Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1939 — Page 13

Spy Picture Pleases Lya

Berlin-Born Actress Gets Kick in Airing: Grudge Against Hitler.

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (NEA).— Lya Lys has a grudge against Adolf

Hitler and his Nazis. So while the| i

making of “Confessions of .a :lazi Spy” brings turbulence to the .ets as various players gag at the parts as-

signed to them, and at giving the Nazi salute even as actors, Miss Lys really relishes her prominent feminine role. Some players were afraid of reprisal if they worked in this film. But the blond and “umphy” Miss Lys, who was born in Berlin, is eager to help make it a ‘damning cdocument. She remembers Europe during the war scare. She remembers when some Nazi officials asked her to appear in some German pictures—and what she told them. She remembers the tortured faces of refugees from that country—*“like beaten animals.” She remembers going through Germany on her way to America this time, and how she was detained,

and her money taken away and how|,

she was /sternly warned never to come back. 3 ‘Enough of Europe They needn’t worry. Neither wild horses nor tugboats could drag Lya Lys back to any European country, much less Germany. “There is nothing there—nothing!—that we do not have 10 times better here,” she said fervently. “On that side everybody is miserable, scared, poor, depressed, and they talk only of things like gas masks. I tell you I cried when I saw the Statue of Liberty!” Although counted as a foreign glamour-girl, Miss Lys is an American citizen. Didn't waste a minute after she first was brought here by Metro, in 1932, to make French versions of Hollywood pictures. She knew scarcely a word® of English then; now she has only the faintest accent and some inverted constructions. She has made pictures in French, German and Spanish, but her parents were Russian and after her earliest childhood she was educated in Switzerland and Paris. Her father, now dead, was a banker. Her mother, a physician, now is a pediatrician in Paris, Hoped to Re Lawyer Miss Lys had intended to be a lawyer until a small part in a French picture changed her mind. Incidentally, Francis Lederer was in that first one, and he’s now in “Confessions of a Nazi Spy.” The actress worked in Hollywood in 1933 and 1937, and in the meantime appeared on the stage, mostly in a long tour of “The Night of January 16th.” She did play in France Jast year and was about to make a' ‘Spy picture there when the Czechoslovakian crisis canceled production plans. She came here this time on a long-te! contract with: Warner Bros. and, after tests, they decided she should impersonate Katherine Moog, the pretty gal-pal of one of the key spies who was convicted in New York last year. “I'm not exactly a femme fatale,” she said. “The Moog woman was full of life, without pose, almost childish. That is better for me; I am not quite the vamp type.”

PROUD OF PART IN SPY PICTURE

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, Ger-

man-born son of the late Mme.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink, revealed today that he was one of the “nameless” actors in the antidictator movie, “Confessions of a Nazi Spy.” All but the stars are being listed by numbers only because most of them are naturalized foreigners and have relatives still living in totalitarian countries. But Mr. Schu-mann-Heink, who plays a purser on a German trans-Atlantic liner, said he was making his own an-

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Norman Taurog. Left to right:

The cast of “The Girl Downstairs,” opening at Loew’s Friday, is shown clustered about Director

Franciska Gaal,

Franchot Tone, Rita Johnson and Walter Connolly. The other part of the double bill is Eleanor Powell S new vehicle, “Honolulu.”

Lieder Singer's Recital Pleasing

First-water gems from the freasury of German song made up the recital program which Edna Tyne Bowles, contralto, presented last evening in the American United Life Insurance Building auditorium. Miss Bowles and her coartist, Edward Shadbolt (accompanist is too casual a word for the assisting pianist on such an occasion), are members of the DePauw University niusic faculty. They were presented by the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, and the recital proceeds went to the Federation's scholarship fund. The program divided itself between novelty and familiar music. In the former category was the cpening group, four of the 15 “romanzen” which Brahms wrote to incidental poems in Tieck’s “Magelone.” A better-known Brahms. was presented in the following selections: “Sonntag,” “In Waldeseinsamkeit,” “Botschaft,” “Der Tod, das ist die kuehle Nacht” and “Meine Liebe ist gruen.” =

Five Schubert Lieder

Five seldom heard “Wolf songs followed the intermission, and in conclusion there were as many Schubert lieder: “Erstarryng,” “Fruehlingsglaube,” “Wohin?”, “Am Meer” and ‘‘Ungeduld.” The" program was <hosen with rare judgment and good taste, and the performance reflected this good taste still further. The “Magelone” songs are of a beauty which deserves more attention from recitalists, though strictly speaking they are men’s songs. The Wolf group presented brilliant examples of that composer’s boundless - inventiveness and skill in catching and intensifying a poem’s mood. Miss Bowles was in good voice, and sang increasingly well throughcut the evening, reserving her most pleasing and expressive interpretation for the Schubert group. Mr. Shadbolt proved to be an uncommonly able pianist of sensitive perception and abundant technic. There was a profusion of flowers and warm applause from the small but obviously delighted audiences. J. T.

nouncement, German relatives notwithstanding, “I think my mother would have been proud to have me in this picture,” he said, The actor fought in the American infantry during the World War. Another brother fighting on the American side was killed. Two other brothers were in the German army.

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and 9:10. LYRIC

“The Three Musketeers,’ with Don Ameche, the Ritz Brothers, on screen. Vaudeville on stage.

