Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1943 — Page 20

VOICE from the Balcony

by RICHARD LEWIS

"Immortal Sergeant’

TAKE THE YARN about Mr. Meek who is too bashful to kiss Miss Beautiful. He nearly loses her to Mr. Suave, the .slick-haired man of the world who knows his way around night clubs. Comes the war which develops our hero’s personality like a short course in Dale Carnegie. A new man, our hero pushes Mr. Suave out of the way and

kis ses Miss Beautiful. ‘There you have the plot of “The Immortal Sergeant” (Indiana), without which the film might . amount to something, for the scenes of the British patrol fightg in the desert are well done. Jenry Fonda plays Mr. Meek, Madureen O'Hara is Miss Beautiand Reginald Gardner is Mr. ve, a correspondent and very hing, having written a book

and ally BEonde: he’s trying ,

. You find out that Mr. Suave has the inside track and a desperate look comes into Fonda’s eyes. omas Mitchell, the sergeant, comes up and tells the boys it's tm to go out on patrol. Still ying about Mr. Suave cutting in on his girl, Fonda packs the machine gun into the truck, and away they go. The idea of John Brophy’s novel, on which the film is based, is to tell the story of a campaignhardened, old veteran like Mitchell who inspires his men with the

reall qualities of leadership, an .

inspiration which lasts even after his |death. Naturally, Hollywood has to throw in a corny romance and arrange for Fonda and three other guys to shoot up a thousand Nazis in order to have Fonda discover he’s not Mr. Meek after all; but Mr. Aggressive in person. ; “I'm a new man,” Fonda shouts at Mr. Suave who has come to the hospital to interview ‘him about being a hero. Whereupon, our hero leaps out of his bed:and rushes back to London to Kiss Miss Beautiful who he sweeps off her feet with his new air of com-

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Joan BENNETT Milton BERLE “Margin for Error”

After all the build-up this corncracker has gotten, it sure gets my vote as the worst flub of ihe new movie year. ® . 2 = = THE INDIANA'S second fea~ ture is “Margin for Error,” with - Joan Bennett, Milton Berle and Otto Preminger. It is based on the play by Clare Booth Luce.

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Suspense by Hitchcock

ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S “Shadow of a Doubt,” a study in suspense with Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten was screened yesterday. You: never know exactly what’s going on. until the end, and then you have more than a shadow of a doubt. But there isn’t any doubt in my mind that Mr. Hitchcock hasn’t been himself since he hit Hollywood. Plenty exciting, though, and some amazingly good touches, but the. overall effect is dimmed out by the heavy-handed use of suggestion and coincidence.

Recital at Odeon

Set for Tomorrow

Miss Doris Miller, viola student of Miss Harriet Payne, and Miss Nellie Jones, flute student of Francis Fitzgerald, will be heard in recital at 8:30 p. m.-tomorrow at the Odeon, Jordan Conservatory announced today. Dorothy Munger will accompany Miss Miller at the piano and Miss Jeanadele Schaefer will be at the piano for Miss Jones. be : The conservatory woodwind quintet, composed of Mr. Fitzgerald flute; Harvey McGuire, oboe; Elvin Clearfield, clarinet; George Goslee, bassoon,~and Harry Michels, French horn, ‘will appear in a complimentary recital at 8:30 p. m. next Wednesday at the War Memorial auditorium. Assisting the quintet will be Miss Reba Robinson; harpist, and Miss Imogene Pierson,-pianist.

ALAMO BOOKS TWO FIRST-RUN FILMS

A first-run double bill opens at the Alamo tomorrow for the weekend, featuring “The Valley of Hunted Men, » with the Three Mesqui~ teers, and a murder mystery, “Night for Crime,” with Glenda Farrell and Lyle Talbot. “The Valley of Hunted Men” is the story of three Nazis who escape to Montana from a Canadian prison camp and are rounded up by the Mesquiteers.

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Mr. Cramer,

Alan. Ladd, the screen’s new sinister gent, teams up with another new performer, Helen Walker, in Paramount’s “Lucky Jordan,” which the Circle bills along with the Vaughn Munroe bandshow tomorrow.

She Hopes to

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent , HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 25 (U. P.).— When a movie actress walks out on Hollywood in a dudgeon and says she’s never. coming back to the place, so help her. The odds are that Hollywood actually walked out, on her. About the only genuine big-time star who ever got mad enough at the picture makers to tell em to go jump was the two-time academy award winner, Louise Rainer. And even Miss Rainer is back in town making movies again; she’s co-starring with Arturo de Cordova in “Hostages,” Paramount's story of the underground movement in Czecho-Slovakia. And if Paramount ever gets short}; of stories, it might well consider the Ti try to tell it about like she told it to me today: “I was in the theater in Europe,” she said, “and perfectly happy, when the young man to whom If was engaged was killed in an airplane accident. I'd had offers from Hollywood and I came here, trying to forget my own personal tragedy. “The first people I met in Hollywood were Europeans. They talked my language end T thought we could ‘be friends, but all they could talk about was money. They thought I was crazy when I said my only interest was in good parts. “So I went to work in pictures. Somehow I felt like I was being treated like a piece.of luggage, or even an animal The “producers would look me over and worry

