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Movie Stars Rebel Openly Against Longer Skirts Edict
American Women Shouldn't Have to Throw Out Their Whole Wardrobes, They Say
By PATRICIA CLARY, HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27.—Movie
_ “VARIETY SHOW" Coliseum
WTHE FATAL WEAKNESS" English
United Press Staff Cosrespondent studios and movie stars are rebelling
openly against New York and Paris fashion edicts decreeing longer
skirts.
They said American women shouldn't have to throw out their whole
wardrobes because lack of material to lengthen them. A woman's mirror, and not a Parisian dictator, should tell. her how long her skirt ought to be,” designer Orry Kelly said. “If she has attractive legs or a figure that gequires a shorter skirt, she is a fool to wear a longer one. “1° absolutely refuse to conform to this latest decree, and many Hollywood designers feel as I do.”
~ ” » | HE ADDED that he felt the same way about the new “senseless hat) designs.” “The public will never see a skirt of extreme length or a silly pancake hat while I do the designing. They! 4% Tok ast not artistic.” : women ought to be
comioried ba. sud, by ine fact
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{will be out of style,”
in their skirts makes it impossible
that movies have : long been the big factor in sewing y 8. styles, n “IF A WOMAN will be guided by the shape of her legs d other general characteristics in fixing the | length of her skirt, as we are guided | in designing for the stars, she never | Mr, Kelly said. another Uni-| studio de-|
Rosemary O'Dell, versal-International signer, said movies would not gé6| along with Paris in skirts 12 inches from the floor,
“Regardless of what Paris de|crees,” she said, “skirts 14 or 15 iinches above the floor will be the | ute limit for the stars.”
| uled to open at noon tomorrow.
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GALLERY — In tomorrow night's varicly show at the Coliseum, Bill (Bojangles)
Robinson and Katherine Dunham will be two of the principals.
Fatal Weakness,"
"The
Ina Claire, in
opening Thursday at English’'s, and Mel Miller, shgwn about to commit mayhem upon Francine Semons in
"The Drunkard,” opening Monday at
Steve Brodey's (Red Gables), are other stage personalities of the coming week. On the movie sidle, Henry Fonda, Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak form a dramatic
| ‘Sunday Music Hall at Coliseum Opens Week's Stage Shows
By HENRY BUTLER Tomorrow night's parade of stars at the Coliseum may prove to be one of the
season's biggest events. For the Sunday Music Hall,
which has up-ended the sugar bowl and slit open
the mattress for funds to buy top talent, has just added Ethel. Waters to the Impressive
roster of stage personalities. Miss Waters will share the spotlight with Bill Robinson, Katherine Dunham, Dorothy Donegan and other celebrities in a night-club-style show backed by the bands of Tiny Bradshaw and King Kolax. With a central stage for best seeing and hearing,
| the show will probably run close to three hours after its 8 p. m. opening.
Mr. Robinson, the king and dean of tap dancers, and Miss Dunham, whose Caribbean dances provide fascinating footnotes to her scholarly research in anthropology, both have appeared in Indianapolis with «their. own programs, . .n rs: MISS WATERS, of “Cabin in the Sky” renown, needs no introduction, And Miss Donegan, facile .planist and impersonator, has appeared in several movies, including “Sensations of 1045.” Other important names on the pfogram’s sailing list include: Willie Brant, Step Wharton, pianist who hails originally from Indianapolis; Dusty Fletcher (* ‘Open the Door, Richard!”), Helen Humes, Anna Belle Hall: and the Deep River Boys, Mr. Robinson, Miss Donegan, the Deep River Boys and Mr. Fletcher will present a special show for patients at Sunnyside sanatorium at 4 p. m. tomorrow, sponsored by William Powell, of the Entertainment Enterprise Corp. Lawrence E. Hill of” the Meridian book shop, one of the Sunday Music Hall promoters, has announced that 2000 tickets for tomorrow's show will | be held for sale at the Coliseum box office, sched“That's so last-
| minute patrons who go all the way out there won't | be disappointed,” Mr. Je saul; J
r MONDAY; NIGHT'S OPENING will be “The Drunkard,’ a “spoofed. up version of the old temperance melodrama, which will be presented at Steve
atte rd.
Bisdeys Muygic Hall (nee Red Gables), 1610 Lafay-
! A
Barry Bredén is bringing his California production of the gay 90's sop story to an appropriate setting, reminiscent of long-vanished Bowery music
halls. Patrons will be seated at tables, with cover- [to he the kind of a guy who gets “Going My Way, for the three-hour dolled up like that.”
charge show. Of “local interest is the fact that Dorothy Farley, star of the show, halls from Kokomo and attended 8t. Agnes’ academy here fn Indianapolis,
instead of admission,
” » ~ ON THE STRICTLY LEGIT STAGE, two important openings coming next week. “The Fatal Weakness,” first of the Theater Guild's local presentations, starring Ina Claire, which will begin its three days at Thursday, with a matinee scheduled for Saturday,
“The Fatal Weakness," George Kelly's comedy, concerns a fluttery wife who is obsessed with weddings. hushand, she can't resist the impulse to attend his wedding to a rival. What's more, she goes dressed as a bride herself, Sounds like a new .angle for comedy. The other important opening is “First Lady” which the Civic will unveil Friday for the usual week's run. With an exceptionally large cast. for a Civic production, the Katharine Dayton-George Kaufman
One is
triangle in
"The Long Night,"
"DESIRE ME" Loew's
"WELCOME STRANGER" Indiana
currently at the Circle; Robert Mitchum, with more
than a five o'clock shadow, seems none too welcome to Greer Garson in Desire Me," starting Wednesday at Loew's; Woody Herman * brandishes his” famous clarinet in musical ‘opening Wednesday at the Lyric, and Barry Fitzgerald,
M.D. pro tem, scratches a puzzled head in "Welcome Stranger,”
"New Orleans,"
week Wednesday at the Indiana.
