uyii. ym II ir .pqy. I..M>WII|I . yw^y^g. Friday, April 1,1949 TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page Five Mulifa i i iiTiliiTi’iTi ii r rrsiMiiertTriiri pf ijiK Women’s News Sg® ^5 And Views J By Odessa Overy I Secretary Women’s Bureau aSu< 0 Region 2-B executive secretary ^ti.ux, USIC is the most beautiful $ M recreation that the public American Screen Debut pOR YEARS labor unions have been criticized because of can obtain. Music is educational, Capra Starts First I entertaining, and recreational. their deeep and aggressive interest in politics. The The choral society is doing a severest critics are usually thoes who are recipients of some wonderful job in achieving the union toe treading. Unions will receive critical treatment aim that local 12, has set out to i I long as we are liberal and progressive. obtain. It is thrilling the in­ E3SCREJ Film For Paramount terest the girls are putting into Business in general believes unions should stay out of the thing, to be able to qualify politics. Laws have been passed in State legislature making By INEZ GERHARD HOLLYWOOD — Culminating weeks of intensive prepara­ for the international convention. tion, director Frank Capra this week starts hia first production it progressively harder for labor to solidify politically. The We had our business meeting According to a poll taken among allied exhibitors, there for Paramount, “Riding High,” with a stellar cast head-'1 by Bing Taft-Hartley Act threw a stone in the political path of this week and the members ex­ Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford and Frances G::! >rd. pressed their view points on the never has been a first class labor and currently we are in a struggle to remove the western that has been a box-of­ The romantic comedy, which has a horse racing background, engagements that we have in the marks the first teaming of Cros-, whole Act. (other hand railroad workers are making. It took much effort on fice failure. Even the cheap But big business is willing doing: the same thing by uphold- quickies make money in some by and Capra, two of Holly­ the part of our directress, Mrs. wood’s most famous names. It Glamour to cast aside all it’s thinking ing the argument of the rail- Davies, to be able to teach the localities. Next on the money­ making list come outdoor pic­ will be Bing’s 41st picture since about labor in politics if labor roads- Labor unions and workers members of the society three his first top screen role in “Big Gardner Means part singing. As you all know tures, in which action is more unions are able to help big areAnd lining this up is againstmy poi nteach j wouother.other,id Broadcast of 1932.” And this is my point I would the biggest share of the group important than dialogue. Those business get along politically. iike to bring to your attention 5 Shooting do not have any musical train- spectacular musicals are fourth Start of “Riding High” marks This is well illustrated by a(—you do not hear one word from ing, so it is much harder to on the list. Indicative of what five pictures currently shooting fight taking shape this very the steel interests, the rubber in­ teach this type of people the val­ at Paramount, with production ue of music, how to be able to minute in the State of Ohio. terests, ana the railroad inter­ continuing at the high pace it ests about the labor unions keep­ sing and carry a tone in alto, or The matter concerns Toledo. has maintained since the first of ing their nose out Of this kind second soprano, with out being the year. Other pictures before H.B. Stewart, Jr., President of of politics. The opposite is true; thrown off tract by somebody I SVWW the cameras are “After Mid­ The Akron, Canton and Youngs­ big business must be greatly that is singing a different part. town Railway has projected a night,” Alan Ladd-Wanda Hen­ satisfied and amused by the fight We have not a perfect record on drix starrer; and the Hal Wal­ scheme to build a 130 mile, 172 labor is putting up against each this part singing, but we are lis productions “Rope of Sand,” flight, rubber belt conveyor be­ other. As long as labor and labor getting better and. better all of starring Burt Lancaster, Paul tween the lake port of Lorain, unions play politics to the ad­ the time. After all practice Henreid, Claude Rains, Corinne Ohio, and the river point of vantage of big business we are makes perfect, and this is just Calvet and Peter Lorre; “File on Liverpool, Ohio, with spurs to fine, upstanding, and a credit to the thing that we are doing. Thelma Jorlon,” which stars Youngstown and Cleveland. It our community. Practice, Practice, Practice. Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell would carry coal North at a sav­ It seems to me that labor Week in and week out the girls Corey; and “My Friend Irma,” ing and iron ore South with an­ unions in Ohio should inform all are very industrious. Mrs. Davis, with John Lund, Marie Wilson, other saving. big business interested in the has been doing very much, in Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Dean This gigantic engineering feat fight over the conveyor, to fight regards to getting the group Martin and Jerry Lewis. strikes at railroads; no doubt it’s the proposition out among them­ engagements. You know they Coleen Gray won the prize construction will be felt by rail­ selves, and leave organized labor say that the more a person ap­ ROBERT TAYLOR AVA GARDNER, M-G-M’s roads in Toledo. The argument role opposite the Groaner in out of the fight. If labor doesn’t pears in public, the more sure we can expect comes Metro’s an­ “Riding High” over spirited new queen of glamour was for and against the project can take such an attitude, by elec­ that he feel of hisself. Well this 5V nouncement that they will make competition during which a blue welcomed to the stellar ranks : go on endlessly and probably tion time in 1950, labor will be is just the way that we feel a- ribbon array of talented actres­ ■ will for many months. so well split that Senator Taft bout it also. So we are taking three westerns, the first, now JAMES MASON and Barbara Bel Geddes form the romantic when she began her role op­ duo in “Caught,” M-G-M’s release of an Enterprise production. ses were tested. The headline ( The whole proposition is might be reelected. To defeat advantage of all the chances that under way, being “Devil’s Door­ posite Robert Taylor in “The ' choked full of politics and looms Mr. Mason will make his American screen debut and Miss Bel cast also includes such popular Taft is one of our first chores. is offered us, little or big we will way,” starring Robert Taylor, perfomers as William Demarest, Bribe.” She is now in eon- ’ as one of the best political foot­ If organized labor can show Geddes will play her most glamorous role to date. tackle anything. It seems that we just back from Europe. The Clarence Muse and Jack Kirk­ stant demand and next will balls that has popped up in the as much spirit and organization can’t be to bad for they always other two are “The Outriders” last several years. Rubber and George haft Will wood, the radio comic of the join Gregory Feck in “The and let big business fight it’s ask us back. We have entertain­ and “Ambush.” No stars have Ida Lupino Makes Bob Hope show. steel workers are plying the own battles. In this argument ed twice at the YWCA, and this Great Sinner.” been announced for them as yet, Again Be Dancer Television Films 4 New Tunes / f^*te with literature and per- big business can play the old week we are going to sing at the but no doubt they’ll be big ones. For the Capra production, ace I ^Bial contacts in favor of the game of heads I win and tails HOLLYWOOD —George Raft HOLLYWOOD—Ida Lupino is BIARRITZ TO BRROKLYN YMCA, for a vesper services. Hedy Lamarr also is headed songwriters Johnny Burke and conveyor construction. On the you lose. Irene Morris, was the girl that is giving in to his fans at long a busy girl, acting for motion Director Irving Rapper or- for a western. Paramount has last. Hq’s dancing again on the James Van Heusen have com­ gets the credit for this engage­ pictures during the day and pro­ posed four new * songs, which dered liquor bottles with names her slated for “Copper Can­ screen—for the first im in years ducing television films at night. ment. In May we are going to Bing will sing in addition to. of expensive brands removed sing at the St. Vincent Hospital yon,” with Ray Milland and —in Columbia’s “Johnny Alle­ Ida is co-starring with Glenn MacDonald Carey. At the same Stephen Foster’s “Camptown from the back bar of saloon FEPC AND YOU Nurses commencement exervices, gro,” in which Nina Foch is his Ford before the cameras during studio Burt Lancaster gets an­ feminine lead. And the terpsi- the day in “For Those Who ,whi<:h ««“«’ Columbia’, now aint that wonderful? We fenprooi Song, ine f oster num-1 A CHAIN is as strong as its weakest link and a Union as think it is.