Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1936 — Page 11

THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1936

_ ERNIE IS STILL A JOAN CRAWFORD MAN

Movie Lot Makes Joke Of Freckles

Actress Confesses She 'Eats Up' Attentions Of 'Star Gazers.'

BY ERNIE PYLE Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 24.—! For years people who claimed | to know have been telling me | that Joan Crawford in the! flesh looked terrible. Well, t's libel. She looks just about the same in person as she does in pictures, pretty good

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and that looks

ho introduced us told oing to be on the set dav and she said: “I'm I said: “Yeah, I'll bet you're delighted.” And she think grand.” So I said: “All right I'll just keep out of the way, and whenever vou have any spare time, give me fa

said: “I really am. 1

nod ! | So I sat in a camp chair all day and watched Joan and Bob Montgomery making “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” for MGM. The director was Richard Boleslawski, called Boles Between Joan would go back behind the set to her temporary dressing room. I didn't see very much of her, to tell the truth about it They She sent maid out and I went back and chatted her above five minutes each time. Around 11 o'clock we had a cup of coffee out of a thermos bot-

tle, and she wondered if it wasn't time for her to smoke a

cenes.

Talk for 10 Minutes her twice to get me, with

then

cigaret She has started ing career

smoke, but since she so seriously on a singher music teacher says she couldn't smoke so much. She had had only three up to 11 o'clock. Even her temporary dressing room is a pleasant little affair, with a couch and dressing table, and a telephone. While I was there Mrs. Gary Cooper called up, and Joan invited her and Gary to go dancing | with them at the Trocadero the next night, it being Sturday. Joan says she loves to go out | ancing, but she and her husband ranchot Tone have been out only | 11 times since they were mar1 i 15 months ago

Who Is This Mr. Riggs?

oves to

I asked her if she minded going | out in public, and being harrassed | by autograph hounds and “star | gazers.” She said, “I love it. I eat | it up.” She says it's when actresses start believing their own publicity that they get to thinking they're so important She says the Coopers, and Barbara

her best friends are and Jimmy Murphy | Stanwyck (Joan says | one swell person), and the | playwright, Lynn Riggs. I'll have to hunt up this fellow Riggs and cee how he does it. He's Jean Muir's best friend, and Joan Craw- | ford’s best friend. Joan's eyes are really big, and she has a beautiful speaking voice and her talk is spontaneous and ecstatic. She is very friendly. And vou don't pronounce it “Joe-Ann,” as I always did, but “Jone.” When she's working she gets up at 6:30, and is in bed by 9

The Cameraman Likes Her

she’s

eat any real lunch, noon hour to change her makeup lie down and rest. I went to lunch with her cameraan, George He thinks she’s great For a wouldn't and now him. He

Joan doesn’t but uses the

and Folzey

Jong time Marion Davies have anybody by Folzey, Joan won't have anybody tells them to get it out of heads that only one person can photograph them, Or only one person can make them up right, or only person direct He says there are a dozen Hollywood who could do

but

their

one

s Joan has an almost perographic face. He says you re daring things with | ( } than with any one 3 didn’t quit understand what he was talking about, but that's what he said

He says he

1 elise

Joan Smiles at Ernie

_They kid her on the set about the | eckles Folzey will go up and lo#k | t her closely and then vell, “Hey | Bole y. come here, I've found another | me Th ey have a lot of jokes about | and she joins in the fun. Folzey | vs the most beautiful he has ever | een her was one day when she wasn't working, and she dropped by | the studio without makeup on. Folzey says Norma Shearer has | the most perfect skin in Hollywood. | like cream, he says. And she] doesn’t use makeup before the cam- | era, either. I never got to talk with Joan after | lunch, First some of Bob Montgomery's folks came in, and she had to spend her time with them. And |

ICR | LE GALA HOLIDAY ATTRACTION!

Max Gordon presents A Bit al Theatrical Enchantment

PRIDE & PREJUDICE

JANE AUSTEN'S Great Novel Dramatized by Helen Jerome

it Has Rewitched Thousands Eves., Sic to $2.78 Tax,

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| see me in Europe,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FILM ACTRES DIRECTOR

S GETS S' GIFT HERE

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Dian Manners Is Delivered

Picture of Horse by Times Writer.

BY JAMES THRASHER

graphed. We suggested that maybe | and pre-nuptial fireworks; and one which | decided the stars gossiped most over | very | Producer Jesse L. Lasky’s

| youngster—a pup—what do you call | Douglas

{| By United Press

| HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 24.— |

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

“One way Passen er.” with Wil-

Mary Astor Case Third | =~ awa"

In Interest

“College Holiday,” with Jack Benary Boland, 5:4 1:53 an

ye" *ail-color car3:07, 5:19. 7:31 and KEITH'S

presented bv the FedCurtain at 2:15

LOEW'S

“Rembrandt,” with Charles Laugh- , at 12:54, 3 56. 6: 38 and 10. Also, “Our Relations wi Laure] and Hardy, at 11:33, 2 3. 5:37 and 8:39.

