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Evening star., 1949-09-25
Hollywood CfossroonsA AgoinFi|| Up
With ASPIRING Movie Stars

6. Choose your friends wisely.
The only pitfalls in Hollywood
are those you create yourself.
7. Don't let any one tell you
that you've got to be cold. ruth
less, cruel and selfish to succeed.
8. Don't be difficult. If you
have claws, keep them sheathed
when you're around studio design
ers, wardrobe women, makeup
men, electricians and other
craftsmen. Get the reputation for
being easy to work with.
8. Work, work, work until you've
kicked down the studio gates that
bar you. There are hundreds Of
little acting groups around Holly
wood. You're more likely to be
discovered as an actress who dem
onstrates that she's an actress
than combing your hair over your
vichysoisse at the Mocambo.
10. Avoid as plague the fringe
of young hopefuls who have been
kicking around Hollywood for
many years. who gather at the
same drugstore daily to talk about
their hard luck and who often
hang on for the sheer satisfac-
ton of being part Of Hollywood
Cast your lot with those who work
around the clock at succeeding
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Evening star., 1949-09-25
By SheiIoh Grohom

career. So we're pretty careful
about what we do. If any picture
will hurt our marriage by keeping
us apart. we just don't do it. I
don't want to be married again
twice is enough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferrer are plan
ming to do Hamlet" together on
the stage, and I doubt if they will
ever settle for long in Hollywood.
I've always been very independ-
ent with my career" Jose tells
me, ''but on the stage it's quite a
lot easier to control. That's why
I left Hollywood the last time.
When you have term deal, some
gifted gentleman in the front
Office decides what you shall do.
I figured out I only had one life
to myself. Now I enjoy Holly
wood as much as the stage-as
long as I'm free to decide which
pictures I'll make. I'm a great
believer in trying out new IDEAS"
he continues, from 'Charley's
Aunt to 'Othello.
Sets Have Been Up.
Gabriel Pascal is paging Ferrer
to go to Italy for "Androcles and
the Lion" He called my agent
Evening star., 1949-09-25
It's
A Deal
Complex Trades
Get Dollars
For Films
By Howard c. Heyn
HOLLYWOOD.

American film companies, says
Eric Johnston. aren't doing so
badly abroad as they might. what
with blocked currencies and other
international complexities.
The president of the Motion
Picture Association of America
said in an interview that movie
makers of the United States this
year will get 38 per cent of their
revenue from pictures shown in
foreign lands. This is only slightly
less than last years income from
these sources.
To do it the industry had to
engage now and then in such
extraneous activities as buying
limestone and selling sleeves for
phonograph records.
Not Sighted Abroad.
''The motion picture industry is
peculiarly dependent upon foreign
business" said Johnston. Most
people don't realize how deeply.
We're lucky. The American film
industry isn't sighted abroad like
other United States industries are.
That's because our pictures aren't
considered luxury items. They're
necessities. We get preferential
treatment because of this.
"Other American industries get
only 8 to 10 per cent of their in
come from abroad"
At present, he declared, Amer
ican film companies have less
than $7.000,000 frozen in Eng
land. "We have worked $25, ,O0O,-
600 out of that country this year ;,
in addition to the $4,000, 900 al
lowed under the Anglo-American
agreement.
Exports No Problem.
The problem, therefore, Is not
exporting pictures, but working
out the dollars.
Once in a while we can line
up deal with a man like Tito.
Yugoslavia has some dollars
banked in America. Then there
are the trade deals. AS an ex-
ample, we'll quarry limestone in
country A., sell it to country B,
where we have frozen dollars and
where the limestone will be made
into cement. Then We'll sell the
cement to country c, which has
oil and, therefore, dollars.
I'm Finland we buy phonograph
record sleeves, send them here
and sell them to record companies
for dollars. All these arrange
ments have to be fully legal, how
ever. There will be no under-the-
table deals.
This flow Of dollars has en-
abled us to keep going. Without
foreign revenue there would be a
revolution in Hollywood"
Evening star., 1949-09-25
Today's Schedules

