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Pitching Horseshoes With Billy Rose a 'n i 1, HERE 'S'an old Norse legel rid about a fellow was so well- liked that when the god wanted to do him in they couldn't find anybody to throw th stone. I Well, that's how Mr. ric Hellinger rates in show business on Broadway, where back-st bbing operates on a three-shift basis ve never heard a laryni ised against him. wanted to do him in they couldn't stone. I ric He flinger rates in show business.

Lbbing operates on a three-shift basis, ised against him. On Hollywood Boulevard, where they even kick you when you're up, Mark is as popular as a good4tiun tan. When Hellinger walks Into a restaurant on of these 1 'Arid Alleys, the headwaiter blows a pitchpipe and all hands sing, 'Tor He's a Jolly Good 4- Fellow." WHICH IS as it shouId be. Mr. H.

is-the undisputed Heavyweight Tipping Champion, and holder of all speed records for. Tab-Grabbing. And when it' comes to a touch, Mark is the softest thing since the invention of the featherbed. By WILLIAPA WALLER 1 1 i 1 Special Correspondent of the Globe-Democrat YORK, July 10.If there's one thing that famous play ri I producer George Abbott is proud of, it is his ability to discover new, young talent in the embryo stage and give it a good, healthy push inward stardom by way' of appearing in onci of his plays. 'Take Van Johnson, for instance, who appeared as a chorus boy in Abbott's musical, "Too Many Girls'' anci "Pal Joey." Or Eddie Bracken, who got his first big break in "Too Many Girls," and from there went tollollywood ang fame.

Or, to mention a few others, Eddie Albert, Ezra Stone and Jeffrey Lynn, all comparative unknowns until they played in Abbott's successful play, "Brother Rat." And, of course, there were a couple of prettybut then unknown yo ting ladieswho got their start in this gentleman's shis, too Their names; Gene Tierney and Betty Field. This season the Old Fox of ing with an amateur theatrical Broadway seems to have done group, "The Little Theater" it again. This time it is none (now known as "The Commw. other than a youthful product of nity I 's, i St. Louis who seems like a sure One day a call came in from bet for fame and fortune.

She the Municipal Opera Company, is 22-year-old Billie Lou Watt, which was then putting on "The one 1 of three young ladies lea- American Way." They needed tured in the new musical hit a few bit players in a hurry. show. "Barefoot Boy With and The Little Cheek," whose combined ages seemed a likely place to find when added up still fall short them. Billie Lou, still a high of 62 years. Miss Watt.

the vet- school student, and several otheran of the trio, has been on the er youthful actors were diswa up since she was 15 and patched immediatelyand lucky surprised her friends and neigh- Miss Watt got one of-the COIV hors in her native St. Louis with eted roles. She played in the her appearance in the Municipal show throughout the St. Louis Opera's production of "The run. American Way." With a Buz- cessful run as Vincent Price's AT 17; Miss left Si daughter in that play to her Louis to attend or western credit, Billie Lou has had her sights set on Broadway ever University in Chicago.

There her interest in dramatics con- tours, to he expected in any since. Barring one or two de- tinued unabated. Then, during youngster's career, her course a school vacation, she came to has i been set dead straight New York to take in some aheadand damn the torpedoes! shows In a devil-may-care 1 spirit she decided to try her, BILLIE LOU WATT was luck with the theatrical pro- horn! in St. Louis and grew up ducers on BroadwayThe very first producer she went to see on page boulevard, a precocious youngster who early thought was George Abbott, who always has a keen weather-eye out for acting was more fun than any- thing. She attended Midland promising youngsters.

Abbott and IHowe Heights Schools, and gave her an experienced, the- then went to Ritenour High ater-wise appraisal, and asked School. Her father, E. J. Watt, her to read some lines. She did, was--and still isan employe of and he offered her a- job ina the sell Telephone Company in touring company of the success- Louis ful play, "Kiss and Tell." S.

