Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1942 — Page 12

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VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS

Schulberg Takes a Flier

PRODUCER B. P. SCHULBERG has issued the curious statement that comedy is vital to the war effort. nigh I have no objection to Mr. Schulberg saying so if he wants to.

I dont know why, exactly, al-

Everyone nowadays claims his particular stock-in-trade is vital to the war effort whether it might be life insurance. a “friendly” loan to pay

off your past-due bills or toothpaste for the “victory” shiile. stock-in- | = His latest sam- |

Producer Schulbergs trade is comedy. ple is “The Wife Takes a Flyer,” which opented at Loew's yesterMr. Schulberg has definitely taken a flier in this one but he

day

has landed more or less rightside |

up. The film is really funny. Perhaps it would be more acto sav that Allyn Joslyn, who plays the part of a fussywussy Nazi major, is funny. He is the whole show, save inspired touches which Schulberg has thrown

rave

practically te Produce: mn The scene laid in Nazioccupied Holland where the principal excitement of the hour is the divorce that Miss Bennett (as Anita Woverman) is getting from her acoholic husband and the search for an R. A. F. fiver who hides in the cistern of the Woverman house during the first two eels Allyn Joslyn tas Maj. Zelliritz) is assigned to the chase, only he chases Vrow Woverman. Into the house, wanders our combination fiver-spy, Mr. Tone, who puts on the husbands suit and becomes the husband. Youll have to take it from here on in. because it gets rather complicated In Mr. Schulbergs brand of comedy, Nazis get tired arms heil-

ing one another, enemy dignitaries !

sustain really hard kicks in the pants and the Morse code opening of Beethoven's fifth symphony

which spells out the letter V. rings | : TT p 3 3 forth every time a Nazi holds up |

two fingers to call for champagne Satire is the long suit of the

picture. Its short suit is its tendency to drag between the gags. Its zoot suit is Miss Bennett in a

Q Verv fetching scenery. If comedy will win the war, they ought to make Schulberg a general =

= = Rathbone Slays 'Em FINGERS AT THE WINDOW" shares the Loew's double header this week. Its a comedy-mystery which goes in for all the usual stuff. Mad ax murderers are on

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' munitions shortage may “become even tighter” I guessed they knew as weil as I wanted his Kiss. motion picture and photo-{did why they should buy bonds. So; section of the WPB an-|I said buy ‘em. They did. It was | inounced that it is opening an office | wonderful.” ‘in Los Angeles to keep in direct] { contact

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the loose to the point where folks | won't venture out to go to the movies. What a terrible situation! The police department is up in arms, baffled. helpless. Along comes - an unemploved actor (Lew Ayres) who saves show | business by uncovering the fiend

| (Basil Rathbone) as part of the |

| trick of winning the fair Laraine Day. Mad Scientist fesses he did it because. , I won't teil Anyway, Hollywood takes advantage of the opportunity again to give the rib to the psychiatric branch of the medical profession and succeeds in spreading a number of misconceptions. The story is lousy. Mr. Ayres, Miss Day and Mr. Rathbone are excellent as usual, but they can't do mugh buried in corn to the armpits.

Rathbone con- . « Ha!

This is the picture, you will re- |

| call, which was shunted off on a | siding when the publicity broke | about Mr. Ayres going to oconscientious objectors’ camp. The actors convictions gave Hollywood a prize headache. In many communities, exhibitors feared business would suffer if | they showed the picture. However, now that Mir. Ayres is reported going into non-com-

battant but active service which

leads him into the danger zones, the unwrittén ban on the film has | been lifted.

Materials Cut In Movie Sets

WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. P). —Motion picture producers advised

| the war production board today that [they are eliminating and revising {technical practices and reducing the

quantity of materials used in constructing sets in order to save ecritical materials. WEB officials said many chemicals used in film also were needed

with the industry.

ings to the utilities as the housing units get

HARDY NAMED HEAD OF TEACHER GROUP

LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 25 (U.!

sociation at the last session of their

C. H. Elliott of Angola was named

and Paul Bateman

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i “Ten Gentlemen of West Point” limping heme from the battle of Mississinewa (pronounced with a soft whistle) in the film of the same name opening at the Circle tomorrow. This is the first time West Point cadets were actually engaged in battle. The scene of the action is supposed to have been in Indiana, somewhere near Marion. :

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent

(said, in bonds. The eminently kissable Miss Turner was home from a tour of (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle,

during which she sold $5,250,000 worth of kisses and securities. That's a lot of money, Miss Turner said. The blonde Lana had just fine

(ished some concentrated Kissing in

the arms of an expert, named Clark

10 days ago. “I had no idea I'd be doing more kissing,” she said. “The studio assigned three of its best writers to write me some bond-selling speech-

jes. iabout friends, Romans, countrymen. (I told the head men I couldn't talk

in| making, and that the couldn't make speeches. I told 'em|But he had his $50000 and he

They were swell speeches, all

‘that kind of stuff.

