Valley Times from North Hollywood, California • 17

VALLEY TIMES 17 Friday, September 26, 1947 British Film Exhibitor Decries Tax Studio Starts Golf Tourney At Daybreak! FRED BROOMFIELD, Editor One of Great Britains leading Paramount has issued an as-film exhibitors. Sir Sidney Clift, founding statement. All employees declaring we not only cannot do are invited to participate in the without American films but, more- studio's foursome golf tournament, 'THE LONG NIGHT7: over, we dont want to do without them, today left a ringing denunciation of his countrys 75 per cent tax on U. S. motion pictures fol-I lowing his Warner Bros, studio I visit yesterday.

I And anyone who says otherwise is speaking utter balderdash, added the former president of the Cinema- STARTING AT DAYBREAK, at the Southern California Country Club, Sunday morning. Executives Henry Ginsberg, William Meiklejohn, Michael Leisen, George Marshall and others from the front office will team up with the carpenters and other artisans. Jane Russell and Bob Hope, starring in the studios Technicolor The Paleface, will tee off around 11 a.m. and Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and other stars are expected to play during the day. Film Extraordinary, In Boomerang1 Style rp 2 hnolu? 'e 1 1 T.

By HAZEL FLYNN fnmnou 1ght is another release proving that the 10n anc criticism which have plagued Hollywood of Ve- serve? a useful purpose. It is an extraordinary, picture in semi-dociumentary style on the order of! a eas with a battle-weary veterans reactions when faced with a personal 1 cni 7 A. lent is the cop who tries to shove ms a maP wtio came everybody around, the Police Chief overseas sick ot blood who wants the mess cleared suddenly and quickly for political reasons, almost unbelievably finds himself in a killers shoes. For most of the way youll forget that youre looking at a Hollywood movie. Youll think instead! Told in Flashback The Long Night refers to the time Joe spends behind his barricade thinking it all out tograph Exhibitors association.

i Sidney, knighted a few imonths ago, yfciwas entertained Jby Stars Dennis Morgan on the set of his current Warner film, To the Victor, and Jack Carson on Sir April Show- ers. He asserted eerv A'. I IT Li. KISS Rae 17-year-old North Hollywood miss, is featured opposite Harry Carr, of Burbank, in the San Fernando Valley Community Theatre guild show to be presented at the McKinley Home, Van Nuys, Oct. 6.

Bette first appeared on the stage at the North Hollywood High school and later in her hometown playhouse, the Pilgrimage Play and the Miniature theater. Harry is a veteran of summer stock shows and musical comedy. Robert Hays will direct. rv Studio notes Producer Harry Greys wife presented him with a healthy seven and a half pound i boy at the Cedars of Lebanon hospital yesterday. They live in the Valley and the recent addi- is their second child Clitt Paulette Goddard will arrive by plane from Europe tomorrow and theater In vvill leave immediately for Holly England will be forced to close iwd to prepare for her new pic within six to eight months if the ture, Hazard, co-starring Carey MacDonald and directed bv George Marshall.

Elizabeth Scott ar rived in Hollywood today from tax remains. Under a government ruling which pre ails when a field of VISITING TIIE EL PORTAI-Noreen Nash and Robert Paige will be on the screen in Eagle-Lions Red Stallion, showing at the El Portal in aid of the theaters employes fund, tomorrow at 10 a.m. Hollywoods famous animals, including Daisy of Blondie fame and Honey the bear, will appear in person and do their tricks on the stage. Red Stallion features a vivid fight by the bear and a beautiful horse. The picture offers excellent entertainment for the young folks.

New York. re-that youre examining a newsreellenactinS the events which led him or police camera records of thc'to his deplorable state. This is capture of Joe. told ia flashback. The law, learning all oer again the lesson that one man in a strategic position can withstand an army for a time, finally sends for gas-bombs.

Dont miss this one. Its among the better films of the year and a striking tribute to di- llero Goes Amuck louve read of such cases in the papers how a hero with medals and battle stars galore suddenly runs amuck. Due to scarcity of white space and their frequent oc- Kolb and Dill Open At Belasco Oct. 6 endeavor closes, all cinema employes will be re-directed into other forms of labor, and there would be no staff to open cinemas with when they were ready to resume operation, said Sir Sidney. currence these stories rarely getjrectional and photographic genius, more than a paragraph or two in The musical background equals thej Stewart Plays Wise Guy in Latest Film Hollywood Kolb and Dill, greatest comedy team of the American theater for nearly a half a century, have been stage stars in forty-four productions, beside scores of vaudeville sketches that have been seen in every key city in the United Stewart, in his second After abandoning the giease- pictuie since returning to civilian1 paint for several jears, Kolb and TTrviKr ej a's a bl wise guy who Dill aie together befote the finds his match in a small townjfootlights in a rev iv al of their most newspaper woman, Jane faice The II)gh print.

