The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 18

THE MINNEAPOLIS ST at, July 8, W5J The Wild Heart' mm lira 'Paula'--a Hit-run Story tf Cedric AdCMtS- Columbia Pictures 'Taula," opening in Minneapolis next Thursday at the State theater, is the story of a woman driver who strikes down a young orphan and is afraid to reveal her identity lest the scandal ruin her husband's career. The boy, Davey, played by Tommy liettig, is left without power of speech and Paula (Loretta Young) becomes a Gray Lady to help him recover. ft rTvfT Tfl'i r' 1 v. JV' V. i After Paula has taken Davcy into her home, with adoption in mind, the man who took Davey to the hospital the night of the accident appears and accuses her of being the hit-run driver.

Jennifer Jones, playing a haunted woods girl in RKO Radio's "The Wild Heart," doesn't understand her own complicated emotions nor those of the earthy squire who Becks her. She is unable, too, to comprehend the local pastor who marries her. The picture opens in Minneapolis next Wednesday at the RKO Orpheum theater. Above, Miss Jones accepts a ride with the squire, David Farrar, and accompanies him to hi3 manor house. I I 1 WW t' DuRABLE GENT IS Elmer E.

Soderquist of Sacred Heart, Minn. His pickup truck was bumped from the rear by another car, then bounded into a tree, making it a double collision. Soderquist is out of the hospital, but in the accident, he broke out both the windshield and the rear window with his head Startling statistic: About 81,000 people in this country, it's figured, make their living working in candy factories, 44,000 more make ice cream and so on, 24,000 mix sauces for food, and 11,000 mix flavorings. All because tastes vary The onetime farmer's bonnet inspires a new era. Straw, like that in straw skimmers, is being used In caps, floor mats, upholstery, back rests, cushions, lampshades and a lot of other things.

Yet "seldom, any more, do you see a farmer actually wearing the tra ditlonal headgear. He prefers a long-billed cap or a pith helmet Title of a new French movie ought to attract customers Just out of curiosity. It's called "Leathcrr.ose" Next time you spot a robin cocking his head as If examining the ground, assign another reason for the act He Isn't looking at all, he's listening. He has acute hearing, and by that means can spot bugs beneath the sod. SHUDDER IF YOU MUST, but a new diet fad current In Hollywood limit your Intake to onions, prunes and grapefruit Lork-oMiair sentimentalists need no longer fear that their mementoes may become shopworn.

A firm embeds curls in plastic paperweights. And just in case your collection should become confusing, it includes the name of the original owner Specialized little mechanical assist is the wrist watch winder. It's made to wind up those watches with stems fitted so close to the case that they're hard to grab. The thing is hardly In the gadget class, though. The price on it Is $36.70.

And that's without the watch If four of you meet for lunch, it's a mess. The meal ls, rather than the situation. The word originally meant a dish sent to the table, and comes from the Latin. Later any meal was referred to as "mess" when four' or more were at the same table. That usage is still good in England, VARIETY REPORTS FOR THE WEEK: Strenuous little time they had on a television show down in Milwaukee, A 200 keeper brought a litter of baby skunks to be shown off before the cameras, and when he handed one to the MC, Gordon Thomas, the skunk didn't like it.

And showed it. Thomas managed to last out the rest of the show. But the air conditioning system picked up the aroma and wafted it through the Radio City building there The singing-in-the-bath idea is being plugged by a soap company in Denmark. With each of its bars of soap, it wraps the lyrics of a popular song. And one of the lyrics, in English, was Cole Porter's "Wunderbar." For the occasion, it was converted to "Wonder Bar" Jackie Gleason, the rotund comedian, moves Into a new department Of show business.

He leads the band for musical record albums, and has signed a three-year contract for the chore Intriguing title has a new play just set for a summer tryout before its New York production. The title: "How To Fly With One Feather." A COMEBACK HAD Guy Marks, a comic in Philadelphia, ne got in dutch with musicians by heckling one orchestra, and it retaliated by playing his exit music ahead of time. On another date the band, when it spotted Marks, walked off the stand. Marks, though, Is now doing his act with a background of four bazookas. They're not recognized as Instruments by the musicians' union Wedding of Joan Featherstone, Copaca-bana beauty, almost came to grief.

Thil Foster, her intended, in all the confusion just simply forgot to invite the best man. The attendant, Harry Morton, got to the wedding after he waa flagged down on the highway It's worth more to bo unseen, said Lester Gottlieb, head of the CBS radio program department. He figures that radio performers earn three times as much as do television actors, in terms of time. The TV boys get more dough, but rehearsing chops down the per-hour take Frank Libuse, the mad waiter who has performed at the Nicollet here, now gets star billing at one of the big Farls night clubs. And doing the same screwball stuff, too.

NEAT TRICK HAS BEEN added to drive-in theater opera-tion down in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The theater has dancing every night for an hour before the show starts. On only one night a week ls there live music, though. The rest of the time it comes from records The Bell Sisters, the singing-composing team, start working theaters the middle of the month, but they'll quit in September. The kids have to go back to school New Orleans has just cracked down on its night clubs.

It ordered the girls performing there to wear all of four Inches more fringe. Give Away Department 15 'l i Still unable to speak, Davey tries to tell Paula's husband, played by Kent Smith, that Paula is the woman whose car etruck hira. Paula sees her marriage heading for ruin. TOMMY RETTIG AS DAVEY i A ILn A I 't vl 1 AnS'' 1 M'4 s1i I Miss Jones feels a strange kinship to a variety of wild animals and has a house full of assorted pets. The fox she rescued from hunters during a wild chase over the The story ranges from the lyrical sequences of the heroine's childhood to the eharp brutality of her maturity.

Here she finds herself drawn by the virile charms of the squire. TAULA (RIGHT) MEETS DAVEY FOR FIRST TIME AFTER ACCIDENT It's Meek Alec Guinness Again in 'A Run For Your Money' PIANO, GE 6206. Sand for fill, LO 6775, RE 4261. Shep. herd, SO 18531.

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Cedric Adams' column appears daily in the Minneapolis Star and in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune ifll i. -ff i GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty wm Dai (Donald Houston) and Twm (Meredith Edward), who In "A Run for Your Money," the J. Arthur Rank picture released by Universal-International and now showing at the World theater, Alec Guinness, the British actor, plays the meek little garden editor who is assigned to guide two visitors around London. The visitors are two Welsh miners, girl (Moira Lister) with her eye on the prize money, takes charge of the visitors and while Dai is doing the dishes, she picks his pocket. Guinness (in mustache) is shown above in two scenes from the picture.

They all wind up back at the station after a day the garden editor won't soon forget have won the trip and 200 pounds in cash. They are from the town of (brace yourself) Hofoduwchbenceubwllymarchog-coch. Guinness get3 into hot water at the outset when he fails to pick out the Welshmen at the railroad station. A i She Cooks in a Stew -i 4 i 1 Our new civilian instructor. Gentlemen! Mr.

OTooIa. precinct committeeman, who will lecture on 'practical polities' I -K, CS-. Jeff Donnell plays the eneor hnt barren pnj frufrstcd housewife in Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer's kitchen film, "Mealtime Magic." As you can see, a food grinder presents a formidable problem how does a girl assemble the thing? And Wutii tLe finally does get it together, she has so many bandages on her fingers she can't turn the crank. So Bhe turns to the eggbeater, obviously much simpler but still a pretty complicated bunch of gears. Ia the final picture, however, Mercedes Bates drops in and shows Jeff a few tricks involving the use of these and other kitchen time-savers designed for brides and other housewives who like to get through their work fast and easily.

"Ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong?".