Tomorrow, the World! (United Artists) (1944)

Woman’s Page Stories Betty Field, star of Lester Cowan’s “To¬ morrow, The World!” selects persian lamb, krimmer and lynx for her winter wardrobe. Of greatest importance she considers her severe black persian (left) worn slightly above skirt length. As a contrasting note she adds beige scarf, snakeskin bag and French suede gauntlets. In these war times she selects a durable krimmer full-length swagger coat (center) with matching pillbox which is both smart and practical. Her piece de resistance pictured on the right is a luxurious hip-length lynx jacket which can be worn for any occasion from doing the family marketing to attending a cocktail party. Miss Field rarely wears a hat and her smooth upswept coiffure is smart yet simple. Attractively-colored snoods keep it trim and add chic. “Tomorrow, The World!” a United Artists release will soon be seen at the. Theatre. 3C—3 Col. Mat (.45) Prop Man's Romance- Switch on Arc Lamp Romance, so far as Hugo Deering is concerned, is a switch on the back end of an arc lamp. Mr. Deering is the man who operated the arc lamp which made the moon shine on the romantic scenes between Fredric March and Betty Field in Lester Cowan’s “Tomorrow, The World!” the absorbing drama open¬ ing at the . Theatre on .through United Artists release. “A lot of guys,” Deering pointed out, “are perfectly capable of turn¬ ing on arc lamps on a motion pic¬ ture set. It requires only a flick of the wrist to snap the switch, and a few quick turns to get the carbons burning brightly. But turn¬ ing on a moon is another thing entirely. “It takes a real romantic tech¬ nique,” he continued thoughtfully. “Personally, I read all the scripts for the romantic scenes so I can figure out what kind of moon they gotta have. For instance, I wouldn’t give the same kind of moon to Mr. March and Miss Field as I would to—say, Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken. Or to Bette Davis and Claude Rains. Each different kind of romance has to have a different moon. Mr. Deering has never been mar¬ ried but he claims to know a hunk of romance, as he calls it, as well as some of those “writing guys.” “Now for Mr. March and Miss Field,” he explained practically, “we needed a sort of nice, smooth, romantic moon. They ain’t kids, and they know what they’re doing. So when I turned the old moon on them, it gave a soft, sweet glowing light. “For the Bracken-Hutton type of love, I give a strictly Harvest touch. That’s the kind of moon they want. Otherwise their goofy sorta love making would be outa place. Their moon has to be big and round and glowing, a little on the leering side. You really gotta adjust your moon to the type of players. “Now Bette Davis, there’s a girl I can’t give anything but a quarter moon. Couldn’t say exactly why, but it seems to fit her personality and her type of love-making. It really takes an expert and a con¬ noisseur of my standing to figure these things out almost instinctive¬ ly,” Mr. Deering finished up mod¬ estly. When you see “Tomorrow, The World!” you can see for yourselves what Mr. Deering is driving at. The film, an adaptation by Ring Lardner, Jr., from the Broadway stage hit of the past two seasons, has the unusual child actor, Skippy Homeier, playing the role of Emil which he created on the stage. Others in the excellent cast besides the stars, Fredric March and Betty Field, are Joan Carroll, Agnes Moorehead and Edit Angold. n Mr. Waldeck Carries 'T/me In A Bucket One of the oddest jobs held in Hollywood is performed by Mr. J. M. Waldeck—who has come to be known as the guy who carries time in a bucket. This pixie of the paint pot is a smallish gentleman who wears myriad-colored overalls and goes around the Hollywood movie sets dabbing up new things with blotch¬ es of paint to make them look ancient. One of Waldeck’s most recent —-''jobs was on the set of “Tomorrow, The World!” produced by Lester Cowan for United Artists release. In the film Fredric March plays a small-town college professor and Waldeck did quite a job “antiquing” a shelf of books in the professor’s library. The books had been purchased by the prop man and were much too new looking, according to Wal¬ deck, to have been reposing on a professor’s shelf for ten or fifteen years. Consequently the little man in the much-bespattered overalls commenced greying them with a small, portable airbrush. In two seconds flat they looked as though they had been purchased in the original Old Curiosity Shop. Adding