Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1937 — Page 13

THURSDAY, JAN. Ts 1037,

Actors Really Work and Romance Is Monotonous; |

Executives Do Jobs Well

Film Capital's Morel Bn on Por ar With Those Elsewhere, But More Is Said About Them, Ernie Thinks; Most Stars Normal Persons.

By ERNIE PYLE . Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7

7.—This is the end of my Holly-

wood interlude. Maybe you'd like to know how a month of movies-in-the-raw strikes an average person. Well, on the whole 1 didn’t enjoy it. There were pleasant

moments.

* js actually made, in contrast

.thing done.

to your esablished notion of |

the business, was always in-

teresting. But because it was work, I suppose, I-got little thrill out of meeting world-famous stars. It became a task instead of a privilege. Some of them, however, were sO completely decent and informal that they did make the work ‘a pleasure. The worst part of Hollywood to me was the slowness of getting anyYou're promised something for tomorrow, and you get it a week from Thursday. It took me a month to accomplish what you could do anywhere else in two weeks.

- He Found Much Wisdom

But on the whole, my impression is that the movies aren't as crazy as theyre painted. There is out here a vast amount of wisdom and talent and even genius. I was impressed by the way actors really work, and with their seriousness. Up by 7, when they're on a Sieune, and on the job till after 6, and in bed by 9, most of them. There ‘are others, of course, who are all-nighters. Theyre the ones who give Hollywood its wild name. The ‘people, as one serious actor described it to me, who can’t distinguish between achievement: and notoriety. While here I had a letter .from my Aunt Mary in Indiana. She said she'd sure like to see Hollywood, although she guessed “its morals aren't up to par.” I don’t believe Hollywood's morals are much different from other .places. You just hear more about them.

Peril in Limousines

It is amazing to me there is so much balance in Hollywood.” It seems almost miraculous that a man like Fredric March, _for example, coming. from 4verage young manhood into half a million dollars a year and world-wide fame; could continue to lead a normal life, and above all, think normal fundamental thoughts, as he" does. I'm sure I couldn’t avoid being touched by it. Why, just in one day

-J was called for at my apartment

three times by a big black limousine chauffeur-driven, from the MGM studios. And as I rode down Hollywood Blvd., all alone in the back seat, looking down upon the com-

The element of surprise in seeing how a movie

saw what has

mon people. I

Twrecked so many Hollywood careers. |:

I was a big shot. Missed the Love Scenes

In a month of being on movie sets nearly ever day, I did not happen to catch a single love scene. Nobody got kissed while I was around. I'm sorry I haven't been able to write romantically about Hollywood. But somehow you don’t feel romantic about it out here. Romance is climax, and sweet music and beauty and illusion. That’s what you see on the screen and read in the magazines. But the screen flash of 30 seconds may have been two days in the making. When you watch a man and a girl with brown paint on their faces, lights and machinery all around, half a hundred workmen watching them, walk down an artificial boat deck at least 20 times, and after each time hear the director say “All right, once more,” that ain't romance, that’s monotony.

Lines Frequently Forgotten

In my month in Hollywood I was treated with. bad mannegs by only one person. And that was, of all people—Irene Dunne. And they say she is the real lady of Hollywood. Of all the stars, I felt most comfortable and in © harmony with Fredric March. The actors I regret most not doing—Paul Muni and. Ronald Colman. Of the hundreds I saw performing before the camera, the two who impressed me as being the most finished, polished and complete actors were—Adolph Menjou and Shirley Temple. I was surprised at how frequently the actors forget their lines and have to do a scene over again.

It's a Strange World

The Hollywood stars are not more beautiful than other women. They happen to have some characteristic that makes them photograph glamorously. Any one of us has in our acquaintance half a dozen women who are actually as beautiful as anybody in Hollywood. Hollywood is a strange world. It’s a world in itself. It is really all right. They say you just have to get used to it. But I'm glad my stint here is over. That long, blank Arizona desert, where the sun shines hot on the sand and everything is so quiet and nobody makes $1000 a week, is going to look mighty good about a week from now. So long, ‘Hollywood. Long may you live —

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIM

HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR ILLUSION, PYLE SAYS

DINNER-BOUND I

DREAM

without me.

Produced by David O. Selznick + From the book by Robert Hichens «; Directed by Ri

On their way to Adolph Zukor’s silver anniversary dinner, Jack Oakie and his lovely and seldomphotographed wife pause for photographers.

Sissle Booked At Roof Here

One-Night Stand Jan. 17 Is Scheduled.

Noble Sissle and his orchestra, one of Indianapolis’ favorite dance music organizaticns, has beex booked for a one-night stand at the Indians, Roof on Sunday night, Jan.

tts will mark the Sissle orchestra’s second Roof appearance. It also has played at a downtown theater. New to Indianapolis, however, will be the singer, Leana Horne, who joined the band last summer. Miss Horne dances and directs the orchestra besides singing. : The Roof’s next attraction will be

Tonight’s Presentations at Your

NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS

WEST SIDE

2702 W. 10th St. S T A T bk Double Feature Joan Bennett “TWO IN A CROWD” “SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY”

W. Wash & Belmont BELMONT Special Attraction William Powell Myrna Loy—Luise Rainer—Fannie Brice “THE GREAT ZIEGFELD”

EAST SIDE

RIVOLI 3155 E. 10th

Doors Open 5:45 i Joan Bennett WEDDING PRESENT’ Tom Brown ‘ROSE BOWL”

TACOMA 2442 E, Wash. St.

