Friday, May IT, 1941 THE TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page Five "Whistle Stop" A Tempestuous Love Story Set In Small Town Miossip Sla'ue UmZ Screen

By Burny Zawodny Noyr showing at Valentine Theatre, Sevmour Nohenra! in­ will jijiny.im troduced that provocative and brilliant actress, Ava Gardner, to >j/:«'■/'' ‘Cinderellu Jones, ’ Gay Film Roles Keep Starlet See ks Actor Pal American audiences in her first major role. Appearing opposite „ i V Kin To Actor George Raft in the sensational production, “Whistle Stop,** Ava For Thirty Years! took stardom in her first stride. Musical, Now At Paramount HOLLYWOOD — Beverly She is fortunate not only in Tyler, announced for sev­ HOLLYWOOD — After more beauty and talent, but also in of “Sleep Kentucky Babe,” ’ O 4 -i The faole of Cinderella’s glass slipper and pumpkin coach eral roles opposite Tom than thirty years, Edward Ar­ has been read every nold has finally caught up With ♦ he film Nebenzal chose for her. Saturday over WSPD on the f/ / \ and adored by generation down through the Drake after th**»r sucres«- Based on the Kitty Carnival. k years. But it remained for a motion picture studio to discover ful teaming in “The Green Wallace Beery. best - seller of Nice work girls, hope to its winsome appeal and to transform it into a modem, stream­ Years,” is a bit apprehen­ As a fledgling screen actor, the same name hear you again very soon. Ik-M lined romantic comedy. Warner Bros.’ “Cinderella Jones,”, sive of the relationships Arnold joined Essanay Studio in by M a r i 11 a currently playing at the Para­ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer may Chicago in 1915 and was as­ Wolff, it is a mount, with Joan Leslie and Popular M. C. think up for future moviet signed Beerys old dressing Robert Alda in the top starring featuring the young violent and Screen Favorites f 9' two room. Beery had left many daring love ,r roles, is the film that lives up to At Lal in Club players. photographs still banging on the story set in the f V r every romantic promise in the In “The Green Years,” walls. original fairy tale and adds a the tltian haired actress quiet back- Kot So Handsome A; v Beery left. Essanay to go to water of a number of twentieth century played Toni’s fiancee. In Hollywood before Arnold had a HOLLYWOOD — If Adonis as welL small town. r ; * ** Sis “Sea of Grass” she will por­ ?hance to give him the photos. The picture himself were to walk into a Adapted for the screen by tray his sister and, in “The Arnold later followed. is handled with movie casting office looking for Charles Hoffman from the suc­ Beginning Or The End’’ Cast in their firs*, film to­ Burny Zawodny a job today, he probably would she is cast as Drake s wife! gether, Arnold greeted Beery superb drama­ get a swift brush-off. cessful Saturday Evening Post tie insight. It builds up, slowly story by Philip Wylie, “Cinder­ “What worries me, tho,” recently on the set of MGM's Casting directors, noted for ‘A®®! she explained on the set of at first and then at an ever-in* ella Jones” traces the whirlwind T- ‘The Mighty McGurk” by pre­ creasing tempo from the simple genius but not for tact, doubt- adventures of one Judy Jones “My Brnthfr Who Talked senting the photos just thirty beginning of a girl loved by two lesssly would tell Adonis to go (Joan Leslie), who discovers, at to Horses,” they'll think of years late! men, to an angry climax of climb a myrth tree, or go back separate moments but with next, may wind up playing on Greek relief, before they’d equally devastating effects, that Tom’s mother!” YANKEE IN HOLLYWOOD death, disaster and triumph. give him a chance. ■ ?■ ► Mary played by Ava Gardner, she has been graced not only Sonny Tufts, Paramount star, ie a headstrong and wilful girl. Adonic beauty simply isn’t with youth and beauty, but with A hand-painted dresv which has planted enough fruit and considered when studios seek vegetables and put in enough She had left Ashbury for Chi­ St »' •-t - ten million dollars to boot. As June Duprez wears !n the night­ male bets today. * ' 1 ri*’ * z livestock to make his Beverly cago in despair that Kenny, play­ the beauty has long been a part club acene of Paramount’s “Cal­ ed by George Raft, who loves Take Sonny Tufts. of the Jones’ family assets, it is Hills farm self-supporting “No w the ten million dollars that snaps cutta” cost the studio S350 for Yankee could live otherwise,” her, will never be anything more Sonny has six pictures under the art k-ork alone. Material than the town loafer. Unable to his belt and he is co-starring Judy out of her blissful world of he boasts. Sonny, as can be with Betty Hutton in his sev­ ballad singing with Tommy and designer's time ran the total imagined, hails from Massa­ forget him the story opens up to well above $500. when, after two years, she re­ enth, “Cross My Heart.” Mean­ Coles’ (Robert Alda) jump or­ chusetts. turns to Ashbury. Also in love while his fan mail has soared to chestra and starts her on ar t 7 ** eventful search for a super-in­ with her is Lew Lentz played by 6000 letters per week, best in­ .; i- ' -...1.