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JOAN 4 a I 1 I y 1 - HOW Vfl t -- 0' 1 i1 fVUS ( Todny From 12:30 pm 4- i ' 4 orring the NIGHT" i CLi) - Dane " a sett l it i'' :' ) Declines $750000 'I was just offered WAWA for eight weeks' workbothat's ridiculous—nobody is worth that much" he remarked in connection with his business arrangements As a matter of fact he stands to make a quarter million dollars on "For Whom the Bell Tolls"He is attracted to the legitimate theater for the reason he says that there you can see your mistakes immediately If his wish is fulfilled he will do a show a year as well Broadway as meet his picture commitrnents "I think it's important to stay at the head of the parade It it gets ahead of you you can't catch up Time in our business is our stock and trade" Appropriately enough Wood h is the or of an father who earned his living in the worsted yarn business and a Pennsylvania Dutch mother He played with Ed Wynn when they hnth vere little boys in Philadelphia His best friends today are Jack Conway Metro director David Hempstead produrer Dudley Nichols scenario writer Ile still speaks fondly of Irving Thalberg and say: WRA the great genius of mo- I N 'I:kz '!YTHM 14t '' ' ' o Pi:Pi ' A THE ISLANDS" D With PVIRIMINNIPM1111 is like ' make better pictures I think that this is the time to make good will for the future" Prices 1:ilfS81019 L-BL-11171(31- 10 25e 35e 7 30C In 1 Till A Evenings I irftro 4 41Y 111111 — L11') HOLLYWOOD Cal Hollywood's tradition of punning on names of important pictures for short cemedies originated years ago by Mack Sennett is being carried on by the 1 T1 1‘ V Lit 4 As ' Work never ceases at Twen- dreamhouse tieth Century-Fox'- s for that's what it'is stuff o' dreams Don't try to find out how much this represents in solid N They fcoausnhd a a tone 0 fk nroowgged and transformed it over the years into a miniature world The first purchase was 103 t r-- 1 ' 1 t" w it It i At" AINLEY r wiNs STAGE Vork's 4 Stepsters" EptLyN MARIE a At the PPrNotla Erki :11ist LVItIC re‘v are asured of fhp fin1 in yAt- I (TIAN ANTI ENIFItTtININti AL - STAGE AI) SCREEN Presen- cAsrtt NOLLIS i? IttiN DODGE GLEN Afnititt4In tations 'PrPttifitt ar !WI Althqr 310nopfthe AND Novety F MIA:i1 ROIL YOUNG LEE BOWMAN 110004Y rHE BURNS "N ew 41r711 to 2:00 Laraine DAY SOTHERN NiCHARD - 0 LIMIGARET I THE SCREEN First Salt Lake Showing Stand by all action fans—To stand up and cheer one of the year's round-up- s of thrills— most hair-raisi- "STAND BY ALL NETWORKS" Itolw'ROOUGLAS wok 1 IL JOURHEY for --4- final- - 25c I tt screen cartoon companies "Bah Wilderness" "Strange Innertube and "One Ham's Family" as well as "Little HeelWatta" or "rhe Buck of the Month" are ready to hit the Screen to anitiSe fans between the main features Sound was ncw You can min Inc what the ainlienee did when Vie called her something that like "Yes Minnie" sounded Sure they dubbed it out Today the place sprawls over 238 acres tion pictures" Because movie houses are filled these days any old thing passes for entertainment Wood says "All pictures are making money now and for that reason they aren't as good as they could be "When you are scraping to get money into the box office you New Playing Titles Persists l'Scarface" and fame It's Hollywood tradition that made at Fox than anywhere else Stars too Myrna Loy She was in "The Black Watch" And the gala glittering premiere at the Carthay Circle whenmYrna played a slithering orienh tal vainp at AltLaglen's boiled British soldier Her name in the picture was "Yasmini" 75 wore added Irish-Scotc- Punning on Movie 1"0Qtuicilk:fl:filulioennts"onwittho more ""E db° NEIN4 a-1g:4- -- pm I ‘t' te" N AIA:' 7:4tv:I N - ' 001 Opens 3 44 N 1 V04 i! ossil414 4J tt I "Eyes in ss A k it Cont inuous ' tir —' irl 1 -- I AU Loretta Veiling Brian Aherne he concluded Swing cross-rhythm- hard-Wit- ' :: 'a REMEMBER" - NEWSREEL 5 1 "A NIGHT TO limivcRSAL :41 Pane For the last five years he has free lanced with the fancy agreement that he will make one pie- ture a year for Paramount and One for Warner Bros if he approves the story and east Any independent venture is released through Columbia our