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r ?AGE SIX (Second Section! THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER .,. , - ..t-. ..- ttf -,r--;,-r. -a Bad Business In Hollywood Helps Desert Resorts By PATRICIA CLARY UP Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD lU.P.i So many Hollywoodites are getting away from the "depression" and mad business in town that there's a terrific boom in $85-a-day retreats on the desert. Resort hotels with ankle-deep rugs and glass walls are popping ub like cactus from Viclorville to Itdio. Producers can lounge beside swimming pools perfumed with Chanel No. 5 and decorated with sttn-tanned blondes while they ptmder where they'll net the money to pay for it all -So many people who want-to-ggt-away-froin-it-all art" flooding Palm Springs that those who really wnt-to-get-aua -froir.-it-all are leaving Some of them go up to the Apple Valley Inn near Victor vTlle, where thinps are so quiet they use homing pigeons instead of telephones -There's a pigeon case outside every buni::il,m .it the million-dol-la hideaway. When you want a dHik. meal or gin-rummy partner, you stuff your order into a capsule oo the pigeon's vg. The bellboy who fills it brings back the pigeon Pigeon Racing Tried "Some of our guests have added such improvements.'' the manager said "Zachary Scott and Cesar Romero bought a slop watch and he'ii daily pigeon races." '1 he communications system, as "i 'i much telephone service, was disrupted by California's unpre cedented inter snow. Tender hearted guests took the pigeons inside the bungalows and fed them crackers. cheese, caviar, and Scotch The hotel has since ' had some difficulty getting them back on schedule. The crowds at Palm Springs w er KEEPS PJLEDQE Tp BHRN BQQK, V y- ' - I m- 4V iimii hAmiium- ii r.n, f r. lift 3& j 4 -isrv "wi " 4 -4 MAKING GOOD HIS THREAT, the Rev. C. N. Greene, ol Coldwater, La burns Til the Public Square of Natchitoches, La., a copy of 'The Mid summer -Fires," a novel written by James Aswell,-ol that City. Since its publication, the book has had the little city of 8,000 in a furor. It was denounced as "profane" and an "invitation to lust'' (international) ed Frank Sinatra to consider put ting up a rival desert resort on the banks of the nearby Salton Sea. Sinatra said later he was going to stick with the Springs, where he owns a $110,000 shack with a swim ming pool shaped like a grand piano, a master showerbath with reported once to have prompt- sunken faucets and a tiered living Command Attention WITH A FRESII-FROM-THE-CLEANER'S LOOK! You'll have an unmistakable freshness in ap pearance when your clothes are well cleaned and pressed. Let The Waynesville Laundry assure you of the finest cleaning service. "Don't Call Any Laundry ..." - CALL 205 - i Barbara Stcmw Once Terme$jVIdf , HOLLYWOOD (UP) Barbara Stanwyck has done such a good job lately with Academy'' Awao&type parts thta people hare'' forgetttag she's got legs that used to be called the most beautiful on Broadway. So Miss Stanwyck is now going .back to fundamentals for the first time in five years. That was flie waj' Miss Stanwyck I got her start. When she was 15 she was in the Ziegfeld Follies, covered only by a beadefl cummerbund . around her and an elephant toe- j neath her. , The lady's come a long way. .People are talking about an Acad, emy Award for her swell job in "Sorry, Wrong' Number". : ' ' It took Universal - International Waynesville Laundry Inc. FRED SHEEHAN JOE LINER BOYD AVENUE PHONE- 205 'Laughs Unlimited' Provides Gags For All Comers, Even Politicians" TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate Waynesville Township Tom II. Queen to James A. Queen. Scott Reeves and wife to R. P :McCracken. Effie Mehaffey tj Robert P. Me haffey. James L. Page and wife to Susan Burrell. Tom Queen to Ollie E. Firmer. Jonathan H. Woody and wife tc Madison H. Bowles and wife. Fred Messer to J. L. Rathbone and wife. T. N. Howell and wife to J. M Long and L. M. Long. Haze Franklin and vafe to Con nie Muse. Connie Muse and wife to Ernest Davis and wife. Swan Hendricks and wife to Charlie Sawyer' and wife. Frederick W. Chandler and wife to Max Bradley. ' Herman Burch to Ed Middleton and wife. H.'L. Wright and wife to Robert H. Wright.- room so Sinatra can croon from the top level to the guests down i below. Sunken Tubs Come iHgh At the Palm Springs Biltnlore hotel, the $85-a-day' guests (and nobody in the A picture class pays less i get sunken tubs;iand' tinted mirrors that make you look as if you had a tan. There are almost no telephones, however, for guests who at home have them near bathtubs, ' bars, swimming pools and gimrummy tables. The Biltmore manager says it takes him two hours to call the linen room. The Deep Well Ranch, on the outskirts, makes people used to being waited on hand and foot pay through the nose for waiting on themselves. Horace Heidt owns another spot, the Lone Palm, down the road, and George Raft runs the Desert Retreat, which he Claims has the world's only perfumed swimming