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| Betty Grable Provides Dazzle In Technicolor Musical Comedy
‘Mother Wore Tights’ Opens Wednesday; Novelty Song,
‘Kokomo, Ind.,’ One of Hit Tunes in Indiana's New Film VAUDEVILLE PROVIDES the razzle and Betty Grable the dazzle in the razzledazzle technicolor musical comedy “Mother Wore Tights," scheduled to open Wednes-
day at the Indiana theater. “MOTHER WORE TIGHTS” is another song and dance sprinkled drama about heart-of-gold vaudeville people. Betty Grable makes 1805 vintage costumes look the wav no male of the 1905 ever remembers seeing. And the tights don't hide the famous Grable legs. / Dan Dailey,. who makes his screen debut as a dancer in this picture. is Betty's hoofer husband, and another up and coming star, Mona Freeman, the little sister in “Dear Ruth,” again plays a juvenile role, this time as the vaudeville team’s daughter
” ” ” ONE OF THE SONGS from the picture which already is a hit around Hoosierland and the nation is the novelty, “Kokomo, Ind,” Some of the other turies which seemed to be headed hit paradeward are “You Do” “On-a Little Two-S8eat Tandem," “There's Nothing Like a Song” and “This Is My Favorite City.” ; “Mother Wore Tights” is supposedly based on the real-life biography of vaudevillians Myrtle and ank Burt, who trouped across the nation from from 1902 to tHe late 20's. ” » n COLUMBIA PICTURES is keeping the plot of “Down to Earth,” a musical thriller starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks, a very up in’the air secret. “Down to Earth” opens Wednesday at Loew's. . Rita Hayworth's 4dentity apparently is the deep dark mystery around which the picture revolves. Clad in gorgeous garments a bit on the filmy side, Miss Hayworth .is the same sort of good little bad girl which she portrayed in “Gilda.” Mr. Parks gets his first good role since his hit portrayal of Al Jolson in “Jolson Story.” ‘ The supporting. cast includes Mare Platt,” Roland
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ON THE SCREEN-—Leqgqy Rita Hayworth (upper | left) is a lady with a deep dark secret in "Down to Earth," which opens Wednesday at Loew's, Another red-head, | dancer Marc Platt, is a co-star. Two newcomers who are climbing to fame are stars of the musical comedy, "Mother Wore Tights," scheduled: Wednesday at the Indiana. They are (center top] Mona Freeman, a hit as the kid sister in '‘Dear Ruth," and (center) Larry "Al Jolson," Parks, star:of "The Jolson Story." Star of "Mother Wore Tights," is Betty Grable, who shows off
+ her famous legs in a scene from the picture (upper right).
» » " A ‘DEFINITE CONTRAST to the two musicals is the picture "Deep Valley,” which opens for a week at the Circle Thursday, Ida Lupino plays a shy mountain girl with a stammer in her speech who lives in fear and frustration with her parents. in the rugged Big Sur mountains of California. It's a stark “Tobacco Road” type picture with Fay Bainter winning honors for her role as the mother who has feigned illness for years to withdraw from the sordid mountain life, Henrv 'Hull plays the hulking, brutal father The romantic interest is furnished by Dane Clark and Wayne Morris; members of a tough shovel gang pushing a new highway through the wilderness. ” ~ n “TROUBLE WITH WOMEN" is still scheduled to open -at the Lyric Wednesday. The comedy staring Ray Milland and Teresa Wright has been twice postponed by the hold-over of “Dear Ruth.”
Gag Writers Dreaming of '48
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6.—~The gag writers are at it already, folks. Dreaming up jokes for the 1948 elections. And guess who's their pet candidate for President—Hickenlooper., Saltonstall’s got some backers, and they'll also go for a candidate with a mustache or a bald head. t They don't give a darn who'll pull the most votes. | It's laughs, pot ballots, these boys are interested in. “And Hickenlooper's enough to get a yuk without even a gag tied to it,” contends radio comic Jim Backus. “I don't care what his politics are. He gets my vote.” : { _ Mr. Backus, ‘a big, black-eyed Irishman, figures the early bird gets the laughs, or something like that. | Anyway, he's first out with what promises to be .
