Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1940 — Page 10

Variety Club To Install 4

National Officers Will Attend Banquet

Two national executives of the Variety Clubs of America will be honored guests at the banquet innew officers of Indianapolis Tent 10 on Friday night at the Claypool Hotel. They are John H. Hare ris, Pittsburgh, and Robert O'Donnell, Dallas, Tex., assistant chief barker. Also at the speakers’ table will be

NEIGHBORHOODS

Santa to Visit Strand Matinee: Rivoli Shows Reissued Navy Film

HOLLYWOOD ‘A |Few Nostalgic Recollections Of Movies 'Red Plush’ Gilt Era

By DAVID MARSHALL

: OLD SAINT NICK, who hus been n tows looking rent good boy and girl situation, will make his Strandites. matinee at the Strand Theater Saturday.” - Besides giving a comic book to each youngster he no doubt will be interested in hearing what they have on their minds Feparding a day just two weeks hence. ., :

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By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 11.—=IT SEEMS TO ME MORE OF the old - gilt and faded red plush of an earlier Hollywood are needed to lend luster and color to the chremium-plated movie capital of today. The theater is proud and rich in its traditions, and its anthology is full of tales no older than the history of the flickers. But the screen lives. for today and tomorrow; it’s a little ashamed of its past. Veteran picture people,

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for the most part, are reluctant to look back, lest t. automatically be typed as fogies ghd has-beens..

So I like to hedr about the mad _ and gallant yearg which so quickly turned from pen to profligacy. There was a time when Mary Pickford, already a true star, quarreled bitterly with D¢ W. Grif-| fith to get a $25-a-week guaran-| tee. He remembers that in the heat of it she said, “You wait—| some day I'll be getting $100 a week!” And exactly four years | later she was getting $10,000 a) week, Among such recollections you find modern celebrities in strange circumstances. There was the ac-| tor who went to the old Biogfaph| studio and wanted to become a film policeman at $5 a day. He was too short, but he got the job) by pleading that his stature would make the other cops look all the more impressive. Asked his name, . he said, “Barrymore.” Then humbly, “Not the famous one, of course, I'm Lionel.” 8 8 = AND DURING the filming of

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the chariot racing scene in “Intolerance,” they almost fired one of .the drivers for recklessness. He scared the daylights out of the other drivers, scattered a few shattered chariots along the way and seemed to be trying to run his horses over the camera truck. But by stealing the scene he came to Hollywood’s attention, and he still has Hollywood’s attention. He’s Ace Director W. S. Van Dyke. The Chamber of Commerce has a faded print of “Her Indian Hero,” the first picture ever made

in this town and occasionally the

film is exhibited to show the progress of the movies. Whenever this happens Director Jack Con= way is embarrassed, because he

\was the leading man—with Doro-

thy D-venport and Victoria Ford.

Th adian was an actor named Geuze Gebhart, and the time was Another of today’s top directors, Robert Z. Leonard, left the chorus of an opera company to work in pictures in 1907. The only attraction in Hollywood then was .the famed garden of Paul de Longpre, the painter. Movies were made in Edendale. First bit of screen acting he ever did was to gallop a horse to the top of a hill and peer excitedly down the other side. “What am I looking at?” he asked. The director said, “I don’t know yet; well decide this afternoon.”

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Barry Fitzgerald and John Qualen give their incapacitated shipmate, John Wayne, a lift in “The Long Voyage Home,” the John FordDudley Nichols adaptation of four short sea plays by Eugene O’Neill

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“Tin Pan Alley,” Fuh Alle Alice Sobn

:39, 3 Over N w York,” with Sidney. oler, Marjorie Weaver, at 11:44, Ax 5:56 and 9:03. CIiviC

8:30. ENGLISH’S “The Time of Your Life,” William Saroyan’s Pulitzer Fri I play, with - Eddie Dowling an Haydon. Tonight at 8:3 INDIANA “The Letter,” with Bette Herbert Marshall, James nia: at 12:39, 3:53, 7:07 and 10:11. . “Nobody’s Sweetheart Now.” with Dennis O Keefe, Constance Moore, at 11:36. 2:50. 6:04 and 9:08. LOEW'S “Little Nellie BLL with. Judy Garland K Geo Vv. Charles Jigpninet. a 2: 15, 3a, 6.40 and

‘Sky Murder,” with Walter Pidgepn, Do Donald Meek. at 11. 2:10, 5:20

LXRIO Woda Hotel” Revue on stage. 3: Le 6:43 and 9:31. “South a with = George Brent, Bre all, George i a at in or. 20 02. 4:57. 7:52 and

“Holly at 12:

Producer Holds

Baer to Contract

BOSTON, Dec. 11 (U. P.) —Producers of the musical comedy “HiYa Gentlemen,” starring. Max Baer, have spiked rumors that the former world heavyweight boxing champion ‘was a “flop” as an actor by reflising te allow him to withdraw from the show and insisting he fulfill his “run of the show” contract. Ancil Hoffman, Baer’s manager, said, however, that there was a clause in the contract which would allow Max to leave in May if a fight was arranged between him and Joe Louis or Billy Conn.

