Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1931 — Page 8

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GREAT SHOWS TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT FOR A FINE CAUSE

Will Rogers Has the Comedy and Wise-Cracking Lead in •Ambassador Bill/ Which Is on View at the Apollo; ‘Modern Minstrels’ Now at the Indiana. /k MBASSADOR BILL.” starring Will Rogers and featuring Tad , Alexander, Marguerite Churchill, Greta Nissen and Arnold Korff, is the current attraction at the Apollo. Rogers is seen as the rough hut truly wise American ambassador who untangles, the scrambled politics and royal loves of a glamorous little kingdom ruled by a boy king. Shocking the snobtrv h hangers-on of the court by his total, disregard for etiqulette, he endears himself to the real human beings beneath the ermine. Rogers, it will oe remembered, has actually done this in real life, and knows whereof he speaks

It seems that Rogers is one of those rare individuals who is able to go through life as though the false-fronts of others did not exist. And w'hat is rarer still, he is able to do this without giving offense to others. Rogers has been given full opportunity to use his own judgment in matters of dialog and he supplies much of his own wit and humor throughout the entire length of the film. The cast portrays Miss Churchill as the queen of Sylvania; Tad Alexander, as the boy king and Greta Nissen as the lover of the dictator who has eyes upon the throne Sam Taylor directed. it a e NEW BROWN MOVIE ON VIEW It is anew Joe E. Brown who cavorts across the silver screen in ‘Local Boy Makes Good.” the Fir* National proauction which opened Friday for a week's showing at the Indiana. The wide-mouthed comedian impersonates a timid, self-effacing, near-sighted college student. He makes his meager way through school by clerking in a bookstore. The victim of an inferiority complex, he writes secret love letters to i a co-ed of a distant university i whom he has never seen. These missives, filled with avowals I of devotion and praise of his prowess as an athlete, he does not mail. The fun begins when someone else mails one of the notes, and the girl comes to attend the intercollegiate track events to meet the supposed hero. Dorothy Lee has the role of the girl. Fanchon and Marco's “Modern Minstrels” idea is the stage offering at the Indiana this week. It is a modernized version of an old timo minstrel show. Heading the roster of footlight, entertainers are Tyler Mason, Bruce Jordan, Juggling Nelson, the Three Page Boys, Harry Van Fossen, Esther Campbell and the Sunkist Beauties. A highlight of the .stage show is said to be its novelty ; introduction. Ed Reseller and the Indianians offer a production overture in keeping wdth the approaching Thanksgiving holiday. The Butler Uun.l- - Glee Club is featured, and Dessa Byrd assists at the organ. a a tt CRAWFORD MOVIE FEATURED AT PALACE Joan Crawford will undoubtedly advance still further, in the opinion of her legion of admirers, because of her latest M-G-M picture “Pos-S sessed,” which opens Saturday at the Palace theater for one week beginning Saturday. The story is adapted by Lenore J Coffee from Edgar Selwyn's play. She is supported in the film by Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, the New York stage star, “Skeets” Gallagher, Clara Blandick, Walter' Walker, Edward Hearn, Ruth Renick and others. The plot tells of the struggle of i a poor girl to rise out of her environment, a box factory; her movements in New York amid the luxury of Park avenue—and an exceedingly vivid climax in the political convention of a great state. Miss Crawford’s sudden change in attitude towards Clark Gable, done to save for him the nomination of Governor i —and her dramatic appearance at the convention—are strong highlights of the picture. As usual with all Crawford vehicles, it is splendidly costumed— Miss Crawford’s sixteen lovely! frocks bringing many oh’s and ah's from last night’s audience. Short subjects concluding the pro- j gram will include Hal Roach's Boy: Friends in their newest comedy, "The Kick Off,” the Hearst Metrotone News, and “Nerve Wreckers,”! bringing out the fine points of! football. tt tt tt COLBERT HAS NEW LEADING MAN Claudette Colbert, fresh from her triumphs in "The Smiling Lieuten- j ant” and “Secrets of a Secretary,” . appears at the Circle theater currently in anew vehicle and with a new leading man. The picture is titled “His Woman,” and the male star is none other than Gary Cooper. In “His Woman” Miss Colbert portrays a young woman of questionable character. She appears I first as a tropical dance hall girl i who has abandoned herself to such a life in an effort to escape a New York city official, who want her in connection with a blackmailing | case. Upon hearing that the case i against her has been dismissed she attempts to return to New York, but is hindered by the lack of funds. At this point in the story she meets Cooper, the captain of a tramp freighter. She teams with him in a final effort to make the return trip, and there follows a hur-

