Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1941 — Page 16

JAN. 2 1941

CAN YOU DANCE?

Why Not Jein Our New BALLROOM CLASS

Sevitzky Offers Bach Prelude

Johann Sebastian Bach as composer and Fabien Sevitzky as transcriber, both comparative siraniers to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra programs, Will he represented on the subscription concerts to be played at the Murat on Friday afternoon and Saturday evenini. The program will open with Mr. Sevitzky conducting his own arrangement of the Bach chorale prelude, “Herzlich thut mich ver-

Opening Today

English’s “THE MALE ANIMAL” —A comedy by Elliott Nugent and James ra with Mr. gent, Leon Ames, Elizabeth Love, Ivan Simpson. What happens to a mild-mannered college professor when (a) he ises:to a “subversive” letter to his English class and (b) his wife's .old sweetheart, the former campus football hero, returns for the

big game.

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| | Te Film Pie-Th. owing ~ Act Now Reversed

of By PAUL HARRISON | +. Times Special Writer : “HOLLYWOOD, % HIND THE SCREEN A | SE- & ~QUENCE in a current production, a “The Lady Eve,” is symbol ‘change and progress in the ¢ Twenty years ago, pies “thrown at actors; today, an oa is thrown at a pie. Henry | @i «is the one who gets tossed | Sa SAS into the custard. Er n * x =» +. FOR THE FIRST time since — its organization, the Legion of age Decency has _. become ho ne iis nad about certain trends . flickers—especially the epidemic of sly, smirking, “smart” comedies . which have been getting by with al] the old bedroom farce situations through the device of having the characters already mar- . ried. There also is going be .. some Cain raised about Holly- - 3 wood’s let-down on eveninggown necklines and its accentuation of—ah—pectoral contours.

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{ A SUITE OF FIVE rooms is | . being fitted out by RKO for its +. stellar, over-stuffed director, | fred Fitchcock. There is some + extra large and sturdy furniture, including a special bathtub. Mr. ++ Hitchcock likes to sleep in |his | bath, and the tub is fixed so| he can relax without danger | of

Jan. 2. BE-

Opening Tomorrow .

There have been some changes in the previously announced list of works. In place of Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben,” originally scheduled, the orchestra will play the Symphony in: G Minor by Kaillinikov. Other compositions to be heard will be the Fugue for 18 Viclins by Arcady Dubensky; the prelude to Wagner's “The Mastersingers,” and the world premiere of “Escapade’ by the Indiana-born composer, (larl|

Circle

(Second Week) “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR”—With Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin, Veree Teasdale, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson. Produced and directed by Mark Sandrich. After three years of feuding on the air, Messrs. Allen and Benny continue their battle of quips and barbs in: this film. The comedians use their own names in the script which, naturally, is about a couple of radio

| | comedians. Margargt Lindsay,

“MEET THE WILDCAT”—With Ralph Bellamy, Joseph Schildkraut. Directed by Arthur Lubin. The girl photographer captures the jewel thief, only to discover he’s a detective and my, my, so attractive.

Lyrie

. “GREAT MARCUS SHOW” (on stage)—With Sofia Alvarez, Florence Hin Low, Leon Miller, Bob White, company of 75. “JENNIE”—With Virginia Gilmore, Willia Henry, Dorris Bowdon, Di-

rected by David Burton. How a young bride brings peace and happiness to her husband's family, dominated by a tyrannical father.

Costume Films to Deluge Screen in Coming Year

Valentino's triumphs in silent days. And there'll be bushels of Spanish

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NEW YEAR SHOW!

: The “Boom. Towa? stars 200m into a new HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 2 (U, Pe romance’ — the ‘topnotchka’ successor to

Elliott Nugent | (l¢ft) and Robert “Scott, their fond holes thwarted by an old-grad football star, take This modern world is a dangerous

.,! drowning. 4 » » # i EXCEPT ON ONE occasion— en. she told him plenty—Ids pind and Humphrey Bogart spoke to each other only in the dialog on “High Sierra.” . | Jimmy Roosevelt is not a ro- ' mantic free-lance, no matter what you've heard. He and Romelle Schneider, his former nurse, still «~-have the same pulse count. |

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QUOTES: Irving Hoffman, (in “ the Hollywood Reporter—*“That . ASCAP-BMI imbroglio leads us to 3 suspect that the broadcasters don't care who writes the nation’s «| songs—so0 long as they. can make its laws.” . . . Milton Berle, [in || Variety—“Met John Barrymare ‘| on the boulevard the other day ‘| and he was very polite. I tipped “my hat and he tipped his e | pack.” | a #

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*, WHAT'S-IN-A-NAME: Rona) Colman’s next picture, first titl “Train to Vienna” and then ©. called “Palm Beach Limited,” now | is known as “My Life With Caro- : line.”

