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

"PAGE 10 Film Veteran ln Comeback

Neil Hamilton Gains New Character Role Fame

HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (U. P).—|

current comeback stories that of Neil Hamilton, the original collar-ad man, who is gaining new fame as a character actor.

the

Among

Veteran of the stage and silent been |

gcreen, Hamilton never has really out of pictures, but his roles in recent years have been minor ones. The role which back on top was in

is putting him Father Takes

8 Wife,” an R-K-O film in which another old-timer, Gloria Swanson,

returns te pictures after several, years. | Hamilton had an important although not a leading role in the R-K-0 picture. He did so well that job offers began to roll in. The man who played innumerable handsome hero roles the old days is more than satisfied with his present work. | “It is somebody else's turn to win the girl,” he said. "All I want now is some sort of acting part that I can really get my teeth into. Which | means plenty of groceries for the] fame purpose.’ Hamilton got his picture Job in 1922, the role of John White in D. W._ Griffith's “White Rose.” He played leading parts for several Years, then worked in minor parts gfter talking pictures replaced

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| Tough Kids Coming to the Circle Stays Young

moment to keep about anything further away than tomorrow's lines, She is making “Look Who's Talking,” in which she co-stars with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fibber MecGee and Molly. It's her 40th picture since she] first came to Hollywood from! Broadway eight vears ago. |

'EAGLE SQUADRON Although her worries are few | TO FILM SUBJECT nov. she had plenty for a time

| before she began to catch on in HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (U. P). pictures. She says there were many TT NTRS ; y __|—Ernest Schoedsack, who has di-|weeks when she could find nothing | July 1 oy ae |rected motion pictures in 33 differ-|to do. and needed a job desperately. | Although they are chased into un-jen¢ countries, has arrived in Eng- | If the pictures don't come fast| derground shelters frequently byiland to work on “The Eagle Squad-|enough to keep her busy, she puts| Japanese air raids, Chinese motion ron,” first film about the American in time flying, playing polo. roller | picture troupes in Chungking are unit fighting with the British Royal skating, and at her favorite hobby, | still producing effective propaganda |Air Force. | woodcarving films, Mrs. P. N. Cheng, wife of| Members of the American dying | Since starting to work in RKO's the . Chinese vice-consul in New ynit will participate in the picture, | "Look Who's Talking,” Miss Ball vork, said today {which will include shots of actual acquired a great urge to learn venMis. Cheng is spending two weeks sky fights between American and triloquism. Bergen's been giving her Warner Bros. Studios observing German aviators. [lessons but progress has been slow

Toughest kids in the block around Ginger Rogers’ house are “Tom, Dick and Harry.” On the business end of the sling-shot is Tom (George Murphy). Harry (Burgess Meredith) is all for the idea, but Dick (Alan Marshal) is a bit skeptical. They're all at the Circle for a week beginning tomorrow.

Chungking Still |

Produces Films]

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Miss Ball is busy enough at the | & from worrying

| Columbia Has a

the Waterfront [RKO Teams Lahr And Buddy Ebsen

HOLLYWOOD, July 24. — Bert]

Lahr, noted star of Broadway mu-|

sical comedies, his been signed by | RKO Radio Pictures and will be teamed with Buddy Ebsen in “T'm| Dying to Live,” a romantic farce with a New York locale. Lahr, last seen on Broadway in| the Buddy De Sylva hit “DuBarry Was a Lady,” early in his career be- | came a vaudeville headliner and for| six years starred in burlesque. On|

Broadway he starred in such musi=|

A True Warbler of

THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941

thing,” “Life Begins at 8:40” and “The Show Goes On.” Ebsen is also a product of vaudeMile. His RKO Radio debut was in “They Met in Argentina.” He has completed his part in this company’s forthcoming “Parachute Battalion,” first film dramatizing our army’s newest fighting unit,

SUTTON'S CHIN CUT HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (U. P.).— Actor John Sutton appeared on the set today with three stitches in his chin. He was injured in a fight for the movie honor of Actress Lynn Barrie. His adversary, Dan Daily, former New York actor, accidentally bumped him on the chin with his

Marjorie Main, pride of the Chautauqua Circuit, is at the keyboard accompanying Wallace Beery, the waterfront warbler, in “Barnacle Bill.” Loew's picture opening tomorrow,

'YANK IN RAF" HAS NOVEL FINAL SCENE

THE INCOMPARABLE COMEDY STAR OF STAGE, SCREEN AND RADIO

“| American screen techniques as of-|

ficial representative of the cinema-|

{ tography department of the Chinese | | Government

She will return to) Chungking after her visit here | “We are still turning out propa-| eandy pictures despite the fact that | most of our capital is in ruins,” she| said. “Pictures produced under such | handicaps are proving a powerful factor in building Chinese morale and in unifying the people in their |

Durante in Cast of | 'The Man Who="

HOLLYWOOD, July 24 —Jimmy Durante, Reginald Gardiner, Elisabeth Fraser, George Barbier, Harry Lewis and Hattie and Sam MeDaniel have joined the cast of “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” film- |

Iso far. She still sounds more like |

Lucille Ball than anyone else. She hasn't been too busy to fall] in love and get married—to Dea Arnaz, also an actor

says she is going to do all the| decorating and landscaping herself.

