Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1936 — Page 21

MAY 21, 1936

Collier Senior Still Acts in Pictures While Junior Has Turned to Production Father Takes Things Easy After 50 Years on Stage and Screen; Son Praises Him for Being First Actor to 'Throw Lines Away.’ BY RUTH M’TAMMANY Timp* Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, May 21.—William Collier Sr. and William Collier Jr. are a “father and son” combination will known to screen and theater Senior now is playing in “Cain and Mable” with Clark Gable and Marion Davies. Junior forsook the screen several years ago while he still was a popular “juvenile'’ to enter the production end of the business. “My father could play in one picture after another but he prefers to take it easy after 50 years of active work in the theater. I think he is wise,” said Buster. ,

"Yes,” said Senior, “my first job was given to me by Eddie Foy Sr. when I wa.<* 11. He was my first boss and I've been in the profession ever since.” “And I am assistant to a son of Eddie Foy now,” said Junior, “that's a coincidence. Dad was the first actor to "throw lines aw'ay.’ By that I mean, instead of saying a line direct to the audience for a laugh, he started the serious-face method of saying the laugh line casually and then turning upstage or across ano letting the audience catch up to the humor.” That Was in 1916 “That's right,” said Senior, “and that was back in 1916 when I was playing in George Cohan’s ’Helm Broadway.’ The best example of that technique was my part in ‘Nothing But the Truth.’ There was a good play and because its dialogue was so modern, it still is played by stock companies and theater groups. In 'Cain and Mabel’ I am playing the manager of Clark Gable, who is a prize fighter in the story.” “But the part isn’t big enough for you, dad,” interrupted Junior. “Don't you worry, son, I tried to build it up in a scene with Gable yesterday. In ihe story, the young prize fighter wants to quit the ring after three years and my line is: “ ‘What? Quit after I’ve managed you for three years and am just beginning to make a little money?’ “We rehearsed the scene and in the final ’take’ I said: ‘What? Quit after I've managed you for six years, etc., etc.’ The director came to me and said, ‘Collier, you slipped up on your lines. It is only three years—not six.’ “‘I know,’ I said, ‘I w r as just trying to build up my part.’ “ 'Don't do it —keep to your lines.’ “I can imagine he wanted to say: ’What do you think you are ... a star?’ ” “Why, dad, you fan teach them all something,” said Junior. “No, Buster, the old days of an actor's privilege of creating a role is gone, at least as far as pictures arc concerned. You did a wise thing when you w'ent into the production end of the business. "Even if I did ‘sweep out’ the stage as an assistant’s assistant when I first began?” “You couldn't have remained a juvenile very long. And look at me!” “You're still one of the best actors on the screen or stage.” “I'm a prize fight manager in ‘Cain and Mabel.’ You can figure that anyway you want, son.” a a a- - Knowles, who is playing in two pictures at once, “Charge of the Light Biigade” and “Sweet Aloes,” came from London six weeks ago. In fact, he came so direct that the plane which brought him here from New York landed just a few hours before he was due on location for action If he had heard that speed was characteristic of America, he is now convinced of it because he has been rushed about since. “I have been asked many time' what I think of Hollywood,” says this young Britisher. “But how can I say? I haven't seen it. I have been on one of your mountains, on location, I have been riding a horse in scenes in your valleys but outside of that, I only know the studio and my make-up table. No one seems to have time to sit about and talk over amusing things, for instance, which happen during the day. I miss these stories, I miss the good laughs. “Have you heard of Spoonerisms? No? Really! Well, there’s a certain Englishman by the name of Spooner, who is a master at play on words

