Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1941 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 81, 1041

NEIGHBORAOODS

~ THE TURNING OF THE YEAR dishes up three new shows for

feighborhood audiences. t for Love”

They are and “International Squadron.” These new

By Tim Tippett

“The Chocolate Soldier,”

8 introduce themselves into a field that has dressed itself up much as possible for New Years parties and the resultant need & dark theater and something to keep one’s mind from itself.

~The “Chocolate Soldier” has the tte and some of the music of Oscar Strauss

plot of Ferenc Molnar's 30-year-old play, “The Guardsman.” It go-stars Rise Stevens and Nelson Body. It plays at the Belmont through tomorrow; at the GranAda, today through Friday; at the Rivoli, tomorrow through Sunday, and at the Uptown, today through Saturday.

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DR. JANE ALEXANDER (Mar- |

PF garét Sullavan) in “Appointment for Love,” can reduce most of

life's foibles and pleasures to dank | a

laboratory formulas. However, all that changes after she meets Playwright Andre Cassil (Charles Boyer). Its a good show and plays at the Irving tomorrow through Sunday and at the St. Clair today through Saturday.

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“INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON" opens with a test power dive and before the show is over it has Ronald Reagan across the Atlantic joined up with the for@igh squadron of the R. A, F. It’s fast moving and full of excitement. It's playing at the Strand today through Saturday; at the Irving, tomorrow through Sunday: at the Rivoli, tomorrow through Sunday; Bitow through Saturday and at ; Zaring. tomorrow through Saturday. $ = =

Practically all the neighborhood theaters’ will be open tonight for those who want a safe and sane New Year's eve. Most have manfed to have their feature start 8% midnight or a few minutes after

8 # 8 THE MID-WEEK SCHEDULE:

BELMONT Through tomorrow: ‘The Ehocolate Soldier” and “Three Girls mt Town. OINEMA Through Saturday: ~A Yank n a R. A. PF.” and ‘Smilin’ Through.’ AISY— Lady Be Good’ and “Hello oT Tomorrow through Saturday: Ene in Havana’ and ‘Unholy DP ENERaON V— Virginia” and “Rhythm on oe River.” Tomorrow through Sat: “Moon Over Burma” and ° ated Wings.” “Victory” and “Kiss the 8 Tomorrow through Satay: Smilin’ Through” an Dr idare’s Wedding Day.’ Oe SQUARE-—Through Friday: Girls About Town” and ‘Moon Heht in Hawaii. ave DA—Through Friday ve & Sucker an Even Break late Soldier AMIL TON Citizen Kane® and "Henry Aldrich for President.” Tomor-

HURRY! FINAL DAY! INDIANA

“Never and “The

REGULAR SHOWING

83-year-old | Operetta, For libretto it has the |

at the Vogue, to- |

row thiough Saturday: “Tanks a Million” and “Our Wife.” IRVING— ‘Charlie Chan in and “Ladv Scarface.’ Tomorrow Miiroush Sunday: “International Scuadron” and ‘Appointment for Love.” | MECCA— Through tomorrow. of Bichigan and “Reluctant ORIE NA as “Tillie the Toner, and i “Naval Ac Tomorrow thro Saturday: ° Wife” Fiesta Stars.’ | PARAMOUNT "Hurry, Chatlie, | and shorts, Tomorrow and | “Youll Never Get Rich” an Fray: \ Cavalcade.’ PARKER ‘Here Comes Mr,

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REX Through tomorrow: oR Valley | Serenade” and ‘Smiling Ghost RIVOLI— Feminine Touch” and “Un- | holy Partners.” Last show only: “Honeymoon in Ball,” Tomorrow through Sun¥y: nccolte Soldier” and “International Squadron.’ ST. CLAIR—Through Saturday. 'Appointment for Love’ and “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.’ SANDERS— ‘You'll Never Get Rich” and ‘Power Dive.’ Tomorrow through Saturday: Bi Rte and “Hit Pa- |

rade of 19 SHERIDAN —"“Smilin’ Jhrough a “Harmon _ of Richiga through Saijrd A TN flonster ane he Girl” and ctor A Feminine Touch” and ‘Smilin’ Through.” Temorrew through Saturday: “Week-end in Havana™ and “Man at Large.” STATE Through tomorrow: Sergeant Mulligan” and ‘Harmon © Michigan.” STRAND Through Saturday: “International Squadron’ and “Appointment for Love. STRATFORD — Thro “The Roaring Twenties’ Collegiate. TACOMA — Throu Valley Serenade’ an TALBOT Tr Thioy gh Saturday: in’ Through” elle Starr.’ URED O- Thre h jomorres | “Navy Blues” and “One Night s orto NN Nhrgugh Satniday: “Ghoeo late Soldier” and Down Mexico Way. VOGUE— Yank in the R. A. F."” and Ladies in Retirement Tomor rough Saturday: “Our Wife” and ° ™ “Para-

ough tomo reg and “Lets

tomorrow: ‘Sun “Smiling Ghost.”

“Smil-

ternat fonal Squadron.’ ZARING— ‘Little Foxes” and chute Battalion 4 Tomorrow Saturday: Anternational Squadron” and Father Takes a Wil DOWNTOWN

ALAMO Bandit Trail” and Fellows.” Tomorrow throu “Riders of the Badlands” Jungle Man.’

AMBASSADOR — Kid Jrom Kansas” and ‘South of Tahit Tomorrow through Sunday: International Squadron” and “You Belong to Me.

