Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1950 — Page 9
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Esquire “THE WOMAN IN THE HALL"
Sequel to ‘Dear Ruth’ Booked for Indiana
‘My Foolish Heart’ to Open at Keith's; Two British Films Coming to Esquire By R. K. SHULL “DEAR WIFE,” sequel to the hilarious “Dear Ruth
I'st.of-movies-for-the coming-week,——————— With the same cast as the earlier production, “Dear Wife” will open Wednesday at the Indiana Theater. “My Foolish Heart” will start Friday at Keith's Theater, fol-| lowing “Johnny Holiday.” | moe Other first-run openings zoing to have a baby, she vamps | including three twin bills, | her best friend's boy friend into) “Sword in the Desert” and “Wom, Marrying her, | ‘Years later, Susan tells her
an in Hiding” will open at the husband the child is -not his. | Circle Thursday; “Father 1s a Along with his former girl friend,
Bachelor” and “The-Nevadan™ at: the three reach-a big decision for}
Loew's Saturday, and “The Wonm-Peir-future.
* ” » an in the Hall” and “A Canter-| If your memory can carry you BACUK' before Israel was a back to the war-time plot of reality, an extensive underground | “Dear Ruth,” you'll remember|i, pjjestine was having a thriv-| that the film closed otit-with-Joan| =
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Caulfield and William Holden get- ing business trafficking DP’s into | ting married, thanks to the help the country. Only drawback to| of Joan's little sister, Mona Free- the underground's work was the] man.’ resentment of the Arabs and the Also, you may remember that mijitary government of the Britthe two girls’ parents were Ed- ph ward Arnold and Mary Philips, ) and that Joan's former boy friend| - Pana Andrews is a mercenary was Billy De Wolfe. Scenario for sea captain in “Sword in the “Dear Wife” takes up where the Desert” until he is forced to flee other left off, {from his ship with members of Mona connives to get. her the underground in Palestine. brother-in-law, Holden, elected to] Waiting until the heat is off, the state senate. Only after shé Dana becomes attached to Marta has solicited the support of the Toren of the underground, and people in her district does she| in no time at all she persuades
learn that Holden will be oppos- him to join the fight. ing her father, Arnold, in the Only trouble with Dana's cozy election. {arrangement with Marta is that
Comes the rupture in the she already has a boy friend in| famil yo 1 a a a LAPPY the form of underground leader amily circle, alded and abetted gionhen McNally. They all join
by De Wolfe and Holden's cam- arms to fight their great crusade. paign manager, -Arleen Whelan. Let love come last. Everyone gets his chance at-comic = sw
‘situations before the film runs its Circle’s Second length. {". OTHER half of the bill stars
Foolish - Susan i Stephen McNally. In “Woman in “MY FOOLISH HEART” is a Hiding,” it seems as though Ida tender love story based on a js heiress to a Southern mill after situation upon which. our society her intended husband Kills her frowns. father. . ) Susan Hayward portrays ‘al When. she marries. McNally, he. young college ‘student enamored tries to murder her on their with dashing Dana Andrews.| honeymoon. Ida escapes, with McTime iz 1941, with Pearl’ Harbor | Nally in pursuit, determined to! fust around the corner. own the mill. Susan and Dana fall hard for! Ida is befriended by Howard each-other. Their innocent affair | Duff. a young man with an eye is misconstrued by her school au- for figures. Together they polish thorities and she is expelled. ‘off her husband in a legal way,
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Family Fare LOEW'S Theater will be sporting a family film program with a folksy tale and a horse ‘opera slated to open next Saturday.
“Father Is a Bachelor” is some-|
thing new. in post-war films. Not one person dies a violent death. Everyone is of fairly sound mind eliminating any need for psychiatric explorations. Even the villain repents in the end, and he wasn't really bad. just a stuffed. shirt, Set back. at the turn of the century, the characters are all lackadaisical small town folks
human things in a human way. The film's lack of originality may be its. claim to fame. : Other half of the bill is “The Nevadan,”” with Randolph Scott and full color. Gimmick of -the film is a big stolen treasure
hoard coveted by Forrest Tucker.
