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TACOMA VISITOR

Ethel s. Jessup and Thelma
Bruning, both registered from Ia
coma, are at the Baranof Hotel.
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KETCHIKAN VISITOR

A. w. Olmquist from Ketchikan
is visiting in Juneau and guest
at the Baranof Hotel.
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RED CROSS VISITOR

Helen Cass of the American
Red Cross in Anchorage is in Ju-
neau and staying at the Baranof
Hotel
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Continued on Page Four
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Two new opera
PLAYS stinko
BY MIKE HEIGHT

ssThe Medium" and "The Tele-
phone" two opera plays by Clan
Carlo Menotti opened at the
Studebaker Theatre last week with
but one flaw in both productions:
the curtain went up.
We urge Chicagoans to save
their money by avoiding these
two stupidities, upon which some
good talent has been wasted, and
spend it instead on the Hull House
Theatre Workshop presentation of
Eugene O'Neill's "Ah Wilderness"
January 21-25 at Hull House
Theater, 300 S. Halsted st.
Director Irene King has welded
together the finest amateur theater
group We have seen in the city,
with seasons wen-rounded pro-
gram providing intelligent, adult,
entertainment with freshness
and spontaneity not generally
found in the commercial theater.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

"The Senator Was Indiscreet," it
would really be something to
write home about. Well, it isn't.
It's funny, yes; and diverting, but
1t isn't in the same league with,
say, "Of Thee 1 Sing"
The reasons why it isn't what
it could be, I'll go into later. A
brief rundown of the plot might
make it clearer.
It seems that once upon a time
there was this senator 35
years on the public payroll, man
and boy, and never did a lick OF
work in his life. Anyway Senator
Ashton, played by William Powell,
is goaded by his wife into run
ming for the presidency.
He promptly begins denying
with vehemence-that he is can
didate, and gets himself high
pressure publicity man-our hero,
Peter Lind Hayes. -
Inc Senator, sort of Happy
Chandler-Huey Long character, is
of course, all things to all men.
He offers everyone everything.
He kisses babies, poses with In
dams, speaks from the back end
of trains.
In no time at all, The Senator
is way up near the head of all
the polls and going strong.
But there's one little problem.
The Senator has been keeping
a diarY-for IS years and he
has put everything. but every
thing. into il. Just when the
campaign is hitting on all cYlin-
ders. the diary is stolen. There's
a whole cops and robbers bust
ness about recovering it and
then just when they are sitting
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

pretty. our hero swipes the
diarY-stricken by guilty con-
science-and hands il over to a
newspaper gal. That finishes
the Senator and the film.
There are some really funny
scenes in the movie, but they are
pretty well scattered. AS satire,
the Senator" never really gets
going because, unlike ''Of Thee I
Sing" it has no base in reality.
It's just pleasant and diverting
fantasy-with no teeth in it.
/ don't know whether the teeth
were pulled because of the in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Movie beat
The Senator IS
funny that's all

tellectual climate just now - OF
whether the author and director
Macarthur and Kaufman, re
spectively-just didn't put them
in. The end result is the same
Instead of something really spe-
cial, we've got just another movie.
GUESS the best word for s'The
Foxes of Harrow" is narrowing.
It's long, dull, monotonous and
full of magnolia. It's "Gone with
the Wind" with more wind.
In the cast of characters, / rec
ognized Rex Harrison and Maui
reen O'Hara. It's all right for
them-theyIget paid for doing this.
But what about the audience?
The plot is strictly one of those
"Suh, you cuh!" deals. Harrison
is an Irish nobleman, born out Of
wedlock and turned loose on the
world. He becomes a river boat
gambler and eventually wins him
self a great big plantation and a
wife-a proud, fiery gal-and who
else but Maureen O'Hara.
There were a lot of complica-
tons about their love life which
/ seem to have missed. Probably
fell asleep. ! don't know how the
film ended, but I can guess.
Fortunately. now that the
Hollywood market is so circum-
scribed. this thing will be shown
only TO the poor suckers in the
United States. This is probably
the greatest gesture we have
made toward world peace.
MILES Daughter" proves
that no matter how bad a Holly
wood movie gets, it can always
get worse. Whether the boys can
ever turn out worse turkey than
this 1 don't know, but they keep
trying. You've got to give them
that.
Avoid it like the plague.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

