Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1939 — Page 8
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E- _ growing-up process.
. to “Three Smart Girls.”
in the throes of puppy love.
Deanna Registers Fourth Bullseye With Latest Hit For Three Smart Girls’
Youthful Singing Star 'Grows Up' in Newest Picture
With Nan Grey and Helen Parrish; Play Called 'Cute as a Button.’ .
; oe "By JAMES Deanna Durbin, the little girl
THRASHER who never has had a bad picture,
rings the bell again in the Indiana's “Three Smart Girls Grow Up.” In fact, if one were conducting a radio column out of Hollywood, it might
Credit for Miss Durbin’s amaz“ing record, which older and wealthier stars must view with a
. jaundiced eye, goes to Joe Paster-
nak, producer of all her films. ‘When “Three Smart Girls” turned out to be a decided hit after a modest launching, Mr. Pasternak and Universal did not rush their young gold mine into the nearest available vehicle.
Pick Their Stories ' Rather they have picked their ‘stories wisely to match Deanna’s Each of her four pictures in the last three years
' has been a delightful bit of enter-
tainment, and the latest one is no exception. It is, as the title indicates, a sequel The sisters (Miss Durbin, Nan Grey and Helen Parrish, who has replaced Barbara Read) have grown up just as the young actresses have. “Three Smart Girls” left the trio This time the older girls wind up married, and married to the right men, thanks to kid sister Penny: s machinations. That's what the film is all about. Joan, the eldest, becomes engaged to a blond and handsome -Bostonian. Whereupon Penny discovers that Kay also is in love with " Richard, and is almost expiring with disappointment. Penny and the butler decided that they must find a tall, dark and handsome counter- attraction to salve Kay's broken heart. .
Love Plot Is Upset So Penny brings home Harry Loren (Robert Cummings), 2 talented young musician from the
" music school she attends, for dinner
and an assault upon Kay's heart. But she and the butler have forgotten the generally admitted fact that opposites attract each other. Tall, dark and handsome Harry and towheaded Joan become smitten. And the rest of the picture
"is taken up with Penny's generally
misguided and - entirely hilarious efforts to see that the right hearts are mated. ‘Deanna sitigs, of course, and better than before. The music is put in
" the proper setting, and there isn't
too much of it, so the picture doesn’t emerge, as so many do, as a series of interludes between the star’s vocalizing. Winninger Plays Father
Charles Winninger again plays the father. This time he is cast, not as a philanderer, but as one of the most confused, absent-minded giants of finance ever to hit the screen. The part makes Hugh Herbert’s usual characters seem coldly rational in comparison. Mr. Winninger does his tricks marvelously. The three smart girls are provided ed with actions and dialog that are entirely believable, and they play the parts with a charmingly ingenuous skill. The whole thing is cute as a button and definitely should not be missed.
~ Operation Ahead
" . the Musicale,
For Mrs. Laurel
HOLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P.). —Comedian Stan Laurel's wife, the blond Russian singer, Illeana, was in the Hollywood Hospital today for a major operation. The nature of the operation, which wil he performed next week, was not disclosed. Her condition was reported to be serious and pain. ful but not critical. Meantime Illeana’s trial on 8 charge of creating a disturbance in|q a night club, has been postponed until April 4. She allegedly became boisterous during a tirade against the Bolsheviks.
ARRANGE HEBREW MUSIC PROGRAM
The tndisnapolis Matinee Musicale will present a program of Hebrew music at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at Ayres’ auditorium.
: even be said that Deanna rings four bells.
Lopez Boys Tum It On’
Glamour Gal, Blue and Stars Of Air Also at Circle.
