Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1949 — Page 8

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__ Smoll Independent Produces . | Movie About Racial Prejudice

lon a tour of ‘eight Midwest museums, is on view through April| ~3 ‘Jlat the Herron Art Museum. Casein, gouache and transparent watercolor are to be found in the 52 works on display. This establislied group of art-

long career. William A. Smith's By Erskine Johnson *Reapected Cituaén," included 10 HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 6—A small, independent film oh

the show, won the silver “medal oF wonor” tn New York at the|pany has won a million-dollar race against two major|

American Watercolor Society's studios to be first on the screen with a motion picture about

948 exhibition. ! Ho racial prejudice. The picture is “Home of the Brave,” the story of five whites and a Negro fighting the war on a Pacific island. The producer is Stanley Kramer, who will release through Unite

To order mot 10 sccelérate plans of major studios on similar movies, Kramer swore 600 people to secrecy and filmed the entire picture betore Hollywsod even knew about it,

POLACK BROS FE > AGENTS “were bypassed and SEAT SALE % 25 8,2. 7, Wem the actors (none are stars) were] ~ limes Amusement

ey q] {dq S00 Wan, AVM: SAT S109 = sworn to secrecy. Cast and crew Clock Se ate lunch on the set every day and : Kramer lied like a trouper, saying he was filmibg a western. The [picture started on Feb. 8 and was {scheduled for release April 2. {In the hush-hush confusion and Ed demand for speed, Kramer admit

ted his cameras turned for two Ju SRY weeks on Arthur Laurent’s play N before it was legally cleared with {i ho i [the Dramatists Gulia. Tiare ike 10 filming a story you don’t own— “One s “with ‘but Kramer took the chance and| More Fines ia won. Wise “Stems = Flower,” Russian color MANY early Stan Laurel and INDIANA ha Oliver Hardy comedies are being South 04 Herts Smith. 2% Fith Jos! Me: *. |televised and the corhics‘are get- 2 a * ting more fan mail than they did and GT, Dousths *. (when the pictures were originally il : released. Hardy plays John oo n with a" | (Wayne's comic sidekick in Re-l and Cha Tevor, ut” Te, public's “A Strange Caravan,” “The Lon but they are anxious to get back Themes Ane. en AR ia ad to work as a team.

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