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Much-Publicized Hitchcock Opus Starts Next Week's Openings

Similar to Celebrated Murder, ‘Rope’ Here Wednesday at Indiana; ‘Luck of Irish,’ ‘Southern Yankee,’ ‘Crusades’ Begin Thursday “ROPE,” THAT much-puMlicized new Alfred Hitchcock thriller, will start next

week’s openings Wednesday at the Indiana.

The other first-run downtown houses, starting Thursday, will offer: “The Luck of the Trish,” (Circle); “The Secret Land” and “A Southern Yankee,’ (Loew’s), and ‘The Crusades,” a re-release of the mammoth DeMille spectacle, (Lyric). Continuing its art-film policy, the Esquire will open “Tosca,” Italian film based on

the libretto of Puccini's famous opera, next Friday. “Rope” certainly is off the beaten track of crime pictures. Spectators whose memory goes back to the early 1920's will recognize similarities between the picture and a celebrated mur-der-case of ‘a generation. ago. * © 9 IN THE FILM, John Dall and Farley Granger have the roles of two young men who, for a thrill, strangle a friend with a piece of LOPE... TO. Add. an, extra. irisson. ar. shiver to, the thrill, they place the body in a huge, antique Chest, which they use as a supper table at a party for other friends’ afid” relatives of the murdered man, Among the guests at that party in the snazzy New. York penthouse is James Stewart, a college professor. Stewart wonders why the victim “is not present at the party. Dall’'s manic insistence that “superior” men are not bound by moral codes starts a trying after-supper conversation in which Stewart suspects Dall and the more timid, sensitive Granger of crime, The point of the picture is that the spectators know the mystery, which Stewart has to uncover gradually and at considerable danger to himself. Others in the cast include Joan Chandler, Sir Cedric Hardwicke-and-Constance Collier. : & ¢ 4 & IN. “THE LUCK OF THE IRISH,” an a}: tempt Is made to transfer to the screen..the slightly zany but charming Irish folklore att leprechauns and such, Tyrone Power, as an Amerfean newspaper correspondent in Ireland, is minchievously given wrong directions by Cheil Kellaway, the leprechaun, and finds himself in a little village where Anne Baxter is the innkeeper,

When Power trails the leprechaun and finds the little man's proverbial pot of gold, he courteously returns the treasure to Leprechaun Kellaway. As a result, Kellaway In future gequences shows up in New York and heads Power off from an {ll-advised marriage to Jayne

“Meadows; ‘daughter-of wealthy, domineering Lee

J. Cobb, a publisher. Needless to say, Mr. Power returns to the Ould Sod and his innkeeper colleen, - * &

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Land,” film record of Adm. Richard E. Byrd's

TORE Tetent “SOUfH Polar expedition “StH “Har:

rative by Robert Taylor, and “A Yankee,” another of Red Skelton's escapade pictures. ye,

Advance stills indicate that ‘The Secret Land” is a documentary film of more than averagdyinterest. “A Southern Yankee,” in which Mr. Skelton is teamed with Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough, John Ireland and Mipor Watson, is a Civil War spy-hunt story. As a St. Louis bellhop during the height of the war, Skelton gets involved in tracking down the Gray Spider (Coulouris), Confederate spy. Fairly funny, slapstick business, * % oe THE. LYRIC will revive !The Crusades,” Cecil B. DeMille’s 1935 extravaganza about the struggle for the Holy Land. Though much of jt may seem dated, the large-scale scenes and the cast, including Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian. Keith, Katherine deMille and C. Aubrey Smith, may prove interesting to local movie-

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Actress Conquers Fear, Plays MD

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16-Jane Wyatt, who has always been wary of doctors and medicines, has| conquered her fears by learning to be a movie doctor. Miss Wyatt talked t8 medical {men about her part and got in|struction from.the Red Cross on {how to handle and use the delifeate instruments and how to give a blood transfusion { o ” ” | IN ONE scene of Nat Holt's “Canadian Pacific,” Miss Wyatt {gives a blood transfusion to Ran {dolph Scott as a last resort to save his life after a dynamite (blast. , | “I was amazed to find that at [that time=<sthe -1880s=four- ont} {of five people died after blood {transfusions,” she said. “It ‘wasn't funtil after the first world war [that blood groups were discov-! ered.” People didn't realize they] {had different types of blood WICH WOU bp tt em

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| | | FINDING HER fear of medi-| jcine shrinking as her interest grew, ‘Miss “Wyatt developed “an awestruck admiration for ploneer| women doctors who fought ferce prejudice during their schooling, | internship and even after they proved theffiselves as capable as| men. ‘I'm a strong and determined) woman in this picture,” she said, “and I can understand why. If I| had been a woman doctor in those |days, T probably would have had {just that kind of reputation.” .

