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PAGE 4 Section THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1946 'V i (L -4 Actress June Vincent, whose hand he grasps', has been out of films for a year. Right: Susan Hayward (Mrs. Jess Barker) and those Barker twins that have given Susan special distinction among glamor girl mamas, Hollywood division. They were on hand on last Mother' Day, but were mites of 2 months at that time Three Hollywood beauties to whom Mother' Day has added significance, and the four reasons why. Left: Maria Christina Aumont, born on Valentine's Day, poses for her picture with her beautiful mother, Maria Montez.

Actor Jean Pierre Aumont has a half interest in this newcomer. Center: William Sterling, is the reason why Hedda Hopper On Hollywood Mr. Smith Comes Home, Boyish Charm Intact Hollywood. AISY, the middle-aged woman who' Latimore young-Old By ROSALIND SHAFFER the play, and Judith Anderson was the star. The producers decided the second-act curtain needed a punch.

Jimmy was to be the fall guy and read the new lines. The scene was his mother's drawing room, and he'd just learned that the was dividing her love by three the father, the father' best friend (her lover), and Jimmy. So in the role Jimmy was supposed to turn on his mother and call her a vile name. But on perusing the lines he turned white as a sheet and said. "Mr.

McClintic, I couldn't possibly do that." But under pressure he was forced to. It killed his spirit and helped kill the play. Jimmy entered the door declaiming, "No excuse, no excuse for being late." before I had a chance to mention it, even if I'd wanted to. He'd been trying to lower his score on the golf course, and failed. I expressed my condolences.

After seeing that we were comfortable, he sprawled out in a chair. His Hair Is Graying His face was deeply tanned, his hair graying, but the war had not taken away that engaging frankness, that boyish charm which makes him seem like every one's big brother and which has endeared him to audiences everywhere. If you like Jimmy Stewart on the screen (as who doesn't?) you'd like him off even more. He's much -the same both places. With long legs stretched across the room, earnest voice, he seemed to me like Mr, Smith come home.

And that's just about what he was, too. His housekeeper, who has a perfect imitation of the Stewart voice and mannerisms, told me that when Jimmy first returned he wouldn't eat all the food she dished out to him. Finally she said: "During the war. Stewart, we had what we called victory plates. We ate everything on them so as not to waste the food." The next night Jimmy called in the housekeeper, pointed to his plate, and said: "See, Daisy, now that's a victory plate!" It was clean as a whistle.

Jimmy's putting on a wee bit of weight. On his return home Jimmy, whom the whole town loved and admired, could have had any picture he wanted. He selected "It's a Wonderful Life." He explained the choice with just two words Frank Capra. You'll remember it was the teaming of Director Capra and Stewart that produced "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." So when Frank called Jimmy up with an idea for a picture Jimmy didn't bother to read the script.

He said: "That's it!" The story's a natural for him. "It's a Wonderful Life" appeared first as-a long Christmas greeting. Capra saw an idea for a picture in it and paid $10,000 for the opportunity of developing it into a scenario. It's the story of a small-town business man who thinks his entire life has been a failure because none of the big things he has aspired to came true. Proud He's Small Town Jimmy is proud of being a small-town boy and thinks great cities are only communities amplified to a point of confusion.

Since his discharge from the air force he's been learning to play. Before the war he was kept so busy working he had no time for anything else. His one relaxation was flying. Now, with 2,000 hours in the air to his he's fed up on planes. He has no interest in commercial aviation.

He has grounded himself for at least a year. He has taken up tennis and golf. Furthermore, he's discovering California. "In the Army," he said, "every one was constantly boosting his state. I knew California had everything mountains, sea, snow, trees, desert but I couldn't say anything.

You see, I'd never even been to Palm Springs." He spoke wistfully of a location trip he'd made long ago to Lake Tahoe. "It was really beautiful there," he said. "I always planned to go back, but I never got to." Works With Hands Like many other returned veterans, Jimmy finds pleasure in pottering about his house. He'd just finished smoothing the paneled been keeping house for Jimmy Stewart a number of years, says he has only one fault. He's invariably late.

