Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1940 — Page 19

1940

FRIDAY, AUG. 2,

HOLLYWOOD

It Could Happen—A Double Billing of

'The Letter’ and 'Opened By Mistake’ |

By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2 (NEA) Behind the Scenes: Authentic News is lacking about that long conference between Edsel Ford and | Louis B. Mayer. I know that Metro has been figuring on a film biog- | raphy of Henry Ford. Hollywood prefers to believe, though, that Mr, Mayer was asking whether the Dearborn manufacturer could turn out a thousand Mickey Rooneys,

A suburban theater, long closed for remodeling, has resumed operations with a particularh unfortunate billing on its marquee The picture is "Opened by Misake”... W arning to the wamers You'd better begin taking precautions now against the dou-ble-billing of "Opened by Mistake” With Bette Davis’ new picture, “The Letter.” Maurice Chevalier seems to have lost every franc from his long and thrifty saving, and Italians now are enjoving his Hollywoodish villa at Nice. But he'll find plenty of new chances in American pictures, Herbert Wilcox wants him to co-star with Anna Neagle in No, No, Nanette.” Most of the finest plavers, directors and musicians of France will be refugees in this country. Some are coming here on money and low-pay contracts cabled by shrewd talent agents.

| may be only one-day atmosphere | bits, for $8 or $10, but there al- | wavs are stories about how these | oldsters, broke and discouraged, have been rescued from obscurity and are being given chances for a | | come-back. It's cruel exploitation. |

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ABOUT: Bob Hope, | back from that record-smashing personal appearance swing on | which a million fans saw him, is Samuel Goldwyn's choice as the star in a remake of “Whoopee,” | done in 1930 with Eddie Cantor. . Gary Cooper's next will be “Sergeant York,” which also will mark Jesse Lasky's re-entry in production. . . . John Barrymore | has pushed back his stage tour | with Elaine and remains at 20th- { Fox for “Falling Star.” . “Nice | Girl” is the title for Deannd Durbins flicker in the autumn. In- | cidentally, her producer, Joe Pas- | ternak, has been conferring with the George Temples and lunching | with Shirley, . . , Bette Davis will be loaned to Goldwyn for Lillian Hellman's “The Little Foxes,” but not until next year, Mike Curtiz recently got an im- | pudent communication from a stranger, and by registered mail, It began with criticism of his di- | in + Now that Paul Muni | rection and ended with a request | has been dismissed by Warners, | for $500. Curtiz was furious. He his beards are being cut down to |! said, “Next time I read a letter fit John Garfield. | like this, I won't even open it!” Paramount bosses sav they're | ——

really mad at Don Ameche, who walked out on a picture after be- RIVERSIDE PARK | RETURNS TIPPY|

ing loaned it by his own studio, |

CASTING

THE MARX BROTHERS’ picGo West,” has been hitting production snags, especially in the budget region. The comedians are so worried about these money troubles that when Harpo took his red wig out of storage the other day he found a lot of gray hairs

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for and that he'll be sued for about $175,000 in damages. . .. The western star, Charles Starrett, hopes he has found a wav to get out of horse-opera into heavier drama, He bought Rocklen Stuart's novel, “Tron Men,” about an immigrant avho hecomes a tveoon of Great Lakes commerce, and is peddling it with his own services as the lead I wish the Motion Picture Relief Fund would get that home for indigent movie veterans built and occupied I'he old-timers of this business, especially tae has-beens of the silent era, deserve not onl security and comfort, but also shelter for their self-respect. Not A week passes in Hollywood now without the engagement of a flock of old stars and featured plavers for some new movie, Their parts

A return engagement for Tippy Tipper, trained dog owned by Roscoe Peters of Madison, has been sched- | uled for tomorrow and Sunday atl Riverside Park | he 3-vear-old canine performer | will be seen tomorrow night on the | stage at the center of the park, and ‘again on Sunday afternoon and eve- | ning For the week-end performances Mr. Peters also will bring a Chow puppy named Chang Tippy Tipper made his Riverside] debut last summer in a repertory of front and back flips, balancing and other feats, {

‘4 CHEERS' IS SOLD | TO WARNER BROS.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2 (U, P.).—| Warner Bros. has purchased “Four Cheers to Mother,’ a Long Island little theater production which! aroused considerable comment re-! cently, It was written by Phil Dunnig and L. G. Lighton. | In the movie version, Olivia De Havilland, Brenda Marshall and Peggy Diggins are slated to play the three daughters,

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Cleveland's Lyric Maestro

Season Open

Cain Park Theater, CityOwned, Starts Third Year's Program.

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, O., Aug.

2 (U. P).—Lights have gone up on

the third season of community pro-| ductions at Cain Park Theater, an enterprise which in two vears has | gained recognition as a pioneer | among American stage movements. | Last year attendance during the | nine weeks’ season was 45,000, three times that of the 1938 season.| More than 1000 persons participated |

| In the summer's program, largely on a volunteer basis.

| side | Thursday, | nights are play nights,

| to the theater's physical plant,

This year, additions

after many

| season of events has opened rang-

ing from the dramatic George S.| Kaufman-Moss Hart production,

“The American Way,” to concerts, ballets and speeches. [ §

| Nees Sunday Is Free Day Benny Meroff, the orchestra

leader, is providing music and a semblance of order at the Lyric this week on a stage overrun with comedians, The bill includes seven comedy acts and, reasonably enough, is called “Funzafire.”