AInoAoSAl(JN 4
Force; los. $40. 5:15,
7:20 and $50 pm.
CAPIToL-"You're My Every
thing; las, 4:30, tbs. and
10 pm. Stage shows: 3:45,
$50 and 9:15 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Top O. the
Morning; 1:25. $3.50, $50,
\ 7:35 and $40 pm.
DUPONT-"The Quiet One;
/. $50. 4:45. $40, 8::35 and
1875 pm.
HIPPODROME-"The Art of
Love-; 4:40. $50, and 9:45
pm.
KEITH'S-"Roseanna Nc
Coy; l, sos, Sis, 7:25,
and $50 pm.
LITTLE-"Burma Victory;
los. $40. 6:10, and 8:45
INSTRUMENTATION of
Sand; /. 3. $40. 7:25 and
$40 pm.
NATIONAL-"Devil in the
Flesh; 1:20, $3.50, 5:35, 7:50
and 10 pm.
PALACE-"I Was a Male War
Bride; l. $40. $40. 1885
and 9:45 pm.
PIX-"My Favorite Brunette;
/, 4, 7, and 10 pm.
PLAYHOUSE Spring in
Park Lane; l, 2:45. 4:30.
6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-"Black Magic;
1:20. $3.50. $40. 7:45 and
10 pm.
WARNER-"Task Force: l,
$40, $40, 1880 and 9:40
pm.
Evening star., 1949-09-25
Actor With Only One Life to Live,
Jose Ferrer Remains Independent

and told him, I've got to have
an answer right away, because
the sets are up I told my agent
to tell him, The sets have been
up for 5000 years!'"
I asked Jose how long he and
his wife will remain in Hollywood.
"I'll stay until people get tired of
my face" he replied. 1--WE got
mannerisms and I'll leave before
people get tired of them" Mr..
Ferrer is not the usual type of
leading man, although Ingrid
Bergman refused to have any one
else in Joan"
"Id certainly enjoy doing an
other movie with Miss Bergman,
says Mr.. Ferrer. I'm sure he'll
have the opportunity, because no
one who knows Ingrid believes her
speech about retiring.
The Ferrers want to own a
house in Hollywood as we'll as
have an apartment in New York.
I've been looking at houses here,
but every time hear the price
I get frightened" They have one
child. And Jose. who does every
thing with terrific enthusiasm,
told me enthusiastically, II in
tend to have a million children. -
Well. that's a nice round number.
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Evening star., 1949-09-25
HOLLYWOOD.

"I love fat women" says Jose
Ferrer. And I love fat food" Mr.
Ferrer, currently one of Holly
woods very-much-in- demand ac-
tors, is lunching with me in the
goth Century-Fox cafe. following
his whirl with Gene Tierney in
whirlpool" But" he adds, pass
ing the potatoes back to the wait
ress regretfully, I'm so ashamed
when I get fat myself. 1t denotes
lack of control. Two years ago I
weighed 200 pounds. Now I'm
down to 145."
How did you do it?" I ask,
helping myself to Jose's discarded
starches. II dieted mildly and ex-
ercised fiercely." says the man
who portrayed the weak Dauphin
in Joan of Arc" with Ingrid
Bergman.
Mr.. Ferrer first saw the light of
Hollywood 10 years ago. II was
under contract to RkO and was
supposed to work from June to
September only, because I wanted
to continue on Broadway the rest
of the year. Producer Pan Ber-
man said. This is a silly contract
I agreed with him completely. At
that time I was married to my
first wife. Uta Hagen. The studio
really only wanted her anyway,
but they had to take me, too.
Every one was very rude to me.
Then I did 'Mamba's Daughter
and I was the hot one. Every one
is now rude to Uta. We both said,
This is ridiculous and went back
to New York simply hating Holly
wood"
Won't Endanger Marriage.
Jose is now married to Actress
Phyllis Hill and he is really hot
in Hollywood. Phyllis is receiving
her share of movie offers. too.
But we had a long talk before we
married." says Jose. land decided
that our married life is more i'm
portant than my career or her
Evening star., 1949-09-25
HOLLYWOOD.


