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THE DAILY NEBRASKA
Tuesday, May 28, 1940
movies radio hit parade broad way
Students . . .
Prefer their music smooth
'not too hot, not too cold7
Hot and swingy college boys are
out of the groove according to
Marco Thorne in a series in Va
riety, entertainment trade publi
cation. Thorne says college stu
dents like their music smooth
not too hot, not too cold.
A popular exponent of this "college-delight"
music is John Kirby
and his six Negro musicians.
Kirby calls his music "subtle
swing," while other writers say
it's "cool, yet stompy," "a wild
sort of rhythm," or "flowing
swing." You can't describe it but
Kirby can play it.
Turning to a more serious side,
Hanns Eisler, long recognized
composer who has scored some 15
films, will articulate techniques
for music in cartoon, document
ary, and feature films. Rockefeller
Foundation has donated $20,160
to the New School for Social Re-
Swinging
Along
. Floyd lrving;
The Andrews sisters are in Hol
lywood, to make a picture for
Universal. The picture weiit into
production last week, and will be
called Argentine Nights.
To insure themselves against
being victimized again by the
"fronting racket," students at
Louisiana State U. have added a
clause to their band contracts
stipulating that the orchestra any
leader uses on their dances must
have played with him for the 90
days preceding the engagement.
Richard Himber is first leader
to sign the "anti-fronting" clause.
He'll play the final dances of their
school year, May 31, June 1, 3.
With literally hundreds of po
licemen surrounding them, three
slightly corned Purdue U. students
the other night walked off with a
traveling bag containing three
new gowns belonging to Adrienne,
pretty greeneyed warbler with Joe
Sanders.
The band was playing the an
nual policemen's ball, and Adri
enne had left the bag containing
the dresses outside in a car. The
next day the valise was found
floating in the river, and the
youths were later apprehended.
The father of one promised to
make good the loss of the gowns
and traveling bag.
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1124 0 St.
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search to aid the project. Most of
the grant will be spent for re
cordings and publications.
Color photography is valuable,
not only because it is more at
tractive, but because, in movies,
it adds tremendous dramatic im
pact to important scenes.
Says Louis King, director of
"Typhoon:" "the importance of
color cannot be over-emphasized.
A new technique in the handling
of color has indicated the amaz
ing dramatic benefits to be re
ceived." Today, King says, "color
is being used for effect to create
mood and to emphasize dramatic
points."
A job a lot of us might like:
judges in a bathing beauty con
test with Taulette Goddard ns
model. Seventeen technicians, la
boring as electricians, prop men
and painters, had to decide which
of three bathing suits Miss God
dard was to wear in "The Ghost
Breakers."
If you're skeptical about your
acting, better try the stage before
the movies. Muriel Angelus, who
has acted in both pictures and on
the stage, says on the stage there
is no one to steal your fire, but
in the movies, many actors take
the spotlight.
Broadway . . .
nterviewer calls
Franchot Tone
poor thespian
By Joe Whltely.
TONED DOWN.
Forgive us if we sound a trifle
sadistic.
Hear the tale of a friend of ours
who went to interview Burgess
Meredith, the movie-radio-stage
star, whom you must have seen
in "Of Mice and Men."
The interview took place in the
Meredith suite at the Hotel
Gotham.
It was a fabulous question-and-answer
bout, one of those in which
the subject quizzes the interviewer
after a while.
Well, our frier.c launched out in
a prussic tirade against the
theater. Did he have aiiy particu
lar bad actors in mind, Meredith
asked.
Our friend did not hold back:
"Franchot Tone is the world's
worst, and whoever dreamed up
the idea of starring Tone in any
war drama ought to be peddling
coca cola in the North Pole."
Suddenly a door opened and a
handsome citizen strolled into the
living room.
"Hey, Tone," wagged the ir
repressible Meredith. "Here's an
admirer of yours."
"Yeah," retorted Tone. "I got
every word."
P. S. Meredith and Tone are
room-mates!
PASS THE POTATOES.
You girls who like your
starches will bow down and say
Alluh to Josephine Dillon, the
first M. Clark Gable,
That is .. you don't mind exer
( iHe. One o, nor rules for girls who
would be screen starlets is to keep
that torso streamlined by bending
down. Dieting is not for teen Hgc
girls she says.
BAGATELLES.
Charles Laughton who had the
Doctor Samuel Johnson societies
in England in a dither when he
said bad things about the English
lit character sent a cable to Lon
don telling them that it "aint so."
"I only said the script wasn't
good" said the actor Best selling
musical platters here are "Tuxedo
Junction," "Polka Dots and Moon
beams," "When You Wish Upon
a Star," Woodpecker Song,"
"Gone With the Wind," and "One-Two-Three-Kick.".
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William Holden and Bonita Granville in one of the scenes from
George Fitch's "Those Were the Days," which will open at the Stuart
tomorrow.
