Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1943 — Page 12

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“A New Role

‘Old Boy’ of 'Citizen Kane'

To Act ‘With Durbin.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, 18 (U.P). —Joseph Cotten, the doddering

old boy in the wheel chair in “Citi-

“|zen Kane,” has gone to work, play-

~~ “At the - Front, the tine dormentay Sn. of Ameren troops in action in. . opened at the Indiana theater yesterday and will play at Loew's ng today. Filmed by cameramen from all the services represented in the North African fighting, the picture was produced by the U. S. army signal corps.

Martha Raye Back From ' Battle Zone in Africa

“It was chummy,” she: said. During another raid she went to a shelter and returned to find that the building in which she left her clothes had. been desiroyed by a bomb. She borrowed lipstick from | 31 soldiers who had bought it for presents. “My biggest thrill,” she said, “was standing on a hotel roof during a raid and seeing the searchlights pick up an enemy bomber. Then our ack-ack brought it down in flames, right in the spotlight.” About equally thrilling, she added,

: was being bombed out of bed, The ~ Miss Raye, who went abroad with |, io, ost to hers was struck and

Carole Landis, Kay Francis andy, pag knocked out the windows ry Maslgie Under) DO Br [in her building. She woke up dazed, orary commission and service deco- Iie nie Bo she said, rations for her long. stay. I was scared.”

‘When the others were scheduled $0 return home she asked permis- J OE E. BROWN WITH ALLIES IN PACIFIC

sion to stay and. continue the enSYDNEY, March 18 (U. P.).—

tertainment alone. «» . She’s Going Back “And Ts ” Tm: goife hack. she sald, Comedian Joe E. Brown, wearing an army uniform without insignia, arrived yesterday : and described

“NEW YORK, March, 18 (U. PJ). «Capt. Martha Raye, who has been entertaining troops - in. Britain .and Africa for 4% months, told -yesterday of spending three days and nights in a slit trench during a_succession of air raids, of being bombed out of her bed, and of being in a plane that was attacked: by German fliers. She lost her clothes in one North African air raid and borrowed. a private’s pants and shirts until a ~ specially designed uniform, arrived

“but

%“as soon as a finish a picture I've gontracted.” She lost 22 pounds. Less than two weeks before she was scheduled to return home she came down with yellow fever, or a reaction to yellow _ fever shots. She was hospitalized for zight days. For three days and nights she stayed in a slit trench with about laugh,” Brown said. “The best part soldiers while the enemy |of these tours is that the boys like bombed incessantly, with only half |to see someone from home.” hour or hourly intervals of ‘all clear| He went to Guadalcanal and while * periods. there talked to the men for hours.

cated to doing all he can to perk up the spirits of allied troops in the southwest Pacific. “Whatever I do is strictly for a

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ing opposite Deanna Durbin, youngest of Hollywood's reigning leading ladies. > They're making a romantic comedy calfed “Her’s to Hold." Cotten, who is more forthright than most actors about the year of his birth, is nudging 38, and claims he photographs even bider. Yet he’s emerging as one of Hollywood’s brightest really enjoying life. . So would you it you'd been through what he has, as house paint salesman, Miami, Fla.; newspaper want ad taker, Washington, D. C.; professiorial football player, uderstudy in Broadway plays whose stars invariably remained Lealthy, and $00-a-month actor in the WPA theater project. He would have gone hungry many a time had not his wife held a job on a fashion magazine and earned the eating money for the family.

It’s Different Now

It’s all different now and you can’t blame Joseph for enjoying the house on the Pacifig Palisades he rents from Charles Boyer. He's even obtained some satisfaction from worrying about his income tax; it used to be he worried because he had no tax worries. It was in the WPA that Cotlen met Orson Welles, but it was in “The Philadelphia Story” that Cotten became an actor of note. Cotten latér functioned in all three of Welles’ movies. Welles got info a fight with R-K-O and Cotten got caught in the middle. His option wasn’t picked up. So he signed up with David O. Selznick, who's been paying him a handsome salary every week ever since, work or no.

Civic Issues Call For Men Actors

A call for new actors was issued today by Jack Hatfield, Civic theater director. Candidates may try out for parts in the Civic’s April 9 production, “Ten Minute Alibi,” a mystery by Anthony Armstrong, at 7:30 tonight at the Alabama st. theater. The play will run five nights and will go into rehearsal immediately.

PIECES!

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‘The Aemading Mrs. Holliday’

THE MOST that can be said (Indiana) is that Deanna Durbin

fot “iio Amante’ Mrs. Holliay" makes a prettier pied piper than"

Monte Woolley any day. You may recall the be-whiskered Woolley in “The Pied Piper.” The ideas of the two films are similar, except the kiddies whom Deanna rescues from war-torn China become incidental to the promotion of the young star’s glamorous possibilities. :

It seems that the Chinese mission has been bombed and Dean--na’s father killed aboard Comm. Holliday’s boat which is torpedoed. Rescued, Deanna arrives at San Francisco with eeight youngsters. in tow and seeks refuge for them in the Holliday mansion which looks like an interior shot of the" grand ballroom of the ‘Waldorf with a section’ of the Metropolitan ‘museum thrown in to make it look bigger. There she is forced: into the little white lie that she is the widow of the commodore who is supposed to have perished 'in the sinking and the heir to his vast fortune. : That establishes the youngsters in the household and gives Universal its long-awaited opportu-. nity to outfit Miss Durbin in a set of fancy rags that make her look like a rejuvenated Dietrich.

