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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

The late great Laurette Taylor
once said: "If a critic calls my
acting true, that seems to me the
highest praise he can possibly give
me. Never mind the big sounding
adjectives; just that one word
means more than all of them"
To young actors who wondered
whether they should study fencing
and singing and other arts, she
said: eyes, if you don't think
about them in the theatre; the
danger is that you will get to sing
ing and posing instead of talking
and living"
1t was openly known that Laur-
cite drank a good deal afer the
dear of her beloved husband,
Hartley Manners. Her immortal
statement about it was that she
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

us nothing but mud flats and
marsh grass where boat enthusi-
asts have been sailing these many
years.
We question the authority or
title to lands which are proposed
to be built up by the developers,
since this land has for ye; IS been
under water as a part of Banks
channel, and, therefore, should be
public domain.
1t is not our desire to impede
progress, nor stop the healthy
growth of this fine resort area,
but we believe this development
will definitely harm our finest ia
cility, therefore, we are asking
that all citizens who value their
homes or the beach or Harbor
Island, give serious thought to this
proposal, and register their pro.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Letters To The Editor
Many Concerned Over Banks Channel Dredging Plan

test, for. the loss of Banks chan
mel will depreciate values in the
area at least SO per cent-and, to
most Of us, make living here very
unpleasant.
We realize that the press of our
section has always been most in
terested in the welfare and growth
of our resort Facilities, and has
been champions of any programs
III the interest Of conserving and
improving our natural resources.
To this end, we would welcome
any comment you would care to
make. We believe this matter is
Of broad public concern.
WALTER J. CARTIER
For the Citizens COMMITTEES
Harbor Island,
June IA, 1947
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Firemen Rush
To Fire But They
Forget Apparatus

ANGELS CAMP, Calf, June Il
-(PeThe whole volunteer fire de-
partment, 20 men strong, rushed
out to Charles Kendall's blazing
house trailer today, but the trail
er was a total loss. The boys for
got to bring the fire trucks.
Fire Chief James Twisselman
explained that the trucks were
moved to an auxiliary building
last week. AS each volunteer peer
ed into the formerly used garage
and saw it empty, he assumed
earlier corners had taken the We
hicles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

OF favorable votes as compared to
unfavorable. In the case of Arthur
H. Vandenberg, Senator John w.
Bricker, and Governor Earl War
rem, the percentage of favorable
votes among Republican voters also
exceeded unfavorable by a wide
margin. In the case of Senator
Robert A. Taft and Senator Lever
EFT Saltonstall the ratio was ap-
proximately equal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
FACTS ON

FACTS ON RECREATION
To the. Editor:
In behalf Of the Community
Council, we wish to congratulate
you on the effective editorial cam
paign that your newspaper has
been carrying or to help maintain
the high standards that our rec
reation department has developed
under it's departing director, Mr..
Jesse A. Reynolds. We have just
read with interest your editorial
entitled, "City Recreation Pro
gram in The Morning Star this
morning.
Perhaps you can help us correct
two general misconceptions con-
corning recreation, both public
and private. In the first place. the
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to
TO the Editor:

~ tS
Announcements in the local
press, with reference to the pro-
posed dredging in the north end
of Banks channel, Wrightsville
Beach, have caused grave concern
among property owners in this
area From a careful study of the
plans by a group Of interested cit
liens, we are faced with the con-
clusion that, should these plans be
carried out, it is just a matter
of a few years before we will lose
the only asset which makes
Wrightsville Beach unique, and
Harbor Island a place of beauty.
The proposed building up OF
land, directly in the channel,
would complete the process OF
shoaling we have been watching
Tor the last three years, and leave
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
The Gallup Poll
The Gallup Poll
Democratic Voters Giue Their Opinions
On Possible Candidates For Presidency
Truman Way Out Ahead In
Terms Oh Favorable"
Vote; Wallace Lays
BY GEORGE L L
Director, American Institute
of Public Opinion

