Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1940 — Page 16

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Here are the Joads pushing their broken-down jaloppy into one of the towns on Road 66 during their trek in “The Grapes of Wrath,” film version of the John Steinbeck novel

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Arriving in California, Ma Jead (Jane Darwell) feeds her tngry brood. tent, left to right, are Darryl Hickman, Shirley Mills, Henry Fonda, Frank Darien and Dorris Bowden, who play Winfield, Ruthie, Tom, Uncle John and Rosasharn.

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John Carradine, as Casy

while Tom (Mr. Fonda) holds him by the leg.

- As uncompromising as the book, the film here shows an “Okie” emigrant woman-shot down by a California officer.

the preacher, is kicking the office

MOVIES

By JAMES THRASHER |

Spencer Tracy Here Friday in Second Recent Starring Role

_ WITH THE ARRIVAL of “Northwest Passage” at Loew’s Friday, any. interested persons can be assured that Metro has dropped the other- shoe, and that Spencer Tracy is now able to sit back and relax. Mr. Tracy, over the past two years, has been prominently concerned in* two M-G-M epics which only now are reaching the screen, One of these was “I Take This Woman,” currently at the Indiana.

The other is Loew’s forthcoming film.

It's almost two years since actual work was started on this flim version of Kenneth Roberts’ best seller. In June, 1938, Metro had reached the point where it could send out an expedition to look for a location site. They spent six months in the Pacific Northwest and finally settled on Payette Lake, Ida.

Actual filming began early in July, 1939. And by the time the picture was canned and ready for shipment last month, Mr. Tracy was about the only principal who had stuck with the production from the beginning. Robert Taylor had started out as Langdon Towne but was succeeded by Robert Young when Mr. Taylor decided he didn’t want to play second fiddle.

.W. 8. VANDYKE GOT the original directorial assignment, but King Vidor wound up by doing all the megaphoning. Ruth Hussey replaced Laraine Day and was in at the finish as the romantic feminine lead. But Isabel Jewel is reported to have much the larger and better part ds the white girl who’s rescued from the Indians. You'll notice in the advertisements of “Northwest Passage” that there is a parenthetical line saying “Book I—Rogers’ Rangers.” The story behind this is that filming of the complete book was ‘abandoned when it'was discovered that the finished product would run about an hour longer than “Gone With the Wind.” According to usually unimpeach- - able sources (which is the diplo- _ mat’s way of referring to Paul Harrison) the original “Northwest Passage” started out with seven freight cars carrying the following impedimenta: Eight hundred powder horns, 1500 pairs of moccasins, 1100 Ranger uniforms for 240 Rangers. (Each man had to have three uniforms, one new, one worn and one ragged, plus spares for water scenes.) In addition there were 200 wigs and a quantity of gory scalps, 1000 suits of long woolies and 1000 muskets. - By the time work actually started more props had been brought up and three camps established. The main one had 40 log cabins, two frame dormitories and a flock of circus tents. There was another camp for extras and a third for the picture's 364 Indians. A village of 126 buildings was built for the sole purpose of burning, and two complete forts were constructed. They brought in a fleet of power boats by rail, dammed and widened the river,

and installed a hydro - electric

camp at the location site.

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. NO MAJOR STUDIO press department can approach the publicists at Warners’ when it comes to creating a cozy atmosphere around their stars. Rival publicity concerns itself with such stern things as story purchase, casting and the luminaries’ latest reflections on art and life in general. Not so the boys at Warners’. On reading their publicity, one immediately conjures up a picture of the stars hurrying . home from work to potter about their laboratories, or do a little wiring or steam-fitting after a hard day at the oomph factory. Take these samples, stance: “Rosemary Lane does all her own piano tuning.” “Priscilla Lane keeps her hands warm with an electric muff; variation on the electric heating pad.” “Inventor Alan Hale dashes off a three-switch pocket flashlight that gives three different light intensities.” “Brenda Marshall has a pair of novelty shoe buckles. The word ‘right’ is written on one, ‘left’ on the other.” (All Brenda has to do is figure out the left and right shoes, then install the buckles. After all her friends will know that not only can she read, but she can tell which shoes goes on which foot. Let her shift the buckles, however, and the possibilities offer endless fascination. Try it some .dull evening.) From the same publicity release comes this item of information: “Eddie Albert is having his yaw], the Moilie, completely overhauled in preparation for another Mexican adventure after ‘An Angel From Texas.’” " (All right, but the next time he gets lost in Lower California on the eve of the New York premiere of his latest picture, some of us are going to get suspicious.)

