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Evening star., 1947-10-05
Broadway Gets a Hit
By Jack OBrion

der what would have been for any
other play most discouraging cir
cumstances. Previously known as
Washington Square," it was headed
for Broadway last season under the
producership of Oscar Serlin, but
came a cropper during its tryout tour
when the road critics found it gen.
orally at fault. Jed Harris. one of
the cratic but definite stage geniuses,
saw it, recognized that the fault was
in the casting, and with Finklehofte,
who was to produce 1t again under
Harris direction, flew to London to
sign Wendy Hitler, the celebrated
British film and stage star, for the
central role.
The Star Saves the Play.
Fortunately, Miss Hitler is every
thing the play doctor ordered. She
is every bit the social dullard in the
early scenes, and believably the
frigid, unconsolably resentful female
in the later. The story concerns an
attractive, scheming young man who
makes love to the daughter of
wealthy doctor who lives on Wash
ington Square in the year 1850. He
makes love to her not because of her
personal appeal but because he
wants to live on her inheritance of
$4,000 a year. When the elopement
is set, the calculating young man
discovers the girl is about to be dis
inherited, and he abandons her while
she is waiting for him to arrive for
the elopement. The disinheritance
doesn't come off. and again imbued
with the attractions of the girls
wealth, he comes back years later to
pick up his vulturous wooing, only to
be given a lesson in romantic bru-
tality which is an actress ultimate
dream of a final curtain scene.
The play is somewhat less of an
accomplishment than are Miss Hill
ler's playing and Jed Harris knowing
direction. More is got from fairly
obvious vehicle than might be i'm
agined under the knowing, guidance
of the director.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
G. Jessel on Marriage
It's Not for Him Again, He Says, After
Three Futile Attempts
By SheiIoh Grohom

than his first wife. Until she mar
ried David Street, she received $780,
a-week alimony for herself and
$50 week for their daughter,
Jerilyn. Now she's Mrs. Steve
Brodie But this is Georges story.
ITS like this" continues Jessel.
Il have big home. and I'm happy
being in it alone. I sleep only four
hours night. but I like to be free
to choose which four hours I shall
sleep. I like couple of bottles of
beer in the middle of the night
and women don't usually like that.
And I like to keep travelling I've
never quite unpacked my bags
I like to feel I'm ready to play the
next town.
Has Haf-Year Off.
Two months ago Jessel signed
a unique contract with Zanuck for
goth Century Fox. Il only have to
work for him six months of every
year-the rest of the time IS my
own if I want it," he tells me.
This year George wants it. He's
off for two weeks in Florida-at
$4,000 week. George is doing
what he calls a concert tour-hell
put on a one-man show and also
plug his latest movie, Nightmare
Alley. I ask George what made
him do such an unpleasant story,
and he tells me fantastic tale.
Il read a review in the New York
(See GRAHAM. Page CID
Evening star., 1947-10-05
HOLLYWOOD

| HOLLYWOOD.
If George Jessel has his way-and
he always does-he never will marry
again as long as he lives. Il do
so want to be my own master!"
Georgie says at lunch with me in
Beverly Hills.
| "Mr. Jessel's wanted on the
phone" interrupts the waiter.
who is it, zanuck?" Chis boss I
ask him when he returns. Eyes, he
wants me in the studio right away"
says George. Your own master,
hey?" taunts this reporter. Il
wouldn't go back-only he has
Jimmy Byrnes there insists
George
Jessel was supposed to be engaged
and about to get married to Abigail
Adams-she's supposed to be
descendant of two American Presi-
dents. That's not impossible" says
George referring to the latter But
marriage for him is impossible, he
says.
But Not Marriage.
But you gave Tommye tAblgan)
ring I remind him. That's moth
ing he replies. II gave June Haver
two rings and didn't marry her.
And" he adds, II gave Tommye a
beautiful car and two fur pieces
that would add up to the price of
a mink coat. 1 also bought story
idea from her for the movie ver-
sion of my book, SO Help Me- But
I never intended to marry her. so
help mel" Can George help 1t If
girls get the wrong idea?
Jessel has been married three
times-to Florence Courtney, Norma
Talmadge and Lois Andrews. 1T
cost me $200,0 ,000-to my first wife
before I could marry Norma. She's
the only woman ever really loved
Now we don't speak. married Lois.
you know. when she was 16 She'd
never met a man like me. We're still
very friendly. You can only be
friendly after the divorce if you
weren't in love to begin with"
Lois let George off much easier
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Even Dorothy Is Surprised at Her Success

