Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1941 — Page 10

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Ribs Are Out! At 20th-Fox

Jokes Are Funny, but They. Cost Money.

HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (NEA) — The order is going around the sets at 20th-Fox to cut out the horse- | play and get to work: it costs too|

much to be funny. Hollywood’ has a long and glor-| fous history of ribbing and nobody expects the order to be enforced because it's accepted that business managers .are just old meanies. And the ring-leaders in this expensive joking are the stars and directors themselves.

Such production delays as John Barrymore's ad libbing (often unprintable) are accepted as a whim of the Great Profile, They always get a laugh, too, as when he was reading a letter in a serious scene in “World Premiere” the other day and forgot his lines. He hemmed and hawed, squinted at the paper, and finally said, “This letter brings fond memories—-I never could read

my third wife’s handwriting.” u # u

PERSISTENT pets such as Don Ameche, who can’t be disciplined, are handled gently, Although “Blood and Sand” had been delayed several days—costly in Technicolor—because of illness in the cast, it didn't keep him from heckling Tyrone Power's big scenes. There may have been a little collusion in his two days of razzing that necessitated one retake after another of Mr. Power's kissing the luscious Rita Hayworth, but his tickling the soles of Matador Power's feet during the death scene was too much. So they sent Mr. Ameche a fake message that he was wanted in Headman 2Zanuck’s office. By the time he caught on, after cooling his heels for half an hour in the reception room, Mr. Power had died in peace.

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HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN accused of everthing from sin to righteousness. And not the least of. the charges emitted by the film filberts | has been that the movie industry side-steps the issues of the day.

“Producers lack the courage to take a hot, controversial problem and portray it on the screen,” the critics yelped. Of course. such movies as “The Grapes of Wrath” slightly smears the charge, but the point is: The cry for “social significance” is wan= ing. Briefly, the feeling is that the daily front pages cast enough gloom lives without the added burden of dramatic

on our “epics” in our movie houses, “Give us ‘éscape’ entertainment,” pleads Mr. Public. . Which is right down Holly- Live and Laugh

wood’s alley. Few be the people who will quibble over the contention that the motion picture is the greatest mass entertainment ever devised. For a few coins, “escape” in the movie house awaits any and everyone: Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief—doctor, lawyer, man on relief,

NOT ALL the aformentioned is pure comedy, but there's little to blight any lives. For one thing, as mentioned here yesterday, Miss Davis is in a modern role and the ending is of the happy variety. She is the devoted wife of Mr. Brent, who becomes a father through a previous whirlwind marriage to Mary

on = Astor, this time a combination glamour girl and concert pianist. The Marquees What to do with the child is a “ESCAPE” is the keynote of the | problem, and when “Mary and

Bette are cast alone in a cabin to decide the issue, there's some high drama afoot. As to the Lyrics offering, it'll all be light entertainment and

the new tomorrow Here's the

day and a sizeup of movies opening here bears up the theme. lineup:

: . “a Yeni » | comedy. wir Ee I a | Bandleader Herbeck, who used Brent: “The Man Who Lost Him- | to pitch for Southern California,

is of the “young and rising” set of his field. Among the supporting acts will be Peg Leg Bates, who Lyric customers will remember as an energetic young man who tap dances—despite the fact he has but one leg. The Lyrics movie, a streamlined version of “Sis Hopkins,” concerns the warbling Canova and how she hecomes the rage of the campus, with the aid of Prof. Jerry Colonna and Mr. Crosby and his band with the Bobcats.

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self,” starring Kay Francis and Brian Aherne. LYRIC—Ray Herbeck's young dance band on the stage and “Sis Hopkins,” with Judy Canova and Bob Crosby's band, on the screen. LOEW'S = “Cheers for Miss Bishop,” starring newcomer Martha Scott and William Gargan, “The Bad Man,” with Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore. CIRCLE — “Adam Had Four Sons,” presenting Warner Baxter and Ingrid Bergman: “Blondie Goes Latin,” with the regular Bumstead family.

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THE CIRCLE'S top attraction presents that lovely young actress, Miss Bergman, who won early

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critical approval with Leslie Howard in “Intermezzo.” This time she is the governess for Mr. Baxter’s four sons and the family is taken through the years from 1907 panic to shortly after the first World War. It is a simple story of what happens to four boys: One marries, one takes up

