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Evening star., 1946-08-04
Mr.. Payette Remembers
First Sound Movie Made Perfect Bow Here
and Profitable One
BY Joy Cormody

John Payete retiring and reticen man but he is likely to
forget both qualities when the
pcures-moon sound s-to Washington Mr.
Payete who area every
right subject especially He the father Of
sound motion pictures Capital fashion
men who have endured the of fathhood
occasion vividly as if it yesterday.
The goth Anniversary celebrated on
Tuesday of this history
not coincide precisely with the
here The latter
the premiere of Don showing
of the picture the
February 27 of the following
Said Needed
Mr. Payete did for of
Don Juan" He
the company first night list supervisor Harry
metropolitan Theater here he not of those taken
in by that headline the skepcs Say
contrary, ripe
In moves mat 1t should take the form OF sound struck him
excrucangly logical
he should do So saw
his first sound movie in Baltimore He studied the
apparatus projection
play the musical would
to washington suggest that Cranda should spend that much
Metropolitan
adapt
the theater to show the of screenplay"
Nets Luxury Inadequate
a of days of the
in before K they say
the movies had to be almost completely overhauled
Fortunately, unlike heaes walls of
Metropolitan damask
But the sound effects horrible" Payette
with the damas In places in the house the effect of the
earspitng. Others completely
inserted heavv 1aver Of rock wool Pubher anos IN be a
the stairways had carpet
and labor to quite beyond that s2 900 the
to play the records"
Washngtonans of 1926 Payee remembers ondly
for innovations The Met played
hold in those days but weeks magnificent
prices
in the afternoon
prices raised
for the premiere of sound Washington
Payete easy, cheerful smile
much better sound debut here than
Elsewhere the machines habit stopped
synchronzaon 1t this mshap
to dismiss the thing fad but nothing the happened
Washington
Praise for His Proeconis.
That Al Pratts work proiec-
ZIONIST the time and he left
many shoVings could which
quarter pictures certainly oda
Pratt, by the still pojectonist
has had for 27
Don Juans triumph heartened the Nets management
with the conviction that the revolution had
the theater would live happily aerWard
had indicated that the public
but it turned out the public also could
That what it did with number
followed
I'VE had marvellous fops Payee says Better Ole
and number such We played aerwar maybe
40 would get
them but the features would be they
But had enough
here
1T turned
Evening star., 1946-08-04

