Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1939 — Page 20

0 } of the Scripps-Howard Picture Hit | 4 ©f the Month for June. The Warper Bros. picture was hailed by the] reviewers for its fine characteniza-|

§, ¥

PAGE 20 Hit Honors Are Heaped

'ROPIN' FOOL

On Juarez’ ¢

Reviewers Call Muni and]

Davis Picture Best of Last Month.

From the pages of Mexico's tur-

bulent history comes “Juarez,” title

tions and the sweep of its story. It is the story of the ill-fated Maximilian's attempt to rule Mex§co as the puppet monarch of Napoleon III, and the triumph of democracy over monarchy through the determined efforts of the Indian Juarez. ‘Devotion to History’

Following are comments of some, of the Scripps-Howard reviewers:

“Please give my for its honest devotion to one of

vote to ‘Juarez’|

i g the most fascinating chapters in his-|

! i

tory, Brian Aherne, John Garfield and Bette Davis as Carlotta, wife of Maximilian, cellence of Winsor Press. Ed Klinger Press reports: “A Dbriliant picture with distinguished characterizations and a fine sincerity make ‘Juarez’ not only the

the production,” says|

of The Evansville

French of The Clevelanq

the fine, sensitive playing of]

“Smiley” Burnette opens tomorrow with his company of “ropin’ fools” at the Alamo Theater.

‘Miss Albert in

and the general ex-|

picture of the month for June, but

3 i ¥ }

5 £ i

undoubtedly one of the pictures of the year.” ‘Superb Acting’

in El Paso, Tex:

“Superb acting by Paul Muni and petween 16 and 25.

{Carpenter H. A. Michael of The Herald-Post Hazel Burton.

Beauty | Lineup

Miss Rosemary Albert took first | place last night at the third “Miss | Indianapolis” elimination contest at | the Fountain Square Theater. Runners-up who will also compete | in the contest semifinals Aug. 7 at the theater include Misses Dotty | Babe Nicholson and.

The contest is still open to girls Application |

Bette Davis, the broad sweep of tS houlq be made to Earl Cunning-

story, and its make ‘Juarez’ top film of June. President Cardenas of praised the picture at a special showing last month when he visited the city of Juarez, across the border frcm El Paso.” Katharine Hillyer, Daily News, writes: “An eloquent film, ‘Juarez’ restates a faith in the democracy principle, and although the was lifted from history, the issues of those dead days are alive and vital today. ‘Juarez’ is unhysterical, fdeologically sound and beautifully interpreted by Paul Muni, Aherne and Bette Davis. Which iS why I pick it for the picture hit of the month.”

| SIGRID GURIE SAYS

Washington

Mexico for the title of “Miss Indiana”

story |

Brian Jr.

excellent direction ham, theater manager.

“Miss Indianapolis” will compete | at Michigan City Aug. 11-13, and if successful will be given a trip to Hollywood, a screen test and other prizes. given a trip to the New York] World's Fair by the Fountain Square | heater.

BACK AGAIN

Last appearance in America of Will Fyffe, distinguished Scotch actor, who, with Douglas Fairbanks and Margaret oockwoeod today tops the cast of “Ruler of the Seas,” new Frank Lloyd production, was in

| the last edition of the Earl Carroll Vanities seven years ago.

SHE'LL WED AUG. &

Times Special HOLL YWOOD. July 13.—Sigrid Gurie, Scandinavian film star, said today she would be married Aug. 6 to Dr. Lawrence C. Spangard, Hollywood physician The star's mother, Mrs. Bjorgul Haukelid, is en route to Hollywood from her home at Oslo, Norway, and will attend the ceremonies. Miss Gurie said her marriage would not interfere with her picture plans. She is at work on “The Forgotten Woman,” which will be released this summer. Her last screen appearance was in “Algiers,” with Charles Boyer. a

HIS

{ { {

WHEN DOES iT START?

APOLLO

“Man About Town,” With Ld Ban hy, and a hgsten.” at 11, 1:4 4:28. 7:12 ana 9:56 “Undercover Doctor,” with roji Naish and are Nolan, at 1 8:22, 6.06 and 8.50.

CIRCLE

“The Mikade with Kenny Baker and the D'Oviy Carte Players, at 12:35, 3:50. 7:03 and 10:20.

“The Sun Never Sets,” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Basil Rathhone, at 11, 2:15, 5:30 and 8:45.

