Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1938 — Page 4
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Fate of New|;
Film Stars
Power May Rise in Popularity Scale.
By JAMES THRASHER
5 Marjorie Weaver, Tyrone | §
' Without attempting to be orac-
ular, there is an awful temptation to lay a few bets on the coming season of that fascinating chameleon, the motion picture industry. Of course, there’s no use predicting that the new year will be profitable, for there would be no takers for the bet. But it might be fun to pick a handful of coming stars and see where they land at the end of 1938. To start with a safe one, I'll take Marjorie Weaver, one of the fairer roses of the Bloomington campus. She arrived in Hollywood by way of a roommate’s dare and a stopover in New York. After banging around the Fox lot for a while, she had a enlarged and rewritten for her in “Second Honeymoon,” and she has more to do in “Sally, Irene and Mary,” now nearing the cutting room. Andrea Leeds Popular Another show-stealer is Andrea Leeds of “Stage Door” fame, who ought to get some bigger and better work. Among the youngsters, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper have the stuff to take them near the top. Among the adult heroes, it wouldn't be surprising if Tyrone Power caught up with Robert Taylor—maybe passed him. Mr. Taylor hasn't been getting the best publicity breaks in the world, especially on the recent trip to England. Wayne Morris is another beauty-and-biceps lads who has a good chance. Sonja Henle, I imagine, will be able to draw a line to the boxoffice any time she straps on her skates. And with some fitting vehicles, Jean Arthur and Robert Montgomery may find the going pleasanter and smoother. In the miscellaneous group of other playgrs, it would look like a good year ahead for Messrs.. W. C. Fields, John Barrymore and Charlie McC
Technicolor Advances There’s about a 50-50 chance that David Selznick will find a Scarlett O'Hara for “Gone With the Wind” before 1938 also has fled with the breezes, but I wouldn't want to go any stronger than that. Ill bet, though, that nobody cares much who plays it right now. Technicolor ought to keep coming along, but producers in general don’t seem anxious to jump into the paint pot over their heads. And slapstick is due for a fade—though that may be making the wish father to the thought. Hollywood seems to be learning the tricks of play adaptation, as witness “Stage Door.” The only deterrent is the dearth of good, screenable plays now on Broadway. But this year ought to see “You Can't Take It With You,” “Having Wonderful Time,” “Room Service” and a few others. ti Topical pictures, like the current series of “Shanghai” pictures, may be hoped to go into a decline, though you never can tell. And it wouldn’t surprise me to see a few more good action pictures, of the “Wells Fargo” and “Plainsman’” type. Here Are Some Wishes Now for a few wishes: I'd like fo see another shot at Shakespeare —maybe a “Hamlet,” with a director who would dare to use some real movie technique and emphasize action rather than melancholy. And Burgess Meredith for the title part, if he could be induced back to Hol~ lywood after that last dismal i ture his employers gave him. And wouldn't it be nice to have a musical like Noel Coward’s “Bittersweet,” for instance; and a Civil War “epic” built around the life of John Brown; and another one .of those riots with the Marx Brothers doing as they used to.” If Walt Disney would dip into some music that is crying out for his treatment—like Richard Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel” or Dukas’ “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”--I'd be willing Wo pus up with a 108 of things. Even 0G Of pictures Mae West an the Ritz Brothers. y a But most of all I'd like to visit Se double-feature with a killing
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dinner guests as the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna of Russia, and
IN NEW YORK —#y stort ross
Srostivey Gives Lukewarm Reception to Schu-
berts' Two Big Holiday Musicals.
