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Evening star., 1949-08-14
Hollywood Rocketeers Still Thrive
On HOPES and Dreams of the Gu||ibIe

with talented children and having
no contacts with the studios are
urged to pay no heed to the many
solicitors who somehow or other
get hold of their names. This
racket, which also is spreading
through the Midwest now, ac-
cording to the local Better BuSi-
ness Bureau. works like this:
A smoothie representing himself
as Hollywood talent agent and
talking chummily of my friend
Daryl" or possibly making
pleasantly about what Louis B.
said during their recent golf
match, displays beautiful book
tlet filled with child photographs.
What the Freight Will Bear.
This, he explains, is monthly
edition of the agency's "catalog.
which goes directly to the pro-
ducers and casting directors They
wait feverishly for it each 80 days
and don't think of casting juve-
nile actor until 1t is perused. A
dattering biography is appended to
each photo. Price of inserting her
baby's image. plus all handling"
details, including Studio con-
tract" is set anywhere from $50
to $100-according to what the
freight will stand.
One such group was recently
tracked down preying exclusively
on old women. Similar brochures
were shown, containing photos of
some of Hollywood's best-knowln
elderly character artists. with a
few unknown" dowagers care
fully inserted. These garrulous
gents had absolutely no pity in
their hearts for the long-hidden
ambitions of these women but
spurred their hopes with the as
surance that theirs was the face
with character. definition and
difference" that Hollywood needed
so badly.
Taking money from babies and
old ladies Is one of the most evil
of all practices. It's thriving on
broader and more despicable scale
than ever in movieland. But these
Iblackguards should watch out
The Johnston Office IS after them
They'd better come out of the
smog and give themselves up!
(Released by North American Newspaper
! Alliance.)
Evening star., 1949-08-14
NEW YORK

Ethel Critics was playing musl-
cal comedy in England in 1902. SO
one may assume with all due
courtesy that Broadway's current
sweetheart is well along into her
go years. Still she protests that
she received medal for long serv-
ice in the theater from her fellow
actors when she was 4 years
old. So, she intimates, her repu-
tation on the stage far outstripped
her actual age.
At the moment Miss Critics is
singing and dancing one of the
most enchanting leading roles in
Broadway musical comedy as
she plays the part of the countess
in the Irving Berlin-Robert E.
Sherwood musical. Miss Liberty
Her character is only identified as
the countess" because there is
extreme doubt as to the authen-
ITCHY of her title.
Il don't see why I should be
classified as an ancient hag be-
cause 1 played an ancient hag on
Broadway a few months ago in
that murder play The Shop
at Sly Corner 1 am an actress
and the part called for me to be
an ancient hag. and that I was,
she said in her small apartment
near the Imperial Theater where
she plays.
An Honest Actress.
Her current role Is one that de-
mands a veteran and versatile
trained actress. and 1t is doubtful
if there are more than a dozen
actresses in the Broadway theater
who could play character with
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Coming Attractions

AMBASSADOR-"1t's a Great
Feeling" with Doris Day.
starting Thursday.
CAPITOL-"Sand." with Mark
Stevens. starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"In the Good
Old Summertime" with
Judy Garland. starting
Thursday.
DUPONT-"The Rlue Lagoon"
with Jean Simmons, starting
Wednesday.
LITTLE-"La Traviata," With
Nellie Carradi, starting
Wednesday.
METROPOLITAN - "T h e
Doolins of Oklahoma" with
Randolph Scott, starting
Thursday.
NATIONAL-'Letter to Three
Wives" with Kirk Douglas,
starting Thursday.
PALACE-"Madame Bovary."
with Jennifer Jones.
PLAYHOUSE-"Girl in the
Painting" with Mai Zetter-
ling.
WARNER-"It's a Great
Feeling" with Jack Carson,
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Aaron Slick Heads List
As Most Popular Play

