Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1939 — Page 6
PAGE § ps Laemmle Sr.
Mourned in | Hollywood
Former Package Wrapper Ran $50 Inte Millions; 72 at Death.
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (U. P)). —Hollywood today mourned Carl Laemmle Sr. its grand old man, | without whose early-day court bat- |
tles against monopoly there might |
never have been a movie industry |
as it is now. Uncle Carl was 72 when he suc- | cumbed yesterday to a heart attack | in his 25-room Spanish hacienda, | where the stables for his cattle
looked like de luxe apartment | houses.
Two physicians were powerless to help him. Carl Jr., his only son, and Mrs. Stanley Bergerman, hi$ daughter, were so shocked by his death that they left the funeral plans to others. Only the night before the whitehaired Uncle Carl had gone automobile riding along the coast, keeping a weather eye for the S. S. Rex anchored off Santa Monica. He had enjoyed going to the Rex, before authorities raided it, Three years ago he sold Universal City, which housed his movie company, to a group of New York bankers for $5,500,000 cash. Since then he lived in retirement on his estate, which looks like nothing so much as a movie set magnified a thousand times, and de- . ” voted his time to his grandchil-| He said Hollywood's revenues, cut dren, his blooded stock, and his in-!by the European war, would be interest in helping German refugees. | creased materially if pictures were Mr. Laemmle was one of the kind- | av Nap liest men ever to make a success | Ot changed evely week, in Hollywood. He never could say! Mr. Schenck today was en route “no,” and as a consequence his/to Mexico City on a tour of Latin
studio was filled with relatives,| america. He said the movie indus-
friends, and casual acquaintances,|,. ; all of whom had appealed to him | 5 would ‘attempt to build up the
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Schenck Hints At Longer Runs
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (U.P) — A hint that American theaters may be asked to hold pictures for longer runs came today from Joseph M. Schenck, president of the Motion Picture producers and Distributors Association.
LEAVES WORLD BEHIND
If you ever feel tired of the world and what it’s doing to you just That's what Fred MacMurray did.
a little deep sea fishing. coming Friday to the Circle,
and climb the mast of his tallest
Twas on Chew-Chew Train
That Bernie Rode to Fame,
“There,” said Ben Bernie, “but for the unerring aim of a Virginia tobacco-chewer, goes Bernie.” $ Where his finger pointed there were only the unshielded lights of his dressing room at the Lyric Theater.
“I am pointing,” he said, “a} any two-bit fiddler in a small-time cafe.” Every big-time performer has his own explanation of how he got that way. Some are good stories. Mr. Bernie swears to the truth of his. He was playing a fiddle act with Phil Baker in a Hopewell, Va. theater. He was not very successful. He played semi-classical music
land the constant worry was:
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when someone would steal them, Ben declared. “Along came the time people didn’t care much about hearing us at the Roosevelt anymore. There was talk about a depression. We were sunk, It was Custer's Last Stand when we opened in 1931 at the College Inn in Chicago. We didn’t have a sou to fight off the
See what Mr, MacMurray found.
for work.
[Latin American market to hold re-
When he came to America from|place the film sales lost in Europe.
Laupheim, Germany, in 1893, Mr. | Laemmel had $50 and the ambition]
A suggestion for an industry-wide
: conference on the film crisis caused to become a merchant prince. He
wrapped parcels in Chicago and DPV the war was rejected by Mr. managed a clothing store in Osh-| Schenck. He told producer Samuel
| oy » kosh, Wis., before becoming a Holly-| Goldwyn, who proposed the conwood magnate. | ference, that it would be wise to
|wait until the exact extent of the Extra! Louis vs. Pastor Fight losses in revenue are known.
