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Evening star., 1946-04-14

MoSC eXecraple criminal OF all Is
the one who eggs another into
murder. When Lynn Bari was
offered the role OF Elaine Jordan in
Shock" she accepted with enthu-
siasm. "Shock" is a psychological
murder thriller in which a specialist
in mental diseases is persuaded into
killing his wife and making an at
tempt on the life of the person who
witnessed his crime
Lana Turner shed her Spangles
and negligees for the wardrobe of a
waitress to play the grim lead in
The Postman Always Rings Twice"
This is torrid little tale by James
Cain in which girl and boy con-
spire to kill the greasy husband of
the girl, who runs a hash counter
If Lana longed for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayors incandeScent wardrobes
during its making, she never peeped.
The women in these two pictures
are accessories to. crime. But in
Leave Her to Heaven" Gene
Tierney enacts a heroine who needs
no tempting partner. She is the
young and beautiful wife who ruth
lessly permits her IA year old
brother-in-law to drown because he
occupies too much of her BRIDE
grooms time and attention. She
later kills her unborn child by fling
ing herself down a steep flight of
steps. Finally she manages to throw
suspicion of murder on her younger
sister by the peculiar methods of
suicide she employs.
With the exception of Leave Her
to Heaven" most of the murder
tales now in the making around
studios have been drawn from the
shelves. All the James Cain prop
critics, now a rage, were bought
years back, at very modest prices.
Each studio grabbed one in mortal
fear some rival would take courage
in hand and produce a hit with a
Cain story.
Then the unexpected happened:
Paramount, milling over old pur-
chases, ran onto Double Indemnity"
saw in it the germ for new type
character for Fred MacMurray, who
was sliding downhill under the
weight of slapstick comedies. The
scheme worked. MacMurray went
back to his rating as top star in the
colony. Barbara Stanwyck, always
winner, became even more so in
her most ruthless characterization.
And Cain properties all over town
were pulled out of storage, busted
off, scripted and thrown into work.
Joan Crawford, Bette Davis,
Paulette Goddard and Greer Carson
are next in line for Hollywood's busy
murder market. Murder will out, as
the saying goes, but every smart
movietown lass is out to land her
synthetic share of it.
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Evening star., 1946-04-14
The Full of the Moon Is His Darkest Hour
That According Gbby Gbb Studio Gateman Is the Time
When 'Screwbals Are Out in Force

