Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1940 — Page 24

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LINDA MAY LOSE : FOSTER FATHER

3 HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 17 (U. P).— Sing Ware, a 15-year-old singing 5 ar, lost her father through litigafun two. years ago. Today, some More oule Li the courts was 0 hr ris eprive her of a fosBi is the*legal ward of her aunt, ; I's. Anna Catherine Stillwagon.

Her father, George Stillwagon, lost a custody suit to the aunt two years ago, Now Mrs. Stillwagon has filed suit for divorce from her husband, Arthur Stillwagon—Linda’s foster |father. Linda probably will remain with her aunt. Mrs. Stillwagon won the. custody suit against Linda’s father on grounds that she had cared for her since her infancy. Linda’s father is a Detroit "real estate man. Her mother is dead. .

ing and Boasts of of a Really

“Rock” and his “Fighting Irish!”

GALE PAGE RONALD REAGAN DONALD CRISP Directed by LLOYD BACON

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The 4 Horsemen gaflop again —in the shift they _made famous?

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Civic Opens Tomorrow

'Of Thee | Sing' Launches

Season at Playhouse.

The Civic Theatre will launch its new season with a new director and a favorite musical comedy (particularly appropriate to election year) at the Playhouse tomorrow night. The new director is Richard Hoover, and the opening bill is “Of Thee I Sing,” which is scheduled to run through next Wednesday night. George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryekind won the Pulitzer Prize with this musical comedy book, while its songs are among the best remembered scores from the pens of George and Ira Gershwin. In the role of President Wintergreen will be Charles Hedley, of the Jordan Conservatory voice department. to the stage, for his experience before coming to Indianapolis included featured parts in various musical comedies and six years as principal tenor of the American Opera Co. William Cook will be seen in the part of Vice President Throttlebottom, created in the original New York production by Victor Moore. Other principals in the Civic cast are Johnny Sweet, Jane Keeslar, Ray Robinson, Kermit Arnold, Kenneth Badger, James McLemore, H. H. Arnoholter, Louise Argus, Betty White, Louis Canedo, George Fotheringham and Vernon Roth. Mr. Sweet, in addition to playing the part of Wintergreen’s secretary, has staged the dances for the production. The musical director is

{ Mrs. William G. Sparks.

John Wayne

Has 3 Roles

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—

If he never forks another. cayuse |.:

nor shouts “yippee” into the camera as he gallops off to rescue the cattle baron’s daughter, it's all right with John Wayne. And with three pictures in a row, none of which has anything to do with the range, mavericks or rustlers, he has the courage to hope his career as a Western star is a thing he’s left behind permanently. -wgayne, now sharing starring horiors with Betty Field in Paramount’s “The Shepherd of the Hills,” began his screen acting in a Western film, and despite several attempts to get into other things, he's always drifted back to them. “Not that I think I'm too good for Westerns,” he says, “but I'm getting to be something of a veteran in this business and if I don’t progress there's not much satisfaction in the joh. Wayne's first job in pictures was

las a property man .for John Ford,

the famous director. A few years ago, Ford rescued Wayne from small-budget Westerns by casting him as the lead in “Stagecoach.” It won high acclaim and a brilliant career was predicted for Wayne, but he slipped back to Westerns again. Not long ago, however, Ford dug him up again and gave him the lead in “The Long Voyage Home.” This reminded other studios he was available and Marlene Dietrich chose him for her leading man in “Seven Sinners.” That led to his present role.

STUDENT CHOIR TO SING SUNDAY

The Student Choir of the Central Studios of Music, under Clifford D. Long’s direction, will give a concert of sacred music on Sunday night at - the Beech Grove Christian Church. Soloists will be Ruth Girton and Martha Stephens, sopranos; Keith K. Shock, tenor; Ford Blanford, baritone; and a trio composed of Ann Maloo, Helen Jones and Mary Fern Lambert. Anita Meggenhofen and Pauline Bade are to be the accompanists. A feature of the program will be a special arrangement of Bach's “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.”

RECITAL POSTPONED

The illness of Reginald Fisher, singer, has forced the postponement of a recital scheduled by. the Richard Allen Guild at Allan Chapel Church, Broadway. and 11th St. on Sunday.

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Jan Clayton, above, lays a restraining hand upon Grant Mitchell's regal rage in “Father Is a Prince,” the Lyric’s picture beginning toBelow are Steven Phillips (left) and Hank Woods, two of the marchers in “Maj. Bowes’ Talent Parade,” which will be on the

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Families Cheer for "Rock,"

So Circle Keeps Film 2d Week

By JAMES

THRASHER

THE CIRCLE MANAGEMENT thought a football rally was in

progress last week-end—which was true, in a sense.

The ushers hadn’t

seen so many boys of high school age in they didn’t know when.

