Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1941 — Page 10
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by FREMONT POWER
IF A COMEDIAN CAN SURVIVE the rigors of burlesque house audiences, and perhaps the night club trade, then chances are he'll live. By then he's done about everything. He's had to be funny when his listeners’ thoughts. are very likely concerned with something else. And ‘most any entertainer will agree that such is an arduous and
testing task.
Abbott and Costello are somewhat of authorities on this subject, for 12 years ago they were earning their ale and cakes by doing the comedy between stripping acts. All their gags have a tinge of burlesque
origin—simple but “sure-fire.” A series of “lucky breaks” put them in the Broadway show, “Streets of Paris,” and on the Kate Smith radio show. The rest of the story, of course, is rather familiar by this time. Jumping severaj sequences, we find them today very possibly the top comedy team in Hollywood. Apparently without pause, they're making one picture after another and meantime making some large cash for Universal. Their first picture, I believe, was “Hold That Ghost,” the feature attraction for the Indiana's reopening tomorrow. By now you probably know that this one was held back until “Buck Privates” had established Abbott and Costello as a rich box office “find.” “Hold That Ghost” then was given injections of Ted Lewis’ superb showmanship and the Andrews Sisters’ swing singing. The result is a mixture of music and comedy. Having inherited a haunted house from a gangster whom they involuntarily are with when he is killed, they do a comic job of hunting down the “ghosts.” In the final sequence, they have turned the house into a spacious night club with Mr. Lewis, of course, on the band stand. Judging from the laughter when “Hold That Ghost” was sneak previewed at the Circle Tuesday night, Col. Collins has a good thing for the re-opening of the Indiana.
Wah-Wah
WHILE MOST of the other bands scurried about for the latest arrangements in swing, bounce rhythm, sweet swing, bubble music and those other questionable terms by which popular music is described, Clyde McCoy has been content to stick to his wah-wah. “Sugar Blues” is still a pretty good number as far as popularity
S. And no doubt Mr. McCoy will play it once more when he opens his show tomorrow on the Lyric stage. There are some who might call Mr. McCoy's music “corney’— but at least it's corn with a § mark, 2 = »
The Dragon
LONG - AWAITED, you might say, is the Walt Disney picture, “The Reluctant Dragon,” which comes to the Circle tomorrow. Since his “Fantasia” started drawing a long line of “ayes” and “nayes,” Mr. Disney and
whatever he does has been much |
in the forefront. Naturally this curiosity and interest has followed the introduc-
56 | tion of a new form of Disney entertainment, namely the combin-
ation of both animate and inanimate characters. In “The Reluctant Dragon” we see Robert Benchley, among other real people, as well as the following cartoon characters: “Casey, Junior,” a crazy little locomotive; “Baby Weems,” an infant with sublime intellect; Donald Duck in “MacDonald's Farm”; Goofy and a horse in “How to Ride a Horse” and, of course, “The Reluctant Dragon.” The nature of the picture itself is a good advertisement for the Disney Studios. Prodded on by his wife, Mr. Benchley goes to the studios to sell Mr. Disney on the idea of “The Reluctant Dragon” for one of his cartoon shorts. Once in the studio, he gets lost (for he had no enthusiasm for his wife's idea in the first place) and he wanders through the various departments. “Entrancing” and “inhumanly funny” are the words one reviewer used in describing the picture.
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New-Garbed Gob
IF YOU'RE ONE of those fortunate ones who laughed at “A Girl, a Guy and a Gob,” then you'll remember C eorge Murphy. He was the gob. And probably as energetic a one as the Navy ever produced. This time, in “Ringside Maisie,” tomorrow at Loew's, he's a fight manager. The fighter (who thinks fighting is a terrible business) is Robert Sterling; Maisie, naturally, is Ann Sothern; the trainer is Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom. Those names should give you at least a slight hint as to what's in store. Fired from a job in a dance hall, Maisie is on her way to another when she runs across the fighter doing road work. He offers to put her up for the night in his camp, where she runs across Manager Murphy, who immediately brands her a gold- -digger. These complications are not the lasting kind, however. As the press book says, “she returns to tell him that she is in us Se story for keeps. ” Imagine a
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Opening Tomorrow—
CIRCLE — Robert Benchley is the animate star in “The Reluctant Dragon,” Walt Disney's fulllength screen comedy comprising both live actors and animated characters. The associate feature was written by the No. 1 authority on Broadway double-talk, Damon Runyon. It's called “Tight Shoes.” INDIANA — Col. Ken Collins swings open the Indiana doors again after a summer recess with “Hold That Ghost,” with Abbott and Costello, Ted Lewis and his band, the Andrews Sisters, Mischa Auer and Shemp Howard. “Hit the Road” is billed as the second feature, starring the Dead End Kids, the Little Tough Kids, Gladys George and Barton MacLane. LOEW'S—Ann Sothern is the slightly punch-drunk heroine in “Ringside Maisie,” perhaps because of the goings-on of George Murphy. Robert Sterling, Virginia (Dead -Pan Songstress) O'Brien and Natalie Thompson. Second up will be an Ernst Lubitsch comedy, “That Uncertain Feeling.” The cast list includes such bright stars as Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas and Burgess Meredith.
