The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 31

SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 1941 v. J' i V) SHEILA RYAN Started with Twentieth Century Fox after television test. TW. WINNIPEG TRIBUNE Movie Cinderellas, New Faces On Screen, Climb To Stardom By HAROLD HEFFERNAN 'Releajwl by North American Ntwaptper Alllucf, Inc.

THE Cinderella type of candidate still re'gns supreme in Hollywood. The movie city continues to unearth 15 new feminine faces to every young man. Asked to name their two most promising young players (both male and female) for stardom in 1942, heads of five major studios named an all feminine slate. No male prospects of any consequence have been uncovered In the first six months of 1941, they indicated. These and other interesting sidelights on Hollywood's ever important casting problems were brought to light this week In a talent survey covering the first half of the current year.

Looking back over the last six months, Hollywood producers were astonished in comparing notes to discover that a serious problem may arise soon because of their Inability to discover and develop male leads. The all feminine slate of future stars, ai set forth by the studios follows: Eva Gabor and Frances Gifford, of Paramount Cobina Wright, and Sheilah Ryan, of Twentieth Centuy Fox. Kathryn Grayson and Rise Stevens, of Metro Gold wyn Mayer. Elisabeth Fraser and Alexis Smith, of Warner Brothers. Janet Blair and Pattl McCarty, of Columbia.

THUS, once more the old familiar cry that a little girl hos no chance to win importance In movicland is disproved. For all the shouting that the town is full to the brim of feminine stars and leading women and what the business needs desperately is a bumper crop of leading men, this Bagdad of Ballyhoo is still a push over for the persevering Cinderella girl. Let's take the "Big Ten," one by one and studio by studio and see what sort of glass slippers ushered them through the gates and to the foot of the ladder displaying a star on its top rung. Most notable of the near future film queens at Paramount is Eva Gabor, a tiny blonde who has just emerged from obscurity into the lead of an aviation picture, "Forced Landing." A young Hungarian girl who had never had a moment's acting experience, she was visiting Hollywood last winter when she decided to stay while. She was In a real estate office looking for an apartment and trying" to make herself understood, Incidentally when a talent agent entered on the same mission.

He was attracted by her beauty and, despite her inexperience and the fact that she didn't speak English, he got her a test and a contract at Paramount. Frances Gifford, on the same lot, come? pretty close to being the most beautiful actress in the movie Industry. She also made a Cinderella debut A Long Beach, high school graduate, Frances got a chance to visit a studio the day she was to leave for college In the east. Samuel Goldwyn spotted her and offered her a test. "She declined; Sam argued.

He kept arguing until it was too late for her RISE SVEVENST M.G.M.'s singer from Metropolitan Opera. it JANET BLAIR Columbia got there first and signed her up. 7 ALEXIS SMITH Warner's college graduate declaimer. ELISABETH FRASER Her own Cinderella godmother. to catch the train.

So, she took the test and landed in pictures. She will blossom soon In "Louisiana Purchase." Warners are busy betting drums about Alexis Smith and Elisabeth Fraser. Eleven months ago Alexis (one of the few newcomers BOTTLED BLOOD LONDON "In this room," said the officer, "there are 2,000 bottles which represent the difference between life and death to approximately 20,000 casualties." The room was small about, the size of the averr.ge larder and what looked like pint bottles filled with water were stacked to the celling. The officer was Colonel Lionel Whitby, the famous bacteriologist, who, working with the chemists of May and Baker, discovered and perfected M. and B.

693, the drug which, since its introduction in 1938, has saved millions of lives. Today, through a different medium. Colonel Whitby is engaged in saving many more mil lions of lives. In charge of the blood transfusion services of the entire British army at home and abroad, he is primarily responsible for constant supply to military and civilian hospitals of the precious scrum without which thousands would bleed to death. Colonel Whitby works at the head of a volynteer army of 100,000 men and women of all types, between the ages of 1 and 80.

They are drawn from the cities, towns and villages of the five south western counties in the centre of which his headquarters are situated. "lOLONEL Whitby is proud of these volun teers. "They're great hearted people," he told a reporter as they went from spotless room to spotless room in the depot watching A.T.S. girls checking and filing reports end correspon KATHRYN GRAYSON j4n MCM singing starlet of much promise. J'Z FRANCES GIFFORD Ptramoust's high school graduate Paramount's tiny Hungarian blonde.

who ever won a battle to retain her real name) was a graduate fresh from Los Angeles City College and before thaf a star student at Hollywood high school, where she was best known for havlrfg won a California state declamatory contest That's where she got TRANSFUSIONS dence, R.A.M.C. men and V.A.D.'s preparing and assembling bottles going out with the transfusion teams, Royal Engineers busy on a dozen different jobs about the place, doctors bent over jars and bottles and test tubes. "We come across many a good trooper of 75 or nearly 80, 'over the moon" with joy at not being considered too old to have a part in the war effort." Often those of the donors who have no whole time Jobs come to the depot to ask whether there is anything they can do "until it's time for the next transfusion." "So we turn them on to all sorts of odd Jobs, clerical work and such," said Colonel Whitby. "And they arc a very great help to us. "We have seven 'transfusion teams with all the necessary equipment packed Into converted army lorries.

