Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1933 — Page 21

AUG. 31. 1933

DE MULE SEES FUTURE STARS CLIMBING NOW Boy Players in ‘This Day and Age’ Will Become Leaders in Films. Anew generation of screen stars Is in the offine. and the first born are due to spring on the celluloid horizon within the next few months. A number of young boys in the last stages of adolescence—or just emerged from it—get their first big break in Cecil B De Mi lie's newest Paramount picture, "This Day and Age ” From this group, it is expected that at least one star of next year will bs launched, and several more embryonic stars will be placed on the* first lap of their journey toward stardom. Pictures of epic quality dealing with youngsters have invariably given to the screen part of its next year's crop of s’ars, and "This Day and Age." which deals with what happens when modern youth takes law and order into its own hands, in ar. effort to make a wholesale cleansing of crime conditions, will be no exception to the rule. "The reigning favorites of today will give way to newer and younger faces in a very few years,’’ Cecil B. De Mille declared. "These stars of tomorrow' will not be picked out of nowhere when the time comes for them to be launched. They will be ti*e boy actors of today.” , Another Child Actor Ben Alexander, who started out fcs a child actor in pictures and graduated to youth roles in "All Quiet on the Western Front.” is also prominently cast in the De Mille opus. It is his first big part Since "All Quiet.” If hp plays his role as anticipated, he will become another entry in tomorrow’s race tor stardom. It was in "AH Quiet" that Lew Ayres won his spurs in youth role and graduated to stardom. Eric Linden established himself in ’’Are These Our Children," and preview critics who saw James Cagney’s latest picture, "The Mayor of Hell,” which deals with boys in a reform school, unanimously place young Frankie Darro in the running for a future top spot. Only one girl figures prominently in the picture, Judith Allen, She, too, is a newcomer and a candidate for next year’s roster of screen luminaries. TEA PUT CLAUDETTE COLBERT ON STAGE Famous Movie Player Had No Great Desire to lie an Actress or Star. Tea, and a jest taken seriously, put Claudette Colbert. Broadway star and screen player, on the stage. She had no great desire to be an .actress, but was a student in an art league in New York when she

met Anne Morri-, son, the playwright. Miss Col- j bert jokingly asked Miss Mor-| rison for a role in her new play, "The Wild Westcotts”; she received a “bit” part and started her way! toward stardom.; A screen contract with Paramount brought fame in •‘Tonight Is Ours,”, “Sign of the Cross” and ThreeCornered Moon.”

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which comes to the Indiana theater Friday. Sept. 1. She was born in Paris. France: came to New York in 1913. Miss Colbert is a decided brunette, with large, brown eyes. She is five feet five inches tall, and weighs 103 pounds.

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DECORATOR MAKES THEATER MORE BEAUTIFUL’

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* Henry Behrens, Indianapolis decorator, is here shown with two of his painters—Charles Doran and George Briner —as they went about giving the Indiana theater marquee anew coat of paint for its re-open-ing Friday, Sept. 1.

ROUNDING ROUND ’T'TUT? A TrD Q With WALTER 1 1111/rV 1 H/IvO D. HICKMAN

THE Indiana and Circle theaters will show the major product of Paramount for the new fall and winter season. Some of the biggest stars in the business are under the banner of Paramount Pictures. Such are Claudette Colbert. Mary Boland. Mae West, Hardie Wright, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth, Charles Bickford, Anita Page, Gary Cooper. Ricardo Cortez, Esther Ralston, Noah Beery, Bing Crosby, Skeets Gallagher, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Buddy Rogers, Marlene Dietrich and many others.

“TJiree-Comered Moon” and “Song of Songs” are the opening big guns of the new season Then follow “The Big Executive,’’ with Ricardo Cortez; “This Day and Age.” a Cecil DeMille production, with a large cast; “One Sunday Afternoon,” with Gary Cooper; “Torch Singer.” with Claudette Colbert; “To the Last Man,” with Esther Ralston; “Too Much Harmony,” with Bing Crosby; “Golden Harvest,” with Richard Arlen, and “Take a Chance,” with Buddy Rogers. George Somnes. formerly director of the Civic theater here, is one of the two directors used for “Torch Singer.” Two of the biggest of the season for Paramount, of course, will be Mae West in “I’m No Angel” and the Marx brothers in “Duck Soup.” tt tt tt Gladys Hulette. silent screen luminary of such pictures as “Tol’able David” and “The Iron Horse.” is making her talking picture debut in Paramount's “Torch Singer.’’ Although renowned for her sentimental characterizations of ten and twelve years ago. Miss Hulette had forsaken silent pictures just as she was to have been starred and entered a stage career in New York. She was featured on Broadway in numerous productions, her outstanding success being in “Little Accident.” Opposite Richard Barthelmess in “Tol'able David.” she portrayed Esther. In "The Iron Horse" she was Ruth. She also had an important role in "Enemies of Women.” A recent issue of Screen Souvenirs shows Miss Hulette as she was at the age of 6. The "flicker” in which she appeared was "Lady Nicotine.” filmed in 1910, with Paul Panzer as the star. It was as a child actress that Miss Hulette first came to the attention of Hollvw’ood. after her appearance as Tyltyl in "The Blue Bird.”

