Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1937 — Page 10

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Bernie and Colu mnist Score Again

Radio Foes Repeat Feud, With Almost Former Success.

By JAMES THRASHER We movie-goers: have learned to anticipate second servings of successful film ideas with some appre- © hension. But the Winchell-Bernie hostilities, which ‘are renewed at the Indiana this week in “Love and Hisses,” turn out. to be quite as palatable as the team’s initial “Wake | Up and Live.” Maybe we oe is less critical than the ear. I think that people generally Zor a La fed up with the columnist’s and band leader's hisstrionics on the air waves. The same may be said for Eddie Cantor's radio sentimentality. But Mr. Cantor recently came through with a corking comedy in “Ali Baba Goes to Town,” ‘and “Love and Hisses” can be recommended almost as highly: Messrs. Winchell and Bernie go through about the same paces that they did in their first picture. There's even a disappearing act in this one, but Ben -himself, rather than Jack Haley, is the victim.

~ Mustn’t Spoil Climax The climax of Mr. Bernie's “kidnaping” is really too funny to tell here and spoil it for you. In the

meantime, however, the two have!

_ contested over a French singer: (Simone Simon) whom both claim as their discovery. Mr. Winchell says that Mr. Bernie’s Parisian singer is a phoney—sight unseen. So:they let the singer go around to Mr. Win- - chell and persuade him that he dis covered her talent. . - As Yvette Yvette, she gets a tremendous Winchell buildup. Then Ben has the laugh on Walter, but Walter has the last and best one. This picture serves to introduce Miss ‘Simon as a singer. The fact has received almost as big a billing as the memorable occasion when the world learned that “Garbo Talks!” Remember?

Like Minnie Mouse

Miss Simon sings several popular songs as well as some simpier excerpts from the florid “Bell Song” from “Lakme.” We hear that her talent was “discovered” by the late George Gershwin, who heard her humming at a party. (How many musical movie careers, according to publicity departments, have launched ,on the vaporous wings of a hum!) Anyway, Miss Simon is said to

have practiced three or four hours:

a day since then. Now she makes her bow, disclosing a high, thin voice not unlike Minnie Mouse with a French accent.

Bert Lahr, it’s a pleasure to report,

is funnier than the movies usually permit him to be. His partner in ‘comedy is Joan Davis, ' who doesn't once crack herself on the jaw or go careening all over the set on rubber legs. That deserves three bells and four stars. The whole picture moves along with the speed and gaiety which characterizes 20th Century-Fox’ musicals. There are some goodish tunes, and an amusing specialty by that one-ton trio of dusky singers, the Peters Sisters. In addition, and this may interest you more, the Indiana has Norman Alley’s newsreel of the Panay bombing, which opens in Indianapolis three days after Mr: Alley reached the United States with the film, via! China Clipper.

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LOCAL STARLET AWAITS |

IDowntown Theaters Bilt. | Late Shows for Tonight,

+ The Lyric. which has been presenting a specidl New Year's Eve stage show in recent years, is to be the first one’s home on tonight’s downtown ||

entertainment schedule. An extra stage show is to be given: beginning at 10:57 p. m,, and Lyric} patrons will be ‘out’ at midnight’ fo. continue their celebrations at other theaters, in night clubs or at private parties. Keith's has a midnight show slated to begin at 11:30 p. m., and other downtown houses are to have late howings ‘as announced here. yes-

{terday. Loew’s is showing “Rosalie,”

with a large cast headed by Nelson

Eddy and Eleanor Powell, beginning.

at ‘midnight. The Circle’s feature is. “Tovarich,” with Claudette Col-

bert : and Charles Boyer, at 11:45}

| p.m.

Indiana, : where ‘Walter Winchell,

1 Ben Bernie and Simone Simon are

holding forth in “Love and Hisses,” and the Apollo, which itakes “Wells

| Fargo” from the Indiana for a. sec-

| ing, recently released,

‘ond week’s showing.

Panay Bombing Film Billed

The newsreels of the Panay bombwill be ‘in-

cluded on the Indiana,. Loew's : and

‘Circle bills.

Carl Niesse has announced late programs at ‘both his Ambassador and Alamo houses. The former is

‘Ito preview “On Again, off Again” at

An Indianapolis girl welcomes the New Year ir Hollywood.

cilla Lawson (left) with Ann Rutherford,

fellow-player gt AR

waits breathlessly for the minute hand to reach 12 and usher in 1938.

