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Sunday, June 18, 1961 2 dhr Birmingham Nrma Double for 39 years Glamor me from a $15 a week to $1500 a week job. TOKYO New trade gains are shown in Japanese trade reports. Saving movie stars necks conies natural to stuntman Contiwied from Page 1 Music Man" climaxed the Jubilee erf Films. SO SUCCESSFUL was this fling back into old time showmanship by Jack Warner, that the Jubilee of Films is likely to become industry-wide nett year, with all of the major Studios sharing in picking up the check that ran Warners into $250,000 or more this year The Jubilee will be extended to a week, with studios taking turns entertaining the press. This was a fun event, but also one of significance.

It sent the people who write about Hollywood back to their typewriters over the world with a happy, warm feeling of confidence that, at last. Hollywood has regained that old spirit, showmanship, and recognition of glamor that made it great. Jesse James. Later, be did the same for Henry Fonda in a remake of the film. Dick Powell, Joel McCrea.

Alan Hale. Harry Carey. Buck Jones, Ken Maynor, George O'Brian and Richard Dix are others whose necks Cliff Lyons has saved. He never doubled for Clark Gable. The earthy Gable insisted on doing his own fighting.

Stunting isn't so bad. in the opinion of Lyons. It took WARNER JUBILEE OF FILMS AND FUN Leslie Caron, Jack Warner, Meredith Willson enjoy a joke OUTDOOR THEATRE TONIGHT THRU WED. "BUTTERFIELD 8" Ellxobrth Taylor, Lowrcnco Horvty Eddie Filhtr HOLLYWOOD. June 17-Remember the breath-taking 75-foot leap Errol Flynn made on horseback into a river in 'San Antonio? The man on the horse wasn't the swashbuckling Flynn It was Cliff Lyons, dean of Hollywood stunt men.

Lyons, who has been risking his neck to save high-priced ones of the stars for more than 39 year, has doubled for most of the stars for more than 39 years, has doubled for most of the action picture heroes. The San Antonio" leap was one he remembers. There was drama in the incident the audience didnt know. That was the time the horse was drowned and the Humane Society went into action to supervise all scenes in which animals are involved. he said.

"And they still do. LYONS SAYS that most actors, especially people like Errol Flynn, a sort of natural daredevil, prefer to do the stunts themselves, but the studio brass has other ideas. "After all. hazards is my business, acting theirs. Most amusing incidents, according to Lyons are those that have occurred when he was called in to ride for a certain Western actor, who actually was afraid of the horse.

Lyons was on the 20th Century-Fox lot to direct Ken Scott in fencing for the picture Comancheros. He was working with his protege, Paul Stater. GET YOUR LADY SHOPPERS' THEATER PARTY CLIFF LYONS Stunt man' A hearty fellow. Cliff Lyons looks like the late Ward Bond, for whom he doubled. He works almost exclusively for John Ford, and is to join him shortly in Kentucky for the filming of a sequence of the Cinerama series, How the West Was Won.

Lyons directed the action for John Wayne's The Alamo. and doubled for Rock Hudson in that rough-and-tumble cafe fight scene in Giant. He got into this stunt business by accident. "1 came here with a Wild West show that went broke, and I had to eat. Lyons went into the first Hopalong Cassidy series, doubled for Gene Autry in some of his early' pictures, and for Tyrone Power in the first THE NAKId EPCE, Coming Soon MIRE TICKETS AT BllCHS FAIR AND Jt SQUARE MAD-HATTER HEDDA HOPPER Looks over Leslie Caron's French Chapeau Going Hie story of a woman who ms By Lore Possessed I YOUNG IDEAS HOLLYWOOD, June 17 tf Charles Wick has produced his first movie because his own children gave him the idea.

One of his kids, watching the Three Stooges on TV, asked Wick, a TV producer, why someone didnt make a new movie with the zany trio. It started the parent thinking. First he got the idea that a fairy tale would be the ideal format for the Stooges. He contacted the Stooges. They liked the idea.

And 20th-Century Fox, which had just signed Olympic skater Carol Heiss, liked the idee too. The studio even offered to partner with Wick's own company, Chanford Productions. And that's how Snow White and the Three Stooges was born. RETURN TO GLAMOR NO SWEAT SHIRTS Warren Beaty, Fiance Joan Collins, Natalie Wood Best sellers So you wanta pay visit to studio? Try these pointers HOLLYWOOD, June 17 So you're to Holly wood and want to get in a movie studio? Hundreds of vacationists trek West with the same idea each Summer. Back in the days of silent pictures, it wasnt too difficult to get a pass.

But Fleecing," retitled Honeymoon Machine, with Steve McQueen and Brigid Balzen. Pigment protects Ever wonder why the clear quality finish on your neighbors redwood house doesnt last as long as the colored paint on your home? Here's why. In addition to providing color, the pigment portion of the paint protects the vehicle, which may be oil or a synthetic resin, from the effects of sunlight. Clear finishes have no pigment to protect the vehicle which breaks down sooner. FREE Matinee Tickets to the Alabama Theatre Enjoy Ladies Matinee each ednesday from 1 1 A.M.

to 1 P.M. Through Aug. 9th Get Your Free Tickets at "THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. based on the Blasco-Ibanez novel, produced by Minelli, and filmed in Paris and surrounding countryside, stars Glenn Ford, Inrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb and Yvette Mimieux.

