Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1950 — Page 9
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Arrival of Vietor Mature
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screen. | Circle Theater will bring
in another double bill Thurs-| day, with a Donald O’Connor| comedy and a Robert Ryan-| Claudette Colbert drama. Titles are “Curtain Call at Cactus Creek” and “The Secret Fury.” Elsewhere, Loew's won't open! with “Rogues. of Sherwood! Forest” until Thursday, and the! Esquire will bring back a pair] of Italian films, “Paisan” and| “Qpen City,” FEriday. The Lyric Theater schedule for the coming week will be rank confusion, with 14 films slated to go on the screen in seven days,| starting Friday. : { ®
~ Claudette Crazy? SHE DIDN'T even know she! was married. That's what Clau-|
as they stood at the altar in “The] Secret Fury.” Claudette’s inapi-| lity to tell who her husband is or| when she met him perplexés Ryan
manhunt that ends in murder.
company barnstorming the Western.badlands in “Curtain Call at Cactus Creek.” With O'Connor on the desert drama circuit are Gale Storm, the leading lady; Eve Arden, the character actress, and Vincent Price, owner of the show.
when a band of outlaws led by Walter Brennan rob the Cactus Creek Bank. Brennan hides out with the show people, and as a
= result, O'Connor is accused of hel BENT the crime. With a posse after SEAOIVIA him, O'Connor learns that the RISER IR bandits also are on his trail,
intent’ to do him in and cast
[TIRIEIT] IRIE DIS] suspicion away from Brennan.
Movie
"FHE ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST"
Real Stars to Feature Week's Reel Openings
Mature, 5 Stellas to Appear at Indiana; O’Connor Comedy Set on Circle Double Bill
PERSONAL APPEARANCES will spark the week's opening at the major film houses.
be the “live” offering for the week. They'll be at the
dette Colbert told Robert Ryan|,
Claudette, a concert pianist, | fears she is losing hér mind, and] the rest of the cast is willing to} agree. As a result she goes] through a minor snake pit, while] Ryan plays détective in an effort to ‘unravel -the mystery of her| strange marriage to a stranger. | On the other half of the Circle program, Donald O'Connor plays| advance man for an old repertory
Things get rough for the troupe:
and his bevy of starlets will
ws Wednesday afternoon and
evening, Mature's latest film, “Stella,” will be on the
when he was a second louie in “Francis,” O'Connor captures Brennan and collects a reward. ¥ ” 8
Stellas, Stellas
A TROUPE of Stellas will’be
here with Vic Mature.
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no movie experience, are furrently touring the country with “Samson” drumming up a fittle thunder for the film, “Stella.” Their only cqnnection with the. film is their names. All are named Stella and each makes quite an eyefull. For contrast on the tour, two of the characters
also will be along, Marian] Marshall and] Frank Fontaine. | The gang won't arrive here until early after-| noon Wednes-
and starts them off on a wierd Stella Pettit day, then they'll]
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Blundering even more __than'The Indianapolis stop-over is a/FBI, the King’s men were at athe Nazis during the occupation. vehicle, “Volcano.” jdays.