He was late for my interview, but I was glad of that. It gave me a chance to mosey around his place and see how the most eligible bachelor In Hollywood has lived since he came back from the war. You'd never have guessed it was a movie star's h6me. The utterly devoid of ornament, was as plain as Jimmy and a great deal more severe. The accouterments usually found in actors' homes were completely lack, ing.

I found no scripts, no volumes of plays, no busts of the great, no graphs of girls. Even his Oscar was missing. He sent that to his father, who still displays it in his store in Indiana, Pa. In fact, it has the place of honor there. For pinups Jimmy had sketches of airplanes.

His books dealt with 'aviation and history. In his den were a clock (not running), a model plane, and a gadget for prec- ticing piloting. One Painting, One Photograph The living room bore only two pictures. One was a painting of a tall man with a long shadow walking down a country road. The other was a gag photograph of Jimmy, Burgess Meredith, and John Swope made up as the Marx brothers and giving their interpretation of "The Spirit of '76." A small baby grand piano on which Jimmy jives a bit stood near a bookcase with no books in it.

His radio-record player, with a selection of popular music, had a sound system especially designed by Norma Shear-er's brother, Douglas. Jimmy has a sensitive ear. He later explained that he was interested in getting good tone, rather than Moscow or Bombay, on his Hence the special sound device. I first met Jimmy at Kit Cornell house in New York, where Guthrie MtfClintic was having his first reading by Three." The late Mrs. George Kaufman had written walls of his den with steel wooL "That's hard work," he explained.

"Why didn't you pay some one else to de-it?" I asked. "I didn't think anyone else would," he said. Jimmy plans to return to England to visit the memorial being erected In memory of the boys killed in his unit. It's to be a publie library, with all the names of the dead inscribed on its walls. "So many of the men fell into the sea and were never found." he explained.

"That's all their families will be ablt to see." Specified No Hokum During the war I wanted to dramatize Jimmy's story on the air, but had to get bis consent first. He was flying over Germany at the time. But when he returned to England, Bill Morrow located him and asked his permission for me. Jimmy said: "Ttll Hedda she can write anything about me she wants, but please ask her not to hoke it up." Jimmy's best friend warned me not to mention the war to him. He's proud of America's part in it, proud of his comrades in arms, but feels that personal exploits should be for gotten.

When interviewers ge on his own esteemed war record, Stewart blows up. He doesn't want to talk about it I didn't bring it up. I did mention our obligation to the dead. He grew Immediately pensive. The dead won't be forgotten," he said.

"Give the country time to regain it mental balance. We've had too much of the war-to see it clearly. We should all try forgetting it four or five years. Then you'll see the most terrific stories, tht greatest films ever made, coming out of thia war." Has Faith In Hollywood He feels the same way about pictures in general. Don't rush'Hollywood.

Progress take time. In a few more years you'll be seeing productions really unique and worthwhile. I asked if he'd like to take another fling at the stage. His answer was, "Yes." "But." I pointed out, "have you noticed the pannings our film actors have had on Broadway?" "Not if they produce what It take, aald Jimmy. "Look at Ruth Hussey, Margaret 8ul lavan, Betty Field.

And besides, when I saw Spencer Tracy in New York he told me, gardless of what the critics wrote or how hi play did, his return to the stage had him something he could never find in Hollywood." Just before leaving I reminded Jimmy that he was the last big-time bachelor left among Hollywood. RANK LATIMORE is a young Joe Cotten. Latimore not only resemble Cotten. with his light brown, curly hair, blue eyes and height (over 6 feet), but has something of the same personality. Both have an easy, assured poise, remarkable in Latimore's case because he is only Both have social charm.

