Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1950 — Page 22

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rumors that “The Fred Astaire Story” will be brought to Ahe screen. “Not true,” he told me, and added, with a laugh:| “You just couldn't have that many race horse sequences - in a picture.”

technical adviser,

" wood discovered her on Broad“way in 1946.

‘one of the nice things about get- ‘ ting old. They're chasing Monty Clift now.”

poned plans to star on Broadway in “Peer Gynt” “ Heavy film schedule. He does “The ‘Breaking Point” next at Warner Brothers. . . .

RKO by gifting herself with a *" fabulous mink coat. ... J, C, Fiip- bh pad as he saw this sign in a/On the way up. Don’t thin YOUlirv and in Paris for the past 10|

‘terieal Pills Now Only §1 a for acting, but that gift needs to

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Astaire Spikes | Film Biog Again

Red Skelton Amazes Dancer By Proving He Can Act

By Erskine Johnson ~~ | HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 21—Fred Astaire again spikes }

Fred and Red Skelton “I went to the Pickwick drive-

g X' was playing. 1 had seen the; picture but my car hadn't.” |

» " ~ TY POWER wants Darryl Zan-

Fred sald he's amazed that Red radio show. , ... Deeta Lopez, 16-

is such a good actor. “I always year-old daughter of Philippine thought he was just a slapstick sugar king Francesco Lopez, is

" trying for a film career, , , , MerThere are more song numbers cedes McCambridge, the radio ac-

+ tian dance routines for Fred in tress who scored in ‘All the King's

this one.

when yo there are many songwriters, like She perfers to free lance.

Irving Berlin, who insist that he

Fred always cringes Men” mixed two long-term conu mention his singing, but tract offers from Warners and UL

” d ~ HENRY WILCOXIN is back in Hollywood after a five-month tour of the country as. advance ballyhoo man for “Samson and Delilah.” He lectured at schools, before church and civic groups and to women's clubs on production details of bringing the Biblical story to the screen. Although the primary object of the tour was to sell the DeMille

sells a song with the best of ‘em, Red-haired Arlene Dahl plays Red's wife in the film and does her first song and dance bit before A camera, She was singing and dancing in “Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston” when Holly~ |

Arlene remembers her last role

le Skelton wt on eon: «He Project, Mr. Wilcoxin handled

. himself so well that the whole smoked me out of my dressing flim industry profited. room with a stink bomb and all 2

» Only discordant note was a fumigated. my clothes had to be fumig good-natured argument in Chi-

» ” ® : CARY GRANT on autograph cago. | fans: The student argued that | “Pm getting too old for ‘em. It's, Samson was 11 feet tall and that Vie Mature just wasn't big enough to play him. Mr. | Wilcoxin assured the fellow | that DeMille had tried, unsuscessfully, to find an actor 11 feet tall,

Ld » ~ BARBARA STANWYCK'S adDorothy Lamour vice to young movie hopefuls

off a big hunk of that “Don’t look for short cuts to]

000 contract settlement from Success. Don’t consider it a break het ne ito start at the top instead of at}

the bottom. There's a lot to learn

JOHN GARFIELD has post-

because of a!

possess remarkable talent. You

Street drugstore: may have been born with a gift]

“Attention Actors. Anti-Hys-

box.” be polished and developed con-| | stantly. It's what you give to that | gift that brings security and sat- — {isfaction.” es

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have teamed up at M-G-M for, : “Three Little Words," the : story of Bert Kalmar and in movie last night where ‘Molly

Harry Ruby, the songwriter ' (“Three Little Words,” “I Wanna ‘Be Loved by You,” “Who's Sorry Now,” etc.). Fred playi-Bert, who yuck to borrow Jane Green from | died a couple of years ago, and RKO so they can co-star in a film. § Red Is Ruby, who is the film's It's a mutual admiration society 3 since they worked together on a

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0 BALLET RUSSE}

Featured in stage and music presentations slated for appear. ance here are: Leon Danielian, with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, at the Murat tomorrow at 8:30 p. m.; Fabien Sevitzky, conducting the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, in the first of four Meet-Your-Or-chestra concerts in the Murat Theater at 8 p. m. Tuesday; John Forsythe and Robert Burton in "Mr. Roberts,” on stage at the Murat, Feb. 13 through 18, and David Lloyd, tenor, soloist with the Symphony in con-

certs Saturday and next Sun-

day at the Murat.

Dramatic Soprano To Be Guest Artist

Suzy Morris, dramatic soprano,

will be the guest artist on the second artist program of the Matinee Musicale 1949-50 series Miss Morris will be heard at 2

p. m. Friday in-the L. 8. Ayres

Auditorium.

In addition to her outstanding work in the world of music, Miss Morris also is Suzy Frelinghuysen,

{abstract painter, whose art works

ave been exhibited in this coun-

years, . hl re PLAN CHAPTER HOUSE State Service

Times GREENCASTLE, Jan. 21-—Da-

Pauw University’s chapter of Pi

Beta Phi today announced re-

ception of final loan for the con-| struction of a new chapter house. “The building is. scheduled for oc-| cupancy next fall

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“The Red Shoes” Shearer and Anton Walbrook. 2:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35 and 10.

