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o O O TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, December 13, 1955 Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.P.) A year ago Zasu Pitts lay in a hospital re covering from a serious operation. Today, inspir ed by her re c o v e r y, she wants tr give up her usual fluttery come dy roles and come back as a dramatic ac tress. "I had can- Aline Mosby cer," big-eyed Zasu said frankly. "I went to a doctor for a check-up and there it was. "A friend told me, 'You'll be depressed for about a year after the operation. And then you'll come -back.' Sure enough, a few weeks ago I suddenly felt won derful! I'm very enthusiastic about a lot of projects." Miss Pitts is not closing the door to comedy just so she does not draw sterotyped "Pitts parts." But her main project is to win dramatic parts "the type Thelma Ritter does." "I had one dramatic TV role In my hands once but they gave it to Lillian Gish," she said. "I get so stymied. I just want to be human in my roles." Most fans think of Zasu Pitts as a funny woman. But students of the silent era remember "Greed," one of Hollywood's greatest films directed by Eric Von Stroheim and starring Miss Pitts as a beautiful heroine (and lovable Jean Hersholt as the villain). She fas a dramatic star until she appeared in "The-Dummy," an early talkie with Frederic March and Jack Oakie. "I played a stupid "gun moll and kept saying 'Gh, my dear.' It was funny and that was my downfall," she reminisced. "Next I was in 'Farewell to Arms' with Lew Ayres. I was supposed to be dying of a broken heart. But at the preview the audience laughed at me. So they had to cut me out of the picture." Miss Pitts reluctantly stayed a comedienne "in everything but the newsreels" in Hollywood and on the stage. She did comedy n many TV shows, including "TbsMan Who Came to Dinner," and clowned in the last "Fran cis" mule movie. New Lease on Life Then came an unsuccessful play, her trip to the hospital, and a new lease on life. Last month she returned to work with Buster Keaton in a "Screen Di rectors' Playhouse" drama to be telecast Dec. 21. Miss Pitts and her stockbroker husband live quietly in suburban Brentwood. They have a son in Santa Monica and a daughter in Pasadena who often borrow the actress as a baby-sitter. "I've had a wonderful life," she smiled. "Maybe I was getting smug about it and thafs why this operation happened. It made me stop and think how grateful I am." Council of Europe Ministers Meet To Discuss Cold War . Q Paris U.R) Foreign min isters of the 14-nation Council of Europe met today to map new Wester strategy to combat the Soviet Union's apparent deter mination to revive the cold war. The meeting at the Chateau de la IiQiette raised the curtain on a weeklong series of conferences among the member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. The United States wffl. be represented by three cabinet ministers at the NATO council meeting opening Thurs day. The conferences are aimed at stepping up Western defense ef forts and bolstering European unity in the light of the failure of the Big Four Geneva foreign ministers conference and the current violent ariti-Western out burst of the Kremlin bosses. Key Items The key items at the one-day meeting of the Council of Eur ope include: 1. German unification and European security. 2. Admission of new members to the council, particularly Aus tria and Yugoslavia. 3. Refugees and over-popula tion problems. 4. A report on progress made in the field of European econ omic integration with special pjsis on a study of a Eur opean atomic pool. Wednesday, the seven-nation Western European Council of Foreign Ministers will confer and the finishing touches to the reappraisal of Western policy will be made by the NATO min isters council. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Secretary of the Treasury George W. Humphrey are scheduled to par ticipate in the three-day NATO conference. Coos Bay Locals Accept WageJncrease Coos Bay (U.R) Five locals, representing about 1300 mem bers of the AFL Plywood Lum ber aad Sawmill Workers Un ion, have voted to accept an em ployer offer of an average 8J4 cent per hour wage increase effective Dec. 1, 1955, it was rpnortpd torlav. - , TVirt nvoconf enntrnrte Ann t expire until next April 1; . . The remaining Coos Bay area members of the union, represent ing 3000 men in 15 additional operations, will vote during the next two weeks. Applications For Civil Service Jobs Applications for several civil service positions are being ac cepted. The Portland field board of examiners of the department of agriculture are taking applica tions for engineering aid (agri culture) and soil conservation aid. The positions open are