Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1942 — Page 6

I HAVE IT on ipo ‘authority that road Houping during time hes witnessed a revival of the romanticized hardships of the g Kerosene circuit, “The authority is Effie Afton, the comedienne of ars Sister Eileen,” which Sraupes into town Monday to play Eng-

ghe's. hive heard Hany a iinorous tale of the “old days” when,

tier playing a final performance : | - } the Odd Fellows hall, it was usm for the cast to huddle © Ih the chill station and wait for 2 a.m, milk train. It was ays a milk train and it’ always Was supposed . to pull out at.2 m..; and it was always late. “Fhe old-timers tell these tales ‘with relish, concluding with the classical ‘theatrical formula: “Those were the days.” Now, it appears, these are the days, only “it’s not so romantic. This is understandable. Misery in the present is always miserable. It be«comes romantic only in retrospect, “Bspecially in the theater. I. don’t know why it is, but theater peoJie nvagianly love to have suf-

~ MISS. AFTON plays the part of Ruth, the wise-cracking sister,

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the practical, unglamorous half of the Sherwood duo from Columbus, O., who find an apartment in Greenwich village and proceed to have adventures. Peggy Van Fleet plays Eileen. “We played in 44 assorted barns, picture palaces, high school auditoriums and grand opTy houses,” Miss Afton related. “There were times when we huddled in stations for hours. There were stages where we could get only half of the Sherwood sisters’ apartment on the stage. “We were sidetracked several times to allow infinitely more important army trains to go through. Out of Boise City, our special was requisitioned by Uncle Sam, so: we were taken on by a jerkwater engine and a string of cars they probably dug up out of the Smithsonian Institution to accommodate theatrical traffic. “The cars burned kerosene lamps. It was 20 below zero, or it felt like it, and there was no heat. There was no diner. We wrapped ourselves in blankets and ate candy. “But we loved it.”

Hollywood Letter

OUR HOLLYWOOD correspondent, Erskine Johnson, tells about the new Leon Schlesinger cartoon, “The Daffy Commando,” Mr. Schlesinger has the dictators issue g. communique, signing themselves “The Apes of Wrath.”

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bacco queen by a bunch of southern tobacco companies, Only, she doesn’t smoke. I can’t vouch for this one. It came in the mail today. After finishing up his first day at an air base as a civilian instructor in the army air corps, George Brent asked his students if there were any questions. One cadet raised his hand. “Yes?” queried Mr. Brent, “Tell me, sir,” said the cadet earnestly, “can you get me a photograph of Ann Sheridan?” Otto Kruger who plays those villainous Nazi roles lectures on civilian defense at U. C. I. A. ... Del Sharbutt’s comment on a comedian’s life—“It’s nice work— if your audience can get'it.” . . “The Life and Death of a Bomber” sounds like a good film idea. It will be patterned after “Tales of Manhattan” starring a bomber instead of a dress suit, , , . You remember when Bud Abbott built himself a swimming pool? Lou Costello had to have one-just like it. Then Abbott bought a night club. So Costello is Hollywood's newest night spot owner. His joint is called “The Bandbox” and Lou is on the spot to insult customers just as Bud does in his night club. ” » # y THERE'S A STORY ‘going the rounds in Hollywood about the hot-shot, $1750 a week writer who got caught up in studio politics. Hoping he’d: quit in a huff, the studio politicians assigned him to guide visitors around the lot. | His contract had six months to run,

}- 50 he didn’t say a word. For sev-

eral weeks he showed visitors around, and then one day he was asked to point out the sights for an eastern banker. After the tour, the banker fished into his wallet and offered the guide a $5 bill. “Oh, no, thanks,” said the writer, flashing his $1750 weekly pay check. “We guides are very well paid.” The banker, a heavy stockholder in the studio, blew up, stormed into the front office and demanded to know what was going. on. The writer is now back writing. 8 » ®

LOIS ANDREWS, ex-wife of George Jessel, thought she heard

-a burglar, Alone with her baby

in er Beverly Hills home, she terrified, called police. They by could find no burglar and Miss Andrews apologized. “Oh, that’s all right,” said a cop, “if you get frightened again, we'll be back, even if we have to bring our own burgiar.”

JON HALL SERVES .

Ann Miller has been elected to-

{Actor Jon Hall reporis to the navy

' HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 5 (U. P).—

this week for service in‘ the coast guard auxiliary. Hall, an experienced boatman and navigator, will devote most of his

t's off the Universal studio lot to}:

the story. of Mr. Gehrig's life. Mr. hander to do the part,

This is Gary Cooper as one of America’s best-loved sport heroes, Lou Gehrig, in Sam Goldwyn’s “Pride of the :Yankees.”

