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Evening star., 1948-04-11
Dane Clark
Can't Find
Solvency
~ the Assoeiofed Pfess
HOLLYWOOD.

FOL1Y WOOD.
Says Dane Clark, what price
money!
Dane makes four times as much
in Hollywood films as he earned on
the New York stage. But
In New York paid $45 a month
for brownstone apartment. I could
walk to an automat and for cents
buy good cup of coffee. In a side
walk cafeteria I could eat a big
meal for $2# Even dinner at q
night club didn't break me.
I'm Hollywood I found an apart
ment for under $100 a-month and
was lucky. But the building was
sold. I moved, several times, and
each time the rent was higher
$125, $3.50, 5000. decided to get
smart and buy q house. Nothing
under $4,000 was decent. So
bought an old house to remodel.
Bang-$5,000. More for landscaping.
even had to insure the trees. A
simple stairway to the back porch?
The contractor says $500.
I'm New York the subway or q
taxi would take me anywhere. Here
have to have car and insurance.
The house is suburban, so I bought
a car for my wife. I figure it will
be several years, if ever, before I am
as solvent as I was in New York on
one-fourth the income"
Strangely enough, Clark is still
here. And the trains are still
running.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Brightest Star of a Decade
By Jack O'Brion

Alton the inspired choreography and
staging. Between them, they came
up with the best saloon entertain
ment since Jimmy Durante first
flashed across our night club scene.
Wrote Own Ticket.
Herman Jacoby and Max Gordon,
who own another night club called
the Blue Angel, captured Kay and
her boys in the midst of strato-
spheric bidding by every other Man
haitian night club owner by simply
stating that she could write her own
ticket. They bought the defunct
Cafe Society Uptown from Barney
Josephson. They let her pick out
her own designer. who built a stage
not on the hoor-but into a wall.
1t stands up when the customers
are dancing, and when Kay and
the Williams boys are ready to go
on, slides down like a backward
bridge, massive, solid stage upon
which are presented the most mod
ern, most entertaining didoes to be
seen anywhere, including any Broad
way musical comedy stage. The
place proper is decorated in the
directoire style. that fancy Partisan
period just after the French revolu-
ton. It's smart and formal with
out being stuffy, and opening night
saw the largest collection of formal
attire since Brenda FraZiers debut.
And just try to get in: I'd say the
toughest parlay in the entertain
ment line is to get a pair of tickets
to Mister Roberts" and ringside
table at LIE Directoire. But If you
could do it, you'd have the most
delightful time of your life. In a
word, Kay is superb.
Evening star., 1948-04-11

AMBASSADOR-"To the Vic
tor: /. 1870, $40, 7:25 and
9::35 pm.
CAPITOL SO Sitting Pretty:
2, 4:45, 7:2o and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1:20, 4:o5, $40 and
9:15 pm.
COLUM UMBIA-"Gentleman's
Agreement: 12:45, 3. Sis,
7:25 and 9:40 pm.
DUPONT Panic: /, 2:40,
4:3o, $40, 8:10 and 10 pm.
HIPPODROME-"Volpone":: 2,
3:55, $40, 7:45 and 9:40 pm.
KEITH'S-"I Remember Ma
ma: l:20. 4. 6:45 and $50
pm.
LITTLE-"The Scarlet Pim-
pernel":: /, 3:55, $50 and
9:55 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"The Sign
Of the Ram: 1885, 3:55, TAO
and 9:45 pm.
PALACE-"The Naked City:
/, $40, $40. 7:30 and 9:40
pm.
PIX-"Lucrezia Borgia":: 1:20,
Ais, tbs and 1910 pm.
TRANS LUX IN ews and
shorts. Continuous from
pm.
WARNER-"To the Victor:
1:10, 3:l5, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:45
pm.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Odds Against
A Hit Play
Are High
By lawrence Perry
NEW YORK.

