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Ann Andrews, Onetime Favorite in Stock Here, to Return in Comedy ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1912 yililiiiiiiiiiijwB mm mm imuuiii Gremlins Bother Dl Soldier's Autograph Given Film Star Parsons Gives 'My Sister Eileen Place on Her 0 Best' List Adrienne Ames Labors Long 4i others, too. "The Major and the Minor" was very amusing; "Jun 1- Sri MmTf i it Actress of Note Has Been in Many Hits ANN ANDREWS, who is featured as Grace George and C.

Aubrey Smith's socially-minded daughter in Guthrie McClin-tic's comedy success, "Spring Again," which will come to the Auditorium for one performance, Tuesday night, Dec. 8, and who was a Rochester stock favorite years ago at the old Lyceum, reversed the normal pattern of flight practiced by theater Usually a star is hailed on Broad-' way and promptly hustled off to the West Coast. But Miss Andrews made her initial success in Los Angeles, vhere she was born, came east in the part which brought her to attention and has stayed on Broadway since. "NJu," in which she acted the title role, opened in Los Angeles, and when Joseph Urban decided to produce it on Broadway, Miss Andrews was offered the same part in the New York company. Fresh from a Los Angeles dramatic school, she breathlessly accepted.

Scored in 'Koyal Family' That "Nju" ran but a scant 41 performances did not deter the determined Miss Andrews. She went from play to play, acting in such successes as "Seven Days Leave," "The Hottentot" "The Captive." It was the role of Julie Cavendish, said to bear more than a passing resemblance to Ethel Barrymoie, in the Kaufman-Ferber charade called "The Royal Family," which planted her firmly among the theatrical elite. For three olid seasons in New York and cm tour, Julie Cavendish was portrayed by the happy Miss Andrews. Another Kauf-man-Ferber hit, "Dinner at Eight," also found her prominent in its cast a3 shrewish Millicent Jordon, wife of that drama's hard-boiled tycoon. She played featured roles with Tallulah Bankhead in "Dark Victory," which was co-authored by Bertram Bloch, who performed a- similar collaboration fVinm on "Snrinir Atrain." More Offering Some Needed CAeer Grace George tries to bolster the spirits of Ann Andrews here in "Spring Again," due on Auditorium's stage Dec.

8. American and English Caricatures Of Each Other Deplored i mil i idyerb, One Avers By ERNEST FOSTER HOLLYWOOD (CP) Roysl Air Force fliers aren't fhe only ones who are innocent victims of the Gremlins. The Gremlins are those little unseen elf-like men who sneak onto planes headed for combat and whisper bad suggestions in the pilot's ear, tickle the gunner just as he has a bead on a target, cake the wings with ice, make perfect motors misfire and drill holes in the plane that look just like bullet holes. Comedian Eddie Bracken, a product of the superstition-strewn is one who believe. in Gremlins and has a lot of examples of the Hollywood skutl-uggcry of these little guys.

Bracken's now appearing Paramount' "The Miracle Morgan's Creek." "Gremlins are against actors," Bracken asserted, "because the business of canning actmg talent so it can be shown all over the w-orld is a form of magic that encroaches on their territory. So the little fellows Just raise heck with movie production." Take the case of lines of dialogue, he suggested. "Why, those Gremlins climb onto an actor's shoulder and start pounding at his head right in the middle of a scene, and, by Kolly, drive lines right out of a fellow's head. You don't think an actor would forget those lines otherwise, do you? "Sometimes they don't pound your head at all and you start off perfectly. But then a Gremlin catches hold of your tongue ar.d gives it a quick little twist.

Instead of saying "the's a sweet girl, you say 'she's a geet swirl. Now how else could that happen?" Robert Tavlor Gets MuStacllC Back Hollywood Robert Taylor's "off-agaln. on-again" mustache is on again for his role In "Cargo of Innocents." Since "Waterloo Bridge" and "Escape," when he first wore the lip adornment and it met with approval of both Barbara Stanwyck and his fans. Taylor has tried to keep the mustache in private life. But screen roles have cropped up at regular intervals to demand that he be clean shaven.

