Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1930 — Page 6

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EDDIE CANTOR OPENS IN ‘WHOOPEE’ AT PALACE TODAY

Oavey Lee Frolics in Person at the Indiana. With Charlie Davis —‘Office Wife’ Comes for a Week’s Engagement at the Apollo Theater. WITH the appearance of "Whoopee” at the Palace, starting today. there will be seen the first collaboration of the tw’o greatest pickers io successful stage and screen talent in the world. “Whoopee” is the joint production of Samuel Goldwyn, chief pioneer cf the motion picture business, and Florenz Ziegfeld, world-famous glorificr of the American girl. Starring Eddie Cantor, containing such famous nam n s as Eleanor Hunt. Ethel Shutta and Dorothy Kr.app, the cast of ‘'Whoopee” is as expertly lavish in talent as might be expected from the conjunction oi the names of Goldwyn and Ziegfeld.

Samuel Goldwyn's uncanny ability to select unknowns and see them turn into world-famous stars has long been the wonder of Hollywood. In his long career in pictures he has been responsible for the rise to fame of such luminaries as Ronald Colman. Vilma Banky, Lily Damita. Belle Bennett, Joan Bennett, and has brought to the screen the stage talents of famous ladies such as Evelyn Lave and Gilda Grey. During his vacations in Europe and in the east he never ceases his ••earch for faces and personalities which will enrich his pictures. Most of his discoveries have been acl-1 • dental, but the result of his neversleeping vigilance and ability to see possibilities in unknown people. Florenz Ziegfeld's record on the stage is scarcely less spotted with triumphs of selection. During the productions of his famous series of ‘Follies” and other musical shows I of which the stage version of 'Whoopee” was a lavish sample, he has given a start to a long list of stage and screen notables. Will Rogers, W. C. Fields. Eddie Cantor • star of “Whoopee”), Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, Mae Murray, Billie Dove, Fannie Brice and Ann Pennington. Short film novelties comprising j the balance of the program will include a Mickey Mouse cartoon, the | Hearst Metrotonc New* and a Burton Holmes Travelogue. tt a tt "OFFICE WIFE” OPENS AT APOLI.O Few men even realize when their secretaries become their office wives. Give an attractive and clever girl six months as a business man's secretary. and she has become his office wife. Her efficiency, her advice, and her sympathy have almost obliterated the influence of the wife at home. The fact that the tired employer is unaware of the influence his secretary has over him is the final proof of her hold on him. That Is the reason why so many men have fallen in love with their secretaries. The time comes when they realize that they can not do without them—that their little attentions can not be duplicated. It is a dangerous stage—especially if the wife does not know about it. This problem is the basis of the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone picture, ‘‘The Office Wife,” which opened at the Apollo today for a limited engagement. Dorothy Mackaill portrays the efficient secretary, who is in love Ith hei* employer. Lewis Stone is :e business man who does not ' now that his secretary is in love vith him. The cast also includes Natalie Moorehead, Brooks Benedict, Walter Merrill, Dale Fuller and Hobart Bosworth. Lloyd Bacon directed. , . “The Office Wife” was adapted to the screen from the novel of the same name by Faith Baldwin. The usual short subjects comprising Vitaphone Varieties, Screen Qddities and Fox Movietone News arc included on the program. tt tt tt •INDIANA PRESENTS ‘COLLEGE LOVERS" Jack Whiting has the leading role in “College Lovers,” now at the In- : diana. As the hero, he is not the conventional football player, but is, instead, a chap who managed everything on the campus and to whom every one turns in case of an emergency. The "regular guy” of the campus, he has the problem of keeping the star full back of the school's eleven from quitting the team because he has taken an unhappy love’affair in an unduly serious manner. Guinn ißig Boy) Williams plays the heart sore grid star, and Russell Hopton is his pal. Marion Nixon impersonated the „co-ed whom Whiting urges to do something for the good old school by getting the full back to stay on the team. Davey Lee. the original “Sonny Boy," appearing in person, is the chief feature of the Indiana's stage j program. The stage bill also offers Charlie Davis and his band in ‘'Varitrix.” \ a Publix stage show. The band presents as its specialty number • Exactly Like You.” Publix entertainers arc the Kemmys. Eva Ivey, Joseph P. Jones, Freddie Crump and Rhythm Hotel and the Faster girls. “Byrdseed,” is the title of an or- ■ an solo by Dessa Byrd. A Paramount sound news reel completes the program. St u u BEBE DANIELS NOW AT CIRCLE •Dixiana,'’ at the Circle, has for its plot the struggle between the son of a Louisiana planter and a New Orleans gambler for the affections of a dancing girl who becomes the queen of the Mardi Gras. Bebe Daniels has the leading role as a circus performer who decides to give up her career under the big top when she becomes engaged to the wealthy landowner's son. When his parents discover her circus connections, they forbid the match and the son appears to accept their edict. The girl leaves her lover. He follows her secretly, hoping to maxe amends for his parents' actions. She misunderstands his intentions and. with the aid of an unscrupulous gambler who loves her. she sets a trap to gain revenge for the treatment received from his mother and

