The Durham Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 16

Dial 2115 for Newspaper Sendee LIFE1 LIKE THAT Page Durham snr v-ridat feb it imi She Claimed lie Had Affair With Sist 80-Year-Old Man Kills Wife After Accusations -My Autobiography After Almost Walking Out Actress Makes Hit On Radio that he had an affair with her later Mra Emma Tinsley Humphrey waa quoted as denying he had any Interest in Mra Tinsley and that there waa no basis whatever for Mra Humphrey's jealousy "I didn't actually mean to shoot my wife" he told Payne have been married for 50 years land we had reared 10 jail of them still living" SQUARE ROUND DANCING Every FrL Sat Night Dance Hall Hlckt Eton Turn eff Boxbon Road at By TALLULAH BANKHEAD Chapter Lrut menaced a microphone or Vice versa In the spring of 1927 While playing In The Gold Diggers King's College Hospital was making a drive for funds for a new maternity ward and Lady Eileen Stanley asked me to make a plea £er the air Ever eager to tackle a unknown I consented $TTie broadcast didn't last over Eve minutes When it was over was as near a faint as I have aver been was elated when cash responses poured in 1 felt akin to Qorenre Nightingule On my return to New York almost every name player in the tSeater was succumbitu to radio offers My friends hinted I was a JQghrad not to rash in on this easy njoney But 1 struck a snooty altitude 1 demanded approval of igripta I I relented when my budget came down with beriberi My first appearance was on the program of Bf CLAY a 11 ASS tt fwr I tody According to ''After a good meal being overdrawn $36 at the bank doesn't seem important does it?" Ill Ex-Actress Tells How She Develops Qualities Of Stars I Rudy Vallee Maine's challenge to Caruso In all my years In the theater I've never had an agent I've handled my own business dune my own haggling over salary and other indignities uf imprisonment I never fell it necessary to pay anyone 10 per cent of my wages The agent could only repeat my terms I can shout as loud as any proxy But radio was another kettle of fish A broadcasting company calls upon the leading agcnrlea when seeking to cast their carnivals Since agents are under oath to die for and only for their clients it was nut strange they suggested only such artrrsses as were linked to them percentage-wise Fared with this 1 signed up with the William Morris Agency By our part it was to act for me in all my activities save the stage I've never had cause to regret that choice Were it not for their Helen Strauss this catalogue might never hatfe hern compiled The Morris Agency GAZER0 hwii ocr 3-'ttSAdT oa I NO SAOmAOWA NOVfi I OK l2-36-3B-A9 51-779MV5l DIC mm 7-KMMli JAM HI 3- 6-19 rr 374178 mas 4152941 I42-S3-I7-89M Activity Guide lie Stars To develop message for Saturday read words corresponding Ip numbers of your Zodiac birth sign 1 You 31 Gom 1 You 2 Inal 32 You 2 Minor 3 Dnl 33 Most A3 Hopes AN 3A Got A4 Keonmf 5 Thom 35 Visits AS FroWam A Lot 3A Support AA Today 7 Lot 37 Or A7 Of Hunches 31 Te Al Fwbicm 9 May 39 AArsntegss A9 With 10 Your 40 Trips 20 Friends 11 Lot 41 Shun 71 Your 12 Good 42 Advice 72 Others 13 Feckoibaek 43 Find 73 Worthwhile 14 Te 44 Through 74 Ideas 15 You're 4S Con 75 Now IA People 4A Your 7A to 17 You 47 The 77 Dealings It Know 48 Viows 71 Astray 19 Wrong 49 Collect 79 Duo 20 Wa SO Contacts Or 21 la SI Whatever II Requiring 22 Ideas S2 Your 2 Agreements 23 Reap S3 Of 13 Retetnas 24 Smart 54 Soma R4 Neighbors 25 Gabs SS Menas BS Patience 2A Day SA Unity (A You 27 lead 52 Far 17 Your 2RHetp SA And Beliefs 29 forplaaad S9 Through R9 Mata 30 Bo 40 Be 90 Flans J)NwwI groping Mias Ainsworth currently is president of the Helen Ainsworth Corp probably the only woman engaged In distributing both television and motion picture films But in addition she conducts her own talent agency in Beverly Hills Quotes and Comment: Trade journal columnist: "Funny how Linda Darnell and Gene Tierney follow mch other Gene who goes with Aly Kahn who used to go