wanted to hire William Powell OF
Ronald Colman, both of whom were
in The White Sister," Lillian Gish S
starter, made nearly a quarter of a
century ago, you'd need big bank
roll before you could even think OF
talking business with them.
Even Shirley Temple.
Bette Davis, who occasionally per-
mits some other actress to win an
Oscar, started in pictures in 1880 and
not only has earned a fair salary for
Is years, but probably can go on be-
ing one of the screens finest and
best-paid actresses for at least 1e
more years.
Loretta Young is in the 20-year
class. Joan Bennett was playing
leads in 1880 and Irene Dunno did
"Cimarron" a year or two later
Jimmy Cagney did The Doorway to
He'll with Edward G.. Robinson
about IS years ago.
You can't call Greta Garbo new
conner, or Randolph Scott, Spencer
Tracy. Joan Blondell, Merle Oberon
Fred MacMurray, Walter Brennan
Bob Hope, Richard Arlen, Richard
Dix, Jack Oakie, Rosalind Russell
Lionel Barrymore, Joe E. Brown, Pat
O'Brien and dozens and dozens oi
others
Even Shirley Temple has put in
II years in pictures and today is
strictly an in-demand star.
Who said the average life of q
film star is years? Just a lot Of
bunk Actually, as these records
show, Hollywood is clutered with 10
Is and 20 years starring veterans
And most of 'em are still going
strong.
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Evening star., 1946-08-04
Scores of Today's Top
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Sixteen years in pictures?' echoed
Una Merkel who mas returned to
the movies following an absence
of a couple of years. of course
but that still keeps me among the
Junior members of the colony
Una was joking but she also was
telling a surprising truth. Scores
Of players in the big-money brack-
cts have been clicking along for
10, IS, even 20 years and more.
When I came into pictures is
years ago" said Miss Merkel, every
body told me Id better get in and
get my share quick because nobody
lasts long on the screen All I can
say is that Eagle Lion Films are
paying me more to play Senator
Claghorn's wife in It's Joke, SOM
with Kenny Delmar than for any
other picture work I've done.
And what's more, Bryan Foy
must think III hold together for
some time to come because he also
offered me f1ve-year contract.
That doesn't make pictures seem
like short-term deal to me"
Somewhere along the line, years
ago, somebody began TO pity the
poor movie stars because they had
such short professional lives. The
average life of a film star they
always said, is not more than
five years"
Bigger Than Ever.
1t was stated further that the
marquee men and maidens had to
get quite lot of money, and get
it in big hurry, because they'd
need something with which to pay
for the rent and groceries in the
long, lean years to come.
Clark Gable, for instance. who is
presently rowing with MGM be-
cause he wants to do outside. pic
lures and they don't think that's
a good idea, was woWing the ladies
Is years ago. And what's more,
he's bigger star today than ever.
jean Crawford, whose Mildred
Pierce" made her an academy VIM
ner, was playing one of the name
roles in Sally, Irene and Mary
20 years ago. You cant call that
temporary work.
Wallace Beery has peen carrying
away several thousand Metro dollars
every week for years and years and
the end is not in sight.
Bing Crosby was a money making
star in 1884 Today he's actually big
business. That's IL years for him
so far and Paramount thinks his
future is SO insecure they recently
gave him only seven-year non-
Evening star., 1946-08-04
He Has Lost His Old Hate for Landlords
Becoming One Himself Robert Cummings Now Reserves That
Emotion for His Troublesome Tenants

YEARLY. About 1890 am. We were
awakened by the little boy coming
home from the movies with some
pals and we listened while they said
good night in every language known
to boydom, We were just going to
sleep again when we heard his
radio!
Didn't Do Nothing"
my wife telephoned his mother
and she slammed the receiver down
in her ear! That was too much for
me. I put my dressing gown on and
marched downstairs. I could see
the boys light on in his bedroom
and I spoke to him through the
window thusly:
Look, sonny, I've got to get up
at am. Be swell kid and turn
off the radio and go to sleep"
II didn't do nothing the dear
little man replied
Just then" says Robert, "his
mother came into his room, glared
at me and said, How dare you wake
people up in the middle of the
night! And slammed the window
in my face.
/ That's when I called the police, 4"
says the landlord. My wife also
phoned them and said that I'd have
circles under my eyes in the morn
ing unless I got some sleep. The
man at the desk said he didn't think
there was much he could do about
! it and added that he had noisS
jnsighbors himsehf~N> -
Now you know why I don't hate
landlords any more" concludes the
exhausted star. He is reserving
that emotion for his tenants.
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Alliancel
Evening star., 1946-08-04
By SheiIoh Grohom

