Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1939 — Page 18
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MOVIES
By JAMES THRASHER
Jus in case you had forgotten in the rush of recent events, here are some background facts on “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” com-
ing to the Circle tomorrow.
This much discussed film is based upon evidence uncovered by the “Federal Bureau of Investigation which resulted, in February of 1938, in the arrest of Guenther C. Rumrich, Johanna Hofmann, Otto Her-
foreign powers.” You may recall that Rumrich pleaded guilty on Oct. 14, and that Miss Hofmann and Voss were found guilty and sentenced to a maximum prison term of 20 years on Nov. 30. In all, 17 persons were indicted, most of whom were resident in, or fled to, Germany and who could not be extradited because of international agreements. Rumrich was called a “mail-or-der spy” by trial reporters, a “heermug romancer” by his attor1eys, and was branded by Judge John C. Knox as an “unmitigated liar” at times during the trial.
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BoA in Chicago of Austrian parents, Rumrich was a United States Army deserter. He gave as a reason that “my English was very bad and the soldiers were prejudiced against me.” He decided to become a spy, which he thought was a “glamorous occupation,” after reading a book by Col. Walter Nicolai,
head of German espionage during | He admitted in- |
the World War serting an advertissment in the German Voelkischer Beobachter, offering to serve as a spy. The
notice” times, and was inserted by two officers the North German Lloyd-Hamburg American Lines. Rumrich was accused by the Government of being the chief “contact man” for an espionage system directed by three high officials of the German war ministry In his confession, Rumrich admitted plots to lure Col. Henry W. T. Elgin, commanding one of New York City's key defenses, to a Manhattan hotel, where he was to be “overcome with poison gas from a fountain pen” and robbed of military documents. ; To steel U of
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® » » MN ISS HOFMANN was a hairdresser on the liner Europa; Voss and Glaser were both naturalized the former an employee American plane factory the latter an Army private Others implicated included a Dr. Ignatz T. Griebl, former Park Ave. physician and Reserve Army officer, who fled to Germany behis indictment His film counterpart has an important role in “Confessions of a Nazi Spy.” Karl Schlueter, defendant, was alleged by the
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prosecution to be a chief lieutenant of the “master minds.” Rumrich said Schlueter told him of breaking open mail bags on a German liner and taking pictures of contracts between an American steel company and the Soviet Amtorg Trading Corp. Leon G. Turrou, former G-man, is credited with having uncovered the evidence which led to the spy ring’s exposure. He served as technical adviser on the Circle's coming picture. George C. Dix, Miss Hofmann’s attorney, charged that Mr. Turrou “evolved a diabolical plot to let Dr. Griebl escape to Germany and make Miss Hofmann an easy victim.” He likewise said that Schlueter demanded that Miss Hofmann deliver certain packages when the ship docked in New York, and that “anvbody ordered by the government of Germany to do something obeys—or else.” After his client's conviction, Mr. Dix made the following statement: “If Hitler would send
| us money, certainly we would ap- |
peal. The Germans threw her
{| down.” acceptance was printed as a “pub- | ad in the New York |
2 = 2 N “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” patrons will find most of the testimony’s high spots dramatized. Included are an accurate description of Rumrich’s life, the plots he admitted and the bungling attempt to steal passports, which led to his arrest. There is even the episode of
the match packet which contained
a “secret code,” also brought out at the trial. But the young Hunter College alumna who finally wound up with the hieroglyphics does not show up in the movie. Likewise pictured is the honeycombing of industry by Nazi spies,
officials in the German war ministry as having boasted that “we
| have spies in every important airforces along the | A po
plane plant in the United States.”
= = = S regards the picture's reception so far, it has been particularly quiet. States with censor boards have passed it, and resolutions and disturbances, which have greeted many a less controversial picture, have been absent. It may be imagined that the Brothers Warner are not viewing
airs | this calm acceptance as an un-
mixed blessing. For when it comes to “selling” the picture to the public, their hands are tied. Every mine-run Class B gangster picture has been advertised as a “daring expose” of something or other. And when something big hapens along that is both daring and exposing, it probably will be discovered that the public is yawning while Hollywood cries
“Wolf!”
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MITCHELL « HAYWORTH RICHARD BARTHELMESS
Screen play by JULES FURTHMAN
A HOWARD HAWKS Production
LUCKY NIG
the Government prosecu- | | tion alleged. It quoted two high
‘THIN MAN' IS UP AND ABOUT
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William Powell, recuperating from an illness that has kept him from the screen for many months, is sitting up and taking nourishment again. Here he is (right) with Loretta Young and the John Waynes at the Beverly Hills Brown Derby.
