' 10 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, March 8, 1950
Charles Coburn Celebrates
60 Years in Show Business
By BOB THOMAS
h Hollywood, March 8 W) Last night a portly old gent with
an ever-present cigar and monocle was given a party.' He was
Charles Coburn, who was celebrating 60 years in show business.
"I can't remember wanting to be anything but an actor,"
Coburn reflected as he gazed back over the years. "My mother
and father were devotees of the"
theater, although they were nev
er on the stage.
"I suppose my desire to be
an actor originated when my
mother read me stories about
theater people. The glamor and
excitement of their lives in
trigued me and I wanted to be
like them."
Born in Macon, Ga Coburn
first attended the theater at the
age of eight in Savannah, where
he grew up. At 13, he took his
first theatrical job as program
boy in the Savannah theater. He
graduated to usher and became
manager at IS.
"It was a huge theater and we
had names like Otis. Skinner and
Richard Mansfield," he recalled
"I remained manager for two
years, but all the time I wanted
to be an actor. However, they
were prejudiced against a man
ager becoming an actor. And
they were right I didn't know
how to act.
' "So I joined a stock company
and got a few walk-on parts,
enough to get oriented in the
business. I thought I wanted to
be a comic opera comedian.
Another Forum
Sunday Night
"The Christian Appraises
World Government Plans" is the
topic for discussion next Sun
day night at 8 o'clock at the
First Congregational church
when the fifth of a series of
public forums is presented.
The speakers will be James T.
Brand, associate justice of the
supreme court, and Dr. Orval
Etter, formerly attorney for the
League of Oregon Cities and now
Far West secretary of the Fel
lowship of Reconciliation.
Judge Brand was one of the
judiciary judges at Nuremberg
and is state chairman of the
Atlantic Union committee for
Oregon.
Dr. Etter, a graduate in liberal
arts and law from the University
of Oregon is vice president of
the Oregon Prison association.
His home is in Berkeley, Cal.
Seven Millions in
Red China Starve
Hong Kong, March 8 U.R
Seven million persons in com
munist China are starving to
death and the country faces
four more lean months before
the first harvest in June, a top
Chinese communist government
official admitted today.
A Pieping broadcast said the
estimate of China's grim food
picture was made in a speech
to the central relief commission
by Vice Premier Tung Pl-Wu.
The broadcast said Tung ad
mitted the people in many areas
were eating leaves and grass in
search of nourishment.
In his speech Tung blasted the
"bureaucratic tendency" of the
commission and charged that its
workers were not sympathetic
to the people's plight.
He said the next four months
will decide whether the situa
tion reaches disaster proportions.
could sing and dance a bit.
"That ambition died when I
played Shakespeare. I became a
Shakespearian actor for the next
few years. During this period
I met my wife. We were co
starred in 'As You Like If and
decided simultaneously to get
married and start our own com
pany, which we had for 12
years."
Coburn declared the lowest
ebb in his life came in 1937,
when his wife died.
"I was lost," he said. "There
seemed to be nothing left, noth
ing to live for. Then I received
an offer to do a picture ('Of
Human Hearts'). I accepted.
"The movies gave me a new
lease on life. I was happy and
content. In the past 13 years
I've made 48 pictures and mak
ing a movie is still interesting
to me."
Now nearing 73,- Coburn is
one of the top character actors
in Holly wood. His salary is near
$73,000 per picture and he makes
three or four a year. Studios
like to hire him because they
know he will give a good per
formance and will know his
lines and not hold up production.
He likes to discuss Shake
speare and republicanism and to
pal around with other oldtime
actors at the masquers club. He
leads an active social life and
is generally seen at local stage
and screen premieres.
I asked for his favorite role.
He said he liked them all, in
cluding his current one in
'Louisa," in which he competes
with Edmund Gwenn for Spring
Byington's hand. But he did
mention his greatest thrill in the
theater.
He bought a play which every
one else turned down. He had
to sign a year's lease to get a
theater.
"Butterflies were whirling in
my stomach on opening night,"
he remembers. "I wasn't sure
any sounds would come out of
me. My 'Alio' did come out,
and along with it came a roar
of applause. The play ran 18
months."
It was the sensation of the
first world war, "The Better
'Olc.'"
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After Formal Parliament Opening King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth leave parliament building in their crown
surmounted Irish coach after the formal opening of the newly
elected British parliament. The king's speech from the throne,
prepared by Prime Minister Clement Attlee's cabinet, made
no mention of additional nationalization of industries. This
was viewed as an indication that the labor government,
holding a precarious majority, hopes to avoid controversial
issues in the immediate future. (AP Wirephoto by radio from
London.)
