Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1929 — Page 7

NOV. 23, 1929

GRETA GARBO OPENS TODAY IN THE KISS’ AT PALACE

•Sweetie,’ With Nancy Carroll and Jack Oakie in the Leads, Is Now on View at the Indiana —‘The Virginian’ Is the Chief Attraction Now at Circle. A WEALTH of settings and photographic effects entailed extensive preparation when ‘The Kiss." Greta Garbo's new starring vehicle, was filmed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. The action of the new picture, which will start Saturday at Loew’s Palace, takes place in a French courtroom, a kennel show, an art exhibit, a prison, hotel, country home and a banquet. Special sets were designed and constructed upon plans and photographic prints sent from Lyons, France, where the plot is placed by Jacques Feyder, noted French director. who wTote and directed the Garbo film.

Hundreds of dogs of foreign breed were obtained for the kennel scenes and in the courtroom sequences, foreign newspaper correspondents filled the press benches. Throughout the production extra players of French nativity, some thousand people, were given employment. The tennis court scenes bring to the creen one of southern California’s most picturesque spots, the greensward and gardens of the Beverly Hills hotel. Throughout the picture Feyder established a startling lighting moiif, making his characters fit into moving black and white setting ynibolic of the mood they were portraying. Miss Garbo, playing the most dramatic role of her career, took great interest in Feyder's film methods and lent every encouragement and effort furthering his ambitious striving for an artistic production. Conrad Nagel, who first played opposite Mi.ss Garbo in “The Mysterious Lady,” again is seen as her leading man in the new picture, playing the part, of the French barrister who pleads for her life before the bar of justice because of his love. Anders Randolf. Lew Ayres and Holmes Herbert are included Ifn the cast. The short subjects comprising the balance of the program will include the “Our Gang’’ kids in their newest all talking comedy, “Lazy Days”; the Tlearst Metrotone News, which tells of everything that is seen; a Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon novelty, “The Terrible Toreador,” and Lester Huff at the organ console. The next feature attraction to be shown at the Palace will bring together for the first time in their careers Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in an uproarious and hilarious comedy version of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.” It is an all-talking picture, and the only one in which screenland's two foremast stars appear together since they started to produce pictures. * r m “SUNNY SIDE UP” REMAINS AT APOLLO Charles Farrell, co-featured with Janet Gaynor in “Sunny Side Up.” Fox Movieton musical comedy written by B. G. DeSylva. Lew Brown and Ray Henderson, is a welldressed young man for the first time in his screen career, in this pro-

duction. In the past Farrell - always has played rolls of the handsome young he-man of ordinary circumstances, whose idea of sartorial splendor was a flannel shirt open at the neck and a pair of corduroy pants. “Sunny Side Up." which is the attraction at the Apollo this week, however, presents Charley as a wealthy young prominent in Long Island society. In such a role he is -'een as a genteel fashion plate, and thousands of dollars were spent in outfitting the young man for his role. Hollywood’s best and most expensive tailor was commissioned to make Farrell half a dozen lounge suits, several sports ensembles and two complete 0". fits of evening wear. So when Farrell i* seen in this great production, he will be a living model 1 of what the young man about town will wear next season. Janet Gaynor is co-featured with Farrell ir this all-talking, singing and dancing picture. Others in ilie cast aro FI Brendel, Frank Richard-on. Marjorie White and Sharon Lynn. The usual Vitaprone presentations and the Fox Movietone news reel will complete the program.

n • * *"THE VIRGINIAN" i OPENS AT CIRCLE "The Virginian,” the all-talking version of the popular book of the . amr name, opens today at the Circle theater. Gary Cooper is seen in the title role of the Virginian. It is said to be just the type of picture for which ••all-talking" Is oest suited. “The Virginian” was photographed and *‘miked" in the open spaces of the western cattle country. and is said to present to the eye and ear the living details of the thrilling story. The bellowing of a thousand head of cattle, the shouts g the cowboys as they drive the yanipeding nerd through the swift flowing current of a river, the cowboys round the crackling campfire chanting their typical ditties, the