After year of action around a
program to advance the cause of
peace, to promote child care and
education and to forward the poll
teal, economic and legal status of
women, the Congress returns to
Hull House, the scene of its forma-
ton.
Following an afternoon bust
ness session the public is invited
to an evening meeting to hear DR..
Weltfish, famed anthropologist of
Columbia University and CO.
author of the Races of Mankind.
AS vice-president of the Women
International Democratic Fedora
ton and as head of the Congress
of American Women nationally,
DR.. Weltfish was instrumental in
obtaining consultative status for
the organization with the United
Nations Economic and Social
Council.
Also appearing on the program
will be Or. Maud Slye renown
for her cancer experimentation at
the University of Chicago and
Pearl Hart widely known attorney
and socialogist. Rheua Pearce,
Chicago president will preside.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Holly WOO:
Potpourri: French films,
the future Of Orson WeIIes
By HAROLD J. SALEMSON

IN DEMONSTRATIONS reported from Paris against American
- films alegedly
Committee the Defense Films
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Action Council
to hear Walsh

DR.. j. Raymond Walsh, New
York radio commentator and for
mer professor of economics at
Harvard University, will speak
at the fourth annual dinner of
the Chicago Action Council in the
Red Lacquer room of the Palmer
House Wednesday, Jan. 81, at
$50 pm.
A report will be made on the
liberal business mems activities
during the past year.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

ne past and in
different w a y S
exhibited a sharp
and biting sense
Of S a tire and
comedy.
l would ex-
p C t, therefore,
when all three of
hem pooled their
talents to pro-
duce one film,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

s**.Excellent; ***Good; **Fair;
Indifferent; None, stinker
Anthony Adverse
**** Best Years of Our Lives
~ Black Narcissus
1t Had To Be You
$50 Body and Soul
**** CroSSfire
= Daisy Kenyon
- Deep Valley
Forever Amber
**** Gentleman's Agreement
*** Great Expectations
= Love Trouble
Black Gold
SIS Kiss of Death
- Life With Father
*** Long Night -
Lost Moment
*f** Monsieur Verdoux
- Ride the Pink Horse
$40 Romance of Rosy Ridge
$40 Secret Life of Walter
NIFTY
- The Senator Was Indiscreet
Foxes of Harrow
Miles Daughter
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
scoREcARD

.**.Excellent; ***Good; **Fair;
Indifferent; None, stinker
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

group representing the French industry's workers
and organized couple of months ago. Their reac-
rion inevitable in view of the sitting of French
production result of the Blum-Byrnes agree
ments result predicted long since in this column.
The committee points out that in 1888
France produced 140 films, in 1916 only 80 and at
the end of 1947 only II were in production dor an
estimated annual total of only 35 to 400; over so
percent of French film workers unemployed
most of them permanently; far from reducing the
number of American pix in France, under the BIB
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

eY's n ew film.
Summer Holiday. undergoing some
censorship deletions in Detroit.
Police censor Charles w. Snyder
criticized "portraYing Mickey
Rooney as l7-Year-old boy in
toxicated in association with a
woman indicated as OF easy viz
rue.
British film producer Zoltan
Korda to the Coast to talk over
a partnership deal with writer
Aldous Huxley. Also wants to do
a movie version of Huxley's novel,
Point Counterpart.
The Superman radio program
was credited with the highest
Hooper rating of all children radio
programs-the same day the spon-
sor dropped the option.
The Schenley liquor outfit,
which was all set to sponsor an
al-Negro radio show, backed out
of the deal at the last moment. /.
Reuben Mamoulian will do a
movie version of Lysistrata.
A new song, Anna Lucasta, is
a hit. in England and will soon
be introduced here. Seems that
producer John Wildberg heard
nothing but plugs for the Okla
homa and Annie Get Your Gun
scores while supervising Lucasta
in London. Aware that his play
was being ignored, he tried to buy
radio time, but discovered that
the BIC did not permit CONNER
Gals. So he contacted Hugh
Charles and Ross Parkers, COM
posers of There'll Always Be An
England, and had them write
tune called Anna Lucasta, which
is now getting the much-needed
publicity-and for free.
George Burns and Oracle AL
lens kid. Ronnie. movie acting. 4.
Stromberg Carlson will devote.
a third of its capacity to making
television receivers this year.
Peoples Songs will send out a
travelling HootenanY for the Wal
lace campaign.
Fredric March has bought an OPP
ton on play about Eugene Debs.
Script is by Abby Mann, a young
Pittsburgh playwright.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

musical, S m a IL
w o n d er. Irma
Jurist and Mil
lard L.ampell COL
Elaborated on an
o t h e r, Y un 6
M a ms lu e S /.
Show goes into
p r o d u C tion
around March.
Mickey Room
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
WHAT'S DOING
Rates: 7c per word, 3 lines mini
mum. Deadline Monday afternoon.

