Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1949 — Page 21

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“Seven speeches the Governor made without a bobble,” said the man of loud sport jacket and horn-rimmed glasses, “He's a natural”

Another ‘Natural’ Actor

IT TOOK an hour to ‘find out what kind of a performance another “natural” actor gave, Wil Ham Krafft, chairman of ticket sales, talked for a half hour on the phone. J. R. Townsend, president of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club, used a large portion of an hour. Several people pus around the suite wereusing adjectives freely. Something was “great.” “You did the finest staring job into a mug of

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Happy stars . . . actors (left to right) William Bendix, Gov. Henry F. Schricker and Allen Martin [Johnny Holiday) in a gay scene from the R. W. Alcorn production,

+. “Director k. b y td : : RRR rashes.” I ~ \ 3 nN } \ \ Mr Guidiecks-T gathered. Gots § 100 Sf A Ine ! ! a \ while he examines rushes, Doesn’ up. hia fee » . When he directed me in the tavern scene, Mr. Picture Story by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer Goldbeck wasn't talkative, He merely propped me : : : up on a bar stool in Duggans Tavern (Shea's EN 3 . ‘ a a’. Tavern) and toid me not to move, say a word, a pe blink my eyes, breathe until the camera stopped " grinding. His final words were to keep my mug out of the mug of beer in front of me. Never did get to taste the beer. 4 ‘Acting by Hoagy Carmichael, Dr. E. M. Dil,

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Wendell Fewell, State Boys' School at Plainfield, was praised by “Say, Windy, how. are you supposed to atiend a world premiere?” Cute. “Stars usually go ‘black tie’ (wear tuxedos), roll up in long cars. You married? No?| Well, your bimbo ought to be wearing a terrific gown of some sort, couple yards of mink, at least, and a small spray of orchids. At charity premieres, the stars usually carry their own pencils for autographing.”

Plenty of Big Shots

ALLEN MARTIN, who plays “Johnny Holi day” in the picture, is working with Alfred Lunt and ‘Lynn Fontanne in New York. Can't be here. William Bendix, who has a nice part in the picture, is deep in another called, “Kill the Umpire.”

ing a picture. You guessed it. But, there will “be plenty of big shots here, y | Arthur Campbell, executive secretary to Gov. Schricker, revealed that the man in thé white hat, had his party made up to go to the premiere, Just being friendly. | At the City Hall, Mayor Al Feeney, most, sympathetic to my idea of proclaiming tomorrow “Jane Russell Day,” said 1 could expect delayed action. } “I'm pretty busy signing the proclamation for ‘National Kid's Day for Saturday but I'll see what can be done. I think I appreciate your. feelings, young man.” Well, thank you, Mayor. | Somebody told me this, i*’s true, too, the best 20 seconds of the whole picture take place early] in the showing. The scene is in Duggan's Tavern. | The camera is shooting across the bar. A bufn-type character actor is staring in his mug of beer. Oscar?

Uranium Fever

By Robert C. Ruark ANE Ie”

Sonja Henie, in her role of an arimated doll for the "Nursery

CENTRAL CITY, Colo, Nov, 17-This crumbling old ghost town, ohce the turbulent mecca of a gold rush, hangs sadly on the side of a steep hill but shows signs of perking up again. Soméfhing of the old spirit, the old fever, is beginning to rustle once more in this neck of the woods. It is not gold madness this time, although this area once was called the richest quarter mile in the world. Now it is uranium fever,’

Geiger Counter Is Best Seller

NEAR CENTRAL CITY years ago the first pitchblende was discovered. Pitchblende is a mineral which yields a rather important little substance in today’s “world—uranium. It is the basic yeast of the atom bomb and hence is some what more desirable than platinum, since if is scarcer than co-operation among the armed forces. They are apt to sneer at gold today, because the expense of gold-mining is almost prohibitive, But the government offers a $10,000 bounty for discovery of sites which will yield a reasonable amount of fissionable mineral Colorado is thickly smeared with deposits of carnotite, aunolite, vanadium and pitchbiende, from all of which can be extracted minute quantities of potential yomhestulring It costs more fo produce this stuff here than to buy it from the Belgian Congo, and the combined yield of Canada and the United States provides only about 20 per cent of what we need for out atom foundries. But the fever is running high. Again, not so high as in the days of C ‘pple Creek and the other bonanzas, but high enough. Every other sheepherder owns a Geiger counter, the handy liftle instrument which buzzes fretfully when it is confronted by radioactive matter. Geiger counters can be purchased fairly cheaply «from $50 to §100 for machines of varying worth. There must be at least 1000 at large in the state. The miner of today and tomorrow carries & ig

New Orleans Blues By Frederick C. Othiman,

Behind the scenes . . . Girls of the chorus hurry into cos- Chapple a" och

in the "i " fumes for the ballet, "Dream of Love." They will accompany Mi along : of the Henie who takes the sootlight for this number. X ods stage. adge ;

Memories” sequence, goes through her routine in a final rehearsal before the 1950 Hollywood Ice Revue is premiered in the Coliseum at 8:30 p. m. today.