RARE SCHUBERT SONATA PLAYED

NEW YORK; Feb. 27 (U. P.).— Webster Aitken, Californi- * “rn pianist, has just given the first performance in this country of Schubert’s “unfinished” Sonata in Cmajor at New York's Town Hall. The composition was completed and

made ready for concert presentation by Emst Krenek, Viennese composer. & Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist, called this unknown and not easily accessible work comparable to the “Unfinished Symphony” in flawless beauty.

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CANTOR HONORED

BY CHOIR OF BOYS

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— Eddie Cantor, comedian, said today that an honorary membership in the Robert Mitchell Boys’ Choir of St. Brendan's Cathedrai was “the greatest honor of my career.” “I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this, boys,” he said. “Nowhere but in Amefica could such a thing happen.” BA The choir made him an hqnorary member because he had taken an interest in it and they had made recordings.

PRESENT MANUAL PLAY

“His First Shave,” a playlet, will be given by members of the Manual High School Mask and Wig Club for junior high schodl pupils in the school auditorium tomorrow. Cast in the playlet are Donald Wallis, Irma Schneider, Dawn Hoeferkamp, Janet Conard and Francis Jeffries. Rita Fahy, president, is directing the production, :

GABLE IN NEW ROLE

Clark Gable will star in “Boom Town,” story of the oil fields, which takes Gable back to his early days when he was an Oklahoma oil field worker.

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Mitzi Is Ill, Out of Show

Fraices Williams to Take Star's Role Monday At English's. *

Appendicitis, which. is’ no respecter of persons, has struck down one of the starring trio in “Three After Three,” the new musical which comes to English’s Monday.

As a consequence, Mitzi Green, the grownup child star, will be convalescing from an emergency operétion instead of sharing the spotlight and applause with Simone Simon and Mary Brian when the show comes into town. Frances Williams has been moved up into Miss Green's co-starring spot, while Ginger Manners has been secured for Miss Williams’ former place in the revue. Young Miss Manners’ last Indianapolis appearance was in vaudeville, while Miss Williams made her latest stop here as part of the cag of “You Never Know.” It would seem that Miss Williams gravitates to Hoosier musicals and replacements; she batted for Libby Holman in Cole Porter's “You Never Know,” and now is stepping into the breach of “Three After Three,” which has music by another Hoosier, Hoagy Carmichael.

Complimented on Film

“Three After Three” marks Miss Simon’s first American stage appearance. And ‘she probably wouldn’t be making it now if airraid alarms hadn't driven her and her mother out of France last autumn. Miss Simon had a rather unhappy time of it in Hollywood, what with one thing and another, and it’s doubtful that anything less than war could have returned her to America. However she ‘is fortunate in being around at the same time as her latest film, “The Human Beast.” This screen transcription of the Emile Zola novel was made in France, and since opening in New York has occasioned some very flattering critical remarks about Miss Simon’s performance. So perhaps the Hollywood tycoons will offer some further blandishments in the way of roles that call for dramatic performance instead of coquetry.

