Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1941 — Page 12
Is Everybody Happy!
THOUGH IT MAY BE giving up with a few death groans, you can’t tell me vaudeville is dead until Ted Lewis at last hangs up his battered old top hat for good. Then . . . well, let’s hope it never happens. : Nearly 50 now, Ted is still one of the busiest and best men in the show business. For years—about 47 weeks per annum—he’s been going about the countryside, inquiring as to the state of everybody’s happiness, murmuring “When My Baby Smiles at Me,” twirling his
top hat and cane and tracing airy figures with his supple hands. . His clarinet playing may be corny. His routine may be about the
same from year to year. But for my money Ted Lewis is one of the half-dozen best showmen operat"ing today. His opening tomorrow on the Lyric stage is an event obviously long-awaited in these quarters. The full downfown show bill, with the usual Friday opening, shapes up like this: - LYRIC—Ted Lewis and his orchestra on the stage, with the Le Ahn Sisters, vocal quartet; Jegn Blanche, dancer; Geraldine Ross, acrobatic dancer; Gladys Tell, torch singer; Kay, Katya and Kay, adagio trio, and the inevitable Charlie (Snowball) Whittier, the maestro’s “shadow.” Between shows, “Angels With Broken Wings,” with Binnie Barnes, Mary Lee and Billy Gilbert, will be on the screen. CIRCLE—“Blood "and . Sand,” generally reputed to be the best _ production yet to come out of Hollywood as concerns its technicolor. The cast stars Tyrone Pow= er, Linda Darnell and Rita Hayworth. For a second feature, Manager Art Baker has booked “For Beauty’s Sake,” featuring Ned (Nothing’s| Funny): Sparks and Marjorie Weaver, the brunet lass who used [to wow ’em in person down on the I. U. campus.
LOEW’S—William Elder inaugurates his managerial term by holding “Love Crazy,” with William Powell and Myrna Loy, for a second week. “Free and Easy,” starring Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey, stays on, too. ” #" n
Bulls and Color
NINETEEN YEARS ago Rudolph Valéntino made a lady's heart flutter and bounce with his playing of Juan Gallardo, the matador in “Blood and Sand.” The film story, based on Vicente Blasco Ibanez’ novel, recounts the tragedy of a poor peasant boy who came up the hard way, became| the idol of Spain’s arenas and boudoirs and then, his prestige broken, died from the goring of a fighting bull. In many respects Valentino's life was like that and he played the part with an extraordinary and instinctivé comprehension. Comes now as Juan Gallardo, Tyrone Power, known to the female trade as “cute.” The 1941 version carries also the benefits of color and the actual bull-fight-ing of Mexico’s famed Armillita, who in Mexico City reportedly gets at least $3000 every time he steps foot in arena. Director Rouben Mamoulian has laid particular emphasis on color
and spectacle, taking his color tones from the Spanish masters. The opening sequence has the somber - browns of Murillo; Sorolla furnished the market scene shadings; the chapel is dressed in the fearful greens of El Greco; the banquet scene is in the black and whites of Velasquez and the arena glows in the red and green of Goya. : Director Mamoulian even went to the extent of spraying the actors’ clothes just before shooting a scene to avoid the stolid dullness often protruding in color films. The idea seems to be to startle and amaze your eye, meantime telling a story. 8 F- ”
Dine and Conga
THE HOTEL Severin will resurrect its roof garded Saturday night with Don Cabalero and his -Thumba-conga orchestra. The new night spot will be open every night except Sunday, 8:30-12:30 on week nights with a 1:30 closing on Saturdays. Senor Cabalero got his nativity from Castilian Spanish surroundings, . his edu- : cation in California and his reputation on Broadway. He played 104 weeks at New York’s Roseland Ballroom and it was there that he introduced “la conga.” The senor also plays American rhythms, having held forth at such places as the Waldorf Astoria and the Astor in New York. Chico and Margo, whose record book includes the Rainbow Room atop Radio City in New York, will
Don Cabalero
be featured as vocalists and dancer
leaders. According to the Severin press agent, “there will not be one dull moment.” Which is quite a promise, to say the least.
