Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1931 — Page 6

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HORACE HEIDT AND BROOKE JOHNS TOP THE INDIANA BILL

Conchita Montenegro, Spanish Dancer, and Leslie Howard Head Cast of ‘Never the Twain Shall Meet’ at the Palace Theater. HAROLD HEIDT and his Californians top the stage show offering at the Indiana this week where the celebrated band director and his boj-s are appearing in person with their wonder dog, Lobo 11. Another attraction is a specialty offered by Brooke Johns in which Dessa Byrd and Loren Griffith are featured. The screen offering is “Virtuous Husband,” starring Elliott Nugent Betty Compson, Jean Arthur and Tully Marshall. It is the screen version of Dorrance Davis* stage play, “Apron Strings,” with which the Casey players opened their Indianapolis engagement. The Horace Heidt musical aggregation was brought back to Indian-

apolis by the Indiana management as the result of their success last year, It was said, and the numerous requests which have come in for their return. Heidt. as well as one of the boys in his band, formerly attended Culver military academy, and for that reason wrote ahead stating that his Indianapolis engagement would be more than a pleasure, since it took the form of a home-coming. "Virtuous Husband" adheres to the original lines of the stage play as closely as the censors would permit and bring to the screen what many critics consider one of the most sparkling comedies in years. The plot has to do with a wealthy youth who was “tied to his mother’s apron strings" even after she had “departed for another world.” Shis was done by means of special sealed letters which he was to open on every occasion of importance in his life. It is when he decides on marriage that the letters are so badly needed, and the tilings they tell him to do during the first saw days of his honeymoon form some of the most humorous situations. tt a a GAYNOR MOVIE REMAINS AT APOLLO With a simple profoundly human story that countless thousands have laughed and wept over, “Daddy Long Legs," will be continued at the Apollo for a second week, starting today. Marking the first time that Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter have been costarred, this Fox film production of Jean Webster’s well loved story and stage play will be remembered for some time, it is believed. “Judy’s" flaring tirade against her oppression in the “Orphans’ Home,” “Pendleton’s” decision to send her to college, their dawn of love, misunderstandings and final reunion, are but a few of the story's emotional peaks. Ripley's "Believe It or Not” series, Joe Penner in “Gangway” and Fox Movietone News round out the program. a tt "a romantic story ON PALACE SCREEN Those who love romance with a dash of adventure will undoubtedly be fascinated with the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer South Sea island picture, “Never the Twain Shall Meet,” which opens at the Palace today. Adapted from the story by Peter B. Kyne, the picture has a distinct tang of the islands. W. S. Van Dyke, the director who filmed “White Shadows in the South Seas" and “The Pagan” in Tahabi, has enhanced the color and native part due to his intimate knowledge of the ways of the Polynesians. Conchita Montenegro, the little Spanish dancer recently brought to America, was almost created for the part of Tamea, the South Sea island siren, who, by her exotic wiles and native charm, so blinds the scion of a wealthy American family that he gives up his home, people and business to follow her to her tropical island. ' She is the downfall of Dan Pritchard, played by Leslie Howard, who made such a sensation in both the stage and screen versions of “Outward Bound.” In "Never the Twain Shall Meet” Is portrayed the fierce struggle of the races that made immortal the word, “East is east and west is west, but never the twain shall meet.” The large cast includes C. Aubrey Smith, Karen Morley, Mitcheil Lewis, Hale Hamilton, Clyde Cook, Bob Gilbert, Joan Standing and Eulalie Jensen. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will also be on the screen at the Palace, in their latest talking comedy riot, “Laughing Gravy.” Other short film featurettes comprising the program will include the newest issue of the Hearst Metrotone News and a Curiosity novelty. r a it STAGE PLAY IS NOW A MOVIE "Up Pops the Devil,” starring Skeets Gallagher, Carole Lombard, Norman Foster, Stuart Erwin and Lilyan Tashman, is the feature attraction at the Circle theater this week. It is an adaptation of the stage comedy which was presented here by the Casey players several; weeks ago. Other offerings on the bill are “Ace of Spades,” a “Bimbo" cartoon; "Winning Putts,” a Johnny Farrell short; "Animals of the Amazon,” and anew release of the Paramount talking news. “Up Pops the Devil” is almost word for word like the stage play, excepting certain phrases and one situation which apparently were omitted because of censors in some of the states. Paramount, in producing the film, placed in the cast their most subtle comedy talent which, it is pointed out by the ; Circle management, takes on the j appearance of an Indiana reunion. *

