Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1936 — Page 36

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LAUGHTON GIVES MASTERFUL PORTRAYAL OF REMBRANDT

Powell and Myrna Loy

In "After the

Thin Man,

Garbo in ‘Camille’ Booked

Performance by Elsa Lancaster in Loew's Film Is Called Equal to Star's; Picture Depicts

Life of Famed

BY With the opening Charles Laughton, nounced the booking of “After the Thin Man,” following two attractions. Four years Loy sequel to their popular * Christmas Day. Miss Garbo, will be seen as the Lady of* the Camellias for the week beginning Jan, 1.

Mr, Laughton equals, or you may think surpasses, his past performsances in his masterful portrayal of the famous Dutch painter, And what safely may be called the genius of Alexander Korda's direction again has translated historical biography inte a living, human drama. It is entirely absorbing and believable The story discloses some of the tragic highlights in the life of Rembrandt van Rijn from the height of his career, when he was 35, to the closing year of his life, 28 years later, It is set in and around the Amsterdam of the mid-seventeenth century These settings, by Vincent Korda, the director's brother, deserve particular mention. The interiors, especially, are remarkably faithful reproductions of the little Dutch genre paintings of the period. With the realism is combined the simplicity of suggestion found in modern stage (not picture) production. There are few sets on the “grand” Hollywood scale of magnitude. Effects are achieved by excellent photography and intimacy of design. Guard Dislikes Picture Rembrandt's beloved wife, Saskia, dies shortly after the picture opens Meanwhile painter proceeds with his commissioned work for the Civie Guard, “The Night Watch.” When the now famous painting is imveilec th stodg pompous l are both amused and inThey chold themselves ng pell-mell from their quarome looking sleepy and stuothers lost in shadow or with turned away. The painter is called for an exHe gives it, and a verbal lashing besides. This is enough for the Civic Guard. Rembrandt's commissions stop, his goods are sold to pay his creditors. Through all ! this his shrewish, possessive, though faithful housekeeper, trude Lawrence) stays by him, hoping someday to become his wife. Ten years later Rembrandt in with one of his servants, Hendrickje (Elsa Lancaster). The Jealous Geertje has her excommunicated, prevents her marriage to the painter. It seems that the wealthy Saskia’s will prevented Rembrandt's second marriage unless half her fortune be turned over to their son, Titus. Of course, the fortune long since is spent.

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Hendrickle takes Rembrandt to a house in the country, “employs” him and ts around the creditors’ Maims on all his new pictures, A Jaughter born to them. Henfrickie's health is undermined. At mst the way 1s cleared for their rriage but before it can take lace, she dies. The end of the picture Rembrandt in the last vear fife. Feeble, fom and still painting furiously, E left in a turban belore his easel nd a mirror. “Portrait of the Arist as an Old Man.” Mr. Laughton, ag usual, nas imnersed himself in the character he plavs. The wealth of detail and admirable restraint that mark his pork again are evident. In adaijion matches his dramatic pace with the painter's encroaching years by a makeup of consummate skill. Those who remember his “GettysAddress” In "Ruggles" will reknow that Mr. Laughton been given opportunity this time from the Psalins overbs, The power the unconventional reading, the breathy voice, is inexplicable, writer at least. But it 1s undeniable Performance Excellent

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Haws with the picture, it might be said that the picture plays down Rembrandt the painter at the expense of Rembrandt the man. Despite the “Night Watch” episode and the number of times that the artist is shown at his easel, there are few suggestions of the mental and emotional processes that guided his inspired brush. Rather it is a story of the lile, loves and sufferings of a not much more than ordinary mortal. If Mr. Korda has sought to dispel the calumnious stories about Rembrandt the days of the within recent memory, ceeded. Primarily, however, it de=pends upon no “message” for success, It is a beautifully set, superbly acted and directed picture. Loew's second feature is the new Laurel and Hardy comedy, “Our Relations,” in which the two stars get into a lot of difficulty with their identical twin brothers. is a Walt Disney Silly Symphony, “The Three Blind Mousequeteers.”

