Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1937 — Page 8
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1937
OF MOVIES TO OPEN HERE WERE UNKNOWN YEAR AGO
GIVE PRENUPTIAL PARTY FOR SINGER LOCAL GIRL TO PLAY AT LYRIC
~ Bob Burns
Featured in Circle Film
i | Anthony Martin and Leah | 7 . | Ray Headline Apollo | Offering. By JZ MES THRASHER You cin search the Motion Pictire Almanac which came out a year ago without finding the names of Bob Burns, Martha Raye or Anthony Martin. You'll find Leah Ra. listed (she’s not related t¢ Martha) but only because she had appeared in one short subject. Yet today this quartet gets "top billing in two movies ‘which willl open Friday on local screeis. Bob Burns and
Martha Raye are the stars of Mr. iy ond visits his bride-to-be on the set of | «Mountain Music,” the Circle’s next “Firefly,” "which will be Miss MacDonald's next
attraction, ‘while Mr. Martin and 2 8 = the other Miss Ray are headlin-| By United Press
BH en G0, ame 2m Secretary Enjoys Job With Four Mad Marxes
+ u "% ’ Three of the new stars came UD | 5,4. of the-screen sweethearts, | \
Film Shows War Scenes
'Last Train From Madrid’ Is Strictly Neutral, Studio Claims.
Hollywood's Name Really Isn't Right That's. Why Culver City
Says It Can Take It Over.
Times Special | HOLLYWOOD, June 15.—Holly= wood has completed its first feature with warring Spain used as a back= ground. It is called “The Last Train From Madrid.” The title may be taken literally, according to Paramount, because the screen play concerns fictitious active | ities in the beleaguered capital, over a 24-hour period, which are climaxed when a train leaves the city loaded with refugees. The studio reports extraordinary measures were taken during produce tion and editing of “The Last Train From Madrid” to keep its attitude toward the revolutions strictly nonpartisan, Efforts were made to keep even uniforms of soldier-actors strictly neutral. “So strong are sympathies throughout the world for different factions at war in Spain,” observed Joe Kaplan, who was in charge of the wardrobe for “Last Train From Madrid,” “that we did not use any colors in costumes that might suggest the players belong to either side. This is especially difficulf in the case of the army uniforms. You will see soldiers throughout the film, but it was our problem to make it impossible for audiences to distin=guish to which side the soldiers be= long.” :
SHATTERS S. A. RECORD
Cecil B. De Mille today was in= formed by letter from John Nathan, ‘Paramount representative in South America, ‘that “The Plainsman” has broken all gross and attendance records in the long history of the Suipacka Theater in Buenos Aires, where it opened two weeks ago.
By PAUL HARRISON
HOLLYWOOD, June 15 (NEA).—A good many persons are likely to be puzzled by echoes of the local furor over Culver City’s threat to appropriate, assume or steal the proud and glittering name of Hollywood. ? There hasn't been so much excitement over a posible rechristening since frustration of the move to change the name of Arkansas. Only nobody wanted to steal the | name of Arkansas, and in this case Hollywood is united in defense of its title. But for some tin signs marking the corporate limits of Los Angeles, Culver City is indistinguishable from its neighbors. Nobody but an engineer with a map can define the boundaries of Culver City, Westwood or Beverly Hills. Jealous of Hollywood's fame and believing that more motion pictures are made in Culver City than in Hollywood, Culver City decided that it should have the nominal credit. This wouldn't be as difficult as it sounds. What most movie fans don’t realize is that no motion picture was ever made in Hollywood for the simple reason that there isn’t any such place-as Hollywood. There was once, between the years of 1903 and 1910—a sixth-class city. But it’s all part of Los Angeles now.
starring picture. With the couple is Mrs. Anna
MacDonald, the singer’s mother.
io | h I hate to from radiol and. though will be wed tomorrow. |
keep harpiig on the subject, it : seems that picture producers are Just as any clerk might be feted by her office companions, the sing-
having inc easingly less cause to complain acout radio's talent-pir-t; 0 star was given a party by her | coworkers on the set of “Firefly,” | she
ating. Besides the above neniinusd ers, pic ures have claimed Bing | players, I her current picture. One hundred | . . ! 1 girl in her work.