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ciance hall in full blast—all of this is to be heard in “The Virginian.” Gary Cooper, in his first full dialogue role, is said to give a wonderful performance. His handsome features and his rangy physique are aid to fit him into the character as though written for him. Walter Huston as Trampas, Is the villain of the story. Richard i is seen as Steve, the wayward buddy of the Virginian, and Mary Brian has the role of Molly Wood, the school teacher whom the hero falls in love with. Lloyd Hamilton in his latest alltalking comedy, “Don't Be Nervous,” heads the supplementary program during this week. Vitaphone acts and a talking news weekly complete the bill. * t * “SWEETIE” ON VIEW AT THE INDIANA Paramount is said to score again in the new r show world with their all-talking picture, “Sweetie,” starring Nancy Carroll with Jack Oakie, Helen Kane and Stanley Smith, which is now playing at the Indiana theater. The stage presentation this week is "Velvet Revue” with Charlie Davis and his stage band. It introduces several of the latest styles in women's gowns of transparent velvet. “Sweetie” is said to be a gay extravaganza of prep school life. One of the highlights is the clever dance “The Prep Step” introduced by Jack Oakie and Helen Kane. This is the dance introduced by The Indianapolis Times at the Indiana ballfoom last week. A number of new songs are introduced by the featured players, the school assembly, and the glee <^ubs. Helen Kane, the large-eyed babe with the tiny boopa-doopa-doop voice of record fame, and Jack Oakie, smart-cracking comedian, sing and dance and how. The original songs for the picture are the product of Richard A. Whiting, composer of “The Japanese Sandman” and “Louise.” Deagon and Cannefax are the featured act in the stage unit this week. They have an original smart comedy offering. John Quinlan, singer; Walter Walters and company, Blair and Thornton, dancers: Thelma Lee and the Mary Reade ballet are included in the cast supporting Charlie Davis and his orchestra. Dessa Byrd is heard at the Indiana organ. A talking news reel completes the bill.

nun CLARA’S LATEST NOW AT THE OHIO “The Saturday Night Kid.' starring Clara Bow in her third alltalker, opens today at the New Ohio theater. Clara, this time in “The Saturday Night Kid.” is seen as a zippy, ambitious little sales girl in a big department store. She falls for James Hall, floorwalker, but he forgets her when he gets a promotion from his boss. In order to make him think her more desirable, Clara deliberately established a “rep” for herself as a Saturday Night Kid, a girl who makes a date with a different “swell guy” every Saturday night. Her younger sister, Jean Arthur, ■also a store employe, makes a play for Jimmie. But she gets in a jam by squandering company funds on the horse races. When the showdown comes. Jean lies and tells her superiors that Clara stole the money. Miss Bow did a good job of act-

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1— Clara Bow has the talking lead in “The Saturday Night Kid,” now at the Ohio. 2 Greta Garbo in a secene from “The Kiss,” which opens today at the Palace. 3 Charles Morton and Janet Gaynor as they appear in “Four Devils,” now at the Lyric,

New Events in Musical Circles

On Monday night at the Academy'| ;of Music the Indianapolis Maennerchor will open its season with the men’s chorus and with Maria Olszewska, prima donna contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera, as soloist. In the fall of 1928 Maria Olszewska, Europe’s first contralto, came to this country for the first time, sang at the Chicago Ope-a. gave a limited number of concerts, conquered anew r with each and every appearance. Preceded first by cabled news of the new historic controversy with Jeritza, then by heated eulogies pronounced by leading American and British critics who had heard her at Convent garden, at the Munich festival, or at the Berlin i and Vienna operas. Mme. Olszew- : ska come through the trial of an j American debut with flying colors. | Chicago adored her and her contract with the Civic Opera Company is renewed for 1929-1930. In concert she was equally successful and for next season will again fill a few concert dates. Born on a large estate on the Danube, of wealthy, music-loving parents, Maria Olszewska’s gifts were evident at an early age and she was encouraged and assisted in every way toward their development. Studying under Professor Erler in Munich, she acquired her theoretic music basis. Hearing the best of concert and opera always, ; and traveling about Europe, she ■ soon acquired a practical knowledge' of the field and an invaluable command of languages. Her debut was ; made in the Little theatre in Crefeld on the Rhine. Soon after, the young girl was engaged for the important State theater in Hamburg. Her rise was rapid and today she is a favorite at all the leading opera j houses of Europe; The Staatsoper, Vienna; the Stadtische Oper, Berlin; the Festivals at the Prinzregenten theater, Munich; at Covent Garden, London; the Colon, Buenos Aires; as well as in Barcelona, > Madrid, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, j Budapest, and Prague. In concert, ! in addition to her numerous recitals, ! she is in constant demand abroad ! lor the great oratorios and as solo- | ist with tne large orchestras—the ; Longcn Royal Philharmonic, the ing in “Ladies of the Mob,” “The Wild Party” and “Dangerous j Curves,” according to many critics, i She is said to give an even better | performance in “The Saturday j Night Kid.” The supplementary bill for this i week includes several short talking i acts and a talking news reel.

