Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1940 — Page 24

FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1940

of Dick (Cisne who cannot fill his-

engagement. ; The Karr orchestra comes here

o At Indiana Roo from the Little Harbor Club at Harbor Springs, Mich. Featured vocal-

Wayne Karr and his “music with | go are Doris King, formerly with a lift” will play tonight and tomor- | Biye Steel's band, and Paul Carl row at the Indiana Roof in place|strom.

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIEN SEVITZKY, Conductor 10 Friday Afternoons— 10 Saturday Evenings

' THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Irene Doesn't Care ~ _ Ritzes Can't

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HOLLYWOOD

After All These Years, Studios Decide Stars’ Fan Mail Doesn't Mean Much

Fool Us Karr Substiiutes

By PAUL HARRISON : Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27.—Behind the screen:. Errol Flynn says if all the French could fight like Lili Damita, they'd have won the war. ” » EJ Fd » » HAVE YOU NOTICED the string of sly and so-called smart comedies lately in which married couples cavort in all sorts ot indelicate situations and dialog? It's a new formula for circum-

venting the Hays Office purity code, the idea being that anything goes so long ‘as the sanctity of

marriage is not violated.

2 a » IT'S FUNNY HOW the letter

of the censor code can purify its §pirit. - Director Fritz Lang once Submited a story to a producer. The latter liked the idea but was hesitant. He said: “It’s all right for the girl to kill this man and Steal the money, but we'll have to make it clear she remains a strict= ly moral woman.”

mail departments. Such publicrelations problems, together with the bother and expense, now rest with the stars.

2 8 2

TWELVE. PICTURES with army, navy, or air corps back-

grounds are in some stage of All will touch on |

preparation. national defense; three are ahout conscription. Two big pictoves intended for Jimmy Cagney have been sidetracked while he stars

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Both the Ritz Bros. and the Andrews Sisters who are in “Argentine Nights” are trios. Don’t -let the fandango fool you—these are the Ritzes. Their film plus “The Mummy's Hand” opened today at the Circle. :

2 2 2 APTER ALL THESE years of measuring players’ popularity by volume of fan mail received, virtually ail the studios have de- $9.22 cided these letters really don’t AN OLD trick—a technical one mean much. Certainly the crank | that accounted for the success of letters and begging requests are | the early slapstick comedies—has not representative of the movie- been used in “The Californian’ going public, and- photograph col- | for the duel between Tyrone lecting has become more of a | Power and Basil Rathbone. They craze than a reflection of ad- actually fenced at rather a leisuremiration. ly pace, but the camera turned Twentieth Century-Fox and slewly, too. When the film is Paramount are the latest, and | run at normal speed, you'll see almost the last, to close their fan some furious action. °

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Irene Dunne is oblivious to both Cary Grant and his here-she-goes-again attitude in “The Awful Truth” which is being brought back to the Apollo. It will open Sunday with another of yesterday’s grand pies tures, “Lost Horizon.”

in “The Tanks Are Coming,” much of which will be filmed at Fort Knox, Ky.

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APOLLO Now!

Films Facing Draft Loss

Expect to Lose Men—and| Girls, Too

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 27 (U. P.).—Abram F. Myers of Washington, General Counsel and Chairman. of the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, said yesterday that, conscription and defense taxes would make next year a “critical one” for movie theaters. In a statement sent to the Allied Theater Owners of New Jersey, in convention here, Mr. Myers said “conscription will take 1,000,000 potential movie goers out of circulation” because men of draft age “seldom go to movies alone; they usually take a girl friend or wife.”

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Jungle Film Is at Apollo

Locust Plague High Spot of "Leopard Men"

STAGE

Samuel Raphaelson, ‘Skylark’ Author, And Glenn Anders, Actor, Have Stories

Samson Raphaelson’s career would make a good case history for a psychologist interested in the effect childhood aptitudes have on later adulthood. Mr. Raphaelson, who wrote “Skylark” the Gertrude Lawrence comedy opening Wednesday at English’s, practically grew up with a pencil in his hand and his nose in a book. As a lad he collected pencils, preferred books to baseball. Of course, the argument that these tendencies led to authorhood, could be knocked into a cocked hat

if someone should point out that by following such a premise all children who play with mud pies will blossom into politicians. Nevertheless, any youngster who prefers denouements to doubleplays and begins to turn out acceptable copy at a tender age instead of scrawling “Janey loves Johnny” across neighborhood fences should be supplied with stacks of scratch paper. Since his earliest ‘recollection, Mr. Raphaelson has written for almost = everything—except, perhaps, money from home. Many of his plays and short stories reached the public prints long before he was graduated from the University of Illinois. While there he was editor of “The Siren” a student weekly, allegedly comic. It couldn't have too good, for instead of being kicked out of school as many successful college editors are, he became an instructor in English. After a dip into the advertising business he was a police reporter on the New York Times. Evidently those were quieter, more lawful days for he found time to write a good batch of the 90-odd short stories which has been printed in such diverse publications as Snappy Stories and The Century.

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“Leopard Men of Africa” which opened at the Apollo yesterday is the second jungle film made by Dr. Paul L. Hoefler who produced “Africa Speaks.” The latter was ex-|. cellent. As originally issued, “Leopard Men” was said to have contained these notable picture firsts: Congo animals in color; lions actually climbing trees; savage, horrifying Bonfima ceremonies; leopard-men in full regalia stalking human prey; a locust plague; an erupting volcano and some 50 other unusual scenes. As shown at the Apollo, the film evidently has been cut or Dr. Hoefler has found it cheaper to film jungle pictures in the Zeidman International studios. True, there are some pictures of a locust plague which, if authentic, are remarkable; duck-billed African women; excellent slow motion pho- | tographs of the leaping Impallas: a native lion hunt; a baby DickDick (a deer-like animal): and the usual lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, hippos, zebra, waterbuck and wildebeast. Most of this has been done before. The producers seem a little selfconscious about the whole picture for they preface it with a written prolog which states that because certain tribal rites are taboo parts of the film were enacted by nonnatives to give it continuity. They might have said that “any resemblance to a genuine African picture was purely coincidental.” —D. M.

200 to 1:00

Composer Pianist

This diametrical talent would seem to indicate that he was on the wrong beat. He should have been a rewrite man—that paragon of the fourth estate who with ‘equal ease can handle a titanic disaster or the perennial story of the orphan kitten being mothered by a dog. In 1925 his first play, “The Jazz Singer,” was produced. It was an outstanding success, as wag his “Accent on Youth.” Of the four other plays (besides “Skylark”) . he has written, he makes an effort to forget three of them. The other—“Young Love’—was Dorothy Gish’s first starring vehicle. For nine years he was a Hollywood writer, by contract called upon “to work on” rather than “to write” some 100 scenarios. Some of these, too, he doesn’t care to remember. The ones he can recall without squeamishness include “The Shop Around the Corner,” “The Merry Widow.” “Trouble in Paradise” and “One Hour With You.” Which gives you a rough idea what to look out for should your young son start collecting pencils.

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