Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1936 — Page 14

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Cameraman, Seeking Filter + for Highlights, Finds Glare Eliminator.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 23.—Because two actors didn’t wear makeup in a picture scene; Cameraman Lester White says he discovered a scientific remedy for night-driving automobile accidents. Out of a filfer he invented for an unusual camera problem, he has worked out a new “nondirectional” windshield, for glareless night driving. Incidentally, he also solved a problem that will aid many pictures to come. ‘ Had it been possible to use 3 cents worth of grease-paint on Hugh Herbert and Charles Butterwortin, automobile manufacturers would) have had to struggle alone witha their problem. 4

Problem of Lighting

In the picture, the opening scene, were Herbert, Butterworth, Una Merkel and Edith Atwater, all ia party attire for an old grads’ re. union. Because the men were supposed to be middle-aged, no makeup was allowed, lest it “smooth them out” and make them look younger. “In addition,” sajd White, “Miss Atwater wore a dress of woven gold threads. Now, if too much light were thrown on the dress, all the faces would have gone blank in comparison. If little light was used for the dress, the men's faces wouid lose character. And if we lighted for the women’s faces in makeup, the men's faces would look too dark.” White solved the problem by casting a light tinged with red on the gold dress to suppress its highlights, while directing beams of tiny spotlights on the faces of the women, and lighting the men from other lamps in conventional manner.

Filter of Glass

Whenever they moved in the scene, the different lights followed them. ‘A: light filter, devised by White, blended the lights so that no contrasts could be seen in the scene. The filter, White said, is made of two plates of glass “grained” : at different angles, so that light passing through diffuses whenever there is a contrast in it. “It is like a valve” he said, “which allows water to pass one way but not the other, only light goes through instead of water. “Such glass in ‘an ‘ automobile windshield would enable drivers to see approaching lights without glare and allow full illumination of the road from the driver's lights at the same time.” »

Directors Seek | Acting Ability

Demands for ‘Profile’ Men Reach All-Time Low.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 23.—Public tastes change so rapidly it is almost impossible to tell what type film player will be in demand tomorrow, Hollywood directors contend. At present, a survey shows the beauty market—in the male divi- ~ slon—has reached its lowest ebb. Handsome Jeading men no longer are in constant demand and are being. overlooked in favor of character actors and older players who are well beyond their niatinee idol days. a Even some beautiful women stars are being passed up while older character players grab the feminine laurels. The era of character stars has brought fame to many players who had visions of remaining forever “undiscovered.” It also has led studios to concentrate much more on acting ability ‘ rather than on physical beauty. : The present tendency at many studios is to sign five character players for every one ingenue or leading man. A large percentage of the long-term contracts are going to the “typed” players.

‘Heavy’ Roles Sought

roles and are willing to. play the deep-dyed villian. They have only to look at several of the most im-

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along with a new set of vaudeville

COMEDIAN JOE HAS PARTNER

Joe E. Brown is showing June Travis how to howl like he does. Both Miss Travis and Mr. Brown are to be seen in the Lyric’s new movie, “Earthworm Tractors,” which is to open tomorrow

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don’t say you weren't warned, either. The sole impresario of this new art form is a man named Oscar Fischinger, who just now js hid«

Paramount lot. # He toils there in happy obscurity, and the only persons who know anything about him are a couple of . executives, some painters acquainted with his work in Europe, and a few highbrow musicians, such as Leopold Stokowski. : Fischinger doesn’t speak English, and so is spared from spending all his time explaining just what it is ‘he’s trying to do. ! The simplest explanation is that .he makes designs which move on the screen in accompaniment to music. The designs don’t look like anything you ever saw outside a kaleidoscope, although they are not so stylized, nor always geometric.