came. We tucked him right back in
the foolish house from which he'd
escaped, that very same day.
"Would-be artists lug miniature
sets over to show producers-one
woman had a station wagon full of
'em. Another brought a trained
horse in a trailer-she said he was
the ideal Smoky But the author
with an original idea-so rare he's
afraid some one will steal it, so he
must read it in person to either Mr..
Schenck or Mr.. Zanuck-is by far
the most persistent of the lot. I've
known them to sit around for an en-
tire day. They don't know big execu-
tives come in another gate"
He's Not Infallable.
Gibby expects April 16 to be his
toughest day of the year. It'll be
full moon," he cracks owlishly, "and
with all this Forever Amber pub
licity, every nut in miles will head
straight for this gate"
This dragon of Gibby isn't in
fallible. Orson Welles went to great
pains once to beat him to the punch
and succeeded. 1t took three hours
hard work with the makeup de-
partment and involved a false eye
among other camouf1age, but Gibby
laughed the loudest when the truth
came out.
I'D have bet a 10 spot he was a
phony," he said. He kept shouting
Let me through. I'm Orson Welles.
The louder he got and the madder
he got the more I was convinced he
was an lmposter."
Once in a blue moon when Gibby
spots talent going to waste he di-
rects them to good agent: The
studio prefers iem to come in the
regular way"
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Evening star., 1946-04-14
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL - "Hoodlum Saint"
1:45, 4::30, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows, /, 3::45, $50 and
9:15 pm.
COLUMB Sentimental
Journey" LIS, 1925, $50, 7:3o
and 9:35 pm.
EARLE-"Miss Susie Slagle's,"
1855, 3:05, $40, 7:30 and
GAS pm.
HIPPODROME-"32 Rue Mont
martre," 2::25, Ais, 6:05, 7::55
and $40 pm.
KEITHS-"The Seventh VEIL
1:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
LITTLE-"Waltz Time" ITO,
3:15, $40, 7::30 and 9:4O pm.
METROPOLITAN -" Saratoga
Trunk" 1:25, 4, $40 and
$50 pm.
PALACE" "The Virginian,"
1:35, $40, $40, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
PIX-"Vanity Fair" /, 3:15,
$50. 7:35 and $50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Such Women Are Dangerous
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Screen writer's have always had a
fondness for murder because crime
is surefire at the box Office, but the
situation of having the woman star
perpetrate the deed is certainly a
novelty-and one that is spreading
at an alarming rate.
Plenty of current and coming film
properties call for Hollywood's lovely
young things to lay down their per-
fume atomizer and pick up gun,
bludgeon or knife. What if there is
a ruling you can't let blood flow in
Technicolor? Todays producers are
not disturbed and neither are the
lady headliners, all of whom are
fighting desperately to get hard
boiled assignments in the crime
category.
It's a radical shift in movie max
ing. If any one told you a few years
back that Gene Tierney, Lynn Bari,
Lana Turner, Barbara Stanwyck or
Bonita Granville would ever play
parts comparable to the real life
roles of Winnie Ruth Judd, Clara
Phillips or Louise Peete, you'd call
them balmy. But here they are
and flock more to come.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Miss America
Finally Gets
Film Break
By RosoIind Shoffer
HOLLYWOOD.

l1oLL "ooDs
That Rosemary La Planche did
not get anywhere in pictures earlier
is just one of those things that
happen in Hollywood.
Elected Miss America" In 1941
at II, Rosemary only recently got
her first real chance before the
cameras. She has just completed
her second role in 1.-The Devil Bats
Daughter" Her first was IN
STRANGER of the Swamp"
Neither was ''big budget" pic
ture, but Rosemarys performance
seems to have been good enough
to convince her producers that they
have good bet in their beauty
contest winner.
Rosemary says she feels that her
career has suffered from overad-
vertising as Miss America" I
have to work twice as hard to at
tract attention to my acting" she
says ruefully.
She did have a bit in an Eddie
Cantor picture when RKO had her
under contract, and advance posters
and magazine ads displayed her
face and figure prominently. When
the picture was released, she wasn't
even in 1t. Most of her time at
RKO, she says, was spent on tours
and posing for cheesecake art.
There Were Disadvantages.
The incest part about winning
the Miss America" title, she re-
calls was that she began getting
ohacLc fNr hnr yurry
as model. She posed for Gig
arctic ad job and got $500 for it.
Things like that.
There were disadvantages, too.
Promoters of the contest had rights
to her services for a year and sent
her on tour all over the country.
Offers were many and good at the
time she won the title, but things
had cooled off by the end of the
year.
When she came to RKO, the stu.
dio skipped a screen test and sent
her out agan for personal appear
ances. If, says Rosemary, she could
have made picture right after she
had won the contest, she might have
been an immediate success for she
was getting 1000 fan letters day.
Rosemary has the good taste to
let her figure display itself subtly
in simple clothes. She wears al
most no makeup and her rich brown
hair and large hazel eyes show to
good advantage against her natu-
rally clear, sun-tanned skin. She
is S feet inches tall and weighs
120 pounds.
/ Knows Her Shortcomings.
Rosemary started ballet dancing
at 3 and was modelling for CONNER
cial photographers at 10. At IL she
was as tall as she Is now. Passing
herself as ID. she used to enter
beauty contests and welcomed the
S25 checks, gold watches and other
prizes. 1t was all good experience,
she says.
She was top model here and in
New York and won honors in tipping
and shorthand.
Rosemary is frank about her
shortcomings She likes to do a lot
of things well, but she's sure she is
no great dancer and that her voice
will never make her famous, al
though she has sung with popular
bands. She likes music and dane
ing, but prefers outdoor sports and
sails an 18-foot boat with two sails.
She lives with her parents and helps
lug home the groceries. A devout
church member, she attends church
regularly.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
HOLLYWOOD.

