Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-08 | Page 6 | Star to Christen Ship

v- v r f Star to Christen Ship II TI By Harrison Carroll HOLLYWOOD INS As a navy wife Claudette Colbert Colbert d ot the movies will rate the honor of christening a ton transport on Easter morning To Cancel Cancel- Contract HOLLYWOOD UP UP- UP Warner Warn r Brothers are p preparing r rep ep a r i f n g legal legal le legal le- le gal efforts to cancel the contract of Producer Hall Wallis academy award winner The studio said he had broken his contract by negotiating negotiating with other studios His disc discontent w with th c conditions of his w work rk as producer at Warner Broth Brothers ers hastened the studio move officials officials off said Wallis said he hadn't hadn received official notification from Warners Miss Colbert whose husband Is Lieutenant Commander Joel Pressman Pressman Pressman Press Press- man will per perform Orm the honors honors at atthe atthe atthe the launching of the U S S Appling due to slide down the ways Sunday morning at the Consolidated shipyards shipyards shipyards ship ship- yards in Wilmington Her maid of honor will be 13 year-old year Judith Goetz daughter of Motion Picture Producer William Goetz Oddly enough Miss Colbert willbe will willbe be christening another ship this week she said said but but only on a sound stage for a scene scene in the movie Practically Yours