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THE CUEBO BECOBD, CCERO. TEXAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24,1941
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Romantic moments from MGM’s new musical produc-
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The Sets
When a comedian has scored
ui outstanding success on stage,
icreen and j-adio, the next logi-
cal step in his development seems
to be writing a book, and so
Bob Hope has
just taken
that, .-latest
stride with a
little volume
purporting to
be his autobi-
ography called
“They Got Me
Covered." This
document,
mailed to rep-
resentatives
of the press in
a moment of
self - criticism
“to »ohnston f r 0 m the
Stockyards Station in Chicago,
resembles the conventional auto-
biography in every respect save
two—it is hilariously funny and
It doesn’t tell you much about
the life of Bob Hope.
With an introduction by Bing
Crosby, in which he says his
radio sponsors forbid him to
write about anything not con-
nected with cheese, the.book be-
gins, as all autobiographies
should, with the birth of what
seems to have been a pretty faint
Hope. Indeed his mother, study-
ing his ski-slide nose for the first
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the doctor must have taken away
the baby and left the stork.
That was in England, and once
the family had moved to Cleve-
land, Ohio, the young Hope, one
of a family of seven sons (he
says his father was> the Bing
Crosby of his day) embarked on
a series of misadventures with
his school teachers and various
employers who showed an almost
pathetic eagerness to terminate
relations with him. »
Nor did the theatre show any
detectable enthusiasm when he
first entered vaudeville in a
dancing act — dancing, he says,
because he then presented a mov-
ing target which made it tougher
for the customers to contact him
with over-ripe tomatoes and old
shoes. Sjomchow, during an in-
cautious moment on the part of
the producers, he slipped into a
Broadway musical and then, he
says, “the word started going up
and down Broadway that Bob
Hope was a great bet for pic-
tures.” But this rumor died
flown after a few weeks, chiefly
b<.cause Bob was getting hoarse.
Still, he did manage to get to
Hollywood, though after viewing
his first test the director said:
Anything you do after this will
time, informed his father th^t be a come-back."
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HOLLYWOOD
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EXCLUSIVELY YOURS: Pie-throwing, favorite cinematic
sport of the Mack Sennett era, is having a Hollywood come-
back, with usually dignified Franchot Tone the latest to join
the custard hurlers. Script of his co-star-
ring picture with Rita Hayworth, “Eadie
Was a Lady,” has Tone hurling a pie at
someone every time he gets mad . . . Cary
Grant is angling for a producer-star con-
tract at one of the major studios . . . Gene
Tierney, who has trouble keeping her weight
down, had to shelve 14 pounds before start-
ing work in “The Shanghai Gesture’ ; . .
Marlene Dietrich sheds that cast on her
leg this week, five weeks after she trtpped
and fell on a Columbia sound stage . . .
After hearing about John Carroll winning
a prize in a Pebble Beach golf tournament,
Johnny Weissmuller ribbed: “No wonder
erskine iohnson Carroll won. He played against fellows
■who didn’t shoot in their 80s—they were IN their 80s!”
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Bruqe Cabot’s performance as the romantic lead in "Sun-
down” has won him more screen offers this month than he’s
had in two years. Four studios were bidding for his services
before Walter Wanger lent him to Warners for “Wild Bill
Hickok Rides.”' The Hickok picture, incidentally, is one for
the book. It’s a western without a single barroom brawl. , . .
Norman Kerry, the silent star, and Lloyd Pontages have joined
Charlie Morrison of the Mocambo in the retail liquor business.
. . . Hal Block and John Payne are thinking of sinking some
of-their coin in a novel theater that would sell tickets to two-
somes only. It will have double loge seats and be called “The
Pitching Post.”
• • •
Rosemary Lane opened this week on Broadway in a new musi-
cal, “Best Foot Forward” . . . Maureen O’Hara’s recent opera-
tion will keep her away from the cameras for another month
. . . Paramount is paging Nancy Kelly for another picture as a
result of her work in “Fly by Night” . . . Ring Lardner, Jr.,
and Michael Kanin, “Woman of the Year” -scriveners, are spik-
ing reports that Katie Hepburn’s role in the picture deals with
Dorothy Thompson. They chorus: “ ‘Woman of the Year’ is not
a photograph but a painting—a pigment of our imagination”
. . . Fox is holding up a new Michael Shayne whodunit because
of Lloyd Nolan’s illness . . . Joan Blondell’s version of a post-
Civil War version of the can-can in “Lady For a Night” is
giving the censors the jitters . . . Scotty Beckett and Juanita
Quigley are a juvenile item . . . Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
will drfiw $5000 a week for their stint in "Rio Rita” at Metro.