The film is Cooper had to learn to be a left-

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 5 (U. P)— What Preston Foster had on his ‘hands today was a mountain lion, not stuffed, either. The scene was stage 14 at 20th Century-Fox and the lion was supposed to come down the plaster mountainside after Foster's horse. The horse was to whinny—if that is what a horse does when it is scared —and that was to waken Foster. Then he was to shoot the lion. Simple, hey? J. H. Kerr, the animal man, had

his lion on the end or a rope. He also had a whip, but it wasn’t much use because the lion bit into it and wouldn't let go. Anyhow, there were Kerr and lion on the mountain.

Anyway Fog Worked Beneath them was horse, Foster,

Director Harold Schuster ‘and ‘the entire company of the “My Friend Flicka” picture.’ It Was just before dawn and technicolor at that. This

called for real grass, which the boys bring in, in the form of sod, every morning and plant on the hardwood floor, It also called for dew, which one

of the experts applied with a garden

hose. Finally it called for fog. This came from a nozzle which spouted

compressed air, vaporized oil, and

the frigid fumes of dry ice. So everything was set. The lion growled, the camera whirred, and that horse. just slept.

scared. The boys rattled a bucket of oats in the vain hope that maybe a hungry horse might look like a frightened one. He wasn't hungry.

Lion Has Other Ideas

So the lion growled again and quickly Foster shot his gun, loaded with blanks, and that made the horse jump. Schuster said he guessed maybe the horse" looked scared. Anyhow, it was getting foggier by the minute.

terday during the final scene: the lion was walking through the woods, without any wires to-guide him. He just walked toward some meat in the entrance of a cave, and

And. here he was supposed to bel

Lion Growls, Camera Whirrs, But the Horse Just Sleeps

assistant directors went h-i-s-s-s-s with an empty spray gun. That was

1exactly what the script ordered.

Schuster said “cut,” Kerr got out

his collar and went after his lion.|,

Only the lion didn’t co-operate. It climbed into one of the catwalks and spit. at the bystanders. There weren't: many: of these. ‘A couple of growls. and there weren't any. They locked the stage and disappeared.” . . This morning the lion was in his cage, with door still open, sound asleep.

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On Stage, Dick Jurgens and his band, at. 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:20.

“Mexioan Spitfire’s Elephant,’ with Leon Errol and Lupe Velez, at 11:30, 2:20, 5:10 and 10:20.

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Ex-Jewish Cop Tells o His Exploit. By FREDERICK -C. OTHMAN United ‘Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD Oct. 5.—Remeniber a couple of years ago when all the papers carried the story ‘about Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointing a Jewish cop to guard. the German consulate in New York? You know what that cop ‘did? “I sat there in the outer office of this Nazi. place” reported Patrolman Barney Ruditsky today. “There were those swastikas on the flags. And between the flags were

portraits of this guy Adolf," "der fuehrer.

‘ Made Him Feel Better

“And me, I had to sit there all day looking at Adolf. So I got me

with the movie] cops. ‘In d couple more days he’s got to shave his noggin and get in

there as actor, too. He'll have Joan Bennett for his wife.

Preminger will play the consul, who's: killed. The Jewish cop outside fears he'll be blamed for the

killing and that this. will result in

‘the murder of ‘thousands of Jews in. Germany. And that’s about enough of the plot to divulge at this stage of the game. An inspired bit of casting made Milton Berle the cop. He's Jewish and he’s fast-talking and he looks

{like a cop, except for his feet.

JAPS REPORT BATTLES

BERLIN, Oct. 5— (German broadcast recorded by U. P. in London) — ‘A’ Tokyo dispatch quoted Capt. Hideo Hiraide,” Japanese naval spokesman today that in heavy naval hattles off the Solomon islands the United States had lost several aircraft carriers, more than

a mouthful of bee-bee shot and! I'd sit there and I'd spit bee- bee shot’ at Adolf’s pictures. : “The bee-bees would bounce off | Adolf’s kisser and those Nazis in’

what was happening. Made me: fe¢l ‘a lot better.” Patrolman Ruditsky, since retired at $166 a month after 20 years on the force, is in Hollywood as technical director on a picture about the Jewish cop and the Nazi consul.,

Milton Berle Is Cop

The film is based on Clare Booth’s play, “Margin for Error,” in which Otto . 'Preminger functioned on Broadway as star and director. for nine , months. (Every night .-Preminger had to shave his head; “he used an electric razor.) Twentieth Century-Fox brought

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