| Show Vanishing Indian Poses Problem For Hollywood Il t O Genuine Indian extra players who o I used to be ns as plentiful In Hollywood a us as s shaped kidney swimming pools are no now w AS hard to find as one dollar table dinners Universal International became aware of oC the vanishing Indian situation during g the filming of oC the Technicolor Column South starring Audle Murphy and Joan Jonn Evans and opening tonight and Friday at the Egyptian Theatre Producer Ted Richmond and Director Frederick de Cordova placed a call CorO for Cor 60 O redskins and ended up with MX six genuine genuine gen gen- bow arrow warriors and 44 specialized film extras who are known around as Apartment House i Indians I These are a hybrid mixture of movie stuntmen part time players and bit players who have made a speciality of impersonating Redskins for so 10 long that th there re Is a 1 saying around the studios that the they grunt Ugh when they re receive receive reo re- their pay checks checka B Be that Is II It may Y the Apartment House Indians Indiana have come In handy late lately late I ly around the studio back Iota where a renaissance of at Injun fighting has haa placed placeda I Ia a premium on the real McCoy 1 Casting directors director say lay that there are only between 60 and 75 genuine Indian extra players around town Whichever I I studio gets first call on them for Cor a a cinematic scalping party usually corners the entire market Of Ot the six bona fide used for lor scenes In Column South four are Navajos Navajo and two are Sioux Bloux They've been working In Indian epics around 20 y years ars ape Ice and none of ot them will ever see seethe seethe seethe the lighter side of at 50 again A 1 FAST iT S II PICKS 1 I Iii i r Fast Company an M MOM picture starring Howard Keel Polly Bergen and Marjorie Main will be shown Saturday at the Egyptian Theatre This Is le a II paced fast story combining laughs laughe romance and racing horse excite excite- ment It tells of a II girl who Inherits a race racehorse race horse only to find that he la le on the second rate Circuit After falling fall tall ing log In love with her handsome trainer t I Rick she learns lenns that he be has haa been schem I I Ing to get the horse from tram her The I novice owner decides to race th the horse herself henel and nd after ner a number of at action action- tilled filled and times some hilarious ex experiences expert perl 1 encee acquires the sporting Instinct she lacked when the time comes for her to toI I take Rick flick away aWRY from tram a rich and predatory preda preda- tory tore rival J I Howard Keel in the latest of ot hi his hll non nong singing roles his last was WI lu III Desper Deeper Desperate ate ato Search plays the trainer Poll Polly Bergen plays play her second O M-O-M heroIne hero hero- Ine Marjorie Main Mein adds laughs as aa a aI I veteran turf toll follower ower with the supporting support support- Ing cast featuring Nina Foch as aa theother theother the I other woman Robert Burton Carol CarolI I Nugent Joaquin Horace McMahon McMahon I hon and Big Sig Arno I Fast Company Is based on a II screenplay screen I play by William Roberts Roberti It was directed Iby by John Jeopardy Sturges and was wal wasI I I I produced by Henry Berman Derman i I H UT KIN S I 11 PLAYS ROLE HOLE I A year old green eyed chestnut blonde who only seven years yean ago was waa president of ot the Massachusetts Massa Musa Jimmy Stewart Fan Club has I launched a promising screen career playIng playing play play- Ing an Important role opposite Stewart In UnIversal Universal Internationals International Technicolor i Thunder Bay Day showing at the Egyptian Theatre Sunday and Monday I She's She petite Marcia Henderson a a. gal who tips the scales at an even pounds and whom studio executives feel twill will soon be worth her weight in clue cine cinematic matic dynamite Mada who left Williamstown to become become be be- come a New York stage actress was picked up by talent scouts while appearing appearIng appearing appear appear- ing In the leading feminine role of ot the Chicago company of ot The Moon Is Blue In MarcIa the studio found the perfect casting for tor the younger sister of ot Joanne Dru In Thunder flay Day the exciting story tory of ot one of at Americas America's last net frontiers filmed on location at Morgan City Louisiana The young newcomer arrived on the set for her first days day's work armed with her make up kit and a II page scrapbook scrap scrap- scrapbook book tilled from cover to cover with pictures and press clippings of at Stewart I collected all these before you got married she told the actor But Dut I 1 couldn't get my heart Into the work when you finally broke down and took yourself a bride I Tell you what Ill I'll do Marcia answered an answered an- an Stewart Ill be your Fan Club president until you get married Then well we'll b be even I I Marcia say eay this will wUl work out fine I She has baa no Immediate plans for lor marriage marriage marri I age although several eligible bachelor about Hollywood already are knocking at ather ather ather her door I |