LYRIC—Clyde McCoy will bring his “Sugar Blues” band to the stage, plus the three Bennet Sisters, who sing and dance, and Dick Lee, who sings in the baritone register. The added stage bill will include Sylvia and Clemence, acrobatic team; the Rigoletto Brothers with the Aimee Sisters, a variety and comedy act, and Keaton and Arnfield, comedians. The screen fare will be “Bullets for O'Hara,” an “action picture” dealing with the crimes of a jewel thief. Joan Perry and Roger Pryor are starred.
“They look pressed and tidy.
Maisie's Back
THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1941
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Anthony Quinn and Joan Perry are seen here in one of the quieter moments in “Bullets for O'Hara,” starting on the Lyric screen tomorrow. Clyde McCoy and his band will headline the stage show.
Hitchcock Wants Old Hunting Coats
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7.—Among the things Alfred Hitchcock knows thoroughly is what English climate aoes to woolens and the frozen horror of a Briton when confronted with an obviously new garment. Because the portly British director of “Before the Fact” did know these things well, nine wardrobe workers at RKO reported for duty three hours early. The night before beginning pro-
duction of the new picture, which co-stars Cary Grant and Joan Fon-
taine, Hitchcock was asked to look
at 150 hunting coats for a scene
which opens the picture. He took
one look and recoiled.
“Much too new,” he complained. Wrinkle the sleeves, wrinkle the coattails, buff up the wool so that the coats look old. Englishmen hate new hunting coats and the fog prevents any garment keeping a crease.”
VALERIE PARKS TO COOK FOR ARMY
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 (U. P.).— Valerie Parks, blond dancing star, has found her own way to bolster
\. |morale among the men in military
Ann Sothern finds herself deep in perplexity and boxing gloves at this stage of “Ringside Maisie,” the new bill tomorrow at Loew's.
| service.
Once a week she will select three
(non-commissioned men in uniform
from the audience of the local theater where she is appearing and take them home for a “real homecooked dinner.”
WHEN DOES IT START?
CIRCLE
“The Shepherd of the Hills,” with John Wayne, Betty Sield and Harry Carey. at 12:30. 3:40, 6:50 and 10. “Forced Landing,” with Richard Arlen and Eva Gabor, at 11:25, 2:85. 5:45 and 8:55. LOEW'S
“Blossoms in the Dust,” with Greer Garson and Walter PH at 12:30 3:40. 6:50 and 10 “Blondie jn Society,” with Penny
Singleton, Arthur Lake and Larry Sims, at 11:05. 2:15. 5:25 and 8:35.
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THE BARD OF BROADWAY
Offers Play For Defense
Saroyan Advertises Plan to Swell Fund
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U. P).— Author William Saroyan, in a full page advertisement in Variety, is offering the film rights to his recent Broadway play, “The Time of Your Life,” free to any major firm that will guarantee to give its proceeds to national defense. “Thanks to the American people and the American way of life you don’t need money and I don’t need money,” Mr. Saroyan wrote. He said his terms included donation of services by “everybody connected with the making of the picture including the studio.” “Time of Your Life” was a Broadway hit of last season and was awarded a prize by New York critics.
Shoot 2 Days for
Screen 5 Minutes
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 (U. P.).— Walter Wanger’s “Sundown” company is back in town after traveling 400 miles and spending two days shooting sequences that will show for possibly five minutes on the screen. Wanger took almost 100 people into the Redrock Canyon of the Mojave Desert to make scenes of desert fighting between Britishofficered “Askari” troops and “Shensi” tribesmen. For two days gunfire echoed in the cayon under the direction of Director Henry Hathaway and “officers” Bruce Cabot and George Sanders. Watchers thought Hathaway had enough material for at least a halfhour on the screen. “Half an hour?” he said. “Four minutes, maybe five, but no more.”
SURVIVORS OF 32
Ilona Massey and Hedy LaMarr were brought to this country for screen tests together with a group of 32 European artists and are the only ones of the group now in American films.
SAYS RADIO ACTOR [to dimes today by nis sro MATE WAS CRUEL
land charged that he had struck her, twisted her arms, choked ‘er, HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—|dragged her from automobiles by Clifford Ernest Holland, 180-pound |her legs, and had thrown her to the radio and screen actor, is being sued ‘floor and sat on her stomach.
TOMORROW!
The Brooklyn Bombshell is matched with the girl-crazy sailor of "A Girl, A Guy And A Gob” in her latest knockout laugh hit!
Maisie's newest : and most hilari. ous adventures!
ROBERT STERLING
(SLAPSIE) MAXIE ROSENBLOOM
LAST DAY!
“BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST”
GREER GARSON WALTER PIDGEON
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