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Guilds Slave PLAY
Gives Broadway
A Tense Evening
by Lawrence Perry
NEW YORK.

NE" Yof6A.
"Set My People Free" the new
Theater Guild play at the Hudson
Theater. was written by Dorothy
Hayward and follows a sequence of
plays about Negroes done in col
laboration with her husband, the
late Du Bose Heyward: "Porgy,"
"Porgie and Bess" and "Mamba' S
Daughters"
Ever since 1s41, "Set Ny People
Free" has been attracting producers
but, for various reasons, was not
staged. It dramatizes an authentic
incident in Southern history, the
attempt of Denmark Vesey-a slave
who, through success in a lottery
had been able to buy his freedom
to organize an uprising of his
people against their masters and
thus gain liberty. In the very ma
ture of the work a certain element
of propaganda is automatically i'm
piled and while its presence is thus
inevitable it is a very minor note
with the plays emphasis upon dra-
matte and historic quality.
"Set My People Free" is drama
inded, in its infusion of mental
turmoil and physical abandon
which causes you to sit in sheer
nervous tension as you become init
mately acquainted with the motiva-
tions Of mass hysteria. Some
periods of drag. especially in inter-
walls of arguments and disquisition
serve occasionally to mitigate but
never to break the spell 1t Is no
pleasant evening in the theater but
it is q profoundly stirring one.
Juano Hernandez, beautiful in his
diction, plays Denmark, inciter of
the rebellion, and, so doing, con-
tributes a mastery portrait.
AS George, Canada Lee is superb
throughout. His scenes with the
slave girl Rose Mildred jeanne
Smith give us the fabric of real
drama. So do his interludes with
Denmark. Blaine Cordner as a
planter. Marion Scanlon, his wife:
Leigh Whipper, voodoo "conjur"
man, and Frank Wilson as a
preacher are all splendid.
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Names Complicate
The 'Stratton Storv'
HOLLYWOOD

HOIJIY WOOD.
Sam Wood, directing THE STRAIT
ton Story" at MGM. says If the
flm could be started all over again
ne would change a couple Of con-
f1icting names among cast members
The role of Monty Stratton's
mother is played by Agnes Moore
head. The ballplayer's dog is known
by his trainer as Aggie.
So, when Woods calls "Aggie,
Aggie,' both the Moorehead lady
and the pooch come a-running
This has been going on for some
time and will continue until Monty's
boyhood days are finished.
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Novices Also Wrong
Counting on Dewey
To Swamp Nation
Bv Harold Heffernon
BY Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD


Even the mighty wizards OF cellu-
loid make-believe were completely
crossed up by the results Of last
Tuesdays presidential election-and
to such an extent that it will cost
them q few thousand dollars to put
newly finished features back on an
even keel so far as current events
are concerned.
Just like the poll experts, Holly
wood writers and producers were SO
firmly convinced that 1t would be
Dewey all the way-and by a big
margin-that pictures dated for re-
lease during the next few weeks had
many scenes slanted with Dewey
isms, designed to draw chuckles on
the strength Of his expected land
slide victory.
Red-faced producers were calling
casts back in several instances
Wednesday to reshoot these politi-
cally pointed sequences. giving them
the Truman touch instead OF the
Dewey dip. Hardest hit IN the
wrong-guessing department were
Warner Bros. and goth Century
Fox.
At the same time q dozen ready
to-shoot scripts carrying cute
passages referring to "President"
Dewey were hurried back to the
writing departments for revisions.
In Bette Davis new comedy
drama, June Bride" slated for re-
lease this week by Warmers, is a
scene in which Betty Wicks, an in
terror decorator assigned to do over
some houses in a Midwestern town,
says: 'If you think I'm can convert
this joint from a Mckinley stinker
to a Dewey modern, you're crazy"
Early Thursday Miss Wicks repeated
the sentence. replacing Dewey
with Truman" and the prints will
be rushed on their way to the ma
tion's theaters.
In the same picture. however,
Warmers finds 1t impossible to repair
another piece of political bad-guess-
ing because of the absence from the
city of Bette Davis. the star. This is
a bit in which Miss Davis remarks to
Robert Montgomery. her co-star. a
line to the effect that her uncle is
crazy.
"In what way is he crazy?' in
quires Montgomery.
We'll. among other things" re-
plies Bette, Hes a Democrat-isn't t
that enough?"
Warmers are just keeping their
fingers crossed and hoping the fans
won't be too severe when they digest
that one.
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ADouble Dilemma
Hollywood's Old Stars Refuse Jobs
and There Are No New Jobs
By Joy Cormody


