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Evening star., 1947-02-07
MouI Named to Sigmu XII

Martin T. Moul of 400 Tucker
man street, Hyattsville, who was
graduated last week at Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute with the de-
gree Of bachelor of aeronautical
engineering, has been elected as
sociate member Of Sigma Xi, ma
tional honorary scientific society.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Adventist Welfare Group
Reports on Activities

The Federation of Dorcas Welfare
Societies, representing IL Seventh
Day Adventist churches in the
Washington area, heard reports OF
local and overseas relief activities
at an all-day session at the Prince
Georges Medical Center in Hyatts-
vile.
The societies sent TOO 11-pound
packages of food and clothing over
seas and raised $500 for famine re-
lief. They reported 1,705 persons
were given assistance in their local
communities.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Arlington Directors
Appointed for Chest

President ]. Harold Stehman od
the Arlington Community Chest has
named the following to represent
Arlington or>the Board of Directors
of the Community Chest Fedora
ton:
Edmund d. Campbell, B. II. Jar
man, M. A. Mace, John F. Phelen
Mrs. Paul Reiber, Mrs. V-Ray
Sawyer, the Rev. Thomas Scannell
Stephen M. Smith and Clyde B
Stovall. Mr.. Stehman also Is q
member.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Civic Group Favors
School Compromise
For Prince Georges

The Prince Georges County Fed
Grafton of Civic Associations will
offer its support to the County Com
missioners next Tuesday in connec-
ton with a proposed compromise
measure in lieu of the controversial
So SOC, 900 bond issue for school con-
struction.
An eight-man committee repre-
senting the federation was named
last night to confer with the COM
missioners, following a 16-to-7 vote
In favor of a compromise" rather
than nothing at all"
Walter F. Mu1ligan, president of
the Federation, who stepped from
his chair long enough to introduce
the resolution, told the group he had
received assurance from a reliable
source" that the commissioners
would indorse a $4,000, 900 bond is
sue now and a similar one In 194S.
"A half of loaf Is better than
none," he declared, in urging the
Federation to accept the compro-
mise.
Refuse to Indorse Bonds.
The commissioners previously had
refused to indorse any bond Issue
for the So, ,900, 900 amount without q
referendum. Such action Was vigor-
ously opposed by the County Council
of Parent-Teacher Associations at
mass meeting January 80 at the
University of Maryland. Persons at
tending the meeting protested
against waiting for a referendum
and demanded immediate action.
In It's resolution, the federation
struck at the so-called "hysterical
outburts and discourtesy so appar-
ent at the mass meeting"
"Unless a material agreement is
reached in a calm, cooperative at
mosphere," the resolution stated,
further misunderstanding and ILL
will unworthy of neighbors is in
evitable."
Copies of the resolution were
ordered sent to the commissioners,
the Board of Education and the
County Council of PTA's.
Richard Downes Chairman.
Richard Downes Of the West Lam
ham Hill Citizens Association, was
named chairman of the committee.
Others include Otis A. Anderson,
Landover Hills; Earl E. Berkley,
Beltsville; w. L. Hall, Northwest
Citizens Association; James H.
Ford, Forest Hills; George L. Ickes,
Fourteenth District (Bowie); DR..
r. c. Wiley, member at large, and
Mr.. Mulligan, ex oflcio member.
In other business, the federation
unanimously adopted a resolution
by DR.. Wiley, chairman Of the Edu-
cation Committee, favoring a uni
form $500 pay increase for all
teachers and principals in the
county to attract and retain COM
petent instructors" DR.. Wiley said
"too many young teachers spend
their apprenticeship in Prince
Georges County and then go else
where"
The federation also went on
record as favoring establishment OF
daylight saving time in the county
during summer months. It adopted
an amendment in its bylaws auth
orizing The Evening Star Trophy
Committee to make its recommen-
dations at the April meetings, one
month before the presentation is
made. Louis A. Day Of Rogers
Heights, is the present holder Of
the trophy.
The group took no action in pro-
test against the present Capital
Transit Co. plan Of operation in
the county, although it previously
had gone on record opposing 1t and
Offering a counter-proposal.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
HOLLYWOOD Has Had a Sad and Bitter Year
British Tax Inquiry and Many Poor Films Gave the
Movie Industry Beating in 1947
Bv Harold

