Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1931 — Page 6

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YVONNE GALL MAKES FIRST LOCAL APPEARANCE SUNDAY

Wallace Beery Is Seen as a Broken Down Prize Fighter and Jackie Cooper Is His Son in ‘The Champ/ Now at the Palace Theater for a Week. „ * P rizc and his small son, living in a border resort where the Aid gladiator seeks a “comeback"—these are the charecters played by Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper in their first appearanee together, in “The Champ,” opening today at the Palace. • . ~ a poignant heart interest drama, based on parental love, tne picturesque details of a garish Mexican border town—horse racing, prize fighting, the whirl of the gambling halls, all invest it with a color and a thrill that gives anew dramatic tang. King Vidor directed tne new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, based on an original story by Frances Marion. Beery as the old champion loves the boy with an almost fanatical devotion Finally, realizing he can not give the child the advantages a rich divorced mother can, he resolves to surrender the boy, though it breaks his heart. In the dramatic climax the man they call “has been” proves the best man of all of them. T in 1

In the dramatic sacrifice in the Mexican jail, and in the death scene in the fight arena, Beery and the boy rise to mighty dramatic heights. In the intimate scenes in the hotel there is a wealth of w sical comedy. Actual races at Caliente, the most realistic prize fight in years, the battle with the Mexican police, all unite in providing thrills. Roscoe Ates and Edward Brophy contribute laughs as the comedy fight manager and trainer. Irene plays the rich mother and Hal Hamilton the millionaire second husband. Little Jesse Scott is comical as Jackie's little colored companion, and Marcia Mac Jones is Jackie's half sister. Features completing the bill will Include Charlie Chase in his newest comedy, “What a Bozo,” and the Hearst Metrotone News. nun DAVIS RETURNS TO THE INDIANA Gala holiday decorations and a special triple-threat program will greet Charlie Davis fans who come to the Indiana during the current week to welcome the popular band leader back home again, after nearly eleven months in New York. In addition to presiding over Fanchon and Marco's stage production, “Cozy Corner,” Charlie Davis also offers several surprises of his own. The personal appearance of Ruth Roland, and the screen attraction, “Consolation Marriage,” are the other two features of the bill. “Back Home Again in Indiana” is the tune hummed happily by Charlie Davis as he again assumes his former position as master of ceremonies at the Indiana theater. Ruth Roland, screen star, who has thrilled many with her intrepid feats in motion pictures, appears as the headliner*

Assisting acts of Fanchon and Marco’s “Cozy Corner” idea are Alice and Sonny LaMont and company, the Three Jays, Rector and Doreen, Frank Rogers and others. Anew use of the institution of matrimony is made by the principal characters in “Consolation Marriage,” the RKO-Radio film offering. Briefly, the plot deals with two young persons, disappointed in love, who contract a loveless marriage for the sole purpose of forgetting their unhappy romantic pasts. The situation is said to present several novel twists. Irene Dunne, Indiana’s own film star who came into prominence as a result of her work in “Cimarron, ’ has the starring role in “Consolation Marriage.” She impersonates a jilted girl who, becoming despondent and sick from loneliness, marries a comparative stranger, himself jilted, for the mere sake of consolation and companionship. Pat O’Brien, star of “The Front Page,” has the leading male role. M.vrna Loy, Matt Moore, John Halliday and Lester Vail are also in the cast. v