Hollywood passed through during
that he is puzzled about the movie
industrys unvngne dsount the horns its dilemma
just there talking itself into kind Of about
production down So far however the only
bringing them virtually
production altogether That effective far It
there oueo but also means there no income This patiently
Sees New Faces as Big Need.
The Hollywood vistora heeca fellow who shall not be
Eric ohnston Of new faces
s old established stars however have the studios and producers
barrel" he says
he they participate any
Their salaries rates picture based
the sharing whatever profit his
falls profit slump
the drop earnings Of pictures large that might well lead
many an actor to feel that he working for virtually nothing
$4,000 $4,000 per assignment"
The drama departments informant
realism with Justice thinks there strange psychological factor
did In his life Granting that takes all this and
prosperous simply
fact BY actors
Of course mean starsth little ones are to work
They Own the Place
fact that the movies
s does not mean that thew are living ont ~ snit.I ~ d ~
past when the practice Hoywood squander
their money rs fast as it was given them
Except for few wastrels majority
investors Dudgeonous producers will
screens bspay people virtually Hollywood apart
bowling alleys night clubs restaurants and
presumably fashionable shops beauty parors
producing for
what they shall do about the profession which
Mr. Johnstons chding ago nothing
10 modify the ndustrys smplemindd system
Fading Ar
Despite foreign pictures whose principal
players totally unknown American audiences producer
Hollywood would picture without
Indeed when its older individual begin to Slip its
practice them into the that something
good will Of it.
this thinking which explains the reunion of Fred
Ginger when Judy Garland forced drop
Barkeys Broadway number promising
them Miller available for the the big
musical them Miller talented
special glow Hollywood recognized
prepared result of her performance
Parade"
explains Warner effort something Bette
ofhce prestige working with Robert
gomery assignment years. Bride
A Pair Foreign Films.
responsible for the sudden rise OF
the onv two the Hollywood skies in the last
years.
Cliff and Deborah Kerr Both merit
the aroused but might have been
reasonably less competition in the
talent 1t took just picture THE
Search publcs acting skill and
face such down millions of dollars worth
Of Hollywood productions Hollywood nothing
o independent young man.
this country after series of brilliant and
charming English pictures occupies relatively the position
among disaf stars Of the movies.
of would be enormously helpful to studios which
stars to attract new audiences
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NEW YORK.

Minnie and Mr.. Williams" q
play which opened a few days ago
at the Morosco Theater and closed
after five performances, was dis
tinguished for little else in my mind
but the fact that one of its pro-
ducers. a drama critic in normal
moments, didn't particularly like It
either.
In fact, John Gassner, the pro-
ducer- critic in mention, said his
opinion of the play after viewing
the opening night performance,
was: ITO dull and frail for Broad
way"
The wonderful Josephine Hull was
starred, as was also the slightly less
than wonderful, at least in this in
stance, Eddie Dowling.
Conflict Complicated.
The play, by Britisher Richard
Hughes. Is about child-devil come
to earth to harass an elderly Welsh
clergyman Dowling) and his wife
Josephine HulD. The conflict is
not only on devil-versus- human
grounds, but devil-versus- angel; in
the climatic scene the brat devil
and the adult angel vie for the soul
Of the clergyman. Betimes, the plot
kicks up a doleful heel over the
fact that the little devil had given
in gratitude to Josephine Hull a
real leg to take the place of an
artificial gam she'd been wearing
since youthful accident. This
caused a few fitful moments OF fun
such as when Miss Hull took to
the parlor pump organ to play
Nearer My God to Thee" and the
hell-sent leg pumped away at
frankie and Johnnie"
Otherwise the play was pretty
much a dreadful ordeal. The writ
ing was fuzzy, motivations even fuz-
zier, the styles of playing in un-
fortunate juxtaposition, the child
who played the devil more enthusi-
astic than artistic, and the play as
whole struck me as being unduly
long -winded, overly precious and
generally, with the exception of Miss
Hull, badly acted.
Critic Gassner Explains.
Still, the very fact of its produc-
ton had its interesting aspects.
One of the producers, John Gassner
the other was David Dietz), Is also
drama critic of considerable ex-
perience. Why should Gassner,
supposedly student Of the drama.
fall for such hodgepodge. and an
old hodgepodge at that; 1t is IS
years old. When I asked, he was
eager to explain:
I'm the first place, which few Of
the critics seemed to sense, the play
contains some beautiful writing. It
is play about good and evil, which
always is pertinent. 1t contains
satire which unfortunately didn't
get over the footlights. And, then,
there is the fact that, while actors
played their roles brilliantly toward
the end of the tryout tour, and for
the several evenings of previews be-
fore the Broadway opening, they
played badly-with the exception of
Miss Hull-on opening night"
Tempo Difference Felt.
Gassner said the extreme special
ness of metaphysical comedy
needed more delicate all-around
treatment than his play received
He cited, as reasons for this, the
distance between Playwright Rich
ard Hughes, who remained in Eng
land while the play was planned
and presented here. and the diff
culties in last-minute rewriting un-
der such separated conditions.
The pace of the play, he added, is
slow, not unusual in British melo-
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Hedy's Substitute
Gets Job of Her Own
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
One way to get into the movies
When C. B. De Mile wanted to
test the Delilah wardrobe for Sam
son and Delilah." Hedy Lamar
was In Europe. so a call went out
for girl with Lamar figure.
Charmienne Harker, a cover girl,
was chosen. Result was her sign
ing by Paramount for a role in
Bitter Victory"
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HOYYXMf06

