Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 26

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Hemingway Film Lacking Required Tanks

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P).—

Don’t be too surprised if you see a picture sometime in the near future with a strange contraption labeled, “This is a tank.”

That would be okay in the Chinese theater and its been used by our own American Army on maneuvers. Hollywood still has hopes it may avoid such a desperate last measure. Army expansion, the lend-lease program, etc., have caused all kinds of trouble in the production of military . pictures, Equipment needed by the Army is not available for make-believe,

Lend-Lease Program

Paramount needs 40 tanks for war sequences of “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” They have one, in noisy working order. The studios have worked out a Jend-lease program of their own for situations like this, and i% is of some help, but not much. M-G-M promised half its armored force. That sounded great until it was learned the M-G-M “force” consisted of two rusty vehicles. Two more are in prospect from the Military Uniforms and Equipment Co. of Burbank. The company bought five tanks several years ago from the Army, but they were such junkers that it took parts from all five to get two running.

Need Actors, Too

That makes a total of four, and at that figure, 36 short. Producer B. G. DeSylva and Director Sam Wood seem to be stopped. Paramount has tried to talk M-G-M out of that other one, but

Martha Whyte as Edith (right)

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from Jane Kinghan as Sylvia in “The Women,” currently on the Civic Theater stage. The production will play through Saturday night.

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its own or fears invasion, because it refuses to let them both go. And as if tanks weren't enough to worry about, Paramount still is

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looking for an aétor to play Robert Jordan, and an actress to play Maria, the heroes of Ernest Hem-| ingway’s novel of civil war in Spain. |

LANG WILL DIRECT 'A HOUSE AT PEACE’

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 — Fritz Lang has been replaced by Archie Mayo as director of 20th CenturyFox's “Moontide” because of Mr. Lang's disagreement over development of the story. He is to be assigned to “A House at Peace,” which will start next month.

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cinema, self-styled and otherwise, will start exercising their brain cells pertaining to memory in an effort to choose the “10 best of the

year’ ances.

The task applies both to movies and to individual perform-

Trade publications already have mailed their lists of available choices to the defenders of Hollywood, inviting them to participate

in national surveys.

And many will accept, although an authentic

purpose for such canvasses is often hard to find. Mostly, it's just good fun, in which anyone's preferences are as good as the next cus-

tomers. Having been in the business of serious film observing only a short time, however, this particular writer will indulge in no such selection making. (O, happy day!) There was a time not so long ago when I had to pay to get in, too, just like the rest, and under such circumstances the most hysterical rave review didn’t always send me streaking to the nearest box office. During this pre-movie period, some of the best works of cinematic art came and departed, and for one reason or another, I just muddled on in a blind, “blissful way. = =

But All's Not Lost

DESPITE ALL this, there are some considerations which can be made. Both from personal experience and the writings of others, it is possible vo draw up incomplete lists that most likely will contain some of the movies that will win out in the final selections. There are, to begin with such films as “Sergeant York,” “Citizen Kane,” “A Woman's Face,” “Meet John Doe,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “Ladies in Retirement,” “Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” “The Little Foxes,” “One Foot in Heaven” and “Suspicion.” Also in the upper classifications are “Penny Serenade,” “Blossoms in the Dust,” “The Strawberry Blond,” “Kitty Foyle,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Man Hunt” and “Hold Back the Dawn.” Remember, though, that this is only an incomplete listing, at best. Those are just seme that happened to come to mind.

As to Stars

IN ANY choice for the best individual performances, surely the following should be considered: Ginger Rogers in “Kitty Foyle,” Olivia de Havilland in “Hold Back the Dawn” and “The Strawberry

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Blond,” Barbara Stanwyck in “Meet John Doe” and “The Lady Eve,” Fredric March in “One Foot in Heaven” and “So Ends Our Night,” Gary Cooper in “Sergeant York,” Orson Welles and Dorothy Comingore in “Citizen Kane,” John Crawford in “A Woman's Face,” and Robert Montgomery in “Here Comes Mr. Jordan.” And the list goes on: Mary Astor in “The Great Lie” and “The Maltese Falcon,” Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon,” Irene Dunne in “Penny Serenade,” Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in “Suspicion,” Claudette Colbert in “Skylark,” Ida Lupino in “Ladies in Retirement,” Greer Garson in “Blossoms in the Dust,” Walter Pidgeon in “Man Hunt” and Philip Dorm in “Underground.” Such lists, of course, are only a matter of personal preference in many cases, but they cover none the less a heap of fine acting. And box office returns have nothing to do with the choosing thereof. Perhaps nowhere else in the entertainment business is there such a divergence in critical appraisal and customer response as in the movies Actual selling of a film still is a mostly cold and hard matter of “big names.” It's a cross we reviewers have to bear.

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Poor Girls Lead Stars

Have ‘to Learn Glamour, Expert Points Out

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P).— The girl who has never known wealth or high social position has

fortunate sisters when it comes to succeeding in the movies. .That is the opinion of Wally Wesimore, head of the makeup department at Paramount and a man who has known personally almost every star of the past decade. “It takes a girl from the store counter, the office or the soda fountain to make the grade in Hollywood,” he said. “And this is not the fault of the socialites. They just haven't had the training the other girls have.

‘It’s Very Simple’

“It’s very simple. A wealthy girl has the money to buy clothes, to hire beauty experts, and she may or may not have learned really to wear clothes. Probably not. “The working girl doesn’t have expensive gowns and frocks designed by top-notchers. She has to look well in a dress that costs maybe $5. She has to learn to apply makeup for herself. “She has to learn to dress her own hair. She has to learn the trick of making people look at the girl instead of the clothes.”

Lauds Jean Phillips

He commented on a photograph of Jean Phillips, now being starred in “Dr. Broadway.” “Look at the picture,” he said, “you don’t even notice her clothes. All you see is the girl. She has worked for years and she has learned that trick. She has glamour. “The same is true of Dorothy Lamour, Mary Martin, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Ann Sheridan. It’s an old story. If you have to learn a thing, you learn it. If you don’t, you don't.”

Fit Pictures to War Conditions

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18. — Movie martial moves: Many pictures scheduled for production, in production and some ready for release will be changed to fit war conditions. Among these probably will be “Canal Zone,” with Chester Morris and Harriet Hillard; “To the Shores

and John Payne, and “Ship Ahoy,” musical for Eleanor Powell. One of the first FBI moves here was to arrest Japanese houseboys in the homes of several stars. Also landed in the round-up was Michio Ito, technical adviser on several films. Neatest phrase came from Mrs. Emst Lubitsch, film executive wife and president of the local chapter of Bundles for Britain. She announced it would be “Bundles for Bluejackets” for duration.

STUDIO TOURIST RACKET BARED

HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 18.—Authorities cracked down on a well-organ-ized racket here in which studio tours were being sold to tourists for $7.50 per person. Promises were made that visitors actually would be taken on the sets and introduced to players. The money was represen bution to screen rari. All the salesmen did, of course, was take the money and skip.

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HOLLYWOOD CHEST DRIVE SETS RECORD

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— The film industry—producers, stars, exiras and studio workers—have set a new record by turning over almost $500,000 to the 1941 Com-< munity Chest Fund. Edward Arnold, reporting on the campaign's success, said 19,510 workers had contributed $475,326 to the fund.

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