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

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1939

THERE'S MUCH EXPLAINING AND LISTENING WHILE THEY DECIDE WHO IS SECOND FIDDLE

Rudy Vallee has

Fiddle,” starting Friday at the Circle.

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plenty of girl trouble with Son ja Henie (center) and Mary Healy (right) in “Second

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Tyrone Power has a lot of explaining to do to Miss Healy, the new

brunet menace.

HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

It Seems to Have Dawned on 20th-Fox That

Mary Healy Is a

Pretty Gil Who Can Sing.

Tf Zt Yeo. July 11. —Irving

Berlin thinks her voice is the best

he has heard in a long, long time, and Darryl Zanuck thinks

she's pretty and talented enough in Sonja Henie's “Second Fiddle.”

to carry the singing second lead

The girl is Mary Healy and she just seems to have dawned on the

20th-Fox people after being under It was a discouraging year, and toward the end of it she wanted to go back to New Orleans. Miss Healy had a walk-on bit in “Suez” as a lady-in-waiting, ong day's work in “Tail Spin,” and one line to speak in “Up the River.” She said, “Thank you very much, warden; it's been a privilege.” And for that, a theater down home billed her on the marquee as “New Orleans’ Own Mary Healy.” She had a song in “Rose of Washington Square,” but number ran too long and has been cut out. Then she got a test for “Second Fiddle.” Technicians and hairdressers by the dozens rallied around to make it a success. Sound men coached her about making the most of her voice, and

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knew to light her to best advantage. And the whole studio cheered when she got the part. 2 2 = ARY HEALY is about with brown eyes, tawny hair and a dash of freckles. Still plumper than the average slatfigured actress, she says she used to be a little fatty when she was warbling with dance orchestras in Texas and Louisiana. Mary went to parochial schools in New Orleans, and in 1935 won the title of “Miss New Orleans” in a beauty contest. After that came some little-theater work and an engagement as vocalist with a band. “But I ddn't go for that sort of life,” she told me, “so I thought I'd try being a business girl.

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Orleans.”

To hear the studio tell it, Miss |

Healy never gave a thought to an acting job. Fact is, though, that she was as movie-struck as anyone, and she saw her first opportunity one morning when she opened a letter saying that a talent scout was coming to town and that he should be entertained by BE. V. Landaiche, the branch manager and Miss Healy's boss.

$ & § : ANDAICHE told his secretary not to bother the talent scout, and she didn't. But she knew he'd be in the Blue Room of the Hotel Roosevelt that night, and she “just happened” to have a date to go dancing there Also she “just happened” to have a table right near the one

reserved for the Hollywoodsman and randaiche. She went very southern belle — white net dress and a magnolia in her hair. It worked out fine. She met the scout and he was surprised and interested to learn that they were working for the same company. He stopped looking at other girls in the room and asked her to have supper. Over it—her last good meal— they arranged for a screen test. It won her an ordinary stock contract, at $50 a week and with sixmonth options. 2 2 2

CARCELY anybody believes Miss Healy is from New Orless because she has little trace of accent, except for saying “heah” and “theah.” But not having it was a lucky thing, for all the studios still avoid Southern accents and carefully suppress them with training. Miss Healy also knows she's fortunate in getting a chance to sing, because Hollywood seldom allows a newcomer to do what he can do best. Best luck of all, of course, is that she'll introduce two brand-new Irving Berlin numbers. The assignment to “Second Fiddle” wasn't merely a matter of luck, either. When Miss Healy heard that a singer was going to be chosen for the Sonja Henie picture, she began taking skating lessons. She was pretty good at it by the time the role was to be cast. Good enough, anyway, to replace Shirley Ross, who had been mentioned for the part but who can’t skate very well.

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Louie Lowe’s Orch.

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stock contract for a year.

Campus Film Is Concluded

Students at University of Michigan Take Part.

Times Special ANN ARBOR, Mich, July 11.— The 1939 commencement exercises at the University of Michigan marked the finish of a full-length movie starring the University students. Coeds turned movie stars to depict school life during the 1938-39

scholastic year, In full color, the | movie stars Marcia Connell, Detroit; Marietta Killian, Allegan, Mich; Stephanie Parfet, Port Huron, Mich, and Betty Jane Swift, Middleville, Mich. The shooting of the film began at the 1938 commencement. It shows the football games and other sports events, the Junior Girls’ play, installation and Panhellenic banquets, and other scenes of university activities. More than 1000 students and faculty members took part in the pro- | duction. (graphed by Dr Catherine Chamber{lain of Ann Arbor, associate professor of physics at Wayne Universtiy.

