Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1938 — Page 21

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By JAMES THRASHER A genuine, guaranteed world premiere, featuring “Mr. Average Man” in person on the stage and his film counterpart on the screen, will be the Indiana’s Friday attraction. The picture is “Thanks for Everything.” The real-life hero is, as you may have guessed already, Glenn Craig of Muncie. He is to speak at the new film’s first evening showing, around 7 p. m. Friday, when he will be interviewed by Lewis Carroll of the 20th Century-Fox New York office. The coming week’s engagement of - “Thanks for Everything” will precede the general national release by two weeks. About a year ago, the Muncie Evening Press decided that since Muncie had been picked as the typical American city by Robert S. and Helen Lynd in their book, “Middletown,” it naturally would house the typical American family.

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.So the Press started a contest_to find it. Such things as general habits, mode of living, taste in reading and entertainment, outlook on the national and international scene were the determining factors. The Glenn Craigs won. This contest didn’t escape fhe attention of 20th Century-Fox and the National Institute for Straight Thinking. The movie people conceived a comedy based on a contest to find the typical average man, and his career as a human guinea pig of statistical science. The National Institute, through its chairman, Dr. William J. Reilly, invited the Craigs to New York. . So Mr. and Mrs. Craig, Emma Lou, 8, and William Glenn, 4, went to the big city. Mr. Craig refused to fly, insisting that they were just. ordinary people, and that he thought flying was carrying it a bit too far for a family of this type. In New York they met Mayor La Guardia, spoke twice on national radio networks, had press interviews, swapped opinions with assorted professors and saw the sights.

They Liked Him

What impressed Mr. Craig most of all was the fact that a reporter from the august New York Times sat there and listened attentively to the opinions of an engineer from the Muncie Water Works. One of Mrs. Craig’s chief enjoyments was “prettying up” to meet the celebrities. The children put in a vote for the Bronx Zoo. Mr. Craig also learned something on his trip about the story material going into “Thanks for Everything.” He told the 20th Century-Fox people—without prompting—that his idea of a swell movie was “In Old Chicago.” Since that was their picture, the firm practically made him an honorary vice president on the spot. When he comes down to Indianapolis Friday, Mr. Craig hopes he can impress his audience with the fact that the country is “going places.” He told Mr. Carroll he never realized fully until he went to New York. The Craigs continue to live the same sort of life they did before fame came. Their suburban bungalow is within walking distance of Mr. Craig's work.

Camera Contest “I still feel that I'm just Craig of the Water Works,” he told Mr. Carroll, “and I'm happy to remain so.”

Meanwhile the Indiana will be bidding farewell to Gypsy Rose Lee and her “Hollywood to Broadway” revue tomorrow. And just to give the Lee fans something to remember her by, the Indiana management has decreed that tomorrow's early evening show shall be turned a a candid cameraman’s field ay. So be in your seats at 6:30 p. m. and help yourself to shots of La Gypsy, Jack Durant, Trixie the youthful juggler, Carla and Fernando, and all the rest. Incidentally, the management states that Miss Lee is something of candid fan herself, and that she is going to address the Progressive Arts League tomorrow at a time not set at present.

LEDERER DROPS HIS PEACE PLAN

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P).— Francis Lederer, stage and screen star, has dissolved the World Peace Federation for which at one time he claimed 1,000,000 members. Mr. Lederer for some years has ~ spent large sums in postage boosting his plan to have all citizens vote on war before hostilities might begin. One reason for the dissolution was President Roosevelt's opposition to the Ludlow bill for a war referendum, he said. The other was “because international relations are so

upset . that any world gestures so necessary to world understanding have been made impossible.”

JANE WALSH TO WED HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P.).— Jane Walsh, film actress, and William T. J. Middleton, New York assemblyman, today filed notice of intention to wed. The ceremony will be performed Saturday and they will spena their honeymoon in Mex-

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tonight. winners {ro H. H. Marshall,

cosponisors/in Indianapolis.

Jolson to Star With Alice Faye

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P.).— Al Jolson, after being away from the screen for several years, returns to pictures within a few months as the star of a musical film, it was learned today. Although Mr. Jolson was the first big star of the sound films when he made “The Jazz Singer,” first alltalking feature, he did not fare so well in succeeding efforts, all of which followed the same pattern as his first big hit. Mr. Jolson was content to star in his radio show, but film producer Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox persuaded him to have another try in films. When offered a costarring role with Alice Faye in “Rose of Washington Square,” a musical film, Mr. Jolson agreed. The picture will g0 before the cameras early' next spring.

