Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1938 — Page 8
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“CHECKERS”=—Jane Withers, Spencer Charters. Directed by H.
* Opening Tomorrow
Apollo
Story—All about a man who loves a horse and a girl, but the
Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel and Bruce Humberstone.
‘Snow White’, Says Disney
Cashing in on Any of Characters in Fable ‘Would Be
- Too Commercial, He States, but Two or Three May Be, Combined in New Being.
(Here are good and bad tidings concerning “Snow White and the
girl doesn’t love the horse and, therefore, won't say she loves the man. The horse breaks a leg, the villain wants to foreclose the ‘mortgage on the farm—or else—but two children and time heal ev and. the big race is in the bag. " “NON-STOP NEW YORK”—Anna Lee, John Loder, Francis Sullivan, Frank Cellier and Desmond Tester. Directed by Robert Stevenson. . Story—An English chorus girl gets mixed up in a gangster murder and is followed because she knows too much. She tries to tell Scotland Yard, but they won’t believe her. Eventually the principal characters turn up on the first trans-Atlantic passenger flight and, in such cramped quarters, manage to straighten things out.
Seven Dwarfs.”
will remain at the Indiana for a second week, beginning tomorrow. The bad news, concerning Dopey’s single appearance, will be found interview with Walt Disney.) 2 8 ”
below in Mr. Boehnel’s . telephone
By WILLIAM BOEHNEL Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Feb. 17—Dopey, already as famous as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, must live and die with “Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,” Walt Disney told the writer yesterday during a long-distance telephone interview from Hollywood. “No, I'll never use Dopey again,” Mr. Disney said. “If people want to see him as he is they must see him in ‘Snow White,” because I feel he I live and die with the picture. Of course, I'll probably recreate him in another character, but you'll never be able to recognize him.” “Do you really mean you're never going to use Dopey again?” the writer asked. Mr. Disney chuckled over the other end of the wire. “I do,” he said. “I believe it would be too commercial to cash in on Dopey or any of the other characters we have inthe film. What we probably will do is to combine two or three more of them into one new character.”
Lovable Dwarf Doomed
And so the most lovable of all the seven dwarfs—the one into whom
Disney and his staff put more than
just-a spark of human frailty, the one more akin to all the world than any of the others—must pass when and if the picture finally passes, which seems unlikely at the moment. For the chances are that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will live on forever, and even if by some misfortune of fate it should ever
" pass into the limbo of memory
Dopey will remain as vividly alive _as the day he was born. “How do you feel about the public’s reception of the film?” gro writer asked when he gof over the
‘shock of hearing Mr. Disney pro-
claim poor Dopey’s obituary. “Marvelous,” Mr. Disney prac-
. tically beamed over the telephone,
“put I think we've been very lucky. After all, we stopped work on the film six months ago and had plenty of. time to wonder how it would be receiv . “Are you satisfied with the results?” “Not satisfied,” he replied, “but I'm happy over the way the film has been received because it proves that cartoon features can make good entertainment.
Room. for Improvement
“No, I'm not satisfied,” he continued, “because there are a lot of things I could have improved upon —technical treatment, story construction, the handling of the drawings, the characterizations of Snow White, the Prince and the Queen and the comedy. When it was finished I wanted to start it all over again.” “What are you going to do next?” “We're working on a picturization of Felix Stalten’s ‘Bambi,’ which deals with the life of a deer. For the time being weé’'ve laid aside the
idea of making ‘Pinnocchio.’”
“How many features are you going to make a year?”
“Only one,” Mr. Disney said, “be- | cause theyre too hard to make, dt
would be practically impossible to make more, not only because of the tremendous amount of work involved but because talent is scarce. Of course, we're training new talent, but it takes years ‘before you get results. Besides, I think it is best not to put too many of them on the market.” “What about this new method of recording that Leopold Stokowski
. has developed for ‘The Sorcerer's
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The good news is that the Disney animated feature
Dopey
music and interpret it with color, characters and action so that everybody will be able to appreciate it, and not just the few who know music. What. it will require is a
sort of ‘monitor man’ in every theater to control and gauge the recording according to the number of people in the theater.” At the presegs time Spanish and French versi of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” have been completed in Hollywood, and plans are under way for versions in Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, German and Italian, the last two to be made in Germany and Italy, respectively, because of government regulations.
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO
ie, Don Ameche and Cesar , at 11:48, 2:19, 4:50, 7:21 an hd 5030 “March of Time" feature, “Inside
Nazi German 393s. ” at 11:32, 4:34, 7:05 and 9: a 3%.
CLE Radio City Revels,” with Bob Bums, Jack Oukle and Kenny. Baker, at 11, 7:18 d 10:04.
“Double. Dangers wit! Preston Foster and yhline Bourn 3:30, 6:16 and 9 2 5 a 12100,
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“Sno White. and the Seven Dwarfsy’ first I Sen th animated color cartoon, from the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, at 11, 12:50, 2:45, 4:35, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:15.
LOEW’S “Mannequin,” with Joan Crawford and Spencer Tr and Spenger acy. at 12:40, 3:45, Lo Xou! re Only Young Once,” with wis Stone and Mickey Rooney, Ie 2:25, 5:30 and 8:40.
LYRIC
“Dave Apolion’s Varieties of 1938,” on stage at 1, 3:52, 6:44 and 9:36. “Blondes with Gienda - Farrell and Barton MacLane, 11:43, 2:35, 5:27, 8:19 and 10:41.
KEITH'S s “Thunder Trail.” und of 1938,”
Zane Grey’ “Merry-Go-Alice Brady.
Also with
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“Behold, Specimen,”
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AMBASSADOR
“True Confession,” with Carole Lombard. Also “Daughter of Shanghai,” with Anna May Wong.\\
ALAMO
“Ebb Tide,” with Frances Farme er. Als so “Colorado Kid,” with Bob
Elizabeth Patterson and Lucian Hogan
to clear up the mystery.
