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MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1948 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Gemmer Assumes Post At Church Robert Gemmer has assumed his new position assistant minister of First Friends Church, Iii Hollywood Today By SHEILAH GRAHAM Hollywood, Jan. 4 FRED ASTAIRE'S next picture at Metro is "Annie Get Your Gun," with Judy Garland. Judy and Fred are currently doing a wonderful job of teaming in their "Easter Parade," and the studio wants to continue the partnership. Humphrey Bogart tells me that the company he had formed with the late Mark Hellinger will still be known as "The Mark Hellinger Productions Company," as a tribute to his late great( friend.

"We're going ahead with everything the way Mark had planned," Bogey tells me on the set of "Key Largo." "David Selznick, through whose company Mark was releasing his pictures, has promised to help." This sounds as though David will himself produce for the Hellinger company "Act of Violence," starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, UACE i The Talking Rooster (V By Billy Rose TTfTANNOUNCED and unabashed, Major Timothy Morgan walked lljny office. "I was about to send out for some lunch," I said to my old midway cfiumJ Vould you care for a sandwich?" jmine bourbon on rye," said Timothy. "Or vice versa." 'f 'i'ficked up the phone. "Send out for a couple of chicken sandwiches," I to the switchboard girl. Xhe- self-rommissioned Major stood up.

"I never eat chicken in any week with a Friday in it." he announced. ri.Okay&il said. "I'll eat both sandwiches. While you're watching, ypuioaa. earn the customary twenty tiny dollars by telling me why you're allergic to chicken." ner every night cabbage soup.

And then suddenly I couldn't believe my nostrils. Coming from the kitchen was the heady aroma of southern fried chicken. "But as I sat there tucking my napkin In my collar, an horrendous misgiving seized me." "HOLD ON A MINUTE, Major," I said. "You aren't going to tell me that old one about the "Silence!" thundered Morgan. "I jumped up from the table and vaulted the stairs to the bathroom.

It was as I feared Gerald had vanished. "I dashed down to the kitchen. My landlady was mashing up some potatoes. I screamed. 'A million dollars' worth of talent lies of my desk.

"I may need some of this," I said. "Proceed." "SOME YEARS BACK," the Major began, "I was shopping for ten crates of celery at the Washington Market. Personally I detest celery, but that season two baritones were feuding at the Metropolitan Opera House. One had enlisted my services to put the squitch on his rival's performance at the opening of 'Don I had assembled a claque of juvenile delinquents and if it-nc mv- nlan tr Viavp thpm sizzling on that platter. Why did you do it, woman? "My landlady continued mashing "the potatoes- 'For three she said 'First, you owe me $118 in back rent.

Second, the Board of Health doesn't encourage poultry breeding in the bathroom. And third, no Plymouth Rock is going to call my mother a fat bag and get away with "What did you do then?" I asked. The major sighed. "What could I do?" he said. "Today is a surety and tomorrow at best, is doubt- ful.

I tucked the napkin back under mv chin and ate two por- tions of m' movie career. (Opyncht. by Billy Rose! name in "The Lowly Saloon," in Chicago. Back To The Beach BUTCH JENKINS and his mama, Doris Dudley, are heading back to a home on the beach now that he and Metro have called it a day. It was on the beach, if you remember, that Clarence Brown first spotted Butch for "The Human Comedy." Butch and his ma have rented the Leo Mc-Carey beach home.

And now maybe the boy will be discovered all over again by another producer! The daughter of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy is very ill with bronchitis in the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Jessica, by the way, reports that on the night of the big show in New York there were only 12 people who could get to her very successful play, "A Streetcar Named Desire!" Rosalind Russell has taken her ailing self and family to Palm Little UN Opens Today; J'Vve never seen you more smiled Timothy. "My aversion- to the noble bird is out of -deference- to Gerald." 1 'Who I asked. ii A swindler. 3feJoolt.a::tttle of bourbon out EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED LARGEST SELECTION- of Linoleum In Indiana RUGS from S2.3? Look for the.

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"While strolling produce market. I the passed some I chicken crates. Suddenly I heard i a voice say, -Yer mudder wears Armv The voice seemed to be coming from a crate. peered in. A Plymouth Rock looked me straight in the eye and croaked, 'Yer mudder takes "I'll be with you in a minute, Morgan," 1 said as I reached for the bourbon.

"LUCKY FOR ME," Timothy went on, "the poultry dealer hadn't heard this bit of repartee, and I was able to acquire the rooster for the prevailing number of cents per pound. "That night I stretched some chicken wire around the bathtub at my boarding house and installed my feathered rind, who informed me his name was Gerald. And every day for the next few months I taught Gerald a new word. By mid-summer we had a 15-minute routine full of gay banter and folksy philosophy." "Tell me about the act," I said. "How did it open?" "With a mother-in-law joke," said Morgan.

