Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1939 — Page 17
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The. o Biitbughs ‘Schools lof. Music an Jperetta, “Twilight S. Henry Backus and Paul Bliss, at 7:45 .o’clock tonight at Garfield Park Open "Air Theater. “The operetta is the ‘story of ‘the fizht of a tenant family of the Old PE against “Black Bogie,” the smoke pall. It is presented with the approval of the. Smoke Abatem: nt Commission, [Participants aie members of the Schools’ Junior Concert Choir, represented by a company of 40. - Leading parts will be taken by Charlene Cloré, a recent winner on the - William H. Block Co. High School Hour, Jo Ellen Burroughs and Harold Bryant. Jane Johnson Burroughs is direct-
ing the music and Hal Hawks the] dramatic, portions of. the presenta-|
tion. Hilton to Write Crone Sisters
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. HOLLYWOOD, | July 28. James ton, author of “Goodbye, Mr.
“Chips,” will write a movie adapta-|
tion of “Devotion,” a story of the Bronte sisters, for Warner Bros. Featured stars will be Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Olivia de Havilland as the sisters, Claude Rains and Jeffrey Lynn. "Edmund Goulding, now: directing “We Are Not Alone,” another Hilton story, will handle the, megaphone. |
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Dias and Diane are now ‘playing an engagement at the Golding Showboat at Riverside ment Park. John Dias made his debut as supporting male dancer to the premiere danseuse at the Paris Opera. Phoebe Diane, a New Yorker, had her first engagement with the San Carlos Opera Company. They give two performances nightly.
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"HOLLYWQOD, July ‘28 .(U. B.). ~Many actors have: used unusual methods to come to Hollywood, but David Niven enjoys:the distinction of having been the only: man who ever crashed Hollywood aboard a
| British battleship.-
And most of his ‘life has been
! just as unusual.
The son of a Scotts general, David resigned his British Army com-
| mission after two years at Malta to .| become a Canadian lumberjack.
' He stopped off in' New York to inquire about a newspaper job and went to the.only hotel whose name he could remember, the WaldoriAstoria. It was not until nine days later that he learned he could- not afford to move out. delegation of four Chinese called upon him about his laundry bill, David ‘made ‘a deal to work it out, thereby becoming the first Wal-dorf-Astoria guest whose occupation was working in a Chinese laundry.
‘Duped on Check
David got a job as Manhattan representative of a London wine) merchant and finally paid his hotel bill, but he lost his job when.he was duped ‘into delivering 50 cases of champagne to a faked address and accepting a: worthless check as payment. He then went to Cuba for a rest and unwittingly became connected with a gun-running scheme; had to leave hurriedly oh the first boat] and caught a Japanese tramp ship bound for England, by the long route. When he went ashore at Cristobal, he boarded a Chinese steamer. by mistake pnd arrived in San Francisco. - - There he met an old friend who took him to Santa Barbara for'a few days. And when H. M. S. Norfolk dropped anchor there during a West Coast cruise he went aboard to renew some acquaintances he had made in Malta, but he stayed aboard too long and was still there when the Norfalk sailed. Eats, Signs Up The following day off San Pedro, the Norfolk stopped beside a replica of the H. M. S. Bounty made for the film “Mutiny ‘on the Bounty.” Because David was aboard the British warship, Hollywood hospitality included him in a dinner -invitation that night. There David met Producer Samuel Goldwyn, who suggested he takes a screen test, which was followed by a seven-year contract. His latest picture is with Ginger Rogers in “Little Mother,” the first in which he wins and keeps the girl, a welcome change, says Mr. Niven, who is growing tired of los-
ture all over the country?
right here in my pocket, of course.
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‘the sound track the remaining
feet. The job is done by a cutter.
ing the heroine to the other man.
Bette Davis Always Comes i in ‘Handy ve When The : Figuring, i Be | Done
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or would you like the prospect of sitting around and waiting
1178. years to se¢ Bette Davis in
her’ latest picture?
No kidding.’ Thete are; by the latest count, 16,251 theaters.in the
United States. They have a seating
capacity of 9,837,325. Now, ob-
viously, everybody can’t see Bette, Davis at the same time in the same picture. And if they had only one print of, say, “The Old Maid,” it
‘actually would take more than 178 years to finish its tour of the coun-
try, allowing a four-day run at each spot.
The point of all this windup is: How does Hollywood do it? What's the trick in showing the same pic-
I pose the question so confidently because I have the answer
The answer is, naturally, multiple prints. How many? As many as 200 if it’s an important picture. . : ; : hah ” ” ! FTER they get through shooting a picture in Hollywood, the rolls of film are developed. There are two rolls—one of them the celluloid that records . the photographic images: the other the sound track. The two are printed, one superimposed on the other. The picture occupies about ° four-fifths of this final negative
fifth.
_FTER the prints. get to a lo- . "cal distributor, they are
leased to the movie theaters. Harold Stevens, Paramount exchange head here, says he gets about 16 prints of a film the caliber of “Man About Town,” about : six “Hopalong Cassidy” pictures. These furnish thrills, chills and raptures to the. citizenry of Indiana and Kentucky.
When the print ‘is “through” it’s junked, he said. The prin-
«cipal . junkers are = silver - mer«chants, who take off the silver ~emulsion that’s on every print.
What's left’ goes to manufac-
turers of synthetic articles like "combs ‘and the backs of brushes.
