Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1941 — Page 26

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Cowboy Joe

Makes Good

But He Had His Ranch Long Before His First Role HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20 (U. B) —

When Joel McCrea was younger he wanted to be a movie cowboy se he

could makes lots of money and buy

a ranch and be a real cowboy. He bought the ranch, all right, with money he made in the movjes, but cattle were grazing on it before he ever got into a western picture. Mr. McCrea is a Hollywood boy who made good in Hollywood. Taking it easy on the set of “Sullivan's Travels,” in which Paramount is co-starring him with Veronica Lake, McCrea told of his beginnings in the movies. He had grown up among movie people and by the time he was 14 had drifted into a job as an extra and as a double for actresses in riding scenes. “One of the first stars I doubled for,” he said, “was Greta Garbo in her first picture, ‘The Torrent.’ I had learned to ride when I was 9, and had owned a horse ever since. “My job was to ride a horse into the scene and pull him up so sharply that he would slide through the mud on his hind legs. Miss Garbo watched me, dressed in her costume, to do it. it herself. She did, but I still got paid. “She thought I was a cowboy and asked me to teach her some riding tricks. She had plenty of nerve. The lessons ended when she discovered I was an extra and not a real cowboy. “Years later I tested to play a part opposite her. I lost that roie like I lost dozens of others. But I never reminded her that I was the; kid who taught: her some riding; tricks.”

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John (The Great Lover) Barrymore is seen here thrown considerably off his stride by the technique of Frances Farmer. The movie is “World Premiere,” which opened today at the Circle with “Aloma of the South Seas,” starring Dorothy Lamour in a pareu.

Charles Ray, Once $4000 Film

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29.—Charles Ray, the round-faced innocent who earned a fortune in the early days of the movies outslickering the city slickers, wound up today in Federal Court with a bankruptcy petition listing his assets at nothing and his debts at $2595. Mr. Ray. 50, balding a little on top and thickening a little around the middle, told the Judge a collection agent was hounding him for $766, while a typewriter company | was trying to collect $18 for rent of | je established the Charles Ray a machine on which he vainly had Studios on Sunset Boulevard and attempted to earn his living. [there he produced, directed and Now the typewriter is gone, too, starred in “The Courtship of Miles and all Ray has is a pile of partly Standish.” Historians called this finished movie scripts, magazine the greatest fizzle of the entire articles, and philosophical tracts movie industry—the picture cost for which the nibbles have been few nearly $1,500,000, almost all of and far between. | which came from the disillusioned “But that.” he said, “is the way star's pocket. So bad was the film

life is. And by now I am getting that many a theater which had used to the knocks.” paid rental fees left it on the shelf

{with Last June he married Yvonne| ry hoting Shnetling Ros 3 5% 4 Guerin, a French actress. His first “ i Hie oi} So : .. movie celebrity, His other ventures wife, Clare Grant Ray, who married |... equally as ill-starred and him in 1915 when his fortunes were

(when eventually his money was beginning to boom, divorced him io eo he could find no work in the six vears ago, introducing in evi-

studios w n dence a letter from another woman, | hich once had paid him

REGGIE CHILDS

4000 k written in French and calling him | ),e an Gass S10 Were glad of

“cherie Charle-e-e-e.’ The Charles Ray studios still

Star, Is Bankrupt for $2500

AND HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Now Thru Sept. 1

WESTLAKE

ADMISSION (Inc. Tax) Yieek Days, 4ic—Sat., 5e¢

stand. They

are occupied now by

Advice for Ex-Rich Men concern

For the last several years, Ray has | ache dummies, ‘been playing bit parts in the talkies \image of Hedy Lamarr, for depart(with long waits between paychecks. | pent store windows. Mr. Ray tries

{One of his last roles was that of a never to pass by. He says it ive | fireman at Universal Studios, and |him the SR Bives

| he said ther that he had learned LUGOSI WILL GO

| |

mostly in the

TICKETS

{about philosophy during his lean | Hin and intended to write a book | about it, mainly for rich men who suddenly find themselves penniless. On ROAD TOUR | With Wally Reid, Francis X. ‘Bushman, Fatty Arbuckle, and| Because Bela Lugosi starts a other stalwarts of the silent cinema, | (02d tour soon playing Boris Kar-

manufacturing papier)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

'‘Glamorama’ Moves West

New Hollywood Revue to Star Keystone Kops.

idea in his “Silver Screen Revue”

opening here soon. Mr. Anderson said he is going to present Hollywood “straight” in what is called a “glamorama” of the motion picture business from 1908 until the present. It is about the same thing he did in New York, except that pictures, instead of the stage, form the background for the show.

Pies to Be Tossed

In his New York night show production he featured such personalities as Caflyle Blackwell, Nita Naldi, Gilda Gray and Mae Murray. Here he has signed up the Keystone Kops, themselves, Bryant Washburn, one-time leading man, and Clara Kimball Young. The Keystone Kops, Hank Mann, Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard, are scheduled to revive the old silent screen art of tossing custard pies and like diversions of the early Mack Sennett days. Location of the new Anderson show is the Wilshire Bowl, which promises to be a fancy night clubtheater one of these days, but which at the mement is in a state of con- { fusion.