Twelve years ago Costello was a stunt man on the same lot—
at $25 a week.
• • •
Freddie Bartholomew and Jackie Paley, the socialite, have
rediscovered each other . . . Jack Oakie tells it. A drunk
staggA-ed into a hotel lobby, picked up a freshly watered potted
geranium, and took a drink. "Whew,” he spattered, “they just
don’t make good mint juleps any more!” . . . Jack Chapin, a
Hollywood bit player, who expected to be caught in the draft
a year ago but wasn’t, might just as well have been. He hasn’t
been out of uniform since. He was a soldier in "Caught in the
Draft,” a sailor in “Nothing But the Truth,” an air raid warden
in “Midnight Angel,” a Are marshal in “One Night in Lisbon,”
and now he’s a sailor again with Dorothy Lamour in “The
Fleet’s In” . . . Producer Rowland Brown has purchased “Beau
Beautiful,” the story of a Yankee’s experiences in the Foreign
Legion. -
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Priscilla Lane and John Barry, the Victorville publisher, will
tie the matrimonial knot this month when Mamma Lane returns
from New York . . . The Bill Lundigan-Mareuerite Chapman
romance isn’t . . . Casting of the month: Keye Luke portraying
the role of a Chinese cowboy in a new Universal picture titled
“North! of the Klondike” . . . Want ad of the month: “Lady
with sealyham experience to look after two dogs in private
home” . . . Ann Sothem’s sister, Bonnie Lake, will be the new
vocalist with Artie Shaw’s orchestra . . . John Barrymore sur-
prised a nightclub waiter the other a.m. by ordering a glass of
milk. But when the milk arrived, Barrymore took a carnation
from his buttonhole, put it in the glass of milk, and then gave
his usual order . . . Streamlined caricature of Vic Mature—
Cinderella, w'ith two pairs of trousers.
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Against the background of the inevitable swimming pool, which
makes a nice excuse for a bathing-suit, sits Carol Hughes, Gene
Autry’s current leading lady in “Under Fiesta Skies.”
f ATTENTION MOVIE FANS
This week members of the Hollywood Today Fan Club
may secure a handsome autographed photograph of Gene
Autry, simply by giving their membership number and
enclosing five cents for handling and mailing costs. If
you are not yet a member of the Fan Club, write to Holly-
wood Today, Crossroads of the XV or Id, Hollywood, Cali-
fornia, and you ivill receive a membership card entitling
you to later photographs of various stars available to
club members only. ALL LETTERS MUST MENTION
THIS NEWSPAPER v
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JOE FISHER'S
Reaiewd P^ieoieupi
Warner Brothers scored heavily this week with their preview
of “ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN,” starring Fredric March and
Martha Scott, with a strong supporting cast. This intensely
human study of a small-town minister's life is a delightfully
HOLLYWOOD KEYHOLE
After all the conflicting stories and state- .
ments that have been rifling back and forth
around town for the past few months, the ,
status of the career of one Sonja Henie has
finally been decided—she will remain in
Hollywood and make pictures. A few months
ago we recorded her decision to forsake a
motion picturee career and confine herself
to a career as the wife of Dan Topping and
maCe" one ice show tour per year. But re- I
ports and reviews from her supposed “last”
film, “Sun Valley Serenade,” have turned
the worm and she reports back to 20th-Fox
ken morcan studios January 1, when her annual ice
show closes.
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Attention—R^nd and McNally! The town of Berwln, Okia- !
homa, pop. 700, located on the edge of Gene Autry’s new 1800- j
acre ranch, becomes officially Gene Autry, Oklahoma, this week. ,
Autry stops off at Berwln on October 5, for official dedication
ceremonies on the name changing. Upwards of 100,000 people r
are expected to attend, including Gene’s pal, Guv Red Phillips,
and other high state officials.
...
When referring to John Wayne as an All-American, think
onltf in terms of his citizenship—not us a footballer. A few of j
the boys at the Sigma Chi house at USC will back me up in j
that statement. “Duke” played freshman football and made
the squad in his sophomore year. The boys do considerable |
kidding of the now-famous movie star at the fraternity house— ,
but no more, as the aforementioned lads can testify. Wayne
saus blame it all ott Bev Barnett, a fraternity brother, and now j
his press agent.
