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Lubbock, Evening Journal, May 7, 1756 Soc. II, Page 11 Olive Carey's Acting Career Is On Upgrade 30 -Year She's About The Best Around Helen Merrill Like To Be Called A Jazz Singer By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD times in her life, Olive Carey has turned to acting. She had a good reason i both times: she was broke. The first occasion was in 1912 Her father, a vaudevillian, died of TB, leaving a wife and four children destitute. was the oldest," she recalled.

"so I decided I'd better go to work. I got a job acting at a say jazz singer, movie studio at Pico and Georgia about the best around. streets in Los Angeles at $5 a day But she thinks the words "jazz singer scare some people off. on a four-day guarantee. In those: "I object to the she says.

"People get the idea jazz s.ngers davs you could feed a family of are always off-key and un-musical. Actually, I sing a lot of ballads five on $90 a 1 sinS pretty straight. But when singing, sometimes feel a certain note would be I sing that note. Became A ar I never sing a song the same wav twice. Unless record- She quickly rose to becom- 51 NEW YORK.

By DICK KLEINER looking for another way to the way billed and most people agree i a star at Universal and played in westerns opposite a famous actor named Harry Carey. was 17 years older than me, but I adored she said. always did have a father complex. They were married. Olive, who never did have stardust in her eyes, retired from acting.

For 33! years, she was his constant com- panion, driving him to and from work every day (he never learned to drive). After their son, Harry was reared, Olive stayed with her husband every hour of thej day, sitting in his dressing room while he was doing scenes. Carey died in 1946. His estate came to around $13.000. This was surprising, since he had been a top name for morel than 25 years.

At the end of his career, he was earning $5,000 a week. Lost Savings In Flood Where did the money go? Olive explained that their big savings Cathv Helen The Country Parson ed a song, of I have to sing it the same way all the Helen, a pretty blonde who is the of a New York tugboat captain, sprinkles her conversation liberally with two words and To her, apparently, those words are the keys to the jazz interpretation of music. Began Singing Early She inherited her love of music from her mother, who would sing the house. So Helen began to sing early in life. I met some jazz she says.

felt they were more sincere about their She made a few records and did a little band singing, but her ca-; reer went nowhere because she feel on a night-; floor. So she quit. Then, a year or so ago, she made an appearance in Chicago, Ths so unnerved her that she sing again for a year. Last August she started again. Newr her records are going fine, a positive and commanding figure on a nightclub floor and right with her how I do you get around the words Cathy Comes Up Fast Another gal come up fast on records is Angela Helen Catherine better known as Cathy Carr.

Her on the little-known Fraternity label from Cincinnati, is the surprise hit of the year. Cathy deserves miieh of the credit for her own hit. The pretty little blonde has done a lot of in nightclubs all over the wherever she went promote this era of singing groups and rock-and-roll, the first new gal singer to break through onto the record charts since Jaye P. Morgan. Cathy is unique in one been singing professionally for two years without a recording contract.

Nowadays, new record World Zionists End Meeting By Hitfing Other Nations' Arab-Israeli Policies Before his election early today, the new president warned Israel against egotism cus- JERUSALEM INS The World Zionist Congress ended its 24th meeting today with a blast at the shown by some governments in yielding to Arab anti-Israel and anti-Jewish pressures. The governments were not named. President Elected Before adjourning, the congress elected Dr. Nahum Goldman, anjeades to come its greatest allies citizen, as the sixth will in disper- of the 59-year-old or- ganization. He succeeds the late Weizman, who became: Damage Repaired At Israel first president.

-w New York Exchange TEXANS ARE NAMED MINNEAPOLIS tffV-Six Texans were among those named yesterday by the Methodist Church to complete a 70-man commission to lines and other business firms study racial segregation in the for practices that bear char- cburcb and to recommend ways acter of racial integration. They were Bishop i Frank Smith of Houston, Bishop William Martin of Dallas, the Rev. Robert Goodrich of Dallas, tomary to a sovereign nation and c. M. Luster of Houston and L.

L. beginning to take the view of Keyser of Fredericksburg. Zionism as something obsoles-1 He also said: must realize that in de- OSCAR WINNER HAS A actress Kim Novak love to win an Oscar, chats with Anna Magnani, who won this year, on set of latest film, Letice and Rome. The Italian film star wears habit which controversy last month hen the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary appealed to Italian Premier Segni to prevent Miss Magnani from wearing the habit in the picture, Kim came from Cannes, France, where she attended thf film festival. (AP Wirephoto) The new president expects to divide his time between his New' residence and Israel.

