Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1948 — Page 9

~The Indianapolis Times

| "OLD LOS ANGELES"

Indiana "FORT APACHE"

Progress—Going Back To Silent Pictures

"New Film.to Have 16 Minutes Without

Talking—Just Listen to the Music By PATRICIA CLARY, United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June 19—The movie industry is an-

nouncing with fanfare its latest and greatest development —silent pictures. It brings us all back to where we came in. That includes the composers who used to write background music for the theater pianist to play and now write mood music

to accompany the action. theme which is played in the The producers are going to background every time he ap-

: .|epars. accustom the public gradual Writing those brief and char-

ly to the radical change. After|acteristic themes requires a all, they haven’t seen silents for thorough knowledge of what the 20 years. So they are starting|characters are like and, if poswith 16 minutes of silence inignle, which actors are playing David Siegel's next picture, “Ro-|them, manus Diogenes.” Mr. Sixteen minutes, on the screen,imood music for the silent iz a long time. sequence took eight days to - Dimitri Tiomkin is the com-|ywrite. poser who wrote 16 minutes of * = = music to go with the pantomime| «jy HOPE it lights the way to a scene and he is elated by his un-|jot of other purely musical pasusual assignment. sages in movies,” he said. “In ® = = . fact, it's all right with me if “IT'S a pleasure to write pureithey cut out the dialog all mood music again,” he said. “It|together. Music often c¢an say very seldom has been possible more than words.”

since sound came in.” 18 Piano Students

Although music didn't accompany silent pictures, studios sent b . el music foriTo Appear in Recital a movies for the benefit 0 theater pit orchestras and. or- Mrs. Albert Reep will present ganists,” Sinee then, the music 18 of her piano students in recital has been kept in the backgroundiat 8 p. m. tomorrow in her residly noticeable above theljence studio, 3110 Broadway.

) . One student, Miss Sandra Kay people juste to bo plated Jordan, will play her own comcal Problems.» Mr. Tiomkin position, “Idyll.” Another pupil, x Miss Eunice Anne Cochran, voice ur|student of Mrs. Howard B. Stitt, th will be vocal soloist, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Robert Coch-

ran. Students appearing include also: Neil Linn, Martha Adams,

Tiomkin’s 16 minutes of

While

a. s 14%

Linn, Carole Sue Coons, |

hei Billeisen, Harriett Kollinger, Paul Whittemore, Helen Swanson, Betty Billeisen, Karin Swanson, Louis Wooldridge, Marjorie Silver, Shirley Zollars, Lois Wooldridge, Maurice Whittemore Jr. and Ger-

trudg Gutelius.

E 5

I 5

ENTERTAINMENT OUTLOOK—At top center is Virginia Card, who will

return to Butler Bowl this

season in "The Desert Song." July 10-16. Seated at the square piano, but certainly no square, is Catherine Mcleod providing accompaniment for Estelita. Rodriguez in YOld Los Angeles" (Lyric, Wednesday). Judy Garland has just batted Gene Kelly with an oil painting, one of the numerous objets d'art she pelts him with in "The Pirate"

(Loew's; Wednesday). You

might not recognize Henry Fonda at the extreme left of the military scene, but that's who it is, complete with mustache and greasepainted, gray- streaked hair, as a tyrannical colonel in "Fort Apache” (Indiana, Wednesday). The French actor and actress in the Esquire's "Extenuating Circumstances,” second feature of a double

bill starting today, are

Michel Simon and Arletti. And that's Cathy Downs peering out the window with Lou Costello and Bud Abbott in ''The

Noose Hangs High (Cir

cle, Thursday).

Butler Bowl “THE DESERT SONG"

"THE NOOSE HANGS. HIGH"

Abbott-Costello, 2 Westerns,

A Musical Film Booked Here

‘Fort Apache’ Due af Indiana; ‘Old Los Angeles’ Coming to Lyric;

Loew's to Show Judy Garland in ‘The Pirate’; Comedians at Circle : By HENRY. BUTLER

TWO WESTERNS, a musical and an

week's downtown movie offerings.

other Abbott-Costello job are the coming

Uptown, the Esquire has opened a double Bill today’ consisting of “Man’s Hope,” film about Spanish Loyalists in the war against Franco, and “Extenuating Circum-

stances,” a French drama.

The Westerns are “Fort Apache” (Indiana, Wednesday) and “Old Los Angeles”

(Lyric, Wednesday)+" THE MUSICAL is “The Pirate,” with Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Cole Porter songs (Loew's, Wednesday), and the Abbott-Costello opus is “The Noose Hangs High” (Circle, Thursday). “Fort Apache,” based eon a James Warner Bellah story, has some resemblance to the saga of Custer’s last stand. It concerns a lietitenant colonel (Henry Fonda) from the East who takes command of a lonely outpost in Arizona, not long after the Civil War. The colonel, irked at having been demoted from his wartime rank of general, is eager to win military glory and promotion. Unfortunately, stern, GI disciplinarian though he is, he knows nothing about Indian warfare, So when he tries to pull a fast one and defeat a powerful Apache chieftain, he and most of is command are wiped out. s 3 “Fort Apache” is a John Ford production, with a quite hed cast headed by Mr, Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple and Pedro Armendariz, and such veterans as Victor MecLaglen in the Suppost.

