Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1938 — Page 4

WY. C Fields Here Again

At Indiana

Kirsten Flagstad Also in Cast of Film, "The Big Broadcast of '38."

By JAMES THRASHER

If you remember the 'picture “Mississippi,” you should be glad to learn that W. C. Fields is going down to the sea in ships again, this time in “The Big Broadcast of 1938.” The cruise, so far as local patrons are concerned, will begin Friday at the Indiana. Surely you will recall “Mississippi,” in which Mr. Fields as a riverboat Skipper, continually was recounting how he had ‘cut my way through a wall of human flesh, dragging my canoe behind me.” Now, in his mew picture, Mr. Fields is forsaking the old paddlewheeler for aquatic transportation of the future. In a dual role, he portrays the owner of a new boat, the S. S. Gigantic (radio powered), which races the Atlantic with its rival, the 8S. S. Colossal.

Imposing Passenger List

There's quife an imposing passenger list accompanying the neonnosed comedian. On board the Gigantic will be Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Lynne Overman, Bob Hope, Ben Blue, Leif Erickson, Grace Bradley and Rufe Davis. § And that isi’t all. Others are Shep Fields, he of the rippling rhythm and no relation to the star; Tito Guizar, such old-time movie charmers as Mary MacLaren, Ethel Clayton, Gertrude Astor and Mae Busch, and—of all people—Kirsten Flagstad of the Metropolitan Opera. They constructed a set for Mme. Flagstad in Hollywood and shipped it to New York, where engagements were keeping her busy. They hired Wilfred Pelletier, also of the “Met,” to conduct tne orchestra. Mme, Flagstad sang Bruennhilde’s “Ho-jo-to-ho” from “Die Walkuere.” Then they shipped the set back to Hollywood.

Confused by Noise

Six months later the opera star came .to Hollywood. Someone on the studio lot tried to tell her that the boat on which she had sung in New York was just getting ready to sail over on Stage 8. The di didn’t quite make it out. “Well,” she said, “I wait until I see it.” Someone asked Mme. Flagstad how she happened to be making her screen debut in this picture. “Well,” she replied, “I saw Leopold Stokowski in ‘The Big Broadcast ‘of 1937’ They told me it would be something like that. I liked if, so I said ‘All right, I'll do it.” But it’s feared the reigning Wagnerian soprano won’t be deserting opera for the movies right away. There are some things about the film capital she doesn’t like. For instance: “The photographers, they are terrible. Those flashlights go ‘boom’ and I dodge. I can’t help it. That's why I don’t know whether I would like fo work in the movies or not.”

TEXAS FILM RENAMED

Producer Lucien Hubbard is completing preparations for the filming of Paramount’s forthcoming production of the Texas plains. “The Lone Star Rises” has been selected as the picture’s title, replacing “Marching Herds.” Robert Barrat and Raymond Hatton have been added to the cast with Randolph Scott, Frances Dee and May Robson in top spots.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

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“Checkersy® with Jane. hers Stuart Erwin and Una at 11:04, 1:50, 4:37, 7:24 au

“Non-Stop New York,” Sr "Anna Lee and ng Loder at 12: 40, 3:27,

6:14 CIRCLE Fred Waring and His Pennsylvane Jans. on stage at 1, 3:50, 6:45 and

ois] Set with i Ayres and Louise mbbell, 3% at 11, 3:46, 6:09, 8: bY and 10:4 CIVIC EATER “Dollars to Doughnuts,” a musical revue by Charles ynor, Curtain at ENGLISH'S

“Victoria Helen 8 an historical drama with A elen Hayes. Curtains at 2:30 and 8 INDIANA “Snow

White and Dwarfs. * first feature-len h animist, ed color cartoon. he Grim Dh e. fairy tale, ToRt 11:39, 1: 3 3:45, § 7:51,. and 9:54. LOEW'S

Follies,” Brot 2:15, & LYRIC 7 “A To of a lies on Sage with has ‘at 1: or 3:48, 8: 49 ha 9: 30. “International Settlement,” with Dolores Del Rio and George Sanders, at 11:28, 2:09, 5:10, 7:51 and 10:32. OHIO

“Street Scene,” with Sylvia Sidney. Alas “Dangerously Yours’ with Cesar Romero.

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“Outlaws of the Prairie,” with Charles ' Starrett. Also “Expensive Husbands,” with Patrick Knowles.

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will headline the Lyric’s stage show

vaudeville bill, Comes Back.”

Art Jarrett, singer, orchestra leader and husband of Eleanor Holm,

beginning Friday. He is to appear,

minus his band, as singer and master of ceremonies for the seven-act The picture will feature Wayne Morris in “The Kid

IN NEW YORK —s SIBLE

Bronx lon t What It Used to Be for Toriny Kelly Now He's Movie Tom Sawyer. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—They took the Bronx lad, 12-year-old, freckle-

faced Tommy Kelly off Grand Concourse, carted him to Hollywood, cast him as Tom Sawyer in the new talkie and brought him back.

