Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1937 — Page 6
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Ablutions of
Marlene Cut From Film
Picture Based on ‘Hilton Novel Describes Russian Revolution.
By JAMES THRASHER
Movie-going is getting to one anticlimax after
be
just
another. First of they the Shirley Temple spanking scene out of “Wee Willie Winkie.” Then came “Topper.” in which much of the Thorne Smith book even reached the camera, say nothing of the cuttingroom floor. And now we have it Without Armor, due vy at Loew's—sans ablutions. is, you may recall, is Marlene British picture. It film which the Hays’ ffice cleaned up by the paradoxical pedient of cutting the scene the glamorous Dietrich takes
all, cut
never
rather dirtv trick. For the role of Countess to tramp for days slush of Russhe catches a safety. By countess
LL Seems a Star, In
has Nas
forests before the border and the harassed rely needs a8 tub
Follows Novel Rather Closely
But. aside from the bath she takes ngland and skips over h he story follows rather closelv the “James Hilton novel on which t is based. Mr. Hilton, the “Goode Mr. Chips” and “Lost Horizon” 3, is one of three important es behind the Dietrich glamour. others are Alexander Korda, the producer, and Director Jacques Fevder, who also directed that masf French farce, “Carnival in ry is of a Fg English iS rate into Russian rvice levine the He meets, falls in love the countess, and helps her to escape. Robert Donat plays opposite Miss Dietrich. and it’s only because La Dietrich is generous and trouper that he is in the picture at all
Had Asthma
The day production was to begin Donat suffered an attack of sthma. Producer Korda suggested that Miss Dietrich get another leading man. She vetoed the idea. So four weeks were spent in shooting every scene in which the hero id not After that waited some more before Doiiats bronchial tubes got to pitch Finally he reporfed for work, greeted by Miss Dietrich ‘Knight Without Asthma.” And Mr, Donat, a grateful punto replied “Yes, but without ‘amour
Once e Noted Star Plays Bit Part
Donat
they My. back
appear.
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug.
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4 —The face once commanded $3500 a weck hidden behind a regulation gauze bandage. For saying, “just a moment, doctor,” and then wining the perspiration from Warner Baxer’s brow, a once famous actress received $25. She is Madge Bellamv. Madge plays the role of a nurse in “Wife, Doctor and Nurse,” starring Loretta Young, Baxter apd Virginia Bruce. She had only one line to say during an eis | scene’ with Mr. Baxter. That one line placed her in gory of “bit” plaver.
INDIANS OF MANY TRIBES ARE FILMED |
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HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 4 Many tribes of American Indians were | represented among the 150 working In a picture at Warner Bros. Employed were seven Navahoes, hine Iriquois, three Blackfeet, 12! bioux, four Pawnee, seven Oneidas, nine Senecas. Ramapos, 23 Mohawks, four was, seven Shawnees others
was
two
Eight real Indian chiefs were in- |
luded in the cast nedicine men
and two former
READS MEDICAL LORE
Kay Francis, recently hospitalized {or a minor ailment, read late medcal Journals nd bulletins amusement. She nterested in medicine,
GETS LONG LETTER
One of received came to Bette cently. fan in Cut Timber, sheets of paper.
Mo, it filled 87
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KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR, SANS BATH,
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, 1937"
TO OPEN AT LOEW'S
AMERICAN MEN ARE PUZZLE TO OLYMPE BRADNA, 17, LATE OF PARIS
“Next vear IT be 18, and then maybe I have a boy friend if maman
thinks he's okay.”
They Pinch Her, She Says, ord Give Her Fishy Eye When She Denies Having Dates or a Boy Friend.
By FRANK T. FARRELL
Times Special Writer
NEW YORK. Aug. 4 —When Miss Olympe (O-limp-ee) Bradna, who
draws a lot of pay
from Paramount studios.
iS not
gleefully
dancing
from one end of the Warwick's suite 6-E to the telephone at the other,
she snuggles in & big chair,
twists & white kerchief in her little hands and
turns on the smile that stole what there was of & picture in “Last Train
from Madrid.
