Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1941 — Page 22

from the Balcony

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~ | now before the cameras,

, |} shirley,

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PF SOURCES THE FOLLOWING matters weeks of negotiating, finally has put himself in the forthcoming “The Life

starts in January, with Sportscribe

#. . . . By the time 1941 has bowed out, 120 will have been-sold during the year, which

the biggest booms in the amusements

| closed last night at Loews and Manager

see it go. Too many phone calls hurt a soul,” is the way one man= ager put it in describing how Sonja affected his business. And Manager Vincent Burke of English’s probably will feel drawing ‘power of Sonja, too. “Tobacco Road” opens there Monday night —against the toughest kind of competition one could think of... Twentieth Century-Fox is raising a little cain over the use of | “How Green Was My Valley” as | a song title. “We exploit a title and a book and then along comes" a com r and capitalizes on the Hi spent,” is the way the studio sees it . . . “Tortilla Flat,” the John Steinbeck opus, is with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamar, John Garfield and Frank Morgan asing the emoting.

Expenses, Expenses

| Gladys Alwes of Martens Con- | certs was naturally elated that the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo drew a full house, and then some, Tue€sday night at English’s. What she |_was bemoaning was that through | some sort of a mixup the stagehands were set to work an hour too early—and an hour's pay to - 17 stagehands definitely ain't hay, as they say in grammar school.. Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew's, Inc, has accepted the national chairmanship of the motion picture committee for the 1942 March of Dimes which will take place in January. It's all for sufferers from infantile paralysis. ‘They say that Custer’s last stand lasted only about 20 min- | utes. In “They Died With Their Boots On,” it took Warners more than a month to complete the job, ‘| after which a 60-piece orchestra ‘took over to furnish the rumbles, - etc. Ea Outlook for a busy week-end:

| Sonja tomorrow night, the Indi-

anapolis Symphony Orchestra torrow afternoon and Saturday i, and “Tobacco Road” Mon-

{| night. | cee RIVOLI SHOWING HOSPITAL MOVIE

» “White Battalion,” a film short on : hospita) services made under the {supervision of the American College of Surgeons, opens today at the

lay out my working

- [Rivoli for three days.

| Supervised by Dr. Malcolm T. Mc- . |Eachern, secretary of the-surgeons’ organization, the movie ‘shows how

© {two parents’ fear of hospitals was dispelled when their child, injured

‘lin an accident, was taken to one for treatment. The film was brought {to Indianapolis by the White Cross

~ |Guild of Methodist Hospital.

It will open’ for three gays Sunday at the Cinema.

PIANO TEACHERS ADD 4 MEMBERS

Four new members of the Indianapolis Piano Teachers’ Association

. |will attend their first meeting at 10 . la. m. tomorrow . |chapter house, 824 N. Pennsylvania

at the D. A. R.

St. | The new members are’ Bomar Cramer, Catherine Bell, Sara Hoflman and Mrs. R. H. Walton. Mrs.

= Esther Dean Crandall, program

will. t a survey.on

~ |chairman, ‘presen * |“High School Credit for Private Mu[sic Study.”

~ HE'S NOT SO ) CRAZY

Bob ‘Hope is regarded -asjone of the screen’s shrewdest b SS men.

WHEN DOES IT START? JouSusplelon.” with, Cary Grant and

0. nexpact ed Yude” with Ann James Cra) and Charles |- Coburn. at 11:20, 5:40 ana 8:50: | SUNDAY—*Sus spicion.” at 1. 4, 1} ud 10. “Uncle,” at 2:50, 5:50 and: -,

: “] Wake Up Scream | for Mature, Bett Grable and Laird 4 Bl at; 12: 4:02, 7:06 and]

2 Guns,” with Laurel 20 Ha at 11:37, 2:49, 5:53 and 8:57.

& - —~ «Sundown. ‘with Gene Tierne t, George Sanders, r | {| Cedric Hardwicke and Harry Carey. ab 12, 2:36, 5:12, 7:48 and 10:2

p45 7:30 and 10°07 | °F + Sire un 2:04 I ns 5 Don a : on | Duck at 9:39, . “Birth 21, the th Bin - Crosby, heres

‘and 10: | F “Among. the Living,” with Albert ; Hayward r 5 Eun Farmer, at 12 8. 3:30, | 6:20 and 9:14. Ne : and io. “Liv at 1:20, 4:15, 10. “Living, » at 3, 5:50,

,” with Vic-.

its second week in Indianapolis,

At this point in “Birth of the Blues,” Bandleader Bing Crosby (center) does a little explaining to his hot trumpet man, Brian Donlevy (left). The picture moved from the Indiana today over to the Lyric for

SDAY, DEC. 4, 1941

Bill Shirley Still Trying

Local Singer Gets Role That Will Stick. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4 (U.P.).—

Bill Shirley was a great success at Hollywood parties. He sang, and studio executives said, “Here is a fellow we should have on the payroll.” The first time this happened was at the dedication of the Mabel Normand sound stage at Republic studio. The 21-year-old Indianapolis youth sang during the ceremonies, and the executives were impressed. Somehow, nobody got around to doing anything about it. There were some vague promises, but nothing you could use to pay the

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SONJA HENIE

In Person—With Her 1942 Edition HOLLYWOOD ICE REVUE

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2000 General Admission Tickets for each of | the following six shows (Dec. 6 through Dec. 11) will be placed on sale daily at 10 A. M.

