Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1939 — Page 20
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"Duke of West Point Gives Hayward First 'Big Moment."
By JAMES THRASHER
What happens when the situations in “A Yank at Oxford” are reversed may be seen currently at Loew's in “The Duke of West Point.” . Here we have the case of an Eng- © lish-trained American, Steve Early, who is graduated from Cambridge
. (his father being a military attache
of the American embassy in Lon- * don), then comes back to the United States to enroll at West Point, just . as his father and grandfather did before him. Like the Yank who went to Oxford, young Mr. Early is an athletic marvel, and conceited and smartalecky to boot. From here on the alert and experienced movie-goer should be able to fill in the story for himself. The obstreperous plebe earns a “yearling’s” enmity by trying to steal his girl. He is caught coming in late, tries to lie out of
_ it and, when he refuses to resign * «from the cadet corps, is “silenced.”
That means that none of the cadets will speak to him throughout his four years at West Point.
Plenty of Excitement
Eventually, of course, it comes out that .Steve sneaked out in order to wire money to the mother of one of
" his roommates, saving her store so
the son could finish his military education. Then he wins the girl
. and ‘the respect bf future generals.
All this, of course, has been done in ‘substantially the same way in every service picture filmed. The
. same essential plot also served for
all the William Haines films. Yet, in the present case, there are so many pleasing performances, such able direction and so much excite-’ ment, that no doubt you will find yourself as absorbed by the story as
© you were the first time.
Louis Hayward plays Steve Early.
It is his first “big moment” in three
years around the Hollywood lots, and he does a splendid job. His
performance has lightness, humor
nd an unaffected conviction that t the role admirably. Richard Carlson, who made his “The Young at Heart,” teams with Tom Brown as
, the hero's roommate; Alan Curtis
plays the upperclassman “heavy” and Joan Fontaine is a heroine who should persuade anyone that she is worth all sorts of sacrifice and heartache. Here, before the important fact Is overlooked, is a service picture which doesn’t end up .with the . Atmy-Navy football game. Instead, the athletic climax is a hockey game with the Royal Canadian Military Academy team. The action shots are fast and exciting, and a new sport finale is a pleasant relief from the traditional last-minute touchdown.
Thin-Mannish Couple Back
As far as plot material goes, Loew’s other picture, “There's That
-, Woman Again,” is as familiar as its
"companion. It brings back the Thin-Mannish couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reardon, who were introduced
. to the cinema public in “There's © Always a Woman.”
This time, however, Virginia
. Bruce replaces Joan Blondell as ~ Sally, with Melvyn Douglas con-
tinuing as Detective Reardon. For a comedy-mystery, there is
- » little suspense in this story of the
- MRS. GABLE
(attractive young matron who had - forgotten to divorce a racketeer = husband before marrying a second,
and respectable spouse. | The first husband makes the young woman pay for his silence withh a generous allowance of diamonds from her store. The twicemarried lady's plan to murder the man goes wrong the first time, but succeeds the second. So Bill Reardon has two murders to solve, and ‘his wife pitches in to help. ‘Once again, a sprightly production whisks us by the familiar landmarks, Miss Bruce and Mr. Douglas play their parts with evident enjoyment, and the comedy is excellent all the way through.
'S WAIT IS EASED BY BOOKS
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 27 (U. P.y—
_ Clark Gable today was reported by
friends to have sent books for his second wife to read during the six weeks required before she can file _a friendly divorce suit against him in Nevada. Lawyers for Mrs. Rhea Gable, 11 years the actor’s senior, sald she will file as soon as possible. This would be March 6, the day she will
* lave completed the necessary Ne-
vada residence. She is in Las
After obtaining her divorce, she was expected to-return and continue her residence in Hollywood,
* Vegas.
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“IBANKS VOR EVERYTHING
Trouble is a-brewing,
it would seem, crew’s quarters aboard the Apollo’s “Pacific Liner,” opening today. At the table,r with arm in sling,
in the
is Barry Fitzgerald. You should recognize Victor McLaglen as his protector, and Alan Hale among the assorted Tuflans,
2 ager,
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Native of Cj
St., a graduate of Shortridge High School, class of ’27, and Princeton, ‘31, a Phi Beta Kappa, holder of a Guggenheim fellowship, stage mandirector, producer, author, teacher, and a very personable young man in spite of it all.
