Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1940 — Page 4

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Premiere |

Loew's to Show 'Boom Town’ At Higher Prices. |

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Indianapolis has been chosen as the location for the Midwest pre-| miere of “Boom Town,’ M-G-MY%| multi-starred production which will open an engagement at Loew's on Aug. 9 Clark Gable Claudette Colbert marr are the top attractions in this production, one of the costliest films to come out of Hollywood since the European war began Ward Fama! Loew's said todav that, contrary vious announcement, the would not be road-showed 1 five cities which will the regional road-show Farrar sai a slightly the contin gagement here

Bob Steele Back , In Saddle Again

Bob Steele, long a popular horseopera star. seems ning to heroic parts in the current Alamo picture he last time Bob the screen, it was as villainous Curley in "Of Mice and Men Before he had been playing Western heroes since he was in his teens. Now arted back toward spotless in Bill the Kid, Outlawed Kid was not, of cours © above reproach doings were hero The Alamo picture is announced series built aoing:s of the And probably before it boy Steele will be pu lers and getting the gal on Friday the Alamo will present Gangs the film which

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own goal line in this scene from Universal's forthcoming “Hired Wife.” The receiver, Brian Aherne, seems to consider it a pleasure to be kick by the fair Rosalind—as who wouldn't,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Swing King Saga Told

Former Boss Nichols Gives Lowdown on Stars.

By DAVID MARSHALL The basement dressing room was cool after the flame-hot stage lights. Red Nichols slipped a hanger into peeled off his shirt and

| dropped into a chair.

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“Whew,” he said, “that’s better.” We had been talking about the

greats and near-greats of swing who

| had started

| Dorsey,

up dressing table, | between puffs:

| that caliber you If theyre good and | {work hard theyre bound to go to

their rise with Red's | famous “Pennies.” There were Benny | Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, [Miffe Molle. Joe Venuti, Jimmie Eddie Lang, Jack Teagarden and Gene Krupa. Red tapped a cigaret on the makelit it and said

“When you know they won't

stay with you

the top and form their own bands.”

| one out of bounds from behind her | ed

HOLLYWOOD

Elephants, It Seems, Worry Directors’

And Directors Also Worry Elephants

By PAUL HARRISON |

HOLLYWOOD, July pound ump of sugal espo tracked jungl es ol Baldwin Lake in amount is flmin palm groves I fed all of them 10 circus fir et

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Me ( them ; ned el INg scarcer Anna May, veteran of hundreds [ pictures, died last year—approately enough for a Hollywood celebrity, of stomach ulcers. Sally and Queenie worked six days mn “Moon Over Burma’ and were killed in a fire that swept Goebel animal farm Replacing those two are Duchess and her fouble, Pinto. No glamour girls they re about 50 and 65. Glamowl hasn't anvthing te do with their role, anyway, which is carving Dorothy Lamour, Bob Preston and Preston Foster through a teak {forest Talking with Earl while doling out of panhandling pachvderms, I | ned there are a lot of difi- | es in working elephants for Ther can't be directed, dogs, by hand signals. And obey only the voice of a They pan attention any tells ‘em to do, sald Earl, a little smugly. ” » »

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some trouble Director Louis King Duchess, ¢carrving a howdah nd the three principals can't be persuaded to go through an tricate routine, including stopping at an exact spot and ing down without shout or the

that 8

ed commands nudging of a bull-hook ‘Some directors are swell nimals,” the trainer said Thorpe, who made the lac Tarzans, knows just what they can or can't do Another guy, | I remember, got sore because a |

