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THE INDIANAPOLIS

THERE'S SURPRISE AHEAD i.

| The customer doesn't know it, , Todd, the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street” on the Apollo's

Sweeney bill this week,

but he's

MOVIES

To Miss Garbo,

ahout to be hon hy |

By JAMES THRASHER

Miss Greta Garbo, whose request

| BY THIS TIME, someone surely has noticed the amusing coincidence in downtown movie bookings this week. At Loew's we have

for solitude has become as much a

national byword as Thomas Marshall's plea for a goofl five-cent cigar,

And around the corner at Alone.” Ay tank ay go home, ” Also it mav have been noticed that the Lyric is feeling the douhie (or more) * feature influence in its stage show Last week brought no less than three headliners to the local vaudeville stage in Jack Haley, Mary Carlisle and Jack Teagarden (plus his orchestra) Currently

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the Lyric has a brace of star attractions in Shep Fields, the man with the “rippling rhvthm” orchestra, and the popular team of radio rustics, Lum and Abner, » Speaking of double features, the Apollo management couldn't forget how its theater was nearly wrecked by the erowds which came to see ‘Frankenstein” and “Dracula,” the goose-flesh bovs. So, perhaps in a reminiscent mood, it has booked in a team of British thrillers which it hopes will be just as attractive and chill-inspiring. They are "I'he Return of the Frog,” which is based on Fdgar Wallace's “The India Rubber Man.” and “The Demon Rarher Fleet Street.” which is the sanguine tale of Sweeney Todd and his straight-edge razor,

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” IN CONNECTION WITH Miss Garho's debut as a comedienne after all these vears—in “Ninot.chka,” Loew's pulled a Dr. Gallup the other day. Manager Ward Farrar arranged a screening for a representative group. Included were a doctor, a businessman, policeman, merchant, salesman, radio announcer, musician, student, seeretary, fashion expert, professional woman, clubwoman and beauty operator. Also a liberal sprinkling of wives, convehiently classed as “typical housewife.” Written comments at the pletures close revealed a unanimous feeling of enjoyment. Most of the praise went to the star, but for a variety of reasons. As regards the story, Mrs. Lowell 8. Fisher, Indianapolis Council of Women president, had this to say: “This picture deals more effectively with the drabness of communism in Russia than many

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the Circle is a fim called "We Are Not

violinist: “If laughter is the best music of all, here is good reason fon R. O at Loew's when ‘Ninotehka' makes her bow.” Morrie Hicks, radio announcer, didn't know whether Lubitsech touch” or what like Garbo and all the rest Mary Lou Over, Butler found it “exciting comedy.” But the only one who really viewed the star with a profesgional eve was Miss Eddie Abbot, beauty operator. Said she: “Garbo with a smile looks 10 years vounger." That's something for you ladies to remember

g. 4 # PAUL MUNI, who stars in the Circle's feature, is doing double duty on Broadway this week. “We Are Not Alone” was held over in New York, and Mr. Muni arrived in person to star in Maxwell Anderson’'s “Key Largo.” It is a notorious fact that Manhattan's drama critics have =a habit of teeing off on prodigals who return from Hollywood to the stage. But not Mr. Muni. They received his performance with unanimous cheers, though opinion on the merits of the new play was divided For those who saw “Key Largo" here, it may be interesting to know that the “big time" erities’ appraisal was no more in accord than were press or public in provineial Indiana Sidney Whipple of the New York World-Telegram called the play “the finest and most pase sionately sincere work he (Mr. Anderson) has accomplished in recent vears." John Mason Brown of the Post wrote that “it comes across as an honorable intention rather than a good play . It is bogged down by talk. It is chilled by pretentiousness, It is marred by Mr, Anderson's refusal to use a blue pencil.” The Brooklvn FRFagle's Arthur Pollock found “Key Largo” a “beautiful, thrilling drama. It enthralls every second.” To Richard Lockridge of the Sun, “the play builds to a concentrated power more intense , ,, than anvthing

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TIMES

FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939

HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

Louise Ranier Decides to Do Some Plays Or Pictures—Back in the United States

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1.1 see by the papers that Luise Rainer, the tousie-headed, guileless-eved imp who gave Talkietown a couple of les sons in how to win academy awards, is back in America—specifically in trysts with the legitimate dray-ma

Manhattan—after some unhappy east of Land's End.

