Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1942 — Page 20
. 5 * { Times. Amusement 300th to Utter Famous Line Buck Jones’ |Local War Workers io, See = VOICE con tes T 5 | : . aE be RE from the Balcony Rites Today| Film of Own Output in Battle PT n tage, y se’s Diamond ! We H Re 4 :15, 4:15, 1 : dX and’ 0. Yio 0 In any, 7 : R ! CH ARD LEW ! S Motion pictures of Indianapolis Nally sisters, Gil Robinson, Novak fT we teorge | Brent an oaTorye by Many to Attend Funeral of manufactured war materiel being|and Faye and Ted and Flo Vallette, oa Mats) A at 11:30, 2:30, 5:25, 7:58 .N H sor-B used in actual combat will high- Preston Lambert will be master of A : oosier-Born Star. : ceremonies. al INDIANA light a “Victory Revue” to be prekA The Road_ to Morocco,” with HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—|sented today, tomorrow and 30c To 1 P. M. (Plus Tax) Bob i ope, Dorothy Lamour snd | | Since Pearl Harbor no Bing Crosby, at 11:49, 1:51, 4, Filmland pays homage to one of iis| Wednesday at the Murat theater 5:57, |7 5¢ and 1 EVERYONE EXPECTED that a year of war would bring great most authentic Western stars to-|for employees and their families “Fir M sors Gal,” with yes = Je bg on oy Damm. Tu a ep rare, te §ay 8k the fungral of Hougies born cia} Body and other General Motors | 1 Me and My Gal” Ww s we onths a earl Harbor are abou \ % 255%, ) Hors 6: Bad Cans Ee a 12 months before. The public is getting its movies as usual, not quite Charles (Buck) dongs, who died of| 4. nions in this area. ; i Td “Biozie Man Will Get You,” ds many as before because of film conservation, but the same kind. burns in Boston’s tragic Cocoanut! In another movie to be shown on W Hy Jith] Boris, Saviors and meicy A year ago, there was more talk about the cinema converting for Grove fire. the program, Quentin Reynolds, § 1 NE Lxnic. di war than there is now. Theorists Delegations’ representing many noid Pil correspondent, will pro-| gl “wt - were coming forward in bunches | tion. Of 158 upcoming films from anizati {he the office] ide commentary for an epi-} § 1a costs ae Sato, 250, 8:35, 8:08 demanding that the films be con- | 10 studios, only 17 per cent deal pas ie ae uz the Al|S°0€ depicting scenes from the gE a ve - hs wil. a1 verted into a vast, propaganda | with war themes. Best of these Malaika temple of Shriners. Henry Dieppe commando raid, in which he LI lan | nes and June ‘Frazee, at production plant. are “The Commandos Strike at S. Orme Masonic lodge, the Jesters, was an observer. | Ll a 10:10] (45, 436, 7'and 0:4 Nix, said Hollywood. That would | Dawn” (Columbia); “For Whom and Jones’ studio, Monogram, Wills, oe aor SmPloyees cb all shifts AE i empty the theaters. And Holly- | the Bells Toll” (Paramount); A So Toiscupal services|” 00, ine SNOW, Jit of 8 “Viele $I Th : } M k wood kept going, for the most | “The Chetniks” (foreign, released Hedy Lamarr is the 300th actress to utter the famous curtain line |, "oo 0 oth bivd. chapel Is Our Business” campaign being 5a | pind eqarers ar part in the same way, putting | by Fox); “The Moon is Down” | of “White Cargo”—"“I am Tondelayo.” In the picturization of the old Among. honorry pallbent ars will conducted by General Motors plants £0 re out entertainment. But not only | (Fox) and “Watch on the Rhine” | play, which opens at Loew's Wednesday, the actress introduces a |, 'w Boo Johnson and Trem Carr throughout the country, there will iE rirst War Year entertainment — something else, | and “Mission to. Moscow” | garment known as the “lurong,” which is said to be twice as glamorous |» \/o 000m has A) W. 5. Van Dyke, be a morning performance at 10:30 JOHN MURRAY |e too. (Warner's). as the sarong, and covers only half as much territory. famed Hollyw ood direeron a. m. each day, and two evening El
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Speci¢l bond-selling appeals will be made today in most Indianapolis theaters, with dedication ceremonies for the Pearl Harbor anniversary
At Lo:w’s, a full minute of silence for the Pearl Harbor dead will be followed by three cheers for the men in the service. Yeoman Chet Long of the Navy recruiting station present on the stage two men who have seen action at Pearl Harbor. |
Besides sparking war bond sales and service relief funds, for which the movie industry has truly gone overboard, Hollywood turned to
something new in
cinema: The
d o cum e ntary-propaganda film which accompanies feature en-
tertainment. In co-operating
with the of-
fice of war information film divi-
sion, the industry
made, is still
making and will continue to make, a barrel-full of two-reelers showing all phases of the war effort
—army, navy,
civilian defense,
war industry and war agriculture.
