Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1938 — Page 8

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Circle Film Stars Bette

In ‘Jezebel’

."W/arner Bros. Get Jump ' On Selzick's "Gone With the Wind."

“he Warner Brothers, who have

a celebrated faculty for turning out

1s of topical and current interes’, have done i again. When they sa David O. Selznick’s projected «Cone With the Wind” drifting towerd that nebulous, improbable recion of war debt payments, they it to work. The result is “Jeze- » coming to the Circle tomor-

x Jezebel” isn’t really a “Gone h the Wind,” of course. The ~rners aren’t flirting with plagi‘m. ‘But it is the story of a spitSouthern belle of antebellum s. And it is suspected that rebel” will take the edge off auices’ appetite for crinoline and 12ps before Mr. Selznick can say arlett O'Hara.” ‘he play is'by the prolific Owen is, done over for the screen by ements Ripley, Abem Finkel and n Huston. The star is Bette is. Advance publicity on the ‘ure describes the heroine as ‘a biled, heartless . and beautiful 1's,” which is a characterization it down Miss Davis’ alley.

Started Out Sweet

would not be fair to apply any ‘he above adjectives except the s° one to Miss Davis in real life. between flights of screen temsment, she has been known to sy in trim with a little figurative ir-pulling in the front office. ne wouldn’t know this tempestublond star for the little girl + came out to Hollywood a few ‘s ago. Previously she had won : cnolorship in John Murray Anon’s drama. school. After some +4 sledding Broadway began to tice her in such plays as “Broken 1es.” So did a Universal scout. sllowed Miss Davis’ trek to the :t Coast. She was cast in some unger sister” and wall flower ~5. Miss Davis felt she wasn’t ing so good, and the studio knew Jer bosses scarcely could wait til the option was up to tell her bye. George Arliss Saved Her

» the farewells were said, and the Davis’ trunks were packed for a rzturn to New Yprk. Just then, however, George Arliss took a look at iss Davis’ test for the:ingenue par: in his “The Man Who Played God.” That's how the nice little girl who didn't have what the movies needed moved over to the Warner headquarters. And there she has remained, except for an excursion to R-K-O for her brillian’ performance in “Of Human Bondage.” Miss Davis’ spitfire activity began witly the share-cropper melodrama, “Cabin in the Cotton,” opposite Richard Barthelmess. She was a mezn, cantankerous Southern gal in that one, but she has grown steadily more menacing in “Dangerous,” “Marked Woman,” “That Cerain Woman” and all the rest. When the star patched up her contract troubles, she said, among other things, “I've heen a brat, and probably shall again, frequently.” She has—the casting director has seen to that. Miss Davis has two leading men in her present opus. They are Henry Fonda and George Brent, anc both fall under the siren’s spell before the picture is through. The supporting cast includes such well-known players as Margaret Lincsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainen har Cromwell- and Henry

GRAVET IN NEW FILM

“The Devil With Love,” starring Fernand Gravet, today was. annouticed by M-G-M as one of the first pictures made under Mervyn LeRoy's new contract.’ The picture is based on Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” made in-1931 with Norma She srer and Robert Montgomery.

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ay the set enlivened prodiiction of jghth Wife,” tomérrow’s feature at the Indiana. Above left, Gary Cooper dons whiskers

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beard or Santa Claus. At the right, our hero finds he'll be occupied for the evening with Miss Colbert. Below, the stars find that Director Ernst Lubitsch is inclined to drive them at work or play. So they climb aboard for a buggy ride.

Personnel managers from Indianapolis factories and business firens will be guests of Broad Ripple Park at a banquet in the Columbia Club tomorrow night. W. A. McCurry, head of the new recently announced purchase of the 62-acre playground, arranged the meeting for the purpose of discussing plans for company-sponsored picnics at the park during the coming summer. Details of the corporation’s $100,000 reconstruction program, now in progress at the amusement center, will be revealed by the park man-

ALICE BRADY GETS SCREEN - AWARD

HOLLYWOOD, Marc March 24 (U.P). —Alice Brady today was the possessor of a plaque as the actress playing the best supporting role in 1937. She was in bed with a broken ankle when the “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the prizes March 10. The plaque, given: to her by Charles Winninger, comedian, in an informal ceremony yesterday, was for her role as Mrs. O'Leary in the film “In Old Chicago. 4

BROWN SIGNS AGAIN

Clarence Brown, director- of “Of Human Hearts,” has signed: a new M. G. M. contract. He row is en route to Switzerland to film exteriors for “Idiot’s Delight,” which*will star

Norma Shearer and Clark Gable and which he will direct.

