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"Saratoga" Again Justifies
Those Odd Film Methods
Shooting of Sequences in Haphazard Fashion
Gives Picture Credibility—Guild to Use
California for Tryouts.
—Jav Carmody.
STAGE luminaries going to Hollywood for a first cut ut cinema acting
cncountcr what they rpgard as movipdom's complet* madness when they
start their rareors in a highly pmotional scene, then spend several weeks
working back to the origin of thp pmotion. Burgess Meredith, for In
stance. was completely non-plusspd in the making of "Winterset" when the
director began to shoot the picture at the very climex of the action. To any
onp who had been accustompd to·:· — —
orderly building, whether it be of
character or baby's blocks, it seemed
wildly disconcerting. It had neither
rhyme nor reason. But it worked out
quite all light and Meredith came
back from Hollywood with a vast ad
miration for the essential sanity of
the men who ran begin at the end
and work back to the beginning
It is the same apparently haphaz
ard technique of production which
landed "Saratoga" in town this week
inch a neatly-finished product that it
Is virtually impossible to detect fill-ins
caused by the death of Jean Harlow.
A kind of paralysis settled upon
Metrc-Goldwyn-Mayer when that
blight fell, but it did not last long.
There were many feet of film to be
ahot, some of them centering around
Miss Harlow. Eventually they were
finished with deft directorial touches
so patching them into the action that
they are virtually imperceptible.
One may think aftei seeing the
film that the failure to detect them
Is due to engrossment with the pic
ture. It is true that it has a quality
of suspense that diverts attention
from even so interesting a detail as
the effort to efface the hand of death
upon the film. But it is also true
that joins bark a second time fails to
disclose any conspicuous flaws in the
sleight-of-hand by which the shadow
of the so-called grim reaper was re
moved.
The reason one sees Miss Harlow in
the final scene of the film is that
that sequence was shot when the pic
ture was but half completed. It
lends complete credibility to the
drama however incredulous the spec
tator may feel he should be.
* * * ♦
"IT IS this seemingly illogical way
of doing things that makei the
director such an important fellow
around the movie lots. Members of
the cast do not build character in
films. There is no such thing. They
contribute a series of fragments made
up of artion and speech, as different
from the continuity of stage playing
8-s chalk is different from cheese
(Or is that, a bad figure? ι It is up
to tho director to see that each of
these fragments is such that it fits
into the eventual mosaic with per
fect precision. That is why he is
such a big man in pictures, why his
job is so much more difficult than
that of the stage director and why.
sometimes, he does a so much more
unskilled job.
* * * *
^ CALIFORNIA, here comes the
Theater Guild! Not en masse to
join up with the cinema, nor with
murder in its heart for what the stage
may feel toward the movies. No, in
deed! Starting next Summer, the
guild is going to turn California into
a production base. It will take two
plays to the Coast for tryouts. four
week tryouts divided between Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
"Amphytrion 38," with the Lunts
ι which we shall have at the Na
tional this Fall) started it. When the
guild finished counting up the dol
lars-and-cents production cost of the
Pacific Coast opening of that drama
it found the figure to be about half
what it. would have been in New
York. That started the guild think
ing, just as it would you or your
Uncle John. It was a very pleasant
adventure in thinking, and the guild
kept it up until it arrived at several
other interesting conclusions.
One of the latter was that plays
which need it can be doctored into
good health under California's sun
without giving them an unsavory rep
utation in the East Errors in casting
which result in loud moans when a
play opens in these parts can be
corrected out there before the moans
can be heard all the way across the
continent.
Thpn, and importantly, the guild
has discovered that there is no place
in the world so thoroughly famished
for the legitimate stage as is Cali
fornia. Even bad plays have a better
chance there than anywhere else,
and good ones. t.ne only kind the guild
ever intends to produce, can make
! money by the scad. Every one in
I California of course has scads of
1 money. So the guild is going out
i there for the Summer n^xt, year.
Three Teams Separated
While, rneir separations are
for one picture only, three
actors are creating inter
est by working without
fiieir customary partners in forth
coming pictures. They are Nelson
Eddy. Fred Astaire and Oliyer Hardy.