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or turning them about most amusj ir.gly. “He tells this one: he was announcing the King and he rose and said: ‘Kinglemen, the Gent!’ “I've told it here before—but no one has laughed yet.” Knowles, only 23, is a fine actor with several years of experience including two years of Shakespeare in a company which toured England and Ireland. We watched him play a scene in “Sweet Aloes.” There was one rehearsal and a “take.” His director. Archie Mayo, smiled, rubbed his hands together and said: “Patric, you make me happy.” “One Take” actors are “tops” in Hollywood. a a a A closed set sign on a stage door at a Hollywood studio is intriguing and irksome to a reporter. It is like meeting a blue-coated guard at the entrance of a brown-stone front where you've gone to get the story of the murder. “You can’t get in. Beat it!” he says. “Who did the killing? Where’s the body?” you gasp. “It’s a beautiful corpse, but you can’t get the story. Beat it!” You go back to the city editor’s desk and fire yourself. What’s Going On? The “closed set” board starts you imagining the scene behind the scenes. Perhaps a temperamental star who, a few years ago, greeted you with open arms hoping you would write her up as a fast-rising “gal” of unusual beauty and talent But now she is beyond the pale ot mere publicity. Then again, the story of the picture in production may be an ultra-modern yarn of such rare situations and “two-time” dialogue that there is danger of a reporter not “understanding” everything and writing in his column that the whole cast is crazy and that the scene is a madhouse. So you beg and plead with the "bosses” for the privilege of passing through the forbidden doors so that you can write a beautiful story which will help lure the paying guests to the box office where they will deposit their quarters and dollars in the coffers of an industry which occasionally says: “The corpse is beautiful—but you can’t get the story. Beat it.”

Music Recital Is to Be Given Pianist and Organist Are to Appear at Woodruff Place Church. Miss Marian Laut, pianist, and Thomas Tibbs, organist, are to appear in recital at 8:15 Tuesday night in the Woodruff Place Baptist Place. The following program will be presented: i Prelude and Fugue in E Minor Bach "Evening Snow at Fujikawa” Marsh ■ Canyon Walls” ciokev 'Shepherd’s Evening Prayer” Nevin Toccata (Fifth Symphony) Widor Mr. Tiffs. II Novelette Schumann ' Reflections in the Water” Debussy Etude-Tableau. Op. 33, No. 6 Rachamaninoff Nocturne Sgambati Capriccio Dohananvi Miss Laut. 111 Symphonic Piece Ciokey Dialogue Scherzo Intermezzo Fugue Miss Laut and Mr. Tibbs.

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Comments of Style Dictator Are Laws to Hollywood Stars Tricks With Clothes Do Wonders for Figures and Moods, Says Expert; Carole Lombard Agrees.

Only one man in Hollywood car. say “No!” to the most temperamental screen stars and not get fireworks in return. He also is the only man who can say, “You’re getting fat,” or “You’re too thin—we'll have to put a couple of pounds on you,” and have his words heeded humbly and with respect. Travis Banton is the name of this lord of Hollywood, this dictator of what the stars wear in movie after movie. The highest paid clothes designer in the W'orld, his ability to plan actresses’ clothes that do the right thing to figures, his ability to make a bony girl look pleasingly padded, and the generous-sized lithe and graceful is known throughout the fashion world. Demanded by Actress The high esteem in which his work is held was demonstrated whet; Carole Lombard., star of “The Princess Comes Across,” which opens tomorrow' at the Circle, w'as “loaned to another company by her # owo studio. Until Mr. Banton was permitted to design her clothes she refused to w'ork. But Mr. Banton is no less particular about those for w’hom he designs. He refuses to make even his preliminary sketch until he feels he knows the star who is to wear the costume even better than she know's herself. “How can I take a chance on giv-

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department at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, is to conduct the conservatory orchestra in a concert at Caleb Mills Hall tomorrow night.

ing any woman a dress or hat which w'ould convey a feeling different from what she’s trying to express in her ow'n personality?” he says "Every women has an individual reaction to the W'orld at large—and especially actresses, w'ho work under tremendous emotional pressure. Theclothes must soothe and rest them - they must be styled so the star wearing them will not be ’fighting’ her clothes. Quick to Catch Idea “Designing clothes for Carole Lombard,” says Mr. Banton, “is one of the pleasantest jobs any one could hope for. Carole can visualize anything she’s told, and there’s never any need to go into detailed explanations with her. “For instance, in ‘The Princes.; Comes Across’ there is a romantic shipboard scene, in which Carole must be exotic and glamorous. We were discussing this scene, and I conceived* the idea of something Oriental in motif. I told her only one thing about the dress—that it would be called ‘The Persian Princess.’ “But instantly she got the idea—she could see, in her mind’s eye, the towering minarets and turrets or Persia, and the romantic allure of veiled harem beauties. “Where I would have had to make dozens of sketches for other women, this was all eliminated w'ith Carole She agreed to the idea, and w'e

