Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1939 — Page 20

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HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON &

A Few Tips for Santa Claus, Who May Be Worried About Stars.

HOLLYWOOD, DEC. 19.—HERE IT IS almost Christmas time and your correspondent, dilatory as usual, has just made out his list of

presents for the stars.

The stars, on the other hand, have had their lists completed for Their secretaries see to that, with meticulous notations and rechecking against the gift receipts of Christmas, 1938. If Gloria Goofus

weeks.

last year gave Brenda Bryte a cut glass what-is-it worth approximately $40, and if nothing has happened in the interval to change this valuation of their friendship, Miss Bryte's secretary now must select something worth $40 for Miss Goofus. And if the cut glass what-is-it is to be given away this year, it must go to someone in whose house Miss Goofus is never likely to be a guest. Most of the stars and quite a " few executives will send your correspondent a handsome card with cordial best wishes for a happy holiday. A few who have especially liked something I've wuitten will send me a bottle of Scotch. It's always Scotch. Their secretaries are unaware that I don't drink Scotch. But of course it's the spirit of

the thing that counts, and that's | I can | make out a list of presents for | wishful | thinking helps a little, anyway. |

exactly the reason why

the stars Maybe my

choose. I know that Mae West always has own version of Catherine Great, so I hereby pass along the hint to Santa Claus. I'd like to

give W. C. Fields an assignment

| ranged. SCREEN ROLES are a cinch to |

wanted to play her | the

to impersonate Major Amos Hoo- | § ple in a flicker about Our Board- || °

ing House. But Mr. Fields—egad! —feels that the role is too close to him and that he'd rather practice

on Charles Dickens’ Mr. Pickwick. §

Alice Faye is dying to follow Tallulah Bankhead and Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson in “Rain.” Henry Fonda has been longing secretly for some more Lincoln pictures. Linda Darnell wants to star in a new screen version of “Smilin Through,” but she'll have some tears to dry on Christmas morning because the role already has been wrapped up by Metro and placed under the tree at Jeannette MacDonald's house. Jimmy Stewart, who seems to have forgotten the “Ice Follies,” wants to do a horror picture. Wallace Beery's sole remaining ambition is to make a movie with his elder adopted daughter, Carol Ann. I think that can be ar-

But I must think of some specific presents that the players need, or deserve—such as a nice dress for Dorothy Lamour, a poor girl who has been running around the sound stages for years in a cheap little strip of cotton cloth.

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{Bennett in Noel Coward's comedy, | “Easy Virtue,” beginning Jan. 1 at| English’s, will be “the greatest show | on earth,” one gathers.

Featuring Audrey Peppe Olympic Skating Champion And a Cast of 70 Ice Stars |

GORGEOUS SCENERY

This startlingly realistic characterization Is achieved by Raymond Massey in “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer prize-winner which opens Thursday night at English’s for a three-day, four-performance engagement. Mr, Massey created the Lincoln role in the Playwrights’ Company's highly

praised New York production,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

ABE LINCOLN ‘LIVES AGAIN’

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The engagement of Constance

is being story.

Miss Bennett will

COLISEUM—FAIR GROUNDS Lior in Illinois” and “Tobacco watch the 77-minute film and gave

DECEMBER 26 TO JAN. 1 SPECIAL MIDNITE NEW YEAR'S EVE PERFORMANCE Prices $2.20—81.65—81.10—75¢

SEATS NOW SELLING

Road” into the local theater directly enthusiastic approval. | following her opening in Wilming- | ton, Del, on Dec. 27. From here she | their {will follow John Barrymore and Gulliver's

pen-and-brush account

of a Lifetime!

x about now, if you're like us, vou're struggling with that an. nual masculine puzzle of what your wife would really like for Christmas.

Well-why not do it up brown for

once?

Instead of racking your brains over this item and that, why not bundle them all up—and make it the Day of a Lifetime with a brand-new Buick?

Yes, the outlay may total more than

your usual holiday budget.

The whole family will get a wallop

You'll go for the room in the Super’s close-to-five- feet front seats and Foamtex cushions; you'll be tickled as kids over the two-way Flash-Way Direction Signal; in Buick’s 73 new features you'll find six dozen good reasons for being happy about the whole thing.