While bells were ringing out
their first-day call to approx
mately 800 public school
pupils the other day, some 1900
boys and girls strobe into Holly
wood classrooms that offered a
vastly different curriculum.
These schools, scattered around
the film capital from Pasadena to
Culver City, offer no ordinary
"three RS" on their learning
charts. Pupils attending these
private shops pay all the way
from $50 to 500 a month or
more to major in the thespian
arts.
Ambitious kids flock here from
all over the country. some from
foreign shores, all intent on
learning how to be glamorous and
talented enough to attract the
attention of movie scouts. In
these fllmtown schools they are
given fast, intensive courses on
what the movie tutors consider
the most essential requirements
for landing a contract.
Men in Majority.
Strange things are noted in the
Hollywood talent incubators. A
survey of the new classes which
got under way couple of weeks
ago shows that males, once far
In the minority, now exceed the
female candidates by a ratio of
s to l.
Why do the budding Cary
Grants outnumber the Lana
Turner's by such a lopsided mar
gin?
Ben Bard, former big time film
heavy Che often beleaguered Jean
Harlow, Mary Astor and Janet
Gaynor). who now conducts one
of the towns most popular act
ing founts, traces it all to the war
and to Uncle Sans generous
CT Bill of Rights. Most of the
vets attending Bard classes this
year are one-time clerks, me-
chanics and Office workers who
got their chance to tune up latent
dramatic ambitions after the
wars end.
Bard discourages pupils from
tying up with talent agents OF
Evening star., 1949-09-25
NEW YORK.


Although the new theatrical
season on Broadway is getting off
to slow start this autumn, there
is evidence of considerable activ-
ity going on behind the scenes.
About dozen new openings are
scheduled for October with the
most exciting premieres appear
ing to be a pair Of musicals.
The first of these is Lost in
the Stars" Maxwell Anderson S
musical dramatization of Alan
Paton's novel, Cry. the Beloved
Country" The second will be RE
gina" Marc Blitzstein's musical
version Of Lillian Hellman's hit
opera, "The Little Foxes >
October normally is a much
more active month in the New
York theater. but it is away from
Broadway where some of the most
interesting plans for the stage are
now being activated.
For the last several weeks John
Rust, managing director of the
Theater-on-Tour has been on
Broadway readying a road COM
pany OF '"The Hasty Heart" a
play by John Patrick which had
a successful run in New York
with Richard Basehart and Anne
Burr playing the leading roles.
Mainly One-Night Stands.
With the University of Mime
sofa sponsoring the production in
cooperation with the New York
Theater Guild, 1.-The Hasty Heart
will play an 11,000-mile tour OF
some so towns from Robbinsdale
Mimi. to Hereford, Tex, and back
to Canada. After its premiere
in Minneapolis September 80, the
production will move down
through Minnesota. Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Texas. Then it will turn north
ward again to play North and
South Dakota. Wisconsin and a
few stops in Canada.
While we will play Minneapo-
lis, Omaha, Kansas City and other
large cities" Rust said, "our main
attention is being placed on one
night stands. Indeed, our chief
interest in this tour is to take a
professional play with Broadway
actors into towns where the live
theater has rarely been seen.
Our guiding force in planning
this tour has been DR.. Malcolm
Wiley. vice president of the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
'The New York Theater Guild
assisted in this project by select
ing our cast of players and the
Evening star., 1949-09-25
On QndOff Broadway
Theater Shows Life
The Hasty Heart Will Visit Regions
Where Professional Stage Is Rare
By Mark Borron

