Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1936 — Page 6
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ELEANOR POWELL CO
- MCREA IN STRIKING POSE
‘Bing Crosby Picture Due Here Friday
*Swing' Composer Makes Debut in ‘Pennies _ From Heaven.’
BY JAMES THRASHER For weeks, says Orville Crouch, Loew’s press representative, people have been calling in to ask when Eleanor Powell’s new picture would be showing. And when a new star can stir up that much
interest, she has something.
So, if Mr. Crouch hasn't already told you, we are happy to state that "#Born to Dance,” which stars the member of the Hollywood Powells, will be at Loew's on Dec. 11—which is a week from Friday. With Miss Powell in the picture are James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, ‘Buddy Ebsen, Una Merkel, Alan Mowbray and, as you might guess, many others in some elaborate production sequences. Meanwhile the theater will set the musical stage with Bing Crosby's latest opus, “Pennies from Heaven,” which is Friday’s main attraction. In case yod get a surfeit of melody, the Crosby film’s companion piece is a chiller called “Legion of Terror.” Mr. Crosby, we understand, is going pretty definitely “swing” in this gctuse. At least that it what Paul Whiteman, Vincent Lopez, Hal Kemp,
Waring, Will Osborne and Shep
Returning to a Friday-opening policy, the Apollo
Charity Gets Movie Rent For Houses
Idea Originated 30 Years Ago by Mrs. De Mille Has Spread.
BY ui HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2—(NEA)— Charity is doing very well in talkietown, and on every lot is an impressive gadget like a tremendous clock or a colossal thermometer to show the progress of the community welfare drive.
But there is one charity that works-all the year round, and that’s the rental of fine homes and estates to the studios for movie locations. Proceeds go ‘to the needy. It all started 30 years ago, when Cecil Brobdingnagian De Mille was
| filming one of his super sequences
will present
“Banjo on My Knee” as its next attraction. The gentleman in the “striking” pose is Joel McCrea. Barbara Stanwyck is pleading with him
to stop and reconsider.
The Apollo’s current picture, “Three Men on a Horse,” may be seen
today and tomorrow.
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Rumor of Century-Fox, British Merger Revived
Guy Lombardo, Glen Gray, Fred | By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2.—Talk - of
_ Flelds say, And they should know. | she nancial merger of Twentieth
Armstrong’s Debut
Century-Fox and Gaumont-British
If that isn’t proof enough, Bing’s ! films, proposed last summer, was reJatest serves as the movie debut of | yived today after reopening of nego-
Louis Armstrong: author (“Swing
That Music”), composer and trump-
eter who never yet has been accused | / Howl of Wolf’
of playing “sweet.” Or if you have heard “So Do 1,” “Pennies from “Heaven,” “Let's Call a Heart a Heart,” “One, Two, Button Your Shoe” and “Skeleton in the Closet”
To Be Presented
“The Howl of the Wolf,” a
on the air we don’t need to tell you comedy-drama of southern moun-
more.
Bing has two leading ladies this tain life, will be presented by the time. One is Madge Evans, the other, | Sutherland Players at 7 o'clock Sun-
13-year-old Edith Fellows. Probably you have seen Edith before, for she is a veteran of nearly 100 pictures. -Her latest was “She Married Her Boss,” with Claudette Colbert.
day night in the Sutherland Presbyterian Church. This is the first of a series of plays on religious, social, moral and
Edith and Miss Evans could tell | ethical-themes to be presented in about the same success story, if they | connection with the church’s Sun-
wished to grow reminiscent.
For | day evening services during the fall
Miss Evans, you'll recall, has been |and winter. “
in pictures since she was 5. When
Norman Green, the p's di-
grou she was Edith’s age she was John | rector, has announced the follow-
' Barrymore's leading lady,
if you |ing cast: Fannie K. Fort, La Vora
please, and a year later played the | Gibson, William H. Green, Helen
lead opposite Richard Barthelmess.| Widdop, Paul Fledderjohn
and
As for Edith, producers know she | Kathryn Gibson. Special settings
has talent but can’t quite classify {and costumes are She has outgrown the “child | Brackett Green, technical director.
it. star” category, and yet must wait a few years before joining the “glamorous ladies” class. So at present she is down as a “miniature dramatic actress.”