Mr. Stevens says he once saw
a rubber raincoat that used to be fii Garbo in “Flesh and the evil.
From this negative they make the positive print. Original positives are often from 30,000 to 40,000 feet long. These have to be trimmed to about 6000 or 7000
Trust Hollywood to call them film editors. . As the editing proceeds, the producer, the director A and- their various atds have daily screenings to. see how the cutting is coming along’ The objective is perfect continuity. When they're through with ‘the positive print, the exhibition prints are made... These are the ones that will keep Bette Davis from becoming: a walking ghost. The 200 prints are made for a picture as important as “The Old
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WHEN DOES IT START?
“The Magnificent Fraud,” Akim' Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland and Patricia Nolan at 12:05, :38, 5:11, 7:44 and 10:17, “Million Dollar Legs,” with Bett; Grable and Jackie Coogan at id 1:33, 4:06, 6:39 and 9:12.
CIRCLE “Bachelor Mother,” with Gi
Rogers, David Niven. and Char Capua, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and
“Career,” with Edward Ellis, Anne Shirley, Alice Eden and John Archer, at 12:30, 3:20, 6:1¢ and 9.
LOEW'S
._ “On Borrowed Ll with Lionel . Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sob Watson, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50
an “Good _ Girls’ Go to Paris,” with Melvyn Bn. Doy Jas Joan Biongeil, en alter Connolly, 2:15, 5:26 and 8:35. y 25 11,05
Maid.” With lesser pictures there '
may be less than 1C0. 2 #2 2
HE positive print is heavily insured and sent to New York to be packed in heavy, steel, fireproof vaults. Warner Bros. and First National, for example, have about. 5000 such “masterpieces”
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just sitting around awaiting the day when they shall be called back to the living again and hailed, perhaps, as example of a cruder past. Need I mention Rudolph Valentino! But to get back to the story. Each individual exhibition print is inspected, in her own private projection booth, by a girl operator, who looks for imperfections like scars or scratches. When that job’s finished, the reels are packed separately in wooden boxes and shipped to one of about 30 film exchanges each major company has around the country. Usually, they go by fast freight. When theyre in a. hurry, they fly ‘em.
DRAMA
Broadway Producer Offers to Do \* Lincoln Play Here When Sélected
By JAMES THRASHER
THEN Indianapolis had a “world premiere” of an important play in the past spring’s opening of “No Time for Comedy,” it seemed an isolated red-lettér occasion. For plays open in Indianapolis about as often as Mars comes within hailing distance of the earth.
The way things stand now, however, it appears that next season should bring us a first night to put the Behrman-Cornell collaboration in the shade. For the Southwestern Indiana Civic Association has received an offer from a Broadway producer to do the society’s new Lincoln play (as yet unselected) here somecime in 1939-40. oh Perhaps you had forgotten the Civic Asscciation’s play ~competition, announced on this page some 18 months ago. But the sponsoring society hadn’t, nor had 117 playwrights who submitted manuscripts. Three judges, Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann, - chairman, of Rockport; William Fortune of Indianapolis and Karl K. Knecht, theatrical writer for the Evansville Courier, have narrowed the field of 117 down to 16. There they are stuck. -Mrs. Ehrmann staved, in a' recent letter to Ernest Owen, Civic Association secretary, that any one of the 16 “is superior to ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois’ by Robert E. Sherwood, the Federal Theatér’s ‘Prologue to Glory’ or the movie, ‘Young Mr. Lincoln.” Qverly enthusiastic, perhaps, but promising. At any rate, when the: final selection is made, the unnamed producer is willing to assemble a New York cast, he says, open the play in Indianapolis, take it to ' Evansville and Cincinnati and thence to Broadway. The sponsors are So confident
chance that better offers may de-
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"R. Owen, ‘who handled the publicity, has done 3g yeoman job. He sent out 7000 copies of the contest’s rules, in response to requests from such distant
points as France, England, the |
British West Indies and Alaska. In all, Mr. Owen estimates he sent out about 8000 pieces vf publicity, ahd succeeded in gatting space in newspapers all over the United States and in London, Manchester and Liverpool. Co-sponsors with the Southwestern Indiana Civic Association in the play contest are several local historical ‘societies in In-: diana’s “Lincoln country,” -and the Boonville Press Cluh. The contest’s aim is to provide a dramatic remedy for the neglect accorded Lincoln’s Indiana years. To the winning dramatist will go not only the satisfaction of breaking new artistic ground, but a $1000 prize as well—plus the
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TODAY! ROBERT MONTGOMERY ¥FIRST HUNDRED YEARS”
Joe E. Brown “FIT FOR A KING” SUNDAY! “UNION IN._PACIFIC"
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with romantic ideas— and with a baby she had found on a doorstep! . . . what a spot for a girl—and what roles for Ginger and David! You'll laugh. as ‘long as your glowing heart will let you! siden
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hall, will climax screen comebacks in Deanna Durbin’s latest picture, “Pirst Love.” Miss- Joy was one of Hollywood's top stars when she retired in 1929.|
Mr. Muthall never retired from
HOLLYWOOD, July 28.—~Two old-| timers, Leatrice Joy and Jack Mul-|
She has done no picture work since. |"
the comeback trail.
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And these are just a few of the surprises that go to make the hilarious fun and jarring climaxes in MGM’s adaptation. of the Prize stage play that kept Broad-. way roaring and cheering for 40 weeks. We think it will rank with the first of, the ten best pictures of 1939.,
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