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THE MUNCIE STAR, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1945. NEW PICTURES OF ALL THEMES Motion picture entertainment ranging from musicals in Technicolor to murder mysteies that keep the audience guessing along with the flicker sleuths will greet the patrons of Mun-cie theaters, starting today. Favorite actors are cast in popular roles. The Technicolor musical, "Bring on the Girls," opens today at the Rivoli, heralded as the merriest, maddest, most melodious mix-up of maids, marriage and mirth to grace the screen in many months. The cast Is headed by Veronica Lake, Sonny XTiits.

Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, the new dance star. Johnny 4 -'-Si; A i. Rosalind Russell in "Roughly Speaking' at the Strand. coy ana Spike Jones and his or chestra. Lake Is a cigaret girl a slick chick who makes all the boys light up! Sunny Tufts plays the V4 t'i kepboard and the girls.

Bracken Joins the Navy. Bracken, poor guy, has two hun fired million bucks, and joins the navy. Sonny joins up too, as his bodyguard! They are stationed in Miami. Eddie falls for Veronica, who William Powell, Myrna Loy and Asta in "The Thin Man Coes Home," at the Hoosier. is a cigaret girl in a night club.

Veronica is after Eddie's money. Fonny thinks Marjorie Reynolds is the girl Eddie has fallen for and things become more complicated by i I v. the minute. Marjorie is a singer in the night club and she sings, dances and romances in her best "Holiday Inn" style. Bracken gets into one Sonny Tufts, Veronica Lake and Eddie Bracken in "Bring on the Girls," at the Rivoli.

i 'r jWwaJBafcJ. "Song of Bernadette" Oscar, manr How Good Is an Oscar? Some i. taining its place right on the desk Prize, Others Ignore Awards in the writing room of her home and Jennifer writes a lot of letters. -AT By Harold Heffer.nan. North American Newspaper Alliance, Ingrid Bergman, who w-on this year's award for her performance in scrape after another with ease.

Johnny Coy makes his screen debut In the picture. Russell and Carson. "Roughly Speaking," the film story about a gallant lady who loses everything but her laughter, starring Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson, is now showing at the Strand. Set against the moving background of the past three turbulent decades, it features Robert Hutton. Andrea King.

Alan Hale. Craig Stevens and Donald Hollywood, April 21. If you like to fool around with pencil "Gaslight," has a huge, raftered liV' and paper and a copy of the Filrri Daily Year Book, you can whip ing room with an enormous stone Kb up a pretty nice set of statistics, proving this and that about the 1 fireplace. On its large mantlepiece, occupying the spot of honor, is the 1945 statuette. Kir'1 Academy Awards.

3 i One of the first things that pops, Bette Davis, who has grabbed two 1 1 up, after you get iired of trying to I "Duel in the Sun" and probably in The East Side Kids in "Docks of New York," at the Wysor. in supporting roles. The film is concerned with the hectic family life of the Piersons, a fabulous family, complete with all the many happinesses and heartaches that go with a family, in its many ups and downs. The program is complete with the latest issue of war news and a color cartoon. remember whether to divide the big number into the little number, or vice versa, in order to find out percentages, is that it took Paramount seventeen years to win Che "best pic ture" award after having split the "The House of Fpnr" anothpr In! honors for the first Academv event the Sherlock Holmes series starring Paramount won in 1928 for "Wings," Easil Rathbone and Nigle Eruce.

'and didn't have a prayer until Bing opens at the Wvsor. It tells of the i Crosby played priest in "Going My 'Vi tf Oscars, keeps them on a highboy in her bedroom. Says she: "When I wake up in the morning they're the first thing my eyes fall upon. And I'm constantly reminded what little good the things have done me." One Is a Paperweight. Victor McLaglen says the Oscar didn't help him a bit economically.

He doesn't know where it is now because his son took it along to college several years ago for a paperweight. Warner Baxter Old said: "My gosh, I don't know. I think it's up in my gun room buried under a heap of maps. I must look and see." Katherine Hepburn's statuette shines brightly on the mantlepiece of her living room, a constant reminder to her friends that she is a great actress. She uses it to confound her critics.

Capping them all was Barry Fitz --iiiirt rtT m- Way," their current blessing. Selznick Has High Score. Figuring that the studios made about 40 pictures a year during the members of a murder club and their activities. Each member has a large insurance policy upon himself, made out to the last surviving member of the club. One after the other the "Cluny Brown." Only actress on the Selznick roster who has not won an Oscar (Shirley Temple received a special Academy Award) is Dorothy McGuire.

She has "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "The Enchanted Cottage" for her 1945 entries. Just how much is an Academy Award worth to the winning actor or actress, aside from the honor and plaudits it brings to them? Estimates vary on that score. Some say an Oscar automatically increases a player's yearly revenue by $75,000 to $100,000. There have been cases to prove this point, others to disprove it. For example, Jean Fontaine was a low-priced leading lady until she stepped to the rostrum of the Bilt-more Bowl to accept the coppery statuette for her performance in "Suspicion." Almost overnight her value to producers catapulted.