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AMUSEMENTS MARTENS CONCERTS, Inc. ENGLISH—Sunday Afternoon, November 29th YVONNE GALL PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO, FRENCH OPERA, IN RECITAL Personality, temperament and intelligence—an occasion of distinction. A gifted and sensitive interpreter: songs were given a charm and esprit immediately recognized and warmly applauded. Program of unusual interest, arrangement of a musician and connoisseur."—Olin Downes, New York Times. on sale Martens ORar, :ts Monument ( jrilo Prices, $3.00. $2.50, $2.00, $ 1.50. $ 1.00. LI. 8921

Comedy to Open at Playhouse ‘The Love Match’ io Get First Local Showing Tonight. . * j Beginning tonight at the Playhouse, the Civic theater will present an English comedy entitled “The Love Match,” which was written by ! the late Arnold Bennett. The principal parts are played by Reginald Garstang and Dorothy ; Robinson, both of whom are among the best known of the Civic theater ! players. Dorothy Robinson again has a part similar to that which won her first local glory in "The Marquise” ! two seasons ago. Blair Taylor and Charles Robin- | son have secondary roles while Barbara Foltz and Sara Lauter furnish the broader comedy strokes. “The Love Match,” is in five scenes instead of the usual three acts and the plot, while not/ new, has some novel twists. The first scene depicts a young woman of the type Billie Burke used to be fond of portraying, lovably dumb, a bit irresponsible, but with an enormous conceit of her own powers of management. She pouts her way out of one marriage and into another, seeking to cajole the second husband into reorganizing the habits of his life time and the conduct of his personal affairs along lines which she conceives to be the perfect pattern for the perfect marriage. The husband, of course, rebels and takes steps to bring a halt to th~ intended reconstruction of his life by a method which proves to be only a little less unwise than thos. employed by his wife. The apparently necessary happ. ending is furnished through a com plete reconciliation brought aboi: by the younger sister.

‘Beggar's Opera ’

“The Beggar’s Opera,” which is to be presented for one night only at English's opera house, on Monday, Nov. 30. is. though it is over 200 years since it was first produced, one of the most novel attractions that has ever toured America. The old script was edited by the late Arnold Bennett and softened down considerably as our forefathers in the days of the Georges and Queen Anne were inclined to allude to a spade as a spade, but the spirit of the original is still retained. The musical effect has been increased by the use of a ladies’ orchestra modeled after that which accompanied the singers in the days of yore. The harpsichord and other old time instruments are included in the ensemble. The cast is composed of those artists from the Lyric theater, Hammersmith, London, who have long been identified with respective roles and includes Sylvia Nelis as Polly Peachum, Elsie French as Mrs. Peachum, Vera Hurst as Lucy Lockit, John Mott as Captain Macheath, Charles Magrath as Peachum, Gwillym Williams as Lockit and Robert Brinn as Filch. ricane romance as filled with turmoil. as a tropical storm. An added screen feature of unusual interest to Indianapolis the-ater-goers is presented in Paramount’s short film entitled “The Jazz Reporters.” This is Charlie Davis’ first featurette in a series he made for Paramount and presents the former Indiana theater stage favorite along with Harry Williford. Phil Davis and the rest of his “gang” in fifteen minutes of fun and nonsense. a a a “DEVOTION” NOW AT THE OHIO “Devotion,” Ann Harding's first picture offering for the new screen season, opened Friday at the Ohio theater for a week’s showing at family prices. Taken from the novel, “A Little Flat in the Temple” by the English author, Pamels Wynne, the major portion of the story is laid in that part of London, close to the busiest section but itself as peaceful as a quiet countryside.

