Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1936 — Page 9

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‘Featured in “Coming Film

"Joan Crawford Carries Lead in ‘Gorgeous Hussy’; Others Featured.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON

The Ilong-heralded new movie “8eason at Loew's is to get under way .8ept. 4 with Joan Crawford's latest cinema, “The Gorgeous Hussy,” ac- . cording to L. Ward Parrar, Loew's manager, “The Gorgeous Hussy” cast, one of the most impressive yet assem- , bled, includes Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart, Alison Skipworth and the old- timer, Betty Blythe. \ The story is based on a recent ~-novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, and the producers have made it «plain that the tale is not intended 10 be historically correct even ‘though it deals with eminent personages near the end of the first «quarter of the nineteenth century.

2 Jimmy Sewart Outstanding

Standing out in the cast is Jimmy «Stewart, a strange sort of movie _ Star who takes life as it comes, is « full of fun and doesn’t care much ~.about the girls. The reason he stands out is that he’s the tallest of the tall men supporting Miss Craw- « ford in the picture. . Director Clarence Brown had a «hard time photographing Miss ~-Crawford with her 24 feet, seven inches of leading men in the film. Although Hollywood's hero ranks are full of six-footers, they all look ~up to Mr. Stewart's six feet, fourplus inches. The dance routine for a ballroom . Scene in the movie had to be changed because when Jimmy’s back was to the camera Joan was completely hidden. She couldn’t pos--8ibly look coyly over his shoulder,

Success Matter of Course

~ come easily but its come, just as “ everything else in his life, as a mat‘ter of course. He follows no par- + ticular prescription or formula. He breaks all the rules, being an average American boy. He was born in Indiana—believe «4 or not. But Indiana was the name of the town, not the state. The latter is: Pennsylvania. One day while a small boy, Jimmy tried to fly off the barn in the : back yard of his home, escaped with » minor bruises when most boys wouid «have at least broken an arm. He « Was a Boy Scout. He had a run-in with a skunk when on a nature + study trip one time and had to live “by ‘himself for a week. He almost ~ wrecked the family mansion with his chemical research when he was 12. He went to Princeton because his father was a Princeton man.

No Glamor for Jim

+ 'There’s nothing exciting about Jimmy's career; He didn’t starve _ for his art. In fact he’s always ‘eaten double portions in order to « get' some meat on his bones. So ‘ar “ it hasn't made him portly. He likes old clothes because he thinks they ‘look better on him and he dislikes shopping for ‘new ones. He combs his hair often but it won't stay in place, = He can't help being himself and he wouldn't be otherwise for any * amount of money. It happens that the movies like such men. Jimmy has no pretenses. He has a great sense of humor. He can make Joan laugh just by - Socking at her with that quizzical ression of his. He did so so of n during the filming of “The < ‘Gorgeous Hussy” that Joan pleaded with Director Brown to “please make Jimmy stop looking at me “that way!” When “handies” swept the na- _ tion, Jim was one of the best in the { trade. He always knows the latest Joke and somehow seems to get the ~most out of it. He is forever worksing out riddles with diagrams on properties and scenery.

Short Term Job

%.- When he accepted the invitation sof friends to visit a stock company playing at Cape Code, Jimmy fully expected to return to Princeton for

a post-grad course in architecture. |

“He never went back. A producer wsaw him, gave him a part in “Good--ipye Again” on Broadway. ~~ He played in other plays includ- -* ing “Journey's End.” Then, to get ~ @& wider experience, took a johs as - stage manager for Jane Cowl’s . “Camille.” His debut as a stage * manager was a flop. One night, in a flurry of excitement, he rang down the curtain (Teht in the middle of Miss Cowl's : scene. "And the audience 't ‘know whether the famous I 1ady dieg or nok Jimmy was out Lof

man. It will be his eighth “plcture in Jess than a year.

