Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1939 — Page 6

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Film Houses | Bill Extras’ To Greet '40

Lyric to Present Midnight Shows Both Saturday And Sunday.

All downtown first-run theaters and most of the neighborhood houses are prepared to celebrate a quiet Sabbath New Year's Eve with special showings scheduled for the early hours of 1940. In addition the Lyric will observe Saturday night's unofficial celebration with a midnight stage and screen show beginning at 11:30 p. m. The special Sunday night show is to begin at the same hour. Joe Cook, the Evansville comedian, heads the stage bill, and the picture is “The Cisco Kid,” with Cesar Romero and Marjorie Weaver.

Circle to Have New Bill

Of the downtown film places, only the Circle will have a brand new offering for the occasion. “The Great Victor Herbert” is scheduled to replace “Gulliver's Travels” (now in its second week) for Sunday night only. The Circle bill will change at 8 p. m. Sunday, with other showings of the Herbert picture at 10:05 p. m. and 12:05 a. m. Allan Jones and Mary Martin have the romantic leads, while Walter Connolly plays the title part. Loew's will show “Balalaika” (Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey) which opened today, beginning at the New Year's deadline, and will follow it with a screening of “Blondle Brings Up Baby.”

Tce Show Scheduled

The Indiana and Apollo have booked continuous performances through the last day of 1939 and into 1940. Their attractions are “Swanee River,” with Don Ameche, Al Jolson and Andrea Leeds, teamed with “Two Thoroughbreds,” at the Indiana, and a single feature, Four | Wives,” at the Apollo. “Four!

Here are those hres desperate spies from Blefescu, functioning as coast guard artillerymen with the They can be found, of course, in “Gulliver's Travels,” the color cartoon

help of Lemuel Gulliver's pistol.

feature now in its second week at the Circle.

Wives” moved from the Indiana to the Apollo today.

movies and various night spots, the European All-Star Ice Revue has

booked a midnight performance on|

Sunday at the Coliseum.

CLAIMS TITLE

“The biggest man in pictures” is the title claimed by Everett Brown, 274-pound actor appearing in “Congo Maisie.” He's also one of the busiest men in Hollywood, as he stepped into the Ann Sothern feature after working for 20 weeks

as “Big Sam” in “Gone With the Wind.”

| The stirring drama of the great love that put America’s joys and sorrows to music . . .

The songs we took to our hearts forever!

‘FOUR WIVES’ REMAIN, TOO

In addition to the celebration in :

The Lane Sisters, Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary, fortified by Gale Page (below) are carrying on their film activities as “Four Wives” at the Apollo for the coming week. The picture played last week at

the Indiana.

Federal Judges Back Composers

LINCOLN, Neb, Dec. 29 (U. P) — A three-judge Federal Court yesterday held unconstitutional a Nebraska statute outlawing the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers through which song writers collect fees for the public use of their music. The opinion, written by U. S. Cir- | cuit Judge A. K. Gardner, Huron, | 8. D, held that two sections of the] state law conflicted with copyright authority vested in Congress. Dis- | trict Judges T. C. Munger and James A. Donahoe of Nebraska con- | curred. The Nebraska statute outlawed the society as a “price-fixing” combination of copyright owners to license public renditions for profit. Counsel for the state said they would appeal to the U. 8. Supreme Court.

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APOLLO “Four Wives,” with Priscilla, Roseola Lane, Gale Page, ing, at 11:19, 1:17, 3:35, 7:41 and 9:40. CIRCLE “Gulliver's Travels,” feature- tengtll, technicolor cartoon at Ps 1:45, 3:50, 5:55; 8:05 and 1 ENGL : “Tobacco Road,” Jack Kirkland's drama of the Georgia sharecroppers,

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Backstage Presents Strange Interludes in Making of Movies

By PAUL HARRISON

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the French film, “Grand Illusion.” He continued by saying that it had been marvelously directed. He then confessed that he had had some misgivings about being able to direct Von Stroheim, because the German has been a director himself and so probably has his own ideas about how each picture should be made. “But from your wonderful performance in ‘Grand Illusion’,” said Ratoff, brightly, “I can see that you take direction easily. So I guess we will not have any troubles.” “When I am an actor,” agreed Von Stroheim, “I do what the director tells me. But I guess you do not know that in ‘Grand Illusion’ I directed myself.”

” ” ” ON THE SET OF “IRENE,” Ray Milland and Allen Marshall were playing a hot game of table tennis, a sport at which neither actor needed a double.