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Parade to Be Given by Circus 101 Ranch Wild. West Will Feature Rough Riders This Season. 'T'HE coming of the famous 101 -*• Ranch Real Wild West show to Indianapolis Friday, June 19, at the Keystone ave., show grounds for two performances starting at 2 and 8 p. m., has been announced with flaming posters for miles around. This exhibition of the days of the Old West has brought, for nearly three decades, the glamour of the early settlers to the younger generation. The 101 Ranch Wild West, the largest show of its kind in the world, features more than ever this season, its mile long street parade. Even though all other major circuses have dispensed with this age-old circus day feature, as too expensive, the 101 Ranch contends that no circus day is complete without the colorful street pageant. Hundreds of cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, Cossacks and foreign riders will be seen in line, and the lovers of horse flesh have the treat of their life in store, for the 101 Ranch is noted for its blooded stock. Buffalo, oxen, elephants and camels, bucking horses and longhorn steers are other features, not forgetting the covered wagons, stage-coaches, bands, calliopes, and all else that go to make up a first class circus parade. In the performance, many new displays will be in evidence, and most every rodeo champion and contest winner in the land, headed by “Suicide” Ted Elder, champion trick rider of the world, will be seen in the huge 101 Ranch arena, and in the parade show day moring.

At Gardens

Jack Early, who is known as the Hollywood daredevil, will attempt to ride his motorcycle through a solid board wall at Walnut Gardens Sunday. The attraction was scheduled for last Sunday, but was postponed on account of rain. Universal News Reel will be on the job at Walnut Gardens Sunday to take sound pictures of the automobile race and Jack Early’s daring feat. The first event of entertainment will get under way at 2:30 o’clock Sunday at Walnut Gardens. Marilyn Says “No” Refusal of Marilyn Miller to play the star part in the Houston Branch story, “Safe in Hell,” at Warner-First National, has caused the studio to retitle the piece and make preparations to shoot the picture with an all-star cast. “The Girl From New Orleans” is the new title for the yarn. Three of the principals, Miss Lombard, Skeets Gallagher and Norman Foster, are from this state. The plot, as those who attended the English theater will recall, has to do with a young couple in New York. The youth, played by Foster, is a talented author but has no time to devote to this kind of work because of the necessity of getting out and making a living. It is finally agreed that the girl, played by Miss Lombard, will do this and supply funds for their living expenses while he finishes his first book. This leads to the climax which is brought about by his being placed on an allowance and put in charge of household duties while she joins the chorus of a downtown theater. Hilarious situations follow with the final “break-down” of such a reversal of convention. a a TWO FEATURES NOW AT THE OHIO The Ohio opens anew week today with two complete features on the program. They are “Bad Sisters,” taken from Booth Tarkington’s story, “The Flirt,” and “Hell Bound.” Sidney Fox and Conrad Nagel have the leading roles in the former while Leo Carrillo and Lola Lane are starred in “Hell Bound.” “Bad Sister” is the story of a small-town girl who lived under the delusion that she was entitled to everything and acted accordingly. Others in the cast besides Miss Fox and Conrad Nagel are Bette Davis, Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville. “Hell Bound” is one of Carrillo’s best pictures and also gives Miss Lane one of the best opportunities of her career.

AMUSEMENTS

1— Leslie Howard has the leading male role in “Never the Twain Shall Meet,” now on the Palace screen. 2 Cliff Edwards and Charlotte Greenwood as they appear in “Stepping Out,” now on the Lyric screen. 3 Elliott Nugent and Jean Arthur in a scene from “Virtuous Husband,” now on the Indiana screen.

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I—Dick Elliott has an important role in “Nancy’s Private Affair,” opening Sunday night at English’s.

Ben Bernie Will Play on Roof Noted Orchestra to Have Many Novelties on Program. COOL, comfortable dancing will be among the attractions offered to persons who attend the one night appearance of Ben Bernie and his orchestra on the Indiana Roof tonight, according to Tom Devine, the roof manager. Bernie, self-styled the “ole maestro,” is considered one of radio’s outstanding personalities. His unique arrangements of dance music have helped contribute to his popularity among radio fans, whom he has been entertaining for the past year from the College Inn of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Such numbers as “The King’s Horses,” “The Alphine Milkmen” and “The Singing Lesson” are his favorites, displaying to an advantage his satirical possibilities. Each member of Bernie’s orchestra is qualified to act as a vocalist. Ample seating accommodations will be found in the Roof Ballroom balcony for Ben Bernie fans who do not dance. The band will start its engagement at 9 o’clock tonight, and dancing will continue until 1:30 a. m. The Black Diamonds, a colored orchestra, will fill the second week of a limited engagement next week.

Is It True?

It is understood in London that Charles Chaplin has signed a contract to direct an all-British talking picture of empire-wide importance. Negotiations were handled by Lord Tyrrel, British ambassador to France. Further developments of the contract hint that Chaplin may receive court honors and a title as a result. Details of the purported production are not known. Ann and Company Make Up Ann Harding and RKO-Pathe have patched up their differences and the star will start work on “Devotion,*' formerly “A Little Flat in the Temple,” on May 18, with Robert Milton megaphoning. Reports are that Warners were dickering with her in the Chatterton and Powell manner, but Charles R. Rogers fixed exerything by not only coming through with the money, but permitting the star her choice of story material.