no pick and drives no burro. He rides in a jeep and his counter chuckles and “links as he takes the pulse of the vast mineral deposits of the Colorado mountains. Old and sorrowful wounds in the earth, the played-out mines of the gold and silver and copper strikes, are being probed again in the hope of finding a lucky concentration of pitchblende or} vanadium. The Geiger counters whirr in the haunted shafts and the nostrils of the prospectors twitch in anticipation. To date, no exceptional finds have been recorded, although there are some operations at Durango, at Caribou, at Grand Junction. It is highly possible that there are no heavy deposits of ore of sufficiently high grade to cause a sharp change in our atom economy. But nobody can tell for sure and so the hope exists. The prospector is an eternal optimist. He figures that what one man did he can do, and atomic energy has provided him with a fresh horizon for his hopes. This optimism not only has infected the brash young geologists with the dude clothes and the college educations, but has spread to the cynical, whiskery old timers.

No Law Against Trying AS ONE mining expert was saying in Denver the other day, nobody yet knows a great about atomic fission, or what is finally splittable and what ain't. One of these days some sheepherder with a second-hand Geiger counter may stumble on a craggy hill so vitamin-rich with the ingredients of destruction that the Comstock Lode might appear as a penny-ante poker pot. It isn't -Hkely, the man said, but it isn't impossible, either, and there isn't any law against trying. {

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STILL EN ROUTE TO YUCATAN, Nov, 17— 1 am full of oysters Rockefeller and blazing brandy (extinguished an instant before it went down the hatch) and my head is ringing with a song about Marie La Veaux, the voodoo queen. “She snaps her fingers an’ she shakes her head . . .” I've also got a small package of snake dust in my hip pocket in case anybody's figuring on putting a hex on me; What all this means is that kind friends in New Orleans said it was a waste of time looking at -native life in the jungles of Central America when I could take a look at life as it is lived in their home town. So I took a night off from this hegira to the tropics for a whirl with them around the French quarter and now I've got an inkling of why New Orleans is the favorite city of everybody who's ever been there. My pals said the time had come for me to have the first. good meal. of my life. They took me to a French place, name of Antoine's, established back in 1840, and I was so busy looking it took me until midnight to get my eating done. You hungry? Listen: This meal started with oysters baked on the half’ shell in such a way that it was ‘difficult to tell where the sauce ended and the oyster began. Came then shrimp bisque, which is’ a kind of soup; beefsteak broiled in red wine; potatoes puffed out in fashion mysterious until they looked like balloons; what the waiter called peche flambee, and cafe Brulot diabolique., This was as dangerous as it sounds. is

Pyrotechnics at Antoine's

THE LIGHTS went out and that peche flambee business turned out to be peaches sizzling in brandy burning in a large silvef.dish. The waiter spurted the flaming liquor toward the ceiling and allowed

it to splash, still blazing, on the tablecloth,

At this juncture came another waiter with another bowl of flaming cognac and they engaged

..bald head and an old derby, name of Sharkey,

Down, -but not out. Carel Doris Williams demonstrates. that all. is.not ease and grace in the life of

The only Hight wis blue f¥om the brandy blaze a skater. She does an outstanding western roping-act in the new ice show,

‘streaking through the afr and why Antoine's] didn’t burn down, I'll never know. As it was the] tablecloth didn't even seem scorched. Asbestos,

Ballerina on blades . . . Scottie Robertson of Glasgow, Scob land, poses’ in her costume during the “Dream of Love" ballehs..... Si sequence, ‘ as be Da De am ” : : | G Alerted | i ES: maybe. : { i One fire went out in the peaches; the other Roy Rogers Club Members Us. Takes Padlock va h erie . 3 Killed, ) Hurt was quenched in the coffee and when I'd recov-! { ered from that, we burst into Bourbon 8t., which Set for Bus Week-End . As Typ oon Hits { : " ; seems to be Paris’ Place Pigalle; only more 80. | y : | AGANA, Guam, Nov, 17 (UP) | For 10 blocks every door seems to lead into » . ~Residents sought shelter inj d a saloon. Each bar turns out to be a kind of - Cunningham Birthday Contest Closes Saturday; caves and other storm shelters : miniature theater, and such whoopla you never . s fo » {today as the first winds of a 100- g : did hear. Some of these establishments specialized Boys and Girls to Greet Santa Claus Satisfied With mile-an-hour. typhoon _ whipped! 2 Men Die in Crash oR in nearly naked ladies.doing the humps; the others By ART WRIGHT Ferguson Arrangement this island. Near Mt. Meridian stressed old-fashioned New Orleans jazz, played e | The Navy weather bureau anlow down. : | It will be a big week-end for members of the Roy Rogers Club,| Federal Treasury Department ,,unced that the full fury of the Three men died in state traffie In one of these I heard a small citizen in a | sponsored by The Times and the Fountain Square Theater. {agents had removed padlocks storm would not hit here for sev- and two women were injured in toot} ra . : Re Saturday will be the last day for members to enter their esti- from the Sunset Terrace, big Ip-jerab hours, Buk strong wings. al {ioeal accidents during the past 24 ootle on silver cornet a song such as nobody! . | ? Lo ready have knocked down n- r report i except a New Orleanser ever heard before. Title: mates of the age and birth, hour and minute of Earl Cunningham, diana Ave. Negro night clubi boc. 0d smashed small boats "°% s, police po ed today. The Muskrat Rag. All about the incipient fur manager of the Fountain Square Theater and “daddy” of the cub and other properties of Denver, Apra Harbor. The island was!’ The dead were: coats in the bayous; the customers were so en- Here. Mr. Cunningham observed his birthday yesterday. Members Ferguson today. (placed on a “condition 1” alert. | Clarence Wayne Miller, 32, of tranced they forgot their Sazarac cocktails. |will be permitted to still drop their . —— " \/ Wilbur ©. Plummer, deputy] A B-29 weather reconnaissance Knox, Ind. ; ; Girl Clad i estimates in the contest box at With mother or dad to visit Roy! .gjjector of ‘internal revenue in|Plane plotting the storm reported| William Crecrigft,” 25, of Terre ir ad in Tomcat {the theater on Saturday. The win- Rogers. | Indianapolis, said Mr. Ferguson|that it had gained momentum as Haute. i

