Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1937 — Page 40
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Usherets and Models
Are Latest
Hollywood Glorification
'This Way Please,’ Coming to Circle, Features Backstage Drama, While 'Voques of 1938,’ Star Stylists’ Aids.
Due at Loew's, Will
Hollywood. taking up where the
rified the American girl in all walks of life. Times without number it has traced the struggles and rise to fame of chorus girls, feminine reporters, simple country lasses, stenographers | and what you will. But, with the new screen bills coming to Indianapo- |
lis Friday, we shall find “glorifica- ¢ tion” in two new fields—the professions of dress modeling and theater ushering. The Circle has booked “This Way Please.” That, as the title suggests, is the picture about the usherets. At Loew’s, the main attraction will be “Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938,” in which “the most photographed girls in the world” are caught In motion instead of “still” poses. Warner Baxter and Joan Ben. nett are the “Vogues” stars. But nearly as familiar as these stars’ faces are those of the voung ladies who model the gowns in this technicolor extravaganza.
Names Aren't Familiar
Their names would not be familiar to vou, but thev are continually gazing at us from streetcar advertising cards. billboards and the glossy pages of fashion maga- |
| ravorite cigaret,
| sportswear or demonstrating some | new sort of gadget. But few will fail
By DAVID BUTLER
Why I can remember way back | ‘to the days when all you needed | | to make a comedy was three pies | ‘and a fat guy who didn’t mina! falling in the water. You simply | | threw pies at the fat guy until he | | ran away and fell in the water, then | you called the result “Naughty | Nellie’s Night Out” or something, | and there you were with a comedy | to sell. Those emphatically were the days, | if you hsppened to be a movie di- | i : s - | rector. You ambled around in putlate Mr. Ziegfeld left off, has glo jo oo Ch a ur {a megaphone from a comfortable | camp chair. But now! Well, I tell you I dropped way down to 230 | pounds during the filming—which took three months if you please—of zines. They may be smoking your | gddie Cantor's “Ali Baba Goes to subscribing to a | Town.” That'll give you some idea of what it is to be a director in| this day and age. These days, you see, comedies to see a familiar face among them. | have gone spectacular and musicals “This Way Please” sets out to | have gone spectacular and so natprove that just as exciting things |urally musical comedies have gone | can happen backstage in a big | spectacularly spectacular. It's a big | moviehouse as in a BlUAIVY Yes} world after ali. ater. Betty Grable is the girl who | | puts aside her flashlight and natty | Cites 1929 Picture uniform to glitter as the star of the | The difference between comedy, | stage-band revue at her former old-style and comedy new-style, |
to Receive |
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new delicacy, modeling the latest |
| place of employment. Mary Living- | may perhaps be best illustrated by |
stone, of radio fame, also is in the | comparison. Take, for instances | cast. | “Sunny Side Up,” which this guy | Memories of the past winter will | Butler directed in be brought back to Circle patrons take “Ali
Such a Night.” which dramatizes he hangs on?—also directed. the terror of a Mississippi River | The first was a neat enough little! flood. Karen Morley, Eduardo Cian- | picture, got its laughs, had its songs | ellii, Grant Richards and Alan Mowbray head the cast.
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make 1t draw.” » ” NTAGE STRUCK: Paul Misch is a tailor in the theatrical belt. He puts creases into the trousers | of actors along the plav-belt and | lately he has done excellent busi- | ness with the players in the hit, Room Service.” But this tailor couldn't refrain and stick to his stitching. His contact with the footlights has driven him to write a plav. It now is going the rounds and actors wait in vain for their pents to be pressed on time as promised. » » » - ROADWAY Hurlv-Rurlv: Mary Brian and Billy Milton, Elissa Landi and Nino Martini, Luis? | Rainer and Carmen Barmes at the Rainbow Room, and B2atrice Lillie, Lesiie Banks, Jean Muir, Norman | Bel Geddes and Peter Arno at “217; | Burgess Meredith, Bert Lytell, | Georges Mextaxa, Jack Dempsey at the Kit-Kat Club; Ethel Merman, Erskine Gwynne, Lillian Emerson, Kitty Carlisle, Hope Hampton, Jules Brulatour, Ramon and Renita and | Mrs. Sailing Baruch at La Conga, | a new corner of Havana in mid- | town. Amold Reuben, the restaurateur, sends his renowned cheese cakes to Paris via the Normandie every time she sails. Seems there are a number of Broadwav ex-patriates in Paree who crave it.
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NE of the reasons Helen Haves rates well with the Fourth Estate is the gesture she has made
a cross-country tour in “Victoria Regina,” the possibly “First Lady” of the American Stage heard that Fourth Estaters were having difficulties purchasing seats, So she long-distanced her producer, Gilbert Miller, and asked permission te give a special matinee tor the newspaperfolk of New England at a Boston playhouse. Miller wired back O. K. And thereupon ' Miss Hayes invited the newshawks of various states within the vicinity
during a performance of “Victoria Regina.” 2 o PEAKING of actors, many of them depend this season upon
Shubert will offer. Shuberts, masters of the theatrical situation in New York for at least three decades, still own most of the playhouses along the Rialto and they will have much to do with filling
meal-ticket for 30 years and once the Actors’ Prayer ran: Now I lay me off again I pray the Lord my soul sustain If we should close before I wake Give my regards to Lee and Jake.