Brass hats Of movietown are not
so much worried about the State Of
the Union at this moment as they
are about sinister and ever
increasing threat to their production
schedules. What all studio bosses
would like an answer to right now
Is this:
How can we keep the record
breaking invasion of sightseers
slated to descend this summer on
Hollywood of our lots without be-
ing too offensive about it?"
Yep, it's the same old enigma
only more so. During four years of
war, with it's ban on gasoline and
the restriction of rail travel, studios
had virtually no visitor problem
Occasionally a gent from Joliet or
some place would turn up with a
letter of introduction but so isolated
were these instances that some of
the directors and players even got
little jittery over the sudden soli-
tude.
The big ad for Hollywood and its
studios, presaging the summer
travel rush of 1916, came from the
millions of servicemen who paid the
town visits of varying length to and
from their task of whipping the
Japs. They wrote and told the folk
back home about the debatable Won
ders of screenland and they added
the personal plug when they got
back home. So, can you blame
Aunt Stella and Uncle Jasper, and
even the kids, for making their va
cation plans accordingly?
In brief. the studios dilemma is
to discourage these visitors-but to
do it as painlessly as possible. We
know the man who would bear the
brunt Of a flock of these problems
in diplomacy, SO we went out to see
him at the Goth Century-Fox lot
His name is Irving S. (Gibby) Gibb
who guards the electrically operated
south portal of that studio.
He's Heard Everything.
A wiry little Vermonter Of So
Gibby has a statesman's talent for
saying mo" pleasantly and on top
of that beagle's nose for scenting
phonies Skill in the latter line is
essential, for most visitors will re-
sort inevitably to subterfuge
Gibby has been with Goth Cen
tury-FoX for l8 years. In that time
he admits he has heard just about
everything. However, his most in
teresting experiences. he says, have
been with aspirants for screen fame.
Every time his studio makes an an
Inouncement about some big picture
in the offing he can foretell the ef-
feet upon his job.
For instance, after Forever Am
ber" was bought, he said, Now we're
Evening star., 1946-04-14
uNI.I.vWOND

