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Evening star., 1947-09-30

represented the United States at the
Paris UNESCO meeting this year
Col. c. Lawton Campbell, chair
man Of the board of ANITA.
George Freedley. drama critic OF
the New York Morning Telegraph
and curator of the theater section
of the New York public library.
Clarence Derwent, president OF
Actors Equity association.
Alexander Kirkland, actor who is
well known for his stage and screen
work.
Robert Breen, executive secretary
of ANITA.
The conference, which will draw
several delegates from the District
and nearby area, is one of the first
of ANTA's regional meetings of uni
versity drama groups In addition
to the District of Columbia, dele
gates will attend from New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
4 X X
The diligent Harold Heffernan is
responsible for an interesting story
of an actress and her name.
The actress in question is Janet
Leigh, the pretty lass who co-starred
with Van johnson in THE Romance
of Rosy Ridge" She still is Janet
Leigh, but not without a struggle.
Janet's real name is Morrison, but
when she first appeared at Metro
as the find of Norma Shearer, the
studio did not like that. They
thought Leigh more suitable. After
her first picture, and all the build
up, Leigh struck some one of the
higher ups as too English, maybe,
certainly not American enough.
So Janet was sent back to being
Janet Morrison. A whole new pub
licity and advertising drive was
planned around the change. 1t had
no sooner got under way, however,
than Janet confessed her preference
for Leigh to Van Johnson. To keep
her happy, or from being unhappy,
he marched up to L. B. Mayer and
told the story.
"1f she's happier with Leigh, make
it Leigh" the big boss said.
So that whole new campaign in
behalf of Janet Morrison has been
Evening star., 1947-09-30
Hollywood:
Bennys to Adopt
Infant Pair for
Their Nursery
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.


Jack Benny and his wife, Mary
Livingston, are completing plans tc
adopt two babies-a boy and girl
They find their big Beverly Hills
home too quiet now that daughter
Joannie is away at boarding school
Jack. by the way. starts his 18th
consecutive year in radio.next Sun
day.
Lana Turner and Tyrone Power
will go on to Paris and London after
Lana meets Ty in Africa. And by
that time Ty should be free to marry
Lana in Paris, where I understand
they want to spend their honey
moon. Annabella is expected to di-
vorce Ty any day now.
Rita HayWorth Is the luckiest act
ress in town! Harry Cohn has
bought Anna Lucasta" for her right
from under Joan Crawford's nose.
Harry paid Playwright Philip Yor-
dan $350,000 for the screen rights to
his play. And only last week Cohn
bought Born Yesterday" for Rita
for reported $750,O0O. There's
nothing too good for Rita at Colum-
bia!
n X
Esther Williams has to have three
nurses to take care of her at home
she's really Ill from that ear infec-
tion. The doctor says no more SWIM
ming for a long, long time, if ever.
Hedy Lamar tells me that she is
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Going to sell her new and Lowell,
home here. She will live in New
York or San Francisco when she.
not making movies. This is getting
to be quite habit with Hollywood
stars-Gene Terney lives in the
East between pictures, so do Claude
Rains and John Garfield.
Danny Kaye, by the way, has put
in bid to have Hedy as his leading
lady in his first movie at Warmers
The part calls for some one who an.
swers to the description-"The most
beautiful girl the world" That's
Hedy!
Dick Powell Is hiring himself 9
battery of lawyers-to fight Joan
Blondell's demand for more money
And above all he told me on the sci
of Stations West,""I don't want my
children to leave California to live
in New York. I want EN- where ]
can see EN-"
Viveca Lindfors will marry Dor
Siegel when she divorces her cur
rent Swedish mate, Folke Regard.
Don directed Viveca in her first
movie here, Night Into Night" 1t
was only Don's second movie as a
director.
Robert Taylor breads the idea of
going to Washington next month to
testify before the committee investi-
eating Communist activities in
Hollywood. Bob says it would be all
right If he could give his testimony
privately. But he's afraid of a
three-ring circus-with the usual
embarrassing headlines.
Greer Garson's weeping scene In
court last week really upset Richard
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New York for this first engagement
is to be a limited affair. There is
a possibility of a short tour after
the Broadway engagement and
Washington, which was one of the
great D'Oyly favorites, and vice
versa, will be included If there is
time.
There are newcomers in DOyly
Carte now, as eight war years would
make inevitable, but the old basic
group is there, too
1t includes, rather above all,
Martyr Green, without whose tenor
voice D'Oyly Carte might just as
well be doing Annie Get Your
Gun" Others of the old guard in
clude Darrell Fancourt, Richard
Walker and Helen Roberts. New
comers whose names will become
equally familiar as the years pass
so Mr.. Freedman says, and he is a
quiet, honest man-include Thomas
Round, Margaret Mitchell, Gwyneth
Cullimore and Ella Halman.
The company's repertory on this
engagement will be slightly cur
tailed, but will include all of the
old favorites such as The Mikado, "
'Iloanthe," Pirates of Penzance,
''Pinafore.' Patience" "Yeoman of
the Guard" Trial by Jury" and the
famous old curtain-raiser, Cox and
Box"
The opening date is December %
and, while the theater has not been
definitely selected, it will be one of
the largest Shubert houses on
Broadway.
So, whatever else may happen.
the theater in New York Is assured
of one monster hit this season.
That Eastern theater conference
which ANITA (American National
Theater and Academy has ar
ranged for the University of Della
ware, October 1919, will leave no
department of the drama uncovered
in its selection of speakers. The
first six speakers, announced by DR..
c. Robert Kase, director of dra-
matics at the university, are:
Rosamond Glider, editor of The
ater Arts, who, with Lillian Hellman
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dropped. So far as Metro knows
now, there just isn't such a girl.
At least not today.
Outfielder Pete Gray, the one
armed player who created such a
stir in baseball, did not make good
with the st. Louis Browns when he
was brought up to the big leagues
The Browns did not make good
either, but that is another story.
Gray, however, is to have his in
nings in a movie which will tell his
life story, including his big league
experience, 1t is being made by
Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer and movie
audiences should be seeing it before
the big league teams go South for
training next spring.
Evening star., 1947-09-30
Disney's Inspiration