“OVER THE HILL.” IS NOW A TALKER “Over the Hill,” Fox special production, is the current attraction at the Apollo where it opened last night for a limited engagement, and according to reports filtering in from Hollywood it has been described as one of the finest human pictures to reach the screen since the advent of talkies. A complete modernized version of a classic of American poetry, it touches the heartstrings even of the most hardened critic. In brief, the picture is a cross-section of a growing family, it is overflowing with the full flavor of life—drama, comedy and pathos in perfect harmony of the human heart. James Dunn and Sally Eilers, who made their co-starring debut in “Bad Girl,” are seen together again in "Over the Hill,” in the roles of romantic sweethearts. Perhaps the most astounding of all, however, is the performance given by Mae Marsh, who returns to the screen after twelve years of home life and motherhood. It is said that Miss Marsh opens the true depths of a mother's heart for all to see. Henry King who has given the screen such dramatic pictures as “Stella Dallas” and “Merely Mary Ann” and who also gave us the highly amusing film. “Twenty-Three and a Half Hours Leave,” has tried to combine the pathos and comedy of his past successes, and insert both qualities in “Over the Hill." It has been intimated that especially deserving credit also must be given James Kirkwood. Olin Howland, Claire Maynard, Edward Crandall. Eula Guy, Joan Peers and Wiliam Pawley. Short subjects included on the program are “Trick Plays, ’ a football reel featuring Notre Dame players and a musical number entitled, “Box Office Blues.” Movietone News rounds out the program. 8 0 0 COLLEGE WEEK IS BEING OBSERVED With the opening activities Friday at the Circle. College week was officially announced at this theater. In celebration of this occasion, Butler, Notre Dame, Purdue. De Pauw, Franklin, Earlham and other leading colleges arc sending their glee clubs to participate in a series of presentations on the Circle stage. Each day of the week is being devoted to a different school, and as the schools invade the theater during their respective days, each one brings with them banners, pennants and school colors to change the

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Whiteside Is Booked in ‘Surf’ Great Star Will Bring a Modern Play to English’s. Walker Whiteside and his company will appear at English’s on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4 and 5, with matinee Saturday. “Surf” is the title of the star’s new and modern play, which deals with the intimate lives of three men and a woman, who are thrown into close contact by the narrow confines of the one living room in the huge stone structure. Walker Whiteside will enact the character of the light keeper, Harry Cass, a bluff, witty Irishman, a sailor of the seven seas, and a man among men. It is a far cry from such types as Wu Li Chang in “Mr. Wu,” Yuan Sing in “The Chinese Bungalow” and Prince Tamar in “The Hindu.” Surrounding the star will be found Miss Franc Hale, William Desmond, Barrie O’Daniels, Carl Vose, Lee C. Millar and others. Miss Hale was last seen here in “The Chinese Bungalow,” and William Desmond is well known in this city by reason of his stage and screen successes. “Surf’ derives its odd name from the interminable pounding of unstable waters upon the rocky base of the lighthouse. Frank Harvey of the Fortune Theater, London, wrote and produced "Surf" a year or more ago. The theme was derived from a newspaper story of the wrecking of the S. S. Rangitiki off the coast of New Zeaalnd some years ago. theater into a colorful, representative of their alma mater. “Touchdown,” the Circle theater screen feature, takes the audience from their usual grand stand seat to the players’ bench and the dressing room. The picture tells a story that every football player has kept from his parents. The hero is not the average movie hero who dashes across the line with the winning touchdown just as the final gun goes off, but a true boy who tastes both the glory of winning and the bitterness of defeat. In the numerous football scenes appear many of the gridiron’s great of the last few years. There are five al-American players in the lineup. The story cast of “Touchdown” features Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon. Regis Toomey. Jack Oakie, Charles Starrett and J. Farrell MacDonald (Knute Rockne’s double). Norman McLeod directed the picture. nan HUSTON IS FEATURED AT OHIO Walter Huston’s most recent starring vehicle, “The Ruling Voice,” is the current attraction at the Ohio which opened Thursday for an eight day showing. Supporting roles in “The Ruling Voice” are taken by Doris Kenyon, David Manners, Loretta Young. John Halliday and Dudley Digges. Rowland V. Lee directed. A Clark and McCullough comedy, a cartoon and a news reel furnishes supplementary entertainment on the Ohio’s bill.

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When the Palace on Dec. 5 presents “The Guardsman" as a movie made from the stage play, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne will have their original roles.

