Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1943 — Page 22
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By WILLIAM C. PAYETTE United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, July 29.—A girl swam the pants off us today. We dont like to say it, but she can swim faster on her back than we can with what we always thought was our Australian crawl : It’s a crawl, all right, Esther Williams said, but not what the Australians had in mind. In fact, she said, you might call it a creep. : Miss Williams’ last swimming partner was Johnny Weissmuller. We understand he swims better than we do. al fuberview jn an Ovens Red Skelton tries to look tough with Lucille Ball holding him back. The object of his apparent wrath is Gene Kelly, who appears with them in “DuBarry Was a Lady,” now showing at Loew's.
Monty Sets New Record
It was a very warm day and we couldn't think of a better place to do an interview than in the Pacific ocean. As far as we know it is the and in love with a medical student, | only high seas conference ever held about to become a doctor. The) without a boat. Aquacade management said she | Miss Williams, besides having couldn't get married. They couldn't about the ricest figure we can think have the star of the show married, of, is a national swimming cham-|they said, and she'd have to quit. pion and worked for Billy Rose in!Okay, she said, I quit. his aquacade for quite a while. She] Well, the management said, we got so mad at the Aquacade that she don’t mean that exactly, but if" you, almost wouldn't have anything tolinsist on getting married, let us| do with any kind of show business, handle the arrangements. Publicity. | even the movies, which weuld have Miss Williams couldn't talk them Times Special been a shame. She looks very pretty out of it. | HOLLYWOGOD, July 29.—Women in the water, or out of it for that! One morning the Aquacade called have had their legs insured and matter, in “Mr. Coed,” which is her her up and said they'd rented the artists have done the same for their new picture. Red Skelton is Mr. biggest church in Burlingame and hands. But Monty Woolley beats Coed and Miss Williams is the fea- would she please be ready to get|them all. He's had $50,000 insurance Tres lady of the film. married at 9 a. m. tomorrow. What | taken out on his beard for the duraWe hope Mr. Skelton doesn't have kind of a church was it, Miss Wil- tion of shooting on “Holy Matrio swim with her. We jumped into liams asked. Well, the Aquacade mony.” the surf at Santa Monica (she|said, we don't know exactly, but| Six fan letters in one week dejumped—we waded) and started for|it's a sweetheart. Nuts, said Miss manding snips from the Woolley
Insures Famous Beard For $50,000.
China while she told us about it.| Most of it she yelled at us from] under her arm between strokes. forgot some of it during brief] drowning spells
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‘Mr. Lucky’ At Indiana
Cary Grant's Smooth Item, But the Girl Wins.
By VIRGINIA HATFIELD
Money trouble, girl trouble and draft board trouble all get together te give Cary Grant, gambler de luxe, a run for his money in “Mr. Lucky,” the Indiana’s current attraction which opened yesterday. Mr. Grant picked this story for himself because he thought it suited his acting ability and personality. It does. Although a big-time gambler, he has a code, “Never give a sucker an even break and never play phony with a friend.” He learns to knit and otherwise gets himself into comical situations that make his business less obnoxious. As the film begins, the gambler is wying to promote a bankroll so he can take his boat, “Fortuna,” to South American waters and at the same time dodge the draft by posing as another man. He meets socialite Laraine Day who is trying to raise $100,000 for War Relief, Inc, to send medical supplies overseas.
The Double-Cross Recognizing a good set-up, Cary persuades the group to use his gambling concession at a fund-raising party, so that he may abscond with the money. Instead, he falls tor the socialite, gets double-crossed by an ex-partner and eventually changes his plan. Mr. Lucky introduces a new dou-ble-talk to the films, supposedly of Australian derivation. It's a system of rhyming. For example—lady from Bristol means pistol, twist and twirl means girl, north and south means mouth and so on. It's confusing, but it's fun. Laraine Day is an apt pupil in picking up this lingo, also in taking over as a full-blown heroine of a film after being somewhat buried as Nurse Mary Lamont in the “Dr. series for several years. “Mr. Lucky” offers something
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Opens Concerts
Bomar Cramer
The summer faculty concert series of the University of Texas at Austin Tex, will be opened by Bomar Cramer, Indianapolis pianist, Sunday afternoon. On Aug. 22 he will close the series with a performance of the Chopin Etudes. Mr. Cramer was appointed associate professor of piano by the university's board of regents at its last meeting in June and assumed his duties in Austin on July 5. He will be acting director of piano until Aug. 29. Mr. Cramer will return to Indianapolis early in September and will resume his teaching here Sept. 13.
POLICE POST NAMES ENNIS COMMANDER
Bert Ennis was elected commander of the Police American Legion post at a meeting last night at the 40 & 8 chateau.
Other officers named were Clyde Mitchell, first vice commander; Lawrence Fanning, second vice com-
Ballet Will Appear Here
'Russe de Monte Carlo’ Is Scheduled This Fall.
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
has announced the engagement of Bronislava Nijinska, choreographer and sister of the legendary Vaslav Nijinska, to stage a new work as an addition to the company’s already extensive repertoire for the coming season. Indianapolis is on the company’s itinerary for its 11th annual transcontinental tour this fall. Mme. Nijinska’s new creation for the ballet will be called “Etude” and wili be danced to an arrangement of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Last year, Mme. Nijinska was responsible for the choreographic treatment of Chopin’s “Concerto in E Minor for Piano and Orchestra.” The full company, headed by Alexandra Danilova, Nathalie Krassovska, Igor Youskevitch and Frederic Franklin, will be included in the number. This is the second new work to be announced by the Ballet Russe, the other being an up-to-date version of the famous Soviet ballet, “The Red Poppy.
