Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1938 — Page 15

THURSDAY, JULY i 1938 Taming Film |

Stars Easy, Cukor kor Says |

Varies Viontment of Each One and Never Rows

With Them.

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, July 14. —Seeing Director George Cukor, a plump, brisk, smiling man, you'd never guess him to be the foremost tamer of temperament. He is, though, even if he has not yet bossed Marlene Dietrich or Sylvia Sidney. He says it's easy, partly because | most of the supposedly difficult peo- | ple check their unreasonable moods | at the sound-stage door when they come to work. Any actress worthy of the name knows she isn’t going to bluff or overawe her director, so she is not likely to jeopardize her picture by trying to. How she behaves off the set is, of course, her

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own business. On Broadway, Cukor learned | about actresses by directing the fire- | brand Jeanne Eagels, the outspoken | Ethel Barrymore, and impulsive Ina | Claire. Out here he directed “Tarnished Lady,” Tallulah Bankhead’s| first picture. Then there have been | Constance Bennett, Norma Shearer | and Greta Garbo. And four pictures with Katharine Hepburn.

Cukor

Most picture-makers use identical | tactics with all players, and the autocratic W. S. Van Dyke is an example of one who is successfully | tough. Cukor, though, treats everybody differently. “Basically,” he said “a director has got to be on the level, with the star realizing that he is looking out for her interests even in he does have to be unflattering sometimes. | “I never row with people. Somewhere along the line I try to find a basis of mutual respect and benefit. I must be sympathetic, and I do give in to them, on certain things. Cajolery and kidding and bullying are necessary, but the trick is to sense when to use them. “You've noticed, especially going around to parties, that nobody can put on the old la-de-da business like actors and actresses. Dukes and duchesses just aren't in it with them. It sounds fatuous, but they're | a good deal like children pretending to be grand. They not only weren't born to the purple; most of them came from especially obscure beginnings So sometimes, to get along with them it's necessary to; reduce them to what they were. “I remember saying to one ac-| tress, ‘Now, honey, be reasonable or | you'll wake up and find yourseif giving those piano lessons again!” “It jolted her, but she took it in good spirit, realizing that she wasn't going to get by with anything.”

Never Rows

He's Friend of Hepburn

Besides having directed Katharine Hepburn's best pictures, Cukor is her friend. He and Greta Garbo were friends, too, before the filming | of “Camille.” “Garbo.” he said, “has had the courage to work things out in the | most practical way for herself, and to stick to them. Her seclusion is a deliberate policy because she believes it’s best for her in most circumstances. She never even sees the daily rushes of her own pictures, because they make her nervous. Most stars see the rushes and get into a lather about how badly they look in this or that scene. Garbo skips all this by making up her mind to trust her cameraman. “She's an actress in the great tradition of a Duse or a Bernhardt, and absolutely incapable of vulgarity. On the set she’s not only very amenable, but really very comic. I | remember once we were doing a particularly dry scene and I heard her refer to it as ‘government business,’ she said, “Yes, that is what I | call dull scenes; they are like government business.” ” Cukor has been secured to direct Miss Garbo's next picture, a comedy, and later he probably will do the | Madame Curie biography, which | also is on the Swedish star's schedule. He will direct “Gone With the | Wind,” if it ever gets under way.

FIRST AMERICAN DEBUT

Derrick de Marney, who played | Disraeli in the English production! of “Victoria the Great,” is making his American screen debut in “Blond Cheat,” opposite Joan Fontaine.

too,

| classics,

FEES 2

Literary pursuits, of one sort or another, would seem to have a prominent place in Loew's double bill which opens tomorrow. At the left, the camera has caught Wallace Beery in painful search for the

Opening Tomorrow

Apollo

(Return Engagement) “THE BIRTH OF A BABY"—Eleanor King, Richard Gordon, Ruth Matteson, Josephine Dunn, Presented by the American Committee on Maternal Welfare, Inc., and produced by Jack H. Skirball. Dedicated to the lessening of maternal and infant mortality through education, the film gives dramatized instruction in preand postnatal care and instruction in physiology as well as the actual birth of a baby.

