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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1940 | ar FOUR PICNICS ON |". .JOAN ON STAGE PARK'S PROGRAM

~—— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES '_ [Two Studios List '40-'4] Schedules

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WHEN DOES IT START? in Previous ‘Killing

CIRCLE: oy ‘Favorite Wife,”

Joan Blondell is rehearsing for her first legitimate stage Dettormpnce

HOLLYWOOD with Irene in 10 years. \r

BY PAUL HARRISON

-HOLLYWOOD, June 11.—Oscar Levant, composer, author, encyclepedic genius, concert musie cian, sourpuss wit and an -actor of sorts, slumped on a couch amid the bustling and gaiety of “Rythm on the:River” and looked

‘glum. He usually looks like Joe Mope, but this day he was brooding something awful. For one thing he was worrying about the war, having . got little: comfort from the studio generals -and other long-distance observers. For another thing, he was worried about not getting - enough sleep. All his life, Mr. Levant had believed that the sun rose at 9 a. nm, and that only ‘ milkmen' went to work before 11 o'clock. You can imagine his shocked surprise, then, when Paramount put him on 7 o'clock call. When I saw him, he also was disturbed because he had spent two long, full days on [the set, fidgeting in formal clothes and waiting to say two lines. e said, “It was easy at first, whén I had a lot to do. Now I know I won't even be able to remember the two lines.” _ Hollywood treated Mr. Levant pretty badly on his many previous visits—or aly three of which, I believe, are mentioned in his book— | SO maybe he has been justified in behaving a little petulantly now that he has been brought here as a self-made celebrity. Time was when Producer Pandro Berman happened to ask him how he. liked a picture and was furious when Mr. Levant dared to say he was disappointed. “Who are you,” demanded Berman, “to be disappointed?’

Mr. Leyant

” ”

TODAY you'd think Mr. Levant was a star® from the way people wheedle | him on the set; also from the manner in which he charged | photographer and demanded | the plate of a picture snapped while the dour genius happened 5 be on his knees beside a pretty extra girl. He got the plate, all right, and with it went immunity from any further attentions from the cameramen. I asked Mr. Levant why he took this role, and he said, ‘For the money.” I asked how he‘ got the job and he said, “A Paramount guy in New. York called me up. I told him I had no ability or ex‘perience, and ‘he said, “We just want you to be yourself.’ “After I'd worked a while, they told me, ‘The rushes look fine, but don’t try to act or you'll really stink.” I didn't know quite what to make of that because naturally 1'd been acting a little bit just in giving an impersonation of myself.” ¥ ” ” = BESIDES movies, Mr. Levant's. busy. with musical compositions and with radio and playing. concerts. He likes the latter least of all because he declared, “I'm not good enough; I've got to cover my lack of skill with a sort of nerv-ous-breakdown technique.” “Rhythm on the River” (probably not a final title) is a story in which Basil Rathbone is a famed but phony songwriter.. The real stars, Bing Crosby and Mary Martin, are a composer and lyricist who ghost-write the songs Rathbone sells. Oscar Levant is cast as Rathbone’s stooge and pianist. You rarely see an actor actually play an instrument, but Mr. Levant will.

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Forty-four feature productions from Columbia and 34 features from Republic have been announced for the 1940-41 season through the studios’ Indianapolis exchanges. "In addition to Columbia’s features, 16 Westerns, four serials and 130 short subjects are planned. epublic’s total output is put at 58 pictures. Following “Arizona” and | “The Howards of Virginia,” now in preparation, Columbia announces versions of James Hilton’s “And Now Goodbye,” A. J. Cronin’s “The Valorous Years” and Louis Bromfield’s new novel now in preparation, “A

& ge Sinders sear 3:30.

Torrid ney : Ann! 5:02, “Cavalcade of

“Susan and

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“The Man With Nine Lives.” Boris Man io 25° Ww 5 and 8:35.

LYRIC b Crosby and his orchestra, a

War, Bairse Elsie Sai \ and

. Cary Ow Randolph Scott.’ 0,

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with James Ca ag‘Pat O’Brien, at 7:32 and 10:03. Academy Awards”

at 11:31, 2:01. 4:31, 7:01 and 9:31. LOEW'S

God,” with Joan

Orawiord, Breanne March, Sot, 3lus-

5. 6:20 a with 13

kaze at 1. with . Patric

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Story of Old New Orleans.” Brian Aherne will be starred in the Hilton story, and Jean Arthur

ILaShelle Presents

Ident recitals continues tonight with

| Shelle, voice teacher, at 8:15 o'clock lin the Y. W. C. A. auditorium,

Loder LasShelle.

ling auditorium, Mrs. John H. Comp-

Somewhere in Africa. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. waits his turn at the primitive shower-bath monenl) ed at the moment by Madeleine Carroll. The .aboriginal ablutions are part of “Safaral,” which the Circle will show for the week beginning Friday.

