| Show ' : : '' ' - - i SI 6 771 owe seas awe of g Chlistincts 7jou IPV Success Strikes Twice in Same Year 5ritt gaffe gIluulte gi git t--sLnne -- LAKE CITY SALT SUNDAY MORNING UTAH IS' 1946 DEC ' i Af' During the next 10 days Tin Pan alley takes a back seat and the prVessional vocalist gets stiff competition from many and many an amateur singer All over the state throats are being cleared and memories jogged for the caroling season which is now at hand In Salt Lake extensive plans have been made to duplicate the success of previous years- in the open-ai- r caroling program ' '' L A L--27- - r?‘ By HEDDA HOPPER Tuesday Starts It t Choristers will get their first Tuesday at 5:15 pm on the platform in front of the Salt Lake Tribune-Tele- gram building Here in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City So I went over to talk to Anne about this good fortune But she seemed more interested in John than Sophie because I'd hardly opened my mouth before she plunged into a discussion of marriage "Hollywood has the habit of blaming its separations divorces and romantic misunderstandings on the motion picture business People here don't like to face those issues and blame down-bea- Long Engagement Time for Chimes ' While the "live" choirs highlight the program there will be music in the air almost all the time From the top of the Tribune-Telegrabuilding loudspeakers will broadcast over a 'great part of the city Christmas chimes and carols The program is one of the Christmas activities sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce under the general chair-b- e manship of N G Morgan Jr and in cooperation with the Tribune-Telegraand radio station KDYL Dr C L Stoker is chairman of the caroling committee So sound your "A" check up on the familiar words and : get ready to lend a hearty voice to the throngs which will welcome Santa Claus with a merry song m - r!r- ' - 4 - - 46- - v - i —- ' 1 ? o i ' : ' - - 1 : -- ' ! - - !- - - - - - — v ':- - : - I ''"T''' ' - - ' ' - ' - t Aolv‘ i - - ' - 1 - - --- ' '' r'' ''''43 ' -' ' ' i 6 - --- - ' - t 4 e - ' 7 ''' ' - 1 : : 1 I ' ': ' '''' t4F ' ' - 7:fr ' ' ti - ' c ' - ' Vt : ' - - rri - - - ' o - it -- ':-2- -1- ' "- Soléo‘-i- : f 7e ' 'i - : - '':r ! - - - ' - 1 : - : '- t : - -- A - i - ' - S ': ' - - - t : " L r : - ' ' ' 'i - - - ' '- I - A - - - - A ' ' I —---- - -- - F ' ! 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P A- '-: : 1I 7 : '' : - - r r Films Find Romance In Adults '' t ' r - '4' ' - i ' 1 ' - '' 4' k ' f- - i ' By MELROSE GOWER 'V I '''-- HOLLYWOOD — Life has become very real and earnest in movie love stories Frothy romances which end with boy '' - ti- i t 4 5 I g i '"''' ' 21 I !:' - 11 i 1 ' 1 s ' i t : : 3 -- -- - 4' - '' A — 7 ' i '!- o rn ' :'' ' ' - ' i - - - l' ::-i i e'4" V' '''--- - n 1 - - - ' - ' 0 -' i ' ' - '-- ! - e - " --- - - I :- 4 '' S ' - 4- 'T ' ''''''''''': ' f - ' 'i —: '- 't f 41'4' ' '' - ' '1 - - - : ':i' I! -' ' i r'' i 6 t'-' - - - - 1' : '- 1 '1 : '' '' : I : ! '' -1 -- - ' '' ' - '''' - r ' ' ':71 - '':f'-i'- i ''P r5 ' 'q ' -' - VI:! ''''--' - : - ' - : '' - ' - i t - -- ' !: :''' - i il - ' ' - - ' r 1 : 4:4 1 ' - - - -- ' ' - ' ' L -- - - - i 4 4 ! - i - ' - 4- 1 4 :- - ' — - - ''- - - 111: ! 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' " i 7 1 ' - it I I : 1- 'i '' 1 ': ' '" - t 1 '' : - - t i - 1 t - - I 1 f t - 4:: 1 ' I ':- f t 1 I - I ''' -" : ---- — Anne hadn't seen the picture "The Razor's Edge" when we had our talk but in it she gives one of the most convinc ing performances of a dipso- maniac e v e r s e e n on the screen She has my vote for the best supporting actress of 1946 I asked her tow she got the characterization so per-fectly I knew she hadn't studied Sophie typcs in night clubs because she and John are rarely seen in places like Mdcambo and Ciro's "I've watched women at parties” said Anne "They at-rive looking soignee poised and beautifully dressed Bit by bit after many cocktails they grow boisterous Many times they're more witty than when they're cold sober Then later on the eyes begin tn lose that keen focus Small gestures be- come large ones Their walk changes from a careful plac- ing of one foot after another like a baby taking its first steps to a lurching deterrni- nation to arrive quickly at a given point I don't believe I consciously studied such peo- pie but little scenes kept corn- ing back to me when I was doing Sophie Memories of a hundred episodes I'd seen" - - - r ' s :Z 1 F ' i Oscar Coming Up ' l' - ' picture 1 : " ' I I i ' ' ' t 1 c - - ! - 1 "0-9- 0 i' i 6 - ‘ t - ) CI t- fi - s "We'd planned a wonderful she said "We have trip" " 4 - I ' some friends in a small town in Connecticut We wanted to motor through the fall leaves get the smell of autumn the change of seasons:and seethe snow fly again But I got a chance to go into 'Blaze of Noon' with four handsome leading men and a wonderful part How- could I turn it down? After getting the part of Sophie I would have felt ungrateful if I had!