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THE WAYNE STTLLE MOUNTAINEER
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Ciaudette Colbert Goes
Into Solving Murders
Hollywood Randolph Scott Hankers
sfeis ,To Continue Westerns
- By GENE HANDSAKER
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..HOLLYWOOD "Thunder on
the Hill" is a pretty fair thriller
in which Ciaudette Colbert, as a
Catholic nun, solves a murder. In
so doing, she very nearly gets her
self thrown off a tower by the
Irillpr anri sho saves an innnrent
girl (Ann Blyth) from the gallows
The story, from an English play
called "Bonavcnture", by Charlotte
Hastings, takes place in a British
convent-hospital during a flood.
Lowland dwellers : flock to this
high-ground refuge. So do a sheriff
and matron with the bitter young
lady they are conveying to prison
for execution.
Ciaudette senses her innocence
almost at once With the heln of a
half-witted handyman and some
old newspapers, the nun develops
clues that upset the trial verdict.
A (oudly hostile nurse has more
footage than her part seems to war
rant, and the payoff clue is some
what fuzzily explained. But the goings-on
will keep you pretty well
, absorbed.
Participants ; Include Robert
Douglas, Philip Friend, Gladys
Cooper, Connie Gilchrist, and John
Abbott. An Australian actor named
Michael Pate is impressive as the
balf-wit. So are Britain's Anne
Crawford as the murderer's pawn
and Phyllis Stanley as the noisy
nurse.
." "Darling, How Could You!", not
quite as insipid as its title, is Joan
Fontaine and John Lund trying to
get reacquainted with their three
cute kids. The parents have been
off ' to Panama for several years
while Lund, a doctor, fought 'yel
tb" fever among the canal build
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' Mdha Freeman, as the flighty
adolescent (in real life a 25-year-old
mother herself), has seen a
stage play about marital infidelity.
As a result, she sees suspicious
parallels in her mother's giddy be
havior. There are oases of amusing
dialogue and incident. Too far
Completing
Training
p'CM
Pvt. William L. Holcombe. son of
Mrs, Fay Griffin of Rt. 2, Canton,
is finishing 14 weeks of basic and
engineering training at Fort
Leonard Wood, , Mo. '
apart, unfortunately,
"Crosswinds" has rugged John
Payne and shapely Rhonda Flem
ing adventuring like all get out
in gorgeous color through the
South Pacific. Well, it's a reason-
a Die Honda facsimile.
Mean Forrest Tucker tricks John
out of his yacht. Rhonda crashes
in the jungle with a planeload of
gold bars. John rescues her in a
fierce battle against arrow-flinging
headhunters and hungry crocodiles.
Alan Mowbray and John Abbott.
as a couple of water rats, provide
some welcome chuckles,
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HOLLYWOOD Anybody who
finishes high school and maybe col
lege before going to work is just a
lazy piker alongside Anne Fran
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At six she was a magazine cover
girl. Next year she was singing and
acting on a weekly coast-to-coast
radio program. At 10 she was New
York's first child star on television,
At li, she was launched on a
three-year career in radio soap
opera. .
Now, at 20, Anne is a star in
the movies one of the handsome
new faces with which film makers
are striving to stimulate box office
business. Her performance as a
young delinquent in an independ
ent picture called "So Young So
Bad" caught 20th Century-Fox's
eye. She's playing the title ro!P in
"Lydia Bailey" and adventuring
with her newcomer co-star. Dalp
Robertson, through Haiti's war
against Napoleon in 1802, Or a
reasonable sound-stage reproduc
tion thereof.
"Translucent Blonde" was the
best that studio men came up with
in their brain-wraoking for an
Anne Francis label. She's a slen
der, blue-eyed, ash blonde. 5 fwt
seven and one-half inches and 120
pounds. She was born in Ossinine
N. Y.. in a hosDital
from Sing Sing prison.
