Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1949 — Page 9

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Something New for Local Audiences Will Be a Hillbilly and Western Revue By R. K. SHULL HEAVY DRAMA will be the forte of films coming to town during the next week. Also on the coming list will be a brand-new Hillbilly and Western revue.

Dramas will include: *

Beyond the Forest” (Circle

Thursday), “Abandoned” (Lyric, Thursday), “Tokyo Joe” (Loew's, Thursday), “Marriage in the Shadows” (Esquire,

Friday) and “Hungry Mill” (Coronet, Friday). Indiana Theater's offering will be a lighter vein with Betty Hutton starring in “Red, Hot and Blue,” opening Wednesday. Something new for Indianapolis audiences will be a local version of that Saturday night radio plague, the hillbilly barn party. Making its first appearance here Friday at the Indiana Roof, the Hoosier Caravan will feature WLS National Barn Dance stars, Red blanchard and Dolph Hewitt, and a wide variety of home-grown acts, Local acts will include the Continental Four, winners of The Times sponsored Amateur Show at the Coliseum earlier this year. The show will be two and one-' half hours in length. Another feature will be a week-| ly Talent Quest to give local amateurs a chance to break into the

"Tokyo Joe," tale of an American in the st.war underworld, opens Thursday at Loew's Theater. Humphrey Bogart returns to

war to retake possession of a bar called "Tokyo Joe's."

Japanese Tokyo following the his business, former partner, Teru Shimada,

fal him his wife, whom he thought dead, is sive.

Hot and Blue.” In her guest for

professional music world. Weekly winners on the Talent Quest will be given a week's engagement with pay with the show. Grand

winner over a 13-week period will)

be given a television audition. ” » » BETTE DAVIS is back, time in a long black wig. plays the role of Joseph Cotten's seductive wife In “Beyond the Forest.” Mdvie-goers other than Miss Davis’ friends ‘will have a hard time picturing film-Adonis David Brian in a love scene with the aging Miss Davis. “The grass is always greener on the other side, but when you get there it's spinach,” according to the old bromide. Bette learns this too late, after she succumbs to the cosmopolitan charms of Brian.

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from Victor Mature, and nearly] lose her life. | William Demarest plays a highpowered press agent who hopes to land Betty on Broadway through notoriety. He inadvertently succeeds when she accompanies a mobster to his apart-| ment only to see him killed by a rival gang. Her boy friend, Mature, becomes disgusted with her antics and tells her he’s through, but in the final frames, they're back

r n a THE TRUE STORY of a tragic romance in Berlin during the reign of Hitler is the basis for “Marriage in the Shadows.”| Joachim Gottschalk, a Gentile actor, married a Jewish actress, Meta Wolff, shortly before Hitler came to power in 1933. Joachim and Meta were the toast of the German stage, hailed throughout the country as the nation's best. But when Goebbels assumed the head of the propaganda ministry, one of his first acts was to bar all Jews froan the stage and fromwpublic. | Joachim Gottschalk stood by] his wife until November, 1941. Then, when he learned that Geeb-| bels intended to deport her to a| concentration camp, Gottschalk

made a suicide pact with his wife. | justice.

Bogart rushes to her, but finds that his wife, Florence Marly, a White Russian, has divorced him for desertion. She has since remarried and now has’ Bogart swears he will get her b. Shimada informs Bogart of a money-making plan backed by a wealthy baron.’ Sessue MHayakewa, The baron wants Bogart fo help him get an airline.

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"ABANDONED"

Indiana Roof "HOOSIER CARAVAN"

Starring in attractions coming to the first-run film houses and to the Indiana Roof will be: Dennis Price and Margaret Lockwood in "Hungry Hill" (Coronet, Friday); Gale Storm and Meg Randall in "Aban-

Steppat and: Paul Klinger in

"Marriage in the Shadows" (Es- |

quire, Friday); Betty Hutton and Victor Mature in "Red, Hot and Blue" (Indiana, Wednesday); the Continental Four (left to right), Wayne Ormsby, Lowell Pryor, Dwight McKinney and Gene Robinson, with the Hoosier Caravan, hillbilly and Western stage presentation at the Indi. ana Roof Friday, and Bette Davis “in "Beyond the Forest" (Circle, Thursday).

The film is in German with English sub-titles. » » ” BASED ON Daphne du Maurier's novel, “Hungry Hill” recounts the feud between two Irish families and the degenera-| tion of one family into oblivion. | Margaret Lockwood stars in| the film as the young girl who marries into the Brodrick family} and observes the gradual mental) disintegration of three genera-| tions of male Brodricks.

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” » ” | “ABANDONED,” Hollywood's expose Of the bootleg-baby racket, stars Dennis O'Keefe as a hard-hitting reporter and Gale Storm as his female companion.| Together, and with the aid of Meg Randall, they put the finger on a society matron who is guilty of selling the offspring of unwed mothers. Seems as though the society matron is guilty of taking the babies in return for services given to the mothers. Gale becomes interested when her highly-inno-| cent-but-all-the-same « in - trouble] sister falls into the snare. She en-| lists the aid of O'Keefe who scoops the town with his daring] expose. Meg Randall, another expectant mother, is used as a decoy by O'Keefe to bring the brigands to

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Hayakawa threatens to expose documentary evidence thet Florence had broadcast for the Axis during the war. Torn between his patriotism and his love for Florence, Bogart stalls for time. Hayakawa also insists aid of Florence's husband.

London Raves Over Zithers

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 26 — This old town has suddenly gone into dithers over zithers. And it's Orson Welles’ doings. “The Third Man,” an Orson] Welles thriller, has backgroghu| music provided by a zither. The! film is excellent and one thing | {that helps make it different is the humble zither. f The man who plays it, Anton Karas, was an unknown musician in Vienna until Director Carol in a Viennese wine garden and hired

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Gertrude Niesen to Star in Second Big Television Show Originating From Filmtown

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26—The grapevine says Joan Davis is a slick click as a sophisticated comedienne in . .. Gertrude Niesen will be the star of} the sedond big TV show coming up from Hollywood. Doris Day is the nation’s top vocalist, based on the third “Drink to Me Only.”

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———— ace out of Los Angeles. "Fp a-comin’ back.” 2 Signed ‘Betty Holland, ember TGIISP—Theater Goer Interested in Seeing Pictures.”

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‘annual Billboard Magazine disk jockey poll. . .. M-G-M and| A xgw Broadway importation, Connie Haines are talking

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Jolson sequel

“Jolson Sings, Again????”

Betty Bryan will be featured with Benny Strong and. his band when he concludes his return engagement at the Indiana Roof with dances tonight and tomorrow night. Strong also will play for the teen matinee tomorrow.

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tones — ‘Ice cream—two-flavor ice cream’ and ‘Fresh cold orange juice.’ Th¢ film doesn’t

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Bogart goes to Florence and her husband, Alexander Knox, demanding an explanation of her war-time conduct. She admits the broadcast, but only because y her baby. Bogart enlists the etting the franchise, knowing he must lorence. Hayakawa orders Segart

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~ . » — ROZ RUSSELL and Freddie {Brisson sailed for the command performance in London. They'll visit Denmark, then spend fhree weeks in Paris. Freddie will buy {the remake rights to a. gguple {of Danish movies. -, o-oo