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Evening star., 1947-03-09

and getting on a schedule of ons
picture year.
Donlevy and Miss Tierney will bt
the first top stars to give thorough
trial to the proposition of life in the
East and work in the West. The
results they chalk up are going te
be eagerly tabled by other person.
alties with the same go-East urge
in the back of their minds. a.
I The big question mark win be
How completely can Hollywood
star withdraw from the kalediosco.
pic Hollywood picture?
A lot of shreWd, career minded
stars, who have made sporadic at.
tempts to get on a committing basi.
among them Joan Crawford ane
Bette Davis-say it can't be success:
fully manipulated.
Miss Crawford insists you have
to be "at the right spot at the right
minute" to keep abreast of oppor.
tunities in motion pictures. That
the way the movie breaks" come
she insiSts-and seldom can they
come in such out of the way place:
as New York.
II the disillusioned stars seek hap
pier surroundings first, the rest
won't matter. Eu5 if they still nurse
the flame of ambition, they're Ger.
tain to find unforeseen hardship.
interfering with their business ar
rangements.
Careers in movietown are ano
probably always will be wrapped UP
in social affairs. If a player of any
promise isn't seen at this or tina;
function it could mean curtains
That goes for stars, too. Even suci,
(See HEFFERNAN, Page CID
Evening star., 1947-03-09

tends-after finishing her role in
1.-THE Ghost and Mrs. Muir"-to
close her Brentwood home and take
up residence in New York City. In
Inmates declare Miss Tierney has
not yet recovered from the events
leading up to her divorce action
against Oleg Cassini, her designer
husband. They had been wed eight
years.
The starry principal in the most
spectacular muddle of them all,
Laraine Day, is another who wants
to leave Hollywood behind. Laraine
is beginning to feel the physical ef-
fects of the storm she unwittingly
brought down on her head. When
her present picture, Tycoon" is
finished at RKO and commitments
filled for one more, don't be sur
prised, her friends declare, if La
raine gets out of Hollywood for a
spot in the Brooklyn picture. She
would return here to make one pic
ture year, at her own convenience.
Laraine is more interested in be-
coming the legal wife of Leo Du-
rocher than she is in furthering her
celluloid career.
Two of the screens most famous
dancing stars, Rita Hayworth and
Eleanor Powell, are seriously con-
sidering residence outside the scene
of their labors. Miss Powell, who
recently came out of retirement
after her marriage to Glenn Ford,
now bobby-soxer idol through Co
lumbia films, says she will make no
pictures but play a continuous series
of dance engagements in leading
cafes throughout the country and
Canada.
AS for the Hayworth plan, she
likes the idea of living in New Yorl.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Today's Schedules

CAPITOL -" The Bachelors
Daughters: 1880, $40, $50,
7:50 and 1910 pm. Stage
shows: 2:25, 5:45, 7:05 and
9::25 pm.
COLUMBIA - Lady in the
Lake: LOS, 3:15, $50, 7:30
and $40 pm.
EARLE-"Nora Prentiss":: 12:45,
3 $40, 1928 and $40 pm.
HIPPODROME - Carmen:
2:05, 1855, 5:45, 7::35 and 9:25
pm.
KEITH'S-"It's Wonderful
Life: 1:20, 4:05, 6:55 and
9:45 pm.
LITTLE-"Henry the Fifth:
2::30 and $3.50 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Sinbad the
Sailor: l, $40, $40, 7::30 and
9:45 pm.
PALACE-"Bo Boomerang: 1, $40,
$40, 7::30 and 9:40 pm.
PIX" Summer Storm: /, $50,
6:h5 and $40 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
1t Reads All My Sons
Miller Play Is Broadway's Choice Now for
All the Seasons Prizes
By Jay cormody

