Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1937 — Page 11

' MONDAY, DEC. 27, 1987 _ |

\ Chooses 10 More ‘Best’ 37 Movies

Reviewer Puts ‘Good Earth’ First in His List Of Top Pictures.

By JAMES THRASHER

Its a satisfying vista that the cinema season affords in the yearend, retrospective glance. And it is a privilege to be able to recall a great many pleasurable moments in the annual 10-hest selections. But alas, the practice is not yery distinctive, A checkup on the

s various “All-America” film choices always reveals a startling unanimity ‘of thought, even if critical favorites don’t always jibe with boxoffice figures. Bent upon distinction of some sort, however, I think I've hit upon a plan. If I can’t pick something different, at least I can make more selections.than you will find in a good many places. This story, then, contains not only, the 10 best pictures and performances, but the 10 runner-up films and an equal number of memorable: supporting performances. ‘ Adds 10 Favorites

The cream of a bumper crop, in order of preference, is listed as follows:

1. ‘The Good Earth.” “The Life of Emile Zola.” .| “Captains Courageous.” . “Romeo and Juliet.” . “Make Way for Tomorrow.” . “Stage r> . “Winterset.” 8 “Maytime,” 9. “Elephant Boy.” 10: “Topper.” The second choices, which threatened the leaders in a driving finish, include “Lost Horizon,” “Night Must Fall,” “A Star|Is Born,” “Thin Ice,” “The Awful Truth,” “Three Smart Girls,” “Dead End,” “The Prisoner of Zenda,” “Rembrandt” and “Aft er the Thin Man.” % Outstanding featured perform‘ances were those by Louise Rainer in “The Good Earth” Paul Muni in “The Life of Emile Zola,” Spencer Tracy in “Captains Courageous,” Charles Laughton in “Rembrandt,” - Burgess Meredith in “Winterset,” . Irene Dinne dn “The Awful Truth,” Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in “Make Way for Tomorrow,” Robert Montgomery in “Night Must Fall,” and Greta Garbo in “Camille.”

Bit Players Stand Out

Often ‘the brief bit is remembered long after the picture, which the minor player “stole,” and’ its topbilled stars are forgotten. So I be‘lieve the following deserve a place on the 1936-37 scroll of honor: Joseph Schildkraut for his remarkable iy Dreyfus in “Zola”;

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in “The Prisoner of Zenda,” Barry Fitzger-ald-in “The Plough and the Stars,” all ‘of the kids” in “Dead End,” John Barrymore's Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet,” Andrea Leeds in f‘Stage Door,” Donald Meek in “The Toast | of New York,” Ralph Bellamy in| “The Awful Truth,” Laura Hope Crewes in “Camille,” and Jack Haley in “Wake Up and Live. ” i These selections are but one movie goer’s favorites, so there is little point in supporting and defending them ad infinitum, though it’s quite possible. Yet there are a few Poms that merit a pause in

Only one original screen story will be found in the first 10 pictures listed above. That was “Zola,” which with “The Stofy of Louis Pasteur,” stands as the best of screen biographies. The other nine films present five book dramatizations and four play adaptions. | The late Rudyard Kipling is represented twice, as the author of | “Captains Courageous” and “Elephant Boy” (“Toomai of the Elephants”). The year marked the first syccessful Shakespeare on the screen, after two rather dismal and blundering attempts. Anfong the performances, Miss Rainer and Mr. Muni triumphed for opposite reasons. The former etched a memorable portrait with only about| 80 short speeches in the course of a lengthy picture.

