Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1938 — Page 28

re —— ‘The Citadel

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Cronin's Book Well Done; Eloquent Picture Now at Loew's.

By JAMES THRASHER

‘The qualities that made a bestseller of A. J. Cronin’s excellent novel, “The Citadel,” happily have found their way into the film version at Loew’s this week. As a picture, this story of a young English doctor has all the direct appeal of struggles, joys and disappointments within the scope of average experience. It also throws the same strong light upon the practice of medicine which caused so much discussion and no little objection when the book appeared. Doubtless there is no profession whose members are more unselfish, generous, humanitarian and altogether decent than that of medicine. Yet, inevitably there are some who wilfully or not, have departed from the Hippocratic oath. Few authors have treated the subject, and fewer, if any, motion pictures have brought it to the screen.

First in Underpaid Role

It is from these callous or thoughtless colleagues, and from a superstitious, distrustful public, that Dr. Andrew Manson suffers in this moving story. .At first it is from the cupidity of an invalid dector’s wife, in- the Welsh mining town where he starts practice as an underpaid assistant. “ Her accusations and a lack of equipment drive him to a larger "town. Here, with his new wife, he is balked in his research as to the relation between anthracite mining and the miners’ prevalent tuberculosis. Manson’s superior discourages his efforts, refuses him freedom of the hospital, and takes a fifth of his wages. Then the superstitious miners destroy his laboratory and kill his guinea pigs. Driven to London and nearly to starvation, Manson eventually meets Dr. Lawford, a medical school friend, who is a fashiénable, wealthy and insincere practitioner.

Abandons Idealism

Tired of his fruitless idealism, Manson follows his lead. He “swaps” patients with other wealthy doctors. He nourishes the hypochondria of neurotic debutantes and dowagers, assists at needless operations, shares the enormous fees.

A friend of his mining town days, | :

Denny, tries to persuade hm to join a hospital staff financed on a cooperative health plan. But the appeals of his wife and Denny, the cynical, saturnine, able surgeon, are rejected. Only when Denny is run down and dies when a supercilious co.league botches an operation, does Manson come to his senses. He assists an American chest specialist in an operation that saves the life of a tubercular youngster. But the American has no medical degree. So Manson is tried by a medical board for his unethical conduct. Manson's speech in his defense, which closes the picture, is the most elcquent, moving cinema oration since that of Paul Muni in “Zola.”

Mouthpiece of Cronin

Robert Donat, as Manson, delivers the words of Dr. Cronin’s wrath with compelling force. He cites the cases of such “unqualified” scientists as Pasteur, Koch, Metchnikoff. He pleads with his colleagues to put their own house in order, not to condemn him for violating their code’s letter when a life was at stake. In short, it’s a great speech. Mr. Donat gives a remarkable performance throughout, from the baffled, pathetic visit to his first patient, on to the flaming vigor of his final appeal. Rosalind Russell, Hollywood’s only representative, does well as Manson's wife in a superior English cast which includes Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams and Cecil Parker. The book has been telescoped ef‘fectively into the movie plot’s time limit, even though it makes Manson’s ‘metamorphosis from a brusque, modest Scotsman to a polished Mayfair doctor rather abrupt. The only major change is that Denny, rather than Manson's wife, dies .in the screen version. Since the change was approved by Dr. Cronin himself, there is no need to quibble. Whether you have read the bodk or not, “The Citadel” is a highly enjoyable and recommended film.

SHIRLEY PHONES N.Y. GREETINGS

. HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28. (U. P.)— Shirley Temple stopped work yes-

- terday on her film, “The Little Prin-|

cess,” and telephoned greetings to the children of New York in connection with the dedication of the Children’s Building at the Fair Grounds.

DICK STAYS PUT

Dick Powell, a Hollywood star for six years, has been inside the gates of only two major studios.

