Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1942 — Page 9
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| orpninG TODAY ENGLISH'S x With Father,” with Perc wath nh Margaio Gilmore, 4
ENT SHOWS KEITH'S On stage, “Fun for Your Money," at 1:52, 4:24, 6:46, 9:08 and 11:30. ~ Meet. the Stewarts.” with i liam Holden and Frances Dee, 12:25, 2:57 5:19, 74 eo: 03 adi a CIRCLE 2 “The Forest Rangers,” with * Fred MacMurray, Paulette God3 Jara and Susan Jlayward, at 12:43,
7: 03 and Wiggs of the Cabbage - Patch,” with Fay Bainter ‘sand Bugh Herbert, ow 2:39, 5:39 and
LOEW'S “Reunion in Fishes,” with Joan Crawford and John Wayne, at 11:36, 5 8:24 and 9:4 t of Stanford s ‘with Frankie Ribert and Marguerite Chapman, 1:25, 4:49 and 8:13. INDIANA anne Upon A Honeymoon,” with inger Rogers and Cary Orent, at iE 2:11 id Tit? and 9:4
7s romb” with Lon , 3, 5:40, 8:20 and
.. Monster,” with Bela at 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7 and
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| FRIDAY—ON STAGE HENRY BUSSE
“and HIS ORCHESTRA featuring
HARRY SHAW— BETTY BROWNELL
HAL LE ROY
by RICHARD LEWIS
The Time Is for Comedy
since November, 1939, when this realize how truly staggering is this miracle of stability. France has fallen, the British empire has been threatened; America has gone to war, and Romrffel is running. . “And during all that time, ‘Life With Father’ has stood fast, gone on repeating nightly to delighted audiences the story of a lovable American tyrant and his equally lovable wife who controls his spectacular gift for making scenes.” _ Perhaps the point is - worth dwelling on. During the years American audiences have been amused at “father’s” ire at another wreck on the New Haven line, life outside the theater has entered a new era of grimness and denials. The world of the theater, in contrast to the world outside, has a peculiar stability. It has remained virtually motionless.
” ” 2 WHILE “FATHER” has been elaborating upon the financial and domestic problems of the 1880's, the foundation of the world we know have tottered, history has unrolled. i Nothing of this has seeped into the professional theater as Wwe: see it in Indianapolis. The stage has been occupied with remembrances of things past.
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DOROTHY JOHNSON, the advance agent for Father,” which opens at English’s tonight for a week, has left me an interesting commentary on the play. label of “press material,” but it is no ordinary blurb. “One has only to recall,” ‘she writes, “how much has happened
“Life With
She gives it the professional
laugh sensation first opened, to
comedy and escapism at English’s.
"The season has brought us a
masquerade, like “The Pirate;” a burlesqued version of a depression social drama, “Tobacco Road;” an ancient musical, “The Student Prince;” an old-fashioned melo, “Angel . Street,” a farce, . “Her Pirst Murder;” a new musical, “Best Foot Forward,” and comedy nuances like “Spring Again,” “Claudia” and “Papa Is All.” A more serious note attended last season's presentations. There were plays suggezing the international dilemma, like “Watch On the Rhine,” even now. ” 8 ” AS FAR ahead as one is able to see, the new year is void of any suggestion of current realities so far as the legitimate stage is concerned here, v “Priorities of 1942,” top vaudeville attraction of the year, with Lou Holtz, is due Jan. .7 to open English’s new year. Upcoming is a newly ventilated version of “The Merry Widow,” with Muriel Angelus; “Junior Miss,” a bright new comedy, and “Porgy and Bess,” with Tod Duncan. It remained for the Civic theater to present the year’s only war play, Maxwell Anderson's “The
Eve of St. Mark.” Nothing else.
has come along to remind us that we have passed the year, 1938. In chaotic times, the theater, as it comes to us, has remained stable as a fixed star ... glittering and distant. ! No other field of expression has remained so sterile, so unmoved by contemporary events. Art, music and literature have been profoundly stirred by the war and its implications for human society in the future. Drama has remained impervious to the world beyond its microcosm. This is not to. suggest that comedy is unwelcome. This is a time for comedys but for reflection, too. The domination of escapism may indicate something more than a financial hesitancy to present the world today. Over-
done, escapism becomes decadence.
pre-war but timely,
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ENGLISH
It's Mother
Margalo- Gillmore is “mother” in the. current edition of “Life With - Father” which: opens tonight at English’s for a week’s engagement through Saturday night.- The comedy, based en the Clarence . Day , skefches, features most of the principals seen here last year.
