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TITE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1940 lyrone Power Plans To Return lo Cincinnati For World Premiere In December Is 1 rt I fS hVsu rv fo. (b 'V' 11 A 1 i iFormer Usher And Debutante I From Queen City Make Headlines In Hollywood Power Follows In Fairbanlcs's Footsteps, And Leila Ernst Manages To Write Own Ticket. BY JOHN S. TIllKSDKl.U win. imriTrn to tiii imji nm.

HOLLYWOOD, AUGUST 31. CINCINNATI'S Tyrone Tower Is presently before the cameras at Twentieth Century-Fox In "The Californian," which Is probably his toughest screen role to date. It's tough, not because the entire story hangs on the swashbuckling verve that Ty can dish up so easily, but because It Is a remake of "The Mark of Zorro," which was one of the lata Doug Falrbanks's most successful films. Power realizes the Job he's got to do on this one. Vn i BEING GROOMED FOR STARDOM is Uila Ern.t.

nbove, Cincinnati drbutanle of two ycnr back. Left to right, the tudio (nmernnmn has snapped Miss Ernst at work and at play. She uses the telephone in her forthcoming comedy, "Henry and Dizzy," an Aldrith family number. Skating; and tennis warm her tootsies so that the publicity man requires her to pose as she cools them before an open window. h( vy ffctched from Broadway to Holly' wood.

We were sitting In a Paramount executive office when Leila put in her first appearance In Holly wood several months ago. The ex- icutlve started rlfiht off by suggesting that perhaps Leila Ernst wasn't a good enough name for a movie stnr. At this Leila exploded "Nuts," she yelled, jumping up, what do you want to call me--Lovey Honeybee? Or maybe" Just a minute, said the man behind the polished mahogany "Right now we won't decide." He mopped his brow as Leila accepted our invitation to have her first look at her own studio. I-iella spotted a bicycle and sug Rested that your correspondent; pump her about the lot on "Not very dignified," she "but we'll cover the ground faster." Whereupon we (puff) visited all the sound stages In quick succession. Such genuine enthusiasm we have never beheld.

No blase, phony attitude with this girl. She was Impressed with the moviemaker's magic. "Gowh," she shouted, "Isn't this exciting?" Leila made her debut In Cincinnati In 1938 and was educated In Europe. But she passes off the rltzy European schools, saying, "I'd probably been better off In a school right hera at home." Just now this blue-eyed stick of dyamita with the honey-colored hair is pbying wummer stock in the New England straw hat circuit. Be fore leaving he completed her first picture, "Henry and Dizzy," In which she co-stars with Jackie Cooper.

Her director on that picture, Ted Reed, says Leila has more Inherent talent than any other young actress he has seen In Holly wood for 10 years. The studio is already planning her next picture. But before ahe does another chore before the cameras she'll open in Now Yoik early In September In Rogers's and Hart's new musical, Pal staged by George Ab bott. Leila was uneasy about Holly wood and Its ways her first several 4. jiK TYRONE POWER is shown at the right as he appears in his latest picture, to be premiered here in December.

The gentleman with him is John S. Truesdell, who now covers Vine Street in Hollywood for The Enquirer. Truesdell got the picture of the Orpheum staff from Ty. The artist has encircled the star so you'll know how he used to look. We'd be interested to learn the names and current occupations of Power's colleagues in the photograph.

Movie Timetable GRAND. 10:18 12:18 2:13 4:10 6:01 tM 10:01 AI.HF.R. 11 1:11 3:32 7:44 tM tl.AI E. 10:14 2:13 4:10 4:07 10:01 CAPITOL. 10:33 3:03 1:3 t.ti LYRIC.

11:47 1:14 4:00 10:02 KEITH'S. 10:42 11:35 2:28 4:21 4:14 It 8H1 BURT. 11 12:44 2:28 4:22 8:10 10:04 Thru are today's approximate tarttnf UmM for fratiiirt ahnwlni la downtown thratore, Bros, gave Ann Sheridan. Only Paramount will call her "The Blonde Fireball." Leila isn't taking all this success too big. With uaual vitality and lack of dignity, she merely yells, "Man am I lucky!" MICKEY'S STUNTS.