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Elissa Landi On Program

Actress to Give Six Dramatic Sketches Friday

Elissa Landi, actress, and playwright, will present six dramatic sketches in a program before members of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers at Caleb Mills Hall at 8 p. m. Friday. Arrangements

[direction of Mrs. Madge Temperley, program committee chairman. Miss Landi has been featured in more than 30 films, in this ps Sounizy "and Bh England, Miss Landi Proce Cer many and Sweden. Among her Hollywood pictures were “The Sign of the Cross,” “The Masquerader” and “The Yellow Ticket.” One of her best remembered theater characterizations was that of Katherine in Ernest Hemingway's “Farewell to Arms.” Her dramatic activities also have included leading parts in American and English radio programs. In recent seasons Miss Landi has divided her time between acting, writing and lecturing. She is the author of a play and five novels.

FOUR CITIES ‘SHARE FILM'S PREMIERE

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 11.—M-G-M wil unveil something new in movie first performances with a ‘hemispheric premiere,” which is set for

Tuesday night. The studio’s new “Flight Command,” which stars Robert Taylor, will have a simultaneous premiere in Washington, Havana, Mexico City and Toronto. The occasion is being held in conjunction with Pan-American Aviation Day, which will be observed by this country, Canada and the 2

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THE INTEREST in the Navy being what it is, Warner Bros.

Cagney and Pat O’Brien. Most of the picture was made on shipboard off the California coast and has several memorable = scenes, among them the one in which a member of the ground crew (MTF.

| O'Brien) is carried aloft by one

of the landing lines of the dirigible Macon. - It begins a three-day run tomorrow at the Rivoli along with “Gay Caballero.”

THE TACOMA tonight and tomorrow is ‘playing “Brigham Young” single with a Three Stooge Comedy. “A Plumbing We Will Go,” @nd a news reel. “Brigham Young?” ‘is the picture noted around Hollywood for ' Tyrone Power’s disappearing act. Power was leading a eam of oxen through a swamp in an outdoor sequence when he vanished right before the cameras, leaving only a geyser behind him. Before a crew could get into the bog to

with. mud. He had, it seems, stepped into an old post ‘hole. . : 2 8 8 MOVIE MONTAGE. ... Workmen today began constructing the Emerson’s new front having com= pleted the new marquee yesterday. . + « Despite ithe war torn look of the inside. ... The Esquire tonight has two revivals: “Suez” with Tyrone Power and the Ben BernieWalter Winchell feud film “Love and Hisses.” .. . For the two remaining “family nights” today-and

Kyser is holding forth in “That’s Right, You're Wrong” along with “Taming of-the West.” . . . Her= bert Coval, chief of staff at the Sheridan, is coach and star player of the Irvington Presbyterian Church basketball team. 3

® £2 = THE MID-WEEK CALENDAR:

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UTNE — Tonight: Passage” and ‘Sailor's ady. Tomor= row and Friday: ‘What Life” and “Millionaires in Prison.” HARKER Shi ment and iomerrow: Rig! ou’re Tong” an “Taming of the West.” REX—Tonight and tomorrow: “South to Karanga” and “Love Affairs.” RITZ—Tonigh t: “Strike up the Band” and pa Temorrow through Saturday: and “Mummy’s Han : TOLL eats ginia,, and “Lady in Question.” morrow through Saturday: ‘Here Comes the Navy” and oy Caballero.” ,ST. CLAIR roman “Public Deb No. 1” and “Ga aliero.” Tomorrow through Sunday: “Wyoming” and ‘Moon Over Burma. SANDERS ronighi dice” and ‘Tear G: Tow ough Saturday: and * from T SHERIDAN Toni a fe. TL ro urda; % - rade” and ‘Argentine Vd: pring Pe SPEEDWAY — Tonight and S OMOTOW Over he Md Moon’! yen “Mexican Spite

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lionaires in Blue Streak.” STRAND -- Tonight: a an Yorce an d, “Money an 5 and the Womans and ‘Moon Over Bu rm ar Wy i STRAT TFORD—T oni ht: “Golden Siovess and “Women Without Names.”

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His Majesty King Louis XV of France, looking suspiciously like Bert Lahr, is ready to hold court at English’s where the rowdy musical, “DuBarry Was a Lady,” opens tomorrow for three days.

MELON DAMAGE Robert Taylor hasn’t received any bill yet from the Municipal Airport at Mines Field, for the watermelons he plowed up when a stiff cross wind cause dhim to drift off the runway

i | Governor-Elect Henry F. Shricker,

Mayor Reginald Sullivan, Attorney General Samuel Jackson and Col. Roscoe Turner. Marc J. Wolfe and

Carl Niesse will share the duties of

toastmaster. The incoming officers are Kenneth T. Collins, chief barker; Arthur des, assistant chief barker; Al. Blocher, tre , and Fred Greenberg, secreta) A floor show follow the bane - quet, after which club members and guests will visit the club rooms in the Lyric Theater building.

PRODUCED CLASSIC

Morris Ankrum, who plays a vile lian in “In Old Colorado, ” a Hopae long Cassidy Western, produced “Electra” with Blanche Yurka at the Greek Theater at the University of California at Berkeley. But he’s just a bad man in Hollywood.

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