Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1950 — Page 9

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“STARS IN MY CROWN"

Stories of Frontier, Swordplay on Screens

Return Engagement of ‘Hamlet,’ Premiere Of ‘To Please a Lady’ Also Scheduled ~~’

By R. K. SHULL WITH THE ACCENT on action, the crop of new films

entering the city during the coming week will include the story of a frontier preacher and swordplay in the Near East. Opening dates are: “Stars in My Crown” (Loew's, Saturday), “The Furies” (Circle, Thursday), “The Rocking Horse Winner” (Esquire, Friday), “The Desert Hawk”| | (Indiana Wednesday), and “The Return of Jesse James’ Shoot 'Em Up

(Lyric, Thursday). RATTLING thé bones of two Other openings for your con- of our late and highly lamented sideration will include a return|Western badmen, Lyric Theater engagement of ‘‘Hamlet’’ at|/Will open Thursday with a double

Keith's starting Thursday at reg- bill of “The a Return of Jesse ular prices and the world premiere James” and “I Shot Billy the of “To Please a Lady” at Loew's Kid. on Oct. 5. Jesse James is dead in the The Loew's opening will mark former epic, ‘but some of his old the first big film hoopla in In- cohorts dress up another bandit dianapolis since the “Johnny Holi-|in the late Jesse's garb and start day” opening here last fall, The|® series of robberies. promoters of the film are still in{ Frank James, who has retired, a quandary over who will be here |COmes back on the scene to refor the event. They're holding out|{Move this new smirch om his

for Clark Gable and Barbara family name. John Ireland and Stanwyck. Henry Hull are featured as the

2s ® =» super-villains. § On the other half of the bill, Bible and Gun “I Shot Billy the Kid,” Don Barry JOEL McCREA enters a small is cast as Billy and Robert Lowery Southern town shortly after the aq pat Garrett. And in case you're Civil War and forces the licen-jnterested, Garrett was the lawtious citizens to listen to his ser-/;man that done Billy in. mons while he covers them with

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a gun in “Stars in my Crown.” . ; vi € | ” With his persuasive form ot Arabian Daze Indiana FR » preaching, McCrea soon becomes) RyCHARD GREENE has the Esquire

a leader in the town, acting asipgje of Omar, the blacksmith (He mediator for any and all thoubles | never made a tent in his life), which plague the people. lin “The Desert Hawk.” But smithThe big crisis in his preaching io 35 only a front for his real career comes when the town chil-|y, cot which is playing Robin Omar assumes an ingenious dis-| den 28 givuck Jowa With typhoid Hood" for the nomads. . |guise and marries Sheherazade| j ano Hernandez, Dean Stockwell, Ellen Drew and Joel McCrea |your amusements dollar since the 8 $18 Same lame a of When the young and talented himself. When ghe discovers her| . wgy,ro jn My Crown" (Loew's, Saturday), Ann Dvorak and John time films were first shown.

Negro-is ordered off his land by| ; mistake, she’s very mad. a \ the “night riders.” princess, Shaharazade (played. by Co Ireland in "The Return of Jesse James" (Lyric, Thursday), Yvonne | Director John Huston is apply- - {Yvonne de Carlo), is all ready to| But patient Omar points out to| de Carl d Rich ow " . How McCrea copes with these| nov” the wicked prince who|the simple maiden the evils of the| de Carlo and Ric ard Greene in "The Desert Hawk" (Indiana, |ing a practical business approach

390 Drotiems any revims Dease keeps his ‘ subjects in slavery,|prince, and she learns to love| Wednesday), and John Howard Davies and Valerie Hobson in to movie-making. Rehearsals, prey LN him and hate the wicked prince.| "The Rocking Horse Winner" (Esquire, Friday). larranging of shooting scheduies,

# na |The prince's henchmen kidnap . Unstable Winner |Sharharazade and start working drowns as before. The whole tion of Theodore Dreiser's “Sister and a thousand minor budgetLITTLE JOHN HOWARD

|heér over in the torture chamber, story stays just about the same Carrie.” According to the players cutting devices are paying off for DAVIES has a mania for horses | ‘but Omar and his faithful nomads 88 when Will Shakespeare penned and workers in the film, Wyler 18 p.ston. : in “Rocking Horse Winner.” This

[exerting his all to make “Carrie” interest in equines is fanned to a|

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First-run film openings for the coming week will include: ‘|ful practices which have cut into

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|a perfect film. | t tem for this film, trying to prove

white heat when he receives a on Shahary. Bis Is Buzzin’ | He's lined up some of the bes rocking horse for Christmas. When the smoke of A battle . _— . actors available and is driving that ‘interesting faces” mean Under the tutlelage of the] clears, Omar, Shaharazade and! OUT IN HOLLYWOOD, busi- {hem to the limit to make an more to an audience than a big

family handyman, John Mills] Young John learns to ride thé

rocking horse. Then the youngster a a =» moguls were getting ready for a guropean imports. lof the movie-going public. makes an astounding discovery.| Ham Aaqain \grand - slam against television, | « nn = | Whether the public wants to conWhen he rides the horse at top! | g |coaxial cables and all the other tinue worshipping “stars” in