mmn I BILIY HAGAN and ANN TOEBE With “THE TEMPTERS" RE^JOT^NAPPYBURLESQU^JfII^GORGEOiJ^GIRLS^

father. Ine plan has unexpected I results, however. Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool- j i sey have the leading comedy roles, j Other players are Dorothy Lee, Jobyna Howland, Ralf Harolde and | Joseph Cawthom. Harry Tierney and Anne Caldwell wrote the music and lyrics for i | “Dixiana.” Among the numerous i i songs are "A Tear, A Kiss. A Smile,” j | "Mr. and Mrs. Sippi,” and “My One 1 Ambition Is You." tt tt tt OHIO OFFERS “COMMON CLAY” “Common Clay” is now at the Ohio. In he Lading roles are Constance Bennett, daughter of the famous Richard, and Lev/ Ayres. “Common Clay’ 'tells the story of a young girl who, loving good times j and gaiety, becomes a hostess at a disreputable New York speakeasy, c a e “TIIE SQUEALER” OPENS AT TERMINAL Davey Lee plays the role of a gangster's son in “The Squealer,” j which opens at the Terminal Sunday. In this drama he is seen as the lovable child who attempts to bring his estranged parents together. Jack Holt has the role of the erring father and Dorothy Revier is the mother. The story concerns Charlie Hart, ostensibly a real estate man, but in | truth a wealthy bootlegger. He becomes involved in gang jealousies when he orders the death of a “squealer.” In the supporting cast are Matt Moore, as Sheridan; Zasu Pitts,: Robert Ellis, Arthur Housman and! Matthew Betz, Harry Joe Brown j directed the picture. Short reels ! complete the picture program at the Terminal.

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Ethel Shutta

Ot the many talented women with Eddie Cantor in "Whoopee,” j at the Circle, none is more talent- ' ed than Ethel Shutta. She was with him also in the stage version.

Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for Sent. 'TB. An Estimate of the Characters Studied Dunne the Quarter. Devotinal readme: Psalm ‘J6:I -a. 8. 11. IT. BY WM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of the Consrcgalionalist THE review of the quarter s lessons is suggested in the form of an estimate of the characters studied during the period. It is as ; character studies that these lessons , have been significant, though they i have had to do with character not | only in its inner aspect, but with i its outward expression in the great | tasks which the characters that w T e i have been studying accomplished. First we have Abraham, the great i pioneer, manifesting virtues that have not always been characteristic of the pioneer. The pioneer with all his courage and endurance and i determination has often been a | fighting jnan, grasping, and eager j in his ambition. But Abraham with all the virtues of the pioneer had a j largeness of spirit and magnanim- | ity that had made him very truly ; the father of the faithful. The Greatness of Jacob Jacob comes before us as a man deprived of the foremost place, who was bound to achieve it and to get jit by hook or crook. Asa matter of fact, he used both hook and crook, | and his life appears in many respects as unlovely. But he had in him. with all his trickery, elements upon which something could really be built, and in this respect he differed from his more likable brother, Esau. The essence of the lesson concerning Jacob was that even a character like Jacob could be transformed and could have brought into his life some real holiness and integrity of purpose. Moses stands before us as a j commanding figure, great in his I moral strength, courageous in his i leadership, one of the world's great masterful characters, a rebel .against j injustice and wrong, but an up- | builder of the foundations of a true society in law and righteousness. Three women appear in our les-

