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Evening star., 1949-10-25
After Dark
:.
They Won't Get George Kaufman
Into Any of Those Cabarets
By Harry Macarthur

tainment than night clubs" he
said firmly. Abe Burrows, an
other member of the panel. chose
that moment to emerge from deer
contemplation Of Mr.. Ellington's s
problem. He arrayed himself right
alongside Mr.. Kaufman as Public
Night Club Enemy No. 2. He
hadn't known about this problem
Of night club operators before
but it's good thing, he decided
If people aren't flocking to night
clubs, it means the populace is
generally happy.
You gotta be feeling mighty
low to want to go sit down in q
lotta smoke" said Mr.. Borrows
Operators of cheerful, we'll
ventilated cabarets who resent
this attitude will please direct
their resentment at Mr.. Burrows
not at us. He said it.
II \ 4 4
Bob Simpson and his orchestra
who make more music than most
bands twice that size, keep win.
ming new admirers. Among them
must be anyone hearing them fol
the first time at last Sunday
nights celebrity night at the Saz.
erac Room Of the Old New Or.
leans. Among the guest enter.
tainers was Virginia Bradley. the
talented young lass from the
Evening star., 1949-10-25

George S. Kaufman, the play
wright, is a mortal foe of night
club life. His name. in fact,
heads the list. A night club Is
what Mr.. Kaufman would not be
caught, dead in one Of. If every
one else in the world decided one
night to go to night clubs, they
all could 60 with Mr.. Kaufman's
blessing but without his company.
One of Mr.. Kaufman's present
projects finds him acting as a
member of the panel of tele-
vision show called This Is
Broadway" Sometimes it seems
to be called This Is Show Busi-
ness" Whatever it is called, 1t
is a sort of clinic, conducted by
Clifton Fadiman, to which people
in show business bring their prob
lens. Should I hire a writer
or keep on using these tired old
jokes?" and problems like that.
AS a framework for a video
variety show this gag probably is
as good as any and may even
be better than Ed Sullivan. But
it has it's shortcomings. These
were hinted at on the very first
show, when Bandleader Artie
Shaw looked blandly at Mr.. Fadi-
man and said Really, don't
have a problem in the world"
Duke Ellington turned up on a
recent show. His problem was
not the defunct local night club
named Duke Ellington's. which
he backed here awhile back,
though that venture certainly
could have been classified as a
problem. Mr.. Ellington was con-
cerned with larger things. How
could night club business be in
creased. he wanted to know. 80
that cabaret owners could afford
to pay name orchestras instead
of allowing them to disband?
# Mr.. Ellington thought he
was going to get any sympathy
for night club owners he soon
found out that he was In the
wrong place. Mr.. Kaufman lis
tened to Mr.. Ellington, thought
for a moment and then delivered
his first and final opinion.
There's q lot of better enter
Evening star., 1949-10-25

he is vacating on WNBW's "Tele-
vision Journal"
Mr. Bradford things so highly
of this idea that he sounds like
Mr.. Simpsons agent when he talks
of the bandleader' musical talent
and possibilities as a video per-
former. Come to think of it, Mr..
Simpson would be a good man for
WNBW to try in that spot.
X X X X
1t was Florian ZaBach and
violin who stole the show at last
Friday nights champagne and
Orchids" opening at the May
flower Lounge, an event which
has come to be a sort of an
nual Homecoming Game for the
orchestra leader. Herb Shriner
and the DiGatanos were ap-
plauded, all right, but Mr.. ZaBacf
was warmly welcomed back.
Incidentally. a spy Of ours re-
ports that a large group of ardent
non-admirers of Mr.. Shriner met
in the ladies lounge off the May
flower Lounge during and after
his performance.
We told her that didn't mean
Evening star., 1949-10-25

he wasn't funny and that, in
truth, he was very funny, indeed.
It's just that women, as rule,
are literal-minded and see moth
ing funny in hyperbole or the
ridiculous, we said, but this
learned argument got us nowhere.
Indiana come edian," she
groWled acidly and with what
seemed to be deep significance.
There didn't seem to be any an
SWer.
Evening star., 1949-10-25

c : h Capitalize os
Go Gu Co.
. Co. Co
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Yes, Halos!
and they deserve ie,n, too!