Double Feature Edward Arnold “MEET NERO WOLFE” “THE OLD HOMESTEAD”

TT ar 2540 W. Mich. St. Double Feature

D A S Y Warner Baxter

“TO MARY, WITH LOVE” Ann Preston “PAROLE”

N ORTH SIDE

Illinois and 34th Double Feature Ay Rogers

RITZ ; :

“BORDER TPATROLMAN”

Central at Fall Crk. ZARING “Double

Double Feature Adolph Menjou “SING, BABY, SING” En TA WOMAN REB REBELS”

Double Feature PS

UPTOWN The Jones Famil y

“BACK TO NATURE” “END OF THE TRAIL”

Es 30th and Iilinols

GARRICK Double Feature Craig Reynolds “JAILBREAK” “MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM” “ip St CL & Fi. Wayne

ST. Cc LAI R Double Feature

Ralph Bellamy “WILD BRIAN KENT”

“IN HIS STEPS” UDELL Wm. Powell

— Talbott & 22d TALBOTT seechladachion Myrna Loy—Fannie Brice—Luise Rainer “THE GREAT ZIEGFELD” REX

TT od & College

_ Udell at Clifton Double Feature

30th at Northw’t’n Jackie Cooper Freddie Bartholomew “DEVIL IS A SISSY Also Selected Shorts

S $ H d Shas College ouble Feature rarror George Raft “YOURS FOR THE ASKING” “CALL OF THE } OF THE PRAIRIE” ‘Noble & Mass. M E C C A Double Feature Wo Ruggles

“RUGGLES OF RED GAP “RETURN OF SOPHIE LANG”

2361 Station St. Double Feature Edmund Lowe “GIRL ON THE FRONT PAGE” “WOMEN ARE TROUBLE”

1500 R 1t A Hollywood ie Feature

Double Feature Charlie Chase “KELLY THE SECOND” “SEA SPOILERS”

4020 E. New York TUXEDO Double Feature James Dunn “TWO-FISTED GENTLEMAN” “WALKING ON AIR”

IRVING 5507 E. Wash. St.

Double Feature Kay Francis “GIVE ME YOUR HEART” “HUMAN CARGO”

EM ERSON 4630 E. 10th St.

Double Jeatire Wm well

“MY MAN GODYREY" “LADIES IN LOVE”

HAMILTON

“THE GREAT ZIEGFELD” (No Advance in Prices)

PAR K E R 2936 E, 10th St.

Conrad Feature “YELLOW Ra Naze “IT’S LOVE AGAIN”

STRAND 1332 E. Wash. St.

Double Keaiure ac “MR. CINDERELLA” ey . (First City Run) GIRL . ON THE FRONT PAGE”

411 E. Wash,

Pa ramou nt oo Boles it

‘““CRAIG’S WIFE” _____ Technicolor Comedy

114 E. Washington Double fore

BIJOU Oo U Joan Bennett

“TWO IN A CROWD” “BORDER CABALARO”

SOUTH SIDE

FOUNTAIN SQUARE

Double Feature Stuart Xrwin “ALL-AMERICAN CHUMP” “THE CAPTAIN’S KID”

At Fountain Square S AN D ERS Double Feature i Eleanore Whitney “THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE” “THE FINAL HOUR”

AY A L oO N Pros., Churchman

Tonight's Feature Jesevnime JHutchi’'n “MELODY LINGER “PAIN IN THE PULLMAN"

105 S. Meridian St. ORI ENTAL Double Reature “DANCING LADY” “THE BIG HOUSE”

G A RFIELD 2203 Shelby St.

Double Feature Fred MacMurray “TEXAS RANGER “GIRLS’ DORMITORY"

LINCOLN ‘iui

~Daouble Feature Janet G “LADIES

aynor IN Love: Guy Kibbee “BIG NOISE”

2116 E. 10th St. Speeial Feature

Film Held Over

Cecil De Mille’s epic of frontier life, “The Plainsman,” is to begin its second week at the Circle tomorrow. The picture stars Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. - Following “The Plainsman” Circle audiences will see “The Plough and the Stars,” story of the 1916 Irish revolution, with Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster in the featured parts.

Johnny Burkarth'’s orchestra, which replaces Ayars LaMarr and his Southern = Gentlemen tomorrow

night. Mr. Burkarth and his men come here from the Kentucky Hotel

n Louisville, and have been heard \

requently on WLW.

STAR TRANSFORM ED

Before his debut as one of the toreen’s funniest comedians, Hertian Bing, who appears as a sputf ‘ring roadhouse proprietor in “That C irl From Paris,” starring Lily Pons, v as assistant to such widely known Lo §ipectors as John Ford, Frank Bor‘.ge and F. W, Murnau.

Joel McCrey, Joan Bennett “TWO IN A CROWD” Dolores Del Rio “I LIVE FOR LOVE”

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The story of a great love. ..Fired by

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and the dark; emotional turbulence,

of Boyer, the strange lure of the burn-

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the mystery of love spoken under the desert moon... you'll thrill to every

moment of the greatest dramatic

triumph in years,

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