Joined once again in theater en-
terprise. the two Richards-Aldrich
and Myers-sat with a guest at Ia
BILE in the Harvard Club. The
cleaning carafe was their crystal
ball as, with brave eyes, they looked
into it and so into the future.
I'VE will produce any play we
like" said Aldrich.
Also" said Myers, 'invest in
plays by other producers-if we like
them"
Nc" Aldrich said, replying to a
question, ''revivals are not barred
Passing of the Third Floor Back
might be a dandy"
"Or." supplemented Myers, Arms
and the Man and The Devils Di-
sciple,' If only Shaw would let US
do them-which he says he won't
because of income tax; not this
year." --.,
Nothing yet definite. then, as to
production?
mot at the moment" Aldrich
smiled at a long line of Harvar-
dians helping themselves to food be-
cause of a walters strike. Current
conditions require caution and yet
in the very nature Of show business
it cannot verge upon sheer timid-
ity."
It's Still Wacky.
Well, before you launch a business
of any sort you investigate general
conditions. Aldrich and Myers did
this exhaustively in considering
whether or not to resume an asso-
citation disrupted in 1942 when Rich
ard Aldrich went to war.
Here is what they found as a
result of research: Cd Show bust
ness is as wacky If not more so
than it ever was: co Costs-talent
labor, material, transportation, ev-
erything have not doubled or tripled
but quintupled: 90 Elements are
entering into dramatic production
more fantastic than ever before;
"a Unanimous critical approval is
very likely to be essential to success
of a venture, while q decade and
more ago mixed reviews were likely
to insure a reasonably satisfactory
run; (5) Whereas, some years ago
an "in-between" play could thrive
on a $12,000-a-week intake, this is
now utterly impossible. In sum. as
the show business is now, chances of
producing a successful show are at
least to l against.
So, having studied, digested, all
these facts, Aldrich and Myers de-
cided-to resume.
There's Still Life.
after ALL" Aldrich said, zone
stands just as likely as years ago
to make a million out of a good
I mean a hit-play. That prospect
hasn't changed"
When" Myers interjected. "The
Respectful Prostitute can come ur
to the Cort from Greenwich Village
Evening star., 1948-04-11

