Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1943 — Page 8

VOICE from the Balcony | by RICHARD LEWIS

Epic Coming Up “THE MAJOR MOVIE OPUS of

1943 probably will be Paramount’s

picturization of Ernest Hemingway’s great novel, “For Whom the . Bell Tolls” which is now in the final stages of editing. Not all the - press notices on the film have been planned publicity. Filming the story of Spain’s little world war involved technical and casting difficulties reminiscent of “Gone With the Wind.” It also became the

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CIRCLE

On stage, Charlie Spivak’s band; at 1:15, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:30. “Henry Aldrich Gets Glamor,” with Jimmy Lydon and Frances Gifford, at 11:30, 2:15, 5:05, 7:55 and 10:20. or LOEW'S ’ “Keeper of the Flame,” with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Fa0% at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

“Fall In,” with William Tracy and Joe Sawyer, at 12:43, 3:33, 6:23 and 9:13.

INDIANA

._ “Hello, Frisco, Hello,” with Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie and Lyin Bari, at 12:35, 3:48, 6:54 and

“Dixie Dugan,” with Lois Andrews and Charles Ruggles, at © 11:17, 2:29, 5:36 and 8:48.

LYRIC

“Air Force,” with John Garfield, at 2130, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 and

Mecllwain Named Keith's Manager

William MeclIlwain, former man- ~ ager of the Lyric theater when it

. was the property of Charles Olsen, has been named resident manager of Keith's, Anton Scibilia, one of the owners, announced today. - Mr. Scibilia has acted as theater manager since last spring when the vaudeville house reopened. Mr. McIlwain will take over managerial duties so that Mr. Scibilia can attend to business interests in northern Indiana.

'Khaki-Kapers' To Be Returned

“Khaki-Kapers,” | Ft. . Harrison's - satire of army life, will be shown again by popuar demand Friday and , Saturday nights at English’s. The show packed 5500 people into the theater for four performances last week and had the S. R. O. sign out Saturday night. : It will be the same show at the same prices? $1.65, $1.10 and 55c. Tickets are available at the theater boxoffice.

COMING

Is Person

RALPH EDWARDS and His Crew of

“TRUTH or CONSEQUENCES”

SEE IT— MURAT THEATER SAT.—APRIL (0th

- Broadcasting from the Stage at 7:00 and © 9:5P. M.

'ADMISSION— BUY WAR BONDS $18.75 UP (Each Seat)

‘ Better Seats—Main Floor $31.50, $75.00, $375.00 & $750.00 In War Bonds

Sponsored by Savings and Loan Associations of Marion County

Tickets ' are going fast, BUT

subject of diplomacy between the United States and the Spanish dictator, Franco. There were charges that Paramount was toadying to the censorship demands of the representatives of the Spanish fuehrer. These were denied by Y. Frank Freeman, Paramount’s vice president in charge of production. It was reported that one of the objections to the film was that it would stimulate sale of the book which doesn’t temporize with the

- fascists.

At any rate, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” will have a sneak preview in a few months. It probably will be released as a roadshow at advanced prices in the fall. It is not due for general release, however, until 1944.

2 ” 2 PARAMOUNT launched a widely heralded talent hunt to fill the roles of Robert Jordan, the American volunteer with the Loyalists; Maria, his Spanish sweetheart; Pilar, ' the Amazonian peasant woman, and Pablo, Anselmo, Rafael, Augustin, Fernando and Primitivo. After a dozen actresses tested for the role of Maria, Ingrid Bergman, who is not exactly the Spanish type, got the job. Paramount, it appeared, was intent upon building a love epic out of a book in which love is more or less incidental. . Gary Cooper had everyone's vote in Hollywood for the part of Robert Jordan. However, Cooper was Sam Goldwyn’s property. In order to get him for Paramount, Director Sam Wood made a deal. The director lent himself to Goldwyn to direct “Pride of the Yankees.” In exchange, Goldwyn released Cooper to Wood and Paramount, In the meantime, government restrictions on the use of new materials for sets clamped. down on Hollywood. So Wood had to use the natural backdrops of the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California which are similar to the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains of northern Spain, the locale of the book. The location was tough. At night, the winter temperature fell to 4 below zero and the cast, crews and technicians shivered in cabins designed for summer tourists. For seven winter weeks, the personnel endured arctic temper= atures. Then came Pearl Harbor. Paramount had a group of planes ready to bomb the studio’s camp, but had to keep them on the ground lest the rumor start that they were Jap planes bombing California. So the location was abandoned for Hollywood.

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MOST OF the mountain shots were made before the leads in the movie had been cast. Back in Hollywood, with most of the mountain background filmed, the cast was finally set by the spring of 1942—two years, nearly, after Paramount decided to buy the rights to Hemingway's book. ° After Cooper and Bergman were chosen, Paramount picked Katina Paxinou, refugee Greek actress, to play Pilar and Akim Tamiroff as Pablo. An ambitious musical score accompanies the film which is done in technicolor. Like “Gone With the Wind,” it is becoming known by its initials—FWBT. Mr. Hemingway's book takes its title from an observation of an English preacher, better known to history as the poet, John Donne: “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were; as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore: never send to know for whom the bell tolls—it tolls for thee.”

Saturday and Sunday. Marion.

violinist.

DENTAL SOCIETY SPEAKER

EDDIE ROGERS AT ROOF

Eddie Rogers and his band will take over the Indiana roof Friday, Featured with the band is a new singer, Deda The Rogers outfit has played a number of radio engagements and the maestro himself is a

Dr. John PF. Svoboda, professor of

Lana Turner

Hoosier March 14.