HOLLYWOOD.
I'm trying to look ahead" said
Alan Ladd. Alan had driven In
from his 25-acre ranch In Hidden
Valley to take me to lunch at Para
mount where he has just completed
"One Woman"
I'm In business now" Alan con-
tinues, 80 that when they catch on
to me In pictures, I'll still be doing
all right"
Mr.. Ladd is always In the first
10 at the box Office, so he doesn't
have to start worrying yet. But its
a sign of the times. Most intelli-
gent stars Of today line their bank
accounts of tomorrow with paying
businesses.
II own the radio rights to 15e
Runyon stories," he tells me. "And
my Mayfair Transportation Co
will put these on the air." Ladd
now Is heard on between 800 and
400 radio stations with his "Box
13" show.
HIS HOrSeS ray, TOO.
Were looking around for new
ideas all the time. And my horse
breeding ranch also is beginning to
pay" says the blond actor.
"Now about the cafe business" !
ask Alan. I had been told he took
a loss Of $4,000 in his Mayfair Res
taurant near Santa Monica.
II didn't lose a Nickel" he assures
me. But the guy who bought II
from us lost his shirt. I bought the
restaurant during the war when
everything made money. Afterward
said to my partner, Gee, have a
hunch we ought to SELL No more
restaurants for me. They are toe
tricky"
Ladd started his working life or
Valley paper, as advertising man.
ager." He was paid 50 a week
He must have been a good re.
porter" interrupts his press agent
because he was offered $14 a week
by Los Angeles paper" Neither
Of them explains why he didn't take
the job.
II had a little restaurant on the
side," says Alan. 1T kept me going
during the depression. But 1t didn't
keep him going enough; so, ''in 1896
and 81 I took job as grip at
Warmers, working high up on the
catwalk. No one ever said to me
You'd be good in pictures They
said, Get that hammer, kid" Alan
not only got the hammer but also
fell off the catwalk-and decided
that acting was less painful.
He Dug bitches.
$50 I signed with a little stock
company, at Universal Studios
without pay" In his spare time
Alan sold cash registers, adding
machines-and dug bitches. That S
how he got his muscles.
Then met a pal and asked
him casually, What do you do?' He
was doing extra work How much
do you get?' He got $50 a day, he
told me. He didn't tell me how
many days he worked In q year
That found out. I had awfully
rough shedding in my first five years
as an actor. I worked in radio
mostly-for practically nothing!"
Fortunately for Alan's movie fans,
Sue Carol-now his wife, then an
agent-heard him on the air after
friend of hers had forced her to
listen. She called him for an ap-
pointment.
What kind of an agent are your"
Alan asked her, looking at her very
curvaceaus figure. How could she
be an agent and. look like that, he
wanted to know.
Sign here" said Sue. "a
do you have a radio depart
ment?" he wanted to know.
NO" said the lady agent; II deal
only with movies
I'D given up all ideas Of working
in pictures" Alan declares, 80 ]
told her no-I'm signing Q dea
with Columbia Broadcasting."
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Coming Attractions

