Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1939 — Page 10
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Zanuck Gives Bromfield a Tough One, Putting Brigham Young in Screen Play.
By PAUL HARRISON
HS xeon. July 7.—You'd think the movies might have enough to worry about without trying to make a picture about Brigham Young. The problems of dealing with a polygamous hero and a religious leader in any fashion satisfactory both to the Mormon Church and other creeds are enough to frighten almost any picturemaker. But Darryl Zanuck wants such a film and he has hired the topflight novelist, Louis Bromfield, to
write the screen play. Mr. Brom-
field arrived in Hollywood the other | ten
day with a great amount of data on the life and times of the Mormon Moses, one of the writer's hobbies; being the history of religious move-| ments in this country.
But he lacks any specific informa- | tion on how the more difficult; phases may be dealt with, except that the story will be confined as] much as possible to the epic hegira of Young and his people. Getting Mr. Bromfield to Hollywood at all sounds like something of a minor miracle, for on his only other visit here he had an unhappy experience with what he terms “the worst picture ever made.” That was “One Heavenly Night,” and Samuel Goldwyn had engaged TWO—count them!— Pulitzer Prize winners Mr. Bromfield and Sidney Howard, to whip up a proper vehicle for the screen bow of Englands Miss Evelyn Laye. » 2 HEY wrote what they considered a fetching little yarn but tangled with Mr. Goldwyn over the | hercine’s lack of virtue. This ponti- | fical purification was more than the; the Messrs. Bromfield and Howard | could bear, and the former was even moved to announce in print that the resulting picture bore no slightest resemblance, either in word or
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| That was nine years ago, and | since then Mr. Bromfield has been |living where he likes (mostly in France) and writing what he pleases. At least half his stuff has {been sold to moviemakers, out he has had no part in the adaptations ‘or in the writing of any original screen plays. Toward the end of the Civil War in Spain he took a leading part in {the repatriation of some 3000 Americans who had fought with the Loyalists. The novelist was called a Red for his pains. Last winter he returned to the United States and bought a 400-acre farm near Mansfield, O. He intends to live there and work it. = ” ” RTICULATE as he is on almost any subject, Mr. Bromfield hecomes positively lyrical when he gets to talking about cows and alfalfa. He's an Ohio country boy and has lived in cities only about seven years of his life. He writes only two hours |in the morning and two hours at night, thus having time for working | outdoors. To him, farming and land | ownership represent the ultimate security—lots more than spilling out words. He wouldn't stay in Hollywood for anything.
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‘Spectacles’ Are Revived
10,000 Extras to Get Work in Four Scheduled Movies.
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 7.—“Spectacle” movies are coming back to Hollywood and with them better days for the extras.
During the depression, skimped
studio budgets meant skipped meals
to the thousands of extras that continued to live in the Hollywood area. Now four pictures in production will provide employment for almost 10,000 extras. “Hollywood Cavalcade” will give work to the greatest number. The movie depicts the growth of the film industry and will show some of the great DeMille spectacles. In one of these alone, depicting a Babylonian feast, 1500 extras will get pay checks. More than 300 will be used during a location sequence, 200 will act as autograph-seekers, and almost 2500 others will be used in crowd and party scenes, bringing the total to 4500.
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Holmes” for a spectacular chase through London streets.
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FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1939
HONORS FOR JO ANN
Picked as one of the most promise ing of young Hollywood actresses,
Jo Ann Sayers will be made honorary colonel of the Hollywood Ameri= can Legion.
ODAY—WALLACE BEERY
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“Fron- | g | tier Marshall” will need about 2000 “The Adventures of Sherlock) will use 300 as bystanders |
Cool, Cool—
MOVIES
By HARRY MORRISON
Westerns All the Same? Well, Hardly! Republic Plans 3 Types Not of a Kind.
the coming year. Mr. Autry
covered by Will Rogers several years before. Last year he became restless about the food he was being served at the Republic lot and demanded a great many more potatoes (meaning dough). Republic was weaned on the idea that a shoestring is something you start on and they didn't like the idea of their pet becoming so expensive. To show Mr. Autry he was not entirely indispensable, they found a young man called Roy Rogers, who could “throw a heap more rope 'n Gene anytime.” Mr. Rogers was pretty handy with a geetar and after they'd made a few pictures they found he ha@® audience appeal and would very definitely do. 2
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N the meantime Mr. Autry found he wasn’t soc anxious not to work and thus Republic had two good men where one had been before. They'd been working on John Wayne, meantime, and found he was a perfect Saturday afternoon matinee idol. He was tough and rough and good looking. That gave them three stars. Next year they will produce three types of picture: There will be Mr. Autry in strictly musical Westerns, there will be Mr. Rogers in historical films with a Western and musical background and lots of love interest, and there will be Mr. Wayne as a knock-down and drag-out hero who could outdraw William S. Hart, I betcha. Republic will make eight pictures with each star. Rex Carr, Alamo manager, says he has found by presenting each of the types on successive four-day bills, he can give a variety of entertainment.
