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Evening star., 1949-12-04
HOLLYWOOD,


The buildup Jane Russell got
early in her movie career still en-
barrasses her, but she has decided
that It didn't do her any lasting
harm.
At least she's well identified.
Jane blames only bad press
agentry. not the press, for the
impression Of her given by How
ard Hughes "The OUTLAW" her
first film, made in l94l. The
Breen oflice withheld approval. on
moral grounds, and the picture
waited four years for even a lin
tied release. Only two months
ago did it qualify for general re-
lease, after major surgery on some
of the lustier. scenes.
A Sedate Housewife.
Jane made two pictures last
year. Montana Belle" and It'll
Only Money" but RKo is holding
these until "The Outlaw" !,
launched.
Jane has been the wife Of Bot
Waterfeld, Los Angeles Raini
ouarterback,- since 1912. She's Z
sedate housewife. an avid Bible
student, m enthusiastic interior
decorator and pottery maker-ir
short, q little on the dull side BY
HOLLYWOOD glamour standards. He,
friends fall. in two groups-fellov
church members and Bob's foot
ball associates. She says sh'
knows almost no one well IN tn
film colony.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
By SheiIah Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

| f1O4A1 WoOO.
II want to have fun" brunette
beautiful Elizabeth Taylor tells
me ut Paramount, where she ID
now co-starring with Montgomery
Gift in "a Place in the Sun" (the
new title for Theodore Dreiser's s
great novel, AN American
Tragedy"?.
After all, I'm only II and !
should have fun" Lizzie-who
seems to have had quite lot OF
fun already-reminds me. Mind
you," she continues, waving her
long, dark, fascinating eyelashes
at the male world in general
and most Of the males at Para
mount are within eyelash-waving
distance-"I don't want wild fun;
I just want normal fun. And
that's what makes me 20 mad
when I read about al the wild
things I'm supposed to have done.
My fans believe them. They write
me letters saying. You shouldn't
have done that. We thought you
were such q nice girl Gosh. II !
could only tell people I'm just not
guilty. But it's 80 futile because
no one believes you anyway. !
just want to be normal. But that
seems to be impossible.
"Other Girls Have Dates"
"Other girls of my age have as
many dates as I have" continues
Elizabeth, "and no one thinks
anything Of 1t. Me, every time ]
look at q man It's q big romance.
Elizabeth insists she was never
engaged to 1t. Glen Davis. He
wanted to give me q ring. but ]
wouldn't take It," She compro-
missed by wearing his gold football
on Z chain around her neck. ]
remember the night Liz thought
she lost it-she was frantic.
William Pawley. jr., was q ro-
nance Of . different color. They
were very definitely engaged and
I believe she is still q bit In love
with the handsome 28-year -old
Evening star., 1949-12-04
~ the Assoeioisd Press


HOLLYWOOD.
Joseph Gotten has taken Z
years lease on . house in Santa
Barbara. Calf, 100 miles from
Hollywood-and he hopes to have
better luck enjoying 1t than he
did last summer.
Gotten originally rented the
place for four months. but wa.
able to occupy 1t only one week
end before going to Italy on loca-
ton for Hal Wallis September. >
Montgomery Cliff. on the othe,
hand. has rented only q one-room
apartment for his current Holly
wood stay while making "A Place
In the Sun" at Paramount. Al
present he's making about one
picture . year here. and when not
working he prefers to live In New
York, he said.
If I ever buy q house in Holly
wood. I'll probably 60 the whole
way-swimming pool. .badminton
court, barbecue and all the other
gimmicks," he admitted.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Coming Attractions
AMBASSADOR And Baby

