Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 8

1 Hollywood aHZEN-NEWS Mondy Dee 23 1946 THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE jyiowoil BEDEUHGS 7 Hen Behind tie Scenes stige nmwi OXAttMAWf tod TOBACCO ROAD MAUI The (ICSSHTIEST You've heard of course tf thg mesungers and makers at a-motion picture atudio But aside from what their designations Suggests how xnsnj of yon know specifically what their duties are? 1 tt-GElLYlfillSH! still not mire that It a mistake One of our men got a tip on tho races Ha followed it up won 880" ENOW THE STARS The messengers by' naturp of their work arc experts on knowing ihe popularity rankings of the stars so far the visiting public is concerned -Pappemeier says that Bette Davis Errol Flynn and Joan Critwtord head the rankings Mate visitors ask moat often -to I BELASCO lta6HULRL6Z77 POPULAR PfUCtS DI THE HEWS Hollywood films government support a film market- Duty! merit all-out on the foreign Zanuck hu aiaerted la a 'telegram to the House Committee on Pott-War Economic Policy la reply torocent oTio 'jcritidoa- A pie to revoke the showing of Th Outlaw" la New York State became of "object Ions Me' advertising" bar been denied by the New York State Educatkn Department Joan HarrisohTfint film on returning toUnfvmal-Inteniational aa a producer will be "Knave jof Diamonds" yJVT will show its-pictures la 18! nan on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad's "The George -Washington" running between Newport News andCtaciimati studio apace la Austria is bring offered on a ratal bait to American producers through the War-Department Preston Sturges joins this week ona 8350000 one-picture deal aa a director-writer Arriving in the indited States Jan 1 Beatrice Lillie will appear aa guest star on a series of radio shows starting off onjthc Bing Crosby and Vaughn Monroe programs Stewart Granger will' have the male lead in Eagle-Lion's "Prince Valiant" If Bryon Fop's current negotiations with Arthur Rank materialize under the two producers' reciprocal agreement on The Richard Dixes arrived from New York today to spend the holidays with their family here Snow rain and Christmas shop- iwui iiu mii saunas en A FATHER'S BlESSHIGDPOH TWO YOUNG PEOFU HI LOVE from "The Best Years of Our lives" to open Christmas Day at the Fox Beverly Hills Theater Fredrie Uarch congrttulatea Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews upon their coming marriage in this scene FL0RABEL MUIR REPORTS IdmfW ping put a crimp in flnt-nms Broadway with only THEATKES MARKER WITH () Apollo CKPT TORY tAPT CAUTION lelmanf IL un Ct IMS TNI IKSIT MUST leyeriy 0 BBS Sal tan So Uw CanMl CAPT PURY CAPT CAUTION Cartfuy Circle VI Till Sw 1 ip-e TNI VIAStlNG Chinos Tw law ha U4MI Enrptiaa IllS hu aw "19 M-c-n IKSIT NIART NOCTURNE Hit Fairfax Sa a MS 'tACt IN NIAVIN HUVW IMS STlw 4 Star BSs7- IM tala MAtWI Cordon couaAct or ussii TNBNA or BRAZIL ilSI NOCTURNE No Hollywood SKowion Oih Studio City M- S25TT IT T1TT Portal TNI WOW Off ISAMV Sf A VSNAS El a ygl I BASK MIRIM i Gnat Mia Tvaag La Roino ST-MM ST-4-U41 t- RACI IN NIAVIN TNI MRR MISROt DUEL IN THE SUN' TO OPEN DEC 31 AT THE EGYPTIAN David Selznkk! all-star Technicolor production "Duel in the Sun" starring Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck and Joseph Gotten win open a two-week engagement at the Egyptian Theater Tuesday Dec 3L The Aeademy Award contending film win also open Dec 31 at the Vogue Theater in Hollywood on a reserved eat two-a-day balls for a limited engagement Directed by King Vidor and produced by David Seb-nlck on the same scale as his memorable With the Wind" "Duel hr the Sun" is a violent love story told against a background of Tex-as In the-1880's The gala prose preview of the film win be Monday Dec SO at 8:30 o'clock at the Egyptian Theater 'Brie! Encounter' on Board of Review 'BoriSt Chalk up another "beat" 'tor "Brief Encounter" currently Inlti 10th week' at the Esquire Theater! Hie Noel Coward English film wag Just choaenourth in the National BoanV-orReview of Motion Picture's annual selection of the 10 