She is toying with the notion of doing some plays or some pictures,

Plays, probably. Hollywood, still silently jealous of Miss Rainer's triumphs here, and audibly derisive about her flops, is not likely to admit that the player of OLan and Anna Held got quite a Rickink around in subsequent inept roles in bad pictures, If Miss Rainer returns to flickers it won't be as Elsie Dinsmore, nor vet as the ranchman’'s daughter in two fleeting scenes of a Gene Autry epic. The actress will call her shots next time This is not to say that Miss Rainer was either amiable or easy to handle during any part of her stay in Hollywood. She wasn't But she was a pretty good actress, and Bette Davis is the only other one who has collected enough Academy Oscars to make a set of book-ends. In an elder day, Hollywood would have remanticized her uppity behavior as artistic Miss Rainer was unlucky enough to be around when the market for temperament, rudeness and other manifestations of pure cussedness was at an alltime low, $ & #

IT WAS A TIME when studio rosters were glittering with imtalent, and disgruntled American actresses were talking of foreign accents, and wags were posting notices—"English Spoken Here" studio Also, it was of Simon

on the time Simone Mlle did more opinion against plavers than anvthing since the Astor Place riot in New York in

1840. Hollywood didn't mind that

Simon probably

foreign

she seemed to be a not-especially-

good actress. but it did her as a floor trouper of its somewhat natural hyvpochondria, the movie colony tries to live up to the show-must-go-on tradition of the theater, but Simone was always whimpering about her ills and inconveniencing hundreds of people by going home with a raging fever. Of course the delays in production were pretty expensive, too, The actress carried her own clinical thermometer and was alwavs eager to prove that she was genuinely ill. Tt was a long time before somebody discovered that fhe instrument was faulty, regis.

criticize

To the

steady

tering several degrees higher than it should. Miss Rainer wasn't a very workman either. She was A bundle of nerves, and frail. Sometimes she went home, and

sometimes she carried on at the studio in a brave aura of martyrdom, One day she fainted in a seene, slumping into an inert, pathetic little heap. The camera caught it all, The studio doctor rushed over, and vou could see the alarm in his expression as he fingered her left wrist, “Get an ambulance,” he said, "and take this girl to a hospital at once. She has hardly any pulse at all!" They took her home, as she insisted, and she soon revived, Next morning, watching the rushes of the picture, executives saw the take which showed Miss Rainer's collapse. Somehow, it didn't look Just right—not quite like an unmeditated fall. But, of course, there was the doctor's report, 5 & =» TODAY, HOLLYWOOD : attributes to Miss Rainer one of the slickest little deceptions in realism that ever earned an unhappy player a well-deserved rest. It seems that if you take almost any object about the size of a tightlyrolled handkerchief and place it high in an arm-pit, and hold the arm closely to the side for awhile, circulation in the arm and hand will be so impeded that the pulse beat will be alarmingly faint If this story is true, it shouldn't be told to Miss Rainer’'s discredit Players do have nerves, and even better than athletes they know when they're in good fettle or off form. All actors have their tricks, and the best actors use them

cleverly.

BETTE DAVIS, yi hm Sia n AID AT 10:81—1:46—5:01—8:16

fans Tuenee “DANCING COED”

Lana Turner

® 1 Big Hits—First City Showing John Mack Rrown, Furry Knight "OKLAHOMA FRONTIER" Tallspin Tommy, “DANGER FLIGHT" ‘‘Zorro's Fighting Legion’ —Naws

"Garbo gets the Lubitsch touch!”

