Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1937 — Page 26
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Bluff Best Movie Bet, NLRB Told
Scenarist Gives Candid : View of Hollywood
In Testimony.
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— National Labor Relations Board about Hollywood, as few have oday from Grover Jones, N
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known it, the scenarist, to-wit: Nobody knows anything of what talking about, but he who puts the best bluff gets $3500 a week; They'll pay $2000 a week, and for a good smoother-outer
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No C f himself, so a good gag man can a picture almost every time. nes, who helped write the sceio of “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” 1s a Witness for Screen Play- | i Inc. He testified against Screen Writers’ Guild recognition as sole agent for movie writers. | alled to deny the Guild's that scenarists are members of the working class.” Jones, a and baldish traced his career from coal | to $1 a day Indian In the Hollywood Westerns, and then ) writing. {
Job Just a Gamble
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“I sort of found out,” he explained, “that none of them knew anvthing of what they were talking about. That is true to this day. I get $3500 a week because they think I know what I am talkabout, but most of the time I It is all a terrific gamble.” He became a gag man, defined as: ‘A fellow who sits on a set, dis~d bv evervbody, who tells the tor it would be funny if Gary r caught his coat tail in somegoing out the door.” rraduated to ‘dramatic pichas been writing them rs or so, but: m pretty nearly dying to do a in which they wallow in and get their feet caught g cuspidors, but I can't afford It’s my art and I'm going to stick to it.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayver once paid | him $2000 “not to write.” My job was to sit in conferences ith what are known as ‘jaded iters’—those fellows whose temrament couldn't concentrate on work. The easiest insulted people in the world . are writers, was supposed to a diplomat d I tried to be #elf=effacing and d them along.” %" °
Indianapolis “Indfa Locale”
He and William Slavens McNutt rote the script for “Lives of a Bengal Lancer” as follows: “1 didn’t know what it was all bout. The closest I had been to India was Indianapolis. Finally Bill id, ‘It's just a Western laid in| dia,” and then I was all set beuse I knew Westerns, even to itle ‘Let's take a short cut, vs, and head 'em off at Eagle Pa So we wrote the script but looked too easy and they didn't | nt to use it. It was three, maybe four, years later before they did. For the boar hunt in the piec- | ture they sent to Arkansas to see they had any boars and they ent back a carload of razorbacks something. And for a couple of | those hogs multiplied, just | iting for the picture to start. And when they finally started, said, ‘Now, we got to get some
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The Trvington School of Music has announced that a new class in violin playing has been started, with Miss Dorothy Woods as instructor. The classes are to meet ch Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. s Woods is assistant conductor the Butler University Choir. She from the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, where she studied violin with Thomas Poggiani and Hugh McGibeny; piano with Marie Zorm and Bomar Cra-' mer, and conducting with Max Krone and Donald Gilley,
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The Irvington school’s “Vox Humana” organ study club is to meet | next Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. | There will be organ music by Miss | Barbara Shaffer, Mrs. Carl Spiess and Miss Julia Rodenbeck. meeting plans are to be formulated for organizing a team to enter the Indiana State Symphony Society's | radio “spelling bee.”
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Ates Speaks Up In Dodging Jail
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21 (U, P.)— Roscoe Ates, after proving to a there are times when he doesn’t stutter, was off today for a vaudeville tour that he hopes will return enough money so he ‘can pay his former wife, Clara, $1447 back alimony. Judge Goodwin J. Knight was sentencing the stuttering comedian to a day in jail for court when Ates broke “Just a minute, Judge.” Ates explained he was leaving for two weeks of vaudeville at $840 a week in Winnepeg, Can. with a week in Youngstown, O. he promised. The judge postponed action until
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First Prize—Roundtrip plane trip to Hollywood via American Airlines, with tour of studios.
Second—$100 in cash. Third—$30 in cash.
Fourth— Vacation trip to Chicago via air.
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Next 75—Pair of theater tickets each.
WPA Group To Present
2d Concert
Negro Quintet to Appear Tonight With Orchestra.
The Indianapolis WPA Concert Orchestra, Paul Fidlar conducting, is to be heard in its second concert of the month at 8:15 o’clock tonight in Odeon Hall, 106 E. North St. As in the previous concerts, “classics” and works of modern composers will be featured. The Negro male quintet which appeared last week is to sing again this evening. There is no admission charge. Another performance is set for a week from tonight at the same time and place, Tonight's program follows: Adagietto .... Symphonv in E Flat .... Adagio-Allegro Andante con moto Minuet Indianapolis Concert Orchestra “Good News’ “Hand Me Down” “Nobodv Knows the Trouble I've Seen” Negro Male Quintet “Old China Suite” Walter Niemann “Little Li-li-tse'’ “The Chinese Nizhtineale” e
The Garden “On the Trail” from “Grand Canvon
uite Stephen Foster Suite Indianapolis Concert
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Grofe Werner Orchestra
‘Hopes Split;
One at Lyric
Bob Couldn't Come, but
George Is Here.