VI ~0AAN OPAAAAo1A
PRINCETON, N. j., June
14-Whereas the Republican
Party has a fistful of can
didates for 1913 to choose
from, the Democratic Party
|at the moment is pretty much
a one-man affair so far as
1948 is concerned.
Out of nine men that have in the
past been talked about as possible
Democratic standard b e a r e r S
President Truman stands out far
above the rest in terms of favor.
able vote among the party rank
and file. Democratic voters also
have a favorable impression OF
Gen. George c. Marshall and OF
James F. Byrnes. But others in
the list of nine do not seem to
have caught the Imagination OF
Democratic voters in terms OF
1948.
These facts are shown in a new
type of poll on political leaders
conducted by the Institute. Demo
cratic voters we're asked to state
frankly whether they have a IA
vorable or unfavorable impression
of various prominent Democrats
as possible presidential material.
Last month this same type of poll
was conducted among Republican
voters, in which their impressions
of possible COP candidates were
measured.
The Democratic voter poll show
ed the following results:
evil you tell me frankly what
you think of each of these men as
Democratic Presidential material
for 1913? Generally speaking, is
your opinion of them favorable or
unfavorable?"
Poll Among Democratic
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
GOOD MORNING

TO whom We forgive any thing, I forgive
/ forgave it, for your sakes forgive I it in
the person of Christ II Corinthians
$40.
Nothing In this low and ruined world bears
the meek impress of the Son of God SO
surely as forgiveness.-Alice Cary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

An Alabama couple have started a
mail-order business in worms. If you
don't get the angle, it's to supply them
to fishermen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

The figures are no. 70 De I1ter-
preted as an index OF the numper
of Democrats who wo~ ID favor the
actual nomination of any one OF
the men listed. Some voters have
a favorable impression OF two or
three of the leaders, but have a
distinct preference for one Where
it comes to expressing a choice
for nominee.
COP. voters when questioned
last month in a similar poll on Re
publican leaders, gave Governor
Thomas E. Dewey the highest ratio
Evening star., 1947-08-02
It's Still 'Stardust'

A dual-purpose national survey
conducted by the Motion Picture
Research Bureau has revealed that
"Stardust" Is the favorite song of
love Of the American public.
The query about love songs was
suggested by the forthcoming release
of Observation-Disclosures Song of
Love-" starring Katharine Hepburn,
Paul Henreid and Robert Walker
The Aim tells the famous real life
love story of Clara Week Schumann
Miss Hepburn and the composer
Robert Schumann (Mr. Henreid)
with Mr.. Walker alb Johannes
Brahms.
The nine favorite love songs, in
their order of popularity, were
shown to be: "Stardust," the "An-
niversary Song" Always" Be
cause" Begin the Beguine," Heart
aches" Night and Day" Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes" and II Love
You Truly"
Evening star., 1947-08-02

II WONDER WHO'S KISSING HER
NOW Goth Century Fox Picture with
June Haver and Mark Stevens, produced by
George Jessel, directed by Lloyd Bacon,
original screenplay by Lewis H. Foster.
music by Joe Howard, viii M. Hough and
Frank Adams, special lyrics and music by
the Palace.
THE CAST
Katie " June Hayer
Joe Howard Marx Stevens
Lulu Madison ----~-- Martha Stewart
Will Hough ------- Reginald Gardiner
Frttzi Darlington - Lenore .Aubert
Jim Mason ---- William Frawley
Tommy Yale -- Gene Nelson
Martin Webb ---- Truman Bradley
John McCullem - George Clevela nd
Charlie ---- Harry Seymore
T. J. Milford Lewis L. Russell
Kasse1 - John Skins" Miller
Kari Lew Hearn
anna -------------- Eve MINER
Marie Florence O'Brien
Harris E Emmett Vosan
Herman Bartholdy ----- Charles Judels
Evening star., 1947-08-02

