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32 Wednesday, January 19,1949 Sa Bakersfield Lodge No. 266 Presents 'VAUDEVILLE'S BACK if An Amazing Professional Production of TEN HEADLINE ACTS Featuring ARLEMI HARRIS, "Chatterbox" Radie FIVE SINOEH6 COLLEIfiS LEE DOHN, Pianist Extraordinary Seven Other Star Attractions Two Shows-Saturday, Jan. 22 First Show 7 8 m. Second Show 9:30 Harirey Memorial Auditorium At the Bakersf ield West High School RESERVED SEAT SALE NOW ON AT ELKS CLUB General Admission $1, Inc. Tax Special Reserved Seats $1.50, inc.

Tax FOR THE BENEFIT OF UNDERPRIVILEGED BOYS Mersfield Optimist Club Presents Second Annual Capers (Last Year Centennial Gapers) HARVEY MEMORIAL JANUARY 24, 25, 26 Tuesday, Wednesday) LARGER SEATING CAPACITY Reduced General Including Tax We Want Everybody to See This Local Talent MUSICAL COMEDY VARIETY PLAY Tickets Available at Vest's 'Drug Store, Westbay's Cigar Store and Martin's Drug Store. Oildale Sponsored by' Sponsored by Optimist Henry Brandt, New City Cleaners A Special, Limited Engagement- JOHNNY mm KAAIHUE AND HIS BRILLIANT ALL-AMERICANS Plus the Lovely, Talented Vocalist EDIECHAL -This Famed Musical Group Is Presented Daily, Except Thursday, in the Cocktail Lounge i El Adobe Motel "One; of scrffU's most exciting By BOB THOMAS, The Volum'e of- fan mall to movie stars 'has slumped in recent months- 'This is one of the facts I uncovered in a visit to bustling post office. My guide was Superintendent Walter Bett, and he couldn't ascribe the reason for the 'decline of "fan letters. Your guess Is as good as his. 'Don't get idea that fan mail has, dwindled to a few scrawled postcards.

There's still enough volume; to keep fpur men working full time. LJt's- a unique in the postal service. Probably no other i i i i i SIE T949-S BIG HITS! NOW! Doors Open at 6:30 MO WO9UX SAFE UN0KB THS PLUS The SECRET SERVICE in "ALASKA PATROL" eoNTiMttoas iJ KOCH DOORS A OPSN NOON Fred MacMURRAY CARROLL CHARLES "Buddy" ROGERS RITA JOHNSON 2ND FEATURE TIM HOLT "GUN SMUGGLERS" yam ptlct KJ JS: rlOM II BCOR NOW! 'Edward N.orris 1 -Chariot Starrett "PRISON 1 "Desert MUTINY" I Horseman" LIMITED ENGAGEMENT LAST 2 DAYS SEATS HOWAT OFFICE wwence PRESENTS vier Alt SEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A A f. ARTHUR RAOK ENTERPRISE nm theatre Pcrfs: rlatlms at 2:39 at 1:31 All Bittnettr $1.20, ami Prices: All maitgs: JI.M MAIL 08Df9S FIUED PROJAPUYI Open Daily ot 12 Noon Wednesday, Thursday one of the stirring action dramas of the year JHiUM RAYMOND MASSEY CO-ADVENTUREI FLAMING DANGER! in i land of lor fflimary of i kits! CARTOON NEWS House of Tamales 3i01 Chester Lane 3-7797 Opan 4 P. M.

to 10 f. M. Daily FEATURE: Spanish Food to Take put Wrth en Aathinric Try rataring party lev er tee smaB. it's the FOOD AT THE COLONIAL INN 7GO UNION AVENUE Lobsters Stula Ribt Fan Mail Slips During Writer Thomas Reveals post office has so much inadequately addressed mail. Loads of Mail Each train to Los Angeles brings a load of fan mail.

Those addressed to. stars at studios in Culver City, "West Los Angeles, are- sent to postal stations in those areas. But the great bulk of mail is sent without the studio address. That and letters for studios in Hollywood proper are shipped to the Hollywood office. Four men sort the mail, armed with directories which show the latest studios or Addresses for the stars.

The letters are: tossed into cubbyholes, and there is one for every well-known player in the movies. Some, in fact, I had never heard of. The mail is assembled by studios and each; sends a messenger to pick it up every-day. Daily average for the: big studios is around three and a half bags. Some Decline Superintendent Bott reported a decline in recent years of screwball addresses.

(For instance, a Hose drawn on an envelope intended, for Jimmy Durante.) Lately there have been a few tagged only with buttons and bows, but such pranks have declined. The, postal boys afe just as happy. They can usually find the right addresses, but it slows tha mail. They have enough trouble with the foreign mail, piles of which arrive with every boat. Every country of the world is represented.

