Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1937 — Page 28
AGE 28
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1937
TUDIO TO PRODUCE ‘MORE MUSICALS THAN EVER BEFORE" Movie Work
Saved Jean From Grief
Pa ramo unt Ups Budget 10 Millions
60 Pictures on 1937-38
Production Schedule Of Company.
~~. By JAMES THRASHER
You and I 2nd all our fel-
low Americans are going to have more money to'spend on movies next year, and we're going to spend a lot of it on musicals and {producti s of the variety known as “‘supersuper.” - At least, P: ramount hopes that all this is so, for the company has boosted its budget by approximately 10 million dollars over last year’s expenditures, and is going to produce more musicals than any major stiidio ever put out in one season. This information is forthcoming through Paramount's Lou Smith, who telegraphed, highlights of the proceedings which opened the company’s annual meeting of ‘sales and production executives in Los Angeles yesterday. : | :Neil Agnew, vice president in charge of produ:tion, outlined the 1937-38. plans. H: disclosed, among other things, tha nearly 60 pictures are on the production schedule, and that 22 “million-dollar pictures” of the “Plainsman’ and. “Big Broadcast” type will hzad the list. Many of these pictures are in the making and will be on] sed at the start of
the new season, which begins in the fail. 3 19 Drapias on List “Though the story content of the new films must} be guessed at from the title and gast, it would seem that Paramount will offer 19 pictures of a straight 1t dramatic nature; 17 comedies and musical films; five mystery features; eight Westerns; a. picture called “An. Empire Is Born,” based gn the history of the Wells-Fargo Express, and one titled “Booloo,” which will be filmed in the Malayan jungles.
In addition there are six attractions scheduled for production but
with casts to: be selected later. |.
These include: ‘Men With Wings,” a history of zviation; “Rulers of the Sea,” which is a story of the Cunard Line; 3 screen adaptation of Kipling’s “The Light That Failed”; a bicgraphy with music, “The Life ani Loves of Victor Herbert”; Franz Lehar’s popular gperetta, “The Count of Luxembourg,” and ariother musical called “Manana,” with a setting in the Mexico of years gone by. ‘Despite the fact that forwardlooking Hollywood executives, Samuel Goldwyn among them, have prophesied that technicolor is the coming thing, there are only three full-length color features on the Paramount list. : W. C. Fields to Star
“Among the stars are found some new names well as some favorites returring after a year or more of absence. Bigger news to me than tecnicolor—one way or the other—is the fact that both
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on_ the books Ior starring pictures. Anna May Wong, back from her fig trip to the Orient, probably will* tear - iifo her - accustomed Cigfese parts with new fervor. “She's dwn to de “Daughters of the Tove with Akim Tamiroff. Mr. T, giniroft, ‘by the way, seems to be quite ‘in d'mand. An 18-carat meitace, he vill have the name part inithree “Fi. Manchu” pictures as wall as numerous supporting roles. g Crosyy is to do three pictures for the coming ‘season and in one of them, as yet untitled, he will costag with Bea Lillie, Other musicals will range from perennially favorite operettas to an all-Negro revue called “Chocolate Parade,” with Louie Armstrong and his orchestra as headliners, Burns and Allen are slated for two productions, “College Swing” and “The Big Broadcast of 1938.” Jack Benny will be in the latter.
New Actors Signed
Two ne vcomers on Paramount's payroll in'lude Oscar Homolka, the Viennese actor whom you may have see: in British films, and
PARNELL ACTORS TAKE TIME OUT
Jeanne Edwards To Be Graduated
Miss Jeanne Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William ‘Edwards, Indianapolis, graduates this week Nb o
network, er e belongs to several music organizations. She also broad-
and played one season in Canada.
Dick Powell Sent To Bed With Flu
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, June 11.—Dick Powell, singing star. on the Warner Brothers’ lot, was<ordered to bed today by his physician, He has influenza. Studio officials said they believed
for-at least two weeks.
