The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 40

tmmemmAmmusnmaxmimA mW ir -n't In'i fcf -'n -JUi SECTION THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 31 1952 MEMPHIAN IS STARRED FDR Slept There estate where Franklin Roosevelt slept during a war-time stop in the islands Baby Rose Marie Lauds Night Club In Mate Seeking Frank Oliver Appears In Play At Miami Christ's Life Will Be Told In The Movies HOLLYWOOD Aug A scene for "Big Jim the Wayne-Fellows production for Warner Bros which was filmed on location in Hawaii was photographed in the bedroom of a Honolulu Declares It Is Best Place In Which To Find A Husband LABOR DAY SPECIAL HAVE YOU TRIED Cathedral Films Thinks It Will Be The Answer To Communism By JACK QUIGG lr International Ntwi Berries HOLLYWOOD Aug 30l Baby Rose Marie now a husky Frank Oliver son of Mr and Mrs CL Harbour of 14 IS Vollln-tine starred in the title role of "Gramercy recently presented at the University of Mismi Ring Theater in Coral Gables Fla Oliver a graduate of Central High School is a senior drama major at the University of Miami He is a member of Theta Alpha Phi honorary drama fraternity and has won the Snarks award for writing the best one-act expert mental play of the 1951 season He has appeared in several Ring Theater productions Including "Light Up the In addition Oliver has appeared with the Park-ville Playhouse in Burnsville CL in summer stock A Sunday Treat The Peabody Symphony Orchestra conducted by Noel Gilbert plays during Luncheon A Dinner (No i0 Federal Taxi voiced night club singer just surprised the heck out of Hollywood TAKE HOME PAC7 If Not You're In For A Delicious Treat I And Whal You Gel: Venetian Dining Room FONDA STUDIES PLAY AT Slim Rhodes and his Mountaineers will be heard at 3:30 pmH 7 pm and 10 pm tomorrow at May Do Anothar Film Ahead Of 'Mr Roberts' 9'i li TONIGHT! SPECIAL MID-NIGHT LABOR DAY DANCE PAUL NEIGHBORS and HIS ORCHESTRA AM to 9 Oar PnaaS Genuine Kirksryi Mask Pit Sir-S-Qaa Manta's Orlriasl H-a-Q Hanes rraraas ParUaa af (Menial On Datm Slice Baas tha Fairgrounds Amusement Park in the big Labor Day party there All rides games and concessions will bo operated from I pm until around midnight Edward Toulon manager reports Chuck Foster DRIVE-IN 3053 Summer Phone 4-9422 Hotel Penliody RETURNS ON THURSDAY HOLLYWOOD Aug Getting the screen is taking so long Henry Fonda may change his mind about waiting for his big stage hit and make another picture In the meantime It has been more than four years since Fonda made a picture hut he is reading Melvin Panama and Norman original script a very adult and sophisticated love story "The Affair" by declaring that night club is a good place to meet a prospective The filmtown village has long nurtured the fiction that night clubs are reserved for clandestine visits to New York Other popular Hollywood mythology: Husband-hunting is not done Romantic meetings occur on the Riviera or in Drug Store And here was Baby Rose Marie taking pot shots at favorite fiction between sexy torch songs at Ciro's where Rose Marie is currently appearing The blond chanteuse scoffed: "Who believes that tired routine of starched aprons and film queens bending over a hot stove? Hooey Shoyv people love night clubs and cocktail parties That's their social life How can you meet anybody if you stick in your own Fluffing her shimmering locks Baby yawned: "And then there Is that blather about evenings at home or an occasional movie who ever met anybody in a Way back In the early days of radio Baby Rose Marie along with Rudy Vallee Graham Mac-Names and Amos and Andy was the backbone of NBC In those days the network received indignant letters from listeners protesting the use of the name Baby Rose Marie for a deep-voiced grown-up performer Rose Marie boiled: "I spent the first 10 years of my life convincing people that I was not a 45-year-old Arthur Hunnicutt Wonders Why All Folk From Arkansas Are Supposed To Be Funny Now Singer Will Be Heerd At The Peabody Once again It will be In the Foster by Chuck Foster and his orchestra starting Thursday at the Peabody Always a favorite in Memphis! Foster will have with him on his' month-Ionth visit to Memphis a-new singer Delores Marshall Miss Marshall Chuck writes Is' a with a voice and the ability to put over a song Heck He Knows No Tall Stories However Claims Folks Around Gravelly Let The 'Coons Do Their Fishing For Them AuorMtrd Ptu Stiff Wrttrf (OLLYWOOD Aug 30 An Episcopal clergyman who believes he can spread the gospel more effectively as a movie maker than as a preacher begins production soon on the first feature film about the life of Christ since of in 1927 The Rev James Friedrich flans to release the picture com' merrially as a counter-offensive against He believes it will: (1) Bo a financial success (2) Show theater owners that religious subjects given quality production can fill movie houses (3) Open the way to further films with religious themes The project to be photographed In color at an estimated cost of more than half a million will be the most ambitious ever for Friedrich's Cathedral films Hollywood's only non-profit producing company Fight I On Communism The producer-parson originally planned tn wait five or six years before attempting to portray Christ's life I have come to realise that if I wait I may not make it at all It may he too he aaya Dr Friedrich believes there ean he no delay in counter attacking communism And there is no better way to go about it he holds than to show on film "the positive nature of God as revealed in Jeaua Christ instead of employing primarily negative of he says failed to evaluate it correctly whrn they have labeled it as hring irreligious It is atrongly religious "Consequently our battle with communism is a religious one Whereas communism seeks to dominate tio wills and souls and minds of men Christianity strives tn win them Judaism and Christianity must Join together In this counter-offensive because both find the source of their origin In the Holy Scriptures" Dr Friedrich's film "Day of will be advertised as an answer to communism But the picture itself will simply tell the story of the Saviour's life during the period of hia ministry He believes events in 1 to 1000 Pounds Hew Low Price World-Famous 95' A Whole Half S-Lb Chlrken Gnhe ef Rhemtrinc Pntntnes Jns ef Hnney Hnt Bettered Kelts Alse Picsia Sexes By ARTHUR HUNNICUTT (Gutit Column lit for Jimmy fiddler) No Order Too Large or Too Small OLLYWOOD Aug 30 Because I come from the Ozarks HALPERN'S people say another Bob Burns I wish they would quit it It isn't fair to Bob and it fair to me He's a comedian on the dramatic side Most of my roles have For Your Labor Day or Week-End SERVING STRICTLY KOSHER SNACKS LUNCHES AND DINNERS TRY OCR HOME-RAKED TIES OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY 2M Cleveland Phene 2 -5334 Opes If mm III 4 mm 1371 Union Phene 36-9294 been straight like the busted-up cowpoke in Lusty Men" and the old Indian scout in Big If folks are hunting for a phrase to describe me I wish just say sort of a hillbilly Barrymore or the Barrymore of the Ozarka Leave it to Bob Burnt to add the EtheL Problem Of Aikansan our house and dad was the teacher Learning only went to the eighth Welch Bros1 High Lending Rate HOLLYWOOD Aug (INS) Hawks is asking $100000 to lend out Anatole Litvike star of "The Blue for use in other films Plenty of Picnic Grounds Private Dining Rooms Idirgo Parking Aren I don't know why people expect a feller to be funny just because he comee from Arkansas but they do Whenever I tell anybody I was born In Gravelly they bust right out in a big heehaw they say "Gravelly? Must be a pretty rough town eh Or "Gravelly? Ia that the place a guy winds up stony Boy their funny remarks kill me Now if I was a comedian like Bob Burns I'd have eome droll atories to tell them about Gravelly to the show the next night to tell their neighbors about the medicine Them that could alwsys come down and said a few words for old doc The only trouble was half the time after they got through talking we had to fight our way out of town I finally quit the show when the Pure Food and Drug Act started clamping down' and reduced us to selling nothing but corn remedies 5000 The Duke' Take Home Pack Fountain Dishes Supreme Dispensed by Experts Monday Thru Friday Two Convenient Locations Sept 8 PM WSSF life such a His conflict withlnj my kinfolks there Like how grade and some of them mountain boys were tough Some of them brought guns and knives to class Dad always carried a stout hickory stick The schoolmaster had to have the same equipment as his pupils A couple of the boys who were up for graduation were older than my father He started teaching at 18 I got Into the entertainment business by playing the harmonica with my brother at pie suppers We used to sing at those sociables too I sang tenor and my brother just sang I'd even do a jig if I got a little corn likker In me My next step up the ladder occurred when I joined a medicine show The old doe who ran it was the greatest showman I ever did see Smart feller too a graduate from the Lansing Penitentiary up in Michigan He'd been shot in the hip and had to use crutches But a real fighter He rould lick anyone within crutch-reach and if they got beyond that he started shooting The doe was selling elixir with crystals The elixir was well-water flavored with mint leaves The crystals were epsom salts Old doc fairly originated the testimonial idea of selling He used to hit town a day early and pass around samples of the elixir to a few people Then he'd invite them down the the Lamar Ave DRIVE-IN Summer Ave DRIVE-IN RIVERSIDE SPEEDWAY West Memphis Ark Sponsored by American Legion Compliments Mercantile Implement Co I I- ffl i -vr Is ear Coffee Room "ic Sunday Dinner Is served 11:3 AM-1S FK1 Food in served in a quiet restful atmosphere Complete dinner! tn suit every taste reasonably priced Music by Muzak HOTEL CLARIDGK Memphis Smartest Hotel Nezt to Rainbow Laka Phons 48-2158 West End ef Summer Ave Viaduct Phons 4-9466 Earle West Memphis Hughes lazy the fishing Is in them parts Only city fellers go after fish with tackle That's strenuous Back home we wait for fish to visit us After every river flood fish remain in sink holes So we fetch out our guns and sit on the hack porch till a raccoon comes down from the woods for a fish When he passes the house with his fish we just shoot him One day we have fish the next day roasted coon The kind of story people expect to hear about Arkansas usually concerns grandpaw Bob Burns has a whole raft of them about his grandpappy Uncle Fud and all them relations I don't know a single story on my grand-daddy He keeps in touch writes regularly never much news Like Life Everywhere No the truth of the matter Is that life In Gravelly Is just about the same as life anywhere else and the people there are like people everywhere Only difference maybe is that folks back home are closer to one another you might say When I was a boy I knew every man woman and child in Yell County That was easy be-j cause there were only three clnns to remember the Hunnicutts thei Joneses and the Cavinews Nowadays though It would be harder The cotton growing has 1 given way to cattle raising and quite a few strangers have moved in Names like King and John Nance Garner and others the folks around there know much about religious authorities and His betrayal by Judas pack more drama than any copa and robbers script ritually Sell Tonrly Film with religious themes are considered something less than sure fire at the box office hut the producer is unconcerned He has surh faith in his project he has mortgaged his home and insurance to help finance it "1 sm staking the future of as well as my own personal security on its but I don't consider it a Judging from past success Othcdral Is in no great peril Dr Friedrich founded the firm In after graduating from the Knisrnpa! Seminary in Alexander Va Here is how it happened: I was studying the life of raul at the seminary it dawned on me what a marvelous man he the most dramatic character I had encountered a man auch aa I never dreamed had lived It orrurred to me that many people must have misaed knowing of Paul I hegan wondering how I could spread his By graduation time Dr Friedrich thought he knew He came was the only place the job could be done and organized Cathedral aa a non-profit organization for the production of Bible stories He says he financed it himself mortgaging home and Insurance Dr Friedrich hoped to interest rommercisl movie houses in his product He got nowhere His first venture "The Great a movie about the parable of the Good Samaritan convinced him it would take years and Improved production techniques to sell his production on the open market Turned To Churches He turned to the churches At that time only a few of the larger COOL and -COM FORT A IDLE HIPPODROME 500 BEALE AVE THE HIPPODROME'S ANNUAL -TONIGHT- labor DAY BREAKFAST DANCE SUNDAY NIGHT AUGUST O'CLOCK AND STAR-STUDDED FLOOR SHOW FLOOR SHOW STARTS 11:30 PM DANCING STARTS 12:01 AJL Monday morning with musie by Tuff Green and orchestra featuring BONNIE LEE SENSATIONAL female vocalist and IKE TURNER Modern Recording Stars Make your reservation early by railing 37-2232 ADMISSION $100 ft C1' o''1 3 IV f- ict-- rfr 1 a Mr 4i il LABOR DAY NIGHT V' been a long time since I left Gravelly but I try to get back for a visit every year or so That rube stuff about barefoot relatives moonshine likker outhouses and the like sounds pretty corny even In the backwoods The folks have their radios newspapers automo-! biles telephones and electricity like everybody else in the country today But it wasn't always so modern As a boy I can remember riding horseback behind my daddy to get to school It was nine miles from rhiirchea had projectors And there nization for distribut- was no organ in? films to them The minister seeing he had to create a demand for his product went into production anyway He has since turned out 52 films mostly Bibla stories He now has a nationwide distribution system There are projectors in 50000 churches He estimates between five and seven million people see his half-hour films each Sunday Dr Friendrich believes there Is a great publle demand and overwhelming Interest in honest spiritual "I am he says we have the I-iL dm C'iSrW Just for a ADVANCE SI 35 AT DOOR $175 Visit the fairgrounds Amusement Park LABOR DAY Rides Games Concessions Free Picnic Grounds Playgrounds SATURDAY NIGHT SEPT 6 by Biff LABOR DAY Celebration Tomorrow Park Open Today 2 PM Slim Rhodes and His Mountaineers In 3 Biff FREE Variety Shows 3:30 7 and 10 pm FUN for ZI the Family at the e- 2 JOE LIGGINS And His Honey Drippers FAIRGROUNDS AMUSEMENT PARK I Admission Charge to the Park Plenty of Free Parking Spare ADMISSION ADVANCE $1-35 AT DOOR SL75 Every Wed 8:30 SPECIAL SECTION RESERVED FOR WHITE LABOR DAY FUN FOR ALL! 1 i 1 tT I 11 lit I I rr Iir'irii lirm'iii'iiiiii! ni'riur lniinr kV i 11 i' jJ1.