Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1942 — Page 10

VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS

"Yankee Doodle Dandy’

fruitful stage career of George M. Cohan. A good deal of its excellence derives from the reproduction on the screen of the great showman’s works. His songs are Myr. Cagney as Mr, Cohan re-

po JAMES CAGNEY considers “Yankee Doodle Dandy” the finest film he's ever made. He ought to know. It. fulfills most of the things I was led to expect from it and that was plenty. Playing on a bill at the Indiana, it’s a two-hour show and you've got to see it from the beginning to get the maximum entertainment it offers. “Yankee Doodle Dandy” is Jong because it chronicles the long and

single

screen version of “Panama Hattie,” a famous stage production. Strangely, Miss Sothern seems to be outplayed this time by the weird humor of Mr. Skelton, Rags

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RAF Bard Begins an Ode About Goblins That Peril Planes.

LONDON, Sept. 24 (U. P.)—It appeared today that the gremlins —those goblins which airmen claim play prapks with * their planes—would take their place with Madamoiselle from Armentieres as an inspiration for wartime balladry. An anonymous royal air force bard has started the ball rolling with this poem which appeared in an RAF. magazine: *

ey Sighs For ‘Gremlin’

[Stumped at Designing Lite

Man’ of R.A. F.

zs Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Walt Disney has pictured hundreds of chiracters for the delectation of adults as well as children. But he’s stumped at designing a “Gremlin” which coincides with. the notion in the minds of the R. A. P,

Disney in portraying a “Gremlin”

Young Flag Lieut. R. Dahl, assist ant air attache of the British em-| bassy, will soon be on his way to Hollywood to see if he can aid Mr.

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acceptable to the R. A. F. ~ ; L. A Gremlin is “the little man on the wings and in the motor.” He's the plague of all airmen. ‘Lieut. Dahl has written such a touching yarn, woven around ‘the R. A. F.’s Gremlin, that Mr. Disney wants to do a picture of it. In fact

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glorious story of

Ragland and Ben Blue. They play. three sailors who, the subtitle explains, have no resemblance te® any human being. That's good for a laugh at the outset, before the picture starts.

When you're seven miles Ww in the heavens That’s a hell of a lonely spoke And it’s 50 degrees below zero Which isn’t exactly hot.

When you're frogen blue like your

mains by and large Mr. Cagney, but even so he seems to be a more entertaining Mr. Cagney than in anything I've ever seen him do

Indiana Central college music| § department f or| a eight years and directs the Burroughs School of

Music. She is a graduate of the DePauw university

eo = music school and Mrs. Burroughs hat taken ‘gradu-

. khoral director and oratorio singer. «In addition to her teaching duties, Mrs. Burroughs directs music at St. : Paul's Episcopal church-and is cho- . Tal ‘director for the Mallory singers, the Stout field commando chorus and’ ‘the Burroughs junior and senfor concert ensembles. She is a ' Jormér president of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs and holds membership in a number of “fmusical societies.

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Now

Woody Herman, below, brings his band to the stage of the Circle

tomorrow. He also brings the attractive vocalist, Carolyn Grey, abeve.

JORDAN'S STUDENT LEADERS ELECTED

John Detroy of Evansville has been elected president of the Arthur Jordan conservatory of music student council, it was announced today. Mr. Detroy is an upperclassman. Other officers of the council are Jeanne Burr, senior. of Adrian, Mich., vice president, anc Esther McCammon, sophomore of Carlisle,

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oppo particularly vivid brand of dy-

namics in first class musical com-

edy, probably the best musical comedy ever produced in this country. Mr. Cagney never seems to miss fire for an instant and the result is one of this year’s great pictures. Joan Leslie as Mary, his wife; Walter Huston, as Jerry Cohan, his father; Richard Whorf as Sam Harris, his partner; Irene Manning as Fay Templeton and Jeanne Cagney, Mr, Cagney’s real life sister as his screen sister, live up to the pace set by Cagney himself. It is a fast, sometimes nervous pace, but it keeps the show moving. Frances Langford’s singing of “Over There” at a 1917 style army camp is ‘one of the high spots of the picture. Eddie Foy Jr. plays his famous father and the meeting between Foy and Cohan is as fine a piece of screen business as I've witnessed this year. This film has done much to recall the mood and spirit of the early days of the last world war. Famous songs like “Over There,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “The Yankee Doodle: Boy,” “So Long, Mary,” “Mary’s a Grand Old Name,” “Harrigan” and “You're a Grand Old Flag” bring a quarter century back into sharp focus. They probably will revive many memories. It’s a 'genuine pleasure to review a film like this. Everything about it is so good. Michael Curtiz’ direction is keen and sensitive. Seldom does one’s interest waver during 126 minutes of film.

It’s pretty: much on the riot side

all the way through. Skelton’s humor has improved 100 per tent in his teamwork with Ragland and Blue. Ragland, incidentally, played in the stage version last

year. : The tunes in the show are mostly by Cole Porter so. you have something to listen to, especially when Virginia O’Brien sings them. She has varied her deadpan technique with a few deliberate grimaces, but I prefer the dead-pan and it seemed that the audience does, too. A night club entertainer in the canal zone, Miss Sothern has a crush on a soldier whose little daughter by a bygone marriage is coming down to visit him with the family butler, Jerkins, played by Alan Mowbray. To impress the youngster, Hattie bedecks herself in great style which the kid finds amusing. That’s the entering wedge of the boy-loses-girl phase of plot. The comedy, for a . welcome change, is pretty good most of the way, which probably can be attributed to some faithfulness on the part of the M. G. M. staff in following the lines originally written by Herbert Fields and B. C. DeSylva. 8 o 2

LOEW'S SECOND feature is “Miss Annie Rooney,” with Shirley Temple and Guy Kibbee, a folksy comedy which reveals the former baby star drifting gracefully into the awkward stage.

Spitfire, And youre scared mosquito pink, When you're thousands of miles from nowhere And there’s nothing below but the drink—

It's then you'll see the gremlins, Green and gamboge and gold, Male and female and neuter, Gremlins, both young and old.

It’s no use trying to dodge them, The lessons you learned on the link, ; Won’t help you evade the gremlin Though you boost and you dive and you jink.

The white one will wiggle your wingtips, The male ones will muddle your

The female will flutter your flaps.

The pink ones. will perch on your perspex And dance pirouettes on your prop. There's a spherical middle-aged gremlin Who'll spin on your stock like a top. -

They’ll freeze up your camera shutters, They'll bite through your aileron wires. They'll bend and they'll break and they'll batter, They'll insert toasting forks in

he is working on it now. Lieut. Dahl is' a very tall young man with serious eyes, but he smiles almost tenderly when he speaks of

part in the creation of the picture but talkative enough when he tells of the characters of the Gremlin

story. draw the right picture and hasn't

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At that point the RAF bard gave up. Other flying poets were said to be busily compiling endless extensions.

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"| Ind. secrétary-treasurer. It’s a grand picture. Class representatives named to s = = the council are Mary Flora Wilson,| , . senior of Martinsville; Gail Weimer, ‘Panama Hattie RED SKELTON and Ann Soth-

junior of Union City; Peggy Hester, ern, the new comedy team, are more pict for major Hollywood

sophomore of Charleston and Barbara Huey, freshman of Pendleton.| back at Loew’s this week in the. studios because they insist on por9 =| traying the negro as a “clown” or

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