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frame, we discovered the mysteries
Of upholstery and applied them
from tying the springs, right
through to the last rufae. Reup-
holstering is hard work, but thor
oughly satisfying-especially finan-
cially.
We watched for fabric sales and
the occasional opportunity to buy
seconds and we saved ourselves over
5000 in fabrics and in the cost of
labor
With the addition of a few pieces
of judiciously purchased new furni-
ture, we have finished the essentials.
Now we are facing decorative de-
tails-pictures, bric-a-brac, copper
and brasses for our fireplaces and
other touches. We haven't finished
the last chapter yet. But we've had
a lot of fun and practical experience.
Above all, we've proved to ourselves
we could save big money,
Evening star., 1947-10-08
u. S. Supplies
Pamphlets for
Housinq Fans

If you're housing fan, you may
be glad to know the Government
may help you with that vexing
question you want answered.
The superintendent of documents
Government Printing Office, issues 8
price list of Government publica
tions entitled, publications of In.
terest to Suburbanites and Home
Builders" The pamphlets cover q
wide range of subjects.
The price list-known as No. To-
is free.
''It's one Of our most popular
lists" said a bureau official.
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the rewards of that smooth satin fin

the rewards Of that smooth satin fin
ish are simply magnificent.
We lacquefed several chests, q
desk and the dining room chairs.
We also tried our hands at some
thing new on the chairs. They
came to us with badly damaged
rush bottom seats. Instead of hav-
ing them redone in rush, we wove
seats in bright-colored tape.
1t is an interesting, if unorthodox,
combination of traditional and mod
ern, and cost only 10 cents a chair.
We made draperies ourselves and
covered valance boxes with fabric.
We became upholsterers when we
rebuilt and covered two boudoir
chairs and a loveseat.
BY careful observation when re-
moving the old materials from the
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Proper Decorating
Will Give Your Home
A Lift for Fall
Expert Advice Is
AvuiIubIe From
Numerous Sources
6y Eieni Sokes

Springtime and the fall are usually
times of great activity for home
makers all over the country. That's
the time when furniture is moved
from here to there and there to here
in an attempt to make a room more
in tune with the approaching season
Also, though many people dislike
admitting it, it is probably their
own artistic inclinations coming to
the fore right around that time.
And just about this time of the
year queries start rolling in about
what to do for this and what to do
for that. Questions about picture
hanging, questions about new types
of furniture, questions about interior
decorating.
In selecting pictures for your room
be sure to think about these small
but important features:
Strong colors in a picture will COM
mand attention. If that's what you
want-ge right ahead. Think about
grouping your similarly-framed small
pictures above a low piece of fur
niture.
"Built-in" Furniture.
Various sized pictures that you
wish to hang together should have
the base of their frames level The
shape and size of the furniture in
the room should harmonic with
your pictures.
A new movement in furniture
design is the "built-in" With the
shortage of wall and closet space,
built-ins have practically become a
necessity. Beds, chests, bookcases and
desks can be camoufaged from peer
ing eyes If built into the walls as
part of the architecture of the room.
Expert advice from your decorator,
carpenter or lumber dealer will not
only satisfy you in the knowledge
that you are getting your work done
right, but also as economically as
possible. This double-purpose fur
niture that the modern school has
taken over So adequately gives utility
as well as attractiveness.
All TOO frequently preSent-day
homes are hodge-podge affairs.
Often furniture of different periods
is not blended intelligently. One
way out of this problem is to think
about the coordination possibilities
the good modern design offers.
A Few DOS and Don'ts."
And now for a few dos and
"don'ts":
Don't think of strewing your
pretty gifts of small ornaments all
over your room on your tables, ETC.
If the ornaments are tiny, get
eurio case. Or a set of hanging
shelves on which to place them.
If you've a corner to camouf1age,
either buy an attractively fixed-up
screen or be creative enough to
decorate one yourself.
To make living in cramped quar-
ters more enjoyable, do away with
a lot of extras that you really don't
need.
To make your small room seem
much larger, think about placing
large mirrors to focus an opposite
wall. Also painting the room
light color has been found to be
a great help in making 1t appear
larger.
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It would be hard to find, for
instance, an archery trio who
could bend bows with such ac-
curacy and skill as Howard Hill,
Enrol Flynn and Guy Madison;
an angler who can match the
1874 pound lake trout caught by
Bing Crosby in Idaho a few
weeks ago, or an American
cricket team which could out
score the team fielded annually
by the Hollywood Cricket Club
h a d d by such outstanding
players as Sir Aubrey Smith
David Niven, Ronald Coleman
and Boris Karloff.
The film colony, too, would
probably more than hold its own
in the fencing field with an en-
try comprising such rapi e r
wielders as Patric Knowles,
Basil Rathbone and Enrol Flynn
or, turning to the more studious
pastimes, chess team including
such experts as Helnut Dantine,
Philip Dorm and Humphrey
Bogart.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Actress Passes Up
Vacation For Role