Latimore may have inherited his from his Southern forbears. On Stage In Adolescence Young Latimore, who has played in "The Dolly Sisters" and Is a veteran of the theater because he is a man with definite ideas. He decided at 14 to be an actor and began playing in summer theaters. His first role was the lead in "Smilin Through" in a fly-by-night company In Jersey City. Tall for.

his years, he found it easy to conceal his age and inexperience. The famed Barter Theater In Abington, gave him a couple of summers' training in stock. There he worked with Gregory Peck and Charles Kovin, now both doing well on the screen. After that came Broadway in "Janie- (1942), "Her First Murder," with Zasu Pitts; "Dark Eyes," with Tamara Geva; the road company of "Room Service" and "Let Us Be Gay," with Gloria Swanson. "Dark Eyes" brought him a screen test and a Hollywood contract.

He made "In the Meantime, Darling," with Jeanne Crain before he went into the Army. After nine months he was given a medical discharge and the chance to play in "The Dolly Sisters." Latimore's quiet, authoritative manner gives the impression that he is all of 30, at least He doesn't believe in arty little theater groups. He says they are, too often used as an excuse by actors afraid to measure themselves against the commercial theater. The old theater-versus-films argument finds Latimore on the side of the movies, for practical reasons. "The theater is a hard way to get a big name," he says, "because you play to small audiences.

Furthermore, there is no financial security in the theater. Hollywood offers are difficult to refuse." Student When Not Working No headline personality for off-screen ac. tivities, Latimore is a serious, hard-working actor. When not before the cameras, he studies in Director John Cromwell's class at the actors' laboratory. Young Latimore lives alone, except for a housekeeper, in a pleasant Beverly Hills home not far from U.C.L-A.

All in all, Latimore is the most remarkable 21-year-old man I've met. It's still hard to believe that he is so young. The Sunday Sun, Baltimore, May 12. 1946 The Sunday Sun, Baltimore. May 12, 1946 Magistrate Liss Has Close Call mix 1 our film stars.

He screwed up his fact and said, "Frightening!" Well, there you have Jimmy Stewart, who as Mr. Smith went to Washington, as Colonel Stewart helped fight they war in the air, and now, as just plain Jimmy, is trying to relax, have a little fun, and for the first time see a bit of California, which, he now calls home. JT vr 1 W- L3 Wfi Horse Op eras Now Come High i I i parade last week end. Federal Post No. 19, American Legion, of Baltimore, won second prize and the Francis Scott Key Drum and Bugle Corps, of Frederick, took third place.

James F. Kruszynski, of 3123 Elliott street, was granted the first new taxicab permit issued by the Public Service Commission under its recent order authorizing permits for 158 veterans. New Boys' School Planned Marists Brothers will teach at the Catholic Boys High School to be erected at Loch Raven boulevard and Northern parkway. Arch-bishop Curley A sum of $750,000 is already available for construction of the school, the prelate said, and building will start "just as soon as circumstances permit." Magistrate Solomon Liss fined Paul Brothers, of the 2300 block Bryant avenue, $76.25 for failing to "correct conditions" in- seven properties he is responsible for in the Leadenhall-Henrietta street slum-clearance project. Charges of'rat infestation, structural dilapidation" and fire hazards were docketed against the landlord.

William Cabell Bruce. 86. United States Senator from Maryland from 1923 to 1929, lawyer and author, died Thursday morning. Sentenced In Lamour Theft Sentences of six years each in the Penitentiary, were imposed on Thursday on two colored men who pleaded guilty in connection with the $30,000 theft of jewelry and other articles from Dorothy La mour, screen actress, and her husband, William Ross Howard 3d, of Pikesville. The Rt.

Rev. Msgr. W. Paul Smith, pastor of St. Paul's Catholic Church, Caroline and Oliver streets, died Thursday night at St.

-Joseph's Hospital He was 61. Mon-signor Smith, who would have been associated with St. Paul's Church 34 years next month, had the rare distinction of serving only one congregation. Bay Shore Changes Ownership Bay Shore Park on the Chesapeake Bay was acquired by the Town Real Estate Corporation, headed by O. L.

