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In ‘Lemon Drop Kid’
Movie Based on Damon Runyon
Character to Open
at Indiana
By R. K. SHULL
DAMON RUNYON, rustic rhythm, suspense shocker, Dick Powell on another manhunt, and “Valentino” re-
scheduled comprise the theater entries for the week.
Here's where and when they'll open: Drop Kid” (Indiana, Wednesday), Smiley Burnette: Stage
Revue (Lyric, Thursday), “Seven Days to Noon” (Esquire,
Friday), “Cry Danger” (Circle, Thursday), and “Valentino” (Loew's, next Saturday).
Timid Tout In black and white.
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BOB HOPE portrays one of
Damon Runyon’s favorite characters, “The Lemon Drop Kid,” a Broadway race tout. He makes the mistake of passfng a bum tip tq gangleader Fred Clark, and Clark drops $10,000 on a slow horse. Not a humorous bone in his body, Clark gives Hope 23 days, until Christmas Eve, to raise $10,000. Hope enlists the aid of Marilyn Maxwell in a scheme to raise funds for an old ladies’ home, the funds for which he intends to borrow long enough to pay off Clark. Hope and the other Broadway flotsam don Santa Claus suits and soon drum up the necessary $10,000. Another gangster, Lloyd Nolan, catches on to Hope's racket and relieves him of the cash. Marilyn snubs Hope for his chicanery. When the Christmas Eve deadline arrives, Hope has to pull a rapid triple-cross to get the two gangsters off his back and Marilyn back in his arms. He does. |!
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{addition to a collection of stage cowboys slated for the Lyric, the theater will have a pony in the lobby, upon which Junior may have his picture taken—for a
small charge.
This is a left-handed approach to the fact that Smiley Burnette (the sloppy gent who's played the “sidekick” role in a few thousand horse operas) will bring a Western revue to that theater's stage.
Of course, there'll be the usual line-up of gee-tar and bull fiddle specialists, a girl who gives dance interpretations of Western tunes and a pair of mimics who use face masks along with their imitations.
Still at It
In black and white.
FOR THE first few years of his film carezr, Dick Powell was cast as a crooner, always smiling and innocent like a churchmouse. Then someone discovered he could balance a cigaret on his lower- lip. Since then he’s been -a battered and bruised ‘‘searcher.”
Always a lone wolf (the nasties usually kill his cohort in the first reel), Powell searches for missing witnesses, spys, crooked cops, criminals and sundry other characters. In “Cry Danger,” his latest “search” picture, he's trying to nab a couple of crooks.
Seems that these two crooks framed him and his pal, so while
~ his pal is still cooling his heels in
prison, Powell starts searching. As usual, Powell picks up a girl
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alternates the production of musi- { cals between black and white and | color, it’s quite easy for anyone | to be misled. In this progressive age, the film public goes to the
"Cry Danger" (Circle, Thursday);
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Smiley Burnette, and his Western
troupe, on stage (Lyric, Thursday); Eleanor Parker and Tony Dexter in "Valentino" (Loew's, next Saturday), and Bob Hope's girl friends,
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during the course of his search-/ theater on the assumption that a
whole world who thinks he’s inno- West Point Story,” Warner Bros.
reel you find out she’s right.
it’s Rhonda Flem- pig-star musical will be in color. only one in the, On “April Showers” and “The
now, in the last inadvertently duped you. So that it won't happen again,
benefits down-at-the-heels and upcoming thespians). Membership.of ANTA includes anyone who's anyone on stage.
Andrea King, Aileen Stanley Jr. and Marilyn Maxwell, in "The footage from the entire series of it to the pub Lemon Drop Kid" (Indiana, Wednesday).
reel boys a set of high compression ulcers. The movie people received their first blow when the
ings and edited it into one 52minute feature. Idea, of course, is is an ideal
to give you a bigger, broader long-standing question: “What's picture. Sole selling point is that wrong with the movies?”
lic. It's due to start|to public opinion at a financial New York and Washington hear- at the Circle Theater in five days. loss, why can't the local movies
The local handling of this film men give the public what it de-
test answer to the sires at a profit? The theaters’ indifferent attitude toward the public in this
BANDSTER — Sunnie Andon.
Slip's Showing
2 a each film hereafter mentioned in fs ww =» Army Signal Corps decided to re[this column will be designated “in lease all the Korean War film black and white’ or “in color.” Rudy Rehashed footage to teevee and the news8s = In color. reels simultaneously. TV can
LAST WEEK this column con-
‘tended that “Lullaby of Broad-
way,” now at the Circle Theater, was filmed in black and white. It's not. It's in color.
