Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 17

BjtO AD WAY BOUND? 5 FILM COWBOY LOSES HIS GUNS Better Start From Vine St with strong exploitation cam la a production move to com the ailing box-office studio chlefi oroduction chief! am bat paigns Typical of some of these will be designation of July as NOGALES Ariz June 25 When movie cowtyy Sunset Carson reached for his six-shooters they were gone Carson was rushed by screaming kids aa he left1 a theater He-dashed for the police station across the street The kids overhauled him When he got free Carson discovered his pistols and all the bullets in his cartridge belt were missing Police recovered the guns but not the ammunition for Western atoHea followed the aucceia at the office of auch picture! aa "Fort Apache" "Coroner Creek" and "Fury at Furnace Greek" Film producers hope to offaet the usual sessional summer slump at theaters by releasing the cream of their year's output during July and August Among these releases will be 32 color films ws compared with 10 last Summer I The 110 fllma will be backed up box and planning 110 fbna for aum mev releaae Mom than $30000000 will be rt on high-budget Westerns remainder going for average run-of-the-mill hone operas The move toward outdoor ato riea eapedally frontier-type films -GUEST Jimmy Dure "Unlversal International World Premiere during which Universal-International will premiere four films in various sections of the nation Most film companies plan to send the stars of the films on personal appearances in conjunction with the openings to get the pictures "off on the right The studios are working closely with the Theater Owners of America National Theaters and other groups inselling the moviegoing public on the idea that the flow of good entertaining films is now under way and will continue far into the future ante has been added to tost list of stars who will Ppeor Writ Sought By Play Producer at the LA Disc Jockey ciation'a Memorial Tribute Msuripiffer Motoday evening In Hollywood Bowl By VIRGINIA MacPHEBSON (United Press Hollywood Correspondeat) A Hollywood honey with no talent has a better chance' to crash Broadway than a budding Bernhardt who lives there a stage star aid today And all because better fed That aays Beatrice Pearson Is how she lost out on more roles than she likes to think about "Half the time I was and looked it" she went on the part called for a sleek debutante you look like a debutante when your stomach's empty "But the Hdiywood starlets even if nobodles drive their own cars Jiave their own apartments and eat at fine restaurants They can afford $75 dresses' to wear for en interview And you have to staijd there while they get the part Even if you know down inside you where ao hungry that you can act rings around psychological Miss Pearson aays A girl in a $75 dress ia aura Ford Cooper rii- of herself She struts She makes a director think she'll be sensational But there's something about having cardboard stuffed in your shoes to keep out the pavement that gives a would-be actress the Otters She may be another Lynn FOntanne too the gal from Hollywood gets toe part" Miss Sighed the time I wound up being her Now she's on her way to being a movie queen herself Enterprise lured her away from Broadway to lead iit John Garfield's "The Numbers Racket" "But not for the money" she says "People make me so mad when they say: 'Aha! I aee you finally A top Broadway actress can make almost as much on the stage as she can here she has a percentage of the play" Yep Min Pearson managed to get where she could afford a square meal in New York Starred in "The Voice of the Turtle" and "The Mermaid's Singing" And before she left she was even making enough to buy $75 dresses for herself "But stage actress frith some kindiof a movie name is twice the bgxoffice she said "Why second-rate star from Hollywood can pull in $31000 Just because she'a been in the movies" And right down the street a first-rate actress can be playing to a house full of empty becauM she never kicked up her heels in Technicolor Leslie Brooks film actress said -she earned 150000 while her husband' John O'Harris producer has asked the Superior Court to-make the Board of Police Commissioners give him a permit for his play of Vice squad officers closed the play a week ago and Capt Lbrenaon commission investigator opposed -issuing a permit on grounds it "contains vulgarity and The play concerns Mexlcan-Americans here Superior Judge Henry Willis yesterday set July 2 for hearing