Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1937 — Page 16

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~ Showman ls

Un fraid of ‘WorstWeek'

‘We'll ake Mo Money' During Run at Lyric, Is is Promise.

to be a famous thethat went something

and the week in Indianapolis. | ° That was in the days before Indianapolis became .one of vaudeville’s last outposts. But the first half of the aphorism remains true. Business really is dull then, and show people have come to dread the week. All but Nils Thor Granlund, who is known throughout the land as N.T. G. Mr. Granlund is going to bring his revue to the Lyric on Dec. 17. A great mi units: won’t be playing at tkat week. However, neither Mr, ‘Granlund nor the Lyric management seems very perturbed. He’s Had Practice In a letter to the “Lyric’s Ted Nicholas, N. T. G. announced that the pre-Christmas week was just the same as-any other to him, and added, “We’ll make money for you.” He probably will, too. At least, he got in practice last season by “threatening the Lyric house record . during Lent, another low point in the showman’s year. Featured with the present N.T. G. unit is Lina Basquette, whom you'll see again at the Apollo Friday in a return engagement of “Ebb Tide.” She's a in “Buccaneer,” due in town soon. Featured in “Follies”

Miss Basquette is another Granlund discovery. When she was 15, N. T. G. took her to Florenz Ziegfeld. The next year, which was 1925, she was featured as a ballet ! dancer in “The Follies.” She remained a Younes danseuse in the Ziegfeld c for three years, also appearing in “Louis XIV.” After marrying the late Jack *Narner, Miss Basquette retired from the screen. Now she is once more in demand by picture makers, but she is” trouping with her original mentor, nevertheless. After 13 years, it seems a gracious gestiire of gratitude and theatrical loyalty. Meanwhile the Lyric will be doing business as usual this coming Friday with a new stage bill entitled “Play Girls,” and a movie, “Expensive Husbands,” which features Patric Knowles and Beverly Roberts.

CARTOON FEATURE IS SLOW WORK, BUT "SNOW WHITE

IS NEARLY DONE

: ' By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8.—Night and day, day and night, color cameras at the Disney Studio are grinding away at “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Perhaps “grinding” isn’t. quite the word. These cameras merely click, and slowly. A photographer adjusts a painted background under the lights and the. lens. From a great stack of celluloid sheets he takes those on which are painted all the players in a scene and places them over the background. Then he pushes a button and the camera clicks once, recording a split instant of suspended animation. To make the picture move there must be 24 of these carefully arranged shots for every second “hat “Sriow White” runs on the screen. That will mean, for this first fulllength animated feature, about

150,0C0. frames of film and at least

Lh] | ; r IN NEW YORK —sy ceoree ross Noel Coward: Seeks Cuban Night Spots After

Work; Gertrude Lawrence Likes to Feed Ducks.

; wt? EW YORK, Dec. 8.—After Working Hours: Noel Coward kets away from it all by visiting one or more of Manhattan's current Cuban

night §

ots, playing the maracas there for hours on end.

Marlen time is to 'see how many musical tempos | a musical crew can serve while improvising on her own “Johnny” ‘and “Falling in Love Again.” 2 Gertrude Lawrence, believe it or not, gets a kick out of feeding the ducks that waddle around the Cen= tral Park lake. Milton Berle is easy to please—merely let him talk about himself. Alfred Lunt has a penchant for vaudeville shows—legend has it that he hasn’t missed a Monday matinee at Loew’s State, only citadel of the former two-a-day, in years—when in New York, of course. Sam Harris, who used to be a boxing impresario himself, relaxes at Madison Square Garden's 3 Sriday evening leather-pushing sessi Burgess Meredith claims he really likes to play chess.

Richard Himber spends spare time, Is In

rereading his press notices. Theodore Dreiser has the yen only for Muenchen lager. : George ‘M. Cohan doesn’t know . what | to do with his afternoons when the baseball season shuts down. Elissa Landi hunches herself over a. typewriter and writes’ novels. Stepin Fetchit sleeps. Bikes and Baskéthall

Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman ease that weary feeling pedal-

ing their own bikes along country

highways and byways. George Abbott brushes 1p on his rhumba. _Paul Draper gets that rhythmic flow to his dancing by taking time off to don ice skates for an hour or two's whirl around the Iceland rink. Don Budge isn’t ‘happy off the tennis courts unless he’s seated at the feet of the noisiest swingband in town. : George White always spent his spare moments in the box-office of his own theater. _ Robinson confessed—but once, that he remembered: he had his fill

of ice cream. - And make it vanilla,

Larry Hart wears himself out by visiting no fewer than a dozen

HENRY YBIA-EIN and His Orchestra

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~Dietrich’s idea of a good

screaming night| clubs in a -single evening. Leslie Howard's idea of fun is to invite a few folk over for an evening of sherry and casual conversation. James - Barton "has 'a hankering for that goofiest of sports—the sixday bike race. : . Major Bowes pens: verse. Abé Lyman is a devotee of college basketball. You wouldn’t think it but Sophie Tucker has a whale of a time dancing ’til dawn.