a final synthetic ink spot to the cover of one volume, Wal¬ deck turned off the airbrush and muttered to anyone who cared to listen: “You’ve got to be a student of human nature to hold down a job like this. College professors spill ink all the time. They’re naturally careless people. I know that because I’ve studied human psychology.” Which just goes to show you that one never can tell where a psycho¬ logical genius will creep up in Hollywood! Other jobs which Waldeck has been called upon to perform in the course of his years in show busi¬ ness have been the antiquing of the Bounty, the famous ship in the film, “Mutiny On The Bounty,” antiquing a dress worn by Mae West in one of her films (he ex¬ plains that he did the work while the dress was on a dummy, how¬ ever), and antiquing an entire ghost town used in a recent thriller. This job, he proudly claims, took him all of eight weeks, but it was something to be justly proud of. “Tomorrow, The World!” the latest film in which Waldeck’s fine strokes of the airbrush can be seen, opened at the . Theatre the other day. Besides March, the excellent cast includes Betty Field, Skippy Homeier, the prizewinning child star, Agnes Moorhead, Joan Carroll and Edit Angold. Joan Carroll Appears In Eighth Film Part Joan Carroll, who is only twelve years old, has already celebrated her eighth anniversary as a film actress. Joan is currently playing the delightful up-to-the-minute daughter of Fredric March in Les¬ ter Cowan’s exciting drama, “To¬ morrow, The World!” which is now at the . Theatre through United Artists release. Skippy Homeier and Joan Carroll in one of the climax moments from Les¬ ter Cowan’s challenging movie, “Tomorrow, The World!” now playing at the.Theatre through United Artists release. Fredric March and Betty Field star in this absorbing picture which was produced from the hit stage play. 9B—2 Col. Mat (.30) Amateur! “Skippy” Homeier the 12-year-old kid star of the I\ew York stage who has won such plaudits for his performance in Lester C.otvan’s “ Tomorrow, The World!” now playing at the . Theatre through United Artists release, is so new to Hollywood that when he headed for MGM, his new home lot, he got on the wrong bus and wound up in Santa Monica. “ Skippy” has an important featured role in the film which stars Fredric March and Betty Field. Agnes Sees New Career Despite the fact that she has one award to her credit for film work Agnes Moorehead is hope¬ fully looking forward to a screen career. Currently featured in Lester Cowan’s exciting hit “Tomorrow, The World!” playing at the. Theatre through United Artists release, Miss Moorehead won the New York film critics award for the best supporting role of the year for her work in “The Magnificent Ambersons.” “I want to establish myself as a screen actress,” said Miss Moore¬ head. “That’s why I’ve turned down three recent Broadway offers. I want to stay in Hollywood a while and get myself known.” Miss Moorehead is already well known on Broadway for her work in numerous stage productions, many with Orson Welles in the Mercury Theatre. She is equally well known on radio, and does three programs weekly—the Welles show. “Mayor of The Town” and the Jack Carson program. “But I want to become a known screen actress, too,” insists the am¬ bitious Miss Moorehead. “And I’d like to do something besides ’mean’, roles. Actually, I cpn play almost everything — except languishing young leading ladies, of course.” Eventually the actress hopes to retire to a farm in Ohio which she and her husband. Jack Lee, former actor, own. They bought it original¬ ly as a place for weekends and vacations but found farming so en¬ joyable that Lee gave up the stage and now operates the farm at a profit. Miss Moorehead gets an excel¬ lent start on the career she’s look¬ ing forward to in “Tomorrow, The World!” She plays the rather acid sister of Fredric March. Betty Field, one of Hollywood’s most versatile actresses, is co- starred with Mr. March. She ap¬ pears in the role created in the original stage play by Shirley Booth. Skippy Homeier, phenomenal child actor who makes his mo¬ tion picture debut as Emil Bruck¬ ner, Nazi-indoctrinated youngster, who all but destroys the happiness of the Frame household, repeats the role he made famous on the stage. Joan Carroll and Edit Angold fill out the brilliant supporting cast. Director Decorated For Courage By King Leslie Fenton, who directed the film adaptation of the . Pulitzer Prize-winning New York stage play, “Tomorrow, The