Circle

“THE RAGE OF PARIS”—Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mischa Auer, Helen Broderick. Directed by Henry Koster; screen play by Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson. Universal introduces its new star as the poor little French girl, stranded in New York, who sets out to win a wealthy husband. Instead, she gets her prospect's well-meaning, at first inimical and eventually doting friend. “WIVES UNDER SUSPICION”—Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan. Directed by James Whale. About the ruthless district attornev who loves his wife, but neglects her. He convicts a man who had killed is unfaithful wife in jealous rage. Later, the district attorney finds himself about to do the same thing. But it's all a mistake. He gets the slayer's sentence reduced and reforms his own life.

Loew's

“PORT OF SEVEN SEAS”"—Wallace Beery, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal. Directed by James Whale; on Marcel Pagnol’s play, “Fanny.” This is about the Marseilles bartender’s son who loved his fiancee, but loved the sea a bit more. The girl, after waiting around for her wandering sweetheart, marries an elderly sailmaker. And the bov goes back to sea. “FAST COMPANY”—Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice. Claire Dodd. Directed by Edward Buzzell, adapted from a book by Marco Page. A seller of rare books, who doubles in insurance investigation, gets himself and wife mixed up in a series of murders involving an international ring of first-edition gangsters. He almost gets Killed, but tracks down the villain and frees the innocent victim.

Lyrie

SAMMY KAYE (on stage) —With his orchestra and radio entertainers, Tommy Ryan, Jimmy Brown, Charlie Wilson and the Three Barons. Also Carroll and Howe, comedy team; Crane Twins, dancers; Frank Paris, puppeteer; Geraldine and Joe, acrobats. “MEN ARE SUCH FOOLS” (on screen) —Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert. Directed by Busby Berkeley; story by Faith Baldwin. Miss Lane's wedding to Mr. Morris poses the marriage vs. career problem. Complicating matters is the attentive Mr. Bogart. The voung bride quits her job, but the husband fails to take a better one. Then she leaves him, there is a fight, and things are running smoothly again.

Frank Morgan, based

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| leading man in her first Hollywood | film, “The Torrent.” | der contract to | as an actor, writer and director.

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Douglas and Florence Rice, having

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His patient amanuensis is Maureen O'Sullivan, and the

To the right we find that Melvyn subdued the villain (Louis Calhern)

'Henie Ballet to Be Topped

By ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, July

the skating numbers in her current picture, Harry Losee, hit on a happy idea when | “Alice in Wonderland.”

Henie and her dance director, they turned to Lewis Carroll's

“My Lucky Star,” Sonja |

They had wanted something fantastic and colorful that would break |

up the monotony of choruses in identical costumes, and the Lewis Carroll brain child seemed the logi- |

cal answer.

The number is now at work be- | fore the cameras, but it wasn't quite | the easy job they had anticipated. | Putting all of the fantastic creatures | on skates entailed problems of bal-

{ance and costume that had not oc-

curred to them before. Bert Clark, for instance, who is the White Rabbit, is short and thin, |

iand with the large rabbit's head on

his shoulders he is inclined to be top-heavy on the ice. Besides adjustment of balance, he had to add padded weight to his legs to equal-

ize things.

| | |

Mad Hatter Bothered, Too The Mad Hatter had trouble with the which he wears,

the enormous hat further compli-

| cated by the oversized cup and sau- | cer and sandwich which he has to

| carry

in his hands. All of the Carroll creatures have

| come to life, and all on skates. Son-

ja skims across the ice in the com-

| pany of Tweedledee and Tweedle- | dum, appropriately played by Jack | and Bob Heasley who are identical

| twins,

and the Walrus and the

| Carpenter.

Ricardo Cortez was Greta Garbo's |

He 1s now un- | 20th Century-Fox |

The philosophic Caterpillar de-

CIRCLE

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Harold Lloyd, who repeatedly has | declined to reissue any of his old may consider again releas- |

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“WALKING DOWN BROADWAY”

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* Presented by the American Committee on Maternal Wel fare, Inc.

FINAL DAY!

“THREE BLIND MICE”

with Loretta Young Joel McCrea

RETURN ENGAGEMENT

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The picture that has stirred America! . . history has there been such a motion picture. . . . a picture aroused such widespread discussion!

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raging among U. S. Doctors? will its outcome affect you?

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life . . . his work lems . . . his triumphs!

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“Danielle Darrieux will be the rage of the U. 5.”

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| scends from his toadstool to join |

| the dance, together with the King | and Queen of Hearts, and Knave of Hearts who | tarts.

| Dormouse, as well as Duchess, the Cheshire Cat,

| flies and court attendants.