But what counts is that you'll put your Christmas spending money into a really sound investment; the very strength of Buick’'s metals and precision of its every part make this great car a smart buy as well as a never-to-be-forgotten gift.

But look!

out of that hundred-plus horsepower

Dynaflash straight-eig

smoother in action than a wrist watch.

You'll all ride in royal comfort on

So get the figures. With Buick's lower. than-some-sixes prices and what you can get for your present car, a Buick in the family for Christmas is easy!

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Gabby Steals the Show As ‘Gulliver’ Takes Bow

(“Galliver’s Travels” will open a week’s engagement at the Circle Friday.) MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 19 (U. P.).—Lemuel Gulliver, in cartoon {and technicolor, last night charmed his first movie audience as much as Reason for this conclusion is that he did the little folk of Lilliput on the pages of Dean Swift's 194-year-old

The world premiere of the Miami-made Fleischer Studio's “Gulliver's agent for the Ringling Bros. and Travels"—second full-length cartoon movie to be produced—was held at | Barnum & Bailey Circuses for the two theaters here. Slightly dazzled | | by trappings that accompanied the folk bv Gabby : follow “Abe showing, the audience recovered to! ; by bby, the garrulegs town

Max and Dave Fleischer kept who were at first terrified by the

of | coming of their visitor, Gulliver enadventures in Lilliput| gears himself to the Lilliputi | “My Dear Children” into Chicago's faithful to the story in all major | cettles iy sel way SDutians,

| Selwyn Theater for what is hoped phases. to be an extended engagement. The | Barrymore show will be moving into co New York.

The PINS hens Vil Dx Ja |the hero and heroine, Prince David : J nd Princes lory . | cast away on the island of the little S Incess, Cilory, to be meried

, (one in which Gulliver is being bound

(crier. Through seven reels full of

[activity and thousands of dwarfs

| Bleefescu. and paves the way for

Scenes which stand out include

{by hundreds of Lilliputians; one in { which his little friends are making a new suit for him, using scaffolds {and ladders to reach him; and a | war sequence during which Gulliver draws an entire navy behind him. Gabby, the comic of “Gulliver's Travels.” captured his audience and virtually stole the show from the other inanimate stars of the picture.

'WIZARD OF OZ' SHOWN AT RITZ

“The Wizard of Oz” was brought back to the Ritz Theater yesterday and will continue today and tomorrow at the North Side theater, Manager Jim Kennedy announces,

OPERETTA TOMORROW

Tomorrow night an operetta, “Joan of the Nancy Lee” will be given by 20 pupils of the Broad Ripple High School music department. Mary Jane Williamson and Jack Henry have the leads. Raymond Hall is the director.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO Germany Surrendered,” at , 7:24 and 10:11. Spooks,” with Joe E. Bro Mary Carlisle, at "2:41, 3:29, 6:17 and 9:04. ’

“When

CIRCLE “Allegheny Uprising,” with Claire Trevor, John Wavne, George Sanders, at 11, 1:35, 4:25, 7:15 and 10:05, “The Flying Deuces,” with _aurel ud Hardy, at 12:30, 3:20, 6:05 and_

CIVIC

“Personal Appearance,” Lawrence Riley's comedy presented by a Civie Theater cast under Edward Steinmetz’ direction. Engagement nightly through Wednesday: curtain at 8:30.

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“Tower of London,” Boris Karloff,

with Basil Barbara

dna, at

LOEW'S “Intermezzo.” with Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman, at 11, 1:50, 4:48 n .

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“Remember,” Qiger Garson, 3:15, 6:10 and LYRIC

Orrin Tucker and his Srehestis. with Bonnie Baker, on stage at 1:00, 3:09, 5:18, 7:27, 9:86. “Cafe Hostess,” with Preston Fes. ter, Ann Dvorak, on screen at 11:44, 1:58, 4:02, 6:11, 8:20, 10:29.