Il Wonder Who's Kissing Her
Now" the latest of these, turned up
at the Palace yesterday. OF its kind,
it is neither better nor worse than
the last one. Its sole distinction is
that it was produced by George Jes-
sci, an old troubador himself, and a
man with an uncomfortable enthusi-
asm or the period when vaudeville
was living thing, breathing air
quite unlike that of the modern
night club.
Song Writer Joe Howsrd's is the
life under Jessel's cameras. There is
no question but that it gets the
works, technicoloK stupendous stage
architecture. and cast dressed or
undressed to the hilt. What differ
ence that perhaps Joe was not as
handsome as Mark Stevens who
plays him now, or that the girls in
Joe's life were not quite like June
Haver. Lenore Aubert or Martha
Stewart? If youth were not glamor-
GUS in retrospect, life would be an
even greater waste of time than 1t is.
**
Howard's biography, as BELTS that
of a man whose heart was bursting
with tunes, Is sung. danced and
played in the Palaces newest ex-
hibit. It inuninates no new corner
of the song writer's trade. On the
contrary, it merely repeats with
Jessel's special zest for his own
youth, how 1t was when vaudeville
was in its heyday.
There was no radio then to bring
Duluth a tune while it still was in
manuscript on a New York band
leaders music rack. But there was
q brave predecessor of the Sinatras,
Comos. ETC., who hoped on rickety
unstreamlined train and got it there
as soon as he could. This fellow be-
longed to a lively set of wandering
Evening star., 1947-08-02

a lot of running around In the nest
Shirley's role in the picture starts
early this month. They think she
will be through in September.
Kathryn Grayson is preparing q
last word" for her bosses If they
go through with the plan to put hel
in with a hatful of other Metro stars
in Easter Parade" I'm Through
working as 3 Sort of showgirl.
Kathy says with a tilt of her Irish
chin. And if they put me in the
picture, I'll fight"
I ask Otto Preminger, Joan Craw-
ford's current director. "is it true
about your romance with Lizbeth
Scott?" Otto decides not to explode,
and instead tells me, II had lunch
with her once at the studio, but
I've since read that we are all over
town together. What can I say? If
I say it isn't true, I'm mgallant. If
l say it Is, I'm a son of gun. AS
Oscar Wilde said, Questions are
never indiscreet. only answers.
Billy Gilbert is back in Holly
wood studio Metro-for "The kiss
ing Bandit" But he's not staying
and here is Billy's last word" on
Hollywood. II lived here for 18
years making pictures. And like all
the other actors here i became
mentally stagnant. You're not AL
lowed to do anything or think for
yourself. Even your makeup is put
on for you. I went to New York a
little more than a year ago, for four
days, and stayed year. It's stir1u-
lating there: you're allowed to have
ideas of your own. And that is
where want to work, except for a
picture now and then to keep my
hand in"
tReleosed by korfH American hswspn,s~
AIliones.)
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Hollywood:
Pretty Susan
Suggests a
Correction
By SheiIoh Grohom

Susan Peters, looking unbeliev-
ably beautiful on the set of "The
Sign of the Ram" invites me into
her dressing room and among other
things she has last word" for me.
"It is not quite true" says Susie,
that Mr.. 0rving) Cummings is
producing this picture to provide
me with an annuity, We are doing
it on percentage basis-Mr. Cum
mings, myself, Columbia, and the
Orsatti office. All my friends called
me to tell me about the annuity
item you broadcast, and 1t upset
me because 1t isn't true" wouldn't
upset you, Susie. for anything in
the world. admire you too much
Neither would Mr.. Cummings
What he meant by annuity" was
that he hoped the picture would
provide you with an income for the
next ten years, and In that way be
a sort Of annuity for you. Have I
cleared it up?
Charlie Chaplin's publicity boy.
Russell Birdwell, writes me a last
word" about his client, commenting
on my item that Chaplin was
through as an actor after Mon
sieur Verdoux." Quite the con-
trary to retiring" writes Russell,
''he is beginning. He has COM
pleted two original stories and they
will go before the camera in mid
October. You are quite right on the
score that he will not appear In one
of them. However. he will as usual
direct and star in the next" Wanna
make bet, Russell?
My item that Shirley Temple
would probably" not be able to
make War Party" because she is
an expectant mother has stirred up
Evening star., 1947-08-02

