Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1942 — Page 7

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by RICHARD LEWIS

| That Martian Again

WHEN ORSON WELLES panicked a couple of million people on this continent with his Mars invasion Broadcast a few years ago, , everybody knew he didn’t mean it. He was only trying to be’ dra-

ymatic in the fearful way.

But now the mighty Orson is

House of Miniver

They're calling Loew's “the house of Miniver” and no wonder. “Mrs. Miniver” is being held a third week. One of the reasons is Teresa Wright's fine performance.

CAtwill Indicted . On Perjury Count

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12 (U. PJ). ~—Actor Lionel Atwill was indicted yesterday on a second charge of perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury investigating charges he bited obscene

‘movies in his Pacific Palisades

home while guests cavorted in the nude on a tiger skin rug. The British-born character player was present when the second indictment was returned. He immediately entered a plea of innocence. Superior Judge Edward R. Brand set Sept. 15 for trial of both counts. Atwill was released in the $2500 bond already posted. The grand jury began the investigation early in 1941 when Virginia Lopez, 30-year-old Cuban dress designer, charged that she and Sylvia Hamalaine, 16-year-old film-struck Minnesota girl, were invited to a party at Atwill's home and witnessed the asserted revels. :

DANCE-SWIM WESTLAKE

ON HIGH SCHOOL ROAD

‘CHUCK SMITH

And His Indiana University Orch. Every Wed, Pri, Sat, Sun.

Bottled By

PENDLETON PIKE, RD. 67

” LAST TIMES TONITE!

His mood at the time was described as

plenty sore. And what the un» inhibited genius will do in a tur bulent state of mind might better be left to the imagination. Fortunately for all out of its path, his wrath is focused, tornado-like, upon a . single objective—the spires and minarets of the R. KE. O, studio which he is reportedly preparing to sue for all

é | its worth.

Not only did the studio boot his staff off the lot while he was overstaying his leave in South America, but failed in the opinfon of West Coast observers to exploit his “Magnificent Ambersons” in proper style. "(The film's due at the Circle Aug. 21.) It seemed to be the consensus of studio execs that “Ambersons” wasn’t worth the raw film stock used up in the making. Apparently, the studio execs thought that Welles agreed and wouldn't squawk at weak exploitation. After the studio and Welles severed amicable relations, “Ambersons” was. trade shown and & number of reviewers, including this one, did a figurative dance in the streets in its praise, That gave Orson ammunition to fire at the studio. Our Hollywood correspondent reports that the studio has seized Welles’ “Journey Into Fear” and is holding it for the time being. What will become of “It’s All True” which Welles filmed on his South American excursion for the Inter-American Affairs Committee is anybody's guess. -The report I have says R.K.O. has shown a lack of enthusiasm in distributing it. = ”®

® The Great Schism IN ADDITION to provoking the studio, Welles’ movie efforts have provoked a split among the reviewers. Some liked his “Ambersons.” some thought it small time, experimental stuff. Similarly, “Journey Into Fear” when trade screened was hailed as a masterpiece of terror by some, booed as a cliff-hanger melodrama by others. This controversy over whether the producer-director-writer-act-or smells good or bad is rapidly becoming a classic in the amusement world. You remember “Citizen Kane.” That's when it started. My own feeling in the matter is that Welles as a showman has shown the daring originality that the: screen so badly needs. He has, I think, perfected a new technique of cinema which is infinite-

- ly superior to the routine medio-

crities being made by the better behaved, easier-to-get-along with producers. He is so far ahead of the pack that he must be judged not on the merits of what the pack is doing, but on what he is doing. He never makes a ‘Money seems to be no object with him. His concerns are art and entertainment. You shouldn’t keep a man like that down; probably you can’t.

2 8 2 The Band Played On DESPITE THE thunder, the in and flashes of lightning, the Indiana Music Co. band played on at Garfield park Sunday afternoon where the company was ‘having a picnic for parents and

students.

