Show 6 -¬ - f - I ' i ) 1 ° 171 : i il 1 IF I I - 1 i - 1913 1 LAI J r-1- rn 1 - 141 --- LA '71)r4 LD 11:4 If1 No : ki 1 — r 7—1 9 irr t :3 :-- if :" ill 1C4 glA — — l kt! 0' tLei trws irAll 0:o ' le' - - k A t a A A Film Studio Unearths Famous Stars Twentieth-Fo- x - " t - k " 1 '' I t 1 --- A ) 1 t " t " t : " I ) I ) ( ' ( ' 7 ' ' ' : - ' i ! 0 : ?'i '- - - ' i - - 4" - 4e- f : Z -' -- i 4" : ' 'e' - 3 : - ' - - - - 11: t 1 ' I 4 t '''' '' - k 4 -- ''- 7 - - 1 1 - 1 4(iti f HolI3-w- 1 4 I - - it ' 7 ' ' '' :' 4 - 1 ' i " ' i - 4 "' ' '' 4 ' i '' ': ft ' 'f: I s I ! - ‘ k s i ' ! - I " - Ts l :' - ' 7:S4 ) I 5 4 man-mad- 4 ' t z - ood I 1 - 5' Medicine I - - - GirtsGetOwn '' ''- 4- --- 4 - Beauty Says I ' ' ' ' ii HOLLYWOOD lifetime of dreams went into the creation of our greatest picture studios the vast sprawling 15- films are created ringed circus where Twentieth Century-Fo- x out of the imagination of men and built into mass entertainment for millions of mankind Yet those two astute gentle- men Joseph M Schenck and Darryl F Zanuck who control the destinies of the mammoth enterprise have an ace in the hole—but literally—that may prove to be even a more opulent source of wealth than their huge film plant There's a lake of oil bubbling and boiling under it Have you to ever known such luck ? IIOLLYWOOD—According Martha O'Driscoll it was Little But we won't go into that Red Riding Hood's own fault Neither will they Oils there If she had conducted herself all right but authorities have refused a permit to drill If the properly to hear Miss O'Driscoll tell it the wolf wouldn't have movie business God forbid pe- bothered her at all ter s out there's' something to Miss O'Driseolf hasn't any:-fall hack on to say about what hapthing All Contribute pened to poor old grandma who Paramount the cradle of got herself pretty badly devoured as this department reUniversal production calls But maybe grandma storied sanctuary of screen tradidn't conduct herself properly dition Goldwyn's with its abeither Anyway Miss O'Driscoll sorbing history Metro shrine of is convinced that wolves—or glamor—all these and the others men rather—accord a young too have their claims to Hollywood immortality Yet by comlady exactly the degree of remon consent and I don't think speet that her conduct merits If masculine courtesy and itll be disputed seriously it's consideration fail if chivalry the Westwood lot of Twentieth-Fo- x that's our real 'showplace lapses if romance turns somewhat excessively amorous why: It has literally everything and the best too—sound equip"It's the girl's fault every e time" declares Miss O'Driscoll ment natural and Plans 10 Marry scenery facsimile replicas of famous cities streets monuments Miss O'Driscoll ought to know — yes even lampposts —musical what she is talking about She library props varied terrain has been a professional actress l'irikt Step to 411emeni for seven years Some of that time she was a movie chorus I 'rwas only yesterday In all of that time she ' showed girl up for work at Fox and has had unfailing courtesy and noticed a sweet young thing consideration from men—with walking up and down in front of course plenty of admiring of the casting office clenching glances some honorable protesand unclenching her tiny fists tations of love and mayhap an I went up to her and asked What occasional long low whistle as 'as the matter She stared at she walked across a Hollywood me fixedly and said: "Will I film lot By now Miss 0Drisget it or won't I?" And kept coil thinks that men are so nice tTpeating the phrase with a kind that along about autumn she la of fatalistic intensity "Will you to marry one of them going "The get what?'' I inquired is not a Her husband-to-b- e part the part Will I get it or man—he's on duty Hollywood won't I?" ' with the navy—but Hollywood "You'll get it if it's good for Men are all right too Miss asyou and you're good for it" I O'Driscoll asserts sured her "By the way you're She recalls her first experia pretty little thing What's ence with them Hermes ParL your name?" the dance director had seen her "Janet Gaynor" on an amateur program in PhoeStudio history records that nix Ariz and had told her he Janet won a role in a forgotten thought she could make good in melodrama called "The Johnspictures She made her first