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Evening star., 1947-03-16

don't look for any trouble of that
sort"
The late great tenor. John Nc
Cormick, was responsible for Maui
reen's debut as screen actress.
After Paramount signed him to do
a singing picture, the studio combed
Ireland-in a contest--to find COL
leen suitable to play opposite him.
Maureen won the job, was given
$3.50 a week, and eventually landed
term contract at MGM Contrary
to the general impression, she's made
some fine movies outside sthe Tar
zan sphere. Being constantly hooked
UP with those jungle epics bothers
Maureen not a little.
Il played in 40 pictures at MGM
and only six were Tarzans," she
said. yet I am always being
linked with them. The first was
quite good fun, but I loathed all the
others. = Isswas always being bitten
by monkey or cockatoo or some
thing"
AS she looks back over her ca
reer, she figures she's turned in
some creditable performances, no.
tably in THE Barretts of Wimpole
Street" and pride and Prejudice" !"
1t hurts her to realize that these
contributions will probably be over
looked by poSterity.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Tarzan's Ex-Mate Returns
And Maureen O'Sullivan Wishes She Could
Be Known for Other Roles.
By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WooD.
Maureen O'Sullivan arose early
that all-important Monday morning
in late February. The rest of the
household, including the four O'Sul-
Ivan children, was still asleep. Maui
reen retrieved her long-neglected
makeup paraphernalia from shelf.
With excusable excitement she set
about the task of fixing her face for
her first day in nearly six years be-
fore a motion picture camera.
Dawn was just breaking when
Maureen tiptoed toward the front
door to get into her car for the drive
to the Paramount studio, where her
husband, John Farrow-on his way
more than an hour before-was
waiting to direct her in her first
scene of "The Big Clock
With q hand on the front-door
knob Maureen looked up the stair
way and beheld a small figure in
pajamas looking down at her in
shocked dismay. It was her son,
Michael Damien, nearing 8 years
old. The boy stared at his mother
with unbelieving eyes and then be-
gan sobbing. e@ .a .---
THAT almost broke up my come
back before it got started" said
Maureen. My children had never
before seen me in makeup. Michael
Damien, the eldest, didn't recognize
me for a few moments. had to sit
down right there and explain what
it was all about. He kept on crying.
I cried a little, too, and wondered
for while if I shouldn't go in, call
up John and tell him I'd changed
my mind. Then I looked at my
watch. I was holding up the COM
pany. It was the old trouper in
stinct saving the day."
Thrilled About Return.
The sequel is quite okay, however.
Michael Damien and the three other
young O'Sullivans are resigned to
the fact that mother won't be
around the house so much of the
time in the future, and that if they
want to see more of her during the
daylight hours they'll have to take
a trip down to the studio. And
they've been doing that, too. They
think it great fun to watch her max
ing faces at that big camera and
father scolding just a little bit as he
stands back of the box telling her
how to do everything.
Maureen is thrilled about getting
back, especially in such a meaty
dramatic role as this story affords.
Twelve pounds thinner than when
she last appeared as Jane in the
"Tarzan" series, Maureen is still the
same unspoiled, childlike character
with the perpetual, infectious grin
on her Irish map. It doesn't seem
possible she's the mother of four
lusty kids, ranging from 5 months
to 7k years.
Her comeback story, "The Big
Clock" in which she appears op-
posite Ray Milland, is a suspense
drama about a police Gordon tight
ening around the neck of the sole
witness to an otherwise perfect
crime. In the part, Maureen will
wear stylish, fancy clothes-a happy
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Hollywood:
Frank Sinatra
Again Fights
Intolerance
Bv Bob Thomas
By Bob Thomas

