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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1941. 6 Carry Ocean Going Ship 500 Miles to Movie Location Hollywood Producer-director E. J. Carroll Purchases Barrington Fair Grounds Edward J. Carroll of Agawam, young sportsman and theater owner who recently revived Riverside Linda Darnell Unchanged By Life In Movie Capital She and Her Family Live as Simply in Servantless it tuaxt nM in Tlallas.

Tptss: Youncr Star-i Geographical Gags Delight Play Patrons Use of Local Names Cherished Trick So 'Arsenic Park in that city, has announced the outright purchase of the Frank erty known as "Barrtngton rairhandea studio transportation bosses Lloyd, preparing to film his film, James Lewis," has the touch 100 01 moving a sixtv foot sailing ship from Los Angeles harbor to Lake Tahoe in Northern California. A spedal truck and trailer have Grounds" in Great Harrington, Mass. Deed covering title to the new ovmer was filed In South Berkshire; Rnistry of rx.dS. The transaction was handled through tne oince 01 1 inALiUr nnocn'i Dresses Modestly, Doesn v3Z? i nancy peen requisitioned to haul the urn- Great Barrington. movie "prop" overland on Purchasers made In the un toe 500.mil journey, ot Stuart Amusement Corporation i T.

with main offices in Agawam. "l1 and the sale was made from thejtures franchot Tone, John Carroll Housatonic Agricultural Society. Walter Brennan, will be filmed purchase price was announced but; "board the sailing vessel both off it was estimated that It ran tatolCataUna Island and at Lake Tahoe. several thousand dollars. The lake scenes will depict the ar- jiuusc let Has Few Dates, Drink or Smoke Fy KCBBARD KEAVT.

HoJlvwood. Movie starlet Linda Darr.ell was wearing red jersey slacks. I had Just asked her mother how she enjoved life in Hollywood, as m-wA with Dallas. from whence the Darneus came iwtjfais I Mit nsrnell said she tnougnt: t. Arrant that; evrryuuns was jiksk a sre sees too many young gins a once tn a while he really likes to go out and cut up and I don't.

That's the only thing we disagreed on." Linda won't marry, she insists, for "darn long time. 1 wunaer uuw long is darn long. "Well, three or four years any- combine a career and marriage. It wouldn't work. I cnuld hsnnen rti.

Thc site is located on ChwaVinvai i iiia, wic, 01 tne iirsi trading ship sent aroimd the Horn 'mere mention of which evokes a from New York by John Jacob Astorlsmile or a chuckle or, properly de- couple of times when both Mtck; utUUv buildings. I were working, all day and;" 6 ri tr.e and drinking and wearing short have a date that night. We'd skirts. I both be a little tired and nervous -I don't like slacks but Linda seems an(1 y0U know, one of us to. her mother said.

"But if I had; would say something and then to choose for her between slacks' there'd almost be a spat," and eisrarets, I'd take slacks." Althoiieh mother controls the "Msvher's a little old-fashioned. purse brings, Linda is a good said Linda, sotto voce, and wrieetuer and eoaxer. Half of heri 'aughmelv, "why. mother won't even I $-50 a Week goes into a trust fund vear todphurs on a horse. She wears; until she is 21 (a State law) and 'the other half, less commissions 'I think skirts are much more; and taxes, runs the household.

This. modest than pants," Margaret Dar-. rU observed. Strict Disciplinarian. Mrs.

Darnell volunteered the in formation that sh" is and alwavsi lias been a vrry sinro oihrii.imurtHj with her fte cnidren. She said l.uu 01-. tlioim'h she loves her children and verified Linda's remark by art-1 cv, fc inn nrr rent, nlri fash-! route 7 and contains the well known! Great Barrington race track, agri- ...1. 1 onrf Linda Darnell is ouite tared. She sees no reason for re-i have woman do the cleaning occa-taing her rules lust because the tonally and they may hlie a rook-fitr-iily is here and has a daughter chauffeur-houseman, if he will go doing very well in the movies.

home nights. Linda's dates nlwavs are piqued Linda choosrs her own clothes, b-irause, regardless of the hut not too many. She hns a dozen thev have to deposite her on Ihei slack and sports suits, the most ex-front porch promptly at 11:30 p. 'pensive costing $22.95. She has five aiid that doesn't mean 11:35, (evening gowns.

