The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 15

SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27 1940 THE OSDEN STANDARD EXAMINER Artillery But Little Gunplay p-MJNN-Y SUHhkfi This Pair Will Open Concert Series MARX BROTHERS i PROGRAM-SET i TEST A SCREAM MAKE WESTERN i 4c MAY RP EPATIIRC It's Short On Horses and iJlll I Vim I In I I UltLa Red SkelWs Trial Film Shooting But Long On Music By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff May Make Money for 1 I I St HV r-f V'-- His Studio HOLLYWOOD The maniac Marx Brothers have finished a By PAUL HARRISON NBA Service Staff picture called "Go West" but as a western it ranks somewhere be HOLLYWOOD The busiest strip tween the Conev Island fun houjp of film in the whole film capital is a Metro screen test of Comedian and a night club rodeo Which of course is as it should be Richard Skelton It won him a job PIANO ARTISTS Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiottl exponents of "two-piano music that sounds like two pianos" who will open the current Ogden community-Weber college greater concert series in Ogden Tuesday at eight-thirty In Ogden high school auditorium weeks ago and he already has Defense Induces Air-Movie Cycle HOLLYWOOD Oct 25 (AP) The national defense program appears to be inspiring a new airplane-movie cycle Recently produced were "20800 Men a Year" a film based upon the government's new training program for pilots and "Young America Flies" a short subject Now under way in the studios are three major air features all with important casts and two more short subjects Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer is making "Flight Command" naval "air force story featuring Robert Taylor Walter Pidgeon and Paul Kelly and "Eyes of the Navy" a short Warner's plans "50000 Flyer starring Ronald Reagan and "Wings of Steel" a short to be shot at Randolph Field Paramount has "I Wanted Win xs" in which Wayne Morris Ray Mil-land and William Holden supoosed-ly learn to fly at Randolph Field Movie Siar's London -Home Struck By Bomb HOLLYWOOD Oct 25 (UP) Edward Gwenn British actor received word Saturday that a German bomb had demolished his London home built in 1750 The 63-year-old actor now playing in "Cheers for Miss Bishop said he had lived in the old mansion 35 years He said his wife" butler and servants were safe in an ai raid shelter when the bomb landed Harpo is glimpsed on a horse in one scene but you can't say that iinished his role as a fellow avi any of the brothers really does ator with Bob Taylor in "Flight any riding All westerns have to Command" But that initial test keeps reeling alone have a big chase sequence but the one in this picture takes place on a train with the fugitive Executives invite friends to see it Other studios borrow it for laughs Stanwyck Puts Good Yarn Before Fancy Trimmings comics uncoupling cara and mak M-Q-M is considering issuing it as a short The tali young redhead was allowed to do anything he ing the locomotive scurry around through the sagebrush like an army tank The Marxes don't do any fancy six-gun work either although Harpo does blow open a i cnose so ne put on a one-man vaudeville program highlighted by satirical impressions of various safe with a cannon He does it' to 'Let the Others Have the Trappings1 Says Actress movie heroes dying get the deed to a ranch which is Watching the well-timed nanto AIANIACAL Diana Lewis with Groucho Harpo and Chico Marx mime and neckfalls I felt pretty 'sure Red Skelton must have had some training in burlesaue And so the keystone of a dastardly land-grafting scheme That gives you an idea of the story Groucho Plucks A Guitar Harpo and Chico included their respective harp and piano spe lots oi aruiiery Dur nine gunplay he had but he got it in lots of other places in every form of show business" actually except Million Dollar Sparkle cialities in every film except grana opera and carnivals Vaude BY ALICE PARDOE WEST Standard-Examiner Staff HOLLYWOOD Oct 26 A few minutes with Barbara Stanwyck over on the Paramount lot the other day proved most interesting I had always considered her attractive and a truly fine actress but was totally unprepared for what I found when I met her made up for ville of course and burlesaue dra "Duck Soup" and "Room Service" The omissions brought a flood of matic stock companies radio and Goes Unnoticed In 'Taltes" complaints from fans so "Go West 1 movies has been given an extra quota of loose would De Dlentv for an FORTUESDAY 'Rhapsody In Blue Among Numbers Slated for Evening Jacques Fray and Mario