Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1936 — Page 18

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Film Meanie Wicked Only in Pictures joss Set, Bonita Granville. ' 13, Is Mischievous but Not Egotistical. JTJOLLYWOOD, March 26 fNEAi The screen's foremost .'“heavy” just now is a brown-haired, £lear-eyed. pltasant-faccd little girl jnamed Bonita Granville, just turned 3 Indianapolis fans have been Sneering at her in “These Three” at vLoew’s this week. f Bonita is mean ton the screen, jof course we mean). Bonita is vivacious, malevolent, demoniacal. Not impishly “wicked” like Topsy, but iitterly fiendish, like a Borgia. She is a sly, incorrigible liar, a poisoner of minds. So convincingly does she act her part that people on the lot —people •who'd scarcely glance at a Boris or a Peter Lorre—whisper, k* she passes, “There goes the hellchild! 'That’s the Granville kid.” Based on “Children’s Hour” (" The picture, “These Three,” with a deep oow to the Hays office, has jbeen cased more or less on a drama impiously titled “The Childrens JHour,” and now well into its second season on Broadway. * Bonita is too much of a trouper "to mind being despised by screen audiences. She has done her share of shedding childish sweetness and light in various pictures, and they didn’t get her anywhere, particularly. ■ ( This role, though, provides a /chance for emotional acting that Jew if any Hollywood youngsters ever have had. ‘ “I like mean parts,” she said so much more character in them.” May Have Heard Rumors It may be that Bonita has heard whispers that her performance in “Those Three” is likely fto make her a rather celebrated actress. But if she has heard of them ■it isn’t the fault of her mother. ; Mrs. Granville is trying by every yneans and stratagem to keep BonUa an ordinary little girl. Admits tit’s quite a wrench to parental pride jwhen she squelches Bonita’s every Inkling of importance. ; “I tell her she’s lucky; that (thousands of other girls coukl do Very well in the movies if they had ii chance. Bonita goes to a junior high school here, and the other children expected her to be stuck ■up, but she isn’t. Her best friends Are not studio children. Not Really Mean , “Os course she isn’t a bit mean, really. Minds me absolutely, and hever has a temper tantrum. She always was full of mischief, but harmless. A natural mimic. ; “I remember in 1932, when she tvas working in ‘Cavalcade,’ she (>icked up a perfect cockney accent n a day or two, and at night, at he dinner table, she’d have us all n stitches imitating all the players and repeating most of their lines. Vou ought to hear her—” l “Mother!” pleaded Bonita. “I don’t" want anybody to think I imitate people. I just want to act. • “I like school. I like algebra and languages best. I’m a little behind how, but until this year I got Straight A’s. No, I don’t like to read tnuch except newspapers. I like to ftwim and paint dresses on dolls. I like to go to plays and the movies, find be in plays at school.” Has Boy Friend . “She’s growing up,” observed her Another. “She goes to dancing school find is beginning to want to go to parties. She has a boy friend, coo, who calls her up every ” i “Mother!” protested Bonita, and tied to the set. Mrs. Granville smiled. “I shouldn't talk so much. I’m bored to death by mothers who talk about their thildren. I hope Bonita—we call Bun-Bun. and she hates it—won’t be a 'Hollywood child.’ although she has been here since she Was 7. Her father is an actor, you know —Bunny. And I danced. But *ve ve tried to raise her in just the Ordinary way. “She got in the movies by accident, because she looked a little like Ann Harding and could play her daughter in Westward Passage.