Pretty soon the boys started

And along about Monday the fathers and mothers started flocking in. | business means only one thing—“Knute Rockne—All |

That kind of American” will be starting second week tomorrow. Art Baker, ager, reports that the audiences have been cheering like a Saturday matinee crowd looking at “The Lone Ranger.”

its

They applaud when Ronald |

Reagan announces himself to the coach as George Gipp, when Pat O’Brien, as Rockne, carries the mail against the Army and when

he delivers his stirring defense of | As for the mo- |

college football. ment when the picture introduces the Four Horsemen—well,

think ‘the hero had just untied

HOLLYWOOD

Flynn Has Cousins by the Dozens; Farmer Fools Movie Set Guards

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 17.—All over the lot: Errol Flynn has more beautiful girl-cousins, probably, than anyoody else in the world. Remarkable thing about them is their unvarying attractiveness. They all seem to live around here somewhere, and they come, one at a time, to visit him on the set of “Santa Fe Trail.” First it was nieces. The handsome actor used to telephone the iront office saying, “I have a niece visiting here, a Miss So-and-so, who'd like to come on the set this afternoon. Will you have someone pring her out?” After five beautiful nieces had been made welcome, somebody reminded Flynn that he has no brothers and only one sister, who is quite young and unmarried. And Flynn's wife, Lili Damita, has neither brothers nor sisters. So now it’s cousins. As this is written, the seventh lovely cousin

is being shown around the lot. » »

GENE TOWNE and Graham Baker, a celebrated writing team, are doing very well these days as picture makers. It’s big business, and they now hire other writers to do their screen-plays. When I expressed some surprise that production tasks could occupy all their time, Towne said, “It isn’t exactly lack of time. It’s economy.

Graham and I had a meeting and |

decided that we couldn’t afford to pay ourselves the salaries we would have to get as writers.” After filming a succession of semi - classics — “Swiss Family Robinson,” “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” and “Little Men”—Towne and Baker now are lining up a program of original, modern stories. Towne said an agent brought him a story the other day which he read and liked. But the yarn seemed familiar, somehow. He was afraid it might have been lifted from some magazine or previous film, so he demanded to know its authorship and antecedents before he’d talk terms. The agent investigated and reported the story had been written and sold 10 years ago by Gene Towne himself, But that wasn’t the most su~prising thing. When the producer asked the price, the agent said, distinctly, “One hundred and twenty - five thousand dollars.” Towne ptobably -didn’t get more than $15,000 or $20,000 when he sold it. But the studio that owns it has spent a fortune on it for .various screenplay versions done by other expensive writers such as Ben Hecht. “Don't print the name of the studio,” Towne requested. “The stockholders would get upset.” ” 8 o

THE “KITTY FOYLE” com-

temperament trouble, and the set has been closed. Really closed; not even important people who work at the studio are admitted.

So the other day a farmer—a real farmer hired to take care of Elsie the Oomph Cow, who lives on the lot—was reading a local gossip item about how uppity and exclusive Ginger Rogers has become. “That's silly,” he said. “Why, I ain't anybody, and I've watched ’em shoot almost every scene since the picture: started.” And he really had, too, as I learned after some incredulous questioning. Apparently the guards at the doors of “Kitty Foyle” sound stage have assumed that this man not only is a rustic character actor, but a member of

the cast. He gets by on innocence | instead of guile. He thinks that | Miss Rogers is very, very beautiful. :

Little - Nell from the tracks. ” ® 8 Just before the Gipp episode referred to above, Rockne expresses the rather hopeless hope for another Jim Thorpe. The players chime in, and the result is a deserved tribute to the great Indian star. Later in the picture, in a dress-ing-room sequence, a bit player sticks his head through the door and delivers one line: “Two minutes, Rock.” The bit player, didn’t recognize him, Thorpe.

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George Degnon, the RKO publicity man, brings this story down from Detroit, where Charles Laughton was doing a personal appearance in connection with his Carole=Lombard co-starrer, Knew What They Wanted.” The English actor was trying out the acoustics of a dark theater. A stage hand said, “Just a minute, Mr. Laughton, and Ill put on a light,” but Mr. Laughton didn’t wait. He stepped off the apron of the stage and crashed into the orchestra pit, 12 feet below. There's a lot of Laughton to fall that distance, but he patched up his bruises and went on with the show ‘as scheduled. That’s more than a lot of personal = appearing movie stars would have done. And that isn’t all. Mr. Laughton, instead of getting by after the fashion of most of his Hollywood colleagues, does a 20-minute solo turn on the stage, offering’ samples of his famous characterizations and really giving the customers a return for their money. We almost got to see "Mr, Laughton here in Indianapolis for the engagement of “They Knew' What They Wanted,” which opens at the Indiana Nov. 1. But the hope of his appearance seems to be growing fainter day by day. ” » ”

Ward Farrar, Loew's days over the fact that his old

friend, Louis K. Sidney, has be- |

come a producer for M-G-M. Mr. Sidney used to be a theater manager, too. In fact he started that phase of his career 23

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THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1940

DIRECTOR IS CHOSEN

Edmund Goulding has been assigned to direct “Mr. Skeffington,” film version of the best-selling novel which will star Irene Dunne.

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