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Show : 12 Sunday, November 2 1947 SUNDAY HERALD New Film Fantasy Brings Comedy and Sparkling Tunes Presenting a glamorous1 new musical feature, in color, Walt Disney has neatly blended the performances of live stars and animated characters in "Furi and Fancy Free", which will open soon at Academy Theatre. The picture embraces two leading sequences in animation, knitted to gether with action and comments by Edgar Bergen flanked by little Luana Patten, who was seen in "Song of the South." Bergen's famous foils, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd also perform. The picture opens with a highly amusing introductory sequence monopolized by JIminy Cricket, famed Disney character. Bergen and his group now enter the proceedings, pro-ceedings, their histrionics leading up to cartoon sequences, the first of which is "Mickey and the Bean stalk," performed by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and boofy, in an encounter above the clouds with Willie, red-headed and gigantic gi-gantic oaf, during which they nearly get eaten in his sandwiches, sand-wiches, but -manage to rescue his lovely captive. Singing Harp. Another spectacular sequence presented is the ""Bongo" adven ture adapted from a short story by Sinclair Lewis. The hero is Bongo, a little runaway circus bear, who encounters a woodland sweetie, Lulubelle, their hectic courtship being menaced by a great grizzly, Lumpjaw. A cast of dancing, singing bears, and many other sylvan creatures, is in support. sup-port. Dinah Shore is heard as the narrator. Many novelties in the coordina tion of humor, music and art are achieved in "Fun Vand Fancy Free," in which the inimitable Disney cartoon sequences occupy 4nost of the running time. Make One Suit Do Double Duty HOLLYWOOD For the who can afford but one girl suit, Karin Booth suggest the convert ible suit which can be changed to look vastly different each time, it is worn. Karin chose her "convertible" suit with a pin-checked jacket of purple and amethyst and a solid purple skirt. A boat shaped detachable yoke can be buttoned on at the shoulder-line of this suit to give it an entirely different line. It is re rersible with one side being solid purple and the other purple and amethyst. Another change is the detachable detach-able hood which is also reversible. It can be worn by itself or with the yoke. Without the hood or yoke, Karin likes to wear an attractive high-crowned cloche hat. It is fashioned from amethyst felt, banded in purple satin ribbon, set off by a saucy bunch of matching feathers. at the New RADIO You're invited to a thrilling demonstration of all the wonders of radio science in the new Magnatox radio-phonograph. The world's most beautiful music is reproduced with complete fidelity of tone . . . and authentically styled modern and traditional cabinets. will add to the beauty of your home. The ern IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Gadgets, in Movies Cost Producers 'Honesty Morjey' .; CHICAGO (U.R) The cost of giving the' movies an appearance of reality has gone up along with the price of a slab of' ham and a dozen eggs. Take the imitation police badges the actor-copper wears before the cameras. Time was when you eould get one made for around $10 pr $12. Today they cost $Z3. The man who knows all about it is Al Davidson, who heads a company in Hollywood which makes little gadgets to help the movie people keep honest. The pictures, he said, while at tending the annual marking de vice association convention here. often spends .thousands of dollars on badges and medals the public might not even notice. The rea son, he added, is that they don't like the wrong kind of fan mail. Iron Crosses Costly "In the movie Hitler's Gang' the producer spent an awful lot of money for exact duplicates of ifbn crosses and other medals to decorate the big front of Jack Oakie," he said. "Sure, they could have cut an Iron cross for Oakie and his subordinates out of black paper and painted the edges with silver. But somebody in far-off Maine would notice the paper medal didn't sway back and forth the way it ought to when Oakie walked and he'd write in with a nasty letter." Incidentally, a phony iron cross, in case you're on the market for one, costs about $60 today, twice what it used to. There are a lot of problems in the "device" business the public doesn't think much about, according ac-cording to Davidson. Police Particular . A studio, say, needs a copy of the Los Angeles chief of police badge. Well, first the device maker mak-er has to get the permission of the attorney general for California, Califor-nia, then the okay of the chief himself. The cops don't take any chances. They send along a cop per, wearing sidearms, with the die for the badge. The officer will stand there until the work is completed and take the die back with him. After the