WISH we DID have realhalos to pass out
w this week!
We'd place them on the heads of the big
hearted men and women who are calling
on their neighbors, soliciting for our Com
munity Chest.
They're giving double. First, they've
given their own money; now they're giving
themselves.
When your worker calls on you, give
him-o her-a good break. He's taking
time and energy from his own job. She's
giving up precious time with her family to
do this much-needed' Community service.
Remember what they're doing benefits
us all. Yes, you too For your Red Feather
Evening star., 1949-10-25

services protect health, help families in
trouble, offer kids wholesome sports, play
and fair start in life.
You've got selfish interest in keeping
the quality Of your Red Feather services
at high level. -
So have your check-and smile-ready
when your worker calls on you. Send him
more light-heartedly on to his next stop.
That's all the halo he wants!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Ambassador" 1.-THE Lady Takes
a Sailor; !, sos, Sis, 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
Capitol - Ambush: II am,
LAS, 1880, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45. $3.50, Sis and 8
pm. $751;.
Columbia-"Oh You Beautiful
Doll";; 11:40 am. 1:40, $40. $40.
TAO and $40 pm.
Dupont-"Germany Year Zero:
ITO, 2:55. 4:45. $3.50, $40 and
1910 pm.
Keith's-"Holiday Affair.": 1880
am, 1888. $3.50. $40. TAO and
9:40 pm.
Metropolitan - east Side Of
Heaven; II am, 2:35, $40 and
10 pm.
LittIe-"Never Give A Sucker An
Even Break: II am. 1880. 4:05,
6:35 and 9:10 pm.
National - Tell 1t to the
Judge: 1890 am. los. 1850.
4:30. 6:15. 8 and 9:45 pm.
Palace-''Dancing in the Dark;
1880 am, 1885, $40, $40, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Pix-"The Country Girls; 2:35,
6:45 and 1915 pm.
Playhouse - "All the Kings
Men,; 1925 am, 1880, $3.50. $40,
1850 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Pirates Of Capri;
1900 am, 1910, $3.50, 4:25. sos.
800 and 9:55 pm.
Warner-"The Lady Takes a
Sailor; 11:15 am, 1920, $3.50,
5:35, 7::35 and 9:45 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Hollywood Diary
John Woyne Is Next TV Cowboy
BY SheiIoh Graham

mad alteration for their baby. It's
reached the stage where Livvy
will allow only one peek a day
at the baby, by only one Of her
employees. Afraid too much look
ing will upset the baby.
Edmund Gwen had no sooner
recovered from his overwhelmingly
painful sciatica than he came
down with a very bad cold. He's
a wonderful man. Past 10, still
working, he is still stealing all
his pictures.
Be fascinating to see how Clark
Gable reacts to life with Sylvia,
who Is the dollhouse type of Or
child. One of them will have to
convert the other.
Babies are en- route to Mrs.
Jimmy Stewart, Diana Lynn,
Lauren Bacall and Jeanne Grain,
during the year 1950-according
to Astrologer Carroll RICHTER, in a
current magazine.
Hottest romance In town fea-
lures Dorothy Lamour's small son
Ridgely and Edgar Bergen S
daughter, Candy. At the big kids
party for the opening of Blum S
Beverly Hills Shop. Ridgely, who
refused to enter the store for one
whole hour by his mothers watch,
dashed in when he saw Candy and
shouted. Where have you been?
I've been waiting hours and hours
for you" Love starts early in
Hollywood.
. Rosalind Russell writes from
Paris that all the dresses are short
now in Paris and London. THE
smart girls are the ones who didn't
discard their wardrobes when the
new look came in"
There's q hot deal on for David
Wayne to play the murderer in
IN" for Seymour Nebenzal. Peter
LORE did it the first time. Two
more dissimilar boys I've yet to
meet. 49,
Dinah Shore will sing at Glenn
McCarthy's Shamrock Hotel after
she completes her Wedgwood
Room appearances at the WAL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

singing In Glen Falls for two
years. That was when I was
studying with Oscar Siegal who
spent his summers there. I needed
money and as my singing teacher
he was interested in seeing that
I had some. So, when he heard
of a teacher opening in the high
school, he suggested I take 1t"
Boles. who was just beginning
to study music then, was leary
about his ability so he asked
Siegal what he thought Of his
qualifications. He never will for
get the answer.
WELL" Siegal told him, "it's
this way. You know enough
about breathing to teach them
that and you don't know enough
about singing to hurt them, so
why not 60 ahead?"
IT went ahead" John says, land
since I have heard no complaints
to date, I guess there won't be
any"
\ X X i
That stint of farming" will
begin for the Capitol's current
headliner next week.
After this" he says. II go to
New York for a television show
with Milton Berle next Tuesday,
and two days later I'll be setting
down to dinner with my parents
In Texas" .....-.....
That's the kind Of farming he
likes; eating farming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

