Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1940 — Page 8

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HOLLYWOOD

Even the Director Had to Leave

When

Lana Stepped Into Tub

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer EOLLYWOOD, NOV. 27.—ALL OVER THE LOT: RESPONDENT was chased off a sound stage today, and I had plenty of company, Director Robert Leonard, his assistants; the camera crew, electricians, prop men and grips all had to evacuate the set. The inside watchman protested he wasn’t supposed to leave his post under any circumstances, but they took him along.

When every male creture was safely and definitely outsides Miss Lana Turner took off a negligee . and stepped into a. kathtub. Ordinarily the move cotild have been dccomplished* modestly © with a screen or two and some protective flutterings by maids holding sheets. But there: was too much sound and-*lighting equipment around . this. bathtub to get screens anywhere hear it. So we left while a maid and a makeup woman and a lady hairdresser got M'ss Turner nicely -fixed under a layer of soapbubbles. . The picture is “Ziegfeld Girl” and Miss Turnier is one of three

‘w. Follies performers whose stories

are told in film. Hedy LaMarr is a showgirl; Judy Garland a young singer whom Ziegfeld brings to prominence, and Lana is the Stairway Girl who poses at the top of the brilliant production numbers. The bathtub sequence took place in the Stairway Girls’ apart= ment, and judging by its DeMillish elegance and the dialog, she must . have been doing yery well for herself, # 8 =n HEDY LAMARR is the busie® actress in town right now, and the chores she’s performing leave no doubt about Metro's estimation of her.. Not yet able to begin her role in “Ziegfeld Girl,” she is working with Jimmy Stewart in “Come Live With Me.” ' In the picture .with Stewart she’s an alien who in a buSinesslike way acquires citizenship by marrying a starving writer and paying his expenses while he whips up a novel. So he writes and sells it, and when I was on ‘the set she was demanding a divorce. But the novelist was insisting that first they'd have to make a | little trip—not to Atlantic City, but out to his dear old grandmother’s place. “It’s perfectly all right for two complete strangers to get married,” he was arguing, “but they ought to know each other before they get a divorce.”

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AL BLOCK, M-G-M’s staff censor whose task is anticipating the displeasures of the Hays Office, was called out to Stage 18 to consider the sheerness, lowness and other reyealing qualities of a slip ‘in which Maureen O’Sullivan was to be photogriphed. When he got there she was wearing a dress over the slip, so Block said, “Well, peel off the dress and I'll have a look.” She peeled and he looked. “You get paid for this, don’t you?” asked the actress. Block said yes and kept on ‘looking. Presently she said, “Well, what do you think?” i : He said, “I think I'll refund a day’s pay to the studio.”

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With their roster of 1940. officers re-elected, the Associated Theater Owners of - Indiana are ready to starts a new year which promises to be one of the most crucial in the history of the motion picture

business. : At the closing’ business session of convention at the Hotel Antlers yesterday, Hoosier showmen were warned by H. M. Richey, public relations chief for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, of the need for co-operation between producers and exhibitors. Mr. Richey, who is a native of Angola, told the convention that film stidios’ losses will range from five to 25 million dollars through failure of foreign markets.

More Customers Needed °

“The most important subject today,” he said, “is how to get more people into the theater... . No company with reduced income can continue to spend the same amount of money on production unless, through the ingenuity of themselves and their customers, they work out some method of bringing more people to the boxoffice.” : Increased playing time for each picture and, in some cases, higher admission prices were among his suggested remedies to offset foreign losses. - He said, however, that he had not noticed any of the studios “cheating” in the matter of production, and did not think that they would do so. Many industries stand to gain by the war, Mr. Richey said, but the brightest hope for the picture in-|’ dustry lies in the American public’s seareh for entertainment as a relief from war news.

{Cites Results of Tour Mr. . Richey said that, in touring 13 states in the last two months, he had noticed more redecorated and , “spruced up” theaters then ever before. This, he felt, was evidence of optimism on the part of theater men, and a good start toward the necessary working together of film makers, distributors and exhibitors. Clarification of the consent decree which ended the Government's monopoly suit against the major studios was the main subject of Abram F. Myers’ address yesterday. He explained the “blocks. of five” selling plan, which will replace the former sale of 20 or 30 pictures at a time, and also the arbitration program which the decree established. Mr. Myers is board chairman and general counsel for the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors.

Officers Resume Duties

Officers who will resume their duties in the coming year are Roy ‘Harrold, Rushville, president; Ernest Miller, Indianapolis, vice president; Harry Markun, Indianapolis, treasurer; Don Rossiter, Indianapolis, secretary. Marc J. Wolf was toastmaster at the banquet which closed the convention last night, and also the director and one of the players in a movie which was the banquet’s highlight. It was called “No Information Please” and was made by Trueman Rembusch, an exhibitor whose hobby is professional-looking 16 mm. movies. It was agreed that the acting might have been improved, but that the sound and color photography were right up to Hollywood standards. The afternoon business session was slow in starting due to the blizzard in northern Indiana which delayed the two speakers’ arrival. Both men had intended to fly, but altered their plans to suit train schedules when all planes were grounded out of Chicago. Most of the delegates and visitors had their pictures taken with Leo, the M-G-M lion, at that company’s

“Escape,” after an absence of 15 years. Mme.

and Felix Bressart.

