Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1941 — Page 4

Vera Steadman, Breaks Back | in Wreck

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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—Vera. Steadman, one of the most

glamorous stars of the silent screen, was in a [critical condition today,

with a broken back. She was struck by one automobile, and thrown in front of another, which also hit her. Dr. Robert W. Fick of Beverly Hills Emergency Hospital, where she

was first treated, said her condition was “critical,”

Gaxton and Moore Together 9 Years

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (U. P.).— One of the most celebrated teams on the musical comedy stage is preparirlg to celebrate the ninth year of a partnership which has endured through five hit shows. The players are William Gaxton and Victor Moore. They were brought together in 1932 for “I'd Rather Be Right,” and haven't missed since. Their present. vehicle is “Louisiana Purchase,” score by Irving Berlin. .Both started their stage careers in serious roles—Mr. Gaxton was a singer, Mr. Moore a villian. But one night in Leadville, Colo., a drunken miner staggered to the stage, waved a gun and ordered Mr. Gaxton to be , funny. Mr. Gaxton stopped his operatic aria and told a quavering ‘joke. It went over so well he never sang serious music again.

Mr. Moore played the half-breed|

villian in “Nugget Nell.” The script called for him to shoot the second villian. He did that so well, his victim had to be taken to a hospital ce for powder burns. The next night Mr. Moore aimed his pistol in the air. It jammed. Quickly he whipped out his knife and stabbed the second villain just as the stage manager fired an off-stage pistol.

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Cal, bathing beauty was moved to Monte Sano Hospital. She was returning yesterday from a shopping| trip, when an automobile driven by Di. Ralph Opdyke, 1, struck her, She was hurled in| the path of an autorhobile driven by Oscar E. Hansen, 50, and it struck her. . Neither driver was held. Miss Steadman was an overnight success in carly, movies, playing the part of al Mack Sennett bathing beauty. She became a star in| the Twenties, and at the peak of] her career made a protracted trip to Europe. When she returned,| the Hollywood lof her era had been replaced by the talkies. She retired and married Martin Padway, Bevérly Hills socialite lawyer, in April, 1935. “ Two years later she attempted a screen corneack; but failed. Her first husband was Jackie Taylor, an orchestra leader, whorfl she divorced in| 1923.

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‘LIFE WITH FATHER’ BREAKS RECORD

Times Specinl BOSTON, Jen, 29.—The Boston company of the Russell CrpuseHoward Lindsgy comedy hit, [Life With Father,”| has broken a theatrical reqord here. On next Monday night the play will begin its 19th week, topping the 17:week mark set [five years ago by “Three Men on |a Horse,” which was a modern record for long runs in this

city. No closing date has been set,

will remain for 22 weeks at| least before moving on to Philacelphia. Meanwhile, the New York froupe is approaching its 500th performance, and the Chicago company will round ouf a full year next month. The Boston engagement is con-| sidered |particularly = remarkable since the play is housed in the Civic Repertory Theater, more than a mile from the theatrical district and on a street torn up for sub-

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Petulant Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) gets a double lacing from her “Mammy” (Hattie McDonald) in a scene from “Gone With the Wind,” which plays a return engagement at Loew’s beginning Friday. Not only is Scarlett’s waist being pinched, but Mammy has a few cramping things to say about Scarlett’s

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Autry Tops 'Voyage Home' at Granada; Rivoli Film Stays Week, 3d Time in History

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with great dignity has been almost Somehow Mr. Autry has heen able to combine the best points (if there are any) of the crooner and the two-gun her¢ without alienating kids from 6; to 60 who don’t want any mush from their hemen. As evidence that he has done so most successfully, take a look at the box-office ¢hampions of the year. There among the top 10 you’ll find Mr. Autry. If that isn’t proof of his tremendous popularity notice what Earl Cunningham is doing at the (iranada jomorrow through Sunday, Mr. Cunningham is billing | Autry’s “Melody Ranch” over “The Long Voyage Home,” a picture whieh won a place on many of the ‘best 10” lists including that of our James Thrasher,

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ALTHOUGH, AS WEpointed out last week, the Western has been the cinema’s most changeless type of film for 37 years, there has in recent years been one significant innovation. : That is the jinjection of music into what the industry now calls

The success of this diversion

tomorrow for a three-day run. At the North Side house, it’s doubled with “Seven Sinners” while the Emerson second feature will be Kay Kyser's “You'll Find Out.”

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THE HOLDOVER of “Tin Pan Alley” and “Little Nellie Kelly” at the Rivoli from last Sunday means a shuffling of the schedule for the rest of this week and the first of next. This is the third time in the theater’s history that a bill has been shown for an entire week. Tomorrow “The Letter” and “Trail of the Vigilantes” opens for four days to be followed on Monday by “Strike Up the Band” as a single feature.