LOEW'S

“Tarzan Finds a Son,” with Johnny Weismuiler, Maureen C'Sullivan and John Shett field, at 11:05, 1:45 4:30. 7.15 and “Missing IAS, ” with Richard Arlen, Rochelle Hudson and Marian Marsh, at 19-50. 3:25, 6:10 and 8:55.

J. Car2:38.

BRIAN AHI

| permission | banker friends to use his estate

| or Eddie Robinson could If unsuccessful she wiv be,

| mendous) | scapes.

| locale for | and landed. He had to dynamite | his way into a hidden valley. But | once there,

| asked for a mountain. | “Bad Lands,” a story

Re ty

MOVIES

By HARRY MORRISON

Hollywood's Super-Colossal Sets Grew From Puny Beginnings in 1913.

Y= ago when people were just beginning to show their Adam's Apples to the lantern shows the Essanay Studios were starting

to make features in Chicago.

That was when Wallace Beery was still a chorus boy and could take

: the part of a young lady with ease and dispatch.

He was courting Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford was beginning

to conjure up those scenes where she scrubbed the floor by attaching a couple of scrub brushes to her shoes to skate around the room. Doug Fairbanks pere hadn't made “The Mollycoddle” and Hollywood was a couple of gulches and a dream. Those were the days when “on location” meant running over to the other side of the room. In an emergency they would get from one of their

for an outdoor scene. The bankers were just beginning to sce the possibilities in the movies. That was 1913. > =» @» HE history of “on location” is pretty well tied up with two men who made it more than a phrase, Cecil B. DeMille and David Ward Griffith, Mr. DeMille with “The Ten Commandments” and Mr. Griffith with “Intolerance” and “The Birth of a Nation.” Those then became the days of long trips for difficult scenes. The carpenters, bricklavers (when any bricks went into the buildings) and scene-shifters were on the job every minute. Later, circa 1925 America ciscovered the drawing room extraordinary, the hidden cocktail, the speakeasy and the gangster. Now the job of the location finder had become easier. It was the designer who was called up-

| on to spend the midnight hours in

creating more and more lavish and more and more unlivable sets. And as far as the speaks and | gangsters were concerned all the location man needed was a door with a peek-a-boo or the flat side of an office building with a fire escape preferred. Jimmie Cagney lean heavily on the metal trellis and pour hot lead at the cops. And when they died it was a nice fall. Those were easy days. Coincidentally they were also the days of the depression, the first

| real labor disputes, closed movie-

houses and curtailed budgets. » ” » UT iately there have been signs of life. The epic seems

| to be stirring and with it the de-

mand for gigantic scenes, thousands instead of scores of extras, demands for big (I sad tregets and exotic land-

One location man few high above Mt. Whitney to spy out a “Gunga Din,” saw it,

it was perfect. casually That was about the 1875 variety of Apache Killer. These location men think

One picture recently

| nothing of diving into a sea of | card-indexes and coming up with | a | miles from Hollywood.

castle in Spain—about 16

This mountain-calling business

| also asked for about 100 miles | of

rugged Western country, stretching from the desert to the foot of lofty mountains, plus

AND A WOMAN'S SMILE BETWEEN ip, THIS ROBIN HOOD AND DEATH!

Braving all dangers... taking all comers... the rousing story of a hot-blooded adventurer in the turbulent country of young Australia... A saga of violent, virile excitement at magnificent in its sweep as it is powerhul in its dramal

with

Size Fibbers

a water hole in the foothills. Liou Shapiro is the location man for the producing studio. In just about as much time as it took him to drive straight there he'd found the place. The only trouble was—there was no real valley. Everything was desert, and there wasnt any water hole. That didnt present any real difficulty. They just built roads, drove the trucks in, dredged a water hole which had to be filled daily by tank wagon and then planted poplar trees and desert shrubbery.

2 * 2

HEY'RE just about through with “Beau Geste” now. The location for that picture is more than 150 miles from Hcllvwood. There were no problems in ¢ontour offered because most of the

picture is Sahara desert busi |

ness. But they built a good part of the fort out there and when it came time to blow it up they decided they might want to use it again some time so they blew up a model back at the home studio. As a matter of fact they should have thought about that a long time ago. It's true that Hollywood uses sets over and over again, disguising them by addition and subtraction. But when they started to make “Hollywood Cavalcade” they discovered they hadn't saved enough. Fortunately the biggest scene in the whole show will be a BabyIonian feast (after Griffith) and they have almost the whole set intact. Nobody knows why they saved it. It's several blocks big and you'd think it would be a white elephant. But they hung onto it, kicking it deeper and deeper into the dust in the back closet, until miraculousiy someone thought about making “Hollywood Cavalcade,” the picture that will tell the story of the film capital. So perhaps now theyll save some of these sets they're building, the same way a ocation man saves his mountains on little Soreps of paper in a filing cabinet.