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Rich and Reckless

By Mary Raymond

BEGIN HERE TODAY Molly Milford rich and poular, has reccived proposals of marriage from three suitors, but Brent Stuart, whom she loves, has not asked her to marry him, Bored with parties, Molly goes to “The Red Poppy,” questionable night elub, with another admirer, Wick Ross. The lights go out and when they come on Molly finds herself dancing with a handsome stranger. He tells her his name is “Nelson Whittaker.” In reality he is Nelson Ferguson, bank robber, one of a group planning to spirit Molly away and hold her for ransom. A few days later he asks her to have dinner with him and she agrees, - Waiting for him at a downtown store, Molly encounters a girl who is her exact double. Impulsively Molly exchanges her luxurious costume for the otler girl’s shabby one. Molly and “Whittaker” go to a place called “Frenchy’s.” Police arrive and there js shooting in which “Whittaker” is fatally injured. a car and taken fo a deserted farm house. Brent’ Stuart, convinced that Molly is still alive, sets out to find her. He reaches the house where she is a prisoner. A guard takes his gun away from him and forces him to enter. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER ELEVEN INNIE, who had just entered the room, announced. viciously, “I aint nearly as weak-stom-ached as you think. I hate sneaks, too, just like I hate mice and rats. Here—come to think of it, we'd better give Louis the woodroom key since we've got a strange guest come to visit us.” ° She went to the door and extracted the key. “Be sure you don't leave that key lying around,” she warned Louis. “Trust me,” he grinned. Molly, on the other side of the door, heard Winnie’s ugly words, but they made no impression. She had been shaken by another voice. A voice strange to ' this place, but familiar and dear to her. Brent was here! How like him to come tearing to her rescue. And like him, too, to come alone. : The knowledge came in a blinding flash, as she stifled a low moan with her handkerchief. She was in love with

Brent. Terribly, deeply in love with |

him. And through her recklessness he was at the mercy of ruthless, vicious men. ® 8

PF Brent is saved it won't matter about me,” Molly's first silent prayer went out. She laid her lips against the rough boards, whispering brokenly, “Oh, Brent, Brent, what have I done to you?” Her hand was on the door knob. In her agitation she clenched it, turning it a little.

That woman! ‘Those last venomous. words of Winnie's had been a screen to cover a humanitarian impulse. She had given Molly a chance

Molly is forced into

The lamp! Scarcely = breathing, Molly took the lamp to the door and blew out the light. If the door creaked when she opened it, she would be undone. She opened the door a trifle, and instantly was aware that Brent had seen the slight movement. “He "was yawning elaborately, stretching his arms above him. “I can’t figure out what all the excitement is. about,” he said naively. “Funny that you folks thought I was mixed up in some racket or other. Since you're forcing me to spend the night, I'd like a little entertainment.” » ® »

T= gangster appeared to be amused, “You're likely to get right used to this place,” he

chuckled. “How would you like. to stay. here permanent?’

“I wouldn't like it. Too Yonesome.” “What special brand of amusement would suit you, young ° fellow?” . “Anything. Poker. » “Now, wouldn't that be a nice idea! You sitting across the board from me. I wouldn't be surprised if you don’t pack a mean punch. And if you suddenly decided you weren't so fond of my company-—-" “Look here,” Brent broke in, “you don’t think I'm a darn fool? What's a fist when you have your gun in one of your pockets and mine in the other?” “Steel talks loud, doesn’t it?” Louis spoke thoughtfully. “It does with me,” Brent said. “I'd be a sap to risk getting shot when your friend Black will be coming back before long, apologizing because he didn’t believe me.” “Yeah?” “Yes. I'd like to play poker until he gets here. I'm a good player if I do say so myself.” . “Think a lot of your game, ‘don’t you?” “You can’t help but know when Joifre gud.” 2 =» .»

O shark ever trimmed me at poker yet,” Louis said slowly. “I don’t claim to be a shark,” Brent replied modestly, “but—" “But what?” : Brent smiled. “Well, T don’t want to be bragging.’ “There's a Be of cards on ‘the mantel,” Louis said. “Get ‘em.” “Shall I shove that table closer?” Brent asked. “Okay. Watch your step. No funny tricks. I've got, a trigger finger on a poker hand Elaborately careful, Brent pushed the table closer and ‘seated ‘himself across from Louis. , * Brent won the deal, shuffied, dealt, ahd the game began. He won the first hand and was openly . | boastful. Louis’ swarthy face reddened slightly, and his eyes glinted. He shuffied his cards rather clum-

