Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1936 — Page 29
leanor Powell Musical.
‘Maytime,
‘Good Earth’
Outstanding on Schedule
es Stewart, Frank Morgan to Display Vocal, Step|
Talents in ‘Born Announces Co
to Dance’; Loew's ming Features.
BY JOHN W. \rHOMPSON
i Leo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s trade-mark lion, raised up on his hind today and let out the loudest roar of his career as his parent comannounced its largest production schedule since the company’s for-
tion. : Outstanding in the list of flims : ng 1936-37 sare the new Eleanor
to come from M-G-M's cameras durPowell musicals, first of which is
“Born to Dance” which confains a series of real movie novelties. -
. This year’s successor to the best musical film of last year, “Broady Melody of 1936” is have Miss Powell as the star, and in Robert ‘Taylor's place as leading man, the fast-rising young dramatic star, James Stewart. You may have n him in “Next Time We Love” or “Speed” but imagine him as a poems and dancing star.
Morgan to Dance
"The picture, which is to play at ... Loew's along with @ the rest of the M4 G-M products for ¥% the new season, also will feature the indomitable Frank Morgan. And he too, is to 3% sing and dance. £ will. wonders 5 never cease? Buddy Ebsen, g # who made his Elea nor Pow ” first screen apor Powell pearance in last year’s “Melody” picture, will be back in the M-G-M traces again after a brief interlude with Twentieth Century-Fox for his work in “Capfain January” with Shirley Temple. " Others in the cast include Sid Silvers, Robert Wildhack, the professorial gentleman who explained snores to Jack Benny in last year’s musical; Francis Langford, songstress, and Juanita Quigley, child ‘star
: Announces Loew Bookings
| The story’ by Mr. Silvers, Jack McGowan, and Buddy DeSylva, is original. Cole Porter, Broadway's highest paid song writer, is to do the
‘entire score. © Along with the M-G-M announcement comes Ward Farar’s list of June and July bookings for Loew's, is list starts with “Fury,” a drama featuring Spencer Tracy: and Sylvia Sidney for the week of June 12. en come Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald in “San Francisco.” Following that, Lionel Barrymore is Be be “seen in “The Devil Doll” an ‘eerie mystery film in which Barrynore plays much of his role dis-
Ruusea as an old lady. ' He is seen as a: banker, unjustly
gonvidted of a crime, who escapes from Devil's Island and réturns in the guise of a woman to wreak vengence on his enemies. The youthful romantic roles are taken by ureen O'Sullivan and Frank Lawton, seen together in “David Copperfield.” } “Maytime” Is Accepted
* Following “The Devil Doll” Loew's will present “Suzy,” featuring Jean Harlow, Cary Grant and Franchot ne. Accompanying these fist run pictures will be other films released ugh M-G-M and Columbia
Studios. § Another 1936-37 flash news item A the announcement that the : ext Nelson-Eddy-Jeanette Mac- : ald movie will’ be “Maytime,” '& subject Mr. Eddy suggested Ss a likely film title when he nade his concert appearance here ly this year. Edmund Golding 1 direct. “ Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor are to be co-starred in “His other's Wife,” a story of a scien¢c expedition ' into the South : = jungles. Jean Hersholt is Jaruay one of the featured roles. 8. Van Dyke is to direct this
\ CuGood Earth” to Be Filmed . . Continuing the “Ah, Wilderness” cycle, M-G-M is to produce soon
#Old Hutch,” starring Wallace ery and featuring the sweethearts
the Eugene O'Neil picture, Eric :
den and Cecilia Parker, + Luise . Ranier,
nths in “The Good Earth” which
Paul Muni. Miss Ranier won
role of O’'Lan.