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A grim contrast to the two light and frothy musical , comedies is ''Deep Valley," which opens Thursday at the Circle. Pictured (lower left] are Fay Bainter, Ilda Lupino and Dane Clark in a scene from the rugged mountain drama. Ray ''Lost Weekend Milland is on the losing cide again in the-scene from "Trouble With Women." Twice postponed by the holdover of "Dear " "Trouble With Women" will open Wednesday
Symphony Orchestra To Give 20 Programs
FEBRUARY WILL be the shortest month on the calendar but it will be the biggest month, musically speaking, 8f the coming '47-'48 season of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra. Six guest artist programs .are scheduled during the month. Myra. Hess, English pianist on her ‘first U. 8, tour in a number of years, will be soloist with the orchestra Feb. 7 and 8. Yehudi Menuhin, famous vio- PRS Hinist, will appear at concerts Feb. " 13 and 14. On Feb, 28 and 2¢ Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan opera
soprano, will be guest soloist. . oop violinist.
” THE SYMPHONY will open its Jan. 8 and 10—-Luboshutz and Neseason, its 11th under the baton menoff, pianists, of Director Fabien Sevitzky, with! Jan. 23 and 24.~Menahem Presstwo concerts Nov, 8 and 9 at Murat ler, pianist, theater. | Feb. 7 and 8—Myra Hess, pianist. Twenty guest artist programs are scheduled. They include: Nov. 21 and 22-8ascha Gorod- Soprano. Wri nitzki, pianist. Nov. 20 and 30 — Issac Stern, soprano, and Set SBvanholm, tenor.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6.—Olivia de Havilland was wearing her “Bedlam Bob” and there were bags under
her eyes. The bags, she hastily explained, were a
“little worse than usual.” She was wearing a sweater, but it wasn't the kind |Laha Turner likes. It was frayed and full of holes. |8he had on bedroom slippers and silk stockings. {The stockings were crumpled and droopy. Olivia de Havilland, to put it mildly, looked a mess. But naturally, she wasn't sitting at a table at Ciro's with her husband, Marcus Goodrich. She was gitting at a table in the visitors’ room of an insane asylum giggling to her movie husband (Mark Stevens) about biting a doctor's arm, The title on the cover df her script read: “The Snake Pit.” Maybe you read the book, It's about, a gal who goes insane and i& sent to an asylum, It's partly an expose of the insane asylum life and partly 4 great dramatic story.
Long Search for Part AFTER WINNING that Oscar for “Tn Each His Own.” Olivia turned down 50 stories before agreeing to play the role, “And believe me,” she laughed, “I'm not the only insane person in Hollywood.” Looking like ® mess on the screen, however, is just about as much trouble for a gal as looking glamorous. That Bedlam Bob Tor example. Olivia's hair looked capable of scaring Boris Karloff. “But,” she said, “I have to come into the hairdressing department every morning at 7 o'clock. They put it up first and then they tear it down,” | And her stockings. They're supposed to keep | falling down. But they don't. “I'm the only girl in America, T guess, whose stockings keep working up. I have to keep pulling them down.” And’ the problem of driving home from work. Olivia doesn’t get out of her “Snake Pit” get-up until she ‘gets home, “And when she pulls up to a stop signal with that Bedlam - Bob in her new 1047
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Olivia and Marc met for the first time at a dinner party in the fall of 1940. The other night they were
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“Well” said Olivia, “it's all your fault for not calling me that fourth time. If you had, we'd have married seveh years ago; bought a home before inflae tion set in and been happily settled. in our own, place ‘ong before this.”
No 4th Phone Call HERE'S OLIVIA'S version of what happened at that 1040 dinner party, which she went to with Geraldine Pitzgerald and her husband, who had to leave early. / “I had been talking to Marc for two fascinating hours and had no intention of leaving, particularly when he asked if he. might have the pleasure of driving me home. But another guest walked over and insisted he was taking me home. I wanted to protest, but didn't, for fear Mare would think I was aggressive, “He called me three times the following week, but I was out. My mother would tell him so. Mare didn't understand, and figured I’ was avoiding him, He never phoned a" fourth time. So kL was left boasting of my bachelor-maid status until we met again in New York in August of 1046 and were married 20 days later.”
Wanted: Ugliest Hollywood Gal
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6 (U. P).—A frustrated movié makeup man advertised today for the ugliest gal in town to experiment on because, he wailed, he's sick and tired of slapping goo on the pretty mugs of movie queens. ' Clay Campbell, a sentitive guy, painted the sausage curve on Evelyn Keyes’ niouth at Columbia studie yesterday and threw in his makeup towel, ! “FT Just . , ; can't .¢+ stand it... any longer,” he sighed. wl So Hollywood choked over its morning discover under “Help Wanted-—Women': “Studio makeup man looking for extremely ugly woman for makeup experiments. No. experience required, but job will go to homeliest applicant, Salary same as screen extras’ scale. Box Hollywood Citizen-News."” bi J “I love to do character makeups, explained Mr, Campbell. “Ah, the good old days when I made wp ~ Bela Lugosi and the Vampire Man." von ah
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