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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-08

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the chance of recovering millions
of dollars in CT insurance money.
There are a few veterans who
haven't as yet mailed in their
requests. Forms may be picked
up at your local post Office or at
the Army and Air Force Recruiting
Office in Rockville.
Evening star., 1949-12-18

telephone switchboard and then
came East for summer stock.
Soon she was on the night club
circuit, singing, acting and play
ing her own accompaniment. She
wrote all her own material
After a brief fling last season
in Morey Amsterdam's "Hilar-
Iities," which closed faster than
you can say Arthur Treacher,
Nancy met friend who had just
gotten an addition for George
Abbott's Touch and Co."
The friend had simply written
letter asking for the addition.
Although this was highly un-
orthodox, Nancy did the same.
She got the job, singing her own
II Want to Be the Model on the
Cover of Novel; Historical
novel, that is.
No More Snubs.
I'm the out-of- town tryouts," :"
she said, every one told me I'd
get good reviews in New York.
But I remained skeptical to the
end. Then when I got those nice
notices they scared me so much
lived on nothing but aspirin for
two days"
Before the show nobody ever
wanted to interview her. Right
after, she received a call from
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Stay Before the Cameras
Is Illusions Sage Advice
By Howard c. Heyn

much better chance of gaining
stardom than the player who sits
around waiting for plushy parts.
"A newcomer can't afford to
worry about how good a script is,
or whether the film is an "A or a
B." The film may turn out to
be a stinker, but If he's good in it
he'll be remembered. You have
to keep working in this business or
they'll soon forget you"
Huston thinks that professional
vanity has ruined more careers
than any other single failing.
Many a kid turns down a bit part
because he feels his friends. and
the studio, will think less of his
ability if he takes small role.
But the actor who consistently re-
fuses these small roles is slowly
but surely committing professional
suicide"
Walter is convinced that all di-
rectors pay particular attention to
the casting of minor parts. Sue
cess OF failure of many sequences
in picture depends upon the less
er players. Not even the star
says Huston, can carry every
scene.
And, in many cases, the minol
roles are more interesting" hi
added. II speak from experience
I've played a lot of them, for my
son John, you know"
Evening star., 1949-12-18
HOLLYWOOD.

Says Walter Huston:
"I can't understand the young
sters in this business who are con-
stantly refusing parts because
they think they are too small, or
don't pay enough. These kids
don't seem to realize that the i'm
portant thing in this town is to
get in front of the camera as often
as you can. Nothing else matters. y
That comes from man who, at
65, has been in show business Al
years, in films 20. He ought to
know. mad he does know. He has
an Oscar" and he now has the
money to loaf. He earned both
But it took him a long time to
reach a successful one-picture-a-
year level.
Huston's 1949 role is in Hal
Wallis "The Furies." co-starrine
with Barbara Stanwyck and Wen
dell Corey. Next year he'll have
a character part in "Quo Vadis,
to be directed in Rome by his son
John. Meanwhile he'll tinker with
furniture in the woodshop of his
mountain village home at Run
ming Springs, IS miles from Holly
wood.
A nice life, if you can get 1t
One reason it isn't easy to get
says Walter, is that movie pro-
ducers have short memories; tht
actor who works steadily has
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Ho||ywoods Most Turbulent 1949
Was q Sorry Year for Poor Cupid
Divorces of Noted Stars Numbers Never Before Approached
Bouqht the Movie Colony Record Amount OF Notoriety

and his actress wife, Wanda Hen
dirk, was a 20 to !. or better,
item in the bookie charts weeks
before it occurred. but their cur
rent reconciliation was unpre-
dicted. In the face Of repeated
reports and public disturbances,
no one thought Jane Wyman
would go through with her plans
to divorce Ronald Reagan-but
she did.
A Near Tragedy.
The two most-separated couples
in films-the F'ranchot Tones and
the Cornell Wildes-finally decided
to carry their ruptured relations
into court for final DEGREES. Near
tragedy trailed Tones break when
his ex-wife. Jean Wallace, at
tempted suicide.
Other 1949 divorces: The Brian
Donlevys, Shelley Winters from
Mack Mayer, Patti Andrews from
Marty Melchoir, Doris Day from
George Weidler, Nancy Walker
from Gar Moore, Gloria De Haven
from John Payne, Fay Emerson
from Elliott Roosevelt, June
Horne from Jackie Cooper, Evelyn
Keyes from John Huston, Deanna
Durbin from Felix Jackson, Ginger
Rogers from Jack Briggs. Ellen
Drew from Cy Bartlett, Margaret
Whiting from Hubbell Robinson,
Martha Vickers from A. c. Lyles,
Betty Jane Rase from Mickey
Rooney. the Edward Arnolds. the
Zachary SCOTS, Edith Barrett
from Vincent Price and Edna
Shelton from Frank Borzage.
Yes, sir-the dimple-kneed kid
with the bow and arrow has taken
a whipping in 1949 he'll never
forget!
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Evening star., 1949-12-18
Coming Attractions
AMBASSADOR THE Lao