■ dication that Sonny is right up ■ft'*** telligent husband. For according Tom Conway, wealthy owner of Ci The Flamingo, a local night­ with the box-office leaders from to the provisions of Judy’s in­ of 1946** is appearing this ou.kC i.lza aS a li i dg n 1 i t ii t Li i United Artists release. York nite clubs. still the town loafer coaxing is deffinitely not pretty. dollar bills for beer and billiards “Far from it,’’ he grins. I've Stars’ Caricatures Starlet Mixes Film DOORS from his hard-working mother, been told I’m the Newfound­ Heard On Hollywood Calf Love Smites OPEN DAILY land dog type. Adorn Movie Cafe Molly, played by Florence Bates. Movie Set 41:00 His friends are the town's shady Bobby-Sox Delight Boy Screen Star HOLLYWOOD — First HOLLYWOOD — A tiny set a. m. characters including Gitlo, play­ Just a few years, ago, such HOLLYWOOD — The arrival constructed at Paramount for Farming ed by Victor McLaglen a bar- handsome fellows as Robert Tay­ poodle trotted boldly up to of Spring finds romance a-bloom Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies,” Vmder in Lentz’s nightclub. Gitlo Wallace Beery while the star in Hollywood. the “Flapjack” cafe, was lined HOLLYWOOD — Pert starlet lor, Tyrone Power, Richard was relaxing between scenes Bing Crosby ::The Mighty McGurk.” Wallace team, brilliantly building up and onto his lap. Just then, the “My Brother Who Talked To Sharing top current honors dog’s owner appeared. plays a carefree cafe owner Beery starrer, Dorothy pur­ exploiting the story motivation. Horses.” He has even taken to who always sells his establish­ chased a house and four lots. with Tufts is Van Johnson. Like “Oh, there he is" explain­ slicking down his unusually un­ As fascinating a pin-up as ever his contemporary on the MGM ed the man. “Ever since I ment and starts another as soon She renovated the house and floated through a G. I. dream, ruly mop of hair. The other day, as it is on a paying basis. lot, Robert Walker, Van is good­ trimmed his hair after his Ann invited Butch to attend her has turned the lots into a farm. Ava is also a superb actress. looking in a boyish sort of way. The “Flapjack" is one of a Her livestock at present con­ Raft, who has been a favorite first picture role, he seems to birthday party. But there are those who have be cold.” Blushing furiously. Butch cor­ half-dozen restaurants which sists of a dozen chickens. The 1' -‘i for years, can add another mag­ inspected him at close range “Gosh,” rumbled Beery, will be seen in “Blue Skies.” Hots have been plated in corn. J nificent success to the impressive and who report that you . can nered Peter Lawford some time i- . \ ' looking down at the shiver­ later. “Say, Pete," he remarked, row of notches in his belt. hardly see Johnson for the ing pup. “you’re not doing so freckles. While the bobby- with an attempt at casualnesa, Victor McLaglen, as Gitlo, well. Why look at me. I’ve “some time, could ya teach me turns in a splendid perform­ sockers may say he’s cute, and been making pictures for 33 how to dance, huh?” -PARAMOUNT-Mow! ance, giving a subtle and dy­ in fact they do, none would years and haven’t lost rny namic picturization of this piv­ claim for him any claslc fea­ hair yet!” otal character, that will remind tures of evexjA faosipaU^ .there­ Noted Playwright To There in gin9 and |Je FEATURE of. many of “The Informer.” Tom Adapt ‘Black Oxen’ Film Conway as Lew Lentz gives a Even Sinatra Young Actor Hears Dancin'\. and oh9 jIvery sat. sophisticated and ruthless “study Then there’s Frank Sinatra. HOLLYWOOD —» Gina Kaus, u h at roni tqicin? in /at 11:30 P.M. | in velvet and steel" that earns The voice could readily qualify From First Beau author of the best selling biog­ him enthusiastic notices. Jorja for the “before” picture in a raphy, “Catherine, Portrait of Curtwright, Florence Bates and HOLLYWOOD — Peter Law­ 'Rella Jane Nigh all contribute magni­ vitamin pill ad. Scientists have an Empress,” will write the not yet determied what it is ford’s first beau is waiting for screenplay for “Black Oxen.” ficently to this fine United Art- about Frankie that makes ’em him in London. its release. Gertrude Atherton’s popular swoon, but they have eliminat­ But there’s no need for con­ F DOORS ODDS —ENDS ed two possibilities — looks and novel about a middle-aged cern among the teen-agers who woman who seeks rejuvenation OPEN DAILY The Jack Benny program brawn. Warner’s Gay From the current crop, It is have made the fast rising young through surgery. HUB Bunday, May If, will feature actor their Pin-Up Boy of the Miss Kaus was a well known Hit with 1 A. M. that other principal in the obvious that studios are no year. > playwright and novelist in Vi­ JO longer Interested in handsome­ Benny-Allen feud, Fred Allen. enna before the Nazis moved in. Old Clothespin Nose will ap­ ness of the Valentino type. But He last saw the young lady JOAN ROBERT show them another Bogart, a when he was eight and she was She came to Hollywood in 1936 pear on the first of Benny’s and has authored a number of M.. two broadcasts from New Gable or a Cagney, and they’ll seven. He has just heard from make a deal. her for the first time in more successful screenplays. LES LDA “If pictures paid off on t^an ten years. STEADY WORK Plus 2nd Featu Two hundred and ninety two looks,” Sonny Tufts sums up, “a She wanted him to know that advanced and professional danc- lot of us would be driving although her home was destroy­ During the past year, actor VINC FRICE Ilf | | trucks.” ed in the blitz, she managed to Will Wright has worked In seven K" rs and singers, pupils of Eddie LYN BARI In Jri L Hanf Dance Studios, will take save her most prized personal pictures for Producers Pine and part in a spectacular dance re­ Robert Young met his future possession — a photograph of Thomas. His roles have varied vue “Dancing Feet of 1946" at wife, Betty Henderson, while herself and Peter when they ap­ from a truck line owner in “Hot Girla Be sure to attend The Lindel A^Jewelere Robinson Junior High audito­ both were attending Los An­ peared together as child actors Cargo.” to a police chief in Para­ Cin rella Hunt Broadcast in our Jobtuy Tues., geles’ Lincoln High School. 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