Because many people here think
the fight against intolerance is more
important now than ever, Holly
wood will produce another short
subject to combat racial and re-
ligious antagonism. The star again
will be Frank Sinatra, who won a
special Academy Award last year
for similar subject, ''The House I
Live In" Irving Berlin is writing
a song for the short. which will be
nonprofit venture.
The art directors, the men who
plan movie sets, are worried about
the trend of shooting pictures in
the East and elsewhere on location
thus cutting into their jobs. So
they've hired press agent at $10,-
900 a year to help explain their
contribution to the industry.
Maria Montez and Jean Pierre
Aumont appeared very happy max
ing Atlantis and why not? He
gets 100000 (minus MGM's cut)
and she gets 100000, plus 10 per
cent of the profits.
John Kodiak says no more heavies
for him. He Is tired of playing mur-
derers and other u11savory char
acters, and thinks the public is tired
of seeing them. His spirits were as
low as horse operas budget until
Anne Baxter arranged a showing
of "a Bell for Adano" at their home
the other night. That renewed his
tagging faith in his career.
Brian Donlevy is another who
wants to play no more bad men.
He opines the movies should take
a tip from radio, and give the pub
lie more entertainment, particularly
comedy. Without the singing COM
mercials.
Enterprise celebrated a birthday
last week. The studio started one
year ago and now has four un-
released pictures which cost So
100000. -. There are doubts that
the novel Nightmare Alley" will
be filmed right now. Many stars
around town mixed the picture be-
cause of it's grisly nature and there
are doubts that Ty Power will do it,
as announced. Anne Revere
asked for and got her release from
Goth Century Fox and Immediately
had her role cut down in "Scudda
Hoo, Scudda Hay"
Evening star., 1947-03-16

contrast to the rags she wore in the
Tarzan films.
The story went out, when Maui
reen retired, that MGM fired her be-
cause they figured she could do
nothing but Tarzan types. This the
actress Indignantly denied in her
dressing room on the opening day
of shooting.
II quit pictures to take care of my
husband" she said. He was ter
ribly i'll. He had been discharged
by the navy-the Canadian Navy
and he was more or less expected to
die. The doctors suggested that I
put him in hospital but knew
couldn't do that. My husband is
a very bad patient. He has to be
doing something even when he's fiat
on his back. He knew, and I knew,
that if he were put in a hospital
with nothing to do he would die.
It's strange thing, but it was the
offer of job that saved his life.
Paramount asked him to direct
Wake Island the story about the
Marines who held out SO long
against the Japenese. 1t was just
the sort of script that appealed to
my husband and he jumped at the
chance. The doctors, of course, all
washed their hands of him. But,
you know, the minute he started to
work-the minute he felt he was be-
gining to accomplish something-he
began to perk up"
Asked if she believed the combi-
nation of a picture directing hus-
band and an actress wife, working
in the same picture, bore any danger
of blowing up in temperamental fire
as now threatens in the Orson
Welles and Rita Hayworth project
at Columbia-Maureen offered a
straightforward answer.
Won Singers Contest.
"It's all up to the two people
themselves. If we get along at home,
I don't see why we can't manage to
do so on a movie set. After all,
movie making, like married life, is
a matter of give and take. No, I
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Now for Next Best Years
Mimicry of Prize Screen Play Will Find
Way Full of Pitfalls
By Joy Carmody

came as no surprise that the Academy
agreed including the public that
picture
acqiescen could hardly
have been otherwise this time without making great Of
UP manfuly effect conferred knghthood
Godwyn despite the that he notorious
conformis and sometimes talks as If he owned the place
not only strange world seething this but stranger still
in Hollywood sleeve presumed to sheath dirk ana
brotherhood exists scale inch to 10000 miles
Picture Sweep o
cheering complete
prizes
earned Freric March
the best actor william Wyler the accolade as best
Robert Sherwood
establish Harold Russell the best supporting male player
bagu picked first speck of dust
speculation meaning all these honos for
Lives"
Clearly they something bright shining
"1he Best Years of Our
hardly good thing Certainly
initiative community the capital that there
making eenpays which have the intelligence
deal with the in terms OF honest
realism
the movies facing does not try to capture Utopia
three discharged who went back to called Boone
City, apparently forgets there another place
Hollywood where life distorted and fantastic
Story, Big Picture.
it to be that comparatively simple little story
turned into as big picture
history other
winning movies With Wind THE Lost Weekend"
which there nothing
MacKnay Kantor. Its title in that form GLORY
which fine title perhaps winning one as
Lives The latter certainly is catcher
anything with which to identify themselves
in glory
his life.
The change then easily admirable
nothing to- the basic idea such maybe
making it Hollywood thing
Hoywoods acute ngroWing
those radio about the local
but has nevertheless been fghtfu
Boone City Hollywood and there
difference favor of the former The Mess GodWyn,
March of Madison Wis., all knew this and
making "The Best Years OF
Our Lives"
Inn Artfully Arless.
the capital who msled by the
simple prize picture thinking of arless they
for the surprise of their lives.
Actually it arfu elderly English actress but like her.
wonderfully deceptive above it.
Hollywood starts dealing
Godwyn screenplay must make
tricks paced by the producer OF The Best Years
admirable of these tricks making audiences
this just the would have happened
Stephenson Fred Derry who former
Parrish who lost his hands in the had to-
postwar adjustment problems. -'s'~+< sst
the picture hadto solve them and
In doing it we'll, had to win its Academy award.
mimic in its external simplicity but not in
qualities which will inspire others to
equivalent success. -,o4+ae
Evening star., 1947-03-16
HOLLYWOOD.

