Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1939 — Page 13
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By PAUL HARRISON
OLLYWOOD, April 26.—Short takes: Plenty of pronouncements on perfect figures and styles in chorus girls have been
attributed to LeRoy Prinz, the dance director . .
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Mr. Prinz, privately of course, measurements don’t meant & thing . ‘the tape measure hasn't been desighed that can translate inches
into umph. Impresarios of the skin— shows for the New York World’s Fair have been trying to collect cuties in Hollywood lately. . . . But- they must have been dismayed by the cool response to their talent calls. . . . I attended one of these and among a hundred hopefuls saw only one of the topnotch Movietown chorus kids . . . who explained that she was there only to lend moral support to an inexperienced friend. . . . Wanted no part of the job herself, especially with a cycle of filmusicals coming up this summer.
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The telephone number of the RKO casting office has been changed. . . . Somebody discovered that the old number, Highland 8537, could be reached by spelling out H-I-T-L-E-R on the dial! ® Ww Ww ASTI. RATHBONE will do another Sherlock Holmes picture . . . but he has refused a contract for 8 series fears he might never be able to get away from the character of the famed sleuth. . . . It was the great Mrs. Patrick Campbell, when Mr. Rathbone was appearing with her on the London stage, who tagged the leanvisaged actor with a description that a lot of local wits have claimed. . . . “Basil looks like two profiles pasted together,” quipped she.
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In her current picture, “Naughty but Nice,” Ann Sheridan goes unglamorous long enough to beat up Allen Jenkins and Dick Powell. . . . But in her next, “Winter Carnival,” she’ll work for Walter Wanger, the man who did so much for Hedy Lamarr.
Alice Faye seems to be dropping out of the competition for the title of umph-queen. For some reason her studio has decided to keep her in more and bigger musicals. 2 = =
N the face of war threats, “The Rains Came” has gone, into ‘production with the biggest original budget ever assigned— $2,500,000. . And $500,000 of that will be ‘spent on the flood and earthquake sequence. . . . The first big baseball flicker is in preparation at Warners, with plans to’ include just about all the game’s great names from Ty Cobb and Hans Wagner to the current stars.
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A Hollywood rule: “Take any old picture, change the locale and characters, switch the basic situation, and you've got a new picture.” So 20th-Fox remembering the success of “A Yank at Oxford,” is about to film “A Briton at Yale.” In this one, I suppose, a boat will row Robert Taylor. ” ” » Universal has “Bright Victory” on its schedule, and it'll probably be the opposite of “Dark Victory” in more ways than one. . . . Warners is preparing “The Dead End Kids at Valley Forge,” but I'm going to wait for “Romeo and Torchy Blane.” ® ® ® Asked about his part in his next picture, Maxie Rosenbloom said: “I play a very dopey guy. I am going to be terrific!” . . . The caulifiowered Maxie also confides that he has worked out a perfect disguise . . . by wearing earmuffs he should be as hard to recognize as most actors in dark glasses.
THE NEIGHBORHOODS
DIOT'S DELIGHT,”
a swell bit of entertainment that drew the
critics’ praise both on the stage and screen, is showing at two
neighborhood theaters this week. Clark Gable and “phony Countess’
at the Tacoma tonight and tomorrow . . .
and Saturday.
. In case vou missed “hoofer” » Norma Shearer, youll find them at the New Garfield Friday
That hilarious “Topper Takes a Trip” closes tonight at the Rivoli . but continues through Saturday at the Fountain Square, where
it is sharing honors with George O'Brien's “Arizona Legion.” and the Jones Family's
“Let Us Live” takes over at the Rivol. Bobby Breen’s singing in “Fisherman’s Wharf” will be heard for the first time on the East Side at the Emerson tomorrow through Saturday. . . . At the Irving, Joan Bennett and Frederic March are teamed in “Trade Winds” tomorrow through Saturday.
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Star-laden “Gunga Din” opens at |
the Vogue today for a four-day run, and on the same bill is Eleanor Powell’s “Honolulu.” “Duke of West Point” is at the Hollywood and the New Daisy through tomorTOW. . At the Talbott, “I Am a
latest, “Everybody's Baby,”
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Hollywood Puts Bette Davis, Star i ‘Dark Victory, on the Top Rung of Its Ladder of Brilliant Personalities
p— closes tomorrow and “My Son Is a Criminal” starts Friday. “There Goes My Heart” leaves the Paramount tonight, and little Jane Withers opens in “Arizona Wildcat.” . “Wings of the Navy” and the Ritz Brothers’ “The Three Musketeers” share honors for the next four days at the Cinema. . . And at the Sanders, Dick Powell stops “Going Places” tonight, and Warren Hull moves in as “Star Reporter.” The Belmont has Louise Rainer’s “Dramatic School” through tomorrow and “Pacific Liner” is the twoday feature at Speedway.