Despite what their press agents say, newcomers to the screen don't score in the fan mail department right away. "It takes: years for actors to start getting a volume of mail," Bott reported. "Apparently the public likes to see the stars on the screen foi 'and get to know them." Aside from handling the star mail, the Hollywood post office Is like any other in the land. Last year it was finally granted the right to use "Hollywood" postmark instead of Los Angeles, of which the filmtowfl is a part. It may not have a mayor, a charter or a railroad station, but at least Hollywood has a postmark.

Capsule review: "Yellow Sky" (T.C.F.) is an "interesting "story of men's lust for gofti; it lacks the depth bi "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." It has some action and fine photography and ranks several notches above the western film standard. Gregory Peck adds reality to the film with his sincere approach and Anne Baxter is slim 'and effective. Kichard Widmark is wasted in a role padded beyond its worth. PENNIES IN RAILS PUEBLO, Those confusing gray-colored pennies have an after-fife when you finish with them. After being retired to the Denver mint, the zinc-coated one cent pieces are mashed to" make them unusable, and then sent here for use in steel making.

The Colo- radio Fuel and Iron Corporation melts them with other scrap metal and they are used in steel rails, structural steel, fence wire, nails and spikes. STARTS Saturday FIRST WEST COAST SHOWING! Continuous From 12 Noon Action! Adventure! Thrills! THE CISCO KID "VALIANT HOMBRE" leo Carrillo EVELYN B.PENTZER Owner-Director of Modern Stiidio of Dancin Announces the appointment of MR. LOUIS LEON Head of the Acrobatic Department Registration for spring term acrobatic, tumbling and trampoline now being taken. Mr. Leon is in charge of physical education, health and recreation at Kern County Elementary and Junior High Schools.

MISS BEVERLY HESSICK Baton Twirling Specialist is also now associated with us and will give instruction by appointment. MISS AUDREY CASTELLO, in charge of ballet department, will have openings in one class of beginners for spring term, ages 6 to 12. MR. HAROLD BLAKE, instructor and stylist, will also have one class of beginners at this time. For Information Call 2-6715 or 2-7794 1717 Sixteenth Street Branches in Arvin, Wasco, Taf SPRING TERM BEGINS JANUARY 31 BANDUCC1 CAFE 1029 East Truxfun On Sale Beer and Wine Italian Stew SERVED AT LUNCHEON, 11 A.

M. TO 2 P. M. HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP By PATRICIA CLARY Press Staif Correspondent HOLLY liilibiUjv given up her brief fling at-glamor. Her fans told her it left her "no different Miss Canova got her newrlook picture'iii over the country when she gave up her wiry braids for a silken hairdo and her homespon cottons for draped satins.

Five thousand, fans from away, to Plainfield, Texas, raised.a fuss. How dare you forsake your Joan Allen of Detroit wrote in rampant red ink. "Our whole club went hillbilly because of you! Now you've put us out of style. Please go back to pigtails;" Still a Lady "You're no'different than a revenuer now, except maybe youTe a lady." Mrs. Nancy Johnson, Laramie, told Judy she thought she'd gone Hollywood.

"Now you're just like everybody else in the movie city," Mrs. Johnson complained. "At least, when you were a hillbilly you had a lot of character and seemed warm aud 1'ou were natural and you were like one of us." The jother 4997 letters were similar. "Gosh sakes," said Miss Cauova. "I just thought I'd like to look.like the other gals for a change." MLss Canova came down fcom the mountains an innocent gal with high-top shoes, gingham dress and drooping pantaloons.

Folks from Maine to California were crazy about her and her yodelling voice. But with Lana Turner to the right and Hita Hnyworth to the left, a hillbilly girl gels ideas. Miss Canova hied herself, a few months ago, to the hair stylist and makeup man, Perc He clipped off her pigtails, waved hair, arched her brows and pan- caked her face. She plopped into Don Loper's clothes salon. He plncked off the homespuns disdainfully and draped her in sophisticated, decollete black taffeta.

"I got tired of them 1 she confessed. "I couldn't sprawl in my gowns, I couldn't toss my head without mussing my hair, and the makeup was so thick I couldn't show my feelings through my face." Now she's hauled out the old hadn't put them very far is yodelling happily. She hopes the 5000 fans are happy, BADGER DANCE NO BUNNY HUG LONDON Brian Vesey Fitzgerald, whose hobby is watching mammals, has caught badgers in both somber and gay moods. Badgers, he told a nature study their dead. They also gather iu dells and thing like a quadrille.

