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PART HL FEBRUARY 24, 194S V. )) -vH 1 1 f) I -i air ON BING'S TRAIL Harry James and Betty Grable have just bought 63 acres on which to breed race horses. With band and film profits for feed money they hope to give the Crosby nags some hot competition and even challenge Louis B. Mayer's hay burners. Stars Shun City's Gayeties WHIMSICAL WINNER Annabel Shaw, whose first name was picked because it was Dleasinalv old-fashioned, is a new and vital contender for tilmdom crown in emotional nrrinn because or ner surar se-n Donravai in me surtTrise ph-iuic, jmuv.

as Bucolic Bliss Beckons 'Sh ock' A ugury for Annabel Sh aw Actress Arresting Portrayal Betokens Brilliant Film Career Producers' Apathy Aid to Actress Films' Inditterence Gave K. T. Stevens 'Break' on Stage Farms, Ranches Lure Thespians to Rural Serenity BY HEDDA HOPPER These days in our town, when people say, "As an actor, he makes a mighty good farmer," there's no sarcasm intended. Chances are the statement's correct. Hollywood, long famed for its sophistication and Bohemianism, has gone tfural with a 1 X1 BY EDWIN SCHALLERT, Times Drama Editor She declined to be called Hepzibah or Ming Toy, and settled for the name Annabel.

Of course, nobody wanted to call Annabel Shaw by the other two in the first place, but STQCKMAN George Tobias, actor who once punched cows for living, now operates San Fernando Valley ranch. Like many cinema folk he has joined back-to-land rush. BY JOHN I SCOTT Film producers who couldn't forget that her father was Director Sam Wood it added to the fun of choosing the name by which this 20th The real bacK-to-tne-iana gai- Century -Fox player is now known. Once she was Marjorie Henshaw, under contract to Warners. She also used Hen lop started after the depression.

Actors, leery of stocks and bonds, started sinking their shaw in "Here Come the Waves," actually gave K. T. Stevens her big "break." By their polite indifference to the girl's personal ambitions for a career, they turned her attention to the stage, which led eventually to the feminine lead in "Voice of the Turtle" and fame. Now the 25-3'ear-old Miss moolah into stocks and barns. Few ever moved back to town.

Bob Taylor and Barbara Stan II IK I wyck are two who did, but they went in for blooded horses, and vou've cot to have a fat a sleeper film. It was, moreover, distinctly a surprise opportunity for Annabel. When she joined the cast at the behest of Producer Aubrey Schenck the role she was to play didn't amount to a great deai. But the script was rewritten so it came out just about tops. She is the heavily menaced heroine, the menacers being no less efficient people than Vincent Price and Lynn- Bari.

Sensational Performance The role is one of those sensationally sympathetic ones to accomplish the introduction of a player, and Miss Shaw makes the most of the chance. For a very young and new star she gives a remarkable performance in the tortured, hysterical scenes Turn to Page 2, Column 6 I ,1 N. bank roll for that outdoor sport Now on their former ranch live Adrian, his wife Janet Gaynor, which was the beginning of things. The big beginning, however, is a film called "Shock." In this Miss Shaw gives such an arresting emotional performance that everybody will be talking about her. Her work has already become a major issue around the establishment where she is under contract.

Every important youthful part that comes up nowadays, producers and directors give an eye to the Shaw possibilities. "Shock" is what is known as and their son Robin. They have horses, too, but only to ride not breed or train. And after Stevens, who was born Gloria Wood but later allowed an imaginative press agent to have her name legally changed to K. T.

Stevens, is facing her most critical audiences in two years of playing John van Druteh's hit production. You see, she was born and reared in Los Angeles. Thrilled But Jittery The girl without a first name, as she refers to herself, was Justifiably nervous when we taste of country life, Adrian has bought a thousand acres with mountain streams, two mountains, and will build himself another place. 1 I Trek On Again The trek to the fields and chatted, since in a few hours she was to make her "home-town de-i but" at the Biltmore Theater. ranches is on again.

Maybe it's war nerves, maybe it's the fear of inflation, or maybe us "It's a great thrill to play before one's friends, but it makes me jittery," she confided. actresses who have no particular interest in Los Ange just that people are doggoned ON HER OWN Although K. T. Stevens is the daughter of Film Director Sam Wood, she is achieving success in stage medium, currently playing in "Voice of the Turtle." tired of the bright lights and want to get back where the crickets still chirp, and they don't have to look at a lot of silly faces. les or Hollywood have been nervous opening here, so you can't exactly blame me." Whatever it is, it's healthy.

K. T. is blond, vivacious and confesses to being a bit There's something about the land that peace, not strife, between people caught "I never see anyone in the audience." she lauehed. "Thev up in this high-tension industry. 'Lift' for Music Talent of Southland Urged BY ISABEL.

MORSE JOXES, Times Music Editor It is very much worth while during midseason concerts in Los Angeles to look farther afield in the Southwest. Concerts and community music enterprise are on the upgrade. i v. 1 v. i When you think it over its are more or less ui a uiur, uui amazing how low the divorce Turn to Page 3, Column 4 'i BLOODED HORSES They were Robert Taylor's expensive hobby on his ranch.

He and Barbara Stanwyck led trek to land7 but since sold place to Adrian and Janet Gaynor. rate is among our farmer-stars. People like the Harry Careys Advertising and Joel McCreas have been living for years far from the maddening whirl of Hollywood. They're still living together, and Art of Coast Philharmonic is one of the events. Three Tales Span Biblical Era to Year 101,945 A.D.

contented. In addition there are more col Marriage Solid When Rex Bell and Clara Bow in Big Show lege concerts and the attendance for the Behvmer courses is vine." Rather than overshadow married, I wouldn't have bet a higher than ever. ing the character, this thesis plugged nickel that the marriage helps bring him to life and the Nevertheless, concert demand would go beyond its first option. But they quit Hollywood, took "magnificent sinner" nas tne recognizable features of every is for importations, mere is practically no opportunity for resident artists. Only publicity Attendance and interest, which gathered- new impetus during the war, have increased.