slightly irritable And he now eX-
plains why. Il didn't get any sleep
last night and had a am. call for
my picture, The Chase today" Yes,
there was battle with his tenants.
They have a little boy of about
49," says Robert whose own son is
only few months old. Hes noisy
little boy" says Landlord Cummings,
but l honestly tried to make allow
ances for that and said to myself
and to my wife, Our son, when he
grows up, probably will be just as
noisy" But from the way Bob says
this, you know he thinks that's i'm
possible.
But it wasn't only the boy" says
Bob, although l gather that the lad
is wizard with peashooter and
never misses his target, which is
Bob's bedroom window. His favorite
game is baseball and he prefers to
play the game within close range of
the Cummings part of the building.
Noise in the Night.
They have cat" continues Bob
bitterly, and I'm afraid he's no.
good cat. He does too much counting
of the neighborhood felines. His ia :
vorite spot for that is on our front
doorstep, which happens to be right
under our bedroom window.
But as the new-type landlord I
was prepared to stand the cat as we'll
as the boys peashooter and baseball
games. AND. even my tenants -ela-
tives who sometimes stay with them.
But night after night my wife
and I were awakened by an odd
noise like a pneumatic drill and
we'd see lights going on in other
apartments in the street and even
hear people asking what the strange
noise was. So finally I asked my
tenant if she had some electrical
equipment in the apartment that
was making the odd noise.
She said it was her brother-in-
law who was staying with them
He snored, but couldn't help it. His
wife couldn't stand the snoring
either and she had left him on
account of it
( The climax to the relations be-
tween Landlord Cummings and his
tenants was reached the night be-
fore I talked with Bob My wife
and I were asleep" he tells me
Evening star., 1946-08-04
NEW YORK |

NEW fOIh,
Howard Lindsay and Russell Grouse
have given the famed Barter Thea
ter of Virginia permission to play
their Pulitzer Prize winner, State
of the Union. in its summer roper
tory season.
Such permission is highly unusual
since Broadway authors as a rule
would much rather give twice the
take in such an engagement to pre-
vent current brainchild from be-
ing played with anything less than
major Broadway casts and slick,
modern production. The high stand
ards of the Barter Theatrical Co.,
however, will make this production
more than just copy of the orig
inal.
Cuff Stuff: Margo Jones, who CO.
directed The Glass Menagerie, will
direct Maxwell Anderson's new play,
Joan of Lorraine" which will open
in the fall starring Ingrid Bergman
Miss Bergman finishes her
chores in the finn, The Arch of
Triumph in time to start Broad
way rehearsals october l,
The Glass Menagerie,' closing
last night after 563 performances
played to $4,000 persons, who paid
s1,3oo,00o. -. The profit was slightly
staggering, taking into consideration
the economic advantages of four
person cast and single, though
somewhat complicated, setting.
The American Guild of Variety
Artists, vaudeville and night club
artists AFL union, paid off a tidy
$4,000 debt to four of its sister
unions. . The debt grew during
Evening star., 1946-08-04
HOLLYWOOD.

