Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1950 — Page 9

RENFRO VALLEY FOLKS

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Outstanding films coming back to Indianapolis for return engagements will be: Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer and Leonide Massine in "The Red Shoes" (Circle, Thursday) and Sir Laurence Olivier and Renee Asherson in “Heriry V" (Esquire, Friday). Shelley Winters will star in “South Sea Sinner,” first-run film slated for the Indians Wednasday,, and Slim: Miller will fiddle .and: emcee the “Renfro Valley Folks stage show at the Lyric, starting Thursday.

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nship, Spell- | “But,” , “believe ‘S h S Si ’ A inP . [Carey, murders the detective and T h k . announcement, then the perform- But, says Peat, and 6:00 10. 9:00 out ea dinner fo ppear in erson; | plans Shelley's death in the same | wo Great Art ur Ran Productions ance begins, with Moira's’ red we . Re hasnt Ye NE ing ent } 0.9: » . DE 5 J > 3 . ? ’ " y ve C mo ‘Ambush’ to Be Movie Offering at Loew's FOO, ROPING 10 1ay- the blame on Scheduled for Showing Next Week shoes sitting on stage, empLY. |because I don't have an agent. I | By R. K. SHULL | gps : | TWO OF filmdom's all-time great movies will return * ' © {wentto a party at his home. I met | SHELLEY WINTERS will snake-hip her way to Tew joi sag Carey have had a blondy So Ytiariolia To inc Sule. great Royal Hal sak dave at the Mari Lanza. But nothing was ge : film acclaim when “South Sea Sinner” opens Wednesday brawl over Shelley, which lands] fa BS ayg ie Soming hoy Circle Theater start. cose of World: War II, the Brit- sald RhoA: @ Sym believe Joe is . at the Indiana Theater. Carey in jail. He was incarcerated | ’ = : - ' ish government decided to com- worried about my weight because

at the time of the crime. ing Thursday, featuring continuous performances at popular mission a film which would depict , "co + 0a big can 6f pretzels

] Only other new film slated for opening this week is . the | J f = . ndomitable spirit of the : ” LL. 3399 | ; “Ambush” at Loew's Wednesday. (For the story see The Adler Agitates and regular prices, 'e £3 : “ "ned English. ’ I ptgnee ; ; 3 Wer «4 Ir WHEN SHELLEY tells him of | Laurence Olivier's film version of “Henry V” will re-| gir Laurence Olivier grabbed up| “Pom mot terribly ambitious = EE E Ties weekly movie preview at the bottom of this page.) (carey's alibi, Adler makes a bar- turn to the Esquire Theater Fai Te : | the idea. His finished product wasZ, my career at the moment. : ME The current attraction at! ~~ + gain with her. He will testify ' : air ale “Henry V,” a film adaptation of : : J ¥ ve read a lot of scripts but not 3 Loew's will be sparked with 6000 Per against the rubber man to clear| : for a week s engagement on MOIRA SHEARER, young Lon- the famed Shakespearean play. iy. right one. I'm going to Europe NEWCOMER to the screen is Carey, if she will swear she was| Friday. don ballet aspirant, desires to The technicolor filmization set. the spring and 1 don’t even

the stage appearance of De-y iherace, claimed to be the With him to clear Adler of.mur-|

} nise Darcel at 9 p. m. Monday. world’s fastest pianist, His pres- dering the detective. “| Miss Darcel is out front for the|ent record is 6000 boogie-woogie! To save Carey, she .agrees toi

Behind- both the technicolor loin the great ballet company of several precedents in film making, plan to think about working, | films stand the many millions of Anton Walbrook. Her wealthy with Olivier producing, directing mhere's no big hurry. 13. Arthur Rank, British movie 2unt arranges a meeting between starring and playing several & = = | magnate, Moira and, Walbrook at a cock-/minor roles in the picture. SHIRLEY TEMPLE has can-

picture, “Battleground,” impress- notes in two minutes, slightly the scheme, but Carey sours on| oe ing audiences with a couple of better than a three-four beat. per Jomancing with Adler. Shelley| . Thelma Gracen | Other elements fn, common be tall party | Production was somewhat of a celed plans to write her 21-year hi ; e i S$ shaken. | : "1 en Walbrook 1 8 that " bledayhigh spots from the film. Liberace is the eternal planist Adlers henchmen come to the Miss ‘Gracen will be the fea- [tween the two films include the yroira will a OTO0R oF Te at miracle in a land depleted of sup-| autobiography for Dou y

at the plies after six years of war. Many Doran because of its unhappy end-

Lyric Theater will import a found.n ams film with a foreign \ party, he gives her a cold recep- of the outdoor sequences had to ing (the divorce from Johnny

y socal 'la- length, y E crop of Kentucky corn Thursday, booze hall setting. rescue of law and order, testifying| tured vocalist with Gay Cla gth, more than two hours each,