HOLLYWOOD - Acting in q
Frank Capra production meant
more to Margaret Hamilton than
a New York vacation. Without
ever unpacking her suitcase, the
actress returned to Hollywood
after she found a telegram await.
ing her in Manhattan, offering
her the role of Nora in "State OF
the Union"
This is the first opportunity
Miss Hamilton has had to work
under Capra's direction since
broadway Bill" in which she
and Raymond Walburn shared
comedy honors. Coincidentally,
State fthe Union" also marks
Walburn's first film with Capra
since the earlier picture.
The Liberty Films production
for MGM release, with Spencer
Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van
Johnson, Adolphe Menjou and
Angela Lansbury, marks Miss
Hamilton's first appearance on
the MGM lot since her unforget-
table portrayal of the Wicked
Witch in "The Wizard of o."
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Do You Know Tha+?

Clark Gable once appeared
on the stage in Astoria, Oregon
cast as a cook who became a
police chief?
Jose Iturbi is the first actor
to have his own name used in
a marriage ceremony on the
screen? In M-G-M's Birds and
the Bees" he marries jean
Mrs. Jose Iturbi."
Katharine Hepburn says the
best nerve tonic in the world
is a shower bath? She takes as
many as five a day
When Peter Lawford was a
child in England he was stage
struck? His parents, called
away to the South Seas on busi-
ness, decided to take little Peter
along, thinking the trip would
end that ambition. But it didn't.
They found a Hollywood film
company shooting scenes in
Tahiti.
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tract. She makes her film debut
in Wallis 81 Walk Alone" in
which she plays one of the key
roles.
Mary Hatcher will soon be
seen on the screen in Para
mounts Variety Girl" in which
she plays the title role. A com
parative newcomer, the beauti-
full Miss Hatcher had only
played one other film role be-
fore she was selected for the
Variety Girl" lead.
Other newcomers who have
been given important roles in
recent months include Vanessa
Brown, Dorothy Hart, Jane
Greer, Geraldine Brooks and
Arlene Dahl.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21

There's hardly a sport that
hasn't its devotees among the
Hollywood stars. Hunting is a
favorite p tim e with Clark
Gable, Fred MacMurray, Wallace
Beery and Gary Cooper. Yachts
men include Dick Powell, Georeg
Brent, Flynn and others. Tennis
courts are nearly as common in
Hollywood as two-car garages,
with both male stars and such
feminine pla yers as Ginger
R ogers and Joan Caulfield
among the net experts.
Bing Crosby is one of the best
all-around athletes in Hollywood
as he demonstrated not long ago
in Canada where he was on loca-
ton for Paramount's "The EN-
peror Waltz" Bing shot a sizzl-
ing II on the golf links at Jasper
National Park and then topped
it off by playing five fast sets
of tennis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Ellen Drew Loaned
Authentic .Jewelry

HOLLYWOOD-The exquisite
cameo Ellen Drew wears in the
ballroom sequences of Colum-
bias "The Man from Colorado"
is the same one used by the wife
of Colorado's first governor, Will
liam Gilpin, at the inaugural ball
in June, 1861, when Colorado
was still a territory.
Nancy Gilpin White, great
granddaughter of the gov
ernor and an ardent fan of
Ellen's, offered her the heirloom
for her role with Glenn Ford
and William Holden in the Tech
nicolor drama.
Miss Drew gladly accepted,
but she was on pins and needles
during the filming of the scenes
for fear something might happen
to the valuable brooch.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Gable Still Rhef+
To Many Film Fans

