Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1948 — Page 34
~ George M. Cohan said it would never keep men at home _ nights,
“the wayside,” an important man
ace lom ie wl _ Gives Loud Snort avhen I told him this. TT Anybody who can “going to do my darnedest,”
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Slug Prefers Spinach to Missing Nightly Shows
By Earl Wilson
_A long time ago—when radio was just new-the late
Cohan was a little bit wrong then—and still is—for on|
Tuesday nights, some New Yorkers are staying home— /
even those who can afford 0 go out-to see Milton Berle, | the reigning king of tele ~~ - vain. Earl's Pearls | Sh ’ | Herb Shriper says N'Yorkers| My son, Slugger, who's 6, ,.0 06 suspi- { even stays home, to see Berle cious. When he [i= on Tuesday or. Berlesday. dicked up a lady's It's like the old days in radio. Nandkerchief, she 1 remember—back in the 30's— Said, “What's a.
"going to Ohlo State Penitentiary matter? —¥ou—a-
jwise guy or adn: go fsumpin’?" . . , In {Hollywood, says Pardon Removed Martin Ragaway, WE HAD a long fidgety delay. nobody worries. # relatives, WE
to cover an execution.
It was rumored there'd been a about pardon, because they're Herb Shrine Finally the warden came down- already in town, stairs and led 8% the way to the {the ‘Test of the Country can en- . deathhouse, ex- {Joy it, too, | plaining, “I i nw ¢ wolldu't am fo The Midnight Earl mos 'n An : é for anything.” - WHAT'S HOT: The Gypsy Rose In Our Set Lee-La Martinque battle has! there’s much de- flared ' again with Gypsy’s ’ hus-| bate whether band, artist Julio de Diego,|
having challenged Monte Gardner! to a “duel”—while Gardner has| brought -Gypsy up before AGVA | on charges of giving bad performances and costing him $25,-| 000. El Borracho was hit by! burglars who got $500 from a) small cash box but overlooked! $3500 more . . . Four millionaires, two top movie executives and a top insurance felow helped Bebe|
Berle—who now has an 80-plus Hooper rating — can stay king | five years from now. “The pioneers always fall by
told me the other day. “Look at the Happiness Boys and Will Oakland or radio,” he said.
flight: to England-—then weather . {forced a postponement . . . Maria BERLE GAVE a loud snort Montez is at the Navarro with her’ handsome husband, awaiting] make-them, Dl show's opening . .. Joan Caul-| Jugh can stay up there and Tm field's trying to get over the he flu s0_she can take off for Holly-| Sold. Lae woul fo start the film, “Dear “To me, though, it's equally | He: s Today’s Smile
interesting that TV may bring | . us a race of comparative child |
ug greets me after dinneriaddress for “Who's Who In Show with, “What'd you think of that|Business,” supplied it this Sow
murder in the Bronx, Pop?” “What murder?” I say, being up on the news at all times.
“$10 Window, Hialeah, Jamaica, and Santa Anita.” :
WISH I'D SAID THAT: Radio Row _ wits now. .claim the announcers say it this way: ¥This|
SLUG HAS fust caught all the['® CBS—the National Broadcast-
hot details in a TV news ng Co. : He eats dinner in the living] THE STREET: Ada Lewis comag, Nee y New York kids pleted a scenario on husband Ted| TON A RARY 4 leave the tele-' Lewis and is trying to get the Because ot. movies interested . , . Don Tany sion our little cliftdwellers’ |nen’s eternal sunbidfn will be augmented starting when he sails on” a 14-day Carribean “erilse on the Nieuw Amsterdam as part of| their shipboard show . . . The Copa’s Bridget Carr signed an MGM contract and leaves for Hollywood Jan. 13 . . , Jackie Cooper returned to the coast to spend the holidays with his family , . . Kath. aus lbs, ryn Grayson is 4 “husband
weapon. “Eat that spinach,” Mommy says to Slug, “or mo television ig A
It hasn't failed yet. Slug tells me he personally favors “Small Fry,” “Howdy Doody,” and “Lucky Pup,” which are children’s shows, but doesn’t understand what anybody sees in HV. KEeADOre.—— 1 Over his zwieback he often at me the latest Ed Sullivan quip, which really hurts. » - .
Johnny Johnston here in March when they sail for London to
’ open at the PalGaining Favor Open at the Pur
But lately I notice that some|, = Michael old Hopalong Cassidy films that 0 Shea's conare shown on television are gain-|gidering several ing in favor with him. offers to do a This, of .course. pleases me, B'way show. .
i i two rooms away. Hopalong is/ waved Confederate flags
shooting up the villains. Blg!Garden, where Georgia
{who is at the cowboy age, with| gid
Slug is pointing a pistol into the television set, yelling “Bang, 100) dress to-kill. and. cook the same way .". . That's Earl Brother.!
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“The. Paleface,” technicolor travesty on the
Old West epic, opens Wednegday at the In-
diana Theater.
Bob Hope, as "Painless Peter
Potter, gets run out of town by ‘an anguished patient. He heads for the Indian country.
Potter, attempting to live up to his new’
reputation as a fearless fighter, walks into the
—comes to his rescue —again—
hideout of the smugglers, but are captured.