in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wash ington and Alaska. Applications also are being accepted for communications coding clerk and traffic clerk in various federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., area. Additional details on the posi tions may be obtained from Chester W. Silliman at the post office building here. Applications for examinations for irrigation operator, super vising irrigation operator and watermaster for employment by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal agencies in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Forms may be obtained from the local post office or the ex ecutive secretary, department of interior, northwest board of the civil service examiners, post of fice box 3537, Portland. Wreckage of C54 Found in Morocco labat, Morocco (U.R) Spanish search party today found the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force C54 plane in the Riff mountains of northern Morocco and the bodies of all eight per sons aboard. The four engine transport plane crashed Monday night near Ketama, an isolated vil lage in the Spanish zone. A Spanish military patrol lo cated the wreckage. It reported to the headquarters of the 17th U.S. Air Force division here that there were no survivors. The plane went down while on the way from the United States to Wheelus Air Force Base at Tripoli, Libya. There was no immediate ex planation as to why it crashed. It had made radio checks with Gibraltar and Tangier and was flying at a steady 10,000 feet. Casablanca radio first reported the plane missing. Two heavy truck and two am bulances of the 17th Air Force division left Rabat for Ketama after the first report of the crash reached here Monday night. American authorities said the wreck lay on a nearly inacces sible slope high in the rugged Riff mountains, whose peaks are blanketed by the year's first snow. THINGS TOUGH ALL OVER San Francisco (U.R) Police were on the lookout today for a bank robber who" apparently hardly makes expenses. The thief broke . into a downtown branch of the American Trust Co. over the week end and es caped with $3. New Year's Day, Independ ence Day, Labor Day, Thanks giving Day and Christmas Day are the only holidays celebrated by all 48 states. Dr. Hcrlock As We Live A Compromise is Often The Only Real Solution Compromises are not usually a good solution to any problem. Sometimes, however, they are the only way out. (Q) "I am 13 years old and in the eighth ' grade. Most of my girl friends are two or three years older than I, so na turally I try to act like lhem. I guess I succeed pret ty well as peo ple often lake me for 16 or 17. Most of my girl friends have boy friends and I felt left out, so I got one too. I sincerely like the guy, we have lots of fun to gether, and now we are going steady. My parents don't ap prove of him because he is 16 and I am only 13. Now it is very hard for me to get . along at home. No matter which way I turn, I will hurt someone or lose my friends, so what do you think I should do?" J. L. (A) Have you tried to explain you must do what the girls you go with are doing or they will drop you and then you won't have any friends? .Your parents know your girl friends are older than you. If they did not want you to dress and act like these girls, they should have discour aged your friendships with them. Of course, you are much too young to be going steady with any boy, especially one who is three years older than you. Your parents are right about this. However, this does not mean you should give up the friendship of this boy. I am sure your par ents would not expect that un less they have some reason for disapproving of him. On the other hand, you should be seeing other boys and having dates with those of the same age group - as your friends. If you By ELIZABETH HURIOCK, PH.D. are willing to compromise here to please your parents, I am sure they will be reasonable and com promise with you and will not disapprove of your friendship with this one boy. (Copyright 1955, General Features Corp.) LOCKING her heart against all hope of romance in ex change for $300 a month for life is decision of Frances Miller, 48, of Los Angeles. Strange bargain is demanded in will of the late Percy Mar tin. Miss Miller (above) and . Mrs. Helen Dill, 53, accept legacy of loneliness in Los Angeles. ( International) Gift Certificates for Chateaus and Ranches New York (U.R) Previews Inc., a national real estate clear ing house, today offered to sell gift certificates to anyone want ing to give a French chateau or a Wyoming ranch as a Christ mas gift. "People don't often give real estate for Christmas just be cause it's been difficult to put a house under the Christmas tree," the agency said. 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