planned. There are a number of
able. pulp play writers who are
able to turn out manuscripts on
order in about two weeks. The
good ones can make between
$4,000 and $4,000 a year."
Again like the pulp magazine
stories, pulp plays are generally
written to comply with certain in
violable rules: Mo- profanity, no
issues of politics or religion. sex
handled so that no possible Of
fense could be given.
Comedies Most Popular.
Clark says the most popular
titles on his catalog lists are COM
edies-and apparently that is true
of all the play suppliers. He adds
that "old fashioned corn" is per-
ennial favorite. Take Aaron
Slick" as an example. Written
by an Arizona weather. station
man who has written about 200
other less popular pulp plays. its
three acts concern the romance
of a country hick in love with a
city widow. When he goes to call
On her at her hotel, the clerk tells
him she's engaged" The result
ing misunderstanding takes three
full acts to clear up.
Play supplying is highly COM
petitive business the amateur
groups usually read through a
number of catalogs before making
a decision. Surprisingly enough.
Clark says, there is very little
piracy" by the customers-try-
ing to avoid paying the production
fee.
Most of them know they'll
want to put on another play some
time, and that news they were try
ing something funny gets around" +"
Clark said. Usually some dis
gruntled person. who didn't get
a part, will write an anonymous
letter telling U.S."
Evening star., 1949-08-14
By Mark Borron

such honest analysis that Miss
Critics gives it. Most others would
make the part a burlesque. For
the role is that of a woman who
has lived long and with calcu-
lating lust, and who still has an
invigoraC ting sense of humor and
soft spot in her heart for the
romances of youth.
ut seems a bit odd for me that
II play such an unscrupulous old
woman as the countess Miss
Critics said. 1T is true French
character. 1 know, and I have at
tempted to make it as basically
French as 1 know from the many
years I have gone over in France
on holidays from my native Eng
land.
But, even when was doing
musical roles in my younger days
on the London stage, they were
in every circumspect roles. For
instance, my stage debut was at
the age of 2l2 when I played in
East Lynne. "
She also played the part of
Lady Marden in Mr.. Pimm Pass
es By" and she received critical
notice for her Mistress Ford to
Dame Ellen Terry's Mistress Page
in The Merry Wives OF Wind
sor."
Miss Critics commented that in
those days for an unknown &C
tresS to have her name even men
toned as having been a member
of the supporting cast was equiv
alent to a Broadway critic saying
today that an actress is "a vow
Retired a Year Ago.
There are few actresses OF Miss
Critics stature on Broadway to-
day. She probably is the only
lone her age who can play any role
from melodrama to comedy to a
singing. dancing role such as she
does in Miss Liberty" Helen
Wesley, late director of the New
York Theater Guild, was one vet
eran actress who could do such
parts, and so was Haidee Wright
who was such an exciting per-
former in THE Royal Family" ;"
the story Of the Barrymores. Both
Miss Westley and Miss Wright
were past the half-century mark
at their peak.
Miss Critics says that with her
'new-found fame on the Broad
Evening star., 1949-08-14
She's Not an Old Hog Just Because
She Recently Played an Old Hog

way stage her most pertinent dis
covery is that she and her hus-
band, Edward Cooper. will not DO
able to retire for a long time yet.
And we really retired year ago.
until Miss Liberty came up"
she added.
But it is nice to be back on
Broadway and be a hit after re-
firing once" the fortnight lady
smiled. Its nice because when
1 retired (for the brief time) I
faced the fact that I was retiring
from two quick failures. one be-
ing The Leading Lady and the
other The Shop at Sly Corner.
Now I'm convinced no one should
ever retire as long as one can
dance a roundelay across a stage
and certainly my roundelay
in Miss Liberty seems to be well
received. = That's nice enough
to give up retirement for a while"
Evening star., 1949-08-14
py 0IUIW
HOLLYWOOD.