picture Your Fingertips 3! n a vox MONOGRAPH Magnavox Chairside Automatic record changing, short wave, beautiful and tasteful mod- furniture design $000.00 LIBERAL TRADE-IN .'A f C'y r r Fantasy on the loose--from the soon af the Academy. Sonja's Torch Still By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1 (NEA) Exclusively Yours: After all these years, Sonja Henie still is carrying a torch eight miles high for Tyrone Power. She has a lit tie plot cooking that may find Lana Turner included out when Ty returns from overseas .... Alan Marshall is celebrating (?) his second year under suspension According to Selznick studio executives, he turns down every script submitted to him. Hasn't appeared in a picture since "The White Cliffs of Dover." For the second time. Greeorv Peck will compete against himself for an Academy Oscar. Producer David O. Selznick hones to have him nominated for "The Paradine Case," and Darryl Zanuck is training the V publicity guns on Peck's performance in "Gentle man's Agreement." Telegram to Eric Johnston from the Marin County (San Rafael, Calif.) Motion Picture Council: "We wish to protest filming of the life story of Al Capone." But Is It Meat? In compliance with Truman's appeal. TuosHav meatless day;" read the menu at tne KKO studio raf Tk.n itVU WIS is completed, the badge is returned re-turned to the police department. ie mosi unusual request Davidson's Da-vidson's company ever got from the movies was for a larse coin with a mouse on on Rirf anw o man on another It was for a picture where the flip of a coin was supposed to determin who. ther Comedian Eddie Cantor was a man or a mouse. Cantnr nn Sturdevant's "Home Furnishing Headquarters'9 OUR STOCK IS BRAND NEW NO WAR OR VICTORY MERCHANDISE You are cordially invited to our new store to see and acquaint yourself with our famous lines of nationally na-tionally advertised lines. Kroehler Living; Room and Bedroom. Doernbecker Dining Room and Bedroom Sets. Northwest Chairs and Dining Room Furniture. Daystrom Chrome Sets. Alexander Smith Carpets and Rugs. Simmons Bed Furniture TonTine Window Shades Westinghouse, G. E., Arvin Small Appliances Easy Payment Free Deiivery Drive Out and Save at the Sturdevant Furniture Go. "The Store of Quality Merchandise" 670 North State Street Phone 0550-R2 Orem, Utah . V , "Fun Powerful the left side of the menu, as a special, were the words: "Ready to serve luncheon of BROILED BABY, with mushrooms ' and ba con, creamed spinach and dessert of fruit compote. They claimed a typographical error. The reason for Louis B. Mayer's current New York trip is to talk to Metro's bankers about chopping chop-ping off some more producers' heads. . . . Ann Miller wants to hang up her dancing shoes for good. She has visions of becom-ing becom-ing a great dramatic actress. I think she'd better stick to danc ing. Sign outside a theater in La Mesa, Calif.: "This theater refuses to buy any more psycho-thrillers or murder-melodramas. murder-melodramas. Our audiences are fed up.". When Ed "Archie" Gardner told pal he was writing another movie, the friend quirped: "If all tne movie scripts you wrote were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach the screen." Deanna D u r b i n looks mighty cute in those pigtails for "Up In Central Park." . . . Lyn Duddy wires from New York that the boys In "Briradoon" have adopted the "new look." They've dropped their kilts at least two inches. The American Medical Association Asso-ciation is mad at Hollywood. Too many movie medics are forced to give wrong prescriptions and psy- cniatrists are pictured as villains. They'll do something about it at their next convention. Come out a r compare our merchandise and prices. Your Four Star Service Easy Payments Free Delivery Quality Merchandise Low Prices delightful Disney feature, J and Fancy Free" which, opens Vas Love Scene Topples Booth HOLLYWOOD ' When Van Johnson makes love in a tele phone booth, the booth falls ! apart! For a scene in "State of the Union," Van sits in a booth with Marian Martin on his lap. Their embrace is interrupted by Marian's Mari-an's screen husband, Tor Johnson, John-son, who wedges himself in with them. Van weighs 185 pounds Marian Mari-an 115, and Tor 300 a total of 600 pounds in an ordinary-sized booth. Everything was all right until the trio tried to get out of the booth. Before they could make It, the prop men had to break down the walls! As soon as she completes her role in "B. F.'s Daughter," Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck is to accompany her husband, Robert Taylor on a fishing expedition to Oregon. Taylor, who has recently taken up fishing with zestful interest, and his wife expect to pass a week or ten days salmon fishing along the Rogue River. It will be Miss Stanwyck's first time on a long fishing trip. Starts Today jn ifcuiiy mmmMumi SHOW VALUE! f fiYtjfiW iTfrST? ti ' ffi&cjjl s k ' Llln&t -iv ilk. ..