= | at life by unlocking the door before

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1.- Once upon; & time there was a

good-looking gentleman named “Mr. |,

Cinderella”—of course that wasn't his real name. His real name is Robert Taylor, and just now he’s riding the crest of Hollywood's popularity: waves. Well, girls, he is to be one of the leading men in “The Gorgeous Hussy,” which js to open]. Loew's fall movie season Sept. 4. 2. Here is the reason why the two | gentlemen seem sO pensive: They're | think about “The Gorgeous Hussy,” in which Joan Crawford is starred. . 3. The path which. Mr. Taylor took to fame last year is. staring James Stewart in the face. He may jump right into Bob’s shoes, and become Movieland’s Idol No. 1 before the next 12 months are up. Anyway he has one of the leading roles in “The Gorgeous Hussy.” Others in the cast are Lionel Barrymore and | Melvyn Douglas.

to | at. him through reddened ‘eyes. Oc wpe casionally his - gaze: shifted to the

slim, goldén-haired girl who steadily leveled a gun at his head. His eyes were like burning coals, but the physical pain he suffered was negligible in comparison to his mental condition. Rage—fearful, frustrated | rage—seethed within. ' “There,” Brent said finally. “He can sit there and think about what a bad “game “of poker he plays. Molly”~his voice broke—‘“give - me

the guns and then let me look at t

you.” o » » ‘HE dropped a gun in each pocket, and then took both of ner hands in his, staring deeply, hungrily into. her eyes. “Tears ‘rolled down Molly's face. “Brent, Brent! I knew you'd come, but when I realized you were in danger I nearly di “Don’t ery, darling. Not here] where ‘I can't comfort you. Wed better get started—" “You thought of that a little to late,” a voice from the doorway in- | terrupted. Brent dropped Molly's hands and reached today his pocket. “You thought _ that too late,

too,” came the voice. “There—that’s better! . Your span of life is length-

though I don’t thing it will matter in the long run.” “And you,” Stephen Black wheeled

upon ‘Molly, “youll have to go with |

him. That's what you get for this | night's work: If you'd been smart I might have found a way out for you. But now, since’ you've seen Louis and me without masks; I guess |

tr have to go walking with us, ke

'deep-piled fur robes, and a laughing

Rose? I'm kind to animals, and

to the Btates. Maybe I could ‘buy

ened a little by -being sensible, | Possible to lave any one”

LOTTERY BRIDE

BY CALVIN S. WHITE

Daily Short Story ;

OSE.” ‘said ' the - Lucky-Shot | about this again. I—I am already Kid, damptig his feet on the | married, dearest. Fm—one of those {ol “1 believe your heart is the lottery brides. coldest, spot in Alaska!” ®. #8 The girl on the sled stirred. andes HEN “Lucky said nothing she went on. face peeked from under her parka| “I was born and raised on a little hood—the . “Yukon Rose, Golden [farm in Nebraska. We were awfully Songbird of the North, Appearing |hard up and when I was 16, Father Nightly with 20 other beautiful girls { walked -out. on us and we never at Tex Roundtree’s Palace Cafe and [heard from Him again. Things were entertainment * pazlors, Nore's all right for awhile. Then my brothfinest.” : “ler got ue ang had iy be a 5 sent to a sa. rium was we Tey Jon me Joure | starting to {could do. to ‘make both ends meet ‘hours Jast time, and Teenie ’|and support him; too. ‘have .to be back at the Palace ‘by ER we Ind swe. yeuis of . . ‘Where ar ures, an 20. BY ibe ay, ddicky . the farm. 1. decided that anything yl was better ‘than - just ‘waiting there Y | unit ‘we weuld ‘all’ go ta the poor |’

; hope of: HE wiblemuites were trotting money from: ayy erie smoothly over the hard SNOW. to San Francisco but, Lucky leaned. forward over the sled, there I’ couldn’t find wor > his lean, clean-shaven face pink | + «1 found out that I ‘were | with the tang of Arelic air, He and | wanted as ‘wives for the gold-rush- | Rose and the of huskies fers in Alaskd, to be won by. lotteries. seemed: in 4, polar i of their | 1; horrified me but ,when I found own as they moved across the sur- |gut that éach girl would receive |

face of the frozen seashore. Far $2000: as a: wedding present, I dewt, them, the lights of Nome | sided to da it so that I could send

£9) to get | When EX got|:

winkled through: the dusk of an the money home to Mother. ; tober evening. #When we:got to Dawson, 1. was “What's the matter with the idea, terribly’ scared. ‘The drawing was held in a dance hall, and we girls stood’ up on a platform before the crowd while & man drew the tickets.