Director Anatole Litvak, however, makes a fascinating Joseph August, Cameraman, Dies Job intensity of the drama. Henry Fonda has neer done; movie oiit it all. Its perhaps a anything in his. screen career as Somebody in the studio corn-! Yes, Ive got to he doing things, little too long, but that is because strong and forceful and real as missary phoned to ask whether Dick agreed in self-analysis; he looks at it as might a cub re-joe Adams. Barbara Bel Geddes our chicken sandwiches had ar- xelax better if Im flying a plane' Joseph August, one of porter on his first assignment.

To has the part of the girl who isjrived in Dick Powells dressing or sailing a boat. jwoods top cameramen, died iDuring Studio him it isn just another case of. betrayed by the actor and she room. He boomed into the Dick, horn in Little Rock, ArkJheart attack while at vvotk at the in Robert Riskins comedv-romanrp'rla a guy who killed another guy over hives up to the advance youveiThey sure as the devil havent, started his ptofessionai career at RKO-Radio studio vesterday. iMagic Town RKO relnv nnon.1!, a dame.

To him it is a dramatic' been hearing about her. She shows I love jou but Im hungry. .21 half his life ago as Richard, During his illustrious caieer today at Loews State Grau-'ate ta tingI 06 thG panorama of American city life. tremendous promise. The vain and OU lover E.

Powell, singer of semi-classical Awright, He notes every minute detail venomous vaudevillian lady-k auutiiiittn photographed 277 pictures, includ-jmans Chinese, Carthav Circle Dick Powell breezy, fast- songs, in Louisville, Ky. Now aim-jjng MGMs Academy Award win-town and Loyola theatres. lady-killer the who couldnt help tormenting peo This-' hilarious comedy is now playing a months engagement in Stewart plays the role of a na- San Fiancisco at the Geary thea- even the mass movement of Li BIG WEEK prestxls Ckrexc-e DffyS ife With Either tional poll expert who selects Miss ter. Wymans home town as a ba-! rometer of public opinion. Comedy! sequences growing out of this sit-! NOW PLAYING ple any more than he could help torturing animals is drawn by Vincent Price.

Ann Dvorak is Charlene, the magicians helper, and this is one of her best parts. Her scenes as the tarnished but utterly honest show-girl are also absolutely life-like. talking, hard-hitting and well-liked, ing eventually at movie direction, ner The Informer. Among many Director Sidney Lanfield, who he says he has always tried to his fine pieces of work were, stopped in briefly, called Dick the low the advice of his dad, a distrib-They Were Expendable and nicest guy Ive worked with in 23 utor of harvesting machines: Primrose Path. years in pictures.

Dick dipped into Son, just use horse sense and During the war he served with his chocolate sundae in uncom- oull get along. fortable silence. Lanfield is directing Dick in Station West Powells first west- VsCtOT FrOnCen ern. Dick admits he got sick of, his own grin and says half jokingly Commander John Fords OSS unit and he photographed the Battle of Midway. He was a charter mem- ber of the American Society of Cinema Photographers and well, know in America for his artistic He DOUBLE FEATURE All CINECOLOR SHOW crowds of spectators.

He sketches hundreds of interesting faces among the onlookers as well as the principals concerned. He shows how Maximillian, a magician and dog trainer, is shot, then how the suspected murderer barricades himself on the top floor of his rooming house. 'It is all faithfully depicted the subsequent actions of those in the house and immediate neighborhood. Pres Irene Dunne Wiluam Powell Lfirli iuation are enlivened bv Ned Sparks jKent Smith, Wallace Ford and! Regis Toomey. I On the same program, at Loews! state and the Uptown only is Zane! Greys Under the Tonto Rim with accomplishments.