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MOVIES

day wasn’t Friday.

agents and the deep dark stillness of a cinema palace seemed peculiarly inviting. So I went to three movies. Having seen most of the main attractions, I concentrated on what are sometimes irreverently known as the “B pictures.” And as things turned out, this was the right week to do so. For both the Indiana and Loew’s were insisting that their second pictures were such in name only, and that they constituted something bigger and better than a side dish on the bill of fare. And of course, there was the reunited team of Laurel and Hardy at the Circle,

» ” “ ANYONE WHO HAD SEEN Greer Garson as Mrs. Chips couldn’t possibly resist the opportunity for another look. So a trip to Loew's to see “Remember” was imperative, no matter how one happens to feel about Robert Taylor. “Remember” may not be another “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” but at least Miss Garson lives through to the end. Consequently, she has more time to be irresistibly charming in this light comedy about love at first sight, divorce on second thought and, of course, a happy reunion. Robert Taylor plays the bridegroom who can't take a honeymoon on account of having to write ads which will persuade the public to buy an old-fashioned tonic of roots and herbs. Lew Ayres stands patiently on the boy-loses-girl side of the triangle. Incidentally, someone ought to look into M-G-M’'s penchant for using some of their best boys for the unhappy hypotenuse in these triangular plots. Spencer Tracy, for instance, may have won a couple of Academy Awards, but he never won the girl away from Clark Gable. Robert Young is forever losing out in the final reel to some more steady and dependable hero. And Franchot Tone, before he quit M-G-M for Broadway, never achieved a happy union with Joan Crawford, even when she was Mrs. Tone outside of working hours. Now Mr. Ayres, it seems, has inherited the Tone mantle, » = »

PEOPLE WHO SEE movies for a living are supposed to be unbiased. But I must confess to being predisposed in favor of Olympe Bradna, who is in the Indiana's “The Night of Nights.” Miss Bradna was here in town shortly before the 1938 Speedway race. And instead of being glamorous, telling the story of her life or sighing for a “real role” that she could sink her teeth into, Miss Bradna on this occasion was unaffected and modest and minded her mother, In the ensuing year and more, Miss Bradna has grown up, and she’s done a very neat job of it, tco. She must have been devoting her time to it, for her employment has been rather spotty. But now she really has a substantial part, with Pat O'Brien and Roland Young. It's a sort of Deanna Durbinish

pears on the scene as O'Brien's long-lost daughter, rekindles his theatrical ambition

20 years before. Some scenes from the play-

eisl Authentic Govern. \ sey) telures of the World War!

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BEWARE SPOOKS

Ye Critic Spends the Afternoon With 'B's,' and—Let Him Tell lt—

/ THERE EXISTS a persistent and unquenchable belief that movie reviewers have the world’s softest job. Sometimes, especially on Fridays, I have felt a bit skeptical about the whole theory. But yester-

It was, in fact, Monday. The springlike air was conducive to idleness, the streets were full of shoppers, the office was full of press-

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part, in which Miss Bradna ap- | 5 Mr, BB

within-a-play are included in the movie. And though it's doubtful that even Sarah Bernhardt could have kept it running two nights, that shouldn't bother you too much. For Miss Bradna, in the matter of charm, can bat Miss Garson eye for eye, and wind up with a preity good average. Above and beyond that, it might be noted that Mr. Young plays a straight part, and Mr. O'Brien wears a mustache until the last few scenes.

FOR THE LAUREL and Hardy fans, this latest opus, called “The Flying Deuces,” should prove a happy reunion. Both the comedians have been having a rather unhappy time recently. Mr, Laurel has been embroiled in almost constant litigation, and Mr, Hardy was in a sad cinema effort in which an elephant and Harry Langdon couldn't quite fill the vacancy left by his long-time partner. Now, however, all looks rosy again. Wisely enough, the two are doing the same old tricks. But the material is better, and you'll likely find yourself laughing your head off, unabashed by the knowledge that you have laughed at the same things a hundred times before. ” ” ”

SO, ALL IN ALL, it was a pleasant afternoon. But I still think the double feature is an invention of the devil.

MOVIE 'STANDINS' ASKS RECOGNITION

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19 (U. P.).— The standins, the “forgotten people” of Hollywood have made a bid for recognition by incorporating as Hollywood Standin Players, Inc., at the state capital in Sacramento, The corporation was formed by Robert Cagle, Joan Anthony and Mary Avery. Its purpose is to help standins to keep on standing after| the cameras start; to get them jobs as actors and actresses.

TUESDAY, DEC. 19, 1939

JOE'S A BARKER

Joe Yule, Mickey Rooney's father, has been cast as the sideshow barker in “Florian.”

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