Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1943 — Page 21
Howor Stalks the Lyric
EB ALDOUS HUXLEY, the noted. British novelist, made the point that British children of the well-to-do who survived the ghastly brand
©f fairy tales to which’ their nursemaids ‘subjected them \could never be
firs of anything, for nothing they would run up against in real
ife could be quite so Horrible.
Fairy tales do tend toward the grisly side. Compared to some of
more familiar ones, a shelf 1. Edgar Allan Poe would make
ight reading. Jack climbs up the:|
bean stalk and cuts off the giant's . The wolf devours little Red g Hoods helpless . grandother, Bluebeard hangs up his:
urdered wives in' ‘the closet, lood dripping’ under the door.
{ ‘Beside all this, “Murders in the Rue Morgue” reads like’ “The Little Peppers and How - They Grew.” £ Horror, it seems, is an ingredient of childhood and the movies, being somewhat childish at times, turn te it frequently. f Dracula is one of the bestwn subjects of the movie horr cycle, with Frankenstein's monster running close behind the Vampire in the goose - pimple Sweepstakes. Both are the crear of novelists who borrowed he ideas from medieval folklore in which people were always turng into cats, wolves and somees worse. Of course, this idea was borowed, too. Greek mythology prouced the enchantress, Circe, who Specialized in turning guys into Pigs and in modern times it is , found expedient sometimes .n political circles to turn certain peoVle into goats. = Over at the Lyric this week, | RKO-Radio turns Simone Simon to a caty in “The Cat People,” well-directed piece of horror Fonicsy which builds up suspense Py the liberal use of suggestion.
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It may be noted that she isn’t the kind of a cat one puts out at night. Kent Smith, the study type,
‘stands by to provide the contrast
of normalcy. He inarries the girl and -calls in ja psychiatrist who looks like: a cross between a witch-doctor and a magician and carries a sword cane. Hollywood likes to perpetuate its iittle joke about this branch of the medical profession. : Thumbing through his Freud, this sinister character arrives at the conclusion that the gal is a candidate for the goofy-hatch,
which has occurred to the audi-
ence, too. But it is a diagnosis in which both are sadly mistaken. Everything winds up happily and horribly enough to suit the seasoned horror fans.
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NEXT ON THE bill is “Nightmare,” which levels off to mere
murder. The corpse keeps turn-
ing up at intervals behind the desk where Brian Donlevy finds it, despite Donlevy’s frantic attempts to conceal the body in a public phone booth. Diana Barrymore plays the mystery girl
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Week-End Concerts ZINO FRANCESCATTI, the French violinist, will be soloist with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis symphony orchestra in the concert pair Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. He will
‘play the Paganini concerto in D-
major for violin and orchestra, The concert also will present a quartet of string section leaders playing a concerto by Josef Valla. The quartet will consist of Fritz Siegal, concertmaster and first violin; Earl Brenner, second violin; Harriet Payne, viola, and Benjamin Parronchi, ’cello. The orchestra will play the Ros= enkavalier waltzes by Strauss; Liszt’s “Les Preludes,” Boccherini’s A-major ;symphony and “Overture to a “Pantomime,” by Borowsky. §
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taste.”
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— Ann Sheridan indicated today that if the Chance-Vought division of United Aircraft Corp. had come to expert for advice in the first poe it never would have wriggled into its sweater girl controversy. The red-haired Miss Sheridan, long known as one of the saviors of the sweater knitting industry, is the expert. A sweater properly filled, she insists, never slowed down war production yet. She said she understood 53 sweater girls at the Stratford, Conn., plant of the airplane company had
fused to wear blue denim jackets with ‘yeHow ruching around the cuffs,’ : Complain to WLB
She read further that the Connecticut sweater girls had complained to the WLB -and had threatened tc wear their sweaters to the U. S. conciliation service for an inspection and a showdown. “Tch,” said Miss Sheridan. “I have known girls who do war work who have worn sweaters because they found them warm, practical and safe,” she said. There are sweaters, Miss Sheridan said, and then there are sweatSs.” A little lady in a big sweater, is likely to become tangled in the ge@rs. A big lady in a little sweater cause consternation. Or as Chance-Vought General Manager G. B. Anderson put it: “The. girls come in here to work and not be attractive to men. “I think,” La Sheridan said, “that sweaters which are in good taste can be worn at war work as well as on the street or in the home. “If sweaters worn by women are not in good taste, they don’t belong
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Ann Sheridan has jumped into the sweater-girl war-worker argu-
is no hazard at all to machine operators “if the sweaters are in good Any criticism? »
A Properly Filled Sweater No Job Hazard, She Says
in the factory any more than they
Line up those 53 sweater girls and give ’em a look. too big for the lady, cross her off as a menace to the babbitting machines. the sweater, eliminate her as a distraction to the men on the other end of the production line,
She says a properly filled sweater
belong elsewhere.” There you have it, Chance-Vought.
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If the lady is too big for
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national safety council today doffed its hat to ‘Veronica Lake and in
from her eye asked, please, now take the ruffies off your blouse. In a letter to Miss Lake, the
strate that safety doesn’t end at the neckline but extends to the
“The national safety couneil is delighted at your decision to change your coiffure and thus, with a stroke of your hairbrush, save the scalps of American women war workers who seek to emulate your charms and thereby invite the uncrowning of their crowning glory,” the council said. “Now, could you go one step further and stage a one-woman style show to prove to these devoted admirers that safety does not end at the neckline but extends to the toeline? Why not don a complete
{ensemble of approved safety cloth- 3 ing to demonstrate that a gall:
doesn’t have to check glamour at the factory gate to avoid accidents as she toils to help Uncle Sam win the war? : : “. . . Now that the fair war workers are able to keep both eyes on you, let’s give ’em something that will really make ‘em safety conscious i
LANA [S SILENT ON REMARRIAGE
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— Lana Turner said from her sickbed today that she is undecided about remarrying Stephen Crane. Still nervous from shock suffered when she learned that Crane had been taken to a hospital, Miss Turner said: “I haven’t made up my mind and I simply have nothing to say.” Crane swallowed sleeping pills and was taken to Cedars of Lebanon hospital after the honeyhair film star rejected his proposal of remarriage. - Recovered sufficiently to leave the
Doff Ruffles] Star Urged to Display ‘Safety
CHICAGO, Feb. 18 (U. P.)—The |:
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“Random ‘ Harvest,” drama opening at Loew’s today, gives the movie public a glimpse of Greer
Monte Woolley forsakes fame for the right to have fun in “Life Begins at 8:30,” comedy opening at the Circle tomorrow. The Casa Loma orchestra is on the stage.
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the prospects of another wedding.
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