Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1937 — Page 13

TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1937

War Film Credited to Late Tailor

Newsreel M en Didn't Wait, and Shell ‘Missed Them.

. . By JAMES THRASHER Life being the notoriously capricious thing that it is, Howard Winner and George Krainukov—and the current Times-Universal newsreel— are with us today because a Shanghai tailor failed to keep

an appointment.

This odd fact is made known through a recent letter from Mr. Winner, The Times-Universal cameraman in Shanghai, to Charles Ford, the newsreel’s managing director in New York. On the day that the Sincere and Wing-On department stores were bombed, Mr. Winner and his associate, Mr. Krainukov, went to the U. S. Marine barracks to have some riding breeches fitted. They found the tailor out to lunch, so they returned to the Hotel Metropole for some luncheon themselves. Says Mr. Winner: “We had just entered (the hotel) when the terrific explosion occurred, so we retraced our steps in order to get our pictures. But had the tailor been there when we called at the barracks, it would have taken him about five minutes to measure us for the trousers. The chances are we might have been on the spot about the same time as the bombs. Yes, sir, just a little too close for comfort.” Other Shots of War

This bombing, however, is not the only Sino-Japanese war feature which the two picture shooters sent back to the home office. The entire newsreel is an uncensored record of the present conflict's grim brutality. Two other American picture representatives were there: “Newsreel” Wong and Harrison Forman of “The March of Time.” Another cameraman came into Shanghai with Mr. Winner aboard the President McKinley. But when an aerial bombardment with answering gunfire greeted the liner’s arrival, Mr. Winner's coworker remained aboard and sailed with American refugees for Hong Kong. ‘Two other picture representatives were stranded elséwhere, ° From his hotel window Mr. Winner was able to see and record much of the river-front fighting. No alarm clock was necessary, he said, because the Chinese bombers wakened him each morning at 4 in their ‘attempts to disable the Japanese flagship Idzuma. “The other morning,” Mr. Winner writes, “I set up the camera on the hotel roof hoping the planes might come within range and drop a few bombs for the benefit of my pictures, but they were not very obliging.” However, they did donate a chunk of antiaircraft shell; a fair sized piece hit the roof about two feet from me.” Passes Hard to Obtain

Both cameramen experienced great difficulty in obtaining passes, but finally obtained permission to enter the Japanese lines. They also obtained shots of the Japanese consulate bombardment. To catch the return fire from Japanese warships, Mr. Winner crawled through barbed wire barricades to the shoreline where, he writes, the shrapnel -was falling all about him. All these narrow escapes the photographer sets down in a matter-of-fact, if not apologetic, manner. : “It is practically impossible to get .good pictures,” he confessed, “due primarily to the fact that both sides are so prejudiced against cameras. Nevertheless, I can guarantee that we will obtain some real action war pictures before this thing is over. I am sure the few thousand feet of stuff that we already sent is useable, and represents some tough times in shooting. Ethiopian War a ‘Picnic’

© “The Italo-Ethiopian war was a picnic compared to this.” Meanwhile, the diffident Messrs. Winner and Krainukov are being credited with some of the quickest, most vivid, compelling and relentless war photography in the screen's

tory. The 810 feet of newsreel already has been received by the Universal .Exchange in Indianapolis. The film is to be shown at the .Fountain Square beginning Sunday, end in other neighborhood theaters shortly afterward.

Buddy Rogers and Mary. Pickford (above) are to lend their collectively famous presence to the Civic Theater’s annual membership

drive when they fly here Friday the ticket sales going. The Civic

from Kansas City, Mo., to start also expects the personal encour=

agement of Eugenie Leontavich, shown at the right in: her maid's cos-

tume for ‘“Tovarich,” which opens Thursday night.

the theatrical season at English’s

McKay Morris, who appears opposite Miss Leonto-

vich in “Tovarich,” also is expected to attend the Civic reception Friday afternoon, according to Vincent Burke, English’s manager.

IN NEW YORK —8y croree thon

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Gotham's Chorus Girls Discover Corsages

Wrinkle and Keep 'Em Fresh on Ice.

