Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1936 — Page 13

HALBERG'S DEATH ENDS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD

MOVIE MAGNATE AND BANKER

He Assisied ‘Wife's Rise

in Pictures

Marriage to Miss Shearer Followed Meeting Like Movie Story.

BY JOHN W? THOMPSON With the sudden death terday of youthful Irving Thalberg, Hollywood's happiest marriages an end. The names wand Norma Sh “ become linked yersatiom, not personalities but for Mr. Thalber

ves-

one of

came to

of in

Irvi his

Thalberg earer, had in’ nation-wide conr about the movie

wife, only

g progiuced mo st of | Miss

Shearers| suc-

had

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ried almost ago. Thev children,

Sept. 29, 1927 nine years ‘had two a: bov, Thalberg rears old, Katherine ar old. Thalbergromance Imost as thrilling as some of the movie actéd in and he Norma was pretty in 1920, she finally movies, playing bit first films were “Channing cf Thalbergz saw hook - UniSee Miss

Miss Shearer

stories she had - had produced. hard up when, broke into the parts, Two of her “The Stealers” and the Northwest.” one or both of these. wired a ing agenl in New York that versal would interested in ing this new Je actress, Shearer. ‘Differed on

be litt Terms

admits she was thrilled bt But

York Universal business

Norma

3 the wire. and

office failed

she the New

Jniversal was as

fo come to tgprms. set upon its price as Miss Shearer was on hers. But she that she

felt about it dropped a to Mr. Thalberz, the Universal general manager, telling him she was sorry they hadn't been able to agree and hoping that she and he could work together at some future date, In a few we Norma received another off from Hollywood. Before she could accept it a wire came from Louis B. Maver's new organization: on the West Coast, offering ! her a contract. Norma's head began to go up in the air. She went to Hollywood, and met Mr. Thalberg. Here's how it happened, in Miss Shearer's own words:

so badly

note

nro ERS,

er i

Tells of Studio Visit

“Early Louis B.

one morning 1 visited the Maver studios. “In the reception room I met a good-looking young man I assumed to be the office boy. I introduced myself and ne led me into a sumptuous office 1 recall distinctly a mischievous twinkle as he closed the door behind me, . “Tiwas somewhat dismaved when he calmly strolled over to a massive desk, sat down and cocked his feet .up on it: Without word he sat there and eved me impersonally for some moments.” t was their first meeting. requently he lovely actress made trips to Mr. berg's office. begging for parts, certain stories she best! suited for her. But it was all business. : Upon one of these occasions Miss Shearer became irate. Shouted she: - "1 want vou to. know that I didn’t have to take your offer in the first place.” snapped. “I had two others before I accepted yours.” Trumps With Tact Then Mr. explained that it had made the other names But. the {ice eral months “manner. Mr retary call

young Thalcertain

she

with fine tact, had been he who other offers, ‘under & - was broken after sévin a John Aldenish Thalberg had his séecand ask Miss Shearer to attend a picture preview with him, and the romance soon Their wedding was one of woods most magnificent ceremonies. Mr. Thalberg's list of motion picture productions will stand the test of time. as perhaps the greatest list of movies made under the super¥vision of any one man. Some of the outstanding were: "He Who Gets Slapped.” Hur,” “The Big Parade.” Temptress” with Greta Garbo. “Flesh and the Devil,” the first of the “Broadway Melody’ musicals, “Anna Christie” with Marie Dressier, “The Big -House,” “The Merry Widow." : {He had just Juitet” Howard in the leading roles, and “The Good Earth” with Paul Muni and Louise Ranier starring. guetion had just been started on the film adaptation of “Pride and Prej-

: Sdice.” last year's Broadway costume Ht.

Thalberg,

“Ben“The

finished “Romeo and

Story Purchased for Rogers Movie

Times Special _ HOLLYWOOD, Sept. A. R. Wylie novel. * has been bought single Rogers. The story deals with the dramatic life of a great dancer who finally gives up all for a well-planned married life in a small town. Miss Rogers’ current film is “Mother Carey's Chickens." ”

EATS IN EVERY SCENE

Adrian Morris, appearing in new Francis Lederer picture, ‘American Wife,” has set Hollywood acting record.