Billy Gilbert clowns through the
drawing board outlines Of Willie
the giant in Walt Disney's RKO
Radio-released feature, Fun and
Fancy Free"
Disney's animation artists studied
the mannerisms of vaudeville
trained Gilbert, man of earth-shak-
ing sneezes. Those who have de-
llghted in or been dazed by his ex-
ploslve ca-choos, mastery in their
technique of timing, will get an
added pleasure in recognizing the
identity of the giants voice, in the
Evening star., 1947-09-30

Clean blotting paper and a hot
iron can be used for removing soiled
spots from wallpaper.
Evening star., 1947-09-30
Kelly to Broadway

Paul Kelly, featured member of
RKO Radios "Crossf1re," will play
a general in the stage play, Com
mand Decision" which opens at
New York's Fulton on October /.
Kellys role in "Crossfire" is his
223d. He has been in films for
four decades,
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episode Of Mickey and the Bean
stalk"
So beg,liled was Disney by his own
creation-a giant who loves music
and thus has a fleck of gold in a
heart Of f1int-that he doesn't give
Willie his quietus in the picture but
puts him on parole, as it were, to
perform again some other time.
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Ney, who is still in love with her
And he believes she is with him. So
just to leave the way clear for a
possible reconciliation, Richard is
not going to have any solo dates
with any girl until he really is sure.
X X X
Dana Andrews is cooking up a deal
with Jerry Wald to star for him
In Mr.. Broadway" the story of the
late Slime Silverman, editor and
founder of the weekly, Variety.
Orson Welles made a beautiful
deal with Edward Small when he
agreed to star for him in "Cagli-
ostro" in Rome. Orson gets $50. 600
and Is per cent of the world profits
But the way the world is closing UP
on Hollywood, there won't be too
much of the latter
tReIeased by North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc)
Clean blottinp manor ood a bot
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Cross-FencIng

II properly done, cross-fencing Of
fenced pastures will make them
more useful and sometimes more
productive. Adequate water and
shade for each area to be enclosed
are important consideration In
planning cross-fencing operations.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
FERGUSON's LOUNGE I

he Ferguson Furniture Company
one of Mississippi's leading bust
ness establishments, has recently
installed restroom Accommodations
for it's many negro customers. In
keeping with the policy OF the
company to show to the fullest
extent the stores appreciation OF
its large and profitable Negro
business; in accordance with the
general spirit of friendliness, good
will. and an honest desire to offer
to all customers and citizens the
best; and in fullfflment of a proll-
Use made several years ago TO a
committee representing the Alpha
Pi chapter. Iota Lambda ororlty'
Mr.. e. H. Butler, head OF the
establishment has announced the
opening of these lounges and rest
rooms to the Colored citizens OF
Jackson and the state. Located
on the second floor OF the newly
annexed part of the company, the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
TEACHERS TO HONOR
EDITORS