AMUSEMENTS

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1— Richard Arlen as he appears in “Touchdown,” now the chief screen event at the Circle. 2 Mae Marsh has a fine mother role in “Over the Hill,” now at the Apollo. 3 Walter Huston has the lead in “The Ruling Voice,” now on the Ohio . screen.

1— Yvonne Gall, soprano, will appear in concert at English’s Sunday afternoon under the management of Mrs. Nancy Martens. 2 Larry Rich tops the new bill opening today at the Lyric theater. 3 Ruth Roland heads the Fanchon and Marco unit now at the Indiana.

New Policy Starts on the Roof An Old-Fashioned Dance Night Is Announced by Devine. Anew avenue of entertainment will be opened to residents of Indianapolis r and vicinity when the Indiana roof starting next Thursday, Dec. 3, introduces an “old-fash-ioned” dance as a weekly feature. Under the new policy, modern dancing will be abolished every Thursday. Instead of the usual modern dance orchestra, there will be a string band furnishing oldfashioned dance tunes. Tom Devine, manager of the roof, feels confident this type of dancing will appeal to the younger generation, since it will offer them a change. Tuesday night, under the new ballroom schedule, will replace Thursday as “Ladies Free Night.” Wednesday and Friday will continue as “waltz” and “collegiate nights. Saturday, also, will continue under the present policy which makes it “Mardi Gras Night.” Mary Lou, the “personality girl,” Slim Green, colored dancer, and Dick Snyder's Detroiters all continue behind the roof's footlights for the coming week. All Are Now Happy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have adjusted the Clark Gable contract to the satisfaction of all concerned. There were no demands or unpleasantness on the part of either party to the ticket. MGM realized his old agreement did not measure up to his present importance and granted the increase.

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THE December exhibits at the John Herron Art institute, which open Sunday, will close an interesting year for the local museum, according to information brought to me. Four exhibits have been scheduled and range from water colors to silhouettes. Os most importance is the Petites Tuilieries exhibition of thirty-five oils and water colors assembled from the annual exposition des Tuilieiies, one of the traveling exhibitions of the College Art Association, which is representative of the most interesting work of the French artists of today.

The selection of these paintings is made by the association, assisted by M. Louis Hautecoeur, director of the Luxembourg museum; M. Francois Monod, director of the National museum, and M. Louis Reau, president of the Society of the History of French Art. Eugene Higgins’ etchings will also be on display in December. Higgins is noted for his powerfully simple etchings and they alone are well worth a special trip to the museum. Higgins was veritably the poor, struggling, garret-confined painter during his student days in the Latin Quarter in Paris. He painted poignant pictures of beggars and miserables because h was one of them, and his canvases are touched with a pathos that only a great artist can achieve. With, many of his paintings hung in Paris galleries, Higgins, a native of Kansas City, has returned to this country to become as famous on this side of the Atlantic as he is abroad. From the Art News criticism of Higgins’ work, one learns that his etchings are “very similar in treatment to that of his oil paintings. Like the canvases, the plates are very dark, the effect being achieved largely by chiaroscuro. Like the canvases, too, the prints smell

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4 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper as they appear in “The Champ,” opening today at the Palace. 5 John Mack Brown plays the lead in “Lasca of the Rio Grande,” now on the screen at the Lyric. 6 Irene Dunne is prominent in the cast of “Consolation Marriage,” now at the Indiana.

4 Charlie Davis has returned to the Indiana as a master of ceremonies and conductor of the orchestra. 5 Elsie French will be seen as Mrs. Peachum in “The Beggar’s Opera,” at English’s Monday night.

strongly of potatoes and peet. About even the smallest of the prints th?re is a monumental quality which should appeal to all who cherish the Millet tradition.” A group of twenty-five water colors by Charles Knapp and an ex-

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hibition of silhouettes by Baroness V. May dell, noted Russian silhouette artist, complete the December attractions. A twilight tea and musicale is being given this afternoon at the Art Institute for the baroness. The next story hour for children at the art institute will be neld Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock when Miss Mary Margaret Miller will tell the story of “Deliverance Dyer’s Journey.” Continuing the second series of illustrated talks on art before members of the Art Association of Indianapolis, Wilbur De Peat, speaking on important periods of sculpture will address the membership on “A Goddess of Melos,” Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock. Another activity of the week is the regular weekly sketch class for business people on Wednesday eveIning at 7:30 p. m.

