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Show 10 'Sunday, March 28,- 1948 SUNDRY HERA1P Popular HoHyWobd Duo Llsads Cast ill NcW Picture Lana Turner Is Only Human, So Lay Of Writes Reader By ERSKINE JOHNSON ! NEA Staff Correspondent ' HOLLYWOOD (NEA) The People Talk Back to Hollywood,' to one another and to me: "It is usually a man or woman who can't attract a sweetheart who makes catty remarks about movie stars. Why don't they leave , Lana Turner alone. After all. she's only n human." Monterey,- Calif. "I nominate Anthony Qulnn for the role of Rudolph Valentino. Val-entino. Rome, N.Y. "I nominate Tony Martin for the role of Rudolph Valentino." -New York City. . "This is the time of the year when I as an average movies fan get roaring mad at Hollywood and the .Academy nominations. We fans have come of agei, the years are gone when our only interest in-terest was which actor and actress act-ress received the Oscar. By that I mean that Hollywood has done Dudley Nichols a great injustice. For giving us one of the pictures of the year, "Mourning Becomes Electra," Hollywood has completely com-pletely ignored him. There's a screw loose somewhere." Hollywood. Holly-wood. "Your Idea about labeling pic tures for, children and pictures' for adults would, I believe, be the , medicine Hollywood really needs. For example, the Saturday matinee mat-inee at my local theater ran 'Daisy Kenyon and 'Out of the Past for the kids. Need more be said?" Los Angeles. ALL THE CROSBYS "As long as they have mado 'The Jolson Story' and plan a sequel, se-quel, and now they're working oh 'The Eddie Cantor Story,' why not let's have 'The Bing Crosby Story.' I'd like to see the whole Crosby family in it." Cincin nati, Ohio. "I'd like to put In a word for Lana Turner. I don't approve ap-prove of everything she does, either, but she certainly is no worse - than other people. She's Just mixed up like everyone else Is." Los Angeles. An-geles. 5 '' "I have lust read 'Yankee Pasha and I think they ought to do it in a movie wtih Tyrone Power, Lana Turner and Kathr a rine Hepburn co-starred." Pine Bluff, Ark. "You said they are releasing a lot of old -pictures this year. That's a great way to do some thing for the people who are out of work in Hollywood,, and for the people who have to spay top prices to see them. Phooeyr San Francisco. , "All of William Elliot's fans want to see him play the leading role in "The Life of William S. Hart. "St. Louis, Mo. FEEDING TIME "Is a theater a place to pack in the groceries, with assorted puth noises? The studios bo to a lot of trouble to make the sound trackfree of all outside noist-s, but alKyou get at the theater these days is chomp-ehomp, smack-smack, and rattle-rattle.' Los Angeles, n "Give us more historical biographies set to inspirational inspira-tional music and you'll have us back in the theaters." Madison, Wis. "The old pictures are 100 per cent better than the pictures of today. Tell your producers to study them." New York City. "I don't think the people in Hollywood are any different than people the world over. There is always and has always been the spoiled, the showoff, the man snatcher, the flirt, the home-breaker home-breaker and the man who drinks too much too often. You find the same kind of people in the average aver-age country club in any town or city.'' Burbank. Calif. "When one film company gets an idea, the rest seem to copy that same idea. It gets monotonous. I thought Hollywood was supposed to be original." Janesville, Wis i V W .4 1 I V - . - 0. - k Jk.',f-f f ;?,., .. Valli and Fred MacMurray are the co-stars of "The Miracle of the Bells," new film soon to play at .Academy theatre' in Provo. Frank Sinatra is the vocalist who will sing the already popular title song. , ' Before You Buy See the New Frigidaire Ranges 6 BEAUTIFUL MODELS $149.75 & Up See LAMAR MAYCOCK Appliance Dept. A FEW FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Russell