famous "untalkative 10'-a group
of writer's, producers and directors,
who refused to state whether or not
they belonged to the Communist
Party.
All the way down the ranks from
Eric Johnston, nominal leader of the
industry Cat $4,000 a year,, Holly
wood appeared totally unprepared
for the charge that Reds were seri-
ously infiltrating into the motion
picture industry's production setup.
Leaders took an indecisive. middle
Iof-the-fence attitude on the stand.
Later they changed their minds and
sought to be reheard.
Meeting Too Late.
1t was the saddest, most unf1at-
tering mess into which the films
ever had been tossed. The indus
trys lack of quick and courageous
leadership never was so obvious.
It will take many months, per-
Ihaps years, for the American film
going public to forget the way
Hollywood conducted itself during
the Red inquiry. A belated meeting
of the Johnston cohorts in New
York and their decision to fire the
"untalkative 10" probably will not
do kuch toward cementing that lost
public good will.
Extremely unfortunate were these
sideswipes at Hollywood, but the
business today would be in much
better position for fighting back had
it lived up to its primary obliga-
tions during 1947. Hollywood's main
responsibility is to supply worth
while celuloid merchandise. In this
respect it failed miserably during
the past year.
Even the most generous fan would
be forced to admit that films dur
ing the past IL months seldom were
acceptable as first-class entertain
ment. And in those few instances
where a producer believed he had
something better than bad one
he raised rental prices, thus forcing
the exhibitor to get higher than the
IlOI IIldl 1CC. oli GIlC WllOAC 4AOA4y
wood can take no bows for what it
supplied theater screens in 1947. Ac-
tually it should hide its head in
shame.
Many Divorces.
The slightly lighter side of the
sour filmtown picture, from vital
statistics standpoint, found Los
Angeles courtrooms crowded with
notable figures. And in most cases
they were there for the notorious
custom of getting divorced.
These personalities ranged from
Louis B. Mayer, the screens highest
salaried employe-getting around a
cool million a year-to Hedy Lamar,
so-called loveliest of the loveliest,
with dozens of names and nonenities
helping to keep the mill grinding
Ifuriously.
Yes, it was bitter year. But
Hollywood will rise from its grief
and dependency. Most hopeful sign
comes from a recent meeting of
studio heads who agreed that the
best way for fighting back was to
make better pictures. If the indus
try in 1948 can revive that old slo-
gan of Lets 60 to the movies" in
every American household, the bat
tie virtually will have been won.
CReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1947-12-21
NEW YORK.


Ever since the "Garrick Gaieties. 81
"Three's . Crowd" and similar in
innate revues Of fairly recent and
fond memory, Broadwayites on both
sides Of the footlights have yearned
for a good intimate revue"
Well, we finally got it. It's good
and it's intimate. It's called Angel
in the Wings" has q tastefully
economical set of scenic designs and
costumes, some sprightly If not too
imaginative dancing, some eager II
not too important music and lyrics.
But most and best of all, it has
style of Stiffness in its sketches
which keeps an audience in con-
slant guffaw from curtain to curtain.
Angel in the Wings" produced
by Marjorie and Sherman Ewing at
the Coronet Theater. stars Paul and
Grace Hartman, who herein have
abandoned their plush existence as
q fashionable ballroom dancing
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"I Remember Ma
ma," with Charlotte Green
wood, starting tomorrow.
AMBASSADOR-"Always To-
gether," with Robert Hutton,
starting Thursday.
CAPITOL - KILLER Mccoy"
with Mickey Rooney, starting
Wednesday.
COLUMBIA-"Thunder in the
the Valley" with Peggy Ann
Garner, starting Wednesday.
| KEITH'S-"Tycoon." with La
raine Day, starting Wednes-
day.
L1TTLE-"The Great Mr.. Han
DEL" with Wilfrid Lawson,
starting Wednesday.
| METROPOLITAN-"The Fab
ulous Texan" with William
Elliott, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Good News" with
June Allyson, starting We'd
nesday.
PIx-"Youth Runs Wild"
starting tomorrow.
WARNER-"Always Together"
with Robert Hutton, starting
Thursday.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Red Is Just Not Happy
Comedian Skeletons Burn at Metro Over
Money Is No Slow One
By SheiIoh Grohom