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| and did a fairly nice business. As a | oasis cities were built, so that all
matter of fact for 1929, it was a pretty big show: it had a tenement rooftop scene, a water-carnival (re- | member “Turn on the Heai?”) and | a lawn party. { It took a month and a half to shoot and its estimated running time was a bit over two hours. In other words, it was no quickie. But, on the other hand, it was all shot right on the Jot, the largest number of people working at any one time didn’t exceed 200, and costumes and
no research to prepare. Now take the Cantor picture. Eddie was going over scripts for about five months before he picked out “Ali Baba.” As soon as he picked it, a research staff got to work studying architecture, costumes and customs of old Bagdad — and this, mind you, for a musical comedy. When that fellow Butler got the assignment to direct, he discovered that his budget was three times that of “Sunny Side Up,” he was to have | three months to shoot in.
300 Work on Sets
For more than a month 300 car- | penters and assistants had worked constantly—three eight-hour shifts
a day—to build a Bagdad that spread over 21 acres of the West- | wood Hills lot. There was also a | Bagdad Bowl covering a city plock |
1929, and then |in another part of the lot and two | through a needle’s eye even if 1t Baba Goes to Town’ large sound stages were devoted to | were big enough. in the theater's second picture, “On | which this guy Butler—wonder how | such interiors as the sultan’s throne | The most intelligent of animals is | room and the harem. That was all | the elephant. | telling me, I'm not saying a word. | crooner is moving his radio program
on the studio property.
in all, 1100 workmen were employed
simply in constructing backgrounds, or more than the entire company— workmen, actors and camera crews —turned loose on “Sunny Side Up.” “Time,” as that man with the voice says, “Marches ON!” I mention all this, not to disparage the GaynorFarrell picture—far from it—but merely to show how a director's job has grown. Then when the time for actual shooting arrived, finding Butler, as usual, wondering where to start, there were 3000 extras of assorted shapes and sizes milling about, to say nothing of yelling “When do we eat?” (Extras are nice people; I'd be the last to deny it, but every one of them is always hungrier on the set than a Smith College girl after a football game. And that’s
hungry). Besides the human extras there was a bunch of our dumb | friends; an elephant, some donkeys, | some camels and perhaps a thou- | sand horses,
Regarding Dumb Friends Right here and now, I'd like lo | put in a word about our dumb | friends—particularly camels—in pic-
tures. They break a director's heart. The number of funny things I've thought up for the camels to do that they won't do would surprise you. Why those beasts wouldn't go And elephants!
Go ahead, youre
Butler Reveals Trials of “Ali Baba”
| to squirt water at somebody when
he doesn’t feel like it. So there you are, you start out with a comedy and before you know it you're yelling for DeMille to come on over and take charge of the mob scenes. Meanwhile Cantor is throwing oranges at people, Roland Young is appearing with a different kind of beard for every. sequence, Tony Martin is thinking of Alice Faye, Louise Hovick is thinking of Robert Mizzy, the extras are thinking of lunch, and a cameraman is telling you that it would be better to have the Arab horsemen ride onto the scene from the left instead of the right. Right in the middle of all this peace and quiet, one of the donkeys wanders loose and commences Kicking the stuffing out of a camel, a bus load of tourists arrives from wherever tourists come from, and life is one sweet song. But movies are wonderful after all, and perhaps what appeals most to any director is the thought tha: the chaos surrounding him just
waits his word to become orderly. |
That's heady stuff, better than pie and a fat man falling in the water.
GONZAGA TO GIVE DEGREE TO BING
HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 13 (U, P.).— Bing Crosby will recelve a degree from his alma mater, Gonzaga, at Spokane, Wash, on Oct. 21. The
Out in the Mojave Desert two | But Just you try to get an elephant | to Spokane for the night.
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When Luli Deste arrived in
ming.”
and weighs 110 pounds, which is,
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headlines all right.”
NO 'SLIMMING' FOR LULI
announced to the film reporters who made her acquaintance on the Columbia lot that she was not going to “slim.” “1 cannot slim,” she said. “Once I tried to slim a little and I made a diet for myself and I got sick, so I am through with slim-
No one has been able to figure out why Miss Deste introduced the subject of “slimming,” because she is five feet four inches tall
Miss Deste is really die Baronin Luli Bodenhausen, and when she was 17 she was married in Vienna to the Baron Gottfried Hohenberg, who was killed recently in an airplane crash in England. Her first American picture is “She Married An Artist,” which
The directors at Columbia lot are confident that they have an important star in Miss Deste, and she thinks herself that she is going to amount to something here. “I will not be neglected and forgotten,” she said when she first arrived. “First I would shoot somebody. Then I would be in the
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Claims He Spent $683 for Cards
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13 (U.P)— An insight into the scale on which money is spent in Hollywood was given today when Director Harry Joe Brown claimed that he spent $683 in one year for Christmas cards. Mr. Brown said the mailing splurge occurred in 1933, and he asked that this sum be deducted from his Federal income tax. In all, Mr, Brown petitioned for a $3084 deduction, which also included $300 for telephone and telegraph messages and some bad debts. Reginald Denny and Sidney | Blackmer, film actors, also were in-
volved in income tax troubles. The Government filed liens claiming that Mr, Denny owes $140 for 1934 and Mr. Blackmer, $321 for 1935.
Sally Gets Lead In RKO Picture
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