Short Talks

BY PAUL HARRISON

OLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (NEA)! Talking about a certain acHal Horne said, “Well, she’s | improving--she marries a man every vear.” ” ” Mae West is going to build a big apartment and have her own quarters in the penthouse. She already owns a staggering amount of property around town, and that's what she has been doing with her money. ” Most stars don’t attempt to manage their own finances. George | Temple, papa of Shirley, quit his

Civic Guard to

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job in a bank and has moved into |

the colony as a business manager. Has some other clients besides his

Marguerite Clark toured the Par- | amount lot the other day, visit inside a studio since she quit pictures in 1920. = Billie Dove, rarely seen these days, went dining and dancing with her husband, Robert Kenaston, and Helen Twelvetrees is about again, having an operation, n

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Plavers can quickly become oldtimers in this business. On the set of “Love Is News,” one of the extras sang a strain from “Don't Bring a Frown te Old Broadway,” from the first “Broadway Melody.” “You'd almost think that was Charlie King,” said an actor. “He sang that song when he starred in the picture.” It was Charlie King. An extra now, waiting for a break.

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ITH a firm hand, Elaine Bar- |

rie-smore has undertaken the

social rehabilitation of her husband, | who hasn't balanced a teacup on his !

knee and made polite small talk in | many a leap year. The pair are | entertaining now, and they really | serve tea at the tea-hour. Mr. Bar- | rymore seems to like the idea.

Mary Pickford has a new dia-mond-and-emerald necklace,

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DIRECTORS DON'T SHOUT THROUGH MEGAPHONES, ERNIE DISCOVERS

BY ERNIE PYLE Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18.—The thing that has surprised me most about movie directors is that they seem to do so little directing. And they don't use megaphones. | PFuthermore, I supposed they | kicked and cussed the poor extras (around. But they're just as nice to | extras as to principals. If there |are any Simon Legree directors in Hollywood I haven't seen them. The director sits in a camp chair near the camera, or roams around the set, all day long. About all the directing he does is to tell the cast when to rehearse, decide when | they're good enough to take a shot,

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decide how many shots to take, and

make a few suggestions now and then for slight changes in the way

they do it. A great deal of the director's work comes before the shoobing starts. On big pictures he has weeks of con- | ferences—threshing out the settings, and costumes, and going over the | script with the writer, and ironing out things with the producer. So, ‘when they start shooting. the direc- | tor and actors too know what they want. He's Never Satisfied

Directors have different methods, | depending on their personalities, { John Stahl is serious and mystic. When he is ready for a shot he'll stare at whoever is to speak, and l hold up his hands and say "Quiet . quiet , . . quiet” very slowly and in a spooky voice as though he | were telling a ghost story. It really | does create an effect. Stahl is never quite satisfied. He has the scene done over and over, until I don’t see how the actors can retain any real feeling for it. They say he holds the Hollywood record of shooting one scene 67 times. He | is always behind the production schedule. But his pictures bring in the customers. Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's best, makes very little stir. He walks around with a pipe in his mouth, and looks very undramatic, {and speaks quietly. He makes a

| good many suggestions, and gets out |

| and acts a scene himself now and | | then, but it is all very matter-of- | fact. | It May Be Worth It

| Most of the directors aren't melo- | dramatic. DeMille is an exception. He is away now, so I haven't seen | him work, but it must be wonderful. | They say he used to have a man | follow him around all day, carrying a tray full of pipes—20 or 30 pipes, all loaded and ready to light. This man would have to hand DeMille whatever pipe happened to fit his emotions at the moment. DeMille would take a puff or two, and hand it back. One of Paramount's men was kid- | ding DeMille one day about his exhibitipnism. “Why do you always put on such a show when youre directing?” he asked. “Well,” said DeMille, “it’s made me 16': million dollars. How much have you got [in the bank?” I haven't seen any officious di- | rectors. I've never heard a director | say a scene was lousy, or even that {it wasn't good. If he doesn't like it, he just says “Let’s try it again,” or goes out and shows the actors what he wants changed.

Assistant Director? Boo!

