Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1938 — Page 11

TUESDAY, JAN. °5, 1958

River Plays Role of Hero And Villain

Agriculture Department's Newest Film Due at Lyric Feb. 4.

By JAMES THRASHER

There once was a film reviewer who hurled a challenge to the rest of his tribe. He said, in effect, that those movie critics who thought they knew so much ought to try making a picture.

Well, one of the writers took him up. That was Pare Lorentz, who used to do a swell job of reviewing movies for Life Magazine, the old one with more words and less pictures. Mr. Lorentz directed “The Plow That Broke the Plains.” And he has done it again in “The River,” another film released by the Department of Agriculture's Farm Security Administration. “The River” is scheduled for a local showing Feb. 4. It will be on the Lyric bill that week, except on Saturday and Sunday. But it is good enough and different enough to merit a place on your “must” list right now.

River Is Hero, Villain

In this film, the Mississippi River appears in the dual role of hero and villain. The picture tells a vivid and brief story (it is only 31 minutes long) of the river, its tributaries, its

important role in our national history, ans the prodigal waste of natural resources that has turned it from a friend to a menace. Written accounts of the flood devastation are impressive enough, but the pictures are tremendously moving. The flood sequence, however, is only one portion of the film. The Mississippi's commercial role is traced from Civil War days up to the current reclamation efforts in flood control, power development and reforestation by TVA and CCC. But it is as a strikingly artistic work rather than an informative pictorial document that “The River” is important. With water and mud, cotton fields and forests as the chief protagonists, Mr. Lorentz and his associates have evolved a finished product that would put to shame most of Hollywood's pretentious pictures for compelling interest.

Local Man Contributor

Incidentally, one of the contribuators was A. A. Mercey, an Indianapolis native, who directed research for the picture. First of all, “The River” has superb photography. Narration is by Thomas Chalmers, and his script makes use of recurrent phrases and ideas which mold the story into a unified and dramatic whole. The musical score is by Virgil Thomson, and it is arresting music which intensifies every mood. The excellent orchestra which plays Mr. Thomson's music was conducted by no less a person than Alexander Smallens. Following the path of “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” this sequel is one you certainly should plan to see.

LAUREL'S BRIDE FACES CIVIL SUIT

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— Stan Laurel's legal troubles accumulated today. His blond bride, the former Vera Shuvalova, Russian singer, was named codefendant with her former husband, Frederic Berens, in a civil suit. Mr, Berens was accused in the suit of diverting $850 of the Santa Rosa Mining Co. funds to hi$ own use. The money was spent in attempting to get Vera Shuvalova a radio job, it was charged.

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degrees they hold. Shirley Temple is among these. Indeed, she heads the list. Shirley is a captain of the Santa Monica police force, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department, a special deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County—and her tiny automobile, with a top speed of eight miles an hour, is officially registered in the service of the sheriff. She's a colonel in the Hawaiian National Guard, a Kentugsy colonel (of course), a captain in the Texas Rangers and mascot of the Chilean navy, with a special uniform sent her by the president.

Also she's the official World Peace Child, Hawaii's Adopted Sweetheart, and is a junior Gwoman—only G-woman in the nation. J. Edgar Hoover likewise commissioned her—with a kiss, I believe—the Sweetheart of the Gmen.

There are nearly 100 Kentucky colonels in Hollywood, from Mae West to Sally Eilers’ small son, Poochy. Due to the bounty of former Governor Ruby Laffoon it's safe to address almost anybody you meet, of either sex, as “Colonel.”

” n Several Fire-Laddies

ACK OAKIE and Lloyd Nolan are Texas Rangers, but Joan Crawford and Miss Temple are the only captains in that famed organization. Warner Oland is an honorary member of the Honolulu police department, on account of his Chan roles. Warner Baxter used to be a fire chief at Malibu Beach, but he lost both hat and badge at | a fire one night.

commissioned captain of the local police force and a subject-to-call battalion chief of the fire department. And then, of course, he’s the colonel of his own Light Horse Troop of mounted men. Scores of men and a few women | carry two or three badges or credentials which are helpful in arguing with motorcycle cops. There are many more honorory deputy sheriffs (at least 100) than there are working deputies. Also there are approximately 50 honorary deputy fire marshals.

