Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1936 — Page 24

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Mala, Eskimo Star, Heads Cast in South Sea Island Film, 'Last of the Pagans' Movie Appearing at Ambassador Depends on Plot; Only Two Players Have Had Hollywood Experience; ‘Desire’ Is Also Shown on Bill. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Life and romance sre the same the world over, and whether It’s in Hollywood, New York, or the tiny island of Safoa, you will find that the "eternal” triangle is a world-wide problem. Latest proof is found in "Last of the Pagans,” a South Sea island film now appearing at the Ambassador. The cast includes only two Hollywood players, Mala, an Eskimo, and Lotus Long, a lovely girl

whose birthplace was the Orient. The title of the film is a bit misleading, for, with the exception of a few details, the romance is much the same as that in more sophisticated features. Captures Prospective Bride Mala plays the role of Taro, a native of Safoa, who chases down the pretty Lilleo (Lotus Long) as a prospective wife. Through the hills they go and when the maiden is finally captured, Taro discovers that the rest of his kinsmen have fled before the spear-tossers of Lilleo’s village. That night he and Lilleo, still an unwilling captive, escape in a stolen boat to Taro's home island. There the chief attempts to take Lilleo from Taro and the age-old triangle Is complete. A schooner puts in at the village Just as Taro and Lilleo have decided that they love each other. After a wild party on board the schooner, through the villainy of the native chief, Taro is sent with other natives, to work in the phosphate mines nearby. Lilleo is kept at the island and is forced to wed the chief. Lovers Are Reunited When Taro saves the life of one of the min') officials after a cave-in, he is told that Lilleo will be brough > to live with him. When the ship cf otain discovers that Lilleo has married the chief, he refuses to take her to Taro, but she stows dway and gets to him anyway. While Taro is away at work, the island police take her back to the schooner. But during a terrific storm, Taro rescues her and together they set out to find anew island home. Lacking the excellent photography which made "Man of Aran,” another film of this type, one of last year's best pictures, "Last of the Pagans” depends more on plot and acting. Os the latter there is little, except, for wide grins from Taro and slightly more emotional expression by Lilleo. As an Innovation in movies, many fans will find a certain amount of pleasure In these rough-hewn Gables. Harlows and Loys. One of the delightful bits in the picture is supplied by a youthful comedian, Ae A Faaturia, who plays Timee, the son of one of the native fishermen. He should have a place In Hollywood. The second feature on the Ambassador bill is the very excellent comedy "Desire,” starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich. Reviving Texas Rangers’ Songs The old songs of the trail sung by the original Texas Rangers during the Indian wars have been obtained from official state archives and will be sung by Fred Mac Murray and Jack Oakie in King Vidor’s production of “The Texas Rangers.” De Mille Is Sharpshooter Cecil B. De Mille, practicing at the Angeles police department pistol range, often makes a better score with moving targets than the police team.

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Sally in New Role By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 1 Sally Rand, whose contribution to the theater has been her swaying figure behind a fan or bubble, today contemplated anew characterization —the role of "Calamity Jane,” tobac-co-chewing gun-toter of the frontier days. Cecil B. De Mille selected Rally as an ideal “Calamity Jane” to play opposite Gary Cooper as “Wild Bill Hickok” in Paramount's latest superwestern picture. He announced also he was considering her for the role of "Delilah” in his pending “Samson and Delilah.”

Movies Want Two Musicians Rachmaninoff and Stokowski Lured by Offers. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May I.—Transition of the motion picture industry from the slapstick stage into what studio press agents fondly describe as "higher stuff” was a step nearer today as contracts were waved at two leading exponents of classical music. Fat contracts have been offered Serge .Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski by Para mount studio. The noted pianist wa reported “interested” in the proposal that he come here and compose music for the films. Stokowski, now here .with his Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, also was said to be considering an offer that he and his musical organization appear in a motion picture version of the Bizet opera, "Carmen.” The advance of the movies on leaders in classical music started when Warner Brothers hired Erich Korngold to handle the music for the filmized version of "Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Columbia recently completed a picture starring Grace Moore which Is based on an opera by Fritz Kveisler, famous violinist. Youth Gets Chance in Film Olympe Bradna, Hollywood’s youngest singing - dancing - acting starlet, and Ray McCarey, youngest director in the industry, will be joined in the forthcoming film-mu-sical, “Three Cheers for Love.” Mac Murray Failed as Amateur Fred McMurray, whose rise in films to such roles as the lead opposite Carole Lombard in “The Princess Comes Across,” was sudden and spectacular, often tried out, but never won a part in an amateur show.