SATURDAY. JAN. 18th
Meet your friends at Violet's, Satur-
day. Jan. 18th. pm. 2028 N. Halsted.
Entertainment & Food. Donation soc.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
;52:S;y;E'7;k
Josephine to
return; >Hoot'
for Wallace
BY BARNARD RUBIN

OSEPHINE BAKER will dou-
i Bile in an East Side night club
in town when she hits here with
her review, Paris Sings Again.
Langston Hughes has written
the lyrics for a song titled Young
Woman'S Blues in the coming
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
By BOB BENNETT
COMBINATION like Nun

N nally johnson, Charlie S
Macarthur and George S. Kauf-
man is all money in the bank.
All three of these boys know
how to administer the ironic hot
foot: all three of them have in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17

agreement, 1886 U. S. features were
imported during the first half OF
1947, against 38 for the first half
of 1916; and no French govern
ment action has been taken to
defend its film workers against
the threat to their jobs from for
eign invasion. :
These are the reasons for the
demonstrations, rather than any
"CommuniSt-inspired" agitation.
With conditions like that, no Sin
spiration" is needed. The unpopu-
larity of the u. S. and the demon
STATIONS against our films and our
policies are the harvest being
reaped for the Ubiquitous con-
tracts showed down foreign threats
by our State Dept, fronting for
the Johnston Office.
WITH the foreign situation still
growing worse and the prestige
of European films rising daily on
the American market, Hollywood,
harried with these problems and
cravenly covering before the
threats of the Un-American COM
mittee, is reaching further new
lows in production activity.
News from the production front
is scarce indeed. Here is some
of it:
Frederic March and Florence
Eldridge will make 1.-THE Judges
Wife" at vi, following Another
Part of the Forest"
John Huston and Sam Spiegel
have organized Horizon Pictures,
planning as their first indepedent
production Dostoevsky's eth
Idiot" Huston, brilliant son of
actor Walter, has just scored
heavily with his direction of B.
Traven's famous proletarian novel,
1.-THE Treasure of the Sierra
Madre."
DAVID SELZNIcK and Hum
phrey Bogart have announced they
will carry on with their commit
ments to the late Mark Hellinger.
One of their first projects will
be Willard Motley's KNOCK On
Any Door," to star Gar Wood, the
American boy who made hit
in the Italian picture, ''To Live
in Peace"
William Wyler has announced
poStponement of Theodore Drei-
ser's Sister Carrie" which he was
to have produced as his first at
Paramount. More Un-American
intimidation?
Orson Welles, who is just COM
pleting "Cagliostro" in Rome, had
clause in his contract, it turns
out, whereby he directed all scenes
in which he appeared, while
Gregory Ratoff directed the rest
of the film.
Welles' next: 'fCyrano de Ber-
gerac," for Korda in London.
Meanwhile Hollywood impa-
tiently awaits his two completed
works, "The Girl from Shanghai
and Macbeth"
There is much speculation over
Orson's future. Scuttlebutt claims
he is washed up in Hollywood.
However, it's our guess that
when the last two of his films are
released, the boy-wonder, who is
the greatest thing that hit pictures
since Charlie Chaplin was a lad,
yxyiI1 81
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-17
Dr.. WeItfish here for
salute to citys women

Women cizenry of Chicago will be saluted Hull House
January Is when such notabs Dr. Weish
Pearl will address
chapter of the of American
, 1948-11-15
ADDRESS
delivered by

DR.. D. c. cANEGATA
at dinner Of the Bar of the Virgin
Islands Association, Friday even
ing 9Th November, 1913.
Blackboard Castle Hotel
Mr.. President, Your Excellency.
Mr.. Justice Moore and Gentlemen
of the Bar:
Undertaking so formidable an
ordeal as addressing the mem
bers of the Bar of the Virgin Is
lands, l ask in all sincerity for
your sympathy and your under
standing, for while / deeply ap-
p%reciate the honor you do me by
asking me to speak to you this
evening, I must crave your indul-
gence and your consideration, for
the inadequacy of the perform
ance of the one whom you have
chosen as your guest.
am fortunate however, and I
am thankful, that standing here
before the Bar of the Virgin Is
lands, lonely, unprotected and
without even the benefit of coun-
sci, this is not an occasion for con-
troversy, but instead one, when
we celebrate the addition of two
more to your number, who have
so generously consented to be u
hosts this evening, and therefore
an occasion when we put on e
cord our feelings of mutual friend
ship and goodwill.
! may as well begin by stating
that whatever be the explanation
there is in some quarters a pain
full prejudice against lawyers.
Whether in their strictly profess
sional sphere, or in the public
work which they undertake in
time Of crisis they are a misun-
derstood class.
You are denounced for vices
which you never practice, and
what is even more surprising you
are acclaimed for virtues which
you seldom attain. To a large
part of the general public, a law
yer at his worst is an, unprinci-
paled creature who is constantly
and deliberately engaged in the
distortion of truth; by methods en-
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264