When new boss takes over q
Hollywood studio, every one there
gets very nervous because it's an old
Hollywood custom for the new guy
to chop of the heads of the boys
appointed by his predecessor.
"But I'm leaving every one ss ]
found them," says Dore Schary, new
executive vice president in charge
Of production at the RKO Studio.
And maybe that's why every one is
relaxed and pleased. Even stars
like Dick Powell and Cary Grant,
who don't have to worry about
small things" like being fired
stopped me after Dore took over
to say, isn't it wonderful that he's
the new boss!"
Cary has Just finished making
"The Bachelor and the. Bobby Sox-
er" for RKO with Shirley Temple
and Myrna 10y. And he liked the
treatment he received. He has now
signed to do another with Dore
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream
House." again with Myrna 10y
When you can pull off two pictures
in q row with these two stars, you
must be good!
my two main ideas" Dore tells
me, "is to make money for RKO
and to make pictures that have a
point to them. The Bachelor and
the Bobby Soxer,' for instance, is
comedy rejecting the modern spirit
in nice, normal kids. There's NO
juvenile delinquency in the picture
just happy kids of today with
their foibles, love for jive music and
lack of discipline"
A Problem Handler.
The Blandings picture kids the
problem of building house today
If Dore can make a comedy OF
that, he's genius.
I think he is, because here is how
he handled a much tougher prob
lem with Sam Goldwyn. Dore
signed Loretta Young for the lead
in Memory Of Love-" Then he bor-
rowed Dana Andrews from Goldwyn
for the lead opposite her. He was
all ready to start production.
At this point, Teresa Wright an.
nounced that she could not work ir
The Bishops Wife," because she
was expecting a baby. The picture
had already started and Sam wa:
desperate. He asked Schary if hi
could borrow Loretta Young from
him. Dore said "Yes" because he
was grateful for the loan of Dana
The result was that he had to fine
another leading lady, Merle Oberon
Most studios are cutting down. Of
cutting out entirely their "B" pic.
lures. But not Schary. "It's the
only way to develop new talent,
he states, because you can't risk
putting new people in expensive
pictures. And if you don't put then
in small pictures, how are they evel
going to learn to be star actors ane
actresses?"
This is not idle talk on the par
of Dore because he was the execu.
tive in charge of "B" pictures al
Metro for several years. Players
who received their first recognition
under his "B" system include Mar
garet O'Brien, Van johnson, Robert
Walker, keenan, Wynn and Lassie
Big-shot directors of today who
learned their trade in Schary.
supervised "B's" are George Sidney
Jules Dassin, Fred Wilcox and Fred
Zimmerman.
"RKO will make about IL B
pictures this year-with the same
care that goes into an "A picture
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL-"13 Rue Made
leine":: 1:45, 4::30, tbs and
1905 pm. Stage shows: los,
$3.50, $40 and 9:25 pm.
COLUMBIA-"The Beginning
or the End: l, $40, $40, 7:30
and 9:40 pm.
EARLE-"Nora Prentiss":: l,
$40, $40, 7::35 and 9:45 pm.
HIPPODROME-" THE Woman
I Loved Most: 2:05, $50,
$50, 7::50 and 9:45 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Best Years of
Our Lives: 1920, 3:25, $50
and 9::35 pm.
LITTLE-"Henry the Fifth:
2::30 and $50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Si "Sinbad the
Sailor: /, 3:18, $40. 7:30 and
9:45 pm.
LACE-"Boomerang":: 1, $40,
$40, 7::3O and 9:40 pm.
PIX-"Forbidden Music: 2:35,
Sis, 7:50 and 10:30 pm.
TRANS-LUX-NeWs and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
ALI Is Now Relaxation
Happiness Reigns at RKO Because Dore
Schary Is No New Broom
By Sheioh Grohom