AMBASSADOR-"And BABY
Makes Three" with Robert
Young, starting Thursday.
CAPTTOL-"The Big Wheel" "
with Mickey Rooney, start
ing Saturday.
DUPONT Germany Year
Zero"
KEITH'S-"Free for ALL" with
Robert Cummings, starting
Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN-"Red Hot
and Blue" with Betty Hut
ton. starting Thursday.
LTTTLE-"The Red Sho1s,"
with Mora Shearer.
NATIONAL-"Trapped." with
Lloyd Bridges. starting
Tuesday.
PALACE-"Oh, You Beauti-
full DOLL" with June Haver,
starting Wednesday.
TRANS-LUX - The Third
Man." with Joseph Gotten.
WARNER-"And Baby Makes
Three" with Robert Young,
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Joan Ages Fast
BY me Asseeiefsd Press

dOAL1 WOOO.
Already the movies are making
an "old lady" Of 16-year-old Joan
Evans.
In Samuel Goldwyn's Edge OF
Doom" Joan is supposed to be Il,
Her hair has been trimmed to q
short bob and she wears long
skirts and high heels. For one
flashback scene. in which she is
IL, Joan has to wear a wig.
Joan made her first camera ap-
pearance less than q year ago In
Goldwyns "Roseanna Mccoy.
just released.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Current Thedter Boom
Is Biggest in Years
Broadway Has Fewer Plays Running,
But the Hits Make Difference
By Mark Barron

with the printers to supply tickets
through the performance of De-
cember 80. 1850. This is,. un-
precedented. Broadway producers
seldom have tickets printed more
than two months in advance.
Friends Aided "Kate."
The Cole Porter musical, kiss
Me, Kate" is bounding along in
similar realms Of high finai1ce.
1t has a counterpart now in Chi
cago, just as South Pacific" will
soon have a touring company.
When kiss Me, Kate" opened
in Philadelphia last December 2.
1t was able to do 50 only be-
cause the producers appealed to
about 40 friends for urgent In
vestments Of 500 and up 80 they
could finance the Broadway OPEN
ing. They were successful and
those small. last-minute investors
are grateful. kiss Me, Kate"
has already crossed more than
$4,000. 900, Of which nearly $780,
900 represent profits.
The comedy hit, II Know My
Love-" with Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontanne in the starring roles. is
doing a capacity business at the
Shubert Theater. its gross now
about $3l 800 weekly. This is be-
cause the Theater Guild SUBJ
scription plan gives members .
discount on tickets. Within two
or three more weeks. when all
subscribers will have seen the
show, the gross for the Lunts will
jump to about $42,580 weekly.
A surprise hit is LAS the Girls
Co." the musical comedy starring
Bobby Clark: 1t opened with luke
warm reviews which ordinarily
would have cut 1t down within six
weeks, q time limit which Is con-
ceded as the top draw Of star
who comes in with a fop show.
But, "As the Girls Go" is nearing
its first year on Broadway and Is
crossing above $4,000 a week.
"Miss Liberty" Will Pay.
Miss Liberty" the Irving Berlin
musical, has crossed more than
81 ,ooo. 800 since it opened in Phila-
delphia last June and Is continue
ing as q hit despite inhospitable
notices from the critics when 1T
opened at the Imperial on Broad
way. Capitalized at 5000 .oo0,, 1t
has already returned IS per cent
of this sum and figures to pay OF
in full by February !. It is doing
almost capacity business. crossing
about $42,10o . week. n
Death Of . Salesman" top
Init among straight plays. winner
of both Pulitzer and Critics Circle
Prizes, is nearing its 40th week on
Broadway and still at capacity
business Of $24,500 q week.
When it closes after its 855th
performance on December II, "A
Streetcar Named Desire" will have
crossed approximately $2.500, 900.
including its picture sale. $3.50. 900.
lit win net approximately $500, 900
profit when its Broadway run
ends. 80
The new Maxwell Anderson play
with music, Lost in the Stars"
opened 4 few weeks ago on Broad.
way with an advance sale Of t235.-
900 and it has been doing capacity
business Of $4,000 . week since 1t
was hailed at the premiere. "Mr.
Roberts," the drama about the
United States Navy, is nearing its
Tooth week. and still doing .
capacity Of $33, 500 weekly.
Mae West revived her Diamond
Lii" nearly 20 weeks ago on
Broadway, and it has been playing
to what she calls "$23, 500 q week.
a healthy S23 600"
Evening star., 1949-12-04
NEW YORK,

