Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1941 — Page 10
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MAYBE YOU'VE NOTICED IT, today are three comedy acts which in the Hollyweod box office listings.
rate at the top,
too. But on the downtown screens or very near there, If you'd care to make a study of
comedy in its present condition, now's your chance.
Jack Benny, in “Charley's Aunt” at the Indiana, top-ranked gagster of radio. Just why a comedian
is, I believe, the is able to evoke more
laughs than his fellow workers is, of course, a rather intangible ques-
tion, but in the case of Mr. Benny, it might very
ness in kidding himself. When Jack made his first radio
Nemesis
Even standing on a horse, Tom Keene is bad news for the badmen in “Wanderers of the West,” a first run Western film starting today at the Alamo. The other picture will be “Thunder Over the Prairie,” with Charles Starrett.
ROSALIND RUSSELL STARTS NEW FILM
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15 (U. P)— Having quieted rumors that she was a bride, Rosalind Russell has commenced work on a new picture. The rumors started Friday night when a traffic policeman in Pasadena, Cal. stopped her for speeding and reported she had told him she was on her way to Las Vegas, the Navada marriage center. Miss Russell said later that she had been riding with a young man, but had no intention of going to Las Vegas.
VERSATILE MICKEY
Mickey Rooney in “Babes on Broadway,” will play eight different characters in a single skit. Mickey will play a convict, his father, a guard, a butler, small boy, a passerby, a detective and a judge.
NOW SHOWING
possibly be his deft-
broadcast about 10 years ago, his first words were, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking. There wiil be a slight pause while you say, ‘Who cares’?” Naturally, should you have happened to catch these words on your radio, you probably would have listened for at least a while longer. Then there is the matter of timing, in which Mr. Benny is a past master, an art which he learned thoroughly in trouping the nation’s vaudeville stages. : : & =
Supreme Mugger
AS TO MICKEY ROONEY, playing in “Life Begins for Andy Hardy” at Loew's, one might safely say that he is at once the best and worst scene mugger working in pictures today. This is a practice which, boiled down, is nothing more than making faces, such as the kind made at unpopular school teachers. But young Rooney 1s so expert at this business that what otherwise might be frowned upon is making millions of people laugh. Then, too, the Hardy family series 1s nothing more or less than a dressed-up record of one family’s trials and tribulations. In many instances, the same situations might arise in your own home, and after all, there's nothing funnier than seeing yourself dramatized. When the first Hardy picture showed that there would be a demand for sequences, the studio officials sat down and started a study of all available facts on American white-collar families. From a maze of statistics and graphs, the studio reached at least two conclusions: 1. The average middle-class, mid-dle-size town family is made up of five members, a father, mother, two children and another relative, usually an aunt, uncle or grandparent. 2. The head of this family (when he reaches the age of Judge Hardy) has an income of about $3500, or approximately $70 a week. Another mark that distinguishes the Hardy pictures is their authenticity. No situation, or at least not many, is placed in them unless the question “Did it ever happen?” can be answered in the affirmative. The Hardys, you see, really have the earmarks of a family, which makes for good comedy. = 2 2
The Burleycue Way
ABBOT AND COSTELLO, in “Hold That Ghost” at the Circle, probably can attribute their present riches to a long and thorough schooling in the field of burlesque. This is a rough calling, as we've mentioned before, and either you're funny or you get hooted off the stage. Messrs. Abbott and Costello, need we say, seldom get hooted.
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Gloria Jean, who appears with Bill in his new picture, “The Great Man,” gives him a lesson—which he seems to like very well.
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Chopsticks | A Problem in Co-operation|
Finds Man, Loves Girl, Discards Sarong.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15 (U. P). —This is the story of how Lynne Overman was left holding, not a sack, but a piece of sarong. Mr. Overman. working in C. B DeMille’s “Reap the Wild Wind,” said he had been down to the beach the other Sunday. “Well, I was just minding my own business,” he said, “lying on the beach, trying to keep the sand and feet out of my face, when up comes Martha O'Driscoll. “She has a little piece of print cloth in her hand, and asks me if I can help her match it. “Where do you think you are,’ I asked her, ‘in Robinson's Women’s Wear?’ “So she explains that she wants to match the material because if she can find the rest of it, Richard Webb will be inside it and finding Richard is the problem of the moment. “She has on a suit made of the same material. It seems that it is the style now for a girl and her boy friend to get® suits made of the same thing. “So I take her piece of material] and I go rubbering around and sure | enough, I spot a pair of trunks that match the material and Richard is in em. But we can't find Martha. So he takes his trunks and goes one way, and I take the material and go the other, and I look for hours but I can't find
At the Sapphire
Charles Paul and his orchestra will open an engagement in the Hotel Washington's Sapphire Room tonight.
