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8. ODD BITS about rnovieland, before I get used to them and forget about them: The traffic lites ring silly little bells when they change. Haven't seen a nutburger or dateburger roadside stand the Levine kidnaping case, must serve an indeterminate term in Elmira Reformatory. General Sessions Judge Owen W. yet, but did catch a turkburger, Bohan imposed this sentence yes Went to the Beverly Brown teraay on the.

swarthy young waiter, of 79 E. 107th St. He He is one of the few successful actors who doesn't attempt to dis- courage young people from trying a career on the stage. He believes every novice who is convinced he has acting talent should have an op-portunity, either to make good or get it out of his system. He once sponsored a vaudeville act for a young man whom he considered a very bad actor, just so the boy could learn for himself how bad he was.

The young actor did learn and now is a successful coffee merchant. Walter Huston, like most troopers, is a graduate from the school of hard knocks. But he learned in his lean years that few people ever really starve to death, and he is convinced that if a young man can take the gaff the long waits between shows, the years of uncertainty, the travel on second- -class trains, the discomfort of cheap rooming houses, and all the other heartbreaking discouragements of the theatrical profession the theatre is as good a place as any to make a living. Huston knows whereof he speaks. He loved the theatre so well that was convicted le 29 of extortion in trying to obtain the $30,000 reward offered for the return of 12- o2b year-old Peter he ran away from his home in Toronto, Canada, to join a touring repertory company.

The company went broke and he found his way to New Levine. Judge Bohan's sentence fol York on a freight tram, lhat was when he was he didn't taste real success in the theatre until he was 39. In the meantime, he had in his own words played every role in American repertory except the Santiago Gutierrez lowed the report of the court's psychiatric clinic that Gutierrez was not feeble-minded, but gave evidence of being "sly and shrewd." During the trial, it, was disclosed that Gutierrez had telephoned the cake of ice "Uncle Tom Cabin." He can remember signs in the rural hotels Treading "No Dog3 or Actors Allowed." His first New York job, at 21, was in a stock company playing "In Convict Stripes," a melodrama by Hal Reid, father of Wallace Reid. (Incidentally, it was in this selfsame play, and in the same company, though not in Huston's time, that Lillian Gish made her stage debut, succeeding her friend, Mary Pickford.) While carrying a spear in Richard Mansfield's company, he was given four lines to speak, but was so nervous opening nite that he missed his cue and was literally thrown OHt of the missing boy's father, Murray Levine, Fifth Ave. lawyer, de manding that he bring the money to Lexington Ave.

and 110th St. There he was arrested by Federal Walter Huston agents on April 13. Hold Driver in After a lone tour with "The Sism of the Cross" Conlv recently, re vived as a movie) he abandoned the stage and became director of city- water and electrical plants in Nevada and Missouri. In 1909 he was back Child's Injury Driving while drunk and running down a 9-year-old girl Wednesday at -120th St. and Pleasant Ave.

in the theatre, this time in vaudeville with an actress named Bayonne Whipple, who became the first Mrs. Walter Huston. For fifteen years they toured the United. States and Canada, principally on the Keith and Orpheum Circuits. Huston wrote their acts, which always included a song for himself.

In recent years, he has become so identified with dra- matie roles that few people knew he had a voice until he sang as guest because the regular current won't provide enough lites, Still another set has Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan and Fay Bainter working on "The Shining Hour," Frank Borzage directing. It's a scene where Joan is served a piece of pound cake. Durable cake, too, to stand all those retakes. It may be Miss Sulla van's last picture for a while. Another baby.

Miss Crawford is one of the few who has music in the studio while the cameramen are fiddling around between retakes. Phonograph records, played softly over a public address system. Outside "The Great Waltz" studio is a row of what looks like up-tilted ironing boards with padded two-by-four cleats across them hip high. These are resting places for girls wearing period costumes that can't be sat down on. Your reporter's first Hollywood preview was "Room Service." A preview isn't fancy like an opening.

They just advertise "Preview tonite" in the papers (the customers don't know what the film will be) and sandwich the picture into the run of the week's regular feature. Nobody dresses unless he's going somewhere afterward, but a lot of movie folk show up. There's a wood fence across the sidewalk so you have to walk in the street to get in, and against the fence stand thirty or forty languid folk who look as though they wonder why they are there. A couple of search-lites make tired arcs in the sky. The film, "Room Servec," hasn't, the pace of George Abbott's stage production, but it is funny enough.

