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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Brahma Bull Acts
In Coming Film

HOLLYWOOD - Grey Shan
nagon, the worlds most widely
travelled bull, has arrived in
Hollywood for the first time for
closeup sequences in Columbia's
"The Wrangler," which co-stars
Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton
and Gabby Hayes and has the
bovine monster top lined in the
four-footed contingent.
Shannagon, flown from Gene
Autry's Flaying A ranch in
Texas to the San Fernando VAL
ley for his movie debut, jour
neyed by his own heavy-duty
truck-trailer to Valley shooting
sites, and spent several weeks
on location at Lone Pine.
This week director Charles
Lamont, having completed the
2360-pound Brahma's chase and
capture sequences outdoors,
moves the Cine-color cameras
boldly within ten feet of the
half-Wild creature on the Col
umbia sound stages. "The
Wrangler" is Harry Joe Browns
first Sage Western production
for Columbia.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
One Minute Interview
From HOLLYWOOD

VAN HEFLIN Con the set of
M-G-M's "Act of Violence")
Zone of the favorite sports of
this generation is to make
mournful comparisons with the
good old days You can hear it
everywhere. New cars aren't
what they used to be. Mems
suits are of inferior material
Even the weather doesn't com-
pare with what we used to have.
But the principal target for
such uncomplimentary COM
parsons is Hollywood, for when
these mourners run out of sub
jects they invariably switch
their sights to motion pictures.
My first reaction on hearing
such remarks is to ask a few
simple questions. Have they
seen 4 Remember Mama, Sit
ting Pretty Homecoming, or
any one of a dozen good films
which come to mind? Usually
and this is the tip-off-they
have not. Their pessimistic out
look is colored by some recent
film which did not exactly ST.
their taste. They conveniently
overlook the fact that millions
of other people liked the film
in question. And they seem to
forget, an excellent example Of
sour grapes, that those new cars
which they condemn are per
forming quite nicely, Thank
you, for those lucky people who
own one. There is a little thea
ter right here in Hollywood
which shows nothing but old
time films of the silent day
many of them formerly hailed
as screen masterpieces. It Of
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Two-Way Radio Used
On Film Location

HOLLYWOOD - Columbia
has inaugurated a two-way ra-
dio communications set-up be-
tween its Death Valley location
for "The Walking Hills" and the
studio. The system, devised by
associate producer John Hag-
gott, will not be short wave, but
will cut into telephone lines in
Death Valley, which are equip
ped for such Transmission
The location site for the pic
ture, which stars Randolph
Scott and Ella Raines, is in the
25-mile square area of Death
Valleys sand dunes, the most
remote and uninhabited part of
the below-sea-level area. Trans
portation to and from the actual
shooting sites will be by giant
sleds, pulled by tractors. The
radio hook-up was inaugurated
with the start of production, as
the only practical way of keep
ing in touch with the studio.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Paging All Famous
Elk Chorus Bows

HOLLYWOOD-Frank Sully,
who is playing his usual sup
porting role to Chester Morris
in the latter's latest Columbia
picture, Trapped by Boston
is one of the select few
male actors who found them
selves in movie jobs as the re-
suit of graduating from the line
in a chorus. Others in this
company include James Cagney,
Pat O'Brien, Wallace Berry. and
Allen Jenkins, none of whom
you'd select offhand as being
chorus-boy types.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09


