Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1941 — Page 8
. Carole Landis into a top-notch,
VOICE ; from the Balcony | by FREMONT POWER
COURTESY OF POLICE CHIEF MORRISSEY, two seasoned detectives and four new patrolmen sat down last night in-the 20th Century-Fox screening room to match their powers of detection against a maze of clues furnished by Hollywood. The plan was worked out like this: They saw about three-fourths of “I Wake Up Screaming,” which opens Thursday at the Indiana.
| Then the picture was cut and the policemen wrote down.who they
thought dunnit and why they thought so. ‘This is a murder mystery picture made from Steve Fisher’s novel of the same name and it presents Victor Mature as a flashy New
York promoter who builds up
glamour girl. But once he has her in the limelight, she accepts a Hollywood contract and walks out. on him. On entering her apartment, ‘he finds her dead. All right. Here’s where the old detection business comes in. First we find that Carole’s sister (Betty Grable) is in love with the promoter. Then there is a detective (Laird Cregar) who seems ruthlessly intent on pinning the murder on Mr. Mature. In fact the detective’s determination jumps official bounds. Also under suspicion are a switch-board operator (Elisha Cook Jr.) where the two sisters lived, a reporter (Allyn Joslyn) ‘and . an has-been actor (Alan Mowbray). Both the latter are friends of the promoter and admirers of the glamour girl. That was the case Chief Morrissey’s men had to deal with.
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The switch-board operator was named also by Patrolman Schu-
bert: because “he was probably
in love with the girl and was jealous of her.” Patrolman Leeman Hindman— “The sister did the killing because of jealousy in a fit of rage.” Patrolman Mark A. Zeronik— “The detective (Cregar) did the killing. He .did not like Frankie Christopher and he wanted to pin the murder on him.” Patrolman Fred Whisler—He chose the actor (Mowbray) because “he was both in love with Vicky (Miss Landis) and had hopes of her making him a career.. But she jilted him and he lost his chance for a career and also lost her affection.” #» » »
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IF THIS all leaves you sadly befuddled, my apologies. But if you're wondering just how our detectives stack up with the
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Wels Some of Best Words In 'Let's Face It."
‘By BOB MUSEL' United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Danny Kaye's rise from a summer resort {comic at a- pittance a week to Broadway star in the four figure class—all in the space of a couple of years—is not the only unusual thing about him. He freely gives most of the credit to his’ wife, Sylvia Fine, thus virtually establishing a show business precedent. There must be a tender love story somewhere in the Kaye family, all the facts seem to - point that way. But it will have to wait for a later chronicler.
and both are busy taking advantage of the tide that leads on to fame, And besides both are strangely shy for people in the public eye. Mrs.
trade phrase for snubbing friends— when actually she is a little ill at ease in crowds and is usually mentally engrossed in someé idea for Danny.
Denies He’s High Hat .
And the same charge has been leveled at Mr. Kaye. As his wife
‘|puts it:
“I can’t ‘figure out people. Danny always has been quiet when he is
and has a kind of unhappy look on his face. Nobody ever noticed it be-
“Wife Credit i
The for-|3 tunes of the Kayes are booming|
not performing. He always sits still}
Kaye, for instance, has?been sus- 2 pected of ‘going Hollywood” — a|j
within a fortnight.
Russe de Monte Carlo will appear
Two shows as widely apart in their appeal as jazz and the classics will be seen here at English’s “Tobacco Road,” with John Barton, puts in once more for a week next Monday and’ a week after that, Dec. 15, Patricia Wing will be heard in “Blossom Time.” Tonight at English’s the Pallet
on the Marten’s series.
ROBIN SAYS 'YES.' GETS HER DIVORCE
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‘HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 (U. P.).)— The father of actor Alan Hale was a ‘patent medicine manufacturer and, naturally, something of an inventor. Young Alan’s first inventive efforts were among the hair restorers and wart removers of his father’s iaboratory and marked the start of a career as an amateur and professional gadgeteer. And he’s made it pay. Not with patent medicines, with which he parted. long ago, but with things like his fire extinguisher and theater seat. ~The fire extinguisher is a gadget which looks: more:like a bomb than the conventional extinguisher. You just throw it into a fire and released chemicals do the rest.
