The White Falcon - 10.07.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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Reading- clockwise from the
lower left, here’s how “The
Women” looked to the camera-
man. Pretty Rebecca Halloway
almost stole the show with her
between-the-acts singing-; Gladys
Tregea (lefO listens to gossip as
dispensed by Betty McWatt in the
kitchen; the cast’s “bluebloods”
gather in a nitery’s powder-room;
realistic clawing and wrestling by
(L. to R.) Eleanor Flinchbaugh,
Betty Baxter, Lee Oprendek and
Florence Allen; the beauty parlor
scene, one of the show’s funniest.
Everybody Steals A Husband
As Nurses Stage ‘The Women’
All the sulfa drugs in the Command couldn’t provide as much tonic for conval-
escents at one of the local Army hospitals as the nurses did this week when they
presented their version of Clare Booth’s breezy three-act comedy, “The Women.’
It was the first time Army
nurses had, attempted to provide
entertainment for Servicemen
here. But if audience approval
can induce them to fry again,
they’d better start rehearsing
their next show now because
everybody who ventured into the
theater lauded their performance.
Hospital duties of the partici-
pants limited “The Women” to
five shows, which is the misfor-
tune of those soldiers who were
among the missing. If the nurses
could be spared from their norm-
al chores, the husband-stealing
farce definitely would enjoy a
-successful long-term run.
The play is loaded with laughs,
from the -lime naive, trusting
Mary (Eleanor Flinchbaugh)
learns from a gossipy manicur-
ist that her husband has been
indiscreet with a perfume-count-
er salesgirl until the final curtain.
Husbands of the Park Ave. set
—never seen on the stage—are
shuffled around like an “iced”
pack of cards in the hands of
a professional gambler. And
there’s no deviation from the
original script which produced
an occasional blush even among
theatergoers in the States.
Where standard props couldn’t
be found, the cast improvised its
own, and that precipitated, the
major “swindle” of “The Wo-
men.” The bathtub scene is the
show’s customary feature (if you
like that kind of stuff—and who
doesn’t?) but the girls resorted
to subterfuge by using a make-
shift cardboard substitute with
a high front and higher back.
It seems the actress in ques-
tion (Phoebe Beilman) balked at
Uninvited Guests
Are Welcome Here!
Gate-crashing Italians, by the
dozens, are sneaking into parties
of prisoners bound for Britain
from the Mediterranean, accord-
ing to reports from London. They
say they’ve had enough war.
the GI tub because it “wasn’t the
right size” to lend credence to
the scene without exposing her
well camouflaged bathing suit.
No hair-pulling, punching,
wrestling exhibition was ever
more realistic than the scene in
a Reno divorce-mill hotel when
divorce-seeking wives encounter
their husbands’ spouses-to-be.
The battle-royal is broken up
only after Miriam (Lee Opren-
dek) and Sylvia (Betty Baxter)
claw and bite each other while
wrestling on the floor with con-
vincing dexterity.
The cast was composed of
Betty McWatt, Betty Baxter, Ber-
yl Midgley, Betty Colyer, Pris-
cilla Webber, Eleanor Flinch-
baugh, Marion Evans, Mary Cour-
son, Margaret Finnigan, Eleanor
Rowe, Opal Harned, Anna Cleve-
land, Mary Belle Poole, Lena
Reese, Charlotte Siegel, Phoebe
Beilman, Carmella Masser, Glad-
ys Tregea, Florence Allen and
Lee Oprendek.
Wyoming Ranchers
Hunt Triple Slayer
Nazis Purge
Bulgarian
High Staff
Just to be on the safe side, the
Nazis have restaffed the Bulgar-
ian Army with German generals.
This news came from Sweden
this week and revealed that the
new staff has only one Bulgarian
general on it, while ten are Ger-
man and two are Italian.
