Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1942 — Page 10

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ile to Make It, Says Magician D ‘ops a Trick Cable From Weller. : Requires Tires. ; . C : g ~ CHICAGO, Sept. 10 (U. oe te Chicago. Dally News Inge" : - a Blackstone, the master of deception,! cians ..are stumped by: the: tire| ie ile “REIS “There was a brief foreword which said simply | shortage. Bi a going to Witness a portion of a naval battle which, in He sald he planned fo. abandon| uo umber of ships damaged and sunk, was the greatest in the history ong of his most startling illusions, : aE !

5,! of the world. ’ : alk toc ‘much when they talk 1 involving a diminutive blond and| On the screen, in gorgeous Soh _—_— : pean oil pecial 14 threadbare auto tires, because| nicolor, appeared America’s Pa- | +8 ble f: Geor . 8 aad 1 Weller, Southwest Pacific corres ; a “you can’t get priorities for making{ cific bastion, Midway. _ Three + t. si a blond disappear.” Mr. Weller shared Dr. Wessell's - : He added that he'd be forced to

web-footed, ‘duck-like fowl wad- then ; CER dled down a strip of yellow beach | That is the feeling you get. You experiences aboard a refugee Dutch abandon the trick even if the tires ‘Steamer en route to Australia and held together.

to stare unblinkingly into the | are there, a spectator, a bystand- |for the streetcar company, the dark-| lens of the camera, You caught’ | er, watching, EE \ Pender was ¢ 5 his exclusive account found dra- * “It's a question of proper paychol.| their placid expression. The voice | . On behalf of this newspaper. |, o mx hpi es us ig matic confirmation when President ogy in handling an audience,” he| of the commentator sald: = | several of whose men saw it last Washington film Srapt of MetJRoosevelt, in his April 28 fireside said. “The tires cause too much| “These are the inhabitants of | night, I sincerely urge everyone a abange 4 chat cited Dr. Wassell for bravery. excitement when they are placed! Midway whom Tojo has sworn to | to see- this film Because it is 50. ro- wyn- yer. e was hapfo ume. from Mr. Weller’ before a rubber-hungry crowd of| set free.” : : | freshly made, only four prints are |py. Whenever a movie star came ‘information, that official sanction people. A few weeks ago in Canada| In the red-gold sunset, stream- | available for Indianapolis. They aves & movi ar ‘aus ‘has now come for such a film. : : ; the audience started bidding for the| ing across the calm, violet sea, | will be shown Wednesday at Sometimes she'd get to talk to him. Commissioned a lieutenant com- : 1 tires on sight.” :

; through billowing clouds of white | Loew's, the Indiana and the Lyric . - ‘Mander in the navy medical corps, In the trick the tires are arranged! fleece edged with scarlet, you see | and Friday at the Circle, along With » Big Cigar after 14 years of service in the side by side on a rack. A curva-| silhouettes of Americans on guard, | with the regular bills at these | Almost invariably the HollywoodOrient, Dr. Wassell earned world > : | : cequs blond then crawls into the| their new-style helmets black | theaters, : . |ian would tell Miss Pender that she + genown lats March when he super- ) ; : ; : tube of solid rubber thus formed,| against the sun, their faces This is the first time this col- ought to be in pictures. This gave intended the evacuation of Ameri- Alvino Rey, his guitar, his band and the four King sisters are on |and a second later disappears when bronzed. They are young, confi- | umn has asked anyone to see a |her ideas and you can understand €an naval personnel wounded in| deck at the Circle tomorrow. The film that goes with it is “Joan of |the tires are rolled from the rack| gen faces 6f the kind of boys you | motion picture. Its function is to {why. Then came one of -Holly‘Java action against Jap sea fqrces.| Ozark,” with Joe E. Brown and Judy Canova. ‘lone by one. might, see anywhere in America, | report and comment on, not help |wood’s leading producers, a portly : but they wear a strange, grim | exploit, the movies. citizen with a big cigar, whom we look. But the navy's “Battle of Mid- |proudly should name, but won’t yet. It is almost dusk. A group of | way" is not in any sense a com- |He nof only told Miss Pender she marines are standing on the beach | mercial venture, It is living his- |ought to be in the movies, but that [| tory. Its acfors are the men who [He'd see she got in. ‘He said “for

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NEW. YORK, “Sept. 10—A film raphy of Dr. Corydon McAlmont vassell, China missionary doctor, ‘Who at 58 won the United States Vy cross for heroism in Java, is ‘Scheduled ' for production in the Jear future by Hollywood's epic- ; er, CecileB. DeMille, it is stated