Stage Is Precarious

Mr. Anderson himself seems to {know pretty well what is going on, but a casual visitor is a little bewildered. Carpenters and electri(cians are tearing down and putting together various parts of the building, 2 muralist is working on historical panels, a half-dozen hefty Negro women dancers threaten the uncompleted stage with disaster, and about 20 peoplé at a time are trying to get in a word with Mr. Anderson. The impresario takes it all in |stride and promises he'll have a |show going in a few weeks. It will be all about Hollywood, but in a nice way.

CAN CAREERS MIX? RAYMOND SAYS YES

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.) — Marriage and identical careers will mix all right—it just depends on who does the mixing, and the methods applied. That is the opinion of Gene Raymond, who, like his wife, Jeanette MacDonald, It works out even usual, he said, working in the same picture. They are doing this for the first time in four years, wyn-Mayer's “Smilin Through.” “And for the first time.” he said, “we are sure of having dinner together.”

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M onogram Pictures has HOLLYWOOD, Aug 29 (U. P.).—

Margaret Cartherine MacLean, au-| burn haired actress and model, has been granted a divorce from George | | Andrew-MacLean, portrait paintgr. | “He told people I was just a child,” Mrs. MacLean, 22, told the judge. and humiliating.” They were married March 16, 1940, and separated last July.

“Ghosts in the Night,” feature

Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan and] 'Huntz Hall will lead the “East Side” original by | Gates.

ORSON WELLES IS ON FAIR PROGRAM

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.) — For the first time on any stage Orson Welles, radio and motion picture producer and actor, will reveal his talents as a magician when he appears as guest star at the California State Fair. Mr. Welles has spent months preparing for his debut on Sept. 3 in Sacramento, but so far only associates at his Mercury productions have seen his repertoire.

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WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE

“Aloma of the South Seas,” with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hali and Philip Reed, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

0: 20. “World Premiere,” with John Barrymore, Eugene Pallettee, Frances Farmer and Ricardo Cortez, at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 and 9:10. SUNDAY—"Aloma’ at 1, 3:50, 7:40, and 10:30. “Premiere” at 2:15, 6:05 and 8:55.

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Comic at Rest

Wild West or not, a man’s got to have his rest, the same of which Lou Costello is taking here in “Ride 'Em Cowboy,” latest of the Abbott and Costello escapades.

JEFF LYNN DENIES MARRIAGE PLANS

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.).— Jeffrey Lynn, Warner Bros, who announced recently that he was looking for a house to buy, was busy

today denying that he intended tc

get married. “In fact,” he said, met ‘her’ yet.

“TI haven't even

so that I can bring my parents out

from the East to stay with me.”

Oomph Jr.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26.— Warner Bros. is looking for a 99-year-old, “oomph girl.” The studio wants a girl to play the part of Randy Monaghan as a child, in the film being made from the novel “King’s Row.” The growa-up Randy is being portrayed by Ann Sheridan. Requirements for the part are 1. She must be the tomboy type, not too much of a little laay. 2. She must be able to act and should have some stage or screen experience. 3. She must resemble Miss Sheridan in complexion (fair), hair (red), and eyes (blue). Director Sam Wood and Solly Baiano, Warner Bros, talent scout, have searched without luck for two months.

actor

I'm buying a home|

Art Clashes With Oomph

But It's All in Fun on Sound

Stages

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.).— Kibitzing on the sound stages—

Warner Bros.: There's quite a contest going on during the filming of “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” It's what you might call a clash between “oomph” and dramatic art. The “oomph” part, of course, is represented by tall, red-haired and shapely Ann Sheridan. Bette Davis is on the other end of the tug-of-war, the artist in the case. It's all in good nature but provides the source of considerable banter on the set. On this day Miss Davis was sitting on the arm of a chair, while Monty Wooley, “The Man,” was in his wheel chair and Miss Sheridan and Dick Travis completed the personnel for the scene.

take, makeup Kit. “Can't let that gal get ahead of me,” powdering her face.

Annie is dividing her talents between “The Man” and

set, On another W-B {Fredric March

in Heaven.” finish hurry, to Oregon and some trout fishing. When the trout are taken care of March goes to New York the first week in November for rehearsso the play “Hope for a Harvest.”

and March wishes

church another company was shattering the siesta hour peace with tunes for “New Orleans Blues.” Will Osborn and, his orchestra had just checked in to work in this one.

Just as they were ready for a Miss Davis called for her

she said while vigorously

Miss Davis plays the part of a usually dead-pan, satirical secretary.

“King's Row,” in production on a nearby

sound stage and Martha Scott were making a scene for “One Foot They are near the they'd because he wants to get off

Not far from the quiet of March's

HEALY'S WIDOW UNDER $150 BAIL

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.).— Mrs. Betty Hickman Healy, 26, widow of Comedian Ted Healy, was free on $150 bail today, pending trial on a misdemeanor charge of driving while drunk. She was arrested after her autn jumped a curb and allegedly injured a woman with her. | Mrs. Healy pleaded not guilty.

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