Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1939 — Page 11

| THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1039

SElissa Landi

Draws Veil From Movies

Lecture on Acting Thrills Contemporary Club And Guests.

The lure of the stage and screen

and the attractive and intelligent | Miss Elissa Landi at last have com-|

bined to take the curse off technical | lectures and “personal appearances.” | Miss Landi, star of Broadway and | Hollywood, novelist, musician and reputed descendant of the Haps- | burgs, delighted Contemporary Club | members and their guests who filled | English’s last night for the at closing meeting of its 49th season Negotiations were under way toWhat's more, she gave one of the day for the construction of three finest verformances of her career. | new neighborhood theaters by the This writer has seen Miss Landi| Charles M. Olson Enterprises, the in both mediums of acting but, | formation of which was announced capable as she was, she never | yesterday. brought off a tour de force of vir- Company officials said the houses tuosity comparable to last night’s|wouid be located in the vicinity of | lecture. 38th and Meridian Sts, in IrvingOne needs only to imagine spend- ton and on W. Washington St. ing an hour and a half listening to|

Bricks OF He ress, or laos o] High School Girl painter discuss the relative possi- | Signed on 1 on Option

Charles M. Olson

bilities of pastel and water color to| imagine how stuffy a talk on “The | Difference Between Stage and Screen Acting” might have been. HOLLYWOOD, May 4 (U. P).—

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'EAYE, AMECHE CAST

| first since 1932.

Roy Bair

The new company, headed by Charles M. Olson, veteran showman and operator of the Lyric Theater, yesterday anounced the pur-

chase of five neighborhood motion | picture theaters from Roy Bair. They are the Ritz, Uptown, St. Clair, Strand and the Oriental. Other theaters affiliated with these

FOR SENNETT FILM

HOLLYWOOD, May 4 (U. P.).— Mack Sennett, the first man to put bathing beauties in front of a motion picture camera, will emerge from retirement to make at least one more picture, it was announced today. Twentieth Century-Fox signed him as associate producer to assist Producer Harry Joe Brown in screening “Hollywood Cavalcade,” an extravaganza covering much of the screen colony's early history. A

‘bathing beauty sequence, Mr. Sen|nett’s forte in the silent era, will be | featured prominently in the film, his

The picture, starring Alice Faye! jand Don Ameche, will go into pro-| | duction later this month.

CAST IN WAX

Hollywood's mosi unusual casting | was made with word from London, England, to the effect that Norma! (Shearer and Spencer Tracy have been cast, in wax, for display purposes in Madame Tussaud's famous Exhibition Hall.

SCHOOL CONCERT SET

The public is invited to a concert Tuesday night at the Indiana State School for the Blind, featuring the school’s orchestra and the Olive Kiler orchestra. A student chorus {also is to be heard.

LAST DAY: ! in “STRANGE FACES” Plus “BEG, BORROW OR STEAL”

Carl Niesse

are the Lyric, downtown stage house, and the Vogue, North Side movie house. Olson Enterprises also owns the buildings and property of the downtown Apollo and the neighborhood Rivoli, both of which are leased to other companies. Carl Niesse is general manager and Mr Bair secretary of the new firm.

Tough-Luck Star On Honeymoon

HOLLYWOOD, May 4 (U. P).— Duncan Renaldo, one of the two hard-luck stars of the film “Trader Horn,” was on a honeymoon today with Lea Rosenblatt of Alhambra, Cal. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev, Mr. Renaldo and Edwina Booth attained stardom almost 10 years ago when they went to Africa and made the jungle picture. After that Miss Booth contracted a jungle ailment from which she only recently has) - been recovering. Mr. Renaldo was sent to prison two years for swearing falsely that he was an American |» citizen. He was a Rumanian.

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KANSAS CITY BARES ‘EMERGENCY FUND’

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 4 (U. P)—A special “city “manager emergency fund” from which H. F. McElroy, former city manager, paid out sums ranging up to $300,000 without the formality of submits ting the bills to the City Council, was revealed at the City Hall today. - Mayor Bryce B. Smith, who forced McElroy’s resignation last month, said he knew very little about the fund but had ordered the account closed, ‘

The fund apparently was established seven or eight years ago and bond funds and funds from general revenue were transferred to it. A check of the fund was not complete but it was indicated that 1 per cent of certain bond funds had been transferred to the private fund.

Friends said much of the money was used to enable McElroy to deal directly with property owners in securing right-of-way for needed improvements. Such dealings, they said, saved the city money.