Every picture has an assistant director. He's the one who has to round up everybody, and give all the minor orders. He's busier than | the director. Frequently he is bossy, and people don't like him. Even if he happens to be a nice fellow, he still has a nasty job. They say as- | sistant directors’ seldom become directors, Many directors make more money than the stars. They say Frank | Capra's salary is $4000 a week. But there are directors making second-string pictures who get only | $250 a week. Only $250 a week, the | poor misfits! Only $13,000 a year! I'd think they'd rather go to the poorhouse. I spent a whole day with Director Bob Leonard. He recently directed “The Great Ziegfeld” and he's now | making “Maytime,” with Jeanette | MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

In Movies Since 1909!

Leonard is the oldest director in | Hollywood in point of service. He | has been in the movies since 1909, | and he’s only 47. He has been an | opera singer, writer, actor, and since

| circle of stable owners

Mrs. Ogden To Conduct At Concert

‘Junior Choral to Give Municipal Program Tomorrow.

With Robert M. Stoefer, chapel organist at Wabash | College, as guest soloist, the Ogden Junior Chorale will present its thirteenth annual | municipal Christmas concert ‘at noon tomorrow in Christ | Church. Mrs. James M. Og-

| den, founder of the group, is

Mr. DeMille . . . his eccentricities pay off

Filmland Grooms Stables For Santa Anita Opening

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18.—Motion | picture interest in the Santa Anita | racing season starting Christmas; Day was booming today with fur-| ther news of thoroughbred buying! by film celebrities. Director Howard Hawks was ore | of the latest to join the widening in Holly- | wood. Mr. Hawks has purchased five New York horses and has his eve on two others. The horses he | will ship west this week are Angus, 3-year-old; Orthodox and More Trouble, 2-year-olds; Palanio, 4-year-old, and an unnamed 3-year-old maiden. Mr. Hawks was one of a group | which tried to buy Top Row for | $75,000 before the little speedster won the Santa Anita Derby last year. He applied too late to enter Betty's Buddy in this year's derby, s0 may drop negotiations for the horse which beat No Sir in the endurance handicap at Bowie iast month. Another deal reported on the fire is the attempt of Miss Ethel Hill, Columbia scenario writer and a silent partner, to buy Roman Soldier for about $50,000. Clark Gable and Bing Crosby, two dyed-in-the-wool racing fars will run horses again this your | Mr, Gable's one-horse stable is Beverly Hills while Crosby nas his stable at Tanforan and is expecting great things from his star colt, Khayyam. Director David Butler is expecting to race such horses as Mau-

1914 a director. Everybody likes him. He weighs 220 pounds, has red hair, and talks way down in his throat. He is building a fine house | out in Coal Creek Canyon, but says | he'll probably never live in it. hates houses. Has always lived id apartments. Right now he has a! whole floor in a Hollywood hotel. He is nuts about football. Every | time there's a big game out here | he buys 50 pairs of tickets out of | his own pocket and gives them to the people in the picture—from the | principals down to the carpenters. | The principals don't get the best | ones either. That's the reason | everybody likes him. Leonard is one of Hollywood's best 10, maybe even more the best five. I told him I couldn't figure out, even after watching eight or 10 directors work, just what made a good director. He said: “I couldn't say either. Mostly luck, I guess.”

Next: Mr. Pyle meets Mr. March.

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ing up five yearlings to bring west with Pasha and Roller Coaster. Joe

| E. Brown hopes to have 1) or 12

horses wearing his colors. Producer Hal Roach 's president of the Los Angeles Turf Club, operators of Santa Anita.

STAR'S MOTHER

SEEKS DIVORCE

Biv United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18.-—Mrs. Mayball H. Reed, mother of Martha Raye, today had on file a suit for divorce against Peter F. Reed on

charges that he falsely accused her | of improper conduct in managing

affairs of the actress. She complained that he threatened to pub-

‘licize her affairs unless she pur- |,

chased his silence, and was abusive and cruel,

LINDA PROCTOR TO GIVE RECITAL

Miss Linda Lee Proctor, piano | pupil of Esther Dean, is to present a recital for invited guests at 8 o'clock tonight in her home, 3813 Kenwood-av. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mts. Kenneth Proctor. Guest artist will be Miss Rachel Dean, teacher of piano and organ at Green Mountain Junior College, Poultney, Vt., and sister of the local teacher.

