Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1940 — Page 7

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JUNE 18, 1940

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Hollywood's Still Hollywood Despite War, Spies and Taxes

By JAMES THRASHER

IT MIGHT HAVE a soothing effect upon the edgy state of the general nerves to know that, behind the escapist epics, the war films and the Warner spy hunt, life goes on in Hollywood. For instance, Paramount recently hired Margaret Webster, a distinguished English actress and internationally famous as the director of Maurice Evans’ Shakespearean productions.

Nw this background, Miss ebster was signed up, not to act or direct, but to write. Her first assignment is to collaborate on the screen play for a football movie! 2 EF - =

Certainly I should be shirking my duty if I failed to pass along this message from the 20th Cen-tury-Fox publicity hopper: “Students of the Arizona School of Mines would rather be stranded in a mine with Mary Beth Hughes than any other of Hollywood’s film beauties.” Some day these collegians are going to get smart and pick the ideal companion for the new graduate who is stranded, jobless, on the curbstone.’ 8.8 8 FRANK MORGAN and his brother Ralph, under their patronymic denomination of Wup-

permann, own and operate the Angostura Bitters Co. And in or of his latest and most candid interviews, Mr. Morgan (Frank) bemoaned the lack of public appreciation which made his product languish. Bitters, said ' Mr. Morgan in effect, should be an integral part of our culinary life. No modern soup, gravy or salad is complete without them. But, he lamented, the American public only uses the Wuppermann - Morgan contribu- ~ tion toward fine living in cocktails. And when a generous, moderately priced bottle is only tapped when the recipe calls for a dash of bitters, the turn- -over isn't very great. Thus Mr. Morgan made his moan. But what happened today? A story came from M-G-M to the effect that Mr. Morgan 4§ so fond of chopped chives on his food that he carries a box of them around in his pocket, in case he should patronize a restaurant that doesn’t stock the aromatic herb. Does the story say anything about a bottle of bitters in the Morgan pocket? It doesn’t. Well, Frank Morgan, doh't come around here looking for sympathy any more. ” ” ”

A COMMUNIQUE from Warner Bros. states: “Jeffrey Lynn has a gadget on his car that buzzes to warn pedestrians when he goes into reverse.” Perhaps when the car’s not in use, the gadget can be detached and used as an emotional outlet

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HOLLYWOOD

Bill Cagney Left Off Acting

wood’s important producers used business, or “lingerie game.”

though, it has nothing to do with his emergence as producer of Brother Jimmy Cagney’s pictures. Bill Cagney belongs to what is locally termed “the new order” of film executives, which means that he is articulate, educated, and experienced. His background includes a college law degree, a flyer at theatrical pressagentry, a voluntarily terminated career as a movie actor, and several years as the business agent of his stellar relative. He's still guiding the new but thriving conquest of the flickers by their ingenue sister, Jean. = 2 2

DURING ALL of his eight years in Hollywood, Bill Cagney planned to become a producer. His business program was delayed at the beginning because people wanted him to act for them. “I'd never done a lick of it,” he said, “and I had less ‘desire to perform than anything else. “But Jim, who's a fanatic about physical condition, had - insisted that I get into good shape. So I looked fairly good and was full of pep, and I found that nobody’d talk to me about any job except acting—especially since the name was Cagney.” He talked to his brother about it and said he felt that it might be an infringement on Jimmy's prestige. Jimmy surprised him by urging him to try. “If you're bad, they’ll catch up with you mighty quick,” he told Bill. “I'f you're good, then it’s okay anyway.” The newcomer was tested and signed at Columbia. + Frank Borzage wanted him for the lead in

e “A Man's Castle,” but others op-

posed the choice and arranged another test. For this one, the green candidate was put into a bed with a beautiful actress and told not to moye while reciting some lines in a X¥ery bored voice. As if that situation—impossible today under Hays Office rule—were not sufficiently upsetting, the bed itself broke down several time.. Bill Cagney lost the role to an upstart named Spencer Tracy. 8 ” ” NEXT HE WAS signed by RKO but remained idle until it began to rent him to other studios. ' He played leads and was doing® all right. “But finally I realized | ‘that the independents were trying to borrow me so that they could bootleg the Cagney 'name,” he said. “Sometimes I was being billed merely as ‘CAGNEY’ without a ‘Bill’ even in tiny letters. “So I walked out and opened a business office, and Jimmy asked me to handle his affairs. - Since then I've aimed at producing and ‘'m gambling everything on my ability to put it over.” The first venture is “City for Conquest,” a novel which was eagerly read by many a Hollywood executive but put aside as too much for the limitations of the screen. Warner Brothers bought it for Jimmy Cagney, though, and Bill Cagney believes” that the story has been, as the -adapiors say, “licked.”

WESTERN STARLET

Virginia Weidler, who won a Met-ro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract with her work in “Out West With the Hardys,” returned to the wide open spaces of Arizona to team with Ann Sothern in “Gold Rush Maisie.”

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HOLLYWOOD, June 18.—If this is to be a story about Bill Cagney, you may as well khow at the beginning that the newest of Holly-

to be in the women's underwear

That chapter conforms to the faltering tradition that movie makers are a bunch of former cloak-and-suiters and furriers.

Actually, -

TEACHER TO PRESENT PUPILS" CERTIFICATES

Clifford D. Long will present his students in a recital and annual graduation exercises at 8:15 p. m. Friday in the Cropsey auditorium, Central -Library.. Solos and choral selections will make up the musical part of the program. First-year certificates will be presented to Helen Jones, George Lucas, Graham Meggenhofen and Mary Rawlings; second-year certificates to Royce Agnew and Grace Noblitt; third-year certificates to Pauline Bade and Nora Carter;

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PUPILS GIVE RECITAL

Mis. Naomi Gray will mark. her 25th year as a piano teacher when she presents a group of pupils in recital at 8 oclock tonight in the Englewood Church Hall, 57 N. Rural St. Forty young players will take part.

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Before departing for his summer vacation in California, Fabien Sevitzky will make two guest conducting appearances with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on June 27 and 28. The occasion will mark the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conductor's debut on a Canadian podium. The pair of concerts which he will lead is part of Les Concerts Symphoniques de Montreal, a summer series instituted 10 years ago. Wilfred Pelletier, the Metropolitan Opera conductor, is the series’ regular director. Performances are given in the chalet at the top of Mt. Royal. Both NBC and CBS have scheduled network broadcasts of Mr. Sevitzky’s concerts with the Montreal orchestra. :

CHICAGO MODEL SPURNS MOVIES

HOLLYWOOD, June 18 (U. P.. —Naomi Anderson, blond and beautiful Chicago model, today decreed that her famous legs, perhaps the

‘most widely photographed in the

country, will not be seen in motion pictures. She was invited to Hollywood by 20th Century-Fox for a film test several months ago. She Said she was b The studio tried again this month and Miss Anderson, at the studio’s expense, came to Hollywood and underwent a test. The studio was impressed .and offered her a supporting role in “Down Argentine Way.” ; Miss Anderson; however, asked to see the test and decided she wasn’t ready for a film contract.

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LINCOLN, Neb., June 18 (U. P.). — Hollywood will have to tone down its Indian massacres and bring them in line with the facts if it wants the co-operation of Nebraska ‘historians. Producer Wesley Ruggles, planning. a series of movies based on

Dr. A. E. Sheldon,

Nebraska State Historical Society. Dr. Sheldon said the society would not co-operate unless assured that the proposed film would not distort facts. A reply from Mr. Ruggles said his studio would get “further material.”

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