BRITISH LIKE KRUGER

Despite the fact that he appears in not more than two English pictures yearly, Otto Kruger, who plays a leading role in “Disbarred” with Gail Patrick and Robert Preston, is one of England’s favorite screen actors. i

PRIZE ROLES

Ray Milland has just been assigned two of the most coveted roles

in Hollywood, the masculine leads!

in Kipling’s “The Light That Failed” and “Hotel Imperial.” He will appear opposite Isa Miranda in the latter picture.

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P.)— John Howard, the Bulldog Drummond of the screen, has built such a reputation in the role of the British amateur detective that he is being sought te. appear in English

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They're not asleep, they're just rehearsing. The gentlemen above, Henry Jacoby (with the hat) and Eugene McManamon, caught at the height of their performance in “High Tor,” the Civic Theater’s coming production which opens Friday night.

Show ls Set For Church

Comedy Due at St. Paul's; School, Studio Plan Bills.

An operetta and three plays will be presented this week at various schools, churches and lodges. The Young People’s League of St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church will present “Don’t Darken My Door,” a three-act comedy, at 8 p. m. Friday at the church. Leading roles will be played by Esther Christian and Lud Bohn. “Womanless Wedding” will be presented by members of the Meadlawn Christian Church Men’s Class at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow night at School 82 auditorium. The following night, at the same time, the Mothers’ Dramatic Club of the school will present “Thursdays at Home.” Students of the Kersting Dance Studio will appear in the operetta, “The Christmas Bazaar,” to be given at the Christmas party for the Queen Esther Chapter, O. E. S,, at 8 p. m. Friday at the Temple.

STILL TRAMPING

Frank Malo, one of the juvenile actors now in “The Pure in Mind,” a drama of homeless youngsters, is playing a real life role. He has hoboed across the country, and worked at scores of odd jobs during his brief career.

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Cast of 'Ollshoma Kid' Is More at Home on The Water.

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7.—It’s easier to find a yachtsman than a cowboy on the set of “The Oklahoma Kid,” and there is some talk of changing the picture’s title to “Sailors on Horseback,” Jimmy Cagney, the Kid himself, never before had been on the hurricane deck of a cayuse, buf he owns and sails a 65-foot boat, Martha, which usually is stabled at Newport Harbor. And the stars director, Lloyd Bacon, not only is a lieutenant commander in the U: S. Navy, reserve, but also has a 52foot motor sailer, Cielito II. Dick Mayberry, Mr. Bacon’s assistant, spends his spare time galloping over the waves in a 30-foot auxiliary ketch, Celar.

Donald Crisp, in the featured role of an elderly judge who finally shows the Kid the error of his outlaw ways, is Hollywood’s foremost yachtsman, has owned three large craft, is buying another and holds his own master’s papers. Even a Double Ward Bond, one of the border rufians who dies in front of Mr. Cagney’s guns, is a regular member of the crew of Director John Ford’s '100-foot power yacht. Mr. Ford, by the way, now is directing “Stage Coach,” another western with several nautical cowboys in the cast. Of course Errol Flynn is famous as a deep-water adventurer, and his book of maritime adventure, “Beam End,” still sells an occasional copy. He owns the 75-foot ketch, Sirocco, in which he frequently plays hookey| from his studio duties, but right now he’s sailing a stormy role in the frontier thriller, “Dodge City,” as

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only things he ever actually killed were fish. He cruises and trolls the gamey waters off the coast of Lower California. Another salty member of the company is Cliff Lyons, a stunt rider who doubles

for Flynn when there’s any dangerous feat to be done. But Lyons is just as much at home along the San Pedro waterfront as in a San Fernando horse corral, for he owns the 45-foot schooner Los Amigos. The newly spurred cowboys are not the only ones who divide their time between sea and sagebrush. Buck Jones is just as handy with a hawser as with a lasso-rope. And maybe handier. In 1936 he sailed as a crew member aboard his own $60,000 schooner, Sartartie, in the race to Honolulu. On quiet cruises, he skippers the craft himself. Leo Carrillo, descendant of California dons and a horseman in scores of westerns, owns and sails the Thetis. Warner Baxter rode to fame as the “Cisco Kid” and will play the same role in a remake of the picture. But he’s also the master of the big cabin cruiser Warwin, which he saw on Lake Erie and had brought around to the Pacific. The name is a combination of his own and that of his wife,

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P).— James Roosevelt, son of the President, today said that in his new job: as a vice president of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. Ltd., he would do what his boss told him. Mr. Roosevelt said that reports he would receive a $50,000 salary set the figure “quite a little too high,” and besides he didn’t think the public Soldwyn, Inc, Ltd, he would do made.

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wyn should make controversial pice tures. Mr. Roosevelt said he understood that the company made no controversial pictures. He added that he was a movie fan without a favorite actress and said he felt that his past associations would provide valuable experience for him in the film business.

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