HOLLYWOOD - Clark
Gable is still Mr.. Rhett
Butler in the minds of
many of his motion picture
fans.
This fact has been made
very clear since the recent
re-release of "Gone With
the Wind" the fill m in
which Gable made the fic-
tional charcter of the hand
some Southerner a screen
legend.
On the set of M-G-M's
Homecoming" in which
he is co-stared with Lana
Turner, Gable revealed he
still receives an average of
five letter daily addressed
to "Mr. Rhett Butler, Holly
wood, Calf"
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distinctive manner of speech is
the most valuable trademark OF
many of the biggest marquee
names. They are the stars whom
the fans recognize instantly at
the sound of their voices any.
where any time.
Recently a writer interviewing
Alan Ladd after seeing and hear
ing him play scene for his new
starring picture, wild Harvest" "
asked him what single talent he
would credit the most for his
phenomenal success. He answer
ed quickly: my voice"
He has good reason for his
choice. 1t was his remarkable
voice, with it's low, vibrant tone
and clipped enunciation which
led to his discovery by Holly
wood. Sue Carol, the former
star and actors agent who later
became Mrs. Alan Ladd, heard
him on a radio program and sent
for him without even knowing
what he looked like. The rest is
now screen history.
Bing Crosby, who calls himself
the Groaner, and Frank Sinatra,
whom the bobby.sox brigade
calls the Voice, are vocal person
fications of Mr.. Big with the
music fans of both the movies
and radio.
Charles Boyer is the screens
great lover because he can raise
the blood pressure of the female
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others won contests and few
were just plain lucky.
One of the lucky ones is Rory
Calhoun. A forest fighter on va
cation, Rory was spotted by
Alan Ladd at q riding stable.
Alan introduced Rory to Sue
Carol (Mrs. Ladd) who was
then an actors agent. Rory is
now under contract to David
o. Selznick and was recently
borrowed by producers Pine
and Thomas for the lead in
Adventure Island" color film
based on Robert Louis Steven
sons "Ebb Tide"
De Forest Kelley, Paramount's S
rising young star who just COM
pleted the leading role in the 40
star musical, Variety Girl, -
was signed to a long term con-
tract when a talent scout saw
the Army training film that he
starred in during the war. For
his first role after signing his
contract, Kelley was awarded
the lead in the Pine-Thomas
drama Fear in the Night"
Jean Peters came to films via
a personality contest conducted
in Columbus, Ohio. This beauti-
full newcomer will soon be seen
in Captain from CASTLE" op-
posite Tyrone Power.
Hal Wallis new discovery is
Kristine Miller. She was born
in Argentina, moved to Den
mark and came to America
eight years ago. Wallis saw her
on the San Francisco stage and
signed her to a personal con-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
French Actress Airs
Adopted Language

HOLLYWOOD - B r b a r a
Lange, noted French stage
actress recently signed to make
her motion picture debut in
M-G-Ms BIS Daughter" has
reported for her first scene in
that film. In one sequence the
actress, who just recently learn
ed English will deliver a three
minute speech without hating.
Barbara Stanwyck enacts scene
with her. Robert z. Leonard is
directing, Edwin H. Knopf pro-
ducing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
No Haircut, Insists
MOppet Star