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Lyric Plans |I"Hollywood— Series of 7 Marie Praised,
Double Bills Not for Neckline
| AN INNOVATION in theater
{programming will be the seven She Plays ‘Lady Teazle’ Part {double-bills which will play at . | the Lyric Theater starting Friday. As Playwright Intended
All 14 of the films to be shown "~~ pw a : {have been headliners in their day By Erskine Johnson {and several are still going strong. HOLLYWOOD, July 22—Play critics who thought that
Here are the titles and play- . . : | dates: “Sitting Pretty” and “How| Marie Wilson gave her best Irma performance in a local
Green Was My Valley,” Friday, revival of “The School for Scandal” can hang their heads | Bride” dC abloslin shame. Charles Coburn, who saw Ethel Barrymore, |Saturday, July 29; “Pinky” and Frances Starr and other stage greats do the Lady Teazle _ | “Green Grass of Wyoming,” Sun-|,,ia says: : |day, July 30; “Mr. Belvedere Goes! “M: J wil 3 ¢ to College” and “Give My Regards arie uson is one oii . ” ol . X-ray eyes. She doesn’t even open to Broadway,” Monday, July 31; the few actresses in theater|iye tee box re “Apartment for Peggy” and “Call hi h 1 d Ladyl . . | Northside 777," Tuesday, Aug. 1; istory who p ye ey " |“Drums Along the Mohawk” and Teazle as the playwright intended| ® |“Kiss of Death.” Wednesday, her to be played. Marie is nearer) Whitmore are playing a train ' | Aug. 2, and “Mother Wore Tights” |to being right in the role than) Cg ir Woh {and “Snake Pit,” Thursday, anybody I've ever seen.in it. They While a uniofi man jiggles a long
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[Aug. 3. {didn’t have to give her those ocks the set, Mar- | The accent of the week's pro-/low necklines, but I guess that's PIRAK at itr a compartment {grams is on drama, with nine of her stock in trade.’ {and discovers a corpse. Douglas them in the line-up. “Snake Pit” . 8 8 { Fowler, the teeth-chatterer in
heads this list of heavy offerings.| JEFF CHANDLER is honing! " ont of dramas are pre-World his razor. Fox ordered him tol Battleground, is the rigor 'War IT babies, with “Drums mow the lawn on his manly chest Mortis boy. Along the Mohawk” dating back for his native Hawaiian role in| The makeup man swabs to 1939. The other pre-war job “Bird of Paradise.” ! chocolate syrup for blood on Ci is “How Green Was My Valley.” ® =» = | Fowler's WiderShinieul} ween . Fi : os . D on na a SMART COOKIE Evelyn cadavers smell e the Across the top: Films coming next week will include: Diana Lynn and John Derek in "Rogues of | CLIFTON WEBB and Jeanne|Keyes, who knows a star can| cream fountain at your local Sherwood Forest" (Loew's, Thursday), Anna Magnani in “Open City" (Esquire, Friday), and Robert | “ott "0 'o double duty, with over-play the Bernhardt stuff, is| drug store—and Marjorie and Ryan and Claudette Colbert in "The Secret Fury" (Circle, Thursday). two films each in the line-up. back to clinging satin in “Smug-| Whitmore argue about the mur Above: Starring in the 14 films to be brought back to the Lyric Theater for one-day stands |webb will appear in his two gler's Island.” | derer, ig starting Friday will be: (Left, top to bottom) Shirley Temple, Olivia‘ de Havilland, Jeanne Crain; Mr. Belvedere offerings, “Sitting| “I'm the most glamorous crea-| u JoUNSON and Kath (center) Betty Grable; (right, top to bottom) Helen Walker, Mona Freeman and Maureen O'Hara. [Pretye and “Mr. Belvedere Goes ture in the or in Hue one jrayson are working in a night : o College.” she whispered to me. “One num- iv side tour for Mature, who has/loss when it came to dealing with|A Communist and a priest team! Jeanne will be seen as “Pinky” ber is skin-tight white jersey. oh, [club scene for “Grounds for Mar-
eT Ab : \ i e."” planned his itinerary so that he the Hood's boys, s6 they usually/up to lead the underground and again as the heroine of poy, I've been looking like a bum | "1a8e the play-back machine pipes
