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TUESDAY, JULY 18 1939

NEW DAILY STORE HOURS—9:30 AM. TO5P. M. Saturday; 9:30 A. M. to 6 P.M.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MAYBE IT'S ALL IN THE COIFFURE

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By HARRY MORRISON

Vocoder, New Voice Machine, Reproduces Tones at You Will

MOVIES

T'S too bad the Vocoder wasn't invented about 10 years ago. If it had been we'd have been able to enjoy John Gilbert for a few more years and the beauty of Gloria Swanson would have stayed with us— without the raspiness that was her voice. This week in Hollywood a couple of young men fussed about the controls of a machine, the dimensions and shape of which no amount of prying has been able to disclose. But when one of them, Charles Vadersen, a co-inventor, was satisfied, he sang “How Dry I Am” into it. Then he manipulated a few buttons, cocked an ear, and out popped the voices of a trio singing the same song. We hear that an extensive search produced no phonograph records, no sound track, no disappearing doors, no mirrors and

how Vocoder works. Its purpose is to analyze a voice and divide it into its component parts, then discard the bad parts, which oan either be eliminated, altered or replaced. When they put it on the market I'd like to install one near my telephone. If the girls can resist a voice combination of Ronald Colman, George Brent and Spenno Charlie McCarthy. cer Tracy, they can have their The exhibition continued. Mr. | Vocoder back. Vadersen spoke the words to ht ® 4 “The Bells of St. Mary's” while a The Colonial Theater in Laconia, pipe organ recording of the same | NH, seats 1230 persons. Its curwas played into the machine. ATter | paps offering includes tickets on a few hesitant gulps Vocoder (We | an electric refrigerator and an prefer to refer to it as a human) | electric range, an auction on the gave out with a pipe organ solo | stage and a children’s stage show with Mr. Vadersen's voice inflec- | with a troop of Hopi Indians. tions. The house also offers movies for Mr. Vadersen's normal voice | those who wish to see them. sung into Vocoder returned at a > 9 ® > frequency of 300 vibrations a sec- There's been great gnashing of ond, a pitch above a coloratura so- | teath on the West Coast, says this prano. Then it was successively | morning's mail, as to who was gOlowered until it became a quaver- | ing to win, the blonds or the bru=ing old man. nets. Joan Bennett has always A trick effect was procured by | been a demure little blond. When reversing the pitch control: When | she turned brunet for “Trade Mr. Vadersen sang an ascending | Winds” the blonds got a setback scale it came out as a descending | from which they've never fully rescale, covered. Then Hedy Lamarr proved not to be a flash-in-the-pan. At least she married Gene Markey and settled down to making a good picture and a floperoo. That's batting 500 and that's not bad in the West Coast binglers. And Hedy was, and is, a sultry brunet. The girls were frantic, we are led to believe. Something had to be done. Miss Bannett did it. | She remained brunet but died a streak of blond down each side, from hairline to hairline.

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Dorothy Winer, Leona Teier, Jerry Mary Jane Back and Ruby Roland. Winners and runnersup at the elimination contests will meet in semifinals and finals Aug. 7 and 9. “Miss Indianapolis” will compete for the title of “Miss Indiana” and if successful, will go to Holly= wood and be given a screen test and a new Dodge auto. The Dodge Motor Car Co. will hold an allDodge Parade of Beauties July 28 in connection with the contest. If unsuccessful “Miss 1 adianapolis” a trip to the New York World's Fair.

Joan LaRue

The question bothering Hollywood most today is being answered locally at the Fountain Square Theater every Wednesday night. The question is: Do gentiemen actually prefer blonds? The answer so far has shown a preponderance of brunet winners in the Fountain Square's “Miss Indianapolis” contest eliminations, Miss Jean LaRue, however (deft), won the second elimination held July 5. Miss Margaret Ann Vogue (right) is entered in the July 26 alimination. Entrants for the elimination to be held tomorrow night at the theater include Misses Wanda Spurs geon, Jean Carr, Sarah Milto, Margaret Chamberlin, Local merchants aie offering additional Prizes.

