Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1931 — Page 6
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ADOLPHE MENJOU IS STARRED IN ‘THE GREAT LOVER"
ty/omen Love Once/ by Zoe Akins, Is Chief Screen Offering at the Indiana and Has Paul Lucas in the Cast; ‘Night Nurse’ Opens at the Apollo. • and romance mixed together are the principal ingredients /V* Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's “The Great Lover,” which will be at the Palace beginning today. "The Great Lover” offers Adolphe Menjou, the suave, in the title role which Leo Ditrichstein made so famous on the stage. Menjou provides the romance, with his sparkling and frequently tor•K y>ve affairs with six beautiful girls; while Ernest Torrence. Cliff Edand Rosco Ates carry the main comedy burden. Torrence is Menjou’s valet, Edwards a grand opera press agent and Ates a stuttering reporter.
Other players of promience are Irene Dunne of “Cimarron” as an aspirant for grand opera honors, who nearly burns her moral fingers In her ambition; Neil Hamilton of “Strangers May Kiss” as the young lover; Hale Hamilton and Baclanova. “The Great Lover” was directed by Harry Beaumont of “The Broadway Melody,” “Our Dancing Daughters,” “Our Blushing Brides” and “Dance, Fools, Dance” fame. It was adapted by Gene Markey and Edgar Allan Woolf from the stage play of Leo Ditrichstein and Frederick and Fanny Hatton. Herman Timberg, popular musical comedy favorite, is starred in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Colortone entitled “The Geography Lesson,” wdiich heads the program of short film novelties. Other subjects will include Mickey Mouse in a cartoon comic, “The Delivery Boy,” the newest issue of the Heart Metrotone News and a Curiosity novelty. Commencing next Saturday, the Palace will inaugurate their fall season with “Locw’s August Parade of Hits,” the first of which will be the Marie Dressier and Polly Moran comedy sensation, “Politics,” wherein Marie and Polly cavort through the trials and tribulations of the political world to bring laughter and happiness to the theater-going patrons. * u u “NIGHT NURSE AT APOLLO “Night Nurse,” which details the romantic adventures of a young girl ■who enters a great city hospital as a student nurse, and leaves it to a woman who knows life from its depths to its heights—is the current attraction at the Apollo theater. The picture is based on the sensational selling novel of the same name by Dora Macy, who also wrote “Ex-Mistress.’ The human and dramatic side of hospital routine is said to be portrayed as never before. “Night Nurse” has the direction bf John Francis Dillon who did “The Public Enemy” and “Wings.” However, it should be stressed that while the sequences of “Night Nurse” are largely in a hosiptal, the gruesome is never in evidence — rather the humanness of the throngs that frequent it, from the surgeon in command to the lowest orderly. It is the night nurse herself who fcteals the picture and holds the imagination and sympathy throughout, we have been told. Lora Hart is her name, and she has the great luck to be interpreted by Miss Barbara Stanwyck. Love finds Lora after many a long dayin the person of a likable young ruffian, who comes to her for treatment of a gunshot wound in the arm—Ben Lyon is said to make much of the role. Joan Blondell is Lora’s jazzy pal, also a nurse. Many other notables play varied roles—including Clark Gable, Charles Wenninger and Edward Nugent. Short subjects on the program include Bobby Jones hi the golf reel, “Big Irons”; tiitaphone Varieties and Fox Movietone News. u tt tt SMART FARCE OrENS AT INDIANA The famous Zoe Akins play, “Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting,” is now on view in screen form at the Indiana theater, under the title of “Women Love Once.” Miss Akins is herself the author of the film version. Topping the Indiana footlight bill is Helen Lewis and her all girl band. In addition to the cofeatured palyers, Paul Lukas and Eleanor Boardma’n, two rising young starlets of Hollywood also are seen and heard together in “Women Love Once.” The young newcomers are Judith Wood (formerly Helen Johnson) and Juliette Compton. Miss Wood, a blond who for the purposes of a Gallic impersonation in the film, is temoprarily a brunet, was first seen to advantage in “It Pays to Advertise.” Asa result of her work in that picture she was given a big part in “The Vice Squad.” In “Women Love Once” she plays a comedy role. Miss Compton arrived in Hollywood by a circuitous route. From her home in Georgia she went to New York and played a season in legitimate and musicals. Then she went to London where she was a success on the stage, and later for five years the star of British films. Back in the States again she went to Hollywood and now making a strong bid for fame. She has been in “Unfaithful,” “Morocco” and “Kick In.” Geoffrey Kerr, the brilliant young
