Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1950 — Page 9
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Cuont to Spark Line-up | At Downtown Theaters
By R. K. SHULL XAVIER CUGAT will come to the Circle Theater Friday to spark the entertainment line-up at the downtown theaters. : : “The Jackpot,” a satire on give-away shows, starring James Stewart, will open at the Indiana Wednesday: Loew's will start Thursday with “Harriet Craig,” a heavy drama featuring Joan Crawford. -, i Mail,” with Ste- Mail Theft ; phen” McNally and Alexis , STEFHES MOCALLY ta Smith, will come to the Lyric the assistant postmaster general
Theater Thursday. The Esquire persuades him to become an unwill bring back two American dercover agent in “Wyoming
Sims “Rebecca” and “Intermez- Mail.”
Friday Steve is sent off -to the WyonL ming Territory where a gang of Sone. Money mail robbers has been disrupting
at TEN . postal service, Steve meets and JAMES STEWART made One ¢)16 ih Jove with Alexis Smith, of the biggest mistakes of his life who is really the gang leader. when he correctly identified “the Deviously, he works his way Tani into the good graces of Howard mystery husband’. on a radio- Da Silva, the gang's triggerman, telephone give-away show in “The and joins up with the outfit.
Jackpot.” Steve's true identity is estab-
lished by the gang just as it is ready to pull its biggest job. He thwarts the outlaws with Alexis’ aid. In return for her help, she is absolved of any guilt. She and Steve live happily ever after. Nn
Of course. he won thousands of dollars worth of prizes. But the assorted items were of little use to him, without $7000 to pay the federal taxes, He became irritable, and grumpy around his family.: _His wife, Barbara Hale. and chil- . ANT “Tony Back—Ageim— Th St Rettig, became resentful. DOUBLING UP two of Amer Then an artist Patricia Medina, ica’'s best pieces of dramatic film came to visit Jimmy. She was art, Esquire Theater will screen a part of his prizes, and had been program. Friday which would be commissioned by the contest peo-! just as effective if the films were ple to do a portrait of Jimmy. Ar- shown as singles. rival of this femme fatale in her “Rebecca.” starring Joan Fon-
home was too much for Barbara, taine and Sir Laurence Olivier, is.
and she contemplated divorce. adapted from the distinguished Because of the ‘embarrassing Daphne+du Maurier novel. situations created ‘by the prizes.” “Intermezzo,” with Ingrid BergJimmy lost his job. His whole man and the late Leslie Howard, way of life was changed, all be- ~ ae =
cause he answered the telephone. At Roof
His efforts to return to normal
comprise the balance of the film.
” = ~ vy . Coogie’s Coming COMPLETE with Chihuahuas, singer Abbe Lane, his orchesfra and the same variety attractions as last winter, Xavier Cugat will move into the Circle Theater Friday. His South American band has
musical outfits which come to the
show with him. He never depends upon ulcerated. theater bookers to arrange for his variety 'acts.! Result is a smooth-running program, with everything scaled to the same solid tempo. Instead of tired-faced hoofers filling up. time, Cugat features Tato and Julia, whose rhumba and jitterbug interpretations were x a bright spot in last year'ssshow. .Bernie Cummins will bring his In the vocals department he orchestra -to the Indiana Roof has Dulcina,. swivel-hipped ma- for dances tonight and tomorracca shaker and vocalist, and night. He's coming here di-
Abbe Lane, whose achievements include capturing .the maestro’s rect from a five-month engage-
heart to the tune of an 11- carat) ment at the Hotel New Yorker diamond ring. in New York. i
Movie Preview: "Harriet Craig’
With Joan Crawford in the title role, "Harriet Called away b Craig" will come to Loew's Theater Thursday. Beauti- Joan takes K. T. ful and conniving, Joan lives only for the beauty of charge of arian Her husband, Wendell Corey, v her home and the strict management of her marriage. . Her cousin, K. T. Stevens, lives with her, and is the after effects. When he becomes irritafed at treated as an underling by Joan, ‘who dominates ovary. her carping, she soothes him Ry planning a party ‘one around her.: for their influential friends. %
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"WYOMING MAL"
XAVIER CUGAT ORCHESTRA
Theater attractions for the coming week will include Barbara Hale, Patricia Medina and James and home by 10:30 p. m.
Wednesday), Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in ' "* (Esquire, Friday), Abbe Lane and Xavier Cugat, on stage at the Circle Theater starting Friday, !which some theater operators conod Stephen McNally and Alexis Smith in "Wyoming Mail" (Lyric, Thursday). ! they have been ab with a paciiground of the world of
Bette played the role originally in 1030,
Terrors of TV HOLLYWOOD'S present day kingpins are blushing
The role was designed to imitation of Tallulah,
8 either. In the main, e fined her operations to her chosen medium down through the years;
Gene Lockhart were surmising on
their names among the credits of nn 0. Gildy in Flickers WILLIAM WATERMAN, man hima Harold
about Ava Gardner an for the House of Representatives?
don'ty appreciate
the-air, will gO one step tren er in swiging Pea ry s thunder He'll be seen as a r actor in the movie : not in his role of Gildersleeve.
Fat Man Film J. SCOTT SMART, some odd pounds of radio private 5, eye, will go into the cinema soon, starring in an adaptation ¢
embarrassment recently when one of his first pictures was videoed
name, Stan Morner.:
Egg. or Chicken ANSWER tothe long-standing question of who came first. lulah’ Bankhead or Bette be solved ‘on Dec, Bette is slated to appear on radio broadcast coed vy Talluls ah.
