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’ It Happened Last Night—" Janis Does As Romans Do

Star Finds Life in Italy Not Much to Her Liking

By Earl Wilson ... 7

~ NEW YORK, Dey. 10—It must be wonderful going tol ;

Rome to be a movie star . , . hey? “No,” said Janis Paige, the pin-up girl. “No? I said. “No. ” “No light, no power, no water, no milk,” she said. 0. Janis is the babe who was voted by som some pun-loving bellhops as “The Girl We'd) : ” n blissful, eith Af Most Like to Paige. She and| C00 ae iO grit 4

her husky husband, Frank year ago, she was called back to Martinelll, of San Francisco, her studio, which had a picture

Lincoln Chorus

have just returned from Rome, i her to go to work on at once. wher. sne worked for several]! “I had 12 lines,” she sai months in & movie called “The| «1 yo supposed t wd Dark Road.” Even the titles are| hea Broad 9. pay a dark in Rome like the rooms on| Pp Sroadway. tramp, “I sald, “If that's what I get

m. Tuesday in the Washingto: High School Auditorium.

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Sets Yule Program|

The Lincoln Chiropractic Male |Chorus will present its third anjag Christmas Concert at 8:15

THE INDIANAPOLIS Toms

Variety of Menus Offered at Neighborhood Theaters

“Public Getting Wise to Ads

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! reads:

ihe days when the power is shut oy

“SOME DAYS the power only contract and quit the studio.”

comes on at night,” Janis said. “S80 you walk up and down! stairs all day long and forget there's such an invention as an elevator,

red-haired |

“For two and a half months ®Pd then after about two weeks,

we had to lug water. That is, our maid lugged it a block from a| fountain.

“is webs 80 happy at first,” Sheraton Hotel and you say I'm [Sam Moore, who have” takes on

Janis said. hotel with a lovely marble bathroom.

“The first day we had water, all about my inner-ear being off

| |

i |ot course very happy to get on

i [she knew everything would be Be 1 : lovely.

{of seasickness, and we took some Leave It,” is in the lineup.

“starte

1 >a ship.

¥ said, ‘You're seasick’ {Here I am on land inthe Park

“We moved out of a seasick? in” a beautiful apartment

after working five years, I'd like| The 35.volce chorus will be |to leave’ So I bought off mY under the direction of Dr. Orville | 0. Luedtke. { » a =a Soloists for the program will be| JANIS SAID that when she Kenneth John, baritone; Douglas! arrived in Rome and encountered|'1ackney, tenor; Orien Humph{the shortages, she thought reys, tenor; Mrs. O. O. Luedtke,

first, “How do people live here?”

she paid it no mind. Charlie McCarthy Tops |

She was extremely satisfied i with: the ‘lcture she made and [vovember Hooperating gram Hooperatings” rank Charlie McCarthy at the top of the list of| ‘first 15” evening programs. Jack| nny is in second place and Wal-| ter Winchell is third. Only one| “Both Frank and I were afraid give-away program, “Take It or| It is

|the good ole Queen Elizabeth and head back for New York, where .

contralto, and Joe McKeon, piano.| |

Now on the neighborhood theater screens are: Mark Stevens in "Sand" (Bell), Ben Johnson and Terry Moore in ‘Mighty Joe Young" (Grove and Oliver), Joanne Dru in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (Daisy, Fountain Square, Old Trail, Speedway, Uptown and Zaring), Victor Mature and Lizabeth Scott in “Easy Living" (Emerson, Ritz and Sheridan) and Lon McCallister and Shirley Temple in | “The Story of Seabiscuit” (Ambassador, Arlington, Irving and Vogue).

we got home, and I ‘Thank God, we're ' and now we'll feel just

Proves to Be Middling

“But here. in my -hotel-rvom I feeling real seasick. | “I-couldn’t believe it.. Well, that night we went to see ‘Death of a Salesman,’ and suddenly it seemed

dipping and lunging tke it was Sort of show that should have been

“I had to get up and leave. CI a “WE CALLED a doctor and he

things to offer, jt should ‘have;: fbeén stronger. The weakness Shiefly lies in the libretto, -How“1 said, ‘How can I ‘he seasick? This is the work of & couple of (radio writers, John Whedon and the job of poking some fun at Texas and American politics without having much if anything to contribute in Hus line. »

“He said, ‘You're seasick. You [got to stay in bed all day.’ It was

and the second day we had none. balance, or something. Anyway, .

From then bathroom oO e.

“Suppose you have makeup all] the rail.”

over you and no bath? Awful, “I did my bathing at the studio,

where they had a water tank, ones notes that people who are| n|easly

after the picture was shot eac day. Only, because the power was often on only at night, that fre-|

, we never used that I know I didn’t have to be on the]

quently got to be 3 or 4 in the,

morning.” ~ . =»

JANTS SAID it happened to despairingly,

everybody.

