Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1938 — Page 20

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Movie Star Will Defend Self in Trial

Actress "Who Dressed All Wrong" Fights Suit Over Contract.

NEW YORK, June 3 (U. P.)— When he first met Frances Farmer, the lovely movie star was dressed all wrong, had 20 pounds too many and was awkward in her diction, Shepard Traube testified in Su-

preme Court today. Moreover, said Mr. Traube, she was broke. Mr. Traube testified in his breach of contract suit against the goldenhaired star who is expected to take the stand today in her own defense. She sat in the courtroom with her actor-hushand, Leif Erickson, while Mr. Traube described their meeting in 1935 and the circumstances of their signing a five-year contract.

Breach Is Charged

He charged she broke the contract shortly after going to Hollywood and that he is entitled to 10 per cent, or $75,000, of the $750,000 which he estimates Miss Farmer has earned in the five years since. In spite of her original defects, Mr. Traube said, “I told her I felt about her exactly as I felt about Katharine Hepburn when I met her.” He felt, he said, that Miss Farmer had a certain “raw talent” _ which could be exploited in Holly- ~ wood—provided she quit wearing _ “old-fashioned” hats which concealed her tresses. Spending his own money, Mr. Traube said, she squired her around Broadway, introducing her to such figures as Leslie Howard, and finally arranged a “stunt” to attract the attention of the movie people.

Gets Movie Contract

He hired a suite in a hotel and arranged press interviews with the “Seattle debutante” who, his handouts said, had interesting opinions - about commercial sport in America. That was on the eve of the Brad- . dock-Baer fight for the heavyweight - boxing championship, he said. At last, Mr. Traube said, he got - Miss Farmer & contract with Para- » mount, and she was so thrilled she “couldn’t believe it.” Her poverty would have killed her career right there, however, if Mr. Traube hadn't come to her rescue, he said. He arranged $500 to purchase a suitable wardrobe and $300 for the trip to Hollywood. Before putting her on the train, Mr. Traube testified, he told her all ebout “what to do and what not to

do” when she arrived in the movie |

colony. After all that, he complained, she breached the contract. Miss Farmer's defense is that Mr. Traube was not licensed to be an actor's agent.

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James Daggett,

ton Playhouse, Ironton, Mich. The playhouse is located in the Northern Michigan resort region, six miles from Charlevoix and 15 miles from Petoskey. Mr. Daggett has recruited an acting company from New York and may add others from Indianapolis, he said. The director will be John Jennings, a Yale graduate with Hollywood experience.

nical staff are coming from Yale, Season Opens July 12 The season is to open July 12

“Double Door.” There

change

McFadden's will be a weekly

cept Sunday and Monday. The season's play schedule is as follows: July 19, “Gentlemen Prefer | Blonds,” by John Emerson and | Anita Loos; July 26, three of the nine one-act plays in Noel Cow- | ard’s “Tonight at 8:30” (“Hands | Across the Sea,” “Fumed Oak” and “Ways and Means’); Aug. 2, the Sophie Kerr-Anna Steese Richardson comedy, “Big-Hearted Herbert’: Aug. 9, “Night of January 16.” by Ayn Rand; Aug. “Petticoat Fever”: Aug. 23,

beth Sleeps Out,” by Leslie How-

ard.

Horse Operas Still Make Box Office Jingle Loudly

By PAUL HARRISON

OLLYWOQOOD. June 3.—The western trouble for the Hopalong Cassidy company,

sky was making a

film a picture titled “Beneath Western Skies.”