THE GOOD RI'MOR MAN: Bob Hope, in referring to his
home studio Paramount loaning him out to Samuel Goldwyn,
calls the chore. “The Lend Louse Bill” . . . Here's a surprise-
just heard that the Hollywood Reporter poll of the most popular
actor in Hollywood will name Mickey Rooney as number one
and (hold it) Gene Autry as number two! . . . Olivia De
Havilland had a ball in for Gene Markey when his boat docked
at Panama . . . Martha Raye, after signing hundreds of auto-
graphs at the Ice Follies, signed a check in the Brown Derby,
“Sincerely yours, Martha Raye” . . . William Powell is up and
around again after a short illness . . . Joan Marsh is testing at
RKO for a comeback . . . Rochester just returned from the
yearling sale at Saratoga and added four more race horses to
his stable of two . . . Lois Moran is attempting a comeback
via Rroadway—she goes into a play there this fall . . . Wendy
Barrie took her finaLs yesterday to become an American citizen
— she was born in England . . . Donald Woods is being paged
by Moss Hart for the male lead in the Broadway show, “Junior
Miss” . . . The Inez Cooper-Bill Marshall duo is beginning to
look serious . . . Mary Carlisle is back to her old steady, James
Blakely . . . Randolph Scott has taken over Edmund Grainger's
interest in Jinx Falkenburg , . . Columnists report that Lew
Ayres and Olivia De Havilland have found each other—they
have been acquainted ever since she started in pictures, as
they were both managed by Ivan Kahn at the start . . . Harvey
Priester, once the swain of the silenOstars, is getting around
with Margaret Lindsay . . . Ann Miller and Blake Garner are
a steady Mocambo twosome . . . Milton Berle and Janice Carter
like each other and the Bar of Music, too ... Charles Laughton
built his home too close to the Santa Monica cliffs and the
other day half ius lot bkd down on the Roosevelt Highway, ,
Martha Scott and Fredric March in a tender moment from
“One Foot in Heaven.”
skillful interweaving of heartache and laughter which should
go a long way toward proving that religious stories can be
given widespread popular appeal under capable handling. And
a high degree of skillful artistry-is just what the picture has
received from Director Irving Rapper, who takes a top place
in Hollywood’s directorial gallery with this production.
Fredric March as the Reverend Mr. Spence is everywhere
equal to the delicate task of interpreting the gentle minister,
bringing to the role a rich understanding of its every shading,
and giving it the heart and soul and life w-hich made the original
Hartzell Spence so vivid and memorable to readers of the book.
As the preacher’s wise and long-suffering wife, Martha Scott is
exquisite to look at, and her performance in every respect
matches that of Mr. March.
In supporting roles, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart, Harry
Davenport, Laura Hope Crews, Grant Mitchell, Moroni Olsen,
Jerome Cowan, Ernest Cossart and Nana Bryant are superla-
tive in brief appearances, with Frankie Thomas especially nota-
ble as the minister in boyhood, and with Carlotta Jelm, Peter
Caldwell and Casey Johnson also to be mentioned as his chil-
dren.
Out of this combination there is certain to come an Academy
Award of some kind, and “ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN’’ is a
picture you'll want to enjoy with the entire family—with the
full blessing and approval of the Hays Office.
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RKO also placed in the big money with its release of the
latest Walt Disney feature-length cartoon, “DUMBO.” In this
sure-fire hit Disney departs somewhat from his previous treat-
ment, with emphasis almost entirely on comedy played against
more modest backgrounds than in previous -productions. Nor
does it include any of those hair-raising sequences which, in
“Snow White” and “Pinocchio," occasionally brought howls of
alarm from the younger customers.
You'll be enchanted with Dumbo, the little circus elephant
with the oversize ears, and his worldly, wise-cracking com-
panion, a new mouse who resembles Mickey only in being
another mouse. This combination had the preview audience
roaring through most of the picture, which builds to hilarious
climaxes in the champagne episode, the blackbird sequence in
dialect, and Dumbo's final triumph when he discovers his ears
are perfect for flying.