Hundreds of Reserved Seats for all performances (except Sat., Dec. 6) are available at both box offices.

Prices: $2.75—$2.20—$1.65 (Tax included)

rent. On other occasions the same thing

happened. But six months later a friend at Republic studio got Bill an audition before Herbert Yates, Republic chief from New York. Yates listened and put Shirley under contract. He had a song in “Rookies on: Parade” and did a fine job with it, according to exhibitors. But for some reason he was shuffilled out of sight again until six weeks later when he sang at another studio party. A producer put him into “Sailors on Leave.” He had a solo which ended its career on the cutting

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4

the Movies.”

blow from which few actors ever recover, Cotten included. For one thing, when I came to Hollywood, I had a good part safely snagged. Hundreds of others, I found, have had an equally easy time. That wrecked notion No. 1: That to be successful in the land of the movie, you had to cadge beans for months. Then came the glamour business. Glamour must be here, because all the gossip columns say so, but it's elusive. Sadly I write that glamour as a positive quantity can be discovered just as easily in Keokuk or New Bedford.

Front Yard Framer My introduction to this tinseled

land startled me half to death. I drove in from New York and started out to find the house which had] been rented for me. To reach same,

I must cruise down Sunset boulevard. On reaching that part of Los Angeles which is Hollywood, my supposedly sophisticated eye met nothing but a succession of enormous—and I mean enormous— photo portraits, framed. These reposed, and still do, on what seems to be every front lawn of every other house for about. two miles along the ‘boulevards It ots curred to me that this was certainly a novel way of attracting attention to your potential worth as an actor

or actress. It was a week before I learned they were professional portrait studios. Arriving at the house. picked for me, it was time fer Ped. So consider the shattering discovery of the morning; NO swimming pool! 1 thought everyone in the movie business had a swimming pool. My only solace is that I don’t particularly want one.

Finally Gets Wise

This all happened wher Orson Welles was producing a number called “Citizen Kane.” I was cast as-Jed- Leland. . The morning after getting here, I rushed’ to.the studio full of: fire, ambition, :and most of all, curiosity. . A ‘stydie! Qh boy! Lush, ln settings, thousands of beauti ul girls. parading around, a sort ‘of Arabian Nights; in: “$nodern dress. And- what happened. Collapse. They -started- plastering ‘me with

of a camera: playing: a man of 80.

rubber cement. ahd’ two weeks later]! IL managed - to. get myself in front{

After. “Citizen Kane” ‘I played|] opposite Merle Oberon :in. “Lydia” ;

All That Glitters Is Not Hollywood,

By JOE COTTEN Actor for Mercury Productions

4 —For my first—and probably last—attempt at public writing, I've decided to lead with the Cotten chin. So my topic for today is “What's Wrong With Hollywood.” fused with the other subject that everyone picks: “What's Wrong With About that I know nothing. Hollywood is not what it appears, from the magazines.

Actor Learns

This is not to be con-

This is a

and by that time I was getting wise. I had learned the sad fact that they make movies in exactly the same fashion they make anything else. You go to work at 8 and you quit at 6 or 7 in the evening and then you go home and eat.

‘Boy, Do I Love It!’

Now I'm in “The Magnificent Ambersons,” produced and directed by Welles. He happens to be the most unHollywooden young man I've met here—except that I met him in New York. He would, if he could, upset all of Hollywood's traditions. He would have the wild, harumscarum night life, the swimming pools, the jillions of gorgeous gals, the fantastic parties I read about. Unfortunately, Orson also is disillusioned. ~He goes to bed at 11 p. m., and is at work in the studio at 7 a. m. \ _ But my spells of disappointment in the movie village don’t last long. I always remember the time when I was a paint salesman, And I change my mind, quick, just like that. Hollywood? Boy, do I love it!

JOAN CRAWFORD ~ ‘MAY DO MUSICAL

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4—Joan Crawforf balked at playing in “Her Cardboard Lover,” Which goes to Hedy Lamarr. = | Miss A Tord, meanwhile, is polishing her veice in New York with the idea of doing a screen musical.

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Jobhany Mack Brown—Fuzzy Knight “Man From Montana’ Red Skelton, ‘‘Whistling in the Dark’ Jack Holt, ‘Holt of Secret Service’

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SOLO DEBUT SET FOR PARRONCHI

Benjamin Parronchi, new first

them out. “The party jinx again,” moaned William. To get his next part, he changed his approach. He had a recording

room floor, or wastebasket, or wher- |: ever the pieces go after they snip|®

‘cellist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and teacher at Jordan Conservatory, will make his Indiana solo debut in a recital at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday in the War

made and shipped it to a producer. It got him a part in “Moonstruck,” with Judy Canova, who was just that not so long ago. This time he is written into the

Memorial auditorium.

MOORE A SAILOR

Victor Moore sails his own boat on Long Island sound.

script as something more than a song. “They can't cut me this time,” he said, “unless they throw out the script and start over.”

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