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Show Used Frances Shy, Self - Conscious Blonde, radiant Frances Langford is an entirely different dif-ferent person from the mousy schoolgirl who dreamed of a career in the future. This, change in personalities came about when as a music student in her native Lakeland, Florida, she had a tonsil operation which removed not only the troublesome tonsils, but also her soprano voice. This happy incident revealed that rich and warm contralto that has made her one of the top popular songstresses of our day. At the suggestion of cameramen, she lightened her hair v for contrast with her dark pnotogenic noney. ner mousmess naa disappeared long before she left Lakeland, but she was still painfully self-conscious self-conscious except before a microphone or camera. Her radio association with the happy Bob Hope troupe and her marriage to handsome j Jon Hall destroyed the last ves 11 1 1 I uges oi ner snyness. vjn ner service tours, she was as much loved by the thousands, of men for her easy friendliness and genuine sincerity as for her songs. Knowing her schedule, it seems difficult to think of Frances Langford's having any off-duty time but in her rare moments when she is not working, she manages to indulge in such pet hobbies as dancing, swimming, horseback riding, tennis, seeing as many movies as possible and A chasing her friends with a ran- did camera. The gardenia is her favorite Flickerville Flashes From Cinema City Reported by Gossip Columnist By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD. (NEA) The new year's most elaborate rib has Kurt Kruger still blushing. While the three of them were In Detroit, Phil Silvers and David Street wrote Kurt a mash note and signed the name of an automobile heiress. The note added: "If you can have cocklails with me after the show tonight, flutter your elbow on the stage." Well, Kurt fluttered his -elbow like mad on the stage and- then received a phone call: "Meet me in your hotel lobby, darling, and come ALONE. Kurt dashed from the theater to the hotel lobby where-Phil, David Street and Mrs. Silvers (the feminine voice on the. telephone) tele-phone) greeted him with hysterical hysteri-cal howls. GreU Garbo must be serious about returning to the screen. She's telling friends to keep their eyes out for a comedy for her . . . "Nora Prentiss" Is Ann Sheridan's best picture in a lonr time. It's another "King's Row" for her . . . Vic Mc-Laglen's Mc-Laglen's daughter, Sheila, ia en route to New York another an-other gal who believes that Hollywood discovers an actress act-ress quicker on the eastern stage. NOT SO FAST AFTER ALL In "Pursued," Teresa Wright does some of the fastest horseback horse-back riding, we've ever seen on the screen. We mentioned it to her husband, hus-band, Niven Busch. He said: "We had the camera turning START YOUR BEARD NOW FOR MAPLETON'S SECOND ANNUAL 49'ers DANCE FEB. 22 PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUME and BEARD Your car if its wheels are unbalanced will be envied by jackrabbits, but sooner or later it'll be a headache to you. Wheels that are out, of balance tend to "hop" much as if they-were lopsided. They cause "steering shake" forcing the driver to keep a tight, tiresome grip on the wheel. Unbalanced wheels set up vibrations that cause expensive damage dam-age to steering and wheel assemblies. Bring your car in today and let our expert mechanics me-chanics check your wheel balance with our precision John Bean Wheel Balancing System. Shepherd - Winborg Auto 1st East and AMERICAN H-AU5 to Be sparkling eyes and became a flower and if you want to make a hit with her at the dinner table just serve her southern fVed chicken. Despite her petite five foot three and one-half inches of height and her unvarying weight of one hundred pounds she manages to stow away a 'man-sized ' meal when south em fried is served. She has her dislikes, too chief among them being large parties as well as anything that will cause her to miss