Pa~e Two Claica~o Sunday' TrUI1.ne Looking at Hollywood England's bsolete Air Forces By WAYNE THOMIS with Ed Sullivan HE squadron of Hawker the studio with •aves over the Fury single-seat fighters Tpictured here represents Fans Want a dark-haired boy who had met Simone Simon at the railroad with reasonable aecuracy the station. As a result of the let- state of Great Britain's aero- Different tel'S Zanuck put Power into nautical defenses today. These "Lloyds of London," and it was are good airplanes, well built, that performance that won him sturdy. But their basic design Tyrone the chevrons of a star. So the is more than twelve years old- letter writers will get action if some engineers even hold it is traceable to World war days- By ED SUWVAN they send their present com- plaints direct to Zanuck. and as a consequence they are Hollywood. outmoded, obsolete, and inetrec· There is little doubt that tual. UDGING from their letters, Tyrone as the band leader in For instance, the FUry has a the fans do not believe that "Alexander's Ragtime Band" top speed of 236 miles an hour J Darryl Zanuck is doing right seemed more at ease on the at 16,000 feet. But the world's by Tyrone Power. The tenor screen than in "Suez," for In- new pursuit airplanes are fiying of the complaints is that youth- stance. It was a rOle that a 24- at 330 to 370 miles an hour at ful Power has been aged beyond year-old could handle from his the same height. And most of his years in recent pictures, and own experiences and reactions. the new bombers are approach- there seems to be some ground Both in "Marie Antoinette" and for the fans' indignation. To ing 3OO-mile-an·hour speeds at "Suez" young Power was the 16,()()().footlevel. The Furys date the 24·year·old Cincinnati ••pressing," as the golfers phrase eouid neither catch nor delay a actor has played the part of the it. In contrast to the polished bombardment squadron, and political leader of Chicago in character studies of Paul Muni they would be shot down by the ••In Old Chicago," he has been in similar historical things Pow- new fighters with definitly suo the lover of Marie Antoinette in er's portraits were run-or-the- perior speed and climb. the fiicker of that name, and he mill characterizations that indio But the Furys, for our pur- has built the Suez canal, al- cated his lack of maturity and poses, are merely a symbol of though the actual job was ac- his lack of sound stage tech- England's weak air forces. They complished by 64·year·old De nique. After all, it must be kept represent approximately the Lesseps. in mind that he has not had a (Photo from Tribune LoncloDBureau.) types of bombardment, recon- The fans say in their letters Thi. i. the way fana want to ••• Tyron. Pow.r. Lor.tta YOuDlJ is the girl. vast stage background. The Im- A .quadron of British Hawker Fury war plane •• quipped with Rolla Royc. naissance, and fighter airplanes that it has come to a pass now portance of that background is K•• trel motol'll. that the the majority in the Roy- where they don't believe Power cisco," they believed him as the Badger. Still another typical best exemplified by a youthful al Air force even today, nearly a machine tool manufacturers. when he is on the screen. That, air pilot in ••Test Pilot," and complaint: ••I am getting tired British actor, Robert Morley. I is the Hawker Hurricane with year after England began what And each shadow plant turned my little chickadees, is a serious they found him credible as the of having history rewritten for doubt that Morley is more than a 1,03Q.horsepower Rolls Royce ts probably the greatest concen- out some particular design of complaint which zanuck and the news reel photographer in ••Too Tyrone Power. There must be a year older than Hollywood's liquid· cooled motor, and the tration upon aerial rearmament aircraft motor or airplane. other Twentieth Century- Fox Hot to Handle," but they turned some light story in which he Power, but Morley's craftsman- other is the Supermarine Spit· of any country in the world. Most of the largest British tycoons will do thumbs down when M·G-M cast could sit out in the moonlight ship, technique, and dramatic fire, with the same engine. This The damage was done during automobile manufacturers now well to consider, him as Parnell. The treatment and make love to Loretta Young resources testify to the rich ex· department during the 1a s t the last five years when a bltnd- are operating one or more of because credibil· of Robert Taylor has been astute or Alice Faye." perience he gained in the Lon- twelve months carried a section- ed government allowed Eng· these shadow factories. Bristol Ity is the ground- with the possible exception of Undoubtedly the letter writ- don school. alized line drawing showing the land's air forces to fall far be- motors, Fairey bombers, Hawk- work of make- ••Three Comrades," in which he ers are mail i n g the same intimate details of the Hurri· The British stage is far beyond h i n d continental standards. er monoplane fighters, and Suo believe. Advertfs- was unbelievable. His greatest complaints and cane, which is supposed to have the American stage in its devel- Meanwhile the Germans, butld- permarine Spitfire monoplane ing men will tell progress has been made in