Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1939 — Page 19

PAGE 18 tae = : i — THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1939 | LEAPS TO DEATH * | DANCE iw.

M HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P).— OVIES By JAMES THRASHER) RE a A . . | John Hammell, 58, Paramotint film Hal Bailey's Band \ J N a L. : SE lexectitive, leaped to his death yes- [C R Y S T A L | , i. [terday from ‘a bathroom window of | Wilshire Hospital where he had ute WN. Whtise WHI Bio"

Harvest, Filmarte's Productio h, a" SE ge pe ; y a one for a ‘medical diagnosis.

Proves No Cause For Raised Eyebrows | 1 a wo as TODAY © Your LAST CHANCE to See | Na N & a LUM & ABNER Plus SHEP FIELDS

“HARVEST,” THE FRENCH film borhe westward from New York WV i 3 B Seats 25¢ Until SP. M, * 30¢, 40¢ After § P.M. on the wings of ‘critical praise, reached Indianapolis and the Athe- . gh & : SS naeum last hight, where it was presented as the season's second offering of Pilmarte Guild. N PE Before the film arrived word had come that, some ‘months ago, 3 \R # oi ; Y ; 1] R RE ETT , “Harvest” had been banned by the New York Board of Censors— PN SN Ls ] EY t.) though the decision later was re- - — TNH TC Na \ i Zz i 3 ; ul WE : a SON versed. Tf such tidings led any | furle pays hith, Later he and a i Fo ; 3 B 3 g \ 5 ‘ B Of last evening's audience to be- = Arsule sow another crop. And MLEAUSAR LL Rhy

lieve that they would find cause | Arsule tells hith that she is ‘to \ SEW : Ng ; | ’ h 4 J A SHEP for ‘raised ‘eyebrows or ‘raised ‘have a ‘child. That is all. : \ 3 bw ; ; 5 LR RS

noses, they certainly were disap- \ rN : ; LY Moe ee POlRtet. 3 disap HY } TRA \ EB ] : SE M& § 1 E (. nS The only startling features were TI AM TEMPTED to quote some ¥ NW . the naive frankness and ‘utter laudatory ‘passages from other | \ A 2 i : : 5 CLLR hah hs di) Simplicity, which to our unac- peviews of the film, if ‘only ‘to con- \ \ 3 Si X 4 ' il

custo re ar | A \ | : ARE > rl ly i ane ear are almost fess that T ‘must have ‘missed ! i Ra 3 » { TOT i sh g. here was not so much h aes | 3 | . y we ial | — Liisi » Or Beer as a grain of i endo ‘in ‘th much of the picture's greatness. | : 3 } RR | nA Hoi Mig nnuen n € | One sentence, however, must suf- \ ' NAN WN a 4 BN — Romance With Sc) Mounties! : _ fice. Tt is from a glowing ‘para- | ; : | 2 VES. \ \ } Ee : : | # Tomorrow! MONTREAL” * * % graph by Andre Maurois, who says \ 3 E NAN AAR a k WHEN DOES IT START? TED WEEMS “MAN FROM

THE STORY, such as there js. | The heroes of the story live on | \ \ } ™ \ \ ww We concerns a peasant who remains | the Screen with the austere sim- ER E \ - X NN tury Wy 2 _ | and Orchestra Richard Arion OW Andy Devine in a crumbling motintain village A Plicity of the ancient Greek he- | : NN A Gosdon Harker. Una o'Conir. ; ;

. 5 » [ 3 3 Y NX \ AR 12:0 2:49. B19. 1:59 ly 10:27 after all the other inhabitants oc that We find in Homer. "The Demon Barber of

\ 3 : TT TTA TEI, have left. Fe [lives ‘us Bost He Which ‘is all true, perhaps. But . 3 AN NN La ML Negeets with Tod Slaughter, ®t 11. LAST DAY! LUM & ABNER *» SHEP FIELDS & ORCHESTRA

: ' ing to Homer's 1:35, 4:10, 6:45 and 9:20. can by Hoachi } something happened S 1 ng game until the heroes. While, in ‘‘Harvest,

| ; 4 May | Rhu dg TOMORROW day an itinerant scissors p ‘ \ ) A : NY RN 4 “We ot Ald with ‘Pam || issors grinder there is scarcely & single really | 3 3 Si \ 3 ae Are NO Hien RObaoh 8 comes along and changes his life. : : 3 \ RR ; 3 Muni, Jun Bry 3 dramatic incident. Plotlessness, NN \ 3 12:20. 3:30. 6:45 and 10 For with the wanderer is a NN \ 3 aA private Detective,” with Jane Wy- at 11:00 A . to some, seems to be the hallmark A \ Re R man, Dick Poran, at 11:25 2:35 5:30 |] ' v"h

woman (or slave, perhaps) who ; \ a } N 9 : : : : of true dramatic art, but not to | X \ 4 i and 9. pulls his little cart for him 3 { ] ® \ SEE ] INDIANA ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW 4 + | this ‘play and picture-goer., Nor Sa Si RY 3 ¥ % Shain Pantur $ . Cd A Se \ 1 i “Pestry Ridex Again.” with James || y nturle, the peasant, takes Ar- does it hold that because Jean NN } RX 3 N \ ¥ Stewart Was Tere A Dietrich. Charles { ON OUR ue. the woman, to live with him. Giono's “Harvest” was Bh great Y N : \ X NR k gypnmder. at 12.42, 3.47, 6:52 hd || RELL FP TE L inspir i iv i i + Oy X 9:5 } ve nies ye 10 re} UP novel, its film counterpart is cut RR “nigh 1 Of With consti 8 SOW a crop of wheat. from the same golden cloth \ _ RB Maore, Johnny Downs, at | 2.44 is ol the wheat at the fair for This is not to deny that there 0 \ 0 hii TTT From Radio's Best All ph Ph is much ‘of beauty in the ‘pictine. | a \ \ ; ONinNKn With Gre anno | LACT Show Band!!

Then comes Gedemus, the scis- | There is found a highly imagina- Am 3 X Meivin ‘Dousins, “av "12:13, 3:30, 6:30

sors erinder, to beg money for a tive use of the camera, and a re- | EE NW ame wih HON ity CNN hGH donkey, since Panturle has stolen ‘markable sensitivity in Marcel \ \ \ Lrexitent, vir, An otheth, Lewis his other beast ‘of burden. Tan- | Pagnol’s direction. And Fernan- 3 : NRC — et. | del. that ‘gaunt Gallic clown, | A g : : pli i Lith ahd Abter; Shen Piel a turned in an inspired bit of fool- | Bh | SEY : i cohesty: Lae at 12.4

HN MAT. ery as Gedemus, { i 4 . a “Wah ¥ Montreal,” with R! hENGLISH DEC. 11-12-13 WED. Yet through it all one had the X $ : y * . ad Atten, ANY. Protea HE)

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