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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

the cops take their customary dim
view of all this and hang the ran
on Charley.
But he amt the one-as the
title of the film might lead a
bright fiveyear old to suspect.
It turns out to be still another
gal, well played by Jessica Tandy,
who has put the blame on our
hero on account of he spurns her
1ove-the cad.
AT this point enter Sir Cedric
HarWicke, a family doctor. who
locks horns with Jessica while
Charley sits and waits for the exc
ctrtioner. Eventually he breaks
her down and Charley is proved
innocent and everyone lives hap
PLY ever after.
If you must have a mystery
film, this will probably do, but
II you are the least bit discrim-
mating about your film fare, |
wouldn't recommend it.
just ON the technical business
OF construction the story seems
to nae weak and faltering. The
whole buildup of polished
playboy is slow and dragged Out
and a waste of time.
BY the time the big scene comes
up-the showdown battle of minds
between the doctor and Jessica-
any reason the audience might
have to sit ON the edge of its col.
lective seat has long since faded
in ennui. The story is mechani.
cal and thin and the worst sin Of
all for this kind of thing-con.
ventfonal.
ANY GER scholars who
might be peering over my Shout.
der looking for hints might take
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

he's nohow good without a song"
Talk that Josephine Baker is
taking over q, big chunk of Cafe
Society Uptown. -.
The Ella Kaxans had another
baby-a girl. +.
It's now definite about which
company will do the film version
of the Thomas Wolfe novel, Look
Homeward Angel. Paramount fl
naliy grabbed it-for SITS, zoe.
Here's hoping that Wolfe won't
roll over in his grave when the
results are made public. -.
The title for that Christ in Con-
crete movie has been changed to
Give Us This Day. :.
AS if il were terribly important.
both Paramount and Twentieth
Century Fox are rushing through
screen plays based on the lives of
the Borgias Paulette GODDARD
will star in the Paramount story
called Lucrexia Borgia. and TWEEN
tieth-Century Fox will be based
on Samuel Shellabarger's best
seller, The Prince of Foxes. :
When William Bendix was asked
if he was born in a tough neigh
borhood, the reply was, though?
Why-in our neighborhood a cat
with a tail was a tourist"
That American syndicate now
running that big gambling joint
Casino National in Cuba is miffed
because it has to paysunion scale
local croupiers standby salaries
for every American croupier en-
ployed. .
Arthur Miller has sailed for
Italy to get background material
for a new play dealing with an
Italian American family. =.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

The reason? He could not get release.
Hollywood pictures produced the basis
of playing to at least 10 million people-whch means
they have to be shown in the South to recoup their
investment Southern exhibitors and southern censors
by banning films which break down Jimcrow
lines thus make them Improbable and virtually
prohibit Hollywood from producing them
With Pres. Truman condemnng jim and
discrimination in the report of his Committee Civil
Rights, would it be amiss for him to comment
this situation which is one of most fragrant VIC
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
SCORECARD
Excellent; .**GoOdx #Fair:
Indifferent; None, stinker

Excellent; .**Goodx **Fair;
Indifferent; None, stinker
Anthony Adverse
Black Gold
- Black Narcissus
*** Body and Soul
**** Crossfire
Daisy Kenyon
~ Deep Valley
Forever Amber
Foxes of Harrow
F Gentleman's Agreement
*** Great Expectations
High Wall
Heaven Only Knows
l Love Trouble
1t Had To Be You
*** Kiss of Death
$50 Long Night
Miles Daughter
**** Monsieur Verdoux
Ride the Pink Horse
*** Secret Life of Walter
NIFTY
The Fugitive
The Senator Was Indiscreet
" Woman's Vengeance
Road to Rio
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