In stepping into roles without their
teammates, they are following dozens
of stars who in the past have risen
to fame, paired with another, then
separated temporarily.
The most successful singing combi
nation films have ever seen is that
of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson
Eddy. Miss MacDonald played with
many other stars before she was
cast with Eddy in "Naughty Marietta,"
end has done so since that tfam was
formed. The latest was "The Fire
fly."
Eddy has never starred with any
other screen celebrity. Now he ro
mances with Eleanor Powell in "Rosa
lie." After that he will again be with
Miss MacDonald in "Girl of the Gold
en West."
The Fed Astaire-Ginger Rogers
rombination has had the same history
In the realm of dancing. Miss Rog
ers was in many films before she
teamed with Astaire and has been in
lèverai since. Now Astaire will star
Alone with a leading woman yet to
be selected in "A Damsel in Distress."
The Oliver Hardy-Stan Laurel part
nership is equally interesting. Por 11
years they have been co-stars. Now
Hardy is to appear In "Road Show"
without Laurel.
In the past, many teams have ac
quired fame and then split with suc
cess for both stars. Among them are
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell,
Orete Garbo and John Gilbert, Victor
McLaglen and Edmund Lowe. Dick
Powell and Ruby Keeler and Wheeler (
end Woolsey.
In direct contrast to those stars ,
«■ho gain popularity through learnings |
ere the actors who appear with a :
variety of feminine stars. Clark Ga- |
ble has been co-starred frequently j
with the same actress, but has had ,
more than a dozen co-stars in his ι
career. Robert Taylor has been with
the same heroine only twice—Eleanor
Powell and Barbara Stanwyck. How
ever. the record for co-starring with
moot romance partners during the
year goes to Charles Boyer. Already
lie has been with Jean Arthur. Mar
lene Dietrich and now Garbo. He
next works with Claudette Colbert in
"Tovarieh" and then Ginger Rogers
in "Perfect Harmony."
All records for incoming mall at
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have been
shattered by the death of Jean Har
low. Hundreds of thousands of let
ters have poured into the studio since
her death. Requests for photographs
of her have never been so numerous.
Thousands are suggesting tributes
and memorials, nearly all express eag
erness to see "Saratoga."
Into the lobby of a theater in San
Bernardino. Calif., this week walked
a young actor. He was there to see
a eneak preview of "The Firefly," in
trhlch he appears with Jeanette Mac
Donald. He stopped to talk to studio
1 friends and fnw in the crowd recog
nized him as Allan Jonc*. None
flocked around him. Two hours later,
after the picture had been screened,
Jones tried to leave as quietly as he
had entered. It took him more than
an hour to sien autographs und shake
hands. Truly, the title of the recent
picture, "A Star Is Born." holds good
in Hollywood.
Shortest location trip on record in
Hollywood was established when the
Black Lightning" company at M
G-M lugged equipment 100 yards out
side the studio gates to photograph
Bruce Cabot and others working as
linesmen on towering power line poles
The urge to travel is indeed strong.
To date Robert Taylor has had 35
tetters from fans wanting to accom
pany him to London where he will
make "Yank at Oxford." They want
to serve him as business manager,
chauffeur, bodguard, secretary, valet
and even interpreter. They ask only
expenses—no salary at all.
Scattered items—Buddy Ebscn, who
has not cut his hair for months, due
to his "Broadway Melody of 1938" role,
got permission for a hair cut this
week—and the job cost him $2. . . .
Bette Davis is slated to do a film.
"Around the World." inspired by
Amelia Earhart. . . . Marlene Dietrich,
en route to Europe, will star in "Mid
night" on her return. . . . Gladys
George will have a hu-band. Warren
William, and a son, John Beal. in
"Madame X." in different sequences.
. . . Asia, of 'Thin Man" fame, will
be the dog star with Cary Grant and
Irene Dunne in "The Awful Truth."
. . . Dame May Whitty, who made her
screen debut in "Night Must Fall."
goes into "I Met My Love Again" with
Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda . . .
Mickey Roonev, IK. has just signed a
new M-G-M contract that will carry
through his twenty-first birthday an
niversary. . . . Penrod. who got into
enough fictional trouble for two lads,
will be twins, played by Billy and
Bobby Mauch, on the screen. . . .
