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Show rvi - imrnmu mmmw n nr f mmm'm The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 21, 191 6E Darryl Zanuck: Last of the Hollywood Tycoons By Roger Ebert Chicago Writer Sun-Tim- Darryl F. Zanuck found himself on the cover of New York Magazine last week, the sea rchlights criss-crossin- g behind him as they do in the 20th Century-Fologo, and a title writ large beneath: The x Last Tycoon. He probably is. All the other big and little are dead movie tycoons (Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Cecil B. Demille), retired (Jack Warner, Sam bankrupt (Samuel Bronstein) or in hiding (Howard Hughes). Goldwyn), Only Zanuck. at 68, is still in control of a major Hollywood studio, and even his reign seems precarious. He urrently rules at the pleasure of the Fox board of directors, and his recent firing of his son, Richard, as the active Patti Andrews, riftht, one of the ringing Andrews sisters, appears in scene from Hollywood play Victory Canteen, with Patti Sbayne. d studio's has not quite covered up second-in-comman- un- - Andrews Sister Returns to Stage in Musical Bv Bob Thomas Associated Press Writer The singer in the middle looks not mich ditferent from the World War II years when she was urg.ng GIs to Roll Out the Barrel at promising to be with them in Apple Blossom Time. i The trio sings in the same rollicking siyle, but there is only one authentic Andrews Sister among them. Thats Patti, and she is hopthose innocent ing 1940s in a new of the years musical playing Bou'evard. Mother Bole ts called Victory I and it takes place Canteen, m Willkieville. Ii.d., at Main and Roosevelt Avenue. The book is by TV Street writers Milt Larsen and Bob Lauher and the music by Richard and Robert Sherman, who for songs provided Mary Poppins and other Disney films. The show is a lot of fun, especially for those of us who lived through the war, says But what surprised Patti, me was that even the kids like it. They get a kick out of such lines as Ill wait for you for the duration. For the benefit of the young- the theater er generation, program features a glossary A terms as of such stamp gasoline ration, Bing and Bob Hope and Crosby, V mail overseas letters, Zoot Suit mans apparel and Hudson an automobile. Nostalgia unlimited. The appearance of Patti Andrews she plays Mom in the home-frocanteen also brings back a flood of memories for the middle-agerEveryone who was near a radio during 1940s the will remember Patii, Maxene and Leveme belting out Dont Sit Under The Boogie the Apple Tree, Pistol Woogie Bugle Boy, Packin Mama, etc., etc. Patti looks a decade younger than her years. Ive never kept my age a nt s. Seattle to Stage Opera in Rock - The SEATTLE (UPI) Seattle Opera Assn, said Saturday it will stage a three-eeir run of the rock opera Tommy composed by the British rock music group the w Who. The production will open at the Moore Theater, April-2- successful Seattles pi eduction of Hair ran for several months. We are pleased that the Who and their representatives feel, that a major grand opera company can create a unique where in contemposaid Glynn rary , theater, JldsSp general director of the opbrd association. The show will have a cast of 22. including five rock musicians, The performers are being cast in New Yore, Los Angeles, San Francisco and new .happening Seattle. she think because ords with Bing Jolson that we secret, says. People we made recCrosby and A1 belonged to the older generation of entertainers. I was 16 in 1938 when we had our first hit record, Bei Mir Bist du Schoen. That sold 80,000 copies. It doesnt sound like much by todays standards, but that was before juke boxes. There were only two disc jockeys in radio Martin Block in New York and A1 Jarvis in Los Angeles. Making Movies trio The Minneapolis-bor- n turned out nit after hit their 5 million. 900 records sold was Rum and of all Biggest Coca-Colit sold a million in six weeks, eight million in all. This was during the war when there was a shellac shortage; all the other companies contributed theirs to Decca for our record. The Andrews Sisters were also busy in movie., and radio they had their Club 15 on the air for live years. Then in 1951 they returned from a London engagement to find the music scene changing. Johnny Ray was the big craze, and new sounds were being tried. a split. We had been together nearly all our lives, Patti recalled. Then in one year our dream worid ended. Our mother died and then our ther. All three of us wet upset, and we were at each others throats most of the time. Patti sang as a single for a couple of years, then the sisters reconciled and for the first time working was really a pleasure to all of us; we had never really enjoyed it before. The Andrews continued in television and until nightclubs 1967, when Laveme died. The two surviving sisters carried on with a substitute. Joyce deYoung. Then in 1968 Maxene retired. Patti again became a single, and now shes looking forward to a lengtay run, perhaps on or off Broadway, with Victory Canteen. Such to contributions for better or worse, were routinely dictated by the tycoons.of movie-maker- They assembled Moguls is a literate appraisal from England, and Mel Dont Say Yes Gussows Until I Finish Talking is an of unauthorized biography Zanuck. packages stars, directois, writers, producers and properties without consulting anyone involved, and their rulings went unchallenged. The shape of American films assigning directors, deploying teams of writers against each other, fighting for survival in an industry that was once Americas fourth largest and is still its most speculative. Film buffs and students talk about films in terms of directors, but when a reporters asked Sam Goldwyn about William Wylers Wuthering roared-Wyle- r Goldwyn didnt make WutherWuther- ing Heights! I made ing Heights! Even directors so crusty and autonomous as John Ford (considered by Zanuck the greatest of them all) made their masterpieces well within the studio system. Ford credits Zanuck, for example, the idea of limiting the music in Grapes of Wrath to a single accordion (a decade before Carol Reeds single zither in The Third Man was praised as innovative). 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Miss Hasso will portray a domineering matriarch in the suspense drama of a beautiful girl who becomes the crucial link between her mother, her errant father, and his mistress, in a chain of violent emotions and conflicts. 20th perhaps the they ruled their studios like little stables of kings, building fo. stars, bidding eonaferber uninhibited! from Steinbeck, holds on until his mandatory retirement in 1973, the movie moguls are extinct as a breed. Frcxa the early 1920s until Swedish Actress 8.45 P.M. & Tue girls continued to play Lao Vegas and other nightclub dates. Then in 1954 they easiness about his (not Rich-aidrecent decisions. Whether or not Zanuck for nearly 40 years was determined more by the moguls than by the directors or even the stars (who looked powerful from outside). ALL FOR JUST 2.00 ... Visit the Colonel ENJOY jgntuckij MOVIE AUDIENCE OPEN guide 11:45 fried hirken Tkato retingi apply la films oeleooed after Merck J, 1970. SEAL THIS PATTERN! SlAO? 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