Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1950 — Page 9
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"A DANGEROUS PROFESSION" |
New Fiims to Feature Fun, Froth and Action
Duchin to Spend Week on Circle Stage; , Hamlet to Appear Again at Esquire
By R. K.
LIGHT -MEAT-will-be-the-theater-dish-for the* “week; with two action pictures; a comedy and a stage show sched-
SHULL
SATURDAY, FEB. 18, 1950
Indiana
“MONTANA
In_Hollywood— General's Famed Reply Interpreted
By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18 The loudest and longest laugh in ‘“‘Bat-
i tleground” - comes when George Backus uled 10 open here. ; : Murphy relays Gen. McAuliff’s fathe Montana,” a technicolor Western with Errol Flynn mous answer to a Nazi officer i and Alexis Smith, will open Wednesday at. the Indiana hi Semanmng Furrenqer: co raat od : hE ei answer is nuts,” says SHURCH Theater, and “A Dangerous Profession,” with Pat O'Brien Murphy, ny Nin . “|= . 4 “Does that me ativ varty and George Raft, will BAR) rosstul Should De an Serpe: repose Y 2 Tesh) 210 mative or University Thursday at the Lyric. =~ er for the too-arty producers. ° fig definitely negative. Td “Key to the City,” Clark First thing is that “the horse say,” replies Murphy. URCH . 2 ur opera gives you something you oy Gable comedy, will bow in at , J ME Loews on "Wednesday. featuring C2P.t have. through any other BIGGEST single laugh from 7 : ety "INE medium, the panoramic outdoor 4"“The Good Humor Man" come the Atomic Dance of Marilyn _. . mor: Man: comes m—————ts Maxwell Tjieenes and the Sernal hase, when Jack Carson's boss calls A XV . > Animals always sell, an c- Jack in on the carpet -and . On stage at the Circle, Eddy wise a Jiftle fancy action. Alto- h g: Pp Duchin. will return ‘Thursday thunders: with his orchestra for a veel's gether, the stock Western film “You're a disgrace to the Good 9 BL ~ usually spells box office success. Humor Company. You're fired.
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stay, featuring Vivian Blaine, actress and songster. n
‘Hamlet’ ~ Again MAKING its third trip o—¥n-
dianapolis, “Ha m1 et,” with
Laurence Olivier, will open for the second time at the Esquire Theater Friday. As on its previous trips, the melancholy Dane develops a bad case of procrastination through hesitation that eventually brings
~about--his--downfall, is
Earlier reviews are sufficient to proclaim the merits of the film, and the Will Shakespeare story does a fine job at covering the plot. As on previous occasions, the film will be shown here at ad-
svanced prices. Seats will not be
” n On Wheels CONTINUING with the Western ‘theme, according to successful film producers William Pine and William Thomas, some ofs the best films come as a result of taking the stock Western story and putting it in a new situation. For example, -the latest PineThomas production, “Captain China,” substitutes a ship on the
o Circle
but the story is still there, complete with the climactic chase,
“A Dangerous Profession” fol- . . . : lows this same line, only’ the two Starring in attractions slated for the first-run theaters during
heroes are modern-day bail bond the coming week are: Pat O’Brien, Ella Raines and George Raft in brokers, and they ride taxis "A Dangerous Profession’ (Lyric, Thursday), Alexis Smith and Errol rather than equines. :
George Raft gets ‘dragged into Tight up to the tip of his nose. but here on Mar. 2 for a seven-day
EDDY DUCHIN AND VIVIAN BLAINE
OCRAN. SOF. OLSSON LO OBOE eee rears ate areeig are esaSbees ie Spesmeest sot vans efi ets ee A
' (Indiana, Wednesday), and Eddy Duchin. and his orchestra, with quest artist Vivian Blaine, on stage at the Circle Theater starting Thursday.
with his usual adroitness, all ends gtint, following the Duchin ~or- *
. Top Drummer
Author, at 30, Reaches Life's Ai
HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 18 (UP) A 30-year-old author whose youthful aim was collaborating with George (Gershwin = has realized his goal in spite of Gershwin's death. Mr. Gershwin died in 1937,
Turn in your uniform and your bells,”
” ” ” HEALTHIEST laughs in “South “ica Sinner” come during some lialog between Shelley Winters ind Macdonald Carey at a cafe table, “Your friend is a lot easier to
get along with than you are,” says {the flirtatious Shelley when Carey
fails to warm up to her. “Yeah,” answers Carey, “he is.
f)-While you were singing he.
couldn’t keep his eyes off your voice.” A derelict pianist is playing nearby and Carey says: “I've got a hunch he once was a virtuoso.” “What of it?” asks Shelley. “1 was, too.”