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Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Berlin Philharmonic, etc.—singing in such works as Mahler's “Lied von de Erde,” Pfitzner’s “Von Deutscher Seele,” Brahms’ “Vier Ernste Gesange,” or Italian and German arias. In opera, Mme. Olszewska's preferences are Verdi, Wagner and. Strauss, although some of her most famous roles include Carmen and Dalila as well as Amneris, Rosenkavalier. Fricka, Brangaene, Ortrud or Kundry. In concert she specializes in old Italian arias, Handel and Beethoven, and Lieder of Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Mahler, Strauss, Schubert and Schumann. She sings in German, French, Italian and English. A beautiful woman, of extraordinary stage personality, and a great artist with magnificent voice, Maria Olszewska’s first American tour more than justified the spontaneous “ballyhoo” which heralded her coming to this country, ORGAN RECITAL TUESDAY NIGHT The monthly service-recital of the American Guild of Organists, under the auspices of the Indiana chapter, will be in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church at Thirty-fourth and Central avenue, Tuesday evening at BTS o’clock. The guest soloist will be Perceval Owen, organist and choirmaster of the First Baptist church, assisted by the combined choirs of the First Baptist and Tabernacle churches. Tlie program follows: Hymn 301. “Glorious Things of " iee Are Spoken” J. Haydn “Chorale in E Major” Cesar Franck Anthem. “Jubilate Deo” Cesar Franck “Within a Chinese Garden’’........ i R. S. Stoughton ! “Scherzo” Gaston Dethler i “Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown’’ j H. A. Matthews j “Finale” (First Sonata).. .Alex. Guilmant The recital is free, and the gen- ! eral public is cordially invited. MORE NEW ! MUSICAL EVENTS Boris Rosenfield of the piano department of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will play a ; group of numbers on the program | of the morning musicale to be given | at the Kirschbaum center. Monday. Paul Munger, voice pupil of B. F. ; Swarthouth of the Arthur Jordan | Conservatory of Music has been i engaged as choir director of the | Brightwood Christian church, j Sylvia Florence Madiel, dramatic I art pupil of Justine Stotsenburg of I the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of j Music will give a number of readj ings Tuesday afternoon for the

4 Gary Cooper and Richard Arlen in a scene from “The Virginian,’ now at the C. ircle. 5 Nancy Carroll in “Sweetie,” which is now the movie feature at the Indiana. 6 Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are in their last week at the Apollo.

Priscilla Circle of the Third Chris- I tian church. Boris Rosenfield of the piano department of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will play for the junior section of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale on Saturday, Nov. 30. Mrs. Glenn Friermood of the faculty of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, will sing at a musicale tea given by the Zion’s Evangelical church at the home of Mrs. John Koch on Ellenberger drive on Friday. UNIQUE EVENT IS ANNOUNCED The Indianapolis Matinee Musicale will present Ratan Devi in a costume recital of folk songs ot the east and west, Dec. 6, at 3 o’clock at the Herron Art institute. Ratan Devi may be called a pioneer of Indian music in this country. She came here after most successful concerts in London and Paris, and had a sold-out house : t her debut in New York. She given recitals in most of our i versifies, and various cities freni coast to coast. Lately she has been in demand in our museums for concerts given in connection with their oriental exhibits, as in Boston, Chicago. Cleveland and Denver. / Ratan Devi was born in "England of parents having French blood on both sides. She commenced the study of piano at the age of 6. studying for years with the in' ■ - tion of becoming a professional pianist, howover, she became interested in singing, and especially in folk songs. She heard a Hungarian student sing some Hungarian songs which she treasured for years, and later went to Hungary just to hear these songs again and to learn some of them. And again later went to Spain to hear and learn some Moorish Spanish folk songs. Later she became interested in Indian music, and after her marriage to Dr. Ananda K. Coonmaraswamy, a distinguished collector and writer on I Indian art, who is now curator of ' Indian art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, she accompanied him to India, where sne had the opportunity of visiting the households of distinguished Indians and their families, and of living their life. She visited the Kulu valley in the Himalayas, and Kashmir, where the Maharajah graciously lent her one of the musicians of his court to teach her the native songs.