Dromo Editor Of The Stor

indicate you possess uneasy familiarity
the prospects the subject this
way with the suggestion that will be Arthur Mler A My Sons
That's the reading" presumed reply.
At least that's the reading tossing
for themselves in the limb walking dump
their O'Clock shadowy faces.
There nothing therefore for that
the radingf signs pents and the minds York critics
and the Pulitzer Committee judges
The Young Encouragement.
"A My Sons would be good
that it play which really is not represents the
effort of playwright young playwright
contrys toughest parade groundhe stage The writing
really have not had much
addition of Mler that Of williams
couple of seasons ago would be definitely inspiring
also would indicate that those prizes
are capable OF Stimulating fathey feeling which
SET Gown as one OF the most acute shortages Of the postwar period
Certainly there no more interesting play in New York
impereons keep from being great play It is youthful
fractions loud and its author not familiar with
something manner and dignhed restraint Of
saying it. To the charge that he overwrtes he might
In terms of whose emotions the picked
the which settled upon your middle age?
All My Sons shouc the of those profess
Miller full goes naturally fury and the effect
is more vitality for An My Sons than is
contemporary Broadway exhibit.
Rainbow. on Lists
No will have to apologize marking favor
up F1nans Rainbow on the ground that it is musical
however always fall into ghtheared with
leprechaun its central figure logically
play about a veteran and his war-profteer father.
The reading therefore is "An is nothing
coming up later In the seasons book that
The Coronet Theater easier to get
into now than will be after the bestowal
awards Every one will know after that time that this something
should something that the
but the postwar play that judges admiring
These later comers will find that wholly
outline The big strangely Miller Direc-
tor Ella Kazan and the nuse suspense
material so basically familiar.
Story in a Back Yard
An My Sons story whose setting
home in the Middle West The place belongs
Kate Joe contractor with having
killed pilots flew P4O fitted with cylinder
the Keller plant Kate lives with dream that
not dead although he has missing
The Keller household has two other occupants
Chris and Ann who has him although
sweetheart before the latter died
All that Is hidden in these four lives is brought to light
three acts of All My Sons The gentle
Miller letting knock
out Waop Some OF these crude that another
might well have knocked himself out with them.
Miller does although sometimes agile
ton and at Others by spots acting Kennedy
Begley, Bert Merrill and Lois Wheeler
So they here wherever why
"Al My Sons" is the reading e
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Revolution for Katie
Miss Hepburn Turns Back on Broadway,
but Only Temporarily, Of Course
By Sheiloh Grohom

when Katharine has to feed her.
We found out that always during
Clara Schumann's concerts, the
nurse would be waiting in the wings
with q baby to be fed. When Katb-
arine looks around and sees the
baby, she starts to play in double
quick time, finishes the concert
while the audience Is gasping, and
runs on to give the baby her sup
fper!"
Brown is talking gaily, but he
tells me he's tired man. So would
you be with seven children to cope
within the picture-their doubles
and stand-ins, and all their mammas.
I'm not surprised when the direc-
tor informs me that after his next
movie The Secret Garden" which
stars Margaret O'Brien, Claude jar
man, jr., and Dean Stockwell- Is
through with kid pictures.
"It's so exhausting," says Clarence,
particularly in the last movie where
the children had to do some scenes
without any adults. They had no
one to anchor themselves to-"
What about Butch JenkinS?" I
ask the man who put him on the
movie map in "The Human Com
edy." To which he replies, Butch
was fine to work with before he
knew he was movie star. He's
still great, If you can control him."
Clarence can. In fact, he's the only
person at Metro for whom Butch
behaves.
"Well, how about Claude Jarman,
jr?" want to know. Clarence likes
him very much. "But he'll never get
another 'Yearling' to do. The Year
ling was the greatest part ever
written for boy. But it was the
hardest picture I ever made. We had
everything to contend with-weath-
er Ghree months were spent on the
picture in Florida, Six months In
Hollywood, animals and kids
Many Nominations.
The picture, however, won an
Academy Award nomination for
most of the big shots connected with
it-Gregory Peck for his Penny Bax-
ter, Jane Wyman for her Ma Baxter,
Harold Kress for film editing, Herb
ert Stothart for scoring and Charles
Kosher. Leonard Smith and Arthur
Airing for color photography. Brown
himself was nominated for the best
director of the year, while the pic
ture was nominated for the best of
the year.
I'm taking five months off, ;" says
Clarence. I'm tired and want to
rest. Then I'll do The Secret Gar
den.' probably in England. After
that, I do Taps for Private Tussie.'
Then Miss Hepburn and I will prob
ably do another picture together.
It's funny thing, but I used to be
afraid Of Hepburn. I had an in
feriority complex about her. But
she's opened me up like a bookl"
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Evening star., 1947-03-09
HOILYWOOD.

