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Evening star., 1947-10-16
Harry .Baur Stars
AS Jean Vatican
In Hipp Film
By Harry Macarthur

LES Miserables" nest pas lie plus
miserable cinema Francaise de Ian
nee, mais lie derriere can stand Just
so much. The two-part film, MAIN
tenant chez Hippodrome avec Harry
Baur, runs 3 hours and Is minutes.
That is I'm tres longtemps to be sit
ting in one place watching life bat
ter Jean Vatican. You almost could
get through the Victor Hugo novel
in that time. OF course, If you don t
want to read the novel, the photo
play will tell you almost everything
you need to know about the long
and varied career of it's hero.
Jean Vatican" Episode One of
Les. Miserables'D picks him up as
he Is winning his freedom from
prison by a tremendous feat of
strength in which he prevents slab
OF stone from falling from a. cathe-
dral onto the crowd below. Co
sette' Episode Two) drops him on
his death bed after a long and har-
ried career, where he is still able
to summon the strength for fare
we'll speech of no small proportions.
Between these two moments, Jean
Valjean is shown living a life full
of what understatement would call
ups and downs. He celebrates his
release from prison by robbing the
priests who befriends him, by steal
ing coin from a young boy and by
tearing up the papers that brand
him an ex-convict and determining
to lead an honest life. He turns up
shortly as the mayor of a small town
and IN few years is known widely
for his good works. His good works
last only until Inspector Javert rec
ognizes him, puts the finger on him
and tries to haul him off to prison.
M. Valjean escapes. however, to keep
a death bed promise by rescuing lit
tie Cosette from drudgery.
Episode two finds the harassed
Valjean respected citizen in
Paris. with Cosette a pretty 16-year-
old nursing notions of marriage.
"Cosette" Is shade lighter in tone
than Jean Valjean," since it has
to do with its namesake's romance,
and couple of characters are play
ed for comedy. Inspector Javert
turns up, though, still after his man,
and there is great deal of bloody
street-1ghting in pre-revolution
skirmishes. It is only after Vatican
hauls Cosette's wounded boy friend
for miles through the Paris sewers
that his nobility becomes too much
for Jsvert. The inspector leaps into
the Seine and all is serene.
There is. of course. great deal of
drama about all of this. One thing
Director Raymond Bernard has
managed to prove, however, is that
"epic" Is word referring to quality
rather than quantity. He could
have made much better film by
judicious use of the pruning shears
and by q curbing of his tendency
to let his camera linger long on that
which does not move the narrative.
The late Harry Baur. naturally, was
just the man to play Jean Vatican
and his performance is a tour de
force. 1t is fine acting. But he
could rest between scenes. You'll
have to take 1t all at one sitting.
Evening star., 1947-10-16

Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert
Ryan. produced by Adrian Scott, directed
BY Edward Dmytryk. screenplay by John
Paxton adapted from the novel by Richard
Brooks, At Keith's.
Evening star., 1947-10-16
Producer, Critic
To Discuss Iheater

Some of the current problems OF
the theater world and the prospects
for the coming theatrical season will
be discussed tonight by Brock Penn
berton and Louis Kronenberger on
the I'm My Opinion" radio program
The broadcast will be heard locally
on WTOP at 11:15 o'clock.
Mr.. Pemberton is the producer of
Harvey" and many past Broadway
successes. Mr. Kronenberger is
drama critic for Time magazine and
the newspaper PM
They will discuss the question, "Is
the American Theater Healthy?"
Evening star., 1947-10-16

Keith's - "Crossfire";; HAS am
las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Little - Children of Paradise"
II am, lao, 4:20. z and 9:25 pm.
Metropolitan - Dark Passage,
lo:40 am, 1880. sos, Sis, 7:!30 ant
9:45 pm.
Palace-"The Foxes OF Harrow,
ii am, 1:35, AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm
Evening star., 1947-10-16

lot Is that produced by Sam Levene
as the gentle. heroic Jew who Is
"Crossfire's" victim.
1t would be well to write Gross
fire" on your must" pad.
Evening star., 1947-10-16
'Crossfire' Is Brave Scrutiny
Of Religious Hatred Issue
By Joy Cormody

crosshr picture whose heart in the right place which
destined to be the discussed
yesterday at Kehs How long will there
but deserves until
ghmpsed the evil prejudice rising America
picture and its problem
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

