Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1950 — Page 9
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Fare at most of the first-run houses will consist of films previously announced, Openings, subject to changes are: Xavier Cugat and his orchestra (Circle, Thursday), “Pinky” (Indiana, coming); “Once Upon A Dream” (Esquire, Friday), “The Story, RCH " of Molly X” (Lyric, Thursday), and a double bill, “Too Late for Tears” and “Outpost in|
“By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7—I found Josef Von Sternberg on |the set of “Jet Pilot.” But I'll have to confess that while talking to him I was sneaking peeks at Janet Leigh.
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Morocco” (Loew's, Wednesday). L 1 Janet, you see, was wearing only a towel. Coronet Theater will hold over “The Prince of Peace’ for another week. |. 1 How does a lady wearing only a towel get mixed up in ——————— - $s 80 ni x 8 = a ww - td , i. . YY eT . 3 : ro] XAVIER CUGAT, the rhumbsa king, will bring his orchestra and several South Ameri- | Saoris ns es Especially when the action takes can actg.to the Circle for a one-week stint on stage. Included in the acts will be Tato and | | BE en Je fom op Rae pe Ed Gardner has decided Julia; "interpretive dancers of the Central American school. ja id a” B Were, ay, I A 2 ut. ue lace from Abbe Lane will be the eye-filling vocalist with the Cugat retinue. SOc. opie, ~even if the income taxes are Bl hm. ne orm sor Farrer aot peas mis | Well, it seems that Janet is a); wer He'll be back in Hollys Ann yth and : Robert £ d Vv li she finds a large bunch of roses) suspected Pussian spy and this wood next season. . . . Bob TopCummings will combine their eature ocalist |on her pillow. Believing her dream | fellow John Wayne, as com- ng Christmas present to Lang talents for the Circle's screen {to be true, with the roses as evi- |Fander of the squadron, (hots Turner—a diamond necklace. . . . 8 i dence, she spends the next 24) {her ing over the base, forces pr. gtei ‘that Ingrh Oo offering to appear with the Cugat. fwoors- incom . ! | : {er ein reports that Ingrid ” - ” 5 plete bewilderment, her. down and then makes her : show in “Free for AlL |disrobe so he can search her Bet Wa N/a Year: of 50-450
i wondering how far her sub-con-| scious affair with Jones has pro-| gressed. | | Her husband casually mentions| {that it was he who placed the {roses on her bed and peace re-| {turns to Googie’'s household, { ” » = | {LOEW'S twin offering doubles] a Middle-Eastern cloak and] |dagger epic with a Lizabeth Scott] thriller. : !
| cloth ¢ ia turned .down. the movie script jclothes-ior evidence, “The Ballad and the Source,” be i Leave it to Howard Hughes to .,,5: “I could never do a story : | “ +n ’ t v | get sex into “Jet Pilot. like that. It depicts a wife leave.
| And leave it to Josef Von , Sternberg, who photographed ing her anand and baby fot h .
Marlene Dietrich as she as . uu (never been photographed, to SHORT TAKES: M-G-M | wring all the glamour he can out} .,..ked the mew Gable picture, [of Janet's towel. - “Key ‘to the City.” Audience cards agreed: “This is the real
| LEN LEVINSON, the pro-| © a . ducer, says he picked up Peter Gable.” . . . Cole Porter comes
Cummings, a young inventor) from Ohio, goes to Washington! with a formula for turning water! into gasoline. He meets Ann, an. oil company worker, and soon = falls in love. | Ann's boss, eager to stop Cummings from marketing his invention, -steals one -of Cummings’ ~~ capsules to have analyzed. When | the company chemists cannot dis-| cover the secret, the oil tycoon!
romance with Ann goes sour and —— he heads back to his native Ohio.
