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Evening star., 1939-07-16
SisterhOOd
Boring to
Jane Bryan
Actress Is Weary
Of Being a
Nice Girl
HOLLYWOOD,


Hollywood, from Jane Bryan's
viewpoint, is just one big, happy
family and for her careers sake
she'd prefer that some of the ties of
relationship be broken. The little
actress with the friendly grin, the
freckles and the nose that wrinkles
when she laughs is bit fed up with
being ily-white sisters and daugh-
ters and would like a chance at
we'll some such role as Bette Davis
played in Marked Woman" And
if she just could play that part on
the stage of some New York theater
gee!
Her long string of sister, daughter
roles began early in 1887 when she
played Edward G. Robinson's sister
in kid Galahad." Then she did the
part of his daughter in "A Slight
Case Of Murder" She was Kay
Francis laughter in "Confession, ;"
Bette Davis sister twice cMarked
Women" and The Sisters'D and
just now is achieving the almost
impossible by playing the daughter
of both Bette Davis and Miriam
Hopkins in THE Old Maid" This
is accomplished by having her the
natural child of Miss Davis, later
adopted by Miss Hopkins. Just to
make for further family comphca-
ton, Jane marries in the picture
one of four brides presented during
the course of the story.
Even without such parts in pic
lures, Jane Bryan would have quite
enough of sisterhood at home. She
has three brothers, 18, Is and IL, all
younger than she, and to keep their
respect since changing her name and
becoming "one of those movie
actresses" has been something of
a struggle. Her real name is O'Brien.
Warner Bros. changed it when that
studio placed her under contract be-
cause of another O'Brien on the
actor pay roll; a genial Irishman
named Pat. Both she and Pat
thought there was plenty Of room for
two O'Briens at the big Burbank
studio, but the bosses thought per-
haps she'd be tabled as Pat O'Briens
daughter and he's far from old
enough to have a child of 81.
Jane was born in Hollywood and
for that reason acting and the mo-
ton picture business came into her
like as things pretty much for
granted. A real thrill for her would
be chance to 60 to New York to do
a Broadway play. When she thinks
OF that she clasps her hands tightly,
looks up ecstatically and sucks in
deep breath of sheer delight.
In way Bette Davis has spon-
sored Jane Bryan's Hollywood career.
Bette always boosts for her, asks
Tor her in her pictures. It needs
only one little remark of praise
from some one like Bette Davis to
set a young actress on her way to
stardom. And that, most of Holly
Wooo VIII agree with you, Is exactly
where Jane Bryan is headed.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Ski Course
Sans Snow
Is Latest
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
By the Associated Press.
This snowless city has acquired q
new winter sport-skiing on hill
side covered with pine needles.
With ice skating also available on
outdoor Kinks the year around
Hollywood now prides itself as some
thing of a man-made ST. Moritz.
The skiing idea is the special baby
Of one Sepp Benedikter. CHEEKY
round-cheeked expert who came
over from Austria a couple of years
ago to teach snow sports at Sun
Valley, Idaho.
Benedikter conducted his first
pine-needle ski school at Minneap-
oils last summer. The movie trade
beckoned, so the Austrian has estab-
lished much larger slope here, on
the slightly colossal Hollywood scale
Huge quantities of pine needles
the long, clustered variety-have
been sprinkled generously over one
side of 60O-foot cone-shaped hill
which. from a steep peak safe only
for the experts. slants to a long
gentle grade for beginners.
The needles locke like strands o1
leafless hay or the bronzed tips OF
sage. Because they are so long and
clustered they do not slide down hill
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Easy Tricks
Are Really
Tough Ones
Dangerous Feats
Seldom Hurt
Stunt Men
By Vern Haueland,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
Sometimes Dick Metzetti thinks
the smart members of his family
live in New York.
Dick and four of his six brothers
are movie stunt men. Charlie and
Albert live on a farm near Buff
falo, N. Y.
1--WE seldom get hurt on the dan
gerous stunts" Dick says.
Its the simple ones that lay
us low.
Several years ago I dived 40
feet through a window and landed
on my head without a scratch.
"A few weeks later I jumped into
slowly moving automobile, an
easy stunt I had done hundreds
of times.
But this time I fell and broke
my neck in two places"
Currently Dick has assumed his
screen name Of Richard Talmadge,
to be associate director of THE Real
Glory"
A few years ago Dick gave up
stunting and became Talmadge, di-
rector of screen action. AS always,
his four brothers are working with
him, performing-with Billy Jones
and George Suzanne-all the key"
stunts.
Each is a specialist. Jones, says
Talmadge, is the best water man in
town. Suzanne is a high wire and
trapeze man.
Brother Otto does high falls into
nets. Brother Tommy is a rough
and tumble expert.
Brother Victor is an automobile
and motor cycle stunter, but in
The Real Glory" which takes place
in 1906, he had no chance to special
i1e.
Brother Leo lets people fall on
him. He's always the man at the
bottom of the pile.
Talmadge took his six key men
and hundreds of Filipinos to Kern
vile, Calf, last spring, put them
on crude RATS and sent them down
rapids Of the flooded Kern River
IL was plenty tOuGn, Salo Ial-
madge.
"One day one of the RATS shot
IS feet into the air and spilled 40
men into the river. The camera
raft piled up on the wreckage and
dumped the camera into the Kern.
1t took two men two days to fish
it out"
Only man hurt on the picture was
Brother Otto, who sprained his
ankle jumping 80 feet from the
top Of palm tree to wall where
Gary Cooper was firing a Gatling
gun. Otto went right through the
scene and fell OF the wall onto .
mattress before any one knew he
was hurt.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Outdoor Amusements

