Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1940 — Page 10
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TELL TRAGIC STEINBECK STORY
Here are Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith and" Betty ‘Field, who play Lennie, George and Mae, the
three ‘principal characters of John Steinbeck’s tragic, story “Of Mice tomorrow,
HOLLYWOOD By PAUL HARRISON
Ws a Broad Education You Get When You're Working in Movies.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 18.—For a very broad if somewhat superficial education, there’s nothing like working in the movies, I often have thought of this and never have been in the least sorry for young actors and actresses who have had to forego liberal arts courses in college, or a couple of years in finishing school. Lynn Overman got to talking along this line between blasts on
a bagpipe on the “Safari” set at Paramount. Mr. Overman is a college man, so his opinion is especially valuable. He said, “A person can learn more things, more quickly, in Hollywood than anywhere else in the world. : “Now, take this bagpipe. Three | weeks ago I didn’t‘ know even how to pick up one, and now I'm almost good enough to pipe a guest around the table. That's what I have to do in the picture.
“Another thing I've learned is how to put my head [in a lion's mouth. Olga Celeste showed me. You dislocate the lion’s jaw so he can’t bite you, and then stick your head in. I haven't practiced that yet, because I still don’t understand how to walk up to a lion and dislocate his jaw. “Since I've been wearing so many whiskers -in pictures I've learned to smoke without catching fire. I just get the prop man to fireproof the whiskers. Every
played a violin for the first time only a month ago, and it sounds like it. But he has the motions down - pat, even if his music is awful. So id dub in the music. Mr. Henry is fol a college man,
vided him with a lot of useful knowiedge and athletic training. For one thing, he now can ride a
sive equitation for “Geronimo.” That was broadening. He learned to fence for “Stroke of Genius,” to drive a mule in “I'm From Missouri,” ahd to dance the polka with Janet Gaynor in “Adorable.” For a modest epic titled “Parole Fixer,” Henry also had a couple of days instruction in handling a machine gun. He hopes that won’t come in handy, but you never can tell, ' ” ” ” A YOUNG player who has been insufficiently grounded in math‘ematics soon learns a great deal from his income tax returns and from having to calculate all the percentages of salary which must be apportioned ‘to his agent, to social security, unemployment insurance and the Screen Actors’ Relief Fund. From picture scripts, he learns smatterings of history which sometimes are only a little distorted. From directors, he learns practical psychology; from producers, some of the inflexible rules of economics. From every-
‘Union Pacific’ I learned to crack a whip, which will come in handy if I ever want to go dog-sledding. . “I also have discovered that I never should work with a chimpanzee. Every time they figure out a sarong picture for Dorothy Lamour, someone like Milland or Preston gets Dorothy and I get the chimpanzee. Not ‘only that, but the ape steals all my scenes.” 2 o ”
MR. OVERMAN resumed ' his tootiing and I hurried out of there and went to Stage 5, where “The Way of All Flesh” was shooting. This wasn’t much better, though, because William Henry was sawing on a fiddle. He
and the social graces, from how to dress to how to eat an artichoke..
‘SEE the desthdefying race of the ammunition wagon through 10,000 —— redskins!
and he says Hollywood has pro-
horse, after some weeks of inten-
body hé gets pointers on etiquet _
and Men,” which opens at Loew’s
Lum and Abner To Make Movie
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 18. —Lum and Abner, radio's Arkansas rustics, have signed to star in a movie. The film will be the first of a projected series built around their radio characters. The comedians, .Chester - Lauck and Norris Goff in private life, will start their picture work in February. Shooting will not interfere with their Monday - Wednesday - - Friday broadcasts. Jack Votion and Sam Coslow have formed a new corporation, Voco Productions, which will produce the series for release through RKO. The first film will be an original story by Barry Trivers, with a Pine Ridge locale.
SELECT H. S. ACTS
Final selection of acts was tc he made today for the annual Shortridge High School Junior Vaudeville, to be presented Feb. 15 and 16 in Caleb Mills Hall.
WHEN DOES IT START?
APOLLO “The Hunchback of Notre Dawe,” with Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Monell, at 11:36, 2:09, 4:42, 7:15 an 1:48.