NEW 1Okt1A.
Broadway is having its biggest
theater boom since the early 1905
and with fewer shows than usual.
Several big hits that play to
capacity audiences week after
week make all the difference. They
are rolling up tremendous crosses.
while the turkey" that people
used to keep alive for a while "just
to see q show" quickly folds.
Broadway producers say the
economic picture of current show
business is dictated by q single
guide line: Shows must be hits to
survive, and audiences are 50
theater-wise now that they will not
accept 4 compromise" They will
wait for tickets to proved good
shows. rather than 90 to mediocre
entertainment.
Oscar Hammerstein I'd, play
wright and producer, said he was
tired hearing about the imminent
expiration Of the theater.
He explained that there exists
today only the lack Of demand
"for the trash that used to be
popular some 20 years ago. The
competition of pictures, radio,
television and other mediums has
enabled the theater to raise its
standards"
Unprecedented Success.
Hammerstein should know. He
is both co-producer and co-author
of the most in-demand hit In his
tory, the tuneful South Pacific" "
This musical, with Ezio PIMA and
Mary Martin singing the leading
roles, opened last April Z with
$500, 900 In advance sales. 1t has
played to capacity Of the Majestic
rheater-1,6 ,681. plus the limit OF rs
standees allowed by IRE depart
ment regulations-at every per
formance. This means gross box
office receipts of $50.600 4 week.
Mary Martins son once bought
standing room when he came up
from schol to hear his mother
sing I'm Coin to Wash that Man
Right Out OF My Hair"
Since the opening, South Pa
cific" has been averaging mail
orders for 5000 seats . perform
ance, which is nearly twice the
capacity Of the theater. The
advance sale now is past $780,
600 and orders have been placed
Evening star., 1949-12-04

executive. In TACT, on the nlgnt
of Jane Powell's wedding. which
Pawley attended with Elizabeth.
I'm told he asked her again II
she would give up her career to
marry him and live in Miami.
Elizabeth Is said to have sobbed
her mo" Her career as the most
beautiful girl in Hollywood Is
much too exciting for any IT.
year older to give up.
Not All Enjoyable.
1T hurt when some one re-
ferred to me In print as The Jilt
Girl" Elizabeth tells me. The
announcement Of their broken
engagement did come from Paw
ley, but Elizabeth says she asked
him to do it. ....,-
This beautiful child who looks
like a woman is learning early
that being famous is not 100 per
cent enjoyable. '
The toughest part Of Elizabeth's
fame-which she really adores. OF
course (what girl wouldnt?)-is
the barrier it puts between herself
and college boys. for whom !
gather she has quite a yen. But
how am I going to meet them"
she walls. II can't just go walk
ing around a campus" I'm sure
the boys wouldn't object. Other
males who don't object include
Vic Damone-"Just q friend"
says Lizzie-Robert Stack. Jerome
CORTLAND, Richard Long, Roddy
Mcdowell.
Ambitious For Career.
But Liz is also very ambitious
career-wise. my next picture is
Father OF The Bride,'" she tells
me- hliSSf,lllv "In nv present Oic.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01

establishes a complete new system OF
determining what fees shall be paid.
Grazing Fee Rates
Realizing the difficulty of keeping
up with the changes in livestock
prices, and the resultant value of
grazing privileges, by legislative ac-
ton each two years, the legislature
authorized a new system which will
coordinate the fees with the market
price of livestock. In other words,
the average farm price, as set by
the federal bureau of agricultural
economics, will be compared to the
10-year average from 1888 to 1947
and grazing fees set accordingly.
Where competitive bidding sets a
rental higher than the minimum the
state land board will be required to
incorporate in the lease a limit on
the number of animal units to be
grazed, thus giving the state some
control against overgrazing. The net
effect will be to give the state a
good return on its lands when mar
ket prices are high, a lesser return
when prices drop.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01

