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N|. Frid ay, December 1, *1944 THE TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page 5 Much Danger In Rodeo’s Bronco ws and Cvo.wsip of Singe nml Screen ibulldogging And Many Donna9s Dilemma GI Honeymoon! Young Players Learn “In The Meantime, Darling,” Other Popular Events ■T; the story of a GI honeymooa To Act Watching Star and of the gallant army of wom Begins Dec. 2nd to 10th en who follow their men from *%t*T HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (Special)—Not all the gate crashers camp to camp until the moment around the studios in Hollywood are from Keokuk or Kankakee. of heartbreak when their loved Anyone who never competed in a bronco riding contest When,Spencer Tracy is doing a picture a lot of them are resi ones are sent overseas, is sched can quite understand what a rodeo rider goes through—the dents of Hollywood and Beverly Hills. They are the young stars on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract list—young stars and fea uled to open Dec. 1st to 7th at nerve and the strength and the skill he must have to keep ' A ■ : . the Paramount Theatre. 4'' tured players who rush from [ from being pitched off and stomped on and maybe kicked K ? their lessons in the studios Starring brilliant screen new plumb out of the arena with more broken bones than you’ll & drama Heard On A Hollywood comer Jeanne Crain, who starred find in a can of salmon. school to the Tracy set where they “crash the gate” and Movie Set in “Home In Indiana,” the 20th The rules are all made to New Army Song Century-Fox picture introduces help the horse get rid of his often hide on the set to watch HOLLYWOOD - It’s » the famous star at work. dusty rural newspaper of more than ten young player* ta burden. The cayuse can go Heard In Film their first important film role*, through any sort of gyration Pattern For Young Actor* fice, with one linotype ma “Men of Iron,” the new theme r chine of antique vintage, What makes Dorian young, Featured in the cast are Frank that his head or his hooves or his Not so long ago it was, Judy is Donna Reed’s chief worry legs can think up. But the rider song of the U. S. Army Tank one battered old typewriter, Latimore, Eugene Pallette, Mary Garland, or Mickey Rooney, or some old files, headlines these days, in her role of the Nash, Stanley Drager and Gait has got to remember to do this Corps, will be heard for the first Lana Turner who were peeping and mottoes glued on the unsuspecting sweetheart of and not do that, things anybody* time in a motion picture when grimy walls. James Craig Dorian Gray in the M-G-M Robbins. just naturally would or would around corners to watch Tracy 20th Century-Fox’s “In The i act. Now it Blight be Tom is the owner of this weekly film version of Oscar Wilde’* not do if he had any mind to paper, and as such is re Classic, “The Picture of Do YOUNG ACTOR CAST stick on the hurricane deck of Meantime, Darling” playing this Drake or June Allyson or Peter >>■ porter, editorial writer, rian Gray.” Paul Langton, featured player, a cyclone. week at the Paramount Theatre. Lawford taking a short course typesetter, advertising and will have the lead in the Crime These rodeo broncs come Producer-Director Otto Prem by “Professor” Tracy. circulation manager. Craig Does Not Pay special, “Time’* from Montana. They are not inger gives appropriate screen Or Van Johnson and Bob is an old hand at portray Up,” story of a trusted employee just wild horses that haven’t setting to the song in “In The Walker returning for a refresher ing reporters, but this coun who absconds with company been broken to ride yet. They course; Meantime, Darling.” It is played try editor role, for Metro- Build Bird Rolf! funds. are outlaws that can’t be tamed! When Traer is working, his Is Goldwyn-Mayer’s “For Our . Formerly of the stage, Lang Or maybe he has been broke by a full military band during the most popular set on the lot Vines Have Tender Grapes” HOLLYWOOD—Lassie, eollie ton recently appeared m “Thirty but something