best film of 1948 This is not the first time the Celia Johnson-Trevor Howard picture hu been thus honored It wu aawrde dtop spot hr the International Film Festival 'Margie in 7th Week Smashing all attendance records "Margie" teen-age nostalgic film from 20th Oentury-Fox is now in its seventh week af the Four Star Theater "THE SECRET So all right Let's -hear what Fred Pappemrier hu to say about iall this Who is this gentleman? Fred is Mr Bit of the mailing and messenger departments at Warner Bros and hu-been for yean He's the man who keeps same 25" messengers onthe rim 23 Of them young irien The Giber two arc young' women Attractive too they tell mev-- '-But Fled is champing at the Mt He admit it but he Is Soft's your party for the moment Fred Gp ahead i heard it said that todays messenger boy la-tomorrow's producer" says Pappemeier PAPPEMEIER "Well know that weSra bad any actual producers work hqre messengers But had several who graduated into important jobs here and at other studios Jake -Charles Greenlaw He's CL Wright's assistant studio manager now He started as a messenger So did Jim Milter assistant to Carroll Sax studio business managerAnd then Paul Nathan executive assistant to Hal Wallis at Paramount He too worked a messenger here" LEARN QUICKLY Messengers if- seems team the inside workings of a studio very ouickly and frequently they find a department In which appals to them "In normal fimes" aays Pappemeier "a good messenger will stay on the Job for a year and a half After that he usually moves on' During the warpe were lucky to keep good messenger for two months The girls we hired during the war wi mac steady and actually saved the day for us" "Visitors arc often shown through the studio by messenger aays Pappemrier "They walk from 15 to 18 mites a day with mail and messages They have their favorite stars too and they have some interesting guests to show about the studio i people from all walks of life and from all over the world" Since the war thereb been a steady stream of applications for- messenger- work "Just now we have more ap- plicants than we have jobs" says Pappemrier "We demand rather high type of young- man for our deportment and as a result we never have had any serious trouble with any of Maybe you're wondering about tips to messenger boys "Quite often visitors will tip'nur says Pappemeier "But Overy visitor gets the aame service whether he tips or not The largest corded tip wu and see Humphrey Bogart women ter Denote Morgan and Jack Young visitors invariably ask to set a set where a musical being filmed The set-of "The Time the Place and the Glri" wu a particularly popular ona With recent visitors New messengers invariably are "taka in" by pranks hut soon am' Usually says Pappemrier they're sent for a "midnight or a stretcher" or told to locate all far the studio Sometimes messengers have unusually pleasant experiences "Ann Sheridan kissed a messenger one -day after-he did an errand for-her at double speed" says Pappemeier "It" took a week to calm him down Ever since then my messengers have been raring back and forth from set like deer hounds But so far been no repeat performance" Visitors it seems usually have such a good time touring the studio that -they feel like redprocat-Ing to their guides Recently a distinguished looking couple after visiting the sets shook hands with the messenger why had shown them about and the mu said in all earneatneu: i you comp to Peorik young man be sure And look us up show you through the Egyptian Locale For Temptation The story of violent passioiu under hot Egyptian skies and the redemption of a pretty wumu who Imew no scruples in the satisfying of her own desires te told in "Tmiptation" International Pic-turn melodrama opening Christ-United Day at Guild- rat Ritz fob and Studio City Based on Robert novel and directed by Irving Pichel the Merle stars Merle Oberan' Kent Charles Korvtovaiyl Paul ED SULUYAH 'ON PAGE 16- 2' L'y'- hr MGMV BELOW AR OPEN AfA NIGHT Hollywood MQToaiotii BL wn ft Iril tni wow err MIA MV If A VISAS Lalroa vaW-t ft- sniswi cae aisisiisi Urchmont