Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1941 — Page 8

VOICE from the Balcony

by FR

EMONT POWER

BOTH HITHER AND YON—IT'S A NOVEL way they have of taking curtain calls in “Life With Father,” which opens at English’s on

Christmas night.

Instead of making the usual bows when the curtain

rises, the entire Day family poses for a typical tintype tableau of the

1880°s. And all are gazing at the “birdie.”

. Jungle or no jungle, the

Hays office has decreed that Maureen O'Sullivan must be adequately

clothed in “Tarzan’s Secret Treasure.” The tine was when more was seen of Maureen, via a few

tomorrow.)

(Plug for Loew's—it opens there

caressing breezes, ete, but those days, alas, are gone,

A day in the local screening rooms yesterday

Man Who Came to Dinner” will be same zippy comedy on the screen that it was on the stage. Monty Woolley is despicable and bombastie, no less. Also shown to the trade was Universal's “Paris Calling.” first of the movies to come that will dramatize what is going on now in France. Naturally, the theme is sabotage. The stars are Elizabeth Bergner and Randolph Scott. Probably not a few movietown big-wigs are burning because that young upstart, Orson Welles, has produced the film (“Citizen Kane”) which the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has chosen as the “best Hollywoodmade picture of 194%” Tabbed as “exceptional,” in addition to Mr. Welles’ opus, were “How Green Was My Valley” (opening at the Circle on New Year's), “The Little Foxes,” “The Stars Look Down” (no takers among local exhibitors), “Dumbo,” “High Sierra” “Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” “Tom, Dick and Harry,” “The Road to Zanzibar’ and “The Lady Eve.

Batterup!

PAUL GALLICO, the reformed sports writer, has turned in the completed script for the movie to be based on the life of Lou Gehrig. Sam Wood was named to direct when Howard Hawks announced he wanted a long honeymoon. . . . Red Skelton, you know, is the guy who makes fun of women drivers. Well, the other day Mr. and Mrs. Skelton applied for California driver's licenses and took the prescribed operating tests. Mrs. Skelton passed with a perfect mark. Red flunked miserably. Or so they say. Surprising no one, Tin Pan Alley has come up fast with a variety of song titles based on the war, to wit: “We'll Always Remember Pearl Harbor,” “Let's Put the Axe to the Axis,” “The Sun Will Soon Be Setting for the Land of the Rising Sun” “We're Going to Find a Fellow Who Is Yellow and Beat Him Red, White snd Blue.” “We've Got To Do a Job on the Japs, Baby,” “They're Gonna Be Playing Taps on the Japs,” “You're a Sap, Mr. Jap” “Put the Heat on Hitler, Muss Up Mussolini and Tie a Can Japan,” “We'll Knock the Japs Right Into the Laps of the Nazis” “The Japs Havent Got a Ghost of a Chance,” “To Be Specific— It's Our Pacific’—and the list goes on and on And speaking of music, Capt. Howard Bronson, music officer of the Army's morale branch, says there'll be no battle of boogie woogie vs, Bach in the Army. Those soldiers who like classical | music probably will get it, or at least some tests will be made to see how strong the demand is.

revealed that “The

Almost

Best Co-Ed Singer in Nation Born Near Indiana Line

THE HUNT FOR the outstanding singer among college girls in America has proved that the best warblers come not far from the banks of the Wabash. Phyllis Wil cox of Indianapolis, who represented Indiana University in the Hour of Charm finals over the radio, had the satis. Miss Wilcox faction of losing to an Ohio girl who was born near the Indiana border. The winner, Dorothy McVitty of Ohio State. is a native of Lima, O. Her victory gives to Ohio State University a $4000 scholarship which is to be | awarded in her name to deserving music students.

=» =» » MISS WILCOX, who lives at 36 N. Webster Ave, receives personally the same amount that goes to the winner—$1000. That sum also goes to Marilyn Skiles of the University of Illinois, another finalist. As a loyal Hoosier, Miss Wilcox can take comfort in the fact that Illinois borders Indiana. The search for the outstanding co-ed singer was made by Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra.

Chaney Jr. Creates Role

He's Transformed Into a Strange Werewolf

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U. P) — Lon Chaney Jr, who for a long time was cast in conventional roles,

finally is creating a character to equal any played by his late father, the “man of a thousand faces.” Chaney has the title role in Universal's “The Wolf Man,” and is transformed by makeup artistry

ters ever seen on the screen. In a picture its makers hope will give audiences the shudders, Chaney will appear as a werewoli— half man, half wolf.

Looks for Werewolf

Task of turning Chaney from a respectable citizen into a werewolf fell to Jack Pierce, creator of the Frankenstein monster, “The Mummy” and others. Pierce had considerable difficulty finding out just what a werewolf looked like. “I combed numerous histories of England without finding a practical description of a werewolf,” he said. “About all I learned was that the legend began, and still persists, among the people of Wales who live around the ancient castles. “Sometimes the wind produces sounds like the howling of wolves. Apparently the werewolf legend started with these noises.”

