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1 3 THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL SUNDAY AUG 24 1941 CAREER COOPER PROMISING IS FORECAST ANOTHER SOUTHERN SCREEN FOR INEZ 7 BEAUTY By MALCOLM MILLER BARTER DRAMA FESTIVAL Barter annual Drama Festival opened in Town Hall Abingdon Va last Wednesday and will conclude Monday night September 1 the Annual Pilgrimage Play will open Tuesday September 2 and play through Saturday September 6 Because of some confusion caused by the adoption of Day light Saving Time by some of the towns in Southwes Virginia and East Tennessee thef curtain time has been changed to 8 EST country last year and played the i BARRYMORE ON THE MILKY WAY Thus undoubtedly Is the most unusual picture of the year It was taken by a camerman on the set of latest picture When asked to make the-scene Barrymore excused himself from a friend with the words "Pardon me while I step out of character for a moment" l- sx i- INEZ COOPER family and enjoy that delicious southern food she loves so much even get hungry just thinking about she said on the cob candied sweet potatoes or yams southern fried chicken and fresh apple pie are a few of her favorite dishes Vital Statistics: Her birthday is March 23 Dislikes candy very superstitious will walk or drive out of her way to avoid a I St Ji black cat crossing her path Favorite sports: horseback riding gold and dancing Likes 12 to 13 hours of sleep books are ghost stories tion: To become a great actress and return to the South on her plantation Hobby: To be able to design all of her own clothes Thinks there is no place in the world like the South Favorite YourScreenTest Plays given last week were in and the Servant of Two Drama Festival plays to conclude the series are: Aafaat "Philadelphia Philip Barry 26 "Tha Main Jamea Thurber-Elliott Nugent "Night Must Emlyn Williams 'The Farmer Takes a Mare Connelly-Walter Edmonds 9 "The Farmer Takes a Mare Connelly-Walter Edmonds SO Arnold Sundgaard September 1 "Kiss the Boys Goodbye' Clare Boothe Anneal Pilgrimage Flay J-d Portrait Lenore Coffee-Wm Joyce Cowen Farmer Takes a Is the only Drama Festival play that has not been produced previously in Abingdon this summer It will be giventhjs Thursday and Friday in Town Hall Abingdon Va at 8 EST This Marc Connelly-Walter Edmonds comedy attempts to capture the simple homely life of the people who lived along Grand from Albany to Erie Pa in the early The cast includes: Constance Coleman John Morley Deloris Hudson Don Hart John Eaton Dorothy Bourne Joseph Haworth Mary Boylan Hubert Osborne Gene Bell Robert Pastene Helen Eastman Jon Riffel Charlotte Wilson Harlan Howe Frank Gregory Peggy Ann Holmes Paul Rich Maxine Spigel and Francis Hubley Drama Conference On Friday the 29th of August the second annual Barter Theatre Drama Conference will be held in Abingdon Drama teachers laymen and Little Theatre directors from all over the country are invited to the conference to study the problems incident to play production There will be short lectures and practical demonstrations by well I known educators directors actors Ambi-1 and back stage workers and an opportunity to attend a play rehearsal St Louis Municipal Opera will close its 1941 season of musical presentations in the St Louis outdoor theatre with the first American stage performances of the spectacular European stage and screen operetta success beginning tomorrow night The final performance will be given next Sunday night will have an outstanding cast including Nancy McCord Arthur Kent Violet Carlson Bob Lawrence William Lynn William Fred Persson Helen Raymond Joseph Macaulay Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville The operetta depicts the life of a cSmpany of Russian singers in the exciting days of Imperial Russia A prologue shows th singers performing outside a cabaret in Paris Cossack officer is in love with a dancer in the Imperial Ballet whose father is an anarchist The climax occurs when the hero saves the Czar from a bomb thrown by the father Mob scenes trench warfare and even a glorious rendition of are some of the spectacular features of the musi cal romance The lavish settings will include the Balalaika restaurant a riot of color music and dancing a Galician regimental headquarters a gala fete in the palace when bolsheviki stage a not and seize the revellers and a cabaret in Montmarte St Louis Municipal Opera officials expect the largest at tendance of the season for the American premiere of WILLIAM HOWELL 1 William Howell who has been visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Howell North Hills during the summer vacation of the in the show returned to New York last Fri day to join Gertrude Lawrence and other members of the in the cast for rehearsals for the fall opening of the musical play While in Knoxville Howell visited Robert Barter Theatre colony in Abingdon Va several times and motored to Asheville Chattanooga Gatlin burg and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park It's All Wrong About Sweaters Banned In Films The sweater manufacturers have nothing more to worry about Sweaters have come back with a bang in Hollywood Pullover sweaters