Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1940 — Page 13

Seats for 'Dictator' Unreserved; | . Tugboat' Annie Sails at Lyric

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week like crazy. So he has passed along the answers to the most usual questions to this department, with the hope that Times readers will paste them in their hats while he runs out to get a sandwich. There will be no reserved seats for the show tonight or| any other night. There'll be excitement and silver foxes and stiff shirts in the audience this evening—hbut no reserved seats. |

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MORE ABOUT “THe Great Dictator,” today’s show horse in the dianapolis public-interest derby. This morning when the Chaplin picture opened at Loew’s our confidential poll revealed the film running well on the heels of the election and the war, having passed the draft in the stretch. That's pretty nice running in pretty fast company. Manager Ward Farrar has been answering the phone the past

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+ There will be five shows a day, the same as for any other picture. The prices are road-show prices, which include taxes and prevail Saturdays, Sundays and holidays— if the showing runs over inte: the holiday season. One exception in the price list was made by Mr. Chaplin himself. That is for children at the matinee performances. The tariff will be the same as for any regular-priced matinee, ! ” ”

Just Had to Talk

AND NOW A WORD from Mr. Chaplin himself (with permission of the New York. World-Telegram) concerning the speech which consumes the last six minutes of his picture, “I had to do it,” Mr. Chaplin told a World-Telegram interviewer. “I just had to. There is no other way I could express how strongly I felt. The time had come when I simply had to stop kidding. They had their laughs and it was fun, wasn’t it? But now I wanted them to listen. I wanted to make them stop being so ‘damned contented. This isn’t just another war. Fascism means the end of our world. “Maybe I made a mistake with that speech. Maybe I'm wrong, but there it is.” : Thus the world’s most famous movie clown. And now the movie public is at liberty to see the picture, hear the speech, and form their own opinions.

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‘Tugboat Annie' Docks

THERE'LL BE a brave experiment on view on the Lyric's screen for the week beginning tomorrow. It’s celled “Tugboat Annie Sails Again,” and is, of course, a revival of the character in which the beloved and inimitable Marie Dressler appeared, : After Miss Dressler’s death six years ago M-G-M tested several

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other actresses for the part. Then, in despair, they sold the movie rights to Warner Bros, Warners also did a lot.of testing, almost decided on Elsa Maxwell, and then gave the part to Marjorie Rambeau, “I'm not like Dressler,” is Miss

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Rambeau’'s observation. “And if they had wanted me to ¥mitate her I wouldn't have taken the part. I can do my own characterization, and I certainly do feel in character with these old seagoing clothes and this makeup. . . . No, they haven't tried to age me—just to make me look weatherbeaten.”

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BOOK REVIEWERS had scarcely begun limbering up their laudatory superlatives for Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” when a spirited bidding began for, movie rights to the new book. The results haven't been announced yet, as far as I know. But one of those unimpeachable sources who stands around with one elbow on the feed box told me the. other day that the deal has been closed by Paramount. The price, the informant said, was $150,000. ... And | that, friends, ain’t .alfalfa.

An All-Smith Team

THIS REALLY is an item for the sports department, for it bears the joyful tidings that two boys from the Indiana University football squad have made the season's first All-American. The reason the good news appears here is that the selections were made by Miss Rita Hayworth of Hollywood, aided by some excellent scouting by thle Warner Bros. publicity department. The I. U. gridders are Frank Smith in the line and Kenny Smith in the backfield. And—surprise, surprise!—all the other All-Amer-ican gridders are named Smith, too. The linemen, in addition to Frank, are Milton of U. C. L. A, Bill of Rutgers, Tom of Towa State, Bob of North Carolina, Lou of Lafayette and Jimmy of Northwestern, In the backfield, besides Kenny, are Jimmy of Illinois, Bruce of Minnesota and Paul of Texas Christian. Villanova's Maurice “Clipper” worth forsook the campus to pick her waterboy, Johnny Smith, a Negro actor on the Warner lot. It is my. confident opinion that the mighty Smiths will gather together at the end of the season and pick Miss Hayworth as their ideal companion on a desert island.

TAKE OVER RAILROAD

Producer-director Edward H. Griffith took over the entire rolling stock of the Nelson and Albermarle Railroad for a week while filming scenes for “The Southerner,” on location at Charlottesville, Va.

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Now the Lyric has Tommy

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The “Range Busters”—John King, Max Terhune and Ray Corrigan —find the care and feeding of infants somewhat out of their line in “Trailing Double Trouble,” the Alamo’s attraction tomorrow.

