Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1938 — Page 11

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“WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1938

HEADLINERS IN

: April 16 will be circus day for Indianapolis, with ' the. Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus tents pitched for a two-day engagement at Keystone and Southeastern

IN NEW YORK— GEORGE ROSS

Abe Ellis, "Who Rakes! in Dimes at bai Hat-

Detroit Boy| Stars in New| Loew's Film

One of the least exploited and most able members of Hollywood's teeming kindergarten will be seen at Loew's Friday, when “Of Human Hearts” comes to town. He is Gene- Reynolds,” and he ‘wouldn't like to be called a kindergartner, for he is 14. He's proud of his age, but sensitive about his size, since he weighs only 90 pounds, and stands 4 feet 10. Gene plays James Stewart as a boy in the coming picture; in which Walter Huston and Beulah Bondi also are featured. The Reynolds family moved to Hollywood from Detroit in 1934, and since then Gene has been busy portraying the boyhood of several famous actors. He has been Ricardo Cortez as a boy, also Tyrone Power and John Beal as a boy, and now Mr. Stewart. But the way things look now, Gene will be getting a part before long in which he doesn’t grow up. For he is being mentioned for. important assigmments in “One Young American,” “Boys’ Town” and: “Lord Jeff.” He" Really Acts

Gene does not go in for singing or tap dancing. Consequently he has escaped being a child star. His specialty is real acting, as “Of Human Hearts” already has demonstrated. He has been harvesting a bumper crop of tears all over the country with his performance since the picture was released. Despite his Sramiatic proclivity, doesn’t want to be thought a sissy or pretty-boy. In a recent/ Hollywood interview i with Paul Garrison, Gene was re- | jJoicing in a'scar on his forehead. . “I don’t mind that or my irregular { features,” Gene said, “because I | dons want to be a Robert Taylor. ylor is an awful nice man, and

very human, hut I do think that

| they've been putting him in too

| many sissy parts. Don’t you?”

Ever since Gene was 4, his mother

| says, he has wanted to be an actor.

. He started to school at that age, and

i | He made him leader of a children’s

' band. It was only a step from that

| to a pearances in commercial movies

made in Detroit. After that he became the protege of a local little theater. Director Luther Reed saw one of the commercial films and persuaded the:Reynoldses to come out to Holly‘wood. and take a shot at the real

Plays Frontier Role

In his present part, Gene plays Mr. Huston’s son in an Ohio frontier town of the 1850s. A great deal of the film has to do with the con~flict and misunderstanding between a stern, devout backwoods preacher and the boy, who is ambitious for a medical career. The film story is taken from Honore Morrow's “Benefits Forgot.” Miss Morrow chose her title from Shakespeare, and for a perfectly good reason, as you may find out if you turn to “As You Like It,” Act " JI Scene 7. But the picture makers, being more interested in box-office an the Bard, conducted a radio test and chose from among the entries “Of Human Hearts.” A more meaningful title graces the second picture which Loew’s will show on the same bill. It is called “Wide Open Faces,” and the star is Joe E. Brown. Cofeatured is Lyda Roberti in the late comedienne’s last

. scréen appearance. Others in the

cast are Alison Skipworth, Jane Wyman and Lucien Littlefield.

‘ROLAND. ESTATE : IS DISTRIBUTED

HOLLYWOOD, ‘April x (U. P)— ‘Ben Bard, actor husband of the late Ruth Roland, former ‘screen star, ‘began - distribution of her $500,000 estate today after settlement of ‘a dispute over the will. ~-John R. Roland, the actress’ fath< er, cut off with $100, fought for ‘more in court, and settled yesterday for a reported $5000. Miss Roland after retiring from films was a real estate operator.

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Aves. and Mabel, winter quarters.

Here is the dancing pachyderm team of Bat proudly leading thé parade out of

check Concessions,

Buys Opera House.

NEW YORK, April 6—Spring ramblings: Wonder if the men who build those massive mazda signs on Broadway stir out of their easy, chairs when a light bulb goes out in the living room? Or do their

wives attend to, it?