Pseudo-Scientists Back "Lost Continent" Theory Box Office Opens 6 P. Latest Newt Color Cartoon "Football Headlines ef 1948" Eokjrsfield'i Family Theatre HOW BOX OFFICE OPENS 6 P.M. CO-HIT! I Robert Dent, Usd! MONTE ORISTO" Color Cortesn Sport GeUen Age" For more years than countless generations can recall; theories have been expounded concerning the existence and the fate of the fabulous lost Continent of Atlantis, and its reappareanee on l9e earth. Today, than 300 groups of modern people, operating as societies and research' groups, esist here in America, delving into the mysteries of'what is termed by archaeologists and anthropologists as "The Atlan- tean Theory." In Hollywood, Producer Seymour Nebenzal, whose newest motion pie- ure adventure-Tomance, "Siren of Atlantis" will have its first western premiere howiiig Friday evening Nile theater in was eiposed to representatives of the various groups, when word first was published-that the to be produced, ico-starring Maria Monica, Dennis O'Keefe and Jean Pierre Aumont. One group, the American Society of Anthropology, headed by Dr.

F. Bruce Russell, approached Neben- zal with'the astounding news thnt Russell, 10 years before, actually discovered a. burial crypt "definitely of Atlantean origin" hidden in the canyons of a mountain range near Wolf Hole. Arizona, midway between that site and the nearby Colorado river. The crypt contains nnich "treasure trove," according to Doctor Rnsseli.

and two rooms, built into the side mountain, are said to be literally lined with well-preserved of lie in twos, three tiers high resting In stone niches carved from the stony walls themselves. The society some day hopes to go back for thorough examination of their discovered someone will sponsor the cost of the expedition. GOES ON AND ON AND ON WARNER-BOGART BATTLE perennial battle between Warner Brothers and the Humphrey Bogarts enters another round. The actor is mulling a suit to break his wife's contract. The new mother is'stil! on suspension for refusing a Warner's picture.

Bogie says the film will nerer be made. "We may bring suit to end her contract," he remarked on the "Tokyo Joe" set. Bogart, one of the few Hollywood names who -worked for the Democratic campaign, regrets he won't be able to make the inaugural. He's in every scene of his picture and can't get away. Cornel Wilde isn't: peeved about Richard Widintirk getting all the attenti in "Roadlioiise." (Ads Donald O'Connor says he'll skip personals and stick to film work this year.

"I the exlra money, anyway," he says. retta Young's two boys are out the hospital after having their tonsils yanked. Billy DeWolfe left Chicago for "Dear Wife," thon returns to play the i'alnier House. They love him in Chicago. have called it "that Widmark "Why shouldn't he get more notice? He has the better role," remarks Cornel with candor for a star.

Starts Work Joan Davis is off to the inaugural and there's good news for her return. She starts script work on "The Traveling Saleswoman," which she'll do at Columbia. Her brand of comedy is much needed on the screen. Art Linklelter and Ralph Kd- wards are feuding over Edwards' remarks here that lie developed the audience participation air show. "How does he get that way?" remarks Art, who claims to have pioneered that type of show, too.

Dana Andrews' agents arranged a vacation for him, but he had already lined a couple of air After he does them, he'll be able to visit in and all over Ifexnsl HP also hopes to got in some Sun Valley time. TJie deal for him'to do "12 o'clock High' 1 at 20th-Kox is still in the air, but Dana is hoping. Dye Joh Wanda Hendrix surprised Audie Murphy by dyeing her huir back to her own shade before their wedding. It had been lightened for "Prince of Foxes." The first time Audie knew about the dye job was when she walked down the aisle. Robert Rossen says he doesn't think his "All the King's Men" will be banned in Louisiana, even though it has a Huey Long theme.

But if it is, it will be nothing new for Rossen. He wrote the anti-lynching film, "They Won't Forget," which he says -was banned in 13 states. The picture's other claim to fame: It introduced Lana Turner. Danny Kaye laid a big egg at last fall's command performance in London, travelers back from England report. After his Palladium triumph, the.

comic expected a warm reception. But he was playing before a bigger and colder audience. Opens Today at 6:00 P.M. NOW PLAYING WAITM GARSON PIDGEON CARTOON NEWS Box Office Opens 6:00 P.M. NOW PLAYING MUSICAL THtMC aUHNINC THUU MUKDUI CARTOON Wednesday, Thursday Starring Dennis Morgan with Andrea King And JOHN GARF5ELD PRJSCfLLA LANE COLOR CARTOON NEWS miiim.

The Never-to-Be-Forgotten Comedy Sensation Claudetie COLBERT Clark GABLE IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Heart-Throbbing Romance! SRiNE CARY 2 ALL TIME GREATS PENNY Phone 3-7825 DAILY at 6:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday Ida Lupine-Cornel Wilde "ROAD HOUSE" Jtomiie Wakely in "Oklahoma BSues" With "Oarinonball" Taylor Also Cartoon Dunne WiilSam Poweil in "LIFE WITH FATHER" Plus reafurette "A VOICE IS BORN" Color Cartoon.