Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1940 — Page 18

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Ann Thinks |

“Oomph. “that she’s. ture of this. ‘newest

) uvered: the guests into" crown

e8an-to. happen. i ‘He had her “picture ‘taken 7000 jo ; ,<in specially designed Oomph | dresses, low in front, and lower in Eat “He had the word “Oomph” |" 1 1 ighted and soon there was an ‘gasoline on the market; an h automebile, Oomph cigarets. ‘Sheridan’s fan mail climbed Pom - 27th“ to” first place an . the Ww arner- -Bros,” star list, and the started hauling marriage sals to her in trucks. A Chi- )- theater operator came to Holon a vacation and had ‘his hotograph taken with Miss Sheri4 in. It was the old- Holywood rou-

His, wite sued him for divorce and roduced. the picture oh evidence. won her suit. ~

peventeen er chesirgs Feshme h bands. Dine-a-dance palall over’ the natiop started ad- : “50 Beautiful Girls, Every : e With Oomph.” 3 2 The Hollywood boys. began pes- - g Miss Sheridan for dates. aternity leaders demanded her resence at campus proms. Studios all over town tried to borrow

Tier queen of Oomph, and things

t Over and | Decides ‘Poof to Oomph!

ss “HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12. (U.P). —Miss Ann Sheridan reported ‘today

is ‘Something: ‘which keeps a girl awake nights worrying, a little sorry she figured (no pun intended) in the manuAmerican word. [5° A year ago she. was another red-headed actress, with the right curves in: the right places. Then publicity director-Bob Taplinger spent $160 .give her.a dinner, at which hel

her services. Oomph made her a ful-fledged movie star, overnight. “And the expenditure of $160 for that dinner,” Mr. Taplinger said, “gave Warners a $1, 000,000 property. » The $1,000,000 property with the red hair, the big brown eyes, and the general roundness, properly distributed; one day was on Stage 17, in a tight black dress, with a short

Bogart called her “Oomphy.” The director yelled for the Oomph girl. Oomph was born.

MERLE AS NYMPH Merle Oberon has been signed to star in “The Constant. Nymph” for Warner Bros. George Brent probably will be. her leading man

in this adaptation ofthe popular Margaret Kennedy novel.

LA SHIRLEY. LOANED

‘Anne Shirley has been borrowed from RKO by Warner Bros. to play the feminine lead in “Married, Pretty and Poor.” John Garfield is starred.

Will Osborne & His Orchestra

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Besides his personal appearance at the Lyric, Andy Devine may be seen on the Alamo screen this week-end, beginning today, in a film

called “Tropic Fury.” The rotund comedian’s companion above is Richard Arlen, and that’s rubber he’s “basting,” not ham!

LOUIS XI GOES TO PRESS =

Walter Hampden (left) and Harry Davenport, as King Louis XI, ponder this new-fangled invention called printing in the course of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which moves today from the In-

diana to the Apollo.

NELSON EDDY SIGNS CONTRACT AT M-G-M

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12.—Nelson Eddy celebrated the completion of “New Moon,” his latest costarrer with Jeanette MacDonald, by signing a new M-G-M contract. : Mr. Eddy is to leave Hollywood soon on his. annual concert tour. Upon his return he and Miss MacDonald will begin production gt ic | Married an Angel.”

BUYS 'LOVE SONG' James Roosevelt has announced the purchase of Ursula Parrott’s new : story, “Love Song,” for film

x FT 1:31) 313 AND . GOR] Wm. Powell—Myrna Loy ‘Another Thin Man'’ AND THE DEAD END KIDS “ON DRESS PARADE” : Extra: Andy (Bowler) Varipapa

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“Mr, Smith Goes to Washington' R. Greene, ‘‘Here I Am a ager”

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Myrna Loy—William Powell ‘Another Thin Man" “BAD LITTLE

R. Greene, ‘‘Here 1 a Stranger E. Fellows, “Pride A { Blue Grass’

Joel MsCiea, “Espionage Agent’ “Nancy Drew, Hidden Staircase’

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WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO \ “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” with Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitonell, at 11:36, 2:00, 4:42, 17:15

an CIRCLE “The: Great Victor Herbert, with

Allan Jones, Mary M Walter Susanna Foster, at 13:35, : and 10:05. ! AW Women Have Secrets,” with Jean Laene?. Jose sepi} 41 Allen Jr. at 45 a

11:25, 2:3 CIVIC “Knickerbocker Holiday,” a mu 5ioal comedy about Nieuw . Amsterdam I, Maxwell Anderson - and urt eill, presented by a Civic Theater cast under Edward Steinmetz’ gizeetion. Engagement through Wedne day; curtain at 8:30. . INDIANA “Brother Rat and a Baby,” with Priscilla Lane. Jane Bryan, Jane Wy=man, Wayne Morris, die Albert, at 11, 1:48, 4:36. 7:24 and 10:12. “Intelligence » ‘with Boris Karloff, Mar, aret (Lindsay, at 12:46, 3:34, 6:22 an

TE “The Shop Around with a Stewart, lavan, at 11, 1:49, 4:38, 7:27 and

“Nick Carter, Master Detective,” with Walter Pid gon, Rita Johnson, at 12:44, 3:38, 6:22 and 9:11, LYRIC Billy Halop, Bobby : sear], other vaudeville on pose. at 12:58, 3:52, 6:46 and 9:33. ad o Burn’! with Janes Ly eile and Fae ssell Gleason, at 11:3 2:26, 5:20, 8:14 and 1

HEMINGWAY'S PLAY ON BOARDS JAN. 2%

Times Special NEW YORK, Jan.

the Corner,” argaret Sul-

12.—Ernest

| Hemingway's first full-length play, |

“The Fifth Column,” will have its first performance Jan. 26 at New

auspices. Leading parts will be taken by Franchot Tone, Frances Farmer and Lenore Ulric. Benjamin F. Glazer has prepared the acting ver-

WE TIP OUR HATS T0 THE BROTHER RATS

AND NAUGHTY... THEY SURE WERE OREAT IN '38

SEE 'EM IN '40!