There's still Hope for the Lyric stage show this week. Even though Bob Hope, the scheduled headliner, is unable to be present in person, the act he owns, called “Follies of 1937,” will be on the Lyric stage, and George Hope will be among those present to help entertain Mr. Olson's customers. Mr. Hope—Bob, that is—is prevented from lending his presence to the local stage during the coming week because of previous and pressing radio commitments. In his place
| will be Lew Parker, who is known | to vaudeville patrons as a veteran
comedian in his own right. The revue is said to be one of those Olsen and Johnson affairs, with “stooges” wandering about through the audience practically unmolested. The Lyric screen attraction features Errol Flynn in “The Perfect Specimen.” The cast contains a bevy of actors of proven popularity. They include Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton, Hugh Roberts, May Robson, Allen Jenkins, Beverley Roberts, Dick Foran and Hugh O'Connell. If Mr. Flynn is like the usual movie actor, he has reveled in this new picture after a lengthy list of swashbuckling costume pictures. Although he did appear in a comedy or two in his earlier days, Mr. Flynn has leaned heavily to the romantic, adventurous type since “Captain Blood” made him a star His present picture tells of a young heir to a large fortune whose grandmother puts him through a rigid course of sprouts. It is her ambition to make him “the perfect specimen,” physically, mentally and morally. All goes well until he meets a rather disrespectful young lady who takes ‘him out to see the world
| The youthful paragon of all the
virtues, of course, has the time of his life.
Ernestine and Joe Carlile and Capable Assistants
Carlile Dance Studios
“Indianapolis’ most popular school of the dance.’
Acrobatic, and Ballroom
P. .. Te. Children, Adults, Beginners,
Tap, Dancing, Advanced.
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1. Myrma Loy is an efficient, successful businesswoman. She dominates the lives of her screenstruck sister (Florence Rice) and fiance (John Beal). She doesn't like William Powell.
5. The portrait is finished, but the artist is in jail for sketching the subject's manager. Meanwhile he tries to patch up the tottering romance between Miss Rice and Mr. Beal.
2. William Powell is a carefree, Bohemian artist with aspirations to be a movie director. He lives in an auto trailer on a parking lot. He likes Mr. Beal, but can’t stand Miss Loy.
6. The painting's real finishing touch comes when Miss Loy drapes the work over Mr. Powell's head. This because he has been seeing her younger sister, against the terms of their bargain.
3. Mr. Powell demonstrates a screen Kiss for Miss Rice and Mr. Beal. He has been coaching the pair in movie technique in a bar room. Miss Loy discovers it and calls a halt.
7. Mr. Powell vows he will wed Miss Rice in the hope of making Mr, Beal aggressively jealous. Miss Loy calls on him in the trailer, loses her dignity, and socks Edgar Kennedy.
4. When the successful business= woman gets the notion her sister is in love with the vagabond artist, she is frantic. Mr. Powell agrees to give her up if Miss Loy will pose for him.
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8. The heroine's punch starts a free-for-all. Mr. Beal punches Mr. Powell and kidnaps his fiancee. A major riot ensues. During the melee, Mr. Powell and Miss Loy discover they're in love.
Arliss May Play Rockefeller Role
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— George Arliss is due back in America early next month and it was reported in Hollywood today that he may be asked to play the
oil man’s life. Rufus Lemaire, producer who has Arliss under contract, was reported to have gone East to confer with the Rockefeller family.
ANN HARDING AND JANSSEN 'HOME'
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— Ann Harding, ash-blond film star, was back in Hollywood with her
happy to talk about anything else, including hats. “But from the looks of things, they'll be high as the Empire State Building,” the film colony hat connoisseur said. They motored through New England, and Janssen visited his alma mater, Dartmouth.
Olympe Bradna, being groomed | for stardom as a result of her work
role of John D. Rockefeller in a new husband, Werner Janssen, to-|in “Souls at Sea,” went to dancing ‘school in Paris with Simone Simon. |
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Battling Bill measures Barnett Parker for a playful poke!
Ain't love wonderful! Kisses and clinches, choking and cheek-to-cheeking! Some choke, eh, kid?
Wateh the birdie, Myrna! It's a cuckoo!
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