Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1942 — Page 6

~ Hair Receded

Actor of 30 Plays Roles of Elderly Men. HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U. P.)— Lee J. Cobb's success as an actor grew in direct proportion to the rapidity with which he lost his hair. .~ As a youth with abundant hair Cobb was told he was too young for every role or job he applied for in New York, where he was born. So he hied himself to California, working his way at odd jobs while he served his apprenticeship as an actor, director and stage handyman at Pasadena Community Play-| house. . . When his_hairline began to recede at the age of 18 he received more character roles. By the time “he was 21 and really bald he decided to try Broadway again. He boosted his age to 28 and prompt] began to work regularly. :

Get’s “Youngster’s” Part

He was so convincing at portraying elderly gentlemen that he found himself embarked on a career that kept him so busy he has made 26 trips between New York and Hollywood to keep up with the multiplicity of his stage and movie commitments. And now that he is 30, Cobb says

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Plane Plants Near Studios

Sounds Penetrated ‘Silent Walls of Stages.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U. P.).— Stars and directors working inside Hollywood sound stages never need reminding that southern California

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airplanes. They can hear them. Maybe the airplane moguls were all movie fans, but in any event each of the gigantic plane factories in the Los Angeles area ‘is built virtually within sight of one or more film studios. It so happens that while stages are soundproofed against ordinary noises, the penetrating roar of air-

- | plane motors-.and -propellers filters

right through them. Cheer the Mustang

At 20th Century-Fox, for instance, the movie folks are fans for the Douglas and North American planes that are built nearby. While making exterior scenes for “Crash Dive,” a submarine picture, Tyrone Power and other players kept daily pace with the development of North American’s terrific new fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang. When news came back from Europe that the Mustang was giving the Germans what-for, Power and the others felt like cheering for an

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NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (U. P.).— The United States has assumed leadership in the making of violins, an art once almost exclusively confined to Europe, in the view of famous artists who tested instruments at a display of Americanmade violins now on exhibition here. 4 The instruments were tried out by Fritz Kreisler, Albert Spaulding, Ossi Renadry, Bronislaw Huberman, Rya Garbousova and Patricia Travers, 15-year-old violinist, at the opening of the exhibition. It contains more than 150 violins, violas and ’cellos submitted by American artisans. :

U. S. Takes Leadership in Manufacture of Violins

Many of the instruments are not for sale, but others are, and are priced as high as $1500, Richard Wurlitzer, authority on string instruments and sponsor of the exhibition, said. A A unit of 70 singers and members of the orchestra of the Metropolitan oprea, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, gave two volunteer concerts this month under the auspices of the concert division of the U. 8. O. camp shows. The singers Included Jarmilla Novotna, Doris Doree, Marita Farell, John Garis, Walter Cassel, Osie Hawkins, Charles Kullman.

Unfriendly Do Better Kissing

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U. P.).— Kisses in the movies look better if those who do the kissing cordially dislike each other. For instance, the kisses that Vicfor Mature and Lucille Ball exchange in RKO Radio's “Seven Days Leave” are just about as hot as the Hays’ offide will allow on film. : When not filming these scenes Mature and Miss Ball are not chummy, to put it mildly. And that made producer-director Tim Whelan’s directorial job a bit easier.

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LUGOSI MAKES WAR ON AXIS

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2¢ (U. P.).— Villain Bella Lugosi is overflowing with horror and gruesomeness these days for his new ultra-fright picture, but he’s found a release for his hatred of the axis. . Working without publicity, Lugosi has organized some 10,000 Hungarians, both native and second generation, living in Los Angeles county, into the American Hungarian Defense Federation.

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War Brings Many Roles

Movie Villains Swell Their

Bankrolls.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U.P. .— If you haye a Prussian pompadoéur, a Bavarian brow or a Brunhildic bosom, you're what Hollywood wants these days. J Actors who have these Teutonic trademarks are currently the most sought-after individuals in ‘movieland, Their picture roles may bring boos and hisses, but their swelling bankrolls from sa steady succession | of profitable parts make up for any hard feelings on the part of the audience. For.John Carradine, for instance, Nazi pictures are a blessing. He fis now featured in M-G-M’s “Reunion” as the German general who directs the occupation of Paris and terrorizes all of its fnhabitants, including Joan Crawford and Philip Dorn. As one of the screen’s top heavies he was running: somewhat short of villainous material until the war started. ’

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U. P.).— Remember what a speakeasy looks like? RKO Radio studios found fit no easy problem to recreate the interior of a New York speakeasy type restaurant.

old pal. The Lockheed and Vega bombers and fighters are built near Warner Bros., Universal and Republic studios and are tested. over them.

