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& . 4. I V 1 wJ;; f crFvc Joan Fontaine nd Arturo de Cordova are F)VEi- . ne from "Frenchmen's Creek." which will play "r."' j,y on the screen of the McDonald theater. THIS IS HOLLYWOOD By trskme Johnson .i.ac Hvint? I ,m Demar (hullet noie m v . , Gary ivk' . ; m had to l's'e.n a.nd hg him. But being de fomians they had their Jimmie Da Schnozz FAVORITE VAUDEVILLE START STILL POPULAR PMU .:" 'nf camera ,hev confessed later, r had the fingers on both d crossed, in fact. He is 5ucer as well as the star western movie, 'Along iones,"' in which Demarest 9l)v makes very nasty .tout California's weather, hoping," Cooper said that ,ja doesn't boycott the it winter I spent In uan- I" Demarest groaned. Rain, Ism-drizzle, drazzle, pour! . ;..- o hia IphW m ftaie is jusi Lrest's complaint is that the left him with stiff joints, fclarly in his hands. He had Energed from a six-shooter f-and he got shot because Jj slow on the draw. i Bk at them stiff joints." Bill Id. lifting a stiff hand. "I tain, like any cowman. But ijifornia your life ain't safe lute without you carry a ifei rowboat on your head, 't a state a-tall it's a Id fish tank." j Illy Says No i inally Johnson, who wrote treenplay, was at the bot If all this, we figured. He bly got the sniffles or lum once when he first came to irnia and was getting even : the chamber of commerce, j I Nunnally denied everything. , nasty cracks about Califor 1 weather were in Alan Le I novel, on which the film sed. ! id being a lazy fellow.'" . in said, "when I wrote the I NOW PLATING pffllSTMAS HOLIDAY" Sth Dcanm Durbin, Gene ley, Richard Whorf, Dean krens and Gladys George ? IUWIajI CI, ...4 e,.ki..i. wv.-vn... UF1UI, Matlnet fiunday at screenplay I j u s t left it In. I thought it was funny. But the chamber of commerce can't blame me. I love California's weather even when it rains. Why, last week I was down at Palm Springs and I heard it was raining in Hollywood so my wife and I rush ed back to catch some of it. Lizabeth ScottM they're saying over at Paramount, will be a star after her first picture, the Hal Wallis inovie, "Don't Ever Grieve Me." So maybe we better take a iook at the young lady. She's a tawny blonde, 22, with a deep voice like Lauren Bacali's (it's, the new vogue In film glam or). She left the old home town, Scranton, Pa., to study drama in New York, dropped the initial letter from her name for theatri cal effect. From stock player on the sub way circuit, one summer at the Barter theater in Virginia and do ing blackouts in the road com pany of "Hellzapoppin,' Lizabeth became Tallulah Bankhead's un derstudy in "Skin of Our Teeth." For seven months she did noth ing but sit in the theater wings Tallulah was unusually healthy. One night Tallulah was unable to go on, Lizabeth replaced her and later played the role again for two weeks in Boston. But it was a photograph in a fashion maga zine (she was a model, too) which brought her to Hollywood. Just Pais Lizabeth and Tallulah are good friends now, but there was a time when they didn't speak. Lizabeth winced at the memory, "I was sitting backstage and Tallulah looked at me and said, 'Close that door.' Being the meek little understudy, I closed It." Couple of nights later Tallulah again said, "Close that door." Lizabeth said, "Say please, Miss Bankhead." Tallulah didn't say please. Liza beth didn't close the door. Tal lulah glared. Lizabeth glared back. They didn't speak for weeks. "Finally," Lizabeth said, "my uncle came to see the show and wrote me a note in which he glowingly praised Tallulahs per formance. I showed it to her. That did it. We've been friends ever since." The nose knows, Jimmy Dur ante is wont to say, but who knows The Nose? Thousands of movie fans know the Great Schnozzola as a funny guy who sings, plays piano, mur ders the king's English, wrecks pianos and fedora hats, is given to flopping his arms and scream ing, "I'm mortified." Off the screen Durante isn't much different. He's no' collar ad nor tailor's model. His