Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1937 — Page 24
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Star Turns Detective | In
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| By JAMES THRASHER -
\ mauve-decade version of eops and robbers is being played at Apollo this week under the titl of “This Is My Affair.” Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, whose real- - lif romance finds many an answering heartthrob among our vounger film rans, make their first screen appearance together as stars of ithe picture. ‘Lest these Taylor-Stanwyck admi “Camille,” or something, in the opus urider discussion, it should be said rig ht away that “This Is My Affair” is| out-and-out adventure _melodrama. Incidentally, it's a very giibd one. There's a fresh. turn to the story. some noted American figures seldom brought to the screen anid a swell climax in which the whole audience should suffer with the hero as. the hangman’s rope 16bms nearer.
| Notables Portrayed
he | scene is set-in the United tes| of 1901, and introduces Wil1 McKinley, Admiral Dewey and Tieodore Roosevelt. These are pie yed by. Frank Conroy, Robert MtWade and Sidney Blackmer, respectively. A remarkable likeness is ‘aghieved in all three characterizatighs, ‘and Mr. Blackmer does a remark ble bit in the difficult Roosevelt assignment. President McKinley finds himself aginst a blank wall in combating a|wave of bank robberies sweeping the Middle West. Obviously there a high official somewhere opening the doors and providing vault cgifibinations. but the Government is bowerless to find him. So the Pri sident sends a young naval officell, Lieut. Perry, on a secret missigh. He is to join the gang and try; to find the brains behind the crime wave. po, as Joe Patrick, he eventually regiches the thieves. He cleverly paises himself off as a crook, gets in with Bat, the head man, and Jock, is! thick-headed partner. To do this tl works through Lil, who is Bat’s stip-sister and Jock's sweetheart. . sings in the St. Paul cabaret ‘fich Bat runs as a blind for his regi te
aptured After Ba ttle
After a series af robberies, | the Seiiret Service closes in, so the three rolibers plan a job in Baltimore. This being the chance Perry has waited for, he writes to the President and the thieves are captured after a gun battle in which Bat and some officers are killed. Jock, in prison, is confident that help will. come from “higher up.” Bu; Perry plays on his suspicions until Jock breaks, confesses that his refll chief is Maxwell, the national bak examiner.- Perry writes to President McKinley, but the latter is ||assassinated before the message Beiches him. Things are in a pretty fix, especially when Lil visits Perry in prison, learns his real identity and turns against him. Then comes this cli-
max which I mentioned before, and |
I'll leave it up to the reader to guess whether or not the young lieutenani “swings.” {ine of the most attractive things abut this picture is the care which hat been taken with costumes, settihigs and all details contributing to a | jurn-of-the-century atmosphere. All the plush and architectural gewgaws are there in their terrifying splendor, and aside from one: of Miss. Stanwyck's songs, everything sefms to stay in character.
I Stanwyck Disappoints One of the Jeast attractive things
is Miss Stanwyck—to this onlooker,”
atileast. Each picture seems to reaffirm her position as the most inep: of so-called “emotional” actrégses, | She scarcely “runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.,” to qiibte Dorothy Parker’s classic quip af Katharine Hepburn’s expense. Mr. Taylor does very well, apparently enjoying his first job| of slguthing, and meeting the not excessive demands of the part in gpod sgvle. Victor McLaglen, as Jock, turns in one of his mine-run farmances, and Brian Donlevy geod as Bat: However, the plots
tl keep the ball rolling. Honors should go to William A. tér’'s direction, which is sure shift without being slipshod.
Hl connie of air-conditioned Cg
rers should be expecting another:
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937 |
AND MISS STANWYCK APPEAR TOGETHER IN MELODRAMA
CHARLIE HAS RIVAL IN HIT PARADE
Is this a rival for Charlie McCarthy? The blond young man on the desk is called New Deal and his
proprietor. in the sombrero, is
They'll be scen at Loew's today in “The Hit Parade”
along with [Phil Regan and Inez Courtney, spectators in the above picture; Frances Langford, Pert Kelton and many other popular radio entertainers. :
Max Terhune.