"wm “TWELVE O'Clock High” was
reserved. a murder-robbery deal when his d “ when Alan Jay Lérner was a é a" # old girl friend, Ella Raines, asks well. ve mm ehestra;— and Vaughn Monroe is coliege freshman. and before never intended to be a comedy Foils Frail his help in clearing her husband. slated for ‘a- week's stay late in he'd done any writing. But now but its producer was shrewd
ERROL FLYNN is a sheep rancher by trade in “Montana,” but when he sets out to move his
flocks into the Montana cattle;
Fortunately for Raft, the hus- Duchin and Dynamics March. band conveniently gets murdered, gppy DUCHIN, like most the big-name bandleaders st: ted Everybody’ S ‘In music as a side dish and wound PROMOTIONS gimmick for
Samson Scores
and Delilah” has
he is doing an original screen play to go with Mr. Gershwin's musical suite, “An American in Paris.” - ~ ” ”
enough to inject three good laughs _ for relief from the film's dramatic intensity. Best one comes when Gregory Peck, as flight group commander, after breaking
0 1e gravy boat y c ’ i nw Cee op , . . country, he takes on romance as up on the grav: . t Young Man’ With a Horn" will HIS EIRST Broadway musi- a sergeant twice, breaks him to A little’ slower than some to egver several Indianapolis con Ce ) ned locally to the cal he turned 047 afte unis = , i ) an avocation. realize hi music otentialities how opened locally to al he turned out in 1943, after private once more, promotes him. 3 usic wte : § > 3 ‘he i y 2 a ‘ ‘ tl : Seeras as though Alexis Smith | ize his mu I cerns when it gets started. nore than $5000. for the he met composer Frederick back to sergeant almost in the
is a cattle baroness with a guick-|
Hire-hatred-for-sheepers: Only way
Flynn can get his sheep into the grazing land is to cross Alexis’ path. This he does by the simple expedient of wooing Alexis into the,
idea of selling him _ a choice
chunk of pasture.
Just when “Errol is. ready to, move in, one of Alexis’ henchmen|
discovers Flynn's chicanery and exposes him as. a heartless love-|
maker. Bloody range war devel-|
ops, but comes to a close when!
Eddy had completed the courses plan js -to hold a contest for at’ the Massachusetts. College. of promising. young trumpeters. with. "Pharmacy before he started Tak~ tne finalist receiving a lush prize ing his music seriously. Once he 41) (or the sake of calling attengot into the field, it was only a tion to the new film, “Young Man short climb to the top. He's ‘been with a Horn,” which relates the hovering there ever since story of a jazz trumpeter named Main claim to fame for Duchin Rick. whose life more than ‘coin commes-by way of -his solr revord="igentally parallels that of the ings, which have made the pi- j5te Bix ‘Biederbeck. {anist's name a national by-word., . contest calls for entrants to , Along with Duchin and the z5near over station WFBM on an ‘band for this trip to the Circle afternoon show. be auditioned on will be Vivian Blaine, who has stage at the Indiana Roof Ballibeen shying .away from the room, be judged by Tommy Dor-
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ATexis shoots FIynn.