CLIPPER SURVIVORS UT OF DANGER’

LISBON, Feb. 25 (U. P.) —All 15|W passengers and crewmen who survided the crash of the Yankee. Clip-

doctor said Jane Froman, New York radio and night club singer, may be crippled permanently. Miss Froman, in’ private life Mrs. Donald Ross, sustained a broken right leg in the crash and radioscopy disclosed that it may heal shorter than the left leg, the doctor said. However, he said there would be no need for amputation. Mrs. Jean Rognan of New York City, a dancer, also suffered a broken leg. Her husband and dance partner, Roy Rognan, was among the 24 persons killed in the crash. Gypsy Markoff, internationallyknown accordionist, suffered head injuries and body contusions, while Grace Drysdale, New York puppeteer, ‘was “hospitalized for shock and minor injuries. Four crew members, including the commander of the plane, Capt. R. O, D.: Sullivan; 50, of Sanford, N. C,, were being treated at a hospital for shock. The tail of the plane was raised last night from the Tagus river and inside’ were found two bodies, one of them that of Third Officer Andrew Freelahd of New York City. The other: was unidentified. :- The rest of the plane was raised earlier.

‘URBAN POPULATIONS UP WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (U. F.).

ropolitan counties increased 2.5 per

1, 1942, while that in rural counties declined 3.1 per cent. KRUPA CASE CONTINUED

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25.(U. P)) —Trial of Gene Krupa, orchestra leader charged with using a boy

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Louise Rainer Back in Films;

Stick This Time

about how they could make my face

lpretty. ‘They'd stare at my legs, as

though they were staring at a horse. “I was. timid and I was afraid, but I did make pictures.” (She certainly did. In 1937 she won the academy award for her performance in “The Great Ziegfeld” In 1938 she won another golden oscar for her work in “The Good Earth.”) “And here,” she continued, “was I, a so-called great star, And I was terribly unhappy. At- the studio they seemed to think that Rainer would give an academy award performance in every picture. In one of my films they gave me a director who'd never before directed a film in his life. “This was Gnbearable, in itself. But I was married (to playwright

[Clifford Odets) and my life at home

was unhappy, too. This was too much. ‘Day and night I:was unhappy and I simply could: not stand it any longer. I left Hollywood, my contract, everything. I hated everything about the movie business. I decided I never would perform in pictures again; that I'd get into some entirely new kind of endeavor, “I got into war relief work. This seemed to be the kind of thing that suited me. I went to Europe before this present war got too big and engulfed the whole continent. I worked with orphan children, And suddenly I realized something I never realized before, “This Hollywood which I hated was my entree into places I never could have gone before; it was introduction to people of importance who could help me in my work, I began to appreciate the motion picture business. “And, wherever I went, people wondered why I had quit the movies. I began to wonder, myself. I was growing older and more selfpossessed. My personal life had straightened itself out (in a divorce) and eventually I began to believe that I, rather than the movies, had been at fault. “So it was that when I received this offer, I returned. And this time, I hope, Hollywood and I will

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Teamed i in , Bill Coming to Circle

the temporary retirement of Mrs,

Given Leave From Studio

Mrs. Hoffman to Return to Cramer's in Fall. Bomar Cramer today announced

Sara Miller Hoffman, who has directed the intermediate students at the Cramer studios since 1937. Mrs. Hoffman, who plans to resume her duties next September, is to be replaced for the remainder of the term by Francelle Bellenger Rash, a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire and a pupil of Isidor Philipp. Mrs. Rash, a native of Oklahoma, came to Indianapolis temporarily four seasons ago while her husband, Dr. J.O. W. Rash, now in the armed

here. At that time, she studied with

For four years she was professor of piano at Stephens college and was associated with the Miami conservatory of music at Miami, Fla, for one year. She has made special studies in French music with Maurice Dumesnil who collaborated with Mme, Claude Debussy in a critical estimate of the works of the noted French composer,

Maxine Elliott's Kin Share Milliion

NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (U. P). — Maxine Elliott, famous actress who died in March, 1940, at her Cannes chateau, left a net estate of $1,140,065, filing of the estate tax appraisal disclosed today. Half the stock of the Elliott Theater Co., owner of the Maxine Elliott theater in New York, was left

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“Immortal Sergeant,” with Hen a A 6:54 and 10:1 uf 12, aN,

“Margin a Error,” with J Bennett and Milton Berle, ory an , 5:40 and 9.

LYRIC . “Star Spangled Rhythm,” - herited from ne Indiana with -

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trude Forbes-Robertson, wife of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, but the papers filed with the will disclosed that the stock had been sold to a Shubert brothers enterprise. Real estate and bank accounts at Cannes were listed at $55,156. Trusts established in 1929 and 1934 for Lady Gertrude and four nieces of the actress had a partial value of $52,912, Miss Elliott left three-fifths of the residue in ‘trust to her sister and one-tenth of the residue to each of four nieces—Maxine Miles, Jean van Gyseghem and Chloe Forbes-Rob-ertson, all of England, and Mrs. Vincent Sheean, wife of the correspondent, of New York.

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