Brag-giotti duo-pianists today notified officials of the Ogden community-Weber college greater concert series of their program which will be given at eight-thirty Tuesday in Ogden high school auditorium Eleven numbers will comprise the evening's presentation and they will range from Bach and Wagner through Debussy and Ravel to George Gershwin Highlights of the program will be the "Rhapsody in Blue" and BraggiottL's own "Caricatures on Yankee Doodle' The program: "Organ Fantasy and Fugue in Minor" by Bach "Liebestod" from "Tristan and Isolde" by Wragner "Coronation" from "Boris Godoun-off' by Moussorgsky "Malaguena" by Lecuona "La Cathedrale Eng-loutie" by Debussy "L'isle Joueuse" by Debussy "Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte" by Ravel "Bolero" by Ravel waltz medley "Wien! Wien!" by Slezynski and "Live Laugh and Love" by Heymann "Rhapsody in Blue" by Gershwin and "Five Caricatures on the Theme of Yankee Doodle" by BraggiottL played on basketball teams took part in dramatics and taught Sunday school Working after school as a bundle wrapper and telephone operator she saved enough money to take dancing lessons and at the age of fifteen she had worked up from a night club entertainer to a chorus girl in Ziegfeld's "Follies" Willard Mack former Salt Lake actor was producing on Broadway at that time and gave her a part in "The Noose" He and David Belasco no doubt saw a future fo'r the attractive entertainer and changed her name from Ruby Stevens to Barbara (from Barbara Fritchie) Stanwyck (from June Stanwyck) This name evidently brought her luck for from then on she got her breaks After a stage career she started in pictures and "Ladies of Leisure" gave her the chance she needed Since that time she has appeared in many hit films Among them are "So Big" "Illicit" "Annie Oakley" "Stella Dallas" and others Some of her recent ones are "Union Pacific" "Golden Boy" and "Remember the Night" "I love horses" she said and then told me of the Marwyck stables owned by her and Zeppo Marx "We hope to make this investment a very profitable one" she stated Incidentally some of the finest blooded horses in the west are grazing on this estate Miss Stanwyck is very happy with her husband Robert Taylor at their home in Beverly Hills and she tells me that horses have also become Bob's hobby "We spend a lot of our time when we are not busy entertaining our friends informally and reading" Miss Stanwyck stated There are 60000 to 75000 -in the average beehive music Komantic-Hero John Carrol actor of 27 but Skelton has worked with a medicine show trouped with Bv TED GILL has two songs one with harmonica I her new picture "Lady Eve" HOLLYOOD Oct All accompaniment by Harpo the other tent snows sailed with the show The director Preston Sturees that glitters mav not be erold boat Cotton Blossom on the big (who is also a writer) had DUt the particularly in this razzle-dazzling witn guitar plunking by Groucho It's an odd fact that the eldest Marx actually a guitarist of con river toured with a circus as a Ogden last few touches on the scene ready for Barbara's entrance and called clown He has appeared in tele land of gilded make-believe but sometimes the sparkle of genuine cert skill never had played it in vision And as a master of cere diamonds causes much less her She appeared in the archway of the luxurious settine and as Mr monies he has pretty much hit the curiosity than the uhonv lustre of iow ana nign spots of his career many a cheap paste imitation Sturges stood coaching Eugene Pal-lette with a few suggestions he a picture or a show He wasn't scheduled to play in this picture but they finally let him when he began to grow pouty about it As a guitar-strummer Groucho thus His announcing once brightened Restaurant 25th and Wall- bhow cases of motion picture those dreary festivals of fatigue Opinions of Actors Differ ammina BYj HUBBARD KEAVTf HOLLYWOOD Oct 26 (AP) You and il have been calling actors "hams" for years and I think we do not know what we are talking about Does it" mean they are overacting underacting acting well or acting abominably? turned and saw Barbara Ogden property departments are filled me waiKatnons And in the last two vears he has with vast assortments of fak displays at least one attribute of He stopped in the middle of his sentence and said "My you take my breath awav" diamond jewelry From imitation m-c'd the President's birthday ball solitares to glistening tiaras She did look beautiful in a sheer and when they are dragged out for white evenine creation with da in wasnington doing 24 shows and