Delegates at the Jerusalem meeting also adopted a strong condemnation of the Arab boycott against Jews and expressed hope for a new Soviet policy towards Zionism. NEW YORK New York Stock Exchange plans to be open for business as usual today with its fire-damaged communication equipment good as new. Work crews averaging 100 men labored around the clock over the weekend to repair the system. Impressions Are Given Actor Co-Starring With Marilyn Eager To Disclose Charms Of Blonde Beauty dLi emiliani. complicated wiring The Congress charges the Arab A blaze broke out in a cable shaft after the close of business Friday.

Flames knocked out 7,200 ires that provide telephone, telegraph and ticker services throughout the building and to outside points. Cause of the fire was not known. states with economic warfare by means of a boycott not only against the State of Israel but against the Jewish people as a Firms Are Hit A resolution also singled out shipping companies, air- KIHTOR'S NOTE: Aline Mosby is iwi vacation. Filling in for her Monday is Arthur who writes about his impressions of his new co-star, Marilyn Monroe. wardrobe test for the picture.

This is a big, big picture. The; studio paid $400,000 for the by William Inge. Buddy Adler, By ARTHUR who is boss of 20th Century-Fox HOLLYWOOD When an is producing it himself, actor works with a girl named Marilyn plays an honest little Marilyn Monroe, as I am present-cabaret singer from the Ozarks ly doing in a who is employed in a dishonest cinch going to be answering; little cabaret in Phoenix, Ariz. I a the lines of do you think a young friend to town to enter Actress Rita Gam Under Medical Care NEW YORK (ff) Movie actress Rita Gam is under a care for exhaustion following the Grace KeUy-Prince Rainier wedding in Monaco last month. Her father, Benjamin J.

Gam, said she is suffering nervous and physical exhaustion lot of questions mostly an old ranch hand who takes lines of do you think a young friend to town to enter 30 medical tieatment stars usually have had no experience whatsoever. So Cathy is all a rodeo. We visit the cabaret our record hit and a readymade nightciub act. Watch her smoke. niiAcTinn in Tonf I 11 I nr i i mmimvi mi i i i 18-19.

man be half good and half bad any more than a glass of milk can be half sweet and half RAY MILLAND A ft MUR PH A were wiped out when the St. Fran; cis Dam broke in 1928, inundating their ranch near Saugus, Calif. They lost $750,000 On the place, and seven on the ranch were drowned. The Careys were in New York. When her husband's estate was about gone, Olive figured have to go to work.

The only work she knew was acting, so she resumed her career after more than 30 years away from it. A handsome blonde woman with a face full of character, she started doing minor roles in movies. Now her career is coming along nicely, her latest film at OK with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Some kinds of coal are 300,000,000 years old. Before that, they trees and ferns, growing on the prehistoric earth.

JoniGiirp THRU OPEN 6:45 SHOW 7:45 WEDNESDAY everyone with considera- A i Miss Gam was one of Miss Kel I dont mind scuss ng he Llrst n.ght town. bridesmaids at the twin cere- question. In fact I distinctly enjoy The boy hears Marilyn sing, Anril it. So much so quite willing ticcs hcr big bJue eyes This kid' to do it in print. jis very innocent and falls madly treats in love with our scantily clad tion.

friendly and attentive She tall she quite pe- chanteuse. and modest, tite with lovely hands and tiny well, Marilyn walks on stage in alert to everything go- feet. But the diminutive features this costume just a lot of on around her on stage until of Marilyn Monroe end there. Her feathers and you know I very she enters a scene. Then she stops eyes are big and blue and would nearly lost the job.

They thought peeking out into the darkness that capture the attention of a Cold- bjgb blood pressure right surrounds the work area, does an stream guardsman immediately, through the makeup, mind exercise to relax and banishes said I acted too youthful. everything else from her mind. I met M. M. for the first time she brings an immediacy and at a TV studio in New York.

She The picture started a week la- truth to the scene that is truly arrived, shortly before the show ter. Now I compare the new amazing. Some day Marilyn Mon- started. in a simple blue summer Marilyn with the old Marilyn roe will be one of the froek. She was so stunning I most forgot my lines.

the old Marilyn be al- cause I never saw the old M. M. great actresses, in action. But here are my im pressions. really a beautiful girl who The next time we met was about six weeks ago during a PRIZE-WINNING MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC! SECOND FEATURE Corne 1 Yvonne WILDE DeCARLO i First and Last Feature -k Frank Sinatra Kim Novak WITH THE GOLDEN second Broderick Crawford "DOWN THREE DARK STREETS" PHOTO QUEEN Dorothy Hardcastle, 19, displays her trophy after she was chosen Miss New Jersey Press Photographer at A Park, N.

J. She was selected by a regional convention of the National Press Photographers Association. She is from Asbury Park. (AP photo). A Dutch firm in The Hague, offers to sell rights to an invention of plastics as a replacement for steel window frames and frames for leaded glass.

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