AMBASSADOR Bride
with Bette Davis and Robert
Montgomery, starting Thurs
day.
CAPITOL-"Roadhouse," with
Ida Lupino and Cornell Wilde,
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA - Julia Misbe-
haves," with Greer Carson.
DUPONT-"La Traviata," an
italian film.
HIPPODROME - MY Man
Godfrey" with Carole Lom-
bard, starting November Is.
KEITH'S-"Station West" with
Dick Powell, starting We'd
nesday.
METROPOLITAN - Hollow
Triumph" with Paul Hen
reid, starting Thursday.
PALACE-"When My Baby
Smiles at Me-" with Betty
Cradle.
WARNER-"June Bride" with
Bette Davis and Robert
Montgomery, starting Thurs
day.
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BY ths Associoted Press
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Having passed its fourth birthday
earlier this week, Brock Pemberton's
production Of Harvey" now is the
fifth longest running play In Ameri-
can theater history.
Only Life With Father" "Tobac-
60 Road" "Abie's Irish Rose" and
"Oklahoma!" have surpassedsit. AS
of It's fourth birthday performance,
Harvey had run 1858 performances
on Broadway. This, of course, does
Evening star., 1948-09-07
5House Seats al Stake
In Primaries Today in
Three Western States
BY the Associoted Press

Voters in three Western States
so to the polls today to pick their
candidates for five House seats and
various local Offices
Two of the congressional posts
are at stake in Arizona, where chief
interest centered, however. on a
seven-man race for Democratic
nomination for Governor. Among
the leading candidates are Repre-
sentative Richard F. Hairless and
Acting Gov. Dan E. Garvey.
The Republican gubernatorial con-
test is between William r. Bourbon
and Bruce Brockett, cattlemen and
long time friends.
Arizona voters in addition will
select party candidates for the State
Legislature and practically all State
and county Offices.
In Nevada there is two-man
race for the Democratic nomination
for the States lone seat in Congress.
The candidates are Walter Barring
of Reno and Simon w. Conwell of
Rawhide. The Republican incumb-
ent, Walter Russell, is unopposed.
Other State contests are for two
places on the university Board of
Regents and for justice of the peace
in Reno and Las Vegas.
Utah citizens will choose their
nominees for two House seats. Gov
ernor and various State offices. with
main interest directed to the guber-
material race.
Gov. Herbert B. Nav is opposed
by John S. Boyden for the Demo-
cratic nomination for another term
Gov. Maw's 1914 opponent, j.
Bracken Lee, is battling it out with
Rendell N Mabey for the Repub-
lican nomination
The two congressional contests
are for the Republican nomination
in the first district and the Demo-
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cratic choice in the second. Walter
K. Granger, the Democratic incum.
bent, is unopposed in the first US
trict and William A. Dawson, the
COP representative, likewise has no
opposition in the second district.
Georgia will vote tomorrow in
Democratic primary featured by the
bitter gubernatorial contest between
Herman Talmadge, son of the late
Eugene Talmadge, and Gov. M. E.
Thompson.
Mr.. Talmadge is running on the
white supremacy platform which
was his fathers standby, while Gov.
Thompson is seeking reelection on
his record in office.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-08
A
Woman's
World
BY Nellie c. Jones
Wo-o III Eachson
BY Nellie c. Jones
Women InI Fashion