ROONEY THE RANCHER

Mickey Rooney is going in for raising pinto ponies and sheep dogs on his ranch.

Are Stymied

Opening Tomorrow—

Casting Bureau Teletypes Cut Cost Thousands.

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 13.—“Lie detector” teletypes are being used now by Hollywood studios and Central Casting to save money in the salaries paid to extras furnished by the casting bureau. Much time and money has been wasted in recent years because an extra did not measure according to the specifications he furnished to the casting bureau. Many times a studio has needed a man with specific measurements. When he arrived at the studio it was found usually that he was bigger around the waist and shorter than the studio had bargained for.

Tough on Costumers

Costumes have had to be remade and sometimes a new individual or individuals obtained from the casting office. Movie Guild rules allow an extra quarter day’s pay for any time over | the 90 minutes allowed for a fitting.

LAST DAY! CIRCLL

NER LTT TNE

E<VIGTOR McLAGLEN

JUNE LANG * JONN CARRADINE * PAUL LUKAS * DOUGLASS DUMBRILLE GEORGE ZUCCO * VIRGINIA FIELD * and @ TREMENDOUS SUPPORTING CAST Directed by HAL ROACH * Screenplay by Grover Jones, Jack Jevne and William DeMill eeLeaSED PRHRU DNITED ARPISHS

Last Day

TARZAN FINDS

~ Daughters

PLUS THIS COMPANION FEATURE

‘PAREN

N TRI

JEAN PARKER ©

Ts AL §

JORNNY DOWNS

di, AIR FY

7 MIR hd

and Douglas Fowley. Directed by Alfred Werker.

he has come from a wild party.

the electric chair but nis wife believes him innocent and traces the real murderer,

freedom by Michael Fury.

Alamo

“Smiley” Burnette and his company. RB “SOUTHWARD, HO!” with Roy Rogers, Mary Hart and “Gabby” ayes. Roy Rogers is the, Civili War gallant and “Gabby” is his stooge. Zhey i] the enemy and the rustlers for their country and the lovely ary Hart.

ON STAGE: Directed by Joseph Kane.

Circle “SECOND FIDDLE,” with Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Ruby Vallee, Edna May Oliver and Mary Healy. Screen play by Harry Tugend. Directed by Sidney Lanfield. Music by Irving Berlin. Discovered in a nation-wide talent hunt, Sonja Henie becomes a movie sensation. A publicity love affair is faked between her and Rudy Vallee by Press Agent Tyrone Power. marries her after a chase to her home town.

Mr. Power finds he loves her and

HARPO MARX GETS

JULY 13, 1989

LOQUACIOUS—SURE

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, July 13.—~Harpo

Marx will whistle in his new film, “A Day at the Circus.”

be the closest he will come to talking with the exception of a sneeze.

This will

In the new picture Harpo plays,

in addition to his harp, every instrument in a circus band.

LAST DAY! E COOPER

JACKI “SPIRIT OF CULVER”

Plus Constance Bennett fn “BERRILY WE_LIVE”

“IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU,” with Stuart Erwin, Gloria Stuart

Screenplay by Allen Rivkin and Lou Breslow.

Stuart Erwin’s wife finds a dead woman in his car the morning after

Mr.

Loew’s

“CAPTAIN FURY,” with Brian Aherne, Victor MzLaglen and June Lang. Screen play by Grover Jones, Jack Jevne and William DeMille. Directed by Hal Roach. A group of English convicts brought to Australia are led to their He defeats the purpose of the rustling Arnold Trist and reveals his perfidy to the Governor of the Dominion.

“PARENTS ON TR:AL> with

The studio bill was running inte Screen play by J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater and Lambert Hillyer.

tens of thousands of dollars a year. | Directed by Sam Nelson.

When “Bachelor Mother” was|

Parental disapproval results in two young people eloping together.

Erwin is headed for conviction and

Jean Parker and Johnny Downs.

made the script called for her to be! They are captured after an anbulment but the judge scores the parents

amazed at the splendor of a New York hotel interior. The studio wanted tall men, because Miss Rogers couldn't be amazed at just ordinary people.

