Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1941 — Page 11
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‘THURSDAY, JAN. 30,
1941
MOVIES
-GWTW Comes Back to Town and
Georgia
Editor- Pols All About It
DAVID O. SELZNICK'S “Gone
With the | Wind, ” which begins its
first anniversary engagement at Loew’s tomorrow, has evoked more
superlatives than a carnival barkers’ convention. It is the longest, costliest, most profitable picture ever made.
It
has played in about 5000 theaters before nearly 25 million persons. The
letters GWTW are almost as well known as FOB, FHA or 1I0U, More |
than a million copies of the book, too, have been sold. But through all the excitement "there shines with calm, cool clarity +a review of the picture written by =ack Tarver, editor of the Toombs Ga. Pop. 1000.) . It already has been printed in 37 dailies with a circulation of more than four millions, t ” 2 2 HERE'S WHAT Editor Tarver had to say: There was a land of cotton-
.flelds and cavaliers called the Old South. A land of Lords and their Ladies, of Master and of Slave. Look not for them hereabouts for they are no longer to be found. Male and Female, Black and White, Youth and Age, they are all down fo the picture show seeing ‘Gone, With. the Wind.” Katherine Scarlett: O O'Hara was our Shero. ' A winsome wench with a figure -like .a marble statue and a head as hard. Gerald O'Hara was her pa. By -naturée he was most animal-like. Proud as a peacock, he roared . like a lion and rode like a dog and pony show. After Sherman came he was crazy as a bedbug. Anyhow Scarlett was in love . with Ashley Wilkes, who was in . love with the cousin, Melanie, who ‘was in love with Ashley, and so “they were marired. (Ashley .and Melanie in case youre getting confused.) This irritated Scarlett no ‘end ‘and ‘so, in quick ‘succession ‘she - married, for spite and cash, respectively, a couple of fellers whose names we didn’t get. But then, neither did Scarlett for long. The other major characters were Rhett Butler, Belle Watling and a colored lady exactly like the one on the flapjack box.
vi ® 8 8 "RHETT, WHO was somehow strangely reminiscent of Clark Gable, was a cross between Jesse James and Little Boy Blue. ‘Uncle Lum considered playing
Rhett but turned it down when he found there wasn’t anything but mint in the mint juleps.
If Rhett had joined the Lost Cause in the second reel instead
of after I tarmission, the Confederacy would have won the war. And Belle. You'd have loved Belle. Everybody did. During] the siege of Atlania only three things were running: Belle's place, Prissy’'s nose anc the laundry that kept Rheft’s white suits snow white. Melanie’s baby arrived about the same time Sherman did. Both were equally welcome to Scarlett. It was, so far as our painstaking research has revealed, the first baby ever born in technicolor, | Anyhow, the South lost the war again in the picture, (What could yo’ expect with a lot of Yankee producers?) and fcarlett married Rhett to get even with him, Their married life wag just like sitting in_hell’s fire and listening to the heavenly choir. ; Finally, after Melani¢ died Scarlett! realized that she didn't love Ashley but Rhett. Scarlett was as’ changeable as a baby’s underwear, However, Rhett had enongh of her foolisiness and when she told him, he says, “Frankly, ny dear, I don't give a damn.” Neither, by this time, did the audience. They were glad to see the end, their own having become number and somewhat harder than a | jendjady: ¥ stare, 8 ‘The Borie ol have a special opening hour of 9 a. m, Saturday, running continuously with the last showing at 9 p. m. Other days Loew’s will open at 11 aim, tJ Ho THE AES PONTE TO “Kitty Foyle,” which begins & second week today at the Circle, has been much like thet accorded the novel. Christopher Morley’s book was a huge sliccess among Wworaen, particularly those who, like Kitty, were “white-collar girls.” Men, “oo, found it ‘an interesting novel because of the insight into the workiags of the féeminirle heart and mind. Typical of this slant, which caused some persons to wonder if a man wrote the novel after all, is Kitty's remark about dancing. “Dancing, ” she said, ‘is wonderful training for a girl because then
she first learns how to know what,
a man jis going to do next.” D. M.
