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Evening star., 1946-11-24

however, to dance ON the screen
once again in later years, as partner
for no less a specialist than Fred
AStaire.
Ginger Rogers sprang to film
fame as Astaire's partner in a long
series of musicals at RKO, starting
with Flying Down to Rio" but she
was never happy with her chore
She put a stop to it six years age
and has never resumed screen step
ping. Her reward for this switch
was an Academy Oscar via kitty
Foyle."
Rita Hayworth spent four years
around the studios typed as dane
ing girl, and then won her best
break in a nondancing siren role for
"Only Angels Have Wings" Co
lumbia followed this up by capital
izing on Rita's dancing ability in a
dozen successful features, but in the
past two years has gradually paced
her back to dramatic parts, with
only a few flash excerpts to remind
fans that she is primarily q girl
who used her feet to get places.
There always will be a field, OF
course, for the novelty type of dance
expert, such as Yvonne de Carlo,
who has enjoyed phenomenal sue
cess at Universal in honky-tonk
movements. "Salome, Where She
Danced" and the current slave
Girl' give Yvonne the chance to
wear tight satins and slink her way
through maneuyers you'd expect to
find in q carnival sideshow.
No resume Of the dance drought
would be complete without refer
ence to the Hollywood boy of the
hour-Mr. Van johnson. In case
you've forgotten, Van has q dancing
background. through his appear
ance in the Broadway musical, pal
joey" And now MGM is making
him dance In all his pictures. In
Till the Clouds Roll By" just pre-
viewed, Van does lot of neat
ballroom prancing. SO maybe he's
the gent tabled to lead that lost
art back to its proper place in the
film armament
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Today's Schedules

CAPITOL angel on My
Shoulder" LAS, ABS, 7::20
and 1910 pm. Stage shows,
1855, $40, $50 and $3.50 pm.
COLUMBIA--"Thre Wise
Fools" 1:30, $3.50, $50, 7::30
and $50 pm.
EARLE-'"The Dark Mirror"
100. 3:25. $50, 7::35 and 9:45
pm.
HIPPODROME"Dead of
Night" 2::35. 4:30. 6:25, $40.
and $3.50 pm.
KEITH'S -" Notorious" 1918,
2:l0, 4:05, 6, 8 and 9::55 pm.
LITTL E-"Henry the Fifth"
2:30 and $3.50 pm.
METROPOLITAN IN o b o d y
Lives Forever" /, $40, $40,
7:30 and $40 pm.
PALACE-"Margie," !, $40,
$50. 7:25 and S:35 pm.
PIx-"White Pongo," !, 3::25.
$40, $40 and 1925 pm.
TRANS-LUx-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1946-11-24
HOII,YWOOn

x1OLL WS<l0s
Is dancing to become q lost art7
Movie trends say yes. Possibly
dancing will never sink to the very
depths. but If the rumblings in
Hollywood mean anything-and
they invariably do about all man.
ners and customs-then the hoofer
is in for sparse months ahead.
The screen has definitely decided
on a turnback from the musical
picture and it is from the musical,
of course, that dancers are spawned
and developed.
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer recently
announced cancellation of several
Importantly planned musicals with
big dancing sequences. So did goth
Century-Fox. Both studios have
been foremost in propelling the
song-and-dance film to its high
pinnacle in recent years. Warner
Bros, originals Of the music-and-
dance extrayaganzas, long ago threw
them on the discard list.
Theren be q sudden reversal some
day. Music and dancing have gone
on the film shelf many times before,
but have always enjoyed a renais-
sance. However, not since the talkies
swept in on Hollywood has there
been such q definite blackout as
1916 placed on this type of presenta-
ton. Dancing schools around the
Nation have felt the effect this
year, as never before, and that is
pretty forceful proof that the movies
do have their effect on our habits.
Only . Sideline.
When Fred Astaire, after making
Blue Skies" hung UP his dancing
shoes, only Gene Kelly appeared on
the scene as serious claimant to
Fred's title as No. / male dance
star.
Meanwhile, Eleanor Powell, Gin
ger Rogers and other feminine
dancers have gone into semi-retire-
ment or have switched to straight
roles. Even Rita Hayworth, in the
sensationally successful "Gilda, ("
went almost completely dramatic
and used couple Of dancing spe-
cialties only as a sideline.
Hollywood once built entire pro-
ductions around dance routines,
such as the Astaire-Rogers series
starting in 1888 and the spectacular
eye-fillers staged by Busby Berke-
ley for the Warner outfit. But to-
day the dances seen on the screen
are limited to q few flashes. In
stead of relying altogether on hoof-
ing, the modern musical builds its
appeal on star names, story and hit
parade music.
Many an outstanding personality
who started in business strictly as
a dancer is now happy that he
stilled his feet and specialized in
other departments. Take Bob Hope.
After schooling in Cleveland, Bob
whipped up dancing act and fin
ally got chance to appear pub
licly when Fatty Arbuckle made a
Evening star., 1946-11-24
NEW YORK

