Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1939 — Page 4
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15 (U. P.).— Hollywood went hunting for Indians today, waving film contracts dn front of tepees on the reservations of Arizona, New Mexico and the Northwest. 2 Every redskin. within war cry of the studios was at work on an unprecedented series of Western and pioneer pictures and yet the supply ran short. Paramount Studio alone was hiring 300 Indians, 250 of them on a picture “Untamed” and another 50 posing for Polynesians in “Typhoon.” Other hundreds were at work at 20th Century-Fox in “Drums Along the Mohawk” and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's “Northwest Passage.” Talent scouts from Paramount ranged over the Arizona and New Mexico reservations signing up likely Indian actors. An agent for Cecil B. DeMille toured four Northwestern reservations hiring 500 Indians as extras in the picture “Royal Canadian Mounted Police.”
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20 Lincoln Plays Sent
New York Critics to Choose Best in Hoosier Contest.
Twenty plays, including three by Indianapolis residents and four by other Hoosiers, today had been sent to two New York critics for final decision by judges in the Southwestern Indiana Qivie Association Lincoln play contest. Indianapolis’ representatives in the select few, chosen from 177 plays submitted, are Mrs. Leona Day Nunn of 3325 Kenwood Ave. and Gentryville, Ind.; Mrs. Lela Kern Richmann, 308 N. Bolton Ave. and Miss Augusta Stevenson, 1225 N. Alabama St. . Others from Indiana are Edith L. Brother of Rockport, Joseph H. Hayes of Bloomington, Imogene McCaig of East Chicago, and J. Edward Murr of Washington. According to original plans the judges, William Fortune of Indianapolis; Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann of Rockport, and Karl K. Knecht, Evansville, were to have made the final decision. But they were unable to select a winner from among the 20, so the choice was left up to the critics. who are friends of Mr. Knecht’s, but whose names are not divulged. Plays must be based upon Lincoln’s years in Indiana ‘(1816- 1830). The best play will receive a $1000 cash prize and 75 per cent of book and performance royalties. A production offer for. the winning piece already has been received from an accredited New York producer, according -to Ernest W. Owen, the sponsoring association's secretary.
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'Wizard
By HARRY MORRISON
of Oz Is Compared
With Disney's Epic, 'Snow White'
ME next step after seeing a preview of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Wizard of Oz” is to compare it with Walt Disnéy’s “Snow White.”
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Disney had the edge on M-G-M in the matter of experience.
He hid been dabbling in fantasies since the first crude days of the earliest animated cartoons. The moving picture industry’s familiarity with fantasy dates to one trial in 1933. That was Paramount’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which really laid an egg.
OU can’t detract from Mr. Disney no matter how good you think “The Wizard” is. But you can admit that mechanical pre-eminence plays a great part in his success.
“The Wizard” could be successful only by making real humans into fairies. Mr. Disney started with fairies. His job was to make them human. I think M-G-M’s task was harder. From the standpoint of settings, M-G-M again very likely had the more dimeult job.
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ROM the standpoint of audience appeal, “The Wizard,” I think, has the advantage. We in the audience like to see people. “The Wizard” has an easier jum ui selling its cast because they are seén in the flesh as well as heard. I have no intention of deciding which I think is better. The question is bound to .come up and I merely express my opinion on a few points which will be under discussion.
Facts and some fancy about “The Wizard”: Producer Mervyn LeRoy was paid $6000 a week during production. ‘After the®show was finished he took a $2000 cut. No one knows why. The book sold eight million copies. Sam Goldwyn had the movie rights for years. He finally sold them to Mr. LeRoy, who got $3,500,000 from M-G-M to give him a start. L. Frank Baum wrote the original. didn’t know until the other day how he got his title. He had sold
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apolis publishing house. He had the “Wizard” part of the title. He couldn’t think of a géod name for the country. Neither could BobbsMerrill. Mr. Baum was idling through his filing cabinet one day. He watched the letters going by—A to H, H to
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HE picture had two false starts. Richard Thorpe was the original diréctor. He worked three weeks and got pneumonia. ‘Buddy Ebsen was the original Tin Woodman. He got pneumonia, too, and Jack Haley took his place. All the first Tin Woodman se-
quences had to be scrapped. After Mr. Haley had run through about $80,000 worth of footage, someone noticed the script called for rusty tin. Mr. Haley was as resplendent as a new beer can. That footage had to be scrapped, too. Bert Lahr went through the whole show with only one substitution. He was the Cowardly Lion and his suit was made to order by a local taxidermist. After a couple of weeks of intensive shooting Mr. Lahr demanded and got a new suit. He said he couldh’t stand the one he had. The taxidermist admitted he had used the skin of a real lion that had died only a few days before. The new suit was odorless and was made from a rug. : : ® x = NE of the difficulties, ‘of course, in making the film was make-up. It had to look fantasticc At the same time it couldn’t hide the personality of the players. Ray Bolger’s Scarecrow face was made of plastic rubber. There were holes for his eyes, nose and mouth. The rest of it was painted and glued to his face. He could grimace right through it. Frank Morgan plays the Wizard. He couldn’t possibly sustain the Wizard's eerie tones through every sequernicé. So he spoke naturally. His voice was deepened, amplified and distorted by being run through a quarter-mile tunnel that runs under the studio.
