Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1937 — Page 16

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ROAD

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Sequel to ‘All Quiet’ Met Delay

Story of Depression and Unrest Held Until Better Times.

By JAMES THRASHER

Six years after publication, Erich Maria Remarque’s “The Road Back” has been brought to the screen and thence to the Apollo, where it may be seen for the week beginning Friday. A sequel to “All Quiet on the Western Front,” ‘this novel of postwar Germany appeared the same vear that Mr. Remarque's first book

was filmed. Apparently, however, the movie people thought “The

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BACK,” FILM OF POSTWAR GERMANY, TO OPEN AT APOLLO -

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Road Back,” with its story of unrest. sudden wealth and poverty, | readjustment and depression, struck a little too close to home in a depressed America. Now they feel that, with better | times at hand, the central theme is | as pertinent as ever. For “The Road Back” deals primarily with the international problems that have plagued the world during the nearly 19 years since the Armistice. Mr. Remarque’s two books were the outgrowth of his own struggle for readjustment, and his later one has been filmed under the guidance of two men who lived the same experiences. R. C. Sherriff, who wrote the successful “Journey's End” and the screen play of “The Road Bdck,” was a British captain. | James Whale, the director, served in | the same army as a lieutenant. |

One German in Cast |

Further off-the-set information discloses, among other things, that Frank Reicher is the only German in the entire cast of this German war picture. . . . Slim Summerville is the onlv player who also appeared in “All Quiet.” Mr. Remarque, despite his French name, comes from a family of emigres who settled in the Rhineland during the French] Revolution. . . . Etienne Girardot, who sounds equally French, is an Englishman. He plays the mayor in the coming picture. Some of the featured players] scarcely remember the World War. . . . Barbara Read was 11 months old when the Armistice was signed, Noah Beery Jr. was 3, Gene Garrick was 4 and Richard Cromwell was an 8-year-old. Other cast members were at the height of their careers when the war ended. . . . Slim Summerville and Louise Fazenda were starring in Mack Sennett comedies. Spring Byington, Laura Hope Crews and Lionel Atwill were prominent stage players. . . . Robert Warwick was the screen idol of his day. Among perplexing questions settled by the research department before shooting got under way were “What time did the moon rise on Nov. 10, 1918?” .. . “Was Marshal | Foch right or left- “handed?” “iy A “What dance tunes were popular in 1919 Germany?” . “What breed was the average brewery horse used in Bavaria at that time?”

WEBER AND FIELDS CAST INMUSICAL

Z'imes Bpecial HOLLYWOOD, July 28.—Weber and Fields, veteran comedians whose artistry of a generation and more ago is still fresh in memory, will be brought out of retirement by B. P. Schulberg for featured roles in the producer's forthcoming musical, “Park Avenue Follies.” In roles especially created for them, Weber and Fields will be teamed in the Schulberg film as a grand opera impresario and his musical director, 1937 version, but with the same old-time conflict between the pair that distinguished their early performances. Also added to the cast of “Park Avenue Follies” is Rufe Davis, onetime Oklahoma cotton chopper, who scored a comic-musical hit in “Mountain Music.”

ENGLISH ACTOR STRICKEN ON SET

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 28.— Raymond Massey, English stage and screen actor, was in Good Samaritan Hospital today with what physicians said was a blood-clot in his leg. He fell to the floor while working on the set of the picture “Hurricane” at Samuel Goldwyn Studio yesterday. Doctors said if the clot reached his heart, it could be fatal. Mr. Massey was expected to be in the hospital three weeks. He had planned to join his wife, Adrienne Allen, British stage actress, in London.

DATE IS APPROPRIATE

Scenes for “Tovarich,” showing the French celebration of the anniversary of the fall of the Bastile, were shot on July 14, Bastile Day.

Airplane Motors Provide Storm on ‘Hurricane’ Set

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, July 28 (NEA).—Movies in the making: This is the

fight their way. Many takes have |

the rush of the blast.

ditional wind machines and actu- | ally blow down most of village.

The sequences so far

Heroine Wears Raincoat

left to right, along the beach, and | day after day the native Polyne-

and flying debris. Mary Astor gets a break;

C. Aubrey Smith, the priest, has padding under his robes. But most | of the other players wear only sarongs. A tall tower has been built over some of the wind machines, and from it workmen toss debris into

intervals they throw palm fronds, leaves, small branches, pieces of netting and finally a woven basket about four feet square. The basket is heavy, but {t careens along the beach like a crazy thing and would knock anybody silly who happened to be in the way. Fire Hoses Make Spray

the air Stream, and the water at once is converted into a blinding spray. The dust of a hurricane is represented by clouds of stifling sulphur smoke released behind the machines. The whole thing is appalling, nerve-shaking. It is more exciting to watch than to be in because it is possible to stand just out of the blast and see the whole panoramsa of terror. On a nearby sound stage they're having a different sort of “very unusual” weather. You'll call it

merely powdered gypsum and cornflakes. What Henry Fonda and Joan Bennett call it can't be printed here. It's a hot day outside, but much hotter within, under the banks of lights. The Hollywood snow is piled high among the trees and against a mountain cabin. Miss Bennett has to wear heavy shoes and clothing, and two overcoats—the outer one fur. Star Losing Weight Fonda and the other players fare a little better, but not much. The management has taken pity on em to the extent of installing individual air-conditioning machines in their dressing rooms.