That flickering movie sign above that Broadway Cafe is still wishing

folk a Happy New Year's Eve! A thought for nickel and dime

bank savers: Abe Ellis, who owns

hatcheck concessions at various cabarets where the average tip is a dime, has just bought the Manhattan Opera House for threequarters of a million dollars—out of his profits. No troupe of high-kickers ever has approached the perfection of the 36 Rockettes at the Radio City Music Hall. They dance four shows a day, and they have yet to leave the stage without a deluge of applause. To my mind, Gertrude Lawrence is the queen of high comedy, and no actress can flatter clothes as can Ina Claire. The most breathtaking view of this town I ever had was from the top floor of Radio City,. looking northward on a misty night with the string of: lights etched against the fog as though suspended high in the air. Note on Broun

My first trip from Brooklyn to Manhattan, like an excursion from the provinces, was made in a horse and wagon. Delivering bundles of old papers to the junk shop. The most melodramatic stage scene I believe I ever saw was the jail-break scene in “The Last Mile” with Spencer Tracy emoting fiercely against the rat-rat-atat of machine gun fire. Heywood Broun, though celebrated for his sartorial carelessness, actually orders his clothes from a high-class tailor. It has been a puzzle fo many of us who have frigidly listened to numerous alleged jokesters in our time that Julius Tannen, one of the funniest, never went farther than he did. : Though he vehemently disclaims it, Alfred Lunt can’t lose the notjceable traces of a Scandinavian accent. Once when I brought it up in an interview, he indignantly disowned a foreign inflection in his English. , Friends who brood about being snubbed by Sylvia Sidney in theater lobbies and elsewhere are ignorant, perhaps, of the fact that she’s nearsighted.

Not ‘Movie’~Photoplay’

With summer coming, I begin to recall with dread that I'm in the dog house with at least a half dozen week-end hosts because of a lasting ‘aversion to badminton. A film man tells me that Hollywood doesn’t care for the word “movie.” In fact, a national campaign once was launched to expel it from the general vocabulary and popularize “photoplay” instead. To no avail. Macabre tales about what happens to Occidentals in Chinatown are subject to a great deal of exaggeration; but I have seen folk in dingy Harlem night clubs manhandled and tossed out on their ears— even after repeal when most bar doors were wide open. Sportswriters confide that baseball fans are the most violent fanatics in the sports world; hockey addicts come second. The most formideble doorman in the city, undoubtedly, is the moustachioed and herculean fellow who patrols the entrance to the Russian Kretchma near Union Square. He was one of the Czar’s personal bodyguards before the Revolution.

Why must most English actors|

sound as though they have just won all the marbles and swallowed

them? Add Radio Slang

Thank Gustave Haenschen, the maestro, for adding to the glossary of broadcasting studio slang. Into the argot, says Gustave, have seeped such trade terms as these: “Wiping it off the chin,” a performer’s way of saying that he has sung an especially sentimental tune, so sticky that he was forced to wipe the molasses from his chin. .A “filler” is a song of none-too-

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strong appeal, used to give auditors a chance to sit down, light a pipe, don the slippers and get ready for the really important songs on the program. The important songs, incidentally, are called “killer-dillers.” The term is Benny Goodman's. Comedy tunes are labeled “cuties” and a subtle or sophisticated song is identified as a “smoothie.” Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart probably have composed more “smoothies” than most.

Movie Must Follow Book

FTC Rules Film ‘In His Steps’ Not True to Novel. -

WASHINGTON, April 6 (U. P.).— The Federal Trade Commission ruled today that motion pictures

bearing titles of popular books must present an accurate version of such books. This policy was enunciated in the first complaint of its kind issued by the FTC, charging Grand Ng tional Films, Inc, New York, wi unfair competition in the sale and distribution of a motion picture entitled “In His Steps.” The company was charged with “improper use of the title” and with making false representations in advertising matter which tended to mislead the public into the belief that the film was a movie version of a best-selling novel of the same name written by Dr. Charles M. Sheldon in 1896.

Dr. Sheldon’s novel, the complaint

said, is a story of “profound religious concept” dealing with a minis-

‘ter who converted his community

into conducting its business and social life according to the teachings of Christianity. But the film, the FTC complained, is a love story of two young people who elope, and purports to teach the lesson that parents should never try to impose their will on their children. The commission charged that the company advertised the film as “a modern romance suggested by the world’s record-breaking best seller by Charles M. Sheldon.”

CAST SIGNED FOR WANGER MOVIE

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, April 6—Walter Wanger announced today that ne has signed Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart and John Woodbury for featured roles in his forthcoming crook melodrama; ‘“Algiers,” which will star Charles Boyer. Hedy Lamarr, the Viennese actress, will provide the romantic interest opposite Boyer, and Joseph Calleia, villain of many screen productions, will handle the chief detective role. John Cromwell will direct.

ROSALIND RUSSELL SUED FOR $10,000

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U., P.).— Rosalind Russell, motion picture actress, was sued for $10,214 today over her pet terrier. L. H. Babcock, who brought the suit, said he was bitten by the dog and his lip would be permanently injured.

