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Legs, Lawyers, Spies

"I WAS AN AMERICAN spy"

And Bing in New Films

MOVIES AT the downt

own theaters next week will

offer a song and dance, courtroom drama, World War II intrigue and a bit of Der Bingle. Opening Thursday at the Circle is “Meet Me After the

Show” starring Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey. Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien and Diana Lynn are featured in “The People Against O'Hare,” which is slated to open its first city run at Loew's on Wednesday. The Lyric will present “I Was An Americar Spy,” with Ann Dvorak ind Gene Evans, Thursday. The Indiana will open its week Tuesday with “Here Comes the Groom.” Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Franchot Tone and Alexis Smith share top billings. The “Esquire will feature .a _second-run.attrgetion, “Kon-Tiki,” starting Friday.

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Lovely Legs BETTY GRABLE sings, dances and romances with three men in “Meet Me After the Show” (Cir¢le, Thursday). One of the features is the sing-

“ing of MacDonald Carey, who

hasn't been allowed a note in a picture or stage show since he left. the Broadway production “Lady in the Dark” some 10 years ago. Carey and Miss Grable vocalize

simi t— rend

RETURNS — The Esquire Theater is bringing back the movie version of the popular Indianapolis Times' serial, 'KonTiki." It is the story of six men who sail from Peru to the Polynesian Islands.

"Here Comes

on the tunes “Meet Me After the Show," “Bettin’ on a Man,” “A Day in Maytime,” “It's a Hot Night in Alaska,” ‘“No Talent Joe,” and “I Feel Like Dancing.” The plot has Betty trying to get a divorce from Carey. She then changes her mind and tries to win him back. In top supporting . roles are rugged Rory Calhoun, who gained prominence in “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain,” and Eddie Albert, comic, movie producer and explorer.

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CO-STARRING in “The People.

Against O'Hara” Wednesday) are Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana. Lynn and John Hodiak#. The plot has Spencer Tracy, a

(Loew's,

once prominent criminal lawyer now in civil ‘practice. returning to hig former position to defend Jim

Arness, "who Tracy believes "is

falsely accused of murdering his boss. Diana Lynn, Tracy's daughter, decides to delay her marriage to Richard Anderson, so she can be at her father’s side. Pat O’Brien portrays the arresting officer, who is torn between a long-time friendship with Tracy and his duty to John Hodiak, the district attorney. Arness is proven guilty and Tracy appeals the case. He finds the alibi he is looking for when he

makes the dark-haired beauty Yvette Duguay, who played Mario Lanza's sweetheart in “The Great Caruso,” to admit Arness was with her the night of the murder. Tracy continues his hunt for

the real murderer. His discovery brings a snap ending to the movie. This movie is the first in which Spencer Tracy and Pat O’Brien have co-starred, although their lives have run on a parallel. They were born in Milwaukee in the same year, made their acting debuts in the same Christmas play at the age of nine, played in, the same high school band, were assigned to the Great IL.akes naval training base during World War I, entered Marquette University after the war and scored hits on Broadway before coming to Hollywood. Se

Turns Spy ANN DVORAK portrays a sultry singer in a Manila nightclub just as the Philippine capital is falling to Japanese in “I Was An

the Groom’

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Bing Crosby, American newspaperinan, is shown with the

French orphans he adopts in ''Here

omes the Groom" (Indiana,

Tuesday). He has agreed to be married within a week after returning to the states or the children must return to France. Be-

fore

aving, he arranges for a blind orphan with a glorious

singing voice also to be adopted. wy

Loew's

"THE PEO

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™ Francis Says, ‘People :Outmoded’

BY FRANCIS, THE MULE

(For Erskine Johnson, who is on vacation)

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25—Folks, don't send your talented son or

: daughter to Hollywood in the hdpe

that “he or she, will crash the Send your dog, cat or Or if you have a skunk.

movies. jackass.

F send that.

Because we animals have taken over, in the film studios. No longer do talent scouts peer appraisingly

lat pretty faces and shapely limbs,

or listen hopefully to the singing

| voices ‘of talented youpgs{ers.

Instead {héy're following the spoors of wild and domesticated

beasties, tracking down the talent,

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NEXT WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS—First-run movies to be featured at downtown theaters during the coming week include Ann Dvorak in "| Was an American Spy" (Lyric, Thursday), Betty Grable

and Eddie Albert in "Meet Me After the Show! People Against O'Hara" (Loew's, Wednesday).

American Spy” (Lyric, Thursday). ~

Hollywood Creates Mexico

She is married to Douglas Kena hurried ceremony at Kennedy immediately

.nedy in Pilar. leaves for Corregidor to help defend the island bastion, After Manila falls, Miss Dvorak

hides out in the jungle. She meets 2

Gene Evans of the U. 8S. Army, who has become a guerrilla fightWhile the two are in the jungle, they watch the Bataan Death March. Ann Dvorak sees

her husband die before her eyes.

er,

Miss Dvorak decides to help Evans by. spying on Japanese. She regains her old job at the

nightclub by using another singer's papers. She gets buddy-buddy with the high-ranking Japanese officers. She

and relays them to

information Her

gleans bits of Evans. couriers are discovered one-by-one and shot. At last, she, tuo, is apprehended, tortured and sentenced to death. Also featured in the movie are Richard “Loo, L.eon Lontok, Chabing, Philip Ahn, Marya Marco, Nadine Ashdown, Lisa Ferraday, Howard Chuman and Freddie Revelala.