These units go down to whichever place has been chosen for the transfusion, "Somtimes they work pretty well 24 hours on end." The reporter went down to the civic hall In which, since 9.30 that morning, two of the teams had been hard at work. Gay cretonne covered screens were set up to divide the place into reception room, transfusion room, and rest room. After watching a transfusion, a tall, gentle looking woman in a white linen coat took a land girl donor to the rest room. "That's Lieutenant Whitby, the colonel's wife and a brilliant surgeon," explained a V.A.D. "She is in charge of our team." EVA GABOR PATTI McCARTY Introduced to movies by Dorothy Lamour.

Now with Columbia. the Idea she wanted to be, an actress. Her chance came when Victor Orsatti, an agent, saw her in her college graduation play, "The Nip.lrt of January 16." He signed her up and Sold her to Warners. She has just finished leading role opposite Errol Flynn in "Dive Bomber." Not bad for a starter. MISS Fraser played the dual role of title character and fairy godmother In 'her own Cinderella story.

She did it by opening a door, walking into a room where Alfred Lunt was casting for the Robert Sherwood play, There Shall Be No Night, and asking for a job. COBINA WRIGHT 20th Century Fox's socialite beauty. Lunt asked who sent her. Miss Fraser replied honestly. No one had sent her.

He gave her a chance to read lines and half an hour later she had a role. Warners saw her In the show when it came to Los Angeles and today she is working with Fredric March In One Foot In Heaven. M.G.M., haven of singing stars Deanna Dur bin, Judy Garland, Jeanette MacDonald, Alan Jones, Susanne Foster, Nelson Edjjy are either there now or sprung from that lot has a couple more golden voiced beauties who already loom as money in the bank. They ar INVENTORS' CORNER The same synthetic bristles that are used In a popular toothbrush find effective use In a "furnisher" brush, employed in the textile printing industry to furnish dye to an engraved roll. It Is said to last at least four times as long as one of the bristle materials formerly used.

Reading habits cf school children may now be tested with a new instrument that records on a film the eye movements when reading. It shows whether the subject reads with smooth, speedy efficiency, or plods along with many a backtrack and pause. Small light focused on the eyes are reflected on the corneas, and these spots are recorded on the film, which Is automatically developed eight minutes after the test is made. Cheese can now be put up in cans. It has been produced experimentally in the laboratories of a large university, and proved of excellent quality.

Curing at 60 degrees t'. resulted In the development of strong flavors, which might be liked by some, but the majority would probably prefer the milder flavors of cheese cured cold, at 34 degrees F. A radio direction finder that will tell the direction of signals from stations as far away PAGE 3 Kathryn Grayson, Introduced successfully In a recent Andy Hardy film, and Rise Stevens, who is finding a role singing with Nelson Eddy in The Chocolate Soldier, something out of a fairy tale. Miss Grayson has been in the grooming process at M.G.M. for Wree years.

Miss Stevens, a New York girl, is considered the most glamorous singer ever brought to Hollywood from the Metropolitan. Two comparative newcomers well on the road big things at Twentieth Century Fox are Cobina Wright, and Sheilah Ryan. Cobina, New York socialite, and Sheilah, another graduate of Hollywood high school, represent opposite types in beauty. Cobina is tall, shapely, blue eyed and blonde. Sheilah Is a raven haired, blue eyed Irish beauty, whose real name is Katherine McLaughlin.

Cobina recently was spotted in a prominent part of Moon Over Miami. She attracted studio attention by singing In Hollywood night clubs. Sheila did a television broadcast that resulted in a test COLUMBIA feels that so long as such lovely girls as Patty McCarty and Janet Blair put in periodical appearances the Cinderella tale will never grow old. Reading Patti's history one might say she had the least likely chance of getting into pictures. She was born in Healdsburg, and we defy you to find it on the map.

After taking a business course in a Los Angeles school, Palti was introduced to Dorothy Lamour, who offered her a two weeks' job as her secretary. Weeks ran Into months and still Dorothy kept her on. The two became fast friends and went everywhere together. At a nfght club, Patti met Glenn Ford, the young Columbia leading man. And when she started going places with Ford, the studio took notice and gave her a test and a contract.

Miss Blair Is one of those Hollywood rarities a movie actress who looks like everyone's conception of a star. Born in Altoona, Pa. (her real name Is Lafferty), she took singing lessons which led to an engagement with Hal Kemp's orchestra. After Kemp's death Janet went to Hollywood and the sight of her had a lot of producers talking to themselves. Columbia got there first and for her debut role the newcomer becomes one of the important trio In Three Girls About Town, matching talents with such troupers as Joan Blondell and Binnle Barnes.

You'll be hearing much of these 1941 Cin derellas at least that's what Hollywood pro mlses. as 200 miles yet weighs only 17 pounds ha recently been Introduced. It Is expected to ba useful for the smallest privately owned boats. The old fashioned hot water bottle has all the advantages of an electric hot pad with a new electric temperature control. It Is a heating element that screws into the top of the bottle In place of the usual stopper.

There ere four different degrees of temperature, the one set being maintained by a thermostat. If the water Is no longer In contact with the heater, the current goes off. Fires of burning magnesium, used In aeroplane and other construction, are quickly extinguished with a powder that can bo applied with shovel or scoop. A protective blanket of vapor is formed, which keeps out the air needed for combustion. Fires of other burning metals can also be extinguished with its aid.

Rubber heels are now standard equipment for shoes for U.S. soldierj. Recent War Department orders for 2,500,000 pairs of new field shoes carried rubber heel specifications for the entire lot and 550,000 pairs are to be supplied with combination rubber and cotton soles as well..