CAPTPURY Ur-Sa IL T41T CAPT CAUTION H- SMU cOUSACt Of LAMII CSACK-IIP ucaL-fW Lome Moboa an un WIKMO AfFANS or SUSAN Rociu VMMe-U CANTON PASSACt Wake Us mt tea HU- VA 1221 TNI SNOW Off ISASM Sf A VHOM a Mm Stadiam RACI IN NIAVIN Vaaw SVaaT TSe Vilbit Wake Us mt VofNO TNI SHOW Off ISAMV If A VIVAS WOshiro A M-C-Ul TNI IKSIT NIART IS Vow NuyO Studio City VolloyBSrs satwrt hw ls Vao NayT (HI AMH fr WIM fOOU IT urn Mvoli vmbto 1 ir-aasis IwO TOM IAWTIR J- 2U PETE SMITH'S! WARNERS' GREAIEST ACHIEVEMENT STARTS TOMORJtOWII on the Clouds Ron By" at the Music Hall holding up at tho boxoffice Stockholders of Universal Pictures Os got a Christmu present ever the week-end when the company declared a quarterly diyidend of 50 centa a share on common stock Balt Duces for First Time in 'Noctunij' For the first time la many yean George Raft tough guy of reen dances in a pict the screen dances In a picture As -a hard-boiled detective hi- "Nocturne" RKO Radio mystery film Ms Investigatkm taka him to a dancing academy in search of a murder suspect -He does an old-fashioned waltz as well a smooth rhumba his favorite dance The picture Is rent at Orpheura El Rey and Vogue -1' rm in nm BitilaiMS iniK-' Rtl Sill Kill Jll lm lirli Etatif fitrcr i3naat oEEES fl iilft UTa-iIiioU' iJjwr Ji -chm' muBT tiisno sifllilflBti i Ji 83Ti ic 1 iii i i From the looks of things It would appear that Hollywood and its people going to be bored over the Christmu holidays There will be a lot doing both in and out of the studios parties till you keep track -of trips and jaunts premieres and of course the steady grind Of production still going along with the holiday letup -A David Ol Maters proas preview of "Duel tar the Sun" is due the night- of the 30th at the Egyptian a Mack tie affair with kits of parties before and after Santa Anita opens the 28th and always a gala day for the ilmites Two junkets are on the program to Las Vritas the biggest a four-day affair to signalize the opening of the 86400400 Flamingo Hotel with Xavier band El Rancho' Vegaa Is hauling a flock of columnists and writers rip for tho Rita Brothers opening for which they an to receive a fabulous sum PARTY FOR VRTERANS Large scale Christmas party will be given at the Veterans Administration Hospital at San Fernando tonight with Bill Demanst putting on his crimson white-trimmed suit to play Santa daiia Douglas Fklnanha Jr will pass out the presents Stan who-will visit the hospital on Christmas Day include Dorothy Lam moles Lake June Haver BID Demanet Kristin Miller Pat a Diana Lyia Peggy Ana Gainer Virginia Fields Joan Fatten Bob Hope will broadcast from the Sawtelle A tomorrow Interesting story buys: Metro's 8400000 purchase of the film rights to "State of the from RKO: Warners purchase of Blake" for a reported 8300000 Greg Bantmer New York to be near Joan Craw OSCAR LEVANT jam mm HMLHCO-mtt fill liM MJ hmmm MaMM ygs IIIANOR i A- ford win he her escort at the Christmas premiere of "Humores que" which hu placed her in-the running for her second Osar a row Duty Andersen -and Jeaa Ni gulaaee bq going hungry Jsee ItarM sent them a deep freezer loaded with two aides of beef Den Verier is returning to Metro In "Song of the Thin Man" his first film work since interrupting his promising career to join the Air Faroe In 1943 AT STEVE COCHRAN'S Had myself a time Maying "the game" with a bevy of bright and beautiful young starlets at Stove and Fsyo McKernfe Returns still coming la from the nattonb film reviewers who are doing a unanimous rave over Steve'e jab in Chase:" even being called the new Clark Gable Victor daughter in from -New York for the holidays wu giving Blag Crosby aame competition with his Binging of "Silent Night" on his program last night i That show Is on the improve Give eggs a coating of wax before you send them to friend! In England Sydney aij-visesThey last longer Producer Ralph Staab la that proud of his daughter whose film name is Cathy Carter Roy del who discovered her pirns important rolu for her In thrnear Tara to Pago 1L Cohaaa 4 -'-2 4 niM IAIIIT SMIlSIfT r--y J' i r-v -v i i a.