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Southland Times, Issue 23377, 8 December 1937, Page 8

Sally Eilers has been signed bv R.K.O. Radio to play in “Condemned Women,” a story of the effect of prison life on women convicts. Lew Landers will direct.

For the first time in their long screen careers, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey will be seen as hoary-headed old men, one with a long white beard and the other with a goatee. The R.K.O. Radio comedy “On Again—Off Again” runs enough reels to find them doddering old men at the climax of the picture. Wheeler was so intrigued with his make-up that he visited everyone on the lot showing them his beard. Woolsey had not played the role of an elderly gentleman for twenty-five years, he revealed. When he was 10 years he played an old man of 65 in “Tennessee’s Pardner,” a stage favourite from which Frank Bacon created his role of Lightnin’.