Observer, La Grande,' Ore., Wed., Dec. 10, 1958 Page 9
Old Movie StarsTlide Down To Bit
OUT OUR WAY .
Parts
By VERNON SCOTT
UPI Hollywood Corriondnt
HOLLYWOOD (UPI). Old
movie stars don't just fade away.
They slide from stardom to fea
tured roles, then to ' character
parts and finally bit , parts.
AJice White, who made her
screen test for Charlie Chaplin in
the silent days, was a bouncy,
temperamental star during the
la,te 20s and 30s. She was typical
of her era colorful, fun - loving
and carefree. Alice was a big
name and had a large following.
Next week she will be playing
a maid in a segment of the Ann
Sothern TV show.
" Sitting in the Brown Derby Res
taurant, Alice looked back - over
the years and said I wasn't a
real madcap."
,. ''I just married the wrong
guys three of 'em," '., she said.
"Now it all seems like one great
big dream."
Alice, still perky and charming,
wore white gloves and i a blue
polkadot dress. She looks younger
than her 50-pIus' years. . '
"They used to have my picture
on the wall here," she said; peer
ing at he famed caricatures that
line the Derby's walls, "but I
guess tliey gave it the, deep six
long ago."
Alice was called "Peter Rab
bit" when she was a 15-year-old
secretary on the old Chaplin lot.
Her screen test was a fluke. She
was shoved in front of the cam
era to test a new lens. But her
the
was
sprightly charm captivated
biswigs and her nrur
launenca.
"I only made one silent picture
'Sea Tiecr' with Minn cm.
but people think of me now as a
pioneer in suems, she said. "It
hasn't helped.
"Whenever the name Alice
White is mentioned, they say 'oh
yes, wheel her in.' Seven years
ago, when I made my last pic
ture (Time of Your Life), I rent
ed a wheel chair and a guy in
a white coat to push me onto the
set. It broke everybody up.
"At this rate they'll be calling
Shirely Temple an old bag in a
couple of years."
For those with long memories,
Alice starred in "Harold Teen,"
"The Private Life of Helen of
Troy," "Playing Around,"
"Naughty Baby," "Broadway Ba
bies," "Hot Stuff" and "Picture
Snatcher."
Now that she's looking for mov
ie roles again, Alice is having
rough sledding. Many of her for
mer friends and co-workers avoid
her like the plague.
; "Some of them run from me as
if I wanted to borrow money,"
she pouted.
"I never made a great deal of
money, and I lost a lot on the
stock market, but I'm not desti
tute. Strangely, I don't miss the
hoopla and popularity of being a
big star. But I do miss the loot."
Alice lives in the Hollywood
Hills with three dogs and a cat,
Regional Power Corporation
Draws Praise, Criticism
PORTLAND (UPI)-A Dronosed
bill by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) to establish a regional
power corporation in the Pacific
Northwest drew both criticism
and praise at the first of four
public hearings here Monday.
The Oregon Rural Electric Co
operative Association said the bill
was the best means of financing
natural resources development.
Private firms, the Oregon Farm
Bureau Federation and the Port
land Chamber of Commerce criti
cized the proposal.
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ON DISPLAY AT THE LIBERTY THEATREI
Vote For Your Favorite Candidate!
PRIZES TO BE AWARDED
Saturday Afternoon
Dec. 20ih
AT THE LIBERTY THEATRE!
Make A Date To Be There
Oregon Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield
said he endorsed the general con
cept of such a corporation. The
Oregon State Grange also said it
supported the regional power cor
poration concept.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), a
co-sponsor of the bill, submitted a
statement calling for full river
basin development.
Neuberger indicated he thought
the bill was a good one although
it might be amended before it
reaches Congress. He said such a
corporation would aid in assuring
continuity of financing, planning
and power supply.
, Portland General Electric Co.
and Pacific Power & Light Co.
objected to the proposal. PGE
said it was afraid the bill would
fix another governmental level in
the Northwest and give the pro
posed corporation a u t o n o mous
control over power development.
Pacific Power & Light said if the
bill were enacted as drawn it
would mean a "sudden stoppage"
of the record investments by util
ity groups ot the region.
The Northwest Public Power
Association said the proposed bill
was ' born of necessity", to inv
prove the present administrative
and financing machinery of the
federal Columbia River power
system.
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Olympic, Freeway
To Open Friday
OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI? The
bridge-studded Olympia freeway
which cost 12 million dollars and
took four years to' build, will be
opened to traffic Friday in a
ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The six and one - half mile
stretch of limited-access four-lane
highway involves 25' bridges and
features the first tri-level inter
change in the- state. The inter
change will funnel non-stop traffic
north and south on U.S. Highway
sa ana to Grays Harbor.