NEW ISfkh.
When Lillian Hellman wrote "The
Little Foxes" she fashioned drama
Of q tough, scheming and hardly
admirable family, dominated by q
woman of superior seriousness and
awful imagination. In Another
Part OF the Forest" the author turns
her attention back 20 years before
the time of her earlier play, tracing
the same central characters with an
equally malevolent pen.
But where "The Little Foxes" re-
manned throughout sustained por-
trait of family spitefulness. "An-
other Part of the Forest" fails to
stand up through its entirety. After
two acts Of excellent construction,
distinctive writing and probing
characterization, Miss Hellman per-
mits her plot to get in her way. The
lengthy, heavy explanation OF past
things and offstage action, OF per-
sons dead 16 years and horrible
scheming of another day, stops the
action and the play sputters to a
conclusion in q moraSs OF antich-
mactic quicksand.
AS q sheer character study, the
first two acts are almost superb.
The father who rules his brood OF
little foxes with an iron hand, the
scheming daughter, the vixen OF the
lot and her selfish brothers combine
to form a picture Of brilliant ma
levolence. Patricia Neal, in the role
played SO superbly on the Broadway
stage by Tallulah Bankhead and ip
films by Bette Davis, is lovely girl
who projects the desperate malig-
nancy of a venomous nature with
the assurance and ability Of an
actress twice her years and expert
ence. Mildred Dunnock as the pa
thetic, demented mother has an ac-
tress' field day and plays her role
with expressive excellence. Percy
Waram makes the most Of the best,
meaning earlier. portions of the play,
his part petering out as the play
begins to shatter.
Another Part of the Forest,
produced by Kermit Bloomgarden,
designed and lighted by 10 Mel
ziner, costumed by Lucinda Ballard,
is two-thirds Of an excellent play.
Unfortunately its bad portion comes
at the very end, and its tagging
Evening star., 1946-11-24
Terpsichore Gets a Vacation
Dancing All but Disappears From the Screen,
Temporarily at Any Rate
Bv Horojd Heffernon
By HoroId Heffernon

personal appearance In the Ohio
metropolis. The late Fatty took q
keen interest in Bob's stepping and
encouraged him to go out with q
musical show. 1t was only through
an accident that Hope released him.
self from dancing. The manager of
a theater asked him to make a
special announcement, and he did
SO In such comical manner that
he decided to make clowning his
specially. He's been doing 1t ever
since.
. Joan Once Danced.
Jimmy Cagney and George Raft,
two of the screens mostt vivid in
terpreters Of the tough-guy school,
are ex-stage dancers. Cagney once
appeared in a line Of chorus boys
and for one entire season imper-
'sonated woman in dancing spe-
cialty. Raft danced in New York
night clubs and it was his slick,
svelte appearance in such roles that
won him his Hollywood opportu-
nifty. He has danced in two or
three films. but for the most part
has stuck to gunner and the like.
Cagney won an Academy Award
for his George M. Cohan role In
Yankee Doodle Dandy" but it was
his dramatic ability, not dancing,
that put the Oscar in his lap.
Most celebrated Of all Hollywood
ex-dancers is Joan Crawford, who
has gone exclusively dramatic and
in such a high-powered manner as
to bring her an Academy citation
for Mildred Pierce" Joan, pro-
duct of Shubert song-and-dance
shows on Broadway, was the dane
INCEST girl In movieland upon her
arrival here in 1925. She spent all
her time between pictures in Los
Angeles public dance halls, winning
one cup after another especially for
her spectacular stepping Of the
Charleston. She gave up dancing
both in public and on the screen,
long ago. Some one suggested that
she do a dance number for her cur
rent film, Possessed" and she
threw up her hands In horror.
A kid from Brookly n named Ruby
Stevens, whose ambition was to be-
come another Isadora Duncan, took
dancing lessons and finally clicked
on Broadway in Ziegfeld and Shu-
bert shows. It Is as Barbara Stan
wyck that she has hoisted herself
among the screens highest wage
rs-playing straight roles, nev-
er dancing.
Paulette Goddard landed on the
Hollywood scene rs dancer. She
kicked her feet merrily in "The Kid
From Spain" starring Eddie Cam
tor. But when Charlie Chaplin
saw this movie he induced Paulette
to give up footwork. The comedian
cast her as his leading woman in
Modern Times" and that was the
end of the Goddard dancing ambi-
tions. She was prevailed upon,
Evening star., 1946-11-24