hO4AAx WNNl0.
Katharine Hepburn Is side-step-
ping Broadway and the legitimate
theater for q few more seasons
That's q revolution for Katie. She
is going to stay in Hollywood anG
make two pictures q year for the
next two or three years. The mar
most responsible for the upheava
is Clarence Brown, who has just
finished directing the lady in "a
Love Story"
Brown is famous for his handling
Of children In pictures-Butch Jen.
kins, Claude Jarman, jr., etc. Bu1
he'd rather work with Miss Hepburn
A Love Story was the easies
picture ever made" Clarence tell.
me. II had adults who knew thei,
job and worked with great enthu.
siasm. It was all due to Hepburn
She's so enthusiastic herself that
she instills 1t in every one else al
the way down the line"
In "A Love Story" Katie play.
Clara Schumann, the worlds great
est pianist. Paul Henreid plays her
husband, Robert Schumann, the
famous composer. Robert Walker
is Brahms and Henry Daniels, Liszt
There are SO minutes Of sustained
music in the movie, but not one OF
these people ever played note on
the piano before the picture started
But now, according to Clarence
they are all near-experts. Particu-
larly Miss Hepburn.
Continues Piano Lessons.
"The picture starts with close
up Of her hands on the keys" says
the director, "and you say to your
self, 'Ah, ha, a double!' But We
fool you because when the camera
pulls back you see that It's actually
Miss Hepburn playing"
However, don't be too alarmed
music lovers. The actual sound o1
the music is supplied by Artu1
Rubinstein. Yet Katie actually
learned a lot of the music by heart
so that she could put her fingers or
the right notes and give the proper
impression of musician. She prac.
ticed for months before the picture
started. Now she likes the piano st
much that she is continuing with
her lessons. So is Robert Walker.
"I've had hurdles before" Katit
told me during the picture. "Bu
this" meaning the piano, was tn.
toughest"
In the picture Miss Hepburn ha.
seven children. The Schumann.
had eight. but one died. 3efor.
they started, Brown suggested they
cut the kids to four. But Kati.
said. Seven or nothing"
The children are introduced al
in one scene beginning with tn,
baby who crawls into the living,
room when Brahms comes to max,
his first visit. watched this parti
cular scene, and 1t really was murdel
for the director. The baby-sup
posed to be five months old, but act
ually nine months-instead o
crawling, kept sliding all over tn
shiny parquet floor. They finall.
slowed her down by putting rubbe
pads on her knees!
"The best piece Of business will
the baby" says the director. ii
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"The Fatal Weak
ness with Ina Claire, starting
tomorrow night.
CAPITOL-"13 Rue Madeleine"
with James Cagney, starting
Thursday. ssfsfII#E =
COLUMBIA-'The Beginning
or the. End with Robert
Walker, starting Thursday.
EARLE-"That Way With
Women" with Dane Clark.
KEITH'S-"The Best Years Of
Our Lives" with Dane An
drews, starting "Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN It'll Be
Yours" with Deanna Durbin.
PALACE-"My Favorite Brun-
cite" with Bob Hope and
Dorothy Lamour.
PIX-"Guest in the House" with
Anne Baxter, starting Tues
day.
Evening star., 1947-03-09

MELODRA1fA ON THE SCREFN-In an exciting climactc
moment in "Boomerang' fabooe Andrews plamno
States attorney aoho defends rather than proseces man
charged 1Dith murder has assistant demonstrate
point 'Oh loaded reuolue Arthur Kennedy (seated right
playing the accused man. looks h considerable interest
The 1 Seidoceary uhich sticks the facts of
actual is at the Palace Belou haqqard and
distraught Kent Smith Nth Sheridan the puelv fc
ti0nal affair called mora Prentiss' at the Earle
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
Along The Cape Fear

GREETINGS - The Column
this morning wishes for its read
ers all that is good during the
holidays and the New Year to
come. But this subject won't be
dwelt upon, and we'll get back
into character.
OLD RICE FIELDS - Yester-
day the Column had a very in
teresting communication fr m
Mr.. Louis L. Merrett, on tn e
growing of rice along the Cape
Fear.
"Years ago." he writes,
along the west side of the river
rice fields extended from above
the fertilizer plants to below Big
Island and there were some
fields on the east bank.
''The fields were ditched and
dyked and empties with flood
gates to control the drainage and
the floodings of the fields.
when the rice was beginning
to ripen the planters had a good
deal of trouble with rice birds
and coots eating the rice. They
employed Negroes to walk the
ditch banks with muzzle loading
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
And So To Bed

Adopting Irwin 8. Cobb's
statement of the situation,
w. S. (Buck) Morris, native
Wilmingtonian now living
in Kilgore, Texas, told Ro-
tarians here the other day
that all North Carolina needs
is a good press agent.
II was acting as the Caro-
lima Chamber of Commences
fair-haired boy recently,
giving a lecture before 4
group of friends In Tyler,
Texas, on the merits of the
Tar Heel State" he said.
II told them that North
Carolina had everything
finest land, the best climate,
the most beautiful scenery
and the finest people in the
United States. They had mo
stopped for a minute when
they said, 'Okay, you like
the place so well, why did
you leave, then?'
"But I thought about q
minute" Morris said, "Then
1 said, We'll, If you really
want to know, the people
back there were 50 smart I
couldn't make a living. I had
to come out here where the
people were dumb enough
- that I eeuld get along! n
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
PLANES ON HUNT
FOR MISSING Big
Army Ship With Eight Men
Aboard Fails To Report
At Base

