Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1939 — Page 22
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OLLYWOOD, April 21 (U. P).— e movie industry had joined with the University of Southern California today to establish America’'s matography where students can learn to make talkies, then step directly into Hollywood jobs. The school, which will produce actual feature length movies on its own sound stages, will open in June, 1940, and will accept for two years of practical picture study, graduates of any American university able to pass its entrance examinations. Upon completing the course, students virtually will be guaranteed positions in such studios as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayver, 20th Century-Fox and others. The Association of Motion Picture producers now is working out the details with Dr. Rufus B. Von Kleinsmid, president of the university. Lesser Gets Credit
first graduate school of cine-|§
All participants in the arrangement credited Sol Lesser, president] of Principal Productions, with starting the project and even with financing the opening of the school. Mr. Lesser, who has made a fortune specializing in pictures featuring Juveniles, said he had been Hunkingy, of the scheme for years. “The picture business is the ory
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SIX SHOWINGS
“Jesse James,” the movie sfarring Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda (above) will show at six neighborhood theaters this weekend. Saturday night it will appear at the Zaring. the Cinema and the Irving. On Sunday it will show at the Vogue, the Tacoma and the New Garfield.
Students Take Operetta Roles
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, April 21. — ‘Thelma Farrington of Indianapolis and Hiram Richardson of Bloomington are to play the leads in Indiana University’s production of “The Pirates of Penzance” next Wednesday and Thursday nights.
large industry in the country which Seldon Marsh is the production's has no machinery for the develop-istydent director, and Prof. William
ment of its own brain power.” said. “The big industries, like chemicals and autos and electrical equip-| ment, all have arrangements with| engineering schools, whereby their] graduate§ find jobs and gradually work their way up. “In the movie business, we have to raid some other line of endeavor for our manpower.” Colleges Follow Trend Mr. Lesser said several colleges! including the University of Southern California, Harvard, Dart-| mouth and Columbia, already have | Tera oate movie departments, where students can obtain some knowledge of the intricacies of Poe ie making. And when they graduate, thev're| stymied because all doors in Hollywood are closed to them,” he said.| “The Graduate School will take up where the undergraduate departments leave off and will turn out younz men and women who are | well-qualified to enter the picture business.” The movie school, which will be under direction of Dr. Boris Morko-| vin, will offer courses in screen writ-| ing, directing, film editing, art di-| rection, sound technique, picture] photography, thematic music, - ploitation, distribution, and exhibition. The faculty will include technicians from within the industry.
WHEN DOES IT START? APOLLO
“The Story of hes and Irene Castle,” with Ginger Rogers, Fred As Edn 2 May Oliver and Walt er t 1:05, 3:10. 5:13, 5:30
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“East Side uf Heaven,” with Bing osby, Joan Blondel and Mischa at 12:41 , 8,35 and 10:02, “Mystery of She White Roem.” uce Cabot, Helen Mack and t at 11:31, 2:38,
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Elizabeth Haupt, Bryan | Millikan, Thomas Mutz and Francis
| Webb, chorus, and Joanna Phillippe, {orchestra.
In addition to Miss Farrington and Mr. Richardson, the cast of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta includes Laura” Hester, Charlestown; | Dorothy Silverstone, Rossville; Klingelhoffer, Aurora; Martha Wiesman, Kokomo; J. | David Mann, Nashville, Tenn.; Ward Martindale, Linton: Lawrence Robertson, Bloomington, and Robert Liberty.
‘MUSICIANS BOOKED BY SAHARA GROTTO
The Sahara Grotto concerts at
|Cadle Tabernacle tomorrow night afternoon, which are]
and Sunday lo feature Homer Rodeheaver, also {will include appearances by a number of Indianapolis musicians and ensembles. The Shortridge High School En-
{semble, the Christian Men Builders
Glee Club, Curtis Davis, organist; Charlene Clore, 15-year-old sO0prano; the Allen Boys Trio and the Sahara Grotto Band will be among
{the participants.
YOUTHS OF INDIANA
IN MUSIC CONTEST
Several hundred young Indiana musicians are expected to enter the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs’ junior competitive festival at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Hotel Severin. Contests will be held in piano solo, duet and quartet; violin, cello, flute and vocal solos, vocal ensembles, choirs, glee clubs and choruses. Mrs. Lloyd I. MelInturf, Indianapolis, will be the auditor. Winners will be announced following a concert by junior federation tion members in the afternoon.
MOVIES
By JAMES THRASHER
There are 436 Strand theaters in the United States of America; 345 Ritzes, 316 Palaces and 290 Lyrics. This bit of startling and useful information was obtained by
The Times movie department in a survey of the new Film Daily Year Book—a survey obtained at great risk of life and limb, danger to the eyesight and a decided crick in the neck. And it is only part of the information contained in this stout volume of 1216 pages: Now = abount the country's Strands. They represent what apparently is the most enticing name in the cinema world, though Just why must be left up to Dr. Gallup. Yet they are only a small number of the country's 17,828 theaters, 15,701 of which total are open and doing business, and all wired for sound.
Others Fight for Honors
Besides the four leaders listed above, the Roxys, Rialtos, States, Grands, Libertys and Princesses also put up a good fight for the honors. In addition there are hundreds of movie houses named for the town in which they are situated. Funny thing, though, there isn't a New York theater in any borough of that great metropolis. The Ritz theaters, it developed, are as strong in the South as the Democratic Party. In fact, if they had depended on their representatives above the Mason-Dixon line, they wouldn't have been in the running. Why a Swiss hotelkeeper's name should be emblazoned on so many marquees in the Deep Scuth is another thing that the student of Americana might ponder with profit. It mustn't be thought, however, that the traditions of movie-house nomenclature have paralyzed originality in the selection of titles. Not at all. Here are a few examples of managerial fancy turned up in our search for the Strands.