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Civic Selects British Play
Hoover To | Direct Thriller
1 LD
SERVED SEATS
Feb.7 to 12.
A British mystery melodrama, “Love From a Stranger,” by Frank
Vospers, will be the next play for the Civic Theater group. It will be given at the Playhouse Feb. 7-12 under the dik lection of Richard Hoover: Mr, Vospers based hig play on a story by Agatha Christie, the popular mystery writer. Felen Hayes chose the play as one of her fa-
vorite dramas for her radio pro-|
gram this winfer. “Love From @a Stranger” results when Cecily Harrington (who has won, $100,000 ir. a sweepstakes with her roommate): unexpectedly marries a charminz man unknown to her. Like most British thrillers, the play gets its effects from circumstances in| which the characters become involved, rather than from trapdoor, clutching hands and a lot of thoroughly dead bodies. The Feb. 12 performance will be sponsored by the €enfral Indiana State Nurses’ Asssociation.
BUYS O. HENRY STORY
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30.— “The Gift of the Magi,” often considered the best work of O. Henry, has been bought vy 20th Century-Fox.
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Peac rol Sone in Un- Peaceful Movie
This is pr: ctically the only peaceful scene in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” fhe Indiana's attraction beginThe reason it is so quiescent is that Mr. Smith (Robert Montgomery) is supposed to be unconscious and Mrs. Smith (Carole Lombard) thinks he'll feel much better after a once-over-lightly.
‘Kitty Foyle’ Stays With Us
‘mous - basso. of the :|Opera, and Jarmilag@Notovna, Czech
TDamrosch Raps Pinza
conductors 79th Birthday
Marred by Dispute.
aw YORK, Jan. 30 (U, P.)— “Walter Damrosch, dean of Sikh musicians, launched a furious attack on Ezio Pinza, faMetropolitan
soprano, yesterday because they withdrew from the cast of a forthcoming. production of Damrosch’s opera, “Cyrano de Bergerac.” By inference he pointed out that Mr. Pinza and Miss Notovna are not Americans and charged they lacked “professional honor.”
Two Singers Obtained
The opera, based on Edmond Rostand’s famous play, will be presented Feb. 20 and 21, despite the withdrawal of the principals. Dr. Damrosch said, because he had found “two American singers with exquisite voices and a high sense of professional honor who are going to sing the roles very much to my liking.” Mr. Pinza was to have sung the role of Cyrano; Miss Notovna that of Roxanne, object of Cyrano’s hopeless love.
Met Comes First
Both singers apologized publicly to Dr. Damrosch, who is 79 years old today, saying that the Metropolitan had just notified them that they were to sing in the “Bartered Bride” a week after the scheduled
* |performance of “Cyrano,” and that
When Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers) was 16 she lived on the wrong side of the tracks and dreamed a lot. Most of the dreams were about
Philadelphia’s socialite “Main Liners.”
(Ernest Cossart) died, she fell in dreams didn’t come true. Pop and the Circle.
WHEN DOES IT, START?