The Marx Brothers do their stuff, but Groucho can't look as worried as Sam Levene. For my money, the members of the Broadway cast who are in it make the picture in particular, Donald Mac-Bride as the apoplectic Mr. Wagner, Philip Wood as the befuddled Simon Jenkins, Alexander Asro as the waiter, and Phil Loeb, not in his original part (Chico Marx has that), but as the man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency. It Morton Downey's opening at the Cocoanut Grove brought out most of the producers and stars, with Anita Louise looking notably lovely in a white dress, with her hair done up high. One of our party said she looked just like a marshmallow.

To a New Yorker there is a remarkable thing about nite-clubbing here. When an entertainer sings, everybody stops talking and pays attention. were the charges placed yesterday Derby for lunch with some old friends from New York the other day. When we called for them one of them was wearing what looked like white pajamas, and I thought we'd have to wait while he got dressed. But he WAS dressed.

A guy in a suit looks an awful fool out here. The business of telephoning from your restaurant booth is terrific. Producers have story conferences from their tables and a half-hour call is nothing. One well known party arranged a funeral for a close relative from a luncheon table at one of the Derbies. The Derby waitresses wear starched gray hoopskirts that end just about the garter line, and the late Percy Hammond was right when he said the knee is 'a joint and not an entertainment.

Some casting out here is inspired, but you can't think of the reason for the rest of it. W. C. Fields who still ought to play Pickwick should be grand as the Wizard of Oz, and Ray Bolger and Buddy Ebsen likewise for the scarecrow and the tin woodman. (If Buddy is what they call a sensation, they'll be doing a sequel called "After the Tin Then again, you hear that they've picked the Ritz Brothers for Athos, Porthos and Aramis in "The Three Musketeers." I dunno, lady, I'm a stranger here m'self.

A tour of the plant reveals that there is another Shearer besides the great Norma. It's her brother, Douglas, and he wins awards from the American Academy of Arts, and terrific, top. I saw one of the gold statuettes, and the inscription, a Practical Two-way Horn System and a Biased Class A Push-Pull Recording System." One more stage re-. veals Victor Fleming directing "The Great Waltz," with F. Gravet and Miliza (Gorjus) Kor-jus, a pretty blonde who can sing.

An executive tells me that after four years "The Great Waltz" has been rewritten back to the original script. This must have taken a thousand conferences with our old pal, Alfred J. Conference, the script writer. On another stage, W. S.

Van Dyke, who'd look like Floyd Gibbons if he didn't resemble Gene Tunney, is finishing the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy "Sweethearts." Says he'd like to do everything in technicolor from now on. When they shoot technicolor they park movable power plants outside the studio, against George Rupert, 33, of 526 E. 120th St- a teacher on a WPA on Bing Crosby's radio program. In this way he "auditioned" for the role he will play in his first musical comedy, Knickerbocker Holiday recreation project. In holding music by Kurt Weill.

lyrics by Maxwell Anderson which is now rehears Kupert, Magistrate August Dreyer in Homicide Court suspended his ing. And he can still do a pretty fair waltz clog, if he has to. driving license. The injured girl It wasn't until 1924 that Broadway recognized in Huston one of was Marie Pellegnno, of 111 Bay outn Brooklyn. America's best actors.

That. was when he scored a tremendous personal hit in Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms," which is still his favorite play. The movies got him after that, and he has played in more than two dozen pictures. With the fortune thus amassed, he built a house for himself and the present Mrs. Huston (Nan Sunderland) in the San Bernardino Mountains, where he lives the year round, even when the snow is seventeen feet deep, and of which he is so very fond that "it takes a good script to lure him awasr from it." To lure him away for his A I A BORROWER- 1 I AUt A CHILD ARE ALU TWREf DESTITUTE OF NDER STAKblKId 1 forthcoming role, in fact, Maxwell Anderson had to send Joshua Logan all the way to California with the script of "Knickerbocker Holiday' In the Winter, he goes skating and skiing.

His hobby is cabinet making, a talent inherited from his father, who was a contractor and builder. He always has and always will prefer working in the theatre to- working in pictures, but that is principally because the movies are synthetic art; acting is done in pieces, and the actor must stand aside while the equally important camera men and electricians have their say. People reading about the glamour of the pictures, he says, seldom com-prehend the amount of hard work attached to them, or realize that when picture is being shot an actor is virtually a prisoner, arising at 5:30 A. M. in order to be on the set at 6, working all day and knocking off, like aday laborer, twelve hours later.

Compared to it, working in the theatre is a pleasurable adventure. Broadway, however, always will be the heart of show business and. to borrow a line from Max Gordon, there is nothing wrong with the theatre that a good play won't cure. Huston won take any more long-time contracts, preterring to work before the cameras only when the right story comes along. He is proud, though, that his son, John, is well up the ladder of Hollywood fame in the joint role of author and director..