= ” ” “Doc” Crosby

AUL MUNI and George Arliss are among those who have received honorary degrees from the University of Southern California. And Gonzaga University recently gaye its favorite alumnus, Bing Crosby, a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music. Crosby took this honor so seriously that he fought bitterly against the title for his current picture, “Dr. Rhythm,” id - ering it undignified exploitation of his academic distinction, For bona fide nobility, and nobility, Hollywood can offer

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By PAUL HARRISON 25.—The talkie village has so many titled residents, and so many variously honored, that a Who's Who in Hollywood couldn't possibly keep an accurate check on them. For one reason, the people themselves often can’t remember the special commissions and

merous bluebloods, mostly White Russians and the majority of them extras. Among more prominent | players, such as the Baroness Luli Hohenberg (Luli Deste) and Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke, Earl of Warwick (Michael Brooke), titles are not used; indeed, they're deliberately avoided.

® =» 9 Amateur Aristocrats

FEW years ago Hollywood was overrun by bogus barons, counterfeit counts and duping dukes. So the people with real claims to titles got together and organized the Southern California’ chapter of the European Nobility Association, an organization started in Europe for the purpose of squelching professional aristocrats. The noblemen, after each had proved his amateur standing, elected as their president Baron Hans Nordwein von Koeber, a professor at the University of Southern California. Other officers included the late Prince Alexander Golitzen, whose son is one of Samuel Goldwyn's art airectors; Freiheer Kurt B. zur Lippe-Weissenfeld and Prince Nichclas Tchkotoua.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 The Board of Directors of Warner | Bros. will meet within a fortnight

today as H. M. Warner, company president, arrived here. | Maj. Albert Warner, vice presi- | dent and treasurer, is expected from Florida next week to join the re- | moval discussions. | H. M. Warner said no final de- | vision had yet been reached on the | financial, legal, theater, sales, distribution and Vitaphone departments, but that the publicity department definitely would be moved West. It was denied there would be wholesale discharges. The studio employs more than 2000 persons regularly here and about 10,000 extras a year at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE “HEIDI”

Barbara Stanwyck “Breakfast for Two”

Studio May Move All Offices West

U. P)—|

A stroll with the cameraman around the movie lot reveals Fannie Brice (left) giving a little assistance to Beatrice Lillie in the matter

of her coiffure during a friendly right W. C. Fields meets Mme.

and nonprofessional visit. At the Kirsten Flagstad, the opera star,

through the offices of Producer Harlan Thompson in a studio restau-

rant.

Mr. Fields is probably saying, “Ah, there, my little Valkyr.”

IN NEW YORK —s8y store ross

Casa Manana Billy Rose's Cabaret War Challenge; Kaufman, Vanderbilt Trade Greetings.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The cabaret war is on again. Rose has invaded the (“The House of Tomorrow,”

porary truce, Billy the Casa Manana

threw the gauntlet down before “Let's Play Fair” is the saturnalia that Billy has spread over

Casino.

After a temBroadway battlefront with in Spanish) and thus the Rialto’s giant International

the glittering stage of the Casa Manana and, as the title hints, it is a tuneful take-off on Grover Whalen's World's Fair at Flushing Meadows

next, year. conspicuous gardenia. Leave it to Billy Rose to produce something elaborate. Leave it to] him to show the most stunning line of show and chorus girls that any theater-with-tables ever will assemble, and leave it to him who gave us “Jumbo” to add a ferocious menagerie of tigers to the proceedings. Capt. Proske's Tigers snarl menacingly in an iron cage while the customers are enjoying their dinner. And leave it to him to call the turn on Manhattan's recent anatomical reform wave by having Sally Rand barely turn up as if nothing ever had happened since Eve, and Hinda Wassau do a striptease in the best super-Minskian manner,

Turns New Leaf

Along with an ambitious show, Billy, in a paid ad, makes other campaign pledges to the customers. He promises them that they will not be expected to tip the waiter a sawbuck for a frony table; that they will not be railroaded into buying cigarets, programs and | flowers from the seductive salesgirls; and that the food won't arrive so cold that it will seem to

At last reports, the cabaret war

be a fight to the finish.

