Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1930 — Page 5

MARCH 15, lflSO.

MARX BROTHERS TO OPEN AT ENGLISH’S MONDAY NIGHT

Jane Cowl Is Booked for a Week’s Engagement Here in •Jenny’—William Gillette to Say Farewell to Us in ’Sherlock Holmes,’ His Great Success. AT English’s Monday the curtain will rise promptly at 8:15 upon the Marx Brothers In "Animal Crackers." This is the latest and, from U 1 accounts, the best of the Marx Brothers’ offerings to the musical comedy stage. Sam H. Harris sponsors the production, which is elaborate and costly. The book is by Georce S. Kaufman and Morrie Rysktnd, and he muse and lyrics by that clever team, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. In the cast—yes, they have to have other capable and efficient .layers singers and dancers to round out a typical Marx Brothers show -notably, Margaret Dumont, Margaret Irving, Louis Sorin Arthur Lipjn, Doroth.' I tz Gibbon, Marjory May Martyn, Neil Collins, Sammy Weston, Ruth Warren and Julian Winter.

While comedy predominates, it is not allowed to run away with the. how, and against the battery and gun fire of the rib-ticklers of the Marx Brothers, may be seen and heard numerous catchy melodies and intricate dancing numbers. There is a large, efficient and handome chorus, and also the Sixteen Markert-Peterson Girls dancing ensemble par excellence. The story of “Animal Crackers,” not that nlots matter in a Marx show, in’ olves the stealing of a painting end the discovery of an unsuspected artistic genius amid the surroundings of Long Island's idle rich. Among the song hits that, linge~ in the memory mays be mentioned, “Watching the Clouds Roil By,” “Long Island Low Down" and “Who’s Been Listening to My Heart.” a * JANE COWL BOOKED HERE Jane Cowl, in the new comedy “Jenny,” by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon, comes to English’s Monday night, March 24, for a week with matinee on Wednesday and Saturday. An interesting picture of presentday American life, this play provides Miss Cowl with a modern role of engaging charm and daring. Not so many years ago a Jenny Valentine could have been seen on the tage only in tiie role of a villaini- s. Today she is a heroine, winning support and sympathy by her lorihright character, her courage in out-facing conventions to secure the iiappiness of the man she loves. It is John R. Weatherby to whom ■ nny r v'c- her heart —a man whose fi-made success has resulted in tnerea. ugly selfish demands from •ius family for more and yet more money. Isis frivolous wife surv.unds herself by syncophanic admirers. Spendthrift son and thrill-seeking ouughters have no interest in him i ryond his signature on a check. Neglected, bewildered, lonely, he ’ • captivated and th3n quite liter - iiy captured by Jenny, who comiences her romance in a spirit of disinterested fair play, only to find that her sympathetic appreciation of John has become a deeply emotional love. From the lighter moods of the earlier scenes to the dramatic directness of the last act, Miss Cowl invests the character of Jenny with that earnestness and spontaneity which only the great ones in the theater are able to bestow. Guy Standing Is Weatherby. Katherine Emmet portrays the shallow wife; Joyce Carey and Helen Brooks, as the daughters, and Ben Lackland as the son, are convincingly irresponsible young moderns. Robert Lowe as Cole, Coburn Goodwin, Lewis Martin and Charles Brokaw contribute character studies. a a u WTLTIAM GILLETTE TO SAY FAREWELL Returning after an absence of many years to Indianapolis, where he appeared in his professional career as long ago as 1874, William Gillette, dean of the American theater, will bring the most popular of aft-his plays, “Sherlock Holmes," to English's opera house, March 31 and April 1. In this engagement, it is formallv announced by Mr. Gillette, he will say farewell forever to Ind.anapolis. On this tour of farewell, which opened in Springfield, Mass., last November. Mr. Gillette has received such tribuvs from press and public as seldom have been accorded to a representative of the theater in this or any country. At the opening performance in the New Amsterdam theater. New York. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Col mibia university made an address before the curtain, welcoming the acior-author back to the :tage; and at the conclusion of the play. Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale university presented to Mr Gillette a portfolio containing letters of salutation from some hundred or more of the most prominent people in the country. After playing to standing room ■ or six weeks in New York's larg- : theater, the 2ctor was welcomed ■ o Washington by President Hoo’cr and the best society of the capital. He was welcomed again in Baltit >re by Governor Ritchie of Mary--d. In his native city of Hartrri. he was greeted by Governor umbull and a committee of one ndred prominent people of Con- • -I.cut as that, state’s mast dis'guished citizen. Chicago repeat- . "the ovation given him in other cities. Thus, from all accounts, the tour is taken on the aspect of a naonai tribute to a great artist and a gesture to the passing of an .i m the theater. Mr. Gillette, last autumn quit his Irement on his magnificent estate Hadlyme. Conn., overlooking the C onnecticut river, having been per- . uaded thereto by Messrs. A. L. Err.ger and George C. Taylor, who "'.armed lor him a sentimental journey to the scenes of such earlier triumphs as “The Professor," “The Private Secretary,’ Too Much Johnson," “Held by the Enemy,” Secret Service ’ and “Sherlock Holmes ’—all of these being the actors own adaptations or of his own authorship “Sherlock Holmes" -ving been written by Mr. Gillette as an original store employing the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 'Sherlock Holmes," originally presented by Mr. Gillette in 1839. has not been played by him in Indiaha polls since 1916.

