Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 6

Citiien-Ncw Wednesday January 5 1944 Pip 6 No Swastikas A Lesson in Acting by Prof Susan Peters Lip for Lead in 'Outward' Bv LOWELL REI1ELIXGK YOU CAN LOOK for Susan Peter' to be announced momentarily as the feminine lead in Metro's Outward Room" This is the novel bv Millcn n1 matt to dtepo of the right Brand later adapted for (lie stage Five Murflo barked the venture which the studio purchased some in order to show no favnrtt-sears ago at a reported price ot the nndin government has S10000O and hii was ai wed I'1" hf to lie dormant unM recent when rightsbv grab-ha method a screen plav lmall a com- studio representative sv ill draw a slip ot paper from a hat with the one drawing the markeii The studio failed to confirm (Rl hf that Miss -Peters has been set for r( of mooo the role hut spokesmen pom ted out that it is generally believed he will be given the part Spencer 1 ra is making no film' commitments following bis a mm ie of it 'No Time for Love' Is Gay Comedy A new kind of romantic wrestling match comes into the Paramount Hollywood and Downtown theaters tomorrow the open-mg of Paramount comedy ro-manre Time for co-starring (Ttudetle ColW'rt and Fred MacMurray with Ilka Ovase icharri Hayden Paul Mcflrath Havia- The story concern a high-brow lady photographer played by Miss Ibert who is assigned to lake candid shots of at work in an Fast River tunnel There she meets Fred MacMurray a burly Jowhrow tunnel digger and falls in love Slapstick comedy and cave-man tactic combine io make "No Time for Iove a riofous fun-film Tonight hntli Paramount theaters will present a major studio preview In addition to the final screeninr of High" CHORUS NUMBER IN FLORENTINE REVUE POPULAR fhefLadihs of life rue lav ish production 'nvinilier tealured in the lm fivue Extra vagxnga" starring flurry Richman 'at the Florentine Gardens often develops i a virtual "old home week" As each of the glamor girls Is introduced a service man from her scute is tfiviieil on stage for a rewaid and olten tunes NTG thus brings together' a boy and a girl who either knows each other Or went to the same schools This number i' one of the nios iiiular of audience-participation seejuences in the popular revue Other "Extravaganza" performers are Arthur Simpkins Georgie Tapps Connne and Tito ralde Jimmy Alexander the Flying Herzogs and the Four Moroccans The story deals with a girl who t-urront portrayal at M-G-M in escapes from the psychopathic 'The seventh Cross'' He plans ward of an asylum and is taken t0 nfnkc a six-month tour Of care of by a young man who camps and hospitals eventually of course falls in love James Lydon who has outgrown with her Gene Kelly and John pjS jierty-y- Aldrich" roles at Para-Hodiak are reported under con- mount has signed with Republic gideration for the male lead L0 piav jeadmg roles exclusively Laraine Day is reported seri- CallbOGrd Off GTS cusly interested in the script of VIICI 9 forthcom- DUu EriHftU lng RKO production and may sign CTT 1 l'uJ ny day for the feminine lead Alfred Zelsler who directed and Embers at Havvarth the story played the Hitler role in Brontes by De Frank's independent production 1( Kodeen will begin a limited based on Goebhels life is being engagement at the allboard would have then peace! Germany That it is at last -seems though has faith in i thriller' He ha- -d who bought it qualities as a turned it over to William Cameron Metrtes to film and now the art salience of Schulz and I isensjein branches in San Francisco and Munich are doing business on ihe Columbia lot Paul Lukas plays Schulz the German partner who returns to The homeland tt be Nazified and Morris Carnovsky is the ex-German Jew who wreaks subtle vengeance for a Nazi crime across 'the sea ''Were leaving out- the swastikas and hot a sihgle lhei)" Wood think well I have something' different" I Regardless' of the film's outcome it represents a