Americana

Truly Renresentative

Truly Representative
ONLY two Americans have ever had
~ the distinction Of representing
three different states in the national
congress. Neither was native of the
United States. Ireland was the home
land of both.
Matthew Lyon, born in County Wick
low in 1746, emigrated to this country
in 1859, settled In Vermont and served
In the Revolution. He became editor
Of an anti-Federalist newspaper and
was elected to congress In 1897. In
dicted for libel under the Alien and
Sedition laws during Adams admins
tration, he was reelected to congress
while still in Jail.
After serving his second term in
Washington, he moved to Kentucky
and after serving two terms In the
legislature of that state, was elected
to congress serving from 1903 to 1911.
In 1920 he. removed to Arkansas ter
ritory and was elected as its first
delegate to congress. He died how
ever On August /. 1922, before he
could go to the national capital again
James Il. Shields, born In County
Tyrone in 1910, came to America In
1926 and became a lawyer in Illinois.
He was commissioned brfgadier-gen-
eral of Illinois volunteers in 1916 and
served in the Mexican war. Mustered
out of the service in 1S4S he was APP
pointed territorial governor of Oregon
but signed when he was elected Unit
ed States senator from Illinois. He
served in the senate from 1S49 to
1866 then moved to Minnesota. When
the state government was organized
there he was again sent to the United
States senate where he served from
1853 to 1850.
He next moved TO California but re
turned to Washington at the outbreak
of the Civil war when he was again
commissioned brigadier general of
volunteers. He resigned from the army
In 1863 and returned TO California but,
having lost his lands granted for his
military services, moved to Missouri.
In 1879 he was elected 20 the senate
from this state and held that position
until his death on June l, 1879, at
Ottumwa, Iowa.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Twas This Way
The Cure for Malaria
BY LYLE SPENCER
@ Western Newspaper Union.

The Cure for Malaria
M ALARIA was once the most
Iva feared disease of the tropics.
In Elizabethan times, the malarial
jngles of Africa and other parts
of the Near East were so terrifying
and dangerous to white men that
few Europeans even dared to 60
there.
Quinine, the most effective rem
edy for malaria, was accidentally
discovered by an Incan native who
was himself half dead from the
disease. On a trek through the
mountain wilderness of Ecuador, he
was overtaken by the dreaded jun
gle fever. Burning with fever, he
dragged himself to the edge of a
stagnant pool to quench his thirst,
only to find that quina-quina tree
had fallen across it.
Although the medicine men of his
tribe had always supposed the Bit
ter-tasting bark Of the tree to be
poisonous, the Indian was so far
gone he preferred the swift death
by poison to the lingering one from
fever. So he drank deep from the
pool. In a few hours he miraculous
ly felt better, and soon he was
cured.
Returning to his tribe, he carried
his story of the marvellous curative
powers of the quina-quina bark.
Others tried it, and found it had
both curative and preventive pow
ers. BY 1640, news of the new
drug had been transmitted to Eu-
rope, where its name was shortened
to quinine.
For a time the bark sold at fab
ulous prices, as royalty and wealthy
merchants bid frantically for the
meager supply to cure their aching
limbs. Within a century the tree
had been domesticated and was be-
ing grown commercially in many
parts of the world.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

tween the Ohio RIVER and Canada.
Several of the number crossed and
diverged at Mansfield and after dark
that city was a beehive of anti
slavery activity.
Toledo was fifth in Importance Of
the Underground Railway stations.
The others in important standing
were Cleveland, Sandusky, Ashtabula
and Conneaut. Among Toledo's most
active conductors" were congress
man, a Quaker, an Irishman and a
negro. A boat, The Phoebus, carried
the fugitives to Detroit.
GAINESVILLE Helps Fugitives
The two-story brick and sand
stone house still standing on the
southwest corner of Moxahala Ave
nue. and Adams Street, GAINESVILLE,
was an important station on the
Underground. 1t was built by Alva
Buckingham in 1919.
Salem was an important station
on the Underground Railway. A
monument there commentaries Ed
win Coppock, ardent abolitionist'
who joined the John Brown party
in its raid at Harpers Ferry and
was consequently hanged at Charles
ton, Virginia.
John Finney and Joseph Roe, at
the Doolittle Houe, near Mansfield,
concealed slaves and carried them on
to Oberlin and Savannah. Once Fin
ney hid the negroes in load of
flour and when he got to Oberlin
sold the flour for enough to make
Sd on the transaction.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

