Show First Phonograph Held Fake Fred Fred- Stone Recalls IV V Veteran I te Actor R members members' Seeing No Future Tor Fori Movies Which Now Give Him Career HOLLYWOOD Calif March 16 Fred AP AP Fred Stone a ne new movie star with half a century of show business business' behind him looked back sack today on things Ive I've seen in my time He He found them wondrous strange While I I 1 was growing glowing up p and attending to stage busin business ss he said all those things were happening that put together finally finally- ly sp spelled the talking picture And they joined together in iri plenty of or orme time me to lo pl provide ovide me me- with a new career even if I didn t. t pay much attention to them then as they came ame along Stone Stone- at 62 Is a veteran of of- three talkies alkies Sand and Sanda a star Hc He likes Holly Holly- wood plans to live here and he can think of no better be ter way to round out his care career carer r. r Everything was a sight sigh to the b barbers barber's son sort who set out in iii March 1886 JO to change from froni amateur acro bate bat att and dancer to professional S I r saw the electric light come comen In n an and th the phonographS phonograph phonograph- S Say I l' l thought it was' was a fake The first phon phonograph graph 1 I saw v was Ina in ina a clime dime museum in in- Joe St.-Joe Mo the theold theold theold old Edison Edon with cylinder cylinder- records They couldn't fool me I s said J v ne the was coming omin somewhere ome else ari and n not not from from that box I ox u And nd then there was the t tele le phone I I j dont don't even remember th the first time I 1 I ever tal talKed d over over ori one tiu 1 iad ad a cousin jn in Topeka T peka Kas Jas who wa aS' aS central TI That at was was' as asTle 1 in 1 86 The Tle movies d' d dawned dawned- on Stone as asa asa a D. curious novelty ty with no rio great fu future fUture fUture- ure J I made madea Then he a movie n o 1 myself Up on a D. rooftop they t bf ok m me and me-and and Montgomery Montgomery Mont Mont- g gomery mery my stage age partner partner- doing our our- prizefighting da dance ce It It- was the same same did we we did in The ThC R Red d Mill Milland Mill and t the e year Fal was was 1906 Th They y put it out in iri one of those little books You U thumb thumb- it fast and we we- seem to dance to-dance dance about and I 1 t take k- k my neck neck- spin Here Iv Ive I've still sUIt got that that that- He dug around in a desk arid and produced his his' first movie vehicle S I j 1 never thought never thought they'd amount to anything anything- though h. h he be he said Baid Comedies maybe I thought But who ho would ever y r do a drama In pictures pic plc- tures |