School Plays In Rehearsal
Indianapolis Young People Take Part in Several.
Several groups of Indianapolis young people were in rehearsals today as openings were announced for school plays. Miss Jean Van Voorhees, Betty Reed and Geraldine Harris and Clifford Ernst, all of Indianapolis, will take part in a performance of the “Franklin Frolics” to be given tonight at Franklin College. The-
odore W. Hatten, dramatics coach, is in charge of the production. A second performance of “Peg O' My Heart” will be presented tonight by the St. Agnes Academy senior class at the Cathedral High | School auditorium.
The leading roles of Peg and
Jerry will be taken by Misses Mary Jane Viehmann and Norma Claunch.
Meanwhile William F. Moon, mu- |
sical director, announced results of talent tryouts for the Tech High School “Sketchbook of 1939,” to be given May 19 and 20 at the school gvmnasium. “First Lady,” Shortridge High School senior class play, will be presented May 12. Leading roles will be played by Joan Mick, Mary Jane Hess and Robert Bethuram.
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‘'OOMPH GIRL" SUED
HOLLYWOOD, April 26 (U. P.).—Two beautiful ladies were fighting in the courts today over the title of “oomph girl.” Ann Sheridan, the screen star, recently given the title in a contest, is being sued by Yvonne Du Val, a French-born film actress. Miss Du Val claims she originated and started using the phrase many months ago, and she wants $5000 damages and an injunction stopping Miss Sheridan from using it.
Stokowski Signs For 11 Concerts
PHILADELPHIA, April 26 (U. P).—Leopold Stokowski, worldfamed conductor, has signed a contract to conduct the Philadelphia | Orchestra in a series of 11 concerts
[ next autumn, it was announced to-
| day. The series will begin Nov. 6 and terminate Nov. 24, with Mr. Stokowski accompaning the orchestra to New York, Washington and Raltimore for three out-of-town appearances. Mr. Stokowski said he also hoped to conduct a spring series March 4-26 if his other activities permitted.
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stumbled onto mountain music the Circle stage this week) and] they're having trouble getting away from it. “Secret” Comes Out
It was Annie who told of the secret Carnegie Hall ambition. But she told it to a reporter without prefacing it with “this is off the record.” So the secret seems fair game. What the Canovas want to do is invade the home of the Philhar-monic-Symphony Orchestra, give a half program of strictly legitimate and long-hair music, and then go into their regular routine. Zeke and Annie are the real musicians of the family, along with their mother. They came up from Jacksonville about 10 years ago and won scholarships at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Zeke studied singing with Dan Beddoe and Dr. John A. Hoffman. Annie worked at being a pianist. She says Chopin is her favorite composer, but admitted his music is awfully hard to work into 8 hillbilly act. Visited Mountains
tact with the music that has made them famous. They first tried it out in the Village Barn in New
The Canovas used to vacation in the North Carolina mountains, and that’s where they first came in con- ||
York. That was after the 15-year-/
THRASHER
Those rustic Canovas, Judy, Zeke and Annie, are just a trio of city slickers at heart—provincial city slickers, "according to Judy's qual-
like the clown with a ven to play Hamlet, these hill-billy musicians have their eyes on the sacred portals of New York's Carnegie
Zeke and Annie intended to be lold Judy had gone to the big city serious musicians, but somehow they | |
with her mother and the musical children had come on from Cin-
(which is their reason for being on |cinnati.
Judy had some yearnings for the ballet, and also a distinct gift for doing funny things with her face and voice. Zeke and Annie could sing and cut up a little themselves. And that's how it all started. Prom the Village Barn they stepped into radio spots with Hal Kemp and Rudy Vallee, then a part in the musical show, “Calling All Stars.” Also they were<among the last of the vaudevillians to get a T0-week tour. Judy Joined Follies The only time the combination was broken up was when Judy spent six months on her own in “The Ziegfeld Follies.” The end of her engagement came, and with no work in sight. But at the last minute, they caught on with Paul Whiteman, and stayed a full year. Since then, they haven't had to look far for work. Right now they're ending their vaudeville tour and will go into rehearsal May 15 for a new Broadway musical called “Yokel Boy Makes
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(Bette Davis will be seen at. the gndiana in her latest picture, “Park Victory,” for the week beginning Friday.)
