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cinema has found something that
Is q complete delight. not just to
the pretentiously literate but for
everybody. Quartet" is first OF
all pure entertainment. which is
all the movie public asks. Yet, 1t
Is also important as a lesson In
what story telling can be-swift,
penetrating, wise. ironic and oddly
compassionate.
Vaughan, just retired at rs
and a lively actor in the prologue
to the picture, could not ask a
more fitting birthday gift than
this tight, bright summary Of his
unrivaled skill at telling tale.
Quartet" is about four Maug-
ham people. a boy who discovered
the facts of life were not what his
father said; mousey colonels
wife who wrote one Of England's
most passionate poems; an eccen-
trio lad who lived only to fly kites,
and a young English aristocrat
who wanted to be a great pianist.
Each in his way Is a brilliant
movie character. Each is acted
with downright inspiration, the
rare inspiration that actors feel
when they know their work Is a
genuine comment on life.
These stories were adapted by
r. c. Sheriff and although a cou-
pie of them have been blunted
somewhat. the edge remained
sharp enough to earn Maugham's S
approval of the changes. The j.
Arthur Rank production does
them honor and also achieves a
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kind of small miracle in giving
them a continuity beyond that
of most single story screenplays.
That continuity lies in Vaughan S
point Of view.
II
In the order of their presenta-
tion-the quarrels should be end
less as to the order of their merit
first of the tales is "The Facts
Of Life" It is the cool. amusing
story of a handsome 19-year-old
English tennis player who goes to
Monte Carlo with three bits OF
advice from his father. He is told
not to gamble. not to lend money,
and not to get involved with a
woman.
AS a check on the soundness of
his fathers counsel, the boy gam
bles and wins a comparative for
tune. He lends 10000 francs to a
pretty adventures and not only
gets his money back but also a
night In the beautiful ones suite.
The next morning he leaves not
only with his 100000 franc win
nings intact, but with $4,000 more
of the girls money, the latter ac-
quired honorably enough under the
circumstances.
The Irony Is hilarious, the act
ing of Jack Waiting and Mai zet-
terling exquisitely polished.
Suspense Is the essence OF "The
Alien Corn" tale of the aristo-
cratic lad. who stuns his insensi-
tive rich family with his ambition
to be q concert pianist. Into it
Vaughan has compressed the ter
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ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star., 1949-05-05
By Harry Macarthur

Impact, which arrived yes
terday at the National, occupies
the longest Ill minutes you are
likely TO encounter even II you
put forth some effort IN the
search. Before it ambles to a con-
clusion that wouldn't be called
unexpected by q man seeing his
first motion picture. you get the
impression in certain regions that
this must be a try at the record
of Gone With the Wind" The
regions. let's hasten TO add. are
none Of those receiving messages
from the screen.
The messages from the screen
are far from resemblance 10
"GWTW." They are fine, trite
set of worn melodrama cliches.
Impact" is no duller than q lot
of other routine cinema efforts. OF
course, but it's just as dull.
The cliches have been assembled
by Dorothy Reid and Jay Dratler
for Producer Leo c. Popkin and
Director Arthur Lubin to try to
make something of. They are
acted "a word humanely used In
lieu Of q more appropriate one,
by Ella Raines, Brian Donlevy
Charles Coburn and Helen Walker
The story concerns a man who
lis thought dead but isn't after his
wife's plot to have her lover kill
him misfires. It isn't the only
plot that misfires around here.
Anyhow, this man who isn't dead
wanders up and down some weary
story bypaths. meets Miss Raines,
learns about the good and simple
life and finally returns to find
himself charged with murder.
Comes out all right. though. At
least, the picture eventually ends.
Mr.. Lubin hasn't been able to
Gull much out of the script OF
Impact" but that shouldn't be a
blot on his record. The acting Is
the sort the story deserves. Even
a fine incidental performance by
the dependable Mr.. Coburn
doesn't raise the general level
much. He must have felt like a
Mats pitcher dropping a two
hitter IL to 0.
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rible loneliness Of the artist. the
impossiblity of his being under
stood. and of him understanding
those less sensitive. In a way. it
is the most richly dramatic of the
four tales, and searchingly acted
by a cast whose dominant figures
are Dirk Bogarde, as the pianist.
and Francoise Rosay. as the in
strument of his tragic disillusion-
ment.
For purposes of character con-
trast-which are good purposes
though not necessarily the best
THE Kite" is a logical choice for
the third episode of Quartet"
It's people, a family of eccen-
tries who live to fly kites. are
superlatively useful for showing
Maugham's gift for making para
lyzingly dull humans quite fasci-
mating in spite of themselves. The
story concerns kite-flying PAM
pered son who goes to jail and
stays there in preference to sup
porting a pretty young wife who
scorns all such childish pastimes.
Despite the skill with which
Vaughan manipulates his mate
rials, 1.-The Kite" is the weakest of
the four tales.
In 1.-THE Colonel's Lady" which
closes the cycle, Quartet" climbs
to a proper dramatic peak. Its
central figure is a handsome Col.
Blimp, a rich countryman who Is
appalled, to discover that his wife
is suddenly famous as the author
Of an earthly, passionate poem Of
love. Where in their Is cloistered
years of unfathomable dullness
can this mild. colorless woman
have had such an amorous ad-
venture? '
The colonel has to know the
answer to this question and his
bewildered, befuddled pursuit of
it makes the episode the most de-
liciously comic of the four.
Cecil Parker and Nora Swim
burne portray the principals as
fictional gems deserve to be.
That is the sum total of Quar-
tet," a screen achievement not to
be missed-again and again and
again!
Evening star., 1949-05-05
Lassie Has a Rival,
A SSO.a.Week Dog
D. sss Aas@ssssss Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The dog business IN Hollywood
is picking Up. and IL may be q
sign OF the times
Chinook. . 2-year-oid German
shepherd dog. has just been given
a movie contract NJ $500 n week.
That's pretty good. considering the
recent slump at Aim studios.
Chinook has a flexible contract,
graduating up TO 81 $50 a week j!
he stays in the business long
enough and II all his options are
picked UP. This puts him in a
category shared hy about -four
other trained movie dogs Bat
Evening star., 1949-05-05
Where and When
Current Theeter Attrocticns
and Time OF Showing