able to steer the conversation right,
in case Red gets too indignant or
too extravagant with his money.
"He told q reporter" says Edna,
that we would pay Metro $750,000
to get his release from them. That's
absurd because the entire contract
with them just about adds UP to
that. That's where he got mixed
up"
Edna allows Red $75 a week
pocket money, $50 extra every time
he makes a guest appearance and
IS for every benefit he does.
Il fooled Edna last Christmas"
|says Red, giggling. Il had five guest
shots to make, and I asked for the
$3.50 for the five way in advance
to pay for some of my Christmas
presents. Then I told Edna I
wouldn't do the shows unless she
paid me again!" Out of his allow
ance, Red tells me, he has saved
81 500, but he wouldn't tell me what
he is going to do with 1t.
He Just Likes to Laugh.
Red Is like a child. He laughs at
his own jokes, just like he does on
the radio. He even laughs when
there is no joke and no audience
around. Some one saw him on "The
Fuller Brush Man" set, all by him
self, making a noise like turkey
and gigging to beat the band. He
just likes to laugh. And that's not
too bad in world where too many
people like to cry.
Red and his present wife Georgia
expect their second child in the
spring. Valentine is beginning to
walk already" says Red proudly.
"D'ya have picture of her. ask
him. Hey, Edna, show her pic
ture OF Valentine" says Red. II
never carry baby pictures" he ex-
plains. 1--WE been too bored by
proud mammas and papes showing
pictures of their children under peo-
pies noses"
One day I'm going to ask Edna to
show me pictures of Red Shelton,
because he's like baby, too. That's
the way Edna handles him-very
successfully, now that they no longer
are married to each other.
| (Released by the Norht American
| Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Good Intimate Revue Finally Arrives

Hank Ladd. the tasteful scenery and
the general note of informal anna
bility are what makes the revue
such fun.
The songs, by Bob Hiliard and
Carl Sigman, include a juke-box
favorite called Civilization" and
another bright japery about a fell
low who loses his Florence in the
st. Lawrence on one of the Thou
sand Islands. Otherwise it's pretty
$3.50 musically. 1t therefore gives
Eileen Barton, Bob Stanton and any
other singers on the premises very
little with which to labor liltingly,
and Nadine Gae and Peter Hamilton
pirouette and leap about artily but
not too successfully. Elaine Stritch
sings comedy songs nicely, and
there's a very good tap dancer
named Johnny Barnes. But mostly
it's the Hartmans and Hank Ladd
who carry the ball and make the
presentation bright, modestly pre-
sented experience.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
By Harold Heffernon