INTERNAL REVENUE SEEKS EMPLOYEES
Applicants for positions as zone | deputy collectors with the department of internal revenue are being sought by the U. S. civil service commission. Requirements include two years paid experience in bookkeeping, accounting or auditing duties or two years of responsible business experience, including one year of experience requiring direct personal
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Johnny Mack Brown’s heart interest in his new film, “The Ghost Rider,” is Beverly Boyd. The Alamo will open with this first-run western tomorrow.
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN FALL RIVER, Mass., July 29 (U. P.).—~When police found a still in his horhe, George Russell, 52, explained that he made liquor for his 89-year-old mother-in-law because
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Each Day She Said No > ] . (church they had heard about and gyection time lost in case of an (unique with its new kind of gambler manger; Fay Davis, adjutant; Joe and 60 years of age, and must take| Robt. Livingston, “Death Rides Plains EXTRE aDDBD ATTR3GTIONT
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up on the same day of every month| The Aquacade was madder than a for nearly a year trying to get her anything. Miss Williams had stood PERU AIR BASE GETS A NEW COMMANDER
to go to work for them. She was, up the Aquacade, it said. | as she said, mad at show business.! Miss Williams said darn it, it was| and the same day every momnth she her wedding and she was sorry, but | PERU, Ind. July 29 (U. P).— | Capt. D. D. Gurley, former execu(tive officer at the Ottumwa, Iowa,
would say no. {gee whiz. Her mad got started at the Aqua-|{ Then Metro started calling her cade in San Francisco. She was 18{up every month and finally got her naval air station, assumed com(to talk of L. B. Mayer, who runs mand of the Bunker Hill naval air {the place, and he asked her to go station here yesterday. Ito work for a while and see how she, Gurley succeeded Cmdr. Morton
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OPENING TODAY LOEW'S
“DuBarry Was a Lady,” with Red Skelton, Lucille Ball and Tommy Dorsey, at 11:49, 3:14, 6:38 and 10:04. “Crime Doctor,” with Warner Baxter and Margaret Lindsay, at 1:34, 4:59 and 8:24
CURRENT FEATURES
INDIANA “Mr. Lucky,” with Cary Grant and Laraine Day, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and 10. “Gildersleeve's Bad Day,’ with Harold Peary, Jane Darwell and Nancy Gates, at 11:29, 2:39, 5:49 and 8:59. “Champion Maker,” short with Coach Bud Sawin of the Riviera local champion swimmers, at all shows.
LYRIC
“Dixie,” with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, at 11. 1:50, 4:45, 7:35 and 10:30. “Aerial Gunner,” with Chester Morris and Richard Arlen, at 12:35, 3:25, 6:20 and 9:1
at “Mister Big" with Donald O'Connor, Gloria Jean and Peggy Ryan, at 12:53, 4, 7:07 and 10:14. “Two Tickets to London” with Michele Morgan, Alan Curtis and C. Aubrey Smith, at 11:35, 2:42, 5:49 and. 8:56.
Post at Indiana
Joseph Goldberg, formerly house | manager in charge of stage shows at | {the Circle theater, has been named | to fill the vacancy created by the | resignaticn of Leonard Tuttle as! { house manager at the Indiana. Before cchming to Indianapolis a! {year ago, Mr. Goldberg had been | { manager of the Boston division of | | Paramount Publix and of several] | theaters in New York state. He| { has been in the theater for 19 vears. |
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= ” A homey film is “Gildersleeve’s /Bad Day,” second feature at the |Indiana this week. It stars Harold Peary, former Clinton, Ind., citizen and headliner on the radio's “Gildersleeve” programs. He's the man with the contagious laugh. This time Gildy is one of 12 men, good and true, summoned to serve on a jury. He receives a letter from the defendant's friends bribing him to hold out, but the letter is sent to the cleaners in his coat pocket before he gets to see it. Gildy, on his own, decides there is insufficient evidence to convict Louie, the safe-cracker, and holds out. After the trial he gets $1000 which he thinks is for a canteen fund, but is in reality the pay-off. He turns the money over to the judge, head of the fund from whose safe it was stolen. Yes, Gildy has a bad day. This film was made for laughs and gets them.
Poor Chorines
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 29.—Shoe rationing gives John @Q. Public enough shoes to keep him from going barefooted. But think of the poor chorines! Forty of them will dance farefooted in one of Hollywood’s biggest musicals of the season, “The Girls He Left Behind.” Director Busby Berkeley discovered that one pair of dancing shoes allotted to a dancer would not withstand the vigorous workouts. He asked the girls what they wanted to do about it, so they voted to dance barefooted. Because they are dancing shoeless, all 40 girls are committed to a foot-conditioning routine long practiced by athletes. They “temper” their dancing feet by soaking them daily in tannic acid solution to toughen the epidermis.
SANDERS IS NAMED TO POLICE POSITION
Capt. Howard L. Sanders has been appointed by Police Chief Beeker to the post of chief investigator in the legal department to replace Capt. Marion C. Van Sickle, who retired recently to enter private business. Once retired, Capt. Sanders reentered the police department last January and was assigned as chief bailiff in municipal court 4. Recently he had been serving as supvisor of the police training school. He joined the force in 1920. During the first world war he belonged to the same regiment commanded by Mayor Tyndall, then a colonel. Corporation Council Sidney S. Miller was captain of his battery. Capt. Sanders had been “mentioned” as a nominee for the police chief's job, prior to the appointment of Chief Beeker.
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