Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1939 — Page 29

? FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1089 ‘Golden Boy’ Gives Story. \ Of Ambition

Hioew s Begins New Policy| |

GE 29. ston. stat of Purdue University s an nwo ts chatrman of the contest co

nounced today. Medals will be awarded to club ‘More than 2000 fields in all Sec members having the biggest yields tions of the state will be judged by|following: the completion of, the corn experts, according to Mr. Pence, | judging some time after Oct. 18.

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{rime spr Riis Ma ~ LAFAYETTE Ind, Oct. 6—Be- : catise of “the" excellent. year “for; the Hoosier corn crop” “many. 100-bushel: persacre yields are expected: in: the |annual - Indiana : Five-Acre’ Corn

INDIANA LIBRARY] Gre '39 CONVENTION SET WEDNESDAY

300 Delegates Expected;

{ Of Starting Week's Bill { On Thursdays.

Loew’s Theater is presenting an extraordinarily good double feature , program this week consisting of the picturization of Clifford Odets’

“Golden Boy” and a well-made un-

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dersea thriller, “U-Boat 28.” The new bill was started yester- * day ‘instead .of the usual Friday opening. ' This will remain Loew's practice until further natice. “Golden Boy” is the story of Joe Bonaparte, a young Italian with beautiful tone in his violin and dynamite in his fists. A At the age of 21 he has been practicing - the violin for 10 years. The results are mastery &f the instrument, long and ‘beautiful curly hair, and the jibes of his working friends. Tired and Wants Money He is tired of the poverty of his existence, tired of his instrument, tired of the scorn he gets from his contemporaries. He wants life, money and a car, good clothes and most of all, a name. He hounds Tom Moody, .a smalltime promoter, for a chance to get some of these things ‘with his fists. He: finally gets the chance, wins, and fights his way to a fight with the contender. On the way he breaks his father’s heart and one of his own fists. He loses his ability not only to make music, but to ‘feel it. The story is dramatic and romantic enough to hide, in the fashion that makes Mr. Odets a good playwright, his principal theme.

But you will know that this is thé|

story, not only of Joe Bonaparte, but of the soul-drying fight of thousands of young people who are searching for something they can’t name, can’t see—only feel. They are searching for a chance to be somebody. Movie Hews to Line Unlike many another playwright, Mr. - Odets should be no whirling dervish when he sees Hollywood’s interpretativh of his drama. William Holden as the boy, Barbara Stanwyck as the girl, Adolph Menjou as the promoter, and most of -all, Lee J. Cobb as the father, give understanding performances. We rarely hear of a gangster as portrayed by Joseph Calleia. He is a man with a sharp wit, but he doesn’t kill when he loses. Perhaps Mr. Odets knows better than us the New York gunman, Model 1939. The outstanding performance is given by Mr. Cobb. He is playing his first movie role. He has been recognized for years as a competent Broadway actor. Only himself, he plays the role of father to a 21-year-old son. The accompanying picture is tense, well acted, plausible and a thriller. A war picture, it deals in humans with conflict as niére background. It could have been a mystery thriller laid in Scotland Yard or a. Dashiell. Hammett story with a background of Hollywood Boulevard. It happens.to be about a couple of spies with a war going . M.

‘Charles Starrett, with the help of Iris Meredith, braves all dangers and saves the ranch once again in “Riders of Black River,” opening to-

day at the Alamo.

HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

Betty Fields Is Hollywood's

Outstanding 'Huh-Uh' Girl.

wood’s Huh-Uh Girl.

OLLYWOOD, ‘Oct. 6.—This will introduce Miss Betty Field, Holly-

“Huh-Uh,” ordinarily just a grunt, of negation, is a local term implying the opposite—in spirit, at least—of “oomph.” It would be putting

it a little strongly, maybe, to say that an oomph-girl is an “uh-huh” or yes-girl, but that gives a general idea of the distinction. Miss Field

thinks both terms are pretty silly, but that it would be much sillier if anybody tried to ballyhoo her as being oomphy or glamorous. Since coming here from Broadway six months ago, she has played the feminine leads in three major pictures, none of which has been released. She isn’t known in the night spots or the rumpus rooms of the Beverly mansions. Local gossip columnists haven't even mentioned her name. She isn’t married, engaged, or even in love. She came here alone and lives in a sepulchral residential hotel— the sort of place where you instinetively whisper in the lobby. For the past two weeks, though, she has been living on a hot and dusty location near Chatsworth with the rest of the Hal Roach company filming “Of Mice and Men.” Nobody pretends to have enjoyed the discomforts, but Betty Field says she’d have worked in the middle of Death Valley rather ‘than. miss that role. 8 2 2 tT HE plays Curly’s wife, a cute, ..brazen . little . item .; =. makes passes at all the ranch hands and winds up with a broken neck in the hands of*Lon Chaney Jr. The part

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lywood actresses who recalled what bad-girl roles had done for the dramatic: stature of Claire Trevor and Bette Davis. The chance to work under the direction of Lewis Milestone, and along with Burgess Meredith in a John Steinbeck story, also

made the role desirable. Miss Field got it as soon as.Roach and Milestone saw her test. The test was recommended by several people who had seen her as the tart in “Angel Island” on Broadway. Her career has taken her into some astonishingly contrasted roles—sometimes as sweet and limpid ingenues and again as hard-boiled gals who are- no better than they should be.