Makeup Takes 4 Hours

Unable to find a workable description of a werewolf, Pierce designed one of his own. He started with a plaster bust of Chaney, practicing in the application of yak and kelp hair before starting on the

into one of the strangest charac- \

actor. It takes four hours to get the) {makeup on, and 45 minutes to get | [it off again. Getting it off doesn’t) take so long but sometimes is pain-| ful, if the hair sticks too tightly. A strange nose piece aids t “wolf” illusion, and even ears, hands and feet have to be hairy. The werewolf wears shirt and trousers, so Chaney is spared having the rest of his body made up.

QUITS NIGHT SPOTS TO AID WAR EFFORT

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P). —Virginia Hill, who estimates she spends $70,000 annually in Broadway and Hollywood night spots, has announced she is going all out in support of the nation’s war effort.

CORINNE GRIFFITH

ADOPTS 2 GIRLS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P).—|

Corinne Griffith, star of the silent | screen, has adopted two small girls] in

Juvenile Court. Miss Griffith, in private life the

wife of George Marshall wealthy LINDA HAYES SUED

owner of the Washington Redskins | professional | granted adoption papers for Pamela. | 12 3 Griffith informally adopted in 1938. | Actress Linda Hayes has been sued { The children have been attending for $8942 by Agent Harry Rosen | who contended she cost him that

football team, was

and Cynthia, 10, whom Miss |

a Beverly Hills boarding school.

GETS LION DOG

William Holden has purchased a

{ Rhodesian lion dog to use in hunt- failing to obtain employment for

ing mountain lions.

in a picture, she said she wes gojing to Chicago to join the Red

he | ter McGown,

In a letter to Samuel Goldwyn, camp. The Nansen for whom she just completed a part!

{Cross and will buy defense bonds with the money she would have [Se in night clubs.

OVER AGENTS' FEES

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P).—

much in commissions by breaking a contract in 1938. Miss Hayes claimed Rosen breached the contract himself by

Johnny Weissmuller takes a few words of advice from Cheeta, the ape, while Reginald Owen looks on with befuddlement and Barry Fitzgerald reclines peacefully on the cot. The scene is from “Tarzan’s opening tomorrow at Loew's,

Secret Treasure,”

2d Mate Balks At Settlement

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P).—

It was easy for Marcelle Edwards, |

former Vanities showgirl, to get a

erty settlement of July, 1940, under which he agreed to pay her $17,500 by next Jan. 1. | Carlisle charged she fraudulently | induced him to settle the amount| on her merely so she could divorce!

him and provide a “dowry” to Walreal estate man, to] whom he said she now is married. | OLIVIA CHOICE OF TROOPS IN ICELAND HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P).— Olivia De Havilland has been informed she has been chosen as the “Nansen Hut Girl” by the soldiers stationed at Camp Barrow, Reykjavik, Iceland. The title was conferred upon her | by Priv. J. T. Phillips, who said members of the detachment wanted

100 autographed photographs for the interior of every “hut” in the

fabricated circular iron dwellings.

ACCIDENT

“huts” are pre-|-

A song in a shower bath scene in “The Remarkable Andrew” revealed | that William Holden also happens] to be a vocalist. So, he was cast in “The Fleet's In.”

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Experimental concerts of recorded music will be staged at Ft. Belvoir and Ft. Meyer in Virginia to measure response,

Ginger at Par

YOU'LL BE comforted to learn, I'm sure, that Ginger Rogers is now uipping the scales at 115 pounds, which is precisely what she weighed when she made her first Hollywood picture, “42nd Street,” in 1933. They say it's taken Ginger six years to regain the weight she lost when she was kicking the hooves with Fred As- | taire . When the studio pub- | licist made the rounds finding | out what the stars planned to do Christmas, he found John Barry- | more unpredictable as usual. | “I may,” said the walking scotch | and soda, “go swimming, skiing, hunting or combine the three.”

SEEKS STARS FOR HEMINGWAY FILM

CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (U. P) —Sam Wood, who will direct the motion] picture version of Ernest Heming- | ways novel, “For Whom the Bell] Tolls,” wants Vera Zorina and Gary Cooper for the roles of Maria and Robert Jordon. | During a stopover en route to] New York, Wood said no final| choice had been made but that Miss Zorina and Cooper were his preferences “at the moment.”

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LYRIC Who's Laughing.” with Fibber McGee and Molly, Edgar Berd Charlie McCarthy and Lue . all. at 12:10. 2:45. 5:20, 8 and

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HONEY BLONDS GET MOVIE CONTRACTS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U, P.).— Two honey blonds, June Millarde and Ann Corcoran, had a pair of Christmas packages today in the

form of new contracts with Warner|

Bros.

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Warner Bros.' ‘Juke Girl

Set Is Fascinating.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U. P) — The back lot at Warner Bros. usually is as busy as any of its sound stages. It's a fascinating place—you never know what's pita to turn up next. Pride of the back lot at the moment is the “Juke Girl” &8t, a rowdy, sprawling little section of a town so brilliantly neonslighted airline pilots coming in to nearby airports can use it for a landmark. It is a two-street town, with one street running north and south and the other east and west. There wi four blocks of bars, gambling and dance halls. They will be shooting there at night for two

weeks. Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, Alan Hale, and Gene Lockhart are among tie characters who whoop it up along these streets in a rauceous melodrama which includes a lynch mob attack on the two-story jail. Name of the town is Cat Tail Director Curtis Bernhardt said it was patterned after a village in Florida. It's an expensive set,

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