Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1940 — Page 6

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Former G-Man Plays Difficult Role of Casting Bureau Head

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, June 4.—Prohably the least envied of all the

highly paid people in Movietown

is a brisk young former G-man

‘ named Howard -R. Philbrick. He is the new general manager of Central Casting Bureau, which: handles daily placements of extras, or -atmosphere players, in studio jobs. Mr. Philbrick has cut himself a slice of trouble,

The extras situation is an extra

big headache for Hollywood, Dis- |

sension and heartbreak have | stalked the legions of movie spear-carriers ever since the first mab scene was filmed, Lately there have been added such problems as gangsterism, job-selling, union {roubles and some delicate questions of moral racketeering. A rough idea of the complexities is provided by the fact that inquiries are being conducted or have just been concluded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the district attorney’s office, sheriff’s squad, the State Labor Board and a detective agency employed ‘by the Screen Actors’ Guild. The agency's report is such a sensational document it will not be released and couldn't be printed if it were. = ” ”

‘PHILBRICK'S PREDECESSOR was dismissed by the Producers’ Association, group that formed Central in 1926 to simply simplify. studio casting problems. The producers acted after the Screen Actors’ Guild had presented its scorching report on the conduct of

the casting industry.. In the pattern of J. Edgar Hoover's bright young men, Mr.

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Mickey a oi Tom Edisen' Ann Sheridan “IT ALL CAME TRUE”

Philbrick is forceful and articulate. He is an administrator and investigator, not a movie man. He says: “What ¥11 do first is find out what we do here, then learn what the problems are. I know there have been very bad relations between this outfit, which is supposed to be a service bureau, and the .extra group. I found interview dppointments being set three months ahead.” He wants to mechanize, if possible, the selection of extras for jobs instead of leaving it to the memories of a bunch of clerks. He also intends to find out why and how, since the registration lists are supposed to have been closed for years, the number of extras has risen from about 6000

to nearly 7000.

» s 2 SINCE MR. PHILBRICK CAN'T make jobs, he eventually must plan to reduce the numbers of extras so that the rest can earn a living! Another tough task—but ‘one that will make reduction easier— is idl ma of all players.

Mr. Philbrick is sure. this can and will be done. It will bring a great hue and cry about invasion of privacy and constitutional rights, but it also will result in the swift exodus of a lot of hoodlums who are getting into the movies.

Fund for Capital Orchestra Raised

WASHINGTON, June 4 (U, P.).— The National Symphony Orchestra ct Washirigton, led by Dr. Hans Kindler, has announced that its campaign for $107,600 to provide for a 1940-1941 season has succeeded. For a time the company threatened to fold up because of demands made by the musicians’ union. The company plans a 20-week season next winter and an eightweek: outdoor season at the Potomac Water Gate during. the summer.

WHEN DOES IT START?

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“Lillian Russell,’ with Alice Faye, Don Ameche. Henrv Fonda. Edward ALneld, at 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:55 and

“Monroe Doctrine,” historical short , bjecy, at 1:10. 3:45. 6:25 and ¢

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Favorite Wife,” with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant. Randolph Scott, 2, 01 and 10:10. “The Saint ; Takes Over.” George Saint | Wendy Barrie, 11:33. 2:42, 5:51 and 9, Maren of Time, at 11:14, §:32 and 8:41.

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Willie and Eugene Howard. Heary Busse and His Orchest a, ‘on stage ‘at 1. 3:50, 6:40 and i “Crooked Mile,” wit h Edmand Lowe Irene Hervey. at 11:31, 2:21, 5:11. 8:01 and 10:31.

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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June 4—There isn't a more brutal place than Hollywoofl when it comes to jumping on folks—and it doesn't matter who—when they're down. One bad picture Jor an actor or a director and he’s|got to start his career all over again, if he can. And t at brings us to February, 1938, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released [a motion picture entitled “The Bride Wore Red,” starring Miss Joan Crawford and directed by Miss Dorothy Arzner, only feminine movie difect r. If you, saw the picture (and we hope you didn’t) youll remember it as perhaps the saddest seven reels of celluloid of the year. Everything séemed to have gone wrong, though’ the story itself seemed to us to have ruined the proceedings.

