Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1939 — Page 17

THURSDAY, APRIL 6,

2 ‘Dodge City’ : Reborn In Circle Film

Rough, Tough Town of

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* The roughest, toughest cattle town in the history of the western fronHer is the setting for “Dodge City,” ‘the Technicolor picture, starring rrol Flynn, which opens tomorrow .at the Circle. . Other members of the cast include Olivia de Havilland, Ann +Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, John Litel, Henry Travers, Henry O'Neill, Victory Jory, william Lundigan and Guinn Big Boy Williams. * The detail with which the Dodge Lity of the 1870s and the great Plains which surrounded it are drought to the screen makes it possible that, as reported, the studio Spent a million and a half dollars ®n the production.

- Original Screen Play

The story of “Dodge City” is laid in the period when this little community in the southwestern corner of Kansas, as the northern terminus of the famous old Chisholm “Trail and the western terminus of “the Santa Fe Railway, became the _West’s greatest cattle shipping center, The plot was an original screen play by Robert Buckner and the production was directed by Michael _Curtiz, Teamed with Flynn in the lead is Miss de Havilland who has become identified as the screen sweetheart of the adventuring Irishman through a parade of hits.

Hale a Plainsman

Alan Hale, who acted as Flynn's righthand man, Little John, in “Robin Hood,” has a similar role in “Dodge City,” playing another venturesome cattleman from the plains of Texas. Big Boy Williams forms the third member of the triumvirate which succeeds in making an impressionable dent on the lawlessness that scourged the up-and-coming

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THE OLD TRUSTY GUNS!

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cab with a six-shooter,

Errol Flynn (Wade Hatton of “Dodge City”) opens fire on his enemies as Alan Hale (Rusty Hart) follows suit from the locomotive

Putting on Dog

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, April 6—In an effort to boost business, the boy operating the open-air hot dog stand across the street from Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Studios’ front gate has hung a sign, bearing the following lettering, on his wagon: “Our food has thrilled Mickey Rooney and delighted James Stewart. Let it inspire you, too.”

community of Dodge. Bruce Cabot

and Victor Jory play the despera~ does, while Ann Sheridan, J?hn Litel, Henry Travers and Gloria Holden round out the cast.

ARGUE WORTH OF COPY OF OLD FILM

‘Unknown’ Signs For ‘Golden Boy’

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P).— William Holden, 21, an unknown in films, was made the star today of the motion picture version of the stage hit “Golden Boy.” Columbia Studio had sought for a year an actor for the role of the

| violinist-boxer and 3000 actors had

been tested. Young Mr. Holden obliged a girl friend by appearing with her in a film test she made for another studio. Columbia executives, looking over this test with a view to hiring the girl, saw Mr. Holden and

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“Three Smart Girls Grow Up.” with Deanna Durbin, Helen Parrish and Nan Grey, at 12:49, 3:54, 6:59

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John Boles, Joe Rines and orchestra, Rossie and June Mann, dance am, and others, on stage at 12:50,

R 25. “Winner ke All with Tony Gloria Stuart, Henry Armetta an Slim Summerville, on screen at 11:20, 2:10, 5. 7:50 and 10:

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¢ “Midnight,” with Claudette Col.bert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer and Marv Astor. at 12: 3:46, 6:51 and 9:56. Chinatown,” with May Wong and Akim Tamirof 11:44, 2:49, 5:54 and 8:59.

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Was Put on Talley Child

Singer's Husband Replies To Accusation That He Asked $150,000.

Auns NEW YORK, April 6 (U. P).— di The estranged husband of Marian Talley, former Metropolitan Opera star, charged today that she was! not a loving mother and therefore

was not entitled to the custody of their 4-year-old daughter, Susan.

ford, Mary Howard. and Buddy Ebsen, at 12:25, 3:15, 6:00 and 8:45

Filing an answer in Supreme Court to Miss Talley’s petition to gain custody of the child, Adolph G. Eckstrom, the singer's former instructor, denied her accusation that he had demanded $150,000 to turn their daughter over to her. Mr. Eckstrom said that after Miss Talley’s “failure and retirement” from the Metropolitan she engaged him to restore her voice and promised to turn over to him 50 per cent of her earnings. She did not live up to the agreement, he charged, adding that her failure to do so left him financially embarrassed. Mr. Eckstrom said the child was born on April 25, 1935, but that Miss Talley has not seen her since about|{ Gold” and collabortaed on the screen two weeks after Susan was born. adaptation of “Heart's Desire.”

