Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1939 — Page 6

HOLLYWOOD By PAUL HARRISON

Tamiroff Lives Parts He Plays in Pictures

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 1. — An actor who believes in thor-

ough preparation for his roles is

Akim Tamiroff. He is almost as difficult as Mr. Paul Muni about refusing a part unless he can have the script weeks in advance so that he can get into the mood. "If Tamiroff is to play a surgeon, he calls up a distinguished doctor and arranges to watch some operations. If he is to play a violin, he

calls up Jascha Heifetz. Once he played a deaf mute, but not before he had hired a similarly afflicted news vendor to teach him the sign language. The actor couldn’t bear to invite criticism from mutes who would see the. picture. The other day Tamiroff stepped into the cast of “Are Husbands Necessary?” as a window washer. After memorizing all his lines he had gone down into Los Angeles to learn how to wash windows. He found an expert in an office building andr began to explain his mission: “L” he said, roff, and—" “Ha!” beamed the professional. “Welcome, comrade! I, too, am a Russian. I am Ivan Polotski. We are comrades!” “I am not here to talk about the politics,” said Tamiroff. “What I want—" : “So you are a White Russian!” sneered Mr. Polotski. “I am not the White Russian nor yet the Red Russian. I was born in Russia, yes, but now I am in America.” “You think I am not in America also?” demanded Mr. Polotski. “Yet I am a Russian. Maybe you are then a Trotskyist!” “My friend—" = “Now you talk like Roosevelt!” ~ “I do not talk like anybody. All I want to know is about washing windows.” - “Already I belong te one union,” said Ivan. “See, here it is—my card.” ; :

“am Akim Tami-

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AMIROFF decided to begin all over. He said, “I am not from any union. I do not belong to a’ union. I want gnly some informa-

> tion”

“So! snorted Polotski. “A spy of the interests! You think I would tell you my comrades? Go away from here!” “It is only that I am an actor,” said Tamiroff patiently. “I act in the movies. In my new piciure I must wash win—" “Pictures!” exclaimed the delighted Ivan. “Comrade, you have made a discovery; always I have wanted to act in pictures! I. go with you—" ; : “I am nbt discovering anybody. . I want you only to teach me how to wash windows and I will pay you well for it. This is because I must wash windows in this picture with Madeleine Carroll and Fred Mac—* “Madeleine Carroll?” J “Yes.” eb “Comrade,” said Mr. Polotski ~ earnestly, “the work is hard but the money is nothing. You can rest. Tomorrow afternoon I will come and wash Madeleine Carroll’s windows myself!” Tamiroff went to another office building and found a windowwasher named Callahan.

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ECENTLY the stocky actor had the role of a furgeon in “Disputed Passage,” and he practiced for it by watching Hollywood’s. popular Dr. Branch at work. Later Dr. Branch suparvised an operating room sequence at the studio. It was thoroughly realistic, with all the glittering equipment and even a crew of nurses from a hospital. They handed instruments to Tamiroff and stood by with clips, packings and the like. It was a long scene, and a tense one. During a moment’s lull, the white-gowned actor made a characteristic gesture of rubbing his nose. Instantly he got the surprise of his life—a sharp blow on the arm from one of the nurses. “Doctor!” she exclaimed, shocked at such a careless invitation to infection of the patient. The take was spoiled, of course, but by Tamiroff. After that, he remembered not to rub his nose.

Actors’ Group Granted Charter

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (U. P)— The American Federation of Actors was granted a charter today by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The Associated Actors and Artistes of America, with which the A. F. A. formerly "was affiliated, revoked the Federation’s charter July 14 and immediately chartered the American Guild of Variety Artists with Eddie Cantor’ as president to take its place. Sophie Tucker is president of the A. F. A. ~ Both the I. A. T. S. E. and the A. A. A. A. are affiliates of the American Federation of Labor.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

“The Magnificent Fraud,” with Akim Tamiroff. Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland and Patricia Nolan at 12:05, :38, 5:11, 7:44 and 10:17, ¢ “Million Dollar Legs,” with Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan at 11, 1:33, 4:06, 6:39 and 9:12.

