Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1941 — Page 7

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Templeton

WHEN DOES IT START?

STURGES SETS RI col

Preston Sturges set a

new wood record when, during 1940, he wrote and directed three pictures, “The Great McGinty,” “Christmas in July” and “The Lady Eve.” 1

CIRCLE “The 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,” ib Ellen Drew, Pall Lukas, at 12:4

STAGE

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There's One Bright Spot on Local

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Play Here

By JAMES THRASHER THE PLIGHT OF THE tlieater-goer west of the Hudson is about

the same this spring, only more so.

As far as Indianapolis goes,

there seems only one remaining possibility for the season. But that is a

. good one.

Ethel Waters and her company are starting a tour.in their cur-

rent musical hit, “Cabin in the Sky.”

Army Drafts

Playwright

That Too.

Kingsley Suggests Wheeler Serve,

NEWARK, N. J.,, March 4 (U. P.). —Sidney Kingsley, author and playwright, was inducted into the Army today and said he believed Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) ought to be drafted, too. “The whole nation ought to be drafted,” the author of “Dead End,” said. “For example, I ‘think Senator Wheeler should be drafted to ' keep quiet.” “I am very glad to submit my- . self to the draft, and I feel that the Army will pick out the branch of service that will be most suit- + able for me.” . Mr. Kingsley’s papers disclosed ° that he is 34, that he lived in the Ramapo Mountains at Oakland, N. J., and that his legal middle name is “Sonny.” Concerning the latter, he said: ~ “The less said about that the better.” Mr. Kingsley is the author of the : Pulitizer Prize play, “Men in White,” and of “The World We Make.” When he was called to the colors he was working on a new play dealing with Thomas Jefferson and democracy. He hopes to finish it while in the Army. ' The playwright, before leaving - for Ft. Dix, called his wife, film * actress Madge Evans, at Oakland : to say goodby. He carried with him several books,

And unless unforeseen circumstances arise, the show* should put in here toward the last of April for three -days at English’s. Aside from that nothing is on the horizon. And the situation seems about as bad in other inland cities. Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans have embarked on a short tour in “Twelfth Night,” which will play all around Indian=apolis. The rest of the road companies have appeared here already this year. Chicago is doing nicely. Some hits are firmly established for the rest of the season. Second companies of the current New York hits, “My Sister Eileen” and “Arsenic and Old Lace” (with Erich von Stroheim in the Boris Karloff. part) are being prepared for the Illinois metropolis. And both “Twelfth Night” and ‘Cabin in the Sky” will move in there early in May for indefinite engagements, ” n ”

BUT ALL OF US can’t go to Chicago or New York. In consequence we are confronted with the same old problem: The theater is concentrated in two centers, while a dozen or so cities with a potential audience of millions have to be satisfied with a handful of plays and the usual hit-or-miss bookings. The problem has been hashed over so often, here and else where, that there is no point in going through it all again. In the final analysis, it all simmers down to the oft-repeated saying that “there’s nothing wrong with the theater that a few good plays wouldn’t cure.” : We don't get more shows in the outlands mainly because few plays are good enough—and consequently successful enough—to

A couple of art connoisseurs named Geraldine Fitzgerald and Thomas Mitchell in “Flight From Destiny,” which will be the Lyric’s film beginning Friday.

band will laeadline the accompanying stage show.

HOLLYWOOD

Rootin'est, Tootin'est Season in Years Looms Just Ahead for Film Westerns

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, March 4—EVEN FROM THIS distance you can guess ‘that moving dust cloud on the western horizon is the beginning of the bizgest cow-drama and horse-opera drive ever staged by the

ranches of the cinema country. There

Cecil | Dz Mille first turned a crank on "The Squaw Man.” Of course westerns have been doing | nigaty well all along. The first film ever to tell a story was in the western pattern—“The Great Train! Rcbbery” in 1903. The first series of pictures starring

'll be more shootin, and whoopin’ and guitar playin’ along the celluloid trail during the 1941-42 season than have been heard since

Lauds Movies in

Below is top-hatted Maestro Jan Savitt, whose

' |began when Mr. Templeton joined

Asks Parents and Attorney for Accounting.