Works from Loomis' Pen to Be Given

Jordan Artists to Present Locally Composed Songs in Recital. Admirers of the music of Clarence Loomis, head of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory composition and theory department, are to hear several new works from his pen in a recital Sunday afternoon, May 31, at the Herron Art Institute. The concert, devoted entirely to Dr. Loomis’ compositions, is to be a presentation of the Jordan school. Included among the works not previously performed here are to be two choral compositions, “White Birches in the Rain,” set to a poem by Max T. Krone, former conservatory director, and “Ebb and Flow',” with words by Helen L. Quig, piano teacher at the school. Virgil Phemister, bass, is to sing three songs, described by the composer as “Negro moods.” A song cycle. “As Life Sings,” set to poems by Mrs. George Ferguson of New York, is to be sung by Mrs. J. Harry Green. Butler Choir to Sing The choral group is to be done by the choirs of Butler University and the conservatory, individually and combined. Donald C. Gilley is the conductor. Other soloists are to be Sonja Grigo, soprano: Farrell Scott, tenor; Martha Rucker, violinist; Virginia Leyenberger, ’cellist, and a string quartet composed of Thomas Poggiani, Dorothy Woods, Seth Cary and Miss Leyenberger: Dr. Loomis is to provide the piano accompaniments. A recital of Loomis compositions was given at the Art Institute two years ago, and his one-act opera, “A Night in Avignon,” was done at the 1935 convention of the North Central Music Educators’ Conference in Indianapolis, as well as in Chicago the same year. Dr. Loomis’ three-act opera, “Yolanda,” was given in principal music centers of the country by the American Opera Cos. in 1929. started work, saving about a w'eek which otherw'ise would have been wasted.” Co-starred with Miss Lombard in “The Princess Comes Across” is Fred Mac Murray, reuniting the stars of “Hands Across the Table,” popular comedy in which the tw'o were teamed for the first time. A large supporting cast includes Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth, George Barbier and Lumsden Hare. Also opening at the Circle tomorrow is to be “The Case Against Mrs. Ames,” a mystery melodrama with Madeleine Carroll and George Brent heading the cast.

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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “Under Two Flags.” with Ronald Coleman, Claudette Colbert. Victor McLagien and Rosalind Russell, at 11. 1:30. 3:20. 5 30. 7:40 and 9:50. CIRCLE “Show Boat." with Irene Dunne. Allan Jones. Paul Robeson. Helen Morgan and Charles Winnlnger. at 11. 1:12. 3:24. 5:36, 7:48 and 10. LOEWS “The Unguarded Hour.” with Loretta Young and Franchot Tone, at 11. 1:45. 4:30. 7:15 and 10. •Roaming Ladv.” with Roland Young. Aileen Pringle and Lewis Stone, at 12:30. 3:15. 6. 8:45. KEITH’S “The Trial of Marv Dugan.” presented by the Federal Players, at 8:15. LYRIC On screen. “The First Babv." at 11:41. 2:14. 5:07. 8 and 10:24. On stage. Buddy- Rogers’ Band, at 1:15. 3:48. 6:41 and 9:34.

Stage Beckons Screen Actors Fredric March and Wife Consider Offer. By United Pre*s HOLLYWOOD. May 21.—The film colony today began showing signs of an annual affection the desire of screen luminaries to “get back to the boards” for at least a short w'hile. Among those reported stricken with "footlight fever” were Fredric March, John Barrymore, Eddie Cantor, Paul Muni. Ralph Morgan, Jack Haley, Leslie Howan} and Burgess Meredith. March is contemplating an offer to co-star with his wife, Florence Eldridge, in a play. Paul Muni has received an offer to play Napoleon In Max Gordon’s production of “St. Helena.” Howard is on the verge of announcing he will play “Hamlet” in New York. Ralph Morgan is scheduled to play in “We Live Tomorrow” while Burgess Meredith is to do “The Piper's Son.” Barrymore has been looking over .scripts of new plays while Cantor Is debating w’hether he has time to do a musical comedy. Natural Puns Best, Radio Comic Finds Timex Special HOLLYWOOD, May 21. —Any time a wisecrack or pun of a drug store wit doesn’t provoke a laugh, there's a definite reason. Sam (Schlepperman) Hearne, radio comedian, who faced the movie cameras for the first time in Jack Oakie’s “Florida Special,” finds from experience that humor must be natural to hold up.