(Tim Holt, Nan Leslie and Richard He leaves his wife, Mary J. Martin. August and a son Joseph whoi worked with his father as a cam-! eraman at the RKO-Radio studio. Narcissus Held Over Black Narcissus, J. Arthur ELIZABETH TAYLOR CDMUNDCWm.fASUWTS MICHAEL CURTIZ "SROBT BUCKNER TMt tA KWmillSSttUMLCWUif PA0M8CMAun IIM pmt, otna'6cerpvv MNbit Mfl fnw8f 8MJ4IC 0 SRA8 The accompanying feature is Banjo, a Lillie Hayward production starring little Sharyn Moffett.

It sets forth how a bird dog and a child teach a selfish woman "lifes true values and re-unite her with her Doctor beau, a very handsome and likeable young man, by the way. The Moffett moppet is clever, and the dog grand, but this synthetic film doesnt fit on this bill. Its for children mostly and they shouldnt be encouraged to see an adult release like Long Night. David week Iris, RESTAURANTS IN CINECOLOR Released thru UNITED ARTISTS Al 1 mm that people got on to me during Recovers Car those eight years he sang in movie' musicals. LOSt 7 iGQIS AOO He switched abruptly to hard- 7 i boiled private detective roles in Victor Francen has been My Sweet and Cor- gratulated for the recovery of the nered; but now he savs no more car he left in France seven years detective roles becau-e people are ago, but the episode is fraught fickle and I think those routines with sadness for the French-born are on the wane.

actor. He'll sing again in a movie not The cai. now enroute to the a musical now being written. He United States by boat, was success-; Tvvo American film debuts will Gujd gnd Studi Cif 1hpatrP5 plans to star in and co-produce fully hidden from the Germans be fostered in A Cage of another picture involving a love during the occupation by Francens' Bales, new Gallic comedy which triangle. Variety is the only way longtime (17 years) devoted its Los Angeles piemieie at jou can live in this business, Dick retary, Rene Terillac.

However, jtbe Esquire theater tonight, says. Its a fight to stay ahead. Terillac himself did not live 'to. Noel-Noel, noted French cari-He has more irons in the fire gieet Fiancen when the actor nightclub performer and than a cut-rate blacksmilh. His turned to his native land eight rnotion picture actor, stars in the "National Flight System, newly, months ago.

Terillac did not re- m. first of his to be shown organized, gives fljing instruction cover from the hardships he suf- this country. ANo being intro-on a mass-distribution ba.is. (Wife fered, and died shortly beforeuced for their initial appearance June Allyson is getting arrived. here are the internationally known about taking week-end hops with Dick in his four-place plane.) He co-owns a deep-freezer and trailer agency and incidentally sells these items to grips and other fellow workers at cost.

An interesting sidelight on the I a a. music of Call Me Mister open- I lOTOnCG bates Gl ling Wednesday at the Biltmore theater under the imprinter of Rank piesentation in Technicolor I Pairing Deborah Kerr, Sabu and Flora today holds over for a second at the United Artists, Ritz, Dekker Gets Role Albert Dekker, who jut finished Gentlemans Agreement at Twentieth Century-Fox, gets an assignment in Ballad of Furnace Creek, now shooting in Kanab, Utah. Hell play a gambler who Winner of 9 Awards, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, Cameraman Signed Reggie Lanning was assigned yesterday as cameraman for Republics Monte Hale-Adrian Booth western in trucolor, California Firebrand, which goes before the cameras today with Phil Ford RANCHO SANTA ANITA TUI CITT AICAOIA Sate'. CHICKEN HOUSES (SHIGA AND IURT0N WAT 115 HIM AND AID MOM San Fernando Valley Itoundup Tickets on sale at all Valley Times offices. (t matches wits with Victor Mature.

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For Warner7s Role Florence Bates, character actress, has been set for the role of Bette Davis housekeeper in "Winter Meeting. Miss Bates last work for Warners was in The Time, The Place and The Girl, Love and Learn and Saratoga Trunk. Between films she piactices law, being a graduate of the Univeisit of Texas Law school. iMelvyn Douglas and Herman Levin, has been pointed out by Biff Liff the assistant stage manager the musical and former captain in the infantry in Europe. The opening number of the Uhow, composed by Harold Rome, who is responsible for the shows music including its hit number South America Take It Away, is the Jodie Chant.

This is based on a method of drilling introduced into the Army by a colored sergeant named Jodie. It proved so popular that it was promptly picked up by all other of our units and became a standard feature of drill. Harold Rome based his song on this drill chant. Backstage the opening number is known as the "Jodie Chant. THEATRE 7532 LANKERSHIM CO NT.

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