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1 English writer, actor and soldier, j who made a name for himself on | the Broadway stage recently, is an- - other of the cast of “Women Love Once.” who should not be forgotten. !He has appeared in a number of j hits with Ruth Chatterton, Blanche Bates, Laura Hope Crews, Ina Claire j and others. Assisting Miss Lewis and her band on the stage are Margie Green, i Clyde Hager, Buddy Howe and Flo Mayo. * tt RUGGLES TOPS CAST AT THE CIRCLE “The Girl Habit” starring Charlie Ruggles is being currently shown at the Circle theater. Charlie Ruggles, who, in “Charley's Aunt,” as both Charley and the Aunt, became the favorite farceur of film fandom overnight, is now a star in his own right. Ruggles* comedy work in such pictures as “Her Wedding Night,” “Honor Among Lovers,” ’Young Man of Manhattan,” "Roadhouse Nights,” and others finally earned for him the distinction of stardom. “The Girl Habit" is the product of the capable typewriters of Owen Davis and Gertrude Purcell, and is based upon a stage success by A. C. Thomas and Clayton Hamilton. It Is a farce from start to finish and one laugh follows another in a gale of hilarity. • Ruggles’ career has been featured by hard work and painstaking care. At a youthful age he began his stage career in San Francisco. It was not long before he was starring in musicals in New York and on the road. Among his biggest successes were “Battling Butler” and “Queen High.’’ In the days of silent pictures he appeared with such stars as Lenore Ulrich, Elsie Janis and Cyril Maude. When Ruggles played the part of the drunken reporter in “Gentlemen of the Press”—his first talkie —he won the favor of film audiences almost unanimously. Another distinctive characterization followed in “The Lady Lies,” in which he portrayed the bored but beneficent bachelor. He w r as placed on a long term contract as a result of this work, and other impersonations followed. Supporting the star are Donald Meek, Sue Conroy, Margaret Dumont and Tamara Geva. An added attraction program made up of short reels and a news feature close the Circle bill. * BUM LOVE STORY OPENS AT OHIO “I Take This Woman.” filmization of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s “Lost Ecstasy,” opens today at the Ohio theater for a week’s showing at family prices. “I Take This Woman” is the story of a likable, easy-going westerner and a wealthy girl, beautiful, spoiled, impetuous, caught up in a sudden ■whirlwind of love, who marry, struggle to make a go of it, repent, separate and find they can’t stay apart. Gary Cooper, after a brief absence from the western plains in “City Streets,” returns to the spurs and chaps for this actionful story, whose setting whirls from gay-time New York to the range country of Wyoming, and back again. Carol Lombard, blonde, charming, talented, is the girl. “I Take This Woman” is the love story of a carefree, selfish, petted girl, used to luxury and the glitter of smart New York, who flirts with and marries, a rugged, devil-may-care ranger. Disinherited because of her mad act, she- tastes the bitterness of hopeless struggle on a barren western ranch. Discouraged, she throws it all away and returns to her father’s home. There she renews her life of gayety and luxury, but without zest. She discovers that she has tied herself to her plainsman husband with bonds more lasting than those of law. Supporting Cooper and Miss Lombard are Helen Ware, Lester Vail and Guy Oliver. “Bimbo’s Herring Murder Case,” a Mickey McGuire comedy and a news reel conclude the entertainment. She Goes Bark to Islands Dorothy Mackaill is going back to Hawaii. The blonde Warner-First National star, who returned from Honolulu a short time ago, will sail soon for the islands.
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I—Jim and Walt, popular radio entertainers, are headlining the new vaudeville bill which opened today at the Lyric.