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art, one does nothing and the other tries to write, It's the story of what might happen to any family. The title of the accompanying feature, “Blondie Goes Latin,” will be pretty much self-explanatory to those hordes who follow the comic-strip Bumstead® family. “Cheers for Miss Bishop” tomorrow at Loew's is the film adaptation of Bess Streeter Aldrich’s novel, “Miss Bishop.” Many no doubt will find in it the same appealing pleasantness that made “Goodbye Mr, Chips” such good box office. Miss Bishop (Martha Scott) of the screen starts at the age of 19 in a small Midwestern town, gees to college, wins a place on the faculty and has a long and rewarding life as a teacher. In the last scene she is 73 and going on the retirement list. Three men stand out in her life, the roles being taken by William Gargan, Sidney Blackmer and Donald Douglas. Loew’s Ward Farrar is confident this is one of the best movies we'll see in 1941 and as such is tagging it with a “mark of merit,” which will be placed on only 10 pictures shown at his theater this year. The second Loew's . offering gives us Mr. Beery as a badman bandit in the West and Mr. Barrymore as a rancher.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941 ,

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Ethel Waters, Born in Squalor, Now Top Star,

Ethel Waters, singer of the blues, | $1.50 for added laundry chores. | most famous aria lacked the usual comes to English’'s stage tonight | Then came first prize in a night|

in a musical whimsy and Harlem ha-cha.

fantasy of Negro club amateur contest, and the start

Grand Opera Comes to |. U.

Carlo Troupe Scores Favorite 'Carmen.'

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 24.— Grand opera «is currently making its debut down here in the hills of (southern | bow will be taken tonight with Puclcini’s “Madame Butterfly.” Last night it was the hot and humid “Carmen” by Bizet, presented by the full San Carlo troupe and heard by an estimated house of 3000. I. U. officials, viewing the

assemblage in the new campus auditorium, boasted it was the biggest

Indiana. And it could be. For the second and final tonight, the Japanese diva, Hizi | Koyke, will be in the title role, with | {Charlotte Bruno as Suzuki, Rolf {Gerard as Pinkerton and Flora Shennan as Kate Pinkerton.

‘La Fleur’ Aria Wins Applause

Although some of the cast stretched their voices out of pitch in reaching expansive auditorium last night, it was withal a creditable presentation of America’s favorite opera. Coe Glade, Chicago mezzo-soprano, made Carmen a haughty, coquettish gypsy girl and coupled it with some strong singing. Once the first act was out of the way, Harold Lindi made a creditable Don Jose, too. He sang the Act II “la fleur” aria with a torrid passion that drew him a full round of applause. The swaggering Escamillo role was taken by Mostyn Thomas, and with the exception of the Toreador song, Mr. Thomas did all right. The | Toreador number was slightly below his range. Thus the opera's

offering

| rousing sweep. Singing honors, as far as this re-

lof a career that has grossed more viewer is concerned, went to Leola

The comedy is called “Cabin in than $1,000.000.

the Sky” and there is much that could be said of it: Its all-star cast —Katherine Dunham, Rex Ingram, Todd Duncan and Dooley Wilson;

ginia Home on the Nile” or “It's| Not So Good to Be Bad.” But interesting as any

‘Discovered’

About that time she was “dis-

covered” by a philanthropic agent. or its Vernon Duke music—"Taking | He got her a job singing at $20 a a Chance on Love,” “My Old Vir-| week and gave her $4 of it.

| conscious. other and when I was trying to sing any-|dramatic nuance.

“I used to work from 9 until unI was just a young girl

(Turner, who as the shy Micaela, delivered the most purely beautiful {singing of the evening.

Miss Turner Wins Audience

Though her acting is on the melo[irammer side, Miss Turner has a voice that falters at no pitch and responds to every opportunity for Micaela’s Act III

single factor is Miss Waters her-|thing but the double-meaning songs aria was done with such passionate

self. example to her matter, and faced with seemingly unending heartache.

Reared in Poverty

Ethel was reared . in dismal, squalid Philadelphia surroundings. “I was a tough child,” she recounts. “I was too large and too poor to fit.” The best friends she had then were the Catholic sisters at the school she attended. They understood why she wanted to eat by herself—because the lunch she brought to school was a crust of bread. Today Miss Waters is a devout Catholic and whenever the church needs some money for a new altar or perhaps a new school, they know they can depend on her. Miss Waters’ schooling, however, was brief, and she began work early. Her first job was at a second-class Philadelphia hotel: $3.50 a week and

race and for

Ex-Model Is Found

Today at 40, she stands as an they'd say. that { hot’,” to anyone born into poverty |

Stricken in Hotel

HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U, P). —Hollywood police received a telephone call from an unidentified person in Richmond, Va., this week, telling them to go to a specified address where “you will find a woman.” They did. She was Arabelle Hayes Hartley, former Powers model of New York City and daughter of Comm. Howard W. Hartley of the Navy, and she was lying unconscious on the floor. Police said she apparently had taken an overdose of sleeping tahlets. They assumed she had telephoned someone in Virginia and this person in turn telephoned the police here. She formerly had parts In movies.

Gwynne Chosen For Her 'Gams'

BOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P.) — salesmen have a sealed and notarized affihad chosen her “No. 1 on the Hollywood List for That is, they believe her legs are the prettiest in

Hollywood’s shoe given Starlet signed, davit that they

Anne Gwynne

Glamour Gams.”