pic- suggestions to a top speed of just under 340 opment of talent. Gielgud, Mas- ing a fresh and entirely new air fighters are be i n g built at you t hat they tures like ••Magnificent Obses- Twentieth C e n- miles an hour. sey, Evans, and Morley in the force in the last three years, plants operated by the owners even have to be sion," ••A Yank at OXford," and tury-Fox studios. The Spitfire, definitly a small- last two years have completely have passed the British in per- and originators of these designs, careful of not ••The Crowd Roars," and it will Zanuck, alert" to er, cleaner plane than the Hur- In "In Old dominated the Broadway scene. formance, quality, and quantity but also in the plants of the using the faces Chicago:' be a long, long time before he the letter writ- ricane, is supposed to be capable The reason is, of course, that the of airplanes, aero engines, and Austin motor works, the Roots :>fmodels in too permits his studio to depart from ers, can be de- of nearly 400 miles an hour. No minute a personable you n g the important accessories that motor works, and half a dozen many newspaper ads for fear of those grooves. pended upon to performance figures have been American actor scores on the make top-notch airplanes what other shadow plants. destroying credibility. Tyrone Power, despite his work out a com- released on the Spitfire, how- New York stage he is grabbed theyare. According to dispatches from M·G-M, I think, has handled youthful appearance, has been promise that will ever, and no public statements by the movies and signed to a Italy also turned the attention Clark Gable and Robert Taylor given film assignments t hat London recently, the British have been made on the speeds indulge his own In" Sue:a." long-term contract. In Holly· of her technical men and of her want to have some 4,000 fighting with greater wisdom, steering would fit a Paul Muni rather liking for bio- made in flights. Both these wood, he is rushed into one pic- military leaders to the building airplanes and between 3,000 and clear of costume pictures after than a young matinee idol. The graphical material and the fans' planes are intended to intercept ture after another, learning only of airplanes, and between Italy 3,500 long- range bombers-all of their one disastrous experience fans are pretty mad about the insistence on a younger version and halt bomber raids on Eng. a trifie of what he needs to learn. and Germany today, it is gener the latest and best types-fiying with Gable and Myrna Loy in, whole thing. ••Let's have Ty. of Tyrone Power. It was the land and as such are strictly If the youngster is unfortunate ally conceded, lies 80 per cent of by 1940. All this activity is di- ••Parnell." The fans didn't be· rone in American rOles," is the letter writers that won Power defensive. enough to establish himself as European air power. Military rected straight at Germany. The lieve Gable was the Irish patriot. typical letter. "Turn him loose his starring contract. He had At present there are not more a favorite with the public he has circles in Paris and London say British now believe that the They believed him as the Bar- on a college campus," advises a only a small part in ••Girls' Dol" than three British squadrons no chance of serving an appren- that the peace of Munich was Germans have at least 6,000 of bary Coast ruler in "San Fran· girl who signs herself Wisconsin mitory," but the fans bombarded ticeship. equipped with the Hurricanes dictated by the German and the production-or latest mlll- and not a sin g 1e squadron Italian air forces, that appeared, tary type-planes fiying. Ger- fully equipped with Spitfires. at any rate ready to overwhelm many has the advantage of hav- There are large numbers of the OST WIDELY discussed, garded as untrue. His death the French and English. ing no obsolete types, since all perhaps, of all paintings Blenheims already in service, Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" occurred May 2, 1519. The British awakened some her aircraft have been built from M in the literature of) art and these planes are supposed (Leonardo da Vinci's famou8 masterpiece, « Mona Lisa," is repro- "Mona Lisa," which rrequent- eighteen months ago to their brand new designs. The English is Leonardo da Vinci's famous to be turned out at the rate of duced in colors on page one of the Picture Section of this ia8Ue.) ly is referred to as ••La Giocon· danger. Orders went out to the believe that Germany has a fieet masterpiece, " Mona Lisa," a ten a week total production da," was stolen from the Louvre largest and smallest aircraft of nearly 3,000 bombers capable from three ditrerent factories. priceless possession 0 f the condo, and found her beautiful was not only a painter, it should Aug. 22, 1911. Being relatively manufacturers for a fiood of of nearly 300-mile·an·hour speeds This may be increased later. Louvre. Mellowed and darkened ani! fascinating. She was young be pointed out, but a sculptor, small (only 20.86 inches wide by fighters, bombers, and coastal and with 2,000·mile ranges, more Nevertheless, the British st111 with age but still' triumphant and her spouse was elderly, and an architect, a musician, an art 30.22 inches deep), the painting defense planes. A great