Miss Verne Gets |

Hit Music Score HOLLYWOOD, July 24. — The

: | last scene in “A Yank in the RAF” HOLLYWOOD, July 24 -Colum-| will show Tyrone Power and Betty

bia has a hit music score in “You'll| Grable in a kiss-clinch in a London They have Never Get a suburban home and Miss Ball willing to bet $35,000 to prove it.

Rich” and someone iS taxi.

| The driver looks around at them, This week, with the Fred Astaire- ®histles, and remarks to the audi-

| Rita Hayworth musical as yet un-|fnce: “There'll always be an Eng- | finished, the studio was in receipt fand.” of an offer from a maker of phono-| graph records who wants

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resistance to aggression.”

STUART ERWIN EUGENE PALLETTE JACK CARSON

i Buttes,” | partner, Ginger Rogers.

4 Moss Hart stage hit TWICE MISTAKEN Leads previously announced for| HOLLYWOOD, July 24 —Kaatren| Twice in a month Fred Astaire the production, which is set to start | Verne, who came to Hollywood at-| has mistaken starlet Jean Phillips, | within a few days, are Bette Davis, | tention in “Underground,” will leading lady to Bill “Hopalong Cas- | Monty Woolley, Ann Sheridan, | sidy” Boyd in for his

play

former dancing | Grant Mitchell. William Keighley | Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings | will direct. land James Stephenson. Also added |

to the cast have been Ilka Gruning| and Pat Moriarity. Sighing of Miss Verne at this time constituted a reprieve for her from deportation to either her | native Germany, from which she fled. or bomb-torn England, which sheltered her after her flight The time limit given Miss Verne] bv the U 8 immigration officials

| would have been up on Sept. 4 in|

employment before that time. Her| part in “Kings Row” will keep her engaged beyond that date, and] Warners may sign her to a term corttract upon completion of picture,

Durant to Reach | Hollywood Aug. 7

HOLLYWOOD, July 24 Durant, of the Mitchell and Durant comedy team, will arrive in Holly - wood Aug. 7. to play a featured part] in “Four Jacks and a Queen,” John| Twist's original story which will be| produced by Twist and directed by | Jack Hivelv. He is now in the Broadway stage play “Pal Joey." For many years Durant teamed with Frank Mitehell in vaudeville and in George White's “Scandals” and Barl Carroll's “Vanities.” His screen experience includes “Stand Up and Cheer.” "Spring Tonic,” “Music 1s Magic” and “The

IT'S THE STORY OF EVERY GIRL WHO'S EVER BEEN IN LOVE = more then once!

WER and so romantic! | But

Singing Kid!’ THIRD TIME CHARM The ease with which Ralph Bellamy, playing the title role, solves the murder mystery in “HEllery| Queen and the Perfect Crime,” he) attributes to the thriller being the

third of the series. “I'm getting more practice,” Mr. Bellamy smiled.

She}loves: TOM! ues the hustling go-getter, type that ‘sweeps, you off your, feet!, But wottld ‘she or business — come first, after, they're married!)

DATE WITH CUPID

Donald Woods, whose latest pieture is “I Was a Prisoner on Devil's| Island,” set the exact day, moment! and place two years before marry-| ing Mrs. Woods—anha followed schedule.

dAAMBASSADOR ® TODAY ® FIRST CITY 3 BIG HITS SHOWING!

| A She'loves DICK! bh He's vich and refined =. . wouldn't those stuffy | relatives of his! bind of

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ann She loves HARRY! He pieks up “and delivers! And Pouch | Fun “pvt if a “girl didn't mind wearing $3.98 dresses for the rest of her life!

BANG! : NEW SONGS! NEW THRILES! NEW GAGS

GENE AUTRY

{the manufacturer is willing to wager 1$35,000, initial cost of waxing, that the tunes will be best sellers.

an important role in “Kings |Rich” were composed by Broadway's American foreign newspaper corres “Sheik of Buffalo|Billie Burke, Richard Travis and | Row,” which stars Ann Sheridan, famous Cole Porter.

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Jones and Margaretta Seott. Wal-lhumorous situations and ad-libbing |

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RKO Guest Star

: , HOLLYWOOD, July 24-—John All the songs in “You'll Never Get Gunther, one of the first of the

spondents to give his dramatic impressions of Europe and Asia, will also be the first foreign corresponds= ent to be guest star of the RKO {Pathe “Information Please” film I series. | The “Information Please" filming] (will he directed by Jay Bonafield, HOLLYWOOD, 24. First under the supervision of Frederic of “Atlantic Petry,” film Ullman Jr. the Teddington Studios | With “Information Please” now | after “The Prime being presented in thousands of | heen received by |motion picture houses the country | over, the millicas who listen to the| radio for this weekly program are! able to see the guest star, always a |

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