happened that the sequence in which a new with budding young actors and is a new experience. dog star, is going tv have scene Seconds Over Tokyo” and “Thia filled his heart with hate for the camp commander is presented to actresses. In this scene Craig is sup Man Goes Home.” whole human race. Anyway, his I stealing competition in his new his tank corps officers and their Right now he is appearing in posedly setting a story on sole idea is never to be saddled, “Without Love,” with Katharine the linotype and simulta picture, “Hold High the Torch” much less ridden, for ten sec wives at a gala Officers’ Club dance. Hepburn and Lucille Ball. And neously is reading it aloud —and from a trained raven. Fa onds that makes a contest Pat Hutto is one of the many beauties who will be seen in the gate crashing young Thes to Frances Gifford, a pretty vorite new trick of the acting «TT<"!VIN*G “ride Every member of the large the new Earl Carroll Vanities, at the Paramount theater. The cast—including Jeanne Crain pians are busy as usual. country schoolteacher. bird, named Bill, is to bark like star-studded cast is headed by the Wiere Brothers, Eddie Rio, A poll of the students on the “Aren’t you glad you're not’ and Frank Latimore, Gale Rob a dog! bins and Stanley Prager, Jane Dave and June Hacker, and Park and Clifford. set reveals varied expressions of a country editor who has to their ideas about Prof. Tracy’s know how to do all those When Director Fred Wilcox Randolph, Doris Merrick, Cara classes. Williams and nearly 200 others Name Picked For things?” asks Frances when discovered Bill’* talent he or Actors* Analysis of Tracy they finish the scene. —stands at attention during the Star Asserts “Are you kidding?” coun dered his script rewritten, so playing of “Men of Iron.” In Ann Sothcrn Baby “Anyone can learn by watch 2nd BIG WEEK! ters Craig. “I had to learn that Bill’s role runs the length That LADD is Back! addition, four real U. S. Army HOLLYWOOD — The Ann Westerns ing Mr._ Tracy,” June Allyson how to run the linotype, re of the story. Invariably when color bearers—Sgt. Jack Edger Sothern-Lieut. Robert Sterling said, “He’s a natural actor, member my lines, know ALAN LADD ton, Sgt. Jack Manley, PFC baby, due to arrive during the works as hard as anyone but Lassie comes into a scene, the when a line of type is sup- raven will fly to a perch near LORETTA YOUNG Ralph J. Miller and Pvt. Robert next two weeks, has its name Help Youth makes it look easy. His secret possed to be finished and Cantrail—were loaned to the already chosen by its parents. If is his restrained timing. He push the gadget that starts him, and bark at him. in Par amour t $ studio to lend authenticity to the a boy, he will be called Tim HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10th.— makes his action, dialogue and a new line, look up at you According to Wilcox, ft’s the song’s presentation. , othy, Patricia, if a girl. appearance blend perfectly with “And How Tomorrow” James Craig, the suave, sophis on cue, come out even on first time a film script has been ticated leading man of such the character he portrays in the timing and try to keep picture.” rewritten for a bird, and the Pn’-rri'anit Hit: "Scrambled Research" Is adult pictures as “The Human worry wrinkles out of my “His secret is Underacting,” forehead while I remember first time an actor has been dis- "Bonnie Lassie” Comedy,” “Lost Angel” and offered Tom Drake, a lad who covered who could outbark zoomed from nowhere into the ed all that!” IN TECHNICOLOR! Used For M-G-M Film “Marriage Is a Private Affair,” Lassie. is a sucker for western film*. lead opposite Judy Garland in “Meet Me in St. Louis.” “And “Scrambled research” Is the likewise “blended.” Thus peo The thud of hooves on the M-G-M Readies Six New device through which an “au ple in each land will see some when the picture is seen on the thentic un-authentic” land is of their own details, combined sound track, and the crack of screen, this underacting assumes Short Films For 1945 Loaw’s VALENTINE the properties of naturalness.’’ St Clair at Advris presented to screen audiences as with others. gunfire is music to his ears. Hollywood (Special)—An the locale for the antics of Bud “We wanted to work out an He thinks western pictures are Van Johnson, who is not doing Abbott and Lou Costello in Arabian Nights atmosphere,” character builders, for Young so badly himself, right now, unusual spurt of activity is on M>,4 offered another secret of Tracy’s in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s short ART MIX their newest, M-G-M funfest, said Riesner, “without making America, and he sees that his Lana is luscious as a bewitching, “Lost in a Harem,” which is an Arabian story. We started success as a screen star. film department where six sub and his Pal own five-year-old son goes to all "He has an ability to work bewildered bride who didn’t knnw A bronc must come out of a coming to the Loew’s Valentine with a crystal gazer seeing a jects are in the final stages of theater. It’s a land of authentic city in the mystic. East, and the good “hoss operas.’ with anyone,” Van declared. He which was the chute with all the fury that’s is easy to get along with, quick preparation for early production. in him, or the buster draws a details, but the details are au proceeded from there with a bit “Cowboys and Indians are a best man! of the flavor of amny lands that to step aside and give the other Included are Pete Smith’s meaner one to fork. thentic to different lands, so good antidote for juvenile delin fellow credit. He works with a IS Every rider draws for his that one cannot pin it down to could be Included in this much- quency,” opines Craig. “Guest Pests” and “Aanimal any one spot, but receive im embracing term.” director, not against him. He horse by number every day and Paraphrasing the much-abus helps others in the cast through Talent Scout,” a Crime Does Not never gets the same one twice. pressions of the “mystic East,” In this fanciful land of dark his ability to make the most dif Pay 2-reeler “Time’s Up,” fea That’s to make it tougher. with spectacle, beautiful wom eyed charmers, sons of the des ed line of Horace Greeley’s, en, harems, sheiks, the desert, Craig says: “Go western.” ficult job look easy.” turing Leon Ames, John Nes Tickets are being sold for ert, magicians, snake charmers, bitt’s first Passig Parade subject the Rodeo to be held at Civic the luxury of Babdad, all rolled turbulent romance and starlit He doe* it himself once a SONGSTRESS RETURNS on the 1945 release schedule. Auditorium Dec. 2—10th, 1944 into one and set in a modern nights, Abbott and Costello, as year—plays in a western pit- day. Lena Horne has returned to “The Great American Mug,” by stewards of Local 12 UAW- Peter and Harvey Garvey, prop ture. Right now he’s the two- CIO. The tickets are being sold George Haight, who produced erty men with a stranded Amer Hollywood and M-G-M from a tracing history of barber shops, gun U. S. Marshal in “Gentle three months’ personal appear in an effort to raise funds for “Lost in a Harem,” hit on the ican show, blunder into hectic to be directed by Cyril Endfield; “Scrambled Research” device. Annie,” from the Mackinlay ance tour loaded down with gifts the Annual Children’s Christ adventure. Court intrigue, and the Miniature musical “Nellie The old system of a “mythical hypnotic spells are among the Kantor story of pioaeer Okla- from her fans. The prize is a mas Party which is being given black cocker spaniel puppy from the Heartbuster” and fifth “No for all members’ children at the kingdom” for musicals required details that provide comical homa. little authenticity in costumes, routines, set amid haunting mu Chicago admirers. stradamus” reel with commenta Auditorium on Dec. 17th, 1944! The pup is named “Coal.” tion by Carev Wilson, f The entire percentage allocat setting or other details, on the sic and exotic dance spectacles. Craig Popular Abroad ed to Local 12 will be used to theory that musicals were not The music, like .settings and Few Amreican fans may know purchase toys, candy, popcorn particularly