Screen Property Room Is Just Like Country Store
IFing Sindler Is Ace of Hollywood's Producers. of Every]
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HOLLYWOOD, June 4.—Like all great and flourishing tions, Hollywood has not hesitated to draw from lesser traditions to sup- |
plement its own creative mechanics.
. The property department of a, movie studio is strictly a Hollywood invention, yet in its function and essentials it is no more or less than
a bigger translation of the old time
| WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO.
“This Is My Affair,” Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, 11:28, 8:30, 5:31, 7:32 and 9:33. CIRCLE “1 Met Him In Paris,” with Claudette Colbert, Robert Young. Melvyn Douglas, 5 atk :54, 1:58. 4:02, 6:06.
8:10 and INULIANA
‘“‘Ecstasy.”” with Hedy Schedule not announced. KEITH'S ‘‘Candlelight,” presented on Federal Piayers. Curtain at 8:2
LOEW'S
It 1 “Thunder in the Ge” 24 nas ey ward G. Robinson, at 3 2: 4 i 5:30 and 8:40. Also ‘The Hit Pa-
with Robert at
Making Movies.
i Keissler. institu- |
country general store.
retained the slogan of that fast-dis-appearing relic of Americana—‘‘Anything ‘from a needle to a bale of hay.” * The dean of film property men, Hollywood's master set magician, the Houdini of properties, is Irving Sindler, for the last: 14 years majordomo of Samuel Goldwyn's property department. Being a property man, according {o | Sindler, is a “difficult, and usually an impossible job.” Must Fulfill Needs
His problem, in brief, is to obtain, and have at hand, all the physical properties needed oh a film set or on location during the shooting of a scene. For this he is given sufficient time to prepare. But, after a scene has started, he has nothing but his own ingenuity to fall back on when a director suddenly demands additional odds and ends that were not even mentioned earlier. Sindler has two giant prop boxes —in reality cabinets—in which he has stored every small item he has ever used in the hundreds of pictures on which he has worked. Where you find Sindler, you'll find these boxes. They also. contain cans of paint, putty, wax, balls of string and twine, cartons of cigarets, - boxes of seals, badges, and bottles of various chemicals. In a word, such a collection of junk as would turn. any small boy into a green mountain of envy. “A property man,” says Sindler, “has got to be a cook, window cleaner, gardener and very patient. It also helps al great deal if he can read minds—particularly directors’ minds.” Gadgets Assembled
Among the things that he had to prepare before a recent picture could get under way was explosive writing paper, a gadget vaguely described as a microcaligraph; an instrument to write a dozen' checks at once and a desk with automatically opening drawers. These, of course, were in aditdion to the thousand and one “usual” props necessary for any picture. Sindler started two. weeks before production and experimented with minor explosives until he succeeded in coating heavy writing paper with a film of flashlight powder. He concocted the microcaligraph out
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i t z Langford, at 12:55, 4. 7 and 10:10. of a microscope, a pair of giant cal- LYRIC ipers, a stop watch, a radio dial . : ‘ - ? “The Go-Getter.” with George and a ‘camera lens, and then hung Brent and Anita Lopes on_sereel) a - at 11:15... 2. 4:35 40 an 125. on a fly swatter for good meas Park Avenue Revue (on. stage) at yre. 1:02, 3:47, 6:42 and 9:27. The check-writing instrument OHI0 provided difficulties. This has actu- “Personality Kid." with Pat O'i i I Brien. Also ‘‘Hopalong Cassidy Really to operate in the picture, and turns with William Boyd and Bvewhile multiple check-writers are lyn Brent. / manufactured, none of the required AMBASSADOR size could be found. Sindler finally “Personal Property.’ rented three five-pen machines Harlow and Robert 5 When’ Your Birthday?” from a New York company, whittled || r. Brow: down one instrument until only two ALAMO pens remained, and then stuck them all together te get the neces-
with’ Jean Tat Also with Joe
“Pamily more. Also rad Nagel.
'!T get so I can’t work in front of
Affair.” with Lionel BarryTold Racket,” with Consary 12 points. To operate the mechanical desk drawers, Sindler placed heavy coil springs behind their bases, and held them in place with a latch which operated electrically. ' A good property man, and his good “country store implements and gadgets can save a studio thousands of dollars a year. For this reason Sindler is one of the most valuable artisans on the Goldwyn lot.
