Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1937 — Page 24

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SEPT. 2, 1937

CHILD STARS TOP

/ THE GAY' AND MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL YOU DREAMED SOME DAY YOU'D SEE

. with your ‘One In A Million’ girl and the boy in a million as thrilly together as you knew they'd be J

Cashes In Twice on 'One' | Yarn With Aid of Script Men. All you've ever longed for in entertainment! Exhile rating romance!

PAUL HARRISON

OLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 (NEA) — Short takes: This is the only place in the world, sighs Danny

Martin, where the inmates are permitted to run the asylum.

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Sometimes the screen-play penters may do an author a good turn. The colony is snickering about a writer whose second novel almost in the best-seller class. He got the plot from the movie version of his first novel.

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The Hollywood Reporter's Irving | Hofman tells of a star who sat in

the Trocadero the other evening and complained aloud of the treatment she was receiving at her home studio. “I wish I could work for you,” told a rival producer. “I'm working practically for peanuts where I am.” Her next

sitting at know

boss was but she didn’t

own table,

morning. “Here's said the note

next salary,”

of peanuts vour week's attached.

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ARTHA RAYE'S kid brother.

Buddy, who's 18, arrived in Hollywood to sing in a night club.

And all the studios will have scouts |

there for the opening. Shirley Deane finally is to have a chance to sing. It was her voice that won her a movie contract, but up to now she has not warbled a note.

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be another year.

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There plet picture of a lot of new cided the little Dionnes aren't quite old enough to sing the new script that pared for them. The same studio insists that Simone Simon's return from Paris

stories have been bought for her,

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Hollywood hears that the foreign girl Darryl Zanuck will ballvhoo in leading roles is Rosa

Alba, a Mexican beauty.

Samuel Goldwyn has a Cherokee |

Indian on his contract list. She's half Cherokee, anywayv—a former New York model Younghood. Marla Shelton also is half Cherokee.

ing and half crying over just having completely wrecked the costly that her husband, Jack Dawn, gave her for a wedding present. Somehow it got away after had parked it on a steep hill. rushed down the street, curb. snapped off a tree and plowed up a front yard garden—all but a gladioli bed. “I finished the job,” she giggled. "When I saw what had happened to my beautiful car I fainted right in the middle of the gladioli.” Worst driver in town is Losch, who's just learning. vou'd better hide when you streak approaching, that Luise Rainer’s out

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HEN I saw

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Miss Shelton the

she

Tilly Also see a which for

ara means a spin.

with a couple of big Irish wolfhounds on the back seat.

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T looked like a full-sized location

expedition when went

tures. There were a truck to carry the props (beach chair, a property trailer dressing man and assistant; an electrician to set up the sun reflectors; hairdresser; Miss Trevor, Trevor's mamma. Mickey Rooney and Gloria Somborn (she’s Gloria Swanson's daugh- | ter) have high school diplomas. And Shirley Temple, long the nation's leading has graduated to real stellar ranking That is be cast only in costly productions hereafter—pictures representing from $800.000 to £1.000,000. First big one was “Wee Willie Winkie”: next on the sched- | ule are “Heidi,” “The Little Prin- | cess,” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook | Farm.”

room; a camera-

and Miss

shell

car-

the | it | until she reccived a 100-pound sack |

and emote for | is being pre- |

| the heist,”

small to risk personal injury or means another pout at stardom. Two TOR ia I

next |

named Gloria |

| follows: | children, drinks no more than two |

| often other day she was half laugh- | | listener to tales of woe, car |

| habitually, It hurdled the |

| tomer to the feminine species any

| was

[ the Walnut Street Theater in Phila- |

Douglass Montgomery has |

been dashing about in an open car | | known to the audience, always re- |

| from the gallery suddenly shouted: Claire Trevor |

down to the beach the other | day to pose for some publicity pic- |

table, etc.) and | man to set them up; a|

a publicity man; |

a wardrobe woman and a |

box office attraction, |

she |

ily’s act. Patsy the latest being Breen is shown “Make a Wish,” attraction.

exercises” will be held in two downtown theaters for the week beginning tomorrow. At the Lyric, little Patsy O'Connor, the young Jady with the banana at the left, will appear on the | stage as headline attraction of the O'Connor Fam- |

IN NEW YOR Ky GEORGE ROSS

“Children’s Day

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Costly, But

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Young Punks’ Holdup Toll Cheaper than Protests.

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2 —Few New Yorkers who travel the humdrum |

EW YORK, Sept. | idea of the num- |

circuit from home to job and return have any

| ber of unreported and unpublicized holdups that occur ail over town | quintu- | Executives | 20th-Fox have been looking at tests and they've de- | ) | They point up their demands with weapons ranging from nothing more |

practically every day. : Young “punks,” either as lone wolves or in packs, descend cn corner cafes, coffeepots and small neighborhood shops. They demand sums | ranging from a “pound” (five bucks) to the entire contents of the till.

lethal than a Dillinger scowl to “shivs” (knives), ice picks, snatched from behind the bar, to an occasionai gun.

Proprietors usually “stand for? as the sum involved Is jj the Strand could produce—in- | cluding flannel belly-band, topee or hundred dollars worth of | sun helmet (complete with damage to mirrors and furniture. |garee), open-mesh shirtings and | Often as not they know the hood- [sun spectacles, all ready for the] lums, and often as not they'll have | fierce climate “out” in New York. them back the next day, brazenly | His club quarters were air-condi- | spending some of the “good-time” tioned, so were the bars and restau- | money over the bar or counter from nS he ones, and the t sun saad S o shine once, an he temperature | which it was snatched wos chill, “Why, its bally nom | sense,” he cried on departure. | “Weather’s perfect. Typical August | on the Scottish moors!”

Shoot Daylight

Scenes at at Night

sometimes |

pug- |

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HE average bartender, says one of them, can be described as 42 years of age, has two

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a day, though he likker to be sympathetic is well up on ail current events, has not read a book in five years, is a Democrat and ardent New Dealer, smokes takes infinite pride in | the shine on the bar glasses, likes | patrons whom he can hail by their first names and prefers a male cus-

glasses of beer feigns hard is the most

sociable,

Times Special | HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.—When| the sun shines brightly, they shoot |

| night scenes on the “Ali Baba Goes | to Town” picture at 20th Century- |

| Fox, but when the mornings are | fogey they shoot daytime sequences! | The trick is done by means of filters over the camera lens. A dark filter transforms the sun- | shine into moonlight, but when tne | day is cloudy, the “night” becomes too dark for camera work, and then Director David Butler prepares to film day scenes.

‘MARY TO MAKE SECOND PICTURE

hour of the day. =

O the plentiful Barrymore lore, add this: When Ethel opened in “Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines,” her first starring role, she nervous and her voice wasn't | audible. The performance was at |

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delphia and the Drew Family, who | played there often and were well |

ceived a cordial welcome. A friend |

You're all right. | | Times Special

| HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.-—Marv | Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny) wil RESIDENT of Brooklyn upon | make a second picture for Parawhom the Soviet Embassy | mount under terms of an optional greatly relies for expert advice dur- | contract. ing the search for the lost Russian| Miss Livingstone is to make her | flyers, happens to be an old gentle- | screen debut in the recently completed “This Way Please.” Her next assignment has not yet been decided, but will be determined upon her return from Europe, where she now is vacationing with Mr. Benny.

PLAYED IN FIVE FLOPS

Van Heflin, star of “Saturday's Heroes,” seasonal football picture, played in five successive shows which were flops before he had his first hit on the New York stage.

“Speak up. Ethel. The Drews is all good actors.”

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| man named Anthony Fiala. The reason Mr. Fiala is relied upon is because he has been to the North Pole twice and knows about | the rigors to be borne in that un- | explored part of the world. He now { heads a firm which outfits explorers | for their adventuresome trips and helped Sir Hubert Wilkins with his polar wardrobe before Sir Hubert set out on his rescue expedition for the missing aviators of the U.S. S.R.

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HE Englishman who “put up” at one of New York's modern | clubs the other day was on a flying visit, just long enough for the lux- | | ury liner which brought him to turn || "CHINA PASSAGE” Yinton Haworth around and start back to Blighty. | IAMES MELTON Fr Eins He was equipped. however, with | Tomorrow—"G0O GETTER” everything the tropical-wear shops’ GEO, BRENT_ANITA LOUISE

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Newly Decorated oy Oberon

MY’ NS STERY”

Udell St. at Clifton Double Feattre Claire Trevor FOR A NIGHT” “DRAGNET”

~ 30th and _Hlinois

Rod LaRocque Double Feature ad I-Star Cast

GARRICK

“LOVE “TWO Who DARED” Double Feature

MECCA 3 Lily Pons

“THAT GIRL FROM PARIS” “CHEROKEE STRIP” Double Feature

} Stratford All-Star Cast

PTAIN BLO “R ACKE TEERS IN EXILE”

2361 Station St. D R i A M Double Feature crrol Flvan “PRINCE AND THE PAUPER” “MELODY FOR TWO” Double Feature

R T Z ee Tracy

“BEHIND THE HEADLINES" THREE SMART GIRLS”

REX

“A NIG Mr or

UDELL

“STAR

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Hollywood © sun tamu | re i) ywoo James Dunn “VENUS MAKES TROUBL “SOLDIER AND THE L ADY

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‘Central at. Fall Crk. Double Feature Joe Brown

“RIDIN AIR" “LOVE FROM A STRANGER” 16th & Delaware Sts. Double Featur

CINEMA Gladvs Swarthout

CHAMPAGNE WALTZ “THE WOMAN I LOVE" Double Feature Ro Shert Wilcox

UPTOWN a 2

“MAN IN “LET'S GET MARRIED"

12nd & College

30th at Northwestern | |

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R | Vv O i | Dae Oven Na omfor Double Feature—Allison Sioworth Re WISE MAIDS eturn Engage Fred Astaire in ‘Top WAT

WEST SIDE

BELMONT ~ W. Wash. & Belmont

Westinghouse Double Feature ir-Conditioned ARMORED

TV Wilcox “LAW OF THE RANGER” 2540 W. Mich. St.

Double Feature

ai “KING OF GAMBLERS prevor a Mae Clarke “HATS OFF »

Howard & : Blaine

HOWA Rr D Double Tertare

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R302 W. 10th SU. Double Feature

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“MAN OF THE PEO Pat O’Brien “SLIM”

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SOUTH 3 1105 S. Meridian Daunte Poli rel ,& Hard

NORTH | SIDE St. Clair & Ft. Wayne | Double Feature

ST. ¢ CLAIR adze Evans

THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR” “CAL TFORNIA STRAIGHT AHEAD”

Talbott & 22d | TALBOTT Westinghouse Air-Conditioned Double Feature-Madge Evans { wr. THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR" { “CALIFORNIA STRAIGHT AHEAD"

EAST SIDE

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“PRINCE AND THE PAC Sel ected Shorts

4020 E, New York | -——

TUXEDO Double F patie

| oscoe | “MURDER GOES TO COLLEGE" |

2140. E. Wash. St. Se] Flynn Twins PER”

“GIRL OVERBOARD”

5507 E. Wash. St. 1 R Y | N s Double Feature Rochelle Hudson “THAT I MAY LIVE” “AS GOOD AS MARRIED”

EMERSON 1630 E. 10th

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George Brent “THE G GO-GETTER" ls Jones Family “BIG BUSINESS”

| (GOLDEN “wentic ie Feature

"INTERNES CAN'T TAKE MONEY” AY OUT WES ST”

‘HAMILTON 2116 _E. 10th Stu

Double Feature y vy Martin SING AND BE HAPPY | win Rogers “DAVID HARUM”

1332 E. Wash. St. | ‘STRAND Double Feature | Villiam Ewell “EMPEROR'S SLES Jack Haley "PICK A TAR

ORIENTAL

“WAY OUT “CHINA PASSAGE ’

LINCOLN vote tome “WHEN YOU'RE IN L “GREAT HOSPITAL MYSTERY”

FOUNTAIN SQUARE

Our New Cooling System Keeps You Comfartahlv Cool Always Richard Dix PDEVIL' IS DRIVING” “NORT H OF THE RIO GRANDE”

Tow “At Fount Reto Bion SANDERS t oun ain n Square

Paramount Double Feature | Robert es Dunn “THAT I MAY LIVE" “HEARTS “CARYL OF

Grace Moore

IN BON DA AGE” Comedy—Novelty S

THE MOUNTAINS 8 JOU

111 E. Washington Pros. & Churchman Double Feature HEN YOU

Grace Moore

| booking was in response to several

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has appeared in several pictures, “Saratoga.” At the right, Bobby recording one of the songs for which will be the Circle's main

Dance Filkins Is at Rivoli

"Top Hat" Ope Opens Today on |

East Side.

“Top Hat,” fourth of the red | Astaire-Ginger Rogers costarring | series, seems to be the most popular.

At least it is with Rivoli patrons, for { Manager Joe Cantor has booked the | picture, beginning today, for a second showing through Saturday. The

requests, Mr. Cantor says. Filmed two years ago, “Top Hat” features, besides the Astaire-Rogers dances, such tunes as “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails,” “The Piccolino,” “No Strings,” “Cheek to and “Isn't This a Lovely By. Cantor recalls that “The Piccos § dance featured by the starring team, became a favorite of adroit young ballroom performers upon the picture's original release. In addition to “Top Hat,” the | Rivoli will show “Two Wise Maids.” | The featured players are Alison Skipworth, Polly Moran, Lila Lee and Donald Woods. A short subject, “Hotel a la Swing,” with Eddie

| Foy Jr. will complete the bill,

JUDITH BARRET REPORTED BETTER

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 (U. P.).— Judith Barraot, young movie actress from Arlington, Tex. was reported | past the crisis today from an attack of pneumonia.

LIKES HIS BOSS

music! Exuberant jf

ARTHUR TREACHER RAYMOND WALBURN

JOAN DAVIS SIG RUMANN « ALAN HALE LEAH RAY « MELVILLE COOPER MAURICE CASS « GEORGE GIVOT Directed by Sidney Lanfield

who gave you “Sing, Baby, Sing”, “One In A Million” and “Wake Up ond Live"!

[Associate Producer Raymond Griffith

Screen Ploy by Boris Ingster and Milton Sperling From the play “Der Komet” by Attila Orbok

Darryl F. Zanuck in Charge of Production

Lester Elliott, Charlie Ruggles’ secretary for 16 years, has seen

Charlie's latest picture, “Exclusive,” four times. In the picture Charlie is cast for the first time in his film career in a dramatic role.

25c TILL 6 40c AFTER 6

FINAL DAY! Mr. and Mrs, Martin Johnson's

“BORNEO” plus

The Jones Family in

“HOT WATER”

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SCOOP! TOMORROW at LOEW'S! EXCLUSIVE LOUIS vs. FARR FIGHT FILMS! NOW-FOR THE FIRST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES!”

Millions cae rthe world over... have been swept §

ROMANCE...

Even the storied love of Romeo and Juliet cannot stir the imagination so strongly!

SCOPE...

Tw o years and a fortune were lavished for a production commensurate with the epic story!

JEWELL -

~LAST DAY—

DEAD END

"CAN'T LAST FOREVER"

The exploits of Lawrence of Arabia fade beside the deeds of Conway in the siege of Baskul!.

James Hilton's. superb novel —Now the supreme achievement of the genius who made "Mr. Deeds" .

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JANE WYATT - JOHN HOWARD MARGO - THOMAS MITCHELL \) EDWARD EVERETT HORTON - ISABEL \ H. B. WARNER « SAM JAFFE

/ From the novel by James Hilton + Screen play by ROBERT RISKIN

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

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This vision of a secret romantic paradise is only one of a thousand heart-piercing portraits!

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