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Gloria Swanson Finds Trip To House
Of Von Stroheim Like French Comedy
By GLORIA SWANSON
Distributed By United Prest
Paris (U.R; Getting to Eric
Von Stroheim's house, just out
side of Paris, turned out to be
a French comedy. I was directed
north by a gendarme, east by
gas station attendant and south
and west by a few passersby.
I was going around in circles
until I came across a policeman
who had a map. As I pulled up
to the side of the road, another
car did likewise. The driver
Lose
freight
RADEA OA
stared at me, I stared back and
then let out a scream.
"Sy Howard!" I exclaimed.
"Of all peole. What are you
doing here? Of all the roads in
Europe you have to stop in this
one and ask the same cop?"
Beautiful Girl
You may not know who Sy
Howard is, but you certainly re
member the character he created
Irma, in "My Friend Irma."
We chatted for a while and then
he went his way with a beautiful
girl snuggled close to his side. I
went my way looking for the
quaint little village of Maurepas.
I rang the bell of the biggest
gate in town. It was promptly
flung open and I drove up the
winding driveway.
The gentleman of the manor
was awaiting me as I pulled up
to a chalet. He greeted me with,
"Your servant, Max, has put out
the golden carpet for "Norma
Desmond or are you "Queen
Kelly?"
Both names brought back
memories t h e first "Sunset
Boulevard," the second the title
of my last silent picture directed
by Von Stroheim and never fin
ished. The flaming fire felt good.
He had a few guests, also two
dogs named "Jolly" and "Trou
ble." They slept while Eric and
I regaled ourselves and the
guests with tales of the silent
but gay days in Hollywood.
The Greatest Art
Eric said he thought the mo
vies were the greatest art. I
asked him to explain.
"Well," he said, "an illusion
of reality can be more complete
ly brought to an audience on the
screen than any other form or
medium. And what is drama or
comedy but a copy of life? The
theater has a combination of lim
itations. The screen has none."
One can't help but wonder
why such a man has not directed
a picture in over 20 years. A man
who once directed most of the
great stories he wrote such as
"Blind Husbands" he says they
still are; "Devil's Passkey;"
"Foolish Wives;" "Greed;" "Mer
ry Widow," "Wedding March
Last year Sao Paulo, Brazil,
saw fit to have a festival of Von
Stroheim movies.
In the meantime, he lives com
fortably in the country writ
ing. He has finished three novels.
His autobiography, yet to be
released, should be a humdinger
for he isn't one to soft-pedal his
opinions. You in America will
see him soon acting opposite
Hildegarde Neff in "The Man
drake."
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
London, Wash. William James, 37, one of 10 convicts who
escaped from Washington state penitentiary, on his surrender to a
farmer:
"I forgot my heart pills and couldn't run very fast."
Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Arnold Toynbee. noted British his
torian, on mankind's future:
"Today, for ihe first time, the whole world is haying, within a
single lifetime, to go through a greater revolution than it is per
haps possible within just one single lifetime for human nature to
digest."
Washington Sen. Theodore F. Green (D.-R.I.) on the prestige
of the United Nations in the Middle East:
"The U.N. has undertaken to do certain things but has limited
itself to raps on the knuckles. It ought to follow up its professions
of belief by action to show that it means business."
Moscow Soviet First Deputy Premier Lazar M. Kaganovich
on Soviet production:
-J.'Inyolurne ot -production, we occupy the second -place in the
economy of the world. 1 am convinced, however, that by correct
application of Socialist methods we shall fulfill Lenin's behest to
catch, up and outstrip the U.S.A."
Woodward Vil!
To Leave Esiale
To Yife and Sons
New York (U.R) The will
of William Woodward Jr., which
provides that his estate of $10,
000,000 plus the famous race
horse Nashua go to his wife and
two sons, will be filed for pro
bate today.
Mrs. Woodward, who shot her
socialite husband when she mis
took him for a prowler, will in
herit the first $10,000 and one
third of the estate under New
York law. The .remainder, pre
sumably, will go to their two
sons, William III, 11, and James,
7.
A new grand jury panel will
be sworn in on Wednesday and
will hear the case, which rocked
international society, when Mrs.
Woodward's physicians say she
is well enough to testify.
Mrs. Woodward,, a patient at
Doctors Hospital since the fatal
shooting in their Oyster Bay
home eight days ago, does not
know the shooting will go before
a Nassau county grand jury. Her
physician reported Sunday she
has not even engaged a lawyer
"because she actually feels she
does not need a lawyer."