Sophie Tucker has kept scrap books
of everything that has interested her
since 1911, now has more than 400
completely filled books. . . . Janet
Gaynor will sing and dance in her next
color picture. "Angel of Broadway."
Joan Blondell draws the title role with
Leslie Howard in "Stand-in."
New British Musical.
·· IT ISS ME GOOD-NIGHT," the Lon
don film musical comedy in
which Patricia Ellis, Imported from
Hollywood, will co-star with Jack Hul
bert, has gone into production. Thorn
ton Freeland, who made "Flying Down
to Rio" and "Whoopee," is directing,
with Marcel Hellman in charge of
production.
"Kiss Me Good-night" is based on a
script by Robert Liebmann and Wil
liam Kernell and its story is centered
in modern-day Paris. Michael Spo
liansky and William Kernell wrote
the music and lyrics, and Jack Dona
hue is supervising the specialty num
bers and the chorus ensembles.
Charlie Is Made-Up
DUMMY though he is, Charlie
McCarthy gets as much lov
ing care as the Dionne quin
tuplets. Father, valet, mas
*eur and make-up artist to Charlie is
Edgar Bergen, famed ventriloquist,
who soon makes his film debut in
Samuel Goldwyn's musical technicolor
extravaganza, "The Goldwyn Follies."
So fond of Bergen is Charlie that,
should they ever be separated. Char
lie has made a vow he will "never
«peak again."
Here Charlie is being readied for
ft iK-reen test under the loving care
Of Bergen:
1. Charlie McCarthy gets » sham
poo. Bergen gives him one frequent
ly to "keep termites out of his red
wood scalp."
2. Charlie's clean, but touseled, red
locks are carefully combed.
3. Charlie's Angers are manicured—
with a wood file.
4. No sissy is Charlie McCarthy, but
a touch of eyeshadow does work won
ders with one's appearance!
5. Oh-oh! Charlie's been talking out
of turn. Bergen puts an out-of-joint
Jaw back where It belongs with a
pair of pliers.
β. The last touch—a little polish on
the «hoes! Charlie"* ready for what
ever the camera may do to him!
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Her Latest Film Is Due Here Soon
ELISABETH BERGNERS
Fans, u ho have been awaiting her next cinema appearance, now have not long to wait. Hrr new
est picture, "Dreaming Lips," is scheduled to open its local engagement at the Rialto Theater
this week.
Coming
Attractions
Downtown Theaters
Book Films for
Next Week.
1AI.TO — "Dreaming Lip.·:."
bringing bark Elisabeth Rorg
ner as a girl whose life is torn
asunder by the love of two
men. Directed bv Paul Czinner. whn
directed Bergner in "Escape Me Never."
"Cathetine the Great" and "As You
Like It." To follow the current run
of Elephant Boy."
Earle—"Exclusive," teaming Frances
Farmer and Fred MacMurray in a new
newspaper drama that has no cub re
porter scooping the world and marry
ing the boss' daughter. Lloyd Nolan.
Fay Holden and Ralph Morgan are
others featured. Gine, De Quinev and
Lpwis will headline the stage show,
which also will present Steve Evans.
W;»lly Brown and Annette Ames and
the Liazeed troupe. Show changes
Friday.
('apito! Drama on the high seas !.
due here Friday, with Warner Baxter,
Wallace Beery and Elizab-th Allan go
irg through the rugged paces of "Slave
Ship " The stage show will be topped
by the appearance of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Crawford, top-notch organists,
and their orchestra.
Keith's—The story of J m Fi.sk and
the pieiurization of the age when
foundations were laid for America's
industrial empire are the meat of "The
Toast of New York." due here follow
ing the current run of "The Road
Back " Edward Arnold plays Jim Fisk
and Frances Farmer is Josie Mans
field. Jack Oakie and Cary Grant are
on hand, too.
Palace—"The Good Earth." cinema
tization of Pearl Buck's novel, with a
brilliant performance by Luise Rainer
and the sturdy support of Paul Muni,
still is slated as the next attraction
here. To follow "Easy Living."
