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FOTJRTEEIT MEDFCr.3 (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTJITE Monday, December 8, 19S4 Mirr Depression in Hollywood Seen When Color TV Comes In Hollywood fJ.R) Dore Senary? - production head at Hollywood's biggest studio, pre dicted today a minor depression will hit the movie industry when color television moves into Am erican living rooms. But the MGM executive be lieves the dip in movie patron age will not be as bad as the one brought about by the arriv al of TV a few years ago, and Hollywood has no reason to wor ry about its future. "After the first thrill of see- . nAinr thiA minim will PPSin Jllg OAUi f f " ' CT demand more adequate enter tainment," Scharv said. "Then TV will be back where it is to day." Has Proved Faith Scharv has Droved his faith in the future by "mapping an 18- month program to produce i movies that will cost an esti mated $90,000,000. "We are working hard and aiming high to make them good" he said in an interview. "Our 'Pvt. CHRISTMAS cm THE REVISED STANDARD VERSION BIBLE THE PERFECT 6IFT t t V. i. Scnuin leather $18.00 Sutkrnm , , $ '-00 Illustrated edttieM S3.I5 t S3.50 Come in and see our complete selection i:Miiaffrfflnr.g;iiE fflBmnuLou-u lines of demarcation with, tele vision are now drawn, a pattern of 'co-existence has been set." Schary said television is tak ing over tne exniDition of. so called "routine" pictures while MGM and the other big film studios will turn out "import ant" ones at costs averaging $2, 000,000 each. Or three to four times as much, as in the case of a forthcoming re-make-of "Ben Hur" by MGM. ," Some Great Ones " - "We don't promise great pic tures all the time but some will turn out to be great even though we don't know which ones," he said. "Hollywood has never found the magic formula, but what we have found is' new en thusiasm and new energy." The "important" pictures to come off the MGM assembly lines won't follow a definite pat tern, the production chief said, but will be -"like stories in a newspaper that range from front page news to inside features on a variety of subjects." - The MGM menu ranges from the spectacular "Ben Hur" to a film of Lillian Roth's autobio graphy 'Til Cry Tomorrow" and a science-fiction thriller called "Forbidden Planet. Established stars will continue to occupy most of the limelight, but Schary said there will be more effort to get the. right ac tor for each role rather than re ly on stars who happen to be available under contract. . . A film currently before MGM cameras stars Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer and Lillian Gish, none of whom are MGM contractees. This Schary, explained, - wouldn't have been possible in the "old days." Schary believes the technical innovations of the past two years have induced people to re turn to movie theaters but they have served their purpose. Hollywood, he concluded, cheerfully, is back at making pictures -instead of frames. WHEAT LEAGUE CHANGES Spokane CU.R) The Wash ington Wheat League Friday dis solved its ties with the Wash ington State Farm Bureau Fed eration and reorganized as the Washington Association of Wheat Growers. rrl V 1 HE REALLY MUST An 89-year-old retired Bakersfield Vt., farmer has "always liked children" and Moses P. Ryea's life proves it. He has had 23 children. He is shown here with his second wife and their 14th child, Alan, who was born only four months ago. A NkhoVs Worth of ... Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Fetui Writer Washington (U.R) What's new in Washington: The Department of Com merce's "gold coast" is sporting a new :oat of paint. It's green. The so - called "gold coast" is the spiffy hall way where Secretary Sinclair Weeks and other big gies in the de partment hold out. It used to be painted ivory and no Harman Nichol one about can - r e m e m o e r when it ever was painted gold. And while we are in the Com merce Department: When Austrian Chancellor Ju lius Raab paid a call on Weeks, the secretary offered his guest a cigar from tne silver dox on his desk. The- box was stuck. Weeks was a little red-faced since he used to be in the silver busi ness, but the chancellor still wanted a smoke. So a small boy went to an outer office to" pro duce another box one made of wood. It worked. STOPS WINTER C-0 L-D ( I with clean Oil Heat plenty of fuel in your tank when I you want it. He refills automat- ically.ion schedule, all winter. I For prompt Housewarmer serv- I , ice, call your Standard Heating I OflDistributor,orlocalStandard I Oil Office, 1 : f ...and cuts heating costs 3 ways Saves money . . .your best buy in safe, modern oil heat your Housewarmer's Standard Furnace Oil with Thermisol. It's made clean to heat fast, bum completely with no costly waste. Actually cleans your burner system too. Saves work . . .Wause it's re fined clean and delivered clean, your Housewarmer's Standard Furnace Oil helps keep your house spotless. Saves time and trouble::: your Housewarmer's "keep filled" service means there's STANDARD FURNACE OIL For pot-type circulating heaters, ask for Standard Stove Oil The building trade in, Wash ington and around the country is advertising "Buy now and move in before Christmas. We'll put holly wreaths on . the door and a big red, and green ribbon (tied in a pretty front knot) all the way around the house. We'll even decorate the tree and plug in the lights in the front room." VALLEY FUEL CO. 26 West Main Phone 3-1576 FABER FUEL CO. 401 South Fir Phone 2-4449 Edgar Bergen, the ventrilo quist, has set up shop in an office in the Mayflower Hotel. He is doing a new show here these days. Up in suite 450 he has his two dummy dependents Char lie McCarthy and . Mortimer Snerd. They are in wooden boxes at the moment, taking up space and costing rent. . ; The Northwest German radio station, according to. the Penta gon, has made a survey of tele vision in West Germany. Some of the findings . are interesting. The survey was made by tele phone in five cities. Of the listen ers, 60 per cent have attended only grammar school. Thirty four per cent are high school graduates, but only six per cent have attended college. Most popular programs are movies. Second comes ; sports with live drama next. Last in the public favor, for some reason, is the broadcasting of religious services. Only 16 per cent of the persons queried liked com mercials. Only 19 per cent of those 'polled could take more than six hours of TV each day. , The Army has an interesting report on one Capt. William T. Thomas Jr. of Hempstead, L. I. He was minding his own busi ness tooling down Champs Ely sees in Paris when the doorman at ; a fancy hotel waved him down. Before Thomas knew what was up, bell-hops were swarm ing about his machine and stuf fing bags : and people in every available space. The captain used his tongue, but nothing came out but English which the door man either didn't understand or ignored. "I though it was a gag," the captain said. It wasn't. Next he was ordered to drive .to . the Saint Lazare Station. He fumbl ed around, going along with the gag and finally found the station. Turned out the folks in his car were soon to return to their home in New. York City. "Look up my sisiter in Hempstead," shouted the 1 captain, as he re fused a fare. . - - The New Yorkers promised. Youths in Jail As Assault Charged Oregon City (U.PJ Three Portland men were being held in the Clackamas county joil here today after allegedly assaulting a Portland youth with a broken bottle in a traffic ' altercation early yesterday. . . . . ; .' 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