Idorf-Astoria in New York. Glenn
has offered to pay Dinah off with
an oil we'll!
Mario LAMA watches me eating
at a party, signs enviously,
You're so lucky" Mario adores
things like spaghetti. but has to
lay off because Of his movie Ca
reer.
(Released by North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Acting Germ Hits
The Crown Prince
HOLLYWOOD

The Grown prince" at MGM
has finally faced the cameras
Arthur Loew, jr., son of the pres
ident Of Loew. Inc, sent out here
six months ago to learn everything
there is to know about movie
making, has just played a few
scenes with Robert Taylor in Am
BUSH" Meanwhile, he's been an
office messenger, film cutter. fourth
assistant director and a student of
a dozen other mental tasks associ-
ated with f1lm-making.
The 27-year-old heir to the
movie empire founded by his ia
nous grandfather, Marcus Loew,
has shown excellent Judgment In
dating. He's been concentrating
his attentions exclusively on the
lovely Janet Leigh.
Young Arthur is being groomed
for an executive role in the years
to come. but papa's pretty worried
now. Flattering compliments have
been heaped on him since his debut
in "Ambush"-and now he's bitten
by the acting bug.
Released by North American Newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Johns Day Off

io6fdfo6 FreS1
HOLLYWOOD,

ss HOLLYWOOD.
John Wayne, whose picture
commitments run far into 1850,
had only one day off during the
filming of Sands of Two lima"
for Republic. And Wayne said he
was glad to get back to work.
On that day he took his wife
Esperanto to the hospital for a
minor operation. Then he went
home and asked his houseboy,
Amato Leon, to make him a cup
of tea Wayne is a constant tea
drinker).
Aznato, bringing in the tea,
tripped and fell. The crockery
shattered. cutting an artery and
two veins In his arm. Wayne
rushed to the kitchen, applied a
tourniquet and drove the faint
ing Leon to an emergency hos
|pital. The wound required 16
stitches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
HOLLYWOOD.

John Wayne's old Singing
Sandy" Westerns, made in 1881
have been sold to television. And
that is not the only way John
plans to rival Hopalong Cassidy,
Gene Autry and Roy Rogers,
John is going in for cowboy mer-
chandise. He will also star in a
comic strip.
| jeanne Dru has lifted the at
tachment on Dick Haynes salary
and he has started to pay, IN
installments, the $751; he owes
on back alimony.
Jesse Lasky is looking for a
handsome bull to star in valley
Of the Mists." This is the era
of animal movies.
Irene Dunno was sent the script
for New Orleans Woman" by
Hartnett r. Kane. It's q possible
movie for her. Irene recently
starred on the air in Kane's Bride
VI VO1 JULIO.
Yvonne De Carlo is a hostess for
New Years eve. I'm inviting a
few hundred intimate friends, -
she tells me. will Ed Lucken-
bach be among those PRESENT."
I ask her. very definitely, no."
replies Yvonne. There is only
one man in my life, and that has
always been Carlos Anthony"
No date is set yet for the Marilyn
Maxwell merger with Andy McIn-
tyre. But it will be before the
first of the year." Marilyn insists,
This gives them very little time.
Marilyn has Cancelled her PA.
tour and is now reading Under
Lock and Key"-her probable next
picture.
Joan Crawford tells me. II fell
apart, and have been in bed for
a week. It took five days to do
the fighting scenes in The Vic
tim Then 7 had a whole day Of
being hysterical for a scene, and
I just couldn't stop crying" Joan
was overworking to get Kent
Smith through with the picture
and into his New York play with
Helen Hayes.
If Ann Sothern and Cy Howard
are going to elope on New Years
Day. as rumored, they will have
to sandwich it between Cy's three
radio shows. % Never saw a boy
quite so busy.
The Philip Yordans are strain
ing at the marriage leash again.
Enrol Flynn plays a sea captain
who rescues Creole girl in 1.-The
Bargain" and then marries her.
Enrol flies here from India next
week.
Marion Brando left Shelley
Winters and Hollywood on Fri
day. He lis expected back next
October-to star in "A Streetcar
Named Desire" unless Charles
Feldman can make Ella Kazan
change his mind and use Kirk
Douglas instead.
I can't believe the rumor that
Jean Arthur will star on Broad
way as Peter Pam" Remember,
she reneged on Born Yesterday"
during its Philadelphia tryout.
Olivia de Havilland and Marcus
Goodrich are terribly cute in their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
$4,000 Toys Collected
lin Doll House Drive