One, she says. Once a boy asked Linda to ask I would -enough also consists 01 Lirmas Drotwr. Calvin, Jr 11, and her siMer, some strings pulled, and hpr a Dallas postal cierK. experts to oe transferred to Beverly Hills soon. Have No Servants, Th Darnells have no servants neither Linda nor her mother will have anyone' but mediate, family living in their hnmp.

une you can wear vne same thing all the time. She has four suite. The cheapest, was $69.95, the most expensive, $185. She has a half $755 dresses. She has one fur coat, a white fox for evenings, and she's now coaxing her mother for a daytime lynx coat.

Linda may have it by The inexpensive, undistinguished sedan Linda has been driving will become the family car. Linda Just wneeaied her mother Into letting her buy a convertible coupe. Its beige, with red wheels and red leather. It matches most of Linda's sports outfits. She likes any color, if it's red.

The Darnells have just moved to a house on the same street, where Joan Crawford lives. Shirley Temple lives two blocks away. There are other neighbors, just as famous, within borrowing distance. But T.lttHa cave eVvo'11 TlPVflr CTAf arflllflin- tH orHH 'her nMahhnrn hpraiiso at. in i tn misn inn upsr.

rnasf. trade. unspoiled by her Hollywood success late Jay Gould. Is back home after 45 years. She lived In a pink marble palace in Paris.

"Remember Lady Ribblesdale, the former Ava Willings of Philadelphia, once married to col John Jacob Asj.w? Shrt tack. Then there's Countess Tripco- vich, the former Betty Crispin of New York. She's home with relatives. So is the Baroness Eugene De Rothschild, the former Kather-ine Wolff of Philadelphia. "Barbara Hutton Thelma Fur-ness they're all coming back if they're not already here.

It's like old home week. "I think I'll Invite them to see this picture and we'll all have a good cry together." i i Michele Morgan, French screen in "Journey Into Fear." star brought to Hollywood by RKO The World In Music By PIERRE KEY another house' here they got Quiet, a modest dresser who neither drinks nor smpkes. she dates inf re-friendly with some folks across theiquently and when she does go out she is home not later than 11.30 p. m. a dance was over, an hour after the deadline, but Linda refused with "you don't know my mother." "We live just the same here as wa did in Dallas," Mrs.

Darnell went oa "Every Hollywood home I know about serves liquor, but we don't. Sq many people smoke cigarets, too, but we won't have them around. Pictures mean much to Linda, and her rareer means much to me, but I don't think we have to do things any differently now. i Doesn't Pate Much. 'Linda doesn't go out much.

It's been two weeks since you've been out. for an evening, Isn't it Linda?" now, mother," begged Linda. "It hasn't been that Linda doesn't go out much. She's only 17. The studio ads two or three vears to her age because it believes the public doesn't like to see children plaving grown-up roles.

But if ahe actress Is convincing or beautiful or both, what difference does It make? Linda Is too young and too inexperienced to rise to any emotional heights, but she is lovely to look unon. Her limpid brown eyes alone would out her over. She was con vincing enough as Tyrone Power's wile in "Blood and Sand," as she was, in her dovelike way, in six other films. The young lady Is grown up on the screen, but she is being erad- ua'ed from the studio high school this June. She has gone to school three hours a day.

working or not. She ma.tored in art and Spanish and to prove sue studied, she read Ibanez's "Blood and Sand" in the original Spanish while making the picture. Too Much Publicity. Linda usually doesn't have dates when she's working. Young actors she meets in the studio are her companions generally.

She had a few dates with Mickey Rooney, but their studios made too much of the friendship. "Mirk is a lot of fun and laughs," Linda "but when started pulling that romance gag, i we had to break it, up. Publicity really spoiled a swell friendship, i "There are all kinds of stories! about Mick, but he certainly was a gentleman around me. Of course, May Robson Glad She Stayed Home When Her Friends Went To Europe fence and the folks moved right in Robbed the Darnells of their privacy. New 'Hardy' Starts With Stone, Mickey and Judy With Judy Garland as Its guest star, the newest of the Judge Hardy Family pictures went before the cameras recently, with George B.

seitz directing. The picture marks Judy's third appearance in a Hardy film, as she was teamed with Mickey Rooney in "Love Finds Andy Hardy" and "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante In the new story Mickey, grad- Dating from high school and de- and Old Lace' Is Laid in Brooklyn By JOHN FERKIS New York. -One of the most cherished tricks of the American comic theater is the use of the name of a town or section of a town tne vicorf 4e mm cViiitui tnrm om- (right laughter, Mr tered the trick, and a piece of as hoary as the average radio jjoke could send a wave of chortles rolling across an orchestra pit to flow, back in a flood tide of roars ifrom the upper and cheaper seats (when it was given a local geographical turn. Every city, town and hamlet has 'Us own peculiarly savory district, land your vaudeville actor or night spot entertainer knows it or quickly learns it and always holds it in re-' serve to toss across the footlights or the dance floor. Delight Audiences, Audiences love It.

