Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1942 — Page 4

Film Colony Hit by War

One Problem—a Premiere Without Lights.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26. — Each week the war bores a little deeper into Hollywood, changing the old ways of doing things, and so, without further ado, we present this, our fifth survey of Hollywood and the war since Pearl Harbor: ‘ Last week came the dimout, which turned Hollywood blvd. into a gray canyon, illuminated only by occasional street lamps and passing automobiles. The day before the lights were doused, Sam Goldwyn held what was advertised as the last of the gala movie premieres. How, he asked, could you hold premieres without lights? Film Shortage a Worry

’ On stage at Keith's tomorrow ‘will be Doris Dupont, dance stylist, one of vaudeville’s current

‘WEDS PRODUCER

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (U. P).— “Mitzi Green, 21, actress, and Joseph Fevney, 30, actor and producer, were married yesterday in the chambers ‘of Supreme Court Justice Morris Eder. It-was the first marridge for both.

solved that one and this week comes the premiere at Grauman’s Chinese of “The Pied Piper” which is an especially good movie. Lights? The experts are using black ones. They've painted the entire front of the theater with chemicals which, when ultra-violet rays penetrate them, will glimmer and glow in a manner never seen here before. The effect doubtless will be more spectacular than even the old-fashioned super - dooper, spot-light-in-the-heavens affairs. Shortage of film is becoming increasingly critical, though the scientists are working now on an emulsion which does away with silver solutions.

Other Savings Studied

Other technicians are working on the possibility of slowing down the rate at which film runs through the projectors. This could save up to 25 per cent.

The manpower situation is critical, with almost every other Hollywoodian you meet, technician and actor alike, in touch with his draft board. Tyrone Power's last picture until the war is over is about to be released. Cary Grant has just completed his final fling on the sound stages, while Gene Autry’s about to make one more with special permission of the army. You'll soon see Clark Gable’s last film—in which he kisses Lana Turner 19 times.

"Mrs. Pevney will play the feature yole in a play which her husband is ‘Opening on Broadway soon.

D.- OF A TO ENTERTAIN

~ Capitol City council 53, D. of A, will entertain the Secret Pals club “the council hall, 512 N. Illinois “tomorrow. Mrs. Maude Foxworth, new state councilor, will be

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Flight Lieutenant,” an aerial thrileg, with Pat O’Brien, Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes, at 11:20, 2:30, 5:40 and 8:50.

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By Richard Lewis

Music for Misery

follows; are alone.

some energetic person may be removing the tires from your car. Having become saturated with mental anguish, ‘relax and listen to ‘Alexander Kipnis, distinguished bass of the Metropolitan opera, sing these peasant songs to you on Victor records. Compared to the haunting emotion of these songs, brother,

ing. Listen. as he sings “Night,” one of the oldest of the peasant songs: “Ah, you somber night. “Night of autumn. “With whom will I share this dark night, of autumn? “IT ‘have no father. “Nor mother .-. . only a friend, far away . . Somewhat in the same mood is “The Innocent Siberian Exile” who sings of his bitter suffering because he cannot stand it. Nor is the “Troika Coachman” happy as he sings:his love song, for was he not rejected by the father of his beautiful bride and must he not, too, suffer? ‘He must. In “The Recruit’s Farewell,” the young soldier "informs his pals that this is his last day, for on the morrow: “My family will be in tears . . . “My father and mother will Weep o « o “My brother and sister, too. “And my sweetheart, so soon. to have been by bride.” (1 Ah " . Pid ® =

Another Century

ON THE WHOLE, this is the most heartrending collection of tunes I have heard. Centuries of woe have gone into the making of these melodies. Mr. Kipnis’ full-throated interpretation . adds

| at least one more century.

In the doleful mood into which I was plunged after hearing all 10 songs, memory began to stir, plaintively. Somewhere I had -heard that mood before, not so intense, perhaps, but . . . Was there an American counterpart? I recalled some of our Kentucky ballads: “When It's Chitlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatum County.” No, that was not it. Nor would “Oh, Hand Me Down My Bottle of Corn” compare, either, in full-blown agony of spirit. * By sheer inspiration, I played one of the songs over. It was “Lullaby” (for a man coridemned to be hung at dawn). Then immediately following it, I played one of our depression-born torch songs, “Ill Wind,” sung by Lena Horne. It worked. The moods were the same. Try it on your phonograph sometime; but don’t call a song like “The Innocent Siberian Exile” a torch song. I -wouldn’t dare.