with LIONEL BARRYMORE + Fram | RIOROAN + WALTER PIDGEON « UNA MERKEL PLUS 2ND HIT

| general store and native houses toi ward the church, a doomed refuge. |

Other men hold fire hoses into |

snow. Property men know that it's -

been spoiled by people being blown | warm about this picture, titled, “I j Off their feet and rolled back by | Met My Love Again,” is the fire-

The palms and thatched houses | effect of flickering firelight in the are securely guyed now because the room, they've set up a slanting | hurricane, isn't supposed to have | | mirror over the face of which runs reached the point of demolition. | a thin stream of water. The water When it does, theyll bring up ad- | breaks up the reflection of % spot-

the | realistically.

All this action takes place from | rector, James Whale,

four 12-cylinder Liberty motors and six nine-cylinder rotary airplane engines, all with their propellors aimed at the palm trees and South Seas native houses on the principal set for “The Hurricane.” I don't know the velocity of the® wind generated by these machines, | but it's the strongest wind into | can’t spare it, is losing a pound or which strong men and women can | two a day.

| | month of the big wind on the back lot at United Artists. They've EB | | |

But even Miss Bennett, who |

One of the things that isn't too

| place in the cabin. To obtain the

light so that the rays dance

Pleasantest set in Hollywood

Everybody seems to be | having fun, most of all the diwho seems

| vastly relieved after finishing such |

sians and white principals take | olig, grim task as “The Road | repeated beatings from wind, spray | Back.”

she | comedy with Brian Aherne imperwears a raincoat and plenty of |sonating clothing under it. And staunch old woke on a visit to France.

| porters and the roles of guests. the air stream. At perfectly timed |

| to scare Garrick.

This Garrick thing is a costume

the celebrated English entire company of the | ie Francaise decides to rib the Englishman, so it takes over the inn where he is to stay. Its members take over all the jobs, too—proprietor, cooks, waitresses,

They pretend dark intrigues, run berserk with knives, fight duels and generally put on a show calculated the daylights out of

Only trouble is that he knows about the scheme and vastly en-

It will be the Circle instead of Loew's viously announced, that will offer you “Topper” on

Friday, with two of the sprightliest history Cary Grant,

in the persons of Constance Bennett and

, as pre-

spooks in cinema

They are shown at left in one of their “lighter” moments where, if you look closely, you may see them haunting the perturbed Roland Young. right, in the flesh, they are telling Mr.

At the Young just

how it feels to be dead.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Wee Willie Winkie.” with Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen, at 11 13, 3:27, 5:47, 7:55 and 10:09.

CIRCLE

“Super-Sieuth,” with Jk Oakie and Ann Sothern, at 11:40, 2:50, 6 and 9. “Exclusive,” with Fred MacMurray and Francis Farmer, at 12:50, 4, 7:10 and 10:15.

LOEW'S

“Saratoga,” with Jean Hallow wid Clark Gable, at 11, 1:50 40, 10 of Frightened

and “League Men,” with Walter Connolly and

Lionel Stander, at 12:40, 3:30. 6:25 and 9:15.

LYRIC

“Talent Scout” (on screen). with Donald Woods and Jeanne Madden, at 11:52, 2:36, 5:30, 8:14 znd 10:30. vaudeville (on stage), at 1:08. 3:52,

6:46 and 9:30. OHIO

“The Woman I Love,” with Paul } Muni and Miriam Hopkins. Also “I pisanise to Pay,” with Chester Mor-

AMBASSADOR

“I Met Him in Paris,” with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young. Also “The Go-Getter,” with George Brent and Anita Louise.

ALAMO “Silent Barriers, with Richard

Arlen, Also “The Man Who Found Himself,” with John Beal.

COW DRAWS FAT ROLE IN PICTURES

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, July 28-—When

an ordinary red Jersey cow ambled |

onto the 20th Century-Fox lot, the three-month search for a bovine actress for “In Old Chicago” was brought to a successrul close. Fresh from a small farm in northern California, the wide-eyed cow walked into a& movie career just a few days after it was discovered on a farm near Stockton by Director Henry King. Daisy

will play the part of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, which kicked over a lamp in its barn in 1871 and started the big Chicago fire.

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"Yes, My Darling Daughter’ To Be Given 200th Time.

