Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1940 — Page 17

THURSDAY, SEPT

. 19, 1940

HOLLYWOOD

Kay Franc

In ‘Little Men'—Children, Dogs, Qakie|

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By PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19=IN SCENE-STEALING CHILDREN, do

COW and calf, and Jack QOakie. Said Kay ‘If I'm going to be noticed at all in this picture, I'll scene walking on my hands.” elegant gowns and $125,000 pay checks,

have top billing have to come into every Accustomed to attention, the actress is accepting her loss | Of spotlight in remarkably good Spirit. Miss Francis used to be somewhat intractable, but I doubt that Hollywood would blame her | much if she tossed a tantrum in the faces of Producers Towne and Baker, Elsie the cow and Oakie the Hokey Dirsctor Norman McLeod sometimes is obliged to toss in a whisp of Louisa Alcott’s minor classic, he does this apologetically and unobtrusively by providing

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“LITTLE MEN” THERE ARE gs, donkeys and ducks, an oomph Francis, whose name will

be glued on Mr. Oakie, another crook, who during the conversation slyly reaches behind him and opens the school safe. | He finds his coat tail caught in it | when he tries to step innocently | away Another time, while Miss Francis is talking, Oakie leans against | a wall and absent-mindedly pulls at a piece of string or yarn he | finds dangling there. Keeps on | reeling it in, and eventually it |

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turns out that he has taken most | of the stitches from a HOme- | Sweet-Home sampler. Naturally, | the customers will pay little attention to Miss Francis The principal set for “Little Men” is impressive—probably the | largest ever built indoors. Three | adjoining sound stages have been | opened into an unobstructed area of acres containing a house, barn, sheds, stream, road, trees | and patches of lawn and fields. A vast cycloramic curtain surrounds all these and increases the perspective. The grass is artificial, but shrubs and flowers are growing in the earth that covers the floor. Hens have begun to lay in the chicken coop; the corn, under the hot sun arcs, 1 is doing fine

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George Melford, who directed Ru- | { dolph Valentino in “The Sheik,” and! | Jean Acker, Valentino's first wife, | been sighed by Frank Capra! Meet John Doe, » which is Haw;

Comic diversions in the same scenes u = on IN ONE sequence Miss | as Jo explaining to George | Bancroft swindler, all about Plumfield, the school. The dialog heeded to establish the situa~-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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WARNERS TO FILM ‘FOOT IN HEAVEN’

Flock to U. S. HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 (U. P.) = Warner Brothers announced today

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 (U. P.).~ (the purchase of “One Foot In The invasion of France has for a Heaven—the Life of a Practical time ended the motion picture pro- | Person, ” much=-sought biography of duction activities of that nation and his father by Hartzell Spence, of made available to the movie indus- ‘he New York United Press Staff. try of the United States some of the| Although the book will not be finest actors on the Continent. {published until next month, it has Among the noted performers who | {been the object of spirited bidding either have arrived in the United among motion picture producers States or are on their way here are Since they first saw the galley Maurice Chevalier, Sacha Guitry, | Proofs. Jean Gabin, Harry Bauer, Danielle| Jack L. Warner, vice president Darrieux, Gaby Morlay, Michel in charge of production, said the Simon and the famed Minstinguette. | {biography would be filmed with an Although Hollywood has not yet all-star cast to support the real life sighed any of these distinguished Methodist, minister the studio seeks players, several studios are negotiat- | to play the role of William XH. ing with one or more of them. Spence.

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Riverside Rink Opens Saturday

Grand fall opening ceremonies for the Riverside Roller Rink will be held Saturday night at 8 o'clock. | The rink has been closed for the past several weeks for extensive re-| modeling, including a new floor. | Skating parties will be held on Mon | day, Wednesday and Friday nights. | Throughout the winter, Lester Huff, Indianapolis llanapolis organist, will be at the

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reputation as an interpreter of Bach, Scarlatti and Debussy has tended to obscure his superior performance of other composers as well. His Mozart recordings, for instance, are exquisite The present album again finds him in complete rapport with the sometimes obscure Beethoven of later life. The A Major Sonata, however, is not too world-shaking or soul-searching It is compounded of a tenderness that shuns sentimentality, and a humor which is robust and, at the same time, lofty. To the work Mr. Gieseking brings a crystalline virtuosity, and exquiSite tone, ahd an understanding which makes the music speak simply and directly to his hearers

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