Selznick now loans her out at a figure closely approaching $100,000 per pic 4 Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in "San Fernando at the Liberty. C0ntaTin-S! Proximately 680 movies since 1928. and each is oranee pits recipient COMEDY Sweepstake Baby shortly thereafter found horribly destroyed. When the club is reduced to two surviving members, and the village tobacconist is found shot. One independent producer, who made only twelve pictures, or about one-fifth of one per cent of the total, won 12 per cent of the prizes.

That's David O. Selznick with his "Gone With the Wind" and "Rebecca." On top of that, during thejaast six 1 'w- Sherlock Holmes hits his stride and AT THE LIBERTY gerald's My careless I years, four of his actresses won the "San Fernando Valley," Roy ness with his 1945 award. A few days after the event Barry was chipping short golf shots in his living room. He forgot that his Oscar was stand Rogers' starring film, opens at the Liberty Theater today. It combines comedy, music and action.

Rogers has discovers the solution to the crimes. The co-feature, "Docks of New YorK," brings the East Side Kids in another of their side splitting features. Powell and Loy. 'At the Hoosier. William Powell and Myma Loy are back together again as Mr.

and Mrs. Thin Man, in "The Thin Man Goes Home." When Nick an4 Nora decide to Oscar. They are Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Joan Fontaine and Vivien Leigh. Meantime, Selznick grabbed off the Irving Thalberg award himself in 1939. MGM tops the producers for number of best pictures with four.

Universal and RKO have won once each, ture. been surrounded by Dale Evans, singer Hollywood, April 21 (NANA) Hedy Lamarr is in the sweepstake business. Her friends have taken tickets in a "baby" pool. There are prizes for the ticket holders proving the most nearly accurate in guessing the weight of the baby! And the right sex. SLEEPS WITH MATCH COVEES.

Burlington, April 21 (U.P.) After Daniel M. Richards, 16, had papered his bedroom walls with 4,000 match covers, he still had enough of them left to fill four large 1 ing on the floor. A neat niblick shot On the other hand, there's the case and actress; Jean Porter, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. of Luise Rainer, the Viennese who won the award two successive The picture, made against the back years for her work in "The Great visit his parents in the old home I and the other majors have two firsts. Ziegfeld" and "The Good Earth." Less town and sneak a vacation for him ground of a western ranch, features a half dozen songs and the title number sung as a duet by Rogers and Miss Evans.

than two years later, Miss Rainer was out of pictures, her contract dropped by MGM. Recently, she attempted a Deanna Durbin in "Can't Help Singing," at the Uptown. landed on Oscar neck and chopped off his head. Barry needn't worry. All the Oscars given out this year were made of plaster of paris a war conservation measure and will be replaced with copper ones after hostilities cease.

Bainter Success Based on Resolve to 'Act Her Age' Hollywood, April 21 (NANA) From Several Novelty Acts. Spectacular dance numbers and several novelty acts including a roller skating trio and a comedy Spanish dance team are introduced. Rogers, in search of two cowboys She Had Thrills, Romance, Adventure-But She Had a Yedding Ring Tqo! comeback in "Hostages," at Paramount, an essay that wTas attended by no trumpeting. She continues out of pictures. Golden Glow Soon Tarnishes.

To the players themselves, the 10-inch Oscar is looked upon with varying degrees of respect and admiration. Ask some winning actors what they've done with their mementoes and they'll have to stop and think a long time to tell you exactly where who have robbed him, and looking for a girl he met at a Pioneer Day celebration in a small town, arrives at the ranch to find the male range riders self and Nora at the same time, they don't dream of the possibilities of becoming involved in a murder mystery. No sooner do they get settled in Sycamore Springs, however, than they.find themselves up against a most mysterious criminal whose escapades include sabotaging defense plans. Asta, the famous wire-haired terrier, is with them. The co-feature stars Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery, in "Hi Beautiful," a comedy set to music and a supporting cast including Walter Catlett, Hattie McDaniels, Tim Ryan, Florence Lake and others.

"Cant Help Singing," opens today at the Uptown. It is Deanna Dur-bin's first Technicolor venture and tells the story of Deanna's trek to the West in fhp snM rush rfavs in rmr- The fascinating Sam Goldwyn, who makes good pictures, has never managed to come in with a winner. There are more than 100 independent producers in Hollywood who have never placed or showed and probably won't unless outfits like James Cagney's, Mary Pickford's or Sol Lessor's, some day make the grade. Of the actresses who have won the Oscar, only one, Marie Dressier, has died, but five others are out of pictures: Janet Gaynor, Mary Pickford, Ncrma Shearer, Helen Hayes and Luise Rainer. The actors seem more durable.

Only George Arliss. Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter and Victor McLaglen are not in Hollywood pictures now. Candidates for Next Year. Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby, this year's winners, are already candidates for next year, possibly in the same picture, "The Bells of St. Mary's," now in production.