wo state editor who have gain
ed national regulations, one White
and one Colored, will be honored
by the Mississippi Association OF
Teachers in Colored Schools at its
annual meeting here next week.
The awards will be presented to
outstanding Mississippians for
Constructive and far-reaching Ser
vice to Our Group during the
Rears, 1916.
Inc ward will go to Editor Hold
ding Carter, of the Greenville Dem
ocrat Times, and Winner Of the
Pulitzer Prize, while the other
Award will go to Editor Percy
Gdeene, of the Jacksan Advocate,
named by the Chicago Defender,
The Schomburg Collection, ew
York Public Library, and the Sou
thern Negro Youth Congress for
outstanding and distinguished con-
tributions to democracy during the
year 1916.
The presentation of the Awards
will be made by Prof. Onslem j.
Finch, widely known orator and
writer.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15

lounges and restrooms are easily
reached through the Amite Street
entrance. Both the lounges and
laboratories for men and women
are equipped with the best in
upholstered furniture and the lat
est in lavotory furnishings. Special
attention has been given to furni-
ture that will provide haven OF
rest for tired parents and their
children who have an hour or
two to wait for busses that carry
them out to the many subdivisions
Of the city, and persons travelling
through the city who have short
laf overs here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15

ton had been playing the soag on q
personal appearance tour, in theatres
throughout the country. By the time
the record was released, CARVER
HAMPTON co. had received thou
sands of man-orders for The Pencil
Broke"
A new illustrated cataloe. listing
thousands of records, has just been
released by the CARVER-HAMPTON
COMPANY at their Brooklyn 20.
New York Office.
/ CARVER-HAMPTON co, the
large mail-order house, reports this
week, that the fastest selling record
1t is now handling is THE Pencil
Broke And That's ALI She Wrote"
by Lionel Hampton.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Mount Rush1norc

The Mount Rushmore (South Da-
kota) Memorial tribute In stone to
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt was begun In
1927 when Gutzon Borglum, Ameri-
can sculptor Of Danish parentage,
was commissioned to do the work.
When he died March 6. 1941, the
four faces were just about finished
and his 28-year-old son and assist
ant, Lincoln Borglun, took over. an
nouncing the formal completion OF
the Memorial November 20, 1941.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Oil Refinery Center

Bankpapan, which took Its turn a,
q center of Allied reconquest oper<
tons on Borneo, grew from I'M
eharted insignifcance as 4 native
village In 1891 to prime Importance
a. q petroleum refining center in
1s41. Dutch initiative built this stra-
logically placed port. midway on
Borneo's Strait of Makassar coast,
into a teening, one-industry city OF
more than $4,000 people.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Relieves Itch

Rubbing a mosquito bite with
moist soap relieves the itching. ac-
cording to the u. S. department OF
agriculture. Soap also helps to pre-
vent Ivy poisoning. Wash the ex-
posed area thoroughly with soap and
water, so that the irritating oil
from the leaves will be flushed from
the skin.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Lionel HairiptonS
Fastest Selling Disc
Distributed By carver-Hsmptoa

New York (IPS.):-iond Hamp-
Ion continues to amaze music circles.
Demands for his services keep IL
reasing while many other bands are
breaking up or reducing the size Of
ther outfits. The Hamp" Is booked
soId through April, 1947.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15

For weeks,
before the re-
oording As
released. the
mail order
house had been
receiving re-
quests for 1t
from ill over
the country dus
to the fact that
Lionel Hanp-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Da4ging Mattress

70 prevent . mattress from sag.
ging In the center, turn 1t from top
to bottom one week, and from side
70 side the next
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-15
Costly Disease

F. nj paralysis or fowl leucosis II
now costing the nations poultry
raisers more than hundred million
dollars . year.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Philip Wylie, American novelist
and short-story soriter. has had
a scide and varied life. He has
soorRed as press agent. GdUerfis-
ing manager Jor a publisher, scas
tor a time one OF the editors OF
the NeD Yorker and q studio
apriter in the moDies. He worked
on farms, Tn Manhattan stores,
in factories. on ships and else
sphere. Intending to be a doc
tor, his education iDds largely
scientific, and his traUels abroad
Cape him a knowledge OF three
foreign languages. He collab-
Grated on seperal books NTH
Ed,uin Balmer and others iDere
anonymous or tpritten under a
pseudonym. The tollosDing ar
ticle toas written exclusively for
The Star.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
A Word to Constant Readers