Reel Shorts
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by Virgin
THEY STILL LAUGH AT MR. MARSHALL
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2.—They're still laughing over the absentminded professor. act which cost Herbert Marshall a thorough recently. Scenes of “Make a Lady” were being filmed
arate Bing Crosby from that | in a studio-manufactured rainstorm. shabby old cap. Cecil B. DeMille | Each protected by an umbrella, wears high laced shoes. There is | Marshall and his 18-year-old co-
a concerted revolt against
polo | star, Anne Shirley, were to part in
shirts, and a, return to collars and | the rain, with the camera following
ties. Adolphe Menjou can't gét ac- | Miss
customed to being a comedian instead of a clotheshorse; he has or-
Shirley. ! Action started, rain poured down in torrents. Marshall played his
dered 37 suits and five topcoats. | part of the scene. Then, as the ~ Tilly Losch, the dancer, has been | camera followed Miss Shirley and attracting a lot of attention around | he realized he was out of range, he the colony since her screen debut | calmly dropped his umbrella, com-
in “The Garden of Allah.” i 82 wn =
Merle Oberon, in case you're curious, will collect a cool $1,500,000 from Samuel Goldwyn and
wish to be alone.” Olivia De Havilland’s younger sister, Joan Fontaine, a contract with Jesse Lasky and in "Quality Street” .with ‘Katharine Hepburn. Marlene Dietrich gets her first . assignment as an archvillainness next year, when she will portray Lucrezia Borgia, the gal who shook up cyanide cocktails.
pletely forgetful of the driving rain. His clothing was soaked before he gained sanctuary behind the camera lines, out of the storm area.
HILGEN THEATER IS
TO OPEN TONIGHT |p se
The HilGen Theater, formerly the located
Roxy, at Washington-sts, is to open tonight under & new management. Sam
Hill and Rex Gentry are the new
Power fode ‘a. bicycle to | 480.
O. K. CONTRACT FOR ]5-YEAR-OLD
-|RADIO STARS GET
RAZORBACK
Rural and E.
HOGS
tiations between officials of the American and British concerns. Sidney R. Kent, Fox president, and Joseph M. Schenck, president of the board, reported a successful meeting with Isadore ' Ostrer of Gaumont-British, but said no definite action will be taken until the arrival of Maurice Ostrer for a conference next week. The merger would be purely technical, since Twentieth Century-Fox already holds a 49 per cent interest in the British firm. Benefits of the merger would be felt largely in interchange of players, technical] talent and facilities for distribution. Immediate effect of the merger would be to consolidate Loew’s Inc. as the most powerful single unit in pictures. The firm already controls Twentieth Century-Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, two of the largest major producing companies.
Hepburn Star in Picture at Ohio
Beginning today with a two-day booking of Katharine Hepburn in “Mary of Scotland,” Manager Don Muchmore of the Ohio announces an attractive list of pictures for the first ‘week in December. “Sing, Baby, Sing,” featuring Patsy Kelly, is slated for Friday and Saturday. Sunday “Swing Time,” recent Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers hit, will open a three-day run. A revival of Will Rogers’ picture,
“State Fair,” also is to be shown soon.
MARGO PLANNIN TO STUDY IN N. Y.
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2.—Following the completion of “Winterset” in which she plays the leading feminine part opposite Burgess Meredith, Margo will go to New York for a month. While she is there, the young Mexican actress will study with Laura Eliot, noted dramatic coach under whose tutelage such stars as Katharine Cornell still remain. Her course will include Shakespeare, the Greek tragedies, and modern plays. The reason behind the fact that has never played anything but leading parts is not luck. For years she has made an intensive study of drama and the allied arts, with the result that she has always turned in inspired and finished performances.
MUSIC IS USED TO TELL STORY
Timer Special : HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2—Radical innovations in the scoring and filming of Bobby Breen’s new starring musical, “Rainbow on the River,” are expected to make this the first successful effort to tell a story in music as well as in action and dialogue and to establish a precedent in motion picture production,
involving some hundreds of extras on the estate, borrowed for the occasion, of Hancock Banning. Mr. Banning was a transportation magnate who, incidentally, once owned Catalina Island. Well, after the first day of the De Mille visitation the squire took a look around his place and considered renaming it The Shambles. Flowers had been plucked by extras, beds trampled by heavies, and comedians had fallen through most of the hothouse glass. Mr. Banning caused the gates to be locked against the horde which was scheduled to return on the MOITOW. : Mr. De Mille described the impasse to Mrs, De Mille, who took it up with Mrs. Banning over their teacups. From their conversation emerged ‘an enterprise: known ‘as the Film Location Bureau, which is part of the charitable Hollywood Assistance League. ry It . was agreed that the bureau would handle the renting of locations to movie companies, and that the proceeds would be split 75 per cent to charity, 25 per cent to the owners. he Many Yachts Listed
The organization now has listed some 5000 private gardens, mansions, ranches, castles and parks in Southern California. Also 500 yachts—all the big ones on the Pacific Coast. Most used estates are those of Lolita Armour (of the packing Armours) at Montecito and the Busch Gardens which beer built in Pasadena. The company in the quintuplet picture, “Reunion,” used the Busch Gardéns for the Moosetown public square and rk, where the reunion festivities held. : Besides a stated rental, each agreement included a contract calling for payment for trampled shrubbery and shattered statutes. Charges range from $100 to $500 a day a, location, thus rolling up an impressive sum for the Assistance League’s good .works, and making everybody happy. : Yachts start at $250 a day, frequently are rented because none of the studios or studio executives owns a yacht :palatial enough for the flickers. few interiors of homes are available, but seldom are used in these days of studio wizardry
Mileage Plus Regular steamships, also trains and airplanes, are usually available to movie companies without cost when they're in harbors, stations, or fields. But standard passenger rates are charged for every member of the company when a trip is taken, A train’ — locomotive, tender, four coaches and a flat car for the cameras can be rented for only $125 for an eight-hour day, plus mileage. When the army or the navy is
called on for help in producing an
epic, influence counts more than cash. Every studio has a couple of ex-politicians who know the right people to see about getting a couple. of destroyers and a fleet of planes. - One company has a location man= ager, a former minor government official, who boasts that he can produce anything from a regiment of infantry to a flotilla of submarines on 24 hours’ notice. Donations Welcomed Of course it’s customary, when you're borrowing an arm
y post or a fleet squadron for a few days, ; !