While we're on
t. e subject, Al
] o l S o n s i n g>S
Without A Song
with t h e words
''Darkies are no
6 o o d without a
song" When hep
guys like Sinatra
sing it they use
t h e w or d s "a
man is born, but
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

bringing home a German bride,
created a terrific stir in England
But when brought over here, it
was sneaked out as a second fea-
ture, without preview or any
thing, and allowed to die without
people even knowing it was being
shown. Too hot to handle?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
Movie beuf
|'Women's Vengeance is
OK. for mystery fans

this one for what it's worth
what goes with comedy on the
American screen? AS a few pre-
hminary notes, I pass these along
for what they are worth
There are several levels of COM
edy. There is genuine comic art,
satire, which tries to say some
thing about the world men live
in and achieves its ends, when
guys Like Chaplin do it, through
pitilesS 'slashing expose shibbo-
leths, conventions and cliches our
economic and social system lives
by.
On another level, probably but
not necessarily lower, operate art
lists like the Marx brothers, who
do not go quite as far in their
understanding of human nature
and motivationS, of social and
economic truths, but who, never
theless, have talent for Selling
ON and pointing up some ridicu-
louS aspects of the world in which
we live. This can be Sub-titled
the belly laugh division. Guys like
Henry Morgan, ON the a d o,
sometimes achieve this.
On a third, or sub-cellar, level
live people like Bob Hope and
Jack Benny and their TIT ,000,0 900
imitators. These characters l
can't understand at all Some peo-
pie love them. All of which goes
to prove what they say about
de gustibus non disputandum est
Look, Ma, latin.)
Hope and his iIlx seem to me
to personify the capitalist system
carried to its Nth degree in show
buSineSS-and l do mean business.
They depend for their humor on
obvious and Unsubtle jokes about
sex and all it's qualifications. They
travel in packs, like wolves-oh,
oh, they've got me doing it, too
surrounded by hordes of nervous,
neurotic writers who beat their
brains out every week working
over basic set of jokes to make
them look new. Them l don't
envy.
All this is brought to mind by
Hopes latest opus, latest for me.
anyway, Road to Rio" which is
now making the rounds out in the
provinces.
Road to Rio" is, am told, typ
ical of bhe kind of thing Hope is
most successful at In this YER
sion, aided by Bing Crosby and
Dorothy LamouT, he has his trou-
bles as swing musician in Bra
I'll.
1t derives its humor from spool
ing the conventional pictures of
this type, not very well. must
say, and from esoteric jokes like
screams which are attributed to
. the Warner Brothers who won't
like this" presumably because it's
a Paramount picture. / can assure
the Warner brothers that they
have no reason TO howl Or worry.
There's a lot of tripe about
stolen papers and an evil aunt
who is hypnotist on the side
which l didn't quite get.
OK, I'll go quietly.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

1A&A DShk0AN tillS WI
lations of freedom of speech and
the right--not of Negroes alone,
but of the whole American popu-
Ilation-to get honest entertain
ment on the screen?
''The Story of Babe Ruth" is
going ahead with Bill Bendix cast
as the Bambino and Claire Trevor
as Mrs. Ruth. Roy Del Ruth mo
kim, who is directing, announced
long since that he would use
Robinson and other Negro players
in the film. While their presence
is not an integral part of the
Babes story, IT is to be hoped
that the film will achieve the
tolerance angle its director has
said he is aiming at. ;.
| CASTINGS: Gloria Grahame,
the sizzling blonde of Crossfire,
co-stars with Maureen O'Hara and
Melvyn Douglas in 1.-THE Long
Denial" from novel by Vicki
Baum Robert Mitchum,
Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Pres
ton and Walter Brennan, are the
top-lines in Blood on the Moon"
an 1866 super-western according
to the studio announcement
Greer Carson will star in Gals
worthy's "Forsyte Saga" which
will mark the Hollywood debut of
British director Compton e'Sev-
enth VeilD Bennett.
With advance notices raving
over Laurence Olivier's Hamlet"
and Orson Welles' Macbeth"
Reuben Mamouhan is reported
considering a film production of
Julius Caesar Aaron Cop
land has been signed to do the
musical score for Lewis Mile
stones 'The Red Pony" from the
John Steinbeck yarn Mickey
Rooney, a fistcuffer in KILLER
Mccoy" will be jockey in Tod
Sloan," based on the life of the
rider of the same name In real
life, Mickey is on the divorce
trail again, if anybody cares.
ALAN Dinehart III, 10-year old
fson of the late Alan Dinehart, who
just completed an important part
in "Moonrise," will play Super
man as boy in Columbia's serial
based on the comic strip and radio
show.
s. Jack Moffitt, friendly" witness
for J. Parnell Thomas who said
he can't work in Hollywood be-
cause he's Communist, has
Ibeen signed by director Henry
Roster to dramatic Doris Nils
THE Happy Girl" first as ser
les of oneactorS for amateur the
atrical groups, then as an episode
film. Roster plans to have a diff
ferent director on each sequence
Gas done in eff I Had A Million, -
"a Miracle Could Happen etc..
WhatSamatter, Jack? Have the
treds forgiven you?
"The Search" Swiss-made film
produced by Lazar Wechsler (of
.The Last Chance" and marie
Louise" fame), will be released
over here by MGM. 1t stars Mont
gomery Cliff, Aline MacMahon,
lJarila Novotna and Wendell Corey,
and is the first picture about dis
placed persons shot at the locale
of the action. Advance reports
are blowing about this one, di-
ERECTED by Fred zimmerman, from a
script that Betty CA Tree Grows
in Brooklyn Smith and Paul
Tom, Dick & Harry'o Jarrico
worked on.
/ What happened to "Frieda?"
THAT film, about an Raj man
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

