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yyr mm-! Poqo 44-A THi INDEPENDENT Ut PO Iw. ffillywwcl Film Shop By BEN COOK Stunt ManWins Divorce Trial 'LOS ANGELES, Apr. 19OB. Motion Picture Stunt Men David Sharpe, 42, won a contested divorce from 29-year-old former Actress Thelma Mae Sharpe after lurid-testimony-linked-her-with Ronald Burla. 42, an aircraft executive.

Superior Judge Louis J. Burke announced the decision on grounds the wife was guilty of misconduct with Burla. former husband of Actress Una MerkeL The judge remarked that, he had tried vainly during the sav what nttle' remains of the reputation of these parties and their friends. "Obviously perjury was committed here," Judge Burke said, the court must decide the matter-on -the testbnony-ofthe witnesses it considers disinterested." i Mrs. Sharpe had charged In her suit that her husband often st rude her.

rVMItT COAST JURIST -TDlih46N4 I 441SP SSS IV lPixllHI -gy WUV COAST ANO SIUIONT oral NOON (BEST OHNS IS NOON GIANT FUN-LAUGHS, SPECTACLE-AD YENTU RE SHOW! BENEFIT SOLOIST Irene Legie win sing for. Frankie Marts and Mo band tomorrow night iHWlltoaHotel at tho charity ball of Long Beach Oooa- efl MV Kalghts of Columbus. Tho dance Is open to tho public with proceeds going to Raaeho Ssa Antonio Boys SchooL MbUtaHrl HOT ROD RIVALS Candidates lor Hot Rod Qudon decorato a 342 HP Cwdlilge to be given away tri the Hot Hod. and Motor Sports Show oponing Thursday at National Guard Armory in Exposition Parke Los Angslos. FVom lsfif Jan Parris, Quis Center, Jcmo De Virier and Bonnio Henjum.

Tho queon will Iruleovaf Ihamotof show. Cats owl Over Uon On Playhouse Fence Extra! Disney ColorCartooa Mare: Allen, literary lion of the season whom two small town society editors have set out' to tjspat ij iVcnTf af' v. 'v -W' i -V -41 VfjV lz Qtrrr- JU mm elrwjy Doors Open J0s4S JL M. yp crirTECHNICOLOR I 1 sm ssnv cossn ousuon sobomv siesta Now ays "'r- Say Wtos, CMMtm 41 Has Tax HOLLYWOOD OLD The noble Red man is no more. Noble he may.

be, but red, na -A-crewof made the discovery when it set to wwk on a company of 450 Indians working in 20th Century-Foxs "Pony in a central. Arizona mountain location. The -'Indians, stripped to loin cloths, head feathers and moccasins ready to go on the warpath, drew Jjug-eyedatares. from.the.vi iting Hollywood troupe. Faces and hands of the assembled Indian braves were red, all right, but the remainder of their bodies was as white and tender as the skin of a night club cowboy.

TOIStflayed HOBwithnthe production schedule while a platoon of makeup men applied dark powder to the proper places so the Redskins" would look properly red to the Technicolor cameras. Nipo Strongheart, a Yakima chief acting as technical adviser' for the film, which stars Tyrone Power as a Canadian mountie, gave this explanation: "Indians of today do not expose their-bodies to -the-sun-as -their ancestors did. For years they have had conventional clothing. They wear hats and keep their shirt collars Their protected skin thus has become almost i light generally as that of the average white man. Avfewweeks ofexposureto the sun would bronze their entire bodies." TIME BEINO PRECIOUS, the makeup crew plans to hasten things- along.

ot waiting for the sun to do the job, It put in a hurried call to Hollywood for 700 quarts of liquid makeup and a time-saving compressed-air spray gun to make the Indians bodies look as authen-tic as their war whoops sound. Cugat and Abbe Toast. His Divorce HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 19 (OLE). Jovial Xavier Cugat, the Latin rhumba klngL breezed into a plush, filmland nightclub early today with Singer Abbe Lane on his arm to celebrate his divorce from red-haired Lorraine Cugat The orchestra leader showed up at Giros after a quick trip from Las Vegas, Nev, where he ob-tained an uncontested divorce yesterdayr-ending- two years -of battling in and out of court serted him in 1949.

After their separation, Mrs. Cugat now a band leader In. her own right, filed, a. suit -for. separate- maintenance naming Miss Lhne an corespondent The Cuga on ever, uncontested interlocutory divorce in Santa Monica, last Jan.

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MAY'3RD MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW PHONE 1-glM I4: EAST OCEAN BLVD. TRIO FOB TWO CATS three-acV farce by LongBeach authors John Green and Fred Schott is getting its premierproH Auction at thcf Long Beach Com-munity Playhouse where it should settle down to a crowd-pleasing vehicle for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights run through MaylOi Point on which the plot revolves Is the Importance of being TO SING HERE Baritone Thomas L. Thoms will, present. a-Toacert- tomonow alght at WDsoa High- auditorium under the sponsorship of the Long Beach Civie Muale Aosa. The concert lo opea to.

aoooclatioa members only. ALL AAc Plus SEATS AT Tax- SSAII MWIN-JBIY liWIS "SAILOR BEWARE BaiAN DON1SVY CUISB TIVO HOODQIMEMPtRE cmtoon a comedy BROUGHT BACK to porous shuns DON RICARDO am mis. -CATALINA ORCH. ros vow oaNoiw puaswi TioMl-ifW i H. a MAIUNO first night nervousness, the cast IiNO ALLOWANCES for Ight ner assembled by Director Herbert Yenne for.

the play turned in competent-performances-Friday The situation in' Trio" has all the elements of sure-fire enter-men t. and -like popular songs will strike a responsive note with viewers. Many ot the lines in. the show are excellent and with some overhauling, of the third which rather badly bogs down, Green and Schott should have a popular success. ALL OF THE-MEMBERS of.

thecaL who seemed-to. enjoy-the work, turned in creditable performances butaome individual mention should be made for the outstanding jobs of Doris Francis who essayed the role of a lady alio secretly had been pouring her. passion into an unpublished novel; Qmrlotte Durham as the society editor; and Sara who play the maid. Keith as Judge Hilton, showed excellent timingin reading his lines; Don Reese showed admirable restraint as tho long suffering husband of the society writer and AnneCarrelro showed a lovely figure. Others in the cast were Janette Greenlee, George Zelda Stotland, Leigh OMalley, Cyril Lowe and Jerry Ferry.

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