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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES In Lyrical Harmony IHere's a Tip For Writers

Let Films Come to You, Alan LeMay Says.

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Here's advice for anyone with ambitions to write for the movies: Stay away from Hollywood, and don’t write any would-be picture

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HOLLYWOOD

Sale of Films to Italy Is Criticized; Argentina Finally Approves 'Dictator.’

Stars to -Golf for ‘Ambulance a Day’

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Bob Hope has announced that He, Bing Crosby and Cary Grant plan to leave within 10 days on a combined golf exhibition and stage tour

of Southern cities to raise money for British War Relief. The screen and radio comedian said he believed that the tour would net about $20,000 and said an “ambulance a day” would be their ob-

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE Mad Doctor,” with Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew, John Howard, at 11 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 and 10:10. “The Monster and the Girl,” with Ellen Drew, Paul Lukas, at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 and 9:55 .

INDIANA “Footsteps in the Dark,” with Errol Flynn, Jrenda Sdatshall, Ralph Bellamy, at 12: 33, :51 and 10. “Ride, Kelly, Ride 5 hg Eugene. Pallette, at 11:34, 2:45, 5:52 and 9:01.

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“This Thing Called Love” with Rogaimd Jeussen, Melvyn Douglas, at 12:35, 3:4 :50 and 9:55.

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28.—Behind the screen: After an actress had received about a dozen visitors and twice as many messages on the set the other day, an impatient assistant director remarked, “That

dame’s got more guys chasing her than the Italians have.” o1 Btn, 5. msta ance Be

A London company, Ealing Studios, announces production of a documentary and satirical film made from newsreel clips and based

on the life of Mussolini. Tenta"tive title: “Top Wop.” And speaking of the BlackShirt country, its purchase of the films “Intermezzo” and “Rebecca” have brought a good deal of criticism in Movietown against David Selznick. Attitude here is that his sale of the pictures not only is counter to the boycott before war began, but that the action may look to Italians like an encouraging gesture from the U. S. “The least we can do now,” suggested a British actor, “is give the money to the Greek War Relief.”

n » 2 THE ARGENTINE government finally passed Charlie Chaplin's “Dictator” after the film had been banned because of protests by Germany. “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” though, remains on the shelf. . . . Chaplin and Paulette Goddard are together again, living at the beach home of her agent .and planning a Honolulu trip when she finishes her new picture. . « « Cecil deMille cabled an offer for a part in “Reap the Wild Wind” to Rex Harrison in England, and got this reply, “Sorry, but busy in greatest role of my life.” The actor is a private in the British army. Marlene Dietrich wanted John Wayne to play opposite her in “The Flame of New Orleans.” But Republic, which owns the actor, has cast him with Ona Munson in “The Lady From New Orleans.” yy a #2 TYPICAL OF Hollywecod and the bold front maintained by movie people is this sign in a boulevard dress shop: “Everything in sports -apparel for that week-

end at Palm Springs. cash relief checks.” Director Rouben Mamoulian tries to make everyone feel at home on the set of “Blood and Sand.” He speaks Russian to Nazimova, Spanish to Anthony Quinn, and Texas to Linda Darnell. . . . Spencer Tracy refers to himself as “We” since he went into the dual role of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. .. . Paramount wants to stage a national poll so that the public can cast “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” But Ernest Hemingway is insisting that Annabelle play Maria.

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CASUALTY NOTES: Jimmy Gleason rose from a flu bed to play in a scene in “Affectionately Yours”—an easy scene, he was assured, in which he could lie down all the time. So he lay down on a couch and was repeatedly drenched by. an overhead sprinkling for a comedy sequence. . , . Kent Taylor, with a broken collar bone, turns only his left profile to the camera so that a bulky neck brace won’t show. A hasty title change has been made by Warners—of “Winged Victory” to “Shining Victory.” Somebody reminded ‘em that Winged Victory is Hitler's favorite work of art. .,. Mary Martin does a brisk strip tease in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye’; peels off numerous old-fashioned garments and dives into a pool. Yeah—there’s a modern bathing suit underneath.

PRESENTS PUPILS

Helen Thomas Martin will present 25 of her piano and dramatic art pupils in recital at 3 p. m. Sunday

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MUSIC

Gladys Swarthout Recital Here Gives Lovers of U. S. Music Cause to Rejoice

By JAMES THRASHER

THE AMERICAN music enthusiasts and the champions of opera in the vernacular had good reason to rejoice in the program of songs which Gladys Swarthout presented before a Martens audience at English’s last night. For 10 of the program’s 16 items were in English,

and the half dozen songs which American composers. Whal is more, Miss Swarthout had n¢ need to apologize for her selection. ‘The program was well suited to her voice and interpretative gifts.. The familiar selections were, for the most part, those in which most of us find repeated enjoyment. And the novelties were welcome. One might make the incidental assumption that the absence of the usual German group was occasioned . by the artist’s discretion rather than by political or patriotic | consideration. At least one may hope 30. Miss’ Swarthout began her recital with Somervell’s arrangement of a “fragment from Handel's opera ‘Otho’” called “Spring.” Next came Dowland’s lovely lyric, “Come Again Sweet Love,” and after thal the magnificence of “Dido's Lament” from Purcelli’s “Dido ‘and Aeneas.” The pattering excerpts from Dr. Arnold’s “Maid of the Mill”—“Hist, Hist,” —was, it must be admitted, a decided anticlimax.

