Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1938 — Page 10
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AY . Hurricane’
To Be Held
Over a Week
‘Lives of Bengal Lancer'|
At Apollo for Return
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Engagement.
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“The Hurricane” has been a howl- | Ing success. So much so that Loew's |
has decided to hold the epic of the big wind for another week, beginning tomorrow. As everyone should know by now, “The Hurricane” is the “picturization” of South Sea novel by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall, those two voluntary expatriates who wrote “Mutiny on the Bounty.” And the hero of the picture is Mr. Hall's nephew, Jon, who makes his movie debut with as fancy a diving exhibition as can be seen this side of the Olympic Games Young Mr. Hall was brought up out in the Pacific paradise region
around Tahiti, the picture's locale. |
So the aquatic antics were much mine-run performances him. 20-Minute Gale
But the peak of “The Hurricane” | is the wind storm which blows with |
very | for
That’s Gene Raymond under the towel, and the tragic expression arises from an impending sneeze and the prospects of a dose of castor oil which he
DOESN'T SEEM TO LIKE IT
doesn’t want to take—even if Ann Sothern is giving it. This bedside scene is part of “She's Got Every- | thing,” coming to the Circle tomorrow,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
‘Hollywood:
increasing frenzy across the screen |
for about 20 minutes. time you see, through the medium of the Hollywood technicians’ potent magic, a whole island, its buildings
and most of its inhabitants, swept |
away into the sea. Manager Ward
ing experience for both his sound equipment and his audiences. former is put to considerably more
strain than in the usual picture, for |
the wind isn't gentle—even when reduced to celluloid. As for the audience, Mr. Farrar savs that at each performance, the final gust of wind is made up of the concerted sighs of relief when the storm finally stops
George Arliss Again
At the Apollo, besides the new picture—George Arliss in “Dr. Syn"— | vou may see once more “The Lives of | a Bengal Lancer.” | This is the popular picture of three years ago, featuring Gary | Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard | Cromwell, C. Aubrey Smith and the] late Sir Guy Standing, which Para- | mount recently has reissued. Pic- | ture-goers may recall that it is an| adventure picture set in northwest India, and deals with the doings of the 41st Regiment of British Lancers, an outpost police force. “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer” was adapted from a novel of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown, himself a former officer in the Lancers Achmed Abdullah, noted | writer of things Oriental, and four | British Army officers served as tech- | nical advisers for the picture, which | was four years in the making.
| 740 Theaters Opened in 1937
| | mes Special | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20.—Approximately 740 more theaters were opened during 1937, bringing the total for the nation to 17.000, or a gain of about per cent over 1936, Will H. Hays revealed in his addres to the Poor Richard Club here last night. Theater attendance for 1937 was estimated by Mr. Hays at “12 million daily,” or 84 million per week.
This is a gain of only one million |
per week over 1936, when attendance was estimated at an average | of 83 million weekly.
TWO FILM PAIRS TO TOUR AFRICA
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20 (U.P). — Dolores Del Rio, film star, and her husband, Cedric Gibbons, will sail | Jan. 29 for North Africa to meet | Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper for a | tour of Africa and a cruise down | the Nile. {
During this |
Farrar of Loew's | states that the storm is quite a try-
The |
| ler made the other morning.