One of the most distinguished members of the American theater, Jane Cowl, will be seen in three evening performances and a Saturday matinee at English’s, beginning tomorrow night, in “First Lady.” The play, by George 8. Kaufnian and Katharine Day- | ton, is a satirical comedy of Wash- | ington diplomatic § life, :
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “Three Men on
‘CIRCLE
“Hideaway Girl” with Martha Ra: Shirley Ross, at 1 :50, 4:40, 7:30 ‘and 10.20. “rh Gas ado,” with Nino > aud Ida Lupino, at 12:20, 3:10, 6 and
KEITH'S “Tamed, and How!" sent the Pederal Players, at Pa15, Hn LOEW'S
“Theodora Goes Wild,” with Irene Dunne and Movin Douglas, at 12:40, 3:40, 6:50 and 10. “Mad Holiday,” with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi; at 11:25, 2:30, 5:30 and 8:40.
LYRIC : “Country Gentlemen,” with Olsen and Johnson, on scr a 1:42, 2:23, 5:14, 8:05 and 10:28. ‘*‘Cuban Follles,”” with Rimac’s Rumba Orchestra, on stage, at 1:10, 3:51, 6:4 and 9:33. ALAMO
“Devil on Horseback,” with Lili
Damita. Also ‘“Pepper,’”’ with Irvin 8. Cobb. |
AMBASSADOR
“Walking on Air,” with Gene Raymond. #A oe Gentleman fro Louisiana,” with Eddie Quillan, *
OHIO “Mary. of Scotland,” with Katha« rine Hepburn, Fredric March. Also gAnd Sudden Death,” with Randolph ott.
to make a contribution to the mess fund. Makes for better feeling on the part of soldiers and sailors
who can’t be directly remunera for their acting. :
APOLLO
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}| Here Sunday
Film Workers
Are lncreased
Repo 44 Per Cent Gain In Production Field.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — The Census Bureau today reported substantial employment increases in the motion picture industry’s pro-
duction field during 1935. The production division em-
| ployed 27,417 persons in 1935, an
increase of 44 per cent over the 19,037 in 1933. Their 1935 compensation was $101,754,426, a gain of 42.6 per cent over the $71,343,941 in 1933. \ The bureau estimated the, total
Band Interrupted Concert With Italian Princess.
- Banging street cars, wailing sirens and other extraneous noises frequently add a jarring counterpoint to concerts in every city. Local audiences may recall a particularly insistent political - rally across the street from the Murat when John Charles Thomas sang with the sym-
what the Musical Art Quartet went
through in Turin, Italy, last summer. : The Musical Art players will be heard in a Martens concert
"| at English’'s Sunday afternoon, and
their first violinist, Sescha Jacobsen, tells this story of an informal concert with Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy. 3 It seems that the Crown Princess is an accomplished pianist, and she had invited the quartet for a morn-
“sly:
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{ing of chamber music at the palace.
They were started nicely on a Brahms trio when a brass band bee gan blaring in the courtyard below. Every one looked a little startled, but they continued making music, and eventually the band gave up. But, as the morning wore on and the Schumann Quintet succeedad the Brahms trio, their annoyance grew. The enthusiastic band returned every half hour with undiminished vigor, The Crown Princess went grimly about her pianistic busiHess, and the string players followed sui $ a When the concert’ was ‘finished, Marie Jose rose from the piano and apologized. She told the American musicians that the palace guard was changed every 30 minutes. The custom of the country demanded a band’s presence at each change. She was sorry, she said, but she was powerless to do anything about it, Previous to this informal gather. ing the quartet had given an evee ning concert attended by the en tire court, with guards in medieval attire at the doors, and tall can. dles the only lighting in the hall. It was an auspicious occasion, the Musical Art Quartet agreed, especially with “crowned heads of Eu. rope” as scarce as they are at present.
“I CAN FIGHT BETTER...
| CAN LOV
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than any other girl on the river] An’any time you don’t think so, let me know"
cost on finished and unfinished |’ productions at $188,469,660, ‘or 57.9.
per cent above the $119,342,866 in 1933. ; :
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