Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1950 — Page 13
Lyvic "MIRACLES OF THE
MIND"
Indiana "FRANCIS"
"PERFEC
In Hollywood —
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Circle :
irene to Wear
: Victoria Mask Eliminates Makeup Job For Role in ‘The Mudlark’
By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 8A rubber mask will transform
{ Irene Dunne into Queen Victoria for the movie version of Ted Bonnet’s best-selling novel, “The Mudlark.” The mask will save Irene from the tortures of a four-hour make-up
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Week-End Film Fare
Help Tony Diggin by Seeing ‘Variety Club's ‘Big Heart Fund’ Show
. . By R. K. “FRANCIS,” the
SHULL
talking mule with the high IQ, will
come to the Indiana Theater screen next Saturday night to spark the Variety Club's “Heart Fund” show. Other new films coming during thé week will include:
“Perfect Strangers” (Circle, Dozen” (Indiana, Wednesday) Makes Three” and “Tell It to the: Judge” (Loew's, Saturday). Lyric Theater will start Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Valdo Desti starring on stage in a mindreading act. Returning to Indianapolis for encores is “The Heiress,” 1949 Academy Award winner now at|
Friday), “Cheaper by the » and a double bill, “And Baby
in the Indiana Theater Saturday at midnight. The big-hearted organization of local showmen, which has given so generously to help Little Tyrone (Tony) Diggin in his fight against leukemia, has planned the biggest laugh show of the year, combining the top flight talents of stage and screen. Something unusual for charitable organizations is that all the proceeds from the benefit performance will go to the Tony Dig-gin-Fund.. Any -sum-of -money left over after Tony's medical ex-
.penses are paid, will be placed in
Tom Thompson a Spike Jones protege. Keith's - Theater. - “If I Had 8 Million” and “Peter Ibbetson” will be the reissue bill at the Es-
" quire starting Friday.
'Dig for Diggin’
the club’s Heart Fund for use in later emergencies for needy peo-
people, who are lucky enough to get one of the 3200 seats available at the theater, can be assured that they will witness one of the top shows of the year and that every cent of the $2 admission will go to the “Heart Fund.” Program now calls for the first Indianapolis .showing of “Francis,” the new film hit, a stage performance by Tom Thompson's Junior City Slickers, youthful disciples of Spike Jones, and a possible appearance of a big-time Hollywood celebrity to be announced later. , Tickets for the show will be available through the Ross-Bab-cock Travel ‘Service in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel. Follow the Variety: Club's slogan: - “Hélp
Starring in coming attractions at the downtown theaters will be: Mr. and Mrs. Valdo Desti in a stage program of mental telepathy,
Loew's
MAKES THREE"
2 h
job every morning.
Joe E. Brown is working on plans for a big baseball
film after he completes his | six-month Australian tour in
“Harvey.” One of his biggest nite was “Elmer the ty Ring Lardner busher story.
{ Don’t write off the Jackie Coo~! gan-Ann McCormick rift as per-| Friends are bringing {them together at every oppor{tunity and think a reconciliation «+. Dennis
* . manent.
is around the corner. . {O'Keefe asked a prop man
he had to open for a scene in
at the Lyric starting Thursday; Francis, the talking mule; Donald O'Connor and Patricia Medina in "Francis," on the Indiana Theater ‘The Wall Outside.” I want it to screen on the Variety Club Benefit next Saturday at midnight; Dennis Morgan and Ginger Rogers in day), and Robert Young and Barbara Hale in "And Baby Makes Three" (Loew's, Saturday).
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Alison Skipworth is one of the lucky eight to receive $1 .million in "if 1 Had ‘a Million," at the Esquire starting Friday.
riotous novel of the same name, starting tomorrow in The Sunday Times.
Home-Grown Gang INDIANA THEATER'S regular film program opening Wednesday will be the filmization of the top-selling book, “Cheaper by the Dozen.” Something to watch will
INDIANAPOLITANS will have Yourself to Happiness and. Dig be the takersonthe management's
“a chance to help .in the local
war against leukemia in the most
for Diggin.”
