Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1950 — Page 10

In Hollywood— Old Time Lover | Coming Back

He's Unleashing Smooches In Ul's ‘Louisa’

By Erskine Johnson

* HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 12—1I've got some grim news to-

day for movie exhibitors who count the wrinkles engraved in the necks of movie dolls right after they count the house —and then scream that even vitaminized butter on

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pered sweet pothings1 into Spring’ s Brace yourself, fellows — ear and -glared balefully

the jowly heart-flutterer who Gwenn as his panting rival.

Back in 1941, the trio excited once made love to Lillian Gish}, 0" 01asters with some romantic

is just getting his second wind didoes in “The Devil and Miss ‘and the film queen who was Vita- Jones. } Staple s sizzle girl is planning to be “The time wasn’t psyehologicaland in 1970. ly right for love stories involving or 80 help me, they’ In still be grandfathers and grandmothers sparking and smooching in front to catch on,” Coburn explains. of the movie cameras. Just any maid of 50 or more Nope, it's not a new device that won’t do, though. ‘removes the bone creaks from’ Even a “One Way Passage” sensitive sound tracks. about a cutie who's drawing It's a new look-into-my-fading- down old-age pension checks and eyes cycle, an ancient codger who's after Charles Coburn, Spring Bying- her dough will sink or swim by ton and Edmund Gwenn are un- the sex appeal of the stars. leashing it in UT's “Louisa ) It's a Romeo and Juliet pack- COBURN “can't think of any age for moviegoers who like a charmer who packs more than little hardening of the arteries Spring for love-after-50 epics. thrown in with the boy meets He avers: girl stuff, “8pring had to be physically attractive to every person in the LOVER CHARLES COBURN, audience. Gwenn and I had to be who chases Spring in the picture agreeable and likeable. Otheras wolfishly as Charles Boyer Wise, nobody would have cared ever sprinted after Hedy Lamarr,| about ‘Louisa’ as a romantic picIngrid Bergman and Olivia de ture. They'd walk out of the theaHavilland, told me: ter complaining about a lot of “This film will, I am con- |Silly old people.” fident, create a demand for | jove stories about—or—middle- | burn or Gwenn are looking for a What's wrong with | just plain companionship when hE heroine oe a they try to buss Spring in dark lover with a paunch?” - | hallways isn't up on his modern ® = = romance. “LOUISA” isn't the first pic-|

ture in which Coburn has his-| sy heavy breathing detected by por wil succeed. Ronald Williams, moviegoers is the real McCoy and

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Local Pianist Named Purdue Accompanist

Times State Service

LAFAYETTE, Sept. 12 Barber, Indianapolis, has

Coburn “wants it known that| Jordan College of Music, Mr. Bar«

Rohald been apAnybody who thinks that Co- Pointed new accompanist for the Purdue Musical Organizations, di-

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VEW Plans Campaign

Of Community Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UP) -The Veterans of Foreign Wars will award $35,000 in cash prizes to VFW posts which carry out the best “community service” programs. Aimed at aiding underprivileged

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ilies, the programs are based on a conviction that the best way to fight communism in America is to “destroy its seeds before; they take root.”

UNHURT IN 100-FOOT FALL NEW YORK, Sept 12 (UP)— Four-year-old Karen Weiler received strict orders today not to play in open windows even though she survived a nine-story plunge without a scratch. Doctors

sald X-rays revealed no injuries ~

when she fell nearly 100 feet,

rector “Albert P. Stewart an- J x nounced today. : 4 Formerly a piano major at ¥ x ¥ “The Pride. of Brooklyn” as Rimselt we $'JACKIE ROBINSON STORY}

ho- resigned recently to do ee PLUS 2ND HIT! — not just exhaustion. w MOO N 1 9 | “There's one scene in which 1 graduate work in Indiana Uni- * x 0m “Roll, Thunder, Roll" % | come very near kissing Spring,” versity School of Music. IWED. Abhott-Gostele, rare East on U.S. 52. Rd. 9 at Fountainteown § he says, roguishly, “When a al a . — Show. Starts Dusk — | played that scene I felt a definite Adults H0c—Children Under 12 Free | tingle. ” |

“PRINCE OF PEACE” "5x" | !

THE MONOC 1 ED Ty Power— | he began wearing a glass in 1923! “when newsprint started to crawl! | every time I sat down to read” — isn't exactly an old hand at | giving out with the sweet talk. Matter of fact, it’s a new trick. From 1906 to 1987, Coburn | and -his actress wife headed | their own theatrical repertory company. “Mrs. Coburn was a wonderful Juliet,” he says, “but = 1 didn’t like- playing Romeo. | I'd get another actor to do it and I'd play Mercutio.” ! But he'll hop right to it any time a studio has another love story for him. It wouldn't sur-| prise him one bit, he says, if “Louisa” doesn’t turn out to be | the biggest thing, for people with!

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