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Mayor of Palm Springs Is Smash Video Star By ALINE MOSBY HOLLYWOOD boasts the world's only mayor who can claim today to be a smash success as a television comedian. The mayor is Charles Farrell, who reigns over Palm Springs, a swank watering place where neon signs hide the cactus. Movie fans remember him, too, as the handsome matinee idol of the 1930s and Janet Gaynor's co-star in "Seventh Heaven." Farrell has stayed far away from movies since 1936. But TV lured him out of retirement last June to play Gale Storm's father on an NBC television movie series, "My Little Margie." The show holds down third place in the popularity ratings, and Farrell Is new star all over again. turned down theater movies before," Farrell explained at Hal Roach Studio where the series is being filmed.

"I still wouldn't go back to the big studios. I won't even go down! the street to MGM for lunch," he! chuckled. "But TV movies are Informal and fun." Operates Resort In recent years, Farrell has been busy operating his Racquet Club, a swank private resort for movie stars in I'alm Springs. He was three days from leaving on a summer tour of Euroite when a friend, producer Hal Roach asked him to cottar in the series. "We were shooting couple of days and on television In five weeks and was I nervous!" sighed Far rell.

"I decided to try the show because it couldn't do me any harm A bad program could hurt some actors, but I was nut of the business, so what could I lose? The silver-haired and still band- some artor doesn't neglect his job as club proprietor and mayor when be journeys to Holly wood for the filming of the program, either. Florida Script had one script about Florida," he reflected. "I don't know how I let that get by. should one sequence in Palm Springs. "We don't have TV in Palm Springs yet, so I'm going to show three of our movies in the theater there," the mayor added.

The program has brought a new career to Miss Storm, too. She was unhappily playing "those long-suffering heroines" when she got this chance to do slapstick comedy. "Now every time I go shopping people stop me on the street to say how much they enjoy the program." she said. "That never happened to me itlien I was in pictures." 2 eaier ewd Friday, October 3,1952 21 Multi-Million Dollar Suit Set by 15 Film Folk LOS ANGELES (IP) Attorneys for 15 Hollywood workers, including three Motion Picture Academy Award winners, said today that they will file a multi-million dollar suit against seven major film studios charging they have been blacklisted and deprived of constitutional rights. All of the IS have either been named, appeared or subpoenaed to appear before the House Un- American Affairs Committee.

Attorney Ben Margolis said that the suit will be filed within three weeks, and that members of the House committee may also be named as defendants. The complainants include actresses Gale Sondergaard and Anne Revere and screenwriter Michael Wilson, all Oscar winners. Others who will contend the industry has barred them from employment, Margolis said, are: Actor Howard da Silva, story editor Don Gordon, researcher Herta Uerkvitz, Paul Perlin, a movie set worker: and writers Edward Huebsch, Paul Jarrico, Robert Lees, Alfred Levitt, Abraham Polaneky, Robert L. Richards. Louise Rousseau and Waldo Salt.

Margolis, himself a defiant witness before the committee this week, contends that members of the committee lose their immunity if "they exceed authority." He claims the hearings overstep the bounds of congressional authority. THEIR DIVORCE IS Rita Hoyworth and Prince Aly Khan obliged photographers with this formal pose and the announcement that their divorce is off indefinitely. They received the photographers at Aly's mansion in Paris where Rita is living since her arrival. MARIE WILSON IN CBS TV 'UNVEILING' By BEN COOK HOLLYWOOD Leigh has a simple, straightforward answer for the person who asks her whether it is not too much of a to be en actress and keep a home going at the tame time. Cooled by Scientific Refrigeration COOl ANO COMFORTABLE Earthquake Proof TONIGHT lH TOMORROW 1:00 PRICE 10WRY Always Comfortably Cool Phone 1.7264 faTM hjinau A il TONIGHT 4:00 TOMORROW 10:30 CREGbrar PECK -Aim BOTH Co-Poature Don't Bother to Knock YOUR OWN BIG SHOW! D0N7 MISS IT! In Addition to Regular Shew 3 COLOR CARTOONS 3-STOOGE.