GABLE-TRACY FILM SHOWN PRIVATELY
HOLLYWOOD, June 12 (U. P.).— Most popular picture in Hollywood just now is one being exhibited only at private parties. ; It’s a test made by Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy when they were selecting the underwear for a sequence in “Boom Town.”
It’s nobody else but that high-hatted tragedian of song and murmurings, Ted Lewis. He's en route fo the Lyric stage, tomorrow.
Dance, Dramatic
Courses Offered
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 12.— Two three-day short courses in folk dances and dramatics will be held on the Purdue University campus next week. The instruction is designed to-prepare college men and women for leadership in community recreation. . Two visiting instructors will teach. They are James Tobin, widely known specialist in folk songs and dances and a native of England, and Alice White, for several years director of dramatics at national training schools for Girl Scout leaders. The first of the courses will open Monday and continue through Wednesday and the second will start Thursday, continuing through Saturday. Though the general areas of study will be the same, Purdue officials said, there will be no overlapping of material.
SPENDS VACATION AT 'GHOST TOWN!
HOLLYWOOD, June 12 (U. P).— A “ghost town” with only eight residents has been chosen by Comedian Charlie Ruggles for his summer vacation. Panamint, Cal, once a booming mining camp on the edge of Death Valley, is the town. It was the locale of his most recent picture, “Parson of Panamint.”
WHEN DOES IT START?
CIRCLE } “One Night in Lisbon,” with Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and 10. “West Point Widow,” with Anne Shirley and Richard Carlson, at 11:30, 2:40, 5:50 and 9. KEITH'S “Spring Meeting” (on stage), a medy on Irish gentry by M. J. Farrell and John Perry. Produced by Martin Burton and James Daggett. Directed by Edward Shugrue, with settings by Clive Rickabaugh. Nightly at 8:30 through Sunday, with Saturday matinee at 2:30. LOEW'S “Love Crazy,” with William Powell and Ms Loy, at 12:30, 3:35, 6:45 and 9:45. * “Free and Easy,” with Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey, at 11:20, 2:20, 5:25 and 8:30. LYRIC
“Grandfather’s Follies’ (on stage) and also Rex Weber and the Three Trojans, at 12:57, 3:51, 6:45 and 9:39. “The Cowboy and the Blonde’ (on screen), with Mary Beth Hughes and - George Montgomery, at 11:20, 2:14, 5:08, 8:02 and 10:46,
smile sweetly when the going’ is
'Train Robbery," '4 Version, at Alamo
“The Great Train Robbery,” new version, will open tomorrow at the Alamo. The stars are Bob Steele, Claire Carleton, - Milburn Stone, Helen MacKellar and Si Jenks. The studio made it clear that the movie has no connection with the original version produced by the Edison Co. in 1903. Also on the bill will be “Wrangler's Roost,” an Arizona Western with Ray Corrigan, John King and Max Terhune.
"EVERY WOMAN LONGED TO FEEL HIS STRONG YOUNG ARMS ABOUT HER...
but one irresistible temptress was in his blood s+cand in his dreams!
LINDA DARNELL ~ RITA HAYWORTH
¢ The most magnificent entertainment ever tc come to the screen!
TYRONE
as Juan, the matador
Vicente Blasco Ibanez’
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immortal novel
1L.OOD... MWD
Nazimova * Anthony Quinn * J. Carrol Naish * John ‘Carradine * Lynn Bari * Laird Cregar * Vicente Gomez
~ DARRVL F. ZANUGK ~ ROUBEN WAMOULIAN
PLUS—For Beauty's Sake—
NED SPARKS
Father’s Day Special “The Forgotten Man”
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with Robert Benchley
x TECHNICOLOR!
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Robert T. Kane Sereen Play by Jo Swerling \
20h CENTURY-FOX PICTUR
Working Girl Gets a Break
Start on Acting.
