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

After 20 Years Durante Is , 'Still Going Strong.’

|. By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27~—“What’s dis Sinatra got dat I ain't got?” demanded Jimmy Durante from his perch on high. “Nuttin’, says 1.” If as much, says Othman, after contemplation of such a scene as Hollywood : seldom produces. What the Durante had was three. of ne Metro = GoldwynMayer's beauties, all better than six feet tall, all show-

holding him aloft, the "better to see e ' famous schnozzle. The Misses Dorothy Ford, Bunny Waters and Helen Jimmy Durante O'Hara were provided by the ‘studio as its welcome to an incoming notable. Durante had read about the hoopla surrounding the arrival of crooner Frankie Sinatra; what he said he wanted was a bigger and better reception. He got it. Come ‘to thing of it, he deserved it. After 20 years of knocking himgelf out on the stage and wearing the poor old schnozzola down to a nubbin, Jimmy Durante, the one-time assistant (he ' lathered the chins) in a lower Third ave. barber shop, has arrived in the real big time. This fact first became evident early this summer when the Copacabana, a New York night club. in which he was appearing, found itself unable to find seats for the customers. Everybody seemed to have discovered ' Durante an exceedingly funny man. The radio handed Jimmy a goldplated contract; then came Metro to make him the star of not one big-time movie, but of two. He

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Temporary financial gain cannot take the place of PREPARATION FOR LIFE. Far-seeing young people (with the help of their parents) are making that decision. The move is BACK TO SCHOOL. This -is the sowing time. And, to reap, THEY know they must sow. Fall term opening dates . . .

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Arline Judge are shown here in a

scene from “Song of Texas,” a first-run western which opens Sunday

at the Ambassador.

goes first into “Two Sisters and a Sailor.” Then he joins Fred Astaire in “Ziegfeld Follies.” The team of Clayton, Jackson and Durante first ‘began business in a speakeasy over a New York garage in, 1923, “A 'foist class jernt,” said Jimmy. “No winders, no ‘nuttin’ but a cover charge. It was one of dem places ' dat catered to ‘de Wall Street ‘trade. Open from midnight until 10 o'clock. de next a. m. So de ‘brokers, dey’d come by: for breakfast. Five dollars for a plate’ of eggs, $10 for what dey called champagne. A fine business, but hard on de tonsils.” Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson used to stand Durante in'the middle and start his schnozzle. Then Durante would back away and Clayton and Jackson would poke each other, This struck the brokers, when properly filled with eggs and champagne, as being exceedingly funny. Durante gradually emerged as the star of the trio; Clayton became his manager and Jackson his handy man. Ever since Jimmy has given out with more energy nightly perhaps than any other entertainer.

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OPENING TODAY— CIRCLE

On stage, Les Brown and his orchestra with Johnny Burke and Blair and Dean, at 1°03, 3:57, 6:42 and 9:37. “Alaska Highway,” with Richard Anien and Jean Parker, at 11:20, 2:15, 5, 7:55 and 10:37.

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On stage, Dante the magician, and his revue, at 2:01, 4:33, 6:53 and 9.:22, “The Gorilla Man,” with John Loder and Ruth Ford, at 13:30, +3:01, 5:32, 8:12 and 10:23.

CURRENT FEATURES-— LOEW'S

“Hi Diddle. iDjddte with Adolphe Menjou an a Scott, at 11:15, 3, 4:45, 1: % Wi 10: 18. “What's Busgin’ Cousin,” with Ans Miller, at 13:30, 3: 15, 6 and

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“Keep ’Em Slugging,” with the Dead Sad Kids, at 12:55, 3:55, 6:50

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0. E. S. SECRETARIES TO MEET" The Indiana State Secretaries’ association of the ‘O. E. S. will hold its annual picnic at 6:30 p. m. Monday at Garfield park, Mrs. Vera

and their families are asked to meet at 6 p. m. at the sunken gardens.

POCAHONTAS PARTY SET

Miss Merle Hartlage is chairman of the Pocahontas council 350 card party to be held at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow at 137 W. North st.

Temple Tries A Comeback

Former Box Office Champ "Under Selznick Wing.

By ERSKINE JOHNSON Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27—A 15-year-old high - school’ junior with three million dollars in the bank is spending her vacation this summer in her third motion picture comeback attempt in as. many years. Maybe you remember the lady. Her name is Shirley Temple and not so long ago she was the top money making star in Hollywood—bo x = office champion from 1935 to 1939. The man who is betting he can return her to boxoffice - favor—with her career now entirely in his hands—is the Hollywood pro- Shirley Temple ducer who takes chances only when he knows he can't lose—shrewd David O. Selznick. Two comeback attempts—“Kathleen” in 1941 and “Miss Annie Rooney” last year—made little impression on the public. They were not good pictures, and they convinced Hollywood that Shirley was washed up. The public was tired of

her after seven years of stardom.