'COMEDY Serial No. Perils of Darkest Jungle" CANDY Office Opens at 10-J0 "Of course not," she says. "I lore my career, and I lore my husband (Tony Curtis, that would be) and my home even more. With a little planning and management, I can keep both jobs going. "I'm not the only actress who keeps a home and a career going at the same time.

There are Jane I'owelL Leslie Caron, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, Deborah Kerr and Cyd Charlsse, and many, many more." She does admit it takes an efficient business organization. With her own busy in "Scaramouche." ''Fearless Fa Ran "The Naked Spur." and "A Steak jr Connie" coming in quick doesn't bare much time for personal attention to the details of household management. Relatives Help Janet solved her problem by delegation of duties. Her aunt. Pearl Ilia tick, is ber personal secretary.

Miss Bianck answers all Miss Leigh's and Curtis' fan mail tliat is not taken care of directly by their studios. She also does Janet's personal shopping. As business manager. Miss Leigh has her father. Fred Morrison.

And for the day-to-day operation of the household she has a niuid who stays at the apartment from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. on days when she has to be at the studio. HOLLTWOOD Iff) NBC and CBS wind up the first beat of a spectacular television building race this week end with buxom Marie Wilson out in front for CBS. The two biggest networks are spending more than 100 million dollars to make Hollywood the television capital of the world, a title now held by New York.

CBS unveils a 12-mllliob-dollar initial unit of its television city tomorrow with the fall return of Miss Wilson in "My Friend Irma." On Saturday, NBC will microwave a special "All-Star Bevue" with Bed Skelton, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante, Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Harpo Marx and'George JesseL Berle, an NBC standby from New York, is flying out for the opening show, which will be broadcast from a new 3V6 million dollar studio, the first in an eventual 50- million-doliar project The NBC studio was rushed to completion with the fast tilt-up method construction. Walls, pillars and other big parts of the building were made horizontally and then lifted into position by giant cranes. Ground was broken only last July 7. The NBC studio bas two sound stages in its 9,000 square feet It occupies an acre and a balf of a 48-acre tract next to Warner Brothers movie studio in Burbank. The Everybody does! So smooth it leaves you breathless VODKA go Qttxt from gum ncmsl spirits Scr.

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NOW SHOWING MiTZI GREEN. SECOND CO-HIT "RAINBOW 'ROUND MY SHOULDER" Wits FBiHKIE UIH? nri BILLY DANIELS tfANCtiO THEATRE BOX OFFICE OPENS AT P.M. TOMORROW AT 12:00 NOW SHOWING SECOND CO-HIT WIS SATURDAY Color Cartoons and Serial Added to Regular Program MOVING RENT A TRUCK -DRIVE DIVISION OF YELLOW CAB CORNER OF ISth ST. Phone 5-5045 network claims it to be the world's largest audience studio. The CBS unit, in Hollywood proper, will open Studio 81, the first of four mammoth studios, measuring 12,100 square feet A 13-story administration building is also to be built.

This first CBS unit covers 15 acres in what the network calls the world's first community designed exclusively for television. It boasts the world's largest stage-lighting control installation, all electronic. The system- can control million watts and can create a brilliant sunset Joan Blair Asks Divorce SANTA MONICA Joan Blair bas sued her financier husband, David A. Coplin, for divorce, alleging extreme cruelty. BAKERSFIELD 20-30 CLUB Presents The Third Annual Civic Drama Festival in the HARVEY AUDITORIUM 3 OUTSTANDING STAGE PLAYS DIRECT FROM BROADWAY WITH DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK CASTS Direct From Its 1951 Broadway Engagement "GLAD TIDINGS" This Great Comedy Success was Played in N.