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. SEEMS only yesterday that @ + everybody was in a dither over “ Deanna Durbin’s first adventures in puppy-love and her first sereen “kiss. And now Charles Boyer has been signed to play opposite her «in her next picture. And in her current one, “Nice Girl,” there’s |a sequence in which she appears in + sheer paamas and is definitely soomphy.

® 2 =» MARLENE DIETRICH, who

“once ‘was Josef von Sternberg’s | Teilog now. wants -hinr to direct |

her again. ‘It may not Rappen at

“it Universal, though. She and the | + studio are quarreling so bitterly | ¥ the company is likely to buy up

5 ‘her contract and call it quits. « « Charlie Chaplin soon may . be working, ‘briefly, for another ‘studio. Paramount wants a” Hit~ «+ leresque voice to be heard on a ! radio in “Reaching for the Sun,” “and Chaplin has been asked to do _~-some of his Germanic gibberish,

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DEFINITIONS: A Hollywood cocktail party, says Lin Yutang, is a place where you talk: to Jeople you don't know. abou things in which neither you no they are interested. . . . Watch ling Betty Grable dancing in night spot, Teddy Hart sald, “Sh {has the kind of legs that cut in 'a conversation.” |

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WELL, FRED . . I'M JUST AWFULLY FUNNY on the Screen at the CIRCLE!”

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‘JACK BENNY AIDS PROBATION FUND

HOLLYWOOD, oh. 2 (U. P)— vadio gag

Jack Benny, whom the men, have represented as a pennypinching slave driver, has contributed to a fund for neecly Federal | probationers. Thaddeus A. Davis, chief proba‘tion officer for the California Southern’ District, said in his dnnual report to the Federal Court that Mr. Benny had given $150 to the fund when he completed a probationary sentence in connection with a jewel {smuggling case.

YES, JACK 1 JUST HAVE TO MAKE YOU LOOK GOOD.” |

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refuge in -a fifth of scotch in the course of “The Male Aninaal, ” the comedy of Midwestern University life by hr. Nugent and James Thurber, which comes to Englis jus tonight to play through, Saturday.

Sti Il Feudi ing

This is by way of proclamation that “Love Thy Neighbor,” with Jack Benny and Fred Alien, the Hatfields and McCoys of radio, will continue their fend on the Circle screen for a second week deginning

Alice Faye Plans

Restaurant Chain

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 ((U, P.).— Alice Faye said today she would open & string of restaurarits. She said Harry (Sugip) Sugarman, prominent showm:n. will be president of the company. The |

chain | will be managed by Miss |

Faye’s brother, Bill.-

The restaurants will be club din-!

ing cars. Walls, drapgries and] aprons of waitresses wili be autographéd by various motion picture | friends of Miss Faye and Mr. Sugar- | man. signer, designed the intqrior decoration

San Vicente boulevards.

MAE WEST'S AGENT WINNER IN SUIT

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 (U. P.).— Frank Wallace, former vaudeville actor who claims to be tlie husband of Mae West, has lost iis suit for $105,000 damages against James Timorly, manager of the blond star. Mr. (Wallace brought suit against Mr. Timony ‘on the grounds that the manager had spread false informafion about his mjarriage to the actress and as a resilt he was unable to obtain work. | Supcrior Judge Pierson M. Hall dismissed the suit on the ground that Mr. Wallace was riot a resident Of Los Angeles Cbunty and

‘| had failed to post a nijn-resident

bond when he filed the pction.

CLAM BURGLARY RING BROKEN UP

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 (U. P.).— A burglary ring which ldoted mansions of film stars and spciety people of furs and jewelry! valued by police at $250,000, today? was reported by officers to have been broker. up with the arreft of seven men. Among the homes | | assertedly burglarized by the ring as that of Barbara Stanwyck, who reported a loss of furs valued at $2500.