Nary a Runt in 200

Central Casting, with its new system, furnished 200 men, all over six feet with perfect waistlines, and not a had fit in the bunch. { Putting its new “lie detector” to work, the bureau measured each extra and then sent out a teletype to the studio with each person's specifications. The teletype read like this: JAMES SMITH. CH 42, W 38, P 35. SL: 20, N 17, Hat 7.

CAMERA 'DECEIVES' FUNHOUSE MIRRORS

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 13.—A complete set of convex and concave, mirrors used in a funhouse sequence | for “These Glamour Girls,” the latest Lew Ayers picture, will be filmed without showing the camera. | The chief difficulty has been in lighting the set so that the camera could be in the dark and not be photographed. Cameraman Ray June experimented three months with a miniature set before pro- | ducers okayed its use.

WESTLAKE

Louie Lowe's Orch.

{ | |

NOY o Nr

ANN oi.

INRENY

25¢ Until 6

Baloony

30¢ After 6

and puts the boy and girl on a year’s probation.

STARTS TOMORROW—25c¢ till 6

J pol COLLIN ss

[Cool CNX) 564

On Screen 10:15-1:12-4:09-7:06-10:03

“Rose of Washington Square”

Also at 11:50, 2:47, 5:44, 8:41,

Vor: “LUCKY NIGHT"

LOY

LAST Louis-Galento Fight

James Stewart—Joan Crawford

“ICE FOLLIES OF 1939”

ww Oan’t Get Away With Murder’ . Hall = “Mandrake, the Magician”

TOMORROW-—IN PERSON SMILEY (FROG)

[BURNETTE|

RUDY

+ OL

MARY HEALY LYLE TALBOT ALAN DINEHART

Directed by Sidney Lanfield Associate Producer Gene Markey Seraen Flay by Harry Tupand Based on @ story by

Bradshaw

A 20th Century-Fox Picture Darryl F. Zanuck i Charge of Predusiion

EDNA MAY

skating her

EAST SIDE

ELT NA { RE : Cary PW Arthue

“ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS”

“JONES FAMILY IN HOLLYWOOD”

Edw Robinson==Franecis Ladoree “CO ONFESSIONS OF A NAZI 8 res. BA fog PATA ne, ie “KR PEE" A ANGELS HAV WINGS”

irs ¢ VCNASING DANGER" Prema Sten “EXILE EXPRESS’

IRVING

“I'M FROM M “PERSONS IN HIDING”

TACOMA “Hifi Wendy Barrie "SAINT

IKE K" ‘ aLERS Preston F CBI. AIR COND SAA

Wash. St. ™ Wh Burns

TUXEDO EAE

“RETURN OF THE ALD Kip» “KING OF THE UNDERWORLD"

Pa a “THE GREAT

E. Was h a ~ Jersey

olph Scott

BELMONT

% WI 11

STARTS TOMORROW—

~~ WEST SIDE ~~ Belmont and Wash. Priscilla Lane BROTHER Nahe Morris Anh o Shirky “SORORITY HOUSE” CooL. Westinghouse ie-Condtiomed \A/ Moloh i TR st. NE DAISY * Doren. Sonehe RF”

ING OF TU ‘Ruggles “BOY TROUBLE” __

Sp pty Sits, Speedway Wii, ji " Yoiee SPY “ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS”

SOUTH SIDE

TTT

Preston Foster=Irene hervey “30CIETY SMUGGLERS” EE al om

ORIENTAL

Geo. Raft—Ellen Drew

“LADY'S FROM KENTUCKY”

"SILVER oN me SAGE”

Chas.

Fah

Myrna Loy—Robt. Taylor “LUCKY NIGHT” Lee Tracy "FIXER DUGAN" a

For Your Favorite Pictures Read The Times Neighborhood Programs

sensational tango with a partner for the first time on

LTR LLY

NORTH SIDE 1 Na AEE FREE PARKING

HELD OVER!

Don Ameche—Loretta Youn “ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL” “EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN” ~ TE ~ 16th & Delaware CINEMA Wallace Beery Tom NIT rown RGEANT MADDE “LADY '§ FROM KENTUCKY"

Bing Crosby—Joan Blondell

“EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN" “WITHIN THE LAW”

UPTOWN e Oberon—David Niven “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”

Also “DARK RAPTURE”

42ND AND COLLEGE

Bing Crosby—Joan Blondell oh “EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN”

~ Central Pn Fall Crk. ZAR Joan Crawford James Stewart “ICE FOLLIES OF 1039" Bice Faye —Tallipin”

TALBOTT cifinme 1

t at 224 iy Luchaire “PRISON WITHOUT TBA 8 “ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS” COOL~Westinghouse Air-Conditioned