Theater Seat :- Hailed
Hale’s theater seat his been received enthusiastically by all who
| ever. have had their toes stepped on
and knees bumped by late comers.
| It’s quite simple, so simple that inventors .of more complicated ap-|
paratus never thought of it. The. seat merely slides back, not far enough to bother those behind, but far enough to let others walk in front without accidents. Some theaters are completely equipped with them: And Hale keeps one in his Warner = Bros. dressing room, just’ to look at, admire and occasionally, to sit in.
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News of Hale's projects has spread among other inventors and he receives numerous propositions to sponsor others’ projects. During
fore. Today they say he’s gone highhat. That’s ridiculous,” In “Let’s Face It” Kaye has some of his best material yet—and his
imaginative mind of Novelist Fisher, the answer is in “I Wake Up Screaming.”
Robin Raymond, dark-haired film
The Answers actress, had a diverce today from
~ OF COURSE, if we told you
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board operator did it “to get even
now how the detectives came out
with their battle with Hollywood, that might be telling who really dunnit and thus spoil the picture for you. And so for future reference, in case you see the picture, here are the choices made: Detective Investigator Charles E. Bauer—He said the switchwith Christopher (Mature) for hitting him.” Detective Sergeant Ralph Bader —He made the same choice because the switch-board boy “acted as though he was in love with - the girl, although she didn’t know it.”
Here’s your chance to see if “dicks” are dumb.”
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wife wrote it. It is believed to be the first time that Cole Porter, who did the score, has permitted anyone to add to his work but in view of Danny’s special requirements, Mrs. Kaye was called in. She devised something called “Melody In Four F’—the song of a selectee.
Stream of Gibberish
There are only a handful of intelligible words in the entire song —if song it is. Danny pantomimes a fearful young man approaching a mail box, his receipt of his questionnaire, his efforts to convince the doctor he is not I ‘A, his training and participation in maneuvers and his winning of several medals. For the most part Mr. Kaye keeps up a running stream of gibberish only lapsing into English when a word of explanation is essential. Danny got his gift of pantomime in China where he landed on a barnstorming trip that took him over most of the world. It was the only way he was able to get over his comedy ,to the non-English speaking peoples—and he has performed before many. He didn’t realize the same routine would be funny here until Sylvia took him in hand. “Let’s Face It” almost produced a division—purely an artistic one —in the Kaye household. Sylvia was working on a musical show when her husband brought the news of his new role. This meant she would have to give up her own work to help Danny—so completely does he rely on her. She did it, but it was quiet a strain on her efforts to maintain an artistic identity. Now that Danny’s a hit she’s going back quite firmly to her own show.
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Continuing the advancement of musical films, M-G-M has announced the purchase of “The Immortal Idler,” a story covering the most colorful period in the life of Gioachino Rossini, famed Italian composer.
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Stars Listed for Charities Film
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1.—Merle Oberon, Robert Cummings = and Roland Young will head the cast for the fifth sequence of “Forever and a Day,” a British War Charities film. Supporting roles will be taken by Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor, Nigel Bruce and Sara Allgood. The fourth sequence recently was completed with Ida Lupino, Brian Aherne, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Wendy Barrie, Isabel Elson and June Dupree.
ASTRID ALLWYN WED TO BROKER
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Astrid Allwyn, blond actress, and Charles L. J. Fee, Hollywood insurance broker, were back in Hollywood today after their marriage in Las Vegas, Nev, at El Rancho Vegas. It was the second marriage for both. Miss Allwyn formerly was|8 the wife of Robert Kent, actor.