Merrill Pye, M-G-M set de- |

The first “club car” will be spencH in about two weeks at Wilshire and |

All Puffed Up for Film

"Twas Only Another Practical Joke.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 (NEA).— For some days now a storm has been lashing at the windows of a little ranch house inside Stage 17 at Warner Bros. and as the script requires, it has been getting on the nerves of Bette Davis and Mary Astor. They've been sitting .at a heavy table and playing cards by the light of a smoky oil lamp. Boredom has led the two to the verge bf an emotional breakup, with every placating word spoken by Miss Davis seeming only to further irritate the jittery Miss Astor. Finally the latter overturns the table, seizes a lighted lantern and declares she’s going to get away from there. Restrained, she even tries to hurl the lantern so the house will be set afire. Then Miss Astor begins to scream in wild hysteria and Miss Davis slaps her—slaps her hard, twice.

and photographed all one afternoon. Next morning Miss Astor showed up on the set with one side of her face distended as if with mumps. Edmund Goulding, directing “Her Great Lie,” was solicitous but mostly alarmed. Cameraman Tony Gaudio said it would be impossible to photograph her looking like that. And Bette Davis was almost in tears. She apologized for hitting so hard. ‘Finally, when. everybody was feeling terrible, Miss Astor removed a big wad bf cotton that she had tucked into her cheek. When the company had had its laugh, they shot the slapping scene again. Miss Davis didn’t pull her wallops this time, either.

KIDS SIGNED

Paramount signs radio's “Quiz | Kids” for a series of short subjects.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE + “Love ,Thy Neighbor,” with Jack !l1 Benny. Fred Allen, Mary Martm, at 12, 2:34, 5:05 40’ and 10: “Meet the Wilden. . iy Ralgh Pollamys geet, It Lindsay, at 11,

ae “The Male Animal,” a comedy by James Thurber and Elliott Nugeat, with Mr. Nugent, Leon Ame iz beth Love Engagement |] Saturday, © curtain at 8:30; matinee Saturday at 2:30. INDIANA “Santa Fe Trail,” with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Sis at 11:19, 2, 4:41, 7:22 and

“March of Time” at 11, 1:41, 4:22, 7:03 and 9:34. LOEW'S “Comrade X,” with Clark Gable, S olka, - at

X d 9:50. “The ‘Golden Fleecing,” with Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, at 11:20, 2:25, 5:25 and 8:25. LYRIC Vaudeville, with Nick Lucas, on stage at 12 12:38. 3:28, 6:29 and 9:30. d the News,” with Lloyd Nolan. Doris Palenport. Frank Al-

bertson, at 11:00, 1:59, 4:99, 7:50 d 10:44. Open 10 a.m.

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The slapping scene was rehearsed |.

background for motion pictures, you are led to believe if you listen to film experts. Pictures about the war and other current problems of the human race won't be “box office” for another 10 years, they say, aside from a few exceptions. And that accounts for the fact that the screen will be deluged with costume pictures in 1941. Cecil B. De ‘Mille expects to be at home in that trend and even now is completing plans for a swashbuckling sea saga in technicolor, “Reap the Wild Wind,” a tale of the wreckers who preyed on shipping out of Key West, Fla., where huge fortunes and important dynasties were built on disasters of the sea. Equally colorful in point of dress will be Alexander Korda's “Lady Hamilton,” starring Vivien Leigh in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Admiral Nelson. Tyrone Power will get into silk knickers and brocaded boleros of the bullfighter in “Blood and Sand, ” which was one of tT Budowgn!

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lace in “The Road) to Rio,” with Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche. The silk-hatted dandies and overdressed women of San Francisco in the 50s rub elbows with red-shirted miners and peajacketed sailors in “Trail of the Vigilantes.” And there’ll be even more of the same in “Pioneer Woman,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel MecCrea. ¢ Other costume pictures headed for showing include “Tobacco Road,” “Shepherd of the Hills,” “Captain Hornblower,” “Flame of New Orleans,” with Marlene Dietrich as a Southern belle; “Western Union,” “Moon Over Burma,” “Billy the Kid,” “Bad Men of Missouri,” ‘Aloma. of the South Seas,” and “Song of the Islands.”

COMPOSER HONORED

ROME, Jan. 2 (U. P.).—Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer, will be awarded a special gold medal" in honor of the 50th anniversary of his opera, “Cavalleria Rusticana,” it was announced today. The ceremony will be held at the Santa Cecilia Music Academy in Rome.

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