Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1937 — Page 6
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Hollywood Is Reporter's Biggest Job
Los Angeles Drivers,
Can Run
Over Famous People.
However,
By PAUL HARRISON
HOLLY WOOD, Feb. (NEA).—It's pretty nice, all right, loid celebrities. It's quite a thrill, seeing super-epics the making and then watching them at star-studded previews and premieres. It's great fun going champagne breakfasts (if one
likes champagne for break- | listening to the! large and small-talk of the shadow- |
fast) and
leading citizens of
land. But
in the interests of
thorough reporting (and in answer
to some of the envious letters I get), I must admit that there are a couple of flies in the ceviar, a few parsnips among the truifes.
Huge Territory Covered
that area of southern California hazily identified as Hollywood comprises the longest beat covered by reporters anywhere. The distance between
For one thing,
the studios of Burbank and Culver
City is just short of a sleeper jump. Then there are other film lots, and side trips to movie locations in the mountains and the desert. That takes a lot of driving riving in Los Angeles Isn't much fun, although vou are likelv to run over a lot of interesting people. The time would be well enough spent if it were not so often wasted. Nobody in Hollywood can Keep an appointment short of the third oy. Things are always popping up = llinesses, conferences, emergency calls for retakes, dashes to location, appearances in court. When anv such delay occurs, a reporter must cinch up his patience a couple of notches, and look for something else to write. Clairvoyant Reporter
What to write? Does the public care whether Gloria Goo likes maple sirup on apple pie? Is it interested in Miss Virginia Hamm's critique of the cinematic arts? Is Dawn Delite worth writing about as a possible starlet when the chances are that tomorrow she
will be just another face on the cutting-room floor? And what am
fus
I to do when an important direc- |
tor says, “Say, I got a good story for you” — and then chats for an hour on a subject I wrote about a month previously? Then there are the plavers who say, "Don’t print this, but—" Some of them mean it. Most of them are just being modest, and will be insulted if you don’t print what they say. All the correspondent has to be clairvoyant.
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Hollywood Sells Dreams That brings up the question of Truth versus Illusion Hollywood deals in dreams and is smugly insulated against the realities. Some studious frown at any and all revelations of scientific trickery in the making of movies. hey say that the fais really want to believe that
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OLD SALEM ETIQUETTE
DIFFERENT
Back in the Massachusetts Col years before Emily Post, it was per to gesture as Fred MacMurray
ony of 1692, long fectly permissable
does here, with Theater.
Claudette Colbert's smiling approval. from “Maid of Salem,” opening Friday at the Circle
The scene is
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Lloyds of ri tholomew. at 11: 3 9:35.
CIRCLE
“We're on the Jury.” with Victor Moore and Helen Broderick at 11 1:30, 4:40. 7:30 and 10:20. Also '‘Outcast,” with Warren William, at
12:32, 3:22, 6:12 and 9:02
CIVIC THEATER
‘Speak of the Devil,” musical reue % Charles B. Gaynor. Curtain
at KEITH'S
‘“Criminal-at-Large.’’ presented by Federal Players. Curtam at 8:30.
LOEW'S
“Devil's Playground.” with Richard Dix and Dolores Del Rio. at 11:10 1 4:3 20 and 10:05 Also Dax AEerOus Number with Ann Sothern, at 12:40. 20, 6:10 and 8:30.
LYRIC
Home. ™ with Will 1:40, 2:29, 5:18, 8.07 ‘Greenwich stage), at 1:05,
with Freddie Bar 5, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 and
“"Breezing Gargan, at 11 10:3 Also Scandals on 6:43 and 9:32.
OHIO
jam and vil lage 3:54
Reunion.” with Jean Hersholt and Dionne quintuplets. Also "Woman Rebels,” with Katharine Hepburn.
AMBASSADOR
Blonde." with Glenda Fare ell Also ‘College Holiday,” with Jack Benny.
ALAMO ‘Can This Be Dixie," with Jane
Withers. Also “The Devil Is a Sissy.” with Freddie Bartholomew.
“Smart
HOLLYWOOD, Feb.
| you talk too much any way.
tating movie pantomime than little | boys who capture cattle rustlers in | vacant lots, he believes.
murely in a picture,” he declared, ‘and, presto! eyelids drop like window shades around the world. “Let Gable assert a strong, dominance over his leading lady and a million husbands get black eyes | from trying to imitate him. “When Marlene Dietrich , the charm on some hapless male,
at the junior prom.” All of which makes the bewigged screen actor unhappy.
“Pantomime is human and nat- | ural,” he says.
and pantomime was the word.
Primordial man used it to let the
Mr. Gable fell off the elif and bashed out his brains. And perhaps some of the fans do. Yet it seems to me that news about various forms of technical magic represents the peak of Hollywood accomplishment. And there is no |
puing that skillful trickery with |
transparencies and miniatures re- |
sults in more stirring scenes than | | ever possibly could be photographed |
in real life. The talents of studio press agents are dedicated to the spotlighting | of screen players as superior ings. But to me thevre more interesting as ordinary people. The thing that most bothers me about Hollywood, though, is the idea of having to put on white tie and tails to go to a picture show.
Dw Ww ALTZ TONIGHT —_—
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Merry, Wig rhythms by the king of song writers.
