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LOS ANGOIS DALY JATUIMY. JUKI 11 1111- 0 Norton TOLEDO. Today am going to be awfulljT sweet to tha Women and tell them how to get their homework dona. You see, on this trip back to Ohio, got a chance to aaa my mother, and have a talk with her about dusting. Also about this efficiency of Eleanor Roosevelt.

-Id been aavlng up some Information about Mrs. Roosevelt for Mother because think all women and men, HOUR GLASS GIRU-lnez Claire headlines old-time burlesque show now. on stage of the Follies Theater. Bill Ainsley, comedian, cavorts with lineup of show girls. Midnight show tonight.

Film review 'Mourning Ilccomcg EIcctra9 (Mourning Becomes Electro opened yesterday Ot the Orpheum, Belmont Ml Roy, Culver and Vogue Theaters. Reprinted In part from Deo. SH7 editions.) "Mourning Becomes Electra is magnificent theater. Until now that spine tingling excitement which occurs In the presence of great acting and powerful writing has been confined almost exclusively to It has remained for Dudley Nichols and a superb cast to the stage. quite as Inspired as the theater.

too, are interested in her; Id been in Dayton the other day when a Mrs. J. Elbert Thomas came up to the desk where I was autographing books. "No, X-don't Want your autograph, she began. "Hmmm," petulated.

"No, I don't collect autographs, she said, "I collect handshakes. "Handshakes are more convenient to collect, she went on. "You don't have to clip them out, or paste them up and best of all, you don't have to dust them. hate dusting. She was pretty she said, at; her doctor, who had told her not to do certain housework because of her health.

But thia doc- tor was a real rat because he told her it was all right for her' to dust V. And this brought us around, a little too. abruptly, perhaps, to the way Mrs. Roosevelt gets things done. I wonder If there's any busier woman.

First of all, she starts her Christmas shopping a year ahead. She starts next years holiday shopping before New Years and has it all done by July or August That way she never gets into any holiday rushes that fake so much time. "Keep moving is another of Mrs. Roosevelts secrets. When shes at a reception, or meeting, or walking down -the street, and somebody comes up to ask her something, she doesnt stop at least, not.

for long. She keeps moving' and they are required to walk along with her, toward wherever she's going. Besides that, she has the ability to concentrate completely on the matter at hand. Suppose go to Interview her. She permits no phone calls or interruptions and, when it seems I have almost talked myself out, she says, Thank you very much for coming, and bang! ahe's rid of me! One of her other traits ought not be discussed by a saloon editor like me.

Mrs. Roosevelt dafesn't waste time drinking. One little highball is as strong as she'll go and she gulps that pretty fast, to get the nasty stuff out of her sight. And, so I'm told, she always feels so bright-eyed and energetic next day that if the matter came up, she would even be happy dusting. I hope, all women folk will go and do likewise.

And Just know they will, too. fO HOLLY-WOOD:" Bob Hopes investing in a 'dairy enterprise. Hollywood hears that L. B. Mayer la once more interested in race horses.

Lena Horne nixed the concert tour MCA had booked for her. Frank Sinatras In town getting ready for personal appearances. Seaman Jacobs tells of the actor who told critic George Jean Nathan, "I haven't found the right show yet. What kind of a play would ike to see me in? Nathan answered, "Preferably a triple play unassisted. When some of those gentlemen farmers boast they live by the pen, they really mean they raise pigs.

Carole Lynne knows a gal hod like to get married, but she hasn't! 1 With the Berles remarried, Milton has re-Joyced. That's Earl, brother. YIPEEI Velma Cragin dons western costume for lavish show number in. "Vanities" at Earl Carroll's club in Hollywood. Featured are thvfmost beautiful girls in the world." Pinky Lee handles demonstrate that Hollywood can be When Eugene ONeill advanced the "Oresteia" to the Clvil War period and set its action in New England, he created a stupendous thriller which held theater spectators in their seats from 5 oclock until after midnight, with time out only for a sandwich.

Russell In compressing O'Neills 14-act trilogy into normal length' screenwriter-director Nichols has sacrificed none of the quality of the writing and eliminated none of the steps to this mounting wholesale tragedy. Only the suggestion of Incest toward the last has been dropped, but this detracts nothing from the Orln-OresteS role. The picture gathers suspense and tension as it progresses from murder to murder, suicide to suicide, and in the Intervals between violence the power of the performances is almost spellbinding In its effect Rosalind Ruasell has never before approached in scope the dimensions of this role of Lavinia Mannon, the 1865 version of Electra. She ahades the part expertly, as she moves from darkness to light to the final Stygian blackness of self punishment It is Lavlnias Jealousy of her mother which motivates the series of tragedies, jealousy bred equally by her inordinate devotion to her father and the discovery that the man she loves is her mothers lover. Dressed always In Mack, Miss Russell moves like grim, self- Filin review 'The Harkleys of IKroadway9 (Drama-Music Editor) The contemporary composer, whose music the century off with fisticuffs In Paris and Berlin salons.

