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8 TREND SECTION OF THE BROOKLYN EAGLI SUNDAY, MARCH 29. 1942 THE SOUND TRACK ataana Vs 1 f' 9 41 1- ijji TWeUBBUB i iMa 1 1iKir-t-T laaanaanaaa Cecil B. DeMille Shows Again in No. 66 The Secrets of His Famed Showmanship By HERBERT COHN Between "The Squaw Man," the first motion picture 30 yean ago, and "Reap the Wild Wind," the handsome technicolored spectacle of Charleston and the Florida Keys, currently at the Radio City Music Hall, the little town of Hollywood has grown to be the center of one of the country's greatest industries. And in those 30 years, between the making of those two pictures, Cecil DeMille, producer-director of both of them and of 64 others in between, ha grown to be one of the most fabled people in a fabulous town.

You can hear a score of stories an hour in Hollywood about C. B. DeMille, some of them nice, some of them not, some of them true, some of them false. You can hear of his foibles, his puttees, his plus-fours, his pomposity, his gentleness. You can hear stories that check and stories that clash, one matched against the other.

You can find many who revere him, many who don't. But you will look long and far and probably fruitlessly for someone who will say that C. B. DeMille isn't one of the screen's greatest showmen. He discovered that motion pictures have to move to be worthy of their name, and he concentrated on his discovery.

He is a master of action. He discovered, too, that the camera can capture the power of mass staging and, putting a combination of talent and vast financial resource to work, he became a master of spectacle. And, constantly on the search for material on which to use his rare assortment of discoveries, abilities and business acumen, he has probably reconstructed more of the world's richest history on the screen, and at a greater profit, than any other combine of director you could To his everlasting credit are "The Ten 'Commandments" and "The Sign of the Cross," "Cleopatra" and "The Crusades," "Joan, the Woman" and "King 'of Kings." And more recently there are "Union Pacific," "The Plainsman," "The Buccaneer" and "North West Mounted Police," each of them rich with elaborate detail, each of them packed with action and glittering with extravagant settings: each of them an eye-filling show and most of them overpowering entertainment. Number 66 in the DeMillean cavalcade is "Reap the Wild Wind." iB-. "-A lllllWWWlIMjl8lj p.jj IMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanaaaanaaaaaannaana 'KINGS ROW Robert Cummings and Claude Raines, the Parris Mitchell end Dr.

Tower, respectively, of the film version of Henry Bellamann's novel, now ot the Bklyn. 'WOMAN OF THE YEAR' Spencer Tracy and Kath-'. orine Hepburn at home in the Lardner-Kanin comedy hit continuing at Loew's Metropolitan, with Fay Bainter and Reginald Owen featured. Fay Bainfer Has awn i Only First Lovef 1 to Thank Acting Robert O'Davis Is Warner's Smart 'Nazi' Of course it's marvelous the things movies do. But even more incredible at times are the people who play in them.

There is, for instance, the Nazi under-officer in the Warner Bros, production "Desperate Journey," who is so completely valid in diction and faithful in portrayal that there certainly would be a great deal of clicking of heels and hoisting of arms if, dressed for the part, he strolled through the streets of Berlin. But his name Is Robert O'Davis. And he's as Irish as a shillalah. Jackie Cooper Sports His First Mustache Jackie Cooper hopes that when lt.J It is typically DeMille, for it thrives on the qualities that have always distinguished his pictures. For background it takes the luxurious 1840 days of velvets, hoops and brocades, using beautiful technicolor to lend a memorable vividness, elegant Charleston to give it pomp, and salty Key West to lend it ruggedness and the smell of the out-of-doors.

For its action it pits a company of rascals, who plot to wreck cargo ships on the reefs of the Florida coast for a fat salvage, against the determination of a Charleston sea lawyer to bring them to court. And for spectacle it has a four-master nosing through pitching seas, squeezing through treacherous channels and finally ripping a hole in its hull against a ragged reef. It goes into the drawing room, the coffee house, the hold of a cargo vessel. It stops on the beach and on the wharf, on deck and underseas. It has variety of scene, brilliance of setting and a great mass of players.

"Reap the Wild Wind," though, is far from DeMille's best film. It has too much, it is packed too full, occasionally with a static scene that slows the pace and thins the drama. But it remains a vivid example of the mastery of technique that has made C. B. DeMille the dean of screen showmen.

