Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 22

y- 1 i svfc 1 i 1 'V1 7- ri 9 s- i kiv t- 'f i 1 iij1'1i 2 Vs" ir i -r v- 1 1 w- 1 -n ----w-sil a -rjn- TmdMsyn deu I J- jj- fi VUlhAuftw4 rtT7EJLIEAC llu'IA HaHywo6d CITIZEN-NEWS Thuradiy iinlft 194 -'f 1 i if sf- vN V-SV" die A-v-t-H r-p- it- lft v- a ED SULLIVAN ILDTD LSLOMl Yes Son Westerners Were SV-'v-1-V- Notes and Comments From ft )( i berthed the Queen Mary without aid of tugs Ke had to do it cause a tugboat strike had tied up New: York harbor The time was October 1939 Cbrnmodon somthinsr about a Western I vf-From the dayi the movies befan that been twe 'The boys with the 10-eallon chapeatu have helped many a studio pay the overhead and expenses on their super double A-epics ijj-'-S't' And today thehorse and saddle sagas are becoming bigger and better Technicolor Million dollar budgets Women THAT COMES FlUty' A 6601 BROADWAY UOSICALCOHEDyA CATCHY SHOWtTUHES WITTYBANCE ROUTINES PEPPY PERSONALITIES hM SHORT ITSAUYEf -LAIXAMm "SOLD BELiYLADGHSrV -Noarwooo cmzoLNfwt UYEYANDENIERTARCSr 4iA1Min i NEW YORK June the gray murk of the Hudson the two Moran tun pushed and hauled at the Queen Mary as tha CUnardar worked out into midstream' her nose sniffing for the more salted tang of the Atlantic TWO tun can Hkndla her -going out it takes up to nine tun to berth her on her New York arrivals a dangerous problem in weights and pressures of ship-and tide These oeean giants must be berthed or tsken out during the last two hours of the tides flood or ebb depending often on circumstances hut more often depending upon which aide of the pier is to be occupied or vacated A ship on the North side id a Hudson River pier is affected most strongly by the flood or Incoming tide the South side of the pier is affected most strongly hy the ebb or outgoing tide Bhrwtnon still ten 'in -awed tones id the Cunard skipper who -And love acenea iBut they're etilt Westenia and i taere'a itilt'S lot of work to turn iiw thera out and their baalc in gredient atill action with heron' 'chaiine heaviee and law and orde i ttiumpninf over the nasty forces 1 a lot of riding and run nine and shooting and sweating h( the modem "oat" drama But tough as the work is the Western When we went on location we iwed horses and atageepadm and wag fellere like Bill Hart Bronco Billy Anderson and other early tagecpsches sr BREAKFAST FOR TWO-Charlea Boxer And Ingrid Bergman share brgakfait in hie hotel' room in this scene from of screening tomorrow Downtown and Wiltern RUSH UN in mikeii nuurann HiununEwur ons We had urawiches and cold coffee for lunch" The thought of that did something to Mr Osborne's sensibilities especially when his eyes wandered over to the new convertible limousines parked nearby and the hot meal Ming served to the actors "In the old he continued looking at his chair and then at the beach umbrella "only the director had a chair And we draw 'salaries' We got wages Five dollars a day Leading men and women A sometimes got f80 a week And no limit on working houn Overtime? Everything was overtime" TWO BIT MEALS "But" he remembered "there compensations "You could get a room at the swank Hollywood Hotel for three dollars a week hearty appeared with every "A good meal from soup to nuts Western star from William cost two bits 'Hart to the present-day Tim Holt "A drink was a dime instead of And told practically all of a dollar" i them that "nothin' like Tbdsy at 64 Osborne is hsle and the good old dsys" at the Warner Hollywood day outdoor heroes iv HERB SB YEARS For this bit of historical tn-i -formation wa can' thank ana y(X JBud Osborne gent who's ws heen it out on the Icelluloid trail for nigh onto years now and atill going his latest screen ven-7 iture being the Bob Mitchum-C Bob Preston RKO epic "Blood the Moon" tT came out to Hollywood from CIidiaa Territory now (hcla-f-'t home hr' 1912" Bud told us si he reclined comfortably under a ntk baach Umbrella on tha location act "I came out with a consign-aS inent of horses and cattle for the feg 'Thonuu Ince movie outfit The :3 studio was located oh the beech llbfttmt at the foot of Santa Inea "a Cgnyoo four miles north