LYRIC

“White Hunter,” with Warner Baxter, June Lang and Gail Patrick, at 11:48, 2:30; 5:22, 8:14 and 10:28. Also i vaudeville at FE 3:48, 6:41 and

“The Fool,’ eral Players,

Hollywood Talked More About the Death of | Thalberg.

ALAMO

‘Kelly the Second,” with Patsy Kelly. Also, “Boss Rider of Gun Creek,” with Buck Jones

AMBASSADOR

“Big Broadcast of 1937,” with Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie

The celebrated Mary Astor! case which filled newspaper | columns for nearly a month as no Hollywood sensation |

“He's just a | ford-Buddy

Allen. Also, “15 Maiden Lane.’ OHIO

to Nature,” with the Jones Also, ‘Desirable.’

‘has done in recent years was | ‘not the outstanding story of |

11936 to ‘your flicker favorites. | | Dark-haired Mary and her lav-| | ender diary ran a poor third as a topic of conversation on studio sound stages, in the opinion of Hollywood's glamour gilders—the | publicity agents, who ought to know. ! A press agent from each of seven Members of the Arthur Jordan | Insjor Studios hi! asked 0 Saggest | Conservatory chapter of Sinfonia | | the most talked-of story of the year | | and only one nominated the famous | mysic fraternity are to present a | child custody case. | model initiation at the national | Three rated the sudden death of | | Sinfonia convention in Chicago, ( Irving Thalberg as the outstanding | Dec. 30 and 31. Franklin Taylor, | story; two thought it was the John | member of the conservatory faculty, | Barrymore- -Flaine Barrie nuptials | win be in charge. Included in the initiation cast | will be Stanley Norris, George Carothers, Gerald Bettcher, Alonzo | Eidson, Gilbert Kellberg, J. J. Al- | bion, Earl» Howe Jones, William | Moon and Mr. Taylor. J. Russell Paxton, president of | the chapter, will head the local | delegation of 20 who are to attend

“Back Family.

Sinfonias to Give Model Initiation:

Feirbanks-Sylvia Ashley |

Through the combined efforts of | a young horse? He's a good horse, | marriage, Bette Davis’ and Vicor | pe convention.

one L. Loftus of Los Angeles and this writer, motion picture director

David Butler's Christmas present to |

Miss Dian Manners, actress, has

| been delivered.

too.

the rail of the Turf Club out there | best-acting awards, I always made | Chaplin's money on Manners Man, until the | Paulette Goddard were ignored in

almost every day.

Derby. Let's see, where is that,

Louisville or Lexington?”

When we arrived at work yester- |

day morning a large and imposing |

envelope rested atop the day's mail —Ilmposing because it was decorated with 54 cents worth of air mail stamps. Inside was a photograph of a horse and a letter which read as follows: “Will you please try to locate Miss Dian Manners, a Hollywood film |

actress who is stopping in your city ! and forward the in- |

with relatives, closed picture of her favorite race ! horse, Manners Man,

“Mr. David Butler, director at |

Twentieth Century-Fox and owner |

of the horse, sent this picture of the | horse and will run him in the Santa | Anita Handicap.’

Wants to Buy Horse

The letter was signed by Mr. | Loftus, and a post script added that | “It is a well-known Hollywood joke that Miss Manners is only working long enough to save enough to buy | Manners Man and she’ll appreciate | the picture from Mr. Butler, I know.” Well,

our part was easy.

and incidentally convalescing from an attack of flu, | for the past two months. So we | telephoned Miss Manners, told her about the picture—and the 54 cents in stamps—and she said she would be down. Miss Manners is pretty and blond and wore a checked suit and sort

| back before Christmas,

| parts,”

We | | knew that Miss Manners had been | visiting her uncle, Dr. E. M. Ryan, | 950 Virginia-av,

Backed Him in Derby

We voted in favor of Louisville, | | player in “That Girl From Paris,” I starring Lily Pons, worked his way.

and Miss Manners continued: “He was great in the Derby. | had everybody in Hollywood betting on him. Now nobody speaks to me.’ Miss Manners also said she has |

Born in Boston, and Michigan, Hollywood, dancing

{ You may have seen her in “The Great Ziegfeld,” “San Francisco” or “Anna Karenina,” {| Greta Garbo. When she returns to the West | Coast (and she should have been she said) she hopes to sign with Paramount, as an actress instead of a dancer, “I've already had two speaking she told us. “In the first one I said ‘How do you do’ and something else. I've forgotten what the other word was.” Asked how she enjoyed working with Miss Garbo, Miss Manners said she “didn’t mind her.” She said the glamorous Greta is very nice but seems just a little bored by it all.

sq neighborhood, the actress told us, want to know if she has seen Robert Taylor, whom they all have decided to marry when they grow up. “Sure I know Bob,” she said. “We hang around the same slot machine

of a pinkish sweater.

