Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1943 — Page 12

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. os : as | symphony’s 1943-44 season. | ductor, and Howard Harrington, Mary Glenn Heads “The percentage of renewal orders business manager, were in New York | this week, holding auditions fom.

[was higher ti last year,” sh Symphony Group "= higher than last year,” s Eytan orchestra; personel: and¥ com”

Tr int i | said. “We look forward to a highly | Gl 2 pom ro t of Miss Mary gccessful season.” | pleting arrangements for the new | gin EIS ery of Ine Meanwhile, Fabien Sevitzky, con-' season. | a § ny society’s! —————- rere eet | women’s committee was announced | «Afr Raid Wardens,” with | | yesterday by Mrs. Charles Latham, | Laurel & Hardy and Edgar Ken- | | committee president. nedy, at 11:04, 2:14, 5:35 and 8:34. | | Mis Gienn, who has been asso-| CURRENT FEATURES | ciated with the committee for the INDIANA past three years, succeeds Miss] “Mission to Moscow,” with Wal- Marion Hull who has resigned. : ter Huston and Ann Harding, at yn ns o A ti. d American Legion bond show at the 11:10, 2:47, 6:15 and 9:43. The filling of renewal season tic-| “Good Morning. JnAze™ with ket orders by last year's subscribers is almost complete, Miss Glenn said, |

coliseum. . ; i? Featured attractions of the show Piiis OResie, at 140, 5:00 und Rosy : oe vo {and it will be possible within a few {days to inform new subscribers)

will be Constance Bennett, the | what seats are available for the|

movie actress, and Lt. Charles Far-

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VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS

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Last December, it was Pvt. Russ Slagle who did the hilarious takeoffs on Robert Benchley and the Andrew Sisters in the Camp Atterbury show, “We Did It Before.” Tonight, it’s Russ Slagle, civilian, who appears with his former buddies of the 83d division in the

"Mission to Moscow’

“MISSION TO MOSCOW.” the dramatization of the diary of Joseph E. Davies, who happens to be in Moscow on another mission at the moment, opened at the Indiana yesterday. It has the familiar Hollywood weakness of dealing in parables. But the overall impression it leaves with me is that Warner Bros. have made a sincere effort to project upon the screen the interventionist and collective security viewpoint. Probably for this

LYRIC “Crash Dive,” with Power and Anne Baxter, 3:35, 6:45 and 10. “He's My Guy,” with Joan Davis, at 11:20, 2:30, 5:40 and 8:50.

Tyrone rell, former actor. at 12:25, | Talent from Camp Atterbury and

Ft. Harrison will perform on port-

refiscn, the

picture has becdime the target of bitter criticism from assorted opponents of the administration and its foreign policies. It is obvious, of course, that ard Koch, the scenarist, took the easy way out of dramatizing in 123 minutes what history might

| Message from Davies “MISSION” opens with a long

| statement from Mr, Davies who { explains the purpose of the book | and picture. Director Michael Curtiz and How- |

Then he fades out and the scene opens with Haile | Selassie (Leigh Whipper) pleading for sanctions to halt Italian

| conquest before the League of

able stages. The rally will open with a company-front demonstration of the manual of arms by Ft. Harrison troops and naval armory bluejackets. Pays Own Way

Mr. Slagle came back to Indianapolis to take part in the show, paying his own expenses frou Washington, D. C., where he is now

in confidential research

CIRCLE “Hit Parade of 1943,’ with John Carroll and Susan Hayward, at 12:45, 3:55, 7:05 and 10:15. “At Dawn We Die,” with John Clements and Godfrey Tearle, at 11:30, 2:40, 5:50 and 9.

FORMER STAR OF

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in Stirring TECHNI IR “HE'S MY GUY”

employed work. He was released from the army in February under the ruling which permits men past 38 who can find employment in war work to return to civilian life. An entertainer for years, Mr. Slagle was appearing in “The Choceolate Soldier,” with Allan Jones

devoie volumes to. The result is | : ; a distortion of history, foreshort- | Nations HSsefibly in June, i935. ened like an image in a concave | Litvinov, Soviet foreign commirror. | missar, warns the dclegates that In the sense that the film has a | there is no security in Europe for message and a viewpoint, it is | any nation unless there is securpropaganda. It propagandizes for | ity for all. i closer understanding with the | The German, Italian and Jap Russians, the Chinese and with | delegates walk out. The screen shows the axis preparing for war.