There was a brisk rain, or

and then for a peep of sun.

minute, and the transformation of the inactive Les Selander, the director, yelled, ®

“Action!” George Hayes and Russell Hayden, the “Windy” “Lucky” of the series of westerns, dashed out of a saloon and hurried up the road. “Cut!” shouted Selander, “Hurry with that next setup. . . No, never mind, the sun’s gone again.” » HIS had been going on for six hours, since 7 a. m., and they had shot only 19 scenes. On a clear day they make from 40 to 50 scenes. However, speed is no life-or-death matter to this company because the Hopalong pictures starring Bill Boyd are no ordinary quickies. They cost about $70,000 apiece and make tremendous profits. In fact, theyre the most popular westerns coming out of Hollywood right now, even though they don’t have a crconer with a pearlhandled, six-string guitar. 3ill Boyd can’t sing, won't try to sing, and flatly refuses to let the studio dub in a singing voice for him. Also he prides himself on the fact that primarily he is an actor and not a cowboy. When Harry Sherman, who produces the Cassidy pictures for Paramount release, fihst chose Bovd as his star three years ago, he didn’t mention either singing or riding. When the time came for Boyd to make a dangerous dash down a steep hill, Boyd said. “Hell no—1let a cawpuncher do the riding and 1'll attend to the acting!” It has been that way ever since, except that Boyd now has developed into a good horseman and does his own riding when it isn’t fancy. ® x» =

T takes about two weeks to make a Hopalong Cassidy picture (this is the nineteenth of the series) and the studio makes six every year. Boyd doesn’t appear in any other films, so he works only 12 weeks out of the 52. He receives $22,500 for each flicker, and a total of $135,000 a year. This gives you a rough idea of why Boyd and Grace Bradley are one of the happiest couples in the colony. It gives you an idea, too, why “Gene Autry, rated as the movies’ No. 1 cowboy, has been having trouble with his own studio. He couldn’t help resenting his $5000-per-picture wage from Republic when another cowboy, presumably less popular, was raking in $22,500. 8 =

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HE veteran Harry Sherman is |

and | in Holly-

perhaps the best-liked most trusted producer wood. Everybody calls him “Pop,” and ‘when he starts a new picture there are about a dozen technicians who ywill quit jobs at other studios to

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work for him, He takes an unseen part in every film he makes—does all the off-stage shooting. “Windy” Hayes told me he thought nothing of letting Pop pump rifle bullets through the crown of his hat, and declared he'd hold a cigaret in his mouth anytime Sherman wanted to knock off the ashes. George Hayes looks as though he had been born in a saddle. With his full beard and battered hat, he also might be mistaken for a desert rat. Actually, though, he was born in Wellsville, N. Y., and never was on a horse until he was 47. He's now 53. Russell Hayden, the “Lucky” of the series, is tall, windburned, rugged and an equally convincing character. But he started his movie career as a technician at Paramount, and later became Pop Sherman’s business manager. One day less than two years ago Sherman neeaed a new “Lucky” in a hurry. “Russ,” he said, “you're an actor.” So Hayden went into “The Hills of Old Wyoming” and has been in nine Cassidy pictures since then.

” n on OLLYWOOD isn't the only town in California that is supported by the motion picture industry. Lone Pine, with a population of about 700, is the scene of most of the action in this series and of most of the westerns made by other studios. Most of the natives either work as extras, house and feed the companies, or rent location space. Together, they collect about $35.000 of the $70,000 that is spent on each of the Hopalong films.

FILM STAR QUITS MOVIES TO STUDY

HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (U.P) — James Ellison, film star, decided today to quit the movies, to enter Stanford University as a law student. Mr. Ellison entered pictures after he graduated from a Los ‘Angeles high school because he lacked money to study to become a lawyer. He said he has saved enough from his screen salary to pay for his education.

Never a Cover Charge

HIS BAND Dine & Dance

Robin Hood (Error Flynn) turns to find his King, Richard the Lion Hearted (Ian Hunter), beneath the friar's hood in this scene from “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” at the Apollo.

James Daggett to Manage Ironton, Mich., Playhouse

Indianapolis playwright and Yale Drama School student, will make his bow as a theatrical manager this summer when he presents the York Theater Group in a seven-weeks season at the Iron-

with a performance of Elizabeth |

of bill, | with performances each night ex- |

| riage license yesterday.

| Judge Nehemiah Candee a waiver

16, Mark Reed's | tied Metropolitan Opera star, “Eliza- | matron of honor,

1- | Five-Day Law Waived; Judge J. M. Harris, | scene designed, and the entire tech-

Kostelanetz

Weds Pons

Officiates.