CHARLIE M'CARTHY

big lustrous brown eves, Charlie could move his head but not CAN ROLL HIS EYES his eyes, and his master, Edgar | Bergen, wanted him to be able to

roll his eyes in love scenes with the actress Constance Moore for his next picture

HOLLYWOOD, Dee, 1 (UP). — Charlie MeCarthy had another op(eration, and today he can roll his

ot WA THE FIGHTING SINFUL 3

BLAZE INTO LIFE BEFORE YOUR EYES!

DIETRICH

SOMETHING NEW ABOUT THE OLD WEST ... And the Star of "MR. SMITH GOES TO ER

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Heretofore |

Mr. Anderson has achieved before.” The Times' Brooks Atkinson admitted that “ ‘Key Largo’ is the work of people who know their Jobs in the theater. But... Mr. Anderson has drowned the hest part of his work by pouring golden words over it uneritically sometimes the poet in Mr. Anderson is the enemy of the play wright And this is one of the occasionns All of which should leave everyones opinion bolstered :

U. S. WANTS TO KNOW | HOLLYWOOD, Dec. I. (U.P.)— Rosetta and Vivian Duncan, the “Topsy and Eva’ sisters of the stage, were under Federal summons | today to appear in Los Angeles within 20 days and answer a suit | for income taxes dating back to | their pre-bankruptey they earned $1,000,000,

more serious treatments.” And Miss Louise Gerdts, fashion expert: “The kind of thing for which there is certainly a need at this time” Said Art Berry, band leader and

TODAY!

30¢-40¢

After § NEXT

"What's the Lubitsch touch?"

"Sh-h! It’s what Garbo gets in that new M-G-M comedy!"

"What's the title of it?"

"Its about Garbo in Paris, and she laughs, firts, drinks—"

"What's the title of it?" "Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire are in it, and it's a riot of =" "What's the title of it ?"

"I can’t pronounce it, but here's what the ads say: ‘NINOTCHKA'—and it’s great!"

KAY SUTTON ANNE GWYNNE -TED WEEMS AND ORCHESTRA

ALI HILTON'S

(GOODBYE MR CHIPS

CRI — WTO EET] CHR SCIeen experience

days when

WHEN DOES IT START?

AroLio

“The Return of the Frog.” Gordon J3arkers Un 2 O'Connor, 12:9%, 2 7:52 and 10:27. “The Hemeu Barber of Fleet Street,” with Tod Siaughter, at 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45 and 9:20. CIRCLE ‘We Are Not Alone.” with Paul Muni, Jane Bryan, Flora Robson, at 12; 20, 3:30. 6:45 and 10 “Private Detective,” with Jane Wy Dick Foran, at 11:25, 2:35, 5:30

with at

“I can’t even pronounce it."

An Ernst Lubitsch Pro« duction. Screen Play by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch., Based on the original story by Melchior Lengyel, Dis rected by Ernst Lubitseh. Aan M:.G:M Picture,

“Don’t pronounce it—see it!"

GARBO . ‘NINOTCHKA’

bp ROMANCE wre “MAISIE!" ROARwin Damon RUNYON!

Jibei 1 [URP

B WALTER -

* BRENNAN: “Gir —

may and 2 INDIANA “"Pestrer Rides Again,” with James Stewart Marlene Dietrich Charles )Vinn at 12:42. 3:47, 6:52 and

“Launch It Off with Constance Mo hn ay Downs, at 11:39, 2:44, 5 5 tng R:5

nget

LOEW'S “Ninotchka,” with Greta Garbor, aha 19 Douglas, at 12:15. 3:30 6:50 n

‘Joe and Ethel a Bed Call on the President,’ with ot Reh Lewis Stone, at 11 as’ Ths and 8:50,

LYRIC Lum and Abner: Shen Fitlds and n ge 124%; 23%

Siatste n 5:03 18 and 9.2% ‘Ma an From Montreal’ with Richara Alen Andy eal se. at 11:32 3:52, 6:02, 8:12 and 10:22.

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FABEN SEVIIZRY | CONCERT |

EMANUEL FEUERMANN

CELLIST

Tomorrow at 8:30 P. M.

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