Opening Tomorrow
Alamo
“RACKETEERS OF THE RANGE,” with George O’Brien, Chill Wills and Marjorie Reynolds. Screenplay by Oliver Drake. Directed by D. Ross Lederman. Another real western right off the Arizona griddle. The girl who owns the packing company thinks the boy is not doing right by her. Sub|sequent events and shooting prove the real villain’s identity. | “PRISON TRAIN,” with Fred Keating, Linda Winters, Clarence Muse and Faith Bacon. Screenplay by Shepard Traube. Directed by Gordon Wiles. Two big-shot gangsters fall out over the love between one’s sister and the other’s son. Action takes place on the train taking one of the gangsters to Alcatraz. Little sister falls in love with a G-Man. Circle “CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY,” with Bdward G. Robinson, | Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lucas. Screenplay by Milton |Krims and John Wexley. Directed by Anatole Litvak. The story of the alleged Nazi spy ring and its activities in the United | States, following closely the factual news accounts. “THE JONES FAMILY IN HOLLYWOOD,” with Jed Prouty. Spring | Byington, Ken Howell and June Carlson. Screenplay by Harold Tarshis. | Directed by Malcolm St. Clair. The Jones Family géts all mixed up in Hollywood intrigue, but Dad | finally rights everything and they all get home in one piece.
Loew's “ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS,” with Cary Grant, Jean Arthur,
Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell. Production, direction and story by Howard Hawks. Aviation and melodrama set in a little banana port in South America. | There's a fight against fog to save a mail franchise, in which .a “rat”
turns hero. “WITHIN THE LAW,” with Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly,
| William Gargan. From the play by Bayard Veiller; directed by Gustav
| Machaty. The fourth screen version of a popular melodrama about the shop- | girl who was railroaded to prison but got her revenge. “You took away {my name and gave me a number” —remember?
RAMONA WILSON FILM FISHIN' FACTS TO GIVE RECITAL Next venture of Allen Jenkins,
| who scored a success with his Ramona Wilson, Indianapolis pi- Technicolor picture of the abalone {anist, will give a recital at 3 p. m.
| fishing business, will be a color film
Sunday at Meharry Hall in Green- |°f the cultured pearl industry.
castle. Miss Wilson is a student in| the DePauw University School of Music. Her program includes the, {Bach-Busoni Chaconne, the Beetho- | {ven Sonata Opus 109, an Inter-
‘mezzo and Capriccio by Brahms,
’ |Debussy’s “Hommage a Rameau” | Louie Lowe's Orch.
land the “Alborada del Gracioso,” by | Special Dance Mon, May 29 Ravel.
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Season Will Start Sunday:
Renovation is almost complete at Broad Ripple Park, officials said to-
for the summer season.
been added to the swimming pool,
mobiles instead of horses. Meanwhile officials at Riverside Amusement Park have noted increased popularity of swing, rides, due, they say, to the rising temperatures that call for a cool
butantes, pearance at the Riverside Showboat during the coming week. The regu= lar attractions will stay on. Longacre Park has had its usual spring renovating and is prepared for its opening Sunday, according to Edwin E. Thompson, operator of the South Side playground.
FUZZY-WUZZY
Kipling’s “The Light That Failed.” Only one Martini-Henry is in the studio collection.
every Martini-Henry captured by the British soldiers during the Su-
it find its way back into the natives’ hands. The studio is appealing to private gun collectors.
CHOIR WILL GIVE RECITAL SUNDAY
The Third Christian . Church Choir will present a musicale - at 3 p. m. Sunday in the church parlors. - Soloists will include John Walsh, Robert Book, Patty Ewing, Joan Tracey, Anise Kistner, Betty Mallott, Vivian Winkler, Emma Jane Mattox, Betty Thoms and Retta Beall, all piano students of Mrs.
ipple Park Set to Open
Repairs Nearly Done.
Grace Parris, and songs by Robert Barnes, Betty Johnson, Laurel Me¢Pherson, LaVerne Behrman, voice pupils- of A.W. Mason.
Irene Rich and sculptress-daughs |. ter Frances leave for Paris imme« ES ee SP diately upon completion of‘ Mother Rich’s role in “The Hobby Fam-
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939 BRANCH RANCH
Errol Flynn is converting part of his 12-acre Hollywood mountain estate into.a “model farm.”
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Sue Ann Collum and
RICHES GO FAR
Claudette Colbert—Don Ameche J. Barryniore, “Midnight” Sylvia Sidoey, ‘‘One-third of » Nation”
DU John Garfield, ‘‘Biackwell's Island” ‘‘Secret Service of the Air*’ FT G-Men—
News
and the park will open Sunday new all-metal diving tower has
springboards at 10 and 20 feet. concessions have gone modern Anne a merry-go-round with auto- Aha NAN NN
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the Octopus and
aero
Flash, other
new act, the Five Dancing Dewill make its first ap-
RIFLES NEEDED 2s
HOLLYWOOD, May 25 (U. P.). el Although stored in its warehouse, Paramount Studio was looking today for a dozen rifles. They must be rifles, the type used by the FuzzyWuzzies against the British in the Sudan.
it has 10,000 firearms Martini-Henry
in their 1880 warfare
fighting will occur in scenes of
Cables to Eng-
brought the response that
campaign was destroyed, lest
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