Ruth Warrick in
Role of Princess
% HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15.—Edward Small announced today that he has signed Ruth Warrick to play the role of Princess Isabelle opposite Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in the Alexander Dumas adventure romance, “The Corsican Brothers.” Miss Warrick, a willowly brunette, is a newcomer to films and was borrowed from R. K. O. for the role.
of W. C. Fields, the man with the couldn't play chopsticks. And so
Keeps Films True to Life
| Technical Adviser's Job Is Most Exacting
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15 (U. P)— Although he gets little public credit | for his work, the motion picture technical adviser has one of the] most exacting jobs in Hollywood. He is the man who is responsible for authenticity in backgrounds, customs and manners. One of the top-ranking men in this field is Dalton Reymond, specialist in questions concerning the old South, who is working on the Samuel Goldwyn production of “The Little Foxes,” starring Bette Davis. Reymond was hired for the job at insistence of Director William Wyler, with whom he had worked on “Jezebel,” which also starred Miss Davis. The picture was regarded as outstanding for its technical perfection. In “The Little Foxes,” Reymond must be able to produce any information desired about a typical small southern town of the period 1900-1903. He had to make certain that expressions used in the script were authentic for that time, and he had to advise on such diverse topics as table decorations and type buggies, breakfast foods and banking methods. Thus far he has found the answer to all questions without difficulty. His southern background helped. He was born in Baton Rouge, La. and for five years was on the faculty of Louisiana State University’s College of Music. He got into the picture business —with Warner Bros.—while taking a sabbatical year at the University of Southern California and he’s
“The Corsican Brothers” goes into production immediately under the direction of Gregory Ratoff,
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WHEN DOES IT START?
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FRIDAY, AUG. 15, 1941
Offer O.K.'d By Saroyan
Agrees to Filming ‘The Time of Your Life.’
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15 (U.
1p) —~William Saroyan today had
accepted, with reservations, Pro-
ducer Lester Cowan's offer to make|
a moving picture of his Pulitzer prize-winning play, “The Time of Your Life,” and turn the proceeds over to national defense. He said he would ask Mr. Cowan for further details of his offer before concluding the deal. Mr. Saroyan put a $250,000 price tag on movie rights to his play to scare producers for profit away. Then he ran a full page advertisement in Variety, the theatrical gazette, offering it free to any movie maker who would give all he made to the defense. Nobody connected with the picture was to be paid, the advertisement said. Mr. Cowan was the only taker. “In making this offer, I have chosen to challenge the rich, because they have again failed to accept their share of sacrifice,” Mr. Saroyan said. Mr. Cowan, a producer at Columbia studios in Hollywood, said there was one hitch in Mr, Saroyan’s plans: Actors of small salary tech-
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| pretty well empty of people, and I {haven't found either Martha or {Richard. But I run into Paulette | Goddard and she says, ‘Richard and Martha? Oh, they went home hours ago.’ «If Martha wants that piece of material I can tell her right where it is. Somewhere in the ocean between Santa Monica and Honolulu. Or does the current go north from here?”
BALLET COMPANY TO FILM 2 SHORTS
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14 (U. P).— | Efrem Kurtz, conductor of the or- | chestra of the Ballet Russe deMonte | Carlo, and members of the company will appear in two technicolor short subjects for Warner Bros. Among numbers to be presented will be “Capriccio Espagnol” and “La Gaite Parisienne.”
CIRCLE . “Hold That Ghost,” with Abbott and Costello, Ted Lewis, the Andrews Sisters and Mischa Auer, at 12:33, 3:33. 6:33 and 9:33 “Hit thé Road,” with the Dead End Kids, the Little Tough Kids, Gladys George and Barton MacLane, at 11:32, 2:32, 5:32 and 8:30.
SUNDAY—“Ghost” at 1, 4, 7 and 10. “Road” at 2:39. 5:59 and 8:59.
INDIANA
“Charles’s Aunt,” with Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison and Anne Daxter, at 11:15, 2, 4:45, 7:30 and
“Accent on Love,” with George Montgomery and Osa Massen, at 12:44, 3:29, 6:14 and 8:59
SUNDAY—"Aunt” at 2:01, 4:36, 7:18 and 10. “Love” at 1, 3:35, 6:17
and 8:59. LOEW'S
“Life Begins for Andy Hardy,” with Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland, Patricia Dane and Fay Holden, at 12:30, 3:30, 6:40 and 9:45.
“Ellery Queen and _the Perfect Crime,” with Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, at 11:10, 2:10, 5:15 and 8:25.
SUNDAY—“Andy Hardy” 7 and 10.. “Ellery Queen” 5:45 and 8:45.
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As there is no snow in southern California in July, Wesley Ruggles is filming Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in Snow scenes for “You Belong to Me” in Los Angeles’ largest ice plant.
ARLINE JUDGE SUED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15 (U. P).— Actress Arline Judge denied all liability today in a $30,000 damage suit filed by the owner of an automobile involved in a collision with her car. The plaintiff, John J. Boggs, aircraft worker, said he was seriously injured. Miss Judge was not in the car at the time, but Boggs charged that Patricia Blanche Cotton, another defendant, was driving with the consent of the actress’ chauffeur,
RUNYON IS SIGNED AS RKO PRODUCER
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14 (U. P) — RKO Studios has announced that Damon Runyon, sports writer and author of several screen plays and stories adapted for motion pictures, | . ¥#T% had been signed as a producer. | SE He will report to work late next| | & month on a story written for the screen, but so far untitled.
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