Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1941 — Page 22

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Friday Openings With Us Again

By JAMES THRASHER TODAY MARKS THE return to normalcy on the entertainment front. Since early November opznings at the downtown first-run film houses have been

as unpredictable as a Roosevelt

Thanksgiving. Bills have changed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The public

has been a little confused, and |

the movie reviewers have rejoiced at having their work spread out through the week. But today the Circle, Indiana, Loew’s and the Lyric are getting away from the post at the same time. And Friday openings probably will continue to prevail until about a fortnight from next Thanksgiving, which should fall either on Nov. 20 or 27. Perhaps the 1941 entertainment trend won't be toward the. light and the patriotic, but it seems to be starting off that way. The Circle, for instance, has two comedies. Loew's has a comedy and a patriotic picture. And the Indiana is continuing with the lives and loves of the four Lemp girls in “Four Mothers.” If it’s anything like the two previous films in the series, mirth and melodrama will be about equally mixed, #. 4. 8 LOEWS PATRIOTIC film, “Land of Liberty,” is, as you may know, a pictorial history of the United States gathered mainly from Hollywood’s output. It was assembled under the astute editorial direction of, Cecil B. DeMille as the movie industry’s con= tribution to the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco. Included are brief portions of 112 features and short subjects, plus cuttings from many newsreels, Chronologically, the picture .goes back to “The Big Parade,” D. W. Griffith's “America,” “The Covered Wagon” and

* “Moby Dick,” of the early 1920s.

Twenty-one producers are repre-

. sented.

Running down the list of films it seems that almost everything remotely connected with American history is represented there —with the notable exception of

“The Birth of a Nation”

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New Civic Drama Us es 11 Sets

This is one of the 11 seis which David Lang worthy of the

ale Drama School has designed for the

Civi¢ Theater's current produgtion of Elmer Rice's play about Niw York, called “Two on an Island.”

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: and “Gone With the. Wind.” The advertisements list 40 top-

flight stars in the cast, although |

our alert operative who saw a preliminary screening says some of them must have passed hy in a parade, > Af any rate there are engugh Hollywoocl box-office magnates present to make any other allstar cast look pale by comparison. And the whole imposing galaxy gets billed in the ads below the Marx Brothers in Nice going, Groucho, Chico and Harpo! hy vm wm PROBOBLY YOU DON'T pay much attention to the credits flashed on the screen before a picture commences. But if you give then more than a passing glarice at the Circle’ this week, youll notice that the screen play of W. C. Fields’ “The Bank Dick” is by a writer bearing the niellifluous and imposing name of Mahatma Kane Jeeves. . That, friends, would be Mr. Fields himself. Previously he has written the story for three or four of his vehicles under the name of Charles Bogle. But “The Bank Dick” must be something

| special to call forth such a nom

de [plume, which sounds viguely like an English butler in & loin cloth.

” ” ” MY FAVORITE BIT of New Year's philosophy, with its non sequitur shining proudy against a background of purple prose, is the following, received this week:

“Holiday spirits and celebration

now fading into the vale of forgotten interludes brings | into vogue the more serious phase of shunting aside new and probably impractical resolutions, which a great many of us didn’t intend to keep in the first place but they seemed like good ideas in ‘the beginning. However, all this ig just a roundebout lead-up to the new Fox show starting today.” . Roundabout? Devious, krother, positively devious.

“Go West.” §

The distinguished pianists, Josef and Rosina Lhevinne, will appear in the roles of Jecturers, | recitalists and guest teachers before the repertory class of the Bon, ar Cramer Studios for Pianists tomorrow

afternoon.

HOLLYWOOD

Director Curtiz No Respecter of

Fersons,

as Nicknames Show Clearly

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE Bank Dick,” with ds, Cora _Witherspeon.| | Una , at 11, 1:50, 4:35, 7:85 and

‘One Night in the Tropics? with Alan Jones, - Nancy Kelly, Abbott gnd Sgtello, at 12:25, 3:18.10 6:05

an CIVIC | “Two on an Island,” a by Rice, with Panchon’] Eel, Roper Schwomeyer, Norman | Cireen: staged hy Richard Hoover. EngsgeJustis through Wednesday, curfeain at

INDIANA Mothers,” J Prigel la. Josemary , and Lane Gale Page, a; 12 «3:52, 2:01 and 10:10. et of BD ooien »” with Lynne . Guy Kibbee, at 11:33, 9:42,

and 9 LOEW'’S

West,” with the Marx [Brothers pana, Lewis, John Car=roll. at 12:50 10 and 10. “Lan nd, of L Liberty > at * 11, (2:10,

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By PAUL HARRISON limes Special Writer 0 HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1).—Director Mike Curtiz, whose magnificent

disregard for English exprission is name for everybody. sometimes they are only [vaguely studio knbws them.