Band had a villa there. They! moved into an apartment and they found their water was turned off. “Binnie said, ‘Maybe you got to pay off somebody.’ “So she did . water they got was a tiny trickle|® like a leaky faucet.”

1 asked Miss Paige about her|

Bairdo, She had sort of a braid on top of her head. “This is a false piece,” she said. “I wore this because I couldn't keep any curl in my hair.”

“WHAT ABOUT the men? Did! CINEMA ‘Pennies

they run after you?

“They ruh after everybody. No|p abs an MA and “The

matter how many wedding rings) you have on, it doesn't matter.”

Janis was quite prepared for FOUNTAIN 8

. . and all the

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THEY also ow in som |ocean to spend a lot of time at |barbs about a big weekly pe | magazine, but that isn’t exactly y a new field for satire either. i WISH I'D SAID THAT: Charley The trouble is that all of these shocked seem to have a | Subjects are more or less one-joke| knack for finding books Sod {affairs and, ‘once you've heard| movies that shock them easily, [the joke a few times, those who |get aboard late in the ‘game have! TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Just to suffer. as I was about to go on the, The good items in the show inwagon,” sald a New York drunk, clude Kenny Delmar and Danny

|~Joan Maag, Gag Writers’ In- the radio-famous Senator Clag“Binnie Barnes and her hus- stitute, . . . That's Earl, brother. ‘horn, the southern political wind-

some of this because her last ex-|G

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Neighborhood Theaters

“there’s mo water” Schell. The former, of course; is|

‘Texas, Li'l Darlin'* Kids Lone Star State Politics

Sort of Show

Kenny Delmar, Danny Scholl Are-Best Part of It

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UP)—"Texas, Li'l Darlin’ is a musical | comedy that conceivably could be found entertaining by a goedly! like I could feel the theater Number of customers but the fact remains that it is just a middling |

better.

Although such experts as Robert Emmet Dolan (music) and {Johnny Mercer (lyrics) concocted the score and have found good

bag who was on Fred Allen's program; Scholl is “a tall ‘young

--isinger- with -a- fine sense -of coms|

edy who 1s a real asset In the leading man field. Delmar, who has never played a leading role on Broadway, does

Hominy's retirement from the scene defeats the alms of a New . York publisher to build him into THERE may be a little too ntial caliber for the Re~ {much of him for the general wel- publican Party. fare of the show-=the character” vy ww {gets : TiL4| OY slong, J Th MARY HATCHER is pretiy and {second act—bu! at isn’ el- augh imar’s fault. The script Just gives tapable:as the 4 ter and Soul {us-too much. Hominy,

Scholl plays a Texas. war vet. advantage.

[slightly subdued but close rela< tive to Claghorn, n »

Fredd Wayne. con-

daughter und whois ed by! his buddies to give Hominy his first political opposition in years.) Daughter sticks with father until | throughout. she is convinced he really is some-| Among the Dolan-Mercer songs

Smith, Betty Lou Keim and Jared Reed

an admirable job as State Sen: Hominy Smith of Texas, ‘who is a

Pope Blesses Man With Dagger

Bent Upon ‘Harm’

ROME, Dec. 10 (UP)-—Vatican sources said today that a Roman | streetcar conductor had approached His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, handed him a dagger which he said he once intended to do {him “harm” and asked his forgiveness. The Pope took the dagger and calmly said, “the Lord blesses you,” these sources said. The incident, which passed without commotion, ‘was said to “hea have taken place last night at]

DOWNTOWN MECCA—"Mexiean Hayride” and the special AMBASSADOR— "The Story of Sesbigeuit”| Canyon.” *dithe conclusion of and “Wyoming Bandit. ORIENTAL — “Slatiery's Hurricane” and| Workers’ service.

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ARLINGTON— ‘The y of Sesbiscuit”| and “My Little ohickades | mE = — Se . of Sand” and “The Lost|

AVALON—'Tulsa” and “Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture" RZ = _ “The Red Danube’ snd “Bar |

. Livin br and “Look for the Silver er rs The Barklevs of Broadway” - Xu T — “Roughshod” and “In the si¥brns = Down Dakota Way” Prom Heaven” and enny Serenade a TonasY Living oy ‘She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and SPEEDW AY She

and “Ichabod wore 8 Yellow RibLost "Brad Hunks. STAR he Flehting Kentuckian”

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First Indianapolis Showing

Open Today 12 N. 25 Plus Tas Any Time Chae. RODAT.-ONE DAY ONLY

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“RETURN OF | RIN TIN TIN” Extra goes, ‘A Pinch in Time’

‘Rusty Le Friend Irma” and TA Lk gis Is a Freshman” and HAMILTON — “Not = Wanted” and ' “Mr.iTy EDO — he Danube” and} londle Hits the iekngt® ore" a Yellow Ribbon" n [IRVIN G— ‘Story of Seabiscuit” and “Bon VOGUE--"Story of Seabiscutt” and “The of s Countr Kid P Cl “ » {LIN oN whe Calamity Jane and Sam’ 2ARING are THE RED DANUBE

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Wore a Yellow Ribbon" Bass’ and “Argentine Nights.” "Seal Island.’