SIMPLE RULE OF MOVIE STAR: OH rlv Hates 'Everything' About Theater and the Movies Except on Stage Business It's a mistake to assume that the life of a stage or screen star is any more pleasant than that of a truck driver. The simile comes from Fay Bainter, a star In both mediums, winner of the Motion Picture Academy award and currently appearing at Lcew's Metropolitan Theater with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn In "Woman of the Year." "As a matter of fact," she adds, "I have hated everything about the theater and the films except the acting. There's something to be hated in every Job. I guess that the happy person is the one who Just conveniently forgets the part he doesn't like and concentrates on THERE ISN'T ANY SUCH THING his pals see him wearing a mustache on the screen for the first time and playing a man in his thirties in William Dieterle's production of "Syncopation" they'll understand why he wants to be called Jack. IT LOOKS DAFFY, but it's really sign language, with Victor Mature trying to get over a thought to Betty Grable in "Song of the Islands," due Thursday ot the Albee.

THE GENERAL LISTENS IN Brian Donlevy, the ghost of Old Stonewall Jackson, eavesdrops on a spat between Helena Phillips and Bill Holden, "The Remarkable Andrew" of the film of that name at the Fox. MOTION PICTURES What's the Mayor's Home, If prised but pleased Reagan suddenly found himself in pictures. So how do you get in pictures? just do what the Misses Sheridan and Field and the Messrs. Cummings and Reagan did. And maybe you'll "crash the fillums." HELD OVER 2nd BIG WEEK Hollywood Thinks It Needs It? SPENCER TRACY KATHARINE HEPBURN Of the impact of the American becoming an actor.

But he kept plugging, won some stage roles and eventually a chance at Hollywood. He's been there five years now, gradually working his way to the top. Miss Field decided to become an actress when she was 7 years old. She even directed and produced some plays with the neighborhood children at that tender age. When she finished studying to be an actress was an instant success, appearing in a number of Broadway productions.

Reagan's appearance In Hollywood was as unexpected as that of Miss Sheridan. An all-around athlete in college, he took up sports writing and sports announcing after he was graduated. As his vacation There Is only one simple rule on "how to crash motion pictures." It is that there is no rule on "how to crash motion pictures." It' as simple as that. And it probably is the one rule that has no exception. For example, look at the players who have the four top roles in the film version of Henry Bellamann's best-seller, "Kings Row," now at the Brooklyn Paramount.

Ann Sheridan got to Hollywood via a beauty contest. Robert Cummings worked and bluffed his way through the theater and struggled long in Hollywood before gaining top roles. Ronald Reagan was a radio by the entire population, even the Mayor. In fact, especially the Mayor. One day neither Associate small town upon the motion pic fit tures there are examples almost MOTION PICTURES "WOMAN OF Producer Richard Blumenthal nor Director Stewart Heisler were com without limit, from the Aldrich THE YEAR" pletely satisfied with the place se lected as the story's boarding house.

So they and members of ATMYF00r ffiS I WILLIAM TRACT their staff started walking about the town looking lor a more suitable one. There were about 20 in the "Cooks' Tour" from Hollywood. However, Carson City residents were intrigued by the movie people and as the group passed, more and BARGAIN sportscaster when a talent scout picked him up. Family to the Lemp Family and back to the Hardys again, but less commonplace are illustrations of the effect of Hollywood upon a particular "typical American small town." An example of the latter came to hand recently with the arrival of a Paramount film troupe in the smallish city of Carson City, Nev to film location scenes for "The Remarkable Andrew'' (now at the Fox, Brooklyn), screen version of the Dalton Trumbo novel about the "framed" city accountant and the American heroes who help him best a gang of corrupt politicians. The each year he came to Catalina with the Chicago Cubs for Spring training.

A talent scout from Warner Brothers studio spotted him, arranged a screen test and the sur- SHOWS AT ALL 3 THEATRES 12 to 2 the part he loves." That may seem a little sDrange coming from the darling of the stage who has been acting since she was five. But it is actually the expression of a happy woman who took her own advice several decades ago. "I found myself hating everything about my career except when I was acting I hated the interviews, I never read the reviews, I hated tedious rehearsings, badly heated dressing rooms, long hours spent making up before cracked mirrors. I was only happy when I was standing in front of the footlights immersed in another character." One day Miss Bainter suddenly realized what she was doing to herself. "I was becoming a miserable, unhappy woman why, I'd have been better off sleeping till noon every day! Suddenly I remembered a little poem my mother used to recite when she was doing the dishes.

it went, 'consists not in doing what you like, but In liking what you have to "That was my answer if I were going to be an actress, I was going to have to learn to like all the little things that went with it." Today that motto is the Bainter watchword. LOCW-S KI.S FtitM wtf TMM loi mmts Canina htam, Draglu Ftirbuki Aiin BJm4m tm CUf. fmmj 8isfltea Csnfeaa inttm, Daaftu nirhMki A Swa( II. MM, Km Murray, Fwrn Lnrfnr4 Ss vtm sum MOTION PICTURES more fell-in behind. Finally, Blumenthal found a house, walked up and knocked on the door to ask the owner if the house could be used.

