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-i. r- Pasadena Stage Play-Held Over' Public response has forced an extended run for "The Coun try GirL' which continues at 12 Part rv sunday, april 1 9, 1 953 ilogangeles Cimcs the Pasadena Playhouse through April 26. Wilton Graff, McVeagh and King Donovan star in this 4 Hope Emerson Took Long Road to Fame tale of a former stage great t4 I riding the bottle to catastronhe. when he meet a brilliant young director who offers him the Continued from First Page chance of recovery. their voices got tired.

Mine didn't I wasn't singing much anyway. I went on the stage and did the best I could. Sang As he struggles to right him imate play then being cast. It was 'Lysistrata' with Charles Coburn. "You may remember the play self, he is aided by his faithful wife, who remains at his three-part harmony and had myself a ball.

side despite the goadings of the Twentieth Century-Fox confused director. It's a human 4- talent scout saw me, and brought me out for 'Cry of the City- I played a heavy. I was was about women who refused to have anything to do with their men until they stopped war. But It didn't work. Some of the girls were always slipping out to meet a Nor story, of one man's weakness, another man's faith and the 5V woman- who holds them together.

a masseuse who went around choking everybody, especially Richard Conte. You know, practically all my life I've played man Bel Geddes was directing the play, and I heard he was Bobker ben AH riinvts-a kic comedy. But since I've been in SWEET TALK Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra listens to romantic murmurings of William Lundigan as LuciliuM in "Serpent of th Nile," next at Orpheum and El Rey which includes Richard Vath, Gayne Sullivan, Elaine Marcus, James Creson and George Tra pictures, people write to ask why I do such terrible things looking for a big woman for a part. Went on Radio "I was working in a saloon at the time, but wangled an interview with Bel Geddes. When I walked into his office.

in. on the screen. They think I'm a sadist and figure my family Next attraction at the. Plav. St, Wilshire Ebell Will is nang abused.

Actually 1 nouse is tne Tnomas Heggen-Joshua Logan hit of the decade, "Mister Roberts," ODeninar Am-il have only my mother; and he took one look at me and after my father died, I took 30. BEHIND SCENES in the White House, Charlton He ton as Andrew Jackson serves his ill wife, played by Susan Hayward, in scene from "The President's Lady," which will screen at the Fox Kits Theater. Story is of most slandered couple in American history. yelled, 'Finally I've found care of her. She's been in a wheel chair for 15 years.

But Show Color Film of Hawaiian Isles Hawaii will be visited by big woman. I stayed in the she's very alert and play two years. Elsa Lanchcster "Finally I joined the Jimmy has a divine sense of humor. Nothing floors her." "Globe Trotter- audiences at 'Chance Group Goes to Mexico Director Rudy Mate is taking Robert Mitchum, Linda Dar nell and an RKO location troupe to one of the most dangerous spots in Mexico for scenes in "Second Chance." It is a mounV aintop towers 8000 feet above the village of Guana Juato. Mate chose the site "because Durante-Garry Moore air show, Doing Double Duty Dieterle Will Import 40 Ceylohese Elephants "Why don't you go back to playing radio by day and sa John Ireland Sought as Star in Sea Drama John, Ireland la being paged comedy?" I asked.

loons by "night. I still had a Elsa Lanchester, star of Turn Frank Wilcox Gets Role in 'Sisters Frank Wilcox; who was at Paramount for the role of the tending Wilshire Ebell Theater Friday night Guy D. Haselton will show his newest motion Director William Dieterle has good appetite and kept push lifted Tracy about Theater musical revues. ing. In 'Chicken Every Sun returned to Hollywood after pictures of the playland.

I have. In "The Lady Wants by i. British Producer Gilbert to doing some fast table hopping these night between her It took Haselton a year to Mink' at Republic. I played a four months of location, filming In Ceylon on his current day, I was a drunken yodeler. It was a wonderful role on the stage; but the movie version doctor functioning during the train wreck in "The Greatest two current engagements.

woman who ran a mink farm. Have you ever been around a mink? I had to work with Paramount drama, "Elephant didn't do much with it. After Miss Lanchester does make thia film which shows scenes of Akaka Falls, the wide Hamakua Coast including beautiful Waipio and Polulu Valleys, the famous Parker Ranch, the art of weaving hats. Walk." He Is arranging to Im Show on Earth, returns to that studio to portray the much Whitestone to star in and direct the James Ashton eea drama, "Captain Film would make Ireland's first assignment in the directing field. Production Is scheduled to be shot off the coast of Scotland early this, falL, her star roles In the Turnabout "When the musical version of "Street Scene' was going into production, I was told that port 40 Ceylonese elephants revues, she dashes out the back Ihem; and they're terrible little beasts.