15—The 1.i Vivacious Lady.” by RKO ‘as the! starring vehicle for Ginger!

the “My a new

“PLAYS PHOTOGRAPHER PART

tion, “Murder With Pictures.” falls in love with Gail Patrick,

and |

about productions, |

Thev were mar- :

saving a!

blossomed. ; Holly- |

with Miss Shearer and Leslie !

Pro-!

0] He eats | . peanuts, apples and other tidbits in a every scene in which he appears. |

Lew Ayres appears as a newspaper | ‘photographer in his latest produc- |

S HAPPY ROMANCES

in Hollywood. For the past

Otio Kahn, international banker.

Rapid was the rise of young Irving Thalberg, who died yesterday 10 years world’s highest financial and business circles.

had He

he travelled among the

shown above with

Southern Accont Is Problem,

Real Southerners Just Laughed at Past Attempts to Imitate Their Draw! on Sound Screen.

Bul

nited Prezz

HOLLYWOOD, Sept.

of imitating the Southern drawl by When talking pictures arrived seven years ago, directors, ginning work on Southern: locale films,

doing nothing about it. upon bhe-

said ‘to the cast:

“Now this is a picture of the Old South. You must drawl.”

That would be easy. Hadn't

If any actor was Rumania, would teach him how,

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO

My Man Godfrey with William Powell..Carole Lombard at 11:15, 1:22 3:29, 5:38, 7:43, and 9:50.

CIRCLE

s ‘Swi ngtime."* Fred Astaire,’ ger Rog Moore and Blore. 3:30, 5:35, and 10

KEITH'S

Bumpstead-Leigh.” production under John Cameron.

LOEW'S

*The Gorgeous Hussy Crawford, Robert Taylor Barrymore. at 11, 1:10, 7:30 and 10.

with Victor Xl. 1:15

Gi Ene 7.50,

cers

a Federal the .direcCurtain at

“Mrs. Plavers tion of 8:15.

* with ard L 3:20,

Joan ionel 3:35

LYRIC

“The Road To Glory.” with Predtie March, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, at 11:15, 2:05. 4:45. 7:35. and 10:15." Vaudeville

fe Davis on the stage at 1:10 9:20.

n Ru . 6:40, and

ALAMO ,

‘““The Big Noise, Also ‘Wings. of ' the with John Wayne. AMBASSADOR “Spendthrift.”” with Henrv Pat Patterson and Marv Brain “The Devil Doll" with Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan.

OHI10 Number.” Tavier an Loretta Poppy’ with W, Rochelle Hud=on.

Shaw Assails Play Censoring,

* with Guv Kibbee. Wasteland,”

“Private Robert Alo

and

with Younes

C. Fields

thought |

Raps Catholic Action for “St. Joan’ Criticism.

Ry United Press NEW YORK, Sept. Bernard Shaw, Irish attached today for demanding that motion picture proguction of his play, "Saint Joan,” be censored. “I cannot accept of the Cathdlic Action to represent the Vatican,” he said if a letter to the editor of the New York Times.

| caustically Action the

“It has neither the knowledge nor | the manners to sustain such a part.” | He mocked threats to keep 20.000,-

000 American Catholics from theaters which show the film unless it is eensored to the Action's satisfac-| tion. “The Hollywood financiers believe

that the Action can by a shake of | head keep 20.000,000 Catholics

its

out of the picture theaters.” he said.

“But if their belief 1s well founded!

it has but to hold up its finger to keep more than 324,000,000 (in the world) at home in the -evenings.”, He is not as credulous as the Hol- | i lywood financiers. Mr. Shaw said.

{ “I will make the Action a present

of all the Catholics ¥who never dream of going to a theater under any circumstances,” he said,

that number by any interdict it can utter. And I promise it, of ‘St. Joan,’ {a cultivated Catholic priest who | knows my play. he will do everything | in his power to deepen the piety of { his flock by making members go to | see it, and urging them to make i converts by inducing Protestants to co the same.” Catholic Action is a lavmen's organization, sponsored and approved | by the Vatican,

Katherine De Mille Awarded New Part

Times Special i HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 153.—Kathi enne deMille, signed recently | Twentieth Century-Fox to a long- | term contract as a result of her | work in ° ‘Ramona,” will have an important role in “Banjp on My Knee,” co-starring Joel McCrea and | Barbara Stanwyck.