Wins Film Plaudits , ' r . Rosalind Russell hefs been named nam-ed "bestAmerican actress" by the Motion Picture Club of New York University for her performance as Lavina in '"Mourning Becomes Electra." A similar citation was given Miss Russell this month ifor her performance in this screen adaptation adap-tation of the Eugene O'Neill play, by The Film Critic's Circle of the New York Foreign Language Press. Opera Star to Judge Contest - Ezie. Pinza, Metropolitan opera star, flew into New York Saturday Satur-day to join producer Boris Morro3 in the final judging of the nationwide nation-wide "Carnegie Hall" contest. Three grand winners will be chosen from twenty finalists, representing twenty cities from coast-to-coast. The contest, designed to develop de-velop promising musical talent, was sponsored by Mr. Morros in conjunction with his musical movie. "Carnegie Hall," in which Mr. Pinza made his screen debut. Announcement of the three winners, who will receive prizes of $500, $300 and $200, will be made rw the near future. A fish breathes through its gills. As it swims, it forces water through the gills, and they absorb diss solved oxyge At last a plane anyone can fly Young or olI, you can fly an Ercoupe even amputee veterans find it easy! It the safest and easiest-to-fly plane in the world. Its tpinproof feature makes flying safe its two simple controls make flying easy, its tricycle tri-cycle landing-gear means happy landings. It's like driving a car Without even the footwork needed in an automobile. Fly in it once and you'll agree that here's the plane for speedy, comfortable trips to recreatjon spots and important business meetings. 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KCSU Film Library For Children An uninterrupted stream of motion mo-tion pictures suitable for over 10,000,000 children and supplementing supple-menting those already in the Children's Film library is being made immediately available to American theatres, which currently cur-rently have adjusted their policy to accommodate a special show for kiddies, it was announced Saturday Sat-urday in the New York office of the Motion Picture Association of America Furtherance of children's matinees mat-inees in all 2500 theatres which have subscribed to the idea whs made possible by the action of sales managers of the1 association's associa-tion's member companies. This provides that some 160 feature productions 60 of which were released re-leased during the past year may now be booked for such special screenings at a fraction of .their normal rental. Exhibitors making application for'such bookings will first be referred to all 46 films now totalling the number available avail-able for such purpose in the Children's Film Library. Preview Pre-view groups have already recon- mended for children all of the 160 pictures on this mentary list. The association's community relations department, directed by Arthur De Bra, has the responsibility responsi-bility of developing this program for children which was initiated by Eric Johnston, president. Miners-Strut On Broadway Autnentic miners visor caps with small lamps worn by the eight usherettes at the Rivoll theatre on Broadway, whre "The Miracle of the Bells" is the attraction, at-traction, were purchased frm a mining supply house in Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes-Barre, heart of Pennsylvania' coal mining district and locale of this production. Blue cenim jacket and slacks, with a red bandanna tied at the throat, complete the costume. Montague Salmon, managing director of the Rivoli theatre, is responsible for this innovation, which is , causing considerable comment along Broadway and is being highly enjoyed by the girls themselves. Voicing a sentiment shared by the octet of 'miners," one patron commented, "They're the most chic miners I've ever seen!" Old Burlesque Has Vanished Says Writer BURBANK, CzU March 20 Burlesque ain't