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' (Circle, Thursday) and Yvette Duguay in "The

Resort on Sound Stages

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25 (UP) Hollywood is back at pastimes:

one of its favorite Bringing the mountain to Mohammed. Rather than send a company south of the border, RKO Radio transformed the in-

location

teriors of two adjoining sound stages into _an entire Mexican

beach resort. It is complete with

lodge buildings, cabanas, swimming: pool, palm . trees, bathing

beauties and 75 well-heeled

them Jane Rus-

Mitchum,

guests, sell, - Robert

among Vincent

Price and Tim Holt. Flanked by tropical palms and overlooking the sea, the $§80-a-day hideaway is the setting for

the studio's thriller, ‘“‘Smiler With

a Gun.” The main lodge buildings cover an area the size of a football field and were designed by Mac Johnson, art director, as dramatic examples of advanced modern architecture.

Arriving in Néw York, he finds Jane Wyman, the girl he thought. he was going to marry, engaged to her boss, Franchot Tone. Miss Wyman agrees to help Bing find a home for the children, but that's all. Bing and Robert Keith decide to teach Alexis

Smith, who is in love with her distant cousin, Tone,

* "whistle bait’ and win Tone.

how to be

“Long, low lines

angles are the heart

and sharp of modern said. “Notice

design,” Johnson

used for

functional as well as artistic ef-

how they have been

fect.” By placing wall extensions at abrupt angles, he was able to dispense with interior doors without sacrificing privacy. Vertical, lou-

vered panels were used instead of

windows for the cabanas. The floor of the lodge is polished ebony, decorated with brightly-

colored, free-form figures, A freestanding,fireplace, recessed in the floor, replaces the customary wall fireplace. The abstract-shaped swimming pool is filled with 9000 gallons of heated, - distilled water dyed a brillant gold. A crew of 100 spent 12 days building the set, Furniture was built by RKO to Johnson's specifications. A Mexican motif crops up in carved Mayan heads used as lamp bases, Carved Aztec figures hold other table lamps.

The number, and not the contours, of a prospective star's legs are what interest the casting directors now. The human biped, being limited to two, is at a disadvantage. The girl who has spent her youth in drama classes

also is handicapped. Her ears aren't long enough. So unless you have reared a

duck-billed platypus, an aardvark, a wombat or a garden variety of domestic quadruped, you haven't raised film fodder. n ” J THREE YEARS versal-International making There were no

AGO, UniStudio,

pictures

for example, was starring bars on brooms and shovels cluttered up the sound stages. It was a business by, of and for the people. Then, apparently, Noah backed his ark up against a breach in the studio wall and sent a snake inside to infiltrate and make a few suggestions, No anti-hiss-tamine being available, the studio bosses gave ear.

people.

dressing rooms and no

un on ” NOAH'S first order was for me, Francis, the talking mule. They named my first picture for me. After the producers saw the film, they began to view human actors with distaste. Hastily they ordered another screenplay for me and called it “Francis Goes to the Races,” and ordered more animals from Noah. Down the ark'’s

even

gangplank

trotted a smart chimpanzee

Miss Wyman wants Tone to marry her immediately. He points out that his family Hoesn't do things that way. Bing schemes with Miss Smith to make a play for her cousin. Jane Wyman becomes

involved in a wrestling match with her at the wedding rehearsal.

This plan backfires when Tone admires her more for her return to

natural humanness. ih

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: : Circle "MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW"

named Bonzo, ‘who made a com- starring Academy Award winner edy and became better known Josephine. Hull, Howard Duff than the Uniteq and Mona Freeman, the’ cast in- : cluded a skunk named Annabella States ex Jarry ¢ ol 3 ; ' Sates except Harry Truman and a‘cat known as Mr. Comey, a oom Douglas MacArthur,

Then Noah simply opened the a calf known as George and a end-gate of his barge, the orders passel of chickens referred to

came so fact, and out of his pre- throughout the . picture as the Stebbins family.

The animals have as much to

anybody in

historic LLST screeched, bellowed, barked and yammered . almost every species of animal known to the cracker manufacturers.

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“Fine Day” as the people in the cast. Annabella, the skunk. in ae fact, may be starred in her ngxt WHEN A “Fineypicture as the result of her perDay” want into production “¢o- formance in this film. ; ERE . .

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MIDNIGHT FEATURE—This vivacious blonde is Lila Leeds, who will be appearing tonight in a midnight attraction at the Lyric. The 11:30 p.m. movie, "She Shoulda Said No," tells the story of a young girl who leaves her Kansas farm for the big city.

Bing still has another trick in reserve. He gets Charles Lane, a fellow reporter, to pretend to arrest Tone for kidnaping the two children, whom Tone also had intended to adopt as soon as he was married. This causes a last-minute sensation at ing and Miss Wyman are wed. Jane then reveals she

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