English comes not from school books, but he's friendly, gregarious, has a heart as big as the Mojave desert and just as warm. He's the dia mond in the rough who is a good neighbor and a faithful friend, but if you tell him that he says, "Whatsa matter?. You tryin' to humiliate me?" Durante, who has one of the leading roles In MGM's "Two Girls and a Sailor," which opens Sun day at the State theater, is not the guy to forget his old pals. Back in 1923 Jimmy, Lou Clayton arid Eddie Jackson started their fam ous trio. The three had opened a small night club in New York. Each of them had been a perform er. Jimmy had always been a pianist. They decided to put on their own show and the trio act evolved, with Jimmy as master of ceremonies and general ring lead er of nonsense. They were an in stantaneous hit and appeared in several Broadway revues, includ ing "The New Yorkers," as well as In many night clubs. Shortly after the crash of 1929 when New York night life was as gay as a morgue and clubs folded like houses of cards, Durante had a chance to do a "single" in pic tures in "Get Rich Quick Walling ford." He was a success and from ; then on was starred alone, in pic tures and on the stage, marking ' finish to Clayton, Jackson and Du rante as an act. Jimmy made sure that his leaving didn't put his pals . on a spot, however. He made Lou Clayton his manager and he has j kept Jackson employed, too, whenever the latter needed a job. . Even now, when. Jimmy does sent to Hollywood, forwarded to Manhattan and back to MGM stu dios, from a prisoner at San Quen tln, reading: "Dear Jimmy: I didn't know un til I read the papers that was your house. I'm a fan of yours and wouldn't have done it if I'd known. I'm sorry about the music box, I can't tell you where it is but I'm arranging to have it sent to a deputy sheriff who will get it to you." Durante received the music box a few davs later. Downjjp I FrontLJ Sturges Finds His Own Film 'Characters' yWWIMUr This Week We Present NEWS AND VIEWS HOLLYWOOD Pat Klrkland, 17-year-old daughter of radio pro ducer Jack Kirkland, has been terestlng fellows closest at hand, The so-called manpower short' age in Hollywood does not worry Preston Sturges. He is not one to sit around moaning and weeping about the shortage of trained ac tors In the film city. He makes his own actors out of the very in Eugene Register-Guard, Sunday, Jan. 21, 1948 Pago IS signed for lead in film version of i regardless ot whether or not B'way hit, "Kiss and Tell" . . . they've ever acted.. Since the flavor of spice de pends on the oil it contains it is best kept in a tight container away from light and heat, - jbmte! Jatf-Human! ..." . ..- sS? 1 f7s'V ILJ "O. r III i ft SkTmti SJrs'iL n Bridge Yi ft Rev- jMfi tl , camp- shows, Jackson appears , w.ui iiiui. years ago. I When Jimmy is in New Yorki Th iate John DreWi Etnel Bar me uuuis ox ins suue are never locked and his legions of friends I come and go at will. If he invites anyone to dinner he's happier if j they bring other guests. He, too, ! if invited for a meal, usually brings several of his pals. He doesn't like to admit it, but I he's an easy mark for a "touch," j and many an old trouper profits by this Durante propensity. Jimmy likes to see people laugh, j and so clowns most of the time. He delights in telling stories of his ! childhood in New York's teeming lower East Side, the cradle of j many Tammany politicians, whom ; he knew as a kid. Jimmy's father I was a barber and the family's fi l nancial status was just a shade i better than some of their neigh i bors. I When Jimmy was eight years ; old his father bought a piano. When it was delivered at the tene ment where they lived, there was neighborhooH celebration, for it was the only piano on the block. When Jimmy learned to play it, however, the other kids called him a sissy. Fortunately he didn't give up; he licked the tar out ot the ringleader of the hecklers in stead. A guy who has made a fortune out of his oversize proboscis, Jim my feels sorry for people who are self-conscious