director. Actors Equity also has
helped by making concessions so
that we could take a full profess
sional company on the tour"
For the leads in this production,
the guild selected Barabra Ames,
who was last seen on Broadway in
Eastward to Eden; Chase Soltez,
who played in the Theater Guilds
Broadway production of The sal
yer WHISTLE" and film actors
David Ryan and Lee Madden.
Martin Manulis, who staged the
recent Tallulah Bankhead produc-
ton Of Private Lives" was chosen
as director.
In the Poconos.
Another travelling experiment
last week was the presentation in
Mountainhome. Pa. of a new dra-
ma, THE Innocents," which is a
first play by William Archibald,
who is we'll known on Broadway
but not as playwright. He was
a dancer in "One for the Money"
and 1.-TWO for the Show" and he
was librettist for the musical
"Carib Song"
Now he has dramatized Henry
James supernatural thriller, THE
Turn of the Screw" With the
benefit of Herman Shumlin's di-
rection, the play. The Innocents."
was given first showing in
Mountainhome, resort spot in
the Pocono Mountains.
The producers, Richard Aldrich
and Richard Myers. usually give
their plays their first showing in
metropolitan centers like Boston
or Baltimore. so it seemed odd
that they should pick such an off,
the-beaten-path place as Noun
tainhome. Especially so since they
have it peopled with such an ex-
'cellent cast including Leueen Nc
Grath, the English actress who
was a hit in last seasons Edward.
My Son." and 12-year-old Avid
Cole, who was brought over from
England especially for this role.
Cheaper in London.
The choice of Mountainhome?
Well, it was later explained, it is
a nice, quiet place in the country
which isn't likely to attract a mob
of Broadway kibitzers. Therefore,
more undisturbed work could be
done on the production while pre-
pairing its November debut on
Broadway with the same cast.
From London comes word that
John Wildberg, the Broadway pro-
ducer intends staying there for a
time because he likes London as q
tryout town for his new shows.
Production costs in London, he
cables. are only one-third what
they are in New York and opera
tions costs are two-thirds less.
Wildberg has two new American
plays he plans to try out in Lon
don first. One is Billy Budd," q
Herman Melville sea story drama
tized by Harvard Profs. r. H.
Chapman and Louis Coke. Tho
other is Keep Your Head" o
creepy comedy by E. P. Conkle.
Evening star., 1949-09-25
By Harold Heffernon

making any attempt whatever to
attract studio attention before
their courses - usually running
two months-are completed. He's
a tough taskmaster, too, in the
matter of absence, tardiness or
lack of concentration. A couple
of rebukes are usually followed
by suspension. Drill and rehears-
al periods are long and some
times exhausting.
Prof. Bard's 10 rules for
young movie hopefuls are well
worth reading and handing to
the ambitious girl next door. Here
they are:
/. Develop a small appetite, a
distaste for lavish living quarters.
an allergy to mink and a flair for
stretching a dollar. Luxuries and
the pursuit of stardom seldom go
hand in hand.
2. Don't envy the aspiring ac-
tress who is a name-dropper and
speaks of Mr.. Zanuck as Daryl
It's the kiss of death to know
hundreds of important people in
Hollywood.
8. Don't spout Stanislavski to
the casting director at the studio.
The kind of Bernhardt that Kath-
arine Hepburn played in Stage
Door" inspires yawns in casting
Offices.
4. Fight to the last ditch the
efforts of Hollywood to turn you
into an assembly-line blond. bru-
nette or redhead.
A Matter of Hard Work.
S. Stay out of night clubs and
gossip columns while you're inch
ino I'm tho ladder of fame
Evening star., 1949-09-25
Writers at Work
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Movie studios are employing 467
screen writer's, against 425 six
weeks ago. says Writer Allen Riv-
kin. who keeps track of such mat
ters for the Screen Writer'S Guild.
Working in major studios are
210, compared with 191 in the
previous tally. Independent stu
dios are keeping ITO writer's busy
against 155 last month. Forty five
writer's are producing scripts for
documentary and teleyision films
and another AZ are serving as
writer-producers, writer-directors
or writer-executives. These cate
gories listed 40 and 80, respective
ly, IN the August count.
Evening star., 1949-09-25
Valli Keeps Cool
BY the Associated Press

