Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1942 — Page 24
by RICHARD LEWIS
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: HAVING TRAVELED the roads to Singapore and Zanzibar, the trio of Lamour, Fcpe & Crosby scoots along “The Road to Morocco” at the Indiana ti : week. The film is one long and lavish in which Paramount with spotty humor sets out to kid the public for approximately an } our and 12 minutes. Crosby and Hoe, a couple of stowaways aboard ship, are wrecked
on the African coz: and proceed to a restaurant in a place Para- . mount designates is Morocco by a8 road sign. Unable to pay the check, Crosby sells his partner to the local Sultan for 200 bucks. Lugged off by tio of the Sul- . tan’s torpedoes, Fope winds up in the lap of luxu:'y dreamed up by Hollywood's o'iental department as the intencad for Arabian Princess Lamour. Seems that the court astrologer has discoverer! in the stars that Lamour’s first husband is to die a terrible death a week after the wedding. So she has purchased Bob in the hope that he will serve as fate bait, permitting her to marry a neighboring sheik without that inhibited feeling. Crosby pokes around the palace to find out whether they've got Hope in the mines yet, his conscience pricking him for practically giving away his pal for only $200. There he views Hope having his toenails painted by five $50-a-day EFollywood 6 extra girls who are grooming the|{comedian for the sacrifice. #2 8 =»
The Camel's Opinion BING INTRIGUES Lamour with the boo-bco in his voice, when in rushes the astrologer to announce he has made a mistake: What he thought were the planets were only bugs in his telescope, 80 the deal is off, and Lamour “finds she has thrown away $200. At this point, the sheik (An-. thony Quinn), wlio is a ringer for the late Valentir po, moves in with
his mob and carries off Lamour and the girls, leaving Hope and Crosby bound and gagged in the trackless desert, The next scene shows Hope and Crosby free of their bonds, struggling in the sands toward the mirage of a hamburg drive-in joint, which disappears as driveins are beginning to do—what with gas rationing. © The pair face the audience and announce that they are not going to tell how they got free of their bonds. From this point on, as the boys invade the sheik’s stronghold, the film lapses into one actor-audience gag after another. Thrown into the sheik’s jail, Crosby reviews their plight up to the moment and Hope says he knows all that. But what about the people who came in at the middle of the picture, do they know it? demands Crosby. The climax of this irrational epic comes when a camel pokes his head inside the sheik’s tent and announces in a bass voice that this is the silliest picture .he’s ever been in. Which seems to sum it up.
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DURING THE Thanksgiving holiday week-end, when downtown theaters were packed to the rafters, this department received the following complaint: A patron, convalescing from an illness, was about to buy a ticket to a downtown theater performance when he noticed the house was crowded and people were
standing. As he turned away, he heard the barker announce that there would be only a five-minute wait for seats. On this assurance, the patron purchased ga ticket. Once inside, he was informed that the five-minute wait had stretched to 45 minutes. Feeling that he was not sufficiently recovered to stand that long, the patron asked for a refund. Before he could get it, he had to wait until the usher sought out the manager for a refund slip. When he approached the boxoffice to cash in the slip, he was told that he would have to stand at the end of the line which stretched for half a block and | around the corner. The barker apologized for announcing the wrong waiting time but explained he had to say what he was told to say from inside. This department believes that it is doing the theater managers a favor by calling attention to errors in operation which may appear to patrons as misrepresentation. .
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 3.—If you
two running around the house, and you want to be a movie actor, now seems to be the time to try same. If you're already an actor, then
they haven't already. Every studio we've visited lately has its new leading men, goin tures, to replace those who have gone to war. The same picture queens will be smiling from the silver sheets this winter, but most of the kings will be new. Some 80, new that they're making their initial = appearances before cameras. Others have been banging their heads around Hollywood for years and now, thanks to the war, are getting their first chance at star-
dom. Such a one is George Reeves, who has had his share of small
and who is playing Claudette Colbert in “So Proudly We Hail.”
From Pasadena Playhouse Like many another actor in a
the war to give him his big chance, yet he can’t help being happy he finally got it. Only trouble with Reeves, from Paramount's standpoint, is the fact that he and his
ished. movies because Reeves, with a nose that has been broken and straightened seven times, is a rugged-look-ing 29-year-old who knows his act-
stigmatized as a pretty-boy. Anyhow: He's one of the Pasadena Play house contemporaries of Vic Ma ture, Laird Cregar, Bob Preston and Dana Andrews, all of whom used to drink beer and day-dream about the happy day when they received their contracts. “We were thinking about stage contracts,” Reeves said. “The We all had our eyes on Broadway.”
