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McNeal, Katherine, Ruth and Ad-
line Russell, Lillian Sims, Norma
and Loretta Riley, Marsha Edgar,
Madonna, Dixon and Iona Doug
las, Katherine German, Reba, Dix
on and Therese Brown, Gloria
Prestley and Gladys Bellesen;
Messrs. Donald Williams, Stanley
Williams, Delbert Crushon, John
Fowler, Jackie Robinson, Robert
Price, Henry Davis, Harry Atkins,
James England, James Robinson,
George Freeze, Hunter Vassar,
John Kelly, Leo Lewis, John Dixon,
Richard Blakey, Chubby Jones,
Elmer Lewis, Dickey Schuck, Billie
Robinson and Jimmie Davis.
Mrs. Walter Mcfarland Of 1915
Rondo Ave, received word Sunday,
Nov. 2, that her mother in New
Orleans, had died. Mrs. Mcfarland
left Monday, Nov. 8, to attend the
funeral.
The Young WOmen's club of
Pilgrim Baptist church met Tues
day, Nov. 4, s PM, at the home of
Mrs. Louella Taylor, 6S7 Rondo
Ave.
Mrs. LOuella Cox of Buffalo,
N. Y, left for her home Tuesday,
Nov. 4, after spending three weeks
visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan Atwood, 1915
Cumberland Ave. Mrs. Cox has
not seen her aunt and uncle for
so years. While visiting in the
city, she was also a guest Of a life
long friend, Coree Thomas, 405
Harrington.
The Missionary Society Of Pill.
grim Baptist church is scheduled
to meet Friday, Nov. 7, 2:30 PM,
with Mrs. Lillian Downey, $40
| lRlenaII ave-
RecuperatinE: Mrs. Leanths
Scott, 1876 N. Chatsworth, is re.
cuperating at her home from q re-
cent illness. Mrs. Scott was a pa
tient in st. Joseph's hospital foI
three weeks. During her illness
Mrs. Scott's sisters were in the
city to attend her. Mrs. w. H
Butler Of Chicago and Mrs. r. T
Myers Of st. Louis.
Mrs. A. Gutherie Of 556 w. Cen.
tral Ave-, is also recuperating al
her home from a recent illness.
StOrk Visits: A girl was bOrr
recently to the Othel Johnsons, 26C
Rondo Ave, and a boy to the Lin.
coin Berrys, 59s W. Central Ave.
Marriage licenses were issuet
recently to H. V. Harris, 3O6 N
st. Albans, and Alice NJ. Lawson
400 W. Central Ave. J. B. Mitchell
453 Carroll Ave-, and Mary N
Collins, sos W. Central Ave.
Engagement Announced: J. T
Harris Of S7S Marion st., announces
the engagement Of his daughter
Patricia Ruth, to Dean Vernon
Speese, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
r. Speese Of Pierre, s. D. No wed
ding date has been set, as yet.
Dinner: Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Thomas of 994 Rondo Ave, were
hosts at a dinner, Sunday, Nov. 2
honoring Mr.. and Mrs. Elliot John.
son and Mrs. Sallie Ellis Harrison
and Mr.. Carter Fletcher.
III: Mrs. Frances Langley of 244
f. Fillmore, remains i'll at her home
Mrs. Lizzie ApariciO of 1874 Ron.
do Ave, who has been confined tC
her bed for over three months, be,
cause of illness, has been the re,
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Mrs. Cleo Hampton, 53l Lyndale
Ave. N, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Young, GOT Floyd Olson
Highway, is in New York attend
ing the New York Fashion Aca-
denny.
She is majoring in dress design
ing. At the completion of her
course she plans to open a dress
salon in the Twin Cities.
St. Paul recorder., 1947-11-07
Social and Personal
. ST. PAUL .