EW YORK, Sept. 21.—A Manhattan miscellany: .

Add fo goofy

glimpses of Broadway—Those chorus girls around the Forties who

check their corsages every night in midtown drugstore—returning after posses, still fresh after six hours on

the empty ice-cream container of a their night's work to Pick up the ice.

Literary sources here convey the information that Errol Flynn is at work on another book—this one a novel dealing with the current catastrophe in Spain. One of the networks is banking heavily on Northwestern University turning out a crack football squad this fall—having already signed to broadcast no fewer.than six of the Wildcats’ gridiron brawls.

” 2 2 F there are doubts about playwriting being a lucrative business, turn to the case of Gerald Savory, author of “George -and Margaret” that is due on the Broad-

way boards. When interviewed it Toronto, where he was staying temporarily, Mr. Savory confided that he wrote “George and Margaret” in six weeks while he was unemployed and bored and without the benefits of the British dole. And that since its successful opening in London, he has earned royalties upward of $100,000, nov to speak of what he got frcm movie rights.

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ISCOVERED: An infurmation booth, in downtown Manhattan, for gypsies. Not a palatial place, but a nondescript, vacant store where vagabonds tuke refuge while in town. To their wandering colleagues, those gypsies. who happen to be occupying it at present, render the latest information about negotiable highways, camping facilities, climatic conditions and temporary employment opportuni. ties all over the United States. One thing is lacking, though: No special road maps are issued to tziganes. ” ” r

HELLE JANIS, a comely and statuesque lady, is one of the members of the Ziegfeld Girls’ Club, having earned her credentials as a chorine in “Kid Boots.” Miss Janis has come a long way since she romped in the chorus, but by strange rotation of fate, she now happens to be back at .the Ziegfeld Theater where she started. She is there now as manager

SINATTETEA 1 4 CHESTER MORRIS WHITNEY BOURNE

Friday! DICK POWELL FRED WARING

for the motion picture. chain ‘which controls the playhouse, and the office she occupies once was Llsed by

the photographs she discovered on the walls was the. inscription, “Thanks, Flo,” which she had penried to the great producer during her “Kid Boots” days.

” o 2 ROM the Gagsters: The reason many Broadwayites don’t hear opportunity knocking, = volunteers Alice Forst, is because they are busy at it themselves. . . . Many a celebrity who is intoxicated by love, testifies Morton Bowe, wakes up to find that marriage is a hangover. . .. Broadway love stories, Phil Baker would have you know, are often written in check-books. . . . Johnny Green’s brief description of a press agent: He's there for the build-up but never around for the let-down. .. Many stars, Al Jolson, has’ declared, have learned that social tact is making interviewers feel at home —though the stars wish they were. ” 2 8

AR then there’s a tale relayed from an overseas scout. It seems that during Queen Eliza-

“College Jack Geo. Gracie Holiday” BENNY BURNS. ALLEN

| ‘Another Kay E Plus! “4pothes FRANCIS FLERN

the Great Glorifier himself. Among

beth’s recent jaunt to Scotland she was presented with a large basket of grapés by one of the older in)abitants there. The fruit mads: such a hit with Her Highness. that she wrote ra note to the native, hanking him for his theughtfuless. The .gratified owner: showed he letter to all of his friends, who omplimented him upon his good ortune. | “I know,” :replied the shrewd Scot, “it’s wurra nice—but she dinna .say anything about returning the basket!” !

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WRITER ASSIGNMENTS

Paramount has signed Henry Myers, writer, to work on the screenplay, “Dream of Love,” in whith George Raft and Shirley Ross" will be featured, under the direction of Andrew L. Stone.

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Civic List

Soto Revivals’ Are on Repertory Opening Och 30.

