Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1944 — Page 13

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SATURDAY, APRIL S, Igj 4

Vampin’ Babies Revue at Sunset in Big Easter Show

Starts at Douglas Wednesday

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“C'aiitiTe Wild Wonian” . . . opens Wednesday at the Ihmur-

las theater.

REGAL THEATRE 25th and Northwestern THE REGAL OFFERS GOOD PICTURES IN POLITE SURROUNDINGS FRIDAY and SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 8 Adventures of Tartu Robert Donat DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS Johnny Mack Brown Valley of Vanishing Men, No. 8 SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 10, 11 So Proudly We Hail Claudette Colbert — Veronica Lake SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR Basil Rathbone — Nigel Bruce

LATE NEWS

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 13 Mug Town Dead End Kids — Little Tough Guys SWAMP WATER Walter Huston — Walter Brennan comedies

HILL’S

INDIANA THEATRE Sun.* Mon., Tues., Wed..

Maisie's A Swing-Shift Cinderella Now!

* From overalls to glad rags . . . from welding to wooing . . . when that midnight whistle tootsl Maisie's doing the biggest job of her life—but there's always time off for laughs and romance!

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GANG WAY FOR TOMORROW Margo — John Carradine — Robert Ryan COMEDY AND NEWS REEL

Thursday, Friday, Saturday THE SEVENTH VICTIM Tom Conway — Jean Brooks ARIZONA TRAIL Tex Ritter — Fuzzy Knight NEGRO NEWSREEL Adventures of Flying Cadets, No. 10

Solid Show-Stopper!

Ixcluthi IPS Photo SISTER ROSETTA THARPE IS.JUST THAT And you don't have to take our word for It. Appearing on the same bill with Peggy Fears, Pat Rooney and several other no?' < acts at the Town Barn in Buffalo, N. Y. (which caters to nothing but the cream in show business, incidently), Rosetta stopped the «how—and the celebrated Miss <r'.ars broke down in tears. Joe Giggle wants to know what happened to Pat Rooney.

* The hoiit's on — (’omo down and warm up I hat's the invitation beintr offered to l<K*al entertainment lovers by the Sunset management this week-end when the Vampin’ Hahie revue of Ihirly people and Snookmn Russell’s Hollywood orchestra present a double attraction never before witnessed in this sect ion. A special Raster Sunday show is promised, and judging from preparations being made ii is going to he a whale of a show. This eighty minutes of speed and pep entertainment topped by a fast stepping hrownskin ehoms will he something you won't want to miss. Included in the aggregation are Kthel BeH Jones, Geneva Smith, Ernestine Jones, .Mary Lou Crosby. snake dancer: Gussie Mae .Lutes Thelma Lang, Annie .lean Burnett and Tosca Bailie, interpretative dancer. Add to this Snookum’s genial gentlemen of swing stud you have something worth seeing. This gala piece of entertainment fare will present two floor shows, nitely. Advance tickets tire now on sale at .$1.00. Admission at tin* door is $L2.">. * * * Coming: Louis .Iordan —April 10 Cab Calloway — April 21.

t Easter Soloist Showing Their Wares at Sunset

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Released by U S War Department Bureau of Public Relation!* FIELD CORRESPONDENT — Sergeant George Norford, of New York City, was recently evacuated from the South Pacific where he was a field correspondent for Yank magazine, the Army weekly, to Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He considers the most pleasant places—if any of the islands could be called pleasant—those areas where it was easiest to dig a foxhole in the least possible time. (U. S. Army photo.)

- Dorothy Maynor sings songs of the season on “The Pause That Refreshes on the Air" Sunday afternoon (4:30 EWT) over CBS. The brilliant soprano will be back in New York for the ^broadcast after a coast-to-coast concert tour 35 cities.