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1— Constance Bennett and I.ew Ayres have this pleasant task in “Common Clay” now at the Ohio. 2 Eddie Cantor as the artist conceives him in “Whoopee” now at the Palace. 3 Marion Nixon as she appears in “College Lovers” now at the Indiana.

Ballroom J v Announces Big Nights Mushrush Pians Special Dances for People of Ail Ages. THE schedule of eve its and affairs in the Lyric ballroom for the coming season is announced by E. W. Mushrush, ballroom manager. i The popularity of sloi- dance:and especially the old-fashioned waltz, has prompted Mushrush to announce that “Waltz Nights” v/iL be featured in the Lyric ballroom i every Monday, Wednesday and Fri- : day nights. A beautiful waltz number is to be played for every other dance. Tuesday night has been set aside for “Club Night,” when special concessions in prices will be giver, various organizations who wish to give dance parties. Regular dancing will also be in effect. Thursday gives way to “Party Night,” a general good time event with contests and special affairs. Saturday and Sunday are “Whoopee Nights,” when extra fun | and dances are to be added for the . enjoyment of the dancers. Free dance instructions will be given in the ballroom on Tuesday ■ and Thursday nights between 7:30 j and 8:30. Mushrush has gathered | a large group of capable instructors who will be on hand to teach the | latest ballroom steps. ) chestra are being retained indefinite!.

son studies; in fact, one should say! four, for one -can not consider the character and career of Samuel without thinking of his mother,! Hannah. Deborah, the judge of Is- j rael, stands as a sort of female j Moses, a married woman with a call j to tasks that went beyond her own I home and household, yet a woman | who appears in the leadership of j the nation with her real strength in her womanly courage and vir- j ! tues. In Ruth with her devotion to her ] mother-in-law* Naomi, we have a | ! picture of persistency and devotion | i that can attach to love and gentle- j ness. The story of this Moabitess j | is interesting in itself, but it comes ! j to have great significance when we | realize that she was an ancestress j lof David, and therefore of Jesus j ; himself, giving to the man of j Nazareth an inter-racial origin and i significance that is not always : recognized. The study of Samuel is against a j background of evil conditions in j Israel—drunkenness, licentiousness, ; and corruption. Samuel displays , the qualities that one would exj pect from one who had been de- ; voted in his mother’s prayers to the j service of religion. The story of the first king of ! Israel is one of the world’s great tragedies—a man with a marvelous \ natural endowment and with great ! opportunity, throwing all away j through lack of self-control and dying a hopeless suicide after he had lost a battle. In contrast to j Saul was his son Jonathan, of | whose friendship with David one I lesson has taken account, i That the outward prosperity of a ! nation does not always mean real I strength or greatness is a lesson ; that we could find in the life of many peoples. Amos, the herdsman, a farmer with uncorrupted nature and clear vision, came j from the fields to denounce the sins of the city and to remind peo- i pie that no nation could be great j ; that sought to build upon un- j righteousness and injustice. In the record of failure and cor- j ruption we have one lesson that j marks righteous purpose in high places. The story of Josiah, an i 8-year-old boy, is an inspiring story of reform. From this we passed to one of the 1 ! supreme prophets of Israel, a man ; who felt keenly Ins own personal ; responsibility and whose message ■ centered around the conviction of I duty that he himself experienced Like Amos, Jeremiah rebuked formalism and called upon the people I to manifest their religion by right living. The lessons of the quarter have j attained a climax in the study of j the story of Jcajah—a story that

