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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Midgets Are
Live
Pixies To Star

HOLLYWOOD Especially -
The life of a midget, in Holly.
wood or anywhere else for that
matter, has its advantages TO-
gether with its probes. This
was revealed at M-G-M studios
recently when a troupe of the
little people"-23 of them
checked in to appear in Three
Wise Fools" starring Margaret
O'Brien, with Lionel Barry
more, Lewis Stone. Edward Ar
mold and Thomas Mitchell.
Beat Housing Shortage
When they arrived in Holly
wood, due to the housing short
age, they were lodged comfort
ably in reconverted dressing
rooms at the studio.
we don't mind being small, "
Billy Curtis, spokesman for the
troupe declared. THE only thing
that is really tough is this mat
ter of shaving for the men. Hotel
architects apparently labor un-
der the delusion that six feet is
standard height for all males.
Even reasonably short men have
hard time gazing into a hotel
bathroom mirror, So what does
that make us?
THE chairs" he went on, "are
usually too big to drag through
a bathroom door. AS result,
we just have to team up. We
take turns sitting on each
others shoulders while we
shave, a none-too-steady perch.
Sure-we cut ourselves.
Unreal To Margaret
Out at the studio the little
people were looked upon as the
nearest thing to real pixies that
tiny star, Margaret O'Brien ever
seen. She was convinced that
the small, doll-like folk are far
outside the realm of reality and
never ceased to watch with
open-eyed wonderment as they
slowed away full-sized meals in
the studio dining room.
II thought they lived on dew
out of bluebells," she told her
mother seriously.
On the set, Director Eddie
Buzzell was loud in his praise
of the troupe as actors.
The only people in Hollywood
really confused about the whole
thing, was a taxi company.
There was a knotty problem
there concerning fare from 7th
and Broadway to the Culver
City studio.
Come each morning, the door
man hailed one taxi into which
piled 18 midgets!
The driver was never able to
find the answer in his fare book!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
New Acting Honors
For Peter LawfOrd

HOLLYWOOD - Firmly
establishing him as one of the
leading young actors of the
year, Peter Lawford has been
signed for a featured role in the
Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer musical,
1t Happened in Brooklyn" CO.
starring Frank Sinatra and
Kathryn Grayson.
Young Lawford won the role
on the strength of his outstand-
ing performance in the musical,
Two Sisters From Boston,"
and his recent work in my
Brother Who Talked to Horses"
1T Happened in Brooklyn" is
to be filmed in Technicolor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Boy Star Studies
At ROOney's Desk

HOLLYWOOD-Dean Stock
well, filmland's newest candi-
date for juvenile stardom, has
inherited Mickey Rooney's olo
desk at the tMro- Goldwyn- May
er studio school house.
The 10-year-old actor, now
appearing with Wallace Beery in
The Mighty McGurk," was as
signed Rooney's desk. The desk
has Mickey's initials and those
of Judy Garland cut in it. A
large heart encloses them!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

Ann Richards, beautiful Aus
tralian-born star in Hal Wallis
The Searchinf Wind" new
Paramount release, studied
business administration in col
lege and was working as a
secretary when she made her
first screen test.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
WOODEN ANNIVERSARY

Paramount's mystery drama
Calcutta" reunites Alan Ladd
and William Bendix for the fifth
time. Previous starring vehicles
for this doughty pair were
China" 'TheGlass Key" Two
Years Before the Mast and
"The Blue Dahlia."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