what it used to be. All leg and no laugh" is the Llament of screen star Robert Alda, who esyes the current bump-and-grlnd circuit "with tome concern. . Alda, one of the featured performers' per-formers' lnApril Showers," is 'a man who speaks from experience. He got his start as the guy who warbled whispery songs behind the .wings while . the strippers toiled In the spots and snatched all the cheers. "Try to find a picture of the comedians without -a magnifying glass," Bob says. "They get billed below the ushers. All you see are huge blowups of. dames posing seductively behind furs that wouldn't make a toupee for a midget." ' Bob' thinks .the gals have lost the art of teasing because they leave little to the imagination. Time was when strippers real ly teased," Bob recalled, some what fondly. "AH the ' front-row baldies got was a peak at a shoul der or a flash of thigh. Nowadays they couldn't see more if they were art students, which explains why the long arm of the law runs them into the local pokey periodically." peri-odically." Alda thinks burlesque as it use.d to be was the world's greatest training ground for comics. "He recalled several top-caliber laugh-getters laugh-getters such aa BertXahr, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Phil Silvers Sil-vers and Red Skelton who sprung to vaudeville and cinematic fame from such beginnings. He blames strippers for thei downfall of comics, but he isn't bitter. "Evolution," he says. "It was inevitable. When Gypsy Rose Lee broke a strap accidentally one night and gave the boys more than they bargained, for, the die was cast. Bump and grind came out of its ivory tower for mas? consumption." The comic got less time onstage while the queens of the runaway stayed out longer and took off more. Currently the cOmep'lan's function Is to give the cuftonwrs a breather while they simmer down from a torchy stripper's exit. Fans to Greet Louisa Horton, Newcomer In Film World HOLLYWOOD, . i March 27. Louisa Horton made one -of the most vivid Impressions on Hollywood Holly-wood of all the past year's crop of newcomers.' A f stage actress, she debuts on the screen as Burt Lancaster's leading lady in "All My Sons," which also has Edward G; Robinson, Mady Christians and Howard uun in principal roies. , Her part was tough and exacting, exact-ing, as the film is a close adaptation adapta-tion of the play which the New York's Critics Circle picked as best dramatic - offering of last season. ; , Miss Horton appeared in the lea of "The Voice of the Turtle" for ' three months on Broadway and IS months on tour. Previously she had been a Bryn .Mawr student stu-dent two years, leaving to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. (' stage and, brought her to Holly wood for.the test. . J Miss Horton, has brown eyts and hair. She was born in Peipj lng, China, where her father, the late Colonel Jeter R. Horton of the Marine Corps, was stationed!, A Chinese revolution was tern porarily halted and a special peace . train put into service s her mother could be brought t an American settlement hospital and Louisa born under the Star! 1 c-, 1 1 . 1 She spent her childhood lit China, . Haiti and . Washington4. She is unmarried, a good swimj mer and tennis player, and drives a bantam automobile. TrTJ ii' nt- 4 'i T CIIETA'S A CHIMP EPICURE Special canned baby food was flown from Hollywood to Aca-pulco Aca-pulco for Cheta the chimpanzee, while she was there with the location lo-cation company at work on "Tar-zan "Tar-zan andthe Mermaids," the release re-lease starring Johnny Weissmul- upple;ler and Brenda Joyce. HE SAW GREEN HOLLYWOOD. Eleven -year-old Dean Stockwell, who plays the title role in "The Boy With Green Hair," will never forget for-get the birthday he celebrated while filming this picture. His 1 birthday cake had green mint ic-l ing and among his gifts were a! wrist watch with a green strap, green sox, a ; green yo-yo and a paint