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Hollywood THE 1TBWB--NEWPORT, B. MOKPAY, JULY 26, 1954 AIvy Moore's Big Role Ends Years Of Frustration By HUBUAKD KKAVV HOLLYWOOD At last 1'v heard an actor admit that for a job is a frustrating nerve racking, baffling experience. Be fore the big break came, most them will tell you with a new-born confidence, It was just a matter calmly waiting. The man with the candid approach is Alvy Moore and hu has "Susan Slept Here," his firs big role, It is a comedy parl, as Dick Powell's ex-Navy sidekick and already it is making Moore im portant. Alvy has been around Hollywooc for years trying to break in, He'c get an occasional bit and an infrc quent TV show, but it was dlfficul' to make ends meet.

Ho had an 'agent, but the studios always said i Universal-International Tests Miss Universe HOLLYWOOD UB--A screen test was set up at Universal-Intcrna- tlonal Studio today for Miss Unison of South Carolina. Miss proclaimed early Saturday to be the most beautiful girl in world, had won the Miss USA title curlier in the annual contest at nearby Long Beach, One of her prizes was a film contract. The first girl In the contest's three-year history to win both crowns, Miss Stevenson has what the judges regard as perfect measurements--36 inches at the bust and hips and 21 at the waistline. She won the Miss Universe title over 32 foreign entries. KATHLEEN HUGHES WED HOLLYWOOD Wl--Film- producer Stanley Rubin and Actress Kathleen Hughes were married last night at the home of the bride's uncle, F.

Hugh Herbert. The ceremony was performed by Superior Court Judge Stanley Mosk. Rubin, 36, and Miss Hughes, 25, postponed their honeymoon until Rubin recovers from an car infection. "Ycnh, but what's lie ever done?" Small parts, the agent would say, but he's a comer. He's a different sort of comedian, lias a unique delivery and a great comedy forte.

Why he's but by then the pitch would be ended and still Alvy didn't have a job. The fact that he had played Lt. Pulver in "Mr. Roberts" lor 14 months didn't impress anyone. When he was called to read for "Susan," he went with the usual high hope and the single thought, "This is it." But the butterflies in his stomach didn't stop ilutlerlng until the producer said, "You're hired." Says Alvy: "I can't describe how terrible it Is to be an actor and to be out of work, You wake up in the morning and say, 'I can't get out of bed--what will I do There is nothing to do but wait for the phone to ring.

In New York an actor can look for work, But in Hollywood It isn't done because it is unprofessional. Besides, producers won't even let actors into their offices without appointments--unless the actor drives a Cadillac. "Funny thing, the actor who drives a Cadillac is considered a setter actor than one who drives, say, a beat-up '47 Plymouth. Even gatemon wouldn't let me drive nto the studio parking lots. The guy with the big be a bet- er actor, everyone in Hollywood hlnlcs, because he gets more money.

It is a phony place, all right. When you're nobody, people look through you." During his long waiting period, Alvy decided he had to do some- hing with his hands to keep from going batty. He knew a fellow ac- or who owned a little iron works vhere candle holders and planters ind similar decorative gadgets vere rfade. He wont to the shop nd for months worked long hours vith his hands. He didn't get aid, but he learned a trade.

"I flunked woodshop in high chool in Torre Haute," says Alvy, but here I am now, the part owner an iron works and actually mak- njr tilings. Wo haven't made any noney, but we will one of these days. We're making tile top tables, which seem to lie in preat demand GLORIA IN A CLASSIC MOOD-Actress Gloria Swanson blends Eastern.and Roman atmospheres as she relaxes in a difficult Yogi exercise duying a vacation in Rome. Peso Rate Favors U. S.

Tourists 8IVEN MEXICO CITY (S)--Better get your Mexican vacation in soon. Prices are catching up with the new exchange rate. The peso cost of a trip is higher than it was last year. But it costs the visitor from, the United States The reason is the devaluation of the peso three months ago. From a value of 11.5 cents United States, it dropped to 8 cents.

This means the tourist gets pesos for his dollar now, compared to the 8,65 he got last year. This change 44,5 per cent is not all clear gain to the tourist though; Prices have gone up, probably about 30 per cent. But this leaves costs in dollars still 15 pei cent less than a year ago. The price increase has been not only along the tourist circuit. It is also affecting the average working Mexican.

As a result, a round of wage increases of about 25 per cent has been given or is sought. By the time these higher wages affect the general price level, the rates will go up again. After that happens, the tourist won't find his dollar buying any more than it did last year. Sheppard Murder Statements Clash OPENING TONIGHT MARY ASTOR in i late by ROSEMARY CASEY with Viola lioache Tort Brenner Harry ICllerbo HOX Oli'KICF, OPICiV iiino A. m.

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NEwport 400 i i i a MONDAY 8:15 A ELKS HOME A LOS ANGELES Iff) There are inconsistencies between statements of a pretty young medical technician here and a statement by Dr. Samuel Sheppard, Cleveland osteopath whose wife Marilyn was bludgeoned to death three weeks ago in the Ohio city, an investigator reported last night. "Suffice it to say," said Thomas Parrino, assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga (Cleveland) "that some of the things which she (Miss Susan Hayes, 23) told us are not consistent with testimony given by Dr. Sheppard regarding their association. "What she told us changes the picture in some respects," he declared.

"These changes are rather important, and I am sending the! information to the Cleveland police." The official did not elaborate. Parrino and Homicide Detective Robert F. Schottke came here from Cleveland to talk with persons who had seen Dr. Sheppard during his trip here last March. Dr.

Sheppard and Miss Hayes both have said that during that time he had replaced a watch she had lost. And "she told local Dist. Atty. -E. Ernest Roll that the osteopath had taken hoi- and another couple to a wedding of friends at San Diego.

Both Dr. Sheppard and Miss Hayes, who knew the osteopath and ihis wife when the medical technician lived in Cleveland, said their friendship was only casual, Mrs Sheppard's was crushed with 25 savage blows in her Cleveland homo early last July 4. Dr. Sehppard said he battled at least one of the prowlers who killed her. The investigators arrived Saturday night from Monterey, where Mrs.

Sheppard had stayed at the ranch home of Dr. Randall J. Chapman during the trip to California with "her husband. COCK FIGHT RAIDED FULTON, Y. Mi-State troopers arrested 103 persons at a coqk TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY FIRST SHOWING IN NEWPORT rffillRST MOTION PICTURE MANY'MOOOED WOMAN WITH A ONE- TRACK HEARTI "APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS" With GLENN FOKD ANN SHERIDAN KHUS TONIGHT "KNOCK ON WOOD" "ALASKA SEAS" NEW POLICY --Picture Changes 3 Times Children Under 12 Free Playground Box Office Opens 7:00 P.

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VAN B. SHUMAKER Tel. 030--3 fight in a densely wooded area near this central New York city yesterday. Dr. Robert P.

Williams, 52, of Rutland, Vt, suffered a fatal heart attack at the scene. Police said he was among the spectators. IN LONG-LIVED FAMILY DENVER Iff! On her birthday anniversary a Mrs. Louisa V. Jackson of a pipe-smoking great great -grandmother, declared she wasn't impressed with being 102, "My mother lived to be 111, and my grandmother 112," she scofied.

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