of their large noses. "The best fan letter I got in a long time was the other day when a boy wrote that now he doesn't mind having a big nose any more because the kids in school call him 'Schnozzle.' What a tribute that was," said Jimmy, managing to look wistful behind the nose that was insured by Lloyd's of London for $100,000 a few years Judy Canovi will star in "Hay' loot, strawioot ' at coiumota . . . W. Somerset Maughan's "Ashen den, British Agent,' will be film ed by International , . . "Close Shave" will be next flm for Ab bott and Costello , . . Frank Mor gan to do 60th role on screen when he begins "Hold High the Torch" . . Edgar Buchanan add ed to cast of "The Fighting Guardsmen" . . . Fox will do revise of "State Fair" in technicolor . . . Vera Hru ba Ralston and Roy Rogers, Re pubic stars, will be crowned King and Queen of . Winter at Lake Placid soon . . . AP and' INS have selected Lauren Bacall, leading lady opposite Bogart in Warner's "To Have and Have Not' as out standing new actress of 1944 . . . Next Errol Flynn pic will ba "Ob jective, Burma." And now a short ' letter, for what Us worth: Diir Win: Now what was It th Cmarald laid about our Hagfy also H. tha Mac'a sot a coup old Umera wondm It theyve reduced the prices. Mebbe ai a bonus thsyre throwing In a cartoon. Well I'll stay away couldnt stand to see virile Joel McRea as a dead ended kid. after this longa time. Also dont enjoy your column half as much since the adver tisers got busy on your dept. and made you take the sting out of your be lltUing. Guess you found out there alnt no such thing as free speech in a newspaper office especially when you are panning the adverUsers wares. Hey hey for the four freedoms. You should do It Ilka old Haggy would, you know, confuse your readers with such expres sions as "the picture Is pedantic but not pedestrian". Never have quite fig ured that one out yet, meant to ask Hassellrooth before he went "Broadway". Brother 1 sure got a laugh out of thinking how the folks on Route F I land inside the city limits) were worry- ThU film which stars Cary "h wlth m " to Juat wht wade ims mm, V.nicn aiura I movlo "oedsntle but mlnu,. th. nel.- trlsn." Nesreat I could figure out was thst he meant the current showing (at that time) wasnt worth walking two blocks to see. A pretty subtle critic, old Hsggy. Well so long. By the way If I should ba entlUed to a free seat at the Mac for this dribble, just keep It until a good show comes along, pre ferably one of those "publlo goujers" where they soak the suckers Increased prices for a little higher class Junk, (or do they suspend tne free list I Apple Mark Of Barrymore Traditions A shiny red apple rested on Ethel Bafrymore's dressing table during the first day's filming of RKO Radio's "None But the Lone ly Heart" and Lionel Barrymore was the sender. The ted apple is a traditional gift among the Barrymores, a symbol of inter-family regard. Brother Lionel sent the apple as a token of good luck. Grant, is Miss Barrymore t second talking picture, her first screen appearance since she made "Ras putin and the Empress" with brothers John and Lionel twelve Durante fans are a loyal legion. Last winter his Los Angeles home was burglarized. One item stolen was a 67-year-old music box, a family heirloom, mentioned In newspaper accounts of the robbery as the thing Jimmy most regret ted losing. rymore u uncle, started tne appie tradition three generations ago. He never failed to send red apples to his relatives on the first nights of their respective stage bows, or whenever one of them appeared in a new play. Ethel received her first one on January 25, 1894, when she made her New York debut as Julia in a revival of "The Rivals" with Mrs. John Drew and an all-star cast. Her daughter (Ethel Barrymore Cole) received one only a few weeks ago when she made her op eratic debut In New York as "Martha." ' ' In "None But the Lonely Heart" which opens Sunday at the Heilig theater, Miss Barrymore portrays Ma Mott, an indomitable "junkie" of London's East End. David Hempstead produced from Clifford Odet's screen ver sion of Richard Llewellyn's unfor gettable novel, , NO SKETCHY JOB HOLLYWOOD Custom design ers Renie and Edward Stevenson are making a total of 479 cos tume sketches for two new RKO Radlo technicolor features, "The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor" and "The Spanish Main." Sketches are in exact shades to be used in the pictures. If fabrics are unob tainable In colors needed they'll be dyed to required colors. 