During a luncheon Mickey Rooney was called upon to entertain, and pulled a new one from his bag of tricks. After huddling In a corner for a moment with Sidney Miller, his song-writing partner, he came up with three new Impersonations. followed by a "Day at a Tennis Match," and "A Day at a Baseball Game." POP-EYED with surprise it Rosalind Russell when Brian Aherne plants a kiss on her cheek in "Hired Wife." The reason for the astonishment will be made clear Friday at the Albee. Robert Benchley and Virginia Bruce will further the process of I I "You he said as we chat ted In tils dressing room between shots, "I've been trying to get the studio to preview one of my pictures In Cincinnati for a long time, but there was always some reason why It couldn't be done. But on this picture I've had -my way.

I'll be back In Cincinnati for the world premiere In the latter part of December." He grinned. "I hope they like It back there." The trip to Cincinnati will be a family Junket with his wife, Anna-bella, and his mother. There Is a possibility that his grandmother, Mrs. Adelaide Reaume, and Ty's uncle, Charles Reaume, will be on th trip as well. Power hasn't been around his home town for about three years and is looking forward to seeing all his friends and mooning around his old hangouts near the family home at 2112 Fulton Avenue.

"There's one fellow I don't want to mine whila I'm back. I saw him on my last trip three years ago. I'd gone with tha Kox exchange manager to the Palace Theater to sea an advance showing of one or two pictures. After it was over, a head popped out of ths projection booth and yelled, 'Hey, kid, fetch ma up some lea water and make it Tha projcctlonlat was tht same fellow I used to tote, gallons of water to when I was ushering at the Orpheum. He told me that every time he screened a picture I was In ha half expected me to bounce off tha screen and lug Ice water up to his projection booth." Kdltnr's note; Man's name Is Max Tull.) Another chore that Ty used to do at the Orpheum provided him during his last visit to Cincinnati with his biggest thrill.

"You don't know what it means lo an usher to work all day and then, when tha bill changes, have to stay after the last show and help change the marquee. Well, going down to tha Orpheum and seeing that marquee changed with my name going up in lights was thu blccest kick I've ever hnd. Not because It was my name that the bulba were spelling, but there was a marquee being changed and I didn't have to do it!" Tvrone and his wife, Annabella, are easily the best-looking couple In Hollywood, but their night club annearances are not irequeni Among their good friends are the Jack Bennys, the Bob Taylors, and others in the saner social set. Ty has only two superstitions. He'il never close his dressing room rlnnr.

and whistlim? on the set drives him batty "a bad ha aavi. His favorite food Is the avocado, which he prefers sliced In half and floating in French dressing. If ha wasn't an actor, he believes ha would be a writer "Writers," he tells you with high Inaccuracy, "lead a wonderful Cincinnati Fireball Paramount executives are doing raves over the Cincinnati debbie, Leila Ernst. "She has everything It takes to maka screen star," they tell you. "Beauty, ability, personality, but above all vitality." Leila's personality Is a cross between Carole Lombard and a stick of dynamite.

When something pleases her, aha yells, but she gives out a groan when she's displeased. Her career began when aha waa signed by George Abbott for his Broadway stage show, "Too Many Girls." As Abbott puts it, Para- mount's signing- of this girl is just another proof of his amazing eye for picking winners. But thats not the way Leila told it to us. She had been trying to get an audition with Abbott for months, and it couldn't be arranged. So with typical gusto, Leila flung herself into the theater where the Great Glorifier" was holding a dence audition.

Back In the winga she found a stage carpenter who admitted that he beat tha ivories occasionally and could accompany From Texas." Tuesday, "Till Meet Again." Wednesday, "Andy Hardy Meets PARAMOUNT; continuous from I P. M. (DAILY) 'MARYLAND' (In Color) Brenda JOYCE Waller BRENNAN SSa and 39c 33c to 1 P. M. ErrolCJixnn 33c to 1 P.