One of Rudolf Valentino's most famous pictures, remade. (M-G-M). OTHER PICTURES with varied themes to he arriving at Birmingham theaters this Summer will include Walt Disneys The Parent Trap, Jayne Manfields "It Happened in Athens, Bette avis "Pocketful of Miracles, Debbie Reynolds Star in the West exhil- Continued from Page 1 Wcrld War II. David Niven, Gregory Peck. Anthony Quinn, Gia Scala are starred.

Filmed where it happened. (Columbia). WILD IN THE COUNTRY, the picture 20th Century-Fox believes will do for Elvis Presley what From Here to Eternity did for Sinatra. Drama with music, not a musical, with five songs for Elvis by Ken Hopkins who scored with Wild River, Baby Doll and The Fugitive Kind. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.

one of the most ambitious films of the year, filmed in Assisi. Story spans 12th and 13th centuries, is set against the strife and turbulence of a world emerging from the Dark Ages. Brad Dill-man, as Saint Francis, heads a tremendous cast. (20th Century-Fox KING OF KINGS, a spectacular Biblical story filmed in Europe, and c-jce on the scale of Ben-Hur." International cast includes Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Viveca Lindfors, Jeffrey Hunter. COLOR But most any evening you can catch a glimpse of a few of them at Dino's, Chafins, Don the Beachcomber's, Tail of the Cock, where Johnny Mack Brown is host; Frascati's, the Largo, and other restaurants and spots along Sunset Strip.

FARMERS MARKET is another place to see the stors. Movie moms go there with their children to shop and lunch. And that famous Schwab's Drug Store j.n Sunset Boulevard is the hangout for the younger set, young hopefuls, waiting to be discovered" as Lana Turner was, over an ice cream soda. Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm and Ghost Town are favorite entertainment spots for Hollywood families, and youre apt to run into the Roy Rogerses with their youngsters, Audie Morphy, and other stars, on the rides any day. SUSAN THOMAS HAML1DN KOHNER MITCHELLBELGEODES ACCRA Ghana has embarked on experiments designed to debating comedy, and her Broad- velop a sugar production indus-way play, "The Pleasure of His try which will provide employ-Company, the novels Ada ment for 4000 persons.

Results Dallas wi'h Susan Hayward, on two trial plots planted with and Bridge to the Sun with eight varieties of sugar cane Carroll Baker, and the Broad- caused expansion of the work way comedy, The Golden to an 8000 acre tract. STARTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 28 'the advent of the sound changed all of that. One cough, off-guard remark, creak of a shoe, or a whisper, when the sound camera is in action, can ruin many feet of film and prove costly to the studios. Nowaday, a tourist in Hollywood, unless he Is a member I the working press, a theater man, or a VIP, has about as muck of crashing the big gates to the major studios as he (Fes the doors of a Federal Reserve Bank. IN THE WINTER, a studio many occasionally make an exception at a request of a cial friend on a newspaper.

But not during Summer vacations. If we started this, we'd not know where to stop, and with the thousands flocking out each year, wed just have to sus- pend operations and devote our time to entertaining visitors," one studio executive says. The best way to see inside the studios Is to take one of those buses which operate from the lot on Hollywood Boulevard, next to Graumans Chinese Theater (the theater with the footprints af stars out front), across the street from Hollywood-Roosevelt Hotel. IF YOU'RE LUCKY, and outdoor scenes are being shot on any of the lots, you'll be permitted to leave the bus and visit the set under the guidance of your driver. Otherwise, youll have to be content to take a bus tour of the lots, each a city in itself.

These buses also will take you on tours past the homes of the stars, with the drivers pointing out the residences of Hollywood's famous, and imparting all kinds of information on their private lives. Because they must be on the lots at 5 a.m. when shooting a picture, stars don't frequent the nightspots as much as the tourists do. DOROTHY MALONE JOSEPH tn 0l ims N0W MPn 2nd Week PLUS Wood- kr oudy CARTOON IIMUU1 UtMIV IT MM IIRMIM6MAM ISStMft IMIUCK MMI FREE MATINEE TICKETS BE OUR GUEST AT THE ALABAMA THEATRE Enjoy the Lady Shopper's Movie Party Each Wednesday from 1 1 to 1 through August 9th Gt Your FREE TICKETS at Pisif Lodi' Ready-to-Wear Service Desk, Third Floor Fashions Fashions that cast you in starring roles come from Sooner or lefor, your favorite store! STARTS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 Walt Disney's "THE PARENT TRAP Roadside hazards II TECHNICOLOR From WARNER and Parrishs three It's What's In Front That Counts! Quality! Beauty! Economy! Don't pay padded pricer; ba wire; ba thrifty; visit the Hours of $8.50. Now ipacial economy line, you poy only $7.50 framer and tingle virion.

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Producer Alexander H. Cohen has set up a special unit with a $100,000 budget to merchan dise the venture, which isnt scheduled to open until Feb. 22, 1962. Cost of the musical itself i is set at $400,000. FROM THE ROVE I BT MILDRED SAVAGE MUSIC If STEINER WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY DELMER UAVES 4.