♦ 99
THUMBNAIL PREVIEWS: Universal’s top offering was “IT
STARTED WITH EVE.” starring Deanna Durbin and Charles
Laughton, with Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Talli-
rhet and Walter Catlett in support. This is a sprightly Cin-
derella story typical of the best Deanna Durbin pictures, and
one which will delight you with its sparkling dialogue and the
warm, spontaneous performances of its stars. Deanna Durbin
is lovely and in perfect voice, while Charles Laughton goes in
for hilarious low comedy in high fashion. Robert Cummings
is gaily romantic, with Walter Catlett, Guy Kibbee and Mar-
garet Talhchet gleaming very brightly in the background. By
all means turn out for this one with the whole family.
Warners’ second release this week was “THE MALTESE
FALCON,’’ a remake of the Dashiell Hammett original with
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astnr, Gladys George, Peter Lorre,
Barton Mael.aue and Lee Patrick in the top supporting spots.
Humphrey Bogart is excellent as the hardboiled private detec-
tive, with first-rate villainy supplied by Mary Astor, Peter
I.orrC and Sidney Gfeenstreet. Gladys George and Barton
MaeLano also rate spa-ial mention, along with the highly capa-
ble duvriio!, of .John Huston. Highly recommended for its
thrills and action.
Meet the Stats
With VIC BOESEN
In a small Arizona town
brought to bustling life by the
Howard Hughes company film-
ing "The Outlaw,” two men one
day came together on the street,
a sailor and a
tall man with
deep, search-
ing eyes and a
slight stdop.
The sailor,
who had sidled
up to the oth-
er, said: “Ex-
cuse me, Mis-
ter, but I’ve
seen you some-
where before
and I’m just
wondering
where?”
The tall man v,c B0ESIN
bent friendly eyes at his com-
panion. He looked him up and
dowm. “I think I’ve seen you
somewhere too,” he said.
“Isn’t that funny?" said the
sailor. “Here we know each
other and yet we don’t.”
“It’s a pretty small wrorld,” the
tall man philosophized. They
walked on together for several
blocks, each trying to place’ the
other. At length they parted, and
the sailor went away shaking his
head, still not aware that he had
been talking to Walter Huston.
Sailors, and all the millions of
people the earth around who
know Walter Huston from seeing
him on the movie screen, owe
the treat of his performances to
Huston’s discontent with an engi-
neering job at the St. Louis mu-
nicipal power company thirty
years ago.
“I’m going to quit,” said Hus-
ton to his chief engineer one day.
“I’m going into acting.”
“You’re making a serious mis-
take,” the boss replied. “You’ve
got a future in engineering, not
acting.”
So, perhaps, he was—an engi-
neer; and maybe if he had gone
on, he would have become a fa-
mous one, but it would be a
lonely venture to argue that
Huston made a mistake in turn-
ing to acting. Even his old chief,
now nearly 90, came forward
with a letter recently, after thir-
ty years of silence, to say that
he guessed he had given Huston
some pretty bad advice that day
three decades ago.
Sometimes engineers do well
enough; sometimes they become
President of the United States,
which an actor has yet to do, but
there is a degree of eminence
even higher than that, identified
as such by the President himself
when he makes possible the sort
of story that follows:
Huston was playing “Dods-
Worth” in Washington, and one
afternoon he telephoned his good
friend Mis£ Margaret LeHand,
President Roosevelt’s confiden-
tial secretary, with an Invitation
to attend that night’s perform-
ance. Miss LeHand would be de-
lighted. of course, and abruptly
she said, “Wait a minute!” and
clapped her hand over the mouth-
piece.
Huston, at the other end of
the line, could “hear voices in the
background; and then Miss Le-
Hand was back on the wire. She
said, “The President wants to
know if he may come along?”
Like the puzzled sailor, Mr.
Roosevelt had seen Huston some-
where, too; only he remembered.
FAN CLUB
What movie star’s picture
would you like best in our
next photograph offer t All
members of the Hollywood
Today Fan Club are invited
to write in naming choice,
and our autographed photo-
graphs of stars will be of-
fered in the order of their
popularity with Fan Club
members.
Here’s conclusive proof that
Marjorie Reynolds hasn’t picked
up any unbecoming military
ways during her work in Mono-
gram's “Top Sergeant Muljlgaa.”
HOLLYWOOD
FASHION SCENE
By MARGARET McKAY
Football came to Hollywood
this past week and that is the
only way we can sleuth out the
fact that fall is here in this part
of the country—except for the
claims of the calendar, of course.