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handy to have the house. And ‘besides, I haven't done so bad up here. You know what. they say about the Lucky Shot Kid—-always | hits the pay streak. If you want to, | «

we could: chyck all this and go back ‘a tall, thin’ young man with

a black beard pushed throyzh the crowd and. Jifted me off the platform. I'm ihe fellow? he Si, 2 » carried me. in arms into a bac possible. si { room-where the parson was waiting. pil {The ceremony didn’t seem real. I UCKY. ‘braoded for a ‘moment. was in a daze. “It’s true you've- known me| “After it was: over, we went to only three weeks, since I came in |the hotel across’ the street. When from the Kuskokwim country. But.|we got to, his room, I sat down and believe me, Rose, I love you—I love | burst into tears.. I cried and cried. you more than I ever dreamed it : “My husband just stood there a “+ {while and then he Staried Jacking

a hardware store or something.”’ “I'm sorry, Lucky, but you'll have to take my word for it that 10 im-

She pulled the hood of - her: lower, so that he might not see the tears that gleamed in her ‘eyes. ’t, Lucky. Please don’t.” ~%“You mean you don’t love’ ‘me, then? But ‘you: do, Ross-=1 + know

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my lap.

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THEN my number was called, |

| BELMONT Maree it = TUXEDO

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO

“China Clipper” with Pat O'Brien, Beverly Roberts, Humphrey Bogart st 11:38, 1:41 3:4, 0:41, 1:30 and

CIRCLE ry of Scotland” with KathaPing Hepburn and Fredric March, at . 11:15, 1:50. 4:30, 7:05 and 9:45, Also Sharkey-Louis fight pictures, at 11, 1:35, 4:40, 6:50 and 9:25. la “Macbeth,” New York Negro Federal Theater project proguct on with cast of 125. Curtain at 8:30. LOEW'S : e Second” with Patsy Ra. 12:21, 2:5

things into a knapsack. When he was finished, he came over to. me and dumped a sack of gold dust into

““Take this’ he said. ‘You go back to the States and forget about it.’ He patted me on the shoulder. ‘You poor kid,’ he said, and then he left.” 2 8 8

HE paused. “That was seven years ago, Lucky. I've never seen him since, I didn’t go back to the States because it didn’t seem right to run away from the bargain TI had made—to take his gold and leave. 1 owe it to him to wait, in case he should come back to claim me. I got started singing in

“Kelly th 5nd Char lie Shas.) at

LYRIC ; Sissle and vaudeville on ever since. You'll say that I could : and 9:33. Also have the marriage annulled, but I can’t do that. TI still feel that, after what he did for me, I must wait for him. ' Some day, he may come. She pulled the mitten from her ete hand, and displayed a signet

This is the wedding Ting he

ed | BS ob ood” &t'd¢ in -stlence for a moment. Then hé suddenly smiled at her. . There ‘was a twinkle in his eye. “Yes; ” he said. “I saw it when we first met three weeks ago. I also saw that you didn’t recognize me without a beard—and I was ‘glad, because I didn’t want you to feel under compulsion. But didn’t I tell you that they don’t call me Lucky for nothing? That's my

Hog” ( ant, THE END. oo 1936. py! ol, x FR da Feature

(The characters in he story are fictitious) set t—————

NEW ROLE FOR JENNINGS

Maxine ‘Jennings continues her steady rise to cinematic prominence in “Second Wife,” new drama featuring Gertrude Michael and Wal: ter Abel.

WORKED WAY TO SCHOOL Van Heflin, currently making his: film debut in “Portrait of a Rebel,” worked his way aboard ship from California to New York. to go to dramatic school.

on screen ‘at 11:36, 2:24 5:31, 8:00 and 10:38. ;

ALAMO “Parole,” Sith Ann Preston and | Henry Hunter. Also “Bulldog Courage” with T y.

SSADOR Francisco’. with Jeanette 'k Cable ble and.

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to Town” with

Gary Coo Also | Square Bi Baye with Warren

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COSTUME CHANGE RECORD Arline Judge will make 19 come plete and elaborate costume changes during the filming of “Valiant Is the word for Carrie.” Its a record number for her.

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