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Radio Favorites at the Lyric

Jim and Walt Two popular radio entertainers who hail from the Hoosier state are Jim and Walt, better known to radio listeners as “The Hungry Harmony Boys” from WFBM will desesrt the ether beginning today and will appear before the footlights on the Lyric stage, singing the songs which have made them the favorites that they are over the air.

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ITH EATERS

STILL would like to know what happened to Jack Donahue who was supposed to be the main reason for seeing “Sons O’ Guns” at the Shubert in Cincinnati. It was officially announced through Nelson Trowbridge, the manager of the theater, that Donahue was ill and it was necessary to send him to New York.

After seeing a very mediocre cast, I saw only the first act Wednesday night in Cincinnati, I could easily understand that Donahue would' want to be sick. I "know that this is the first week of the new season for this show, and I realize that a substitute was trying to clown and sweat through Donahue's role on four hours’ notice. And yet it is shows put together like this* that is damaging the shew business on the road. Am told that this company goes to some state fair, probably Texas. It certainly will have to have a lot dene to it to make it a “New York show.” Sometimes I think that Trowbridge is the luckiest manager on earth, even when things go bad. With Jack Donahue out of the cast, Nelson had a winner in the audience. The guest in the audience was Conrad Nagle. What a break for Nelson, and the customers seemed to be satisfied. Nelson tells me that on Sunday represents also the very climax of the teaching of the Old Testament concerning God. Jonah comes before us as a narrow nationalist believing in God, but unwilling that God’s grace should be manifested to other peoples. When he is sent to Nineveh he rebels against his mission, and when, ultimately, he actually goes and his mission succeeds and the people turn in repentance, he is angry with the God who spares them. He manifests the sort of prejudice that has always been more or less prevalent in our limited experience of religion and in our sectional and narrow organizations. The real teaching is the teaching of the writer of the book of John who lifts us to higher levels -sf magnanimity and truth, and reveals to us the glorious conception of a God whose mercy and grace are not limited to those of ore race or nation. It is the point at which the Old Testament conies nearest to the richness and fulness of the New, and it makes a fine place of approach to the lessons that during the coming quarter we shall study concerning representative men and women of the New Testament. King Makes More Records Charles King, who has a featured role in Warner Brothers’ “Oh Sailor Behave!" has recorded “Highway to Heaver,” and “Leave a Little Smile.” for Brunswick. He introduced these two songs, which run through this brisk comedy, on the eastern vaudeville stage before sailing for Europe.

4—Bert Lytell has an exciting role in “The Last of the Lone Wolf” . now at the Lyric. 3—Bebe Daniels has the chief role in “Dixiana” now at the Circle. 6—Lewis Stone and Dorothy Mackaill in “The Office Wife” noiv at the Apollo.

With WALTER D. HICKMAN

he goes into pictures at the Shubert for several weeks with “Hell’s Angels.” Then he gets started with the shows of the Dramatic League with “Topaze” opening. It looks like that Trowbridge has the shows. He has a good stock company at the Cox. What more can any manager want? st tt a While in Cincinnati, I found time j to talk to Hanna, representative of j Stuart Walker. I told him that I thought Walker was passing up the | greatest opportunity of his career j if he did not open in Indianapolis ■ this winter. We want Walker's kind of shews. He is bringing Bert Lytell to Cincinnati to play in ' "Brothers.” tt St tt Still nothing definite done about road shows for Indianapolis. Ad F. j Miller was here this week but no j statement. Mrs. Nancy Martens is ; waiting for the Murat temple to be leased so she ~can announce her many wenderful concerts. It is going to be a civic necessity that somebody opens the Murat soon. It has been splendidly redecorated and it is a beauty. It will be a j shame if the Murat has to stay dark all season. -

