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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1941)
FAGS FZVS Rowumce and History Are Film Fare in Salem for This' Week Tk OSSGOII STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, f ebraary 23, 1S11 I f fTf 1. ... V'V. .. OJk wk. "bone With the Wind -Back With Popular Prices for Five-Day Salem Showing i . During the ear following tts Initial public presentation, David O, Selznick' G o n With the Wnd." starting Joday at the El ainore theatre, proved itself not only the biggest cinema bit ever released, but, exerted more influ ence on movie ; production than any other film in Hollywood his tory. ;:tv; ;;' . ' . . . Popular prices are in effect for .the film, which will be shown three times daily beginning at 12 o'clock. The box office will be open at 11:30 ain. The show will be in Salem through; Thursday. Many critics have pointed out that the general calibre of film production has been raised as a result of the screen transcription of Margaret Mitchell's novel. That the MGM release "marks the be ginning of a new era in films' has been borne out in many ways. A recent nation-wide survey con ducted by the Women's Institutelg fiei& Euen Drew, Mary An planned for . screen productions. Surveys indicate that the motion picture public, primarily as a re suit ; of "Gone With the Wind," are " now more "color conscious" than, ever before, and that pic tures of the future will be en hanced more and more by departures- from black-and-white pho tography. Brings New Stars The long talent search which resulted ' in selection of Vivien Leigh for the role of Scarlett O'Hara, providing tests for a host of talented youngsters during this period, has focused the attention both of Hollywood and the movie public on the potential young tal ent to be found throughout the country. Since "Gone With the Wind" producers have been turn ing more and more toward rela tive "unknowns" or to new types away from the professional act- of Audience Reaction attests tew the fact that "Gone With the Wind" has tended to raise gen eral film audience standards throughout the United States, and that the unusual length of the pic ture, necessary to preserve com plete fidelity to Miss Mitchell's novel, has been welcomed by a substantial majority of picture goers. No Cuts Are Made Running time of "Gone With the Wind" is three hours and 45 minutes, and Mr. Selznick has stressed the fact that no "cuts" will be made when the photoplay is made available for popular price showing. The number of persons who have seen the picture a sec ond or third time is also proved by this checkup to be considerably higher than for the normal grade A production. The stirring and beautiful re sults achieved in recreating the old south in technicolor in "Gone With the Wind," marking an ad vance over any Hollywood effort of the past, have been echoed in the larger use of color now being Lderson, Evelyn Keyes and others picked from private life for "Gone With the Wind" tests were thus launched on screen careers. Talent scouts have frequently said that it is a cheap investment for a company to spend $50,000 in such a search if one important discovery is the result. Pupils Given Hot Lunches UNION HILL Hot lunches are being served to children of the Union Hill school. Ruth Murphy from Texas en tered the seventh grade of the Union Hill school on Wednesday. Edna Morley is absent this week on account of sore throat. The following children had a perfect score in spelling during the week: Leonard Seeley, Mar jorie Tate, Edna Morley, Rollin Heater, Betty Mollet, Bertha Mor ley, Hilda Rosenbalm, Guy Scott and Charles Morley. V i - 4 w N Cr,.Timiin i ii. m. f X V .v.. : ' .... ' ! "GONE WITH THE WIND" returns to Salem audiences at the Elslnore theatre today, with Clark Gable and Vivien Lfirh in the starring- roles. The two- are shown In a scene from the stirring eple of re construction days in the south. Three complete sh ows will be presented daily, startin at 12 noon. -v y v yT 1 Ik . ' i" mi i ii m i in i i ii i i iii imrn in i " L Edar Kennedy; Baby Sandy and William Frawley in Universal's hi larious action comedy, "Sandy Gets Her Man," starting- today at tbe Hollywood theatre and second comedy hit, Melvyn Douglas and Loretta Yonng in "He Stayed for Breakfast." Jack Oakie Discloses Tricks; Or How Actors Steal Scenes i By FRANKLIN ARTHUR HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22 (AP) You can cross John Barry more and Gregory Ratoff off the list of more accomplished movie scene stealers, if you take the