Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1941 — Page 24
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Lf HOLLYWOOD, Dee. if (0. Po Phe of two good gase often will Nd A person A Job in plotures, At it takes allearound ability to ay for long. Many uhknowne have attracted through some specialty entertainment act, but few of them Stayed long in the movies without Rdding to their repertoire. ¥ Virginia O'Brien, dead-pan thrash, I an example. She was in the “Meet the People” stage show in Hollywood Mast year and made a Bit with an unusual volee and a de. livery which moved no muscle be yond her voeal chords
Branches Out She was sighed by MGM and
aid the same sort of thing for the) Studio, but she also | Branching Out. mM “Panama Hattie” she has A dramatic rele and even permits Dersell an ocoasional bit of faeial Rp cusion when singing, Joan Leste, the young star of “Sergeant York” got into pletures 8% hall of a song-and-dance team. Red Skelton, the comedian, got 8 break in the movies on strength of his “doughnut routine” Onee! started, he had a chance to show that hit talents were not limited to) one such specialty. He's had star ping roles in “Panama Hattie" and “Whistling in the Dark”
Thic I a pleture of Walter Pidgeon NOT ‘potting actoss® with Rosas. tnd Ructell tn “Design for Soandal” starting tomorrow at Loew's.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dee. IV (U.P). Lillian Gish has been signed by|a oneness that extends to | The artists who are responsible for Paramount Studio for the film “Mrs slightest nuance or subtest infec. |
motion picture fusions were ben igs ) it) ton, New York when he had his first ay today to help the A . hk of the Catbage Patel oN The quartet underwent ‘a re-| Movie chance. The first pleture ne oHe8n = Ip the Army wsa announced today. lorganigation las¥ summer, with
was in didn't call for even a single And Navy in camouflage. | The silent soreen. star has sent to David Dawson and Naoum . Bens Sanee hat was ile Bhigine fot A meeting was called for last New York for a te, Neeletatt ! Snaky aking the id LX elie dy Hardy.” He gets a chance /night by Lionel Banke, Columbia and persohal ngs and wi $ hy dance in “Babes on Broadway.” move into Gloria Swanson's rte [were held by Nicolas Moldavan and Sometimes the things Hollywood | Pietures art director, to recrutt vol: | nent, she said. PATE Vietor Gottlieb. And $0, between does with people having special | unteers, we - tours, the gentlemen are at work talents are more than startling] Capt. Gearge Hazenbush, com MOVIE INSPIRED rebuilding their repertoire, Bra tLli DAS an iy play manding officer of the Camouftage i But Re at utd pethoven al DEANE, and we ! ev s pare . on the plano, so he has become the | Section, 60dth Engineers, praised BY WAKE DEFENSE the experienced hand of William gon of Willlam Powell and Myrna the art director's move. HOLLYWOOD. Dee. 17 (U.P). | Kroll, first violinist, the ensemble Loy in their latest “Thin Man“| “This it the most valuable con | a” : ; , | is nearing (or arrived at) the high picture. Without a plano tribution yet originating in the Alm | The herole defense of Wake It oie) of musicianship whieh it en . —— en | industry,” sald Hazenbush, “It not|land by a handful of Marines ™ lisse When it was heard in nas jonly will serve as a greatly needed |e pount studio today to! 8 last season on the BACK TO BRUNETTE | tne armed feces but also 0 -. dio (dey IC] fries Patricia Morison, after turning’ will ald greatly In olvilian des! ™ ” Blond for “Night in New Orleans” fense.”
Jack Pepper remains at the seo. | be entitled “Wake Island ¥ Will return to her raven tresses, Musenbush said the creation of!
ond violin post. A cast including Fred MacMurs| Last night's concert was present. for “Take a Detter, Darling” with an illusion, rather than actual con. Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray | cealment of aie targets, is the chief
ray, William Holden, Brian Dondled by the university in co-operation levy, Robert Preston and nne | with the Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge and Macdonald Carey. | purpose of camouflage. P, i
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Startling Deciclons Ray MeDonald was a dancer in
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She was a hard-boiled lady judge. He was hired to discover her weak moment.
P. $5. He found it and what fun when that perfect pair Rosalind Russell and Walter Pidgeon gettogether on the screen forthe first time.
“Every woman has her weak moment! Ml pay you to find hers! ™
Extral Extra! Disorder in the court! Man kisses judge!
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STARTS TOMORROW
VOICE from the Balcony by FREMONT POWER
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET'S IDEA WAS that legend is an authentie part of our country's history, He was particularly intriguea a New England tale that, when prompted, the spirit of Dantel ' grave and inquire as to the “state of 51 nation.” Too, ole Dan’l sometimes would give advice to his neigh= the farmers of New Hampshi RS a, dors i thy Monel, and in 1030 he compac @ short story that ap n He entitled it “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” It ‘since has become a model for the study of the short
ter would arise from his was a wrote it into Evening
And now William Dieterle brings the screen oy That "Wl opens Cirele,
The “movie version, of course, adds a great many ramifications original. But the essence the same, which is that the oratorieal of Webster re Jo en t even the Devil and his henchmen could Rot withstand Pan's verbal fire. .