AS far as I'm concerned, taxing
typhoon for a movie can be
just as terrifying and dangerous
as the real thing.
To get the effect I put on a
slicker, a pair of rubber boots and
a sou'wester, and boarded the
steel-ribbed, steel-plated reproduc-
ton of a ship designed at Colum-
bia Studios by Art Director Cary
ODell.
The 82-foot vessel, balanced on
a 20-inch steel ball-bearing. was
tossed and heaved about by
hydraulic jacks embedded 35 feet
in the ground beneath the craft
The midsection of a typical oil
tanker was reproduced.
When the 50-ton apparatus be-
gan to jerk and sway the result
was plenty frightening, even with
out wind and rain. Then the vino
machines were turned on, and
streams of water from flrehoses
were played into the big fans. A
sheet of stinging white spray
spread across the ship.
From above, several thousand
gallons of water plummeted into
a trough and dashed across the
deck. At this point I was clingine
to the ships rail with all my
might. I could barely see through
the heavy white spume.
Once, when all the containers
were emptied simultaneously from
the top of the set (the height OF
a FIVE story building). the force OF
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Today's Schedules

MERIDIAN HILL PARK -
"On the Town: $50 pm.
Screen.
AMBASSADOR Lust for
Cold: 1870. $3.50, $50, 7::35
and $40 pm.
CAPITOL-"Take One False
Step: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and
10 pm. Stage Shows: 3:45.
$40 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA-"T The Great
Gatsby': 1:1o, 800, $50,
TAO and $50 pm.
DUPONT-"D dee: 1870,
$3.50. $50. 7::35 and s:40
pm.
HIPPODROME-"The Count
of Monte Cristo":: 2:05,
5:55 and GAS pm.
KEITH'S-"Meet the Killer:
1870, $3.50, $50. 7:30 and
$50 pm.
LITTLE-"The Bank Dick:
2::25, $40, 7:50 and 10:40
pm.
METROPOLITAN "one
Last Fling" /. 2:40. 4:20.
$40, 8 and s:55 pm.
NATIONAL "Sorrowful
Jones': los, ESQ. 4::35,
$40, 8 and 9:45 pm.
PALACE-"The Great Sin
ner";; 12:45. 8, Sis, 7:30
and $50 pm.
PIX-"Tower of London: /,
4, 7 and 10 pm.
PLAHOUSE-"One Woman's
Story: 1:05. $50, 4:35.
$40, sos and s:55 pm.
TRANS-LUX-"Home of the
Brave: 1:05, 2:55. 4:40,
$50, 800 and 1910 pm.
WARNER-"Lust for Cold:
1::35, 3:35, 5:35, TAO, and
9:45 pm. -
Evening star., 1949-08-14
By Harold Heffernon

effort is being made by the au-
thorities to blast these wolves
whose decoy is cleverly woven into
a friendship club" ad in the per-
sonaI columns of a daily news
paper. The ad looks innocent
harmless and hopeful to the naive
damsel from Dubuque.
| Last week this typical ad ap-
peared in one of the Los Angeles
papers:
Studio executive, 38. with good
income and car, wants a COM
panionship and affection of at
tractive younger woman. Write
Box -"
Upon answering the come-on, a
feminine member of our staff
glibly represented herself as "24
part-time model from New York
and interested in studio people,
Immediate Results.
The results were immediate and
right to the point. The young
lady's phone rang that evening
and a pleasant voice cooed an ex-
planation that the big movie ty-
coon was in Palm Springs but
wouldn't you like to meet some
other nice people meantime?'
The nice people" was described
as a wealthy meat packer from
the East a jolly fellow with
'1ct of important connections"
Playing dumb. our scout per-
sisted: But what about the stu
dio executive? I'd looked forward
to meeting him" She was as
sured the film brass would be back
soon and something could be ar
ranged then, but meanwhile. This
meatman has a great deal more
to offer"
Next day came other calls from
cheap theatrical agencies, model
bureaus and photographers tc
whom the name and phone num-
ber apparently had been turned
over. AS one explained. "a group
of us are all in this thing together
and your letter was so fascinat-
ing"
Mothers settling down here
Evening star., 1949-08-14
HOLLYWOOD.