They 2re Ensign Stanley Guimond and Chief Specialist Photographer Idward A. Hilson, former Paramotiit news cameramen, who
Most of these are infinitely superior as cinema to the fulllength entertainment they accompany. Full-length feature documents,
j By Africa, Australia and -Guadal- ; 4 8$ECURITY an / canal. . | somewhat, but nobody really By FRANCIS FISHER York. The majesty of the concerto i § 7 2 p oy T ; #2 8 8 knows how much. United Press Staff Correspondent 8 Somintoens oy Ee Sm E o IN GHT id " YO. U, J NEIG HB 0, )) 1 0, 0) i id wear da . . ony, ex 0 / i i War n Films Theater operators Who had LONDON, Dec, 7. These #re conflict of the “Eroica” is supplanted Hurry! Hurry! Last 2 Days! rT : iy , A 4
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Women of the office of civilian defense will sell bonds through the
have been excellent as cinema and united nations. propaganda.
Musicals and comedies are the preponderant type of so-called “escapist” films now being released. Reason: (1) public has indicated on numerous polls that it prefers them;, (2) they are quickly thrown together; (3) they “utilize feminine talent in view of the departure of many male stars to the armed services. The extent to which the public prefers’ the comedies to the seT rious war films can be illustrated by arsrecent M. G. M. ad which boasted that the musical “For Me and My Gal” did better business in the first 19 cities it played than M. G. M.’s war epic, “Mrs. Miniver.” The business this musical has done so far has led the studio to call itself “Metro-Gold-
and issues of the war in war-
theme epics. War films which
guished pianist, appeared with the Indianapolis symphony orchestra over the week-end, playing the Beethoven “Emperor” concerto (No. 5 in E-flat major) with the brilliance and polish that have made him one of the great artists of our time.
shortages.
Mr. Serkin’s hotel room. A mild voice answered the phone:
Serkin Demonstrates Skill Of Great Concert Artist
RUDOLPH SERKIN, the distin- was slow. I'm coming right over.” So it was that Conductor Fabien program around. Instead of playing before Mr. Serkin played after. It made no difference to anybody particularly when he played,
Sevitzky switched the
intermission,
as long as he played.
Saturday night, Mr. Serkin arrived late for his stint, with the look of a businessman harassed by war Time and Mr, Serkin
The mild-mannered musician who would appear to be indistinguishable in any crowd of more than four people became a veritable demon once he rested his fingers on the
The “Emperor” was written at a time when orchestras began to have
audience during Loew’s Pearl Har-| Probably the most significant | played the war straight, like “yes?” a more and more to say in concerti, bor day ccremonies. movie development that has oc- | “Miniver” and “Wake Island,” did Mr Sere ? with the result that Mr. Serkin sat
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curred this year, the documentary
film, while only a
drop in the
bucket compared to the tremendous footage used up in" routine entertainment features — will probably endure as invaluable historical record long after the
current features
have been
thrown in the ashcan. One more new type of film has appeared—the on-the-spot cam-
era record, longer, than the newsreel. “Battle of Midway”
more detailed The navy’s in technicolor
was the first of these, and more are expected to come out of
HOW FAR has war permeated
Run your finger
down the list of pictures released
generally between 1941, and November,
November,
1942. Only 34,
roughly 20 per cent, were based
on war ‘themes. were foreign films. ican-made list, only tried to portray the
Some of these
Of the Amera half-dozen serious issues
and facts of the war, like “Mrs.
Miniver,” War Against Mrs. “The Pied Piper.”
“Wake Island,”
Hadley” and
Will war themes be more preva-
lent in forthcoming
pictures? No,
according to “Variety's” tabula-
“The
good business. ”
Hollywood Changes WAR HAS brought no relief from the double-feature horror as many exhibitors hoped. Dime-a-dozen B pictures came off the assembly line with undiminished speed this year. ; : Next year, when civilian feature output is expected to drop 40 per cent because of a cut in raw film stock, B film production may drop
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hoped Uncle Sam would over-
throw the double-bill Frankenstein for them have been disappointed. Uncle Sam told them to do it themselves. Lowell Mellet, OWI film chief, has urged an end to double bills on the grounds that sitting three or. four hours in a double-bill house with one’s mind afloat in a fictional world hardly equips the American population to do a real job of handling war’s problems. “We cannot grow,” he has pointed out, “by sitting on our physica) and metaphysical fannies.”