WHEN DOES IT START? CIRCLE “One Foot in Heaven,” with Fredric March and Martha Srott, | at : :23, 6:43 and 10:03. “Nine Lives Are Not Enough,” with
Ronald Reagan, Joan Perr: nd Janes Gleason. 11, 2:20, 5:41 and’
March of Time {gallo With Wings") at 2. 5:20. and 8
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mention Harold Huber, A. B., LL. D.
crooks and is doing it again in the actually can speak five languages, and not out of a corner of his mouth, Behind him are 200 years of American STicestry from Swiss, Scotch and Irish = stock; yet he mostly plays Greeks and Chinese, Latins and Russians. He's a movie lawbreaker with - a law degree, but before he came | out here he was a humorist- and a comedian. The scar which contributes to his sinister appearance | was acquired in a fencing match when he was New York’s amateur champion.
Knew What He Wanted
Huber majored in languages at New York University, was graduated at 19, and took three years of law at Columbia, mostly to please his father, a doctor. However, there never was any doubt in Huber’s own mind about what he’d do eventually, He bluffed his way into Stage Producer Al Woods’ office and recited a long list of imagined theatrical experiences. Woods wasn’t
Harold Huber
gota bit in “A Farewell to Arms” and soon was moved up into the comic role of the bragging Italian. His bandit role in the new Gene Autry picture, “Down Mexico Way,” created quite a problem in PanAmerican relations. When the Mexican consul objected to a Mexican menace in the story, the studio changed the characterization to a comic bandit, but the consul still was unsatisfied. So this time the studio was unsatisfied. So this time the studio added a sequence explaining that Huber was a reformed bandit who had been pardoned by every governor in the spuntry.
OutiArts Them
Another of the screen’s most malevolent menaces is Albert Dekker, a Bowdoin College man. Just now he’s applying his education as a ‘psychologist to the job of being a ruthless Nazi in “The Lady Has Plans.” A lively and amusing gent off screen, he also turns out to have
lects and makes phony art and antiques. The .other day I found him chuckling about a new item. This is a cow’s thigh bone, polished to marble smoothness, handsomely mounted on .a black marble base, and identified as a piece of mod-
‘|ern sculpture called “Winged Vie-
tory. ” Casual visitors at the Dekker home regard it respectfully, as they ‘do some of the actor’s personally designed treasures such as his “Middle English lute bench.” This is a contraption on longitudinal rockers with a back rest on one end and a music rack on the other. Dekker made it with pegs instead of screws, buried it for three months to make it look old.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2.—In this department's recent comment about che erudition of screen heavies, those rough customers who hold more college degrees than Hollywood's leading men, I neglected to
filming of “Captains of the Clouds” he received a new idea almost every day. They included three projects for perpetual motion, two for rocket
The scar-faced Mr. Huber generally plays sympathetic mugs and
#2 {modernist and calls it ‘a new art ¢ [form in etching. Real pride of his
f | “Yorkshire milking stool,” sround '|which he has woven a racy legend.
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current “Heliotrope Harry.” Huber
framed hunk of burnt tin containing myriad cracks which look something like a picture of a lake. i |The owner attributes it to a famed
collection, though is a weathered
Speaking. of oddities, I have the
cently met a beautiful young aetress who: 1. Never had a date with
Never has been to Ciro’s; 3. Wears a sweater only to keep warm.
BOB HOPE AND RITA
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 (U, P.).— Bob Hope of Paramount studio and Rita Hayworth of Columbia were honored . by screen cameramen today as the most “photo-generous”
ships, and one for heating York City by piping sunlight from St. Petersburg, . Fla.
New
One of his newest develop-
ments is an alloy much lighter than those most commonly used. Metallurgists are giving it respectful attention and Hale hopes it may be perfected for practical use.
BUSY HOLLYWOODIAN
Edward Arnold is one of Holly-
wood’s most prominent citizens,|. both as to girth and importance. He: heads dozens of committees for charities and other organizations, has never refused to do a benefit, and, in addition, is one of filmdom’s busiest actors.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— National defense . note: Barbara Stanwyck, strip-teaser of the new Samuel Goldwyn film, “Ball of| Fire,” said today the opera length lisle hose she wears in the movie are every bit as sheer as silk and just about 2s durable.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Connie Russell, 17, was at work at
tract which will pay—if all the options are taken up—from $309 to $1507 a week. She formerly sang in New York night clubs. s
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