Ona Munson 15 Real Self
Finally GBts a Movie Role
That She Likes.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U. P.) — Today we have the sad story of Ona Munson ruined, durn near, by a bustle. Miss Munson, as you doubtless remember, wore her first bustle four years ago in “Gone With the Wind.” She was the .buxom, red-headed] keeper of the house where Gable liked to cavort. it was a good role. Miss Munson did an excellent job of it. That was the trouble “You'd think,” she said, “that I'd have received some credit for creating the illusion. But no. The manufacturers of motion pictures thereafter thought of me as a big, hardfaced woman with flame-colored hair and a bosom like a shelf. Costs Her 100 Jobs “In the last four years that role has cost me at least 10) acting jobs.” When Miss Munson finished her work in the big wind movie, she was jobless for some time thereafter. “Or until I met Herbert J. Yates of the Republic Studios,” she continued. “Of all the producers in Hollywood, he was the one man who seemed to appreciate that I was an actress who had created a part. He said after looking at me as I really was that if I could do that role, I ought to be able to do almost anything. He is a dear. “And even though he did put me
"A.| back in bustles, I shall be forever
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turing Roy Rogers and his new side
kick, Smiley Burnette. She is working without her bustle, without her cast iron underwear, without the lifts in her shoes. The customers will see Miss Munson for the first time in years as she is, a tiny blueeyed blond who tips the scales at 100 pounds even. Maybe the movie makers will see her that way, 00, she hopes. The only time Miss Munson has been relieved of her bustle since 1938, was when she played Mother Goddam (the censors called her mother Ginsling) in Arnold Pressburger’s “The Shanghai Gesture.” In this one Miss Munson was exceedingly tall, exceedingly thin, and Chinese-looking in a plack lacquered wig and slanted eyes.
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Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1942—8:30 P. M. MURAT THEATER |
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| blue eyes of Mrs. Luce, and the trim
Washington press -corps. Anyhow ‘Mrs. Luce is in Hollywood working
'I can do that, have accomplished something.”
‘| year.
|Adds Beauty
"Working on Film. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U.'P.). woman there ever was, Her fellow
Clare Booth Luce. So are the correspondents. ‘on capitol hill, They're the lads who've: been peering down from
on jowls, baywindows, bald: knobs, wrinkles, whiskers, and fuzzy eyebrows. They'll take one look at the
ankles, and they'll turn lyrical. Here we're surrounded with beauties all the time. We'll not take the edge ‘off ‘the dispatches -of the
To Cong ress “Clare Tooth Lice s ;
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN | 5 . Unitéa: Press Hollywood Correspondent
lawmakers are going to blink Jan.| 8 when they first set eye on Mrs.|
the press gallery these many -years|:
It is a temptation to write a piece| today about the prettiest congress-|
Robert Taylor finds a mo! newcomer to the screen, Maril Loew’s next attraction.
on a movie. bo “It is about the birth of a na-! tion,” she said. “The Chinese na-! tion. It takes up China from the Boxer rebellion to Pearl Harbor and I do hope it will tell something of China's place in‘ the world scheme of things.”
Worry Over Roles
Mrs. Luce and co-workers are calling their picture “The Four Million,” though they may change that title later. They're also worrying about which actors will portray the principal = characters. Mrs. Luce said she supposed there would be a shortage of spirit gum from tying up occidental eyelids to look like the orient. And there she was, talking like a congressman, off the record. She apologized. She said it wasn’t her fault. She’s working for 20th Cen-tury-Fox, which is working against time and some other studios that also have stories about: China in the works. Fox is fearful that if an inkling of its story were ter hit print, somebody ‘else might swipe the idea. Mrs. Luce told us the story off the record, but she said when she got to Washington she would try always to talk to the press for publication. The press ought to appreciate that. Mrs, Luce, as you know, is the author of such hit plays as “The Women,” “Margin For Error” and “Kiss the Boys Goodbye.” She has functioned as roving reporter in the Far East for her husband’s magazines.
