Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1936 — Page 10

SUSPENSE AND HUMOR ARE BALANCED ARTFUL

‘Afier Thin

Man’ Equals Earlier Film

Powell and Loy Star as Nick Charles And Wife. BY JAMES THRASHER Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charles, the couple who upset Hollywood by making connubial bliss a box office attraction, are back in town.

Myrna Thin

They are ell and After the this week A rather skeptical public has been awaiting this picture, wondering if it possibly could be as good as “The Thin Man" (1934). Answer—it is. And if you saw “The Thin Man,” you know that its sequel is superlative entertainment For the present the producers have selected an imposing cast of They include James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Sam Levene, Teddy Hart and Dorothy ally, was brought to Hollywood for his role of “Dancer” in this picture. Meanwhile he crashed through in “Public Hero No. I” and has continued as one of the screen's most accomplished “heavies.” But that

Loy, appearing in Man at Loew's

FRIDAY,

Friday

DEC. 25, 1936

IN LOEW'S FILM

‘OUR GANG

ENJOYS VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

| | |

course, William Pow- |

mystery-comedy, |

supporting players. |

McNulty, Mr. Calleia, incident- |

shows how long they have been pre- |

paring the present picture. Hammett Is Author Needless to say, Dashiell Hammett this sequel, assisted Frances Goodrich and Albert who prepared the screen

authored bt Hackett, play. It Charles,

ably

and Asta, the dog, return-

ing to San Francisco and a vacation |

after the “Thin Man” case in New York

They return home to find a wel- |

coming New Year's party in progAll the guests are strangers, so they get by unnoticed. Still looking for a quiet corner, they receive telephone call from Nora's Aunt Katherine (Miss Ralph), inviting them to dinner Arriving reluctantly at the party, they are greeted by the finest collection of slightly animated seum pieces since John Barrymore got into the wrong house in “The Man from Blankley's.” They also discover Nora's cousin, Selma (Miss Landi), prostrate with grief because her no-good husband, Robert, has been absent for three days. The Charles family promises to find him.

ess

Trying Blackmail They do, in a Chinese restaurant. Robert (Alan Marshall) is making a play for a singer named Polly

(Miss McNulty). Polly is Dancer's

girl friend as well as employe, and | they are trying to get $20,000 from |

Robert by painless extraction. Robert agrees to go away Polly

with

and Selma, taking a gun, follows him. Robert is shot. David (Mr. Stewart), who has loved Selma all thi her and drops it in the bay. ing are Dancer, Kee has ert

the cabaret proprietor, his Chinese partner, Lum and Polly's brother, Phil, been trving to get a cut of Robmoney.

2 More Murders Happen That

about

s all we are going to tell you the story, except that there

are two more murders before every- |

thing is cleared up. And Nick Charles, of course, is the man who does the trick The remarkable thing about this picture is the way the 1atter of sequels has been handled. here are just lightful Charles habits Nick and Nora as old friends. the authors and Director W. S. Van Dyke have not resorted to old tricks 80 put the picture over. Mr. Powell and Miss Loy again contribute deliciously funny portrayals. Suspense and humor are balanced artfully in the script, and the stars hit the bull's-eye with both barrels,

mannerisms and

No Let-Down

There isn't a let-down among the other players. Miss Landi seems to become increasingly time goes on: Mr. Stewart's unpretentious ability is seen to good ad-

begins with Mr. and Mrs

mu- |

He goes home to get some |

| stage. Also near the scene of the shoot-

who |

precarious | enough of the de-|

to make one welcome back | Yet |

attractive as |

“Our Gang” wishes the world as merry a Christmas as they are

enjoying here. And from the looks of things, that’s saying a lot.

California Proud of Son,

Leo Carrillo, Ernie Finds

BY ENIE PYLE

Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 25—When I was ushered into Leo Carrillo’s | bedroom at 6:45 in the morning, and found him sitting on the bed playing with a Great Dane named “Goliath,” I knew right away he was one

| movie star who didn’t scare me, Ico and I got on fine. day because he had hoped to show

But he did have to work, so after

| playing with Goliath for 10 minutes (which he does every morning) he | jumped up and took a shower, and (then put the makeup on his face. | He has a makeup room right off his | bedroom. Does it all himself. Makes [him nervous for anybody else to ldo it. | It takes about half an hour to put {it on, then he dresses and goes down and has breakfast with Mrs. Carrillo (although she doesn’t have {any, and he has only biscuits and | coffee). Then he gets into his big | coupe and drives to the studio at 50 | miles an hour. He's always there {by 8:45.

He Wears a Half Wig

Leo Carrillo is a native of California, and California is proud of him. Leo's Spanish ancestors set- | tled here around 1700. At one time | they owned everything from Mon-

| terrey to Mexico. Then hard times time, comes rushing up, finds | with a gun in her hand. He | sends her home, takes the weapon |

came. Leo went out into the world a poor boy. He drifted on to the vaudeville Twenty-five years ago he was living in a $1.50-a-week room on 43d-st in New York. Today he | pulls down between $1500 and $2000

marvelous house creek from where he was born.

| vantage, and once more Mr. Calleia is a swell “menace.” You haven't seen Miss McNulty

before, but you are very apt to in

the future. She is pleasantly rem- |

| iniscent of Pert Kelton and Polly Walters. Two of the boys from “Three Men on a Horse” are present. Mr. Levine, who played Patsy in the latter picture, is a detective, |and the diminutive Mr. Hart is seen

lent. After seeing “After the Thin Man” | —and you must do it—probably you {will go home and start wishing for the next installment. It's beginning | to look like the best serial in movie Cork’s

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me all over his “ranch.”

