Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1939 — Page 16
Shirley Ross, Mischa, Auer and Dennis O'Keefe (left to Hghy are each Suspicious of the other in “Unexpected Father” jsoming Friday to the Apollo.
~ Florey Has Extra Woe
| ‘Magnificent Fraud' Chief Vows ‘Amateur’ Finis.
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Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 19.—Director
Robert Florey of “The Magnificent §
Fraud, ” was home today . after
of ~shooting its final scenes, he vowed §
he was through using “amateurs” as extras. The Screen Actor’s Guild allows
' the use of amateurs on locations | - more than 300 miles from Holly-|;
wood. It’ has been cheaper to use individuals and crowds from the location rather than extras from Central Casting, whose prices are fixed. There is also the cost of transportation. Troubles on the set have fixed Mr. Florey’s determination, he said.
Cut! Cut!
While shooting a scene in which the dead President is supposed to be taking his last ride to the cemetery, the director instructed the extras to remove their hats as the hearse went by. He started the scene and all went well until one person—he was in the front row—kept his hat on. Mr. _ Florsy cut the take and asked the man if he'd misunderstood his directions. : ; “No!” the man shouted, “I won’t ~—take my hat off to any president— dead or alive. Down with tyrants!” He stalked off the set. The assistant director, Chico Alonzo, got the crowd quiet by explaining the President was beloved, like Simon Bolivar, and a benéfactor. This brought a cheer. Later, they were filming closeups to catch the grief of the people at the death of their beloved. He chose’ a lovely young girl and told her to bow her head and look sad.
Another Affair?
“I can’t,” she said, “I love Chico.” - Mr. Florey recalled the trouble a fellow director, Cecil B. DeMille, had with the Indians he used in “Union Pacific.” “Before they had even started shooting,” he said, “the Indians they were using—real ones from that part of the country—went out on strike. _ “When they finally got started they made a very realistic charge and some of them fell off their horses.- Then they asked for more money because some of them were getting hurt.” . Later in a mock battle they liked sheoting the guns so much they wouldn’t quit when the time came. They used all the ammunition on location and Mr. DeMille had to hold up shooting until some more could be obtained.
SENNETT IS PLAYING ROLE IN NEW MOVIE
HOLLYWOOD, July 19 (U. P).— Mack Sennett, the comedy king of the custard pie-throwing era, who started Gloria Swanson toward fame when he hired her as a bathing beauty, was at work today as an actor. Mr. Sennett wore grease paint for the first time in 22 years. He is taking a role in a picture at 20th Century-Fox Studios dealing with the history and growth of motion pictures. He also is technical adviser of the picture.
JUDY NOW: TEACHER
Judy Garland, who learned the art a month ago, is teaching Betty Jaynes to embroider, between scenes of “Babes in Arms.”
WHEN" DOES IT START? J APOLLO
“Man About Town,” with Jack Benny and Rochester. * at. 11] 1:44, 4:28, 7:12 and 9:56.
‘Undercover Doctor, * with J. CaroN Naish and ao Nolan, at 12:38. 6:06 and 8 CLE
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MOVIES Help, Help,
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By HARRY MORRISON Mr. Farley, Take a Look
IE been left- jabbing at the movie press agents for weeks but I'm For every left jab 4 get a solid right hook in
still on the ropes. the next mail.
And seeing that the boys are all ganging up on big Jim Farley I I can’t gather any reason for being
see no reason for staying out of it. a gentleman about it, either. It’s time somebody called him for letting those Hollywood typewriter assassing get awdy with the murder they do. They've been passing everything but Baby Sandy's first tooth through Jim's mails. If youll excuse me a minute, another batch of Farley’s Follies from Follywood just came in and I think I'll see what the lovely word from Shangri-La is this morning . . . (denotes passing of time. Suggest you read Of Time and The River while I digest this first batch of West Coast witti--cisms). You can reread Of Time, etc. while I get a surgeon to withdraw Rin-Tin-Tin’s great grandson's baby incisor from under my thumnail. It was enclosed with some publicity saying that the pooch was acting as a stand-in and offstage bark for George Raft’s seal. I suppose the picture will be called “After the Bark, What?” or “The Bite That Failed.” ™ See, Mr. Farley!
Look what you've let ’em do to Miriam Hepkins, Mr. PF. I pick up a special delivery. What comes out? This “Miriam Hopkins has become $0 interested in the current international situation that she has each edition of each Los Angeles and Hollywood daily paper delivered to the set of ‘The Ofd Maid'.” Jim, I warn you, I'm off to the Foreign Legion! » ® 8 I'm really thinking of suing you, Mr. Postmaster General.. I wanna ‘be prosecutor. I'll get you on the stand. And then we'll use a script like this Scene: Courtroom. Players: Me and you.’ Me: One question, Mr. Postmaster General. Do you know positively that Wayne Morris loves his wife’s cooking so much he doesn’t wait to take the grease paint off his face before leaving the Studio?
| Plus! Jas. Stewart “Of Human Hearts”
Plus ‘PARENTS ON
if you don’t watch this stuff, we'll run you for Vice President.