pool. Beaverdam Township Arnold Howell and wife to El- vood Howell and wife. Arnold Howell and wife to Pau! Howell and 'wife. W; F.. Fender and wife to W. H Pless, Jr., and wife. J. H. Rhodarmer and wife and others to Tighe Smathers. Garland R. Raines and 'Wife to W. H. Robinson and wife. - W. Sam Robinson and wife to Lide Young. Canton Building and Loan Asso ciation and S. M. Robinson, trustee to Robert C. Putnam and wife. P. D, Deweese and wife- to L. Herschel Dcfweese and wife. ' "John -A. Berrong and wife to Frank Ferguson, Jr. t Frank Ferguson, Jr., to Bertha Berrong. W. F. Fender and wife to L. J. Cannon and wife. J. D. Johnson and wife to Porter Pleminons and wife1. Clyde Township W. V. Haynes and wife to Sam Rathbone and wife. Carl Case and wife to Edward Smith 'and wife: ' East Fork Township E. A. and May Hightower to D. I H. and Nannie Pressley. nn i I jl ID CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS OA? OpRG Kjln Dried - End Matched - Standard Grades . PWYTO, TP. YQUR, JOB Reasonable Prices i Jonathan Creek Township Thomas W. Alexander and wife to Glenn Messer. Sebe Bryson and wife to Roy Medford. Ivy Hill Township Clyde Williams Reeves and Ern est R. Reeves to Fred R. Moody and wife. Pigeon Township A. C. Mease and wife to J. Mease and wife. H. B. Buchanan and wife. Weaver Donaldson and wife. M to Fines Creek Township M. B. Parkins and wife to Dewey Rathbone and wife. CasM Cashiers, NC. ne 2171 Crabtree Township Way Messer and wife to Clifford Presnell. C. B. McElroy and wife to Wayne McElroy and wife. producer Michel Kraike and di rector Michael Gordon to re-dis cover those celebrated legs. Legs Versus Acting They asked her to combine the legs with highly emotional acting for the first time in "The Lady Gambles," in which she plays a wife who wrecks her life on the gambling tables. Miss Stanwyck okayed one beach sequence' with Robert Preston, her co-star, in wnicn she romps through the surf with her skirt tucked above her Knees. In 'an other, she wears a bathing suit, expensively designed by Orry Kelly but just as leggy as any other. nt me last time miss Stanwyck did anyining ime it was in i4Z wnen she showed up in black mosquito netting, principally, for an epic about burlesque. 'tne dress was approved by jfverybody Concerned, except pos sibly Miss Stanwyck. It is reported that she spent all the time possible in a camel's hair overcoat. For a time, it reminded Mjss Stanwyck of the long-gone days when she was ow-fifth of a living chandelier in ie George White Scandals. - . ' NOT NOWADAYS TUPELO, Miss. (UP) Times changes Vord If' Baker reflected, after-Winning through Mm 1(123 i newspaper ; advertisements. Aito prices; - Runabout, regular, $265; f runaDoui, complete with self-start-fcef aiKf'cUncher tlrs; $330; rn- boui,' wita such extras as self- surter and demountable rims, 1350:'- tourinn cut -raaiAir soc. By JOHN ROSENBURG United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UPi No kidding, people are getting funny. Call the plumber and he spouts jokes as he plugs the leaks. Visit the dentist and he has a gag for every gargle, fun with every filling. Everyone, it seems,- has a punch line. And, if need be. a new om every day. That claim is made by two serious-looking men named Art Paul and Stan Burns, co-owners of "Laughs Unlimited". The title of their company is ap propriate too. They whip out an werage of 40 gags a day. some of them almost original. Of course there are some like the "one about 'the girl with the seven-day kiss It makes one weak." Or, "the girl who changed her heater seat five times before a iailor annoyed her." And the definition of a bore: "a ?uy who is here today and here tomorrow." Plenty of Clients The files of Laughs Unlimited contain letters from senators, gov ernors, doctors, lawyers, barten iers, car-hops, elevator operators disc jockeys, masters of ceremo nies, school teachers, lecturers and others who wanted to be funny anc1 wrote for help. Some of the letters are post marked Singapore, Ceylon. Mexico South Africa, Alaska. Sweden Scotland and Portugal. 'Outside our regular markets o' 'elevlsion, radio and screen, the biggest private buyers seem to bi politicians," Burns said. "Ever hoUgh the election is over, they're still buying." A line from material recentlj sent -a politician reads: "I've been mixed up in polities for years now. Some years I'm more mived Up than others." Burns and Paul said purchase; from individual! had increased at least 20 per cent in the past year 'If it keeps going -this' way," Paul said, "t'here!ll be a pun on every one's tongue: I guess it's just be cause people like to see other peo ple laugh.". Oats For Hecklers He said there was only one thing wrong. "Some of the guys who buy our gags are letting it go to their heads,"- Paul said. "They've been invading the night clubs and com peting with the comedians." He said it's got so bad, they've had to turn out a few hundred 'squelchers" for comedians. These are gags designed to quiet hecklers. Some of them go like this: "Look, I'm not a tailor. Go have your fit somewhere else." 