Well make between 8 and 10 big
pictures" says the producer. Among
the latter will be some biggies for
Barbara Bel Geddes, who tees OF
with the lead in II Remember
Mama"
1 Likes Jane Greer. e..
"I'm planning a big build-up for
Jane Greer" says Dore. Jane, the
ex-wife of Rudy vallee, has the lead
with Robert Mitchum in "Out Of the
Past" Schary is tremendously i'm
pressed with her potentialities.
Watch for her to 60 places under
his banner.
Pat O'Brien Is another star who
will get good pictures under the
Schary banner. His next is s~"Fight-
ing Father Dunno" the story of q
Catholic priest who founded the
Newsboys Home in 1909.
Laraine Day recently signed a deal
with RKO to make one picture a
year for the next five years. She is
now starring in Tycoon" with John
Wayne. Dore and I discuss her
marital problems, and I wonder
aloud whether they will hurt her at
the box Office. "It can't" says Dore,
because she is very good person,
in the good sense of the wosd. And
she's a fine actress" He seems to
be right because shortly after the
case broke, Laraine, whose picture
price had been 100000, started get-
ting offers at $150,000!
Dore is Al, has three children and
calm disposition. He has been
married to the same girl for Is years.
He started in Hollywood as a writer
and rose to be producer at Metro,
then with David Selznick, for whom
he kicked off with "Ill Be Seeing
You," with Ginger Rogers and Jo-
seph Gotten. He likes Selznick.
David treated me better than any
one else I've ever been mixed up
with in Hollywood" says Dore. Hes
a good friend because I had year
to go on my contract with him and
he released me-"
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
Evening star., 1947-03-16
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLY WOOD.
From his lofty perch among the
longtime movie greats, dapper little
Adolphe Menjou views the current
Hollywood scene and holds his nose.
That's with his left hand. His
right hands pusy penning his
memoirs.
mot only are movies worse than
they used to be- snorts Menjou,
Zone might even say that now they
are no good at all"
That isn't sour grapes. Menjou
has been working in one of the big
gest budget pictures of the year,
"The Hucksters," with a nice fat
part at nice fat salary.
Actors in the old days." he con-
cedes, weren't as polished as they
are now. But the movies weren't
afraid to try to tell story that
needed to be told.
producers today are afraid. OF
what, I don't know. Censorship, I
guess. Censorship ought to be
fought, not feared. There's too much
of it already. The production code
Is sheer cowardice."
Menjou has been fighting this
verbal battle for years. With the
publishing of his memoirs, the battle
will be carried into print. He's
noted for yelling his ideas across
dining rooms at producers. Some
big shots duck. Others listen read
fly. Menjous no crackpot. He's a
sound businessman and has for
tune to prove it. His ideas have
way of paying off.
He's Outspoken.
This portrayal of Menjou may
seem out of character. For years his
publicity has fitted his screen type
a suave man of the world Actually,
Menjou is thinking man-not a
clothes horse.
Around Hollywood, Menjou is
known as outSpoken-and long
winded. He can afford to say what
he thinks because he is free lance,
with no studio affiliations. Only
few would risk charging the industry
with cowardice, but Menjou doesn't
hesitate. He is plainly and simply
rebellious against system which
shuns his advice.
'You think they are making great
pictures today?" he asks rhetori-
cally. "They are not. They spend
millions of dollars, they buy adver-
tising. They buy the radio, they
buy everything to exploit their
sniveling product. But the public
Evening star., 1947-03-16
So Resourceful
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
For a scene in RKO's "The Farm
er's Daughter" Joseph Gotten has
to fall through the ice of skating
pond. To keep him from catching
pneumonia during the many takes,
technicians whipped up a trans
parent plastic "ice" so that warm
water could be used.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL - 1.-THE Iceman
Cometh," starting March "a.
CAPITOI-"Ladies' Man." with
Eddie Bracken, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA - Kit Carson"
with Dana Andrews, starting
Thursday.
EARLE - THAT Way With
Women" with Dane Clark,
starting Thursday.
METROPOLTTAN-"The An
gel and the Badman," with
John Wayne, starting Thurs
day.
PALACE-"My Favorite Bru-
nette," with Bob Hope and
Dorothy bamour, starting
Thursday.
PIX-"King of Virtue" start
ing Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-05-05
Arlington School
Bond Program Hit

