Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1939 — Page 21
Symphony Offers] $1000 for Work pn OIE | Ea fog Ro, Brie ST. LOUIS, Sept, 28 (U. P).—The|| S18 Sisbara Head: at 110% $301 5 St. Louis Symphony Society, sec-| ; ond oldest of its kind in this counfry, is offering a $1000 prize for a symphonic work by an. Amercan composer in connection. with| the celebration of its 60th anniversary during the 1939-40 season.
Orchestra ' ALONG ‘DESPERATE TRAILS Leader ‘Led’ By Players
Opening Tomorrow—
Alamo : DESPERAYE WHATS whe Sony Mask Brown, Bob Baker. and Fuzzy Knight. Screenplay by Andrew Bennison. Directed by Albert Ray. Steve Hayden goes to the small town of Denton, discovers rustling and saves the life of pretty Judith Laniry.. He proves the villains to be the Yown's sheriff and banker,
Circle “HONEYMOON ‘IN BALL” with Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Car- 3 : roll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff and Helen Broderick. Screenplay by The judging committee, to pass Virginia Van Upp. Directed by Edward H. Griffith, on all manuscripts, together with Bali adventurer Fred MacMurray visits New York and meets tired |s piano reduction of the score, |young business woman, Madeleine Carroll. They fight a great deal but submitted by next Feb. 1, will finally get married. consist of Conductor Viadimir “TWO BRIGHT BOYS,” ‘with Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, |: ; Alan Dinehart and Dorothy Peterson. : Screenplgy by Val Burton .and Golschmann, Rudolph Gans, presEdmund L. Hartmann. Directed by Joseph Santley. ident of Chicago Musical College Jackie Cooper is trying to bring an oil gusher in. He 1s handi- and Fogel pier and a third capped by Alan Dinehart, an oil baron who wants the well. Aided by em Dt ie ‘composition Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie just makes it. will be played by the St. Louis Indiana symphony = orchestra under Mr.
“FIFTH AVENUE GIRL” with Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, A Sach roo th ome
James Ellison, Verree Teasdale and Tim Holl. Screenplay by Allan Scott. Directed by Gregory La Cava. : A lonely millionaire hires a girl to make his family take notice of him, About everything happens, including the millionaire’s son falling’ in love with Ginger Rogers. “CONSPIRACY,” with Allan Lane, Linda Hayes and Robert Barrat. Screenplay by Jerome Chodorov. Directed by Lew Landers, An American gets mixed up with an incipient revolt in an unnamed European dictatorship. He meets the right people, helps along the revolt and makes good his escape. Loew’s ! “BLACKMAIL,” with Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Bobs Watson and Gene Lockhart. Screenplay by David Hertz and William Lud-
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FINAL DAY!
Connolly Has Baton Trou-| § r :ble in Victor Herbert Movie Role.
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28.—In about - & month you are going to see on the screen the great Victor Herbert leading a symphony orchestra in the pit of a London theater while 20 ballet girls dance in a scene of almost ethereal beauty. It won't seem _ funny at all. We only wish you could have been at Paramount studios to watch this - §cene in production and hear Dance Director Leroy Prinz yell over the i « music: “Hey, you, the blond, second from the end, you're wobbling on "the : turns!” - You also might have obtained a - kick out of Walter Connolly, who doesn’t know A-flat from a six-story
to 1:45, 5 and 8:50.
SPREE TIME Jane Wyman budgets her expenses for 50 weeks a year, then
goes on what she calls her “annual bookkeeping moratorium.”
Frances Robinson, New York debutante wi found her way to the West Coast, is presented herein within the strong arms of Jenny Mack Brown, former University of Alabama footballer. Theyre in “Desperate Trails” together at the Alamo starting tomorrow.
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epartment house, taking the part of the great Herbert and leading the orchestra in its rendition of “Air de Ballet.”
Couldn’t Keep Up
Mr. Connolly, who has played newspaper publishers, gangsters, irate fathers, financiers, steamboat captains and horse race touts, never held a baton in his hands before. The orchestra could play fine, but he couldn’t keep up with it. So Arthur Kay, the celebrated muscian who used to lead Victor Herbert shows in their original productions, climbed down into the pit out of camera range and waved his arms at Mr. Connolly, who tried to keep in time with him. It was a ' little complicated and Walter soon began to sweat under, his full dress suit. Leader of the ballet| was the beautiful | Mary Martin of Texas and New York, the girl, whose heart used to belong to Daddy. Miss Martin stepped from Broadway's hottest jazz fo Hollywood’s most sentimental ‘waltzes. Thereupon she learned to her amazement that she was expected to be a toe dancer.
“Boy! Tough for Mary ¢
Toe dancing is something that most of its exponents start to learn in childhood. Few women ever have learned to perform | acceptably on the tips of their toes in less than three years. Mr. Prinz taught | Mary "how in two weeks. flat. This was tough on her. After a couple of days of dancing on her toes, blood began to ooze from her satin slippers. She got time off, only long enough to put some stiptic salve on “her tortured feet, and back she went to dancing. “1 wouldn't let her stop,” Mr. Prinz said. “I couldn't.” At the end of the two weeks knew how to toe dance, all right, but her feet were so sore she could hardly stand.