word of Jack Oakie, who has work ed with the best of them. Scene stealing has been a dramatic art ever since there has been a drama. Few have been the successful actors who weren't well grounded in it, for the simple reason that it's impossible to be successful unless .people know you're in tha picture. For years, Barrymore and Ra toff, the latter now retired from acting, have been looked upon as near-perfection itself. With grim aces and waving arms they have waded through reel after reel. Oakie, no slouch at that sort of thing himself, won't deny they're effective. But he feels there are others far more subtle, and there fore more deserving of attention. McLarlen Held Best His No. 1 nomination is the vet eran Victor McLaglen. He and Oakie battled - through many a film, and Oakie admits he was worsted more often than not. Next he puts Lewis Stone, followed by Wallace Beery, Ned Sparks, Edgar Kennedy, Edmund Lowe, Charles Chaplin, Nils Asther and Slim Summerville, "All art superb tricksters," he says. "In the old days we called them dynamiters. They know ev ery dodge in the business. Most of McLaglen's success comes from a perfect sense of timing and never-ending ingenuity. Stone is among the top-rankers if for no other reason than his ability to steal shots from Mickey Rooney. But he was an artist before Mickey was born." Clever use of hands, incident ally, is the prime requisite of a successful purloiner. "You can shove somebody out of the wajr if necessary," Oakie says, "but usually it can be done more deftly. As soon as you put your hands on another player, you take the scene. Maybe it keeps him off-balance, or maybe it dis tracts his attention, but'lt works. Just Turn Tour Back "Another method is turning DROUGHT BACK By Popular Demand Days 1 0' r , Only! i . ' j .1' . Tcday Ilea. Tnes. J IN - 1? ELS A MAXWELL'S as a - Tl 1 . i Cv MUiiPHYJOYCE Elsa MAXVELL Uiscn fluw C3iaxlia RUGGLES Ralph BLLLAMI your back on the camera. The minute you do it, all eyes are on you. Why, I dont know. "Each scene requires a separate technique, usually governed by the playors opposite you. But bas ically it all falls into two classes. If they move slowly, you hustle. If they're active, walking up and down, waving their arms, mugging a little, you do a dead-pan. That's the method of Sparks, Kennedy and Chaplin to name a few. Most directors, he has found, are lenient unless they feel too much of the play is being taken from the stars or the story itself is suffering. Film Soldiers Mix up Army - Invade Expanding Fort; Some Pose With Deanna Dnrbin FORT MAC ARTHUR, Calif, Feb. 22-i)-Things are as near normal again at this army base as they could be with a hundred or so carpenters building barracks all over the place. Even with the carpenters, all is peace and quiet by comparison with the two-day invasion of an army of motion picture soldiers. Imagine, if you can, the sur prise of a young officer of the day as be accosted a limousine at the gates and found that its occupant was a four star general. Chief of Staff George C. Mar shall is the army's only active full general. "I think my salute was all right," the officer said, "but I could feel by knees buckle." But it wasnt General Marshall after alL It was Selmer Jackson, veteran' character actor. The cos tume department had intended him to be a general, but not the chief of staff. At the suggestion of CoL Allen Kimberly, command ing this fort overlooking the Pa cific a wardrobe mistress "de moted" Jackson to a lieutenant general with only three stars. Redeeming feature of the whole thing, the real officers and sol diers agreed, was the chance to have their Dictures taken with Deanna Durbin, star of the film. "Nice Girl?" which is laid in Connecticut army camp. Deanna spent all her time be tween scenes posing with soldiers for "the folks back home." The Call Board ELSLNORE Today "Gone With the Wind" with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Friday James Cagney and Olivia DeHavilland in "Strawberry Blonde" plus "The Wild Man of Borneo" with Frank Morgan and Billie Burke. GRAND Today "Western Union" with Robert Young, Randolph Scott; added Kenny Allen in "Hawaii an Rhythm." Wednesda y "Murder Among Friends" with Marjorie Weaver, Cobina Wright, and "Ride, Kel ly, Bide" with Eugene Pallette, Mary Healy. Saturdays-"Night Train" with Margaret Lockwood and "Tall, Dark and Handsome" with Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore and Charlotte Greenwood. CAPITOL Today "Son of Monte Cristo" with Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett, plus