The laughter of a Philadelphia audience at the mention of Coshohocken or Punx- satawney is something to marvel at. j.icw J.U1IV uuitrm.eo acajou ences to Philadelphia. Hoboken, lOshkosh and Kokomo are staples in the field since, however much this may irk chambers of commerce, the names provoke in the listeners that feeling of superiority which is held to be essential in comedy. For reasons which are both plain and obscure, Brooklyn fits into this category more neatly than any other community in the land. Everyone, even Brooklynites, finds something mirthful in the place and nearly everybody knows at least one gag about the city, so that a happier locale could not conceivably have been found for that piece of boisterous jesting, quaintly, labeled "Arsenic and Old Lace," now in its fifth month at the Fulton Theater and filled with such pleas ing lunacies that otherwise world-worried citizens emerge brightly at 11:15 p.

m. Babbling as cheerfully as booby hatch tenants. Why there should be anything humorous in the notion of two charming old maiden ladies killing 13 men is one of the Imponderables, In their ancient Brooklyn house where they live with a balmy nephew who fancies he is President Theodore Roosevelt, the thing becomes irresistibly funny. And no audience in New York roars more gleefully these nights than the Fulton Theater audience, when Teddy, mounting the stairs to the second floor, suddenly breaks into a run and shouts "Charge!" as he goes his mildly lunatic way up an imaginary San Juan Hill, or when Teddy in the midnight gloom of the living room lifts his aunts' twelfth victim (Teddy thinks it's a case of yellow fever since he is busy digging the Panama Canal) and struggles down to tne cellar twhere he is digging the canal). Must Be Karloff.

Brooklyn has produced the Dodgers and Murder, and perhaps somewhere in its past it produced people like Abby and Martha Brewster, the maiden aunts, Teddy the self-styled president, and that second nephew, the dangerously homicidal Jonathan Brewster, who turns lout to be our old friend Boris Kar loff. who looks like Boris Karlolf and who rabidly resents any suggestion (in the play) that he looks like Boris Karloff. Jonathan and his crony, Dr. Einstein, are fugitives from a hospital for the criminal insane, and Jonathan has 12 murders to his credit when he sneaks back into the Brook lyn house. Dr.

Einstein is a charm Hartford a few months back, and elding that he's now a man, faces the decision whether he will go "Kjlt college or to work. He goes to New abroad. It reminds her, she says of of her Hollywood May Robson can't help feeling a bit triumphant over the women she knew years ago who thronged to Europe for homes and titles ana now nave nea back to 1 America "As an actress of great beauty," she savs, gaily, "I had my chances too, But I've never been away." In a new picture. Miss Robson the experience of some own acquaintances. "They are all coming back now," she savs, "There was Maude Alice Burke, who married Lord Cunard.

She's been back since the war, "Julia Marlowe cried when she returned after 12 years on the continent. The Statue of Liberty in the harbor got her. "Anna Gould, daughter of the York "on his own," and, by brushing against the stern realities of job-hunting and job-holding, learns first-hand about the outside world. Comedy sequences and poignant human interest are blended. Miss Garland sings, and a new personality is added in Ray McDonald, juvenile stage actor from New York.

Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden and other Harriv Fam- ily characters are in the cast. Marjorle Reynolds shivered or img sot who performs a plastic op-four hours in an ice-cold mount ain eration on Jonathans face after stream for scenes in. RKO Radio's 'every murder. The Karloff face was "Cvclone on Horseback," the Tun' unintentional, it seems, and Jona-Holt outdoor starrer. (than doesn't like it.

He would rather 1 A sultry but fascinating siren Radio, who soon makes her debut have the next to last face the one he had in Melbourne, Australia. mis, too, seems to lit with Brooklyn. Even Jonathan and Dr. Einstein remark this as they prepare to set up a plastic surgery shop. A lot of people in Brooklyn need new faces, Jonathan observes.

And it seems appropriate also that there should be a Brooklyn cop who is a playwright by avocation with an unproduced play who, in terrupting jonatnan and Dr. Em-stein as they are about to perform a murderous operation on Jona than and Dr. Einstein as they are about to perform a murderous operation on Jonathan's brother. Mortimer, a New York dramatic critic, should leave Mortimer bound and gagged for five hours while he details tne plot of the play. So the aunts and Jonathan are tied in the homicidal records when Jonathan arrives.

