Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1942 — Page 8
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by RICHARD LEWIS
Putting on the Dogs
: "DO YOU KNOW what yow'te up seainst V5/alk a dog 10. voll 4p in a rug? We had to splint Snagg’s legs so they wouldn't bend at the knee. It took us 18 months to break the trick. But it was worth it. Yessir, that dog will roll up in any rug, irregardless of size or shape, the finest rug-rolling dog in the world.”
It was J mal trainers ‘specializing in, dogs
and bugle birds, Snagg is an -Alas-
ka sled dog, a “marvelous work-
‘er, marvelous.” They rolled into
town the other night from New York, en route to Springfield, Ill, when they spotted Keith's marquee on N. Pennsylvania st. Irene, who is Mrs, McAfee, suggested they take a look at the show, so Jack parked the trailer-
“truck which contains living quar-
ters for the McAfees and eight dogs, on Ohio st. Who should be standing outside of the theater, surveying the fine evening, but Sam Roberts, one of the partners operating Keith’ Irene spotted him and told J it couldn't be Sam, could it? Could be, Jack said.
Then Irene rushed up and gave
Sam a great big kiss. and Jack said, “Hiya, Sam, we thought you were in Chicago.” “No,” said Sam, “I'm here.” “We were going to wire you tomorrow to get us a booking,” said Jack. “We're sarrying the dog act,
_ great act”
So that’s how it came to pass Jack & Irene have been booked at Keith’s for Oct, 15.
» s ” Dog Stars THE MCcAFEES. and their dogs have worked in more pictures than half a dozen movie stars. They do all kinds of work with animals, even train them for Tarzan pictures. One of the toughest
assignments Irene can remember -
was training a South American bugle bird to bugle from the wrist of Jeanette McDonald, I didn’t believe there was any such bird, but Jack described it for me. A bugle bird is so called, he said, because it makes a musical sound like a bugle, You can hear it a block away. It’s only the size of a robin, black and yellow, and the trick is to train it to bugle on cue. : At present, the McAfees are on the road, playing their dogs on vaudeville bills, and worrying
about gas rationing. They travel
in a $3000 special truck-trailer
- with the combined facilities of a
three-room house, including bathtub and an air-conditioned kennel, The dogs dwell in the fore part of the trailer and the McAfees live in a partitioned section "at
Swith'’them, When they pull into town, they just park on
Ack McAfee speaking, of the firm of Jack & Irene, ani-'
the street and slumber until’ dawn in the trailer, This de luxe equipment once belonged to Laurel and Hardy. Mr, McAfee bought it from Virginia Laurel for a special “tour
been touring most of the time
ever since. 8 =»
Getting Gas GAS RATIONING, of course, is the biggest issue the McAfees
got stuck for good at Rye, N. Y,, when rationing caught up with them. The ration board wouldn't give them extra gas and it looked like curtains for their act. ‘Finally, after much pleading, Mr, McAfee induced one of the members of the board to see the act which was playing at a nearby vaudeville ‘house. Next day,. the team of Jack & Irene and their dogs were on the road again with plenty, of gas. The most famous dog they have is “Sally,” the stand-in for “Asta” in the Thin Man series. “Sally” was the wire-haired fox terrier you saw in “Another Thin Man.’ She also appeared with Edward G. Robinson in “Within the Law.” “Fran,” a big, black French poodle, is appearing in a. current picture with Ann Sheridan while “Pom-Pom,” the pomeranian, has been carried in the arms of more movie stars than any dog in Hollywood, according to Mr. McAfee. “Pom-Pom” is an atmosphere dog. “Big Boy,” a mutt terrier, was an atmosphere dog in “Gone With the Wind,” while “Tiny- Tim,” a ‘toy French poodle, worked with Gladys George and Norma Shearer. : Mr. McAfee, himself, has doubled for Joe Penner and Harpo Marx on the screen, Irene has done picture work herself. There have been times when Jack, Irene and all the dogs have been working at the same time on various studio lots. Mr. McAfee indicated in an offhand way that he and Irene probably have the best dog act in the world, “Yessir,” said Mrs. McAfee . business arrangements with Keith's, “you’ll see as fine a set of trained dogs as you've ever seen. You- can't find a dog like Snagg anywhere, “Rolls himself right up in a rug, he does. Best rug dog we ever
r. McAfee while
had.”
Starting
TOMORROW
See!