tirely diScreditable and for e
wards grotesquely unwarranted.
Even at his best, a lawyer in the
minds of many people is marked
only by a supernatural GOODNESS,
and almost incredible cunning, by
means of which he discovers at
the last moment an argument
which nobody has thought of, or
produces a witness from some
forgotten corner, as a conjurer
produces a rabbit from under his
coat, and thereby when all seems
lost overthrows the obstinate and
rescues the innocent.
Speaking here before the men,
bers of the Bar of the Virgin Is
lands don't you agree with me
gentlemen that both these pic
lures are exaggerations? It is not
true that a lawyer spends his life
in the dishonest and unprincipled
pursuit of distorting fact and CO.
loring truth, and it is not true
either that by waving some rhe-
tor1cal wand in court, he performs
miracles and secures agreement
It is nearer the truth I think that
a lawyer is a very plain matter
OF fact hard working person who
devotes long hours in private to
preparing what may not show for
very much in public. In this as in
any other profession there is no
royal road to success or fame with
out unremitting labor, and it is a
profession which calls for and
does not call in vain for the incest
sense of honor and the s~trictest
devotion to Justice.
It is astonishing too that a num-
Der of people believe that lawyers
succeed without work. But / am
inclined to think that the one who
said that Bar is not a bed of roses,
for either it is all bed and no
roses, or all roses and no bed may
be somewhat nearer the
truth. On the other hand I find
It difficult to believe however
that the many stories about the
long and continued hours of la
Dor spent by some of your dis
tinguished members in the pur-
suit of your profession are at all
true. In this connection / recall an
incident in the local Bar in st.
Croix. One of your members was
, 1948-11-15

But the real question that I
think is important and interest
ing both to professional lawyers
and those of the public who take
an interest in law, and to which /
hope to draw your attention this
Continued on page a
, 1948-11-15
BeuYside Discussion
by Massa Joe

Die CARTE: Sob, ah andastan dat
de peepul dem pan de ile-lan had
a big meetin lass mite in de markit
place. BY chance yu amt bin dey,
ey?
Tantu Bee: No sab, al doan goe
out in de mite time. Mic husban
Trade tn ley ME goh out. VIVA
wuz de nature ah da meetin?
Sic Carrie: Oh, de peepul dem
bin deciding dat dey amt gwine
bic noh moar Mudder anti de hoal
gobbament, inkludin de hadminis-
trata and de kounsle, du sumting
bout dem dakta bill wey gwine
round de place lex lightin.
Tantu Bee: Dakta bill?
Sic Carte: Yes, dakta bill. All
onlie wish it had ali O.P.A. yah in
Sannie Cruise. Lii chirran wey
Darnin nowwadiase gettin tn bic
expensive lex dem supa-delux OF
tommobile. Yu amt heer bout de
chile wey barn in de haspittle de
AIDA day? Jis tn barn aloan it cass
de parants dem $140. If al dint
barn arreddy, al sure wuntta
Warntta barn in dees days. / gat
a lat a feelings flu ME parents, an
ah wud nebber warnt dem tn paw
dem de-lux price flu mie. Immagin
dat, $140 tn cum in dis worl an
get sum frech aire in yu langs. Tis
an ration shame. Dey gwine xii
out we pore people. Bulleeve ME.
II de hadministrata wuzn't six, ah
Wud expoze de whoal ting tn ee.
Tantu Bee: Whu bring de mud
da tn bed?
Sic Garlic: Das ah militerry
seekrit, Blu tick tbs yu, oil gle yu
de low dung. Yu sic, de dakta was
tn ten tn de ciase, but ee wuz doin
sumtin else wen de mudda was
reddy. Wan ah de middle wife
gem Wey bin in de haspittle start
tn ten tn de mudda. Wen de dakta
reech ebbry ting had dun, but ee
amt as much sey tanks. Diase pass
an de dakta sen de mudda an far
da ah infurnal bill.
Wen de man reed de bill tn ee
wife, she tex it til hart an fiant
away. Pooar ting, al wunt ali fiant
aloan but ah wudda ded.
Tantu Bee: Al gat a hed-ake
rite now. All wudda goe tn de
dakta wild it, but ME amt abul flu
ee goa charge mie dem riddicallas
figgah. Yu amt heer wey ee charg
de man wey gah dem heep a no
harm maroon-colar bull.
Sic Carrie: AS lang as mic libe
al gwine drink mie bush, biccarse
ME kin pick dem amy wey bout
de cuntry, an nobbady amt gwine
ak mic muffin.
, 1948-11-15