HOLLYWOOD.
Philip Yordan will make million
dollars this year. But he still lives
in one room! His play, Anna Lu-
casta," brings him $1,000 a week, but
he spends less than $40 a week to
live in Hollywood! He wrote the
movie. "Dillinger" He wrote "Whis-
tie Stop" He has just completed
THE Chase" to star Robert Cum
mings. His play, THE Windy City,"
opens in New York May /.
For just advising a producer here
on some script changes he received
new luXury-make car. He owns a
lot of land next to Charlie Chaplin
in Beverly Hills. He has been offered
half million dollars for the screen
rights of Anna Lucasta." And only
few years ago the 30-year- old
writing wonder was shilling" in a
Chicago gambling joint for So a
highland was glad to get it!
It's fascinating story and catch
up with Mr.. Yordan between plays
and pictures to get the details of the
extraordinary sequences of events
that have placed him on top of the
success heap.
I've been writing plays for eight
years" Mr.. Yordan, who looks like
my idea of a bank clerk. tells me.
Things started to break for me four
years ago. A play of mine, ANY Day
Now was put on in Greenwich Viii
lage in New York. william Dieterle
saw it and called me in Chicago"
And the following is the verbatim
conversation.
Would you like to come to Holly
wood?" (Dieterle speaking).
yes"
"How much do you want?"
Enough to live on"
How much is that?"
Five dollars a day."
Prefers the Independents.
"Okay, so you're alive" Yordan
tells me Dieterle replied. In actual
fact he was paid $40 a week while
scripting The Devil and Daniel
Webster and "Syncopation,' star
ring Bonita Granville.
Now, there isn't a major studio
in town that would fail to offer
Yordan $4,000 a week and more if
he could be had. But the boy pre-
fers to work with small independent
groups like the King brothers and
Seymour Nebenzal, who cut him in
on share of the picture profits.
And the profits have been quite
progressive.
For 'Dillinger' I was paid 81, 500
as a writer. plus third of the
profits" says Yordan. The picture
cost $87 900 to make and already has
crossed more than a million. For
whistle Stop starring George Raft.
I was paid $4,000 for writing the
script and given so per cent Of the
profits
The writer expects to make $780,
900 as his share of this one. And
the same for "The Chase" which he
bought himself for $500 and sold to
Nebenzal for $25 900, in addition to
his $4,000 for writing it and the so
per cent of the profits! Guess how
long these movie stories take Yordan
to write? Three weeks!
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL -" Hamlet" with
Maurice Evans, starting to-
morrow night.
CAPITOE"Bad Bascomb,"
with Wallace Beery and Mar
garet O'Brien, starting Thurs
day.
COLUMBIA-"Rebecca," with
Joan Fontaine and Laurence
Olivier, starting Thursday.
EARLE-"The Bandit of Sher-
wood Forest" with Cornell
Wilde.
K ETH s." "Tangier," with
Maria Montez.
LITTLE-"Prisoner of Zenda,"
with Madeleine Carroll and
Ronald Colman.
MEROPOLITAN-"The Wife of
Monte Cristo," with John
Loder and Leonore Aubert.
PALAC E"Ziegfeld Follies,"
Ke31v Kith Fred Astaire and Gene
PIx-"Sign of the Cross" with
Fredric March, starting Tues
day.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Is Plays Up, and II Down
New Productions Offered Here Prove
Success an Elusive Thing
By Joy Cormody


By Jay cormody
somewhat casual heaegoer keep of such
OF chaotic standards most plays got by.
The lrme was quite incorrect degree its error is as
evident in review of the the a survey
o ne new YORK season The mortality fact virtually
horrible sufficiently to discourage might have been
thinking of taking up playwring profession ~
Since the National season on an arbitrarily
chosen date early 2 productions OF these
the 5 were unhappy failures the they
closed at once mped along in always vain
that the investment in them might part
herewith
Good Night ladies' deary flop which started
with the foolish notion that ribad enough public
would go for it in a big way The public sneered
An Obvious Folly.
Poonaise with Jan Kiepra and Marta
Eggerh which struggled briefly turn out to
be Polish okhoma" pathetic its music cooress
its comedy heavy folly obvious
The Rugged PATH" by no less playwright than
sherwood after three years of silence closed loser
struggle despite the Spencer the principal role
The Next Half Hour" confused pen of
less than a week Broadway.
"Dmngans Daughter" part of s. N Berhmans
lean tycoon and State Department liberal
Mexico young tycoons wife The
Theater Guilds fastest flop in many seasons
Spring in Brazil musical representing
had the atrociou judgment Milton principal
role Kept alive the the appalled,
producers decided to take their losses
Shabby Imitation.
The Joyous Season. revived by Arthur Hopkins Ethel
Barrymore in the starring role which
Chicago after Mr. Hopkins decided the test of
Broadway opening.
Windy Hill" shabby Hollywood of sophisticated
comedy about life the artists written
duced by Ruth chatterton and dreariy acted
rations Tor Broadway debut morbid
He Who Gets Slapped" elaborate of the
Theaer Guilds first loves which struggling guild
scriber Broadway spite
found empty and preentous
81 years
Miss JONES' photographed comedy Gordon pro-
duced by Max Gordon withdrawn
when the producer likely find the theae
New York favorable.
Withdrawn in Indecision
hy
and Laso Vadnay dealing with Cfornas
connected the production
whether the should
farce withdrawn the conclusion
last night.
HOn the whole which in II failures
productions be
far the National Theae bookings
ment of the local house excited booking
elsewhere
phia should have the
at II of IS, the figure still nothing
OF the other four productions
Broadway hits They State of the Union 20 Mistress
THE Magnificent Yankee The fourth Guilds
Winters Tale mprevy produced Shakespeare
which the critics looked
Bard the author of pot-boiler.
n it, trying produce sue
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: WEST LEESBURG


Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Bader
and daughter, Bonnie Lee; Mr.. and
Mrs. d. K. Wilson and daughter,
Theo, were Sunday guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Hill.
Nancy Handy went to Worthing-
ton, Sunday for a visit with her
uncle, Lloyd Baldwin and family.
Bernice Owens, Beryl Phipps
and Mrs. Luther Berger an d
daughter Roberta, were Sunday
afternoon callers at the L. F. De-
Good home Sunday afternoon.
Evelyn Hisey was a caller at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Meredith
Handy, Sunday.
John DeWeiss is erecting a new
home on the land he purchased
recently of Roy Stone
Callers at the G. w. Hill home
Sunday evening were Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard HiSey, of Broadway, and
Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. DeGood.
Quite a number from this COM
munity attended the funeral of the
Shoemaker children, at Broadway
church Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Perry have
their grand children from Akron
with them for an extended visit.
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= MT. VICTORY
BY MRS. KARL DREAMER

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Mcmahon and
son, Clarence, and daughter, Ar
dith, of Broadway, were Wednes-
day evening callers at the Har-
land Foreman home.
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Skidmore were Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Anderson and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Miller and
family of Kenton.
Richard RiZor and Ward Carey
spent from Tuesday until Sunday
in Cleveland.
Mrs. Margaret Richardson, of
Toledo, Mrs. Hattie Geiser, Mrs.
Edith Price and Mrs. Hazel Stin-
son, of Kenton, were Sunday visi-
tors at the Jesse Creamer home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Patton, of
Columbus, are the proud parents
of a son, born Tuesday at Univer-
sity hospital. Mrs. Patton is the
former Nancy Willauer.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rizor Wis
tied Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul RiZor, of Ada, Sunday.
Blanche and Goldia Amrine, of
Alhambra, Calf, arrived Thurs
day for a visit at the Carl Mccall
and L. ]. Thompson homes.
Mrs. Clarinelle Reedy andfam-
lily, having visited her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Marvin Harvey, left Mon
day for their home in Santa Rosa,
Calf.
Members of the Mt. Pleasant
church enjoyed a picnic dinner on
July II at the roadside park south
of LaRue. There were guests at
tending from Kenton, West Mans
field and Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. JeraId Gamble and
son were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Burgett.
Mrs. Dora Sutton and Charlie
Tapp, of Bellefontaine, and Mrs.
Willy Tapp, of Rushsylvania, were
guests or Mrs. X. b. Cowgirl on
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ThomaSson
and Mrs. James Allen, of LaRue,
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Matt Craig.
The various circles of the w. S.
c. S. held their regular meetings
Thursday afternoon. Circle No. 1
met at the home of Mrs. Frank
Mccall, with 8 members and four
guests attending. Mrs. Bess Nc
Mahon had charge of the devot-
ons. Mrs. Mccall served a delic-
ious lunch at the close of the
meeting. Circle No. 2 was enter
tanned by Mrs. Cora Rizor. Eight
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members and two guests were
present. Mrs. Humphreys and
Mrs. McKim led the devotions.
Circle No. 3 met w tn Mrs. George
Butler, six members attending.
Mrs. Hannah Mccall had charge of
the devotions. Circle No. met
with Mrs. VIM. LeVan, with nine
members and four guests present.
Mrs. George Martin had charge of
devotionS. Lunch was served at the
close of the meeting. Circle No. 5
met at the home of Mrs. Don Nc
Kay, ten members and two guests
attending. Mrs. VIM. Bird led the
devotions. Mrs. Mckay served a
delicious lunch.
Mrs. Emma ReamS, of Cincin-
natl, and Mrs. Clyde Conklin, of
Ridgeway, were weekend guests
of Mrs. r. B. Cowgirl and Miss
Ethel Tapp.
Mrs. Milton Easterday and her
daughter, Sharon, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Thompson
from Friday until Sunday.
Ralph Lee, Tom Neal, Maxine
Orth and Doris Dickson are at
tending the Youth Fellowship
summer institute at Lakeside this
week. Rev. and Mrs. King are
conducting craft classes at the in
stitute.
Mr.. Dallas Goff, OF West Mans
field, will speak at the Methodist
church, AugutS 4, instead of Rev.
King.
Miss Patricia Tucker is spending
ing this week in Springfield Wis
ting her brother, Dickie, who is not
as well as he was.
Mrs. Harry Whips wishes to
thank all her friends mad neigh
bors for their lovely cards. gifts
and flowers during her recent ill
ness.
The Mt. Victory Custom Gamer
y is in operation now and will take
care of vegetables and fruits. Ma
ny green beans, beetS, spinach and
peaches are being canned. Every
one who has patronized the new
establishments seems to be very
we'll pleased with the results.
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BETTE RHOADS MARRIEs