HOLLYWOOD, June 12 (U. P.).— If Heaven doesn’t help the working girl maybe Hollywood will. Director Alexander Hall, who has been in the movie business for 25
shops have a head start on their unemployed sisters where acting is concerned. j “The girl in the business world,” he jsaid, “must act if she wants to hold her job. She meets all kinds of people. She learns to laugh at bad jokes, convince matrons they have figures like Follies girls, and
toughest. . “My hat is off to them—all of them. The minute a girl waits on
Hall Says They Mave Head |!
years, believes girls from offices and |
her first customer, she is learning some of the rudiments of acting technique. The ability to act is the
‘| difference between eating and not
eating: A girl with a job to do doesn’t usually. forget her lines.”
bia’s “Mr. Jordan Comes to Town,” with Robert Montgomery, Rita Johnson, Claude Raines, Evelyn
| Keyes and Edward Everett Horton,
noted ‘that modern business technique has little use for the girl who loses her head or her temper under trying-circumstances.
“she must learn, and quickly, that every. day calls for acting ability which might well put some of our screen players to shame. “Every customer, every sales situation, in fact almost every incident in a working girl's life demands a clear-headed understanding of the fundamental principles of dramatic technique. In a single day a salesgirl may play almost 50 parts.” And some, he said, especially the lovelier ones, get considerable acting experiences in keeping male ‘customers’ minds on their purchases instead of on possible dates. ee —
MAYER TAKES NO CHANCES ON TAX
HOLLYWOOD, June 12 (U. P.).— Louis B. Mayer of M-G-M was the highest salaried executive in the United States in 1940 for the third consecutive year. Loews, Inc. the parent company, paid him $697,048 in wages. Hollywood business managers say Mr. Mayer is one bigwig whol never have trouble with the income tax people. He ignores most of the deductions recommended by his high-powered experts and pays a lot
safe. :
IT'S TOO CONFUSING
the “Skylark”
graphic,
so they could do rain scenes.
“For: that very reason,” he said,|
more than is necessary, just to be
Because real rain isn’t photocompany
Just Plain Crazy
Mr. Hall, who is directing Colum- §
William Powell, who is “Love Crazy,” tries a psychological block problem while Mother -in - law Florence Bates censors. The movie is being held for a second week at Loew’s.
CIRCLE8:45 TONIGHT
SNEAK PREVIEW!
ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S
GREATEST PICTURES
LAST SHOWING — “WEST POINT WIDOW” — 5:50
LAST SHOWING — “ONE NIGHT IN LISBON"—10:05
CIRCLE
MADELEINE
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waited a week for it to stop raining
Hold everything! Hold your sides! Hold on to your seats! Hold on to your best girl! It's a mirthquake! Just one long, loud howl! Come and have fun!
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Don't tell a soul, but the litle Indy on the left ls really BI Powell in an hilarious impersonation?
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Argentine Star
Injured in Leg HOLLYWOOD, June 12 (U. P.).—
t | Alberto Villa, Argentine film star
t [recently signed by Paramount Pic- | tures, today nursed a leg injured in
a freak accident. While playing handball, Senor villa twisted his right leg in such a manner that a blood vessel burst. He will be under a doctor’s care for at least three weeks. Senor Villa is one of South America’s largest box office drawing cards. He will star in Paramount's “Gentlemen from Buenos Aires” when it
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REVIVAL HOUR
Famous songs hits of the last generation are revived in “Birth of the Blues,” which co-stars Bing Crosby, Mary Martint, Brian Dons levy and Carolyn Lee. Chief them are “By the Light of the Sils very Moon” and “Memphis Blues.” EERE R a
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Chaplin “GREAT DICTATOR™ QR aT rand “Blondie Goes Latin”
$30 3 ath
Jas. Stewart “COME LIVE WITH ME Alice_Faye “THAT NIGHT IN RIO” Buck Jones “Riders of Death Valley”
goes into production this fall.
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MEET THE MOST LOVABLE MISCHIEF. MAKERS THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN!
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FLORENCE BATES SIDNEY BLACKMER
Screenplay by William Ludwig, Charles Lederer
and David Hertz
Directed by JACK CONWAY
Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN : An M-G-M Picture
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