with Linda has agreed to make a picture for Senor and Rrnnr Amato is Darnell's current passion" Quite a chain of circumstances nr ii it a circle of ome sort? Rita another Aly fan so far as I know was not on auph speaking terms with Senor Amato Studio blurb: "Burt Lancaster who's at his most romantic In Majesty O'Keefe discloses that he proposed to hia wife Norma tn tho Leaning Tower of Pisa" Norma can thank Burt that it was the Leaning Tower of Pisa and not the Blarney Stone Neighboring columnist: "Now that Peggy King la married to Knobby Lee there are two Peggy Lera And the thrush-era are nonharmonious" But theatrically speaking the Peggy Lee by marriage can easily remain Peggy which la an frequently done you know that only a few fana ever knew the real names of husbands or wives of the stars NEED NEW GUTTERS AND DOWN SPOUTS 7 Far Quality Material nad Espert Workmanship Gall Ok Pickard Roofing Co Inc MIS Chapel MIU ft I-SIM asaM t-14-29 NL32-4M6 MAS ft JUNfff 39-44-50 SetZMlM Stfa: AM ggv ii-u-iM 48-SA63 Air AU0U Zi 4 A ltt14 fS21-244l4l JL6547-77 IWINQ A BLUBB Triln TrainTr In Yeatt'aYeu Bluet for Anna Bacoa Yrt I Know tt A Shame Yea I Knew Dream Gtrl Lei a Baby Let Me Ge Hama WhWcey Wtka Up Fool Mama He Treat Your Daughter Mean Can I Do ao Ne Mom I Believe 'Love Talk It Over Bella I Doan Know 'Baby Doan Do tt I'm Gano Hev Mra Jonoe 1 Played root Still la Lava Forgive Ma Baby Tail Mo Pretty Baby Croaa My Heart COMPIBTB BTOCK OP CORNER CHURCH A WfflLOWxN NOW FLAYING ACTION A EXCITEMENT roa THE ENTtEE FAMILY! 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ALSO NEWS NOVELTY CARTOON ITARTS SUNDAY FASCINATION MIDWAY THEATRE On Hillsboro Road Fhona t-0840 Mat Me Nit Hlg Re Children under Re SELF-SERVICE AT THE RECORD BAR SHREVEPORT La fUP) A 80-year-old man held today in connection with tha fatal shooting nf hia 81-year-old wife told police "I gueaa 1 shot her" after she reused him nf "having an with her 79-year-olH sister Detective Ocil Tayne said a 22 caliber shot fired by W- Humphrey father of 10 resulted in the death of Joanna Humphrey his wife of 58 years Payne said Humphrey told him 1 guess I shot her but 1 don't remember it" The white-haired upholstery man said the shooting came after his wife struck him with a metal walking stick following her charge Now IliiNKian Invent Own Hunyan LONDON The Russians have come up with a rival to Paul Bunyan Moscow radio announced the feats of a mighty hunter named Sokolov who la 106 years old Moscow radio aaid he has killed 43000 squirrels and 100 boars In eastern an average of more than one squirrel a day since the day of hia birth I Advertisement) Arthritis Pain? Because amazing new ACT-ON to liquid with Its concentrated preaciip- '-lid dto- iT to five hours of JOYOUS RELIEF from rhea and pains nf rheumatism and arthritis Very FIRST Doae or money bock Also available In tablets It's Girl Time At TI10 uStebs! MAITMNO! I wo mu MENARD wire NtStESNil eEOROE BERNARD WAfbeaRtlnun PLUM FAMOUS SHOW GIRL PARADE EXTRA ADDED SPICE OF LIFE SHORT Open Today 1 Ml to Mldnlte Adult Entertainment LATE SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT She rules her men with loadod gun-and raady kisses I tllCOL WliH Joy-Filled TICKETS NOW ON SALE! engagcB in a minimum of hanky-panky never treaU its charges as if they were delinquent children They carry on with dignity and Intelligence I've profited vastly from their counsel Over a period of five years I made 15 or 20 gueat star appearances Fred Allen and I did a burlesque of the ''Mr and Mrs" shows then cluttering the morning air It was a hilarious script and Fred and I gave It the works The travesty created such a furor we twice repeated it Early In 1050 the Columbia nroadrasting Company raided NDC'a personnel It made off with many nf NRC's top artiala and lashed them to long-term contracts NflC had another worry TV the iiraah infant was making Inroads nn advertising revenue NBC's executives didn't take these rieprrda lions lying down In rebuttal