Art Institute

Samuel F. B. Morse, famous not only as the inventor of the telegraph but also as an artist, is represented in an exhibition of Colonial portraits now being shown at the art institute, by a characteristic canvas. It is a charming portrait of an elderly woman and Is indicative of the skill he had attained when his interest in the problems of his invention monopolized his attention and caused him to stop painting. Oiher paintings in the group are by Sully. Smibert, Rembrandt Peale. Blackburn and other early American portrait painters. Several pieces of furniture and a collection of luster ware are shown in connection with the paintings and the whole constitutes an interesting and delightful display.

ROUNDING ROUND THEATERS mth Walter T D. HICKMAN

IN numerous letters received from readers of this department as well as requests from those who listen in on my radio talks on the theater on Tuesday over WKBF, I have been asked to discuss Mrs, Louise Closser Hale,

Mrs. Hale whose home is Indianapolis and who is famous on the stage and the talking screen, has always been the object of much interest here. Wallace West, formerly employed here with the United Press, but now press agent for Paramount in New York, has prepared an interesting article on Mrs. Hale. West’s information is as follows: After portraying ugly old women on the talking screen until 1932, Mrs. Louise Closser Hale, noted writer and actress, intends to retire at the age of 60. “I intend to spend two years in pictures,” she explained when interviewed today at the Paramount Long Island studio where she is participating with Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin, Frank Morgan and Roberta Robinsono in the filming of “Dangerous Nan McGrew,” a farce comedy of the Canadian northwest. “The motion picture is my most fascinating discovery in thirty-five years of acting.’’ she continued. “I want to see how it develops, so for the two years before my retirement I am going to soak up all the screen atmosphere possible.” Mrs. Hale, a gracious lady who looks ten years younger than her age, declared her next part would be radically different from that of the millionaire mother which she plays in “Dangerous Nan.” “These beautiful clothes worry me, and this snow-wdiite wig is embarrassing,” she said. “Since I starting playing ‘mother-parts’ in 1903, I have yearned to be unattractive. I played the parts of Ase in ‘Peer Gynt.;’ 90-year-oia Grandma Bett in ‘Miss Lulu Bett,’ and the old crippled harridan in Eugene O'Neill’s ‘Beyond the Horizon,’ and enjoyed every minute of the work. I like to play interesting old women, and if they are ugly, so much the better.” Mrs. Hale admitted she might return to the stage after her retirement as so many famous actresses have done, but said she hoped she would not again succumb to the lure of the footlights. “I want to have more time for writing.” Mrs. Hale continued. “Every actress writes her memoirs, and I do not want to spoil the tradition. Besides, there is so much of the world that I have not, seen. Mrs.. Hale, it must be explained, has published ten books and more than a hundred short stories. She also has drawn royalties for many years on a play which she considered so bad that she had it produced under a pseudonym. She also acted as war correspondent for Harper’s magazine in 191S, and, according to her own statement was “the world's worst.” “The horror of the battlefields was too much for me," she said. “I had to give it up.” She also made a year's lecture tour of Europe under the auspices of James Pond, but gave it up to return to Broadway. According to “Who’s Who,” her books include “A Motor Car Divorce." published in 1906; “The Acfiresa.' 1909; “The Married Mass Worth,' 1911; “Her Soul and Her Body," 1912; ''We Discover New England,’ 1915; “We Discover the Old Dominion," 1916. and “An American's London," 1920. Her first stage appearance was at Detroit in 1895, in the premiere there of George Bernard Shaw's “Candida." She was born in Chicago, Oct. 13, 1872, but spent most of her youth and received her education in In-