Played in ‘Peter Pan’

Miss Brian has been away from the screen considerably longer than her French co-star. Of recent seasons she has confined her activity almost entirely to summer stock in New England. But movie fans will still remember her as Wendy in “Peter Pan,” though that was back in the silent days. : Even with Miss Green removed, the cast is a brilliant one. It offers, besides the three stars, such names as Art Jarrett, the dance band leader; Jack Whiting, young film player; Roger Converse, wha has been seen in the “Dr. Kildare’ pictures; Bostock and Dudley, the dance team; and Stepin TFetchit, the dusky master of suspended animation. “Three After Three” will play

three evenings and a Wednesday matinee.

BUYS JUDGMENT AGAINST ACTRESS

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— A $40,000 judgment returned nearly eight years ago against Marjorie Rambeau, stage and screen actress, was put back into circulation yesterday by Norman E. Chinn, who said he bought it at auction in New York. The award had been made to Mrs. Mable Manton, now in London. Mrs. Manton had charged that Miss Rambeau alienated the affections of her husband, Kevitt Manton, an English actor who since has died. . Mr. Chinn explained that the Judgment was sold to pay an $18.000 fee to Mrs. Manton’s lawyer,

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HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

Hat Marks the Spot That Brings Terrifying Screams

: HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 27.—BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAMS came from Paramount's Stage No. 5, $0 I went into see who was being

killed, this time, in “The Ghost Breaker.”

The scene wash't very

terrifying. There stood Grace Hayle, all 191 pounds of her, staring at a hat on the floor and shrieking like a soul in torment.

Miss Hayle was supposed to victim, The hat didn’t show in this shot; it merely marked the spot where a body would be found when the camera drew back and recorded the whole scene. While explaining that, the plump actress explained that she’s pretty good at other noises. Lion roars, donkey brays and rooster crows are other things she has done in pictures besides act. “All I have to do is get into the mood,” she said. “When I feel like a lion

or a rooster, I can sound like one.” -

According to that, she must have spent the last two months feeling like & comic version of Mussolini's wife, because that’s the role she has just finished in Charlie Chaplin’s new picture, “The Dictator.” ” » 2 MEMBERS OF the cast of the Chaplin film have been asked not to talk too much about it, but I got a few fresh details from Miss Hayle. Jack Oakie plays the

Mussolini character, but is bilfed

as Diggaditcho Gasolini. Whenever he’s seen on the screen, Signora Gasolini will be with him; but when news photographers get set to take pictures, he always shoves her into the background. Hinkel (Chaplin’s Hitler character) and Gasolini also have several tussles for preferred spots when the cameramen are busy. Miss Hayle is billed as “The Forgotten Woman,” but she has one scene at a ball in which she and little Hinkel do a comic dance. Incidentally, the Gasolinis both speak with a fruitpeddler accent, and this satire is likely to make the. Italians very mad indeed. (Fortunately for Hollywood, Italy isn’t buying any American films this season.) Here's how Chaplin, as a mild little Jewish barber, happens to take Hinkel’s place for awhile: The dictator hears reports of unrest among his people, so he puts on old clothes and mingles with them to find out what the trouble is. His plan leaks out, though, and when a crowd sees the little barber on the street they rush up and ask him if he’s Hinkle, Chaplin is scared silly, and as he draws himself back against a wall he unwittingly assumes a Hitleresque pose. Immediately the crowd begins saluting and hollering “Heil.”

» ” ” $0 CHAPLIN IMMEDIATELY is rushed to the palace and into Hinkel’s clothes and character. He makes speeches in a guttural double-talk which sounds like fiery German but actually makes no sense at all. But along with his amazing pantomime, says Miss Hayle, he seems to make his meanings perfectly clear. | Mischa Auer plays a character representing Stalin, but this picture is pre-wartime, so Stalin and Hitler are not shown making their recent pact. - ‘There’s a sequence, though, in which Hinkel and his underlings are trying to figure a way to get Gasolini’s troops back from the Austrian border so that Austria can be grabbed. Somebody suggests a non-aggression pact. Gasolini is invited to a very lavish ball and the pact is proposed. He can’t understand why, if the two countries agree not to fight, it would make any difference where his troops are. Finally, though, he realizes it’s just a scrap of paper, so he and Hinkel both sign with the obvious purpose of doublecrossing each other.