HONOR FOR LUBITSCH Newest member of the French | Legion of Honor in Hollywood is Ernst Lubitsch.

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Animal acts will not be the only promised thrills for the city’s first “big top” performances of the season There will be clowns and acrobats, like the young ladies above, who will hang

by their teeth in midair for your entertainm ent.

Colin Tapley, Back From Malay Jungle, Rejoices

‘Booloo’ Filming Is Over

Search for White Tiger Ended in One Slightly Gray; Wrestling Python, Lassoing Water Buffalo All in Day's Work.

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, April 6.—The people who best like Hollywood right now are members of the “Booloo” company, just returned from the

Malay jungles.

Says Colin Tapley, only white principal in the cast:

“It was one of those experiences you're glad to have had but wouldn’t

have again for any money.”

Mostly they had python, water buffalo and .flood trouble, but no |

particular adventures with tigers, which are what the picture is about.

Specifically, it concerns an ex- & plorer-hunter (Mr. Tapley) whose reputation is being damaged by an erroneous tale ot his capture of a white tiger. The ridicule and ribbing he receives are so distasteful that he finally decides to justify the yarn by. actually capturing a white ‘tiger. When the “Booloo” (Fur and Feathers) company left Hollywood they had information about several captive white. tigers which could be used in the film. One by one, though, they failed to materialize, a after six weeks of production they still were without a suitable animal. It looked as though they might have to have a Hollywood makeup man come down to the Malay Peninsula and bleach an ordinary tiger for ’em. Finally, though, they got one. It was trapped in and shipped C. O. D. and Handle With Care. It wasn’t pure white, but a light gray albino. ?

Too Much Heat and Rain

Of the 10 months devoted to the trip, one whole month was wasted in waiting for the torrential rains to stop. Moisture and heat were the chief villains of the expedition, for all the shooting had to be done in sunlight. The Perak River, on which they were camped, rose one night and carried away all their supplies. Every day the hot jungle steamed, leather and cloth became mildewed in a few hours, and metal rusted so rapidly you could almost see it. Most thrilling experience didn’t occur in camp, but in Singapore, where they were shooting some scenes in the interior of a train. Tapley was seated with his back to a car door and a 26-foot python was supposed to escape from the baggage car ahead and come slith-

ering in.

' The actor’s job was to remain motionless so that the snake wouldn't notice him. But Zoltan Kegl, the expedition’s sound man, was doubling as a photographer this occasion, and he had to move. The snake saw him and struck. Got his teeth into Kegl’s right arm and hung on. The bite of a python isn’t poi-

sonous, but the way these var-|

mints kill is by chewing, sucking blood and squeezing. Natives finally were able to unwind the snake and pry open its jaws. Kegl went to a hospital, and his arm is not yet entirely healed. Yelled for Aid

After being a jittery spectator at that event, Tapley had to wrestle the same python for some closeups. They were much too close for comfort. The snake was held by a gang of natives while the actor got a good grip with each hand on the loose flesh on each side of the reptile’s jaws. Then Director Clyde Elliott yelled “Action!” and there was plenty of it. Tapley could hold off the snake’s head all right, but not the Tost of

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its body. The sequence was shot on silent film, so Tapley yelled for assistance whenever the coils got too tight around him. On this cue, natives would haul the python’s tail off the ground, a trick which prevented it from constricting. with much: force. “The natives. eat python meat, and relish it,” said the actor. “But I never got that hungry.” He and Elliott were trying to think - up another thrill sequence one day, and Tapley got the idea of a water buffalo rodeo. He got a rope and practiced until he believed he could lasso one. They found a herd, set up a cous ple of cameras in the bushes, and Tapley waded into the river. He was promptly charged by a cow with a calf, and next found bimself in front of a stampede. He swung his rope and caught not on buffalo, but two. They jerked him off his feet and aquaplaned him to shore. It should make a good sequence, though it may look more funny than perilous.

POWELL TO TAKE YACHTING TRIP

HOLLYWOOD, April 8 (U. P.)— Dick Powell, singing actor and husband of Joan Blondell, prepared to

sail on a cruise aboard his yacht today while suspended from his studio because of a disagreement over the role assigned him. Mr. Powell refused to take a role in the picture, “The Garden of the Moon,” because it was subordinate to Pat O'Brien’s. By mutual agreement he was suspended for 12 weeks by Warner Brothers.