Tonight will mark the 200th performance of “Yes, My Darling Daughter,” at the Playhouse in New

next season. During the six-months member of the original cast has missed a single performance. The players, headed by Lucile Watson, Peggy Conklin and Violet Heming, are planning to carry the run well into the fall. Three road companies have been planned for the coming season. One of these will set up shop in Chicago, while the other two will tour. It is the author's intention to present the play in every important city of the country before work on the screen version is begun. Requests for engagements have been received from theater clubs and chambers of commerce in several small Midwestern and Western cities. Wherever possible the tour will be arranged to accomodate them, Mr. de Liagre’s representative states. Several actors from the original company have been signed to repeat

run, no

LIKE A STREAK OF LIVING TRUTH TO STUN ALL INDIANAPOLIS! ® You, Too, will Agree with America’s Leading Critics!

“A FOUR BELL PICTURE AT YOU LEE THE ROAD BACK"

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THE ROAD BACK'IS THE BEST FORM OF CRITICISM YET AIMED AT VGH

Hl A UNIVERSAL PICTURE festuring 1] JONN KING, RICHARD CROMWELL, § SUM SUMMERVILLE, ANDY DEVINE, Bi | sarsaRa READ, LOUISE FAZENDA, JE 1 NOAW BEERY, JR. MAURICE MURPHY, |

{ York. A comedy of modern youth 9 'H1® |by Alfred de Liagre Jr. the play is | Darrier booked for a showing at English's |

their roles in the play’s film translation. The screen rights were pur-

chased by Warner Bros. for more |

than $100,000, and production is scheduled to begin soon after the New York run closes.

'‘BARRIER' TROUPE IS IN MOUNTAINS

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 28.—Headed by Producer Harry Sherman and Director Les Selander, 100 members of the cast and crew of “The troupe are on an extended location in the Mt. Hood country of Washington. Featured in the cast which is filming the Rex Beach story are Lac Carillo, Jean Parker in the | leading feminine role, Ellison, Otto Kruger,

J. M. Kerrigan.

KNITS SWEATERS

Virginia Bruce completed knitting two sweaters for her 4-year-old daughter, Susan Ann Gilbert, between takes of “Wife, Doctor and Nurse,”

Studio Adds. Roath'’s Son

Inspiration of 'Our Gang’ Helps Direct It.

Times Special CULVER, July 28.-—~Hal Roach Jr. the lad who inspired “Our Gang” comedies 16 years ago, went to work today as second assistant director | of the juvenile comedy series. Young Roach was graduated from Culver Military Academy in June with high honors, and returned to California intent on learning the motion picture business. His new job is the first step. While a Culver cadet, Hal Jr. was undefeated heavyweight boxing champion and captained the school’s undefeated and untied football team. He was a lieutenant in the Black Horse Troop and appeared in school dramatic productions. At the close of the football season he was awarded the Logue medal as the year’s outstanding player, and at the commencement exercises he received the Y. M. C. A. cup. As a second-generation executive of “Our Gang,” Hal Jr. will be connected with what is said to be the oldest single unit in motion pictures. These comedies remain the only short subjects on the Hal) Roach production schedule. The | elder Roach recently launched a | | career as full-length picture producer.

Studio Expects Star to Return

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 28-—Claud-ette Colbert, who has been suffering from a cold, was expected back at work today. Latest of Hollywood's stars on the

James | our Night” at Warner Bros. Studio, Andy Clyde, | 2

Addison Richards, Sara Haden and | | ing her absence.

and now has Loretta Young | knitting for her adopted youngsters.

sick list, Miss Colbert went home | from the lot Saturday with a “sum- [ mer cold.” Her husband, Dr. Joel | Pressman, ordered her to stay at home until she recovered. Scenes on her picture, “Tonight’s

were “shot around” the actress dur-

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Film Church

By United Press PARIS, July 28.-A church to be built at Joinville, where there are many motion picture studios, will be known as Notre Dame du Cinema--Our Lady of Movies—it was announced today. Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, said it was an old custom of the church to honor various crafts and arts, and there was no objection to naming a church for the movies.

Censoring Challenged

From 'Spain Protested.

Deletions in

Flames’

By United Press PHILADELPHIA, July 28.-~—The right of the Pennsylvania State Board of Moving Picture Censors to eliminate certain parts of the motion picture “Spain in Flames” was challenged today in Court of Com= mon Pleas. The complainants, Jesse H, Holmes and Anne M. W. Pennyholders of the right to 'dise play the picture in Pennsylvania, ase serted the movie was moral and proper, They said the action of the Board of Censors in directing deletion of parts of the picture was “guided hy prejudice and partiality against the duly constituted government of Spain.” They also averred that the board went beyond its jurisdiction in censoring the picture, and charged it violated State and Federal Constitu« tions.

HE ALWAYS ACTED Alan Dinehart, now appearing with Eddie Cantor in “Ali Baba Goes to Town,” is probably the only actor in Hollywood who never has earned a livelihood at anything but acting. Dinehart has been emoting on stage and screen for 28 years.

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