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$1 Trombone ls Insured

For $2500

Owner Uses It in Making | Cartoon Sounds—And | What Sounds.

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.—A bat-| tered old trombone that would bring less than & dollar in a junk shop has been insured for $2500 by Pinto Colvig, cartoonist and sound effects man. The trombone purchased by Colvig in pawnshop in 1913, but has never been used as & musical instrument. The trombone, however, has appeared in pictures and on the| When a good-looking girl like air as almost everything except a| With a golden tenor voice there's a trombone a lovely movie. Of course there

Colvig gave up circus and vaude- | ville work several years ago to be- | come & human sound effects library

originally was a Denver

Alamo.

JEAN GETS A GOLDEN TENOR

Jean Parker marries a policeman lovely couple. Tt should also make ar ecomplications, but everything

| comes out all right in “She Married a Cop,” now running at the

for animated cartoons. Although he| can imitate more than 500 sounds with his mouth, he uses the trombone as an aid for other sounds. The instrument has worked in| more than 250 animated cartoons] and has earned its owner many | dollars. Its battered condition] makes it possible for Colvig to produce sounds that he says would be impossible in a new trombone.

Film Stars Flee "War of Nerves’

—

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1 (U, P).— Movie stars hurried home today from war-threatened Europe. Constance Bennett arrived from Paris where she conferred with her estranged husband, the Marquis de la Fallaise. |

| A small-town | “A ‘terrible cloud hangs over lawyer

everyone on the other side,” she with a

said as she stepped from an airliner great big heart!

and was greeted by her son, Peter. “The French seem resigned to a! OUR

pH Stewart arrived from Bng- | land where he found the country | “calm.” Eb THE ‘DEAD END KIDS SRI Ape A ' a [JUN (U[4,/3,8 | Coot EEX Sts Be » §—30c- 0c After §

It was announced that Mr. and | Mrs. Bob Hope will arrive in New York from England aboard the Queen Mary Monday ty § s Sdpaviteeri N amine Sully ""

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WHEN DOES IT START

APOLLO

“Our Leading Citizen,” with b Burns, ene Lackhart, Susan Hay0 aud Charles 5 Biokford at 1:41

“Hey rh End Kids at 11:20,

CIRCLE

“Che Star Maker,” With Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, finda "a abe ih Sparks at 12:38 7 an

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TN the Dead 2:27, 5:3¢ and

» ‘with Barry

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“These ap iL Girls,” Ayres and na Turner at 11, 8:25 and 8:35.

NN aS lerie at

with Lew 2:10,

DYNAMITE OIL WELLS Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1 dvnamiting of flaming oil

ground of “Blackmail,” ward G. Robinson. It is the dra-

matic story of an escaped convict a crime he did not |

sentenced for commit,

———

ARTIST TURNS ACTOR Before he became an sector, John | Carradine was & scene painter and | ‘then a theater designer.

National BARN DANCE

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, HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

Sennett Chuckles Anew |

At Those Keystone Cops.

OLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.-There can be only a capsule history of the movies in the picture called “Hollywood Cavalcade.” After all, they've got Alice Faye and Don

Ameche and a love story to crowd | in with the Keystone Kops, the | Babylonian revels, the hair-rais- |

ing hokum of the thriller-dillers, the bathing beauties and sirens and vamps, and the antics of Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin, Chester another oldtimer,

So the great Mack Sennett, who |

came out of semi-retirement to be an associate producer of the pic ture, can tell a lot of significant stories which he isn't able to put on the screen. The famous Keystone Comedy Co.—{ts name suggested by a sign on a freight car—was the upshot of Sennett’s $100 debt to a couple of race track book-makers. | “It seemed like I just couldn't get enough to pay off those guys,” Sennett, “I dodged | ‘em for weeks and they were pretty sore, and then one day they cornered me on 14th St. I had to think fast. T said, ‘Took-let’s not argue about a measly hundred bucks. You couple of thousand and we'll all

| get rich making movies.”

