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DAY IN Audience at

Fight Just Painted Wall

And Sweat on Brow of Noah Beery Jr.

Is Imitation.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Aug, 11.— Here we are today at Universal Studios across a mountain top and in the midst of nevernever land, where even the sweat on the brow of Noah Beery Jr. is imitation and half the audience at a prize fight is painted on the wall. The studio is one of the biggest in the business, the day is hot and directors are yelping “action” all over the lot. Let's lunch first in the studio restaurant, where tourists are

vited to “eat with the stars.” The food is good, the visitors are jam-

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1937

OVIE STUDIO REVEALS THINGS ARENT WHAT THEY SEEM

KENNY BAKER AND LOCAL GIRL HEAD NEXT LYRIC ATTRACTIONS

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packing the place and everybody |

with grease paint on his face who sticks ' his nose inside is beseiged with autograph books. Behind barred gates (where the tourists never enter) trucks are trundling totem poles and empty champagne botties and no telling what else from ope cavernous stage to another. A movie stage is not | what it sounds like; it is a gigantic | barn half a block long and nearly | as wide, lightproof and full nachinery and sets.

Actors Dwarfed

Actors working in one corner of | it under intense white lights look | dwarfed. Particularly do they seem | tiny in the prize fight sequence of “Blond Dynamite,” where a ring is | installed, a few rows of seats are | set up, and faces of thousands upon thousands of people are painted on the wall. Real actors sit in the seats, while prop men burn resin in the smudge | pots to make cigarette smoke and | the cameras, slightly out of focus, | start to grind. The result on the | screen is that of a vast and hazy fight arena, crammed to the eaves with customers. Fighting in the squared circle are Noah Beery Jr., who has oil dripping from his hair to make him | look sweaty, and Joe Smallwood, a | professional pugilist who had to | take an intelligence test before he | got the job.

Tested Half Dozen

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| melodious of contemporary

Movies Transform Friml Operetta Into War Story

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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11.—The a

of | performance of “The Firefly,” which established Rudolf Friml as a

popular composer, by now probably

But the melody, to borrow a simile from a more recent popular

composition, lingers on. And is due screen, The operetta received its first pro- | duction under the Arthur Hammer- | stein banner at the Empire Theater

| in Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1912, Em- |

ma Trentini played the title role. | The show moved to New York's |

{ Lyric Theater on Dec. 2 of the same | { year, and Mr. Friml, a former zc- | | companist from Prague, found him- |

self recognized as one of the most com- | posers. Now 25 years, later, Mr. Friml], in | Hollywood, is about to see the film premiere of his work; its forgotten story completely changed, its familiar music retained and woven into a specially written film score. For

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retained; the background score, shaped to the new drama. ! Became Opera Star

udience which applauded the first has forgotten the operetta’s story.

to be repopularized soon from the

Across the Pyrenees, Don Diego Manrique de Lara, swashbuckling young Spanish nobleman, follows her, much against her wishes. The man she seeks is not Don Diego, played by tenor Allan Jones, but Col. de Rougemont of Napoleon's | staff (Warren William). Nina gets] her information, but is betrayed and fails in her mission to warn King Ferdinand of Spain. Five years elapse, and Ning once again is behind the French lines, attempting to get word to Wellington of a propi-

Victoria, which started Navoiesn | toward Waterloo, provides the climactic action of the picture, and] |

Montage Effect Used As in Miss MacDonald's operatic |

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Kenny Baker,

the overcoated figure in the picture at left, makes

his screen-starring debut in “Mr. Dodd Takes the Air,” coming to the

Lyric Friday. the Jack Benny protege.

Jane Wyman and Frank McHugh are shown here with The picture's story is by Clarence Budington

Kelland, who wrote “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.” Vera Jean Davis (center), local 5-year-old acrobatic dancer, is to

be one of the “New Stars on Parade” presented on the Lyric stage by Vera Jean was a prize-winner in the Lyric's recent

Paul Ash (right). “local talent” contest.

former colleague of operetta days, Musical Director Herbert Stothhart, and with Director Robert Z. Leonard. From the original “Firefly,” the songs retained are “Love Is Like a Firefly,” Giannina Mia,” “Sympthy,” “A Woman's Smile,” and “When a Maid Comes Knocking at Your Heart.” The two new numbers are “The Donkey's Serenade” and “He Who Loves and Runs Away.”

Small Set Used

For Loy Movie

| tious time to attack. The battle of | Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11.—Three weeks’ camera work on Hollywoed's smailest film set—a 6 by 15 foot interior of an automobile trailer— today was completed by Director

| sequences in the previous “May- | Richard Thorpe for “Double Wed-

The original story told of Nina, a | time,” the battle, and the entire war | ding,” starring William Powell and

During these scenes, Mr. Thorpe

Director Milton Carruth tested | with society folk. She was accused | opens right out of the title sheets, | ers scene in “A Night at the Opera”

the minds of half a dozen pugilists, | of theft, cleared, won the hero and | depicting the joy at King Ferinand's | by crowding 43 persons, including an

he said, before he could find one | smart enough to hold his punches |

when told and lash out when or-|an adaptation by Ogden Nash, finds | wyn-Mayer when the script was in