They don't buy and sell the
Brooklyn Bridge in Los Angeles
but that's only because there's no
such bridge in the town-merely
huge ornate structure spanning
the dry river bed in Pasadena.
Otherwise. the community is
fair and easy prey for the conf
dence man, the gold-brick sales
man and other slick gentry adept
at getting suckers separated from
their money.
Concentration in these parts OF
many sided people making up the
most fabulously operated institu-
tion on earth-the motion picture
is. of course. responsible for the
assemblage here of a great reser-
voir of sucker bait. 1t waits only
for the tapping by eager slick
sters who have stalked the gullible
into town.
Most every trap. naturally, is
fixed with a hunk of movie bait.
Today the hunt for fresh game
has become so bold and wide
spread that the Johnston Office
the Better Business Bureau and
other industry and civic groups
have sounded dire warning to
unwary tourists and new resi-
dents: Watch your step and,
above all. your money bags" "
Postal authorities have been
prodded into casting an eye over
some of the propositions now
freely flowing through the mails
from daring racketeers traf1cking
In a variety of illegal items. all
tied In to the movie lure.
Pernicious Problem.
The two most vicious rackets.
cited by the Johnston Office are
% those that prey on pretty,
young girls who come here alone
with a small wad of money to wait
out a seige of the Aim studios
and CD the suave agents" who
convince susceptible mothers they
can get their offspring into movies
for a price.
The pretty girl" problem is. OF
course, most pernicious and every
Evening star., 1949-08-14
BY the Assoeioted Press
NEW YORK.

Aaron Slick from Punkin
Crick" is the most popular play in
America-propably in history.
It's years old and has sold more
than 100000 copies-more than
the works of O'Neill, Arthur Mil
Ter. William Saroyan, Kaufman,
Hart and any other big-name
playwright you can think of put
together.
Aaron" was written for the
amateur theater. and amateur
theatricals have become big busi-
ness. with an annual take some
where between four and eight mil
lion dollars.
Supplying amateur groups-and
amateur means any group which
is non professional-with suitable
plays is a mail-order business
handled by some 35 firms. largest
of whom are Samuel Franch and
Dramatics, Play Service in New
York. and Dramatic Publishing
Co. in Chicago.
Christopher Sergel of Dramatic
Publishing Co., in indicating
the size of the movement. said
his firm sent out 100000 catalogs
in its peak postwar year and
added that business had tripled
since 1889. The firm lists $4,000
high schools, 1900 colleges and
little theaters, 10000 churches and
many dramatics clubs among its
clients.
Barrett H. Clark, secretary of
Dramatics' Play Service-estab-
lished by members of the Drama
fists Guild of the Authors League
of America-said there are 225, ,00(
Protestant churches in the coun-
try and that half of them do some
sort of amateur play producing.
Two Categories.
Every community in the coun.
try goes in for some kind of dra
matte work." he added. land so d.
% per cent of the schools"
Plays for the non-professiona
theater are broken into two majol
categories, plus a number OF othel
subdivisions. There are the pro
fessional plays" like Arsenic ane
Old Lace" "The Man Who Came
TO Dinner" Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay" which wer'
Broadway successes. Presentation
fees are charged on performance
basis and the suppliers sell paper
bound "cast copies" of the play.
Then there are the pulp" play
Aaron Slick" is one of them
written specifically for the anna
teur market.
IT'S very much like the pull
magazine business" Clark ex
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Ty Cobb Meeis A
Ty Cobb On Ex-
Tiger Stars Night