crew sweaters coat sweaters angora sweaters any ahd every kind of sweaters They were being worn in the number which comprises the opening sequence of the college mystery-musical by the same title With Eddie Bracken singing the sweater girls parade around the campus give me give me give me those old college the sweater parade passed by back and forth before the camera back and forth before Bracken back and forth before every visitor who could £rowd onto the set which perhaps needless to relate was the most popular set on the lot There seems to have been a mistaken impression somewhere that a ban had been imposed on Hollywood sweaters Associate producer Joseph Sistrom denies this danard The only ban he points out was on the manner in which sweaters had been taken advantage of in certain art poses College girls wear sweaters This is a college picture Ergo its co-eds should and do wear sweaters BOBBIN COONS She was a sister to Scarlett more recently and importantly is leading lady to Robert Montgomery kr- in a supernat ural comedy Her name opens locks Who is she? Inez Cooper originally came to Hollywood on a vacation stayed on and today she nas one of the most promising screen careers in the film capital And she is still searching for a place in Southern California where she can find fried chicken like she used to eat it in the South Bom in Birmingham Alabama where her family has been rooted for generations Miss Cooper has beauty charm and intelligence special qualities of Southern Worden The story of her life reads something like a romantic novel written to intrigue the imagina tion but the facts are excitingly glamorous exotic beginning Having set her mind on becom ing an actress when a child much to the dissatisfaction of her parents she knew that some day somewhere the time would come when she would be acting Even her discovery reads like a fairy book story Miss Cooper was dining with a friend in a Hollywood cafe when she was seen by movie director Mervyn LeRoy A screen test and a long-term con tract at the Metro-Mayer studios were the results of a vacation trip to the West Coast Her early childhood was divided between Birmingham and her plantation in Georgia Miss most treasured memories today are of her yearly summer trips to visit she still calls her 'Those visits were the most wonderful events in my early she admits three months of each year and sometimes longer I was schooled in the real old southern ways of is nothing quite like life on a large plantation it is so rest ful and soothing that'one soon forgets that the rest of the world Miss Cooper continued famous southern hospitality exists today just as it did years ago The people are so friendly and sweet that it is a pleasure just to be near Youngest of three children Miss Cooper is the daughter of and Mary Cooper who are now residents of Atlanta Her mother is a direct descendant of Robert Lee She has an older sister and brother Her father being a Baptist minister necessitated the family moving around a great deal Because of this most of her school was acquired from private schools and tutors However it was through her influence that she first became interested in all kinds of sports She rode horses bare-back when she was only six years old and was an expert marksman with a rifle at seven Miss Cooper and her father became such great pals that he used to take her with him on all his hunting trips when she was only a youngster Her plantation is one of the most famous landmarks in that part of the country General Sherman used it as his headquarters during the Civil War At that time he even borrowed five of her horses Even today the most prized possession of her grandmother is the BROADWAY Bruin DM S-7F14 Tb THE Baanla Biker Tnckar't Orel Thon "BLONDIE GOES Fanny Arthur Lake YrWay "DATS OF JESSE With Bey George Hayee Saturday "ANDT HARDYS PRIVATE SECRETARY" with Mlekey Lewia Steae JOY Tun SANTA FE Olivia de Havilland Errel Wed "THE with Gary Doris Ikarenpert Priday "DIAMOND with Vletar Ann Nafel Saturday Ray Georfa wUh Hayee CRYSTAL Tun "STRANGER PROM with Charlea Starred Wedneaday "DATS OF JESSE with Roy Geerge Haye Thrtday "THE with Dick Farmn Peggy Meran Sat "WYOMING Den (Red) Julia Duncan a -J famous They are under Column 5 role with Margaret Sulla van in for The picture is an out-and-out comedy of occasionally broad farcical situations Streamlined modem comedy is innovational in the screen life of Boyer but his avid interest in being a prominent figure in it predicts that for will be full of surprises The uniform figures in but one of many hilarious interludes in the Bruce Manning Felix Jackson script Boyer dons it in carrying out an inspired hoax perpetrated on his honeymoon to keep his exsweetheart from clashing with his new bride PALACE £0e "INVISIBLE STRIPES" GEORGE RAFT JANE BRYAN HUMPHREY BOGART Alaa Balact Bhart Babjacta This is the sporting season Can you name two football stars now starring on the screen avi one pugilist? 