“So I just told the people

Or at least it was until

there were more press agents. “And they told me that it would

8 YOUTHS IN CITY

GO TO HI-Y SESSION

Eight Indianapolis high school youths were to leave today for Miami university at Oxford, O, to

P.) —Bruce Hardy, Scottsburg, was attend the fourth National Hi-Y re-elected president of the Indiana Congress for four days. vocational agriculture teachers’ as-

They are Richard Robertson, 6705 E. Washington st.; Bernie B. Berry,

28th annual convention at Purdue 3735 N. Arlington ave.. Robert Deuniversity yesterday.

Frantz, 2628 Indianapolis ave.; Raymond Petrie, 2609 Boulevard place;

vice president. Harold B. Taylor of| Robert Stitt, 750 N. Bolton st.; Joe of | Weaver, Garrett are the new secretary and! fred Kline, 5661 Madison ave, and treasurer,

5901 E. Washington st;

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HOLLYWOOD, June 25-—Lana| [Turner reported a multimillion-| |dollar sale today in kisses (and |war bonds) and said she believed {her venture into high finance and |

losculation was an unqualified sue-| cess. She received no complaints! ‘from any client. i | The customers who paid $50,000] leach got their money's worth, shel

Spokane, Tacoma, and way places, |

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“a kiss at

Turner . . . 850,000 is really expensive.”

Lana

be a good idea if I'd kiss the buyer of $50,000 bonds,” she continued. “I

Gable. when she started her tour each, it wasn't. |

“The first $50,000 customers were | two nice old ladies. That was a kind of jolt. But I took their money and kissed them both full on | the mouth. “Then I kissed three men. Two of them seemed to want Kisses on] That is what they got. | The third was little and about 80-| years-old. He walked with a cane.’ he

Only when

Lana Turner Gives Customers a Kiss To Spur Sale of $50,000 War Bonds

came to get it he seemed terribly [ nervous. “So I just kissed him on

$50,000 customers. | “And then there came a 21-year-old boy who said he was joining the air corps the very next 7ay,” Miss Turner continued. “He said he'd taken $5000, his entire lif¢ avings, and that he wanted a “Igave him one. Then the newsreel men said we'd have to do it over again. | “So I kissed him twice. [the second kiss the crowd seemed to rumble. Then they cheered. It was amazing.” Miss Turner said she had given considerable thought to the question: When a gentleman pays

said I thought that was kind of | $50,000 for a bond and a kiss, has cheap. They said not at $50,000 | he got his mind on investing his

money at 3 per cent? “I sincerely hope the answer is yes,” she said. “A kiss at $50,000 really is pretty expensive. Believe me, it isn’t worth it.”

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During

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE “Whispering Ghosts,” with Milton Berle and Brenda Joyce, at 11:30, 2:40, 5:50 and 9. “The Big Shot,” with Humphrey Bogart and Irene Manning, at 12:50, 4, 7:10, and 10:15. KEITH'S “I Was Framed,” with Michael Ames and Julie Bishop, at 12:27, 3:04, 5:57, 8:14 and 10:34 On stage, “Keep 'Em Laffin’"” 1:42, 4:19, 6:57 and 9:20, LOEW'S Fingers at the Window,” with Lew Ayres and Laraine Day, at 11:05 2:10, 5:20 and 8:25. “The Wife Takes a Flyer,” with Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone, at 12:40, 3:50, 6:55 and 10. 2:30, 4:05,

Sunday-"Fingers” at and 8:50; “Flyer” at 1, and 10,

5:40 7:15

LYRIC Walt Disney's “Fantasia,” presenting the artists’ conception of seven musie classics, at 1, 4:10, 7:25 and 10:30. “Henry Aldrich and Dizzy,” with Jimmy Lydon and Mary Anderson, at 11:40, 2:50. 6:05 and 9:15.

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Piano and Voice Recitals Planned

Mrs. Martha Stephens will present a group of piano pupils in recital at 8 p. m. tomorrow at Cropsey auditorium. June Marie Sparks, violinist, and Virginia Sferusszi, vocalist, will assist in the program. Pupils taking part are Bob, Barbara and Helen Kempfer, Delores Busenbark, Mary Carr, Edith Mae Jensen, John Logan, Jean Ann Tutterow, Odessa Harvey, Marjorie Lois Christie, Phillip Zeigler, Carolyn and Wilma Sferuzzi, Phyllis Wheeler, Susan and Sally Hoatson. Eugene Brubeck, Joan Critchfield, Alberta and Mary Ethel Vest, Patsy Osborne, Virginia Roark, Patty Lingenfelter, Barbara Walker, Waneta Staten, Beatrice Biddle, Dorothy Reagan, Virginia Hildebrand, Beverly Smith, Bob Smith, Maxine Best and Rosalie Jordan. » n ® Central Studios of Music will present voice students of Clifford D. Long in recital at 8:30 p. m. Saturday at the Cropgey auditorium. Maxine and Mary Ethel Best, piano pupils of Mrs. Stephens, will assist. On the program are Alma Jo Monroe, A. Roderick Embry, Louise Spencer, Alice Swartz, C. Graham Meggenhofen, Pauling Bade, Miriam Bosworth, Virginia Matthews, George E. Lucas, Esther Mae Car-

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