Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1942 — Page 6

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by RICHARD LEWIS

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Sevitzky Takes Pen in Hand 5 DEEP IN THE heart of Limberlost where he has retreated until ‘mid-autumn, Fabien Sevitzky, Indianapolis symphony orchestra di-J-Tector and part-time LaGrange county deputy sheriff, became a man of letters over the week-end. He wrote several of them. His penmanship, I understand, was stimulated by an announces

ment left undex his latchstring by an old trapper who happened to be passing by. It said that the women’s committee of the orches‘tra would start its annual season * ticket sale campaign Sept. 14, under the direction of Mrs. T. Vic- . tor Keene and Mrs: Burke Nich-

olas.

I “These busy women are giving ~ some of the leisure time left to them by their war work to take i care of the future of their sym- | phony orchestra,” wrote the maes-

tro.” There are many women who

| volunteer todo this, because they ‘| believe in the importance of their ' symphony orchestra,: and so * many women can't be wrong.” . “We ‘will prove fo the public this winter that a symphony orchestra can be of material as well as: theoretical help in boosting

“ug fought in the other war and I know how important these things are—not immediately, perhaps, but later, when wartime re- ~ strictions hit closer home. Music has more entertainment and re- © laxation value for a greater number of people than any other art. “We are all*going to need music this winter. More than ever. And we are going to give them good music, but I won't say what it will be. That is for all the people who read this to come and find out. “I extend to them my invitation ¢ « « personally. Come!” 8 ” 8

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of the kids who insist on staying to see the show two or three times. To each youngster who leaves the theater after one performance, the Warner circuit gratefully presents a comic book. But that problem is as nothing compared to the situation faced by film salesmen at Sioux City, Ia. To contact theater managers, they hire a horse and ride through the wheatfields where the exhibitors along with the town's businessmen are solving the farm labor shortage by harvesting a

record wheat crop.

Last week, a fire broke out in a Jamestown, N. Y. moviehouse and the projectionist called the fire department. The ' firemen knew what to do. As quietly as possible, they sped to the movie, sirens silent, bells muffled. Minus helmets and boots, they filed into the theater, axes under their coats, tiptoeing down the aisles. out, they walked out casually, climbed aboard the trucks and sped away. There wasn’t any panic because the audience never knew the. difference. 8 ” 8

Tales of the Holly Woods

OUR HOLLYWOOD correspon=dent, Paul Harrison, reports that one prominent movie mogul, impressively commissioned by the army, got into his uniform the other day and motored to the local

airport—there to greet a group of high-ranking officers. Some of the studio whdetliigs came out to watch the big boss perform a snappy salute to his superiors. But it didn’t happen quite that way. When the officers stepped off the plane, the movie executive flashed them one of his best grins and chirped: : “Hi, fellas.” The biggest ham “in Hollywood has been hired to play a scene with Paulette Goddard in “The Crystal Ball.” Name's Trueboy, an 800-pound hog. . . . Paul Lukas has just “murdered” George Coulouris for the 500th time. He reached the 500 mark on stage 16 of the Warner set where the movie version of “The Watch on the Rhine” is being filmed. For 15 months on the road, Mr. Lukas has been bumping off Mr. Coulouris (who plays a villainous blackmailer) with considerable dramatic success. A durable citiZen, Mr. Coulouris doesn’t mind. “Paul,” he said, “is such a swell guy.” ® # 8

Tarzan vs. Nazis

ERSKINE CALDWELL, who is writing the script for “Mission to Moscow,” has been swamped by phone calls from Russians offering their most cherished possessions for use as props in the picture. ... Johnny Weissmuller is making another ape-man thriller, “Tarzan Triumphs.” RKO’s press release says that the jungle hero will now contend with Nazis, instead of wild beasts . . . which is drawing a fine distinction. . . The fluttery lady came out of screening of Walt Disney's “Bambi” gushing: “I honestly don’t see how Mr, Disney trains all those animals to do such wonderful things.”

Thomas Mitchell has been con-.

tracted by 20th Century-Fox and his first role will be in John Brophy’s novel, “The Immortal Sergeant.” David O. Selznick has contracted Valerie Hobson, the British star. She won't arrive for three more months, however, until she finishes “Sabotage Agent” with Robert Donat, now being made in England by M. G. M.

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Dichmemtins the heroic stand of the U. S. marines on the Pacific puipost; the film, “Wake Island,” is due to play in Indianapolis soon. Here one of the last planes on the island is bombed as the marines

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31.—Porter Hall, one of the meanest, most flendish murders ever to skulk

across the silver sheet, turned up today—honest!—as a deacon of the First Presbyterian church. We never have: written a piece about a deacon before, but here goes: * Since 1935 Deacon Hall has been sticking knives into beautiful blondes, evicting widows, kicking babies, chaining heroes to railroad tracks, swindling depositors in his bank, plying the lash on the backs of helpless convicts, dynamiting hospitals, and poisoning children. The deacon has mowed down the innocent with machine guns, cheated at poker, run the stage coach off the cliff, put sand in the engines of transport planes, and flooded gold mines crammed with workmen.