The Arlington School Board has
been accused by DR.. Oscar r.
LeBeau, chairman of the Citizens
Committee for School Improvement,
with utter disregard of the public
will" In connection with a proposed
Sc ,00o, 900 bond issue.
"The parents of Arlington are
extremely disappointed at the utter
disregard of the public will which
the Arlington School Board reflects
in its plans for complicated, four
part bond ISSUE" DR.. LeBeau said in
a statement.
He said that the board, "after
dragging Its heels for nearly year
on a widely indorsed" bond issue of
from $3.250,000 to $4,000,0O0 for
school improvements, now proposes
to submit resolution for $6,O00,-
600 issue"
Moreover" he continued, "in-
stead of offering single integrated
bond issue proposal, as indorsed by
the Arlington County Civic Fedora
ton and more than As other organ
izations at the recent bond issue
hearing, the School board is appar-
emily chopping UP the issue into
four arbitrary parts, all of which
contain some essential elements
Defeat of any one of the four would
be unfortunate"
Evening star., 1947-05-05
'7,6OO Workers Here
Underpaid Last Year, !,
Safety Board Reports

About 1900 District workers were
paid less than the legal minimum
wage rates In 1916 the Minimum
Wage and Industrial Safety Boards
report to the District Commission
ers shows. The boards annual re-
port disclosed that In AT cases
closed, $4,000 was collected from
firms which underpaid their workers.
Voluntary compliance with the law
was obtained in most cases, but in
40 1t was necessary to recommend
prosecution by the Corporation
Counsel. In 80 of these cases, con-
viction resulted and fines Of 1896
were imposed.
Approximately 1900 women and
nearly 1000 boys and girls under Is
years Of age were employed lest year
in retail trade occupations here, the
report showed. More than half of
all women employed worked in de-
partment stores.
Restaurants Biggest Offenders.
The AT cases included ISIS law
violations-967 of them violations of
the hours law and 636 violations of
the minimum wage law.
Inspections revealed the largest
number of violations in restaurants
which led the list. Laundry and
dry cleaning firms were the second
largest violators.
The report also disclosed that the
board is preparing safety standards
for the protection of persons engaged
in window cleaning operations.
Criminal prosecution was insti-
tuted in % cases for violations of
safety standards last year. In eight
cases convictions were obtained and
fines totaling $575 imposed. One
case was dismissed, two were nolle
pressed and II still are pending.
25,856 Injuries In Year.
During the past year, 25,856 in
juries were reported to the Bureau
Of Employees Compensation by pri-
vate industry of the District. OF
these, 9,544 were lost time due to
injuries and 40 were fatal. Injuries
which did not result in the employe
losing time increased 2,467 as COM
pared with the previous year.
In the construction industry dur
ing the year an additional 4,521
workers we're employed as compared
with the previous year. Injuries re-
ported totaled 3,574. OF these, 1,400
we're disabling and two were fatal.
Compensation paid by private in
dustry In the District for injuries
amounted to s778,251. This was
$31,018 less than the previous year.
Evening star., 1947-05-05
Naval Academy Stages
Operation Pinufive'
Special pispoteh 10 The stor

- ANNAPOLIS, May 3.-A musical
production, Operation Pinaf1ve, u
will be given by the combined mus
ical clubs Of the Naval Academy Fri
day and Saturday nights at the
Academy.
Among those in the cast are Ben
jamin H. Poster, 1907 Larry place,
Chevy Chase; Charles A. Orem, 2341
Rittenhouse street NV; John B.
Foster, 1912 Longfellow street NV,
and Joe A. Dickson, 1881 Columbia
Heights NV.
Evening star., 1947-07-27
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