"Pretty corny," I dead-panned. "You remind me," snapped the Major, "of the man who went to see a dog play chess and wanted his money back because the pooch lost two games in a row. "3IY ONLY TROUBLE with the rooster was his tendency to ad lib and these ad libs were usually uncomplimentary references to somebody's mother. In September I was ready to present Gerald to the world. I called on a booking agent and told him I had an act that would never lay an egg.

When I explained the nature of the turn, he was dubious, as is all the breed. But after a few thousand well-chosen words about the talking rooster, he conceded I might have something, and suggested I bring Gerald around the next day for an audition. "As I left his office, I could see nothing but sunshine and roses. If Trigger and Lassie were worth a hundred a day, what was a rooster worth who could talk back to Louis B. Mayer? I envisioned myself in a Beverly Hills mansion where every bedroom had its own swimming pool.

And Gerald in a steam-heated coop with a harem of pedigreed hens. After Hollywood, a tour of the capitals of Europe and who knows perhaps top billing for Gerald in a revival of 'Coq d'Or." "Full of the future, I rushed back to my boarding house to have dinner and start packing. Dinner that night began like din- WMM Show Time CIRCIE--Wild Irish Rom." it 11-20 a.m.. 1:30. 3.35, 5:50, 7.55 nd 10 p.m.

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AMBASSADOR-ALAMO "The Burninr Crore" and 'The Hat Boa Mystery." Valley Manhunt" and "Falcon In Meaico." All" and "The Star Parker." CINEMA-'-slave Girl" and "Somrlhinr In the Wind coRONrT--stairwy Heaven" and -Swell Guy ESQITRF "Spiral Staircase" and "Nifht In Paraditt." Fury" and "Beat the Band." ST. CLAIR "Body and Soul" and "sport of Kinrs." and Soul" and "Snort Kinta." VOGl Fury" and "Paria In the Sprlnr." Had Be To" and "Blnndle In the Dough." DREAM "My Darlinr Clementine" arid Thirteenth Hour." HAMILTON "Desert Fury" and "Scandal In Parts." STRAND "Body and Soul" and "Sport of Kines." ORIENTAL "This Time for Keeps" and "The Marauders." BELMONT "Dark Fassace" and "Alonl the Oreeon Trail." OLD TRAII-'Toiea of Harrow" and "Phllo Vance of Harrow" and "The Royal Wcddinf Issue In the Soviet camp, however it was re-emphasized that Moscow would stick to its refusal to participate in the new project. For a starter, the "little assembly" has been instructed by the full assembly to tackle only one major issue the hot problem of the Big Five veto and Russia's frequent use of it in the UN Security Council. The new group also must consider immediately ways of taking up the whole broad question of improving chances for maintaining international peace and security. A third, but so far only tentative, matter is the problem of Korea which may come before the "little assembly" soon after the newly-formed UN independence commission for Korea bumps into the Soviet boycott of its program in the disputed land.

AT TOMORROWS opening session the "little assembly" is expected to set up subcommittees to handle these issues and then adjourn while the smaller groups work out proposals. The veto discussion, emphatically imposed by Russia, is supposed ultimately to produce a joint effort by the security council and the "little assembly" to reduce the scope of the Big Five veto power. Russia already has made clear it will have no part of such a project. And without Russian consent, it seemed unlikely to UN observers that anything concrete would result from the veto talks. There was a wide range of opinion in UN circles tonight about the merits of a "little assembly" operating without the six Soviet bloc nations.

There also was considerable concern over the growing probability that the only issues which come before the "little assembly" will be (1) pure East-West issues like the veto or the Greek problem or Korea and (2) proposals with an essentially anti-Russian objective. Even some American officials most intimately connected with the "little assembly" have been known to concede that there seem to be no issues at present for debate in the new agency except matters aimed at condemning or altering certain Soviet policies. PRESSED FOR SOME ideas of what other kinds of issues might be laid before the "little assembly," American officials have for the most part confessed to a shortage of them. One person suggested that one such project might be a discussion of how to allocate the territory or Antarctica among the various nations which claim parts or all of it. But this suggestion has not been taken very seriously at Lake Success.

All of the 57 United Nations except the six Soviet bloc mem bers were expected to have dele- gates on hand for the opening meeting, although many countries had not officially designated repre- sentatives as time for the meeting drew near. Most nations have picked their permanent UN representatives for the additional assignment of "little assembly" delegate on the understanding that the agency rarely will meet more than twice a week during its eight-month trial period. The American delegation will be headed by Warren Austin, permanent UN delegate, who was named to the assignment over the weekend. American spokesmen had said earlier the American member would be someone out- side the present American delega- tion. Reasons for the switch in plans were not disclosed.