In the end, as Jonathan is led back to the lock-up he taunts the dear old ladies. "Remember, aunties, the score is tied an even dozen apiece." But Jonathan, who killed for pleasure while his aunts killed only lonely old men looking for lodgings, spoke too confidently. Broadway audiences like their society dramas laid in Long Island or Westchester or Park Avenue, and a good gangster drama ought to have a Manhattan or New Jersey back ground, but "Arsenic and old Lace" was made for Brooklyn or was it the other way around? Titles With Oomph Now Wanted For Crawford's Films 'Woman's Face' Points to New, Sensational Success for Star Hollywood. Now that Joan Craw ford has come back with a resound' ing hit in "A Woman's Face," MGM believes its one-time dancing daueh ter is off to the box office races again. Employees were asked to submit oomph-like titles for Joan's next effort.

"Something with the punch of Miss Crawford's sensational success of several years ago," the bulletin Instructed. "Why not 'Re-Possessed one re turn suggested anonymously, of course. 3 In "Sunny" Ray Bolger dances as he's never before had a chance to dance on the screen. So. two studios are after him now for fea tured parts The Hess revises and write-ins have bogged down Producers are awaiting developments in tne case so tney won be made to look foolish or rather too foolish quicK quotes: "I seldom go see pictures in which I appear." says Cary Grant.

"I dont like to lose confidence in mvself MGM nas so many brilliant newcomers tumbling over one another on its lot most of them under 20 that half are likely to be buried without the chance they would be sure to get at other less-populated studios. ine new Haray Family picture will introduce mree novices one par cel. If you're in the market for a new thrill, sans chases and killings, lie in wait for "Lady Be Oood." It comes, believe it or not, when Ann boutnern sings "The Last Time Saw Paris." Ann's face is held in full close-up through one complete verse and chorus. Hollywood was amazed that this coud be done The trick always has been to break up a song with medium shots or off-side business More trouble In fashionable Two penu rious movie stars are on the same party phone line and one Is accused of doing too much listening and talking Paramount is shooting the works on Dorothy Lament's sarong. "Aloma of the South Seas," with its 1200 extras, costly scenic effects and volcanic explosion is going to run Into $800,000 about twice the average Lamour budget Close-ups: Constance Bennett claims shes had more forced lnndings than anyone else in the business, but still likes to travel by plane.

Matrimonial box score: three marriages, two divorces. Laughs at superstitions. Doesn't like dentists. Likes animals. the color iblue.

cardpnlas. interior decorating, tne cosmetics business, pnne ngni and spinach, Favorite sport tennis. is 11 11 1IH Excitement of a very special order has invaded music circles hereabouts, and in a short time will spread to the several boundaries of our nation. The cause is a voluntary step taken by Columbia Broadcast ing system and tne atonal Broadcasting Company to sell their respective music bureaus. The former corporation is to dispose of its 51 per cent stock in Columbia Concerts Corporation to the chief executives who are the minority stock-holders.

They are: Arthur Judson, president of Columbia Concerts, and vice-presidents F. C. Coppicus, Frederick C. Schang, Lawrence Evans, Jack Salter, Calvin FranKiin, ward French and Horace Parmalee. Columbia Broadcasting's music Bureau 01 "popular attrac tions" probably will be taken over by the Music Corporation of America.

National Broadcasting Company is said to be negotiating with the William Morris Agency for the sale of NBC Concert Service and its "popular artists" department, both of which it owns outright. Two other important, organizations which are controlled respectively by Columbia Concerts and by nbc concert service are corrrmu nity Concerts, and Civic Concerts, which organize concert-courses in many towns and a few cities and thereafter cooperated with each set of local committees in supplying each community and each Civic concert course with its artist-attrac tions. Two Strong Bureaus. Expert estimates place the number of Community Concerts courses at approximately 350. Of these some 275 sell individual memberships at $5 for the several concerts given each season, and some 75 courses in smaller communities which are called "Cooperative" these latter memberships selling individual memberships for three concerts each season for $3.