not give Miss Fontaine much
scope for her talents, but it does
give her an opportunity to wear
beautiful clothes and play oppo-
site the new French sensation,
Louis Jourdan. Warning-there's
sad ending, she dies, he will
soon.
Something neD in cinema
fights: Robert Rydn's battle
tDith Michael HarD in
RKO's "BeIin Express" takes
place in the interior of a beer
pat. Director jacques Tour
neur had it shot By three
cameras, so there DouId be no
Te-t1keS.
Arthur Patrick Lake, five
year-old son of Arthur dag
wood) Lake of the Sunday CHS
Blonde" show, has been placed
under contract to his fathers
film producing company and
will have a part in Lakes next
film, White Devils"
Robert ShaW's chorus of 80
professional voices will take
over for Bergen and Mccarthy
this summer. Although Shaw is
only 81, he has conducted
everything from ballads to
Brahms and is one of the fore
most choral conductors in the
country.
Priscilla Lane, youngest of the
three Lane sisters of movie
fame, returns to the screen
after a year and a half to play
the feminine lead in RKO's
"Bodyguard," opposite Law
renee Tierney. She retired in
1914 when she married, but re-
turned briefly to play the lead
in Fun on a Weekend" in 1916
when her son was five months
old. "Bodyguard' is directed by
Richard Fleischer.
Ed Byron, producer, director
and co-author of "Mr. District
Attorney" and Adventure with
Christopher Wells" still is
amazing the radio world by his
dramatization of events that
make headlines either simultan-
eously or a few days later.
Byron credits his scoops to his
knowledge of crimes and the
ways of criminals. He has kept a
file of newspaper crime stories
for 10 years.
Odds and Ends Jimmie
Durdnte 1ill not hdUe the
same sponsor f1ert season, dc-
cording to the latest report. !
Mark WdrnotD's return to
"Sour1d-OU" is very inde-
finite, because of I'LL health
Arnold Moss C'Rodd of Life"
and young DR.. Malone") is
called the educated actor" by
his colleagues. He has a B. A.
in Latin and Greek, M. A. in
Old French, Phi. d. in "The
Art of Acting" That pa
Ionlino you'll see ridden
through a ballroom in 'The
Great GdtSby" is a Ueternn of
"CahtorniG," "The Virginian"
and "Incendiury Blonde" -.
Arthur Godfreys Talent
Scouts" tUiII be absent from
the air from June III to
August %.
NBC interviewed 3,074 per-
sons in 1947; 100 passed these
additions, 265 were heard on the
air. Robert Adams, talent au-
of NBC, says experience
is essential; amateurs almost
never make the grade. And
Elaine Rost, ("Inza" on ''The
of Frank Merri-
well,") says the best way to get
experience is singing
with a band. She did it for 18
studying acting mean
while, then came to New York
and landed on "Just Plain Bill"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
De HaUiILdnd Tests
For "The HeireSS''

HOLLYWOOD - Olivia
De HavilIand checked in at
Paramount recently for the
first time in more than two
years for makeup and hair
dress tests for "The Heir
ess," first Liberty PrOduc-
tiOns picture to go before
the cameras at Paramount
with William Wyler direct
ing and producing.
Lapse of time is required
in the difficult portrayal,
that of a young woman of
the 10Th century. Miss De
Havilland's previous appear
ance at Paramount was in
her Academy Award win
ming performance in ITO
Each His Own"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Drew Pearson Film
Set By Columbia

HOLLYWOOD - Columbia
Pictures will film the high
lights in the career of columnist-
commentator Drew Pearson in a
semi-documentary drama ten
tatively titled "The Washington
Story" it was announced.
Pearson will appear in Sc
quences and narrate film, if was
stated, and will come to Holly
wood when the film goes be-
fore the cameras some time
later this year.
An all-star cast of Hollywood
players will have the principal
roles. Production associate
James Geller of Columbia will
leave shortly for Washington
with a writer to work with
Pearson on the screen play.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Monty Stratton To
Demonstrate Skill

HOLLYWOOD-Monty STRAIT
ton, former Chicago White Sox
pitching ace who has been in
Hollywood for the past two
months during preparations for
the filming of Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayors 1.-THE story of Monty
Stratton," has left Chicago to
give a pitching demonstration at
the national convention of the
American Medical Association.
Stratton's appearance, showing
what an amputee can do in &C
ton, was requested by the Of
loce of Vocational Rehabilitation
Of the Federal Security Agency,
sponsoring the program.
Next week also will see the
first scenes filmed for "The
Story of Monty Stratton," with
Director Roy Rowland, Jack
Cummings, producing the pic
ture for M-GM, and a camera
unit joining Stratton in Chicago.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
jeanette Insists
On Clean Pavement