film workers presented the couple | All day long, Rachel sits in the office of the Marx Brothers at M-G-M with a silver flower basket and a and handles business for these mad comedians, while they rush around silk-bound book signed by every |the studio for story conferences. or cavort before the cameras. one who worked on the picture. Rachel gets lonesome, for thee First page of the book was a scene | Marxes do not have an office like) days and anniversaries of every from the picture, printed on silk | other stars, executives or writers. | member of the Marx family as well with Jeannette's elaborate gown in| It 1s hard to find and so few Who |as all their friends. That helps a tiny metal beads. might drop in [to chat can’t ever|jot tor the Marxes have a habit Film players attending the party | find the place. Those who know | of forgetting many things. She can inguged se Jones, Irene Harvey | where it is, hesitate about going 'eyen tell you who owes Chico and an arren Williams, there. | Hz Miss MacDonald and Mr. Ray-| It is a huge room above a OR i a mond will be married in a Holly- | sageway leading down between! ging cabinet will hold. All are trick wood church with film actors and Stages 3 and 4 on one side and 5 | OTE. too. But Rachel never foractresses as attendants. and 6 on the other. People who gets. :
a Sa travel down that passageway do To Miss Linden, the Marxes are
: . not realize there is this office above. | ; : : ; Fo ran B ride The door to the office is at the top | ot Just wild comedians. They are / personalities. She takes a lot of Return Home
Local girl who’s been making good in another big city, Miss Mary Paxton, Indianapolis singer, will be a Lyric headliner when a corps of WLW staff artists invades the vaudeville theater beginning Friday.
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 15.—Don’t pity the Marx Brothers’ secretary— doesn’t need your sympathies. Her name is Rachel Linden and she happens to be a very happy
lywood, because it has neither | Angeles city water, Hollywood tracks nor station. No airport, | merged with the larger community. either. If a Hollywoodman wants | In 1911, some brothers named Horsa cop or a fireman, he has to call | ley leased a former tavern for a
on the city of Los Angeles for aid. studio within the former limits of Why That Name? Hollywood at Sunset Blvd. and
> Gower St.—a region which/later beThere isn't any holly in Holly-
EE came known as Poverty Row. ‘wood, either, although the place | In the early days, an entire originally is supposed to have been ,,.re plock was offered for sale named for wild holly that once | for $4000. Now you couldn’t touch grew on the hills to the north.
it for four million dollars, In the few years of its incorperated existence, the town didn't amount to much. The first movie was made in Los Angeles in 1908, but no company thought of coming to Hollywood until it officially had
ceased to exist. In 1910, in order to secure Los
_ Crosby, Doi Ameche, Dorothy Lamour. Phil Regan, James Melton and others: in addition to several popular bipadcasters who have made “guest appearances,” SO to speak. | a Probably | the most remarkable member of the foursome is Mr. Burns, whd has become za national figure in tki2 past year. Last summer his prisoects were far from rosy, and [ie actually was having some trouble in making a comfortable living | Now you read his col“umn daily jin The Times. you hear him weekll/l on the air, and you have seen (im in “Rhythm on the Range,” “The Big Broadcast of 1937” and || Waikiki Wedding.” Martha Was Singer Martha Raye is the daughter of theatrical parents, and it’s no publicity story|that she and Bob Burns used to plaj7 on the same vaudeville ‘bills some [15 years ago. She was singing in |! Hollywood's A Trocadero restaurant | when Director Norman Taurog pi¢ied her as the comedy lead . with [Bing Crosby in ‘Rhythm on the Raiige.”” Since then things have been icoming her way at a great rate tntil at present her exansive mouth is almost las well 1 as Joe E. Brown's—to say nothing ‘of being almost as big. rot hie obo calc Teen The Tro¢adero ‘likewise was Mr. | . Martin's inimediate stepping sione | ond drove to a small hamlet near 2 Ey irr : iajuana, Mexico. They hired two to film horidrs. You first heard bis| yijja0ers as witnesses. Pe rl ue 3 Be ork They met at a party a little more re Ly than six weeks ago. ack on tlie air with Burns and|
: | plies GETS NEW CONTRACT
His| postar. Leah Ray, came| Fred MacMurray,
No Police or Firemen
