cjCoueffci Jane Eyre rßintitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiifiitimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi’iiiuiuitiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiii_ O. Pardons Coming To Cass By CHARLES GENTRY IN WHILE “Abie's Irish Rose" j HOLLYWOOD ’’ % •• I? H ; >.r -i v-4% continues blithelj on her Alan Ladd, Ingrid Bergman Leading way at the Lafayette, the Ca«s and Wilson are taking a couple for ‘Oscar 1 at Half-Year Mark of weeks’ vacation to talk things over. HOLLYWOOD, July 3. Thp Cass will definitely open first six months of 1043 have been sensatiohal on the July 19 with a hmifed engage- Syl- THEHollywood front. It has been a “super” half-year, not ment of “Jane Eyre ’ with via Sidney and her husband, only for the record of fine movies produced- but for the goings-on behind the scenes. Luther Adler, as co-stars. the Helen Jerome There have been front page stores, more good movies, This is version of the Emily Bronte more babies born, more couples married, more divorced, more surprses and even more controversies out of Hollywood this novel which we will see here. last six months than I can Three years ago Katharine Hep- ever remember. And I am a has brought in millions at the bum. licking her wounds from gal who remembers pretty Lx>\ office. cutting remarks made by the well, even though I have been Mission to Moscow” has New York pres#, opened in it writing a column for over a proved the most cussed and dis- and took it on the road. quarter of a century. cussed film of years, and while I have no intention of going into Are Well Received The two most sensational the pros and cons, it stirred up This was prior to “Philadel- personalities at the half-year a hornet's neat. Story" and not being quite mark are Alan Laad. among Tht- outstanding juvenile dr«- phia r< veries sure of herself La Hepburn the men, and Ingrid Bergman have lx»en Jackie ¦r-ftnrrtn Jenkins, who ’killed abandoned the piay in favor of among the women. Not since the people” in “Human the Philip Barry opus. Gable has there been u hotter Comedy,” and little Margaret JS m But the sentimental drama hit than the Ladd boy, with the O'Brien of ' Journey for Mar- garet lame Also, popped up again this year when femmes tearing hi- photo* off ' coming along fast and turious on the of Sylvia and Luther, looking for lobby posters and his bin heels mail Mickey Rooney is young Donald a new vehicle, read it and skyrocketing to 20.000 Jettyjs O'Connor, who rated rave re- promptly decided to do it. It weekly. Ingrid ha: been equally view- from the New York ' ' .j~i > in ei ties m opened Boston where it did sensational. If she doesn't wm Mr. IV Will he he m • Mifkev - successor ? j remarkable business and then next year's <)s ar for J r>no of moved on to Philadelphia where her top movies. “For Whom 'he Front Pago Stories it is playing to packed houses. Roll Tolls'' or Saratoga unk," Ti The most L am t)&d . sensational front- Notices m both cities were ex- stone OUt of Hollywood cellent. were Surprise of Year the Krroll Flynn case and Sylvia play the Chailes Chaplin-Joan Berry- will the title role 'Hitler's Children'' is the -ur* Oona O'Neill tangle triangle. and Luther that of Rochester. prise money grosser at the h df- I*he two girls who have made The rest of the cast and produc- mark Mack on a shoe- the most lapid strides toward tion details will be announced at cost string, a of t stardom are Janet Blair r.f next week. "My—frtstrr Kiieen" fame and Anne Baxter, who has just New Management completed "North Star” for Sam Goldwyn and who Meanwhile rumor has it that into stalling prominence on her the Wilson is under new man- h"me Jot. 20th Century-Fox agement and will open early Hie three young actors who this fall with at least two Chi- hav e sei the fastest [>ace among cago successes. the featured male players are But nothing stops “Abie,” the Joseph Gotten in "Shadow of a ” Anne Nichols farce, which Imht Kent Smith in “Hit- proved to be the theater's most ler h« Chfldren" and Lon Mc- fabuious ugly duckling. C'iit-te; in "Stage Door Can- Audiences which fell off ton slightly recently have come Chief flocking hack and screams of Love Story hysterical laughter are heard 1 ma Turner and Steve Crane nightly. v n. up as the most turbulent There has been one change . s*nrv of the \ear Lyv their made in the cast this past week. « < lament, the rx[rf'rt«T ir>n of Lester Alien, who has played the -*ork and the sudden an- Isaac Cohen since the opening r.i4ment and equally *udie most shocking death was stage. He is very familiar with Michigan Theater. that r.f Leslie Howard, lost, the role and likes playing it v ¦ < n -hot down in a plane over more than any other part he’s the Bay of Biscay. encountered during all of his clowning years. Serious Accideni There was one minor replace- The mn-r serious accident ment last week when Donald w - Vin Johnson s w hen he was Brian's 15-year-old daughter, Denise, to trly decapitated when his came on from New York < »r turned over. to visit her father. i'he mo*-t distinguished Holly- wood visitor was Madame Fir® Gives Her Chance Chiang Kat-.