New Movie [BLUENOTEIS 42 Guild Geography Thrill Due SECONDS LONG! ~o5tly to Studios

Timer Special 18 (U.P) =

Ann Motley,

will be given

8 » ® Vocoder was developed as & means for studyving and simpli fying telephonic communications. Then it was discovered that these trick effects could be attained and someone got the bright idea of using it to buck up aging voices or to make a voice where there had been none before. The immediate thought wasone | that has been Iving dormant | Now, wait a minute, you don't many years. Now it will be possi- | have to believe that. I don't. ble, it is hoped, to make a picture - se on the life of Enarico i " Nb Akin Tamiroff started his] “ { American film career as the gen-

The difficulty in screening the | oy 3 i biography of the great tenor has Mn Te Po i he always been the lack of anyone Joan Arthur He pl Ah Aa who could even approach the Nasty roles a Jong time because he greatness of Mr. Caruso. was adept at makeup. You saw Now it will be possible, con- | him in “Union Pacific” and he'll ceivably, to get some competent play five parts in “The Magnifiactor t¢ re-anact the role. When | cent Fraud.” soon to come.

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HOLLYWOOD, ly 18-—Mar ye y HOLLYWOOD, July

| Aadionies to Gt to Get Sensation Healy Con DOM 3 BRR POW WBD/ The Screen Actors Guild decided toseconds. day that Sonora and Santa Cruz, Of Parachute Jump. But it's not as silly as all that. Cal, two of the favorite spots for

Studio chieftains were trying to | saacoast and mountain movie loca tions, are within 300 miles of Hol-

determine how long a blue Note) owood. The decision Will oost could be held before it wore on the studios some $22.000. merves of listeners. | Under an agreement, the studios A jury of “experts,” that is Per- must hire Hollywood extras for all sons with no feelings about blues Jocations within a 300-mile radius, | either way, held stop watches on |or pay “standby” wages to extras § Miss Healy. They determined that if they employ natives at the scene. 30 seconds was all they could stand | The studios have always regarded without being uncomfortable, but | the 300 miles as by highway, but the [Guild decided to use air mileage instead. Since the decision is retroactive, it was reported that Warner Bros. must pay $4000, Metro-Goldwyn=

Times Special HOLLYWQOD, July 18.-If you've been contemplating doing a delayed parachute wait a few months and let the movies do it for you. Movie audiences seeing “Eternally Yours,” the Loretta Young-David Niven film now before the cameras, will be treated to the thrill of diving headlong toward the New York Miss Healy coniinued to the record. World's Fair from an airplane 18,000 AAAS feet high. The parachute which they carrying will open and they

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the time comes for the tenor to

But vou won't recognize him in

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take the stage he merely talks the words into Vocoder and out they come as Enrico would have sung them. Your happy thought for today: All right, bovs, don’t get hysterical and make him greater than he was. » 4 5 Of course there will be other uses for Vocoder. Young voices can be aged for screen purposes and an animal can be given human voices but with the animal's “inflections” as he acts his role. There's no use trying to tell

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UNDERCOVER DOCTOR SRR

“Are Husbands Necessary.” He'll look almost lik? himself. That will be the first difficulty. He'll have a bit part, that of a window washsr. He won't get billing which 4s ham-and-eggs to a lot of those refugees from Broadway flops you see in the flicks. He asked for it himself. He pleaded for it. He said it would help the picture, that he could do it better than anyone else. That may sound like the old publicity to some people. But maybe not if you know that Mr, Pamiroff is a graduate of the | Moscow Art Theater, the place | where the middle word of the title isn't a gag.

‘Woodmen to Give 10-Hour Program

Producer Walter Wanger has sent a camera crew with two airplanes to| New York to film a delayed-opening parachute jump into a bay near the Fair. A special camera has made and encased, with its motor, and a time-clock, inside a cork Vi rubber box. The equipment will be fastened to the parachute ee) and will take the place of a jumper. It will record the gyrations ordinarilv made by a human body iramedi=ately after a jump, the sudden jerk | as the parachute takes hold and the final gentle fall to earth. The time-clock will pull the rip-

airplane. When the box strikes the water a heavy glass plate will close over the lens. The box then

tector for the camera and the exposed film. The camera is so rigged that when!