CHICAGO, March 4 (U. P.).— Alec Templeton, blind pianist and mimic, has filed suit in Circuit Court to restrain his parents from exercising any power of attorney and to force accounting of approximately $200,000 of the pianist’s earnings. The suit said Mr. Templeton’s parents have managed his business affairs because of the pianist’s blindness. Mr. Templeton allégedly signed papers, some of which were to him, others of which he was told it was not necessary to read. Andrew Bryson Templeton and Mrs. Sarah May Templeton, the pianist’s parents, and Emanuel E. Larson, their lawyer, were named in the suit. Mr. Templeton estimated his earnings at $200,000 since he became 21 on July 4, 1930, but contends his parents have alloted him only $100 per month for living expenses since that time. The earnings involved in the suit

Jack Hylton’s band in 1931, with which he came to the United States from England in 1935.

CAMERAMEN FORM NAVY RESERVE UNIT

HOLLYWOODO, March 4 (U. P.). —Motion picture cameramen, who have filmed many “wars” with prop shells and sound effects on the studio back lots, have organized for more serious business. Under direction of the Navy Department, a reserve unit of camerumen and film technicians is being recruited to serve in an emergency. Gregg Toland, Hal Rosson and Joe August were among the first to enlist. The corps will consist of 180 men and will handle motion picture work

3:30, 6:20 and 9:5

a NA “Footsteps in the Dark,” with Brrol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, at 12:33, 3: 42, 6:51 and 10. “Ride, Kelly, Ride,” with Euge el je. Pallette, at 10 34, 2:45, 5: sa and

LOEW'S “This Thing Called Love,” with Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, at 12:35, 3:40, 6:50 and 9:55. Escape to Glory.” with Pat O’'B Constance eaneth, at 11: 30. 3:18. 5:20 and 8:3

LYRIC Andrews Sisters, Joe Venuti and or on stage at 1:04, 3:54, 6:45

and 9: “Father's Son,” with John Litel, Frieda Inescourt, at 11:34, 2:28, 5:15, :06 and 10:38.

exclusively.

Freeman Heads Producers Again

HOLLYWOOD, March 4 (U. P.).— Y. Frank Freeman, production head of Paramount Studio, has begun his second year as president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers. He came to Hollywood from Atlanta, Ga. where he had been a theater operator. Mr. Freeman for a time headed the distribution and theater operations of Paramount. All other officers of the producers’ association, governing body of the industry, were re-elected.

George Gershwin’s “Lady Be Good” will star Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern and Robert Young.

_ Brenda "Marshall RALPH BELLAMY ALAN HALE

New MARCH

Recruit Training

HOLLYWOOD, March 4 (U. P.).

—Motion pictures for instructing recruits are as valuable to the Army as the steel industry, according to Maj. Gen. Joseph O, Mauborgne, Chief Signal Officer of the Army. Gen. Mauborgne came to Hollywood to preview the first two of a series of films produced with the co-operation of the Army General Staff. The movies will show draftees how to shoot machine guns, use bayonets and execute other military tasks. “We used to have to tell recruits what to learn about a machine gun,” said the officer. “But now films being produced ander direction of the research council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can show them in far less time and far more thoroughly. “That applies to instruction in the entire drill and manual of the soldier in all branches. It is an amazing development which the Army values as greatly as the contribution of the steel industry.”

THEATER CHAIN

gifts of his playwriting colleague, ‘ Maxwell Anderson. They included the Federalist Papers, letters of Thomas Jefferson and Lafayette and the diary of George Washington.

CLOSER TO WORK

Joel McCrea has bought a small : ranch only 12 miles from Hollywood and now can go home each evering after work. Hertofore, he has # a =n : lived on his cattle ranch 80 miles) A STEP TOWARD solving the away and could only get home| amateur theater's problem of play week-ends. | material has been taken by Advertisement Frank Vreeland, a former drama

and film critic. I haven't seen Bew are Cou gh S any fruits of Mr. Vreeland’s pres-

ent labors, so comment on their -effectiveness is impossible. But his idea seems sound, and it’s a wonder that no one has thought of it ‘before. What Mr. Vreeland has done is a the i Jz Jyer am gone, dhe this: Working with the publishing into chronic bronchitis if neglecte Rouse of Longmans, Green & So Creomulsion relieves promptly be-| ne has launched a series of stage . cause it goes right to the seat of the| plays which he has dramatized . trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature tc soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Nc . matter how many medicines you

the sams player were sage-brush road tour. shorts presenting Broncho Billy The amateur theater of serious | Anderson, beginning in 1907. intent, such as our Civic Theater, Bl a a =» suffers - similarly. These groups | ppp ipRST three-reéler was

must do revivals for the most part, and often that means re- | “Buffalo Eill,” made in 1909. From those days until now approxi-

staging ‘a play which a professional company already has done | mately 60 per cent of all movies produced have been westerns—

for virtually the same audience. a ratio that’s almost unbelievable for the present time unless you know thal there are many small, independent companies which grind ¢uf nothing but six-gun stuff, Never before, though, have there been so many big cowboy-and-Injur flickers on the schedules of the major studios, and with so many top-flight stars who don’t know the difference between a cantle and a canter. Imagine Alice Faye playing Belle Star and not looking startled when a gun goes off. Or Bette Dsvis, as Calamity Jane, drawling, “Don’t go fer yore shootin’ arns, bub; I gotta bead on yore gizzard.” Those characters will be! tae title roles in two fu-