Joseph Schildkraut, Annabella and Tyrone Power, left to right, are shown here in the course of a fire-

Dick Powell and Clyde McCoy (right) take a look at a new tune during the latter’s recent visit

side chat (1852 French model), Indiana’s current “Suez.”

to Hollywood. Mr. McCoy and his orchestra are playing at the Indiana Roof, tonight only.

a scene from the

Actors and Agents Feuding; Corrigan Forbids Romance

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28.—Short takes: Next major battle in talkietown will be between actors and agents. When players and writerssare busy, they don’t like paying 10 per cent of their salaries to the men who represent them in studio deals; and when they're idle they blame their agents for not getting them jobs. There is no question, though, but that agents are Tesponsible for the

high salary levels of stars and featured players and scenarists. The talent peddlers have their clients’ financial interests at heart. For example, Harry Kurnitz is a Metro writer who works under the name of “Marco Page.” His agent is pleading with him to write original stories as Marco Page and the scenarios as Harry Kurnitz. Then the agent would try to get him a contract as a team of writers, with a double salary.

Corrigan Unchanged

Douglas Corrigan is about to become an actor, but he’ll never be a great lover. Executives at RKO naturally wanted some romance in his picture, but the sequences are being penciled out at, his insistence. “This is no way to make a picture,” mourned a producer. Said Mr. Corrigan, “That’s just the point. I do everything the wrong way.” Charlie Chaplin is supposed to be working on a story involving his familiar, wistful-little-tramp character, and this time he would be a prisoner in a concentration camp, obviousiy in Germany. Chaplin would have little to i0se from such a picture, because his films are banned from Naziland and Italy anyway. : The Sudeten areas have been lost by fIollywood as well as by_Czechoslovakia, because they were a rich film market. . . . Russia always buys Chaplin films, and little else. Since “Modern Times,” the first Russian negotiations for an American picture now are being discussed for “Snow White.” What, No Prince? The queen-witch will represent

capitalism and dictatorship. The dwarfs are considered “workers,”

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and the prince will not be a prince, but a handsome young mechanic in a tractor factory, or something. When Harpo Marx and George Jessel play clobiash, a card game, they forget dinner engagements and party dates, and even forget to go home until their wives drag them away. The other evening they were trying to play, but were interrupted by impatient telephone calls from the Mesdames Jessel and Marx. Finally Harpo said, “I know a place where we can play without getting any calls—for days at a time, if we like.” So they got on a train for New York.

Bergen Rescues Charlie From Fire

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28 (U. P.) — Edgar Bergen today was hailed as a hero by Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, whom he rescued from the Bergen home in Beverly Hills when a small brush. fire broke out in the vicinity. The ventriloquist explained that Charlie’s features could not be duplicated although he has had several artists attempt to make him a setond “Charlie” to protect him against loss of his sawdust stooge. The duplicates made in the past for some reasons look like imitations, Mr. Berger said. The fire was extinguished without causing any damage to Mr. Bergen’s home.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“The Sisters,” with Bette Davis, Bol Flynn alts: Louise, at 12:35, 3.45, 7 and 10: hs a > Annabelle,” oi Jack Oakie, facile Ball, at 11:25 2:40, 5:55 and 9:05. ,

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_ “The Mad Miss Manton,” with Parbars Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, at 2:50, 4, 7:10 and 10:20.

“Five of a Kind,” with the Dionne Bersih, Claire Trevor, Jean Iershon, at pte 25, 2:35, 5:45 and

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and 10 “Girls’ School,” with Anne Shirley, Nan Grey. 3 Raiph Bellamy, at 11, 2:15,

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. 5 “Vaudeville or stage at 1:02, 3:48, 6:44 and 9:30.

LUISE, ILL 4 DAYS, IS BACK AT WORK

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28. (U. P.)— Luise Rainer returned to work today after a four-day illness, despite the advice of her physician that she remain in bed for a few more days. The actress has been in ill health and announced she will take a six months vacation as soon as her current film is completed.

SATCHELMO'S START

‘Band leader Louis Armstrong, featured in “Going Places,” got his musical start as a bugler in a New Orleans orphanage.