Hitler apparently hasn’t for-
gotten that the collapse of Bulg-
aria was a big blow to Germany’s
cause in the first World War and
made the move with the possibil-
ity of an Allied invasion through
the Balkans in mind.
Brazil Offers
Fighting Men
To Allies
Brazil will send an expedition-
ary force if the Allied countries
consider it necessary, Brazilian
ambassador to London, J. J. Moniz
de Aragao, revealed this week.
It is doubtful, however, that
the Allies will make any man-
power demands on the South
American nation because Brazil
is contributing valuable rubber
to the war effort. More than
100,000 men have been mobilized
for rubber production and the
present output of 20,000 tons soon
will reach 50,000.
About 70,000 Brazilian factories
are working to produce supplies
for the Allies, Aragao stated.
Cantor Clan
Helps Launch
Cohan Vessel
Eddie Cantor and his family
played the leading roles when a
Liberty ship, the George M. Coh-
an, was christened at Baltimore’s
Bethlehem Fairfield yards on
July 4, birthday of the late actor
who wrote the favorite song of
World War I, “Over There.”
The banjo-eyed comedian sang
“Over There” and other Cohan
songs, including “Grand Old
Flag” and “Yankee Doodle Dan-
dy.” Cantor’s daughter, Marjorie,
christened the ship as it slid
down the ways.
Giraud, Staff Arrive
In U.S. For Confab
French Gen. Henri Giraud and
his staff arrived in Washington
this week to confer with Presi-
dent Roosevelt and U.S. military
chieftains. The French group
received official greeting as
an informal and military deleg-
ation instead of as a sovereign
entourage.
Fourth of July outings at Lara-
mie, Wyo., were called off when
three rapid killings terrified
cattlemen’s families in the area.
Instead of picnicing on the
plains, ranchers farmed posses
to comb the hills between Lara-
mie and Cheyenne for the murd-
erer.
The wave of terror started
when Mr. and Mrs. Cota, pros-
perous rancher and his wife,
were killed on entering their
home last week. The killer had
used a shotgun and had fired
from close range, police said.
Matt Katmo, a Cheyenne war
worker, was the next victim. He
was killed and Mrs. O. W. Lar-
son was beaten as they were
picking flowers in a mountain
camp grounds.
Mrs. Larson identified Howard
Pickell, 20, of Syracuse, N.Y., as
her assailant and the killer of
Katmo, but he disappeared be-
fore police could take him into
custody. Picked has a New York
police record dating from the
age of seven, and is wanted in
Syracuse for violation of parole.
Radio Schedule
TODAY
1300-1530—News; Yank Swing
Session; Symphony; Shirley
Ross; The Aldrich Family;
Jubilee.
1600-1713—Your Broadway &
Mine; Sports Round-Up; Tom-
my Dorsey.
TOMORROW
1000-1055—Chaplain’s Non-Sec-
tarian Service; Music; News.
1300-1400—Telephone Hour; Sym-
phony.
1630-1700—Hit Parade.
MONDAY
1300-1335—News; Fred Waring;
Negro Spirituals.
1600-1713—Music; Profiles; Fan-
ny Brice.
2200-2315—News; Jack Benny;
Bandwagon.
TUESDAY
1300-1335—News; Yank Swing
Session.
1600-1713—Nelson Eddy, Inter-
views; Your Broadway &
Mine.
2200-2315—News; Bob Hope;
Downbeat.
WEDNESDAY
1300-1335—News; Fred Waring;
Strauss music.
1600-1713—Symphony; Red Skel-
ton.
2200-2315—News; Charlie McCar-
thy; Bandwagon.
THURSDAY
1300-1335—News; Music.
1600-1713—Negro Spirituals; Am-
erican Art; Mail Cad.
2200-2315—News; Harry James;
Local Army Talent; Command
Performance.
FRIDAY
1300-1335—News; GI Jive; Lily
Pons.
1600-1713—Symphony; Major
Bowes.
2240-2315—News; Dinah Shore.