NBC concert Service's Civic Con cert courses approximate 175 in number, and each one is a $5 per season course. bince Columbia concerts has on its list of artist-attractions 115 Individuals and ensembles, with NBC Concerts Service's list numbering 90 (including the 12 S. Hurok Bureau attractions, which are booked through NBC Concerts), it is evident the combined strength of these two corporations is very great. Headliner Attractions. It is contended that between them Columbia Concerts and' NBC Concerts book in excess of 90 per cent.

of the music and dance attractions presented this Nation's courses of individual local managements, music clubs, universities ana col leges, and others due In part to to tne number or tneir attractions but also to the headliners they con trol, among whom are: Lawrence Tlbbett, Marian Anderson, Serge Rachmaninoff. Fritz Kreisier, Kir sten Flagstad, Lily Pons, Jascha Heifetz, Josef Hofmann, Grace Moore, Albert Spalding, John Charles Thomas and Helen Traubel Also Nelson Eddy, Vladimir Horowitz, Helen Jepson, Yehudl Menuhin, Dorothy Maynor, Jussl Bjoerling. James Melton, Bidu Sayao, Rose Bampton, the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Ezlo Plnza, Rise Stevens, Donald Dickson, Paul Rob. son, Dusolina Giannlnl, Richard Bonelli, and most of the foremost symphony orchestra conductors these last being under the personal management of Arthur Judson. Among the rising younger artists on tne 11st 01 tnese two ranking concert artist-attractions are Norman Cordon, Lansing Hatfield, Thomas h.

Thomas, Eleanor Steber, and several others with exceptional potentialities. With their extensive lists of artist- attractions, and established outlets for many of them through the Com munlty and the Civic conrert courses, Columbia Concerts and NBC Concerts Service rate high where-ever musical and dance attractions are in demand. Observations. "Coffee" concerts suggest infor-marlty, as the first, so recently given here turned out to be, Elsie Houston, from South America, did some interesting singing but the dancing of others was odd and nothing much to get worked up over. Edwin McArthur.

whose conduct ing activities are steadily broadening, has gone to California to continue the frequency of his appearances. The growing capacities of this young leader are being com mented upon almost with each new program he conducts. With Europe no longer a source of supply, South American music centers are turning to this country for their instrumental, conducting and singing artists. Andre Mer-tens, of Columbia Concerts, is opening up this field for the attractions of his organization; and so are other artist-attraction manage ments, among them Albert Morini, ana won concerts. It is welcome news to hear that Fritz Kreisier is recovering from the effects of his accident and that a few days ago he asked for his violin.

The innumerable friends and admirers of this great artist will rejoice to hear that he expects to be able to fill the engagements made for him for this coming Randall Thompson, the American Composer who was director of the Curtis Institute of Music for the past two years has been appointed head of the Music Department of the University of Virginia. Veronica Lake Clicks Drippingly In Lake Shots Little Blond Siren Turns Comedienne in 'Sullivan's Travels' Hollywood. at work: This scene in "Sullivan's Travels" calls for Veronica Lake to fall into a Beverly Hills swimming pool so Paramount up and rents one, right in the backyard of one of that swank community's loveliest homes. The spot is one of many donated by private owners to a char-: itable organization which gets 100 per cent of all rental moneys. You remember Veronica, of course the little blonde with the long eye-bangs who scored rather neatly as a siren in "I Wanted Wings." Now she's making her debut as a heroine.

And this scene also marks her bow as a comedienne and a slapstick comedienne at that. She's slick and slim in blue silk evening gown, with a polo coat thrown over her shoulders. She looks down into the water of the pool and there is Joel McCrea splashing around with his clothes on. She has shoved him in and now is angrily "telling him off" as a fake and a phoney. He argues back, swims closer to her side.

Suddenly he shouts, "Oh, I did. did and lunges at her. His hand grasps her ankle and he yanks. In goes Veronica with a great splash. Cameras keep grinding.

Suddenly a form appears. But it is headless. Only McCrea grasps the situation. Veronica has come up with the polo coat tangled over her head. McCrea splashes over and Jerks the coat away.

He lifts her up bodily, thrusts her toward the pool's 4 side. They drag her up on the grass, pound her on the back, help her regain her breath. "I'm sorry I spilled the take," she pants. "Spoil It says Proton Sturges, the director. "That fall was perfect.

Now all you have to do Is slip into the pool again r.nd paddle around the rest of the afternoon. I've got a lot of water tricks figured out." Dealing with the adroit efforts of a wealthy business men to keep his flighty wife from leaving him, "My Life With Caroline," stars Ronald Colman with the British favorite, Anna Lee, as his leading lady, r'Ws V' i WV 1 I vf -1 Little SImone Simon is renorted tn vITTumS fS hmnSi wrtJ fll vaa guest 01 Conor at a party given U'J hTOe5f rordiaUy disliked on her first invasion of Hollywood a few years bach. When she visited by Willard Rogers of the Hotel Bond h. wj oulet. friendly and idtogether charming.

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