John King and Joy Hodges, all of | §

whose faces are painted a peculiar- | ly vicious orange color. This is the shade that photo-| graphs the best, so no matter how | lovely an actress is, she always]

looks like she’s got yellow jaundice. |

Red Lights Flash | {

Red lights flash next door. Director Christy Cabanne is shooting | “The Westwood Case,” one of those | detective stories with a wise-crack- | ing detective—Preston Foster—and | a lady corpse, who needs no name | because she never actually appears | on the screen. | Detective Foster uses an amazing | new criminological technique to] solve the mystery. He gets drunk! That causes a brilliant idea to flit thrcugh his mind and he captures the villain. Mr. Foster is drunk at this writing, will continue so tomorrow and for several days to come, until} either the picture is completed or | the supply of weak tea which he! pours from a punch bottle runs out. |

IMPORT DUMMY FOR MORGAN FILM

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11 —Latest importation from Europe for Hollvwood films will be Yorick, now en route by boat from Vienna and who will be flown to Hollywood from New York to team with Frank Morgan in “Rosalie.” Yorick is a ventriloquist’s dummy, ordered by the studio from a Viennese woodcarver.

SWIM-DANCE WESTLAKE

PAUL COLLINS’ ORCHESTRA Featuring JENNIFER SHEFFER Every evening except Monday

COOL OZONIZED AIR

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CANDY & COCO. and Other Big Acts

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‘The General Died at Dawn’ | Plus! “231, Hours Leave” ||

coronation. It is a technique which only films could develop. Mr. Friml arrived at Metro-Gold-

preparation, working alongside his

LAST 2 DAYS!

Edward Everett Horton

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smack into pretty Kathleen O'Shan's apartAnd Bob quickly followed to bring But at Kathleen's door he linThereby began a romance. want to follow this very human story of two

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orchestra, into this trailer set. The company now moves to Sherwood Forest for location work.

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Donald Duck Has No Parties Here

Local celebrations of Donald | Duck's birthday will be private—if | at all. Indianapolis showmen an- |

nounced today that no special ob- | servances had been planned for the | anniversary on Friday. It's a little difficult, apparently, | to plan any birthday festivities for | Donald, since his birthday is so variable. Donald insists that he was born on a certain Friday the 13th. He isn't fussy about the month or year, and if two such dates fall within the twelvemonth, so much the better. Two parties are in order, and Donald likes parties. Looking back on a colorful career, which includes appearances in “Orphan's Benefit,” “Band Concert” and “Mickey's Polo Team,” Donald attributes his sensational success to psychoanalysis and a horoscope reading on each birthday. Donald's current picture is the Walt Disney cartoon, “Moose Hunters,” now showing at the Radio

City Music Hall in New York.

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“FOUNTAIN SQUARE

Our New Cooling System Keeps You Comfortably Cool Alwavs Double Feature Gene Raymond “THERE GOES MY GIRL” Pat O’Brien “SLIM”

NORTH SIDE Noble & Mass. Double Feature Olsen & Johnson “COUNTRY GENTLEMAN" “SHE'S DANGEROUS”

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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

“You Can't Have Everything” with Don Ameche, Alice Faye, Ritz Brothers and Louise Hovick, at 11, 1:08, 3:18, 5.28, 7:38 and 9:48,

CIRCLE | Howe

“Artists and Models,” with Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Gail and Richard Arlen, at 12:32, 3:42, 6:52 and 10:02. Also “Wild Money,” with Edward Everett Horton and Louise Campbell, at 11:23, 2:23, 5:43 and 8:53.

LOEW'S

“Knight Without Armor,” Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat, at 12:27, 3:38, 6:49 and 10 Also ‘Married Before Breakfast,” with Robert Young and Florence Rice, at 11:11, 2:22, 5:33 and 8:44.

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“Dance, Charlie, Dance,” Stuart Erwin and Jean at 11:42 2:32, 5:22, 3:12 and 10.30. Vaudeville (on stage), at 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30.

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“The General Died at Dawn.” with Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll. Also ‘23% Hours Leave,” with James Ellison and Terry Walker.

AMBASSADOR the Red Robe,” with ConAlso "Border Cafe.” ALAMO “Criminals of the Air,” with Rosalind Keith Iso “Sweetheart of the

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‘TELEPHONE GIRL

| HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11.—Dorothy , pretty Dallas, Tex., telephone operator, went to work in the movies

Oliver Hinsdell, Paramount studio talent scout found her working at |

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Piano Made

New

Instrument Designed For Apartments.

Music's concessions to the city dweller’s condensed living quarters are evident in the new Wurlitzer Symmetrical Grand, now on dis play in Indianapolis. The instrument was exhibited at | the recent piano show in New York, | It is semicircular in shape and | measures only 3 feet 9 inches at | the broadest point. To allow for | the necessary added length of bass | strings, these are placed diagonally across the sounding board above the treble strings. For the sake of symmetry and to eliminate overtones, some of the lowest and highest keys have been dispensed with, making the key= board one octave shorter than the modern standard. This reduces the keyboard length to approximately that of 17th and 18th Century ine struments. The manufacturer's advertising pamphlet carries illustrations of the clavichord and spinet of other days, showing that such things have been done before. Perhaps the efficiency apartment is driving us back to Bach,

Mrs. Zioncheck Hints Romance

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11.—Mrs, Rubyve Nix Zioncheck, pretty widow of Marion A. Zioncheck, late Con=gressman from Washington, who is in Hollywood seeking a movie career, hinted a romance today with Leo Fields, Baltimore and New She said they but

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. York theater man. are still only good friends, added: “Maybe my being here had some= thing to do with his making a trip here.” She has chosen Lynne Melton as her film name.

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