then jump several hundred miles
to a seaside setting at Monterey,
California.
Feat of Movie Magic
There, at Montegey, is where
two-thirds of the picture star
ring Greer Carson and Robert
Montgomery will be filmed.
Along that eighteen miles of
rocks studded coast, a studio
technical crew, $50 in number,
worked for sixteen weeks, erect
ing French village highlighted
by a cottage of stone high on a
bluff overlooking the Pacific,
and a Breton shrine carved out
of living rock.
The natural beauty of the
Monterey peninsula is dupli-
cate of Frances Normandy
coastline which figures so pro-
minently in MGMs story of
simple fisher folk who find the
results of war have revealed
their most primitive emotions.
Dame Nature provided this
setting. Movie magic supple
ments it inside the Culver City
lot.
Ingenuity, plus hard work and
elbow grease, also transformed
one of MGM's huge lots into a
section of Brittany.
Replica of Brittany
A tank 200 feet square and
ten feet deep was dug to float a
fishing fleet of twelve boats,
none smaller than 35 feet. This
fleet was originally the long
boats once used in the film,
Northwest Passage" Remodel
ed with square sterns, rigging,
masts and sails, they were
replicas of the fishing boats
which provide the livelihood for
the Breton peasants.
Twenty-Five buildings, vary
ing from a French city hall, to
tobacco shop and wine inn, make
up the village. A mile nearer
the main studio lot, is still more
of this village setting. It is fair
with tents, merry-go-
round, and the French equiva-
lent for the American hot dog
stands. In the center stands a
church, its spire extending into
the sky. 1t, too, stands on a
river.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
VACATION FROM A HIT

Harold Vermilyea, prominent
Broadway actor, took four
weeks off from his role in the
hit play, Deep Are The Roots, +"
plays a featured part in his
first talking picture, "O.S.S." at
Paramount.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
HEIGH HO HUTTON

Betty Hutton makes use of her
riding skill in Paramount's
"Perils of Pauline" when emu
lating the feats of serial queen
Pearl White she races a speed
ing freight train on a horse.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
HE'S A TEACHER

James Brown, tennis cham
pion prior to his Hollywood
career, is teaching the game to
Bill Edwards, his coworker in
"Our Hearts Were Growing Up"
The two Paramount leading men
are close friends in private life.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
LEARNS SEA TALK

Paramount employed an old
sea dog, formerly clipper cap
tain, to teach William Bendix
the jargon of ship life before the
star began his role as the first
mate in 1.-TWO Years Beofre the
Mast"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

is the kind OF
film t h a t
breezes merri-
ly along from
start to finish
with never a
dull moment.
An excellent
supporting cast
includes Patric
Knowles, Reg
inald o w e n,
c ecil Kella-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Movies Build Own
Brittany Coast Village

HOLLYWOOD Especially - Any school kid in geography
class who insists that the coast of Brittany in California just
northeast of Culver City know what he's talking about
The Breton village for Metro-Coldwyn-
Mayors Woman of spread
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Paramount's Picture Kitty"
Delightful Film Fare
BY Burny Zawodny

Take combination like Paulee Goddard and Ray Mland
them together spicy story of Eighteenth Century vintage
top all off with Mitchell Lesen at the drectora hem
entertaining picture moviegoers could hope
to see Adapted Marshals sensational book
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

Paramount's 'Kitty, " viii c h
opened at the Paramount The
ire to an enthusiastic audience,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
THE REEL THING

More than a dozen different
Indian races an dreligions are
epre sented in Paramount's s
Calcutta" including Hindu,
Moslem, Sikh, Afridi, Singha-
lese, Punjabi and Gurkha.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Wheeler
Continued From First PAGE J

the man who is making his first
serious bid for seat in that as
sembly.
The challenger's wide margin in
Butte, strongly unionized town
was seen as evidence that Mr.. Erick-
son had scored with his charges
that Senator Wheeler is anti-labor
even though President Truman ano
John L. Lewis. president of the
United Mine Workers, had written
letters to the Senator defending his
record on labor legislation.
Zales N. Ecton appeared to be the
Republican choice to oppose the
winner of the Erickson Wheeler
duel in the November election. With
302 precincts reported, the Manhat
tan rancher had $500 votes to 2,e54
for r. E, Skeen, Billings railroad
brakeman.
Representative Mansfield, Demo
cratic Representative from the Isl
'Western) district, seemed a Ger
tain choice for denomination WITH
1908 votes from 155 of 3e6 pre-
clncts against 1856 for Phil ODon.
nell. Butte attorney. On the Re,
publican side of this district. Wal.
ter r. Rankin of Bozeman In re-
turns from 116 precincts had asia
R. c. Line, Missoula professor, 7o4
| and M. S. Galasso, Butte law
yer. 554.
Montana S other incumbent House
member, Representative DEwart
was unopposed for the Republican
nomination in the I'd tEastern) dis
trict and 179 of 760 precincts gave
him 5,6o2 votes. while 1T precinct,
gave 1887 to John j. Holmes, hi;
unopposed Democratic rival.
Palestine has prohibited importa-
ton Of all types of gaming machines.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Funeral Rites Held
For Helen PaHen
OF 'Patten Sisters