“Two vears I have been in Hollywood now, Do vou see any change?”
she asked, and eves. ay English is better.” ” she half whispered with deTw “But. ves, that is true. I have lost all my accent, no?” “No.” “Okay, but just I have no accent now,” pouting prettily Miss Bradna
the same 1 think she added,
is what Hollywood calls a “find.” She has brown hair, a pleasing coat of tan and large brown eves whose whites seem tinted with a delicate blue. She is
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“The Road Back,’ and Richar ra Or romwell at 32
1:23. 3:28, 3:2 2 and 9:35
w ith John
King 11:20
CIRCLE
- Topper,’ with Roland You Con tante Bennett apd Cary 2.3 4). 400 and “You Can't Rat Love.” wil ton Foster at 11:30. 2 ang 9
LOEW'S
th Jean Harlow and at . 1:50. 4:40, 30 “League of Frichtened Waiter Connolly and at 12:40, 3:30. 6:35
LYRIC
“San Quentin,” with Pat O’Brien Humphrey Pogart, at 11:35, 5:11, 9:59 and 10:20, Noble issle’s Orchestra (on stage) at . 3:34, 6:42 and 9:30.
OHIO
Up and Live,” with Ben Winchell. Also h Lew Ayres
“Saratoga,’ Clark Gable and 10.
Men.” with Lionel Stander, and 3:15.
“Wake Bernie and Walter “Lady. Be Careful,” wit and Mary Cariisle.
AMBASSADOR
“There Goes My Girl,” with Gene Raymond and Ann_ Sothern. _ Also oe " with Pat O'Brien and Henry
ALAMO
“Street Scene,’ with Syivia Sidney, Also "Tt Happened Out West,
COMEDIENNE IN HARD-BOILED ROLE
' Times Spee inl
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4 — Cora Witherspoon, who has become one of the screen's best portrayers of | ‘rattle-birained” roles, her in a “hard-boiled” in “Madame X" with Gladys Warren William and John Beal. The comedienne is for her work in ‘Piccadilly Jim,” and “Personal Prop-
part
HIRED ED FOR FOOTFALLS
There are ten extras in Warner Bros. “Tonight's Our Night,” the film version of “Tovarich,” who wil! not be seen on the screen. In the
| market sequence they walk in circles { behind the camera and the sound
of their footfalls is picked up by the microphone.
SWIM-DANCE
WESTLAKE
PAUL COLLINS’ FEATURING re) NT Every NCA AR er
Plus PRESTON ¥OS “YOU CAN'T BEAT Tove
today | | changed type when M-G-M cast |
George,
remembered |
ec —————————————————
tilting her head to the side and doing things With | her r Tips
French, five-three, 115 and on Aug.
12 she will celebrate her 17th birthstaying up until Otherwise she goes to bed at 10. is 6:30 and doesn't
day by up at drink. That
is because
{ day their daughter
they have French parentage
M. Bradna were show people, too. They had a trained dog act and since the was born between afternoon and evening performances at the Olympe in Paris exercised
midnight. i — " p—
Here to add zest to the premiere of her latest picture, “Souls at Sea,” which opens at the Globe today Miss Bradna confesses she is stil bewildered about the attitude of American men toward French women “Because I be clares, “evervbodyv pinch me and sap etes tres cute, babv,
smoke or
et Nme
French.” she dethinks he can ‘Ooo-la-la, vous and ask who
their stern
Ousted School Teacher May Take Screen Test
Bw United Press SAUGUS, Mass., pretty
Aug. 4 Isabelle Hallin,
Back from a brief New Hampshire vacation, 25, ousted Saugus High School English teacher,
said today she hadn't made up her mind whether to accept a screen test
offer in New York
I certainly won't go to New York before the end of the week.” “And if T go then, to look things over may It's all indefinite.” | She disclosed that during the last few months she has been appearing | irregularly on a dramatic program over a Boston radio sta-
said merely eral test
Of course, 1
broadcast | tion. She insisted that {given up her fight
| ousted, rumor
i has declared that
tempt to have in September | ture to increase | school committee.
| removal was Se 2.