Profits after taxes for Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey were $l4e
million for the first 10 months OF
1947, compared with $88 million
for the same period in 1916.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
:}5sY.Y.
frankie Lane
wakes song that
is racist slur
BY BARNARD RUBIN

THAT was jerky of frankie
Lane. mean recording that
chauvenistie song, Shine" for
Mercury Records. Mercury Rec
ordS should hear about it too. :.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
Hollywood
Plan for Jackie Robinson film
killed by Jim. crow economics
BY HAROLD ]. sALEMsoN

INDEPENDENT producer Martin Mooney
he had to abandon plans feature built
of Jackie Robinson and starring the Dodgers ash nfelder
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Mother Dies Of Complications
From Unattended Childbirth

STURGEON BAY, WIS.-Funeral
services were held for Mrs. Myrtle
Schmidt, 81 = year = old divorce,
whose infant son was found buried
in the yard of her home at Forest
vile, Wis.
Mrs. Schmidt died at a hospital
of complications following the In
attended birth of the boy. Her 49,
year-old son and 1~6-year-old daugh-
ter told police they buried the baby
at the insistence of their mother.
The child was dead at the time, they
said.
District Attorney Edward G..
Minor and Coroner Calmer Nelson
planned to order an inquest into the
death of the child. Mrs. Schmidt
died without making a statement
about the child.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Baldwin Is Elected
'49 Head Of Kiwanis

Continued from Page One)
to adequately finance themselves
from property taxes. The legis.
lature Gleoge said, has the pow.
er to change the method of fl
nancing and reorganize the
schools.
Mentioning the expenditures OF
! Montanans for Injuries and
amusements, he said 26,000,0 0C
is spent on punch boards, as much
as for the entire system of ed
ucation.
Peterson in presenting a gist
of proposals offered as remedies,
said that of the $500 teachers
in the state about 1000 IRE sub
standard in teaching qualifica-
tions, with the children of the
state as the real victims. He
declared that this condition often
causes conscientious teachers to
leave the field-that salary is
not always the cause for them
quitting and going into other
professions.
The state produced about 125
teachers last year, though the
figure should have been between
800 and 1000. Other states, also
short of teachers, are unable to
supply the Montana demand.
He told of exhaustive studies
that were conducted a few years
ago by a committee of citizens
who submitted their proposal to
the legislature. The measure
passed the house but failed in the
senate.
Since then parents and other
interested citizens, he said, have
carried on the study. They have
concluded that with modern roads
as they are, permitting all-year
transportation of pupils from
thinly populated districts to well
equipped populous districts near
by, children from the small dis
tricts should receive their school
ing in the better equipped areas.
An exception would be geograph-
ically isolated areas.
AS the quantities and values
of property in the different dis
tricts are not equal, the state as
an entirety was seen as a general
reservoir from which to draw so
or more per cent of the costs for
operating Montana schools.
Peterson read a list of recon-
mendations the citizens committee
proposes to submit to the legis-
lature.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Mixed Burglar Alarm Signals
Bring Police TO Robbery

CINCINNATI. - Four policemen
went to Antonio Dipilla's grocery in
answer to a robbery alarm.
But there was no robbery. The
grocer just got his signals mixed
up.
Dipilla explained that he and his
landlady, Mrs. Frank Klein, who
lives on the second floor, had a pre-
arranged signal whereby he was to
tap on a pipe in case of a holdup.
Mrs. Klein was in the store, and
a few minutes after she left I heard
water running in a ~washroom," Di-
pilla said. Il forgot about the sig
nal and raped on the pipe to call
her attention to it."
The landlady, hearing the rapping,
called police.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Laurel News Items