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Opening Tomorrow Apollo “COLLEEN” (Held over)—Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert and Louise Fazenda. Directed by Alfred E. Green; screen play by Peter Milne and P. Hugh Herbert from story by Robert Lord; music and lyrics by Harry Warren and A1 Rubin. Story—Young man manages properties of wealthy, eccentric uncle, which include dress shop. Palls for boss’ assistant. Girl has get-rich-quick boy friend who meets young man’s uncle, persuades him to make tour of properties. Uncle falls for girl in candy factory, makes her manager of dress shop. In mix-up, assistant is fired. Young man pursues g:rl to ocean liner, wins her back. Former boy friend gets candy maker. Indiana “LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST”—CaroIe Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher. Directed by Walter Lang; screen play by Herbert Fields from Faith Baldwin's story, “Spinster Dinner"; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff. Story—Wealthy young man and girl meet at dock while seeing girl and boy-friend, respectively, off for Japan. Young man admits buying out boy friend’s company, sending him away, so he can court her. She turns him down repeatedly. Boy friend returns to America, rather smitten with young man's fiance. Young man finally marries girl, other couple united. “FiR?T A GlßL”—Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones. Directed by Victor Saville; scenano by Marjorie Gaffney; musical director, Louis Levy. Story—Female impersonator loses voice. Girl doubles for him, is a hit. They tour continent, girl masquerading as boy masquerading as girl. Complications arise when girl falls in love with princess’ fiance. Princess threatens to have “boy” arrested. Couple escapes across border. Princess takes impersonator, recovered from laryngitis. Loew’s “THE ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO’’—Warner Baxter, Ann Loring, Bruce Cabot, Margo. Directed by Willia A. Wellman; from book by Walter Noble Burns; photographed by Chester Lyons. Story—Scene, California gold fields of ’49. Peacable young Mexican is beaten by American miners, his wife killed. Vows vengeance, kills assailants. Hunted, he goes to brother’s farm in Mexico. Americans hang brother for stealing. Mexican organizes band, becomes real outlaw. In holding up stagecoach, Mexican’s men accidentally kill fiance of outlaw s American friend. American, thinking it deliberate, pursues and kills him. “YOU MAY BE NEXT!”—Ann Sothern, Lloyd Nolan, Douglass Dumbrille. Story by Henry Wales and Ferdinand Reyher; screen play by Fred Niblo Jr. and Ferdinand Reyher; directed by Albert S. Rogell. Story—Radio technicians, police, G-men, Army and Navy search for radio hi-jacker who disrupts programs with powerful interfering wave. Demands huge sum. Has kidnaped young radio engineer, turns suspicion on him. Plans to collect money, kill engineer, take his girl. Engineer sends out SOS; is rescued at last moment. Lyric “GOING HOLLYWOOD” on Stage—Harry Howard, “America’s Crazy Man” and his three-and-a-half stooges; Stanley Brothers, Acrodonians”; Dunn Brothers and Dotty, presenting “Chico, the Hilarious Horse”; Frances Wills, “Vanities” dancer; Helen Fallon, “Counterpart of Eleanor Powell”; Virginia Gibson, Herbert Ertel, Eleanor Etheridge and chorus. “SNOWED UNDER on Screen—George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh. Directed by Ray Enright; from story by Laurence Saunders.

Story—Young playwright, madly trying to finish new drama, is snowbound in New England farmhouse with two ex-wives, new sweetheart, lawyer for second wife., sheriff trying to arrest him for non-payment of alimony. Unravelling of situation gives him third act for play, adjusts relationships with female contingent.

That was in 1930. She doesn’t look like Ann Harding now. They darkened her hair for this picture, and Bonita still cries when she looks at herself in a mirror.” Costumes of Own Creation Marsha Hunt, featured player in “Desert Gold,” designed all her costumes for the senior play of the Horace Mann School, New York when she was 16.

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO t “Colleen.” musical plcUir with Dick Powell. Joan Blondell. Jack Oakie, Ruby Keeler and Hugh Herbert, at 11:31. 1:31. 3:31. 5;31. 7JI. 9:31. , : ■ CIRCLE “Give Us This Night,” screen operetta with Jan Kiepura and Gladys Swartout, at 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 and 10:10. “Preview Murder Mystery,” with Reginald Denny, Frances Drake and Gail Patrick, at 12:45, 3:30. 6:20 and 9:05. CIVIC “Post Road." anew play, opening tonight at 8:30. INDIANA “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” in Technicolor, with Sylvia Sidney. Henry Fonda and Fred MacMurrav, at 12:35. 3:42, 6:49, 9:56. Also “FMan," with Jack Haley, at 11:32, 2:39, 5:46. 8:53 KEITHS “Mrs. Temple’s Telegram,” with Jack Duval, Ned LeFevre, Hal „ Hawks. Alice Arnold. Betty Anne Brown, at 8:15. LOEW’S “These Three,” with Merle Oberon, Miriam Hopkins and Joe McCrea. at 11. 1:10. 3:20, 5:30. 7:45. 10. LYRIC Major Bowes Amateur Unit No. 1. on stage, at 12:35. 2:45, 5:05. 7:25. 9:45. On screen. “The Leathernecks Have Landed," with Lew Ayres, at 11:15. 1:35, 3:45. 6:05. 8:25. 10:45.

ISSHOIB I Positively! Last Day! Surprise Nite !) P. M. Wm. Powell, “DOUBLE HARNESS” I Paul Muni, “DR. SOCRATES” I

Garbo Not to Come Back Until April 15 HOLLYWOOD, March 26.—Greta Garbo, scheduled to return here April 1, will not be back until two weeks later, her studio said today. The Swedish star will make two pictures as soon as she returns. Scripts have been prepared for ‘Camille” and “Countess Walewska,” but the order in which they will be made has not been decided yet.

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High School Music Meet Enrolls 100 Indiana University Sectional Contest to Be Held Here Saturday. One hundred high school music pupils are to participate in the Indianapolis sectional meet of the eighth annual High School Music Contest, to be held Saturday morning at the Indiana University Extension Division. The contest is sponsored by the university’s Music School and the Extension Division, with Miss Mary Orvis in charge of the sectional meet. Winners of divisional contests in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, East Chicago and Seymour are to compete in the state meet at Bloomington April 16. This is to be one of the events on Indiana University’s Hoosier Music Festival program, April 16-18. Local Students Entered. The most promising students of piano, violin, ’cello and voice are to be awarded scholarships to the university Music School. Titles of “superior” and medals are to be awarded the two contestants scoring the highest number of points in solo instrument 'divisions. Two special Ludwig d;um medals and a drum major’s twirling baton are to be special prizes in the drum solo and drum major’s auditions, with medals for second and third places. Indianapolis students in the sectional contest include: Voice Division—Josephine Best, Betty Herr, Evadean Edwards, Madge McConnell, Miriam Schaub, Maxine Shrader, Mary Sweeney, David l ynch, Justin Lynch, Kathleen Hergt, Bessie Allender, Lois Bell and Edward Bennett, all cf Technical High School; Mary Rapid, St. Mary’s School; Robert Younce, Iris Tanner and John W. Hawker, Crispus Attucks High School. Piano Division—Alonzo Blackburn and Susie Belle Pruitt, Crispus Attucks; Kathleen Hergt and Mary Belle Masterson, • Technical, and William Leukardt, Manual High School. Violin Division —Dorothy Cain, Technical, and Pauline Freeland, St. Mary’s. Cornet Division —Herman Reece, Technical, and Edward Mansfield, Crispus Attucks.

Run Is Extended Civic Theater’s current production, “Post Road,” is to be presented in an extra performance at 8:30 tonight because of the heavy demand for tickets. Elizabeth Bogart Schofield heads a cast which includes Harold Arnholter, C. C. Robinson, Sarah Lauer, Wayne Swope and Mary T. Bogart.

3 UNIT shows 15c to 6 Chester Morris, “PURSUIT” J. Holt, “Dangerous Waters” Plus the Most Fantastic Serial Ever Filmed i|||l|Kp|3Kl First 100 Children Admitted * ll ** Free Friday Evening 6:30 o. m.

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Missionary Society Is to Meet Monday Mrs. Laura Funke is to lead the program at Monday night’s meeting of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of Woodside Methodist Church. Mrs. Virginia Hancock, 312 S. Temple-av, is to be hostess, assisted oy Mrs. Elsie Seitz. The general topic is to be “Look

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at New Occasions,” with Mrs. Nell Ramsey in charge of the devotions. Missionary to Speak The annual thank-offering service of the Riverside Methodist Women’s Foreign Missionary Society is to ba addressed tomorrow morning by Neal Ireland, returned missionary from South America. Mrs. Lula Albert is president of the society.