petition for a writ of mandate John Ford and Merican GCrfapt er executives of Argosy Produc-' Donald Anthony Shay earned only 500 while they were tions have incorporate! for jhH production of televirion filmsJn married in an amended divorce suit filed yesterday in Superior- Court She further charged that he gambled away her earnings was revealed yesterday The announcement follows results of 16 months of NATIONWIDE TOUR ments In the video field The tiiw pany will be known as Television Corp Fred will chairman of the board and will aetve as president Present- plans call for- tion of the first production the end of the year All 23nw hares of stock will be privatyhrr-held Dan Dailey to Do PAs in Major Cities Hollywood CITIZEN-NEWS Friday June 25 1948 17 Woram Quito-As ream 61 MEXIOO CTrr Jum It right Miss Pennon says But thafs the way the customers 2S (V Charles Woram executive: operate their pecuHirii If (niaf Numbers Racket" is a So cashing in on ties Arizona High Court Rules On Stars' Compensation hit Beatrice Pearsonwill be too Then -watch 'emline up to shell out their $430 to see her on One thing that caused the com- Broadway FHJCS SUIT Janet Blair asks $250000 damages from Columbia Studio ana Edward Small Productions in a suit filed yesterday in Federal Ctourt in which she charged that Columbia violated a con- vice -i president and general manegsr RKO and Mexican ChurubuseS Studios last night announced resignation i Woram said he could his association with UJB produe tion companies of John Merlin tines and Army Pie- If tenderfoot cowboy falls off a horse on location in Arizona he may expect to collect oily a limited amount of workmen's compensation The Arizona Supreme Court up- mission to refuse to insure atari aides said was fear than an inexperienced actor would fall off a wild range tract provision which guaran teed her equal billing with Veteran Actor Returns To Pilgrimage Play Stanley Price stage and screen actor has returned to toe cast Of "The Fuller Red Skelton in Brush held the State industrial Com- right to limit Pending outcome of the action oi high-salaried movie stars and moat movie companies have hern the Pilgrimage Play after an ab-' at several seasons He will Ha said "present conditions now confronting both domestic i and foreign production make toe eodU -toiuanee of my aaaodatlon (withj Churubusco) impractical both oa toe part of the studios and my-self '-V play toe important role of Judas Iacarlat The 21st season of the acred drama opens July 8 In the rustle hillside Director George Sidney who recently completed "The Three' made his screen debut at the age of 7 in a Tom Mix western kipping Arizona locations McGuskey commission counsel aid he will go to Hollywood soon to try to lure them back directors to toe first $3000 of thrir monthly salary- -Gene Autry Productions brought a friendly suit to test the ruling laiaiana mb iiiiiiiIiiiii a a a a-a a a a aa SERIOUSLY -Rita Hayworth was reported today by the Chicago Tribune Press Service to be suffering from anemia and an unidentified infection in Paris where she is receiving blood transfusions and four injections daily at the American Hospital in Neuilly a suburb of Paris nnna aa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa naiaiaif aaaa laiiaiiiiaaiiiiaiiinii am BaaiaaBisaiBMiiiiiiiiiisil aan iif a a 8W a a a aaaa By BOB THOMAS AT MUm Milan Biltar Movie stars are hitting the road and the latest to plant a nationwide tour is song and dance man Dan Dailey Fllmsters are touring the country to get back in touch with the public oh to make some money Dailey wants to build a traveling unit of an orchestra and some vaudeville ads and he makes no bones about his idea behind it tour the 'big cities where the money is" he said on the "Chicken Every Sunday" set figure 10 weeks on the road will earn me about He ex- pects to make the trip next Spring YVONNE DeCARLO is' the latest to Join the Calamity Jane sweepstakes She is supposed to play the famed frontier gun gal in Story of Sam for which James Stewart is being courted Meanwhile Warners announced a Calamity Jane film for Doris Day and Jane Russell played the character in with Bob Hope And remember Jean version in SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S mother who did a wonderful job of rearing her famous tot claims she has retired But she often bring lunch i the "Baltimore and' stays to renew memories Mrs Temple told me her granddaughter is the image of Shirley at the same age and has the same fascination for a camera