Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1941 — Page 21
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IMOVIE CONTRACT SURPRISES GIRL
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24 (U. P.).— Dolly Loehr, a 14-year-old Los Angeles girl who played the piano and spoke a few words in a picture.at Paramount, has received a $60 a week contract. It was a surprise to Dolly. Paramount officials im-
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Sneak’ Show Set Monday
Circle to Have Preview of RKO Film.
You can go to the Circle next Monday night and pay your money but you can’t take your choice. For at 9 p. m. the Circle’s regular bill is going to give way to the first sneak preview ever held outside the great State of California. It isn’t entirely accurate to say that the Circle’s will be the first sneak preview, For on the same night similar sight-unseen movie offerings will be on view in 34 other key cities throughout the country. The “national sneak” is an idea of RKO Pictures, based on an old established West Coast practice. California movie-goers are not unaccustomed to having a new picture sprung on them for their approval. At the end of the performance the customers are asked to record their reactions to the film on cards which are consulted later by the producing company. In many cases pictures ‘undergo a considerable alteration before general release on the strength of the preview audiences’ criticism. : The picture to be shown at the Circle is reported to be one of RKO’s major offerings. It will not be released until March. The title, stars, director and so on will, of course, be kept secret until they are flashed on the screen Monday night. Public officials, editors, reviewers and exhibitors from Indianapolis and surrounding communities will attend. That doesn't mean, however, that the Circle’s regular patrons will be excluded.
TWO SOLOISTS-ON CONCERT PROGRAM
The all-American concert tonight by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, at 8:30 o'clock at the Murat, will have two soloists, Joseph Bloch, Indianapolis pianist, playing . Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” and Agnes Davis, soprano, who will sing “Summertime” from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” and songs by McDonald, Hadley and
HOLLYWOOD = Studios: [Have Missed ‘Goud f Bot : In Passing Up .Films .on Draft INDIANA
“High Sierra,” with Humphrey Bogart, Ida Buplas, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50
an “Give Us ings,” with the ‘Dead End Kids” na Little Tough Guys,” -at 11:28, 2:38, 5:48 and 8
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By PAUL HARRISON were Times Special Writer
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24—WHILE THE MOVIES HAVE BEEN PROFESSING so much interest in topical events and national defense, it’s astonishing so little has been done about the draft. After all this time, the only conscription picture actually in production is Universal's “Buck Privates,” a semi-musical embellished by ihe clowning of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. ri You'd think the President’s signature scarcely would have been blotted on the selective service act before squads and corps of writers would have been drafted by the studios to whip up scripts on conscription. As a matter of direct or potential importance to everybody in the United States, it would seem a bit more interesting than events in the lives of | pen fo anybody who worked three dead composers, bandits, chorus years on a Kate Smith radio | girls and other oddments of his- | show, ¥ ia tory and fiction. a * #8 {18 But at most studios, the press THE SKINNY straighf man sgenils Were the only proBle and | the plump, quavery-voiced awake. They thought up titles | i: ave been partners 10 years associated with rookie training | ,,u. ever since actors and stageand announced them for produc- | y. 4s at the Empire Theater in tion, sometimes with tentative | gp. lp 0) 19ughed so hard at their castings and assignments of di- furidus arguments over a. rummy rectors. In the past, plans | o Ln Mr. Abbott gave up dreamed up by publicists to make his job as cashier and joined the news on dull days have material- act. ! ‘About the same! time a ized into actual pictures, and it’s couple of chorus girls got into a : likely that the bally hoo boys facejslapping bout during restirred some executive interest hearsal one day, Costello. and
dis time, Abbott ‘separated. them, took. ‘em out [to dinner for a peace ‘conferencé, married them. , Their first picture; made a few months ago, was “One Night in the | Tropics.” Except for their sequences, - it was terrible. The compdians watched the first four reels, slunk out and.grabbed a taxi| for the airport. In New York their plane was met by a studio representative with orders for them to hop back to Hollywood pichavly will make a million dol- | t5 jegin a new picture and sign I have a hunch the vociferous | ® 57" gear Soniract, antics of Abbott and Costello are BOUT 15 YEARS ago, Mr. going to make them very popular tello came to Hollywood to be in the movies. Of course I may actor. Instead, he became a _ be a sucker for low comedy, \t man, worked in 35 silent mostly doubled for sc-"
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“Shoot the Works,’ with Ezra Buddington and his Rustic Band, on ° stage at 12:53, 3:43, 6:40 a nd 9:37, “Barnyard Follies.” with Mar ary Les Rufe Davia, at 11:25, 2:12, 5:04, 7:59 and 10:44.
although by some standards their hokum is a good many. notches higher then the smart smuf which: has [been cluttering the secrien lately. | The idea of a couple of ‘veteran burlesque actors becoming ex-. one of purity in humbr is a little startling, but it could hap-
Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold, who: scored together in “You Can't Take It With You,” are teamed again in “Roosty.”
