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US ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 01 aauij turn ATUDAT may I 'a. 1' te Allies izerte WUSMSe US Johnson -rtf-'' ETHEL WATERS, Eddie "Rochester Anderson, Babbles and Lena Horne shard the prosperity of a winning sweepstakes ticket in "Cabin in the Skyi" at Loew's State, Chinese, RHg, Cartnay, Rivoli. Blurts and Tunis fell to triumphant Allied armies yeater-dty and a young1 man from Hollywood kept a promise. It's a great story. The young man was George Webb, an employe of the RKO studio art depart meat, who enlisted in the army last Thanksgiving day.

Several weeks ago producer-director Dudley Nichols received a letter1 from Webb, bis first in many months. He was in North Africa and the letter said that maybe he could help capture Bizerte and Tunis by May 7 to coincide with the premiere of Nichols new 'motion picture the last picture on which George Webb worked before he Joined the army. Wen, yesterday May 7 Blurts and Tunis fell to American and British troops. And last night Dudley Nichols premiered in Cincinnati, that motion picture on which George Webb worked before he went to North Africa as a soldier. The picture "This Land Is Mine.

'Brian Donlevy has gone to work at last. Not that he hasnt been busy In Hollywood all these years, but until now he never really worked at his acting. It aU came natural to him. As a Caech Immigrant who comes to America in 1898 and rises to the worlds outstanding airplane builder la' 1948 in MGMs "America, Donlevy la finding things a lot different. A lot happens to him la those 45 years.

First off he had to learn 150 words of the Ckechoslovaklaa language. Then the physical work Scenes showing him shoveling Iron ere Into trucks, operating a steam shovel, shoveling coal Into steel furnaces, and operating an overhead crane. And then there was wardrobe. He hss 57 changes of costume la the. picture ranging from dirty overalls to a full dress suit; which meant days of trying on clothes and having them fitted.

Brian always told me acting war a cinch and laughed at other actors who found the thes-plaa chore a painstaking Job. But Mans changed his mind. There's a typical Hollywood 1 the story behind the casting of II SCIIEEN snort Kippen as Joseph Stalin In "Mission to Moscow. Twenty-actors tested for the role one "CABIN IN THE "DR. GILLESPIE'S DOREEN HAYWARD and Billy Gilbert rehearse dance routine for Gypsy Baron" coming to Philharmonic auditorium on May 24 under aus-picas Civic light Opera association.

Season opens Monday with Garshwin's "Porgy Bass," starring Todd Duncan. tonights! MaNims BOLLYWOOD Oofr lift -Wa Sow Cqpfurod Jopfikml "BQXBIXfi OF PEARL RARBOW Mi OF MUKBOr NOW! WARNERS HOUYWOOO DOWNTOWN WRTBN wy '74 SCOOP! Japaasi Picture si lomUag ef Pearl Harber' and Capture of Corrogidorl OFSOCKOENTERfflM Sfii (NIMtllP) IN HII HiJT SHAT SITITtlT tHSUtf Imd wares 'LAUGH YODI I Bam tain wcmraL 1BTB BIDES AWAY' UNI IAIIINHI isi eoasoN- JIgumw tmmrnwm mi moid Tonight STAGE GERTRUDE NIESEN ea stag. CINDERELLA SWINGS IT" os Orpkaum across. KEN MURRAY'S "HACK. OUTS OF 1743" st El Cap-Her "LIFE WITH FATHER" st liltmeru.

"HEY, ROOKIE" at Islaico. N. I. G.s "THRILLS OF 41 at Florsutiss Gardssa. "LET FREEDOM SWING" st Earl Carroll'i, "BIG TIME" at Mayas.

"HARLEM IN HOLLYWOOD" at tka Hollywood Caalso. "SHE LOST IT IM CAM-PECHE" at Mmariw MUSICAL COMEDY ot Fat-lias. MUSICAL COMEDY ot bask. la SKY" asd NEW ASSISTANT st Lam's Stats, Ckissfs, Csrtksy, Rivoli. "HENRY ALDRICH GETS GLAMOUR" at Powatowa sly.