As early as 1917 Mount Pleasant,
Jefferson County, was a haven for
fugitive slaves. The first abolitionist
convention in Ohio was held there in
1887. The town was important on
the Underground Railway.
Another link in the chain of Under
ground Railway stations between the
southern Ohio towns and the Great
Lakes cities was Medina. On the
Cleveland and Columbus stage line
it was in the early 1S40's a relay
point through which hundreds of
fugitive slaves passed on the way to
distribution stations at Cleveland,
Toledo and Ashtabula.
The trackless right-of-way of the
Underground Railroad was not with
out its low joints and an occasional
derailment. Besides the Oberlin-W Well
ington rescue episode, which readers
of this column have already found
in the story of the College in the
Woods, there were others.
Gun Battle at Cincinnati
Seventeen refugees, closely pur-
sued, were in the house of an ex
slave in the edge of Cincinnati in the
winter of 1856. They barred the
doors and windows and when the
house was surrounded by slave-own-
ers and officers, shots were ex-
changed.
Some of both sides were wounded
but the fugitives were re-taken. Mar
garet Garner to prevent capture of
her little daughter, cut the child's
throat but was taken herself. She
was acquitted of murder because,
being in her masters possession, she
was a chattel and not accountable.
That all slave owners did not
prize their negroes so highly is at
tested by an advertisement by a
Kentuckian in a Cincinnati news
peper of the early 1800's: Notice
of Escape-My boy Sam, a lazy
worthless fellow, who ran away, etc" p"
For his return he offered a reward
of one cent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
True Tales About Ohio

Concluded from page i
and commerce came out of the South
and where the money came from
there the city's heart was also. Be-
sides the financial angle the social
and family ties between ante belium
Cincinnati and the southern states
were strong.
Levi Coffin had kept a general
store, sold pork and made inseed
oil back in Wayne County, Indiana,
since 1926. He was feryent abo-
litionist and in 1847 he moved TO
Cincinnati and opened a store where
he sold ''free-labor goods" For more
than 80 years he was known as the
president of the Underground Rail
way" 1t was his solicitation that
produced much of the money to fin
ance the transportation of fugitive
slaves to Canada. He died in 1877
Oberlin an Underground Station
DIR. Lyman Beecher, head of Lane
Seminary, Cincinnati, and father OF
Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet
Beecher Stowe, was forced by Gin
cinnati public pressure to abandon
anti-slavery teachings in his school,
That resulted in four-fifths of the
seminary's student body leaving the
school and going to year-old Oberlin
the college in the woods. Oberlin
then became a hot bed of abolition
and an active station on the new
Underground Railway.
There were several routes used
by the Underground Railway be-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
East Orange

Mr.. and Mrs. Estes Sanders. Mr..
and Mrs. Ferd Morris and sons Ted
and Joe entertained a group of
friends to dinner Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Shroats and
family were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell, were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Byron Boutwell, and son Michael
Dale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell, and
Lonnie Sue called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Amstutz and daughter of
near Rockport last Friday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
ReU. Crun1er On
Program At Lima

Rev. Paul Cramer, pastor of the
Bluffton Methodist church, pro-
nounced the invocation in ceremonies
marking dedication of Lima's new
water storage reservoir, Metzger
Lake, east of Lima, last Sunday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

IN THE days when men fought
l. with swords and had to be pre-
pared to fight at any time they car
ried their swords with them con-
stantly. When approaching stran-
ger a man had to extend his right
hand empty in order to show that
his approach was a friendly one. If
the friendly feeling was reciprocal
ed the other man grasped the hand
of his acquaintance with his own
right hand so that if he should
change his mind he would be aware
Of it before the sword could be
grasped. From this custom has
come the meaning of our present
day handshake; if one man refuses
to shake hands with another it is
interpreted to mean that there is
enmity between them.
G Western Newspaper Union.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

struck it on my land. You know I
bought this spring here from Old
Man Caldwell and / took up 160
acres around it for ranch" There
was some truth in his statement
but he had never recorded title to
the water rights.
However, he made his bluff good
and they counted him in" When
news of the rich strike spread there
was grand rush to the scene.
Because the vein of gold had been
found on land which was supposed
to belong to ''Old Pancake" 1t was
named for him and not for the men
who discovered it.
fRe1eased BY Western Newspaper Union1
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