That satisfies his clientele much better than the old type, he says, which was one gun fight aiter another, with a chase and and a kiss thrown in at regular intervals. ” 2 HESE pictures will continue to cost about $40,000 each. As a sop to Mr. Autry’s ambition Republic loaned him to Paramount for one “biggie” that probably will cost about $250,000, although the studio may announce it is spending more. Mr. Autry will get a bigger cut from Paramount, of course, and Republic probably got a nice slice for their part in the contract. In addition Paramount gave up “Windy” Hayes’ contract to Republic and this gave the lesser studio one of the best supporting actors to ever steal a show from a wavering star. The intelligentsia will recognize Mr. Hayes as Sam Houston's trusted and faithful friend in “Man of Conquest,” the one really
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big picture Republic has made. The patrons of the local and smaller nickelodeons will recognize him as the long-jawed, toothless and unshaved reprobate who has played with William Boyd,
is the studio’s ace in the hole. a fairly lucrative radio job where he'd climbed in 1934 after being dis-
MILEY” BURNETTE, foil for Gene Autry in many a Western, will come to the stage of the Alamo Theater a week from today. That reminds us that Republic, his studio, 1s in pretty fair shape for
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affectionately known “Hopalong.” This trade led one exhibitor to remark that Republic had made a good deal, inasmuch as Mr. Autry will make one picture for Paramount and Mr. Hayes eight for Republic next year. Said he, “That’s the kind of a horse trade I'd like. Eight “Windy’s” for one Gene, and then when it’s all over they get Gene back again.” The only catch was that Paramount wouldn't give up their copyrighted name of “Windy” for Mr. Hayes. So from now on he’ll be billed as George “Gabby” Hayes.
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2 o un NE thing we can be sure of, Rex Carr or no Rex Carr, the studios, no matter how much they dress up their shows, won't give up the “chase.” The “chase,” in flicker parlance, is that running sequence during which the destinies of the hero and his girl are decided. It is not always practical to allow the decision to rest on one “chase” alone. Many pictures have two or more and some have had so many that even “finis” in scroll to tag the film and the upraised house lights are not enough to remove the apprehension that suddenly we should all turn and rush back to our seats, douse the lights and get up behind the hero. I have kept thinking: This isn’t the end really; surely some of the villain’'s henchmen are waiting to blow up the dam. We'd better get back there. That, of course, is the chase simple. There are other forms, more delicate. The gangster chase is little better, but the rush to get the serum is really very nice, especially if the airplane breaks down and the spring thaw breaks up the ice. 2 ” ” OME chases last all through the picture, viz.—two men chasing one girl. But this is not a pure chase unless the girl goes to Europe or Sun Valley and the men actually go there after her, preferably with different means of transportation. I think the best chase of all is through English forests with a Cardinal's Guardsman using a rapier and a Musketeer with nothing but a poniard, and a dead man at the reins and Constance trussed up inside. But a chase is possible anywhere. A noted Hollywood producer got an idea he would make Hamlet. He asked a high-brow English writer for a synopsis. When the producer had heard the story he barked: “Okeh! Write me a screen treatment. But put a chase in it.”
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Star Says Daughter, 8, Will Be Launched on Career.
HOLLYWOOD, July 7 (U. P).— Wallace Beery planned today to
| start his 8-year-old adopted daugh-
ter, Carol Ann, on a movie career within six months. She will be placed under contract to Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer, Mr. Beery's studio, he revealed. “When I told her she was going to start in pictures,” Mr. Beery said, “I said, ‘Well, Carol Ann, now you're going to be earning money, I guess I'll retire and hunt and fish.’ “And she said, ‘Okay, Daddy.’ ” Mr. Beery told of his plans for the girl when he came into court yesterday to have himself appointed her legal guardian. This action, which still leave’s the girl's custody divided betwen Mr. Beery and his divorced wife, was taken so that he may administer her financial affairs. He said Carol Ann already has in her name a $5000 block of stock in Hollywood Park Racetrack.
FANS SWARM OVER BOYD—AND HORSE
HOLLYWOOD, July 7 (U. P).— Actor William Boyd’s handsome white horse, Topper, was back here today, his mane and tail looking a bit like a moth-eaten hobby horse's.
from Topper by souvenir hunting fans at Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. Boyd made a personal appearance. He had to employ two watchmen to guard the horse. Mr. Boyd himself lost his coat buttons and his necktie. They were snipped off by fans.
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Starlet Teacher Quits Her Post
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 7.— Mrs. Mary West, resident teacher at Universal Studios 14 years, has taught her last starlet. She resigned her post coincidental with the closing of the studio school for the summer. Mrs. West came here 18 years ago and was instrumental in the establishment of the present Los Angeles
Board of Education requirement of three hours of schooling daily for every film youngster under 18 years of age. Mrs. West’s pupils have included Deanna Durbin, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Jane Withers, Virginia Weidler and others.
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