BORROW FONTAINE

Joan Fontaine, star of “Rebecca,” has been borrowed from Selznick

Nearly every night of the week] [finds an event scheduled. Free] community programs are offered | each Sunday when the 150-voice Cain Park Theater Choral society sings, and an address is heard. On Tuesdays during the season outorganizations stage shows Friday and Saturday

One of the nine weeks this year

Noel Pleads for Actors' Orphans

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P).—| [Noel Coward, English actor and| playwright, discussed yesterday with |President Roosevelt problems of (evacuating British children to America, particularly the 58 inmates of an actors’ orphanage of which he is president, Mr. Coward said he also suggested to Mr. Roosevelt that the U. S could help Britain by cutting off food shipments to continental Eu- | rope. “That is a hard hearted way to look at it,” Mr, Coward said, "but this is war.” | London, he said, is a calm as New |York and the threatened German

|p be given to at least 18 of the International to play the feminine]

| Ohio for {act plays.

| hands of {up of hundreds of persons from

I'imes-Acme Photo. Sonja Henie has packed up her skates for the duration of her honeymoon and has taken to flying. Her sportsman-husband, Dan Topping, boosts her into their plane at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, to search for lower temperatures at higher altitudes, The Toppings have a home near the field,

RECORDINGS

Bach - Weber - Mozart - Jazz Capriccio By Stravinsky Proves 'Not Too Modern’

By JAMES THRASHER

Stravinsky, Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra; Jesus Maria Sanroma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conduct - ing (Vietor), A hearing of this Capriccio brings a forceful recollection of the fact that the great composers have not, as a rule. been innovators in musical form. Rather they have borrowed the molds of their contemporaries or predecessors and filled them with new thoughts, This is precisely what Stravinsky did in this 10-year-old composition, He has gone back to Bach for his conception of the piano concerto's form and function, Al- | S though the composer proclaims his | allegiance to Weber during the time the Capriccio was written, | and though the last movement | seems founded on what Mr. Stra- | vinsky regards as jazz, the spirit of the whole work is pre-Mozart. | It is episodic, intricate music, richly counterpointed, clear and | serene—and not too darned “mod- | ern’—and possessed of the enor- | mous vitality that characterizes the best Stravinsky work. | Mr. Sanroma, Mr, Koussevitzky and the Bostonians do the composition full and sympathetic | justice, Dvorak, Quartet (American); the Budapest String Quartet (Victor). This is one of several works by which Dvorak, a half century ago, endeavored to show Americans the musical possibilities inherent | in Negro and Indian folk music. | That awakening has long since been realized, and the bold pioneering of Dvorak and MacDowell | mayv seem a little tepid now However, the beautv of their work remains, apart from nation- | istic considerations. The “Amer. ican” Quartet, like the “New World” Svmphony, sounds as much Czech as it does American. This is natural, and not to be | condemned. The important thing | today is that this quartet remains directly appealing. It is sunlit, melodious music, readily understood and enjoved. Since it serves as the vehicle for another recording bv the Budapest String Quarfet it is more than welcome. Haydn, Symphony No. 92 ford); Bruno Walter and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Victor). Two “doctor's theses” in the orchestral “Oxford”

Brahms’, Surely there are few more delightful symphonic movements than the finale of the “Oxford,” and the entire work reflects the shining amiability of Haydn's spirit. Mr. Walter's interpretation is a distinguished one. The Paris orchestra's performance is occosionally on the thin and arid side, but for the most part good.

Strauss, “Death and Transfigura- | tion’; Albert Coates and the London Symphony Orchestra

(Victor), |

This is one of Victor's less expensive Black Label albums, a repressing of an older Red Seal recording. Acoustically it is remarkably satisfving, with a really good tonal bodv and negligible surface noise. As for the rest, it will depend upon the purchaser's aamiration for this tone poem, majestic awesome, heavily sentimental and pompous bv turn. The Strauss work is contained on five record sides, and the odd surfege is devoted to Beethoven's “Prometheus” Overture, also with Mr. Coates conducting

Debussy, “Iheria”: Piero Coppola and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Victor).

Another Black lahel offering, this album should find its wav into many homes which have been denied this music for monetary reasons. “Iberia,” second of the “Images” for Orchestra, is one of Debussy 's undisputed master pieces. It is music to be heard, rather than talked about,

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Little Theater groups of northern lead in Universal's “Back Street.” |

the presentation of one- She will play the role which Irene But the greater part of Dunne portrayed in the original | the summer's program is in the “Back Street,” filmed in 1932.

the theater staff, made! WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE “Maryland,” with Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne at 12:30, 3:35, 6:50 and 10:05. “Sailor's Lady,” with Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall, at 11:25 2:30, 5:45 and 9. INDIANA “The Rave From Syracuse.” with Allan Jones, Martha Rave, Joe Penner, Rosemary at 4.08, 7:10 and 10:14 “Private Affairs, Iv, Robert Cummings at 11.43,

this section of Ohio—many with theatrical training at the nation's of the theater—

acting. Several Directors Needed

This year the amateur actors will be rounded up by the theater's director, Dr, Dina Rees Evans, but because the prelinimary work has grown too large for one person to handle, directors have been hired for the plays. Bernard Szold,

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LYRIO “Funzafire,” with and his orchestra Paige, Wynn Twins 3:51, 6:42 and 9:33 “Three Faces West,’ Warne, Sigrid Gurie burn, 11:33. 3:24, 10:37.

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Five Buildings of Brick

Men's and women's dressing a workshop, an office and a storeroom are housed in five brick buildings, concealed from the audience by trees and shrubs, A section of the hill has been hollowed out to provide an amphitheater seating 3200. All construction work on the thethe idea for which originally was conceived by Cleveland Heights’ Mayor, Frank C. Cain, was accomplished by disabled soldiers’ and relief labor with materials for the large part donated. Additions to the plant are made from profit derived from perermane es.

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