however. Is that women vocalist!
can be treacherous. His next stop
therefore, on the, road to tina
knowledge Is a Viennese contralto
FRITZ Darlington. She makes hin
forget Lulu, but in the process o1
digging a hit musical comedy out
OF him. teaches him to remember
Fritizi-unpleasantly.
Backstage romance is treated
rather fully in the Lulu and Fritz
incidents of Howard's life, but that
is not all. The real love of his life
is there all the time, too, in the
person of Katie McCullem. Un-
fortunately for both Joe and Katie,
he conceives of their relationship
as 4 brother and sister affair, but
only so long as Jessel thinks it is
good for his picture.
Palace audiences get a thorough
briefing on backstage life and love.
and interstate travel, between the
cascading musical numbers of *'I
Wonder Who's kissing Her Now -
Also from the title song, they must
get a notion that it takes years for
man to write his most remembered
tune. Howard never could think of
words to 60 with this one, and, If
the script is factual. it would still be
something just running through his
head except for Will Hough who
finally produced lyrics.
Hough, incidentally. is the bright
est character in the film starring
Stevens and Miss Haver. AS played
by Reginald Gardiner, he is an
amusing literate fellow who suggests
that they, too, get into vaudeville in
one way or another. The kisses this
type got, however, were the platonic
ones
Evening star., 1947-08-02

Ministries and minstrelesses whose
members needed coffee and dough-
nuts more than they needed income
tax consultants.
There is something to be said on
their behalf and 81 Wonder Who's
kissing Her Now" says 1t lavishly
and loudly.
Howard's ragtime- -to-riches story
follows the formula as faithfully as
castor Oh.
1t introduces him as 3 lad work.
ing in a Weehawken, N. j., taber-
nacle supply house. He demon
strates the latest thing in church
organs, and occasionally tosses of
a few bars of hymn because he
was born to sing. On the side he
writes songs, most unhymnlike, in
the ragged musical idiom of the
vaudeville halls.
This lands him his first job as
piano player partner of an ambi-
tious blond who sings on the tank
town circuit. She uses him more
roughly than Bob Hope does a joke,
but he learns few things from Lulu
that any song writer can well make
use of. What he neglects to learn,
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Where and When
Current Theoter Attrect tions
and Time Of Showing
Stage,

Stage.
National-'"Oklahoma!";; 2:20 ant
$40 pm.
Catholic Observation-Disclosures O.
the Blind; $50 pm.
Screen.
Observation-Disclosures Lady:
1:35, 3:35. $40, TAO and $50 pm.
Capitol-"The Trouble With Wom-
en-: 10 am, 1910, 800, 6:05, S:55
and Has pm. Stage shows: 11:55
a m, 2:35, Sis, sos and 1885 pm.
Columbia-"The Hucksters"; 10:45
am, l, $40, $50. 7:3s and $50 pm.
"Dishonored Lady; 1l:20I
am, 1:25, 3:35, $40, 7:50, 10 pm.
and 12:05 am.
HippOdrome - "Stone Flower;
2:25, 4:l0, 6. 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Keith's - Brute Force: 11:40j
Evening star., 1947-08-02

FAMILY ADDITION In the
forthcoming Song of the Thin
Man." Myrna 10y and William
PoaOeH resume their roles OF
Nick and Nora Charles, but
someone neD has been added,
q little Charles. Nick, jr., toiu
be played by Dean Stocktpel1,
the appealing juvenile OF
anchors A,peioh" and "The
Green Years"
Evening star., 1947-08-02