CIRCLE

“Bachelor Mother,” with Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Charles Coburn, at 11. 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

:20. [ _ “Career,” with Edward Ellis, Anne Shirley, Alice Eden and John Archer, | at 12:30, 3:20. 6:10 and 9. LOEW'S

“On Borrowed Time,” with Lionel Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Bob Watson, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50

an 5 “Good Girls Go to Paris,” with Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Alan

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Helen Gilbert (left)’ is the very pretty young school teacher who captures Mickey Rooney’s heart in

“Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever,” at Loew’s Friday.

Ann Rutherford.

Mickey not only loves his teacher; he writes all his themes.

Not

only does he write all his themes and do his homework; he authors:

the winning drama.

MUSIC

Cincinnati

By JAMES THRASHER Bills Gladys Swarthout

For This Week—but Tickets Are Few

ODAY was the day to tell you about the lovely Gladys Swarthout’s Carmen at the Cincinnati Summer Opera.

This column was going to be a well-tempered combination of appreciation and analysis. In the presence of the vaunted Swarth-

.out beauty, the head was going to keep clear while the mind weighed’

the factors of histrionics, glamour and vocal excellence. There might even have been a philosophical reflection upon the trends of “oomph” in opera, thrown in for good measure. :

The trouble is, I didn’t get to.}

see “Carmen.” Ticksts for the Friday performance were ordered well ‘in advance; but the opera’s Mr. Rose wrote to say that all the reserved seats had been snapped up 10 days before. All that remained were a few catch-as-catch-can seats in the operatic equivalent of the center field bleachers.

The outlook for Miss Swarthout’s ‘appearances in the current and concluding: week of Cincinnati’s opera at the zoo is not much brighter. The dark-haired contralto is doing the title part in Thomas’ “Mignon” tonight and Saturday nights. In addition, the production will have James Mel #1 as Wilhelm Meister. No wonder, then, that “Mignon” ducats are going like hotcakes. In fact,’ the Swarthout-Melton combination threatens to outdraw Cincinnati's beloved Reds. So today there is nothing to do but chronicle the closing week's remaining offerings.” Mr. Melton and Rose Tentoni will be in two of them: “Madame Butterfly,” on Wednesday night, and “La Trav-

iata,” on Friday. Cast for Thurs-_|

day’s “Rigoletto” includes Lucille Meusel, Jan’ Peerce and Robert Weede.

Thus Cincinnati’s 18th summer of opera comes to an end. And doubtless the Metropolitan forces in New York are contemplating the attendance figures and balance sheet—and wondering how they do it. g » 8° \R. CLARENCE LOOMIS, the composer, will return to Indianapolis in September for, his first extended sfay since he resigned. from the Jordan Conservatory faculty more than three years ago.

" He reports that several pupils here have written to him, asking that he come back and give them some lessons. Accordingly, Dr. Loomis plans to open a studio in the fall; where and for how long will be made known later.

Dr. Loomis’ peregrinations since 1936 are familiar to most music followers here. He accepted ‘a commission from J. K. Lilly, wrote an opera (or musical play) based on Stephen Foster melodies; finished another work, a convention-

al opera after Poe’s “The Fall of

the House of Usher”; traveled and spent considerable time in Hollywood. ; Last year he found his way to New York, became connected with the new American Lyric’ Theater, and acquired a new libretto for the Foster work, written by Sarah Newmayer. This drama with music, or vice ‘versa, was titled “Susanna, Don’t You Cry,” and was produced in May. It was not a success. But it

should be added, in fairness to Dr.

ks Loomis, that almost all the critical

slings and arrows were aimed at the book, not the music. ” At present Dr. Loomis, an enthusiastic and devoted angler, is fishing at Drummond, Mich, where nothing less than fire or flood will be permitted to disturb him until the fall music season rolls around. That will: be time enough for harmony and counterpoint, composition and orchestration.

