Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1943 — Page 20
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PAGE 20 Sees Italy As Friendly
Actress Ann Corio Knows! Attitude of People.
By WILLIAM C. PAYETTE United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, July 21. ef | though Italian soldiers will fight | because it civilians | Will welcome American forces when they invade the mainland, according to Ann Corio, heretofore better ; ¥ mer exhibitor | Known in strip-tease circles than in 3 : | The plan provides that Holly- | the field of foreign affairs. 2 {wood’s top film talent—stars and diMiss Corio knows Italy from the BE rectors alike—shall become heads of bright lights of Rome to the ragged | [their own autonomous picture makvillage where her parents were born. ing companies within the framework The shapely queen of burlesque and of the parent company. Each perher mother left Italy a month be- sonality will enjoy full executive and :ore the war came. Villagers wept production powers in addition to -ecause they, too, were not going to profit participation. ‘merica. Italians were hissing Ger- “At the same time,” Mr. Lyons ans and laughing at Mussolini. said, “each star or other artist will It wasn't from diplomatic circles be completely free to work outside dat she felt the Italian emotion, of his own company and will be ut from barefoot peasant women | available to the entire industry.
who knew her mother as a sister | More Opportunity Seen
and from friends of their family. ; “It's true they don't like the “But there will be behind him a English,” she said, “perhaps because | ‘home’ production unit which will, their countries have competed in| |at his bidding, make stories of his §0 many fields so long, but they all | jowh choosing, by his own methods want to come to America. and with poh for his oy Snags jing. In this way creative talent will (realize the greatest possible oppor[tunities and security, artistic as well| ture, entitled “Border Patrol,” is {as financial.” a first-run western,
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arrive from New York next month to write the screen play. No cast«= ings have been set.
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— 5% - | Harvard LAMpOOH's annual prac tice | : | of selecting Hollywood's A who | Pvt. Mart Hendrix, stationed at Ft, is least likely to succeed forms the | Myers, Fla, was killed yesterday |basis for RKO Radio's “The Bam-| when he was &truck by a train ab | boo Blonde,” comedy-musical to be| a crossing near his father's home produced this fall by Maurice at Paris. Geraghty. Based on
“The Youngest Profession,” with Weidler and Edward Arnold, at 12:55, 4:05, 7:15 and 10:25 “Harrigan s Kid,” with Bobby Readick, William Gargan and J Carrol Naish, at 10, 2:20, 5:30 and 8:40
CURRENT FEATURES CIRCLE
On stage, Blue Barron and his orchestra, with Rufe Davis, at 1, 4, 8:53 and 9:30 {
“Salute for Three,” with McDonald Carey and Betty Rhodes, at 11:10, 2:10, 5:15, 7:55 and 10:30 INDIANA
“Pixie,” with Bing Crosby Dorothy Lamour, at 12:45 Miss Eleanor Dee Theek, dra- 7 and 10:05 matics instructor at the school, is “Aerial Gunner with Chester
i : Morris and Richard Arlen, at 11:25, supervising the performances which
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Summer Dramatic Classes to Perform in Hall,
Ten plays will be presented by| | pupils in Shortridge high school’s summer dramatics classes next] Wednesday and Thursday in Caleb Mills hall. Five of the plays will wil given at 2:15 p. m. Wednesday, and | the remaining five at 7:45 p. m. Thursday
Artists to Be Executives of. Own Enterprises.