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THE STRAND in its nightly “Club Indigo” 15-minute recorded program before show time has been playing ASCAP numbers for those who miss the dear old tunes. Paradoxically, the patrons” leading request has been ‘“Frenesi,” a leading BMI tune. tJ ”

THE SILVERY moonlight effect you see on the Fountain Square screen doesn’t all come from the projection booth. Much of the light is spilled from the screen itself, caused by a new aluminum treatment which diffuses the light to all parts of the screen. This is- said to bring out all the details caught by the camera's lens.

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“HAPPY LANDING,” one eof Sonja Henie’s first piotures is being brought back ta town for the Vogue’s attraction tomorrow through Saturday. The film was the first to feature the International Ice Ballet. The second picture is “Anne of Windy Poplars,” from L. M. Montgomery’s novel.

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MOVIE MONTAGE . . . Charles Doades, manager of the Irving, will take unto himself a bride Saturday. . . For the Parker's remaining family nights today and tomorrow there are two revivals—*“Virginia City” starring Erroll Flynn and Miriam Hopkins plus the picturization of one of Thorne Smith's noted novels, “Turnabout.” It took Lon Chaney ' Jr. four and one-half hours each day to make up for his part in “One liillion B. C.” which is on tonight and tomorrow at the Tacoma.

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THE MID-WEEK SCHEDULE: BELMONT—Tonight and _ tomorrow: “I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now” a “Sky Murder. CINEMA—Tonight hiongh pEajurday:. “Mark of Zorro” and ‘ rofile DAISY — Tonight “Haunted Honeymoon” stilt

EMERSON—Toni ght: “Bittersweet and “Dr. Kildare Goes ome.’ Tomorrow through Saturday: “Night Train and “You'll Find Out.” ESQUIRE—Tonight: “Seven Sinners’ a ‘Night Train.” Tomorrow through aturday: “Mark of Zorro” and ‘Dr, ildare Goes Home.” FOUNTAIN S UA Bron ht through Friday: ‘e 3 Well e Served” an “Three Men a LL DA—Tomorfow thydugh SunA telody Ranch” and ‘'Long Voyage

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HA tery nd "You ® ijshateh From Reuters” and by ing Tomorrow thro dag Bitter sweet” and Bie ndie Plays up IRVING—Tonight: ‘‘South and ‘‘Dancing on a Dime.” through Sa upday; ‘Trail t Vigilantes’ and ‘Little Bit of Heaven.” MECCA—Tonight and tomorrow: “Father Is a Prince” and ‘Murder in the Air. ORIE TAL-TD ni Honeym nd ident Tomorrow hroush Saulioay; ,, Wyoming" and “Mummy Loves Pupp PARAMOS =To ht: , 000,000 B. C.” and ‘Callin Husbands. >To morrow and Hey Rulers, of the Sea” and “Father Is a Prin PARKER—Tonight and tomorrows “Virginia City” and «rirnaboy t.’ REX —ToRignt nd tomorrow: ‘‘SlightNe Tempied “Girl From God's try.”

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Heifetz Due Early

Jascha Heifetz will arrive in town tomorrow to rehearse with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for his appearances Friday afternoon and Saturday evening at the Murat. Mr. Heifetz will play the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor. Also on the program will be music by Vivaldi and Deems Taylor, and a Fantasy on Three Foster Themes by Ar-

cady Dubensky, which is dedicated to J. K. Lilly.

“I Can't Give You Anvihing, But Love, Baby and ‘Stage to Chin SHERIDAN —Tonig ht: oi 11 Find Out’ and °* ‘Dispatch From Reuters." Tomorrow through Sat urday: ‘‘Bittersweet” and ‘Dreaming Out Loud. SPEEDWA Y— Tonight, and tomorrow: “Escape” and ‘Margie STATE Tomishy and tomorrow: They Kaew What They Wanted” and “Wildca uss

STRAND—Tonight: ‘South of Suez and “I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Tomorrow through Suna day: the Vigilantes” and * and wh AI

STRATFORD—Toni ht “Calling All Husban s”’ and Drums o the Desert

TACOMA Tonight nd tomorrow: ‘1,000,000 B. C.” and * Slightly Tempted.”

TALBOTT. Tons she and tomorrow “Diamond Front and “Five Little Peppers in Trouble.’