But most of the blame can be placed on the adobe doorstep of Warner Bros. studios which neglected to mention the credit to the high-falutin’ company which churns out the color film for them. It was wholly unfair for this column to mislead the public on
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o Big Deal SOMETHING UNUSUAL for Hollywood will be the filming of an opus titled “The Great Moments,” featuring all the big i®es of the American legitimate stage. : A film company has signed with the American National Theater and Academy to film the brightest
AFTER LAST WEEK'S lengthy post-mortem on Rudolph Valentino’s home life, little can be said other than the film biography has been postponed a week to make way for a holdover on “Royal Wedding.” You'll see Tony Dexter and Eleanor Parker in the leading roles of “Valentino” starting next Saturday at Loew's instead of today.
screen its footage in a matter of minutes. For the movies it takes days. Now, the movie boys are facing the same sort of crisis on the home news front. While television gave daily coaxial cable coverage to the Kefauver crime hearings, the movie boys were non-plussed for a method to meet the competition. To show the individual hearings
if you can walt a few days, you can see the highlights of the whole investigation at one shot
{and spare the eye-strain of tuning
in on teevee for each daily episode. Remarkable speed has been shown by the film company which is putting together the movie house account of the hearings. A copy of the film covering the Kefauver investigation - through last Tuesday's session arrived in Indianapolis Thursday morning, all ready to be shown.
Between now and Thursday, the local film people will yammer like housewives on Dollar Day with a thousand and one reasons
why the film can’t be shown be-
commitments, and such palaver. Well, here's big knife in the ribs of the movie boys, but don’t foron occasions when the public so desired, WFBM-TV, has
cleared its channel at a financial
case, may be one good reason for the public's’ Indifference toward the theaters. By next Thursday when this film opens at the Circle, if you're still interested, you'll be able to see such sterling characters as Frank Costello (complete with face and smoker’s hack), Virginia Hill, Joe Adonis, “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, Eye-shaded Senator Tobey and Senator Kefauver. Most of the action takes place
sow. is the eye-filling vocalist
. . ’ you think back with Jimmy Palmer's orchestra
'Seven Days to Noon’
SUNDAY-—Demented atom scientist ‘Barry Jones flees from a London A-bomb research lab with one of the bombs in "Seven Days to Noon," opening Friday at the Esquire Theater. He warns a government official he'll blow up London unless
atom bomb manufacturing is ceased.
4 Bros. did to you on “The West | at the Indiana Roof for dances Point Story,” the pain is removed. profits and turn over the proceedsy TRYING to keep pace with teletonight and tomorrow night. | When a company continually|to ANTA (an organization which vision is giving the movie news-
“Lyllaby of Broadway,”. but when!'stars of stage in excerpts from
to what Warner their greatest roles. The filmsters will forego their
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old beer.
in the theaters now would be about as savory as a glass of day- wizzards don't realize the impor-
loss to brin Unfortunately, the local film g cial events, su
Indianapolitans spe-
g in the committee's New ors eh as two champion- e Yors,
chamber, with a few closing shots
tance of this news story, and ship fights, and, of course, the from jts Washington headquarters
So, the filmsters have smart- that's why they're going to wait Kefauver hearings. ened up. They've taken all their'one week, until Thursday, to open! If television stations will bow junket finally wound un.
where the cross-country crime
MONDAY MORNING-~Andre Morell of Scotland Yard, Sheila Manahan and Hugh Cross start - ‘the search for the scientist and the missing bomb. The prime minister calls a cabinet meeting to prepare for the evacuation of London in event that the bomb isn't uncovered before the deadline. Hysteria is in the air.
WEDNESDAY MORNING—Hiding in a rooming house, Jones makes the landlady (Joan Hickson) suspicious by his strange excited actions. Fearing she'll reveal him to the authorities, Jones flees and attempts to find shelter elsewhere. The government has hailed in all detecting agencies to aid.in the great manhunt.
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THURSDAY NIGHT-—To confuse his pursuers, Jones takes up company with an aging variety star, Olive Sloane, and after making the rounds of unlikely pubs, they go to. her flat. Following morning, officials begin to evacuate London, using all the wartime emergency measures to speed the people away.
SUNDAY MORNING—Detectives trace Jones and Olive Sloane to’ Westminster church, but Jones silences her when she tries to scream out. Jones attempts to escape the police at 11:45 a. m. and is shot down. With the scientist dead, the police have 15 minutes to locate the bomb.
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