and gross $4,000 during Holy Week,
you realize there's life in the old
theater yet"
In proceeding. as Aldrich put it,
with caution" in producing a play,
the new firm has some definite
ideas about forming opinion.
1--WE like very much the idea of
having group Of professionals sit
around and read prospective play"
Aldrich said. "You can get them
all Equity members-for S. reader.
But 1t Helps.
"Also." Myers said, have a COM
munity company Of amateur play
ers act it. There are some fine
companies in and about the metro
politan district. Either of these
expedients will tell you infinitely
more than you can get out of read
ing a script and trying to visualize
action. It doesn't tell all you'd like
to know; but it does, think, give
more than a hint whether or not
you have a likely property"
Richard Aldrich, as you probably
know, resigned his post as managing
director of Theater, Inc.-while still
holding on as one of its eight mem
bers-when he joined forces with his
present partner. Both are theater
wise. They have produced success
full plays such as Clare Luce's MAR
gin for Error" MY Dear Children"
with Jack Barrymore and other
successes.
so once again." Aldrich said,
while Myers nodded, I'VE are in
for it,"
OF such gallant gentlemen is the
kingdom of the theater.
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Evening star., 1948-04-11
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
How would you like to be an en-
tertainer in a position to choose
your own boss?
To make your own salary?
To insist upon having night
club built for you?
To choose your own first-night
audience?
To be the biggest cafe success
In a Broadway decade?
And all this at the end of some
IA years during which you had been
f1red-practically hurled out-by
every sort of glamorous boss in the
entertainment business, radio, stage,
night club AID screen?
This, then, is the time to take
vicarious delight in a lady who has
accomplished all this-in spades.
Her name is Kay Thompson, and
she's been around quite a while.
AS they say in show business, she
has quite a bit of mileage.
The other evening she opened at
the newest Broadway night club,
lie Directoire. 1t had been custom
tailored to her own directions.
Topic Not Important.
Kay. after years OF working
as a single. now cavorts with the
williams Brothers, four natural
brothers. They sing, dance. act and
gather laughs in alternately satirical
an low comedy vein. always with
vi, musical excellence which
makes the act one of the real riotous
delights of a nighttime. It's little
short of impossible to describe the
antics. What Kay does with Noel
Coward is sheer delight and should
make her the belle of Brooklyn.
Then she turns about and does a
caricature of Brooklyn gal
which should make her No. /
in Noel Coward's little black date
book. But the topics of her various
numbers are unimportant. What is
important is that every one is
q smartly presented, brilliantly
written and sharply staged single
item. At the end of the evening S
program the total has been approxi-
mately complete revue, especially
orchestrated and directed.
But what makes Kay tick so
explosively after all those years of
being showed about?
Blame the slump in Hollywood
flicker factories.
Kay was coaching singers and
choral groups for MGM until the
film moguls started firing right and
left. On the right, they fired Kay
Over on the left Of the lot they gave
the heave-ho to the williams Broth
ers, who'd been learning their con-
trapuntal rudiments from the tai
ented Kay. Preferring not to let
the wolf into her apartment where
he could buddy up with the mink
and silver fox in the closet, Kay and
ths Williams lads got hunk to Rober,
Alton, the Broadway and Hollywood
dance director. Kay had the ideas
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL-"The Plays the
Thing" with Louis Calhern,
starting tomorrow night.
AMBASSADOR--"To the Ends
of the Earth" with Dick
Powell. starting Thursday.
CAPITOL-"Black Bart" with
Yyonne De Carlo, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-Thr hree Daring
Daughters" with Jose Iturbi,
starting Thursday.
DUPONT Captain Boycott"
with Stewart Granger.
HIPPODRoME "The Tawny
Pipit," with Rosamund Jones.
KEITH'S-sCasbah," with Tony
Martin.
LITTLE-"To Live in Peace"
an Italian film, starting We'd
nesday.
METROPOLITAN TT You
. Knew Susie" with Eddie
Cantor, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"The Big Clock"
with Ray Milland.
PIX-"Stella Dallas" with Bar
bara Stanwyck, starting Tues
day.
WARNER ITO the Ends of
the Earth" with Dick Powell,
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
HOILYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Most memorable sequence In "A
Double Life" the picture which
landed Ronald Colman his first
Academy Oscar, was that where the
shakespearean character drifted
into = spaghetti dive and took up
with . fascinatingly dumb waitress
known Is Pat. Later, In q heady
swirl, he strangled the lady, causing
customers to lament her passing
from the action.
Shelley Winters, . 25-yera-old
blond from st. Louis, Mo-, was the
tragic victim Of Mr.. Colman's
whims In that melodrama, and while
she was snuffed out altogether too
swiftly, customers did not forget.
Neither did the producers Of Holly
wood.
Through this one brief but COM
pelling assignment, Shelley Winters
provoked more discussion and de-
mand for her services than any
newcomer the business has known
In many years.
After finishing her role. Shelley
had gone on to New York looking
for . possible Broadway vehicle.
She was altogether unaware Of the
nd-the-scenes stir created by
her strangulation part In the Col
man movie. Meanwhile, her Holly
wood agent was sorting and filing
the offers. Finally, he wired and
said it might be a smart thing If
she came right back and looked
after bigger business.
But No Contract.
From the veritable shower OF
offers to play outstanding character
roles, Shelley selected one proffered
by 10th Century-Fox, that OF the
ex-burlesque strip-teaser, opposite
Richard Conte in "The Law and
Martin Rome" Again, it was q
brittle part, Shelley winding up be-
hind the bars for q life-term sen.
tence. While this film hasn't vel
been released, or even previewed
Shelley was urgd to sign a contract
with the studio. She refused.
Once lightning begins striking fol
q lucky performer in Hollywood. /
seems to bang away relentlessly
Now Metro Goldwyn-Mayer ant
Paramount got into the winter
race.
Most enticing offer was that from
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Today's Schedules

Most enticing offer was that from
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Sensation in Hollywood
That's What Shelley Winters Created With
Her Role in "A Double Life
By Harold Heffernon