democracy—plenty of freedom but with cooperation for collective harmony To which I said "Zoot Jackson!" The maestro being hep was pleased I were oronlethien —ALSO— IIf 4 0c AW pan 1 " - IR : -zii - I nt d7:17-- T010Dn: Ath W Opens Today itt BENNM i 14 11110fiDE 2" SI1ASHIlTEla" 01 (in Dunne is so tired walking up and down ancestral staircases in costumes the long of 1914 for "The White Cliffs Dover"that she welcomed a few days shift to her role as a ferrying command pilot in "A Guy Named Joe" She had overlooked the fact that a pilot wears a parachute all day that is in front of a camera tight-skirte- t 'MO 1 A- - the Zanuck regime "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was the greatest Ty Power's "Jesse James" was A nother record Don Ameche's series breaker of stand-ou- t characterizations made him a big draw Zanuck scored daring triumphs with "Grapes of Wrath" and "How Green Was My Valley"—an academy award winnter "Curly Top" was Shirley Temple's greatest hit Remember it? "The Yellow Ticket" introduced Laurence Olivier here He was a cold sort of fish then didn't like us much so' they tried to make a jumping jack Doug Fair Danks out Of hint L aurence dieln t recover from his peeve the Erie for years They built canal for the Henry Fonda-Gayn"The Farmer Takes a Wife" In the final scene Fonda socked Charlie Bickford so hard he smashed his hand "Cavalcade" made iiistory and NVOn an Oscar F W Murnau's "Sunrise" sec- ond film made at the Hills also was its year's award winner And Tom Mix? Tom stabled his horses and housed his cow-o- f boys at the Hills Jean Arthur got her Hollywood start a s his How many of leading woman Rita you remembered that? Hayworth was a little dancer then Rita Canino so shy—and look at her now! Betty Grable was a stock girl and if anybody had predicted that 10 years later she'd be the hottest thing in Hollywood they'd have been George laughed out of town Raft played his first gangster or Irene Likcd Shift 11011 11111144444111 PARAMOUNT AM NEWS 1 idi 0 "BILL JACK Ifs HITLER' nor ay it itiol'filyliiiAl I Mac-Murr- Then Miss Goddard detained offstage by the same writer WEIS late making' an en !fever:177-- Lit' " PazorlFlAitatiz ( d his lines nrefiriCZVOR 05): between-Fre- (enntinued trona Page One) Lanfield was in a stAte of someone mind by this time fiS cameras rolled the whispered again and he sarcastically told everyone to "talk it up" The next attempt was well under way and going smoothly when an army bomber roared overhead and the sound man ordered a cut The next time an innocent bystander jingled coins in his pocket and Lanfield who has ears Iike a bird dog (not in called shape in acuteness) things off again Lanfield was slowly going crazy but he ordered another That's when the bombattempt er returned MacMurray blew his lines twice more and when the thing was finally completed Lanfield fled from the set loudly calling for aspirin and Paulette Goddard seemed simple enough but it attually was pretty intricate for in addition to running some two and a half pages of dialog it called for several bits of business including the making of a bed by Paulette First came a series of interruptions by a lady gossip columnist who practically took direction out of Director Sidney Lanfield's hands MacMurray upset at her loud talking blew t14 -- of gear mount the other dRy probably will be very amusing but it can't possibly be as funny as the antics the unit had to go through to get it on celluloid 7 BAll aagY Trumpet—Harry James and Vocalist—Lena Horne This would be a rather combination without saxes or a full rhythm section but the conductor says he knows so many of those fellows only by their work and he Just can't remember their names He elaborated on his selections in the green lacquered living room of his hill top home in An assemblage Beverly Hills of musical scores records and instruments including two large gongs gave a classical background to his thesis "Ellington's music is real jazz never imitating symphonies" the conductor said "It seems simple but it is really art— music of great subtlety In my opinion he is one of America's outstanding artists" As for the clarinetists Stokowski