IN NEW YORK —sy ctoree ross
For Gilbert Miller Around the World Is Merely A Plane Trip or a Phone Call.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Gilbert Miller has crossed the Atlantic some 330 times, both ways, in order to keep abreast of his new shows in London {| or on Broadway. He is the most restless man in the show business. He | owns two private planes, one hangared at Croydon Airport in England ( and the other at a landing field on Long Island. | When, on either side of the#® ocean, he wants to be a couple of | were wed. But 24 hours after the
§ iles i rry, he | : : thousand ey orn a, © | nuptial ceremonies, the dog passed
call | : 3 either of his brace of pilots, motor | peacefully away, having fulfilled his out to the field and fly off. | sion; 1 guess. All this in prelude to a casual | ” & @® phone call the ubiquitous Mr. a Apropos: There hasn't been such was in the throes of gathering 5 le tippling as in “Tortilla cast for his next play, which. is by | Flat” around here since the Wine Frederic Lonsdale. He already had | Caves were ransacked a year ago. contracted Ina Claire. And he knew | On opening night I thought I
that another young actress he want- | counted 2 h ed, a Miss Nancy Ryan, happened | 12 gallon jugs of stage wine
being passed around and guzzled at the moment to be the house gown: and most of it didn't look like est of a certain Maharajah in In- | the stuff Lucius Beebe would be 1a. | likely to a ve. hey rv The other side of the globe is a ‘on gn, aL Ne Et pebbles toss for Mr. M. He picked | yintage in the world. It's two-thirds up his hotel telephone, quietly | water and one-third grape juice asked the switchboard operator t0 | and one actor has had to consume connect him with the Maharajah's | og gallons of the stuff since repalace in Jaipur and ask for Miss | hearsals began. At least two memRyan. Twenty minutes later, the pers of the cast of “Tortilla Flat” operator reported that she had took antidotes. They marched been informed from Jaipur of Miss | gyer to a nearby saloon each night Ryan's reparture for Calcutta. and drank legal beer. For the stage “Get Calcutta,” Mr. M. com- | wine is certainly not the potion manded. Jack Kirkland used in training for
Another brief pause. “Calcutta | his bout with critic Richard Watts says that Miss Ryan is on a Lon- | jr.
Son hous} plane,” Ny switchboard said. et it go,” the theatrical ty- RADIO FAVORITE APPEARS AS SELF
coon murmured. Times Special
Along with the phone next morning ($33.50 per minute) Mr. Miller received a cable from Miss Ryan, datelined Baghdad where her plane had been forced HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20.— Don Wilson, whose voice is familiar to the nation’s radio listeners, appears as himself in the role of radio announcer for “Radio City Revels.”
down. “Am hurrying to New York,” | The film depicts many backstage
bill the
it said. “Hold part for me.” B
| This is a minor saga about a | man, woman and dog, and the | human protagonists happen to be
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well-known around the Rialto. Their marriage plans suddenly had reefed against the rocks, when both parties grew temperamental.
And the thwarted groom departed |
scenes of NBC and Wilson assumes the task of introducing such other familiar radio personalities as Bob
Kenny Baker and Jane Froman.
Burns, Jack Oakie, Milton Berle, |
| to brood and forget at Honolulu. | With him he took his frisky scottie | who always had been privy to the
int
| despair, he turned about with the
TONIGHT, FRI., SAT. NIGHTS AT 8:30 shattered romance. But as he ap- MATES SAveriny u1 2% proached that paradise isle, he ran complications. The quarantine officers insisted upon the deten-
tion of his pet. So in anger and
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jet-black little fellow to New York, where he ran into his would-be bride again. Together they brooded on a dog's harsh life and a week later they
Last Day
"WELLS
Sues Studio And Actress
Mae West Named in Action For $1,000,000.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20 (U.P) .— Mae West and Paramount Pictures, Inc, today were named defendants in a $1,000,000 damage suit filed by Mark Linder, writer, who charged breach of contract, conspiracy and fraud in connection with the production in 1934 of Miss West's picture, “She Done Him Wrong.”
Agreement Cited
The complaint said the actress and Linder entered into an agreement in January, 1928, whereby Miss West was to copyright Linder’'s original play, “Chatham
| Square” under the title “Diamond
Lil,” and that they were to share equally in the profits. Later, Linder alleged, Miss West and others conspired to deprive him of his rights, and thereupon he was induced to sell his play to Paramount for wnat he termed a “nominal” sum of $25,000. “Diamond Lil” was filmed under the title “She Done Him Wrong.” Linder bases his action to recover $1,000,000 on allegations that profits on “She Done Him Wrong,” purportedly containing the ideas of his play, amounted to approximately $4,000,000. Yesterday Miss West was sued by Joan Strong for $10,000. Miss Strong, a writer, charged Miss West's radio play “Adam and Eve,” was plagarized from her play, “Love and Applesauce.”
