Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1941 — Page 10
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Miss Meskill Beams
SUSAN IS played vivaciously by Katherine Meskill, which is altogether a happy casting. In the previous two productions by the Burton-Daggett company, Miss Meskill has been a mother—and a good. one. But in “Susan and God,” which will continue through Sunday night with Wednesday and Saturday matinees, Miss Meskill has a chance to display her full his trionic wardrobe. She’s a mother in this one, too, but of quite a different species than the two preceding ones. This role calls for plain, literal emoting. And the applause that broke into the: first scene after her introductory set .of lines is ample token of how Miss Meskill “went over.” Susan gushed. She spread her
RIDING ALONG NOW at a considerably faster pace, Keith's
Rachel Crothers’ barbed disserta-
tion on what happens to the idle rich who fight boredom with smart talk, romance and cool drinks. The title is “Susan and God.” Susan tries to feed her emotions with an ethereal religion. Michael O'Hara, a friend of the family, takes romance.
Lenora marriage and ‘Susan’s husband
The result is a comedy which might happen on any “smart club”
Film Butler | Balks in Vain,
Cossart Tells of Protest Over 'Yes, Madam' Roles.
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, May 20.—Of all the players who are indelibly typed in pictures ‘and the minds of fans, none = struggle more strenuously against their secure and highly paid fate than the butlers. . “And at the same time that
from impending divorce. Returning from Europe, Susan astounds her friends by announcing that she has taken up with a “movement.” Through this new teaching, she beams, all can find solace and the weary can be rested. Barrie, her husband, decides to take het up on the proposition, much to her disgust. After finding his daughter is little more than a boarding school orphan, he decides he’d like to win back his wife and re-establish the family home. Skipping several scenes, we may report that he does. The play itself is not one of world-moving force, nor does its stream’ of paradoxical lines make it always witty, at least not so to
Crothers’ work, however, is wellknit and fast-moving. She doesn’t let any words fall unheeded.
all who will see it. Playwright’
we're trying to break away from our door-opening and ‘yes, madam’ roles,” observed Ernest Cossart, “we're congratui lating ourselves Mr. Cossart = On being constantly in demand and on our long engagements.” “Nine times out of 10, the butler in a picture stays on salary from the first day to the end of shooting. In ‘Skylark,’ because I'm the butler, 1 was on salary as long as Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland were there. It's nice work—and I can get it, but I keep on looking for other kinds of parts.”
Jarred by Critics
Away back in 1910, Mr. Cossart played a butler on the stage and drew a couple of unfavorable comments from reviewers. After that
THE IN DIANAPOLIS TIMES . : In Sapphire Room
Lydia and Jaresco, dance team,
will open an engagement here tomorrow night at the Hotel Washington’s Sapphire - Room.
Charlie Has
Mechanism Like Cnal's Will Operate His Lips
HOLLYWOOD, May 0 (U. P)— Technical Service Laboratories, A. Paul Jr., president, tod:y had electrified Charlie McCa: thy’s Jaw with equipment ide: tical to that controlling the locks in the Panama Canal. Edgar Bergen and Tec hnician Paul discussed the fine points; of the synchoronous motors whic: will control the dummy’s lips in the movie, “Look Who's Talking.” When Mr. Bergen decided he needed remote control for Charlie, he called in Mr. Paul, who studied the Panama Canal co: .irols as well as the gasoline supply apparatus on the new B~19 bomber:. These de- | vices ‘consist of two el ctric motors, hitched together by wire and turning at exactly the sam: speed. Say the man at the Panan:a Canal control tower turns his motor over a half turn. The other motor at the locks nudges open the gate. Say Mr. Bergen turns his motor a half] turn. Charlie’s lips open in a pout, Decanse there’s a motor inside hip, 00.
Arrange Recital For Music Pupils
‘Sue Carolyn’s music pupils at the
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in accord with the rules of human speech, the dummy’s lips move like yours.: Mr, Bergen'’s practicing the jiggle now. Messrs. Bergen anc McCarthy are at work now under Director Allan
Pearson Studios will give a recital next Saturday evening at the firm's auditorium, 128-30 N. Pennsylvania St. Junior pupils will play at T: 30 o'clock, seniors at 8:30. The recital will be complimentary.
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A Goal Reached
DIRECTOR J. Edward Shugrue has pointed his charges toward
hands like wands and invited all to join up with the new be-kind-to-everybody cult. She waved her shawl like that of a princess on ga mighty steed bucking a
he dodged such roles for 25 years, but one came along in 1935 that he welcomed. It was in “Accent on Youth,” and next to the butlers of}
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For All Ye Wretched
THE . STORY of “Susan and God” is known to a great many theater-goers by now, either from the play or the movie version. Susan is the wife of a dipsomaniac and the mother of a ‘young, lonely schoolgirl; a refugee
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this play for some time; and the verdict must be that they make the mark. Veteran Walter Gilbert creates effectively the part of the husband, Barrie, and Priscilla Towers makes a good deal of her job as hostess to the “country estate” set. Newcomer to the cast is Mary Elizabeth Jones. Despite a few stuttered lines, Miss Jones does well as Susan's “orphaned” daughter who, after, all is at the age where stutters are to be expected. “Susan and God” is entertaining and Keith’s company is deserving of the support which CoProducer James Daggett asked for ‘in a curtain speech at last night's opening.