Mr.. and Mrs. r. Y. Rhoads, of
West Seventh street, announce the
marriage of their daughter, Bette,
to Mr.. William H. Eckberg, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Ekberg, of
Dayton, Ohio, on June 8.
The bride graduated from Mar
ysville high school and then at
tended Ohio State university,
where she was a member of Delta
Zeta sorority. She has appeared on
the New York stage for the last
five years as a dancer. She toured
Europe in 1945 as a member of the
u. S. o.
The groom graduated from Fair.
view high school, Dayton and then
attended Miami university where
he was a member of Sigma Chi
fraternity. He enlisted in the army
| in 1912 and served in the European
theatre in the 63rd infantry div
ision and later in the 42nd Rain
bow division.
The couple recently returned
from an extended trip to the deep
South where they were entertain
! ed at a number of parties given
in their honor by Mr.. S. w. lie
Jeune, an overseas friend of Mr.
Ekberg.
The couple will make their home
at Marathon ave-, Dayton, and
both will resume their studies
this fall at the University of Day
ton.
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AT LAKESIDE INSTITUTE

A group of young people from
the Methodist Youth Fellowship
drove to Lakeside Sunday to at
tend the Southwest Ohio Institute
which meets July % to August A.
Those from Marysville attending
the Institute are Jane Beasecker,
Marjorie Brown, Ann Carr, Joann
Evans, Mary Lou Jenny, Clara
McCracken, Margaret ReamS,
Donna Ross, Marilyn Shearer, Pat
Way, Douglas Beasecker, Jim
Beck, Russell RoSette, Gene
Sprague, Harold Thompson, Mrs.
E. A. Marten and Rev. and Mrs.
K. B. Alexander. The young peo-
pie were driven to the camp by a
number of their parents. They will
enjoy a week of study, worship,
projects and recreation. 1t is ex-
pected that 900 young people from
Springfield, Lima and Columbus
districts will be present.
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WhOOping Cough

Until recently there has been no
effective way of dealing with whoop-
ing cough. Now comes DR.. Harriet
H. FELTON, with the announcement in
the Journal of the American Med
ical Association that when hyper
immune serum is used the mortality
rate of the affiiction is lowered. The
serum is prepared from the blood Of
an adult donor who has a history Of
whooping cough In childhood.
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IL IL II
KNOTS REUNION

The Knots reunion will be held
Sunday at the home of Dale Bush
ong. Turn at road beside of North
Lewisburg school house, first road
to right and first house on the
left.