Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1941 — Page 4

MOVIES

By Fremont Power

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Wanger Has Last Laugh

His Film's Grim Episodes Come True

Times Special ~ HOLLYWOOD, March 11.—Producer Walter Wanger is having the last laugh, although a rather grim

one, as regards his film, “Foreign Corresopndent.” ; The movie world had a lot of fun when Mr. Wanger bought the film rights and: title of Vincent Sheehan’s “Perscnal History,” then threw away both book and title and made a purely fictional movie called “Foreign Correspondent.” But if the film was fiction, it was also prophetic. Three of its episodes have become history since the picture was released. The climax of the film was the shooting down of a trans-Atlantic flying boat. And shortly after it reached the screen, a British flying boat carrying passengers was shot down off the English coast. “Foreign Correspondent” included the bombing of a London broadcasting studio in its final moments. In January Nazi fliers actually dropped bombs on a London station and interrupted a broadcast. The last duplication was in the matter of a Dutch diplomat’s kidnaping. In the film his name was Van Meer, the only man who knew the details of a secret treaty between the Netherlands and England. | On Feb. 19 London cables carried | the story of Dirk Van de Geer,| aged former premier of Holland, ! who was kidnaped by Nazis and imprisoned in Stuttgart for refusing] to reveal the secrets of a DutchEnglish pledged of co-operation.

“TERRIFIC, terrific,” confides Chief Ken Collins with a blush of modesty. Then he locks his hands | behind his head, leans back in the | swivel chair and gazes happily at the ceiling. A puff of fragrant cigar smoke tops off the performance. ‘This touching scene is how “Tobacco Road,” the movie, reacts on | Mr. Collins, the Indiana Theater boss man, If he were choosing the six best pictures which were manufactured out of stage plays’ or novels, “Tobacco Road” would not be among them, Mr. Collins confessed. But he has no kicks coming and by | tomorrow he may know whether | “Tobacco Road” will be a holdover.

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AS FAR as the picture itself is concerned, you may put it down | as a good job of screen writing | by Nunnally Johnson. His was rather a thankless job, for it was obvious from the start that the stage version would have to be washed out rather thoroughly before presentation to the family trade. For several years after that December night in 1933 when it first went’ on the New York boards, - “Tobacco Road” caused many a civic controversy on the general subjects of morals, de--cency, etc. But eight years is a long time to argue one question. and so the fight has been dropped. “Tobacco Road,” the stage version, plays serenely on, There would be no particular point in predicting the run of the

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.=~Erich Pommer, RKO producer, today proposed a nation-wide test fo settle the

argument as to whether the public prefers double or single feature programs. He suggested that half the country’s first run houses, for one day only, bill single features, rounded out with short subjects and news reels. On leaving the theaters, patrons would be given postal cards for voting their preference. “The masses of the picture-going public must demand that twin bills

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AWARD PREPARED FOR MAUDE ADAMS

HOLLYWOQD, March 11 (U. PP). —Maude Adams, famous retired actress, now teaching dramatics at Stephens College, will come to Hollywood with a group of her students to receive a scroll from the Screen Actors Guild, it was announced today. It will be awarded at the “Ganbol of the Stars,” to be staged by the guild .and the American Federation of . Radio Artists March 17.

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» movie, but it is off to a good start. Two .San Diego houses enjoyed the biggest opening day in their histories when the Georgia cracker story moved in. Working Eastward, it was about the same story. All of which gives Jack Kirkland, who playwrighted the Erskine Caldwell novel, the last

laugh. The consensus of the critics that December night when the play opened in New York was that it could never, never last. ” n ” “MEET JOHN DOE,” much talked of and long in the making, opens March 21 at the Circle according to present plans, and over at Loew’s that same week, “Come Live With Me” will set up housekeeping. The latter stars James Stewart, who, you, know, got the 1941 “Oscar.” 2 ” n NEXT UP at the Circle will be the grownup version of Deanna Durbin in “Nice Girl?” The question mark on the title, we are informed, is to indicate that Deanna has become sophisticated. Her partner will be that old veteran, Franchot Tone, : ” ” » THOSE MANY who cheered the skating of Sonja Henie at the Coliseum -may be interested to

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film, “Sun Valley.” John Payne of the slick hair is to be the leading man, with comedy furnished by Milton Berle and Joan Davis. Mack ‘Gordon and Harry Revel are doing the songs and we get it that Glenn Miller and his jive band will be on hand.

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HOLLYWOOD, March 11 (U. P.). —Joan Winfield, 20-year-old English concert violinist, was under contract to Warner Bros. studio today, as an

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are in each, “Girl in the News” remains Director Reed's picture ° “Night Train” had the advantage of an intensely terrifying tale of three persons trying to escape Nazi Germany. In his new picture Mr. Reed has the lesser narrative of a young and beautiful nurse unjustly accused of murdering two of her private patients. Such material hardly could contain a wholesale dread of impending catastrophe, since the plot rests only upon an attorney's ingenuity. And so it is to Director Reed's credit that he has conceived a picture which taken in its entirety is even better than “Night Train.” . 5 ” 2 MANY OF MR. Reed's touches border on the brilliant, as when he uses a tiny black and white kitten to let you know that Nurse ‘Graham's first patient has killed herself or when the camera moves from a witness in the courtroom to a talkative barber, or the utilization of a stubborn key to create suspense. ole has always been a hallmark of great British direction. The British seem to have a reserve which brings into being an atmosphere which tingles but doesn’t pain. Here, again, a doffed hat to Mr. Reed since he is limited by the story only to the mental and emotional suspense possible in a courtroom. : There is something else about British (and many foreign) films which to me always seemed superior to American products. That is their utter simplicity and genuiness of character. This lack of pretentiousness is evident, too, in the sets. This all results in the spectator believing that here are people like himself, caught in situations not unlike those he has experienced and occuring in places with which he is familiar. Each of the cast is fine. Margaret Lockwood is an appealing nurse while Barry K. Barnes could be any young and able attorney of your acquaintence. Basil Radford, whom you will remember as one of the slightly balmy cricket player in “Night Train; has a more minor role as a doctor and handles it with finesse. o ” ” ROGER LIVESEY as the attorney’s policeman friend does an excellent piece of work as does Irene Handl in her short early scenes. I think you will find Emlyn Williams’ portrayal of the actusl second killer most interesting not only for its distinction but because he is the Welsh playwright who gave us “Night BARGA! Cron Lk oil

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While both pictures were written by Sidney Galliat (who gave us “The Lady Vanishes) and several of the Gaumont-British stars

Must Fall? and the current Broadway hit in which Ethel Barrymore is starred, “The Corn is Green.” British humor, oftentimes as hard to grasp by us as our comedy is by an Englishman, here is more to an American’s liking. When the nurse buys one of the cooks a lipstick of the wrong color, another cook quips: “I don’t know what it would matter, anyway, in the blackout.”

RETURNS TO FILMS Aline MacMahon, who left Hollywood several years ago, has returned to play a character role in “The Gentle People,” film version of the Irwin Shaw stage success.

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