of Santa I Monica There were Just a few 1 and taterkm wen built out rl doors Just the same aa exteriors I iTVanxHtatte from the end of tlfe trolley line" the oldtimer con- turned' "was the stage coach and i rgnch wagon wa used fo the pie-I utim And it wasn't the smooth PAY! "STANP Robert Irving CUnard veteran chief of Scotland's clan Irving later knighted' could have been pardoned a tightening of his throat and butterflies in hia stomach aft he startciL-up the river because this waaaUOJXXMXX) gamble On hia marine "sawy" -and on ila nerve depended those millions in hip plus untold millions in passengers When the word flashed up and down the river tugboat men disbelieved It! "He wouldn't dare Irving not only dared it heberthed the giant aft snugly you'd slip into a palKof ilk glovea "How did you do it?" asked newspapermen did It" aid Commodore Irving pointing to hia St Chrtrtopher'ft medal At Manhattaii's 59th and Park riveters pause in their work on the new skyskraper to guesa at the identiTof the celeb whipping putt in a police escorted cavalcade of Army can First Army car a military police car sported Hue and white pennants on tha- front mudguards "That's Columbia's colors" guessed one riveter be jGen Eisenhower going to classes" Actually it was Argentina's 1 Gen- Molina and the Argentine colors are blue and white Peter Amo and Anita Loos prefer in Manhuset I Beverly Hilla' Hotel operator HemandO Conrtwright has arrived Just In time to hear his wife Rosalind on the Jerry Wayne and Vaughn Monroe shows RKOs JM Schwarts tells me that the Palace Theater will stick to a straight flicker policy spiking all vaude and television rumors The Leonard (Paramount? Gold-Nona named her Lorren Drop them a note at White Plains Hospital Gotham Jammed with out-of-townere here for the big fights History in tabloid Benes Ckechs out-offer Ed Begley Add trends: popular singers largely are of Italian descent aa witness Frank Sinatra Perry Comot Dean Martin Vic Damone eta Telephone memo from "Freedom "Now about that rap you took at us Monday when you said St Louis had raised only $15000 of the needed that true?" I ked- "Yes true but it puts us in a bad Hd hum-m-m Spyroa Skouraa planed to London via American Overseas "You can catch up on your one id us suggested he grinned "Gregory Ratoff is on the same flight" New York Herald-Trip developed into a collectors item due to a classified ad typo'wor Lena Home due in from London June Kean busting Loew1 records on her one-nighters Movie bUcity staffers in New Yak ive to watch their step with stars Tub to Page CeL ft IN and VORffON CORRiSPONDtNT ROMANTIC LEAD Shirley Temple plays the fern-iriine romantic lead oppMite her husband John Agar in starting a third week at Fantages Hollywood and RKO Hillstreet theaters Musical Slang Expert Used fe0r MKary Way' and Victor Moore It opens tomorrow at the four Music Hall Sammy Waldeck author of a book of slang wdi one of the numerous experts called in technical advisers wMlc the comedy "On' Our Merry Way" was being filmed in Hollywood Waldeck who piayn a slide trombone in the original John Philip Soula band plays 36 different Instruments 'ana-ia a recognized authority on musicians' lingo James Stewart and Henry Fon-do are cut musicians in the film which also stars Paulette Goddard Fred MacMurray Bur-gess Meredith' Dorothy Lamour TO BEGIN SECOND WIER TOMORROW Starting its second record week tomorrow at the Fox WUahire Egyptian and Los Angeles -theaters is the first film to colter Clark Gable and Lana Turner since 1942 -Hie Impressive supporting cast is headed by Anne- Bax- ter wife and John Hodiak a fellow doctor with other roles fnacted by Marshall Thompson Cameron Mitchell Gladys Cooper and Ray Collini Added to the program are two short subjects the Pete Smith novelty anou aiid the Technicolor cartixm "Bowling Alley SIDNEY SKOLSKY Sidney Skolsky is now on vacation His column again win appear a regular feature of the Drama Section next acktf aRd Stckkf vH DEH'HUGH CUNNELU CHARLES)) BROWN wj Doroihy Peed CoH Swifter Eitena Janssen Islty Caldwol Prank Moron DavW Whbrf ScniMii? ft? 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