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Show ,?H'r - "iff- Vi V," ' , v V.." J- ,t - PAGE 12 i!5SSf,5SSSK5-.St" SUNDAY HERALD ?NewStar Discovered During Eleyator;Ri; de . A class -sliDDer served Cinderella as her ticket to the blissful life but in the case of Burt Lancaster it was his Broadway-debut as a blustering-sergeant ift Harry Brown's "A Sound of Hunting' that overnight brought him a deal for Hollywood and pointed him toward stardom. , Born in New York City, he; went to the public schools.1 A good scholar, he finished high school and entered Jew Yprk university at 16. After two years at NYU he became 'bored and ran off to join a circus. This mud show paid him $3 a .week and found. After five years of , this life Burt tried vaudeville. During a pre-discharge furlough in, 1945 Lancaster went on a visit that has changed his life and def initely decided his future. Cinderella. went to a ball in a pumpkin coach. Lancaster rode in an elevator. - In the elevator he noticed out of the corner of his eye that he was being sized up by a stranger, s Lancaster left the elevator, and went to bis friend's suite, forgetting all about the stranger. But be wasn't to forget him entirely, en-tirely, for ' no sooner was he greeting his friend than the phone jangled. The friend answered. an-swered. While mumbling into the receiver he looked at Lancaster and slowly shook his head. Finally, Final-ly, he spoke up, "Would you like to read for a part in a Broadway play?" he asked Lancaster. The stranger of the' elevator was a Broadway producer. He thought Lancaster, still in his GI uniform, . was the type he wanted for a lead in Harry Brown's A "Sound of Hunting." "I'll take a crack-at - it," Burt play. told his friend. The ' reading of the part got him the role. It was. his first appearance on Broadway. It was, to him, a dream.. "I succeeded in making everybody - including the audi ence completely miserable," Lancaster declared. He exaggerated his irritating efect on, the audience, for he actually succeeded in being a solid hit. So impressive was his enactment of his part that movie producers began negotiating for an option on Lancaster s motion picture services between acts one and two. Lancaster came to Hol lywood after the close of thei l Swedish Actress New in Movieland Hard to Interview, Says Johnson BY ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (NEA) There's a new Swedish dish on the Hollywood Holly-wood Smorgasmord by the name of Viveca Lindfors, ( i v " 1 C ' - 5 v ; t , : . ' " , N , ' , s - 1 1 ' ' - "if & ,' i - - - ' ' f ' - " --,, V 1 - S' - , -v ' I r- il k . ' ' ' ' ' ' , '- ' - y ' ' v ' .h . r ; --, ?f-"?t' ...... V ' J? S SsS r .ji " - , . K s : - - ' A iik-::.:: n'.I.-". I 1 1 f 'x S:::::?.:.Kx..::;: V !' I vr ' i , "--A - S - "V 1''' J - if j ft-. Barber Got Young Boy Into Pictures HOLLYWOOD William Kadel. a Pasadena CaL barber, is responsible re-sponsible for 10-year-old Bobby Driscoll being in the movies; and a featured player In Walt Disney's aong oe we aouin. Angel', with Margaret O'Brien. He won out over some forty ap plicanta. His performance in this film won him other .roles. Bobby later came to the atten tion m Walt Disney, who ba For his haircuts, Bobby was heen quietly searching for months always taken to Kadel's shop. His animated faced caused the barber to say over and over again, "that kid ought to go into the movies." The barber's son, playing minor roles in films, was persuaded, by his father to bring Bobby for a mass interview one day, to com pete -for a boy role in "Lost BESS' BLANKETS AS COSTLY SOUVENIRS HOLLYWOOD A hurry-up call from New York has 'been received here. "Bess" needs more blankets: B I4h nationwide tour, she was equip-? ped wits numerous elaborate horse blankets. Autograph hounds, unable to get the horse's signature, have walked off with most of Bess' blankets! for the; riaht boy to nlav the all-important role 'of Johnny in "Song ,ot the South." The lad's performances in the tests and his understanding of the rather complex part won Dis ney, completely, and he was not only given the role, but put under personal contract to the Disney studio, thus establishing a precedent pre-cedent Till then, the .Disney or ganization had never had a film player under contract. TENDXNO'MACIIINK SELLS SANDWICHES lYYYli NEW YORK. Dec. 21 OJ.PWVou . hot only could buy coffee- and a f sandwich from a slot "machine i you eau ttaipn iornDerg put on v iriai a vcnoing macmoe wrncn sells 25-cent reprints , oL bestc sellers. , Now he is working .on puns tor macmnes to sen pnono- grapn recoras, spools oi conoa and hosiery. mildew has' resulted in a fungi- clde for household use which pro tects fabrics from mildew by destroying de-stroying the growth when IV appears. ap-pears. Its effect lasts for. several months. j Before, the horse star of "Gal-; PICT"? (yX 2 M Bess" left on her current I n' n hW. m , i li ' BURT. LANCASTER as communicative as Lassie, ex cept to , blow up when asked at last. whether her husband, a Swedish No less a personage than attorney, had found anvthinir ob- Clau.dette. Colbert is the authority Tomboys Can Be Feminine, Too HOLLYWOOD The American, at skiing," says Claiidette. "a lot tomboy has come into her own Qf oeonle were surorised. But Not Her Fault If Parents Say 'Hp' Viveca. theijectionable in her Warner con- w JKTlVr"; publicity department was -quick; tract. ZZs, one VSThiS "Would you tell me what's