SUIT ASKS $20,000 | OF PEGGY JOYCE
By United Press HOLLYWOOD,
| day in a | for trial Sept. 20 | County Superior Pictures, Inc.,
she had not to regain the | again. | teaching post from which she Was | qq)e. said, because of re- | ports that she served cocktails to! pupils at a school dramatic club re- | hearsal in her home. | nied the reports and the committee | its action was based only on educational grounds. Next step, she said, will be an atthe Town meeting petition the Legislathe The vote for her |
Aug. 4 Hopkins Joyce was a defendant to$20,000 damage suit set in Los Court. was plaintiff. Celebrity sued for a $20.000 note |
she it will be « m gentake the
FORAN HANGS UP BOOTS AND SADDLE
limes Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4 Dick | Foran will never ride the range | He's hung up his boots and His trusty shooting iron get rusty. The Singing | Cowbov is no more. She has de-| After letting Dick Foran | westerns for two years, Warner Bros. decided he was ripe for bigger and better things. So now Dick will try to sing his way to fame in| and better
| will soon
star in
bigger pictures.
size of the
"THEFT OF PICTURE IDEA 1S CHARGED
| By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4.--A $200,{000 suit charging plagiarism over the mouion picture, “Mummy's | on file today against
| Boys,” was Angeles | gay Wheeler, Robert Woolsey and
DEIEDTILY | Radio Studios.
Earle Ross,
Peggy
writer, the plantiff, |
| it said Miss Joyce executed in 1926. | said the picture was based partly
| She said the money
| salary for her work in a movie,
was advance | on an original manuscrint he sub"mitted to te id in 1933.
TNOSATIONAL SONGS ¥ GORDON & REVEL Including: ‘Afraid To Dream’ ‘Dunger, Love Ar Wark'f The Laveliness oF You RVR (ave ua ve' 3
You Cont Have Everything;
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TW AFTER 6
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\ is the bav
“And when I have no dates and no hoy friends in Hollywood, they
dates. Pourquoi? “T tell them IT am 14 when I first be in Hollywood and that T have no dates and no boy friend. They give me & fishy look “Is it not okav to be 14 and have no boy friend. Next vear T be 18
friend and when 1 give |
look.”
give me a fishy
Olvmpe Bradna is a partly because she first ing at the age of 18 months, when as a little fat baby with a dirty face she toddled nut from the wings to see her maman and panicked the house Two vears ago she came to New
“natural” hegan act-
“Because T be French, everybody thinks he can pinch me and say ‘Ooo-la-la vous etes tres cute, baby."
qualities that were spotted by Oscar
Serlin, who signed her immediately |
with Paramount. Since then she has trained to become a headliner, She attends school on the Paramount lot, compulsory for all under 18, takes lessons to cultiva te her coloratura soprano voice, assiduously and, through her first novel only this vear, worm.
When she was instructed to come
East a week ago she asked: “Why, am I going to dance?” “No, Sssshh,” she was told, are not a dancer any a great actress now.”
She is not quite convinced, so she likes the movies. The day she arrived in New York she made her cousin take her *to both the Music Hall and the and for two days after she |
dancing, and
still large
practices her chunks of candy
Capitol, had evestrain from the feast.
MUMPS BIDE TIME
Thirty minutes after makihg her
last scene for “Flight From Glory” Whitney Bourne, who plays the ro-
Maybe then I have a boy friend, if York with the first Folies Bergere mantic lead opposite Chester Mor-
maman thinks he's okay,” said Miss
Bradna hopefully.