3 Holly- 0 mclurhs: (a) An old-time who died after a long career devoted to Irish characters: (b) a leading' man newly prominent who won acclaim for strong intellectual portrayals Who were they? A Why did Private Kenneth Wilkinson of the Army go to Hollywood? Once Lucille Langhanke Ruby Stevens A Brough and Hemingway's Story Rearranged But Not Rewritten For Movies 1 -1 silvers are Sherman used while he was stopping there It was a climax to a perfect day when eeryone would gather around the huge fireplace and listen to her tell stories of the War and Sherman while three or four rabbits were being barbecued over the open fire And her favorite dish is still barbecued rabbit Inez Cooper is a sucker for anyone from Alabama or Georgia where neighbors knew her as the most beautiful girl of the South She is five feet six and one-half inches tall has dark brown hair and grey green eyes She weighs 112 pounds and carries her lithe figure with grace and poise developed by training and her participation in athletics Miss extensive wanderings over and around the Western hemisphere changed her love for the South It will always rate the number on spot in her life She has visited Central and South America Mexico and Australia during her traveling When she returned from South America she went to Florida It was this trip that started her on the road to fame While there she was offered a part in a New York show Her first few months in New York were uneventful and she took up modeling because she stand to be idle She signed with Georgia vaudeville troupe which was scheduled to tour Europe but war broke out and the trip was cancelled In its place Miss Cooper and her girl friend journeyed across the Unite! States to the West Coast and back to New York After spending the winter in Florida she came to California this spring iot a vacation 2t was interrupted when she was spotted by Mervyn LeRoy while dining with a friend at a Hollywood night club He offered her a screen test and it turned out so well that she was immediately given small roles In in the and and is currently appearing in Shadow of the Thin co-starring Myrna Loy and William Powell Miss Cooper is determined to become a great actress not just pretty girl She has studied hard and intends to continue the treatment Her favorite stars are Bette Davis and Clark Gable She can hardly wait until she returns to the South to see her Stanley Morner what names? Count 20 poinli for each quettion amicered A icon of 60 it good 80 excellent land 90 or above coloitaU much larger than usual Nothing takes the zip out of an actor like losing a role after giving his all a test The theatre always has been a I All of the musical and story ma hit and miss proposition in these terial were held in London Al-parts because everyone is too con- though negotiations for the Amer cerned with dialog and ican rights had been underway for coiffures and all the rest that has several months through a New to do with movie making Besides York representative the St Louis no money like Hollywood Municipal Opera awaited the and Vivien Fay Municipal Opera officials were not able to formally announce until just a short time before the current season began pays in the theater At last whoever the West Coast theatre has a sponsor who is as I enthusiastic as he is willing to spend money He is David arrival of the original manuscripts before signing the contract With a lilting and melodious score the combined work of George Posford and Bernard Answers In Charles Boyer Dons Fireman's Uniform For Comedy-Romance HOLLYWOOD Charles Boyer being fitted of all things a uniform! The slave and immaculate screen lover accepted the odd fitting assignment with amiable spirit Almost boyishly he pawed over a dozen assorted helmets suggested and chose a shiny Ed Wynnish number with a debonair sweep-in fact almost a swoop to the rear That would be his choice he indicated Boyer then proceeded to point out various other items figuring in what the well-dressed fireman will wear and finally selected a particularly vicious-looking fire axe as a side-arm The strange behavior is no more unusual than its purpose It all steins from his co-starring Selznick the movie man who has Gran had its World just started a summer theatre at I Premiere at the Adelphi Theatre Santa Barbara 80 miles away London December 22 1936 and Selznick's strawhatter they call had a long ran A cinema adapta it tion starring Nelson Eddy and object Is to discover Ilona Massey was released in this talent and he may But the financial outlay in view of the lim ited returns puts his venture almost in a class with yachting and ranching and other Hollywood hobbies Anna Christie" the opening play was expensively staged There was no second hand seen ery no chiseling Ingrid Bergman a Selznick property who has played four movie leads and Edward Bromberg week movie character were the principals Opening night was star-studded like a Holly-i By HUBBARD KEAVY wood premiere People who A Western pic- i miu ami i iracter player i Ooeninx mxht worked for Selznick Screen Test Evtlyn Kayai with Montgomary 2 Tom Harmon of Michigan Billy Conn of tha ring 3 (a) Charlia Murray and (bi Jama 4 Privata Wilkmaon at th to taa tha induatry that put out tha nina montha 5 Raapaetivaly thay ara Mary Aatr and Dennis Morgan Horse Opery in "Hr Coma Mr Jardsn" Sammy Baugh of Waahington Ratfakint) Staphanaon movia fan" wa