Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1951 — Page 9

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"MA AND PA KETTLE BACK ON THE FARM"

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. Marjorie Main Film | Next Circle Feature

‘The Mudlark’ Due Back at Esquire; ‘Only the Valiant’ Is Indiana Offering

By HENRY BUTLER HOOSIER M orie Main again will appear on the local | screen, this time in "Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm,”| next Thursday at the Circle. In alphabetical order of theaters, the other major film offerings will be “The Mudiark” (Esquire, next Friday) ; “Only the Valiant” (Indiana, Wednesday); “The Great |

Caruso” (Loew's, Saturday), Te %e Diora: ot Hor Sotto] i ma pictures at the om | and a par of re-releases, of this page. Not much need be| “Dodge City” and “Virginia'added here to that summary, | City” (Lyric, Thursday). Fave ua! fie Sis hay historieal) “Ma and Pa Kettle Back on yal bony re wene goea-| the eg Ihe Be brought the Indian a hew bless-| It brings the Kettles and their 15 ng 3 Jyilization-=1n this ase, Esqiure Eu ow fet ot 20." Otherwise. the picture has tne| "SEVEN DAYS TO NOON" ventures, including suspected érwise, the picture €| baby-snatching, the or of dis- always interesting feature of real’ covering uranium: deposits on ‘Western background. their farm and a lively contro- = versy "between Ma and Pa and “THE GREAT CARUSO” is a some Boston socialite in-laws. screen biography of the most fa‘The Mudiark,’ making a Te- nous tenor the Metropolitan turn visit to Indianapolis, is the Opera ever has had. It stars screen version of Theodore Bon-'ip. Met's newest tenor sensation net's best-selling novel about the zrarig Lanza, in what undoubtedstreet urchin and Queen Victoria. jg an idealized version of the As you recall, the ragged wistful great Enrico’s career. No film

® little kid makes his way into 7 : ; could adequately deal with Caru- C d Windsor Castle and into the au- 9 4 ana ian

so's impishness and his genially ® Play Dies

FILM FARE—On local screens next week will be (upper left): ee ¢ 4 4 Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main, in "Ma and Pa Kettle Back on a RW : : : ily the Farm" (Circle, Thursday); Errol Flynn, in the midst of that upper Te Sh 3 right mob scene, in "Dodge City" (Lyric, Thursday); Barry Jones (center), as the mad professor in “Seven Days to Noon," (held over at the Esquire until next Friday), and Ann Blyth, as Dorothy, and Mario Lanza, as Enrico, in ‘The Great Caruso” (Loew's, Saturday).

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gust presence of Victoria herself. uninhibited Old World behavior in thereby causing a whole series of certain situations.

upheavals > y seh . Fheavaliin the lo 8] honsehisia: But this picture does sketch the " amazing success story—one of

HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 14 (UP)—|On the screen it looks like forever. [bred ingredients and they have The problem of whether movies: “It would give the hero time to/the makings of a combination a 1 1 - 4: ” Vio I I yo influence morals or morals in-/count every one of the heroine’s powerful enough to take the curl

the most phenomenal of all time. At the height of his career, Caruso commanded the highest performance fees in Metropolitan Opera history. Naturally, he ran into jealousy and difficulties, Playing the role of Dorothy, ni the girl Caruso married, is Ann : hal Blyth, with soprano Dorothy : Kirsten in the brilliant supporting cast. The film has lots of music— scenes from some of the bestknown operas—besides authentic

probably England's most versatile screen actor, playing BenJamin Disraeli. = ” » “ONLY THE VALIANT,” the Indiana's offering, is briefly sum-

Fast Death-

By JACK GAVER NEW YORK, Apr. 14—About the only grousing heard concerning the drama critics so far this season has come from Canadians, especially those with French blood. The bone of contention ‘is the Canadian success “Ti-Coq” which lasted a fast three performances

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fluence movies may have an an- eyelashes, one at a time,” Mr. out of a man’s whiskers.”

swer soon. After decades of short, censored mathematics on pecks, a movie is coming out with

Small said. “That is, if he had

his mind.”

It’s so bad, he said, that he has to submit his beard to special Four seconds doesn't sound that makeup ministrations for 20th

some of the long kisses featured long, but because of the darkened Century-Fox’ “Will You Love Me on the silent screen. Now it's up theater, the enormous images and jp to somebody to find out whether the intensity of the story which gragged him here in the first the man who's been kissing his is stopped for the kiss, the four-/place

wife as he runs out the front door Second kiss becomes a lifetime.

steps wraps her up for a four-| second embrace.

On the other maybe the four-second

hand,

they'll find out he's been doing entino.” That was between Greta

scorcher in “Val-

December,”

the bait that

“My beard takes on an added Mr. Small said there had been luster,” he explained coldly, “in only one movie kiss longer than places where the seasons change.”

