Show 2 uJjc MM £akc tFribunc- Sunday Morning- - Strolieiin f ©0L S li9 nis Monocle i-4gfOixi News Out Of Africa By 'Knick' H R Knickerbocker ("Knick" to his friends) the correspondnews ent whose- "scoops" from areas where history is being made have brought him distinction will be heard at Kingsbury hall on Thursday at 8:15 p mt as an attraction on the Master Minds and Artists series of University of Utah extension division His subject is "At the Ringside of History" an theme As Mr Knickerbocker however has just arried in the United States from the war theater of northern Africa his talk will undoubtedly cover very pertinent matters concerned with the situation and relating to the d "second front" His address in Salt Lake City will be one of the first following his return The fateful year of 1940 found Mr Knickerbocker in Europe in the thickest of the fighting on the western front most hazardous "breaks" in the news His report on this war culminated 17 years of covering significant world events: Hitler's Beer House Putsch of 1923: Trotsky's dismissal from the Russian war ministry and banishment: the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss Italy's bombing of the Ethiopian Dessye in 1935 the Spanish Civil war capture of Shanghai by the Japs in 1937 the German march into Sudetenland Paris in 1939 Direct and unassuming in his "ace" speech the Texas-bor- n journalist is despite his cosmopolitanism as basically American in his viewpoint as one of the pecan farms of his native Texas to which he hopes some day to retire Following are the pupils appearing: Joyce Jackman who will be master of ceremonies Virginia Rueckert Margaret Graham Kim Anderson Gary Ridges Renee McFarlane Joyce Pugsley Dorothy Mcllrath Barbara Kunkel La Rue Morrison and Marjorie Monson : i : T--r :- - : I ! $r " " ? 1 f I : Is -- i V" John Brophy's "Immortal Sergeant" Twentieth Century-Fo- x film is guaranteed to be something new under the sun The picture starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara is about the current warfare in Africa The villain is the Libj'an desert Although this isn't the first time the desert has been cast as an enemy of man it is the first time that It has been represented with complete realism and total absence of romantic misconceptions Writers of novels movie song scripts and dream-heatehave sentimentalized lyrics about the desert for so long that deserts have become to the average man undulating d wastes of clean white sand The kind of sand that runs in hourglasses or that children play with in kindergar- cine-matical- ly he is hours 25 minutes) Ctah— "Over My Dead Body" 12:05 p m 2:20 4:35 6:50 9:10 and "The Meanest Man in Town" 1:15 3:30 5:50 8:05 10:25 (2 hours 15 minutes) Victory — "Desperate Journey" 12:15 p m 3:35 6:55 10:15 and "Sunday Punch" 2:20 p m 5:40 9 (3 hours 20 minutes) Capitol — "Chernik" 12:10 p m 2:50 5:0 6:20 10:55 and "Margin for Error" 1:20 4:10 6:50 9:30 (2 hours 40 minutes) Star — "Life Begins for Andy Hardy" 12:25 p m 3:45 7 10:15 and "Sundown" 2:07 p m 5:30 8:49 (3 hours) Tower (9th East and 9th South)— "The Little Foxes" 3:20 p m 6:50 10:30 and "Crossroads" 2 p m 5:30 9:05 (3 hours 30 minutes) Mario (Sugarhouse) — "Road to Morocco" 12:50 p m 4 7:05 10:10 and "Night of January 16" 2:15 5:20 8:25 11:30 (3 hours 6 minutes) Gem — "Her Cardboard Lover" 1:30 p m 4:29 7:28 10:37 and "The Apache Trail" 12:24 p m 3:23 6:22 9:21 (2 hours 59 minutes) 10:21 and Lyrlo — "The Male Animal" 12:51 p m 4:01 7:11 10 '"You're In the Army" 2:42 p m 5:52 9:02 (3 hours minutes) — 9:51 and m 6:39 3:31 12:19 York" p Broadway "Sergeant "From Rags to Riches" 2:35 p m 5:43 8:55 (3 hours 10 min- utes) Rialto — "The Postman Didn't Ring" 12:18 p m 3:18 6:18 9:18 and "Springtime In the Rockies" 1:27 4:27 7:27 10:27 (3 hours) State — "Hero We io Again" 12 m 2:38 p m 5:16 7:51 10:32 and "Call of the Canyon" 1:23 p m 4:06 6:44 9:22 (2 hours 38 minutes) (Sugarhouse) — "Whodunit" 1:38 p m 4:43 7:28 and "Oct Hep to Iove" 12:41 3:26 6:11 8:56 (2 hours 4 5 minutes) Holladay (Holladay)— "Somewhere I'll Find You" 2:57 p m 5:28 7:59 10:30 (2 hours 50 minutes) 9:36 and Murray (Murray) — "Manila Calling" 2 p m 4:52 7:44 "Invisible Agent" 3:33 p m 6:25 9:17 (2 hours 52 minutes) South-Eas- t 1 v Von Stroheim's acwaitress cent added to the confusion Needless to say the eggs and tomatoes flew Mike homing pigeons Totally broke again Von Stroheim ran into an armv officer who was picking up a living as a movie extra D W Griffith then was in his prime and the country was beginning to realize that Hollywood was more than a village A war was beginning' too but 1914 was noteworthy for Von Stroheim because he was injured in a stunt for "Birth of a Nation" and was in the hospital for three months He alone in Hollywood knew the correct German uniforms for actors so he became a technical adviser Lafcr he was assistant director to John Emer- son for S15 a week He went to New York as technical man for a Douglas Fairbanks