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ager. During the last few: years Mr. McCurry has assisted factory and business executives in the organization of annual outings at local parks. Besides Indianapolis plants, others from Anderson, Muncie, Gas City, Kokomo and other surrounding cities are expected to be represented. The dinner will be augmented by a variety entertainment program.. Work of rebuilding and renovating every section of the park, including the swimming pool, is being speeded in: preparation for the formal opening late in May, Mr. McCurry announced today.

STAR'S MANAGER SUED FOR $50,000

HOLLYWOOD, March 24 (U.P). —Peter Baumann, manager of Martha Raye, film comedienne, today was sued: for $50,000 breach of promise by Nancy E. Dixon, 20-year-old St. Louis stenographer. Baumann recently was sued for $150,000 in an alienation of affection suit'brought by Peter F. Reed, father of Miss Raye. -

ALASKAN VILLAGE BUILT FOR MOVIES

HOLLYWOOD, March 24 (U.P). —An Alaskan fishing village today covered 100,000 square feet of the waterfront at Balboa Island, vacation resort south of here, and a movie company went to work on the film “Spawn of the North.” Preparations for the picture took

three years after the studio decided to build a village in Southern California, instead of going to Alaska. The film deals with the salmon fisheries.

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Glen Gray Is] Booked Her e : Hr Donald ‘Crisp, Fay Bainter, Richard Cromwell and Spring

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His. Poplar ¢ Casa Loma, Ine. Plays Night Stand At Indiana: Roof.

One of’ the tow “name bands” booked here this season will be at

chestra arrive for a one-night en-

| gagement. To give the band its full title one

tra, Inc. For this unusual aggregation was” incorpota back in eved any recognition. Mr. Gray was president, “Pee Wee” Hunt, vice president, and Kenny Sargent, secretary and treasurer. The president still directs and his fellow officers remain the band’s most ‘popular -en-)

The Casa Loma aggregation is in the midst of a month of onenighters which will continue until the band its annual twoweek vacation on April 1,

A Hit in Kansas City

They come to Indianapolis from :

Kansas City, scene of their first ‘big engagement seven years ago. The

band returned there in 1935. and|

played to 4500 persons—with the thermometer at 118! :

The Casa Loma management points with pride te last year’s engagement for the Coronation Ball in New York, and their selection this season tp play at the number one President's Birthday Ball at Ihe Mayflower Hotel in Washingn. A record-breaking engagement of five months at the Hotel New Yorker's Terrace Room was terminated to begin the present tour. The orchestra has played engagements in Florida, ‘Texas, Kansas and Missouri, and will continue Eastward: from Indianapolis. An engagement at the Earle Theater,

Opening : Tomorrow.

_. Circle “JEZEBEL"—Bette Davis, Henry Forida, George Brent, Margaret

n.: Directed by William Wyler, : Story--Concerns a: spoiled society belle of New ‘Orleans in the middle’ of the last century. She cannot decide which of two men she wants. While she is making up her mind, one of them leaves to marry another, making up her mind for her. Hence the name, in modern times a term of reproach. But Jezebel in the motion pic-

: tire survives Elijah’s cilrse, ‘which Jezebel of the biblical story did not.

“HE COULDN'T SAY NO”—Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Cora

) Witherspoon, Berton Churchill and Raymond Hatton. Directed by

¥ Stary LAll about Lambert Hunkins and how he changed from a

= mouse to 2 man. His touchstone is a statue the senator's daughter regrets héving posed for,

Indiana “BLUEBEARD’S EIGHTH WIFE’—Cfudette Colbert, : Gary

+ Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson, . ‘Herman Bing, Franklin Pangborn and Warren Hymer. Directed by ; Ernst Lubitsch.

