Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 156, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1930 — Page 6

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CLARA BOW IS MARRIED BY PROXY IN MOVIE AT INDIANA

Joe E. Brown Has Chief Comedy Role in ‘Maybe It’s Love,’ Opening Today for a Week’s Run at the Apollo—‘Love in the Rough’ at the Palace. CLARA BOW has the unusual experience of being married by proxy, without even realizing that a marriage ceremony is being performed, in “Her Wedding Night,’’ the Paramount all-talking picture now at the Indiana. The film is a farce-comedy written by the noted playwright, Avery Hopwood. The Indiana is also showing the Publix stage presentation, “Harem Hokum,” which features Charlie Davis and his band. Assisting Publix performers are Morris and Campbell, modern funsters; Sunny, Eddie and Eddie, a trio of dusky steppers; Beatrice Gardell. danseuse; Harry

Moore, paper-tearer, and the chorus of Dave Gould Sliebas. Ed Resener is conducting a special orchestral production this week. It has been conceived with the idea of commemorating the anniversary of the armistice that ended the World war. Dessa Byrd, organist, also assists. In “Her Wedding Clara Bow is cast as a foot-loose and fancy free motion picture actress alone in Paris with plenty of time on her hands. Quite by chance, . Clara meets an old school chum who invites her to her villa in the south of France. Clara accepts the invitation. little realizing what is in store for her. On the train are Skeets Gallagher and Ralph Forbes, a composer with a flair for breaking the hearts of feminine admirers. Forbes, however, tired of being in the limelight, persuades Skeets to exchange identities with him. At one of the stations along the route, Skeets and Clara alight to look around. They are stranded when the train departs without warning. They inquire about a hotel and are directed to the mayor, a kindly old man, who, misunderstanding their French, marries them. They •sign the marriage license, thinking it is a hotel register. To make matters even more complicated, Clara discovers that is not even married to Skeets, but to Forbes—by proxy—a man she has never seen. Charlie Ruggles, Rosita Moreno, Natalie Kingston and Geneva Mitchell are other fun makers in the cast. Frank Tuttle directed. A Paramount sound news reel closes the bill. a a a COMEDY WITH MUSKNOW AT THE APOLLO Breezy is the word that describes Maybe It’s Love,” the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone comedydrama, starring Joe E. Brown, which opened at the Apollo today. It shows the carefree gayety and romance that is part of the modern college life. One of the outstanding features of the film is the fact that it contains a genuine ‘‘all-America s ’ gridiron eleven This is the first time that a real team of this sort has appeared in a screen production and more interesting is the fact that each boy has a role. Indianapolis football fans and theater patrons alike will rejoice to know that Red’’ Sleight of Purdue and Tim Moynihan of Notre Dame appear as members of this team. The story is of a lovely young co-ed whose father, president of the college, is threatened with a forced resignation because Upton has not won a "big game” in-eleven years. The pretty co-ed, who has been hiding her beauty ’neath hornrimmed specs and prim clothes, suddenly changes into a ravishing flirt. In this new guise she vamps a star group of players to Upton college, pretends she loves them all and really does fall in love with one Tommy Nelson. Os coiu-se, there are complications, but it’s all fun and everything turns out right for the lovers and dear old alma mater Joan Bennett is the co-ed and James Hall plays opposite Miss Bennett. Joe E. Brown provides the comedy of the picture. Short subjects are included on the program. nan “LOVE IN THE ROUGH" AT PALACE “Love in the Rough,’’ which comes today at the Palace as anew Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offering, is a picturization of the stage musical comedy, “Spring Fever,” by Vincent Lawrence. It has. however, new dialogue by Joe Famham and Robert E. Hopkins and a complete new musical score by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. The production is of particular interest in featuring Robert Montgomery, whose rapid ascent to film popularity has resulted in rumors to the effect that he will be starred in his next picture. Montgomery, a juvenile of the New York stage, made his film debut about a year ago in “So This Is College.” The feminine lead is played by" Dorothy Jordan, who deserts her erstwhile costume roles to depict a modem debutante who forgives her suitor for being penniless when he wins a golf championship. Miss Jordan, a musical comedy ingenue, made her screen bow in The Taming of the Shrew” with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. The picture, filmed almost all out-of-doors, with beautiful sCenic backgrounds on fashionable golf links, presents anew form of film entertainment, being strictly a \ musical comedy, yet devoid •of chorus intrusions and other devices i and licenses of the stage. It in- i