With four popular headliners topping the bill, things are going strictly Dixieland on the Circle stage this week, with a solid hour of solid swing and fun. ; The show is built around Vincent Lopez and his orchestra, and the other stars are Patricia Ellis and
Ben Blue from the movies, and Abbott and Costello,
variety hour.
bill's surprise package, when you
appearance. Unlike most of the cinematic sisterhood on tour, she knows how to put over.a song. She has a pleasant voice and the assurance and vi-
ship. Lopez Yields to Swing
Mr. Blue, of course, knows his way around a vaudeville stage, as do Abbott and Costello. Both acts
offer hilarity of an incongruous sort. The radio team gets amusingly mixed up in a maze of hypothetical questions about mustard, bridges, cows and holes in walls. Besides doing a couple of comedy dances already seen in pictures, Mr. Blue cashes in on his particularly zany type of humor in a taxi dancehall skit. As you probably know already, Mr. Lopez has capitulated to the current swing craze, at least as far as his band is concerned. At the piano, he continues to play the type of music that first made him famous—and ' keeps him famous, judging from the applause that greeted “Nola.” .
The Energetic Miss Hutton
And then there's Miss Betty Hutton, announced as “America’s No, 1 jitterbug.” As done by this tall, blond young woman, jitterbugging is a pretty strenuous physical activity. She bounces around the stage, up onto the band. stand and down again and, for wvariety,| wrestles the microphone. In the quieter interludes when she is not imitating the Mexican jumping bean, Miss Hutton sings such beloved items of the swing liturgy as “A Tisket A Tasket” and “Hold Tight.” She also offers an encouraging ballad to the effect that Old Man Mose didn’t kick the bucket, after all. There is additional comedy on the Circle’s screen, where Bob Hope; Martha Raye and Andy Devine are devoting their talents to a little charade called “Never Say Dis J.T.
BARBARA IS CAST IN 'GOLDEN BOY*
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, March 25. — Barbara Stanwyck has been selected for the' leading feminine part in “Golden Boy,” Rouben Mamoulian’s production of Clifford Odets’ successful play. Meanwhile, the casting problem for the title role continues to rival the publicized search for a Scarlett O'Hara. Announcement of the selection is expected within a few days.
KRUPA LIKES GUM
Gene Krupa, famous swing drum-
‘mer can’t play his drums unless he
is chewing gum. He chews an average of five packages a day.
STAR OF PLAY
Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of the|
_ Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation
will be guest speaker in a commen-|" :
tary on the traditional - music. . Others who will take part are Myro Glass, canfor; Harriet Payne, viola, accompanied by Mrs. Dorothy Munger and the Temple quartet, accom‘panied by Mrs. Dorothy : Knight Greene. Quartet members include Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, soprano; Mrs. Robert W. Blake, contralto; Farrell M. Scott, tenor, and J. J. Albion, bass: Mrs. Isaac E. Solomon and Mrs. Greene have arranged the program. Mrs. James H. Lowry, president of
the date for next month's program has been changed to April 28. The April program will conclude the season’s presentations of the organiza- ~ tion. :
QUARTET WILL SING
The Four Grace Notes, Misses Helen and Mabelle Hohn, Elfrieda and Alberta Niemeyer, will entertain members of Marion Lodge 35, F. & A. M., at their dinner tonight at the Masonic Temple. The quartet will sing with Elmer Speaker and his RE I olers at the dance following ", the dinner.
FEELS CHEATED
Helen Twelvetrees was born on
© December 25, and always insists she
- feels “cheated” in having a birthday fall on Christmas.
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ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! Spencer Tracy in
| They Save Him a Bun™
has announced that|
Jessie Royce Landis is the star of Rachel Crothers’ “Susan and God,” which will be at English’s Tuesday and Wednesday.
who inject]: some weekly fun into Kate Smith's |:
Miss Ellis {urns out to be the
reflect upon the usual standard |} of a movie glamour gal’s personal |}
vacity that go with good showman-
.. |acted by * |Broad Ripple under supervision - of 2 the faculty.
Though he plays a cowboy in the Indiana’s forthcoming “Dodge City,” Errol Flynn feels more at home in a speedboat than in the saddle.