Hollywood It really happened! A soldier asked a film star if she wanted his autograph and she did. There were a lot of solders camped adjacent to the location site for Warner Brothers' -The Hard Way" company and most of them wanted autographs cf Joan Lelie. Ida Lupino and Dennis Morgan. "Wouldn't you my autograph. Miss Leslie? asked one of the-soldiers handing the actress a slip of paper on which was written "Carson Rykind." a -i I Sunday Dinner 2 I at its best! I OPENS AT NOON TODAY 11 GIBBS ST.

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N. Y. A LA CARTE II OrirKL Alo COMP LE DINNERS AT 8S Short Baa Kid. From Sibiay's Moin 8777 10 ft CLINTON gle Book" and "Bambl" were among the movies I most enjoyed, and I know I have the children's overwhelming vote on these two delightful fantasies, if you can call them that. CKairs on Sets Denote Rank HOLLYWOOD (UPJ In Hollywood a special set chair is second only to a gold star on a player's dressing-room door.

Only stars and featured players rate a canvas-back set chair on the sound stages. These chairs, with the actor's name printed on the back, mean the same on the set as top billing docs on a theater marquee. So many stars dream up all sorts of unique set chairs. Joan Crawford is the only actress in the film colony who has rockers placed on her chairs. Between scenes she rocks and listens to phonograph records.

Norma Shearer onco had a chair made six feet high, and she had to climb several steps to get to the top. But she had a seat that overlooked the entire set, DeMille Has Collection Producer Cecil B. DeMille has some 15 to 20 chairs, with his name on each of them, scattered about the stages. They are of various sizes and the one he uses depends on the amount of space near the camera. Richard Arlen and Chester Morris alternate as leading man for the William Tine-William Thomas unit at Paramount.

There is no professional jealousy between them, however. When the two recently were co-starred in the same picture, "Wrecking Crew." they solved the chair problem by having the names read "Richard Morris" and "Chester Arlen." Always Informal, Barbara Stanwyck has the nickname "Stany" on the backs of her preferred chairs. Vic Mature "The Genius" on his A fan in St. Petersburg, designed and sent his favorite, Jean Parker, a novel set chair. On one side was a radio compartment and on the other a makeup section with a movable lighted mirror.

Hope Uses Orange Box When Hedy Lamarr and George Montgomery were engaged, George nicknamed her "Penny." He sent her a special set chair. Instead of a name painted on the canvas back, George had a huge penny coin painted there. Just to be different. Bob Hope has an old orange crate with his name smeared on one side. Director Frank McDonald a high-chair for 3-year-old Patsy Nash when she worked In "Submarine Alert." But Patsy resented it.

The set chair In Hollywood Is the Dun and Bradstreet of mo vl eland. As the war goes on, it might be useful for the British Home Office to issue a booklet, a companion volume to our War Department manual for military tourists, telling the English about the American, especially the American soldier. Though it is their own country, and God knows they have defended it magnificently and are entitled to use what language they please in it, the English could help matters by taking due notice, that a lift by any other name would still go up and down. They needn't pretend, either, that they don't know what we're talking about, as long as the word "victory" means the same ln both languages. This little booklet and dispatches from London about Al Jolson's performances for the troops remind me that years ago, when international ribbing was the order of the day, the eminent Jolson returned from a trip to England with many amusing tales of their peculiarities.

"Why, you know," he told me, as we stood in the sun in Shubert Alley cooking up whoppers, "the English even snap their fingers backwards." I never have been able to figure this one out, but I suspect that the great mammy singer knows now that it doesn't matter which way you snap your fingers as long as it is in Hitler's face. 20,000 Get Photos 1 (JJ; Konald CoIlTian Hollywood When Ronald Col-man autographed pictures for those who requested them on the set of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Random Harvest," his records showed that he had given away more than 20,000 photos of himself in 16 years. Because Colman is meticulous about such requests and dislikes forgetting anyone, he started keeping tab in 1926 of those asking for pictures. He has his secretary collect the names, which are entered in a book. Then as he autographs each picture, a check is placed beside the name.

