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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-07

cheney. comfort and beauty.
A perfect kitchen cannot be
"jumbled" together from a
lot Of random sizes, but must
be designed and Custom Built
to meet the owners individ-
ual requirements. It must
have many compartments,
properly arranged cabinets,
and many built in features
which usually are not thought
of until the building is COM
plete. Costly alterations or
lifelong Inconvenience usually
result when this is the case.
To be right, it is preferable
to have the working spaces"
above the floor cabinets in
one continuous section and
not broken up into a series of
small tops pushed together.
Great care should be exer-
cised in choosing the type of
sink bowl, as only the finest
material will last a lifetime.
Equipment carries a va
riety of types to suit the taste
of the most discriminating
housewife in either Stainless
Steel or Fused Porcelain. Both
single and double sinks are
now available. Pre-fabricated
kitchen cabinets are becoming
more and more popular since
the war as a result of the wide
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Miss Mains Second Ascent
By Harold Heffernon

she took her first professional step
by joining Shakespearean outfit
It played the Chautauqua tent cir
cult, where she met and married a
lecturer, DR.. Stanley L. Krebs, now
dead. He gave her the name Mar
jorie Main. suggested as they were
reading Sinclair Lewis Main
Street."
After playing the Orpheum vaude-
vile time, she associated with a
Fargo IN. Dak) stock company for
% weeks, then went to Broadway
to team with w. c. Fields in "The
Family Ford"
She appeared with John Barry
more in Cheating Cheaters," sue
ceeded Adrienne Morris. mother of
the Bennett sisters. in Eyes and No, -
and had a succession of hits. cli-
NAKED by the gangster's mother in
Dead End" the role she repeated
for the screen in 1887.
Since her memorable part in
Dead End" she has been steadily
in demand. Under contract to
MGM, she has been paired in so
many pictures with Wallace Beery
that many fans think their romance
is real one.
Ma Kettle was a once-in-a life
time role" said Marjorie. Il hope
it makes lot of people happy, and
prav that I'll get another just as
good before retire"
(Released b. North American Newspsp per
Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1947-04-20
BrOadway:
Bankhead Play
Closes After
% Times
By Jack O'Brion

"Craigs Wife," although 1t re-
ceived excellent notices, closed after
50 performances, somewhat less
than the 100 which is the accepted
mark of Broadway success. :. Ice
time" closed at the Center Theater
after 4o5 performances, definitely
successful. The next edition OF
the glacial gold mine annually pro-
duced by Sonia Henie and A. M.
Wirtz will be arriving shortly.
Despite Tallulah Bankhead's
drawing ability. THE Eagle Has
Two Heads" couldn't offset the bad
reviews and folded after % times
Lady Windermere's Fan" closes
April rs after 28 weeks and will tour,
Ann Blyth has been signed for
the star role in the film to be made
of Lillian Hellman's Another Part
of the Forest" s.~.,.s ..,
The Theater Guild is opening Hol-
lywood Offices with Queenie Smith
as It's West Coast representative,
marking an ambitious expansion
and deeper interest in screen activ-
tiles. The guild is presenting
Henry v" throughout this coun-
try and is associated in the screen
ing of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning
Becomes Electra" at RKO.
Theater Arts Monthly honors
seven theatrical workers for their
stage achievements this season:
Paul Crabtree of "The Iceman Com
eth." Sam Wanamaker of Joan of
Lorraine" Bambi Linn of Alice in
Wonderland, David Wayne of Pin
ian's Rainbow" Virginia Bosler of
"Brigadoon," Margaret Phillips of
Another Part of the Forest" and
Arthur Miller for his play, "All My
Sons"
James Barton, famed song and
dance man and latterly one of
Broadway's more dependable char
acter actors. will have the role of
Kit Carson in The Time of Your
Life" when it Is screened by jim
my Cagney. d. Arthur Hunnicutt
played the role in the Broadway
original. i. Frank Satenstein and
Eddie Bowling will produce THE
Righteous Are Bold" first presented
by the Abbey players in Dublin. i. :,
Bowling will direct and probably
will play in the drama by Frank
Carney, scheduled for early fall ar
rival
Helen Hayes received a ham and
an acre of land from Gov. Will
liam Tuck of Virginia on behalf of
the States Barter Theater for the
outstanding performance by an
American actress on the current
New York stage"
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Today's Schedules