HOLLYWOOD - Jeanette
Macdonald doesn't mind taking
a fall - but she insists upon
keeping it clean!
For d scene in her new Metro
Goldwyn Mayer production
"Sun in the Morning" the stal
was required to faint and fall
upon a cobblestone street.
She laughed away all sugges.
tions that the street be padded
to ease her fall but in.
sisted that the cobbles be thor.
oughly vacuumed before each
take to protect her white Irene
formal from dust and dirt.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Son Of Film Heavy
Debuts With Autry

HOLLYWOOD-Fred Kohler
Jr., son of the, famous early-day
film heavy, who started out to
emulate his father, then switch
ed to agency work a few years
ago, is back in pictures and
signed for heavy role in Gene
Autry's new Columbia Western
LOADED Pistols" His first come
back picture was "Feudin', Fus-
sin and A-Fighin'," in which he
had the heavy lead with Donald
O'Connor. Barbara Britton is
co-starred with Autry in Load
ed Pistols" which is being di-
rected by John English and pro-
duced by \ Armand Schaefer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09

fers a wonderful opportunity
for students of films to study
technique and acting of the
good old days But some of
those so-called epics of the past
now seem ludicrous. AS matter
of fact, the audience who fill
the theater at every show 60
there strictly for laughs It's
the old, old story of people be-
coming spoiled"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
Burns and Mason In
"Wrangler" Cast

HOLLYWOOD - Paul E.
Burns and Louis Mason will
play the "rocks of Gibralter"
maintain unruffled pois e
throughout one of the screen't t
most violent barroom brawls-
in Columbia's "The Wrangler, :"
co-starring Sonny Tufts, Barbara
Britton and Gabby Hayes. The
brawl starts between Sonny and
William Bishop and gradually
involves every male in the
house. Charles Lamont directs
the Harry joe Brown produc-
ton.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
BY INEZ GERHARD

In IL ETTER From an
U know Woman" Joan
Fontaine has the type of role
most actresses yearn to play. AS
a young girl she falls in love
with a man who returns her
love but soon forgets her. Later
in life they meet and fall in
love again. Sister Olivia de
Havilland won on Oscar in "To
Each His Own" in a somewhat
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
GIRL TRICK RIDER

Sally Sage, fifteen-year-o old
champion trick rider from Phoe-
nix, Ariz., has been screen-tested
at Columbia by producer S. Syl-
van Simon, who had PREVIOUSLY
seen her performances at rodeos
throughout the Southwest. The
test was made with a view to
using the attractive youngster in
feminine leads in Columbia
Westerns.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07

FREE: Your questions ill be answered free in this column ONLY
when a clipping of this feature is enclosed with your question. YOUR
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OPINIONS on any THREE questions. Address all communications to
PROF. HERMAN, the ASTROLOGER, care of the Ohio Daily Express,
1907 Germantown Street, Dayton, Ohio.
NEW HOPE
There is no doubt but that you, like many others, have wanted a
friend who could give you honest and helpful advice. Perhaps you have
a problem about your job, love affairs, or something pertaining to your
home life where you simply MUST have advice. .
No matter where you live you can get this confidential help and
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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07

M. B. Dear Prof. Herman: l
read your column every week and
lei where you have helpd otehers,
would you please help me. Does
my boy friend really love me?
A. 1t appears to me that your
boy friend cares a great deal for
you. But is not financially able to
do the things he would like to do
for you. Just give him time, he
CONTINUED on page A.
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first Negro congressman from
Harlem and started the movement
which led to the naming of form
er Assemblyman Edward A. john
son as the candidate. The next
candidate was Hubert Delaney,
but the powers that he bypassed
Harris every time. This blow to
his pride removed him almost com
pletely from politics.
But he never ceased raising his
voice nor putting a trenchant pen
to paper to express indignation or
resentment. AS head of the Ethio-
plan Federation of the World, he
kept in the limelight but never
did he regain the prestige and con-
fidence he enjoyed in the late '20s.
Always a Republican, he was a
familiar figure at the national
meetings and was on friendly
terms with more than one national
figure.
Only recently, MI. Harris had
started a historical series on the
Negro for the Amsterdam News,
the first Of which was published
the day before his death. Altho
he was we'll informed on this score,
he seldom displayed his knowl-
edge.
During World War I, MI. Har-
ris' publication was barred from
the mails by Postmaster Albert
S. Burleson, bringing singing re-
ports from Republicans who were
Harris friends.
The former editor also boasted
of a friendship with Ras Tafari
of Ethiopia and Emperor Menelik
When the Philippians visited the
T1pitod Sfatoc in tho 3C0c nv
Harris vas one of the persons
they expressed interest in. He of
ten referred to a personal letter
and autographed photograph fol
Ras Tafari, predecessor of Hail,
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07