'My oh my, you've got nice teeth . . . Yours?" Burns and Paul laughed heartily at their little jokes. Comes To Strand Sunday jiUDAY, Fr:RRl.ABy rar- 2 ?" v. Vara Fairbanks,' Jr! is back on the screen as a swash Douglas Fant buckling soldier-of-fortune in "THE FIGHTING O'FLYNN," out dueling and out-shooting his opponents and charming fair young colleens with on-the-spot poetry. Opening at the Strand Theatre Sunday. FREE DRINK MOOCHER LANDS BEHIND BARS ST. LOUIS (UP) Matt Trudt pleaded guilty to obtaining mer chandise under false pretenses and was sentenced to 60 days in the workhouse. He told the court he was always able to get "one more drink'' when he posed as the assistant excise commissioner. "With enough liquor in me, I'd probably say I was President Truman,"- Trudt declared. All Slapping In Movies Not Play HOLLYWOOD i UP) Occasion illy in movie slapping scenes the ictors make a mistake. They real y slap the other person. Producers generally try to con luct the business with as little vear as possible on their actors' nillion-dollar bodies. But some imes an actor is working so hard le doesn't stop to fake things. Laraine Day is supposed to slap Dane Clark, who plays her brother-n-law in the Robert and Raymond Hakim picture "Twilight," when he makes a pass at her. "In the rehearsals she just graz ed me,'' Clark reported. "The sound man was going to dub in the ;lap later. But she got excited in he take and missed her aim. "She hit' me so hard I couldn't hear the rest of the scene. I had to read her lips because the ringing in my ears drowned out her voice." In another picture, Clark had to dap a European actress whowas naking her debut in American films. Not Like Europe "I wanted to fake It," he said. "I used to be a fighter and I don't go iround hitting women. But she in sisted on doing it. Said they always lid in Europe. ''I hit her as easy as I could. I just turned her around and she didn't come back for her line. We dubbed in the slap after that." Director Irving Pichel had to slap Florence Eldrige, Mrs. Fred- ric March, during the days when he was an actor. Every time he wound up, he said, he wiped the 1 sweat off his brow. 'After nine takes of this," he said, "She took me aside and told me the suspense was worse than the slap. The next time. I slapped her and kept walking off the set until I heard 'cut'. And I kept right on walking until I came to my dressing room. I didn't know how the scene came out until the next day." ilt was okay.) Ki'anchot Tone, another star of Twilight," was slapped by Jean Wallace, then his wife, in a picture She slapped me," he recalled "as though she had a hunch we were getting a divorce." pare; THEATRE PROGRAM SATURDAY, February 26 - DOUBLE FEATURE - - - -.. . Silver Trails' Starring JIMMY WAKELY ALSO Lightning In The Forest Starring DONALD BERRY and ADRAIN BOOTH U A T E SHOW ii Incident" Starring JANE FRAZEE and WARREN DOUGLAS SUNDAY, February 27 II taiiau , Starring ff?KPHFLh LIZABET SCOTT MSSP&L ' Ty(ESDAY- Fiary 28-29 Qflfi Sunday Afternoon . (Musical Comedy in Technicolor) .' " Starring DENNIS MORGAN and DOROTHY MALONE Movie Producer Gets Brooklyn Dialect 'In Ray HOLLYWOOD (UP) A lot of surprised Brooklyn folk' are about to find themselves in the movies. Producer Maxwell Shane, who decided the simplest way to make background acting realistic was to dispense with actors, toured the streets of Brooklyn with a micro phone in his pocket. Then he put what he heard in his movie. His picture, "City Across the River," includes the voice of an unidentified market nan pleading: "Dun't squeeze da tomatoes, lady; you give em da spots." He's got the indignant tones of a housewife: "Another nickel I should pay yet!" "Most of them," Shane com mented, "were so blisy they didn't even notice my tape-recording ma chine." That sounded like an ideal way to make movies cheap. Just use a city's streets as sets and its pass ersby as extras. Thafs just about the way they made the early si lenfs, too. Not So Cheap But it's not as cheap as it sounds. Shane said he had to pay the Screen Extras Guild a stand-by fee for every Brooklyb voice or face in. his Universal - International pic ture. "I don't mind that," he added quickly. "It's worth it not to use the Hollywood extras." Shane also used the voices oh his recorded tape, some of them from youths police hauled out of pool halls,, drug stores nd alleys, to show his writers and hct0r how Brooklyn really sounds. "They got the dialect down so well," Shane reported proudly, "that a preview audience in Glen- l'T! i I' IK, l i "" W "ii er in in '"u-li 'Hill 'il I'l ( graph -'c.-Mti.,,,, to c-i lunch tt en.-; it,,., Hi,,l,, er I i uli, mi lieir., SI work TIlllH "'i-' mil, i 11,1, .1 tu , "1 -'."l.,ll, Tenihlr u''trft. UIJ ' alii ' ul.. ! thr;:,;'''1' No '"'"mio,;: I 1.,-n.l n, hi'-'ll II 11,1 If . 1 III; child l in the , ated Ii,,. niopini wA the yirtt-ini,. n J i - - i i 11 Hues I'ii-lln ,, i ... l,l , ,,l. 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