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Ralph “Ardmore” sign on the station is purely fictitious, cello, southeast of Charlottsville.. nickname is Beaut, inherited from his title role in horse’s trainer and rider, is the one in the hat 'STOP CAGNEY' IS CRY It's No Glamorous Job, OF MOVIE ACTING SET Says This Movie Extra HOLLYWOOD. By HAROLD HEFFERMAN the Martin-Lewis comedy at paid “Stop Cagney!” That’s the cry going up today among HOLLYWOOD. Paramount, she is $31.50 speaks all possible Oscar candidates around Hollywood. The word How would you like to rub a day, and if she so can as she gets a Is flashing everywhere that unless the Cagney boom shoulders with the stars? much one word race best male performance in a being minimum of S7O. She collected be halted the 1955 for Watch films made? Earn day movie will be a walkaway. |1&85 day—and that sum just the other from to S7O a one Jerry Jimmy’s third successive 1955 triumph—he’s been still have most of your time for saying word to previously accoladed for “Love Me or Leave Me” and free to read books, play cards, Lewis: “Scram!” “Mister Roberts”—came to light at a press preview of knit or work out crossword Mary Ellen says the extra Paramount's ‘‘The Seven Little Foys.” It’s a Bob Hope player’s best friend is the tele- running pussies? starring movie, of course, and while Cagney’s Sounds like an enticing Job? phone. Registered extras must time is less than five minutes he delivers a smashing dance Certainly it would easier phone Central Casting every Cohan, seem starting sequence in the role of George M. one that set the digging ditches, stand- few minutes in mid- applauding spree. very good than see eritics off on an So, there’s ing counter, add- afternoon to if there U aspirants behind a or day. reason—three of them, in fact—why to an Oscar ing up figures. work available next Stu- rows of require- crown are shouting: “Stop Cagney!” But workingas a movie extra dios telephone their NANA. bureau—anything „ (Released by I glamorous ments to this is not at all the types it might appear. Os from a few pedestrian pastime to several roughly 5,000 extras who be- for a street scene for a West- long to the Bcreen Extras hundred Indians registered at ern or several thousand Israel- Guild and are film spectacle like Music's Good, Plot's Not Central Casting, only a rela- ites for a “The Ten tive few can make a living at Cecil B. De Mille’s the Job. Commandments.” One of these is Mary Ellen Sorry She Started In Off-6roadway Show 4 \J&3&,+&'*¦ ’ ...,'' ' T 7. &&& *"#:.>tin Batten, a pretty, 23-year-old “If there is no work when By JOHN McCLAIN lost in a bumbling love scene brunette who studied piano we call but some is expected NEW YORK. or a reconsideration of the and voice in Canada where she soon, the operator tells us to complicated story line. was graduated the in Having overcome the objec- from try later. So we call back For the plot is almost hope- Toronto Conservatory of Music. 15 minutes —and this may con- tions of the fire department, lessly complex. Cirele-ln-the-Square Huck Finn and "I came to Hollywood be- tinue for several hours,” she the The- Jim, slave, floating cause thought reports. Village re- the are I there’d be ater in Greenwich barge me job opened down Ol’ Miss on their greater opportunity for To Mary Ellen her as an last week with a new couple grifters, the simply. called when a of here,” she said “I extra is important because it musical melodrama King and the Duke, come worked variety of jobs—- helps her mother and King and the Duke,” by 1923 VIRGINIA’S WAY OF LIFE—Is illustrated In here which, Director Stevens will contrast at a support “The They says, gave piano lessons, Meanwhile, Fergusson, aboard. have learned by did secre- herself. she is tak- Francis based on a man of some means has this scene in “Giant” members of Farmington strikingly with the brown of Texas where four Incidents from “Huckleberry that hound tarial wprk, danced in the ing singing lessons and aims at just died in a little town down Hunt, their horses and pack, performing as weeks ofshooting, as against four days at Charlottes- I be- Finn.” The production is di- chorus of a few shows. a career as a recording art- the river, leaving his money to extras in the Warner Brothers’ film which will be ville. is planned. Farmington hunters spent one a movie extra about two assignments by Quintero, came ist. Between extra rected Jose who a couple English next year. Virginia riding ago.” some photographic responsible past of brothers, released Itis a verdant pictured of their busiest weeks in “Giant.” years she does was for the and it’s their plot to imperson- Discovery modeling. of the group, Remote successes same ate Mary people again the heirs and claim the But Ellen doesn’t fool "A lot of you'll find and once his overpower- loot. I needn’t go on to tell you hoping move- THE herself. She knows the chances playing extra keep ing sense of mood and that there’s a blond little niece PASSING SHOW being “discovered” and break,” says. ment is manifest. It may not of her they’ll get a rite whom Huck falls for, or that given to stardom only a exactly your of tea, but a boost are “But handful of theifil be cup he suceeds in savings the dough 1 very picked you’ll come away feeling remote. have ever been for bet- and exposing the slickers. But “Why, I stood a foot away things industry. you’ve swallowed a potent ter in the ¦¦ I can tell you that it isn’t 'Giant Finds Its First Lush Stage from Jimmy Stewart many a "It's a tough, unglamorous brew. either carefully or amusingly day during ‘Strategic Air Com- Job,” Mary Ellen sums up. *1 A little too powerful, if you evolved. mand’ and he didn’t even know anyone to take on wouldn’t advise ask me. The audience sits Acting Is Good I was there,” she commented. it up as a career. I wish I had three sides of the stage in the “He was wrapped up in his Be that as it may, there are In Jefferson's Loved Landscape all never begun, because now I little Circle Hall, and there work, was just part some performances. By and I of find it difficult to unshackle were times when Quintero had creditable JAY CARMODY Memorial Day sightseeing. non-working Charlottesville, Monticello. “It will also look the scenery. That’s what I’m myself.” Ralph Williams is a person- Editor his colleagues whipped up to a Drama of The Star Director Stevens had made a especially wives and babies, wasteful and inefficient." some- paid to be, and the less con- (Released by tbe NANA.) frenzy that threatened to en- able and proficient Huck; CHARLOTTESVILLE, last-minute check of locations. seemed to have turned out to ¦, one explained, “but the 1923 spicuous I am the better." James Greene, as the Duke, is Va. gulf the spectators. There travel And of preparations for the see a movie in the making. stockholders already have Mary Ellen feels she’ll have seem- sly and suitably unregenerate; You. would far to find picture’s or stop- were other moments, landscape as photogenic as first shots on the fol- State policemen and sheriffs spent their dividends, to make her mark as a night- ingly interminable, when the Patsy Bruder is a bright and lowing day. deputies were everywhere, di- ped worrying about the lack of Hol- Doris Discovers only shiny Mary Jane, a quite that of Charlottesville and club entertainer before barren stage contained with vicinity. recting where to park, them.” lywood casting directors competent ( The Story Starts traffic will two people who refused to re- small voice to fact, pedestrians where not to walk.