three broadcasts in a day and night I "Flight Command" isn't his movie debut He made a few comedy use in some movie production a horse-opera star They always have a tough time introducing Harpo's solos and the device used this time is even sillier than usual It seems that the screwball trio with Carrol and Heroine Diana Lewis are snend- zling brilliant sequins a matching the sound stage crew members headdress and an exquisite ostrich usually pay no more attention to snorts in the east and in 1937 was plume fan them than they would to a hew snatched from a New York stage BARBARA STANWYCK Takes director's eye Her blue eyes sparkled as she of practically semi-nude chorus ana sent here to play the recrea ing an evening at an Indian reser laughed and said ''Maybe I'm aller tional director "Havine Wonder girls doing their daily rehear sals gic to clothing but I just don't seem to be able to appreciate all the world needs to laugh at this ful a role for which he was especially well fitted bv exDeriencp time" So It was then that it cand tnese trimmings and trappings and vation There are a lot of pretty squaws about so Harpo makes news by chasing a few brunets One of these romantic pursuits leads him to a loom where a cutie is working overtime on a ru? 1 on the Borsch circuit -of summer The rise of this charming red Full Course Sunday Dinner SOUP APPETIZER Potage Del Roy -RELISH Combination Relish ENTREES Roast Prime Rib of Beef Au Jus Roast Young Turkey with Cranberry Sauce Celery Dressing New York Cut Sirloin Stantley VEGETABLES Idaho Baked Potatoes Cream Sugar Corn SALAD Lettuce and Asparagus Tips BEVERAGE DESSERT little or no interest recently when a huge amount of the "rocks" were hotels iuroeiows" Later in talking with her she re used in the filming of "South of That picture was one of the most fantastic production botches on plied when I told her how lovely Suez" in which George Brent The cords on the loom look like head from an orphan asylum to her present status is almost unbelievable Her success is probably due to the hard knocks she received in childhood The youngest of five children she was put in an orphans sne looKed "Clothes don't mean -record Nobody had a wonderful plays the role of an African dia much to me Let me have a good -time ixvu was dhck in ew iorK harp strings He plucks at them idly and (surprise!) finds them taut and resonant and tuned So mond miner and decided to give his huge diamond collection when it opened there and he at story a good cast and a good director and I'll let the other Deode home when her mother died and tended with misgivings The thing to his pretty brunettp he plays "By the Waters of the nave tne fancy costumes A i tJrenda Marshall oegan rainy well though and then just as he appeared in the Affp toiir'n Hfu i I Pen'- ner entire cniidnood tne institutions or being a xew minutes Minnetonka" on the loom a feat made doubly astonishing bv- the Prop 3Ien Detectives "boarded out" to families and work fact that the period of the picture screen the film broke Out of the ensuing blackness and above the Later it was revealed that those ing for her keep iur one senses a quality of sincerity and a lack of formality that are most appealing in her personality predates the writing of the son? extra cameraman's "assistants "I hate house keeping" she said murmurs of the audience came by about 40 years 'and refuse to cook" However she fakelton's exclamation: several of the "extra players" the Musical anachronism is nothing She typed her new picture as 'a additional erhnio1 An So that we may relegate this ponderous piece of piffle to the file of things accomplished I put the question to a number of actors Some of them responded kiddingly some of them seriously "A ham actor" said Fields the unpredictable "is one who is not sincefe A real actor is a sincere man" Edward Robinson put it this way: "A ham actor is a player who can't count to 10 without sounding like Anthony burying Caesar he clings Ito life longer than anybody else5 He wants to deliver the oration at his own funeral" "Modest" responded John Car-radine "forbids my discussing the subject But in a general way I'd say he's any rival whose performance wins an academy award" Weeks ago Fred Allen answered it this way: "A ham is anybody named Jack Benny" Jack however was not so specific: "To an actor any other actor is a ham" Eddie Albert pondered before he said: "Ham acting is that kind in which the'j actor lets the gestures and the mannerisms come before the thought in his role When a player puts more effort into the flourish