A committee from the I. S. which
has Investigated the hoof and mouth
disease outbreak in Mexican livestock
herds has recommended that immedi-
ate help be given Mexico to stamp
out the disease before it spreads to
this country. Mexico lacks money and
trained men to do the work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

Pancake" discov-
cred two Irish
men, Peter ORR
ley and Patrick
M C L q u 6 him,
cleaning up the
rocker" they
u S c d in tn cir
placer mining.
There was 5000
worth of gold dust
in it.
you've struck
it rich, boys!" he
shouted. But the
tro,th1a fr xyc,1svrn
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

The mid-week prayer meeting will
be held in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne Kimble of Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman of
Bucyrus were Saturday over night
guests in the G. NJ. Heldman home.
Mrs. Ruby Boehm and sons, G. NJ.
Heldnan called in the B. ]. Boutwell,
home, Monday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

It was their twenty-ffth ami
versary. "Well, my DEAR" he said,
"it has been many years and I
haven't deceived you yet, have II"
mo, John, but it's not from lack
of trying"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

Some men have thousands of
reasons why they can't do something
when all they need is one reason why
they can.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18

A man is rich in proportion to the
number of things which he can afford
to let alone.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
The Name
Is FomiIidr.--
Comstock Lode
FELIX D. SrREYcKMANs
and ELMO scoTr WATSON

SomStoCk Lode
VIRGINIA CITY, NEW, was once
the greatest mining town on
this continent" 1t got its start with
the Comstock Lode, a vein of gold,
that was named for a '1anky, loud
voiced, boastful, bullying prospec-
tor" named Henry Thomas Paige
Comstock, called "Old Pancake" be-
cause he lived mostly on tiapjacks.
One day in the spring of 1859 "Old
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Hollywood:
The Jon Halls
Would Team
In Films
By Bob Thomas

If Jon Hall ana Frances Langford
have their way, Hollywood will see
a new husband-and-wife acting
team. Now that Jon has left Uni
versal-International for free-lancing
he hopes to line up co-starring
roles with his songstress-wife. Jon
is set for prince of Thieves at
Columbia and is agenting for Fran
ces to appear in the same movie.
The couple has been married nine
years, no small achievement in these
parts.
Both Ray Milland and Michael
Redgrave are working against time.
Michael has to finish Secret Be-
yond the Door" and Mourning Be-
comes Electra" and leave the United
States within six months of his
arrival or suffer tax penalty.
don't think he'll make it, but the
British actor assures he won't be
the one to pay the tax Ray must
complete "The Big Clock" by April
18, when he leaves for his English
film.
Both Franchot Tone and Lucille
Ball may stay at Columbia after
"The Lady Knew How" He wants
to Go a detective yarn and she may
do a Carole Lombard story. 3gBut Is
It Love?" for Helen Deutscsa.
Ilona Massey's f1ance, Jay B.
Kurtz, invented slot machine that
dispenses vitamin pills. He tried
one out atsaa Sunset Strip bistro
and it had many customers. But
I wonder if it will do as we'll among
normal people.
The MGM publicity depart
ment must be happy to see L. B.
Mayors horses sold. Since the sta
BILE was founded in 1898 the nags
had top priority for publicity.
James Stewart may do wild
Calendar" with Ginger Rogers fol
around $175,000. Carlo is re-
ported set on story of George
sand, the French novelist (played
by Merle O5eron in Song to Re
MEMBER, as her return vehicle
Buff Cobb returns here this
month and that should make Bill
Eythe happy. =. i. They've got Flea
nor Parker decked out in light bangs
for Voice of the Turtle" She re-
sembles Margaret SULLIVAN, who
originated the role.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Replaced Own Understudy
By james Lindsley