WIRTII-BOTT Restaurant Full Course SUNDAY DINNERS 1 For Radio NEW York UP) The young woman in black, with a hat like an extravagantly conceived tarn, must have seemed vaguely familiar, but the little group near the reception room of radio station WHN gave no sign of recognition. They looked at her just they would look at any pretty girl. Seventeen floors below, as she crossed the crowded Broadway sidewalk to a taxicab, something of the same curiosity and admiration was noticeable in the eyes of passersby; but again there seemed to be no recognition. Does Variety of Comment But Adrienne Ames, did not appear to be disturbed. The fact is, she observed, she has revised her life since she turned away from Hollywood and the flamor-our movie life.

She has become a radio personality, a commentator, if you please, on everything from how to make the boys in the services happy to the making of a new kind of rice pudding. She has become somewhat of a slave to the air waves, making 15 broadcasts a week. But "that's the easiest part of the job," Miss Ames says; "the really hard work comes at night when I work on. my scripts." In any case, it is scarcely the sort of work one would expect to find a former Hollywood star doing. Nevertheless, Miss Ames, whose personal publicity was reported in one year to have topped that of Greta Garbo's, finds the job exhilarating.

She came to New York end got into radio about a year ago. "I'm on the air Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:30 p. m. with gossip of Hollywood and Broadway and reviews of movies and stage plays," Miss Ames said. "And six days a week I'm on at noon and at 3:30." Works Long on Scripts These daytime programs embrace talks on a variety of subjects.

"Publicity releases from the government furnish with some material. I take five or six hours a night working over my scripts, and when I have a guest star I usually have to run over the show briefly in rehearsal." Her list of guest stars looks like a volume of who's who in the theater, the movies and radio. On Sundays she attends meetings where war bonds are being sold. But she is proudest of all of the honorary colonelcy sh holds in the First Regiment of the First Battalion of the New York State Guard, and of her rank as lieutenant ln "Bundles for Bluejackets." As for Hollywood: "One day I may go back. Just now I'm too busy even to think of it." Speech 'Burr' Spots Birthplace Hollywood Hugh Herbert was selling War Savings Bonds and Stamps down at the Defense House.

After a lady had placed her order, the actor said: "Madame, I can tell where you came from." "Why, Mr. Herbert, you don't know me," she replied. With a gallant bow Herbert continued: "Ah, but I know your birthplace. You first saw the light of day ln Ayre, Scotland!" Herbert is not a psychic. His mother was born ln Ayre, Scotland, where residents have a unique burr ln their speech.

'em-up heroes of the period prior to 1920. Roy's first interest in the West came from a pair of boots. A friend of the family owned a ranch and wanted custom-made boots. Roy's dad made them, and one summer Roy got to visit the man's ranch. Later the family moved to California in Jalopy elegance, and Roy made the usual rounds of pick-up obs.

He also strummed away on a guitar (second-hand) and dreamed idly of doing something with his repertory of hillbilly songs. Popularized tast Roundup. Later he and two pals organized the "Sons of the Pioneers," and their recording of "The Last Roundup" proved a sensation. Also a headache for those who grew weary of the little dogies. Remember? Eventually Roy got a job at Republic, which now proclaims him "King of the Cowboys." The title was handed down, of course, when Republic's No.

one singing cowboy star. Gene Autry. Joined the Army Air Force. Autry must have ignored Mr. Yates, too he didn't go into the cavalry.

So much for Roy's background. It demonstates that Republic's king is made of stern stuff; if not of life on the cold prairie, at least Horatio Alger stuff. And he certainly can ride a horse. Roy is a nice-looking young fellow of about 29, with reddish blond hair and clear blue eyes. He doesn't take himself particularly seriously, but he is death on detail as far as hLs pictures are concerned.

"Wenever I can, I go sit in an audience at my pictures at kid matinees. I want to find out what they like and what they hoot at. That's one reason, for instance, that you never see me doing any heavy necking on the screen. The kids don't like it." "Sure," said the ever helping Gabby Hays, his chin whiskers up and down. "And you By LOU ELLA O.