her eight hours sleep. She needs that sleep in order to keep up that vitality to sustain her hectic schedule as Hollywood's "Diminutive Djna mite." i slowly to speed up the horse. If the horse could reallv run that i fast. Jack Warner would be racing him at Santa Anita." Howard Hughes "The Outlaw Out-law ' opened in 19 Dallas, Tex., theaters without a peep f from the censors ... Joan Crawford is thinking about adopting another baby. . . . Barton MacLane would like "The Informer" rights for a Broadway show. He wants to do the Vic McLag-len McLag-len role. There's no truth to the story that Betty Grable fainted on the set because of her date with the stork. "Both of us," she told us, "never felt better." . . . Gene Lockhart, usually cast as a heavy, will take a change of pace for his role in "Its Only Human. He'll play a comedy judge who is afraid to wreck his political career by putting a character named Santa Claus in the nuthouse. nut-house. NO MORE COOGANS? It's nice to hear that Donald O'Connor, recently turned 21, is getting $23,000 from a trust fund established for him by the California Cali-fornia courts back in 1938. Trust funds for movie kiddies were inspired by the fate of Jackie Coogan, who earned $5,000,000 and wound up minus his hair and with a 1923 Rolls Royce that gets four miles to the gallon. Betty Hutton posed for the first pictures with her 6-week-old daughter, Lindsay Diana. Betty swears that the baby deliberately turned ber best side to the camera. Yelled Betty: "Six weeks old and she's upstaging her mother already!" Hollywood finally found the answer to the old conundrum: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" "The Egg and I" will be released re-leased before "Chicken Every Sunday." Both Clarence Brown, the director di-rector of "The Yearling," and 'Jody,' Claude Jarman, Jr., at tended school in Nashville, Tenn. 1st North FORK, UTAH Ill '" i. FRANCES LANGFORD Baby Sister Gets Role With Donna HOLLYWOOD Donna Reed s four-year-old sister. Karen, won herself a role in "Green Dolphin Street" without any help from Donna. She was watching Donna in scenes with Lana Turner when Lillian Burns, studio dramatic promptly asked. Would you like to hear my Christmas recitation?" and immediately went into it, following fol-lowing with a couple of nursery rhymes' for good measure. 30c 'Til S O'clock Oscn 12:41 "VMI IA STANWYCK UZltM SCOTT VAN HEPUN SECOND HIT Kirby GRANT IARMIDA PLUS- NEWS SELECT SHORT II NOW PLAYING TWOSOME! 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Mw and Every Saturday - 9:30 p. m. - KOVO OPEN TODAY 12:45 39c til 2 HO LOVE Starring I VAN JOHNSON nlrerfucing PAT KIRK WOOD with KEENAN WYNN XAVIER CUGAT GUY IOMBARDO and fheir Oixhtttra ltWAD ARNOIO MARK ' On A Greyhound Bus" SOON & LARRY PARKS J m EVELYN KEYES WRIUM DIM A REST Ml GOODWIN The Town n I ii Lovdovn Chat On Movie Higher-Ups ftOLLYWOOD Dennis Mor gan, concerning the Chicago lady's demand that men wear girdles, asks, "What are they trying try-ing to do to us? Why. we've only just won the fight to give up garters!" Virginia Bruce denies those stork rumors. . . . Dog data: Hobo, appearing with Ida Lupino in "Deep Valley" is confined o his kennel. Indi-! gestion. He ate a mole. . . and Miss Lupino, down on one knee to -see what ailed Hobo, was bitten bit-ten there bya centipede. Prompt first aid avoided ill effects. . . . Vegetable department? Andy Russell s bobby - sox fans are known here as "Ruis ell's Sprouts"! S. Z. Sakall has written a play for the cinema, but he -ean't get anyone to read it. It's in longhand, and Hungarian. Hun-garian. . . The show must go on. Peggy Ann Nilsson, who broke a leg recently in a badminton match, will complete her acting chore for "Repeat Performance" in a wheelchair. . . . The Theta Rho Phi sorority, Cleveland, O., has elected Eleanor Parker their "woman of the .year". . . . Seven Sev-en years ago this week. Jane Wyman. very blue about her prospects as a screen player, told Kay Kayser that she couldn't act for sour apples.'