CORONET

“A Lady Surrenders,” ‘with garet Lockwood and Stewart ser, at 2:25, 5:30 and 8:35 “Tawny Pipit,” with Miles, at 1, 4:05, 7:10 and

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Ambush.” with Robert Taylor and 7, 6 nd

Arlene Dahl, at 1, 35 5 a | 954 “Challenge to Lassie.” mund Gwenn and Lassie, 5:26 and 8:36 “LYRIC Renfro Valley 12:39, 3:06, 5:33 “Port of New York I Brady and KT, Stevens. | 1.33. 3:58, 6:28 8:54 and 11:18. | {CLUB-SHAPED ANTENNA

Barn Dance, , 4:01 and 10:28

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of moths have this knob,

i] Margaret Lockwood i} Stewart Granger in

| “A Lady Surrenders”

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and a picture that will make yon feel better about everything!

“The Tawny Pipit”

with Moirs

MarGran-

Bernard 10:20.

Shelley Carey, at 5.

with Robert Alda, at 12:45, 3:35. 6:20 and 9:10.

with Edat 2:29,

with Scott at 11:08,

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FIM Sympliony To Play Here

| The Indiana University Sym-| {phony Orchestra will come to In- 7.95 p dianapolis Feb, 8 for its first ap-| Athenaeum.

SYMPHONY

Sets Audition

Tenors,

{directot,

| pearance in a metropolitan city. — . | The orchestra, under the direc- ND Concert Band

[tion of Ernst Hoffman, will play one concert in Caleb Mills Hall of |

| Shortridge i p. m.

{members of the Berkshire Quar-| {tet, now in residence at IU, Alfred the fameus 55-piece all student {Lazen and Urico Rossi, violins; band travels throughout the na-. {David Dawson, viola, and Fritz/tion annually, visiting the prin-

To Appear Here

‘Symphonic Choir

looks

HOLLYWOOD,

Make the Gal Janet Leigh All Through ‘With Little Girl Parts By Earl Wilson = Ty

Jan. 21-1 was supposed to meet cuddly Janet Leigh at RKO studio but a fellow called up and said3

.. “How would you like to interview Janet in bed?” -1 thought to myself, “This town has really gone to the

nice in a flesh-colored bed jacket under a rust-colored comforter. I sat down in a chair instea and we discussed the methods that have been used by the geniuses You put on.” working for Howard Hughes to) make Janet a sex-appealish gal in-| stead of the gal next door. “It took RKO to undress me,” Janet said. Janet—an auburn-haired little {number from Stockton, Isatd she was making pictures at: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, playing ininocent little girl parts, when she {happened to meet Howard Hughes, {owner of RKO studios, one day at |a party. { Hughes must have liked her because next thing she knew, RKO had borrowed her— land she was no longer so Camp

[Fire girlish in her roles.

She was cast as a Russian spy

“Jet Pilot.”

“WHAT DO you mean—sup-

Auditions for persons desiring posedly?” to join the choir will be held at| m. tomorrow at the

“In one scene I had to strip to searched for secret papers—

Cal.,~—|

bad,” so I gave him a non-committal answer. It was “Yes, sir!” And then he explained, “Janet has a cold, but she can see you at her home.”

+ ;suit. Then there's a scene at Palm I was soon walking into her | Springs a

|“Play suits . . lounging pajamas.” She made a couple of noises with her mouth, and then said, "Oh, yes, and then {there's a scene in Alaska.” “Alaska! Why Alaska? What. 4/can you take off in Alaska?”

bedroom and she was saying, “More hot weather,” Janet said. “Come on in and lie down.” | “Over there on that divan,” she)

quickly added, laughingly, from her bed, where she looked very)

. very revealing

“You don’t take off in Alaska,

“What?” “Of course,” I said, disgusted

with myself for not thinking of

that.

“Sweaters, and also long urider wear,” Janet said. "You see me

sitting beside a stove In Jong underwear and you can't tell which Janet said,

And that” “is about the only

is the stove.

way they have undressed me.”

JANET,

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who's 23, says that

isince she’s been made a more pro-

vocative gal

in" pictures, people

{have started paying more attene {tion to her—especially men kind {of people.

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“I know I haven't enough of

{that to be another Lana Turner,

or Ava Gardner, or Jane Russell,” {she said, “but I wish I could be

(like them a little bit.” Janet—who was married when

'she was a mere schoolgirl but has

since been divorced—is now the {sweetheart of Arthur Loew Jr. a Afterward I come out in a grandson of the late, great Marcus

{towel and dress by the stove,” Loew. {Miss Leigh said, wriggling a little| {under the bed clothes. “I think ggiq that's the reason for that scene.|

“But we're not engaged,” she

“I don’t believe in engagements,

Then there’s another scene where|y. 0 just in the throes of going

|I go to Yuma and it's very hot.”

High School at g:15/ The University of Notre Dame

{concert band will make its first scene?” I said, beginning to catch

{appearance in Indianapolis

cipal cities.

together now because I feel a ring

“What's the reason for that isn’t important,

on on, With the orchestra for its In-|Feb, 12 in a corfcert in the Marian {dianapolis appearance will be the College gymnasium.

“For me to take a shower,”

Janet said.

Under direction of H. Lee Hope,

“The bond you feel should be in

lyour heart, not in a ring,” she

|Went on. “A lot of people wear en-

Igagement rings to remind theme “In the shower I supposedly selves not to go out with anyone

don’t have anything on but Ielse. They want to, though, so {really wear a strapless bathing/they're false to themselves.”

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