Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1937 — Page 4
RIZE FIGHT MANAGER ENTI
IN NEWSPAPER
Dan Morgan | Bids $25 000 For 2 Years
* Supported By Benny Leonard in Effort to Lure Star.
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By JAMES THRASHER If you see “Kid Galahad” at the Apollo this week, take a good look at Wayne Morris, who takes the title part. For you may be looking at the " .coming hes yywaight cham-
pion, Young Mr. Morris told United
Press today that he had "received
an offer to turn professional boxer at a salary reputed to be $25,000 a year for two years. And the offer,
his studio said, came from Dan Morgan, ‘ fight manager, and ex-
champ Benny Leonard, than whom’
there have been fewer slicker lightweights. The fistic duo saw Wayne working in “Kid Galahad” and were So impressed by his movie-ring per-
formance that the above proposi-.
tion resulted. The two-fisted thespian is| 23, fights and acts.at 190, and stands 6 feet 3 inches. He's a Californian, comes from a wealthy family and played football and basketball in college. “Kid Galahad” is‘his first big part, though he had bifs in “China, Clipper,” “Here Corges Carter,” “King of Hockey”. and some others. Doubtless the boy is in colette | of a quandry, wondering whether he
will wind up as Wayne or “Kid” | Equal success is predicted |
Morris. for him whether he treads the boards or the canvas ring. The three headliners in his presrent picture, Edward G. Rebinson, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, say he looks like the coming actor. “Young Morris has%gverything he needs for the ~screen,” Mr. Robinson says. Director Also Enthusiastic ; Michael Curtiz, who directed the .film, opines that Wayne Morris has the quality that brought: Errol
Flynn to outstanding stardom in record time: That quality is the _ simple virtue of sincerity, and Mr. ~ Curtiz thinks it can do as much for Mr. Morris as it did for Mr. Flynn. The director should know what he is talking about, for he directed “Captain Blood” and “The Charge .of the Light Brigade,” which boosted Mr. Flynn to popularity. Not much has been said about Mr. Morris’ dramatic training, but he’s had some. In fact, he is a graduate of the Pasadena Community ‘ Playhouse School of the ‘Theater, to give it the full title. It “was there that a movie scout saw him, doing the lead in a revival of “Yellowjacket,” and signed him up. | 18-Day Leather Diet Now for the other side of the question. ‘No less an expert than Mushy Callahan, who used to be at the top of the welterweight heap, views his protege’s film career with "both alarm and disgust. Mushy gave Wayne ar 18-day diet of leath.er in preparation for the “Kid Galajaa’ part, anc the young scrapper nished up as teacher’s pet. | “Say,” Mr. Calahan is reported as saying, ¥I could take him out to the Olympic. Club or the American * Legion Stadium tomorrow night and match him against any professional heavyweight in ‘the prelim- . inarjes.” g | So there: you have it.. Of course, his best bet ic the cinema. Wayne could do his roadwork in ‘a roadster, stay, up late when he wanted to and retain the delicate contour of nose and ears that already have fluttered a considerable number of feminine hearts. He could view old age from a Malibu veranda or a ringside scat at the Trocadero, whereas if he pushes leather for a living, advaneing years might find him charging out of his armchair with fists cocked every time the , telephone rang.
How About It Wayne?
| But I hops he takes to the ring. It would be sort of <a vindication mot only of the movies but of a \long- suffering ‘public. | We picturegoers have seen too many powder'puff, © spincle-legged, flat-chested ‘actors cast as fighters; too many Ipictures in which the anemic hero floored some battle-scarred pug (with the flick of a 16-ounce glove. | In the face of all that the cauli- ; Hower industry is now scouting tal‘ent in filwland. You mustn't let lus down, "Wayne—we want to see our own Little Lord Fauntleroy beat up on the tough kids across the \tracks.
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Snow and ce Offer Biggest Difficulties tc to Film Makers
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by Met Him in. Paris” is showing this week at the Circle.
HOLLYWOOD, May 31.—Of all the difficulties that beset Holly-
‘wood movie makers, snow and ice are by general agreement the great-
est.
The hazards and obstacles presented by winter are the chief reason
snow pictures are eftpareiijely rare. Hollywood is well aware that snowy
backgrounds have few equa get. |
Snows. first major feature of its kind that of the Wild,” made more than two . The troupe ‘that made “The Call of the Wild” was snowed in for many days near Mt. Baker, Washington. Even more hazardous brushes with the elements were reported by members of the “I Met Him In Paris” company on its return from a sevenweeks’ location -trip to Sun Valley, the new winter sports resort in Idaho. Snowed in Frequently
Producer-director Wesley Ruggles, Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young and others were frequently snowed in, and on several occasions they narrowly | escaped serious accidents. All" this was in addition to the hardships of moving heavy equipment through snowdrifts, the daily job of manufacturing camera-carry-ing implements and even the simple task of keeping warm, which wasn't so simple when the thermometer hit 20 below.
“You'd hardly think we were mak-
director Ruggles grinned when he
arrived back in Hollywood with his ‘company of 250 people.
“We had a sort of game every day finding out what new obstacle we' had to overcome. We seldom were disappointed.”
