Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1942 — Page 10

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Dad's Swords | Fit Doug Jr.

Loew's Shows Fairbanks As Dashing Hero.

Given an equal number of stone walls to vault and sabers to brandish, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. very likely will become the same dashing hero that his pappy was. In “The Corsican Brothers.” currently at Loew's, Doug Jr. woos, fights rides and jumps about with all the

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alarming springiness

hooves the son of old man Fair-| nks, the | It looks like sword play is here| a i for awhile, for Fairbanks the son| is stil a young man and Hitler can't burn all the Dumas books | even with his best trained Gestapo. | And it is. by no means, a dull outlook. 4 Though “The Corsican Brothers *keeps the projecting machines whirling away for nearly two hours, it’s not quite as long as some other pictures that take the same time.

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Settings Good, Toe The film has, for one thing, the Dumas story (freely adapted) and as is well known by now, Dumas

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VOICE srom the Balcony’ by FREMONT POWER

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Mean Man

in that fateful, blitzkrieged September of 1940—they comprise the new attractions opening tomorrow with the intention of luring the populace

into the downtown cinematic sector. The first. entitled simply “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” is com-

ing to the Indiana. The story of Londen in September, called “Confirm

getting news of those tragic days to his homeland, is due on the Circle screen. Here. for sure, is an example of | how Hollywoad is entertaining an America at war. “The Man Who | Came to Dinner” is comedy. pure and simple. There is no moral involved more important than what effect a grouchy man may | have on an otherwise happy | household. “Confirm or Deny” is filled with bombs, teletypes, love and men who do duty their duty: An exposure of life in a great emergency. =

Mr. Bah

AT THIS late date, “The Man Among the meaner men on the | yu), came to Dinner” is a cross, yu spoiled gentleman whom nearly all theater-goers throughout the | land can count among their ac-

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Opening Tomorrow

CIRCLE — “Confirm or Deny,” with Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, John Loder and Raymond Walburn, Directed by Archie Mayo. Also “Cadet Girl,” with Carole Landis, George Montgomery, John Shepperd and William Tracy. INDIANA — “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” with Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante and Billie Burke, Directed by William Keighley. Sereen play written by Julius G. and Philip G. Epstein from the original stage play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, Also “Steel Against the Sky,” with Alexis Smith,

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was quite 8 man when supplied well with pen and paper. Another point worthy of mention is the setting— castles, forests, mountains, etc. It spreads on the correct atmosphere] heavily and according to the credit lines. one Nicolai Remisoff, art director, is responsible for this. And one more item: The cast Thougt not inspired 19 the trembling point ‘by Gregory Ratoff’s direction. it manages to through sufficiently on all fronts. One remembers the work Akim Tamiroff (enemy of the rsican brothers), Ruth Warrick, blushing, innocent sweetheart hem both, and J. Carrol Naish, protector of the Corsican,

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Plays Double Role

Lucien and his brother. Mario. are played by one and the same Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Separated at birth when Tamiroff murders their family, they are reunited in manhood and resolve to have vengeance on the villain. That they have, though it takes the death of Lucien to reunite them following the difficulties arising from their love of the same queenly Isabelle (Miss Warrick). The film is a better-than-average sword-dueling kind, but whatever, it is better to have Mr. Fairbanks back in boots and stocking caps than in the cloak of American ambassador to Latin America that be wore last summer. It's more to his calling —F. P,

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Assigned Role of

Film starlet Teresa Wright today had won Lou Gehrig opposite Gary Cooper il York Yankee first baseman. announcement of Miss Wright's se- | lection Samuel! Goldwyn nence Foxes.” vear ago she was regarded as an unknown in Hollywood.

Wright

HUSBAND LOAFED,

Actress s seeking a divorce on grounds her| 1usband, Howard Ben Chapman, a| Ww job he wanted.”

worked he could wait for a jo he| wanted,” meantime c on it.”

I THE ARNY HOW

quaintances. He is what one calls when other words are elusive, an institution. . When George Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote their hilarious comedy some years ago, they in- | vited Monty Woolley, a former | A. | ; : ) Yale dramatics professor, to corhe | ish's neatly so Eri Borian = Wis up and play the lead. He accepted. | the actors say, concerns a literary When Warner Bros. laid claim to | lecturer, Sheridan Whiteside, this 8 . : . : the script, they searched and de- | being Mr. Woolley. hs omnes » bated and scratched their execu- | Messalia, O, (against his wishes) tive heads over who should play | tO deliver a speech, but when asthe main part. And then the | cending the front steps to the

’ , | home of his hosts (these being happy thought descended suddenly |... Mitchell and Billie Burke),

he slips, falls and breaks his hip. Or so it seems at first. Invalided there, he takes over and proceeds to make life miserable for alll He orders the servants about, convinces the family's children to run away, entertains the strangest of guests, receives an octopus from Dr. Beebe, penguins from Admiral Byrd—and thanks his host by threatening to

Lloyd Nolan, Craig Stevens, Gene Lockhart and Edward Ellis. Those lines are necessarily deleted, but they're about all. The story of the play, which

Gehrig's Wife HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22 (U, P.)—

the screen role of Mrs.