THAT PERENNIAL film offer- forces which are putting fear in Culture “in Color {second-rate stories or will buy ing, “Hamlet” by Sir Laurence their hearts. . | AT ANOTHER studio, the life “unknowns” in good stories may Olivier, will be making its third] Some of the more astute di- of Enrico Caruso is being filmed pe determined by the reception to {trip to Indianapolis, coming to rectors, of which there are few, in color in an effort to mix culture this film. } | Keith's Thursday. are working their heads off trying with the movies. The dosage| One of the oldsters, a con-Instead-of the special showings to churn out some really adult of operatic music shouldn't be too temporary of D. W. Griffith, feels {with special prices as on the first pictures. The big trend is to turn.rich for anyone's blood. that a change in film quality is two trips, the film will be offered filmdom’s most ardent hecklers| Still another noted director is taking place, but the evolution is {in continuous performances af into fans. making Stephen Crane's “Red slow. How soon {regular rates this time. William Wyler, the man who Badge of Courage” into a film. sheep are separated from the | Hamlet is-as melancholy as on made the “The Heiress,” is now The methods used In this flicker goats will depend upon audience {his- previous trips, and Ophelia'slaving away over a film adapta- may spell doom to a lot of waste- response to good films.

speed, the breeze created by thé hérse whispers the winners of) races at the local track. | Mills and Young John start, cleaning up on the horse races, |

nings to his vain and pretentious mother, Valerie Hobson. As all good ‘things, Young John’s career as a race predictor comes to a screeching halt with a; novel twist. . |:

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Movie Preview: ‘The Furies'

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Mr. Huston brings Judith Anderson to ‘the ranch and an_nounces his intent to marry her. Barbara is furious at this intru-

Cattle-baron Walter Huston has two loves in life, his land

his: daughter, Barbara Stanwyck, in "The Furies,” opening gambler, Wendell Corey, the Hutson orders his range

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the simple, homeloving nomads Ness is rushing around the film ,4,1¢t film which should be more name on the marquee. “Red lare able to live happily ever after. factories, as though the movie tnan ample competition for the Badge of Courage” will be a test

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Prize Insult Of Marxes: None at All

By ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD, Bept. 23--It's not in Kyle Crichton's biography of the Marx brothers, but veteran director Paul Sloan, who Is reported to have the year's sleeper in “The Sun Sets at Dawn,” re. calls the unkindest blow ever dealt the late Alexander Woollcott by Minnie Marx's zany sons. Woollcott had proclaimed the Marxes as the greatest comedy spirits of the century in their Broadway show, “I'll Say She Does.” Nightly he sat in the audience, while Groucho and Chico hurled insults at him. One day he told Harpo that he was bringing some important people with him to the performance that evening and that he ‘was depending op the Marxes to rip loose with thelr most devastating jibes. His friends, he added, were dying to see him impaled on (the skewer of the Marx wit. Not once during the entire show did Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo address a single remark to Woolleott or even look in bis direction. Woollcott never forgave the brothers for what they did to him that night.

. ” Ed THIS WAS first told about the initial visit of Moss Hart to George 8. Kaufman's home, but it has popped out of the baking pan again—this time with Marlon Brando and a Hollywood producer |as the principals. | Brando, the raconteurs swear, (looked at the marble staircase land crystal chandeliers of his host's mansion and muttered: “What time do the prices change?”

. w ” NOT IN. THE SCRIPT: A big producer, in search of an inter- | planetary story, heard that Ciif-

“ford Odets had once written a

play titled “Rocket to the Moon.” |He alerted his whole staff to find

ia copy-of the play, then left town _/when his story analyst placed a

{one-page synopsis of the drama

‘lon his desk.

The Odets play is about a meek {dentist who falls in love with his stenographer. { ~ ~ ” RICHARD CARLSON admits he changed two or three words in his three-part national magazine

Billie Jane Bennett will be |Story of the African location trek

featured with Clyde McCoy and, his orchestra when the

lof “King Solomon's Mines” at the |request of MGM top brass. But he

(says: “This was Carlson the jour-

"Sugar Blues” man opens the [nalist and I actually didn’t need

Indiana Roof dance. season next |approval. 1 told MGM that there

~ Thursday at the Circle Theater. Although he has a vast empire son of a man Mr. Huston killed. sion into her home. When Judith demands that a family of bert Roland in retribution for the Mexicans' defiance. Barbara: “in land, Mr. Huston is financially broke through. lavish Spending. Mr. Huston refuses fo condone Mexican squatters, life-long friends of? Barbara, be driven ‘from goes to Mr. Corey for help in ruining her father. Through a He prinfs thousands of IOU's fo use for money until he can make the marriage, and Mr. Corey the land, Barbara attacks her with a pair of scissors, slashing her middle-man, they bargain to buy all of Mr. Huston's cattle and a new land deal, but sets aside $50,000 for Barbara's when Pu Barbara because of her face. Barbara goes fo the Mexicans’ ald when her father's men free him of his mortgage, but when Mr. Huston starts to collect, he takes a on the ranch. = ©: father. ¥ 4 shacks: ~~ ” : ; i they pay him in His warihiess OU. : ; ’ - . - ; t A 1 = = UA fr va s gos 5

Friday and Saturday evenings. /would be no editorial supervision.”

Mr. Huston laughssat the

Mr; Corey. He gives them his consent to marry, just as he is shot down by Mr. Roland's | mother Fo