Georges Rigaud, a South American who will appear with Marlene Dietrich in. “Midnight.” “Miss Dietrich will be seen first, however, in “Angel,” which Ernst Lubitsch ' is megaphoning. The German director also will be in scheduled picture, “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.” In Indianapolis the Circle has first choice on the entire Paramount production. Some may be rejected and others sold out, but the theater will bring you the best of the lot, promises Frank Moneyhun, | Circle
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“This Is My Affair,” with Robert Tylor and Barbara Stanwyck, at 11:26, 1:30, 3:34, 5:38, 7:42 and 9:46.
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“There Goes My Girt) 1 with Gene Raymond and 1:50, 4:40, IA 10790. casts of Poker Flat,'’” w Foster and Jean, Muir, at 12:41, 3:31, 6:21 and 9:11.
"KEITH'S “Candlelight.” presented by Federal Piayers. Curtain at 8:20. LOEW'S “Parnell,” with gars Sone and
with Dame May Whitty and Madge Evans, at 1:32, 5:02 and 8:32.
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Pat O'Brien and at 11:25, 2:12," 4:59, Vaudeville (on 6:38 and 9:25.
Slim,” \with Hee Fonda,
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“Living on Velvet,” with Kay Francis. Also ‘Park Avenue Logger,” pith © Geotze O’Brien and Beatrice
1 stage),
AMBASSADOR
“Quality Street.” with Katharine Hepburn. | Also “Call It a Day,” with Ian Huater
ALAMO “Fifty Roads to Town,” with Don
Ameche and Ann Sothern. Also “Men in Exile,” with June Travis. =
; Between-shot glimpses of “Par.nell,”” which opens today at Loew’s. Clark Gable (above), after several “takes” of a dry discussion in Parliament, gets dusted off. Director John Stahl (left) is showing Myrna Loy what he wants in: the next scene depicting the life of ‘Charles Stewart Parnell.
FILLS SCREEN ROLE
Esther Dale, screen character player, today was set for a role in
“On Such a Night,” the® Emanuel Cohen production now being filmed.
26 to Finish Jordan lan Work
Biachialion ar Me at Music School To Be Tonight.
The Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music graduation ceremonies are to take place at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the school's Odeon Hall, 106 &£. North St. Twenty-six candidates for degrees are to be honored. : W. P. Dearing, president of Oakland City College, is to be the commencement speaker. His subject will be “Art Appreciation in Community Life.” Dr. James W. Putnam, president of Butler University, also is to participate in the program, and Miss Ada Bicking, the school’s director, will present the degrees and certificates. Program Listed
There will be an academic procession of the conservatory faculty, board of trustees and seniors. Several members of the graduating class also are to receive academic degrees at the Butler University commencement, June 14. The program for tonight's ceremonies, which are open to the public, will be as follows:
Processional: shego pPoOmMposo. ss Sara Miller. Invocation: The Lord’s Praver Vocal Solo: “The Pilgrim's Sone Tschaikowsky Virgil Phemister, basso. 5% “Art Appreciation in Community ife.”
W. P. Dea Conferring of Degrees art In tifiates. Miss .Ada Bicking. Benediction, Dr, James W. Putnam, Choral Response.
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Choir. “Marche Pontificale” Miss Miller.
Carlile Students To Give Recital
The Carlile School of the Dance annual student recital, called the “Carlile Juvenile Follies of 1937,” is to be presented at 8:30 p. m. Saturday in Caleb Mills Hall.. Approximately 100 pupils are to take part. Assisting ‘on the program will be the Peputantes and Barney, vocal and instrumental trio, and the Four Harlin Brothers, Hawaiian guitarists. Ralph Lilliard and his orchestra will provide the accompaniment for the dance numbers. The school will be closed during July and August, when the proprietors, Ernestine and Joe Carlile, will be studying”in New York.
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Harlow Feared to Plan For Future, She Told Friends.
(Last of a Series)
By. WELLAND GORDON United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, June 11.—Three marriages within six years, each a failure, had left Jean Harlow, at the
age of 22 years, with her work in pictures as the main outlet for her emotions. She had been divorced from Charles F. McGrew, Chicago broker, and from Hal Rosson, cameraman. She had lost Paul Bern, the man whom she said exerted “the greatest influences on my life,” by suicide. - The actress surveyed her past and said: “What will happen next, I don’t know. My life has been so full of changes and unexpected happenings that I don’t dare make too definite plans for the future. If I can only keep my self-respect, honesty and my friends, I shall be thankful. NO one can ask for nore than that.”