a Hollywood tradition, has a nick-

The|itags he uses are not always respectful, and

descriptive. But everyone af the

His head grip is Hanimer Man, which is reasonable enough. So

is Mister liens, for the cinematographer. But you have t( know about an incident of a y¢ar ago to understand why he culls his head electrician Vibration: Bum. That's because a heavy aic lamp fell from a stand. It ruined a scene and would have ruingd anybody who might have been standing below it. Mike was nct at all satisfied with the boss |juicer’s explanation that vibration| caused the accident. “Bum” is /a term which tiie Hungarian jyicturemaker uses very carelessly | Obviously he is no respiicter of persons, hecause hi§ blanlet title for all executives is MisteriMoney. This is not a derisive handle; Mr. Curtiz . calls ’em Mr. Money to their facts. He has the same atstai® of the current “Sea nity hercabout. Mike calls Robinson Sgilor Boy. ¢ 2 nn = : USUALLY HE changes nickThere are three exceptions: Errol [Flynn is always lint, Olivia de Havilland is Miss Lass, and Jimmy Cagney is Red Fellow. When he! directed Bette Davis in “The Privite Lives ™ of Elizabeth and Essex,” she was always Queenie. But wlien Mike meets lier socially, he calls her Oscar, This latter is g reminder of her Academy Awards. A makeup man is always Powder Boj, even if he hzppens to be elderly. A hairdresser ig either Mister Hair or Miss Hair, Wayne Morris always will be Pasadena to Mike. Doubles are Ape Actors and sténd-ing are Duminies. The director has his own designations for all such groups. Eis assistant knows, for example, that when Mr, Curtiz asks for Beard ® Men hé¢ means tough eitras. He refers to dress extras asi Stiff Collars and Necklace Girls. | No one seems ever to resent the nicknaines coined by Mike, except one New York actor, who made his movie debut in the first picture directed here by Mr. Curtiz. Beside: being a foppisli gent; he was inclined to lgok down his patrician nose at the cinemg and everybody who worked in movies. &p he didn’t like being. addressed as Fancy Pants. Mike says he. makes up titles because “I always remember to

forget names.” But he is always Mister| Curtiz, |

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Jewish Council

To Sponsor Film

A Yiddish movie, “Mirele Efros,” will be shown Sunday at Keith's Theater by the Jewish National Fund Council. Proceeds are to be used for a subscription to the Henrietta Szold Golden Book, in honor of her 80th birthday. There will be two performances, at 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. Berta Gersten, star of the Yiddish Theater, plays the title role in the movie. The noted Jewish comedians, Michael Rosenberg and Ruth Elbaum, who played in “Pins and Needles,” Broadway musical com=y, are in the supporting cast. The musical score was written by Vladimir Heifetz and the film was supervised by Joseph Berne, who has directed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia pictures.

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-~ Mr. Stork and three of his best friend ade a series of very happy Landings.

Now, the marriages plus the carriages 2 Muy, AD - ;

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‘Aunt’ Ready To Say Uncle

But Elizabeth - Patterson Resigned to "Fate."

(Elizabeth Patterson adds another portrait to her gallery of aunts in the Lyric's current film, “Michael Shane, Private Detective.” She plays Aunt Olivia.)

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10 (U. P).

— Ever since the day that Booth

Tarkington picked a girl named Elizabeth Patterson out of a stock company in Indianapolis for roles in two plays he’ was putting on Broadway, Miss Patterson has been “typed” in the entertainment field. Miss Patterson, by now resigned to her fate, plays aunts. Currently she is playing the title role in a mystery film, “Who Killed Aunt Maggie?” She, of course, is Aunt Maggie, and gets just what the title indicates. Miss Patterson played Aunt Susan in “The Cat and the Canary”; she was Aunt Emma in “Remember the Night.” She canst recall the dozens of other aunt roles assigned to her. “I'm not very tall, short, blond or anything else” she says. “I've just got an auntish appearance.” When she came to Broadway for the Tarkington play, she was Aunt Ellen in “Intimate Stranger.” Miss Patterson is a native of Savannah, Tenn. and was educated at Martin College in Pulaski, Tenn, later attending Columbia Institute at Columbia. At both schools she appeared in theatrical productions and decided fo engage in acting as a career. Her parents, in an attempt to persuade her against such a career, sent her to Europe, but there she attended all the classical plays she could find, and when she returned to Tennessee she was more determined than ever on a stage career. She took a small inheritance and packed off for Chicago, where she attended dramatic schools and enrolled in a stock company, from which three years later, she was taken by Mr. Tarkington and placed on Broadway.

Syrhphony Second Concert Sunday

The Indianapolis Symphony Or-

chestra’s second popular concert of|

the season will be given at 3 p. m. Sunday at the Murat. The soloist will be Alfred Mirovitch, internationally known pianist, who joined the Jordan - Conservatory faculty this year. Mr. Mirovitch will play the Liszt Concerto in E Flat. Two movements of the Sibelius D Major Symphony will be included on the program as a result of many requests for a rehearing of the popular work, played a few weeks ago on the subscription concerts. Another soloist will be Rudolph Uhlik, a member of the orchestra, who will be heard in Arcady Dubensky’s Caprice for Piccolo and Orchest Completing the pregram will be the Waltz from Tschaikowsky’'s opera, “Eugene Onegin”; the Ballet Music from Gounod’s “Faust,” and the world premiere of a composition called “Portrait of a Lovely Lady” by Lessner.

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Opera Premiere

The first public performance of Clarence Loomis’ yppera, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” will be given at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow by the Jordan-Butler: Philharmonic Choir in Block’s auditorium. Joseph Lautner will conduct. The first 40 minutes of the opera will be broadcast by WIRE: The composer will give a brief talk during the broadcast. On next Wednesday afternoon Mr. Lautner and the choir will give a performance of the opera in Chicago. The opera's libretto is by Ethel Fergusson, and is based on Poe's story of the same title.

ABBEY DIRECTOR DIES

DUBFLIN, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—Frederick Robert Higgins, 44. Irish poet and managing director of the Abbey Theater, who took the Abbey Play-

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