into town. The old fellow, a Hol- oo. |lywood character {or years, ROAD SIGN on the way to Ar-
makes a deal with Cummings. | gram will follow this pro-| Circle the Hermit on his way to work! 0 Hollywood in March te write / In the meantime, Cummings’| . re him e music for a new Crosby ~ gs | | George Raft is in the French XAVIER CUGAT ORCHESTRA ud Yesterday and gave him a ride film. /
{Foreign Legion in “Outpost in Morocco.” For good behavior, he
Ann catches him after a mad is given the pleasure of escorting asked: rowhead Springs: “The driver is hase i helicopter | 'é of es . v .- : : rif. et i - ’ : e ver’ Middle West They make up. the) fa luscious Arab princess, Marie AHractions due at the first-run theaters during the next week are: Googie Withers and Ei | “How's the picture business™” safer when the roads are dry. ww. { \Windsor, back to her father's fith Jones in "Once Upon a Dream" (Esquire, Friday), June Havoc in The Stary of Molly X" ( yrie, |and then answered his own ques- The roads are safer when the 2 X o { " | . . " " ' * ane, ocalis on w . | Io A SHIFTING in opening dates - : ’ |“ Ratt no slouch at makin love Thursday), John Hodiak and Robert Taylor in Ambush (Loew ". coming), an * ’ “Bad! I told them 30 years driver 43 ary. x = brings “The Story of Molly X" Jo Ann Tally will be the fea- develops a flaming passion for with Xavier Cugat and his orchestra on stage at the Circle, starting ursday- ago it would happen.” WONDERFUL gambling story and Loew's double bill back to tured vocalist with Bernie Cum- the sloe-eyed beauty. His love the lucre over to the police, but/stay at the Esquire through pianos and bands at the same “- as = told by Elaine ‘Townsend, the this column for a Tepeat per-| mins and his New Yorkers when affair becomes his main source of Liz insists on keeping the cash. Thursday in “Animal Crackers” place during February. DIC K BARE, who looks like blond gambling” queen of Cuba - ~= formance this week... - {they play for dances at the In. consternation when he learns! When ¥ennedy demands that and “Duck Soup.” . ; Lyric Theater will go rustic|Cary Grant, is unhappy because whose life stofy will be brought
As previously stated, “The| ,. . that her father is planning to s wo» later this month, importing the | Gloria de Haven is dating Andre tp th o » i \ - | s sh ive it up, she enlists the aid . : 0 the screen by Wolfgang ReinStory of Molly X" concerns the| ana Root tonight 381 Somes kill off all the Prenat I oe ith EE and together they! ON THE SUBJECT of film best- Renfro Valley Folks for a week's Previn, who looks like—well, like hardt. Seems there was a big trials and tribulations of June fOW afternoon and night. Africa, and that the big purge i8!de the guy in "| gellers. another movie formula stay. Friends of the rural enter-| Andre Previn. . .. Talking about dice game going on in the TownHavoc while she is incarcerated in was killed by Dorothy's sweet- already under way K V's 8 Cris i1- ' ‘Ae . tainment groups are aware thatia well disliked movie doi, designerigeng -gamblii 1 A play , ’ : . 244) y. ennedy’s sister, Kristine Mil- that seems to draw crowds and is hyaielil ] i ; Ry ; lL gambling palace. player the Tehachapi Women's Prison in heart, who was. in turn killed by| Raft runs to the rescue of the ler, and her boy friend, Don De , _ the Renfro Valley Barn Dance 1s Willis Lane sald: “If it weren't| wih the ‘djce put down $15,000. California. : {a third man who had a crush on French, but -not before one gaT-| Fore become suspicious about. AWays good for a repeat showing'y nig Saturday night radio event. for.her. Adam's apple she'd have!y tie cutie bet one dollar with When a rival gunman “rubs June. It’s all very simple. rison is wiped out in a surprise Kennedy's disappearance and|is the non-secular religious drama. Others are aware also that it is no shape at all” .. . Ul willie house against the player. out” her husband, June takes over| WEALTHY Googie Withers is attack. He settles down atigtart ar investigation. Cecil B. DeMille has profited by hard to avoid their network ballyhoo the new Shelley Wintersy The player rolled snake eyes.
his gang and makes a name for FL "h (T0 young, hand Another garrison, waiting for the) Just to make sure that Duryea this in the past, and is still going shows al. the aforementioned movie, “Eouth Bed Ruiner Mth he house collected $15,000 and herself in the underworld as a tm t me Co LY ant. hey ATAD onslaught. doesn’t turn stoolie on hed: Liziyyono time. . ww the line, "Have you La vy ®¥ paid $1 to the cutie. safe-cracker. When fit comes, he sees Marie poisons him, then flees to Mexico : shocked?” . + . Tony Landi, re-i" no heavy plunger put down
{husband has. hired to take care {of their house, While her husband is away, she learns to like ithe man, Griffith Jones, but conceals her feelings in “Once Upon A Dream.”
The police nab her when one of the jobs gets fouled up. She refuses to squeal on her cohorts, so they “put her on ive.” ! Paralleling June's case, is the story of Dorothy Hart, also a gun
I , , C T Pr @ “ A DS I8;” film that] anc ( associate] riding at the head of the charge with the money. Locally, Coronet Theater also THE RED SHOES cently announced 88 associa ther small .for le alongside her father. She's really) De Fore and Kristine go to'l8 BONE strong on this plan, With received so many rave notices producer of Vera Caspary S| box oars. all 1o uns -and_rolley trying to persuade the old man to Mexico on their honeymoon and he Prince of Peace going ro when it first came to this country “Three Jlusbands. ~ the brothef| Ce $40,000 and paid the cutie forget about the war and go back : Ao {its second wee Omorrow. el. ota J eiaet Of the late Elissa Landi. =. | : ‘ g g discover Liz by accident, Rather originally was planned for a from England thal minor critics ¥ wow eo $2.