supposed to be be costumes, are flavored with the it, but Craig ranks second only and entertainment for the chil lieved by an audience. Haight “Mystic East.” to Gene Autry as a cowboy star iK IN PERSON dren. believes that, shown interna “Most musicals are treated in England today. Admission prices to this Ro tionally, they should have de much as fairy tales,” says Ries Speaking of the effect west' deo are 0c for children, $1.00 tail* recognizable in foreign ner. “We are going to avoid erns have on the youth of to TURNER and $1.50 for reserved section lands. this, and try to keep a ring of day Craig continues: ) ART MIX IN METRO-GOLD WYN •MAYER’S' for adults. All tax are included The result was research to believability in ours, without “Those kids who make the w in these prices. insure authentic details through sacrificing any of the Abbott western films their escape from / (Western Movie Star) out. But, so that the locale crowded city streets really make and Costello comedy technique. * Upnl W put A» You Like It could not be narrowed to any We want their troubles to be personal heroes of the stars— Real West As You Like h LET'S FINISH one place or any one national mirthful because they’re not emulating their every deed, Thrills and Spills—* ity, characteristic* of different mythical.” word and gesture. I know this THf JOB lands were blended together. In from personal experience. All In ^4^ AFFAIR BUY’ EXTRA the dance ensembles Arabic, LEON AMES IN CRIME FILM Moorish, and other exotic styles Leon Ames, who scored as the CHEYENNE BONDS TODAY-1 are to be woven together. Ar father in “Meet Me in St. Louis,” K Statefree parkinc , ■ & rms !?“w chitecture in the sets are to be and who was recently cast in a comedy role for “Weekend at RODEO Featurettes CRAIG - HODIAK the Waldorf,” yesterday was set Pete Smith FRANCES HUGH to play a psychological killer in GIFFORD • MARLOWE “Time’s Up,” a Crime Does Not Starts SATURDAY AND Specialty Hollywood Tkl'Bits Pay short directed by Paul PAULETTE SONNY “Safety Sleuth” NATALIE SCHAFER Burnford with Chester Franklin GODDARD • TUFTS Passing Parade KEENAN WYNN OF HERE AND THERE producing. CIRCUS Barry FITZGERALD ‘•Beturn From HERBERT RUDLEY in Nowhere” CINEMA COINCIDENCE 'J , ~ (Show of Shows! There’s a strange coincidence in the casting of Leon Ames as Loew's News 'I Love A Soldier 100 Cowboys, Cowgirls ID Ginger Rogers’ Hollywood producer in “Weekend at the Waldorf," ‘KnownFrom Coast to Coast In which Miss Rogers appears as a famous screen star, Twelve • also Indians and Mexican years ago, her mother produced a play written by Ames. In Person! “Music In Manhattan” Western Champions Stage, Screen -with— “MA HARDY” IT. S. CITIZEN Anne aWIYfl FY • Y»enw<« HAY NOW SHOWING FOR ONE WJEEK I Former English actress Fay Holden is living up to her title and Radio Stars of the American mother in’“Hardy Family’,’ series—she took her Showing Nightly y y » FRIDAY * SATURDAY final American citizenship allegiance oath on Friday, Nov. 17. She was accompanied by her husband, David Clyde, who be IT'S BANG came a citizen at the same time. ESTW00I On UP TIME rvss \ in BRESS ART’S NEW ROLE Edward G. Robinson AT CIVIC DEC. Felix Bressart checked in this week to begin his supporting Victor McLaglen AUDITORIUM role in “Without Love,” Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn starrer and Lynn Bari In 2nd with Lucille Ball. Bressart will portray a scientist who aids Tracy RODEO in developing a secret oxygen mask for flyers. Harold S. Bucquet k “Tampico to i* directing. Lawrence Weingarten is producing. »l»o James Ellison in DEC. “Johnny Doesn’t I.ive H 10th WILDE TWINS TO JITTER Anymore” The Wilde Twins, Lee and Lyn, who were singers with the Ray Noble and Bob Crosby dance bands before entering films, will ASTWOOD TICKETS ON SALE AT C. L 0. OFFICES make their dancing debut in “Twice Blessed,” their new picture. BtoApwAY c wail The original story, written especially for them, calls for each to /, 2119 DORR ST. dance in a jitterbug contest, and they’ll have to be really hep. ’ (near Paik»i