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COLONIAL ILLINOIS AND NEW YORK STSFastest Show in the City New—Original—Peppy BURLESQUE WITH CLAUDE MATTHIAS THAD WILKERSON. DIXIE MOORE, BEATRICE CARTER. VI BAPPERT. WAITER STEFFEN. ED LEE. STOVE SISTERS. JACK KING. MARIE .NORTH. SINGING FCCR. CHORUS ON RUNWAY MIDNITE FROLIC 11:30 P. M. EVERY SATURDAY * ON THE SCREEN “Prince of Diamonds” .111-Talking Feature Mat. 25c. Niles. Sat. & Son. Mat. 35c Miclnite .show Tonite 11:30 COMING Indianapolis' Own Favorite BUDDY KANE

Teachers to Hold First Meeting Many Events Are Planned at Arthur Jordan Conservatory. The coming week will be a busy ■ cne for instructors and students of j the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, several events being on the schedule. Teachers of the Oxford piano class method will hold their first normal Monday, from 4 to 6. Ocie Higgins, former pupil of Glenn Fricrmood of the conservatory returns to New York Sunday, ! after visiting her parents for two . weeks in Lebanon. Miss Higgins j has been engaged for the winter by the Little Theatre Opera Comnany of New York, and will appear in a number of its productions. John McConnell, also a pupil of Glenn Friermood. has been engaged as bass soloist at Meridian Street M. E. church. Audition on Thursday Audition for the Bomar Cramer scholarship in piano will be held on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 1 o’clock at the Metropolitan unit of the Arthur Jordan conservatory, 106 East North street. All applications must be made ot the office, 1204 North Delaware street. Violet Albers, pupil of Donn Watson of the violin department, assisted on the program of the Matinee Musicale Choral section at the home of Mrs. Rotz in Carmel Fri- ! day. Irene Noorr, contralto: Byron Hollett, violinist, pupils of Benjamin Swarthout. and Donn Watson and Gertrude Free, pianist, of the conservatory, gave the program at the musical tea Thursday afternoon for the Delta Alpha Club at the home cf Mrs. H. B. Burnett, 4417 North Pennsylvania street. Dance Pupil Returns Dorothy Fitzpatrick, pupil of Madame Gano of the dancing department, who was a member of the ballet in Cincinnati summer opera, has returned to resume her study ; with her teacher, Irma Day, voice pupil of Frieda ; Heider of the conservatory, has been j engaged as choir director at Bright- ! wood M. E. church, and Martha j Breehob, contralto pupil of Miss Heider. has accepted the position of | organist and choir director of the j girls’ glee club. James Reed, student of Short- ; ridge, who planned and staged the pageant at Shortridge, also is Miss j Heider’s pupil.

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Jim and Walt. Known on the Air as ‘The Hungry Harmony feoys,’ Appear in Person on the New Bill at the Lyric for an Entire Week’s Engagement. ANOTHER combination of six acts of RKO vaudeville on the stage and one of Columbia's ail-talking feature picture plays on the screen is awaiting patrons of the Lyric starting today and all next week ! Louis Joseph Vance's crook story series chronicling the adventures of. “The Lone Wolf” has always been exciting entertainment when transferred to the screen. In his last story of this series, “Last of the Lone Wolf,” which the Lyric screen features, he is said to have outdone himself. “Last of the Lone Wolf” is reported to have the picturesque dra- ; matic qualities of "Don Quixote" and "Three Musketeers."