Swing Shift Maisie”, Indiana * On Indiana Bill Sunday

Ann Snthern sl.-trs in her seventh adventure as the effervescent show girl in M-G M's ‘ Swing Swing Shift Maisie”. In which she casts aside frills ami furbelows for the overalls of a f e m i u i n e aircraf! worker. The newest in the Maisie series comes Sunday to the Hill’s Indiana theatre. 8he starts in vaudeville hut gives it up for a job iu a great plane plant, where she becomes the center of a plot started by her love rival, played by Jean Rogers. Hilarious comedy and a love story mingle with inspiring glimpses into the inside of a huge war plant. Took No Chances. Rather than take chances on . . ”phor.y” sets, M-G-M made a careful stud.v of an actual Western airplane factory before starting the lnoture. The results are obvious as Maisie and Jean go through

their paces.

Norman McLeod directed the new’ Maisie picture with James Craig, who scored in “The Human Comedy”, as a test pilot and Maisie's sweetheart. Connie Gilchrist. John Qualen. The Wiere Brothers and Marta Linden are among the prin-

Danger Ahead- .Margo senses evil intent and becomes an unwilling guest of Kir hart- Ryen, commanding the German troops

in Paris, in this tense scene from “Gangway for Tomorrow” starting Sunday at the Indiana theater.

cipals.

ALSO . . . The dramatic highlights in the lives of five persons —A French refugee girl, a race driver, a prison warden, a beautycontest winner and a hobo—form the basis for RKO Radio's usual J fcreen offering, "Gangway for To

morrow."

The (piintet. now all working

shoulder to shoulder in a defense plant, reveal the interesting chapters of their past as they ride to their jobs in a car owned by a

SNOOKUM RUSSELL DRAWS 2,000 FANS

INDIANAPOLIS. Ini.—Opening i here last nigh tat the prominent i ballroom. Snookum Russell ami | his Hollywood orchestra, featuring : Iona Wade, and a bevy of < horns girls ■am# his all-star show tnat drew nearly 2000 customers at the gale. Ru-sell and his great hand are booked for a few one nighler- be 1 fore thev oimmi King's Ballroom, I Lim-oln. Nebraska f<»r a indefi iite engagement.

These three clitics are busy showing Ibeir shapely legs which will he on display when

they do (heir stuff at tlu* Sunset with the V temp in' Itahies revue.

Cotton Pickers Play Paradise Theater

Christine Chatman Records for Decca

DETROIT. Mich.—LcRoy Hardi I NEW YORK. N. Y.

son led bis famous Carolina Colton j Cliatinan. first lady of

Christine “Boogie

sixth member of the group, and the result is said to be one of the season’s most striking films. Margo. John Carradine and Robert Ryan head the east.

Pickers orchestra through a record breaking attend.nice at Paradise theatn heic. Closing here I hey had Easter engagements til Dayton. Cincinnati. Louisville, Kv ansville and Atlanta.

Wo< git*" and her Hotter than Hades i,a ml waxed four sides for Dec ea Record Incorporated here thi« week. The numbers? soon will b* on Ho* juke boxes everywhere.

Stage Celebrities At Defense

Club

Patrons of the ritzy Defense Workers’ Social club were treated with a real surprise la>f week, when Eddie Green of Duffy's Tavern fame, stopped over for a visit and did a number for the assembled guest, it was a riot while it lasted, and the patrons just yelled for metre. Mr. Green was en route lo Hollywood where he is scheduled to start working soon on a picture with Archie of Duffy’s Tavern. He congratulated the boys! for the neat and quiet atmosphere of the elub and said it was one ot Hie nicest he had visited outside of the Big Apple (New York City).

Peg Log Bates, internationally known hofer. currently appearing at the Circle, also visited the spot and had the customers yelling for more when he accommodated them a few of his celebrated dance num bers Mr Bates is considered among the* three top dancers of the nation. The '‘lub invites you to come u* and visit with them and enjoy a sparkling good show with plenty of good singing and darning. Nuf Sesl. James Paynes b president and Charles Tolliver, secretary of the club.

