TOWN HALL TALKIES

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4487, 1 October 1940, Page 4

TOWN HALL TALKIES

SHOWING NEXT SATURDAY “ALCATRAZ ISLAND/’ John Li tel. lead in# man in “Alcatraz Island.” the Cosmopolitan melodrama which Warner Bros, are presenting at the Town Hall on Saturday next trained for an acting career without knowing he was going to be an .actor. Until he was 215 years old a (careen* (as a Thespian was far from his thoughts. Born at Albany, Wise.. December HO. 189 L he was educated at Albany High School and then was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He. is a member of Alpha- Tau Omega fra tern By. When John showed no interest in a specific profession or business, his tanker father, James E. Lite!, permitted him bo shift for himself. Accordingly John worked at manual labor, a; a clerk in stores and as a sa'esman of life insurance. . At the age of 26 John found himself on the stage acting. It was just another job that lie took on the spur of the moment. Pub since then he has played in stock in Washington, D.C.. Atlanta, Kansas City Denver, Ne v Orleans., San Francisco, and 1 Los Angeles, to mention- but a few. On PJ.mdwny he scored a great success. one of his most recent bits being “Room Service.” Signed to a screen contract by Warner Pfros. when be came to Hollywood to visit his _ mother, Lite.li has ' been featured in “Midnight! Court,” "Marked Woman,” "Slim, 1, "Back in Circulation”' and “Alcatraz Island.”

Five feet eleven inches tall, Lite! weighs ISO pound!?, has hazel eyes and dark brawn hair and is of the virile type he portrays in “Alcatraz I.sliand."’