triumph for a girl named Stevens ho is Sam Wood daughter Gloria It's proof that papa accepts her as an The-paged bv Max Gordon Broadway atrr Friday night under the di-producer to enact ihe Hitler role fection of Francis Douglass Coop in his coming Broadway produc-er- turn This-Fortress' r'i ro es of the three Bronte James Cardwell ex-Broadway 'spr' "ill bo Viola Long as actor has been handed the male Charlotte Bonnie Jean lajt as "lead in 20th Century-Fox 'Emily and Ruth Vaughn as Anne nd Inw-Down" forthcoming Ben- ITieir life at Havvarth is drama- nd Low-Down" forthcoming Ben actress SOLOIST Yehudi Menuhin famous violinist wiH be soloist on the Philharmonic programs tomorrow nght and Fri-atternoon Dane Clark Enacts Greek in 'Tokyo1 Appearing as a member of the Trevv in "Destination starring (larV Grahl and John Garfield Dane character name iri the swiupt is "Uias Thptipoli Karaptvijhs Junior' The familiar greetings lv nflw reccivcJ from hs fritted is: "Hr "Destination Tokyo" an exciting picture i submarine War- W'tih Grant a' Captain' Cassidy of th'e 'Tofiperfin'" The picture is current at Warner Hollywixid ovvntown and Wiltcrn theateis (l NNERV INsrtU TOR Ensign Robert Stack is a gunnery instructor at the Lake Chabot Machine (lun Range Naval Air Station Alameda SPffTtrl i A I 2nd VI OrHeils In 'Address' Bv KOBBIN COONS Bark in 3 wCi a short storv a pea red at Story magazine and it mediately swept through Hoil wood Enthusiastic admirers wtu graphed book But Holly woo When Gloria first told her father she wanted' to act he was not encouraging "I hactn anything against acting for he says I didn't want her to he tust another ingenue 1 knew if she got into pictures then she might last a year or two maybe more" So Gloria went to New York on her own to seek what she could do She found that agents and producers were very pleasant to San Wood's daughter It also seemed that as Sam Wood's daughter she couldn't possibly be considered for small roles the kind that are best for beginners Rut as Stevens unknown it was different So Stevens worked on the stage and occasionally in pictures even a small role now and then in a Sam Wood picture She was in a Broadway play Girls" when Columbia bought 'he show and signed her After this Sam Wood mario a releasing deal with the same studio and Menzios began to cast "Address Unknown" tested for the lead role of Griselle along with other contract players and Menzies knowing of 'lne Wood family "argument" was embarrassed Her test was the best He called in Wood to Took "OK" grinned Sam Wood: use her" FIRST MEETING RECALLED Phil Ryan first met Pat his partner in Ternecn Productions in a studio projection room Ryan was executive head of the studio and O'Brien was making his first picture "The Front Pago ENOS 9 IAM0UR POWEll today 2nd HI Downtown Bv FREDERICK OTIIMAV There are some tricks to the! trade of bt ng a movie stai All isrtors know these formulae and all aeto'rs- saee one keep them secret like the date for the" European invasion Sole exception is the man with the full-moon face and the low hay window a movie star the days of sjents and a movie star today Jack Oakie Who knows all the tricks The problem is simpler to keep your face on the screen to the near exclusion of the competition And if not that to keep the customers looking at you instead uf the other guy you're in a mov ie and you read the script and you discover that your closeups are few and fat between" Prof Oakie explained1 keep a close eye on the script girl and if she is the least hit m-jejined to be careless you're in Su you walk into a scene say with your hat in your right hand Then you walk out with if in your left If the script girl doesn't catch it That gives 'em a movie with a ha: mysteriously changing hands in the middle of the proceedings Nu what do 'they to do" The(v have to give you a eJpsHip shpvvs mg' you changing hands with the hat i RIT The professor in this advanced course