can spend a little time in his old stooped to subterfuge, such as against the Germans. “Apartment for Peggy,” two of in too many pictures.” la hot Jags Samper played by the home town, Louisville. . | vi . yo her best post-war pictures. "oa { aloe stringing up a few of Robin's men| With traitors and Nazis every- “mo. riicicals will be in the, SAM GOLDWYN'S single-sen-| Firehouse Five Plus Two onto the Do or Derek as an example to the rest.® where, the partisans are soon cavalcade with Dan Dailey, Nancy tence definition of showmanship, Set. Van heats out ihe thythm and : Reprisals and counter-reprisals rounded up and executed, Friends Guild and Charles Winninger in in an American Magazine article: a mn agile 3 Coat ots WITH THE “Duchess of Idaho” of the parish priest are left with| ‘Give My Regards to Broadway” | “Whatever ‘everyone else is doing! ence 8 ple-easy for him. The finally, Robin, son of Robin, the dismal prospect of facing the| 214 Bufty Grable: ony Freeman do something sise’ Hy oo director shouts “Cut,” but Van won't bring in “Rogues of Sher-isorces the king to sign the Magna uncertain future alone Tights.” ne a ye goes on knocking ‘himself out. wood Forest” until Thursday. Charta and things smoothed over.| «paisan® is a series of six! Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan a x x = Kathryn and the Stlies Seton John Derek is the latest in a And they didn't pay the taxes. |. qo. quring the liberation of Will CArTy on with their comic an- JOHN DALL, Jane Wyatt and wait until he's on the ariasion ‘ ‘ ; 8 =u ics in “I Was a Mz r ‘de Lees]. Cobb are the stars of “The Jag. Then everybody goes back to long list of Robin Hoods to try Italy, showing the distrust among tics in “I Was a Male War Bride,” Lee. LORD a7e work the role of the film bandit. He's Blood and Gore ge > dvi in which Cary enters the U. 8. as/Gun” on the General Service lot. : ) . 8 the factions in the fighting, the ¢na foreign spouse of Ann under!It's Jane's first screen try as a . : bus) cast as the son of the old original,! TWO OF THE MOST realistic pathos of a starving Rome, shat-/the general regulations covering|sexy trouble-maker after a series) rn WAS 64 Jears in show | oe but still hangs around with the films to come ouf of Italy since tered and disillusioned romances, foreign brides of our servicemen. of Wholesoire girl roles and there meas hoy amy “in “Jackpot.” i ” “ tv" «pai. and of course, Nazi brutality. ¥.8 8 are more than the usual quota of’ ! i same bang of brigands. the war are ‘Open City" and ‘Pal Roberto Rossellini directed both] JAMES STEWART is seen as!set-gapers around to see Jane go Jimmy made his stage debut at Instead of Maid Marian, Derek san.” They'll be shown at the qo." oq according. to Holly-the report ho. Hehts 3 1d bad tivo months in his mother’s arms s, ¢ 3 3 pporter who rights an - did bad. makes love to the King's new Esquire. wood, it was Rossellinf's fine di- wrong and releases an innocent Director Felix Feist rehearses and at the age of five starred in ward, Lady Marianne, played bY| gach featured Nazi brutality recting of these two whichiman from prison in. “Northside Lisa Howard in a scene with Dall. @ play called “Stricken Blind. Diana Lynn. and uninhibited love, and were prompted Ingrid Bergman to ask{777,” a true story. “Turn to the right, cutie, watch The play toured most of the New All the trouble starts over the ; wg him for a job. For action, “Drums Along the the white line, cutie,” he shouts./York hinterlands and, says age old question of taxes. In acclaimed in this country as =, wpe speaking of Rossel-| Mohawk” offers a double dipping Nobody bats an eyelash. It's per- Jimmy, “Won me more applause Robin Hood's day, if you didn't smash successes. This leads back jini don’t forget that Anna Mag-|of Indians, blood and thunder. fectly all right for Feist to call than any role I've done since. like ’em, you didn’t pay. And to an old theory in movie circles nani, Rossellini’'s former girl! Henry Fonda and Claudette Col- Lisa “cutie.” She's his wife in . 08 when the King got irritated and that sex and sadism are tops at friend, is the star of “Open City.” bert aré the romantic leads who private life. THERE'S nothing false about sent his men to collect, you killed the box office. She's the little girl who has been fight off the Indians while home- The script calls for Lisa to dash that feud between Faye Emerson them. | “Open City” features the strug- running competition with Ingrid steading along the New York/into the kitchen and inform Dalliand Anne Sterling over who wes
With only cross bows and no!gles between the underground and in Italy with her latest starring frontier in the pre-Revolutionithat there are no eggs in the ice-first to go in for low necklines |box, Lisa, I decide, must haveion TV, x
only ‘made conditions worse, but