Scott is a lawman determined to bring Tucker to justice and the loot to its rightful owners.
George Macready is a gentle-
man scoundrel also with an eye!
for an easy dollar, in. spite of the teachings of his lovely daughter, Dorothy Malone.
prove to her father and the other blackguards that crime does not pay.
guty. Next day he is killed in a gets her mill. ~
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Coleen Gray silences William Holden in the courtroom as the judge sentences his boss, a phony medicine-show man, to 30 days in jail, Holden's boss had been double-dealing some of the residents of the Ohio. River community. - Scene is at the turn of the century. :
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While waiting for his boss to get out of jail; Holden spends his time fishing. Approached by Mary Jane - Saunders and her brother (Gary Gray), Holden learns that their parents are dead. He claims to be . untle when the authorities attempt to send them and their three brothers to an orphanage.
! . So i amount -of-surecess. {Tda Lupino and. "of All people with big warm hearts.—They-do- nt-of-srecess.
, conscripted the aid of her step- better, Jag and Dorothy teams up with Scott to. father-in-her-fort
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Film attractions at the first-run theaters for the coming week will be: Jean Simmons, Jill Raymond and Ursula Jeans ‘in "The Woman in the Hall" (Esquire, Friday), Mona Freeman, Joan Caulfield and William Holden in "Dear Wife" (Indiana, Wednesday), Marta Toren in "Sword in the Desert" (Circle, Thursday), and Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews in "My Foolish Heart" (Keith's, Friday).
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face him after her betrayal. Other film, “A Canterbury] SE J. Tale” gives an eagle's eye view | British Bill of Mr. Average Britons idve for|
ESQUIRE'S offering will. be a Nis 8reen countryside. Also,| couple of English films, with the| thrown into the plot is an Ameri-|
usual English slant for telling a|C80 Who comes to love the Can-|.
typical English story. {terbury country along with the!
In “The Woman in the Hall,” Others. Ursula Jeans places beggi {| Tie-in is.that the characters sula Jeans places begging on a 4a supposed to. represent modhigh level to support. her IWO ern-day pilgrims, similar to the lovely daughters... She. only .puts ones Chaucer immortalized. *. the bite on people of the upper s A = 2 . 3 t 2 ’ > social stratas, with a nominal Cindy's C ming “Daughter Jean Simmons “gets fo on the film the idea that she is a great phi- Disney's latest lanthropist. Only trouble with her «cinderella. ” idea is that she has to steal in, order to have things to give away. When she is”arrested, her mother is more than a little embarrassed. Ursula disowns Jean since she
front is Walt animated effort,
up hjs experimental projects with “live! characters to. give the pub+: lic a film made in the same en-
is on the verge of marrying a 9€aring tradition as “Snow wealthy man, who doesn’t. cherish: White.” It’s a wonderful escape the idea of having a con in the from mad maelstrom of modérn family. ’ | living. Later, Ursula tires of Her hus-| With his usual license, Disney band and seeks Jean in hope of has added a few new .characters conciliation. Meanwhile, Jean has to the famed fairy tale; all for the Gus, two mice, -trial-——are—€inderelia’s—fast—friends;—as" rsula sees the light in the last well as an indolent hound named reel, realizing it was her bad con- Bruno. { mother that mage ‘al For the opposition, in addition
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Frederick Tozere, a local bigwig; calls on Holden and demands that "his kids" stop their association with his son, Holden beats him up. Tozere sets a lawyer on Holden's trail to learn his past. The lawyer learns that Holden is not the children's uncle and insists that he marry in order to adopt them, =~ Th
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Vacation— So He Says:
Jat Palm Springs for a vacatifin, | From what? Even before | Stemboll,” the Fox and Hounds restaurant was serving a drink
{ward Honorary Mayor Bob Hope of Palm Springs will {have a new title for Desert Circus Week starting Mar. 21—-“Limp Along Hope.” Hope's theme song for the month of March says Denny Beckner, will be “Tax for tue Memories.” 8" . | JACK BENNY ls still insisting {he will not do a TV show as long ias he has a radio program and {that he will keep that as long as
: {radio is a top medium. . .". That Sh a isplitup between Danny Kaye g go’ {and Warner Bros. was because
lof “The Inspector General.” . . . Millennium: A local radio announcer interviewed Harry James and didn’t ask a single question about Betty Grable. . . . There's ~imore talk about another Garbo |film. A local group is paging {her to appear as Eleanor Duse in
Dorothy Works la film based on d’Annunzio’s
Hard on Ballads took. “Fiame of Lite Top Vocalist HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 11 (UP)—| 1 inun DE MARIGNY 13 ih
Crescendos -and trills and “Lal, ... Boheme” may sound complicatedispe slaying of Sir Hore) Ceo {but to Dorothy Kirsten it's just, . {Pe Marigny was exonerated of jas hard to warble about moon in. murder of his father-in-law. land June in a popular song. : ! !+.. Nineteen-year-old Darryl Hick« | Miss Kirsten spends as much man is celebrating his 15th year (time warming up to the latest|as an actor. He made his film pop ballad as she does rehearsing|debut at the age of four and has the opera. appeared in exactly 150 films. { “A good ballad . demands as \ ® = = much effort as an operatic song,”"!" RONALD COLMAN'S {she said. “To me, the story, the college president role on lyrics. -are always -more im- [ portant - than the music This is true in opera or popular songs.” 5 » a
Keith is "MY FOOLISH HEART"
suave “The Halls of Tvy™ airshow has everyone in the cast referfing to him as “Sexy Prexy."” ... John Dail's wooing of Margaret Phillips in
nights a—week on the radiec andiradio boss, Bob Hope, asked her
duets with Bing Crosby on a what it was like guesfing on a : idance tune in Paramount's “Mr. rival network show. “It was ce ’ i “TMuEic.” - “awful,” she shuddered, “like being .. i “My career started out with|/lost in the moors with James am - ” - _— popilarsongs. she added: I-sangiMason:’ Lois Chapman “will be the fea. in night clubs and on. the radio] 8 =x =»
long before: 1 got .Into opera. 1! MACDONALD CAREY, now needed the money to finance my freelancing, is the latest to cast studies for the Met.” longing glances at independent The blond singer doesn't .thinkifilm production. . . . Hareld her bosses at the Met mind her Hechit's . correspondence with coming down to the common/James Thurber over a 31-page i . —— level of music as long as she screenplay of “The Catbird Seat” to the "wicked stepmother and Keeps her dignity. . ‘ {is mow a mammoth 84 pages. her two daughters, Disney has More opera singers: would be Most recent was a note (?) from emt ee Br le re —songE—t—they-Fhurber-added Lucifer, a cat filled with han che caig. « Really, only an| “Pm sorry I don’t have more feline maliciousness, the antago-| American girl can do justice to] time or this letter would have nist of the friendly mice. a good fox trot or jump tune.| beem shorter.”
tured vocalist with Wayne Gregg and his orchestra at the Indiana Roof for dances tonight and tomorrow night.
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" Devoted to both Holden and Coleen, little Jane succeeds in bringing the two together. ~ are beginning to°look up for Holden. Tozere drops his «charges at Coleen's persuasion, so that Holden, Coleen, Mary Jane, and the rest of the brood erg free to live happily ever after, :
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MISS KIRSTEN; one of —the “The Heiress" -at-the New York “most “glamorous singers -at the Civic Theater is” an offstage Met, sings popular songs five routine too. Irene Ryan's
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