YURKA, STEELE SIGNED

HOLLYWOOD, June 11.—Blanche Yurka, noted stage actress, and Bob Steele, cowboy actor, have been signed for major roles in “City for Conquest,” James Cagney's new starring picture.

Students Tonight

The edrly-summer parade of stul-

in the new Bromfield work. | “The

L valorous' Years,” for which no cast

has been selected, will be produced and directed by Wesley Buggies. Included among the important Columbia releases will be (“Jane Addams of Hull House,” with Irene Dunne in the title part. Other stars ‘to be seen in two or more p are Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Joan Bennett, Constance Bennett, Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce. Columbia will continue its ¢Blonc¢ie” series, and will inaugurate two other series, one based on the (‘Tillie the Toiler” comic strip and - the

ctures |

Two special features are being prepared at Repubilec for Gene Autry. ‘A total of 24 Westerns will be made during® the coming year, headed by eight historical pictures featuring Roy Rogers and George (Gabby) Hayes.

STANWYCK GETS ROLE

HOLLYWOOD, June 11.—Barbara Stanwyck is announced as the feminine star selected to appear opposite Gary Cooper ‘in “The Life of John. Doe,” which Frank Capra will

-- HOLLYWOOD, June 11 (NEA) — A shot shattered the stillness of Stage 5 at Warners. David Newell lurched through the door of a house, stumbled down the steps, sprawled on the lawn. Behind him came Bette Davis with a revolver. .Moving as if dazed, she poured four more shots into Newell’s body. “Cut!” yelled William Wyler. “That’s swell. It’s a take.” “Then take. this thing,” said Miss Davis. “I hate guns. The last time I shot. anyone was in ‘Broadway,’ my. first lead. The gun made me so nervous that I killed the 'man 10 minutes foo soon in the second

fact and he had to play dead while other on the Ellery Queen fiction and. radio mystery stories.

we stood around and ad libbed all over him.”

MAY BUY ROGERS BEACH |

HOLLYWOOD, June 11 (U. P.).—

Purchase of beach property belonging to the estate of the late Will Rogers is being considered by the State of California.

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Tyrone Foner Dorothy Lamour HNNY APOLLO Plus “CHARLIE CHAN IN PANAMA” FAA XY f5%6

Gable-Crawford “STRANGE RGO”’ Frank Morgan ‘GHOST COMES HOME’

ZNOW SHOWING IT THE 5 CIRCLE)

a program presented by Edward La-

Ten of Mr. LaShelle's advanced students and the LaShelle Glee Club will take part. The accompanists will be Loretta Martin and Bonnie

« o o refreshing comedy. —NEWS. Tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the Wilk- :

Crawford turns in a thumpe ing good performance.

ton will present a group of her pi—TIMES.

ano pupils in their annual June recital. . Fourteen violin students from the studios of -Thomas Poggiani will he heard in recital at 8 p. m. Saturday in the American Central Life Insurance auditorium. ‘In addition to - solos, the program includes one movement of the Bach Double Concerto and three numbers by a string choir. §

v | AUTHOR'S KIN. SIGNED | HOLLYWOOD, June. 11 (U. P.) + Janet Fox, niece of author Edna Ferber, has been signed to a movie centract by RKO-Radio Pictures and will leave New York soon for Hollywood. The studio said she would be given an important part In a picture starring Carole Lombard and Onarles Laughton.

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CRAWL is the word for the stroke, but it’s no crawling pace when Peter Fick (foreground at right) is breaking records in the sprint swims. He’s several times a cham-

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Major picnics and special events will be added fo Riverside Park’s

usual round of actiyities furing the}

next four days. Today approximately 208 delegates and guests of the American Federation of Musicians convention

will have an outing and picnic sup-|}

per at the park. Tomorrow Riverside will entertain the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers Association at their seventh annual picnic. The Juvenile Detgntion Home Auxiliary will sponsor Auxiliary Day

on Thursday. On Friday employees|s

of the Guide Lamp Division of gen eral Motors Corp. at Anderson, wit

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