: o : “OLD LOS ANGELES” is about LA in the gold-rush days a century ago when, to the press book, the town was “rough, riotous.”

gold prospector seeking to avenge the murder of his brother, and Miss McLeod as a saloon entertainer who actually is a government agent. Others in the cast include John Carroll, Joseph Schildkraut, Andy Devine and Estelita Rodriguez. On the same ml is “Timber Trail.”

“THE PIRATE” seems to be a reasonably

hilarious comedy with, of course, the great

- * 1

attraction of Porter's music besides the reunited

- screen team of Mr. Kelly and Miss Garland.

Adapted from a ‘play by 8. N. Behrman, it is set on a Caribbean island early in the 19th century. Mr. Kelly impersonates a redoubtable pirate in order to win Miss Garland’s admiration. One much-touted sequence is a battle between the two, in which Miss G. conks Mr. K, with a heavy piece of sculpture. Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper and Reginald Owen also are in the cast. Abbott and Costello fans, who seem still numerous, will- no doubt welcome “The Noose Hangs High.” This time, the-screwball pair are window-waashers who accidentally get themselves involved with a dangerous racketeer. Joseph Callela, Leon Carrol and Cathy Downs complete the roster of principals. * © ¢

THE ESQUIRE'S double bill undoubtedly offers the most mature screen entertainment for the coming week. probably know, is Andre Malraux’ own film adaptation of his novel about the Spanish Civil War. The picture was made in Barcelona in 1938, smuggled into France after Franco’s victory, hidden during the Nazi of France and not released until after the liberation. It has a cast consisting of members of the International Brigade and 2000 peasants. Done completely without Ho polish, the film nevertheless has had rave notices as-a first-rate documen job. It is the. and its privations, not with political issues. Darius Milhaud, the distinguished French composer, wrote the musical score,

E |

‘“Man’s Hope,” as you

3 Loew's "THE PIRATE"

Reluctant Claudette By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, June 19—Don’t tell anfuody where you read this, but Claudette Colbert turned down her new UI movie, “Family Honeymoon,” five times before she finally accepted the lead opposite Fred MacMurray. Claudétte told me so herself, laughing: “I just couldn't imagine a Widow-sauibe this ehfldfen 2 a honeymoon. I'd leave the kids home. t they (producers. John == re=—————— o1.1lady in “Outpost Morocco.” He Beck and Z. Wayne Griffin) final-ig 0 4 "0 "exteriors in Morocco

ly talked me into it.” y several months ago and now the

Personally, I'm glad they did. It sounds like another “Bitting|interiors will be filmed on a Hollywood sound stage. . . . Orson

{ Pretty” and besides Claudette and Fred are the hottest team on the| elles has picked out some real screen. (The gross on “The Egg Competition this time. His “Mac. and 1” is now past $6,000,000.) FH will be released this fall | And as Claudette says: “I al- about the same time as Laurence {most turned down ‘It Happened Olivier's “Hamlet.” . . : A techniOne Night’ too. Miriam Ho color film biography of Alexander kins and Constance Bennett did{¥amilton is near the announcing turn it down. We don’t always|stage. | know what's good for us.” Romo. s = = TECHNICIANS finally have SUDDEN THOUGHT: If the|admitted defeat in trying .to actors’ strike becomes a reality, |transfer Caruso’s old records to will the stars have their stand-ins(Sound track for Jesse Lasky’s do the picketing? . . . Bob Water-| ‘Caruso Sings Tonight” Now field has canceled those plans to Lasky will have to find a singer star in a western series until who can sound just as convincing, after the pro football season. . . . ns Jimmy Savo’s book, “Little World, THE FBI nixed producer EdHello” (the true story about his| die Small’s title, “FBI vs. Scotinheriting a castle in Italy) will! land Yard,” on the theory that be filmed in Italy this summer.| it would indicate a feud. The {Perry Charles produces, picture is now without a title, Po ! How about “Eddie Small vs.

Lit RED-HAIRED Rhonda Flem- | the FBI"Y ing probably will get co-star bill-| _... » ing with Bing Crosby in “A Con.| TI'S A GOOD bet Ginger Rog-

necticut Yankee.” There's a doll |°T* will star in “House of Cards”

{as an independent for producer Fm se RS. oe ar, Co 1 ry af 3 a e bride of gal who learns everything from actor John Hilton when her di-| "Wo ant love. M-G-M, I vorce is final.) . . . Lucille Ball| Po0X® PERE. (OVE gers nixed that offer to do a film in hubby Jack Briggs, a long-term England. Said she couldn't bear ay deal. He said he wasn't to leave husband Desi Arnaz BEE aa again. fs = = CESAR ROMERO and 20th Century-Fox are battling over the bad roles Romero claims he's been getting and Gloria de Haven have been a reconciliation via

* » ” . PICTURES are so scarce in Hollywood that several movie stunt men have taken their tricks on the road. They're playing small ovens in a “Hell Show"— crashing old autos head-on at 60 i miles an hour, etc, They're pass- dinner dates. Ditto Lois Andrews ing up the big towns, including and Steve Brodie. . . . Reason beLos Angeles, on the theory, nojhind the cancellation of Red doubt, that there’s no novelty in| Skelton’s pext film, “Neptune's . big towns to autos crashing head Daughter,” until fall, is Red's on at 60 miles an hour. physical condition. He's under - » » GEORGE RAFT would lke to have Jane Russell as his leading

month rest because

of nerwous ailments, ;

. + « » John Payne.

doctor's orders to take a fours

St crt SHES, 2]