-hek, and the top She had always longed to be social event was the reception on the stage with her father, held irv her honor at the Am- but there didn’t seem to be any ba--ador Hotel. Symbol Here she Glory, Away," pro- % of Freedom! Emblematic stands before Old in You Went a Selznick way until just the night before jt S 't&tjf As for the babies, they have to return to arr ived of youthful America, which has its celebration of the anniversary of the duction. She portrays the daughter she was New York and are expected by the the house of one of the brides- i ishel Rosalind Russell and eyes to the future, and i« instilled Declaration of Independence. She of a man who waives exemptions maids burned to the ground, V red Rrisson welcomed a hoy; Denise, lint three with hope and confidence in the des- herself is filled with enthusiasm over and plunges into action to fight for and little who had noth- I»JK Van Hefhna were ing to do with the fire, stepped imi with the arrival of a daughter.. tiny of the United States, Shirley her new career. Signed to a personal all that is dear to all genuine Ameri- in, or On the stork s railing list are rather walked on, in her Temple represents here the courage contract by David O. Selznick. she cans—his home, his family, his na- place. Joan Bennett Wanger. Lana Producer Frank McCoy Turner, Cobina Wright Jr. and spirit of all young Americans. has her first role therein in “Since tion, his freedom! flew Brenda Marshall and Veronica Into town Thursday, but said Lake. that he had nothing definite to Toughest break nf year announce as an attraction to the Rose,” was the forced dissolving of the follow “Abie’s Irish but Abbott and Costello team be- that he expects to tell all in a Tyrone Power as a naval Fat Men to Get New Break if Greenstreet Has Luck in Films; couple of weeks. in “Crash Dive,” cause of Lou s prolonged illness. lieutenant All in all it has been a BIG The Cass, of course, will fol- at the Pox Theater. six months! low “Jane Eyre” with “My Dear Public,” the new Irving Caesar ' : «a™MFWBWIBms.?»IIiMI»Iri|i||lIIW "»**«¦ He Plans to Find Role to for musical, Atone The Maltese Falcon slated open Aug. 15. to By NEIL RAr trail of broken hod *l.ii* from register in their establish- getting h.« now streamlined hang shout a bulging waistline. The stars in this one, a pre- That's on* good reason why I Broadway deal, include Sporlsl I* THE TIETROIT TIMES roast to coast. That was be- ments.” figure. Between the time he will signed want to glorify—not vilify—the Willie Howard, Ethel Shutta, 1 fore the modern bed spring This talk about fat men with Warner Brothers HOLLYWOOD. July use, and picture, fat man.** Georgie Tapps and Susan Miller. GREENSTREET has came Into and hotel owners started when I asked Green- his last “Back- everywhere dreaded to see me street to tell me his ground to Danger.” i his heart on making method of he dropped SIDNEY sat 35 pound*. He is now dow-n to thing* up to *' the fat people of ~ „ *e, •"'% t -y~ '*2. \ >f ’ a mere 1150. the earth. +'*•*s H “!*'* largely a he the matter of will Refnre played villain- power,” he answered me. “I cat ous “Gutman ‘ in “The Maltese amysHamv * only one full meal a day, In the Falcon” for Warner Brother* evening. overweight For breakfast I have an individual was Ju«t one cup of rofTcc, grape- supposed to be a jolly soul. fruit and toast, and I alwsvs After that it became a question have naiads for lunch. I also a* to whether “all the world never take liquids with my love* a fat man,” a* the old saw puts it. meals. “Rut the real trick I* to keep **l feel guilty about th I a vour weight where you want it thing.* Greenstreet told me. “I once you get It down, and I de- regret having suspicion on cast vised system of doing mv natured, rotund broth- mv own good this. After I had lost the nec- ers, I Intend to make and essary pound* I took my entire amends hy finding the sweetest, wardrobe and had It altered to benign do most role possible to fit mv And a forthcoming new proportions. in picture. now I tell when* I reason I feel so badly can soon “The v4; rtgiink have eaten unwisely. If I put about it Is that I don’t consider Hfe> on a suit In the morning and It '^Hjb myself a fat I’m * man. Just fits a hit snugly, I take It easy tw *- naturally big. Why. at I ajj^. * 18. on the fond that day.’* weighed 21.% pound*, but I was ». as Mind you, the actor ha« no real ¦ Jr ¦., an all-around athlete and ! solid as a rock.’* *: -4h§l| Election to being called fat.\ actor how. “But so long as f have to /?|KjWK * The docs admit ***,. : ever, has starve PlfT JHBußlMw’wrdZSUfc* \ jSVwAfwNVnHHMHAVf-»™ that hi« avoirdupois myself like thla,” he told been a problem at one time or me. “I think It only equitable * 4jw