Native Film Stars

The first local showing of "Last of .the Pagans opened at the Ambassador yesterday for a threeday run. On the same bill is to be seen Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich in “Desire.” Starred in “Last of the Pagans” are Mala and Lotus (above.)

Beery Catch Record Standing Since 1916 Timee Special HOLLYWOOD, May I.—For 20 years Wallace Beery has been a champ and never knew it. In 1916 at Catalina, the screen comedian caught a sea bass weighing 515 psrunds. The catch created quite a stir among the fisher folk at the time. Wally thought it was a pretty big fish, too. The other day he happened to glance through the World Almanac and curiously, looked up the fishing records. His fish is still listed as the record catch of all time. Harpo Holding Out for Speaking Part Times Special HOLLYWOOD. May I.—Groucho and Chico Marx want Harpo to sign an agreement not to do any more flying. They have caught him out in an airplane recently and knowing his temperament, have worried for fear he might go in for stunts. Harpo says he will agree, providing the two brothers will permit him to have a speaking part in the new Marx brothers film, now being prepared.

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN AMBASSADOR "Last of the Pagans,” with Mala and Lotus, native stars, at 10, 1, 4:05. 7:10, 10:15. Also ''Desire,” with , Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, at 11:30, 2:30, 5:35, 8:50. APOLLO ‘‘l Married a Doctor” with Pat O'Brien and Josephine Hutchinson, at 11:37, 1:37, 3:37, 5:37, 7:37, and 9:37. CIRCLE ‘'Till We Meet Again” with Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael, at 11:25, 2:20, 5:25, and 8:30. Also ‘Rhodes” with Walter Huston at 12:35, 3:35, 6:35 and 9:40. KEITH’S "Do Unto Others," by Henry K. Burton, directed by Charles Berkell, produced by Federal Players, with Charles Althoff, Jack Duval, Ned Le Fevre, Ira B. Klein and CMari de Schipper in the cast. € LOEW’S "The Great Ziegfeld.” road show running three hours, with city premiere tonight at 8:30. Stars William Powell. Myrna Loy, Luise Ranier, Virginia Bruce. Frank Morgan. LYRIC Duke Ellington and his band on stage at 12:57, 3:01, 5:05. 7:19 and 9:33. "The Country Beyond” with Rochelle Hudson. Robert Kent and Paul Kelly, at 11:33, 1:47, 3:51, 5:55, 8:09, and 10:23.

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Loew's Film Is Biography of Glorifier Veteran Follies Writer Pens Life of Ziegfeld for Screen. “The Great Ziegfeld,” starring William Powell, Myma Loy, Luise Rainer and Virginia Bruce, will open as a road show attraction at Loew’s at 8:30 tonight. BY PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, May 1 (NEA)— William. Anthony McGuire wrote Ziegfeld shows for 14 years. But when he undertook “The Great Ziegfeld,” he determined to make it a biography of the old Glorifier and not just a celluloid follies. And so you are going to look in vain for sc great many people identified with Ziegfeld spectacles. There’ll be no Sophie Tucker, Peggy Joyce, Eva Tanguay, Ed Wynn, Ina Claire, Leon Errol, Georgie White, Gallagher and Shean, Frank Tinney, Fairbanks twins, Bert Williams. Mae Murray, Billie Dove, Dorothy Mackaill, Ruby Keeler, Helen Morgan, Dorothy Knapp, Lina Basquette, Gladys Glad or Marion Davies. Too Many for One Picture “I wish we could have represented them all —those and a lot more just as important,” said McGuire. “But it couldn’t have been done in half a dozen pictures. Why, the first announcement that this thing was going into production brought applications from 5000 girls—the biggest response I ever heard of. “Some of them would break your heart. Original Ziegfeld girls, who now are women of 35 to 40, sent in their pictures. We got applications from daughters of Ziegfeld girls, even from second cousins and nieces of Ziegfeld girls. No granddaughters, but I wouldn’t have been surprised. “There were 15 letters from men who wanted to play the role of Ziggy. One was a college dean who said he looked lik. the showman. Every gorilla in the wrestling racket wanted to play Sandow, the strong man whom Ziggy managed in his early days. Few Influenced Ziegfeld’s, Life “Some had known Sandow; others though they were qualified just because they could lift a couple of tons.” McGuire pointed out that, of the scores who were featured in Ziegfeld shows, few had any individual bearing on the real story of the Glorifier. And there are other reasons why some will be missing from the picture. Relatives of the late Nora Bayes cou'd not agree to her representation on the screen. The- late Marilyn Miller, who Ziegfeld had said was the greatest of his stars,