which saw In the rather
buxom, vivacious Shelley the end
of 10-year search for q Jean Har.
low counterpart.
The proposition at M-G-M was
that Shelley first should star in .
remake Of Red Dust" Harolw
sensation Is years ago. That, &C.
cording to extensive studio plan.
ming, would set the stage for gil
gantic ballyhoo campaign, quickly
followed by launching "The Life of
Jean Harlow" with, Of course, Shell
ley In the title role.
This looked like the best poten-
tial bet Of all. M-G-M couldn't get
Jeans mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, to
sign away the rights for her daugh-
teris story, however.
She Won't Reform.
These negotiations transpired only
. few weeks ago; but IL M-G-M
decides now to exploit q second
Jean Harlow the studio must look
elsewhere for . banner-bearer be.
cause Shelley is signing q long,
term contract with Universal Inter-
national. Sentiment may have
played part In this agreement. It
was at U-I that she got Der big
break via the Colman picture.
Meanwhile, she's taking another
brief but effective plunge into the
Sordid and tragic school of his.
trionics through villainess role in
The Great Gatsby." In this Para.
mount remake of the r. Scott Fitz-
gerald novel, Shelley leads Allan
Ladd -astray and as punishment gets
herself eliminated by truck. Shell
ley,s characterization has been re.
written and enlarged-in keeping
with the newcomers sparkling
stature. Death twice and life i'm.
prisonment once is her record In
| three screen starts. That's all right
with Shelley. She has no ambition
to reform.
Shelley studied drama as a child
IN st. Louis and got better chance
to strike out for herself on the
theatrical road when the family
moved to New York She played In
a high school production Of Good
News" and later, as a professional.
did obscure parts in Broadway mu-
steals. During the war she married
and caught up little on her educa-
ton by attending Wayne University
In Detroit while her husband was
stationed at nearby Selfridge Field.
In 1945 screen scout spotted one
OF her performances and a Holly
wood contract followed.
Another Rita.
Shelley's disillusioning experience
sitting out a full year at Columbia
is typical of what can, and very
often does, happen to young ac-
tress who believes her goal finally
attained. She had one role in a
cheap Western. Rest of the time
was devoted to publicity stills and
a briefly exciting little furry.
One day they dyed her hair red
and said she was to become "an-
other Rita Rayworth That was
when Rita was acting up and they
hurried Shelley out front as q
threat" But Rita became docile
and Shelley went back to being un-
noticed.
In the end she was fired-and yet
this Is the same Shelley Winters,
who, only few months later, was
destined to create the widest furor
casting directors hereabouts have
experienced In many year.
The girl now reaching the top
after being dropped with such q
dull thud offers a pointed success
recipe.
Il can tell 1t all in just three
words" said Shelley. simply and
nodestly. Get the breaks!"
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Alliancel
Evening star., 1948-04-11

PORTRAIT OF AN ACTOR-It i course Louis Calhern OF
stage Surrounding the "traight portrait
center fclock,0ise from the let's Mr. calhern
Justice Holmes "The Magnificent Yankee the colonel OF
"Jakooo0sky and the Colonel the Father OF "Le With
Father and finally the Russian doorran OF the forthcoming
motion picture Uersion OF Arc OF Triumph Cnlherns
latest stage appearance the star
Plays the Thing" starting ttooOeek engagement at the
National Thenter tomorrow niUht.
Evening star., 1948-03-11
LOCATING BOOKCASE.

Washington, we were able to get
our champagne-f1nish Haywood
Wakefield bookcase from the j. B.
Van Solver Co. of Camden, N. ].
If she will write to Mr.. Wilson
Rickenback, In care OF j. B. Van
Solver Co., Market Street Ferry.
Camden, N. j., I am sure he will
be able to supply her with whatever
she needs, as they seem to have
great deal of Haywood Wakefield
furniture. Mrs. j. A. OF Arlington
passed this information on to me
through the RICH last month and
our bookcase was delivered direct
from Camden by the Van Solver
Co. truck.
II X X
REMOVING STARCH.
from C. w., Alexandria,
Recently some one stated in RICH
that she had difficulty removing
starch from linen cloth of the type
used by craftsmen. A friend tells
me that he successfully removed
starch by soaking the piece in hot
water for about 20 minutes. FIRE.
quently work the cloth by hand.
Next wash the linen as you would
other laundry. I hope my friends
method works satisfactory for some
one.
CHINESE FRIED RICE?
COCOA FUDGE.
(Fron, Miss E. G., Gdithersburg.)
Does any one know how to cook
Chinese fried rice? I've eaten 1t in
several Chinese restaurants here. I
think it's made with pork.
Here is a recipe for fudge some
one may like.
Cocoa Fudge: Four tablespoons
cocoa, 2 cups sugar. cup milk, 2
tablespoons butter, y teaspoon salt,
teaspoon vanilla.
Place cocoa in saucepan. Rub into
a smooth paste by adding part OF
the milk Add sugar, butter and all
of milk except Il cup. Place on fire
and boil. Then add u cup Of milk.
Cook until it forms a soft ball when
dropped in water. Take from fire,
add vanilla and beat until it is just
thick enough to pour into buttered
pan. BY adding Y cup of milk last,
you will find the fudge to be free
from grain and nice and smooth.
When cool, cut into 1-inch squares.
I usually add about two heaping
tablespoons of peanut butter when
the fudge is about half done. It
gives it grand taste.
u \ X X
AFGHAN OR ROBE.
(Fron Mrs. I. M. w., HyattsUiHe.)
Mrs. F. H., Washington, might be
interested in the way our neighbor
women use wool pieces for afghans
or lap robes. Cut 6-inch squares,
single crochet around raw edges
about Y inch deep in bright wool
yarns of all colors. When blocks
are done arrange on q table top to
harmonic blocks, seven blocks by
nine blocks in size. Join on back
with slip stitch, using black, blue or
gray, the same to be used for cro-
cheted edge around whole afghan.
Finish the last row with shell or
picot at regular intervals. It Is sur
prising how attractive these afghans
are when finished and well pressed.
We have made two recently, each
making six or more blocks, meeting
to join blocks, then another neigh
Dor crocheted the edge. Two shut
ins have been delighted with their
gifts from their friends.
Evening star., 1948-03-11
STENCILS?

from Mrs. r. L. ", Glenn Dale.)
I am trying to do textile paint
ing, but have no success with cut
ting stencils. Can purchase the
ready-cut stencils anywhere? None
Of the paint stores keep them.
Evening star., 1948-03-11
The Chef Says

grains, though whole were quite
soft. Usually the hominy was eaten
with sugar and cream, but many
gourmets now prefer it served in
place of wild rice with duck or quail
and very often made into crisp
fried cakes.
Lye hominy or "samp" is the old
fashioned method used by the Gre
oles In preparing hulled corn. Corn
is allowed to ripen thoroughly and
then put to dry. Then it is hulled.
It lies, spread out on a cloth, for
many days until it is very dry in
deed A huge pot then is filled with
water and a quart or so Of hard
wood ashes, tied in bag, is put in
and allowed to soak for more than
"a hours.
The corn then is boiled in the
solution for several hours, until
the outer husks loosen easily. Then
the grains are thrown into cold
water and the last vestige Of hull
rubbed from them. Four or five
rinsings follow, until all trace Of the
potash taste is gone.
Some of this type of hominy is
ground and the flour used to make
the famous "lye hominy bread" so
liked by the Creoles. If you would
like to try your hand at the bread
providing you can find the lye
hominy-drop me line in care of
The Evening Star, and I'll be glad
to send the recipe to you. Self-ad-
dressed envelope, pleased
Evening star., 1948-03-11
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In the South, particularly in and
around New Orleans, corn finds Its
way to the table in such forms as
"grits," big and little "hominy" and
"samp" (also known as lye hominy)
1t is a rare New Orleans breakfast
that does not include a dish of grits
or hominy.
Grits is the dried, finely ground
corn. It is boiled-2 cups of grits
to quarts Of water, well seasoned
with salt and cooked for an hour
over a slow fire until it is very
thick and rather dry. 1t can be
eaten with sugar and cream, but
usually is preferred served with
butter, with salt herring roe, chop
ped bacon, kidney stew or some
such spicy fare mixed with it.
The Creoles call hominy the "bie
sister of grits." The Indians in
Louisiana first taught the white
settlers the use of hominy. They
took the dried Indian corn and
threshed it until the yellow husk
fell off, leaving only the white ker-
mel. Then they would bring the
grain into the city and sell it.
As time went by, the making o1
hominy became a tremendous in
dustry and it was made and sold al
over the South, being a staple fooc
Of the Negroes. But it was also q
standing dish on the finest tables
and rich little Creole children were
raised on ia Saccamite." The
hominy was boiled like grits, but
cooked much longer until the white