RENO, Nev.-Tyrus Raymond
Cobb former Detroit star, was
honored recently by the fans OF
his adopted state, Nevada.
Although he makes few public
appearances, Cobb consented to
appear at Moana Park in Reno
to give boost to the Reno Silv-
er SoX of the Sunset League, UNI
aware that the occasion would
be held in his honor. Midway
through the game, an intermis-
sion was held and members of
the sponsoring KiwaniS Club
presented the ex-Detroit lumin-
airy with scroll of honorary
membership and fine golf
club-carrying caddy cart.
Ty Cobb was then interviewed
at home plate, via the public
address system, by another Ty
Cobb, Nevada State Journal
sports editor who was named
after the Georgia Peach some
33 years ago. An interested spec
tator was the sports editors g.
year-old son who is named -
naturally-Ty Cobb.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Sports Quiz

/. True or False. There is no
longer Division of Conserva-
ton and Natural Resources?
2. How many divisions are
there in the newly created De-
partment of Natural Resources?
3. Name the Director of the
Ohio Department of Natural Re-
sources?
4. How long is the term of
office of the Director?
5. How many members are
there on the Natural Resources
Commission?
6. How many members are
there on the Wildlife Council?
7. What salary do the members
of the Wildlife Council and
Natural Resources Commission
receive?
8. What authority will the
Wildlfe Council have under the
new setup?
9. Will the new department be
allowed to use hunting and fish
ing license monies for purposes
other than fish. and game?
10. In what capacity will mem
bers of the Natural Resources
Commission act?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

OIL NCllAAAN9s - AACC'A -
and that camp registration ca
ers camping on state land.
4 4 X
Another notch has been
added to the record already
held by the Bombers for hit
ting 100 or more home runs
for 26 seasons. This was ac-
complished in a rcent double
header with the Athletics.
Hank Bauer contributed an
insid e t h e fence circuit
smash to give the New York
club its Tooth h o m er for
1949. The National League
record is held by the New
Giants who hit 100, or more
homers in II seasons.
4 II 4
Just because the Detroit
Tigers sent him to the minors
last year, Al Benton, Cleve-
GLAND Indians relief pitcher
took his wrath out on the
Tigers a short while ago ano
trounc ed them in a full
length game, 5 to 0. 1t must
have given the big pitcher
great delight to spank" the
Tigers management for en-
barrassing him.
Remember, every dog has
his day.
r + 4
Bobby Doerr, Red Sox sec
ond b a S e m n, dubbed the
ball at .422 pace in the Is
games through September Z
Starting on August 26, when
he got five hits in ten trips
to the plate, Doerr collected
27 hits in GA times at bat.
h Il 4
The national sport Of Egypt
Is weight lifting, while wood
c h opping 6 is a recognized
sport in Australia. 1t is a
known fact that basketball
originated in America, but it
has spread to other parts of
the world. In some lands, it
is hardly recognizable as bas-
ketball, though. In Holland,
they play a IL man team and
the courts are twice the size
of our regulation court. The
first basketball court, laid out
IN Fran e, was 100 yards
r 4 4
Jack Madden, fleet half
back of the United Labor
football team, is a twin son
of Martha Madden, a mem
Der of the Auto-Lite Unit of
Local II. The other twin,
Jim, is in Uncle Sans Navy.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Answers

1. True, it died at midnight
August 10, 1949. 2. Seven. Lands
and soil, water, parks, geological
survey, forestry, beach erosion
and wildlife. 3. A. w. Marion,
immediate past Director of Ag-
riculture. 4. Six years. 5. Eight.
s. Eight. 7. None. They get their
expenses paid when attending
meetings called by the Director.
8. To set seasons and bag limits
and suggestive duties concern
ing program and policy for fish
& game. 8. The law states that
hunting and fishing license mon
les shall be used only for the
prote o n, propagation and
maintenance of fish and game.
10. Advisory only.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
A.A.U. In New
BosebcII Group