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1— Ethel Iniropidi is one of the featured players in Channing Pollock’s "The House Beautiful,” which opens a three-day engagement at English’s Thanksgiving day night. 2 Tyler Mason, blackface comedian, is present in the Fanchon and Marco idea new on the Indiana stage.

1— Will Regers is seen in a human role in “Ambassador Bill” now on the Apollo screen 2 Joe E. Brown and Dorothy Lee act like this in “Local Boy Makes Good.” now on the Indiana screen. 3 James Cagney has the lead in “Blonde Crazy” now at the Lyric.

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WENT to Purdue at Lafayette last week to see. anew satiric comedy, “Radio Racket,” by J. Browne Tolhnger of the National Broadcasting Company. It was given in Fowler hall as one of the productions of the Purdue Playhouse under the direction of Jack McGee. McGee has introduced an unusual idea into his activities at Purdue. He has succeeded in giving an independent creative theater to this state institution and that is a difficult accomplishment in any school of learning. When he produces anew play like “Radio Racket” and old plays like

“The Royal Family,’’ with his ready and rapid talk of the day, that is oroof of his independence and his ability to carry on on the campus. Toilinger has attempted to dra\v his characters as he has seen them in actual life in the broadcasting studio. Asa commercial product, I think that “Radio Racket” could be boiled down to a corking good vaudeville playlet if more attention was paid to the naturalism of the characters instead of a running story of the difficulties of two partners in the radio business. Between curtains, one feels that he is actually in a studio because the music played gives one that impression. The sets were very complete and much more elaborate and authentic than one even dares to expect in a college production which was not planned for touring. McGee has done really wonders with his cast, one woman showing splendid promise. The cast was as follows: Ted, a radio artist Harl Day Jack, his partner Charles Spangler Ruth Biooks. studio hostess Eliabeth Veneman

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i Joe, the Chief Operator Beas Moore ! Janice Hawthorne, a blues singer Marjorie Fant Hildebrand, a continuity writer Roger Sneden i Chester Ford, an announcer. .Anson Brown j Wilhelm Vallbaum, Union secretary.. Jack Silverman i Tony Lamooch, the bard of the Air.... Albert Miller (George Tyler, a stuttering announcer.. Mark Helm Paul Gibson, the studio manager James McLaughlin Gerald Slocum, commercial manager.. Hugh Titus Henry Higbee Richard Moore Betty Gibson Ethelyn Ker Patricia Browne, a summer widow.... ( William Von Benken Mncirlanc \Charles Welch Musicians (William Orsinger 'Armand Finley ! A messenger bov William Stephenson ! An electrician William Hering His helper .....Nathan Geunterman A policeman Mervin Smith A crazy woman Sue Carmichael Messenger boys 'John Schaftner, W. F. Jones tt tt Fanchon, the female member of i the unit idea of the firm of Fanchon and Marco, is in town today visiting the Indiana theater. She visited the children’s dancing school on the Indiana Roof. Fanchon has placed hundreds of girls on the stage in her revues, tt tt a The Indianapolis Saengerbund

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3 Sara Lauter has a comedy role in “The Love Match,” which opens tonight at the Playhouse of the Civic Theater. 4 Baby Rose Marie is the youthful headliner on the new bill opening today at the Lyric. 3—Yvonne Gall, soprano will be presented in concert by Nancy Martens at English’s on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 29.