|AMBASSADOR-"Dead Reck-
oning," 1:20, 800, $40, TAO
and $50 pm.
CAPITOI-"Carnival in Costa
Rica," 1855, Abs, tbs and e::55
pm, Stage shows, lilo, 3:55,
6:35 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA-"It Happened In
Brooklyn 1, $40, $40, 7:3o
and 9:40 pm.
EARLE-"Dead Reckoning" /,
$40. $40, 7::30 and 9:45 pm.
HIPPODROME -" "The Ghost
Goes West" 2:25, 4:20, $40, 8
and $50 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Best Years of
Our Lives" 1920, 3:25, $50
and 9:35 pm.
LITTIE-"Henry the Fifth"
2:30 and $50 pm.
M E TROP Trail
Street." lao, $40, $40, 7:45
and 9:45 pm.
PALACE-"The Yearling," lis,
4, 6.45 and $50 pm.
PIX-"My Name is Julia Ross"
1:20. 3:55, $50 and 9:05 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from ! pm.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
It happens along about the third
reel of The Egg and l." Marjorie
Main comes on the screen and
scratches herself. Audiences every
where explode with laughter at this
entrance-and they continue to
chuckle at her all the way through
the film.
AS the lovable. blowzy, slattern
Ms Kettle, earthly matriarch of
Betty MacDonald's best seller. Mar
iorie Main hits the jackpot for the
second time in her film career.
Marjorie's scratch, applied casually
due south of the last rib on the
right, is destined to stick in screen
fans memories like the grapefruit
showed into Mae Clarke's face by
Jimmy Cagney and the COIN tossing
debut of George Raft in "Scarface."
Miss Mains second ascent to the
Hollywood stratosphere is by comedy.
Her first was by tragedy as the
en1bittered mother of a gangster in
Dead End" which brought her to
pictures from the New York stage.
A New Experience.
Although It's billed as a Claudette
Colbert-Fred MacMurrsy starring
film, THE Egg and T. is a per-
sonal triumph for the gravel-voiced,
placable Miss Main. A journeyman
who learned her trade the hard way,
she spent 25 years in vaudeville,
stock. Chautauqua and the Broad
way theater before Hollywood even
gave her a tumble.
interviewing Marjorie Main is an
experience totally unlike that of
sitting down to conversation with
the average Hollywood actor or
actress. Marjorie bushes. stammers
little and then. in that grit
packed voice, wants to know why
anybody should be ineuisitive about
her past.
Before long she has warmed up
and, the first thing her interrogator
knows, has taken over the inter-
viewing. She has a keen interest in
people and, in a warm, sincere
manner, tries to find out all about
them. Five minutes after being
introduced to Marjorie, she's apt to
know where you're from, how you
got started in your profession, a
lot of things about your family life,
and maybe your likes in food and
politics. And she never gives you
the slightest idea she's prying. /
Steadily in Demand.
Her legal name is Mary Tomlinson
krebs, She was born in Acton, Ind,
me daughter of the Rev. S. j. and
Mary Tomlinson. Active in dra-
maucs at Hamilton College, KY
Where she completed her schooling,
Evening star., 1947-04-20
HOLLYWOOD.