Walter May Not
To Oppose Morse
Portland, Ore., March 8 (U.R)
Walter W. R. May, editor-in-chiof
of the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier,
announced today
that he will not run for the re
publican nomination for U.S.
senator in opposition to Wayne
Morse.
"It will not be possible for me
to be a candidate for the United
States senate in the republican
primary and start an active
campaignsoon enough to draw
fully the grave party issue pre
s e n t e d by Senator Morse's
course in office," May said.
'This is because I have some
prior responsibilities I cannot
set aside. They are contractual
and in the nature of a trust. I
i deeply appreciative, of
course, for the united statewide
support offered me by my
friends and many others I do
not know personally who be
lieve I would win by giving the
republican voters the opportun
ity to express themselves withr
in the party, which I believe
they should have."
Earlier, George L. Koehn,
Portland attorney, confirmed
that he also would withdraw his
candidacy against Morse on the
republican ticket in favor of
Fred Robinson, Medford.
Grand Island Pies
Bring Good Prices
Grand Island About 50 pa
trons of the Grand Island dis
trict attended the March meet
ing of Grand Island community
club.
There were 35 pies sold for
$54. L. W. Scoggan was the auc
tioneer; $3.75 was highest price
paid for a pie. The grade school
gave the program consisting of
three skits, several musical
numbers and one reading.
Middle Grove Building Fund
Is Boosted with Ham Dinner
Middle Grove, Mar. 8 Members of the Associated Clubs of
Middle Grove Community considered their special ham dinner
which they served to the public a success. They served 268 meals
and they cleared over $150. This will be used for the building
fund. Dinners are planned for the first Friday night of the month
for a few months, the next one
to be April 7 which will be a
chicken dinner. The hams for
this dinner were cooked by one
of the community businessmen
Oren Kring, in his barbecue pit
as a help for the fund.
Mrs. Norman Fletcher was
program chairman for the eve
ning. Numbers were accordion
selections by Delbert Botten; tap
dances by Karen Patterson, with
Mrs. Jack Wikof at the piano;
vocal numbers by the Middle
Grove girls with Mrs. Dan
Scharf accompanying; two read
ings; and music by the Jim
Ritchie orchestra throughout the
evening.
The "Cagey" 4H club girls'
cooking clubs of Middle Grove
have been meeting for three
consecutive weeks so they may
make up lessons missed during
the bad weather. Thursday night
23 of the 24 members drove out
to the Central Howell home of
their assistant leader, Joyce
Kuenzi, who is also a cooking
4 member.
Yvonne Goode gave a demon
stration in the making of i
sponge cake, answering ques
tions as she worked. Joyce
Kuenzi, whose specialty is bread
making, made bread, having the
girls help in the kneading.
Mothers who were guests were
Mrs. C. Reynolds, Mrs. L. W,
Chamberlain, Mrs. Emory
Goode, Mrs. Albert Fabry and
Mrs. Harvey Page. Hostess
mothers for the social hour were
Mrs. E. C. Blackman, Mrs. Mil
dred Hammer and Mrs. Kuenzi.
One of the members of these
clubs, Cooking 3, Shirley Page
was interviewed by 4H club
agent, Anthol Riney, in a pro
gram over KOCO radio station
Saturday morning. These 4H
programs are given every other
week, the home extension agent
having the other two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Wright
of Aberdeen, Wash., came down
Friday to spend the week-end In
the John Cage home and to help
his and Mrs. Cage's mother, Mrs,
Florence Wright, celebrate her
birthday.
The Ametie club of Middle
Grove will hold their annual
social evening for members and
their families at the Mayflower
hall Friday.
Mrs. John Anglin and Mrs.
Claude Kunze, Sr., were host-
.iSOiiOii
esses for a shower honoring Mrs.
Klyde Kunze, Jr., the past week
at the Mayflower hall. Guests
were Mrs. O. E. Palmateer, Mrs.
Roy Scofield, Mrs. Anna Wir-
sching, Mrs. Lena Bartruff, Mrs.
William Massey, Mrs. Charles
Anglin, Mrs. James Schardine,
Mrs. William Scharf, Mrs. Ger
ald Jaffe, Mrs. Fred Scharf, Mrs.
Lewis Patterson, Mrs. Leonard
Hammer, Mrs. Mildred Hammer,
Mrs. Melvin Van Cleave, Gay
lene Van Cleave, Mrs. Paul Bas
sett, Mrs. Paul Fuhrer, Jr., Mrs.
John Van Laanen, Mrs. Lee
Dow, Mrs. Sam Eshleman, Mrs.
Paul Fuhrer, Sr., Mrs. Walter
Binegar, Mrs. Harold Anglin
Mrs. C. Woods, Mrs. L. Carrow
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8 are Tom Armstrong, incum
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