The Amateur Athletic Union
is included in a new governing
body for u. S. amateur baseball
set up at meeting of represent
atives of amateur bodies in Chi
cago.
The new group which will
be named the United States
Amateur Baseball Alliance" will
set up method of selecting a
u. S. amateur baseball team to
take part in the Pan-American
games at Buenos Aires in Feb
ruary, 1851.
A committee was appointed to
draw up constitution and by
laws which will be submitted
to the individual organizations
and, when accepted, will tie
them together for the first time.
Mayor James A. Rhodes, pres
ident, and j. Lyman Bingham,
assistant to the president, rep
resented the A.A,U. at the meet
ing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
U.L. Gridders Ready For Bucyrus Sunday
Strong Ma+eriol
At Ohio State

COLUMBUS, O.-'Let George
do i'll"
This ancient expression, born
of comic-strip origin, may be
heard in the Ohio State football
camp this fall.
Three Georges are in the run
ming for the two guard berths,
left vacant when last years reg
ulars, Dave Templeton and Ray
DiPierro, were graduated.
George Toneff, 190-pound
Barberton senior, is the No. / Of
fensive left guard and his de-
fensive replacement is likely to
be George Mattey, 220-pound
senior from Cleveland. On the
right side of the line behind
scheduled starter John Blitz of
Bedford, is George Endres, 100
pound junior from Cincinnati. :
Toneff and Mattey were first
line reserves last year. Endres
did not play enough to earn a
letter. Toneffs first letter dates
back to 1914 when he was IT.
year-old third string guard on
the Bucks national civilian
champions. He did not return to
school until 1947. All of the
Georges are likely to concede
ranginess to opponents. Mattey
and Endres are five feet, 10
inches, and Toneff is only 5 feet,
8 inches.
With the three top Ohio State
punters listed at the same posi-
tion-fullback - Coach Wesley
Fesler plans to avoid making a
substitution in order to insert
a kicker in the lineup.
Available for service will be
Pete Perrin, Fred Morrison and
the new sophomore standout -
Vic Janowicz of Elyria Perrin
has been either first or second in
Big Nine punting averages for
the last three years.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

drilling against this weak
ness.
The Bucyrus Green Hor-
nets are known to have a good
passing outfit and will probably
employ that means to gain a
win over the Toledoans. AL
though BucyruS is capably
coached and managed by Carl
Kaplanoff, former member of
the Brooklyn Dodgers, and CO.
captain of the Ohio State Uni
versity grid team in 1888, the
roster also contains the names
of three outstanding players
from this part of the country.
Chuck Heck, 180-pound half
back, is probably the greatest
star on the squad. Heck was 81
lected All-Ohio Collegiate hal
back while playing with Ohio
Northern University. Goldsmith,
a guard, and recognized as tops
in the pro field ip the state,
stands six-feet-five-inches tall
and weighs 325 pounds. Gold
smiths fellow guard on the
Green Hornet eleven is Bob
Priest, who tips the scales at
275 pounds and towers six-feet-
two o-inches.
Coach Bing Crosby announces
the addition, to the United Labor
squad, of Jack Clifford, Eddie
Melnek, and Jim Boyd. Clifford
is a well-known semi-pro foot
ball player from this area, while
Melnek was an outstanding
blocking back for DeVilbiss
High School. Boyd, brother of
Harold Boyd, United Labor hall
back, starred few years ago at
Woodward High School and has
played in the armed services.
These three players should help
the u. l.. coaches in adding scor-
ing punch to the team.
Tickets for the United Labor
.Bucyrus Green Hornets game
are on sale at Local II Head
quarters, 425 Winthrop ST.; the
Colonial Hardware, 1854 w.
Central Ave, The CIO Club,
Gil Huron ST, and the Team
sters Joint Council, 2014 Adams
st.
Admission prices have been
set at seventy-five cents for
adults, and twenty-five cents for
children under sixteen years of
age. These prices include taxes
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
From The
Rule Book
By Wilbert "Birdie" Rule
Sports Editor
Local II Recreation Director

Sporsnen buying their 1949 Michigan hunting license
should be get copy Of the game law digest both OF
which will be obtanabe any of the 37OO license agents
after today.
The i2-page folder which costs nothing extra, con-