[ MISS: WYATT regards her role as a doctor as a definite ad-| vancement, since she played a {nurse in her last four pictures. {Her most famous role was in| "Lost Horizon.” *

| Wagner | and Juliet,” with Louis Roney

‘Romeo and Juli

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Stage Event of Week

Charles Wagner Production to Be at Murat

Monday; Tex Beneke Orchestra to Follow By HENRY BUTLER Next week's main stage events will be the Charles Wagner “Romeo and Juliet” Monday and the Tex Beneke Orchestra Thursday, both at the Murat. The Junior Civic Theater, whose “Jack and the Beanstalk” opened yesterday, had performances scheduled for 10:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. m, today and 2:30 p. m. tomor-

row at the Civic. | In the week after next, | Bomar Cramer will be heard in a piano recital, | sponsored by the Indiana Chap- |

ter,“ “Amertcan--Guild. of... Ors, |

ganists, at 3:20 p. m. Sunday, | Oct, 24

As. previously announced, |

Robert. Merrih....Metropolitan..,.

Opera baritone, will appear on ithe RCA-Victor show tour with

| Russ Case and tHe ROAVIrtor | | orchestra and chorus at 8:30

p. m Tuesday, Oct 26, in-Cadle Tabernacle. ” ” n “ANNIE GET YOUR GUN" starts its three days at the Murat Wednesday, Oct: 27. Right after Annie lays down her gun, Concertmasteér Leon Zawisza will take up his fiddle to tune Fabien Sevitzky's Symphony for the season's first two concerts, Oct. 30 and 31. If it measures up to the excellence of previous Charles productions, ‘Romeo

and Jean Carlton in the title roles should he well worth see- | ing and hearing. Bomar Cramer, who has been heard here too seldom in the last couple of years, will play a for-

midable program including two |

Bach-Busoni choral preludes, the Bach-D'Albert organ prelude and fugue in D, the Chopin B flat minor (funeral

finishing off with the strenuous “Islamey’’ of Balakirefr. The Robert Merrill-Russ Case program will be selected from the RCA-Victor. list of Ameri.

can favorites 8 “yUaged vy”

record sales. MEANWHILE, THE" CIV1¥ Theater now is rehearsing for

| its November production, “The | Barretts. of

Wimpole - Street,” which will contribute to next month's busy stage schedule. Director Jack L. Hatfield has announced his cast for the play about Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, to run Nov. § through 13. Besides Charles Dosch, as Browning, and Katharine Pantzer, as Miss ‘Barrett, the cast will include! Walter Houppert, Elizabeth W r i g ht, Gretchen’ Hostetler, Pat Gabe, Adolph Kerber, Edward Blackwell, Robert Berlon, John 8. Ashby, Robert Leslie, Tom Freebairn, Alistair Stuart, Justine Christie, Lloyd Dodds and Edward Omiliak,

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FLESH AND FLICKERS—The "Rope trio, left fo right, are

| Farley Granger, James Stewart a | Hitchcock's murder thriller (India { Lyric's revival of Cecil B. De M

nd John Dall, principals in Alfred na, Wednesday). Fiquring in the ille’s "The Crusades” are, in the

usual order, Katherine deMille, Henry Wilcoxon and Loretta Young (Thursday). In the circle is Bomar Cramer, former Indianapolis pianist,

| who will be heard in recital Sund

ay, Oct, 24; in the Murat, Sing.

ing the famous balcony scene are Jean Carlton as Juliet and Louis

Roney as Romeo it the Charles opera (Marat, Monday). Alvino

Wogner production of Gounod's Rey, famed quitarist-bandleader,

will play for dancing tonight and tomorrow night at. the Indiana roof. ‘In the Esquire's “Tosca,” next Friday, two principals will be

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Power are a happy couple in "The Luck of the Irish" (Circle,

Thursday). mands the expedition filmed in

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‘The Secret Land" (Loew's, Thurs

Invades LA

By Erskine Johnson

reads—HILDEGARD!

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16—A big sign at the Ambassador Hotel

1 1 found Hildegarde (Exclamation Point) reading the notices of

(her first Los Angeles appearance

(at the famous Cocoafitt Grove) +=

and bubbling happily about overcoming a fear. . Hildegarde (Exclamation Point), the toast o HOH, PEPE “MIOWHHREe, "Chicago, orm

and’ Anna Sosenko (her r),. Was afraid to play . Angeles. She told me so herself, “Really,” she squinted in Hildegardian ‘fashion, “I've been afraid to play Los Angeles. That's why T've' never been: here before. Los Angeles is full lof movie stars,’ and movie stars are cynical and cold-hea Ro and 1 was worried that they wouldn't like me.” But Hildegarde (Exclamation Point) doesn’t have to worry any more. They like her in Los Angeles. They're squeezing people into the Grove with shoehorns every night and even the mon{keys in the trees are giving her {a hand.

os “ABOUT Hildegarde tmperson: ators,” 1 asked her. “Do you like them?"

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» . ” . she’s making—has made since she clicked big in: New York eight years ago. (The Grove is paying her $7500 a week.) | of “My; dear, dear boy,” she “Uncle Sam gets most of it, 7 there's my en mane ager, my press agent, my orchess tra (Eddie Oliver's), my accoms panist, Salvatore—ihe introduced him opening night as one of nsey's na ‘my maid my chauffeurs TE 's - Hildegard, - lovely, ‘lovely: people.

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