44ox25x VSSos
Aida Valli, the Italian actress,
wears in THE White Tower" a
Notwithstanding ensemble so
light that even a Swiss would
shiver.
An authentic outfit was pur-
chased for her at Chamonix,
France. when the troupe was To-
cationing in the Alps. The 80
pounds OF woolens were welcomed
there.
But back on the hot sound
stages of Hollywood these clothes
wouldn't do. For additional scenes
filmed here. Designer Michael
Wolfe copied Wallis alpine attire,
undergarments and all, in sheer
batiSte.
Evening star., 1949-09-25

A Matter of Hard Work.
S. Stay out of night clubs and
gossip columns while you're inch
ing up the ladder of fame.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12
Coe. Langlie at
Opposite Poles
In eva Dispute

Lambasting Governor Arthur B.
Langlie for his announced stand
against the proposed Columbia
Valley Administration legislation,
Secretary of State Earl Coe today
jumped into the eva controversy
with both feet.
Coe, a former State Senator
from Eastern Washington, former
state chairman of the Democratic
party and the candidate who
received the greatest number OF
votes in the recent election out
side of President Truman, has
long been an advocate of the eva.
"The statement attributed 70
Governor Langlie and Mayor
Devin of Seattle just don't make
sense" Coe declared. "On the one
hand they cry out against the So
called "super-state and shout about
bureaucratic control and on the
other they call for continued adj
ministrarion of the Columbia VAL
ley by existing agencies.
Surely Langlie and Devin
don't think that the people OF
the state of Washington are so
uninformed as to believe that the
Bureau of Reclamation, Army
Engineers, Forestry Dept, Geolog-
ical Dept, Agriculture Dept. and
the Federal Fish and Wildllfe
Service are controlled by people In
this area" Coe continued.
"All these agencies are con-
trolled right from Washington, D.
c. AS matter Of fact the Column
bia Valley Administration, which
will have as two of its three MEM
bers, bonafide residents of the
Pacific Northwest, will be far
less under the control of Wash
ington, DC. than the present
agencies now operating in this
area"
81 note in one of Langlie's
statements that he raises the old
hue and cry about throwing away
basic rights and freedoms" Coe
continued. "That is pure bunkum.
We may be infringing upon some
of the rights of the private power
companies TO make excessive pro-
fits, but I cannot feel too sorry
for that particular group when q
more efficient administration OF
the future of the Columbia Valley
can mean better opportunities and
a higher standard of living for all
1.-THE Hoover commission, head
ed by a leader of Mr.. Langlie's
own party, has called for more
efficiency in government through
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12
California Firm
Gets McNarY Job

Judson Pacific Murphy Corpor-
alton of Emeryville, Calf, SUBJ
mitted the low bid of $459, $50
for the manufacture Of two 200
ton gantry cranes for McNary
lock and dam on the Columbia
river, it was announced by the
Walla Walla District Engineer
following opening of bids We'd
nesday.
Other bids were: Willamette
Idon & Steele Co., Portland, $780,
900; Star Iron & Steel Co., Ia
coma, WASH, $559,300; Cyclops
Iron Works, San Francisco, Calf,
1857, 126; Lakeside Bridge &
Steel Co., Milwaukee, Wis.,, $685.
800; Moore Drydock Co., Oakland,
Calf, $731, 400.
Abstract of the bids will be
studied before an award is made.
The two giant cranes will be
used to place the leafs in the
spillway gates during contraction
of the spillway dam and later
for raising and lowering the spill
way gates.
The first crane is scheduled
for delivery within 480 days after
the contractor is notified to pro-
coed. The second is due for deliv-
cry within 845 days. Delivery
will be made to North McNary
Wash.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12
From The Past
Isas-lo YEARS AGO