He has dedicated a window in his

sisters. And he is building a little chapel across the creek, and will have a light burning there as long as he lives, in memory of his mother. Carrillo is somewhere around 45, though he doesn’t look it in pictures. His hir is thin on top, and he wears a half wig before the camera. He's a Linguist, Too

On the screen he talks with an accent. But in person, he doesn’t. {He speaks Spanish fluently, of | course, and also Italian, Chinese and Japanese. Learned them from | servants when he was a boy. Despite his Spanish blecod and all the Latin atmosphere around him, he has never been in any Latin country, except once when he went Hunting in Mexico with Clark Gable. He likes hot Mexican foods, but can’t eat them any more because they don’t agree with him.

Leo's private life is as remote from the so-called Hollywood social whirl as mine is. He says he has never been to a Hollywood party.

a week, and has bought back some | of the old home place, and built a | just across the |

as a shyster lawyer. Both are excel- |

He dotes on being a “home man.” Between pictures he rides a lot | (he has four horses), or goes deep- | sea fishing (he has a 50-foot yacht;

| his ranch is only half a mile from |

| the ocean), or jumps on the airlines | and goes about the country making | personal appearances, to keep in | touch with the trend of public re- | action. Leo is under contract to Columbia, but right now is working under loarf to the Walter Wanger studios. { He's in a picture called “History Is Made at Night.” He plays the part {of a funny chef, and Charles Boyer | is a headwaiter.

He's a Contented Man

Leo is hearty and well met, and | knows practically everybody on the lot. He appreciates public acclaim.

house to each of his brothers and |

He is never annoyed by it. He reads every bit of his fan mail, and answers a lot of it himself, even though he has a secretary. Says a secretary can't get in the “personal” touch. When he sees people peeking through the front fence of his ranch he sends his gardner out to invite them in. Says if they're interested enough in him to drive 15 miles from Los Angeles and hunt up his place, they're entitled to a good | look around. | Leo is extremely happy. A very | expansive, conscious happiness from | being aware that his home life is sound, his heart big and his thoughts good. And he is civicminded. He leads all the Hollywood parades on a white horse, and can always be depended on for benefits and charity drives. He goes to church, but his main religion, he says, is in understanding people and making people feel at ease with him and in doing good. He never smoked or drank until five years ago. Doesn't do much of either, even now, He swears occasionally. He talks a lot, and easily, but he isn’t as explosive as on the screen. He’s proud of everything he possesses, especially his friends. His best friend in the world was Will Rogers. Leo is like Will in a lot of ways. He is full of little philosophies. He

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likes to collect big names for friends; says he does it so he can

listen and get their views. Irvin Cobb is one of his best friends now. Mrs. Carrillo has no stage tradition, and never comes near the studio. But she goes to Leo's pictures and thinks he's wonderful. Leo can’t stand to see himself on the screen. The best, I've saved till the last. Leo writes poetry. Yep, has a book full coming out next spring. It's this “Oh for the land of cactus and sun, where the rattlers coil and the yearlings run. . . .” kind of poetry. That isn't just it, but you get the idea. He recited two poems to me while putting on his makeup. I thought they were fine.

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Austen Nove Play's Basis

‘Pride and Prejudice’ Opens At English's Tonight.

As a fitting close to a holiday's enjoyment, English's tonight is offering Helen Jerome's dramatiza- | tion of Jane Austen's famous novel, “Pride and Prejudice.” The leading

anapolis favorite of Walker stock company days. Max Gordon is the play's producer, and the cast includes Mollie Pearson, Eugenia awls, Evelyn Bird, Esther Mitchell, Helen Strickland, Lowell Gilmore, Staats Cotsworth, Robert Conness, Philip Tonge, Leslie Dennison and J. Plumpton Wilson. Settings and costumes of England in the early 1800s are by Jo Mielziner. Like Charlotte Bronte's “Jane Eyre,” equally renowed novel of the

tempts at dramatization. But it has remained for Miss Jerome to make the first successful stage version of

role, that of Elizabeth Bennett, will | be played by Muriel Kirkland, Indie | the Stuart |

same era, “Pride and Prejudice” has | been the subject of numerous at- |

both. Her “Jane Eyre’ was produced in Manchester, England, last | spring and again at the Malvern Festival in the summer. A London production is scheduled for this season and the New York Guild has taken it for an American presentation. i Previous Attempts Failed | Only two of many previous drama- | tizations of “Pride and Prejudice” | reached the public. The first, called | “The Bennetts,” was produced in | London in 1901 and played for two | weeks. The second, by Mary Keith Mackaye, was published, but there is no record of a performance. Both Jane Austen and Charlotie | Bronte, along with her sisters Emily land Ann, have been sujects for a

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