He is | séa breezes.
shown above with Mrs. Flynn (Lily Damita) and the Flynn's pet Schnauzer, Arno, as they catch a few
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Love Affair,” with Charles Boyer, Jrene Dunne, at 12:46, 3:49, 6:52 and
“fhe Great Man Votes,”” with John Bary more, Virginia Weidler, at 11:34, 2:37, 5:40 .and 8:43.
CIRCLE
Vincent Lopez and his orchestra, with Patricia EHis, Ben Blue, Abbott and Costello. on stage at 12:50, 3:35, 6:35 and 9:20. “Never Say Die,” with Bob Ho Martha Raye. on screen at 11, 1:55, 4:50, 7:40 and 10:25.
ENGLISH’S
“Kiss the Boys ' Goodbye.” Clare Boothe's comedy with Ann. Fairleigh. Engagements through Saturday. Curaf 8:30; Saturday matinee, 2:30.
| INDIANA
“Three Smart Girls Grow Un.” with Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey. Relen Parrish, at 12:49, 3.45, 59 | y
ng “Beauty for the Asking,’ with Lusille Ball, at 11: 4, 2 46, 5:51 and
LOEW'S
“Stagecoach,” with Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, ‘at 12:40, 3:45. 6:50 and 10. Flirting With Fate,” with J Bron, at 11:25, 2:30, 5: %. and %: 45.
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Favors Play
Fields Indicates City Will Be On Test Route.
Indianapolis, which is to see the first performance of S. N. Behrman’s “No Time for Comedy” Thursday night, may become a regular tryout city for next year’s productions of the Playwrights’ Company, a message from William Fields indicated today. ; Katharine Cornell will appear in
the new Behrman play in Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus and Baltimore after the English’s engagement, before going into New York. Mr. Fields, as representative of the Playwrights, said the distinguished dramatists were “eminently satisfied” with the tryout schedule, and that their plan to send next year’s new shows over the same route was “more than a remote possibility.” Playwrights in the . producing company are Maxwell Anderson, Mr. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood. Mr. Howard will be responsible for two plays for the 1939-40 season, and the other authors will contribute one each. “No Time for Comedy’ is the fourth production of the Playwrights” first season. The others were “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” “Knickerbocker Holiday” and “American Landscape.” ; The Behrman play will follow the two-day engagement of “Susan and God” at English’s, and will include three evening performances and a Saturday matinee. /
RIPPLES OF '39' ° DUE WEDNESDAY
Broad Ripple High School will present the “Ripples of ’39” at 8:15
. |p. m. Wednesday in the auditorium 3 of the John Strange school.
Each skit is written, staged and the student groups of
Mildred .
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Tyrone Power—Henry Fonda Nancy Kelly—Randoloh 8 (In Technicolor)
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Dorothy Lamour “St. Louis Blues”
First Indianapolis Showing e Three Mesauiteers, Starring
JOHN WAYNE IN
“RED RIVER RANGE"
Marsha Hunt— NG SHOT” "LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN”
Tryout Ideal:
HOLLYWOOD
By PAUL HARRISON
OLLYWOOD, March 25.—All over the lot::
waning stars just completed a
before a difficult. suburban audience the other evening. What with some difficulties with the sound equipment and several awkwardly cut
sequences, the show went from bad
In the story, the star has the role of a screen star who has had
a quarrel with her producer. Then there came a closeup in which she declared vehemently: “This is absolutely my last picture!” It proved an unfortunate bit of dialog writing. Numerous members of the audience broke into enthusiastic applause. ” ” ” . ’ Bob Taylor and: Barbara Stan‘wyck- are looking at a 12-room house in Beverly Hills next door: to Robert Montgomery, and Taylor wants to trade in his valley ranch on the deal. This may mean that he’s tired of being a counfry squire; also that he’s tired of being a bachelor. . , «
RITICS are still: WEAREIinG. about the merits of “Huckle-
berry Finn.” Some call it “Huckle-
berry Rooney” and others dismiss it as “Mickey Finn.”