Outstanding Metro productions. included in the .new. season's
but produced late enough to be
own during the early” part of the year, include
prma Shearer, expected here in ptember; “The Gorgeous Hussy,” th Robert Taylor and Joan Crawin the leading roles; ble’s stunt aviation film, “No p”; Joseph Calleia’s starring ve2, “Sworn Enemy,” which is sup-
Ord
whose work: as Held in “The Great Ziegfeld” n a new M-G-M long-term conT t, is to be seen in the next few
pW “Romeo and) pliet,” starring Leslie Howard and |
Clark
Tots to Have Stage Careers
Barrymore Children to Be Actors, Moifter Says.
h Times Sprotas HOLLYWOOD, June 5~—Using her own early experience as a guide, Dolores ‘Costello, wife of John Barrymore, is going to employ all the tricks she knows to enlighten her children’s climb to the shaky ladder of stage and screen careers. She wants them to have theatrical leanings, and with generations of theatrically minded forbears on both sides of the family, can see no reason why they shouldn’t. So Dolores Ethel Mae, 6, and John Jr., 4, are going to have a lot of the pitfalls" smoothed out for them if mama gets her way. “I feel this way,” Miss Costello said, “because I know what it means { ® be born into a famous stage famiy Talent Is Expected
“Producers and directors at first think you are trying to get by on mother or father’s name. That hinders a great deal. Later on, they expect you to become a great artist just because you did come from an illustrious family.” “It’s not true that actors are born. In fact, I believe that years of study and training are necessary to turn out a competent player no matter who his parents were. Just being born into a family of stage greafs doesn’t put a silver spoon into one’s ‘mouth as far as acting is concerned.” Miss Costello is now appearing in
“Yours for the Asking” with George Raft as a leading man.
Termed Popular]
Times Special NEW YORK, June 5.—“Dancing Pirate,” forthcoming Technicolor film, featuring Charles Collins,
.| Stefi Duna and Frank Morgan, al-
ready ‘Is rated by the National Dance League as one of the ‘outstanding dance pictures of the year. It is stimulating Pirate Dance contests among young people. The first Pirate Dance contest here was. judged by Lucile Marsh, director of the National Dance League, who said that dances from the movie likely are to prove. popular with young people because they have swinging rhythm and. many trick Steps.
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN
APOLLO
Number” with = Loretta and Robert Taylor, 3 41, 5:41, 7:41, and 9: 14h
CIRCLE Xd
“Early to Bed” with Charlie Rugles and Mary Boland, at 11:55, 2:35, Tnesta ol Li Richard “Special 11,.1:35, 4:15, 6:55, and 9:35. =
LOEW'S
“Trouble for Two” with Rosalind Russell and Robert M A ST de TL e 'S uadron’’ Richard D Dix, at 12:32, 3:17, 6: %0, ‘and :
KEITH'S
: **. presented : the Pederal I haa at's: 15. ji
LYRIC
HL an I'* on’ screen, with Fran- -. ces Dee Brian an Donley, at 11:34, os, 5:05. ne n v Fram :3 8 on stage, e he ankie Parr t ¢ 1:08 3:39. 6: ss. ‘and 8 31. ish, a
© “Private “Youn, 1:41,
‘Dancing Pirate”.
RRR
«You've heard a lot about Bob Burns, “bazooka” player on Bing Crosby’s radio program. Well, here he is, with Martha Raye,
with whom he used to play vaudeville years ago. They are both to be featured in “Rhythm on the Range,” Bing’s next starring production.
Disaster and Death Form Basis of Comedy, Says | Film Producer
People Laugh at Things They Fear, Provided Incidents Are Not Presented J Tragically, Scenarist Claims.
Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, June 5.—People ugh only at what they fear, says
Jack Cunningham,
producer-scenarist. = Disaster,
robbery, ignorance,
terror and death are roots of comedy and tragedy alike, he says, and only the manner of treatment determines which is to result. A close friend and ‘collaborator of W. C.. Fields, Mr. Cunningham now acts in an advisory capacity on the comedian’s current picture,
“Poppy. ” “I? the things we laugh at on the screen actually happened to us we wouldn't see a thing funny about them,” he says. “But when we see them happen to’ some) one else— some one to whom we are able to feel superior—we laugh, provided the circumstances aren't presented tragically Tiustrating how death — sudden death—may be made to seem hilariously funny, he cited the scene in “The Ghost Goés' West,” in which Murdoch Glourie (Robert Donat) was pictured as being blown to bits. The incident was one of the funJniest’ in ‘the picture and brought the heartiest laughs from ' audiences, he said. Robbery provides the basis for one of the funniest scenes in “Poppy,” when Mr. ‘Fields, as an old carnival manager, ;swindles a group of small town “suckers” in a shell game. “And then,” says Mr: Cunningham, “the audience will laugh at the predicament of Mr. Fields when he’s exposed as an old crook and impostor.” Mr. Cunningham thinks Mr. Fields is “the greatest psychologist in the business.”