PARSONS TTOT SPRINGS, ARK. (INS) I can argue until I am blue in the face and all the other scribes who write on movie entertainment can take the stand and rant against war pictures, but the fact remains that war pictures rate Importantly In the year's 10 best. You know and I know, in looking back over the year's productions, that no one can dispute the fact that most of the outstanding screen plays have stories based on some phase of the present world conflict. "Mrs. Miniver" (MGM) will be on everybody's "10 best." "Wake Island' (Paramount) also will be mentioned.

"Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Warner's) the story of George M. Cohan's life and one of the best films ever to reach the screen, has a patriotic theme that must classify it as a war drama, even though it essentially it a biography of a great khow-man. Tied riper Rated High Those who have seen Noel Coward's "In Which We Serve" (United Artists) speak of it in hushed tones as something very special. "Pied Piper" (Twentieth Century-Fox) deals with the war. and at the same time it is one of the most charming movies we have seen this year.

Republic's "Flying Tigers" has cleaned up at the boxoffice. There you have six of our outstanding movies. If "Casablanca." "Random Harvest" and "Star Spangled Rhythm" are released before 19-13, you will have to put them down on your list of outstanding screen entertain went. All of us are deep.y interested in world events, and though we feel the escapist Idea is important, we cannot underestimate the drama in these stories. Of course, on the other side of the fence is "My Sister Eileen" and "Once upon a Honeymoon." Now lets get down to brass tacks, even.

though we have just finished our Thanksgiving turkey and name the "10 best." Here we go: 1. Yankee Doodle Dandy 2. Mrs. Miniver 3. Pied Piper 4.

Wake Island 5. My Favorite Blond 6. My Sister Eileen 7. Random Harvest 8. Casablanca 9.

Once upon a Honeymoon 10. Woman of the Year Down here in Hot Springs, far away from Hollywood and its influence, I have tried to seject the pictures I think have the best universal appeal. There are many others which have jingled merrily at the boxoffice "Pride of the Yankees," "Joan cf the Ozarks," "Now. Voyager," "The Invaders. "Take a Letter, Darling," "Moon and Sixpence," "The Whole Towns "Holiday Inn," "Gentleman Jim." "Across the Pacific." "This Above All," "The War Against Mrs.

Hadley" and "To the Shores of Tripoli." Probably some of these, you will say, I should have mentioned among the "10 best." Four on 'Everybody's List "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Mrs. Miniver," "Pied Piper and "Wake Island' seem to be the four on everybody's "10 best" list. I have talked with some of the visitors here, and everyone of them has mentioned these four. So at least I can be sure I am meeting with a certain degree of public favor. I probably vll realize suddenly that I have left out a few that should be on the list.

Para-mount's "Star Spangled Ithythiri" will be released before the end of the year, and it is rumored as being well worth seeing. I liked to Ride Bicycles never see me or Roy flrin away like a machine gun without stop-pin' long enough to reload. Roy lives in San Fernando Valley, movie star conception of a ranch. Martha Raye used to own the place. It has a swimming pool and a tennis court.

Roy uses the pool to store feed for his horses, and neighborhood kids use the court for a roller skating rink. Children Demand Westerns The discussion turned to "Western pictures' and curtailment of the brand by some studios to meet raw film restrictions. "Huh," snorted Gabby, who hopped along with Hop-Along Cassidy Bill Boyd at Paramount for years before bringing his whiskers under the Rogers banner. "There'll always be Westerns. They're successful ln spite of their selves.

Can't help. Kids won't let us quit makin 'em. Judging by what Rogers said, the kids today, notably in smaller towns, are as rabid Western fans as ever. At Carnegie, he said, youngsters all but dismantled his car and trailer on one personal appearance, and when the tour 55 shows in 52 days was over, his horse. Trigger, M-as almost minus a tall.