/ IlN1L L WOoA.
Esther Williams and Audrey Tot
ter were discussing their movie
careers. "Ill never be satisfied, y
said Audrey, until I win an Acad-
emy Award Esther smiled and
said nothing, but later she told me
plenty.
"If some one asked me what I'd
hate to lose most" says Esther, It'd
say independence of my career. ]
don't have to have it to be happy
Sure I like being a movie star. but
it's secondary to what I call hap
piness. I'll be ready to give it up
the day Metro tells me that my pic
lures no longer make money at the
box Office.
"All of us who found success in
Hollywood during the war are
freaks anyway" philosophers Miss
Williams. 1--WE were taken up be-
cause the others weren't here" BY
Others" Esther means the Gables
Taylors, Ty Powers, etc. To make
up for them, and because OF the
war, studios plunged into grille, es-
capist movies.
No Tenseness Here.
Esther is what I call a relaxed
star. Maybe it's because of her
years as a swimming champ, but
there's nothing tense about her
That's the best way to work and
be successful" She opines, stop
fighting, be relaxed, and then If you
are successful you get more fun out
of it. Why do we want success
anyway? Because we think 1t will
make up happy"
To find out if It does, read on.
Take three girls who are dis
covered for pictures" says Esther.
"One is found in a drug store or a
drive-in, and in her off hours she
works in a little theater. The
second girl wants to be star
strictly for the money. And the
third girl wants it because she
thinks it's an easy way to meet men
and have good time"
Esther is a unique character who
fought like mad not to be a movie
star. It's really true, After her
swimming success with Billy Roses
Aquacade in San Francisco-where
she was supposed to begin with
weekly salary of $50 until she in
sisted on $100 plus-Esther was
hired as a head model at store in
Los Angeles. She was very happy
there. because she had the prospect
of one day getting a job as a buyer.
Il was passionately fond of my
work." is the way Esther puts it.
But some one at Metro had seen
the beautiful swimmer in the San
Francisco Aquacade-as had other
studio executives-and she received
many offers of a movie contract.
Yet I had nothing to offer them
besides swimming" says Esther, and
she did not want to be one SWIM
picture star.
But Louis B. Mayer. head of
Metro. is a BOY who always gets
what he goes after. He asked
Esther, therefore, to come and see
him to explain why she, didn't want
to work in pictures. This seemed
harmless enough to the pretty
swimmer.
Mr., Mayer listened patiently
while Esther told him her lack of
qualifications for stardom. II agree
with you," he said in that very
effective fatherly way he has.
But" he added, I'VE wouldn't want
YOU. the way YOU are now. Before
Evening star., 1947-04-20
C.. US Star Ascends
Hollywood and Broadway Join School in
Year.Around Play Festival
BY Jay cormody

Hollywood which Catholic Univers
w heater with the closest attention for the 10
experience participants
2monh festival of original plays which the University
theaer will inaugurate in June.
support program Hollywood
viii be represented by the Academy of Motion Picture and
cooperation university project
them with other industrial elements which
have followed similar programs for
on Playwrights
joint provide
paywrghts
writer's will be writing It's end result envisaged
bringing writing students OF the university and their work together
with the great production elements of And
available latter writing talents
which have been proved in the crbe of actual heater OF high
apart teaching,
of "sing which by the The
standing the university theaer field With Father Gilbert
Department
scrutiny both major
tainment elements since 1887.
Count Me original musical
with been sold to New York producers
university
Broadway the following Godoni "Ihe Liar
.ented at C. u for the n time is booked for production in the
autumn.
achievement, unparalleled history college theae
has kept the local campus thespans megh through
of the motion studios New York
foremost critics This
prestige this week brings the genuine
Hollywood and the legitimate thater In the c.
Seven
yearlong play festival for which Hollywood will provide
players the university
will include plays
of originals, the student play
wrights Speech Department faculty
complete festival will select the
either the motion studios New
talent dectoral aid will be based eb
university thater No consideration the
availability the dimensions Of the player
players, will prevail.
embraces paywghts festival nothing
departmental
Father Hartke is:
their development.
anticipate will be taken professionally
although possible basis of experience We
writer the festival with the
responsibility shoulders That will not
his failure 1t Immediately optoned New
Hollywood Rather results of this policy will be
the maturing perhaps begun
this festival will finally complete itself The view
the OBJECT not the short-range necessity"
Variety Assured in
choosing best" authors charge Of
the festival anticipate undue emphasis
Mr. Kes students large proportion
exhibited tendency think for themselves
school encourages Their and treatment
the festival inclusive
which invariably been production within
interest
First of the festival will be
series will be included In the regular subscription
will be maintained.
The the first its expected prove model for
closer relations between Broadway Hollywood
Evening star., 1947-04-20
BY Rolph Dighton