Sign Gehrig Pal As Film Adviser

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31. (U. P) = Frank (Lefty) ODoul, manager of the San Francisco Seals and former {major league star, has been signed as a technical adviser in Samuel

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{Life of Lou Gehrig.” | His biggest job will be to teach Gary Cooper, who will portray |Gehrig, how to throw and bat left (handed. O'Doul said he would start | Cooper out chopping wood and [throwing pebbles left handed. O'Doul was an intimate friend of Gehrig. They both played for the New York Yankees,

MEREDITH TO STAR IN 'BLACK CURTAIN

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31.-—Burgess Meredith has been assigned to the leading role in “Black Curtain,” the story of an amnesia vietim. Humphrey Bogart and Brenda Marshall have the leads in “Escape From Crime,” the Warner Bros. picture formerly called “The World| Is Ours.”

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES "1942 and You"

Bigger and Better Amusements Will Lighten Load; Show World Expects American Boom Like London's

the last of a series of arpreviewing 1042, outlines ahead when you feel the relaxation,

By TOM WOLF NEA Amusements

This, th ticles what's need for

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— | That's the answer of every show

man to your natural question: “While I'm putting my best energy into my war job in 1942, will I be

able to relax now and then and to

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A look at bomb-tested ne |B

writes an answering “Yes” in lets {ters that stand out like spotlights in a blackout. “Bigger and Better” will be past-

led across every American enter-|

|tainment billboard—theater, movie, | | radio, lighten the load of a somber year |

Buster Crabbe has a few wards

with a canine friend in “Jungle

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which opens on the Alamo

screen tomorrow. The other feature will be “Riders of the Badlands” with Charles Starrett and ,ndoners’ example and to come Russell Hayden.

NOSE BROKEN WHEN jan occasional night out. And they're

night eclub—to help {anead. And don’t be fooled into] thinking otherwise if the New Year | |is quietly ushered in under wraps. But without exception,

| bouncing out of your temporary de- |

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planning entertainment for you

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. Darryl F. Zanuck, sportsman exec-

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utive of 20th Century-Fox studio, was working today with a bandaged nose.

the Uplifters’ Club.

WHEN DOES IT START?

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Tips to Remember

Here are some ‘tips to paste under your top hat for 1942:

MOVIES: Heaviest emphasis will | have plenty of entertainment. new its 11 shows already touring 65 It was broken in a polo game at | leycle of musicals is just starting, Army and Navy camps, U. Ss. O.-

\them on the super-spectacle order. |camp Shows, Ine,

Don't look for any wartime relaxa- |vaudeville-revues to play

be on “escape” pictures. A

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show | § {world veterans expect you to follow |

From Hollywood to Broadway and back to Holly wood again, via Tin Pan Alley, showmen are writing

“Bigger and Better” across entertainment billboards—-theater,

movie, radio and night club-for your

relaxation in 1942. In montage above, movie cameras grind away, left; crowds jam the Gay White Way, top, center; Hollywood's Rita Hayworth contines to dance, right; and the music publishers go to town on a crop of patriotic songs, bottom, center.

If you're in a service camp, you'll subtle so you To recognize them as such.

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tion of moral censorship for quite Spangled Circuit of 141 camps.

'a while. Recent crackdowns by the |

ducers covering up.

You can count on a flock of live off the main stem. As for sum- change much from its present 50-50 One studio, | mer theaters: They made money ratio.

| Legion of Decency have the pro-| lin 1042, so you'll see plenty

Producers will push road shows! of comedies and musicals even if you |

what talks

“Wake Island” epic, based on U. 8.|to a producer.

Marine gallantry there. It's

your 1942 villains will be Japs or |year for you to stay home, Nazis and that you'll see the return jciub impresarios are going all out rently of the ridiculous, futile, Italian-type [for wine, women and song--with songs—“When Those Little Yellow | comedian.

You'll see fewer stars in studios to boost newcomers. The Government consent decree, which lets your neighborhood movie mans ager look before he buys, will emphasige dramatic quality in films rather than star-studded epics that don’t quite jell. One final note: Admission prices will rise (starting, at first, on

weekends). A Look at Theaters

THEATER: Double check movies’ emphasis on “escape” this department, ample, the current Broadway farce “Cockoos on the Hearth” has been rewritten to eliminate all war references.) Most producers are going ahead with their pre-war plans, which were heavily musical and comedy, anyway. New York and West Coast theaters have faced the possibility of blackouts, the only problems face ing you being getting to and from the shows. If blackouts become permanent, ‘producers figure you'll learn to handle them in stride (“just like climbing over six people in the middle of the first act,” as one wit put it).

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MUSIC: “Frothy stuff on the upLonghaired stuff to slump. - (Or, to put a music veteran's pro-| |@iction into plain English, listen for | lots of swing, little classical music. The sweet-vs.<hot battle should not |

Keep an ear open for gs |Kenton’s sensational hot music and | {Claude Thornhill’s sweet.

President Gene Buck has re-

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“fighting songs.” a rash

| Bellies Meet the Cohens and the Kelleys,” “Good-Bye Mama, I'm

| Remember Pearl Harbor,” eic. But (British experience has shown that sentimental nostalgic pieces are 10-1 choices over war songs. Amerie |can publishers are accordingly dust« ling off old favorites until a new “Over There” comes along. If the music men’s prophesies (and that recurrent “Look at Lonmean anything, you'll be your gramaphone in 1942

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USE MILLER BOYS IN "MELODY MAN’

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31.—Glenn Miller and his orchestra are to he featured in “Melody Man,” which Bryan Foy will produce for 20th Century-Fox, Stanley Rauh is doing the script.

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