have discovered ‘another murder

100 ANSWER CALL ‘FOR MOVIE ROLES

Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 27.— When David L. Loew and Albert Lewin decided to make a movie of Erich Maria Remarque’s “Flotsam,” they

issued word that foreign stars would be welcome to try out for roles. But they scarcely were prepared

for the deluge of talent that de-|

scended upon them. So far, more than 100 European performers have applied. Included in this number are Lien Deyers, who once played opposite Richard Tauber and Jan Kiepura; Lotte Palfi, former Viennese star; Lisel Valetti, daughter of “Vienna's Marie Dressler” and herself a noted stage actress; Karen van Ryn, the bal-

let star who replaced Zorina in “I|

Married an Angel”; Eva Maria Gessner, Berlin singer and later an Italian film star, and Eva Hyde, who fled Munich and has a couple of oliywood performances to her credit.

COOGAN, MOTHER GET 150,000 EACH

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— Jackie Coogan will receive $150,000 as his share of a fortune which he claimed should have been $4,000,000. His mother, Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein, will receive the same amount. : Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson approved a settlement between the “Kid” of silent pictures and his mother, ending a dispute that began over two years ago. Coogan sued his mother and Arthur Bernstein, his stepfather, for an accounting of the money he had earned. :

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Gracie 'Enters' President Race

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. P.)— Political conditions being what they are, Gracie Allen said today it might not be a bad idea for her to run for President. «“To add humor to the impending race, she started the “Gracie Allen for President” movement. Miss Allen hired professional petition circulators to stand on street corners with petitions in one hand and a bag of nuts in the other. Every time a pedestrian voted for ‘Miss Allen, wife and comedy partner of George Burns, he received a handful of nuts. In 40 minutes during a drizzling rain, Miss Allen got 864 votes. “That's as much support as some of the actual candidates seem to be getting,” she said. “So maybe I should run for President.”

'HOME ON MONDAY,’ MADELEINE RADIOS

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— Madeleine Carroll, who sailed for Europe over Producer Cecil B. DeMille’s protests, has radioed him that she will be back next Monday. She had promised to be back yesterday. The blond actress radioed from the liner Conte di Savoia that she had missed the Clipper and would take a plane for Hollywood when the boat docks at New York Thursay. :

KINGS HIS SPECIALTY

Montagu Love, in 30 years on the screen, has portrayed 12 kings, eight princes, five dukes and three dictators. ,

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO .“My Little Chickadee,” with Mae West, W. C. Fields, at 11:05, 1:48, 4:35, 7:17 and 10:01. “Honeymoon Deferred,” with Edmund Lowe, Margaret Lindsay, at 12:50, 3:34, 6:18 and 9:02. CIRCLE

Sidewalks of London,” with Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, at 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 and 10:15, “The Llano Kid,” with Tito Guizar, -Gale Sondergaard, at 12:35, 3:25, 6:15

INDIANA “I Take This Woman,” with Spencer Tracy. Hedy Lamarr, at 12:43, 3:58, 7:03 and 10:08. ' The Marines Fy High.” with Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, + at 11:35, 2:50, 5.55 and 9. ©

LOEW'S “His Girl Friday,” with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell. Ralph Bellamy, at , 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and 10. ‘‘Five Little Peppers at Home,” with Edith Fellows, Dorothy Peterson, at 12:39, 3:29, 6:19 and 9:09. LYRIC “Fairest of the Fair,” an N. T. G. revue, with Jackie Heller, Diamond Bros. on stage, at 12:49, 3:52, 6:45

“village Barn Dance.” with Richard Cromwell, Doris Day, on screen, at 11:25, 2:18, 5:11, 8:04 and 10:30.

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