yoki, a Nisei who had recently re-
turned from a relocation center, as
his butler and every Thursday
Kenneth's day off-they spend the
AFTERNOON flinging each other about.
Sometimes they are joined by the
gardener, Saichi Murakami, a
fourth-degree BLACK Belt" judo ex-
pert, and Murakami's two husky
sons.
Kuniyoki, who taught Sergel, Is
a fifth-degree BLACK Belt" Jimmy
himself recently was promoted from
third-degree Brown Belt" to Sec
ond-degree "Black Belt" and says
he has been informed that Is tops
Evening star., 1947-04-20
ALI of Us Are Freaks Anyway
So Says Esther Williams, Relaxed Star of
Wartime Successes
By SheiIoh Grohom

we put you in picture, We'll make
sure that you are an actress as
well as a swimmer.
You mean that?" said Esther
weakening. "Of course, I mean it"
said Mayer. reaching for the pre-
pared contract in his desk drawer!
HE kept his promise" says
Esther. Every day. and all day
long I had lessons in movie tech
nique. I didn't want to be a movie
star. But I believe that If you're
going to do it, you should do 1t well.
Il want to tell you, however, about
the three girls we were talking about.
The first girl from the drive-in is
a great success in pictures. She has
always dreamed of having a beau
tiful car and, above all. the adula-
ton of the fans. I6s the dream of
Lizzie GlutZ come true.
They're Off Balance.
"She says, Now I've accomplished
this. I've reached the top-Ill never
slave again in a driye-in.' She thinks
that her life in the drive-in was
real hardship. Never sure of her
self. She'll never again be nor
NAL person. She'll die-metaphoric-
ally speaking-if her career ever
fades.
The second girl suddenly finds
herself making a big salary. Then
she gets terribly afraid of losing it.
She's haunted by the thought of be-
ing poor again, and doesn't get any
real fun out of her money because
she's always worrying about losing
it. She, too, becomes a very un-
normal person.
THE third girl does, of course,
meet lot of men, and she usually
goes haywire and marries most of
them. q can think of one big star
who is never happy unless she has
at least two men in her life she
wants to marry-if she could, she'd
elope once a weekD This girl, too,
wonders why she is unhappy, and
why movie fame failed to come up
to expectations.
''As my mother would say-and
my mothers a wonderful psycholo-
gist-it's because the three girls land
they are the three most common
types in Hollywood are of-bal-
ance."
No one will ever say that about
Esther. She has the clearest view
of herself of any one I know in
Hollywood. If movie life ever in
terfered with her happiness or her
home life with Husband Ben Gage,
Hollywood will say goodbye to Esther
Williams.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1947-04-20

for any non-Japanese in America.
There Is one thing at which Jin-
my is an admitted failure. Twenty
years ago he, set out to master the
guitar. He keeps three or four
handy in various rooms of his big
Coldwater Canyon ranch home, and
whangs away In spare moments.
after 20 years." says Jimmy,
whose ear for music wouldn't quail
ify him to sing second tenor in q
hillbilly quartet, "I feel I'm about
ready to start to learn to play"
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Mr.. Cagney Would MakeSom Changes
It's His Now to Become Known Great Porrayer
Irish Character
BvRon Il
It's His Desire Now
unI,ywnon