The picture was photo-|

Triggs Gets Commission To Compose

Jordan School Grants Leave to Head of _Piano Faculty.

Harold Triggs, head of the Jordan Conservatory of Music piano department, has been granted a leave

of absence to accept a composer's commission from a San Francisco music publishing house, Miss Ada Bicking, conservatory director, announced today. The name of the firm which has commissioned Mr. Triggs’' services was not made public, nor were his duties explained beyond the fact that he is to write one or more works for full orchestra. “We have released Mr. Triggs in order that he might accept this position,” the conservatory director said. “Because he is so well equipped to do this work, we feel that we should not put a stone in his path.” Miss Bicking said she hoped that Mr. Triggs would be able to return for the school year of 1940-41. Several applications for the vacant post have been received. One candidate, Mieczyslaw Muenz, was at the conservatory yesterday, where he conferred with Miss Bicking and played for several faculty members, Mr. Muenz was born in Poland, and studied with Busoni in Berlin. He made his American debut in 1922, and subsequently has appeared with the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras. From 1930 to 1932 he was a member of the Curtis Institute of

Music faculty in Philadelphia.

NEW YORK

Mildred Fenton's

I i got a job as a secretary in the | 20th-Fox film exchange in New |

'Heart Belongs to Daddy’

But Aviation Got Milady's Self-Composure.

too, admits Daddy's ownership.

She sang for Vinton Freedley, show director, and his pulse returned to normal for the first time since Miss Martin connected with the movies.

“All my life I had worked for this

chance, and I was so sick I didn't care whether I got the part or not,” Miss Fenton said today. “Now I'm plenty thrilled.”

She is 20 and was born in New York City. She weighs 110 pounds and her hair is honey-colored. She was singing in Detroit whenAileen Stanley, her singing teacher and former Broadway star, called her to New York for the audition. “And I never turned down an audition in my life,” she declared. “I've waited and waited and worked and worked for this chance. But you couldn't believe it if you'd seen me wobble into the theater that morning. I'll bet there's no one gets as sick as I do in an airplane.” Someone bet Mildred sang herself into the part because she didn't want to use her return ticket. She would have flown back to Detroit

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

“Man About Town,” with Jack Benny and “Rochester,” at 11, 1:44, 4:28, 7:12 and 9:58. ‘Undercover Doctor,” with J. Carroll Naish and Lloyd Nolan, at 12:38, 8:22, 6:08 and 8:50.

CIRCLE

e Mikado,” with Kenny Baker and the D'Oyly Carte Players, at 12:35, 3:50, 7:05 and 10:20. “The Sun Never Sets,” with Rouglas Fairbanks Jr. and Basil Rath. bone, at 11, 2:15, 5:30 and 8,45.

LOEW'S

“Tarzan Finds a Son,” with Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan and John Sheffield, at 11:05, 1:45, 4:30. T:15 and 10. “Missing Daughters,” with Richard Arlen, Rochelle Hudson and Marian Marsh, at 12:40, 3:25, 6:10 and 8:55.

Healthfully Cool!

NEW YORK, July 11. —Daddy now has two extra hearts. Fenton has taken Mary Martin's place in “Leave It to Me” and now she,

Mildred

Miss Fenton set some kind of record for airsickness as she arrived here by airplane for her audition. She was the color of a baby watermelon when the taxi took her to the Imperial Theater for her tryout.

the same afternoon if Mr. Freedley and Willlam Gaxton, the star, hadn't picked her for the part. Miss Fenton has been a night Club songstress the last few years and was in the original Casa Manana show at Ft. Worth, Tex. The new singer with “Leave It to Me” has taken over Miss Martin's tasks in the show. This includes singing “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.” She sings it straight once and then does her own Fenton interpretation for the encore.

BERYL MERCER ILL, CONDITION SERIOUS

HOLLYWOOD, July 11 (U. P).— Beryl Mercer, 57-year-old character actress, was in serious condition today after a major operation at Santa Monica Hospital. Miss Mercer, born in Spain and reared in England, has been in the movies the past 10 years. She enjoved a long career on both the New York and London stages. Her physician, Dr. A. S. Arkush, described her as a ‘very sick pers son.”