GIRL SINGER, 12, TO PLAY IN FILM

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P.).— Janice Chambers, 12-year-old singer, was to arrive here today to ap-

pear in moving pictures for the

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. - She is the daughter of a theater janitor and an invalid mother. “I'm sure Ill make good,” she said. “I look somewhat like Deanna Durbin, and believe I have as much personality as Mary Garden. When I grow up I'm sure I'll have legs like Marlene Dietrich.”

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Tabernacle Choir Sings

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO .

“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” with Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, at 12:50, 3: 55. 7 and 10:05. “Dan, gerous to Know,” with Akim Jamin f, Anna 25 Wong, at 11:40, 2:45, 5: 50 and 8

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“Hawaii Calls,” with Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, at 12:05, 2:35. 5:05, 7:35 and 10. “Bulldog Drummond’s Peril,” with John Barrymore, Jo Howard, Louise Campbell. at 11. 1:30, 4. 6:30,

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“In Old Chicago,” with Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Hrady, at Th: 40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 a go 40. «Mare of Time,” at 11: 05, 1:35, 4:05, a and 9:10.

LOEW'S “The First Hundred Years,” with Robert Montgomery. Virginia Bruce, Warren Wiyam. at 12:15, 2:50, 5:20.

7:50 and “Little Miss ughneck,” with

Edith Follows Wy ‘Carrillo, at 11:05, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40 and 9:15. LYRIC

All Stars,” with Vince Foy Jr., on stage at

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“The Buccaneer,” with Fredri Majeh, Also “The Patient in Room :

Studio Plans British Film

20th Century Fox ‘ Maps London Production.

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, April 6.—Detailed plans for the active entrance of 20th Century-Fox into film production in England have been made known by Darryl F. Zanuck, vice president in charge of production. The studio will make a first group of six pictures in London during the summer with Robert T. Kane as executive producer, and all of the scheduled pictures will have casts combining prominent Hollywood and British screen stars. “Husbands Beware,” from James M. Cain’s unpublished novel, is the first of the group to go before the

cameras at London and will be directed by Monty Banks, who. accompanjed Kane and William Conselman to England. Conselman will write the screenplay of Gracie Field's next vehicle, a musical comedy also to be directed by Banks with an Anglo-American cast. Annabella, French star, will also make two British pictures.

Lenten Contribution

in the Tabernacle Church.

It towers among the great examples of Protestant religious music beside the peaks of Bach and Handell. And it reveals Brahms in the same profound light as do the “Four Serigus Songs.” The work glows in the soft light of a calm and mature hope of future life.

The death of his mother and of Robert Schumann, the two great influences of his moral ‘and musical growth, moved Brahms to compose the Requiem, which was 10 years in its completion. As in the ‘Serious Songs,” the composer selected his

student of the Bible. In the music we. find Brahms speaking of transitory human life without cynicism or disparagement. The work surges to heights of hope, drops to deep and serious contemplation, and proceeds to a close of even deeper and unshakable faith. Last night's performance was almost’ of an “intimate” nature. Yet, with the organ replacing the orchestra and with a comparatively small group of singers (50 voices), the exchange of .grandeur for intimacy was not unwelcome. Regarding great works of music seldom performed, I am of the opinion that it is better to hear them in an adequate performance,

rather than to insist upon perfec-

tion or silence. The work of Mr. Matthews’ singers deserves a better word, however, than adequate, which ‘carries the damnation: of faint praise. The choir had been well trained,

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Brahms’ Great Religious Credo, ‘German Requiem’

Church

By JAMES THRASHER Brahms’ magnificent musical credo, the “German Requiem,” was given its first local revelation in a good many years last night by the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Choir, under Paul Matthews’ direction,

This work was announced as the Tabernacle Choir’s contribution to the city’s Lenten observance. And though not a traditional Easter feature, -

the Requiem is apt to the occasion. ®

own text, for he was a profound:

and took the work’s difficulties, ine cluding the fugal portions, in a cone fident stride. Frances Wallace Strickland, soprano soloist, and

John Bumgardner and Richard Strother, who shared the solo baritone parts, were entirely satisfac tory. And Mr. Matthews played th difficult double role of accompanist and conductor skillfully. A choral performance never can hope to fare as well under this sys= tem, however, as when the conductor can give his full attention to conducting. Consequently there were uncertain attacks and releases, and the dynamic range was rather circumscribed. Minor flaws need not be dwelt upon, for they did not detract greatly from one’s enjoyment. Mr. Matthews is to be congratulated upon carrying forward the practice of his predecessor, the late Fred Newell Morris, in presenting each season one of the major choral works. Let us hope that we may hear, the Brahms Requiem again before too many years have rolled by.

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