She took a |

at the corner drug store.”

look at the picture and right away |

complained because it wasn't auto- |

And

then some of her own friends. then Gov. and Mrs. Lehm course, they got all the attention. Joan would peek over while where I was sitting and brooding behind the lights, to see if I was still there, and smile at me. But you can't write a whole column about a girl smiling at you. Finally about 4 o'clock I decided

to go, and then I couldn't find my |

hat. bracket, cameraman

and now it was gone. had three carpenters

| hunt all over the studio for it, but |

it was gone. It's that beautifu! old hat that flops, and has holes in it. I wouldn't | swap it for any actress in Hollywood. And now

all day, and maybe she'd see me in Europe next summer. She knows very well she won't and wouldn't know me if she did, but she’s all right anyway, and I'm still

Crawford man.

Next—Leo Carillo.

BEAUTIFUL

The Jones Family “BACK TO NATURE”

All Star Cast “DESIRABLE”

MISTLETOE DANCE XMAS EVE ADM., 15¢c TILL 8:30

(Kisses for All)

THE CASINO

3547 E. WASH. ST. Buy Your Tickets Now! For New Year's Eve Frolic. Adv. Ticket Sale, 0c. Tickets on Sale Downtown at 4 Morrow Nut Houses

LE LEE hl

1ONIGHT SPECIAL XMAS EVE DANCE

AYARS LAMARR

AND HIS ORCHESTRA 40c ALL EVENING A,

INDIANA

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an and, of |

I'd left it hanging on a light | The |

it’s gone, forever. | Joan apologized and said gee she | | was sorry things turned out the way they did and she had to be so busy |

a Joan |

Tallulah Seeks Coveted Pa rt

| By United Press

once in a |

which starred |

All the little girls in the Fountain- |

I love races, used to hang on McLaglen’s sweep of the Academy |

and Charlie | supposed marriage to |

SHIP IS REMODELED

The bark, Star of Finland, last of the Alaska Packers fleet of 24 square-rigger fishermen, is being remodeled into a clipper ship for “Souls at Sea,” with Gary Cooper, George Raft, Henry Wilcoxon and Frances Dee.

| the voting.

FATE IN A HORN

Frank Jenks, seen as a trombone

through college playing the instru- |

| ment in a band. “WHERE THE CROWDS GO”

THE OLD-INN

End of Beech Grove Carline CHRISTMAS EVE

DANCE TONIGHT

Goldy Saylor and Her Orchestra

Additional Theater News, Page 12.

- INDIANA - ZA aE

| REOPENING _

Eddie Cantor's wonder boy singer of the air... . In a grand story you'll

never forget!

| | | | |

Miss Bankhead flew immediately

Wind.” | Hollywood and camera and sound tests. iof her acquired | speech.

into | made | She used her native Southern drawl instead clipped British |

She will return to New York soon | te resume work in her stage vehicle,

“Reflected Gl Glory.’

UNCLE SAM ASSISTS

| States Ceast Guard Service,

| tion scenes of starring Victor McLaglen and Preston Foster.

The Tahoe, one of the newest | turbo-electric cutters in the United was loaned by the government for loca“Coast Patrol,” co-

Tonight’s Presentations at Your

NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS

WEST SIDE

2702 W. 10th St. Tonight Only Chester Morris “THEY MET IN A TAXI" Plus Another Feature

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2540 W. Mich. St. 0 AISY Deatie keature ~PoSTAL INSPECTOR”

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T Mlinois and Sith Double Feature ORB Weismuller

RITZ

“TALZAN ESCA “STAR FOR A NIGHT"

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“DIMPLES’ “THEY MET IN A TAXI"

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4630 E. 10th St. Double Feature

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“SATIN MET A LADY “CHINA CLIPPER"

HAMILTON 2116 E. 10th St.

Double Feature Ruth Chatterton “GIRLS DORMITORY” “THEY MET IN A TAXI”

"PAR KER 2936 E. 10th St.

Double Feature Rod Rocque “TAMING THE WILD" THE LAST MILE”

STRAND ‘Shiites CLIBELED LADY" “THE BIG Me

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Paramount Jnn Sothern “WALKING ON AIR”

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better than our first happy hit,” says ASTA

(Don't look now)

THE DOG

‘Merry Christmas’

Show for all Indianapolis

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