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Ruth Morehouse chucks Billy House under one of his numerous ample chins, while: Arleen Robinson strikes a pose in this kittenish scene from “Hellz:poppin,” the Olsen-and- Johnson-inspired riot which comes to. English’s- Monday for a three-day stand. Miss Morehouse, by the way, is the daughter of the Broadway columnist and playwright, Ward Morehouse. :
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First Record by Local Symphony Goes on Sale; Performance Is Contrasting, Stimulating
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ANY DAY NOW, Bob Hope will begin acting in Paramount’s “Caught in the Draft.” In about two weeks, 20th-Fox will start “Rise and Shine.” But the fact is that from mid-September until this writing, the only studio that got a script and cast into action was Universal. “Buck Privates” is nearly finished, will be in the theaters before February, and
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THIS IS the day that the first recordings by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra go on| sale in Indianapolis and surrounding cities. The special release is| ifor those eager friends of the orchestra and Fabien Sevitzky, its condiictor, who have been particularly anxious to hear their music on wax.! The record will be issued generally at a later date, probably within the next few weeks.
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ures, Plog in dangerous shots—such as jumping out of a window. for Dolpres Del Rio in “The Trail of 98.’ 5 He was short and §lim in those deys; now he looks a lot like New York's Mayor La- | Guardia. Mr. Costello gained quite an offstage reputation as a [funnyman, but just as he won the promise of an acting job the talkies arrived and he was told his| voice was unfit for the new medium. He quit and wert back East Wo burlesque.
DIRECTOR SIGNED
Jean Renoir, French director who recently came to this country, has beer; signed by 20th Century-Fox -to a long-term contract. His assign. ment has not been announced but it will be his first work for American films. SAT,-ST/N.
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It was quite a feather in| the orchestra’s cap to be chosen to join the distinguished list ‘of Victor recorders. And the first oifer= ing proves that Victor's confidence was not misplaced. || The initial 12-inch disc couples the Overture to Glinka’s opera, “Russlan and Ludmilla,” | with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Dubinuskika.” The playing is in every way satisfying and stimulating. In the first place, the Murat turned out to be a good audgitorium for recording purposes. In these familiar surroundings the orchestra comes through with a full and brilliant body of | tone. Mr. Sevitzky saw to it thai his musicians played with an alent vitality, and there is more of] dynamic contrast and colorful; climax than you will find in a good many waxings by veteran recording organizations. ” ” ” | THE “RUSSLAN AND [ILUDMILLA” Overture is, of ccurse, orchestra patrons. Besides being a part of the standard orchestra repertory, it seems to be a [particular favorite with Mr. Sevitzky and one which he does exceptionally well. The Rimsky-Korsakov music is less familiar. The only previous performance by the orchestre, was on a broadcast concert two years ago. I was able to find little about it on short notice, except that it is from an arrangement of several Russian songs for orchestra. Mr. Sevitzky, who right have furnished more information, was busily engaged at the /dentist’s. Little in the way of information is necessary to the music's enjoy-
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ment, however. Its character is that of a slow march, its idiom is original, and it makes excellent listening. # ” ” THREE FAMOUS opera composers happened to write a Symphony No. 1 in C Major during their formative musical years, Weber wrote his when he was 20; Wagner’s single symphonic effort dates from his 19th year; Bizet sét the operatic record for precocity by composing his when he was 17. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra played the Weber symphgny a week ago. And now Victor has released a recording of the Bizet work, played by the London
Philharmonic = Orchestra under Walter Goehr. The Bizet music, like that of Weber, is not exactly symphonic, but it is tuneful and pleasant and altogether a remarkable work from a youngster’s pen. At 17 Bizet already had a keen ear for orchestral effects, and a compe= tent mastery of conventional form. The first movement is the weakest, but there is plenty of enjoyment in the other three, espe« cially the nostalgic, Rossinian second movement, and the huoy=ant finale. The orchestra and conductor give the work an enthusiastic performance.
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THE BROAD TONE and heroic style which characterize Gregor Piatigorsky’s cello playing are heard to particularly good advan=tage in the new recording of the Saint-Saens A Minor Concerto which he has made with Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Columbia). There is plenty of fire in both the soloist’'s and the orchestra's playing. However, they don't. exceed the bounds which this melodious, polished and essentially Gallic work sets up. Piatigorsky fans can’t afford to be without this one.
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