Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1939 — Page 28

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HOLLYWOOD

Modern Directors Have Vetoed Idea A Tree's a Tree and a Rock's a Rock

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8—When flickers were in their adolescence and directors were beginning to wish for more authentic backgrounds,

a pioneer producer squelched them by ordering:

“A tree's a tree and a

rock's a rock, so shoot it in Griffith Park.” So Griffith Park served for years as everything from prairie to

pamrpas, jungle to tundra. carefully to avoid catching Ios Angeles’ City Hall in their shots of African tribal soirees. But even practical Hollywood finally grew ashamed of the same old rocks and eucalyptus trees, so companies began going on more distant locations, Southern ‘California boasts that it can duplicate any region in the world. Lately, though, produ~tion hudgets have been bent and shattered ‘by a vogue for realistic scenery at any distance and any price. For instance, California quite the right country for “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” s6 R-K-O took a large company to Eugene, Ore. Illinois itself wasn't even good enough. Twentieth-Fox made “Drums Along the Mohawk” in Utah, and Metro picked Idaho for “Northwest Passage.” Tdaho is considered almost a suburb of Hollywood now. Its Sun Valley doubles for the Alps, and its plains and hills are favored for superwesterns. Director William Wellman gets claustrophobia on a sound stage, 50 he dragged “Beau Geste” into Arizona and “The Light That Failed” into New Mexico. » * THE STUDIOS HAVE tried hard to make pictures in the original locales of the stories, but it seldom works very well. David Selznick thought he'd do “Tom Sawyer” at Hannibal, Mo. but there were too many billboards and telephone poles. Warners have had to build their own Virginia City, Independence, Mod, wasn't of any use to “Jesse James.” But “The Biscuit Eater,” a dog story, really is being filmed in Georgia, where it belongs. About half of the story of “Buck Benny Rides Again” is supposed to take place on a dude ranch near Reno. But the Nevada country doesn't look like Nevada country to Director Mark Sandrich, sO he'll take his ranch scenes in Mexico. Orson Welles originally planned to take his troupe 10 Panama for the South Ame rican jungle stuff in “Heart of Dail nets.” But that was too simple. or something, s6 now he has decided on the Florida Everglades New York's Mayor La Guardia last month made a strong bid for he return of the movie industry to the city of its origin. sea, lakes, mountains and the

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REALISM IS NO GREAT moto Hal Roach amd D. W. Griffith in their filming of “l1000.000 B. 'C.” However, they've chosen & Nevada locat ion &s an

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a a. Dorothy Lamour-—Akim Tamiroft “DISPUTED PASSAGE” Jasehin Heifetr—Joel McCrea “THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC”

Tirst Indiana Showing Smiley Burnette *‘Rovi in’ Tambleweeds™ Jackie Cooper, “Two Bright Boys” ghting Je News

didn’t *» have |

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He spoke | : | actly advantages of the big town itself. | [ Ways run,

| other day. | hairpins and chewing gam. Henry

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Cameramen had to figure their angles

approximation of prehistoric scenery. Their people are deffhitely wrong, and they know it; but they also know that nobody would pay to see a Neanderthal hero woo a misshapen, troglodyte maid. The leading man in this Stone-Age epic ic Victor Mature, who looks more like something from Olympus than a scion of an anthrapoid family, His gal is Carole Landis, the Golden One, complete with permanent wave and 1938 contours. Nobody will wear more than

the Hays Office requires, but that's |

probably quite a lot more than was stylish a million years ago.

The story is a simple narrative |

of a dawning of civilization—how people began to learn something of kindness and co-operative work. Love doesn't seem to have changed much. The problem of

dialog worried the producers, but | they've decided to have the actors |

speak monosyllabic gibberish. The voice of a narrator everything. They hope.

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JOE HERMANI IS ONE movie veteran who wasn't at all affected by the change from silents to talkies. During 17 years of acting

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he never has said a word on the |

set. Joe's a deaf-mute. But no charitable motive prompts casting directors to hire Hermani, He gives full value for his pay check, for he has no rival in registering distaste or disgust. In “Little Old New York” there's a scene in which Richard Greene hands Hermani a sour apple. Then comes the wry-face act

According to the rules, an actor |

who doesn't speak is an extra. But Joe is a bit plaver and draws $25 checks. He qualifies by making a slight sound, a sort of grunt, Usually the grunt is cut out of the sound track, but Joe doesn't feel slighted. He's better paid than thousands of plavers who could talk, but aren't allowed

to.

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UNENDING YARNS ARE told |

about the hard lot of property men, but Eddie Jones has found his toughest job in “Th® Grapes He has had to collect & fleet of disreputable cars and trucks and through weeks of production maintain them in exthe same asthmatic and shaky condition. They must albut they must never run well. The vintage vehicle, half tour-

| Ing car, half truck, driven by the the |

Joads played Jones Talse

It's held together by

Fonda stood on a rear fender as he roped a mattress on top of the

| load—a load of bed springs, fur- | niture, chickens, children and old | ‘clothes.

With the camera rolling and Fonda speaking some lines, the fender broke clean off. - Fonda, sprawling, said some things that you could find in the book but not in the script. So did Director

| John Ford, whose star might have

been injured. Jones didn't try to say anything. He had fixed that fender s60 it would rattle just but he hadn't known that anybody was going to stand on it.