Bonifay. Automobile licenses and registrations of 507 motorists were under suspension in Maryland at The Week's News (Continued from Pace 1) thought that the Japs had retaken Tokyo. It is perfectly evident that the man is actuated by some mean motive." John Gordon Fleming, the 16-month-old baby son of Mrs. Ilee Fleming, of 1414 Linden avenue, was unhurt when he fell 30 feet from a second-floor window of his home into the arms of two Negro soldiers who happened to be passing by. The two men, without identifying themselves, noticed the infant teetering on the edge of the window sill.

They stopped beneath the baby, and when, a moment later, the child fell, caught him in their arms. New Ferry Boat Launched The Matapeake ferry boat Governor Herbert R. O'Conor, the largest boat now in the Chesapeake Bay ferry service from Sandy Point to Matapeake, was launched last week. The action came following a re- -quest for service after 1 A.M. on the cross-bay ferry system by the ver-the-road transportation companies, industrial firms, commercial and business houses of the Cambridge area.

The local interests said that considerable tonnage in a diversity of commodities can best be moved to markets in the early tours of the morning. New Thoroughfares Planned Four new thoroughfares are included in this year's street-paving project, City Highway Engineer William N. D. Fischer disclosed. The new thoroughfares, all to be built in new bousing developments, are: 1.

Cold Spring lane from Beau-i regard avenue to Loch Raven boulevard and. on to Hillen road. 2. Beauregard avenue from Belvedere to Gleneagle avenue. 3.

Wabash avenue from Sequoia avenue to Northcott road. 4. Briarclift road from Old Frederick road to Cook's lane. City Hall jobs, which were once mucn sought after, are now going begging to such an extent that a committee of city officials Is considering salary increases to attract applicants and fill vacancies. Newspapers of Mount St Joseph High School and Baltimore City College won first and third places, tual construction of the monument.

i the end of April for failure to comply with the State's Financial Responsibility Act which calls for security being posted with the Motor, Vehicles Department to cover injury and damages in accidents in which they bad been involved. William A. Spurrier and Louis Evry. operators of a poultry stall in Northeast Market, Monument and Chester streets, announced that their stall will remain closed until the black maket is destroyed. Clarence Cooper Resigns Raymond S.

Hyson, superintendent of schools in Carroll county, will become superintendent of schools in Baltimore county on July 1. it was announced Tuesday. Mr. Hyson succeeds Clarence G. Cooper, who is to retire on July 1.

Two mechanical street sweepers, first to be owned by the city in some years are to be put into operation experimentally in the Mount Royal and Brooklyn areas by the Bureau of Street Cleaners. Later 'the data on their operation will be compared with that of two sweepers of another type now on order. Bologna 'Fry Brings Firemen Little Freddie Lissau, who is the 31 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard G.

Lissau, of 125 Oakdalc avenue, Catonsville, got up bright and early Wednesday morning 5 A.M. to fix breakfast for himself and sister Carolyn. 2 la years old. He managed to remove Carolyn from her crib without arousing his sleeping parents. Mother and father, however, didn't remain asleep very long after the children began to fry bologna and neither did the Catonsville Fire Department.

Lissau was awakened by screams from the children on the first floor. Racing down the steps she scooped up the children in one arm and called the Fire Department with the other. Freddie told his father and mother that Carolyn had put her comic books on the gas range to fry hotcakes. Freddie said he was just frying his bologna when the "hotcakes" began to blaze. Poles Celebrate Constitution Day A rally to oust the Russians from Poland commemorated Polish Constitution Day in Patterson Park Sunday afternoon.

The celebrators were addressed by political leaders and the day featured a parade of however, which was promised "soon" at various Intervals during the eighteen-year period, hasn't been completed yet. Patient Baltimoreans are still waiting and wondering if the empty pedestal standing diagonally across from the Museum of Art will always bo that way. To refresh the memory of the scores of Baltimoreans who have forgotten what the statue is to look like, it will be 13 feet from the top of the base to the heads of the two men. The group shows General Jackson about to pull away on his mount with his head thrust forward slightly as if calling some last remark to his commander in chief. General Lee is depicted astride his favorite charger.