try town Flood" She was so good while vacationing in California to was under she wraps kept with her mother answering a in one of play the starring role call for showgirls to appear in the biggest hits ever manufac the Ted 1ewis film "litre Conies You've guessed it tiired the Band" at The "Seventh Heaven" year She was Only 13 at the 1927 There followed in rapid time but very shapely for her Side succession Up"— "Sunny ' age and she reported for the "Merely Mary Ann"—"The Man tryout in a white satin bathing Who Came Back" and lots more suit Janet never made a loser for the Tried Hard company An old timer told roe that after she'd left they dis"It was one of those lastex covered her films had earned a said Miss O'Driscoll "It things" a net record gaudy $8000000 me $15 so you can see cost that stood against all assaults was trying awfully hard But like until Shirley Temple fellow who was interviewing the seven Pharaoh's kine had her the girls didn't seem to pay any fat years—or was it only four attention to the bathing suit Or five for Shirley? He wanted to know how old I was I wasn't expecting that Credit Where Due and for a minute I didn't know 'Winfield R Sheehan who crewhet to say" ated the vast factory of the arts In that minute l'sliss O'Driscrafts and sciences hands the coll aged rapidly "Sixteen" lion's share of the credit for the The she said experimentally his dreams of ambitious realizing man was courteous and considto two men—Ted Butcher now erate but firm "I'm sorry production 'manager for Metro girlie" he said "You must be and the late Joseph Urban' 18 before we can put you on" stage designer Ted looked Miss O'Driscoll took her bathafter the practical end and Joe ing suit home By telephone she took the artistic side And with made contact with the same Winnie in the driver's seat the for work in the same company thing was put over some film and she had ' ) ' - : By iledda Hopper 1 f:: L--- ALA 1 Ameche Scored r: : 1k - I Role There I ' 8 Janet Gaynor Won ' : ltOrning Hollywood's ' '' Sunday August La Sa - I k1 1 141k11-- I AtIV a1t gratt gl3Z 'S:: 1 :: rI 1 1 - k " 1 " '''''''' ' ''' - ' '' : '''' ''' '1' - - : ' ' al ''- t' t - I : - " ‘ - ' 13:' ( :' 1 0''''''''''' : 71 ' l' ' '' ' '' ' ' ' ' ! ' ' " i ' i : 1 A ' - 1 ' ''' y4kt444 ' ? 4 : ''' '''' ' 4 - 1 t 4 ' ' '' ' "- - ' ' ' - 1 ' '' - j''1- : :': '' z'- ' ' ' - - 4 ' 1 t 4 '' i ' ' ' '''' c-- A - ' '' N '°' 41 t - Metro-GoldwynMay- er - " 5 4 4 -: A A - Ak44- '' ' '' ' - : ' t ''''' ' - ' - ' A 4' g" ' ' ' ' i ' - ' 4 : :1 f' ' d - - i '''' :' - - 4 ' Record to Be rroud Of With Schenck and Zanuck at the executive helm Twentieth haJg made giant strides They developed Tyrone Power Don Laird Ameche Sonja Herne ' rregar Henry FoncIa Carmen Mira nda Victor Mature Preston Foster George Montgomery John Payne Lloyd Nolan Alice Faye Betty Grable Carole Lana few dis—to Sonja Ilenie is an end product of Zantick it his dyna mic best She Avhat a show woman! ice troupe here debrought her termined to storm pictures No gent pleaded her cause inside a n executive office The pla y's the thing IA'aS Sonki's motto And she put on her show with all the glitter and glare ad garishness of an imperial Indian durbar Zanuck' fresh to his new laur- els as head of a major studio was took Sonja by storm-whic- h what both of them wanted! Her have grossed mints pictures Alice Faye came to glory in tCThtlnued on aged more All of a sudden she was 18 and he got the Job Then still fibbing about her Age she got another job in "Col legiate" at Paramount Mothered Her "Betty Grab le WRq in that one" Miss O'Driscoll recalls She and the other girls were awfully nice to me They could tell by the way I acted that I wasn't 1S and 'hen they asked me how old I really was I told them 16 I think they still stiapected I wasn't telling the truth because they mothered me all over the place" This business about her age got to be pretty intricate and troublesome as time went by and Miss O'Driscoll is glad that it is all straightened out at last This year she did a feminine lead in Walter Wanger's production Of "1A'e've Never Been Licked" It studios for Universal was her most important vehicle It marked her professional coming of age and it won her a long term Universal con rage Three) I ' ' t4 t'': '' '" : t $4 ' :4 ie ' iS 'k 41 : f' 4 ' 4 tt - ? 