Billie Lou's enthusiasm very It was while Billie Lou was studVing dramatics at the St. shortly received a dash of cold water, however. 1 Her parents, Louis School of the Theater that she 1 nrel 01 arra wara ti a A got the necessary who wished to see her graduate 01- 1.00U1. It was while Billie Lou was studying' dramatics at the St Louis School of the Theater that she 1.first got the necessary Billie Lou's enthusiasm very shortly received a dash of cold water, however. 1 Her parents, who wished from college, ere dead set to see her graduate d- )- By ROBERT GODDARD MOST alleged comedy pro- ALECoeGREAT 4 grams can depend on riotous laughter from their studio audiences any day of the week regardless of what's happening tt around the radio sets at home.

41 The listeners at the dial-side may be greeting the goings-on with a deathly hush, but studio 1)," audiences are guaranteed to -T---r" i laugh at practically anything. It the took. e- Borden Company to -3 break this gay little tradition 1-, 3, A' 7 sAlib a new radio half hour fritt called 'Arthur's It comes on every Friday at 8 p. m. -4-A 4 ft a it 0 over CBS, and we'd advise you te to be somewhere else at the time.

N- On the particular show we ac there SOrtle I caught ere were only a few For scattered chuckles from the stu- naucyris, dio listeners, all of whom got in for free and were ready and Is a tirae between, eager to meet the talent much more I than halfway, so we feel reasonably safe in saying that wnen -they bang the egg "Arthur's Place" is lay- awa at ing these Fridays will go down as One of the biggest in history. A Lew priv ate As drab as it is, however. it probably looked pretty I darned SC 0 good on paper. Locale of the show i is a beanery at a transcontinental bus stop. Beanery manager is an ex-vaudevillian, who plays host to a guin Club: "She can carry e.

guest star each week and swaps tune, but don't be around when gags vrith his hired help. includ- she unloads it" This involved ing I dumb waitress, a-prissy him with the cantArY.5 boy 4 dowager and a Dixieland -jazz friend. Big Steve, a hard-boiled gent who intimated that he band. Although a jazz band Is stretching it a bit for a hash would be glad to practice may- house, the band and everything hem on Silvers if the columnist else could have been worked into ever showed up at the Penguin something fairly palatable with Club again. This sort of thing is tailored to Silvers like some- proper handling and proper talent- thing from Bond street- When the world looks black he's one Chief offender In this latter of the funniest funny men in 4 business.

respect is the beanery played by Arthur Moore, who the 5 Beryl Davis, the Engliill sing- used to produce Borden's "Coun- er who has been creating quite ty Fele and has now turned a comedian, a move Which both stir on this side of the water he and his audiences are ob- here of late. is also on hand for 1 a song or two. Unfortunately, viously viewing with genuine her talents went to waste on the'; regret by this time. Moore's titoing and delivery as a funny first show because of a pallid man are on a par with Sister arrangement of her tune and Sue's recitations at eighth grade too-thin musical support by the band. But as the producers of graduation ceremonies.

On- this opus are apparently right recent show when guest star Benny- Goodman came in and canny gentlemen. they'll sin- said "hello" doubtedly have Miss Davis spot- silence on ththere wa dead air for several 1s lighted in the manner she do- seconds. Moore was apparently serves by the next time you bear having trouble figuring out the her. answer. -As of this ailing the Phil A few More set-toe like that Silvers Show is sustaining but and somebody is going to put is keeping a weather eye out Arthur's Place" in its place.

for a sponsor. If, the program Off the air, that is. keeps up its fast inaugural lc. pace, sponsors to spare will be beating a path to Silverstdoor 1, 014 THE off chance that An; thur Moore is going in for this any day no nte business seriously, A NEW CBS story series, Ts- heavenforbid, he could mend a cape." came into being this week man and from now on will be filling 1 profitable half hour on Wednes- day nights listening who tgets laughs as eneY NIS the nation's living rooms with famous tales of adventure and breaking sticks. Stepping up derring-do eyery Monday night to the microphone at 9 p.

via is 1 at vintage yarn was every Wednesday phil Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King." treated with expert the bespectacled comic. tare and loving attention. to Silvers. Who has a new summer 4 show of his own, and it fits him every moment of to a I T. Plot revolves around the siderable leeway in what they Cit Cottons- write.