Times Amusement OPENING TODAY LOEW'S “At the Front,” war document, at 11:05, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45 and 9:20. “The Powers Girl,” with Geo

Murphy Anne Shirley and Ca: Tangs, ‘at 12, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40 an

KEITH'S “Flying With Music,” with Mar- _ jorie Woodworth and George Givot, 8 12 12:28, 3, 5:34, 8:07 and 10:23. Stage, Vaudeville with Nick os. at 1:43, 4:16, 6:49 and 9:22. CURRENT SHOWS

INDIANA “The Amazing Mrs. Holliday,” with Deanna Durbin and Edmond O'Brien, at 11:41, 2:17, 4:53, 7:26 and 10:02. “At the Front,” U. 8. war film, at’ 11, 1:36, 4:13, 6:45 and 9:21.

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pr————e me However, ‘there is young Tom (Edmond O’Brien), last ‘of the Hollidays, to- be reckoned with. Deanna spills the truth to him _ and for a long, dreamy moment it looks as though ‘it’s over the hill to the orphanage for: the kid“dies. But the old commodore returns and all ends well as ‘Deanna, shape draped in . quick fitting firrery, prepares to marry Tom and become a Holliday anyway. Miss Durbin lightens up this

dull epic with a grace of semi-

classical songs to put the kiddies to sleep. There is the usual rags-to-riches comedy involving the right fork for our heroine at the dinner table of the opulent Hollidays. : There also is the inevitable romance at the end, with young Tom going back to sea to hunt submarines and Deanna settling down to watch the kiddies play leapfrog on the campus.

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"At the Front’

THE AFRICAN war film, which: seems to me to be the Indiana’s feature attraction, turns out to be a 40-minute, technicolor . wonder. You see our boys in action on the

‘:| road to Tunisia, dogfights in the

air, tank battles on the ground” and the weird panorama of war on the North African’ Prairiedesert. Maybe this sort of film will stop some of the civilian bellyaching over meat shortages and the general inconveniences of wartime. If is excellent on-the-spot camera recording and the realization that it’s no Hollywood , fiction packs a wallop. ““At the Front” is by far the: best. documentary record of land and air battles that has come to the screen so far. Some of the shots are phenomenal. Of course, there is a good deal of confusion, noise and dust and it takes the commentator to keep you posted on who's who and what's happening. Anyway, you get a jolt when you realize the German Mark IV tank that blows up from a direct hit doesn’t contain a bunch of Hollywood actors who will climb

out after the cut and get paid on

Saturday for their trouble. There are plenty of dead Nazis lying around the field. An inspirational message at the wind-up doesn’t detract from the grim realism that goes. before, but doesn’t add anything either. It is just a Hollywood touch. The sequences were filmed by photographers from all the services and co-ordinated by the U. 8S. army signal corps which contains some of the movie industry's finest talent. There will be more films like this and the message they convey should be a powerful answer to griping on the home front.

BENNY TO .FOLLOW HOPE INTO LYRIC

The Lyric, which is holding over “They Got Me Covered” through

HOLLYWOOD, March 18 (PY. meet Jose Iturbi, conductor and con-|N. Illinois st. Mrs. Agries cert pianist, today sought custody| president, will preside. as

of his two grandchildren, charging

{Famous Clown Back i in Stride his daughter, Maria Iturbl Hero, as “not the proper person to have] | their custody, care and education.”|! Iturbi said in a petition that he}:

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tonia, 5.

famous the clown, the wirse ‘his| Both are with Iturbi, pending

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outcome of his daughter’s

divorce

- Take Pepito, who. is the greatest |suit against Pianist Stephan Hero. 3 clown of them all. For ysars he|Mrs. Hero, herself a musician, was|. traveled the world with the 14-inch |awarded their custody in 1941. : ——————— tn eesti ns ——

cigar, that bounces; ‘the long’ underwear with red’ wool embroidery ‘to |give him hairy legs; the sunflower bouttoriere; - the white vest that reaches to his knees, and th? yellow shoes ¢ foot and a half lorg. So costumed, . Pepito pulled the trigger of the gun that shoots rabbits out of its muzzle. He operated the caraera~that punches its victim

in the nose when he siis for.a por-{

trait. He rode the smallest bicycle in the world. He made people laugh. He earned $2500 a week. Week after week, Year after year.

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back. That left Pepito three possible places in which to work: 1. Circuses, 2 night clubs; 3 hotels. A circus clown earns atout $30 a week. plug keep, and washes off the grease t in a bucket of cold water. Pepito wanted none of that. Number two wasn’t so good, either. His third alternative {dining rooms,

A Clown Again

“No good,” said Pepiio. “The people were always eating and ¢lthough I insist I was just as clean as they were, they'd take a look at my clown makeup, and say they couldn’t enjoy their food. Made em ‘think of animals and sawdust. Ruinad their appetites. No go.” : That left the world’s great clown

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down in Hollywood about three years ago and became # movie character actor.’ But today Ginger Rogers needed clowns in 3 movie called “Lady in the Dark.” That’s where Pepito cane in, as a clown once more, and hear! man of 75 other clowns of all shapes, sizes and shades. He selected his assistant

‘Iclowns, he designed their costumes

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