Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1940 — Page 26
. | Belle and Scotty.
The queen was in the counting house—counting. stitches. Even ‘the brocaded trappings of Queen Elizabeth don’t prevent Flora Robson from indulging in her favorite between-takes pastime of knitting and smoking on the set of The Sea Hawk,” forthcoming Errol Flynn starrer. : ; '
HOLLYWOOD Movie Colony Upset as Shearer Gets Countess’ Role in 'Escape
HOLLYWOOD, APRIL 19.—THE CASTING of Norma Shearer as -the countess in Metro's film version ‘of “Escape” has aroused more unfavorable comment locally than any role choice since the announcement that the same actress would play Scarlett O’Hara in ‘Gone With “the Wind.” On that previous occasion, if you ‘remember, came immeiiaie
By PAUL HARRISON|
“protest from thousands of fans all “over the country. There were plenty of admirers of Miss Shearer among them, too; they honestly “believed that she simply was not right for the role. The actress bore up amely under her chagrin and embarrassment and issued a gracious statement agreeing with the verdict and announcing that she was withdrawing from ' the cast. No such public reaction is expected this time, True, the Ethel Vance novel is a. best-seller, and the feminine lead has been the most coveted and sechemed-for. role in Hollywood ever since %he picture rights were purchas d. : But the story has not enjoyed: ! phenomenal interest that follo ed the GWTW ballyhoo, and mevie patrons are not bothering to send stacks of telegrams, either in approval or protest. 4 2 5 =» oh THE COUNTESS in “Escape”
role will be enlarged beyond ‘the proportions of the original story and to the detriment of other parts in the picture.
Hollywood’s feeling about Norma Shearer is due to jealousy over special treatment demanded and received, and how much is honestly concerned with dramatic in- . tegrity. She was unpopular during filming of “The: Women” because she was favored by all the tricks +of moviedom-—such as; lighting, number of closeups and. camera “angles—over the other ‘actresses. fen oa ee “UNDERPLAYING” .is a device that has made many an actor famous, and Hollywood often has wondered why Miss Shearer doesn’t try underplaying 1. * role as a great movie star. Any gesture of modesty, or any self-sac=
- teamwork, would win her a lot of is an older and more restrained | appreciation, But this way, she’s character than Scarlett; and un--| heading: for heartbreak. doubtedly Miss Shearer is capable | - It has been hinted that Miss of turning in an adequate -performance. Bui the movie colony is resentful because of the reports it hears about how the fine role will” be tailored to her requirements. Examples: ‘Miss Shearer, who refused to be Susan in “Susan and God” because she didn’t want to appear old enough to Le the mother of a 13-year-old girl, will be a considerably - younger countess than the one in the book. She will not dress in the slightly shabby leftovers of a war« impoverished noblewoman. She will be a more sympathetic character than she ‘should be. Her
choice roles. because she owns a lot of Metro stock. Actually she doesn’t own much: of ‘it. . Her advantageous position. at M-G-M:is based mostly on her being a longestablished star with a contract ch now pays her $6600 a veel. The large estate. of -her icte husband, Irving Thalberg, gives her an income of-ahout $17,000 a year. The bulk of it is tied up in trust for the two children. : Most of her money is invested in Seiz“nick International, and With the Wind” should net her a ‘tidy return even if she didn’t get to play Scarlett.
“1 AM YOUR GOD! OBEY MY WILL OR DIE!”
Ruthless, power over these pitiful
terrible in bis
humans shrunk to 14 inches in height. Dare these doll people defy
this towering monster?
There’s no telling how much .
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Shearer wields authority and gets
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They loved Lulu Belle
10 Acts of WLW Jamboree Score Hit With Lyric Audience
Indianapolis audiences know what they want and this week they are getting it at the Lyric. It's the WLW Jamboree, “full of life, clean, clever and sparkling with the kind of rhymes and rhythms that everyone likes. Headliners, of course, are Lulu Lulu Belle is just as homey and natural as she js on
‘the radio and the folks out front
love her, - She’s a trouper of the old school, despite her tender age. Yesterday, when a feather came floating out of the audience she ad libbed with a casualness worthy of a Fred Allen.