cam- than enough to enable each of depend upon obsolete biplane over decay and devastation, this he had forced her to pawn her critic, a mechanical, civil, and was taken out of its frame and paign to enlist the services of them to carry a ton or two of types for most of the defense of celebrated painting today occu- jewels and put on mourning so military engineer, Ii botanist, spirited out of the building by young men as pilots was started. bombs from German border air- their tight little isle. In addi- pies a rather inconspicuous that she would not appear too an anatomist, an astronomer, a back stairway. For more than A training program that is pro- dromes to any of England's tion to the Furys there are a place on a wall of the historic attractive to other men. When and a geologist. two years its whereabouts re- ducing some 4,000 new military centers of commerce, industry, number of squadrons of Glouees- Paris gallery - yet thousands Da Vinci wished to paint her mained a mystery. Then on pilots every twelve months is banking, or government. seek it out annually to observe • • tel' biplanes capable of 260-mile· portrait she fell in with his plan) • Dec. 12, 1913, it was recovered already under way. The British today have but an- hour speeds. for themselves the woman's face cast a spell upon him, and event- Mona Lisa, it is said, posed in Florence. It had been taken But the English found that one bomber capable of 250·mile· One of the most pitiful sides which has presented a mystery ually, so the old story goes, be- only for the head of the master- by an Italian named Vincenzo their existing aircraft plants per-hour speeds. It is the Bris- to England's hurried and inef- to the world for more than 400 came his mistress. Her only piece. The hands and torso Perugia, who gave as his reason were not sufficiently large to tol Blenheim, the newest version ficient and costly rearming of years. daughter had died and she was were painted from other models. for the theft that he wished to cope with the orders for old and of which is supposed to carry her air forces is the loss of pilots Gossip and fable have made grieving; so, it is told, Da Vinci Whether or not the artist was retaliate on France for taking new aircraft. So a scheme was 2,000 pounds of bombs for 1,900 killed in training. Under virtual this remarkable woman a subtle hired musicians to playas she in love with Mona Lisa herself so many Italian works of art evolved to build what were miles and have a top speed of war- time conditions the British and uncanny charmer, a verlta- posed, with the idea of dispel. we cannot be certain, yet it is from Italy. Perugia on June termed "s}f ado w factories." 290 miles an hour. The British are training a lot of young men ble sphinx whose trace of a ling her sadness. Dulcet strains proved almost beyond a doubt 5, 1914, was sentenced to impris- These were auxiliary plants con- have only two fighters now in at a pace that would not be coun- smile long ago ensnared the from string and reed may have • that he was in love with the face onment of one year and fifteen structed at government expense production that are better than tenanced in the military fiying soul of a notable artist and conjured up the inscrutable as portrayed in his painting. days. and operated by automobile and 3OQ.mile·an·hour airplanes. One schools of the United States. caused him little by little to smile that appears in the paint- He kept the picture with him create an unfathomable riddle. ing. always, took it to France with It is this trace of a smile that Doubt has been cast upon him, and even refused to give it (Continued from page ene.) United States is beginning to no one yet to this day has been some parts of this old and popu- or sell it to the French king who be found anywhere else in the attach new importance to the able to explain with any great lar story. For one thing, Da had befriended him in many South America, Neighbor! world. It is rich in natural re- southern continent? There ap- degree of certainty. Enigmatic Vinci was 50 years old and old ways. Finally, after Da Vinci's sources-minerals, forests, and One of its countries, Argentina, States. not Including Alaska, parently is no reason to believe is the term most often applied for his age at the time he met death, Francis I. acquired the the like. It produces more than in some years exports more and is greater in population that Europe today entertains to it. the young wife of the wealthy masterpiece for 4,000 gold nor- two-thirds of the world's cotree. wheat than does the United than' France, or Italy, or Eng· territorial designs on South What is back of the smile no merchant Giocondo. His all- ins, the equivalent of approxl- It is rapidly developing as a great States, and is the largest export- land, Scotland, and Wales com- American lands. Despite this one knows, yet volumes have absorbing interests then, accord- mately $14,000 in present- day rubber-producing land. It has er of corn in the whole world. bined. And Brazil's natural re- lack of threat against territory been written about it. Perhaps ing to those who have written American money. The story more sheep and more cattle than Brazil, the m 0 s t populous sources as yet scarcely have itself, howe vel', the