Miss Helen Patten, SO. one of the
Patten sisters whose old home at
2122 Massachusetts avenue NV. was
gathering place for foreign diplo-
mats, American statesmen and
clergymen, died Sunday at Emer-
gency Hospital where she had been
i'll a week. Requiem mass was said
yesterday at st. Matthews Cathedral
Burial was in Mount Olivet Gene
terry.
Miss Patten. better known as Mel
lie than as Helen. was one of five
Patten sisters who came here with
their parents in the 1905 from the
West and were among the first OF
/ the mine owners TO return to the
East. Like the Washes, the Beales
and the Guggenheims, the Patten,
built great house and entertained
/ in the grand tradition
The Patten house came to be
known as the Irish Embassy or the
Irish Castle because of the devoui
Irish nature of the sisters. who hae
private chapel where noted priest:
came TO celebrate mass. Carolina
Gibbons often came from Baltimore
| for visit.
| Sunday afternoon teas at the
Castle were attended by diplomats
of many countries and the fame OF
the sisters teas spread to capitals
| all over the world. srT,~ as
One Of the sisters, Augusta. who
married Mr.. Glover from San
Francisco, died many years ago
Another sister, Miss Josephine Pat
ten, died last year The two sur
viving are Mrs. Edythe Corbin,
widow of Maj. Gen. Henry Corbin
and Miss Mary Patten.
Since the passing OF the old DAYS
Of Washington. the sisters had lived
quietly at 1925 Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
UAW Launches 7-Doy Strike
Of Meat Buyers at Union Rallies

down by act of Congress or other
wise reduced.
Asks OPA Restoration.
UAW-sponsored rallies took place
in Cleveland. Chicago and other
cities in the unions Save the OPA'
drive. Congress was urged to re-
store price control and consumers
to restrict their buying to most
urgent necessities"
Placards carried by demonstrators
said "a price increase is a wage
cut and We're not buying till
prices stop flying" Attendance at
the affairs fell below unionists pre-
rally estimates, but UAW officials
said they were satisfied with the
turnouts.
The UAW-CIO says members have
lost much of their wage gains Of
the postwar period to rising prices.
In that connection Richard T.
Leonard, UAW vice president. said
wage contracts must be open for
renegotiation if price control is
open for destruction" He addressed
the rally in Detroit, the unions
stronghold.
Wages of scores of thousands Of
auto workers are frozen under con-
tracts which do not permit re-
opening of wage discussions until
1947.
To cheers of the crowd Mr..
Reuther shouted:
The reactionary elements are
hell-bent for the good old DAYS. We
say the good old days are not good
enough. We say Congress is going
to change its attitude toward the
people or the people will change
Congress.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Public Badly Informed
In u. s., Ehrenburg
Writes in New Article
b. the Associated erexx

MOSCOW, July 17-Ilya Ehren-
burg. in the second OF a series OF
newspaper articles on his recent
tour of the United States, said today
that Americans had developed an
astonishing technique" of manu-
featuring but were badly informed
about world problems.
The Russian newspaperman, who
declared in the first of his series
Of Izvestia articles yesterday that
many Americans were provincial
dummies" said today that their
political level is also very low"
Americans are inadequately &C
quainted with the outside world
Mr. Ehrenburg said They badly
need to study the Old World. A
group of pupils could not name even
one city in the Soviet Union.
Calls Cities Identical.
He pictured the United States as
being composed mostly Of identical
cities and towns.
Il was in many American towns
and could not tell one from an
other" the Soviet newspaperman
wrote Each town has its main
street"
Two or three American cities
San Francisco, Boston, New Orleans
have maintained an individuality
he said. but the remaining cities
have no face of their own. they are
only collection of Americans
He said New York was composed
OF several separate cities, including
Negro Harlem where there are
private pawn shops where one may
pawn ones pants"
He said goods were standardized
in the United States, and added
that Il think We can study from the
Americans how to make shoes and
pots quickly and good.
Money Spent Unthinkingly.
Il do not agree with European
estheteS who laugh about American
Standardization. Let all suits look
like one another; all the same, they
are obtainable for all. -
Americans love to make money
but do they not know how to spend
it. I do not want TO say they are
stingy. They spend money quickly
and energetically, but without think
ing"
He said he saw many drunken
persons in America and observed
that Americans love automobiles and
trade in their cars every year or so
He said American intellectual Is
were still weak and not confident
of themselves. They seem to hide
behind f1oodlight signs and citations
from the Bible. But there are some
able intellectuals who know that
their salvation is not in fight. but in
raising the spiritual level among
average Americans"
Evening star., 1946-07-17
BY the Associated Press