AMBASSADOR - THE Lady
Takes a Sailor" with Jane
Wyman, starting Saturday.
CAPITOL - Ambush" with
Robert Taylor, starting Sat-
urday.
COLUMBIA - Challenge to
Lassie," with E d m un d
Gwenn; starting Saturday.
DUPONT - Germany Year
Zero" starting Friday.
KEITH'S Holiday Affair"
with Janet Leigh. starting
Wednesday.
| METROPOLITAN - Foreign
Correspondent" with La
raine Day. starting Satur-
day.
LITTLE - Never Give a
| Sucker an Even Break" )"
with w. C. Fields, starting
Wednesday.
NATIONAL-Tell It to the
Judge" with RQsalind Rus
sell.
PALACE-"Dancing in the
| Dark" with William Powell,
starting Saturday.
PLAYHOUSE Tight Little
Island" with Basil Radford.
TRANS-LUX-"Pirates of Ca
pri," with Louis Hayward,
starting Sunday.
WARNER-"The Lady Takes
a Sailor" with Jane Wy
man. starting Saturday.
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Premiere Abroad
First Since War,
BY the Associated Press
HOIJ,vWNOn

A distinct novelty since the war
will be the overseas premiere of a
Hollywood film. complete with
such trappings as arc lights, celeb
rites. music and speech making.
The affair is tentatively set for
January 20, in Berlin, and the pic
ture will be Francis" a wartime
comedy. At the invitation of the
United States Air Force, Univer-
sal-International will fly group
of stars, headed by Donald O'Con-
nor, to Germany to launch the
special showings for American oc-
cupational forces.
Following the premiere the stars
will entertain CTS at several
points in the American zone. The
movie contingent will be flown
back to Hollywood February l.
Francis" incidentally. is the
name of talking mule in the pic
ture.
Evening star., 1949-12-18
HOLLYWOOD.

With only two weeks before the
deadline. Hollywood historians
were quite ready today to concede
that 1949 will take its unenvied
place in the record books as
movietown's most turbulent.
Everything happened. From
sagging box Offices to internation-
al escapades that held f1rst-page.
banner-line interest over weeks
and weeks of bated-breath read
ing. Hollywood had one solid i'm
pact after another. 1t was year
that brought the town more un-
savory notoriety than it's had
since the era of Fatty Arbuckle,
Wally Reid and Mary Miles Min
ter.
Everything happened to Hol-
lyWood's social strata. Included
were Jail sentences, attempted sui
cides, elimination of whirlwind
romance which united a rowing
prince and the screens most
glamorous star. astonishing run
away of the most revered woman
star with an Italian director, and
topping them all for shockers-
the wrecked marriage of the little
actress enshrined in the hearts of
fandom since childhood.
Never a stranger to Hollywood,
divorce in 1949 took a toll never
before approached. In fact. 1949
has racked up such a steady pro-
cession of separations among the
big-name folks that in recording
them it might save time to list
only those couples who still re-
main-supposedly at least-hap-
PLY married.
Although rumored for months,
Evening star., 1949-12-18

a famed Broadway columnist.
II got so excited" Nancy said.
"I thought he'd take me to the
Stork Club or the Colony. So I
borrowed a friends mink stole
and her new hat and was ready.
The fellow picks me up and says
where would you like to go and
I says. in my airiest manner, oh.
just anywhere. and ended up in
a beer joint on Eighth avenue"
Nancy thought a moment and
added, "One thing about success.
the people who used to snub you
don't any more
At this point the waiter came
back.
Hes gone" he said.
Who's gomez"
Arthur Treacher."
ooh, really!" Nancy Andrews
said, with wonderfully over
played sigh.
Evening star., 1949-12-18
By Harold Heffernon