Hollywood.

Miss Gwynne, who is playing in a

Universal picture, “Tight Shoes,” recently was selecteq by the University of Southern California Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity

as the “TNT Girl,” because she is

“trim, neat and terrific.”

THOMAS MITCHELL,

JUVENILE BETTER

HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P)).

was showing satisfactory improvement, nine-year-old

—Thomas Mitchell, film star,

and Lindy Wade, juvenile actor, was almost entirely

recovered from injuries suffered in an unscheduled thrill scene of the! and Daniel

picture, “The Devil

Webster.”

Mr. Mitchell suffered a brain concussion and the Wade boy was bruised when a team of horses broke

loose and overturned the carriage

in which the actors were riding,

smashing it against a tree.

HOLLYWOOD SEES

GERMAN AIRPLANE

HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P.) — Hollywood turned out en masse to see a German Messerschmidt plane, shot down over Britain, which was put on public display for the benefit of British War Relief organizations Among screen stars who saw the were Jeanette MacDonald, Gene Raymond, Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Joan Fontaine, Olivia DeAnna-

plane

Havilland, Tyrone Power, bella and Bob Hope.

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‘Oh my God, Ethel get Miss Waters remembers. That may have been the birth of a great humility, discusses today as the cafe folk used to discuss her torrid singing of such

things as “Dinah,” “Stormy Weather,” “Handy Man,” “Supper Time” or “Having a Heat Wave.”

Her status as a musical comedy |

| star was long ago established: “Blackbirds,” “Rhapsody in Black,” “As Thousands Cheer” and “At|

Home Abroad.” But when Miss Waters won the] role of Hagar in the Heywardst “Mamba’s Daughters,” she had in her grasp the dream of a lifetime.

Astounded Dramatic World

She long had wanted to be a dramatic actress and that she was. For 14 months she astounded the dramatic world with a profound and powerful performance. “When it was over,” Ethel said, “I just wanted to put myself away and retire. I didn't want nothing to spoil it. Hagar, Hagar . .. you see, she's sort of sacred to me.” But here she is back in musical comedy exuding the same good humor which once prompted her ready answer when asked if it was true she weighed 160 pounds. “Honey,” Ethel laughed, “if you

say 185, we'll call it a deal.”—F. P.

which the theater |

artistry that the final note was {broken with spontaneous applause that surpassed that given any other performer. For the most part, last night's introduction of grand opera was a | happy one. The San Carlo ballet is first class and now if the auditorium |boys can do something to stop the |laugh-provoking squeak when the orchestra is raised and lowered in the mobile pit, everything .will be all set. There is talk of making opera an annual spring event here and it's an excellent idea.—F. P.

HURRY! FINAL DAY!

Richard Arlen Jean Parker

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VIOLINISTTO BE IN Studios to Give SPRING CONCERT Drafiees Bonus

Mary McCleary, violinist from In-| HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P.) — dianapolis, will be| Warner Brothers and Columbia presented in the | pictures today announced that cere spring concert t0|iainh employees would receive be staged by the | ponuses and have their group instudents - of Mar- | surance premiums paid when they ian College next] are drafted. Sunday afternoon. Employees receiving less than $100 The concert will| 5 week at Warner Bros. will be be held in Marian |given six weeks’ pay when they go Hall on the col-| into the Army, “i they have worked lege campus. a year. Hourly workers having Friends of the] | 1000 hours to their. credit for the institution are in-| 12 months preceding their induction vited to attend. |i receive an amount equal to siz times their average weekly earnings, up to $600. Columbia employees Who are drafted will receive four weeks pay, Both studios said jobs of their

Miss McCleary eee |

NEWEST 'GIRL' IS | ~ 'PAN-AMERICAN'

HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P.) — —Actress Frances Gifford wil; be drafted employees were guaranteed.

presented with a scroll tonight | naming her as the “Pan-American | | Girl.” The award will be made by Dr. Octavio Mendez Pereira, versity of Panama president.

FLYNN GIVES YACHT

HOLLYWOOD, April 24 (U. P.) = Uni- The new California state guard has |accepted actor Errol Flynn's yacht | The ceremony will be held at|Sirocco, for public defense. The the Cocoanut Grove at the Inter-|Federal Government can still have | Fraternity dance of the University |the Sirocco, however, whenever it | of Southern California. lis needed.

STARTING TOMORROW!

— OEE i Dean Wiss Kishop! BE

Yours The Loew Pre-View Board has eae” seen your picture . . . and with is confidence and sincerity, we toke pleasure in awarding “Cheers for Miss Bishop’ The Loew Award of Merit. We predict that your picture will be among the ten best for 1941! And we also predict that Martha Scott's performance will be considered for the Academy Award.

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