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

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 100 ____ 9 Movies in $2,000,000 | Budget Class]|

Pretentious Productions On 1939-40 Program For 20th Century Fox.

Five of 20th Century-Fox’s 52 forthcoming pictures are t be budgeted at $2,000,000 each, the studio has revealed in connection | with its announcement of the 1989- |

Novels Are Adapted |

Two adaptations of novels and | twa film biographies are among | the more pretentious productions on | the Fox schedule, Louis Bromfield's book, “The Rains Came,” will have Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power and George Brent heading the cast. Walter Edmonds’ “Drums Along the Mohawk” will be done in technicolor. The cast has not been nt nounced. ! Already two vears in the mak- | ing, “Stanley and Livigstone” will] be forthcoming in the new sea-|

Boris Karloff bends a ponderous

upon some pressing problems in “The Mystery of

A TOUGH ONE—EVEN FOR KARLOFF

Oriental intellect Mr. Wong,”

tomorrow’s Ambassador film. Karloff’s friend is I.ee Tong Foo.

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Opening Tomorrow—

Mr.

the beautiful wife of a wealthy jewel collector. The least suspected gE suspect is IT.

{the mule market and the social aspirations. “BACK DOOR

Ambassador

“THE MYSTERY OF MR. WONG,” with Boris Karloff, Grant Withers and Dorothy Tree. Screen play by Scott Darling; directed by William Nigh. A sort of Charlie Chan picture in which Mr, Karloff, a Chinese detective, solves several murders revolving about a stolen sapphire and

Circle “IRE SAINT STRIKES BACK,” with George Sanders and Wendy Barrie. Screen play by John Twist; directed by John Farrow. A girl sets out to clear her dead father’s name of a robbery charge, with the help of the “Saint,” who wars on the criminal world at large. The loot is recovered but the suspect is slain, - After se killings, the family attorney is tracked down. JOAN DAVIS (On Stage), with Si Wills, Helen Reynold’s Skaters, Jack Powell, drummer; Romo Vincent, M. C,, and the Six Grays, song and dance team.

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«PM FROM MISSOURL,” with Bob Burns, Gladys George and Gene Lockhart. Screen play by John C. Moffitt and Duke Atteberry; directed by Theodore Reed. A Missouri mule trader and his family go to England to find out what's wrong with the Army mule market. His family turn out to be social climbers, but Sweeney's Missouri personality comes through to fix

10 HEAVEN,” with Patricia Ellis and Wallace Ford. <> Loew’s

(Special Premiere Tonight) “WUTHERING HEIGHTS* with Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven. Screen play by Ben Hecht and Charles MadArthur; directed by William Wyler. A story of thwarted love in which Heathcliff, a gypsy boy adopted into the Earnshaw home, falls in love with Cathy Earnshaw, Heathcliff refuses to better himself and disappears when he hears Cathy may

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veral more.

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cs a“ PAGE 15 tor a tropioal seas film Nr. Flynn is making on his own hook. With pilot Hugh Ernest, Mr. Flynn landed a small cabin plane on a bean field 16 miles from the beach and then carried the injured man

Flight Ended

. ‘met them at the airport. Stricken Sailor Taken From Mr. Wages was still in a serious . condition today. His appendix was Disabled Yacht.

feared ruptured, HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U0. P)—| TAKES PASS PORTRAIT Errol Flynn, the Robin Hood of the

Madeleine Carroll, who sailed ree movies, today returned from & mer- cently for a vacation in Europe, cy flight through foggy skies 1200 shattered the tradition that passe miles down the Mexican coast to [port photos must be grotesque cari bring back a sick sailor from the |Jaturss. She had a special sitting at Flynn yacht.

: Paramount for & “pass portrait.” Ray Hayes, the sailor, was stricken | declaring women should look their with appendicitis apoard Mr. Flynn's

best at &ll times, even on & passe yacht. The yacht is headquarters port.

TOMORROW!

JOAN DAVIS Movie star featured =

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marry & neighbor, He returns, acquires the homestead from Hindley, Cathy's drunken brother, and marries Cathy's husband's sister for revenge. “BLONDIE MEETS THE BOSS,” with Penny Singleton, Arthur

Lake and Larry Simms. Screen play by Richard Flournoy; directed by

Frank B. Strayer. Blondie takes over for Dagwood's boss and Dagwood minds the house and the baby. He goes fishing, meets up with an entertainer at an amusement park and gets his picture taken kissing her. Blondie, negotiating a business deal, sees the picture and packs. The business

goes haywire and the boss returns in time to iron out everything.

son. Spencer Tracy, Richard | Greene, Nancy Kelly and Sir Ced- | ric Hardwicke are among those fea-| tured. The other biography will be, “Brigham Young,” with a star to play the head of the Mormon Church vet to be selected. | Alice Fave will be seen in “Little

BETTE GETS A FLING AT MODERN FASHION|

Old New York” and “Hollywood | Cavalcade,” a history of the film] industry in which Don

will be cofeatured. “Maryland” is; But it would seem t© be mews

booked as the technicolor sequel to year or more among the billows and pantaloons of the Old South and the bustling fancies that were the fashion of San Francisco in the early 20th Century, is enjoying an interlude of modernity.

the popular “Kentucky.”

