Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1936 — Page 6
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Produce Novel Movie to Be Shown Here.
a cabin fpspired the fliming of “Legong,” a romance of Bali, which is to open at Loew’s Friday. When Gaston Glass and Marquis Henri de 1a Falaise set out for the South Sea islands to make an allTechnicolor picture, the plans called for a travelogue of. three reels, Traveling on a slow ocean freight- . er, the film makers were captivated by a song their cabin boy kept singing. Around this song was woven the story of Legong, which means “dance of the virgins.”
Heroines Hard to Find
The first difficulty was in discovering young girls with attractive faces and mature figures who did not have their teeth filed tp sharp points. Then followed a long search for an athletic type island boy. The male population of Bali do no manual labor and never exercise very vigorously. When the girl and boy were selected, the Marquis had to reconcile the difference in caste between “th principals and submit the story for approval of the leaders of the high caste. Several objections on ritualistic points’ were eventually smoothed out by the producers.
Players Own Bosses The interpreter employed by the
movie directors rebelled at taking:
instructions and told the players to do what he thought was best. Ignorant .of the language, the ‘Marquis and Mr. Glass were con. fused for some time by the acting of the native cast, which was not at all according to the orders they gave the interpreter. In order to solve the problem Mr. ‘CGilass began acting out the parts himself so the natives could imitate him
~ Bhowers and cloudy days proved to be a nuisance for a while until the directors learned that one of the village priestesses would make the sun shine for a guilder a day.
Distinction in Ages
One day Mr. Glass asked to have eight beautiful native girls sent to the market place for a scene. When he was ready to photograph the . sequence, he saw eight youngsters between the ages of 8 and 10 years. “Those are children!” stormed Mr. Glass. “I want ‘girls of about 16 years.” “Oh,” the interpreter said, want old ladies.” The story of the film is centered pund Poutou, a. native girl who “falls.in. love with Nyong, a newcomer The cabin boys’ song
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Song of Love
The words of the song are: “It is writ, O Maid of Bali! Should love enter thine eyes And go to thy heart beware— “For should he whom you now chosest Not return thy love— The Gods will frown, and Disgrace will befall thee.” Saplak, the half sister of Poutou, is the seductive Lillith of the picture who attracts the straying attentions of Nyong. The picture includes many scenes of the bizarre ritualistic dancing d customs of the natives.
‘Author Was Teacher
Maxwell Anderson, author of “Mary of Scotland,” which Katharine Hepburn is bringing to the screen, once taught English at Stanford University in California.
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ALAMO “Rose Marie” with Jeanette Maed and Nelson Eddy. Also “The an” with Charles Locher.
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BY LEONORA M'PHEETERS Daily Short Story
I= been married for two years, A but men still don’t make sense. Especially my husband, Burt—and Burt's brother, Neal. But I'll: let you judge for yourself. Naturally, after I had caught Burt off his guard and married him, I went wife-hunting. for my broth-er-in-law. My dinners are good, if I do say so, but nothing ever came of them but an unbalanced budget. My girl friends simply didn’t click with Neal. “The trouble is,” Burt told me one evening, “that your friends are all too intelligent. | Clever women scare men to deathi. beautiful—but dumb.” I bristled. #Just what do; you mean by that. drack!™ But Burk Has a way of stopping all argument” yith a nicely timed kiss. It was a week or, so after this that Jennifer Wiles turned up. She
would be in town for a week, she
told me over the phone, and cou'dn’t we get together. Also she'd like to meet that nice husband of mine. (I hadn't seen Jennifer since college.) 1 thought rapidly, and ended hy asking her to dinner that night. “1 knew “her when,” I:told Burt when he camé home that evening. “She's beautiful'but d d Neal has been instructed | a 5d for dinner.” ? Later, I was sorry 1 hadn't put Burt in overalls: and pulled out a few hairs. As a contented husband, he was a wash-out! In two minutes flat, Jennifer had him hooked. ‘As for Neal, he was too far gone from the beginning to realize that he wasn’t alone. I must say, Jennifer. looked like a knock-out drop—you know, small but fatal. She’s the kind that can part. her black hair in the middle, give it a twist toward the center rear, and call it a day. Her high cheekbones do something Oriental to her dark eyes, her lashes never needed mascara to. register on the
well-known damask cheek, and her |: shoulders were simply born to be’
displayed above a simple white satin evening gown. ” ” n
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| reviews for the local paper. I skipped lightly from author to author, “I think Zona Goie has portrayed the small-town type to perfection—" - Reluctantly, Jennifer turned her eyes from the masculine end of the table. “Oh, I just love his books! He writes so well about the West, don't you think? Now, I'm from the West but—" “Jenny,” sald my husband sotto voce, before I could explain that she must be thinking of Zane Grey, “you're from Heaven.” I got’ my breath, swallowed a mus m, and‘ switched t¢ PasYeur.#"There hag, tieen:some talk in the papers of a monumenf, and Neal, 88.5 scientists ought to ‘be interesteli; : “Yes” said , Jemnifer absently, “pasture makes a great deal of difference in the quality of milk, doesn't it?" Now, out West—" “Jennifer,” murmured Neal, with a soulful look, “what are you doing for lunch tomorrow?” My food, you might say, had been wasted anyway, so we adjourned to tie living room for coffee. For the rest of the evening I sat over in a corner and twiddled my thumbs while the boys played Xng-around-the-rosy with Jennifer. » ® sn ENNIFER might have saved her hotel bill during the next week, for she practically lived at our house, with - both. Neal and Burt dancing atténtion. I couldn’ very well hint to Burt that three was a crowd, because Jennifer made it plain that there was no favorite. She said, “I think you have: the cutest husband. »,
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For Love,” starring Eleanore Whitney. X '2. The two sappy - looking gentlemen above are Robert Mont- * gomery. and Robert “Benchley (remember “How ‘To Sleep”), “shown
Jin a scene from “Piccadily Jim,” , The ,second ‘feature. is “Legong” a ' color.