Woman Author Forgets a Detail About Her Book
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. authoress of ing “Gentleman’s | was watching Gregory
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OHNSON | 21 —Laura | the hest Agreement, Peck do aj version. and Miss Elia Ka-
schedule for next week. At the Indiana, “Welcome Stra
Cast in the role of a physiciar ills away just as effectively as he | The older-younger-generation partwhat are youlpnepship with Mr. Fitzgerald offers 8 not supposed | gis ationg similar to those ‘in with the addi{tion of Joan Caulfield for romantic “but on interest.
book, the girl]
” ” » GREER GARSON will appear on
“Oh,” blushed Miss Hobson, ‘who |Loew's screen Wednesday in ‘“De-
there are didn't mention the ttixedo again,
| ABE BURROWS,
makes a profession of murdering! has a couple of new ones: Someoné, All
the English at 8:30 p. m. songs, “Everybody Have Is You,” Danced on
In
Has and
the Head.” ~ »
PARAMOUNT is
by
second Shirley
the Night We Even after she divorces her philandering (Wed, I Needed a Wife Like a Hole press-book is somewhat vague, the
sire Me,” a drama which seems to ” {be set somewhere on “the French the fellow who |coast Advance publicity describes the picture as, among other things, “the I story romance of a woman torn beWe tween old love or new roWere mance!” Though the mimeographed
“Oh, How
lold love seems to be Robert ” (Mitchum, with Richard Hart supbeing mobbed plying the new romance,
Temples, all, One gathers that the picture is
eager to get Shirley's role in Bob peter than the ad men's phrases.
Hope's Marker.”
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comedy, formerly one of Jane Cowl's starring | Hope."
vehicles, is about Washingon say.
PLENTY HAS ‘BEEN "SAID and written about the polite imbecilities of the nation’s capital. “First Lady” presents the' battle “a outrance” French for knock-down, drag-out) Washington hostesses, both of whom have White House ambitions, The hostesses will be portrayed by Katharine Pantzer and Helen Buell. Civic fans will remember Mrs, Buell for her wraith-like sliding through
. “Blithe Spirit” in April, 1046
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Vi around a movie lot, point-| ing out things of interest. A penguin (that's was working in a scene for one pic-|
between two ture. The guide said:
~ A STUDIO ide
“Little Miss 1¢ involves a grim conflict between
One eager-beaver Mama the two men in Miss Garson's. film have a little daugh-|jife: looks exactly
The impressive clifl- and coast Bob scenes are unmistakably Catalina, which is probably the world's most {versatile island,
like
was showing a an» THE MOVING of “Mother Wore Tights" from the Indiana to the
Lyric last Wednesday has postponed
“There's a trained penguin we the Lyrics showing of “New Or-
hired. He gets $150 a week.”
leans.” That musical, embellished
starting its second _
|Greer Garson Film Comes To Loew's Wednesday
Indiana Keeps ‘Welcome Stranger’; Movie at Lyric; ‘The Long Night’ at Circle
HOLDOVERS and theater-shifts have changed the original movie
Musical
nger,” the Bing Crosby-Barry Fit3e
Peck gerald opus, will commence its second week Wednesday.
1, Mr. Crosby evidently sings those 14s done previously in clerical gark,
wir. between jazz and the with the outcome, as usual, a dfaw. In the film, socialite Dore othy Patrick, fascinated in 1917 by the new jazz music at. Arturo de Cordova’'s New Orleans night club, abandons her career as & classical singer.® Mama (Irene Rich) becomes the wench in the - gears- of Miss Pate rick's plans.” She nips the romancé in ‘the acorn, and uses political pull to have De Cordova’s hot spot closed Years pass, just as in life, and first thing vou know, Dorothy and Arturo are reunited at a symphony concert in New York.
wood’s
classics,
almost
» » ” “LIFE "WITH FATHER,” orige ignally scheduled for two weeks at the Circle, moved to Keith's last Thursday, thus bringing the debut of “The Long Night" a week sooner, “The Long Night” has Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Barbara Bel Geddes and Ann Dvorak entangled in some fairly grim drama of jealousy and shooting. It will be followed next Thurs day by “Kiss of Death,” a story of . gangdom and - its loyalties and treacheries. In the tense pro ings are Victor Mature
An éxtra, standing nearby, turned with such talent as Louis Armstrong rough- diamond gangster,
Ito another extra and said:
land - Woody Herman, will start
“And we had togbe born human Wednesday. beings.”
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Donlevy as district |Coleen Gray, & new. p (ality, as the