Dots, Circles Swirl “Phere are dots and lines, circles, and = columns, blocks and balls, streaks and wings of light that swoop, awiri, dance, quiver, diminish, grow, and glow. all over the

' ‘Fschinger may “see” a heavy drum . beat as an orange: sphere shooting down a purple tunnel, or the music of many violins as a battalion of yellow lines converging into a crescendo of red rings, Sounds crazy? Maybe it is. But it also is pleasant to watch. The artist says his shifting color/patterns are “abstractions.” ; Hollywood will find a better term, because it knows that American lay critics of the arts have a private suspicion that all abstractionists, together with surrealistis, cubists and futurists, are only a couple of jumps away from the boobyhatch.

Can’t Kid Public

You can kid the public by hanging in a snooty art gallery a mad jumble of blatant blobs and labeling it “Nude Playing Badminton,” or “Eggbeater No. 7,” or anything you like. But you can’t kid the public in a movie theater. Indeed, the first time one of Fischinger’s shorts was shown in a movie theater, there was a free-for-all fight. That was in Paris in 1921. Some customers thought it, was swell; others were: outraged.

talkies and color. Now he has put them all together so that music has color, sound, form and movement. You can best liken it to a ballet. In fact, some of his sequences immediately suggest dancing figures on a stage.’ But the forms do tricks that Nijinsky, Paviova and Fred Astaire never dreamed of.

European Critics Rave

A lot of European art critics have raved immoderately over Fischinger's visualizations of music. He has received prizes at the Internationa] Film Expositions in Venice. Academies of art exhibit his stuff to students. The public likes his work. I

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Only One Man Can Do It, and He Can’t Speak English; It’s Art, Though, Writer Says. HOLLYWOOD (NEA); iy 23.—One of these months, when you go to

the movies and are brought face-to-screen with visual music, in color and in agitated futuristic forms, don't scoff audibly. It's art. And

part of “The Big Broadcast.” After

in ‘Burope. He works mostly from printed Scores, without bothering to hear them played. Squints at the notes and figures how they ought to be represented on the screen. He draws and colors key designs, and four girl assistants do the rest Actual production is exactly like

thousands of 'painfings - must : be made and photographed one at a time. PA : Through an interpreter Fischinger was asked how he'd score “Rhapsody in Blue.” He said he'd probably do it mostly in red.

Garbo Signs Book for Boy Collector

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 23.-— Some one finally secured: Greta Garbo’s autograph. A dozen witnesses will swear to it. As Miss Garbo left the studio the other day, a little ragamuffin in tattered overalls slipped by the astonished gate-keeper and shoved a book and pencil into her hand. She hestitated, smiled and then signed the book.

‘Ford Day’ at Park Scheduled Sunday

Marion County Ford ‘dealers are to hold their annual “Ford Day” at Riverside Sunday, the committee in charge has announced. A program of icontests and entertainment has been arranged. : . All latest Ford models .are to be on: display, and dealers are to give

away a new car as well as other awards.

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CHAPTER SEVEN JT was indeed a closely knit town, neither large nor small, into

which John Courtney brought Helena—and to ‘her alarm she dis-

She was to learn that it was impressive not simply in size. True, it was not as large as Helvig’s, where Helena had worked, but it was easily the biggest organization

surrounding farm families, it was a center of life.

wunch there. The store was more than just a place where they could buy almost anything they wanted. “You can see from what I've said,” Helena wrote her mother, “that I've had my hands full—and that I don’t know just what-to do. I'd thought of having .you here with me, but the truth is I don’t know whether T11 stay. - I'm not living in the Henderson house. It’s too big, and it frightens me. And I never could feel I had any business there. So I've taken a little apartment and I've hardly been out of it the last week.. But today John Courtney telephoned and said he was coming over. I have to meet Peter's uncle, and a man Irom the bank. ...” ® 8% = ; HE tried to keep from this letJ ter. to her mother the feeling of bewilderment, tne frightening knowledge that beyond .her little apartment the town was waiting 1 see her, appraise her,’ criticise er. ’ ee : Helena did not confess. that she had more than once considered escaping to the station and taking the first train—any train, so long as it was bound away from the town and the towering Henderson Department re. -