to conserve materials. That put the DeMille type of extravanza epic out for the duration. .,.. A new vogue for burlesque which has swept the legit theaters is now sweeping Hollywood and the girls will wear less and less clothes. . . . Studios are making money despite restrictions. Fox
ended Sept. 26, compared to only $1,549,164 in the same period before Pearl Harbor—sa net gain of $5,700,000! Meantime, the wage ceiling is still causing an uproar. Stars
and the government has made the
role of the Negro farmer in the war effort.
made $7,250,000 in the 39 weeks _
“Do you know what time it is?” “Yes.” “you are on in five minutes.” «Is that so? Oh, dear, my watch
Stage Shows London Rage
Passing of Blitz Booms Entertainment.
boom days for the London theater. Two years ago, you could have bought a play or a cinema house at bargain basement prices. Today, it would be next to impossible to buy or even option a theater. This two-year renaissance of London stage and screen is due mainly to the passing of the blitz, but in part to the fact that Londoners, having gone through one of the blackest periods of history, are en-tertainment-starved. Back in the days when the Germans were dumping bombs on London every night, the theaters could get matinee customers only.
which sets the entertainment ceilings in America.
scale their prices at
them away. The rebirth of the stage has
living in the provinces during the
those days. Wages of actors have zoomed up-
Several theaters were hit and one—
cases twice those of Broadway
The better London cinema houses the British equivalent of $1 to $2 a seat. Even at those prices, theyre turning
brought back to London leading artists who managed to eke out a blitz. Dodging bombs was less of a
problem in the smaller towns in
ward. And questions about alleged
ings probably is no higher than
ran more than 1000 performances. It flopped when it was revived in
Last month, 34 legitimate theaters
slumped in his chair, his hands hanging listlessly down at his sides, his eyes peering through his glasses at the keyboard, a good part of the time. Then, as the orchestra approached
raised his eyes, wiggled his fingers, flexed his toes and dived instantly back on the keyboard with a flourish, Watching Serkin was almost as good as hearing him. The pianist played the concerto very much as he has recorded it on Columbia records with the Philhar-monic-symphony orchestra of New
by the grandeur of the concerto. Mr. Serkin’s piano work underlined the concerto’s expansive and imposing quality. i The orchestra led off the concert, the best it has given to date, with the Haffner. symphony (No. 35 in D major) of Mozart, a beautiful and sometimes exhilarating work. , “Kaintuck,” a short, descriptive pieec for piano and orchestra, was the orchestra’s American composition. It is the work of William Grant Still, one of the foremost Negro composers in the United States. Its pictorial neatness and beauty of tone and mood give it Tt
“Death and Transfiguration” by Richard Strauss concluded the program on a somewhat noisy if spiritual note. More concerts like this please, Mr. Sevitzky. —Richard Lewis,
TO MOVE 15,000 KIDDIES ANKARA, Dec. 4 (Delayed) (U. P.)—Advices from Budapest said that an Italian commission had arrived there to arrange for removal to Hungarian homes and camps of 15,000 children from Milan, Turin and Genoa, which have undergone bombings recently.
Jones, 53, who grew up in the great outdoors which backgrounded the films making him famous, had averaged eight pictures a year for 20 years. His following included some 5,000,000 members of the Buck Jones rangers, one of the largest fan clubs in the nation. Born Charles Frederick Gebhardt in Vincennes, Ind. and schooled in
Rock, Okla. His career included
pines and in the early beginnings of
and race track driving. Hired as a five-dollar-a-day extra in a Western film while visiting Hollywood, Jones began a career
and a number of vaudeville acts will
showings, one at 6:30 and another at 8:30 p. m. In addition to the film sequences, an orchestra will furnish music
be presented, featuring the Mec-
Indianapolis, he spent his youth on|' a 3000-acre cattle ranch near Red|.