1 the film story of the great New| The! by producer! ! upon them: Why not the same man who played it on Broadway. | And that is how the bearded, | scholarly Mr. Woolley came to be | the star of both the stage and the Hollywood versions. The job of putting the play into screen script went to the dextrous, | comedy - writing \ NN brothers, Julius NN and Philip Epstein. They know the value § of a good line and whenever possible, they have left the comedy in its original state. Those who saw the stage play Bette Davis (seen at English's with Clifton Webb in the lead) know, of course, that there are a few untidy lines which Mr. Hays' boys would never allow to be spoken for family trade.

was made Miss Wright came into film promi- | in the picture “The Little} starring Bette Davis. A

Mrs. Gehrig, whose life Miss g will portray, said she was

flattered that you chose Teresa.”

having to stay in his home. He has a much-maligned secre- | tary and she is Bette Davis. Ann | Sheridan is the quicksilver-type | actress who comes at his call to break up the romance between his secretary and the town's newspaper reporter, Jimmy Durante is Banjo, the wildly energetic friend from Hollywood. He wears a checkered coat, as is required of all who abide in that strange place. Sheridan Whiteside, it has been

ACTRESS CLAIMS

HOLLYWOO, Jan. (U. P)—| Mildred Louise Chapman |

v riter, “loafed about waiting for a| She said she was tired” of being his sole support. “He figured that as long as I she charged. “In the he bought a boat on | redit and spent all his week-ends | l

satire on Alexander Woollcott, the Town Crier of radio. Banjo really is Harpo Marx, I believe. Another character, played in the movie by Reginald Gardiner, is more than likely supposed to be Noel Coward. But you don't need to know all { this to see the movie. 2 o ”

Reporter Under Fire

THOSE WHO work on the newspapers are intrigued by stories of how the war correspondents are getting their stuff over the cables to their home offices. Twentieth Century-Fox asumes that the general public would be interested in the same thing and so, the new Circle film, “Confirm or Deny.” Mr. Ameche is a correspondent in London during that frightful September of 1940 which has become one of the highlights of the early war. Bombed in his | cellar office, Ameche has only a teletype, Joan Crawford to run it and Roddy McDow- | all looking out on the roof for Roddy McDowall | new developments, between him | and death. Meantime, his home | office comes complacently through | on the wire, demanding news of | the reported blitzkrieg — confirm | or deny. Roddy McDowall, you'll remember, is the English boy who made “How Green Was My Valley” one of the memorable events of the season. And from that cast there is another in the new film, John | Loder. In “My Valley,” Mr. Loder was one of Roddy's brothers. In “Confirm of Deny,” he is an official censor. Their work in “My Valley” places an indirect recommendation on anything they might do in the future.

INDIANAPOLIS

S YMPHON ORCHESTRA

FABIEN SEVITZKY

Conductor

CONCERTS IN MURAT

Tomorrow at 2:30 P. M. Saturday at 8:30 P. M.

SOLOIST

EZIO PINZA

Metropolitan Opera Basso Singing Arias From DON CARLOS;

BORIS GODOUNOV THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

Orchestral Compositions

Mendelssohn Symphohy No. 4 Rimsky-Korsakov... Capriccio Espagnol Swing Septet

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Screen Play by Je Swerling © Based on the Story by Menry Wales and Samue! Fuller A 20th CENTURY-FOX PICTURE —STARTING TOMORROW— { I R { § | D Good Seats Either Concert

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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Mi Carole Rites

WHAT HAS BECOME BY NOW ALMOST a fable (about a man | who came to dinner and stayed for six months) and a story of London |

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| or Deny.” with Don Ameche as an American correspondent bent on

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| the wish expresed in her will—

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Ultra Simple

Just a Prayer, a Psalm

And a Poem. By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22 (U, P).— Carole Lombard joined the other movie immortals in Forest Lawn Memorial Park today. After the briefest, simplest possible service—in accordance with

the bodies of Miss Lombara and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peters, were interred in the green acres where are buried Marie] Dressler, Will Rogers, Jean Harlow, | Dodglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, | Tom Mix and many another movie! star. The sealed coffins of Miss Lom-| bard and her mother, killed in last Friday's aerial tragedy in Nevada,

At the Fox

Hazel Scott (above) comes to the Fox in the new show opening tomorrow. Rosita will be the star attraction and Walter Stanford and Jackie Michaels are the comedians.

were blanketed with gardenias in the Memorial church. Whether by chance or on purpose, the caskets formed a perfect “V” in front of the pulpit, where the Rev. Gordon C. Chapman said a prayer, read the 23d psalm and recited one of Miss Lombard’s favorite poems.