Protecting their - instruments

from the torrents, the students:

never missed a beat. Pive-year-old David Wilcox played a solo standing on a chair in the driving rain. He was accompanied by loud crashes of thunder. True the audience ran for cover. But a few stayed to hear the program. And the band played on for them. Because of its valiant show of the real trouper spirit, the student band has become the subject of a good deal of discussion around town. It will give a repeat performance at 6 p. m. Sunday at Garfield park. Rain or shine. : 2 o 2 KEN MAYNARD and his horse, “Tarzan,” will appear on the stage of Keith's theater Aug. 20, Manager Anton Scibilia, announced ‘today. The western star has a full wild west show. . . . The Lyric is playing “This Above All” a second week downtown. The film leaves the Indiana to-

day to make way for Abbott and

Costello in “Pardon My Sarong.” At Radio City, New York, “Mrs.

Miniver” is preparing to pick up !

its skirts and move on after 10 weeks. Already, the film has grossed over $1,000,000, of which M. G. M. has gleaned $300,000 as its ‘share—nearly half of its investment in the film.

“B” picture.

“This Above All” a story of the British fight against Hitler, is being continued for a second week at the Lyric. Tyrone Power takes the lead.

Gable Goes Into Army

Scheduled fo Take Oath as

Buck Private.

By FREDERICK C, OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12 (U, P.).— Clark Gable, who abandoned his screen career when his wife, Carole Lombard, was killed in an airplane crash earlier this year, has wound up his affairs to enter the army as a buck private.

number, has passed his physical examination, and will be sworn in today—not as a bond salesman, nor morale builder, but as-a fighting man. He will be assigned to the army air force officer candidates’ school at Miami and will Jeave'for Florida immediatley after he takes his oath. Cameraman Enlists

" Accompanying him will be his friend of long standing, Andrew J. McIntyre, studio cameraman, who signed up at the same time. Gable asked specifically that the army let him get into ihe fray. He said he hoped his superiors would not ask him to sell war bonds, or make personal appearances. “What I want,” he said, “is to be a machine gunner on an airplane and be sent where the going is tough.” ’ Rides in Compartment

Army officials agreed to that; then informed him he would be sent to the training school in a private compartment aboard a fast train. Gable kicked. “1 want fo be treated like any other soldier,” he said. i Officers..pointed out that he and McIntyre were the only men leav= ing for the school today. ‘They said that the problem of protecting him from the fans en route almost had the army stumped. He finally agreed to ride in the compartment.

Times Amusement

Clock.

OPENING. TODAY INDIANA

“pardon My Sarong,” comedy with Abbott and Costella and Virginia Bruce, at 12:40, 3:44, 6:48 and 9:52. : “Tough as They Come,” featuring the Dead End Kids opposite the Little Tough Guys, at 11: 40, 2:44, 5:48 and 8:53. HELD OVER LYRIC

“This Above All” with Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine, , at 12:30, 3:40, 6:55 and 10:10. “Through Different Eyes,” with Frank Craven and Mary Howard, at 11:20, 2:35, 5:50 and 9. - LOEW'S “Mrs. Miniver,” held over third

week with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, at 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7T and 9:45. :

CURRENT FEATURE CIRCLE

“Beyond the Biue Horizon,” a Jngle film _ in jechimColon, with Dorothy Lamour, Richard Denning, Jack Haley and Yate 3qosison, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

“Sweater Girl,” college campus mystery with Eddie Bracken and wd at 13: 30, 3:20, 6: 10 o an

- He has been assigned his serial}

“hawk” and

NUIGHBORROODS

By Frank Widner i

IT HAS DEEN maid (hak Somedy a aisential to their effort, it

neighborhoods this week.

that i true, Hollywood is to be congratulated on is comedy eforts in. “I'he. Wife Takes a Flyer,” one of the Wetter pictures opening

It’s a very complicated picture. You see Joan Bennett as Anita Woverman getting a divorce from her alcoholic Insband and Pranchot

Tone, an R. A. F. filer, hiding in

"the cistern of the Woverman resi-

dence. Then ‘he puts on the

1 husband's’ suit end suddenly be-

comes the husband. Allyn Joslyn, ‘as the fussy Nazi major in Nazi occupied Holland, is assigned to chase Mr. Tone, but most of his chasing antics

are directed toward Miss Bennett. ® . Things get worse as the picture |

progresses. ‘Nazis get tired of

holding their arms up heiling | each other and every time they - for: another:

