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‘Mother Didn't Tell Me’ Is Scheduled - To Open On Circle Screen Friday
By R. K. SHULL MAYHEM and mirth will be the dish served up to Indianapolis theater audiences for the coming week, with three blood and thunder epics lined up beside two sophisticated comedies. Opening dates for this five-point program will be: “Mother Didn't Tell Me” (Circle, Friday), “Passport to
Pimlico” (Esquire, Friday), ! oq him back, well-carved, un“Black Hand” (Loew's less Kelly gives up his chase. Thursday), “Barricade”! With the help of a time bomb (Lyric, Wednesday), and that 2nd an eight-inch knife, Kelly tired old war-baby “The Outlaw” eliminates the gang, rescues the at the Indiana Wednesday. oy a gets the girl. Case | Closed, = n i
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i ADAPTED FROM Mary Bard's Robert Taylor and Lana Turner, $roe “The. Doctor. Wears. Three-Faces;*-Johnny. Eager.” oe ECE “Mother Didn't Tell Me” ac-
quaints film audiences with the {,,, 2004 fortune to be the object terrors of being a doctor's wife. of Lana's affection. Also fortuDorothy McGuire takes the role* nate for Taylor is the fact that of the young. girl who married Lana is the daughter of the DA, the medic, William Lundigan, Edward Arnold. without knowing she was to play Using Lana as his weapon, second fiddle to his practice. She Taylor coerces Arnold ‘to stay learns the hard way, with the away from his rackets, which plot spiced by. the presence of a works out fine for everyone but! seductive female MD. ~ {Arnold, until a rival gang de2 = [cides to “go on a spree. Come Mafia i
, fireworks. BACK AT the turn of the century, a group of Italian immigrants in New York hit upon a little scheme for shaking down their fellow immigrants. This group was known as the Mafia Story. Without the aid of Will or “Black Hand.” Hayes and Eric Johnston, it ,. Prime purpose of Mafia was to would probably have died "a sell protection insurance, an act natural death after one trip more Sommonly kuown as extor- around the smaller theaters. on. Non-subscri y s - ly left cut and bleeding or slit Case was that Howard Hughes, ear-to-ear. no slouch when it comes to-mak-Gene Kelly's father was a 14te ing an easy dollar, saw exploita-non-subscriber and therefore tion possibilities in Jane Russell Kelly was eager for revenge when and went the limit in publicity. He has made that easy dollar.
he came to New York. Enlisting the aid of a cop, J. Tragic part about the film is Carrol Naish; “Kelly starts to" that Thomas Mitchell and the late Walter Huston are sloughed off
clean up the gang. He is left cut and bleeding. The gang uses new as though they used an unknown
is" a big-time racketeer who has
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In Hollywood— - Hours Hard, Taxes High, Ruth Finds
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| HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 22—Ruth Chatterton, at 56, has just com‘pleted her first novel, “Homeward Borne.” Ruth says she's {through with movies because she !doesn’t like the climate, the early hours, or “paying all that income tax to do something you don't {want to do.” Has Geraldine [Brooks done what no other doll |is able to do on the screen—take |a man away from Shelley Winters? Farley Granger seems to | prefer her company lately . . . | Dinah Shore, who never looked | better,” may return to the screen {in James Kern's “Old-Fashioned | Moonhight. | » ” » | BETTY GARRETT and Larry {Parks plan to work as a team {whenever possible now that she's {free of her MGM contract. This |includes not only their indie film, |“Stakeout,” but a New York play {this fall and a vaudeville tour.
» » = MGM hopes to. stop all the {Screaming about too many sex and gangster films. They have
American historical events and {the American way of life.
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has had ‘ne experience with Film attractions coming to the downtown theaters during the Marlene Dietrich will return to ‘women, nor acting. fiext week will includé: Jane Russell in "The Outlaw’ (Indiana, the screen with two other top“The Outlaw” will go- down in Wednesday), Gene Kelly, Teresa Celli and J. Carrol Naish in right Wen ers, Jorie Win history as one of the mightiest “wg, cy Hand" (Loew's, Thursday). Dane Clark-and- Raymond Massey Fright,” A ing a SE ad ever perpetrated in "Barricade" (Lyric, Wednesday), and Stanley Holloway, Betty May. ‘Twill be a rather .morbid
The film does supply a cheap
Warren and Barbara Murray in "Passport fo Pimlico” (Esquire, thrill for juveniles and will draw :
Friday).
Story, but thrill packed.:.