mvm ALL STAR BURLESQUE THEATER BEGINNING WITH THE MATINEE TODAY GIRLS to- FOLLIES WITH 24 GIRLS-24 Don Clark and His Syncopation Orchestra S— DASHING SOUBRETTES— S MIDNIGHT FROLIC 3£ GET UP A PARTY AND ATTEND

eludes seven song hits, the first contributed to the screen by Miss Fields and McHugh. These number sare ‘ I'm Learning a Lot From You,” “Go Home and I Tell Your Mother,” “I’m Doing Thar, Thing,” "Like Kelly Can,” “One More Waltz,” “Dance. Fool, Dance,” and an opening chorus. The supporting cast is headed by Benny Rubin, laugh favorite, who is paired with Dorothy McNulty, “Good News” dancing comedienne. Also In the cast are J. C. Nugent, Allan Lane. Tyrrell Davis, Catherine Moylan, Harry Bums, Roscoe Ates, Edward Davis and Clarence Wilson. The plot concerns a young shipping clerk who is taken to a fashionable golf club to coach his cranky employer during a golf match. He falls in love with a millionaire's daughter and enters the contest himself. He is revealed as a pauper, but manages to win the match and the girl at the same time. Charles Chase, in his latest alltalking comedy, "Dollar Dizzy,” will head the program of short subjects comprising the balance of the bill, which will also include the newest Hearst Metrotone News Review and the musical featurette, “America Comes.” a a a SMART COMEDY OPENS AT CIRCLE With an all-star cast of seven favorably known screen and stage players, Universal has made what is claimed to be one of the outstanding dramas of the year, “A Lady Surrenders,” which opened Friday at the Circle theater for an engage- | ment of one week. Adapted from the popular novel, “Sincerity,” tiy John Erskine. “A Lady Surrenders” is a blending of sophistication and subtlety. It was directed by John M. Stahl, one of the noted producers in Hollywood. He formerly was a joint owner of the Tiflany-Stahl producing company. The story concerns the marital difficulties of a young and well-to-do bed manufacturer and his novelist wife, who is bored by the confinement of married life. Conrad Nagel, ene of the screen’s best-known and most populai male players, has the masculine lead as the young husband. Rose Hobart, who, until her recent removal to Hollywood, where she sought a career in the talking pictures, was one of Broadway’s leading feminine dramatic artists, plays the smart, sophisticated, novelist-wife. A love story, involving the husband and the wife’s best friend, played by Genevieve Tobin, late star of the stage version of “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” forms the basis of the action of the play. Incidentally, Miss Tobin and her sister Vivian, also an actress, have appeared here many times on the stage with the Stuart Walker stock company. Basil Rathbone, who has both acted and written Broadway dramas, plays the role of a French charmer whom the wife thinks she loves when she goes to Paris to seek a divorce from her husband, the manufacturer. Others in the cast are Vivian Oakland, Carmel Myers, Edgar Norton and Franklin Pangborn. Dale Young heads the supplementary program at the Circle theater with an organ solo which he calls “A Variety Concert.” Slim Summerville is featured in an alltalking comedy film, entitled “Parlay Voo.” An Armistice day short screen subject and a Paramount sound news reel are also on the bill for the week. a a a CANTOR MOVIE NOW AT THE OHIO “Whoopee,” the first screen musical comedy to which Florenz Ziegfeld gave his own personal supervisioh and skill in stagecraft, opened Friday at the Ohio theater for an engagement of one week. “Whoopee” is a continuation of Eddie Cantor’s stage that ran for more than a year at the New Amsterdam theater in New York. It has been transcribed bodily to the screen, with its huge spectacles magnified in size and beauty with the magic of Technicolor to give it reality. Samuel Goldwyn, who has produced the picture, claims that it is the first perfect all-color cinema extravaganza. Despite its mammoth size. “Whoopee” is still the same intimate comedy that, as “The Nervous Wreck,” was one of the most amusing plays ever written. Ziegfeld managed to retain the humor of the original story when he set it on the stage of the New Amsterdam, with music and song and hundreds of beautiful girls. Conti Is Added to Cast Albert Ccnti has been added to the cast of Jack Oakie's latest pic- i ture, tentative title, “On the Spot.