DOWN THE STREET about four doors in a ner will get a $10 cash prize. | Free Ploture had “made satisfactory arrange-|\t Shed Irom the Carvings to the, over Noble Hannis, of Benton, X i ; tisfy an alleged Marianas lsiands. place called the Paddock was a band consisting Hosts to Santa | Club members attending the ments 0 satisfy alleged | ether the typhoon would nie

$82,410.11 government tax debt.|

of six elderly Negroes, led by one Papa Celestin, | : d ft ersi who tore holes in the roof with the 12th Street. Rag.| Also on Saturday — at 10:30 Saturday. afternoon Boy Rog 'He would not elaborate on what|Okinawa or

Then they got busy with the saga of the voodoo a. m.—the club members will be show at the Fountain Square willl... "4+ orrangements the night/KnOWD. queen; Stokowski, himself, never had an audience official hosts to the Wm. H. Block receive a color autographed ple-|club owner and theatrical book- we = o_o. more rapt. Co. Santa Claus when he arrives ture of Roy Rogers and Trigger. ing agent had made. Firemen Save Gas Orden Overman, 38 of Kt tdi The strip-tease saloons, featuring ladies in at Weir Cook airport. | Boys and girls not over 12 years ier . ’ , 8, okomo, oyster shells and gold fish bowls, had their doors| The first week of the mystery old may join the club free and one I a "N. In a ‘Run Next Door. operator of the auto, was siightly open so the prospects could get a sample look for tune contebt closes Saturday and participate in the contests and|g. te Ave. the Sunset ‘Cafe. 873 CHICAGO, Nov. 17 (UP) — injured. i) free. 1 chose the cat girl. She was clad mostly the second-week question cards other fun planned by clipping thel, .... . AVS. the. Bunset. Terrace Firemen of Engine Co. 103 didn’t] he other two men died when in a large black tomcat. Alive. Hers was a|for the new Roy Rogers mystery membership blank from The gory i000 Ave and the Ferg. even get the motor of their truckitheir car skidded 150 feet and vigorous performance and the wonder was that tune will be available at the Times. Membership cards signed Manufacturing Co. 322 N |warmed up when they made a3 cement abutment two she didn't get scratched to death. . |Fountain Square Theater. Theby Roy Rogers will be issued at g. ..” Ave “were pa Aocked: by 0 to the J. Lerner Box Co.lof Mt. Meridian on U., 8, 40." Then I picked up my package of snake dust|club member submitting the best|Block's toy department, the Foun-| pn von in surprise raids Tues. |TVh0t. ’ (75 cents) for voodoo purposes and resumed my entry each week for several weeks|tain Square Theater or The Times , The blazing factory was right! ., py Mr, flying machine for points south, - If the mysterious will win a free trip to Hollywood when the blank is presented. Avokeamen or Mr. Ferguson next door to the station. 8 jungle of Mexico can match the ditto of New : 1. : poke igs Watér-soaked corrugated boxes), .q wag dry, police

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Hearing Set Dec. 5

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (UP)— leste Reports that blond movie star TAN 4 I r

Shirley Temple would reconcile|P¢ing8 approached in the Jewish The. 9% "The United States

with her actor-husband, Jolin|Cemetery, Bluff Rd. and West St.[0f America vs. Alger Hiss” was The girl told police she was|C8lled for the second time to-

Agar, were dashed when the onetime child actress was granted a trial date for her divorce. R

Miss Temple learned yesterday cemetery en route to school when Judge Henry W. Goddard, 73.

that her suit would come up Dec. a middle-aged

5, and her attorney said a prop- her with improper remarks.

erty settlement was nearly com-| She ran, she : The i, 21-year-old star ed her hwsband of

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