Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1939 — Page 11

JACTOR WILL ATTEND | | WILL ROGERS FETE

HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (U. P), —Charles Starrett, star of Western movies, will leave tomorrow for Ale buquerque, N. M., to represent the motion picture industry at a convention and fiesta celebrating the

French Seeking ToBan U.S. Films

PARIS, March 14 (U. P.).—The French Government is understood

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to have completed a ‘motion picture statute broadly copied after German and Italian law and designed to de-

completion of a link of the Will Rogers Memorial Highway between Chicago and Santa Monica.

velop the French movie industry as well as threatening to eliminate the American film trade. Jean Zay, Minister of National Education, presented the completed code for the signature of President Albert Lebrun at a Council of Ministers meeting and a bill adopting the code will be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies today. Harold Smith, representative of Will Hays in Paris, said that M. Zay had “translated into French” the Italian provisions doubling the] tax on all foreign films and eliminating American double-feature programs in French theaters by|. limiting the total program length. “The tax is aimed directly at American films,” he said.

CAB DRIVER FINDS CLAUDETTE'S DOG

HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (U. P.). —A cab driver, one of 750 who were 1|{called in :on the hunt, collected a $100 reward today for finding | Claudette Colbert’s dog, Smoky. - The dog, a French poodle, strayed away from home yesterday. 'The actress telephoned the cab company, begging all its drivers to keep a lookout for her pet. Two hours later, Earl Riggs, 43, spotted Smoky on Sunset Blvd, took him home and collected the $100 reward.

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Leonard Franklin Returns For Recital After Study Abroad.

By JAMES THRASHER

Leonard Franklin, a young man who grew up 'in Indianapolis, returned from several years of study and professional activity to sing a recital last night at the Phyllis Wheatley Branch, Y. W. C. A. In the years since he graduated from Crispus Attucks High School, this young Negro tenor has attend-|: ed Fisk University, toured with that institution’s famous Jubilee Singers, studied in Paris, where he made his debut, and appeared in several New York stage productions, including “Four Saints in Three Acts” and “Porgy and Bess.” 2

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HOLLYWOOD, March 14. — One of Hollywood's mest fantastic ironies came to light today when it developed that Gustav Machaty, the man who made Hedy Lamarr a movie star—in “Ecstasy”—has been here for the last two years—making gangster pictures. He said he hasn’t spoken a word to her yet, though they both are under contract to MGM. Her last picture, “I Take This Woman,” was shelved half. completed after two different directors had tried their hands at ,it. Mr. Machaty wasn’t invited to direct the girl he made famous in the celebrated European picture. 3 “Hollywood is a very illogical town,” he commented. He made “Ecstasy” in Praha several years ago, with Miss Lamarr as the girl who ran through the

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Miss Harriet Vascou of Bates--ville will play the lead in “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” to be presented by Marian College dramatic students Friday evening. Others in the cast are Misses. Mary Ruffy, Paula Fulnecky, Last night’s recital disclosed a| Mary Jane Lang and Mary Lou singer whose voice, though light, is|Eckerle. of a pleasing quality, and whose|. earnestness of approach and natural good taste left an excellent impression. Program Mostly Lyric

Technically, Mr. Franklin’s singing suffers at times from what would seem to be bad schooling. In songs of a dramatic fiber there was lack of a firm and steady vocal support which prevented him from do‘ing all that he obviously wished. It was my feeling that this voice has undeveloped powers which, it may be hoped, will be brought out to majfch the singer’s musicianship. Moments of disappointment, however, were in the minority. Mr. Franklin chose a program predominently lyric in content. Here the sweetness of his voice was heard to its full effect. All the songs in the first group were happily chosen: Calvara’s “Selve Amiche”; and 18th Century Italian folk song; one of Haydn’s Shakespeare lyrics, “She Never Told Her Love,” and Bassani’s “Dormi Bella.” : If the two Brahms songs in the next group, “An die Nachtigall” and “O wuesst ich doch den Weg zurueck,” were vocally unsuited, Schubert’s “Wohin” came in for a charming treatment. It was taken at a brisk pace, and done simply, without retards. As an encore Mr, Franklin repeated it, singing the English text—a wise and re-

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Ned Sparks Loses Tax Exemption Plea’ Based On False Teeth.