They would have you know that |

it happened at a suave after-theater party in the Park Avenue jungle where, among many assorted luminaries, Harold Vanderbilt, the yachting millionaire, and George S. Kaufman, Broadway's wonder playwright, were thrust together. After exchanging the usual so-

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cumstances—especially as he happens to be the coauthor of the show the yachtsman mentioned— replied with a gentle negative. “I'm not interested in the theater much these days,” he told Mr. Vanderbilt, “and I don’t go to the shows if I can help it. Tell you what I do like, though. Once a season, I (like to run up to those Newport | Cup Races. Ever see one of those, Mr. Vanderbilt?” The last of the Barrymore tales in circulation is about that day

cal manager's office, in company with his wife, regarding a possible stage appearance. They could not penetrate farther than the anteroom where a well-disciplined secretary kept vigilance. “Name, please?” she inquired of one of America’s best known actors. “My name’s Barrymore,” the scion of the Royal Family replied, “you

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Texas Firms Ask Review of Injunction.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— Two Texas motion picture exhibitors and nine major film producers today asked the Supreme Court to review a Texas Federal Court decision

enjoining them from making contracts in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law,

The injunction, issued by Federal District . Judge William H. Atwell, was based on a finding that the producers, at the request of two exhibiting chains, imposed certain restrictions on other independent exhibitors in the area. The alleged restrictions prohibited exhibition of class “A” pictures at theaters charging less than 25 cents and forbade their exhibition on “double-feature” programs. The appeal was filed by attorneys for the Interstate Circuit, Inc.; the Texas Consolidated Theaters, Inc. and Karl Hoblitzelle and R. J. O'Donnell, Dallas, president and secretary, respectively, of both chains, The petition said the first chain operates 23 picture houses in Dallas, San Antonio, Ft. Worth, Galveston and Houston, while the second chain operates 60 film theaters in 20 Texas towns and 6 theaters in Albuquerque, N. M.

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In Five

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In the apt phrase of English’s manager, Vincent Burke, Cornelia Otis Skinner will appear at his theater for “one consecutive night” on Feb. 7. But the fact is that Indianapolis is lucky to see Miss Skinner at

all this season,

Only a previous booking of the®

New York theater where she was | appearing in “Edna His Wife” forced her to appear in a few cities until such time as the theater can be secured again, and she can resume her successful New York engagement. It has been five years since Miss Skinner visited English’'s. During that time it is safe to assume that she has gained further command of her unusual dramatic medium, and that she also has gained an added following. For, in the intervening years, she has become an established favorite on the radio. And what the public hears it most likely will rush to see when the opportunity presents itself, Takes Eight Parts “Edna His Wife” is Miss SkinneNs own dramatization of the bestselling novel of the same title by Margaret Ayer Barnes. And with it, the actress departs somewhat from the gallery of characterizations, like “The Wives of Henry VIIL” on which her fame has rested. The new play—and it properly is being called a solo drama—has eight principal characters whom the versatile actress impersonates. It has different sets for the various scenes in Chicago, New York, Washington and Blue Island, Ill. There also is the passage of many years to cope with in the two acts. Four of the characters are Edna, the principal figure, and members of her immediate family. The other four are friends and neighbors in Blue Island. Few American actresses in the past decade have reaped such a harvest of unstinted critical praise as was bestowed upon Miss Skinner in this new venture. Among other excellent comments was that of Sidney Whipple, the New York WorldTelegram’s drama critic, who wrote: “Cornelia Otis Skinner, as dramatist and actress, has accomplished an amazingly brilliant achievement in ‘Edna His Mife’ Her opening last night was a triumph of artistry.”

MEMENTO

Bette Davis says that on the day she married Harmon Nelson in Yuma, Ariz., he bought a shirt, the wedding ring and a bouquet of gardenias. He still has the shirt— though it is a bit worn—the ring, and Bette.

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Beerys Plan Trip Abroad

'Family Roped Me In," Says Comedian.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— Wallace Berry, who appeared at the Federal Building for a passport growling that his family “roped me in” for a trip to Europe, led Holly= wood's spring globe-trotting today. The big “bad man” of the screen, his wife Arleta, and 7-year-old daughter Carol Ann, plan to sail about March 1 aboard the liner Rex,

“Sure they roped me in,” Mr, Berry said. “Nope, no pictures in Europe—that's what I'm running away from.” He said they'd take in Egypt, too. Darryl F. Zanuck, producer, was making plans to leave about May 1 on a hunting trip into the wilds of the Belgian Congo in Africa. Mr, Zanuck said he will go into the land of the pigmies, five days by auta and safari in from Lake Victoria, and be gone two months. William Powell will sail March 18 for South America.

MRS. HEALY SUED FOR MEDICAL BILL

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