with SNUG glee that on page 14s,
line 23, two letters have been
transposed In the fourth word
from the right hand margin.
The plague Of trifiing Is cer-
tainly a poor comment on general
education, which is shown by II
to make of multitudes, not readers
in any sense of the word. but mere
amateur proof-readers. And the
scale on which the author cor
rector operates is limited only by
his purse and leisure. ! have had
sent to ME, with no comment, q
COPY of book of mine, neatly re-
proof -read and annotated with
suggestions for better" words
than those I used.
In the case of a book I wrote
some years ago on the poor sub
jectiye condition of modern man,
/ had mailed to me five con-
densations"-five shortened, new
versions of my humble effort.
Three of these were more than
twenty thousand words in length
representing an enormous vol
untary labor-and one had ac-
tually been set in type! 1t is very
f1attering that five persons should
think enough of my intellectual
effort to execute an abbreviation
of it; but from my standpoint, the
Evening star., 1947-08-03

~ - by book or an article,
they take their pens in hand and
inform the author that he Is q
liar, a fool, malicious person,
misinformed, or q menace. I
have written such missives my
self and I have received such.
OF them, some were justified and
many gave me insight into over
looked categories Of thought and
opinion. But the other day,
while was lying meditatively
on the Florida beach, there few
into my range Of vision five
pelicans. The birds were at first
strung out in line: as I idly
watched Il am something of
pelican buff, one took the lead
and two fell behind each flank
so that the birds proceeded in
w" formation.
This commonplace occurrence
reminded me of a letter long
ago received from gentleman
who quoted from a magazine
story of mine the description of
pelicans flying in a "" and
who asserted that, in his long
experience as a pelican-watcher
and resident of the west coast
of Florida, he had never seen
pelicans take that formation. He
stated that he was, In conse-
quence, positive the birds always
few in a line and that I was
nature-faker. The magazine,
which got the letter first, was
naturally depressed and referred
the matter to me with some
petulance. Now, for all ] know,
pelicans on the west coast OF
Florida never fly In "Vs"-but I
watched them do it on this coast,
where live, for the umpteenth
time, only day before yesterday.
The chuckle-head who gave me
the lie put me to some pains and
Evening star., 1947-08-03
They Are Like a
Cloud of Mosquitoes

The season at which this essay
will be published has put a happy
suggestion in my mind. would
like to use the opportunity to give
each and every one of the five
thousand free lance writer's in this
great nation a Christmas present
in the form Of a discovery have
made, partly out of sheer bril-
lance, but partly, I confess, from
driving necessity. For I have
solved the problem of these BB-
shot critics, these piddling and
usually mistaken theme markers.
who, If they looked at the Mona
Lisa, would look first, last, and
only, for a f1y-speck. Whenever I
open a letter from one of them, I
instantly flick it into the waste
basket. ! make it my goal to see
the sort Of letter it is without see
ing just what the exact nature Of
the midget grippe may be; thus it
never haunts me. Fifty people
wrote me that, in one of my books,
(See HUMOR, Page 35.)
Evening star., 1947-08-03

but was nevertheless Certain he
knew more than I did.
Niggling Dopes Who
Heckle Authors
In the course of 20 years Of
writing such things as books.
magazine stories, articles, criti-
cism and a newspaper column, I
received several thousand. letters
OF this and other quibbling sorts.
Each one usually goes to an edi-
tor first. Editors dislike errors
writer's do sometimes make them
but the result Is often tart,
unjustified order from editor to
writer to make amends. I have
had to spend more than enough
time to write q whole book in the
egregious business of .corre-
spending with dopes who were
engaged either in niggling over a
point not worth discussion or in
fallacious attempt at correcting
me. -
There was, for example, a gen.
tleman who said I had used the
wrong common name for a fish.
This cost me q trip to the library,
several phone calls to learned
persons, two letters, and consider
able Irritation, before I could
prove to his and the editorial sat
isfaction that knew my stuff
and he did not. There was gen.
tleman who wrote me five letters
from Texas over the alleged fail
ure by me to use the subjunctive
in contrary-to-fact condition.
wrote. was; he said it should
have been, were" Even when I
summoned a famous English pro-
fessor to the Judgment and when
he decided in my favor, the self
appointed Texas purist kept on
writing! Whenever publish
book, know that I will soon be
showered with missives, both cute
and bitter, from the spelling and
punctuation correctors. These
people as often as not assume I
set the book in type myself and
hold me to blame for every print
er's error as well as trivial blum
ders of my own. And legion is the
number of individuals who have
both the energy and time mot to
mention the egotism or the neu-
rotic eompulsion) to write four or
five pages of disagreement over
the definition of word.
All authors are similarly
heckled. All are annoyed, when
they have poured grey matter and
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hearts blood into their work, to
receive endless communications
from readers who say exactly
nothing about their reactions to
the opus, but merely point out
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fact remains that If I had foun,
a shorter way to say what !
wished to say, ] would have used
it myself. The person who reed.
an exogesis or q syllabus of a book
has in no sense read the book. An
five digesters assumed I would be
overjoyed to drop everything, read
their translation Of my English.
and send lengthy comment.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Just forFu