The—fiim—is" following—the -eur--
rent trend for pictures. Hollywood
IS CTR TT re Te TI ye TT Vis WITT Be at the Circle. and, favor of night club. ate appear-on-stage atthe Indians Vivian will appear here with Theater in connection with the
andienveal- +200 » has been holding its own" all the
Expert ‘Debunks’ Old-Time-Beauties-
The old-time movie queens can't hold a false eyelash to today’s
am J Loewe. Called "What's Up,” and eo BEATER LHR A he pre boi piaesosins
vived two months Two years later they turned
out another musical, “Day Be-
fore Spring.” which ran seven months and was bought for
J0ovies.. But “their biggest. hit.
h#s been “Brigadoon,” which
ran on Broadway two years and
still is showing on the road and in London. ” ” ” HOLLYWOOD discovered Mr. Lerner after “Brigadoon.” He
same breath and then adds:
and. downs you'd ‘better put a zipper on those stripes.”
n » ” BARBARA BEL GEDDES will be Alan Ladd's leading lady in “Montana Rides” , . . Las Vegas
TRTEFests are trying Yo Ture Av
Khan Into a big hotel project there. . . .. John Wayne finally put his feet in the lobby cement -at Grauman’'s Chinese Theater. After all those action films, his fists might have been more appro-
ArCarfer-wilbe Th
don This subject by drummer with Jimmy Feather-
did an original libretto ~ for Metro-Goldwyn;: Mayer entitled “Royal Wedding."
Prater
5m 8 § A FILM queen has been. de-
. : . ; ‘ . Yasar has found that Westerns are big : . —— emphasis on vocal ehores.. film-— are getting more beau: stone “and his orchestra when “Two Gave afteh finished PAINE ore Tees ral her morney-makers, .and -color West- Olivier as Hamlet. H S If it's: beginning to sound com- the band returns ta the Indiana © it" he said. “1 got a telegram of Joe Frisco's story about the 7 erns are tops. The theater public ere soon i plicated, wait until the details all Roof” for its third engagement rom Ira “Gershwin. Hé said ‘time he went to a night ciub own will have to face the facts. You leaving the well-beaten path "to. WHILE ON the subject of come out later. It's a, publicity . gageme Metro-had hired him to write er and .demanded either mor can laugh af the kids who pile Ella's heart wide open. bands, two more of the top man's dream of the season tonight and to- ome Ivrics for the music of money or more respect for hi » into the. Saturday: horse opera The interim is spent by Raft's names are slated for stage ap- = As the scheme now stands, morrow night. Mr, Featherstone American in Paris’ and they . act
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matinees, but. the substantial Western ia still the people's choice.
partner, Pat O'Brien. in con- pearances here at the Circle musical horn virtuosos between templating Raft's sanity. Raft within the next twn months. the ages of 18 and 25 may con-
_ Thing | that Inakea. ~ Western§ gets himself entangled in the plot Tommy. Dorsey will settle down ‘tact the manager of the Indiana
Movie Preview . .. "Key to the City"
/ have better figures
also will play for the Student Hop tomorrow afternoon.
wanted me to do the story “Naturall¥,” he said, “I‘accepted :
The night club owner thought it over for some time and decided to pay Joe a little more respect.
SNe A YE TRAY or eer nin
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Ex-longshoreman and now mayor’ of Puget Initial conflict between the two mayors comes when Loretta Marilyn, who does a dance ~~ Through: is pul with £ police sergeant, James Gleason, ~~ Gable's critics call Marilyn to Puget City to City, Wash., Clark Gable meets Loretta Young, is. mistaken for a night club dancer, Marilyn Maxwell whom Gable—while—clad in. balloons, has an ~ Gable gets Loretta and himself out of jail, By now, Loretta has testify on Gable’s misconduct in ‘San Francisco. lady mayor of Wenonah, Me. at mayors” on . has obtained to entertain a. friend. Loretts, on Gable's committee - accident. , Gable, trying to learned to like Gable. They plan a quick marriage, but the plans “Loretta coms along to see the excitement. \''hen ee vention in San Francisco. in "Key to the Cify." at the convention, arranges a_ business ‘meeting ‘with hig. He cover her with a coat, only suc: are ~droppad -when Loretta revolts against Gable's .roughneck Gable and the opposition boss get into a fight, Te ’ They meet each other through their mitual of- wiskhisvoudy gives her the address of # the night club where Marilyn ceeds in’ starting a fight. They friends. Gable leaves Loretta and returns to Puget City to fight Loreija béawli with Marilyn. When: the battle is
traction to fire engines. a 7” works, .- Ti call go 2 pik Shs local opposition - over, Gable and [oretta are recoficiled.