Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1950 — Page 9

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By R. K.

CONFEDERATES, confidants and confidence men will all fig- Yankee at heart, goes back to

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ure into the first-run films for the coming week. Errol Flynh takes a small group of Confederate soldiers into! dies.

the Old West to organize a new army in Wednesday at the Indiana Theater. Ruth Roman, Patridia Neal and Eleanor Parker pour out their

secret heartaches to each other| in “Three Secrets,” Thursday.

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: Esquire “MAJOR BARBARA"

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Movie Feaiures Confederates

| Patrice,, who was really a

her old boy friend after Flynn|

“Rocky Mountain,” opening! ‘Hush Hush

WHEN A PLANE crashes high| |in the Sierras, the only survivor |

at the Circle! officers by making a desperate|is a five-year-old boy who is |stand against the Indians, simi-trapped at the

scene of the

And Edmond O'Brien three-|lar to the one he played when he wreckage along with his dead] corners the racing wire service was in “They Died With Their foster-parents in “Three Secrets.”

and other rackets in “711 Ocean | Drive,” opening at Loew's Thurs-| day (that is, if “To Please a Lady” doesn't hold over). Also opening during the coming week will be Roy Acuff and a hillbilly revue on stage at the Lyric starting Thursday. And out at the Esquire, “Pygmalion” and “Major Barbara” will be brought back on a double bill Friday for the umpteenth time. Both have been in circulation for y'ars and y'ars.

Flynn's Folly ERROL FLYNN was doing all right with his desperate expedi-! tion to involve the far west in| the Civil War, when he ran into a cute little lady out on the desert] near the Rocky Mountains. { The gal's name was Patrice Wymore (and only recently she flew to Paris and Flynn) and ghe's the sweetie of a Union Army | officer. Errol became torn -be-| tween his duty to the Confederacy | and his love for Patrice (we're; talking about the movie now). Rather than create a love tri- |

angle, Flynn obliged the Union!

Preview: '711

Edmond O'Brien (rig help Barry Kelly and Dorot!

Boots On.”

Thrush

Sunnie Anderson ‘will be the | featured thrush with Jimmy Palmer and his orchestra for a

| double dance date at the In- |

diana Roof tonight and tomor- | row night.

Ocean Dr.

uses his knowledge of electronics to Patrick operate their wire service to

While workers are busy res-| cuing the boy, three women con-/ |verge on the scene. Each had] {given a small boy for adoption] {to the same home on the same day. Each, now, believes the | child to be hers. | | Eleanor Parker, a sweet young | thing, is happily married. Patrilcia Neal, a hard-nosed news-| { paper woman is happily divorced, land Ruth Roman, an ex-con, is {happily out of prison after she {had-been convicted of murdering {her gangster-paramour. The three wome® do a passle Theater attractions coming will include: Roy-Acuff f and the {of haggling before they decide Rhythm Playboys in the Acuff stage show at the Lyric starting | who actually belongs to the child, Thursday, Deborah Kerr and Robert Newton in "Major Barbara" [oie without injury from thel (Esquire, Friday), Patrice Wymore and Errol Flynn in "Rocky Moun- ’ | tain" (Indiana, Wednesday), and Ruth Roman, Patricia Neal and 711 | Eleanor Parker in “Three Secrets" * (Circle, Thursday). ACCORDING to the film- mak-| —— tt de p

ers the cast and company that until he gets big “enough for ‘the while the law is busy seining min-|

made “711 Ocean Drive” were national gambling syndicate tonaws. Justice doesn’t triumph.