A room full of women. No.
Here and there is a man. "Why,
this is nowise different from a
meeting of the Ladies' Aid at
home?" you are surprised into
saying. And you're right.
Dayton is a small town. 1t is
made on the same pattern as 9th
er towns, maybe a little larger or
smaller size. Like all small towns
it has it's leading women, it's eli
ques, it's gossip tests, and it, too,
harbors the cheeriest thing in
life, fond and sympathetic friend
ships of man years standing.
But there is an under current
in this chatter whose importance
you may not Immediately recog-
nize. These women may look little
different from members of the
Ladies' Aid. The point is that they
are the ones who nodded the
Ladies' Aid to this likeness.
80, there's Pat" a woman be-
hind you exclaims. Doesn't she
look terrible. My, it's good to see
you, Patty! That's such a becom-
ing hat! Where have you been?"
90, | had to go to the hospital
for a little hem stitching. / was
hoping l would see you here to-
day. I think | have something
your paper would just eat up.
Call me for lunch week, will you?"
The chatter goes on. And the
laughter. Just women, it is true.
But there's a difference. Just
wait and see.
Gradually the jam is diluted
into groups which seat themselves
at tables. A few go forward to
the long table at the end of the
room which you recognize as the
speakers table.
Walters appear, the buzz of
conversation becomes punctuated
with tinkle of glass, the click of
china.
Later there will be speeches
and perhaps a movie.
Now that you are seated you
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have an opportunity to look about
and to satisfy your curiosity as
to who this and that woman may
be. And you're terribly curious,
for you know yourself to be in
the very center of this amazing
fashion world where you hope to
succeed. All about you are the
women who people it. And the
men.
"Tell me who's who," you whis-
per, and I, trying to be a good
guide, begin. "There's Dorothy
Wood, the editor of Progress,
talking to the fashion dictator,
Tobe-the tall dark eyed woman
in the black suit. Next to her,
that little, dark girl, is the enfant
terrible of the fashion world,
Rose Smith. That pretty girl?
No, I never saw her before, don't
know who she is. The good look
ing man is Craig, who has just
come on from Harlem for his
semi-annual visit. Can you see
him there in the center of that
lady-cluster?"
And SO my introductions go.
For the membership of this group
consists of women who hold every
degree of prominence and OBJ
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-08
Traffice Accidents
On Increase

WASHINGTON, May 7. &C.,
Deaths in motor vehicle accidents
totaled 33,7OO in 1916, a 20 per
cent increase over 1915, accord
ing to figures compiled by the
National Safety council.
Injuries numbered approximately
1900, 900, of which about 1,OO0,-
900 left some permanent damage.
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50 truly representative of the
fashion world its plan and set up
presents n of the clearest and
turest pictures of it that you could
find anywhere.
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scurityp in the fashion eworade
So complete a picture, in fact,
that some of them haven't jobs
but they may be a power tomor-
row. Because this organization is
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-08
WI Holds First Race
Relation Institute
BY A. FELTON, Brimmer

~
tory wastory was made in the Pa
cific Northwest last week when
for the first time in the 60 years
of the existence of the Univer-
sity of Washington, an institute
of Race Relations was held on it's
campns and sponsored by the
university and civic groups thru
out the northwest.
The sessions were held April
% and "a at Guggenheim hall,
on the university campus, at
Eagleson hall, the university YIN
and WV, adjoining the campus.
DR.. Robert C. Weaver, consul
tant, American counsel on Race
Relation and lecturer at Univer-
sity college, Northwern university,
Chicago, was the key speaker at
the institutes seminars and on
several radio forums.
Out of the seminars and reports
came the basic theme that "educa-
ton through action" was the way
to greater racial harmony. 1t was
the purpose of the institute to
crystalize opinions and clarity
techniques of operation in race
relations in the Northwest, es-
pecially in the fields of employ
ment, housing, restrictive cove
nants and minor community prob
lens.
Other speakers on the programs
of the two-day affair were: Ed
win C. Berry, secretary of the
Portland Urban league; Frank S.
Bayley, Jr., chairman of the
Washington State FEPC; William
F. Devin, mayor Of Seattle; Hen
ry Elliot, president Of the Seattle
Civic Unity committee; Eleanor
Garst, Spokane council on Race
Relations; Francis Kern, member
of Portland Catholic Action COM
mittee; Ben Kizer, Spokane attor-
ney and past director of UNRRA
in China; S. Frank Miyamoto, as
sistant professor department of
sociology, University of Washing
ton; William H. Mccullough, as
sistant profess Washington grad
uate school of social work; Rev.
Warner Muir, president of Seat
tie Council of Social Agencies and
minister of First Christian church;
Bernard Reiter, past president of
the Seattle Urban leage, and Seat
tie attorney, Mrs. John Stoller,
Everett county welfare office and
DR.. Ralph Thayer, assistant di-
rector of labor institute and assis-
tant professor of economics and
business, University of Washing
ton.
Key figure in arranging the in
stitute was DR.. Erna Gunther, pro-
fessor of Anthropology and di-
rector of Washington State mu-
scum at the University of Wash
ington.
The institute was sponsored by
the departments of Anthropology,
Sociology, Graduate School Of So
cial work, the division Of Adult
Education Of the university, the
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Seattle and Portland Urban lea
que, the Washington State COM
mittee Against Discrimination in
employment, the Seattle Civic
Unity committee and various 9TH
err groups throughout the North
west.