HOLLYWOOD-While Holly
woods big stars are waging the
battle of the hemline, little Mar.
garet O'Brien is stoutly holding
the hair-line.
For her role in MGM's "The
Big City," Margaret reported as
usual with her long hair, by now
firmly rooted O'Brien trade
mark. 1t was suggested, then
urged that in keeping with her
role as a New York waif she cut
her hair much shorter.
Margaret, however, was ada,
mant, and at last report was
holding the line with a firm, but
ungrammatical, "It amt gonna
be cut!"
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The drama opens and closes in
the broadcaSting studio with
Rains soft-spoken diction domin-
ating the gruesome action.
In, addition to the array of
stars, important supporting parts
are filled by Jack Lambert and
Fred Clark. Curtiz works won
ders with this ace cast, and the
entire production itself checks
up another high mark in his dis
tinguished career as a Warner
director.
You ask-but WHO is the
murderer? You see "The Unsus-
pected" for yourself at the Para
mount.
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production. No less than five
ranking personalities top the
hand-picked cast including: Joan
Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey
Totter, Constance Bennett and
Hurd Hatfield. And in addition
to this battery of stars, Curtiz
introduces a newcomer, Michael
North, to film audiences. The
ace director rings the bell with
this corking entertainment.
The action moves from the
broadcasting studio to the coun-
try estate of Victor Grandson
(Claude Rains), where the more
exciting events pile up, His ward
(Joan Caulfield) is reported lost
at sea, and a designing niece
(Audrey Totter) is anxious to
step into her shoes. She has a
weakling husband (Hurd Hat
field who spends most of his
time at the cocktail bar. Con-
stance Bennett in a breezy role
as a smart radio producer, injects
a dash of spice and humor into
the macabre proceedings.
Young North makes his bow
in the role of Steve who appears
unlimited one night at party
at the Grandson home. He takes
things over, being bent on dis
covering who murdered Grandi-
sons secretary, which is the first
of a series of mysterious deaths
which crop up in the picture.
His assistance in unraveling the
murders is given prominence in
the dramas motivation.
Much play is given to actual
broadcasting routine in the stu.
dio, with sharp timing and re-
cordings of Grandison's scripts
worked skillfully into the plot.
One is kept in a constant dither
because of the bewildering clues
which are planted to puzzle the
patron. However when the eli
max is reached and the real
fiend is unmasked the result is
nearly overwhelming. No film in
years builds to such a startling
SHOWDOWN as "The Unsuspected. "
The story moves briskly, en-
bellished with liberal laughs to
offset the murder afoot, with a
wild auto chase giving added
excitement. This ends up in a
junk yard in Brooklyn. A giant
crane is throwing rubbish into
a burning pit, and a tell-tale
trunk is about to be dropped
when the police arrive in the nick
of time. Just who is in the trunk
is another item for the patron
to see for himself on the screen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Tracy To Marble
AS In Olden DAYS

HOLLYWOOD - They're poll
ishing up fors Oscar" over on
the State Of the Union" set.
Tracy's singing again.
Nine years ago, Spencer Tracy
sang on the screen for the first
time in Captains Courageous.
He won an Academy Award for
that onei
Now Frank Capra has him in
another sure-fire Oscar bait -
a telephone scene in LIBERTY
Productions picture for M-G-M
release.
In it, Tracy talks to his 8-year-
old son and before he hangs UP
croons Happy Birthday"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
A LETTER
TO UNITED ARTISTS

Mr.. Oliver Unger
United Artists Corporation
229 West 42nd Street
New York, New York
Dear Mr.. Unger
To "The Roosevelt Story" is to be reminded
Santy of great American leader and of outstanding
of for the American people The producers
have recaptured the spirit of eenyear period during
which fought fear itself lifted the nation from pessmSm
and depression to belief in American heritage
and went to make great contribution world free
dom in a against fascist tyranny.
"The Roosevelt Story brings back the defiant
sve progressive attitudes of great and the inspiration
which he impaired to entire nation. And to us the
unions recalls the rise of American labor rebel
lion against exploitation depression and misery. 1t is
must picture for every worker for every democratic
American
Sincerely yours,
Philip Murray,
President of CIO
THIS PICTURE is NOW SHOWING AT
TOWN HALL THEATER
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
George Reeves Given
Top Role In 'ESisters''

HOLLYWOOD-Another war
interrupted career was resumed
with a bang re GENTLY when
young, handsome George Reeves
was assigned one of the principal
male leads in "The Sainted
Sisters" rom a tic comedy
scheduled to start shortly at
Paramount.
Reeves is a former bit player
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who struggled along in score
of minor roles and then over
night found himself playing the
leading role in Paramount's $50
Proudly We Hail." which CO.
starred Claudette Colbert, Paul
cite Goddard and Veronica Lake
in 1943.
Shortly after Reeves enlisted
in the Army, and only recently
returned to Paramount where he
took a refresher course with a
bit in the 40-star Variety Girl"
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patrons just by opening his
mouth and signing. Ronald Col
mans well known voice is full
of boxoffice appeal, while Gary
Cooper and Humphrey Bogart,
are romantic figures because of
the way they talk as much as
because of the way they look.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Michael Curtiz' "The Unsupported"
Proves Corking Drama To See

against radio background highlghs Bros
excellent mystery thriller The Unsuspected Michael Curtz
production opened enthusiastic approval night
the Paramount Theatre.
Curz exercised great casting this
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Film Stars Make Hollywood
Sport Mecca Of Nation

