Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1941 — Page 13

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 —MGM’s “Caravan” will be released under ‘the title “A Yank on the Burma Road,” although earlier Republic announced the title, “Yanks Over |

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stage. Both these mediums can be used for a great freedom of sincere expression, and that after all is the slogan of this war: Freedom. And so why not use the freedom now for such eloquent e S as “Citizen Kane” “The Little Foxes,” “The Long Voyage Home,” “All That Money Can Buy” and “How Green Was My Valley.” When all the blazing hate and fury has subsided, it will be for such works as these that the | motion picture industry of the | present era will be remembered. & -&

Ford's Finale?

“HOW GREEN Was My Valley,” | adapted from Richard Llewellyn’s beautifully-written novel of the same title, opens Wednesday evening at the Circle. Seen at a press preview last week, it proved to be | one of the fine pictures of this season® That was the consensus | of those who saw it then. | It was directed by John Ford | and it may possibly be that the | {| film was his valédictory to the | screen. When the war broke loose, {| Mr. Ford finished up his business | in Hollywood and slipped into a | | Navy uniform as a lieutenant | commander. Some think it's | likely that he won't return to the | field in which he was such a brilliant figure for 25 years. Best known perhaps for “The | | Informer,” which often is referred | | to as the best motion picture ever | | made, Mr, Ford has won the |

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WAR, THEY SAY, PLACES AN INHERENT duty upon the enter-' | tainment business to make the people laugh. With the world shrouded by a deathly gloom, the dramatists are looked to for a few bright and | cheery interludes in the ponderous chain of current affairs. Slapstick comedy, they say, is the order of the day: Abbott and | Costello, Bob Hope in a negligee, Bette Davis sitting on cactus needles. This, the veterans opine, is what the people want. True, they do. Box office figures show that. ; But all the same, there seems no reason why we should lose sight of some of the other possibilities offered by both the screen and the

Academy Award for direction three times. His record includes such memorable products as “Cameo Kirby,” which lifted John Gilbert to fame, ahd “The Iron Horse” the silent days “Arrowsmith,” “Stagecoach,” “Tobacco Road” “Grapes of Wrath” and “Long Voyage Home” of the talkies, There is no American movie di-

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» Honest John MR. FORD al has been artistically honest, avoiding always the temptation of cheap dramatics. And . such sincerity has paid him well. His income from 20th Century-Fox, which he forsook for the Navy, was

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astronomic. : \ The studio never seemed to be | penny-mihded where John Ford | was concerned. “How Green Was My Valley” is reported to be a $2,000,000 production. Most of this expense can be attributed to Mr. Ford's determination to make the movie an | exact reproduction of the novel And those who have read the book surely will agree that he succeeded. The music is authentic. The singers were recruited from the choir of the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, one of the best known choral organizations in the West. When a scene called for a coal mine shaft, then one was built. Ersatz methods were not used. In fact, 330 of the 356 scenes were taken verbatim from the book, the studio claims, As for casting, Mr. Ford insisted there, too, on upholding his ideal of authenticity. “How Green Was My Valley” is laid in a Welsh mining village and its theme is the plight of the workers as mechanization and unscrupulous management methods push them more and more into the misery of unemployment. The roles call for players of Celtic background.

» = = Abbey Players Starred AND SO Mr. Ford peopled the screen play with Irish folk, many of them from Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre. Sara Allgood, once as beautiful a colleen as the Irish stage ever saw, is the mother of the novel. She plays with her former Abbey partner, Barry Fitzgerald, well-known to movie patrons for his blowzy comedy. Feminine star of the film is Maureen O'Hara, who received her early training with the Abbey Players and also from the Irish stage are Arthur Shields, formerly director of the Abbey company; Patric Knowles and Dennis Hoey. As Joe the boy, Huw, the producers chose the 12-year-old English lad, Roddy McDowall. ~ Others in the cast are Donald Crisp (the father), John Loder, Anna Lee, Walter Pidgeon (the minister), Rhys Williams, Evan S. Evans and Lionel Pape. Viewed from a boxoffice standpoint, it is not an all-star cast by ans means It does1t have any parts stupidly cast morely for the sake of including a “big name” in the billing. Director Ford doesn’t work that way. He has insisted on a solidly, humanly told story—and thats what he got.

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tion, $425000 worth of finished

film is put into a wveult—certainly for the duration of the war, and

probably forever. Completely cut, scored and titled,

the picture is “Call Out the Ma-

rines,” a comedy with Victor MeLagler and Edmund Lowe in a revival of their Flagg and Quirt roles. Now that the Marines really have been called out on vital business, the film just isn’t funny. Worse still, the good-natured ribbing of our tough sea-soldiers now would seem like ridicule. In peacetime maybe it was all right for a bunch of cuties to disrupt routine at a military base, and figuring in a comedy chase sequence with tanks and scout cars, Today it would look just plain silly. In the same way, Metro is making extensive alterations in its “Panama Hattie,” the new idea being that

RKO executives look on in dejec-!

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WHEN. DOES IT START?

CIRCLE “playmates.” with Kay Kyser and his band, John Barrymore, Lu Velez and Ginny Simms, at 12:50, 3:40, 6:50 and 10. “The Night of January 16th,” with Robert Preston and Ellen Drew, at 11:15, 2:25, 5:35 and 8:45, ENGLISH'S “Life With Father” (on stage), with Margalo Gilimore and Percy Waram, at 8:30. Matinee Wednesday at 2:30. Closing Wednesday night. INDIANA “Louisiana Purchase” (in technicolor), with Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore apd Irene Bordoni, at 12:31, 3:41, 6:51 and 10.01. Ww with Edmund

LOEW'S “Tarzan’s Secret Treasure,” with Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’'Sullivan and John Sheppield, at 11:45, 3:20, 7 and 10. “International Lady,” with Geo Brent, Tilona Massey and Basil Rathbone, at 1:10, 4:45 and 8:25. " LYRIC

“Badlands of Dakota,” with Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Frances Farmer, Brod Crawford and Richard Dix, at 11, 1.55, 4:50, 7:45 and 10:45. : “This Woman Is Mine,” with

Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford and aol Bruce, at 12:20, 3:15, 6:15 and

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Father,” which closes at English’s on Wednesday night, three days in “Separate Rooms,” which opens New the movies. Following that comedy will be Walter ” a Theater Guild production which opens for three

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WOMAN OF THE YEAR

M-G-M’s Picture of the Year. Directed by GEORGE STEVENS. Coming Soon!

STUDIOS REWARD ALL WHO ENLIST

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20. — War

an acute shortage of skilled labor, they're paying cash bonuses to employees who enlist. The often discussed scheme of charging 25 cents (for charity) for stars’ autographs is being revived. Now the Red Cross would be the beneficiary, or else a Defense Stamp would be sold with each autograph.

SANG FOR PENNIES

Betty Hutton, blond singer who makes her film debut in Paramount’s “The Fleet's In,” helped support her family when she was 2 by singing for pennies and nickels.

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