H. Bogart, E. Cantor on Bill at Douglas

Hattie McDaniel will do her first”.. . . V ii i ! da nr nr.: slj*..,, nu.n.a-r 1£ij ron^l the* screen in Thank \ our Lucky ... ,, -ini s,II| dn\ to the Douglas theatre. The Stars . Warner Bros, musical film i-,...i : ... , ' . » ta 1 ... oil 1 "i\ cisal picture, lirsi to be rent the Douglas theater Sunday.'j.... ... • , .. ,,. .. % . .... • leased since the two comedians Miss McDaniel wi I be supported .. . .. .. . . , r ueie honored as the nations No. in the number by an ensemble of —

so colored dancers.

The only colored actress ever toj receive an Academy Award. Miss' McDaniel has been a great success ou the vaudeville stage and camp tours with her singing and dancing; acts. In pictures, however. she j has been kept to straight acting; roles. Her number in "Thank • Your Lucky Stars'* will give her a chance to really cut loose. ALSO . . . Damon Runyon’s “I.

1 box office champions, is describ-, Pallette. Patsy O'Connor and Ricked as more actively funny than any | ; r<l Lane. Leighton Noble and hi.H of the previous Abbott and Costel-1 orchestra are featured headliners, lo screen hits. The film was directed My Erie C. ,A large east includes Grace Me- Kenton und'T the producership oi Donald. ('coil Kellaway, Eugene 1 A lex Gottlieb.

19th AND MAKTINDALE

Doors Open at 12—Noon

SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 10, 11

, n C USl,C -^0-mKGM-SHERlMN-SHOfeE-SMIT^ .iEORGE TOBIAS • JACK CARSON • ALAN HALE • EDWARD EVERETT HORTON >. Z. SAKALL • HATTIE McDANIEL SPIKE JONES *„’£ CITY SUCKERS • d*.** * DAVID BUTLER

Second Smash Hit

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^ Grace McDonald Cecil KELLAWAY Ivb«R« PAHETTI Richard LANE

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 13

CONSTANT NYMPH Charles Boyer

CAPTIVE WH.D WOMAN Evelyn Ankers

FRIDAY and SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 15

PRIDE OF YANKEES Gary Cooper

RIDERS OF RIO GRANDE 3 Mesquiteers .

Darlings of Rhythm Take Jacksonville

.-JACKSONVILLE:, FU. — The Two Spot < lull jumped three nites in a row last week, something that has not happened here in ages. Clarence Love brought America's No. 1 !i 11-girl orchestra. The Darlings of Rhythm to this city in the blaze of glory. Featuring "Bumps" Huff, sensational pianist: Josephine Boyd, outstanding saxophonist : Lillian Jones, star bass player: Gene Ray Lee, hot trumpeter: an even dozen other "Queens of Swing". Tile Darlings of Rhythm are hooked solid one nighters in Florida for IS days without a day off. and an* headed for the Army Camps around Newport News.the latter part of the mouth after which they are scheduled one nighters into Chicago where they will open the famous Grand Terrace Cafe sometime in May.

MEMBERS OF THE Chief Club 1217 , /2 N. Senate Ave.

DON'T MISS THE BIG EASTER FLOOR SHOW SUE PARKER and LUCILLE HICKMAN FRED WISDOM At the Piano OPEN EVERY NIGHT Special Floor Show Friday, Saturday, Sunday Cash Prizes Given Away Every Sunday Night

Wm. Benbow, President; Edward Thompson, Vice-President; Myrtle Bonds, and Larry Johnson, Managers

VAMPIN' BABIES REVUE

RED HOT STAGE SHOW OF 30 PEOPLE

SNOOKUM RUSSELL’S ORCH.

DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD

8 DAYS-APRIL 7, 8,9,10,11,12,13,14 SUNSET TERRACE 2 Shows Nitely — Pretty Girls — Gorgeous Costumes

Adv. $1.00

Tax Incl.

Door $1.25

Coming: CAB CALLOWAY — APRIL 21st