Metropolitan—"The Kin? of Gam
blers," motion picture version of a
Tiffany Thayer story about the slot
machine racket. Akim Tamiroff plays
the leading role and his chief support
is supplied by Lloyd Nolan and Claire
Trevor. Starts its engagement Friday.
Columbia—Another week of Marx
madness is due Friday, when Chico,
Groucho and Harpo bring the tom
foolery of their "A Day at the Races"
here for another week on F street.
. . Φ
Berle Is Signed.
TV/TILTON BERLE, one of the stars
of "New Faces of 1937," has
been signed to a long-term contract
by R-K-O Radio. "New Faces" was
Berle's first talkie, although as a boy
he was a personality in silent films.
Berle's costars in "New Faces"
were Joe Pcnner, Parkyakarkus and
Harriet Milliard. Thelma Leeds, Bill
Brady and Jerome Cowan were promi
nent in the cast, which included many
personalities new to films. Edward
Small produced this R-K-O Radio ex
travaganza and Leigh Jason directed.
The company plans an annual se
ries of "New Faces" productions,
simulating the late Ziegfeld "Follies,"
"George White Scandals" and Earl
Carroll "Vanities"—yearly hits in the
big money days of the American stage.
Second Role.
Λ LAN HALE has begun his second
featured role for Samuel Goldwyn
as a Tartar chieftain in "The Adven
tures of Marco Polo." Hale has Just
finished his first assignment—that of
Ed Munn in the new production of
"Stella Dallas."
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Fourth Time.
'l'HE famous Bottom the Weaver of
the "Pvramus and Thisbe" Inter
lude rf Shakespeare's "A Midsummpr
Night's Dream" «ill lie played this
! year for the fourth consecutive sea
son by J Edmond Veitch.
The "Pvramus and Thisbe" porMon
of the Shakespearean fantasy «-ill be
presented Thursdav night at the Arts
Club's garden theater, as a preview
to the presentation of the complete
play at the Svlvan Theater in August,
Others in "Pyramus and Thisbe" will
be Kent Dver, Herman ReKs. Paul
Murphy, Joseph Custer and Harry
Crow.
There also will be a prologue and
epilogue spoken by John Sikkrn and a
fairy interlude introducing Titania and
her four fairies, arranged by Bess
Davis Schreiner.
Today's Film Schedule
PALACE—"Easy Living." light
hearted comedy dedicated to
the fun of laughing, at 2:55,
5:15, 7:40 and 10 p.m.
EARLE—"Midnight Madonna."
a mother fights for the right
to keep her child, at. 2. 4 40.
7:20 and 10 p.m. Stage shows
at 3:40. 6:25 and 9:05 p.m.
■ CAPITOL — "Saratoga." Jean
Harlow's last picture, at
2:45. 5:10. 7:40 and 10:05 ρ m
Stage shows at 2, 4:25, 6:50
and 9:20 p.m.
KEITHS—"The Road Back."
post-war Germany, at 1:45,
3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m.
RIALTO—"Elephant Bov." fine
film transcription of Kipling's
"Toomai of the Elephants."
at 2. 3:55, 5:50, 7:50 and
9:55 p.m.
METROPOLITAN—"The Sing
ing Marine," Dick Powell's
latest musical, at 2:20, 4:45,
7:15 and 9:40 p.m.
j COLUMBIA—"The Emperor's
Candlesticks," espionage, ad
venture and romance, at 2,
4:05. 6. 7:55 and 10 p.m.
TRANS-LUX — News and
shorts. Complete show runs
1 hour and 15 minutes, con
tinuous from 2 p.m.
LITTLE—"Fury." a Spencer
Tracy hit revived, at 2. 3:50.
5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m.
Jungle Serial.
I^RANK BRING ΈΜ BACK
ALIVE" BUCK, has completed
his 16-episode starring serial, "The
Jungle Menace" for Columbia release
and left Hollywood this week for New
York to arrange for the arrival of a
new shipload of wild animals from the
Malay Peninsula,
"Jungle Menace" vas directed by
George W. Melford, with Charlotte
Henry as the feminine lead and Sasha
Siemel. noted South American hunter,
playing an important role in support
of Mr. Buck.