Dr. John M. Prutting, her
physician, said Mrs. Woodward,
obeying his orders, has not read
any newspapers since her admis
sion to the hospital.
Meanwhile, a private inveati-
gatior was retained by the fam
ily. Chief Inspector Stuyvesant
Pinnell, of Nassau county, con
firmed that Mrs. Woodward had
taken a new drug to alleviate
stomach cramps before she re
tired on the night of the shoot
ing. Medical authorities point out
that the drug, thorazine, has
widely different effects, even on
the same person. Police speculat
ed as to whether the drug could
have contributed to Mrs. Wood
ward's confused state of mind
when she shot at what she
thought was a prowler.
Jones Boys Get Mixed Up
With Gal Job Applicants
New York U.R) This is a story about the Jones boys and
two job applicants, one a beautiful blonde pin-up girl, the other
a plain Jane.
The Jones boys work in the RCA Victor offices. Bob Jones is
art director there and Bud Jones is an accounting manager.
Bob needed a pretty girl to model for a record album cover,
Bud needed a secretary. The blonde and the plain Jane were wait
ing for interviews. Finally the receptionist nooded to Jane.
"Mr. Jones will see you now," she said, "second floor."
Jane, very dumpy, very plain, went to the second floor.
Art director Jones took a look and wondered "who did this to
me." But, being a gentleman, he recovered and inquired:
"May I see your photographs?"
"Photographs?" Jane asked.
"Of course," Bob Jones replied.
"Nudes or bathing suit shot will do. You have to have a figure
to work for us."
Jane fled screaming.
Meanwhile, back in the accounting department, Bud Jones
received the blonde pin-up girl.
"Oh, brother," he murmered rubbing his hands. "Have a seat
please. Now, have you had any experience?"
"Oh, yes indeed," the blonde purred.
"May I see your resume?"
"Resume?"
"Yes, of course, your resume."
The blonde figured that the word "resume" was a fancy word
for leg art, she tossed her ;ihotos on accountant Jones' desk. There
she was, in a few bits r.' ' -opard skin, again wrapped in cello
phane, again simply in the --.itogether.
Bud Jones gurgled and turned green.
Everything turned out all right, however. Plain Jane didn't
call police, the girls got switched around and so ended the story.
Two Yanks Held as Spies in E. Germany
Geneva (U.R) Two Ameri
cans are being held as alleged
"spies" in Communist East Ger
many's grim Waldheim Prison,
a former fellow prisoner disclos
ed today.
Oskar Stuehmke, one of Wald
heim's 1700 inmates for five
years himself, said the two Am
ericans were serving three-year
jail terms each.
He gave their names as Sgt.
Bill Smallwood of Bettyville, Ky.
and Nick Craemer, a chemist,
born Feb. 2, 1929, in Philadelphia.
Dead
at noon
line for Sunday
Saturday.
Classified Is
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?
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Cleveland Coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns, after
victory over New York Giants during which Browns' ace Otto There
Graham was injured: cows in
"The Giants always have the spark for us. We were lucky to : cording to
get out of the game alive." partment.
NOMA IN CONFERENCE
San Francisco (U.R) The
National Office Management as
sociation conference and- equip
ment show opened at the Shera
ton-Palace Hotel today with some
500 West Coast business leaders
in attendance.
are 22,000,000 milk
the United States ac-
the Agriculture De-
Food Eiil Will Be
As High Next Year
Washington (U.R) The Ag
riculture, Department said today
that despite bumper crops 'and
decreased prices to farmers, the
housewife's food bill next year
will be just as high as in 1955.
The department said the in
creasing marketing charges will
offset any decrease in prices re
ceived by farmers for their
crops.'
Food supplies in 1956 will be
ample, probably running as
large as this year's record totals,
the department said in its per
iodical publication, "The Na
tional Food Situation."
The department said the heavy
supplies won't bring down retail
prices, it said that "except for
seasonal variations, retail food
prices over the next year are
not expected to change signifi
cantly from current levels."
SHOE WORKERS STRIKE
St. Louis (U.R) Some 20,
000 production workers at In
ternational Shoe Co. plants in
four states went on strike at 7
a.m. today. The walkout in
volved workers at plants in Mis
souri, Illinois, Kentucky and
Arkansas.
DEATH LEARNED
Portland (U.R) Word was
received here over the week end
death in his Columbus, O., home
of Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, 88,
president of Willamette Univer
sity from 1915 to 1934.
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