Begged for Work
In ,the picture-making season of 1933-34 Miss Harlow begged studio officials to allow her to return to the sets, and as a result, production was started on “The Girl From Missouri.” In that picture she played opposite a screen newcomer, Franchot Tone, and was co-starred with Lionel Barrymore. Life began to move swiftly once again for the former Kansas City school girl. Next came the picture “Reckless” and it brought her into close contact with a man who three years later stood at. her deathbed. He was the - debonaire William Powell. Time and again the two were seen together. Once at Del Mar, a Pacific Ocean resort, in August, 1934, friends said that she was to take her fourth husband. Later, when she returned to Hollywood from a vacation, Powell met her ai the airport and greeted her with a fervent kiss. Reporters asked her if they were to be married. “It is a little early to forecast that,” she replied, but she did not deny that a romance was under way.
Considered Highlight
Miss Harlow began work on “China Seas.” In that picture she scored, according to many critics, a highlight of her career. A London drama editor wrote after her death that in “China Seas” Jean Harlow demonstrated she was equal in ability to any other player of the stage or screen. She was enthusiastic about her role, in which she worked with Clark Gable and Wallace Beery. She was extremely fond of both men. Of Wallace Beery she said: “He was a joking, laughing comrade with an inexhaustible fund of energy, always talking about his small adopted daughter.” “Riffraff’ came next and it marked a definite change in Miss Harlow’s career. She abandoned the “platinum blond” hair and it appeared in its natural honey color. “I began to feel very definitely that my success as a platinum blond was overshadowing and dominating my ability as an actress,” she explained. “When M-G-M cast me as Hattie in ‘Riffrafi’ I felt my plati-
TAKES ORCHESTRA TO SEVERIN
summer engagement. Lou Blake
After 64 weeks at the Columbia Club, Amos Otstot (left) will take his orchestra to the Severin
Sky Room tomorrow night for a (right) and his “Aristocrats of
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num hair simply would not do for a girl of the waterfront, which I was to portray. So I came forth a ‘brownet.” It was another gamble, but luck was with me.”
Cast With Powell
A sincere role was provided for her in “Wife Versus Secretary,” where she worked with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. This led up to her natural characterization in “Suzy.” After looking at the runoff - of “Suzy” she remarked: -“As we grow older, we become more sensible.”
Again William Powell strode into her professional career. They played together in “Libeled Lady,” released in 1936. They stopped traffic in Santa Barbara one day when they were discovered shopping for kitchen utensils. Again the question of marriage was put to her and again she parried. “It was .all a joke,” she said. The same year she went into court and was granted permission to use her mother’s maiden name, the one she had adopted for her film career, as her own legal title, so. she became, in fact, Jean Harlow, less than one year before she:died in a Los Angeles hospital. “Personal Property,” played with Robert Taylor, was her last completed picture. After its completion she began work on “Saratoga,” a fast-moving romantic story of the race tracks. She was working on the final scenes when she was stricken with a stomach ailment. It became more serious as gall bladder trouble developed, then uremic poisoning, and at 11:37 a. m. on last Monday, the actress died.
THE END
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Presbyterian Church, Central Ave. and 42d St. They will be assisted by Miss Leona Whight, soprano. Participating pupils are to include Ayleen Wright, Lucille Brown, Ruth Eleanor Phillips, Bill Harry, Ann Zimmerman, Richard Brown, Catherine Eaton, Josephine Eaton, Jane Ellen Koskey and Luzanne Weesner.
Strike Part Of News Reel
Attempts to Blockade Food Shown.
Scenes on the steel strike front where pickets have attempted ta stop food shipments to plants, headline The Times-Universal newsreel now on view in Indianapolis come munity theaters. : Scenes from Warren and Niles; 0, show independent steel plants which - are operating despite the strike. South Chicago, Ill, scenes show funerals of eight killed in a steel plant clash. Other scenes include War Admiral winning the Belmont 3takes, Max - -Schmeling waiting in New York for * a fight with Champion James Brads" dock; graduation at the Annapolis Naval Academy, and sports events. on east and west coasts. ;
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