set with only green paint, i LOUISA HORTON She played at the Olney, Mary land, summer theater. Hedgerow' Repertory in Rose Valley, Penn., at Lake George,' N.Y., and other Little Theater groups before getting get-ting her first New York City role in "It's Up to You." Her forthright, sincere personality person-ality came through warmly in" her test at Universal-International, so writer-producer Chester Erskine decided to sign her for the 'difficult 'diffi-cult romantic lead in "All My Sons," which Irving Rels directed. direct-ed. Erskine had seen her on the STAR WRITES SCREENPLAY HOLLYWOOD. Melvyn Douglas Doug-las is spending his spare time, between be-tween scenes on the set for "The Long Denial" writing a screen play. Tentatively titled "You Were AWay," it is a suspense story set in postwar France. $hutterbuff Chit - Chat by rix WARNING! 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Holm Ann Ktvtr Jin Nivm Mbtrt Dftktt Jtiw Wyilt 0mm Stock U Sam JiNt rVodwctd by Sctm Plsy by Direct 4 by WWlf.M MOSS HART ELIA KAZAX ENDS MONDAY Open Dairy 1:00 p.m., Last Show 9:40 ACADEMY THEATRE .fhii It the story' of Olaa whose miraculous talent brought her stardom star-dom overnight and of Bill, who made her drtams come true of kindly father Paul, who fought for them and of all the men and women whose hearts they awakened awak-ened and enthralled I w M art f t',-, m -r JBSC 1. USXr rtOOUCTlONS. he RUSSELL UNNEVS T " it i n y ( "i 'THE MIMCIE of ttihiib BE1LLS PtID PtANK !,U:URRAY-K4Z-SIIIATRA 2-1 o . ' LEE J. COBB HAROLD YERM1LYEA Pniicii h JESSE I. IHSKT tii WALTEl MicEIEN lincfti it mm tUii Sam tlii ki ELI KECKl ri IIIIEII1X IETX0LIS STARTS TUESDAY " 'Exile" at 7:00& 10:00 "Rio Tin Tin" at 8:43.. - Univerul-lnttrnitioMl In Association With Tm Fairbanks Company Inc. Prasantt .11 illHIIIH II PAULE CROSET -t HEHflT tlAKIEU HBEIBHDCE ROBERT CGOTE IAU 1 II J LI 111 ' Til ilH i n i ifl WrHtta ana Macea by OOUCUS f AlttANKJ, Jr. ftrartaa- ay RAX OfUlS ft UNIYttSAl WlTOATKHIAt thliSl And ... a iM 'J I V 9 "1 7a.-.11 lt aaw r m aa i i r i , j i i RfNTJNTiM izr aoNAia wooot tour turn Homespun Appeal j In New Film 5 .Problems of a "devoted mothei and ber family in the J5an Fran Cisco of forty years ago motivate "I Remember Mama," a Georgf Stevens production which; is the new screen vehicle for Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Os car Homolka and Philip Dorn, and which is presented by , Dore Schary. The film will open oobrl at the Academy theatre. ; Vy As a hard-working Norwegian housewife endeavoring , to bring up her four children to be solid-citizens solid-citizens and to iron . out the troubles of her not-so-capabla relatives, Miss Dunne has what Is said to be the finest role of her career, a role packed with sym pathy and humor. The studio's new "find," Miss Bel Geddes, makes her second film appearance as the oldest daughter With Homolka Ho-molka as her bellowing uncle, and Dorn as "Mama's" easy-going spouse. Quaint situations and pic turesquek characters enhance the appeal of the RKO Radio picture. George Stevens, executive producer pro-ducer and director, and Harriet Parsons, producer, have based "I Remember i Mama" on John Van Dfuten's play of the same name, and on Kathryn Forbes novel, "Mama's ' Bank Account." Sir Cedric Hardwicke as "Mama's" eccentric star boarder; Edgar Bergen as an undertaker beau of one of "Mama's" sisters; . Rudy Vallee as the family physician, and Barbara O'Neill as the spinster spin-ster courted by Uncle. Chris, are featured. . j WT, (!) A fci & 0 !' ; ALAN LAUD w NOW! ?Scnffi1 VERONICA LAKE DOUGLAS DICK. MIKHAIL KASUMNY WAUY CASSELL LUTHER ADLER .MORRIS CARNOSKY I.Mt Two DaTt "OUT OK THE BLUE' .TAtirS TIIESBAY "... "DEVII. SHIP ' r.Tflo! Vrfiuiam rovuu "MMaflMSHSjjsiiHHBjiajasssiiiaaBK--. muu ELLAaRAINES J' hllllaf-lklM Starring Kobt. Stck Ann Rutherford "BADLANDS OF DAKOTA" t NOW! 30e till 5 "Broadway'' - with ' .-" i Gaorr , JUXt O'ttrlan |