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lion had to be fed at exactly the time every afternoon and wouldn't work afterward. Say | if that cat hadn't been fed on | time, he'd have dined on us!” | Another thing few directors understand is that elephants won't stand perfectly quiet. Earl's going crazy trying to keep his pals from spoiling scenes hy tossing leaves and dust at the flies, or by shorting. Discipline is especially hard to maintain on a movie set because SPCA agents, always press ent when animals are working, forbid using a stick on a stubborn or mischievous elephant who needs a walloping. This trainer would mistreat Duchess, Pinto, and the rest about as willingly as he'd kick Dorothy Lamour, » » » MAIN TROUBLE training elephants for that thevie too eager to please They can't understand —any more than many a human observer can understand—why a stunt has to be done over and again for five or six rehearsals and a dozen takes. Rather logically, they final. | lv decide that they must not be | doing it right. so they trv some thing else Duchess, for example walked on the set and lav down about 15 times, and did it perfectly. On the 16th time, she tried standing on her head Preston Foster sailed out of the howdah for a beautiful one-and-a-half This one is the best elephant in Hollywood now, and the only one who'll be trusted to carry Par« amount’s stars. Like many a star, she won't work overtime. When 6 o'clock comes—or maybe 10 minutes one way or the other—she takes Faris wrist and heads for the bam

BABY NAMED FOR DUNKIRK MARTYR

HOLLYWOOD,

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July 30 (U. P) daughter of Henry Wilcoxon, screen actor, and his wife, Joan Woodbury, has been christened Wendy Joan Robert WilCoxon. The name Robert is in memory Wilcoxon's brother, Lieut Robert Stanley Wilcoxon of the British Navy, killed at Dunkirk in| the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force.

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{lewis I picked | had been playing with Ben Pollack.

[playing in Salt Lake City | Was writing arrangements.

[once a week for a year.

with

| Chicago | famous Negro drummers,” {lated

| since he

and

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| session. | Jaze.

From somewhere in another dress- | ing room there trickled the shrill |

upper register of a clarinet, Shaw for Goodman “The two hardest workers we ever

had were Benny Goodman and Artie !

said. “When Jipmmy in 29 to go with Ted up Goodman. He,

{Shaw,” Red Dorsey left

“A couple of years later I heard Artie play. I told him that whenever Benny left he could have the job. Benny formed his own band {in 1931 and Artie came with us. “That was the same year Jack | Teagarden was added. He was a big Southern boy who was lying

Jaround New York doing nothing. He {had been plaving out

West, but no

one Fast had heard about him The dressing room clarinet had

turned sassy. Red lit another cigaret Glenn Miller Joins Band "I met Glenn Miller when he was He also I told him to send me some and if he ever

down

got into New York to look me up. |

me arrangements about They were

He mailed

wonderful The following vear Glenn joined

{the Nichols band

Gene Krupa had his first real job the “Pennies” He had been plaving around Chicago

| little two-piece jobs

How Gene Learned to Drum

“Gene spent most of his time in night spots watching the Red re“As far as original ideas. he had evervthing. But he didn't know one thing about the fine art

{of tempo changes and how to follow a conductor. and played what was inside him

He just sat down “He probably played a sevenstroke roll but didn’t even know it couldn't read a note 1 him to study with a the New York Svm

arranged foi drummer in

(phony and then he came with us”

had turnd The notes were golden as honey

He Makes a Prediction 2

The clarinel now soft and mellow

clear

"it's funny thing about Joe Eddie Lang,” said Red violin and Eddie concert programs at the

Hotel in New York

Joe played

Knickerbocker City

“At intermission times the three

| of us would go into the combination

{men’s wash room and shine pario: {and hold what is called today a jam Then we called it ‘strictly

“It doesn't take long to tell which

| boys are the band leaders of the | future. | been with us two years.

now who's In about three years he'll be where Miller, Goodman and Dorsey are now.” The clarinet now was toving with “Robins and Roses’ like a cat does a eatnip mouse, Listen,” Red said. practicing now

I've got a boy

Hiney Beau.”