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In 1913 she made a brief return to the stage, touring the country as Beth in “Little Women” and then returned to Hollyw’ood and remained until 1924. Os late Miss Hulette has been occupied with professional writing. Liberty magazine published her "Movie Kidhood,” and “More Tears, Please,” appeared in Photoplay. Also she has been a regular contributor to the Sunday feature section of a New York newspaper. n u a It looks like a black wunter, according to Travis Banton, wellknown studio designer, and Claudette Colbert, one of Hollywood’s fashion leaders. "Black will step to the front ranks in our fall color scheme,” declares Banton. "For daytime wear, black will be used with heavy fur accents, and for evening it will often employ metallic contrasts. The wardrobe recently completed for Claudette Colbert’s role in Paramount’s ‘Torch Singer’ is a guide to the black season we are about to enter.” Included in this Banton-designed collection of clothes are four outstanding black costumes. The most dramatic is a gown of massed sequins with flaring pagoda shoulders and elbow length gloves that repeat the sequins. Another number, and one that is Miss Colbert’s favorite in the group, is a wide-sleeved dinner frock of organdie striped with bands of silver. Banton calls attention to a Sunday night supper ensemble in velvet. This outfit reveals the dramatic swing of fashions this winter. With a blouse of massed black bugle beads, a skirt and knee-length coat of black velvet are used. The wrap is bordered with sable and a tiny velvet hat is trimmed with the same fur. Miss Colbert wears black velvet gloves with this costume. A trim street frock in crepe comprises the fourth gown. A banded row of satin box pleats that run horizontally across the shoulder line offers fashion-conscious women something to think about. As for the black satin rage. Banton prefers satin used with dull crepe for daytime occasions.

‘Funny Page'

Twenty characters from six popular newspaper comic strips have been selected to cavort on the screen in Paramount’s musical, “Funny Page," now being written by Harland Thompson and Lewis E. Gensler. They include Popeye, Wimpy and Roughhouse from “Thimble Theater”; Pa and Ma Perkins, Polly, Newah and Yogi from “Polly and Her Pals”; Blondie, Dagwood and Mr. and Mrs. Bumpstead from “Blondie"; “Boob and Pearl from “Boob McNutt”; the Captain, Mrs. Katzenjammer. Hans and Fritz ajid the Inspector from “The Katzenjammer Kids,” and Tim Tyler from the strip of that name. Thompson and Gensler, the authors, are writing the complete musical score for the production, as well as dialogue and stage directions.

HOUSE MANAGER

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Holden Swiger Holden Swiger will resume his duties as house manager of the Indiana theater when it reopens Friday night. Mr. Swiger came to Indianapolis last winter from the Uptown theater, Chicago.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

LOU FORBES IS NEW DIRECTOR OF BIG BAND New Conductor of Indiana Orchestra Studied in Brussels. BY TOM LONG When the Indiana Concert Orchestra rises in the pit at the Indiana theater on its gala reopening, one tall figure will attract the eye as his beautiful music charms the ear—it is Lou Forbes, maestro of the Indiana orchestra, a figure well known to many thousands who have enjoyed his music and his graceful waving of the baton. I asked Mr. Forbes how' long he had been studying music and he told me approximately eighteen years. “I first studied in Brussels, Belgium, specializing in counterpoint harmony and instrumentation. I play several instruments and my preference is good music, ‘not jazz.’ ” Now here is the part that might interest all of you personally, Mr. Forbes stated his opinion on the feminine habit of smoking and drinking. "To be truthful,” he said, “I tnink

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MUSICAL DIRECTOR

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Lou Forbes, one of America’s most popular young maestros, will be the director of the augmented Indiana theater concert orchestra,

all young women should be guided by their home influence, as for myself, I do not drink. A tad habit of mine is smoking big black cigars (Optimos if you should care to know;.” He said that he liked girls with personality, poise and dignity. He also remarked that "gentlemen prefer blonds, but marry brunettes,” so all have a chance.

SEX NO LONGER HAS A HOLD ON MOVIESTORIES Hagan. Who Wrote Many Hits for Broadway, Tells Secret. Stories with nothing more than sex interest to offer have lost their hold on the average American audiences, in the belief of James Hagan, New York playwright and author of the whimsical, romantic play, "One Sunday Afternoon.” which has just been Aimed by Paramount. Says Hagan, author of seventeen New York plays: “The sultrier aspects of human behavior have overstayed their welcome on the stage i and screen. Sex has been slapped at us and wrapped around our necks, until the public is on the; verge of finding out that sex is not I all. Dr. Freud to the contrary. "Os course, New York audiences' will have to be sophisticated.” Ha-i gan admits, "but today Broadway’s audiences are less representative cG America than ever before. "What the country needs is a simple theme about ‘forgotten’ rrr >n and women,” Hagan believes. “7 hr human being has been buried i ci-

IN CONTROL

! Ace Berry ' The local big boss of the Indiana and Circle theaters is Ace f Berry, who has many years of [ experience here.

der an avalanche of hot stuff. So the day is here for plain theatrical fare about John and Jane Doe.

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ELABORATE FILM BRINGS TO LIFE SCENES OF 1905 •One Sunday Afternoon’ Is Laid in Settings of Past Period. Few motion pictures can boast the colorful background of "One , Sunday afternoon.” Gary Cooper’s | latest starring picture for Paramount, in which Fay Wray, Frances Fuller. Roscoe Karns and Neil Ham- | ilton are featured. The picture was | directed by Stephen Roberts. One enormous scene is an anruse- ! ment park which covers nearly . three acres There are the old-time . ferris wheel, the horse-drawn I merry-go-round, shooting gallery, ; doll racks, glass-blowing factory, j roller-coaster and concessions of j every sort from a pink lemonade I stand to a greased pig show. There’s a huge German beer garden. featuring a forty-piece German band. A livery stable, buggy ! factory, the smalltown poolroom with its wooden Indian marker, ; and many forgotten relics of an antiquated transportation system 1 —stage and mail coaches: