Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1937 — Page 19

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| mALY SENDS A NEW FILM

‘Tovarich,’ Franco-Russian

Hollywood at Top -of Hor | Hard Climb to Fame

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By PAUL. HARRISON

Comedy, Boasts:Record

Of 16,000 Performances

Duchess of the Indianapolis engagement, and McKay Morris, a perennial favorite here, will play Prince

| Mihail.

Miss Leontovich, herself a fos sian expatriate, was the star of the

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Abba, the Italian actress who played |

Tatiana ‘in New York, is to rN

in another company which will tour the East and probably Play, Chicago.

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TIJUANA, Baja Cal, ‘Spt. (U. P.) —Mae Clarke, 28, or

will go to Rio de Janeiro, where Mr, Bancroft is stationed. - It'was the. first marriage for Mr, Bancroft who met Miss Clarke in San Francisco more than a year ago. It was, Miss’ Clarke's second, her first husband was Lew Brice, comedian.

LIGHTS WARN TRIPPERS

Allen Jenkins, 31, comedian, has installed a flashing red danger signal at the top of a flight of stairs

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Eugenie Lsontovich and McKay Morris Head Cast AYRES WORKERS

OLLYWOOD, Sept. 16.—Another in his heme following “falls by

aT girl, with all her ..portable belongings done up in 28 _ pieces. of luggage, has come to the

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Her name is Inez Sanpietro, but *~She’s on the Paramount payroll as Isa Miranda. * If you have been to Italy lately "you'll know that Isa Miranda is that

country’s greatest screen star. Or was.

~ To Open at English's Theater A Week From Tonight. -

With the almost unbelievable record of 16,000 perform- | ances throughout the world to its credit, “Tovarich” comes to English’s a week from tonight to inaugurate the Indian-

TO GIVE MINSTREL

‘Noel Coward's “Private Lives” will be the main attraction at theannual minstrel show and play ‘to be given by and for L. S. Ayres & Co. employees tonight and tomorrow night. The performances will be in the Murat Temple and are to begin at 8:15 o’clock. :

‘screen actress, and Stephen‘: Ban-

members of his family.

croft, - 31, Fan-American ‘Airways pilot, were honeymooning’ ‘here today following their marriage yesterday. ‘ : ‘Judge Felipe Mori. ‘pettorine d ‘the ceremony. Miss Clarke Sa planned to give. up: ‘her .car and em tle down to being: Justa nouseWw a » £fter the honeymoon the “couple

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apolis 1937-38 theatrical season. This comedy by Jacques Deval, translated from the French by Robert Sherwood, has been performed in a dozen other languages besides English. It played more than 800. times in Paris, passed the 400 ¢ mark in London, and ran for

I can’t imagine why Mussolini ever allowed her to leave. Surely he doesn’t think we're going to send him Shirley Temple. Anyway Signorina Miranda is here, along with her plump manager and her plump poodle. None

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The irony of the situation is that

of the three understands more than a very little English. The poodle— named ico, although it looks like Harpo—$peaks with the least accent.

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An Amiable Dietrich The actress reminds you of an animate and amiable Marlene Dietrich. She has nice eyes and golden hair and the sort: of lean, mobile face that photographs like a million dollars (or 20 million lira, at =~ the current rate of exchange). . Her figure is slim, perhaps too . slim. Apparently she has been told . that Hollywood people subsist solely on lettuce and fan mail, because - she still is dieting rigorously and 4 speaks wistfully of her skill at COOK- .. ing spaghetti. Her manager bristles at the mere = mention of’ spaghetti, and growls ~ Something which you know is a - warning that she mustn't touch

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: Hard Climb fo Fame - I was the first Hollywood corre- . spondent to interview Miss Miranda, and- a couple of years from now I may be looking back with astonishment on the experience. She was friendly and gracious and very eager to please, and was impatient only with herself because she did not “speak befter the Englees.” Frequently we'd look up words in and English-Italian dictionary to make ourselves understood. If training and background have anything to do with it, the star will not soon go high-hat in Hollywood. She has had a tough time of it. Her father was a streetcar conductor in Milan. She had to go to work at 10, as errand girl for a dressmaker, . The job paid one lira (5c) a day. Later she worked in a~box factory and a handbag factory. At-15 she was a model. Modeling was better. She saved enough to go to night school and

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Miss Miranda . .. sacrifices spaghetti for career.

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1932, as head typist in the office of a publishing company, she ‘saved enough to attend the: Academy of Dramatic Art. Her work there won her an acting contract, but at miserable pay. . Meanwhile she had sent somé ‘of her photographs to film companies. She began to get extra parts at 54 lira a day, and soon won the leading role in a picture called “Darkness.” But it was a very poor little picture, and it sent Miss Miranda back to a stenographic job in a law office. About that time, in 1934, a na-tion-wide search was begun for a perfect type of modern Italian beauty to appear in. ‘Everybody’s Wife.” There were 1000 applicants. Isa Miranda won the part. Star Overnight

“Everybody's - Wife” was :-a fine picture, with fine direction. The actress zoomed to prominence. All Italy talked of her. She went from one success to another, among them

learn typing and bookkeeping. In

being

“Red * Passport,” about an

emigrant girl who went to America. She learned German and made two pictures in Berlin. She learned French, and her last flim, made in Paris, costarred er with. Fernand Gravet. “Two. months’ ago,” she said, “I speak no Englees. In two months after today you come to see me and I will spoke Englees very well.” I believe her, 80 does Paramount, which will see that she studies diligently for a while before giving her any acting. to do. The best thing she says now is “Okey-dokey!” She thought up her name, which is pronounced Ee-sa (not Eye-sa). “Miranda,” she said, is good in Italian, French and Spanish, and she hopes it will ‘be good in English. She knows no ane in Hollywood, but likes the country because it is a little like Italia’ She is looking for a little house with a garden. “Ever in my life,” “she said, “I have love only my home and my work. Never a night clob, never a partee. I am—how you say?— esserious.”

IN NEW YORK —sy storet ross

You'll Hardly: Guess That Hemingway Is Author

Of His Forthcoming Novel.

EW YORK, Sept. 16.—Manhattan miscellany: Ernest Hemingway's first novel in eight years will be on the bookstands hefore another month rolls around . . . bereft of any references to bull-fighting, boites or or the Left Bank of the Seine. It will be called “Have and Hold To.” Before Bill Robinson consented to his four-figure weekly stipend in

a-dozen of his dusky friends on the Billy Rose has run into stormy

the new Cotten. Club show, he insisted that the management place half-

payroll—all waiters.

weather, the authorities in Ft. Worth hauling him into Federal Court there for alleged plagiarism of “Gone With the Wind”—that title being used for one of that Mad Mahout’s Texas exhibits . . . the plaintiffs in the suit are Margaret Mitchell and the -Macmillan Co.

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LTHOUGH John Steinbeck’s ‘novel “Tortilla Flat” has already been announced for presentation on Broatway, the cinema moguls have gone ahead with théir plans to put it on the screen first. It is doubtful: how much of the flavor of the original story will be retained, since ‘the celluloid version will be in. the form of a “musical with a Mexican background.” There will be a total of no A thap eight Spanish night clubs in Manhattan this fall. The rush among the after-dark entrepreneurs to deck: out their clubs in accredited’ Latin style promises to outdo the Russian invasion of two seasons back. One -of the major exhibits at the forthcoming 1939 World's Fair will be a parachute jump for Mr. and “Mrs. John Citizen—the toll being 25 cents for those reckless souls willing: to try it. ”

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s- ” sue Hayakawa, the former Japthis country for future film and

stage work. Gossips would have you believe

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anese screen star, will not return tof

that when Harry Richman returns here from ‘Europe next month he’ll open his own night club on the West Side. Whenever Alex Woollcott gets a penchant for night life he journeys down to the Russian Kretchma, a Cossack watering spot on the lower East Side, to sample the lachrymose Muscovite ballads, borsht and Beluga caviar there. Joy Hodges, Moss Hart's and George S. Kaufman’s néw dramatic “find” from the West Coast, who'll have the feminine lead in their forthcoming “I'd Rather Be Right,” has a clause in her contract that provides if she feels she isn’t suited for the role, the Messrs. Hart and Kaufman will pay her return fare to California. Nomination for New York’s most

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T may not be new, but it is one of Bee Lillie’s better witticisms.

On her recent return to these shores Miss Lillie walked into her

| East Side apartment, so the story

goes, and sniffing thé stuffiness of a domicile that had been closed for two or three months, immediately opened the windows. As she did so three or four pigeons sunning themselves on the windowsill blinked at her in surprise. Miss Lillie looked at .the pigeons and smiled. “Are there,” she cooed, “any messages? oo.”

“Last Dayt: G-Star Castiin © | “THE LIFE ; OF:

200 performances in Stockholm, a city in which a play’s limit formerly had been. two

weeks. “Tovarich’s” story takes place in Paris a few years after the Russian revolution. It concerns the ad-

ventures and misadventures of one Prince Mihail and his charming wife, the Grand Duchess Tatiana. The royal expatriates flee to Paris and live an attic existence where the problems of food, clothing and warmth are unsolvable, even by theft.

the Prince has four billion francs in gold, entrusted to him by the Tsar. Beset by bankers and ‘even

nations, the royal couple prefers to

starve before touching a sou for their personal use. At last a help-wanted ad solves their problems. Under assumed names they are accepted as butler and parlor maid in a wealthy Parisian’s home. From this point the play leaps into the center of a comically dramatic situation. The international favorite, Eugenie Leontovich, fondly | remembered for her “Grand Hotel” performances,

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A Kaleidoscope of Talent Including:

GEORGE BEATTY

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Opening Tomorrow

Apollo

“100 MEN AND A GIRL”—Deanna Durbin, Leopold Stokoweki, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene ‘Pallette, Mischa Auer. Directed by Henry Foster. Story—Daughter of impoverished trombonist persuades rich woman to sponsor orchestra. Trombonist assembles unemployed musicians. Rich woman goes abroad, forgetting promise. Trombonist’s daughter persuades rich woman’s husband to sponsor orchestra, but he makes condition famous conductor must lead it. She sings for conductor and wins his co-operation. Concert is success.

Circle “DOUBLE OR NOTHING”—Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle, William Frawley. Directed by Theodore Reed; based on story by M. Coates Webster. Story—Eccentric millionaire away at random 25 purses

es will calling for throwing with a $100 bill and an address in it to test public’s honesty? Four finders return purses. Each gets $5000 with the proViso thaf if any of them can double the sum within 30 days he will get $100,000. If not, money goes to millionaire’s brother. Brother, wife afid friend manage to prevent three from doubling money. Daughter dupes fourth but is ashamed.and disappears. But fourth manages to outwit dupers. His night club is success, and he wins million) and girl.

Keith's VAUDEVILLE on a

Muriel Kretlow Girls, ballet; Lynn Jordan, singer; Dushane Sisters,

‘ dancers. “STREET SCENCE” (on screen) —Estelle Taylor, Sylvia, Sidney.

Loew’s “BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938”—Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen. Directed by Roy Del Ruth; dance direction by Dave Gould; songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed. Story—Girl gets race horse trained by her father when young playwright buys it for her out of sentiment. Girl dances in night club to pay for horse feed, but animal wins race and repays gyeryone with interest. Lyric

“ALL OVER TOWN” (on screen)—Olsen and Johnson, Mary Howard, Harry Sfeckwell, Franklin Pangborn, Fred Kelsey. Story—Broke vaudeville team mistaken by landlady for oil millionaires, produces muscial comedy on strength of mistake. At dress rehearsal creditors demand instant payment. A murder is committed: Team solves murder and makes success of show.

VAUDEVILLE (on stage)—“Broadway Brevities”. with George -

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