Always a tenant and never a
landlord-that used to be me-" says
Robert Cummings. He looks tired
and he's slightly irritable, And to
understand why we must review his
case history first as a tenant and
now as landlord.
Until this year. says Robert, II
thought landlords were awful men
who called on you the day after the
rent was due and said How about
it?' And unless you produced rent
right away. you were cut on your
ear. In short" says Bob L was one
of that happy breed of men, ten
ant. always lived in apartments in
New York and rented. houses in
Southern California.
Then I thought it would be nice
to own my own home, so I bought a
ranch in the Valley. Then came the
war and my fight with Universal"
Bob fought for release from his
contract because he was placed on
suspension for refusing to do a
picture and then was held on sus-
pension after the picture vas COM
pleted. He won his battle. But it
proved a Pyrrhic victory.
The lawsuit cost me fs55 900, "
says Bob, "but we did not put in a
claim for expenses. So there I was
in the Air Corps with little money
coming in and s55,ooo to pay out. So
I decided to-in fact had to-sell my
ranch. So far so good, although
sold just before the boom period in
real estate.
Full of Love.
Il thought it would be a good idea
then to sink the money from the
ranch into two-duplex apartment
house in Beverly Hills. I could live
in one and receive rent for the
other one. 1t was rented already
when I moved in.
And on the first day I walked
outside the building and looked at it,
l realized that I was a landlord
But was going to love my tenants
and they were going to love me-"
At this point We have loud music
And before continuing the saga of
the tenant ana the landlord, I'll give
brief description of the duplex
apartments owned by Cummings
Each duplex has three big bedrooms
three full-size bathrooms, a living
room, a breakfast nook and a
kitchen. The rented duplex is s85
month. This was the OPA price
and I expect it will stay at that
figure.
We go back to Mr.. Cummings, who
T. il you remember, is very tired and
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"Life With Fa-
ther," starting August 10.
C Al 1T TOL-"Cluny Brown"
with Charles Boyer and Jen-
infer Jones, starting Thurs
day.
COLUMBIA-"Easy to Wed"
with Van johnson and Esther
Williams, starting Thursday.
EARLE-"Night and Day." with
Cary Grant and Alexis
Smith, starting Thursday.
KEITH 'S-"Canyon Passage,
with Dana Andrews and
Susan Hayward.
LITTLE-"It Happened at the
Inn," a French film.
METROPOLITAN-"A Stolen
Life with Bette Davis.
PALACE-"Caesar and Cleopa-
tra,' with Vivien Leigh and
Claude Rains.
PIX-"I Married a Witch" with
Ere dric March, starting
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL-"O. S. S." 1:4o, 4:25,
7:l0 and $50 pm. Stage
shows, /, 3:45, $50 and 9:10
pm.
co UNI The Well
Groomed Bride" 1:15, 2:55,
4:40, $40, sos and 9:.55 pm.
EARLE-"A Stolen Life" /, 3,
$40, 7:35 and 9:55 pm.
HIPPODROME-"The Man in
Gray" 2, a, 5:55, 1855 and
9:55 pm.
KEITH'S-"Make Mine Music"
l:45, $50, $50, 7:55 and 10
LIT TIE Johnny in the
Clouds" 1:25. 3:25, $50, 7:35
and $40 pm,
METROPOLITAN Suspense. :"
los, 3:15, SIS, 7:35 and GAS
pm.
PALACE-"Anna and the King
of SIAM" 1890. 2:45, 5, 7:l5
and $50 pm.
PIX-"Sundown," lis, 4:lO, 7
H. and 10 pm.
| TRANS-LUX-NeWs and shorts.
| Continuous from l pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
FOOTBALL DOPE

Now word or two on football. Coach Jeff Cravath was dissatisfied with the results of the use scrim- mage early this week. So he has been sending his cohorts through hard sessions of contact work.
 Cravath was heartened by word that triple-threat quarterback Leo Riggs will be eligible for the varsity. Earlier, he had been kept off the roster by technicality.
 Across Los Angeles to the UCLA campus, coach Bert Labruherie is drilling his big squad on funda- mentals. He also put his kickers and passers through a heavy prac- tice session yesterday. A star back of l944 who returned this season, Johnny Roesch, was in uniform, but had to favor an injured ankle and confined himself chiefly to passing.
 The College of Idaho football squad is preparing for the toughest schedule in the Northwest Confer ence this year. School doesn't start until September 23rd. But the team turned cut yesterday at Caldwell to start drilling for the seasons opener September 28th against Eastern Oregon College of Educa- tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
Joe Talks About Go
 With Tan1i

POMPTON LAKES, N. J., Sept. Louis wants to tip off the traffic cops that he's looking for Tami Mauriello to try some reckless driving when they collide in Yan- kee Stadium a week from today, and as a result the Bomber figures this fuss could be over almost as soon as it starts.
 That Tamil Joe outlined the prawl, T know he's gonna come in there and try to run right over me. So. l figure I'll turn on the red light by trying to catch him coming in and letting him have it.
 T know he'll be swinging too. So, the way it looks, this fight could end right in the first round CT any time after that
 With the bombs going off on both sides. therefore, Joe insists Tami might land lucky one and win it in that first round, too. That's the kind of fellow Joe is. The book makers hereabouts make it 12 to 1 that the Bronx Barkeep doesn't do 1t any time at all. And while Joe gives Tani a chance, he admits he doesn't expect to lose, himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
CARDS HOLD TIGHT; LEAD
 TWO GAkES
(BY JACK HAND) ZAP SPORTS WRITER

