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a -16 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1943- Aragon Ballroom News of the Stage and Screen tz rt AVE. Bill LtRoy Orch. Krt. VU CM THw Daae Mar SAmdaLy Dmjwtnc Cornell in Movie Debut The IIMILJLi STARTS I AIR-" LAIS' ri, I 3V- rul -Fi StanfBabe Are Happy Boys Again They Get Their Kind Of a Director In Mai St. Loves Pratt Falls By Frederick C.

Othman United Press HoSlyworxl Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June 21 We have no doubt that the gentlemen functioning on the tit At. appear briefly in the picture, which comes to the Penn on Thursday, are Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Gracie Fields, Ray Bolger. Ethel Merman, Ed Wynn. Edgar Bergen and TaHulah Bankhead. Incidentally, it's the first time Miss Cornell has ever appeared on the screen.

Here Katharine Cornell, playing a bit in "Stage Door Canteen" along with at least one hundred other stars of Broadway and Hollywood, passes out oranges and apples to a line of soldiers. Next to her stands Aline McMahon. Some of the other biggies of the entertainment world who 225 i ii 'i i Ott JUBT GARLAND VAN7 r'n AT BAJiTEa f.ICHA?D CA-- 1 EE H3 nuiun in I UKIH HURnTli "FIVE CRAVE, tti TO CAIRO" ERICH VON STSCrXH-l All iriERIDAX S3 Kit It Ti XEGENT tSX C6NDITIOYE2 EKBIGHT fm I i im a Oil i. Mc5S ilKt FTHE 8 a-- r'vi i 6AMERAPHCNE AiE CO-NDITiO'ED St. I ibncnkti J.

STRANa ta5 i' TE -MoriUB Si -Axar fEiC1 tt Or Cmtn a i-I 0M 1 i -w a MAKsa a S3- r-" Vcj! i i --STIAiSEI I Ti -a ifUrAUt Ms 1 Movie Builds Faces, Hands for Wounded Jack Dawn Teaching Wonders of His Prosthetic Program to Naw Doctors ing a Lead In "Tinker's Dan? WI1XIA3I SKZLTOX He has the role -of Air Raid Warden in the Catholic Theater Guild's production "Tinker's Dam," which opens tonight at the Central Catholic Theater Fifth and Clyde, where it will be repeated tomorrow night and Thursday. Later in the fantasy, Skelton becomes, in the dream of a wounded reporter, a freak with eyes in the back his head. turkey business. He bought 150 turkeys and 150 fresh turkey eggs on which they were to sit, thereby producing 150 more tur keys. The idea was fine except mat xne original turkeys were clumsy and smashed every Babe said he bought another 100 curxey eggs and handed them over to some chickens for sitting-on purposes and that the results were spienaia.

Botanical is the word fnr Laurel's efforts. He said he had succeeded in crossing a potato with a tomato, but that the end result was listless. He said he had worked in vain to cross a potato with an onion, to make fried rmta- toes and onions without tears, but that this research had not been a success either. He said he now was attempting to cross sugar cane witn corn to make sweet roasting ears. He said he wasn't spoofing.

And if we only had three more columns of space could tell you about our favorite actors. Even if you weren't interested. De MUle to Direct IVew Film in 3Iid-Air C. B. DeMille.

who dpsrpnHeH fn the bottom of the sea to direct a scene of '-Reap the Wild Wind Will ZO tO the ODDOSite extreme in filming his next one, "The Story vk ur. vasseu. He'll go up in an airplane. The scene invrrt rrc-t iHU v. the attack bv JaDanese riunM the little Dutch motorshin Tari- sens, aboard which Lieutenant Commander Corydon M.

Wassell evacuated nine helplessly wounded American sailors from Java dur ing the Japanese conouest of rhar island Characteristically. DeMflle Isn't going to take any "chances on get ting uie scenes he wants by directing from the ground, like ordinary directors. Picnics Today KEXXYWOOD PARK Fifteenth Ward. Mifflin. Ha vs.