Y. by HatM and Metvyn Douglas. Wendell Mayes and Fhyllii Manning, old Civic Drama Guild win andertako these an tear. WEDNESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 3, 1952 A New Musical Comedy Version of "THE FLEDERMAUS" The Moot Colorful Attraction from the Repertoire of the New York Metropolitan Opera WEDNESDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 25, 1953 The Sensational Comedy Hit "JENNY KISSED ME" Produced In N. Y.

Dec 23. If4f, this play has served Summer Theatre starring vehicle lor Helen Hayes and Jar daughter, Mary. THURSDAY NIGHT, APRIL 23, 1953 CURTAIN TIME 8:00 P.M. A reserved seat for all three plays only $5.00, federal tax $1.00, city tax 48c total $6.48 Tickets now en sale at Elmer Karpe's, 920 Chester Avenue, or from any 20-30 Club member. Phene 2-0087 USE THIS COUPON FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE I TO: CIVIC DRAMA FESTIVAL 920 CHESTER AVENUE BAKERSFIELD, CALIF.

ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND FOR TICKETS AT $6.48 IN- CLUDING TAX EACH FOR A RESERVED SEAT FOR All THREE I PREFER: SEATS FRONT RIGHT SIDE I CENTER ON CENTER I REAR IEFT SIDE MY TICKETS TO. ORDER NOW IN BAKERSRELD The Biggest-Best Steaks MR. MRS. OF RADIO FAME 11th and Chester Avenue OPEN DAILY, It rJUMo TM. (Bxctft Triift) SUNDAYS, to fJU.

KEWPIE BLAIR ate.) of NO MB I Phone 3-01M BALANCE ROCK RESORT BIG DANCE EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC BY HACKETT'S RHYTHMAIRES Best Fleer in the Mountains New cafe, excellent food served oeargtday of the week, taint Xaar fondly and friends far Armor and cool evening. end WINE SERVED COMPLETE MARKET CAtlNS FOR HOUSEKEEPING SHUFFUSOARO FISHING 49 Miles Northeast Bakersfield 39 Miles East Perierville am COCKTAILS DINNERS FUN AT THE PIANO BAR NIGHTLY Now-Mere Than Ever-The Place Ge NOW FEATURING COMPLETE $1.50 DINNER Hickory Sasafcod Virginia'Horn or Ale. Choke Steaks, boat Young Tees Turkey COLOR FILM ABOUT SI AM TO BE SHOWN A color film, "Slam," itill.be shown at 7:30 pjn. Sunday at the Panama Community (Congregational Church, it was revealed today by tht pastor, the Ber. B.

G. Heddon. Picturing "the land of fabulous temples," the 30-minute film will show colorful Bangkok, fascinating river life, ceremonial cobra farm, exquisite mosaics and a Gospel challenge. The film is produced by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. There will be no admission charge, but a free -will offering will be taken.

The public is in- Tited to attend. Funds will be used to help young people to prepare for Christian service. MILE SEE THE NEW SEASON'S BIG HITS IN SAFE, AIR-CONDITIONED COMFORT Jock AND i WOMAN of tKc NORTH COUNTRY Ml CMEI9N GAIESTORM PLUS- JERSEY JOE WALCOTT ROCKY MARCIANO Dalnmm et WO Hone ftchsts TODAY A AT 1140 OON ith EVA BARTOK 2nd FEATURE Western Thriller "Bare to the SasMIe" SO. LAMOHT DRIVE-IN THEATRE GATE OPENS at 5:30 SHOW TIME 6:30 NOW SHOWING COLOR CARTOON OUT OF THE DISASTER AREA This HioaAof boo boon by cemperent onginaera FoatHl la bo absolutely free of any not oven plaster crack. THI SAFEST F1ACE IN TOWN TO MIN6 YOUR FAMIIYI NOW SHOWINO "Wost of tho Pocos" PIUS "Stronghold" On Saturday, It'a BROILED 8-OZ.

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