Muni Was Outstanding

In Zola’s reading of “I: Accuse” and in the argument before the Mr. Muni, without benefit of Action or camera angles, riveted attention through artistic pause and ection and a deep understanding sincerity. - { In these two portrayals, the actors ‘achieved that height of technical |artistry—self-effacement and the /illusion of self-forgetfulness—which I Soup has been surpassed in screen There should have been room | somew. here in this survey for such | things as the Walt Disney Academy | Award view, “Easy Living” 1 “Lloyds o London” and “The Man | Who Could Work Miracles,” and a | special word for the charm, beauty | and valiant service of the Fren | star, Annabella, in that dreadf | dismal little number called “Wj | of the M ote » | But 10, seems to be. the fagic | number. [And you have to stigk to | it, no matter how many 10 bes u

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[ PERFORMANCES RATED AMONG BEST |

Here is the “star backfield” of The Times’ “allAmerica” team of 1937 movie performers. stars of “The Life

Paul Muni and Luise Rainer,

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

a New High” with li Oakie, at 12:43, 3:51,

with Ced1:28,

ns, Jack Pons, Ja and SR Slo’ s Mines,” 3s Hardwicke. Anna Lee, at :36, 5:43 and 8:51.

CIRCLE

“True Confession,” Jombard Fred MacMurray, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, LE 30 and 10:30. " pau hter of Shanghai,” with Anna, May Wong, at 12: 7, 3:37, 6:27

INDIANA “Wells Fargo,” with Joel McCrea Bob Burns, at 11:33, 2:02, 4:31, 7 an KEITH'S

“Doc” Seunsidep siTexans on stage, at 1:30, 8:50 a! 0. “A Bride for Henry. » with Warren Hull, on screen, at: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:50

and 10:20. LOEW'S “Man-Proof, » with Myrna Loy. Franchot Tone, at 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, %

and 10. Prooe®) or Steal,” with nk organ, "Florence Rice, at 11,

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“First Lady,” with Kay Francis, Preston Foster, om screen at 11:21, 5:03, 7:54 and 2 ion Iywood Harlem Revue,” with Behel Wi pers. on| stage at 12:57, 3:48, and 9:30.

OHIO

Double or Nothing.” with Bing Crome, Also “Wings Over Honolulu.

AMBASSADOR

Baba Goes: to Town,” with Also “Fight for Your

ALAMO

“Hollywood Roundup, Jones Also “Charlie

with Carole

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“Ali Eddie Cantor. Lady.”

» with ‘Buck han on Broad-

REAL WAR PICTURE

Dramatic, closeup shots of the fighting in and :about Shanghai, heretofore never exhibited, will be used in some of the sequences of “Shanghai Deadline,” now in pro-

duction. The film was obtained by news-reel men on the spot.

of Emile Zola” Top row, |

Art Exhibit Opening Set

Hoosier Salon to Be Held in Chicago Galleries.

The 14th annual Hoosier Salon of works by Indiana artists is to open on Jan. 29 in the Marshall Field Picture Galleries, Chicago. Prizes totaling nearly $3000 have been offered for oils, water colors, etchings and sculpture, by donors from Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Muncie, Culver, Chicago, New York City, Westport, Conn., and Tulsa, Okla. Jury members for the exhibition include Ruth Van Sickle Ford, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts director; Louis Grell, instructor at the Chicago Art Institute and member, Chicago Galleries; Edward T. Grigware, Chicago Painters and Sculptors; Harriet B. Krawiec, Chicago Art Institute School; Hubert Mor; ley, Chicago Society of Etchers; Fred M. Torrey, member, Lorado Taft group of sculptors; Mrs. J. M. Kleppinger, lay member, Daughfiers of Indiana, and a lay member of Tri Kappa Sorority, to be/ announced later, ;

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Two Full Reels in Color!

POPEYE

Meets All Baba’s 40 Thieves.

and “The Good Earth.” to right, Spencer Tracy of “Captains Courageous,” and Charles Laughton as “Rembrandt.”

| TALBOTT

} lecutive to Hollywood to protest the

Below, left Director Needs

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27 (U. P).—

today, presumably with a movie contract. Producer Alber Lewin announced

he needs the whale for a picture entitled “Spawn of the North.” He

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

: not always as attractive. gE |borrowed Dorothy McNulty, niece of

Trained Whale|

Hollywood went after a live whale |

Hannagan Is

Inspiration For Picture

Pat O'Brien to Play Role Of Publicity Agent ‘For Speedway.