. . . . Sign on a lingerie shoppc in Beverly Hills. "We fit to T-easc!" CURT Lee Buttle and Lathalr "Curt" Curtis, prominent Utah stage and radio performers, have been engaged to play important im-portant roles in the Players' Guild production of "The Wingless Victory," according to Arta Ballif, chairman of the group. The Maxwell Anderson drama, first of a series to be produced by the Players' Guild, will be presented at Provo high school, February 6, 7. and 8. Tickets arc on sale at Hedquist Drug Co. No. 1 and at the Students' Supply, upper campus, B.Y.U. Mr. Buttle, a native Pro-voan, Pro-voan, has appeared many times before local theater audiences. Following a ,long Two shows daily 6:50 9:30 Doors Open 6:00 STARTING OARAYir. ZANUCK'S 7 UJ "The Wingless Victory" ifj 1 f if. jifii I'I I'-I t- V W-7 dill' 4li''E' t'- ' .: I 'i i c i yi it ii 1 1 n it if i i ft ii ii ii ii ii ii i'i I II MM r I ft " Ml I M II If I I I. I It ' II Mi ' I In Theatre Lounge An elaborate exhibit of pioneer pio-neer relics. Prizes will be given to patrons coming in the most appropriate pioneer costumes. SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, February 2, 194T 9 Finds Irish Dialect HOLLYWOOD Pat O'Brien, Dunne's Newsboys Home" is still embarrassed over a speech he delivered at - a luncheon during his recent visit to Dublin. j Another guest at the luncheon; was Maureen u tiara, wno went to Ireland upon completing "Sin-bad "Sin-bad the Sailor." During the talk, Pat became aware that ladies present were blushing and that some men seemed shocked. Later he asked ' NOW PLAYING Til 2 p.m. 40c 2-5 p.m. 9 L ADDED: Edgar Kennedy Comedy Pete Smith Novelty Cartoon News CURTIS and LEE series of appearances in high school and college dramas, he continued his stage work in a number of little theater and dramatic . fraternity productions produc-tions He was seen in the leading lead-ing juvenile role in "A Bill of Divorcement." Later he interpreted inter-preted the only male part in "Ladies In Retirement." Provo play-goers will remember him particularly for his skillful portrayal of the villainous Dr. Einstein in "Arsenic and Old Lace." In the present production produc-tion he makes an abrupt change of character, portraying portray-ing the gentle and understanding understand-ing brother Ruel. Mr. Curtis, originally from Oakley, Idaho, made his first college stage appearance as MONDAY FOR ONE m. m m m m m m m m -v- , s WOO 4 V.'fVfc A 20 CENTURY-FOX On Stage ft Different in Eire . .. . , .' Maureen, what fie had said that was so terribly. "Something that's innocent in America"Tbut pretty bad here," Maureen replied. "But don't let it worry you. I didn't know for' weeks after going to America that two innocent Irish colloquialisms collo-quialisms I kept using had horrid meanings there." The prize possession of Angela Lansbury is a family heirloom a ring that has been in the family t for more than 100 years. Si 1 V i V y J 50c After 5 p.m. 65c BUTTLE T a b i a n in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." Performances in two Noel Coward plays, "Private Lives" and "Blithe Spirit," brought him further recognition, as did his acting in the traditional Christmas drama, "Family Portrait." Later! he won favorable comment com-ment for his outstanding work in "Rebecca" and "On Borrowed Bor-rowed Time." both Pardoe productions. pro-ductions. In his senior year he served as president of Theta Alpha Phi, national dramatic fraternity. A colleague of Joe Lee in his work as KOVO announcer, an-nouncer, he is Mr. Lee's brother broth-er and principal antagonist, the Reverend Phlneas Mc-Question, Mc-Question, in "The Wingless Victory." WEEK A ft iimiH TYRONE .; POWER. it , LINDA DARNELL tmh mi DONLEVY DARWELl i I0HN MKT :i5 CARRADINE ASTOB. VIWIHT If IN N ; PRICE ROGERS TODD ' oeanJAGGER It PpiRE " ; . AS BBICHAWI YOUNC 7:20 and 10:00 A pageant of pioneers songs and dances with a personal appearance ap-pearance of Miss Calleen Robinson, Rob-inson, State Centennial Queen. |