Cramer to Play

Bomar Cramer, pianist, has announced his first Indianapolis appearance of the season in a recital on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 10, at English’s. Mr, Cramer, heard in an allChopin recital last year, has chosen music by composers of the Romantic and Modern schools for his current program: Schubert, Brahms Chopin, Revel, Mompou and Scriabine,

to conduct. Christmas carols are to make up the program, which is open to the public. Miss Dorothy Peterson is general chairman in charge of the

concert, assisted by Mesdames R. W. Morris and W. C. Otto. Soloists, besides Mr. Stoefer, will be Mary Catherine Stair, harpist; and Jane Butler, Billy Shine, Bobby Shine and Claire Patten, singers. An instrumental number will be offered by an ensemble composed of Mesdames Margaret Harrison Shimer, Lorinda Cottingham Howell, Frances Nicholson Ludy and

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“One Way Passage.” with William Powell and Kay Francis, at 11:51 1:51, 3:51, 5:51, 7:51 and 9:51,

CIRCLE

“College Holiday.” with Jack Benny, Burns ang Allen, Mary Boland, at. 11:05, 1:1 3:20, 5:41, 7:58 and 10:15. Also “Po eye” alin: carsoon, at 12:55, 3:07, 5:19, 7:31 and

KEITH'S “Riddle Me This.” presented by the Federal Players. Curtain at 8:15. LOEW'S

“Rembrandt.” with GliArles Laughton, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, d 10:10, “Our Rela tions.’ a Liutel 130, at 12:35, 3:25, 8: 15 and 9:0

LYRIC “White Hunter.” with Warner Bax-

vaudeville” at 1:07, 3:49, 6:41 and 9:33,

ALAMO

"Trailing West,” with Dick Foran. Also LHouse of era with Leslie

Fento AMBASSADOR

“Dimples,”’ with Shirley Tem, le and Frank Morgan. Also, nflict.” with John Wayne and Co

Rogers. OHIO

“Satan Met a Lady.” with Rette Davis and Warren Winiamy Also ‘“The Leathernecks Have Landed,” with Lew Ayres.

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Miss Bernice Reagan, violinists, and Mrs. Marcena Campbell Brewer,

‘cellist. The complete program follows:

‘Noel Polenaise’ . Guilmant “A Christmas Cradle ‘Song"’ Bohemian . Poister) ‘“Ava Maria" .e Schubert r, Stoster

Processional “Ther y City". . Adam Chorus of, A eps “ifom “Christmas

Mor .. Burgmein “The Birthday of a Kin Neidlinger

Ogden junior “chorale “The Lost CRoTg ee «.8ullivan “Carol of the rtlan Ct Children” .. Russian rr, “Beautiful Yuletide .Christiansen “Shepherds in the Hush of Light’ '.. O'Hara Ogden Junior Chorale “The Rosary” .. Nevin Mary ‘Catherine Stair “Silent Night’

“Goodnight. Sweet Jesus" Anonymous

Tea Is Arranged For Voice Pupils

The monthly meeting of the Central Studios of Music voice pupils for December will be in the form of a Christmas tea, from 3 to 4 p. m. Sunday in the Colonial Tea Room, A program of Christmas music is to be presented by Betty Phillips, pianist; Ruth Girton, soprano, and Madelyn Anderson, accompanist.

M-G- M Producer To Make Change

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 — Sam Marx, associate producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will resign from that organization to join the executive staff of the Samuel Goldwyn Studios on Jan. 1, in the capacity of editorial assistant to Mr, Goldwyn, it was announced today. Marx, a former protege of the laig Irving Thalberg, entered the motion pitcure industry in 1921, soon after his graduation from Columbia Uni= veristy. He was for some time associated with Thalberg at Universal and later M-G-M, where, as story editor, he was in charge of engaging writers. More recently, he has served as associate producer for that ore ganization,

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Bette Davis, Warren Willian “SATAN NOT A LADY” Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell “Leathernecks Have Landed”

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