with which he reads a line Instead of letting the thought of the line create its own eestures admits that she is interested in in Those cutters are still working on comedy drama and stated think and half a dozen new "Dron mn terior decorating 0zne: He was a funny kind and was only 12 -when a medicine show man Miss Stanwyck's career is a trand in the life of Chico either Seated at an 1870 honky-tonk piano he clatters through "The Woodpecker Song" a hit of 1940 SPECIAL MENU FOR CHILDREN Plenty of Parking Space wno were hanging around the lot that day actually were nlain-rlnfh Fin all fnnnH nut Vi of Ml I pvnmnta nf lthiit nno ron A wm Obili VUUiU" I vue 1 A xic n't read music or play the piano I ha3 determination and sufficient "offered him a dollar an evening for detectives and that what everybody thought was a lot of phoney desire entertaining Ked worked kutm mors The Cost of Cords Funny thing about Chico is that Phone 2500 for Reservations eiuier xie oeen paying a piano teacher to play chords so he could jr' viivi uis aj lie vUUlU She acquired her education in the w- vuuvawuu wc paste imitations actually was and kept on with his schooling for a few years in Vincennes Ind then privately he seems to rare nothino- I work out the same combinations I -public schools of Brooklyn also 4- 1 1 I nearly a million dollars worth of genuine diamonds Obtained espe uji tne ua-rp ay ear became a full-time actor With the medicine show he also served as about playing Never plays informally never practices until shortly before a number must be recorded cially for the picture from twn 7TT Cv The picture finished Groucho iu 1 'pharmacist mixing the "dnc'a" urn jewelry establish ments and crnim packing his golf clubs and cuitar o- accept for his vaudevillistie tricks purpose remedy of tap water brown or private individuals ior a cross-contmtal motor iannf- he really isn't much of a pianist sugar and epsom salts in hotel billy sallies: Tho arpo tninks he'll try the stare Bathtubs plum puddings you see in the in the top role of "The Man Who He always wanted to lead a band and now he's going to do it He has Ph 323 LJ Ph 323 20 tiU 3 51 After a few seasons divided be movies that are cnvprod with came to Dinner" Some movie peo hV tween repertorv-under-Mnvn ni brandy and then lighted for eclat ple are being recruited for a tour TODAY AND M0I1BAY a 16-piece orchestra and a contract for an eight-week stage tour The brothers' secretary Rarhpl cus clowning showboating and' very never are very palatable after with proceeds to be split between the Red Cross and RriHeh iv email ume vaudeville Skelton Linden gave me another musical xouna nimseir at 18 billed as the Relief The customers nrohnhiv mat The studio has to add a lot of salt to the brandy to give the flame a vellow then he is doing what I regard as youngest star comedian in hur would demand a ham solo And note on Harpo Said that for years she made out checks for him to a Aiarx is wonderinsr whpthpr the natural red flame of the liquor 0 jaammmg'i A Muni or a Barrymore can put more into a line than was intended by a shrusr- or a wink or C7 piano teacher "At first I thonp-n lesque In Kansas City he got a ehance to fill in for a canceled act at one of the big picture palaces could twang the SDokes of tha ii unoLOgeniC VVhPn mpn he was just versatile" she recalled mm are shown playing with gunpow- piay-character's wheel chair ana tnere met an usherpH Tf aer you may be sure they are a gesture They are but it is not bad acting It depends on who's hamming and why" A bit more personal was Rudv was the luckiest thing that ever using a combination of stove Happened to him Blacking and sand Movie Ray and Edna Skelton have been makers take few chances Vallee: "A ham is a certain curly married nine years now She wnrira ion feel sorry for that horse haired actor who tries to play Hamlet when he should be singine you see in the movip tbnf with him on the stage and helps write his material A tall pretty covered with lather and apparently through his nose" Speaking of getting- nersonal oionae sne laughs at the mem LV3 HI is spent from overwork the ones of lean years of $5-a-week tenement rooms of trvinsr to writ iauier is propacjy soap suds or whipped "cream ThnsA nnrHv 1)1 Carole Lombard did it in a large way after she saw Gable in "Par-nell" She sent him a very large ham i and act funny on empty stomachs viinans in western nicturpa an Him 'WOMiIIM'' nor troupmg with such shabby little companies she had to stnv in tuany don't chew tobacco it's only candy licorice unite iu jiicine sure managers