in tomboys of them all. Still is for your contract?" ' that matter. We apologeUcally tried to ex- ltJ2S.,eEL UUe A plain that columnists (without ir, t contracts) ask the darndest ques- dovtor ffe, IKJllf3r-'XfinJS tions, but she didn't seem to un-1 IttK.J derstand. That ended the inter- X IV;?..!ither..at.L0 ?Iy wire ucwiuc i was uic oniy girl in my block and my brother, to announce, rhymes with ter rific-ah. The studio, of course, is hoping she will be as terrific-ah at the box-office as G. Garbo and I. Bergman, Sweden's earlier gifts to the American screen, in her first Hollywood film, "Night Unto Night." view. tri T . . - : : - - In fact. Viveca even looks a v noiors, years oia, unarles, wouldn't play dolls, SO i- ui,-. TnH nm9n o maae ner aeDUl in oweaisn pie little like Ingrid Bergman, in a not-so-robust-and-healthy sort of way. She's tall five feet, six wears her brown hair like In-grid's, In-grid's, spurns movie glamor makeup, and lives simply. She started the entire studio, by inviting such unimportant lit tures five years ago, clicked in the tongue-twister "Tank om Jan Gifter Mig med Prasten" ("If I Should Marry the Minister"), received re-ceived several Hollywood offers, accepted a Warner contract last year, and arrived in Hollywood in tie people as studio gatemen and'rtPriK cafe waitresses to help her chris ten her star dressing room. at seven I played tennis. At eight I could swim and dive. And at ten l was on Charles' soccer team." Today, Claudette is one of Hollywood's most athletic-minded Wnmnn CVia 10 tka film ZZ"r X '"irONY IS XMAS GIFT "When I began winning medals they needn't have been. An ex-tomboy ex-tomboy can do a lot in sports which people don't expect. It HOLLYWOOD Just for the record, Elizabeth Taylor does like boys. Recentlv a matnzliw niintorl used to be that tomboys, when (Elizabeth as saying she didn't they started 1 growing iip, were 1 care for the male young. Thous-told Thous-told what they mustn't do as fariands of 'teen-age boys immedi-as immedi-as sports were concerned. Women' ate w?ote Protesting notes. ..iTT -. . ltw I I ve been misunderstood" .ex- could putter around with games plained the worried 14-year-old and be feminine duds, but it was actress on the set of "The Rich, unmaidenly to be good In sports. Full Life." "I said I wasn't allow- This was ; only for Amazons, a cd to out with bovs yet-class yet-class unto themself. But that's ; doesn't mean I wouldn't like to." ail cnanged now. women are sports-minded and their men folk No Interviewer's Dream She speaks remarkably good English now, after daily lessons; there was always a retinue of I for the past nine months. The servants in the family.) But well have to report that we ! studio was frantic, though, when viveca s Americanization is drew a blank in trying to inter- she arrived. .proceeding apace. Explaining her have found a. gal can be athletic by day then put on an evening frock- and be as feminine as an orchid in the moonlight." TO LITTLE CHERYL Heavy Drama Is For Her delay in arriving on the set one Her struggle with English is the I morning, she said reason, no doubt, for the nine A cop stopped me for not HOLLYWOOD Although Lana lurner is setuea in her new home, she still is poring over blueprints. This time for a stable Daughter Cheryl Christine's Christmas present from her month delay in the start of her! making a sign and almost gavel Now, first movie, just recently put be-1 me a notice." house it father, Stephen Crane, will be a Shetland pony. Lana s problem is to view the lady. 4 She thought her role in the picture pic-ture was a dangerous one, but She couldn't explain why. ("I really don't know myself, but I feel it.") She liked the idea of a fore the cameras. Ronald Reaean stand-in. ("There are none in is the co-star. I 'I MM. I MM ft A PmIISmm Sweden ") Viveca plays the role of a J-OHQ LOng UlStQn CC Calling . uwsiae ox mat, sne was aoout.wiaow wno tninks mat ner dead Lionel Barrymore, a horticul turist, as well as composer, author and artist, has been at work, developing de-veloping a new species of rose for several years. Barrymore expects ex-pects the rose to be a deep, shimmering shim-mering red, and it will be named the "Lucille Bremer." NOVT ENDS MONDAY SEALING DRAMA! BLAZING ROMANCE! ANNE BAXTER THOMAS MITCHELL 1 : double snow Value: Note: CLOSED ALL DAY TUESDAY Camera Fans Tune In KOVO 12:45 TODAY For Camera Club OF THE AIR Visit STANDARD SUPPLY For Photographic Supplies husband is communicating with her. It's heavy drama at which. the studio says, Viveca excells. Immediately after competition of the picture, Viveca will return to Sweden, where her husband, the prominent Stockholm attorney attor-ney Folke Rogard, and her two children. 3V2-vear-old John and ?.var.n1H Tna await hr Rtma! day, if she's successful on the American screen, she hopes all of them can live in Hollywood. She's now living alone in a small Hollywood apartment and doing her own cooking for the; first time in her life. (She's the daughter of a wealthy Stockholm publisher, Torsten Lindfors, and QneatcAi ENTERTAINMENT EVENT Ever to Come to Utah! JANUARY 6 THRU JANUARY 12 8:30 MATINEES JAN. U and 12 2:30 STATE FAIR COLISEUM, SALT LAKE CITY FIRST CENTENNIAL AMUSEMENT EVENT I Prntcd by UTAH STATE FAIR Endorsed by CENTENNIAL COMMISSION Sponsored by JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRICES $2.00 $3.00 Tax Inc. 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