Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1936 — Page 20

of Public Taste Toward Scenes in ‘United States

George O'Brien C Co-Starred With. Heather Angel - in Lead Roles.

If Toéal kids havei's. given

‘up playing: “cowhoys and In-|

. dians™. in favor of “gangsters and Gsmen,” thé Alamo ought ‘to have plenty “of: business

over the week-end,

“Daniel Boone,” latest of recent ‘ historical American films, opens . there Saturday for a four-day en- : gagement. “Epic” pictures appear to run in cycles, and the present. trend seems . to be back to the national scene. : There have been plenty of such pro- + ductions since “The Birth of a Na- * tion” and “The Covered Wagon.” ' Recently, however, picture makers have been traveling across the At‘Jantie for the inspiration of most - of their super-productions. +. However, “The Last of the Mo‘hicans” has been here, “Maid of ‘SBalem” and “The Plainsman” are ‘on the way. and “Daniel Boone” is to be current cinema proof that we ‘are going native once more.

O’Brien As Famous Pioneer

George O'Brien has the role of the famous pioneer, with Heather Angel in the other featuerd role. Thefe are hundreds of extras, of ‘course, to portray Indians and the sbuckskin musketeers who followed Boone and settled in the wilds’ of Kentucky. The film traces the pioneer’s life from his youthful days as a path- _ finder and Indian scout in the Carolinas. It shows his band of homeseekers in their westward trek via covered wagon, and their arrival in Kentucky with a minimum of lost scalps, thanks to Boone's sagacity. Construction of a log fort and ‘homes follow, which leads up to the day when the government forecloses

on the settlers in favor of the Indians.

to demand rights for the settlers. If Daniel had known of all the people who wanted to give the country back to the Indians during the depression, he might never have made the trip. :

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Actor's Former Aid Is Held After Probe

By United Press i HOLLYWOOD, "Cal; Oct. 15— ‘John Kelly, 24, formerly chauffeur, and secretary for Bert Wheeler, film comedian, was held today on suspicion of forging the actor's name to checks. + The youth was held. when Wheeler found his bank account depleted following his return from.a world ‘tour. Detectives .who investigated

“arrested Kelly. The sun taken was fixed at $1000.

Disriey Art Exhibit | Bookings Listed"

" Timés Special ' HOLLYWOOD, Oct. . bookings have been announced for: ‘the Walt Disney Art Exhibit which thas been touring the, country for

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: nearly four years. These include. ‘the Bloomington Art Association, _. Bloomington, Ill., Nov. 9 to Nov. 29; Peoria Junior League, Peoria, 11, Feb. 15 to Feb. 27. 3 The exhibit’ consists ‘of the orig‘inal drawings from Walt Disney's { Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony ! productions, which are released : through United Artists.

3 BUSY SECRETARY

George O'Brien, star of “Daniel |

« Boone, » has had the same secretary, "Grace De Coursey, Jor more than 5 $10 years. She not only serves in the usual secretarial capacities, but: also ‘ handles all his fan mail.

Whereupon Boone makes his. famous journey to the White House.

6-Year-Old ‘Gable’ Big Puzzle to Taxi Driver Dad.

HE'S PIONEER

Pioneering Saturday through Tuesday at the Alamo . . . George O'Brien, star of “Daniel Boone.”

Old ‘Costumes Used in-Movie

(Trunk Bought at Auction

Yields Dresses.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 15—Musty personal effects of old-time troupers —suspected source of many movie jokes—will comprise a large part of the costumes for screen adaptation of Edna Ferber's story of the logging camps, .“Come and Get It.” When a vaudeville troupe failed to “come and get” the trunks out of storage, Gregg Toland, head cameraman. for Samuel Goldwyn, picked it up at'a warehouse auction, and showed Hollywood a new source of supply for its costumes and ‘props.” . Toland took his “sight unseen” purchase home and smashed its ancient lock. Inside were two dresses, relics of 30 years ago.” One was an evening gown of purest silk taffeta and lace; the other an afternoon frock of beautifully preserved brocade. In addition there was an expensive . velvet, . rd Fayntleroy

suit; a child's nightgown of fine

linen bordered with rose point,lace,. and a heavy silver man’s watch with 15 jewels. But na.Joe Miller joke book. Many scenes in the picture are laid around the ‘turn of the cen< tury, so thrifty wardrobe men handed the evening gown to Frances Farmer, feminine lead, who will wear it in the picture. Andrea Leeds, who plays a supporting role, will wear the afternoon frock, and Omar Kiam, Goldwyn designer, is modeling all other dresses used in the . film after the two which Toland's battered, trunk yielded.