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By HARRY MORRISON

Here's Hoping All This Hollywood

Doesn't Go to Hedy's Haid.

Hedy Lamarr may be a paragon of pulchritude to the college boys,

but Hollywood press agentry has made her a perplexing paradox to us.

The first thing that happened was when they changed her name.

went to.

Hedy was fine, because it rhymed with head, and that's what she

Then they said it was pronounced to rhyme with Sadie and all bets

were off. It would take a man from the deep South to keep that rhyme perfect. Haidy has been set up as the most perfectly gowned actress on the screen. Her clothes are supposed to be so outstanding that: Director Jack Conway decided that Hedy (Haidy) Lamarr in her gorgeous Adrian creations for “Lady of the Tropics” stood out too conspicuously in a crowd, so he requested Adrian to clothe several other women in similar gown designs to take the glare of the spotlight off Miss Lamarr. Could that be the same girl, who, in the same picture, was so sloppy that she played a whole scene without her shoes on? The publicity said that's what she did. It wasn’t much of an excuse to point out that the long exotic dress covered her feet.

She's supposed to bring homecooked meals to the set for her luncheon every day. At the same time we hear that she has introduced a new sandwich to the company. It's a dried fig between two dried apricots.

If she keeps on furnishing “home-cooked” meals like that at home she'll have to change the initials on her car door again. We just heard from the press agentry that she changed them to H. M,, for Hedy, I mean Haidy, Markey. She has two hobbies that seem rather strange for one person:

Hedy Lamarr has a new hobby. She's collecting all the fan magazines she can find, to read about the earlier glamour girls of motion pictures.

But then what in the world is this?

Hedy Lamarr has become a chess addict. She plays chess with Phyllis Loughton, her dramatic coach, after almost every scene of “Lady of the Tropics.”

It's a lucky thing they said after “almost” every scene, because after one of those scenes she ran out and bought ice cream for everyone on the set and forgot all about Robert Taylor. Then she ran out and got him some, too, from a passing commissary truck. Running about like that should be very disturbing to the concentration required in playing chess. But it was lucky for Robert Taylor that it was he that Haidy forgot. Otherwise he could

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DREW TO ENGLAND

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Romances— A-La-Writs

Legal Go Sign Is Awarded Miss Holm, 2 Others.

HOLLYWOOD, July 11 (U. P)— The way was clear today for new

romances for several Hollywood celebrities. The County Clerk's office reported final divorce decrees had been issued recently for Eleanor Holm, the swimming star, who has announced she will marry Billy Rose, New York showman; Walter Wanger, the movie director, and Gilda Gray, the “shimmy” dancer of 20 years ago. Miss Holm was granted a divorce from orchestra leader Arthur Jarrett on the bandman’s allegations that he was subjected to “embarrassment” because Miss Holm declared publicly she no longer cared for him. Mr. Wanger was divorced by Justine Johnson, stage and screen star, on charges he was rude to the actress and her friends. Miss Gray divorced the Venezuelan diplomat, Hector de Bricene.

FROM TREE TO CAVE

Johnny Sheffield, who lived up in a tree as Johnny Weissmuller's adopted son in “Tarzan Finds a Son,” has reversed his habitat by now building an underground house in the back yard of his parents’ home.

DIETRICH WARNED _ OF U.S. TAX LIEN

HOLLYWOOD, July 11 (U. P.).— The Government today had warned Marlene Dietrich that any money she earns in Hollywood will be attached for payment of $142,193 she allegedly failed to pay on her 19361937 income. Until the German actress pays the tax bill, Uncle Sam will maintain possession of her jewelry, Federal agents said. The jewelry was seized when Miss Dietrich sailed to Europe several weeks ago.

Cromwell Named For Lincoln Film

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 11.—John Cromwell, who recently directed Carole Lombard and Cary Grant in “Memory of Love,” will direct the screen version of Robert Sherwood’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” Max Gordon and Harry Goetz, who staged the show in New York, are here now preparing the movie script. Raymond Massey, who created the title role on the stage, will be starred in the screen version, which will go into production Aug. 1. Accordion

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