Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1948 — Page 46
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THE INDIAN
It Happened One Night—
I's Coffee Now For Lee Tracy
Actor Urges Tolerance For Hollywood Missteps
- By Earl Wilson NEW YORK, Nov. 27—One of my favorite newspapermen—Lee Tracy—strode into the Waldorf Men's Bar and did a very unjournalistic thing. “T think I'll have a cup of coffee,” he said. “Haven't had a drink in two years and”’—he counted it off on his fingers—‘four months!” I looked in amazement at this really great actor, who used to play so many fine reporter roles on stage and screen, and who, when a bit loaded once down in Mexico, did more to make balconies famous than Romeo, Juliet and Harry Truman! combined. | “How'd you quit?” I asked, | feeling a little silly, because I'd ordered a snort, figuring he'd have one, 1nas-
Earl's Pearls
+ If food prices here get any higher, there'll be a lot of food poisoning around here, maintains Lenny Kent at the Playgoers, The food’ll be o. k.; trouble is, they won’t be used | to eating. | Coleman Jacoby contends that those Hol-
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Movie Preview ... Spies, Terrorists an
Two passengers on a Berlin-bound train from Paris are Robert Ryan, as an American agriculture expert, and Merle Oberon, as a French woman on a secret mission in "Berlin Express," thriller opening Wednesday at the Lyric. In one of the first films to be made on location in war-ravaged Europe, the characters find
lywood reefers
much as he 'al- F Lenny Kent ways had before. that make you wy “How? Didn't high have this slogan: hey | give it a thought. satisfy. co 4 Just" quit/*: he that's the cross he'll have to said. bear.”
He was looking lean, dapper and well-tailored as befits a guy residing in the Waldorf. “And how do ou feel now?” y He sipped his Lee Tracy coffee — honest. "I know what what you're supposed to say. ‘Oh, hoy; I feel GREAT. Just GREAT! But I haven't noticed any difference. Except I feel better in the morning.” Mr. Tracy—here talking about plays and movies—(and some of the Broadway producers should put the guy to work because he's the greatest!) — said he hopes fnlks’ll be tolerant about some Hollywoodians recently in jams for not quite handling the ole debbil, rum. “It's going on all over the United States but it happens in Hollywood, and bam, Page One!”
» " ” Didn’t Hurt—Then MAYBE YOU remember a parade in Mexico in 1932 when Lee stood on a balcony shouting “Viva la Mexico” and also “Go to hell.” Reports of his further attitude toward the parade were printed but Mr. Tracy, denying them, forced one magazine .to retract. Anyway, MGM fired him, but he worked there again later. “Did it hurt you much?”
I turned the talk to the proposed picture in which he’ll play a fight manager. “I've been an Army officer in two wars and never played an Army officer,” he said “1 punched cattle in Canon City, Colo., but they never thought of me for that. I | played ball in St: Louis with the Wabadas—the Wabash R. R. team—but with all these baseball pictures, I never got a call for that. “No, I'm not the type for those things!” he said. “I'm the type for a newspaper reporter—which | I've never been.” { ona { HE LOOKED at my empty glass. | “Say, you better have another| drink,” he said. “This is the time of day for drinking. “I'll just sit here,” he added. “I can't take another cup oh
coffee.”
J » » The Midnight Earl WHAT'S HOT—Georgie Jessel —who's in town—took his daughter Jeralynn, 7, to school the other day and found she’d promised he'd entertain the first-graders. “I don’t have much material for first - graders,” George told me, “so all I could
“It didn't at the time. I got a go ag Jump hetter contract Tight away with | t Gloria Bene. another studio. But you look at man. daughter
life from the long pull, and , , |
He didn't Sma Beatrice Breneman, Ir Bcidbial { Fung Oye _ popped Into the iE STORY always gets so 7 Warwick to see distorted. Take Robert Walker. and hear her boy friend, Derry | prints:
“Maybe he never had a drink|Falligant, the crooner. ... Dave
before and never will again but
Room here and in Hollywood) is| 28S ; {now selling perfume in Holly- . tar wood. . . . Beatrice Fung Oye. long one of our favorites, still is, at the China Doll LJ 5 . TODAY'S SMILE: From Studio City, Cal, Comedian Frank Hyers flashes me, “My boss, Charlie Foy, and I went to the track and had a very good day. | We both got a ride home.” | * = s Jack Zero thinks he can make] a lot of loot by buying all the] | | B'way comics for what he thinks they're worth, then selling them) for what they think they're worth. . .. That's Earl, brother.
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ONE NIGHT ONLY EDDY HOWARD
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FABIEN SEVITZKY
t Conducting INDIANAPOLIS - SYMPHONY
Murat Theater
TODAY, 3P. M.
Soloist, Pianist
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Mickey Gloria
| ROONEY-DeHAVEN WILLIAM KAPELL WALTER HUSTON
FRANK MORGAN Rachmaninoff: Third Piano Concerto; BUTCH JENKINS Sibelius: Second Symphony; Barber: ! Essay for Orchestra; McCollin; A
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STARING RANDOLPH... ROBERT
- SCOTT - RYAN - JEFFREYS 2
WALT DISNEYS: LAUGH Parade of 6 Cartoon Hits
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| themselves involved in violent Nazi action.