'Evacuates’' Home Just for Rosalind
HOLLYWOOD, May 20 (NEA).— A local bachelor who spends a lot of time in New York has'a handsome Beverly Hills home which he rents while he’s away.
The other day, a real estate agent called to ask if his house were on the market—she had a prospective customer. It wasn’t just then and he was about to tell her. when she said, “Miss Rosalind Russell is looking for a place for a friend who's coming from the east, and I thought yours would be perfect.” The young man was electrified. Miss Russell was his secret pash but he had never met her. So he did a quick about-face and said his house certainly was for rent, but he'd like to show it to them personally. Lots of conveniences and the view and such they might miss.
he doesn’t know what to do. He hadn’t planned to go to New York but it looks as if he'll have to.
Edw. G. Robinson “SEA WOLF” Deanna Durbin “NICE GIRL” ___
atherine Hepburn LADEL STORY” Rex Harrison °* TRAIN” Buck Jones ‘Riders of Death Valley
James Stewart. “THE PHI
It was a wonderful afternoon. Now
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Admirable Crichton” it probably was by the theater.
Those to be heard are:
Dwan, with Lucille Eall, Fibber Mc-
the best job of butling ever offered
Ann White, Marjorie Featherstone, Barbara Boyd, Rosemary Ann Marsh, Sally
Ernest Cossart, who played in Indianapolis with the old Stuart Walker company, is the father of Valerie Cossart, member of the stogk cast now at Keith's,
Belle Dodds, Barbara Farmer, Alvena Reagen, Peggy Hadley, Rosalyn Wiggs, Constance Hummer, Marjorie Deputy, Dale Kurtz, Keith Kurtz, Mary Meek, Ferrell McCown, Jane Willis, Polly Ann Forcum, Fred Hendricks, Wilma Jean Hill, Joan Thopiben, Betty Carlstedt, Charlotte Dil
he played nothing but butlers.
jobs. ® followed was that of Ginger Rogers’ hard-drinking . father in “Kitty Foyle.” Then “Skylark” came up and Mr. Cossart’s resolution weakened. By the time it's released, he will have butled in a couple more films. In about one-third of all pictures produced, there’s a butler somewhere, many with important ‘| dramatic or comedy chores, but all the jobs are divided among about a dozen actors. Only seven of those are definitely typed as butlers end are familiar to the public by face and name.
Types Mixed
The specialization, however, goes much further than that. Ernest Cossart, for example, never would dream of playing an Eric Blore type of butler; Blore never competes with Arthur Treacher—and so on. Halliwell Hobbes. and Wyndham Standing enact butlers with straight dignity, but give an impression that they'd like to unbend. Mr. Treacher is all disdain and condescension. Robert Greig is a ponderous, waddling symbol of upper-crust pomposity. Blore is a sputtering, perpetually insulted butler who chews up his words. Barnett Parker is the goofy, comedy type. Franklin Pangborn plays butler when a prissy one is needed. Mr. . Cossart, middle-aged and portly, plays it straight. His characters give an impression of sympathetic intelligence and a good but strained sense of humor. He’s proud of fan mail sent him by real butlers who consider him a credit to their profession. The stuffy, dead-pan demeanor of butlers makes ‘them handy instruments for scenario writers. EspeIt’s a cinch to
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hang a few laughs on the patient automatons of domestic. service. Because they glide aroun noiselessly and register no expression, it’s also easy to make the butler a. sinister
|figure of the “whodunit?” flickers.
Right up to the big denouement scene in the middle of the last reel he’s one of the murder suspects. Eric Blore hoped for years to escape, and came close to it as a shyster in “The Lady Eve.” In “Road to Zanzibar” he was just a nasty crook. He got back to butlery, and on the right side of the law, in “New York Town,” with a bétter role.
JEANETTE AND GENE
It brought him to ‘Hollywood Yor| the film version and for two years
Alarmed by such typing, he finally gave notice to the casting directors that he’d accept no more butlery| Among the varied roles that
lingham, Joan Cosegglia, Florence Domar Charles Reisser William Roberton, Joan Norris, peggy Dea Kyne, Virginia Neligh, Bessie Campbell, Georgia Ann Swope, aries Butz, Mary Alleene Hart, Mary Baird, Eleanor Jacoby, Frances Durnell, Gay Lomax, Rebecca Lane, Dorothy ‘Woods, Herriet Trotter, Patty Frank, Donald Harper, Paul Waggoner, Eloise Gillespie, Patty Joy. Helen Davis, Bettie Long, . fary Ellen McDaniel, DE Hennigar
Gee and Molly, Dorothy Lovett, Lee Bonnell ‘and Jane Patten rounding out the cast, Mr. Pail is on hand to see that Charlie doesn’t blow a fuse.
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