More than $4,000 dolls and toys,
an all-time record, were collected
in the 18th annual Christmas
campaign of Bill Herson's WRC
Doll House. which closed Christ
mas eve.
The collection was turned over to
the Christmas Bureau of United
Community Services for Christmas
Day distribution.
Last year more than 10000
items were turned over to the Doll
House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

the SOIL, OUT 10 put new vitality
in his voice. He has been using
1t now for months on end, night
after night in show after show
and while there is nothing he
likes better than singing, well, he
says, you know how it is"
1t is not that John feels par
ticularly tired-which he would
show less than any other singer
you can f1nd-but that he thinks
audiences might begin to think
80 unless he took q rest.
Maybe 1t Is just sheer geog-
raphy." he says. 'You see. I've
been everywhere since I was here
last year. I've even been to the
Isle Of Man and not many singers
you know can make that state
ment. Did q Sunday night con-
cert there not long ago on the
trip between England and Ire
land"
How the Isle of Man got into
his schedule is simple enough. 1t
is a stop on the way around the
British Isles in which he has been
singing for most Of the last semes-
ter.
LAS a matter of fact" he says,
IT have a bunch that there is no
one in the British Isles to whom
I have not sung. If there is. I'll go
back if he will write me q letter
that he did not hear me.
England, Scotland and Ireland,
by the way are great places to
sing. After six months there last
year four this year, we have got
to know each other very well. ]
started with eight and one-half
weeks at the Palladium In London
and from there I went straight
around the edge Of all three
islands. And when cities were not
on the edge, I went inland"
X X X
One of the things about coming
home that keeps cropping up In
Johns life Is question that would
annoy a less poised singing star
but he takes it all In his stride.
The query has to do with why
don't you take over the PIMA role
when he leaves South Paciflc?'"
About the only people who
haven't asked me that" he says,
"are the producers. I'm pretty
sure they never will. After all. I'm
logically regarded as q mighty
American sort Of guy and PIMA
does 1t with an accent"
AS q modest man might, Johns
notion of the origin of this South |
Pacific" agitation is that it lies in
the fact that he was Mary Mar
tins co-star in her last big Broad
way hit before the Rodgers-Ham-
merstein production That was
lone Touch Of Venus" and they
carried it, and vice versa, for two
full seasons. He thinks maybe it
gave every one the idea that they
were q sort of team. q Texas team.
II he was sure PIMA, whom he
also admires and just as much asi
you do, would not misunderstood,
John would like to try flippant
answer to the question about the
South Pacific" role.
Maybe I could say I was too
young" he says with laugh.
He does not think he will, how
ever. T.
+
As for Washington. to which he
has been coming long enough to
have become a semilocal institu-
ton, the town still provides John
with surprises. ..
This time 1t came from an ac-
quaintance who thought he was q
native of Glen Falls, N. Y, an
assumption that might irk some
Texans, but not Boles.
GAS a matter Of fact" he says,
"it's kind Of logical. I once
taught high school French and
a-~~aA -a-uuua1A III
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29

I can't believe the rumor that
Jean Arthur will star on Broad
way as peter Pam" Remember,
she reneged on Born Yesterday
during its Philadelphia tryout.
Olivia de Havilland and Marcus
Goodrich are terribly cute in their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Drama News and Reviews
SingerBo|es, Back From T our
Thinks to Farm q Spell
By Jay Cormody

Boes Capitol
Boles thinking settling
for a spell of being farmer"
himself quotes respect
tionaype farmers who take agricultural attitude toward
their occupation.
Evening star., 1949-04-26

cs2t16e es TIE ceAecgsa sasg
where thas S-12esrg-ss f4s@A, sAs
he4a ard thai I'd have - agns
every oar Q. them tc preserve rry
Ac-scs a. d s.x~yeAs -cs1 rnasa-
about town and nes the scxs si
person wsac eoalG c11cas< - sssC
around = 3Ayro3e wata . Acs u
g1rls and essses bad re; seen
forced To.
Only oner that I car gw-aess. ssy
etG I have . rrAlls aHe s~.zas -
May Oay- Tesai wAs waea fox
q reAsou krosn eals to Themselves
TIE gHuwn~gps oeSacr ira; Il
would be q lcssls adeA 10 aaye
sosns @. Us ct.lsswa dress Up n
crepe p&peg bird costumes Teas
IDEA WAS fox ax TO ATS tlas sessgs
es the bird we represented se
the rest Of tire darling ehsl6Tra
went daxxysag themselves Afea2na
the Maypo3s
Dressed l~ike hsra,
Mas dressed a. Aoz14e scss os
local h.Eo suppose. ard ! mad
q nice perch II one el the a4g
shade trees oveFiooklns the Awn
At that time ! wAx aeenly III
love with 9 glgi named Nav ylp-
peyer remember me. May ard
1, VAS my gcsod fortune to have
my rival IN love. jules Gray. stand
Just underneath the tree where
WAS perched. dressed l.ks q bus
xard or some other attractive
friend. When aw my
deadly rival within such sasy
bruis!ng distance I let so tuil
force and vas lacky enough 70
sprain his shoulder siightly
Oh. well. lis spItng and ! sup
pose that all the little girls and
boys will have 10 30 throash the
tortures that ! did In order 10
greet spring properly. None O!
this letting II go at the simple
'trR-la" business. You've go, 10
set right smack out in public and
Evening star., 1949-04-26

