Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1942 — Page 16

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VOICE from the Balcony {by FREMONT POWER

WITH HARRY PULHAM'S NAME ALREADY up in lights on

Loew's marquee, t

further tomorrow with new shows opening at the Indiana an

he downtown cinematic scene will be brightened

d Circle.

Brightened, that is, if one doesn’t mind applying such a cheery term to

the Indiana show,

“Swamp Water. Ax a matter of fact, this one is quite eerie

It’s about the treacher-

ous Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, where not so long ago people went into the deadly bogs and never came back. Or, if that didn’t happen, perhaps the alligators or the cottonmouths might sink a tooth in you.

Its not exactly a pleasant story, Directed by Jean Renior,

the |

Frenchman who makes his Ameri- |

can . megaphonic debut with “Swamp Water,” tures those two veteran Walters Brennan and Huston, and also Anne Baxter (she tempted Jack Benny in “Charley's Aunt™), Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore and John Carradine

A darkly tinted murder mystery

the picture fea- |

| ard Whorf,

the story revolves about the meet- |

" ing of Andrews, who goes the swamp to look for and Brennan, who is hiding because he is w vr murder The two become friends, go into a partnership of hunting and . trapping. Andrews’ sweetheart, Miss Gilmore, accuses him of aiding a wanted man and he is ostracized from the community The action deals with Andrews traps the real killer, falls ' in love with Brennan's daughter, ~ Miss Baxter, and saves the unr. Huston, role of

anted fx

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incident ally, ph AVS Andrews’ father ' A press agent working these parts the other day said something, too. about one of the men being bitten in the face by tonmouth snake = = s

Durante in Khaki

BUT IF theres any doubt about . the Indiana show being capable of bringing light into these dark times, at least theres none with the Circle's “You're in the Army.” The guy who is in the Army is

A Cot-

Jimmy Durante and with him goes |

" NURRY! FINAL DAY!

into | his dog, | there |

| Greenwood, Lynn

| his new partner in comedy, theyre a | sales- |

how |

| couple

| mations | points and bad, Durante and Sil- | vers presently find they've talked

or so intended.

= = ®

Opening Tomorrow CIRCLE—“You're in the Army with Jimmy Durante, Phil Jane Wyman, Regis

Now.” Silvers, Toomey Also “Blues in the Night,” with

and Donald MacBride. |

Priscilla Lane. Betty Field, Rich- |

Lloyd Nolan, Jack

Carson and Billy Halop.

INDIANA—“Swamp Water,” |

with Walter Brennan, Walter Huston. Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore and John Carradine. Also “The Perfect Snob” with Charlie Ruggles, Charlotte Bari, Comel | Wilde, Anthony Quinn and Alan Mowbray,

Phil This time of carpet sweeper men who try to sell their wares at a recruiting station. In the heat of the negotiation, with people signing papers, yelling exclaand pointing to good

Silvers

themselves into the service. And so—Col. Donald MacBride, head of a cavalry unit that’s being mechanized, still thinks the horse is stronger than the tank,

| a belief which causes some fric-

tion bétween him and his daughsweetheart, Capt. Regis Toomey, Jane Wyman being the daughter. Whereupon, the buck private team of Durante & Silvers launch a great patching up campaign. The Circle's second feature also is on the light side of the line. Richard Whorf, who stepped into | Hollywood from the Luint-Fon-tanne cast of “There Shall Be Ne Night.” the band that plays the New Orleans levee blues. Betty Field is the bad girl and Priscilla Lane is the good one and “Blues in Night” is the title For authentic background, the film utilizes the services of Jimmy | Lunceford and Will Osborne's bands—which is all a great many hordes of hepeats will need to be told.

ters

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leader of a |

the

Bond as Guinn Williams (rear)

Poor Pussy—in the Swamp

Anne Baxter appears on the verge of losing her little pet to Ward and John Carradine look on.

It's

from "Swamp Water,” which comes to the Indiana screen tomorrow.

'H. M. Pulham, Esq.” Is Quiet, Realistic Story of Man's Life

A simple recording of any man’s would make a good novel, and so John P, Marquand wrote one about The movie version gpened yesterday at Loew's

“H. M. Pulham, Esq.” Mr. Pulham is a fictional man {and yet he is real, for his life is no more exciting or different than the average man's. In fact, it is this plainness that makes the story an attractive one. Harry Pulham is Bostonian. As seen on the screen, he remains a stuffy little businessman, whose one gay memory is a brief fling at romance. Otherwise, the monotony of his existence is its chief characteristic. Adaptation Well Done There is a question, of course,

just a stuffy

life and his thoughts, they say,

able as usual, and ‘Van Heflin, as Pulham’s best friend, comes near to turning in the best performance of

| the whole show.