For a full synopsis of the screen carving knives to the first family she is about
offer. of a set of Carval Hall
opening day. Anyone knowing of a family boasting 12 children around here?
Jurors Judged DENNIS MORGAN and Ginger Rogers are called to jury duty in “Perfect Strangers.” They fall in love, then complications set in. Little things like Ginger’s hus-
band and Dennis’ family thwart
their plans. Since the defendant in the case they are hearing is accused of murdering his wife so he can marry his secretary, the other jurors let their decision be based on the movements of the two lovebirds in. the jury. The jury is split in a decision on the murder case until Ginger blasts out that it is possible for
a man to love a woman other than his wife without murdering
his wife. The defendant is acquited, but Dennis and Ginger still have their own problems to solve.
Double Dose IF SOPHISTICATED comedy is your forte, then Loew’s will be serving up a double helping. “And Baby Makes Three” stars Robert Young, Barbara Hale and Robert Hutton in a comic love triangle complicated by Barbara's impending motherhood. } It's all very legal, since Young and Barbara were previously
wedding to Hutton, to have a baby.
Comes the big struggle between Hutton, Barbara, Young and the other woman for possession of Barbara and the baby to be. " Other half of the bill recounts the troubles of Robert Cummings in trying to reclaim hig former wife, Rosalind Russell. Rosalind accuses Cummings of being implicated with Marie McDonald
and. gets..a. divorce in. “Tell It to. .2
the Judge.” .
Mental Giants THE DESTIS, coming to the Lyric, will make the audience the foil of- their mental gymnastics, telling the patrons what is on their minds. Both Mr. and Mrs. Desti participate in the mind reading, per-
forming a. series of audience par--
ticipation stunts, On the Lyric- screen will be “Whirlpool,” with Gene Tierney, Richard Conte and Jose Ferrer, tale of a woman made criminal through hypnotism.
$1 Million THE EFFECT on eight people of suddenly receiving $1 million’ is exploited in “If I Had a Million.” The film made a big splash on the movie front when it first came out in 1932, Starred in the impressive cast are: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, May Robson, W. C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles
Jmarried... Barbara... during « -her. Frances Dee and Roscoe Karn is informed -
Other half of the reissue bill a 1935 epic titled “Peter Ibbet-
painless way possible at the Va- version of “Francis,” read the with 12 children, to present itself, Young starts proceedings for cus- son,” starring Gary Cooper, Ann
riety Club’s “Heart Fund” show serialization of David Stern's in its entirety, at the theater on tody of the child.
Preview: ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’
Based on the best-seller, the
color film version of ''Cheaper by the Dozen" opens Wednesday at the Indiana Theater. Frank Gilbréth (Clifton Webb) embraces his wife (Myrna Loy), soon to have their 12th child.
Upon returning from a trip,
Gilbreth ‘announces that the fam-
ily will have to move to Montclair, N.J. The whole family, Gilbreth, his wife and 12 children (Gilbreth, an efficiency expert, had reasoned that by raising 12 children the unit cost was lower than
any other number), pile into his Jersey. Only intellectual talk is will nt be wasted.
Pierce-Arrow and, travel to New
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Gilbreth's oldest daughter, Ann (Jeanne Crain), becomes a "flapper," much to her father's consternation, painting her lips, eyes and knees in the mode of the day, against his orders and in a spirit of rebellion,
Harding and Ida Lupino. This is
When a local hep-cat invites Ann to a dance, Gilbreth con-
sents, only if he can go along agrees, so all three set out in the Gilbreth creates a sensation by
Ann's girl friends. Ann decides her father isn't too bad, after all,
in spite of his determination to out of their home. ;
{with hovering spirits,
come off easily,” he said. “I'd like my fans to think I have muscles.” ” - ~ HOLLYWOOD has gone Dixieland crazy with Charleston contests at the Mocambo and Ciro's and Pete Daily's hot band at the Beverly Hills Tropics. Other night the drummer in Pete's band was Dan Dailey. Dan stopped beating { the drums for opine: “This new jazz thing shows that
"Perfect Strangers" (Circle, Fri-
the world thinks. A tense, worried nation doesn't go in jazz.” :
| = = = | DAN AND BETTY GRABLE |are playing their third husband-and-wife dance team in “My Blue Heaven.” | “In this one,” says Dan, “We're - ta television couple. Before this, we were in burlesque and vaude|ville. We're about to run out of| ‘entertainment media.” | s 8 =n { LOU COSTELLO'S new stables] for his race horses have all knotty,
Olivia de Havilland
as "The Heiress."
