Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1941 — Page 7

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39 Writers Aid Studio

Warners' Authors Work on 27 Films at Once.

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18.—Assignment of 39 writers to 27 screen plays currently in preparation at Warner Brothers sets a new record . for authorial activity at the studio. Successful stage plays, best-sell-ing books, magazine stories and plays written especially for the screen are all represented in the material now nearing the cameras. Included are such plays as “The

Man Who Came to Dinner,” “The ~~ Male Animal’ and “The Gentle People,” and such popular books as "One Fest In Heaven,” “Quietly My Cabiain Waits” and “Mr. Skeffingon.” E Titles of scripts which are based on stories written directly for screen purposes include: “Sergeant York,” “Dive Bomber,” “Carnival in Rio,” “Underground,” “Danger Zone,”. “The Smiling Ghost,” “Flight Patrol,” “A Night at Tony Pastor's” and “Mother’s Boys.”

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There’s never a dull moment on the set of “The Lady Eve” with Preston Sturges, the writer-director

who is suspected of patronizing a mad hatter. love scene between his stars, Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck.

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Times Special HOLL'YW JOD, Feb. 18.— Frank Capra aad Robert Riskin have been offered 'the Stephens College port-

folio of research on ‘“the average woman” if tiiey will produce a “Jane Doe” sequel to “Meet John Doe,” soon to be released. The offer was made by Dr. James M. Wood, president of the Columbia, Mo., college for women. Gathered in the course of a survey which lias been going on since 1921, the inaterial offered by Dr. Wood gives the results of investigations into the lives of 305 average women in {2 states.

DAUGHTER OF RADIO STAR NOW IN FILMS

HOL.YWOOD, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— Marilyn Hare, 17-year-old daughter of the late radio star, Ernie Hare, has béen signed for work in the movies at $75 a week. She had appeared in radio programs; anc. a talent scout heard her sing. Republic Studio gave her a screen test, found her appearance “as pleasing as her voice,” and offered ler a contract.

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A MARTENS CONCERTS audience basked for two hours last night in the warmth of music which ranged from the sunlit serenity of Haydn to the more deeply smoldering melodies of Franck. For those in the first rows of the orchestra this was a very pracA wintry temperature prevailed backstage and insinuated itself across the footlights, but the players quickly

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warmed both themselves and their adjacent listeners in the task in hand. And so to Muriel Kerr, pianist, and the Coolidge Quartet must go credit for both an artistic and a caloric triumph. It was a recital somewhat unusual for these regions. We hear chamber music only seldom, and even less often do we hear it given

as excellent a performance as the

Coolidge foursome provided. And certainly we are visited only once in a blue moon by a woman pianist who-makes one start hunting for glamorous Hollywood adjectives as soon as she walks on

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THE STRING QUARTET opened the: program with the Haydn Quartet in G Major, Opus 76 No. 1. It is music of soulfilling beauty from beginning to end, filled with delightful surprises and proclaiming an immediately appealing joy whose earthiness is touched by an Olympian inspiration. We are grateful for our infrequent hearing of such music. And we expect a first-rate quartet to play it with accuracy and unanimity and a musicianly understanding. All these were present in last night's performance. But there were added attractions which came as pleasant surprises. For one thing, a sensuous beauty of tone not common to even the better ensembles, and for another, a prevailing sensitivity of expression. The compelling projection of emotional fire is largely an individual accomplishment, but here it was achieved by four artists who felt and played as one. Miss Kerr appeared next’ in the breath-taking entrance hinted at above. She is a rather Madeleine Carrollish. looking young lady, comely of face and figure and with an abundance of rede gold hair as an added blessing. Perhaps a catalog of beauty is out of place in a music criticism, but it is called. for so seldom that it ought to be pardonable.

MISS KERR also possesses pianistic graces to match those just mentioned. Her single group offered scope for a versatile talent. She brought delicacy and sparkle and suavity of dynamics to a Scarlatti sonata which opened

.the group. There was a richly

songful tone for a Paderewski nocturne (one of this week’s many tributes to the Polish musician and statesman on the 50th annie versary of his American debut), Miss Kerr's, two Ravel items, “Ondine” and the “Alborada del Gracioso,” were equally in the mood. And when a clarion style was demanded for such thing as the Bach-Busoni “In Thee Is Joy” and the Rachmaninoff B Flat Major Prelude, the pianist once again possessed the necessary equipment. Sometimes Miss Kerr's fortissimos—which were anything but fragile—became overexuberant and combined with some heavy pedaling into moments of noise. And the Raval “Alborada” was taken at such a speed as to destroy

the music’s arch and satiric qual-

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ANOTHER O'HARA MAKES THE GRADE

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 14.—Maureen O’Hara has received word that her 16-year-old brother Charles has won the All-Ireland silver cup for the best Shakespearean performance of last year with his playing in “Richard III.” He is the third member of the talented family on whom this honer has been conferred. Maureen, before leaving her native Dublin, won it with a performance of Portia in “The Merchant of Venice.” Her sister Margo won it the next year with her Titania in “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Brother Charles plays juvenile leads with the Abbey Players, where Maureen was theatrically schooled: He uses the family name of Fitz Simons in his professional work.

BETTE DAVIS GETS ANOTHER TROPHY

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18 (U. P.) — Bette Davis, twice winner of Hollywood’s “best acting” award, has received a Latin-American trophy for the best screen performance of 1940. Cinelandia, Latin - American fan magazine, gave her the award for her role in “The Letter.” Miss Davis will make an acceptance speech in Spanish on a radio broadcast to Mexico and South America, .

FIELDS DENIES THEFT OF STORY

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— W. C. Fields denied today that he appropriated another man’s story for his picture, “You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.” He filed a blanket denial in Federal Court to charges of Harry Yadkoe, a writer, who is suing him for $20,000 damages. Mr. Yadkoe contends that Mr. Fields used part of

LOUIS HAYWARD, IDA LUPINO CAST

Times Special . HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18. — Columbia has engaged Ida Lupino and

Louis Hayward for leading roles in “Ladies In Retirement.” Miss Lupino will portray the part of Ellen Creed

|and Hayward will be seen as Albert

Feather, in the screen version of the Gilbert Miller Broadway stage success. “Ladies In Retirement,” by Edward Percy, and Reginald Denham, was one of the outstanding plays last season, and since closing in New York has been making a successful tour. Joe

JORDAN TO GIVE PLAY ON FRIDAY

V. J. Lee's three-act play, “I Bestow This Gift,” will be presented by students in the Jordan Conservatory drama department at the Odeon on. Friday at 8:15 p. m. Frederick Overman, head of the department, is the director. In the cast are Mary Jane McGaughey, Jeanne Beall, Norma Beall, Vyda Clarkson, Mary Adams, Jean Vickery, Virgil Phemister, Mary Louise Mosiman, Hugh Miller and Mr. Overman. ” The public is invited, and there will be no admission charge.

ON PERSONAL TOUR

The Andrews Sisters, finished with their latest film work in “Buck Privites,” . with Abbott and Costello, have embarked on a six weeks personal appearance tour of the coun-

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