Amhassador-~Fiamingo Road !.
las. $50. $50. T.3o and s35 pm
Capitel-"B!g Sack: iio5 an.
las. $50. 7:io and s:SS pm,
Stage shows: los. . IS. 6 30 and
$40 pm.
Columbia - Little Women
il:4o an. 2io. 4:4o. T:os and
s:35 pm
Hippodrome-"Heart Of Paris /.
2:o5. Sis and s:7o pm.
Keith's-'Pride Of the Yankees"
il:3s am. 2:os. 4:3s. T:Io and
$50 pm.
Little - Monsieur Vincent:
ii am. los. $40. sac. 7:3o and
s:45 pm.
Metrepolitan-"Song OF India"
Has am. las. $50. $50. 7:3s
and $40 pm
/ National-"Impact":: Has am.
i:l5. $40. $40. 7:lo and e:lo pm
Palaee-"A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court: lo:4C
am. 1850, 3. Sis. T:25 and s:4t
pm.
| Playhouse - Quartet: $50
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II $ an Z. LOS. 9 Is. Q . AZ
10 = pm
The Bride Goes Wild
J =. 6 10 and s5s
Trans Lax Portrait az 3er-
nse". la;is an. Il. las. 80
Sis. TaS, O 50 and 10 10 pm
Warner ~YlArringc Road
has an. %. ) Is, : %. : 90
and 8 as pm.
Evening star., 1949-05-05
There's Such a Thing
AS Too Many Jobs
ey the Assoeioted Press
HOLLYWOOD.


Rod Cameron finds himself In
the position of making too many
pictures at q time when the in
dustry has been complaining that
not enough films are in produc-
ton.
Cameron has commitments for
six pictures a year. He lost role
lately, one he wanted to play. be-
cause studio executives felt they
would be competing with too many
other Rod Cameron pictures.
AS a result, Cameron is re-
ported to have instructed his law
yers to see If his commitment
schedule can't be lightened. One
of his contracts calls for 10 pic
lures in years. At the moment
he's working in Birthstone" at
Evening star., 1949-05-05
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QUARTER" q General Film Distrib-
utorS' release. produced by J. Arthur Rank.
directed By Ken Annakin, Arthur Crab
tree, Harold French and Ralph Smart:
sereenplays by r. C. Sheriff. adapted from
four stories By W. Somerset Maughsn.
At the Playhouse.
Evening star., 1949-05-05

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Evening star., 1949-05-05

The Gila National Forest. less
than 200 miles from Ell Paso, Tex.
contains some of the widest and
most unexplored areas Of the
United States, true primitive viii
derness, but open to campers.
Evening star., 1949-05-05
'Qudrtet' q Movie Must
And q Vaughan Triumph
BY Joy CormodY

will the epic fiction Of the century, w Someft
Maugham the finest
satisfying entertainment
right thus content brightly evident in
Quartet which opened yesterday at the Play
In these four excerpts from Maughams prodgous
Evening star., 1949-05-05
impact of Impact
Is on Body and Mind