Times Special YORK, July 22—A new] | major motion picture production] fcompany, Producing Artists, Inc, {has been organized under a revolu-| {tionary plan by Arthur Lyons, art-| {ists’ representative, and David L.| Loew, producer, financier and oe
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NEW Helen DeWitt John{ston's book, “The Lady of the Lampoon,” the story concerns an! lato who, dropped by her studio | | for adverse publicity resulting from | |her selection as Hollywood's least | {likely to succeed, disguises herself | |enrolls in the college which ise accorded her the dubios honor and | sets out to heckle the undergraduate editor responsible for her in- | terrupted career. Irving Phillips and E. E Verdier
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Witch” in “Action in the North Atlantic” is Raymond Massey. The picture is being held over along with “All By Myself” at the Lyric,
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The casts will include Jackie
A new Hopalong Cassidy film, starring Bill Boyd, will open tomorrow at the Alamo, The pic-
2:30, 5:40 and 8:50 are open to the public without ad- LYRIC mission fee. a » Massey d Alan Hale, at 11, 2:39, the plays pre. | | Mine ard Alan Hale, a “Haunted House,” Lane and Patric Knowles, at 1:36, ton,” “Who Says Can't?” and “The 5:15 and 8:44. Snodgrass, Charlene Clore, Wanda | Arnold Geraldine Harman, Hazel | Blair and Janet Polson. Weghorst, Mildred Balkee, Shirley | ner, Rita Meyer, Mary Massa, Caro- | Sundt, Dick Griffith, Peggy Mosi-|iyn Schafer, and Misses Johnston, | Betty Dunn, Anne Donagh, Betty Stuhldreher. Thompson, Shirley Loucks, Barbara ER
“Action In the North Atlantic” with Humphrey Bogart, Raymond On Wednesday, sented will be “Lotus Flowers,” “ vw “On to Washing- All By Myself,” with Rosemary | Ladies.” Student directors, respectively, are Mary Louise Giles, Jeanne | Adeline Kadel, Sally Forsythe, Bill Rae Evans, Marilyn Smith, Susanne! Payne, Juliet Farmer, Blythe Mild- | man, Jo Hayes, Sally Beardsly,|Hall, McClure, DeVatz, Giles, Pol-|" Rose Weinberg, Joan Hartman,|son, Spaulding, Hartman and Johnston, Joan Russell, Miss Snod- { grass, Alice Terhune, Claire Jackson, JOAN GETS TWO
All Love America
“Wives and girls we knew actually | got down on their knees and begged
us to ask their cousins in this country to send for them. We asked what they would do with their! husbands or the rest of their families, and they said they didn't care
Music Can Do Much in —only get them to Ameorica. “All over Italy I heard the same
Lifting Spirits of thing. People would ask my
The first film announced will be S——— Producing Artists’ own picture, musical as yet untitled. Composi- | tions costing $250,000 and written | by George and Ira Gershwin, Je- | rome Kern and Cole Porter, will be | pur chased for the film. The company’s founders also have night
MADRID, {ports relaved that
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* REPORT MASS PEACE N MEETINGS IN ITALY Welch, Miss Hayes, Loretta Spauld- |
Also Miss Giles, ancy Forbes, Miss
Richard Rettig, Blair, Betty
NEW STAR ROLES
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|ing, Annabelle Snethen, Martha
P.).—Re-| Mae Turpin, Claire Jackson, Nancy | from Vichy said last meetings
Niven, Dody Alf and Mary McClure. Next Thursday's performances |
HOLLYWOOD, July 22-—-Two starring assignments have been set | for Joan Crawford, recently
signed a long-term with
who contract
wiil include “Only Two Words,”
| Once I was happy, but now I'm for- announced the organization of an-|Were held Tuesday in Italy's prin“Li'l Black Girl,” “Sacrifice,”
Lik hy 1d coat that te lother major company headed by|CiPal cities and were ignored by . 33 old coa at is tattered and |Jack Benny, who will produce a [Police and Fascist a sn S. th himself as 1ese reports said that a Left in this wide world to weep and to series of comedies wi da ctin ti ; emonstration was st: “I felt that America was the] meurai star. : Piazzi Di Verie es where Italian's second home.” | Betrayed by a maid in her teens, Producing Artists, Inc., expects to] enezia ¢ : e alian’s Y [shouts of peace were heard and
fe : : i © Va fulfill production schedules of from| Miss Corio, ncw a movie star, took| New this girl that I loved, she was < 3 “mal 10 to 18 top-budget pictures an- |als B cries of “make Rome an open
her mother to Vienna for medical handsome city.’