Tested for GWTW
in several years ago to test for one of the Tarleton twins in “Gone With the Wind.” He got the job, by ignoring his Woolstock, Iowa, birthplace, adopting a Southern accent, and assuring the casting director that he was born in Kentucky. He thought he was a movie star. He thought. He went from studio to studio, working in movies that most/ Hollywood hig-wigs never saw. j In six months he played ending ols in eight B pictures at Warner Bros. He did another such sting at 20th Century-Fox, he received a good role in “Lydia,” a movie that fizzled, and he came to a decision. “I decided,” he said, “that I knew
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he made a long screen test of his daughter and Reeves. He was saving money, Sherman was, so he made the youngsters learn seven
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have the regular number of arms and legs, and a draft exemption or
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wife have no children and he’s] liable to be going to the war, him-|" self, soon after this picture is fin-|: That's too bad for the|:
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To Reeves’ surprise he was called :
about horses even if I didn't know how to get ahead in Hollywood. So I thought I'd better get me a job Anyhow I knew a who’d She introHarry. Yeah, Pop Sherman, the Hopalong
“He put me to work in a beard, I did everything And finally there was an opening in the Hopalong I, became one of the trio which carries the pictures, It was]
While Pop Sherman was about it,
Now at Lyric
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| Louise Allbritton makes her bid for stardom in the Abbott & Costello comedy, “Who Done It,” now playing at the Lyric.
‘Claims In-laws
Played 'Havoc'
HOLLWOOD, Dec. 3 (U. P.).— | Actress June Havdc, sister of Gipsy [Rose Lee, blames mother-in-law | trouble for her divorce from Donald |S. Gibbs, advertising executive. Judge Charles S. Burnell awarded her an uncontested decree yesterday on testimony that Gibbs moved his mother into their home and sided with her in family arguments. Gibbs also demanded that she give up her career, Miss Havoc said. They were married Sept. 12, 1936, and separated May 1, 1940.
Keith's Vocalist
Mary Beth Syres is the featured vocalist with Milt Britton’s band which opens at Keith’s today, the first unit stage show the vaudeville house has booked since it started operating last spring.
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McGibeny Refires After 36 Years as Yiolin Teacher
Faculty, directors and friends of Jordan Conservatory turned out last night to honor the dean of Midwest violin teachers, Hugh McGibeny, who is retiring from the institution he has served for 36 out of the 48 years he has been teaching men, women ‘and children to enjoy the violin. The dinner was tendered at Student hall, 1204 N. Delaware st. Among the distinguished Hoosier citizens who were asked to speak were Dr. Clement T. Malan, state superintendent of public instruc-
bi | tion: Fabien Sevitzky, Indianapolis
symphony orchestra director, and Hilton U. Brown, chairman of Jordan’s board of trustees. Old timers recall Mr. McGibeny, today an alert, sandy-haired gentleman of 76, as a member of the famous “McGibeny Family,’ billed on theater circuits from coast-to-coast as the world’s largest musical family. That was nearly a half century ago.
A Baseball Fan
Neighbors at Golden Hill know him as an expert billiard player, a baseball fan without peer in the neighborhood and a neighbor full of friendliness and humor. In his youth, Mr. McGibeny was known as “the boy wonder” of the McGibeny troupe. He played drums and sang comic songs. When an accident ended the violin career of his brother, Frank, he took up the instrument and demonstrated his exceptional gift at it. When the family troupe broke up, Mr. McGibeny went to Germany to study, then spent several years in Richmond as a trainer. When he came here to teach in 1906, he
“| settled down at Jordan’s Metro-
politan unit at Ft. Wayne ave. and North st. He has taught in the same room
; i there ever since. His colleagues be“i |lieve Mr. McGibeny has exercised “= |more influence in the appreciation i lof the violin by Hoosier youth than
any other teacher in Indiana. Loves to Teach
He loves to teach. He'd be teaching 22 hours a day if the school would let him. He gives instruction in his velvet smoking jacket, sometimes smoking a cigar or pipe which he lays aside when he picks up the violin to demonstrate a point of technique. As Mr. McGibeny collects his che” ~hed pictures and scores which
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couple’s Golden Hill home. They plan to divide their time between the home of their daughter, Mrs. Charles Daws of Barrington, Ill, and their son, Donald McGibeny of Lake Forest, Ill. “Mighty providence has been good to me,” Mr. McGibeny said. “This I know deep down in my heart—music will never die. This war will never kill it.” He believes that it is not the talented person who makes the best pupil, but the most interested person. Among his pupils were Thaddues Rich, concertmaster of the Philadelphia orchestra; Brown and Benjamin Whitman, concert violinists; Ellis Levy, assistant concertmaster of the St. Louis symphony orchestra, and Oits Igelman, first violinist of the Detroit symphony. His most interesting pupil . in recent years, he says, is a 75-year-old Indianapolis attorney who, he
play and gave me Pleasure out of his trying.” Will Mr. McGibeny cease teaching now that he plans to retire? “I would be very lones without my violin,” said the veteran teacher. “I might teach a couple of students. I wouldn't feel comfortable unless I did.”
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