GLEN ECHO PARK - Only
local outdoor amusement re-
sort with all the usual park
rides, a midway and a pic
mic grove. There's dancing
nightly Except Sundays in
the Spanish Garden ball
room to a name" band.
SEASIDE PARK-At Chesa-
peake Beach, Md. In addi-
ton to the amusement park
attractions there's a mile of
boardwalk and a half-mile
pier out into Chesapeake
Bay.
CITY OF WASHINGTON
The Wilson Line steamer
sails for Marshall Hall Park
and Mount Vernon daily at
10 am. and 2 pm. Other
cruises are the sunset" at
$50, stopping at Marshall
Hall just long enough to load
and unload passengers, and
the nightly moonlight" at
$50, with dancing to Nc
Williams Orchestra.
S. S. POTOMAC-There's a
three hour moonlight"
dance cruise every night at
8:45 pm, with midnight"
Saturday nights at 1890
am. Every Sunday morning
the boat makes a trip to Co.
lonial Beach. leaving at 9
am, returning in the eve
ming.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAM


loo a.m.-WMAL, The Music Hall of the Air
presents the Symphony Orchestra with
Jean Tennyson, soprano; Jan Peerce,
tenor, and Henrietta Schumann. pianist
The following selections are heard:
Overture to the Secret of Suzanne
Meditation" from last act of ''Thais'
First Movement Concerto in c Minor
.,,.-,------- ------- Beethoven
prelude to the Deluge" Saint -Saens
Flower Song from Carmen Bizet
..56o,uu. re me song IN My Heart'------ Salta
l:Oo-WJSV, the growth of the American edu-
cation system is the theme of "Democ-
racy in Action"
I:30-WRC, w. P. A. officials discuss the prob
able effects of the reduced relief budget
just passed by the present Congress.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Few Sounds
On Screen
Are Faxed
HOLLYWOOD.