* By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27. — Pressagentry has made many a picture, but the first press agent to be the inspiration for a picture is Steve Hannagan, boomer of Miami Beach, the Indianapolis Speedway and most of the enterprises of Jock Whitney. He'll be impersonated by Pat O’Brien, an actor who doesn’t like publicity men. Good domestic help is so hard to get in talkietown that an actress recently gave her husband two

get along with the cook.

A woman stepped up to Gene] Raymond as he was waiting for a boulevard light the other day. She exclaimed: ‘It's perfectly amazing —you look just like Gene Raymond.” He answered: “Yes, and it’s a lucky thing, too. I once got a part in a picture because I resemble him so much.” ’ Interoffice memo at 20th-Fox: “Title of song, ‘Wee-Dee, WeeDee, Wee-Dee, Woo-Ho,’ in ‘Love and Hisses,’ has been changed to ‘The Woof Seng.’” James Gleason, a producer at Republic now, makes the wildest gesticulations when he talks. Discussing a film story:over the telephone, he got to waving the instrument around and yanked it out by the roots. The studio now has put a 20-foot cord on Gleason’s phone so he can better express himself. Only telephone on Barbara Stanwyck’s ranch is in the stable, which is where she is from dawn to dusk. A man called me the other day and offered Greta Garbo’s telephone number for $5. It isn’t worth the price of a toll call, actually, because her servants, who always answer, do not speak English. Even her own studio sends a messenger. to her house, Plug for Cigars

Another tobacco chewer, besides Al Dubin, is Fred Allen. He munches on a plug during his radio broadcasts. One of the tobacco companies, which sells cigars, has set an ex-

uses which are made of cigars in pictures. It’s claimed that the

f lmovies have typed cigar smokers as )

low comedians or gangsters. William Powell smokes cigars sometimes, but hates ’em. When a script requires it, though, a property man pops a cigar into a holder, puffs for a few minvies, and hands it to Powell just before the camera turns. An actress by any other name is Republic

Postmaster - General Farley, for a

| picture, but on the eve of going to ‘work she has changed her name to

LOEW'S

Frank Morgan, “Beg, Borrow or Steal”

feared camera shots with dead whales would not do.

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Shown here in the midst of a dance routine rehearsal 4s Jack Ross 5166 Kenwood Ave., who will be one of the “chorines” .in the University of Pennsylvenia Mask and Wig Club’s 50th production, “Fifty-Fifty” at English’s tomorrow Mr. Ross is a sophomore in the university’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

Penny Singleton. Studio insists that she appear under her own name, and she refuses. A film that’s unlikely to -be shown in. Germany is “Lancer Spy.” Three German spies in the story are played by distinguished Jews—Maurice Moskovich, Luther Adler and Joseph Schildkraut.

Parisians Abroad

Director Michael Curtiz, a languagemangler, was bothered by, a group of noisy visitors on his set. He told them politely: “If you people are going to walk around while I am shooting you will have to stand still!” It was Paris-in-Hollywoo¢ at the Trocadero the other night. At one big table sat Simone Simon, Danielle Darricux, Annabella, Mirielle Balin, Fernand Gravet,

portant foreignrs. At the opera, John Barrymore slouched in his topcoat and cracked peanuts all through the performance. Neighbors glared.

Jacques Thiery and some less im-|

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“Daughter of Shanghai’

With Anna May Wong

'| added facilities,

Set Opening For School

Faculty to Be Increased af Irvington linstitute.

The Irvington School of Musie, purchased recently by Jane Johnson Burroughs and C. Tom Johnson, is to have an increase in faculty and the new owners

said today. “The school was purchased from Miss Adelaide Conte, who founded it 19 years ago. Instruction is to be resumed Jan. 3 with the regular

schedule of classes being continued. The Irvington institution is to be affiliated with the Burroughs School of Music and Fine Arts, located in the Marion Building. Teachers from both units will be available for instruction at either place. Mrs. Burroughs is president of the ‘downtown school, which opened in September, 1933. Mr. Johnson, her brother, is vice president and director. Hugh M. Mason, voice instructor at the Burroughs school, is to be the new unit's business manager. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simpers will serve as secretary and registrar, respectively. The schools offer courses in voice, piano, violin, banjo, guitar, dramatic art and dancing.

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