CHICO MARX SUED

HOLLYWOOD, July 30 (U. P) Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers has been sued by W. Shaw of New | York for $600, the amount of check Mr. Shaw said Mr. Marx gave him in New York in 1939 on which payment allegedly was refused,

DEVON IS LOCALE’

“Busman’s Honeymoon,” Robert Montgomery, the thatched

starring was filmed in villages of Devon.

| England, |

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE th Walter Rrennan, Brenda Jovee John 3:35, 6.50 and 10.05 “Sailor's Lady.” with Nancy Kelly Jon Hall, at 11.25 2:30, 5:45 and 9. LOEW'S “South of Page Page.” with Vietor Melaglien, Frances Farmer, Jon Hall, Olympe Bradna, at 12:30, 3.35 6:40 and 9:50 “Military Academy,’ Kelly, Bobby Jordan, 5:30 and 8:35. LYRIC and his Orchestra, on stage at 1, 3:44,

"Marviand” w Fay Bainter, Pavne at 12:30

with Tommy a" 11:20,

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BS A new advance in aviation history was claimed for this new autogiro model's successful demonstration

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Applicants to Be Cut Down To 98 Before Work Starts at Tech.

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(THE BREW BLEW

Beer Won't Do Johnson Any Good;

By JOE COLLIER

PROBABLY THE CHAMPION victim of the heat wave is Paul Johnson of Brazil. Last Monday night, just as he was about to open a cold bottle of some home brew and relax, the police entered his home and confiscated the brew. They took the brew to the jailhouse and then contacted the State Excise Department to see what, if any, charge they ' could bring agains st Mr. Johnson. a— — The Excise Department said that unless they had evidence of sale, no charge could be brought against him. So Chief of Police Harry Hutton ruled that the brew | must be returned to Mr, John- | son However, it got so hot at the jail that the brew blew up.

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PALMER J. DAVIS of Elwood is a man with considerable information. Parks Johnson, of radio fame, attended the Kiwanis Club luncheon there the other day, and asked some of the men qiiestions | they couldn't begin to answer. He leaned over toward Mr. Davis and asked how many feathers a chicken has, Mr, Davis didn't “There are 8026.” Mr, Johnson asked what's that again. Mr. Davis repeated. Then Mr, Johnson quick drank a glass of water. That's just how there are on a chicken, is a poultry expert,

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HEADLINE which and succinctly “Joe Tipton newspaper recent doings

=o UNDER A says simply Is Gone,” the records the most of Joe Beard. It seems that Joe, for some reason, had been confined to jail. Then he was released and then

he disappeared. But before he disappeared, he visited some relatives and one of them js loser, cher. James P This relative had $9 in cash in Pan} R. Lange, | a pair of overalls, He rolled up the overalls with the money in the pocket and used them as a pillow while he slept, Even so. the paper reports, Joe managed to get the money out of the pocket of the rolled-up overalls without awakening the relative There ought to be some kind of a future for a man like that, on

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the 500 men who completed first industrial training course at Tech High School July 19, more

than 100 have already obtained jobs. George J. Smith, director of the Indianapolis office of the State Employment Service, said that all the men found employment at machine production, The men studied machine shop practice and blueprint and precision instrument reading in a six weeks’ course sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Schools to train more mechanics to meet defense needs Nearly 600 men are now attending the second industrial training course,

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WASHINGTON, July 30 (UU. P). | Director Howard A. Gray of the Bituminous Coal Division said today minimum prices for the soft industry will become effective

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Snite to Mark 30th Birthday

RIVER FOREST, Ill, July 30 (U. P).—Frederick B. Snite Jr. who has lived in an “iron lung” Since he was stricken with paralySis more than four years ago, celebrates his 30th birthday toe morrow. It will be the first birthday since he was stricken in China on March 31, 1936, that he will be able to walk about his family's home, wearing only a small portable respirator. He has been taking short walks in the home for several months with the as sistance of his two nurses, returning to the boiler-like “lung.” With him for the anniversary will be his wife, Teresa, whom he married last year, They announced In Snite’s own gossip newspaper last May that they are expecting a child in September.

With the dry, hot days at hand make your own rain by getting busy with the hose. Protect your invest. ment in grass, flowers and shrubbery. A new booklet, “The Making of Your Yard,” is free on request. It tells—among other things—how the most effective sprinkling approximates a gentle rainfall. It relates, too, why a thorough soaking once a week in dry weather is more effective than frequent light sprinkling. Water is your best yard insurance and

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