Just one instance, and one of the most important, is the fact that Alfred Wallenstein and his manager, Wilfrid Davis, have taken the Southern California Symphony Association's orchestra to more outside towns than ever before. Towns Musically Active Most of these towns have formed concert committees under Mr. Davis' direction and are programming other artists to appear in the series in which the to raising cattle instead of Cain, man in this beautifully written and their marriage is still solid chronicle. values are considered in dook But many are finding there's "Wasteland," winner of the ing performers and, if an art no conflict between the sound BY ARTHUR MILLIER Times Art Editor That earthly paradise, populated by shapely girls, mothers who never grow old and men whose pants are eternally pressed the world of the advertising artist is impressively displayed in the exhibition of advertising and editorial art on view on the fifth floor of Barker to March 1. It is sponsored by the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles.

The exhibition reveals the lim 1946 Harper Prize, is a story of ist has been at the "Met" or in stages and the barns. True it's in twisted lives in our own time, a film, he is sold without fur convenient to drive 50 miles and get your make-up on before 7 It is an untouched portrait of ther recommendation. This is the Braunowitz family as un DAVID THE KING. By Gladys Srhmltt. Dial Press: S3.

WASTELAND. By Jo Sinclair. Harper. THE LTXBORN. By Franz Werfel.

Viking: 53. Whatever else, these three new novels (providing some 1600 absorbing pages) should give the reader an augmented, if rot uncanny, sense of human history, for the story of David, the shepherd who became a king, reaches down into the well of time 3000 years, while the story of Jake Brown, searching for an answer to his frustration, takes place in the confusing present, and the narrative of F.W.'s voyage of exploration occurs in the year 101,943 A.D. There are several additional Treasures to be derived from in the morning. Many solve this a major barrier to musical prog ress. Musical education of the pub folded during the psychiatric treatments of Jake, who has iff by moving into town when mak-Tnrn to Page 2, Column 1 changed his name to Jack Brown 1 ill' Hillhl IMlllllIlM Mil 1 nil iff lic, started from the ground up, can and will change this, for it and who suffers from shame and itations of the advertising art TOP BEST SELLERS guilt.

There is eventually bloom in the wasteland. Werfel's Iast Book ists' field, but it also shows that takes in the life of each com munity as a whole. Public School Music a high proportion of art for na Our public school music is a Franz Werfel's last book, com pleted just before his death principal factor in this educa tional advertising is now being prepared on the Pacific Coast Professional Standards The several hundred paintings and photographs, many in color, tion. The private music teacn takes an "astromental" leap into the future, 100,000 years from ers also are beginning to see these works of fiction. For in now, when several of our past that it is fruitless to tram stu and present problems, such- as dents to become virtuosi.

The stance, Gladys Schmitt's new version of the legend of David 13 much more than the ordinary and the numerous drawings conform to high professional stan economics, pontics, technology. market is glutted with them. Only a very few can get back FOUR years seems to have a fateful significance for potential feminine stars under contract to Howard Hughes. Jane Russell waited that long before the man who made "Hell's Angels" and "The Outlaw" was willing to lend her to another producer. Faith Domergue, appearing in Hunt Stromberg's film, "Young Widow," with Miss Russell, "dittoed the deal." Both young ladies are supposed to give exceptional performances as newspaperwomen.

Miss Domergue, here observed, scored a brilliant impression with previewers because of her work in a big emotional scene. She was born and bred in New Orleans, is of French-Spanish parentage, and like most Hughes discoveries is a pluperfect beauty. poverty and disease, have been dards. Displaying the artists' reconstructed i i a 1 tale, ing, however talented they may originals with the printed ad dressed up with a tapestry back solved. But man is still man after a highly refined fashion IN LOS ANGELES Fiction leaders: "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh.

"Arch of Triumph" by Erich Maria Remarque. "King's General" by Daphne du Maurier. "Forever Amber" by Kathleen Winsor. Nonfiction leaders: "The Egg and by Betty MacDonald. "Pleasant Valley" by Louis Bromfield.

"Anatomy of Peace" by Emery Reves. "Lovely Is the Lee" by Robert Gihjains. IN THE NATION Fiction leaders: "The Black Rose" by Thomas B. Costain. -The White Tower" by James R.

Ullman. "The River Road" by Frances P. Keyes. "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh. Nonfiction leaders: "The Egg and by Betty MacDonald.

"Up Front" by Bill Maul-din. "Pleasant Valley" by Louis Bromfield. "The Life of the Heart" by Frances Winwar. be, to reach the concert stage and man is still a problem. ground and padded with a multitude of costumed spear holders.

vertisements for which they were made intensifies the exhibit's interest. Better trained refugees from Some will prefer Werfel' EuroDe are presenting keen Ppiritnal Growth Shown earlier favorites; some will re But this massing of art done competition as they always gard this as his greatest book "David The King" is, as the for advertising also has the ef but almost everybody will enjoy Author intended it to be, a mod prn novel, revealing David's the author ingenuity and, espe have. The reason they have been able to get better training and the necessary musical background in Europe is because music is a necessity of life there. feet of sharpening the sense of difference between art made to enhance the onlooker's conception of life and art made to sell cially, the humor -w ith which he evolvement from com described his remarkable planet plete egoism and crassness into selflessness ana aeep under ary travels. MILTON MERLIN, Torn to Page 4, Column I Turn to Page 5, Column 3 standing of both human and di.