Gable Sits Alone Grim of mouth and wearing dark

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HEAR ANNE SHIRLEY

TO DIVORCE PAYNE

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22 (U. P.).—

Hollywood was surprised today to hear planned to divorce her actor hus-

that Actress Anne Shirley

and, John Payne, ending a hither-

0 “ideal” Hollywood marriage.

glasses to cover his red-rimmed eves, Miss Lombards husband, Clark Gable, sat in an ante-room late yesterday dufing the 10-minute

numbering less than 50 and including Spencer Tracy, Fred MecMurray, Jack Benny, Myrna Loy and Miss Lombard’s first husband, William Powell, ever saw him. Miss Lombard had suggested in her will that the services be ultra simple. And simple they were. Police stopped sightseers at the bottom of the long road leading to the chapel on the top of a hill overlooking the San Fernando Valley where Mr. and Mrs. G. had enjoyed what they said, were the happiest years of their lives. Pho-| tographers remained outside the] cemetery. A dozen members of the press came not only as newspapermen, but as friends and mourners.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE “You're in the Army Now,’ with Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers and Jane Wyman, at 12:50, 4, 7:10 and

“Blues in the Night,” with Richard Whorf, Priscilla Lane and Betty Field, at 11:25, 2:35, 5:45 and 8:55.

INDIANA Water,” with Walter Waiter Huston, Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter and Virginia Gilmore, at 12:41, 3:52, 7:03 and

0:14, “The Perfect Snob,’ with Charlie Ruggles, Charlotte Greenwood and 0 Bari, at 11:39, 2:50, 6:01 and

LOEW'S

“The Corsican Brothers,” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick and Akim Tamiroff. at 12:25, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:35. “Miss Polly,” with Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville, at 11:25, 2:25, 5:25 and 8:30.

“Swamp Brennan,

LYRIC

“Hellzapopypin’,” with Olsen and Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert and Mischa Auer, at 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 and 10:30. “Sealed Lips,” with William Gargan, June Clyde and John Litel, at 11:05, 1:45, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:30.

Music

There was no music. Miss Lomnot have wanted it. Floral tributes, including two large United States flags made of red and white carnations and blue cornflowers, lined the chapel. None of the bouquets bore cards. Interment was private, with only the members of the families as witnesses. Mr. Gable declined with thanks an offer from the Army for a squadron of soldiers to fire a salute in memory of Miss Lombard’s war work. He left the cemetery at sunset, alone in the back seat of a rented limousine.

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Term Crypt Extravagant

Penner's Parents Protest Spending of $975.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22 (U. P)).— Expenditure of $975 for a burial crypt for the late Joe Penner,| screen and radio comedian, was an “extravagance,” his parents charged today in a protest filed in Probate Court. Mr. and Mrs. John Pinter, father and mother of the late funny man, were beneficiaries to approximately one-third his estate. Nearly twothirds went to his widow, Eleanor. The Pinters asserted that the crypt purchased for their son had a capacity for four persons. They also charged that they had been ‘deprived of rights because Mrs. | Penner had betrayed a promise to | protect their interests if they would not employ an attorney. The parents complained that at the present rate of disbursement of Penner's estate, valued at $100,000, they will receive only a “paltry sum” when probate is concluded.

PIANO STUDENTS TO GIVE RECITAL

Mrs. Helen Thomas Martin, piano and dramatics teacher, will present the following pupils in recital ‘at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the D. A. R. chapter house: Robert Barnes, Nancy Shearer, Marguerite Brown, Larry Moon, Luella Jane Kell, Joan Guidone, Edla Sue Krause, Janet Lewis, Sonny Robertson, June Carol Jerry, Joan Marvel, Janice Farley, Joan

Farley, Dolores Beck, Clyde Clevinger, Ruth Tellman, Lolita Washmuth, Wilma Byers, Audrey Reed, Betty Jean Barnes, Jean Finch, Donald Baker, Marilyn Edwards, Patty Hamke . Edna Janette Holder, Charles Harrison, Bettyjo Williams, Patricia Ping, ames Askren, Louise Steffanni, Sally Stefftanni, Corrinne

Dickliff, Joan Richey.

THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1942

JOHN BARRYMORE SETTLES ARGUMENT

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22 (U, P.)\— Court records disclosed today that a long standing legal argument be=tween John Barrymore and Attore ney Walter C. Durst has been sete tled. Mr. Barrymore has paid $10,000 to settle Durst’s claim for legal services rendered.

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