'On the Aisle' Our answer to this reader will appear as soon as space will allow. FIRST AID HOLLYWOOD Georgt Raft, ringside weight 150 pounds, height five feet 10, sent Johnny Indri sano, former heavyweight fighter, to first aid in a fight scene for RKO Radio's "Johnny Angel." In drlsano, veteran of 150 screen bat tles, suffered a cut leg when Raft knocked him through a window. MAN WHO WASN'T THERE The little man who wasn't there REHEARSE "HARVEY GIRLS" Robert Alton, who recently re turned from New York after staging the dances for the new Olson and Johnson play, "Lafflng Room Only," has started dance rehearsals for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming musical, "The Harvey Girls," which will star Judy Garland, Ann Sothern and John Hodiak, IiIG TASK HOLLYWOOD Culminating six months of intensive research, 50 major color sketches 18 by 30 Inches and 250 scene Illustrations 9 Inches by 12 inches, also In color, were prepared for the RKO Radio Technicolor production, "The Spanish Main,'1 co-starring Paul Henreld, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slezak. BONANZA HOLLYWOOD More than 500 Chinese and an equal number of Filipinos are working In John Wayne's new RKO feature, "The Invisible Army," thereby answer ing their biggest talent call In two DUBIOUS HOLLYWOOD Rosemary La Planche, former Miss America ap pearing In RKO Radio's "John ny Angel," wonders about her j latest honor. An Inmate of Lea- ! venworth prison has asked her for i a pinup picture. MUCH TRAVEL NOWHERE Spencer Tracy will cross the continent during the week, but will never lesve the "Without Love" set at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In Hollywood. He spends Until Sturges prepared to make his current Paramount comedy, "Hail the Conquering Hero" which opens Thursday at the McDonald theater, the actor shortage was no problem for the director-writer. But a lot of thespians have de ported ihe ranks of film players of late. Sturges did not meet the situation by creating casts abun dant with women and short on men. His "Hail the Conquering Hero" needs a lot of men. In fact, Sturges has five young marines tramping through the story with Eddie Bracken from start to fin ish. He wanted actors who look like marines, and he got them. One Is a former studio laborer, another an ace stunt man, a third a stand-in, the fourth an ex-prize fighter and the fifth a young act' or who happened along fortunate' ly. Sturges Is a firm believer In the theory that, if you scratch the surface of the average man, you'll find an actor. People have always interested him and he has de veloped an aptitude for seeing talent where it might not be ap parent to others. Here, in detail, is how Sturges got his marines. He was sipping a cup of mid afternoon coffee one day at the Paramount studio coffee shop when in walked a bronzed young fellow in overalls which were smeared with dirt and paint Sturges becokned the chap, anc learned he was one James Da more, a studio laborer. Sturges had him read the part and that was that. The director-writer next jogged his brain for a likely chap to play a gruff, dead-pan marine hero. Being a fight fan, he remembered the strong face of Freddie Steele, once middle-weight champion of the world now retired. Sturges reached out, took Freddie, made him an actor. His next choice was Jimmie Dundee, who happens to be one of movieland's ace stunt men. Dundee has done 10,000 haz ardous stunts for movies without being Injured, which meant he certainly looked like a veteran marine. The fourth fellow