Birthday Party Miss Gertrude England celebrated heI
4th birthday Monday Oct 81 with party at the home OF
her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kemp 535 Carroll Ave
Those present Misses Crystal Watts Ida Pearl Glover
Croa Slaughter Joan Johnson Sae Moody Barbara Ekens
eradne Randall La Doris Foster Yvonne Crushon Dorothy
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Screen Bows to Life
Father Day Comes to Moviegoers Just as
Son Wrote of Him
By Joy Cormody

Through the years the custom of budeoning Hollywood for
celebrated literature has become something of national
pastime pieces writing feld-hction history
able withstand
makers passion for their own True they
agreed bandy the have been thus
life but their audiences would not tolerate such treatment
of 1T on the screen
They have scruped changes historic truth which
heightened conception of subjects drama excitement
IT. example Strauss stature happened to
have had the judgment marry Hollywood
approve the Gas in The Great Wazo he mares
producer thinks better This is Hoywoods
way letting will like the movies since
the life still make all that
But Hollywood
life and higher outside the movie colony have
and terate abuse The
effect futile library of polemic be found
anywhere yield bulge
an its established position
Yet the Hollywood has yielded In Life
submitted to the Nations moviegoes one OF the
great biographies classic without SO much
Over period Of its
eight cities towns and villages across
the country which America fell in love- And for
which the cinema dared not dsrespec
still is what Clarence Day made it and as
of the great umphs of movie comedy-mak1ng
Vas the Contract
OF course oywoods respectful treatment than
plays its first two forms Clarence s
original the New Yorker and the stage comedy 1aod p
Howard Lindsay Russell Grouse.
The explanation stpulations that
the original should maintain control OF their
material through production They did not sell
rights the usual deal that makes authors rich but
hearbroken Rather they took Warner Bros IN as
partners profitable enterprise called Life With Father
guaranteed protection including the public which
paid millions for proprietary right in the project
Father" is not mere photograph OF the
the stage and with movie stars Irene
the roles originally played by Howard
Dorothy sickney That would have been more certain
the comedy than to have given the
cinema change it as it would
Was Widened.
With Father piece OF
of the story have been enlarged to
departed living in that boWnstone at
42o Madison This quite ample
lovae whose most Vloei
busters conceal the softness OF his heart
the best possible showcase for the and
his artful
much literal and truthful reproduction of
Father day. into the street.
the which 81
watch father squrm under that people
briefly the office which he
successfully apparently than he did the home
merely changes the letter and principally
of the stage directions.
spirit retained to perfection.
happier for movegoers has along in time
general change in Howoods attitude
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Broadway:
1t Looks Like a
Skinny Season
Coming Up
~ Is-L rRr;nn
By Jack OBrion

The critics seemed agreed that
"The Magic Touch" which came out
of the literary woodwork last week,
was highly presumptuous in con-
sidering itself the opening gun of
the fall theatrical season. AS an
opener it had the approximate fire
power of broken pop gun.
Therefore, the next official opening
of the season has been set back
to September Is when Il Gotta Get
Out" race track comedy by Joseph
Fields and Ben Sher, is scheduled to
find the Broadway range.
News from provinces concerning
the Rodgers and Hammerstein musi-
cal, Allegro" is encouraging. 1t
needs a little work." was the agree
ment of the folks who saw it in
New Haven, and word already has
sped back to Broadway that the
highly resourceful Oscar Hammer
stein, recognized as ruthless editor
of his own material, already has
shipped away more than half an
hour of the admittedly overlong
liberetto.
Elsewhere on Broadway, the news
Is hopeful but not enthusiastic. 1t
looks like a skimpier theatrical
season, but some excellent prize
material may be found. More than
100 new productions are planned,
some of them only in the minds of
hopeful managers who can't raise
cash as easily as they could during
the whooping war years. Other
producers more culturally estab-
lished are being very cautious about
their productions for the first time
in five years.
