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Lionel Barry mo re
Started in Career
1 A - A
lAs Reluctant Actor
Editor, tint? Th niijln f11 Mon
day nirht an nn of th most colorful
! celebrities of show business. In a three
part series, United Press Correspond
ent Aline Mosby recounts anecdotes
from the life of Lionel Barrymore.
X Today: The reluctant star.
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
j Hollywood (U.R) One of
Lionel Barrymore's theater no-
tices that he cherished with glee
during his colorful life read:
; "One performance actually
! stands out more hideously than
the rest. A deplorable young ac
l tor appeared only once in a fig-
ment of a role but enacted it so
I balefully the audience was ter
s rified lest he come baek on the
t stage."
I Barrymore was fond of repeat
l ing this review because, despite
' his success as one of the greatest
I names in show business, he never
wanted to be an actor.
He made his living ,on the
: stage and in films for 50 years
5 only because he failed at paint-
i ing. His illustrious theatrical par-
ents and grandparents dragged
him onto the stage although, he
recently said, "The theater was
Peress Practices
Dentistry, Loses
B""' of Practice
i-few York (U.R) Dr. Irving
Peress, the former Army dentist
whose promotion and honorable
discharge has been a central
issue in Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy's fight with the Army, is
still practicing dentistry in mid
town Manhattan.
i He and his wife and their
, seven and nine-year-old daugh-
ters still live in the Queens home
J whose windows were broken
V with rocks last spring " after
? Peress claimed fifth amendment
1 immunity when McCarthy asked
i him about Communism. His wife
f and younger daughter are under
1 psychiatric treatment, as they
were before Peress became a
public controversy.
Loses Practice '
Peress said today he has lost
60 per cent of his dental prac
I tice. He was evicted from his
old office and was denied space
B in four other buildings before
& he sublet his present office from
5 another dentist Peress said the
5 dentist told him he had never
heard of the case. "I can't believe
it," he said. "I can only com-
mend him for his democratic ap-
g proach and for not caring."
js . The 37-year-old dentist said
gj he hopes "that at some point the
5f publicity will stop and many of
my patients will return."
2. Teachers Friendly
He said his elder daughter
f last April had a birthday party
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said his girls' classmates and
teachers are now "friendly and
helpful."
' Peress said he would welcome
an opportunity to answer the
question of his political affilia
tions before a television au
dience. But he said he did not
know what his reaction would
be to further congressional ques
tioning.
"I don't think I would give
McCarthys satisfactory answer,"
he said.
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not in my blood and I never con
sidered myself cut out for it." i
Matter of Course
"My grandmother handed me
my fate as a matter of course,
like juice before breakfast," he
often lamented. "I would become
an actor. I was in the position
of the son of a great athlete
who is naturally expected to
be an athlete, too."
For his first important stage
role at 18, in VThe Rivals" with
his grandmother, , Mrs. John
Drew, "I crept on the stage in
an apathy of embarrassment
and muttered my words like en
automaton that needed 1 the oil
can."
His grandmother politely fired
him by eliminating his scene
from the play. Since then, the
scene has ually been elimi
nated from "The Rivals."
Lionel reluctantly became re
signed to the family profession
A famous actress wangled him
Broadway roles by demanding of
producers, "What are you going
to do about Lionel?" It appeared
as if he had not only failed at
his first love painting but
that "I couldn't even make my
way in the family trade, which
I didn t even want."
Urged To Resume Painting
His first wife, Doris Rankin,
urged him to try painting again
in Paris. The young man took
off on money borrowed from
Ethel.
I rejoiced because I had
broken loose from, the stage at
long last," he recently recalled
"I knew I had acted for the last
timet."
But Barrymore gave up art in
despair after five years. In 1909
he sought out the late movie di
rector, D. A. Griffith, and said
he was hungry and needed a job.
Griffith told him to report back
in a dress suit and Lionel began
his 25 years as a great character
actor in films.
But despite his . acclaim he
mused recently - in his autobi
ography: "I am hopeful that somehow I
may find my correct metier. I
have not succeeded or achieved
in any of the three branches
(music, art, acting) into which I
thrust myself. Persons with one
talent are perhaps luckier than
some of us who are dealt three-of-a-kind
but can't make up our
minds whether. to stand pat or
draw for a fullhouse.
"Mostly, I have bluffed."
Steel Production
Boom To Continue
New York (U.R) Iron Age
said today the "spectacular" rise
in steel production, which has
buried the clerical staffs of some
steel firms "under an avalanche
of paper works," shows no signs
of leveling off.
The industry has scheduled
operations this week at 80 per
cent of rated capacity, an in
crease of 2.5 points over last
week and a new high for the
year.
Iron Age said steel men ex
pected a pickup in business but
they were not prepared for the
flood of orders.
SHINGLE MILL DESTROYED
Elma, Wash. (U.R) The Gor
don Shingle Mill near here was
destroyed by fire yesterday.