Weaver Bros, and Elviry in "Arkansas Judge." Wednesday Erroll Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland in "Santa Fe Trail," plus "Knute Rockne. All American" with Pat O'Brien and Gale Page. STATE Today 'B e a u Geste" starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland, plus "Els Maxwell's Public Deb. No. 1" with Brenda Joyce and George Murphy. Wednesday Third Finger, Left Hand" starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas, plus "Hullaba loo" with Frank Morgan and Billie Burke. Saturday midnight "The Mark " of Zorro" starring Tyrone Pow er and Linda Darnell. LIBERTY Today "When the Dal tons Rode' with Randolph and Kay Francis, plus "Curtain Call" with Bar bars Read and Alan Mowbray. Wednesday "H e r o e s in Blue' with Dick PurcelL plus Edgar Wallace's "Mysterious Mr. Reed er" with Will Fyffe. Friday Gene Autry in Tumbling Tumbleweed" with Smiley Bur nette, plus "Tom Brown's School Days" with Freddie Bartholo mew, plus serial. HOLLYWOOD Today Loretta Young, Melvyn Douglas in "He Stayed for Breakfast"; Baby Sandy in "Sandjr Gets Her Man." Thursday Gene Autry in "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride"; Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie in "Man Against the Sky." . . "i 1 : i - ... - - , .... J vr ( AN ELSA MAXWELL aartr Is hilarios, and the eae t&e throws la "Else Maxwell's Public Deb. No. IT mow at the State theatre at no exception, with stars each as Brenda Joree, George MmrpMy, Ralph Bellamy and Else MaxwelL "Beu Geste" return M eos panion feature with Gary Cooper. Ray MUland and Robert T i i V ' , s V. EXCITEMENT ta the "Son of Monte Cristo" reaches fever pitch ta this scene front tho rossanUc ad rent are mw sbowinr at tae Cap Itol theatre. Starrtna arc Lonte Hayward. Joan Bennett and Flor ence Bates. Pies Weaver Bros, and Briry la "Arkansas Jndxe" with Roy Rogers. f v. V'-i. . . i..'t .59 ? v: f ' " ' " 7 h A THOSE LOVELY Urlets Iran Hollywood arp taklae a bit of Urn off for a bit of anssip and a riSTte en the broad Pacific beach. Omaha has been re-created in its boom days, when Nebraska wns a territory over-ridden: by adxentmrers. two-rnn artists and Indians. Bargain Ilalinee THE D ALTON GANG, famed bad men of the eld west, ride again la the thrilling eple ef days gone by, "When the Dal tons Rode," star ring Randolph Scott, Fay Francis, Frank Albertson. Brian Donlevy, Broderiek Crawford and 8tewart Erwtn. This thriller starts to day at the Liberty theatre alone with "Certain Call" starring Bar bara Read and Alan Mowbray. UntU 3 P.M. Come Earrj - .. ' " "1 r; til f. : -. " :-. f '" - ' ."-" . "' .. " - - - ; I - - THE MUTTS dont mind, er at least they shouldn't, belar held by Ann Edmonds, Lucia Carroll and retry Dlrtins. They were caught en the Warner lot patting their mutts threvxh their paces. ziuic Gnmro 1 rim .1. w m jo. u lOBm TOUKG IAKD0UH SCOTT CEAK A60U T1IGIIIA GILKOM JisCnttli( llln oani mmnt h tttn UM 1 Baby and Mother Blake Visit MACLEAY Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Amot have as their guests Mrs. Harmon Beck and tiny daughter, Janice Leah, - who are home from the Salem heepitaL The fourth child, Peter Joseph, arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wodsewoda a few nights ago. : Quits Pnblishing . TURNER" Charles S. Clark, local resident who - edited ' Tur ner's newspaper for a number of year and later moved to Salem and' establish rd ."The, - Yew Park Reveille," continuing Turner news columns, has. recently discontinu ed his publication. ,T r Ul L-riJ IIJIIM . 1 JsAitM-sl III 0 v STARTS I niLL TODAY ft r!nntlntiAna TVs Mv Fsn-. Ill I II II I I j, I I mCTlTlL3 I ( nrw. U I f ""rMlTt L, 1 ' -111 Ml it-is .- II rd I III liUfllUP It ' r A K. Ifl I If I I u Nous r rz mm v ! I 12:00 I JA vOA - I I Noon X l r ni it1 : T?.TtW 3-' I i TtTVTZTnEur ATX Except Sunday ii i vi iwn i i . n 1 1 1 i i m j w , m u t . u w s u '- e U U J I Jl. JAM". Saaday nps . ewsspe . a'Bxpwe ss -ssprer pTun uswBnwn i' ' ' 111 1 ' . : III -t I si 1 ':l . . ' I Mill Tir Chfldmi 25c ' 1 vek VMf 1 u, t I I Iacbade Tax III II . Eaiesa's Popnlar Continuous Today 1:45 to 11:30 P.BI. Start Tcday IIEV7 LOW PRICES! Evenings 500 Good JJ Seats r i Lower Floor Loses Prices Include Tax J&Sc Think of It! What a Show at These Prices! f c1 Producer of the never tn-h.far. rotten "Count of Monte: Crista," .brings to the screetiaa even treat ex adTenlnre ta hlh ro mas ce! 77 TJ y"K T. V LOUIS HAY17ARB JO AH BElfNETT - GEORGE SANDERS Coapaaioa Feature EOY. ECSEI1S ! t m-M Tlxetre Perfect rrrfect rrajectleal . Alr-CendlUenruS