Robert Taylor—Loretta Young “PRIVATE NUMBER” i W. C. Fields | ; “rorpy>

every so ignorant ‘he couldn't drawl,

-Cotton—“Follow Your Heart,”

‘15.—George | playwright, | the Catholic |

“but | I defy it to add a baker's dozen to’

in the case | that wherever. there is |

one heard black-face minstrels? the director, fresh from

| funniness.

Play About Hoosiers Has Funny Spots

Federal Players Work Hard.

to Score Success in OutModed Piece.

The Federal Players deserve | a bonus for their roles in | “Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh,” the | round-up of three Hoosier

gold-diggers now going on at | Keith's. We never saw the Lost work harder. In many scenes it's labor lost, however, for Harry James Smith's .out-moded script shows through the makeup which John Cameron's ex: | cellent direction has draped about | it, and stands barren and pathetic, | something which. Minnie | night have done, | players, no.

To be sure there are stretches of | funny in the very bald |

Fiske | but the WPA |

| sense of the word. There is the not- |

{ Mrs. ! her

So Movies Merely Overlook It

so-brief interlude in which a Hoosier tombstone peddler makes an unsuccessful attempt to unmask Bumpstead-Leigh and show to be Della Sales, daughter of an Indiana patent medicine man.

Alice Arnold at Best There is the slapstick comedy of

| Mrs. DeSalle, gaudy mother of the

title-mongers. And there is an outstanding performance by Miss Alice Arnold that tops most everything

| she’s done at Keith's this season. | But most of the fragrance has been

15.—Motion pictures have solved the problem

| Della

| Anthony,

The accents sounded authentic to | | people above the Mason and Dixon |

line. Southern audiences,

however, |

persisted in laughing at scenes that |

were intended to make them cry.

Letters of protest flowed in from | Dixie. It seemed no one but South- |

erners could drawl correctly. Hollywood gave it up as a bad job. Now, although some characteristic provincialisms are written. into scripts, to smother their “R's.” characters in “Show Boat” try to drawl. some Pine,” though crammed with colloquialisms of the southern mountaineer, was pure American

calls for a drawling Southern character, directors, who have learned their lesson, use genuine Southerners for the part—for instance, Helen Wood, Tennessee lass, who is ’'suhing” for 20th Century-Fox, and Una Merkel, who sometimes uses her Kentucky accent for M-G-M.

Miss Talley Avoids Drawl The latest film of the Land of

wasted on desert air.

| beautiful

The plot starts out with Ollie and |

DeSalle, and their mother, ciety, basking in the splendor of the Long Island home of the Rawsons | where Ollie is scheduled to marry the Pharisee son. It unravels when gossiping tongues reveal to the Rawsons that the De Salles are really the Sales of Missionary Lupe, Ind., the family of the fake herb doctor.

Cast Acquits Self And it ends up, after the Raw-

| sons have figuratively tossed the

the actors make no effort | Southern | did not | “Trail of the Lone- |

in { Duvall, phonic -inflection. When a sequence Elsa Ewell Ruth King, Ruth Bene- |

| imposters out the front door, with | Ollie falling in love with GeofIrey, | the scape-goat Rawson boy, who raises pigs, -and the two getting married under the black-mailing fingers of sister Della. Almost every one in the large cast does well by his or- her part. Betty Anne Brown, Ne | LeFevre, Hal Hawkes, Ira B. Klein,

| fiel and: Bernice Jenkins, all acquit

| themselves well.

Mar- |

ion Talley’s debut picture—will con- ) | one’s mind.—By J. W. T.

tain not one clipped “g.” “r” or “t.” “Attempting to put any an accent into a because of its locale is dangerous,” said Aubrey Scotto. who is directing the singing Talley ‘opus. | Boardman

| sav movie. Englishmen talk as

they

on't look like Chinese. { film Frenchmen sound phony.”

with Miss Talley, | keep “hands off any { Southern accent because,” | “strictly

{ ern accents, each | peculiar to such regions as Texas, Kentucky, Virginia or Alabama. observed the same thing in Italy, where different provinces or cities | have individual peculiarities of | Speech.”

the pretension!

