Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1938 — Page 18
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. By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18—At the main gate of the Metro studio a wag pasted a sign reading in French and German: “English Spoken Here.” , | Ab Paramount a well-known na- | tive actress cracked, “I seenk I get for myself wan leele accent—no? Zen maybe I have better chance to get work in ze cinema.” i At 20th-Fox a foreign player countered an interviewer's question with: i “Hollywood - 1s not a good place to make an opinion of Americans. I meet Hungarian directors, German producers, British writers, and actors and actresses from every country in Europe. But I do* not remember meeting many Amerfcans” So go the comments, mostly satirical, ‘as movie makers continue to bring in from oth-
Set Special : Showing of
Snow White|
Block Co. to Treat Chil dren From City's Ve-
rious Institutions.
(See Anton Scherrer’s Column, Page 15)
By JAMES THRASHER
Gojng into its second week ab the. Indiana, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will be seen by children from the city’s yarious institutions at 9 a. m. tomorrow in a special performance sponsored by the William H. Block Co. Though not essentially a chil-
dren’s picture, “Snow White” must |; have a special appeal to younger |: members of the audiences, for it is |:
an ideal: realization of the fairy tales that played so large.a part in the youthful, imaginative lives of ‘all of us.
The fable which Walt Disney has || brought to the screen with inde- |.
scribable skill and loveliness goes back even farther than the story
which Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |: delight |:
set down for the boundles of children the world over.’ For the
BALLET STAR IN LOEW'S FILM
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Opens Today | Charles Gaynar's : armual Civie
titled “Dollars to Doughnuts” is to open a six-night engagement at the Playhouse this evening with Anna Ludmila heading a cast of 70. Miss Ludmila, formerly prima ballerina of ‘the : Chicago Civic Opera ballet and an internationally known soloist, will be assisted by Johnnie Sweet in the dancing num-" bers. Other leading parts are to be filled by Kathleen Wallace, . Carl Baker, Jac Broderick, Abravaya, Royse Agnew, Paul Krauss, Billy Shirley, Sally. Maurer, Norma Whited, Edward Green, William Cook, ~Fanchon Fattig, Marion Etcheverry, Jane Kinghan, Leslie Aye and Louise Shappert.”
The show will have: 10 “production” numbers of large-scale proportions. Mr. Broderick has staged these numbers, and the general direction has been done by Alfred Etcheverry, Civic director, and Mr, Gaynor. i:
SAT & SUN. ON STAGE
TOSCANINI DROPS § SALZBURG PLANS
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (U. P.). —Arturo Toscanini, noted syms= phony conductor, today abandoned plans to participate in the Salzburg music festival this year because of “the unsettled conditions in Austria.” ‘He said that a benefit cone cert in Carnegie Hall March 4, originally intended to help finance the festival, would be held, but that 75 per cent of the proceeds would go to a New York local of the American Federation of Musicians and 25 per cent to the Verdi home for destitute musicians in Milan, Italy. . )
PLAN ‘DISNEY ROUNDUP’ -
With color cartoons coming in increasingly large doses, the Ohio is to present a. “Walt Disney Roundup” at 11 a. m. tomorrow.” This special presentation will include six reels of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons. There is to be a special admission price for children, for whom the showing has been planned. aa
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19th & College
The t ballet star to be featured in a sound pleture is Vera Zorina, shown above in a scene from “The Goldwyn Follies,” now at Loew’s.’ The dancer, who is 20, has been seen here with the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, and had been featured in the stage plays, “Ballerina”
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The French actress with the single name, Annabella, played leads in three English pictures before These were “Under the Red Robe,” “Dinner at the Ritz” and the very successful production) in Technicolor, “Wings of the Morn-| ing.” wo “It was immediately following the latter hit that she was signed by! 20th-Fox. The studio wasted little time in bowing her into “The Baroness and the Butler” opposite William Powell as the star. A preview audience found her charming, but often unintelligible in this picture, and was astonished that she. could have so much! Eng-lish-speaking experience. : In about a month Annabella will star in ‘a film based on the life of George Sand. She is counted an established success and a permanent and popular resident of Hollywood. Loretta Smiled at Her
The colony wasn’t always so kind. Annabella came here four years ago for a role in the French version of “Caravan.” Didn't know a soul, or any English either. “It was a miserable time,” she sald. “I have never forget—forgotten—that Lorett Young smiled at-me on the set and gave me fea. It was the only warmth I had.” Her -real name was Anne Belle Carpentier, and her father, now retired, | was a magazine editor. In private life, she is Mme. Jean Murat, wife of a French actor. Professionally she'll always be just Annabella. TH Sun and wind (she drives in an open car) have streaked her hair in different shades of brown. She has brown eyes, a generous mouth; wears flat-heeled shoes, suits and almost no makeup. It’s when she’s working on a set,
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An Indianapolis arrival at 8:16 a. m. seemed a bit early for Albert Spalding (right), the famous American violinist, and he was a little sleepy when he alighted at the Union Station this morning. He will be soloist with' the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra this afternoon-and
tomorrow night.
