. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. nd won the award of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences as the finest short subject of theyear. Im under contract to Warner Bro-thers, he told me recently, so I sup-pose that Ill be here for a while. Ilike the stage and the screen equallywell, but I do want to get back to NewYork and act in a stage play again. It isn t very likely that John Litel willappear on Broadway in the near future,though, for in addition to his contracthe is deeply involved in plans for aranch house which he and his wife arebuilding at Encino in the San FernandoValley of Southern
. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. nd won the award of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences as the finest short subject of theyear. Im under contract to Warner Bro-thers, he told me recently, so I sup-pose that Ill be here for a while. Ilike the stage and the screen equallywell, but I do want to get back to NewYork and act in a stage play again. It isn t very likely that John Litel willappear on Broadway in the near future,though, for in addition to his contracthe is deeply involved in plans for aranch house which he and his wife arebuilding at Encino in the San FernandoValley of Southern California. Wehave five acres of land and an orangegrove, he explained as he showed mephotographs of the property. PENN TAU INITIATE All of this seems a far cry from thedifficulties and hardships of the earlydays he spent in trouping. A native ofAlbany, Wisconsin, John found hisway to the famed Wharton School ofFinance, Philadelphia, in the fall of1911. In due course he was pledged and JOHN LITEL OF HOLLYWOOD AND BROADWAY 401. JOHN LITEL WITH JOAN BLONDELL in a scene from the sensational newspaper storyAngle Shooter, a Warner Brothers production. initiated by Tau chapter of Alpha TauOmega, one of his fellow neophytes be-ing Alfred H. Williams, now head of theDepartment of Geography and Industryat Pennsylvania and a member of theA T O Vocational Advisory Board. After leaving Penn he went to NewYork where he became involved in thepopular post-collegiate pastime of sell-ing insurance. But even then histhoughts were turning to the theatre andhe studied a the American Academy ofDramatic Arts, later landing a job ina stock company that was playing inAlbany, N. Y. in ^Under Cover. With the outbreak of the War Johnenlisted and was assigned to the Prince-ton unit of the American AmbulanceCorps. This unit was loaned by theUnited States Government to the French,and for the duration of the World Warthe men saw service in the French divi- sion. But the theatre was not neglected,for the tal
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