Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-16 | Page 15 | Dennis Morgan Wanted Work, Now Needs Rest

ro r f y A tit I JI J r y Y V.- V. V V V VJ JV V.- V. f tiff fr t Ir t It I r ti t i T I V J 4 1 i 1 iI I C I It t if il h. h Dennis Morgan and Ele Eleanor nor Parker are re costarring in The The Yary Very I Thought of Y You You and ou and nd Dennis is h working hard Dennis Morgan Wanted Work Now Needs Bleeds Rest HOLL HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Dennis Dennis Morgan is the fellow who said he would 1 never ask his employers for a vacation vaca vaca- tion lion But now hes he's tossing out broad hints At the time Morgan arrived on the scene to sign his contract at Warners ho was a man who just hadn't been allowed to work He had been vacationing himself premature premature premature pre pre- mature gray ay hair or worse worse worse-no no hair at all What he needed least was a vacation Dennis was a singing find discovered discovered dis dis- covered ered by the opera star Mary Garden and si signed ed by M G He came out full of youth and enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- and reported for work He reported regularly every Wednesday Wednesday was payday payday payday pay pay- day and he could kill two birds with one stone stone get get his money and not ge an assignment to pIa play a arole role This went on for tor two years Finally he went to the front office and said he didn't want to vaca- vaca any more They said he was wasI I F much nuch too valuable to release from Iris his contract So he came back sortie sOl more Wednesdays Fully Finally he convinced them He was signed by Paramount t. t It was different there there much much different Payday was on Thursdays Still StUl no singing no acting just acting just one long lazy Jazy unhappy vacation He was a desperate young yeung man when he arrived arrived- at al Warner Varner Broth Broth- ers Hed He'd do anything just to let him work He asked for It and finally he got gOl it Dennis is the hardest working working working work work- ing actor on the lot Jot Morgan still loves his work Only he thinks maybe hes he's due for a little vacation Allan Jones has been given another another another an an- other extension of his leave ave of absence absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence from Universal Hell He'll star starin starin tar tarin in a new Broadway musical