1— Adolphe Menjou and Irene Dunne have the chief roles in “The Great Lover,” opening today at the Palace. 2 Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper as they appear in “I Take This Woman,” now at the Ohio. 3 Paul Lukas and Eleanor Boardman as they appear in “Women Love Once,” now at the Indiana.
Park Will Try a New Air Stunt Guinea Hen to Be Released From Balloon Sunday Evening. A NY one who catches the guinea hen to be released from the balloon Sunday evening at Riverside amusement park and returns Tt to the park office will receive a free ticket to the amusements in the park for the remainder of the season, according to announcement made by the park management yesterday. The guineau hen will be carried into the clouds by Miss Mayzola Howard, who made her first solo ascension at the park several weeks ago. She will attempt to release the fowl directly over the park, so that all the patrons will have an equal chance to catch it. Any one who has ever seen the speckled bird fly over the barn on the farm will know what fun this will be, but the bird must be returned alive. This is not impossible as the same guinea hen has been used scores of times, according to “Mile High” O. E. Ruth, who will have charge of the balloon. The balloon will leave the ground at 7 o’clock and the bird will be set free just before Miss Howard makes a parachute jump. The balloon stunt has never before been tried so late in the evening, but Ruth hopes to find the bag and parachute before dark. When Miss Howard appeared last at the park she landed in one of the big trees in the park and one of the parachutes went into-the canal. Music and other entertainment will be provided during the afternoon and evening at the park.
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ONE of the most remarkable things about the engagement of Mrs. Leslie Carter in “The Shanghai Gesture,” which closes tonight at English’s, is the capacity houses she attracted. Monday night was a complete sell out and people were turned away at the Wednesday matinee and more room could have been used Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Carter has every right to be pleased at her reception. She was most gracious to the regular members of the Arthur Casey Company. On several occasions she shared her curtain calls and ovation at the end of the third act with Miss Frances Dale, who played Poppy. I have been asked to compare the work of Miss Dale to that of Miss Duncan in the New York company of Florence Reed. I believe that Miss Dale was as effective as Miss Duncan in every act but the first act and that is minor. But she was just as good as Miss Duncan in the big drunk scene and the death scene in the last act. And Mis Dale deserved to be honored by sharing the curtain calls with Mrs. Carter. The great star was made happy when she received a bouquet of flowers from Miss Blanche Sweet, who played this week at the Lyric. Attached to tit; flowers was a note from Miss Sweet stating that she would drop in between acts to see Mrs. Carter. So pleased was Mrs. Carter that one might get the impression that this great woman had never received flowers before. # u a One piece of good news is that Miss Mildred Hastings, one of the most popular members of the Berkell company, will stay on with the Casey company until the stock season closes here. She certainly received fine ovations on her entrances with Mrs. Carter this week. It. is good to be remembered. m tt a The Civic Theater is getting ready to launch its regular membership and subscription drive for the fall and winter season. It .should be easier than ever because
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2—Douglas Wood, leading man for Mrs. Leslie Carter, in “The App’e Cart,” which opens at English's Sunday night.
4 Barbara Stanywck plays the role of a nurse in “Night Nurse,” which opens today at the Apollo. 5 Olsen and Johnson have the leads In “Gold Dust Gertie,” now on the screen at the Lyric. 6 Charlie Ruggles is the star of “The Girl Habit,” now at the Circle.
we have to rely upon the Civic Theater for our dramatic shows because we have no guarantee so far of'any legitimate road show season. We haven’t a Theatre Guild or a Dramatic League guaranteed season and it looks like we won’t unless somebody gets busy. a a tt Through an arrangement of the Apollo theater management, nurse and internes in Indianapolis hospitals will be the guests of the Apollo today at all showings of “Night Nurse,” a picture which portrays the life of a nurse, from the time she enters her probationary training until she is graduated as a trained nurse. Invitations have been sent to nurses and internes in the hospitals of the city and approximately six hundred are expected to view the picture today. The picture has created considerable comment in other cities where it has been shown, due to the accuracy with which it reproduces hospital routine and its value in putting before the public the inside life of the medical world. She Screams for Money Screaming for a living is the newest job in the talkies. Lillian Worth is Hollywood’s most famous screamer. Whenever expert yelling, shrieking, or howling is demanded for the microphone, she gets the job. She is now screaming at Paramount for the sound track of “Women Love Once.” Mary May Act in London Mary Pickford states that she may accept an offer to appear in a play in London when she arrives in England next week.