Among the humorous books
OF. the year the tollot0iflg are
recommended as likely to lend
a riotous touch to your Christ
mas list.
THE BEST OF DON MAR
QUIS, with an introduction by
CHRISTOPHER Morley doubleday
g. Co., $500. Those who can
bear the nostalgia-read these
tales and weep."-Mary Carter
Roberts.
THE PSYCHOPATHIC DOG,
by John Philip Sousa, III
doubleday & Co., 5000. IF
you are an admirer of individ-
uals and a lover of dogs, you'll
find good evenings entertain
ment here. Martha Lewis.
KEEP 1T CRISP, by S. J.
Perelman Random House.
$2.50).
THE LEACOCK ROUNDA-
BOUT, by Stephen Lea acock
(Dodd, Mead & Co., $3.50.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

(See HUMOR, Page 35)
Evening star., 1947-08-03

OST constant readers"
reach a point in their
lives at which, incensed
hv a hook or an article.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

trouble simply because he did
not know enough about pelicans,
but was nevertheless Certain he
knew more than / did.
Nigsling Dopes Who
Heckle Authors
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Driver Is Fined $100
On d Traffic Counts

A $l00 fine and the stern admoni-
ton of the Traffic Court judge was
the penalty for a motorist guilty OF
driving through three streetcar
loading zones and cruising on the
wrong side of the street. =
Imposing $25 fines for each of the
four charges against Donald l..
Loughran, SO, of the 3100 block of
Foxhall road NV, Judge George D.
Nelson termed the offenses IAN act
of grave carelessness" and added the
defendant was highly fortunate"
the zones were unoccupied at the
time.
Loughran, who pleaded guilty, was
arrested Monday on Fourteenth
street near U NV.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Births Reported

Gustav and Halina 9lef -Boikowiak, girl
Wallace and Marie Alley. boy,
Arthur and Mary Amorosi. boy.
Hubert and Thelma Baker. boy.
Gibson and Ida Beach, boy.
Harold and Grace Beall. girl.
Gardener and Mildred Bender, boy.
Edwin and Tillie Benson, boy.
T. Otis and Juliet Black, boy.
Robert and Joan Brewer, girl.
Edwin and Viola Broadhurst, girl.
Richard and Miriam Broadly. girl.
Francis and Grace Brosnlhan, g1rl.
Ivan and Edna Bryant, boy.
Timothy and Elaine Buckley. boy.
Edgar and Phyllis Campbell, boy.
William and Ruth Clarke, girl.
John and Dorothy Clements, boy.
Thomas and Elizabeth Connell, boy.
Richard and Mildred Craft, girl.
Leonard and Enola Crapper. boy;
Woodrow and Marina Dermody, boy.
Francis and Elada Dorsey, girl
Edward and Margaret Doyle. boy.
Robert and Bernice Qua, girl.
Walter and Marian Garner, boy.
Cecil and Hazel Garrison. girl,
Bernard and Betty Gleason, girl.
Joseph and Neya Greenwood, girl.
Ralph and Mollyanne Harris, girl.
Robert and Rose Hart, boy.
James and Evelyn Hayes, girl
Joseph and Dorothy Hogan, girl.
Curtis ana Emma Jordan, boy
Russell and Carolyn Kelly. girl.
James and Helen Kemp, boy.
Robert and Helen Koch, boy.
Ivan and Mary Layton, boy;
John and Catherine Leach, boy.
Albert and Ruth Leghorn. girl.
Wilbur and Kathryn Lynch, girl.
Francis ard Anna Mcguire, boy.
Robert and Margaret Main, boy.
Gabriel and Gloria Melice, girl,
Carlton and Halle Mothershead' boy.
George and Margaret Mumford, boy.
Jerry and Janet Murphy, girl.
Horace and Mavis McAvoy, girl.
Stanley and Lepha McCallister, girl.
William and Antoinette McKeever, girl.