The story is simply a record of Pulham’s life, his education at the finest Eastern schools, his bravery in the first war which he is too modest to speak of, his brief stay in New York when he falls in love with Hedy, and his eventual return to Boston, his birthplace, upon the death of Pulham the elder. Once back in Boston, he marries Miss

| Hussey, because his real sweetheart,

whether a bored man makes good | Hedy, refuses to leave her career | dramatic .material, but this picture | for the staid atmosphere of his

| is hardly the answer to this prob- | lem Those who read the book will admire the authenticity of Director King Vidor’s approach, though they | may lament the jumbled flash-back | | system. In fact, those who read the book | may find themselves puzzled in attempting to conclude whether the movie is an entertaining one or

| whether it merely is a good adapta- |

tion of a well-liked novel. Robert Young as Pulham is not | what one alway would expect from a stock broker of 50 and Hedy Lamarr's accent has to be explained {by a few improvised lines which { state that she is a Middle West- | erner, but of foreign parentage. | Ruth Hussey as the wife is very

For love of her n braved } —- niles of Name

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home, and he in turn refuses to break these long-standing ties. It is a realistic story, with a minimum of Hollywood hoopla. Notice { how Mr. Vidor lays an atmosphere

rr INDIANAPOLIS TIMRS

Annabella Here Feb. 2

Mrs. Tyrone Power Coming In ‘Blithe Spirit.’

Annabella, who in private life is Mrs. Tyrone Power, will be at Eng-

lish's for three days next month in Noel Coward's new farce,

“Blithe Spirit,” Manager Vincent Burke announced today. The dates are Feb. 2, 3 and 4. Other stars will be Dennis King and Estelle Winwood. The booking brings to three the plays definitely scheduled to come to English’s. Cornelia Otis Skinner will be here Jan, 29, 30 and 31 in “Theater” and Helen Hayes is due Feb, 12, 13 and 14 in “Candle in the Wind.” Concerning a novelist whose first wife returns as a ghost and besides haunting the life out of him, makes him a virtual bigamist, “Blithe Spirit” opened last November in New York.

THEATER HEAD DIES

W. G. Van Schmus, 66, managing director of the Rockefeller Center Theaters—the Music Hall and Center Theater—died after a attack yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital, where he was taken Dec. 30.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE “How Green Was My Valley,” ia Waiter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Har Donald sp, Sara Allgood Anns Lee ar and Roddy Me bowall. at 12:1

6:30 and 9 “Marry the es, Daughter,” with Brenda Jovce, Bruce Edwards and oid Barbier, at 11:10, 2:20, 5:30

INDIANA “Hemsapspnin’ * (the movie), with Olsen and Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Neel aoe Mischa Auer, at 12:41 146, 6:51 and 9: Seated Lips,” with Willlam Gare gan, June Clyde and Sohn Litel, at 11:39, 2:44, 5:49 and 8:56

LOEW'S

“H. H, Pulham, Esq.,” with Robert Young, Hedy Lamarr, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn and Van Heflin, at 10: 45, 2:30. 6:15 and 10. . Kildare’s Victory,” with Lew Lionel Barrymore and Ann 12:49, ¢:3¢ and 8:19

LYRIC “Louisiana Purchase” Bob

Ayres, Avyars,

(In techni«

with Edmund nd Fd HariT 6:30 and 9:2

of sameness in the opening scene

with the ticking of a clock, a cat! and Pulham’s punctual arrival at] It is a clever

the breakfast table, job. “Pulham, Esq.” bent on high excitement.—F. P.

Short Reel

Pictures of the last Joe Louis fistic episode will open tomorrow at the Alamo and play through Monday. Manager Rex Carr of the theater explained that the film runs for 15 minutes, including in slow motion the punches that laid Buddy Baer away so quickly and also Wendell Willkie’s pre-fight speech.

| is for those not |

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A very clever getup, except that the schnozzle is the tip-off that Jimmy Durante is the star of “You're in the Army,” opening tomorrow at the Circle. Co-starred is Phil Silvers.

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“FLYING CADETS" GARGAN: EDM LOWS

Choir Gives First Recital

Audience Fills Athenaeum; Miller Soloist.

Taking off all the wraps this time, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir stepped out last night ‘at the Athenaeum in the first all-choral concert of its brief career. Heretofore the group has been

doing most of its singing behind the Indianapolis Symphony Orches-

THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1942

choir did some pleasing work, and work that is not altogether easy. As guest soloist, Mr. Miller, with a fine legato and stage manners to match, provided the vocal high lights of the program. One recalls with pleasure his singing of Handel's “O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me,” Ronald's “Prelude” and an encore, Paul Johnson's spiritual, “Take My Mother Home.” And those, just to mention a few, Mr, Miller was a high success. —F, P.

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formance. The result was an evening of at-

liam Miller, guest soloist. The concert showed the effects of rigid discipline and training.

Chicago tenor,

ing and Mr. Steffen was able to get | whatever shadings he might require. All that seemed lacking was that elusive, ultimate subtlety by which all voices sing to the

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Celestes,” an unaccompanied humming chorus, Foote's Fathers” and

operatic excerpt, “Polonalse”

was in some respects a debut per-| Cellis | With Unparalltny

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In such items as Alcock's “Voix “God of Our

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