Anne hobbled to our studio table
with the aid of a cane, A horse had
thrown her, spraining her knee
badly, while she Dractir-e-rnri' for
the picture. Allergy to a certain
make-up had caused a rash on one
cheek. But anybody with half an
eye, and both my whole ones work-
ing run lime, could see she's a real
beauty.
Anne thinks it was an Sunt who
suggested she was "cute enough to
be a model''. This was in Yorktown
Heights, when the depression had
slowed her father's service-station
business to a trickle. Her mother
took her to the Powers model
agency. Her first job was posing in
a bathing suit, with her back to
the camera, whilp
hands of her supposed mommy and
a me guard. The picture Was for
a safety-first poster.
Miss Francis attended a nmfos.
sional children's school in the suc
ceeding years of modeling clothes,
discussing stories on TV, and suf
fering in soap opera. Anne gave
tne the answer t0 an old problem,
by the wav: What mkns tho curie.
dramas so popular? "Thnv hi
People's minds off their own prob
lems," she explained. "Thw iit
to some situation on the radio and
By GENE HANDSAKER
AP Newsfeatures
HOLLYWOOD Randolph Scott.
a western star for nearly 20 years,
allows he has no hankering to be
any other kind.
"Oh, sure, if the right story
came along," he coneetied. "I'd
like to Dlav an FBI man. sav. or
I'd love a good sea story. But leave
westerns permanently? No. sir.
You become identified with a
certain thing, and it's paid off in
! my case. I know, some real good
actors who are looking for work
and don't ask me why."
Randy reflected on the advant
ages of playing westerns:
"They're never dated. Pictures I
made six and seven years ago are
being re-issued. When a picture has
played its time out, It's pulled off
the market another 12 months un
til there's a new audience the
kids coming up.
" 'Jesse James' (1937) has been
released three times. 'Pittsburgh'
and 'The Spoilers' are 10 vears old
or so. They've been released a num
ber of times."
And as for fans, as revealed in
their letters
"You'd be surprised how many
people, penned up in the big cities,
almost never get out into the open
Completes Basic
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HOLLYWOOD Hollywood
Boulevard scenery and Vino stmni
vignettes
This is always a show, and the
stars are ordinary folk . . A
mother and two toddlers at a
sidewalk bar, tossing down quick
slugs of orange Juice . . . Two cow
boys in 10-gallon hats, hopefully
showing off their harmonic num
ber ...
Sporty-looking gents eying the
Passing beauties . . . Colors riot
ously abloom in the ladies' frock
windows . . . And don't some win
dow dummies and billboard mod
els, for that matter resemble
movie stars? Joan Craw
ford's wax double helps sell ready-to-wear
in one storefront . . . And
Loretta Young's twin (she looks
like) plugs some product on sign
boards around town ...
A tiny groggery calls itself "The
World's Narrowest Cocktail
Lounge." Barely room, If a six
footer felt like it, to lie crosswise
of the room . . .
First-run sign of the times: "All
seats 60 cents. Kids Free "
Screentown sophisticates fascinat
ed by one of the oldest profes
sions; A shoemaker, in a stor win.
dow, sewing footwear . . , A tour
ist wondering aloud in front, of a
swank beanerv: "Do movip stars
eat in there?" . . . A snack-bar's
feature; Kosher Hot Dogs'.-. .
You Fool. You: ExDprtino'o Hol
lywood motorist to give a mere
pedestrian the right-of-way In a
crosswalk ...
A shoeshine customer heatedly
answering Gabriel Heatter's rheto
rical questions from the radio
"Yes . . . No . . . Yes" , . .
A Jane Russell-like cutie swing
ing smartly along in patched blue
jeans ...
Soldiers on leave fascinated by
,the jnagicirlcks and practical-joke
equipment displayed by a hobby
shop, (Artificial flies and worms for
your friend's ice cream . . . A
gadget that cuts a cigarette in two
and, seemingly, your finger with
it . . .