. IN, las, $50, 9. sos, 1910 pm.
and i2:15 am.
Little-"On Approval: 1:25 am,
1:lo, 2:S0, 4:35, Sis, 8 and $50 pm
Metropolitan THE Perils OF
Pauline: II am. ITO. $40, $50,
7:40. 9:55 pm. and 1905 am.
Palace-"I Wonder Who's Kissing
Her Now: 10:45 am, 1855, sos,
Sis, 7:25, 9:35 and HAS pm.
Pix-"Duel In the Sun: /. 3::25,
5:45, sos, 1880 pm. and 12:45 am.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts:
continuous from 1918 am.
Evening star., 1947-08-02
He's Hueo's Hero

An official of the j.. I. Case Co
was visiting on the set of Ever
the Beginning" and was greeted
warmly by Actor Hugo Haas.
II think your product is wonder
full" said Haas. Il escaped on one
of your tractors with my wife from
Paris to Spain when the Germans
came in 1910"
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Moon-June Era of Melody
Recalled Gai1y at Palace
By Joy Cormody

Peoples who speak languages which
and moon seem have survived after fashion they neither
rich they much Hollywood When Hollywood
June itself
big picture share
another which always, life
Americas a
Evening star., 1947-08-02

When Kyle Mcdonnell, blond
lovely from New York, made her
very first screen appearance TN
Mary Hagen at Warner Bros. the
other day. her face was entirely
covered by long, black veil!
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
UNIFORM TICKETS CUT
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

CARBOHYDRATES of a uni
form traffic ticket on which are
listed six principal traffic viola
lions has reduced automobile &C
cidents in five Michigan cities.
Because these cities standard
lied traffic violations, motorists
know what to expect from traffic
cops in the several communities.
Major traffic violations listed in
clude speeding, improper passing,
and running stoplights.
The International City Man
ayers Association, after observing
the results of the nations first
statewide system for traffic law
enforcement, said that during the
late months of 1916, when accident
rates mounted rapidly toward a
holiday peak in most cities, auto
mishaps in the five "test' cities
increased only one per cent.
The five ''test" cities which used
the plan for six months and found
it satisfactory are: Bay City, Sag
NAV, Jackson, Battle Creek, and
Kalamazoo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01

CHICAGO W.R-Parents are too
lenient some bobby soxers be-
lieve.
The youngsters say they'd have
more respect for their folks 1t
they would use the rod once In
a while.
"sparing the rod is just spoil,
ing their chances f successful
|parenthood," Alice Loeb. 16, CHI
cago high school student said.
Alice and five other youngsters
aired their views on the faults OF
modern parents at a conference
on delinquency prevention. All
agreed there would be fewer chill
| dren in the courts if their parents
! showed a little more authority.
Bruce Drake, II, Berwyn, ILL.,,
said too many parents had lost
their influence e children by
failing to give them love and al
Election.
Ignore Problems
"Thev give them everything
else, and think that's all that's re-
CURED of them" Bruce said.
They don't even try to under
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
Snake Boy, Sir Foot Python,
Nice Housed Pet, Chicqgoan Says

CHICAGO WR Clifford Pope
says the only way to learn about
a snake is to live with one. He
does.
He keeps a six-foot python in a
box beside the furnace Of his
home. It's quite a pet, he says.
Ii feeds out of his hand and is
partly housebroken.
His II year : old son, Whitney,
calls the python Snakie-boy. Whit
ney likes to let Snakie-boy exer-
else on the living room floor
Snakie-boy likes it too, Pope says.
I'VE had a birthday celebra-
t.on," Pope says, land S%nakie-boy
was the life of the party"
Pope is uralor or reptiles at the
Chicago Natural History Museum.
The python was sent to the mu-
scum from Burma, where a sur
prised mess cook found it under a
sugar barrel.
"After a few weeks" Pope says,
II took the python to my nome
because there temperature can be
controlled day and night"
Questions About Snakes
Besides, he says, even snake ex'
perts don't know all the answers
about snakes, and he wanted te
| study one daily under favorable
| conditions.
Some of these questions are:
How fast do giant snakes grow?
How long does it take them te
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
SENATE
Continued From Page One)

