Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1949 — Page 19

Jessel Roasts Critics Of Movie Industry

Producer Flays Those Who lg ‘Smears’ Against Film Business

By George Jessel a Johnson Is i)

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 19—My next motion picture! |

production for . Twentieth Century-Fox, “Oh You Beau- |

tiful Doll,” is in technicolor and has no message except that,

a guy who hasn't got a sweetheart like June Haver 5

In’ former years it was the custom to continue a guest |

‘column in this fashion—get| » personal plug in and maybe S@vitzky on To et

tell a gag or two. Unforty-| nately, sitting at a producer's desk as I have for the past few years, I don't know many gags and! ape . those that I used to tell have! Revitalizes Inactive a n heard on a& certain tele-| * vision show four or five times San Diego Symphony this year. But about this I don't] After an eight-year period of complain, as someday I know | inactivity, the San Diego wnt Milton will not refuse me a loan| phony orchestra has been bro of a few dollars. | Therefore, I should like to take Sevitzky, music director and conthe rest of this column to say| ductor of the Indianapolis Synr-| some nice things about an in- phony orchestra. dustry that is much more sinned) Dr. Sevitzky was engaged by against than is deserved—the mo- the San Diego Symphony to retion picture industry, which be- organize the orchestra and concause of its glamor finds itself duct a series of four summer con-

vulnerable to attacks from all certs. All the concerts will be over. played in the Balboa Park Bowl LJ . .

With only a week to shape the AT THIS VERY MOMENT 1 orchestra, Dr. Bevitzky received! received a pamphlet by some daffy a huge ovation at the conclusion guy in which there are many pic-| of his first concert. tures of some of the world’s most] Bruno David Ussher, critic on beloved actors and actresses and the San Diego Tribune-Sun, said: these people the pamphleteer calls “Dr. Sevitzky's first appearance

Reds ahd picks out one particular here verified the renown he has

y who has always been a ¢ap- won over the years as permanent ftalist since he was 10 years old| conductor of the Indianapolis but who once walked past the Symphony. He is a vital leader, office of the Daily Worker—and clearly and compellingly conveyfor this the pamphleteer writes ing his concepts of phrasing and it shows he is Red. /general style. A traditionalist, In another daily newspaper music becomes in and through there is a series of articles—some- him a personally : experienced about shame and fame drama in which the lyric or rewhich pictures a motion picture flective is as eloquently proporproducer with a lustfal virility tioned as the passionate or that could not be possessed by heroic.” three battleships full of healthy]

young sailors after they had not Amateur Entertainers

seen a fair lady in two years. : . And 50 on and so on. To Appear at Hospital Veterans’ at the Cold Spring

i a AN THEN motion picture critics Road Veterans Hospital will be of smarter New York magazines entertained Sunday by a group where the writer is dismayed that °f Winners from the City Parks

Amateur Talent Contest. the last Abbott and Costello ein“ They are David Dickinson,

ema hasn't ny of the sophisti-|elocutionist, Paula Dee Hawkins, cated dialogue of “Design for dancer; Edward Klinge, Living.” er aa id Ronella Sanders J anvone reading 20 ex Warfield, vocalists, Ta TRI Mr, |_ Also on the program are Don Jessel doth protest too much. Burns, Harry Schmedel, John CarWell, this is not .my intention 500, ~ Charles Fisher, Irvin because the, motion picture. in- |Lochard, Terry Kelly, John Ruckdustry, which has brought so |® Dan Moran, Jack Wood, Peggy much joy at such small admis- Ann Cole, Euna Williams, Joyce sion price to people all over the | ‘Pauley, Virginia Goodwin, Doris ¢ world, needs no defense and I Rutherford. Bill Parks and Dick am sure that there are reasons MOI. A. J. Thatcher and Herb that bring forth these poisonons Harlin are masters of Leremontes. darts from the Hollywood hat- _— ers. Pillowslip Card Party As for a great many motion pic-| i | ture critics, I think that they are| ona Sepiy Review No. 100. Won: a little irked at times because of sponsor a pillowslip card iy at reading that a fellow writer, .. part} 1:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Food

though in another field, has re- .. Shop, Kni : 2 ghts of Pythias ceived an a sum for his building. Mrs. Ella Hiatt is in

an en given a charge of arrangements, assisted — term et i itetime. by Mrs. Herbert Roeder, gies. Ma- | VEL recur i IR res rial, ——————— . » »

: PLAN PICNIC SUNDAY AS FOR OTHERS, perhaps it i8| The Indiana Old Age Pension ‘because the motion picture maga- groups of Marion County will zines have gone out of their Wayin,14 5 hasket dinner and picnic to overglamorize people and pho-| 0, the shelter house in Garfield

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tograph simple little bungalows) that one finds in the suburbs 1 Sunday: any city so that they look lke| - Buckingham Palace. f OUTDOOR Or a it is because some WESTSID THEATER doting parent “whose girl child] © 7300 W. WASHINGTON—BE. 0361 won the elocution contest in Im- | OFSN TONIGHT 1 Pr M (DET) glick, Pa; wasn't jmistediately Gall Russel MOONRISE* ‘swallowed up to play leading lady | ¢ yo Hopalong on the screen for Clark Gable and Dangeram Venture: bd Dan Dailey at the same time. In There may be other reasons. But the virtues of motion-pic- |= turedom in general drown out destructive reaction like an old Caruso record does the records of 10 crooners playing at the same’ “time. The picture theaters:

are nearly all open at breakfast time. You don’t have to wait until 8:40 or 8:50 at night for curtain time. You don't have to be ter-| ribly fastidious as to What you wear. ' ; You can get something to eat in the lobby, and you can spend as whole day in an air-condi-tioned theater—and_ if you are | a boy you can see the loveliest girls In the world—and if you are a gal you ‘can see the best looking guys (this only goes for | American pictures) and in al- | most every picture made you can see virtue triumph, which makes you feel a little bit nobler than you were before. Therefore, I take the means of Mr. Johnson's vacation to scream loudly from this column that I am very proud to be a motion picture producer, and having been in almost every great city in the world I am very pleased to state "that IT am both morally and. spirtually better since I have lived in Hollywood than I was before all right, so I'm a little older.

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