Theater News in Brief: Ray
Bolger, who was to have been in
another Broadway show this year.
has decided to stick to the night
clubs, where he will get $500 plus
a percentage as star of the show
at the big Broadway saloon, the
Carnival. Billy Roses theater
activity will continue to be as
owner of the Ziegfeld Theater,
where he is lucratively esconced
with "Brigadoon'' as his tenant,
Draw and bonny success if ever there
was one. He is changing over
the entertainment policy in his
basement bonanza, the Diamond
Horseshoe; is bidding for the owner
ship of several theaters, is writing
daily column, running a farm
upstate, finishing a book, writing
magazine articles and generally is
too busy to think of producing a
play or musical for while. one
of his pet projects for the future
is the film version of Carmen
JONES'"
Evening star., 1947-09-14

"Wid," as his pals know him, spent
six months in Europe before invad-
ing New York in search of drama
career. He caught on as a radio
actor in modest way and almost
at once. Therefore, he hasn't the
usual thespian tale of suffering and
sorrow to break a fan magazine
readers heart.
Even on the stage he found his
good fortune enmeshed in plays with
kiss" in their titles. After four
years of successful radio work, in
Guiding a murderous whirl at some
of the Timer Sanctum" door
squeakers, Widmark scored heavily
in two Broadway plays-"Kiss and
Tell" and Kiss Them for Me-" Wild
remarks that he has done no kissing
for himself in his radio, stage and
movie ventures, but the word GER
tainly seems lucky.
He's 5 feet II inches tall, weighs
100 pounds, is blond and blue-eyed.
Five years ago he was married to his
college sweetheart, and they have a
daughter 2 years old. At present
they're living in White Plains, N.
Y. but now it looks very much like
Hollywood domicile. probably with
swimming pool and all the fiashy
appurtenances.
And so you have the story of
Richard Widmark, the man who
brought a happy ending to great
motion picture studio after one of
the most hectic half days in its
history.
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Evening star., 1947-09-14
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Bobby Clark, comedian, whose
antics have carried the revival OF
Victor Herbert's "Sweethearts" on a
high crest of popularity for many
months, sat at his dressing room
table painting on pair of owlish
black spectacles. When he had
drawn them to his liking, he gave a
belated answer to our question,
to-Wit:
What will be your next play?"
"Whatever ct Is, whether musical
comedy, straight comedy or classic, "
he said with emphasis, sit will be
play where don't have to work as
hard as I do on this one. 1t is
tough carrying a play on your Shout
ders. Wasn't it Sisyphus who had
to keep rolling a big stone up a hill
because it kept rolling back when
he got 1t to the top? That's me,
Sisyphus-or Atlas, if you like. Or
Hercules with his seven tasks. Or
but let it go: 1 guess you get the
idea-which is that am an over
worked man.
Perhaps he wouldn't be so badly
overWorked if he could keep his
hand off this musical But he can
not. He is always improving, al
ways adding to its mirthful content
with new quips he originates and
new phases of demeanor. Then
there are his ad Ibis, which set
the audiences to squealing. Maybe
the new lines we. heard as we fol-
lowed the piece after the interview
were in the spontaneous category
or maybe he wrote them in. Any
way, they got a big hand. as they
should have done.
It was Just before the final cur
tain when, as chancellor of the
mythical Balkan kingdom. he ad-
vanced to the footlights and ad-
dressed the audience.
"As chancellor" he said, II am
thinking of negotiating small loan
with great western republic which
seems to have great sympathy
with small musical monarchies. And
besides, it has a ruler who plays the
piano-and a daughter who sings
This Is but one example of the
mirth Bobby has contributed to
Harry Smiths libretto.
He has no plan that relates to the
remote future, but in immediate
prospect:
I'VE go on the road October H."
Bobby said, "a 22-week tour. Then
the play will probably go to the
West Coast. But I don't believe I
will 60 with 1t. What I need most
of all is rest"
You don't look it," we said
encouragingly.
Whether I look it or not I feel
it-and anyway, you have to con-
slider what ultimate effects of weari-
ness may do to you. So, as said,
I am going to take a long rest.
