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knees. “T thought ‘Roughly Speaking’ would be a comedy. But it turned out to be another ‘Since You Went Away. ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ was a mistake. ‘The Velvet Touch’ was a good story but it wasn't for me. “I haven't made a comedy for five years but I've been trying to make one ever since ‘Sister Kenny.’ Contracts, com~ mitments and Hollywood just got in the way.” Roz is the only actress I know who isn't screaming about refssues. Several of her comedies have made the theater rounds for the second time and , . . “It's amazing,” she said, “I realize that a lot of bobby-soxers have never seen me fall on my derriere. Now I get letters like: ‘T just saw you in your new picture, “His Girl Friday” (a reissue). You were - wonderful. thought you were just a dramatic actress.”

8 » » ROZ'S NEW COMEDY IS “Tell It to the Judge” with Bob Cummings for Columbia. Among other things, she falls into a lake fully dressed and goes for a wild ride down a mountainside on skiis. “Will you ever do another drama?” Roz gave the question a hollow laugh and said: “Let's put it this way. ‘T'll do 8 good script—what ham won't?” o # JUDY GARLAND and Director Busby Berkeley have kissed and made up after a beautiful row. + + + Betsy Blair was all for accepting Orson Welles’ cabled offer to come to Italy for “Othello.” But husband Gene Kelly would have none of it. . . . Orson’s first ex-wife, Virginia Lederer, will marry Jack Hanley, heir to a British titls and millions, Ex-

» » . THE PROPOSED film biography of Mary Baker Eddy will lenty of objections from the stian Bceisnce Local Scientists assure me the whole idea is without official church ; . 8 8 i

. PHIL HARRIS and Alice Faye were asked to what they attributed their marital success. ‘Two things” said Phil, “Me and Alice : ” ” »

BIRTH PANGS of television: Ben Gage's television show had to move to a new studio with a ‘celling higner than eight feet. Ben's six feet slx was interfering with the overhead lights, » » ” GOOFY PUBLICITY note: The Carrot Growers of America just voted Spike Jones “Mr. Carrot Top of 1949." » # » THERE'S TALK again of Eleanor Powell making her technicolor debut in the big all-star finale for the Jane Powell film,

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“Nancy Goes to Rio.” "And isn’t M-G-M talking to Margaret Truman again’ for a spot in the same film? 88 W THE TESTS continue for the chorus girl role in the film version of “Born Yesterday.” Columbia denied Judy Halliday, who created the role, would be tested, then announced she would make a test in Néw York: Marie MacDonald and half a dozen other dolls have made tests in Hollywood. Some people think Rita Hayworth will get the role but Columbia hopes to have the film. in production within a month. Rita will be on her honeymoon. ® u = JESSICA TANDY, star of the hit “A Streetcar Named Desire” in New York, will company June 1 for Hollywood commitments. Uta Hagen, who hast the Blanche DuBois role in the touring company, will replace

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Herron Art Museum Sets Grade School Show

“Animals and Birds Made in Public School Art Classes,” an art exhibition designed and presented by Indianapolis grade school children, will be on display at Herron Art Museum through May 11. The result of a semester's work, the exhibition grew from the collaborative efforts of the art museum and the public school art department. Robert 0. Parke, museum curator, had assembled a group of sixth grade children's work earlier in the season which led to this exhibit, Marie H. Stewart, Laura Holden and Theodore Van

He School Art Department assembled the present exhibit,

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Katherine Groh Blasingham was elected president of the Indiana Artists Club at a recent business meeting of the Woman's Department Club. Other officers elected for the 1949-50 season are Letha Heckman Gaskins, 1st vice president; Hill Sharpe, 24 vice president, and Lawrence Trissel, 3d vice president. i Elected to the board of directors were Ruthven Byrum, Anderson;

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will come to the Circle Theater Thursday. A truant boy, Pater {Dean Stockwell), his head completely shaved, refuses to identify himself until a psychiatrist (Robert Ryan) wins his confidence. He is brought before his grandfather (Pat O'Brien) and his, schoolteacher (Barbara Hale). He tells them why he ran away.

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When he returned to spread his message, everyone resented his changed: appearance. His "Gramps," a whimsical exicircus performer, tried to understand the boy's attitude, but felt that such grave matters as deciding wars should be

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Movie Preview: ‘Boy With Green Hair’ Is Study

It started while he was help-

ing in a clothing drive at school or Peter accidentally learned that he, too, was a war orphan. Next morning his hair was green.

European war orphans.

"Gramps" took Peter to the barber shop in hopes that if his hair were cut off, it would grow back in its normal color. "Gramps" just couldn't understand why people would turn against a small boy because his hair was a different color. Feeling he * was betraying the war orphans, Peter rafi away. That was Peter's

story to the psychiatrist.

: The townsfolk-stared at him

Feeling himself an outcast, Peter wandered into a woods and found himself among the war orphans that were depicted on posters at the school. They informed Peter that they turned his hair green sa that he would attract attention while reporting to

the world that war is bad for childr

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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1949

Property Man Played Role in Griffith Epic

‘Birth of Nation’

Out of Moth Balls

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 30 (UP)— Thirty-five years ago a property man was picked off the sidelines” in a movie studio to do a bit part in “Birth of a Nation.” He hasn't been heard from since, but .his performance was one movie goers still talk about. The stars who worked in “Birth of a Nation” with him don’t even know his name, It was Buck or Bert Freeman or Freedman. He played the sentry, leaning on a Civil War musket in a hospital, who gazed with adoration at the heroine, Lillian Gish. The calflike love in Freeman's eyes had brought questions about him from moviegoers who saw the original film, and moviegoers who saw it re-issued year after year, asked the same ‘question. The film's producers tried to find Freeman for exploitation pur« poses, but he had vanished. Ten years ago Miss Gish him in New York. Meet at Fair . “I was queen of something or other at the New York world’s fair and T was riding down the street’ on a float” she said. “I heard my name called and looked down into the face of Freeman, looking exactly as he did in ‘Birth of a Nation’ We shook hands and he rushed off to get his son and came back with a darling boy of four in his arms. He held him up for me to see as the float moved on.” . Raoul Walsh, ‘who played John Wilkes Booth and now is a top director, said the sentry’s name was Buck Freeman, = “He was a prop man and he returned to being a prop man,” Walsh said. “In those days nearly every member of thé crew dropped their customary tasks to act when the occasion demanded.” “Buck Freeman was in the property department,” director Fred A. Kelsey said. “Griffith

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present, Peter hears "Gramps" read a letter stating that his parents died in the struggle against war—and that the living must be reminded why they died. Peter now determines to go on with his crusade; hoping that when his hair grows back it will still be green.

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