Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1929 — Page 6

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MRS. PRIMROSE REVIVES MEMORIES OF OLD MINSTREL DAYS

The Lyric Theater’s New Bill Features ‘The Sap,’ an AllTalking Picture That Depicts Life in a Very Small Country Town. •vt->hE SAP,” an all-talking picture that is heralded as an extremely A funny drama of small town life, and four RKO vaudeville acts on a stage show that features comedy entertainment, gives the Lyric management cause to call the new show opening there today "A Comedy Carnival.” Small town sisters, wedded to poverty and apparently doomed to uninteresting lives, one married to a twenty-dollar-a-week clerk and the other to a no-income inventive genius; all living together fn one small cottage—this is the setting for “The Sap.” Patsy Ruth Miller and Edna Murphy, brunette and blonde, are the

sisters, Betty and Jane. Edward Everett Horton is the lead in the title role as “The s?ap“ and Alan Hale and Franklin Pangborn make up the five-star group of featured players. . Unexpectedly a great deal of trouble and excitement comes into the lives of these sou people. Brfore it blows over they have been bandits* accessories, before and after crime, bank president and returning heroes. It is safe to say that "The Sap” Will prove itself to be one of the greatest family entertainments ye. to be presented on the living screen. The featured attraction of the comedy stage show is “The Spirit of Minstrelsy,” a corking revue of old and new s:n s, dances and humor presented by Mrs. George Primrose, the wife of the late George Primrose and dean of all minstrels. W.th Mrs. Primrose are many favorites, among whom are the Molloy twins, Eddie Clifford, Fred C. Holmes, E. Booth Platt, Grey Weller and Joe Reilly. A novelty feature of the stage program is the appearance of Hap Hazzard, billed as “The Aero Nut.” Mr. Hazzard was a flier in the world war and is now entertaining vaudeville audiences with a corking comedy act with plenty of thrills. Hazzard is an aviation enthusiast and usually flies his own plane from town to town during his vaudeville tour. The comedy revue to be offered by Jules Howard, well-known stage comedian, is entitled ‘‘The Law r Must Be Enforced.” Mr. Howard is assisted by Jack Kellar and Helen Howard in the playlet. A diversified program of tap, acr'uat'c and jazz dances, and vio- j lin numbers is the forte of Miss i Ewing Eaton, lovely little musical comedy s ar who conduces the stage show. Miss Eaton was last seen in this city with “Artists and Models.”

New Events in Local Music

THE Lener String Quartet of Budapest will give a concert at the Academy of Muric Sunday afternoon, under the direction of the Indianapolis Maennerchor. The Lener string quartet, which came to America for the first time in the fall of 1929, is one of the famous quartets of today. Each member of the quartet is a product of the Budapest Academy, renowned for its instrumental traditions. Jeno Lener, the leader; Joseph Smi’ovits, second violin, and Sandor Roth, viola, are all pupils of the old master Hubay; Imre Hartman, cellist, of the great Popper. Lener and Smilovits were born in 1895; Roth and Hartman in 1896. Lener was the child prodigy of Hubay’s “master class.’’ At the age of 11 he was one of the first violins in the Budapest Philharmonic, and later became a member of the Budapest Grand Opera. Smilovits won the coveted Remenyi prize while a student at the Budapest Academy. Roth, prior to joining the quartet, was a member of the faculty of the academy and often gave concerts there. Hartman won the Popper prize, which was 200 gold crowns per annum for five years. All are well known as solo artists as well as for their ensemble work. In 1919 the four young men were members of the Grand Opera orchestra in Budapest. At the outbreak of the revolution in Hungaiy and communism in his native city, Lener gathered about him his three friends and retired with them to a remote Hungarian village to devote their energies to the cult of chamber music. After two years of work the quartet made its first appearance in Vienna before a distinguished international gathering of musicians—and their European reputation was forthwith established. Ravel, the great composer, was present to hear his own string quartet played—as he has since confirmed in writing—with a technical finish and musicianly penetration such as he had known from no other body of players. He personally invited the Leners to Paris for the following autumn, where their several concerts were a revelation to the most exacting public of that city. After their first concert in Vienna a professor of the Music Academy there wrote: ‘‘Today they are unknown, tomorrow they will have world fame." At that time the total age of the four artists was under 100 years. Since then they have played repeatedly in all the musical centers of Europe and their renown has grown by leaps and

Doris Kenyon Is Signed

Doris Kenyon has been signed by Radio Pictures to play the femme lead opposite Rod La Rocque in “Strictly Business” from the Wallace Smith story. Others signed for this all-talkie are Mitchell Lewis. George Duryea. Charles Middleton and Walter Long. Lambert Hillyer will direct. Miss Keyon, who has been studying voice in New York and has given concerts both in New York and Philadelphia, will sing a number of songs in the picture to be produced by Henry Hobart, who gave Miss Kenyon her first role in motion pictures when he cast her for “The Ruling Passion.” She is best remembered for hei work in “Men of Steel,” “The Blonde Saint,” “Ladies at Play," “Mismates,” “Valley of the Giants ’ “Bumkig Daylight,” "Hawk's Nest” and “Aterference.”