After that, I don't know. do know
it will be a play where will be well
supported. I don't want all the
laughs and applause in any play
So far as that goes, if some support
ing comedian gets a lot of laughs,
Evening star., 1947-09-14
June, the Happy Bride
Hollywood's Nicest Young Star Likes Being
Mrs. Dick Powell
By SheiIoh Srohom

There was opposition from pro-
ducers at Metro when June an
nounced she was going to marry
Dick. They all thought he was too
old for her. Dick is in his early
40s. June is around "A. But
her marriage worked as well as
Lauren Bacall's has with Humphrey
Bogart, and he is 20-something
years her senior.
Maybe that's what these movie
gals need-an older man who bosses
them.
Valiant About Flying.
when we were first married Dick
had yacht" says his loving wife.
June says she is the worst sailor
in the world but that didn't stop
her from spending every week end
on the boat and time between pic
lures. too. Finally, Dick took pity
on her NAL de mer and sold the
boat.
But what does he do? He buys
plane. Now if there is one thing
that makes June sicker than a boat
it's plane. But for months she
valiantly went aloft until Dick
again took pity on her. Anyway
her insides couldn't stand 1t any
more. So they made pact-like
Barbara Stanwyck and Robert
Taylor. He flies, while she stays on
the earth. Barbara never has gone
| I'M with PNt, w tho TNniHnn.
tally, last week June did go up in
the air to fly with Dick
| It's cute seeing June and Dick out
/ together, particularly when he takes
along his two children from his
marriage to Joan Blondell. Even
7, when I'm not wearing my glasses,
mistake June for one of Dicks kids.
When I saw the four of them the
other day I said to my companion.
II didn't know Dick had three
children" When I told this to June
later she was delighted, and told
ne that every one makes the same
mistake.
Two Major Wants.
She always dresses very young
usually with q ribbon In her hair.
I've heard June referred to as a
sloppy dresser. I don't think so.
But you'd never say, That's a
movie STAR when you see her out.
Yet I've seen her at parties with
Dick, and she looks flne-usually
in a black evening gown, with q
short fur cape.
The Powells recently bought a
big house in Brentwood. mot for
ourselves" June tells me. but 7
want to make a nice home for
Normy and Ellen-Dick's children.
In the old house they could only
stay a night now and then because
we didn't have the facilities for
them. In the new house they each
get their own room and it'll be ready
for them always"
There are two major wants in
June's life. She would give her eye
teeth to make picture with him
and she would give 10 years of her
life if they could have a child.
Here's wishing you luck with both.
June.
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The fellow who caused all the
confusion is, naturally, little
startled by the fast-moving events
that followed the kiss of Death"
preview Widmark said he merely
turned in what he thought was a
werkmanlike job on the role and
picked up his check. No one, he de-
clared, said anything about being
a sensation" nor was he ap-
preached about doing another movie.
There's chance. of course, that
Widmark may be flash in -the-pan
and that audiences will become sur
feited with his type of characterize
tion. But now that they have him
safely under contract 20th-FoX Off
cials don't think he'll be stopped.
They point to George Raft, who
parlayed coin-f1ipping stunt in
"Scarface" into an enduring career
when every one around town brand
ed him as a one-picture freak.
1t was Rex Harrison's half -wheeze,
half-sneeze in Anna and the King
of Siam" that started him on the
road to American fame. And how
about Paul Henreid, no great shakes
as a celluloid romancer until he
took up the trick of lighting two
cigarettes-one for Bette. Davis, one
for himself-in Nov Voyager." So,
the trademark experts can't be sold
short, say Widmark hackers.
No Tale of Woe.
Latest VILLAIN of the hour" fol-
lows the accepted pattern. He's
mild-mannered, speaks with a high,
soft voice. He's % years old and,
like 80 per cent of all the screen
toughies, is a college man. He grad
uated from Lake Forest College,
Illinois, in 1886 and taught speech
there for year after.
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Coming gAttractions

NATIONAL Lady Winder-
mere's Fan" with Cornelia
Otis Skinner, starting tomor-
row night.
AMBASSADOR - Dark Pas
sage" with Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall.