By MARIAN YOUNG HOLLYWOOD, April 26 (NEA). _So far as Hollywood is concerned, Bette Davis has the highest P. Q. (personality quotient) of any star in ‘the glittering film capital. In a place where good personalities are a dime a dozen, and there’s even 8 surplus of excellent ones, the star of such successes as “Of Human Bondage,” “Jezebel” and now “Dark Victory” has the most outstandingly interesting personality of all. She’s an exciting, “alive” person, this girl whose P. Q. is so high. And her personality is of that happy variety ‘which “brings others out,” and makes their personalities shine, too. Rehearsals of scenes in which Miss Davis plays a part never drag on in a listless manner. A conversatioh with her is a stimulating ex-
perience She's Good Listener
When Bette Davis listens, she listens with her mind as well as her ears. It’s not an act. She really is interested in what others think
and why. When it’s her turn to talk, she has something to say. She's an in- | —/ gas veterate reader, and obviously has trained herself to remember what she reads. She doesn’t think it unfeminine to be well-informed. In fact, Miss Davis has little patience with the woman who reads news headlines but never the stories under them, or thinks that editorial pages are written for men only. “I think it’s sad for any woman to let herself slip mentally as she walks down the years,” Bette Davis declared, the animation of her face emphasizing her earnestness. “If she's in business, she simply can't let herself get into the habit of fuzzy thinking—not if she expects to stay in business—-any kind of business.
Includes Home Women
“And the home woman who, at 50, has ho interest in anything outside of her home, is apt to lead a pretty dreary existence. “I hate to use the word ‘hobby’,” Miss Davis added, “but the home womah needs something like one— some interest outside of her home and children. It doesn’t need to be
complicated.” According to the currently popular standards of the socalled charm experts, it's quite
possible that Bette Davis wouldn't measure up. She's too definite, too
vigorous in her likes and dislikes |,
to meet their specifications. The very strength of her personality precludes what they call a “surplus of tolerance” and which she calls “being wishy-washy.” Miss Davis is, inh fact, an extremist. If she’s interested in a subject at all, she's intensely interested. When she hates, she hates. When she loves, she loves. She doesn’t specialize in lukewarm acquaintanceships. It's real friendship—the warm, loyal, growing kind-—or none. You always know right where you stand with Bette Davis. Bette Davis rates A-plus ih attractiveness and A-double-plus in intellectual honesty. She's never coy. She never has been known to substitute the little girl act for sound, reasonable argument in order to win a point. That is, an important point. Furthermore, Bette Davis has a sense of humor. A real sense of humor which means that she can laugh at herself. She takes Bette Davis seriously only when Bette Davis has a job to do, a part to play. Otherwise, she takes Bette Davis pretty lightly. And she does NOT think that Bette Davis is different!
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‘Heart of Paris’ Is Filmarte Feature Tonight.
“The Heart of Paris,” Which Stage Magazine called ‘‘delightful”; the New York Times, “a comically stimulating performance,” and to which the New York Daily News gave a four-star rating, will be the Pilmarte Guilds offering tonight in the Indianapolis Athletic Club ballroom. This French production features
Filmarte's “Carnet de Bal,” and Michele Morgan, a young lady who is an ‘established favorite with European film audiences. Miss Morgan’s first American screen appearance was in the recent “Orage,” with Charles Boyer. As originally ‘produced, “The Heart of Paris” was called “Gribouille.” Tt tells the story of a modern Don Quixote, in the person of a French shopkeeper, who tilts at windmills in his endeavor to see wrongs righted and justice triumphant. The shopkeeper helps to acquit & beautiful girl of a ‘murder charge, then takes her into his home. The reactions of his wife, his son and the athletic young man who is betrothed to his daughter form the basis for most of the fun. Marcel Achard wrote the screen play and Marc Allegret directed. The dialog, of course, is in French, with English titles.
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It is our aim to improve the instruments of transportation. Current examples are streamline trains, air-conditioned cars, new power, stronger track. These promote comfort, convenience, safety.
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Current examples are free pillows and low-
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