Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1940 — Page 14

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THURSDAY, OCT. 31, 1940

Opening Today

Loew's “THE GREAT DICTATOR”—With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette God-

dard, Jack Oakle, Henry Daniell,

} Written, directed and produced by Charles Chaplin. : This is the long-awaited satire on Hitler and Mussolini which brings Mr. Chaplin back to the screen after four years, and. in his first

" speaking role.

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Opening Tomorrow

Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovitch.

: Circle “SEVEN SINNERS”—With Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Brod= Directed by Tay Garnett, What happens when three outcasts, a cafe singer, a sailor (a. w. 0. 1) and a pickpocket, get jobs in a South Sea Island saloon. And if you must know right now what happens, the wanton cafe singer stifles her first true love (a la Camille) to send her decent young suitor on his way by a cruel but charitable ruse. “SLIGHTLY TEMPTED”—With Hugh Herbert, Johnny Downs. Directed by Lew Landers. The heroine tells her friends that her father is a South American explorer. But he turns out to be a confidence man, much to everyone's .@mbarrassment. However, .-regeneration sets in, and everything ends

erick Crawford, Mischa Auer.

both happily and honestly.

Indiana

“THEY “KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED”—With Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey, Frank Fay. From ‘the Pulitzer Prize play by Sidney Howard, adapted for the screen by Robert Ardry; directed by Garson Kanin. The late Mr. Howard's humorous but eloquent sermon on tolerance,

which has to do with the Italian grape grower in the Napa Valley, the San Francisco waitress whom he woos by mail, and the hired man with

the deadly fascination,

. “I'M STILL ALIVE’—With Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes.

by Irving Reis.

The stormy romance of the movie stunt man who marries the tem-

peramental star.

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~~ TOMMY TUCKER AND HIS ORCHESTRA (on stage)—With Amy Arnell, Kerwin Somerville, Donald Brown. “TUGBOAT ANNIE SAILS AGAIN”—With Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Directed by Lewis Seiler; based on characters created by Norman Reilly Raine. Tughoat Annie is revived in a story which finds her almost losing her job, getting in a fight with her best. customer, and eventually straightening out both her business -and a tangled romance.

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Peggy Moran,

Directed

' HONEYMOON HALTED

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (U, P.).—

Dennis O'Keefe and Stefi Duna

will Have to cut their Arizona

honeymoon short so Mr. O'Keefelphysician in “Bowery Boy.”

can go to work in a new movie. They were married a fortnight ago

and had planned a long honeymoon. The actor will play the role of a

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James Roosevelt

Prepares for Call

~ HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (U. P.).— Producer James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, has cleared his desk in order to report as a captain in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve at San Diego, possibly within a week . He obtained a leave of absence as president of Soundies Distributing Corp. and will remain vice president and member of the board. Although young Mr. Roosevelt will continue as president of his feature length producing company, Globe Productions, active management will be left to general manager Henry Henigson. “I am looking forward to joining up with the Marines as something Roosevelt said. He believes the mobilization call will be issued between Nov. 1 and 8.

JACK CHAPMAN'S ORCHESTRA BACK

Jack Chapman and his orchestra have begun a re-engagement at the Hotel Washington Sapphire Room, where they enjoyed a successful stand this past summer, Since his last appearance here, Mr. Chapman has added a new singer, Nedra Gordinier, to his entpurage. Favorite entertainefs in the band who have returned include Russ Morrison, who also sings, and Al Bottorff; marimba

soloist. .

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So we now offer, as Exhibits A an through, operating against an unidentified gent whois probab! Miss Dietrich’s latest film, which comes to the Circle tomorrow.

HOLLYWOOD

Red-Haired Hoosier's Test Film Shown Oftenest of Any in Hollywood

Up to this moment Miss Marlene Dietrich’s potent and persuasive fists have been overlooked in favor of B. Miss Dietrich’s right hook and follow one of the “Seven Sinners” in the title of

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _- For a Change: Look at Dietrich’s Fists!

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has taken ‘an option on oné of Aris ang Sciences, the organization 1). woods historic landmarks, the that gives “Oscars” to the best actor buildihg which formerly housed the and actress of the year, announced famous EI Trocadero Cafe on Sun-

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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31.—Thé busiest strip of film in the whole film capital is a Metro screen test of Richard Skelton, the red-haired comedian from Vincenncs, Ind. It won him a job weeks ago, and he already has finished his role as a fellow aviator with Bob Tailor in But that initial test keeps reeling along. " Executives invite friends to see it. - Other studios are borrowing it

“Flight Command.”

for laughs. M-G-M is considering issuing it as a short. The {tall

young redhead was allowed to do anything he chose, so he put on a one-man vaudeville program highlighted by satirical impressions of various movie heroes dying. Watching the ore timed pantomime and neckfalls, I felt pretty sure Red Skelton must have had some training in burlesque. And so he had, but he got it in lots of other places, too—in every form of show business, actually, except grand opera and carnivals. Vaudeville, of course, and burlesque, dramatic stock companies, radio and Tovies, 8 8

THOSE wedla be plenty rohan actor of 27, but Mr. Skelton has worked with a medicine show, trouped with tent shows, sailed with the showboat Cotton Blossom on the big river, toured with a circus as a clown. He has appeared in television. And as a master of ceremonies he has pretty much hit the low and high spots of his career. His announcing once brightened those dreary festivals of . fatigue, the walkathons. And in the last two years he has m-c’d the-President’s Birthday Ball in Washington, doing’ 24 shows and three broadcasts in a day and night. “Flight Command” isn't his movie debut. He made a few comedy shorts in the east and in 1937 was snatched from a New York stage and sent’ here to play the recreational director in “Having Wonderful Time”—a role for which he was especially well fitted by experience on the borsch circuit of summer hotels. ” » ”

THAT PICTURE was one of the most fantastic production botches on record. Nobody had a wonderful time. Red was back in New York when it bpened there, and he attended with misgivings. The thing began fairly well, though; and then, just as he appeared on the screen, the film broke. Out of the ensuing blackness and above the murmurs of the audience came Mr. Skelton’s exclamation: “Those cutters are still . working on me!” He was a funny kid and was only 12 when a medicine showman offered him a dollar an evening for entertaining. Red worked summers and kept on with his schooling for a few years, then

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became a full-time actor. - With the medicine show he also served as pharmacist, mixing the “doc’s” all-purpose remedy of tap water, brown sugar and epsom salts in hotel bathtubs. After a few seasons“divided between repertory-uinder-canvas, circus clowning, showboating and very small-time vaudeville, Mr, Skelton found himself, at 18, billed as the youngest star comedian in burlesque. In Kansas City he:got a chance to fill in for a canceled ‘act at one of the big picture palaces and there met an usherette. It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to him. 8:8 8 2

RED AND Edna Skelton have been married nine years now. She works with him on- the stage and helps write his material. A tall, pretty blond, she laughs at. the memories of lean years, of $5-a-week tenement rooms, of trying to write and act funny on empty stomachs, of trouping with such shabby little companies she had to stay in the box office to make sure managers didn’t ab-scond-with the receipts. The big break came with a coast-to-coast sponsored radio program which they built to a high popularity rating. Everything looks’ swell these days, but the Skeltons are as ambitious as ever; they want Red to be a great comedian. “Of course,” he says with mock smugness, “I'm already ‘the second-best comic. .. , . Who's « first? Well, the last time I counted up, there were 29 guys claiming that peositien.”

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