Songs Are Written by Phillips Heinie and His Men Play for Dances in Big Ballroom. ONE of the “hit” numbers being used by A1 Heinie and his musicians, now playing on the Indiana Roof, was written by A1 Phillips, a member of the orchestra, and is titled “When You Told Me You Loved Me.” Heinie and his “thieves of sleep” opened their engagement on the roof last Tuesday night. Heinie, who has been leading dance orchestras for more than ten years, played an engagement here at one of the local amusement parks about two years ago and is therefore not unknown to dance lovers of this city. They came to this city from Chicago, where they have been playing for the last two months. The roof management announces a “diamond ball” Saturday night, at which time twelve diamond rings are to be given away. Other activities of interest to dancers are planned for that evening, according to Devine. Interest in the waltz championship preliminaries is taking active form according to the management. The second preliminary will be held Wednesday night. This is open to any couple in the city and several excellent waltzers have signified their intentions of taking part in this contest which closes Jan. 8.

bounds. In the Lerner quartet the United States will have a rare opportunity of hearing chamber music at its best. The monthly student recital of the Irvington School of Music will be given Saturday, Dec. 14, at 2:45 p. m. This program will be in the form of a contest. Madame Bailie Steinhart will be the judge of the contest and will offer a prize to the best performer. She will also be the guest artist, giving the young students the opportunity of hearing her play. The recital is free and open to the public. Adelaide Conte will have charge of the program. Program follows: Pianos Solos—" Happy Go Lucky,” Jean Smith; Junior Selections, Mildred Trueblood; "Murmuring Brook,” Martha Jane Bash; Junior Selections. Mary Jean Bowman: "Etudes,” Harry Underw'ood; “Dance of the Midgets.” Shirley Lois James; “Else and the Fairy,” Valetta Sparrow, “Venetian Serenade,” Eleanor Cooper; "Jenny Wren,” William Howe; "Climbing.” Robert Mathews: “Scarf Dance ” William Prescott: "On the Ice at Sweet Brier,” Arthur Alexander; “To a Dainty Dancer.” Alice Adelia Hite; “Arabia.” Robert Wiese; "Italian Dance.” Martha Schissel; “Legend of the Pisa Bird.” Betty Schissel: "Hungarian Dance,” Edward Moore; "Spinning Song.” Lois La Fara; "Winter Melodies.” Patty La Fara; "Marketing,” "Let's Sing and Dance,” Selected, Mary Fenstermaker. Cello Trio—First prelude from Bach, "Gounod.” “Ave Marie.” Betty Randall. Jean Southard. Marcena Campbell. Cello solo, "Andante Melody,” Jean Southard. Violin; Selected. Helen Newlin. Came Out of the West Fay Wray was born in Wrayland, Alta., Canada. While still a young child her family moved to Mesa, Ariz., where they lived for several years before going to Salt Lake City, Utah, and later to Hollywood.

Here Is Some Hot Movie Gossip

Clara Bow and Evelyn Brent denounce the eighteen-day diet .... and so does Dr. H. J. Starthearn. physican at the largest film studio . . . . “Don’t reduce too fast,” sezzie. ending up with “There’s no such thing as a universal diet” . . . Paramount’s first issue of its Sound News is the talk of Hollywood. Production starts on “The Vagabond King" .... with Dennis King .... handsome chap .... so much so that he can’t eat in peace at the studio restaurant . . . Even the stenos on the lot want his autograph .... and Jeannette MacDonald, his leading woman, is plenty envied .... Evelyn Brent hasn't changed in the slightest . . . Last Tuesday, she was a featured player, today she is a star .... her first vehicle, “Darkened Rooms” is under way. Lothar Mandes and Marcel De Sano sign new directorial contracts .... Ethel Wales, whose film career dates back to the first day of shooting on the old Lasky Feature Play company lot on Vine street, is acting in Clara Bow's "The Saturday Night Kid” .... “Billy” Taylor. age 101, is working in a current picture .... Greater Movie Season is about to start .... Nancy Carroll hops a train for a slight vacation in New York. Maurice Chevalier is going to France .... he left last week .... and will return in October .... Zoe Atkins joins Paramount's writing staff .... Elsie Janis is now busily engaged in learning all the technical details of talking pic-ture-making .... “Here Comes the Bandwagon” will be Charles Rogers’ next starring production .... George Bancroft affixes his johnhenry to anew contract * • • •