--iw'",. .-:..:.:.,. y ::: 'Mi LOUfS HAY WARD DADDADA HDITTriM t. klM Open Daily 1 :00 p. m. johnny Johnston Named 'Singer of The Tear'; Sinatra By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON United Press Hollywood .Cor respondent.; HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1 (U.R) R urn b 1 1 n g s hereabouts -, that "swoon-crooners" are slipping get louder today when-Frank Sinatra's Sina-tra's bobby-soxers let a whole week go by without challenging Johnny- Johnston's new title HThe Singer Of the Year." We expected the "Sinatra-lly yours" cmcKs to rise up - ana scratch out the eyes of those san Diego gals who named the blonde Mr J. tODS on their list. Frankie-boy, who for years has reduced the 'teen-age population (female gender) r to screaming, squealing pandemonium, got by passed in tne election wun a skimoy 11 of the votes. And not a single boboy-soxer yelped in protest. We can remem ber the day when tney liooaea us with insults because we printed a story about Sinatra feeling under- the-weather. But Alice Daniel, president of the San Diego sophomore league, Oriental Slant For Star's Gown Janis Paige, auburn-haired star of "Wallflower," has a dinner dress of Japanese obi cloth, de signed by Anna of Vienna. It is heavy beige silk with accent of wide black band on the . bodice j and skirt. The design is hand-painted hand-painted with spot errfbroidery of silver and gold threads on the design. de-sign. Anna of Vienna (Anna Cav-anaugh) Cav-anaugh) was born in Vienna. Prior to the war she was well-known well-known in the fashion worlds of Paris and Vienna. For the past year she has been living in Honolulu Hono-lulu where she custom-designs clothes for the fashionable women of the islands. TRUE SHORT STORY Greater consideration than this hath no screen star for another: on a recent trip through New York, Dennis Morgan was mistaken mis-taken for Dennis Day "by a large group of children, all armed with autograph books; and Mr. Mor-ang Mor-ang signed the mall "Dennis Day." HIGHLY EMBARRASSIN' When Steve Guthrie, famous gun-totin' sheriff from Dallas, Tex., visited Hollywood recently on a mission to deputize stars Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan, he emerged to find his parked car decorated with bright yellow traffic citations! Last Show at 9:25 Fans Keep Quiet reports nobody's challenged Johnston's John-ston's right to head the list. No body, that is, except Johnston. He was " at little too modest, Miss Daniel thought " "He's tops," she sighed. - And we're all ex-bobby-soxers who used to worship at the shrines of Sinatra and the other intimate crooners. Now we've peeled off our bobby-sox and pulled on ny lons and we want singers that sound like men!" - Broad-shouldered Tony Martin came in second with the sophomore sopho-more leaguers. (He's up there in the running with the Hollywood movie queens, too.) And Dennis Day was third. Bing Crosby didn't even get mentioned. "Andy Russell and Perry Co- mo," sniffed Miss Daniel, got lost in the shuffle. We like full-voiced baritones not boudoir whisp erers." She figures it s healthier not to have panting maidens ripping clothes oil crooners in public. "The age of the bobby-soxer was the age of junior neuroses," Alice added. "Look back at any of them and you'll see a frustrated frus-trated . female!" j HURRY! LAST 3 DAYS 2- V.. ALSO "Song Of A Nation" Cartoon and Late News Starts WED. HE WAS HER TYPE... fattened! HUMPHREY LAUREN nua tawnt agues moorehead PLUS tr ROIAND i ' i ' , I 1 n.nti. BOGAPiT BACALL 1 '- bZ iAYING X HtCREA J ; i )Vi VII0NICA I v Playing Monday & Tuesday V - it. ,iU tfl .(". AM fc - ... , ALSO ADDED "YANKEE FAKIR Joan .Woodbury and Douglas Fowley4 - 1 A light comedy drama! ' Stars Give To I Cancer Fund BURBANK, Calif., Not. An additional $100,000 for .can cer research has been placed, in the hands of science, deposited there by Walter Wlnchell, treasurer treas-urer of the Damon Runyon Memorial Me-morial Fund, and by Bette Davis. film star, representing those of the' amusement industry who had; raisea tne money. The $100,000 check was receiv ed for the California Institute for Cancer Research by Clarence A. Dkystra, provost of the University Univer-sity of California at Los 'Angeles, where research will be conducted: at a new medical school. s ' - "The entertainment world 4 proud to have participated ". In combatting this dread evil," said Ms Davis. "We in show business, as in the past, stand ready at all times to help in the advancement ot any worthy causes." . . 5 V Box Office Opens 6:30 Second Show 9:30 SUN. - MON. - TUES. ONLY MURDER COULD FREE HIM... FOREVER! ALICE FAYE DANA VAHDHEWf ! LINDA DARNELI Produced and. Directed by OTTO PREMJNGER 20. Plus . Cartoon and Latest News, 1 ...mm TIM HOLTiao &m m -mm I! ALSO . j T 13 '4 I MY tJl ON THI KXHN -m ' .. Inert UHUMtS ? uiMnawMOi' 136 WEST CENTER PROVO PHONE 102-W A , - |