Story—A young American millionaire is seven wives down and one to go ‘when he meets the daughter of an impoverished French aristocrat. Against her wishes she agrees to play the eighth position. Her rules, however, prove a little difficult for him to play as they forbid broken-field running. Buf unnecessary roughness is rule number one for her and, applying it, she manages to pack the wed-

: ding bells away in moth balls.

“DANGEROUS TO KNOW”—Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Anna May Wong, Lioyd Nolan, Roscoe Karns and Porter Hall, Directed by Robert Florey, Story—A political boss and racketeer aspires to the society queen of the town. When he tries to “eliminate” her fiance he meets. with success until his former lady friend becomes jealous. The Big Shot then prepares to die for a murder that is really a suicide.

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“THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST”—Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen, Priscilla Lawson, Cliff Edwards, Billy Bevan ‘and H. B. Warner, Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Story—Based on the play by David Belasco, it tells’ the love story of a bandit and a lady saloon keeper. There's a sheriff who also loves the lady, and he and the bandit tangle intermittently with incidental music by Sigmund Romberg. - To reverse the usual procedure, the lady retains her saloon, the bandit his “business,” while the agent of the law steals away into the night. “WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON?”—Don Terry, Rita Hayworth, Robert Paige, and Wyn Canoon. Directed hy Leon Barsha. Story—A night club star spends one evening losing her temper with almost everyone she knows. Then, when she is murdered, the police are provided with plenty of material for the suspect list. This seems to be too much for the law and they have to Te-enact ‘the crime. That turns tha trick. :

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Vaudeville—Ted Mack, Prof. Lamberti, Rex Weber, Ray and Geraldine, Hudson, Pinky Lee, Dick, Don and Dinah and Maidie and Ray. “LOVE, HONOR AND BEHAVE” (on screen)—Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, John Litel, Thomas Mitchell, Dick Foran and Mona Barrie. Directed by Stanley Logan. Story—All about a young man who has been taught that it is better to lose gracefully than to win. When he finds out that this: is not always the case, he is a sucker for a left hook, but is also on the delivering end of a half dozen of the same. He saves a sound spanking for the girl friend.

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Star Finally - Goes on-Job

Studio Pays Her $18.75 A Minute, Husband

Paces Floor.

HOLLYWOOD, March 24 (U. P), —Miss Danielle Darrieux, whose salary is three times that of President Roosevelt, got her chance today to

prove that she’s worth the money. When the 21-year-old actress are rived here from France last October under a five-year contract, her salary began immediately at the rate of more than $4000 a week. While she polished her fing and otherwise kept herself gmused in her rented Bel-Air home, the authors began to pound their typewriters. They were told that the

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quicker they wrote a scenario for

her, the longer their jobs would last. Finally the writers came up with a rough draft of a story called “The Rage of Paris.” It looked all right. Studio chieftains, with an eye on those Saturday night checks, said “Go.” Miss Darrieux went before the cameras yesterday, while the writers upstairs sent down the script, page by page. The story has her a French show girl, stranded in New York and looking for a job as a model. She

.thinks she has employment posing

for an artist, but she gets the wrong address and goes to the office of an advertising agent, where immediate« ly she strips for work. The agent is Douglas ‘Fairbanks Jr, and he thinks she isn’t nice (that’s the way Hollywood puts it.) A lot of other things happen. Mr. © Fairbanks changes his mind and marries her, Only one man on the stage ige nored her. He paced the floor with his hands behind his back. His name was Henry Decoin, e 1s her husband. Then the ca s stopped and she put on a blue dressing gown. She said she felt nervous, but Director Henry Koster yelled for her to start the next scene. Nobody could blame him. Every minute counted, at a rate of $18.75 per.

Philadelphia, is booked for April 15.

Your blood will race through your

veins as the exciting drama of the bandit who loved the beauty unfolds on the living screen!...Plunging horses—flash-

ing guns— romantic moonlit scenes— with your sweethearts of song telling

their love in unforgettable melody!

Love Songs to Excite You by Sigmund Romberg and Gus Kahn! ‘Soldiers of Fortune’ “Shadows on the Moon’ “Who Are We fo Say” “The Wind i in the Trees”

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