Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1949 — Page 18
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"= In Hollywood— | Ginger Recalls Good Old Days
Jack Benny's Note in Cafe Reminds Her of Broadway
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By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1—Behind the Screen:
. 1 was lunching with Jack spotted Ginger Rogers
ately scribbled her a note reading: “ ‘Some of These Days’ please. Guess who?” remembered Ginger when she| |
Benny explained it: He was in “Girl. Crazy” Broadway and spent most of her time doing impersonations of Sophie Tucker. Ginger scribbled a note right back. It read: “I'm running all my pictures all afternoon until midnight. Then I'll do my impersonations.” Note from Polly Moran, following my story about the time she ran for mayor of Laguna Beach: “Sorry I didn’t tell you that out of the 8000 population I got 30 votes—28 bartenders and two fry cooks.” GREAT GAG that never came
off: Before the Broadway opening of “My Sister Eileen,” actor Lloyd Gough and half a dozen Gotham wits almost persuaded a young actor named Tom Lincoln to take a pot shot with a blank pistol at Shirley Booth during a dress rehearsal. The headline, “Lincoln 8hoots Booth,” still haunts them.
r ” » Benny Rubin tells it: In 1989, he was looking for some new material to show off his dialects. A young songwriter applied for the job and said he'd do| it for $100. Rubin hired him but
‘when the writer returned with the i
material Rubin paid him $300 and urged him to become an actor. He did. His name was Robert Mitchum.
CONSIDERABLE curiosity
round town h daughter of Claude Rains, is tired I le ee He Bob of being known as the film star’
Pants,” got its title. Here's my theory:
In one scene Lucille wears such a riding habit as hasn't been seen since grandma was a girl. The
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Jack Benny at Romanoff’s. across the room and immedi-
skirt gets caught in a bramble bush and is ripped clean off. | Lucille is left standing there In a pdir of skimpy white cotton] bloomers ending half-way be-| tween knee and ankle and taste-| fully finished off with lace ruffles| and baby blue bows. | Now there’s an idea for Gor-! geous Gussie Moran. | on | THEY'RE making a radio show/ into a movie 80 it can be a weekly, television show. Very confusing.
come. The show is “Life of Riley” and Irving Brecher, who directs the airshow, is directing the TV ver sion. He also directed the Hollywood film version, released a few months ago by UI John Brown is playing Digger
for a movie, a radio show and a movie for television. Jackie Gleason is Riley. Bill Bendix’s con-|] tract stopped him from doing the TV version. The set looks just like a movie set. But there is no long, boring|} wait between takes, no short scenes. Most of the “takes” run seven minutes. Brown summed t up:
have time to play gin rummy.” » = v ¥ JENNIFER RAINS, 10-year-old
daughter. Recently she left fo: school and told her famous dad who operates a profitable farm in Pennsylvania, that if anyone asked her who her father is she was going to say: “Willie Rains, the farmer.”
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“Just like working in pictures|d but they work so fast you don’t|“%
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"Task Force’ Depicts History Of Navy's Carrier-Launched Aircraft
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“Task Force," the history of carrier-launched aircraft, will open Wednesday at the Indiana Theater. In 1921, Jonathan Scott (Gary Cooper) was among a small group of officers who go aboard the U. SS. Langley, a converted collier, to learn how to land planes on its 65-foot deck. This is the first Naval carrier. Scott and the others in the group become determined that carrier-based planes will eventually become the strong arm of the Navy.
Five years later, Scott is ordered fo attend an admiral's party and make friends for Naval aviation. He meets an old friend, Mary Morgan (Jane Wyatt). In a heated argument with a newspaper publisher (Stanley Ridges), Scott incurs his enmity and also insults attending Japanese diplomats. Disciplined for his diplomatic blunder, Scott spends two years at rub-ber-stamp work before he is assigned to the U.S. S. Saratoga. .
When Pearl Harbor explodes, Scott is on duty aboard the U. S. S. Enterprise in the Pacific as a fighter pilot. Because of his knowledge of aircraft carriers, Scott is taken out of the air by Adm. Richard (Walter Brennan, seated) and assigned as operations and air officer aboard the carrier, successfully directing the carrier strike against the huge Japanese Naval force near Midway Island. Scott is as last recognized for his work.
Now a captain, in command of a carrier, Scott, with “the fleet thatbcame to stay,” goes out to cover the landings $n Okinawa. After his ship is set afire by a Kamikaze plane, the Admiral suggests that Scott order "abandon ship." Preferring death to the loss of his ship, Scott receives permission to attempt to save the vessel.
In 1931, he. is injured in a crash during fleet maneuvers. Visiting him at the hospital, Mary decides she wants to marry a pilot after all and they honeymoon in Hawaii. Scott, later attached to the Naval Academy as aviation instructor, incurs disapproval by his efforts to win midshipmen over to flying. He doggedly continues in his work, despite lucrative offers of posts in commercial aviation. He is now a Lieutenant Commander.
Weeks later, the carrier — burned out and | crippled—makes her way back to New York | harbor. In recognition of his feat, Scott is made | an admiral. At the end of the war, Scott retires. When he leaves his ship for ‘the last time, he is met at the pier by his wife and his old friend, |
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