Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1949 — Page 4

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: By "Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 8—Now it can be told—and-th Will go down as a Holtywood classic in“the-believing-your-...... own-publicity department: il Robert Preston's first big movie was “Union Pacific” |: for Cecil B. DeMille. To ballyhéo the picture, DeMille took

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t ‘gowns in “Bagdad.” Bet it was the, of Str | and bn AE | SHAE 47% nt ED) “SWELL,” said Bob,

have you .eVer arst time an Arablan Nighfs Wed |costumie ever had 30 missions | Theater.

Ship Movements fore that." tell me they had been pushed’ oy vais Press “Well,” said Bob, “T was on the around by Beverly -Hills police -outside

yes per Bali sage at the Pasadena Commu-| white getting autographs

* - adm Bremerhaven. Jamaica. nity Playhouse.” lof —Romanofl's . restaurant. The from exto Barrios: Banta Mars, Srom| “No.” sald DeMille. “I ‘mean! kids’ quoted the cops as saying Barsiec: LAY A""Weivrook. even before that. Some job you “It's against the law to get autoYan: | may have held.” graphs in Beverly Hills.” Note to Bob thought fora moment and the kids: There is no such law. Push back but keep the peace.

then said: “I worked for a couple ! 1 L of weeks on the clean-up Bang] 8 is NS Ue {and helped park cars at Santa Walter Wanger is talking “about Rp | Anita race track.” reteaming Alan Baxter and Syl:

“That's it,” sald DeMille. “I'll via Sidney, who scored a big hit veel | introduce you by saying r dis- 10 years ago in “Mary Burns | covered you atidug cars.” Fugitive."

. - ~ Ad 3 Tallulah Bankhead and Donin 55 cities throughout the country, ald Cook, touring in “Private | and there was a big hand every Lives,” were startled out of a | Time Tor the young actor-DeMille—couple of lives by this typ [#a1d" Tie discovered tm the Santa graphical A { Anita parking lot. “Tallulah Bankhead in ‘Private A year latér DeMille cast Bob Lives’ with Donald Duck.” 8 | in another pletire. When DeMille! = £ x» ay #hked Bob how he liked the scripts’ SPIKE JONES never wears a ; {| Bob. said: “The script is fine, but tuxedo to ‘formal parties. Some. IN i» R11 think the role is too similar to one asked him-why. He explained: Bl | the one I played in ‘Union Pacific.’ “It reminds me too much of w Maybe we can change it a little.” ‘my dumber days. I wore a tuxedo | DeMille bristled, got up from every night for 11 years. I'm moments in his desk and snapped: afraid I'd start bedling on my I. “Now listen, young man. If plate with the silverware.”

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: “I've -heen ‘over Tokyo. Ea in three pictures.” ; “No.” Fd DeMille, “I mean be-| THREE IRATE KIDS called to, "Massacre River

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lon Hotel which was. bombed on] the night of a big wedding ‘cele: [& Vaudeville ime" He KEpt-hits jmoney in his mattress, so that wrecked - Chancellery, | {he'd always have something to

City of Berlin Still a Sea ~~

even ‘stopping anybody that day. This was their scow-|

ling day. i Russians take scowling lessons as chikiren and then

We saw some but they were not shooting at anybody or |

- «vx Most. dads ruins. Are proud to Some of a Rnasians | in’ y ike have’ their sons form seémed to bé vacationjsts./fill their shoes, They were prowling around a but anny statute of Frederick the Great. [Thomas fT Mr. Burrows

jeep.passed We glared back. “Tshirts and sults, too.

A few Russian soldiers in alts carrying thing too far when us. They glared at us. the kid fills the oid man's socks,|

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to, the B " “Let's go into a Russian res- to get through.” {taurant,” she said. “Maybe you| It still goes. can get a Russian waiter to in-|

isult you." | We drove past the famous Ad- Today s Best Laug gh

bration when many were kill _ |past the Ipast the wrecked Opera House fall back on." | where Hitler went to héar his

{ [favorite music in the days be-| | Wish rd Sa I Guy Madison and Cathy [fore De faced t ; 9 d That ‘Downs in one of the less violent "Massacre River,"

tarts Wednesday at the

L GERMANY seems still a sea|® few dresses and a dozen hats,

|of roofless houses. The German people must be Drofight some money along.” learning now. . . maybe learning |

ride . during. Which Bahay have.a. fall

Benny Goodman, who used to to us except that we both weighed

I will close with something Will {signing without even saying a Rogers wrote many years ago, + {which is appropriate to this essay. Will said, “I should have written ; earlier about Russia but every-| | “Is it possible that no Rus- body was writing, and I thought| {sian is going to insult us?” I said|I would wait till “they all got B.W. | through: but they are not going

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“Why?” 1 inquired. “It's a habit with the Germans,” I was told. The Russians keep needling the >

‘morials right in the- sacred parts: lof Berlin. | “They put up a new statue or 'buflding avery 5° minutes,” One| German grumbled to us. Thoughtiedsly the the B. W. wiped] away a cigaret butt. The : snatched it up and put it in his | Ss=—— —

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. +» but which they ‘wanted in OVER American money, please, |. It was a good big lunch and 77 . we ate well, so the B. W. and I yours escaped from the Russian sector) ation without ut” any noticeable damage

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