Engineers of the .State High'
ways Department estimated that
by skirting Olympia, through traf-
tic will save 25 to 30 minutes
passing through the area.
More than 0,500,000 persons suf
fer from chronic arthritis in the
United States, according to the
Encyclopedia Bntannica.
spending the long evenings watch
ing television.
"There's a possibility I may be
come a regular part of the Soth
ern show, ' she said nopetuliy.
"I don't mind playing a maid.
Save the 'hearts ' and flowers."
Show business is my rackets I
was brought up in it. And right
now I'm only interested in getting
back to work."
Boy Confesses
Setting Fire
STOCKTON. Calif. ' (UPI) A
10-year-old boy has confessed set
ting fire in the library of the Jef
ferson Elomcntary School a few
minutes before 611 students were
to start classes.
Fire Chief Lyle Stevenson said
the fire would have been, "disas
trous" had it not been controlled
almost immediately. He estimated
the damage at $500. ' , "
The fire was brought under con
trol at 8:54 a.m.' Monday. Classes
start at 9 a.m. '
The boy said he had made five
different attempts to set the li
brary afire. In one of them, he
put crumpled paper between the
pages of an open-faced dictionary
and touched a match to the paper.
He denied the recent Chicago
school fire had caused him to act
as he did.
Stevenson said the boy was found
because a class paper with' his
name on it was found in the li
brary.
The boy confessed after under
going questioning for two and one
half hours. Asked why lie did not
confess sooner, he said:','
"I was afraid my teacher would
be mad at me." .
Death Of Pioneer III '.
Missile Seen In Africa
FORT LAMY, French Equator
ial Africa (UPI) A Frenchman
and an African believed Tuesday
they had seen the end of the U.S.
moon missile Pioneer III, It burst
like a Christmas star- over this
remote jungle outpost Sunday
night.
Pierre Stoeckel, 33,-Air France
representative here, said it was
7:55 p.m. local time when he and
the African, also employed at the
airfield, saw the flames. ; - :
CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
WEDNESDAY
.7:30, p.m., , La Grande City! Com-
mission.City. Hall. .. ..v
; 8 p.m;, American Legion Post,
Legion buildingcorner of Fir and
Jefferson :'. . . :..
8 p.m., American Legion Aux
iliary meet, Legion building, cor
ner of Fir and Jefferson.. .
8 p.m., Annual La Grande High
school orchestra concert, vocal
groups to participate, in school
r.uditorium! '' '
THURSDAY r
10 a.m. and 2:30. p.m., Culinary
and Bartenders ' local 536 in La
bor temple 220V4 Depot street.
8 p.m., Eagles lodge, Eagles
hall. . v .' .: .
8 p.m., Elks lodge,'. Elks tcmr
pie. . .
Coin of the Realm
Answer to Previous Puxxrif.
ACROSS
1 Obsolete gold
coin of Italy
and Turkey
7 Austrian coin
13 Passage
14 Small cavity
15 Pineapple
16 Incapable
17 College degree
(ab.)
18 Solar disk
20 Sorrowful
21 Perfumed
24 Encourage
27 Breathes
31 Glacial ice
33 Papal cape
34 Five (comb,
form)
35 Meaning
36 Racers
40 French port
41 Dinner course
43 Card game
46 Far oil (comb.
. form) ' '
47 Bud's sibling
50 Handled
53 Descendant of
a son of Jacob
(Bib.)
55 Weigher
56 More wicked
57 European
(Inches
58 Lariats
DOWN
1 Incrustation
on a sore
2 Eternities
3 Block of metal
(print,)
4 Foted vase
5 Father of
Jacob (Bib.)
6 Squatter
7 Ghosts
8 Sea eagle
9 Meadow
10 Tennis strokes
11 Feminine
appellation
12 Bamboolike
top iiasa mm
ml IP i
Hi
grass
19 Mariner's
direction
21 Said
22 Epic poetry
23 Unswerving
24 Vipers
25 of an
auto horn
26 European
white-tailed
eagle
28 Genus of frogs
ju uinerwise
30 Observed
32 Indulge
37 Compound
ethers
38 Royal Society
Edinburgh .
(ab.)
39 Vendor
42 Female rulf '
43 Scottish girl
44 At one time
45 Geological
ridges
47 River ' :
sediment ? ' ' -
48 Willow genus
49 weights 01
India .
SI Fourth
Arabian caliph
52 shillings
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