Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1937 — Page 21
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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937
IT'S SABLE
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Easy Living Utterly Mad,
FLIES
MARLENE
Fast Farce
$58,000 Coat Cast to!
Winds, Lands on Jean Arthur.
By JAMES THRASHER The fur really flies in “Easy Living,” which opened at the Circle today. The fur pens to be sable, which makes |
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and it starts a train of farcical | events tnat adds up to the! year’s most hilarious movie. Evidently this utterly mad | varn occurred to Preston | Sturges when he was musing | over the Cinderella story. Mr. Sturges, who wrote the play, “Strictly Dishonorable,” has given the heroine, Jean Ar-
thur, a fairy godfather, in the |
person of Edward Arnold; a Prince | Charming, who is Ray Milland, and | a 14-room hotel suite at $7 a week. | to say nothing of a pair of English | sheepdogs As J. B. Ball, Mr. Arnold is hav- | ing a little family trouble as the | picture opens. His extravagant | son, Johnny, storms out, determined to carve himself a career, unaided: Mrs. Ball then presents her husband with a bill for a fur coat $58,000. That is too much, so | he chases her to the roof and throws the coat to the four winds. | It lands, as has been intimated, on Miss Arthur's head. She tries to return it to J. B., who lectures her to the effect that nice things really do happen to people now and then. To clinch the argument, he buys her a new hat to match the coat, and then the fun starts.
Suspects Worst The worst and ger of
male milliner suspects the of Mr, Ball, goes next door | tells a Mr. Louis Louis, manathe Hotel Louis, that the great financier has an inamorata. Mz. Louis tells a gossip columnist, and the latter tells the world.
Meanwhile Mr. Louis gets in touch | with Mary Smith (Miss Arthur) | and sets her up in the Imperial | Suite. But Mary has no money, SO | she spends her last nickel in the Automat. There she meets Johnny, working as a bus boy. He loses | his job; they fall in love. Things keep going faster and faster. Mary is besieged by sales- | men. A stock broker wants a tip | on the steel market from Mr. Ball. | Innocent Mary gets the tip from the vounger Mr. Ball. It's the wrong tip, and precipitates -a crash | in ‘steel.
Irons Out Everything
Mr. Louis Louis tells her casual benefactor | She rushes to the J. B. Ball office, finds that Johnny is | his son. After considerable ex- | planation, she restores the market's | equilibrium, reconciles the irate Mrs. | Rall and makes it up with Johnny. All of which gives the reader no idea of how funny the picture really
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Eventually Mary who really is.
| material since “Mr. | handles it
| himself like the original and talent- | ed comedy director that he is.
FIDDLES
This is no publicity stunt, for Mariene 1 Dietrich once had serious
intentions of being a fiddler before the movies claimed her.
She is
shown here doing a few tricks of Virtuosity with the help of a bor-
rowed violin on the sei of is Me picture's director.
“Angel.”
is. It's pure farce, but built of in- | m
spired foolery, combining the ele- | ments of “gags,” and downright slapstick into a zestful dish. Miss Arthur, who emerged from | the bog of horse-opry to become | one of our most charming come- | diennes, lives up to her reputation | in the present opus. It's her best | Deeds,” and she | handsomely. Mr. Arnold plays comedy with great gusto. | Director Mitchell Leisen displays | his De Mille apprenticeship in the ornate bathtub in Miss Arthur's hotel suite, but otherwise conducts |
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The reader still has little idea of the good time in store for him, but take my final word—it's grand, | light- Hearyed fun
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WARNER BROS. TO HAVE 32 NEW FILMS READY FOR FALL RELEASE
The desert environs of Burbank, |
MOWBRAY JOINS
Times Special | HOLLYWOOD, July 9 —Having | completed a featured role in “Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938.” | Alan Mowbray today was signed to portray a motion picture director | in “Stand-In,” the new Wanger
comedy with Leslie Howard and |
| Joan Blondell costarred. Humphrey | Bogart, purveyor of character roles, | | also is in the cast. Based on an original story by Clarence Budington Kelland, “Stand-In" relates the adventures |
of a banker who determines to |
apply slide-rules and mathematics | to Hollywood picture ventures.