Sonja in New Film The Hollywood movie makers A new Sonja Henie vehicle will be a ey upon i) Wi and alled “Evervthir H 4 ound, which they possibly had forwi ue Everything Sopets = gotten, that she could be as streamNight”; Tyrone Power will star In jineq and swanky as a Miami mana remake of the old Douglas Fair- nequin when she wanted to be.

banks thriller, “The Mark of) Gets Modern Role Zorro”; Richard Greene will be the . latest of Hollywood's exchange stu-| So for one picture—and one pic-

dents in “A Briton at Yale,” and ture only, at the moment—they have

Don Ameche is to be starred in permitted Miss Davis to be a woman “Swanee River.” ls Ls Sp 3 : : {In wimple, a.de Two pictures for Shirley Temple |. . P Shem aie, Bi. {in mink, or whatever it is that the

are in the offing, one of which will} be a color production of Mrs. C. V.[vogue of the hour fitfully does de-

Jamieson’s “Lady Jane,” and the/cree. other probably an adaptation of The picture is “Dark Victory,” Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird.” And |® New Warner Bros. drama coming Elsa Maxwell, the party expert, will, to the Indiana this month, which make her screen debut in “Hotel for finds the two-time winner of a Mo(tion Picture Academy award now making her bid for a third citation y ; jus een > the screen. er her one fling under the Cellist Will Give tinseled togs of 1989, Miss Davis . {must return to costumes, the Empire Rec l tal Q t Odeon styles of the Empress Carlota, which {she will play to Paul Munis “Juarez.” Mrs. Genieve Hughel Lewis, a Oher story, at another time.

candidate for the bachelor of music| Has Glamour Part degree at the Jordan Conservatory, | For the brief hour and a quarter will be presented. by Ernest Fried- of “Dark Victory,” however, Miss lander in & graduation cello recital Davis can dress herself as fit-to-kill at 8:30 p. m. Saturday at the Odeon. a5 the season’s prize debutante or

Mrs. Lewis Ww th 1000 T.oeb| . Prize in 1690 and Lo = five: |€lamour girl. For the role provided cellist of the New York Women's, Of Der in the screen play calls Symphony Orchestra. She alse was Pon her to appear as 23-year-old a member of the ParnasSHs Trio. | PONE island heiress, the darling of

which broadcast for five years on 2 pretty hard, pretty fast, pretty

. ’ : iTull-dress sett the NBG network. Her previous pe ; ; teachers have included Karl Kirk- | For her own part Miss Davis’ nosmith, Cincinnati Conservatory; |uon Of & snappy spring of 1939 Josef Adamowski, New England Stt-out would be trim slacks, bright Conservatory of Boston, and Willem |PI0USe and a handkerchief. Willeke of the Institute of Musical| But fine feathers were prescribed, Art. New York. and it must be reported in all truth Saturday's program will be as that the star entered into the business of assembling them with zeal. 1 | On the word of studio attaches, Sonata in A, Opus 69.......... Beethoven ghe spent much time preparing the Suite in D Minor, for Cello Solo... Reger showiest modern wardrobe that ever has graced her neat 106 pounds. Bopper She also spent much time on pper NOTseback riding practice, because {the script called for a horse show sequence and she wanted to be sure {she could keep up with her riding

RICE WEDDING TRIP "bt.

HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U. P). —Florence Rice and Robert Wilcox, film newlyweds, were back in Hol-

lywood today, their Hawaiian hon- chased & camera and 1} e one eymoon cut short by & sudio call. |of the most rabid photographers They were married in Honolulu among the motion picture players March 20, after a short courtship of Hollywood.

follows:

DEVELOPS HOBBY

As a result of having successfully taken & picture of her reflection in a mirror, the comedienne has pur-

Presenting Bette Davis in modern clothes is not exactly like presentAmeche ing Hamlet in modern clothes or Macbeth in mufti.

Marion Nixon, former film star, & But that should be an-| ue dy url

in & way that Miss Davis, after &

MAY ROBSON PLANS HER 75TH BIRTHDAY

HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U. P).— Invitations replete with lavender and old lace, in the typical Hollywood supercolossal style, were in the mails today for May Robson’s birthday party. . The grand old lady of the movies will be 75 years old April 19. A birthday luncheon will be given by producer Jack Warner. Her birthday gift will be a composite film of the best scenes from all her hit pictures. Tt will be shown at the party.

MARION NIXON AND MATE ADOPT CHILD

HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U. P).—

her husband, William Seiter, director, were parents for the second time today, by adoption. They went into Superior Court and obtained adoption papers for Selena Alice, blond, blue-eyed, and 25 months old, who played with an Easter chick during the hearing. Three years ago the Seiters adopted their first child, Christopher, now €.