If you write a fan letter to a movie star and address it “Hollywood, Cal.” it will come here and be redistributed, perhaps to Burbank, Culver City, Westwood, North Hollywood or wherever the proper studio happens to be. But that’s just an accommodation on the part of postal officials. Hollywood has no real postoffice of its own; the new building here is merely a
branch of the Los Angeles postoffice. Likewise, the department stores are branches of Los Angeles stores; the banks are branch banks. You can’t possibly take a train to Hol-
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of a flight of a dozen steps right kidding from them but never an
inside th stern entrance to this BD a enirance insult. She never has. They may
manhandle a blond on the screen {but that is. just for show laughs. : The door itself has only a small | Rachel handles the fan mail the 2 y om | Marxes get. She selects the pic-
sign “Marx Brothers” on it and, unle8s you are far sighted, you | Lures to be sent to the fans and can't read the name unless you | the poses she selects are always walk those dozen steps and who | as hice looking as possible. Sometimes this is a problem because the
wants to go around walking a doz- | ‘ ; en steps merely to read a small Marxes— specially - Harpo—love to card? After the door has been make faces when having portraits opened, one has to continue on up | Made. en of stairs. P ‘That doesn’t look like Harpo at The room is large. That is be- | all” you'll hear her say. “But isn’t mn y 5 this a swell picture of Groucho?”
cause the Marx Brothers like to nel FINAL | |
have lots of folks in when they have story conferences. There is | od w= WEEK . ROBERT BARBARA
Sign Is Small By United Press HORLYWOOD, June 15. — Dick Foran, Princeton athlete who brought his 6 feet 3 inches to Hollywood and became a cowboy movie star,,and his bride, the former Ruth | Piper Hollingsworth, society girl, | were back in Hollywood today after a Mexican elopement. i The couple decided on the elope-
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a large divan, a few overstuffed chairs, two plain office desks and a couple of filing cabinets. That’s where Miss Linden works.
Miss Linden has been -with the
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put to LosiAngeles with Phil Harris’ or:hestifa, caught on in her
currently co-
first picturd, and has been going] places since | then. | \llan Laiiz’s friends up in Mishawaka and South Bend will be on| he lockout for him in “Sing and Be| appy,” even though they may hiss him when tiiey see the picture. Mr. Lane is cast as the handsome “menace” dnd Mr. Martin's rival or Miss Reav’s affections.
starred with Frances Farmer in “Exclusive,” today signed a new sevenyear contract with the studio and was set for the costarring role opposite Carole Lombard in her next picture, “True Confession.”
Marx Brothers more than five years —ever since they landed in Hollywood. She isn’t a luscious blond, as you would expect. She is brunet and not at all given to wisecracks. -On the other hand she is very businesslike and efficient. ‘She has to keep track of all the affairs and
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Another supporting player who should be ©f interest to local audiences is Charles “Slim” Timblin, who has a part in “Mountain Music.” He was, you will recall, the Jeeter Lestet in the first “Tobacco Road” company which played English’s a year ago. Since then—aiter 84 weeks ir the Erskine Caldwell classic—he has been seen at the Lyric in the blackface vaudeville act | | E315 3g. {fan Muir at 12:41. which has rnade him famous in the \world of variety.
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By United Press HOLLYWOOD, June 15.—Sol Lesser, producer, announced ‘plans today for ereition of a new motion picture studio in Hollywood. It will handle filming of his principal pro; ductions, for which Mr. Lesser announced a $3,500,000 budget of 10 pictures for 1937. Two of ihe pictures will star +—@Glenn Mortis, Denver auto salesman who won the Olympic decathlon | championship for 1936, in the skinpants role ©f Tarzan.
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By United Piss HOLLYWOOD, June 15.—Jeanne Madden, Dike University coed, was in Hollywood today to make a singing picture before returning to classrooms. Miss Madden studied under Queena Mario at the Metropolitan Opera and has played several movie roles befors. She makes a picture for Republic.
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