Judge Levitt, and the Judge be-
ing anxious I suppose to conclude
the case (and Mr.Justice Moore
] hope you will not take me amiss,
or cite me for contempt if / say
the Courts as usual running true
to form and anxious to get out of
st Croix, which appears to be a
discreditable bailiwick, judging
from the time the Court is willing
to spend there) asked the lawyer
if he could not have his brief
ready for the afternoon session,
the lawyer replied he had to
have time at least to eat" where
upon the Judge remarked when
you are practicing law, you should
not eat" Well, gentlemen, that is
hearsay evidence. But / can tes-
tify after this evening that at
least the present members of the
Virgin Islands Bar do not SUBJ
scribe to Judge Levitt's dictum.
But I do not believe that there
is any great profession in which
honorable success is attained
without unremitting labor. The
old definition that genius is an
infinite capacity for taking pains
is open perhaps to the objection
that genius is SO rare a quality
that no analysis will discover how,
to attain it. And then there
is what / may term the real ira
Igedy of a lawyers life. He is con-
stantly under the duty of learn
ing the detail about his clients
business with a precision and a
minuteness which passes far be-
yond the bounds of what is in
teresting or permanent, and when
he has done it, this vast and de-
tailed study may to a large ex-
tent be wasted labor leaving moth
ing of enduring value behind.
And then he must have suf-
ficient courage and judgement to
leave out what he considers nom
essential, and when he has done
that his lay clients finds it diff
ficult to believe that he has not
done so from Ignorance, Incidence
or Indifference.
Accumulation, selection, or e
jection;--these seem to be the
reading, writing and arithmetic Of
the lawyers craft.
But since a large part of a law
yer's business is the art of per-
suaSion, many people believe that
the most important thing for a
lawyer must be the ability to
make a fluent speech. Many of us
lay people might have imbibed
that impression from our school
days when we had to wade
through and paraphrase such ia
nous passages as Portals famous
speech, ''the quality Of mercy is
, 1948-11-15

s4RENoTH
IN
UNITY
Evening star., 1948-10-27
2Die, II Hurt in Crash
OF Train and Truck
BY the Assoeioted Press

UHRICHSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 27.-
The engineer and fireman were
killed and II persons injured early
today when a Pennsylvania train
crashed into a truckload of steel
during a heavy fog.
The dead were identified as
Gordon c. Alley, ga, of Pittsburgh,
the engineer, and Charles A. Darr
46. Ingram. Pa, the fireman.
A. The truck driver, Gregory Kara
rsefaic, Glenshaw, Pa, received seri-
GUS bukns and was reported in
critical condition at Twin Cities
Hospital at nearby Dennison.
Ten other persons, two of them
passengers, were treated at the
scene by doctors summoned from
surrounding towns. None was re-
ported badly injured.
Arlow Lewis, 20, of Pittsburgh. q
Greyhound bus driver, said he was
following the tractor-trailer ano
that it stopped at the crossing ano
then proceeded across the tracks
He said warning lights at the cross
ing were working.
The wreck occurred at Wolfs
Crossing on U. S. Route SO, about {
miles west of here. The State high
way patrol reported 8 cars of the
13-car train were derailed and that
the locomotive was demolished.
The train was eastbound from
Cincinnati to Pittsburgh. Time oi
the collision was reported as 4:4s
am.
Bertha Dunn Of Baltimore wa.
listed among the injured passengers
She suffered O bruised shoulder.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Have Truman Stop the Shooting
OfFrench Miners, Lewis Urges

requiring the French government to
abandon its police state methods
and cease making war on its own
citizens who are coal miners, at the
expense of the American taxpayers.
Truman controls the money bags
Of the Marshall Plan," Mr.. Lewis
stated at another point, upon which
the tottering French Government
subsists. You and I are anti-com-
munistic. AS Americans, we each
abhor the cast iron and Oriental
philosophy of communism. Each of
us knows that oppression and hun
ger beget communism. Each of us
knows that freedom and fair treat
ment are the only antidote to COM
munism.
What the French miners need
is more pay wherewith to buy more
food. accompanied by decent rec
ognition and fair treatment. They
could then be relied upon to over
throw any present Communist lead
ership and infiltration."