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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. . . . . ; .'
NoelDanielCayo,19,was in seri
ous condition at Portland, gen-j
eral hospital with' a slash wound
in his neck. ; 'v.'-' '
Charged with assault with a
dangerous weapon in connection
with' the case were Richard Nor
man Olney 30; . Clifford Leslie
Timm," 22, and Jonathan Carl
Oiney,.20v
. Police said Cayo's ; two" com
panions told them the assault oc
curred after thev narrowlv es
caped a collision with a car driven
without lights. -When the youths
shouted for ' the driver of ' the
other car to turn on his lights,
the car stopped and its three
occupants attacked the three
youths in the other car. -
Two of the trio were also
charged with traffic violations.
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