The street's silliest sight: Grown
men demonstrating kids' toys
plastic spirals that
yard. And trying to look as if they
enjoyed it . . .
But Can She Cook? Mona Free
man's oil painting of her small
daughter proves she can wield a
nifty brush, A bank lobby display
ed it a passing attraction in the
endless sidewalk show.
Pfc. S. E. Blaylock, known in
Center Pigeon as Edgar, is now
stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga.,
after completing basic air train
ing at Lachland Air Force base
near San Antonio, Texas.
country. Outside of reading about
the West, their only contact Is what
they see in films."
Scott got headed down the west
ern trail because Paramount own
ed film rights to a number of Zane
Grey sagebrush novels. They'd
been successful silents starring
Richard Dix and Jack Holt, so
Randy did 'em over in sound
"Riders of the Purple Sage," "flan
of the Forest," "To the Last Man,"
and others.
Scott dressed the same as his
predecessors so certain trick shots
from the previous films could be
inserted, .
He got out of the saddle for
"Roberta" in 1934 with Fred As.
taire, Ginger Rogers, and Irene
Dunne, In "Follow the Fleet" he
was Astaire's sailor pal. In "High,
Wide, and Handsome," with Miss
Dunne, he was an oil-field engineer.-
But somehow he always kept
heading back to the open range.
Presently he's building a railroad
across it in "Carson City". His next
independent his seventh may get
him off a horse and aboard a sail
ing vessel. Just for the one picture,
of course. His writers are looking
the story over, in its present novel
'orm.
' Without Free Books
One-third of the American peopU
live in areas without public libraries.
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HOLLYWOOD Hey, Hollywood
lookie! Ypu've a wonderful movie
lying arourid in your fihn vaults. It
would c(t practically nothing to
bring it out. And judging from my
mail, folks would lap it up.
The suggestion for a picture
made up of the all-time greatest
scenes was put forth here recently.
"Excellent," "wonderful," , and
great" are readers' reactions
along with scenes they'd like to
see in it-
Kenneth Gordon Stewart, New
Albany, Ind., writes: "A very ex
cellent idea . . ; Such a picture
would be both interesting and en
tertaining. My favorite scene is
Judy Garland singing 'Over the
Rainbow' in 'The Wizard of Oz'."
Mrs. George B. Hart, Paducah,
Kv.: " . - . wonderful. Hope it
comes true. Would love to see all
you mention and in addition scenes
from Mary Pickford's 'Tess of the
Storm Country'; also 'Song to Re
member' with Cornel Wilde . .
'Sitting Pretty would be good."
John W. Stoufer, district court
clerk, Council Bluffs, la.: " .
The idea is wonderful, and as a
suggestion, how about Charlie
Chaplin's sequence . in the water
filled trench in 'Shoulder Arms'
about 1918? . . ."
Nelle O d e 1 1 , Greeley, la
'Charles Laughton reciting The
Gettysburg Address in 'Ruggles of
Red Gap' ... Gary Cooper and
Bergman in .the last scene of 'For
Whom the Bell Tolls' . . . Clifton
Webb in the 'Sitting Pretty' break
fast scene . .' . '"
Ruth W. Bill, Des Moines: "An
interesting idea. One scene I shall
always remember is from the old
'Lullaby of Broadway' . . . The girl
singer appears in a black back
ground singing the title tune .
Aileen Snapp, Louisville, Ky.:
"A great idea . . . The words 'pic
ture show' will always mean to me
two pictures starring Norma Tal
madge 'Secrets' and 'Smilin'
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Whitesville. Thomas L. Hamilton of Leesville, S. C , Grand
of the Carolinas Ku Klux Klan, reasserted the Klan's defpi
segregation in a speech before about 5,000 spectators. So
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F, J. Roberts, West A His, Wise:
"The Bette Davis-Leslie Howard
scene in 'Of Human Bondage' in
which Mildred tells Philip, 'You
disgust me!' "
Any other nominations? Send
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along to the Producers' Associa
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