HoLLYWOOD-As many Hollywood fortunes have been
with clever of vocal cords pretty
fancy figure.
with personality paying off dividends in
since the fckers and today
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Distinctive Voice
Paws Off In Films

HOLLYWOOD-Prominent in the drive to make Los
Angeles the athletic of the nation Hollywood personalities
getting notices the sports columns
pages For the film capital has, without doubt,
the greatest people country
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
UnknownS Drawing Important
Roles In Current Movies

HOLLYWOOD-ATove fans will seeing many new faces
in important screen roles during the coming year.
At least 20 recently acquired players selected
the studios for either leads aturd in TOP pro-
of the discovered on the stage
Evening star., 1947-11-29
Italy DevuIues
changes.

Along with its moves to deal firmly with
Communicated strikes and civil disorders,
the hard-pressed Italian government has
taken a long and promising step toward
currency stabilization. It has done so by
devaluing the Ira to point where it may
be able to wipe out the black market in
dollars and thus end one of the worst evils
bedeviling the country's economy.
Under the devaluation-which will be
subject to monthly revision upward or
downward-the new rate of exchange will
be 5897 lire to the dollar as against the
old rate of $50. This represents a drastic
reduction of sixty-eight per cent. AS a
result, for the first time in long time,
legal channels now offer more lire for
the dollar than can be had in the black
money market, where the present offering
is about $40 to the dollar.
This is a hopeful development for sew
eral reasons. To begin with, although the
illegal rate has gone as high as 900 lire in
the past, there is some reason to believe
that the new legal figure-which may rise
to maximum of 650-will be effective
enough to meet the competition of the
black market. The black market, in other
words may find its operations becoming
so improbable that it will disappear. In
that case, Italys internal trade will have
chance to return to normal; tourist
travel will be encouraged; Americans of
Italian descent will feel more inclined to
resume sending substantial sums of money
to their relatives in the country; and the
flow of exports will be stimulated because
importers in the United States and else
where will be able to do business on
reasonably stable exchange basis.
The scandal of the black money market
has been one of the most dangerous and
demoralizing features of the sagging
Italian economy for some years past. With
a far-fung network of illegal operations
offering many more lire for the dollar
than the rate available in legal channels
like banks, Italy's currency and Italy's
people have been alike victimized. Apart
from it's Gripping economic effects, more
over, the situation-like any widespread,
brazen and serious form of bootlegging-
has adversely affected public morals and
morale, tending, among other things, to
undermine respect for all law and govern
ment. On this ground alone therefore,
the devaluation of the Ira Is of first i'm
portance.
Above all, the new exchange rate is of
prime significance in relation to the pro-
jected long-range European recovery pro-
gram. Before that American-financed
program can 60 into effect or hope to sue
ceed, there must be currency stabiliza-
ton in any participating or recipient coun-
try needing it. Italy's devaluation move
is in line with that condition. France,
which also has black money market will
have to take similar action.
OF course, in view of what the Kremlin-
directed Communists are doing in both
countries, such action will not of itself
constitute cure. Nevertheless, it is in
dispensable, and it can go far toward
efecting fundamental improvement in
the situation. No nation anywhere can
rest on solid foundations unless its own
people and the world at large have con-
fidence In its money
Evening star., 1947-11-29
information and the Atom

The Senate-House Atomic Energy Com
mittee has taken understandable action
in beginning series of meetings to get
as clear picture as possible of what the
rest of the world is doing in the field of
nuclear fssion. The committees primary
purpose, of course, is to learn what it can
about RuSsias progress or lack of prog
ress. There have been so many conflicting
rumors and guesses that the whole subject
invites special study aimed at clearing
up confusion In both the congressional
and public mind.
On its face, therefore, the move by the
Senate House committee is timely and to
the point. The meetings are designed to
hear the expert opinions of members Of
the United States Atomic Energy Com
mission and of those military leaders and
key nuclear authorities who are uniquely
we'll informed on the subject. OF all
Americans, these individuals are by far
the best equipped to tell us what is going
on and to measure the validity of spec
ulation. Actually, they may have to guess,
too, but nobody is in as good position as
they to pass judgment on whether Russia
is close to producing A-weapons or far
from it. Accordingly, from the standpoint