Warner Bros. after some 19 years | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Suds” and “All's Fair,” with | “Night Shift” has been selected Shirley Loucks, Mary Hall, Jackie as Miss Crawford's first starring Sundt, Mary Jo DeVatz and Sally vehicle at her new studio and Jack Beardsly as student directors, re-|L. Warner, executive producer, has spectively. | purchased ‘Misunderstood.” an origAppearing in the _Dlays will be | inal by Lily Hatvany, as the second.
Fighting Men. na- | tionality and when I said, ‘American,’ they would say: “ “You are blessed by God.’ Everywhere I heard that phrase.
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care and then to her childhyod| And ‘ tried home for a look. It was the| pase bt. ui Chad r L : { But I never could please her no quarter tiny village of Lauro, in rthe| so weil Caserta area not far from Naples.! Ac the man on the fiving trapeze. “They knew we were coming,” she said. “When our car drove into town, children ran ahead prong | ‘The Americans come,’ and tossing
flowers.” Wash in Stream | he Num gua : { And my love he has purloined away. Women her mother played with | E 4 § s a child still wore no shoes, had | ‘ ‘ RNa I he | MUSIC CAN do wonders to lift no white bread, virtually no meat, : : : | ‘oopin pirits—yours at S and still washed the clothes in the | drooping spirits—yours and those village stream. | of the fighting Yanks. “We told them about washing| You have all the so why not share it?
machines and they couldn't imagine want. 11th district American
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she said. I poor people had no concep- | : tion of W hat was going on politi-| Legion callv. They didn't like the way! 000 old records to be reprocessed things were, but when we asked! and sent to men overseas. them why they didn’t get iid of} They're not particular. All kinds Mussolini, they said simply: ‘He is! of records will do—old ones, my Duce’ He was the leader ard scratched ones, broken ones. Take they didn't know what to do about| them to any fire station or branch it. | library or call your block warden “The educated Ttalians didn't] and you'll make a fighting man like him either. We were in a hotel | happy.
in a big city when Mussolini fisde] Sa a speech outside. We didn’t listen | STARTS TOMORROW
to it, but afterward we asked the | hotel manager what he had said “He says,” said the manager “that everything is going to be all | right.” Then the manager turned | his pocket wrongside out and] smiled a wry smile.
EDITION PROVES | MOVIES ARE VITAL
With the publication of the 25th | anniversary edition of The Film| Daily Year Book this year come | statistics that prove the movie in- | dustry’s importance in the financial | world | Capital invested in the U. S. film | industry is estimated at $2,061, | 000,000. The annual report lists | 200.000 people employed in the in- | dustry with a total payroll of $325725,000. Approximate annual taxes paid to federal, state and | local governments totaled $610,- | 583600 and advertising cost the | film makers $63,512358 in 1942 There were 550 actors under term | contracts to major Hollywood stu- | dios which produced 378 pictures in| 1942 with a production cost of $198,500,000. The total number of theaters in this country as of Jan. 1, 1943, was 20,196 with 17,728 operating on tt | date. Average weekly attendance at theaters last year was 90,000,000 persons.
FLYNN, FDR CONFER; WHY? NEITHER SAY
WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P). —PRdward J. Flynn, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, conferred with President Roosevelt yesterday but declined to reveal the purpose of his meeting Flynn explained to reporters that he had been arguing the wage case of the five big railroad brotherhoods before an emergency board in New york for the last six weeks and while in Washington avanted to take the opportunity to visit briefly with the chief executive. The president had no comment
on the meeting.
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“This Is the Army,” will play Julie Adams, a fictitious character supplying the romantic interest. Other recent castings include Al { Jolson, Paul Whiteman, Oscar Le- | | vant and George White, all of whom | (will play themselves, and Charles | | Coburn, comedy hit of “The Con-| {stant Nymph,” who will play Max | | Dreyfus, well-known music pub- { lisher,
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