Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 28

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HOLLYWOOD

‘Writer Advises Movisiows to Keep American’ Flickers in U. S. A.

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By PAUL Times Sp HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18.—The tinues, with the studios announc romances, and musicals for future

HARRISON. | ecial Writer Latin American picture parade coning adventure yarns, pf#mpas-moon production. In one way, these flick-

ers may be helpful to our cordial good-neighbr policy—in directing U. S. attention to the nations between here and Cape -Horn, But Hollywood's ideas of life and love in Central and South Ameri-

ca will not be of any favorable consequence to those countries. The only vivas we'll be hearing will be from the several hundred Latin-type extras and actors who expect to get lots of jobs this season.

The best thing that Movietown can do is send lots of typical North American films down there and keep all the South American stories for their showings up here. They want all sorts of action stuff, lots of blonds, and musicals with U. 8. music. Comedies, too, but not the slightly smutty and supposedly smart sort which are being done to death down here..

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“DOWN ARGENTINE WAY” gcarcely had been previewed before 20th-Fox announced ‘‘Caribbean Cruise” as a sequel, mean ing that it will have lots of rhrumba, conga and samba stuff, along with Don Ameche and Betty Grable.

But neither of these pictures |’

‘will be any good for the Latin American trade. Instead, the studio will put many of its pesos on “The Californian,” which is a remake—with Tyrone Power div-

ing from the balconies this time —of “The Mark of Zorro.” It will be dubbed in five varieties of Spanish and Portuguese for everybody south of the Rio Grande. It just wouldn't pay for Hollywood to try to mirror faithfully’ the Latin life and its stiff conventions. Our fans would be bored. Hollywood is still so uninformed and careless about details and conditions in South America that the 20th-Fox casting office merely was asked for 200 “Latin types” on the first day that a crowd of Argentinians was to be filmed. That meant swarthy, blackhaired people. It took a lot of pleading on the part of a technical adviser to get a representative sprinkling of blonds and redheads in the mob. :

. WAITS ON DISNEY

Producer Walter Wanger 1s hold-~ ing up future productions until the ‘revolutionary” sound treatment in | Walt Disney's “Fantasia” has been introduced. Mr. Wanger plans to | take advantage of the innovations and adapt them to “living” picture | production.

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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18

They had replaced her in one riedly borrowed from a rival studio,

come down from her high horse, she wouldn't be living here ay more.

Whether Miss Sheridan would return to Hollywood as Mrs. Brent was problematical. Their marriage long has been expected. The red-haired Ann, a creature of the studio press, if there ever was one, headed for the border a couple of days ago, after the Warners refused to raise her salary above the current $1000 weekly. : Scheduled to stat in “Strawberry Blonde,” a picture ready to hit the cameras Monday, Miss Sheridan ‘drove instead to Ensenada, Mexico, where Mr. Brent met her | They were reported | to be cruising down the coast of | Baja (Lower) California and not {worrying much about when they | returned. The Warners arranged with Columbia Studios for the loan of Miss

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dicated that if their oomph girl didn’t come back soon with apologies and promises of no more monkey business, they'd be in the market for another redhead. Two years ago, Miss Sheridan was just another pretty girl in Hollywood. ; She had divorced her husband, Edward Norris, aifd was getting no place rapidly in minor, parts, in minor pictures. It was thén that the press agents took her in’ hand. They spent $160 first, giving her a dinner at which guests were maneuvered into crowning her “Queen of Oomph.” Then things began to happen. She was photographed mearly 7000 times in specially-designed “oomph dresses,” low in front and lower in the back. The word “oomph” was copyrighted as her trade mark. Soon there was an “oomph gasoline” on the market; an “oomph automobile,” “oomph cigarettes.” The fan mail climbed from 27th to first place on the Warner star list and the postmen started hauling marriage proposals to her in trucks. Dime -a-dance palaces every-

| where advertised “50 beautiful girls

—everyone with oomph.” Fraternity

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Ann Sheridan .. . spurns starring part.

(U. P)—Suspended by her studio and scratched from its payroll, Ann Sheridan cruised off the coast of Mexico today with George Brent while her bosses looked for another oomph girl.

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“I don’t mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard.” By now, Miss Sheridan was getting big-time roles in big-time pictures and her salary gradually was raised to $40,000 a year for 40 weeks’ work. She said she’d have to have still more before she went into the strawberry blonde part. The Warners said she was getting all ishe was worth, Oomph? Humph.

LOCAL YOUTH IN EARLHAM PLAY

RICHMOND, Ind. Oct. 18—Robert Gingery of Indianapolis, president of the Earlham College senior class, will be in the cast of “What a Life” when the Clifford Goldsmith comedy is presented tomorrow night as part of the Earlham home-coming celebration. Mr. Gingery is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Gingery, 210 S. Ritter Ave. He is a graduate of Washington High School, where his father is principal. “What a Life” is directed by Prof. Howard C. Morgan of the Earlham faculty. Its performance | will climax the day’s events which | also include the Earlham-Swarth- | more football game.