the 5O-word statement from
broken hearted Shirley Temple in
early October that she was divorc-
ing John Agar. was the colony's S
most profoundly shocking news
story of the year. Rita's shenan-
igans with Prince Ally and Ingrid' S
equally publicized escapades on
Stromboli Isle won lots of space
day after day, held reader interest
feverishly-but those so words
from Shirley shattered fandom's S
one last-remaining illusion about
the steadfastness of movie folks.
Cupid in 1949 took licking un-
paralleled in all the 40 years the
movies have been operating here
abouts. Latest figures show %
divorces, 10 separations and a
dozen broken engagements among
the name performers OF the town.
Multiply by two and you get more
than 100 broken dreams, If not
broken hearts.
| While the most stunning domes-
! tic-bliss blows of the year came
from Ingrid and Shirley, the peak
in dramatic thunderbolts was
reached by Nora Eddington in her
divorce from Enrol Flynn and the
merry-go-round events that sub
sequently trailed this action. After
freeing herself from Flynn, Nora
went straight into the arms Of
Singer Dick Haynes, who, in turn
had just been unhitched from
Actress jeanne Dru. who almost
Immediately married John Ire
land, who a few days before had
said goodbye to a previous wife
in divorce court. All this chain
reaction might have been made
complete except for Flynn, who
has since done nothing more
romantic than get his name linked
with rowing Rumanian princess.
Reconciliation Notes.
First-class dramatic suspense
was provided. too, in the divorce
suits fled-and later withdrawn
against Victor Mature and John
Sherry. the husband of Bette
Davis. In both instances, the
grieved mates decided, after all
the printed fireworks, to give their
spouses lone more chance" Ul-
timatums issued as essential
requisites to reconciliation were
oddities: Miss Davis insisted her
husband must continue treat
ments with a psychiatrist, and
Mrs. Mature said her fun-loving
husband must reside in sedate,
9 O'Clock Pasadena. Both armis-
tices were functioning at this
writing.
Rumors of impending divorce
are invariably smoked out by the
gossip writer's weeks or months
before they actually reach the
court blotters. but Joan Fontaine
managed to keep her plans for
breaking with Producer-Husband
William Dozier, a fast secret until
taking off on a European picture
making jaunt last summer. This
one caught even close friends by
surprise.
The parting of Audie Murphy
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Little Known Nancy Andrews
lis Broodwoy's Comedy Sensation
Means People Who Used Snub Her Don't Anymore,
But the Money Still Seems Just to Go Away Somewhere
By Soul Petit
NEW YORK

NEW 1ofth.
A year ago Nancy Andrews was
little known. Today she's the COM
edy sensation of the hit revue,
Touch and Co."
She and a reporter were discuss
ing her skyrocket success in a
small restaurant just of Broadway
when q waiter came over.
"See that fellow over there?'
he asked confidentially. That's
Arthur Treacher. We get all the
celebrities in here"
Nancy Andrews ever come in
tere?" asked the reporter, who is
kind of mean.
Sure, sure" the waiter said.
But she amt here now"
Nancy Andrews cringed, but
after moment of mock pain sum-
moned the courage to go on. The
conversation logically turned to
the theme that success isn't al
ways what it seems.
Money, for example," said the
brown-haired, shapely singer and
comedienne. Il don't seem to have
any more money than when was
playing the small night clubs. It
just goes somewhere. I'm still
broke"
Good for a Loan.
But the critics loved her and
their reviews recently helped at a
bank. Nancy went there for loan
to buy a sheared fox coat. There
was some delay until the man in
the credit department recognized
her. On her application. she had
merely identified herself as an
actress" He crossed that out
and made 1t read "Star of Touch
and Go. The loan went through.
Then there's Victor" Nancy
said. HE runs the elevator in
our apartment building. Before
the show. 1 was just one of the
passing throng Now, since the
reviews. he takes every oppor-
tunity when the car is crowded
to ask. Matinee today, Miss An
drews?' or. The show run off okay
last night, Miss Andrews?' I'm
sure my neighbors must think ]
give him his lines"
The young star was born in
Minneapolis, but at IA moved to
Los Angeles, where she played the
lead in Pride and Prejudice. -
No role could have been further
from the mugging, rollicking
satire she plays now.
| Nancy worked her way through
the Pasadena Playhouse at the
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Today's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"A Farewell
to Arms: l, $40, $40 and
8 pm.
CAPITOL-"B Border Incl
dent: 1:45, 4:25, 7:10 and
$50 pm. Stage shows:
3:35, $40 and Q pm.
c o L q M B I A. Johnny
Eager: 1870, 3:35. $40,
7:45 and $50 pm.
DUPONT-"Major Barbara:
1:05, $40, Sis, 1870 and
$50 pm.
-"They Live by
Night: lis. 3:15. $40.
1920 and 9:25 pm.
METROPOLITAN -"Guadal-
canal Diary: $50, 6:15 and
$40 pm.
IL T T L E-"The Invisible
Man: 2:40, 5::25 and $40
pm.
NATIONAL-"David Harum"::
1:05, 2::45. 4:25, sos, 7:5O
and $50 pm.
PALACE-"Oh. You Beautiful
Doll":: Ills. 1925, $50.
TAO and $50 pm.
-"Venus of Parjs". 3.05.
$50 and $50.
PLAYHOUSE-"All the Kings
Men: 1::25. $3.50, 5:35, 7:45
and 9::55 pm.
TRANS LUX -"Ho lay
Inn: /, 2:45, 4:30, $40,
sos and 9:55 pm.
WARNER "The Hatchet
Man: 12:45, 800, 6 and
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Building Owners Warned by F Foy

