Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1940 — Page 7
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TUESDAY, AUG. 20, 1940
Refuses Bid To New York
Marjorie Rambeau Won't Leave Filmland.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20 (U. P).—
Marjorie Rambeau, who recreated
Tugboat Annie for the screen, has|
turned down an offer to return to| Broadway. “Not Me,” said Miss Rambeau.| “It never pays to go back. I had 18 years of Broadway in the days when New York really was New York. It ~wouldn't be the same now—and I wouldn't be the same either.” | Miss Rambeau now is starring with John Garfield and Brenda] Marshall in “East of the River.”| ‘The Broadway offer came from T.! -M. Pridgen, London producer, who has opened New York offices. He wanted Miss Rambeau to do a re-| vival of her 1926 success, “Just Life,”| which was her last Broadway play.| “I don’t think much of one fare-| well appearance after another,” Miss) - Rambeau added. “I had my day on| Broadway. It was wonderful, and; was grand to me. Let . some of the younger ones have their day now.’ { Another reason for Miss Ram-| beau’s enthusiasm for Hollywood |
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By JAMES THRASHER WHEN RONALD COLMAN appears with Ginger Rogers at the In-
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against a magazine accused of pirating some still pictures from the Chaplin lot before the comedian was ready to give the fans a look. Now come reports that “The Great Dictator” may have its Broadway premiere early next month. If this happens, Mr. Chaplin will have spent on.y 21 months between the time he first set pen to paper and the story's release in finished cinema form. The way Mr. Chaplin makes his occasional features, this would practically put “The Great Dictator” in the quickie class. The last Chaplin film was “Modern Times,” back in 1935. In the interim its producer-star probably has done a good bit of brooding about a future picture. But the actual writing on his present effort is said to have been started about Jan. 1, 1939. This job took three months, and after some weeks of polishing and preparation, the cameras started turning last September. This was a six-months task. And since it was finished, the Chaplin forces have been cutting and matching the film with the musical score. “The Great Dictator,” we are given to understand, will be long. ” = ” THIS STORY was a long time getting here, but it may not be too late to pass it along. Hugh Herbert is supposed to tell the tale on himself: The comedian sat up late reading last Easter, and along about 4 a. m. turned on the radio for broadcasts of the country’s Easter services. He listened for an hour and became increasingly happy. It had been 35 years, he reflected, since he had attended church regularly So he woke his chauffeur and had him drive forth in search of a church. They found a tiny one in the San Fernando Valley. Mr. Herpert knocked on the door and a meek little minister came out. Even though he had been remiss as a communicant through 35 years, the minister pointed out, Mr. Herbert at least had performed much good work and brought considerable happiness to others. “In fact,” he concluded, “I am sure Providence will forgive you everything—except ‘Sh, the Oc[topus’ that picture WAS terrible!”
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Also May Testify.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20 (U. P.).—Movie actor James Cagney, who has been accused of being a Communist, appears today before the Dies Committee. The red-haired portrayer -f “tough guy” roles is flying here from New York. Francis Lederer, Franchot Tone and Melvyn Douglas—other leading men who have been accused of being, or having been, members of the Communist Party—may also appear before the Committee, Rep. Martin Dies, chairman, announced. He said Mr. Tone would testfy here or in New York. Mr. Lederer telegraphed Mr. Dies yesterday that he was ready to testify at any time. William IL. wilson, past commander of the California Veterans of Foreign Wars, thought the charges against Mr. Cagney absurd and said that 40 or 50 members of the organization would meet him to show their faith in his innocence. “Cagney a Communuist! It's a lot of hooey,” Mr. Wilson said. “Cagney is 100 per cent. He's co-operated time and again with us in giving benefit performances and so forth. We resent anyone smearing him with the communistic paint brush.” Mr. Cagney's alleged connections with the party were described to Mr. Dies during a two-day, secret he. ring in Los Angeles. He declined to say who had made the accusation. But John L. Leech, a former Communist Party official in Los Angeles, had given him a list of 40 Hollywood celebrities who, he said, were either Communists or contributors to the party,
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Additional tryouts for singing and dancing parts in “Of Thee I Sing,” the Civic Theater's opening production of the 1940-41 season, will be held at the theater tomorrow at 7:30 Pp. m. Mrs. William G. Sparks, music director, and Johnny Sweet, dance director, will conduct the tryouts.
LONDON, Aug. 20 (U. P.).—Vic Oliver, naturalized American comedian who makes more money amusing Britons than his father-in-law, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, makes steering the British Empire through the war, tops a band of American theatrical figures who are determined to stay here despite the war. The 42-year-old Vienna «born Oliver, who married Churchill's beautiful, blond actress daughter, Sarah, is starring in the London season's biggest musical comedy hit, “Black Velvet,” and does a regular Sunday night comedy stunt on the British Broadcasting network with Ben Lyon and his wife, Bebe Daniels, former Hollywood movie stars now starring in another musical hit, “Haw Haw.” Mr. Oliver recently was reported to be preparing to go to America because of a row with his producer, George Black, but now everything apparently is settled and he vows to stay here indefinitely—except for a four-week visit to New York probably next year, in order to keep his American citizenship.
Ben Lyon Entertains
Mr. Oliver's compatriots vowing to stay here through the war include, besides Mr. Lyon and his wife, Teddy Brown, Leigh Stafford, Charles Warren and a score of other lesser known performers working in some of the numerous musical comedies and/ legitimate plays in the West End. Much of Mr. Oliver's popularity is due to the way in which he changes his jokes to keep pace with the war. While his father-in-law ponders ways of winning the war, Mr. Oliver jokes and laughs about the whole thing. And Londoners like to laugh with him. When the aliens’ curfew regulations went into effect, Mr. Oliver pleaded with his audience to laugh quickly at his jokes. “I have to be indoors by midnight,” he explained. One of his favorite gags emphasizes his “complete neutrality” about the war. “I don't care who kills Hitler,” he says.
American Comedian Keeps Britons Laughing at War
Mr. Oliver poked indirect fun at Mr. Churchill and the royal navy when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled at Montevideo. “War teaches people geography,”
Mr. Oliver said. “Before this they thought Uruguay was a sort of toothpaste.” Mr. Oliver got into the theatrical business by playing the piano. Previously he had worked in banks and for a cloth manufacturer, He went to the United States in 1926, when he found he could make more money being funny than playing the piano.
Appeared in Indianapolis
He made his first vaudeville appearance at the Lyric Theater, Indianapolis, Ind., in July, 1926, and later toured the United States. He appeared first in New York at the Palace Theater in June, 1929. His first appearance in London was at the Palladium, where every vaudeville performer hopes to top his career. His first try at musical comedy was in “Follow the Sun,” produced at the Adelphi Theater Feb. 4, 1936, by Charles B. Cochran, the English Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then, he has become the most popular of England's entertainers in cabaret and variety theaters and has made several motion pictures.
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