ers of 81 percent of the sheep petit
ton for repeal of the program, thus
making it continuous without the
necessity of frequent elections"
HB150 increases the maximum on
hail insurance on irrigated lands to
payments of $40 an acre, whereas
the old law set the top at $40 an
acre whether On irrigated or dry
lands.
HB239 allows the commissioner of
agriculture, the director of the Mon
tana agriculture experiment station
and the director of the Montana grain
inspection laboratory to set fees for
seed analysis and testing, the idea
being that the fees will be changed
from time to time to cover actual
costs.
Of special interest to livestock men
holding state grazing leases are two
new laws. One increasing grazing
fees for the next two years to bring
them up to approximately 90 percent
of those prevailing in the p%redepres-
sion days. The other, which does not
go into effect until March 1, 1852,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01
In Friendly Hands
Farm, Ranch Legislation
31st Assembly Recognized Major Trends
BY W. PRESTON WRIGHT

contributions, county funds may ac-
cept donations from individuals and
the total may be used in co-opera-
ton with problems authorized by
the state entomologist and the fed
eral bureau of entomology and plant
quarantine.
The livestock commission was des-
ignated as the state agency to CO.
operate with federal agencies in con-
troll of noxious rodents such as jack
rabbits, pocket gophers, ground
squirrels, prairie dogs, rats and mice,
and $4,000 in state funds were al
located for this work. Another new
law authorizes county commissioners
to cooperate with the state commits
sion and permits each county to APP
propriate $4,000 from it's general
fund OF to levy as much as 2 mills
in taxes on all property for creation
of a rodent control fund.
Amend Existing Laws
Much of the legislation affecting
farmers and stockmen merely
amended existing laws. AS an ex-
ample, one new measure provides
that predatory animal control at the
county level-of special interest to
sheep men-shall continue, once it
has been established, until the own
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01
Official State Weed Control
Chemical Recommendations

SPECIFIC RATE and application
procedure information on the use
of 2,4-D in controlling broad-1eafed
annual and biennial weeds in cereal
crops was released by the extension
service, agricultural experiment sta
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01

ton, Montana State college, at the
recent air spraying and busting
school at Bozeman. The information
was designed to cover most Montana
conditions both for aerial and
ground application of 2,4-D.
The statement of recommendations
begins by pointing out that climatic
conditions have a marked effect on
results obtained from the chemical
treatment of weeds. Conditions of
rapid, vigorous growth are usually
the most advantageous for control
operations. Plants having a high
moisture content are more suScep-
tible to treatment, and temperatures
of go degrees or above are desirable.
Small weeds are usually the easiest
to kill. However, treatment should
be made when the maximum num-
Der of weeds can be killed with the
one application. The optimum time
of treatment must be determined for
each field.
Cdut1on-Beess Livestock
The report cautions that while
there is no evidence of toxicity of
2,4-D to warm blooded animals,
there is some evidence indicating
that the chemical makes some plants
more palatable to livestock, which
might cause the consumption of some
poisonous plants usually left by
livestock.
Also the danger to bees is dis
cussed from the standpoint that
while 2,4-D in itself will not harm
bees unless directly contacted with
the spray at the time of application,
the spraying may result in killing off
important sources of food materials
utilized by the bees.
This is especially true of eradica-
ton programs on sweet clover, will
lows and dandelions, and operators
are warned that all factors must be
considered before such a program is
undertaken. The resulting absence
of bees which would later serve as
pollinators for the farmers crops
may be of far greater consequence
than the presence of the dandelions
would have been.
Extreme care should be exercised
at all times in the application of
2,4-D to prevent any drifting of
either sprays or dusts into areas con-
tanning susceptible crops such as
beans, sugar beets, and forage le-
gumes. Since these crops take up
large portions of many irrigation dis
tricts, it will be safer to use ground
equipment in those areas. When
spraying for insects on crops sus-
ceptible to 2,4-D, be certain that all
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01

most. Upon passing over TINS region the cold ar
masses will set up frontal disturbances and re-
suit in a lot of disagreeable weather and consider
able delaying of spring planting. Spring is not
here to stay, and we can expect an occasional taste
of winter anytime during the month of April. The
moisture outlook at present is fairly good because
rain or snow is expected to occur on several days
even though the quantity may be only light to
moderate. Most of the moisture may come in the
form of snow in connection with the expected in
vasions of cold air. The blizzard season is not over
yet and this period looks favorable for such a
storm. Normal April snowfall in inches is as fol-
lows: Montana, Al; Wyoming, 81. These are
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01
PROBLEMS OF MONTANA's