Puppeteers of Hollywood Make Miniature Airplane Perform Magic Maneuvers Scene in ‘Thirteen Hours by Air/ With Fred Mac Murray, Was Made With Four-Foot Model Ship, Small Tank and Plaster Background. BY PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, March 26.—An airplane slips through a narrow mountain pass during a heavy snowstorm. Propellers falter; you know that ic must be forming on the wings. It loses altitude, almost grazes the top* of tall pines, flattens to a forced landing in a meadow beside an icy river. Wheels plow through deep white banks and it comes to a clumsy, breathtaking halt.

Fifteen feet away a perspiring director yells, “Cut!” The incident has occurred in the miniature tank on a production lot. The scene is for “Thirteen Hours by Air,” in which Fred Mac Murray is supposed to be the pilot of a transcontinental run. Painstaking technicians, 16 in all, maneuver a four-foot model airplane with a maze of slim wires and pulleys. They’re the puppeteers of Hollywood. In the background are mountains made of wood and plaster. Powdered gypsum is fed into a wind machine and it speeds past the camera like snow. Genuine Modesty Revealed Other wires carry current to the plane, lighting its cabin and turning its propellers. A previously recorded strip of film provides the sound. Movie magic at its best. , Now and then you encounter genuine modesty in talkietown. If they had been the sole judges of their screen possibilities, several players who have become famous would have given up their careers after their first pictures. Sylvia Sidney was one. After her debut, it was more than a year before she could be persuaded to come back. She thought she was terrible. Helen Hayes had a similar experience. Made a picture in which she didn’t like herself, and it took

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MARCH 26, 1906

executives more than five years to convince her that she had talent and value. Gary Cooper went even farther; walked out on a big picture because he thought he was incapable of enacting a big scene. Chester Morris bought a ticket to New York after seeing himself in flickers for the first time. Glenda Farrell did the same thing. Less Nomadic Now You almost can hear the gnashing of teeth these days when you drive past the Chamber of Commerce building in Beverly Hills. Trouble is that Beverly no longer holds undisputed sway as the favorite home spot of the screen stars. A faithful number of them still dwell in some of the tree-screened palaces there, but a big majority have gone to houses in secluded canyons. Brentwood, Los Feliz, Toluca Lake, the beaches, ranches, and even apartments and houses in Hollywood itself. Nearly all are a good deal less nomadic than they were in tha gilded days when they’d move every few weeks or months just for an excuse to give a housewarming. All that jumping about was pretty expensive, and brought innumerable claims and suits for damages from wily landlords. Most stars own their own homes now.

EAST SIDE TACOMA fg£ SEPEdmund Low* "GRAND EXIT” “A FEATHER IN HER HAT” IRVING ' Freddie Bartholomew "PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER” Comedy—Cartoon Emerson 1 Jack Oakte "COLLEGIATE” "ANOTHER FACE” HAMILTON Double Feature Walter Connelly “SOAK THE RICH” 7 “YELLOW DUST” PARK E R X/zF “MISS PACIFIC J FLEET’’° n< * eU “FARMER TAKES A WIFE” STR A N D “MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION”* 1 “LITTLE AMERICA” D A V V ***> E. Wash. St. ku A i iVw'* 1 ”. N ;‘* ht Esther Ralston “FORCED LANDING” “BURNING GOLD” Paramount Er ni ij!?'tr“ t ' "A TALE OF TWo'oTIES” Comedy Novelty—Last Chap. Roaring Wes* SOUTH SIDE FOUNTAIN SQUARIT Double Feature Wallace Ford "ANOTHER FACE” "DIZZY DAMES” SANDERS Edward E. Horton “REMEMBER LAST NIGHT” “HAPPINESS C. O. D.” A VA L 0 Nsra?-te^ Barbara Stanwyck 'RED SALUTE" “HAYSEED ROMANCE” ; ORIENTAL ‘ Peter Lerre “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” GARFIELD wL^p^ * Lle Talbott “BROADWAY HOSTESS” Comedy—News—Cartoon J