Wanger Contracts Leading Players

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15.—With | the addition of Tom Rutherford,

Walter Wanger now has the largest |

major independent producers. These include Sylvia Sidney, Charles Boyer. Madeline Carroll. Joan Bennett, ces Langford. Conklin, Lili Ze grave, acquisitions from the stage.

lan Baxter, Peggy | ner and Roy Har- | the latter two being recent! New York |

Comedy Role Given to Louise Fazenda

Times Speciql

HOLLYWOOD, Sept.

type of | motioh picture

“Eleanor | once made a drawling|

I f

Robert S. Turner, a newcomer to the Federal ranks, plays Kitson, the Rawson butler, | in faithful fashion. The trouble with “Mrs. Bump-stead-Leigh” in its 1936 version, is that after all the fuss and feathers, one is prompted to whisper to oneself: “Why?” And that, if we

DICK POWELL HAS NO SOB EPISODES IN HIS LIFE, BUT HE CAN BOAST OF CONFLICT WITHIN SELF

Editer’s Note—On the eve of his marriage to Joan Blondell, Dick Powell unburdened his life story to Ruth McTammany, Times Hollywood correspondent. This is the first of a series of articles Dick has written, through the medium of Miss McTammany. His article tomorrow will deal with his success in Indianapolis at the Ohio and Circle Theaters.

BY DICK POWELL

As Told to RUTH McTAMMANY Times Hollywood Correspondent

F you are ‘looking for highpowered drama—sob episodes and “I. was hungry” laments—you won't find them in my life. The most I can boast of is a gnawing conflict within myself which is difficult to explain because I, myself, don’t understand it. You know, when your friends and the public are used to seeing you smile, chatter or sing a light tune, they aren't interested in your blue Mondays. : For instance, if you were to write “I found Dick Powell, sitting blue and grumbling, beside his swimming pool in the patio of his Hollywood home,” it]

would sound like ingratitude,

wouldn't it? And yet I often come |

out here and spend a lonely hour. | My mother wanted me to be like the other kids, My father wanted me to milk the ecow—not sing. In other words, certain things are expected of all of us and it irks us to live up to them. Right now, not to disappoint any one, I should say “I am grateful for the voice which was given me; I am grateful to the public which liked my first appearance as master of ceremonies: I owe gratitude to the screen which has given me money

| and to radio which lets me talk pretending to oe high British so-|

Jack |

aren't mistaken, is hardly the right |

thing for a play to stir up, even in

Ne rsmes

COMEDIAN, BECAME FAMOUY AS IMPERSONATOR_OF OTHER STAGE AND SCREEN STARS,

Titus- File School

to Present Recital

| roster of contract players among the | pantomimes.

The fall semester ‘of the TitusFife School of Drama is to open to- | | night with a recital in Cropsey audi- | torium at Central Library. The program, to which the public | is invited, will include scenes from | plays, readings. impersonations ‘and The new school is a

| coalition of the studios of Mrs. Ricca |

| Scott, Titus and Mrs.

Henry Fonda, Fran- |

Eugene Fife, | both former professional actresses.

Signed to Support Bing Crosby in Film

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15.—Richard | Carle and Billy Dooley have been |

| engaged for feature roles in “Pen- |

nies From Heaven,” Columbia's mu- | sical laugh show starring Bing | Crosby, with Madge Evans as the

15.—Louise | feminine lead. Edith Fellows, DonFazenda has been signed for the | | ald Meek and John Gallaudet also

principal comedy role in the new! carry feature roles.

Warner “Ready,

Brothers production, Willing and Able,”

which | William Stack,

will have Ruby Keeler and Rose Al- |

exander at the head of the cast. Allen Jenkins, role was in the Cosmopolitan pic- | ture, “Cain and Mabel,’

| | will also appear in the film.

| ULRIC TO DANCE Lenore Ulric, since her arrival for | Garbo’s “Camille,” has i orously rehearsing the “Can-Can,” Parisan 1847 version, every day. She | {is to dance it for Garbo's delecta-! | tion in the picture,

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Other members of the cast are Tommy Dugan, Charles Wilson, Howard Hickman,

| Tom Ricketts, Lew Kelly, Stanley

co-star ring | Marion Davies and Clark Gable, |

been vig-

whose most recent | Andrews and Stanley Blystone,

CHILD WINS NEW ROLE

Bonita Granville, child actress | who won cinema fame by her re- | m arkable characterization in “These Three,” has been signed by | Frank Llovd for an important role in “Maid of Salem,” starring i Claudette Colbert.

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Last 4 AST AIRE

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in the climax of their young lives,

to millions. But, standing here confronted by my high garden: wall, I can not say it with all honesty. This may sound sentimental, but, if I could walk down the main street of Mountain View, Ark., where 1 was born, or could go into the corner drug store in Little Rock, where I spent most of my kid days—and meet the gang without ballyhoo, I could then say “I've been lucky,

fellows.”

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HEN I built this high wall around my house it meant narrowing my world—my life and activities. - And there is where my conflict begins. Every day of my life I beat my desires against that wall and what it signifies. Don’t get me wrong, I'm not painting a picture of martyrdom to the cause | of art, or any such bunk. I am asking if. all the. fame and success in the world is worth one hour of good fellowship on the main street of any town, anywhere! Mountain View had a population of about 900 and I made 961. All I can remember of those days was an old-fashioned snowstorm and the the townspeople digging themselves out of the drifts. There was real community spirit which makes a laughing stock out of all the “island cults” of today’s intellectuals. We moved. to Berryville, Ark. when I was 5. It looked like a big world to me and the house we lived in was big. Dad had a good job. I had rabbits to feed, strawberries to pick and also I had to keep up my guard against my older brother Howard. My school lessons came easily and the high grades which I got didn’t make a hit with Howard. A railroad engineer used to visit our house and he and Dad sat on the back porch and talked over conditons. Do you remember the song “Casey Jones”? Well, I sang it for him one day and he gave me a nickel. It was easy money. Each time he came I hung around until he asked me to sing. He always gave me a nickel. But one day he and Dad were discussing a railroad strike—they were both excited. When the engineer started to leave, I followed him around the house. “Don’t you want to hear ‘Casey Jones’?” 1 asked him. “No,” he yelled, away. I had lost my first job. =

and hurried

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OT long after that a great |

event took place at our house. Dad drove home in a Ford car— our first automobile. He came into the dusty driveway, slowly; there was fright in his eyes and terror in his iron grip on the wheel. He swerved over into mother’s petunia

| bed, he missed the corner of the

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Dick

and Joan . .

We all wanted a ride, but Dad | stepped out of the car and sai

“Sally, get me a little port wine

| from the third jug from the right |

| in the fruit cellar.”

During the next few days we {watched Dad plowing up the front lawn. The neighbors all came over |

and examined the wonders of our | On the fourth day—Sun- | We | three boys piled into the back seat. Mother, in duster, and pale of face,

new car. day—he took us for a ride.

got in front with Dad. We sailed down the main street at 15 miles an hour, successfully , missing

. riding rapids together

d. | now, pushing me aside and striding

| around is no good for any youngster { —I'll show you how to set out young | tobacco plants and then youll set | 'em out for two Weeks

| porch by inches and came to an| | leng. Go ahead before I start a war abrupt halt in front of the barn. | right here.”

Dear old Howard. T can see him

ro] . |

= ”

WENT to work during my vacations. One summer I was a soda- | | fountain clerk and another summer | a grocery boy. :

“Richard,” said my boss one day, |

curb | “I'll tell you what T'll do with you.

stones, carriages and Mrs. Meler’s S| Quit school and IN let you Jo

| black cat. “I'm going to have a lot of auio- | said |

mobiles when I'm old enough,” Howard, in the back seat, “Me too,” said Luther,

” continued Howard. not, Howard?"

have any, “Why asked.

ing to be a big business man like Dad.” : “Yes, Howard, that's right. Dick's | going into the choir and sing with | the girls.”

For once I didn't care what they | pound of sugar to a family. How

said. The Ford was carrying us out of town into the country. I had the feeling of flying through space at a terrific speed and right then and there I made up my mind to sing my way around the world. I began the trip in the church] choir,

E moved to Little Rock. There, life in Centennial High School moved along swiftly and I tried to keep pace with it. I played cornet in the Peter Pan school orchestra, I sang in a church choir, I took music lessons, I got poor grades in English literature. A boy who sat in my class took time out to plan different ways to make me miserable. That same boy, cast in a Hollywood motion picture, would be known as a ‘tough guy.” He leancd across the aisle one day and told me to pass a note to the girl who sat next to me. I started to do this but the note was intercepted by the teacher. It was I who was expelled. “What was in that note, Richard?” my father asked that night. “I don’t know.” “Why .did you pass it to the girl in the first place?” “I thought if I did that favor for Joe he would stop ribbing me.” “He won't quit until you . .. —sock him.” ; “Why. Ewing Powell.” said mother, “what kind of a father are you?” “Now, Sally—just because the boy is a choir singer, it doesn’t mean he has to be weak-kneed.”

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BOUT this time, Howard, who had been away to school, came home in the uniform of his college training corps.. He strutted around the house for days and the rooms weren't big enough for him. He started to hand out advice to all of us. He told mother that she ought to have her hair girls at school,

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well

would never get anywhere in a church choir; nothing at home was right to the big soldier who was preparing for war. I lured him out to the barn. “Listen, Howard, you have been riding me since 1 was a little kid and I'm giving you a last warning. Cut it out.” He tipped his hat to a jaunty angle, threw his chest out and laughed. “Just a little kid in knickers—the high school tenor—you're addressing a uniformed man; take it easy.’ “That uniform isn’t helping you | much, making mother cry about her old-fashioned hair and long dresses. Go to France—that’s where you he-

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bobbed like the | she ought to wear | her dresses shorter. He told me I]

| charge of one of my stalls.” “But. I thought perhaps I'd go in | | for concert singing.” “That's no good. People don't al- |

1 was thinking this over when a “Young man, could you see that I

“Not, unless they call the war off." “But dearie, who is to know? Let | it be just a little secret between us.’ “Why, (a baby:

JOR s like taking food from Orders are orders—one

would you like to have a son in France and . “Don’t talk to me like that—I won’t buy anything here.” She turned and walked out. boss walked over to me. “Insulting a customer, were you? | And me just telling you I'd give you a stall. Go be a yodler. That's where you belong.” i z n ”

The

WAS four vears trying to graduate from high school but I couldn't make it. Shakespeare's ghost followed me everywhere, so 1 gave up and started in prep school at Little. Rock College. The following summer ‘I took my

savings and went to visit an aunt;

and uncle in Joppa, Ill. When Uncle Earl started to advise me to go in for farming I left hurriedly for | the home of Uncle Bill in Ken- | tucky. “Hello, Uncle Bill, I've come to] spend two weeks with you and Aunt | Beulah.” “Smart thing to do. Richard—it's tobacco plantin’ time.” “Now, Bill, the boy's on vacation,” said Aunt Beulah. “Oh, I'd like to see how you plant the stuff, Uncle.” “See how? Say, young feller, lyin’

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couldn't they let a fellow go on and | sing? What was wrong in being a

DID. It Broke ny back. When my time was up I hurried back to Poppa. I met a girl, was badly smitten. But Uncle Earl believed 8:30 to be bedtime for a young fel= low so for the next three weeks I said goodnight to the family and then stole out, of the house to meet the girl. My money was going fast. Oh, well, I'd go back to Kentucky— anyway, the tobacco was all planted. Uncle Bill met me at the door. “Hi there, Richard! Just in'tima —the darn worms are raising old Ned with my young tobacco pianist “Worms. But Uncle Bill, | I don't know—" “Wouldn't expect vou to but there's nothing to it. You just look for them.” : A few weeks of that; then one day I sat down in the hot Kentucky sun to think. What was life all about? Was it only a round of | Shakespeare, grocery stores, s 1 { bands and tobacco worms? hy

| tenor? I'd go back to Little Rock, | get a fresh start, take vocal lessons. 1 had started to sing my way around the world, but hid been de« | toured to a field of parched to- | bacco swaying monotonously in the blazing sun.