PLANS BOWLING SHORT
Investigation by Pete Smith has proven that bowling has grown more in popularity in the past six months than any other sport. This and the fact that he’s been deluged with requests from fans to make a short about the sport has prompted ‘him to do just that.
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By PAUL HARRISON
OLLYWOOD, Aug. 15—Short takes: An unpopular but prominent actor confronted a sassy little aotress in a studio restaurant and,
with a crowd of diners listening in, story about him. “Don’t be silly,” squelched the tell the truth!” A nearby nudist colony has figured in the local news lately, and a producer of cheapie pictures got the idea of taking a camera crew to one of the camps for shots around which he might weave a sexational film. The nudists decided to admit the moviemen, but only if they'd take off their clothes, too. The technicians went on strike; said they'd make flickers in fire, flood or riot, in airplanes, wars or epidemics—but not in the altogether!
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UNDREDS of men and $42,000 were used to build the biggest dam ever made for the movies. It’s on. ig Rio Grande near Buchman, N. M,, for “The Light That Failed.” But the dam won’t be seen on the screen; it merely backs up enough water to make the little river look like Egypt's Nile. Howard Hughes, the flying millionairé, has bought a lot of stories, registered the titles, and soon will be back in movie production. . . . Lon Chaney Jr. gets the role of Lennie in “Of Mijce and Men,” and all Hollywood is pleased that a good actor, handicapped - by his father’s fame, finally will have an opportunity.
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spooky place built for “The Cat and the Canary,” Nydia Westman asks Bob Hope if he's frightened by empty houses. “Not much,” says Hope. “You see, I used to be in vaudeville.” Which is reminiscent of the yarn told about Charlie Chaplin's stage days. The villain of the play scuttled over to the comedian and said, “I have brought the papers. Are you sure that we're alone here?” - Chaplin stepped to the footlights and peered out at the spare audience. “Almost!” he said reassuringly. ” ” »
ROGRESS note: Drew ahd Mr. Moto series have beén discontinued, and the Torchy Blane series is on its way out, now that it has been chopped to two-reelers. Elimination of such cheap flickers is helping to kill the double bill, besides releasing able players such as Peter Lorre and Bonita Granville for better pictures. Hedy Lamarr is quarreling with Metro over the scripts prepared for her, and may go to some other company that can promise better roles and less extravagant ballyhoo. . . . Greer Garson, who was the wholesome and restrained Mrs. Chips, goes into a peppety glamour role in “Remember.” But for all her slinky gowns, her biggest love scene with Bob Taylor will be played while both are sitting in a mud puddle, where they've been thrown from their horses during a fox hunt. A fellow doing a character bit in “Untamed” was asked his naDs by Director George Archainbaud. “Four-fifths British,” said the acter, pulling up a trouser, leg to show a wooden peg, “—
and one-fifth Oregon pine.”
AE O'DAY, a stunt girl who has crashéd cars and tumbled off cliffs and wild horses without injury, was hurt the other day, while visiting a set, by a lamp reflector that fell from overhead.... Another feminine stunter, Dixie Dilderbach, former circus aerialist, missed a chance to be a heroine in
the headlines when she rescued a
child from the lake at Echo Park. Trouble was that before diving in she had ripped off her dress. So she put the child on the bank and ran through the bushes to her car as a crowd of late rescuers arrived. Universal's western company trekked out to the back lot to film a scene ‘in which Johnny Mack Brown pursues the heavy into a saloon. The set hadn't been used in months, but it proved to be oc-
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