Marie McDonald Re-Enacts Scenes
Of Her Kidnaping for Police Movie
ENCINO, Calif. UP)—Marie (The’*
Body) McDonald, whose curves
are far more dramatic than her
histrionics, could claim some kind
of award today for her perfor
mance in the police movie of the
year.
In an all-talkie, color film with
police cameramen, the shapely
actress re-enacted what she says
was a terrifying midnight kidnap
ing from her palatial San Fernan
do Valley home.
The movie had everything any
Cecil B. DeMille epic ever had—
except camels. There were four
scenes requiring six takes; a bed
room shot and an outdoor loca
tion; a producer and director
(both policemen); and, of curse,
set coverage by a small army of
Hollywood press.
One policeman gave it a title
(already used by Hollywood)—
“The Body Snatchers.”
And one neighborhood boy
scored it with an incessant hum
ming of the “Ta te dum dum”
theme for “’Dragnet.” It was quite
a show.
About the only thing missing
was Cinemascope.
An elaborate walkie-talkie sys
tem, manned by two police cap
tains, gave the waiting reporters
a blow-by-blow account of what
took place inside. The officers,
playing it heavily tongue-in
cheek, were openly ironic in their
descriptions of Miss McDonald’s
allegations of terror.
Homicide Chief Robert Lohr
man, whose voice will never give
Ronald Colman any competition,
announced at the outset:
“We now have Miss McDonald’s
permission to start the first
scene.” The scene was in the bed
room with the star in bed, wear
ing green pajamas.
It had to be shot over. A clumsy !
policeman stumbled over the;
wires, knocking out the sound.j
At the conclusion, Lohrman an- j
nounced:
“That’s the end of Scene One.” ;
A professional movie man would
have yelled “Cut” but the idea
got across, anyhow.
A reporter asked Capt. Ed
Walker, handling the walkie
talkie on the outside, for a de
scription of the set. Lohrman
came back:
“Well, it’s so fancy that you’ll
take one look at it and then go
back to your house in Eagle Rock
and want to set fire to it.”
All this re-enactment, was to
illustrate Miss McDonald’s ac
count of her ordeaL She had told
authorities that two swarthy
men abducted her from her house
shortly before midnight Thursday
and drove her to a hideout. There
she managed, during Friday, to
telephone three friends and re
port that she had been kidnaped.
She didn’t call police.
Late Friday night she was
found wandering dazedly on the
desert near Indio. A truck driver
picked her up.
Hospital attendants said she
had a bruised face and two brok
en caps on her teeth. She was sent
home in an ambulance to recover
—and to re-enact the occurrence.
ROTARY CLUB NEWS
At Rotary luncheon today, the
guests were: Rev. Thos. Knudsen
and Rev. Roald Amundsen of
Nome, Rev. Carl Olson of Spe
nard, Don Hungerford, Mary E.
Jolley and Marjory Morris,
director of the division of social
service of the Welfare Dept., of
Juneau.
Miss Morris spoke about the
work of her department and re
vealed that about 7,000 persons
are dependent on the Welfare
Dept, in Alaska.
President Dewey Goodrich
read a letter of greeting to the
Nome club from the Rotary
club of Swansea, South Wales,
England.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
ON EXHIBIT
THIS WEEK
for a short time only
A Selection Of
Sketches and Oils
BY
robert mayokok •
Eskimo Artist and Writer
Unalakleet Plans
Bigger Fishing
Derby This Year
The village of Unalakleet is
making plains for an expanded
king salmon derby next summer
and this week Art Johnson of
that village came to Nome to
line up support for the under
taking.
Monday night a group of in
terested men and sport fishermen
met with Johnson to discuss the
' project. The village now has a
hotel and restaurant to care for
visitors and they plan to re
quest Alaska Airlines to offer ex
cursion rates to Unalakleet dur
ing the king salmon season, from
j about June 15 to July 15.
Johnson was given assurance
! by the Nome group that they will
do all they can to help the vil
lage plan and the N.W.A. Cham
ber of Commerce will endorse
the request for excursion rates.
At the same time the Nome
men tentatively decided to form
a sportsman’s club, affiliated with
a national organization, to insti
tute a program of conservation of
sports fish and also to restock
streams and rivers in this area.
Among those present at the
meeting in addition to Johnson
were: Stan Morgan, Carl Glavin
ovich, Tom Martin, Ernie Gustaf
son, Francis Eben, Lou Soho,
Sig Krogstad, and Boyd Har
wood.
ONE WAY TO BAG DEER
NEWFOUNDLAND, NJ., (J%—
Hunters still trying; for their first
deer can envy Edwin Van Glahn
of Hoboken. Monday, for the sec
ond time in a year, a deer stepped
in front of his car on Route 23
and was killed.
Advertisers Urged
!To Let Newspapers Give
More Help in Planning
NEW YORK, UR—A newspaper
advertising executive urged dele
gates to the 46th annual National
Retail Dry Goods Assn, conven
tion today to let newspapers give
ihem nr-ore help in planning their
advertising.
“Better planning rather than
pressing for less dollars ana cents
advertising expenditure” is the
answer to eliminating waste in
advertising, H. H. MacLean, as
sistant to the advertising director
of Scrips-iHoward newspapers,
said in a talk prepared for a
meeting devoted to advertising
budgets.
He suggested that the ideal
budget would be arrived at “by
first deciding on the job that your
store’s advertising is required to
do and then finding out how much
it costs dollarwise to get the job
done.”
Audrey Cutting Files
Lawsuits for $195,000
Audrey Cutting, formerly of
Anchorage, filed another big
batch of lawsuits this week, seek
ing to collect $195,000 from 20
individuals in Denver4 whom she
accuses of persecuting her. Earli
er she filed suits for many mil
lions of dollars against various
Anchorage persons.
HERE'S A NEW WAY
TO BEAT DENTISTS BILL
LITTLE FORT, B.C. UR—Frank
Wharton, a local gunsmith,
thought the price of false teeth
too high so he got his for a buck
—and kept the buck, too.
He shot a buck deer, fashioned
a set of choppers from its teeth,
then ate the deer.
Corporation and •
Exise Taxes Will
Be Continued
WASHINGTON, W»—President
Eisenhower and Republican con
gressional leaders formally de^
cided to seek a continuance of
about $3 billion in excise and
corporation taxes beyond the
April 1 expiration date.
The decision was announced at
the White House by Senate GOP
leader Knowland of California. It
underscored what administration
leaders previously have said arp
dim prospects for any major taaf
reduction this year.
Knowland announced the decir
sion after he and other GOP con
gressional leaders had conferred
with the President for about 90
minutes. ^
A proposed priority list of legj
islation was drawn up at the con-;
ferenqe, Butq final derision oik
the sequence of legislation will
be up to the Democrats,..who con
trol both houses of Congress.
Topping the GOP priority list
was a call for speedy action on
the administration’s anti-Commu
nist program for the Middle East.
Eisenhower outlined his program
for thwarting Red aggression in
that area to the lawmakers in a’,
special message last Saturday. {
Yosemite National Park, with a.
total area of 1,176,000 square;
miles, is aproximately the size of
Rhode Island.
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