Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1943 — Page 14

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QUINTS GET THER INVITATION TO U. §,

- CALLANDER, Ont. April 8 (U. P.).—The Dionne quintuplets, who

are going to Superior; Wis., to christen five cargo ships next month,

| the American landing in French Morocco last November,

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PATCH GETS D. 8. M. WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.).~ The war department yesterday announceq award of the distinguished service medal to Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, commanding U. 8.

armed forces on Guadalcanal, and! § Brig. Gen. Albert W. Kenner, who directed the medical service during

‘London Repairs Street Lights

LONDON, April 8 (U. P).— London’s long-untised street light--ing system is being repaired and Britons wondered today why the ministry of home security ordered

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Brian Donlevy and Anna Lee are the stars of Loew’s new film,

*Hangmen Also Die.”

The drama is based on killing of Heinrich

Heydrich, the Nazi executioner in Czechoslovakia. Arnold Pressburger

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Errol Flynn Is Divorced

Lili Damita Charges He Deserted Her for Yacht.

HOLLYWOOD, April 8 (U. P.)— Former motion picture actress Lili

'Damita, who traded a film career

for domesticity and wound up with neither, yesterday was awarded a final decree of divorce from screen star Errol Flynn. Superior Judge William S. Baird entered the decree, which followed an interlocutory award to Miss Damita April 1, 1942, after she testified Flynn repeatedly deserted her for his yacht, “Sirocco.” Her divorce suit predated by some months Flynn's trial on charges of raping 17-year-old Betty Hansen and 15-year-old Peggy Larue Satterlee, the latter on the yacht mentioned in Miss Damita’s. complaint. The actor was acquitted ‘on ‘both charges.

. “Wanted to Be Alone”

At her trial last year, Miss Damita testified that in 1940, when she was about to become a mother, she begged Flynn to visit her in New York. “He stayed one day and left on a vacation trip to Hawaii,” she said. “When our son, Sean leslie, was born,” Miss Damita added, “I telephoned Errol that I thought it would be bad publicity if he didn’t at least call for us and take us home from ‘the hospital. “When we got home, he left immediately and went to live on his boat ‘Sirocco.’ He said he wanted to be free, that he dind’t want a child or a wife, and that he wanted to be ‘alone.’ ” Miss Damita won custody of the child at the earlier hearing. She married Flynn June 19, 1935, in

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ACTIVATED NINE MONTHS AGO, the U. S. troop carrier .command engaged in history’s longest air invasion in the battle of North Africa—the landing of ‘parachute troops air borne 1500 miles from

England to Oran, Algeria.

From Bowman field, Ky., the first troop carrier command (with headquarters at Stout field) contemplates another invasion. Monday,

the boys will land on the stage of

English’s with their top-notch:

musical comedy, “All Clear.” Short notice on the show is due largely to the result of hurry-up booking arrangements. The musical, which includes a cast of former stage and radio stars, opened at Louisville’s war memorial auditorium. It was so good that the air corps decided to send it on the road forarmy emergency relief. It is playing Cincinnati and will go to legit houses at Columbus and Cleveland after it winds up threeday maneuvers (Monday through Wednesday) here. The show includes 21 new songs, four of which have been published. Like the infantry’s million dollar hit, “This Is the Army,” the air corps musical dresses up 40 of its fighting men as gals for the chorus. Its writer and producer is Lt. William C. Hodapp, Bowman field public relations officer, a former graduate student at Indiana university. A radio script writer in civilian life, Lt¢« Hodapp contributed to such shows as “Lights Out” and '“Knickbocker Playhouse.” : Meantime, our own Ft. Harrison army show, “Khaki-Kapers,” returns to English’s for two more performances tomorrow and Saturday nights. The playback was decided on’after so many folks were turned away for the performance last Saturday night which packed English’s.”