CIRCLE “The Great Victor Herbert,” with Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly. Susanna Foster, at 12:35, 3:45 §:35 and 10:05. omen Have Socrets,” with Jean cas psy, Jose n a en Jr. at 11:25, 2:35, 5:45 an
Si “Brother Rat and a Baby,” with Prisciila I.ahe. Jane Bryan, Jane Wyman. Wayne Moris. Eddie Albert, 3 8 4:36 7:24 and 10:12. ‘British Intelligence, » ‘with Boris Karloff. Margaret gl nusay, at 12:46, 3:34, 6:22 and 9:10 LOEW'S “The Shop Around the Corner,” with James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, at 11. 1:49, 4:38, 7:27 and
“Nick Ca rter, Master Detective,” with Walter Pidgeon, Sia {£ohmson, at 12:44, 3:33, 6:22 and 9:1 : LYRI Andy Devine, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Jackie Sear, Super vaudeville
on stage at 12:58, “Money to Burn,’ with James, Ry
‘| dudience - found
cile ond Fussell Slsason. ‘at 2:26. 5:20, 8'14 and 10:
IMaginct Is
wood Devices.
ence to date, the Filmarte Guild has been treating its members to French films as far removed from Hollywood in theme, approach, acting
in point of origin. However, last night's Filmarte
familiar ground when
Gandera, the director-scenarist, em-
|ployed a favorite Hollywood device
when - he chose a highly topical background for a routine plot. Suspicious of espionage Min the two-billion-dollar fortification, the French Goverment sends a new officer, formerly of the Secret Service, to command a portion of the elaborate barrier,
Two Are Murdered
On a tour of inspection he and a companion are murdered. Capt. Bruchot, who has a motive of jealousy and no airtight alibi, is suspected. - Then mysteriously he is released and put in charge of the investigation. Suspicion now falls on his three lieutenants. One of them is finally trapped and commits suicide. And sure enough, he turns out to be the brother of the captain's beautiful German-born wife. It is obvious that the film could not give many elaborate views of the secret fort, not even for the paying- movie customers. As it is there are some discreet shots of underground passages, elevators, observation towers and barbed wire, which are enough to create the atmosphere.
Sky Turns on Gas
The film is capably acted by a cast headed by Victor Francen as Bruchot and Vera Korene (a singuarly attractive young lady who looks like Annabella) as the wife. And there is one particularly effective scene in which Bruchot is all but killed by gas which the German spy has turned on while he. slept. But there is a suspicion that’ the language barrier is not the only contributing factor to the plot’s vagueness. The factors which absolved Brulot from all blame seem to have been left on the cutting room floor. And just why the captain’s. plot to trap the spy was so clever was also on the conjectural side. We all have seen Hollywood unfold a similar story often enough to know that it could have been told better.—J. T. " ” ”
1st of Teachers’ Series Presented
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the . World War Memorial shrine room, Filmarte will present the first
of four showings in a series for students and teachers. The film is “Mayerling,” the sensitive and poignant tale of the romance between the Archduke Rudolph and the Baroness Vetsera, which opened the regular Filmarte season last year. The picture is in French, and the stars are Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux. Other pictures in the series will be “Moonlight Sonata” (in English) on Feb. 9; “Grand Illusion” (in French), March 8, and “As You Like It” (in English), Aprf 12.
BATTLE!
nited States Cavalry. A huge covered wagon grain surrounded by yowling savages. A lone stage racing the Red Raiders across the plains. Thrill after thei) Scene after scene eye.
stretching in its
ighty action. Paramount,
makers of “Union Pacific” and “Wells Fargo,” ~.add another to the triumphant parade of Paramount ep ics — the thrilling story of
“= Ru
SEE two hardy frontier.’ fighters withstand the §
ess Raider of the Plains.
STARTS
TOMORROW
“Deadlier's n a rattler and twice as .that’s Geronimo.
that old Indian fighter.
_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES - CHANGES MADE IN CONCERTS Film. Theme |
Filmarte Picture Uses Holly- ||
In' its season-and-a-half of exist-||
and camera technique as they are||
itself on more] | “Double || Crime in the Maginot Line” was!| shown at the Athenaeum. For Felix | |
Hans Lange.
L Replaces Fabien Sevitzky.
Josef Lhevinne . . . replaces Gieseking.
Bomar Cramer . .. the week-end’s soloist.
