Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1936 — Page 11
rog Frolic’ ‘Featured in Funny Film
Taylor, Stanwyck Given Witty Lines, Weak Plot in Drama.
BY JOHN W. THOMPSON For the second consecutive week at Loew's, a comedy cartoon in color, this time “The Old Mill Pond,” all but nudges the feature picture out of prominence. * Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck romp through gay roles in the “dramatic “His Brother's Wife,” which contains reams of witty lines and a number of weak moments in a patched plot. “The Old Mill Pond”. begins with - & panorama of the old mill stream, _ works into the willows where frogs - are having a concert. One squawker in white tie and tails who looks and sounds like’ Cab Calloway, directs a big frog orchestra while a feminine frog, caricatured like Ethel Waser, sings “Minnie the Mooch-
May Win Award
Then comes an excellently drawn sketch put on by two frog performers who look like Buck and Bubbles. . Btepinfechit is there, and so is a large chorus of frog beauties. The music and color hasn't been excelled
in a long time. This short subject stands a good chance of capturing the year’s award. “His Brother's Wife” starts with Mr. Taylor in the role of Chris, a - research physician, trying to isolate the cause of spotted fevor. He falls in love with a mannequin, Rita Miss Stanwyck) on the eve of his sailing for South America. Persuaded by his brother to go on the expedition and let Rita wait, Chris decides to do so. Disappointed, Rita gets a job with a sucker gambling den to pay off Chris’ $5000
‘Returns to South America
When Chris returns from the swamps for a short vacation he finds that Rita has married his brother for spite. He takes her back to South America with him, for the purpose of giving his brother grounds for divorce, not to win her himself. When the divorce comes through, he turns her out, goes upstream to get the fever and try his new serum on himself. She follows, injects the fever into her own arm, is saved by Chris’ treatment. It's a wobbly story well acted with fine support from Jean Hersholt and John Eldredge. One big ‘thing in favor of Loew's bill is that there is only one film on view . this week.
Riverside to Offer Fireworks Display
An elaborate display of fireworks is to be tire main feature at Riverside Park tonight, according tc Manager A. W. Coulter. There is to be special entertainment in the refreshment gardens and all rides are to be opened to the public. Picnic ground facilities recently have beea improved, the management said.
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN
APOLLO “To Mary With Love,’ starrin My na 1x0 and Warner Baxter, a 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30.
CI%CLE “Rhythm on the R * with Crosby, Frances Farmer’ 2s Birks :10. Also “Bunker Bean,” Louise Latimer, at 8, 3:35,
LOEW'S “His Brother's Wife," featuri Robert Taylor and Barbara uring Mek atl, 1:18, 3:28, 5:40, 7:55 and
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Times Special
First is protection of the child stars’ health and welfare as a matter of good business, and second,
the matter of conforming to laws of California in regard to conditions under which children :nay act in movies. Regarding education, children are minors in California until they are 18 years of age, and, as minors, they must have at least two hours schooling each day. Consequently, it is necessary for the studios to maintain a school for benefit of working children. They provide teachers for each group of 10 or fewer children, and these teachers are certificated hy the state.
Get Special Training
Children are taught ordinary subjects that every youngster studies. Besides reading, writing, arithme-
jects, as French .or Spanish, to fit them for particular movie roles.
Sometimes studio * schools have only a few pupils, while at other times as many as 50 to 75 attend the classes. While filming “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” one studio held classes for about 76 kiddies ranging in age from 4 to 16 years. And for “Green Pastures,” 60 pickaninnies attended the Warner-First National school.
School Work Followed
Since most child performers attend Los Angeles or Hollywood public schools when not at work, it is
easy for studio teachers to know what classes they are in and what books they have been studying. They are assigned the lessons they were learning the day they 1 school to come to the studio. A survey recently published by a national educator rated movie youngsters slighly higher than nonprofessional children. He gave the latter group an 1. Q. of 100, compared to 109 for the studio-trained tots. Psychologists attribute this difference to the fact that youngsters selected for picture work are more alert, observing and imaginative than the average run of children. California has other ryles for movie producers to follow in treatment of juvenile actors: Infants under 6 months of age
tic, geography and history, the child stars sometimes study special sub
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Producers Provide Teachers for Young Actors and Actresses; State Requires Daily Study.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8.—The Sybil Jasons, Mickey Rooneys, Shirley Temples and Jackie Coopers who exert their juvenile talents to fill coffers of movie producers constitute a two-fold problem for their employers.
must not be in a studio more than two hours a day. They must not face artificial light for more than 30 seconds at a time. A warm nursery and warra food must be provided. .Children 6 months old and less than 2 years old may remain in a studio for four hours a day, two of which must be devoted to rest. They may not face lights for more than 20 consecutive minutes. Children 2 to 6 years-of age may wplit a six-hour day in half, workIng and resting. Above 6, they may ‘work for eight hours. They may do night work only luring emergencies.