EW YORK, Jan. 3.—The stage: The Shubert brothers have just given Broadway two ngw musical shows. They both ate big musicals and they arrive at a moment when playgoers are out on a holiday lark. One of them is “Between the Devil” by the Howard Dietz and the Arthur Schwartz who have given Broadway o——m—m™mM™m™8™8™Mm™™————————
other memorable song and dance shows. The other is. “Three Waltzes,” a. whale of an operetta that the Shuberts brought over here from Paris. But Broadway, as you may have heard, is an ungrateful urchin, Even these gift’ packages, which came lavishly wrapped and bulkylooking, evoked luke-warmish exclamations. Indeed, the “combined Santas almost got a snarl for their pains from the play jurors on the aisle, though “Between the Devil” and “Three Waltzes” may eventually prove to delight a great many people. “Between the Devil” pretends to be a smart and suave entertainment all the way, but it follows the old-fashioned pattern along the plot line. In it, Jack Buchanan finds himself married to the lovely Misses Evelyn Laye and Adele Dix= on simultaneously and laments in song that “Bigamy has made a pig 0’ me.” That lyrical bit sums up the story neatly. “Between the Devil” spends two and a half hours in vain trying to extricate the leading man from his biconnubial state; and between the devil and the final curtain, there is a great deal of song, dancing and general gaiety. Both the Misses Laye and Dixon are eye-feasts in any show they. decorate and besides being a leading man, Buchanan qualifies as a ladies’ man as well. Also “Between the Devil” claims a crew of some of the prettiest showgirls in town. So, despite a blase welcome, this holiday package may still be open on Easter Sunday.
J » 2 HREE WALTZES” the Shuberts picked up in Paris where it reigned as a hit with Yvonne Printemps in the leading role. They couldn’t have Mlle. Printemps in New York, but they have Kitty Carlisle to carry the burden of the song and dance in “Three Waltzes” on Broadway. It happens that Miss Carlisle is one of the most ingratiating personalities in musical comedy that Broadway has been lucky enough to claim in a long while. And it happens, also, that Miss Carlisle can sing and dance well. “Three Waltzes” is most. ly her show; and if it should succeed in the face of its adversities, the Shuberts should know where their largest debt of gratitude lies. A time-defying show, = this “Three Waltzes,” for it starts somewhere in 1865 and winds up in the vicinity of 1938 and traces the love affairs of at least three generations of love-smitten folk. Its music represents a monopoly by the Johann Strauss family and should be prosecuted for restraint of trade, since every song is derived from the portfolios of the Strausses, pere et fils and Oscar Straus, a distant relative. Naturally they are all in dreivierteltakt, sugar-sweet and instinctly Viennese. So anyone who cared greatly for “The Great Waltz,” should have no trouble king “Three Waltzes,” as well. 2
oO" the heels of these song and dance extravaganzas will come some new plays. Ruth Gordon has
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returned to Broadway in a distinguished revival of Ibsen’s “A Doll's House”; Helen Morgan and the Howard Boys, Eugene and Willie, have set up : shop across the Brooklyn Bridge im a revue called “Hollywood Hotel.” When Frederic March recovers from an infected foot which despatched him to the hospital the other day, he will turn up with his wife, Florence Eldridge, in a show entitled “Your Obedient Husband” wherein he will impersonate that swashbuckling literary man, Sir Richard Steele, » = = ARRY GREEN, the screen comic, got back to town some week ago and, on his own, revisited some old haunts: Among the places he went back. to, in order to pay his respects, was the former site of a fairly delapidated movie thea ter on Manhattan’s lower East Side, He had been the proprietor of these premises when he was 12 years old and how he came into the property is a story he is willing to tell, A notorious character who operated the theater engaged Mr. Green to do a song and tell a joke or two while the reels were being cooled off. The theater was merely a blind for & gambling den upstairs. When Mr. Green’s boss got wind of an intended raid, he moved his equipmeni out hurriedly, called the youth to his side and said, “Like the house, kid? Well, it’s yours.” It was, too, and at the age of 12, Mr. Green became a showman in his own right.
her husband, Prince Ouratiev.
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At Industry
Curb on Importation of U.S. Pi Pictures Reacts Against Business.