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Opem Will Offer a Big Revival One of Verdi’s Works to Be' Given Next Week. THE sixth week of opera in the new Chicago civic opera house on Wacker drive w T ill witness four first performances, one of which is a revival and returns to the repertoire after an absence of six years. It is Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” composed by the musician shortly after the death of his entire family. At the suggestion of a friend that a book by Piave was based upon a tragedy commensurate with his own, Verdi became interested, familiarized himself with the text, and under the influence of his own tragic mood, composed the score. The other operas which will be given their first hearing of the season during the ensuing week are Ho levy’s “Jewess,” Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and Gounod’s “Faust.” The final performances of the fifth week, this afternoon and tonight, are Wagner’s “Tannehauser,” receiving its first performance of the 1929-30 season, and “Aida.” Theodore Strack, the Civic Opera Company’s new German tenor, will be heard in his third characterization of the season this afternoon in the title role of “Tannehauser.” Eva Turner. English dramatic soprano who joined the company last year, will likewise be heard in anew role, that of Elizabeth, as will Frida Leider, who sings the Venus. He’en Freund will sing the music of the Young Shepherd, Richard Bonelli is the Wolfman, Alexander Kipnis the Herman, Kiuseppe Cavadore the Walter, Lodovico Oliviero, Henry the Scribe, Eugenio Sandrini, Biterolf and Antonio Nicholich, Reinmar. The ballet appears in the Venusberg Bacchanale with Ruth Pryor, Edwin Caton, Harriet Lundgren and Julia Barashkova. Egon Poliak conducts. One change has been made in the cast of “Aida.” With that exception, it will be the same as that which sang the dedicatory performance. Giovanni Ingilleri replaces Cesare Formichi as Amonasro. Rosa Raisa is the Aida, Charles Marshall the Radames, Virgilio Lazzeri the high priest, Chase Baromeo the king of Egypt, Hilda Burke the priestess, and Giuseppe Cavadore the messenger. Ruth Pryor, Julia Barashkova and Edward Caton are featured with the ballet and Musical Director Giorgio Polacco will conduct. -

which insures the public of plenty more talking pictures starring this amiable menace .... Frank Ross. Long Island's realty wizard, is cast in Clara Bow’s new opus. In the words of George Manker Watters, co-author of “Burlesque," a Kibitzer is "the San Franciscan in Los Angeles who talks only of San Francisco's peppy clime.” Clara Loves Athletics Clara Bow is a good athlete, but not an expert. She likes hiking, swimming and horseback riding. She handles any make of automobile. She dances well.

■ MUTUAL Burlesque Theater The Only Recognized Burlesque Theater in This City PLAYING STANDARD ROAD ATTRACTIONS ;S BOWERY BURLESQUERS With CLYDE BATES, BABE ALMOND % n CHORUS? Dancing Girls • m

ROUNDING ROUND THEATERS ™ WALTER D. HICKMAN

MARY TRAUB BUSCH, contralto, is going to present her pupils in a recital Tuesday night, Dec. 17, at 8:30 o’clock in the recreation hall of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. She has told me that “the fundamental purpose of these recitals is to further musical talent ard to make an outlet for those who are striving toward certain musical attainments.”

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The man who is conducting the “Thieves of Sleep” orchestra at the Indiana ballroom is Harold Heine.

They Wear Overcoats Hollywood has now invented overcoats for the microphones used in making of all-talking pictures. The overcoats are not designed to baffle cold; they defeat the wind. In making sound pictures in the open air on a windy day the breeze whistling across the opening of the mikes is plainly recorded. “Wind cones,” a device that clamps over the mouth of the microphone, have been designed by the sound experts at the Paramount studios to meet this emergency. They were used the first time and w’ith perfect results during the recording and filming of street scenes for the new’ William Wellman production. “Woman Trap,” in w r hich Hal Skelly, Evelyn Brent and Chester Morris are featured.

Mary Has Long Hair Mary Brian, one of the last of the popular young screen actresses to cling to long hair, has gone “bobbed.” Long hair was unsuited to the part Miss Brian will play in Paramount’s “The Children” and rather than miss the dramatic opportunity it affords, she, good trouper that she is, sacrificed part of her dark brown locks. Belmore Is Added to Cast Daisy Belmore, veteran character actress of the stage and screen, has been added to the supporting cast of "Medals,” Gary Cooper’s first starring picture. “Medals” is an all-talking filmization of the London and New 1 York stage success, “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.”