AMUSEMENTS

1— Joan Bennett has the feminine lead in “Maybe It’s Love,” which opens today at the Apollo. 2 Ben Lyon has the feature role in “A Soldier’s Plaything,” which is the screen event at the Lyric. 3 Robert Montgomery and Dorothy Jordan have this pleasant duty to do several times in “Love in the Rough,” at the Palace.

Film Ball to Be Held at Lyric Mushrush Plans Several Special Nights for Dancers. A NUMBER of special events of interest to dance lovers are announced for the Lyric ballfhom during the coming week. Erroll Mushrush, manager, also announces that he will Introduce a number of new dance steps on class nights, Tuesday and Thursday. Monday evening Mushrush plans a “surprise party,” No announcement is given as to what this party will be, other than dancers will be treated to many novel events and prizes will be awarded winners. An Armistice dance is the feature for Tuesday night. The ballroom will take on a sort of military atmosphere with a grand military march as the climactic feature of the evening. A “movie ball" is announced for Wednesday night. Latest photofraphs of the popular screen stars of Hollywood will be given away during the evening. Thursday night is to be given over to a “harvest festival ball,” which features old time music, dances and special contests. A “hard times” dance is the event of interest for Friday night. Prizes are to be awarded winners of novel contests to be introduced during the dancing. The usual “whoopee parties” continue on Saturday and Sunday nights. Waltz nights remain on Monday, "Wednesday and Friday nights, when every other dance features a waltz number.

Roof Will Have Nice Celebration Indiana Ballroom to Be Scene of Armistice Dance. A COLORFUL Armistice celebration for next Tuesday evening is planned by the Indianapolis Drum and Bugle Corp of the American Legion in co-operation with the management of the Indiana Roof Ballroom. Arthur Dinsmore, chairman in charge of the legion dance, promises an Armistice ball that will overshadow the one given in the Indiana Roof Ballroom last year. Arnold Peek and his orchestra open a two weeks’ engagement in the ballroom tonight. Before coming to the Indiana Roof to replace A1 Sky and His Stars they Were featured at the Columbia Club. The orchestra boasts a special arranger, a composer and three vocalists. They will feature some of the old wartime melodies as a part of program. A “Hardtimes party” is planned for Saturday, Nov. 22. Gold money prizes will be given to the wearers of the best “hardtimes” costume. The Roof Gloom Chaser’s Club will not hold its weekly dance Tuesday night on account of the Armistice ball, but will resume dancing activities on the following Tuesday evening.

At the Colonial

Coming direct from playing leading burlesque theaters Charlie (Hello Ike) Baker, and his company open an indefinite engagement at the Colonial starting today. He is assisted by Joe Singer; in handing out the laughs the audience is assured of plenty of laugh provoking punches in the performances. In addition to Baker and Singer, the new company includes Norma Noel, a soubrette with a bunch of new song hits; Blossom La Vella, Patricia Salmon, Byran Wolfe; the Dancing Demons; Ed Lee, Jack King, and a chorus. The latest of comedy skits and bits are promised by Baker and his company. Happy Couple'Returns Home Claudette Colbert and her husband, Norman Foster, are back in New York from their ’round-the-world tour. Miss Colbert will start work immediately in ‘’Strictly Business,” while Norman Foster will play opposite Clara Bow in “No Limit" IT

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1— Gieseking, famous pianist, will appear at English’s on Thursday night, Dec. 4, under the Martens’ banner. 2 Juan Lucay and Anita, famous dancers, will appear with the Tipiea orchestra of Mexico at the Armory on Thanksgiving night.