is a tall, hus ky brunette. Ever since Bob Hope started in films, this Len Hendry has been in stand-In for the com edy star. Hollywood doesn't us ually pick actors from stand-ins, but Sturges did in Hendry's case. Hendry, between Hope pictures had done a bit of pantomine for Sturges which the director liked. He signed Hendry. The fifth selection among these marines was pure luck. A youth named Stephen Gregory, who had done quite a bit ot stock acting and professional football playing, had ccme to Hollywood thinking someone might need him. So when Gregory walked Into Sturges' of fice one day Inquiring about a possible role, the director-writer just up and grabbed him. or TIM SOLD CANDY Tim Murdock, as a youngster, used to sell cokes and candy at a refreshment stand on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. IN HEILIG DRAMA Cary Grant and June Dupres are tha lore re In RKO's "None But the Lonely Heart,Y which opens Sunday at th Heilig theater. WSIK'I THEATKB FHOOBAHi MeDonsld: Sunday through Wednes , day, Trenchmens Creek;" Thursday through Tuesday. "HaU the Oonquertng Hero" and "Waterloo Bridge." Kelllg: Sunday through Wednesdsy, "None But the Lonely Heart:" Thurs day through Saturday, "Strangers tn the ; Night" and "Bordertown Gun Fighters." Mayflower: Sunday through Wednee-1 day, "Together Again:" Thursday I through saturdsy, "Nona But the UNie ly Heart." Rex: Sunday and Monday, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and "Jungle Princess;" Tuesday and Wednesday. "Action tn the North Atlantic" snd "Mr. Lucky:" Thursday through Sat urday, "Janle" and "Port oi Forty Thieves." State: Sunday through Wedneedsy, "Two Olrls and a Sailor'' and "Be hind Prison Walls:" Thursday through Saturday, "Six Gun Rhythm" and "Candlelight In Algeria." RECORD HOLLYWOOD Arthur Loft, featured with Sonja Henie and Michael O'Shea in International's "It's a Pleasure!" played 3,500 consecutive performances with the Tom Wilkes Stock company in Salt Lake City. Mature 'Gets 'em' When They're Mature PORTLAND, Jan. 20 () It Isn't only Frank Sinatra and th bobby-sockers. A mlddle-sged woman tm erged from the theater whera Via. tor Mature was appearing. "Pva seem him!" sha shouted, Tva seen my idoll" She walked Into the lobby's ornamental fish pond, waded out, knocked, over a war bond booth, and disappeared dreamily Into the street. WILL PCBUSn LETTERS Frances Rafferty's husband. Major John Horton, now In Italy, writes her long and amusing let ters which he Illustrate with separate black and whit draw ings. The writing and drawings are so good that Frances Is sav ing them with the Idea of com piling the material In a book. . Now McDONALD Playing! van-- atve. w: m Hil4 In Billing Tietalcol6r...Piratt faeMl 4 ASIOstf" .1 FONTAINE U CORDOVA 11 o-tftt BASIL RATHBONE NIGEL BRUCE Starts ' V TODAY 1 FOH 4 i DAYS OMGIi MGH'J RED, WHITE ail. BlUESICH MUSIMl! Dl Ami . ITURBI I IvtUlFla DIM mr s - I SHOW. f I nt'7iWf-K F I J rswonH ALAN BAXTER "Behind Prison Walls" GERTRUDE MICHAEL Mart LLEH H0RNE CUGAT STARTS TODAY FOR 4 BIG DAYS! mloht vll h. mllert Ijion Ames. I the next five days, in a Pullman lur a vc(,uciilv vi i For Ames gamers the season's most novel film role as the dis embodied Guardian Angel who Is This fall, after having spent a I able to vanish at will In Metro' season in New York, Jimmy re- Goldwyn - Mayer's Technicolor ceived a letter which had been I fantasy, "Yolanda and the Thief." PLAYING NOW THRU WEDNESDAY fittest X'-s MffefficriQ Continuous Sis tiffs Dili wn ..COBURiV Dlaney Cartoon "Tiger Troubla" Sunny Dunhom'i Band ' In A Musical "Jlv BuBtara" compartment the picture. HICKS AT "WALDORF" Russell Hicks is the latest to join the cast of "Weekend at the Waldorf," starring Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pldgeon and Van Johnson. Hicks will be seen as a Wall Street Big Shot. DINING DANCING 2 FLOOR SHOWS THE HOLLAND CLUB EUGENE'S SMARTEST NITE SPOT PHONE 4080 NO. ADM. CHARGE BEFORE g:00 P. M. (EXCEPT ON HAT.) 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