IMPACT United ArtiEts ressass, PRE-
assset BY Lee C PopkIE. directed hy ArtnaF
Laoin. sereenpiay By Dcrcthy RssE anG JAY
Drailer Al the National
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Roses For ROsalind
Keep Florist Happy

HOLLYWOOD-Rosalind
Russell figures it would be
cheaper for her husband,
Frederick B risson, to go
into the florist business.
Last Monday, two dozen
American Beauty roses ar
rived on the set of Tell 1t
To the Judge" for RoZ.
IAN admirer?" asked di-
rector Norman Foster.
From my husband" an
swered Roz. We've b en-
married seven and half
years, and e a C h Monday
each week of ali that time,
F r e d die sends me two
dozen American B e auty
roses to commemorate the
Monday on which he pro-
posed-and said yes. l
keep telling him we'll go
broke if he doesn't buy a
flower shop of his own, and
stop this extravaganza.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Allyson, Powell To
Be Teamed In Comedy

HOLLYWOOD - Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer has announced the
teaming, for the first time, of
June Allyson and Dick Powell
in THE Reformer and the Red
head"
Norman Panama and Melvin
Frank will produce the film,
which was adapted from the
Saturday Evening Post story
by Robert Carson. Pair adso did
the screen play of the comedy
drama which deals with the
proplems of an attorney run
ming for office on reform tic
ket and his resultant confusion
when he is retained by a viva
cious redhead to represent her
in an assault and battery case.
Picture is slated for a Sept
.ember start date. No director
has been assigned as yet.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Spring Byington
In Believe Me- Cast

HOLLYWOOD - Spring By
ington has been signed for top
comedy role in Metro GoldWyn-
Mayors "Please Believe Me-"
her seventy-first picture since
coming to Hollywood in 1888,
following some thirty Broadway
stage plays.
Miss Byington made several
of her first film appearances at
M-G-M, in such pictures as "Mu-
tiny on the Bounty and "Ah,
Wilderness" Her latest role also
was at the same studio, with
Judy Garland and Johnson in
"In the Good Old Summertime" "
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Deborah Kerr Cast
In Haggard Classic

HOLLYWOOD - Deborah
Kerr has been selected for the
all-star cast of Metro Goldwyn-
Mayors production of king
Solomon's Mines" Role fodlows
Miss Kerr's current performance
in "Please Believe Me-"
Compton Bennett, who has
just finished direction of "The
Forsyte Saga" has been named
todirect the perturbation of the
H. Rider Haggard classic.
The new picture will be shot
in British Kenya Colony and
Belgian protectorate of Ruan-
da, according to Sam Zimbalist,
who will produce the Technical
or film based on Haggard's So
year-old classic. Picture is sched-
uled to start October 1.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26

Spikes fabulous array of Zany
instruments will be heard as part
of his Musical Depreciation
Revue of 1885," to be presented
at the Toledo Sports Arena on
Sunday, September 18th at $50
P. M.
The musical circus will in
clude spectacular new arrange
ments of william Tell Over
ture," "All l Want for Christ
mas Is My Two Front Teeth, "
Dance of the Hours" my Old
Flame" and of course, the clas-
sic standards, Cocktails For
Two" Hawaiian War Chant, !"
and "Chloe"
Already named Man of the
Year" by the nations hardware
dealers for lifting kitchen uten-
sils and workshop tools to the
high cultural level of the music
room," Spike is always on the
alert for some new muslcal
nightmare.
An Oakland, Calf. inventor
made a quick sale when he way
laid Spike backstage and played
"Humoresque" on 13 tuned Fit
guns.
Jones didn't hire the per-
former, but bought the lethal
music-makers for so bucks.
Another inventor i n v d e d
Spikes hotel room and sold him
two and a half octaves of tuned
doorbells.
Jones is still unhappy, how
ever, over one invention he
bought - made of piece of
rubber hose, locomotive whistle
and parts of an egg beater.
Seems the inventor slipped away
and disappeared without show
ing him how to play the darn
thing.
Tickets are now available at
the Sports Arena Box Office, at
the downtown ticket agency in
the B. R. Baker Company and
our box office in West Toledo
at the Buckeye Paint & Varnish
Store at the corner of Manhat-
tan and Cherry.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26

honkey-tonk in Betty CRADLES
new Technicolor picture, WA
bash Avenue"
The locale is is Chicago, 1898.
To show you how different the
role is from what you might ex-
pect from Phil Harris on the
screen, the role was originally
written for Paul Douglas. An
other part came along at the
studio which they thought fitted
Douglas to better advantage.
Radio funny man Jack Paar
recently completed his role in
the new Victor Mature-Lucille
Ball Starrer. In this one Paar
portrayed a press agent.
The young comic, like Bergen
and Harris, is interested in get
ting established in movies in
straight roles.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Dan Daley
Dances Way
To Film Fame

