Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1938 — Page 36

‘Waltzes of Strauss Put Zest in Film Miliza Korjus Real Find,

Rainer Stages Good Performance.

By JAMES THRASHER If a composer is fortunate, he dies before his music does. And as time goes on, his personal life, habits and idiosyncrasies become less and less important. The chief virtue, then, of “The Great Waltz,” screen treatment of Johann Strauss’ career now at Loew's, is the presence of Strauss music in abundance. These always stimulating tunes are plaved excellently. They fit well into fhe story, for the most part, and their charm is enhanced by some artistic new arrangements from the pen of Dmitri Tiomkin. Apparently no pretense is made

of sticking to the facts of Strauss’| “= "© sb

life.

opera star. As the plot has it, Strass turns to music after being fired from his job as bank clerk. He makes a hit at Dommayer’s

The story is of the Waltz| King’s infatuation with a glamorous|

Here are three principals in the process of injecting a bit of fun and romance into. “Service De Luxe,” now at the Circle. The romantic team above is Vincent Price, late of the Broadway stage and “Victoria Regina,” and the glamorous Constance Bennett, all

Mordkin’s

Next Sunday

Noted Dancers in Cast; § |

Ballet Here

Rehearse for 'Dance’

At Civic.

PARTYING IN ALAMO FILM

Mikhail Mordkin, who gained tame 30 years ago as Anna Pavlova’'s

afternoon when he brings his recently organized Mordkin Ballet to the Murat for one performance at 8 p. m. The company’s appearance B sponsored by Charity Enterprises, C. ) Mr. Mordkin will be seen as the Fisherman in the afternoon’s second and final ballet, “The Goldfish.” Besides Mr. Mordkin, Patricia Bowman and Lucia Chase, noted young American dancers, will be in the cast. Other soloists will be Dimitri Romanoff, Nina Stroganova, Karen Conrad and Leon Varkas. This ballet is based on a story by Alexander Pushkin, with music by Nicolai Tcherepnine; choreography by Mr. Mordkin and settings and costumes by Serge Soudeikine. ‘Mr. Mordkin also has created new choreography for the favorite classic ballet, “Giselle,” which opens the program. This tragic tale of the

partner, will be seen again Sunday |

Young Tommy Ryan Beverly Roberts and Bruc from “Tenth Avenue Kid,”

is the

birthday party’s beaming host, and

e Cabot the honored guests in this scene the Alamo’s current first-run attraction.

‘Suez’ Begins Second Week

Story of Egyptian Canal

ves to Apollo.

“Suez,” 20th Century-Fox’s sand-

GROW MUSTACHE, FLYNN IS ORDERED

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4 (U. P.)— Errol Flynn, the adventurous movie star, was cabled orders in Hawaj today to start growing a handlebar mustache and take ‘the next boat home. He needs the brush for a role in his next picture, which is being started early, thus cutting

Lawyer in Cupi

And Maks Up"

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P)~

{clifford Odets’ lawyer took Luise Rainer .for a roller-coaster ride the lother night and today he an-

nounced that the playwright and . film actress had decided not to get a divorce after all. ty The lawyer, Louis Nizer, said got a “date” with Miss Rainer, took her to an amusement park and kept her riding the roller coaster until

ciliation was indicated. : :

Odets in the divorce action; brought the couple together in a restaurant and stood by while they kissed and .

made. up. - ; Miss Rainer said the divorce was

1off “and I don’t care how big the - headlines are.” She said she loved

Mr. Odets “very much even if he is - very stubborn.” *

she agreed with him that a recon- -

~ When the attorney, who had been - retained originally to represent Mr..

| Odets and Luise Rainer Kins: “

Cafe. The prima donna, Carla Donner, hears him there and invites him to her palatial home. She sings one of his waltzes, then insults him and sends him forth to marry faithful Poldi, the baker’s daughter.

peasant girl who loved the prince is danced to music of Adolphe Adam. Miss Bowman will dance the title part in “Giselle.” The {featured dancers will include Hercelia Danielova, Ashby Acree and Messrs. Romanoff and Varkas.

short his vacation.

STEEL SCHNOZZLE

Donald Crisp has a steel plate in his nose, result of a bullet wound during the Boer War.

wrapped up in a shipboard interview. Below and to the left we have Mischa Auer about to indulge in a little primitive or early Mack Sennett, comedy. 'Charlie Ruggles and Helen Broderick also are in the cast.

swept saga of the Egyptian canal’s| construction, opened a second downtown week at the Apollo today, moving around the corner from the Indiana.

/ of Poldi.

Interspersed by Revolt

If this very space said, only yes- |"

terday, that Strauss didn’t marry

either of the young ladies, the fault | ~=

is with the studio publicity. Actually it doesn’t make much difference,

for neither of Strauss’ real wives were bakers’ daughters. Both of them sang. The film story proceeds with the Austrian revolt, in which Strauss saves Carla, and the real infatuation begins. is nearly broken up. But Poldi, by her brave facing of facts, convinces

The composer's home |

Carla that Strauss shouldn’t go with | ¢ (iF

her to Budapest. So the composer goes home. He stays there, too. Fifty years later we see the Strausses going to the palace to meet the emperor, whose nose Strauss had tweaked during the revolt. Franz Josef calls him “King of Vienna,” which doubtless was

true. In the part of Carla the film has Miliza Korjus, a European opera star of Maewestian complexion and proportions. She has a brilliant coloratura voice of wide range and copious power. Her beauty and acting are adequate enough to stamp her as a real find in this day when -most of the opera-movie stars are fleeing back to the Metropolitan after some unhappy story experiences. Rainer in Comeback