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P.)— Lana Turner hoped today for a spell of happiness in a career made turbulent by her marriage, annulment and secret remarriage to Stephen Crane, the Crawfordsville, Ind, cigar store owner. The honey-haired sweater girl of the films, disclosed that she and Crane were married again at Tijuana, Mexico, March 14.

mal life with the baby coming and all,” she said. : Their first try at matrimony ended -in annulment when the actress discovered that Crane's divorce_ from an Indianapolis woman had not become final. Miss Turner obtained the annulment last February, shortly after announcing that she was an expectant mother.

final, he proposed again, but :was

dose of sleeping tablets, and Miss Turner rushed to his bedside to hold his hand. Recovered, Crane joined the army and began escorting Miss Turner to numerous filmland functions while Hollywood gossiped, unaware of the secret remarriage.

Thinks It's a Secret “We kept our remarriage a secret

because we'd already had so much

publicity,” the actress said. “What we did was to go down to Tijuana on March 14 and get married by a judge. Then we got a certificate from Chihuahua a week

it all official. “Steve still thinks the marriage is a secret. I don’t know how he’ll feel, because he almost cringes now when he picks up a newspaper. He was so self-conscious about our troubles that he went into the army as plain Joseph Crane so they wouldn’t think he was one of those Hollywood fellows trying to get publicity. . “Now he’s in the army and we think we're going to be happy.” Miss Turner said they wanted their child to have “a happy, normal life,” minus publicity. : “And we do love each other,” she added. “We really do, and we've got our baby to think of now.” The child is expected in July.

Can Collection Resumes April 12

ANOTHER COLLECTION of tin cans, the first since ratjoning of canned goods went into effect, will be made in Indianapolis and the surrounding area April 12 through April 15, it was announced today. City trucks will pick up cans in Indianapolis north of ‘16th st. April 12 and 13 and south of 16th. st. the 14th and 15th, the announcement said. Residents were asked to prepare the cans in the usual manner, by washing, cutting out the ends aid flattening. Results of the collection will determine the frequency. of future collections under rationing, salvage officials said.

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ORCHESTRA

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THE STAR: DUSTERS

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ata, JIMMY LYDON

Bride Again|ii

{Reveals That She: Remarried

“And now we hope to lead 'a nor- |;

rejected. Crane then was taken to|§ a hospital suffering from an over- |]

later, confirming it, and that made|-

First. Indianapolis Buster Orabbe—Al (I the Kid, “SHERIF] “STAND BY Al Comedy Riot —

we have many of the best seats

oral surgery at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, will speak at 6:30 p. m. Monday at a dinner of the Indianapolis Dental society in the Hotel Lincoln. His subject will be “Oral Lessons and Their Significance to the General Practitioner.” Officers will be elected.

BALLROOM ® DANCING

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When Crane's divorce ‘became fi

Gary Cooper plays the role -of

‘Robert Jordan, American dyna-

miter with the Spanish loyalist forces in Paramount’s filmization. of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

DELAYS DIVORCE FROM BERKELEY

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P.).— Actress Claire James said today that “there’s no reconciliation in sight,” despite cancellation of her divorce action against director Busby Berkeley. : “Just say Im cancelling it for the time being,” she said. “I may have something to announce later.” Berkeley said it was news to him that his wife’s suit had been removed from the court calendar.

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the actors at 20th Century-Fox,

| first came | Goldwyn-Mayer. for a screen test.

i |He gave it his all ; - .“Mr.’ Ameche,” said the director,

f [they gave him a chance. Put him E lin g movie called “Sins of Man,”

. |a mustachio.

In’ New Picture,

‘By: FREDERICK C. OTHMAN . United Press Hollywood Correspondent . HOLLYWOOD, April 6.—Don Ameche, who is head man: among

can afford these days to appear be-

t [fore the cameras without his mus-|-.|tache. It used to be he couldn’t.|

' “When - the - mustacheless Ameche ‘to Hollywood seven years ago he dropped by Metro-

“you - have made a big name in radio. You are a fine actor on the air. In pictures you're not so good. TI hate to say it, but there’s something wrong with your face.” This was a jolt to Ameche. He looked in the mirror. His face looked ali right to him. So he gritted his teeth and went to Fox for another test. The boys were a little leery of the face, but

starring Jean Hersholt. Ameche played a dual role in that one. One of his .characters was clean-shaven. The other had

+ One of Those Faces “And that mustache is. what saved me,” Ameche reported today. “Nobody ever had told me what was wrong with my face. It wasn't deformed." It wasn’t even painfully ugly. - But it was one of those faces that seemed to go flat on the screen. The mustache seemed to change’ it altogether.” : ' So Ameche peeled off the phony mustache and grew a fine black one of his own. He's worn it ever since, with results well known to you. At "the moment he is working with Miss Gene Tierney in an Ernst 'Lubitsch technicolor job titled “Heaven Can Wait.” During the early part of the film he performed minus his mustache. He was an unhappy man when he

For Don Now| 2

: Ameche ‘Decoration Missing

had to shave it off.

Brooklyn Put The Heat On The ' Equator—And The Finger On " Millionaires —In Paramount's Gay, Grand, Gala Musical Laugh-Cruise Everyone's Taking! Come On Along!

STARTS TOMORROW .

Lynn Bari plays the Nob Hill

siren in

“Hello, ’Frisco, Hello,”

story of old San Francisco, which moves over to the Lyric tomorrow after a week’s run at the Indiana.

| DOTTIE AND CAPTAIN | TO WED TOMORROW

TONIGHT

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HURRY! LAST DAY!

INDIANA /

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U. P.).— The marriage of Dorothy Lamour and Capt. William R. Howard III

actress’ home, her mother said today. Howard was unable to obtain leave, and chances of a honeymoon appeared slight.

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