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PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28. 195fl Jackie (The Kid) Coogan Returns To Show Business HOLLYWOOD AP - When a fellow marks 40 years in the movies, you'd expect to find him a gray-haired oldster. Not Jackie Coogan. What hair is left Is still brown And he's still youthful and li;ht footed, having dropped 30 pounds to a trim 176. He passed his 44th birthday Sunday, and he's as en thused as a starlet oer his new found acting career. "This past year has been the be..t for me since the war." he sid. "All it took was one food role to convince producers all over again that I could act." Jackie started acting early. His four decades in films would stretch even longer if you included the Essanay comedy he did in Chicago at l'j. "I don't remember that one. so I don't count it." said Jackie. "I do remember alter that when I'd come onstage and do a little comedy dance with my father in vaudeville. "Then when I was 4. 1 was signed OPEN DAILY 6:00 PM, by Charlie Chaplin lor "The Kid.' That's really when my career be gan." He recalled that the film re quired a year and a day to shoot. At 5. he was a world-famous star, the most successful child actor of the silent era. Jackie bridged the gap to ado lescence with films like "Tom Sawyer" and played collegiates in "Coilese Sling" and other movies. But alter his Air Force service, he found roush going. "Around 1HV). I quit and went into the appliance business." he said. "I figured is Hollywood didn't want me, I wasn't going to j stick around. But even then I was i still in show business. I appeared 'on Pantomime Quiz and I played joicaMonal night club dates. Afteri ;two and a half years, I decided ;to go back to acting full time." i He ran up against the problem taced by many laminar names: ovenamiliarity. He explained: "I knew everybody in Hollywood, and they knew me. I could get into see the producers, but they'd say. 'what can we do with you?' It took one strong part to convince them." The part was on a Playhouse 90 show last year. Frank Sinatra saw it and paged Jackie to play his sidekick in "The Joker is Wild." Since then, Jackie has done three pictures in a row for Al Zugsrr.ith at MGM "High School Confidential," "Night of the Quarter Moon" and the cur rent "Beat Generation." He's also acting as dialogue director on the latter, and yens to become a di rector. "Now I'm in this business for the rest of my life." he vowed. I asked if he had a nest egg to tide him over lean days. Nothing remained of the millions he made as a child; his experience caused the Coogan law which protects the earnings of child stars. Fortunately, I brought some money home from the war," he smiled. "There was nothing to do in Burma but play poker. I won S-A.OUO in one pot and came home with $40,000 in all. "DENNIS THE MENACE" 'SEE? DlDNT I TEUYA ME SLEEPS in a CfiAJy outfit?' Jimmy Durante' s Partner Planning To Do A Single Thunder Road rWwe at :0 4 9:40 SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE! King 0RAlSEA CMC RAFFERTY Rod TAYLOR ' Shown l :2l Only Laundry Makes Clean Haul KANSAS CITY (AP Uneasy when a hard-looking character en tered his downtown bar. Vincent Como stealthily wrapped $350 a towel and tossed it into the back room. The customer left after a few minutes and Como, 41, breathing easier, went to get his money. It was gone, along with the soiled towels that had just been picked up by a laundry truck driver. Patrolman Theodore Porter found $22 at the laundry, but $528 is still missing. OOORS CPEN 6:30 P. M. Ends WEDNESDAY HOLLYWOOD (AP) - "What's Jackson gonna do wit'out Duran te?" sighed the Old Schnoz. He referred to strutting Eddie Jackson, his show business side kick of Jf years who announced Friday he ;was leaving the act to do a single. Jackson told a reporter: "I got a leelin' Jimmy don't want me around." " Told of this. Durante replied. "That ain't true. Eddie's a second banana, he knows dat. He's still part of de act anytime he wanu to come back." Durante said the 63-year-old Jackson, in poor health recently, should retire. When Jackson took ick last year Durante him with Sonny King. "Eddie wanted to get outta his sick bed and come on at de Desert Inn (Las Vegas t, but his doctor on, he ain't gonna live.' So I wouldn't let tm." Durante retained King even aft er Jackson got well and returned to the act. "I hadda keep up wid de times. Durante said. "You gotta have young blood. Who's gonna pay to see a couple of old guys like Eddie and me? Duran te is 65. "After 43 years," says Jimmy, you woudda tought the guy woudda come up to me and said, '3mmy, I'd like to try a single.' "I woudda advised against it but if he wanted it dat way, I woudda said 'Okay, Eddie, try it. but the act always will be Clay ton. Jackson and Durante.'" Lou Clayton, the third partner, replaced died in 1150. Eddie had the last word, how. ever. "Don't rap Jimmy," he pleaded. "He's one of the nicest guys in the world. He broke my told me 'Jimmy, if dat guy comeslheart but I still love him FBI Boss Victim Of Smear Charges Legion Leader what tow Wants LOLA GETS A X. ill r 'mX v7 j J DOORS CPEN 6:30 P. Mi TODAY and WEDNESDAY! WASHINGTON (AP) - Is FBI, articles on chief J. Edgar Hoover to be the subject of "a character assassina tion job" or of "a complete and balanced report?" Preston J. Moore, national com mander of the American Legion, charged in a statement that a deliberate smear campaign has been launched against Hoover and the FBI. He described it as "sim ilar to the Communist party's un successful efforts of 1940." Ho said reporters of the New York Post have been assigned to dig up material to reflect on Hoover in what he described as "obviously a far-flung . . . attempt to do a character-assassination job on Mr. Hoover." Editor James A. Wechsler of the Post said that paper is pre paring a factual study of Hoover and added: "We are interviewing a wide variety of sources in many places in an eltort to obtain a complete and balanced report." Moore said also that complete issues of two magazines. The Na tion - and Rights magazine, are devoted to what he called critical I WiCLt "kV . Ml illfl Midi II Safe Holiday Hints Listed SAX FRANCISCO (AP) - On Halloween, light the way for trick and treaters so they won't trip in the dark. Tie white strips on wires hold ing up newly planted trees. Take the children out of tradi tional black and orange Halloween costumes. Motorists might not see them. Put them in light-coloreri costumes with reflecting tape. rtvoia masics Because they re strict the vision. Use facial paints instead. Light jack-o-lanterns with flash lights instead of candles. Take in your trash cans, lawn mowers or Bicycles which might attract vandals. These are susiestions of the Na tional Safety Council. San Fran cisco chapter, for a safe Hallo ween. Hoover and the FBI. Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, said that magazine's special issue "was in no sense a smear job on the FBI. It was a fair, objective evaluation of the work of the agency. Some nice things were said." Rights magazine is the official publication, of the Emergency Civil Liberties Commitfee. Clark Foreman, the committee director, said the FBI articles planned for the October issue are being held over until spring. He said the material would give citizens an outline of their rights under the Constitution. The Emergency Civil Liberties Union has been listed bv the Ser, ate Internal Security subcommit tee as a tront organization en gaged in defending cases of al leged Communist lawbreakers. Moore referred to this in his statement. Moore said former FBI agents have been approached by report ers for the New York Post seek ing derogatory material on Hoov er. One was sent to Paris, he said, adding that the paper plans to assign others to other cities "to skulk around tht restaurants and other public places." Wechsler commented that "it seems extraordinary that the na tional commander of the Legion should make this crude attempt to discredit an independent studv of Mr. 'Hoover even before the research has been completed." Early Day Film Horrorman Hates Current Humor Lack By BOB THOMAS AP Motion Picture Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) - One of s earliest of the movie monsters deplores the current humorless crop of boogiemen. The speaker is Claude Rams. back in Hollywood after a seven year absence. The suave British born actor wasn't a monster, real ly. Matter of fact, you didn't even see him. He played "The Invisible Man. ' Rains was reminded on his in visible past because he was back on the Universal lot playing the wine tycoon in "This Earth is Mine." These were the same grounds where he made his un seen film debut 25 years ago. comparing "The Invisible Man to the present-day horror films. the actor commented: "These new monsters have no sense of humor. They're just out for pure fright, and I think they miss a trick. The invisible man was the kind of fellow who would ride a bicycle down a country lane sing- Beach Towels Have Message KANSAS CITY (AP)-The aver age person probably isn't thinking about what to take to the beach next summer, but fashion people are. The result includes some eve- catching beach towels. One of them on display at the Central States Salesmen's Assn. market here has a memo wheel printed on it with a knotted cord attached to the center of the wheel. The cord may be placed on messages such as: "Have gone for hot dogs." "Have gone for swim." "I am under the toweL" ing 'here we go gathering nuts in May.' He got sympathy be cause of his humor and because he was a poor laboratory chap who had gotten himself into a pickle he couldn't get out . of. There's no sympathy at all for these modern monsters." Rains recalled vividly how he was chosen for the role. A long time stage actor, he had been tested in the East by Fox for a film contract. He did a couple of scenes from plays in his stage style. "When I saw the test, I was horrified," he said. "I stank. I knew immediately that I hadn't the slightest chance for a film career." Fox felt the same way. But at the time, Universal was searching everywhere for an actor to play "The Invisible Man." Rains' lest was among those reviewed by the studio. "Said Director James Whale: "I don't care what he looks like; that's the voice I want." So Rains was signed. I have lone wondered exactly how much work he did in the picture. He ex plained that he did all the scenes which showed him clothed. He was seen for a brief flash at the end when he died and materialized. The invisible stuff was done by the movie trick makers, and it required some fantastic planning. "The footprints in the snow were a production in themselves," Rains said. "They had to cut holes in the stage the size of foot prints. The wood wSs replaced and fastened with wires which led out of camera range. Then the whole set was covered with corn flakes or gypsum or whatever they used for snow in those days. When the camera rolled, the wires were pulled one-by-one anfl the footsteps appeared." Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi also made scare pictures at Uni versal in the same era, and they never escaped the horror tag. How did Rains manage? "Fortunately, I landed at War ner Brothers, where the casting head. Max Arnow, put me Into every conceivable kind of role, including Bette Davis' lover in 'Mr. Skeffington.' " he explained. 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