says Shaw has a dynamic rhythm that is perfect for dancing and Goodman is "great equally so In symphonic music" "James" he says "hag a wonderful lip and an original and fantastic style of playing with r u sh n g' quick impulsive rhythms Tommy Dorsey is one of the greatest trombone players in the world with a wonderful high register great beauty of tone and a perfect singing legato" Gosh I thought if the cats only realized what a perfect singing legato the great T D has! For Stokowskl Lena Horne is a wonderful singer Stokowski has other favorite bands too He likes the imagination and whimsical humor of Jimmie Lunceford And he says without taking a breath that he likes "a new development with NVoody Herman in the direction of fantastic imaginative music with interesting s above repeated Louis Armstrong Famous Stars trance throwing the timing out 7 (P)- -- Aug That scene they shot at Para- 00 alleovat ar Benny Goodman Scene Will Be Funny But Not Film Studio 'Found' So Funny as Its Shooting A' e' ldwyn-Mayer phrases in the bass of quick short dancing tones" maestro The flowing-haire- d admits he is no connoisseur but he does like his jive Often after a concert he will tag along with the 'gators to a local swing joint and sit for hours listening to the jamming Ile admires the freedom of The Improvisation of swing Bach of playing original Beethoven and Mozart was groovy he said in effect "Musicians were allowed to improvise In the cadenzas but that freedom has been lost by their rigid symphonic worshipers and it is something that Stokowski has been trying to restore with much criticism resu!ting What is swing? The maestro says it is a blending of African rhythms and European harmony and polyphony at the meeting The place of New Orleans coptibination created something altogether new something of which he says we should be proud odd-soundi- V 9k0Inielp 0 Runnel been divided between two studios—Paramount and MetroGo- Lineup HILLS Cal Aug Stokowski the maestro is hep to the jive so band he picks his own He lines it up like this: Piano arranger—Duke Elling- ton Artie Shaw and Clarinet Tall and rugged Robert Ryan is an actor who doesn't look like an actor A boxing star at college Ryan held any number of jobs ranging from sandhog seaman or photographer's model to being a playwright and Broadway leading man before arrival on the screen Now he has top role in "Behind the Rising Sun" drama based on James R Young's expose and is cast opposite Ginger Rogers in "Tender Comrade" DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE ipo Av r UFI—Leopold all-st- BONDS - director a gramifather has a flair for writing He wishes she would do something about it Wood is not a man to make changes hastily Of all the years he has been in the motion picture business 25 of them have 11-ho- BEVERLY 7 In the Ginger Rogers' picture a moving story of the home front Ryan is cast as an average young American wooing and winning the girl next door and leaving his bride at the call of Uncle Sam The picture is to be launched by Producer David Hempstead this week' I Jeane older daughter whose adopted child makes the Stokowski Picks His Own Jive Night" ) part" His finally a close-u- p Working out this sort of detail makes Wood rise at 7 o'clock every morning start work at 8 and put in an day Thoughtfully he talked about keeping fit for this routine: "I am not a heavy eater—except for ice cream which I love Milk is Vie greatest drink in the lie likes a glass of world" champagne —a tail glass with cracked ice in it Sports minded (he used to do a little boxing played semipro we didn't even bother to put the names of the actors out in front of the theaters where their We pictures were playing turned out a picture a week in those days — something new Directors and every Monday cameramen from all the studios would stand in a row shooting pictures on a half dozen different sets lined up together "Charlie Chaplin worked for me for $200 a week: if we needed a shot of a man in a cutaway - lc le N r- two Good Old Days "Why I can remember when screen newcomer Robert one of the coveted assignments of the year that of Ginger Rogers' pew leading man in R K 0 Radio's "Tender Comrade" So far Ryan has been seen in but one' picture "Borpbardier" although he has Appeared in three otherfilms yet to be released by this company but he attracted public attention on Broadway through bis -- work opposite Luise Rainer in A Kiss for Cinderella" and with Tallulah Bankhead in Odets' "Clash by 1 "I design the whole thing like he explained building" "sketches are drawn of the characters in costume and makeup Then when casting begins I can select those actors whom I believe have inside what I have illustrated in blue prints" Another stunt of Wood's is to work up an entrance for each actor For instance shots of his feet then jumping and hashed the pictorial past A: LI Ft A derived quiet enjoyment from his recollections as lounging in an easy chair of his Park avenue suite he re- ryan gets screen k actres-s-daught- Careful as Builder Wood east MaMNMt The presentations for which Wood has been responsible in the last year—"King's Row" "Pride of the Yankees" "For Whom the Bell Tolls"—have little connection with the casually made features with which he lie works with a sysbegan tem now mar- of his home beards" rs first and only girl he ever lessional football for A while and today looks lik e a tennis player) he spins a good game of golf but would rather not keep score and never bets on it Wagering he reserves for the race track and the bridge table He takes a swim every day K T with his Stevens They live next door to each otheron a bluff overlooking the Pacific and paternally and professionally he has faith in her "From the stage she has authority end power now I went to he good actress to Tucson tn sce her in 'St Joan' honestly she looked the wailed until sonwone 1A'e from a weddmg: Broadway actors were sensitive about making pictures and did everything but hide behind ea me from Philadelphia Except for wearing a white silk shirt Wood who at 60 is among the most important motion picture directors behaves as though he might still be inhaling the atmosphere of the main line Pioneer in a town that clQtes on sudden success spectacles And multiple marriages Wood rose steadily from to color productions has been unsensational in his private life and remains the husband of the hest-sellin- 1 coat By Jean Meegon NEW YORK Aug 7 Sam Wood after 33 years in hails unchanged Hollywood i other aspiring small actress in Hollywood hitherto pretty much overlooked is the opportunity that has fallen to Elizabeth Taylor assigned to the young heroine's role in the version of the Enid Bagnold g novel "National Velvet" being screened by M G M It's a fact that Elizabeth is a "killed horsewoman which brings her this piece of luck The Mary centers around the classic English ateeplechase a display of expert riding by the youthful heroine Ira considered one of the best juvenile parts of the year and Elizabeth gets it although she has only one other screen appearance to her credit She played opposite Roddy MacDowall in "Lassie Come Home" Jack L Warner executive producer at Warner Brothers has wisely signed up Paul Lukas following his performance opposite Bette Davis in "Watch on the Rhine" for which he has received almost universal praise from the critics Lukas is to have a leading part in "Uncertain Glory" next on the schedule for Errol Flynn on vacatibn In Mexico after completing "Northern Pursuit" Lukas returned to the screen after a regrettably long absence to play the same role inwhich he achieved success in the Broadway production of the Lillian Hellman play—a success that no doubt had much to do with this recognition in Hollywood Production of Edmund Gillsea thriller "The Gaunt igans Woman" scheduled for shooting in September for United ArIiSte release has sent Production Manager Val Paul and an assistant to Canada in Search of auitErble locations for the story Which tells of the clash of German submarine raiders and Canadian fishermen off the Grand ranks The piece is yet to be 3 Director Sam Wood Chuckles Over Reminiscences of Early Hollywood 1 fly' E E Hollis What is likely to prove a stepping-stone to success for an- 9 13 Film Capital a lAkain Liner' in Small Girt 1 11 'Aug tiq I RICE Mirm I I Atlw e JOHN REAL |