Complimenting Miss Carol AL
version, a bride of the week, Mrs.
George Harper, Jr., was hostess
at a prenuptial shower at her
home, lis West Main. Cards
were played and refreshments
served. Attending were Mrs. Or
vile Boyle, Mrs. Anton Koch,
Mrs. E. C. Bender, Mrs. Leo
Dietrich, Mrs. Frank Wagner,
Mrs. Bernard CLARION, Mrs. Mike
Segmiller, Mrs. Peter GrolL Mrs.
Ann Alverson and daughter Peg
gy, Mrs. Russell Orr, Mrs. George
Ulschak, Mrs. Roy Horning, and
the honor guest, Miss Alverson.
Mrs. Martha Malbo of Butte
was a week end guest of Mrs.
Effie Gerard. Saturday evening,
in company with Mrs. Gerard and
Mrs. Thomas Everett, Mrs. Nal
DO visited the Rebekah lodge at
Red Lodge.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
~Dishwsshing Shortcuts

Do you stack your dishes at the
table and use a tray to carry them
to the kitchen sink? That's n Of
the price step-saving principles Of
the new All club project, Make
Dishwashing Fun" The youngsters
learn that the 'dishes chore" a
be an interesting exercise in eff
ciency-rather than dreaded drudg-
cry; that nearly everyone can cut
down the time it takes to do dishes
by figuring out shortcuts-and that
the times goes faster by singing
songs or playing guessing games
while your hands are busy.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Contour Planting Pays

Importance of planting corn
around the hillsides of sloping land
is seen in the records of two
groups of farmers in Madison coun-
ty, KY, IS bushels more corn per
acre being produced where con-
tour planting was used. Eighty-two
farmers, who entered the 1947 Corn
Derby, planted their fields on the
contour and averaged 94.3 bushels
Of corn to the acre, said Farm Ag-
ent J. Lester Miller. In contrast,
181 farmers, planting their sloping
land in straight rows, averaged
only 1913 bushels an ere
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Surgeons Forget Towel In
Vets Stomach; He Can't Sue

BALTIMORE, MD.-A pensioned
army veteran who sought 500, 600
from the government because Of an
IS by 30-inch towel left in his
stomach was told that he couldn't
sue Uncle Sam.
The veteran, 50-year-old Arthur
X. Jefferson of Joppa, Md, filed
the suit under the recently-enacted
federal tort claims act, waving
immunity of the United States from
damage suits by private persons.
But Federal Judge w. Calvin
Chestnut ruled hat congress did
not intend to include suits by for
mer soldiers for service-connected
disabilities for which there was
already existing a large body of
federal legislation"
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
NEWSPAPERD0M
Weekly Gets
A Big Scoop

NORTON, WA weekly news
paper scored a resounding beat on
n of the biggest news stories OF
the year in Virginia.
1t printed an account of a $3.50
bank robbery, the chase and arrest
of the bandits within two hours after
it happened.
The subscribers Of the Norton
Coalfeld Progress, a modest but
growing country weekly" were
reading about the bank robbery be-
fore many of the large newspapers
and radio stations in the area knew
it had happened.
It wasn't one of those stories that
happens right in front Of the news
paper, either. The bank was robbed
in Pound, Va, 20 miles to the north
over rugged mountain roads.
1t a shortly after Don in Nor
ton on the day that the Coal1eld
Progress was to 60 to press. The
paper had been made up with &C.
counts Of meetings and society
items laboriously gathered from the
clubs and churches and PTA through
the week.
General Flunky."
Carroll Tate, a lanky, dark haired
young man who calls himself gen
eral funky" for the paper and who
is its reporter and business man.
ager, was relaxing in the office.
A pressman, just returning from
lunch, walked in and remarked
casually:
Wed better throw out the front
page"
Then he added, still casually, 1.-THE
banks been robbed at Pound"
Tate jumped to life. He tele-
phoned Pound and confirmed what
the pressman had heard a state
trooper remark to passersby on the
corner.
Tate drove the 20 miles to Pound
in a hurry over the winding roads.
He interviewed Ed Barr, the bank
cashier, who had been ordered into
a vault by two armed men who neg
lected to close the vault door tight
ly enough to make it click.
Escapes From Vault.
Barr said he got out Of the vault
and shouted an alarm. He fired a
pistol at one Of the bandits and
wounded him on the bank steps.
The two leaped into a car driven by
another man and drove off.
AS Tate finished talking to Barr,
state troopers brought in the three
men for Barr to identify. The
money was recovered.
Tate sped back to Norton, wrote
his story and soon the presses of
the weekly rolled with a red hot
story and a banner line on the front
page.
big town newspapermen will
call it luck, but it was the biggest
thrill of my life getting that story"
says Tate, who will become owner
of the Coalield Progress in a few
months.
Gov. William Tuck of Virginia has
dedicated a new plant of the Coal
field Progress.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Change In Egg Situation