1AO1JA4 "AV1O.
No longer can theatergoers, upon
hearing a sound from the screen,
honestly wonder how the movies
faxed" it. Today practically every
sound is real. Microphones can pick
up any noise realistically. If mos
quito buzz is wanted for "A Day at
the Circus" landslide for Beau
Geste," that's what is recorded.
Once guns fired lots of smoke but
little sound since microphones
couldn't take it," Now a cannon
can be shot of without harm to
the mike" and plenty guns are
being fired for Thunder Aloft." OF
course they couldn't find a stray
cyclone to record for The Wizard
OF o." b ut machines, operating to
pre-calculations. made the correct
sound, Not long ago the breaking
up of icebergs was wanted for
Spawn of the North" The real
thing wasn't possible, so the squeal
Of a pig was combined with other
sounds.
Naturally, there are occasions which
require special treatment. When it
rains in Northwest Passage" the
window sill is deadened with blot
ting paper to prevent rain drops
Evening star., 1939-07-16

was her lunch. A steak and vege-
tables were her dinner.
At the end Of the three weeks she
had dropped II pounds. Her weight
fell from 116 pounds to los. She
slept nine hours day and in addi-
ton to the dancing, which she con-
sloers an ideal approach to skating,
she swan and played tennis.
II I had let myself CO." she ad-
mltted ruefully. II could have eaten
the side Of a cow with trimmings.
But couldn't afford to and mother
Chats Selma Henie, who is ALWAYS
with her daughteD helped me a
lot by keeping tempting morsels out
OF my way and out of sight"
Thereafter came the mental phase
OF the job. The tango she was to
perform on ice with Stewart Re-
burn, Canadian champion, and the
rhumba number with her 50 skaters
mad to be charted and outlined.
From long experience Sonia has be-
come expert in these matters and
her dance director. Harry Losee. al
most always defers to her in evolv-
ing these routines.
BY the. time these numbers are
satisfactorily ironed out on paper,
production Of Second Fiddle" got
under way and Sonia had her lines
to learn and her script to study.
The picture was in the process of
shooting for three months. Sonia
had her hands full, for acting and
dialogue, all that is required of the
ordinary star, represented only one
half OF her work. She also had to
snatch time out between dramatic
scenes and hasten over to the per-
manent ice set on stage Is to re-
hearse the numbers with Reburn
and her troupe.
sonia rises at every morning in
order to be in the studio in time
for makeup, wardrobe and hairdress.
She Is home by 8 in the evening,
on the average, and in bed by 8.
She gets two messages a day to
relax her and ease overtaxed
muscles
She has a strong cup of tea and
two slices of dry toast for breakfast
while actually before the cameras.
She eats no lunch at all except a
glass of sherbet, and has a fairly
substantial dinner in the evening.
She is now down to l03 pounds and
she feels that she earns every cent
OF her sa!ary-one of the highest
paid a star in Hollywood.
And no one in Hollywood, in
Guiding the Twentieth Century-Fox
executives who pay her. disagrees.
She certainly does earn it.
Evening star., 1939-07-16

with several small cottages and one
larger house. He uses the island
as an anchorage for his boat. He
has a reconstructed house at
MarthaS Vineyard. off the Atlantic
Coast. While Each Dawn / Die"
was being filmed he lived several
weeks in the reconstructed stables Of
his Coldwater Canyon place. Now
he has announced his intention to
sell the Marthas Vineyard place in
favor Of still unsolicited Connecti-
cut farm.
The Lane sisters, Priscilla and
Rosemary, and their mother, who
lives with them, have just finished
move from Van Nuys to Laurel
Canyon, above Hollywood. John
Payne and his wife, Anne Shirley,
have moved into their first house
from an apartment and have bought
enough furniture to fill it. They are
already talking about a bigger house,
with more room for Johns long
legs.
George Brent, real recluse-only
Bette Davis has his home phone
number-moves as soon as the pub
lie catches up with him. It's an un-
usual year when he doesn't call the
transfer trucks at least three times.
Wayne Morris recently moved from
his second-f1oor apartment in his
fathers house and went with his
bride to the beautiful house in
Brentwood that was their wedding
present. There the kid from Ko-
komo' is at much settled as it is
possible for a Hollywood actor to
be-which is a minimum of three
months and maximum of about
three years.
Pat O'Brien, the hearth loving
son of Erin, has stuck it out in his
home between Brentwood and Santa
Monico for several years. He built
summer house on the beach at
Del Mar, near the race track there,
and now he has admitted that the
Brentwood house will be sold in
favor Of another, more suitable"
house nearby which the O'Briens
will build.
Five of the six Dead End Kids
moved in mass migration to the
San Fernando Valley late last year.
Only Leo Gorcey holds out for real
city life.
Find a movie star and you will
find perennial mover. While he
is climbing the ladder of success
he needs bigger and bigger, more
and more elaborate homes. After
he passes the peak-usually quite a
while after-he reverses the process.
But always he moves. There are
houses in Hollywood, Beverly Hills
and on the hills of the vicinity which
have served as homes for a dozen
top-ranking stars. They rented
them or they bought them and then
they moved out and others moved in.
"A house is like suit of clothes"
explains Humphrey Bogart. "It
wears out on you. So you move.
The foolish ones are those who buy
the houses, expecting to occupy them
forever"
Evening star., 1939-07-16