OsAS
Truman at the White House short
ly before the vote, told the Senate
he is mot in a position" to say
what the Chief Executive plans to
do.
But it would be a tragedy" the
Kentuckian added, 'if we loaded
down the meritorious provisions
(of the pending legislation) with
others so obnoxious that the Presi-
dent would be required to veto the
bill"
Johnston Speaks
Senator Olin D. johnson DIS.
Co., said:
IF we pass an omnibus bill,
am predicting a Presidential veto.
It's like putting rotten apples in a
basket of good apples"
Senator Holland (D.1Fla) said
that nation expects some ma
chinery'' to cope with national
paralysis" strikes, such as a coal
tieup. He noted that the govern
ment is yielding its wartime au-
thority to seize struck properties
under the Smith-C onnally act, and
said Congress must provide some
substitute method of dealing with
Gripping strikes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
ENLISTMENT WAVE
SWAMPS u. S. N. R.
Thirteen Youths, All From
Wilmington, Sign Up
With Unit Here

|. Deluged by n days enlist
ments Of 10 men in a period of
less than two hours, officials of
the U. S. Naval Reserve office in
the customs house struggled
around in a different sort Of sea
yesterday afternoon-a sea of en-
listment papers. -
Yesterdays new reservists, all
of whom will be assigned to Will
mington as a base, are all from
Wilmington with one exception.
Wilmington boys enlisting in
Class We. USNR, are:
Charles Ennis Smith, 2008 Mar
ket; William Edward Strickland,
P. o. box 51B; James Herman
Krals, SIG S. Fourth ST.; Addison
Roman Smith, 121 Bryan Ave;
Ebert Aaron Thomas, Jr., SOB S.
Fifth ST.; James Alexander Rob-
bins, Jr., 2O8 Church St.; Danny
Francis Hartley, PIG Creepy Ave-;
Robert Bertrym Haas, GIG S. Fifth
ST.; George Cecil Looney, Jr., 20
Court N. Lake Forest; David Glyn
Rose, 2206 Princess Road; Julius
Clyde Joyner, 5 Hudson Drive, and
Bonaire Benton, also Of a VIII
mington address.
The other man enlisted yester-
day was John Fuiles Harmon,
Rocky Point.
William Leonard Parker, Jack
sonville, signed reservist papers
Tuesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01
KIN CLANS
S32. 600. 600 FORTUNE

NEW ORLEANS, W.D - A de-
scendant of a Spanish grandee has
asked for congressional aid in re-
covering a Cuban fortune worth
more than $33, 600, 900.
Irwin M. Carbalan of New Or
leans claims the fortune in prop
erty in the Havana vicinity is his,
since he descends directly from
Don Juan Ximenez Medrano, to
whom he said the property was
granted approximately 276 years
ago by King Phillip w of Spain.
The claimant said he had been
denied justice through all the
courts of Cuba" who have declin.
ed to act until the U. S. State De.
partment files a diplomatic claim
in behalf Of Carbalan and his
relatives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-01

grow up? How long. do they live?
How much a they learn? How
do they crawl? How much do they
weigh?
Snskie-boy was less than three
feet long when he was found in
October. 1915. Now he is six feet
one inch long and weighs three
pounds eight ounces.
Some pythons, Pope says, grow
to a length of more than 80 feet.
Because snakes are cold-blood-
ed, they require little food and
infrequent meals" Pope says.
''Snakie-boy has been put on a
diet Of a few mice or a small rat
every week.
sometimes captive reptiles get
the worst of a battle with q rat,
apparently because life in confine-
ment robs them of their natural
aggressiveness."