M. TOCETMEI i (KOI WilHam POWELL- MyrnaLOYJ LOVE YOU AGAIN-SECOND HOWL WEEK! lATaa If Mei. Smoking 4th Week! Ml JJe to 1 I 33c to SECOND HOWL WEEK Loretla MeltjrH YOUNG DOUGLAS ''lie Stayed For Breakfast" 2nd Week! vn car C7t6ltli? A raala at Uaftiler! Dnable BUI I Johnnr Mack Brown. "SON or ROARING DAN" ant "Sll-IIDE LtOION," TtilUa CarmlaaH TODAY AND TOMORROW! Etwanl O. RoMaana Ann Rather BROTHER ORCHID." TOD AT AND TOMORROW! Jark Reanr and PhR Harrla la "BUCK BEN NX RIDES AGAIN." Amerlcus Today and tomorrow, "Private Affairs." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Plnocchio." Avon Today, "Our Town" and "Lone Wolf Meets a Lady." Tuesday through Thursday, "Twenty- One Days Together" and "Hot Steel." Bond Today and tomorrow, "Sporting Blood." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." C'lovernook Today and tomor row, "Mortal Storm." Tuesday and Wednesday, "House Across the Bay," and "Eagle and the Hawk." Elmwood Today and tomorrow, "Typhoon." Tuesday, "Biscuit Eater." Falrvlew Today and tomorrow, "Brother Orchid," and "Gambling On tha High Seas." Family Today, through Wednesday, "Son of Roaring Dan" and "Suicide Legion." Forest Today and tomorrow, "Four Sons" and "Sporting Blood." Tuesday through Thursday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Gifts Today and tomorrow, "Buck Benny Rides Again." Tues day, "Angel From Texas and "Her-itagt Of The Desert." weeks in town but as soon as Day at Hollywood Park" was FOREST l)m Amrih Hiifiil llvlrli TOUR SONS" IVUiinwn O'nulllvnn Hulwrl unt "SPOUTING BLOOD" Hollywood Don Amichi "FOUR SONS" 1nrrl Vlrrlnln lrur "FLIGHT ANGELS" MADISON XTm Dos ftmtchs "FOUR SONS" nd "SAINT TtKtS OVtR" NORDLAND Dos Amittil "FOUR SONS" 2 liunl-Hirdy "SAPS AT SEA" i jl M4TINF.F.

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"ANGEL FROM TEXAS" "SANDY IS A LADY" TAKH AWARDS Miw. and Tora. SS UPTOWN FA1RV1EW j. Vine MfMiiiaa I'Tora-w aiwr Alr-tonilllHiwil Hq. a.

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RlblMr S. Krwla PLAZA NOIUVlMllt hope "Ghost Breakers" "Tha Smaon'l Graadnt Comfdy rbillw" EVANSTON Dana aad Monlgomrry rll'SAV AND miD." Jnan Crawfordl uvnr nanir hvi HVItr. PARK Mt. til US. imi.

a n. 'Andy Hardy Meets Debutanti' Mlrkry Rnonry Judy (larland ANDALUS ST. RKRNARII l'AKKla "GHOST BREAKERS" HOB IKII'IC riRST SHOW P. M. UMT 3136 REAPING TOW I 1 1 fli sr i I I VI mother, Mrs.

Frederick S. Ernst, arrived, Leila decided that Hollywood was home. Shortly after that she began selling Southern California to her friends so fervently that the Chamber of Commerce realized that they had a super-salesman without porfolio. And she's a great night clubber. Likes to make four or five of the hot wpots every night, usually with a dlfferrnt escort.

If the studio's present plans go through they Intend to invest a lot of money In Leila and give her the name kind of build-up that. Warner Coming Soon AI.HKK "IllrrS Ulfc" Hlnral arlNn Alwrnf Iralnla Hruf, Kia linil Kuanrll. KlarU Frldny. "lhinr. tllrl, lUnMi.

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SUrtt Krlttay. IA Klf! "lAtut llurlion," with Knnalil (iilman, nt "Th Awful Trulh," wllh (ry (Iritnl, Irn Itnnnr. NlarU Thimdiy. DANCING TROUBLES. The wests and th woes of a troupe of dancing girls who go broke, and the sensational corns-back of two members of ths group, provide both poignant and amusing- situations In RKO Radio's "Dance, Girl, Dance," co-starring Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball.

i II II) II a llm Anirrlt Nrlaan Eddy "FOUR SONS" AMERICUS NOKTHNIDR AN HMJ.T "PRIVATE AFFAIRS" IMPERIAL V. Mr Mir km Kdw. (I. RttblitKon "BROTHER ORCHID" ROYAL 70S VINE TVKONK "JOHNNY APOLLO" HM, I'KANK CRAVKM "OUR TOWN" Alio 'PnnaM niirk" I arloow linmthy Ijimnur Koorrt I'rrilon "TYPHOON" It Hl( Hlla A inr IA till I S. rvnhhv Jordan ln (larrey OF THE CITY" Billy 1 rornfll Hlrkmaa "THE BISCUIT EATER" ROSELAWIJ Hn Rr.AniNO road Rrltallfloally Alr ondlllanf Pnuble l-'raliiivi Merla Mtonm la "OVER THE MOON" and "Ok Johnny, How am I aa lva" Mai.