He hates the glitter, the glamour and the idolatry that go with being a Hollywood star. He hardly saw his’ old pals of the Oriole A. C. in the Bronx this trip. And his mother, Mrs. Norah Kelly, who really is a kind-hearted soul, won't:

| even let him take his air rifle to

bed with him any more. She says it isn’t . dignified. Tommy says, “Aw, Nertz.” When Tommy was brought back from Sunset Boulevard and put down on the familiar streets . of New York, he thought with boyish optimism, that his troubles were No adult movie queens to pat him on the head. No movie moguls’ wives to coo “Cutie Pie” at him. No publicity geniuses to take him in charge. The Grand Concourse loomed ahead, and so did the marble ring around the corner, Instead, the boy from the Bronx was doomed to adulation. When he stepped off the 20th Century at the terminal, a delegation of classmates from *St. Raymond's Parochial School were there to serenade him. Instead of heading northward toward- the Bronx, Tommy’s cab turned toward a.fashionable hotel, popular with screen notables, in the Fifties. They had an Eton suit prepared for him. But he squawked. He squawked so loud and long that they omitted this effete item from his wardrobe.

No Kelly Pools

Tommy tired of the fashionable hotel in two days. So did Papa Michael Kelly, who cashed in on Tommy’s success in Hollywood by

becoming night watchman on the Selznick Pictures lot. They became sated with their swank address chiefly because of the lack of swimming pool and gymnasium. And the Kellys, pere et fils, like a workout at least once each day. So, against the - wishes of the publicity department, the executive heads and studio chaperon, the Kellys moved out one dead of night and transferred to a modest, little hotel on the other side of Manhattan’s railroad tracks. It was no place for interviewers to be inter-

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And Tommy Kelley is miserable.®-

viewing a Hollywood star. But it had the required athletic accommodations. Tommy's voluble protests about the demands that are made upon him reached deaf ears until now. But they are being heeded under threat of unmitigated rebellion. For one thing, Tommy is tired of signing autographs. For another, he is weary of being led about to kid entertainments where he is made to bore himself with marionette shows and the like. And he vehemently threatens to sock the next little girl who approaches and frills, “Tommy loves Shirley Temple.”

the homecoming of a newborn juvenile star on the Hollywood horizon, The Grand Concourse, says Master Kelly, is the place for a kid and fun.

Concert Ticket Sales Mapped

Chairmen of the second children’s concert, to be presented at Murat Theater April 2, today planned the ticket sales campaign. The concerts are offered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In charge of various activities ae Mesdames Lehman M. Dunning, J. A. Goodman, Troy Miller, Harry W. Hobbs, George Smith, Ray F, Sparrow, Lorenzo Jones, Theodore B. Griffith, Thomas Neal, James IL. Gavin, A. K, Scheidenhelm, Eugene C. Whitehill, Thomas Scanlon, Samuel Montel, Chauncey Eno and the Misses Ann Ayres, Lucy Taggart and Rose Dowd. Exchange tickets for the concert should be submitted at the Murat box office immediately.

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4 It Wil Make You Laugh a Lot , ¢ and Cry a Little!

SITIES CHECKERS

And that, partly, is the saga of

‘Buccaneer

New Roles of Importance |

Magyar Star Is One Foreign Import Who May

IFranciska Gaal's Work in

Earns Three

Justify Studio's Expenditure; Actress Cast in Next Crosby Film, Fors Honeymeon:

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. our doesn’t represent any gion hc Bo wood. Exotic foreign actresses are

23.—The wholesale buying of European glam-

extravagance on the part of Holly-. a mere million dollars a dozen.

This is quite a modest sum, co sidering that most of the newcomers are bringing with them the devotion and support of millions of foreign fans. Franciska Gagl, for example, will attract audiences wherever German - language films have $ been shown: durthe past few years, for she starred in nine important pictures. Also she’s an idol of the Hungarian stage. It used to be & Hollywood custom to bring over beauties of no great dramatic distinction and spend a lot of money cramming them down the throats of the American public. Samuel Goldwyn started it with his hoopla introduction of Anna Sten. Ketti Gallian received a similarly illstarred build-up about five years ago. More recently came Simone Simon. Merely a promising young player in France, she was working there for approximately $85 a week when she was signed by 20th-FoxX. The studio. then spent $50,000 on Simon ballyhoo, which seemed scarcely justified by her subsequent pouty histrionics.

Strange, New Modesty

Talkietown’s foreign policy has been reversed now. Actresses with established European followings are being hired. But. they.are introduced in this country without fanfare, and even with a strange new modesty and restraint. Although she is an actress of such ability that Ferenc Molnar wrote two plays especially for her, the studio choose to bring her out in the somewhat-less-than-starring role of the little Dutch cutie in “Buccaneer.” It was a good role, though, for providing glimpses of the actress’ varied talents. She is winning a lot of praise for it, and hereafter she will be starred.