A Devilish Deal
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He no sooner says the words than old Mr, Serateh (Walter Huston) appears and makes him Just such a proposition, For seven years of prosperity, farmer Jabes sells his soul to the Devil Prosperity is his, all right, and in his desire for high living he neglects his faithful wife (Anne Shirley) for his baby's nursemaid (Simone Simon). This all foi on until the night that the vil=Mr, Seratch--gomes to cols fect his dues. Frantically, Jabez and his wife, who admires him still, appeal to Daniel Webster himself to argue the case. Daniel accepts and he demands a jury trial. And there before a jury of the Devil's choos ing, such American wrong-doers as Benedict Arnold and Simon Girly, the fiery tongue of the gifted Webster spits eloguent flame, The strongest man of the nation eomes to grips with the Devil himself. AS a short story, at least, it was a high intriguing piece of literary fantasy.
The Droll Thurber
ANOTHER OF our American writers (of an entirely different sort) comes to the screen in “Rise and Shine” a college football movie, which opens tomorrow at the Indiana. This one is based on the book, “My Life and Hard Times” by the superb humerist, James Thur ber, Mr. Thurber went to Ohio State University and the place never seems to have ceased giving him material for funny writings. Preducer of the movie is ane other man who has made a luge urious living with words, Mark Hellinger, Starring Jack Oakie as the greatest all-American halfback who ever lived, yes sir, “Rise and Shine” refuses to be properly respeetful when great feats of athletios are performed, Briefly, it's like this: Before the big game with Notre Dame, Halfback Oukey is kidnapped by gangsters. Of course, without Oakie, dear old Clayton College doesn’t have a chance with the Irish (which is nearer the truth than you might suspect). Too, the gangsters may harm the girl of the story, Linda Darnell. Naturally, this leaves George Murphy, Linda's admirer, with nothing to do but rescue Oakie and foil the whole plot. There is only one minute to
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Opening Tomorrow CIRCLE--“All That Can Buy,” with Edward edu A Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Qualen, Anne Shirley and
Also “Glamour Fr Jackie Goaper and Susann Fore
INDIANA-“Rise and Shine,” with Jack Oakie, Linda Darnell, ; Walter Brennan
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LOEW fe with Rosalind s Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mary Beth Hughes and Ouy Kibbee, Also “Sing for Your Supper,” with Jinx PFalkenburg and Charles (Buddy) Rogers,
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play, Notre Dame leads, 3-0, and the ball is on Clayton's five-yard line. You know how bad a thing like that can be. x
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Woman Judge
“DESIGN FOR SCANDAL" based on Lionel Houser's play and Staring Wmarrgt at Loew's, presents “the peculiar problem of how to woo a woman who by profession is a judge, The usual tactics don't apply. Walter Pidgeon is a news photographer who offers to help his publisher (Edward Arnold) square matters when Judge Rosa lind grants Arnold's wife a divorce and monthly alimony of $4000. The cameraman’s idea is to make the judge fall in love with him, then have her sued by his supposed “finances” and thus make her abandon the bench admist the resulting scandal. The plan goes all right until the love becomes more than a pre« tense. It's the sort of thing one doesn’t often see Mr, Pidgeon do. But the report is that he knows his way around in the light as well as the heavy stuff.
MUSIC TEACHERS PLAN 2 RECITALS
Two Christmas recitals were ane nounced today by Indianapolis music teachers, The plano, voice and organ pupils of the Sue Carolyn studios will par« ticipate in a yuletide recital and party at 8:18 p. m. Saturday in the D. A. R. chapter house, with Wayne Swope as master of ceremonies. Friday night at 7:48 o'clock, Mrs. Laura Oraig Poland will present her piano pupils at the Rauh, Memorial Library auditorium, 3024 N. Meridan St. Also on the program is a gift exchange,
Maxine Shrader, soprané volce student of Elma Igelman, will sing one of the solo roles in the Indiana Central College's presentation of
“Messiah” at 8 o'clock tonight, YOUTHFUL VETERAN
Nancy Kelly made her debut as a child with Gloria Swanson in
'Anything Goes’ Is Civic Choice
" Goes” for the Civie Theater's annual musical production, he ans nounced today, It will be sented at the Playhouse Feb, through Feb, 18. A general audition, open to the publie, for singers and dancers will be held at 7 p. m. Sunday at the Columbia Club, Dorothy Ritter will serve as musical director and Louise Shilling as dance director, In order that rehearsals for the musioal may get under way sooner, the dates for the Civie's fourth pro= duction of the season, “Ladies in Retirement,” have heen moved up to Jan, 0-14, re ts “The Women” {is curren Ing presented by the Olvie and will be performed nightly ‘Saturday,
‘A LITTLE
Drake can play “a little” on six different musioal instruments,
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DEC. 17, 1041 HURRY! FINAL DAY!
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OMORROW — ONE OF THE GREAT 4
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portre guembled with his soul, JAMES CRAIG
“The Untamed Lady.”
B COMES TO THE SCREEN!
Stephen Vincen. LEE LA RHA & DANIEL LANA
‘Warm, glowing, tre to @ love that lived stendion
NNE SHIRLEY
remember him...ond as he is today ~both in the same picturel
| LAST DAY—CLAUDETTE COLBERT IN “SKYLARK”