Sion, and Lee Strasberg is .directing. :

‘Tie you

LANE WAYNE MORRIS JANE BRYAN

"BORIS KARLOFF MARGARET LINDSAY ISH INTELLIGENCE

THE orsAFoLS Ives — ANDY'S ON SCREEN, TOO

MOVIES

By JAMES THRASHER]

: : Nation’ s Film Reviewers Name : : : “Sdodbye Mr. Chips Best in'3s

pictures which ‘will ap

amuse you, however, to see what pleases the supposedly splenetic tribe which looks at ‘movies for a living.

Mr. Crips.” “Mr. Smith’ Goes to Washington”: placed second, and “Pygmalion” took the show ‘money. The rest finished in this order: “Wuthering = Heights,” ““Dark Victory, ” “The Women,” “The Wizard of Oz” “Juarez.”

“The Old Maid. : 2 ” NOT A bb list, I think, and not. particularly different from the choice of the average adult

‘and assiduous movie-goer. The prize winner has some few distinctions to its credit.’ It' was the first foreign-made picture ever to take first honors. Though produced by M-G-M and directed by an American, Sam Wood, it was - filmed in England with a

| British cast. And of course the

story and its author, James Hilton, are typically and thoroughly os 2 = et “THE WIZARD OF OZ” was the ohly musical to make the top bracket, and also the only complete technicolor film among the _ winners. (There was, however, one color sequence in “The Women. ”) M-G-M had four pictures in the “best” list for the second successive year, and Warner Bros. three. Columbia, United Artists and 20th Century-Fox had one apiece. Bette Davis established a record with starring or co-starring appearances in three of the winners, “Dark Victory,” “Juarez” and “The Old Maid.” By direct ing two of these, Edmund Goulding also set a mark unparalleled in the poll’s 18 years. It might be noted that the year’s top money maker, Mickey Rooney, didn’t get into one of the “pest” films, and that the only

First place. went to “Goodbye; | .

“Stanley and : Livingstone” ‘and

THIS 1S ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVELY the last list on best pear in this corner—unless the Minneapolis Journal's Merle Potter prea taken another poll this year. | But the following selections are the result of the Film Daily's annual canvass, and represent the choices of 542 of the count; reviewers. Their practical value may be open to question. It might

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representative of the popular Hardy Family series that snared any votes wound up in Sth place.

‘Knickerbocker’

To Open T Tonight]

During the coming six nights, Civic Theater patrons will learn, among other things, that government is “an organization to sell protection at. monopoly prices” and that an American is “one who abhors political corruption but doesn’t know what to do about it.” °

The words are Maxwell Ander-}

son’s. And they are found in “Knickerbocker Holiday,” which opens at the Civic Playhouse tonight. It is Mr. Anderson’s first venture into the musical comedy field. “Knickerbocker Holiday,” though it has its share of contemporary comment, is set on Manhattan Island in the days of Peter Stuyvesant. The music is by Kurt Weill, who is known along Broadway for his incidental music to “The Eternal Road” and “Johnny Johnson,” as well as for his nine operas and numerous instrumental compositions. The Civic cast is headed by Ronald Skyrme, Kathleen Wallace and James Muller. © »

INDIANA]

TONIGHT “Battle of Swing’ Harold Cork’s New Orch. Harold Gork’s Old Droh,

Dancing Wed., Fri., Sat., Sum.

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIEN SEVITZKY, Conductor

POPULAR CONCERT SUNDAY, JAN. 14

MURAT THEATER—3 P. M.

Soloists: JOSEPH BLOCH and JULIO MAZZOCCA Pianist and Clarinetist

PRICES: 25¢, 50¢c, 75¢; PHONE RESERVATIONS "RILEY 9597

(Seats reserved by phone and not picked tp by noon on concert day will be sold at the box office.)

GONE WITH THE WIND STARTS FRIDAY MORNING, JAN 26 AT LOEW'S P®~ BUY RESERVED SEATS NOW FOR NIGHT SHOWS AND SUNDAY MATINEE

NIGHTS § SUN MAY ALL SEATS RESERVED (3) 10 loch Tax)— WEEKDAY MATS Conlioueos NOT RESERVED (15 tel Tar.) This production will not be shown anywhere except at advanced prices—at least until 1941

GARBO COULD HAVE TOLD THEM!

“LOOK OUT, YOU KIDS! THAT'S ERNST LUBITSCH. .. AND REMEMBER WHAT HE DID TO ME IN 'NINOTCHKA'!"

_ FRIDAY, JAN. 12, 1040

bash student body. has been, invited to attend.

MMURRAY HOST" TO WABASH PLAY

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Jan. 12.—-Wabash : College will take its Ql. Varsity Show” to MacMurray College for Women, Jacksonville, Ill, tomorrow night for a performance, week-end party and dance. The show and its accompanying festivities are being presented under sponsorship of the MacMurray | campus newspaper. The entire Wa-

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