Those Were the Days' opens
tomorrow; Granville stars
Bettie Cox viewed premiere of comedy romance
in Galesburg; to be guest with 20 friends at Stuart
By Hubert Ogden.
"Those Were the Days," tho
comedy romance picture based on
the famous Siwash stories by
George Fitch, the preview of
which Bettie Cox saw in Gales
burg, will open tomorrow at the
Stuart.
Bettie and about 20 of her
friends whom she may wish to in
vite will be guests of the Stuart
for the opening of the picture. A
special block of seats will be re
served in the loge for the party.
Betty will also be a guest on Bar
ney Oldfield's raido program to
morrow night at 6:15 on KFOR.
Rampant college youth.
The picture is about the ram
pant college youth of an earlier
day. Portraying the familiar Fitcli
characters in this picture are a
fine group of young players, aided
and abetted by plenty of others
who have been performing longer.
Some of the younger actors are
William Holden, Bonita Granville,
Ezra Stone of "Henry Aldrich"
radio fame, and Judith Barrett.
Highlights of the picture have
been picked out of a number of
the plots taken from the Fitch
Saturday Evening Post tales
which delighted readers about 30
years ago and have been welded
into one smooth narrative whien
stresses the pranks of college
youths who wore chin-warmer
sweaters, and thought nothing of
Benny suggests
sponge corsets
for footballers
By Ava Wharton.
The players featured in the pic
ture "Buck Benny Rides Again,"
Benny himself, Rochester, and
Carmichael have revealed several
interesting things about them
selves recently.
Benny, after seeing the rushes
of the picture, applied for an in
surance policy against any sculp
tor fashioning an equestrian statue
of him. After his experiences rid
ing a wild horse in the picture, he
has also offered an idea gratis
to football coaches guaranteed to
prevent Injuries. Benny suggests
that each football player be given
corset-like sponge rubber pads and
a horse collar-like apparatus for
the neck and shoulder, explaining
that he also wore sponge rublx'r
hip pads for his fall in the picture.
Rochester, Eddie Anderson in
private life, an aviation enthusiast
studying for his pilot's license,
wishes to have a bill presented to
congress establishing a U. S.
army aviation school for Negroes.
Anderson plans to go to Washing
ton, D. C. himself to do what he
can to help Congressman John M.
Costello of Hollywood present the
bill. The film comic believes the
war department would gain hun
dreds of first-class pilots if the
school were established.
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playing 60 full minutes of bone
bruising football.
To make the picture authentic
Ted Reed, producer and director,
filmed most of the scenes at Knox
college, Galesburg, 111., conceded
to be the "Dear Old -Siwash" of
the Fitch stories. Against the tra
ditional backgrounds the camera
has been moved with keen artis
try, creating a mood which goes
back to gas lights, horseless car
riages, and college boys who were
the terror of any police force.
William Holden is seen as
"Petey" Simmons, the lad bent on
upsetting trolley cars and making
love to a certain Martha Scroggs
against her father's threats. Bo
nita Granville is the young lady
who goes buggy riding with him
Ezra Stone, as "Allie" Bangs, in
Petey's conspirator in breaking
up the peace of the college town
No school bells.
The ringing bells in the picture
have an interesting story back of
them. Paramount sound men sent
out to get the sound of loud ring
ing bells in Galesburg where the
picture was filmed. The school bell
there didn't work, but finally the
sound men received permission to
ring the church bell.
Unfortunately, they chose
a. m. in the morning for the time
to ring the church bell and the
men made plenty of noise with it.
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Studio, star
wonder about
cow-milking
MILKED FROM LEFT
Paramount studio was recently
mystified when they received
thousands of letters from all over
the USA mostly from farmers-
saying that Fred MacMurray.
shouldn't milk a cow fro mthe left.'
Fred knew it. and also knew he
was on the right side when he
milked bossie.
It finally came out that in a
still picture advertising "Remem
ber That Night," the photo-fin
isher had printed the negative
backwards.
HEART BEAT
When the studie tried to depict
the heart beat of Gulliver, in "Gul
liver's Travels" necessary to
alarm the Lilliput people the
first actor used was found to have
a heart that skipped a beat. Ine
second actor had a heart-murmur.
The third was accepted after he
had shown a doctor s guarantee.
NINE MONTHS OLD
Linda Rand, nine months old,
has been in films for almost one-
fourth of her life. Starting her
career when seven months old,
she has played in three different
films, her current role being
in "Emergency Squad."
IT'S A FACT
In "I Want a Divorce," the dra
matic fight scene which almost
ruins the cinematic marriage of
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell
was not hard to do the entire
scene is based on an actual inci
dent in their ow-i home.
Alarmed citizens awoke from their
sleep wondering what was hap
pening. Police sirens added to tne
din in a few minutes. The sound
men were still ignorant of what
they were doing. The police ar
rived and told them of the trouble
they were creating, but the sound
men escaped with only reprimands
and had their ringing bells re
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