the tale of a great love which|
hi er, is.on| lasted even after death, complete |! e Hollywood joe carver, ison
the verge of becoming the West! [Coast Ft. Knox. He just patented ‘ : ’ a plastic mold for sculptured ice Heiress’ Here ...Lizabeth Scott and Dorothy OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND won McGuire are battling for the an “Oscar” for her role as the chance to do Tennessee Willliams’ deglamorized Washington Square “Summer and Smoke” on the wallflower in “The Heire Now screen. .., Una Merkel comes back the film will. make a second bid into her own comedy niche as the for the downtown dollar at wife of Bill Bendix in “Kill the Keith's Theater. . according to producer Starring. with. Olivia- nthe ohn Beck, She's been. off. the, . yu > | screen for two years. heavy drama are: Ralph Richard- eh a a son, prominent British actor; JAMES MASON blasts the | Montgomery Clift, and Miriam ‘myth that he flies into tizzies Hopkins, . every time his old British pic-
as chaperon. The young couple hep-cat's hot-rod. At the dance, dancing the Toddle with one of
make an efficiency assembly [ine - orders to his son is not to buy a d $ lay eggs is an extravagance." { \
Great,” the
a minute to |
“‘Americans-are more relaxed than]
for’
{pine interiors!... Tom Sherbloom,|
| tures are released in this country. Mr. Mason gave me a cold tare and sald: ; \ “1 don’t mind my old pictures at an” ? Mason is Europe-bound to make celluloid love to Ava Gardner In “Pandora Flying Dutchman, EE POLA NEGRPS big limousine
d the
to 3 has Texas lice late. Has loosen the cap on a soda bottle Pa . nse Pp
been hiding oil wells”... A new ice cream parlor on Vine street and invitations to “an ice cream social” brought out Dan Duryea, Wanda Hendrix, Rod Cameron and Virginia Field. They were very happy about it all. The opening night special was ice cream sodas made with champagne. . . . HOLLYWOOD psychiatrist to movie doll: . “You have no complexes. ARE inferior.” = » » : T-STOLE ‘Howard Duff's radio thunder, sneak that I am, and gumshoed after Jeanne Crain at one of Hollywood's open-air mar= kets.. Hubby Paul Brigkman, who forgot to shave, had their young- . ster in tow while Jeanne bought the groceries. Jeanne went up to the chicken counter and asked for a nice stewing hen. “What size?” the clerk asked. “Medium,” said Jeanne, as fast on the trigger as any housewife. Paul and his heir were now in an argument about ice cream. “Do you-or don't you want an ice cream cone?” papa asked. For an answer he got one of those “I-ain’t-talking” looks. Jeanne swished off in her gray skirt and green sweater to the meat counter and her husband called after her: “Do you need any money, honey?” Small Fry Brinkman was still being a holy terror. “Okay,” papa.said. “You won't get the jce cream cone. Mama will get the ice cr cone _ in. ER ae ig i
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I didn’t wait to find out who got the ice cream cone. Sam Spade probably would have found out but I lost interest.
Later that same evening Gilbreth gets an invitation fo address the International Management Conference in Prague, an honor he has always wanted. He takes off for the conference, leaving bay hind his superefficient home, with foreign language records in bathroom to utilize every moment in]
earning. One of his las og "because any pet that doesn't
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