Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1950 — Page 39

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Newt York Feo Discovered Ava

Never Met Her but He Put Miss Gardner on MGM Road

By Earl Wilson RK, July 15—There must be a million good

ries in New York, for just about everybody has at least ofe to tell.

And they come from unexpected people—here's one from the cop om\my beat.

He's a nice Young guy named Barney Duhan. The story is about him and — a girl. | umn before leaving on his I don’t often see Patrolman EUropean tour.

‘Duhan, who's 33, for his beats! “Well, holy smoke,” said Bara long one, taking in quite a ney, “I guess I hadn't thought of stretch of upper Broadway. i that. But I asked him about this! “So I just answered the first story and he said, “Yes, you've thing that came to me. I said, got it about right.” He's a cour-| ‘I'm a talent scout from Metroteous, “well-spoken” chap, as we] Goldwyn-Mayer.' say in the Middle West. { “Of course I was just a little And he flashed back 10 years. |guy running papers back and EE 6 8 forth and no talent scout at all, “ABOUT 1940 or so,” Barney but MGM being part of Loew's Duhan began, “when I was about I knew about the talent scouts 23, I was working in the law de- around there, partment of Loew's, Inc., at 1540 "Well, when I said ‘talent Broadway. scout,” the photographer's assist-

Mr. | Wilson p prepared this col- 3

“They called me a law clerk— lant got all excited. She said the but 1 was principally an errand 8irl was her sister. boy running down to court to file gq a : i papers. “MY SISTER lives in North| “Well.” Barney said. “on this Carolina,’ the woman said, ‘but | particular day I'd been invited to I'll have her fly up here if you

arty and didn’t have anybody “Want to give her a screen test. | 3 nay “lI didn't know what to say,

% : but finally I said, ‘No, this is! Maybe I was ting about merely a routine inquiry. But I the party, because I deviated oniynink it would be a good idea if the way back to the office. you sent her picture to Mr. Mar-| “In the window of a photo-

vin Schenck, the head eastern grapher’s shop at 607 Fifth Ave,

talent scout for MGM.’ "” I saw a very arresting picture | Barney hung up and that night of a young woman.’

didn't go to the party. And he| Barney paused to recall that never mentioned it to Mr, Schenck|_____ face. |because he didn’t care to have Mr. “This young lady had a face Schenck know who was using| that was more intelligent than the name of MGM to try to get] sensual. I thought to myself that dates. I would like to take her to the Later on Barney left MGM— party. they remember him as being a “When I got back to the office, ‘nice young fellow—and became! I went to a phone in the corner & COD. of the office and called the pho-| About two. years later, he

saw that girl's Bp Talhers Shop. lo: =e hen cover of Coronet. y =» = | It seems she was in Hollywood, ! BARNEY admitted this was a Working for MGM. Her sister had pretty direct approach. sent her picture in to Mr, Schenck “It was a woman who an- and she had been quickly signed. swered, and she said, as I remem-| “What name was she using ber, that she was the photogra- then?” I asked. pher's assistant. | “The same one she's using now “And anyway, she wanted to [phys Gardner,"

know who I was. » ” ~

DREAM oe I CHECKED the story with the BRIGHTWOOD [Fifth Ave, photographer, Larry

TODAY—MONDAY—TUESDAY | TAIT. Audie MURPHY ¢ Gale STORM He remembers that Ava’s sis-

1 t ee 1so hi “KID FROM TEXAS” =. iter; Beatrice—who was also his

Richard Basehart—Marilyn Mazwell | wife—told him excitedly of the!

1 a“ Lt” “QUTSIDE THE WALL” call from a “talent scou and

{that he sent in not one picture— Ibut about 60, all his own. | And he also had Ava rush up tl to New York to follow through | College "i 19h | —and she surely did. we DBAT-HONLAY ONLY | Patrolman Barney Duhan's on x | \u

Ex 430) “JOHNNY HOLIDAY" Wed hen she returns to New York|

he’s going to. I personally promise, Mark Stevens—Peter Lawl

rtrd dd Ao eok

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picture on the |

said Barney =

to see to it that Ava meets pp

THE EAGLE

Appearing at the idhborliond and drive-in theaters i in cur.

rent attractions are:

Steve Cochran and Joan Crawford in "The

Damned Don't Cry" (Emerson and Theardir Drive-In), Montgomery

Clift in

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Edgar Bergen—Charlie McCarthy “Letter of Introduction”

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Adults, 250; Kiddies, 12 Plus Tax

"The Story of Gl Joe"

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From Texas

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Payne and Rhonda Fleming in "The Eagle and the Hawk" (Daisy,

Night at the Lake

ve O'Clock! }

Dick Jurgens and his orchestra will be at the Ideal Beach

Sharitidge Bands To Play Thursday

Shortridge High School Alumni Band and the summer school {band will be heard in the annual summer concert at 8 p. m. Thursday on the Meridian plaza of the school.

The concert will be under the {direction of Robert J. .Schultz, |Shortridge Band Director. In {event of rain, the program will be | presented in C aleb Milis Hall.

ITT |

MEW JERSEY at E. WASH. §T

TODAY & MON.—2 BIG HITS Bed HOPE @ RNonda FLEMING

“The Great Lover”

@ Johnny SHEFFIELD §

‘Bomba on Panther Island’

Ballroom at Lake Shafer for a * one-night dance stand tomer- |

row, currently at the ballroom.

C= BEECHGROVE

GA ase TODAY — MONDAY — TUESDAY Audie MURPHY—Gale STORM

Van Johnson—Elzabeth Taylor

“THE BIG HANGOVER”

TODAY ¢ MONDAY ¢ TUESDAY Jeanne PINKYS™

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"BEAUTIFUL BLONDE BASHFUL BEND

CONT. TODAY FROM 1:30 PF. M.

“KID FROM TEXAS” .... |

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‘Eagle and the Hawk’ John Garfield & Michelene Preile

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Lucille al oo Bans Film Test

‘If They Want Yeu, They Want You," Actress Says

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, July 15—Lucille Ball slipped me the lowdown on her failure to pin to the canvas the dumb chick k role in “Born Yesterday” and make it holler uncle.

She's got a touch of Francis the mule in her soul ‘when | it comes to auditions.

Instead of scrimmaging for the role with Evelyn Keyes, ; Judy Holliday, Marie Wilson, girls and wise-cracked for the Shelley Winters and Jan Ster- customers.

AT THE last moment she nixed other way. a dancing and singing routine. The ‘let's-see-if-you're-it” boys The star with the forest-fire hair pleaded and cajoled. shrugged: But Miss Anti-Auditions wasn't 1 decided it would be silly to: having any of the competition, compete with Grable.” thank you. . lg A sat Sf hevie guesns laid We 4 “ . resh supplies of smelling salts 1 figure if they want you, they ice beanies and copies of Remand want you, Lucille plainspoke It rom Nervous Tension” when oe yr HOt to Toad and test for {word got around that Lucille was

about to whoop it up on the six-a-It isn’t chronicled in Hollywood | day circuit.

history, but once, badgered by her| She's a blister-raiser from way RKO bosses, Lucille went tripping hack and the air was shrill with over to David O. Selznick’'s office! couches about a year ago when she for a whack at the Scarlett {whipped up an impression of an O'Hara role in “Gone With the Academy Award winger.

{ Wind.”

That's what curdled her in the, Itirst place.

“It was awful,” Lucile shud-

BUT THE “gins can go back to {worrying about other things like shrinking from larger-than- ~ life to television screen size. I was shaking all over | 1 ycille generally is as unflinchwhen I hit Selznick’s office. My Hing about the movie queen busiknees gave way. I did the whole ness as Pearl White was about audition in scrubwoman posi- |onrushing trains. thank lot.” But her knees executed some ° anks ‘a lot. {wobbles that aren't in Arthur Judy Holliday landed the junk- Murray's rhumba dance book man's doll role and Lucille, when she checked into her first | grabbed a railroad ticket for a/vaudeville dressing room. persenal! appearance tour with! “Those stages—they're so big,” | she gasped. “Hey, I'd hate to get She strutted to Latin rhythms, caught in the middle of one of swung a glittering purse in a man- those stages without bread and ner r dear to the ‘hearts of runaway! water.” A

ROBERT MITCHUM

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‘The o Damned Don’t Cry’ wTaLL INTHE ‘SkBbLEn |

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“His GIRL FRIDAY”

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Rock Island Trail,