box office. Every picture released
good, bad or mediocre-was destined
to make money.
AS one producer, SNUG like his
colleagues but more vocal, declared
"All we have to do these days Is
film 10 reels of anything, put the
stuff in cans and ship to the theaters
If it can be run through the pro-
jector, it will make money"
That reflected the spirit Of Holly
wood in early 1947. Then came the
rains-torrential downpours, eventu-
ally climaxed by what the stock
holders must have diagnosed as
earthquakes and tidal waves. Not
just one blow-but everything SEEM
ed to descend on the quivering cap
ital of movieland.
Tax First Shock.
The No. / sock, of course, was the
astonishingly unexpected action OF
the British government in slapping
a IS per cent tax assessment on the
profits of all American films shown
in the British Isles. For great
many years. even during war days
Hollywood always had counted heav-
lily on the popularity of its wares
with English fans. In brief, the
British market paid off Hollywood S
NEGATIVE cost.
It was a full week before stunned
movietown could even begin to pull.
itself together. Then the ak began
swinging and with a gusto never be-
fore known in this business, even
in the dark days Of the 1880 de-
preston.
Thousands of people were let out
in all departments. Contract lists
were pared to the very bone and
many an imposing name player was
left without job.
Picture-making schedules were
almost completely discarded or sus-
pended. Talk of 100000 cpics
was banned. All studios dipped into
their vaults for reissues with which
to fill release charts. Directors were
ordered to make no more than two
takes" on a scene, where pre-
viously they had shot from Is to
Is. To put it mildly, the town was
synonymous with hysteria.
Then Came Inquiry.
"A few weeks later, with the in
dustry's leaders busy licking their
wounds and unable to concentrate
on anything else, a group of Con-
gressmen stole into town and quietly
began making a few inquiries abou.
communism in the business. 1t
looked like routine checkup, Sc
after the lawmakers departed for
Washington, Hollywood promptly
forgot the incident.
But with shocking suddenness a
few weeks later, a full dress in
vestigation got under way in the
halls of Congress. A subcommittee
of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities called prom
inent screen folks to appear before
it. Eric Johnston, Louis B. Mayer
Jack Warner, Robert Taylor, Rob-
ert Montgomery and several other
business leaders and players were
mild enough witnesses. However
they were followed by the now
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"I Love Trou-
ble":: 1:25, $3.50, $50, 7::3o and
$40 pm.
CAPITOL - wyoming: 1:55,
4:40, 7:25 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1:05, $50, 6:35 and
9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA - Golden Ear
rings: 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7::30
and 9:40 pm.
H1PPODROME Hungry
Hill: 2:15, 4, 5:45, 7:25 and
9:05 pm.
KEITH'S - ride the Pink
Horse: /, sos, Sis, 7:20
and 9:30 pm.
LITTLE - Miracle of 34th
Street: los, $40, 5:25, 7:35
and $50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"It Had to
Be YOU: 1880, 3:05, $40,
7:30 and 9:45 pm.
PALACE - Where There's
Life: 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and $50 pm.
PIX-"Curse of the Cat Peo-
ple":: /, 800, 5:45, $40 and
1925 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from pm.
WARNER-"I Love Trouble:
1:30, $50, 5:35, TAO and 9:45
pm.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Gypsy Music Sets
Filming Problems
by the Assecioted Press
HOLLYWOOD,

Rita Hayworth's voice is not OF
operatic timber, so when THE Loves
of Carmen" was chosen as her next
starrer her stddio promptly dis
carded the famous Bizet score.
Instead a pair of gypsies was
hired to play the guitar accompani-
ment for Rita's gypsy dances and
songs. After they had strummed
several pieces, Director Charles
Vidor said, PLAY that one again"
But senor," the gypsies said, lit
is impossible. We do not know
what we played. Flamenco music
Is never played twice the same
way. We improvise."
That meant complications, most
of them technical but all important.
After much palaver, it was decided
that when the scene is filmed the
guitarists will play whatever comes
to mind. So nobody-neither Rita
nor the guitarists-now knows what
will be on the final recording.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
HOLLYWOOD.