The gentleman inspecting Mr. Spalding’s yawn is
Fred Waring, popular orchestra leader, who opened a week’s engagement at the Circle today. Mr. Waring arrived even. earlier!
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ning, that Annabella’s “umph” is|
particularly apparent. Her contours are streamlined, though they had a hard time posing her in a playsuit to prove it. There was a solemn conference of
|i makeup experts when she came
here a‘ few months ago. In three
solid days of tests they made her}
look like everybody from Martha Raye to Shirley Temple. - Finally Annabella got mad and told ’em she'd try her own way. First she washed her face, then she ran a comb through her hair, dabbed on a little lipstick and stepped before the camera. ; Studio bigwigs looked at the test and agreed that that was just what they wanted.’ ? Annabella says that she isn't temperamental in the sense of being mean and eccentric, but admits she can get angry and stick.up for her rights as she sees them. She likes any sort of role as long as it's substantial. She considers a lot of interviewers are rude or stupid, or both. . She hates posing for still pictures, but that’s a hangover from her girlhood—when her father, a camera fan, would spend hours snapping her in the garden. . And now, she still has’ to pose. I saw one of her lessons. The French star laboriously had written: “Last Sdturday I saw.20 happy children in the park. . . . Berry,
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Checkers,” with Jane Withers, Stuart Erwin and Una Merkel, at . 11:05, 1:51, 4:38, 7:25 and 10:12. “Non-Stop New York,” with Anna Lee and John Loder, at 12:35, 3:22, 6:09 and 8:52. \ :
CIRCLE
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, on stage at 12:43, 2:46, 5:09, 7:25 and 9:41. “Scandal Street,” with Lew Ayres and Louise Campbell, at 11, 1:23, 3:46, 6:09, 8:25 and 10:41.
CIVIC THEATER
“Dollars to Doughnuts,” a musical fetus by Charles Gaynor, Curtain at
INDIANA
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” first feature-length animated color cartoon, from the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, at 11:39, 1:42, 3:45, 5:48, 7:51, and 9:54.
LOEW'S
“The Goldwyn = Follies,” with Adolphe Menjou, Ritz Brothers and Zorina, at 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 10.
LYRIC
“A Ton of Fun,” on stage with Johnny Perkins, Chaz Chase and others, at 1:07, 3:48, 6:49 and 9:30. “International Settlement,” with Dolores Del Rio and George Sanders, at 11:28, 2:09, 5:10, 7:51 and 10:32.
KEITH'S Zane Grey's “Thunder Trail.” Also “Merry-Go-Round of 1938,” with
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Three Broadway Girls,” with Joan
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‘Believed Dwarfs Real
It is reported that many peasants of the Hartz Mountains have believed in the dwarfs’ actual existence. In former years woodsmen swore that they saw the little men going to their work of digging gems from fairy mines, or returning to their mountain homes at sundown. The Hartz Mountains have always been a favorite haunt of good and bad spirits, as well as the best singing canaries. And according to local legends, the seven mountain gnomes always enlisted the aid of birds and beasts in their contest with the evil spirits. Hence, their natural assistance to the homeless Snow White in the film, All this glorified story-telling of Mr. Disney’s becomes an absorbing experience for even the most casehardened movie patron. But the completeness of this absorption, especially among the younger spectators, is attested by Kenneth T. Collins, Indiana manager. “Never at any time or in any theater with which I have been connected,” says Mr. Collins, “have I seen .so many lost - articles as during the past week.” A hard-working corps of ushers collected a miscellaneous array of some 350 pieces over the week-end. Scarfs predominated, but there was a liberal representation of gloves,
caps, hats, overshoes and purses.|:
And there were many articles called for which never were found. So mothers had best tie a string on the children’s mittens, pin on the handkerchiefs and otherwise hitch all detachable impedimenta, then take the youngsters to 80 minutes of “relaxation” and enjoyment with perfect confidence,
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Music School Gives Recifal
The second in a series of Saturday afternoon recitals will be given at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Burroughs Irvington School of Music. Sponsoring teachers are Dorothy Head, Leah Horner, Ed Holloway, Helen M. Rice, Hanna Beck, Kathleen Somers Wallace, Betty Starr, Fred Martin and Jane Johnson Burroughs. : Pupils taking part include Carol Pritchard, Phyllis Bell, Bobby Atherton, Mary June Rice, Barbara Hall, Jack Ryder, Duncan Lane, Betty Jean Huff, Martha Huston, Billy Butler, Mildred Walsh and Elsie Greenquist. These recitals are open tq all.
OLYMPIC STARS IN FILM
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