Marsha Hunt entered the scene, watched the game a moment, then stared out at what was supposed to be Long Island Sound but really was a back drop on which danced the reflected light from a shallow tray of water, agitated by a prop man. She then went over to a portable phonograph and put on a record. Marshall quit his game and danced with her, but there was no music. The record was a dum-= my and the orchestra will be dubbed in later. But to keep them in rhythm, a director from the music department stood offstage and waved his arms.

On an outdoor street built for “At Good Old Siwash,” collegians of nearly 40 years ago strolled to and from their classes. Apparently it was a nippy autumn afternoon on the campus, but a blazing December sun was pouring down. Three stories high, on the eaves of the false front of a sorority house, perched two prop men, each with a bushel basket of dried leaves. Daintily they tossed leaves in front of electric fans, which wafted them gracefully into the

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NOW THAT JOAN CRAWFORD is reconciled to a divorce from her clothes<horse roles, she’s making a thorough job of it. Visitors on the set of ‘Strange Cargo” are unable to recognize her at sight and scarcely able to believe her identity when she’s pointed out. Around her everything's as usual.

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.-—All over the lot: When Eric Von Stroheim was called back to Hollywood for a role in “I Was an Adventuress,” Director Gregory Ratoff began to wonder whether he might have diffi-

He approached the problem diplomatically on the first day of production. First he praised to the skies Von Stroheim’s performance in

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“Swanee River,” with Don Ameche, Al Jolson, Andrea Leeds, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and 10:20.

“Two Thoroughbreds,

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“Laugh Factory,” with Joe Ser, Saugeyite, on stage at 1, an

“The Cisco Kid and the Lady,” With Caesar Romero Marjorie Weavon screen, at 11:26, 2:22, 5:11, 8.07 and 10:38,

LLOYD'S GLASSES PUT INTO CEMENT

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 (U. P.) — Harold Lloyd's famous glassless spectacles will be pressed today into the wet cement of the foundation of the new $250,000 Hawaii Theater here. The horn rims, which have appeared in so many comedies, will be “enshrined” in the foundation, it was announced, much as the foot| gm» prints of many stars are cast in the foyer of the Chinese Theater.

HINT SCARLETT TOUR

Vivien Leigh, the Scarlett of “Gone With the Wind,” is said to be considering a tour in “ROMEO | ee Juliet” with her reported fiance, Laurence Olivier. The tour, if and when, probably would open next fall.

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who runs her phonograph (and gets $75 a week for doing it) sits by his machine outside the door and puts on disc after disc of seJakes tunes, mostly popular balads. Bennett, the chauffeur, arrives with a sheaf of messages from the house and departs with orders. Personal maid, wardrobe woman and hairdresser—all regular employees of the star—bustle about. So does Miss Crawford's stand-in, who is her sister-in-law, Then an assistant director calls, “We're ready, Miss Crawford,” and out steps a ragged, dirty, disheveled creature with dispirited face. No lipstick, no eye shadow, no fashion-show posturings. Just a brownish makeup over everything. I don’t know how her feminine attendants keep so busy, unless they take turns pushing her into a portable swamp.

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manager of their Tokyo office: “In absence Mr. Shatkin I take liberty

to thank you file report premiere here last night our new special movie picture ‘Dodge City." Much crowds jam performance including much members Tokyo blueblood. Photoplay exhort huge throng to often chuckle with frequent intermingle clap clap. Too many con=gratulations.”

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$10,000,000 HEIR

Only twice in his career has Robert Montgomery asked to play a part in a film of his own selection. One was the psychopathic murderer in “Night Must Fall,” which won him nomination for the Academy Award. The other is his present starring role of a Chicago gangster, who inherits a $10,000,000 English

SUES PARAMOUNT FOR PLAGIARISM

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29 (U, P.).— In a $200,000 damage suit against Paramount Pictures, Scenarist Adele B. Buffington charged today that the movie “Honeymoon in Bali” was made from her scenario entitled “Black Blizzard.” The writer said that Paramount considered her manuscript for sev-

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OUR WILDEST DREAMS COME TRUE! Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer’s ambitious plans for this seasom’s major musical entertaine ment have resuited in a picture destined for sereen immortality. This is the rare and happy occasion when dramatic story, richness of musical score, perfection of production and appeal of personality are wedded into a stirring, glamorous offering.

NELSON EDDY and ILONA MASSEY la newcomer with a great destiny) sing many songs, including:

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