In the large cast are many promi
nent screen players, who have never
before appeared in serials including
such names as William Bakewell, Reg
inald Denny. Esther Ralston, Robert
Warwick, John St. Polis and Clarence
Muse.
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Relief.
SEASIDE PARK—The first beauty
contest of the season was held
last night at tins popular Ches
apeake Beach resort. There'll
be another next Saturday and ι
every Saturday n.ght irom now until
j Labor day. with the winner and run
| ner up geiting ca-sh prizes. Labor day j
i there's the final contes: with a grand
, priz-e for the beauty cf the season.
Contest is open to all girls in Wash
| ington and vicinity and the only re
quirement is that all contestants must
register at the ball room an hour be
j fore the contest begins, at 10 o'clock
i every Saturday niglit.
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Potomac is a popular spot vit h seekers
after heat-relief Dancing down the
breeze-swept Potomac is to swing
music by Bernie Jarboe's N;ght Hawks,
on the moonlight, which leaves at
8 45 o'clock every evening.
There's and all-day cruise to Ποίο
ι niai Beach every Sunday, too. leaving
at 9 am. and returning from the
140-miie jaunt at 7:?0 p.m. Bus con
nections are available at the beach
j for a trip to Wakefield, George Wash
ington's birthplace.
j
I Glen Echo Park—It's easy to find
your favorite Summer sport here.
[ There's sv.imming in the Crystal Pool.
! every day from 9:30 in the morning
until 11:30 at night, with a sand
beach adjoining for sun-worshipers.
If it's dancing you prefer, you can do
that in the Spanish Garden ball room,
where you'll do it to rhythms dished
up by Dave M;Williams and his Or
chestra. long popular with Glen Echo
dancers. There's even motor boating
at· Glen Echo, and a host of other
amusement park features.
Wilson I.ine—Marshall Hall Park,
down-river destination of the City of
Washington, has played host to hun
dreds of Washingtonians the past
week. The City of Washington makes
four trips there daily, at 10 a.m., 2.
5 :30 and 8:30 p.m. There are stops at
Mount Vernon, too, on the 10 a.m. and
2 p.m. cruises.
The 8:30 trip, of course, is the
three-hour moonlight jaunt, with
dancing to music by Sammy Marks
and his orchestra.
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Some Stars Will Rise, Some
Will Fall in Next Two Years
Columnist Scans the Hollywood Firmament
And Voices Some Opinions on the
Courses of Careers.
By She il ah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD, (N.A.N.A.)—Which of the present crop of movie (stars
will last beyond the next two years? The momei>tum of current
fame will carry most of the bie names for another year, but, after
that, they'd better be Rood—or else several star emoters will be con
spicuous by their absence from the screen.
Not even a front-ranking personality like William Powell will survive un
less the quality of hLs pictures re-«> — — — - -
mains at "The Thin Man" stand
ard. A few more films like "The
Emperor's Candlestick.?" and "The
Last of Mrs. Chevney" and Bill will
cea.se being the bright boy he is at
the M-G-M success college.
Robert Montgomery was doomed
for near-oblivion until he used "Night
Must Fall" as a bootstrap for his
movie life. If Bob can persuade his
basses to keep him out of the cocktail
shaking class for more consequential
parts, there is no reason why his in
nocent baby-face should ever dis
appear from the screen.
Clark Gable has been sitting pretty
for a long time in the film world. If
he wants to remain that way, he
should refuse to be a miscast Parnell
and Insist on another "Saratoga," in
which he gives, in my opinion, one
of the best performances of his ca
reer.
Joan Crawford will shortly start
work in "Shopworn Angel," bought
by M-G-M from Paramount as a
vehicle for Jean Harlow. Smart work,
Joan. Practically all Miss Crawford's
success has come via flamboyant and
not the pseudo society parts she has
portrayed in recent films. (Again pag
ing "The Last of Mrs. Chevney.")
It is very doubtful whether the
glamorous features of Marlene Diet
rich will appear on 1939 celluloid, un
ies she mingles a spot of acting with
her famous camera angles. A few
more "Garden of Allah's" and Mar
lene can build herself a nice villa m
Europe and stay there all she wants.