HOLLYWOOD.
Jimmy Cagney, Judo expert, horse
Ifancier and guitar strummer, Is
about to become an actor.
OF course, he's made dozens OF
movies, but that wasn't acting TO
Jimmy. That was business.
His businesslike enactment OF
movie tough guys has made him .
million dollars, more or less. HIS
portrayal of George M. Cohan won
him an Academy Award, but 1t
failed to change his casting. To
movie-goers, he's still tough guy.
Jimmy's going to change, that, he
says.
He got taste of real acting m
Midsummer Nights Dream and
hasn't been satisfied since 1t may
take a year or two to realize his new
ambition, but from here on Gag
ney's going in for art, with cap-
tai A.
Cagney blazed into the American
consciousness as Hollywood's version
! of public Enemy No. l." Now
imagine, if you can, the scrappy lit
tie Irishman as the Russet Man, a
80, 0O0-year-old Irish magician and
Iinhabitant of four planets In Thorne
Smiths 1.-THE Stray Lamb"
His Toughest Assignment.
That may be hard to picture, but
that's the job Jimmy's up against.
He knows it's his toughest as
signment yet" but Jimmy wants to
graduate from the working actor
class. Money isn't SO important
any more. At 43, he could retire
tomorrow. What Jimmy wants now
is to become known as truly great
portrayer of Irish character.
After 1.-THE Stray Lamb" Cagney
plans a picture on the life Of a
group Of Irish gypsies who roam the
Southern States.
"They meet once year at sort
of national headquarters on Peach
tree street in Atlanta" says Jimmy.
and hold all the weddings and
funerals that have accumulated
during the year. They conduct their
tribal business. then set out for an
other year of trading horses, mules,
secondhand cars and anything else
that comes to hand.
They've adhered to the old Irish
traditions, and around their camp
fires they still sing the songs that
are as old and beautiful as Ireland
itself"
Heavier Fare.
Both Burl Ives and Dennis Day
are every interested says Jimmy,
and his writer's are already busy on
the story.
Neither the Russet Man nor the
Irish gypsy project is on Cagney's
immediate agenda. Coming up first.
are THE Time Of Your Life" and
"A Lion Is in the Streets" Both are
heavier fare than the usual Cagney
picture. however, and are indicative
of the new Cagney trend.
Jimmy gets what he goes after.
He wanted money and fame, and he
got it. He loves horses, and now
has one of the finest stables (nine
horses) in the movie colony. He
needed a trained kangaroo for 1.-THE
Stray Lamb" found that just any
body can't export one from Austria
liza, but wound up with one as gift
of the Australian government.
Cagney's interest in judo Is an
other case in point. He needed in
struction in the Japanese sport for
Blood on the SUM-" He hired Jack
Sergel, former Los Angeles police
man, to teach him. Sergel, i'm
pressed with Jimmy's muscular Co
ordination. recommended he con-
tinue the study.
Jimmy then hired Kenneth Kuni-
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"The Two Mrs.
Carrolls," with Elizabeth
Bergner. starting April %.
AMBASSADOR - The Sea
Hawk" with Enrol Flynn.
CAPITOL - "Ramrod," with
Joel McCrea, starting Thurs
day.
COLUMBIA-"Tfle Red House.
with Edward G. Robinson,
starting Thursday.
EARLE-"The Sea Hawk" with
Enrol Flynn.
KE1TH'S-"The Farm er's
Daughter,' with Loretta
Young and Joseph Gotten.
M E T ROPOL1T N-"The
Locket." with Laraine Day.
starting Thursday.
PALACE -- California" with
Barbara Stanwyck and Ray
Milland.
PIx-"The Bridge of San Luis
Rey," with Lynn Bari, start
ing Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Quinn Shows Way in Mile Run
In Met AAU CHAMPIONSHIPS

