Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1939 — Page 21

Cowboy and Lady Please

Loew's Fans

New Goldwyn Film Not Spectacular But Draws Hearty Laughs.

By JAMES THRASHER Samuel Goldwyn, sultan of the spectacular, has started the new year with an about-face, called “The ‘Cowboy and the Lady,” now at Loew's. It is a pleasant, innocuous and decidedly unspectacular little com"edy, starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon. Not in the least Goldwynesque. it sticks close to the simple ingredients of the title with nary a surprise to ripple the surface of its familiar plot. The story presents quite an imposing array of authors. The original story is by Leo McCarey and Frank R. Adams, and the brilliant playwright S. N. Behrman collaborated with Sonya Levien on the screen play.

- Apparently the quartet got together and chanted, “O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Then they decided to do again the story about the rich young woman who masquerades as a poor working girl to win her man.

Blind Date Starts It

In this case Miss Oberon, as a scorner of the social canons, goes on a. blind date with two of her maids. Their “boy friends” are members of a rodeo. Miss Oberon finally has to tell Mr. Cooper she is supporting a shiftless father and four small sisters before he abandons his hatcrunching, “shucks ma’am” attitude, and pops the question.

Miss Oberon’s father hopes to win the Presidential nomination. When he learns his daughter has run away to Galveston and married a cowboy, he is much upset. So daughter comes home, agrees to’ play hostess to his political friends, then head for her husband’s ranch."

But: Mr. Cooper learns her true identity, to his intense disgust. He bursts in on what is intended to be - a very impressive dinner party. He picks up where he left off as Mr. Deeds, and lectures the assembly on the virtues of coming down off the high horse and treating the common man with respect.

Forgets Presidency

He turns on his heel and departs, leaving a sadder but wiser group gazing shamefacedly into their demitasse. In fact, such is the power of the average man in current films, that when Mr. Cooper returns to Montana, he finds his wife's father has chucked Presidential ambitions to sit at his feet and learn wisdom and humility. Miss Oberon is tliere too, of course.

That’s all there is to it. Yesterday’s initial audience seemed to find the whole thing to their liking. The laughter was especially hearty at the spot where Mr. Cooper, the strong silent cowboy, suddenly starts playing house within the framework of his new dwelling. He sits on imaginary ‘chairs, offers some nonexistent celery to his phantom bride, and pours imaginary drinks for 2 gaping bunch of cowhands. - Both principals do the jobs assigned them in pleasing fashion. In places the dialog is amusing; elsewhere there is recourse to such buckskin bromides as “Well, hang me for a cattle thief” or “You must -be plum’ loco.” Loew’s bill also includes an exciting auto racing melodrama which should find favor with local de--votees. It’s called “Burn ’Em Up O'Connor,” with Dennis O'Keefe starred.

ACTORS WIN HELP ~ IN RAP AT NAZIS

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (U. P)— The signature of Newbold Morris, president of the New| York City Council, was obtained today on the Declaration of Democratic Independence, sponsored by a Hollywood committee of 56. The declaration is a petition asking President Roosevelt for a trade embargo on Germany. Melvyn Douglas is chairman of the committee and members include Joan Bennett and other movie stars. : Mr. Morris is a direct descendent of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declareiion of Independence in

- PRESENT MANUAL PLAYS TUESDAY

Members of the Mask and Wig Club of Manual Training High School will present three one-act plays at 8 p, m. Tuesday at the school auditorium, © | The three plays, under the direction of E. Edward Green, include “Goodnight, Please,” written by James L. Daggett, a graduate of Technical High School in 1925; “The Valiant” and “The Advantages of Being Shy.”

JEANETTE WILL TRAVEL

Jeanetie MacDonald, appearing currently in “Broadway Serenade,” is planning a vacation trip to New York as soon as work in the picture is completed.

DEPARTURE FOR COMIC

Bert Lahr, Broadway comic, essays an entirely different type of ‘role in “Zaza.” In this film he plays the confidante of Claudette Colbert,

THAT YOUNG LADY'S NO MYTH

Bing Crosby and Edward Everett Horton seem to agree that there’s something attractive about these mythical Balkan states, and offer as Exhibit A Miss

All three are in

Franciska Gaal, the young lady on Mr. Crosby’s arm.

“Paris Honeymoon,” which yoved

today from the Indiang to the Apollo.

JACKIE COOPER'S CAR IS RECOVERED

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (U.P.).— Jackie Cooper’s new roadster, stolen a few days after he received it for Christmas, was recovered today. The machine was abandoned, ap-

parently undamaged, in a ditch near Whittier, Cal.

tor had decorated with nickel gadgets until it resembled a fire engine.

