Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1950 — Page 10

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‘The Men’ Tops Week's Dramatic Offerings

Indiana Sets ‘My Blue Heaven,’ Lyric ‘The Torch,’ Circle ‘Our Very Own’

By HENRY BUTLER NEXT WEEK'S most dramatic movie probably will

k> “The Men,” qpening next Saturday at Loew's. Briefly summarized in pictures at the foot of this page, “The Men’ will deserve further comment in this column. But first, here are other important openings: “My T ‘ue Heaven,” a musical starring Betty Grable and Dan

Ww ———— Dailey, begins ednesday at conflicts. If t y've “been told the Indiana. “The Torch,” & ours ‘adopted, they may feel torrid Mexican romance with inferior. If they haven't been Pailette Goddard and Pedra Ar-| told, then there's always a chance mendariz, starts Friday at the somebody may, out of malice or Lyric. | carelessness, tell them and cause And “Our Very Own,” a family- serious trouble. problem film that has drawn wide, Also in the cast are Jane Wyand favorable comment, starts att, Ann Dvorak and Donald Thursday at the Circle. | Cook. (familiar to local theaterUptown, the Esquire will run! goers as Tallulah Bankhead's “The Winslow Boy,” starring leading man in. the stage visits Robert Donat, for the week begin- of “Private Lives”). ning next Friday. . x x» Back to “The Men.” here's an- “MY BLUE HEAVEN" has the other - production from Stanley Betty Grable-Dan Dailey team as Kramer, who did *“Champion”/a radio and TV couple ‘the naand “Home of the Brave,” It's a tion's favorite,” as the press book story of a paraplegic veteran of neatly and modestly puts it, World War II, Marion Brando, Deeply in love, both want a child. new Hollywood discovery, as the When Betty Ilnses her first child veteran condemned to. make his as a result of an auto accident, way through life in a wheelland is told by doctors she probchair, and Teresa Wright, as his ably can't have another, they fiancee and later his wife, under- decide to adopt a youngster. go the emotional ordeal described Difficulties ensue—otherwise, of in today's sequence. |course, no picture. By the time all

One reason for further com- the complications are smoothed Blue Heaven" (Indiana, Wednesday) and Jane Radi Ann Blyth, Joan Evans’ and Donald Cook in "Our Very Own" (Circle. Thursday).

ment here is that the press book out Betty -discovers. she again is. ‘they're “sometimes supposed to] rp makes no mention of its being a expecting. So the blessings of have. maybe this picture will war picture. Now that hostilities|family life are. promised the na- modify American courtship pro- Fi | § Ad m Onlv } C again are under way, Hollywood: jtion’s favorite team at the con- cedures. We may have a chance t ms or u S n on salesmen ‘are scared to try mark: clusion of the film: td learn which is more effective: eting pictures concerned with war and its human cost, which Harold Arlen has written hook to the jaw. - - * ® » ‘ most of the music, are David \ “OUR VERY OWN" finds dra- Wayne, Jane Wyatt and Mitzi gup gQUIRE'S Friday offer- . matic material in family tensions, Gaynor. . In. postponed an account of the Some Adult Topics Now Hard to Handle notably rivalry in love between y ” two sisters, one of them an adopt- “THE TORCH,” which will he Marx Bros, holdover, which In HOLLY WOOD, Sept. 9 (UP) —George Stevens, movie ed child. Ann Rlyth plays the ignited next Friday at the Lyric, turn delayed “Kind Hearts and director, believes we can solve the censorship problem by —adopted--one She's interested in has -Miss-Goddard -burning. frst Caronete tra British seresn ver: making some movies only for adults.

high school mate Farley Granger, with resentment toward, then sion of Terence Rattigan's suc- Co only to find her sister, Joan with passion for. Pedro Armen-| o cr play. & Stevens said an adults-only policy would eliminate Evans, trying to hijack the ro- San What eis the ¢hank¢ ‘paosad on a famous trial in the most of the censors’ gray hairs and at the same time open mance. ix the treatment Pedro, as a Mex- 19000" “The Winslow Boy" conFarley won't take Joan seri: icAn rebel general, gives Paulette, noon. 's voungater. fired. from. the whole new fields of-themes to the s screen. st “Certain pictures should be ™———— EO

AusIv. Tn a fit af jealous rage. ax ‘a hated aristocrat's daughter. Royal Naval College at Oshorne “Tt a never: ‘Will this hurt an Joan taunts Ann with being the On their first meeting, Paulettean unjust accusation of theft. His made only for, advertised adopted, not the real. daughter slaps Pedro. On. their second/family, convinced of the boy's ' by ,, adult's morals?” of their parents. . Ann, in despair, meeting, Pedro, infuriated by a innocence, fights the case with an: for, and seen only } adults, Stevens has just finished makleaves her foster-home, finds her second slap, knocks her down.the resources” of money and he explained. “Plenty of pictures wis piace tn the Sun,” hased real. parents, only to discover Possibly the. vigorous directness health. are perfect for kids. They'd never S % po clageic “An American that they no longer have anyiof this treatment does more to| Just as they seem to he hope- be deprived of entertainment by m.,oaqy interest in- her. Back in her win Paulette than the general's lessly losing their battle, a polit- ‘Adults Only’ signs murders his pregnant: sweetheart. foster-home, she finally is recon-/previous honeyed words and|ical leader, Robert Dongtadecides “On the other hand, Hollywood He says it's hard to avoid anyciled with Jean. The tempest of gu bt: a r-accompanied serenades. to help them. In the Aéngthy cam- could explore many controversial, (thing which might register a bad emotion is over, and happiness Anyway, she jilts an American |paign to vindicate the boy, Donat thought-provoking subjects which impression on a child and at the again seems possible. fiance at the very altar, and runs|falls in love with the kid's older now are difficult if not out of the same time tell’ an honest, adult Probably the main reason why away with the general as he is/sister, Margaret Leighton. question. After all, problems of story. this film has been given so much retreating from town with his Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays the taste and censorship come down - “The stage and the novel don't attention is the problem-theme of outnumbered rebel troops. part of the boy's father, and Neil to the question: ‘Cquld this hurt a face the same problems the movadopted. youngsters and - their If movies have the influence ‘North is Ronnie, the accused one. young and impressionable mind” ies do,” he said,

