Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1942 — Page 6

by RICHARD LEWIS

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"Reunion i in Paris’

NOW AND THEN there comes a war film which does not attempt to engulf the patrons with flagwaving, glamour and super-duper heroics. Now and then, it happens in the movies that phases of the war are dramatized and played with credibility and restraint. ' “Reunion In Paris,” a well-wrought drama of the French underground which opened at Loew’s yesterday, is one of these now-and-then

"films. Its original title, “Reunion,” « was lengthened for some obscure - reason. The new title is the only, stroke of obviousness in as subtlety ‘made & work of cinema as has ‘passed my way in some time. It opens just before the fall of France. Wealthy, spoiled Joan

Crawford, who has the touch for

light sophistication, tries to entice her worried lover, Philip Dorn, to Join her at'the Riviera. ; An industrial genius who- realizes that France is ill-prepared to stem the Nazis, Dora has war work to do. France, he says, must accomplish in a few months what it had failed to do in the past five years. Prepare. Annoyed with the war and with his preoccupation with it, she leaves in a fret. The air raid sirens go off. Blacked out, the train moves swiftly out of the station toward the sunny south. Dorn goes to an air-raid shelter

- where a warden notices his gas.

mask cannister is empty. “How typically French,” remarks the warden. “A gas mask cannister and nc mask.” Dorn smiles wearily. France falls. ss = = { IN THE SOUTH, Miss Crawford | witnesses the bombing of civil- | fans, Battling her way north against the tide of refugees, she finds: that the Nazis have taken over her Paris mansion as a coal depot. Penniless, shocked out of her world of unreality, she seeks Dorn whom she finds living sumptuously. When she realizes that Dorn has become a Nazi collaborator, she leaves him in disgust and finds work with a former dress designer who once made her gowns. One night, an exhausted Amer- . ican R. A. F. flier, John Wayne. stumbles out of a doorway, exhausted, to seek her aid. Shot down, he has escaped from a concentration camp. . She plans to smuggle the flier . out as her chauffeur and asks Dorn to get her a visa to Spain from his Nazi pals. From this

point, the story takes an amazing turn and moves forcefully to a dramatic and unexpected climax.

More On Atterbury

THE JUNIOR C of C is going overboard in sponsoring the Camp Atterbury show, “We Did It Before.” It’s sending out notices on stationery engraved especially for the show. B. W. Duck Jr., chairman of the jaycees’ “We Did It Before” com=mittee points out that the performance will be a worthy pinchhitter for the University of Pennsylvania ;Mask and Wig and at Triangle shows which probably won't come here again for the duration, The show, which was received enthusiastically when it was first performed at the service club Dec. 1, will stage its repeat performance at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday at Murat theater. The talent is all professional and the show is well worth watching. Reservations may be made at the office of the junior chamber, 815 Board of Trade bldg. or at the Murat Monday and Tuesday. Tickets will be available at the box office, of course, performance night. If there isn’t a seli-out. Feature attraction will be Fabien Sevitzky, Indianapolis symphony orchestra conductor, leading the “Cannoneers,” 83d division jive band, through Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” "and a hot fiumber called “At the Military Ball. ”

FIND MAN DEAD 7 DAYS LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. Dec, 25 (U. P.). — Members of the Lawrenceburg Red Cross chapter, delivering Christmas baskets of food to the county's needy, last night stumbled across the body of James L. Patterson, 75, at the Patterson farm near here. Authorities said Patterson had beow dead Since Dec. 17.

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1941 Payments. CLEVELAND, Dec. 25 (U. P).—

{The fabulous Jack & Heintz Co, pne|

of the country’s few war plants that has no. difficulty getting labor,

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kits em Rf | tating $1,550,000.

year-end bonuses to-

The extravagant bonuses and salaries of last year, which were brought out by a house naval affairs

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District Ranger Fred MacMurray parachutes into the flames to combat the forest fire in “The Forest Rangers” with Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward. The film opens at the Circle today.

Novelist, Now

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25 (U. P.).— Mary Pickford once wrote a book about religion. Gypsy Rose Lee did a couple of deteckatiff yarns, Ilka Chase wrote a book and played-in one movie. Cornelia Otis Skinner now has a best seller on the stands. But the only movie actress who has made a thumping success as a novelist is Miss Elissa Landi, who did so well at it that she almost disappeared from the screen. Almost, In 1938 Miss Landi was known as one of the most beautiful women in movies.” She also had published her first novel. The publisher held a tea and asked Miss L., to make a speech. It was the first speech she ever made; but the tea drinkers seemed to enjoy it. One of them, a lecture bureau. agent, liked it so well he made a deal for Miss Landi to repeat her remarks before a women’s club for a stiff fee. The ladies liked Miss Landi. That started it. For four years now, Miss Landi has been traveling the hinterlands, telling the seekers after culture how movies are made and earning more than she did in movies. She has written five novels, the last of which, “Women and Peter,” now is reaching the book stores. A couple of weeks back she was resting up on her farm in New York state after completing a crucial play (as you will see), when her agents wired her an offer to co-star with Otto Kruger in! “Corregidor”. at PRC-Pathe studios in Hollywood. She came west. and that’s where “we saw her—in Hollywood’s idea of the Philippine jungles, complete With potted ferns and sunares. That play of Miss Landi’s is what started her career as a movie actress 15 years ago. She was in her teens in®*London and since her drama concerned actors during the first world war she thought she’d better visit the studios and gather some color.’ : The boys took one look at the blue-eyed Miss L., and made an actress of her on the spot. She came to Hollywood, became an American citizen and worked in movie after movie. She also worked at intervals on her play. She’s still laboring over it, a decade and a half after starting it. The locale now is this world war instead of, the other one, the title remains “Bring Me My Bow” and Miss Landi has every hope of seeing it produced this winter on Broadway. In the movie at’the moment she is playing an army doctor, assisting good Dr. Kruger in removing Jap bullets frem American soldiers. The stage looks like a jungle, all right, but it- doesn’t feel like one. Too durn cold. Between, shots Miss

Elissa Landi, Filmland's Best

Writing a Play

from her brow and shivers in her mink coat. 1 Her employers, Dixén nr. Harwin and Edward Finney, are producing the film for PRC-Pathe, which is Hollywood’s newest movie company. We once had a loud howl from this concern for calling one of its pictures a quickie. We also said it was one of the worst movies we ever saw. The producers didn’t mind about

because we used the word, “quickie.” They took it as an insult. . Tch-tch, and they'd spent seven whole days to produce the picture, complete. Since then the concern has made dozens of films, some plain awful and some pretty durn good, on short budgets and shorter shooting Schedules. The company has ‘made money and, according to Producer Harwin, is splurging on Miss Landi’s picture, with four weeks of camera work, a grade-A story, and every hope of breaking with it into the big time. It is no quickie, “Corregidor” isn’t, and everybody, Miss Landi included, thinks it will be a hit.

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stage, “Pun for Your Money,” at Oran 4:29, 7:10 and 9:2 “Meet the Stewarts,” oh William Holden and Frances Dee, at 12:30, 3:02, 5:34, 7:56 and 10:18.

CIRCLE “The Forest Rangers,” with Fred MacMurray, Paulette Gog. dard and Susan Hayward, at 1, 7 and 10:10. “Mrs. ‘Wig ggs of the Gastar: Patch,” with Fay ter and Hugh Herbert, at 2:39, 5:39 and

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