They stink. They're glorified rats, and have the meanest disposition. You can't oi a sneer arop along one siae of the peak to a valley far below. It will be used as the setting for a funicular railway landing in the more important part of the father' of the title characters In he used for stampede sequences there. stage aoor ana rusnes over to Haleakala Crater and cones, and in it was a good part for any Those Sisters From Seattle." a nigntciuD to entertain.

uie vast pineapple fields. one who could sing, dance, and look like Beulah Bondi. That train them. They're constantly biting you and holding on with was a tough order, but I went their teeth. I had to wear rivet after it.

I tried to audition ing gloves up to my elbows but was constantly told, We for protection." I -like what vou did In want a little girl; and youre too big. Finally I got mad and 6aid. 'Just listen to me 'Adam's Rib', too. I'll never forget when you lifted Spencer Tracy up over your head. Incidentally," she added, "I am going to make more com edies.

Charles Winninger and will be in 'Champ from Brooklyn. We did another to read. That's all I ask. So I read for nineteen people and met the man who wrote it. "Size doesn't mean a thing to me', said he.

Back to Comedy "So there I was in an operatic version of 'Street I never missed a show. Most opera people had to skip a show occasionally because gether called 'Perilous Jour ney, what a trouper! My moth er used to act in his brother's stock Released bT Chlewo News eradicate, 1953 A nn's Blyth-Spirited Gal now. For the past eight months Con tinned from First Page over the final year of her con Ive studied more than in a long, long while. In the past tract from U-I, and she recently completed the romantic lead something always interrupted. Her "very fine" teacher is opposite Robert Taylor in "All Maestro Leon Cepparo.

the Brothers Were Valiant- Ann really finds expression for her voice, during the person Taylor enacts the skipper of a whaling vessel in the New England of 1870, and Ann a lal appearances she is forever making from Alaska and the "wonderful-spirited girl" who, (BdDnDDiEEJ mum GIs to Catholic Youth Organi falls in love with him. "It can be an exciting film," she haz zations nere. Most Cooperative ards. "Adventure stories are always good." One Song I enjoy doing it," she eays warmly. "My one regret is that I can't meet all the requests I Years ago Ann went over on mm mm mm mm mm mm mm loan to MGM for "Killer McCoy," with Mickey Rooney, and receive.

I try to choose those that will help the most." co-operative actress," put In the studio press agent, "we've ever later for "The Great Caruso," In which she portrayed wife Dorothy to Lanza's Enrico. In that she sang "The Loveliest -I asked Ann what she sines f- pight of the Year," an unblush at these assorted functions. ing steal from "Over the Anything from the classics 15-DENIER Waves;" it is all of this sweet and semiclassics," she explained and lovely lyric soprano that we have heard from the screen. "Ave 'Silently Into the Night, by Clara Edwards; Rose of The Lass With the Delicate Jim loves Irish songs; I'm going to have to get out books and learn some unless you include some of her early, jazz interludes with Donald O'Connor and the other precocious Universal kids, "so long ago." "I've done a sound track of all the 'Student Prince' numbers, Ann volunteered, "but I suppose they'll never be used more." Secret Honeymoon She has thought about a tour, she added. Meanwhile a vocal prospect that she would regard as "a dream come true' is the title role of the French- Canadian in "Rose Marie," to be renamed, if and when MGM I 'l-' I I I ever gets around to it.

"Indian Love CalL" It is hardly likely 7l' Perfect Quality Full Fashioned to interfere with her honeymoon, about which she prefers to remain smilingly secretive. Ann, who was brought up by her aunt and uncle, the Patrick Tobins, was only 14 when, after a road tour In "Watch on the Rhine," she stepped before the U-I cameras 10 years ago In "Chip Off the Old Block." She counts her wicked daughter to Joan Crawford's Mildred Pierce as the most wonderful opportunity she's had "to develop a character like that" and adds that she "wasn't too nice" in "Another Part of the Forest" Her most recent pictures were "Sally and Saint Anne" (also known as "All Because of "One Minute to Zero" and "The World in His Arms." i Beautiful Summer Costume Shades regular $1.49 Golden Mist Nylons that women all over Southern California know and like so well. If yoir bought them a single pair at a time, you would pay exactly $1.02 more for a box of threel Ultra-sheer and accurately proportioned with the tiniest dark seams, flattering "powder-puff" finish, Only Thrifty has theml I 4 1 1 Taupctt perfect for co-ordination wirh blodu, bluai. groy. Toncfto eomplem.ntl browns, grton, golds, boigo, postals, whit.

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Ttvo Starring in 'Gilbert9 Robert Morley and Maurice -Zone- City. State DORIS DAY portrays farmer girl in this song number from "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," booked at Warner Downtown, Wil torn, and Bmmrbt Hill. with the D'Oyly Carte I Company, will soon be seen in I "Gilbert and Sullivan." nro-l f-4-n aucea rtcnnicoior in.