IN NEW YORK —s < GORGE ROSS

This Was Your When Burlesque Lef WE And Most Night Clubs Followed

EW YORK, Dec. 31.—Nineteen Year in Manhattan When:

hundred-and-t. Airty-seven Was the

The strip-tease—and burlesque with it—went the: way. of "all" flesh.

Night club casualties zoomed to a new high.

Lynn Fentanne continued to reign with their admirable footlight be-< havior in “Amphitryon 38.” One hundred and 80 motion picture executives with fat bank balances languished over the tabletops at “21” sighing that they were all “so fed up with the tinsel of Hollywood” | —every last one of them boarding the first train to the coast at the initial call from their cinema superiors. Max Gordon failed to attend a single one of his own opening nights. Marlene Dietrich performed the “Big Apple” with a redheaded sophomore - from Princeton in a midtown late spot. Greta Garbo had an East Side smorgasbord salon | named for her. : The rhumba made a wallflower out of the waltz. John Montague and Babe Ruth failed to establish their relative skill on the golf links because the Long Island tee fanatics overflowed every inch of the prescribed course’s greensward. An armless and legless swimmer en- | joyed momentary fame by swimming from .Albany to the Battery and was immediately swallowed up in Gotham'’s own obliterating obsecurity. George S. Kaufman's weekly income continued to rival that of J. Pierpont - Morgan. Ethel Barrymore failed to stage a compelling comeback. The American Legion made Times Square resemble a collegiate campus in the throes of a football bacchanal. Television made a’ flickering debut, and was once more! relegated | to patent-attorneys’ files. Mrs. S. | Stanwood Mencken graced at least two social functions in gowns that

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would have dezzled th: eyes of the most blase Indian potentate. axa = AFE society” became a new { addition: to . the Gotham glossary. Skis begari to replace golf sticks in the subway frains on Sunday mornings. Tammany Hall was reduced fio political impotence. Four blue-blooded socialites ‘made

midnight. This is the first Indianapolis showing of Bert Wheeler and Bob. Woolsey’s last comedy before Mr. Woolsey retired from the screen because of illness. “On Again, Off Again” will be shown on the regular Ambassador bill with “Live, Love and Learn,” beginning tomor-

ow. At the Alamo there is to be a

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their bed for posterity by staging |

a pajama sit-down strike in an allegedly “smart” wetering spot—

: a maneuver sufficieritly smart to

force the loss of the club's liquor license by the state authorities. Al Smith posed atop the Empire State Building wita bicycl: riders from Holland, visiting dignitaries from South Africa; cowboys from the Ozarks, ‘chorus gals from Times

Square and spelling-dee champions |

from the hills of Nevv Hampshire. ' Moss Hart bought a farm, and a brand new set of 14 karat gold Radio announcers made traffic nuisances of - themselves by interviewing the citizenry on: the

| midtown sidewalks. Milton Berle’s

mother continued to ‘be the city’s ace-applauder—of Milton Berle.

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‘NEED. LEADING: MEN

There is such & shortage of leading men. in. Hollywood that start of | production “on Shirley Temple's “Rebecca. of Sunnybrook Farm” had | to be postponed two weeks. Ran-! dolph Scott was called back from a vacation to take the masculine lead.

Wal

FOR CAREER ENDS |

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31 (U. P).— Three weeks of discouraging ’ attempts to break: into the movies

lina De Cicco of Albany, N. ¥., who ran away. from home Dec. 8 and was located in Hollywood through a | photograph published in a news paper. Her fathar, Albert De Cicco, came here, and started home with her today. :

STORY APPROVAL DENIED AHERNE

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 31 — Hal Roach has signed Brian Aherne to a straight two-year term contract which, according to the studio, contains a clause, unusual for top flight players, under which : Aherne will not seek to approve the selection of | stories.

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Will - Return in Few Months, Studio Says.

: HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31 (U..P).— | Reports from Sweden that Greta |

Garbo might not return to Holly-

| wood were scoffed at here today. The blond star is: visiting her home.

At her studio it was reported that Miss Garbo will stay in Sweden no longer than her usual six to eight months and will return as soon as Metro-Goldwyn-Maysr informs her that the scripts are ready for the first of tyo pictures that she will | make. : _ In Sweden, Miss Garbo was quoted

{as saying that she hoped to make

| hilarious comedies, instead of her usual serious movies. Her producers were reported to disagree with het «| plans

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