Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1939 — Page 14
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BEAU (GESTE) LEADS TO TROUBLE
Young Beau (of the Geste family) had a yen for getting into tight places even when he was a child. played by Donald O'Connor, Beau leads his brothers to a lot of trouble and adventure in “Beau Geste,”
opening Friday at the Circle.
Hollywood Busy With Christmas
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.— While the rest of the country is settling down to work after summer vacations, Hollywood already is thinking of Christmas.
Three studios already are busy with films for holiday release. Walt Disney is finishing his cartoon version of the popular children’s story,
*Pinocchio.” Max Fleischer’s cartoonists are at work on “Gulliver's Travels” and 20th Century-Fox has| begun production of Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird,” with Shirley Temple starred. All three films will be in technicolor. United Artists, M-G-M and Universal also have stories appropriate to the holiday season under consideration, but no definite announcements have been made.
JEANETTE SIGNS M-G-M CONTRACT
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.—Jeanette MacDonald has signed a new contract at M-G-M, under the terms of which she will make a concert tour each spring. Her first picture will reunite her with Nelson Eddy in Sigmund Romberg’s operetta, “Lover Come Back to Me,” after which she is to co-star with Robert Taylor in “Smilin’ Through.”
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MOVIES
By HARRY MORRISON
Bing Crosby Made the Grade
On a
Road of Ups and Downs
From an inspection of reports that trickle into our city from the
western frontier,
it is evident that Bing Crosby, here currently in
“The Star Maker,” is one person who resembles himself on the screen. Mr. Crosby is an American phenomenon. He presents a particular type of entertainment that always will be necessary.
He is the answer to such things as office worry, golf slices, love trouble, ubiquitous streetcars and jaywalkers. In other words you don’t have to think. There are a number of things I never knew about Mr. Crosby. I never knew he was in Hollywood looking for a singing job before he caught on with Paul Whiteman. His brother, Everett, supported both of them by driving a truck. Bing didn’t want to have anything to do with radio. He said it was like “crooning into a telephone.” He didn't want the movies, either. He said any screen test of him would look as if it were “taken through the white of an egg.” He was playing vaudeville in San Francisco when Mr. Whiteman found him. His first offer was $300 a week. Bing accepted. He was working with a man called Al Rinker then. They were a sensation in Chicago, a flop in New York. It was Mr. Whiteman’s idea to make a trio and call them the “Rhythm Boys.” The third member was Harry Barris. He played the Kieth-Albee circuit when Mr. Whiteman took his band to England. He met a girl called Jane Rankin in Toledo, O. He thought he might be in love, but he didn't marry her because he wanted to be a success on the stage first. He made another try at Hollywood and flopped again. He had a reputation for some time as a night-clubber who needed a lot of refreshments and never wanted to go home. He sang in night clubs out there. He made his first picture with Mr. Whiteman, “The King of Jazz.” In it he was just a member of the trio. He met Dixie Lee and fell in love with her. When he married her he e quit nis night- clubbing ‘and
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began to get a reputation as a homebody. His first radio job was with Columbia at $600 a week. It started as a sustaining program. It almost never started. The first night Bing’s voice quit. He couldn't sing at all. It was that way for three days. Then he tried again. He was a wow, His first starring picture was a hit. It was “The Big Broadcast.” Some of his pictures have not been as good as others, but he's never had a flop. It's true his horses seldom win races.
Detroit Orphan Sees Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. § (U. P.).— Helen Bereda, a 12-year-old orphan from Detroit who got sick and stayed behind in Omaha while 16
sellow orphans went on to Holly-
wood a few weeks ago, was here today on a visit of her own. The orphans were brought here to attend the premiere of the picture, “The Star Maker,” as guests of 14-year-old Linda Ware, the “Orphan Nightingale,” who stars in the film with Bing Crosby. While they were being escorted to the theater in movie stars’ limousines, Helen had a special showing of the picture in the Omaha hospital room where she was recovering from an appendectomy. The other orphans have gone back home, but Helen was invited to Hollywood upon recovery. She will not return to the Guardjan Angel Orphanage in Detroit. She has been adopted by Mrs. E. M. Chmielewski of Detroit, who was chosen by the Sisters of the Guardian Angel Home to chaperone her trip to Hollywood.
PORTER DECIDES HE SHOULD VISIT 'BOSS'
| Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.— Cole
visiting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In all the work he has done for the movies Mr. Porter, composer of hit songs, had never visited a studio. He went today to confer with Eleanor Powell and movie executives. They discussed the final scores for “Broadway Melody of 1940.”
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The time? About 20 years later.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES BEAU 20 YEARS LATER—FIGHTER
The place? The other side of
the world. It's Beau again, this time played by Gary Cooper. He's in the French Foreign Legion fighting off the Arabs,
Cuban Team in Dance of Haste
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.— Rene and Estela, Cuban dance team, left Hollywood today. They had traveled 3000 miles to make a scene lasting less than 30 seconds. They had flown from New. York to dance before William Powell and Myrna Loy in a sequence from “Another Thin Man.” The scene was rehearsed and put on the screen two days after they arrived here. Miss Loy and Mr. Powell applauded and the dancers went back to New York.
Makes $68,000 With Whiskers
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept, 5—The $600 which Tex Driscoll recently received from Paramount for work in “Beau Geste” has brought the total earnings of his unharvested “spinach crop” to $68,000. The “crop” rests on Mr. Driscoll’s chin—a blooming set of whiskers which has been supporting him for 17 years. The character actor first raised the beard to play a stevedore in “Moran of the Lady Letty” back in 1922. A casting director, noting Mr. Driscoll’s resemblance to Gen. Grant, cast him as the Civil War hero in a serial which kept him busy for 59 weeks. Ever since then the features beneath the Driscoll whiskers have been entirely incidental. *He has played Gen. Grant in 18 pictures besides the serial, and his beard has kept him busy in other films to the extent of an average $4000 yearly income.