NORWALK, Conn. June 3 (U. P.). —Lily Pons, opera and screen singer, and Andre Kostelanetz, orchestra leader, were husband and wife today despite Connecticut's five-day | law. | After many false rumors during the past two years that they were | married and after 13 proposals by | Mr. Kostelanetz, they got a marImmediately afterward they got from City Court

of the legal waiting requirement. Judge Candee married them at the petite coloratura’s Silvermine | colony home. Geraldine Farrar, rewas and Charles H.

| Hanis, retired wealthy glass manu- | | facturer was best man.

lot of | which was trying to | | as the otitstanding actor of 1937. in Hollywood, but out on |

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British Acclaim Spencer Tracy

HOLLYWOOD, June 3 —English motion picture fans have supported America’s choice of Spencer Tracy

Readers of Picturegoer, widely read British cinema magazine, chose = Tracy's performance as Manuel in “Captains Courageous” as the finest acting for last year, bearing out the Academy Award accorded the star. A gold medal, symbolic of the British award, has been sent to Mr. Tracy.

DISNEY, RKO FACE SUIT FOR MILLION

HOLLYWOGD, June 3 (U, P.,.— Walt Disney Studio, makers of movie cartoons, RKO Pictures and others today faced a $1,000,000 suit charging patent infringement. The plaintiff was Ivan Meville Terwilliger of Altadena, Cal, who claimed his invention of a method of photographing such objects as Mickey Mouse cartoons with “stereoscopic solid effects” had been infringed upon for six years.

MICKEY FAVORED . FOR DRUM WORK

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—Mickey Rooney's penchant for playing drums with local bands has Hollywood maestros hanging out the welcome sign for the young actor's attendance at their respective “niteries.” In the past year, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Ted FioRito, Eddie Duchin, Ozzie Nelson and others have had Mickey in their orchestra.

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A disheartened swing-band leader (Fred MacMurray) stands by to receive consolation from a kind-hearted crooner (Harriet Hilliard) in “Cocoanut Grove,” new drama with music opening at the Circle today.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE . APOLLO

“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” y Olivia be Havil1:11, 33, 7:44 ‘and 9:55.

“March of Time.” at 12:42, 2:53 5:04, 7:15 and 9:26.

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“Oocoanut Grove,” with Fred MacMurray, Harriet Hii liard, Yacht fo Boys, at 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20 and

Hunted Men,” with Lloyd Nolan Mery! Carlisle. at 12:30, 3:15, 6:08

an ; LOEW'S “Three Comrades,” With Robert

Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Rebel Young, ad Pashot Tone. at 11:35, 3,

6: oy wiss Miss,” with aye Hardy, at 1:28, 4.55 and 8:25

LYRIC Vaudeville with Dixie Dunbar, stage at 1:09, 56, 6:43 and 9:30.

“Josette,’ Ty Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Robert Youn g. on screen at 11:35, 2:22, 5:09, 7:56 and 10:22,

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“Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” with Gary Cooper. Also “Eagle’s Brood, with William Boyd.

Male Choirs Meet Here

Six Clubs Will Take Part Annual Festival.

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The fifth annual Indiana Male | Chorus Pestival is to be held to- | morrow at the Roberts. Park M. E. | Church, with six clubs participating. They are the Scottish Rite Choir and Christian Men Builders Glee Club of Indianapolis, the Newcastle Apollo Club, the Meistersingers of Kokomo, the Muncie Apollo Club and the Hartford City Orpheus Club. The even: will be climaxed by a concert at 8 p. m. Selections by individual choruses, - the entire group and a community sing will be features. Conductors will be Arthur Alcon. Ottis O. Patton, Fredric A. Barker, Oliver W. Pickhardt, Mrs. Pearl Siegwart McDonald, J. Russell Paxton, Ralph W. Wright and Harold Winslow. Broadcast Planned

In addition to the evening concert, there is to be a broadcast by the massed chorus of 200 voices at 5:15 p. m. over WFBM. The festival is sponsored each year by the In-and-About Indianapolis School Music Club, music educators organization. Tomorrow’s hosts are the two participating Indianapolis choirs. "A meeting is to be held tomorrow night to plan for organization of all Indiana male choruses. into

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IN NEW YORK

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Katharine Cornell Retires to Martha's Vineyard To Compile Her Life Story.