Iof the Twenty third Regiment Ar
mory, Quinn sped into the lead and
barely STAYED off driving finish by
Eddie Walsh of Manhattan College,
king of the intercollegiate milers.
Bill Hulse of the New York A. C.
held the lead until the start Of the
final lap when Quinn came up from
third place. Hulse finished third.
Ten yards to the rear of Hulse was
Lawrence Ellis of the New York
Pioneer Club to be fourth in the
field of H. Quinn's time was more
than three seconds of the meet
record, but considerably faster than
the 4:19.1 with which he won the
event a year ago.
Johnny Quigley of Manhattan,
scored an easy triumph in the 600
yard run. which he also won in 1910
before going off to war. He led
all the way and coasted to a 10-yard
triumph over Jim Gilhooley, former
N. Y. U. star, in 1:13.5. The ageless
Jimmy Herbert of the Grand Street
Boys Association was another 10
yards back in third place and New
ton Campbell of ST. Johns was
fourth. Maurice Calender of N. Y.
u, last years 600-yard champion,
did not run in the final after, win
ming his qualifying heat.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Ruth McGinnis, World Cue
Champ, 10 Appear Here

Ruth McGinnis, for years the
woman world pocket billiard cham
pion, will appear in two exhibitions
here and one at Hyattsville Tuesday.
At noon she will play at The Evening
Star Club and at 7:30 at the Capitol
Hill Recreation. At 10 she will per-
form at the Hyattsville Recreation.
On Wednesday Miss McGinniS will
play three exhibition matches at
the United States Military Academy
Now "a, Miss McGinnis, who is a
graduate of State Teachers College
at Stroudsburg, Pa, first won the
title when she was 9 years old and
has ruled virtually ever since. Incl
dentally, she is southpaw.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ARCADIA, Calf, Jan. 18.-Own-
er's Choice, owned by Mrs. John D.
Hertz of Chicago and Canoga Park,
Calf, captured the $4,000 San Fe-
lipe Stakes at Santa Anita Park to-
day, as highly regarded Jet Pilot
finished out Of the money.
The Elobee Farms Yankee Valor
ran second in the field of IL. with
E. o. Stice and Sons On Trust fin
ishing third as a throng estimated
at $4,000 attended the turf program
Owners Choice, ridden by Jockey
Johnny Longden, romped the seven
furlongs in 1:233s-fast time fol
this classy array of 3-year-old colts
and geldings.
The winner paid $4.80, $3.70 and
$3.50. Yankee Valor, with Johnny
Chojnacki aboard, paid $4.90 ano
$3.50, and On Trust $3.50.
Owners Choice, the betting favor.
ite in view of two wins in his two
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Georgetown Grays Trim
Merrick in Overtime Tilt

Newt Davis made good on foul
shot with five seconds of an over
time period remaining to give the
Georgetown Grays an 1917 victory
over Merrick in a 90-pound Boys
Club Basket Ball League game yes
terday at the Georgetown Branch.
The Merrick 90-pound varsity de-
feated the Georgetown varsity, 32-
16, and the Georgetown 105-pound
team won, 21-14, over Merrick.
In games at the Eastern Branch,
Eastern Quins defeated Alexandria,
1912. in a 90-pound jayvee game,
the Eastern Mats edged Alexandria
25-19 in the 90-pound varsity and
the Eastern Nat Cops made a clean
sweep by defeating Alexandria,
34-25, in the 105-pound league.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Lions 10 Oppose 0Iympics
Three Times This Week

The main diet for Washington's S
Hockey Lions this week consists OF
the Boston Olympics. They will
tangle three times. at Boston this
afternoon and on Saturday and at
Uline Arena Tuesday night. Friday
nights opposition comes from the
front-running New York Rovers.
Bud Foley, defenseman injured
against Baltimore here last Friday
night, did not accompany the team
to Boston this afternoon. Nick
Phillips, center last year who is
rejoining the club, didn't arrive as
expected last Friday, being held by
personal business in Canada, but
he is due here in time for Tuesday
nights game.>s s