The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 23

SECTION 1 THK COURIER.JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1939. 23 Father Sues Rogers, Astaire Kick Hollywood 10 Co-eds Kissed In Five Minules Monkey Business Big Business For Movie MakerSome Day Over Custody castles. The producers failed to dramatize the story, but the danc Ned Sparks Would Insure Sour Look Seeks Policy Against Smiling Photo Pair Defy Old Film Tradition Of Actress, 13 Hollywood, April 13 OP) Louis ing of the pair and the spirit Weiss, who made his money mak of yesterday's music prove a cap ing motion picture serials, buys dem terpsichorean tactics gives the lie to such rumors. They apparently worked in perfect- harmony, and, if there is anything that requires a co-operative relationship it is the preparation of such numbers as theirs. Some Team Splits.

By way of jogging your mem San Francisco, April 13 OP) Where it will end nobody knows, but Marshall Blum, of San Francisco State College, claimed the co-ed kissinf champion ship today forr girls kissed in five minutes. After "scooting around' at a dance, he said: "I had to work so fast I think I kissed a teacher by mistake." Seeks to Recover Control From Aunt won't be until 600 more monkeys, which he had to assure the Indian Government would not be used for rejuvenation purposes, arrive to completely cover his island. This monkey business is still a hofbby with him and will be, he'll tell you, "until I start making some money." Hollywood, April 13 OP) Rogers and Astaire may kick tivating combination. Rejected New Contract. Astaire refused to sign a new contract with R.K.O.

after completing this film. He announced he wanted more time to himself, didn't want to be bound by a monkeys by the hundreds to be exact, by the five hundred and six hundred. Monkeys got to be a hobby with Weiss a few years ago, and he Hollywood tradition in an effec tive EDot. ory on this subject, Wheeler and They have, as you probably By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN.

Hollywood, April 13 (U.R Ned Woolsey found no takers when know, split up. The rule is that term contract, expected to make they split up, so they went back together. Wallace Beery and acquires them like men collect stamps. He finally got so many Detroit, April 13 (JP) George W. Stillwagon, Ford plant steel worker, filed suit today in an attempt to recover custody of his 13-year-old daughter, who has become a child movie actress.

The daughter, formerly known members of a film team seldom are worth a dime as individual performers. So many have gone Raymond Hatton lost ground that Mrs. Weiss said, "What is this, after their team days ended; their separate ways, only to re a picture here and there as the mood and subject matter pleases him. Ginger, meanwhile, continues at R.K.O. and, so far as this investigator could determine from gret the step, that it is a wonder Beery, eventually recovered Nothing has happened (cine- the red-haired Ginger and the as Beverly Jane Stillwagon, but matically!) to Stan Laurel since slick-stepping Fred would- take he quit Babe Hardy.

a chance. a chat, she is not unhappy over the prospect of a new leading a zoo? Get them out of here." Weiss bought 500 rhesus monkeys at one swell whoop, combined with his original pets and started Monkey Island. His island here swarms with the little fellows, fighting for onions and carrots and peanuts tossed by children of all ages. Weiss isn't fully happy. He The last picture you may ever see them in together is "The man in every picture.

There have been hints of pro A notable exception to the rule comes to mind: Nelson Eddy ana Jeanette MacDonald have been co-starred in half a dozen singies, yet both recently have made fine Story of the Castles," acclaimed Sparks today applied to Lloyd's ct London for an insurance policy, calling for payment of $10,000 in case any photograph ever appears in print showing him smiling. He told Lloyd's agent here that publication of such a picture would do irreparable damage to his reputation as the premier sourpuss of And all we've got to say is that Lloyd's will be taking a big chance of losing $10,000 if they do business with the grim-faced Sparks- We were talking to him after he filed his application and he was telling how he once went to London, Grim At Memory. "And I ordered oyster stew," he fessional jealousy between the at a recent preview with en two dancers, yet the financial and artistic success of their tan thusiasm despite' its too faithful adherence to the narrative of the individual pictures. billed as "Linda Ware," was given in guardianship to her aunt, Mrs. Anna Catherine Stillwagon, by a Hollywood judge last October.