+ CLAUDETTE COLBERT in “MIDNIGHT

RKO SIGNS FRANK

HOLLYWOOD, April 6—Bruno Frank has been signed by RKORadio to write the screen play for that studio's sound version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Author of the novel “Lost Heritage,” a number of Broadway plays including “Young Madame Conti,” Mr. Frank's literary output also numbers many short stories. He wrote the screen story of “Sutter's

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HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P).— —For the theft of a copy of the old silent film hit “The Big Parade,” 33-year-old Robert A. McKee faced Superior Court trial today. He was bound over after a Municipal Court hearing at which lawyers wrangled over how much the 15-year-old film is worth. One expert said $2000. McKee is accused of taking the film from a vault while employed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio.

sent for him. They learned he could play a violin and could box and signed him at a large salary.

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P.).— Ralph Bowman, a Lincoln, Neb, youth who was “discovered” by a film director lunching in a Hollywood restaurant, today was announced as the winper of a nationwide radio contest conducted by Jesse L. Lasky. He wins an RKO Studio contract and various other offers, including a $1000 radio appearance,

‘Star Maker’ Swears Off

Children’ Spoiled, Producer Finds.

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335+337-339-341-343 By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

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HOLLYWOOD, April 6.—Charles R. Rogers, who qualified as Hollywood's bravest man by putting out a call for talented children, said goodby today to the last of 1853 little darlings—and their mothers— and swore “never again.” Auditions lasted for months before he selected 75 small boys and girls for parts in his picture, “The Starmaker,” which he will make at Paramount with Bing Crosby playing the part of Gus Edwards, the man who did make stars of scores of youngsters. “And the experience almost broke my heart,” Producer Rogers said. “There were these hundreds of handsome children; nearly all bright, nearly all talented—and nearly all ruined by their mothers.

Lost All Naturalness

“Most of them were more sophisticated than grown people. They had attended these so-called kiddie schools of acting and they had lost every last vestige of naturalness. | “Dozens of little children, 5 and 8 years old, would introduce themselves to me and then go into sexy dialog which would make a grown man blush. Their mothers sometow had got the idea that this was the kind of thing Hollywood wanted. “Then there were the child acrobats. They did incredible, amazing things. You'd think they were straining their bodies of all repair, the stunts they did. They did such feats as to make the average person turn his eyes away, the sight was so painful.” Hundreds of the applicants had their act memorized letter perfect. “And that was another thing” Mr. Rogers said. “It kept me busy trying to discover whether they could do anything else. Many of them couldn't They had been trained and drilled in one little recitation until they could make you cry, if the act happened to be a sad one. But they couldn't do another thing. They were tongue-tied, otharwise.” Among his applicants, he said, was ohe peculiarly bright little fellow of 7, who sang a song.

Try Different

“He sang it so beautifully that it made me suspicious,” Mr. Rogers added. “So I called him over and cross-examined him and he finally confessed that he was a midget, 22 years cld.” Another of the would-be performers was a small boy, who somehow didn’t look like a boy to Mr. Rogers. “And he wasn’t,” Mr. Rogers said. “His mother admitted that he was a she. This woman said she always had wanted a son and that when a daughter was born to her, she had tried to raise the child as a boy. It was really a pathetic case.” On the whole Mr. Rogers liked the children in the movies. And in many a case when I'd tell one of these mothers that her child would not do, she'd say: “ ‘Well, then, Mr. Rogers, don’t you think you could use me?” The 75 children that Mr. Rogers hired, he said, were composed of that rare breed of youngster who

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