"IT AINT HAY" st Hollywood, Dowotowo Paramount. "HI, BUDDY" ot Downtowa osly. "EDGE OF DARKNESS" at Warasn' Hollywood, Dows-. tows sad Wiltsra. "THE DESPERADOES" asd "REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY" st Psatagos asd Hillitraat.

"JOURNEY INTO FEAR" at HawaiL "RUSSIANS AT WAR" aad "THE GREAT BEGIN-. NING" at Grand. father of twin girls. Jimmy la a bachelor, a teat pilot at Lock- heed in his spare time, and a with the ladies. killer diller Burke is volatile, talkative, a connoisseur of excellence.

Jimmy is lackadaisical, why-get-in-a-lather-about-lt While their attitudes cause disagreements, they feel it makes for mere balanced music. And apparently they are right. They have six mew song numbers la Bing Crosby's forthcoming "Dixie," nnother la "Lady la toe Dark," aad two current Mt songs, "Moonlight Becomes You" and Its Always Yen." OO (BIAS ESSMNX JOHNSON'S BOUT-WOOD SrOTUGHT BVEET NIGHT MONBAT THBOVGH TB1BST SBCS r. OWUSHOWSi ml Flyaa. Ah StorUM la EDGE OF DARKNESS -fcFORUM 1 'MW V.

rue la n. mm GORILLA MAN KfcSometMng SflOUt AOOUl 1 wllVERLY fSi MM WIUNIM AIR porci irraicii-eceTT-wAvsK PITTSBURGH CHlltilgtiB PL cAtT faoais 1 CH PmMu. LA. SM4 BmhlH I before Kippen arse selected. Although born In Russia, he previously had played but one Russian character.

That was in Booth Tarkingtons play, Pol-dekin," In which be portrayed Leon Trotsky, the mortal enemy of Joseph Stalin! In the same film Peter Goo Chine, a Chinese actor fkom the New. Yb fork stage. plays the role of Japanese Ambassador Shlgemitsu. Asked how he kept his Jap medals so shiny, the Chinaman every hour take spit on them." see Its sics to see Moate Blue getting another break after all these yean. In the 20s he wne ese of the biggest stnrs In Hollywood.

Then he practically disappeared from the screes. He Oh, off and lost most of his money, but ever any sf his enthusiasm for the screen. Lately his face has begun to appear again and la "Edge of Darkness" be once more receives effldal billing as a member of the cast. Blue, first "discovered" while digging ditehee on a studio lot; docs sot expect stardom again. "Its a to live in the past," he says.

"I have fins memories. Im content now to work and let someone else have the spotlight." Of all the wngwriting teams la Hollywood, Johnay Burks and Jimmy Van Heusen are the beet, aad strangest, combination. If ever taro people called for the noun "antithesis" Burke and 'Van Heusen are it They see eye to eye on nothing except their music, and then only upon When RKO hired them recently they asked for an office with a piano for allnigjit use. Their explanation was that they argue all day and work all Burks Is married and the LOU COSTELLO fries to crash wsnk hotel in "It Aint Hey" at the two Faramoimts. Actress hfifklofl IIBCIUOg With the completion of Monograms "Melody Pa rade," Mary Beth Hughes now has a backlog of five unreleased pictures in which she played leading roles.

The others are "Oxbow Incident," with Henry Fonda; "Good Morning; Judge," with Dennis OKeefe; "Trombone From Heaven," with Leon Zkrol, and "Never a Dull Moment," with the Bits brothers. ATE SHOWS 7, ABBOTTw DMommotrs IN 7HS ETHEL WATERS ROCHESTER wm lEMRORKE ASSISTANT" Stcwu ntoufab MAY 13th i A in t- IS I i IS ES IS TBE HUMAN COMEDr CARTHAY RITZ liitil Statu Ulisstiir- JOSEPH E. DAVIES WARNERS SAROYJUTS CHINESI An inspiration to alll HUSSIAKS AT LOEWS WAR ALU 1 "TNI GREAT BEGINNING" If GRAND sSfrss I MOa a gUno Cwl TAKES YOU TO THI ACTUAL IATTLI FRONT TO WATCH HISTORY IN THI MAKING! VIVID EXCITING AEALI ALSO "THI GREAT BEGINNING! 1 l--.