World!” was recently invalided out of the British navy. Fenton made a brilliant name for himself as commander of an MTS boat and was personally deco¬ rated by King George with the Distinguished Service Cross. “To¬ morrow, The World!” which stars Betty Field and Fredric March is at the.Theatre through United Artists release. Pretty Joan Carroll, one of Hollywood’s outstanding ehild stars, has an im¬ portant role in Lester Cowan’s drama-packed film, “Tomorrow, The World!” now playing at the.Theatre through United Art¬ ists release. Miss Carroll is featured in a cast which includes Fredric March and Betty Field in starring roles and introduces the phenomenal Toung actor, Skippy Homeier. 8B -2 Col. Mat (.30) Skippy Makes Role Meanest On Screen Skippy Homeier, phenomonal child star who makes his debut in “Tomorrow, The World!” now play¬ ing at the.. Theatre through United Artists release, portrays the nasty little Nazi, Emil Bruck¬ ner—one of the most vicious child characterizations ever to reach the screen. In order to insure that the role will show Emil as the brattiest kind of brat, Skippy is inventing new business to make his portrayal meaner than ever. Skippy, who created the part on the Broadway stage, bends a noker over the head of Joan Carroll, at¬ tacks Edit Angold, breaks up Fred¬ ric March’s romance with Betty Field, engages in fist fights with other boys, assaults one youngster half his size and otherwise makes himself completely obnoxious. At his own suggestion, Skippv added an arm-twisting scene with Joan and the tripping of a little girl in a school sequence. “I don’t,” Skippy explained,” want to be typed in pictures as a brat. So if I make Emil the worst brat in the world, then no one will be able to think up a worse one for me to play and I’ll get other things * to do.” Nazi Portrayal Buys Boy Scout Uniform Part of the money he earned by wearing a Nazi uniform in “To¬ morrow, The World!” will be used by Skippy Homeier to purchase a Boy Scout uniform. Skippy wore the Hitler Youth Garb for scenes in the Broadway production of “Tomorrow, The World!” in which he appeared for fourteen months. More Recently he’s been wearing it in Lester Cowan’s dramatic film version of the hit play now at the.Theatre through United Artists release. Shortly before he left New York to come to Hollywood Skippy joined Scout Troop No. 193, the Silver Fox Patrol, in Forest Hills, L. I., but never got around to buying his uniform. He has applied for a transfer and will use his Nazi- earned money to buy a complete outfit when he joins a local Holly¬ wood troop. Fredric March and Betty Field co-star in this thrilling high-ten¬ sion drama. Others in the cast in¬ clude Agnes Moorehead, Joan Car- roll, Edit Angold and, of course, Skippy Homeier. The screenplay for “Tomorrow, The World!” was written by Ring Lardner, Jr., son of the world-fam¬ ous short story writer. Joan Gives W eight Tips “An actress,” said Miss Joan Carroll who plays the part of adorable little Pat Frame in Lester Cowan’s absorbing emotional drama, “Tomorrow, The World!” has to be careful of her figure. Miss Carroll, who is twelve going on thirteen, surveyed her figure carefully. “In the past week,” she said joyfully, “I have lost an entire inch off my waist.” “I rarely,” she continued, “eat much lunch. Just something simple and non-fattening like a hamburger sandwich and a chocolate eclair. But don’t tell the school teacher at the studio or the dietician. I just tell them I can’t eat lunch and they let me alone.” This little conversation took place while Miss Carroll was still posing on the set of “Tomorrow, The World!” which stars Fredric March and Betty Field, with Ag¬ nes Moorehead in one of her bril¬ liant, acid characterizations, the phenomenal child star Skippy Ho- beier, making his motion picture debut in the same role he created for the stage, and Edit Angold, well known German actress. The film can be seen at the . Theatre soon through United Art¬ ists release. Miss Carroll said she wished she was like Rosalind Russell or Dor¬ othy Lamour. They, she claims, can eat anything thej^ want without adding a teeny-weeny ounce to their figures. But as for her—Joan Betty Field has the leading femi- —she’s just got to be careful. And nine role in the dramatic smash the little actress looked very seri- hit film, “Tomorrow, The World!” ous as she walked away nibbling playing at the.The- on a chocolate ice-cream-on-a-stick atre through United Artists release, affair. 20A—1 Col. Mat (.15) Page Seventeen