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I—Jane Cowl brings “.Tennv” to English’s the week of March 24. 2 Here is a rare picture of the Four Marx Brothers as they are in real life. In order. Zeppo, Groucho, Chico and Harpo. They open Monday night at English’s in “Animal Crackers.”

dianapolis, Ind. She married Walter Hale Aug. 17, 1899. Her last stage appearance was with Irene Bcrdoni in “Paris.’' This play ran three seasons in the French capital and closed on Broadway last December after an extended run there. She then reenacted her role in a motion picture of the same name. Her first appearance :on the talking s< reen was in Paramount’s “The Hole in the Wall.” This picture also witnessed her most embarrassing moment. “I had rehearsed for three weeks,” she said today, “but the cameras and ether technical equipment

At Colonial

George Buttons Fares and his own show will present a novel burlesque attraction entitled “Winsome Winners” at the Colonial for the week commencing today. While it is styled a burlesque performance at, the same time Fares has introduced many spectacular features that are usually to be found only in revues. The comedy bits will be found new and original interspersed with song hits, posing numbers, dancing specialties and attractive features that have been molded into one continuous and pleasing performance. A novel number Is “Northland” with the stage setting representing the far north and the choristers Eskimos. “Aintcha,” “The Winsome Winners,” “Baby” and "Could You” are other high lights of the musical numbers. Included in the cast of ‘Winsome Winners” are Maxine, a scubrette; Ruth Osborne, Flo Rich, Stella Du Claire, Billy Howard, George Buttons Fares himself, Eddie Ware and Andy Anderson, and the Colonial Runway chorus. For the screen attraction Jack Holt will be seen in “Vengeance,” an all talking drama. Big Battle Scene Made Such splefidid progress is being made on “All Quiet on the Western Front’ and so little confusion has occurred in the elaborate battle icenes, which Director Milestone has been working on, that Carl Laemle Jr. feels confident of finishing the shooting of the Romarque novel by the middle of February. AMUSEMENTS

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AMUSEMENTS 1 A NEVV ALLVUKMG love drama JSi JBL Here Is alicad-of-uie-minute romance. Sensational! Blrarre! 'yffiaF'y) Lavish! Daring! A gripping drama that reveals the Innermost secrets of a beautiful woman's heart and the most 1 Bill, | PLUS—THIS IMMENSE STAGE sptCTACULAft j||y||| I§j&,jp'' ;/ FRANK AA/O 'mIlTO" "as ■ art o* a X H t WJBN . "JffilSf Mi WBBfcf BgOWHKKVGNft vCHARME \\ ff-jifsil- -I ** 'STEPPING AIOMG* I |H ll mmmvwm \l J£S h ANO CHINESE MABIEIS W^WTW'W^JTWl^ ame bros. ~7~ ■ EW I SRI S ONTI^NWAY ggg ON EAPThg TUE’S.-GQPTERtiITEFRI-AHATEUPSSQTr MID-HITE SHOW

?—The Yuong King troupe of Oriental acrobats and jugglers arc r.ow the chief event at the Lyric. 4 — Johnny Perkins, well known to local theater goers, is now the big person in the cast of the stage show at the Indiana.

leaped between me and the camera. The scene was spoiled. I want to say, however, that that was the last time I ever was the cause of a retake.” Mrs. Hale believes the thing most needed in present-day moving pictures is more careful rehearsing. “Screen actors should know the 1 /

lines so well that they will not worry about them, but can think instead of what is back of the part,” she declared. “There is too much stage fright even among experienced actors at the studios. When this is cleared away, sound pictures will make a long step forward.”