fourth at bridge" she relates. "I
got so sick of the game I couldn't
stand the sight of another card. So
I put on my hat and went to the
local radio station, WHIP, and got
a job in a 15-minute sustaining pro-
gram. One night the manager of
the Roosevelt Hotel heard me and
offered me a job in his floor show
at $35 a week.
Il took it, and when I stepped
into the spotlight one night there
was my uncle at a first-roW table.
When the show was over he said:
Honey, I think you sing right good.
I've been letting you have money to
study for a job. but now you've
got job. So you won't need any
more money. Good-by, honey
Well, I thought my life and career
were ruined
Dorothy cried nearly all night over
her blighted prospects. She was
still crying next day when her
mother came into her room and
spoke few short words about the
tradition "the show must go on"
and about people who let it down.
So Dorothy dragged herself out of.
bed and did one of those laugh,
clown, laugh" performances to such
good effect that another local hotel
offered her job at $40 a week.
Then the Music Corp. of Americas
Pittsburgh Office offered her an au-
dition and she borrowed $500 from
a local bank and made it. As q re-
suit she landed job with Paul
Pendarvis' Orchestra and went on
tour. Later she sang for the USO
in the States, Newfoundland, the
Caribbean area and Panama. Even
tually she came to New York.
Dorothy and her mother share a
small apartment near Central Park.
Her aim is to make enough money
to enable her to forget financial
worries and then to retire, marry
and have children. Her favorite
amusements are soap sculpture and
seeing other floor shows.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
NEW YORK.

NEW YOIh.
Here comes Songstress Dorothy
Shay, the 1947 surprise girl of show
business.
Dorothy, still in her 2Os, was just
another good torch singer in a New
York hotel supper room three years
ago. Then one night she ran out
of encores and sang Uncle Fud"-
about a Tennessee hillbilly who had
a great attraction for the girls-and
brought down the house. Dorothy
added more like that to her roper
toire and became "the Park avenue
hillbilly."
Her fame grew, but still she was
not especially spangled with star
dust until she made an album of
records-mostly hillbilly songs
which in August climbed to No.
spot on the Billboard magazine
popularity chart of best-selling rec
ord albums and today is in Sec
ond place. Her best-known song,
"Feudin' n Fightin'," is among top
runners in the Hit Parade"
A second Dorothy Shay album
will appear this month and will con-
tain several songs for which she
wrote the lyrics. Her first album
also reflects her handiwork in all
the words for one song and verses
added to other.
She's Busy Lass.
This fall she is appearing on a
CHS network show, broadcasting
from various parts of the country
She also will sing at the Waldorf
Astoria Wedgewood room in New
York, the Statler Hotel in Detroit
Evening star., 1947-10-05
By AdeIoide Kerr

and the Oriental Theater in Chicago.
The income of the girl who began
to sing for $35 a week climbed last
year to $4,000 and friends estimate
she will double that in the year
ahead.
Once she dreamed of being a dra-
matte star. Life and experience
taught her that people love to laugh
and she loves to make them do it.
What she wants to be now is a femi-
nine Will Rogers.
What brings that bewitched look
to the face of listeners as Dorothy's
colorful voice sings Efficiency"
Mountain GAL" Uncle Fud," or
"Feudin' m Fightin' 1t isn't just
the wise-cracking. chuckle-making
words because imitators beginning
to copy Dorothy's style and her
songs don't get the same applause.
Most Of Dorothy's listeners seem to
be most bewitched by the vocal
acrobatics of her melodious voice
taking swift tuneful dip from one
register to another and back, sing
ing against an orchestration of such
syncopated, foot-tapping rhythm
that few can resist its swing.
An Enjoyable View.
Listening is a pleasure, and look
ing is no pain either For Dorothy
Shay is tall. slim. hazel-eyed, and
dressed in way to make anybody
enjoy the view.
Dorothy Shay in private life is
quiet, modest, gentle and her con-
versation is peppered with. wit,
mostly turned on herself.
"Probablysnone of this would have
happened" she says with grin, "if
1t had not been for game of bridge
and my uncle"
Here is her story:
She was born in Jacksonville, Fla,
the daughter of Calud Sims, oper-
ator of filling station chain. She
spent luxurious early childhood.
Then her father died and the family
finances underwent sharp revision.
The big family house was sold and
Dorothy's mother opened a tearoomL
At 16 Dorothy told her mother, who
had longed to be an operatic Con-
tralto: Some day I'm going to be a
big star"
Later she borrowed money from
her uncle for dramatic study with
the understanding that she would
pay it back when she reached star
DOM and departed for Pasadena
Playhouse. Came the war. Dorothy
and her mother (who always travels
with herr came back to Jacksonville
to visit relatives.
"All day long I had to make
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Better Get a Horse
With Animal as It's Star, Hokum Film Has
Nothing to Worry About
By Joy Cormody