-I'-t done the Vacations Out r-- - 4 I knew Anne and John had planned a vacation in Newsomething hapEngland but puled so 1 asked her- about it 'i 70cPMMC :r' the smallest town" "How could you bear to wait so long ?" I asked her "John and 14vanted to make sure that we had a fair chance for happiness before we made the plunge We didn't' want to start our married life with too heavy a handicap" m te '- Anne knows she isn't an oracle on the subject of marriage but says: "I'm diyinely happy with John I'm sure people will come back with 'Well why not? You've only been married about 20 weeks Just wait a while' But" she says "I knew John two years before we were married And that isn't very typical of Hollywood either That would be a long courtship in - All this will be an impressive prelude to the gala corn- munity sing scheduled for Dec 23 at 7:30 pm Traffic will blocked off and there wilL be a band leaders and—it is hoped—as many Salt Lakers as can possibly crowd in Earl Donaldson will conduct the program and the Swanee Singers will be featured The program will give the "street singers" a chance to vocalize favorite carols and Christmas hymns as t Anne doesn't hold with this She thinks actors should marry actresses Be Cause no one in any other business could possibly understand the problems peculiar to acting—the fatigue and all the littic troublesome things that come up in a day at the studio waiting ' Community Sing Corning r- themselves" well as more modern and popular holiday tunes It will be a fitting climax to the preholiday celebration and should put everyone in the right state of mind for the last 24 hours of below the branches of the massive gaily decorated Christmas tree is the center of the songfest For an hour each night from Tuesday through Saturday caroling groups will sing their songs to the homeward-boun- d citizens There will be two groups each night representing the city schools and private organizations r ' - ' -' ' -- ' " - ''''' ' :: ' 1 i - -- --- ' 77-- :5--7- ' '''' ! '- '-- : ''' ' ': ' ' 1 - - ' ''- :'- - v - f ' ' - 14 ' ' A No one needs to be inside looking out when carol- lug time comes round The open-ai- r caroling pro- - S I 771 73eseEogr vAlr'ot--4'-- gram gets under way Tuesday at 5:15 pm and the city will be filled with lovely hymns and carols I ""il 2114 By ROBERT H MYERS C 1711 1117) I &aMP6-- ri 11"1 11 valica um to "ItI"?a his initial stage success "Strictly Dishonorable" and the film "The Power and the Glory" were fine dramatic offerings At work or play Sturges is industrious incisive demanding entertaining and certainly never dull His immediate friends - are a curious loyal group which includes writers actors musiclans and Bully? Of Course with an exaggerated worn look She quit once but she's back "taking a beating" as his script girl She intimated that a job might be easier and the hours infinitely better — Sturges' youth has been well chronicled Now a youngish 48 handsome in an arresting way his childhood was spent in a succession of exclusive schools abroad which he says were more like prisons He can dress with immaculate comfort or as sloppily as his famed but silent film company partner Howard Hughes His own domestic affairs after two marriages apparently are still unsettled his latest protege is slim Frances Ramsden He claims no knowledge of politics but expects some day to make a picture on the subject He has written a document which may or may not be published postmortem He calls it "Some Events Leading Up to My Death" Sturges would be the first to laugh at the remark of one friend who declared: "I can't wait to read it" ex-fight- Equally faithful He has been called an intellectual bully But even his critics admit it must have taken just such browbeating to push past studio front offices such off the beaten path vehicles as "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" "Hail the Conquering Hero" or for that matter "Imitation