Invitad 300-plua maviat ha had aaan in tha paat Barbara Stanwyck Robert Taylor By HUBBARD KEAVY HOLLY WOOD Paramount paid Ernest Hemingway $150000 for the rights to Whom the Bell and then hired Louis Bromfield to rearrange it Brom-field Is getting a tidy chunk maybe $25000 a good investment" said Sam Wood who will direct it will turn a fine story into a fine Bromfield is not of course rewriting Hemingway In changing the novel into a screenplay Bromfield is using Wood said dialog and mood not as at least a million read ers must know is a love story laid against the brutal back ground of the Spanish Civil Wood declared that is what it will remain Not an essential will be The opening sequences are different from His opening is casual The movie will start with the Incident of the bombing of the train told in close-ups of Jordan and the Rus sian accomplice he is obliged to kill to give the story immediate vitality and action Hemingway tells this in retrospect This will be followed by a scene in the hotel in Madrid where Jordan gets his instructions for blowing up the bridge And then Wood said pick up the book and go on from there? It will be the book from then Almost anyway Those who have read It know there are a few paragraphs Bromfield will be obliged to omit Although filming start for two or three months the actor interest already has reached a stage that is annoying in some quarters including the A surprisingly large number of players apparently are willing to work for nothing to be in the Paramount announced such a full series of tests that no person with any possibilities at all will be overlooked The proportion of broken hearts will thereforp be SUNSET Mn an DON AMECHE Belly Qaabla ml Carman I MIRANDA In DOWN ARGENTINE WAT (la Taehnl- Mjtr) Friday nly) ORAC1E FIELDS tnd SIDNEY HOWARD SHIPWRECK ALLY At Cmdy 111 and Tiw'-la Adalta Ika-Dlal Wad and Tbnr SONJA HENIE Ray Mllland and Rabarl Cammlngi EVERY THING HAPPENS AT NIGHT Sat (anly) GENE AUTRY Smlly Barnett and Juna diary la RANCHO GRANDO Alas Csmedy Car teea-Sertal ItIF-Cblldren 1e have and people who would like to A season of plays new and old with amateurs and professionals is planned Some people go to the movies because of one word Bob Preston has played a soldier sailor aviator and mounted policeman Brian Aherne has never appeared on the screen without mustache Answers Sans Cliches say than Horse opera Indians always say The usual man of mystery who turns out to be a Marshal after being disguised as the town drank for six reel? was omitted Avoided too was use of the words and The i Baker villain will get refreshing different com mand when he is out of town He will not be told as per cus tom to vamoose by sundown but to out of town right now" may make one tiny Baker said I am told makes a guy madder than to have holes shot through his sombrero If we think of a better way to get our hero mad shoot holes in his Those who object to that one may address Mr Baker at Studio ROXY GEHE AUTRY "SMASHING THE MONEY i RING" Wabfoot Watts an His Stags with his Big Gal Shaw Devil That is what Hollywood 13 certain he can make one has decided although Old Nick omitting these and other horse has come In handy frequently oprey cliches has been used in 69 movie Producer Baker is engineering titles i through writing and filming a But it may never be used again movie based on Clarence Buddlng-because says RKO DevU ton of the Sun" and Miss was not well at- Baker admitted it is no cinch to tended That picture starring leave out all the things with Jean Arthur apparently had all which Westerns have so long been the elements that spell success It identified was bright well-made well-per- Westerns ground out quickly formed and cheaply are based on time- cool reception tested formulas which seem to de-caused RKO to drop the original mand stereotyped characters and title of the Stephen Vincent Benet certain familiar a ti But story Devil and -Daniel Western will be more ex-Webster" as favorably known as pensive than the usual part of it is The picture will be known this expense went for an extra ture can be made without the sheriff the cattle stampede the percentage girls the gambler with the green eye shade and the fellow who can draw and shoot like lightning Graham Baker said he few writing days to list he Western cliches that had to be avoided Being a story about the development of irrigation in Arizona her nd be any cattle Aha a unlrAP's taiPlMM mn tail a One of writers wanted a tey cattle Just for color but if there were cattle have to be a stampede Baker want a itampede The villain instead of being a gambler (carrying a Derringer) will be an Indian agent The will have more to Marriages breaking all records There is a big demand for used furniture housekeeping rooms flats apartments and cottages Whatever you have a newly-wed can use a Want Ad can sell Phone a For-Sale Ad DIAL 2-4141 as Is A Man When Maria Ouspenskaya started work in Row" she announced she was delighted to be playing a new kind of part New?" the aged Russian was I asked new I die" i never have died English never In 200 times" (Maria must have a short memory She died not so long ago beneath a bus in Girl -U v'.