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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 11

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All THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Surday September 3 1950 GRANDMOTHER RULES Texan Says Child Prodigy Doesn't- Want 'Yes' Alen I Swanson Takes Spotlight As Movie Queens Fade By Virginia MatePhpmon tsurants and cafes in the towril tele visited She Sells Glamor 'Tara you take it easy on the expense accoimt?" Gloria was ad wised be came hack with the blast: "LookTrn selling glamor And I can't sell it in some bettnery! The studio thought it Over and agreed with Gloria She was out on Sunset blvd the other on a ladder and dusting off a Sunset Boulevard sign while a photographer theked his In the midst of It all her daughter Gloria droil up and quipped: 'Twat twoblocks away but knew it was mother Only mother would do something like this" By Simon Brambles MA Start Correspondent that one person doesn't make a career even If the younger ones think so It's teamwork And when the camera stops there's still a lot of work to do" Reports on Junket The cryirg towel kids in Hollywood hive been- 'Wailing that "Sunset Boulevard" willodo horrible things to Hollywood But Clone said she didn't hear a single word of criticism along that line on her king junket around the nation The only criticism at all came at first from Paramount Someone decided Gloria was spending too much money by newspaper reporters And critics to lunch and dinner NV1111 ber at the highest priced res- ---t L- -st -at Tr a I a HOLLYWOOD Dan Gunn Jr a Texas millionaire who's plunging a fortune to make a movie tar out of his 9-year-old daughter Judy said Saturday his headache is saying 'no" to Hollywood "yes" men Judy according to -ber coaches is one of those almost extinct Child ii1E'444A--W' junket with a party' 'for "a job that places Gloria in the ranks of great showmen" There was a big gooey cake with Gloria a name on it and all the publicity boys were there along with agent Helen Ains- worth and Bill Holden- her CO- star in the pictUre Greets "Lover Gloria greeted him with 'Hello Lover calls him that in the picture-iand a kissr-Norman Siegel head of the publicity department preliented Gloria with a gold card reading: "First Honorary Member of the Paramount Publicity Department and then said: As long as there Ire stars Iike Gloria Swanson the screen will never lose its glamor" The press agents sighed "Amen" IGloria's reply should be In-chided in a text book for movie stars She said: "I've decided as Fire grown up best" she grinned You get to bat sooner" 'Gunn turned Own the big studios who wanted to make another Shirley Temple out of Judy He's splurging his own sawmill money to start her out in a short 'Fantasy for Judy" And now hes combing the "yes" men out of his crew-cut Spends Own Money "They all wanta ride to fame on this child's shoulders" he said "Everybody wants me to sell her to them They get so greedy they're plumb outta their minds You have to beat 'em off with a bat When ah talk about takire her back home for school they get to frothin' at the mouth like mad dogs 'Every toenail on Judy belongs to me and it's the day ah die The only reason ah'm ptittin' her in this movie is because ah feel eh have to share her gift with the American people "Ah'm not signia with any high powered studio Ahm signin her up to her daddy: And she CAll live a normal life with her Mothah's care" It happinuffi a "You' Oughta- bear her play the piano ma'am" Gunn says reverently 'It'd make tears roll down your cheeks She's better'n Horowitz It's a gift she was born with She's only been Ing since she was six" likes Baseball It Judy doesn't look much like a prodigy She's a peppy little pixie with big brown eyes and eyelashes like black silk awn-- ings Next to pounding out Chopin she'd- rather eat water melon and play baseball in the streets back home in Woodville "Ab like to play hind--catcher ri o- i ill 11()Ilyv natt Only young Joe Gillis knew the whole wild tory of Ek86 Sunset Zoulevardand only he could tell it! Its one of the mostEXTRAORDN ARY 4- A I pictures ever filmed! sti'd big --it's pictures that have frown Gloria Swanaon flips it out am the faded eilent movie tpieen "Sunset Boulevard The picture is riot the story of Gloria 's hee but that one line pops up to gum up any argu- merits that Gloria Swanson has ever been washed up elespite a nine-ytar absence from mole make-up Clones still than ever The engravers can start putting her name on that 