of movie acting spid the last time he used this method known as Rule A he was opening a safe with-his rigfit hand Next scene he still was opening the safe but 'with his left This forced tht hoys to put in another scene in hurry showing hint skinning his knuckles and switching hands jTherfhy giving the Prof an extra chance to be furtny Prof Oakie said that he frequently was confronted with the necessity of saying goodbye to somebody and leaving the other artor alone in front of the audience Tins is bad and to be avoided wherever possible even if it i-neeessary to shove out the other guy bodily if that Is the Professor continued "then the thing to do Is wave goodhve to him as you walk off slowly If you do this properly you leave your hand fluttering in front of his kisser and there Is no possible way for Ihe cutter to remove it without removing the face too Which of course would be fine And frequently Prof Oakie said that the fisheyed comic such as Ned Sparks is difficult competition OI BALANCE audience looks at the guy who does not move or who turns his bark to he added "Your only chance here is to keep him off balance YcU do Hus by giving him a playful poke on the shoulder Only it is more poke than play So the guy is about to fall on his face and he's giving evgr thing he's got to jus' staying Turn tn Page 7 olumn 7 jay Goodman starrer tized the cruel domination of their father played by George Ingham and the pitiful degradation of LLOTD NOLAN has posted a their brother Branvvell reward for the return of his lost Kpn Bryson wiH play Branvvell orority Ptn' while other roles will he handled Nolan one of the few men ever)by Frances Cleveland Claire Mu- to belong to or ntayhelj Robm Garv and Bert Vinson the only was given the pin a symbol of honorary member- aa -v Thrillers a ahip In Phi Epsilon some years MySTery I nrlliers OT ago after inviting the sorority Hawaii Theater members backstage after a per- TklsJ UaL formanre of a Broadway stage 10 MOTT I Jlira WeeK play He has flashed this pin ever alnee among his friends as sort ef a gag but lost it a few days ago on the Riviera Country Club golf course Well received hv crowds the current Hawaii Theater show will he held over for a third week beginning tomorrow Being presented are the first runs of "Seventh mystery drama with Tom Conway THE GIRL HE LEFT That's Ganger Rogers a war and service widow in Tender Comrade RKO Radio stirring photoplay of women on the home front which began a second week's filming today at Pantages and the RKO Hill-street theaters fy JLMura The New York Viewpoint NEW YORK greatest task in the year of our Lord 1944 is to overcome the actual and potential pacificts in our midst Our heroic sons will win the battles but Ihe job for a' home is to prevail against tho'e who will rived arise and cry 'Peare' before there is peace Some will come so say- warning should be lng with obviously traitorous mo- '-considered by all of us who have lives and we shall recognize and a -take in a post-war world deal with them at once Others There is no doubt that skilful will be better disguised I hey lobbyists and special' pleaders will eome with a reputation of real be stepping into the scene any achievement behind them They time now to start doing a job Will try to tell us that God is in for -Germany Goebhels and favor of peace at any price offered Vichy France know that hy Hitler and Hirohito When that 0S the war hut it remains to be happens I ask you my fellow seen if lose the peace citizens to realize that justice is fhe Nazis and the Fascists will stern not soft: that it is unbend- there pitching their cynical mg ami that it must he capable curves and they'll get lots of sup-of meting out terrible punishment port Bellamy's advice to to those that have earned it lough long enough" is good merii-That provocative clarion cal! to cine for a country that mav be America stay tough long come indifferent or apathetic if enough" came