REVELERS SING AT INN TONIGHT

The Brown County Revelers, radio entertainers, are scheduled for a personal appearance tonight at the Blue Moon Dance Hall, Keystone Ave. and 46th St. Vocal and specialty numbers by the Baker Trio are featured with the Revelers orchestra. . .

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IN NEW YORK —# GEORGE ROSS

Taylor Made orble Talk Gives Movie Idol

New York Isolation He Desires.

EW YORK, Jan. 13.—A group Grand Central Terminal where Robert Taylor was stepping off a train, still meet with mutual astonishment and repeat this ambiguous “I cannot keep abreast of these more interesting questions, so I have no statement that will settle them.”

They say this sentence aloud, then transpose the first and second parts, and they still are in the dark.

statement:

It simply doesn’t make any sense, considering that it was a reply to their uncomplicated query, “Are you going to marry Barbara Stanwyck?” when they confronted the Man Beautiful at the station. Mr. Taylor's inability to keep abreast of these more interesting questions .(have you figured it out yet?) utterly stopped the working press, so the movie idol was ‘permitted to proceed, unmolested, to his hotel where his reception was comparatively quiet.

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OR the last time Mr. Taylor came to Manhattan—or was it the time before last—he barely had hung up his overcoat in a suite at the Waldorf when three maidens suddenly slid out from under the bed, hugged the Adonis and demanded his autograph. Mr.. Taylor couldn’t keep abreast of that more interesting situation, either, so the house detective and a couple of bellboys were rushed upstairs to give the girls ‘the rous-mit-em. 2

Having vanquished the Fourth Estaters this trip with effective dou-ble-talk, Mr. Taylor hopes- to in< sure a secluded visit to New York. He is going to a half dozen Plays, he says, but won’t name them, in order to throw autograph hounds off the scent, and he ‘is going to avoid the conspicuous restaurants. He is registered “under his own name at the hotel, however, and the name of the hostelry got into the papers. So there’s not much hope there. : : 0

iE swingsters are going noisily daft over a rhythmic tune labeled “Shad-rack,” and it has replaced the “Flat Foot Floogie,” we fear, as the anthem of the jitterbugs. Never mind that “Shad-rack” has Biblical background, for it derives from the Old Testament tale of Nebuchadnezzar and idolatry. A weird place for a 52d St. tune to originate, but, after all, they’ve swung such classics as “Loch Lomond” and “0 Dear, What Can the Matter Be?” " The man who composed “Shadrack” is Robert MacGimsey, who

posit a tune on the doorstep 'of Swing Alley. : “Shad-rack” was composed as Mr. MacGimsey read the Scriptures during a train ride. The rhythm of the

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wheels became inseparable, in his mind, from that odd name, Shadrack, on the ‘Scripture page. Thus was a jive classic inspired. td o 2 NCE before Mr. MacGimsey had composed a tune under similar circumstances. He had come nerth from Louisiana to visit a friend and he had been instructed to ride to Astoria by subway for a dinner engagement. ; It was his first subway experience and his vague fears about being hurtled.to doom soon were replaced by : the staccato and methodical rumbling of the train wheels. Unconsciously, he withdrew a slip. of paper from his pocket and, with the subway beating out the time, he scribbled the score of a new song. That was “Land uv Degradation,” which today is one of his most famous spirituals and is being sung in recital and on the air by Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles: Thomas and Ezio Pinza. = 2 8 8 2 COUPLE of over-the-table-cloth raconteurs were matching afterdinner speeches at Dinty Moore's and the fellow on the right recalled the night last year when Willie Collier attended a dinner ‘given by Uncle Sam’s military services. One orator after another droned on and finally it came Collier’s turn. Wearily, he dragged himself to his feet and said slowly, “Gentlemen, I'm glad I came here tonight. Now

and Navy forever!” . Which reminded the chap on the

left of the time Wilton Lackaye went to an Astor banquet. He lis-

ter prattled for a half hour. Finally,

and said, “Mr. Lackaye will now give us his address.” Lackaye looked about him and said quietly, “My address is ‘the

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On March to Many Wars

Guns at $50 Thousand Add Din to Gunga And Others.

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13.—Movie town is rattling the saber, and martial powwows are being held in most producers’ offices. Lady he their eyes smarting with men-

as their leading men march grimly off to war. To almost any war. Today Hollywood is fighting around the world, and around the cycle of modern history. . It will even make a foray into the future

“|when Paramount goes into pro-

duction with “Invasion,” a story of an attack on North America.