Is gradually getting closer to his public. Time was when audiences considered it highly unfriendly to sit quietly through a controversial new work. Good manners almost dictated that they punch a few noses so the "scandal could be irinted in the. next days press and the composer feel that he had -arrived. But now the century grows middle-aged and more sedate.

Even the Schoenberg-Stravlnsky feud patters on slippered feet to tho quiet corridors of the future. But thia has not meant that music has grown less controversial; only that audiences, piqued by the growing suspicion that music did not necessarily end with Brahms and Tschaikowsky, have become increasingly eager to meet tho modern composer half way. Pioneer groups The result has been the formation of numerous groups and societies throughout the country dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music. The recent formation of a local chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music ia only one of the signposts to an awakening Inter- est in new Other local events, such as the lecture-concerts held in the now defunct Museum of Modern Art In Beverly Hills, the American Music Festivals held on local Campuses, and the KFWB "Contemporary Music Series airwaved every Sunday afternoon, have both helped to answer the demand for unfamiliar music and to stimulate It. New local series Latest development In this direction is the "Meet the Composer series of five concerts, which will present such internationally noted figures as Ernst Toch, George Antheil.

Mario Cas-telnuovo-Tedesco, Miklos Rozza and Ernst Krenek in informal discussion with the audience following programs of their own works. The aeries 'Win be Inaugurated tomorrow night at the Assistance League Playhouse, with a concert devoted to the music of Ernst Toch, Austrian-born composer now resident here. Toch. who has achieved an International reputation as one of the more original creators in the modem idiom, will answer questions relative to his music following the performance of an early String Quartet, Op. 12, a Div-rtimento for Violin and Viola from the composer's middle period, and TPoems for Martha, a setting for baritone and string quartet, from his later works.

All programs will begin at 8 p. m. to allow for dlccussion time. Second composer in the series, which features a monthly concert at the Playhouse on DeLongpre Ave. in Holly ed, will be George Antheil, the "bad boy of musie during the middle '20a.

Series is under the sponsorship of Arts; Sciences and Professions CounciL Arrowhead Musie Camp Two full scholarships of 8800 each, as well as four, partial, scholarships, are available to outstanding musie students; vocal and instrumental, of high school and Junior college ages, for attendance at the Arrowhead Musie Camp this summer, according to trimle. camp director Leonard St Located near Lake Arrowhead, the camp starts June 26, and lasts six weeks. Students Interested can apply to Seimle, 896 E. Jefferson Pomona. Auditions win be held before tho camp topena.

John Barnett, associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is director of the camps orchestra. Dr. Hugo StreUtser, director of the opera workshop at City College, is choral director. Musie by Mozart, Beethoven, Michael Haydn and Arthur Honegger are Monday nights feature at Evenings on the Roof in the Wll-ahire Ebel Chamber Music HalL Performers are the Compinsky Quartet. "Naomi and Ruth, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos cantata for womens voice, will be featured over KFWB tomorrow at 8 p.

m.t with the City College Philharmonic Chorus under Hugh -StreUtzer. A-LEENE sparkler in "Strip gnd Slips of 49" at the Burbank Theater. Midnight show tonight. By FRANK ENG Reminiscing is one thing and trying to recapture the past quite another. Fans will reminisce while watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers attempt to recapture the old magic they engendered almost a generation ago as a top film danqp team in the new musical at the Los Angeles, Egyptian and Wilahire.

On both scores "The Barkleys f' Film, review of Broadway is going to suffer. The Astaire-Rogers combine that fans will remember was refresh- lng and vital; the original screenplay supplied by Betty Comden and Adolph Green for the current exhibit is uninspired a. completely predictable. There is an intimidating supply of gaudy aets and costumes and Astaire an equally subtle sense of camera and comedy in this new Arthur Freed production. The script often sounds as if it had been written for the "Gold-diggers of Broadway, 1929 vintage.

Taken as a brash, splashy musical, The Barkleys of Broadway may find a segment of American kUi audiences receptive to its obvious blandishments and its tired gaga. Adult filmgoers will have to find their own approach to enjoying the piece. The Comden-Green team, who turned out that Broadway hit, "On the Town, have taken a bit of "The Guardsman and many bits of every epic musical that has come off the Hollywood assembly-line and tried to turn Mias Rogers and Astaire into a song-and-dance version of the fabulous Lunts. Miss Rogers and Astaire are the celebrated Barkleys, eighth wonder of Broadway and the musical comedy world. They are going' through "an "Alphonse-Gaston routine for curtain calls at the start of the picture, and shortly thereafter prove themselves masters of the sophisticated domestic squabble.