from Paul Bellamy the peace negotiations drag out editor of the Cleveland Plain-Deal- too long For one New Year er in a symposium of editors ad- resolution let determine right dressing the country as 1914 ar- now to "stay tough Van Brooks Kim Hunter and Janis Carter the musical come- OX BITS Viltturr at ItlHrM) LOS RNCBLKt Op 411 ECTTIAH HoJyv HI at bigliW M-G'M present dy star is the latest to be tested by RKO for the feminine lead opposite Frank Sinatra in his next RKO picture Also being tested are Helen Gilbert as previously announced Marie McDonald and Beverly Whitney Robert Walker has been set for a role of a non-commissioned officer in Seconds Over Tok- Neely Edwards who conducts at Metro a role considered of me singing school during the olio some dramatic importance similar of -Th( Drunkard" at the Theater to the One he won raves with in Mart says that audiences now as Bataan" never before like to gather around and sing their 1 roubles away "MEET THE NAVY" will reach These old songs still convey their the screen hut only when the message of cheer" declares Fd-Csnndian government gets good wards lirwrllARSIIN 'laltrrl lllllUlv "Til da me Cuxie Produced by SIDNEY FRANKIIN Directed by I II ROY 8 I I fmCCUniAIMf IOTH wiTBi mejnv ft i THiAtnys Ky Thousands wm TOMORROW TOMORROW BOTH THEATRES BOTTLENECK IN BOY pippin of a submarine Action film' in 'Destination you I don't it's authentic: we Washington where Glamor Girls battle shortages in beds beefsteaks and bachelors where a girl got to be "Super" to get a date and "Dooper to hep him! The new year has not yet become an old resident oh Broadway but he's catching on quickly rooting for him certainly The good-w ill evien jn-fe'cTrct "the XY moving picture critics who have been snapping and snarling at everything Under the influence of the New Year the Manhattan cinema heckler saw two new pictures Tokyo" and Sutler's and gave them enthusiastic notices in the Jan 1 editions I submit them in proof Resley Crow ther in the Times 'foe! "Aside from a most ausp ciou title with which to start the new ear the Warners have a we fight patrols 10-minute say don't even say it's a fair account i of thp way our submariners live and on their Pacific I Almost every fable which has yet come out about those fellows! WTO SUL BRILUAV71V EM(Tn ONE OF THE REST i I0WFLL KFDFLISCS liiShwsJ ('itiua Xs' FOX WILSH1RE WUvhirr nr UCirnu CONT FROM GRAUOUNS CHINESE fox UPTOWN LOEWS STATl FRIENDS! SHf rf to itctofy! LOEW State SEVENTH and BROADWAY Claudette loves along vvith a fantastic whopper which the boy- at Warners dreamed up themselves has been crammed into the two hours and1 length of this film) tot the men with muscles! Tht men with muscei lovt Claudette I MOORE in "RIDING HIGH1 "Htary Aldrich Mounts a House" Everything seems to happen the men of the sub in this case land they rise to the challenging loooasion like the heroes of Holly-! (wood that they are Mind you': we dorut say it is credible: 'don't even suggest that it makes! sense Rut it does make a pippin of a picture from a purely melo- i dramatic point of view" Reports Howard Barnes in the Turn to Page 7 olumn 5) 2nd HR' Actson'- ffa Ciase Ify 'cfart 'tayefr MITCHELL LEISEN PRODUCTION Directed by MITCHELL LEISEN Screen Ploy by Claude Binyon Adaptation by Warren Duff Associate Producer Fred Kphlmcr Paramount Picture DIRECTION FANCHON MARCO Dint CtillMrtl HfTTN WanetMiDERSONAtenHAK PRINCE If rrears SONNY TUFTS "Kansu" in SO PROUDLY Wf HAH ANNE SHIRLEY JESS BARKER JAMES DUNN PAUL STEWART AGNES MOOREHEAO HARRY DAVENPORT UNA O'CONNOR Produced and Directed by Dudley Nichols From (deli Rogers St lilia'i Smitieiil tidies Heme lomm! Need Sunn fla) Dudltf Hicltsls (t 'PtAtunt His Most Baffling Mystery BASIL RATHBONE NIGEL BRUCE in "SHERLOCK HOLMES wTHE SPIDER Grauman's CHINESE HOltYWOOD Near HIGHLAND Fox UPTOWN WESTERN AT OLYMPIC HOLLYWOOD I DOWNTOWN POORS OPfN 10 A DOORS OPEN NOON DOORS OPEN 17 15.