United much has been discovered in about him, were his art and that Da Vinci died in the arms North America, and it produces this famous painting that was country in South America, is been tapped. States, of course, insists upon his scientific investigations. He of the king now generally is re- more wool than North America. outside the thoughts of the greater in area than the United Is it any wonder that the maintaining on its own respon- artist himself. We do know, sibility the 115-year·old Monroe however, that Da Vinci treas- doctrin, the basic idea of which ured the masterpiece, that it Letters published in this department should be written on one side of the paper_ is Americas for Americans. actually represented the expres- \I.ice .f .Le ~ • .,.,ieF••• If ,.ou wish a per.sonal repl,. please inclose a stamped, self.addressed envelope, The essentials of this Monroe sions and perhaps the yernings doctrin, which takes its name Dear Miss Tlnee: Don't send orchids; tribulations? He is honestly deserving the from President James Monroe, of his own soul, and that he reo Dear Miss Tin~: I would like to know ttons that the public are invited to attend. just send the whole flower shop to Jimmy Academy award for juveniles. are opposition (1) to any non- fused to part with it to the very if Deanna Durbin played in "Alcatraz I cannot say that I have much con- Stewart. His remarkable d ram a tic moment-ef his death. This has been a bone of contention for Island." Thank you. fidence in any producer's ability to achieve American action encroaching achievements throughout this, his best Leonardo da Vinci, as virtual- a long, long time, but pick on it a little ORCHID HOBUK. such a glorious performance as a produc- upon the political independence year in motion pictures, are enough to bit more. Why, 0, why do we have to sit ly every one knows, was one of Editor's note: She did not. tion including all or even very many of of American states under any make audiences si~ up and gasp. His star- through those bits of information at the these stars would guarantee, but I can guise, and (2) to the acqutsltton the greatest of the old masters. ring vehicles, .•The Shopworn Angel," beginning of the picture that tell us whe Dear Miss Tlnee: Why can't we have dream, can't I? in any manner of control of ad- Born in Vinci, near the city of ••Vivacious Lady," and ••You Can't Take directed it, who produced it; who filmed an all-star musical picture with a plot and Don't the producers know that we are Florence, in 1452, he died in It with You" should make him one of the it, etc. We come to see the picture, not ditional territory in the western France, where he was in the em- greatest dramatic stars (as well as com- story designed to give logical openings for tired of gilt and glitter and would like to world by any non- American who made it. True, those who made it Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Joan have talent and ability? I would rather ploy of King Francis I., in 1519. edy) of the year. Give him the .Academy should get the credit for it, but why not power. The Monroe doctrin came Davis, Buddy Ebsen, Fred Astaire, Ginger pay 50 cents to watch Fred Astaire and It was in 1502 that he began award! Lionel Barrymore's characterlaa- have a poster in each lobby with that into existence in this manner: tion of ••Gramps" in ••You Can't Take It Rogers, Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Don Ginger Rogers sing and dance for thirty painting ••Mona Lisa," a task information on it? Then those who were Ameche, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, minutes than to see four hours of super. Early in the nineteenth cen- that stretched over a period of with You" should win him undying praise interested in it could read it to their tury Mexico in North America as well as add to his long chain of grand Jane Withers, BUl Robinson, with Frank production for a dime. And, believe it or four years - some authorities hearts' content. All we care to see on the Morgan being confused, surprised, and be- not, I'm not alone. and the Spanish states in South performances. screen is the title and who's in it. say six years. According to an fuddled as only Frank Morgan can be. Come on, producers; you have the talent America revolted and won their Don't you think an .Academy award for Sincerely yours, ED. CHESTER. oft-repeated old story, Da Vinci It seems to a music and dancing fan a available. Have you the ability to as- independence from Spain. This minors would be in order? Didn't Mickey Editor's note: An Academy award lor perfect shame to spoil the e:ltectiveness semble it? Yours sincerely, met Mona Lisa, a Florentine Rooney's marvelous portrayal of .Andy alarmed a group of monarchies minors' Why not/ Jimmy Stewart will of such stars with the kind of silly child- MOVIE FAN. in Europe known as the Holy lady of Neapolitan birth, the Hardy in the Judge Hardy series make thank you. As for producers" directors, ishness that invariably pervades the at- Editor's note: Prod.ucers, a fan has Alliance and consisting of Aus- third wife of Francesco de Gio- us think of our own everyday trials. and writers, costumers, eta-i-t bae me MotS. mosphere of the so-called superproduc- spoken/ (Continu.d on page •• v.D.)