ISS FIELD is all of 22, but unless she’s careful Hollywood will type her as an adolescent. Paramount brought her here to play opposite 18-year-old Jackie Cooper in a film version of “What a Life,” which, she had done in New York. In the story, she’s only 14 or 15, so} the studio represented her as being actually only 17 years old. When that was finished, Miss Field and Cooper were still available,

—_|so the. studio rushed them into

“Seventeen.” Then came “Of Mice and Men.” She’s only 16, or perhaps 17, in this one, too, but the part has been built up until it is far more important than the one in the play or the character in the book. So she’ll be back next spring— assuming, of course, that Paramount will take up her option. If it doesn’t, she’ll probably manage to come back anyway. But not for any dull little ingenue roles, nor for any oomph-girl business, either. “IY think this glamour stuff is fine for the actresses who can get away with it,” she said, “and very bad for the ones who can’t. I can’t.” It isn’t that Betty Fields is bowlegged or hook-nosed, or anything iike that. She really has quite an elegant figure, although she doesn’t dress, Hollywood-style, to accentuate it. Her nose is all right, but it definitely lacks the classic symmetry of, say, Hedy -Lamarr’s.. Her

them mysterious, but it’s more suitable for an engaging grin than a haunting, provocative smile. It’s a

eyes are nice, but you wouldn’t call |

To Hear Discussion - of Public Relations.

- The sth annual three-day meet-

ling of the Indiana Library Associa-

tion is to convene at the Hotel Lin~ coln Wednesday. Discussions on public relations and similar ‘probiems of "Hoosier Hbrarians are lo be

ident of the association, announced that: public relations experts from

| New York City and the Middle West

will’ widen the expected 300 delegates. Speakers will include Evan Walker, public relations director for the Indianapolis Street Railways, Inc.; E. C. Belzer, display manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co.; Frank L. Brunckhorst of the Gary PostTribune; Joseph Thomas, of the In‘dianapolis Star; Miss Mary . Jo Woods, of the business .branch of the Indianapolis Public Library; Miss: Carrie -E. Scott, in charge of children’s work: at: the Indianapolis Public, Library, and’ Louis ‘J. Bailey, |. Queensborough: librarian.

with an election committee reports. Officers are Ralph R. Shaw, Gary, president; Miss Furnas, vice president; Carabelle- G.- Dickey, Terre Haute, secretary; Susan E. Erlewine, Kokomo, treasurer, .and Dr. C. B. Coleman, Indianapolis, ex-officio member of the. executive board.

Degree Cost H uey $19

WASHINGTON, Oct. 68 (U.-P.. —The late Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana spent $1910 on brass bands, flowers and advertising when he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Loyola Uni-

versity in 1931, his widow revealed today. The information was contained in petitions submitted to the Board of Tax Appeals by Mrs. Rose McConnell Long, asking redetermination of his alleged income tax deficiencies totaling $24,749 for 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1935. Mrs. Long said that her late husband personally. supported the “Share Our Wealth” society until his death. She said that income listed by the Internal Revenue Bureau as “from miscellaneous sources” in fact constituted political contributions and was spent on political ‘projects. The purchase of several automobiles was necessary for political campaigning, she added.

0CT. 11 PROCLAIMED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (9. P.).— President Roosevelt today - proclaimed Oct. 11 as Gen. Casimir Pulaski Day in memory of the Polish patriot who fought ‘with Gen. Washington's army in. the American Revolution. * Mr. Roosevelt acted - in compliance with a resolution of the last Congress instructing him to issue such a proclamation. His proclamation said that ‘we do honor to ourselves and our nation in honoring those sons of foreign nations who assisted in the establishment of the United States . and one of these whose names we hold in’ high esteem is Count Casimir Pulaski, who met death on Oct. 11, 1779, in consequence of his exploits in the assauli upon Savannah. ”

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B.. A. Smedley,” ‘Salem, Ind, ; ‘sachem of the Iridiana Great. ncil, Improved ‘of Red | Syn is to preside at the 70th an-

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bers are’ expected.

REPORT 1085. OPEN FOR SKILLED LABOR|

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Positions: ‘are. ‘open’ in Indians and fi, 2

adjoir g ‘states for. skilled workers; George J. Smith, director of the In-|

"dianapolis~ office “of the State Em-|:"

ployment Service, reported today.: Most of the vacancies exist,” he said, because uptrends in business has partially exhausted the. supply of skilled labor. He said that none of the jobs industries. Openings in: the state include jobs for mechanical draftsmien, stage director, ‘fountain. manager, interior: decorator, production clerk, drapery salesman, dental technician, die makers, multiple boring machine op-| erator, miter saw operator, shaping]

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grinder operator, machine repairman, automatic screw machine operator, hand molder, metal spinners,’ printing pressman, linotype operator and master baker. Other jobs are open in Towa, Maine, Illinois, Kentucky and Wiss consin.

WINAMAC, Ind., Oct. 6 (U. P.).— Jasper-Pulaski National Forest offi-| cials ‘reported today that volunteer firemen and CCC workers had brought under control a fire that swept more than 1000 acres in the preserve. The blaze centered in an Nimproved area eight miles north of here.

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