COMMAND PERFORMER |

Irina Baronova, appearing “Florian,” speaks nine languages, has appeared before English and

Danish royalty and King Carol of

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WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

‘“Hitler—Beast of Roland Drew, a 3 9. 6:50 and 10 Guy,” with" Victor MeL gle Jackie Cooper, at 11:12, 2:22, 5:3 and 3:42

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with Duna, at 12:30,

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{will end its long spell of darkness « {Tt to Me,” in for a three-day engagement.

After the musical comes the engagement of Raymond Massey in | “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” which opens Dec. 21 for a half-week. And in

WHAT MANNER OF MEN THESE?

s acquainted with one of Lilliput's small fry in the coumse of “GulliMax Fleischer’s technicolor cartoon transcription of the Swift classic, which is booked as the Circle's Christmas Week attraction, beginning Dec. 22.

English’s Darkness Ends On Monday—With Sophie

English’s, which has been remarkably well tenanted since October, show”

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CATHEDRAL PLANS SWING CONCERT

| Cathedral High School's Student [ Theater has announced a ‘“sym-

phonic swing concert and stage | for per Sr ames on Sunday |

10 days) on Monday, when “Leave and Monday nights at the high |

the Cole Porter-Samuel and Bella Spewack musical hit, moves | school.

| The orchestra, glee club and | other talent will take part under | the direction of Brother Pierre, C.

addition, we are assured of theatrifecal openings on both Christmas and New Year's nights. “Tobacco Road,” the Christmas| lattraction, will play a full week on

[its fifth trip to these parts—a feat, [can really be somebody in the com[all things ‘considered, about as re-| ing musical. to the {art earned her high praise—at least, will Tend [from one New York critic.

markable as its six-year run in New (York. And on Jan. i, Miss Con- | [stance Bennett, of Hollywood, Cal, land Bennett Switch, Ind. [her blond beauty to Noel Cow ards | “Easy Virtue.” |good time.

Three Veterans Teamed

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[tude of attractions. Three of them |

are those doughty veterans, (Moore, Sophie Tucker and William | Gaxton Iyric called

i Daddy,” basis of its music alone, |original setting, it also boasts a |strip-tease pantomime. | This will be Mr. Gaxton's first | trip to Indianapolis. so far as the oldest resident's memory recalls. (And his coming will complete] [for us the famous Moore- ~Gaxton | team which appeared in “Of Thee (I Sing,” “Let 'Em Eat Cake” and “Anything Goes.” It was Mr. Gax- | (ton, you'll remember, who played | President Wintergreen to a Moore's classic’ Vice Presiden | Throttlebottom on Broadway | [ And “Tieave It to Me” finally [brought Miss Tucker and Mr. | Moore together after more years of | trouping than either might like to | admit. On one occasion Miss Tucker | | trailed Mr. Moore like a bloodhound | [for 40 weeks, clear across the old {Orpheum Circuit (Chicago to the | | Pacific) and always a week behind. | Miss Tucker, also known as or}

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| Last of the Red-Hot Mammas or your Aunt Sophie, makes her debut | in a real speaking part in “Leave Tt | to Me.” Heretofore she has con- | fined her talents to revues and | night clubs, and her nearest ap- |

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MURAT SHRINE CHRISTMAS BENEFIT SHOW

MURAT TEMPLE Sunday, Dec. 10th TWO PEFORMANCES

3:30P.M. 8:30P.M.

COLONEL ROSCOE TURNER in person with motion pictures of his famous speed flights and air exploits. } ENTIRE PROCEEDS WILL BE USED FOR CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR INDIANAPOLIS NEEDY. TWELFTH DISTRICT AMERYCAN LEGYON-— CO-SPONSORS — Admission — “Adults 40c; Children 25¢

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Victor diately wired condolences to Maurice Evans, Raymond Massey, Iulah Bankhead, Katharine HepAnother is that revealing pum Heart Belongs to Waters and a few others who had

which became & hit on the |been struggling along in competi- | | In its tion to Miss Sophie.

S. C, who has been rehearsing the groups for the past month. This | will be the Student Theater's first | production of the season.

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Festival April 7 to Replace 125-Instrument Event.

Invitations have gone out to all Indiana piano teachers to enter their most proficient pupils in Indiana’'s Fourth Piano Festival, to be held at Butler Field House on the afternoon and evening of Sunday, April 7. The event's title has been changed officially from the 125 Grand Piano Festival to the present designation, according to M. M. Miller, festival manager. This year's sponsoring organization will be the Wilking Foundation, of which. Earle Howe Jones, of the Jordan Conservatory piano faculty, is president. Frank O. Wilking, who has conducted the past festivals, again* is to direct the players. Proceeds of the festival will be used to provide scholarships for talented piano students. Auditions will be held for the pupils of teachers co-operating in the festival. For the coming event the management is planning special entertainment, including voice and brass ensembles and possibly ballet dancing. Music for the piano ensemble again is being arranged by Burton B. Burkette. The 125 Grand Piano Festivals were held for three wears, beginning in 1986. There was no performance last year.

KORDA AND BRITAIN TO MAKE SUB FILM

Times Speciml NEW YORK, Dec. 8-—Alexander Korda will leave for London Sunday on the Dixie Clipper to start production on a new film, “Hunting the U-Boat,” which is to be made in co-operation with the Royal Navy.

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