4 Ann Harding is starred in “Devotion,” now at the Ohio. 5 Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert have the ieads in “His Woman,” now at the Circle. - 6 Joan Crawford has an emotional role in "Possessed,” opening today at the Palace.

will give its first concert of the present season at the K. of C. hall Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Karl Theodore Frommherz is the director. The program will introduce a mixed ladies’ and a men’s chorus besides a trio. u The second series of lectures for members of the Art Association of i Indianapolis will open Tuesday at 11 a. m. at the John Herron Art institute, when Wilbur D. Peat, director of the art institute, will begin his lectures on ’ Important Periods of Sculpture.” The first of these lectures will be I based on “The Stone-Carver of Thebes.” Just concluded are the ! eight lectures on “Trends in European Painting,” by Miss Blanche Stillson. The rest of Peat’s program includes: Dec. 1, “A Goddess from Melos”; Dec. 8, “Saints and Gargoyles”; Dec. 15, “The Oriental Mold”; Jan. 12, “Giants of the Renaissance”: Jan. 19, “Rodin—The Thinker”; Jan. 26, “Contemporary Genius”; Feb. 2, “New Forms- and Materials.”

r||Ai wu gala thanksgiving attraction R O fL. IO al TH( R' i ., FRIDAY.. SAT. NIGHTS **** WB* MATINEE SATURDAY CURTAIN RISES PROMPTLY AT 8:30. Patrons are respectfully requested to be in their seats by that time as positively no one will be seated during the first scene. Matinee at 2:30. 0 CROSBY GAIGE’S Production of tpi CHINNING AR LL ° CK f? da W with ETHEL INTROPIDI and JOHN GRIGGS Directed by Worthington Miner... Scenery and costumes designed by Jo Mielziner Evening Prices—soc, SI.OO, 51.50, $2.00 Matinee—Sat., 50c, SI.OO, 51.50 ENGLISH For One Night Only—Monday, Nov. 30 “That Gay and Racy Old Musical Play” DfßECTrPOf'uSfef LONDON THE BEtiWf OPERA With the London Cast and Special Ladies* Orchestra Thrift Prices—soc to $3.00 Mail Orders Now—Seat Sale Opens Thursday, November 26 —- English FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS and Sunday Matinee. DEC. 4th & sth Mail Order* Filled Now. Send cheek for seat* desired with self-ad-dressed stamped envelope for return of tiekets. PRlCES—Evenings, Main Floor. SS.OCi. Ha Irony, first 4 rows. *1.50; next 4 rows, $1.00; last 5 rows, Second Balcony, 50c. Saturday Matinee—Main Floor, *I.OO. Entire Balcony. Toe. Second Balcony. 50c 1 . WALKER WHITESIDE In Frank Harvey's Til TT** Rugged Romance London Success * of Southern Seas Notable c*t with Miss Franc Hale. William Desmond. Barrie O’Daniels, I.ee r. Miller, far! Vo*e and other*.

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To Remake a Movie Paramount has decided to remake “Grand Duchess and the Waiter” under title of “Love Me Tonight.” Company now figuring to star either Chevalier or Paul Lukas in the talker remake. Paramount Buys Rights Paramount has purchased screen rights to “The Queen in the Parlor.” Play was a success in London and New York several years ago.

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Everybody Donates Services to Swell the Unemployment Fund in the City of Indianapolis—Baby Rose Marie Tops New Bill at the Lyric. FINAL arrangements have been completed for the staging of the special benefit performances to be given by the theaters of Indianapolis, for the aid and relief of the unemployed of this city, and which will be held at the Lyric, Indiana and Loew's Palace tonight at 11:30 o'clock. Every theater in the city is co-operating in this civic movement, as well as the various merchants and commercial enterprises, who have donated free of charge the tickets, announcement cards and other advertising matter needed for the publicizing of the benefit shows. Theater owners have donated the use of their theaters, every employe, including stage hands, ushers, cleaners, operators, cashiers, musicians, door-

