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Myrna Loy Is Aviatrix

In New Film!

Feature at Loew's Makes Heroes of Newsreel Cameramen.

By JAMES THRASHER For several seasons, Warner Bros. seemed to have almost a monopolistic claim on films of topical in-

terest. At least they got the jump

Opening Tomorrow

Alamo

| “RIDERS OF THE BLACK HILLS”—Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Ann Evers. Ancther in the Three Mesquiteers series of Westerns.

Apollo

“HOLD THAT COED”—John Barrymore, George Murphy, Marjorie [Ww eaver, Joan Davis, Jack Haley. Directed by George Marshall; screen [play by Karl Tunberg, Don Ettlinger and Jack Yellen. About a grafting governor who squeezes football out of the State University’s budget until the students rebel and riot. Then he builds up the team for free publicity, stakes a Senate seat on the outcome of a game between his team and that of his rival. The world’s only coed drop-kicker saves the day. Circle

“FOUR DAUGHTERS”—Claude Rains, May Robson, Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, Rosemary Lane, lola Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield. Directed by Michael Curtiz; from a story by Fannie Hurst. Episodes from the lives of four sisters, their musician-father, the men they love, with emphasis for one sister's brave and futile sacrifice for another's happiness. Constance Moore.

al studios in dramatizing gang “racket-busting” and other items. But & glance at

on riv Wars, headline

“Too Hot to Handle” indicates that M-G-M is going topical with a vengeance. The story hinges on the career of two newsreel cameramen in China, with emphasis on the actual and publicized filming of the Shanghai bombing by newsreelers Myrna Loy plays a round-the-world flier, a role which inevitably recalls the late Amelia Earhart. And when Pidgeon accompanying Miss Loy into the South American jungle to| search for her missing brother, the] picture's makers won't mind if you| remember the missing aviator, Paul

{ Conceived in Ethiopia The plot of “Too Hot to Handle” was conceived in Ethiopia while Laurence Stallings, author of “What Price Glory” and more recently a newsreel editor, and his camera-| man, Len Hammond, were waiting for the Italian invasion. The original story is credited to Mr. Ham- | mond, the screen play to Mr. Stallings and John Lee Mahin. One sequence of this picture was] made at the time, trouble and expense of a 6000-mile round trip to| Dutch Guiana. The purpose was to record, for a world full of Big Apples and Lambeth Walks, the] 1 fire dance of the Djuka Bush | Negroes.

Miss Loy ‘Emancipated’

Somehow or other, these natives manage to jump into a bonfire of ved-hot coals in the course of their dance, eat flaming embers like corn mm the cob, and emerge apparently none the worse off | If that isn't enough to lure in| the prospective customer, the producers also have made it known

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STARTING TOMORROW!

“THE MISSING GUEST”—Paul Kelly, by John Rawlins. A reporter in a haunted house on an assignment complete with secret

al passages and a murder. the synopsis of Loew's forthcoming |

‘ Loew's “TOO HOT TO HANDLE” Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carillo.. Directed by Lawrence Weingarten; based on a story by Len Hammond, newsreel photographer; screen play by Laurence Stallings and John Lee Mahin. This tells of the rivalry of two not-too-scrupulous newsreel cameramen who use a famous aviatrix to fly their film. There are exciting adventures and love at the end.

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Clark Gable and Walter]

lulu, Redfern. {—

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{of advice as a result of the Motion

VAUDEVILLE (on stage)—Gene Krupa, swing drummer, and his orchestra; Irene Daye and Leo Watson, singers; Bob King, ventriloquist; Six Antaleks, balancing act; Smith, Rogers and Eddy, comedy trio. “MEET THE GIRLS” (on screen)—June Lang, Lynn Bari, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Donnelly. A comedy dealing with the difficulties of two girls, stranded in Honoin getting back home without benefit of funds.