Wife Worried a Little

The deacon is the kind of monster who'd pull the wings off flies, if the Hays office would permit. “Yep,” said the deacon, “I have been playing rats ever since I came to Hollywood, though I must report they have brought in the cheese.” Three years ago, it was, that Mr. Hall's wife began to feel religion might be an influence for good around her house. He'd never beaten her, or put arsenic in his children’s oatmeal, or anything like that. He was a kindly man. But you get the idea. That daily work of his might have repercussions. Mrs, Hall said she thought he'd better go with her to church.

Elected a Deacon

Every week he’d wash the blood of his victims from his hands, put on his best suit, and accompany his wife to the First Presbyterian church. Then he'd go out and spend the rest of the week in slaughter on the sound stages. Mr. Hall. became interested in the sermons of Dr. Louis Evans. ~ He joined the church. Mrs. Hall didn’t worry so much about the carnage in front of the cameras. A week ago Sunday came’ the big moment. Hall sat there, with no sign of blood lust in his eyes, ‘no traces of poison under his fingernails, and heard himself elected as a deacon of the church. Next day he went back to a little chore at Columbia studios, involving the fleecing of a whole city and the pummeling of a lady known as Claire Trevor. Then the hero shot him dead and the deacon went home to prepare for more nefarious activities. And maybe that’s enough of spoofing Mr, Hall. We must report

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Weekdays He's Film Villain, On Sundays a Church Deacon

in all seriousness that his church affiliation is a sincere one. He never intended to be a villain, anyhow. He made his reputation on the New York stage as a light comedian. Metro snagged him in 1934 as a movie actor, brought him to Hollywood, and gave him as his first assignment the role of the killer in “The Thin Man.” That settled his hash. No producer has considered him for any other kind of role, except Preston Sturges; who put him in a comedy part in a picture which still has not been released, the deacon hopes, kind of, that maybe he can get out of the killing business, It is a, little disconcerting when he’s passing the plate at the First Presbyterian church. The parishoners dig deep when he hands them the basket and they eye him closely. They never say anything, but he’s positive he knows what they're thinking.

REPORT HAVRE IN RUINS

LONDON, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—A report on royal air force attacks on Le Havre said the city had been almost destroyed by 190 British air attacks.

HITLER COULD BE SCREEN VILLAIN

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 (U. P).—

Max Factor Jr., Hollywood makeup specialist, said today that Adolf Hitler would make an equally good screen villain.

“Hitler’s eyes reflect evil to a de-

gree which cannot be duplicated either by tricks of acting or make-

up,” Factor said. “The only one who could equal the ex-paperhanger in the field of venemous eyes was the late (Hangman) Rainhard Heydrich, although Herman Goering and Joseph Goebbles are close runners-up. Hitler could out-Karloff Karloff. Boris would be handicapped in such a competition by the fact that he’s really a kindly fellow and there is no evil in his eyes.” Factor concluded that Benito Mussolini would be of little value to the film industry and could be cast only “as the menace in a lowbudget western.”

GETS TWO SCHOOL JOBS S. Boyd Todd, Southport high school teacher for several years and former Hobart, Ind., school principal, said today he had been appointed as both coach and principal at Monrovia, Ind., schools. He will succeed Robert Bain, resigned principal, and Henry Potter, coach who enlisted in the navy.

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Film Males "Lily Mars’ a Lady—Judy Garland.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 (v. P)— Fifteen years ago, when Judy Garland was a toddler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought from Booth Tarking-

‘|ton a novel, “Presenting Lily

Mars,” as a starring vehicle for Miss Marion Davies, Mr. Tarkington’s Miss Mars, unfortunately, was a no-good female, a kind of lady bum, and Miss Davies wanted no part of her. The studio had paid the Indianapolis author a pretty penny for his story and in the hope of retrieving its investment tried to talk ohe actress after another into doing it. They all said “no” and they didn’t mean “maybe.” Metro finally put the novel in. the vaults with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of other unproduced stories. Every time a new producer would come to the lot the studio hopefully would send around the list.

Tramp Disappears

Finally there came Joe Pasternak from Universal. There he was thumbing through the titles of

scores of screen plays. “Presenting

Lily Mars” took his eye. As he thing good. The mighty Pasternak read the book, had his writers change Lily from a tramp to the nicest young lady in Hoosierville, Ind., and started production with Miss Garland, Van Heflin, Richard Carlson, Fay Bainter and Spring Byington in the leading roles. This was a break for Lily, for the

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Seven years ago she was a young-

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Metro. Another girl, exactly her age, was working at the same studio. Her name was Deanna Durbin. Mr. Pasternak was trying to find a youngster to take the starring role in hig memorable “Three Smart Girls” : “I remember looking at the tests of Judy,” he said. “And of Deanna. They both were exactly what I wanted, as far as I was concerned I could have tossed a coin.” About that time Metro renewed Judy’s contract, and let. Deanna go. Mr. Pasternak grabbed her and you know the rest of that story. Miss Garland hasn't done so

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