Taylor's great interest now-apart
from his wife-is flying. He has a
Beechcraft plane on ories, but it
seems was wrong in crediting Bob
Evening star., 1946-11-24
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-'Eagle Rampant"
with Tallulaf Bankhead,
starting December 2.
CAPITOL,-''No Leave No Love-"
with Van johnson, starting
Thursday.
EARLE-"Never Say Goodbye"
with Enrol Flynn.
KEITH'S-"Song of the South, "
with Ruth Warrick.
M e T r OPOLITAN-
Plains m q A." with Gary
Cooper, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Undercurrent." with
Robert Taylor and Katharine
Hepburn.
PIx-"I Was Faithful" starting
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-11-24

from Spangler Arlington Brugh to
Robert Taylor. when we were
married and the minister called Bar
bara Ruby Stevens Brugh, she said,
Not that!"
Barbara's adopted son Dion is
now Is years old and he's at board
ing school Barbara has done .
wonderful job with him. says Bob.
He is the first to admit that Bar
bara also has done q wonderful job
on her husband.
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Non-Inflated Movies
They Still Hint the Dollar Will Buy Anything
Poor Girl Desires
By Joy cormody

has to pretty anything quarrel about In
and Notorious" 17gsS 71s
Nevertheless bent upon being obnoxious can
make it. - s'''-'.--' ~ 8
nasranty approach nray ME- which
should not be tolerated as flaws in their excellence
To take the It's principal
concern with twin sisters girls named Terry and Ruth Collins
played by Olivia De Hayand These girls employed
They run the stand In employer
does not know they twins possible
that one to cut the 40hor
twins.
Thi. I. How TO Hall I sJob 3
This halving job course is not to be
protested It dramatically ado
The only thing wrong with II is its implications tn.
twins wardrobes and the quality their dce apartment
indicates that
high finance publishing multi million magazines gests
or even in black marketing The thing to DO is to hotel
stand really want income in the
bracket H. OF course you are willing to take THE Dark Mirrors
word for it.
conspicuous OF
touch with todays imitation is to be found later the otherwise
engrossins picture.
After they have become involved in the plots
the Collins twins fired from their
agement which mped better than hotel should
be- the Collins
their apartment which and we'll furnished?
Of amazing fortune amazing finance at least does nothing Of
the kind. ss#a.
Night Robes Fit for . Princess 2a@s55 .1..S
The young osycha who Smay wsnts to investigate the girls
temperass1 weekly
this $50 weekly is their sole income but does nothing to
their standard of living In the apartment the they
be the of Marie Antonete she s alive and
their outdoor matching detail that
really stunning hopeey beyond the possibilities Of
Their routine the girls call three times weekly
psyhiatrist
they appointment What startling they
Begdorf daughters
could not look loveier.
An oddly dyerting dramatic factor in The Dark Mirror that
having committed exciting murder the Collins
good Their Of income is the
psychiatists Apparently that with
that momentary questions the twins this
deepest in their natures.
But There Are the Cyns
that that
In this market he leaves to cyncs in the audience
Unfortunately there least the audience
questions there usually
Hollywood
ignoring the fact that really
important don't make Hollywood salaries
Notorious who has heard OF the Federal
travelling employees
the living standards Of the intelligence
in Of Mata Hari be all
right Bergman in that penthouse Rio de Janeio
earlier But about Agent Grant
could live that they
United States Steel sewing
machine company?
apparently thinks things but
of its customers are beginning to-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-01

C VICTE As the Allies moved to punish Japanese guilty of atrocities, Gen. Tomo- yuki Yamashita {abOpe), former commander of Jap forces in the Philippines, was convicted by a military tribunal in Manila and
 sentenced to death.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-11
WAsTEi