On the first program our hero took the leeway in writing about a girl singer at the Pen- Dark City. Cottons. Dark PlnsCbeek i rvE -I KNOWN THE MAN th with candy-apple heart for something like 25 years. I think I've read about 5900 of the 6000 1 short-shorts he wrote for his 't 3k, newspaper column. i AY He and his doll of a bride, ,,0 Gladys Glad, the Ziegfeld beauty, trekked out to Hollywood in 1937.

Since then, the sweetest guy in business has been 1 MARK MELLINGER producirig Hollywood's toughest 1 pictures. His elegant include The Roaring Twen1 ties," "High Sierra," "They Drive By Night( and Ernest Hemingway's Killers." "The Killers" figures to gross better than 35,000,000, and a lot of guys UtTO aren't doing so well will be pleased to learn Mark is in for a pilce of the profits. 1 The other night I saw a preview of Hellinger's latest, and my i corpuscles are still fanning ithemselves. It's called 'Brute Force" I and it's tougher than a two- it steak. It's the story of a jail 'break, i and its ride-to-glory finish cks the punch of a triple My 1 i missus was with me when I it and I didn't much care for the 1 way she raved about Burt ncaster and Howard Duff.

1 1 -1: rd like to be selling the electricity that's going to be used till I next few years to light up th names of these two talented roosters 1 THERE'S A nice story ehind the making of this picture. It bas to do with casting bread on the waters and having it come back strawberry shortcake. i 64 ROBERT PATTERSON. originally a West oast neWspaperman, was hanging around New York and doing a lot worse than good. Damon Runyon advised him to look lip Hellinger if be ever got back to the Coast.

Patterson did. Mark listened, smiled and reached for his poke. 1 I 'Thanks just the same," said Patterson. "But rm looking for a job not a handout." Mark put him on the pa roll as a writer for a couple of weeks, figuring a donation by any ther name would smell as At the end of two week Patterson handed Hellinger an outline for a screen play. Itwap the first draft of the story on which "Brute Force" 'was based.

"Brute Force" was based. tt against her terminating ner ed- ucation for the uncertainties of theatrical life. But when Billie scene from the actress who hails from St. Louis shown here with Billy Red BILLIE LOU WATT Is field in Broadway musical Comedy, "Barefoot Bo With Cheek 1 ee I. i i i 5.

training that goes with a pro- fessional career She acting A fessional acting career. She studied singing and dancing, too, and in time this was to stand her in good stead also. Her first break came not long afterwards when she was play 4-h-er -in -g-o-od-stead also. Merl first break came rot long afte-wards when she was play- A few months back- I llowed as how I would send out a Champagne and Caviar Awe to anybody who came up with some- thing in the entertainment li which gave me bubbles in the blood. Well.

I've told my brownies to start wrapping up the treasures of the vinyard and the Volga. I the producer of "Brute Force" rates the Romanoff fish eggs and the fancy fizzwater. 11 Incidentally, this iR pro 1 ably the first time in years anybody has been able to buy Mark ellinger a drink. "pretty doggone tired." The part of Noblesse Oblige, a sophisticated- co-ed tin Boy, With Cheek; Max Shulman's satirical stonr of campus goingsft. one which keeps her on stage most of the time: George Abbott musical productions have never been known for any slight similarity to a snairs pace.

as Billie Lou Watt can testify. speaking Billie Lou it all he has played in giving her her. big chance en Broadway, the Port of start many another young actor and actress has had before taking the high road to wood and international 6 "mow mow 7 I. ran top ild Zotee! a LON pet DISPLAY ROMS 219 PLEUCLID F0-4951 -CBalkeOLONIALS 7 to -239 N.EUCLID FO-dligl" omme puiv A I-41U uu.k.uk a uus -s cis i u.y vuu cm La I taxa ul eo II Cril a Ill'EL UtjAt A pi 0, 1 ny A I 6C N. l'f 41 c-e-s-s-ful run, the couple -Were Johnny's attraetiveyoung mother.