It was the home of Mayor W. H. Austin. The Mayor came to the door and saw a crowd of nearly 150 people in back of Blumenthal, but before he could start a speech Blumenthal had explained his mission. He got the house as a "location." LOCWs ALHXK Sana id FiHt AaMw LOCK'S IU DFBtD anBiii ahm im bhvm tVwt LOEW'S UOIDUtT Brmmmmf Mi Myrtle am LOFWS COMT ISLAXO turf StillwH Ammn LOt arrival of such siars as William 4th Week LAURENCE GRETA GARBO MELVYN DOUGLAS TWO-FACED WOMAN' LESLIE I A "3 II Holden, Ellen Drew and Brian Donlevey caused considerable furore I 'I" among the 2,400 inhabitants of the LOI ttUO tiny Nevada capital.

Betty Field studied for the theater, appeared in a string of Broadway successes and has had nothing but top roles in films. It could happen only in Hollywood. In almost any other business or profession the leading lights are those who started with the firm back in the Spring of '98 and gradually worked their way to the top. Railroad presidents started out as track-walkers, steel tycoons were blast-furnace tenders, oil executives were roustabouts. But Hollywood stars come from anywhere.

Miss Sheridan was attending a normal school in Denton, Texas, intending to be a teacher, when her sister entered Ann's photograph in a local beauty contest. Ann not only won the local contest but was a national winner as well, and was handed a screen contract. Cummings' dramatic coaches In high school and college and his firstinstructor in a professional school tried to dissuade him from The impact of Hollywood was felt LOFWS WIR MM IT Smart ani am UMM All LOU rBJEJUM Svmr Ahum, HoaaaW tkwi LOEWS OUS.VTAL OLIVIER HOWARD RAYMOND MASSEY "THE INVADERS" with ANTON WALBROOK ERICP0RTMAN nl introducing Mill SLYNIS JOHNS A Columbia Pictur "THE MEN IN HER LIFE" LOR ETTA YOUNG CONRAD VEIDT W) lt AMM LOEWS CEVtlRT E.VI11T II nmn A II III Urn mi Hm Mkkrr BOONET J4y GARLAND "BABES ON BROADWAY" "suss roi.LT," zui rrm LOEWS MILLR. ltl ANN SHERIDAN ROMRT CtMMMCS RONALD MACAU AETTY FHUt "KIHCS ROW "HARVARD, HERI I COMC LOEWS ItttKO PARK Strom aaa at UlrwM An Paw. Caw Tieruy, gaa af Farr; Caaar w.

MUta Bark, A GnUaawn at UmH CKfftr. Barbara BUawyck, Ball at Flrai A Tl Wll I Iv, I.k.a, Oearaa gaadar. loears BREVOORt regular Job as announcer, Bill's parents, however, thought he should become a lawyer which led to his enrollment at Syracuse University. It was sometime later, according to Lundigan, that Lady Luck took a hand in his career. "I was on a visit to New York," he recalls, "when a friend suggested I take a movie test.

He said he had aimt rmm aaa ata Ami ai nrBmiMw BRIAN OONLEW Wat. NSUKN "THE REMARKABLE ANDREW GINR TUKNIT LOEWS RAT RJDT.E... TM SUM aaa Tkaa A LOEWS A LACE si 3 cooxw SUNDOWN" BRUCR CABOT RAV FR AMCIS WALTER HUSTON "ALWAYS IN Mt HEART" CMCEtROGCtS ADOLPHt MCHJOU limn (WHAT! CO ANDMWt WOOOV HI I mm hi mm (art Aw. LOEWS WARWICK PLU. ll: MAN R0XIEHART "KATHLKN." Shirlty Tawipl.

iff i a pal over at the Universal and MOTION PICTURES that all I would have to do would I FEATURE HLfflS SHOUJing TDDflV be to stand up and talk. I figured Bill Lundigan's Success Recipe Bill Lundigan, Hollywood's latest glamour boy, credits hi luck to his Irish ancestors. Whether it is that, or Just plain hard work, the six-foot-two, blond actor from Syracuse appears to be a runner-up for some of the new season's choicest roles. He Is making his debut as juvenile lead in the new Wallace Beery picture, "The Bugle Sounds," which is to open at the Capitol on Thursday. The role, that of a selective service recruit in the army's tank division, Is his sixth since 1937, when he decided to give up law.