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Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer,
as the royal menials, are seen in the business of serving dinner at the
Wild West Fans Lose
Permit Withheld on Stars' ‘Rawhide Town.’
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (U, P)— The movie stars who wear chaps and buckskin while on location desire to bring the cowboy motif into their home life. But today they met the united opposition of the stars who do their acting in dress suits. The controversy is over whether a section of the San Fernando Valley near Encino, home of many movie stars, shall be made into a Western village with saloon, dance hall, blacksmith shop and a buckboard furnished to convey visitors who would have to park their automobiles at the city limits. ! The idea of “Rawhide Town?” is that of Buck Jones, star of Western films. Jones thought “Rawhide Town” would serve a double purpose —provide a nostalgic home for the many movie cowboys and ‘also pro-vide-a handy film set for Western pictures. Al Jolson, who own considerable property in the vicinity and is honorary Mayor of Encino, objected strongly. Joining him were such film celebrities as Don Ameche,
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SIGNS 'EM ALL UP HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (OU) P.) —Paramount Studio received word of one of its wierdest contracts today from its company which is filming the - picture, “Booloo,” in the layan jungles. Clyde Elliott, producer, wanted Suratna Asmara, a pretty Javanese dancer and actress, for a role. Because of the queer kinks of Javanese customs, he had to sign up her entire family, some 30 persons, as well. All are working in the picture undek a mass contract.
Warren William, Edward Everett Horton and Director Mervyn Le Roy. They contended that “Rawhide Town” would hurt property values. The city council awarded round one to the leading men and ordered
a permit withheld from Buck Jones until the planning commission inVesiigates,
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—The
in the report of Stuart Doyle, Australian film executive, on his arrival here from England. The new British Quota Act, which would limit the American films, is striking at the very existence of the home picture
existence depends more than ever today upon the American product. Value of U. 8. Cited
However, he continued, the American distributors lack any really effective propaganda medium to pre-
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wrong impression of the industry. In a prepared statement, Mr. Doyle said: = “Every member of Parliament is, under the impression that millions of dollars are being taken away to Hollywood, and seems quite unaware of the fact that the whole basis of
employment in English picture Ee and the prosperity of the Cc e
ema companies ave due almost tirely to American product.
Reorganization Urged “British production is a sad story. Lack of imagination, self-satisfac-tion and an almost complete disregard for the very elements of showmanship have brought British films to the point of collapse. It will be a long time before the British industry recovers, even with the benefit of the new Quota Act. The whole industry wants complete tion with different British minds at work to bring it back. “England has, perhaps, the finest literary brains in the world—stories and romances without end—and yet they seem quite incapable of building up a technique of their own or to borrow effectively from Hollywood. It is very sad for a Britisher.
‘We have hoped for so much.” .
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The Jordan Conservatory faculty members shown above are to hold two demonstration classes during the coming week and award scholarships to three high Indianapolis and Marion County 'school students. Left to right are Ray Siegel, double bass; Stanley Norris, conservatory registrar; Paulo Gruppe, cello, and Jacob Nabokin, bassoon, The sessions have been set for Thu:sday and Monday at 4 p. m.
USE CHIMES FOR EFFECT OF CHIMES
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (U. P.)— The motion picture industry, which fakes everything from a storm at sea to a rainbow, returned to real-
ism today. Sound experts at Uni-!.
versal Studio, after trying in vain to fake the tinkle of far-off chimes, finally decided to use far-off chimes. The recorders were set up three miles away from the bells, The effect was sought for Deanna Durbir’s new picture.
GIANT DIAMOND MAILED CHEAPLY
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (U. P). ~—Protection and transportation costs on the million-dollar Jonkers diamond, brought from New York by
Uncle Sam to be exhibited here, were figured today at 63 cents. The
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ACTRESS AIDS CHINA .
As soon as she finishes her role in “Dangerous to Know,” Anna May
Wong will start a campaign to raise : ‘funds for relief work in war-torn China
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