ASTAIRE AND WIFE GOING TO ENGLAND

Unworried by war clouds, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Astaire were en route by plane today for New York to sail for a vacation in England. Fellow passengers were Irving Berlin, on a business trip to New York, and Randolph Scott, actor, going to Broadway to see the latest stage plays.

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beginning when they met on a film set two months before. Miss Rice, daughter of sports writer Grantland Rice, was called back for work on a picture. Prom the ship at San Francisco they took an airliner for) Southern California, and Miss Rice! went hy motor from the airport directly to the studio makeup rooms.

DAMROSCH IS CAST | AS SELF FOR MOVIE

HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U. P) — Dr. Walter Damrosch, American conductor, will play the role of him- | self in a movie, Paramount Studio | announced today. ! The Tl-year-old musician will lead a symphony orchestra which accompanies Linda Ware, 13-year-old singing actress. The scene is in a Bing Crosby picture, “The Star Maker,” based upon the life and songs of Gus Edwards.

CONCERT OFFERED BY FEDERAL UNIT

A community concert is scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight in School ¢ by the Indianapolis division, Fedsral Music Project. Participants will include the Fedtral Concert Band, Paul Fidlar, director; the Mothers’ Chorus of School 63, Ruby Kerr, director, and Robert Ewing, baritone. There will de no admission charge.

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tenance action. She charged her comedian-hus-band: 1. Tried to bury her alive. 2. Took one of his two former wives on their honeymoon cruise just to annoy her. 8. Once sent her to the hospital with a knockout punch, and on other occasions beat her. 4. Fibbed when he testified in court that she had thrown sand in his eyes. “Much Embarrassed”

She demanded $1000 a month support as satisfaction for her 16month stay in the house of Laurel. She also sought court costs, attorney fees, a division of community property, and all of her own things. The Russian singer complained that had it not been for neighbors her husband might have buried her alive. After beating her, she alleged, he went out in the back yard and dug a grave for her but the neighbors forfunately ihtervened. More humiliating, she lamented, was the time they set out on a honeymoon cruise and who should pop up but a former Mrs. Laurel. Tlleana declared she was “much embarrassed” because her husband “conducted hirnself in & manner offensive to me, belittling me before his first wife and the crew.” The same former wife later got in

Wife Sues, Says Laurel Tried to Bury Her Alive

—Stan ana Illeana Laurel, who fell s0 madly in love they went through three marriage ceremonies to show everyone that they meant it, mean it no longer, The blond and tempestuous Illeana today filed a separate main-

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

“One Thira of a Nation,” With Svlvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, at 12:33, 3:22, 6:11 and 9. “The Eagle and the Hawk,” with Fredric March, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Jack Oukie, at 11, 1:48, 4:38, 7:27 and 10:18 .

CIRCLE

«“podge City,” with Erroi Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Ann Sheridan, at 11, 1:05 38:20, 5:35, 7:45

and ». INDIANA

“The Story of Vernon an@ ¥reme Caste Ih al Ginger ogers, na May ver an Brennan, at 11:08, 1:14, 3:25, B56. 745 and 9:58. Murch of Time, at 12:56, 3:07, 5:10, 7:29 and 9:40. LOEW'S “Broallway Serenade,” with Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter and Frank Morgan, at 11:30, 2:30 and 5:55. “The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt,” with Warren William, Ida Lupino and Ralph Morgan, at 1:10 and 4:30. Special Premiere

‘Wuthering Weights,” with Merle Oberon, Laurence Oliver and David

Boss,” with

the habit of calling at the comedian’s invitation and the two of them embarrassed her no end by discussing “intimacies of their former married life,” Illeana complained. And in quarrels, she said,

she invariably got the worst of it. It took her three days in the hospital to recover from one knockout punch, she stated.

Turbulent Time The complaint marked a new turn in the topsy-turvy domestic affairs

‘Mevts the Penny Singleton, gr Lake send

of the shriveled-faced comedian || Larry Simms, at 8:45.

and his third wife. Since their elopment to Yuma on New Year's Day of 1938, they have had three clashes with police. Illeana served a day in jail for @riving a borrowed car into three automobiles and a tree despite her protest the owner had no business lending her the car because she had no driver's license. A second charge of intoxication is now pending against her. Mr. Laurel himself stood trial for driving a car down the street attired in nothing but his shorts and socks. A jury was unable to agree whether he was intoxicated or emotionally upset because, he said, his wife threw sand in his eyes. The charge

HURRY! LAST DAY?

finally was dismissed.

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Folks is like mules... an ounce of kindness is worth a pound of spite!...

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And Bob, with the aid of his four.footed pal, Samson, sure proves his point as he cures every. thing from a lover’s quarrel to a depression in edies...humor and common sense. Bob leads an all-star cast in a picture which ‘ops “The Arkansas Traveler” not to mention “Ruggles of Red Gap” and which will again have you naming Bob a worthy successor to America’s beloved Will Rogers.

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