St. Stephens and Holy Anrelos schools. WEST VIEW PARK St. Mary's of the Northsirfe. Sr Cyprians.

All Saints of Etn and St. Gabriel's churches. MtVAZKMEf 1 C0CKT tSBTf C900SAJI urro cssT ccrteaB30 Playi i.nm. aaaaw ---41 W- i "Nil i Sfcri, r. 5 Drama Desk By Harold V.

Cohen Local Scrappings Lou Bruni, second trumpet man with Tommy Carlyn, shoves off for boot training in the marines today and he's being replaced in the band by Bobby Seaman, late of the Pitt Incidentally, Carlyn has clicked so well at West View Park, where he's now in the second and last Week of his cur rent engagement, that the outfit has already been signed for another fortnight beginning July 17. Tony Stern took up his new duties as film buyer and booker for Warner Brothers' Cleveland zona, yesterday, but Mrs. Stern will stay here until after the stork arrives some time next month. Mrs. Baron Elliott is back from Baltimore and a visit with her band-leading husband, who's stationed at Fort Meade, where he expects to organize a camp orchestra shortly.

One of the town's best-known gamblers had the Pirates in both games against the Reds on Sun. day, but lost dough on the day because he covered by taking Cincinnati in each game before the Bucs staged their eighth inning rallies. Carnegie Tech Bill Eythe's contract at Twentieth Century-Fox has just been re newed for another year. Because the type-setters were always making her first name Marie, Mart Kim, the striking Oriental danseuse at the Villa Madrid, is now spelling it Mara. Irving Marcus, former officer manager for National Screen Service here, is now a petty officer at the Great Lakes Xaval Training Station.

Bob Prince, the radio man, a couple of pounds lighter but with a smile from ear to ear after beating Brian McDonald three straight games of ping-pong at the Variety Club the other a. m. Aside to Jack Skirball's cousin: Maybe you miss my good days. As a matter of fact, I was crazy about Jack's last one, "Shadow Of A -Doubt." Andrew Hawke, author of "Tinker's Dam," was In town Sunday night for the Catholic Theater Guild's dress 'rehearsal of his dramatic fantasy. v1 The Joe Feldmans' youngster, Jimmy, gets back tomorrow morning from York and a three-week visit with his grandparents.

0 The Senator was all set to install a new double bill tomorrow when Johnny Harris phoned from Hollywood and told his local office to hold "The More the Merrier" for a seventh week. The usual observation around the Nixon Cafe ringside whenever clever Jackie Fields pulls those royal flushes out of nowhere: "I'd hate to play poker with that guy." Radio's Sons of the South have been booked into the Stanley with the Ozzie Nelson-Harriet Hilliard show on Jily 16. Everybody agrees the town hasn't seen a gourmet in years like Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula. His food and wine bill here last week was staggering. Pretty Margaret Trusty, the dance teacher, her own best advertisement whenever she steps on a floor.

Note from an air-eondition fancier: Coolest spot in town these warm afternoons and evenings is the Fort Pitt Hotel's Lounge Bar. Stan Bailey, the saxman, has quit Piccolo Pete's outfit at the Trelon to go with the George Wells band at Don Metz's Club Casino. "When "Through Embassy Eyes" reaches the screen via Twentieth Century-Fox, Harry Carey tctIZ portray the late E. Dodd, who teas the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937. The book, based on Mr.

Dodd's diary, cas tcritten by his daughter, Martha. Laird Cregar urSl have tthe role of Herman Goering, and the picture goes before the cameras some time in August. 2 Addenda Irving Cooper has acquired the stage rights, and Owen Davis will do the dramatization, to "Sophie Halenczik, American," the series ct articles written by Roscoe C. Feld for The New Yorker1 about a Czech woman who hires out as a domestic in a small Connecticut town. Chalk np 135 Broadway performances for the Helen Hayes hit, "Harriet." Canada Lee, who had the lead in "Native Son" en the stage, has been signed by Alfred Hitchcock for the role of the colored steward in his next picture.