A 10-hour program of music, | | dancing and variety, lold-time fiddlers contest, will be | Fair, and the water where the jump presented from 2 p. m. to midnight | will end. Saturday at Tomlinson Hall by A —————————— Pioneer Camp No. 1, Woodmen of '‘CUSTOMERS' PAID

the World.

becomes a floating, waterproof pro-|

HOLLYWOOD, July 18 (U. P.)= Mayer $18.000 for the pictures]

been | be named Davey.

[their

|the parachute opens the lens re-| featuring an cords a panorama of the earth, the

Mrs. George O'Brien, the former | Marguerite Churchill of the movies, and her nine-paund baby boy were in excellent condition today. The cowboy actor said the boy would The O'Briens ‘have another child, Oran, a S-year-[old girl.

BETTY WARNER WEDS

“Dodge City” Fight.”

ONE FILM NOISE

and “Stand Up and

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DOESN'T BOTHER

HCLLYWOOD, July 18—All this

| Timer Special | |

talk about noises from airplanes | ruining studio shots goes right over!

HOLLYWOOD, July 18 (U. P).—-| Director Malcolm St. Clair’s head. |

[Betty May Warner, daughter of

Movie Producer Harry M. Warner, | | wood Cavalcade.”

Mr, St. Clair is working on “Holly the story of the

and Milton Sperling, a writer at] ‘growth of the motion picture busi

20th Centwiy-Fox Studio, were on ness. The two of the two-reelers made famous by | cord of the parachute 25 seconds ware married by the Rabbi Maxwell Mack Sennett two decades ago. after the drop is made from the! Dubin night before last.

honeymoon today.

At present he is directing one

They are silent pictures.

TEAM UP IN

‘SWEEPSTAKES

The afternoon will be devoted 10] pagple were paid to watch a good

vaudeville acts, with about 25 Per- | football game the other day. U. S.

test is scheduled from 7 to 9 p. m. | uniforms and clashed in the Rose test between exponents of the | LLC REO APOLLO 12 ana —— 22, 6:08 and Tex Ritter, “Sundown on the TES. Power and Rudy: gies at Ry Could tar Erwin an Sletla Stuart, at “Capt Fury, Brian “Parents on RA 3 with Ee "Par.

sons taking part. The fiddlers con iC. squads and some pros put on! Fifteen contestants are entered. At 10 o'clock, there will be a con- Quarterback.” {square dance and modern “jitter- | bugs.” es | WHEN DOES IT START? “Man About Town,” with Jack Cary Grant—Jean Arthur Bony, and “Rochester,” at 11, 1:44, " : “ONLY ANGELS NAVE WINGS RE nis ISS. with 3. Gar Jones Family, “IN ROLLYWOOD™ [| 5ol Naish and Llovd Nolan, at 12:38, a set, { 8:50. Cool ALAMO] CIRCLE Wallace Beery, “SERGEANT MADDEN “Second Fiddle,” with Sonja Henie, Warren Hull, “Mandrake, the Magician’ 4:40 7:30 and 1 Hap to — » with 2:35, 8:30, 6:20 and 9 SORES ain with Aherne Victor Mera len and June Lang, at 12:40, 50 a 9:55. ker and Joanny Downs at 11:35, 2:40, 5:45 and 8 50.

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Johnny “Scat” Davis and Marie Wilson, appearing this week in “Sweepstakes Winner” at the Rivoli Theater,

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Stars Are Sore After Ball Game

HOLLYWOOD, July July 18 (U. P).— Several Hollywood stars were nursing arms and legs today after a hilarious contest modestly called “The World's Greatest Baseball Game.” It was the annual benefit affair for Mount Sinai Hospital and Clinic between the leading men and comedians. The comedians drove in eight runs in the second inning and the leading men retired Pitcher Richard Arlen. The exhibition broke up in the fifth inning with the comedians leading 10 to 5. Preston Foster was playing manager for the “heavies” and Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durante for the funny men.

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