It has Miss Henie thinking hard |

now. After “My Lucky Star” is finished, she will out something to top the Alice In Wonderland number for her next picture, and she confesses that thus far she has topped everything she has done before.

14 —In the search for a colorful ballet to top|

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have to figure |

IN PICTURES DUE AT LOEW'S

with gag and handcuffs, some soporific fables. accompanying film,

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Three Blind Mice,” with Loretta Young. Joel McCrea, David Niven, Marjorie Weaver, at 12:03, 2:33. 5:03. 7:33 and 10:03. “Mr. Moto Takes a Chance.” with Peter Lorre, Rochelie Hudson, at 11. 1:30. 4, 6:30 and 9

CIRCLE

“Tropie Holiday,” with Dorothy Lamour, Martha Raye. Bob Burns, Ray Milland, at 11, 1:45, 4:35. 7:25 and 10:15. “The Gangs of New York with Charles Bick ford. Ann Dvorak. at 12:15, 3:05. 5:55 and 8:45.

LOEW'S

“Shopworn Angel.” Sullavan, James Stewart, Plageen, at 11, 1:53. 4:45.

“To the Victor,” with Will Fyfle. at 12:30. 3:25. 6:15 and 9:10.

LYRIC

Eddy Duchin and his orchestra on stage at 12:45 5:15. 7:30 and 9:45

“Always Goodbye.” with Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, at 11:30. 1:35 3:50. 6:05 8:20 and 10:35

BACK TO HOLLYWOOD

Jack Whiting, singing and dancing star of the Broadway and London stage and screen, has returned to Hollywood for a leading role in “Give Me a Sailor,” with Martha Raye, Bob Hope and Betty Grable.

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TOM KELLY TO BE '‘PECK'S BAD BOY’

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14 —Tom leading will por-

HOLLYWOOD, July Kelly, who had the

in “Tom Sawyer,”

| tray the title role in “Peck’s Bad

| Boy at the Circus,”

Sol Lesser,

| president of Principal Productions,

| announced today. | first picture of young Tom

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| he was selected from among 50,- | 000 boys for the Mark Twain film | adaptation.

RIVERSIDE

INDIANA'S GREATEST

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DANCING VAUDEVILLE MOST COMPLETE ARRAY OF SENSATIONAL RIDES AND FUN FEA-

CHECKING PICNIC GROVE 8 IN THE STATE. BRING THE FAMILY TO RIVERSIDE.

“JUST FOR FUN”

Lou Gehrig

Movie Here

Yankee Star Is Hard-Ridin' Cowboy in 'Rawhide.’

Decked out in sombrero, chaps and leather boots, Lou Gehrig, iron man first baseman of the New York Yankees, is to make his Indianapolis bow as a movie actor at the Fountain Square tonight as the star of “Rawhide.” The engagement will continue through Saturday night. Playing the part of Lou Gehrig, the slugging Yankee is cast in a role that shows him retired from baseball and the owner of a western ranch. There he meets up with rustlers, sheriffs and the boys who “head ’em off at Eagle Pass.”

SWIM—DANCE

WESTLAKE

Chuck Haug Orchestra MARY BETH-—Soloist EVERY NIGHT EXCEPT MONDAY

A TRIBUTE!

We Salute Eddy Duchin! Never in Twenty-five Years of “Big Names” Has Anyone Piled Up Such a High Record Attendance as He Did Last August! Now, Just to Show That It Was No Mistake, He's Doing It Again! He'll Not Only Keep His All-Time Record . . . But He'll Also Hold the Second Best Record, Too! Congratulations!

——— Extra Shows Today!

On Stage at 12:45, 2:58, 5:11, 7:24 and 9:37 P. M. Hurry!

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Double Feature Lo nehia Young “FOUR MEN AND A PRAYER" “RAWHIDE”

At Fountain Square Double Feature Jack Luden H DAYS ‘SPY RING”

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Lew Gehrig

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“STAGE COAC Esther Ralston *

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“FLIGHT INTO NOWHERE . Sally Eilers “CONDEMNED WOMEN’

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411 E. Wash. Gary Cooper

Paramount Sov Sor

“MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Com 1edy—Snapshots

B | J Oo U Johnny Mack Brown

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June Lane

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