to his date farm, but Raft, un-/thap go on trial for murder, Liz| : ’ : . al der, Lizio all distribution on a small tried in vain to pick it to pieces A big singing star, who just The atmosphere at the table aware of her loyalty to him, loses takes the easy way out by diving| £ ging | was charged with tension before
moll, and also grieving the inop-! On the evening of her husband's jis Joye for her. , Re Blecale, but when the producers’ sill come to the Circle following had his’bank account attached | ) portune death of her Der boy return, Jones prepares a special .when the smoke of the battle J Car aloe eas final product came out of the cut- the Cugat engageinent. . by his ex-wife in a wrangle the next roll of the dice. The friend. Believing June to be the dinner. The husband arrives i.arg away, Raft and the French down - iting room, they found they had a, News of the event isn’t that the over taxes, already owes Un- [Pass line. was covered with $100 guilty party in her sweetle’'s drunk and immediately falls 3r6 victorious. The other Arab ’ aw big picture with huge drawing film, which first appeared here in| ele Sam . more than he will bills. The cutie fingered her $4 ; ; demise, she gets herself locked up asleep, to the disappointment of|je54ers make peace again, but] THE CROWDS that are keeping power. September, is returning, but that! make in the next three’ years, (and smiled winningly at the man with. June at Tehachapi, hoping all. LS Marie's father, poor soul, is as the Marx Brothers at the Esquire] ~4 NW it will be shown at regular prices, ‘Bad management put him in [with the dice before she placed the proximity will help her in| Googie also retires and dreams dead as she, both victims of the Theater for a third week seem to NOW FOR a glimpse into the, By this time, everyone who oan this spot, plus a couple of ad- her $4 on the don't pass line, gaining evidence. |of meeting the servant in their/first charge, {be enjoying themselves. Both future. More live entertainment read’ is aware that “The Red| yisers who proved fast with a | “Do you think you can do it Both of the tough girls learn garden. He sings to her roman- © ® =.= {films are oldies, but film moguls|is slated for downtown movie Shoes” is a technicolor filmiza- pyck—as long as it was his [for me again?” she asked. . a moral lesson during their stint|tically, then kisses her. When she] LIZABETH Scott is happily could take a lesson from this little houses in the near future. tion of Hans Christian Andersen's! puck. mw & ES of behind the bars, and when the parts company with him. after married to Arthur Kennedy until local demonstration. . People still] Sammy Kaye and his orchestra|famed fairy tale and that the film > uw ANN SHERIDAN ‘and M-G-M y time comes for them to get out,| their tryst, he gives her a cluster a stranger deposits a few hundred enjoy slapstick comedy, unhinder- will be at the Circle later this|contains the movie scenario of SHORT TAKES: Guy Madison are talking contract, It would be plac- they decide to play it straight. of roses. thousand bucks in her car, Ken-|ed by moral issues. |miomth, with Frankie Carle andthe story as well as the full ballet' and David O. Selznick have called a smart idea to co-star her with
rn! The four Marxs are slated to!Eddie Diichin wheeling in their! version. it a day. Madison will free lance.'Clark Gable. i
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s husband’ When she awakes next morning, nedy, incorrigible, wants to.tu
livered ; and a ; = ‘When Jeanne learns that money her grandmother Joanne goes fo work as a nurse for a kindly white A young Negro doctor, Kenny Washington, comes it. your : had given to Frederick O'Neal for her had been stolen lady, Ethel ymore. Miss Barrymore becomes fond to Jeanne, asking her help in founding a nursing pleting her nurse's training in Boston, Jeanne by O'Neal, she tries fo recover it. O'Neal returns part of Jeanne. become inseparable companions in, for Negroes. Before Jeanne has time to commit her “is * Crain returns to the home of her grandmeth, of the money, but his girl friend, Nina Mae McKinney, the weeks that follow. A relative of Miss Barrymore self to the doctor's plan, Miss Barrymore's relatives 4 Ethel Waters, in-the South. Still in love with the intervenes, claiming the’ money is hers. When Nina erificizes the old lady for having a Negro nurse. Miss start legal action to break the will. With the help of a 4am white doctor she knew in Boston, Jeanne cannot Mae pulls a knife on Jeanne, the police place all three Barrymore makes aut.a new will, deeding her property white judge, who defends hery Jeanne wins out in the mmm ‘ ‘get readjusted to the life of a Negron thi South. in jail. The judge releases them a stern warning. fo Jeanne. The exe kills her. i ; lawsuit and gets the estate, ¥ $ :
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