Even now, though, more battles

‘| are being waged, more soldiers slain “lat $10.50 a day, and more guns rent-

ed at $50 per thousand than at any time since D. W. Griffith hired practically everybody in town and filmed “The Birth of a Nation.”

Out at David Selznick’s place, they already have shot the night scenes of the burning of Atlanta for “Gone With the Wind.” But the battles that preceded it are only in the planning stage, and a couple of them will be spectacular.

Paramount ‘Arsenal

. Most of the guns will come from the arsenal of J. S. Stembridge. In a building on. the Paramount lot he has the largest collection of period firearms in the world, and he rents these to all the studios. Mr. Stembridge has been fairly busy on his home lot, what with “Hotel Imperial,” using 250 Austrian rifles and as many more long Russian Mauzin. He also provides blank ammunition for all such guns.

"| The shells are primed and loaded

Prof. Ross Prof. Robert E. Tangeman and

of the Indiana University School of Music faculty, are to have charge of the enlarged music currieuium; of the extension center. Prof. Ross will present the psychological and physical problems in the

| teaching of voice production. Prof.

Tangeman will give a course on Saturday afternoons in either modern music or a study of the Beethoven piano sonatas, During the second semester Prof. Tangeman will present a course on the introduction to music. It will be designed for those who have no technical knowledge of music. Prof. Ross was formerly associated LLL Radio: Station WGN and the BS and NBC Networks as a program arranger. He has been a Chicago Civic Opera Co. meniber. Prof. Tangeman was formerly a staff member of the Ohid State University ' faculty. He raduated in 1932 from Harvard University.

ANNE'S IMITATIONS

In the course of her screen career Anne Shirley has enacted roles of many noted stars in their childhood, including Barbara Stanwyck and 1 Myris Loy.

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3:40. 6: 45 a nd 1 “Burn Se 0’Connor,” with . Dennis. o Keefe, P cecilia Parker, at 11:15, 2:25, 5:30 and 8:40.

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in- thei arsenal with black or flash powder, depending. on whether they're for night or day fighting. Even in “Union Pacific,” which isn’t really a war picture, Joel Mc-

Crea and his boys use 250 rifles

against a mob of Indians and badmen who are somewhat handicapped by their armament of cap-and-ball muskets, type of 1863. On the same lot, “Heritage of the Desert”

Jis full of thundering Winchesters;

about 50 of them. Big Job to Come

lywood’s boom-boom technicians will be “Invasion.” Mr. Stembridge figures he’ll provide hundreds of modern Springfields and all of his machine guns for the infantrymen, but the antiaircraft and heavy artillery will be more of a problem. Maybe the Government will help, but. a lot of the material must be designed and made in the studio shops. It will look impressive

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really is nothing to worry about.

Storey, Robert Livingston and a dog found at the Alamo, today through Sone y, in “Orphans of the Street.”

‘Dr. Harry Davenport assures his patient, Tommy Ryan, that there

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enough, even if it isn’t entirely practical. There’s heavy fighting over in Burbank; where Warner Brothers are filming “Juarez” and the birth of the Mexican republic. They have about 400 old muskets, and some newer ones which will do all right when used in the background. “Dodge City,” the Errol Flynn thriller on the same lot, calls for more than 100 bulky old-sixguns and a flock of derringers. There weren’t enough to go around, so all the extras who don’t have to do any shooting are carrying molded rubber replicas in their holsters.

Film Kipling Stories

Every last British Lee-Medford in the Stembridge warehouse — 460 of them — were trucked over to RKO for “Gunga Din.” Any day now, these same rifles will be repaired and issued to the fighters in another Kipling story, “The Light That Failed,” which Wild Bill Wellman is making for Paramount. There were even a lot of rifles in the new Shirley Temple flicker, because her father went to the Boer War. And “Idiot’s Delight” has some background scenes of war, although Clark Gable doesn’t shoot off anything except his mouth. Samuel Goidwyn will rent all of Mr. Stembridge’s Spanish-American War arms for “The Last Frontier,” which he is producing with Gary

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BUCK JONES DUE TO DRIVE IN RACE

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (U. P.).— Buck Jones, veteran movie actor,

wheeled out today a home-designed racing car which he plans to drive in the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island this summer. The racer cost $1000 and three months of Mr. Jones’ spare time supervising its construction. It has a 12-cylinder motor, and Hobie fins to help steer it.

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Indianapolis will have its first look at Noel Coward’s popular “Toe night at 8:30” at precisely the time indicated in the title, when the Civic Theater presents three of these nine one-act plays. The production, directed by Edward Steine metz Jr. will play nightly through Wednesday. First of the three offerings, “Filmed Oak,” is described as the

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