Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1940 — Page 14

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HOLLYWOOD

Film Strip-Tease a Disappearance;

The Whole Business Is Trifle Eerie

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6.—Behind the screen: used to get around censorship rulings, but there never has been anything like a picture Universal is making. Virginia Bruce will be seen taking off all her clothes right in front of She'll do it several times, too—and without opposition

the camera. from the Hays Office. The trick is Miss Bruce has the title role in a modern fantasy ‘called “The Invisible Woman’— and when she removes her clothes she becomes invisible. Peels off a stocking, and her leg is gone: sheds her whachamaycallums and that part of her has disappeared— and so on. Technically startling, but not in the way to interest a burlesque audience. = Ed ” ANOTHER picture on the spooky side will be Metro's “Headless Woman” . , . Such unreality somehow reminds me of a plaintive remark by Harry Brandt, head of a theater owners’ association: “An exhibitor is a fellow who buys films he doesn’t want from somebody who hasn't got wnat he's trying to sell, who pays prices he can’t afford and then plays the pictures to audiences which don’t attend.” ” s ”® TITLES are hard to keep track of. .Joel McCrea, finishing “Reaching for the Sun,” goes into “Valley of the Sun.” F. Scott Fitzgerald has written a screenplay for “The Light in Heart,” which has nothing to do with “The Young in Heart” or “The Pure in Heart.” Martin Greene is toying with a mystery idea to be called “The Knife in Heart.”

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ALTHOUGH MOST of Hollywood believes the public will flock to see cuties cavorting and to hear new songs, there's some .doubt about the fate of Walt Disney's “Fantasia,” which is definitely classical and maybe pretty highbrow. Disney says he’s getting exactly the same sort of queer looks and incredulous questions he encountered before “Snow White” was released. “Is it true,” he's asked, “that you expect movie audiences to listen to a symphony orchestra for two and a half hours?” Disney says yeah, it's true. He also admits the only sane brother in the Disney family is the one who's a postman. Actually, though, Walt isn’t worried.

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ROSEMARY LANE is off contract at Warner Brothers. So is Gale Page, and Lola Lane is freelancing. So there’ll be no more of those “Four Daughters—Wives— Mothers” pictures. Priscilla is the only one still at the studio. . . . Jimmy Roosevelt may not make any pictures after all, though he’ll stay with his slot-machine movie company. 2 u LILI DAMITA has been going around with Errol Flynn's movie double and causing no end of false reports and confusion, because his studio and friends were almost sure he was out of town. The double looks amazingly like the actor, and Miss Damita actually received a letter from an anonymous friend who figured she might not know the: difference.

HUNTER IS CHOSEN

Ian Hunter has been chosen for “Come

might retire altogether,

Coming to English S

Members of the Graf Ballet, who will appear at English’s Monday night, are shown here in one of their dance creations called

“Preface.”

The group is being presented by the Indianapolis Branch,

American Association of University Women.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

NEIGHBORHOODS

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 1940.

Claude Allison Turns to Customers To Select the 10 Best Pictures

Muni Uncertain About Any Plans for Future

T'imes Special HOLLYWOOD; Nov. 6.—Just what Paul Muni's plans for the future will be not even Paul Muni knows. He walked out of a contract at Warner Bros. which was scheduled to pay him $800,000 over a period of time. Some people thought that he had declared himself through with pictures by that action, but he turned around and signed with 20th Century-Fox to play the starring role in “Hudson’s Bay.” It was on the set of the latter picture that Mr. Muni talked of what the future might have in store for him. “I am making no definite plans at all,” he said. “I might just continue acting in pictures, or I might go back to the stage or else go in for directing. On the other hand, I although this is somewhat unlikely. I'm still too young to sit around and do nothing. “There was doubt in my mind when I left Warner Bros. that I would do a picture again very soon.

But when 20th Century-Fox showed me the script of ‘Hudson's Bay’ I

accepted the role because it was the sort of thing I wanted to do. “It is the first chance that I have

and I took it not only for its novelty, but also to get away from the more austere historical roles I have played.” Mr. Muni’s next move after “Hudson’s Bay” has not yet been charted. There is the possibility that he may go away for a rest. There are many studios in Hollywood which have scripts they would like him to play, but so far he has not taken any of them. However, he wants fo be in the position where he can pick his pictures to suit himself and not make any when he doesn’t feel like it. There are absolutely no regrets about giving up the large sum of money represented by his old. contract. “After working hard for a number of years,” Mr. Muni said, “I have saved enough to put myself in a secure economic position. I can eat and pay rent and taxes without any worries, and I don’t see what anyone would want with more than that. “It may be that I haven’t enough to afford a big yacht and diamonds, but I don’t go for those things. What I have now suffices for my needs, so I am adopting the luxury of being in a free and inde-

had to do a real adventure story, pendent position.”

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