Miss Bergman will also be spen in "Spellbound" and "The Scarlet Lily." big Selznick oroductions which will de- UMMWIUJ. mill 'UHWWTO' WPWVWW'WWIWillllip)JJIUWil IUmuLH.H I'JI it is deposited. have been replaced by pretty cowgirls in an effort to curb the teen age ro-j mantic crushes of the rancher's) granddaughter. Rogers with his pal Keno, Gargan) stays on at the ranch to capture some horse thieves, recover his money and re-establish the cow-1 boys in their jobs. "Meet Miss Bobby Sox" is the sec-: ond feature.

Included in the cast oS this picture which tells a bright and gay story of the younger generation and its jive doings are Bob Lynn Merrick, Howard Louise Erickson, Robert White, Pat Parrish, Sally Bliss, the Kim Loo Sis-! ters and Louis Jordan and his Tym- Frankly speaking, it's marvelous! The must-be-seen picture of a woman who lived every woman's dream --an intimate personal story of a married woman's suit of her fiance. Robert Paige. Oth- ers in the film include Akim Tamir-off, David Bruce, Leonid Kinskey. MODERN SLANG. History of the award seems to show that the golden glow which effuses from the Oscars begins to tarnish only a few weeks after presentation.

A lot of them find their way to attic trunks, along with pigtails and baby pictures. However, there are others who regard their Oscars with deep reverence and, if the truth were known, possibly caress them fondly at every opportunity. An English actress who recently won the big award. Is said to have slept With the little coppery figure under her pillow for many nights after her triumph, but this, of course, could be attributed to the flapping of jealous tongues of her coworkers on the big lot where she works. A canvass of stars who have toted home the trophy in the past 15 years Hollywood, April 14 i NANA) It mand serious consideration, used; to be: "Cigaret me, big Jennifer Jones, last year's "best Not it's "Eutt me." You'll hear it, actress" winner, will be seen in Hal In "A Walk in the Sun." B.

Wallis' "Love Letters." Selznick's pany Five. -v- shows what widely divergent attitudes are taken by their owners. Newcomers keep them siney and rominent. III rS30 The oldtimers are apt to relegate them to the trash section of the house. SORGHUM TIME COURTING TIME Big Laurel, April 21 (JP) Sorghum making time in southwestern Virginia is also a time for romancing and tall tale One of the few manufacturing processes unchanged by progress, the boiling and.

evaporating of the sugary cane juices into sorghum molasses follows almost the same pattern grandpap knew when he was a boy. The saying goes that half of the marriages in the mountains are the result of 'lasses-making courtships, since the young folks go to the "stir-off" and spark on the sly while their parents are busy with skimming the sweet, boiling juices. Jennifer Jones still thrills over her NOTHING TO WEAR! Swims in Leopard i kmffl the most exotic star on tne New York stage to her current Pole of the farm wife in "State Fair" is tne transition Fay Bainter has made in the last twenty years. She's just as convincing as Iowa's champion pickle preserver, the part she plays in the 20th Century-Fox musical, as she was twenty years ago in "East Is West," in which she portrayed a glamorous Eurasian. How does she feel about the She doesn't.

Says Fay: "I started in the theater at four, as child actress, and by the time I became a star I'd been playing older and older parts for fifteen years. I outgrew starring roles just as I did child parts." Didn't Expect to Be a Star. She never expected to be a star. It just happened. She attributes it to luck and some good parts.

After she made the grade, she knew it wasn't permanent, and arranged her life accordingly. "While I was playing at the Maxine Elliot Theater, I had the most sumptuous suite of dressing rooms ever assigned to a star. I never let myself get used to it, because I knew it wasn't permanent. "I remembered some of the people who had preceded me, especially one star who had been there only a few years before, but had then disappeared from the theatrical horizon. She was only in her forties, but no manager would give her a part.

This frightened me until I learned that she refused to play anything but leads for which she was too old. "I made up my mind right then I would never be too old, because I wrould always insist on playing women somewhere near my owti age, regardless of whether they were leads or not. "At forty I was playing a grandmother, a part for which I was considered too young by my friends, but I knew what I was doing. It's much better to have people say 'she's too young for the then to hear, 'who does that old hag thing she's fooling when she plays those young Fay believes that when a woman has passed the leading-lady age, it doesn't matter how old the character is she's portraying. There are just as many and just as good parts foi; a 50-year-oid woman as there are for one in her early forties.

"My role in 'State Fair' is a good one. Mrs. Frake is a woman of 45, and being the mother of Dick Haymes and Jeanne Craine doesn't bother me in the least," concludes Fay. "After all, I have a 19-year-old son of my own in the army." "BABES IN TOYLAND." Hollywood, April 21 (NANA) Laurel and Hardy are planning a Technicolor version of "Babes in Toy-land." They made this years ago in black and white. from tooict RANDALL PERSON'S HAPPY BEST-SELLER, A 6 EAT MOTION PICTURE PRO WARNER BROS.

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