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I-F1KK. fARKIMI CL0VERN00K NrK C0MFOTABI.T TOOMED Today Mkt ljabar Day "THE MORTAL STORM" Marjartt Sullivan Jamra SUwart Nfw 4'arlooa Brrlal Mallar I-abor lay, ani. (lloaa and MaiwH. Alr-I ondlllnaad DoS. Kalrbanki.

Jr. MadrMn Carrail -SAFARI" JACKSON 4AIS yrntrm Marrb Time Dm Amrrhr Ahn far Ma "FOUR SONS" IDLE HOUR CARTHACiR Alr-( ondltionr "Three Cheers For The Irish" Frlnrllla laii rimnla Mariaa niMPl.KTC IkHOW Ranrralt r. m. I Mnatf-F. I Obla, aa jgffiyjg Hollywood Today, "Four Sons" and "Flight Angels." Tomorrow through Wednesday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Hyde Park Today and tomor row, "Andy Hardy Meets Debu tante." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Four Sons." Idle Hour Today, "Three Cheers For the Irish." Tomorrow and Tuesday, "Virginia City." Imperial Today and tomorrow, "Brother Orchid." Tuesday, "Our Town." Jackson Today and tomorrow "Four Sons." Tuesday and Wednes day, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Madison Today and tomorrow, "Four Sons" and 'The Saint Takes Over." Tuesday through Thursday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Marlemont Today and tomorrow, "Our Town." Tuelday, "Earth-bound." Mount Lookout Today and tomorrow, "Four Sons." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Nordland Today and tomorrow, "Four Sons" and "Saps at Tuesday through Thursday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Oakley Today, "One Million B.

Tomorrow and Tuesday, "Satur day's Children." Orpheum Today and tomorrow, "Brother Orchid." Tuesday through Thursday, "The Women." Paramount Today and tomor row, 'Maryland." Tuesday through Thursday, "Wake Up And Live." Park (Xorthslde) Today and to morrow, "Four Sons." Tuesday, "Twenty Mule Team." Wednesday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Ptaxa, (Norwood) Today and tomorrow, "Ghost Breakers." Tues day and Wednesday, "The Women." Rlalto. Today, "Boys of the Streets" and "Biscuit Eater." Roselawn Today and tomorrow, "Over the Moon," and "Oh Johnny." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Brother Orchid." Royal Today and tomorrow, "Johnny Apollo." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Kentucky." Sllvertone- (SUverton) Today and tomorrow, "Our Town." Tuesday and Wednesday, "The Morta Storm." Uptown Today and tomorrow, "Brother Orchid," and "Gambling On the High Seas." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Our Town," and "Prairie Law." Westwood Today and tomorrow, "Sporting Blood." Tuesday and Wednesday, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." Woodlawn Today and tomorrow, Sandy Is A Lady" and "Angel CTRlafD AIR-CONDITlOfiED COO ati 15c at All Ttmea "OUR TOWN" William HOLDEN Fay BAINTER flU 1111. BHI.linU HUIH- JOAV ROBERT MARflAERT CRAWFORD YOUNG SULLIVAN VLUa fOKIB CABXOOM f. vf jlTajllffrii Mr iTtliataananaaaaaaaaaaBaaaaananaaaaaaaaMMaa Vt her for her alnging audition. But did Mr.

Abbott want it just now 7 "Oh, yes," Leila assured him. "Right after this next dance. When tha dance was over, the nltro-glycerin nifty rushed onto the stage and began warbling to the surprised Abbott, slouched in a seat In the darkened theater. "Walt a minute!" he yelled. "Tou're not dancing!" "No," yelled Leila right back, "but, man am I singing!" "Yeah?" said the puazled producer.

"Well, go ahead." And that's ths way Leila Ernst Uimped Into a top spot in the New York musical and wa Duaslaa Falrbanka, Jr Joaa Rrnnrtt "GREEN HELL" Jnhii Hon art, Alb Hair, C..