CIRCLE “Kitty Foyle,” with Ginger Rogers Dennis Mor an, James Craig, at 2: 40 and 9:50, “Remedy for Riches, " with Jean Jietsnolt "Dorothy Lovett, at 11:15, 2:25, 5:35 and 8
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“Give Us Wings,” with the ‘Dead End Kids’ and ‘Little Tough Guys," at 11:28, 2:38. 5:48 and 8 ”
LOEW'S ‘The Thief of Bagdad,” with Cone od Vee Sabu. June Duprez, at 12:1 25, 6:40 and 3. iNotodgis Children,” with Edith Fellows. 5 ly | Lee, Lois Wilson, at 11, 2:10. and 8:4
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Reports Germans In French Legion
JERSEY CITY, N. J, Jan. 30 (U. P.).—Norman Kerry, star of the silent motion pictures, said today that during his recent service with the French Foreign Legion he found that 70 per cent of the non-com-missioned officers were German and that in the war they fought “well and hard” against their countrymen. Mr. Kerry, who has lived in France for the past nine years, arrived on the American Export Liher Siboney. Because he was a lieutennant in the U. 8. Army during the World “War, he said, his offer to enlist in the French Army in 1939 was rejected, so he signed up with the Foreign Legion under the Dutch
name of Hendrick Van Der Kerry. Of the Germans in the Foreign Legion he said: “I learned while fighting with
{them that race, color, creed, honor
or the side one fought on meant nothing to them. They were purely professional soldiers.” Many German refugees joined the Legion after the outbreak of hostilities ‘to avoid French concentration camps, Mr. Kerry said. “I have no desire for the movies
said. “I am too old. I am going to rest.” Mr. Kerry is 46.
STUDENTS ELECT BETTE NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.—The
“Best Actress of 1940” for her performances in “The Letter” and “All This, and Heaven, Too.” For best actress in a supporting role the college girls divided their accolade between Ida Lupino, for her work in “They Drive by Night,” and Laraine Dey, for her role in “My
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students of Newcomb College for} Women have chosen Bette Davis as| .
When she grew up and Pop love with. a’' Main Liner. But her Kitty are staying a second week at .
20th Century Signs French Producer
noir, whose French production, “Grand Illusion,” has been acclaimed the greatest foreign picture ever to reach the screen, has been signed by 20th Century-Fox. Among the productions which he produced and directed are “The Human Beast” for Paris Film Productions; “The Dregs” for Mayer-Bur-styn, and “Marseilles,” which he completed for World Productions
Nazi invasion.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30—Jean Re-
before his country fell before the
they could not learn, réhearse, and
‘| perform two strenuous roles in such
a short time. The Metropolitan has first call on their services. . “Their reasons do not seem to me to be acceptable,” Dr. Damrosch said. - “They have had my score for eight months and could have learned their parts three times during this period. The fact of their foreign accent would not have mattered much to me.”
2,000 General Admission Fri.,, Jan. 31 Performance
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SONJA HENIE
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Jan. 30th to Feb. 4th No Mail or Phone Orders Accepted
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Frank Morgan °* . "HULLABALOO" Monk Morgan “HULLABALOO”
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Alan Hale ““Tugboat Annie Sails A ain’’
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Leon Errol “Mexican Spitfire Out West”
French painter.
»1941's Most Hilaris ous Comedy,” From the Director of “The
Pascal Is Bringing Shaw Film to U. S.
Times Special
Robert Tree featured in ‘the supporte ing cast.
Shaw himself collaborated on the
screen adaption and contributed 60 new scenes to the film, which was produced and directed by Pascal.
HELLYWQOD, Jan, 30.—Ac ding to cahle advices, Gabriel Pasc who recently completed production of George Bernard Shaw's “Major Barbara,” is en route to New York from Lisbon aboard the SS. Exeter. Pascal is bringing a print of the Shaw comedy, which will be released by United Artists in the spring. Wendy Hiller, who won international fame as Eliza Doolittle in “Pygmalion,” plays the title role in “Major Barbara.” Her two leading men in the film are Robert Morley and Rex Harrison, with Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Penelope Dudley Ward, Cathleen Cordell and
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HURRY! LAST DAY!.
with the “Drive By Night" star team HUNMEHREY
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—as the most talked-about Wk in Le AIT
DENNIS MORGAN
JAMES CRAIG Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest
Cossart, Gladys Cooper
NOW PLAYING
Directed by Sam Wood
She loves him—she
loves him not—and YOU have all the
fun—in
this convuls-
ing story of a bride
who h the b . marry
ad to make ridegroom her twicel
DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK wits GENE RAYMOND
JACK CARSON o PHILIP MERIVALE « LUCILE WATSON Story and Screen Play by NORMAN KRASNA RKO RADIO PICTURE
Best Picture of 1940”