Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1939 — Page 17

Five Nearer Beauty Title

Selected for Semi-Finals at

Fountain Square.

~ Pive girls were seloeted last night to complete the group that will comPete sManday i the semi-finals of un uare Theater “Miss Indianapolis” contest. Thep are Misses Kitty Mat_lock, .who was awarded the most points; Ada Mae Adams, Rosemary

Mundy, Allie Viola Speitel and Flo = Frym

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Finals will be held at the Foun-|

tain Square Wednesday. “Miss Indianapolis” will compete Aug. 11-13 at Michigan’ City for the “Miss Indiana” title. -Also on the program last night was. 9-year-old Don Bailey Jr., tap dancer, who won the William H. Block Children’s Hour competition recently. Judges were Phillip McClay, James Quigley and Larry Schubnell.

‘NEW LIFE IN OLD BODY,

Studio technicians took a 1916] taxicab chassis and body and put a 1939 motor in it for Frank Mec-

Hugh to drive in “The pearing Twenties.”

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George O’Brien and Marjorie Reynolds are starred in Timber Stampede,” opening tomorrow at the

Alamo Theater.

Opening Tomorrow

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-“TIMBER STAMPEDE,” with George O’Brien, Chill Wills and Marjorie Reynolds. Screenplay by Morton Grant. Directed by David Howard. “Corrupt land barons attempt to grab valuable timber country surrounding the cattle ranges and starve out. the cattlemen. Mr. O’Brien gives valuable aid in cleaning out the usurpers. “PANAMA PATROL,” with Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters and Adrienne Ames. Screenplay by Arthur Hoerl. Directed by Charles Lamont. A plot against the Panama Canal is discovered and irustrated through the work of Maj. Philip Waring and his fiancee, Helen Lane. They trap a desperate gang of terrorists.

Circle

“HOTEL FOR WOMEN,” with Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison and Elsa Maxwell. Screenplay by Kathryn Scola and Darrell Ware. Directed by Gregory Ratoff. E All the girls put up at the Sherrington, ‘famous hotel for women ¢ |only. Linda Darnell. loves James Ellison. He recognizes her after She becomes a famous‘model. ' There is a shooting, too, but Linda gets er man. “FRONTIER MARSHAL,” with Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero and Binnie Barnes. Screenplay by Sam -Hellman. Directed by Allan Dwan. . : Wyatt Earp is the man who tamed the town of Tombstone. He stayed alive because no one could beat him to a draw. Sarah and Jerry are the girls and they both love Doc Holliday, Earp’s friend.

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“ANDY HARDY GETS SPRING FEVER,” with Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Ann Rutherford. Screen- | play by Kay Van Riper. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke II. . Mickey falls in love with his teacher. Meanwhile the Judge has been hornswoggled by some tricksters. The Judge finds out in time and so does Mickey. “THEY ALL COME OUT,” with Rita Johnson, Tom Neal and Edward Gargan. Screenplay by John C. Higgins. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. 2 A bankrobbing gang is caught and sent to the Federal penitentiaries that will do each the most good for his particular “twist.” All of them come out all right except the gang leader.

Cantor Laughs At $751,000 Suit

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3 (U. P)— Eddie Cantor laughed today at a $751,000 damage suit filed against him by an Austrian-American and his wife who claim they were beaten up for walking out on the comedian’s radio program of wisecracks about Hitler. : “That’s the highest value,” cracked Mr. Cantor, “That’s ever been placed on my jokes.” ‘Charles Gollob and his wife Elsie are suing Mr. Cantor, other members of his show, and the broadcasting company. They claim that they were assaulted by Bert Gordon, the “Mad Russian” on the Cantor show, when they walked out because, they claimed, Mr. Cantor’s anti-Nazi jokes were “stale and uninteresting:”

PINEVILLE PROFITS PINEVILLE, Mo., Aug. 3 (U. PJ). —A year ago a motion picture company took most of the scenes for “Jessie James” in this Ozark Mountain town. Many of its citizens worked a few days as extras. Now many of them are drawing

| unemployment compensation — as

unemployed actors.

Atta Chimp!

Weismuller's Skippy Gets Right to Howl at Full Moons.

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 3 (U. P.). —The right of Skippy, the movie ¢himpanzee who acts with Johnny Weismuller in Tarzan pictures, to howl at the full moon

stood valid today by a ruling of the Culver City Municipal Coun-

cil. Neighbors of the chimp’s owner, Mrs. Erna Fowler, sought to have Skippy barred from the city. But Mrs. Fowler signed 50 other neighbors to a petition citing Skippy as a “gentlemanly character’ and agreeing that he howls at the full moon no louder than a dog barks. Skippy was given a residential permit for six months. ?

O'CONNOR THINNER

Donald O’Connor, who plays a jockey in “Million Dollar Legs,” actually lost four pounds during the scenes that saw him doing road work for the picture.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

The, Magnificent Fraud,” Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary

Boland and [Patricia N Nolan at 12:0,

2:38, 8:11, 7:44 “Million r Legs’ with Bett

gable and ® Jackie Coogan at 11, 4:06, 6:39 and 9:12,

Cast for Role in ‘Victor Herbert’

LAST DAY, GINGER ROGERS “Stage Door,” Kathrine Hepburn

‘Plus John Litel “ON TRIAL”

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—} Fourteen-year-old Susannah Foster, a descendant of the composer Stephen Foster, who wrote the famous song after which she was named, emerged from obscurity today to take a leading role in the movies. : The girl is a coloratura soprano who has been under option six months to Paramount. The studio announced today she would be given a featured role in “Victor Herbert.”

ACTRESS GRANTED DEFAULT DIVORCE

CIRCLE

“Bachelor Mother,” with Gin op Rogers, I Pavid Niven and Char Oo rn, 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

“Career,” with Edward Ellis,’ Ann Shirley Alice Eden and Join Archer, : 0, 3:20, 6:10 an : LOEW’ S

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

Good Sitls to Paris,” with Mel uglas, OP Blo: ndell, Alan Qurs s » pitef onnolly, at 11:03, 2:15, 5:20 and 8

PAID IN KIND

Thomas Coley, Golden Circle player now in a leading color feature, spent two summers. at the fa-

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—}nqys Barton theater, Abingdon, Va.,

Actress Ena Gregory today held a default divorce decree from Dr. Frank G. Nolan of Hollywood because Dr. Nolan allegedly neglected her and said he was tired of her and would “go to the South Seas” if he were not given a divorce. Although she admitted a physician worked long hours and was subject to call at all hours, Miss Gregory. said she could not understand why her husband would. answer a call and be gone for two days.

HOTEL FOR WOMEN

where actors are paid with farm produce.

ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Vince Sherman, scenario writer and director, was on the basketball, football an dboxing teams at Oglethorpe University.

MICKEY ROONEY

IER Tere] play he writes! Never so hilariousy

- DANCE-SWIM

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Dancing Nightly Except Monday

By Radio Gag Man

goLL?WOOD, Aug. 3 (U. P)— Jack Benny, radio and screen comedian, was sued for $65,500 today in a suit filed by Harry W. Conn, writer, who charged him with breach of contract. The . writer said he sified an agreement with Mr. Benny to write his radio seripts for a period of 39 weeks, . commencing Sept. 29, 1935, and that under terms of the con-

‘tract he was to receive 5 per cent of |

the actor’s salary during use of the material. Mr. Conn claimed Mr. Benny's earnings: were $1,170,000 since 1935 and his contract called for an additional 5 per cent for use of any material after the contract expired. He alleged Mr. Benny had continued to use characters and dramatic situations devised under the agree-

Jack Benny Sued

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