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Everything.” Arrangements have recently been completed with Lloyd C. Douglas for dramatization of his novels, “Magnificent Obsession,” “White Banners” and “Green Light.” All three previously have been adapted for the films. Naturally there are a great many fine movies which never could be scaled down to the spatial limitations of the stage. On the other hand, there is no reason why a good many admirable screen stories shouldn't go well in the living-theater medium. At least it has worked well the other way around. And some plays, notably “Stage Door” and “Our Town,” seemed to me decidedly improved by their trip through the Hollywood mill.

HARPIST TO PLAY AT CHILD CONCERT

Lynne Wainwright, harpist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, will be soloist for the orchestra's children’s concert on Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Murat. Sacree” and “Danse Profane” harp and strings, by Debussy. Miss Wainwright will appear in the place of Nadia Koutzen, 10-year-old violinist, whose engagement was canceled because of her illness. The program which Fabien Sevitzky has chosen for the concert lists music of Glinka, Beethoven, Bloch, Foster and Delibes, in addition to the Debussy dances. Tonight the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, under Elmer A. Steffen’s direction, will begin a period of intensive rehearsal for three appearances scheduled>with the symphony orchestra during the coming month, The rehearsal is scheduled for 8 o'clock at the Athenaeum,

FILMING STARTED

HOLLYWOOD, March 4 (U. P)). —Producer Sidpey Franklin is sending a crew of technicians to Ocala, Fla., this week to start the film“The Yearling.”

for

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Wayne Morris studied for and won his private pilot's license from the Civil Aeronautics Authority while working in “I Wanted Wings.”

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ture; epics. ” ” 2 OF COURSE a lot of stars canie [up from westerns. Clark Gable. made his first hit in “The Paifited Desert” in 1930. “Arizona Bound” ind “Nevada” pointed the way for Gary Cooper. Richard Dix, now generally thought of as always having been a guy of the great open spaces, really won film fame in “The Redskin.” I was a western, “Stagecoach,” that took John Wayne out of quickies to the big league. Joel McCrea never was more than a leading man until he joined “Well¢ Fargo.” Randolph Scott first afiracted attention in “The Last Roundup” and still does his best work in frontier pictures. Boh Taylor had been pleading for a western for a long time before Metro gave him the bangbang #isignment as Billy the Kid in a color saga of the same name, now in its last days of shooting, Howatcd Hughes returns to moviemaking with a super-dooper called ‘The Outlaw,” which also is about the Kid.

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WARNER BROTHERS will keep a: couple of million dollars worth of frontier drama in produetior: continually, with four filtns ‘on the schedule this spring: “Band Men of Missouri,” “Calamity, Jene,” “Montana” (based on the war of the copper kings), and “They Died With Their Boots On,” which has been taken off Jimmy Cagney’s slate and given to Errol Flynn, With. its “Western Union” setting records, 20th-Fox is following with “Sioux City,” “Lewis and Clark’ and e Last of the Duaries.” Even Charlie Chan is going to chase some malefactors out of the cactus and mesquite. frack Lloyd, who now is producifiz and directing “The Lady Ffoni Cheyenne” with a somewhat startled Loretta Young in the lecd, is preparing a thriller of appropriate size to be called “Texzs.” In “Pioneer Woman,” Barba:a Stanwyck will be seen as a 109-year-old relic telling, in flash-hacks, almost the whole history of the West as she encountered it.

The Hillside Amusement Co., Hillside, N. J., is seeking $900,000 damages Court charging six major motion picture producing companies with

violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Bros., Loews, Inc. sal Pictures.

entered into collusive agreements causing the Hillside Amusement Co., operator of several motion picture theaters, company said it was unable to obtain first-run pictures.

SUES PRODUCERS

HOLLYWOOD, March 4 (U. P.) —

in a suit filed in Federal

The defendants were Warner RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Columbia and Univer-

The suit charged the companies

material damage. The

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