Being q ministers son ] xas
supposed TO set an example o!
saintliness for the rest Of the
children In the small towns in
which We lived. and ] did,
whiried and Tvirled.
! grabbed those paper stream
ers and whirled and twirled with
all G! the lovely ladies Of six
who had most Of their front teeth
missing. Only sissy boys were
supposed to have to take part in
this horrible business Of rushing
around a pole while the girls,
with flowers In their hair. new
white dresses on. and hair rib
bons and xashes TO match, really
enjoyed it.
knew that by the time ]
had finished these Maypole man
ipulations there would be q gans
Of my friends waiting for me Just
Evening star., 1949-04-26

ouer the fear Of Dersths Thomp'sa.
unemployment. With their mem
cries of former depressions. 1t is
hard to break down their habit
of stretching work. Among en-
ployers. he finds there Is still ser
vitude to the spirit that what
was good enough for father Is
good enough today"
This is not characteristic Of
steel or heavy industry In general,
in his eyes. But some industries
for instance. textiles--are. in
the British phrase, sticky" Mr..
Attlee believes this attitude is
rapidly changing. Like all Labor
Party leaders I have seen, he Is
optimistic.
Attitude Of Cripps.
Mr.. Attlee is gentle. open
minded and communicative. In
this he differs from Sir Stafford
Cripps--whom I also have seen
universally regarded as the ablest
mind behind the coldest exterior
in the government. Tall, hawk-
nosed, intellectual and aristo-
cfatic 3 Sir b Stafford assertsLwith
sublime confidence--that Britain
has no internal problems. With
production. exports and invest
ment higher than prewar, Sir
stafford thinks an Britain's prob
lems are EXTERNAL. o'If one asks
him whether the incentives Of
fered by the Socialist regime are
adequate. he points to the stats
tics as proof.
So does Mr.. Attlee. He also
believes that there are substitutes
for the so-called profit motive"
and listed them to me as salts
faction in doing a good job Of
work. public recognition for 1t.
and patriotism -- happiness in
being part Of q going concern. !"
He asserts that people who do
good work are rewarded. but that
they must change their outlook.
The incentives Of the last century.
he maintains. are not possible to-
day. People worked then that
their children would not have to
work, but would become imam
cially independent and live as
landed gentry.
Evening star., 1949-04-26
This Changing World
Navy Secretary Sullivan to Resign
AS Result of Action on Super.C Carrier

brass, viii resent their civilian
chief being brushed aside by the
top defense Official.
Ever since the armed forces
were merged the feeling has arisen
--unquestionably without foun6a-
tion-that the Navy is being re-
garded as the stepchild Of our
national defense and Is scheduled
TO become merely q glamorized
merchant marine whose role in
the next conflict. when 1t occurs.
will be confined TO transporting
troops and supplies over the
oceans.
Only q handful of men In the
Navy are directly concerned over
whether we ever build q super
carrier. There are many argu-
ments for and against the plan.
But the stoppase of all work
tantamount Of cancellation-does
not affect the national defense
IN the least. even il the conten-
tions In favor Of Its construction
are accepted without argument,
It's completion will take at least
three years and the problems aris-
ing from our conflict with Russia
are immediate.
Only Navy Prepared.
As things stand today. accord
ing to unbiased military observers,
the Navy-and particularly the
air branch Of the Navy-is still
called on to play an important
part in national defense. The Air
Force Is considered by many as
the only service which can win
wars. The truth Of this theory
has still to be demonstrated.
But even IL 1t Is true that the
Air Force bears the whole burden
of winning q future war, it has
not had time to develop its pro-
gram and Naval aviation. with all
the drawbacks seen by the Air
Force. is still an important ad-
junct to the Air Force, which will
not have its 10 groups before 1851.
OF the three branches Of our
national defense only the Navy Is
prepared today to 60 into imme-
diate action with q force near
what 1t should have. The ground
forces. through no fault Of their
own. are lamentably weak, while
the Air Force needs q minimum
of 18 months before it can be
said to have been rebuilt, although
it has made important strides
since its pulverization In 1945.