‘Army’ Pace Marked 5 by Feature Player
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 5~—If observing movie goers watch closely, they may notice that French soldiers in “The Road to Glory” step off right foot: first when they
| march, instead of with the custom-
ary left foot.
The explanation is that a change:
was made becatise Gregory Patofl is in the cast. Gregory, it was discovered during the filming of “Under Two Plags,” couldnt step off consistently on his left foot, so the | director of ° changed the custom to please him.
Actress Excells at Sports Madelaine Carroil, English ‘actress co-featured with Gary Cooper in “The General Died at Dawn,” is
an accomplished horsewoman, polo |
player, swimmer, golfer and tennis {
Nth hills, danger, laughs!
Re Cnn RA
“The Road to Glory” |
Actor to Try Swimming Feat
Erik Rhodes Arranges to Start 8-Mile Swim.
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, June 5—Er would make an attempt at a triangular eight-mile. swim across Mead Lake, the large: body of; Jwater.behind Boulder Dam. e Young Oklahoma screen ace tor recently failed in'a try at swimming Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley when he accidentally swallowed a mouthful of salty water and became ill. He previously set a record for the 10-mile ocean swim from Santa Monica to Malibu Beach. His attempt will be sponsored by Las Vegas and Boulder City, Nev. The try isto be made this week-end.
‘| Elected Head of Student Council
Gerald Bettcher, North Liberty, has been elected president of the student council at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, it was announced today. Other officers elected were Dorothy Woods, Indianapolis, vice president; Roger Riley, ‘Marion, secré-tary-treasurer; Harold Kottlowski, Indianapolis, senior representative; Lois McCain, . Delphi, junior rep--resentative, and Shirley - Peterson,
Haitimond, sophomore representave
Rhodes today disclosed * that 5
{Taking of Scene in Which
.. Miss Dietrich Is Starred Described by Writer.
BY RUTH M'TAMMANY ; Times Hollywood Correspondent Robert Hichens’ romantic novel “The Garden of Allah,” which David O. Selznick: has adapted for the screen, is nearing completion. With a large company, somewhat exhausted from their month's work on a desert location where the mid-day at times registered 135 degrees, they are back at the studio taking scenes
|in the garden of Count Anteoni.
Luxurious palms, olive trees and tropical flowers have been planted
fountain played in the center of-a court, surrounded by sand, 80 tons of it, transported from Yuma, Ariz. because the technicolor camera caught another color in the local sand which did not match the scenes taken on the California desert. Refreshments of fruit, wine and nuts: were on the old marble table
house in the background stood out in relief against a blue cloudless sky. Director Shows Nervousness Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone and C. Aubrey Smith sat around the: refreshment table, ready for the scene. Director Richard Boleslowski, nervously eating nuts which he took in rapid shecession from a silver dish, gave last minute suggestions. The wind swept vp from the Pacific and over the plains of Culver City and its “Garden.” It whipped up the sand in the court and blew: it into the faces of the players. Nellie, a studio hairdresser, made her rounds, reset a Dietrich curl here and smoothed down a Boyer wave there. An Arab, Joseph Schildkraut, stood on the side and looked on. Fritz Lang, the German director of “monocle” fame, also was a visitor. Everything was ready and:Boleslowski gave the order for the siren which blows out a loud warning for |all workmen on the lot to cease pounding. The scene was played, a discussion about “weakness of the flesh” which aroused the rebellious Boyer, cast as a Trappist monk out in the world. Caught in turmoil between the woman he loved and duty to his faith, he lost control of his emotions and screamed to C. Aubrey Smith, a priest, “it is not true.” The priest answered, “Mohammed dwelt too much on the'conflict of the body,” and took his departure. It was not a scene of action, but a tense moment which had to do with-the inner struggles of a.group of people living; isolated in:a land which is too exotic and dverpowering in its influence for frail man to resist. Charles Boyer, agitated, walked suddenly out of the scene and an assistan$ said “cut.”
