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liatMa Film RoTe Hollywood Tale: lie I. i i Ignored, Then Sought 4 1 a 4 1 3 By DOROTHY MASTERS It was less than two years ago that a promising young actor, frustrated with a deluge of unearned salary cheeks, proposed a cessation of his contract with 20th Century-Fox. At this point his bosses administered a heartening -r-v back-slap and persuaded Jeffrey In Film Props Hunter to stick around lor a while; something would turn up soon. Now In Four Films So many things did mushroom that Jeff is now blanketing the nation's theatres with four pictures. His latest, "The Proud Ones," brings him to the Palace screen as a cowpoke who takes Bit 1 i 1 I Metro-Uoldwyn-Mayer estimates that (counting the original van Gogh paintings used as background in "Lust for The film's props are valued at $35,000,000.

Ironically enough, although today's minimum price for a van Gogh is during his lifetime the artist sold only one canvas. "The Red Vintage." He received a lot of convincing that his' father's killing had legal justification. Robert Ryan plays the marshal suspected of cold-blooded murder: Virginia Mavo serves as Singer Julie Wilson who haa Marred in "The I'tjama Game," Kiss Me Kate." -Kismet," and "South Pacific," will go dramatic in the Sara Spiecel pro a ntnhial I i-h fit i An TV. i -film iat ok mutual aiiiBLiiviii irxo akiii i i fessonal sleuth a case of mur der plotted along the lines of uct in current circulation. An American Tragedy.

United Also making the rounds, via duction, "End As a Man," now filming in Florida. In ih "lnVr Willincham utorT net in a Southern military academy, he plays a hit "town ajirl. Artists borrowed him for this Warner is "The Searchers," starring: Jeffrey with John Wayne (NEWS foto by Carl Mamay) Bobbio Fischer plays a game at Manhattan Chess Club. toy of 13 Is Real King In the Realm of Chess A handsome, blond-haired boy who takes his hobby seriously, 13-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, has won as homesteaders on the trail of Indians who've abducted a child. In retaliation of rumors that John one, although 20th C'entury-Fox now has him back on home grounds for a remaka of "Jesse James," In which he plays brother Frank.

Hunter, rechristened in 1950 from Henry II. McKinnies made his thespian bow playing a 60-year-old man in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" for the Children's Theatre in Milwaukee, won a radio scholarship for his Hen repeats his stag 1 role in the lead of the film ersion. Navy before returning to tha stage. Although Jeff survived a grueling course of radio tntrineeriac while in the Communication Division, he aays he puts in a quick call for the professionals the TV set at home, when anything goes wrong with a championship crown A chesa enthusiast since he was freshman year at Northwestern University, gravitated to summer stock and served a hitch in the MOVIE TIME TABLE VA Photog Wins Awards Luther Gilliam, photographer at the Brooklyn Veteran's Administration Hospital, has won two awards in the photographer exhibition to be held this month in Rochester a part of the 26th annual meeting of the Biological Photographic Association. Gilliam's awards were in the teaching aids and scientific display categories.

featura sue. Bobby won the National Junior Chess Championship in Philadelphia last month. The youngest contestant in the tournament, K19 opponents were all about five years older. The son of Mrs. Reffina Fischer, a nurse, of 560 Lincoln Place, the youn? champ was taught the iraiua by his 19-year-old sister, Joan, a student at Brooklyn College.

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10 55. about his hobby. He prefers to PAL A umnrim 'l RtSN ZZZ3in 50' spend his time matching wits with his opponents at the Manhattan Chess Club which he lined last year and where he For "The Great Locomotive Chase," a Walt Disney enterprise, Jeff makes use of the physical prowess evinced in his school days. Asa conductor on the heels of his stolen train, he does a fast sprint and some lively acrobatics in pursuit of Yankee forces headed by Fess Parker. It is Hunter's fervid hope that his role as a Confederate hero won't endanger his popularity north of the Mason and Dixon line.

In "A Kiss Before Dying," Jeffrey plays a bespectacled pro- can ba found almost every night the week during the summer. ai)Y pint" 'i PROSPECT to write or call league headquarters at 23 Target Lane Levittown. The phone number is LEvittown 3-3615. At present, there are 14 teams, representing Freeport, Valley Stream, Glen Cove, Garden City, Levittown, i i 1 1 Long Beach, Malverne, Port Washington, Springfield Gardens, Man-hasset, Massapequa, Oceanside and Syosset. There are north and south shore divisions.

Each squad consists of 35 boys who must be nine or over and less lastIVICTOR mature During the school term, weekdays are devoted to homework, but TILVOlf MADISON BUSHWICK JANET Ltiun ITOMORS nun tomorrcj Mno sprrtAr.n rnPRlOOEM wrf JAMES 1 MUMPMRfl A snr.BBi Saturdays are open for chess. Ha just returned to Brooklyn following a two-week trip to Oklahoma City where he participated in the U.S. Open Championship. "Just a Game One of the youngest members at tha Manhattan Chess Club, tha new junior champ plays in the rapid tournaments held there aw LHM8R "tW TfCHNICOtOI? HIT! I E3 E3 E3 E3 Secret raiders and undersea thrills! if. Din Ultl than 13 as of September 1.

They play six scheduled games on Sundays starting Sept. 30. At the end of the season the leading teams from the two divisions meet for the league Westbury Music Fair RANKUN ROYAt 'lLWtMBurl Hilt TTrfnYY7TriTTT.et)T. WSItf Friday nights. Pitted against MtSBlt HUlf IX, IS.

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I don't see what everybody is making such a fuss about." Baptists to Hear Guest Preacher The Rev. Dr. Joseph Chapman, former pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Brooklyn, and now executive secretary of the Twin City Baptist" Union of the American Baptist Convention, will preach at tha 11 A. M. and 7:45 P.

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