It was long before that, however, that young Lundigan had been bitten by the acting bug: he was Just a gawky kid in short pants when that happened. Bill's father, Michael F. Lundigan, was a successful merchant in NR. TUITON ST. TR.

I MM 1 aMAMl til LS 'BALL Of Car. Cm. krln SUawrck that I knew how to do that, thanks iatejotii toe falcon, jkSsk I BAT RIDGR to my broadcasting experience, and so before I returned to Syracuse, aba Lat'i Oa Calfcatata Paat ta Htam; aiaa Taa'ra la tha Amy Nov invw. na aa. and Ttam Aaa.

StaateT, Fift Aaa. aad Wa at 1 BUDFORR Ethel Waters Chose Hard Way Ethel Waters, currently singing at the Brooklyn Strand Theater, braved an origin as humble and obscure as any among her race, rose to stardom in musical comedy and, in a single step, achieved stature on the dramatic stage with her portrayal of Ha gar in Mamba's Daughters," one of the most moving characterizations of the decade. Ethel was born in Chester, Pa. Her first employment of record was in a second-class Philadelphia hotel, earning $3.50 a week, with $1.25 added for extra laundry chores. By her own gentle jest she "went through" Swarthmore College in I went over to Long: Island and RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL am a am CtCIL a.

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METROPOLITAN "Womrni fit the year." 1:21, 4:20, 7:18, "Hayloot," 12.28. 3:27, 6:26, 9:25. Olara an Johnn. Hf l.I.IAroPPrW'i and "PARIS CALLING" ELM, Avenua at Eait 17th St NOSTRAND. Klngi GEORGE TAPPS 0 cTf.MLE RIALTO, Flatbuih Klldart'a Vlrtarr" and "A Yank aa tha CARNEY "Kins Row." 12:25.

"Harvard. Hera I Come." PARAMOUNT 7:13, 10 37; VOGUE. Caiwy 'll. Aw. and Awnue AMERICA" and "KID FROM KANSAS" COI.LEOE.

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at E. SSth "SMALL TOWN DEB" and "MERClTisLAVD" two weeks as a cleaning woman. The record also includes her accidental debut on the stase, a frightened girl of 14, in an amateur contest at a Philadelphia night club. The voice that years later was to be raised in "Stormy Weather," "Supper Time," "Dinah," and many others was electric in that smoky cellar cabaret, Just as it was later In a South Side theater In Chicago, and still later In Manhattan's Winter Garden where she gained real fame. Tfaapira, RaaA Aaa.

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Hk aaaii Taaa Dak: alaa Marcy Island inr.FwooD Tailaatai. laaataaa aa caaaaaei BaM af Ftm alaa A Date With tha Falaaa Rdta 171 rtt aa Daaifa lar Raadl: alaa Dundawa Riaali. aiprOa aa Vikaa CUpptr; alaa Faar Jacka aa a Jill Mauratn Randolph O'HARA SCOTT John PAYNE Syracuse at the time, and among his real estate holdings was a building which housed thp Syracuse radio station WFLB. After school-Bill was then attending the William Nottingham High School young Lundigan used to hang around the station, fascinated by the recording instnunents, the glassed-in studios and the variety of programs. The thing that absorbed him most was the actors, announcers, and their chores.

So when the creaks and sudden falsetto notes had finally filtered out of his voice, the station chief gave in to Bill's pestering and let him mnke an announcement one night. It turned out surprisingly 'TO THE SHORES of TRIPOLI1 Extra! At All RKO Tkratraa LOUIS n. SIMON FIGHT PICTl REtl 2:45, STRAND "Tragedy at Midnight." 12:05, 2:55, 5.30. 8:05, 10:40. Stae ihow.

1:45. 4:20, 6:55, 9:30. MANHATTAN CAPITOL "The Tnvder," 12:27, 3:62, 5:17, 7:40, 10:05. 12:20. CRITERION "Ride TEm Cowtoor" 12:49, 2:49 4 49 6:49, 8:49, 10:49.

12:49. MUSIC HALL "Rffao the Wild Wind." 12:01, 2:41. 5:23. 8:03, 10:35. Stage ahow, 2 4:40, 7:20.

9:50. PARAMOUNT "The Plwt'n In," 12:11, 2:51. 5 37, 8:32. 11:24. Stage ahow, 1:48, 4:34, 7:29, 10:24.

RIVOLI "To Be or Not to Be," 12:24, 2:48. 5:12, 7:36. 10, 12:24. ROXV "To the Shores of Tripoli." 1. 3 35.

6.10. 8:50. 11:20. Stage anow, 12:10, 2:45. 5:20.

8, 10:30. STRAND "Tha Male Animal 1, 3'45. 6 30. 9:15. 12:18.

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