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JKDtAjf A iVEMKQ INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 24, Erskine Johnson By ERSKtNE JOHNSON NBA Staff Correspondent Close- ps and Lotigshotss I've been ever sine- the war that Molly wood's dignified "actors are tnal people" publicity campaign has taken all the excitement of personality away from movie stars. Mow it's Gary Cooper -greeing with me. Forgetting to be f.he man of few words he's supposed to be, rugged Gary, who spanned the silent into talkies, told me on the "Vera Cruz" set: "It all adds up to showmanship. The new stars are too honest about themselves. Actoro should remember they are actors and not people.

All the storybook glamor quality is gone from Hollywood. New stars are too earer to portray themselves just like the Joneses of the world. They're not, for then they I wouldn't be stars. Gary about his own "Yup" and "Nope" reputation: "It's not true. But it hasn't hurt me a bit.

It gives me a little bit of color." NO DETAILS were issued by attorneys, but here's the inside on that libel suit slapped by Frank on famed British restaurateur John Mills of London's Les Ambassadeuvs: Ava Gardner's re- Aport to her husband on what hap- pened when "she went to the def room in Mills' flat on the restaurant's second floor started beef, with Mills fevoRing Sinatra's membership to Les Ambas- sadeurs and barring him permanently. There's a big, big-screen movie In Roy Rogers future. He's been grinding out telefilms ever since "Paleface" two and a half years ago. Wanger will continue speaking nig mind on prison reform through films. He hopes to tie up movie rights to Carryl Chessman's sensational "Cell 2455, Death Row." Chessman wrote the story while awaiting the death penalty at San Quentin.

Here's the all-star cast so far picked for Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Irene Dunne, Cornel Wilde, Yul Brynner and Charlton Heston. More top star names are yet to be signed. BRITISHERS ARE waiting witn bated breath until Errol Fiynn and Anna Neagle start working together in a filmusical, 'Lilacs in the Spring." La Neagle can't abide swearing, gags, practical jokes or high jinks. There are still mixed emotions about Cinemascope in the film in Tunisia Riot Fata I To Eight ftftftS, ftmisia tfMsight sons have been killed end five wounded in new scatteted breaks of violence between an nationalists and the French in this festive Notth African torate.

The French announced theif ttoops captured a nationalist stronghold near Bizerte after a twO'day battle ending yesterday. Five rebels were killed and one wounded. The French lost two killed and three wounded. Two attacks on automobiles accounted for the other death and injury. Woman, 106, Dies LOUISVILLE, Ky.

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Indiana, Pa, "Killer" Admits He Is a Killer SAN' FRANCISCO WI-A frightened Los Angeles housewife sent police in California's two largest cities hunting Charley the Killer yesterday. They foUnd their man in a hotel let him go after he admitted he was a killer. "A man just phoned. He said, 'I'm Charley the Killer," and hung up," Ruth Grossman of Los Angeles reported to police there at 4 a.m* yesterday. The call was traced to the hotel room of Charley Kays of Eureka, here.

"I was trying to get Ruth Grossman in Beverly Hills and they gave me some other Ruth Grossman," he told Inspector William Stanton. "So I hung up. "Killer? Oh, yes. In Eureka, everybody calls me 'Charley the Killer." "I run the Eureka Termite Exterminating CA!" dustry. Despite fantastic box-office figures on "The Robe," Alfred Starr, board chairman of the Thea ter Owners of America, labels the big-screen system as: "One of the damndest contraptions invented by man." Says Starr: "Cinemascope Is designed to drive everybody out of the theater.

It is an invention of the devil." Lon McCallister has given up acting to sell real estate. tor in the House," a British moyie due for early release in the is said to parallel the story of "Not as a Stranger," the No. best seller to be filmed by Stanley Kramer. Cameron will star in a feature movie based on the character he plays in the TV series, "City Detective." Russell Russell's still hoping to sign Imogene Coca for "The Girl Rush" her independent But now there are complications because of indecisions over Imogene's new fall TV show. excited French lingo, when asked about romance with ballet master Roland Petit and press agent Mike Mindlin, leaves no doubt that she's annoyed.

Neither, she says, is her heart. Chancy, back on the screen in "Where the Wind Blows," is about to become a grandpa for the fourth time. ttWJJf BfcftSttBERGEB PAGE ELEVEN Klew Operation For Star Delayed BOSTON OW After studying Arthur Godfrey's year-old operation on his right hip, specialists have decided against further sur-l gery for at least three months. The TV-radio star flew here yesterday In his own plane for a detailed examination by Dr. Otto Aufranc, his surgeon, and Dr.

Joseph Barr, chief of the orthopedic service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Aufranc reported afterward there Is "an almost normal range' of motion in the operated hip." He advised more time should be given for corrective exercises and training in walking with crutches. "And please butter the bread on both trying to help the government use up the surplus butter!" Frog Leap Sets New Jump Record Afraid To Tell Big Fish Story CROSSVILLE, Tenn. people might laugh, rural mail carrier Mark Dunbar waited three days to tell of watching a bull catch a two-pound bass.

Dunbar related yesterday that he was driving past a pond and noticed a big fish thrashing about at the end of a line. Walking over to congratulate the fisherman he saw a bull that had been wading Heart Claims Life Ol LA. Editor LOS ANGELES M8 The Sunday editor of the Los Angeles Times, Edwin 3 strong, 59, died yester day of a heart ailment, Strong was president of the' American Assn. of Sunday and fel- ture Editors in 1951. Me Joined the 1 times as copyreader in 1924 and became Sunday editor in 1946.

A University of Wisconsin journalism graduate, he worked on 1 the Colorado Springs Gazette, Pueblo (Colo) Chieftain and the Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal. He is survived by his widow and two daughters. Quafcs Reported LOS tafy roiling earth aback tent residents to their telephonei sad rattled a few dishei but no damage was repotted. At Berkeley, The University of California seismograph station said the quake appeared to be centered in the Tehachapi Mountains. Portland was first state ever to vote dry, proving prohibition ir 1846.

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