Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1942 — Page 6

by RICHARD LEWIS

"The Pride of the Yankees'

THREE OF HOLLYWOOD'S leading citizens—Actor Gary Cooper, Producer: Sam Goldwyn and Director Sam Wood—have united their considerable talents to give us one of the year’s superior pictures, “The Pride of the Yankees.” It opened today at the Indiana. :

It seems. clear that these citizens have succeeded in their earnest

intent to make a picture about Lou Gehrig, a great- American baseball

‘player, ‘rather -than about baseball. | “Pride of: the Yankees” is primarily the life story of a great American, 'a life and a story wholly : and: distinctively American. : } This is the kind of picture that - you and I-would be proud to have represent this ‘country’ in the camps of the armies of the united ations. That's more than I d say about most films we make. Gary Cooper, as the great first baseman, does a swell job. So does Teresa Wright, the 22-year-old actress who has come into stardom just this year, as Eleanor Gehrig. ! Mr, Cooper and Miss Wright have the magic of behaving like human beings on the screen. Sam Wood's direction provides an at-

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mosphere so real you can smell the lockerrooms and feel the excitement of the crowd in the

bleachers.

Cast Bats .1000

THE CAST as a whole bats 1000. Babe Ruth seems to act himself, which is what the director ordered. Bob Meusel, Bill Dickey and Mark Koenig are the other diamond stars who play themselves. Walter Brennan plays a wholly believable sports writer. Elsa Janssen as Mom Gehrig and Ludwig Stossel as Pop Gehrig are splendid. They actually look and behave very much like parents. Bill Stern's announcing, a device to carfy the narration, ‘adds a good deal to realness and natural-

"ness of the film.

The story begins in 1914 when Lou Gehrig was a boy of 11 and Christy Mathewson was the baseball hero of the day. It ends with the great Lou Gehrig day celebra=tion at the Yankee Stadium following the “iron man’s” tragic retirement from the game. Pictures like “Pride of the Yankees” give you an idea of what Hollywood is actually capable of doing when it wants to. They give you a little bit of faith that the motion picture industry isn’t dedicated yet to corm and long green. Few and far between, the great and decent pictures are still coming. “The Pride of the Yankees” is one of them. . a 8 8 POSTPONED two weeks ago, the U. S. government’s “The World at War” at last has reached the Indiana. Once more let me repeat a recommendation to see it. It is undoubtedly the best film of its kind ever produced and as cinema, it’s epochal. Taking it both as history and as propaganda, it is eminently worth seeing. Many of the scenes were filmed by axis cameras, many by allied cameras. Nothing is faked, nothing is phony. All of these scenes were filmed the way they happened. i The film traces the history of the world over the past 11 years, to show in the apparently widely separated events of the 1930's the pattern of Fascist aggression. It records the march of the totali-

This is Chester Dolphin and company who appear on Keith's stage tomorrow in a vaudeville bill headed by Maxine, Phil Spitalny’s head charmer. We don’t know the identity of “company” of Chester Dolphin and company, but promise to find out for you. All we know is that they have a juggling act.

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