CAPITOL-"Repeat Perform
ance," with Joan Leslie, start
ing Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Kiss of Death"
with Victor Mature, starting
Thursday.
KEITH SIS Something in the
Wind with Deanna Durbin,
starting Wednesday.
LITTLE-"Children of Para
disc" a French film.
METROPOLITAN ach
Dawn I Die" with James
Cagney, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Desert Fury" with
Liz b eth Scott. starting
Thursday.
PIX-"Ecstasy," with Hedy La
MARI, starting Friday.
WARN R-"Dark Passage"
with Humphrey Bogart and
Lauren Bacall.
Evening star., 1947-09-14

WILDE MOMENT-The bit OF drama In the ballroom 1ith
Cornea Otis Skinner and Rer EDa in the foreground
captured Photographer Cecil Beaton ho did the decor
the production of Lady Wndesmeres FAM Which features
Miss Skinner Beloo Judith Feos who makes her American
debut Lady Windeere in the Oscar Wilde comedy 1t
hreepeek engagement at the National Theater tomorrow
nioht
Evening star., 1947-09-14
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLY WOOD.
The first time I saw June Allyson
was on Broadway. She was beating
her brains out as the college funny
girl in BEST Foot Forward" That
was five years ago.
The last time I saw June she was
about to lead Van johnson to the
altar in "Virtuous." She was still
beating her brains out, but for a
different reason.
This time she was worrying about
Dick Powell. He had flown to Ari-
zona in his own plane at 4:30 in the
morning. Every time Dick leaves
her, June expects the worst to hap
pen-until she hears that he is
safe. She is the biggest worrier
know in HollyWood-and the incest
young star. It's fine that she's
come so far since Metro brought
her here to repeat her Best Foot
Forward" role in pictures.
After the first picture. I thought
I was going to be stuck" June tells
me between takes with Van john
son. She owes a lot of her rise in
movies to Van-or vice versa. ANY,
way they were terrific together in
1.-TWO Girls and a Sailor" and that's
when June's studio decided she was
going to be star.
All-American Look.
That's when I changed my hair
part" she declares. That, oddly
enough, had lot to do with her
success. The new way of doing her
hair gave her an all-American look
and she clicked with the public.
If words and actions mean any,
thing, June's marriage with Dick
Powell never will break up. I've
never seen a girl so in love with a
man as June is with Dick. He's
had to leave me twice." June says.
Both were location jaunts. His
current Stations West" is in Ari-
zona; earlier this year Dick went
to Havana for Assigned to Treas
ury."
That I'll never forget" says June
with a shudder that shakes the
sound stage. At the time Dick had
a small cold, so he took some peni-
cillin shots and came down with a
nearly fatal case of penicillin pois-
oning. He got as far as Cuba be-
fore they rushed him home in an
airplane.
Not Very Gay.
"He didn't tell me how sick ne
was" June says. Il went to the air
port to meet him. I nearly died
His face and body were swollen to
twice their size. You couldn't see
his eyes at all; they were completely
hidden by the swelling. I almost
passed out. On the same day
was supposed to be a gay girl in my
picture, Good News"
I saw June that day on the set.
She was not gay. You could hardly
see her eyes-through weeping.
Evening star., 1947-09-14
This Studio
Lost
|ANew Star
By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD.

Mistakes are only human. Even
the front-ofice mighties of movie
town are prone to an occasional
blunder in picking Cor failing to
pick stories and talent
Clark Gable was kicked around
from one lot to another for years.
Betty Cradle was turned away from
another because her face and
figure were unattractive. A man
who is still supervising big produc-
tions turned down story rights to
Gone With the Wind" for S45 900,
shooting a memo to his New York
office that the tale was much too
long and involved"
Tycoons at Goth Century-Fox
slipped up badly on newcomer a
few weeks ago but fortunately, in
this instance, the bobble had a
happy ending. In the meantime,
however, there were some tense
moments.