The CIO United Auto Workers
projected meat buyers strike today
to which they invited the participa-
ton of all Americas consumers.
Fighting the climb in living costs
the big labor union which helped to
set up the Nations postwar wage
structure sought to mobilize the
public against "exhorbitant" meat
prices.
The UAW-CIO, calling for CO.
operation from its own 800 900 MEM
bers and all other organized labor
and consumer groups, ordered its
strike to start today. 1t is to last
seven days.
Worker demonstrations in several
cities yesterday signaled the start of
the UAW-CIOs Nation wide anti
imitation campaign. Rival AFL
unions Joined hands with the CLOS
auto union in several instances.
Ruether Calls for Strike.
JAW President Walter P. Reuth-
er. addressing police estimated
crowd of 10000 to $4,000 in Detroit s
Cadillac Square. called for the meat
buyers strike in order TO restore
reasonable prices" and to terror
ize proiteers."
Leaders of the UAW-CIO had
called on workers to leave their
Jobs If necessary to attend, and
production was upset in at least
one major auto company-Chrysler
when an estimated 10000 to 80, ,00O
men left their jobs.
On the other hand General Mo-
tors spokesmen said "As far as we
know none of our workers walked
out" Ford reported its 7O,000-mar
force at the Rouge plan virtually
intact, although $500 quit an houl
early at the Lincoln factory. halt
ing its production
Mr.. Reuther, charging reaction.
ary elements" were hell bent fol
the good old days" said meat wa!
only the unions first target. HI
said rents and other items woulc
follow unless prices were brouph
Evening star., 1946-07-17
By ReImon NORM
Associated Press stoff Writer


VATICAN CITY, July Tin the
view of the Catholic church, the
world is entering one of the most
dangerous periods in 1000 years,
and the United States, because OF
It's ideals and religious belief. is
regarded as the strongest pillar in
the threatened structure of human
liberty.
The church is not pessimistic, but
it is very much alarmed.
That conclusion has been unmis-
takeable after series of discussions
with prelates in the Vatican, cli-
NAKED today by private audience
with Pope Plus XII.
1t was not an interview. nor were
the pontiff's words spoken for
quotation.
Concerned Over Paris Farley.
But there was no mistaking the
concern the Pope feels for the sue
cess of the conference of Paris july
90, where the 4 major powers and II
invited nations will review the
drafts of the peace treaties.
Nor was there any doubt about
the affection for the United States
that the pontiff entertains.
Several days ago, in a quotable
statement to a group of American
newspaper executives who visited
him, the Pope described the world
as a "quagmire of inhuman suffer
ing and injustice" He character
lied its problems as intricate and
tragic"
The principal reason in the Vati-
can view is simply that Soviet Rus
sia. both from the spiritual and the
social points of view, propounds a
doctrine totally antithetic to the
Catholic Church.
Primarily the church is concerned
with freedom of religion. But like
the democracies of the world, it is
also concerned with the freedom of
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Vatican Sees Dangerous Period
But U.S.. as Pillar of Liberty

