Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-11-05

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electric trays, and infra-red ray
equipment and film for photo
graphing the trapped tigers in
the dark. The old-fashioned way
sounded more exciting!
Jody Gilbert couldn't get stan
dard acting roles because of her
southern accent, and couldn't
get rid of that Texas influence
So she learned some 30 other
dialects to go with it and be-
come character specialist. Now
in CHS Life With Luigi" she
has appeared in SO pictures. II
is only in the last three years
that she has had non-dialect
roles.
Agnes Moorehead does just
fine in Hollywood-her latest
Iicture is Johnny Belinda a.
Q6Ad on the radio, where Sorry,
Wrong Number" gave her her
best known role, but she is hap
piest on her Ohio farm, between
GAINESVILLE and Cambridge.
Patricia Neal, the pretty
blonde playing opposite Gary
Cooper in "The Fountain
head" once worked in a New
York restaurant, cutting up
pies. Her salary was only sig
week-but she got all her
lunches for nothing.
On the set for "Mr. Joseph
Young of Africa" at RKO, Rob
ert Armstrong said he's decided
to make acting in motion pic
lures his life work. So far he
has had 20 years of it! Aged 81,
l3oking years younger, he said,
~Take life easy, sleep lot, keep
your ambitions within your tai
ents, and you can last at least
so years as movie actor"
If you have noticed a familiar
voice on the "Sam Spade" show
it probably belongs to June
Havoc, co-Star with Alan Ladd
in "One Woman" at Paramount.
Her husband produces the radio
show and she goes on incognito.
for fun.
Joseph Cotton thought he was
a hero when a dropped cigarette
started confetti to flickering
wanly during a New Years eve
party sequence for RKO's weep
No More" He stamped on it,
th6n learned it had been fire
Opted
Eddie Bracken, whose hobby
is picking pockets for fun, went
to the monthly Traffic Safety
Club luncheon of the Los Ange-
les Junior Chamber of Com
merce and humiliated several
important police officials by re-
lieving them of various valu-
ables. He returned the loot after
lunch, but they swore they'd
never see another Bracken pic
ture, even on passes.
If you think that Golden
Cloud, the PaIOminO stallion
ridden by Errol Flynn in
Montana" looks especially
beautiful, remember that he
was spOnged with milk every
morning before working in
the picture. 1t seems that
Aherwise his shiny coat would
toss too much light into the
camera. Dried milk permitted
gloss, but prevented reflection.
"Girls like me, with prune
faces and skinny legs, relieve
the monotony. And that's why
it's easier for us to get Jobs"
Mary Wicks said it, after ex-
planning that in Hollywood
pretty girls are as thick as ants
at picnic. 81 figure I'm set as
a sour-puss actress for the next
so years, if / want to act that
long" added Miss Wickes.
ODDS AND ENDS-Richard
Basehart got the leading role in
Samuel Goldwyn's "RoseannaI
Mccoy" -. Gary Merrill, who
hyItaken over the title role in
rA1s Young DR.. Malone" al
so plays the romantic lead in
The Right to Happiness" !
Redcaps at Chicago's rail termi-
nails have had to learn enough
about radio to tell thousands of
travellers from which hotel "Wel-
come Travellers" is broadcast
Gene Autry should be known as
The Flying Cowboy" In the
past year he has logged 864 fly
ng hours, an average of 70 a
month, almost as much as COM
nercial air line pilots are al
owed.