5 » i 8 'Happy Go Lucky’ THE GET-A-WAY-from-it-all musical, “Happy Go Lucky” (Indiana), is a happy little piece of movie gruel, slap-happy. By boxoffice demand, Rudy Vallee returns to the serious minded young man’ of vast wealth role he created in “The Palm Beach Story” Betty Hutton, Mary Martin, Dick Powell and Eddie Bracken hold up the rest of the comedy, the singing and dancing on Paramount’s technicolor tropical isle in the Caribbean, a kind of Arabian Nights location in modern dress. Highlights of the show are the Calypso Singers from Trinidad and Hutton-Martin renditions of a brace of new Frank LoesserJames McHugh tunes—“Happy Go Lucky,” “Let's Get Lost,” “Murder, He Says,” “The Fuddy-Duddy Watchmaker” and “Sing a Tropical Song.” Careful analysis of the musical will disclose a plot as follows: Mary Martin wants to marry richman Rudy to solve her financial problems. Rudy succumbs via a love potion. Then Mary decides she wants Dick Powell. The antics and music are amusing enough, even if the humor is slow. The Indiana’s associate feature is “Quiet, Please, Murder,” with George Sanders and Gail

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Spivak Improving BAND LEADER Charlie Spivak, taken ill last Friday when his band pulled into the Circle, is still at St. Vincent’s hospital, but feeling better. He suffered from an .attack of intestinal flu and needed a rest generally, associates say. The show which winds up at the Circle today hasn’t been the same without him, but the fans understand -and the phone callers to this department have been mighty solicitous. It’s a question whether Charlie will feel well enough to leave tomorrow for an Akron engagement with the band. We got a date today on the British film, “One of Our Aircraft Is Missing” which received such raves in N.Y. It will play Loew’s the week of May. 6. Tomorrow's opener at the Circle, “The Moon Is Down,” is the second of three Norway dramas Hollywood has put out in as many months. The first, you remember, was Columbia’s

Lillian Gish. Following ths “Moon” which 20th Century-Fox made from the ‘John Steinbeck play, will be the Errol Flynn-Ann Sheridan opus, “Edge of Darkness.” This would have come sooner but Warner’s held it up for the outcome of the Flynn trial. 2 = #8 'Human Comedy’

A PREVIEW of “The Human Comedy” at Keith's last night stowed that M-G-M has made a sound investment in the talents of William Saroyan, playwright ex= traordinary. The genius and the marvelous

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brand of inspired corn that are Saroyan’s find full expression in the film, It must be what Hollywood has searched for all these years—a moneymaker and a work of art at the same time. Some may find it sticky at times, but refreshing cinema, too, done somewhat after the manner of “Our Town.” : What makes it different is a presentation of homespun values in American life which Hollywood has tended to overlook. Its sweetness-and-light and = sentimentality are endowed with a rich score of lines which have the. naturalness of good poetry, Acting and direction are superb. There is nothing in it of- the technique of frustration and super-sophistication which Hollywood employs so well to make the customer wish for what he hasn’t got. It is a picture one can enjoy in recollection. It stays with you, pleasantly. From another standpoint, it is important af this time. I think most of us would be well satisfied to have this film represent us in the lands of our allies. It has . good faith.

PHILOMATHEANS WILL GIVE PLAY

The Philomathean society will present an operetta, “Hollywood Extra,” at the Indiana blind school at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Leads in the production are Theodore ‘Morris, baritone; Mary Todoran, soprano; baritone; Pearl Felton, mezzo-so-prano; Elizabeth Jane Butler, mezzo-soprano; Austin Harl, bass; Doris Clevenger, contralto, and Wilfred Tull, baritone. Eugene Groszek and William McEndree have speaking parts.

WOUNDED SOLDIERS GUESTS AT 'KAPERS!

Soldier casualties of action in the South Pacific recuperating at Billings General hospital will be hon-

ored guests at the repeat perform-|

ances of the Ft. Harrison show, “Khaki-Kapers” tomorrow and Saturday night.

PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY WABASH FREIGHT

LAFAYETTE, April 8 (U. P).— Mrs. Gertrude Smith, 65, of Lafayette, was injured seriously when struck by an east-bound Wabash railroad freigh train at a Lafayette crossing yesterday. Authorities said Mrs. Smith waited for a west-bound train to pass, then stepped into the path of the

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today entertained Catherine Butler, 10, of St. Paul, Minn., who traveled more than 1000 miles to deliver

official invitations for the trip.

The girl brought the five sisters leather bound invitations from Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the U. S. maritime commission. She is the daughter of Rokert Butler, head of the firm building the vessels. The quints, now nearing their ninth birthdays, will be making their first trip to the United States. Each sister will christen a ship, presumably the one to be named after her, since the vessels will be the Annette, Yvonne, Cecile, Emilie and Marie.

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