Dan Daley, who parlayed a
pair of dancing shoes and
broad -brimmed straw hat into
movie stardom, is pinching him
self these days to see if it's all
true.
He admits that he is confused
by his success and he wasn't
really sure that his name had
marquee proportions until his
bosses at Twentieth Century
Fox called him from the set Of
You're My Everything" one
day and suggested that he buy
some new clthes, get a new car
and look and dress like a movie
star.
1t took Daley Is years to
reach his present position. He
flopped at every job he had -
grocery clerk, golf caddy and
shoe salesman - except hoofing.
He started as a $35-a-week dan
Ger at the New York Roxy the
atre but was replaced by Van
johnson when he got better
opportunity in the musical
STARS In Your Eyes" When
the road company of II Married
An Angel" reached Los Angeles
Daley was signed by M-G-M
but he never got chance to
dance in even one of the twenty
pictures he made at that studio.
To years ago Daryl Zanuck
needed a dance star to play op-
posite Betty Cradle in Mother
Wore Tights" and signed Daley
for the job.
81 started hoofing again." he
said, "and that's just what was
cut out for. I can't sit down I'm
always in hassel."
Daley really typifies the
vaudevillian on the screen and
in his role in You're My Every
thing" the new Twentieth-C Cen
tury-Fox musical now showing
at the Paramount theatre he is
practically reenacting his life.
He was brought up with show
people who lived in his fathers
hotel in Baldwin L. l. and that's
how he got his yen for show
business. He danced his way
through vaudeville, burlesque
and musical comedy, has had
plenty of laughs while doing it
and is now collecting many
times the $40 weekly salary he
got in the early days.
Daley has Anne Batter for his
co-star in "You5re My Every
thing and he sings and dances
with 10-year-old Shari Robinson,
who makes her screen debut in
the picture. They were happy
combination for Hollywood's S
smiling hoofer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26

which has just started filming
with Alan Ladd and Phyllis Cal
vert in the starring roles. Ex-
tensive location shooting for this
picture is currently under way
near Chicago. Lewis Allen is
the director and the producer is
Robert Fellows.
Filming on location in Italy
this week will be the new Hal
Wallis production, september,
with Joan Fontaine and Joseph
Gotten in the lead roles and Will
liam Dieterle directing.
Bing Crosby's next big-scale
starrer, 'Mr. Music" is set for
a September start. Richard
Haydn, who directed ID r
Wife," and the highly successful
"Miss Tatlock's Millions" will
direct the new film.
Also during September, the
initial George Stevens project
for Paramount is scheduled to
go before the camera. This film
will mark the second Paramount
of Montgomery Cliff
who gains new laurels with his
performance in William Wyler's
''The Heiress."
Three major productions are
scheduled to get under way in
October. Producer-director Will
liam Wyler will launch Sister
Carrie" b ased on Theodore
Dreiser's first and acknowledged
greatest novel, with an all-star
cast. The initial treatment is
now being written by Ruth and
Augustus Goetz, who authored
both the hit play and the screen
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Don't Start A
Forest Fire
By RUTH TAYLOR