Most of the film work was .doné on ‘a 20-acre set representing a Swiss resort village;—located in a. deeply wooded ravine about 15 miles from the troupe’s headquarters in Sun Valley. Soon after arrival « heavy snow fell while the company was on the set and when quitting time arrived the people were snowed in. : : Snowplow Called in
Five big snowplows were put to work clearing the 15 miles of highway.: At one corner, whi¢h became known to the troupe as {‘snowslide turn,” a drift 20. feet deep had slid down a hill and across | the road. The first snowplow that went through it was covered, but it kept going and broke the trail for the plows that followed. A telephone line installed between tHe set and company headquarters effected a spectacular ‘ rescue the first day it was in operation, .A
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Only once every few years ‘does a film troupe venture ihto the In fact, the latest snow picture,
«I Met Him in Pari§,*~is the has been attempted since “The Call years ago.
labor crew stayed after the main company to prepare the set for the next day’s work. Starting home late in the evening, in a driving snowstorm, the automobile bogged down in. the drifts, The workmen, faced the possibility of freezing “until Andy Durkis, the foreman, remembered about [the telephone. He floundered more than a mile through waist-deep. snow back to the set,|from where he sent a call for help. Againy the snowplows came 1o the rescue.
rio Lost’ in Ravines
On another ‘occasion, Ruggles, Young and Douglas, with a crew of about 20 men, were lost several hours in the maze of snowy Travines back of Proctd¥% Mountain, a favorite skiing spot. Carrying its equipment in manNdrawn dogsleds, the company started out in the morning in quest of a scenic spot where a skiing sequence could be filmed. At one point the sled in which Ruggles and Claude Binyon, the scenarist, were riding broke away going "downhill, The sled brake failed to take hold and Binyon stuck out his foot in an attempt to stop the speeding tobog- | gan, Instead, the runners crossed his ankle and pulled him into the SNOW. A snowstorm blew up, covering the party's tracks, and when the sun broke through a few hours later the movie folk were lost. They finally. decided to film the scene and then try to find thejr way hovie-13 making ‘a spectacular ski turn, Dingle, one of the men working in the scene stabbed himself in the leg with a ski stick. H& was given first aid and put to “bed” on a sled. Luckily Ruggles sighted “a lone skier in the distance. Sound travels
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far in that quiet, altitudinous country and Ruggles’ shouts attracted the skier. He knew the way out of the ‘ravines and guided tite party home. : On still another occasion the quick thinging of Miss Colbert saved Douglas and Young from possible suffocation when an automobile in which the two men were riding skidded on an icy stretch of road and ran into a snowbank. The bank
was so deep that the car went out | of sight, landing on its side, while
the top snow tumbled down and covered it with a four-foot blanket. ‘Miss Colbert, riding in a car immediately, .behind, .turned .around and rushed back to the’ snowplow station. .A plow dug out the two
actors and their driver just as they
were beginning to wonder whether
they ever would see daylight again.
The equipment used for making camera effects was described. by Ruggles as strictly of the “Rube Goldberg variety.” Dollies, sleds and paraphernalia were rigged specially to: caxry the cameras in “traveling shots” through the snow. Special Equipment One outfit was. concocted from a four-wheeled dolly to carry camera, microphones, lights and reflectors around the ice rink, making a complete circle of the ice while Miss Colbert and Douglas skated within camera range. The dolly was propelled by workmer¢ wearing- skates. . A double sled arrangement was built to film a scene of Miss Colbert, Douglas and Young riding in a cutter. The front of the cutter was tied to the back of the camera sled and the whole outfit dragged by four horses.~. The camera itself, in order to obtain an unusual ‘angle, was trussed on a little superstructure extending from one side of the sled. : A 10-ton camera “boom” was shipped from Hollywood to the Idaho location for. a number of scenes. The boom, a huge crane-like affair resting on a four-wheel dolly, holds camera and cameramen on the upper end of the swinging arm. It had ‘to be dismantled to get it in a baggage car, and was hauled- in pieces to the set by truck and then reassembled.
Anna Wong inds China To Her Liking
American Born Actress .Plan Return to Ancestors' Land. By GEORGE ROSS EW YORK, May 31.—
_Anna May Wong, slanteyed daughter of the Orient
| whose birthplace happens to
be Los Angeles, has gone native! Back in New York, she
now addresses her compatriots in: Chinese restaurants in Chinese and her costumes
are imported from Shanghai, Canton and Peiping. The 'Broadway hurly-burly she finds strange and curious phenomena after her recent sojourn ‘in quiet villages. It was her first visit to the land of her forefathers, after a girlhood in Los Angeles, a career in Hollywood and several treks around the
personal appearance stages of the United States. She met with a wondrous reception. When she ven-
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tured out into Peiping streets in Chinese wardrobes, her fellow and sister Orientals gaped ‘at her unusual getup. | :
Plans New Trip
For her study of the’ language, Miss Wong engaged a teacher of Mandarin, the select Chinese dialect, and in surprisingly quick time, she was sufficiently learned to order her own meals in native eating places. She followed the usual customs for shopping, waiting until the vendors of silks and satins arrived in her cool garden with the merchandise. Now, the Oriental actress is harassed by visits to department stores for her apparel. Having found the good earth of her forebears to her liking, she intends. to travel to Ching again. For, though of American birth, she felt instant kinship with the Orient. When East meets East, they are a fairly happy twain.
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Teresa Stiggars Saunders, soprano, will be presented by Frederic Holler in a student recital at 8:15 p. m. Wednesday in the pays Wheatley branch of the Y. W. Cj A Songs by Handel, Schubert, Wagner, Bach and a modern .group by Treharne, Watts and Hageman will make up- the program. The soloist will be asisted by Miss Laura Davis, pianist, and Roscoe Polin will be accompanist. ;
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