raise two fingers ‘glass of champagne; the first four notes of Beethoven's: symphony-— representing the “V” in Morse code—rings out. The film is at the St. Clair through Saturday, the Rivioli tomorrow through Sunday and the Belmont and Uptown. Sunday through’ Tuesday. sn = THE FIRST days of West Point are recounted in “Ten Gentlemen From West Point,” the film starring Maureen O'Hara, George Montgomery and John Sutton. It tells how the first cadets were quartered at Ft. Harrison

during the. Indian wars between:

the U. S. and Tecumseh and how the first battle was fought where the present site of Marion now stands. fy | It is at the Strand and Uptown through Saturday, the Irv ing tomorrow through Saturday, the Fountain Square Saturday through Tuesday and, the St. Clair Sunday through Tuesday. ® 8 2 | THE THIRD new: film this week is “Fingers at the Window,” the picture starring Lew Ayres that got side-tracked after Mr. Ayres announced his views as a conscientious objector. However, since his change to non-combat-ant training, the film was released by the producers. : It ‘will be at Speedway through tomorrow, the Fountain Square through Friday, the Irving tomorrow through Saturday, the Rivoli tomorrow through Sunday ' and

the Beélmont Sunday through:

Tuesday. ® & .» THE EMERSON is beginning a new policy with ohapter plays this week. Beginning Friday, the theater will open with the serial, “Captain Midnight.” It will run on Fridays only instead of three days each week as in the past. . . «+ A complete week of revival

pictures “begins at the Granada.

tomorrow, where “Road to Singa-

- pore” and “Suez” will be shown

through Sunday. Monday through

Tuesday, “Drums Along the: Mo“Submariiie Patrol”

are brought back. 2 5 = THE MID-WEEK SCHEDULE BELMONT-—Through Saturday: aly and shorts.

CINEMA—Through Saturday: “Paris Calling and ‘Vanishing Virginian.” -

DAISY—Through tomorrow: “Tortilla” :

Flat” and ‘‘Gambling Lady. DRIVE-IN—*Tortilla Flat” and shorts. - Tomorrow through Saturday: My Heart” and “Kid Glove Killer.” EMERSON—"‘Kennel Murder Case” and ‘“‘Gambli ng Lady.” Tomorrow through Saturday: ‘Vanishing jan” and “Suicide ‘Squardo ESQUIRE—“You Can't Take It With

You” and “He Stay » FOUNTAIN at the

Pig “Rubber Racketeers. » GRANADA “Ship

Ahoy’ Ghosts.” Tom: BE SL SE ; N-CMagaincent Dope and | y: ra Virginian and "Sunny Side.” Gr=Bhip Aboy™ and sh turday: “Ten Genand “Fingers

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~ PARKER—Through tomorrow: *Th

° : Sea Wolf” and “Royal Mounted Patrol.”

REX—Through tomorrow: e Fu

“In * Our Life" and “Klon ry.” THis,

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RIVO LI—-Ship Ahoy” and and shorts. To-

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Flyer’ and EC ST. CLAIR~Through- Saturday: “Wife

Deck: a Flyer” and “Gentleman After!

. ANDERS Tady Has Plans” Small T Deb.” Tomorrow thr Samay: “ne Gay Falcon: & and Apache SHERIDAN Gentioman_ Afler Dark’ and’ mis ws , Please.” -. Tomorrow through ay: “Kennel , Mruder « Case" Be am ing Lady.” SPEEDWAY—Through tomorrow:

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ST. ATE—Through omofTow: Happiness” and “Skylark.

STRAND Through Saturday: ‘Gentlemen From Point’ Happened in Flatbush.” 5

STRATFORD—T hrough tomorrow:

“Ten

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Town ! COA Thriiah tomofrow: *Mur-

der in the Big House” and “Don’t Get

. Personal.” “TALBOTT— Through Saturday: Glove Killer” and “Moon Over Her Shoulder.” TUXEDO—Through tomorrow: “Canal Zone” and ‘Cadets on Parade.” . UPTO me i Saturday: “Ten Gentlemen From West Point’ and “Whis in) Ghoste, » : VOG ough Saturday: °‘‘Vanishing Vir Ioan and “Great M . A G—Through- Saturday: tasia” and “Shut My Big Mouth.”

BYRD TRIP VETERAN DIES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P.).|! —Comm. Malcolm P. Hanson, 47,| U. S. N. R. of Washington, who| was chief radio man on Admiral}

Richard E. Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic expedition, has been killed in an airplane crash somewhere in the North. No details were available.

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