Except for some Princeton Tri~
. langle Club shows in his undergrad-
uate days, this is the first time that Mr. Houghton has had a chance to show his nandiwork to a home town audience. But New York has seen his scenic designs in “Carry Nation,” “Spring in Autumn,” “Love Story,” “In Clover,” “Stopover,” “How to Get Tough Ahout It,” “Waltz in Goosestep,” “Good Hunting,” “Dame Nature” (for the Theater Guild) "and, of course, the New York production of “Whiteoaks.” In addition, he has stage Jmanaged four Broadway hits: “Both Your Houses,” Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer Prize winner; “They Shall drama based on the Scottsboro case; “Libel” and “High Tor.” Mr. Houghton’s Guggenheim Fel-
: lowship sent him to Russia, where
he studied the theater there for two seasons. The result of his study
was the book, “Moscow Rehearsals,”
In New York—
Past Era Heroes Seek | Obscure Livings. By GEORGE ROSS
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—In shadowy, obscure corners of Manhattan, a score of one-time notables fan the ashes of a once-blazing popularity. Grover Cleveland Alexander is a name known to any follower of baseball for the past two decades.
Shining light of a once great baseball club (the St. Louis Cardinals), his diamond deeds have been chronicled by sports writers from coast to coast. Hero of several surging pennant drives and the man who turned back the rampant Yankees in 1928, Alexander formerly enjoyed as much prominence as, indeed, did the President of the United States. But the diamond paths of glory have led the once proud Alexander to Hubert’s Museum, a raucous penny arcade in 42d St. hard by a burlesque ih Here he is the supplementary attraction to a flea circus. Alexander, like his namesake back in ancient history, has retreated from glory. Now, for a “munificent” sum, he chats of old-time exploits to the motley horde of curious and morbid who flock to Hubert’s. In this same exhibit, not long ago, Jack Johnson, once colored champion of the fistic world and idol of his race, prodded his memory for anecdotes to amuse those supplying the pennies to pay his freight. 2 " 2 Let’s go down to Madison Square Garden. Here sports lovers flock to hockey games, to prize fights, to college basketball games. In the warmth of the Garden, expensive cigars are passed about lavishly and extravagant sums of money are wagered on the whir of the puck and the flicker of a left jab. And outside, huddling in the chill wind of the lobby. is the opee proud Jamaica Kid, whose ring achievements were as brilliant as these of any fighter yet te vault the ropes. The Kid is blind and helpless and his once magnificent body plainly shows the years of want and priation. He stands with a tin cup d a box of pencils strapped about his waist, walting for a sentimental sports follower or two to drop a coin in memory of days gone by. ” ” » James Hall, remembered affectionately by movie fans as a popular hero of the silents and of “Hell's Angels,” still retains his health, happily. But Hall has fallen from artistic grace and performs these days in cabarets and vaudeville houses offering salaries which are a far cry from those affluent Beverly Hills days.
‘FILMS RAIL STORY
Cecil B. De Mille is filming “Union Pacific,” the only ambitious railroad picture attempted since “The Iron Horse,” 15 yeArs ago. ;
By PAUL HARRISON
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 27.—The movie colony agrees that Gracie
Look at George Burns, who was supposed to be the “straight man” of the comedy team—admits buying some smuggled jewelry from Albert Chapereau, and just to save a few dollars which the Government would’ have got, anyway, in income tax.
Hollywood is very sorry for Mr. Burns, and for Jack Benny, his companion in trouble. Also, their trial is awaited with real apprehension, because however it goes it is feared that there may be a surge of public sentiment against the big-money people of the movie and radio colony.
No Sheotin’ anyway
But if such a thing had to occur, Hollywced is glad that it happened to individuals whose private lives have been without a taint of scandal. After all, Benny is accused of buying some smuggled trinkets for his wife, and Burns ‘admitted buying jewelry for Gracie.