Premiere to Go To High Bidder
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28.—The world premiere of “A Child Is Born” will be the first in film history to go to the “highest bidder.” The event will be held in the city voting the greatest fund for the establishment of further developments of charity maternity wards in its hospitals. The auction of a world premiere followed requests from various Chambers of ‘Commerce inspired by the success of “Dodge City” in Dodge City, Kas.; “Union Pacific” in Omaha; “Wings of the Navy” in Pensacola; and “Young Mr. Lincoln” in Springfield, Il. The highest bidding city + will have studio co-opertaion for the world premiere with members of
the picture’s cast present locally:
to function as a committee under the direction of the Chamber of Commerce. Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lyin, Gladys George, Spring Byington, Nanette Fabares and Hobart ‘Cavanaugh are among the players who will serve on the Sima
Millionaire of 16, Works Today
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28 —Virginia, Corbin, yesteryear’s Shirley Temple, who made a million dollars before she was 16, was back at work ‘today as a Hollywood bit player. Miss Corbin was a box-office draw from 1913 to 1926 in such films as “Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp,”
“The City That Never Sleeps” and
“The Perfect Sap.” Her fortune, because of ‘bad investments, depression and poor judgment, just “mel away,” she says. She has a part|currently in “Diamonds Are Dangerous,” with George Brent and Isa Mania, Sheé has a few lines. .... She says the next time she gets a . million dollars shell hang onto it,
‘BABY GIRL/ADOPTED BY HOPE OF MOVIES
te HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28 (U. P.) — Bob Hope, film actor, and his wife, Mrs. Dolores Hope, were making an adopted baby girl at home in their + Hollywood house today. Mrs. Hope arrived yesterday with
the child, obtained trom the Cradle,
the famous foundling home at Evanston, Ill, where many film stars have adopted children. :
APOLLO
LAST DAY!
HOLLYWOOD
Actresses From Other Lands
By PAUL HARRISON
Lead Movies "Talent Parade’
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wig. Directed by H. C. Potter. Eddie Robinson is an escaped criminal sent to prison again after
being blackmailed by Gene Lockhart. He tries to throw Lockhart into
OLLYWOOD, Sept. 28.—While a lot of new young” American starlets are being ballyhooed for more than they're worth by the studios, the fact remains that the most talked-about actresses in Hollywood, and the most admired by critics everywhere are foreigners.
If you doubt it, try naming some American feminine stars, currently identified with . the screen, who are capable of carrying a variety of roles and creating distinct characterizations. Bette Davis, of course. But she’s the only one!
Now look at the foreigners: Anna Neagle and Vivien Leigh are certain candidates for the next Academy Award. Even so, local odds are about 5-4 that Bette Da-
vis will win it, for an unprece-
dented third time, for “Dark Victory.” Miss Leigh has a good chance because unprejudiced people who have seen the rough cuts of “Gone With the Wind” agree ig she does a magnificent job it.
Miss Neagle will not be as
strong a contender bécause her characterization of Edith Cavell was conscientiously played in too low a key to excite Hollywood, which is more impressed by loud sobs and belly-laughs. Miss Neagle’s “Sixty Glorious Years” and “Victoria the Great” were eligible for Academy consideration because they were made and first exhibited in England. So was “Pygmalion,” with the fine performance of Wendy Hiller. Nevertheless, there are three eminently capable English actresses, and you can add the names of Greer Garson and Geraldine Fitzgerald to the list.
OLLYWOOD also is profiting ‘from a Scandinavian invasion. Greta Garbo is a good actress. So, apparently, is Ingrid Bergman, brought from Sweden for “Intermezzo.” Vera Zorina and Sonja Henie may not be dramatic sensations, but they're col-
orful ‘stars and tops in their lines. |
Sigrid Gurie has made a new start after her harmful publicity, and she’ll likely go places as an exotic. . From Vienna-way, there’s Ilona
‘Massey, who can sing and act for
a million dollars of any studio's money; and she can turn every head’ in the Trocadero, too. ” J »
Anna Neagle’s two portrayals. of Queen Victoria won the approval of-the British royal family and invitations to luncheon and tea at Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth told her a couple of stories about Princess Margaret Rose, who's quite a movie fan. The royal family were holding a dress rehearsal for the coronation, with special attention to the conduct of the two little princesses. It was almost as dignified as the real thing, though, with
. court officials hovering about and
the new rulers being very solemn. In the middle of it, Margaret Rose tossed her velvet and ermine
train across one shoulder, struck -
a pose as if she were about to go into a dance, and said, “Look, mama—Ginger Rogers!”
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Peace Congress Returns Poster
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28. — An
ironic note was struck today when the poster plates for the World Peace Congress were returned to Jean Hersholt by the Congress com-
mittee. The Congress was to be held at Zurich, Switzerland in February, 1940. Mr. Hersholt designed the main poster. It was completed a
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a burning well, saves his wife instead. «COAST GUARD,” with Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bel-
lamy and Walter Connolly. Screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Albert Duffy and Harry Segall. Directed by Edward Ludwig. Randolph Scott and Ralph Bellamy, Coast Guarders, are in Jove with Frances Dee. Scott marries her but, can’t setle down and she eaves him. He rescues Bellamy, regains her love by his heroism. Lyric “EACH DAWN I DIE,” with James Cagney, George Raft and ‘Jane Bryan. Screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Warren Duff. Di-
Reporter Cagney is sent up on a frameup. He meets Gangster Raft. They Ll a getaway and Raft promises to find out who framed Jimmie,
“UNUSUALITIES,” on stage, with Herman Timberg and Herman Timberg Jr., Owen McGiveney and Cynda Glenn,
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