There defenbe movies tendency to get far
possible Book and critics. backed
creative humans with whose work they have to deal
After ALL life take and perhaps in the heater
the books reads should fexible requirement
that helpless should take it. stand
just much of the feeling that he is about to be consumed
however likely to build quite
against themselves with reference getting from life into
the realm OF sheer as conrased with pure In the
escaping reality of udicrous
preense Of taking with them effect they trying to be
with
contradictory
The medtave movgoer the increasingly harrassig
sense that the people who produce and act in screenpays
anything weeks naturally
this far deeper than in Others This Of the former
End Is he Beginning.
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rather uv after which he makes the hardly professional
that loves and
Thereafter for almost two hours Desire Me- becomes film
Will the husband
every he will question
superfuou the opposition party regarded in Russian
dominated
hashback legitimate
making, has rarely been abused.
intervening narrative from the end to the beginning OF
pursuit apparently
her missing husband
keeps trying to convince her the latter is Before argument
produces desired becomes discussion Of
appalling happens Immediately the villain
point? the husband home This
nfe timing for such but the movies timing
all there to it, far the industry concerned
a Coincidence
the kind amboyant movie title that longer
fairly ammed with
assumption questions will be asked by the audience
impossible that first shall not
provoke of the customers sit forward and ask
Indignantly: How come?
faceless
part escaping from San quentin Just when
begins he looks
Baca who is waiting there for him with her
station wagon. Get in" she and in he gets.
strikes him that this incredible thing that she should
the four he has been planning
expanation namely that she just
had the in which coincidence
before
With a Horse Hokum Works
consequential interesting
liberty with the possible likely but
acceptable fashion The picture in point
THE Red Stallion the other solemn
right off that it is going be incredible
and expects much fun that attitude
as those who made the picture are having.
stallion named Red is abulouy gifted beast
There nothing talented including the odd gift OF
a hoofandpaw fight which frankly
faxed addition this Red take the
and beat them at
their
1t u.s. frankly onhaf of sheer hokm but with
the middle of it.
probably If the insist the incredible,
had
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL - The Winslow
Boy" starting tomorrow night.
AMBASSADOR - Down to
Earth" with Rita Hayworth
and Larry Parks, starting
Thursday.
CAPITOL-"Lured," with Lu-
cille Ball and George Sanders,
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"The Unfinished
Dance" with Margaret
O'Brien, starting Thursday.
KEITH'S-"The Long Night"
with Henry Fonda, starting
Wednesday.
LITTLE-"Children of Para
disc" with Arletty.
METROPOLITAN-"Out of the
Blue" with George Brent,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"The Foxes of Har-
row." with Rex Harrison.
PIX - Ecstasy" with Hedy
Lamar.
WARNER-"Down to Earth"
with Rita Hayworth and
Larry Parks, starting Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Comic Morgan
Takes H'WOOd
In His Stride
BY the Assoeiotsd Press
by me AS3oetoSed PfeSS
HOLLYWOOD.