WASHINGTON, March 14 (U. P.).|= —The Board of Tax Appeals todays gave Ned Sparks, dead-pan movie|=S comedian, another reason for gloom. |S The board disallowed his income |§ tax deduction for false teeth. : "Mr. Sparks contended $3000 of |S $3500 spent for two artificial upper |S dentures was a proper business de- |= duction because a previous set of |= false teeth, although perfctly good |= for chewing, gave a slight hiss to his |= screen voice. E The Internal Revenue Commission disallowed the deduction on grounds teeth are personal rather than business expenses. “It would be difficult,” said the board, “to imagine anything more personal than a set of false teeth.” |=

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be taught. : IE 7 No small part of the evening’s|S yin Jom i success was due to the sympathetic|E = = ge e and artistic accompaniments pro- |S Atle

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EW YORK, March 14.—Cafe society has a new spokeslady in Nancy Hamilton, the current darling of the EI Morocco-Stork Club-Twenty-One circle. She is the gal who wrote most of the new musical show, “One for the Money,” which is to Park Avenue what “Pins ind Needles” is to the proletariat.

woods in the altogether. The pic- Back in 1387, when the abave picture was taken, | Josef Hofmann is the property of Mrs. Benjamin ture won an international prize at| yis voiung man wes creating quite a stir as a pianist. | Harrison and was taken at the time of Mr. HofVenice., 5 Today he’s doing the samesthing, and the Murat | mann’s American debut. Mrs. Harrison has preIt Made No Money probably will be sold out for his appearances here | sented it to the Jordan Conservatory of Music, and . “And| it was a sober, serious| with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on | it will be hung inthe studio of Harold Triggs, head piece of work,” Mr. Machaty sald Friday and Saturday. The original of this photo of | of the conservatory’s piano department. “Only it made no money. Even the]. z a present Pope, then Cardinal Pac- v i celli, saw it and liked it. There was : nothing obscene about it. Then an Pushed ; nto IN NEW YORK rere American promoter bought it, together with all the Seep i I had a ; a» thrown away. He patched the nude D j P m scenes out longer and turned it into : ance a e . : ' ’ a kind of album of erotica. 1 under- — Nancy Hamilton of ‘One for Money' Fame stand he made a fortune from it.” : : J : Le Machaty said that hen he Star of Ruth Page Ballet Just Was 'Little Lady’ in College. . Br Belin, looking for a girl to take Obeyed Crders. Before Nancy Hamilton became the author of “One for the Money” e lead. - —— and a cafe society favorite, she collaborated with Charles Gaynor on . “I found the photograph of one jury the Indianapolis Civic Theater's musical revue productions of 1934 in the , apartment of one of my Bentley Stone, premier danseur and 1935. Though Miss Hamilton did not visit the city herself, she folengs d is Sale. ig Plo of the Ruth Page Ballet, which will| js well remembered here as the author of some witty, satirical sketches rir Si appear at the Murat March 21, has| and song lyrics. iful gir , > ay a $01 np mus; heputind Iai turned up .with a new and refreshKiesler and she was 17 years old.|ing sort of success story.~ I signed her up at once and she| In a world of press-agentry where went into the picture. | eminence always is attributed to “She worked for seven weeks and | hard work, struggle and the triumph she earned $700. It was the first|of unquenchable artistic zeal over good part she ever had. When the|every obstacle, Mr. Stone strikes an film was exhibited and an acknowledged hit, she received an offer from Fox Studios in Hollywood. . Married on Advice “She also got a proposal of marriage from Fritz Mandl, a very wealthy man. She asked me for advice. I told her to marry. She did. “And Mandl escorted her to the showing of ‘Ecstasy’ in Venice when the prize was awarded. He was proud of her. So I can say that the widely printed reports about him spending a fortune buying up prints of ‘Ecstasy’ are so much poppy-cock. All he did try to buy were some still photographs of his wife, which had been taken during production.” - Miss Kiesler later received an offer from MGM. She came to Hollywood and changed her name to Hedy Lamarr. The studio made every effort to erase from the record her part in “Ecstasy.” The film is not mentioneq, for instance, in her official studio biography. Neither is the fact that Mr. Mandl obtained an annulment of their wedding. When she arrived her some two years ago, Mr. Machaty already was at the studio. He had obtained a job from Producer Bernie Hyman, whom he had known from boyhood days. When Mr. Machaty was a 17-year-old movie-struck boy, he came to Hollywood from Czzchoslovakia and worked three years at Universal Studios as actor, zoo attendant, and whatnot. Mr. Hyman was a $35-a-week reader there, “Very Illogical Town” “So when 1 returned to Hollywood 18 years later, Bernie a real producer,” Mr. Machaty continued. “He put me on the payroll as a director.” The studio said nothing about Mr, Machaty’s past. Few people even knew he was in town. His name does not appear in the current Motion