Miss Gaal

Paramount has three pictures for|

her—“Never Say Die,” “Paris Honeymoon” (with Bing Crosby), and “Soubrette.” “I do not know which will be first,” said Miss Gaal. “I have learned that in Hollywood all that is certain is that nothing is certain.”

She's full of little epigrams like|

that. Speaking of contracts she said, “They are written only for the party-of-the-first-part, which isthe studio. An actor has his choice of

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two things—he can stick to his contract or he can get on an airplane and go home,” Miss Gaal’s husband, jkovich, is a lawyer. Like most of the new glamour immigrees she has progressed astonishingly with her English. Actresses have a good ear for sounds, a good memory for words, plus the incentive to work hard and long at their lessons. Miss Gaal retains quite a lot of accent but can control it in rehearsed speeches before the camera.

Magyar, the staggeringly difficult language of Hungary, has no “th” or “w” sounds, and Miss Gaal's having a time with them. When she first came to America and. heard people saying such things as “through thick and thin” she thought we were a nation of congenital lispers. She can sing. Some of her stage shows and pictures were musicals. “Here, though, I would be worried to sing,” she said. “And I would not dare to dance. In this country everybody seems to be born wearing tap shoes. The whole country seem so happy and sing so beautifully and- dance so. nicely. In Europe when anybody is gay you say, ‘Ah, the poor fellow is trying to forget his troubles.’ ” Deaf to her shrieks of protest, the studio has bleached her brown hair to a near-blond. Her eyes are hazel, her complexion very fair, and she weighs 115 pounds in a four-ounce playsuit. Franciska Gaal was the youngest’ of 13 children. Everybody shushed her. The family’s patronizing at-

The Colgrove Sisters are to be featured singers with Paul Baker’s Orchestra at the seventh annual Washington’s Birthday Military Ball to be held Saturday night at the Athenaeum under auspices of Voiture

145 of 40 and 8.

titude toward “the baby” was what fixed her determination to become

an actress; she wanted to be no-

ticed, listened to.

At the age of 14 she enrolled in the State Academy of Drama. Her parents thought she was attending a girls’ school every day, and there was the devil to pay when they finally learned the truth. They learned the truth because in three months the academy dismissed her as a hopeless pupil without talent. Angrily determined, she took to hanging around a theater where a play was in rehearsal. They wouldn't give her an audition, but she was permitted to look on. Just before opening night, the ingenue became ill. In the best storybook tradition, Miss Gaal announced that she knew the role and triumphantly stepped into it. It was smooth sailing after that. Plays in Budapest. Pictures, all in the German language, but filmed all over Europe. It seemed to be smooth sailing in Hollywood, too. She likes it here—the food, the friends she has made, and especially the game of rummy.

ov. He's a two-fisted Yank who goes romantic with two gorgeous girls!

As grand as its exciting setting is this adventure of a fighting American with a roving heart...You see old Oxford at its most thrilling (M-G-M stars went all the way to ~ England for authentic settings)..., rousing revelry...sports galore... and a love story that will make you glad to be alive! You'll say, This is really Bob Taylor's best picture!”

OF CHUCKLES

WITH HUGS AND KISSES THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE!

10 ACTS NCLUDRD IN TALENT NIGHT

Tonight's “Talent Night” bill at the Fountain Square will include 10 acts. Among the performers will be the Allison "Sisters, acrobats; Mickey Montani, billed as “the Girl of the Range”; Nathan.Scott, baritone; “Mystery Gal Sal”; Mary Jean Tucker, accordion; Dorothy Carpenter, dancer; Mary Helen McClelland and Betty Louise Stine, tap dancers; Betty Jean Hoff, organist;

Joe Ann and Paul Richey, song and

dance team, and Dorothy Howard, singing and dancing. Gordon Carper and his orchestra

are to play between acts. There

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Symphony Quartet to Ap-

pear at Golden Hill.

The first of three concerts by the

| Indianapolis Symphony String Quare

tet is to be given at 4:45 p. m, tomorrow at the home of Dr. G. H. A. Clowes, Golden Hill. ‘Quartet members

are Boris

| Schwarz and Avram Weiss, violins;

Jules Salkin, viola, and Paulo Gruppe, cello. The players are cone certmaster and assistant concerte master, solo viola and solo cello of the orchestra. Their program will consist of Brahms’ Quartet in C Minor, Opus 51, No. 1, and the Schubert D Minor Quartet (Death and the Maiden). The first and second concerts have been completely sold out, but a few tickets are available for the third concert. Inquiries may be made of Mrs. Alexander Holliday, 1264 Golden Hill Drive. The second performance is schede uled for March 17, in the home of Miss Lucy Taggart, 1331 N. Delae« ware St. The J. A. Goodman resie

dence on Kessler Blvd. will be the scene of the final concert, March 31,

ter of Shanghai,” with Anna May Wong, beginning at 7:15 p. m., and “Stage Door,” starring Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn, bee ginning at 10:15 p. m.

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