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PENSIVE—ALL OVER PICKLED PEARS

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to the Apollo. .

from “The Sisters,” moving today from the Indiana

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names in the papers. A few weeks ago Sally Clark who, by the marriage of her sister to the son of President Roosevelt, achieved a vague kinship with the folk in the White House, enjoyed a short-lived career as a canary on the lobster shift, She sang in the Persian Room of the elegant

Plaza Hotel and her voice wasn’t

too hot. She quit. Her Mama wouldn’t let her continue. She didn’t want to go on with it, anyway, after the cats made derisive comments.

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OW we are about to hear from Cobina Wright Jr. Don’t omit the junior, because if you do, you will confuse the little lady with her mother who doesn’t sing particularly and who has been a social arbiter around here for a long time. The Cobina, fille, is going to sing in the ultra-ultra Sert Room of the Waldorf-Astoria at a fancy salary, we imagine, and here we are confronted by the singular fact that she can really sing. What's more, she’s beautiful, she’s glamorous and— Suppose we let the man at the Waldorf describe her. He says that she “is slim and vibrant” and that she’s the girl “who broke royal hearts this summer while visiting in Venice,” the girl “who can sing soprano and contralto with equal ease” and who is a cousin of the debutante Diana Blythe, a relative of the Whitney clan and a descendant of William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Colonies in 1621. 8 8 =» N Broadway, another songbird is about to step out of the bluebook and warble. This one is Barbara Bannister. Barbara is heiress to a ham fortune—no jokes, please—but either her present allowance is too small or her artistic resources can’t be held in check any longer, because she is determined to be heard on a night club floor. The night club is Nils T. Granlund’s Midnight Sun, where the showgirls tan with little or no clothes on. Also where ham is one of the smorgasbord staples. Now prior to this fling as an entertainer, Barbara has been singing for her own amusement, She has had little or no professional experience. She doesn’t need the dough. That’s obvious because ham still is one of the popular edibles on the American table. She’s merely having fun. It becomes increasingly difficult for the girl who hopes to make a living at this precarious craft to find employment on the nocturnal

IN NEW YORK —s stores ross

Bluebook Warblers Make Life Tough for Poor Working Girls Along Night Club Row.

EW YORK, Oct. 28.—Heaven help the poor working girl now! mean the breadwinning maid who subsists upon singing in®night clubs. Those debutantes still are taking the bread and butter right

The bored society girls continue (despite attempts to discourage them) to want to sing. They want to warble for pay and get their

circuit. The qualifications used to be beauty, personality and singing style. Now, when a vocalist applies for a job, the impresario asks who were her ancestors, what stateroom they occupied on the Mayflower, her address on Park Avenue, and what royal hearts did she break lately.

DENY PARIS STAR | QUIT HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28 (U. P.) — Universal Studio today denied reports from Paris that Danielle Darrieux was forsaking her Hollywood career because of ill health. The studio said she merely was portponing her return to Hollywood until after Jan. 1. The actress originally had been scheduled to leave Paris Oct. 28 but her physicians advised the delay, the studio said.

INJURED ACTORS GAINING STEADILY

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28. (U. P.)— The condition of Lyle Talbot and Franklin D. Parker, both film actors, improved today, it was reported at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. They are being treated for burns they suffered when Mr. Talbot’s Beverly Hills home was razed by fire.

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Roscoe Turner Will Make Film

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28. (U. P.)— Col, Roscoe Turner, famous speed flier, is turning movie actor in a picture based on the adventures of a flight inspector, : : The flier, winner of the Bendix and Thompson cup events of the National Afr Races in recent years arrived here from New York in his own plane to prepare for the movie role. . “If there’s enough flying in the picture, I guess I'll get by,” grinned Col. Turner.

SINGER IS SIGNED

His singing as Nelson Eddy’s understudy in Victor Herbert's “Sweethearts,” has won Douglas McPhail

Doyle Battles To Stay i in U. sé

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