Selassie.
The list of newsmen who work.
ed with Mr.. Harris and the New
York News would read like "who's
who" in this profession. At one
time, his publication was the out
standing Negro journal in New
York, but his preference for poll
tics led to the papers neglect.
In 1925, through Mr.. Harris
efforts, a benefit for Sam Lang
ford was held at the Old Olympia
fight club in 135th street, rails
ing over $4,000 for the mated bat
tier. This fund, placed in trust,
soon was d~issipated when Lang
ford demanded the entire sum.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07

G. NJ. Fl. My boy friend re-
a cigarette lighter for a
gift. Is he telling the truth about
the person that gave it to him?
A. A careful analysis of. your
question indicates the fact that
the lighter was given to him by a
relative, and there is no cause for
you to become disturbed.
L. M. Is there the slightest
chance of my getting an apart
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07

Know from coast to cast as the
editor and publisher o fthe mill
tant New York News, Harris is
accredited with having trained
more good Negro newspaper men
than any other editor of his day.
In his student days at Harvard
university, he was a classmate OF
such outstanding Americans as
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Harry
Won Kersberg, All-American tackle
and former director of personnel
at Macy's, all of whom retained
their admiration and respect for
the Kansas born editor.
During his student days, Harris
recalled a reception given for
Booker T. Washington in Boston.
The Negro students at Harvard
pooled their meager resources and
following DR.. Washington's speech
at Faneuil hall (where the late
Monroe Trotter is alleged to have
thrown pepper at the speaker) the
noted Negro educator was ban
quoted. The students had out
done themselves and as a piece
de resistance, purchased a box Of
cigars to be passed around at the
dinner.
When Harris, passed the cigars
DR.. Washington took one look al
them and said, "No thank you
gentlemen, | have my own right
here. And he pulled out a fine
Perfecto which completely over
Swallowed the stogies the student.
bought.
Harris New York News passet
into other hands and Harris him
self lost his political hold will
the constant gickering within tn
party. He was bitterly opposed tt
the system of setting up separat,
clubs-that is, one with a whit
leader and one with a Negr'
leader.
He was ambitious to become tn
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07
George Harris
Trained Many Newsmen

NEW YORK April 6. (ANP)-In the hospital for
which he had fought through his newspaper columns,
George w. Harris, Harlem's first Negro alderman, died
last Saturday morning.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-04-07
ment or house this year?

ment or house this year?
A. Probing into the matter 1
find that you have become very
discouraged because your previous
efforts have been to no avail. But
a much brighter future is revealed
and some interesting information
regarding a suitable location, so
don't give up hope.
B. T. Does the boy l love, love
me? What does my future reveal?
Will l go to college?
An. Only one question is an
swered in the column due to linn
tied amount of space. If you will
write in for a private reply, I shall
be more than glda to help you.
Evening star., 1948-07-26
u. 5. Survey Indicates
Production Isn't Kew
To Price Reduction