Parachute Jump at Park Is Scheduled
‘Tomorrow afternoon at Broad Ripple Park, Daredevil Thompson, stunt performer, is to make a triple parachute leap, according to William B. Hubbs Jr., manager. Extra tables and benches have been erected in the picnic grove for the benefit of families who wish to spend the day at the park. Tuesday will be “Milk Day” at The milk concerns of the county are to sponsor a customers’ picnic at that time.
Menjou Gets Bonus of $1450 as Veteran
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8.— “Wish I'd had it when I was walking the streets after the war looking for a
That's what Adolphe Menjou said recently when he :eceived a veteran’s bonus of $1450. Menjou served as a captain during the war. He is now working in “Wives Never Know’ with Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles.
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[Rebel Part Enjoyed by Movie Actor
{Preston Foster Finds Work | 2nd
in Irish Film Story ° fo His Liking.
BY RUTH M’'TAMMANY * Times Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8.—Preston Foster, who is co-starring with Barbara Stanwyck in “Plough and the Stars,” is not an Irishman. But, wearing a week’s beard- and garhed in the crude clothes. of the Irish Citizen’s Army of 1916, he looks like a true son of the Free State. ¢
When asked what kind of a man be 3 portraying in the picture he sa “His character can best be de-
with my wife, Barbara Stanwyck. “‘All right, I've given up fighting in the Citizen's’ Army—because you want it ‘that way. Are you satisfied?’ “‘Yes, if you are really giving it up for me.’ “ ‘Darlin’, your love—what you want—is the only important thing.’ “‘I thought perhaps it was because they won't make you a captain—because you are just one of the big army and not . . . somebody.’ “‘No—no—it’'s my love for 'yau that is greater than the Irish cause.’
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“Then 8 messenger comes to the door with orders for me to proceed to the front as commandant. I grab my gun and belt. My wife clings to me, begging me not to go. I throw her aside with no word and rush out. In other words, I wanted to be a big guy—an officer. But at that I do a good job in a fight which made Irish history. “John Ford is directing and that means -a good picture with a lot of real drama. John and I play a unique ‘ribbing’ game. You .see, when I'm not working, I practically live on a boat—but it’s a speed beat and sporty sailors, like John, have a sort of contempt for the hoys who kick up the ocean dust with highpowered craft. He calls me a ‘monkey wrench’ sailor—meaning one who isn’t worthy of taking a chance with natural elements but who depends on machines. But he just sails and I go shark shooting. A
in a battle with one and I've sworn a dire revenge on all of them. Not forgetting, of course, that it’s sporty to race one—give him the lead and see him sink. ® » 2 “Yes, I love the ocean. Before I was born, my father was a life guard on the Jersey Coast—Ocean City. One day he attempted to rescue three women who were caught in the undertow and carried a distance from shore. He was given a medal but he swore then and there he'd never swim again or allow his children to go into the surf. ¢ “I was born a month later and for 12 years my father tried to keep me out of the ocean. It couldn’t be done. I had to disobey—you can’t raise a'child on a beach and expect him to watch other children having their fun in the ocean. By the time I was 8 I was a good swimmer. When I was 12 I dragged a little boy who had been floundering, out of the waves, “And now I live on a boat and let Hollywoed life, with its parties, its ‘shep’ prattle, stay on shore. I'm a rebel in ‘Plough and the Stars’
The personnel of a motion picture studio is like shifting sand. They mill from one studio to another like nomads with insecurity a shadow in pursuit. The newly organized Universal Company lately fired its en-
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cover a love letter written by Marie they turn her over to her teacher, Anna Mathe (Ruth Chatterton), for examination, Marie reveals that the letter was written to the headmaster.. Anna hides the fact that she has beén in love with the headmaster for years, exonerates %
Pursul t Result as Usual
Then Marie finds out thai Anna loves the headmaster and she gives him up. But her scho yster by
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leave the next day. The publicity department of any studio is one of its important departments. The men and women engaged are, in the main, newspaper people. Their task is daily grind of getting out information about the production, the stars and other’ players. It is their job to keep picture news in print. They work long hours, But along comes a change in studio management, a new deal is on and often that new deal spells loss of jobs—a sudden expulsion of men and women, regardless of their worth to the department. There is no committee of arbitration, there is no chance for redress. They are fired and a new batch of writers: comes in, ‘Every newspaper man and woman in Hollywood today is feeling a resentment towards Universal's wholesale “firing.” 8 8 = A divorce, a scandal, a lawsuit always add impetus to advance publicity in a picture. A producer is getting the “breaks when any one of his stars, at. work in a production is brought into court. If this be true; then Samuel Goldwyn, now making “Dodsworth” is to be congradulated.. "Mary Astor divides her time playing an important role in this million dollar production and appearing in court where she is enacting a more serious part for the sole custody of her little daughter. The story is sordid, it invokes prominent names, it exposes Mary Astor’s diary of love comments. It brings the temperamental Ruth Chatterton to the foreground as an understanding friend, who'll stand by Mary to the finish. But does a story like “Dodsworth,” which stars a fine actor like Walter Huston, need the Astor and Thorpe feud to create interest? Perhaps it is a coincidence that Mary Astor has been cast in an important role just as her marital troubles are being aired in wourt; " ® “My Man hh is: something new in motion pictures. It is a deftly handled story of a
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crazy from boredom and fast living. Gregory LaCava, who directed and produced it, has set a fierce tempo on which laughs overlap laughs and which carries the audience into a confusion of situations worthy of any asylum.
