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Film Festival, on the Rome Opera House stage. The four operas included in the Italian film are “Carmen,” “William Tell,” “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Don Pasquale.” On the same program will be Ben Hecht's “Specter of the Ress,” *.4

“JOHNNY BELINDA” depicts the pathetic struggle of a deaf-mute girl, Jane Wyman, in the barren coastal regions of Nova Scotia. Befriended only by the town doctor, Lew Ayres, the girl undergoes a series of tormenting experiences culminating with a murder trial. Doubled with “Johnny Belinda” will be “Here Comes Trouble.” Circle's offering, “Cry of the City,” has homicide officer Victor Mature chasing cop-killer Richard Conte up and down the streets of the big city. Conte manages to shield his innocent girl friend, Debra Paget, from implication in the crime and executes several hair-raising escapes from the arms of the law. Things come to a head when Mature catches up with Conte and the girl in a church. “Smuggler’s Cove” is the other feature on the bill . ® ¢ THE FIRST CATTLE DRIVE over the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene, Kas. is the theme of “Red River.” John Wayne, merciless cattle baron, with his sidekick, Walter Brennan, and foster son, Montgomery Clift, start a drive with 10,000 head of cattle for the new railhead at Abilene, Clift and the men revolt against the cruel leadership of Wayne. After a duel with

“ one of the ‘men, the wounded Wayne is left be

hind, Wayne catches up with Clift at the rajjhead and after a vicious fist fight reconciles himself. Clift meets Joanne Dru after he saves a wagon train from the Indians, and all ends well. Also on the program will be “I er, Dear.” » Lyric's contribution will give movie goers »

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‘Johnny Belinda’ Two-Star System Tops Next Week’s Film Fare

‘Red River,’ ‘Cry of the City,’ ‘That Lady in, Ermine’ Start In Downtown Theaters Thursday; Opera Epic to Be Shown Friday “JOHNNY BELINDA,” packed with bared emotions and violence will lead off next week’s openings Wednesday at the Indiana. : Other downtown first-run theaters, starting Thursday, will offer: {Red River,” (Loew's) ; “Cry of the City,” (Circle), and “That Lady in Ermine,” (Lyric). The foreign art-film offering at the Esquire starting Friday will be “First Opera

another glimpse of Betty Grable's famous legs. “That Lady in Ermine” unfolds a tale as unusual as it is fascinating. Humorously it reveals the story of a beautiful countess, Betty Grable, and her night-long defense against the siege of her ancestral castle—and her heart—by an en-

giving condensed versions of four famous operas performed and filmed |

Staging Comeback

HOLLYWOOD, Ott. 29 (UP) —The hottest comeback in Hollywood now is that of th almost forgotten two-star system. The man who is betting most on its great return to popularity is James Nasser, who reunited Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll in his. first production for United Artists, “An Innocent Affair.” # Mr. Nasser got them together because he remembered what

| a great boxoffice pull the two

emy colonel, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who is dash- |

ing, debonair and all the other things that go into being the male lead. * * ¢ @

ALTHOUGH THE colonel easily takes over |

the castle—routing the countess’ hapless hus-

band, Cesar Romero, on thé very night of their | wedding-—when he comes in contact with Grable, | he begins to wonder who is captive and captor. | Bhe bewitches the victorious colonel right out of |

this vorld and winds things up with a grand climax. On the same bill, “The Creeper.”

Says It Takes Happy Person for Tragic Role

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 (UP)—Ann Todd belleves it takes a really happy perspn to play a really tragic part. ' And conversely, she sid, she did her best comedy roles when she was miserably unhappy. Her personal life, she said, completely explains her quick switch from comedy roles on the stage to serious ones in the movies, “When you're unhappy, one of two things can happen to you,” Miss Todd said. “Either you go to self-pity, and make everyone about you

miserable, or you become brittle, which opens

the way for comedy.

“Well, I have been unhappy--very unhappy. |

My domestic affairs were in such a state that life hardly seemed worth the effort. And so, being an actress, I played rip-roaring comedy, “I remember being miserable at home, dragging myself to the theater and playing for laughs in a succession of comedss.”

stars had in a series of pictures at Paramount about eight years ago. Now that he's seen his

picture, he wants to team them |

for a picture this year.

” ». . “I DON'T know what happened to the two-star system,” Nasser said, “but the boxoffice lost somiething when it" van ished. Some years ago a starring combination like Carroll and MacMurry really pulled them in. Now the teams are broken up, and casts are assembled of individual stars.” But Mr, Nasser thinks movie-

| goers really would rather see

romantic teams like Garbo and John Gilbert or Vilma Banky and Rod LaRoque. “The stage has produced a lot of starring combinations that lured whole generations into

| the theater,” Mr. Nasser said.

“Mr. and Mrs. Drew and Otis Skinner and Maude Adams set records when they appeared together.”

. © 8 » A ROMANTIC team, however, has to involve two people who look believably in love, he said. “There are far too many pictures in which the boy and girl

| ¢ould never like each other and

thé audience gets the .illusion that they would,” he said. “They should be sufficiently different to be attractive to each other.”