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| =| | HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (U. P.).— Mrs. Will Rogers, widow of the cow{boy humorist and actor, won a $8871 lincome tax reduction today because
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| “Whatta we got for next week?” Critic Sets Him Right
That evening an tobacco chewing balconyite let fly at Mr. Bernie's keyboard. The (then) young Maestro, almost completely flustered, let out with, “Oh, la critic in the house, eh?” Somebody laughed. That was all. But the manager sensed something a little better than the semiclassical and told the kid to say | something again during the next
| show, | By the time they left the town i Bernie, the fiddler, had changed to | Bernie, the comic. | That was in 1910. For a long time it was a struggle to think up gags, get an orchestra together and fail | with it. Finally Gets His Chance
One day he got his chance. He opened at the Hotel Roosevelt in 1923. He stayed there until 1929. Those days were filled with one { group that was just about running [New York as far as the Wisenheim{ers go. There was Winchell and | Bernie, Mark Hellinger, Phil Baker, | Jack Benny, Jack Pearl and some | others. “We wrote gags and then went | out in the alley and had fisticuffs
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“We hit. We got a sponsor for radio. Not much before that radio kind of an outcase.
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into the Lamb's Club in New York. | You'd say: ‘How'd you like my show | last night?” “The boys would turn around and | say. ‘What are you talkin’ about? (What is this radio thing?” | Mr, Bernie, like every comedian (worth his salt, has a couple of rac-| ling horses. His best bet at present lis a 4-year-old filly named Wes. Her {grandpappy was Fair Play. She's with Alfred Vanderbilt's
| stabled { bluebloods. “That ought to prove she's an allright filly,” he smiled.
Winchell Is Really
What about Winchell? “Walter and I have been friends for a long time. As a matter of) fact, in public or out he rarely says a good word for me. I'm kind of worried about him. He thinks he has too many responsibilities. “I'd like to make some more | movies, but I probably won't without | { Walter, he'll be able to stand that heavy routine again.” It was curtain time by then. The Old Maestro came out, jiggled around a little, then started to play | his violin. He paused, looked around. ‘The house can be emptied in two min-| utes,” he said. That was one of the lines he used on the Hopewell yokel 29 years ago. |
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (U. By
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“Dust Be My Destiny,” with John Garfield and Priscilla Lane, at 11, 1:40, 4:25. 7:10 and 9:55, “The Day the Bookies Wept,” with Joe Penner and Betty Grable, at 12:35, 3:20, 6:05 and 8:50.
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“The Rains Came.” with George Brent, Brenda Joyce and Myrna Loy, at 12:37, 3:38, 6:49 and 10. “Charlie Chan at Treasure Island,” with Sidney Toler and Cesar Romero, at 11:13, 2:24, 5:35 and 8:46. LOEW'S “Thunder Afloat,” with Wallace Beery, Chester Morris and Virginia Grey, at 12:10, 3:25, 6:40 and 9:55 “Five Little Pepners,” with Edith Fellows, at 11:05, 2:20, 5:35 and 8:50. ‘“Louis-Pastor Fight Pictures” at 1:45, 5 and 8:50.
WHEN DOES IT START?
French Stars Soldiers Now
PARIS, Sept. 25 (U. P.)—The French motion picture industry had become a war casualty today. Its stars were in umiform. > Jean Gabin, leading actor in one of the greatest anti-war films ever made, “Grand Illusion,” is in the Marines. Albert Prejean, a famous pilot in the last war, is back in the air force.
Pierre Blanchard is an infantry officer and the comic brothers, Aimos and Raymond Cordy, are driving trucks for the supply service, Fernandel and Charles Boyer also were mobilized. Among the younger stars Rene Dary and Paul Cambo are awaiting assignments, Bernard Lancret is an artilleryman and Gilbert Gil is in the anti-aircraft defense. Feramus, who starred in silent films, is an officer pilot in a pursuit squadron and is giving orders to Charles (Singing Fool) Tenet, The industry may come back, however, under government aegis. Director Jean Renoir has been charged by the Bureau of Information to plan resumption of film production along both artistic and propaganda lines.
TAKES OFF WEIGHT
Spencer Tracy went back to work on a studio sound stage, 15 pounds PAR: I'd been, lighter than when he left for Idaho {on before, of course. You'd walk|location on “Northwest Passage.”
M. Renoir is expected to ask {leaves of absence for actors he | needs. The war also had its effect upon music. The French Conservatory of {Music has been moved to the Gras[lin Theater in Nantes and the Paris |Opera also has moved to that city. The musicians, however, will use Nantes only as a rehearsal and will [travel to Paris and other cities to {give performances during the war.
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