cowpunching, service in the Philip-|,
the army air corps, wild-west rodeos|
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2 ig ioe Jean the industry | peace time. —|H AMILTON 2116 E. 10th Sisingu ihe BY esdie | Four Originals Technicolortriumph! |Sheridan, %%. =, ers By Parig which netted the treasury a bil- | There probably are no more than TE “TALES OF MANHATTAN" lion dollars in bonds (maturity |four original first class shows play- Shirley Temple “MISS ANNIE ROONEY” Donna Reed “MOKEY” } value). ‘The trade’s army and ing in London. The rest are thrill. BICCEST BE NEW navy relief fund drive netted |S Svivals, musical comedies and ST J. \ i $2,120,000 for these services. . . . | ‘Ne like st Side Theatre Auta
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Down in their basements, theater iL a owners found. tons of scrap for were open in London (four more or Pus ig “LADY BE GOOD” the scrap drive. The Indiana than on Broadway). Of these, 14 Humphrey Bogart—Mary Astor ; theater kore sid ‘0b pounds last [Fore Jousicals, six comedies and Brian WAKE ISLAND “ACROSS THE PACIFICH wok wii Loo wo rid of a | S50, 8% ne Dy Tok Ul WED, “eeimats ove | COMA, we. 226 on ANage 3:7HonLh 30. ballet, one a Shakespearean re- : , ; - mem Humphrey Bogart—Mary Ast and WATCHES Since Pearl Harbor, the Amer- vival, and one a circus. Four of gril gi AIC " ican movie industry, the world’s i : IT test. Rasnt i e plays were revivals. 20c “PIERRE OF THE PLAINS" greatest, In exaclly gone to Transplanted from Broadway are PLUS TAX R 2030 Open Plus war . . . but it has started to “Watch on the Rhine,” “Dubarry prrkrsnaarnavvay || PARKER... 7% 22C 1.x mare, 20 Was a Lady,” “Claudia,” “The Little Oa, Bia Hay worih Andy Devine “TIMBER” 3 : Foxes” and “The Man Who Came “BLONDIE FOR VICTORY" La Ea AT REGINALD GARDINER |to Dinner.” m— WEDS BLOND MODEL | tmportance. of , Being. Earnest: NORTH Sipe ‘Importance of ; Being est,” : BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Dec. 7 (U. | ShaWs “Doctors Dilemma”. with RE X womans 220 23 1} CLAIR 20 \ y P)—~R inald Gardiner British film Vivien Leigh, “Lilac Time,” “The Clark Gable—Lana Turner [] 55 reg i ; Dancing Years,” and “He IV? “SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU” FT. WAYNE & ST. CLAIR RZ actor, and Nadia Petrova, blond g ’ Ory IV. Plus Selected Short Subjects BARBARA STANWYCK Russian model, were married here > I Oe a a Si GEORGE BRENT: Geraldine Fitzgerald yesterday at the Community Pres-|P-' eater- INEMA 6th & Open 1:30 . BUY byterian church by Dr. William | goers want to get home early in c att Borer iver. WT) § ELE] NOW! Everett Roberts. case of an air raid. The other is «BACHELOR MOTHER” BRT AG " ; Robert Stevenson, noted English Ireusportation Sifficulties at night. Frederic March—Martha Scott’ y 4] | —Ladies’ DIAMOND RINGS , $440 film director, was best man end Ids" won Foor mn HEAVEN" | MLLPMTL LAA 10-Kt. yellow gold mountin @ Lupino of the films was matron of : : | y y 4 mountings. , honor. Following the cerémony . KEITH £y with + BIG FREE PARKING LOT » : —Ladies DIAMOND RINGS +1 100 more than 100 guests walked sev- VAUDEVILLE * 3 | Out-of-Pawn sale price. : eral blocks to the home of Movie PPT LAIRD CREGAR- THOMAS MITCHELL 30th & Iiinols | { E3 —Ladies’ DIAMOND RINGS $9900 | Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., for wr GEORGE SANDERS - ANTHONY QUIN any cu hth ¢ | 14-Kt. yellow gold mountings. 8 TessFUOI IN Rotor Of the couple, c ee GEORGE ZUCCO Don Ameche MIDNIGHT | i] || Othe Burealns I Der Shards Sale Priced tro PENSION GROUP TO MEET DNR TI ea Uy HERI i peas Fausanes, 3r. SAFARI” . | | Yellow Gold Masonié Rings... ........$10 to $14.50 The Indiana. old-age pension $ UN OUIL SCREEN & Semen Pb Bo i og yg Rg i os ' Diamond Set Masonic Rings. ........ $35.00 to $45.00 group No. 17 will meet tonight at upANGER IN THE PACIFIC" Miller +: Adopted by Seton | TALBOTT "ii. & rod 7 $5 ory Tonite & Tues. % E T F PAWN WE z State st. and Hoyt ave. : from the Novel by Rafael Sobutn 1 "Bing Crosby—Fred Astaire 7 $ «OF = “HOLIDAY INN” a 4 rm Biri Buloresc_tilihams—s140 to $22.50. Other watches— | oi DANCE 20+ STARTS WEDNESDAY ini Suleied Short Subjects. x. F 0 $12.50 — all reconditioned — look like new! \ VOGUE ollege at 63:4 by | AND CARD PARTY i Tn Special Selected Short Subjects Marjorie “PANAMA BARRING 5 a The CHICAGO ‘Ti: YDEIL CLU ; Plus canroos- sarc mavicusss 5x0 |[ZARING "it Gri | ras bern ccatisit ba Sntesee it, het . ’ — f o m: % 146 EAST WASHINGTON ST. O'DELL CLUB | t | 3 Gomes Arne or tiord Gi. 22¢ “i N “en : - iN pears || Sima ve NE RO PR | POD VD Wes, | nner ies casi (SHIP Aov”"
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