Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1942 — Page 17

| Lieutenant Garnes,

Gus Van, singing minstrel, ap- | pears on Keith's new stage show, Po “This Is the Life.” opening today.

GENERAL, ADMIRAL ARE JUST PRIVATES

MATHER FIELL, Cal. (U. P.).—

i . Ask for General Rudolph Merri- | weather, Admiral Allen or Lieuten- | ant’ Garnes at Mazther Field, but

you won't get a gold-braided officer. | They are all privates in the army | air forces at the | gchool. Their full names are Pvts. Admiral C. Allen of Lufkin, Tex.; General Rudolph Merriweather and both, of St. Louis,

EAT SUBSTITUTE FIXIN’S CAIRO, Nov. 26 (J, P.).—Amer{can soldiers in the Middle East ate | turkey—about one pound per per- | son—today, but peas and corn re- | placed the traditional garnishments of cranberries and pumpkin pie.

DOORS OPEN AT . 10:45 LAST TIMES TODAY — ~ STAGE SHOWS at 1:00 — 3:50 — 6:50 and 9:20 40c to | ® 550 After 1 (I:

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OPENING TODAY LYRIC

“Sin Town,” with Constance Bennett and Brod Crawford, at 12:05, 2:45, 4:25, 8:05 and 10.45. “Sherlock Holmes,” with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, at 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7 and 9:40.

KEITH'S

On stage. Gus Van and vaudeville, at 1:52, 4:24, 6:56 and 9:28. “The Old Homestead,” with the Weaver Bros. and Elviry, at 12:30, 3:02, 5:34, 8:06 and 10.28,

CURRENT SHOWS INDIANA

“Who Done Tt?” with Abbott and Costello, at 11:12, 1:51, 4:30, ‘7:02 and 10:02.

“Moonlight in Havana.” with Allan Jones and Jane Frazee, at 12:36, 3.15, 5:54 and 8:47.

LOEW'S

“For Me and My Gal” with Judy Garland, George Murphy and Gene Kelly, at 12:35, 3:39, 6:43 and 9:47.

“The Boogie Man Will Get You,” with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom, at 11:20, 2:24, 5:28 and 8:32.

CIRCLE

On Stage, Ina Ray Hutton, Wee Bonnie Baker and band, at 1, 3:55, 6:50 and 9:20.

“Girl Trouble,” with .Don Ameche and Joan Bennett, at

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11:25, 2:20, 5:15, 7:45 and, 10:18.

PASSES ARMY TEST, MISSES PRISON TERM

SOUTH- BEND, Ind., Nov. 26 (U. P.) —Harry Peter Stoffels, 36, former wage-hour inspector convicted of accepting a $200 bribe, has been saved from serving a prison term by passing rigid army entrance

| tests at Toledo, O., a St. Joseph

county draft board said. Stoffels will report to Camp Perry, O., in 12 days for active duty. The former department of labor employee was convicted of bribing the Blue Lumber Co. of Elkhart of $200 to cover alleged irregularities in the books, but Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick granted leniency because Stoffels was Suiering the army, If he had failed his army examinations, he would have been forced to serve a three-year prison sentence.

Wickard Is Cast In Radio Drama

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (J. P.). —=Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard will play the role of “secretary of agricluture” in a Thanksgiving dramatization today over the Columbia Broadcasting System. Written for the office of war information by the poet Stephen Vincent Benet, the play entitled: “We Give Thanks” will be presented at 7 p. m. (Indianapolis time), and will review the battle of raising food and shipping it to North Africa, Britain, the Solomons, China, Russia, India, Alaska and Australia, The dramatization, OWI said, will fling a challenge to Hitler, informing him “that we’re going to take your planned hunger and down it in jersey milk.” In another Thanksgiving dramatization, the: Mutual Broadcasting System will present the interior departments “An American Prayer” from 8:30 P. m, to 9p. m,

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THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO opus now at the Indiana, “Who Done It,” or “Who Dunnit” (Webster abhors either) is so terrible it’s But that’s the secret of the success of this zany comedy team, as well as the simple-minded farces they make. The humor.is strictly moronic, but it gets me. Seems to get everybody, . too. I can’t stand too much of it,” though.