—y J HOLLYWOOD, May 27 (U. P).—| Q Plus with Joan Davis Henry Stark, 63, former vaudeville | gem tS

pen 10 star and father of movie starlet|§95g 1"§1|'|1}] | | | Juanita Stark, died at his Burbank | § Tax tne. Nid) 9

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® but for the past nine years had nitgde his home in California, where| Warners discovered his daughter]

the Churchill government in England. It proposes a common effort for global peace when the war is won. I'he Communist-inspired seems to me fantastic

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BLUES § ; / B® sition to the Stalin regime and

| which | questioning

| for peace.

The scene changes, then, to an lake in the Adirondacks Davies (Walter Huston), (Ann Harding) and (Eleanor Parker) are preparing to leave on a camping

where his wife

| trip when Davies is summoned to

the White House. President Roosevelt, portrayed Capt. Jack Young, instructs Davies to determine (1) whether Hitler will disarm if given economic concessions and (2) the truth about Russia, particularly her military strength. $$ & 4

Schact Sneers

IN BERLIN, Davies talks to Hjalmer Schact (Felix Basch), Reichsbank president, and presents President Roosevelt's pro-

| posal that all nations disarm to

the weapons a man can carry

{ on his shoulder, Schact appears

to see merit in the idea.

But when Davies leaves, Schact |

p hones Ribbentrop (Henry Daniell) and the pair laugh evilly

at the “naive” suggestion, like a | pair of nickelodeon villains.

Arriving "in Russia, Davies is at impressed by the friend-

From an American engineer, he first learns the scope of the oppo-

hears stories of numerous acts of

| sabotage.

Then follow the purge trials in the defendants, under of State Prosecutor Vyshinsky (Victor Francen), make the amazing confession that they were working with Trotzky to

overthrow the Stalin regime with | the aid of Germany and Italy.

Davies informs the state department that Russia is a force He reports that the ‘Red army is strong and loyal to Stalin and that the Soviets are

to keep the peace

Europe. 8 & &

Sees Churchill

His “mission” over, Davies is

| recalled. At a dinner which Lit- | vinov throws for him, news comes | of the German invasion of Aus-

tria. Just before his Davies meets Stalin for" the first time. Previously, he has con-

ferred with the Soviet president,

and Helen Gleason, at Carnegie hall when he was drafted. He ‘Laid An Egg’ At Atterbury, he discovered his

attempts to entertain his buddies by singing “A Pretty Girl Is Like a]

didn’t register. “I laid an egg,” he admitted. “It was the ebb of my existence as an entertainer.” {

sion show last winter.

Kalinin (Vladimir Sokoloff), who | appears to be more or less a be- | nign, old puppet. Stalin (Mannart Kippen) tells | Davies he believes France and | England will appease Germany in the hope that Germany will ex- | pand to the east instead of west and attack Russia. Stalin charges | that the Chamberlain government | in England had been arming Hitler for this purpose. { Stalin hints that rather than | pull chestnuts out of the fire for | the democracies, Russia will con= | clude a peace with Germany, leaving Hitler free to attack in the west, unless the democracies join Russia against Hitler. En route home, Davies visits Churchill and warns him that appeasement will drive Stalin into Hitler's arms. Churchill promises to do what he can. Back home, Davies pleads for | repeal of the neutrality act as sa warning to Hitler, but isolationists in congress block the move. The war follows and the film concludes with a hope for a durable peace by collective action among the

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Melody” and similar light classics §

Russ Slagle

So he changed pace and took up al Tonight, he will appear in the. comedy routine which became one Andrews Sisters gag, along with Sgt. of the high spots of the 83d divi-|Sandy MacPherson and Sgt. Klahr Peterson, both veterans of the show. |

NORMA SHEARER PINS

WINGS ON HUSBAND

NEW ORLEANS, May 27 (U. P.).

—Screen star Norma Shearer yesterday pinned the gold wings of a

naval aviator on her husband, En-

sign Martin Arrouge.

Arrouge, one of 32 candidates of he New Orleans naval air station,

will be stationed at Oakland, Cal.

| plans

DRUM, BUGLE CO FORMED AT PARK

Shearer said

for

Miss

The formation of a drum and

| bugle corps for children of the | Douglas nas been completed by Dorce Berry.

park community center

Officers are Geraldine Berry, pres-

lident: Sadie Alexander, vice presi-

dent: Willeta Secrest, secretary, and

{Mary Pryor, treasurer. The center's last spring dance will be held Monday night under sponsorship of the youth council,

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LEAR HS A RENE IL BUT HOW HE DOES KISS!

—Helen Mueller, Hollywood with 15 other New York| models to appear in Columbia stu-| dio’s film, “Gover Girl,” announced her engagement today to William] (Indian BilD cage Bears player.

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