1 4 :' ' ' ' 4 ': '' 0 ?4F ' i k4 ' ' : '' :'''' ' f - ' 4 44f! '' : ' : f ' ' ' t 1 ' ' " "' I t Ki-a- s t' I& ' 4( ' ' lik :ie ' " kif ::: f 4 ' e 1 ' ' " 1 N '— t - i' - '''i e : IA- "' - 't s tc' '( " ' at t t - ::: - '1 - 1 " and she has been playing mature roles ever since Martha shares the top feminine honors with Anne Gwynne in Walter Wanger's "We've Never Been Licked" and is currently providing a beauty background for the antics of Olsen and Johnson in "Crazy House"f The face and figure of Martha 01Driscoll have been bringing exclama- Not that Martha tions of appreciation for many years Hollywood is that old—at 21 she's just a youthful veteran of adult roles The blond beauty got her first part when she was 13 by claiming to be 18 in American Films Vividly Present Knowledge of Various Fighting Fronts By Nleirose titmet HOLLYWOOD— There is no race of people so thoroughly conversant with all asFcts Of today's terrible conflict as our A merican citizens Dicta tor nations have kept their people in I he dark England beaten to her knees in the early phases of the war has been handicapped in publicizing her own later offensive operations But in the vast domain from the Mexican gulf to the Canadian border from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard 135- 000000 students have been attending classes for more than a year at the university of the screen Such pictures as "Bomir Force" "Wake bardier" Island" "The Navy Conies Through" "Crash Dive" and others far too numerous to list wealth of have contributed knowiedge rega rding our-:- fightSuch films as "Hite-let'ing forces Children" This Land Is Mine" "Behind the Rising Sun" Ft s true picture Of the present c'V foes i'ht t II1tI S ho majored in IAFir on the foreign front are beminima cum ing graduated Now the university of Wide the screen is startifig its summer session devoted to the steady unfolding of pictures delineating the American people and their problems their homes offices and their factories work shops their hills valleys prairies cities hamlets forests streams The same stnry is try- - on every ma inr lot: tur:-a R b: 0 fl'irfin pi( s - Two films with 'frireign loca'e currently in work "Around the I World" Kay Nyser starrer gay rollicking -- spe ctacular drawhimsy and Revengematic story of a little group of Russian perinas Who fight love and die behind the German In preps ra tiiin is t lines Prank Ross product ion -- The Robe plot of NAllich centers the Holy Land immediately preceding and following Christ's Crucifixion "China Sky" which has to do only Nk'ith certain of the war affecting phases and "Marine Raiders" China which will depict the part played by marines on various foreign fronts In striking' contrast the same studio has no less than 15 major features dealing- with the American scene already irleted or bring readied for the t:arierds Tops among' these are'7he 5ky's the Lim" co - starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie in a home front musical "A Lady Takes a Chance" Jean Arthur and John Wayne in a big chunk of transcontinental A 111V rit'n11 Ile I:iviinda present ing rind Sonny Tufts against -Tender NVashington baCkground "CIOV01-11111011- t I Comrade" starring Ginger Rogers in the tale of a war bride whose soldier husband -fails to return Experiment Perilous" New Ynrk mystery drama starring Cary Grant and "Show Business" starring Eddie Cantor In his own production a cavalcade of American entertainment history from the turn of the century through the Zieafeld Follies era Warner Brother ' - One foreign locale picture "In Our Ti ilt''' now filming Pichircs purely American in setting -- I - ApA lems f4aff40 -- - - - include "Watch on the however Rhine- - laid in Washington Rhapsody in Blue" life story of -- George GershOn Ihrx-e$"Shine win and moon based on the !Ile or Norall 111f c11p1ted Paramount filming "lloNtagcs" and itair Before the Daxk-nforeign locale Typical --American screen offerings are Standing Room "Ilail the Conquering Only Hero "Going My WayBlonde" and many A Illeriein-bor- n t -- ! -- others No Twentieth Century-Foxforeign locale pictures filming ' on ConcentratingLand tale of an 'llappy average Buffalo American community itself: Bill" explains Wooda blogr?phy of President row NVison and a number of musicals -- |