The Chicago City Opera Co.,. beginning the second year since its reorganization, offers an augmented corps of artists and a list of 30 operas containing both the standard repertory works and seven “revivals.” A nonsubscription performance on Saturday night, Oct. 30, in the Chicago Civic Opera House, is to open the 1937 activities, and the regular seven-week subscription season’ will follow and extend through Dec. 18. “Among the 79 listed artists are such ‘famous singers as ' Kirsten Flagstad, who will be making her first operatic appearance in Chicago; Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Leh-

mann, Lily ‘Pons,’ Giovanni Marti- |

nelli, "Tito Schipa, Helen Jepson, Gertrud Wettergren, Joseph Bentonelli, Charles Kullmann, Ezio Pinza, John .Charles Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List and Betty Jaynes, Of. especial “interest will be the

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

«100 Men and a girl,” with. Deanna Durpm and Yeonoid Stokowski, 25 1:40 40, 1:43, 3:46. 5:49, 7:52 and

CIRCLE

‘ “Double or Nothing,” with Bing Croshy and Martha Raye, at 12:38, - 3:48. 6:58. and 10:18.

_ “Flight trom Glory,” with Ches- . ter Morris ‘and. Whitney Bourne, at ; 11:31, 2:41, 5:51 and 9:01.

KEITH'S Vaudeville, ith Ee Estelle Taylor, at

1:40, 4:20, 7

“Legion - of a. Men,” with Ralp h Forbes, at ‘12, 2:50, ‘5:30, 8:10

LOEW'S

“Broadway Melody of 1938,” with Eleanor -Pawell and Robert Taylor. at 11:25, 2:05, 4:25, 7:20 and 1

LYRIC J “Broader Brevities” on stage at . 3:50. 6:40 and 9:30. “All. Over Town.” with Olsen and Jonnson, at 11:34 2:24, 5:14, 8:04 and OHIO

“College Holiday,’ with Burns and Alen, Also ‘“‘Another . Dawn,” with Kay Francis.

AMBASSADOR

“Topper,” with ponstance, Bennett. Also’ “You Can’t Beat Love

| “Hansel and Gretel”;

As one actress to another, Shirley Temple (left) was only: too glad

to accommodate Mary MacArthur,

7, with a signed photo when Mary

visited the studio on a recent Hollywood trip. Daughter of. Actress Helen Hayes, Mary made her stage debut last February with a “walk on” part in “Victoria Regina.” But seven years ago. Mary won even wider fame as the “act of God” baby, when her birth .caused Miss - Hayes to leave her show and precipitated a court yang a

return of Feodor : Chalibpin after several years’ absence. And it is particularly good news that he will be heard in “Boris Godounov.”

Newcomers to Sing Newcomers on the Chicago roster include Erna Sack, the young German coloratura with the phenomenal range. Miss Sack is being

‘| brought to this country as a mem-

ber of the permanent concert com-

‘pany engaged. for Erno Rapee’s

Sunday night radio concerts this

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Other new faces will be those of Gina Cigna, the Italian dramatic soprano who scored an. immediate success upon ‘her Metropolitan debut last year, and who will sing “Norma” in Chicago among other things; Elen Dosia, young Greek soprano from the Paris opera, and Andre Burdino, French tenor. The rivivals, besides the “Boris” and “Norma” already mentioned, will be Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda”; “L’Amore dei Tre Re” by Montemizzi; Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet,” and Offenbach’s “Tales of Hofmann.”

Premiere Danseuse Is Hoosier

The Chicagoans’ standard repertory contains, in addition to the taken-for-granted favorites, Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier”; Puccini's

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Last Days! |

GEORGE "BEATTY Frederic Sylvester : Dorothy Byton Girls

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wIurando ?s - Halevy’s * “La: Juive,” and Wagner's “Tristan and Isolde.” Ruth Page, internationally: known dancer. and Indianapolis native, again is to be. the premiere dane seuse and ballet director. Paul Lon gone will. return as general mane ager. The regular’ cilnduciols will‘ be Leo Blech, Louis: Hasselmans, Roberto Moranzoni, ' Jacques Samose soud, Henry ‘Weber; ‘Leo Kopp; Ane gelo Canarutto and: Dino: Bigalli. In addition; Andre Kostelanetz, popular radio maestro, will return to

the opera house pit in.a guest ap-

pearance. If long-standing rumor is to be credited, he will conduct the “Boris . Godounov”’ . performance.

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