Exercising what they call in the trade, dramatic license, I pushed on out during the volt and watt episode. That’s where Costello asks Ab-' bott what is a volt. Somebody has just been electrocuted in the broadcasting studio and he wants

- to know what is a volt.

That's right, says Abbott, a walt

- is a volt.

A watt is a volt? That's what I'm asking. What's a volt? shrieks Costello, And so on and so forth, ad infinitum. The boys pull off a new version of the old limburger cheese gag, Costello jumps out of his shoes again and runs through walls. After sober reflection, I have a theory that the only: comedian in this’ simpleton saga is William Bendix... But he doesn't get a chance to do much. During yesterday’s opening performance, the balcony got oyt of hand and some of the boys decided to amuse themselves when the going got dull on the screen, as it does frequently in these socalled comedies. There was a gent up there who could moo like a COW. It fit, too. Which goes to show you that just about anything goes with an Abbott-Costello comedy. Pardon me. So-called comedy. ” ” ” THE INDIANA'S second attraction is “Moonlight in Havana,” with Allan Jones and Jane

Frazee. o » o

'For Me and My Gal’

LOEW’S OPENED with another sentimental musical comedy, “For Me and My Gal,” whose outstanding performer, Gene Kelly, is amply buried under Judy Garland’s prestige. He's not only one of the best dancers in the business, although you'd never guess it by the corny routines the film provides him, but a first rate actor, too. It was Mr. Kelly who designed the dances for the George Abbott musical show, “The Best Foot Forward,” which visited here at English’s last month. The picture is dedicated to vaudeville which the foreword says has never been properly recognized: before, at least not by Hollywood. Anyway, it shows Miss Garland, Mr. Kelly, George Murphy .and Ben Blue, a group of tank-town vaudevillians, dying to play Keith's circuit in N. Y. The time is in the early days of the last war. Judy is supporting her brother who is finishing his senior year in medical school. Mr. Kelly, an’ apportunistic heel, steals her away from Mr. Murphy’s act. . Murph gallantly lets her go. The film is' replete with little touches of nobility and self-sacri-fice which are supposed to have characterized life on the vaudeville circuit in the old days. » ” ” JUDY AND GENE work themselves up to Newark just as Gene's draft board starts looking up his file. Finally, their break comes. They are booked into New York. That means they can get married. Suddenly, Gene rushes into Judy’s dressing room with a crack-of-doom expression on his face. The audience gets it immediately and starts to giggle.

~~ You probably guessed it, too.

He's got his notice to: report for his physical examination. But he foils ’em. He drops a trunk lid on his fingers and gets a deferment, long enough to do the show. At this point, Judy learned that her brother has ‘been killed in action overseas and discovering Gene’s ruse, she breaks the partnership. He tries to join up, then, but is rejected, his hand having been disabled. In desperation, he joins the Y. M. C. A. overseas entertainment corps and winds up a hero by sav= ing an ambulance train and wiping out an enemy machine gun nest single handed. He and Judy live happy ever after, in yaudeville. In between the tearsierking

sentimentalities and improbabili-

ties, some of the plain entertainment the cast does is pretty fair watching.

Wins Worst

“Title Prize

Virginian. Gets War Bond, But Should Blush.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 25 (U. P). —The winner: W. P. McFadden of Arlington, Va., gets the $50 war bond for composing the worst title

there ever was for a song. The title: “Autumn leaves in the gutter; never again will they flut

|is true,”

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His bond is en route to the blushing Mr. McFadden (he must be blushing!) and Director Al Ro-

gell, who needed a punk song for]!

his movie, “Hit Parade of 1943,” is crawling out from a mountain of song titles, ranging from bad to awful, which avalanched upon him from all ends of the nation when he got desperate enough to offer.a prize. Titles still .are coming in (“can’t you stop ’em,” wails Rogell), but the contest is over because tomorrow the director’s got to shoot a scene in which Tom Dugan, playing a plumber, announces that he has

ward asks the name of it and Mr. Dugan proudly repeats: Mr. MecFadden’s $50 mistake.