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A LOGICAL geographical pro= gression seemed to guide Miss Swarthout in her choice for the next two groups. To begin with there was ‘“Connais tu le pays” from Thomas’ “Mignon”; favorite French music out of ethe’s German drama. Moving southward the singer brought us three folksongs from the. Auvergne, sensifively harmonized by Jean Canteloube. These songs are quite unlike either the French of Spanish folk music which we are accustomed to hear. They have points of similarity to each, plus a decided individuality. And they were decidedly worth hearing, especially under Miss Swarthout’s capable rainistrations. Anbdther and logical step brought the music to Spain’s doorstep, whence the singer gave her listeneis Granados’ “El Majo Dis~ cret¢” and the “Romance de Solita” by Pittaluga, a florid and colorful composition of a young contemporary Spaniard. To cement the musical: FrancoSpanish alliance, Miss Swarthout added the Seguedilla and Habanera from “Carmen,” which were rapturously received.’

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IN HER CHOICE of American songs Miss Swarthout showed a discernment which is rather rare among recitalists. Her sheaf of native music included Ernes! Charles’ “The Harp,” “Velvet Shoes” by Randall Thompson,

“The Ragpicker” by John Sacco,

Clara Edwards’ “Into the Night,” “The Pasture” by Charles Naginski, and Richard Hageman'’s ‘“Mirarda.” Miss Swarthout’s pleasant voice, her beauty and her unaffected charm seemed to captivate the audience from ‘the first. Nor was there any letup in their enthusiasm until two encores and several bows had been added to the schieculed events.

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It was, in short, an evening which maintained an even keel of enjoyment. If there was no singing of great distinction, there was, on the other hand, little cause for carping. Truly there was some puzzling production, and a tendency toward stridency in the upper vocal regions which might well be an aftermath of the fu from which Miss Swarthout but recently recovered. But there was also warmth of tone elsewhere, good diction was notable among Miss Swarthout’s virtues, and an intelligent communication of mood and emotion was likewise present, : = 2 8 A SPECIAL WORD of commendation might be said for Miss Swarthout’s performance of the

Habanera. She blessedly avoided the sinuous, Mae-Westian gyrations which most sopranos seem to feel are the hallmarks of unabashed Iberian flirtation. Miss Swarthout’s Habanera, on the other hand, was sensible, subtle

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Write a novel, or a play for the legitimate stage, or get into the national magazines with some snappy short stories. Don’t ask the movies for a job. Let them come to you. That advice comes from Alan LeMay, one of the world’s top western story writers who is now a successful script writer. Mr. LeMay currently is working on Cecil B. DeMille’s . technicolor sea story, “Reap the Wild Wind.” Previously he did the script for “North West Mounted Police.” These are big assignments, but Mr. LeMay wrote for 20 years before the movies found him. Plots Wrong for Movies “I began to have a reputation only about 10 years ago,” he says. “And I think that if I'd been a little more canny about my writing I'd have been on a studio payroll long before that finally happened to me. “I used to think my novels and magazine stories relied principally on plots for saleability. I found out I'd been wrong. My stories had virtually no plots at all, judged by movie standards. As a matter of fact, I didn’t know what a plot was until Mr, DeMille taught me. “If T had it all to do over again, I'd proceed just as I did, but I'd be more careful about my plots. I'd try to get a reputation outside Hollywoed, interest the movies in my writing that way, and let them come to me. Hard Row to Hoe “Writers who start in the motion picture medium itself, with no previous reputation, have a hard row to hoe. The industry, in most cases, will make hacks of them, and since they have no outside reputation, pay them virtually nothing to start. They may work {or years before they get a real chance on a big picture. Then even if they do make a reputation the chances are they won't make as much money as if they’d come in with a reputation.”

and, in consequence, twice as effective. Lester Hodges, a veteran accompanist who knows his business from the ground up, gave the singer exemplary support throughout the program. He also was heard as soloist in Borodin’s “The Convent” and a transcription of the March from Prokofiev's “Love of Three Oranges,” both of which were cordially received. Last night’s program carried an announcement that the: forthcoming Martens recital by Ezio Pinza .will be on March 16 instead of March 9, as announced earlier. Reason for the change is an added performance of “The Bartered mn at the Metropolitan Opera in which Mr. Pinza'’s services are

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Winterland Revue Appears at Muncie

Times Special

MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 28.—The Winterland Ice Revue, produced by James Cunning and N. Taylor Todd of Indianapolis, will open a threeday engagement at the Gibson Ice Arena tonight. There will be two shows tomorrow and an evening performance on Sunday. Featured in the cast of 14 are Dorothy Franey, former Olympic team member; Gordon Leary and Marian Flaig, who appeared in the New York World's Fair Ice Revue, and James Caesar, seen recently with the Sonja Henie ice revue in Indianapolis.

JORDAN RECITAL WILL BE TONIGHT

Members of the Jordan Conservatory voice faculty will present a group of students in recital at the Odeon tonight. Voice department members are Charles Hedley, Joseph Lautner, Fred Jefry, Franklin Taylor and Virgil Phemister. Taking part in the program will be Jean Burr, Charles Hamilton, June Floyd, Selma Flack, Mildred Reimer, Mary Barton, Lloyd Patten, Thelma Caplinger, Gene Oakes, Jane Ann Gardner, Sam Roach, Marion Burch, Myrtle Gleason, Vesta Kettery, Rosalind Phillips and Farrell Scott. Piano pupils of Florence K. Lewis, assisted by violin pupils of Georgia Leonard, will play at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the Conservatory’s North Unit, 3411 N. Pennsylvania St.

PLAYS FOUR ROLES

George Tobias has been added to the cast of “Sergt. York,” thereby giving him an. undisputable Hollywood record. He is now in the cast of four pictures simultaneously. The three others are “The Bride Came C. O. D.,” “The Gentle People” and “Affectionately Yours.”

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