AIS quiet in the Brooklyn bull pen where the over-worked relief artists have been squatting for a week, watching in wonder as five straight starters have gone the route.
 Rube Melton's three-hit, so shut out over Cincinnati yesterday may have clinched him days work against St Louis, because he beat HOWie Pollet last time the Red Birds were in town.
 The Dodgers drove Ed Heusser from the hill in the second inning.
 St. Louis held tight to it's two game lead by moving down the Phillies, 4-1 in a night game wit messed by 30,o85 fans Harry Brech- cen, now finding his stride after wobbly start, allowed only six tits.
 The Boston Braves took out after the third place Chicago Cubs and hammered them into submission, 10-2
 Pittsburgh took first blood in the cellar series with New York, dump ing the Giants, "A, to leave them only four points removed from last place.
 The Boston Red Sox had to post pCne their pennant clinching cele- bration for at least one more day when they fell before Detroit, 9-1 A win over the Tigers today would give Boston it's first flag since 1918.
 Detroit took over second place by three points over New York when the Yankees were beaten at Cleve- land. Az. The loss eliminated the Tanks last mathematical possibil- ity of tying the Red Sox.
 Two home runs by Gerry Phiddy on successive at bats helped Wash ington down Chicago, Az. giving Marino Pieretti a decision in his first starting chore of the season. St. Louis kept alive it's hopes of topping the second division by trimming Philadelphia, 5-1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
Coaches Get Good Cheer
 From Prof

OLYMPIA, Wash, Sept. 11-Here is an educators suggestion that would bring a cheer from many a college coach who has more worries about his halfbacks getting past the professors than past their op- ponents.
 Dr. George D. Strayer of Colum- bia University, expressed the belief after a prolonged survey of Wash ington State public schools that any boy who is proficient enough to make the school team should be allowed to play, regardless of his scholastic standing, providing it is high enough to let him remain in school at all
 He said there is confusion in the educational circles as well as in the public mind over who should be allowed to participate in ath- letics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
PUBLIC HEARING ON FLOOD CONTROL OF GOLD CREEK lS SET

A public hearing will be held in the City Hall at o'clock on the afternoon of September 30 to ob- tain the desires and views of all interested parties with respect to measures for flood control and re- lated matters on Golo Creek and tributaries according to advices re- ceived from L. H. Hewitt, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, District En- gineers, Seattle.
 Tn order to determine the neces- sity or desirability of the improve ments. data covering the following points in particular are requested ::
 C) Amount and extent of dam ages caused by floods.
 (2) Desired method of controlling floods.
 (3) Any changes in land use and development which might reasonab- ly be expected if flood protection were provided.
 (D Other factors concerning the  water resources of the basin that might be coordinated with flood control.
 (5) Nature and extent of coop eration that may be expected from local interests whereby the cost to the United States of the inn provements may be lessened; for example: rights-of way and case ments necessary for the construc- ton; assumption of maintenance by local interests; cash contribu- tions toward first cost and annual maintenance
 All interested parties are invited to be present or to be represented at the above time and place. They will be given full opportunity to ex- press their views orally, but for &C., curacy of record all important facts and arguments should be submitted in writing, as the records of the hearing will be forwarded for con- sideration by the War Department. Written statements may be handed 10 Col. Hewitt, or mailed to him be- forehand
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
PLAYERS, OWNERS NEAR AGREEMENT
 WORK PLATFORM

NEW YORK, Sept. 11-National League players and the major league club owners are near complete agreement cn a 10-point reform platform that now awaits only for maj ratification at a meeting be- tween the athletes representatives and magnates next Monday in New York.
 Dixie Walker of Brooklyn, who has been elected to represent the National League players on the new executive council that replaced the old advisory council, said there were few differences of opinions on the reforms.
 A S5,000 minimum wage, $25 per week during spring training, elim- ination of the 10-day release clause and a pension and security fund are the major points of the plat form.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
22 PASSENGERS IN FROM SOUTH BY pAA