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while a helmeted marine plays an 7] ~ accordion. A woman's motherly | used to live around the corner |her to call on him as soon as she voice fs heard exclaiming: “Why | from us, who are making history. [arrived in Hollywood. : that’s ! You know. He used Don't fail to see it! ‘Boy! \ | to live a few doors down -the 8.8 = If ever a girl got a break, She yas R : street . , * The man so identi- | 09), : vee’ the one—Miss Pender thought.. She BN : fied 1s looking toward the dark- Orchesha Wiver'| » in, |o0iined a transfer to the Los An-| AGEL } ening sky, his face relaxed as he | | = C IVES" the |geles film exchange. After a few be listens to an accordion on Mid- oe afastic 8t the Indiana |weeks she resigned to “become a 3 mo and on he eve"et an | S60 oir ne oc ove car, | ISLS greatest Zea battle since Jullsnd. | qu; “Muller” and hus remark- ~ Never Saw Him “The #1 Band in the |, ~~! 8 8 = able band. All of them have “So of course I went first to see Year's #1 Mugical! Cr Fortresses Arrive been entertaining and this one |this producer at his’ studio,"%she * ! maintains the standard. Next. up said. ; WITH A CRASHING zoom, the | to bat 1s Sammy Kaye in “Ioe- |that I knew Td have no trouble; flying fortresses arrive. Something | land” with Sonja Henge. but I never did get to see him. I} is up. Planes are landing on Mid- Some ‘of the staging in “Or- finally did get to one of his secre“way. Dark figures hurry about the | chestra Wives” is” reminiscent of |taries and she took my telephone field, preparing. those horrible old Vitaphone |number. She said he might phone At dawn, the Jap fleet has been | shorts which used to feature a |me later. He hasn't yet.” sighted. The fortresses are warm- | number of unheard-ofs just to | Cblumbia studios was looking for 3 as ing up. A group of young men | kill time and fill up a program. |a “talk- of the town girl” to publi- J with short-cropped hair are in a | Of course, it's Miller's band, |cize a movie of that name. Miss | a huddle beside a fortress, planning | playing “Kalamazoo”. and other | Pender won the: contest. She was| - battle strategy for all the world | ditties, and you enjoy it. furnished with an evening gown, an like the backfield on a football The story has to do with a |ermine cape, a limousine and a suite| A Upholstered field. The propeller blades of the | quick romance between Ann [at the Hollywood-Roosevelt hotell Tr CHAIR fortress revolve slowly with flashes | Rutherford, a drugstore jittergirl [the night: the picture was previewed ~ of light. The tow-headed flyer | in an Illinois Jown, and George |a couple of weeks ago. © andsome

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| ‘The Japs! * > 2 SUDDENLY, a squadron of gray

with the red sunburned face looks up. :

Again, the motherly voice is.

heard, identifying him, you know, the neighbor's boy. Is he going to fly that big plane? You see that he is as he climbs in (imagine,

he's the boy who used to live two

doors down and he flying that plane!), The fortress roars off and in the quiet that follows as it soars into the blue sky, you hear the motherly voice asking

planes. appears. from behind a dark cloud, diving full .into the morning light. “The Japs!” The screen is filled with the wild . confusion of battle. The camera lens swings from a burning enemy plane to the fragments of another which has just exbloded, and swings again to a great red fire which is sending up black billows of heaving smoke

from a bombed storage depot. That is a ‘part of the navy’s |

film of ‘the battle of Midway. Never before has a picture like this been shown to the public at home during wartime. pe Its characters are. the men you know, who live up the block. Its story is earth-shaking in its significance. Its photography is stu-

bendous. All of Hollywood's syn-air-war dramas cannot

thetic equal a fraction of this It is not a long film, just two reels. Some of its scenes are the most awesome spectacles I have ever seen on the scfeen. You are seeing the war as it is fought, seeing it in the ultragraphic, ,extra-dimensiona] medi-

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Montgomery, trumpet player in the band. She has her soda-jerk boy friend take her to see the band and fastens her liquid eyes upon Montgomery. He glimpses her. It is love at first sight. : They are figuring out how to get married right away in view of the three-day waiting law in the state. For a moment, they are

very sad.

“Oh,” says Ann brightly, “let’s go-over the line to Indiana. They don’t have any law there.” . This remarkable piece of film

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tra wives Carole Landis and Mary Beth Hughes help in a gossipy way. an : Finally, the band breaks up. Ann, disillusioned about ‘bands and hotel room life separates from sher trumpet player and goes back to her drugstore in Illinais.” The ending is pretty fair. :

Best bit in the show which is

not mentioned in the billing is the sensational dance by the Nicholas Bros. It's worth the. price of the picture. - :

‘Pride of the Yankees" :

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in the role of the late Lou

Gehrig, will come to the Indiana Sept. 30. It's a deluxe job, Babe Ruth heads the list of baseball luminaries in the which’ includes Bob Meusel, Bi Dickey and Mark Koenig. The story opens in 1914 when Gehrig

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of b precedented Lou Gehrig. day cele || bration at the Yankee Stadium -| following the “iron man’s” tragic _ retirement from baseball.

The party lasted until 5 a. m. It

seemed like heaven to Miss Pender.

Came the cold, foggy afternoon.

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