Elaine, See

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 27 (U. P.).—

John Barrymore today shed his fourth wife, the pouty-lipped Elaine,

[and resumed, with a highball in 1hand, his search for the perfect

mate. While Elaine Barrie recited her troubles to the Judge, Mr. Barrymbre lolled in a leather chair at his lawyer's office a few blocks away, and talked of love as he had known it. When news came from court that Elaine had been granted a divorce, Mr, Barrymore poured another drink. “I am greatly relieved that my divorce is all over and that I am free to resume my search for the perfect mate. You know——" + He was interrupted by a runner from the courthouse, with word of Miss Barrie’s complaints. She said tat he was heartless, cruel, abusive

band caused her anguish, sleepless-

ness and loss of weight. “Enough,” cried Mr. Barrymore. “Dear, dear Elaine. The sentimental little girl” The screen’s most persistent lover was married in succession to the

Oerlichs, Dolores Costello and Barrie and as he once said, he learned about women from them all. He'd hardly married Elaine before she was appearing in a movie entitled “How to Undress Before Your Husband.” Mr, Barrymore spent a small fortune buying up the prints of that one, and for several years insisted that she act in his pictures. She did, but invariably she was the face on the cutting room floor. They fought—and kissed and made up—across the country and back again. They nearly were divorced twice, the second time after

Misses Katherine Harris, Blanche].

Mr. Barrymore spanked her too

ks the return to the screen of Alla Nazimova (I~ft) el Some ft Loew's IUMiGirow; Max the part of Emmy Ritter in this film version of Ethel

Vance’s widely-read novel. Shown here with her are the picture’ s stars, Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor

Nazimova plays

Barrymore, Divorced oy

ks Ideal Mate

they both appeared. The spanking was in St. Louis. The reconciliation was in New York. The final split was in Hollywood, about two months ago.

HOGE ALTERS SUIT

{ HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 27 (U. P.) — Trial of a damage suit against Bob Burns, accused of “love piraéy” by Daniel W. Hoge, was delayed today while Mr. Hoge revised the complaint. Mr. Hoge is asking $70,000 because he said Mr. Burns had caused him to be falsely imprisoned and had forced him to sign a paper dropping his suit charging Mr. Burns with alienating the affections of Mrs. Hoge. Mr. Burns’ attorneys protested the delay. - They said their client was anxious to bring the case to frial and settle the charges.

BARBARA LYNN HURT

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— Barbara Lynn, screen actress, is recovering from injuries suffered when her automobile went out of control, jumped a curb and struck a fire hydrant. Four stitches were taken in her lip, and she was treated for bruises about the head.

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 27 (U.. P.).— Howard: Hughes, millionaire flier and sportsman, gambled a million dollars today on two unknowns for the leading roles in his production,

Mr. Hughes, who discovered the

in his production, “Hell's Angels,” signed Jack Beutel and Jane Russell for his newest picture, the life of Billy the Kid. Neither Beutel nor Miss Russell has appeared in a motion picture. Miss Russell, a Van Nuys, Cal, girl, is 19 and has been taking dramatic instruction for several years, waiting for a “break.” Beutel, a slender, black-haired Texas youth,1 came to Hollywood two months ago for a mowie job.

THEATER STAGING

HOLLYWOOQD, Nov. 27 (U. P).— The American theater is making a comeback despite the motion picture, and the revival is occurring in the country, in the opinion of Cornelia Otis Skinner. “If the cities do not watch out, America’s theatrical culture. will move into the country,” said the actress, here for an appearance at Philharmonic Auditorium. “There is a very definite theatrical revival there, most notably in the Middle West, with.people driving as far as 300 miles to see worthwhile productions. “Broadway knows this and is sending its top-flight stars with

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NEW YORK, Nov, 27 (U, P).— Fourteen curtain calls, eight of them for Ethel Barrymore, were demanded last night by an enthusiastic audience which witnessed the Broadway opening of Emlyn Williams’ “The Corn Is Green.” | The play marked Miss Barry-

more’s return to Broadway in a role which critics * said was her best in several seasons. She plays an English spinster who goes to a small home she has inherited in the coal mining center of Wales and there discovers a youth she puts through Oxford, although she has to buy off the kitchen maid he has seduced and adopts her baby. One critic said, “As things go in the theater, this is a great part, and as things are going in the theater just now, Miss Barrymore plays it

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