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By PAUL HARRISON : Times Special Writer will HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14.—Paul Muni never reads movie stuff, so it : yause him no embarrassment if I say what I think of him, act think he’s an awfully nice guy. Shy, amazingly introverted for an or, jittery, and rather painfully idealistic. For instance, he not only dreads interviews but can't, bear to read about himself. He worries so much about his acting that, after viewing a silent makeup test, he

never sees a foot of the film. : Watching the rushes would only

; intere tw make him dissatisfied and upset, I a

discovering that Paul Muni

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+ sort of sub-arctic western which

so he works hard in preparation, goes through each scene as many times as a director will permit, and hopes one: of the takes may be acceptable. . Mr. Muni has just finished Hudson's Bay Company” at 20thFox. This is an adventure story, a

scarcely calls for his type of finely shaded histrionics. Yet he worked at it as if it were a “Pasteur” or a “Zola,” going over each line again and again with a recording machine at night, experimenting

in tempo and inflection and mood.

# nn FP STILL DON'T know ‘why Muni consented to see me, but he was as cordial as anybody I've ever Visited. We sat by the pool on his isolated valley ranch and talked about dogs, New York, movies in general and his break with Warner Bros. But very little about his work. “That’s for others to appraise,” he said. “I don’t

want to appear either boastful or modest.”

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doesn’t know what people have been saying about him. In matters of Hollywood opinion and publicity, he's as naive as Baby Sandy. I'll stake both my typing fingers that he’s totally unaware ever of having offended a correspondent with his aloofness or that anyone considers him a maddeningly meticulous eccentric. It isn't temperament or affectation that makes him behave the ‘way he does. It's a single-track mind. For example, he said, “It would be impossible for me ever to produce or direct my own pictures.” td £3 ” TERMINATION OF HIS Warner contract was a sensation locally, but Mr. Muni regards it casually. It was simply that they couldn't agree on stories and schedules, and he doesn't in the least blame the studio. He,should have been free-lancing all along, as he is now—either doing pictures that satisfied him or not working at all.

MOVIES' DEFENSE OFFER ACCEPTED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (U. P)). —War Secretary Henry L. Stimson

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the motion]

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political poll to gallup.

Dorothy Is Impartial

Dorothy Lamour is teamed with an elephant in her forth-coming

when someone suggested that Dotty

pose with the pachyderm, she remembered that it was election year and insisted on having the Democratic donkey in the picture as well At the moment she seems to be having a little trouble in getting her

WHEN ‘DOES IT START?

CIRCLE

“Knute Rockne—All American.” with Pat O’Brien, Gale Page, Rona Reagan, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and

‘‘Money and the Woman,” with Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall. at 11:20, 2:30, 5:40 and 8:50.

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“Down Argentine Way,” with Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda. at 12:20, 3:43. 7:06 and 10:29. “Public Deb No. Murphy. Brenda Jovce, Elsa Maxwell, at 11, 2:23. 5:46 and 9:09. 2 Nareh of Time at 2:03, 5:26 and

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Age Served On Broadway

Jolson, Wynn and Tucker Are Favorites.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (U.P.).—Ed Wynn . ... Al Jolson .. . Eddie Cantor . . Sophie Tucker . . . the marquee lights of Broadway and ‘environs fling back a glittering chal|lenge these nights to the venerable {axiom that youth must be served. In show business, at least. youth has been gently elbowed aside by a handful of entertainers all of whom were great stars before most of the current crop of young hopefuls was born. - Wynn and Jolson are starring in

BAND LEADER'S

—Herbie Kay, the orchestra leader, revealed today that he has been married since last Aug. 13 to Mrs. Betty Reinhart of Tulsa, OKla. Mr. Kay said the ceremony took place in St. Charles, Mo. and “we were trying to keep it a secret for a little longer.” The band leader was divorced from Dorothy Lamour of the movies last year.

died two years ago.

SECRET IS TOLD

HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 14 (U. P.).

Mrs. Kay is the widow of Ira Reinhart, Tulsa oil man who

their own musical shows, Miss Tucker is the star of a night club revue, Cantor is on the radio and has just signed a contract to do a stage musical this fall. He went to the Jolson show and when he came out his pop-eyes were wet with tears and he told his agent: “I can’t stay away any longer— it's where I belong.” Wynn has been a star for 38 years, Jolson for at least as long. Behind their return lies less the | yearning for audiences adulation, ithe “8 o'clock itch”—pre-curtain excitment. Then there is a story of {two men of maturity who married |girls far younger and when the mar|riages broke up. turned to the only solace they know—the stage.

Jolson Romance Failed

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Jolson’s story is perhaps the better known. He married Ruby Keeler who is almost 39 years his junior and for 10 years they were happy. Then they drifted apart. Some say Jolson financed his show, “Hold On To Your Hats,” with the plan of giving Ruby/a role and thus effecting a reconciliation - before, so to speak, the footlights.

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Ruby/accepted the dancing lead, but shf gave her notice during the road” tour prior to the Broadway opening. Jolson, always a .great trouper, masked his dejection and scored a personal triumph on the formal opening night. Wynn married Frieda Mierse, beauty contest winner, about 25 years his junior. When their marriage foundered he retired to his apartment and for two years sat listlessly in pajamas, refusing to put on his clothes or go out to the street. Alarmed at his loss of weight and lack of interest in living, his friends banded together and conducted a campaign designed to get him back on the stage. Wynn Backs Himself

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Through many ingenious devices they convinced Wynn that at a time like this the world needsd his great comic talents and finally he got up “Boys and Girls Together,” of which he is writer and producer as well as star. ! The critics greeted his return

«| with some of the most laudatory re-

views in recent years, and he and Jolson seem to be placed for at least a year. Like Jolson, who put up $90,000 for his show, Wynn also backed himself with close to $100,000. Miss Tucker, still the “last of the Red Hot Mammas,” although in her 50s, was persuaded to appear at the Riviera night club by. owner

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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14 (U. P.).— Tom Mix was back in Hollywood today—for his last personal appearance.’ : The body of the famed cowboy star, killed Saturcay in an automobile accident at Florence, Ariz., was brought to a Hollywood chapel,

E | where it will lfe in state tomorrow.