Red Shelton is on the rampage.
He wants to wind up his contract at
Metro, which still has four or five
more years to go, because. he says,
they don't pay him enough or give
him the movies he rates.
Red receives as of this moment
something like $4,000 q week, 40
weeks Of the year. That seems a lot.
But Margaret O'Brien gets $1,000 a
week and william Powell Is on the
payroll for about 5000 week, as
are Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy
and Van johnson. With Clark Gable
pegged at $500 q week, Red feels
that Metro is not doing right by
grandma's tickle" boy.
I visit Red on the set Of "The
Fuller Brush Man" at Columbia
This is Reds first loan-out since he
has been with Metro, and the boy
alternates between delirious Joy at
working here and rage with Metro
for not-so Purchasing him from
his contract with them.
Look, before I started at Metro
I was making $2,500 week." he
tells me. mime years ago I was in
Having Wonderful Time with Gin
ger Rogers, and they paid me $4,000
week. Before that Warmers paid
me $2,500 a week for doing shorts
for them in New York. I'm just not
happy" says Red, sort of f1ercely.
Has Story Ready.
In the radio world, when you're
not happy" they usually do some.
thing in hurry to correct the con-
dition, because every one knows that
a radio personality-especially q
comedian-can't put his stuff across
the mike If he's not happy. But
guess Metro is just heartleSs, be.
cause from where I sit 1t looks a
though they are going to hang or
to Red for the full term-lock, stock
and jokes.
In fact, Metro has a wonderful
story lined up for Red when he re-
turns to the home lot, "The Spy" 6
tale of the Civil War. Red will play
two roles-he1l be a deserter from
both the North and South. His cir
will be Donna Reed and his producer
Paul Jones-the boy responsible fol
so many of Bob Hopes comedies a
Paramount. But to get back tt
Reds quarrel with Metro.
MY fan mail costs me $4,000 ,
year to answer" Red says. Eacl
autographed picture of himsel
costs him 40 cents. I'm hard o.
my wardrobe" he continues. "
wear out 10 to IA suits year. al
the falls I do in pictures are murde
on my suits, and they cost me $18
each. I play benefit nearly ever,
night and that costs money, too
to get there and all the tips"
Red says that if it weren't TO
his radio show, he couldn't get b.
financially. He receives $500
weekly.
Edna Sits BY.
II have my own radio rights II
my contract" Red adds, "or Metr
would have that, too. AS 1t Is, the
have to okay every guest appear
ance I make and every benefit
They also have the rights to al
my personal appearances. I wa
offered $25,000' a week in Chicago
but I turned it down because al
would have received would hav'
been $4,000 a week-the studio woult
have taken the rest. All I wan
from Metro is to be paid now fol
all the years I went hungry. AL
ask is for them to pay me wha1
I'm worth, while I'm earning 1t"
All this time-I should tell you
Edna Borzage, Reds former wifi
and still his manager, is sittin.
across from us, ready, willing ant
Evening star., 1947-12-21
HOLLYWOOD.


Very soon Hollywood can say
good-by to 1947. There will be no
sorrow in this parting. One needn't
be psychic to understand why the
movie business is anxious to get the
old year out, and a new and more
hopeful one under way.
Looking back over the last IL
months, even with quick and casual
eye, it readily can be observed that
Hollywood experienced the most dis
astrous succession of bumps ever
administered to an up-and-coming
industry.
It faces 1e4S punch-drunk and
weary. But it has agreed to abide
strictly by the doctors prescription
in determined effort to win back
its old strength and public favor.
There were no sinister warnings
on the horizon as 1947 dawned. In
fact, the first few weeks found movie
makers still flushed by a record
breaking procession of fans to the
Evening star., 1947-12-21
by Jack O'Brion

team. The HartmanS do compare
lively little dancing in Angel in
the Wings" and when they finally do
get around to it, it's to spool the
more serious practitioners of their
erstwhile profession. And as a mat
ter Of even further fact, and opin-
ion, it will be perfectly all right
with me If the Hartmans forever
have abandoned their enthusiasm
for the saloon and supper club
gazelle existence and concentrate on
the musical comedy stage.
Face Of q Clown.
For the Hartmans, separately and
in tandem, are as practiced a pair
of bufoons as can be found these
talent-hungry days.
Paul Hartman has the face of a
clown, the instincts of the traditional
baggy pants comics Of the Bert Lahr-
Bobby Clark Jimmy Durante-
Groucho Marx school. He can
grimace widely, look like an utter
and very dear dope. He can and will
take fall and his impact calls forth
belly laughs.
The Hartmans, who even wrote
their own sketches with the help of
Hank Ladd and Ted Luce, have a
field day of slick slapstickery, with
such revue sketch topics as an early
morning howl caricaturing one of
those radio husband -and-wife pro-
grams; a couple from the sticks
visiting the night club wherein Hill
degarde is starred; the troubles of
postwar collegian living In a
trailer, and nifty parody Of sub
urban manners in which the Hart
mans, as a pair of lecturing lion
hunters, address THE Salina Select
Garden Club"
Last, Not Least.
While emphasizing the Hartmans,
we've relegated gentleman named
Hank Ladd to last-but-not-least
position. He Is the 11ctional gentle
man of the title, the Angel" who
backed the show. He simply walks
about between sketches and songs
complaining in high good humor,
suggestive of the late and great Joe
Cook, commenting on the impossi-
bility Of working with Paul and
Grace. He wrote his own material,
therefore establishing himself as
somewhat of a wonder man, possibly
q road company Noel Coward with
brash low comedy overtones, and he
keeps things rolling amusingly and
attractively. Fact Is, the Hartmans,