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CIRCLE:
“Blood on the Moon,” with Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes and
Robert Preston, at 1:10, 3:25, 5:38, 7:45 and 10. m ESQUIRE “Nicholas Nickleby,” with Sir
Cedric Hardwicke, at 2, 4, 6:05, 8:10 and 10:15. y INDIANA “Mexican Hayride," and Costelto, at 1:50; and 10:05. KEITH'S “One Higher” the story of Purdue University, with a cast of more than 15.000, at 12:08, 2:11, 4:14, 6:17, 8:20 and 10:23. LOEW'S “Danger in the Hills,” with Lassie, Edmund Gwenn and others, at 1, 4:08, 7:12 and 10:21 - “The Gallant Blade,” with Larry le_Chapman, at
with Abbott F588, 8:08
‘Joe E. Lewls, asked to Nat his local saloon, gets info a fight over a girl. Jane discover the blow up the whole
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Jane [Jane Russell), who is posing as ah outlaw to trap a
of renegades smuggling arms to the In-
dians. Jane decides to use Potter as a decoy,
cent.
and with no persuasion gets him to marry her.
The Indians decide to burn Jane and Potter at the stake, .dbut Potter, disguised as a witch doctor, executes a fancy get“away. Jane and Potter finally catch up’ with the renegades and _gang with a wagon load of dynamite. Potter is __now areal and true hero. _ ;
$6000 a Day Found to Pay In Making Film Sure-Fire |
Producers Say Stars Are Worth It ~~ For They Try Hard to Put on Good Show
By PATRICIA CLARY, United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec, 25--It can cost about $6000 a day to get a big star to act in your picture, but they're worth it. Robert Cummings, actor-producer. who doesn't drag down’ that kind of money himself, says the producer who pays it is getting! nn the best kind of picture insurance. et bs Barbara Stanwyck, for instance, is currently collecting $30,000 a ___ week. Cummings, who made a re- a ! cent ‘picture with her, says she!
laward winner, with whom Cum{mings just made “The Accused,”
what makes a good picture.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 25 (UP) The ' nation's cities have returned to * Y [the curfew as a weapon for fights {ing juvenile delinquency. » More than 3000 communities tiave at some time adopted such jaws, according to the American Municipal Association, with Dee troit the latest major city to join the list. In Detroit, all minors under 17 must be off the streecs by. aide night unless escorted by their | parents or on emergency errands, | During the first week of Chi. # cago’s recent crackdown on ene iE rorcement of the curfew law, po= [Tice picked up 56 youngsters under {16 who were ‘on the streets after {10:30 p. m. on week nights or after 11:30 p. m. on Friday and { Saturdays. - . 1. The only ones exempted in Chi-
When their wagon is attacked by Indians, Jane cleans up [cago are teen-agers attending
the whole mob of redskins with her two trusty forty-fives. Potter | Sehon] ia or juvenile. club
takes full credit for the victory and is acclaimed a hero by the |" ™ Coo. aopted ordinance in townspeople. Jane and Potter return to town, intent on catching | Redwood Falls, Minn. sets 10 the gun smugglers and halting the Indian menace. p. m. as the time for minors to be ) : off the streets. A recent Bath, N. Y., law provides that children under 16 must be accompanied by | their parents when on the streets after 10:30 p. m. 1 Fear Sneaking In Oberlin, O., a proposed curfew law would permit no child under 16 to be on the street after 10 p.m. and would require a juve nile supervisory board to issue {permits to children who have {good reason to be out after that hour. ! . : The city council at Peoria, Ti, | nas adopted a resolution ordering {enforcement of a section of the city code prohibiting loitering of minors under the age of 15. In Baltimore, an ordinance is being considered which establishes cur~ —{few regulations and requires that the law be read in évery city school once every two weeks. Opponents of curfew laws point out that these measures probably, will not lessen juvenile . deline quency, but will force children ‘to sneak out at night and will teach them how-to hide from. .the-police, RR «*% "They say the only lasting solue. be LB i ich gives more ate Jane finds herself in love with Potter, after tion de fue hich 53 Yecreational all their hair-raising experiences. They settle |racilities for young people. down. Grateful townspeople erect a monument | : to "Painless" Peter Potter, the shooting dentist. Forgetfulness Forgiven, Jane is the gray-haired matron on the righ
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"Policeman Commended | FORT WORTH, Tex. Dec. 25. 1 (UP)—An abSent-minded policei . young actresses just coming up,”|theory into practice. When he pro Miered 0 ny 2. 32 porns Cummings related, “He told me|finishes his part in “Bitter Vie- 3,56 he had forgotten to put in that for what it cost him in re-tory,” Hal Wallis" Param ountiihe nickel she gave him during
takes and .waiting around and, ure, he takes off for Italy to! the time she was in a doctor's : loffice. |
shooting a seene over and just lo to get something, he-eould have Make a movie about the life of’ Instead, the judge commend hired Bergman. |George Sand. {him for his honesty and dis“And the next time, he said, hel Who's his star? One of" the! miissed the ‘ticket. 3 imost experienced, most expen-| - . Cummings ‘is about to put his'sive of them all—Greta Garbo, Jobs Scarce in Italy Hc sy ~ ROME; Dec: 25-(UP) — Italy, Just Hain't ene has 2 million unemployed, CHICAGO, Dec. 25 (UP)—Chi- | the ministry of labor calculated,
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