So what happened? A group of New Xo theater operators bought advertising space to list Miss Crawford with others as “box office poison.” That almost blasted her career; and probably would have had she not been under long-term contract to a studio which started exerting itself to get \her better stories. Now, two years later, she’s doing all right again, as

and God|” | And what of Miss Arzner, who had spent her whole life in the] ‘movies business and directed some | \of the industry's outstanding hits? “The Bride Wore Red” finished her {for true, She couldn't get a job ‘anywhere. The producers all relcalled her last picture and showed ‘her the door. It took ‘em more than two years ito realize that “The Bride Wore Red” might not have been entirely her fault. So she’s working again, directing: 1a big-time movie . for R. K. O,, and why she isn’t bitter toward the whole movie business is beyond Us. Anyhow, she’s not. We dropped bv the set today to watch her put Maureen: O'Hara, Virginia Field, Lucille Ball and Louise Hayward through their paces in “Dance Girl, Dance,” | and she wasn't mad at

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Brien Becomes Rockne

One| of Hollywood's smoothest makeup jobs, the transformation of ' Pat O’Brien into Knute Rockne, receives the approval of the late Mss. Rockne is in Hollywood serving as technical adviser for the filming of “The Life of Knute Rockne,” in

Those Who Are Down

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years. She helped write screen plays and then began writing them by herself. “But I wanted to be a director,” she said, “and I told Ben Schulberg at Paramount that I was going over to Poverty Row, where there didn’t seem to be any prejudice against women directors. He said if I'd stick at Paramount he'd make me a director there. I gave him a deadline. I said if I wasn't behind a camera in a month, I was leaving. He gave me more than I bargained for.” He did, indeed. He told Miss Arzner to write herself a screen play, find herself an actress and make herself a movie. She was 27 years old. She did exactly what Schulberg said. S8he wrote Fashions for Women. She retained an actress, name of Esther Ralston, and she directed the film from scratch. It was a whale of a success. It turned Miss Ralston into a star and it made Miss Arzner a topflight director.

‘Alice’ Lost In Filmlanc

HOLLYWOOD, June 4 (U. P.)— A young, lovely and highly accom- | plished actress who seven years ago was a star today is working as an

extra for $8.50 a day. Seven years ago she was a star in a picture which featured such notables as W. C. Fields, Cary Grant, Charlies Ruggles, Cooper and others whose names still are top-featured.

the newspapers and magazines. Her name is Charlotte Henry and at present she is workiing as an extra in RKO Radio’s “Lucky Partners.”

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Tombstones ps “Not Cheery Sight’ So Residents Win Protest.

Residents of Orchard Ave. won't have to look at tombstones. The Zoning Board yesterday denied the petition of Arthur Lovell to operate a stone cutting business at 3845 Orchard Ave., after property owners protested that a “tombstone isn't a very cheery sight these days.” pXoard members also denied the uest of Cecil R. Dillon to erect use in the rear of the northwest corner of 63d St. and Central Ave. on the remonstrances of mem-

‘| bers of the Warfleigh Civic League.

Stephen A. Clinehens, League president, and F. A. Joslin, member, said the house would detract from residential property houses in the vicinity. They asserted that the structure would overcrowd the corner lot by adding another residence to it. Heeding the protests of 15 property owners, the Board denied the petition of T. A. Lux to use a building at 2957 Central Ave. as a steam laundry. Residents said the noise and steam in the plant's operation would create a nuisance and that trucks traveling in a rear alley would be a. safety hazard. The Board granted petitions to erect a storeroom building at 133747 Shelby St.; an addition to a store at Shelby and Orange Sts.;- a store room building at 25th and LaSalle St.; an outdoor auto sales. lot at McCarty and East Sts. The petition of the Church of | Christ Holiness to construct a church building was postponed and the Moon-Rich Auto Sales Co. was granted a year’s temporary permit to operate an outdoor sales lot at 765-67 E. McCarty St.

CENSUS LISTS 10,278 FOR MARTIN COUNTY

Complete census figures for Martin County, the first Indiana county to be completely enumerated, were released today’ by W. A, Knight, area manager... He said that preliminary figures, later to be checked in Washington, showed a population of 10,278 for the Southern Indiana county and a total of 1163 farms. In 1930 there were 10,103 people and 1150 farms. In the agricultural census of 1933 there were 1464 farms. Preliminary census figures also |

Washington in Daviess County and Franklin in Johnson County. The Washington total is 9288 this year, compared to 9070 ten years ago. The Franklin figures, which include the Masonic Home, are 6244 in 1040, compared to 5682 in 1930.

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seen in the background as one of a group of pedestrians, Stardom came to her in one big splash, in a role which types her so definitely that success fled before

It’s been seven years since she played “Alice in Wonderland,” but

{ago and burned her father’s res- | taurant, he brought his family et e, { Which catered to the early movie! 'stars. Miss Arzner was 17 years old | | when she asked William DeMille for a job typing scripts.

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people still address her as “Alice” instead of Charlotte. Her role of the heroine in Lewis Carroll's fantasy was one of the most publicized of 1933. Gary Cooper played “The White Knight,” always falling off his horse; Cary Grant, as the Mock Turtle.” sang lugubriously. But Charlottle was Alice, so thoroughly and convincingly that Hollywood has declined to think of her as anyone else. And because Hollywood doesn't turn out an annual edition of “Alice in Wonderland,” the screen career of Charlottle Henry has been in decline for ibe last few years. ”

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