WASTED
At a time like this when mil
lions are on the verge OF starva-
ton and Americans are asked to
tighten their belts and eat less, IL
might be well to do a little think
ing.
II 10 estimated that there are 40
million families hin the United
States also. that acre is q waste
OF two ounces OF bread (about two
slices) per family on the average.
The aggregate waste then would
be so million ounces, or Ave mil
lion one-pound loaves; or 1880 tons
daily waste In this country. Allow.
ing SO feet for the length OF a box.
car, and 10 tons OF bread to the
car this would make up q train
OF more than one and one-half
miles In length.
At IL cents a loaf this would
amount 10 $4,000 daily waste In
this one Item alone.
Another small item might be
mentioned IN this connection.
In an editorial In the Detroit
News OF February 20, we have
the following: quote verbatim.
How much did you drink
Incident 10 the news that beer
output 10 to be cut In favor OF saw.
ing grain for Europe, this statistic
is published that Michigan's beer
consumption in 1915 was 4.670,746
barrels Tor nearly a barrel for each
individual In the state).
I'VE end. for example, that
4,670,746 barrels are 242,S7S,792
gallons. or l,s2i.5so,s $40 bottles of
the usual sire. Turning to the II.
quid volume aspect OF the case.
which. We understand. Is OF inter.
est to beer-drinkers, we find that
4.e70,T4s barrels are 5s,105. 000.952
cubic inches. BY this seemingly
devious route we discover that the
beer consumed in Michigan in 1916
was equal to the average amount
of water passing over Niagara
Falls each two minutes. AZ sec
onds."
End Of quote.
One billion. eight hundred TWEEN.
ty-one million. Ave hundred ninety
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-11
THEY SAY

Richmond-Former Prime Minis
ter winston Churchill: Peace will
not be preserved by pious senti-
ments expressed in terms OF plati-
tudes or by official grimaces and
diplomatic correctitude."
Washington-Rep. John Rankin
Of the House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee: There can be no
question that Communist spies and
their fellow-travelers are trying 10
secure the secrets OF what Presi-
dent Truman calls the 'know-how'
Of making the atomic bomb. %"
London-Fleld Marshal Sir Der.
nard l.. Montgomery: 81 would not
take food from England 10 feed big
overgrown Germans"
Philadelphia-Robert r. Wason,
president OF the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers: I'VE watch
the federal government divide the
wealth Of the past to appease pres
sure groups while preventing the
creation OF new wealth."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-11
The Grand Rush
The Grand Rush
These Dayss~y f .Eo '' Z: 5ozols7

Congressman tell me that 1t is
called the Rosenman technique. I
do not quite know why. Looking at
a photograph OF the ubiquitous Sam
the Rose in Miami, summing himself
in the leisure of the elite who gov
ern us, / should not have imagined
that rushing is his forte. Yet, l
am assured by members OF Con-
gress-Republicans, must admit
that the device-like so many
presidential speeches - originated
in his mird and that Roosevelt
used II with the skill of a cormor-
ant but Truman with the thambl-
ings OF the proverbial Missouri
mule. So many accusations and
Notifications are hurled at our
ruling class that no one can be sure,
but | record this one for its his
torical value.
The technique may be written
up as a work study as follows: the
executive-that is, the office OF the
President, all the advisers and exc
cutiye secretaries included-fill a
basket with bills, acts, proposals,
speeches, radio broadcasts and
other calculations and throw them
at the Congress, loading that body
down so that everybody has too
much work to do, hearings are in
adequate and no one can study the
subject thoroughly or even read
the reports of the hearings. Bills
log up so that there is n squabble
over the right OF way. The country
shifts its angry glare from an alibi-
manufacturing. error-making one.
Recommendation presi-
dency TO Congress that is begged
down by presidential messages,
"musts', proddings. weddings. un-
truthful speeches concerning con-
gressional ineptitude. And the ma.
ton continues 10 suffer from infla-
ton and lack OF productivity. both
in no small measure due TO the con-
fusions created by this process.
This technique has been at work
these many years. In fact, II op-
crates so successfully that vaude-
Williams turned politicians, night
club walters turned philosophers,
sports writer's turned aristotles,
when they have nothing better to
aggravate their intelligences, let
out at the incompetence OF Con-
gress, never realizing that tina:
body suffers from the viciousness
Of an irresponsible executive de-
liberately fomenting excessive and
humorously devised legislation
with fancy slogans and false titles.
but always with the objective OF
keeping Congress in a Jam. As
long as Congress seems queer, no
one quite notices the absurdities OF
the executive. That IL one reason
why the American people find
themselves stuck with the Yalta
secret agreements and why we sud
denly discover that we have a "a.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-11