NEW YORK, June 3—Katharine Cornell apparently has decided to

Tell All

tha's Vineyard, accompanied by.a biographer. she intends formally to recite her past for posterity’s sake.

September,

The other day she made off for her beautiful home at Mar-

And between now and

un the broad veranda overlooking ®

the surf or from Martha's Vinevard beach, La Cornell will reveal to Ruth Woodbury Sedgewick those pertinent facts about her career | which will be compiled later into a book. This sudden autobiographical mood surprises many of us who thought that Xit Cornell preferred an aura of seclusion and some air of mystery, in the eyes of her great public. Apparently not. The stage's First Lady intends to start her story with the day she was 10 years old, wore long black pig-tails and gave the first theatrical performance of her life, reciting Browning's “In a Balcony.” | Nothing glamorous about that, but | it is the spirit in which she wishes her “biography to be written,

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Martha's Vineyard, incidentally, | is vying with Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for celebrated citizens. | Miss Cornell's close neighbor in this | combined marine and rural coun-| tryside is Jimmy Cagney, who takes [ his farming up there seriously. Just | { bought three tractors, in fact, to | prove his bucolic intentions. Denys Wortman, the cartoonist, also has a place up there, and Patricia Collinge, the actress-essayist, is a veteran resident.

Bucks County, of course, is that genteel community whose taxpayers | Moss Edna Ferber, Benny Goodman, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell and the playwriting Spewacks. ” Madame Stephanie St. Clair— Madame Queen of Policy’ she calls herself—is having the last laugh again these days as she reads of the sensational roundup of the $100,000,000 a year lottery racket combination founded by the late and exceedingly unlamented Dutch Schultz.

Of all the little fellows in the policy game squeezed out by the Schultz gunmen, Madame Queen was the only one with the temerity to complain. She told the police about it, then bearded Schultz at his office and informed him that she had put an undying curse upon him, Then when the racketeer was can= celled in a Newark beer tavern and lay gasping his last few breaths, a messenger brought a telegram that a nurse read to him, It said: “As

- HIT TUNES— “Says My Heart” “You Leave Me Breathless” “Dreamy, Hawaiian Moon”

* “You Leave Me Breathless”

ye sow so shall ye reap” and was signed “Madame G “Madame Queen of of Policy.”

Fan Mail to Swell Fund

Plan Cancelled Stamp Sales For Unemployed Actors.

HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (U. P).— | An organization raising money to help down-and-out movie players, including some who once were famous, turned to the avalanche of fan mail pouring into Hollywood today and evolved a pian to salvage money {rom it. From the hundreds of thousands of letters mailed in from all over the world, the Motion Picture Relief

| Fund will salvage cancelled stamps. | The Relief Fund's stamp committee

hopes to build up world-wide sales to stamp collectors that will nev $100,000 a year for actors’ aid. All studios and individual stars including Robert Taylor, Deanna Durbin and Joan Crawford agreed to turn their fan letter envelopes over to the committee. Another scheme is to sell envelopes mailed to stars and bearing cancellation marks of postoffices coinciding with their names. An example would be a letter to Actor Tyrone | Power mailed from Tyrone, Pa, and | Power, Tex. On the relief committee consider | ing the plans were Jean Hersholt, Joan Crawford, Adolphe Menjou | and Jackie Cooper.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1938

Shirley on First Tour of Nation

HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (U. P).— Shirley Temple's automobile was somewhere in Utah today, nearing Salt Lake City for the test that will decide whether the little movie actress will continue her tour of the country. Shirley is making her first trip across the country, and Mr, and Mrs. George Temple sent word to Hollywood that the trip would be called off if the child star was bothered by fans. The parents plan to have Shirley step out on hotel balconies and other places for fans to see her, but they want to avoid crowds and excitement. Ahead of the two motor cars carrying Shirley, her parents and party, was a studio press agent making arrangements at each town for Shirley's appearance, Salt Lake City was the first large town that the group was scheduled to visit,

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