cal Comedy" is presented by DR.. Frank
Black and the N. B. c. orchestra.
7:30-WOL Edwin Franko Goldman presents
another band concert.
8:00-WJSV, the melodic music of Hoagy Car
michael, Jerome Kern. Irving Berlin and
Victor Herbert high light the sixth Sum-
mer Hour program.
8:30-WRC, compositions by Gluck. Rossini
Fox and Victor Herbert are featured on
the American Album of Familiar Music
9:O0-WMAL, the National Symphony Orches-
ira. conducted by Hans Kinder, broad
casts from Water Gate. The following
selections are heard:
ENTRANCE of the Gods Into vahalia" Wagner
terdammerung' Wagner
The Enchanted Lake" iiadov
"Capricco Espagnor' Rmsky- -Korsakov
Evening star., 1939-07-16

WHO lldS llNcU Ill dllllOob CFCiy oSSpAoAA
of Los Angeles and environs during
the seven or eight years she has
been in pictures. Two of her houses
were places previously occupied by
Greta Garbo, but both of these
were accidental associations Miss
Davis is back in Brentwood Heights
now, not far from the house she oc-
cupied five years ago. In the interim
she has lived on the Los Feliz
Heights in East Hollywood, in Bev-
erly Hills and, briefly, in the San
Fernando Valley, as well as in one
or two less easily described locations.
Paul MUM lived in apartments
when he first came to Hollywood and
invested his earnings in stocks and
bonds. That was before 1929 when
he lost most of his savings and
bought his first house, place in the
San Fernando Valley near Van
NuyS. He tired of that, eventually
rented it to a tenant and found and
purchased another place and much
larger one, high on Palos Verdes
Estates below Redondo, nearly 40
miles from Warner Bros. studios,
where he works. When he started
"Juarez" his first picture in nearly
two years, he decided that this new
house was too big and without fur
ther consideration he rented it to
tenant who admired its wonderful
view. Then he moved to the Toluca
Lake district from which he is now
conducting series of real estate
Investigations in black slouch hat
and an italian accent.
I've moved too often" he says
grimly. Now I want smaller house,
more accessible to the studio and
one that offers a view. We do not
intend to go back to any of the
houses we have occupied"
When Joe E. Brown bought still
uncompleted house on the west edge
of Beverly Hills after living with his
family for many months in apart
ment hotels, he seemed to think he
was personally settled for life. He
enlarged and remodeled and stuck
it out for several years. The other
day he moved. The new house is
blgger, more expensive and PROBABLY
no more permanent than the last
one, which had soda fountain in
stead of a bar and athletic equip
ment in the yard where JOE could
teach his family few of his old
circus tricks.
One of the most constant movers
IN Hollywood is James Cagney. He
has house in Beverly Hills which
has been home to him, after FASH
ion, for more than five years. But
1t is for sale now and Jimmy's new
place, a six-room stone and timber
New England cottage in Coldwater
Canyon, is almost ready for his
occupancy.
Meantime, however, Cagney has
lived here, there and elsewhere. He
has an island at the end of Balboa
Evening star., 1939-07-16

