Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1942 — Page 7
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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent
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HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—~When Orson Welles was flabbergasting
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Lurlesque. The arty citizens never thought
denizens of Minsky’s never heard of ars.
poses) the story of Gus Schilling. Gus was Minsky’s head comic and, apparently, Welles’ favorite actor.
Cast in ‘Five Kings’
* Welles, at last, gave him a role in his ill-fated “Five Kings.” “He was a strange man,” Schilling said. “When that play folded, Welles remarked that no matter what, nobody’d ever catch him making any movies. I knew what that meant. I got on the train a > came to Hollywood to wait for
Schilling installed himself as comedian at the Follies theater on Main st. Sure enough, Welles hardly had arrived in town before he was at the Follies, looking over the strip teaseroos and the men with the baggy pants and the red noses. Welles immediately hired Schilling to become a movie actor in “The Heart of Darkness.”
He’s in the Picture
“For five weeks I collected my salary for just sitting there on my handkerchief,” Schilling said. “Then Orson decided he wasn’t going to make that movie. Instead he started working on ‘Citizen Kane’ He tested me in that, but he never got around to giving me the role. “I was kind of surprised, when the picture came out, to fihd myself in it, The guy had used my test.” : With that start Schilling got an gent and abandoned the dirty okes and the naked ladies of burlesque. You probably remember him as the incredible elevator boy in a movie called “Too Many Girls.” He was the waiter with the rabbit
Broadway a few years back with his somewhat weird dramas, he spent Fis spare time at Minsky’s Republic theater, the 42d st. emporium of It was an elegant hideout.
of looking for him there, while the . And so began (for our pur-
now at Paramount in “Lady Bodyguard” with. Ann Shirley and Eddie Albert and from there he goes immediately to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Schilling, who was an East side hoodlum not so many years ago, in other words, has arrived. He was 17 when he talked his way into Earl Carroll’s Vanities as a chorus boy. His first appearance made the customers laugh so hard he took up laugh making. He tried song writing, but there were so many gents in that business with the chisel, that Schilling turned to burlesque. That was a fough racket. The pay was low, the dressing rooms usually smelled of boiled glue, and Schilling worked in five shows a day, seven days a week. Had it not been for Welles, he'd still be at it. The moral is simple: Become a friend of Orson Welles and something—no telling what—is bound to happen to you. You'll never be the same again. Schilling isn’t the only one. Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Tim Holt, Herb Drake, Dolores Costello, Stanley Cortez, and numerous other actors, press agents, photographers and stenographers have hitched their kites to Welles, to wake up 1n never-never land.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (U. P.).—Actor Charlie Chaplin asserted in one of his rare public addresses last night that communism should be respected “if it makes such men as are on the Russian front.” “This is no time to be supercilious and condescending,” Mr. Chaplin told a Russian war relief rally. “People ask, ‘who are these Communists.’ They are the people who have died by the thousands, not for our ideals, but by the thousands for their ideals. “People say they are a godless race, but if they die by the thousands as they have for an ideal, they are not godless.” “We have no fear of Russia after the war. They will be busy themselves, replacing the men and blood spilled in war, busy rebuilding a nation. And so will we. They will be too busy to bother with us.”
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Bishop Fred L. Dennis, of the United Brethren church northwest area, will deliver the Indiana Central college commencement address there at 5 p. m. Friday. President I. J. Good will confer the degrees. Sixty-seven will receive diplomas, 57 at the commencement and 10 at the close of the summer session. Next Thursday the trustees will meet and the alumni will hold their annual banquet at 6:30 p. m,
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Armies Eat, but Civilians Grumble, Says Writer. Who Was Interned.
{The writer of the following dispatch was in Italy when the axis declared States. She is now in Lisbon, waiting to ‘return home.)
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent LISBON, May 19.—Italy has a trying time supplying its own and German armies with food and at-
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grumbling too loudly. The slogan of the axis is that the army must eat first. Hence hungry civilians, who can't pay bootleg prices, grouse. . Benito Mussolini boasted four years ago that the Fascist campaign to make Italy self-sufficient had resulted in the country producing 80 per cent of its wheat needs. In those days the Italians ate as much wheat bread and spaghetti as they wanted. Rationing Is Severe
Now, with the self-sufficiency program in full force, there is severe rationing. An Italian is allowed only 65 grams of uncooked spaghetti and from 150 to 450 grams of bread daily. Both spaghefti and bread are dark brown, the result of an admixture of corn meal, potato flour, bran and other ingredients which are not named. As a result, Italian bread is not more than 30 per cent wheat. Spaghetti is about 50 per cent wheat. When bread rationing was introduced last October, Mussolini made a speech saying the year’s wheat crop was 20 per cent below normal. It actually was near 35 per cent below normal. At the same time, Italy has not been able to supplement two short wheat crops from abroad, because most axis-dominated nations such as Hungary, Rumania and occupied France ship their grain surpluses to Germany.