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‘course, Betty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Lyric, Thursday). In one of her fabulows outfits is Sonja Henie, bringing her Holly« wood Ice Revue to the Coliseum Nov. 17, Participants in a "John. ny Belinda" argument are (left to right), Agnes Moorehead, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres and Charles Bickford (Indiana, Wednesday), Playing his new Stradivarius violin is Concertmaster Leon Zawisza of the Indianapolis Symphony, whose opening concerts of Fabien i : : ; Sevitzky's 12th season will be at 8:30 p. m. today, 3 p. m. tomorUnder Direction a Falsion Sevirzy | row in the Murat. Richard Conte and Vighor Mature are 2 Suns ‘ : ki rin" f the City" (Circle, Thursday). Th hritudTHE SYMPHONY and the Civic Theater will make) ter fy os Dra, ies of bw River." an . the biggest contribution to local entertainment in the| opening Thursday at Loew's. ‘ coming week. ® Starting its 12th season with Fabien Sevitzky,. the orchestra will play at 8:30 p. m.' tomorrow in the Murat. The Civic will start its 302d production, “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” at| = His dominance resulted lo: yrants. His dominance resulted| 18:30 p. m. next Friday, tol Elizabeth Barrett's neurotic in-|

Fo. 2 » . = | J IN PROSPECT "That Lady in Ermine” principals are, of Symphony, Civic Show Lead Entertainments

Orchestra Opening 12th Season Today

Touched by Pole

By Erskine Johnson {run through Nov. 13. validism, from which she was res-| HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30—The people of Vancouver gave Bing Chief among out-state musical cued by the dashing young poet Crosby a 20-foof totem pole following a charity appearance there. [events next week will be pro-|Browning in possibly the most Cracked Bing: “This is the first time I've ever seen 10 Bob {grams by the First Plano Quartet celebrated elopement of Victorian Hopes one on top of another.”

tomorrow and Monday evenings) times. yyy . 8. in Purdue University's Hall of| As I recall it, the play does| REASON YOU haven't seen Richard Arlen on the screen lately

|Music in Lafayette and’ the con- some expert psychological probing b Docamse of deafness. Jn 1s Jas picture: When My Baby Smiles ’ Just discovered a

[cert by the Orchestre National and builds up to strong climaxes. ; lof France, Charles Muench son- women WE ir Shes to arty theough | Year-old Charlie Chan mystery ducting, at 8:15 p. m. next Tues- M n Su ort his ‘assignment. film had the same tag. {day in Indiana University Audi-| ane Pp . Since then, he's been to Johns “# »» : torfum in Bloomington. HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 (UP) |Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore| Maureen O'Hara put in am we. wa Tehaikovaky- ~—Even the horses | five Sabu. for corrective treatment. He's) appearance at 40 charity bemeagner- ussy-Lione arry- sly in Hollywood. na - ‘ hy "ea program already has been ously y € |now okay in the hearing depart-| g¢y while starring in “Affairs

named Black Jack has his own ment, { {announced. About all that needs ” of Adelaide” In London. And

[to be added here is the Hoosier maestro’'s own comment on this year's orchestra. “I'm very happy {about it,” he says. “It's the best | we've had yet.” Play Gets Workout

Jack Hatfield's Civic players have .a real workout in store in Rudolf Besier’'s play about Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Heading the cast will be Kath|arine Pantzer as Miss Barrett and {Charles Dosch as Browning. Made famous by Katharine Cornell, “The Barretts of Wim- | pole Street” is a dramatic reconstruction of what biographers have told ‘about thé Barrett |household. Barrett Senior seems {to have been one of the least amiable “peres de famille” in an era that produced many paternal

bank account and a radio in his stall. " Black Jack gets several thousand dollars a year for movies and personal appearances, His owmer, cowboy star Allan (Rotky) Lane, swears that the money is in addition to what he getd for riding Black Jack. “It costs a lot for a horse to live these days,” Lane explained. “Talk about high food prices—hay and grain cost 150 per cent more than they used to.” The well-dressed horse must have saddles, and the cost of Black Jack's runs from $350 to $3000. Hé has work saddles, everyday saddles, weekday saddies, Sunday saddles and silverinlaid saddles for parades and

» . ” Producer Mike Todd Is staging a comeback. He's planning | to produce “Legend of Lou” on Broadway with his wife, Joan Blondell, and Jimmy Dunn costarred. r . ” MONEY talks, and these days

it says that costume pictures are death at the box-office, belatedly discovered it, so all the ads for “The Thrée Musketeers’ will be heads, to conceal the period costumes. But from what I hear about the picture, |doesn’t have to worry.

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0 M-G-Mlextra! “I understand ‘he's quit show business.” he

endeared herself to ‘the British public like no other Hollywood star In recent years. :

* = = BOB MITCHUM has

another hit int the 8id Rogell-Robert Wise film, “Blood on the Moon.” . . . Aside to UI: Please put Shelley Winters in another movie quick, She's one gal who deserves a big break. : ” \ First

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