CITY VETOES DEATH FLAG ‘CANTON, O., May 4 (U. P.).— The idea of displaying a black flag on Canton’s Public Square on days after traffic fatalities was rejected by City Council. Several councilmen protested = the proposal on the

ground that such a display might disturb relatives of victims,

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a Gol yime Se An { Betty McLaughlin, 17-year-old high 4 However, Miss Landi turned upon | school girl who was picked out of ter task the combined powers of! a charming manner, keen intelli-| 2 CrOWd of 500 extras in one of those gence, delightful wit and a sound | Cinderella incidents, had her opdramatic talent. Presto! the 9g tion lifted today by Paramount Picminutes had passed, and a good |'UL®S. time had been had by all. She was among a throng of HollyTo begin with, there was the in-| Wood high school students working teresting premise that the classic On Jackie Cooper's picture “What and romantic, or heroic and inti-|& Life.” mate types of acting derived from| The moment he laid eyes on the architecture. So the huge outdoor a Director Ted Reed called for Greek theaters gave rise to expan-| the talent chief, Artie Jacobson, who sive gesture, stentorian utterance ay arranged a lunch- hour | and eventually and too frequently audition before the studio's pro- | in later days, the ham actor. ducers. The film in which she had | On the other hand, the miracle | appeared that morning was rushed plays of the Middle Ages were done through the laboratory and shown m bear pits or other small, con- that afternoon. venient arenas. Thus developed the] By 3 p. m., just five hours after more intimate expression, the aside she set foot on the movie lot, Miss and subtlety of gesture and inflec-| McLaughlin was signed to an option. Miss Landi forebore to draw| tion. the ultimate parallel between the] medieval performances in stables! a. the Borg of New Eng- NOTED AERIALIST and’s summer stock seasons of the present day. IS INJURED BADLY ‘No Accident in Good Theater BOSTON. May 4 (U. P.)—¥Fritzi | But the speaker touched only Bartoni. 29- -year-old circus trapeze lightly on the historical aspect, and |artist, received a possible fracture moved on to the business at hand. of the left leg and internal injuries In today's theater, she sees the sur- last night when she fell 35 feet durvival of both types of acting men- ing a solo performance before thoutioned; in Hollywood she finds the sands of horrified spectators at Bosultimate in dramatic intimacy. o Garden. “There is no accident in good| The Viennese artist, noted for her theater,” she said. “Everything Wo dive and heel catch, missed | must be thought out and rehearsed. a swinging trapeze while doing what | Before the camera, you have only circus attendants said was a “comto think the emotion and it paratively easy” back fall leg catch. registers.” Her husband, Lombard, 45, retired Miss Landi believes that anyone | Swiss aerialist, who was tending her | with a reasonable intelligence can ropes, was unable to break her fall | be taught all there is to be learned jas he had on three previous occa- | ebout movie acting in five minutes. {sions. She fell to the floor at his To prove her point she treated the feet. ence to a hilarious solo skit In |i which she played herself, the star; | ithe director, cameraman, script girl, stand-in, electrician, wardrobe and property man. Eloquent Bit of Acting mn “10 takes” of a brief scene from “The Baroness and the Butler” «in which she starred on Broadway under the original title, “The Lady Has a Heart”) Miss Landi worked a delicate but eloquent disenchantrent at the expense of a glamorous industry. There was no bitterness nor burTesque. It was simply a straightforward revelation of what happens in the great, sprawling, mysterious business of making a motion picture. Incidentally, it was a swell bit of acting: Sheila Barrett and Cornelia Otis Skinner raised to the nth power. Miss Landi said her preference for stage or screen depended entirely upon the story and character at hand. Yet one had little difficulty in reading between the lines. What About Glamour? For, after remarking that insincerity was glaringly apparent to the camera, she said, in substance, that those more intellectual film stars who couldn't take seriously everything handed to them found their days numbered. Ail of which might explain why Hollywood is seeing less and less of this extremely civilized, clear-think-ing voung woman. For she seemed totally unimpressed with her own importance as she gives glamour a genteel and cultured equivalent of “the bird.” «J. T) AGAIN STAR'S WIFE Beulah Bondi, last teamed with Lionel Barrymore when she made a memorable impression as the wife of President Andrew Jackson in “The Gorgeous Hussy,” will join him again as Granny to his Gramp in “On Borrowed Time.” INDIANAPOLIS—2 DAYS MON. TUES. Southeastern and Keystone Aves.

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