GARY COOPER in the greatest role of his career as LOU GEHRIG.
At the outstanding~performance of TERESA WRIGHT, sweetheart in “Mrs. Miniver”” as Mrs. Lou Gehrig
as VELOZ & YOLANDA dance to the music of RAY NOBLE & HIS
ORCHESTRA -
*THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES", Samuel Goldwyn’ s finest production,
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says
. nGamuel Goldwyn
could not have given
the youth of America a: nor to os
several years ago and they've’
have had to face yet. They almost
nose, was all.
as making the
After the Nazis bombed Warsaw, photographers of the propganda ministry ‘flew over the wrecked Polish capital and filmed the work
of the luftwaffe. This and other Nazi conquest films were shown to
Her Husband's
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6.—Pity Mrs. Lucien Littlefield, wife of the celebrated character. actor, who spends her days, yep, and her nights in fear and trembling. Her husband’s an inventor. Poor Mrs. L. The last: explosion at her house occurred when Prof. Littlefield was boiling up a mess of cactus juice, Ching berries and nitroglycerine. The prof was making himself a A rubber nose, and could he help it if the fire was too hot? He tried again and got the nose. He also got some fine rubber for his automobile. All he needs now is a rubber moulding machine and if he tries to invent that, too, Mrs. L. is thinking seriously of visiting mother, Mrs, Littlefield grants that her husband is a fine actor; what she’d appreciate would be his spending a litle more time before the cameras, and. a little less at home, inventing things. The mighty Littlefield operates in a laboratory beside his bedroom. He doesn’t allow his wife inside. Through the locked door she can hear mysterious hissings and gurglings. And an occasional dull “boom.” Latest triumph of the Littlefield in the field. of applied science leaves his wife cold, despite the huzzas of Hollywood.
SAMUEL GOLDW
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He is the man who produced the
impress neutral nations with Ger‘many’s might, until the films were confiscated by the U. S. government. Now the propaganda pictures the Germans made are be-
an Inventor!
Pity Poor Mrs. Littlefield
world’s first synthetic hair lace. This may be great stuff for the movies, but it sounds a little silly to Mrs. L. Hair lace! Littlefield has no hair, Hes as bald as a boiled eggplant. Since the days of Rudolph Valentino, ‘with whom he played in every drama of sex in the Sahara, Littlefield has been building his own wigs. These are constructed on a lining of hair lace, which is exactly what it sounds like. Lace woven of hair, This used to come from the Balkans, where the peasant women spent the long winter evenings weaving it from their own tresses. Came the war and no more hair lace. The studio wig making departments moaned. So did Littlefield. But he also went into his laboratory. After numerous false starts, and a few minor explosions, he came out with a roll of synthetic hair which the exverts regard as much better than the genuine article. All he does is. take a piece of silk netting and boil it in a pot: of his mysterious goo. This. concoction eats away the fibres of the cloth and replaces them with a stretchy substance which is impervious to practically anything. Littlefield dries his synthetic lace
and then all he has to do Is cut:
it to fit his dome, weave the right kind of air into it, and he’s any-
thing from a gestapo agent to the principal of a girls’ school.
N presents
- will be shown at the Indiana toing put to work for Uncle Sam to morrow along with “Pride of the show the public the pattern of Yankees.”
fascist aggression in the 68-minute government document, “The World at War.” This sensational film, depicting actual scenes of battle,
CASA LOMA BAND BOOKED AT ROOF
The Casa .Loma orchestra. will come to the Indiana roof for a onenight stand Oct. 25, it was announced today. The famous band will be followed py Joe Venuti Oct. 28. Meantime, Ace Brigode and his Virginians will continue to play at the roof throughout the week.
ELECTED BY CHOIR Roderick Embry has been -elected president of the Central Studios of Music student concert choir. Other officers are Miss Miriam Bosworth, recording secretary; Miss Grace Noblitt, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Pauline Bade, treasurer, and
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On ck Jurgens and his _band, at , 6:40 and 9:20.
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Best Foot Forward,” one of the season’s brightest new shows, will come to English’s Oct. 26, 27 and 28. The George Abbott production has been on tour since September.
' The New York musical hit, “The [Now—NiGHTL
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He’sa ball of fire who sets the spark to a swanky English prep school. Lots of action—lots of laughs—in a picture that the whole family will enjoy from the uproarious start to the rousing finish when it’s “hands. across-the-sea” for Mickey and his British buddies!