But the . *
femmes have
all fallen in
line and start-
ed wearing
their new fall
furs, which
brings about a
lot of new
facts about
furs. Some of
the fur coats
are wrapped
around us
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ties; muffs are everywhere aad
usually match a hat of the same
fur, black fox being a favorttt;
gloves are tipped with fur at
the cuff; purses are fur trimmed;
fur capes are back as are the
old-fashioned stoles. On dresses
you will see fur-trimmed buttons,
fur-covered pockets or peplum
hems accented with fur. Little
sailor collars of fur are being
used on sport fur coats and some
coats are cloth outside but fur
lined.
Veronica Lake’s first public
appearance since the birth of her
baby was at a cocktail party at
the Brown Derby and she wore
a large beaver Cossack cut hat
Mary Healy took time ott from
her current picture, Monogram’s
“Sis Boom Bah” to yell the title
out at real footballers in a grey
Persian trimmed coat with en-
velope bag and wide-brimmed
hat edged In the same fur. Rita
Hayworth bought herself a white
broadtail "cap-hat” that hides
her hair and hangs low in the
back, revealing only the perfect
lines of her face.
• • • •
BEST DRESSED GIRL OP
THE WEEK: Constance Bennett
in a - Damon Gifford designed
gown for evening of turquoise
crepe. The dolman shoulders
flow from a low, square-cat
neckline bordered with a narrow
banding of gold in scrolls, eXDt-
ically finished off with a hpi^in
draped skirt. Kid gloves of tur-
quoise, gold slippers and bag,
complete the ensemble.
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AROUND TO W Nr-Marlene
Dietrich, always to be depended
upon for the more fabulous new
fashions, turns up some real pro-
ductions in her Columbia picture,
“The Lady Is Willing,” among
them a hat for cocktails and
ning. John Fredericks
it’s a coachman’s hat _____
faille, completely covered with
glistening -black sequins and
touched off with a spray of
sparkling black feathers.
Record Review •
By WAX MAN 9
It’s getting to be quite a fad
for the band leaders to record a
tune based on their Hollywood
domicile while they are in the
tinsel city. Artie Shaw has done
Sammeridge Drive on Victor;
Benny Goodman waxed Tevna-
rtdge Drive on Columbia and nom
Charlie Barnett crashes through
with Murder at Peyton Hall on
Bluebird. Latter disc is in Char-
lie’s inimitable style, starting out
with gun-shots (with strangled
screams) and continuing with a
flock of trumpet, sax and guitar.
Chi the reverse is The Heart You
Stole From Me, a torchy written
by Charlie and his public rela-
tions counsel, Leonard Feather.
Dacca has just released a new
record by Ella Fitzgerald of
tunes from a Hollywood hit show,
“Jump for Joy!” Top aide car-
ries the interesting title of Fee
Got It Bad aad That Ain’t deed
and the reverse is tagged Metta-
da the Mseals. Both are doot as
only Ella can. Collectors of dhow
tunes should add this duo to the
rack.
Add wax-cracks: Jane Pickens
— “Swing is the invention ef
morons for the torture of lake*
riles!”
“Ole Prof’ Kay Kyser offer*
an excellent course
to his students
After Tomorrow,
ballad with a smooth back*
ground. Ginny Sima, assisted by
Harry, Jack and Max, earns htt
stripes for a teary warble. Mat*
is I Love You Mere, Mere Every
Day, a cleverly arranged dance
tune with the teacher’s favorite,
lovely Ginny, again the brightest
pupil in the class.
Tommy Dorsey should have t
couple of winner* in hit latest
session. Pel* Moon, the
Indian love song that has main-
tained a terrific selling pace for
years, is sung by Frank Siaatre
for the first two-thirds of the
disc, then T. D. unleashes his
trombone. The other side finds
Hallelujah and the band Is in
fire-engine tempo given it bar
Drummer-boy Buddy Rich who
gets an opportunity to whang
the skins in noble fashion. LaS
for a couple of beautiful Victor
waxing* from T. D„ in Axel StOf*
dahl’s arrangements of Tschai-
kowsky's None Bat the Lenely
Heart and EU ML Tommy’s
trombone will highlight the for-
mer and Ziggy Elman's trumpet
Utk« eta of the latter.
Ay Kyser omen
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