Symphonies and Pin Ball

Cole Porter plays a bang-up game of bridge. Rudolph Friml likes to rave about his children. Miriam Hopkins - doesn’t miss a single symphony concert when she town: : Phil Baker likes to slip out of a night club and spend hours talking to the customers in East Side cafes. Fred Allen’s love for the theater, and not comedies either, is unsut-

passed by any other craving.

Jascha . Heifetz likes to have a glass or two of vodka at a downtown Russian retreat. : Eimer Rice writes letters to newspapers. ;

INCOME SLIPPING, « ATES TELLS COURT

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— Roscoe Ates, the stuttering comedian, said his income is slipping and he won count approval today of a reduction of his alimony payments to Mrs. Claire Ates from $250 to $175 a_month.

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Matinee Sa MAA CORDON Presents

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Eves., $2.75, cut oF 4 Al tree $1.10, .10, Sse. Sat. Mat. $3.30, $1.85, $1.10, Bbc, incl. Tax.

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100,000 more to be lost in the edit-

ing, cutting and retakes. After jour’ years, the job is nearly finished now. They're recording the 'last| of the background music, and the songs are being synchronized. Spow White already is in the arms of [the Prince, and the Dwarfs are chasing the Wicked Witch, But only in Hollywood, where a dazzling) formal premiere is being planned, will the completed film be seen by Christmas... Weeks more

will be required to make prints for

nation-wide ‘distribution. Walt | Disney grins when people accuse ‘him of doing a Chaplin— that Is, working slowly and meticulpusly, regardless of time and cost. Disney points out that “Snow | White and the Seven Dwarfs’ is, after all, the first animated feature, and that much of the work naturally was experimental, Three years ago he had a staff of about 100 people. This had to be gnlarged to a total of 600.

| Depth Illusion Given

Several times during early stages of the work, discoveries were made which prompted idealist Disney to go backeand virtually begin again. One evelopment is an impressive contraption called multiplane camera, which gives: an impression of depth. |, Until now, all animated cartoons were photographed ‘as’ if from a singl¢ sheet of “paper, with the chargcters moving flat against the

Cramer to Give Lecture-Recital

The third number of Bomar Cramer's lecture-recital series is to be given tomorrow morning in the Cramer Studios, 1431 N. Meridian St. | The program is to begin promptly at 10:30 a. m. Chopin and Schumanf will be discussed, and the musica} program, to be played by Mr. Cramer, Sara Miller and Nina Hayes Dutton, will be selected from these composers’ works. The musical numbers are to be as follcws: “Krejsleriana’’

ThiRns Fantasy Pieces” Tocc cata vie

Schumann

Nocturne, E Major . .......o00:u. Chopin Foul Preludes, Opus 28 Chopin Mrs. Dutton Polonaise, PF Sharp Minor.. ..Chopin Maz Chopin Sche fis E Major Chopin Miss Miller

Screen:

“BIG TOWN GIRL”

w2 CLAIRE DONALD WOODS ALAN DINEHARY

Critics say: “Infinitely better than the play!”

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= sw FAMILY in y aoine Trouble”

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backgrounds. The multiplane process causes the characters to stand out as though on a miniature stage.

idea, and a lot more in applying it. To meet the voice problem, Disney established a casting department, which held thousands of auditions. The job was to look at the character while listening to the voice and decide whether the two went together convincingly.

Dwarfs All Different

The dwarfs — Sneezy, Bashful, Dopey, Sleepy, Doc, Grumpy and Happy — have quite different personalities. The queen is cold, the witch an horrific hag. Snow White required the voice of a young girl, not a child. And she had to sing. Snow White was by all odds the most difficult part of the entire production. She is not a caricature, but a human being. Also, being the heroine, she had to be beautiful. Ithwould have been no trick at all, Disney explained, for his artists to produce almost photographic likenesses of some lovely model complete with all the lines and coloring and detail of a human face. Nor would he have begrudged the extra expense and labor entailed.

.. Hazy Face Avoided But -it was photographically im-

White's face would have become hazy. So they finally worked out a simplified design for a'pretty girl, who probably is as real a person as the animated screen is likely to see. Her movement and gestures also caused a thousand . headaches

first time were obliged to show motior as graceful and natural instead .of comic. Anyway, the job is done, and "cameras are putting the last few thousand drawings upon film. Total cost will be $1,500,000.

| bia has never definitely been made

Disney spent $50,000 perfecting this.

possible to employ such minute de-|’ tail because in ‘animation Snow |

among her creators, who for the |

‘Business’

Frank Capra’ Comes Back To Columbia to Delight Of Everyone but Attorneys

Director Signs New Contract While Rumors Still Fly as to Cause of Old Dispute; Films Expected Soon.