MUSIC
By JAMES THRASHER
So Far, It's Been a Hectic Week for Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra:
eliminted the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and its four soloists for the time being. And now comes word that Walter Gieseking’s American tour has been canceled this season, so naturally he won't be soloist with the orchestra on March 1 and 2. In his place the management has secured Josef Lhevinne, one of the pre-eminent virtuosos of cur day. o ” » TO ALLAY ANY anxiety the-or-chestra’s front office has given assurance that Mr, Sevitzky's illness is not serious... He contracted a cold while the orchestra was on tour and, like most of us, refused to give up and go to bed. So finally his physician assumed a firm attitude. ‘Incidentally, the aforesaid front office has issued a fervent plea that Mr. Sevitzky's friends and wellwishers do not call the office to find out how he is. “We're just too busy with all these last-minute arrangements to answer questions,” the plaintive communique stated.
THE INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, despite competition from Congress, Judge Landis and the European war, has done pretty well this week as a news source. First of all, Fabien Sevitzky contracted a cold, and was replaced for the coming week-end’s concerts by Hans Lange. With only two of three rehearsals at his disposal, Mr. Lange had to change the program, so that
BOMAR CRAMER, - originally scheduled as soloist at this weekend’s concerts, will be heard as advertised, playing the Schumann A Minor Concerto under - Mr. Lange's direction. The other music on the substitute program includes the Overture to Weber's “Euryanthe,” Mendelssohn's “Italian” Symphony and the “Enigma” Variations of Elgar. At at later date Mr. Sevitzky will present the choir and soloists, Elma Igleman, Edna Tyne Bowles, Farrel Scott and George Newton, in the performance of the Bruckner Te Deum which was to have been heard this Friday and Saturday. ” ” #
IN,CASE THERE is anyone who is not familiar with Mr. Lange and
his record, be it known that he is|
associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. What's more,
he canceled his week-end appear-
ances in Chicago to help the local orchestra in its emergency. Mr. Lange was. born of German
parents in ‘what was then Constantinople. And perhaps he won't mind if it’s told that he will be 56 on Feb. 17. He began his musical life
with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was 19. .His first conducting experience came when he was assistant to Willem ‘Mengelberg at the Frankfort
States in 1923, served as concertmaster of several of the leading orchestras, and was assistant conductor for Walter Damrosch and, later, Arturo Toscanini. For many of the Indianapolis players it will be a familiar sight when Mr. Lange ascends the. podium. For several of the orchestra personnel are graduates of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, which Mr. Lange conducts in addition to his other duties.
THURSDAY, “JAN.
| GONE WITH THE WIND
Opera. He came to the United |"
: 18, 1940 'FOUR GRACE NOTES" TO SING TOMORROW
The “Four Grace Notes,” a singing group composed of Alberta and Elfrieda Niemeyer and Helen and Mabel Hohn, will be featured on a “family night” entertainment for Athenasum members at 8:15 p. m, tomorrow. There will also be a a slight of hand performance by Walter Heitkam and motion pictures of children’s
{camp life at Elkhart Lake, Wis., with
Rudolph Schreiber as commentator.
MARGARET
SULLAVAN - STEWART | THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
Plus “Nick Carter, Detective’
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_ This production will not be shown anywhere ex: cept at advanced prices — at least until 1941
HURRY! LAST DAY!
as a violinist, making his debut| ——
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FABIEN, SEVITZKY, Conductor
CONCERTS AT MURAT THEATER
‘Guest Conductor HANS LANGE
Soloist
BOMAR CRAMER, PIANIST FRIDAY at 2:45; SATURDAY at 8:30
Prices $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3—Box Office R1-9597
Men and | women
LAST DAY
SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
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SID You WOULD NEVER SEE! |
who burned their stories’ into
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Produced and Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE
Associate Producer FRANK ROSS
(the pages of a best selling’ “novel... who" caused 4 sensation ina prize: winning stage’ plays ‘who shatter. every Hollywood convention’ te bring their impassioned drama to the screen!
A MIGHTY NOVEL! A SENSATIONAL STAGE SUCCESS! NOW! THE YEAR'S MOST IMPORTANT PICTURE!
'0F MICE LL)
, JOHN STEINBECK
with BURGESS MEREDATH « BETTY FIELD - LON CHANEY Jr.
Screen Play by Eugene Solow
Released thre United Artists
STARTING TOMORROW!
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TM GEORGE. | always knowed Lennie would get us into a mess ~~. a bad mess."
, 1 “I'M MAE..I'm straight, | toll ‘you | ... Nobody’ s got no right to call ‘me names."
“I'M LENNIE. 1 didn't mean to do ng bad thing."
ADDED FEATURE! “SECRET OF DAR. KILDARE”
LIONEL BARRYMORE | LEW AYRES