Some of the Worst

Since ‘the country seems to be more interested in song titles than in income taxes or even coffee rationing, we'll turn the rest of this dispatch over to Mr. Rogell’s correspondents and their admittedly terrible literature, thus: “My wife is a welder and she’s spreading at the seams,” Samuel Pinansky, Portland, Me. “Hustle with the bustle before I strain a muscle,” Sergt. Franklin Ridgway, Washington, D. C. “When its pruning time in Russia will you bullshellvicky me?” W. O. Rogers, Youngstown, O. ' “Please amputate me once again dear surgeon,” C. H. Stansbury, Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Author Stansbury also incloses the verse: “You've lopped off my fingers and toes, my legs and my arms and my nose; so amputate me once again dear surgeon, leaving nothing to me but my woes.”) “A splinter from my sweetheart’s wooden leg,” John D. Doyle, Martins Ferry, O. “When cousin Charlie spiked the barley at the corner store,” F. C. Scheffer, Philadelphia, Pa. “I love my sailor in his uniform of blue; the uniform at least Maurine Williams, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

More of the Worst

“You've got class like a gallon of gas,” Jacqueline Weller, Bucyrus, O. “My gal Daisy went plumb crazy chasin’ a rubber balloon,” Fannie Breckenridge, Memphis, Tenn. “She has wrinkles like a prune, but she’s a peach,” Mrs. W. R. Mooring, Leachville, Ark. “Just you and me and a vinegar tree,” Joseph E. Gillride, Wilmington, Del. “Venus lost her arms to me in Venice,” Jack Senit, Venice, Cal. “Lift your nose and let me to your lips,” Gertrude M. Dye, Blue Springs, Miss.

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From Horror to Howls! - PETER KARLOFF LORRE

“THE BOOGIE MAN _ WILL GET YOU"

Sonja Henie, world’s greatest ice ballerina, opens her ice extravaganza, the 1943 Hollywood Ice Revue, tonight at the Coliseum. The revue will run through Dec. 6. .

MASONIC LODGE HOLDS 3000TH MEET

BOSTON (U. P..—St. John’s lodge, A. F. & M., which claims to be the nation’s oldest Masonic lodge, has just held its 3000th meeting. It

was founded in 1733 and once listed among its active members Paul Revere.

CLAIM DAM BLOWN UP NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (U. P.).— The FCC recorded a British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast today which quoted Stockholm reports. that a commando party of 14 men wrecked a power station and blew up a dam on the Norwegian coast last month.

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Australia Should Take Lead With u. S:-Built Clippers, Paper. Says.

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Nov. 26.—To ‘obtain control of the air-reathes ofthe world’s only unconquered © ocean, ' the Australian governmeént ~ should obtain fourmotored -trans-ocean clippers . from the United States and establish a direct . air line from .Australia to Africa, ‘Says: the Sydney” Herald in an editorial, The way across the Indian ocean

boat Guba owhed by the American explorer-millionaire Richard Arch-

‘| bold, who flew this first PBY.

His plane was the grandfather of those which now, with: American navy and Australian air force pilots, guard" Australia’s. shores. “Farseeing airmen,” says the newspaper, “urge that we must show an active. interest in the preservation of ‘our air:links with Britain in the Indian ocean.. America has not yet entered this ocean in a big way. It is a-sphere ‘in which Australia has unrivaled opportunities.” * The conservative Australian news-

| paper. demonstrates that if Amer-

ican planes could be obtained they “could easily travel with a full load from Australia to Africa without stopping, though to insure a safe fuel margin they should not in practice. - But they could easily fly non-stop two-thirds of the way across the Indian ocean and complete the journey in one more hop.” Australia should take the first step in such service by establishing an air -line with American flying boats directly to India while the war is: going on, the newspaper argued.

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