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UPTOWN— Tonight: “Tin Pan Alley” and ‘:Little Nellie Kelly." Tomorrow through Saturday: “Trail of the Nigilantes” and ‘“‘Mirder Over New Yor

VOGUE—Tonight through Ril “Happy Landing.” and “Anne of Win v Poplars ZARING—Tonight throu h Saturday: oor Lette and ‘She Couldn't Say

ALAMO—Tonight and tomorrow: ‘‘Tugboat Annie. Sails Again” and ‘Mexican Spitfire ou West.’

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through Saturday: and ‘‘Hullabaloo.”

"YOUNGEST STAR' SIGNED BY WARNERS

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 29 (U. P.).— Joan Leslie has become a fullfledged star, the youngest ever signed by Warner Bros. She was given a role opposite Gary Cooper in the film “Sergeant York” and the casting was announced at a luncheon in observance of her 16th birthday. She has had parts in several pictures, Some of which have not been released yet.

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Welles Spreads Panic in Hollywood; His First Film May Be Suppressed

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer, ; HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 29.—It looks as if Man-from-Mars Orson Welles has struck again, this time spreading panic among some of the jumpy-nerved citizens of Hollywood.

The 'movie colony might have

were an ominously quiet period in the normally eventful: life of Orson Welles, even with all the pro-and-controversy which have buzzed

around him and his long-de-layed picture, “Citizen Kane.” But nobody knew the nature or extent of the excitement that was brewing. It may not sound exactly momentous when it is explained that a publisher named William Randolph Hearst seems to have taken a notion that young Welles has been impersonating him in a movie, But there’s more to it than that. Plenty. It may mean Orson Welles’ career, It is likely to put quite a strain on the collective courage of the motion picture industry, several executives of which already are hiding in bomb-proof shelters or, behind impregnable walis of silence. It is likely’ to bring Mr. Welles, through his. familiar medium of the radio, into vocal opposition to a silent array of Hearst influence.

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RECENTLY, WHEN a national magazine came out with a story and pictures pointing unflattering parallels between the story of Citi-

ben Kane and the career of W. R. Hearst, a couple of attorneys, one of whom is an officer in the Hearst corporation, appeared in the RKO studios and were allowed to view a rough cut of the film. The atmosphere in the projection room during the showing was grim enough to have given an attack of the bends to ordinary people. Immediately afterward, though, the representatives of Mr. Hearst sprang into action and began pulling wires with the speed of a troupe of carillon players. It soon became clear that every important figure in the industry was being asked to aid in the squelching of “Citizen Kane” and George Schaefer, president of RKO, who has been a staunch supporter of the trouble-wooing Mr, Welles. That was when quite a few of the boys went home with chills and fever or sped to hideouts in the desert. Whether the picture, RKO has an investment of more than $1,000,000, will be shelved, revised or released as scheduled on Feb. 15 is a matter which probably will be settled by one of the bitterest undercover campaigns in the history .of Movietown shenanigans.

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EARLY DEVELOPMENTS point to a campaign of suppression. A Hollywood trade paper which previously praised Mr. Welles suddenly blasted him editorially as a costly failure and a menace to Hollywood's progress. But no charges were made which could be answered by Mr. Welles. Mr. Welles has said all along he was not referring to the veteran publisher. He has insisted he was only delineating ® an American type, a composite of the fabulous few who rose to great wealth and enormous power early in this country. “The plot moves only to satisfy the requirements of the character,” Orson Welles tells me. “I want to show, as a novel might show, how complex the life of a. public man can be—how he can be loved, hated, feared and respected by different people at the same time; how he can be called cruel and kind, fascist and patriot, great liberal and hidebound reactionary. There have been such men. Charles Foster Kane isn't any one of them.”

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LONDON, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—Refusal of the British Government to permit Wilfred Lawson to go to Hollywood to accept an offer to perform in “How Green Was My Valley” was discussed in the House of Commons yesterday. It was reported that Mr. Lawson was offered $2000 a week to act in the picture and that in order to accept he resigned his commission in the Royal Air Force. Nevertheless, it, was said, permission to leave the country was refused. Sir Herbert Williams, a member of Parliament, had asked Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden why permission was refused to Mr. Lawson. He said that taxes to Britain from Mr. Lawson’s earnings in America could have increased British dollar credits in the United States by about $16,000. The question was tabled.

THESE FILM ROLES ARE TRUE TO LIFE

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 29 (U. P.).— Anne Shirley and Jean Ames went to work on the sound stages today— Miss Ames for the first time and Miss Shirley for the first time since she had her baby—but they found no diversion. : Miss Shirley was signed by Paramount to play the role of a young mother in the forthcoming production “Little Miss Muffet.” Miss Ames, who was signed by Warner Bros. after a. talent scout “found” her selling women’s ready-to-wear in a Hollywood dress shop, found that her part consisted of standing behind a dresS counter in a movie department store.

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