The Burnses lead a simpler and quieter life than you might expect of a movietown couple who earn $9875 a week on the air and about the same amount on the screen during the dozen or so weeks a year that they average in pictures. They ‘live in a new Colonial house on a 100-foot lot in Beverly Hills. The back yard is completely occupied by Miss Allen's flower garden and a swimming pool. The foster parents are fatuously fond of their adopted children, Ronnie and Sandra, and spend a good deal of time in the yard with them. Burns and Miss Allen almost never discuss their work; he does all the worrying and she says she could step out of the entertainment business toniorrow and never give it another thought. Burns employs three full-time writers—John P. Medbury, Harvey Helm and Bill Burns, the comic’s brother. When these gag men arrive - for a session of radio scripting, they go to an upstairs library and all begin talking at once. Gracie pays no attention to their creative agonies and never
rehearses her on the day of their broadcast.
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Allen isn’t the only dumb one.| ‘more ‘of a comedy director than a
sees a script until her husband,
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She never sees a movie script, either, but is ‘taught her lines by George. Burns has considered himself
comedian ever since he and Gracie first appeared in vaudeville together, about 14 years ago. He had hired her as an ingenue stooge and had written all the laugh lines for himself. Instead, the customers laughed only at the way Gracie asked questions. So he rewrote the skit and let her tell the jokes. “My friends all told me I'd better be mighty careful not to lose that girl from the act,” Burns recalled. “So after a year I proposed to her. I proposed every day for another year before she said yes.” Miss Allen is supposed to have more business judgment than Burns. He brags about her tasteful furnishing of their house and her efficient management of it. They entertain infrequently and then. with small parties, but they go to quite a few parties and leave early. The Jack Bennys are among their closest friends. Burns and Benny understand each other because they're
Filmland Supports Burns and Benny
their radio jobs. Benny is a silent worrier and Burns is a nervous, talkative one. He tells a lot of stories and likes practical jokes. Burns is thankful to be working at a job which requires no mechanical ability. One day at his house he said he wanted me to hear some new Raymond Scott records, and I found that he couldn’t operate the electrical phonograph which he owned for a year. Once he bought a fancy new automobile with four forward speeds and drove it around town for days in third gear, thinking he was in
of the Brown Derby at high noon with all the lights blazing. Burns said he couldn’t find the switch.
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The epic story
ty Desigried | He Scenery for ‘Whiteoaks'
Play and movie-goers: Tave a habit of overlonking the “credits” on ‘| program or screen—the men and women who built sets, and so on. But those who plan to see Ethel Barrymore ir | “Whiteoaks” at English’s Feb. 3 and 4, should give special notice to the scenery andthe name of the man who designed it. For the designer is Norris Houghton, an Indianapolis native, on oi
, made costumes
Mrs. Grace N. Houghton, 134 E. 36th @-
high. He also flashed up in front|
‘which has gone mio two . edition: here and been published in London
amateur groups in New York, and produced 60 summer plays for thé University Players, as well as numerous others for companies in the New England haystack circuit. In ‘addition to the above activities and a regular position a: teacher of dramatic history in ¢ New York private school, Mr Houghton has found time to contribute articles to Harper's Bazaar. Stage, the Saturday Review of Lit: erature, Theater Arts Monthly, the American Scholar, the New Theater, Soviet Russia Today and the Inter national Theater. All of which isn’; bad for a young man just/ turned 2¢
CALL HEDY "IDEAL" IN COLLEGE VOTE
HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 27 (U. P).+The “ideal type” of woman chose: in a poll at Pomona College was an - nounced today as Hedy LaMarr, the Viennese actress. The poll was conducted by the college newspaper among both men and women students, Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer Studio announced. Second choice was Madeleine Carroll, the English star, who was the Columbia University men's pick as the “ideal companion” with whom to} be shipwrecked on a desert island. - Pomona College, at Pomona, Cal,
He has directed four plays for |
Organists’ Guild: Sponsors. Recital
Ruth Elizabeth Qrabasi will be ‘heard in an organ recital at 8 p. m.
ganist and musical director st ghe Second Presbyterian Later
she spent 12 years as a student of
Dr. Clarence Dickinson _in' New York. She has been: engaged to teach organ at Hanover: College / next year. 3 es program for. Mohiay'’s Tecital 0 £5 Chorale Prelude: “Wachet ate” A) a Fr
‘Monday in the Second Presbyterian Canta bile
Church, under, auspices of the Indiana Chapter, American Guild of Organists. Assisting on the program will be ‘Mrs. Mary Ellery Smith, . soprano, and Mrs. Robert Blake, contralto, both of the Second Church Quartet. Miss Graham began her organ study with Charles F. Hansel, or-
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