Picture Almanac, the standard Hol-

lywood reference book. “And for nearly two years I did nothing,” Mr. Machaty said. “Then I was given a picture, ‘Within the Law,’ to direct. I've just finished it. It was about gangsters. ’ “I can only repeat: Hollywood is a very illogical town.”

FIXES PLANE

Wallace Beery has turned plane mechanic in a big way. -With the new power lathe recently installed in his home workshop, he is making bearings for the shock absorbers on his monoplane,

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“Fisherman’s Wharf,” with Bobby Breen, Leo Carillo, at 11, 11:50, 7:30 and 10:20

“Twelve Crowded Hours,” with Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, at 12:46, 3:36, 6:26 and 9:16.

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“The Little Princess,” with Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, at 12:43, 3:48, 6:53 a :58, “Everybody's Baby,” with “The _ Jones Family,” at 11:41, 2:46, 5:51 and 8:56.

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“Made for Each @ther,” with Carole Lombard, James 12:40. 3:45 6:50 an Pini as “Let Us Live,” with Henry Fonda, Maureen Sullivan, at 11:25, 2:30,

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“Yes, My Darling Daughter,” with Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, May Robson, on screen. Vaudeville, with Nick Lucas, on stage.

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original note. “I am averse to movement of any sort,” said Mr. Stone in a recent interview. “From age 2 to 17 I engaged in what amounted to a perpetual sit-down strike. In college (Marquette) I played football badly. Afterwards, I strolled from house to house selling life insurance indifferently, :

“Too Indolent to Resist”

“I then became a dancer—principally because Queenie Smith told me to, and I was too indolent to resist.” Mr. Stone got his dancing orders for the Broadway production of “Street Singer.” He was a tap dancer then, as he was in “The Second Little Show” ard the Hoboken revival of “The Black Crow.” His first ballet appearances were in Chicago, with Margaret Severn. Later he was premier danseur with the Chicago Civic Opera Ballet, first under Laurent Novikoff and later under Miss Page. Ee also was ballet director for Chicago's Century of Progress in 1934, toured the Middle West with his owa company and appeared throughout Europe with the Marie Rambert Ballet of London. In Europe he danced leading roles in “Swan Lake,” “Spectre of the Rose,” ‘Les Sylphides”. and “Death of a Maiden.” Mr. Stone reconciles his “indolence” with his appearance in an arduous and exacting profession by contending that as Flaubert, sthe romanticist, excelled at rezlistic ficton, so lazy persons sonietimes provide most energetic dancing.

ANY ONE SIGHTED "THIN MAN JR.'?

HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (U. P.). —For the next five days casting directors at Metro-Golclwy1-Mayer Studio will gladly look at any 1-year-old baby boy thal resembles William Powell. The studio made several! qualifications. The baby must be brought to the studio and must not live more than one hour's ride away. The youngster is wanted for a part in a forthcoming Powell-Myrna Loy movie.

HOLLYWOOD SEEKS PERSHING'S ADVICE

HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (U. PJ). —Director Paul Sloane has :nvited Gen. John J. Pershing to give expert advice in the filming of the Army’s chase after Geronimo, the Apache. Gen. Pershing, as a young lieutenant, . served under Gen, Nelson A. Miles~in the Apache campaign during the ‘80s. The campaign will be made the basis of a motion picure.

VETERAN OF FILMS RETURNS HOME, ILL

HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (U. P.). —Hobart Bosworth, veteran actor who suffered a nervous breakdown in’ St. Louis threes weeks azo, was back in Hollywood today. Mr. Bosworth was on a talent tour for a movie when stricken. He was carried aboard a Santa Fe train on a stretcher.

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Sophistication is the word for her. Her skits and ditties are mainly about the gadabouts. When asked the other day why she concentrated her light verses on the smart set only, she responded, “I seen my ditty and I done it.” : So you can see for yourself, Nancy doesn’t take life very seriously. : :

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ER first bask in the limelight was with ‘a revue called “New Faces.” That one, too, both glorified and satirized the pseudo-socialites. When “New Faces” closed, she kept on writing the stuff and became head scriptist for Beatrice Lillie, ‘who still uses Hamilton material on the ether waves. And last spring she wrote “One for the Money,” which she intended as Park Avenue’s retort to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. For it is manned by a cast that speaks with a nasal inflection that makes waiters’ lives miserable, and is chiefly concerned with Who was on Who's yacht thaf night in question out in Snug Harbor.

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HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (UP.).—

LL of which is strangely blase ZA for a little lady who hails from Sewickley, Pa. : It was at Smith College, where a girl has to ‘be a Lady to remain within the good graces of the faculty, that Nancy’s satiric sense of humor first: bloomed — when she wrote the undergraduate show, entitled “And So On.” A New Jersey women’s club heard about it and resolved to have “And So On” at their annual shindig. They invited Nancy to take charge of the production. Flushed with the triumph of that dubious endeavor, she descended upon Manhattan, windins up in a flat near Park Ave. foresightedly enough. She tried selling verses and skits to the slick papers and hadn’t much luck, so she went to work sellingl. clothes in the college shop of a local department store. After experimenting a while, she evolved a fine sales technique. Just ignore the customers—that was all And strangely enough, it worked—so well that sales doubled and the store gave her a raise to boot.

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IRED of the retail business, she then became some sort of inDeir for a movie-vaudeville circuit. : : For $2750 a week, she prowled around the chain's 10 theaters; checking the courtesy of the attendants, the quality of the variety acts, the honesty of the cashiers, the rolish on the scales in the powder room. And just as she was about to be fired, she obtained work as Katharine Hepburn’s understudy in a play called “The Warrior's Husband.” She kept on writing snob-stuff Verses. : Fortunately or not, Miss Hepburn remained in extremely good health and Nancy didn’t get a chance to emote in public. When “The Warrior’s Husband” closed, she grew so footsore tramping ‘Broadway for another part that she determined

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by Laparra, and Fairchild’s “The Lake of Innisfree,” and following came five spirituals, and with them the evening’s climax. Singing the songs of his own race, Mr, Franklin brought an infusion of color and emotional warmth which surpassed any previous efforts. He gave these magnificeut folk songs the dignity and simplicity of utterance which only the Negro singer, apparently, can bestow fully. Two more spirituals and Roger Quilter’'s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” were added at the program’s conclusion, and served to sustain the high standard of the closing

oup. Altogether, it would seem that Mr. Franklin is a singer of considerably more than ordinary promise. His weaknesses are those of vocal and

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