COMPTON PUPILS TO GIVE RECITAL

Mrs. John H. Compton will’ pre- | sent, 32 piano pupils in recital at. 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Wilking! auditorium. | On Sunday at 4 p. m,

the In- |

dent section will have its first meeting and program of the season at | the home of its new president, Mary | Anne Blessing, 717 -E, 56th St.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE

“Knute Rockne—All American,” with Pat O’Brien. Gale Page, Ron$id Reagan, at 12:30. 3:40. 6:50 and

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‘Money and the Woman,” Jefrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall, 1:20. 2:30. 5:40 and 8:50.

CIVIC

“Of Thee I Sing,” the Kaufman-Ryskind-Gershwin musical presented by a cast of Civic Theater players under Richard Hoover's direction. Engagement through Wednesday; curtain at 8:30.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

|Walks Out—Can ItBe Love?|

FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940

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By JAMES THRASHER ANYONE WHO is. hungry for the perfectly balanced theatrical diet of absorbing drama, excellent writing and brilliant acting should by no means fail to stop in at English’s tonight or tomorrow and sit himself down to a feast called “The Little Foxes.”. It is one of the best American plays seen here in a good many sea-

sons, which Tallulah Bankhead has ever ‘turned her talents. The role of Regina Giddens offers. great inducements to any actress, but it also makes such demands as to tempt only the very unwary or the very skilled performer. And it goes without saying—or should —that Miss Bankhead’s place is within the latter classification. But first of all, about the play. We have had a surfeit of theatrical pi8ces about the Southern aristocracy, and about the unfortunates best identified by the contemptuous term “white trash.” But Lillian Hellman has treated of another group, those who buried their heritage in the face of necessity, who withstood the scorn of the pathetic ante-bellum aristocracy by entering trade, and who through meanness ot shrewdness or panicky tenacity hung on and prospered while the landed gentry: decayed. a

THERE IS SOMETHING of these three qualities in "Miss Hellman’s Hubbards, Ben and Oscar, the brothers, and Regina Giddens, their sister. They are at middle age in 1900, when Miss Hellman chooses to show them to us. By petty thievery from their almost penniless customers, the brothers have collected a tidy fortune. And now, with assistance from Regina's banker husband, an invalid, they are to merge with a Northern financier in establishing a cotton mill. Shrewdness and tenacity take a back seat as the play progresses, and meanness turns to vicious rapacity. With subtlety and skill, Miss Hellman lays bare the diabolical, almost unmoral greed of the three. Against mutual distrust, against Ben's unctious hypocrisy and Oscar's cruel conniving, Regina pits the icy deviltry of a woman cheated of her inheritance and thwarted by a heart incapable of love or compassion. An unpretty family, surely, but one which excites in an audience a fascinated hatred. Out of Regina's struggle with her dying husband, who is striving to protect his daughter, preserve his own decency and avenge his wife's utter heartlessness, Miss Hellman has fashioned a dramatic structure of bold proportions. Its rather terrifying overtones are the result of no theatrical trickery. They arise as believable, though horrible, qualities which are pursued to their logical outcome in human lives. ” ” ”

THE WRITING is of the same high quality as the play’s underlying conception. Miss Hellman’s dialog is brilliant, revealing and economical. The humor is ironical and bitter, and entirely in character. The whole play marches toward a climax in which words, atmosphere and emotions are taut as a fiddle string.

And it affords, without much doubt, the most suitable part to

_ infinitely superior stature.

Miss Bankhead's performance |

is a revelation. We remember her

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extravagant, but authentic and effective, histrionics as the actress in - “Reflected Glory,” and her unhappy and misconceived Cleopatra. But here is something of Her Regina Giddens .is a fury, but one of whims and wiles and deceptions, a velvet-pawed feline who stands forth at last as a creature to invite homicidal longings in the “meekest member of her audience. Hers is a rounded, finished playing of unquestionable rightness. ” ” » MISS HELLMAN has bestowed upon each of her other charac-

ters at least one scene to delight an actor’s heart. These, for the most part are excellently achieved. Frank Conroy is splendid as Giddens; while -Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid play the brothers with an admirable skill and assurance. ; Passed over in the general enthusiasm are Regina’s daughter; Oscar's terrified, hysterical wife, who seeks refuge from cruelty in

liquor, and his thoroughly despic-

able son. These are played by Eugenia Rawls, Marie Carroll and Dan Duryea, and—at least in their “big moments” — played competently. Ha

that he left her more than a year

'TOPPER'S' WIFE ago and never returned. She is the : GETS DIVORCE gin Sid Kummer, the

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—| BAT. Je Roland Young, the British comdian of “Topper” fame, was in court today for an uncontested divorce on grounds of desertion. The suit was to have been heard Wednesday, but was postponed because Mrs. Young's attorney was absent. : She said that she married the|: actor in Rhode Island in 1921 ooh

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