Paramount Studio Buys ‘Free Woman’

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Och. Woman,” a current magazine story by Katharine Brush, has been purchased by Paramount. At the same time, in a “talent trade” deal with Columbia studio, Paramount secured Jean Arthur's services for a Pishure, and in turn loaned Cary Grant t Columbia for the lead ie Grace Moore in “Interlude,” the musical star's next vehicle. ;

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BY JOE COLLIER E was driving the taxi, “You work on a newspaper, huh!”

“Yes.” “How much’ you charge for picture in paper, eh?” “It depends on what circumstances surround the printing of the picture.” “Well, you see. I gotta boy who all the time is bothering me to put advertisement in paper to try to get him in pictures. How much would that cost, eh?” “I don’t know how much it would cost, but it wouldn't do any 8008 if you did put it in.”

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. my -boy that is, asks me: i. “Papa, he says, ‘take me to Hollywood and put mé in pictures’ I tell ‘him I haven't got that kind of money I should take him to Hollywood. I tell him maybe I can‘advertise in the newspapers and then he keep asking me to do that. “Now you tell me' to advertise would do no good. He won a World's War contest, you know, that’s what give him the idea.” “Worlds War contest?” “Yes, World's War contest. remember, at Chicago.” “World's Fair, you mean.” “Yeah, World's Fair, that's it. He won a World's Fair contest and that give him the idea to go into pictures. = He ask me about it every night.” ”

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E- ” HE middle-aged man sighed, nearly ran a traffic light, and pawed his beard stubble as he waited for the green. “Now I don’t know what to do!” he said. “How old is your boy?” “He's 6. He’s in second grade this year, I wanted him last year to go to kindergarten, buf his mother took him to public school cause it was only two blocks away and

kindergarten was four.” The fare was 25 cents.

Iron Plays Big Part in Kiss, Actor Says

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 15—The tailor’s iron plays an important part in getting -over a screen kiss with motion picture audiences, according to Kent Taylor. “The . actor .who would register sincere osculation before:the camera must ‘ wear ‘pants that “are freshly |” creased,” "Taylor deélares, “as well as clothes that are tailored to. fit him. Otherwise, he will find the audience will have no, interest in him from the romantic point of view. Frankly, he needn't be surprised if his tenderest celluloid moments provoke guffaws instead of sighs.”

ORSE luck. All the time he,

Culture at Standstill

Kreiser Soos. Advancement

‘Only in Science: and Commerce.

The world is too turbulent

for artistic creation, in the opinion of Fritz Kreisler, world renowned violinist whe

opens: the first Indianapolis ‘Concert Guild season at Cadle

Tabernacle Nov. 1.

“Humanity can advance-on but

one front at a time,” Mr. Kreisler says. science and commerce. Art stands still. Tomorrow one hopes it will be different.” But the violinist thinks that, since good music is a necessity, the tide will turn and we shall have great compositions again. Too much of the, present day musical

output, he believes, is written for

the metronome. “Music has gone astzad ” hé adds. “We have not yet retovered from the .effects of the war. That was

J like a .severe illness, the effect of

which is felt for years afterward. We are still living in a sort of. state of war, a war in which bills’ of credit are used instead of cannon. We are living under the pressure of a spiritual blockade. “Good music makes better men. All through the centuries, music has been the medium of arousing such emotions as religious feeling, love for one’s native land, even love for ‘mankind in general. Man by nature needs music.”

Modest About Work

Mr. Kreisler, doubtless the most popular of any present-day violin composer, is extremely modest about his work. He has written much in the older styles, and has been an indefatigable transcriber. “The longer my compositions last, the less I like them,” he says. “My work has fallen short of what I have tried to do. Did you ever dream that you had performed something marvelous, only to wake up and find that it was all a dream? Well, most artistic creation is like that. We dream that we have created great work, only to wake up and find that it is trash.” In adidtion to the Kreisler concert, the course is to present John McCormack, tenor, Dec. 13; Marian Anderson, contralto, Jan. 17; Daniel Ericourt, pianist, and Father Lach’s Boys' Band, Feb. 7; Poldi Mildner, pianist; March 28, and Kirsten Flagstad, dramatic soprano, on April BALLEW TALLEST ACTOR “Smith Ballew, who plays opposite Ann Dvorak ih “All Scarlet,” is the tallest. leading man in Hollywood,

standing slightly more than 6 feet 5 inches.

REPERTOIRE IS LARGE

Nelson Eddy’s operatic repertoire now includes 35 roles, with more in

“Today it is advancing in|

Entering the movies later in life than his famous sister, but with no less enthusiasm, Jack Temple (left), shown with his brother George and Shirley,

Parade.”

has. become an assistant director. signment was to aid David Butler, Shirley's director in the 20th Century-Fox musical,

His first ase

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Handsome Leading Men Also Clever Artisans and Cooks

Wives Say Movie-Working

Husbands Are Proficient in

Doing Everyday Household Tasks.