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- AS THE Pope began chattinglgs, {with the workers, the conductor, | Bruno -Cornacchiloa, dropped to ‘nis knees and held out a bundle {to the Pope and sald: “Your Holiness, here is the {Bible which I used to speak

against the church and here 8)

the dagger with which I had in[tended to do you harm.” The Pope took: the bundle and| t Mr. Cornacchibia’s plea for a

“sean Do don said, “the Lord blesses

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|] TODAY & MON.—2 BIG HITS | Danan Kare 4A Song Is Born” ||

“ 99 Penny Edwards Tucson ’ James Lydon

TODAY — MON. — TUES. ENTIRE SHOW In TECHNICOLOR

Fred ASTAIRE—Ginger ROGERS

‘Barkleys of Broadway’

JANE POWELL—GEORGE BRENT

“LUXURY LINER”

Teday-Mon.-Tues, . Another First Irvington Showing Walt Disney's Technicolor Feature

‘lchabod and Mr. Toad’

Vietor Mature—Luellle Ball

Hees” “EASY LIVING”

Shirley * Lem ‘Barry Temple MoCallister Jissars IN BEAUTIFUL TECHNICO

“STORY OF SEABISCUIT” George Brent-—Lynn Bar!

“KID FROM SLEVEL AND"

TODAY FIRST EAST SIDE RUN OF IDA LUPING'S PRODUCTION

"Not WANTED"

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“EASY LIVING”

DONALD 0'CONNOR—PEGGY RYAN

"MR. BIG"

~ |DePauw Banc Band to Give

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GREENCASTLE, Dec.

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thing of a rascal and that love is

more important, Different )* “A Month

Language — | Of Sundays,” “Hootin’ Owl Trail,” and “Politics,” the latter being a patter song with an unusual Mit that is delivered in sock fashion by Delmar and Smith. The show was produced at the

Season's First Concert"

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Promotional Superlatives On Poor. Films Fall Flat

By Erskine Johnson fe HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10—One of the big movie firms, I hear, just took a survey of the country to find for falling theatér attendance, No. 1 reason, they ered, was that the public had been bitten too many by gigantic promotions for pictures that didn’t live the ad writers’ adjectives.

. So maybe you'll live to see| |became a goody-goody the day when a movie ad couple of dims. but now | tin’ nails again in “No Way Out.” “This picture isn't so hot, but He's tougher than ever, in fact. maybe you'll like it.” He flogs Linda Darnell with a Gloria Swanson and her daugh- heavy chain, starts .& race riot. ter, Michele Farmer, are discuss- and commits murder, Nice whole« ing a mother-daughter story for Some kid. - the screen. Michele, who will bel ThevS trying o_deyiamorish 18 in April, made a wonderful test Linda Darnell for her rol a at M-G-M, was offered a long-°®" hop. in the same film, but the

term contract but turned it down al Is so beautiful that all they've

able to do is stop her from because it would prohibit stage |wlowing.

M-G-M got mad about the whole thing and now is refusing/her a hard

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and other studios, which are Interested boys outfitted her with

Paul Henreid is en route to looks good to me, to do “The Charmed me Circle,” a comedy about a retired|about professor and a haunted castle, His semi - documentary about|0ld adopted daughter, Lola. juvenile delinquents, “Escape if/ley is one You Can,” will be released by UA in February. It was filmed entire- Work the movie camera at ly in New York. 8

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: . = JOHN GARFIELD will star in a comedy-—his first—for Roberts Productions. It's “Lost. Streetcar,” by Arnold Manoff , . . Teevee Productions will soon put a TV show on the air with the provocative title, “I Married a : vv + M-G-M has offerediseries of Elia Raines a term contract, but|well-known the odds are against her taking it. nd She likes her freedom. : =" " Jack Wrather and Bonita Gran

» THAT NASTY MAN--Richard Widmark—lis back with us again.

10 —- A | First concert of the season by the, Mark Hellinger Theater by 8

in Meharry Hall on campus.

fo Franklin P. Inglis. Paul Whear | of the school of music {s staff arranger. Earl Duke, of Bremen, senior in the school of musie, will conduct the band in Harold Walter's! “Badinage for Brasses.”

‘Perfect Fool’ Injured HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 (UP)—| Perennial Comedian Ed Wynn, 83, slipped while taking a shower and cracked a rib, but his physiclan said the ‘perfect fool” might be well enough next week to appear on his television show,

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