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Paul Ash, the original movie master of ceremonies, and Slim Timblin, the Jeeter Lester of last season's “Tobacco Road” at English’s, head an hour's “Parade of Stars” on the stage. Aside from the two headliners, the show leans rather heavily on dancing. It is diversified enough, however, to furnish the best entertainment seen at the local vaudeville house in several weeks. Mr, Timblin returns to the blackface act which is familiar to four-a-day patrons after his flyer in the drama. His act is a monologue in which, as a Negro parson, he reads from the “Book of Numbers” (telephone directory) and recounts the story of creation. The skit is amusing and the lines, we might add, at least more subtle ilhan those in “Tobacco . Road.”
Marie Hollis Back
One of the most graceful of the amazingly supple dancers who visit the Lyric each season is Marie Hollis, back again on the week’s hill. Sharing with her a large portion of
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formance was Don Cummings, & young ‘man who twirls ropes and indulges in an informal line of patter—not like Will Rogers, but very amusing. The Four McNally Sisters sing and dance, the latter expertly, and Abbott and Tanner open the show with a lively and pleasalil array of terpsichorean taps. Mr. Ash—his hair is much shorter, by the way—conducts the bill in
ner. He also leads the orchestra in a special Irving Berlin medley, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of “Alexander’s Rag Time Band” and including most of the Berlin hits up to and including “Follow the Fleet” music. (By J. W. T)
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is ‘that little Claire Trevor, whom this reviewer had almost given up for film oblivion, turns in a piece of acting that all but walks off with the show.
The pattern of “To Mary—With Love” is nicely laid. But the dough has been allowed to run over the molds ad the result is a lot of burned crust which practically ruins any unifying theme that the writer has put into the stiry.
The plot hops off in 1936, with Bill Hallam (Ian Hunter) writing a card to put with flowers he 1s sending Mary Wallace (Myrna Loy) on her wedding anniversary. You see, Bill was the boy who lost when Mary decided to marry Jock Wallace (Mr. Baxter) back in 1926. That's where the plot skips to as soon as Bill writes “To Jock and Mary goon a "European honeymoon, return to be greeted by Bill and a newly found companion, Kitty Brant (Claire Trevor) who has eyes for Jock. The first quarrel comes when Jock refuses to go to a house party and she takes Bill. When she comes home, the house shows signs of having been used for entertainment and she finds Kitty's compact on her dresser. Forgiven, Jock necomes wealthy. Mary is happy in the thought of becoming a mother. The baby is born dead. Jock loses all in the stock market crash, takes refuge in Kitty's sympathies, is injured while joy-riding with her. Deeply hurt, Mary nurses him back ta health, then asks Bill to arrange a divorce. Bill arranges instead a meeting at his office between the two. There, he reiates in highly noble fashion the little incidents of Jock and Mary's life which pull at
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Despite Attempt at Epic
Performances of Myrna Loy, Warner Baxter Scored Low; Claire Trevor Furnishes Unexpected Display of Talent.
Although “To Mary—With Love” at the Apollo makes an admirable attempt to become an epic film by stretching the story of the hero and heroine's love over a period of a decade, the film has turned out a
The sad part is that the performances of Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter are the poorest they have given for some time.
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their heartstrings. The old love ze~ turns. The scene fades out with the two in each other's arms, and Bill finishes his card-—“with love.” There are many reasons why “To Mary—With Love” is not, to our way of thinking, a success. One is poor direction. Scenes are drawn out and carried oir until the audi« ence squirms. The stars a awkward, call forth snickers instead of tears.
Although it features plenty of feminine appeal of the obvious kind, gnd"fine performances by Miss Tree vor and Mr. Hunter, “To Mary— With Love” wouldn't even finish in the same race with “Broadway Bill.” (By J. W. T)
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