{To Be Continued)

Tone, Hepbum Cast as Lovers in Film

Times Kpeeial

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15. — Together f& the first time. Franchot

Tone and Katharine Hepburn are

to be the lovers in the new production, “Quality Street,” filmed from the Sir James Barrie play. Mr. Tone, as well as Miss Hepburn, has recently played opposite several new co-stars, having been the hero in “The Gorgeous Hussy” with his wife, Joan Crawford. and in “The King Steps Out” with Grace Moore.

Situation Is Saved by Property Man

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15.—“Winterset” called for Burgess Meredith o ligni a match with his thumb nail. In “rehearsal everything went splendidly.- But during the first “take” Meredith's nail broke. Mat~ ters looked dark until a miracle=-

| working property man appeared with

a tiny piece of emery board, which he taped to the New York stage star's thumb and covered with grease paint. | The scene was shot again, and the mpich ignited instantly) :

ONLY WOMAN IN CAST Ann Dvorak is the only woman in

the large cast of “One Man Came Back,” drama of prison life.

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Except Monday and Thursd:

WEST SIDE STATE : 2702 W. 10th St. Esther Ralston “FORCED LANDING’ Comedy—Cartoon W. Wash. & Belmont BELMONT Double Feature Lionel Barrymore “THE DEVIL DOLL” : SWE WENT TO COLLEGE” 25340 . Mich. St. D A | S Y Double Featnrs Pat O’Brien “THE FRONT PAGE” Lie PALM ED PRINGS"” ° ~~ NORTH SIDE filinois and 34sh R | 1 Z Double Feature Jean Harlow SUZY” Chester Morris— COUNTERFEIT” ~~ Central at Fall Crk, ZARING Double Feature Barbara Stanwyck “THE BRIDE WALKS OUT" “LET'S SING SING AGAIN" py 42nd & College UPTOWN Double Feature Carole Lombard “THE PRINCESS coMLs ACROSS” 36 HOURS TO KILL” > Tox “and Mlinois GARRICK Double Feature ’ Edw. G. Robinson “BULLETS OR BALLOTS” “CALL OF THE PRAIRIE” oT St. Clair & Fi. Wayne ST. CLAIR Double Feature “KING STEPS OUT” “EARLY TO BED” ors * Udell at Clifton UDELL Double Feature Joe E. Brown “SONS 0’ GUNS “LAW IN HER HANDS” Talbot & 22nd TALBOTT pose Fete Loretta Young “PRIVATE NUMBER “PRIDE” ‘OF _ THE MARINES” Nor { 30th at Northw't'n. R E X Double Feature Spencer Tracy

“FURY” “FIRST BABY" = -~ " 19th & Colleze Double Feature Stratford Double Feature “HELL SHIP MORGAN" “HIS FAMILY x Inte ble & Mass. et ECCA bot resien : R.K. O “HOT TIP “MYSTERIOUS AVENGER" 2361 Station St. 2 5 REAM Double Feature ‘Clark Gable “SAN FRANCISCO” ‘THE PRINCESSE COMES ACROSS” EAST SIDE 2442 E. Wash. st Baubls ture

pls "EAST SIDE i RI y Oo L Tonight. omy viva “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRgNTs TUXEDO peti lark Gable ‘SAN FRANCISCO” Also Selected Short Rsels IR VING “Bout Wesh 3e of “HEARTS DIVIDED “THE BIG NOISE” EMERSON ‘Boul Jilfs “THE WHITE ANGEL “MR. DEEDS GOES 10 TOWN" 2116 E. 10th St. HAMIL Dean’ Feature “LET'S SING AGAIN" 2938 E. 10th St. p A R K ER ‘pounic Feato “A MESSAGE TO GARCIA” ” “ABSOLUTE QUIET” S T RAND eubie Feiute ne Withers “LITTLE Ses NaBOD I OVE AGAIN"

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114 E. Was BIJOU Double Feature : Frankie Darr: ‘VALLEY OF WANTED “ROARING GUNS” Frank _ Merriwell—No. 2

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