\
Pupils to Give’
Second Recital
The week's . seeond ‘recital by pupils of Fred Newell * Morris,
teacher of singing, is to be Held: at 8:15 ‘tonight in McKee: Chapel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian
be the accompanist. 5 Thosé taking . part are Misses Mary . Koch, Lou. Ellen: Trimble, Rosemary Lawlor and Mary E. Frey, and Orrville Warrenfelt, Joseph Sims, Erwin Wicklund, Edward Hittle, Alfred" Halliday and Jack Strickland.
Name Lake Club Provident
Sir Guy Standing, who is soon scheduled to appear in “The End of the World,” is the new president of the Malibu Lake Club, where he
makes his home. :
“Rough and Ready’) 1.
i ————— MORGAN DANCERS } Acrobatic Beputy - -
STONE & HE
on the terrace above the garden| -fand the antique silver and crystal | glistened in the sun. The columned
Church. Miss Mae Engle again: will,
on a back lot of the studio. An old| 3
oa
One of the most promising dancing discoveries of the 1935 season, Eleanore Whitney, is. to
Token Hunters Demand Shoes
Film Fans Declared Most Avid Souvenir Seekers
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 5.—Film fans from Alaska to the South Seas have one quality in common—they are the world’s most avid and _persistent souvenir hunters. If Fred Astaire and Ginger Rog=ers were to send their dancing shoes to all fans who request them, they would have to change shoes every five minutes in the day, and ship each pair after one wearing. Of 20,000 letters received each month by the two popular stars, about half of them ask for a pair of their dancing shoes. Richard Dix is the target for gun hunters, from worshiping boys: to firearms collectors. The latter offer to buy guns at about any.price Dix cares ,to name. : If Anne Shirley answered all requests for.a lock: of her. hair, she would be as bald as a billiard ball. It all started with her first starring picture, “Anne of .Green Ga-
bles,” and letters seeking tresses
now run into. the hundreds teach month. Fingerprints are one ot thie ‘souvenir hunter's late fads, and Barbara Stanwyck has been deluged with requests for - the smudgy mementos.
be among the top-notch featured players in Paramount's 1936-1937 season. (i?
She is shown above in a scene from “Three Cheers for Love,” to be shown at the Circle Theater.
IBook Famed
Artists for Series Here
Guild Heads List Kreisler, McCormack, Others on Programs.
The Coneart Guild of "Indianapeolis, a new organization, today announced tht appearance of five world renowned artists in its. initial series here.
cCormack, Marian And gro contralto; Poldi Mildner, noted young pianist, and Kirsten Flagstad, M Opera. Company's distinguished Wagnerian soprano. afternoon concerts ‘are scheduled, and either Daniel Erieourt, pianist, or Father Lach’s Boys’ Band are the tentative selec ! tions for the sixth concert.
Making Etchings
Lionel Barrymore is making a series of dry point etchings of Joan Crawford in the costumes she wears in “The Gorgeous Hussy.”
KEITH'S [no be Federal Players: “THE ROYAL FAMILY"
| SAT. MAT. Be oe Soc. |
NEXT WEEK—"AFTER DARK"
Fans ask Bob Woolsey for samples | E
of his prop cigars, and Joe Penner would have to corner the duek market to satisfy all his admirers,"
Old Difficulty Recalled Kay Praneis had difficulty getting started in theatrical work. because managers claimed she was too tall and “without style.”
=. 206
HE'S YOUR RAVE! SHE'S YOUR HEARTTHROB!
The Gay, Breezy and Romane tic Love-Story of a Millionaire's: Son Who Sought Safety in Numbers—Until He Met a Girl ‘Who Kept Hers a Secret!
1 took
her 20
lawyer
When a criminal
turns G-MAN
i... LOOK OUT!!
TU
A
Birthday
STRAND ° > Ea A RE