She .had just sealed and stamped this letter when the bell of her apartment sounded. “It must be Courtney,” Helena thought. with a sigh. Aloud, she said, “Come in, please.” Turning from the little writing desk she confronted, not John Courtney, but Leah Frazier. The girl wore a smart tweed suit and“ a jaunty hat which Helena instinctively .realized had come from

Helvig’s. “Good morning, Miss Frazier,” ‘Helena faltered.” “I'm awfully glad you called.” A \ 2 =» 2

bl ent answered Leah Frasier, 4 “isn’t precisely a call, Miss Derrik.” She smiled coldly. “It is Helena Derrik, isn’t it? I mean, ‘you wouldn't quite call yourself Mrs. Peter Henderson, would you?” -. Helena ignored the thrust. “Won't you sit down?” : “Thank you, no. I can state my business very briefly. I understand that - you're - going * to meet Roger Barnes today?” oe “Yes, IT am.” “Roger Barnes managed the store

plan io turn everything over to Helena fingered tne letter she had just written. ' “I'm ‘not prepared just now to discuss my plans.” Leah Frazier's eyes glittered with sudden anger. She kept her voice

haps, ‘however, you'll consider my advice.” .

A “Perhaps.” . “My advice is that you relinquish all claim to Peter's estate. No doubt Mr. Barnes will be willing to

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and hurt the town, just to—" = “Oh, .it would come back,” interrupted the Frazier girl. we got rid of you.” She turned and left the apartment, the door insolently. When ‘Courtney arrived he found Helena wrapped in a cold rage that had not subsided from the moment Lea Frazier had gone. °' “The Frazier girl was just here,” Helena told him. “She wants me to turn the store over to Barnes. And she says if I don’t shell boycott it.” : : : The lawyer pursed his lips. “I was afraid of something like that. And “there’s another hurdle, too. I've discovered Barnes has been talking to the employes. He’s warned them that if you take over you'll mismanage the place, put it out of

business, and lose their jobs for

them. If he fails in that stunt, he’s going to conftest the will on fhe grounds that Peter was temporarily incompetent when he made you his sole heir.” . 1 “I don’t care about that,” Helena whirled upon him. ‘They can all have the store if they want it. But I don’t like the idea of being run out of town. Won't anybody be with us?” : “YT’S hard to say: I think we can i ‘count on ‘one person, ‘and he’s

important to us. That's John Las- | siter.”

“Who’s John Lassiter?” “He’s old Aaron ter’s son. Aaron's: president of the biggest bank here—the one we do business with—hut he’s turned things oveér to John mostly.” Hh te “« « Why should he be with us?” . nine Courtney : shook - his ' head. “I don't know; but he is. He told me he thought you ought to have every consideration. And I don’t think he approves of ‘the wide credit Barnes allows in the store. Thinks it’s bad business now.” : Helena looked at the attorney. “I wonder,” shé said slowly, “who the people are who are getting long-

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could sense the friendliness Court“I've been showing — ah — Mrs, Henderson the financial statement,” Roger Barnes said. “But of course I doubt that it means her.” : “Oh, yes,” said Helena sweetly. “We used to draw up'Rinancial statemments as part of our high school course.” She turned to Lassiter. “I may be wrong, but it seems to me that, in comparison with the total annual volume, we carry a tremendous amount on the books. There's a notation here that says some are 90-day accounts. ' Several of the larger charge accounts run six months or a year. Isn’t that rather unusual?” : Ey Roger Barnes spluttered. “Those are people whose good will we need.” 3 RIT) ane “Just so that I can get some idea . J.” Helena turned back to Barnes. “Is Miss Frazier one of those? And if she is, would you call her representative of this class of trade?”