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Upon this program there will be four songs by local composers. They will be sung by young artists. Both the words and the music have been written by the composers. This is a noble service and this teacher of music is to be congratulated. a u I have received the following of interest: The Professional Players of Philadelphia, the new subscription group, have begun their season at the Adelphi theatre of that city with “Death Takes a Holiday,” a dramatic fantasy by Walter Ferris, from the Italian of Alberta Cassello. The cast features Philip Merivale and James Dale, Wallace, Erskine, Frank Greene, Ann Orr, Katharine Hepburn, Martin Burton and others. Lawrence Marston direced the play. “The Infinite Shoeblack,” the second offering sponsored by the Professional Players, has also had its American premiere, playing Washington this week (beginning Dec. 2), with Pittsburgh to follow and then Philadelphia. This is the London drama by Norman MacOwan, Helen Menken and Leslie Banks are featured at the head of a cast which also includes Mr. MacOw’an, the author, and Frances Ross Campbell of the original London production. u tt t , Here is another item of interest: Not only w T ill D. W. Griffith, the famous United Artists producer-di-rector, make “Abraham Lincoln” as an all-dialogue motion picture of epical proportions, but he will strive to have it go down in screen history as the crowning achievement of his long and brilliant career. This is Griffith’s reply to rumors that he considered abandoning plans to bring the real Lincoln to the world on the living, talking screen. Announcement is expected to be made soon as to who will have the coveted honor of playing the title role under Griffith’s personal direction. Nagel Signs Contract Conrad Nagel ha; been signed to do the lead in “the Second Wife” by RKO Productions, according to an announcement by William Le Baron, vice-president in charge of production. Russell Mack will direct. This all-talking production Is to be an adaptation from the play “All the King’s Men.” amusements

ACADEMY OF' MUSIC, TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:15 LENER QUARTET “BRILLIANT DEBUT BY LENEF QUARTET —Each member a viridioso —every quality which conduces to quartet playing of the higher rank was shown.” —Olin Downs (X. I. Times 11-13-29) RECORDING EXCLUSIVELY FOR COLUMBIA RECORDS The extraordinary list of Columbia recordings by this famous organization represents the very best of the world’s chamber-music literature. All but two of the Beethoven Quartets, -outstanding works of Brahms, Debussy, Mozart, Haydn, nowavailable in Columbia Masterw'orks Albums. (All of the above Beethoven recordings are in the Beethoven Museum at Bonn, Germany, also in the Mpsic Library in the White House, Washington, D. C.) \ CONCERT MANAGEMENT ARTHUR JUDSON * |

3 Clyde Bates has the lead in “Bowery Burlesquers” at the Mutual starting Sunday. 4 Mrs. George Primrose and her “Spirit of Minstrelsy Revue” at the Lyric starting today

COLONIAL Illinois and Sew Vork Sts. Week Starting Sunday JOHNNY BLACK (HIMSELF) Composer of "DardaneUa” and the Colonial Favorites in a Singing-Dancing-Comedy “Greenwich Nights” with Chorus On the Runway On the Screen GILDA GRAY Id “PICCADILLA” with Sonnd and Mnsic Mat, 20c, Nights. Sat,, Snn, Mat., 30c Midnight Frolic Saturday 11:00 P. M.

Two Stars Started in Same Lot Bebe and Harold Do Not Forget the Old Days. ABOUT ten years ago, Bebe Daniels was playing opposite Harold Lloyd, on the old Century lot. Today both are stars in their own right, and, by a strange coincidence, their first talking picture had western premieres on the same day. Last Thursday, Radio Pictures presented Miss Daniels at the Carthay Circle theater in a magnificent premiere of “Rio Rita” and on the same day Harold Lloyd opened in “Welcome Danger.” “Rio Rita” is the first picture Miss Daniels has appeared in for some time and presents her as possessor of a glorious soprano voice and unusual dramatic ability. “Welcome Danger” is also Lloyd's first appearance on the screen in eighteen months and from all reports both pictures are destined for great success. When playing with Lloyd years ago, Miss Daniels’ talents were used only for comedies. Her dramatic and singing ability were yet to be discovered. However, when the “talkies” came in Miss Daniel signed a long-term contract with Radio Pictures, producing unit of the vast Radio-Keith-Orpheum organization and has definitely forsaken comedy to be starred in more romantic productions of the “Rio Rita” type.

