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TWELVE EVENING TIMES, CUMBERLAND, DECEMBER 29, 1944 QaickReliet IN HOLLYWOOD MlM Instantly, relief from solfly, sneezy i Seconds distress ol head colds starts to come (torn. By ERSKINB JOHNSON NEA StaJf Correspondent The bobby sockers' latest dream boat Van! Van! VAN is In an Air Force uniform today for the M-G-M I movie "Weekend at the Waldorf." rAs. the young flyer in "A Guy Named Joe." Van clicked big. As Capt. Ted Lawson in "Thirty Over Tokyo," came star- (as a bad actor nor did anyone say he was a good one.

Or, as Van Johnson puts St. "There were no pilota' then." Van was planning to join the Air Forte -when an automobile accident Jef him 4-F. In uniform he became 'a star. Even M-G-M didn't know exactly what to do with Van when he arrived on the lot. His blond hair and freckles' were out, they said.

They Three year, ago ai Warner Bros, uusuii. Also neips prevent cusny ft from developing if used to time. blond, freckle-faced Van was fired Just try it! Follow directions in appearing in one picture and mftfMTf WA VM4fc MAI making numerous tests tn Jack Carson type roles. No one said he COYLE BROS. FURNITURE NORTH CENTRE STREET We wish fo thank our customers for their patronage during 1944 and we wish you all a happy and victorious New Year.

dyed his hair blact and covered his freckles with heavy makeup for his first film, a. crime-does-not-pay short. Not until they saw him as himself in "The War Against Mrs Hadiey' studio executives realize there was a boxofflce punch in thai blond hair freckles and schoolboy grin. The Public's Gate i Van Johnson, deluged with more I fan mall than anyone M-G-M mobbed by teen-agers wherever jhe goes, loves the adulation. 11 "You can't escape 'em," he says of the bobby soctere, "and 1 don' ivvant to escape them.

I want to be around Hollywood ior a long time They pay my salary." Even Papa Johnson, a retired real estate man back in Newport R. has become a celebrity. Van telephoned him after returning from a brief vacation in Mexico. "He lold me he had a. hard I Van laughed.

been all iday signing autographs and posing or Jan magazine pictures." To guard Its valuable new star, M-G-M" Mslgned Whltey Hendry, chief of the. studio polke force, to accompany Johnson on that Mexican trip. Van says he'd like to get married, but not to an actress. "One career i the family is enough." He likes for people to know that he worked hard for seven years is a Broadway bit'player and chorus He and 'June Allison worked Victims Of Chiirch Fire Mounts To 8 Seven Others Perished iii Biaze at Baltimore Parish Hall December 6 in the chorus of the same show 'We had coffee arid doughnuts after the show every night and wondered whether we would ever get. to Hollywood." filmed three years ago, Van's only picture at Warner Bros.

was "Murder in the Big House." He played a fast-talking reporter opposite Faye Emerson. Different Now The picture was a dud. Now daughter-in-law, the fum ia havini revival. "It was an said. gan's awful picture," Van "I wore one of Dennis Mor- old suits from the wardrobe Mrs.

Emma Sachs, Mrs. Anna Scream, Over Tefepfcoi K. Steckmeyer, 62; John C. Sulll- Baltimore, Dec. 29.

death today of another woman at Union Memorial Hospital Increased to eight the total deaths as result of the fire which swept through St. Ambrose Catholic parish ll durlnc a card and bingo party night of Dec. 8. Mrs. Amlnee C.

Woodward, 73, of Baltimore, was latest victim. Her daughter, Laura, 43, died at the West Baittaore General Hospital the night after the fire. In all, six women were victims. The other two were men. At least a third of the approxi- wlth Van star and FDR'rf mutely 300 persons who crowded department.

I almost took it home on, too. It was better, than any I owned." When Warner Bros, didn't pick up his option, Van had his trunk packed and was going back to New York. Lucille Ball, an old friend, gave him a pep talk at dinner one night, arranged for him to see Billy Grady, the M-G-M' talent scout.) M-G-M gave him a contract. Since that automobile accident, in which his head was bashed against the pavement. Van gets headaches every afternoon.

the hall were burned or injured in the rush for the doors. Some stil are in hospitals. The other victims, besides the Woodwards, included Mrs. Ada Nix- Mrs. Rosa Poessnecker, 63; and John Meyer, 66.

reei Santa Cherry Pointi 29- Rushing.out on'the runway (o greet Sarjta Glaus, Owen" Penick, 9-year- bld son of Captain, and Mrs. Herbert "M-." Penick, was killed instantly at'the Marine base here Christinas He'was struck the wing tip of Santa's plane. will'be buried at MoV. home MM rder A Mo ute Battle sheriff at branch a fcreara, followed -by crack cif the; telephone receiver, Creejt (knswer- ed the 'and reached the office, they found Mrs, Jean Ardis, 'a clerk; standing on top of her. still "Guess little she said, "but a-mouse ran across my Jap." SKIN OUTBREAKS the fluffy, deKghtfol tohcrof mild Resinot Mnooth some soochiaf Retinal Otnlaiiaf.

Being oily, icj bhiod nMrdkttiofl Xayt aftfvt (omUft with 1 pimply spoil, thuj feeding as it reUerw the WIp'roM RESINOL 5,000 To Enter, Mexican Army Monday Oily, Dec. 29. thousand youths, representing half the draftees of the class of 1926, will'enter the army on January li for a'year's training, the War Department announced today. An equal number from the class of .1925 obtained releases December 15. After the Russian revolution, typhus killed about 3,000,000 people.

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