"Lifeboat." Lea trice Joy coming east from Hollywood to appear next week in the summer theater production of "Old Acquaintance at Cambridge, Mass. Barto and Mann, late of "Hellzapoppin," have been engaged by Clifford C. Fischer for the 1944 edition of his vaudeville revue, "Priorities," which will star Jerry Lester. When she finishes "The Song of Bernadette, Jennifer Jenes goes Into the David O. Selz-nlck movie, "Since Yoa Went Away.

with Claudette Colbert and Shirley Temple. Youngest Barrymore Shrugs Off Career John Barrymore. son of the late and great actor, hasn't made up his mind yet whether he will try to become an actor, jonn nas oeen visiting his mother, Dolores Cos-tello. on the set of Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army" at Warner Brothers. Many workers who had been on pictures with his father asked the youngster his future rUr.s.

His" "I don't know" was Jean Boaz Stays With TuUyUnit Jean Boaz, vocalist, formerly with Howdy Baum's orchestra, has been held over for a third week with the Hugh Tully Modernaires, playing their tenth week in -the Fiesta Room at the Roosevelt Hotel Miss Boaz has become a favorite with Roosevelt patrons and repeatedly is requested to sing her special arrangements of "My Man' and "You'll Never Know," She shares the vocals with Har old Garrett, the bassist. The Mod ernaires also present Tully and his viohn, with Tony Fornaro, electric guitarist; and Waiter Gable, rippling rhythm pianist. Triple Bill Show At Art Cinema The current program at the Art Cinema Theater is a triple bill show featuring Jack Benny in "Keep 'Em Laughing," James Cagney in "Something to Sing About" and Bob Hope in "Going fcpamsn. In "Keep 'Em Laughing." Jack Benny plays a Master of Ceremonies broadcasting from a palatial ocean liner plying between New York and Europe. He is supported by Nancy Carroll, Sid Silvers, Ralph Morgan and Mitzi Green.

"Something to "Sing About" features Cagney in the role of a song and dance man and the orchestra leader becomes a motion picture star. "Going Spanish," a short, has Leah Ray as Hope's leading lady. Show at Villa Madrid Held for Second Week The entire show at the Villa Madrid has been held over for a second week and Etiz Covato has decided to make the Continental, or continuous, style of entertainment, which he. tried last week as an experiment, permanent. Featured in the current lay-out at the Liberty avenue spot are Johnny Gallisv young Pittsburgh tenor; Edith Mann, toe-tapster who used to be with Benny Davis; Mara Kim, Oriental dance stylist, Asta Sven, in an unusual novelty number, and Mark Lane and his orchestra.

3rd Week! Tyrone Power "CRASH DIVE" ANNE lAXTIR UilA AN01EWS TECHXICOX-OR fjSsnjf Cta Retard Wceki Jtoa Arihar Jol McCr CharUt Cobara 27i te 1 r. m. "THE MORE THE MERRIER it 'TMBg aad VAN HEFUN RUTH HUSSEY "TENNESSEE JOHNSON" 30e 4 r. JEAN ARTHUR LiTTT 1 JOEL McCREA I I i "THE MORE I I 3V THE MERRIER" Ralph Richard's! Uefcrak Kerr "THE AYEMSERS 'MT FACE- ra BUY WAN BONDS ani STAMPS MA RI MOMEWD.N H-41X-S4BC "WHITE SAVAGE" EDWARD HOOOttLBl "PRISON MUTINY- FLISS SHEKtDAS HI sTO 'EDGE OF DARKNESS" Ricaard Driscoii 'My Heart Belongs to Daddy' War ia Africa Featare "DESERT VICTORY" Ha! Roach's Corned "FALL PT Air vnditioned Dead End Kids "Clancy SL Bavs" RICHARD PARkER "WRECKING CREW" 12 B4KMer-Etfcel Hitm-Uu Home wnnii? in 'CABIN SKY" Roddy Foster "MY FRIEND FLICKA" cwr Richard Dix "AMERICAN EMPIRE" AlR-COftDITlOSED JEAS ARTHUR-JOEL McCRE4 THE MORE THE MERRIER AIR-CONDITIONED XAY MILLAND-PAULETTE G0DDARD "REAP THE WILD WIND" bt Trehni alor also "Arm Doctor" AIR-CONDITIONED Knn Sothern-Melvy a Doaztas "THREE HEARTS FOR JULIA" Florence Rice 'Blonde from ROBERT DONAT-R0BERT M0RLE "YOUNG MR. PITT" Jea.