she has been guarded since she re.
ported last week she was threat
ened with violence if she testified
further. Asked today whether any
other witnesses have received
threats. Mr.. Fay said. I'D rather
not say anything about that at
this time"
One Man Still Sought.
One more man, in addition to
the 33 already arrested, Is being
sought by Mr.. Fays Office, it was
learned.
Meanwhile, another grand jury
that began taking evidence yester-
day in the case of Taxicab Driver
James Rowell, was in recess today.
Rowell repeatedly was beaten at
Thomas Circle last January IA un-
der mysterious circumstances. He
testified almost two hours before
the grand jury yesterday.
Later he refused to comment,
except to say he had been asked
to return for further testimony
tomorrow. Two other witnesses
yesterday were Police Pvts. Del
mar F.. Reed and Maurice w.
McClanahan.
The report to be released by
Maj. Barrett on the gambling
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Syria
Continued From First Page)

(COntlnued FTOm FIrSC PageJ
during the war to forestall any
German stroke there, proclaimed
Syria S independence at Damascus
September q, 1941.
Elections to Syria's parliament
were held in July, 1947.
Evening star., 1949-03-30

situation is being prepared b.
Special Assistant Corporation
Counsel Daniel B. Maher. Com.
missioner John Russell Young as.
signed Mr.. Maher to Maj. Bar
rett's Office Monday.
Prince Georges Jury to Meet.
The conference between Mr.. Fay
and States Attorney Bowie o1
Prince Georges County will be hello
as soon as is mutually convenient
Mr.. Fay said. Mr.. Bowie returned
from vacation yesterday and had
not heard of the raids or other
developments. He telephoned Mr..
Fay's Office twice but received no
return call. he said.
Mr.. Fay explained he did not
return to his Office until late in
the day and because of several
other scheduled conferences de-
cided to wait until today to get
in touch with Mr.. Bowie.
The Prince Georges County
grand jury will meet Monday,
possibly for consideration of gam
bling cases. Attorney James j.
Laughlin of Washington was in
vited to appear before the jury
April 8 to amplify earlier state
ments he made concerning gam
bling operations in the county.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Grave Concern Voiced
By Acheson Over GI's
Sentencing by Czechs
By the Associofsd Press

Secretary of State Acheson said
today the United States views
with grave concern" the secret
conviction in Czechoslovakia OF
two American soldiers charged
with spying.
Mr.. Acheson said the American
Government fully supports the
action of Ambassador Joseph E.
Jacobs, who filed a prompt pro-
test yesterday in Prague against
the manner in which the two
soldiers were tried and sentenced.
In a formal statement, the Sec
retary said that before deter
mining what further measures
may be taken by the United States,
the State Department will await a
formal statement by the Czecho-
slovak government and the re-
suits of promised interviews with
the prisoners by American officials.
The Communicated Czechoslo-
yak government announced yes
terday that Recruit Clarence r.
Hill, 81. has been sentenced to II
years at hard labor and Recruit
George H. Jones, %, to 10 years.
They had been held since Decem;
Der 10 when, American officials
said, they wandered across the
border from the. American zone 2f
Germany.
Mr.. Acheson said their convic-
ton was announced suddenly
without prior notification. The
two men, he said, were denied
contact with the Embassy and
were convicted without due re-
gard for the normal rights and
safeguards to which an accused
should be entitled insofar as this
Government is aware"
Mr.. Acheson noted that the
Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs
has said a note is being sent to
the Embassy on the subject and
has promised arrangements will
be made for American officials to
interview the two men next week.
Evening star., 1949-03-30

ination of these admittedly woulc
weaken the local measure. but il
was thought wise to leave them
out because they are not in the
national bill.
Decontrol in Hotels.
Hotels with less than so rooms
for transients would be decon-
trolled under another amendment
The present law does not consider
an ablishment Of that size a
hotel for purposes of decontrol
Senator Mccarthy emphasized his
amendment would make no
change in the law which keeps un-
der control apartments in hotels
or rooming houses for permanent
guests.
Language of the national rent
bill to restrict evictions in CO.
operative apartment houses was
substituted for that in the Dis
trict bill. But the only practical
effect would be to change the ef-
fective date from March l, as
specified in the House bill to the
date when the bill becomes law.
This clause would prohibit evic-
ton of tenants who refused to
buy apartments, unless IS per cent
of the tenants become owners.
New power would be given the
administrator on the decontrol
of accommodations. when build
ings are renovated to make more
living quarters available. No new
family units so created could be
decontrolled until the admins
traitor issued an order that the
quarters constituted additional
family units
Another new amendment would
prohibit recontrol of anything
that had ever been decontrolled
Senator McGrath praised ad-
ministration of rent control in
the District. He said rent in
creases had been granted on
more than 80 per cent of the
dwellings under control. The av-
erage increase has been a little
less than 10 per cent. he said.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Buckner, Two Others Get
Jail Terms in GAMBLING
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 30.-Two
gamblers and a press agent were
sentenced to prison terms yester-
day for staging a Park avenue
penthouse party in which social
ties allegedly were gypped of siz-
able sums In the name of charity
The sentences, which appeared
to stun the defendants. were i'm
posed after Assistant District At
torney Vincent A. G. O'Connor
said the party was "a miniature
Monte Carlo on Park avenue in
q lavishly- fitted penthouse with
an orchestra, a buffet supper and
all the finest of liquor
William Buckner, AZ, and Ste
phen S. Tolk. So, were sentenced
to a year each in the City Peni-
tentiary. Charles (Chic) Farmer,
Al, q press agent, was given a six
month term.
Special Sessions Justice Nathan
D. Perlman termed Buckner and
Tolk professional gamblers" and
added:
II serve notice by this sentence
that we will deal severely with
professional gamblers who engage
in this type of gambling enter
prises."
An automatic machine now can
remove coal from seams and place
1t in mine cars.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Compromise Rent Bill
Expected 10 Be Signed
Quickly by Truman
By Chris Muthisen

President Truman is expected
to give his approval today or to-
morrow to the compromise legis-
lation for a 15-month extension
of rent controls. voted by the
Senate and House yesterday.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G.. Ross said he did not
know whether the President would
issue statement on the legisla-
tion. The bill reached the White
House last night.
Although the measure is sub
stantially short of the two-year
extension and tightening Of con-
trolls he had asked, Mr.. Truman
had the assurances of his stra-
tegists on both sides of the Capt.
tol that the present bill is the best
they could hope to produce.
Law Expires Tomorrow.
Present controls are scheduled
to expire at midnight tomorrow,
and both chambers acted quickly
to beat the deadline.
The bill. as passed. is COM
promise worked out by Senate and
House conferees, after the two
houses approved varying meas
ures. The final Senate vote was
IS to II, the House 263 to 143.
House Majority Leader McCor-
mack said it was his opinion there
will be no large rent increases
under the bill, and that most con-
trolled rents probably won't be
raised at all. N
Will End Black Market
Representative Patman, Demo-
crat, of Texas said Housing Ex-
pediter Tighe Woods restored
eviction-control power and right
to sue for triple damages on over
charges would mean "a rollback
Of illegal rents and an end to a
rent black market"
Senate action came first yester-
day. Before the voting, the con-
ferees' report was given a vigor-
GUS pounding by objectors to
wording of the so-called fair re-
turn" clause.
The conference language. as
adopted. instructs the Housing
Expediter to make such adjust
ments in rents as will assure
landlords a fair net operating in
come"