Print Makers
i { of the late TOM | Makers annual exhibit will belamith and Orfeo Vian of Indian-
shew will include 68 original
Kleckner (who had Dave's Blue,
In a lofty, gloomy vat room of the brewery, Ryan and Miss Oberon learn they've been trapped. Now begins a spectacular battle between Ryan and Michael Harvey, ‘as a Nazi agent. The desperate, six-minute fight, which winds up in one of the beer vats and reportedly cost Messrs. Ryan and Harvey some nasty injuries, despite the fact it was to be only a ‘reel’ battle, is a big, climatic moment of the picture.
APOLIS TIMES
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One of the film's mysterious slayings is that of a man in clown disguise, who has been present in Here Richard Powers, as an American MP major, and Charles Korvin, posing as an Allied sympathizer, identify the slain man as a State Department secret agent. Both the train and the plot now are rolling on toward the finale.
previous crises.
David Dunlap, Evelyn Mess, |George Jo Mess, Frederick Polly! jand Norman Wilson, Indianapolis. | In addition to the above mem-| bers of the society, the following!
Open Exhibit
(this group for the first time: DonAt Block Auditorium eu Earmichnel Junetta Hunter, ” {Patricia ontgomery, Cy PerThe Indiana Society of Print szyk, Martha Ratcliff, Audree B.
{open through Dec, 17 at the
Wm. H., Block Co. avditetibmd. The
apolis.
Aquatints, etchings, dry-| points, lithographs, block prints
MURAT, NEXT TUES, 8:15 P. M. and 8 como oission whicn | 8 BURTON HOLMES
selected the prints for the show; Presenting th Reo
s Film was Edmund Brucker, Mrs. Loreen DeWaard, Mr. and Mrs. CANADIAN ROCKIES George J. Mees and Rose Wright. |] Seats at Gladys Alwes Music Shoppe, Mr. Mess is president of the sqg|| », es ih Tennyrivania tdi ciety. , nL
‘new exhibitors who are not mem- ren, according to Earl CunningShow Until Dec. 17 bers will show their work with ham, president.
1 Theater Group Meets | The Neighborhood Theater Association of Indianapolis will
hold a general meeting at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Hotel War-,
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d Diplomats Ride "Berlin Express
Miss Oberon has a quiet chat aboard the train with Paul Lukas, who poses as a German businessman, but who actually is a German statesman working with the Allies on a plan to unify post-war Germany. Before the train reaches Frankfurt, a bomb intended for Lukas explodes, killing the wrong man. Action now is under way, with Nazi underground. terrorists.
Before the train reaches Berlin, Lukas is kidnaped by the Nazis and taken to their hideout in an abandoned brewery. . Here Lukas listens to threats from one of the young Nazi fanatics, while a rescue party is searching for him. Ryan and Miss Oberon are decoyed to the brewery hideout, where they promptly find themselves also captives. :
The last attempted killing in the film is when Korvin tries to strangle Lukas. Korvin now is revealed as a high Nazi agent in the conspiracy to assassinate Lukas and thus bring to naught the Allied plan for strengthening German unity. Ryan surprises: Korvin in his struggle with Lukas. Korvin, trying to escape, is killed.
SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1948
Pars Ee
Musical Valve | Another Question = | By HENRY BUTLER Andience enthusiasm over Wile liam Kapell as Symphony soloist last night was a tribute ‘to piane
istic ex 3 Mr. Kapell, who will be heard
the Murat, plays big piano and fast piano. The musical value of his performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 in D Minor is another
times bowl over an audience, as evidently they did last night. But the wilfulness, like Mr. Kapell's unruly, Dead-End-Kid hair-do, and the almost brutal alternation between nicely tomed expressiveness and pounding heavier than the worst of Vladimir Horowitz are hard to take.” Mr. Kapell puts enough energy into Rachmaninoff’s Third Con{certo to serve Superman in stopping a streamliner. It's as if he were trying fo make the Third Concerto more impressive than the much more familiar Second. Unfortunately, Rachmanineoff doesn’t seem to have gone far beyond the ‘pathos formulas (the incessant pheno-barbital-like sliding into sad subdominant hare monies) of the Second Concerto. In fact, the whole Rachmaninoff tear-jerking routine seldom surpasses the mid section of the G minor Prelude. A furious, . melodramatic performance of the Third Concerto blurs the concerto. It may astound the audience, but it doesn’t clarify the music. And I'm sorry to record an unfavorable impression of Mr. Kapell's playing in this instance, since I've heard him play much more sensitively—I might ‘add, carefully—on previous occasions. {| Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra opened.the program with a world premiere of Frances McCollin's Choral Prelude and Fugue in C minor, an interesting composition inspired by the folk-song “I Wonder as I Wander.” They continued with Samuel Barber's “Essay for -Orchestra”—fine, effective, economical writing. They finished ‘with the Syme phony No. 2 in D of Sibelius. That symphony has breadth and power, plus just enough harmonic oddity at moments to keep it from being completely obvious without diminishing its great popularity.
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