Saaden "THIT TAME TO BLOW IT AMFRIr' Air Conditioned ROBERT DONAT-R0BERT M0RLEY "YOtNG MR. PITT" MasicaU-Cartoon-Ne urn LESLIE nntm GR-Cff WITHERS "LURE OF THE WASTELAND" SKILLED WORKERS wanted for defense jobs. See ads today in Post-Gazette Help columns. Advt. intra wao urru 5CDTT aaa Qfe sxaan wiiauinm cma wTm ULB( HHBJW DVTMl LAST TWO DAYS "FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM' r-t t.

1 r. jtjfcycftl Lady in the Msrgug Plus "Black Dairl ''Hit Ptrada at 4r tr Better" frtfl.Bi.iiJ.iH!iYi i lfUCUi fill HtWir, CCNEI II 11 Mr mum 111 7 aT WI III "tii Vf I irM. .7 hit roT MtaHltr f'l mZy aKtSpl lawn this morning at Twenti eth Century-Fox will go home tonight and tell their wives how hard they worked. It looked like fun to us. In front of the cameras were Stan Laurel and Oliver (Babe) Hardy, our favorite actors, and you don't have to read another line.

We can't force you. You either like Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy, or you don t. think they're wonderful.

Even when their pictures are terrible, we like 'em. This one, they believe, is going to be good. It's called The Dancing Masters." Stan is in charge of the beginners. Babe teaches ballet to the beauties in the advanced class. They'd originally intended to call their place of business The Arthur Hurry School of the but decided against it on the theory that you-know-who might sue.

This morning the dancing masters were demonstrating, a secret ray machine, which sends invisible fire against the enemy. The Nazis weren far away and what this had to do with a picture about dancing masters we could not see. His Own Invention Neither could Laurel, who wore a mustache hanging down to his chin and a pair of black-out glasses of his own devising. He said he still had no idea what the fire ma chine had to do with the proceed ings. As for the blackout glasses.

they were of his own devising. One lens was opaque. The other was plain glass. Tou ask him why he wears blackout glasses in the daytime. He replies that he's prac ticing.

Then you ask why only one eye is blacked out. So I can see where Tm going, of course, snaps Laurel. "Haw-haw-haw," laughs Mai St. Clair, the director. He likes Laurel and Hardy, too.

He laughs at everything they do. Sometimes he almost ruins a take, laughing. "Praise heaven for St. Clair, breathed Hardy. "He likes Pratt Falls." Our favorite actors have had some tough sledding lately.

Hardy said the trouble was they'd been assigned artistic young producers, who'd hired artistic young direc tors. "And those babies were only interested in the art of the cinema and the furtherance of their own careers," the Babe said. 'They'd turn us down every time Stan and I would suggest a 1 piece of mon key business. They didn't want to "be laughed at in the projection room. They wanted to be known as experts in the drama of the screen.

Laurel and Hardy did some howling at the front office and to their delight were assigned Direo tor St. Clair, who has spent most of his life making comedies, who is a connoisseur of of Pratt Falls, and whose interest in art is confined to the funny papers. He used to be a cartoonist. All hands played with' fire this morning. The secret ray machine got out of whack, set the cigars of the visiting millionaires on fire.

turned the target into a blaze and in the confusion got pointed in the direction of a white Southern mansion. What happens to the mansion happens tomorrow. The fire department will be on hand to keep the conflagration from spreading. Gentlemen Farmers Laurel, it seems, is now a gentleman farmer. Babe, too.