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are about to blossom as the rose. For Burbank is the home of {Warner Bros.’ studio, and the an- | nouncement of their 1937-38 productions seems to call for some sort of | poetic fanfare, however garbled. | Out at the world's largest movie factory, the brothers Warner already (have 20 pictures ready for autumn's opening gun, and 12 more will be finished by Sept. 1. And the list of stars and stories, announced today by Fred Greenberg, Warners’ Indianapolis manager, is one that should make any studio sit up and | take notice. | Since the average picture patron is more interested in the stars than their vehicles, it might be said first of all that the company has augmented its contract roster with a dozen new luminaries, signed or borrowed. They are Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, Brian Aherne, Jean Arthur, Basil Rathbone, Miriam Hopkins, Warner Baxter, Charles Boyer, Ethel Merman, Fred Waring and Benny Goodman. Familiar figures from past Warner seasons who will be seen again include Errol Flynn, Kay Francis, {| Dick Powell, Leslie Howard, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Fernand Gravet, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia De | Havilland, Pat O'Brien; George Brent, the Mauch twins and several others.
Hugh Herbert In List
Among some 30 supporting play(ers are found such favorites as Hugh Herbert, ‘Allen Jenkins, Frank | McHugh, Margaret Lindsay, Claude | Rains and Kenny Baker. So it | seems that Warners will not lack performers. As to the products, we find first {of all a list of 10 current or recent Broadway successes. The
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plays and players, where they have been announced, are as follows: “Tovarich,” with Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone; “On Your Toes,” the Rodgers and Hart hit starring Ginger Rogers; “First Lady,” with Kay Francis, Anita Louise, Preston Foster and others; “Jezebel,” Miriam Hopkins’
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The Damon Runyan-Howard Lindsay success, “A. Slight Case of Murder,” with Edward G. Robinson, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart; “Swing Your Lady,” featuring Pat O’Brien and Joan Blondell with the
Weaver Brothers and Elvira; “Boy Meets Girl”; Sigmund Romberg’s “The Desert Song”; “Yes, My Darling Daughter,” of the current season and the musical comedy, “White Horse Inn.” There also will be adaptations of 17 novels and biographies, including “The Life of Emile Zola,” starring Paul Muni; Axel Munthe's “The Story of Sam Michele”; Lloyd Douglas’ “White Banners,” and “A Prayer for My Sons” by Hugh Walpole, with Kay Francis and the Mauch twins. Mr. Greenberg also announced that eight of these films will be
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{if blond Alice Faye [spine in a plunge down 14 steps on [the 20th Centry-Fox Studio lot.
shown for Indiana exhibitors, local | ring vehicles also for Pola Negri, their | Marguerite Clark and Elsie Fergu-
have been made for.a gargantuan feast of movies on Aug. 9 and 10 in the Ambassador,
TAKE X-RAYS OF INJURED ACTRESS
HOLLYWOOD, July 9.-—-X-Rays are to be taken today to determine injured her
The motion picture singing star was working on the picture, “In Old Chicago,” when she fell. As she struck the bottom she cried out that (her back was injured, then collapsed. At a hospital she was found to have numerous bruises and a possible spine injury.
RITES HELD FOR EARLY SCENARIST
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 9.—Funeral services for Eve Unsell, 50, pioneer scenarist, who wrote hits for Mary Pickford and Jackie Coogan, were held yesterday. She died Tuesday. Miss Unsell was a pioneer of the silent film days. She wrote star-
son.
Mae Faces New Trials
Husband May Ask Share of Big Fortune.
By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 9.-—Counsel for Frank Wallace said today he may ask an accounting of Mae West's million-dollar film fortune, Miss West has admitted she married him 26 years ago. “It's not at all improbable,” said Avery M. Blount, the New York vaudeville hoofer’s lawyer. “The legal foundation has been laid. It’s up to Mr. Wallace.” Mr. Blount and Loyd Wright, the actress’ attorney, went to court to« day to determine if Miss West must submit to a deposition hearing in Mr. Wallace's two-year fight to make her admit they were married in 1911. Since Miss West now admits the marriage her lawyer contends there is no need for a deposition. Blount said Mr. Wallace had sufe fered “tragically,” and explained: “When he and Mae separated she exacted from him the promise never to reveal the marriage. He kept the promise, But when the license was found in Milwaukee there was noth« ing he could do but admit it. Then she denied the marriage and Mr, Wallace found it hard to get vaudee ville bookings,” Mr. Wallace's stock meantime shot up overnight. Hollywood books
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