015e8r 1 Norma Desmond the neurotic doll Clone plays in 'Sunset Boulevard" tries for a film comeback but fails That's the way Charley Brackett and Billy- Wilder wrote the script Vtritee Own Script But now that the movie La being released Gloria is writing her own script and a lot of junior miss movie queens are being pushed into lobby popcorn machines while the 51-year-old twice-a-grandmother star steps Into the spotlight Back from a punishing three month 30-city tour as advance agent for "Sunset Boulevard" Gloria confided to rne that she has 10 film think I should do a comedy that 'like Bill Boyd she's going into the merchandise field Artist at Outdraoing The thousand fans turned out when they gave he the key to the city of Oakland on the city hall steps 'It was terrific" a Far-amount preas agent whispered The Paratnount publicity department was celebrating Gloria's return from the long STATE Ine Gloria Swanson's still bigger than ever and 'the engravers tan start putting her name on that Oscar say tiolirnood experts Tipplogy am Itglie MHOS' irP HOIStItatti A tnt ZsNT 1111 WHAT MADE THEM Tills IP IP 0 "'N 0 0011 TV vs Movies Study Relieves Growing Alarm in Filmdom 0 a reconversion once the novelty of Ate medium has worn off The Vancouver ta CI Daily Province editor said that al though there was no TV pri3blem there he did not see how spectators could get the kick out of a comedy film over the air as in a movie theater where laughter Is contagious Poplin said that he was highly pleased with his survey He a said that It Indicated that the TV bugaboo was nothing for a Hollywood producer to be the box office slump will be cured by good pictures 41744 Jlerift 0 1 114 7A I 7 701 3 0 glamor people have nothing to worry about The editors told Popkin that if the movie people are alarmed over sagging box office receipts it is their own fault' "Make good pictures" say the editors and audiences will fill the theaters "Keep pounding away at the same old familiar themes and the paying public will stay home and lounge around in front of a television set" luey's oodi too otivete i'lf Veloit "4 ::111 to 141I WI Ali iggi fig -I iApP2v-06 04c141 too cfi- At Snifillfflitalfil LN1 A FOLLY WOOD STORY I By James Padgitt HOLLYWOOD Harry Pop- 1 1 1cin the head of Cardinal Pic- 1 'tures which released the Ronald Colman giggle-getter "Champagne for Caesar" and the Edmond O'Brien chiller 0 conducted a one-man survey of the television-va-movies controversy and has coins up with the answers The movie company head had his executive assistant Ralph Pollock write 500 movie and entertainment editors throughout the nation to get their observations of whether TV will replace the flickers or what Consensus of Letters EC 11-023 romel4 Singing Blue IR Gloria SWANSON liam HOLDEN FA: 0Ist 100 0113 1 33t dtottfT11 A tdCt: tle 0 orio I (1 i --Ni't 4 1 tai la i I 'CY 401 1 CM VON MOHO Indianapolis editors were emphatic in saying that exhibitors there have lost the art of showmanship and are singing the blues California editors said that people who used to go to the movies a couple of times a week now go once a fortnight since the advent of television and the many TV stations in the big cities A Bridgeport Conn editor wrote that akhough the box office might be temporarily suffering from TV there will be 1 4 I "I Consensus of all that letter i aThing is that the movies will be with us for a long time to come and that the Hollywood 1 ft Nist (414111 DOOIS OtIN NOON LAST SOOVS V10 III tOt011 IP re-LOMiER 1 L1011411knei Ail CO3004111 54S Sun I lkitMS4 cr7711 Lelmog Aram( IP IIMICY a SON TwO CO" WM WW1 mat SI itokd Cad Delta Hooper Bat Keaton Aso Mos blimet trokir Fannon Prixkocatt by Charles Matt 'OPEN 2 CONTINUOUS SHobt2 (I 'EDDIERIACKEti 441A timuolIELto tt 1171 OND 11111111Sgeoei 0 0 0 0 00te vie 0 s0 0 77 o0 0 Iwo' e' NAVE 11 711 8 OHNIC01 RiAlvieZ MAW or Fee4e0 R44 Iotust WELT ESNEY CAtTOON ''PlUMITIVI PLUTO" ncsincowit rots410311( 1 1 I A1-04A NEWS PromKORE WAR REPORT CARTOON-NEWS--ADDED SHORTS ILISILVERS 1 I OM 1MM M0111 Assom i socA 04tA RIM Amos mo li I 1 WOW 1 imr-wilk NwIldt PAUL HENREID CANES Iktra clibalom PLUS ICOLOR SPOPITSCOPI CASTOON POWS PLUS TOM a JERRY in WITS IA 6nn I In Itatkelo411115T SHOW 81 VILAST S4OW 101 lla 10IY JACK oaseingbackthrottArsdkt- attelkthatioe trATAIMI Prfonn Nite 2 ierOist 20 7:15 end 9:11 Pit Ritt tHESNAY-3E4N GAIN 7 Prfonn N1tsly 7:15 end 9:11 AA vs Ytl FREE "Baby Puss" Also Sports Rea PARK- "Outboard Shenanigans" isle! 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