birthday, and the usual film con-
tract followed. a
Merely Entertainment.
Miss Scott, who has had quite a
bit of experience on the stage and
a lot in the movies for her % years,
thinks the movies are far superior.
She looks askance, out of her SPAR
king blue eyes, at the idea that
motion pictures should be bearers
Iof messages"
I'm general, think movies are
simply a medium of entertainment" !"
she said, When 60 to the movies,
I don't want to be bothered trying
to figure out what the message is"
She says she gets more fun out of
making movies than in playing
stage roles.
I'm play, you do the same thing
day after day." she declared, land
1t gets monotonous In the movies,
you have new situations, new prob
lens every day, and it's stimulating. I"
She added that she doesn't even
mind getting up at $50 am to
go to work.
She lives alone, in half duplex
(four rooms) in a modest residential
district. A maid comes in once a
week and cleans up the place Eliza
beth likes to cook, and prepares her
own breakfast-coffee and a Gig
arette-and her own dinner, which
consists of whatever she can talk
her butcher out of.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Miss Lizabeth Scott probably Is
the only prominent film actress to
obtain recognition by replacing the
understudy who had replaced her.
But then in Hollywood, as the say
ing goes, the unexpected is always
to be expected, and frequently hap
pens when you least expect it.
Miss Scott, beauteous, tawny
blond, is an anomaly in that she is
supremely contended with life, yet
expects much more out of it than
she is now receiving Among the
things she is presently receiving are
starring roles with Hal Wallis pro-
ductions, reflected in pay checks
with plenty of zeroes trailing the
initial figure.
Now this is all right with Miss
Scott, but she's looking forward to
Q few weeks vacation shortly, during
which she wants to:
tA) Take some more cooking les
sons.
(B) Brush up on her French, in
which she's already proficient.
Co Take some more piano lessons.
CD Get some ballet instruction.
tEl Get in a little tennis and
swimming.
But to get back to this understudy
business, Lizabeth, after a successful
period of modelling and such like,
was engaged as understudy to Tallu-
lah Bankhead in the Sabina role of
the Broadway stage production,
"Skin of Our Teeth"
Finally Gave Up.
Lizabeth, she recalls now, sat
around in the wings for seven
months waiting for Miss Bankhead,
endowed with rugged constitution,
to come down with measles or some
thing.
When Tallulah finally quit the
show the part went to Miriam Hop
kins and Lizabeth stayed on the
bench. When Miriam dropped out
and Gladys George took the part,
that was enough for Miss Scott-ste
quit the company and went back
to modelling.
Just a few weeks later Miss George
became Ill, but her understudy didn't
fill the bill and the manager sent
Lizabeth an SOS to come and take
over. She did all right, too, but
the next night Miss George had re-
covered and Lizabeth was out again.
Then follows the old business of
the talent scout. Those guys really
do get around. The story is that
this one spotted her in a nightclub
where she was celebrating her 2lst
Evening star., 1947-03-09
|DisilluSioned
Stars Flee
Hollywood
By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD.

That long and unenviable Holly
wood record of messy marriage, di-
vorce and other headline scandals
has filled large percentage of the
populace with disgust, but what do
you think it is doing to the prin-
cipal parties to these affairs?
The answer is that disillusion-
ment and disappointment have
caused some of the more sensitive
players to make serious attempts to
get away from the scene of their
turmoils. Some say they want no
further part of Hollywood, at least
as a residential spot. They'll head
eastward, according to present in
dications, make their homes in New
York and return to Hollywood only
for the time required to shoot pic
lures.
To date, the idea of getting away
from it all" has not struck such a
responsivew chord that Hollywood
need worry about it's population
trends. But already the number
and Importance of the actors to an
nounce such plans is weighty enough
to arouse speculation.
Oddly, 1t was male star, Brian
Donlevy, who was the first to declare
openly that he wanted to leave
Hollywood behind-indefnitely. At
ter 10 years of marriage, Donlevy
went into court and obtained a di-
vorce decree and Sustody of his
small daughter. He Immediately
went to Palm Springs for rest,
then on to New York, where he will
star in stage show. Donlevy says
he is not exactly through with Hol-
lywood, but that he can't at least
for long time-continue residence
in his old haunts and among old
associates.
Gene Tierney, +. the bright 10th
Century-Fox star, has said she in