Henry Morgan, who is on the
radio and says he Is humorist-
not comedian-has come from New
York to Hollywood to make a movie
about New York.
which would be typical Of the
Morgan reverse-twist humor," said
Henry, except I didn't have any,
thing to do with it. The whole idea
originated in Hollywood-I think.
Or maybe it was somebody in New
York after all.
From what I've seen so far of
Hollywood, this is just the sort of
dirty trick a New Yorker would
pull"
Morgan Is one of those rare birds
"a comedian who is just as funny
as he looks. Because of this, he
manages to get away with a con-
stant stream of insults-none OF
them aimed at himself.
In his first movie, currently
titled so This Is New York" Nor
gan will share whatever spotlight
there may be with Rudy Vallee,
Donna Drake and Virginia Grey.
THE producers wanted to help
me get off to a good start by
starring me with somebody like
Betty CRADLE" Morgan explained,
until they figured out that ner
small salary would be two naughts
above the total budget so they de-
cided to streamline me instead.
1--we got to lose pounds or 3
inches around the waist. I say I've
got to, because they've already fitted
me for my movie suits. Those tailors
must be strangers here too-they
knew precisely what they were
doing"
Morgan doesn't even leave his own
boss alone. Although this picture
will be shot at Enterprise Studios,
he regards it frankly as sort of an
extended screen test. The public
may get a chance to see it, but we're
really making it in the hopes I'll be
able to interest somebody at MGM,"i
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"Dark Pas
sage: l. $40, $50, 7::30 and
9:45 pm.
CAPITOL-"Merton OF the
Movies: 1:50, 4:35, 7::2O and
1905 pm. Stage shows: /,
3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA-"The Vigifantes
Return: 1, 2::45, 4:3O, $40,
sos and $50 pm.
HIPPODROME-"The Adven-
turess": 2::15, 4:10, 6:10, 7::55
and $40 pm.
KEITH'S-"S "Singapore":: N40,
3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:25 pm.
LITTLE-"Mayerling":: 1:25,
$3.50, $50, 7::35 and 9:40 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Red Stall
lion":: LAO, $40, $40, TAO and
GAS pm. .c>ss
PALACE-"Desire Me-: 1:l5,
3:20, 5:25, 1885 and $40 pm.
PIX Monsieur Verdoux"::
1:20, $3.50, $40, 7:50 and 20
pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
WARNER-"Dark Passage:
l, 3:1o. 5:25s TAO and 9:55
pm.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
NEW YORK

NEW YORK .
A war drama entitled Command
Decision" by William Wister Haines
was greeted by a Fulton TheateI
audience Wednesday night which
cheered the play and its star, Pau
Kelly. and then vociferously de-
manded so many curtain calls that
the star finally had to come down
to the apron and say his piece.
The play is a taut and tightly
fashioned drama, salted with the
iron of military humor among males
who deal first in the military gener-
alities and worry only incidentally
about the human specifics. 1t con-
Germs a one-star general who wants
to knock out three German jet
plane factories, and his Illustration
in the face of superiors who are
afraid of anything which might
tend to discredit them among Con-
gressmen, their superiors and the
press.
A Welcome Author.
Paul Kelly, playing this fine air
force commander, has all the diff
culties placed in his path which
might thoughtlessly be placed by
important persons not In q position
to understand thoroughly his tactl-
cal predicament. He fights 1t out
to the frustrating finish, through a
collection of dramatic detail which
makes Author Haines playwright
to welcome to Broadway. 1t is hoped
that he has many more plays OF
equal superiority in his typewriter
command Decision" first was writ
ten as play, then as a novel from
the play, and after producers and
hackers later became interested,
was presented in its original excel
lent form by Kermit Bloomgarden'
The players to a man-and no
women are in the cast-are OF a
single superior cut.
Another of Four Is Good.
Among the four other shows
which got the fall theater season of
to its belated but busy start only
one. "The Heiress," a dramatization
by Ruth and Augustus Goetz OF
Henry James novel, washington
Square" does right by the dignif1ed
artistic standards of the Broadway
boards.
Among the others were IT Gotta
Get Out" which got out after four
performances; "Our LAM" re-
spectacle, well-acted but disappoint-
ing drama about post-Civil War
slaves, and a downright ridiculous
paean of admiration for the think
ers of the far left, the swimming
pool pinks, called How I Wonder. u
"The Heiress," produced by Fred
Finklehoffe, came to Broadway un-
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Warmers Build BIG

Most extensive construction since
the building of Madison avenue as
it appeared in 1883 for Life With
Father" is being completed at the
Warner Bros. studio for ITO the
Victor" Richard Brooks postwar
drama starring Dennis Morgan and
Viveca Lindfors.
Reproduction Of an entire block,
the Place des Vosges in Paris, COM
plete in architectural detail with
store fronts, street signs, posters,
sidewalks and roadway, will be
ready for filming this week when
Director Delmar Dawes moves from
interiors to exterior action to COM
plement the scenes shot in Paris
several weeks ago.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26
Center Program

Today- Saturday LIBRARY CLOSED 7:45 Red Cross bus leaves for dance NOE Social center
 Tall Kodiak young women invited) No dance at Center Sunday :-
 Open l pm if weather is bad 8 pm otherwise, 800 to 500 Library open.
 (if center open)
 Mrs. Floyd Cook 500 Ping-pong championship Monday
 10 to 5 Craft classes
 Junior-(A (Aileen Wade) 2-5 Supervised swim period at Big lake, weather permitting 6:3O pm Softball, school grnds
 (Women's) 2 to 9 Library Open
 Esther Wiley Tuesday,
 2 to9 Library open
 Lillian Lamme 500 Indoor "track meet" fun program Wednesday, 2:00pm Beginners foIk-dancing (girls under l2) 8 to 5 X 2 to 9 Library open Sister Hilary Audrey Kraft Dorothy Haag
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26
New School Head On Way Here