There are some really touching moments in Luise Rainer’s portrayal She looks again like the actress who won the Academy Award for her Anna Held performance in “The Great Ziegfeld.” That should be good news for those Rainer fans whe still remain loyal after “Big City” and “The Toy Wife.” Fernand Gravet does well enough as Strauss, and there is some good comedy relief by Hugh Herbert and Herman Bing. The hand of Julien Duviver, the - French director, is seen in many Fpusysi camera uses. Some are exremely effective, and all of them interesting for a change. Story and treatment both are fanciful and, for the most part, Mr. Duvivier has caught what we imagine to have been the spirit of Vienna in the Fifties and Sixties. : But the music is the film's excuse for being. There are, in all, about a dozen examples of Strauss music. Some are the familiar waltzes, others are less known tunes | fitted with words for the occasion. : Thanks to Strauss and Mr. Tiomkin, they help to make “The Great - Waltz” one of the most enjoyable of recent tune shows. In answer to a couple of questions that are bound to be asked, be it known that (1) the movie is nothing like the operetta of the same title, and (2) “The Beautiful Blue Danube” is not the picture's “theme song.”

Diva Takes Dive

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U.P. —Carmen Torres, prima donna of the International Casino, was in the midst of an aria when she .saw Arturo Toscanini sitting at a ringside table. She fainted dead away. In her dressing room Miss Torres was disconsolate, but a little later she received from Mr. Toscanini’'s secretary a corsage of flowers and the promise of the maestro’s autographed photograph.

|Capitalizes on

‘Mars Attack’

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4 (U. P).— The radio dramatization of H. G.

| Wells’ “War of the Worlds” which

frightened people all over the country last week proved a bonanza to-

Bl Gay to a Hollywood film studio.

Ever alive to the headlines, Universal dusted off a picture, “Mars Attacks the Worlds,” which had

|been on a shelf for a year, and - {rushed it to the theater screens.

Buster Crabbe is the hero of the interplanetary screen warfare simi-

- |lar to that of the novel dramatized

Clare Booth wrote a hit show

IN NEW YORK —¢

Film Burlesque on Search for Scarlett’ O'Hara May Be Answer to Hollywood's Quandary.

EW YORK, Nov. 4—Since the seemingly interminable search for a celluloid Scarlett O'Hara must have extended to your town by now, maybe you'd like to know about some recent developments here.

GEORGE ROSS

called “Kiss the Boys Good-Bye,”

which tells how a resourceful Southern belle outwits a rough-edged movies producer and gets the star role in a mighty Civil War saga. And

a little lady from Alabama named Helen Claire is playing that malicious part of Cindy Lou. Now Helen kids Scarlett O'Hara in the show. Yet the movie moguls have decided that she’s the best Scarlett, probably, they’ll ever find.

The South, according to word reaching here, is mixed in its emotions toward poor Helen—glad that she’s a success, sorry that she is libeling Southern womanhood. And we hear that some papers below the Mason-Dixon line have editorially castigated and praised the little lady, alternately.

The other day David O. Selznick, who will produce “Gone With the Wind” in Hollywood (we hope) was here and went to see “Kiss the Boys Goodbye.” He was angry, they say, when he departed, at the character he might have recognized as himself and at the feline Scarlett O'Hara in it. So it's possible that Helen Claire won’t be pursued for the picture, after all!

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OW are things on the World's . A Fair grounds? All is progressing smoothly from all accounts and every obstacle is being hurdled. For example, the other day they were dedicating the Agricultural Building and in the cornerstone were being stowed the symbolic

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flowers of the states and territories. But it seems that when the ceremonies were about to begin, it was found that there were no flowers from Honolulu. The Hawaiian Clipper had been delayed. What to do? Well, they phuned the Hawaiian Room of a local hotel for immediate aid. The management of that oasis beckoned a hula dancer to the office, modestly stripped her of her grass skirt and rushed that garment out to Flushing. It now reposes in the botanical archives. It saved the day.

t 4 o ® E don’t like to disillusion that scion to a mighty ancestry and huge fortune, John Jacob Astor, but we're afraid that the old family astuteness isn't apparent in him when he goes nightclubbing. Young Mr. Astor lately has be-

|standing necktie-giver-away.

in the broadcast.

CAN'T TIE THIS

John Litel is Hollywood's o> e buys over 400 a year.

‘ |come allergic to photographs and

doesn’t care to have cameramen snap his photo unless he expressly gives them permission—in which cases, he generally tips the lensmen with $10 bills. But on two separate nights we

.|saw photographers take unauthor-

ized pictures of the millionaire-heir. He objected. He demandea the pictures. The cameramen obligingly gave him negatives, which he tore up in their presence. But the pictures were in the. papers, anyway. He had torn up dummy plates.

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OME film men in New York are trying to make much of the scarcity of wooden Indians that are needed in a picture. In the first place, we don't believe that the filmfolk are in a serious dilemma, because the carpentry shop probably could fake as many wooden Indians as are needed. In the second place, New York doesn’t seem a logical place to look for remaining wooden Indians, because the host of surviving cigar store redskins are out West. But if the film boys want to pursue the gesture, let them look into the Gay Nineties, a night club in the ‘roaring Fifties, where two authentic wooden. Indians of ferocious mien have been standing for a couple of years, waiting for someone to come along and give them a screen test.

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Lester C. Nagley, former Indianapolis newspaperman, has opened a two-week exhibit of his Brown County water colors in the Hatel Washington, There are 25 pictures in his current show, which is open to the public daily from 11 a. m. to 9p. m.

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