University Women To Hear Dr. Hottel Evansville, Jan. 4 (Spl.) Dr. Althea Kratz Hottel, national president of the American Asso- ciation of University Women, will be guest speaker at the dinner meeting of the Evansville branch, scnenuiea ior naay evening ai Hotel Ver.domc. where he will be director of youth activities and pastoral and administrative assistant.

Gemmer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gemmer, 5765 Washington Boulevard, is a graduate of Indiana University and McCormick Theological Seminary.

He has lectured at young people's church camps, has been adviser to the Indiana Christian Student Association and national chairman of the American Youth for Political Action. Last Year Colder Than Average, Report Berne, Jan. 4 (Spl.) The year of 1947 was slightly colder than the average, according to the annual weather summary released yesterday by H. M. Reusser, local government weather observer.

The average mean temperature for the year was 50.2 degrees, compared to the 35-year average of 50.6 degrees. The coldest day last year brought a reading of 3 below zero; the warmest was 99 degrees. The year was wet, he said, with 39.56 inches of rain, well above the normal, and 19.7 inches of snow, six inches below the average. Whitaker To Leave Staff At Canterbury Danville, Jan. 4 (Spl.) Lyman B.

Whitaker, assistant to the president of Canterbury College last year, has announced that he will leave his position to return to his insurance business in Indianapolis. Dr. Edgar C. Cumings, president, said Whitaker accepted the college position on a one-year basis, having obtained a leave of absence from his insurance firm to work on behalf of the college. Dr.

Cumings said an announcement will be made in the near future concerning a successor. Youth To Receive Eagle Scout Badge New Castle, Jan. 4 (Spl.) Havey Carender 17 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.

P. Carender and a senior student at New Castle High School, will receive an Eagle Scout badge at a dis trict Boy Scout Court of Honor Tuesday evening in the First Baptist Church here. The church's Scout Troop 67, of which Merrill Wilson is scoutmaster, will be host for the occasion. Many other Henry County Boy Scouts will receive awards for their achievements during last year. the Ossenberg Retained As Housing Director Evansville, Jan.

4 (Spl.) William A. Ossenberg has been renamed executive director of the Evansville Housing Authority for 1948. John Arend has been re-elected chairman of the board and William D. Hunt, vice-chairman. The board now is made up entirely of appointees of Manson Reichert, Republican county chairman and'former mayor.

Ossenberg has been executive director since Oct. 8, 1946. EHA has six public housing project under its supervision. Three Palermo Children Killed By War Grenade Rome, Jan. 4 OP) Three children were killed and seven others were wounded today in Palermo, Sicily, when a hand grenade they had "found exploded when one of them kicked it.

Horrocks To Speak Arthur C. Horrocks will speak on "Let's Raise Our Sights" at a dinner meeting of the Industrial Training Association Jan. 12 in the Marott Hotel. Horrocks has held various positions with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, and now is a member of the public relations division. The meeting will be open to the public.

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3478 immiiiimiiiiimmiimiiiiimmmr Robert Mitchum and Valli. Gene Tierney clears up a mis understanding about where she will live between pictures. "I am not going to stay in Hollywood, except when I make pictures," she tells me, emphatically. "I have another apartment in New York which is going to be my home from now on. However, I may not be able to get there for a few months because, after my 'Iron Curtain picture, I have to do 'Symphony' with Rex Harrison." Romance Interferes BECAUSE ORSON Welles did a spot of dilly-dallying with Linda Christian when she was in Rome, he was unable to finish "Caglio-stro" in time to fly back here to edit "Macbeth." So he is paying for Dick Wilson to fly the rough print of "Macbeth" from Hollywood to Italy, and Orson will cut and edit there what he hopes will be his masterpiece.

Then Dick will fly it back to Republic Studios here. Betty Grable has made a deal with her studio not to work dur- i ing any month of August while her present contract is in force, She wants to be sure of being free always for the racing season at Del Mar, where she rents a house. 1 Betty's current movie, by the way, gets yet another change of name it's now called "That Lady in Ermine." Talking of title changes, Victor Mature's "The Chair for Martin Rame" is not going to be called that any more. "Gruesome titles are out," says Vic And then he explains his supposed date with Janet Thomas. "It wasn't Janet," says Vic, "it was the wife of my buddy, Bud Evans.

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And that's a job he knows by heart! Shrine Club Elects Evansville, Jan. 4 (Spl.) Hiram L. Logsdon has been elected president of the Shrine Luncheon Club for the new year. Others elected to serve with him are Dr. William T.

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