~~ By WILLIAM BOEHNEL Times, Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Whatever the reasons for their differences, the important thing is that Frank Capra, Hollywood's ace director, and Co~ lumbia Pictures have buried the hatchet and that Mr. Capra will soon be back making more outstanding pictures to delight millions. Not that Mr. Capra wouldn’t have come back sooner or later--that m able—but rather that neither Hollywood nor the public, not to mention Columbia Pictures, could "afford to lose such brilliant talent while

was, inevit=

Just what the difference of opinion was between Mr. Capra and Colum-

public. Rumor has it that it arose over the cost of “Lost Horizon,” and that later Mr. Capra was attempting to break his contract because Columbia had advertised a film in England which he did not direct as

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE |

“A Damsel in Distress.” with Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen 30d Ray Noble, at 12:32, 3 6:58,

“Borrowing Trouble,” with the Jones family. at 11:32, 2:45, £:58, ;

CIRCLE n Redman ae his orchestra on

" with Claire FxeJonald W

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1: 06. 3 5:18, 1758 9:3 KEITH'S - Husk O’Hare and his orchesira on

stage, at 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:20. hres B roadw

Girls, » with Joan Blondell, i Ina Clair ke and David Manners, gr 12, 3:30, 5

7:50, 10:30. LOEW'S

* with Jeanette MacJones and Jalen Wile at 11:20, 2:45, 6:15, 9:45. “An erican Sweetheart,” with Patricia Farr and Gens Morgan, at 1:40, 5:05, 8:35.

LYRIC .: A udeuills. on stage, at 1:07, 3:53,

“Submarine D-1,"” yi | Pat 3 O'Brien, George = Ten Waylie Doris Weston ank MoHuGh, a at 11:15, 2:01, ear 5:33, 10:19.

OHIO

“Her Husband Lies,” with Ricardo - Cortez and Gail Patrick. Alsg * ‘Clarence,” with Roscoe Kar:

AMBASSADOR

“Vogues of 1938,” with Warner Bante nd Joan Bennett. Also “This Way Please,” with Buddy Rogers and Betty Grable.

ALAMO

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“Anna lison. - Also “Wallaby Jim.”

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lawyers battled it out in the courts, o—

a Mr. Capra production. But the cause is less important than the effect, and since this is that Mr. Capra will soon be back on the lot where he first won fame and recognition, everybody is happy. Mr. Capra is essentially a “business” director. That is, his success has been founded on his genius for supplying the “business” ral goes with the lines the actors This is a result of his long training with Mack Sennett. Just how oe this is was proven after the preview of “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” when Edgar Selwyn approached the late Irving Thalberg and asked him what he thought of the picture.

“Do you know what that picture.

is?! Mr. Thalberg demanded. a raillion pieces of business.”

Unlike his colorful early career, Mr. Capra today is relatively colorless. His direction has none of the flair of a Gregory LaCava or a W. S. Van Ye, and none of their speed. He knows everything he lis going to do before he arrives on the set, and he makes directing look So easy, as a result of the pains he has taken to work out his prob-

“It's

the set, assistants, technicians, camSeamen, all think they could do fit,

Mr. Capra’s greatest interests today are his two childrén. He doesn't bar visitors from the set, but they are not especially welcome, because he fears og effect on his actors. Despite his 'simply—he has a house at Malibu, where he lives the year ‘round, but some times rents a home in Beverly

He will make two picture for Co-

lumbia during the next year, one]:

large salary he lives|:

Disguised as a pair of book-ends, W. C. Fields and Shirléy Ross toss a couple of quips into the microphone in the course oF “The Big Broadcast of 1938,” their next picture.

‘Hepburn Type’ To Have Chance

Girls of the “Katharine Hepburn type” are fo have their innings at

the Indiana Roof tonight, when the | second evening of the “Stage Door?

contest will be held.

The contest’s object is to find the

person best suited to niodél the original costumes worn by principals of the “Stage Door” movie version, now at the Indiana. Three girls of the “Gail, Patrick

type” were| chose Yast. night to ape pear in te finals Saturday. Fri day night! will be devoted to. the modeling of Ginger Rogers’ gowns. First ‘prize for the best model is a fur coaiy while the second award will be a permanent wave.

ALL NEW SHOW TODAY RICARI 0 CORTEZ Brown R HUSBAND

LIES” Plus! Rote coe Karns in. “CLARENCE”

| lems beforehand, that evérybody on|

of which will be “You Can’t Take

[ “THE FIREFLY" >

FRIDAY! ‘NAVY BLUE | and GOLD’ |

Robert Young - Florence Rice * James Stewart

"| Plus ““All American _y Sweetheart”

It With You.”

FIRST PUBLICATION

America —

IN THE ROPICS

White men impaled on long Indian arrows, like flies on pins—glittering, sophisticated cities atop the Andes, “the roof of the ,” where they rouge their dogs’ toenails —Dblood-lusting crowds around the hot bullrings and cock-pits—swarthy gauchos singing in the sultry night of “the honey of suf’—repatriated expatriates, sullen in their new poverty, homesick for Paris. . . . “You: will know South America as it is, as it never before hasbeen revealed, in “Transgressor in'the’ "Tropics, to appear daily, be-

wor

fering’

NEGLEY FARSON

— whose vivid story of his venturesome life composed the bestselling book “The Way of a Transgressor” —- writes now of new scenes, new excilements Sm

— in a series of dramatic reports upon what he has just seen and done in South

ginning Mondzy § in fe .

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