3. Appearing on the Lyric’s stage for a week starting Friday will
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pical “art” film made in Techni-
be .seen (and heard) the Misses Sisson and Neal, expert harpists. They are part of an hour-long vaudeville show, The picture on the Lyric screen Friday is to be “The Case Of The Velvet Claws,’ >a Perry Mason thriller, starring Warren William and Claire Dodd.
Cute, my eye! ' I wanted to break his hea Finally, in desperation, I tried a few dumb cracks myself. I said, “Maeterlinck? ‘What sort of fur is that?” It had taken three hours to think up that ‘one, but all I got was a scathing look from Burt. “Don’t be childish, Marcia!” he said witheringly. And then, there was the night Jennifer absent-mindedly. turned up hér cup of hot coffee to see what
sort of china it was. Burt was sick- |
eningly Boy-Scoutish about = her scorched -wrist. But when I came out later, carrying a celluloid seap box which, in my state of mind, I had “absently” picked up in place of my compact, ‘Burt said coldly, “Be your age, Marcia!” welcomed both Jennifer and myself! 8 » ”
Y the time Jennifer was ready to go back to the West, I was barely on speaking terms with her. Not that she seemed to notice the coolness on my part. She ‘kissed Burt . good-by, ‘and pecked at my unoffered cheek. The next day, I received a wire from New York. It séemed Jennifer hadn't gone West, after all. I ‘was surprised, “and still: not surprised, if you know what I mean. The wire read. NEAL; AND 1 MARRIED LAST NIGHT STOP SAIL FOR FRANCE TODAY STOP LOVE TO BURT STOP JENNIFER. I showed the wire to ‘Burt. He frowned. “Don’t tell me the poor sap actually fell for that dumb bunny!” Now, I ask you! Men don’t make sense. The second wire arrived 10 min-
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RA Film Booked “The Plow That Broke The Plains,” a short film produced under the auspices of the Fed- ' eral Resettlement Admiinistration, has been booked for a week at the Lyric Theater. . ‘Comment on the picture appears on the editorial page of today’s Times.
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HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 12—The movies import a ton of weather yearly like tinned beef or asparagus. Every studio has an assortment
| of -it laid away in the cellar for emergencies,
The other day a projection room man, ran off 10 cans of weather, including some choice blizzards, winds, rains in a dozen varieties from cloudbursts to fine Scotch mists, and clouds.
The. lack of clouds in Hollywood
is a source of much annoyance when an English story is being filmed, so clouds and sky are brought in for background. Last year Paramount sent a crew to France and Spain. to film five miles of scenery.” Of “the 70 cowboy films made last year, every one but four was made under a roof. Wesdther, not beit:z subject to the orders of the director, is hardly ever right for a picture. It just can’t be controlled outdoors. Insiae:-it is amenable to discipline. | Canned tropical rain and mist was used in the filming of Clifford Odet’s “The General Died at Dawn,” for a scene on a Chinese river bank.
The area to be filmed was encased in canvas and roofed with black. cldth, Steam, chemicals and dry ice created a fog, with warm mist lifting from: the water. A large greasy . ;moon.. loomed through the fog and tropical rain‘béat down.
Fame Short, ~ Jobs Scarce
Studios, Not Public, Forget Good Work, Quillan Declares.
¥ United Press : HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12. — The public never forgets a good pere formance; it’s the producers’ who forget,” says Eddie Quillan, the little Scottish lad who unofficially stole “Mutiny on the Bounty” from its featured stars. “We're still getting letters from fans to prove it,” Eddie said. “Papa wi show pa Joseph Quillan produced a a x of letters and commendatory comment of movie critics, but since the Quillans were being intere viewed in a closed automobile with the sun beating down on if at a 90-degree clip, he was discouraged from reading all of them.
System Is Blamed
“Producers have a peculiar sys : tem,” Eddie said. “For instance, an actor does a good job and the public likes it. The producer is likely to wait a year or so before giving the actor another chance in a good role. Then, because the actor hasn't done anything lately, they won't put him in it. In other words, they don’t give him work, then won't give him work because he hasn't been working.” Papa Quillan, who manages Ede die's career as well as his salary— “Eddie's a good boy; he tells me I can keep his money better than he can” — considers the 27-year-old son’s “Mutiny” success & moral victory. Eddie ‘has ‘been acting since he was 7, going on the stage with his parents and eight brothers and sise ters. He made comedies for the screen, starting with Mack Sennett
The advent of sound has compli- |
cated the filming ot pictures out of doors. ¢ The ‘mike’ magnifies the sound of wind blowing down a canyon and expands the rapping of a
woodpecker a mile away to tne up- |
roar of artillery. - = During the filming of “Peter Ib-
betson” outdoors,” the cameraman |
had to wait on the sun for several hours to get the cosrect shot.
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