Owner Rolling Gordon' esti
mated the loss at $10,000.
Wednesday. November 17.! 1954
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Ik A h
SUSPe'CT Lt William
Gregory (standing), Reno,
Nev., police inspector, ques
tions James A. Call, 29, be
ing held in Reno as a bur
glary suspect Early reports
on fingerprints indicate that
Call may be involved in a
Lake Placid. N. Y., slaying of
a police officer. Call is also
suspected of being an Air
Force major who deserted.
Youngdahl's Stand
In Lattimore Case
Goes Unchallenged
Washington (U.R) The
Justice department announced
today that it will not challenge
in higher courts the refusal of
federal Judge Luther W. Ybung-
dahl to disqualify himself from
presiding at .the forthcoming
Owen Lattimore perjury trial.'
..The government had request
ed Youngdahl to disqualify him
self on grounds he was biased
in favor of Lattimore.' Y o u n g
dahl refused, terming the gov
ernment's request "scandalous."
The announcement came as
U. S. Attorney Leo A. Rover
filed papers in Youngdahl's
court, opposing a motion by
Lattimore's defense lawyers to
dismiss a new indictment against
the Far Eastern expert.
Lie To Senators Charged '
The new indictment charges
Lattimore lied when he told
Senate investigators in 1952 that
he was never a "promoter of
Communist interests." ;
- Rover could have appealed to
the U.S. Court of Appeals heriS
to overrule Youngdahl. But the
brief announcement issued
through his office today said the
Justice department had decided
not to appeal.
That means that Youngdahl,
three times Republican govern
or of Minnesota, will handle the
case and act, before the trial be
gins next month, on the defense
motion to dismiss the new
dictment.
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13 Escape Serious ;
Injury in Accident
Portland (U.R) Thirteen per
sons escaped serious injury last
night in a two-car collision
which saw two cars badly dam
aged, a power pole shorn off and
a transformer andTiigh voltage
ires explode in "two big flashes
of light"
Ten persons ere rushed to
Emanuer hospital but were re
leased after treatment for
minor injuries.
The collision occurred at SE
Stark st. and 12th avenue.
: Robert G. Beede, 36," driver of
one of the cars, escaped with rib
injuries although he was knock
ed from his car and dragged
more than two blocks by the
vehicle when his right foot
caught between the brake and
accelerator. Seven of eight other
passengers in his car, including
his wife and two children, were
slightly hurt. .The second car
was driven by David M. Sim
mons, 26. He and his wife re
ceived minor injuries. Two oth
ers in this car were unhurt.
Beauty Queen loses
Wig Before Judges
Toronto U.R) Beulah, an
aging blueblood, " was selected
as as beauty queen Tuseday de
spite the fact she lost her wig
before the judges. '
Beaulah was lined up with
other Holstein contestanst when
a judge gave her tail a friendly
pull and the end came off. -
The other judges decided the
false switch her owner had ad
ded only enhanced her natural
charm and she was voted one
of the three best aged and ud-
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All-Out War With Russia Seen
Only Co-Existence Alternative
Washington U.R) Sen. J.
William Fulbright (D.-Ark.) took
sharp issue today with Sen. Wil
liam F. Knowland's argument
against the idea of co-existence
with Russia.
Fulbright said he fully agrees
with Defense Secretary Charles
E. Wilson's statement late yes
terday that the only alternative
to co-existence is to look for
ward to a war."
Wilson's views are a "realis
tic and accurate description of
the facts," said Fulbright, a
member of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee. "We are
co-existing and have been for
some years. The alternative is
all-out war."
Sweeping Review
Knowland, Republican Senate
leader, called for a sweeping re
view of U.S. foreign and defense
policies jn a Senate speech Mon
day. He said a co-existence pol
icy will permit the Russians to
"nibble" away at the free world
and eventually win the ' cold
war.,
The statement put Knowland
at odds with the administration.
Wilson summed up the major
differences bluntly at his week
ly news conference when he
was asked if he favored co-exist
ence and whether he believes
the United States can live in
peace with Russia.
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Before Wilson spoke up, Sec
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les had said he could see no
need for an overhaul of U.S.
policy and the White House
merely noted Knowland had a
right to his opinions.
Blasts McCarthyism
Fulbright - deplored , the fact
that the air has become so poi
soned by McCarthyism" it is
"impossible tb hold a rational
discussion of foreign policy"
without being branded eithera
"war monger or an appeaser."
Co-existence in the eyes of
some seems to have taken on a
"sinister meaning" that the
Communists have been accepted
as "friends," he said. Actually,
he said, it means that friendship
has been found impossible but
that; the two hostile powers do
not want to plunge into all-out
war. '
Fulbright said . that Know
land's logic seems to carry one
"inevitably to preventive war,
although Knowland insists he is
not advocating this.
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the Senate Foreign Relations
committee and Leverett Salton
stall of the Senate Armed Serv
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