tilted treaty granting UNO extra
territoriality In our country.
When these Republican legisla-
tors told me that Sam Rosenman
was the author OF this pixie, l
would not believe them. It is the
sort OF thing that man with q
thin and hungry look might cogi-
tate and PROFOUND. No rotund,
round-faced personality. whose
cherubic expression denotes an
alteration OF the higher gustative
emotions, could have devised so
vile yet workable a scheme. For
mind you. and say it in self-de-
Tense, men OF poundage usually pro-
duce happy plans OF perfection.
Vide: Henry VIII or Caligula!
Now Congress cannot pass legis-
lation as speedily as the presi-
dental secretariat can write a
message or a speech. AS one who
once earned part OF his living as =
ghost for unintelligent great men.
am sure that some recent presi-
Dental documents could have been
turned out blind-folded in under an
hour. And no professional would
have produced so poorly. Yet. these
articulations invoke Legislation on
economic and social problems ~
such historical magnitude as the
wage and price structures. the re.
lationship of profits to the total
economy OF the nation determining
whether this country shall remain
capitalistic or become socialistic
by the remote and overlarded sub
terfuge OF destroying private en-
terprlse by taxation. the elimina.
ton Of opportunity for small busI.
ness, and production for use at a
loss, together with government
loans to new and unwarranted en-.
terprises created 10 compete with
existing and competently managed
private enterprises.
These problems involve the most
thorough study and analysis but
they are dumped on Congress by
an executive who now goes about
the country walling that nobody
passes the laws he asks for that
too. is part OF what these legisla-
tors call the Rosenmin technique
that man will 20 down in history II
be really Is all they say he Is.
Copyright. 1896. for Ypsilanti
Daily Press)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-11

Dire Plight of
Europe Shown in
Hoover Visit

President Truman's call 10 for
mer President Herbert Hoover and
other business leaders for a food
conference is evidence o; the ma
tons "precariouS" situation In re-
gard to yictuals.
High officials OF the Department
OF Agriculture are convinced the
only way for the United States TO
meet its commitments to starving
Europe is for every American to
eat 10 per cent less.
Many observers believe the Unit
ed States has eaten too much and
too fast" since the end OF the war.
They contend ration restrictions
were relaxed too soon and that a
poor crop in 1896 could cause even
greater food shortages than those
experienced during the war.
They point out that the present
rather ample supply OF food is
strictly temporary. that heavy mar
keting during the present feed
grain shortage will lower the meat
supply, and that overseas commit
ments will drain domestic surplus
es.
Far-reaching decisions we're ex-
pected at the food conference, and
like il or not, America In all proba-
bility is going TO change Its eating
habits.
The White House does not want
a return to rationing but a tighten
ing o. belts all around is strongly
indicated.
Rep. Helen Douglas Mankin (D)
OF Georgia felt that she got off TO a
bad start on her first day In Con-
gress.
She had bought a pretty new hat
for the occasion. II was nicely fas-
tened to her hair by tricky combs.
She had taken last satisfying look
at herself in the mirror.
Then, only a minute before the
House met, she was rushed to the
office Of Speaker Sam Rayburn (D)
of Texas to be introduced TO him
in accordance with tradition.
Rayburn chilled her heart. He
told her that the rules OF the House
prevented women members from
wearing hats during sessions.
OFF came Mrs. Mankin's hat She
felt distressed because she hadn't
paid particular attention TO how her
hair looked that morning. what with
the excitement, the new hat and all.
Spectators thought she shouldn't
have worried. Her softly curled hair
fell nicely into place, hat or no hat.
-
Government officials are fearful
of a bitter and long-drawn-out bat
tie when coal wage negotiations get
under way.
John L. Lewis apparently Is de-
termined to make finish fight this
time on the issue Of organizing
mine foremen in the United Mine
Workers Union.
The coal operators will oppose
this move with all their strength
and a prolonged strike may result
On the wage side, Lewis Is ex-
pected to demand a return to the
miners pre-war 35-hour week at
the present level Of pay for 81
hours.
Lewis, incidentally, already is
welding q powerful influence in
the AFL., which he rejoined a month
ago.
When ALL President William
Green delivered q blast from the
White House steps against restora-
ton Of wage controls, newsmen
were puzzled. II was not like Green
TO be sounding off Ike that at the
axarutiye mansion.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-11
Half Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Officers meeting of the Presbyterian Missionary
Charles Hebbewhite Mrs B. s.
Boyce president; Luckng first vice PRESIDENT Mrs.
Bonnghauen second vice president; Mrs Fannie
Hubbard recording secretary Mrs NJ Davis corresponding
secretary Mrs NJ H. Webb foreign treasurer Mrs j. Garrett
Hebbewhite literature
Miss Gertrude Omer and Barwise Manwarring at
home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Fenker.
Death: Miss Clifford DAWSON formerly Of this city
Mr. Harry Smiley girl Boyer Hospital.
To Mr. Mrs Richard Cutting Susan Plat Ann Arbor
at St Josephs Hospital Ann Arbor
Fifty Years Ago
Seventy friends Gy gathered at his home In ceebra
ton OF his birthday.
W. Carpenter Is making the inter
Tor OF his store Several and OF the
furniture Will add greatly to the Of
things"