Conductor Hits Formal Clothes

TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 1 (U, P.). —North America will become the musical center of the world but not

until custom permits the retiring of cutaways and stiff shirts as concert costumes, Reginald Stewart said today. Mr. Stewart, Toronto Promenade Symphony Orchestra, said formal dress was musical culture’s worst enemy. v “It is bad for two reasons,” he said. “The man who can’t afford to sit in the front seats suffers from

a feeling of “inferiority because he

is not dres~ed up in a stiff shirt. The man who can afford the seats and wears the requisite clothes just

The emoter on the right is Mickey’s erstwhile girl,

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MOVIES

So Does

; In one of those “man-to-man” talks Mickey fells Judge Hardy that for the first time he’s really in love.. He wants to marry his

teacher. . &»

By HARRY MORRISON

Movies Mark Important Mile Post,

Hopalong Cassidy Boyd

JoLL¥ Woon makes movies. ' It also tries to sell its product, by

‘big buildups and little buildups.

Today we talk about a big

buildup, the Golden Jubilee, and a little buildup, Hopalong Cassidy

William Boyd’s fifth anniversary.

It now being 50 years since Thomas Edison pointed a somewhat grotesque box at Fred Ott, an employee, and recorded a celluloid

sneeze, this year's buildup will be in celebration of 50 years of motion pictures, titled “The Golden Jubilee.” :

Anyway, Paramount finds, by chance, a collosal tie-up between the Jubilee and their Golden Circle of young stars; Columbia can’t help but say “of course” and nod knowingly at “Golden Boy,” its latest triumph-they-hope, and Warner. Bros., always thinking in terms of the best, naturally feel all their epics for autumn are golden.

M-G-M, by the strangest coincidence, is releasing “The Life of Edison” this fall and David O. Selznick must feel that anything with 50 years connected with it should also include the production and running time of “Gone With the Wind.”

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S for Mr. Boyd, he started 20 years ago as an extra in Cecil DeMille’s “Why Change Your Wife?” In a few years he was a top-flight star and kept that way until 1935 when it appeared that no one wanted him. He fell into the role of Hopalong Cassidy, did a few of them, found they were well liked; and hasn't done anything else since’ except one picture for Republic. He's made 27 of ‘the series since then.

He changed Hopalong from a tobacco-chewing, whisky-drinking, evil young man to an upright, almost monastic character who was strong enough to know that ladies were not for cowboys. Another thing, because he’s had a different leading lady in every picture, it wouldn't. do to have him make love to all of them; people would think he was fightly and a philander. The girls, incidentally, have almost all been brunets. , The studio discovered" his fans didn’t like blond leading ladies. They don’t know why. Mr. Boyd is a great favorite with the P-T. A. and all his fans call him “Mr.” Casidy. Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Buck Jones and other gun-fannin’. cowboys they call by their first names. -

2 ” 2 ABY SANDY saw herself on

the screen for the first time |

the other day. Her mother said

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Mickey Rooney, ¢“HARDYS RIDE HIGH” ; Dennis 0’Keefe, “KID FROM TEXAS” “MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN" |

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she didn't recognize herself, thought it was another baby. Mrs. Henville should be congratulated on starting her baby so young on a career of self-criti-cism. Think how the course of cinema history might have changed if Robert Taylor's mother had taken him to see the rushes of “Stand Up and Fight!” Sandy has all the advantages. Her Hollywood elders have to sit (or fidget) silently, knowing ‘all the time that the persons on the screen are themselves. Another thing, Sandy thinks the studio is another playroom. When the day is finished she goes home and forgets all about it, sleeping the untroubled slumber of the heart at peace. But those grownups know what it’s all about. At the end of the day, they must go home, unable to forget, tossing and turning, caught in the grip of a torturing conscience that says, “That was you, that was you.” (You bum!)