The affair crystallized, few
nights ago, at the press preview of
the melodrama, Kiss of Death. y
After the showing, newspaper cor
respondents gathered in the lobby
discussing the film with studio
chieftains. They were all raving
about character actor named Rich
ard Widmark. HA came through
with something new in gangster
types-a slightly crackpot gunman
with a maniacal laugh.
Came the Dawn.
The studio bigWigs purred smugly.
They not only had a potential box
office cleanup in the picture itself,
but in Widmark they possessed a
personality who undoubtedly would
scurry to many more individual tri-
umphs. 1t was agreed that Mr..
Widmark had hot stuff. The report
ers thought so. And 20th-Fox as
sured the boys that there would be
lot of Widmark on the screen, and
just as fast as they could get him
into the right vehicles.
Next morning buzzers sounded all
! over the lot. The story department
was ordered to ransack the files,
check the new literary works, get in
touch with prospective galley proof
material in New York-all with the
mad laugh Widmark in mind.
Harry Brand, the publicity boss,
turned the preliminary wheels on a
giant ballyhoo campaign.
Then came the dawn-also car
loads of discontinue. Widmark was
nowhere to be found. At his hotel
they said he had checked out.
Finally a man from the legal de-
partment came up with the whole
story. No one by the name of Wild
mark was under contract to the
studio. 1t seems that those in active
charge of Kiss of Death" did not
realize they had such a brilliant
prospect in Widmark. So they failed
to take up his option.
Pandemonium in large hunks
Ireigned. Sharp words were ex-
changed. Faces grew red as ex-
perts began tossing the buck from
one to another. No time was lost,
however, in phoning the New York
Office. Orders were issued to hunt
Widmark down-and sign him. A
few hours later came a flash from
the east to the effect that the run
away actor had been corralled-and
his time taken up in behalf of Goth
Fox for the next seven years. Thus,
every one breathed easier.
Now they're flying Widmark out
from New York to play top role
in THE Chair for Martin Rome"
along with Victor Mature (his
nemesis in that first finn and
Colleen Gray (who played the love
interest in the same picture).
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR - Life With
Father: l. $40, TBS and $40
pm.
CAP1TOL-"The Great Waltz:
LAS, 4:30, 7:20 and 1905 pm.
Stage shows: LOS, 3:45, 6:35
and $40 pm.
COLUMBIA Variety Girl:
1:25, $3.50. $50, 7:3o and 9:35
pm.
HIPPODROME- THE Queens
Necklace: 2:05, 4, 7:45 and
$40 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Bachelors and
the Bobby-Soxer":: 1:20, 3:20,
$40. 7:2o and $40 pm.
LITTLE-"Fantasia": los, $40,
Sis, 7:20 and 9:30 pm.
METROPO ITAN - Riff
Rats: lao, $40, $40, 7:40
and 9:45 pm.
PALA EN- o her Wore
Tights: l, sos, Sis, 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
PIX-"Abie's Irish Rose: 1:30,
3::35. 5:45, 7:50 and $50 pm.
TRANSFORMERS and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
WARNER-"Life With Father:
l, 2:55, $40, 7:25 and $40
pm.
Evening star., 1947-09-14
No Make.Believe
BY The Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Perhaps 1t was the power of sug-
gestion:
Kathryn Grayson and Frank
Sinatra we're doing a scene in THE
kissing Bandit" in which the dia-
logue deals with an impending visit
to the dentist.
Within four hours after leaving
the set, Kathryn Was in dentist S
chair having a wisdom tooth jerked
THANK goodness" said Kathryn
"the scene wasn't about an appen-
Gectomy."
Evening star., 1947-09-14
Bobby Clark Wants to Rest
By Lowrence Perry

what happens? The audience goes
away saying Bobby Clark was
certainly funny today" No audi
ence analyzes who gets the laugh
and I think some sensitive stars
should keep this thought in mind"
The 15-minute call sounded and
Bobby grabbed a cane he has used
for 30-odd years.
Eyes, want help from now on
and let the laughs fall where they
may"
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