At the guardianship hearing, Charles R. Rogers, producer, said he wanted to put the child under a $150 weekly contract with the prospect of paying her $1,200 a week within seven years. The judge ordered half of her earnings to go into a trust fund. Stillwagon's petition charged that the child had been taken to Hollywood without his knowledge or consent. "I am not interested in getting control of her earnings myself," Stillwagon said.

"I only want to "Dodge City" Hero Collegian Eats 5 White Mice In Mayonnaise Sports Announcer Divorced. Cleveland, April 13 OP) Mrs. Amelia Manning, wife of Tom Manning, widely known Cleveland radio sports announcer, has been granted a divorce. laid. And it came up to my room in the Savoy in a big silver Champaign, 111., April 13 (U.R) Goldfish gulpers, take a back seat! Now comes John Poppel prevent her having the same fate Today and Saturday Loretta Young.

Richard Greene "KENTUCKY" riaa Tba Jon Family, In "Down On rh Farm" as Jackie Coogan when she grows up." The petition asks that Still reiter of Wheaton, 111., University of Illinois freshman, who can tell his grandchildren he ate five baby white mice with lettuce. bowl and when I took off the lid, there was about a quart of imported bill-posting paste, with six vest buttons clinking around on the bottom." The memory of it made Sparks grin for the first time in twenty-six years, he claimed and if we'd had a candid camera with us we could have spiked that insurance deal with one quick click. The business of movie performers applying for trick insurance policies is an old gag. Miss Dietrich has insurance on her legs. wagon be named guardian.

It asked also that the child's earnings be put into a trust fund. John prepared his esophagus with cottage cheese and pineapple Lat Day Adult 16s juice, dunked the mice in mayon 1. A 1 ill Uv hi JV ft I Record Ret. 13 (P)The New York-Bermuda New York, April liaise and wrapped them in lettuce and downed them. I.ITTI.K MISS MARKER" I THK RIVER" SATURDAY ONE DAY GENE AUTRY 'Rhtthm In th Saddle" For that he collected a $10 bet.

"It was a cinch," he exclaimed, flying boat Atlantic Clipper flew from New York to Bermuda today with twenty-five passengers in three hours and fifty-three minutes a new record. Miss MacDonald has a policy on Plan "Secret or ft Nure" "although the tails tickled a little-' her voice. Miss Pitts has one on 'ws ttP' ulSK her hands. Miss Gypsy Rose Lee cogitated getting one on herself, in toto. against scars, but her HOLD YOUR SIDES WATCH YOUR it's delirious: VMD WAT MU! studio made her desist.

Was Boy Crooner. Sparks said he didn't think anybody ever had sought insurance against smiles. i -v i 'V. 1 HEART. THE FUNNIEST FAMILY YOU BVBR MET.

WITH A LAUQH. A CRY GOES BUNDf "Nobody else even thought about not smiline." he said. "I didn't I A Yd AND A DEEP DOWN THRILL BOBBY If iM I 7 Li LEO CARRILLO HENRY ARM ETTA 1 "Vll. A III LEE PATRICK mnd SUCKER i i Errol Flvnn is the hero of "Dodge Warner Brothers Ill fX w- -aw i ft film tale of the wild and woolly days of that junction-town, before the turn of the century. A technicolor production, the film is current at The Mary Anderson.

i i FOrTT! RINGING TO THa SHE WON THE ACADEMY AWARD SCREEN THE SPIRIT AND PERSONIFICATION OF YOUTH' A- Adventure, heartbreaks and A' 1 V3 high hilarity In a atory 1 IL i V- 41 PLUS FEATURE HIT! "RISKY BUSINESS," with CEO. MURPHY locale new to the screen with a cast hand-picked for the parts they play. Melchior to Sing 'Lohengrin For Danish King and Queen New York, April 13 (JP) Lauritz Melchior, man mountain of the operatic stage and heroic tenor No. 1 of the Metropolitan Opera, is STARTS TODAY fet this wooden face by accident. It's been my trade mark and it's paid me well.