Ever since their simllarity be- soon. It's called
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS of When they thaw the beast out,
"starts breathing, none the worse "from its extended deep freeze.
‘create a Fiv alry between them. To waves in a new
At the party, Joan alienates herself from the wife of Corey's boss through her high-handed methods. One of Corey's friends, Allyn Joslyn, tells Joan that Corey has been promoted, but will have to spend six months in Japan, Joan starts scheming. She tells "the boss that Corey is irosponcibly a” suc stopping the romofim, :
the ‘illness of her mother, ng and leaves the house in is in love with. her. pitches ‘a stag party. Joan returns early to find
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Double-Feature Film ' Theory Gets a Blast
Experiment Here Shows Main Picture Virtually Only Movie Drawing Power THE EXPERIMENT in showmanship at the Ritz and Zaring theaters, reported here three weeks ago, is a smash success, according to Zaring manager Weldon Parsons. The two North Side theaters decided to give their, patrons a break several weeks ago and started running the films to suit the public. Mondays through Thursdays, both
theaters have screened their| ~
main features at 8:45 p. m. (Patrons learned to
adjust themselves . to that schedule ‘Movie fans found that the 8:45 p. m, starting time was just right. They could be out of the theater
As for the second feature
sider essential to- business, the.
and Ibo Du- truth can be told in these figures: rocher may do the =a 7. with the program titled *
7 p. m. showing of second fea- ¢
"ture —average attendance, 75.
8:45 p. m. showing of main feature-- average attendance, 900.
10:30 p. m. showing of second is serving
feature--average attendance, 15. “My business is: better than usual,” Mr. Parsons said, “and people -I've never seen before will come up and congratulate me on the new policy. . No; I wouldn't change it now for any amount of money.” Mr.. Parsons went on to sa)
that the same thing is happening a porti - at the Ritz Theater: “The patrons
swarm ‘into the theatér shortly Vefore the main feature starts _ and when it is over, most of them make a general exodus through every available exit without so much as a backward, glance at the screen's second feature. n ” u
THIS ALL LEADS to a direct =
_ contradiction .of what the movie ’5 bigwigs contend.” At lhe ‘recent
convention of the Allied Theater Owners of Indiana here, a spokes-
archeologists discover man. for. one of the large com-
panies said double features are a
. necessity and claimed that T0 per
cent of all theater patrons. want the double bill, This thinking should earn him
Usually too busy catering to Joan, K. T. is slow to realize that Corey's assistant, Bill Bishop, When. Joan learns of the romance, -the immediately starts proceedings to break it up, afraid that K. T. will marry and "leave her, Ever Jaiviidl to Joan, K. T. bows to her wishes. LR ;
Actress Lauds aylor's Legs
Stanwyck Says They’ re ‘Jim Dandy’
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. I've got Barbara Stanwyck's
‘Taylor's legs—in case any= body's worried about them— are Just jim-dandy in “Quo
Bar rbara isn't saying how they'll
| tights or to Lex Barker's muscled {calves when he swings on those
“is. that Bob's legs are very good I saw them and
Take it from Barbara, just-any {movie profile king couldn’t put on the short, about-the-knee costumes
$7 million epic and get away with
» ” ” NOTHING'S BEEN i skirts since Clara
through Elinor .' {in the silent era. “Bob was concerned about his , all right,” Barbara deadlevels. “Believe me, he has nothing to worry about.”
looking over the director's shoulder in Rome while her better-half emoted in MGM's saga of Chris. 'tians and lions tangling in the
It was blazing hot
"title of honorary palibearer Rossellini and Anna ea call
+H the last theater dies of cel- _Bhudders Barbara:
rata Foon. wens
“T'with lions and “bulls. , smelled to high heaven.’ spend: their time eyeing the hole
=" ” o : THE ITALIANS gaped at Bare instead of the proverbial dough-
bara’s gray hair and some newse men described it in print as her
with the percentages of patrons Si
instead of the percentages of the. Barbara gave them the straight
of it on her Mother Machree locks, “I told them it just got gray. I hate bleached hair. loathe it. Some people tell me I aught to 3 something about my Good grief, why? She Me opraphed as blonde as Clark Gable's Sylvia when she costarred with Gable in-""To Please and she'll be hornswoggled if she’ll dip her tresses into y for a Lucille Ball * a Rhonda Fleming red. time Barbara batted her Gable, was when he was a Mr. Robady ha k in 1933 in
self-cannibalism, can methodically reduce the film
still be catering to the majority -of the people in the theater. this indjvidual probably will still
THE FIRST-RUN theaters will
n y ” “CLARK HAD a stinking role,” He played a chauf= . The picture made him a star, The-day it opened at the
r. was my name and Ben Lyon's on "The second day they changed the light to read, * : On the third day, t was Stanwyc ¢ ‘and Gable. The ; all you could see was
Owners should calculate this risk s and plan accordingly. taking a..stream- » train to New York, &
a lass who's right in there Rng in front of the S cameras when other movie queens
virus and a plain-pooped-out state S to producers who sugg i a good idea to do more than one picture a year. : She says she* Il do as many as
have gone bankrupt because their j products weren't up to the standard of the market. pany is too 2g to suffer a similar Aol tired sitting around.”
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When Corey learns it was Joan who ruined his "chance for advancement, he berates her in front of K. T. Realizing she, too, has been a dupe for Joan's plans, K. T. storms away to reclaim | . shattered by his wife's Joke also leaves. Joan left alone in the - too much. . servants Auk in. di