hectic history.
For instance, Sonia and her troupe
OF So expert skaters recently re-
corded in celluloid a spectacular
rhumba number for the Irving Ber-
lin production, Second Fiddle" in
which she is co-starred with Tyrone
Power under Sidney Lanf1elds di-
rection.
They were at it for six solid days.
They started at in the morning
and they finished usually at in the
evening and they were on the ice
the entire time.
Physically, it is a tricky and haz-
ardous undertaking. It requires
amazing precision and coordination
for 1t Is an involved routine, done at
full tilt, with the skaters falling in
and out of the dance patterns in
dividually and in groups to get the
desired effects.
One person slightly out OF position
as they swoop through the routine
spoils the take. And there have
been so many of these takes that
Lanf1eld himself has lost count.
The major burden of all this nat
urally falls on the blond star. 1t is
she who is required to execute the
most difficult steps. At one point
she is required to spin for 48 seconds
in one spot, at a speed the eye can
hardly follow. In coming out of the
spin she is slightly dizzy, but she
must Immediately skate backward
at full speed through a narrow lane
left for her by the 81 members of
the ensemble travelling forward at
speed in the opposite direction. It
is a touch and 60 business and only
a super athlete could accomplish it.
Which is, essentially, what Sonia
is as she demonstrated in winning
three Olympic titles and 10 world
championships.
How does she manage it?
Well, for three weeks before
shooting started on Second Fiddle"
Sonia was in training. For four
hours day she danced to the music
of portable victrola at her home.
She ate but little in that period. A
slice of bacon, toast and tea made
up her breakfast. A vegetable salad
Evening star., 1939-07-16
She Was There

When Isabel Jewell prepared to
leave for Idaho on location for
Northwest Passage" she was told
she must be inoculated for spotted
fever. She revealed a strange fact.
She was raised in Shoshone, Wyo.,
daughter Of doctor. She caught
the disease and her fathers des-
perate work to save her life and ef-
feet . cure resulted In the present
inoculatton being perfected.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Clark Is Second

Clark Gable has just learned he
has been beaten to the portrayal of
Rhett Butler in Gone With the
Wind"-and by his own namesake.
Recently in little theater in Demo-
polls, Ala, a production with child
actors was held. Rhett was played
by Clark Gable Koch, so named at
birth because his parents thought
he looked like the star.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Todoy's High Lights
(All time Pm. unless indicated. J

6:3o-WJSV, Emo Rapee conducts for the
ll00th time the famous overture to
Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus"
Other high lights on the program are
Softly as in the Morning Sunrise" sung
by Jan Peerce; Waltz Hugette' sung
by Jane Froman. and the ever-popular
AT Dawning,' sung by the American
Singers.
7:00-WMAL, the world premiere of new
work by Donald j. Walker, young Ameri-
can composer and arranger. entitled
-Four Dances From an Imaginary Musi-
Evening star., 1939-07-16

popping" CARLOS silk gowns in
"Ninotchka" are lined with linen
to prevent cracking. The news
paper Norma Shearer reads in The
Women has been dampened to
eliminate loud rustling. Typewriters
always have soft rollers and every
Evening star., 1939-07-16

actor, even extras. must have rub
ber-heeled shoes to keep scenes from
sounding like thunderstorms.
But these are minor tricks with
the real thing, Even screen echo
is real, recorded at a known echo
ing location.
Evening star., 1939-07-16

MEET THE "GlBsoN GIRL" OF 193sShes the "petty Girl"
shown at the left Artist George Petty
pcwe conceued her. ,Dh legs longer head smaller
things than in real life The oappearing gentlemen
queer Arthur & Hornbow III Dance Director Leroy
Drecor Mark Sandich attempting to Pey for
ne flm Man About Toun vhich to the Friday
Shena Darcy rght is OF the PETTY Girls" they selected
and not bad job selecting you don't mind US saying so
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Home Is Never Home Long
To Ever>Moving Stars
Transfer Trucks Kept Always Busy
Carting Film Favorites From
One House to Another
Q,T Touoc
By Carlisle Jones.
HOLLYWOOD.