10 Acts on Bill
The show offers far more attractions, by number alone, than the ordinary stage presentation. There are 10 in all, including Happy Hal O’Halloran, monies. Lazy Jim Day, well known to all those who arise in the smaller hours of the morning, is billed as the sec~ond attraction on the program. Not only does he sing but he shows the audience a new back shuffle, by gum. As each member of the troupe was introduced the audience showed its radio acquaintanceship by long applause, and played no favorites, Others were Tex Owens, original Texas Ranger of the Jamboree; The Girls -of the Golden West; Helen Diller, ‘the -yodeling cowgirl; the Novelty Aces; Lafe Harkness, narmonica player; Hugh Cross and his ensemble, with Shug Fisher; Paul Arnold, baritone; Faith Hope & Co., a horse act, and the Barn Dance steppers, an eccentric dance team,
Something New—‘Botileodeon’
The members of the Novelty Aces pulled a new trick that got a good laugh, when they introduced their
1|“bottleodeon,” a xylophone arrange-
ment with partially filled bottles for sounding boards. They got a better laugh when one of the bottles broke. Shug Fisher, who stutters like Roscoe Ates used to, is worth a lot to see and hear, and Paul Arnold, the baritone, presents an gxcslient voice. The movie is “Zanzibar,” with Lola Lane taking time off from conjugal duties to be a daring girl explorer. She is supported by James Craig, a newcomer, and harried by Eduardo Cinaelli, who is very good at harrying.—(H. M.) |
RALPH MARTZ HEADS THESPIS AT BUTLER
' New officers of Thespis, Butler University dramatic organization, were announced today. They are Ralph J. Martz, Frankfort, president; Miss Barbara Belknap, - Webster Groves, Mo., vice president; Miss Marian Dreiss, Indianapolis, secretary, and Robert Sheffer, Indianapolis, treasurer. Frederick Winter is the group’s faculty sponsor and instructor in new courses heing offered in ‘all phases of theatrical production. Membership in Thespis will be limited next year to students taking these courses.
POST-DEATH SUIT
HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P). —A suit filed yesterday in the name of the late Frank Hawks, famous aviator, asked two million dollars damages from Paramount Pictures for allegedly pirating the scenario used in the film, “Men With Wings.” Wallace Moir and Louis F. La-
|mont claimed they had collaborated
with Mr. Hawks in 1934, four years before he crashed to his death, on a play entitled “Cavalcade of the Air” It was submitted to Paramount, they said, and rejected after it had been kept five months.
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as property man. He left the post assume the same position and the duties of assistant director at the Pittsburgh Playhouse under Frederick Burleigh. Mr. Burleigh formerly was the Civic Theater director, resigning at the end of the 1936-37 season to take his present post. As actor and director, Mr. Hoover spent six busy seasons at the Civic. He appeared in both the children’s theater and adult productions; directed Victor Wolfson’s' “Excursion”
for the Civic in 1938, and .staged Brinker and the Silver Skates” for the children’s group in 1935. He also directed several productions for other local organizations. Mr. Hoover is scheduled to arrive here tomorrow for rehearsals .of “Co-respondent Unknown,” by Mildred Harris and Harold Goldman. The play will be presented May 1722, instead of May 10-15, as announced earlier.
Mr. Steinmetz has been ill during
|the past weeks and was unable to
finish directing “The Gentle People,” this month’s Civic offering. He was replaced for. this play by Norman Green. The director told the board he felt he would be unable: to stage the final play, and asked that his resignation be accepted. Mr. Steinmetz came to the Civic in the fall of 1938, succeeding Alfred Etcheverry. The Civic board has not yet begun consideration of Mr, Steinmetz’ successor, although several applications for the position ‘are already on file.
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A LYRIC : “Boone County Jamboree,” with Lulu Belle and Scott »: Other radio favorites, on stage a 13:34, 2:50, 7:23 an 8. ““Zanzibar,”” with Lols Lane, James Craig, .on ig 8 ih 9, 1:35, 3:51, 6:07, 8:23 and 1
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. | By Science Service
PHILADELPHIA, April 19.— First of all musical instruments was the flute, and the number of notes in the various musical scales the world has known was fixed by the number of fingers used in playing various types of this instrument, Prof. Dayton C. Miller of the Case School of Applied Science told the American Philosophical Society in a lecture here. Primitive flutes made of hollow bones have been found in cave dwellings of the Stone Age, and primitive peoples still use flutes of the same kind made out of ‘bamboo or hollow reed. The simplest flute plays only one note, To get a series of tones it is necessary to use a number of them bound together—the “pipes of Pan” kind of instrument. Then it was discovered (probably by accident) that a pipe or flute with a hole in its side could be made to produce two notes, as the hole was stopped or left open. By boring more holes, up to the total number of fingers available, a whole series of notes—the musical scale— could be played on the single tube.