thought and speech and the free
dom of the press. On both points
the spiritual and the social-the
church finds itself in opposition to
the Russian system, high prelate
familiar with church problems ir
Eastern Europe said. They are ir-
reconcilable. he added.
Menace to Catholic Faith.
To a question as to whether com.
munism and Catholicism can live to-
gether In the same world, this pre-.
late replied:
I'VE have been living with oul
enemies for 19 centuries. We are
men of faith. and to us, Communism
is a thing that must pass"
Meanwhile, he said, it is neverthe-
less menace to the fundamental,
of the Catholic faith.
AS an example, Poland, a predom
inantly Catholic country, was cited
The situation there, he said, is dis.
tinctly threatening no one car
say what will happen to the churcf
our information is meager, anc
we can only wait and see
The same obscurity wells the situa
ton in Ruthenia, 1t was stated.
Standard Bearer of Freedom.
Not only for religious reasons but
also because of the social issues in
volved, the United States is re-
garded in Vatican opinion as the
standard-bearer for the ideals oil
freedom.
America holds the same belief
in fundamental human rights as
the church it therefore has naturally
assumed the role of leader" the
prelate said
For all this the Vatican does not
expect another world war in the
near future 1T is a catastrophe toe
terrible TO be contemplated" an of
flcer said. The solution lies ir
prayer in putting an end to secrecy
and suspicion, and in return Il
good will"
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Empire City Results

Clear and fast.
! FIRST RACE-Purse. $500; claiming
4-year- olds and up: furlongs
covsrdale tWstson) $50 $50 800
| Clocklike (DelersO $50
Time: l.l3.
Also ran-Herodotus. Card Game. Bo-
| dart Motto Brand, Stella Sun. Seamanlike
Easter Bonnie, Insoate, Trelswny.
SECOND RACE-Purse $4,000: claim
| inR; maiden fllies, 2-year-olds; 5la fur
! longs.
Dusty Ribbon May 4.40 $40 2.70
STAGING tCombesU $50 4lo
Tzaritsa tJessopl $50
Time: o..
Also ran-Poker Face, Vulnerable. Bos-
Rinsolette, Tetrasina. Miss Snip, Velocity
Miss.
THIRD RACE-Purse. $500: claiming;
4-year- -olds and upward; 8 furlongs
Darby Dngbat tMcT'uel 80 800 210
LIQUID Luncn Cherry $50 $50
Cocoerande CARA l3U
Time. l:l2
Also. ran--Cuban Bomb, Free Dutch, Vic
tory Lad. Pn
ossic, Maybe Miss, Freeland's Lad, Stormy
FOURTH RAcE-Purse 81 900: the
Cneckerberry; allowances colts ana geld
nas 2-yesr-olds; furongs
Loyal Legion wright 7.4o $40
Golden Bull tGonzalezl 1880
Time, 1:13l5
Also rsn-Quatre Blanc, Pompeian. Flash
Point. Cellophane. Resistant, Gallalad, Ore
| held and Penny Reward.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Palestine Jews Strike
For Day in Protesting
Detention Of zionists
by the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, July 17.-Jews
throughout Palestine quit work
today in one-day general strike
called to protest the continued
detention of Zionist leaders ar
rested by British military au-
thorities in a roundup June 29.
Every Jewish h-operated enterprise
with the exception of hospitals.
newspapers and the most essential
seryices-shut down.
The strike was called by vaad
Leumi, the National Jewish Council,
in sympathy with 1000 detainees
reported staging hunger strikes at
the Rata and Latrun detention
camps.
Detainees Blamed for Delays.
British officials said delays in the
release of men and women who were
arrested in the search for persons
suspected of melting recent disorders
in Palestine were largely the fault
of the detainees themselves. Many
of the latter were said to be giving
false names. submitting to question
ing twice under different aliases and
lotherwise confusing operations in
tended to bring about the release Of
innocent persons as soon as possible.
1T is strange thing" a British
spokesman said, that those in
termed at Rata first do everything
to delay their release and then 20
on hunger strike protesting the
delay"
After the hunger strikers threw
their food on the ground the first
night of the strike, the spokesman
said. they subsequently were issued
Ihard rations, which have remained
untouched.
Arabs Expand Boycott.
The Arab High Executive Com
mittee announced. meanwhile, an
expansion of its ban on all Jewish
goods in Palestine to a full boycott
of all economic, cultural and social
Jewish activities
The committee urged all Arabs
ITO support the boycott. ordered to
protest the admission of additional
Jews to Palestine.
DR.. Chain Weizman, president Of
the World Zionist Fedora ton, was
scheduled TO leave for London today
and reliable Jewish source said
he had AN appointment to see
Prime Minister Attlee Immediately
upon arrival"