Our eggs are coming from big
farms, when 10 years ago they
came from small farms. Half Of
today's eggs come from farms
with 200 or more birds.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Friday, Nov. 5.

Friday, Nov. 5.
The general meeting of the
Woman's Society of Christian
Service at the Methodist church
will be preceded by a dessert
lunch at 2 o'clock. Hostesses will
be circle a. Mrs. A. L. Leuthold
will have charge of the program
and Mrs. F. w. Graft of the de-
votions.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Dutch Tobacco

Total retail turnover Of tobacco
in Holland last year was more than
40 million guilders, compared with
a prewar total of 80 million.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Calendar
Of Coming Events
Oct. 80.

Saturday, Oct. 80.
Regular meeting of the Past
Matron's club of the o. E. s.
will be at 1870. Important bust
ness is to be discussed, followed
by an afternoon of bridge.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Milk Drinkers

Butter production in the United
States is lower than it vas prior to
the war because more milk is used
as liquid milk.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Saturday, Nov. 20.

Saturday, Nov. 20.
Announcement has been made
by the Woman's Society of Chris
tan Service that its annual ba-
zaar will be held on this date
at the Methodist church, begin
ming at 10 a. m. A lunch will
be served at noon.
Evening star., 1948-01-08
British Coal Revives

The British governments announcement
that the coal industry virtually met the
quota assigned it for the year 1947 within
the larger program of industrial recovery,
is probably the most cheering portent for
the immediate future. The quota was
20O,0OO,00O tons. The target was missed
by only 100000 tons, deficiency of only
two-tenths of one per cent. Translated
in terms of man-hours, this is less than
days normal output. And the negligible
failure was undoubtedly due to slackened
production during the Christmas holidays,
when absenteeism is proverbially high.
It is generally agreed that coal is vital
factor in Britain's economic life, and that
its postwar economic crisis has been
greatly accentuated by failure of the coal
industry to meet minimum demands. The
tragedy of last winter, when Britain
seemed on the verge of economic collapse,
should not be repeated this winter, no
matter what the weather, since coal re-
serves have been satisfactorily accumulated
and some is now even available for export.
Furthermore, the upswing in coal produc-
ton during 1947 has been so sustained
that there is good hope that the new target
for 1948 OLA 4,OO0, 900 tons) can be attained.
The history of the British coal industry
is a long and sad one. In brief: 1t has
been sicker over longer period than any
other phase of Britain's industrial life.
This prolonged decline was due to many
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Ski Jumper

Reborn is he to ,oild and ttngling bliss
Who skins do1Dn, doton the dazzling
prectptce,
Down through a breathless ,otlderness OF
Unite
An unJessed falcon In ecstdttc flight.
He hears the mountain stlences. He sees
The tce-blue shado,Ds OF the mountain
trees,
The juttinq rocks whose battlements OF
snoD
Sternly resist the fercest 0tnds that blot.
About him, s,oirling Ureaths OF sno,odust
rise
And flash ten thousand je,0els IN his eyes.
His bright skis glean like senttent Dtngs
that spurn
The lurking danger OF each hatrbreadth
turn.
Bepare! The sheer slope ends IN
northingness! ....
Here a staunch heart might falter IN
distress,
But, e0ortless, NTH what consummats
grace
He takes the final, Joyous leap through
spdceL INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.