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Dolores Costello Dolores Costello, one of the most beautiful and popular screen stars, will be seen and heard in her latest all-talking Vitaphone production, “Hearts in Exile, ’ w’hich will be shown at the Apollo soon. Others in the cast are Grant Withers, George Fawcett, David Torrence and James Kirkwood. .Tolson to Sing Favorites Five new Irving Berlin songs as well as numerous old favorites will be sung by A1 Jolson in “Mammy,” his next Vitaphone production which Director Michael Curtiz has recently completed. The group of new numbers all written by Mr. Berlin especially for this ’Warner Bros, special, includes “To My Mammy,” “Looking at You,” “Let Me Sing,” Knights of the Road,” and “Here We Are.” MOTION PICTURES

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Paula Trueman, the hit of “The Grand Street Follies,” who has made a Vitaphone variety called “A Gsmpse of the Stars,” in which she does a number of imitations, is to be starred on the stage this season by A. H. Woods. She made her debut as a revue dancer in Paris while studying abroad. Fred Keating, the magician, who has made a Vitaphone variety called “Illusions,” ran away from the Peekskill military academy at the age of thirteen and joined a troupe of Chinese magicians. He then returned to the academy, but when 17. he joined Thurston, the magician, for a season after which he put on his own show. Irene Franklin whose most recent Vitaphone variety, “The Belle of the Beach,” is the star of Arthur Kammerstein's operetta. “Sweet Adeline.” She recently inherited half a million from an uncle in Australia and has bought a four-acre tract with a fourteen-room house in the Towneley section of Union. N. J.. which she intends to use as a country place for chorus girls temporarily out of work or in need of a rest. Joe E. Brown, comedian of the screen and the stage has appeared in a Vitaphone variety, “Don’t Be Jealous.”

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Color to Be Used Soon in Shorts Vitaphone Subjects to Have Some New Fea* V tures. THE new season In motion pictures will see the coming of color |to Vitaphone short subjects—an element that will greatly enhance : their popularity with the public. George E. Quigley, vice-president of i the Vitaphone Corporation, announces that during the coming season a number of short talking acts i which lend themselves to filming in natural color will be presented by the Technicolor process, which attracted such widespread and favorable attention when “On With the Show,” Warner Bros, first 100 per cent natural color Vitaphone talking, singing and dancing picture j was presented at the Winter Garden, I New York, at Warner Bros.’ theater i in Los Angeles and at the magnifi- | cent new 5,000-seat Warner Theater | cn the boardwalk in Atlantic City, i All colors are rendered in their j natural hues and tints by the new ! and improved Technicolor process. For “flash” acts, sketches in which girls and costumes are an important feature, color will treble their i visual appeal. Color will play a big part in Warner Brothers Vitaphone feature productions during the coming season. Five more features in 100 per cent natural color and others partly in color are on the 1929-30 schedule “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” “Song of the West,” “Under a Texas Moon,” “Hold Everything” and “Golden Dawn” to be entirely in color. John Barrymore's first talking picture, “General Crack,” is one | of the productions to be done partly in color. Color is the latest forward step ! in the developing art of the motion i picture. So natural and clear cut iis it that predictions have been freely made that within two or three j year.s the black and white picture | will be as passe as is the silent film I today, two years after the advent of sound and dialogue on the screen. Vitaphone shorts in Technicolor will be filmed at Warner Brothers eastern vitaphone studios under the j direction of Bryan Foy and liis assistants, Murray Roth and Arthur Hurley. They will bring to the I screens showing them all the harmonies of color to be found in the ! most spectacular of vaudeville offerings and de luxe picture house I “presentations.”

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