Three Listed as - Army Favorites

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—

Army appear to be Bing Crosby, Myrna Loy and Clark Gable, the men who choose the Army’s pictures said today. Col. E. R. Householder, the direc-

service, and Raymond B. Murray, the manager, are in Hollywood from

studios. They arrange the programs for the 90 Army post theater§ in this country and Alaska.

are bored by child stars and stay away from the showhouse in regi-

“love” or a “girl” in it.

The favorite film stars of the U. S.|

ton of the Army motion picture

Washirigton for an inspection of the

Col. Householder said the soldiers

ments if the title of the film has a

These Raise Cost of Film

Purchases Show Why Movies Are Expensive.

Times Special - HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 1.—One of

the reasons “pictures are an expensive business” became apparent today when the studio released figures on purchases for “The Modern Cinderella.” : : During the fliming of the picture, which stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, 300,000 feet of film were used. -Sound recordings .were made on 200,000 feet more. More than one millien gallons of water were used in hurricane and flood scenes and 250,000 feet of lum-

ber were purchased to. build sets that were washed away by the water. The studio garage presenced requisitions for 100 gallons of cleaning

fluid to clean clothes and automo-{:

biles soiled by mud made by earth and crude oil. There were 10,000 gallons of crude oil. The studio cashier showed 1100 pay vouchers for extras. An estimated 2000 sticks of gum were chewed by extras playing waitresses. Officials also unofficially estimated there were three pounds of face powder and enough lipstick to paint a house.

CRAVEN BACK

Frank Craven is back in Hollywood for his first movie role since completing his run in the Pulitzer Prize play, “Our Town.” Craven is playing opposite Fay Bainter in “Our Neighbors—the Carters.”

with Anng Shiriey—Edward Ellis— ‘Samuel S. Hinds—Janet Beecher

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TON ASSIC . PRODUCER'S ROLE

Times Special 1 - NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—Ezra Stone,. 20-year-old star of NBC’s Aldrich Family, and former star of “What a Life,” Broadway stage hit, will pro. duce a Broadway drama for George Abbott, his former boss, this fall. When Mr. Abbott turns over proe duction of the drama, tentatively . titled “Three Steps Down,” to Mr. Stone, it will be the first time he has presented a stage show that he has not produced himself. Mr. Stone will be Broadway's youngest producer.

iM 1], 10 8 i ns LAST DAY, JOEL M’CREA : “UNION PACIFIC”; Also

Miriam Hopkins “WISE GIRL”

ains Fame In Westerns

Cesar Romero Yrades Dance » Pumps for Spurs.

‘HOLLYWOOD, July 27 (U. P.) — Seven years ago a blue spotlight followed Cesar Romero around a swanky New York dance floof as he and a partner executed graceful steps to the applause of night club audiences. : . Today he has traded his dancing pumps for boots and spurs. The han dthat once pirouetted a lovely} lady now holds a smoking six-shoot- |} er. The immaculate top hat, white tie and tails have been replaced by

holster.

It’s a Swell Life Mr. Romero is now a bad man of

life on the plains is swell. The Western costume is the result of his having been awarded the role of Doc Holliday, feared Western killer, in “Frontier Marshal,” the story of Tombstone, Ariz., and Wyatt Earp. “Playing the part of a bad ‘man on the screen is alright,” he remarks, “as long as it doesn’t call for the hero to avenge the villain’s evil by shooting him in the first reel.” When Romero first came here, he thought he would be assigned dancing parts but he instead played. foreigners who bowed low and kissed the hands of the ladies until he developed ridges on his back from bending over.

But He Wants to Dance

When 20th Century-Fox decided to return Warner Baxter to his role of the Cisco Kid, he was given a chance to doff his finery and play a rough character for the first time. Although the roles keep Cesar| out of the Hollywood night spots because of the heavy beard he must grow, his reaction is that it’s a great opportuniiy. His only lament is that he has never been permitted to dance in a picture.

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