He got the two thousand. ” » » TRST, though, came catastrophe. with Biograph, hired a few actors and & mysterious said he was & cameraman, and they whipped out five short comedies. The Russian cranked his machine | very slowly, which pleased Mr. Sennett because it promised

economy of film. There were no |

daily rushes in those days, and film processing was slow. So, when all the stuff came from the Jaboratory about the same time, proud members of the new company assembled for a first look at their product. Prepared to chuckle modestly, they sat frozen with horror. The wundercranked film, when run at normal projection speed, was such & blur of rapid action that you couldn't distin guish heroine from heavy. They didn't realize it at the moment, but they had discovered the mechanical trick by which all later chase sequences were speeded up for comedy effect.

w® » HE company was scantily refinanced "mostly by pawns ing our wives’ jewelry,” Mr. Sennett recalls—and another picture

was produced. It made money. With new confidence and a new bankroll Keystone Comedies moved to Hollywood.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

‘RIP VAN WINKLE’

(Washinoton Irving classie,

fellows lend me a |

Mr. Sennett quit his job |

Russian who |

FRIDAY, SEPT. 1, 1939

EASY NOW, JOHN OLD BOY!

“Shoot the Luger to me, John, boy!” That's John Howard very resolute and Heather Angel standing firm. The picture is “Bulldog Drummond's Bride,” now showing at the St. Clnir and the Emerson Theaters.

| inal Catskill Mountain setting, it

Costs Take ‘Ride’

Benny, Mar | y On Prop’ Wagon

To Jibe Phil

Radio Stars to Appear at Frisco Exposition.

Times Speotai HOLLYWOOD, Sept, 1=Holly= wood studios will save about $500 a pleture as a result of a new “prop” wagon invented by Thomas K, Lite

tle

TAN TRA A d piet ts about $1000 SAN N oi won good picture costs abou AD, Sf. 1 waioR an hour to make, Running “props?

Benny and Mary Livingstone will gnome one set to another usually arrive here tomorrow to make their | costs about half that much for only personal appearances of the (each picture

The new wagon, built by 20th summer at the Golden Gate ter Onntury-Fox's property chief, national Exposition, Thomas K. Little, carries everys This will ‘mark their only VAOA™ | thing from square handkerchiefs tion reunion with Phil Harris, band. | | for crying purposes to needles and master at the Benny broadcast. Mr. | | thread.

Harris and his orchestra are playing currently at the Pacific Fair. The Harris band will be foil again

The wagon cost $075 to build, sd it will pay for itself in two Pite tures,

[was announced today by Solar

WILL BE FILMED Pictures.

A technical crew will leave were, -T h e!soon to make preliminary investiga- | “Rip Van tions and find suitable locations | will be filmed in its orig- around Haines Falls, N. Y.

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The pioneer doesn't remember the name of the insignificant flicker which glorified the custard ple. It was during a fight scene in a bakery shop. A core nered comedian reached behind him for a loaf of bread to hurl at pursuers. Instead, he clutched a pie and tossed it. Bullseye! And a million belly-laughs. “I didn’t invent the comedy cops,” admitted Mr. Sennett, “French pictures had been using them, and we borrowed the idea and built our screwball police force into a really great institu tion. ”

ND about the Mack Sennett |

Bathing Beauties: Our pic had been built on male comedians, but we couldn't get much publicity for them. I began to notice that whenever a star comic happened to have his picture taken with a pretty girl, the shot would be widely printed in newspapers and magazines. “We began to use more and more girls. Bathing suits then were dresses and bloomers and long stockings. I put ‘em in knitted suits and with bare legs or short socks. “The first comedy with bare legs caused a national riot. Women's clubs and reformers and preachers gave us & million bucks’ worth of publicity. In any other medium than comedy, we'd have been stopped. Lest vou forget, Mr. Sennett wasn't & mere master of the balsawood club and the banana skin. One of his silent features, “Mickey,” nicked the world market for $8,000,000—a sum unapproached today by anything ex= cept “Snow White.” His “Molly ‘QD, also with Mabel Normand, earned nearly as much. He brought W. C. Fields out of cinematic oblivion to the tune of a $5000 weekly paycheck. And he rescued Bing Crosby after the personable Rhythm Boy had been obscured at other studios by palpably phony makeup and characterization. Mack Sennett has made about 400 successful shorts in sound. The double bill killed his business,

tures

but the double bill now is on its |

way out. The comedy King expects to be back at work any day now.

~ PLAY SIMPLE SONGS FOR GLORIA JEAN

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept, | Gloria Jean,

When | the 11-year-old Uni- |

forms in “The Underpup” there |

No [aren't any vocal acrobatics.

When the studio introduced De- | | anna Durbin they were besieged by | Writers claimed no girl | | could sing the arias Deanna sang. ‘There won't be any repetition of Joe Pasternal-, discoverer of both girls, said today. “Gloria Jean can do most of the hard ones, t00, but we're keeping her on simple melodies for a while.”

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