, Renfro Valley Folks a . against their hgss. The police ridge and his orchestra for [and the new heights in realism tion" Ballet, to him, is sacred and pe shot in Ireland. England's Agar). Sdn ar eater for x week's Carey Under Knife cart him away, charged with 4an0es at the Tndigha Roof to- [reached in the presentation. the art should not be flaunted green pastures were airfields and £ = mo» stay on stage. | MACDONALD CAREY is murder. wo SDs omorrow-.afternoon Fervor before disinterested guests at a supply depots at that time. BIG YEAR coming up for Mar- ~ : floating. around in the South Carey, cleared of the charges 2n¢ night. party. garet O’Brien. She's already Coming Here Seas off Java when he contracts 28ainst him, goes back to Helene, | The matinee tomorrow will be “THE RED SHOES” opens Later, Walbrook takes her in- Manpower signed to do a weekly radio show, ¢ SINCE FILMLAND hasn't had an acute case of appendicitis. his ‘spineless and naive fiancee. for teen-agers with reduced rate with the student balletomanes of to the company after he has seen. (NE OF THE biggest gimmicks has two .film offers, a TV offer

ov Shelley, who is ordered out of| admissions. Claridge and his [London rushing through the pas- her d t the little Mercury . and, if she wants it, that role in ~% Frank Lovejoy, pharmacist on < . | u { pi er dance a e e Lcury jn the picture is the aquatic se- and, she wi ' a good naughty, naughty nautch the tramp steamer, pefforms the the country, joins Lovejoy on the| Orchestra have the distinction [sages of a ballet theater, vying Theater. He has great hopes for quence. Henry's fleet of war ships/the Broadway play, “The wild

dancer since back in the dear ,peration, then puts Carey ashore +P Steamer, hoping to find of having been held over for six (for the front seats of the “peanut her. sail across the Channel to attack Duck.” * dead days before the war, Holly- at Oraca. solace in his company. Joaes a he Gance Ipot, the {gallery.” ‘This same intensity of Mystic Maze the French. Olivier's problem was THE walter Wangers@arboood has turned both barrels of| Lovejoy learns from a wvillain- Rustic Rh th «agewatler beac otel In Chi- [pace never slackens until the fi- to create this water scene realis-! Corn " ; w ag. turn {ous tavern operator, Luther Ad- yihms cago, nal spine-tingling speech by An-| MOIRA JOINS the company tically, without the use of water. Tim: ~The Duchess of Langease, § its giant publicity gun loose on p ' 2 MANAGEMENT at the Lyric. He also boasts a four-year [ton Walbrook. while it tours Europe. The en- or ) ‘must be completely off. Wanger,

ler, that Carey is wanted by the Theater

U. 8. authorities for turning ction to the : Inqiane, Be owing of | American rubber property over

" " {to the Japs during the recent South Sea Sinner, Shelley, war, Lovejoy decides to stay at

; The scene you will see on the Shelley Winters. dipped into the bag engagement -at the Chez Paree | The fervor of the str chanted fairyland of the behind- . : I hear has put the script on the J . . strugglin sc : z of available traveling shows and in the same town, but will con- students of ballet is transmitted the-scenes pallet intrigues her. galling on . Bart Het sibs market for $150,000. . . . Barbara came up with the Renfro Valley| fine his local appearance to a [to the film audience with such an, ©nder the supervision of Leo- | 8 gn ) Hale is trying to talk Columbia

Folks, a group well-versed in the two-day stint. |intense frequency that the casual Dide Massine and Robert Help- ine on models and Shey ol. into starring her in a film based

ijanist Liberace, the Bobby True| art of making mountain music. - : i , ro mann, she goes through her nov-"~ oo ) on the story of Lisa Meitner, the instrumental quartet and emcee|the port and help Carey, to say Among the characters packaged| Scott Brady and K. T. Stevens With Walbreok in his consuming ice training, becoming a part of Cellophane oo Ty . hp atomic scientist. . . Jack Benny's - Jerry Paris, all will gppear on| pothing of his stiraotlon to the up in this show will be the Coon| Ned the cast. love for the art. the strange world of “the dance.” water wy Fogo i ‘ ri Sportsmen Quartet boasts the stage at the theater with a 35-1 int Singer in the joint, Shel- Creek Girls, a, vocal and gee-tar Best Seller -:- Co. Walbrook announces his plans Re real "8 i in rhythm, highest “paid” songwriter in minute stage show on opening|™, . a Shell } trio who had the honor of play- Co Realistic Realm for presenting “The Red Shoes,” © ~~. - =F : ‘the business. Director Leo Me s. ey move into the ing their native American folk! “THE PRINCE OF PEACE,” based on the Hans Christian An-|It's convincing, too. Carey has been furnishing novelty

In the film she sings, she wise- [°°™ next to Carey at the hotel. music before the King and Queen based on the all-time best-seller, DI Na A [he opm 1% derson tale of the little girl who Lu ..iad Harry material for the boys just for