See Them ‘Wide Open’

He'd rather have people at sword’s points than in love or married when he does a kiss scene. “Engaged or married couples are hard to direct in kiss scenes,” Whelan said. “They think they know more about kissing than the

he is growing slightly younger on the screen. He is only 55 as Annabella’s father in 20th Century-Fox’ “Secret Mission.” Usually he appears as in his 60s and 70s. He hasn’t had a youngsnan’s role to his credit in his wHole crowded

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professional career from the time he hobbled on as a decrepit old man in a line-less bit in “Crime ‘and Punishment” at the Biltmore! theater in New York.

Completes Flying Course

His work has included years with the Group theater in “Gentle People,” “Till The Day I Die,” “Waiting for Lefty,” ‘Johnny Johnson,” ‘Thundred Rock” and “Golden Boy.” In between he sandwiched a number of film parts. Cobb started out as a promising violinist but switched to the study of aeronautical engineering after

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U. P.).— Hollywood Cinderella stories are a dime a dozen, but here’s one about a dog. When it was first decided to film Eric Knight's dog story, a widespread search was started to find a collie talented enough for tHe starring role as Roddy McDowall’s dog. The search began and ended in Hollywood. Although 387 dogs answered the first call in the movie city, none would do. The quest was moved on to San Francisco, where a dog show champion was all but

litter. Her eyes were too big and her head too broad. Her hair was too dark. For two years Weatherwax gave Lassie g foundation course in training her to sit, lie down, speak, retrieve, stay, and above all, be obedient. But it was of little value when the studios called for collies. Each of the other 40 dogs in his kennels was in pictures, but not Lassie, When no jobs were offered Weatherwax allowed friends to take Lassie on a ranch, where she roamed the hilly freely. In enjoying her freedom she wore the ruff

The double-tailed Lockheed P-38 is world famous, of course, but the folks at these studios see them in flocks. ' It's almost to the point that an actor won’t look up unless at least four P-38s go over together. Another advantage of the studio grandstands is the frequent sight of airplanes going “wide open,”

ou’d think. Most people “see airplanes at

cruising speed of two-thirds throttle

or less... A routine part of every test flight is to fiy the ship at full speed. And when the pilot

which happens’ less frequently than

director does, so they forget about him and follow their own inclinations. They don’t keep their minds on their work.”

15 DUTCHMEN EXECUTED

ing of five Germans to long terms in jail for listening to the British radio were announced yesterday by official German agencies.

LONDON, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—Exe- | cution of 15 Dutchmen for setting ferns in the fireplace to the trapfire to corn fields and the sentenc- door beneath the bar,

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Research discovered, however, many old-timers whose memories were as green as the stuff they used to drink. The set began to take shape, It awakened memories for everything was there from the

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off her chest. That's why Director Wilcox turned down Lassie the first time he saw her. But by the time the search had moved across country and back Lassie’s ruff had been restored to its natural beauty. And she had received advance training that taught her to escape a leash, attack a man or another dog upon command, to prance and to walk as though near exhaustion.

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selected for the picture. A final terested in-the stage when he ap- i proved she couldn’t perform all peared in a few college dramas|y,. ppucical [feats the story de- - while studying at Gity College of | manded. New York. : | Director Fred Wilcox and ProHe's just received his flight in- gucer Sam Marx next took their structorship rating after 300 hours search to Long Island, New York in the air following a government |anq Boston. | Hundreds of other course at a flying school near Al-ldogs were viewed and put through toona, Pa. Soon he expects to go their paces in the East and Middle into active service. West. None filled the bill. “I'll probably be known as the| When they returned to Holly- _ ‘Bald Eagle',” he comments. “But|wood, ready to start over again, after the war, I hope io get at least they found the answer to their travone crack at playing a man under els. She was Lassie, a three-year-40.” old collie owned by Rudd Weather-

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had purchased her as a puppy for HOLLYWOOD, Nov, 24 (U. P.).

ten dollars. Lassie had been one of seven pups —Gavin Muir is a good movie villain because he hates being “typed” as

born to a beautiful pedigreed collie.|nificent servies rendered to us by The other six gave promise of fol- |your gallant forces in the battles of a villain, and his feelings on the screen reflect that dislike.

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JERUSALEM, Nov. 24 (U, P).— The Hebrew press appeared yesterday with black borders around its reports of mass murders of Jews in Poland. The reports received by | the Jewish agency, asserted that! systematic annihilation of the Jewish population was being carried out! by a special German “vernichtungskommission” or “destruction commission.” :

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