Traveler, his head at an angle that indicate he is attentive to the remark that Jackson is making. Those City College Slopes! The School Board agreed to have the Gorsuch avenue grounds of the City College planted with barberry or sodded next fall after John W. Lewis, assistant superintendent of schools in charge of business management, said there was no urgent need for such action this spring. A retaining wall has already been constructed from the driveway of the school west to a fence separating the City College grounds from those of School No. 50, and grading of the slope was completed several weeks ago.

Mr. Lewis says the slopes should be sodded, but that would not be effective if done at this time of the yean unless it were possible to water the elopes very frequently during the summer. Approves Vets' Applications The Baltimore regional office of the Veterans Administration estimated that it had approved more than 3,000 applications for subsistence allowance from Maryland veterans planning to enter institutions of higher education this fall. Shortly before this estimate was made, a report came from Washington that a survey by the VA of enrollment capacities of 1,029 of (Turn to Next Page) Gob Humor From the U.S. Coast Guard Magazine Private I'm not on guard tonight, girlie.

Gal But I am, soldierl I A 7 i The dignity of Magistrate Solomon Liss was dealt a crushing blow last week when the magistrate took the afternoon off to go to the races and was accused of being a pickpocket. Mr. Liss said he was taken back when "a tall, dignified gentleman with gray, hair" pulled him away from the betting window and demanded the return of his pocket-book. first I didn't know what he was talking about, but finally it dawned on me that he was suffering under the misapprehension that I had picked his wallet," the magistrate said later. "There wasn't much time before the windows closed and I had to talk fast to convince hfm that he had the wrong man," Mr.

Liss continued. "Actually, I guess I could have used his pocketbook." he added, umilins. "The fact of the matter is that I lost on every one of the eight races." costumed and bugle corps and veterans' organizations, which marched from Broadway and Bank street to the park. The isolated community of Smith Island became doctorless with the death of its only medical man Dr. W.

F. Seabold. 72. Lacking medical aid, Clayton Evans, the 6-month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Evans, died in his father's arms while waiting for a. boat to take him to the nearest doctor, on the mainland, 12 miles away. A Crisfield physician said he believed the baby would have been saved if Smith Tsland's only doctor had not been at the point 'of death when the infant was stricken, Have Patience Eighteen years ago J. Henry Ferguson, Baltimore banker and sportsman, died and left $100,000 for the erection of a heroic bronze statue to Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, whom he greatly admired.

In 1939 the foundation-pedestal arrangement for the monument was completed at a cost of $50,000. Ac- NCE upon a time when an ambitious movie maker had a constricted bank roll tht obvious thing to do was to make a Western. These have always paid off at the box office from the earliest days, when William S. Hart always could sight a gal down the barrels of his two guns. The great outdoors furnished scenery free, and if the horses were smart enough directors and actors didn't need much experience.

Many a fortune was piled up with this simple formula: The bad man was bad, tht hero never kissed anybody but his horse and the heroine with marcelled hair was indubW tably pure. That's all been changed. The Western, one the meat of the Independent producer, hag now become one of the most expenshrt and elaborate types of picture being turned out la Hollywood. Every studio has at least one high budgeted Western on tap. Most expensive of the lot is "Duel in the Sun, which ran up a bill of $5,000,000.

Based on Niven Busch'a popular novel, the story is cast with Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten," Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish. While nature provided a good deal of tht settings, the town of SpanishBit had to be built. The scene showing the town party used three barbecue pits with whole steers roast-, ing, fine old linens, silver and china, with quantities of gilt chairs, all from New Orleans. Twelve hundred cowboy and extras were used in the film, piling up a total of 78,580 work days, which represents a fifth tf tht expense account. Looks like this might be tht dawn, ing of tricky aw setup for faihion-minded gals.

Barbara Hale, appearing jit "Lady Luck," models htr new bathing suit, which is covered with hundreds of gold-tprayed coin she received during the war from eervice men all ever the world respectively, in the second annual Temple University press tournament held in Philadelphia. The Dundalk Sunday-School Drum and Bugle Corps won a first-place trophy for its performance in the nineteenth annual Apple Blossom Festival's grand feature.