1dllye assembly just cOncIuQeQ.
No less than SO of the LAG members
of the house of representatives and
the senate classified themselves in
their official biographies as farmers,
Stockmen, dairymen or r%anchers, or
ONE combination of the four. In adj
dition there were others listed as at
torneys and merchants who are
known to have farming and ranching
interests and thus were in a posi-
ton to swing the representation of
those having a direct financial stake
in the soil to slightly more than 40
percent of the total membership.
Yet the 1949 assembly probably
will not go down in history as
which contributed in any spectacular
way to the advancement of agricul-
ture or of improving the lot of the
rural resident. The reason is simple.
In the first place it was not that type
of a legislature.
The assembly met at a time when
tax collections were running ahead
of state expenditures. 1t met when
there was no great financial stress
on the agricultural communities of
the state or the nation. Therefore
there was little that the solons could
have done of a drastic nature.
Recognized Trends
1t did recognize trends, however,
and passed some legislation hat I'M
doubtedly will prove valuable in the
future. One of the measures of
greatest potential appears to be the
constitutional amendment separating
the state department of agriculture
from the bureau of labor and indus
try.
This is a measure that still must be
approved by the people when they
vote in November, 1850, but Albert
Kruse, the retiring commissioner of
the combined departments, long has
insisted that under modern condi-
terest of the people of this state de-
served separate consideration and
the ease with which the measure
passed the two houses indicate that
it is popular with the people, too.
Another law that is expected to
pay greater dividends in the years
ahead than at the moment is one
which appropriates $4,000 to equip
the veterinary research laboratory
at the Montana agricultural expert
ment station at Bozeman. The sta
ton was established to work in co
operation with the Montana Live
stock Sanitary board, the Montana
Woolgrowers association and the
Montana Stockgrowers association
but it was handicapped until now by
lack of equipment with which tc
tackle some of the problems con
fronting stockmen of the state.
Rodent. Insect Control
New laws dealing with noxious
rodent and grasshopper control are
other examples of how the legisla-
tors looked to the future. Grasshop-
pers are a menace that seldom strike
the entire state at one time yet may
appear in dangerous numbers in any
area on short notice.
HB304 appropriates $4,000 il
state funds to be used in matching
100000 in federal money for grass
hopper eradication. The remainder
must come from the counties ane
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01
15~Day Weather Outlook
Montana-Wy Wyoming Forecast: April 1 to IS
By OSCAR 7.
By OSCAR L. MOLDENHAUER

A CONSIDERABLE amount of cold, windy weather with frequent
changes and precipitation is the Montana Wyoming outlook for the
next Is days. These conditions will be more noticeable east of the
continental divide where cold air movements art expected to frequent
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-04-01

statewide averages and are somewhat distorted by the heavy snowfall
in mountain regions.
Weather Changes
The month begins with seasonal temperatures and fairly good
weather which should continue through the 4h in all except northeast
Montana where a minor disturbance may cause light precipitation over
the weekend. About the 4h or 5h a cold front.is expected to invade
northern Montana in the first of a serioes of cold waves to overrun
Montana and northern Wyoming between the 4h and 18th. This area
can expect some comparatively low readings at times and below nor
NAL temperatures most of this period.
Storm activity will be O the increase between the 18th and 14th and
a corresponding series of disturbances is indicated to develop in con-
nection with the cold air masses and result in light to moderate rain
or snow and cloudy weather on a number of days. The 5th to 7h and
10th to 18th are the most favorable moisture dates for this region.
Montana is expected to bear the brunt of the cold weather, while the
areas Immediately east of the continental divide should be wettest
Higher temperatures and unsettled weather II due by the 18th, fol-
lowed by a minor disturbance and colder weather about the 10th. A
trend to warmer weather is due to follow shortly after.
Temperatures: Below normal. Precipitation: About normal.