Meat Shortage Acute
Italy also suffers an acute shortage of meat, which used to be imported in large quantities from Argentina. With the exception of mutton, which may be eaten twice a week, other meats are permitted only for Saturday luncheon. Poultry is still available, but the price is so outrageous the working classes can’t afford it. There also is a potato shortage. As for fruits and vegetables, which now form one of the main sources of Italian civil food supplies, it was estimated that Italian shipments to Germany probably are not much more than 20 per cent above peace time exports. Just before I left Italy, authorities were reported to have ended a bread riot in a small town by blowing the air raid siren. The populance dived into cellars, and when the all clear sounded, the rioters found machine guns set up all over town. The mayor,
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AUBURN, Ind. May 19 (U.P.).—/ The mediation section of the war labor board in Washington will hold | a hearing May 28 on the issues in- |
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By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent .
LISBON, May 19.—The people at|'
home, weakened by scanty food rations and driven like slaves by labor overseers, may again prove the chink in Germany's military armor just as their collapse paved the way for capitulation of the kaiser’s armies in 1918. No one is starving in Germany and the diet still is well enough balanced that deficiency diseases have not appeared. But those of us just released from the Reich have seen the signs. Church bells are being melted down to obtain alloys. Turnips are replacing potatoes as the principal staple and turnip tops are made into jelly. Meat js rationed at about 11 ounces a week and the 41, pounds of bread a week is fough and of the consistency of plastic wood.
Labor Shortage Critical
Food, however, is only one item on the home front scales that may eventually swing the balance to the allies regardless of the willingness of the German armed forces to fight on. There is a critical labor shortage and the importation. of conscript labor can't fill the gaps. The transportation collapse is extremely serious although Germany took 250,000 cars and 3000 locomotives from France to bolster her sagging system, Germany’s weaknesses, in the order of their importance, are lack of labor, lack of transportation and shortage of food. Labor and the food problem ties in together, and Fritz Sauckel, the new labor gauleiter, is charged with the task of finding enough men and women to replace the 12,000,000 in military service. There was a shortage of 600,000 agricultural workers alone for the spring planting season.
Women Assigned to Farms
Sauckel tapped three reservoirs for laborers—women, children and conscripts from conquered territory. He already had 2,500,000 conscripts and 1,600,000 war prisoners available when he ordered children and their teachers into the fields. Women unfitted for other work are being assigned to farm duties. Conscripts are being marched into Germany under guard at a rate that will total 4,000,000 this year. The conscripts, with identifying clothing and insignia, are guarded day and night and they live in camps as prisoners, They are paid, but there is a 15 per cent “social equalizaticn tax” on the Poles and
[Food Shortages Pinch Reich, Says Writer Freed by Berlin
The situation on the German Latvians that works as a kickback
to the state. The strain of long hours at high tension, inadequate rest and reduced diet also is taking its toll Women occasionally collapse at the assembly lines, and there is a loss of 200,000 man days daily by those who feel “too low” to work. But Adolf Hitler has decreed there is no time for vacations for the overworked.
Need for Oil Indicated
The British royal air force added to Germany's railway woes with its numerous attacks on concentration points and every bomb that hit a freight train narrowed Hitler's victory margin. Potatoes froze because of poor transport. Coal couldn’t be distributed properly and even the two eggs each German is allotted a month couldn’t be moved with regularity. Fertilizer and seed were late in reaching farms. Germany’s oil supplies are a military secret but it is a reasonable estimate that 12,000,000 long tons were needed yearly before the Soviet campaign and if the tempo of the Russian fighting were maintained, twice that amount would be needed a year. However, Germany’s own oil fields yield only about 1,000,000 tons and another 4,000,000 is obtained by hydrolization. The remainder must come from Rumania, and it is surmised that Germany is receiving less oil than it consumes and that an all-out gamble must be made to capture the Caucasus fields:
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