saYitg: "I think he's a umnist, for The Show Business I FAME Jimmy Du ant our own convictions eve te If you're one of many woMen married. i what-! little'l time there is left ful man to She's Weekly, a periodical that I t- stnneed tn htiVel hie shrtau chinarl 44 ,,,,9 who have reluctantly given up after 'working in the theater, rraleful fnr the nrnminent hart rtrone tn tri 'VA lie ernArmee ene. SALE I Duranite stopped to have his shoes shined your ovn convictions even cent the to If, you're one or many wumen whet have reluctantly given up YL A GE i cessful run, the couple -Were If you're one of many woinen married. who have reluctantly given up 3ohnny-s attractive young mother, what little "1 time there is left after 'working in the theater, could only sum up by saying: "I think he's a wonderful man to for." She's grateful for the prominent part activities Of Silvers tisks. tol-k umnist, ter The Show Business Weekly, a periodical that is-.

SALE prone to give its employes con- Lou later was offered a job with; the company when I it reached Chicago, her parents consented. She played the role of Corliss Archer the teen-agecb I trouble maker in the Windy ow ook City and later in New romance. too. bad entered this talented young .1 lady 's OVentfur life Che met 0 I actor Hal Studer of Cleveland Beautitut and fell in love with the hand- I some youth. When "Kiss and LAMOUR Tell" finally concluded its sue A LZITLE later on, Billie Lou was offered another part in an Abbott production.

This time, however, the veteran showinan seems to have erred in his judgment somewhat, for the show flopped before reach-coat ing Broadway. Billie Lou spent the time between liberty," as they say in the theater-haiing a baby. If you ask Billie Lou AR-. or, rather, Mrs. Studer-what I her hobby is, she looks rather nonplussed at.

'first, then hesitantly replies: "Well, I guess it's -my Her son, John Watt Studer. is now a months old and getting cuter by the minute. When his mother is working in. her present show these evenings, little Johnny is cared for by his actor-father. Hal.

who usually has an acting job in daytime or early evening radio showsthe 'Adventures of Frank Merriwell having been the most recent At'for 'Mkt caring for Johnny himself and doing --some is spent in knitting or reading: 'BUT THERE Is little time for bobbies or spare-time activities these days. Billie Lou Watt has a juicy part in a -hit musical show at last and it keeps her mighty busy. On matinee days, when Billie Lou has given two performances, she returns to the Studers' uptown apartment not far from Grants Tomb, feeling per of time?" Frankly i the newspa- per publisher. "That's the wearing nail polish because you just couldn't keep it on your way It is with my too." nails, please give your finger-said the woman. "What's yourVaper?" asked Connelly tY tip one more chance for beau- I We ask you to.

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When Durante finally stepped down the shoe-shine boy confessed: "I ought to know you because you're a Ibig -man. But, you see, I don't live r. i around 7 from -7ta a Monica." I SALE: A few years ago Rich. ard VV, Leche, the Governor i of Louisiana, was sent to prison after the expose of the Lonisi' ana Hayride scandals. For; mer Gov.

Leche now needs men- ey and he had to sell his house In the Louisiana summer resort territory. The purchaser io a New Orleans Judge, Wayne! G. Borah. who sent many of Ithe Huey Long-Leche henchmei to prison. I LABOR: Recently 75 at or- neys representing AFL tailors met in Washington at the 1 offices of Joe Padway, the AFL lawyer, to man strategy regarding the Taft-Hartley bill.

This was the principal accomplIshment of the meeting: A seven--man committee was met up to channel all reports and clea all cases so that they could co- I ordinate the attack on the on- 1' etitutionality of the labor bill. I It was at this meeting Slso .1,,, that William Green telephoned Phil Murray, head of the CIO, to resume the AFL-CIO confer, ences. RACE: Benny Fields tell of a horse-trainer who had losil his I bets on the first five races and hoped to recoup in the sixth racd. Just before the racellbe' gan someone saw the tra'ner administering over-doses ofl cocaine to the horse and feeding him oats into which I arij ana had been placed. "Do you think he'll win?" the trainer was asked.

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