Her job is to wheedle information E y , { a hie i rite / 3 cracks and She dantes. » rather lout 1 Carey by feminine guile. ven a hien the royal sone The Holy. Bible” will go into its ters to be found backstage in any ee any STORY OF THE film has been |3UghS. . = ] yandulates, In pe wall. been | Shelley only succeeds in falling inlin solo and duet numbers in the third week at the Coronet Theater ballet theater. Hollywood has|i), 1)e of the girl. ept as faithful as possible 10 EHRISTMAS HANGOVERS: , orb a tharmer and a vixen. | love with Carey, and he with her. show. ” tomorrow. As stated before, it is a oa hed baliet, bn As in the fairy tale and in the the original Shag Cepeare play as yyalter Slezak’s wife bought him She stays in type for “South Sea Meanwhile, Lovejoy becomes! Comedy end of the show willlthe technicolor filmization of the alle m, . . ballet, Moira becomes bewitched presente mn ince of Eng- a pair of nightshirts at Macy's Sinner.” | upset over Shelley's new romance be supplied by Slim Miller and Lawton, Okla. annual Easter Where among the West Coast! py her role. Love and all ties with . oung arr) ; r nee ° he: When he opened the present, he In this latest episode of tropi-| 2nd starts plotting a little re- Nubbins Cobb. Novelty will in- Passion Play, with the original maze can be found a producer the outside world are subordi- and. nad ved 2 lo ! Hog 1foUNd a note reading: cal intrigue, she portrays a gin| venge. clude the music of Emory Mar- amat 3 or who would dare to dress—a man pated to her desire to dance in the ha are un ded 1 a ay hy “I have been an admirer for tertai and the executor Comes Conspirators tin, one-armed banjo player. mateur cast. in the flowing mandarin robes prjjjjant red shoes. ten he ascended to the One, years, It was a great pleasure to mij ghlertaings ) { . P With a weekly Saturday night u d C : ind brilliant sashes which reflect he assumed the role of a monarch, wrap your nightgowns. (Signed) 5 of Luther Adler's many sinister] HELENE CARTER, Carey's network show direct from Renfro Pp an oming Walbrook’s sensitive portrayal in Tear-Laden forgetting his past dissipations. |, aacy Employee.” schemes. {old fiancee, comes to the island in Valley, the gang is wellknown to THINGS TO look forward ‘to this film, ~~ GREAPEST DRAMATIC im- Henry leads his armies into : s a 8 rem lioiy a espinal Sompany those who can appreciate their Will include the local showings of The giddy laughter and tem- pact of the film comes when Wal- France and sets a new trend in QUOTE, of the week by Adele i I { ! style of entertainment. “Battleground” and “Sampson permental dispositions of the brook steps before the curtain tq warfare with his victory at Agin- Jergens such as Macdonald Carey and|tective and the other gentleman ’ . dancers. the affected manner- announce the disruption of the court, smashing the French According to the gossip colHelene Carter also roaming|are the real traitors, but they had Dope Dealers and Delilah.” Both films are un- isms, the queer dress, all are por- ballet due to Moira's death. His armies. With the whole of France umns I dated three actors, an oil

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around on the celluloid. Shelley accomplished their coup with the, ON THE SCREEN at the Lyric dergoing the full Hollywood pub- tions of the ballet world unknown heart and soul have -been torniin his power, Henry woos the tycoon and two insurance brokers dances, simgs and wears reveal-/ Japs in fine fashion; so now all will be a red-hot documentary on | licity treatment, with: new pro-|to an:outsider and as yet wun-|from him, leaving only the grief- French princess, Katherine. Theéir/in ONE evening. Nobody could ing costumes, but she is only one suspicions are aimed at Carey. dope smugglers and .the heroic motions flitting across the coun-| touched by any Hollywood pro- racked shell of the impresario. In marriage brings peace to the two be that popular, not even Elizaof many actors in the opus. | Adler, still intent on ruining officers of the Narcotics Bureau./try at the rate of one a day. ‘duction, ' sobbing outbursts he makes the countries. R. K. 8 . [beth Taylor.”

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Robert Taylor, Indian scout, Taylor declines the 's offer to scout for Hodiak, a stuffed shirt from Jean Hagen and her husband, Cowling, con- Taylor rides ahead and scauts for the troops. is-called to Ft. Gamble in Ari- them, but his friends persuade hiny to stay a while. West Point, is engaged to Ar- tinue to have their quarrels, while Don Taylor They finally engage the renegades near their zona when a renegade Indian Lt. Don Taylor asks his help in winning Jzan lene Dahl, in whom Taylor has sits helplessly by, afraid to interfere. Hodiak calls camp. In a bold move, Taylor rescues Arlene declares war on the white men Hagen, who is unhappily married to a drunk -d, more than a passive interest. his men to arms and decides to chase the Indians Dahl's sister, who has been a prisoner of the in "Ambush." opening Wednes- Bruce Cowling. Ro Taylor ‘decides to stay Hodiak resents Taylor's pres. to their hide-out. Tatar advises against a frontal * Indians, then directs the Th of breaking the - day at Loew's Theater. He is when the post commander is wounded and John ence and refuses the scout's attack, but the overbearing Hodiak goes ahead fighting power of the renegades. Cowling is killed * ‘of the commandant. Hodjak assumes command. Be advice, with bjs plan. ’ 3 during the fight.

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