film All was again wonderful Accent His Ruin But with the war his accent and Germanic appearance were against him When he called the New York public "library asked gutturally for the name of an Plenty News Items All In One Movie d Save 'Atmosphere' At Cost of Fact The pattern for the 99 pure type of sand (and the type of desert) was set by three silent pictures Those three were "The Ten Commandments" "The Sheik" and the original version of "Beau Gcste" In the first history's original refugees directed by Cecil B De Mille crossed the desert to the Promised Land in the second a glamorous affair glistening with moonlight and full of heaving "sighs Rudolph Valentino pitched his tent in the third Zinder-ncu- f stood mysterious and impenetrable in the clean sand and Ronald Colman as Beau made the ladies' hearts beat faster There were no sand flies - 44-10- 0 papers In fact that's been a custom dating back to the days when the first film cowboy chased the first celluloid Indian over the towering And brother that's precipice really going back! Remember the studio ballvhoo when shy little Rachael got her first screen kiss? Or when Virgil the viltime-honor- Zom-baglio- The Dutch hospital in Java which is the background of much of the story was Director Cecil B De Mille discovered from photographs designed of Califor- brown much like decomposed granite It is perfect for motorized equipment Also the scorched terrain is spotted with ugly wind-tor- n clumps of vegetation — chaparral that stays alive in desert heat without water — as no man can Details on the composition of the desert where the British Eighth army has been whacking Rommel's Africa corps were supplied to Twentieth Ccnturv-Koby Captain Bartle Bull M P on loan from the British army Captain Bull is a veteran of two years' fighting in the Libyan desert and now is back there once more In active service He realized that if he made the movie hospital like the real one indignant customers would accuse him of a boner So he's using a Javanese building to preserve the Javanese "atmosphere" Not Largest Check But the Heaviest HOLLYWOOD (T — Nicho- las Vehr having played his part as a soldier in a movie the other day was given his pay voucher for $25 He was holding it in his hand when someone turned on a wind machine The draft whipped the voucher out of Vehr's hand tossed it into a whirling fan When the machine was stopped the slip was torn into half a hundred picceB But Vehr carefully got each piece and painstakingly glued them to a brick He presented the voucher to the pay window And got his money Latin-Americ- '4 3:00 I — TUESDAY J M NOW ' ! 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Bo-ga- x phone he was given his walking papers Broke again Griffith saved-'hifrom starvation by returning from Franc and making him first assistant on "Hearts of the World" This led not only to a concrete knowledge of direction and production on Von Stroheim's part but to world fame as an actor He was the only man on the west coast who looked half "way comfortable in a uniform And he was the only mtfh who could hold a lengthy conversation with a monocle tucked into his eye He once more was in the dough and went on to become a director a writer and an even more famous line reader His delineation of German officers he describes thusly: "I threw babies out the window before breakfast murdered my grandmother after breakfast and starved my father until dinner" Knew Ups and Downs Von Stroheim was up and he was down in the manner of show business When In 1936 he couldn't get a job in Holly-woo- d he accepted a four-weeoffer from a French film comHe ultimately made 20 pany pictures in three years "Grand Illusion" among them He volunteered for the French army at this time but was told his value lay in propaganda broadcasts and he followed this judgment With the Germans approaching Paris he" returned to his adopted country — he became a United States citizen in 1926 — played over a year in "Arsenic nnd Old Lace" and finally was cast as Rommel While he told this tale — for four and a half hours — Von Stroheim sat officer-lik- e with a bottle of whisky beside him His closely shaven head sprung full blown from the collar of his suit as if someone had forgotten to tell him that necks were being worn this season His accent thundered through the room a strange mixture of Austrian and Brooklyn The hotel suite was luxurious Erich von Stroheim is in the chips again rd lain reformed and became a favorite matinee idol? Well those days are gone forever they hope! But studios still clinj? to that old worn-ou- t practice of a "first ten" list of something or other Here's one however with little different twist possibly newsworthy because it all occurs in one picture "Thank Your Lucky Stars" Bette Davis who usually plays heavy dramatic roles now is doing her first song and dance number Songstress Dinah Shore is making her first screen nopearnnce in which she also dances for the first time and "Spike" Jfmes and band also are making their screen debut rt Terribly tough Humphrey for the first time appears in a song and dance routine Mark Hellinger the film's producer and David Butler its director also appear for the first time on the screen as do three relatives of as many And as If that wasn't a bevy of attractively enough curved beauties appears in the chorus with all their clothes on But the desert in "Immortal Sergeant" — the desert on which Fonda and five other members of a British scouting patrol are stranded afoot — is distinctly different Mostly the terrain underfoot is hard gritty and dark Wassell" architecture w Silent Picture Style Different Today HOLLYWOOD IT)— In order to achieve authenticity the movies are departing from fact in recording "The Story of Dr nia-Spanish By Ted Gill Out here HOLLYWOOD where personal news items mean as much to actors and actresses contract the as a brand-neof studio press woods are full of their much who spend agents time dreaming up ways of getting their players' names in the ten sandboxes or the kind found on the beach at Waikikl Then followed a series of jobs worse beating At last with only a few dollars to his name he became a life guard at a swank resort in Lake Tahoe This led to a theoretical position as riding master in an The in Pasadena academy job amounted to chambermaid for 23 horses It also paid nothing but board and room Knowing nothing about show business he finally bof rowed $500 from a woman he had met at Tahoe and put on a sketch His in a Los Angeles theater leading lady was a Swedish in which his pride took an even He will stop himself in the middle of an anecdote to remark "No that's bad storytelling I shouldn't have said that first" Then with gestures and in a weird accent he will go back and spin the yarn as he thinks it should have been In the beginning The story begins in Austria wind-ripple- "Nightmare" 12:44 p m 2:42 4:40 6:38 8:36 10:31 (1 hour 58 minutes) Centre— "Arabian Nights" 12 m 2 4 6 8 10:05 (2 hours 1 minute) Studio — "Yankee Doodle Dandy" 12:20 p m 2:45 5 7:35 9:55 (2 Also — "HENRY Variety of Jobs past Mine' HOLLYWOOD— The villain of Uptou-n- yj&v i:?-'vr- i Desert Is Foe in Film of Libya Now Playing 1" His first job in New York was that of a package-wrappe- r in a big store He held it for three days until he was required to carry a package His military pride rebelled Shortly after he volunteered for the American cavalry served three years until 1912 when he received an honorable discharge and came west uni- Von Stroheim's career has been tempestuous Listening to him tell his life story is something like hearing a Thomas Wolfe recital of "Look Homeward Angel" — minus the trains For the actor remains an actor when he speaks of his They're called 'the most beautiful eyes in Hollywood' this pair looking up at you They belong to Maureen O'Hara Irish colleen who came to Hollywood a few years ago as a protege of Charles Laughton— and who appears again with him now in the Opening Today W'Ji'LLLiLt hurt not laughed about An Actor Always Bountiful (Bountiful) — "Road to Morocco" 4:45 p m 7:35 10:25 and "Henry Aldrieh Editor" 3:35 p m 6:25 9:15 (2 hours 50 minutes) Arcade (4th South and 8th West) — "Shanghai Gesture" 1 p m 4:03 7:06 10:09 and "Scattcrgood Rides High" 2:50 p m 6:01 9:04 (3 hours) J where Stroheim learned to wear a uniform After graduation as a lieutenant in the Austrian army he came to this country It was 1909 For the first time his position as an officer cut no ice This He with Prussian arrogance is playing the role nearly straight as he realizes as do the generals opposing Rommel a man to be admired that Austrian explosive and heard sirens outside his office while his ear still was glued to the That's forms and a Prussian haircut Only the monocle is missing The field marshal doesn't wear one Von Stroheim thinks Rommel Is a great soldier "an eminent adversary" not as brutal ina character as those he played the last war but still a man I S at the Royal Military academy Von By Kate HoIIiday HOLLYWOOD Feb 13 UP)— Those who say that history never repeats itself have not heard of Erich von Stroheim During trie last war Von Stroheim played" Gefrhan "'offHe was icers on the screen famous for " his monocle his ability to wear a uniform as if he had been' poured into it and his Prussian haircut He is now portraying Field Erwin Rommel in Marshal The "Five Graves to Cairo" part is characterized by Salt Lake Show Guide 10:13 1 ' dramatic 'This Land pianist IS JHis much-discusse- In the first of a series of public dramatic recitals Mrs Edward E Hoffman will present a group of her pupils Thursday at 8 p m in the ivory room of Hotel Xewhouse They will be assisted by Joyce Fugsley aircuc u luioim oie But inn brilliant Hoffman Students Give Recitals February 11 1913 - Taxes GABLE -- TURNER SOMEWHERE I LL FKJDrr- tainrrSIEHUKS HI nil tl n°rr S"ecr H GWELLS AMA1ING STORV - si ILONA MASSCr JON Hill Bio feature! fMANIIA CALLING 2h |