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. "a.
A wide aerial search was
launched this morning for an
Army BIG which failed to re-
turn to Ladd Field last night
from a long range navigation
training flight over the Northern
portion of Alaska. Eight m e n
were aboard.
The big plane was due at the
field at 10 pm. Bases at Nome
and Fairbanks, were alerted one
hour later. Takeoffs for the
search began early today.
Col. Lloyd H. Watnee, direct
ing the search, said operations
are hampered by poor weather
and the short hours of Arctic
daylight at this time of year.
He said every available air
plane in the region has been
alerted for the search. The
names of the eight men aboard
were withheld,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
DEATH OBSERVES
NO YUEE SEASON
Sporadic Killings M a r
Christmas Eve In Un-
happy Palestine

JERUSALEM, Dec. "a -R-
Death took no Christmas holi-
dsv in the unhappy Holy Land
today. Bullets killed five Arabs
and two Jews and at least nine
other persons were injured.
The death toll since the Unit
ed Nations General Assembly
voted Nov. 20 to partition Pal
estine into separate Jewish and
Arab states mounted to 314 for
the Holy Land.
A bomb and grenades dam
aged a truck carrying Jewish
prisoners from Jaffa to Tel
Aviv. Four Jewish policemen
were injured.
A spokesman for the Palestine
government told a news confer
ence the government will take
all necessary steps including
more patrolling, to obtain COM
plete safety on the main road
from Jerusalem to Jaffa and
Tel Aviv.
This spokesman expressed the
opinion that if the vicious cir
Gle of so-called mutual reprisal
actions between Jews and Arabs
would end for at least two days,
the situation would be much
easier to handle.
Jewish Woman Shot
Snipers' bullets killed a Jew
ish woman while she was hang
ing clothes on the rooftop of her
Haifa home. A Jewish child and
a Jewish man also were wound
ed by the snipers before they
were dispersed by Hagana, SELF
styled Jewish defense army.
Three Arabs of the Hanajra
tribe were killed while plough
ing their fields in the Beersheba
area when a party of Jews driv-
See DEATH on Page Four
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
LAXITY CHARGED
IN WRITER CASE
State Department Proposes
Drastic R evision
On UN Rules

Charging the United Nations
with laxity, the state depart
ment proposed today drastic
revision of the UN rules for
granting credentials to alien
news correspondents
The department said in a
sharply worded statement that
the United States acted within
its sovereign rights in seeking
to deport two men accredited
by the united nations as corre-
spondents. The deportation
move was made on the ground
that the men are communists
and not legitimate news report
ers.
What revision in rules is de-
sired was unstated but officials
made clear the state depart
ment wants a general tightening
up, with the United States re-
tanning the right to challenge
the good faith of any alien ac-
credited by the UN.
"This government, of course,
has in no way yielded up its
sovereign rights to challenge
the bona fides of any alien jour-.
nalist seeking to enter this coun-
try or already in this country" :"
the department said. "It has in
no way yielded its sovereign
rights to investigate, to hold
hearings and to deport alien
See LAXITY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
Miners Break Tradition:
+. Sing, Work On Yule Eve

It is the first time such a cere-
mony ever has been held.
The men of Newkirk Mine -
rated one of the outstanding for
its safety and production records
in the lower Anthracite field -
came to work an hour earlier
than usual 50 that they could
leave early to have Christmas
Eve with their families.
Although the Newkirk miners
usually do not work either the
day before or after Christmas.
this year in order to keep pro.
duction up they will be idle only
ca Christmas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
Truman Sends MESSAGE
Of Hope To Ill World
President Takes Words OF
St. Paul For Version
OF Marshall Plan