Pan American Airways yesterday flew the following passengers to and from Juneau.
 To Seattle: David Cottingham, Henry Shade, Herman Shade, Ed win Shelby, Katherine Nordale, Mary Nordale Lydia Petersen, Goldie Berry Ann Davis.
 Virginia DeGanahl, Josephine DeGanahl, Charles DeGanahl, Hub ert Newton, Alex Holden, Jr., Julia Rohol
 Laura May Brunton, Patricia An cheta, Carlos Blanco. Alfredo Cab anilla, Fernando Cabansag.
 Florentine Cabuco. Isadoro Cach- ola, Clemente Cal, Andrea Corpuz Frederico Cuarasma, Martin Guar asma.
 Claro Eugenio, Pantaleon Flu genio, William Funtilla, Beunaven- tura Halover, Hilario Lacasca, Ma2 Marcus, Femin Sampayan, Doris Lockridge.
 To Whitehorse: John Dabovich.
 To Fairbanks: Mildred Murphy Townsend Hoagland. Gordon Wah- tc. John Dabovich
 From Seattle. Laura Arms, Gay Golden, Robert Zylka, Stuart Fra zier. William Milner, Guy Penney Thelma Osborn, Edward Cowling Jack Seeronen, Milo Seeronen. Midge Blackwood, Leonard Black wood, Marcia Ann Blackwood, Fred Stevens, Karen Wiggins, Lana Wig gins, Ruth Wiggins
 Elco Zorabia. Fred Gustferson Pierre Hinds, Dave Hausel, Chris Henning.
 From Ketchikan: Ted Simon Dan Starkweather.
 From Whitehorse: Elspeth Ire land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
OAKS BACK
 IN pENNANT
 RACE AGAIN
CBY THE ASSOCIATED PREss1

With all but the faithful ready to count them out, Oakland's Acorns bounced back from their worst slump of the season and challenged the San Francisco Seals today to a sprint for the Pacific Coast Base ball League pennant.
 The bat work of right fielder Max Marshall, who slammed out two home runs for three tallies, put the Accrns back in the race as they squeezed out a 5-4 victory last night over the San Diego Padres as San Francisco lost to Seattle, to l.
 It was San Diego's first appear ance this year out from under the wing of Pepper Martin, released by his request as manager in the next to the last week of the campaign. Jim Brillheart took over as tenn p0rary manager.
 Rainiers Beat Seals
 Oakland's victory and Seattle's defeat of the Seals narrowed the San Francisco margin to four games ahead of the Acorns.
 Bulky Johnny Orphal, who plead ed with manager Jo Jo White for his first start two weeks ago ana wen, took the mound again for the Rainiers. He struck out Il batters and held the Seals to seven scat tered safeties.
 Los Angeles climbed back into a tie with Hollywood for third place on an 8-2 triumph over the Sacra- mento Sclons. Portland's lowly Beavers outlasted the Hollywood stars for 9-7 decision in l2-in- nings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
SPECIAL MEETING
 OF ELk5 TONIGHT

There should be a good attend ance at the regular weekly meeting of the Elks Lodge tonight, starting at o'clock, The occasion is the official visitation to the lodge of District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Norman Banfield.
 There will also be initiation and a feed" following the transaction of business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-11
CHAMP WARD WINS FIRST ROUND MATCH IN NATL. AMATEUR

SPRINGFIELD, N. J., Sept. H. Defending Champion Marvin Bud Ward of Spokane won the last two holes to defeat John Sierge of Watching, N. J., one up, in the opening round of the National Amateur Gold Championship to- day.
 Ward negotiated stymie to square the match with the 'un- known" New Jersey school teach CT on the 17th, then took the 18th with a birdie four.