# ” »
Columbia Studio, with an eye on the box. office pull of Conan Doyle's detective, has registered the (title, ‘Sherlock Holmes” Daughter.” But the claim isn’t likely to be allowed since almost everybody knows that Holmes was supposed to be a confirmed bachelor. » ” ® Filling out a publicity department questionnaire, Barbara Stanwyck came to the question, “What do you do with your old " clothes?” She answered: “I wear them.” 8 ” ”
Nancy Kelly is doing very well in her generally - acknowledged position as the most important new actress in Hollywood.
Now comes another Kelly, her 11-year-old. brother Jack. He's making his screen debut in “Alexander Graham Bell,” but he’s a veteran actor, for all that. Played in four Broadway shows and some radio productions. If he becomes as busy as Nancy,
Mrs. Kelly is going to: have: her|
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NANCY KELLY BROADWAY GIRLS | with CHORUS ior GIRLS.
i ‘MATINEE 2: 15— TWO SHOWS AT NIGHT, 1 AND
Featured With
One: of the movies’ picture which was sneak-previewed
to worse.
hands full because a parent is supposed to be on the set whenever a minor is working in a picture,
Zia, In Joan Crawford's new flicker, “Ice Follies,” both her songs and her skating sequences were deleted after preview tryouts.
OHIO GIRL BEGINS ‘CAREER IN FILMS
: HOLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P.). —Dorothy Lou Humel, 18, of Cleve-
“{land, sighed ‘to':& movie contraet|
without being: given a- film test, was in ‘Hollywood today to begin her career. The girl, a pianist, was “discovered by officials of M-G-M on the concert stage. She will be placed in the studio dramatics school for some
Film Stars .
Good ‘Bait,’
Los Angeles Gem 'Agent’ Claims Actors Just Invite Trouble.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 (U. P.).—Ralph Graham, 200-pound “phantom” jewel thief identified as a murder suspect in Florida, said today that Hollywood movie stars invite trouble by having more jewels than they can use. “These movie people pay fancy prices for their jewelry, wear it a few times and then get tired of it,” he said. “It’s all insured so they leave it kicking around any place — you don’t have to have any inside help on these knockovers.” Graham insisted he himself had
|not raided any exclusive Hollywood ‘homes as claimed. He said he merely
acted as an agent for a gang responsible for the theft of jewels in the Los Angeles area totaling more than a million dollars in the past iour or five years. Police scoffed at Graham's denial of actual robberies and said they would fly him south to Los Angeles today for questioning on the thefis and about names found in a “little black book” With the arrest of Graham's wife, Charlotte, in Venice, Cal., and har
| son by a previous marriage, Robert Graham, 21, police announced they|
had found a little black book con=taining the names of persons possibly connected with a jewel theft ring. Rost of Mrs. Graham and her
held with Graham.
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“KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE”
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"KOKOMO KID' |
Here's. Jane Wyman, showing you what's new in beach attire and incidentally .announcing to Hoosier fans that her next screen appearance will ‘be with Pat O’Brien ‘in “The Ri From Kokomo.” :
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George ‘P. Huntley is teaching his two sons, age 6 and 10, to send and transmit messages by short wave
radio. Huntley is one of Hollywood's ||
Irene Dunne Tops Bill
Teams With Boyer in Twin Offering at Apollo.
This week the Apollo is housing
{the double bill of “Love Affair” and :|“The Great Man Votes,” which was ‘last week’s attraction at the In-
diana. The first stars Irene Dunne and
‘comedy concerning a love affair that began on shipboard and proceeds, through tragedy, to a happy conlusion. John Barrymore is starred in “The Great Man Votes,” "an amusing story of a down-and-outer’s regeneration by chance and his two children. Virginia Weidler and Peter Holden are the youngsters in
‘| the case.
JANE IS 'JITTERBUG'
Because Jane Withers is such a spirited *jitterbug,”the musical sequence in her current 20th Century-
' {Fox film, “Boy Friend,” was photo-
graphed on Saturday so that school work ‘would not interfere with Jane's desire to sing, dance and enjoy the swing music on the set.
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