MARTIN PUPILS TO BE PRESENTED
Piano and dramatic art students | of Helen Thomas Martin will be presented in reeital Monday and Tuesday nights in the Broadway Evangelical Church. Thirty-one pupils will be heard on Monday night, and 16 will take part the following | evening. The public is invited to | PAT O’BRIEN “Tergoraie” the recitals, "both of which are | Win. Fovie"Cassily Returns” scheduled for 8:15 p. m.
‘BRUISES COVERED UP
Makeup was administered to Virginia Field's shoulder and arm for some of the scenes in “Think Fast, Mr. Moto,” to cover the bruises made by earlier seenes in the picture showing her skeet shooting.
SERIAL. FAN LETTER
-William Powell received the longest fan letter ever recorded in Hollywood. It was 75 feet long, with signatures of 669 Minneapelis fans, commending him for his work in “After the Thin Man.”
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By PAUL HARRISON
HOLLYWOOD, June 4.— (NEA) — T em p erament is supposed to be a form of emotional instability, or whimsy, or general cussedness, reserved for grand dames of the theater such as Mrs. Patrick Campbell; or for foreign movie actresses who feel professionally obligated to put on an act. But temperament seems a little out of place among the fresh, little darlings of the domestic screen. Espegially when the major favorites of the movies—the people who have arrived without benefit of tantrams, the Crawfords and Harlows, the Shearers and Bette Davises, the Lombards and Stanwycks —are such regular guys.
Don’t Be Silly
Now take Jean Arthur. Nearly everybody admires her work and applauded her success after a couple of discouraging experiences in the flickers. And then what happens?
Miss Arthur goes upstage. So much so, ihdeed, that her sound stages closed to the press and visitors. Miss Arthur does not grant interviews during production. From her seclusion, Miss Arthur has sent out word that when her current picture is finished she will grant two interviews. I do not know how Miss Arthur arrived at that arbitrary figure, but it would be all right with me if she granted only one- =halt of 1 per cent of one interview. I shall wars. remember an observation made by an actress named Jean Crawford about a year ago. She had been ill. She was tired. And she was about to begin what was almost sure to be a long and trying scene. Somebody said there were a couple more correspondents outside and would she mind awfully if they came in? She said, “Don’t be silly! When newspapermen I'm going to quit the business.” Fan Mail Dividends Take Frances Farmer. She was | a stock actress at Paramount when | Samuel Goldwyn borrowed her for | “Come and Get It.” Today, back at Paramount, she is getting top billing in a picture called “Exclusive.” And her publicity department is tearing its hair
COLBERT FILM HELD OVER
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Culver City Seeks New Film Fame
No Such Place as Hollywood Exists, Chamber Tells World.
By Uniled Press
HOLLYWOOD; June A Culver City, where some of the movies are made, today began a campaign to steal the name of Hollywood away from the film capital, which isn’t * Hollywood at all, but only the better known section of Los
Angeles. Tantamount to telling a child there is no Santa. Claus, Culver City’s Chamber of Commerce informed the world's movie fans that Hollywood is not an incorporated city, has no postoffice of its own, no city government, was swallowed up and incorporated into Los Angeles in 1910, and 60 per cent of the in Culver City anyway. Announcing that petitions were being circulated to change Culver City’s name to Hollywood, . Blaine Walker, president of the Chamber, said: “We feel ‘that our town, is en-
stars of
“TI Met Him in| Paris,” the Circle's cool and refreshing screen attraction which begins its second week today.
trying to persuade her to co-operate
in routine stunts and still pictures. When Toby Wing worked at Para- |! mount she had no such opportunities as Miss Farmer has.
Nor was she anything like the actress that Miss Farmer is. Yet Miss Wing posed in bathing suits and with distinguished visitors and looking at two-headed frogs. : In no time at all and before she
had appeared in more than 500 feet of film, she was getting more fan mail than anybody else at the stu4 dio. It was 50 embarrassing that the studio let her fo.
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