Smith.
into the forest to be killed. She Seven Dwarfs. The Queen then
Story—An easily influenced
Circle
FRED WARING AND HIS PENNSYLVANIANS (on stage). “SCANDAL STREET” (on screen)—Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell, Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Virginia Weidler, Edgar Kennedy,
Story—Hero leaves town on business and in his absence heroine tries to mind her own business. But gossip links her with an impending murder and presently she findseherself held responsible. Hero returns and with help of child heroine befriended manages
Indiana
“SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS” (second week) —An entirely new cast of characters taken from the works of the Brothers Grimm. Produced by Walt Disney. Directed by Dave Hand. Characters designed by Albert Hurter and Joe Grant. Music under the direction of Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul
Story—First feature-length animated cartoon story by the Disney Studios. The Oraele tells the wicked Queen that her stepdaughter is more beautiful than Her Majesty. Snow White is sent
sleep of death.” It works and keeps on working until the kiss of Snow White's Price awakens her. They live happily ever after.
Loew's »
“THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES”=-Adolphe Menjou, Ritz Brothers, Zorina, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds, Helen Jepson, Phil Baker, Ella Logan, Bobby Clark and Jerome Cowan. Directed by George Marshall. Ballets by George Balanchine.
Littlefield. Directed by James
‘escapes and is adopted by the gives her a potion called “the
Hollywood producer allows his
subordinates to run away with his imagination. When he tries to
of talented idiots since P. T. Barnum accidentally fed loco weed - to the occupants of his monkey cage. But some of them have
get it back he finds that he must also adopt the greatest collection
and his Lone Star Cowboys. Rio, George Sanders, June Lang,
Story—Soldier-of-fortune flier to the coast to buy arms for the
to escape together and sail away.
talent and the result is simply amazing. - Lyric
“A TON OF FUN” (on stage)—Johnny Perkins, Chaz Chase, Grace and Nikko, Ruth Petty, Vern Wilcox and Texas Jim Lewis
“INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT” (on screen)—Dolores Del John Carradine. Directed by Eugene Forde. spies get busy and he has a difficult time getting to the coast. .
They pursue him into International Settlement at the time it is under bombardment. Beautiful spy saves: him and they manage
Dick Baldwin, Ruth Terry and
gigrees to smuggle a cool million Chinese in the interior. But the
Keith Stage
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To Have Band
Rudy Bundy Orchestra, Other Acts on Week-End Bill.
/ For its second week of SaturdaySunday vaudeville, Keith’s will present a stage bill headed by Rudy Bundy and his NBC Orchestra. The band leader, a clarinet-playing
his 12 musicians were featured some years ago with George Olsen in the musical comedy, “Good News.” The band will present an act highlighting dancing and comedy, as well as vocal and instrumental
music. Following their vaudeville engagements, they are to embark on a tour of the country’s leading ballrooms. Other acts at Keith's will be, Curry and Cooley, “knockabout”? comedians; Storms and Lee, dancers; Jerry Lawton, cowboy entertainer, and Rita Maryo, singer. The first-run picture on the same bill is titled “Mama Runs Wild,” a comedy about a public-spirited policewoman, featuring Mary Boland and Ernest Truex.
TRAVELING TREE
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tains near Saugus, Cal, transpor d :
to Catalina Island for use in ° Buccaneer,” thence to oun Hollywood studio, thence to Palm Springs for scenes in “Her Jungle Love.”
Last Day
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Bob Burns in ‘Radio City Revels’
TOMORROW and ALL WEEK
5 STAGE SHOWS DAILY :23—2:46—5:09— 5'and 9:41 P. Mm.
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BETTY ATKINSON
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News Scenes| i
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Stage; Show Opens Tomorrow.
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Pictures with “Shanghai” in the
and fast since. the Sino-Japanese
|conflict began, but it remained for “International Settlement,” due at|3 the Lyric tomorrow, to incorporate | :i actual scenes of fighting into a fic-|
tional feature. . “West of Shanghai,” “North of Shanghai,” “Daughter of Shanghai” and the rest capitalized on cur-
expense. of rather innocuous plots.
to be the first to include newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing.
tures of an aviator turned arms
its purpose in the plot through the paradox of saving the hero's life. This hero is George - Sanders, the strapping Britisher who seems unable to avoid foreign entanglements on the Fox lot since he foreswore a career: of movie villainy.
Cast Is Strong
Dolores Del Rio, playing what the publicity calls “the most beautiful and dangerous white woman in all China,” and June Lang have . the feminine leads, and Dick Baldwin will be seen as a newsreel cameraman. Keye Luke, of the now-aban-doned “Charlie Chan” series; John Carradine, Harold Huber and Pedro de Cordoba will add a sinister bit. The stage show will be headlined by that rotund Terre Haute citizen, Johnny Perkins, back at the Lyric for his annual engagement. Featured in his own revue, “A Ton of Fun,” Mr. Perkins will introduce five other acts. Among the other entertainers will be “Chaz” Chase, pantomime comedian last seen here in George White's “Scandals.” .
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when
Attired in jockey’s silks, Jane Withers seems to be Vyine to discover what has happened and te her steed has departed. The scene is from
and Una Merkel,
“Checkers” coming to the Apollo tomorrow. consoling trio is Stuart Erwin, Marvin Stephens
Her
ALICE BRADY ASKS
cut IN. DOG TAXES
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 17 (U. Py— Alice Brady, veteran actress, in the determined role of president of the Tailwagger Foundation. of America,
asked the Los Angeles city council today to halve the present dog tax of $2 for males, $4 for females. Her
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