PONS ARRIVES
HOI I YW 00D Aug. 4. —Lily Pons, Metropolitan Opera soprano, was in Hollvwood today to make another motion picture, She arrived by plane accompanied by Andre Kostelanetz, conductor Following by train were her sister, her 6-vear-old niece. her English coach, her private secretary, five servants, two dogs and two cats,
IGOR GORIN LOOKS To "MET ROLES |,
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4 Charles Igor Gorin, who makes his film debut in “Broadway Melody of 1938.” is negotiating with the Metropolitan Opera Co. for appearances this season, If a leave of absence is granted by M-G-M, he will sing in “Pagliaccl” and Rigoletto.”
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Agents Sue Comedienne
Ask for Five Per Cent of Martha Raye's Wages.
Bu lwiled Presse
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. Martha Rave, wide-mouthed movie star and come- | dienne, today was sued for 5 per cent of her earings since March, 1936, by two theatrical booking | agents In the suit, filed mm Cirenit Court | by Tyrrell and Sligh, the agents said the amount sought represented their compmission of her salary under an agreement entered into with Miss Raye's mother for an appearance contract obtained with Century Club, Hollvwood.
The agents said they arranged for | 1935, and | since the contract became af- |
the contract in November, that
| fective the movie star has nee]
—PLUR— League of Frightened Mon
Alexander Korda WoL Without Armor
Tis, and was sent to a hospital.
| $50, 000. But their commission has | | gone unpaid.
Fannie Brice in ‘New M-t G- M Film
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Brice,
Aug, 4
[the sereen In | Mayer’ s “Swing Fever,” | announced today. | The comedienne, whose first pie | | ture , “My Man,” started the bluessinging vogue, joins a stellar cost including Allan Jones, Judy Garland. Billie Burke and Reginald Owen in this comic musical extrava= ganza.
the |
George Wynne Gibson
“RACKETEERS IN EXILE”
Plos—Jean Muir—Barton MacLang “PRAEGGERMAN COURAGE"
0
alt hough she got
she is now a confirmed book-
“you more; you are | | night will be heard a
came down with the mumps |
Fannie top-ranking stage and radio |
| star for many vears, will return to | Metro-Goldwyn- | the studios |
| § 622 Mass,
Local Girl's Composition To Be Played
CBS and WFBM to Present Harriet Payne's String Fantasy.
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The first performance of a “Fantasy for Strings” by Miss Harriet Payne, Indian apolis musician, will be broadcast at 6 p. m. tomorrow over 'WFBM and the nation-wide CBS network. Frederick Charles Adler will conduct the Columbia Concert Ore
| chestra in the performance. | Miss Payne, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Charles Payne, 4231 N. Capitol | Ave, is a pupil of Eugene Goossens, Cincinnati Symphony Orchesgo conductor, in composition, and | of Tmil Heerman in violin at the | Cincinnati College of Music. She is in Europe this summer continue | ing her work with Mr, Goossens, | Before entering the Cincinnati school, Miss Payne studied violin | with Hugh McGibeny and piano | with Willard MacGregor at the | Arthur Jordan Conservatory, She also was a member of the Indie anapolis Symphony Orchestra viola section during part of the last twe seasons. Miss Payne's been chosen by Mr. formance at the first Saratoga Festival, which will be held at Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 5 to 18. Mr. Adler is the festival's founder and | conductor.
composition has Adler for pers-
tomorrow “Suite for by Gardner Read--another premiere’—and composi tions by Orlando Gibbons, Mozart and Grieg. Mr. Read is the winner of a New York Philharmonic-Syms« phony Society composition award.
On the same program
| Strings” “world
Sophie and Judy Cast Together
Timer Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4--Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland, who ( make their debut as mother and daughter in “Broadway Melody of [ 1038,” will continue as a screen coms= | Pihation, it was revealed today when M-G-M cast the two in “Thoroughbreds Don't Cry.” | The veteran entertainer and the | 14-year-old singing star will be fea= tured with Mickey Rooney and | eo, hoy actors,
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