What? 5 You heard me. Do they really send that
You: Me: You: out? Me: Answer yes or no. You: All I can say is that it wasn’t paint, it was his wife. Me: And do you know posiy tively that Bob Hope thinks ifs funny when his Great Dane playfully bites him? You: Hope springs eternal from the Great Dane's jest! Morrison faints. 8 8 8 All I've got to say, Mr. Farley, is
“Sandy” Henville hasn’t a care in the world, not even as how to
get down,
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By PAUL HARRISON
She's Just Like Hedy, Greta and Myrna? ~ Sorry, Bud, We Can't Use Her, Says Chief
Ho rvoon, July 19.—Short takes: A producer of cheapie westerns has been obliged to pay local Indians $8.50 to work in character before his camera. But he got a bright idea for a new flicker— he’d pay them only $4.25 a day and make ‘em a band of half-breeds. And then there was the enthusiastic agent who was trying to sell a budding glamorist to a big studio. “She’s got the eyes of Hedy Lamarr, the mouth of Alice Fayne, the figure of Ann Sheridan.” he told
the executive. like Ginger Ro—”’ “I couldn’t use her,” squelched the movie-maker. “If all those things are true, the girl's got no individuality!” Central Casting,
the agency
| through which all atmosphere and
most bit players are hired, is a constant target for disgruntled charges of neglect and favoritism from some of the thousands of eéxtras who don’t get enough work. And sometimes actual threats are made over the telephone: “Some
-of us guys will come down there
and clean out the joint,” or “I'll kill myself—or somebody—if I don’t get a job today.” . . . So now the nonprofit, co-operative agency, which already has sevéral marvelous electric contraptions to increase its efficiency, has installed a recording machine which can be switched on to preserve such threats. The records are being filed for possible future evidence. 2 2 8. LARK and Carole Gable finally got away on that delayed honeymoon, and headed for Del Monte. But they'll swing right back to their valley ranch, clip the telephone wires, and resume
their cherished chores of paint-
ing and planting and remodeling. « « « It may not mean anything more than business talk about community property, but Lew Ayres and Ginger Rogers have been dining together lately. Adrienne Ames is discouraged and disgusted with Hollywood, which wouldn't give her a fair chance to resume her career. So she’s selling everything and will live and make pictures in England. , . . 20th Century-Fox has dropped the “Mr. Moto” series because, though every effort was
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made to show the principal character simply as an Oriental, too many fans remember that he originaly was a Japanese. This may bring a break for Peter Lorre, who too long has been out of good roles in top-notch pictures. Realty note: An office building in Glendale has been purchased, for $60,000 cash, by Ben Turpin, When a minor illness took Bette Davis out of “The Lady and the Knight” for a few days, another actress said to a group of people at luncheon. “That worry Warners. If they’d let me, I could take her place.” “Oh—you mean in the hospital?” asked a listener.
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FF oiaANAroLIs is a very polite city. but it ought to take Better care
of its change.
That is the consensus of opinion of its neighborhood theater cashiers.
_ A neighborhood theater manager recently said a cashiér had the |
hardest job in the business, principally because she met all the custo-
mers and most of their questions. On the basis of that we asked a
- number of neighborhood cashiers
what’ their favorite customer
bugaboo was.
Without exception they said the customer was not only right, by custom, but polite and considerate. There were some exceptions in individual cases, but they were all excused on the grounds of the weather. {
One cashier said, “I get along fine until someone leaves change on the counter. No matter how - hard I tap, he thinks I'm tapping for someone else.
“No, we don’t make any money that way. ‘The’ customer usually comes back for it sooner or later and we get to be pretty good at remembering faces. Most always, though, we catch him right away.”.
Another one said, “The thing I can’t stand is a customer coming up to the window and :0t telling me how many seats he wants.” One fiery little girl declared, “I can keep sweet all day long until a customer comes along and just looks at me. He doesn’t say anything, he doesn’t put his money under the glass, he just looks. I guess you're supposed to be a mind reader. Sometimes I think they’ll go away, but they don't.”
Of course cashiers are human
just like all the rest of us. They have their foibles like the one that didn’t like to answer what seemed to be a most plausible question. Said she, “I can get along fine until there’s a little crowd and customers start asking me if there are any seats. Then I blow up. “Yes,” she said, “I know it's silly. But there isn’t anything I ‘can do about it.” They all said they didn’t have any trouble making change fast, and they rarely made a mistake. They have those change-makers. All they have to do is figure how much change should be returned and press those keys. Out comes the money. ” 2 2
T looks like all this talk about
westerns was ‘more than that.
For the first time in two years, according to Morris Cantor, manager, the Emerson will go western tomorrow for three days with “Blue Montana Skies.” A bunch of the patrons got together and ganged up on Mr. Cahtor with demands. Notes with one eye open; Earl Cunningham has been driving the wheels off that 1902 (count ’em) Reo he bought recently for carting his merchandising about the city. It’s a right-hand drive with more than 100,000 miles on it.
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in from Louisville. Claude Allison claims it’s the Strand neighborhood - atmosphere. Could there be a girl? . . . Don Wright, Rivoli. manager, points out the traffic policemen stationed near the’ theater for the kiddies’ Saturday matinee. He's also proud -of the bike-rack with its attendant and the matron inside: the theater— all for the youngsters. . . . Roy Perry, Oriental manager, will start something a little different with his Friday night “Lone Ranger” serial. It doesn’t commence until
Aug. 4 but when it does there'll
be that regular ice cream party for the girls and boys. . , . Harvey Orr, Speedway Theater manager, feels better already now that the Speedway Road, main artery to his theater, has been reopened. Je midweek calendar follows.: VALON—Tonight Dé Luxe”
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