Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1939 — Page 11

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SHIRLEY TO MAKE |Soviet German u. S. BEGINS THIRD

' HOLLYWOOD DEBUT ON STAGE ~ erts Planned| MOVIE OF NATION HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U, P.).— MEMPHIS, Ter Tenn, Dec. 32 (U.P),

Mild-Looking Man Makes Stars shirley Temple will make her first) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22 (U. P.).| ~Camera crews of the U. S. Depart {personal appearance in connection |_. Eugene Ormandy, director of the Ment of Agriculture are working in Wince When He Cracks Whip | vith one of her pictures When “The| py 1a jeinhia Orchestra, in an ef. |\L, Mid-South, filming the story of

f-| OR : ti | Bluebird” is shown in San Fran-|... ; ila f1=lrotton waste, lost fertility of the | cisco Feb. 1, it was announced to- fort to prove that music transcends land, and its reclamation and the

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THE INDIANAPOLIS

ICE REVUE'S JITTERBUG STAR

By PAUL HARRISON

Tracy Is Third.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U. P).Mickey Rooney, young film actor, Was named today in a poll of the Motion. Picture Herald as the top | movie “drawing card” of 1939. Tyrone Power was second, fol-| lowed by Spencer Tracy. Clark Gable and Shirley Temple See-sawed for the fourth position as theater money-makers. Mr. Gable was fourth in the combined vote and the circuit shows, while Miss Temple placed higher in the balloting of independents. In combined voting, the other ranking stars, in order, were Bette Davis, Alice Faye, Errol Flynn, James Cagney and Sonja Henie. Jane Withers edged into the first

| fear | whip, a vicious lash that could flick off a man's finger—or Clark

| couldn't be accurate if he stood |

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 -STOCKY BALDISH, mild-looking Dave Kashner cracks a whip over Hollywood. He makes stars pale with and executives shiver with anxiety. For Kashher uses a real

Gable's ears, for that matter. A ticklish thing about whip work is that it can't be readily faked

its danger minimized. He

or he picked up a long whip and | without any advice tried to crack | it and almost clipped off one of his own ears. Today, though Mr, Kashner will hold a cigar in

up close or wielded his weapon Sometimes he must wrap

But | to flick off the ashes with eight-foot blacksnake. Speaking of snakes, Mr. Kash« ner's favorite diversion is hunting rattlers with a whip.

Like a comedian who yearns to play Hamlet, Mr. Kashner is a stunt specialist who wants to be an actor. And he does act occasionally—usually bare to the

lon wood banquets and other affairs. |Her

the premiere of the [tasye

his mouth and allow Mr, Tamiroft

day. The curly-headed child star only rare occasions attends Holly-

parents seek a quiet life for { Shirley, She will go to San Francisco! ‘along with Don Ameche, Alice Faye, | Linda Darnell and other stars for Maeterlink fan-

LAUGHTON DANCES

As a London “busker,” or street | entertainer, the J gn | Laughton does a song and dance | routine with Vivien (Scarlet |

| O'Hara) Leigh in “The Sidewalks

of London.”

|all differences between countries and jnereasing use of machines, creeds, will present several all-Rus-| mpe picture will be entitled “The sian and all-German concerts this rand,” and will be the third in the winter. | Agriculture Department's series of “We must not permit ourselves ‘documentary films. Already com-= (to be led into the folly of 20 years] plete and shown in motion picture ago,” he said, “when Wagner and | theaters throughout, the country Stn were cast out of our con- | have been “The Plow That cert halls merely ‘because they were | Broke the Plains” and “The River,” | German. That is cutting oft the hoth of which were praised highly (nose to spite the face, [by film critics and audiences. “In such tragic times as these we |— - need all the solace that great music {can bring us. A composer is to be ‘measured only by artistic standards. [The place of his birth does not make |his music great, any more than ihe {language he learned to speak as a| child can deprive it of greatness, | “Tt is the color of a composer 's| the warring nations.”