{threatened by big-time gamblingitake an interest. Rustic Rhythm linterests. The film is supposed! Naturally, when the little fellow, ROY ACUFF will return to the to be an expose of the horse race starts bucking the BTOs, they, {Lyric Thursday, packing along a| 2 rackets. lcall out the law to put the squeeze whole mob of hillbilly comedians Actually, it shows the rise ofion him. The story doesn't runland musicians from the Grand one small crook from the time heitrue to movie form, since the big Ole Opry. torte his first race wire ‘service! fish are permitted to swim away| Along v with him for the local

After Joanne has persuaded O'Brien to join the syndicate, her husband, Donald Porter, comes on the scene and objects to O'Brien's affair with

O'Brien, Dorothy and a bookie friend, Sammy White, are sitting on top of the world with their big-time wire service. a national gam-

Circle “ SECRETS" *

junket wilt be Ford Rush, the singing sheriff and formerly of the team of Ford and Glenn; the Three LaCroix Sisters, Bashful Brother Oswald, Pap and his Jug Band, Jimmy Riddle and a Smoky {Mountain square dance ensemble, And as a special kicker to this {line-up of rustics, three local lads who have been haunting amateur contests for the past few seasons,

the Rhythm’ Playboys, will be ad-| {bara” are products of his younger

{ded to the show.

Oh Shaw

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW has lately lamented ‘his. sad state!

The syndicate bi Porter's death and sick their

[two of his best works have been Writers get

shots are angry about. unmen- on O'Brien. Along with Joanne, he flees from his home base

I nelicna "ROCKY MOUNTAIN"

In Hollywood—

John Wayne Cowboy Suits Due Soon

| By ERSKINE JOHNSON | HOLLYWOOD, Oct. T — There'll soon be a full lirn of John Wayne western outfits for kids on sale in stores across the country. But Wayne is back |In naval uniform again in “Opera{tion Pacific” at Warners. . . . If Frank Sinatra has his way, Eileen |Barton will be a regular on his |video show. . ... Dick Haymes who secured a release from his [radio sponsor in order to make | personal appearances, is booked {solidly until Christmas at a guar« antee of $12,500 weekly. n ~ ” Arch Oboler is producing and directing his own picture on his Malibu’ Ranch. It's a story about the last man and woman on earth after everything and everyone has been destroyed by an atom bomb. He's using two {| unknowns the only members of the cast.

n » 8 RKO is stepping up its: plans {for Gloria Grahame as a result of {her click opposite Humphrey Bogart in “¥n a Lofely Place.” Jackie Green to a heckler at the : Band Box: “It's too bad your father wasn’t a bartender so he could have put a head on your spine.”

” » s MARTY RACKIN, the scenar-year-old writer has expressed a ‘St: has beén writing a piece for ) the anniversary edition of a local desire to quit living. trade paper. It's a by-liner on the Perhaps if he could see the way plight of the author. How screen little or no credit. ulling in the lucre at theater box HOW, in the ads, you can scarcely P 8 , distinguish their names. The other offices, he'd decide he was good for day he was driving home and saw at least one more smash play. a billboard for “Three Secrets,” a “Pygmalion” and “Major Bar- film he wrote for Milton Sperling at Warner Bros. Rackin’s name was as big as the actors—a and more prolific days, and ‘the smashing credit. There was only film versions of these shows also one trouble. ; are of another decade. They spelled his name wrong.

of physical affairs, broken thigh and * bladder trouble. The 94-

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Tapping one of the syndicate's race wires, O'Brien is able to forestall the outcome of ‘& race, while Sammy and Joanne place their

bookies in "711 Ocean Drive.” In a short time, O'Brien converts

Kelly's haphazard race information service into a smooth-running money on the winner. In the meantime, the syns

dicate has turned the police on O'Brien for the murder of Porter. O'brien and Joanne ad fa. "escape, but are trapped in- the Hoover Dam.

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in Los Angeles. O'Brien figures out a scheme fo steal, thousands from the syndicate before he leaves the country. Taking Joanne and Sammy, he goes to Las egos,

_ her. In the meantime, O'Brien has ditched Dor-

million dollar enterprise. Greedy for power, O'Brien pushes Kelly They send glamorous Joanne Dru to thon othy. Porter beats: Joanne as punishment for her out of the business and claims Dorothy as his girl. He operates O'Brien for their big push. O'Brien falls for her flirtations, Xx retaliation, oO! Brien hires a killer . - to remove Porter, .

te service with ruthless ardor quickly. | - : : "we

bling syndicate decides to move in on them