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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 1939. -PAGE 37
WILLIAM POWELL LEARNED
A LOT FROM HIS FILM
ANYONE WHO HASN'T TIME FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION, BY ALL MEANS, OUGHT TO MAKE UP FOR IT, BY BECOMING A MOTION PICTURE STAR, ・ ・ “
That is the well-meant advice "af William" „Powell, who clainis that (motion-picture stardom is the shortest road to be- coming all kinds of a professional man.
"My figures," said Powell, after wearing two pencils down to noth-
ing, "show that would have
taken me eighty-four year UNITY WITH that the script writers THE EMPIRE
**The Romance Of The Rea have become all the career men
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"ETERNALLY YOURS" GAG
Hollywood was agor the other day with the rumour that Loretta Young and Davià Niven "really cared" for each other. Letters were literally flying back and forth between- the popular young stars.
turned me into."
have
Powell Illustrated by picking on
hts favourite characterization South Africa's
Nick Charles of detecting fame.
Private Such
"I estimate." Powell estimated, that to be as good as Nick Charles is, I'd have had to be working as a private sleuth since about 1922. There to seventeen of my years right there."
Best Friend
Is Britain
Gen. Smuts Gives Special Message To The People
As a matter of fact, Powell's script training as a screen debec- tive started a year before that when he made his picture debut in a small part with John Barry- more in "Sherlock Holmes:" Since CAPE TOWN, SEPT. 12′′ (REU- ASSURED then his sleuth career has gone TER)-GEN. · SMETS on intermittently year after year THE PEOPLE THAT. SOUTH he did a masterful job of deduc- AFRICAN TROOPS WILL ONLY Ing as Philo Vance in the "Canary BE USED FOR THE DEFENCE OF Murder Case." and three other of THE UNION AND WILL NOT BE that worthy's most noted inves- SENT OVERSEAS. tigations; he was "Private Detec-
He did not see any hopes of tive 82." he untangled mysterious healing the split in the United codes in "Rendervous," and final-South Africa Party, but he ap- ly reached the apex of his sleuth-pealed to all that the spirit of ing career in the Thin Man" unity with the Empire should be
series.
More Of Reality. "But where the script writers have really made me shine," Powell confessed. "is as a lawyer.
kept alive.
Conspicuous Help
In his special message to the people he said that Parliament
0: course, they have more of had decided to take part in the war in the interest of South Africa. reality to build on thère. As a high school boy in Kansas City This, he says, is not an occasion toyed for four months with the to make a display of separateness Idea of becoming a legal, luminary. from the British Commonwealth. Then I put my toys away I think which is South Africa's best friend
in a dangerous world... --and decided to try acting."
He has been a screen lawyer at!
The British Commonwealth had least a dozen times and he has given conspicuous help to South But the rumour was liqui- yet to lose a case, which is a re-Africa and it would be a blot on dated into the limbo of modern cord for any attorney to shoot at. South Africa's name if she were. myths when Niven showed all His legal oratory is something to now to separate herself from the
Commonwealth. of his letters to a friend,
listen to also," even though it is: Each letter bore the same supplied by his script writers. message. "Dear David I admire | After his appearance as the lawyer
very much. Eternally yours, in "Evelyn Prentice," seven at COMING EVENTS
you Loretta.*
SEPT.
torneys wrote in to congratulate The friend sought an explanatim on his summing up before the jury. He passed bile letters right on to the scenario depart-P.m. Low 2.21 a.m. and 3.15 pm.
tion.
“TTS A GAG"
ment.
ไ
David laughingly told him: "It's a gag Loretta and I thought he figured he would have had to To be as good a lawyer as that,
up. You see, we are both to be starred in a Walter Wanger pro-least twenty-five years.
study and practise law for at
"duction called "Eternally Yours! and we guessed that sooner un later someone would write a story about all the 'Eternally Yours' let- ters we were sending to each other. Cute idea, isn't it?"
Yes, David, it is a cute idea, and now we are passing it along to Alm fans all over the world...
Solution No. 410
“BUTLERING"
1.
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The perfect butler, such as the script writers of "The Barones8 and the Butler" made me," Powell recalled. "Is born that way."
Of all the careers and professions ACROSS: 1, Cheap. 4, Hilltop. 8 that Powell has adorned since he Entered. 9. Grave. 10, Tinge. 11, began work in pictures, he prefers Escaped. 13, Cent. 15, Ditute. 17. thas of the detective and of all Invest. 20, Lure. 22, Inquest. 24. the detective roles, he likes best Therm. 28, Nooks. 27, Eclipse, 23. that of the "Thin Man.". Resulta, 29, Split.
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Hsiao Fu-chen, YMCA-Mahjong Class 10. ata;
Committee Mig. 10.30 am. Fifth Exec. Courel Mtg, of Bine American Institute, at Chinese Mer-. chants Club, 530 pm.
Club Contract Bridge, 8_p.m. Seventh Extra
His reason is that everybody DOWN: 1, Created. 2. Enten. 3, thinks a detective is a very smart Perfect. 4. Hidden. 5, Logic. 6. fellow--if he solves his cases "It Trample. Plead, 12, Stir. 14, Eela. may have been noticed" that the 16. Liquors, 18, Nettles. 19, Tem Powell brand of sleuth always. Race Mtg 12 noon. pest, 21, Utters, 22, Inner. 23, Basel does," he laugh. 21, Expel.
CROSSWORD
NO. 410
ACROSS
1 Inexpen
sive (5)
4 Summit (7)
8 Went in
(7)
9 Serious (5)
10 Colour (5)
11 Got away
-(17)
13 Small coin
"(4)
15 Weaken (8)
17 Speculate
·(6).
20 Decoy (4) 22 Enquiry (7)
24 Unit of -
heat (ôi
26
Corners (5))
27 Over
shadow (7)
28 Conse.
quences (7)
20 Division (5)
DOWN
1 Formed (1)
2 Consumed
*(5) *
3. Complete
(7)
Concealed"
125
(81
5 Art of
*reasoning, (5) 8.Tread
down (7)
7 "Implore. (5)
12 Agitation
(4)
Snaky fish
{pl} (4) SOLUTION TO-MORROW
16 Drinks (7)
18 Weeds (7) 19 Storm (1 21 Exclaims
'(6). 4 22. Within (5)
23 Picture
stand:(5)
25 Drive out
(5)
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