men and engineers and the managers, have given their services free for the benefit performances. The artists appearing on the stages of the Palace. Indiana and Lyric have volunteered their services and film companies have granted the free use of their films. Every penny of the proceeds is to be turned over to the emergency work committee, and is to be used for relief purposes in Indianapolis only. Not a cent is to be spent outside the city. Acts appearing on the stage at the Palace will include Connie and his band. Juggling Nelson, Baby Rose Marie. Billy (Swede) Hall, Esther Campbell, three Page Boys. Ernestine Ewing and Myrna Celete. Flagler and Ruth. Amee Ann and Phil, the Four Dancing Girls. Little Miss General and Miss Bobby Stevens. At the Lyric the stage offering will include Jay Mills and Florence Robinson, Miss Bobby Folsom, the De Toregos, Mary Palmer and her pony and dogs. Ruth Noller and her varsity red-hots. Baby Rose Marie. Cotton Pickers quartet, Walter Laroux and his W'FBM orchestra, Roltaire Eggleston, the Saxo quintet, the Wild Sisters and Thesla. The Indiana stage presentations will include Tyler Mason, Jean and Lou, Bruce Jordan, the Perrin Kiddies. the Line Girls, Granger and Hendon, Slim Green, Ruth Otte, the Rosemary duo. Dessa Byrd, the Indianapolis News quartet, Ed Resener and his Indiana orchestra and other members of the regular Indiana stage show, who will offer entirely new acts. Complete new performances will be offered at the special midnight benefit performances at the Palace, Indiana and Lyric, and also at the Walker, at which theaters a special midnight benefit performance will be staged for the colored residents of Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company is also co-operating in the aid for the unemployed, and has offered free transportation on their street cars and busses to every one attending the special benefit shows, between 10:30 and 11:30 p. m. tonight. This courtesy has been granted by George C. Forrey, receiver of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, and will also include the Peoples Motor Coach Company. This privilege applies only to inbound transportation. Mayor Reginald Sullivan has indorsed and proclaimed tonight as Motion Picture Theater night in Indianapolis, and a gala festival frolic of fun is promised those who attend the benefit shows at the Palace, Lyric and Indiana. In addition the shows at these three theaters, dancing will also be permitted purchasers of tickets, at either the Indiana or Lyric ballrooms, there being no additional charge. a BABY ROSE MARIE TOPS BILL AT LYRIC Baby Rose Marie, familiar diminutive songster on the “air,” comes to the Lyric today for a week’s per-

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Booked Here W’alker Whiteside will appear at English’s on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4 and 5, in his new play, “Surf,” in which he has been starring for several months. Whiteside will be seen in the unique character of the keeper of a lighthouse off the coast of New Zealand, a role in which he has won much favorable comment. Surrounding the star will be found a company which includes Miss Franc Hale. William Desmond (screen and stage star), Barrie O'Daniels, Carl Vose, Lee C. Millar and other players.

sonal appearance, topping a stage bill of six RKO feature vaudeville acts. As the screen attraction James Cagney is eo-featured with Joan Blondell in “Blonde Crazy,” anew Warner Bros. Vitaphone production. Baby Rose Marie is only six years old but already is an established bill-topper in vaudeville. In her act this week. Baby Rose brings a well-selected group of song numbers. On the stage bill with Baby Rose Marie ar# six other feature acts including the De Toregos. a quartet of Grecian dancers. They represent a “Dance Sequence.” depicting modernistic and chorographic dancing. usical interludes are provided by Sally Sarrant, soprano and Joe Bradshaw, a concert pianist. Next on the bill comes Jay Mills, a well-known master of ceremonies in company with Florence Robinson. a dancer, who has appeared in two editions of George White's Scandals. Miss Bobby Folsom styled as a “Song Salesman,” and who long has been a regular in the varieties, will present several •‘samples” of her songs, which have been especially written for her by her former partner, Neville Fleeson. The Galigary brothers bring to the bill many eccentric dance steps containing several comedy bits. Opening the stage show will be Mary Palmer and Pony “Boy.” “Blonde Crazy,” costarring James Cagney and Joan Blondell is a story of a bell-hop and a linen girl in a swanky hotel which is frenquented by furflushers of both sexes. Ziegfeld to Go West Florenz Ziegfeld and his family will arrive here the early part of September to join their daughter Patricia and remain here for the winter. Ziegfeld has one more picture to make for United Artists. Get Funds The Friars are offering personalities among their membership for the making of shorts, with the proceeds to go to the funds of the club. Services of stars are to be voluntary.

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