Turns to Washington
Wherever she went in the far parts ‘of the world, Mrs. Luce said, she discovered that all roads, all reins, and all festcons of red tape led directly to Washington. So Washington was the place for her. She ran" for congress and during the campaign felt badly about one
ing photos of .another Clare Booth, by mistake. “Leg art,” she said. “Cheesecake. But I don't know; this may have won me some votes.” . Mrs. Luce finishes her Hellywood chore at Christmas and heads for Washington, where she understands she has reserved two rooms at the Wardman Park hotel—unless some admiral talks the management out of them. She said she realized she’d be a freshman congressman and that she’d have precious little things to do with the making of the laws and the pulling of the strings. “But I do know that I will have a desk on the floor of the house,” she said. “There will be a congressman on my left and there will be another on my right. Ard I think that perhaps I can engage ‘these gentlemen in conversations about the Far East, say, and set them right on some facts of which most Americans geste ignorant. If hall” feel that I
Salary ‘Is Insufficient
Mrs. Luce said that she felt sorry for congressmen, and particularly for herself. “But what I do mean,” she said,
“is the system that somehow does
seem to stifle a man. Take the up and coming young lawyer of ‘some small town who is earning $4000 a He gets ino politics and he runs for congress. He's elected. His salary is $10,000 a year, but he
-! finds that in Washington this sum | is: bafely, enough h. body and | soul together.
“And after four years he's lost all his old business contacts. He
| has to run for re-election, and keep|
on running and if he loses, it sometimes is a tragedy.” . Mrs. Luce almost made a speech about economic security for lawmakers, It'll be a good speech
| when her associates in congress do
hear it, unless the system also stifles ner. Our guess is that she's a lady who'lt be: hard to stifle.
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1, S. SENDING ARM
TO GIRAUD FORCI
ALLIED HEADQUARTE: NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 27 (delay (U. P.) ~The United States is a: ing Gen. Henri Honore Gira: French African army as rapidly possible, Lieut. Gen, Dwight D. 1 enhower, allied commander in ct announced today. Eisenhower said planes alre:
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mi’s respite from the battle fo woo a 1 Maxwell, in “Stand By For Action,”
'had been delivered to Giraud's air {force and tanks and more planes were on the way. IS It was believed here that, with v) the aid of the allied supplies which already have begun to reach the “i Prench forces, Giraud would form 3 an army that would become an im- * portant part of the allied military £3 chine, 3 §- PENSION GROUP TO MEET sf, Indiana old age pension group 7 will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at i'| the K. of C. hall, 612 E. 13th st.
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TCHINA OUTLINE
POST-WAR AIMS
Demands Equality Among
Nations of World After the War.
CHUNGKING, China, Dec. 28 (U.
'P.).—~Absolute equality among the
nations of the world was demanded yesterday by China in a disclosure of post-war ideals bearing on foreign relations. An article in the official Central Daily News gave - China's desires when victory shall have been won. : They were divided into three main groups, as follows: 1. Disarming of Japan. The return of all former Chinese territories to China. Temporary allied occupation of Japan to assure that peace terms are carried out prop-. erly. Punishment of Japanese mili, tarists responsible for the war. 2. Abolition of all unequal treaties . with foreign powers and all treaties: affecting China's sovereignty. con-: cluded between foreizn powers: themselves. Abolition of laws and. regulations giving overseas Chine s discriminatory treatment. 3. For the small, weak states of Asia—recognition of their right of self-determination and self-govern-ment.
PILOT VISITS PARENTS © Gray H. Moffett Jr., co-pilot with the . United Air: Lines Transport Corp. in Denver, Colo., spent Saturday at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Models, 31 N.: Tremont st. :