New Shows Among the musical productions of the coming season of the Messrs. Shubert will be “Nina Rosa,” an operetta with sCore by Sigmund Romberg, book by Otto Harbach and lyrics by Irving Caesar. Also a musical version of Elinor Glyn’s “Three Weeks” and the celebrated European hit, “The Duchess of Chicago,” and others.

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INDIANAPOLIS J. C. C. A. ' OPEN FORUM SUNDAY at 8:15 P. M. Dr. Mordecai W. JOHNSON“The Negro's Contribution to American Civilization.” KIRSHBAUM CENTER Meridian at 23rd ADMISSION 50c Auspices Jewish Community Center Association.

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When Mary Traub Busch presents her pupils in recital soon, four of the numbers to ce '• and were composed by Indianapolis composers.

He Taught Dancing Maurice Chevalier was once the dancing partner of Mistinguette at the famed Foiies Bergere. She Looks; This Way Nancy Carroll is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 118 pounds and has red hair and blue eyes.

JWHAM/WOW/WHOOPEE/IT'S HERE/ 1 THE FIRST CYCLONIC COMEDY CARNIVAL OF THE SEASOft. I A R/P-ROAR/NG FIVE-RING C/RCUS OF FUN AND FROLIC | ON STAGE AND SCREEN LET'S GO/// /FOR THE LOVE OF LAUGHsX^\ ( mm miss this one (ALM filsw V SDWAIitf EVERETT MORTON / \ PATSY ftilTH MILLER 'ALAN HALE / \ JF YOU THOUGHT "74* HOTTENTOT" WAS FUNNY- g\ \ WELL YOU'LL JUST SPLIT TOUR SIDES HOWL - / J -_X//VG AT THE LOVE ADVENTURES OF THIS /W SMALL TOWN DREAMER WHO BEAT THE I Jat YS ISTOCKMARICET" . Nfc, AfPNMT Smm Ifimmfm/C V FUN..MUSIC..SOMG..DANCE..] \ MOLLO? TWINS "EDDIE g.uc. \fRED HOLMES..BOOTH PLATT. JT j?/ X ) \gBAY WELLE!? AMO JT m* V . JULES \ l HtLtWHOWARO J ■vaigjjßS&l # A i ~ MORAN *7 ”4 SONO 1 LiSr— — ‘ SATW&Y of KENTUCKY* ALL TALK.f

Yearbook Is Issued by Society Early Indiana Scenes Are Re-Created in a New Book. CONTAINING several rare prints depicting early scenes in Indiana, the 1929 year book of the Society of Indiana Pioneers made its appearance today. Main articles in the year book include “The Influence of the Camp Meeting Upon Pioneer Life.” by Miss Marguerite Dice; “The Lawyer as a Pioneer,” by Charles N. Thompson, and “Pioneer Trails,” by A. R. Markle of Terre Haute. Another article describes the steamboat New Orleans, the first steam-propelled vessel to descend the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. This boat was built by Robert H. Fulton and his associates, and in 1811 made the trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in twelve days. The article in the Pioneer Society's year book traces the controversy that arose over whether or not the vessel was a side-wheeler or a sternwheeler. The weight of authority, say th author, inclines to the belief the boat was a side-wheeler. To illustrate the article on early camp-meetings a valuable print, made in 1832, shows a typical scene during the protracted meetings which were common during that period of the state’s history. Miss Dice, the author of the article, believes the first camp-meet-ing in Indiana was held near Charleston, in Clarke county, on the farm owned at that time by Nathan Robertson, who had settled in Indiana in 1799. having migrated from Kentucky. The date is given as the summer of 1807. In tracing the influence of the pioneer lawyer, Mr. Thompson, the author, calls attention to the fact that the first civil governor of the territory captured by George Rogers Clark was John Todd, a lawyer appointed to his post by Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia. “The enduring achievement of the pioneer lawyer in Indiana,” writes Mr. Thompson, “was the welding of the loose joints of the political framework so that the new state became an effective part of an integrated structure that has been sufficiently strong to withstand the destroying force of four wars, including an internecine struggle that threatened the dissolution of the federal government itself.” Fifty pages containing the names of more than 800 members of the society, and a brief record of the society’s achievements in helping to create and maintain a healthy interest in the historical sites of Indiana, close the year book. It is being mailed today to members of the society and to a selected list of libraries. New York Likes Him Previewed in New York this week, “The Love Doctor,” starring Richard Dix, was hailed as the most amusing all-talking picture Dix has made for Paramount. The picture was adapted to the screen by J. Walter Ruben and Guy Bolton from the play, “The Boomerang,” by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes. Supporting Dix in this, his last picture under* contract with Paramount, are June Collyer, Miriam Seegar, Morgan Farley and Lawford Davison.

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