Ann Plagued by Hiccoughs Woe
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.— Ann Sothern was recovering today from a case of self-induced hiccoughs. Called upon to “hiccup” in a scene for “Fast and Furious,” she couldn't master the trick. John Miljan, master of the art, taught her how in about 10 minutes, «He taught her too well. She couldn't stop. All the ordinary remedies failed. The studio doctor was finally called. He stopped them with a drop of chloroform on a lump of sugar.
"LITTLE PEPPERS’ IS TO BE FILMED
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.— Announcement that “Five Little Peppers and How They Grew” will be filmed has perked up sales of the perennial juvenile favorite, booksellers in large cities report An increased demand for library copies also is being noted, with Los Angeles public libraries reporting a waiting list for the Pepper novels. Edith Fellows will star in the movie version, which is being made by Columbia.
WHEN DOES IT START?
APOLLO
“Our Leading Citizen,” with Bob Burns. Gene Lockhart, Susan Hayward and Charles Bickford, at 1:41 3:48, 6:55 and 10:02. “Hell's Kitchen,” with the Dead me Kids at 11:20, 2:27, 5:3¢ and
CIRCLE
“The Star Maker,” with Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell Linda, Sars and Ned Sparks at 12:35 1 and 10:10 “This Man Is News,” with Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson and Alaar Sim at 11:20, 2:35, 5:45 and
LOEW'S
“Lady of the Tropics,” with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor at 12:20, 3:35, 6:45 and 10. “These Glamour Girls,” with Lew Avres ahd Lana Turner at 11, 2:10, 5:25 and 8:35.
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Three against the world— brothers and soldiers all.
GARY COOPER as Mithad i
RAY hr as John Geste
ROBERT PRESTON as Digby Geste
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STARTS FRIDAY—CIRCLE THEATER
Paramount Ss New
HOLLYWOOD
Orson Welles Sets a Precedent With His Assault on Film Capital
The grown-up counterparts
GESTE GROWS UP AT CIRCLE
of the youngsters are (left to right,
rear) Robert Preston, Gary Cooper and Ray Milland., The young woman is Susan Hayward, the red-haired miss from Brooklyn,
By PAUL HARRISON
the theater, sat in his rented citadel of the cinema. dent,
role in a picture. Welles came here about a month
According to all the rules, he hasn't got a chance. That's why the smug Hollywood hierarchy., with its patterned plots and ponderous, factory methods of praduction, is watching him with alarm. And for the same reason all the real creators in town whose efforts and dreams are squelched by executive interference are rooting for “Heart of Darkness” to be a smash piece of entertaine ment. “I've known for a long time that I'd come out here eventually,” Mr. Welles said. “Four years ago, after I put on ‘Macbeth,’ I began talking with studios. But I had to have full authority—nobody telling me what to do; no story conferences with producers, who somehow seem to regard theme selves as endowed by God to make decisions. “Of course I'm a producer now, but I can’t see that it means anything except that I have a desk and an office, and now and then I can call myself in and give myself hell.” = ® s " HAT happens from now on is entirely up to me,” he admitted. “Nobody can read my script; nobody can cut my picture. They can’t even come to see the rushes. “I'm scared, but not as scared as I was. Because I find that although nobody is trying to boss me, everyone is trying to help me. The theater is full of complacent men who believe the artistic and technical millennium has been reached. But pictures are a young business and most of its people are not yet bored or spoiled. “Almost every evening
I've
Business
OLLYWOOD, Sept. 5—Orsen Welles, the wonder-boy of radio and new beard and talked engagingly about his one-man assault on the He is uneasily aware that his position here is utterly without preceUntil now, only Charlie Chaplin ever had the authority—or the audacity, either to try to produce, write, cast, direct and play a leading But Chaplin had a lot of experience. The 25-32ar-
myriad complications of the movies.
mansion by the sea, tweaked his
G. A. R. TO BOYCOTT
'GONE WITH WIND'
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—
The Grand Army of the Republic has voted a boycott of the movie, “Gone With the Wind,” branding it “an affront to all who wear a uniform.”
‘Suicide’ Corps Is Film Subject
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5 (U. P.),— Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. took advantage of the moment today to announce he would start production immediately on a motion picture, “The Battalion of Death,” a story of the French “Suicide Corps.” Author of the story is John Monk Saunders who, like Mr. Hornblow, served in the World War. The film will portray French veterans of the World War engaging in feats that mean almost certain death. Mr. Horrblow said the picture was authentic. Members of the corps already have been recruited in Paris. Joel McCrea, Ray Milland, Robert Preston and Akim Tamiroff will thave leading roles.
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= = o R. WELLES grew his beard for a play, “Five Kings,” and kept it for this picture. “I figured Hollywood was one ‘place in the world where it wouldn't be noticed,” he said, “because I knew that players often went around in
whiskers and long hair. But I can't get by with it. People seem to think its an affectation or an insulting gesture, or something; they attack me in restaurants and hoot at me on the streets.” Besides himself, Mr. Welles’ cast in “Heart of Darkness” will be made up of actors strange to Hollywood. The members of his Mercury Theater will come here in October to work in the picture. His company doesn’t include a suitable leading woman, but whatever one he hires will be imported from the stage or foreign film Just now he's concentrating on the story. Two secretaries are kept busy eight hours a day recording his rapid dictation or treatment and character development, Five heavy volumes of manuscript represent his efforts to get everything thoroughly in mind. The actual script hasn't
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