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-W.D
President Truman promised the
suffering people of the world on
this holy night that 1--WE shall
do more" for them.
To the cold, the hungry and
the homeless abroad, he uttered
this Christmas message:
"We have supplied a part Of
their needs and we shall do
more".
sMr. Truman spoke at dusk
from a gaily decorated platform
or the South grounds of the
White House after turning on the
lights on a big community
Christmas tree.
Addressing a nationwide radio
audience-and the world - Mr..
Truman reminded his listeners
that the spirit of Christmas was
inherent in this country's effort
to avert starvation and want
overseas.
In giving a Christmas version
of the Marshall plan, the Presi-
dent used as his theme the words
OF st. Paul:
"And Now Abideth Faith,
Hope, Charity, These Three; But
The Greatest of These is Chari-
ty."
Mr.. Truman said that in ex-
tending aid to the unfortunate
abroad we are developing in
their hearts the return of hope
.(and) with the return of hope
to these people will come renew
ed faith-faith in the dignity of
the individual and the brother
hood of man."
Cites Want Abroad
The President said there can
be little happiness for those in
Europe and Asia who will OBJ
serve another Christmas in pow
erty and suffering.
GAS we prepare to celebrate
our Christmas this year in a land
of plenty" he said, 1--WE would
be heartless indeed if we were
Indifferent to the plight Of the
less fortunate peoples overseas. "
Then, after quoting the words
of St. Paul, ne said:
''We believe this. We accept
it as a basic principle of our
See TRUMAN on Page Four
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
NCC TO OPERATE
0NSL0W BUILDING
USO At jacksonville Ac-
quired By Navy; Legion
Bid Rejected

JACKSONVILLE, Dec. "a -
The USO building in Jack
sonville has been acquired by
the United States Navy depart,
ment effective January l, and
will be turned over to the Ma
tional Catholic Community serv-
ices which will conduct a rec
reation program for service
personnel similar to that
of USO.
Announcement of the acquisl-
ton by the Navy department
came last night at exercises
which marked the closing of the
service center. The announce
ment was made by George See,
director of the USO.
USO will cease operation De-
cember 81, throughout the world
after having served faithfully
and efficiently during Wor d
War Two, the NCCS is one OF
six organizations which banded
together to compose the USC.
The USO building in Jackson
vile was erected by the Federal
Works agency at an approxi-
mate cost of $4,000. It has been
up for sale for the past six
months. The town of Jackson
vile which had first priority on
the purchase waived the
priority in favor of Burton Co.
well Post Number 265 of tn e
American Legion which submit
ted a bid for the building.
Had the Legion Post been Sue
cessful in it's bid 1t would have
Eae Noes m Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
PRESIDENT PLANS
TO SIGN COP BILL
scathing Rebuke On Pro-
visions May Be Re-
leased AT Same Time

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a Up
President Truman may sign
The Republican anti-inflation bill
"any day after Christmas" the
White House said today. He will
accompany it with a statement
which is expected to blast it as
Inadequate to curb living costs.
The bills main price stabili-
zation feature-authorizing vol
untary agreements within in
dustry for cooperative anti = in
flation action-falls short of the
lO-point Truman plan. He failed
to win the wage-price-rationing
powers he asked.
But the measure carries some
features included in The Truman
program. These extend the
Presidents powers over export
Of scarce essentials and over
the use of boxcars. In addition
the bill revives, until Jan. 81,
the governments authority to
curb whisky-making by ra-
tioning grain to distillers.
Whisky manufacturing could
be thrown wide open at mid
night tonight with expiration of
the industry's voluntary 60-day
holiday" which was designed
TO save grain for Europe. How
ever, part of the industry has
already pledged to restrict use
Of grain after the holiday.
But when the bill is signed,
the distillers may be squeezed
+ 2,50O000- -bushel monthly
ment. This is the figure
.uch Secretary of Agriculture
anderson has vainly sought to
get them to accept voluntarily.
Charles G. Ross, Presidential
press secretary, told reporters
at a news conference that the
President will act on the bill
next week, but amended this to
say that it might "be signed any
day after Christmas Ross
SAID a statement would be is
sued at the same time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-25
Chicago Center Of Biggest
Christmas Splurge In
u. S. History

HICAGO, Dec. "a. - UD -
Record-breaking crowds JAM
med stores and travel facilities
today in perhaps the biggest
Christmas splurge in the nations
history
The weatherman's forecast
that there would be no "White
Christmas" in most Of the ma
ton failed to dampen any of the
Yule spirit. Last-minute shop
pers crowded stores and folks
hurrying home for the holidays
jammed railroads and airlines,
pushing the volume of travel and
sales to record levels.
The us. Weather Bureau pre-
dicted generally sunny, season
able weather for most of the
country. Snow already had
covered sections of the Upper
Ohio Valley and Eastward
through Pennsylvania and New
York to New England, assuring
a White Christmas in that area.
But the only new snow expect
ed was from a few flurries in
tn e Northern Rocky Mountains
and Great Lakes areas. Ra n
was forecast for the Pacific
Northwest.
Railroads an d airines sched-
See CROWDS on Page Two