But a film career for the new "Little Miss is doubtful NINA FOCH found out it pays to be stubborn Returning from her Broadway triumph she found Columbia wanted to put her back in its hive She risked a sin-pension by refusing to do the cheap films So she was given leads In pictures with Glenn Ford and William Holden DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR must rank as the town's top op- a a IN THE NEWS aaaa -TT 071 a a a Desi Amaz yesterday refused the lead in "Holiday in at Columbia because of dissatisfaction with the final script Rhonda Fleming win make three pictures for Paramount under an arrangement just completed with David Selznick to whomvhe is under contract Vi B'v a a a a- Film dividends for the first five months of 1948 were $11704000 or almost $2000000 less than those for the same period last year the Department of Commerce announced yesterday Mutt: i B(2 a a Business boomed yesterday at the Chicago Theater following a reduction in matinee prices and the resumption of vaudeville after five months of straight movie policy John Ford and Merian Cooper yesterday dnnmAiced the formation of the Argosy Television Corporation with Ford aa chairman of the board and Cooper as president "The Fuller Brush Man" grossed $64300 in the first week of its local run representing the best non-holiday week for the Pan-taxes and Hills treet theaters since The Bachelor and the MGM has optioned Jeanette MacDonald for an additional film following "Sun In the "Bad Girl" will be re-made by 20th this' Fall starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey in the roles created by James Dunn and Sally Eilers bbb at 1 BBS B'B i a a a a aaaa saaaslV aaa a a b'bbV jSv aaaa aaaa si--' Lucille Ball will co-star with Victor Mature in football stay at RKO Joseph Gotten will star in Third first of four films to be made produced jointly by David Seuriick and "Sir Aiex ander Korda tiroist White emyone L--Enterprise- has taken an option moaning about the new British on Marie original treatment First an expose of the bookmaking racket film quota he says it Will be a force healthy thing "It will force Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert will be co-starred in it UL "Genius in the Family" at Whiteman Fined In Driving Case aaaa a-Jv MV -3 a a aat? a a aaa aaa Jane Wyman has been assigned the feminine lead in James Cain novel which Warner Bros is filming Film production will continue to increase next week with 43 pictures before the cameras Aidele Mara has been given an it role in Jill rake of the Red Witch" producers to turn out better pictures" he remarked on "Die et GAIL RUSSELL is about the last of troupe of actresses 1 remaining under contract Even she fcnt aure she still belongs to Paramount She made a movie there in a year and spends most of her time on loan-outs ZACHARY SCOTT looks set for a role in "The Fountainhead" Warners' is looking for more comedies for Ronald Reagan Two fine attractions are in town: The brilliantly acted Winslow and starring the great Bobby Clark MAYS LANDING NJ 25 Paul Whiteman leader has been fined $5 and coats on a careless driving charge after his automobile crashed into a pole Mi Blade Horse pike Whiteman was treated for minor cuts HIM I aaa ant He was en route to Philadelphia itomobUe was alone -in his aui and police said Whiteman's car suddenly swerved out of control Most film shares gained on today's market Loewi and Universal were unchanged at 1 pm (EDST) and crashed into the wooden pole Producers Directors -a aa a-av -aaaa Ills' Parleys Still Going On With Screen Actors a a a a a TIr Bifitsl lit ip Trifi! aaaa a a aa While negotiations with toe without layoff or $800 when there is a 12-week period during toe year The Guild's contract expired last March 12 but its provisions were i a a bus aaaa iVji a a a a' continued in effect by joint agreement until a new baric agn ment until a new basic agreement to replace the one reached in 1839 isworkedout Screen Actors Guild continue on a twice-weekly basis motion oic-ture producen are also attempting to wink out a contract with toe Screen Directors Guild it wu disclosed today The producen are firmly op-posedto-granting any minimum increases to directors at the moment but are showing signs of relenting other points in dispute The producers seem likely to agree to an adjustment on editing time-for directors who are asking that they 'have control of the editing up to the time of the first "ANI Sipnis Sun 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