"They kept pullin out hairs for souvenirs," he explained. Trigger wasn't present Just then to corroborate the claim. Not all his fans are kids, though. Once I ran across a a soldier who had hitch-hiked from San Diego to Hollywood. "I done it I done it.

I shook hands with Roy Rogers," the soldier announced. "Came all the way up here, but I done It." Td have driven him back to San Diego If I'd known about it," Roy said. A moment later we parted, and Rogers, in typical Western style, disappeared in a whirl of dust. Typical but for one He was riding a bicycle. ROAST DUCK ROAST TURKEY HALF BROILER.

SPRING CHICKEN STAKS ROASTS CHOPS sea foods 844 NO. TO HORffl OWNER By JOHN ANDERSON N1 IEW YORK (INS) As the drama and its critics often have been the cause of harsh language ln the past between the U. S. and our English cousins, I am delighted to note that the War Department is determined not only to defeat Hitler and Hirohito, but to carry the peace one step nearer Utopia and make Americans and Englishmen understand one another. I hope that the new official booklet, "A Short Guide to Great Britain," issued to the troops may be Issued also to play-goers on both sides of the Atlantic to speed up the noble rainbows of cousingly sympathy and good will.

It should prove that Allies can be friends, in spite of efforts to use what is foolishly considered the same language. Theaters Do Bungling Job As ambassadors of an important art, Broadway and Picadilly have done a bungling job, and there has been blame enough on both sides. For years the American stage has represented the Englishman a3 a bally-ass, with spats and a monocle, and the English theater has clung to a picture of Cousin Jonathan as an ill-mannered yahoo, engaged ln some sharp business practice if not downright crookedness, wearing a 10-gallon hat and speaking nasally through his tobacco juice, in the voice of a political convention. an xiigiaiia ineir inosL naive compliment to the visiting Ameri- can is the insulting remark, "You In England their most naive don't seem like an American," and though we doubtless have some equally irritating trade-last, it certainly i3 not that an Englishman doesn't seem like one. Perhaps our secret admiration for them is based on the fact that they never seem like anything lse.

The theater exchange between England and America has been heavily one-sided, we should understand them better than we do. Their playwrights and stars usually have found this country a more clamorous market than their own, and it is opening no old sores to add that the feeling seldom has been reciprocated. count such English stars as Aunty Bea Lillie, Gertrude Law rence, Noel Leslie How ard, Laughton, and so on, among our own stars. Few, if any, Americans ever have achieved anything like that popularity in England, though Moran and Mack probably came nearer to it than any others. London doted on them.

English Critics Caustic In' addition to this one-sided admiration, the situation has been aggravated by the playwrights and critics visiting these shores. Forgetting such old accounts as chose of Messrs. Trol-lope and Dickens, we have heard enough from such caustic mis-representers of the American scene as St. John Ervine, J. B.

Priestley and James Agate, who have taken columns of newspaper space to explain that Americans do not know how to eat, drink, talk, heat their houses or behave themselves. Fortunately few Americans ever have seen their reports, so it doesn't make much, difference. We have just gone on stubbornly doing as we pleased. Like most guide books, the Army's is somewhat on the literal side. Even backwoods Americans who never have seen an elevator would probably get the idea of what the English mean by "lift." Fortunately for men in uniform, the troublesome problem of whether or not to take the hat off in one doesn't exist.

For the same reason the difficult matter of calling a vest a waistcoat, and an undershirt a vest is not likely to cause trouble. If they want to call suspenders braces, who cares as long as they keep the international pants up. As a frequent visitor to England who has noticed that hands across the sea often have appeared to be thumbs across the nose, I hasten to point out that this state of bitter friendship exists between no other nations on earth. However much fun we make of our differences (and however much criticism), the very fact that the feeling exists as it does is a stronger guarantee than any other of the durability of the kinship. Roy Rogers Nettled by Order Not OF ROCHESTER recently Miss Andrews acted with Ln Bankhead in "Reflected Glory," Philip Barry's fablo about theater folk.