Lionel Barrymore answered in this wise: fHam is that variety of artistic diet that the critics prefer orphaned Movie makers didn abscond with the receints nver are satisfied with nature 'The big break came with a coast- thoroughly roasted" but brother to-coast sponsored radio program it seems When a Twentieth CentlirV FnV romnantr want wnicn tney uut to a high popu Kanab Utah for location filming Jarity rating Everything looks i western Union" the rocks and boulders some as big as houses gave off so much 2-lar a crpw of swell these days but the Skeltons are ambitious as ever they want Red to be a great comedian "Of course'V he says with mock smncr Painters had to be hired to paint i-nem all with more subdued colors ness 'Tm already the second-best Furthprm nro xirocnnKTv nnUn comic Who's first? Well th nuouawic WIUAO had to be lised since the state of last time I counted up there were tan allows no defacement of its 29 guys claiming that position" natural property John "A ham actor All of my friends!" "He's a bad actor who's sure that he's good" Ss the way Jeffrey Lynn looks at it Edgar Bergen likes this definition: j'A ham actor is a pimple on the! dimple of the theatre mask" There are sundry explanations of the term but the most generally heard is that it comes from the old days when actors removed grease paint with ham fat Some believe it originated in the declaration of some forgotten player that he'd "work for ham and eggs" And another version is that it is a col-loqualism from England: A shortening of amateur to 'am Anyway there are hams and hams It apparently depends on the inflection you use when you say ham i "sorted asidps Tn m-a It's On Aq aln: Elaine make use of 10 elephants for the Back Seeking Divorce aramounf' Yin A i if'J memorable screen f'l-'iil adventure of our gen- SaW I Lr 0 eration A rugged 'j 0' By roaring story told If'fjT Vccoc101 LIinst the background jf S'tvt1eftcYlCt of an untamed wU- A vu varic a lease on the animals and feed HOLLYWOOD Oct 26 (UP) and care for them nil that Elaine Barne the fourth wife of There is a rpsamKTannn Vnfino'n Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Pluto John Barrymore Saturday sought a divorce from him for the third time making In all the fourth yooiy and Disney artists who draw them also Snow White time their stormy matrimonial ven ture was taken to court ttna the Seven Dwarfs which grossed' Walt nisnromn tnon Elaine asked for a divorce in a $8000000 before it was temporarily Furniture beetles have bppn suit filed two months ago and counter-charged that he not she was cruel1 She claimed she was to mane way for Pinocchio "OW is beinsf i rpfurned fn irvi1o known to emerge from the wood of 70-year-old chairs (fcssJU VmA tlOn Pnrd ftiro voar- entirely without fault in their WJU IS- I that Will ''anneaV In TjrU estrangement has been insured by its studio for Aliss Barne twice before has mmsm 15c Till 6 Eve 20c wuuu used the "great profile" for divorce but on each occasion she dropped' Short Some Indian' musi ner actions alter reconciliations wb as -temneramentfli am SOme Other Wnd vnil Irnnm JANE CUE MB ine scnpt for one scene in "Ari Crosby Will Establish caned tor music by an WITHERS Dpfense Research Unit Apache harp player so a sound eects man travelled 100 miles in her biggest ond grandest picture across a desert and found nnp mill an Indian resor-vaHnn that-' HOLLYWOOD Oct 26 (UP) Bing Crosby announced Saturday That he will establish the "Crosby it just the man he wantpd Rut the Indian wouldn't sign a con re searcn iounaation lor national Tnm "TKE UtZ CF LIBERTY" by GtairtU P121 tract no matter what thp calnrv aeiense" to put funds and informa ne Sfllrf hp Watn't infci-antnt SIHCEORIC KAEDW1CKE AUU2 RIAESHAL EiCHSHD CARLSOH tion at the disposal of the tne movies and for th Co-Hit "Also sound effects man to go away and ot potner him Spice o1 the Program "DONALD DUCK ALSO The actor and crooner who has built up one of Hollywood's greatest fortunes and dabbles in horse-racing golf and sundry -sporting i Football Thrills "YESTERDAY'S HEROES' i Popeye Cartoon JITTERBUG GER of research into such fields as new Pete Smith "Quickern' A Wink" ioods vitamins and other develon- "Wimmiii lladn't Oughta Drive' i i or Tf if SEE IT FROM THE BEGINMNG A 1 inu Dusmess enterprises said details of the foundation had not been completed He will use his own money for an ihe fOlindatinna wilt ha ocfak LATEST WORLD WIDE NEWS 1 "shed as soon as legal aspects can 20c TU 2 organization embracing all forms we straightened out the actor said 1 i i 1 n- -i 7i.