moving the film colony Stars the moneest
location
furnish warming and begin looking around spot
the
perhaps guides homes
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Sonia Henie Really Works
For That Effortless Grace
Behind the Stars Flashing Ease
On Skates Lies Schedule
OF Rigorous Training

Few indeed the athletes the undergo the rgor
training grind which
formances ice " ~
Before the swr through
the enortess grace OF swallow the wing But this
so many Others appearances deceiving
Sonia works harder both mentally physically to get those
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Tomorrow Night
At $40

OLNEY-Kitty Carlisle is the
weeks guest star, appearing
in the leading role in the
comedy Tonight or Never"
ROAD SIDE - The Fatal
Brand" flamboyant old
time melodrama with a cast
of Roadside veterans, con-
tinues for a second week.
CROSS ROADS-"Seven Keys
to Baldpate," the popular old
mystery thriller, starts
two-week engagement.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
tobacco Growers Sales
For 1888 Decrease

The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics reported today grower sales
of 1888 produced flre-cured tobacco
totaling 78,954287 pounds for an av-
erage price of s806 per 100 pounds.
This volume was 81 100000 pounds
less than sales from the 1897 crop.
which brought an average price of
$1,000
A decrease in acreage harvested
and lower yields per acre counted
for the substantial reduction in sales,
the bureau said. Lower yields were
reported in most fire-cured districts
because of a wet growing season and
the prevalence of plant diseases.
The bureau said that in some dis
tricts the 1888 crop was considered
the poorest in quality in years. The
quality condition was reflected in
the lower price average.
Sales by types were reported as
follows:
for price average of Slo75. Compared
with l9.s53.610 and slO.69 in the previous
Eastern district. type %. produced in
Tennessee and Kentucky 455lI.2s2
pounds, for price average Of S7i2. COM
pared with "a 1893 o22 and s1i5i in the
Western district type 90. produced IN
Rsn5dsky Bonnas for and nrtcs Tennessee 4s,2ii
with tn pess ayerssd ssd 8 s9s9 COM
Northern or Henderson stemming district
produced in Kentucky i ,33s.5a5S pounds pounds.
With 1850 and s3o1 sos IN the p1ayoss
season.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO July 7 oP tUnted, States
Department of Agriculturel .-Salable hogs
5000; weights under 240 pounds fairly
active; around steady with Thursdays S
average; other butchers and packing sows
slow. mostly 10l5 lower: bulk, sorted lS0-
240 pounds. 7.20-40: top 40: few 1901 10
pounds 70o-i5; most 27o-30o pounds 900
e5 bulk 300-500 pound packing soWs
5,10-6,00; mostly 100000 pounds 4.50-
BIS.
Salable cattle. 1000 salable calves, 300:
hardly ercugh fat steers here to make a
market: trade fairly active and fully steady
on odd lots and few scattering loads; top,
9.75, paid for choice S40pound hefers;
best steers, a65; sprinklne dry.feds SO
Q25; Southwest grassers 5.15-6.15, these
scaling 800 to 500 pounds; light West low
grades ) 50-6. 90: vealers firm al 10. 10000;
bulls weak TO Is lower: shipper demand
very narrow for sausage offerings, but lit
tie interest buying at 40 down. no stock
ers available in fresh receipts: both stock
and fat cattle closed the week firm to
25 higher.
and yearlings active. strong to 3 higher:
good to choice native spring lambs upward
to 1925 and 1040 freely, few l0.50-60:
part deck good to choice 17-pound Nebraska
$3.50; near choicce load 9,1o: good 1o7-
pound weights s.75; sheep firm: native
slaughter ewes 2.50-350