(To Be Continued) :

WIRE Broadcasters Booked for Stage

Uncle Hiram, Red Dickerson and his Wash | Stringers, Cousin Elmer, the Melody Makers and other favorites of WIRE'’s Barn Dance are to make a personal appearance tonight at the Fountain Square Theater. Hn . Stage shows are to be at 6 and 8:44 p. m. The first show is to be broadcast. Included in the second show is to be the third elimination contest for the selection of a “Miss Indianapolis.” : Miss Bessie Gish, 2521 Brooksidepkwy, won the Real Silk elimination contest Tuesday night. Further trials are to be held on remaining Tuesday and Thursday nights in July, with finals on the Fountain

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all that would be over. They could have ‘some fun along with their hard work. There'd be «0 i » . . A GRUFF voice interrupted her . 3 thoughts. She turned abruptly. A bulky man was menacing her with a gun. : “Well now, aint it too bad we

‘gotta interfere with your work."

He raised a cautioning hand. “It

won't do no good to scream. My pal’s got a different kind of typewriter outside t wicket, and it means business. Another pal’s outside in a gar. Youre practically helpless.” Betty fought to be calm. With a careless movement, she pushed a book under the telephone so i knew it was only a slim hope. te : Ee ae “lady, it ] . . , Y you're going to start monkeyshines, we. never will get our business settiled.” He yanked the phone wires out.. “Now! Open the safe and make it snappy!” “I can’t,” said Betty. “The come bination was changed today, and I don’t know the new one.” “Who does know it?” “My husband.” The man scowled at the phone

‘he had just disconnected.

“Listen! You'll have to write him a note. Tell him you want the combination. No funny business now!” The man kept his gun leveled at 3 . 2 ” ” ETTY, her heart pounding, put a piece of paper in the typewriter and wrote: “Ralph—I forgot the safe combination. Send it with bearer; don’t come yourself. Betty.” “That's a pretty little give-away to trap us. Sure hed come, and with all the bulls in town on his heels. Suposed you write with pencil and paper. Looks more authentic. Tell him something that you know will make him stay home. And better tell him you left something in the safe—your purse, for instance. And don’t forget to tell him the phone’s out of order.” Betty wrote: “Darling, you locked my purse in the safe, and I can't open it. ‘Send me the combination

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listen to Bob’s broddcast. Betty.” “Now that's what I call a nice wifely note,” the gunman approved. “But I'm afraid your supper will

Betty's home address, him with the note.

5 o » « ETTY waited, in fear and trembling. Would Ralph get the significance of that nate? She glanced at the gunman, who was watching her liké a hawk. Mine utes seerffed hours. She Then,

: fidgeted. steps sounded in the oute

gone. 2 : He had locked Betty in the of« fice. She buried her head in ‘her arms and give way to tears.

A moment later, Ralph came rushing in. : “oR “Sweetheart! They're caught! The police didn't want to surprise them in here, for fear you'd get hurt. That note was a dead give away. That crazy reference to ‘Bob's broadcast’ made me sure. something was wrong.” <3) “Oh, I was so afraid you might not understand!” ‘Betty exclaimed. Then, she smiled. “The robber thought Bob was a crooner!” Ralph laughed. “As the police broadcaster, he'll appreciate that bit of information!” THE END. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syn dicate, Inc.) (The characters in this story are fictious)

Early Actress Is Back in Pictures

Times Special - HOLLYWOOD, July 23.— Flora Finch, who, in her heyday, made a ohe-reeler a week as co-star with the late John Bunny, is back in pictures. . ; : She looks just as she did 20 years ago when she was the movie comedy queen. She is to appear in “Th Devil Is a Sissy.” :

Benchley at Work on Third Subject

Times Special . HOLLYWOOD, July 23.—Robert Benchley, humorist and commenta-

subject, “How to Be a Detective.” * Benchley already has ccmpleted two shorts entitled “How to Train a Dog” and “How to Sleep.” ;

J FINAL DAY—WILL ROGERS-JANET GAYNOR—"STATE FAIR" |

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