Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1939 — Page 8

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MacDonald Would Like To Sing Here

Gives 'Success Formula’ In Interview Preceding I. U. Concert.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, April 12 — Jeanette MacDonald “would like very much” to sing in Indianapolis and will include that city on her schedule next year, if she can “get away” for another concert tour.

This was the promise of the titianhaired movie songstress when interviewed here today preceding her concert tonight in the Bloomington High School auditorium. Bloomington is one of three Indiana cities to hear Miss MacDonald on this, her first, personal appearamce tour. She sang in Evansville Monday and will appear in Ft. Wayne tomorrow night. Her actor husband, Gene Raymond, flew to New York from Evansville, she said, and will rejoin her May 12 in Tacoma, Wash, her last engagement.

“New Moon” May Be Next

“When I return to Hollywood,” she said, “I should like to do ‘Smilin’ Through’ but the studio has just about decided that my next! picture will be ‘New Moon.” | She and Mr. Raymond want to) make a picture together, she revealed, but the studio says nothing doing—their fans wouldn't like it. “But I'm not at all convinced the studio is always right” she added, a trace of a frown replacing her smile. = Whom would she like to have as leading man, then? The smile returned.

“Well, of course, there's always! &

Nelson Eddy.” | But suppose Mr. Eddy isn’t around | at the time? “Let me see . . . I should like especially to play opposite Robert Taylor or Tyrone Power—both grand actors.”

Sings Classics Tonight

She declined to nominate the “pest” actor in Hollywood, remark-| ing “I'm not so sure such a choice is possible. The turnover is too fast] —an actor, you see, is never any| better than his last role.” | Most of Miss MacDonald's reper- |

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Films Here Tomorrow

Athenaeum Schedules Russian Epic; German

Show Postponed

Gilbert and Sullivan's “The Pirates of Pengance,” scheduled for performance by the Bure roughs Schools of Music, Cone cert Choir and Light Opera Club at Keith's a week from tonight, has heen postponed until April 26.

DOUBLE FEATURE

PROGRAMS WIN

Revue Booked.

Tomorrow night's entertainment schedule offers two European films for Indianapolis’ growing public of foreign-language movie fans. At the Athenaeum, Garrison Films, Ine, will show the Russian picture, “Peter the First” at 7:30 and 0:30 p. m. On the same pro-

LINCOLN, Neb, April 12 (U. P.).

=A suggested ordinance designed to prohibit double feature movies had been discarded today after City Attorney Clarence Miles ruled there was “serious doubt” as to its validity. The ordinance would have limited the length of theater performances to two hours and 16 minutes, preventing most dual features. It was sponsored by the Better Films Couneil,

Producer Signs WPA'’s ‘Mikado’

WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P). «The cast of “The Swing Mikado,” modernized version of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, has accepted an offer of private employment, it was announced today. Mrs. Florence S. Kerr, assistant WPA administrator, announced the cast would leave the rolls of the Federal Theater project May 1. The cast, comprising 80 Negro ace tors from the Chicago relief rolls,

has signed an informal contract in

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gram iS an anti-Nazi film called “Soap Bubbles.” A screening of the German movie, “The Charm of La Boheme,” will follow a concert which climaxes the opening day's program of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs convention at the Hotel Severin. Both concert and film are open to the public, and the picture will be shown at approximately 10:15 p. m. “Peter the First” opens with the defeat of the Russians under Peter the Great by the Swedish army at Narva in 1700. The picture con= tinues with Peter's ultimate tri umph, the building of St. Peters burg and the tsar’s introduction of Buropean science, customs and cul« ture into Russia.

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HE Paramount lot is beginning to look like a reservation, what with

C. B. DeMille’s “Union Pacific,’

* and a new film getting under way

about Geronimo and his Apache rebellion, Also, they're going to make

“Buffalo Bill.”

When Samuel Goldwyn and his United Artists

associates finish

toire tonight will consist of classical scalping each other, he and Gary Cooper will go into action, at the head

selections, including songs by Brahms, Grieg, Chopin, Gounod, Debussy and Massenet. | On the lighter side will be “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Comin’ Thru | the Rye,” “Daddy's Sweetheart” and —for encores—tunes she has sung on the screen. Miss MacDonald rates “Maytime”| her favorite of all the films in which she has starred, because her role in| that was “romantic and sympathetic | —the kind of character all of us like to play.” |

The stars smile expanded when; she was asked about her start as a| songstress, “I sang my first solo,” she said! “at the age of 3 in a Philadelphia church—and shocked the congregation by applauding when I had finished! Right then, they should! have realized I was destined for] Hollywood.”

Just So-So A.out Radio

She is “just so-so” about radio. “I cant learn to like radio] especially,” she said, “because | radio microphone panics me—ab-/ solutely terrifies me. I don't know why.” | Picture-making is nerve-wracking encugh, she confessed. | “I can’t sleep for twe or three nights after finishing a picture,” she said. “The tunes I've been sing- | ing from 11 to 8 every day keep running through my head and Ij keep thinking about my role.” | After singing, what does she like. to do? “Sleep.” Her favorite sport? “I suppose I should say sleep, but dare I?” Hobby ? “Dogs.” Hopefuls Jam Hollywood

Since no interview with a star would be complete without a success formula, here is Miss MacDonald's: “Make your mark in your own neighborhood first, and don't try to crash Hollywood until you're called. The town is jammed now with young hopefuls ana old hopefuls and young hopelesses and old hopelesses.” And with that bit of advice, she departed for a local movie house to see a picture she had been wanting to see since she left Hollywood for her tour and which she had been unable to overtake until reaching Bloomington—the picture, “Broadway Serenade,” starring Jeanette MacDonald.

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will be mostly about Gen. Custer and his last stand.

About a year ago Metro was almost ready to film “Northwest Passage’—with an Indian, promised Director W. S. Van Dyke ecstatically, behind every bush. It was shelved for a season after hundreds of costumes had been made and a camera expedition had made miles of background shots, in color, in the original locale of the story. This one, soon to get under way, will require more redskins than there are in Hollywood now. Evén now the

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number of substitute aborigines. Victor Jory is one, and a prominent chieftain is Maurice Mosco= viteh, the Russian-born stage star.

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An old-time actor and actress, long jobless but happily married, jokingly tell friends that they're now costarving” “a ¢. 8 ONCE - PROSPEROUS actor who had been forced to dispose of his fine home tried to borrow $20 from Joe E. Marks, explaining that he owed it for this month's storage on his furniture. “But isn’t that kind of high for a storage bill?” asked Marks. “Not very,” explained the actor. “You see, the company lets me sleep in the bed.” e 8 8

ONALD REAGAN had an early call for a courtroom

| scene in “City Hall,” and he was

cautioned to be on time because a lot of extras were working. He got to the lot at 8 o'clock, asked where the courtroom set was, and settled himself in the jury box with his morning paper. An hour later nobody had aps rived but a couple of workmen who were tinkering with a chane delier. “That's Hollywood!” gums bled Mr. Reagan, who then be« yan to read an old magazine. Al 10 o'clock some extras drifted in. They sat around and talked. Then an electrical erew arrived with a truckful of lights. At 11 o'clock Jimmy Cagney sauntered in and sat down. “What are you doing here?” asked Mr. Reagan. “I work here,” said Mr. Cagney. “Were making a little thing called ‘Each Dawn I Die” “My Ged!” wailed Reagan. “I've been in the wrong courtroom.” ee & @

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