BY GRADY JOHNSON

: : United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 15.—Male movie stars are, in the main, homeloving fellows who can use their hands: ag well as their faces, their

wives declare.

Tinkers at heart, the domesticated actors have retained their titles of

“handy man about the house” despite screen greatness.

So say Mrs.

Wallace Beery, Mrs. Paul ‘Muni, Mrs. Charles Laughton, Mrs. Edward

Arnold and others.

Hard-boiled - Wallace Beery, for instance, is a competent house keeper. A doting father, he knows all the scientific answers in regard to rearing children. He can cook for his daughter, Carol Ann; he often buys her clothes; mends toys, invents games; and, on his day off, could be mistaken "for a carpenter doing odd jobs around home. Edward Arnold, who seems. in danger of being typed a gourmet on the screen, is a good cook who leans to garlic and spice. He prepares two meals a week at home, often ordering food ‘over a telephone from a studio set. Charles Laughton is a cook's night-out blessing to Elsa Lanchester, his wife.” He’ learned the culinary. art while managing a hotel in England. Paul Muni’s . Sajents: extend pest

the kitchen at his San Fernando Valley ranch where he milks.cows, tends the orchard and does the hammer and saw work. Charley Grapéwin and Chester Morris both have. machine shops in their backyards and are: fair wood-workers, which means. broken furniture consumes part of their spare time. Richard Boleslawski, the director, also is adept. at glu-

fing buckled veneering.

Robert Montgomery is an expert amateur electrician and. keeps the electric irons, heaters, etc. in working order, although when ignition of his automobile went haywire he had to call il Mechanic Clark Gable to locate a short. ; Spencer Tracy paints: the barns and waxes the floors on his estate. Jean Hersholt cooks Danish dinners, and, like Lewis Stone, does his own gardening.

Nature Fakers

Nature-faking press agents are at work again, and here's a day's output: “Frances Langford’s swimming pool is guarded against uninvited guests by six alligators.” (Water's too - cold, even if she had six alligators.) “Glenda Farrell bought 12 prize’ hens and will raise chickens.” (Cackle! Cackle!) “Adrienne Ames has a pet penguin,” (It's easier to raise a million dollars than a penguin, Singly, they always die.) “Harold Lloyd, -outside- of his regular study of bacteriology: (1), is developing a breed of - wasp which: is a deadly: enemy. : of the black widow spider.” (Oh, Diplopteryga, where is thy sting?)

Dancer Back from Hollywood School

Back from a 10-week period of study at the Kosloff School of Stage and Screen Dancing in Hollywood, | -

Miss Helene Eder is to open her Irviigton dance ‘studio for fourth season this week. Miss Eder returned with a diploma and testimonial letter from Maurice Kosloff, ‘head of the Hollywood school. ' She ‘served as assistant dance director at the school and of the motion picture “Dizzy Dames.”

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Dan Russo’ S Dance Band

Like Whiteman, Was Popular ‘Way Back When.

The story of Dan Russp’s orchestra goes 'way back into the “early Whiteman”. period of dance music. In fact, the

‘| Italian bandmaster, who is to

open a week's engagement

at the Indiana Roof tomorrow night, has had a career somewhat like that of the rotund King of Jazz. * Both these men have been closs to the top for 15 years and more. They have not only kept up with changing trends in popular music styles, but often have set the pace. Dan Russo and his Orioles—they were thé Oriole Terrace Orchestra then—were among the first organizations to take their.music. to the vaudeville stage. And the band-has been something of a training ground for- celebrities. While Bing. Crosby, Henry Busse, Don Bestor and others were graduating from the Whiteman orchestra, Russo was featuring and developing such headliners of today as Ted Fio Rito and Nick Lucas. The Orioles move in to succeed Rudy Bundy and his orchestra, who closed their engagement at the Roof last night.

Contract Approved for June Johnsonx18

By United Press i HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 15.— June Johnson, 18-year-old daughter of Chic Johnson, member of the Olsen and Johnson comedy team, had court approval on a motion picture contract with Republic Pictures today. The girl formerly appeared in

| vaudeville with her father and his

partner.” She will receive: from $75 to $750 a week if all her options are taken up during the next six years.

M’GLYNN IN NEW ROLE Frank ‘McGlynn, character actor renowned for his ‘portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, has joined the cast of “Rainbow on the River,” new Bobby Breen musical “which Sol Lester is producing. i

ATTENDS GOTHAM’'S PLAYS Katharine Hepburn, who ‘is costarring with Herbert Marshall in “A Woman Rebels,” always mane ages to see successful New ;York plays by airplaning East between pictures.

obby Breen—Henry Armetia PLET'S SING AGAIN"

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Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Frank Forest, Benny

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