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general tyres, Prof. Miller said. The earliest ones were sounded by blowing across the open end; classic Greek flutes were of this variety. Later, a blow-hole was made in the side near one end; this “cross flute” was the ancestor of the modern orchestral instrument. The third flute type added a sort of artificial
mouth in the shape of a whistle; of}
this type were the “recorders” mentioned by Shakespeare and Milton. Having been the deciding influence in molding the musical: scale, the flute itself came in for some revolutionary changes when Johann Sebastian Bach fixed that scale in essentially its present form, filling it up with half-tones.
The simple tube with seven fin- |
ger-holes could :no longer meet -the demands upon it—human hands lacked the necessary additional fingers. The problem was solved in 1832, when ' Theobald Boehm of Munich invented the modern keyed flute, which permits eight fingers to do the work of a dozen or more: Prof. Miller, who owns one of the most notable collections of flutes in the world, illustrated his lecture with an exhibit of 50 of his instruments, playing selections on some of
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Richard A. Hoover , »., returns as Civic’s guest director. Richard A. Hoover Will Be in Charge of Final Production of Civic Theater; Board Accepts Resignation of Edward Steinmetz Jr. The Civic Theater board of directors has accepted the resignation of Edward Steinmetz Jr. as director, effective immediately, and has
announced the engagement of Richard A. Hoover as guest director for the season’s final play next month.
Mr. Hoover, a native of Indianapolis, began his activity there in 1932
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UNA BACK ON JOB
HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P.) — Una Merkel had recovered today from a long illness and was expected soon to begin a picture in which she will play opposite Bob Burns,
She was given the leading role in Paramount's “Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain.” Mr. Burns plays the role
billy comedian.
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Days’ of Horse and Buggy
Recalled i in ‘Gay 90s." Beginnirig tonight, Indianapolis’
diners-out may turn time back a
half-century by stepping across the threshold of Tom Devine’s new Gay Nineties: -grille ‘and bar at Michigan and Illinois Sts. “Inside . they will find colorful murals depicting the days of waxed mustaches; shirtwadists and pompadours, bicyele clubs and; of course, the horse and buggy. 'In the tapTYoom they will see an ancient bar which predates the Nineties, presided over by bartenders arrayed in handsome sleeve garters and heavy gold. watch chains, ‘Tonight's “grand opening” crowd will” ‘also get acquainted . with. the dance:music of Paul Nielsen and his orchestra. And for an added vintage touch there will be a singing waiter. The Nielsen band will continue
‘|to play and entertain Gay Nineties
patrons every night except Sundays, Their music will be a regular broadcast feature on WLW.
HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P),
| —The platinum blond, glorified by
the late Jean Harlow, is coming back, Max Factor Jr. predicted toay. ~The makeup, expert, after studying changes in Hollywood hair colors over a 20-year period, said the transition could be expected this year, probably this fall. “The brunet, best exemplified by Hedy Lamarr and Vivien Leigh, has exhausted’ her. vogue,” he said,
5 LOCAL PUPILS IN CAST OF OPERETTA
Five Indianapolis high school pupils will be among the cast of “Who Discovered America,” a comic operetta to be presented at the Indiana School for the Blind at 8 p. m. April 26, The operetta is being sponsored by the Philomathean Society, a student organization. Local pupils taking part are Lois Day, Elizabeth Butler, Margie Cook, Bertie Leonard and Alfred Zimmerman.
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HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P) —Some of Hollywood's top crooners are promoting the “Pirates’
Rudy. Vallee, Bing Crosby, Tony Martin, Bob Hope, Errol Flynn, Ken Murray, Fred MacMurray and Fred
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NEW YORK, Apri: 19. ~ohight the Theater Guild attains its mae
Jority, It was on April 19, 1919,
that the famous producing or
1 | ganization had its beginning with
the presentation of “Bonds of In-
terest” at the Garrick Theater. The Guild is headed today by Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langher, two of the original directors who built up the group as a successor to the Washington Square Players. This season the Guild has produced Ernest Hemingway's . “The Fifth Column,” now running, and William Saroyan’s “The Time of Your Life.” It also has sponsored production of “Morning’s At Seven,”
| by Paul Osborn; which has closed,
and the new’ Saroyan play, “Love's
| Old Sweet Song.” This last play
will open. in New York the week
B |of April 29 as will “There Shall Be
‘No Night,” the new Robert E. Sherwood play which:the Theater Guild is presenting jointly with the Play wrights Company, with ‘Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as the stars. The Theater Guild is well:known for its introduction and sponsor ship of numerous noted playwrights, particularly Eugene O'Neill.
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