He wore his rangers coat and white breeches. 3 2 ; His. prized, dia- ia mond - studded belt was buckled around his waist. Only his 10-gal-lon hat was missing. After Masonic funeral services Wednesday, * he will be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the resting place of Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks and Jean Harlow.

Mr. Mix

chauffeur for film celebrities who elope by airplane, flew the body back yesterday from Florence. Only a few intimate friends were at Union Air Terminal when the coffin was loaded into an ambulance and taken to the mortuary.

Hollywood Stunned

His death stunned Hollywood. william S. Hart, one of his closest friends, said, “It's just too awful/ My recollections of Tom are still very vivid. He was wonderful.” : Mary Pickford, who was his neighbor for many years, said she believed if Mr. Mix had had his

quickly as it did.”

been a Texas Ranger, a soldier in

but it was as a cowboy actor that he won his fame.

‘Tony Helped Him to Fame

He began to make pictures in 1918 with his famous horse, Tony, at a bank clerk's salary. Within a few

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years, he was drawing a weekly paycheck of $5000 and during the next decade it is estimated that he made more in the movies than any other actor or actress.

In late years, he had traveled with a circus in which he owned a major interest. He was traveling as an advance agent for it when his automobile swerved on a dirt road, overturned and killed him instantly.

He was a familiar figure to Hoosiers, having spent much time in Peru, Ind., while connected with the Sells Floto Circus.

A Laugh Is All

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (U. P.).— Charlie Chaplin, here to attend the premiere of his film, “The Dictator,” said today that he hoped the satirical screen comedy would prove to be a factor in “the coming victory of democracy.” Mr. Chaplin flew here alone from the West Coast for his first visit to New York in 10 years. the picture, in which he fortrays a figure comparable to Adolf Hitler, carries no message. His great hope, he said, was that people would simply sit back and iaugh at some of the essentially comic implications of the present

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way about it he would have “want-|tle of Lady-Smith and’ later with ed to have had it come just as the Boers. Returning to the United

The 60-year-old Mr. Mix had herd in Texas and Oklahoma.

the Spanish-American War and in ler Brother 101 Ranch and was the Boxer Rebellion, a sheriff at|crowned various times of three counties, a after demonstrating his prowess at U. S. Marshal, and a guide to the a Frontier Day late President Theodore Roosevelt, Cheyenne.

Born in Texas in 1880

Mr. Mix was born in 1880 near El Paso, Tex, and could cling to a horse's back at 4. Af 10 he could] nick a bottle with a rifle at 50| paces. When he was 7 he took part in -a circus knife-throwing act and at 8—after his parents took him to Waring, Tenn.—he was working in‘ a blacksmith shop for| 50 cents a week. He joined the Army and sailed or Cuba, June 21, 1898, where he saw action in the battle of Guaymas at Christobel Hill and more of it as a scout and courier for General Chaffee. Once he was shot, the bullet entering his mouth and emerging at the back of his neck but Mix was soon back on his feet and heading for the Philippines.

Joined 101 Ranch

After collecting a shipment of horses for the British Government, he followed them across to South Africa for a skirmish or two in the

Boer War. He fought on both sides. once with the British in the Bat-

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the Champion Cowboy get-together at A scout for the old Selig film Co. offered him $100 a week to do stunts before a camera, but Mr. Mix was so surprised he couldn't answer. Mistaking hesitance for obstinacy, the agent raised the ante to $150 and Mr. Mix became a movie actor.

Sale of Concert Tickets Goes On

for the Martens Concerts series will be continued through tomorrow, Miss Gladys Alwes, president of Martens Concerts, Inc., has announced. After that, orders for individual concerts will be honored. Orders for individual concert tickets may be sent to the Martens office now, and these will be filled as soon as the season ticket sale closes. ; Martens Concerts, Inc, was founded by Mrs. Nancy Martens, who died ‘last month. ‘The organization is being continued under the direction of Miss Alwes and Mrs. Mary Ramier.

the series at English’s on Nov. 17. This will be Mr. first Indianapolis recital in many years. Other artists booked .are Robert Virovai, violinist: Gladys Swarthout,

Quartet with Muriel Kerr, pianist; Ezio Pinza, bass of the Metropolitan Opera, and Josephine Antoine and John Carter, young soprano and tenor of the Metropolitan, who will appear in joint recital.

WANGER NAMED TO ART GROUP

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14 (U. P).— named to represent the movie in-

National Art Week, which President Roosevelt has set for the seven days starting Nov. 25. Mr. Wanger brought nine leading artists to Hollywood to paint por-

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CURED OF TAKING SON TO PREVIEW

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14. — Porter old son, David, to “sneak” previews of pictures in which he appears. He did it—for the first and last time, he swears—at the first “sneak” showing of Columbia's “Arizona.”

In it, Hall played a villainous saloonkeeper who makes life miserable for Jean Arthur and William Holden and who, in the final reel, dies a coward’s death. “Well,” son,” Hall asked David, “what do you think of your father as an actor?” “I was just thinking, Pop,” said David. “Why can’t you be a star iike Mickey Rooney?”

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