision for taking of workers suffering from such diseases while they being treated The Green Shattuck Bill includes this
 Neither does the Taylor bill provide for second injury" fund as does the Green -Shattuck Bill
 All in all the Taylor Bill seems to have been hastily drawn and we suggest that it be hastily withdrawn.
 Frcm the employers ncint cf view, the Taylor bill would allow a commission to establish any tax it fit to create fund for workmens compensation. The Taylor bill sets no ceiling and gives the administrative agency blank check on the taxpayer.
 The Green-Shattuck Bill has had its second read ing in the Senate and should passed by the Senate today or tomorrow. If the members of the House really want to help the working man. competing work mems compensation bills should be withdrawn and the decks cleared for the Green -Shatuck Bill The work ing man hoodwinked last session, but he knows the score this year, and knows that he wants the Green -Shattuck Bill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18
SALES TAX VS. INCOME TAX

We note that the editor of The Anchorage Times seems to be little off the beam again in his criticism of the proposed sales tax" to raise fund soon as possible to bear the cost of veterans legislation
 In recent editorial he claims the burden of the sales tax would be borne by the little guy We do not believe he has read the bill passed by the Senate
 The Times also claims the purpose behind the tax is to ease the taxes on the canned salmon industry, other evidence that the bill has not been studied.
 In the first place the tax is not a sales tax" as such levy is generally known.
 The tax is levied upon the wholesaler, exporter, and the retailer
 For the privilege of exporting s5000OOOO worth of canned salmon from Alaska the canned salmon in dustry will pay s250O00 which cannot be passed along to the Alaskan consumer Does this tax protect the canned salmon industry?
 It is true that the Alaskan consumer must pay part of the tax-as much of the tax the retailer is able pass along to the consumer But that will not be no great amount. paying the tax on 5000 worth of purchases throughout the year would pay the huge of $50 in taxes if the tax passed along on every cent of the purchases
 Because this tax does not provide for the split penny tokens used in the State of Washington, it doubtful if the tax would be paid by the consumer on small items.
 This is tax which the little guy will have some chance of not paying by himself and the small part he does pay will be going for purpose ony-for the veterans The little guy" believe is not going to put up much of yell about it.
 Some advantages of the sales tax, which the Times did not mention.
 It will tax for the first time the absentee mail order houses sending their goods into Alaska to the detriment of Alaskan merchants
 Nonresident workers and those many tourists
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18

Rhode Island and House Majority Leader John Mccormack.
 McCarran tried to have the rider knocked out by the Senate Appro- priations Committee, after he failed to delay hearing on the Bill. Dur ing the hearing he put representa- tives of the. Eastman Kodak Com- pany, silversmiths, jewellers and dentists, through a cross examina- tion which Committee members de- scribe as far more mercilesS than anything Senator Charles Tobey has done to Ed Pauley.
 But McCarran did not succeed in shaking them from their posi- ton that the price of supplies tc their industries will zoom upward if they are not permitted to buy sil- yer at the Treasury price.
 So now the Nevada Senator is preparing to challenge the rider on the Senate floor, claiming it is new legislation and may not be consid- cred along with the Appropriations Bill. His point would be quite legi- timate were the rider attached after the Bill had passed the House but it is doubtful that his objection will be ruled valid, in view of the fact that the rider was already 1T the Bill when it came to the Sen ate.
 COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18
20 YEARS AGO EHr FIT EMPIRE
MARCH IS, 1926

Is,
 Day night the usual hall traditional and other Irish symbols on special Irish jig the Misses Grace Galdys Naghel Miss Elizabeth Pulen. celebrated yesterday afternoon with charm Auxiliary with Il tables Club with social hour featuring the regular business meeting at the home Charles Sey.
 passengers arriving the steamer Queen from Stk George Mherin J. A. Ramsay and A. Humphrey Leaving for waypors and Mrs T. J.
 l56acre homestead Iaines for -ctel
 Weath Highest, lowest, 37; cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-18
HI-HO SILVER.

When Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada or Representative Compton White of Idaho, both Democrats, walk through the Halls of Congress, page boys whisper to each other, "Hi-ho, Silverl" These two men are the leaders of the small, but very active silver bloc in Congress-and light now they are not happy.
 Trouble is that there is too much silver for their peace of mind-and unless they succeed in stopping it. the Federal Government is going 10 sell lot of silver to jewellers m manufa cturer of photograph ic equipment, dentists and others who use the metal. McCarran and White would much prefer to have the Government keep its silver ir