The new Kodiak school super intendent and his family left Boise, Idaho, where they had been visiting, on July 17th and are driving up the Alcan high way. They plan to stop at Banff, Jasper Park, Skagway and ether points of interest and expect to be here by mid-August.
 The new superintendent IS Lester Thomas Utterback, 39 years old He is accompanied by his wife, who will teach conner real subjects, and by their s year cid daughter.
 Mir. Utterback taught on Vash- on island last year and during the war was an instructor in 8 military school in California He IS originally from Kansas.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26

Attendance records arc being set each week a: the big Square Dancing programs at the Com munity Center as the dancers swing out to catchy barn-dan ce music
 Callers A. Holmes Johnson and Ken Wade have 8 variety of action sets which make the eve- ning's festivities'move along at a snappy pace. The program starts at 9 pm All adults are cordially invited. Admission is free.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26

Members of the BPW club met at the Community Center Monday Tor their monthly meet ne and party
 The hall was decorated with children's toys and members and guests came dressed as kids. Games were played and jello and cookies were served.
 The program was in charge of Mrs. Edythe Smith sssisted by Mrs Helen King.
 Guests included Mary Ruth Bourne, Ginny Briner, Margo Kiilsgaard, Jackie Jones and Mildred Markham.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26
Salvage Officer Guest Speaker

Balfour J. Bob" Logan, for. merly district salvage officer for the Aleutian area. was the guest speaker at the Rotary luncheon Tuesday at the VFW club. MT. Logan traced the history of salvage from the early efforts of Dutch seamen to present day methods, and told of diving methods and experiences
 Speaking of this area he said waters were found to be stratified in temperature layers Men would complain of the cold at a 30 it. depth, but 10 feet farther down the water would be warmer. He said his men had disproved the old theory that nan can last only 20 minutes in local waters, as members of navy salvage crews had worked as much as 12 hours in winter operations with no i'll effects.
 The waters in the area are surprisingly warm in some local lities, he said. In some bays men could warm their hands on rocks from the bottom. Some bays have 8 marine growth more like Catalina island, he stated, with small sponges and "ferns" and huge snails in evidence.
 Between Three Brothers Rocks and the narrowest point of the Ouz nkle channel divers found an oyster bed with large, edible oysters. The oysters were pearl- bearing, but the pearls were tiny and of no commercial value Near Sitka and off the south end of Chirikof island he re. ported the presence of black aba lone in large quantities Also off the south end of Chirikof he re- ported catches of slbacore tuna were made. On atrip last July he saw more tuna in the same area. he said.
 Guests at the luncheon includ. ed Pie Watson, A. J Else, Bill Bailey and Capt. Silvius Gage. President James Martz an. nounced that he and secretary Jack HiDckel will leave next week for a Rotary convention at | EairbopLS
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26
SPECIAL KEA
 NOTICE

Beginning July 30 and there after on the 30th day of each month, all persons responsible far premises using electricity in Kodiak will be required to read the meters on those premises.
 Meter reading cards will be mailed to each such person prev ious to the end of the month.
 On these cards are printed 4 dials and below these dials are Irinted 4 windows If the meter bas dial face, mark each dial with a line in the exact position sf the hand on the meter dIal corresponding to the dial on the card.
 If the meter has a direct read ing face write each number in the window on the card corres- bonding to the window on the meter face.
 In the blank space below these windows write in the date and the name of the person who read che meter and mail the card at ence All return cards must be in the mail not later than the 3rd of the month, or a , per cent penalty will be added to the bill,
 Billing will be h indled as pre- viously and payments may be made at the Bank of Kodiak from the 10th through the 18th of each month After the 18th all unpaid bills are subject to a pen alty charge for late payment and must be paid at the KEA office on Tagurs road.
 Please be as accurate as pos. sible and mail your meter read. Iog return card promptly.
 Ted Rozak
 Manager, KEA
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-26
goo pm Square dancing

goo pm Square dancing Thursday a00 Adv. Jr. Folk-daneing 6:30 pm Women's Softball 7-9 Library open
 Marion Curtis , 700 Adult leathercraft class
 (John Gibbons) S:30 BiDgo (adults) 7:30 pm Board of Directors Friday 200 Beginners Folk dancing
 (teen age)