Susan Fox Joins Lee Tracy Play

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (U. P.).— Susan Fox, young RKO contract player, has joined Lee Tracy as his leading lady in the ‘forthcoming play, “Every Man for Himself,”

Broadway.

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cept the role on a loan basis and

rehearsals were begun immediately to get the show ready for a preview

Fighting, Anything Screen . .

which Mr, Tracy plans to take to!

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Out-loving, She Has Ever Done on the _. Truly Her Finest Picture!

at Santa Barbara, Cal, Nov. 9. From there, Mr. Tracy will take the play to San Francisco for another trial before heading for Broadway. It will be his first Broadway appearance in 12 years.

USE FILM SPEECH

The Los Angeles Board of Education will use the speech “freedom of the press” contained in “A Dispatch from Reuter’s” as text for journalism classes in the city’s high

schools. The speech is delivered before Parliament by Edward G. Robinson in the picture. >

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Conga King Is Confused

It's Truly a Case of Too Many Girls.

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (U, P.)— Since Desi Arnaz arrived in Hollywood, half the feminine hearts have been turning flip-flops, much to the embarrassment of this handsome Cuban. Desi Arnaz is the Cuban conga

bs king who made a hit on Broadway

in the musical comedy success, “Too Many Girls.” He played the same role in the screen version at RKO, Mr. Arnaz isn’t a woman-hater, but when strange, beautiful girls slip him notes reading, “I think you're wonderful, I love you,” he is embarrassed. : When he first came to Hollywood,

.|Mr. Arnaz went out with Gene TierIt’s been a good year for the musical Tucker boys at the Lyric. First came Orrin, who, with Bonnie Baker’s help, packed them in for a week’s engagement a few months ago. (above), coming in tomorrow to attempt to. duplicate his namesake's Assisting him will be Amy Arnell, billed as the “Swanee Sweet-

ney, Patricia Dane, Betty Grable and Ann Miller, among others. But since meeting Lucille Ball, the leading lady in “Too Many Girls,” he has been dating her exclusively, though both deny any romance exists. “It's more fun going out steady with one girl than with a different girl every night,” he explains. “You can be yourself and don’t have to try to be dignified.” Mr, Arnaz is 23, tall, dark-haired, dark-eyed, and women say he is very attractive. : Normally he is good-natured and afTable, but one thing fires his Latin temper to its utmost. That is when he is called glamorous. Mr. Arnaz was born in Santiago, Cuba, where his father was mayor for nine years and then was elected to the Cuban congress. During the revolution of 1933, his father was

§ |arrested with other congressmen and

thrown in prison. Upon his release, Mr. Arnaz and his parents fled to Miami, Fla. Recently his father, on friendly terms again with the

§ (Cuban Government, ran for Mayor 4 of Santiago, but was defeated.

Mr. Arnaz was conducting his own

rhumba ‘band in New York City

when George Abbott signed him to play the South American football flash in “Too Many Girls.” The . attention’ showered upon him baffles Mr. Arnaz. He doesn’t want to be compared to any Latin screen favorite of the past, but wants to succeed on his own merits.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE George White's ‘‘Scandals,” with Ben Blue, Billy Raves, Craig Mathues, on stage at 12:55. 3:40. 6:35 and 9:25, ‘““The Quarterback,” with Wayne Morris. Virginia Dale. at 11:25, 2:15, 5:10. 7:55 and 10:35. INDIANA “The Ramparts We Watch,” at 12:37. 3:48: 6:59 and 10:10. “Mexican Spitfire Out West,” with Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, at 11:20, 2:31, 5:42 and 8:53. LOEW'S “The Great Dictator.” with Charlie Chaplin, Paulett Goddard. Jack Oakie, at 11:10, 1:45, 4:25, 7 and 9:40. LYRIC Laurel and Hardy. on stage at 1:08. 3:55, 6:42 and 9:29. “M and Moonlight,” with (Vera Vague) Allen and Barbara Downs, at 11:34, 2:21, 5:08. 7:55 and 10:23.

Last Times Today—On Stage in Person “GEO. WHITE'S SCANDALS” With BEN BLUE On the Screen—“THE QUARTERBACK”

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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—|Mr. Ford to do the movie version early 20s, is a stage vejeran and

Director John Ford will go to the|of Jack Kirkland's stage play after| has never earned a cent except as Georgia back roads in about a week completing

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The GREAT DICTATOR

Produced, written and directed by CHARLES CHAPLIN with PAULETTE GODDARD

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