Oddly enough, more than one stage commentator has noted the physical and voice similarity between Miss Andrews and Miss Bankhead. A stint for J. J. Shubert found her trapped in Viennese surroundings in his production of "Three Waltzes," an imported potpourri of Strauss tunes and an imported book about fatal fascination running through three generationa. It was embellished by a musical background contributed by all three Strausses, and was further enhanced by the presence of Kitty Carlisle, Michael Bartlett, Glenn Anders and Miss Andrews.

Fortunately, as Miss Andrews recalls it, she wasn't called on to sing in "Three Waltzes," her first and last joust with the lyrical stage. Sen on Summer Circuits J. B. Priestley's farce about two couples who discovered the curate who married them was an imposter, "When We Are Married," which had a goodly run, was her last Broadway stint prior to "Spring Again." Before that she was seen in the Spe-wacks" comedy called i 3 Swan Expects." The summer theater circuits have found her a welcome guest star. Such spots as Bucks County and Cape Cod number her among their regular annual visitors.

Last summer "Spring Again" kept her close to her Manhattan apartment and its countless cats. In other years, she made the strawhat circuit religiously. "Spring Again" presents Miss Andrews as its Edith Weybright, a meddlesome society aspirant, whose wealthy husband helps support her parents. Miss George and C. Aubrey Smith.

Miss Andrew's chief concern when away from New is for her many tabbies. As to exactly how many of the feline pets she maintains in sumptuous luxury, she hesitates to answer. It's the wise cat who beats his path to her door. Her one regret is that they can't be written off her income tax as dependents. Stage Crew Enjoys Bathing Scene Hollywood On an outdoor set for "Andy Hardy Steps Out," at MGM, Mickey Rooney and Esther Williams, his new screen sweetheart, sit on the edge of a swimming pool.

Esther, former world's swimming camp, being groomed for stardom by MGM, is in a bathing suit, has the lithe, sun-tanned figure of the expert swimmer. The stage crew is enjoying this scene. As Miss Williams kneels to haul Mickey out of the pool, calcimine from the edge of the pool whitens her knees. Director Seitz and camera crew stop everything while a makeup woman wipes Esther's knees. The scene is filmed and they start for a closer shot.

"Are her legs okay?" queries Seitz before the cameras turn, thinking of the white paint. "And how!" "Yea bo!" and ether remarks come from the men. Action is stopped while the crew applauds. They had been wanting to tell Esther how shapely they thought she was. FORTS COST 35 MILLION Standing as impressive monuments to its turbulent past, Quebec City's fortifications took 10 years to complete and cost They are visited annualy by thousands of tourists to the Province of Quebec.

By ROBERT MYERS HOLX.YWOOD KJP) Tom Mix was the best cowboy star of the screen, in my opinion, and that goes for Roy Rogers, today's "new king of the cowboys," as Republic Pictures bills him. I told Roy himself about this world shaking thought, and ducked, thinking he might whip out his trusty six-gun and start firin'. Instead he grinned and agreed: "Darned if I don't think the same thing. Mix was my hero, too." "I wish I had all the 15 cents I paid to see Mix," he went on, ignoring the fact that he has more 15 centses than he knows what to do with now. Told to Stick to Hores One of the things he does with them, incidentally, is to buy four-gear bicycles or motorcycles.

That very morning he had been riled by a message from Republics president, Herbert Yates, demanding that he stay off motorcycles or bicycles. "Republic's king of cowboys must never be seen riding any-think but a horse," was the tone of the command. Rogers was born ln Cincinnati, Ohio, but now talks with a slight drawl. He probably picked it up from the scripts for his westerns, or maybe from Gabby Hays. Rogers picks up things very easily.

One of the first things he picked up was ambition. His father worked in a shoe factory at Portsmouth, Ohio, and Roy, born Leonard Slye and one of seven little Slyes, seemed destined for a career at a cobbler's bench. As one punster put it, however, he was one shoemaker who didn't stick to his last. Roy laughs when anyone tries to make him out as a real cowboy, although as a youngster he did milk a cow. Tended pigs, too and spent his nickles at the movies to see Mix, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard and other ahoot- There is a housing shortage In Rochester.

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