Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1940 — Page 6

THE

For

100,000 at South Bend, Film Stars Took Second Place—Gracefully

being is usually forgotten.

Hollywqgod with script material. But | this situation didn't in Sout It wast glamoul, as opuler

exist

of out of starts as ever went touring together, It was simply that, to South Bend, the star of "Knute Rockne—All American” wasn't Pat O'Brien, but the late, great and beloved coach of Notre Dame himself There was fun, to be sure. and excitement and revelry. But the estimated 100.000 who thronged the city for three days were there to remember "Rock" tribute. as well as (0 /see the stars, There was no fighting or fainting for autographs and souvenirs.

't through &ny lack for Hollywood sent 1 an array

And there were no temperamental outbursts from the

to see them going after the spot- . light the way

have pursued a fumble. But they

remembered why they were there, | ; : . . Sl and will be dealt with in these

too. The general temperament of the South Bend citizenry seemed to have its effect. [So the stars worked hard and often and uncomplainingly, and seemed to have a grand time. >

From the picture's cast were Mr. O'Brien and Gale Page, who played Mrs. Rockne: Donald Crisp as Father Callahan; Ronald Reagan, who portravs George Gipp, and Owen Davis Jr.. who has the part of | Gus Dorias. Others present from the movie lots were Anita Louise, Charles Ruggles, Peggy Diggins, Gail Patrick, Bob Hope, Rosemary Lane, Jane Wyman (Mrs. Reagan), Irene: Rich, Bruce Cabot and Ricardo Cortez. Other notables were Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Rudy Vallee, Kate Smith, Willie Howard and Jimmy Fidler.

‘Doc’ Cook, Podiatrist, Has Another Civic Comedy Role

No one, not even S. N. Behrman, can accuse William, H. Cook of Cook has been one of the favorite and most dependable comedians at the Civic Theater for the past nine seaAnd he'll be back for his 10th year in the role of Vice President Throttlebottom when the Civic opens its season with “Of Thee I Sing”

having no time for comedy. Mr. sons.

on Oct. 18.

A person of less theatrical en- | credits at the Indiana University thusiasm than Mr. Cook would find plenty of excuse for excluding acting from a busy life. For Mr. Cook's of

life inctudes the | profession

By JAMES THRASHER

Onde the glamour delegation arrives, a world premiere’s reason for The fans grab their autograph books and forget that Thomas A. Edison grew up in Port Huron, Mich lian Russell was a resident of Pittsburgh, or that the pioneers of Dodge City and Virginia City pushed back the frontiers as well

1 Bend over the week-end. |

and to pay him |

i SOon,

: cinema | visitors. One might have expected |

Rocks bovs would |

, that Lil-

as provided

They attended the banquet on Thiarsday night, toured the four theaters where [the Rockne pice ture was shown on Friday night, had supper with the press, put mean appearance at a ball after the premiere, and attended the foatball game on Saturday. In addition Miss Page and Messrs, O'Brien, Crisp and Reagan tooks part. in two broadeasts of the Kate Smith program on Friday. Queerly enough, the audience at the showing in the Granada which I attended reserved its araatest applause for two persons outside the movie ranks. One ovation went {fo Rudy Vallee's Tather, who was| introduced by his And the other was for young Mr, Roosevelt, who came on immediately afterward and remarked “LI wish I'd brought my dad along.” “As for the picture itself, be here

it will at the Circle on Friday,

precincts at only fair to Rockne—All

that time. add that “Knute American” passed -muster with a critical audience of fellow-townswen who had known and loved Knute Rockne well. After the performance old Notre Dame players and residents of the city were overheard praising Mr. O'Brien for the excellent way in which, with Mrs. Rockne’s coaching, he had changed his style and captured the inflections and gestures of the man he was playing. And Pat O'Brien probably will never receive any higher praise. For the premiere audiences’ admiration was not for a skilful bit of acting, but for a character in which the illusion of acting was forgotten.

But it's

| Extension Division. It's probably a hangover from his youth that leads Mr. Cook’s footsteps so often to the Civic stage door. For when he was a boy in New York, he had to go up Shubert

Play in Hotel

" Two Indianapolis musicians, Eddie Mae Browne, violinist, and Johnny Nelson, accordionist, are current attractions at the Hotel Washington’s Bronze Room. The team recently closed an engagement at the Hotel Muehlbach in Kansas City.

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hollywood Galaxy Attends Premiere of Rockne Film

Among the stage and movie stars who attended the premiere of “Knute Rockne—All American” at the movie theaters of South Bend, Ind., were (left to right, front row) Anita Louise, Mrs. K. K. Rockne, Pat O'Brien (who played the part of Rockne), Rosemary Lane, Rudy Vallee and Gail Page (who played the part of Bonnie Skiles Rockne—

Mrs. Rockne).

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RESOURCEFUL FAN Hollywood autograph hunters become more resourceful every. day. E | Edith Fellows was entering the studio, almost late for work when a girl asked for her signature. “I haven't time now,” Edith begged off. “That's all right.” the other said, extending a self-addressed postal card. “Do it any time and drop the card in a mail hox.”