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Personalities in. the coming week's movies will include: Pedro Armendariz, Gilbert Roland and Paulette Goddard in "The Torch" (Lyric, Friday); Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton in "The Winslow Boy" (Esquire, Friday): Betty Grable and Dan Dailey in "My ® =

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Esquire 3 “THE WINSLOW BOY"

In “Hollywood— African Tailors World's Fastest

Favorite Suit Duplicated In 3 Days—Patches and All

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 9—The Laugh Parade: Director Compton Bennett refused to believe it at first, but when he was in Africa filming “King Solomon's Mines,’ he found out for himself that native tailors are the fastest iin the world.

The dark-skinned needle-and-thread geniuses can cut

and assemble a man's Suit. in RO" a tier ; s mountain-climbing epic. (one day. A friend telephoned the at | “When a friend in Nairobi, day to ask how he had liked {lamented that his favorite suit,| the picture, (one he had worn for 25 years, “Personally,” said Carlson, “1 [could take no more patches, Ben- wasn't impressed, but I think inet suggested that he have the that the mountains will love suit duplictaed by a native tailor. it.” A meeting was arranged and, "= the tailpr assured his client that GEORGE S. KAUFMAN, whosa he could obtain the.exact fabric, fame as a playwright is matched identical buttons and duplicate the by his reputation as a play docsuit down to the very stitching. In tor, co- -authored a turkey bearing three days, he smiled, the cus- the title “Park Avenue” ‘some tomer could call for it. seasons hack. } Three days later, Bennett re-! At the Philadelphia opening of ape. his friend picked up the new, . sical. Kaufthan slumped in { The African tailor had done ‘his =zeat as the final curtain dea perfect duplication job—even scended. tha patches of the old suit had “Do you know what this play been faithfully copied. | needs?” a stranger sitting next | to him whispered. CELESTE HOLM was being in-| “What?” groaned Kaufman, terviewed by a fan magazine] “They ought to call in a play ~~ writer and lookéd pained when | doctor to fix it up—someone |The subject drifted to modern in-| like George S. Kaufman.” [terior decoration. | ® § =» “Why... Miss. Holm, don't -youi -GONNIE LUPINO, mother. af like a modern home” asked the {Ida, is a brilliant, lively woman writer, {whose quick: tongue outsprints her

“Nope.” dead-panned Celeste. mind. Words spill out of Conni itn assume_that they are address- «what I like is the xind of home at a mile-n.minute elip. * ing only certain segments of the ihat any burglar can tind his way| Other day Ida went albacors

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are seen: almost exclusively by jqug NyNA FOOH'S story about lily friend:

ee re - ne that unlikely triumvirate —Katha-| ‘Ida fished. all-day-and- had the . stance Collier most wonderful luck—a real

children, and some of the theaters rine. Hepburn, C fAatly bar them. .and Farnie Brice. |catch—and” ‘when I. came home “But — Hollywood designs — Its Fannie’s-constant use. of a cer-iIda had prepared a fish, and dinproduct for nothing less than the tain word generally found in the ner was on the table, My dear, whole of humanity. How to avoid Y0cabularies of stevedores and|I never tasted such divine ALeverything that might possibly fn- | ox | «ARivers: ong ls pain BATROSS™ fluence an impressionable child hot of whom-wou Yetoll a el * = » and yet not alienate your intelli- hough ry NaeINg Ting SOME YEARS ago Joan Craw. Ben am audience remains the Katie and Conatance, agreeing ford threw an elaborate party for “wu that it was hardly necessary for Noel Coward at a plush Sunset NOT everybody can swim like-Fannie to lard her converzation Strip watering place. Telegrams Esther Wiliams, but she claims with BLANKS, told Fannie as inviting=the chosen of Hollywood you can at least look like her. much. to meet Noel wera sent to a Hat Swimming is quickest path to a Fannie thought it over. of several hundred people. smooth, symmetrical figure, the “Maybe you're right,” she said, - Shortly before the champagne movie star said. She explained: ‘but. if I don't say BLANK peo- hegan to flow, Joan received a “It's the best exercise in the ple will think I'm not a sincere/telegram from a feminine star world. Tt slims you down or rounds -person.” v that read: you out. And the rhythm and re- ® =» » “Am in receipt of your wire, laxation you learn make you more Richard Carlson went to a Thanks, but I've already met Noel showing of “The White Tower,” Coward.”

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