they decided to group into a Sunday night show such an outlay of atari that no man woman or child in the nation would be ao foolish as to listen to anything elae in the interval between 8:30 and 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time It was schemed to destroy competition A lofty project It was a little frightening especially when I learned I had been tapped for Mistress of Ceremonies I've never beeq too happy about that identification It's been worn out through abuse 1 prefer confereneler That's what Balieff the antic Russian with the Violent accent used to call himself when first he sought to explain Souris'' In bemused New Yorkers But who knows the feminine of confereneler? Even before the first rehearsal I was harried In tbf newspaper ads NBC listed such famed folk as Fred Allen Jimmy Durante Ethel Merman Jose Ferrer Paul Lukas Mindy Carson and Frankie Laine ended with "All and Tallulah Ton" This shook me up caused me to bristle These notables had definite assignments in the show merely Introduced them or so I thought The first rehearsal raised my temperature Ethel Merman waa to sing aix songs In the first half of the show Rumen Nype another I read a dark significance Into this Hadn't NBC hacked Ethel's show Call Me Mariam? I waa sure 1 waa being sandbagged I had three "Yaasah boss" In a takeoff on Jack Benny In the last half of tha program Who waa I imitating? Rocheiter! I walked through the rehearsal like a woman under water numb with humiliation The NBC executives Bud Barry and Dee Engel-bach were a little numb tea Lif-tenlug In my dreary reading they were dismayed My reading was dreary because I trying ao (lark waa my despair It wasn't that I refused tn try Did try I waa aura to break down and cry In front of a SO-plece orchestra? If I did I'd he branded the greatest exhibitionist of all time a tempera- menial witch who waited until she he had nn audience to kick over the tram There was another reason for my fright The flashy entertainers i were famed for their work In revues musical comedies and vaudeville I waa an outlaw a dramatic actress I felt the cards were atarked against me After rehearsal I want to sea Dee Kngelbarh director-producer of "The Big Show" and one of tha ablest and moat understanding men ever to weave coherence out nf chaos I told him I waa sick with disappointment that I wanted to get out I could have stood any thing I said but "All This and Tallulah Ton11 Waa I to be the mrrlficlal lamb mute and disgraced while the comedians and the singers had a field day? By the terms of my contract I had to carry on for four weeks willy-nilly After that I would rather starve In a garret i than submit to such shame adrift among the quality with nothing to do and lean to aay Bud Barry and Engelbarh told me later my rehearsal unnerved them I would have no difficulty In getting out of the show after four weeks Unless I came nut of my coma my option wouldn't be picked up William Joyce my representative from the Morris office came over to console me to reassure Barry and Engelbarh When they told Joyce of their disappointment with my rehearsal that gentleman gallantly said: don't know Tallulah She give out at rehearsals Wait until she gets on the air" I'm not sure Joyce be- lleved his own brave words At (he dress rrhrarsal 1 was little better The other player on the program were ronsrioua nf my dee perntinn Jimmy Durante whispered payday baby!" life was my knight In armor that 'Jimmy! NBC'a blgwlas were ready to Jump off a cliff Me? I'd Jump from my own cliff In my leap I'd need no collaborators At 8 o'clock nn the Sunday night of Nov 4 1950 with some thirty million nf the rurlmia listening In I submitted to the knife Guess what happened! Your heroine emerged from the fracas hailed as Queen nf the Kilocycles Authorities cried out Tallulah had redeemed radio In shepherding my rhargea through Big Show" said the critics I had snatched radio out nf the grave The autopsy waa delayed Save for its summer reersa "The Big Show" prospered Al one time or another must of the elite of the amusement world appeared In it Surh diverse personalities as Ethel Barrymore Margaret Trumnn Groucho Marx Dr Ralph Btinrhe Joe Rushkin Gary Cooper Genrgo Sanders Judy Holliday Bob Hope Eddie Cantor Edith Piaf opera stars Jan Teerce Melchior and Robert Merrill Joan Davis Gloria Swanson Shirley Booth Charles Boyer Clifton Webb Marlene Dietrich Louis Armstrong added to its sparkle wit and Impertinences Tomorrow: On to London (Copyright 1952 by Tallulah Bankhead) Nothing In this world except soma people! NOW PLAYING It's Got Everything TR1NO Playing Dominnea Bhooling Dire Hnneymnon On Barket Ship Deer Judge Paying For Bark Street Affair Honeymoon On Hockot Ship Memory Of Hank Williams Mansion On Hill Your Chanting Hoart Na Halp Wanted 1 Will Mlaa You When You Uo I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive Culd Cnld Heart Death of Hank Williams Let Me Know I Don't Know Only One I Mur IdOVSd My Lonely Heart's Running Wild That's Kind Of Lora I'm Looking For You're Under Arroet tt RPN AND RPM RBCOKOB AND ALBUMS PABRISH gTBEETS PHON S-MU By JI313IIE FIDIKR I listened with rapt attention to Helen Ainsworth a few days ago as she enthusiastically and with ff logic told how 1 he developed the star qualities of Marilyn Mnnraei Guy Madison Debra Paget Howard Keel Jane Powell Rhonda Fleming Carol Channlng and other top personalities Miss Ainsworth herself a university Jimmie Fldlrr graduate a noted film comedienne in the and a woman nf tremendous success In the agenry field appraises a player almost from every viewpoint determines hia or her outstanding attraction nr talent and points hie goal in a definite direction look upon the world as a garden and its people as strong (inks beautiful flowers or the lesser things that grow some vital some ornamental in the general parade we call she aaid stars for the most part are flowera In our garden and they must be nurtured trained and directed I like to build tip self-confidence In my charges I believe In them otherwise I couldn't train them So I want them to believe in themselves I want them tn know they can succeed that they can play the roles assigned them It Is no good for me or for them if they are hesitant nr uncertain or afraid" Miss Ainsworth says that Marilyn Monroe to an apt pupil She thinks things nut and doesn't rely alone nn her physiral attractions This unusual teacher developed Guy Madison tn the point where he has confidence in hia ability He's one nf Misa Ainsworth's oaks the John Wayne type Mias Ainsworth approaches talent in humans as she would gold In the metal aa something precious Surveying her field of opportunity and the needs o-leaning! of tha studios she guides her talent to the opportunities awaiting that particular man or woman Her success In this work over the years is demonstration enough that she knows her way around and never for once la she Coming TOMORROW HI WMKID 1HIU WU1S IH FUISUIT OF NAPFIHFSL WOMEN 01 ANYTHING! QUADRANGLE PAGE AIT) Dl'KE I'NIV ON STAGE! IN PERSON! TODAY ONLY! 'GRANDPA DIRECT FROM THE ON THE SCREEN "T1IE PRAIRIE" STAGE SIIOW8 TODAY Birth and Death off the Earth a The Morehead Planetarium UNC Chapel Hill MS anasasca NEW OXFORD HIGHWAY FI8ST IHOW MART 7:11 IAIT TIMES TONITI JACK BEUTEL MALA POWERS BILL WILLIAMS Yes it hot beauty color romance action every thing to moke it truly on outstanding picture The type that has made motion pictures the greatest form of American entertainment IUL0US MARK FALLON this touch a wildfir temptation CYery woman his lock challenge! S723f Attention Superstitious People! TODAY IS FRIDAY THE 13TH! So Take Warning! It'i the day when block coti cross your path and Ole Man Jinx is right behind you Defy The Jinx By Attending The Special FRIDAY nE 13 TM-A-CHANCE LATE SNOW TONIGHT AT 11:30 PM YES the program Is a secret hut we'll guarantee you one of the season's finest programs HINT If! 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