HAVE you ever seen a forest
IL fire? Fortunately I have
never been close to one, but
lust a short time ago l saw
a forest fire from the air. 1t
was miles away but there was
menace in that mass of rising
smoke. I thought of the hor-
rible deadness of land that
lbeen burned over-of the
n IS that would not grow
because of that flame. And I
wondered who had been care
less.
For carelessness is the great
est cause of all fires. People
who did not think, who neg
lected to take common pre-
cautions, who were too inter-
ested in themselves to see
what a conflagration they
might start, who took chances.
AS in the case of forest
fires, so it is with other con-
flagrations. 1t is the careless
word, the selfish act that
gives the spark which the
winds of prejudice cause to
flame into raging inferno,
The parent, who before a
cod thoughtlessly condemns
a group because of the action
of one of its members, starts
a fire of dislike in that child's
mind, which, feeds upon mis-
understanding, may flame in
to a blaze of hatred when the
child is grown. Such a fire
hurts not only the people
against whom it is leveled,
but the child himself, for it
corrodes his ability to judge
individuals on their own
merits.
The worker who shirks on
his job, who demands more
than he gives, starts a flame
against the whole rank of
honest workers. The employ
er, who in selfish self-interest,
thinks more of his profits
than of the men and women
who make them for him, feeds
- flame of communism. The
|tician who with his eyes
on the next election, COM
promises, bubbles and in
dulges in sharp dealings,
starts fire against the gov
ernment of which he is a part.
The member of a minority
group who makes nuisance
of himself, who carries a chip
on his shoulder, who cries
"anti-whatever-h r-his- -group-may-
be" when anyone disagrees
with him, starts a hC-ocaust
against that group. The mem
ber of the majority, who takes
sp e al advantages, who
strides roughshod over the
minority, starts a fire against
the majority which may well
destroy it.
The careless generality, the
oart-aleck wise crack, the
boastful assumption of an idea
as a fact, the inconsiderate ac-
ton - these are the lighted
matches we cast aside. If they
fall on wood, dried in the heat
of misfortune, we have started
a flame which may spread,
devouring all that lies in its
path.
Take care lest YOU start a
forest fire!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
COWBOY HABERDAsHER

Now it's Gene Autry, haber-
dasher. Not content with owning
radio stations, theaters, music
publishing houses, airfields, fac
tories, ranches, rodeos, oil fields,
ETC., Autry now has opened a
swank mems furnishings shop in
the Adams Hotel in Phoenix,
Arizona. It is called Gene
Autry's Branding Iron"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Aid TO Ecuador

NEW YORK (LPA) - Four
CIO unions-the Auto Workers,
Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers, Steelworkers, and Textile
Workers - have each donated
$1,000 to a fund for relief of
families left homeless by the
eat hquake in Ecuador. An
n hcement of the gift was
made by Jacob S. Potofsky,
Amalgamated president n and
chairman of the CIO Latin
American Affairs Committee.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
Anfi-cIO Sheet Folds

M / N N E A POLLS (LPA) -
II e avy unemployment" was
given as the reason for the fold
ing this month of Midwest
Guardian, weekly publication
started a year ago to oppose the
official organs of the Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Illinois CIO. The
Guardian had followed the pro-
Communist line in its criticisms
Of ~CIO policies.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
AUTHOR! AUTHOR.

Jane CoWl, appearing with
Barbara Stanwyck and John
in Paramount's "The Lie" is
writing a book on acting tech
nique and personal experience
in the theatre witch she is It'll
ing Here Is My Contract" Mac
MILAN is due to publish Y
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26
FIRST TEAMING

HOLLYWOOD - K a h ryn
GINS romantic Technicolor mu-
Grayson and Mario LAMA are
teamed for the first time in NJ
Sical, THAT Midnight Kiss"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-26

Of the three, Bergen perhaps
has gone farther afield.
/. For years Edgar Bergen and
Charlie Mccarthy have been as
close in radio as the names Sears
and Roebuck. However, Bergen
has stored Charlie away and ac-
cepted a co-starring role, minus
Charlie, in Paramount's Cap
tain China" being produced by
William Pine and William
Thomas.
In the sea adventure Bergen
plays a travelling Swede aboard
a tramp steamer. Bergen DOM
ed a character wardrobe and
"aged" himself with face lines,
grey hair and specs.
"I've always wanted to do
straight parts without Charlie,
Bergen admitted. This is a
comic role, more or less, but 1t
is entirely foreign to my radio
character" he added.
Last year Bergen did a like
assignment in Il Remember
Mama"
"A change of pace is good for
every entertainer" Bergen rea-
soned. "Of course, the ideal
situation would be if / could
only get Charlie to work without
me-then / could really take 1t
easy"
Over at goth Century-Fox Phil
Harris is going straight. He,
doesn't sing. He doesn't lead
band. He's playing the owner OF
nickname because, around their
ranch, she looks like a tomboy.
Her favorite "at home" togs are
dungarees and an old sweater
and straw hat.
Gordon McRae is considered
unusual by his contemporaries
at Warmers because whenever
he does a love scene he has
his wife present to act as his
technical adviser" Results
prove that it's an excellent
idea.
X
Barbara StanWyck, whose au-
burn hair i snow mostly a beau
tiful gray, refuses to dye it for
films. She feels that would be
dishonest Anyway, she thinks
dyed hair looks artificial and
gray hair is usually becoming