caliber of playwrights, since at pres“there are never

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in “Too Hot to Handle.” is emancipated from the companionable and housewifely parts of | her recent vehicles. She plays a! single and decidedly independent | young woman,

make just stories stories.” Of course, this would help the legitimate theater, too. But Hollywood doubtless has learned by now If there is anything the whole that it has little to fear and much (world loves to do, it is to advise oth-|to gain from the theater. And cerers on how to spend their money, | tainly the movies need a better

| trainin round for youn layers and tell the movies how to run their| than DS groun B picture. g play business. So the picture industry doubtless is getting a bumper crop

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EJ o Have you a 5-year-old Tarzan in

Pictures’ Greatest Year campaign | your home? You may have thought with its million-dollar budget. so when Junior was doing swan One of the more sensible hints on|4ives off the newelpost, or playing {expenditures has been offered | cops- and-robbers around your chair gratis by Equity, the Actors’ Equi-{ag vou struggled with the household {ty Association magazine. The edi-|hydget. ‘torial suggests spending part of the M-G-M wants him. million in enlarging and developing | It seems that, in the next of the the country’s dramatic stock com-| “Tarzan” series, Johnny Weissmulpanies, in which film players des-|ler and Maureen O'Sullivan are gO0tined for personal appearances as ing to find a baby apeman stranded | well as stardom might appear. |in the jungle. It also suggests that such pro-| The studio cedure almost surely

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enough good stories available, or writers who can! seem good |

But if you can prove it,!

says that the child! would result! must have super-strength, be able] in an increase of the number and!to perform acrobatic swimming feats’

Music Group Plans Fete

Jordan Fraternity Plans to

Receive Students.

Jordan Conservatory male students and faculty members are to meet the new officers of Alpha Sigma chapter, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, at the music fraternity’s annual reception at a p. m. Sunday in the Conservatory’s Student Hall, 1204 N. Delaware St. The recently elected officers are Amos Smith, Oaklandon, president; Waldo Littell, vice president; John White, secre- S tary; J. J. Albion, treasurer; Amos Smith Stanley O. Norris, warden, and Harold O. Winslow, historian. The reception’s musical program

will consist of solos by John White,

baritone; Roger Riley, clarinetist and new Jordan faculty member; Francis Fitzgerald, flute, and Richard Orton, violin.

OPERA SINGERS

LEAVE NAPLES

NAPLES, Sept. 22 (U. P).—A group of artists engaged for the coming season at the Metropolitan

{Opera House in New York sailed to-

day on the Rex. They included Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Mafalda Favero, soprano; Ezio Pinza, basso, and Riccardo Zamboni, conductor. Also aboard was the violinist, Miss Laura Archer, winner of a scholarship at the Curtis Institute Jn Philadelphia. EY a

~ STAR SIGNED

Fay Bainter has been signed for an important role in “The Shining Hour,” starring Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas.

and imitate Mr. r. Weissmuller's famous Tarzan yell.

Most of us have a couple of can-

velling test right now.

LAST DAY FRANCIS LEDERER, FRANCES DRAKE

“LONE WOLF IN PARIS”

Plus: w= WHERE _WERE_YOU_ ww BORN

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FINAL pay; “RACKET BUSTERS” RUMPRREY EORGE BREGART

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ERNIE ORSATTI TO WED SINGER

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22 (U. P.).— Inez Gorman, movie and operatic singer, will be married to Ernie Orsatti, former big league baseball star

who now is a Hollywood theatrical agent, Saturday night in Beverly

Hills. The bride will be attended by Rosa Ponselle, opera star, whose protege Miss Gorman is. Miss Gorman is 25 and Mr. Orsatti, 34, according to their marriage license appiication.

ILLNESS MAKES GARGAN A NURSE

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22 (U. P.).— William Gargan, movie actor, remained home from the studio today to help care for his sick family. His son Leslie, 11, is under an oxygen tent, suffering from pneumonia. A second son, Barrie, 5, was in bed with severe bronchitis. His wife, Mary, was near collapse from a nervous breakdown.

KENNEL BOSS

Grant Withers, seen in “Three Loves Has Nancy,” has nine police dogs, three cocker spaniels and a cat. He claims that the cat is boss

of the kennels.

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That's the title of this grand picture. t's also what CLARK GABLE thinks of MYRNA LOY and vice versa!

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