The Fireman's March

HAVING HEARD my {till of this early Russian melancholia, I turned to a composition by a volunteer fireman of the Leningrad civil defense corps, one Dmitri Shostakovich. It was the “Polka” from his “Age of Gold” ballet. Anything more delightfully gay and full of fun is hard to imagine. That, too, is RusBetween fighting fires spread by

-kovich has found time to write one of the longest symphonies ever broadcast (his seventh) and an inspirine piece, “The United Nations March,” which was: reviewed in this column several weeks ago. . The contrast in Russian Huss;

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ONE PROCEDURE for deriving the maximum appreciation from Victor's new album of 10 old time Russian folk songs might be as

Choose a particularly rainy, gloomy evening and mdke sure you Begin thinking of your terrible golf score. your thoughts to roam to the possibility that while you are brooding,

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Kreisler Returns

SEVERAL MONTHS ago, the papers told about ‘a truck hitting a gray-haired pedestrian in New York, throwing him against a curbstone where he lay with his skull fractured. It was nearly the end ‘of one of the greatest careers in modern musical his- | tory. ! But Fritz Kreisler is well again. He demonstrates that his violin technique is still as firm, as faultless as ever as he plays six of his own compositions for Victor in a special album.

So elated was he when he finished playing ‘“Tamborin Chi- | nois” for the recording machine, that he exclaimed: “Good.” The record picked it up. You can hear it a split second after the last note. The piece was recorded over again, but the second recording was not so inspired as the first. So Mr. Kreisler's own comment on his playing of his own composition remains on the record. “Good!” What else is there for a reviewer to say? i Zz f J s s Snap Judgments Sammy Kaye (Victor): “You Can’t Say No to a Soldier”—tune has snap; “Miss Americana’— like thick cream. Glenn Miller (Victor): “Conchita, Marquita, etc.”<—all right; “Long, Tall Mamma”—impressionism overheated. * Erskine Hawkins (Bluebird): “Knock Me a Kiss"—fast and fair; “ ‘Tain’t No Good”—but ‘tis. Dinah Shore (Victor): “Mad About Him Blues” and “Be Careful, It's My Heart"—there’s only one Dinah.

3D WOMAN CLAIMS CAPTAIN AS HUSBAND

MANCHESTER, N. H., Aug. 26

(U. P.).—The tangled love affairs)

of slain Capt. David D. Carr, 27, a member of U. S. anti-tank forces at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz, were complicated further today when another woman claimed him as her husband. Mrs. Florette Bellerose Carr, 27, 8 brunet now employed in a shoe factory here, vanished soon after making the claim. In her apartment last night was found a note that read: “I'm going away: and don’t know when I'll be back.” Capt. Carr was shot and killed Aug. 16 allegedly by Margaret Herlihy, a colonel’s daughter to whom he had been married secretly in June. He had been married previously to Mrs. Ruth E. Carr.

AIR FORCE SEEKING NEW INSTRUCTORS

Students and junior instructors for the army air forces technical schools and navy aviation schools are being sought under modified requirements by the U. 8. civil service commission. Student instruc-

tors receive $1620 per year and}

junior instructors receive $2000. No written test is required and qualifications will be judged on the applicants’ recdrd of training and experience. The minimum age in 20. There is no maximum age limit.

CINEMA , Ahoy” and shorts

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‘a chemical concern, Tully Mar= shall, and Robert Preston, a po-

lice lieutenant and the boy friend

of Miss Lake. : - Killer Ladd is unwittingly helping out the chemical boss, who in turn is selling poison gas to the enemy. When the gunman 1s double-crossed, he goes after Mr. Cregar. } There follows his kidnaping of Miss Lake and a chase by 500

the traitors are foiled and true love triumphs. “This Gun for Hire” will be at the Irving tomorrow through Sunday, the Granada for a week beginning tomorrow, the Daisy and Speedway Friday and Saturday and the St. Clair and Strand Sun-

Rivoli Monday through Wednesday. ® » 8 TARZAN YODELS and leaps his way in and around New York's skyscrapers and the Brooklyn bridge in the latest in the jungle film series, “Tarzan’s New York Adventure.” Johnny Weissmuller, as Tarzan, goes in pursuit of some hunters who have kidnaped his son, Boy (Johnny Sheffield), and taken him to New York to/use in a circus. Jane (Maureen -O’Sullivan) accompanies her husband.

There Tarzan goes: through a series of events, including a leap from the Brooklyn bridge, before he, Jane and Boy finally wend their way back to their primitive Utopia. ‘It will be at the Irving and Rivoli tomorrow through Sunday, the Fountain Square through Tuesday and the Belmont Sunday through Tuesday.

THE EFFORTS of a druggist to set up shop in 19th century Sacramento are told ia the Republic film, “In Old California,” ‘which . will be at the Uptown through Saturday. John Wayne, Binnie Barnes and Albert Dekker are in the cast. . . . “Gone With the Wind” opens tomorrow at the Sheridan and will be shown there each night through Saturday. Doors will open at 7:30 p. m. and the three hour and 50 minute show will begin at 8 p. m. . . . The picture inspired by the fateful event of last Dec. 7, “Remember Pearl Harbor,” will be at the Belmont through Saturday.

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