Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 54

“Hoosier Tries

‘ Plans Movie of Alma Mater: Plainfield Boys . School

Producing

become movie producers.

The boy millionaires were gll the same—young fellows who inherited fortunes and invaded Hollywood between polo matches to Impress a lot of dolls with an office door marked “Movie Producer.” I can’t remember one who ever produced a picture. ” ” w TWENTY-NINE - YEAR - OLD Rowland W. (Ronnie) Alcorn looks like the exception. . He inherited mothing. He's from the wrong side of the ‘Aracks, spent four years in an .Indlana reform school, once worked as a barker st a New York flea circus and married a girl who worked in a laundry. > Two years ago, on a borrowed $1000, he made a great deal of money in the international grain markets. With a partner, Dave Jackman of the Kansas Milling Co. of Wichita, he sold a million sacks of flour to the Brazilian

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RONNIE ALCORN doesn’t look {ike & boy millionaire or act like one, “I look," he says, “like a I was a bum for four years.” “His first picture, as an indeJindent. producer; will be “Johnny oliday,” starring William Bendix. It's x oy of pe ge: linquency closely paralle is Own experiences.

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By Erskine Johnson j "HOLLYWOOD, May 21—There are two things I al. most always do in Hollywood-—go to Lana Turner's weddings and interview boy millionaires who come to town to

The former has been interesting at times. Up to now, the latter has been discouraging.

[chronic truant. I hated school and constantly ran away from home.” That part of the story is familfar. A hovel for a home in Mun. cie, Ind. a big family—11 children—a ' runaway father. The children, of whom Ronnie was next to the youngest, left on the streets ‘to fend for themselves.

Young Ronnle was selling néwspapers at 8, ditching school for three days at a time by the time he was 8, ‘At 18, juvenile anthorities decided he would be better off at Plainfield. That was in 1982, 8 J »

“IT WAS the greatest thing| that ever happéned to me,” he said. “For the first time in my! life I was the equal of other boys. Maybe that's why I hated #§ school. I had to wear cast-off clothing and cardboard in the soles of my shoes, “At Plainfield I got a new uniform and shoes with soles and three meals a day, I was the happiest kid in the world.” ® 8 ¥ IN 1986, when he was 17, he was released. He went home, | told his mother goodby, and for the next four years—“I1 was a good bum.” 5 He worked in a feed store at|f%§ Tipton, Ind., made a few hundred|®8 dollars, bought a new car and went to Miami, Fla, for a good # time. He finally had to sell the car so he could eat. He worked for a bread company in Indianapolis, sold punch boards in Min-| nesota, barked at a New York flea circus. In 1040 he arrived in Los An: geles, He ‘tried to register as a

“El Paso,” the story. of the sin town of the West, will open at the Indiana Theater: Wednesday. Confederate Cavalry Of. ficer John Payné goes to El Paso in search of his sweetheart at the end of the Civil War.

movie extra with Central Cast: ing. The rolls were filled. He became a salesman for the Los Angeles City Dye Works and

justice, Payne and his men track

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in K a gang of hoodlums and land-grabbers led by Sterling Hayden, and Dick Foran. Hull, once respected, but now an alco-

holic, is the town judge. Payne meets trouble as soon as he arrives when he fries fo stop Hayden's men from hanging an enemy of the pa "a. Only with the aid of Eduardo Noriega does he escape with

& Payne then goes to help Arthur Space, who is being ter-

by girl, Gail Russell, and her father, Henry Hull, are mixed

Hayden and Foran ride up to force Space off his land. Foran is ready fo murder Space in cold blood when he resists, but Hayden halts him. Payne helps Space get away, and leads him fo safely at Noriega's sanch datos he border. Wik id help of Sa, udge and plans a real trial for Spa Payne sobers op : a frum plas charges, but Spe, the trial, he and his wife are murdered he Foran. Payne now takes the law

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Movie Preview: ‘El Paso’ Paints Exciting Portrait Of West's Sin Town

riod by Foran.

Under the expert tutelage of Noriega, Payne loots how to — handle a pair of six-guns. He organizes a gang and carries on a blood purge against the Hayden forces. Disregardin

law and

down the outlaws and kill them

one by one. His killing spree is cut short when he learns that he has slain a minister by mistake. Gail sends back East for Payne's

into his own hands.

The grandfather makes Payne see the crime of killing even the outlaws. Payne is once a gin defermined ‘to settle the war - peaceably. grandfather goes to see Hayden and Foran to make a truce. They send his body back in a wagon. Payne calls his men to arms again, this

and the rest

Ina . bios body battle, Hoyden | is killed. Foran

Nine Groups Of ‘Public. School

Pupils Perform Nine groups of “In lis

cluding versity’s famed Berkshire Quartet, who served as judges. Awards contributed by the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, originator and sponsor of the event, were given to all finalists by, Mrs. Dan Flickinger and ie Horan Wolf, representing the

societ; Ralph W. Wright, Jusis school music director, as program chairman for the afternoon, which concluded with two selec tions by the Berkshire Quartet.

Finalists Listed

Participating in the finals were

the . following chamber = music

the gang make a break for the

border. They are trapped at the Rig Grande by a band of Mexicans led by Noriega. Payne's men want to hang Foran on the spot, but Gail pleads for justice. fayne and his men ride along-

groups: Sandra Bernat, Joanne Bernat and Patricia Burkhead, trio; John Sheve, Paul Jump, Nathan Negley and Alice Hatcher, quartet; Mary Margaret Sutton, Carolyn Cook, Donald Russell and Janet Heller, quartet; Richard Warne, Joan Neff, Marie

§ | Woltjen and Marilyn Hull, quar-

tet; Miss Sutton, Miss Cook, Ruth Ellen Fark and Louise Wyatt, quartet, and Sandra Bernat, Julia Mores and Carol Forbes. Also: Paulajean Searcy, David Stahl and Barbara Ellsworth, trio; Rita Purcell, Judith Lambert and Gay Parkinson, trio, and

| Paul Newman, Marilyn Hansen |and Guille Haryey, trio

A quintet of student ‘musicians, previotisly named finalists, who did : not: appear on: yesterday's program are: Irene Morris, Alberta Matzke, Carolyn :Pagett, Sally Beesé and Phyllis Myers.

Show: Postponed The Galveston Saddle Club Horse Show originally scheduled tfor today has been or haned until next Sunday. pvent will be held at tha "Gonservation Club Park, one half mile west of

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Indiana University and “direc of the University Theater, 1d . {Ernest Bavely of Cincinnati, ex- . |edutive secretary of ‘the National Thespian Sociely, co-sponsor of : {the conference,

Combs to Speak Roy T. Combs, Center Township Assessor, will speak on “What the New ‘Reassessment of Property Will: Mean to the Property Owner” at 4 p. m. Thursday at School No, 87, 2411 Indianapolls Ave, representatives from college com- open to the public. munity and children’s theaters. Discussions and demonstrations will cover acting, directing, makeup, motion pictures and radio.

* On the conference faculty will be Sydney H. Bpade, director of the Dock Street Theater, Charleston, 8. C,; Talbot Pearson, drama department of Carnegie Institute of Technology; Carl B. Cass, school of drama at the University, of Oklahoma,; Kelly Yeater, department of dramatics at Pennslyvania State College, and Davis A. 8mith, department of speech at Indiana University. Full-length plays will be presented by students of Indiana University and three other universities and colleges. Scenes from

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