o Friday, June 18,1948 TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page FTv< Ready to Shoot ------------- ' i y " X ' — ■ 1 " 1 .......... ................. t I I .1. .. J|g^(gO|go®si^'w( Sta$eajsdScretii ■W. DeHavilland Receives “Silent” Playback Copter Puts End ■ K # Jack Searl Resumes Belgian Film Aware Svstem Described To Sun-Bnthinft HOLLYWOOD — Olivia de HOLLYWOOD — Para­ t - HOLLYWOOD — Helio­ Haviiland recently was present­ mount’s “silent” playback and 'V copter mail delivery is in­ ed a gold medallion in recogni­ public address system by which Career In “Glory” terfering with Frances tion of her selection as the best direction is “broadcast” to play­ Gifford’s sun-bathing. The actress of films released in ers during a picture’s filming; [ HOLLYWOOD—The kid with the perennial sneer is back • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer act­ Belgium during 1947. The award and which permits recording of |in pictures again, trudging the rugged road to recognition follow­ ress recently had the roof was for her starring perform­ dialogue without interference ing a six years’ lapse during which he changed from a sniveling of her Beverly Hills home ance Paramount’s “To Each His from music, was described to [youth to a snarling man. He’s Jack Searl, one famed as the nasti­ leveled to use as the founda­ Own,” which brought her the the Society of Motion Picture est boy on the screen. tion for an all-glass sun Academy “Oscar.” Engineers semi-annual conven­ | Now 26, married and a father, Z’ roof. The medal was prensented to tion at the Ambassador HoUl, Miss de Haviiland by Joseph Santa Monica, today. [Searl is picking up the threads But the pilot of the |of a promising acting career van Cottom, editor and puo- The system, developed and i >•”?<>« 'V heliocopter has been com­ lisner of Cine-Revue, top Bel­ built by the studio's sound de­ [which exploded simultaneously ing too close for comfort. [with the Jap bombs on Pearl gian motion picture magazine. partment. is the only one of it* Now Miss Gifford is tak­ The ceremonies were held on kind in existence. It provides a [Harbor. And. as he has been since ing her sun baths via sun the Paramount test stage where |he first stepped in front of a unique timesaving aid in photo­ lamp and the roof has been Mis de Haviiland is preparing graphing and recording dialogue [camera at the tender age of five, SCREENWl0v converted into a fernery! for her title role in The Hei­ sequences having musical back­ |he is playing mean roles. ress,” William Wyler production grounds. Sound is transmitted to [ His latest part is In Pkra- Hv INEZ GERHARD which wil start early next the players through “invisible” rmount’s “Beyond Glory” in MacDonald Carey made his .Friends Contribute month. Miriam Hopkins has been button-size earphones. [which, as a cynical Army officer, one Broadway assignment so To Drake Wardrobe signed for an important featured It has been used recently dur­ |he verbally pushes Alan Ladd memorable that the people re- HOLLYWOOD — When Tom role in the film. ing production of such picture* [around when, Alan’s number member him in the lead opposite Drake looks at himself these as “A Foreign Affair,” "Isn’t It [comes up and he reports at the Gertrude Lawrence in “Lady in days he isn’t certain whether he Huge Magazine Ad Romantic?”, “Now and For­ [induction center. It’s only a the Dark.” Paramount grabbed is Tom Drake or Peter Lawford Campaign For “Waltz” ever,” “Beyond Glory” and “The [small role, but Searl isn’t him, but not until after he had or Mickey Rooney or Marshall Paleface.” [squawking. left to spend three years in the HOLLY WOOD — Paramount The system was described to Thompson or even Dick Powell. recently completed scheduling [ “I’ve been In tMs business too marine corps and returned to Since his clothes were burned the convention in a paper pre­ [long to have any illusions,” he make “Suddenly It’s Spring” one of its all-time biggest maga­ pared by Bruce H. Denney and in the recent fire which de­ zine advertising campaigns for |;said. “It’s a tough racket and did the studio realize that he is stroyed his apartment, Drake Robert J. Carr of Paramount’* [long ago it lost any glamor for an excellent actor with charm “The Emperor Waltz, that sound engineering department. and definite appeal. They starr­ has been at the mercy of friends broke with the world premiere JUDY GARLAND and Gene Kelly get ready for their next scene of M-G-M’s "The Pirate” Ireaily^wam % ^llow^nd bin­ ed him with Betty Hutton in for clothes. of the Bing Crosby-Joan Fon­ while a cameraman makes certain the lighting is correct. Walter Slezak and Gladys Cooper are | .y. nluceine” “Dream Girl” and with Paulette ties, all red—Thompson two taine Technicolor starrer at the Stuart Holmes Back also in the cast of the new Technicolor musical film. Vincente Minnelli directed. Arthur Freed |^]wayg ‘Heavy’ Goddard in “Hazard.” You’ll see gray tweed suit—Rooney several Hollywood Paramount on May Lawford