of Life" which he wrote 12 years ago Sturges never has won an Academy award but ironically the success of "Miracle" and "Hail" cost him an Oscar in the 1043-4-4 selections Both were so good the Sturges vote was split Noted for rediscovering or developing the careers of such stars as Betty Hutton Barbara Stanwyck Veronica Lake William Demarest Eddie Bracken and others Sturges has a remarktble appreciation anti understanding of ordinary people their faults and peccadillos He insifts "it's a lot harder to write a comedy than an a Beetling but considerably more harassed is his staff Pretty little Jeannie La Veil who has been with Sturges for six years four as a secretary summed up the experience hod-carri- - - - JO - ' - 1 'DOG' DAY ON THE SET HOLLYWOOD tin—Preston Sturges often described as man a allergic to normalcy is one success in Hollywood who does not have to argue with a producer writer or director The reason is elementary Mr Sturges is at once all three on the pictures he makes Most people in Hollywood some of them grudgingly call him a genius surrounded with all the familiar trappings of a man of such stature Sturges seemingly isn't interested in fostering this designation neither however does he bother to discourage it J LeRoy Peterson at left hears preview sung by Mrs I S Bollinger and Mrs N G Morgan Jr Mrs Acting Is Hard on the Feet obituary" and while he is famous for his satire and comedy Staff Takes - ' HOLLYWOOD—It's not very often that success lightning strikes twice in the same a young actress but it has for Anne Baxter First she married the man of her for year choice John Hodiak and then got the part that dozens of girls dreamed of—Sophie in' "The Razor's Edge" 0L SECTION D FEATURES NEWS HOME MUSIC DRAMA BOOKS - - - er By GENE HANDSAKEB HOLLYWOOD—Barbara Stanwyck's feet hurt and David Niven had water on the knee the day I visited the set of "The Other Love" Seems Barbara had been standing around in high heels all morning emoting and by noon her dogs were barking Somebody told her a pint of vinegar in a pan of hot water would ease 'em 'and she tried it in her dressing room at lunchtime Miss Stanwyck looked awfully nice Sort of a little girl feminine appeal if you follow me Brown hair with grown-u- p down to her shoulders trim ankles small hands full of eloquent gestures as she talks Her camel's hair dress was designed by Edith Head of Paramount her costumer for 10 years "Edith knows all my flaws" Barbara explained "Only a cad would ask what they are" I suggested but Barbara instantly obliged: "My waist's long It really comes down to here"—she in- dicated a point an inch and a half below her broad cloth belt low "Th'ey make the belt high in front"—so I noticed--"a- nd in back so I'll look slender" Darned if the belt didn't slope Barbara went to get her hair washed and I found Niven sitting alone reading a magazine with his leg up on a stool "Water on the knee" he explained "I wrenched it playing tennis" Everyone else's pedal extremities seemed okeh although I did notice one stand-i- with her shoes off n and girl facing the parson are running second in popularity with film audience i to adult romances which begin after the honeymoon Typical of the trend is "The Best Years of Our Lives" Samuel Goldwyn's drama of the postwar world which he produced for RKO Radio release In it Fredric March and Myrna Loy are married and the parents of Teresa Wright Jeannette MacDonald is the mother of three girls when she is wooed and wed by Jose Iturbi in MGM's "The Birds and the Bees" At the same studio Katharine Hepburn and Paul Henreid are married and the parents of seven children before the plot of "A Love Story" starts unfolding It takes Jimmy Stewart a couple of reels to get around to marrying Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life"- tutrthe balance of this Liberty film which Frank Capra produced and directed for RKO Radio release is devoted to their romantic life after marriage Most of the story of James Hilton's "So Well' Itemem bered" first of the RK0- Rank ?roductions is told after John Mills marries and loses Martha Scott to another man Laraine Day is about to get married for the second time at the opening of "The Locket" in which she costars with Brian Aherne Robert Mitch-u- ' - m and Gene Raymond You will have to lay a little money on the line to discover whether the marriage is consum- mated or not but the picture matches the trend -- I if I ' ' i N - - M0!107r01rr7'074! - - |