Bricks new service station was
completed and open for business
The Kennewick bakery installed
a new high speed bread mixer
It could handle three sacks OF
flour at once.
Miss Vivian Higley took part IN
the regional music festival al
Portland. Her trip was made pos
sible by local Kiwanians.
Paul Richmond, local business
man, purchased the Hover nloch
consisting of ten business places
on Kennewick Ave-, from ~
Reese. 49,
r was hot in Kennewick; the
thermometer reached VI.
1920 YEARS AGO
Margaret Witt was chosen py
tho Commercial club to represent
Kennewick at the Pasco Ar JuO-
lice and carnival.
Thirty four students received
their high school diplomas al
graduation exercises.
Mrs, H. D. clodfelter went to
Hot take. Ore, to stay tor sew
eral weeks.
c1ell shby who had been
working on the Admiral Schelley
steamer between Portland and
Los Angeles was home TO WISH
his parents.
Kennewick golfers defeated
Walla Walla on the home course
| Is to 20. ."
1880 YEARS AGO
The twelfth commencement
exercises of Kennewick high
school was held May 16. The
| class numbering 81, was the larg-
est in its history. The address
was given by DR.. Stephen B. L.
Penross, president OF Whitman
college.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. O. Kitten pur.
chased the first Premier touring
car in KenneWick.
Word was received that Harlan
Muncy, Jack Copeland, anc
Clyde Smith were on their way
to Camp Lewis to be discharged
frona tho army.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12

consolidation of activities" the
secretary declared. "Why is it NOT
better to have one agency planning
and carrying out the development
of our greatest natural resource
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12
WRITES OF HORSE HEAVEN

The Horse Heaven wheat
country south and southwest OF
Kennewick came in for some ex-
tended treatment in the April issue
of Northwest" the Northern Pacl-
fic railroads monthly magazine.
A three-page illustrated article
was a feature of the issue, based
on trip the author took with
Paul Sampson aand Paul Hamil-
ton. Pictures taken at the Horri-
gan, Gould Bros, and Hamilton
ranches were shown.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12

than to have a dozen or BETH
federal agencies pickering and
fighting over which one is to ee,
the appropriation to carry ou
some part of the program"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12

An estimated $21,000,O00 is
spent every year by tourists an
xious to view Niagra Falls.
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES
Holy Communion at AM. Sum
day Morning; Junior Choir Formed

Holy Communion at 8 AM. Sum
day Morning; Junior Choir Formed
Services at st. Peters P. E.
Church on Sexagesima Sunday,
February 20, will be as follows: 8
am, Holy Communion; 10 am,
church school; IL am, Morning
Prayer, and sermon by the rector,
the Rev. Donald ]. Parsons. A bake
for the benefit of the choir will be
held on Saturday at Cupid Ice
Cream Store, in charge of Mrs.
Clara Davis and Mrs. John Morris.
The first meeting of the Junior
Choir, which is being organized,
was held yesterday afternoon at
the parish house under the direc-
ton of Mrs. John Fearon. The Jun
ior Choir will meet each Wednes-
day afternoon at 3:45 pm. at the
parish house. The Woman's Aux
iliary also met Wednesday and
considered the missionary pledges
of the group for the coming year.
=
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17
Editorial = From the Olympia
Churchman, as appearing in The
Code, parish paper of Trinity
Church. Wilmington.
The Reverend

0AOP oeNpalSlA L. Lay llC,
IN his diocesan paper, unburd-
ems his soul in this fashion !:
'If you have any respect for
the Bishops blood pressure,
5 PLEASE do not use the word
Reverend as a title. 1t is
wrong. 1t is sinful. It is
against Emily Post. 1t is un-
grammatical. It is everything
that is horrible and loath-
some. Reverend is an adjec-
tive, like Honorable which
is used to modify a noun-as
The Reverend John Brown.
1t is NOT a title. 1t is always
prefixed by the. It is never
used with the last name alone.
Archbishops are The Most
Reverend = tn at includes
Bishop Sheriff. in our book
Bishops are The Right Rever-.
end, Deans are The Very
Reverend, Archdeacons are
The Venerab b e., Parish
Priests-those peasants-are
The Reverend End on an
nual blast on the subject"