Tomorrow Night
BETTY & BENNY FOX
Dancing 60 ft. above the fioor on an 18-inch disc in their sensational
“DANCE OF DEATH" “THE BIG APPLE"
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JOHNNY BURKARTH
40c All Evening Coming Friday, Jan. 28
JIMMY DORSEY
and his orchestra
FARGO’
Tomorrow! Meet Captain Clegg . « » most notorious free-booter of them all . . . fighting against t he world to save a man and girl in love!
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Hotel” Stirs Old Memory
| Movie at Indiana Recalls | Early Days of Film Capital.
“Hollywood Hotel,” which opens at the Indiana tomorrow, is the last
chapter in a story some 35 years old
—older than Hollywood itself. | The mythical inn whose name 18 so well known today is just a pretender. It really used to be a hotel —in fact, the best one in the movie capital. In the past three years it has been brought up to date as a radio program starring Louella Parsons, Dick Powell and Rosemary Lane, and is now a pretentious musical comedy with the same cast, plus Benny Goodman, Raymond Paige, Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell and the late Ted Healy. Subdivision Project Hollywood Hotel was planned in 1903 as part of a project to sell lots | in a new subdivision, and construc- | tion was completed the following year. The ballyhoo bug had bitten the West Coast residents and bunting, flowers, flags, two taliyhos, gold braid and innumerable brass bands accompanied the opening. A few years later, a Miss Mira Hershey, eccentric Iowa millionairess took over Hollywood Hotel and made it the headquarters for newly arrived picture people, Al Christie lived there, as did Dave Horsley, who opened the first studio on Sunset Blvd. Rudolph Valentino honeymooned with Jean Acker in the hotel and Mabel Normand and Wallace Reid were permanent guests. So were D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Louis B. Mayer, H. B. Warner, Will Hays, Irving Thalberg and many others. Charlie Chaplin at one time had his offices on the premises.
She Died in 1930
Miss Hershey died in 1930, having managed to keep her establishment in the forefront through the incredible rise of the moving picture industry, though she had to compete with the fabulous palaces thrown up during the 1920's. Perhaps these were the reasons
why Louella Parsons selected “Hol-
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lywood Hotel” as the title for her weekly broadcasts. And when the brothers Warner were laying plans for a new musical comedy, they realized the value of the name Miss Parsons had popularized. From that point it was a cinch. They had Dick Powell under contract and so proceeded to sign up the others. A new hotel was created on the studio lot, bringing the institution up to date again. Although “Hollywood Hotel” is not a musical history of its original, Miss Hershey's glorified rooming house probably will come in for more than a little mention. For the picture deals with the adventures of a small-town boy who goes to the movie capital to make good. Louella Parsons plays herself and that should be a signpost for the potential audience.
Time Sequence.
result from a ban on the picture ewsree S so I called in an expert on that sort of film,” Licut. Healy said. “I Under Ba | bomb squad. He said he thought | the showing of such a picture would Chicago Censors March of have an ill effect.” had announced that the ban was on the grounds that the film is unfriendly to the German Governe Chicago Board of Censors today pro- | sentment against a nation with hibited the showing of the March | ¥hich the United States maintains friendly relations. many, 1938.” Police Lieutenant Joseph Healy, HOBBY HORSES acting board chairman, said board| One of Ray Milland’s first jobs on his uncle's stock ranch, the film in Chicago because they | where he broke and trained jumpe felt it is unfair, |ers and racers, winning cups and “I expected that protests might 'medals in many contests.
LAST DAY!
Ray Milland —
THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1938 lcalled in Lieut. Make Mills of the Time, Inc., producer of the film, CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—The | ment and likely to create public ree of Time newsreel, “Inside Nazi Ger=- a members voted to bar exhibition of | was » » . ” ’ Miriam Hopkins in ‘WISE GIRL
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