Hardy said he'd gone into the Thank Pat O'Brien for Wade, he met na opposition. Especially, inasmuch as Robert Fellows, who produced "Bombardier," also is producing "The Iron Major." Wade not only was put into the cast of the latter screen play, but his role was expanded and tailored to fit the kind of performance it was easy to see he could give. As Manning, he gets front-line megrims amounting to near-hysteria. Then Pat O'Brien as Cavanaugh reasons with him, man to man, and he changes. When Pat is wounded in action, it is Wade who reaches him first, helps carry him through the shell fire.

"And only the other day, so to speak, I was just another extra without a word to Wade. He's been knocking around in the movies since 1936. Once before he had a contract with a studio only he never got to play in a picture at that time. For the rest of those years, he's been a movie extra, occasionally going into some little theater production in Los Angeles, once in despair working in a Hollywood boulevard haberdashery. He's been married those seven years, besides, to a non-professional.

They have a daughter of five. "Maybe now," said Wade, "her daddy will amount to something. Anyhow, Tm getting my break. That's sH a guy can ask for. a break," SOUTH HiUS 'L-I ABOtT vP H-" lr "TEMESME Ml "THT.T fiOT Bti.a......

twVur Dr. Michael Gurdin, from Pearl Harbor, and Lieutenant Gordon Bau, one-time make-up head of Warner Brothers, to get the prosthetic program started. The plan now is to teach the technique to navy doctors everywhere, to supply them with Dawn's specially developed materials and to make possible a normal life for any man, ho matter how terribly his face may have been injured. The system depends upon Dawn's plastic material, a synthetic dough which i3 moulded, colored and dried into an exact replica of human flesh. It even feels springy and warm.

Another of Dawn's clients was a sailor on a Pacific island, who discovered too late that the grenade he held in his hand was defective. It exploded before he could let loose, leaving him with a stump of hand and part of his thumb. Dawn built him a new hand, complete with freckles, wrinkles and fingernails. It slips on like a glove. The sailors left hand now is an exact duplicate of his right.

Nobody can tell which is artificial and which isn't. This morning Dawn wa3 carrying on his regular studio job, working with Ronald Colman and Edward G. Robinson on make-up for a new movie. In the laboratory, Lieutenant Bau was building a new nose for a chief petty officer. Nose Bit Off "Our job isn't all concerned with near tragedy," said the lieutenant "Sometimes we have trouble, keeping from laughing.

Even when it isn't funny to the victim. Take the poor chief. He came home from a tour of duty in the Pacific and found another man in the house with his wife. "That made the chief sore. The intruder turned around and bit off the end of the chiefs nose.

We're making him a new one. Itll look just as good as the original and nobody ever will know what happened in the chiefs house, unless he chooses to telL" And that's that. There's nothing more to say except that Hollywood needs more stories about its Jack Dawns and fewer about its Charlie Chaplins. Where to Go When to Go MOVIES MAKE MORALE Jf See a Blade Today 1 Take Your Change in WAK I mu tu nrnsma ART Ci-Jt- Jamea Cajrr-eT to "Some-thins to Sins About. Jack Benny in Kj 'Em Lniiins mnd Boh Hop in "Going Spanish." Complete shows ax 1:30, 1:22, 4:14.

and BARKY Ralpli Befiainy ta Th Gnat Impersonation' and "The Gboet and tHe Guest." w.tii James Ihina. Features lltld. 1:43, 4:1. :49. 1:00, 9:22 and 10:33.

HAKK13 Tyrone Power la -Crass Dfjr at 11:10. 1:13. 3:25. 5:30. and 10- rCJTS Rosalisd Russell and Fred McMur- ray FUgst For Freedom at 11:14, 3:32, 5:41.