Her name didn’t mean a nickel at the boxoffice. For a year Shirley did nothing on the screen, made an unsuccessful foray into radio, but her mother’s hopes were not dimmed. While attending school, Shirley continued

'| singing and dancing and music les- ‘| sons, studied dramatics and took a

course in charm, Then, Producer David O. Selznick purchased the ‘screen: wights to a soon-to-be-published + first : ‘novel, “Since You Went Away.” ‘He could see only Shirley Temple in the role of Brig, 15-year-old daughter of a father who joins the army, leaving his wife and another daughter faced with financial problems.

Colbert Will Star

Selznick telephoned Mrs. Temple. No, he didn’t want to star Shirley in the picture. There would be an i cast. Claudette Colbert would play the mother, Jennifer Jones the other daughter and Monte Woolley as a boarder in their home who helps pay the rent. Mrs. Temple needed no reminding that Selznick had produced “Gone With the Wind,” “Rebecca” and other great films. “Since You Went Away” definitely is not “another Temple picture.” It is based on a series of letters written by Margaret Buell Wilder, Dayton, O., newspaperwoman and

comedy that opened yesterday at | Loew's, is a far cry—and probably necessarily so—from the nursery|

has Proiiy Near evIHing lee i For instance, interwoven in ‘the picture - at some. time or another|

.|Scott) and thereby hangs the story.

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: Has Almost Everything. 5 By: DAN. GORDON “Hi Diddle Diddle,” the madcap

rhyme, It may not have a cat and a fiddle, a cow or a moon, but it

are such scenes as a gob coming home to get married and spend a two-day honeymoon with his bride, a christening (of twins) and a wedding performed in a combination ceremony, a roulette emporioum be

ing taken for a thousand dollars,|.

the head of a brokerage firm buying some worthless stock and the singing of the “Pilgrim's Chorus” from Wagner's “Tannhauser” by a group composed of a would-be opera singer, Billie Burke and a night club entertainer. All of this is contained:in a film whose plot seems to be only a flimsy. excuse to introduce the above mentioned “touches.” Enter a Swindler Sailor Sonny Phyfle (Dennis O’Keefe) comes home on leave to marry = Janie Prescott’ - (Martha

It seems that an ex-suitor of Janie’s has “swindled” her mother (Billie Burke) out of a good many greenbacks and an equal number of stock shares so that he can force Janie to marry him, From the time Sonny arrives he has no moment of rest because -all of his time is spent in the retoupment of Mrs. Prescott’s fortune. He doesn’t even have time to have a honeymoon. g But his task is considerably eased by his father (Adolph Menjou) ‘who

knows the right people and how to]

fix roulette wheels. His efforts in behalf of his son are complicated by the fact that he is married to an opera singer, played by: Pola

Negri. Oh yes, the original, only,| ti she looks a little the worse for the|:

wear and tear of continental ‘Eu-

A Scene Stealer Added to this is another complication in the form of the night club babe (June Havoc, Gypsy Rose Lee’s sister). June practically steals every scene in which she appears by her engaging personality and expert showmanship. For a picture that does not hang together in any resemblance: of order, “Hi Diddle Diddle”. manages to redeem itself at times by several clever sequences. . Most clever of all is the final

Showgirls Picket In Their Scanties

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 (U. P.) —Six slender, tender and tall showgirls took off théir street clothes and picketed the office of price administration in their scanties here yesterday, protesting Jat “short stockings are shockg.’ The girls, all of the six-foot variety, paraded up and down Market st. in front of the OPA offices, hoping “the government” would take cognizance of the plight of tall gals who can not get long stockings. “The new OPA ceiling on stockings is‘ about 29 inches and they end slightly above our knees. So we have to go barelegged and it ain't dignified,” they trilled. Several hundred OPA employes came out and took a quick’ gander; the fog blew in and the goose pimples appeared on the girls’

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The dance team of Blair and Dean appear in the stage show featuring Les Brown and his orchestra which opened today at the Circle theater. Added attrac tion is comedian Johnny Burke.

ard Wagner and his family on the" wallpaper of the opera singer's apartment animate (in cartoon} fashion) so that the figures are| drawn to show their displeasure at hearing the composer's music being “murdered. ” : 88 » ” Loew’s second feature 1s “What's Buzzin’ Cousin?” with (Ann Miller, Rochester and Freddy Martin and his orchestra.

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And it is definitely not another Temple role. Shirley plays a straight dramatic part. No dancing and no singing. In many scenes, she will wear blue jeans and a boy’s shirt. At. 15, Shirley is a typical, adolescent Miss America. She's interested in boys, likes to swim, worries |about her tan, is an ardent film fan, likes to “cut a rug,” enjoys boogie woogie music and hot bands. She's healthy, active and alert. At Los Angeles’ swank Westlake School for Girls she is an above-average student, taking subjects which will prepare her for college. : The famous 55 blond Temple {curls have been replaced by naturally wavy, golden brown hair. But the familiar dimple and the crinkle at one corner of her mouth and the Temple smile are still there.

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