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THEATERS

REALIZING the poor business that Colleen Moore did at English’s in a two-day engagement in a mighty poor play and after considering the “not as good business as it ought to have been” of Fred Stone in “Ripples” for the past week, we are now trying to find out the cause. In the case of Miss Moore, she failed to display any marked dramatic or comedy talents on the stage and I have been informed that the play closes tonight in St. Louis. How it lived a month is beyond me. In the case of Fred Stone, it is my opinion that it was not the fault of Stpne or his play. In normal times, he ha sa big audience here. One reason that he did not go to capacity at nights, although the

One reason that he did not go to capacity at nights, althought the matinees were capacity, is due, I think, to election week and the natural letdown after the results were known. People have just been thinking of elections, and for some hours just didn't think about the stage. Also it is going to take some little time to get the legitimate audience back into English's. With the proper attractions as well as enough of them, there should be no trouble because English’s now is a most beautiful as well as a modern theater. a a a Since my review of ‘’Renegades” in Monday's Times, my mail has been mighty interesting. I want to hear from you if you differ in opinion. Also if you agree on some points and not in others. In other words I want to hear from you. One of the most interesting and at the same one of the most constructive letters I have received, bears the name of H. D; Hagan of 3229 Roosevelt avenue. I am going to take the liberty of printing his highly constructive and interesting letter as follows: MR. WALTER D. HICKMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Sir —Os all the surprises I ever received, vou win the gold painted handcuffs. Are you on a diet? If so, take warning and get off of It, because it sur-jly is not agreeing with you. All this excitement is caused by your recent review, and artcile on Warner Baxter's new picture, "Renegades.” Evidently you have Been enjoying too much of the legitimate stage and symphony, to really appreciate as heavy a drama as "Renegades.” The writer constantly travels, and in every city where possible. I always get a copy of The Times, to enjoy your views on new pictures, books, etc. Many times, plays I have thought good, after reading vour articles I could look back and see where I really had no constructive basis to believe them good. Yes, 'Renegades” is a brutal picture, and could stand a much more appreciative title, but read our own papers day in and day out, and we can find things as brutal as this picture gives us to believe. Even after Myrna Loy, in a dying condition, shot Warner Baxter, also in a dying condition, the one bit of improvement that could of been made In this picture, that he could have had one ounce of strength left to lift a machine gun and riddle her to pieces. Lay oil the ginger ale and come down

Marion Turns Hostess

Marion Davies was hostess to the entire “Bachelor Father” company at hey ranch last week. Rehearsals for that picture, which will be Miss Davies' next, were the order of the day.

I T-nirhl Rr for, t: O'clock W | ARNOLD PEEK J nil and His jII 111 COLUMBIA CLUB I ORCHESTRA 1111 mmmm

4 Conrad Nagel and Genevieve Tobin as they appear in “A Lady Surrenders,” now at the Circle. 5 Eddie Cantor has the chief role in “Whoopee,” now at the Ohio. 6 Clara Bow as she appears in “Her W’eddihg Night,” now at the Indiana.

With WALTER D. HICKMAN

to earth. Pictures are pictures, and must show life in every phase. a a a Have been asked: “If you were in Chicago just for one night, what play would you see? f ’ My answer would be “Lysistrata,” at the Majestic, because it has been written for hundred of years and is the funniest thing from a sex standpoint on the stage today.

_ _ ■ .. Spitball Pitcher of St. Lout* II AWimMA "" h HARRISON & DAMN With BEN LYON “An Uproar for Two” HARRY LANGDON nnT cnW LOTTI LOOK It—NOAH BEERY—FRED KOIfLER CDI MIfCIIDCDG lint LEE MORAN—JEAN ' , ”Lr® HERSHOLT \andevllles Cleverest Here’s the side-splitting comedy side' of YOKI JAPS oTO SS OHenU. Wonder Wooers romantic reveiatf in of what kept the “THE WAGER” Army of Occupation occnpled, written b.v rvimedv Sunwise VINA DI LMAH, author of “Kept Wo- Kxtra surprise -nas'' and “Bad Girl.” 1 - ' 11 * SATURDAY BABY ROSE MAMIE Radt IX**PEBSOS WdIe 1 j

COLONIAL /jjjl| ILLINOIS & NEW YORK STS. / A BRAND NEW / /l^T > BURLESQUE tpAk WITH AX ALL-STAR CAST / X a (fl MT DIRECT AROM NEW YORK j CHARLIE BAKER HsSiBW AND HIS GANG [JOE SINGER SCHMALTZ j j J j Blossom La Vella NORMA MGEL dSSB / J I Patricia Salmon BRYANT WOLFE j \ / ED LKE JACK KING T I /\ j . | 18— GORGEOUS BEAUTIES-18 L U j ■a ■ mmm Ilf PEOPLE [ \ j SP lH# SCENERY j \ , I 1 | HH | Vs WARDROBE if \\ . FAST—PEPPY—ELABORATE ON THE SCREEN if “BORROWED WIVES” feO FIRST REN ALL-TALKING FEATI'EE ffW 1 MIDNIGHT FROLIC

3 Dusolina Giannini will open the season Sunday afternoon at the Academy of Music of the Indianapolis Maennerchor. 4 Frieda Klink, contralto, will sing at Caleb Mills hall on next Friday night under the direction of the Matinee Musicalc.

‘Big Trail’ Booked at the Apollo Movie Epic of Pioneer Days Will Open Here Soon. THE much-heralded Fox Movietens production, “The Big Trail,” epic of pioneer days, will make its bow to local cinema patrons at the Apollo next Saturday. This marvslous production will show an accurate, truthful and authentic portrayal of a mighty surging wave of humanity that came from the east into the west a century ago. Raoul Walsh’s directoral efforts

AMUSEMENTS

Vilma Banky and Rod Laßocque Have the Leads in ‘Cherries Are Ripe/ Which Opens a Two-Day Engagement Friday Night at English’s. TWO widely known screen stars, Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque, make their first Joint appearance In person on the legitimate stage under the banner of Arch Selwyn. in anew comedy by John Emerson and Anita Loos, entitled “Cherries Are Ripe,” from the Hungarian original translated by I. S. Richter. They will be seen at English's Nov. 14 and 15. Before going into pictures La Rocque was a recognized leading man on Broadway, where he played opposite Alice Brady in “Anna Ascends.” with Mary Nash in “The Name Is Woman,” and with Francine Larnmore in “Nice People.”

In fact, La Rocque has been on the stage, barring his seasons on the screen, ever since he was 7 years old. Miss Banky played In drama in Budapest before she was brought to this country by Samuel Goldwyn for her Hollywood engagement. Both stars have, of course, enjoyed a widespread popularity on the screen and are known in all parts of the world. Both of them confess to a preference to the spoken stage, thus returning to their old love in "Cherries Are Ripe.” Miss Banky enacts the part of a beautiful wife of a provincial gentleman, who is jealous not only of her, but of almost everything about him. A former admirer, Baron Sandor, comes to pay a visit and complications set in.

vividly re-enacts the stirring incidents in the lives of the early settlers as they fought their Way west in search of anew and fertile homeland. It is a picture for fathers, mothers, sweethearts and kiddies. The cast includes John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Powers and David Rollins and sixty other principals, 5,000 pioneer men, women and children, scouts, traders and Indians.

AMUSEMENTS

MARTENS CONCERTS, Inc. • ANNOUNCE Formal Opening Concert “New Home of Music” ENGLISH Next Thurs. Eve., Nov. - rtrt.rt 13, 8:30 o’Clock / Presenting the Famous ' DETROIT J |k SYMPHONY fjJ ORCHESTRA Ossip Gabrlio wltsrh, ' 1 ‘ Conductor. | . j „ \ Hcar them play Schubert s '.lll ■~ ; *:.W Symphony, Wagner's Love Death ” /| —" 1 ■ "™ —■— 1 1 from "Tristram and Isolde.” GABBILOW ITBCH CLAlßßEßT—Soprano—Sunday Afternoon, Nov. 23. DON COSSACKS—Singing Horsemen of the Steppes—Sunday Afternoon, Nov. 30. GIBS KlNG—Genius of the Plano—Thursday Evening, Dec. 4. All Seats Selling Martens Office Prices—#l.oo. si.so. $2.00. $2.50. $.‘1.00 Lincoln 8921 BALDWIN PIANO CO.

ENGLISH THEATRE FRED STONE LAST EESIIS uorothy” ston e OF “RIPPLES" PAULA STONE ENGLISH S FRI. & SAT. BARGAIN MATINEE SATURDAY A SMART , SOPHISTICATED COMEDYDRAMA—NOT A MOTION PICTURE ~ ism li%&agSG£S3*iUKra.\ novamarfr JOHN LMBSONfrAWTA LOOS * Dinxtdb G>6TANC£ QXLJEkI| ; Vilma Banky, the Stage’s Most Beautiful Woman, and Rod La Rocque, the Dashing Gallant, Co-Starring in the Comedy Success of the Season. NIGHTS: Orchestra, $2.50. Balcony, *2.00, *1.50, *I.OO, Gallery, 50e SATURDAY MATINEE: Orchestra, *1.60. Balcony, *I.OO. Gallery, 50c Mail Orders Mow Seat Sale Monday

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An unusual ending is given to the play. The play was directed by Constance Collier, who has recently attracted as much attention as a director as she did as one of Broadway’s leading actresses. a a a LYRIC OBSERVES ARMIMSTICE WEEK A SPECIAL Armistic week stage and screen show opens at the Lyric starting today. “A Soldier's Plaything,” Warner Brothers postwar comedy drama, is the main feature picture. Seven stage specialties comprise the (in the flesh) show and Is presented by six Radio-Keith-Orpheum vaudeville acts. “A Soldier's Plaything.”-which was especially written for tire screen by Vina Delmar, author of such fiction as “Kept Woman” and “Bad Girl,” weaves a drama around a beautiful German peasant girl and a happy go-lucky doughboy who is a member of the army of occupation billeted in Coblenz, Germany. The story opens in New York at the time America entered the World conflict, carries through humorous sidelights of the war, and lands the soldiers in Germany after the signing of the Armistice. It is here that the real romance of tae story takes place. The cast includes Ben Lyon, Lottt Loder, Harry Langdon, r.. .istaire, Noah Beery, Fred Kohler, Jean Hersholt and Lee Moran. Owen McGiveney, a celebrated portean artist, heads the six RKO vaudeville acts which comprise the stage show. In the short time of fourteen minutes McGiveney, who specializes in lightning-fast costume changes, enacts a complete play called “Bill Sikes.” All of his characters are from Dickens. Another important feature of the vaudeville bill is the personal appearance of Burleigh Grimes, the St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, who is world famous for his spit-ball and wise-cracking on the diamond, Grimes is a member of the quartet of the Four Ball Players, who sing, dance and make merry on the stage. Charles Harrison and Sylvia Dakin, bring comedy dialogue to the bill in an offering which they choose to style “An Uproar For Two.” The Frankenberg Juvehiles present a revue of music, singing and some stepping. Oriental entertainers in the art of juggling, magic and trick riding, are Yoki Japs who will open the performance. AMUSEMENTS

THE CIVIC THEATER (19th and Alabama Streets) All Week 8:30 P. M. THE ROYAL FAMILY The George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber Comedy Hit. All Seats *1.50. Call Talbot 4750 For Reservation.