3—Helen Lewis is directing her own girl band on the stage at the Indiana this week.
Today! iMMIslj mum I Paramount Hit with GARY COOPER ! Carole Lombard Careless Kisses — Giving Birth to a Whirl- I wind romance of two worlds! OHIO
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Bernard Shaw's Latest Play, ‘The Apple Cart/ Opens Sunday Night at English’s, With Donald Woods Playing the Role of King Magnus. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S newest play, “The Apple Cart,” which was produced by the New York Theater Guild last year, will open at English's Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock as Arthur Casey's sixteenth production of his twenty-week summer season of dramatic stock here. The play, which was released by the Theater Guild only a couple of weeks ago. has not previously been presented as a stock production. „ According to Arthur Casey. “The Applt. Cart” is one of the largest, and most costly productions he has offered in this city. It requires a cast of some twenty players, and the action is unfolded before three elaborate settings.
Dan Willoughby Reed. Casey's director in Houston, Tex., has his first directorial assignment of the season on “The Apple Cart,” and he has put forth extra effort to whip it into shape. The three settings are the work of Milo Denny. Donald Woods has the starring role in “The Apple Cart” as King Magnus of England in the vac* 1971. He finds himself in conflict with his progressive cabinet, led by the prime minister. The cabinet demands that Magnus shall secretly relinquish the right of veto. His majesty, much' the superior of his ministers in political maneuvering and debating, defeats their argument. However, appearing to bow to their power, he agrees to their ultimatum. He causes consternation among the ministers immediately afterward by announcing his intention to abdicate and seek election to parliament. Their unwillingness to face this potentially disturbing situation causes the ministers to be placed in a dilemma, and the climax follows shortly. A sidelight to the main action is the offer of the United States to tear up the Declaration of Independence and re-join the British kingdom. Around the foregoing story structure, Shaw’ builds his characteristic comedy and satire. The regular Arthur Casey cast will be augmented for "The Apple Cart.” Douglas Wood, Mrs. Leslie Carter’s own leading man, who impersonated Sir Guy Chartaris in “The Shanghai Gesture,” has been held over for an extra week in order to portray the role of the prime minister. Jack King Davis, formerly with Stuart Walker here; Mae Ray, a member of the Arthur Casey company in St. Paul; Milton Byron, former Berkell leading man, and others will take part along with Frances Dale, as the king’s mistress; Dick Elliott, Walter Davis, Freddie Sherman, Mildred Hastings, Yvonne Stebbins, Jack Storey, Edward Fitzgerald, Roy Laßue, Katherine May-
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.JULY 25,1931
er, Thomas Coyle, and Duane Mc Kinney. tt a JIM AND WALT OPEN AT THE LYRIC Jim and Walt are back in Indianapolis and are on the Lyric stage, after a successful season at radio station WLW in Cincinnati. Indianapolis theater-goers will remember the two boys who a short time ago were local favorites over station WFBM. In addition the Lyric presents five other RKO vaudeville acts and the feature picture “Gold Dust Gertie,” starring Winnie Lightner and Olsen and Johnson. Jim and Walt’s career is familiar to most Indianapolis radio listeners. The two boys started their career a short time ago over WFBM, and in a short time became reigning favorites with local radio audiences. Recently they were contracted by WLW of Cincinnati and have since made their popularity national in scope. They will entertain withthe same comedy singing and musical specialties that made them favorite entertainers of the air. Winnie Lightner and Olsen and Johnson are featured” in the screen attraction at the Lyric this week which is entitled “Gold Dust Gertie,” a play that deals with the efforts and the two comedians who were at the Lyric in person last season, to escape the determined Miss Lightner, cast as the ex-wife of both boys. Twin brides of the two boys further complicate the situation when they become displeased with being deceived as to the relative experience of their husbands in domestic matters, and a bathing beauty parade and a thrilling motor boat chase add color to the activities.
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