"that we are connot the color of his

orc hestr ations cerned with,

|skin. It does not matter what church {he goes to, or if he goes to any. Per= ‘haps if we all steep ourselv?s in the universal harmony that is ;nusic we [can sooner restore harmony among

waist for the display of his muscular torso. But he's generally | famous as a whiperacker, and | the cycle of action flickers keeps { him fairly busy. = = » | IN “THE ROAD TO SINGA- | PORE” there's an exciting sequence beginning with a whip dance by Anthony Quinn and Dorothy Lamour. During it, Quinn apparently cuts a cigaret from the actress’ lips and clips rose from her hair. At the | finale, she goes over to a table where Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are - sitting, but the bullwhip reaches out and snakes her back by an arm. Then there's a crack, and the foam flies from Hope's beer; another crack, and Hope's hat sails off his head. Crosby rises to fight, but the whip curls around his ankles and spills him.

ten in the independents and Bing Crosby placed in the circuit theater vote,

£ |

Edwina Blades , . . learned her art on figure skates, = » » » » ~

Cockney Back Slang Crops Up at Welcoming Dinner With HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 93 (tr py. | Talk of the ‘Ball of Chalk, the Frog and Toad and the

Warner Brothers were preparing to- a’ e w day to christen their private roofed Pig 3 Ear ! She Opens Tuesday. a

ocean on their studio lot so they can control such things asthe wind, Youll have all the time in the world to read about the rink! the sun, the rain, and tides. They exploits of the All Star European Ice Revue but if vou don't finish! can film a balmy South Seas scene this vou'll never know how to speak Cockney back slang. while it's pouring rain outside, or Members of the revue, which opens Tuesday eat the Coliseum, | whip up a dandy little storm, with gahered at a welcoming dinner last night at the Washington Hotel. a howling gale from the wind ma- All the members of the revue aren't as proficient at back slang] chines, when t's a beautiful sun-|as Geoffery Stevens. Mr, Stevens is the one who teaches it and talks Shing Say few feet away on Holly | about it. He's one of the Three Bruises, the company's comedy team. | FOO v Then the ocean will settle down| A ed Ce Sock heautes to say it. There is a stan-| These things are actually done and be put to work on the first of |NCVS 10 SRI VSI Series and dard variety of back slang every | with a whip. But the man on a series of sea pictures Warners is amuse their friends. It's a relative Cockney Knows. “| the other end of it is Mr. Kashplanning, “The Sea Hawk,” star- to tick-tack, which Mr. Stevens will | If you wanted to say: “Your tie| ner, not Quinn. ring Errol Flynn. This film will tell you isthe finger language used = tches your shirt but doesn't go] He remembers, as a kid in Pomake use of the first of two boats|/by a tick-tack man to inform his with your shoes,” you'd say: “You're | land, watching admiringly as to sail the Warner ocean, “The Sea bookmaker boss of the change in Peckham rye matches vour Dickey shepherds popped long whips over Hawk,” an English man-o’-war, odds at a race track. Dirt but it doesn't go with your| their flocks to keep them from and the “Madre De Dios,” a Spanish] Back slang is done by picking a Daisy Roos.” bunching. But he didn’t become galleon, 130 and 136 feet in length, word or set of words that rhymes; If vou said “Let's take a ball of | really expert with the lash until respectively. with what you would say if vou chalk down the frog and toad and| about 30 years later, when he and ~~ - — — |nhave a pig's ear,” vou'd mean. “Let's| Douglas Fairbanks practiced, as take a walk down the road and! ® hobby, between scenes in pichave a beer.” | tures. Mr, Kashner had become A chalk farm is an arm, a Scotch xn athlete and Eympast, 2d be i t «|! became associated with Douglas Jo it Beg, ana plates of mest Bre, Fairbanks during filming of “The : | Black Pirate.” After that he worked for the star as a trainer and workout partner. Anyway, Mr. Kashner didn't teach Mr. Fairbanks how to use a whip for “The Gaucho.” In that picture, though, Mr, Kashner learned something that proved valuable to him recently, Mr. Fairbanks had an instructor from the Argentine showing him how to toss the bolas, the weighted | rope used by gauchos to catch cattle. A few months ago 20thFox had to find a bolas thrower for one of the Sherlock Holmes pictures, and Mr. Kashner was their man. Akim Tamiroff is his prize { pupil. When the actor arrived for his first lesson (in preparation for his role in “Union Pacific”)

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