AMUSEMENTS ENGLISH’S JOURNEY’S END TCIJ’C WONDAY~nTtE lIbIX VJgjLjiiOri D Bal. Week—>lals. I All Roads Lead to Where Laughter Reigns Supreme f* arr * ,s iWnv IL * n the iTlusical Circus Nr lEt’animAl VI Wm CRACKERS/^ No Canned Actors, Music j * friP' or Speech—Company of JJ jjpr 125 in the Flesh. Promi- Jc* f nent Among Whom Are: MARGARET DUMONT, MARGARET IRVING. LOUIS SORIN. ARTHUR LIT SON, DOROTHY FITZ GIBBON, NEIL COLLINS. SAMMY WESTON. M \ KJOtn MAY .MARTYN, RUTH WARREN, JULIAN WINTER, HOCILLS FILIPINO ORCHESTRA, THE MARKERT-PETE RSON DANCERS. 1 CHORES OF ADOLESCENCE, BEAL TY, CHARM AND TALENT. Nites: $4.40 Inc. Tax, $3.00, 52.50, $2.00, SI.OO. Wed. Mat.: $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, SI.OO. Sat. Mat.: $3.00, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, SI.OO. —ENGLISH’S— Week Beginning Mon., Mch. 24-Mats. Wed .and Sat. ■ ~ mwHrr-frur*-Guy Standing" S DIftECT FROM HER GREAT SUCCESS AT THc BOOTH THEATRE, N.Y.^^ I! A Fascinating-' Love- Story with an Unconventional Happy Ending"- -- / PRICES—EVES., 50c TO $3.00. WED. MAT., 50c TO *I.OO. SAT. MAT., 50c TO $2.50. MAIL ORDERS NOW. SEATS ON SALE THORS. ENGLISH’S 2 March 31, April 1 MAIL ORDERS NOW—sl, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3. H? gSßs?|W!lll4M GILLETTE as last perfoeman czsiut tAeniKAntf I J ln Mis Famous Creation of Sherloctl‘Holmes% VOU A B WfHlim Gillette end. Sir Arthur CorenDoule jSJi. ■ Setting forth an and thrillMOPT+ ■ in?- adventure of the great detective 1 vhichhds never been told, i ri prinr j -rjj-AjuaSGlCnM or on the screen. direction A L EPLANGEP <*d GEOROE C TYLER r AMI A ¥ ILLINOIS AND I#WlitilAJ NEW YORK STREETS FASTEST SHOW IN THE CITY WEEK COMMENCING TODAY GEO. (BUTTONS) FARES And His Own Rig Show “WINSOME WINNERS” PARADE OF BEAT TIES Q>~RUNM \Y Auction Nite 1 THE SCREEN Amateur Nite Tuesday |holt in “VEWBEANCE” Friday MIDNIGHT FROLIC 11 ’.OO'TOMGiIT HALF OUT! Only One Half of the Contestants Remaining in the Worlds Greatest Carnival of Endurance. MAD MARATHON AUSPICES MADDEN NOTTINGHAM POST No. 345, AMERICAN LEGION 24 —HOURS A DAY—24

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Johnny to Have a Fat Reception Stage Comedian Will Bo Host to Heavyweights Tuesday. According to announcement made by the management of the Indiana. Tuesday is the day of days for Indianapolis heavyweights, because all people—men, women or children who weigh within ten pounds oi the “tonnage" or scales over the weight of Johnny Perkins, will be guest at the Indiana theater to see him in “Streets of Bombay.” Perkins made this announcement: “Tell ail the pleasantly plump people of Indianapolis, that if they are plump enough they will please me ■by coming to the Indiana theater as my guest. “Come any time before 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Scales will bft in the. lobby and. any one who weighs within ten pounds of my weight, or weighs more than I do, will walk right into the theater as my guest." *