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refused to come to Hollywood for a mere week's work. Os the rest, there were few who could convincingly impersonate themselves on the screen. Harriet Hoctor, the dancer, is one. Fannie Brice, grand, ageless comedienne who nightly stops the show at the current Follies, is another. In Film, But Not as Herself Virginia Bruce is ieatured in the picture—but not as Virginia Bruce. Ann Pennington was engaged, but not used. W. C. Fields is mentioned only in dialog. Eddie Cantor and the late Will Rogers are impersonated by other players, so, too, are Ziegfeld’s wives—Anna Held and Billie Burke. McGuire, himself as colorful an individual as Johnson’s Boswell, recalls some untold Ziegfeld anecdotes which he wasn’t able to work into the picture., One is about Fannie Brice, who, when she got her first wire from the producer, walked up and down Broadway shouting it to everybody. “Look,” she’d say, 'T’m going to work for Ziggy!” So great was her pride, so many her acquaintances, that she missed the appointment and almost lost the job. The producer’s flair for publicity was even on the macabre order. How He Made Page One “I’ll show you how to get on the front pages,” he said, while berating a lazy press agent. “Go to the morgue and claim the first unidentified body of a girl you see. Say that she was one of my dancers. Pay the burial expenses and offer some

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Sunday is to be the appearance of Clyde Beatty in his lion and tiger act. Mr. Beatty is shown above with one of the beast with which he appears.

Leading Child Stars Teamed for Picture Times Special HOLLYWOOD, May I.—Three of the screen's most capable child actors are to be teamed together for the first time in “The Devil Is a Sissy.” The three are Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper. money to the family. You can do that for S2OO, a id it’ll get us on Page One.” n SHORTLY before his death, when Ziegfeld was in Hollywood for the filming of “Whoopee,” he proved strangely reluctant to return to the East by way of San Francisco. McGuire discovered that he was worried about some charges which had been brought against him 30 years previously, when he had played San Francisco with Sandow and a lion. Humane authorities had discovered that the lion, standing on metal slats on the floor of the cage, had been literally electrified in the presence of the strong man, who wore rubber shoes.

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Circle Exhibits Replicas of Diamonds Which Sent Men and Nations to Kill • ‘Rhodes/ Motion Picture Version of British Empira Builder’s Climb to Power, Opens Tomorrow With Walter Huston Featured. Replicas of many of the world's famous diamonds for which mpn killed and countries warred are displayed this week at the Circle in connection with the opening today of “Rhodes.” featuring Walter Huston,

Diamonds were the means by which the Empire Builder climbed to greatneSvS and to wealth so vast that with one stroke of his pen he purchased for 26 million dollars a competing mine. In the collection of replicas being shown at the Circle is the Kohinoor which now is on Queen Victoria’s crown. It is called the Methuselah of all diamonds, its history going back 5000 years to the invasion of India. One king had boiling oil poured on his head because of it. Another was blinded by his brothers for its possession and the brothers later starved rather than lose it. Originally weighing 186 carats, it was recut for Queen Victoria’s crown, and now weighs only 106 carats. One of its traditions is that it never brought bad luck to a woman, although for men its history is perhaps the bloodiest of all diamonds. The fate of the Great Mogul Is unknown. Mined in 1650, it weighed 787 carats, and after cutting weighed nearly 280 carats. Some think it was recut and part became the Kohinoor; others think it reappeared as the Orloff diamond,

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and there are those who think it has been cut into small stones. All trace of it has vanished. The Brilliant Regent began ita history as a 410-carat stone hidden in the bandage of the leg of a slave in India In 1701. Offering it for passage on a boat, he was murdered by the captain, who then sold the stone for SSOOO. Napoleon secured it after the gem had caused trouble in England and wore it on his sword hilt. It now is exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. The replicas include one of the Pigott, which was considered the most valuable possession of an Egyptian Khedive, who ordered it crushed and his wife killed after his death. His wife was murdered, but the diamond escaped. The 898-carat Shah of Persia; the 55-carat, Sancv; the Jubilee, which is the third largest of known finished diamonds: ;he Orloff: the Nassak and the Florentine are other stones which may be seen in replica at the Circle,

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