7:50 and 9:59. RITZ "F1t Grae to Cairo. wttci Frasebot Tone, Anne Baxter and Eriefc: Voa Strofceiai. at 11:07. 1:43.

4:30. and 10:04. SENATOR "Toe More the Merrier." wltn Jeaa Arthur. Joel MeCrea and Cnartes Coban, at 3:30. 5:40, IAS and 10:14.

STAJfXJTT Judy Garland to "Preseotlr-lt Lay Mar" at 11:02, 1:15. 3:23, 5.41. and 10:08. WARVT.R -Act km tn the Sari Atlan tic with Haaspfcrey Bceart and Kay-mead Massey. at 11.30, 305.

4.40, lit! and W. HOLLYWOOD, June 21. (UP) Jack Dawn, the make-up chief who has spent his life making beauties more beautiful and turning' ordinary gents into movie heroes, today is engaged in building new faces and hands for wounded navy men. What Dawn saw in the hospital wards was heart-breaking. What he's doing about it in his Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer laboratories makes one of the most heartwarming stories of the year.

Dawn's first customer was a young sailor whose face had been turned into a mass of scar tissue when he dived off a burning ship into a sea of flaming ou in the South Pacific. "And there he was in the hospital," Dawn said, "in such terrible condition that he could not appear in public There also was scar tissue on his soul. He had developed a tough, hard-boiled attitude. Why, he sneered, should he want a new nose The devil with it, he said. "The captain of his ship per sonally brought this lad to us over his protests.

He complained and he cursed while we worked with the plaster casts, the sculpture, and finally the finished prosthetic nose and cheeks. We applied them to his face and gave him a mirror. He gazed upon himself for a long time. Tears came to his eyes and he said: 'Gee, now I can go home and see mom." Teaching Navy Doctors That's just for example. Having proved to the navy department that standard movie make-up technique could do wonders for maimed sailors, Dawn was quick to get whole-hearted co-operation from naval chieftains.

They sent to him In Comedy That's Setting Record CHARLES COBURX The veteran character actor has one of the best roles of his career in the Columbia hit, "The Mere the Merrier," which will set a new downtown record for the Harris-to-Senator combination when it goes into fcs seventh week downtown at the latter house tomorrow. Directed by George Stevens, now a major in the army, the picture co-stars Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. IN if ill Screen Extra Since 1936 Finally Gets. That Break Russell Wade Can a For Fat Role in "Iron Major I ii aa aa a i feu I TVi irf I An-! -j 5 R0WUI3. STATE jr- Cat- 5'.

IESAL i frate s-'ri WHITE HILL. USJ.jsjj- 3E If vm tfrxram iiiii nn -'Ji Hi -i sTlKtEl-J -jfHijfc AH C0NDTi0CD'Js IV-sZ "i ir-rd I Russell Wade is the man who bit the dog in other words, the movie extra who got a break and took advantage of it. So that makes him a story. "Clark Gable and Gary Cooper were extras who got their breaks," said Wade. "So you see.

Wade's break came when Pat O'Brien plugged for him, thus helped him to get the fine role of Manning in RKO's "The Iron Major," in which Pat himself stars in the role of the late Major Frank Cavanaugh, noted football coach and first World War hero. "Pat not only persuaded Bob Fellows, the. producer, to give me the role," said Wade, "He even had the writers build it up for me. I tell you, that Pat O'Brien is the greatest guy in the world." However, there is more to it Wade, a sensitive six-focter, slim, with dark brown hair and green ish eyes, played the role of a cadet in RKO's "Bombardier, in which O'Brien starred as the head of the Bombardier Training SchooL He didn't have much of a part that of a sensitive guy who broods because his mother writes him dis mal letters. But he got so much out of it that when the picture was previewed recently, a goodly portion of the audience comment cards pouring into the studio aft erwards picked ram out for individual praise.

i So Fat O'Brien plugged STARTS TH3RS3AT Air Conditioned his only answer..