BARRYMORE'S HOME ON BLOCK

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— John Barrymore’s ‘Chinese ‘Tenements,” the luxurious mansion he used to occupy in Beverly Hills, was to go uprfor auction again today. The huge: estate, consisting of two dwellings, swimming pools, : skeet shooting range and aviary, was put up for sale on Jan. 14 but attracted mainly the curious. At tomorrow’s sale = Auctioneer W. C. O’Connor hopes to dispose of the property, having received : several inquiries about it. from brokers and Wealthy Easterners. ~ Mr. Barrymore bought the property on High Tower Rd., overlooking Beverly Hills, shortly after his mar-

rone Power, vy. at 11:50,

has. not lived there since his marriage to the former Elaine Bartle,

SING. HERE SUNDAY

The Radio Male Quartet of Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., will give three programs Sunday: 10:30 a. m. at the Shelby Street Methodist Church; 3:30

N. Pennsylvania St.; Tuxedo Park Baptist Church.

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Walter Huston Actor 37 Years

Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Walter

Huston’s 37th anniversary in the

theater will be observed tomorrow

at a luncheon given in his honor by the Town Hall Club. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. will be hostess. Mr. Huston made his stage debut in 1902 in Toronto, appearing with Rose Coghlan in “White Heather.” He came to New York three years later, achieving fame in such plays as “Mr. Pitt,” “Desire Under the Elins,” “The “Barker” and “Dodsworth.” ; Among his screen roles have been those in “Abraham Lincoln,” “Ga-

tlemen of the Press” and “Of Human Hearts.” Mr. Huston currently is playing Peter Stuyvesant in Maxwell Anderson’s successful musical, “Knickerbocker Holiday.”

Polly Has Joke On Nelson Eddy

HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 15 (U. P). —Nelson Eddy, radio and screen baritone, complained today that he had been betrayed by a parrot. Mr. Eddy and his bride, the former Mrs. Ann Franklin of HollyWood, planned to spend a quiet aft-

ernoon at the zoo. They strolled un--

noticed among the animal cages. “We stopped in front of the parrot cage,” Mr. Eddy said. “All of a sudden, a bird yelled: ‘There he is.’ That bird trapped me. flocked around for autographs.” The Eddys finally got away irom the crowd in a taxicab.

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Gaspar Cassado, the Spanish cel-

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of his favorite American delicacy

when the writer caught up with him in the Hotel Lincoln coffee shop. Thre delicacy was warm apple pie a la mode. Mr. Cassado is enthusiastic about it. So, for that matter, is the Irish actor, Barry Fitzgerald. But Mr. Cassado has a great many other enthusiasms as well. He describes these enthusiasms with typical Latin ebullience. His conversation approaches a dramatic performance. Shrugs and glances serve for emphasis and punctuation. He illustrates cello playing on a table knife, and gestures gracefully with hands typical of his profession, short, thick and muscular mind what the 1omantic novelists write about “long, tapering fingers”).

Here for Fey Days’ Rest

Mr. Cassado is in town for a few days’ rest and practice before his week-end appearance with the Indianapolis Sympheny Orchestra. He came here from St. Louis where he had taken part in a performance eventful even in his distinguished career. This was a trio concert with Albert Spalding and Harold Bauer. Thirty-two years ago Mr. Bauer had played at the first recital’ Mr. Cassado had ever attended. Mr. Cassado was 7 at the time (he’s not cagey about telling his age), and had been taken to hear the great Pablo Casals, who was to become his teacher. Mr. Cassado’s conversation touched on a variety of musical subjects, and included a number of anecdotes about Mozart, Paganini, Berlioz and others. He discussed the development of orchestral instruments; he plays all of them a little, he said, so that, as a composer, he may know {heir individual capacities and limitations.

Steers Clear of Politics

As regards the Spanish Civil War he had less to say, partly because he has lived in Paris for 15 years, with only occasional visits to his native country, and partly because he does not think that musicians should involve themselves 5 politics. “Art is eternal, and the political scéne is constantly changing,” Mr. Cassado said. “Besides, I do not think we musicians understand politics. We live in another world. Why, sometimes Beethoven, through his music, seems so close to me that I feel I know him better than I know my own brother.” In fact, Mr. Cassado does not know much about his brother at present, nor ahout his mother and sister. - Their home is near Barce-

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them in the past three mor ths. However the musician did offer one- rather positive prediction of a political nature: “I will bet you $100,” he said, “that within six months the Spanish Government will be returned to the crown, probably with Alfonso’s third son, Prince Juan, as king.” : J. T

HAYWARD TO TAKE DUAL ROYAL ROLE

Times Special / HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15. ~—~Bdward Small announced today that Louis Hayward will be seen in a dual role in “The Man in the Iron Mask.” The young English actor will portray the woles of both Louis XIV and his twin brother, Philippe. - The feminine lead in “The Man in the Iron Mask” is Joar Bennett, who will be seen as Mari: Theresa, with Warren William ard - Joseph Schildkraut in the chief supporting roles.

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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—Frances Drake, film actress, and Cecil John Arthur Howard, brother of the English Count of Suffolk, were honeymooning here today after a Tucson, Ariz. elopement. Miss Drake. 26, was born in New York City, spent most of her life in England and Toronto, Janada. Mr. Howard, 30, is the second son of the Dowager Countess of Suffolk.

She has a winter home in Tucson:

SUES FOR $50,000

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (U. PJ). —Edna Austin, motion picture actress and former Ziegfeld Follies girl, sued Charles Thorson, film studio executive, for $50,000 alleged breach of promise damages today. She asserted that they became engaged in November of 1936, but Mr. Thorson delayed the wedding, and finally last New Year's Day told her there would be none.

DOING AT PART

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 (U. P.). Comedian W. C. Fields’ 40th year the show business will be celebrate at a banquet given by the Masq Club tomorrow night. Harold Ll

‘will be master of ceremonies

William Collier Sr., the toastmas Mr. Fields started as a juggl and went from stags to movies.

Among those flanking the come dian at the speakers’ table will be

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