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Author Urges Film Realism True-Life Problems Needed on Screen, Says Odets. Time* Special HOLLYWOOD, May 21.—Clifford Odets never has met a happy man. The “boy genius of play writing" has declared “human fulfillment to be impossible in modern civilization.” “Now and then one reads of a happy man,” he said, “like Walt Whitman, for instance, but personally I’ve never met one. “11l the movies, of course, the story is that everything is rosy. Boy meets girl, life is swell—that sort of thing. But it’s not true, and we all know it’s not true. “Truth can be gotten across the

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WEST SIDE -r a T r 2102 w. mth st. I A I r Double Feature Rochelle Hudson “THE MUSIC GOES ROUbD” Nick Stuart—“FIGHTING PLAYBOY” |Ne*i 1 jAi iv W. Wash. & Belmont. DfcLMvJNI Double Feature Irene Dunne “THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION” James Dunn—Sally Eilers J “DON’T GET PERSONAL” Da I w 2510 W. Mich. St. A I S Y Double Feature Paul Muni “THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR” Jane Withers—“PADDY O'DAY” NORTH SIDE Rl y •mm Illinois at 34th. / Double Feature Ginger Rogers “FOLLOW THE FLEET” “THE VOICE ON BUGLE ANN” UPTOWN "' Feature • w y y 1 -s Walter Connolly “SOAK THE RICH” Ann Harding—Herbert Marshall “THE LADY CONSENTS” apsa s 1 **• Ism Central at Fall Creek ZARING S Double Feature Marlene Dietrich Gary Cooper—“DESIRE” James Dunn—Sally Eilers “DON’T GET PERSONAL” /* a 30th and Illinois. GARRICK "°“ ble /*“%• Walter Connolly “ONE WAY TICKET” “VIRGINIA JUDGE” pr fs Ia m St. Clair A Ft. Wayne ST. CLAIR F‘e Jackie Cooper “TOUGH GUY” “GUARD THAT GIRL" __ Re> w 30th at Northw’t’n. t X Franchot Tone Madge Evans “EXCLUSIVE STORY” TALBOTT SSTtSST" 1 1 1 Roger Pryor “THE RETURN OF JIMMY VALENTINE” "THE LAST WILDERNESS” Stratford . ®W Feature wll allwi V 4 Jeanette McDonald “ROSE MARIE” Barton McLane—Mary Astor “MAN OF IRON” Mr* a * Noble A Mass. t C C A Double Feature l. V V/ n Leslie Howard “THE PETRIFIED FOREST” Harold Lloyd—Adolphe Menjou “THE MILKY WAY Dn pA i 1 2351 Station REA M Double Feature ' IXI Extra Speeial Paul Muni “THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR" Ne. 3 “THE GREAT AIR MYSTERY’^ EAST SIDE Rl if es | | 3155 E. 10th St. •VO L I "Zt F R r oVe U r r , e “DANCE BAND” “YOU MAY BE NEXT” TUXEDO 4fr no. E b..Ve W atuYr°erkv w Dionne Quintuplets “THE COUNTRY DOCTOR” Dick Doran—“THE SINGING COWBOY” “MOONLIGHT ON THE PRAIRIE”

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screen and made box office just as it can on the stage. One doesn't have to be gloomy about it. either. People can be given a sense of problems, a heightened perception of life, and at the same time be entertained and even gripped. “Yes. I'm talking about movie audiences. All that's needed is plenty of action, a lot of jumping around.” Author of “Waiting for Lefty,” “Awake and Sing” and other New York hits of the last two seasons, Mr. Odets was sought by nearly every Hollywood studio before accepting an offer to do the script for "The General Died at Dawn" for a large producer. Gary Cooper is to be starred in the movie adaptation of the success stage offering.

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