Enter then the catty understudy for Miss Rogers and the playwright competitor for Astaire. After a particularly pointless quarrel, Miss Rogers walks right out on a bunch of Look photographers come to do a layout on the happiest married couple in the theater. She walks right into playwright Jacques Francois arms and a new 'If Happeng appointed Justice, accusing her mother first of adultery, then of murdering her father, inciting her brother to murder and driving her mother to suicide. With the mother's death the mantle of darkness falls from La-vinia's shoulders, and to match the new brightness of her costume Miss Russell plays with a warmth and gaiety that fades only as her brother's guilt complex increases. In the end, as all hope of personal happiness vanishes, ahe turns back into the house of tragedy to live out her life In darkness and alone.

Virginia Wright. MARY WELCH as Stella in "A Street Car Named Desire," Monday at Biltmoro Theater. Every Spring9 First he tests out the wonder chemical by treating a baseball with it A couple of students are mystified by the "Jump ball the professor suddenly develops. With a couple of bottles of the stuff, Milland hies himself over to the St Louis Cardinals where he brazens his way into a tryout. nobody can hit the horsehlde and, under a pseudonym, Milland becomes King Kelly, the fair-haired lad of the entire baseball world.

Meanwhile, his "disappearance1 has caused some concern on the campus, whence he had taken an indefinite 'leave of absence. Miss Peters' parents think has turned Jgangster, especially after he sends TUMghter a whopper of an engagement ring. 1 After winning the league pennant with record wins, Milland carries the Cards through a 8-8 deadlock In the World Series. On the day of the final-game, he discovers that room-mate and catcher -X'aul Douglas has been surreptitiously using his chemical form' ula as a hair, tonic. Without his magic formula Mil-land is In a tough spot, and the denouement, including his triumphal return to campus, Is strictly according to Hollywood Hoyle.

Lloyd Bacons direction is smooth and the cast Is up to the mild demands of the script Mil-land pitches with an unorthodox side-swing but In general acquits himself creditably. In support people like Ed Begley. Ray Collins and Jesaie Royce Landis supply standard portraits. By FRANK ENG Hollywood continues Its back-to-college trend in "It Happens Every Spring, romantic comedy on the screens of the iLoews State, Qu-nese. Uptown and Loyola.

This new Ray Milland vehicle is highly Improbable but fairly amusing lnts exploitation of a single wacky idea. Out of that alim little plot "gimmick, a crip tar Valentine Davies has spun a web of humor that is sufficiently diverting for its running time. Where it falters or stumbles over a rough spot, that hulk of a deft farceur, Paul Douglas, is usually on hand to pick things right back up again. True, college Peters was never like this (is it ever in but the William Perl-berg production gets in one more lick for the schoolteacher when poor Prof. Milland remarks thpt its a sad commentary on this commonwealth when grown men chasing a ball around get more pay in a single day than a teacher does in a year.

Dont get the idea that "It Happens Every Spring is "message picture, however. Xt is far too harebrained for that. Davies script, taken from his own and Shirley W. Smiths original, starts la with an accidentally, discovered chemical that repels wood. Milland is the physics instructor who stumbles upon this fact in his laboratory.

He is also a baseball fan, who fancies Seat mself something of a pitcher. In love with the presidents daughter (Jean Peters) and seeing no way of stretching his salary to accommodate, matrimony, Milland sets out to become a major league pitoher. play based on the. early years of Sarah Bernhardt As rehearsals progress, she suffers from Francois' stupid direction (although he has written a "great play). At which point enter "The Guards-Astalre, who simulates man Astaire, who aimulates a Gallic accent and proceeds to restore her confidence through telephonic direction of her role.

She opens and is a smash success In the play. The -audience is privileged to see Miss Rogers deliver the climactic scene of the vehicle, wherein she wins the Conservatoire prix by throwing away the rule books and reciting the "Marseillaise in 'phonetic French. The result la unique, although we wouldn't wager on accuracy of accent or delivery. The Barkleys Jove for one another was never in doubt, however, and within another reel they are reunited amidst urban luxury and Harry Warrens sophisticated tunes. Throughout all this, Oscar Levant adds to the films self-conscious air with his own self-conscious delivery of hoary quips.

He also sings a trio with the stars and pounds the keyboard with savage renditions of Khatchatur-lan'a "Baber Danes and the Ill-fated Tschaikowsky B-mlnor oon-certo, which is Inured to all kinds of treatment by now. Those who love Iturbt will love this too. REUNITED Douglas Fairbanks groats Joan Fontaine in "Gunga Din" reissue adventure film today at Pantages'and Hillstreet Theaters. "The Lost Patrol," with Victor McLaglen, also playing. ms msmmmm.