AMUSEMENTS

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2—Belle Bennett, noted movie star, opens a week’s engagement at the Lyric in a sketch today.

ROUNDING ROUND THEATERS rNTASK

WHEN other cities are actually getting “organized audiences” for worth w r hile plays next season in legitimate theaters, Indianapolis, it seems, is asleep or indifferent. I have word from Nelson Trowbridge, manager of the Shubert theater in Cincinnati, that Cincinnati next season will have its first season of the Dramatic League. Civic leaders, men and women prominent socially, are helping Trowbridge to get season memberships right now. So successful has been the drive that Cincinnati is definitely on the Dramatic League list. So far no effort has been made to get these fine show's for Indianapolis.

We probably will wait until all the time is taken and then devote all winter talking and kicking about the local situation. The Cincinnati season will be made up of six plays, each playing a week. The six subscription plays for Cincinnati will be drawn from “Alison's House,” the Pulitzer prize play; “The Improper Duches with Yvonne Arnaud, a current success in London; “The Venetians,” another London hit; “Give Me Yesterday,” by A. A. Milne; “The Silent Witness,” with Lionel Atwill; “The New Colony,” by Luigi Pirandello; “The Kitten’s Tail,” with Leslie Banks; “The Death of Danton,” with Philip Merivale; “Ugly Girl,” a comedy from the German; “The Devil’s Diary,” by Maurine Watkins, Indiana playwright; “Interrupted,” by Ferene Molnar; “Our Pleasant Sins,” by Donald Fretwick; “Tables for Ladies,” by Gerald Paxton, and “As You Desire Me,” with Judith Anderson.” What a list. Let's get busy and let the Shuberts know that we are still on the list. a tt n The sixth annual dance recital for the junior pupils of the Pattridge Dance Studios will be held at Civic theater, June 16, at 8:30 p. m. The program will be in three acts of 25 minutes each. Pupils from the Indianapolis studios will compete against talent from the Muncie and Blooomington branches. Each act

AMUSEMENTS

DINE and DANCE With Reginald Duvalle And His 10-Piece Orchestra ANTLERS TOWNE CLUB Saturday Nite 9 P. M. TiU ? ? ? Special Late Supper Chicken—Steak—Fro* Legs SI.OO.

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4 Carole Lombard and Norman Foster in a scene from “Up Pops the Devil,” now the feature at the Circle. 5 Janet Gaynor is now in second week in “Daddy Long Legs,” at the Apollo theater. 6 Floyd Hughes and Lola Lane in “Hell Bound.” one of the features at the Ohio.

will be entirely different, the children ranging from 2 to 14 years. The following Indianapolis pupils will take part: Mary Jane Sullivan, Marie Louise Gorman, Susane Kemp, Lois Shipiro, La Verne Baus, Ruth Mae King, Helen Whitley, Susan Reeder, Barbara Jean Short, Gloria Feld, Olga Feld, Billy Heiman, Robert Paetz. Marjorie Ann Maines, Jack O’Malley, Vernon McMorris, Billy Cowley, Shirley Barnett, Letha May Ransdall, Phyllis

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3—Horace Heidt and his Californians are being featured by Brooke Johns at the Indiana this week.

Levy, Betty Burgess, Orgarita Brown, Martha Clark, Virginia Marcus, Barbara Jean Cotton, Emma Lou Childs, Gloria Hewitt, Babe Freide. u tt a Mrs. C. E. Tanke, 4537 Carrollton avenue, this city, has written a number entitled “Will You Listen,” which will be introduced by Ben Bernie and his orchestra, to whom the composition is dedicated, when they make a one-night appearance in the Indiana Roof ballroom tonight. Tom Devine, manager of the ballroom, sent Mrs. Tanke’s composition to Bernie, who commented favorably upon the melody and asked that an orchestration be made. Gene Ingle, local pianist, has completed the orchestration, and the future of “Will You Listen” in all probability rests with the applause it is given by persons who attend the ballroom tonight. Mrs. Tanke says her inspiration for the number was derived from Bernie’s by-line, “Will You Listen,” which he never fails to incorporate in his broadcasts..

AMUSEMENTS

Belle Bennett, Noted Character Portrayer of Mother Roles in Movies, Appears in Person as Headliner Attraction at Lyric Theater. BELLE BENNETT, the beloved “mother” of the movies, hey first personal appearance In this city at the Lyric for one wee* beginning today. With her are five other RKO vaudeville acts and the feature picture. “Steeping Out.” Miss 'Bennett, who will be best remembered for her mater role in the silver screen drama, “Stella Dallas” is seen on the stare in a character comedy, “Lady Taylor—Waitress." The playlet is said to be filled with comedy situations and dialogue, with an underlying current of pathos.

Miss Bennett is another of the same type mothers she made famous on the screen. Her role is that of a sweet middle-aged woman with whom fate has dealt rather harshly. She has lost track of an only son and is reduced in circumstances to tending table in a boarding house. Her life has been spent in longing, hoping and working. The rest of the playlet follows her through a series of trials and tribulations until finally she finds the happiness she has been seeking. A company of four Hollywood players are seen in the cast with Miss Bennett in “Lady Taylor— Waitress.” Among the other five acts on the same stage show are Harry Roye and Billie Naye, heralded as “The Aristocrats of the Dance,” with their own little revue, which is said to be quite elaborate; Kohn and Depinto, in a lively musical specialty, and A1 Abbott, an entertainer of no mean ability. A romance of jealous wives and gay Hollywood gfild-dinggers; oil magnates, who want to be rulers of the film business; of Agua Caliente I and its pleasures, such is said to be ! “Stepping Out,” the new NGW feature picture production. The Elmer Harris play had quite a run on Broadway, and in the film transition, which Harris adapted himself, it is said that many extra laughs have been crammed into the action. Reginald Denny and Harry Stubbs play the oil millionaires; Charlotte Greenwood and Leila Hyums are seen as their wives. The millionaires decide to sample a few of the pleasures of Hollywood, and get a couple of pretty gold-diggers to help them. Whereupon the wives step out to sample the pleasures of Agua Caliente and things begin to happen. College boys, jealous husbands, complications galore are said to result in rapid succession until a smart- lawyer straightens the Chinese puzzle of matrimonial jealousies. Denny and Miss Hyams play the romantic roles, and Miss Greenwood and Stubbs are the comedy couple. Cliff Edwards adds hilarity as a college boy and Richard Tucker is the clam arbiter who solves it all. Lillian Bond is in the role of “Cleo,” which she did on the stage. tt tt a COMEDY NEW HERE OPENS TONIGHT Arthur Casey and his dramatic stock company will reach the halfway mark of their summer season here Sunday night at 8:30 o’clock, when they are to present as neir tenth production at English’s theater a smart and sophisticated comedy entitled “Nancy’s Private Affair.” The work of Myron Fagan, who also is the author of “The Little Spitfire” and some thirty-eight other plays, “Nancy’s Private Affair” was originally produced in New York at the Vanderbilt theateer with Minna Gombel starred. Frances Dale will have the lead-

AMUSEMENTS

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ing role here in the Casey production of the play. By virtue of the fact that the part require* her to change from a drab, plainly-dressed woman in the opening scenes to a stylish and attractive lady of fashion in the later scenes, Miss Dale is given abundant opportunties for skillful characterization as well as a chance to wear some beautiful Parisian gowns. Donald Woods will have the chief masculine part in the play, and Dick Elliott is to appear in the main comedy role. The favorable part of a titled Englishman naturally falls to Will Lloyd, himself a Briton. Yvonne Stebbins will portray a vivacious young girl friend of Miss Dale’s. The play’s nearest approach to “villains”—a gold-digging mother and daughter—will be enacted by Jane Wheatley and Frances Busby. Walter Davis will round out the cast of characters. The task of staging and directing “Nancy’s Private Affair” here for Arthur Casey is being handled by William Blair. The pair of fashionable Westchester and Long Island settings for the play have been designed and executed here in the theater’s own workshop by Milo Denny. Briefly, the comedy of “Nancy’s Private Affair” is en outgrowth of the amusing campaign waged by a loving wife to win back an errant husband w'hose attentions have wandered to another woman. She had allowed herself to grow careless of her appearance, and the husband seeks his freedom in order to marry the other girl. The wife agrees to a divorce on the condition that she be permitted to meet face to face with her feminine rival. Their meeting convinces the wife that the girl is chiefly occupied with gold digging designs on the husband. Immediately, the wife fortifies he/self with a Parisian wardrobe and with the aid of her woman’s wits resorts to unusual tactics to regain her husband’s affection. The customary matinees will be given Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

AMUSEMENTS

SUN. NITE, 8:30 Get the Facts! —About “NANCY’S PRIVATE AFFAIR” A Smart Modish Comedy with Frances Dale As the Wife Who Teaches Her Philandering Husband a Lesson in Love! What a Girl! Cast Includes DONALD WOODS Will Lloyd Dick Elliott Jane Wheatley Yvonne Stebbins Walter Davis Frances Busby -——PRICES—— NITES—SOc, 75c, SI.OO. Wednesday and Thursday Matinees, 50c Saturday Matinee, 50c, 75c. Monday—Ladies’ BARGAIN NITK Best Seats —— Coming Next Week THE BLUE GHOST’ Last Day—‘‘.Strictly Dishonorable’*