And in Van Buren
Out in California, there is a Bill Robinson theater in Los Angeles; the Unique in Santa Cruz; the Valushis at Buena Park, and the 29 Palms in the town of the same name. It goes without saying that citizens of Van Buren, Ark., see their movies at the Bob Burns. Atlanta, Ga., has both a Bankhead and a Bushhead, and the Syrup City film emporium is in Cairo, same state. Down in Ectu, Miss., the O. K. is the place to go. And the miners of Wharton, W. Va., can't forget their employment even when they go to see the pictures, because their theater is named the Allcoal. Not a tea room but a theater is the Blue Hen in Rehobeth Beach, Del. Also in the food line is the Yam of Portales, N. M. and the Tall Corn of Kanawha, Iowa. New Deal, Mont. likewise named its double feature palace after that famous political philosophy, and the Castleman theater is included in the list, not because of its unusual title, but because it stands in a Louisiana town that goes by the comforting name of Waterproof.
Our Illinois neighbors are not
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without imagination in christen= ing. their cinema centers, either. For instance, there's the Habit at Fairmount, the Barb at De Kalb, and the Hobo at Shawneetown. For the music lover, Oglesby, Ill, offers the Aida, and the country at large also boasts one Chopin and two Mozart theaters. And just in case you think Indiana might not be represented, be it known that the home of Bean Blossom, Gnawbone and. Pimento also has the Bee Point Theater at Arcadia and the Gravel at Goodland. In the matter of foreign affairs, the Film Daily Year Book also bears some illuminating and encouraging tidings. For instance, all the trouble that the Hollywood products have in Germany seems to boil down to the fact that each film must be viewed by representatives of the Propaganda Ministry and receive a certificate of “Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung.” You can understand now that even a superproduction acclaimed as collosal and terrific back home would have some trouble getting by that one.
Japanese Ban Lifted
In Japan, too, the recent ban on American pictures has been lifted. And it is heartening to know that you can still ship your films to Daido Shoji Eiga-Sha, Osaka Building, Uchisaiwai-cho, XKoji= machi-ku in Tokyo, or to Nippon Grand National Eiga Kaisha,
Abeichi Building, Minami Kyutaromachi, Higashi-ku in Osaka. Not to mention the fact that, in spite of war and everything, they're still turning out epics at Nihon Katsudo Shashin K. K,, Tamagawa Studio, Nunota, Chofu, Kita-tamagori, Tokyo-fu.
GREENE RESTING AFTER OPERATION
HOLLYWOOD, April 21 (U. P.).— Richard Greene, young English actor, was “resting comfortably” today after a relapse following a recent tonsilectomy. Mr. Greene suffered three hemorrhages and was returned to Good Samaritan Hospital where he will remain a week. Dr. Joel Pressman,
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husband of Claudette Colbert, forbade visitors.
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Ethel Shutta Is Taken Ill
contract player, swimmer and is credited with saving 16 people from drowning.
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“DEVIL'S ISLAND” Karloff CARY GRANT “TOPPER”
The Circle's stage show opened to-
day without the services of Ethel Shutta, one of the headliners. The popular singer was prevented from playing the engagement because of a sudden illness, Manager A. W. Baker learned today.
STUDIO OFFICE BOY HIRED AS ACTOR
HOLLYWOOD, April 21 (U. P.).— A studio office boy who graduated
tion picture cameras, and thus came under the eye of David Niven, the Scottish star, found himself employed as a film actor today. . Somewhat groggy with surprise, Alan Baldwin, born in San Francisco and raised in Chicago, was signed to a long-term contract by Samuel Goldwyn, producer. Mr. Goldwyn snatched the “discovery” from a rival studio, Warner Brothers. Warners had been hiring Baldwin as a camera loader wheh Mr. Niven saw him and was struck
PIANO TEACHERS SPONSOR RECITAL
Billy Gilbert, Hollywood's sneezer par excellence, is one of the attractions in the Alamo’s curgent “Forged Passport.” The other feature is George O'Brien in “Trouble in Sundown,” rather than “North of Yukon,” as stated in Thursday's Times.
SEEK TO PURCHASE CASTLE IN DESERT
HOLLYWOOD, April 21 (U, PJ. —Alan Mowbray, the actor, said today he is heading an English syndicate negotiating for the possible purchase of Death Valley Scotty's famous desert castle. Scotty's “Taj Mahal,” built in the bleak north end of Death Valley at a cost of somewhere between one and two and a half million dollars,
would be converted into an exclusive vacation resort. Mr. Mowbray said that one of the chief associates in the project is Sir Leslie Clark-Browne, an English hotel magnate, who would become active manager.
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Members of the Indianapolis Piano Teachers Association will present 33 pupils in recital at the D. A. R. Chapter House tonight at 8 p. m. Teachers represented will be Margaret Rasbach Camfeldt, Jessie Thiebaud Clapp, Gladys Towles, Mabelle Hendleman; Estelle Lang, Charlotte Beckley Lehman, Eve Maurice, Ella Newkirk, Esther Ruschhaupt and Clytia Ulrich. Opal Moran, dramatic reader, also will appear on the program.
PLAY ON LINCOLN 1S TO BE FILMED
“Abe Lihcoln in Illinois,” current Broadway success, has been acquired for production as a motion picture by the Max Gordon Plays and Pictures Corp. with distribution through R-K-O. The play, written by Robert E. Sherwood and starring Raymond Massey, is the second important play property purchased by the R-K-O-Gordon combine. The first was “The American Way.”
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