More production" is not possible
today as the answer to present high
prices, a new Commerce Depart
ment survey indicated because most
industries already are operating at
maximum levels consistent with
available facilities and supplies of
materials, particularly of STEEL
The conclusion was based on a
new survey of current business
made public last night. The de-
partment added:
I'm those areas where there is
,eeway for further expansion, such
as in cotton textiles. current re-
ouirements of business and consum-
ers have generally served as the
basis for steady operations in the
recent period. One of the few ex-
ceptions is shoes, where output has
moved downward.
Opponents of Government con-
trols to halt imitation have often
contended that more production"
will reduce prices without the neces-
sity of controls.
Pay Raises Cited.
One reason the Commerce Depart
ment gave for the continued price
pressure, and its probable increase
in the near future, was that con-
sumer income, already bolstered by
lower withholding taxes, has been
further advanced by important wage
awards that also eXerted price pres
sure through their effects on costs"
The department estimated that
wage agreements reached in June
and July will give further increase
to personal income from the annau.
rate of $20S, 100000 recorded in
May.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics sur
vey just released showed wages for
union building trades workers
reached a record high on July l
for an average of $2.l0 an hour.
Bricklayers receive the top figure,
averaging $267 an hour. For the
first time, BIS reported, building
laborers' wages went over SITS an
hour.
BIS chief, Evan Clague, said
yesterday that the usual seasonal
trend upward in food prices, already
at all-time peaks, should keep the
cost of living on the upSWing for
the rest of the summer at least.
Winter Drop Possible.
Mr.. Clague said there may be a
slight drop by this fall or winter,
however.
Meat prices, which have been the
chief contributor to the rising food
costs, are expected to continue up
wards because of the recent heavy
livestock slaughter and the current
lower grain prices which tend to
keep the animals on the feed lots a
longer time before they go to market.
Other factors contributing to
heavy demands for goods and ac-
companying high prices, the Com
merce Department declared, are
Government expenditures for for
eign aid and defense at home
Business firms also are contributing
by continued high rate of spend
ing on equipment and plants, it
was stated
June employment reached an all
time new record of more than 61,-
100000 persons, further adding to
/ the money in circulation competing
for the available supply of goods
inventories of wholesalers and re-
tailers were reported down some
what in the April-June quarter,
| Commerce said.
Evening star., 1948-07-26
Walter Reed Patient Dies
In Virginia PIune Crash
By the Associoied Press

BY the AsSocioted Press
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, July 26.-
T Melvin T. Murphy, 81. patient
at Walter Reed Hospital, Washing
ton, was killed yesterday afternoon
in the crash of a light plane near
Pungo, Princess Anne County.
Mr.. Murphy, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. L. Murphy. of Back Bay,
was on leave from Walter Reed.
Evening star., 1948-07-26
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We'd in Delaware

Miss Ruth Muriel Bear. daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick T. Bear
Of Wilmington, Del, became the
bride. yesterday of Mr.. Donald
Thomas Hoffecker, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John S. Hoffecker of this city.
The wedding took place at Grace
Methodist Church In Wilmington,
the Rev. DR.. John M. Dunk1e, pas
tor, off1ciating, assisted by the Rev.
DR., John c. MILAN, pastor of the
Petworth Methodist Church in
Washington. A reception followed
at the Washington Heights Century
Club in Wilmington.
The bride was attended by her
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Becomes Bride

The marriage Of Miss Audrey Mae
Chalkley, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles L. Chalkley Of Arlington, to
Mr.. Glenn Stewart Waldron, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chester L. Waldron,
also Of Arlington, took place last
evening in the Temple Baptist
Church, the Rev. willard r. Pierce
officiating.
The Misses Bonnie Burson, Ann
Blair, Marie Ford and Frances Field
attended the bride, and Roberta
Mullings and Sandra Horner were
flower girls.
Mr.. Chester Waldron was his
brothers best man and the Messrs.
Benjamin Sims, James Ruckert and
William Bowling were ushers.
After honeymoon in the Pocono
Mountains the couple will reside at
1912 North Rolfe street, Arlington.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

sister Elizabeth, the groom's sister
Jacqueline and the Misses Mary
Jane Kinkade and Jeanne Potts.
Mr.. John M. Mckinley was best
man and the Messers. Ken MILAN,
Lewis Marshall and Alvin r. Mar
shall, jr., all Of Washington, were
ushers.
After trip to the Poconos the
couple will reside temporarily at
101 Rittenhouse street NE. in
Washington.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
November Weddiuq

The engagement Of Miss Ruth
Jean Viereck to Mr.. James Thomas
Torrey Is announced by Miss Vier-
eck's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A.
viereck Of Takoma Park, the we'd
ding to take place in November.
The bride-elect attended the Uni
versity of Maryland and was grad
uated from the university's school
of nursing in Baltimore.
Mr.. Torrey served with the Marine
Corps in the Pacific during the war
He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
! j. Torrey OF Fort Ann, N. Y.