Although the action takes place I in a mythical country, there is nothing lar-fetched about the environment. The characters, it is said, j : travel on passenger trains that- are 1 excellent replicas of latest type of European travel. t The king and quesm are true-to-life characterizations, and the adventures of “Tire Lone Wolf” and ; his pretty sweetheart have are said to be distinctly possible. One of the best things to be'said jin favor of this newest Columbia | production is that no less a person \ than Bert Lytell impersonates the ' leading role. Lytell has always been I identified with these "Lone Wolf” ' characters. ! Patsy Ruth Miller appears oppoj site him, and the others in the cast include Otto Matieson and Lucien 1 Prival. Jim and Walt, better known as j “The Hungry Harmony Boys,” will j leave the ether and jump behind the 1 footlights for a week and head the Lyric's stage show, which will include six RKO vaudeville acts in all. Jim and Walt have been daily features over the radio station WFBM for the last year and have | gained an enviable reputation among ether artists in this vicin- ! ity- - Their personal appearance at the | Lyric will mark their first local I downtown theater engagement. The Loomis twins, Maxine and ; Virginia, who are- well known for | their Vitaphone pictures and pho- | nograph records, will be another featured act on the program. Fink's comedy circus, a social treat for the kiddies as well as the grownups, features a group •of j trained dogs, ponies and even j mules. A bit of cycling intermingled i with music, song and dance, is the forte of St. Claire sisters and O'Day. Two other Keith acts and the usual short films complete the program. Noah Beery Now In Person A six-week itinerary is beina pre- | pared for Noah Beery, Warner ! Brothers player, in a number of I Warner theaters throughout the country.

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BISATIOH OF T 030! sos Wives Are Asking—- > ON IN AN OFFICE AFTER )FFICE HOURS?” |p| T.ie story of anew angle 9 ifi Wi / gfaj?rf33| . man is thrown continu- mfT'Vf FL 3$ fit P f ' ' on ly into the society of &B j jr B J j) a pretty and intelligent y young secretary; a 3 & ■, 7 woman who understands ,J> tje. his business —and him- iuu/t self—better than his wife DOROTHY V JLSLM MACKAI LL m&m Addl'd Icaturrtifs , -, w. t JT3-7 Two-Reel tun Riot Iff “out- STONE IN ••The Music Racket" Ir* , U \b! ••taxi talks” Warner 6rw “v | XEIVS—ODDITIES VlgvPHOßEnone iy j Next Sat., CHARLES FARRELL in “LI MOM' i

BE BE DAIMELf , I Bert Wheeler —Robt. Woe'. I sey—Everett Marshall —Da If 9 Lee Ai'd 5,000 Others’. jjl Titanic Drama of unbridi ’• jl love . . . ridin* vide and Ir ,■ in the giy abandon of old Nc 49 Orleans at Mardi Gras Tun: <jH EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA f|| “The Golf Specialist” 1 ■ pnibcoMyoN ci av E JJ The Picture That’s the Talk of Women 31

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Devine to Conti n n e Instructions Manager of Ballroom F inds That Pesple Want to Dance. THE second of a series of dance instructions for beginners will be given in the Indiana Roof Ballroom Monday evening from 8 until 10 o’clock. Jac Broderick assisted by a group of dance instructors will supervise the beginners dance class. f Thursday night will continue as free dance instruction night on the "roof, according to Tom Devine, its manager. Devine states, however, that the Thursday night instructions which’ are given from 7:45 to 8:45 will be confined to the teaching of ad-f vanged dance steps. At the present time, Broderick is concentrating upon the teaching of the University Glide during the Thursday class. The glide is a step introduced during the 1930 Dance Masters of America Convention, New York City, and accepted as the most popular step of 1930. The University Glide is symbolic of the change taking place in the dances popular on the ballroom floor, according to both Broderick and Devine, who state the “hop” is now considered “old fashioned." A1 Sky and His Musical Stars continue to entertain the roof patrons as they dance. They are a versatile group of musicians, who play many instruments. Among the instruments on which the Stars double are three violins, two pianos, six saxophones, three trombones and three trumpets. There are also three vocalists in the personnel of the orchestra,

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