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a limited number of curiosity When they effect a Mardi Gras criminals, Into this come Dane seekers. Oddly enough, it is being Biijlodfiers 1» er disthict, Not Clark and Ruth Roman, also TO ELIMINATE all the doubts . , . . , cans are 0 rh- . . released by the same company unti ° omselves d 8 criminals. as to when “Francis” will come to which recently gave you “Strom- ly enjoying themselves do. the , , cco r : : T bolt.” : : (il effects of independence come ~~ Clark—and Massey cannot ad- Indianapolis for its regular show- & » lout. : just their personalities to each ing, let it be known that the film British Burgundians British polities and customs other, therefore come plots and ig slated for the Indiana Theater
take a royal ribbing before Pim- counter-plots, with Ruth always ay 3, barring the usual setA TINY residential section of I on May 3, barring the usua
lico and Great Britain are re- in the middle. backs connected with show busiLondon known as Pimlico be- stored to order. ) : ness. — i 2.2 = Finally, Clark leads a popular Ness. comes a hot-bed of sedition in revolt in which evervone is killed s » = " " ‘ . ’ Y p Jit In Ich eve yone I , Passport to Pimlico. Barricade e with the exception of Clark, Ruth May Mayhem Residents of Pimlico get the BLOCKED out by the hold-over and a good-guy by the name of FILL FARE for. the coming SULPrise. of thelr. lives. when-.ah:jertormatice of “Cid evel Ta" ROBE Douglas: = month will -be top heavy with old charter is= uncovered by. a “Barricade” is now slated to open 2 z= i yo ~ World War II bomb. The charter ~aTTiCac 1s siate p action films. Two high grade
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legally makes Pimlico a posses- at the Lyric Wednesday.
horse operas will be titled “The tactics on Naish. They shoot him. dental cream. They carry the sion of ancient Burgundy. As so stated last-week. and it - DICK'CONTINO; the accordion: Outriders” and “The Eagle and Kelly, after the knife wounds whole story, such as -it is, The Pimlicans promptly re- hasn't changed a bit, “Barricade” Who swept away all’ the honors , Hawk.” An act opus called are healed, .goes chasing after throughout the film. nounce their British citizenship, will deal with the troubles of on’ Horace Heidt 3 talent hunt Hu aw An ac lon opus. ci e the gang again, this time with a Jack Buetel's role . as the destroy--thelr ration —cards and Raymond ~Massey, a deniented Will return to thie Circle Theafer “Captain Carey, U. S. A.” will long list "of incriminating evi- camera:shy Billie the .Kid, who open free trade with Great miner in the old Southwest. With another stage review on star Alan Ladd, complete with dence. ‘On the brink of success, has had no experience with Britain, from right in the heart Massey is collecting a few hyn- May 4. Contino has come inte his syhmachine gun and grenades he learns his girl friend's brother women, is portrayed with a con- of London. dred thousand dollars worth of OWn since the weekly bt ld-up he Then too, there's a thing called is being held hostage by the viction which leaves little doubt The famed British received on the Heidt show
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Dorothy McGuire falls in love with her handsome young doctor, William Lundigan, on their first meeting. Doing everything in her power to win him, he soon proposes. When Dorothy meets his mother, Jessie Royce Landis, she learps that Bill is supposed to marry another girl. :
also is discarded by the Pimlicans’aid of a band ‘of ostracized
Preview: ‘Mother Didn't Tell Me’ wt | = in
austerity gold out of the ground, with the ‘The Golden Gloves Story” which
And speaking of the Circle, should screen a few good punches.
After they are married, Dorothy soon fires of the endless waiting while Bill is out on calls. She arranges a party, inviting all of Bill's doctor friends. Everyone gets called away, leaving her - alone with Juge Havoc, another doctor's wife. June suggests she have babies 0 means of breaking the monotony. She does. Twins.
When Bill's former girl friend, Joyce MacKenzie, returns to the city, she, also a doctor, joins Bill in his practice. Dorothy becomes thoroughly disgusted. When Dorothy calls Bill to tell him she is ill, he sends Joyce, his partner, to take care of her. Dorothy prepares to leave him, completely disillusioned.
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» ~ = BARBARA BEL GEDDES is straining at the leash to make a movie in Europe. “I want to Kick around and go places,” she — says. “The trouble with me is ‘that, I've -just ‘never. been anywhere.”
- ” ” ” I RUSHED OVER to Terry Hunt's blubber-dissolving parlor to watch lean”"Rod Cameron and - Beverly Hills’ police chief Clinton - J. Anderson knock the. stuffings. out of each other in a judo match.
All T saw was Rod and Chief Anderson in a series of poses for a photographer. Somebody had forgottén to dig up a judo mat and the cold concrete looked about as springy as the rocks of rStrombolf. “The chief is.a big man,” Terry said. “Judo experts are usually small and some people wouldn't understand if they saw Rod crushing ‘a pint-sizer.” Rod blinked. “Are you kidding? 1 studied judo with Matsuoka, who is just over five feet, and the guy used to throw me
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cre was eres Bight through: brick walls» 5 First” Rod pretended that he g via was hurling Anderson over his » shoulder, then the fierce pair staged a reverse headlock. A June Hiett wrist lock was discarded as lookin ing too much like Astaire and In the enviable spot of fea- Rogers about to go into a dance, tured vocalist with “Vaughn s 2 = Monroe and. his- orchestra at ELSA LANCHESTER plays her the Indiana Roof tonight will be first heavy—a lady blackmailer
in 10 years in * ystery Street.” She says: “It’s a detour in char(acter I cheerfully admit I iove.”
June Hiett, member of Monroe's Moonmaids Quartet,
The twins eat ant paste, and in the ensuing excitment to save them, Bill and Dorothy are drawn back together. When the twins are out of danger, Bill's mother comes to Dorothy and explains that she had been behind the Whole ‘plot to break up the mgrriage. She “offers her blessing to the happily married couple. rd
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