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By PAUL HARRISON

Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Oct.

Orson Welles in the filming of “Citizen Kane.”

7—An - all-seeing camera is working for

Nearly every shot is

a special problem for Greg Toland, the hoss cinematographer, and some of them are likely to look downright spooky. Most Hollywood sets have only two or three walls and no ceil-

ing. comes in a door, or maybe a window, and moves about the room on a 20-foot boom, or crane. In one scene, for instance, the camera projects clear through the dining room of a house and into the living room. The lens picks up a boy playing in the snow outside, then it turns to pick up three actors inside. When the people move from one room to another, the camera follows them all the way. All this requires smooth work to keep furniture and people out of the way

of the camera boom. "nn s

WELLES LIKES long, smooth scenes © uninterrupted by the closeups and angle shots of ac-

Most of Welles’ sets have a ceiling and four walls.

The camera

ook of the year

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huge bags of fresh. flakes (corn flakes) into the wind machines. Finally everything seemed to be moving smoothly. Welles, on the sidelines, was going through a prayerful pantomime. The complicated scene -was almost completed—and one of the actors gargled a word in his dialog. “cut!” moaned the young director - producer - author-star, “We got the lights right, the props right, the sound right, the action right—and now this frog gets a man in his throat!” “Citizen Kane” is the story of a man told in five versions— through the views and experi=ences of people who knew him.

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"Mr. Spitalny and his all-girl vide the 'Hour of Charm,’ b and on most delightfully."

Herbert Kenney Jr. of the A sws Says: "Hats all over the world shou se doffed to Mr. Phil Spitalny, who is appearing ¢ he Lyric with his allgirl crchestra . .. they prov ‘1 iat their place in the entertainment world has beel 3 irned."

Says:

1 shestra not only proharm that lingers on

podiatry and numerous otiside interests. Among other things he is an assistant Scout Master and a member of the Boy Scouts Junior Council. He finds time to do a good bit of bowling in the winter, and he’s one of Perry Stadium’s regular customers during the baseball season. Fox Film Co.'s New York office. Mr. Mr. Cook was just out of collegz|Cook and his companions used to when he made his Civic bow in|spend recess standing bug-eyed at February, 1932. But that didn’t|the schoolyard fence for a glimpse 2 wind up his collegiate activity.|of Jane and Catherine Lee or Mary Fog JS pane ar Since then he has sandwiched in| Pickford in curls. team, said he was deserting his enough winter evenings between | -But it wasn't until after the Cook |, oi =e to time being to go the stage and. the bowling alley to | family moved to Indianapolis that! on a personal appearance tour: Of accumulate 60 hours of graduate | william got as far as the £00t- | {1¢ nation with a 16-piece dance lights. This was in a play at Tech| | band. High School. About the same time| The new orchestra will be named he won the rank of Minisino at|«Chico Marx and his Ravellis.” He Scout camp by majoring in camp- plans to use 16 musicians, a girl fire programs. He would prepare, {rio and a male vocalist. The enstage, direct and act in two or three tire troup will be dressed like Chico, skits each week. who wears a peaked hat with a Mr. Cook, who is called “Doc” by |feather in his roles on the stage and his fellow thespians, figures he has | screen. spent about a year and a half of| As soon as the comedian comhis 32 years (in rehearsal at the|pletes a .current picture, he will Civic, and about four months in|leave for New York to start his performance. | Of the 15 plays in| tour, he said. He has retained Herb which he has appeared, his favorite Taylor as arranger.

parts are Henry Aldrich in last year's “What a Life” and Mr. LOSES IDENTITY Pinkus, the process server in “The| HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 7.—Larry Front Page.” Simms has lost his identity through a screen role,

But he would like to depart from Not only is three-fourths of his

broad comedy just once and play “one of those parts where every-|fan mail addressed to “Baby Dumbody in the audience is sorry for|pling,” but that’s what his younger you.” He knows, however, that|brother, Michael, callshim. In addition, when he appears in any pic-

this is a rather vain ambition. al ) Civic patrons have heen laughing ture but Columbia's “Blondie” series, he is identified in the credits as

at “Doc” Cook for nine years, and : “Baby Dumpling.”

they show no signs of doing otherWHEN DOES IT START?

wise in the future.—J. T. CIRCLE

Comedy,” Rosalind Russell, at 12:35, 3:45,

Alley and across Times Square to get to school. One of Broadway’s biggest set builders had his studio next door to the Cook home on 44th St. And the schoolhouse stood between the Eaves costume shop and the old

cepted movie technique. He'll rehearse his players and crew for hours before using a foot of film, and a visitor gets the idea that production is going very slowly. Truth is it's progressing rapidly. Lots of things can go wrong, of course. I watched: a long series of mishaps on the scene previously described. Between each take there'd be a long wait while work= men smoothed the snow in the yard outside and prepared to pour

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