came through with a 26. For “Dark Circle*5 produced. This picture is now showing at the Loew’s Valentine Theatre._________________ | jn the mid-20s Jack him also in “Abigail, Dear HOLLYWOOD — Stuart Heart” and “The Great Gatsby.” pairs of shoes and Powell with Upwards of $200,000 was , [started playing child roles in cuff links and studs. spent on the magazine ads alone, Holmes, the screen’s first arcb After his New York vacation he Drake had thought he might villain, emerges from semi-re­ Lovely to Look At heads for Hollywood and a and this will be part of one of Sophisticatedi Siren[good break in 1930 as Sid Saw- have to ask the Metro-Goldwyn- the most concentrated campaigns tirement to play a role in Para­ super-western, with a chance to Mayer wardrobe department to mount's “Dark Circle,” as a WrU yer in “Tom Sawyer.” Jack Coo­ play a villain, at last. ever devoted to a picture. gan played the title role. Searl lend him the clothes which he Continuing over a period of state supreme court justice. Betty Hutton is credited with wears in “Words and Music” un­ Now 61, he has been an actor later played in many movie*, in­ the best job ever done of singing four months, the insertions will til he could purchase * new appear in nineteen top maga- 35 years. First of the cinema variably as the “heavy.” He in synchronization with an off bad men, he was forced to carry found roles were scarce as he wardrobe for himself. zines with a total circulation of more than a revolver for self - protection left boyhood behind and became 46 million, with full- from irate fans who took their a ’teen-ager. page and lavish double-spread insertions in color. screen fare too seriously. In 1941 he was just beginning Turns Out Busy Day In “Dark Circle ’ he appears to get his second wind as a ju­ HOLLYWOOD—Take it from “Hazard” Pre-Release with co-stars Ray Milland, Au­ venile. He played in “Glamour Lloyd Nolan, he’ll never forget drey Totter and Thomas Mit­ Boy” and “Small Town Deb” and his fifteenth wedding anniver­ Engagements Start chell. John Farrow directs and lit seemed he had cleared the age sary. He and his wife celebrated HOLLYWOOD — Para­ producer is Endre Bohem. [barrier which always confronts the anniversary with a case of mount’s “Hazard” is being Ithe one-time child star, measles, a strayed pup and a launched on the nation’s screens But the war halted Ms plans. turtle’s funeral! this week with a select number He enlisted immediately, served I Exhausted, Nolan reported on of pre-release engagements ia four and a half years. the set of “Sun In the Morning,” picked key situations. Jack returned to Hollywood with a detailed explanation of The film starring Paulette > '* > and, understandably, found that the unusual anniversary day. Goddard and Macdonald Carey he had to start all over again. He The planned dinner party was began its first engagement re­ is now back in the grove play­ canceled when daughter Melinda cently at the Criterion, Okla­ PARAMOUNT ing “heavies,” still capitalizing broke out with the measles. homa City, and its scheduled for BETTY HUTTON Then their new cocker pup, the Orpheum, Seattle, this week. the way, is the antithesis of his voice. Until now, AcroM < on that famed sneer which, by stage Larry Smokey, left home and Nolan Other pre-release engage­ Scree*! Parks held the record for his spent the morning searching the ments set so far include Denver, true, off-screen personality. But work he has a hankering to try com­ in “The Jolson Story.” neighborhood until he located Philadelphia, Houston, Nash­ I Nadine Conner sang “One Fine edy. the pet stuck in a pit of tar near ville, Salt Lake City, Harris­ & pay,, for “Madame Butterfly” a newely constructed house. burg, Pa., Hartford, New Hay^g, “But I’m not holding out for scenes_ in “Dream Girl,” and East Liverpool, Ohio. fin* t any specific type of parts,” he When he returned home he Jsaid. “I just want to get going Betty did a fine job of pretend­ found his 5-year-old son. Jay, in George Marshall directed FOR HER ROLE of enticing Usain.”_______________ ing to do the singing before the tears—the pet turtle had just “Hazard, ’ which was produced cameras. died! by Mel Epstein. George Brent in “Luxury Lin- [ We hear the reason Joan FRANK SCANNELLCAST er?’ Marina Koshetz will be IlVeW York Stage Star Crawford backed out of doing William Bishop Frank Scannell, former bur­ /‘Mildred Pierce” on a “Screen cmopletely feminine in a I In ‘Act Of Violence’: To Join Scott lesque, vaudeville and night curve-pleasing and converse- HOLLYWOOD — Berry Kroe-1^Guild“ h‘Players wa7“scared'o?working” broadcast was club performer, has been signed by Columbia for “Ladies of the 1 FRANC ES GIFFORD, beautiful M-G-M actress, looks luscious tion-prompting wardrobe de- |ger has been selected for one of before a live audience- had ex­ And Ella Raines signed to turn all masculine [the top roles in Metro-Goldwyn- pected to do jt in a closed Chorus,” Harry Romm produc­ in anything she chooses to wear.