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“Let Garbo drop her eyelids de- | plays of the middle ages, based on
Harpo Marx Credits Movies ~ For Trend to Pantomime
BY GRADY JOHNSON | United Press Staff Correspondent 17.—Motion | pantomime-minded, says Harpo Marx, perennial movie mute who thinks |
pictures are making
Little gestures of the eyes, hands, mouth—forerunners of modern | speech—are perfectly natural modes of expression, but, Harpo says, the | | screen is responsible for a revival of the Supposedly unimpressionable? adults are no more immune to imi- | ‘dumb show’
“waning art of making faces.”
entertainments which | were as popular as football is today. “Then came the religious mystery pantomime. 1723,
By pantomime
| had a firm footing in England with
pours |
schoolgirls use it on their escorts |
“It’s older than the | Greeks who found a word for it— |
gal know he loved her and for the |
| other man to clear out.
“Today we find pantomime among |
savages who engage in war dances, |
| animal mimicry and sacrificial rites. |
“Indian and Egyptian civilizations |
| developed patomime into really rs)
| tistic forms. “Romans, in the time of Empire,” Prof. Marx went on with | his history lesson “had a school in| | pantomime. They
the |
distinguished |
| various characters by masks and]
this is where the use of masks really | started. “The English had their famous
the harlequinades and such plays as ‘Dr. Faustus.’ “The modern ballets of today may be classed as dancing art, but their basis is pantomime. They started as pantomime, and, as music came in, they turned more to | dancing.”
‘What the world needs is more | he con- | taking his own ad-
pantomime—and less talk,” cluded abruptly,
Pesan BARTHOLOMEW Madeleine CARROLL
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 1937
"U.S. Movies’ Superiority
| Laborite's Question Starts |
Parliamentary Uproar.
| By United Press LONDON, Feb. 17.—A suggestion | in Commons today that United | States films were better than those | produced in England provoked loud | eriess of dissent during discussion lof the alleged American capture of the British motion picture industry. Geoffrey Mander, Opposition Lib{eral member, asked Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, Parliamentary Board of Trade Undersecretary, whether the Board was aware of the possibility that ail the principal film companies in Great Britain would | pass into United States hands. “I have no such information,” Dr. Burgin replied. Campbell Stephen, Independent Laborite from Glasgow, Scotland, then arose to inquire: “Is the min- | ister aware that the United States | films are much better than the | British?” | As soon as the cries of members |died down Dr. Burgin said coldly: “I am well informed ‘regarding the | British film Industry.’
ROAD TOURS HEL HELP ACTORS REDUCING
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Feb. players usually count upon losing | | weight when they go on personal appearance tours. Roscoe Karns. who is featured in “Clarence” and who recently completed such
| part with 10 pounds.
17.—Film |
a | Jaunt, figures the trip caused him to! both
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SPONDENT" SAYS
I'M IN LOVE WITH THE WEST
School to Give
“Yip—ee!”
“Speak of the Devil.” In the above picture you see Katy Morris (left), Jack Cole and James McLemore, while Bill Cook kneels in obvious adoration. The revue may be seen at the Civic through Saturday night.
LIKES SMALL CAR
Clark Gable has aimost forsaken | his Duesenberg for his little flivver
roadster.
HARPO EX-BELLHOP
Harpo Marx once was a bellhop a the Hotel Savoy ' Plaza in New York City.
Three stalwart Civic Theater buckaroos and a buckarette singing “I'm in Love with the West” in Charles Gaynor’s revue,
and Hotel |
5 One-Act Plays
One of the season's major dra= matic events at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory is to be the presentae tion of five one-act plays tonight and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Odeon Hall. Thirty-six pupils of Bernice Van Sickle will take part. Plays to be presented are “Let's
Have a Play”; “All Is Fair”; “Birth= day Party”; “Six to One,” and “Cinderella’s Shoes.” The same pro gram is to be presented both evee nings, and the public is invited.
GIFT FROM INDIAN
The moccasins that Wallace Beery wears between scenes and during closeups were given to the star by an Indian fan 12 years ago.
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Irene Dunne "THEODORA GOES WILD" Melvyn Douglas
t| Stuart Erwin "WOMEN ARE TROUBLE" Florence Rice
“DARLING, before we cut down a few of these rogues I'd like to tell
you I love you...”
Last Two Days
“We're on the Jury” and
“Outcast”
“CLAUDETTE, it looks like you and Fred
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ave helped me turn out an even
better picture than ‘Mutiny on the
Bounty’ and ‘Cavalcade’.
FRANK LLOYD, producer-director, three-time winner of the Motion Picture Academy Award, creator of “Mutiny On the Bounty”, “Cavalcade”, “The Sea Hawk” and “Under Two Flags”, brings you an even
grander picture...the surging,
fights a whole mad, mob-ruled worldsfor the hand and heart of the girl he loves.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT and FRED MACMURRAY
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glorious romance of square-jawed man with a tough sword arm, who
in Frank Lloyd's
‘Maid of Salem’
A Paramount Picture with Harvey Stephens Edward Ellis. Produced by Howard Estabrook
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The thrilling, pounding action of “MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY"
The romantic punch of “CAVALCADE”
Plus “CLARENCE”