Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1942 — Page 9

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= Hollywood Actress Says - . She’s ‘Big Baby.’ 3 (Continued trom Page One) \ r ‘prayer. We even had the church | ‘organist to end it with ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ People wept buckets -of tears.” , + ‘Marjorie Main gets a big “bang”| ~ Out of recalling those early days in| her home state, ~ “Why, I was born in an Indiana || .gornfield,” she said. “In a house, | hg ‘of course.” Milton Bacon . “ The Rev. 8. J. Tolinson’s little * s = 8 daughter decided long before her|, : . recitation of “Light on the Range” 3 Groups Will Hold 24th

Ba Ch Was Bors oe 0 os Br ol Ts ay going io be an seuss | History Conference On Two Days.

town tv town to fill pastorates and An some one or other the hired girl .The 24th annual Indiana history conference will be held tomorrow

£00k 10-year-old Marjorie to hear The Jubilee singers at the Baptist = .Marjorie’s imagination knew no and Saturday in the Lincoln hotel. Xounds. She came home and enter- | gpansors will be Indians Historical Jained her pals for days with Im-| 100, gociety of Indians Pioneers JPersonations of what she had seen| the Indi Historical bureau Bnd heard. She had decided. She|3nd the Indiana : Would be an actress. Beginning with a luncheon at = But all was not well. noon, the meeting will swing into = “You could smell the fire and|g general session at which time Ohio rimsione even at the mention of | i ar steamboats and the decline of $he word ‘actress’ in front of|interurban railways in Indiana will - #ather,” she recalls. be discussed. , . After teaching dramatic arts and| The evening meeting wiil center “reciting” at the drop of the hat|apout Hoosier highways and mound for various and sundry clubs and builders. lodges over the state, Marjorie] Op Saturday's program at 10:15 Tomlinson joined up with & Chau-|s m, will be a feature of the Co- ' fauqua edmpany playing Shake- |lumbia Broadcasting System, “God's Speareari ‘drama. She finally landed | Country,” which will go on: the air |§ 6n Broadway in “Yes or No” and over WFBM and afliated stations. Other plays. Milton Bacon of CBS and Governor = mn ” . Schricker will participate/ in the “Dead End” Mother program. In the evening, ernor . Hollywgpod fame came with her| Dwight Green of Illinois, aj. Gen. cl zation of the mother of |Frank W. Milburn of,Camfp Attere gangster in “Dead End.” The|bury and Governor Schricker will “Dead End” cycle went on and on. |speak. “So long in fact that I thought I would have to change my name to Marjorie Dead End,” she con-| Other sessions on Saturday will fided today. : feature aspects of genealogy, local In the past five years, Marjorie historical work in war time, history Main has’ appeared in 43 pictures.|of the state and Prance and GerShe's played everything from|many, 1918-1941. . - tragedy to comedy. But it is in the] The Junior Historical and Social latter that she is best known to|Studies groups will meet Saturday

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= “Because of the parts I've been

playing people think I'm hardboiled, but as a matter of fact I'm

ested in philosophy. Most of all,

‘Just a big baby,” she admitted,

morning with the Whitewater Canal asgociation opening their meeting to the public in the afternoon. The annual dinner of the Society of Indiana Pioneers will be held

In her newest movie, “Tish,” she|at 6:30 p., m, Saturday.

. plays the redoubtable Letitia Car-

Members of the conference com-

berry, beloved fiction character of |Mittee are Ward G. Biddle, Helen Mary Roberts Rinehart. Her two|Elliol, Mrs. C. D. Funk, Wallace -/ “cronies in a series of hilarious ad-| Weatherholt and Christopher B. tures are Zasu Pitts and Aline Coleman,

acMahon. : “I like the character, because it's pretty much what I am,” she said. *Tough when she’s putting on an #ct—but just a big baby pretend-

MP tariorie Main is, in. reality, neither loud nor hardboiled. She's: fond of art, music and she’s inter-

he seems interested in people and t was a draw this morning as to Whéther we were interviewing her or she was interviewing us, * Miss Mains file voice, like her hard-boiled attitude exists only on| < “In fact,” she says, “I never used the voice in all my years on the| Stage. When I played the houseleeper in ‘Susan and God’ I hit on the voice as fitting the character. “Now I've had to use it in every picture.” ,. Sometimes, though, in real life, ‘ghe drops into what she calls her “rusty voice.” - She dresses in striking contrast to her screen characterizations. She was graduated from Hamilton colJefe and is a memner of Delta Delta Delta. One of her favorite pastimes is attending lectures.

- "Here to Sell Bonds

+ She's here to sell war bonds and fo visit with her mother, Mrs. Jenni¢ Tomlinson, 5311 LOollege ave, énd other relatives, Out in Hollywood, she has just ‘bought a little white house with greén shutters. It’s near her studio #0 that she can get along on her “A” gas tation book. © The luggage in her room at the Olaypool was pretty fancy, but out of it' she dug two huge lemons. “They grow in my own backyard,” ‘she said proudly. “I brought them| Just to prove my boasts to - my mother.” + Marjorie is going to sell bonds &t Shelbyville on Friday night and it the midnight show at Loew’s on Baturdey night. rh 2 “I've never done it before” she said. “But I'm going to try.” .. Would she make a funny speech, in keeping with her screen roles, Wwe wanted to know? Well, she didn’t know. : All she would say was “These days i615 a lot better to make pedplé laugh than cry.” Marjorie Main is good at tHat.

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Clothe-A-Child Passes 200 Mark in Number Outfitted.

THE NUMBER of children clothed in The Indianapolis Times’ 13th annual @lothe-A-Child campaign passed ‘the 200 mark yesterday when 28 more needy youngsters were provided with warm outfits. ? Twenty-five were clothed by Times shoppers with cash contributions’ and three by donors who shopped for the children themselves, bringing the total clothed to 2086. y Two of the children clothed weére by the Second Shift, Spinning Room, Indianapolis Bleaching Co., and. the third by the Irvington Willing Workers Needle Club of the Pythian Sisters No. 411. » » 2 THE ,C A S H contributions totaled $186.38, led by a $50 donation from the City and County Employees Relief association, Other contributors were;

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