J UISE RAIN'ER is one Hollvv.o<<d
actress who will not only be emot
ing at the end of the next two or
three years but will be in higher rank
ing bracket. La Ramer can outact
mast of the hothouse products of
filmdom. So can Spencer Tracy, who
rejuvinates his career with every film
he makes And Fredric March, who
crowned his long list of notable per
formances in "A Star Is Born."
Katharine Hepburn's public has
grown a trifle weary of her recent
below-par movies—excepting "Quality
Street," in which the story and act
ing were very good. But Katie is an
actress. And a fiahter. Unless mar
riage forecloses her career, she will be
around Hollywood for a long time
If Claudette Colbert had remained
a costume film addict, there would be
nothing to write about Miss Colbert
today. Fortunately she was per
suaded—against her judgment—to do
"It Happened One Night " Her last
film. "I Met Him In Paris." carried
on the good comedy work and Clau
dette is set for as long as she wants
to be.
Will Garbo's celluloid self be alive
in 1939? 1 think so. Unless she gets
to believing her repeated statement
of retirement to that Swedish castle
in the air. Garbo has something
that no other feminine screen star has
been able to duplicate—complete act
ing sincerity.
According to the present pendulum
of popularity, Robert Taylor will still
be doing all right for himself in two
years' time. But if he wants his 99
per cent feminine audience to in
clude some male fans, he must do a
little more than show a handsome
profile.
Manon Davis will te non-existent
in the film star firmament before
many seasons have parsed as she is
credited with a desire to retire from
acting.
rjARYL ZANUCK is planning to
keep Shirley Temple alive
through the adolescent period. But
producers propose and audiences dis
pose. I doubt whether Shirley will
retain her public when her dimples
and curls go the sad way of baby
hood.
When and if Kay Francis awakes
to find herself dead as far as the
films are concerned, she can blame
two factors. Her recent list of flops \
—headed by Another Dawn"—and
the unbecoming clothes she has worn
in practically every film seen by your
correspondent.
Bette Davis has taken on a new
lease of movie life since trying un
successfully to break her contract
with Warner Brothers. But X think
she will have to stop the final fading
into-the-night-all-alone technique, or
she may really find herself fading out
of the film scene.
It will be Interesting to see what
happens to Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers now that fate and R. Κ. Ο -
Radio have divided their film work
Fred has the strongest chance of
survival, but Ginger may surprise
you with an unexpected acting trlcli
up her sleeve.
Simone Simon holds the record for
the quickest rise and fall in the film
industry. Less than a year ago *h·
was ballyhooed as a great star find.
Today she has all the symptoms of
imminent obscurity. And unless she
is super-coloesal in "Suez." her next
picture, the fans of 1937 won t ?ven
remember her name, let alone how it
is pronounced.
(Copyright, in;i7, by the wor'h American
Newsparer Alliance, Inc.)
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Dancers at Sylvan.
"T^IVERTISSEMENTS" Is the title
of the sixth Summer festival
program of the season, to be pre
sented Tuesday night at. the Sylvan
Theater by Theodore Bekefl and his
dance group.
The senior group will offer * pro
gram combining ensemble and solo
numbers, done in the Russian balle),
classical ballet, folk, acrobatic and
character types of dance.
Bekcfl himself, a veteran of the
Imperial Russian Ballet, will be seen
in his sailor dance, in a czardas with
one of his foremost pupils and in a
Dutch dance with Ethel Mevay.
Nine leading dancers of the group
will present an interpretive darice to
the music of Arensky's "Trio." The
dancers will be Ronnie Cunningham,
Varginia Barry, Margaret Mary Ed
monston. May Tenn. Man· Cohan,
Doris Isbell. Lorraine La Marr, Fren
Almquist, Mary Renkel and Betty
Raymond. The accompanists will be
Milton Schwartz, violinist, Alexander
Nledeimann, cellist, and Alexander
Bartnovsky. pianist.
Other dancers to be featured on th®
program will be Phyllis Schwartz, Au
drey Rands. Marian Brackett. Doro
thy Goodman, Boofic Barry and El: e
Pinckney.
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