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like

the sun

that all along and the movies just Garbo and John Gilbert in “Flesh California even “when got hep. and the Devil.” It lasted five and beams down from cloudless skies. Somebody ought to ask them, one-half seconds. Customers “An absolutely merciless celes« producer Edward Small . thinks. [fainted all over the place. |tial oven,” he calls it. But not Mr, Small. { The Johnston office doesn't! “It saps a man’s vigor, fades The average length of a kiss in have any stop watch on kisses. the purest color, slows all activity a picture today is less than one It just démands that they stay in to a still-life tableau and drives full second. That, Mt. Small says, [800d taste. It okayed “Valentino” the entire community, like lemmovie industry. Current income!French and later English ver- is encouraging a lot of husbands Without a murmur. I he march lo Whe seas . yr Vor : i in slipshod behavior. 4.8 = : s ’ . from old productions I Je fotsions, Ble New York critics ERA Co L a 1 34p 2 Ry 2 THERE'S nothing like a visit, ‘The pace slackens, a drabness fouch of claret on’ filet ienon Il al Actor Gi a CC a ; : = | IN FOUR separate scenes in to southern California, Monty sets in, the creative processes be- | In this instance, however, the first act of his play but said thas i Small’s Columbia production, Woolley contends, to make you gin to atrophy and you have a films have more than average in-|after that it fell apart. : “Valentino,” Anthony Dex ter appreciate home. city of bench sitters, warming terest. Both of them star Errol| French Canadians seemed to kisses Eleanor Parker as follows: After a vacation in happy Hol- their tired bones in the sunlight, Flynn. “Dodge” also has Olivia De|view the reception’ as a reflection On shipboard,” where they meet, lywood, to Mr. Woolley, any place absorbed only in the shameful Havilland and Ann Sheridan.|upon themselves. two and one-half seconds; on the else looks good. begging of the park pigeons.” “Virginia” boasts Miriam Hop-| Anyway, Fridolin has been balcony at a dance, where they | “This distant outpost of Times Give him the Empire state, he kins, Randolph Scott and Hum- philosophical about it in public. meet for the second time, three Square,” he sputtered, “is the argued, even if he has to stay in phrey Bogart in {its supporting [He said in Toronto recently: J 9 seconds, in a sequence of a movie hack-and-sneeze capital of the his hotel room to keep out of the juove) will bring his band, [cast “I had to prove to myself and within the movie three times at world. rain, snow, cold or heat. eaturing Sunnie Anderson, | The tales of the two cities are, others that I can take the blows ai ' PPO two seconds each and ofice at| “They dilute the fog- with a “At ‘least it will be air-condi= |you don't need reminding, stories|as well as the successes. The New “ i : : (four seconds; and in his Cottage generous helping of obnoxious ex- tioned,” he said. ’ {of romance and gun-packin’ rough |York incident has given me a CANDID," OF COURSE—Lana Turner and Ezio Pinza {at Malibu, four seconds. {haust fumes. They throw in the| As soon as his movie chore is stuff in two of the most uproar-|chance to find out if I can take obligingly pose for an unposed shot in the studio where they are | That may sound like a short|aroma of yesterday's orange blos- completed, he's going back to lous towns the West ever knew. it.” | i "Mr. Imperium,” their forthcoming vehicle. jtime to experts in the subject. soms. They add a few other home- home base.

Preview: "Only the Valiant"

in New York. Most: of the critics have received heckling letters about this comedy by and with Canada's THE LYRIC'S pair of re-re-|acting favorite, Gratien Gelinas, leases," “Dodge City” (1939) and Who is familiarly known as Frid“Virginia City" (1940), are an- olin. It ran for some two years other example of thrift in the/in Montreal in both the original

backgrounds of New York and the Met nearly half a century ago. n t J tJ

ROOFTOPPER — Jimmy

"Dancing Shoes” Palmer

vocalist, back to the Indiana Roof for dancing tonight and tomorrow night.

YE ca : Back at his post, Peck is told he has been promoted to commandant as a reward of bravery, and will replace the now ailing colonel. Barbara realizes Peck is innocent of responsibility: for Young's death, Now the two are free to plan Bd future happiness. ne a

What the reinforcements lack in numbers they make up with a new "secret weapon''—the Gatling gun, which now is used for the first time in the war against the Indians. The terrible slaughter caused by the rapid-fire gun reduces the formerly arrogant Apaches to surrender. They throw down their arms and run, leaving the Army force in command of the situation, and incidentally providing an opportunity for reuaion and explanation between Peck and Barbara.

Despite her genuine love for Peck, Barbara shares the commor belief concerning Young's death. She drives him away, and he seeks forgetfulness in ‘still another perilous scouting operation. Greatly outnumbered by the Apaches, the frontier troops are threatened with extinction. Their delayed reinforcements, only 31 in number, apparently offer no effective opposition to the Indians.

.. Rivalry in love against an old Wild West background is the theme of "Only the Valiant, coming next Wednesday to the Indiana. Gregory Peck (center) and Gig Young (right), competing for the hand of Barbara Payton, both are sent on dangerous Army ung is killed, everybod * believes Peck engineered the fatal assignmefit to eliminate his rival.

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