"Back in St. Thomas, Ontario, my home town, I was the Morton Downey of my time. It was a boy crooner. And in 1903 I crooned all through the gold camps at Dawson City and elsewhere in the far North. "And so I drifted into acting.

And it wasn't long, if I do say so myself, before I was of the best emotional juvenile actors in the business. 1912: No Job. No Money. "The trouble was that there' were plenty of emotional juvenile actors. There were too many.

When I worked I got $60 a week. Only mostly I didn't work. "So there I was in Canada about 1912, with no job and no money. I got a chance to bring a corpse down to New York in a baggage car. That was pretty glum work.

"So when I got to New York I went into conference with my-telf and I figured out this sour-puss act of mine. I figured that I could make the unemotional, bitter, cold individual pretty funny. There's one in every block. Everybody knows him. "i quite smiling and I began to growl.

I practiced up on all my friends. This was tough on them. "And then I got my chance. The new and ugly Ned Sparks went in the play, 'Little Miss It was an overnight sensation. There never had been a meaner-looking, gruffer cuss on the stage than me.

The folks ate it up. "I played that show for six weeks in places like Kansas City and St. Louis. It proved to me that a man has got to specialize. And I've been specializing ever since." Sparks has been scowling through one movie after another for the last decade, at a salary always in four figures, per week.

He's made a fortune glowering at the other performers. VTelcomm K. K. turning impresario on May 2 State of the Union. He admils It's a variant of the British Broadcasting Company set-up, but doesn't care at all.

"I would," says Melchior slowly, "tax every radio set In America $1 a year. Every twelve months each owner would have to buy a pretty dollar stamp and stick it to his machine. "This money would not go to the Federal Government, but would stay in the State of its origin. There are thirty-eight million sets; the more sets a State has, the more money it would get. The new role is to be in honor of Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark, now on an American visit Melchior is a Dance; indeed, the card which identifies the great Wagnerian singer's apartment bears the legend: "Singer to the Court of Denmark." Melchior has arranged a special performance of "Lohengrin" for the royal visitors.

He is not only singing the name role opposite Elisabeth Rethberg's Elsa; he has arranged all the detail, and even made himself financially respon sible to the tune of around "Each State would then maintain orchestras and operas in its principal cities. The opera would invariably be in English, the singers American, the works American, when possible. Performances could be broadcast on local stations for radio listeners. The best singers, well trained at home, would be used for international seasons in cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco." He would like to ask Frederick to conduct a part of the opera too, but although the Prince likes to do things like that on occasion, Melchior thinks the present visit tone official. With the close of his thirteenth and most successful American visit to date, the tenor, meanwhile, has a scheme for financing opera and symphony music in every WEST OF CHICAGO THERE WAS NO WEST OF DODGE CITY THERE WAS NO GOD! I Folks is like mules an ounce off kindness is jf A vyo'rth a pound of spite! 9 J) I 1 "'f slM w't1 tn 0 hi four-footed pal, Samson, sure proves his point as he cures every- I TV thing from a lover's quarrel to a depression in ix 1 -Wr(i the Missouri mule market with those twin rem- VtU 'PMftly and common sense.

Bob lead, an --X tf 1 all-star cast in a picture which tops "The Arkansas I ft ZP Tavder- not to mention "Ruggles of Red Gap" 1 JXr kU. rW worthy successor to America's beloved WUl Rogers. -n T.ir You'll get a kick out of me! MARCH OF TIME Samson, th only muk ever to fly I "THE MEDITERRANEAN .31 livia DeHAVILLAMD ANN SHERIDAN echnicolor; with ICOO't tlUCI CAIOT FRANK McHUOH ALAN MALI VICTOI JORT JOHN llTIl HINRY TRAVIRS WM. LUNDIGAN I SEE iMHg traia-M-IIra baldl fjSEE Ca iady SoltMi MR.MOTO in MOW i ii ri; NOW DANGER ISLAND.