AMUSEMENTS

Larry Rich, With a Company of Thirty Entertainers, Tops New Bill Opening Today at the Lyric Theater for a Week’s Engagement. YVONNE GALL, leading soprano of the Paris Opera and the OperaComique, will make her first Indianapolis appearance Sunday afternon at 3 o’clock at English's. Mile. Gall is being brought here as one of the Sunday afternoon attractions of the Nancy Martens series. She is associated with the opera at Ravinia, Illinois, in the summer and has scored at the La Scala in Milan, the Colon theater in Buenos Aires, in Bucharest. Rumania and other European musical centers. Her program Sunday consists of six groups with many of the numbers in French. Olga Sander will be at the piano.

Mile. Gall's program is as follows: i "Sones d' lohisenie en Tauride" i XVIII Century i Gluck “Aria de Venus ‘Revenez Amour." "Thesee' Lulll Se Plorindo e Fedele" (XVIII Centurv) Scarlatti “I’ll Sail Unon the Doe Star" from the "Fools Preferment" Act IV Purcell n • Phvdile” (Poem bv Jean Lahor) Henri Duparc "Claire De Lune (Poem bv Paul Verlaine i Gabriel Faure "Chant de Nourrice" Darius Milhand "Mandoline" (Poem of bv Paul Ver-) lainet Claude Debussy 111 "Thistle Down" ‘Poem bv Heldn Coale Crewi Carl Beecher ' O That It Were So!" 'Poem bv Walter Savaee Landom Frank Bridge The Sea Shell" (Poem bv Amv Lowell Carl Fnttel "The Little Shepherd’s Song" (Poem bv Wm. A. Percv) Wintter Watts IV „ , 'Le Moulin” (Poem bv Edgar Gulmandi Gabriel "Cina Melodies Populates Grecoues Maurice Ravel "La re veil de la Mariee." “La has vers realise." “Quel galant.” . , .. „ “Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisaues. "Tout Gai!” _ , . , "PrintemDs Noveau" P au * Vidal nan RICH HEADS BILL AT LYRIC Another notable array of screen and stage entertainment, which promises to be one of the highlights of the seson, has been booked for the Lyric this week, according to the management. •Larry Rich, with a unit show of some thirty entertainers, headlines the stage bill of six feature RKO vaudeville acts. As the current screen feature Jack Mack Brown is co-starred with Dorothy Burgess in a first-run Universal feature picture, "Lasca of the Rio Grande.” Forty-five minutes to one hour of fast-moving furious stage entertainment is offered by Larry Rich, who highly resembles the famous band master, Paul Whiteman. With Larry Rich are a chorus of dancing girls, a stage band of twenty pieces and several other individual artists. Featured in this company are Cheri, a “blues” singer; Murray Wood, who is known as the “vest pocket edition” of song. "A Few Minutes With Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer,” featuring Hughie O’Donnell, Lorraine Furen and Bob Leslie; also prominent are Alice Adaire and Phil Rich in a comedy, singing and dancing revue. Included on the stage bill with Larry Rich, are five other RKO vaudeville acts. “Eight Feet of Rhythm” are controlled by a quartette of dancers, two boys and two girls, who do a specialty in tap dancing, concluding with a number in which all four attempt to outdo each other resulting in all eight feet moving furiously and in perfect rhythm. Furman, Sharkey and Lorraine are a singing combination, who offer a harmony singing act heavily bedecked with comedy. As the concluding act, Maximo, the “Wizard of the Wire,” presents a series of comedy gyrations, hand to hand balancing, and acrobatic stunts. n n n BOOKED FOR ONE PERFORMANCE “The Beggar’s Opera” which was presented for the first time over two

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Walker Whiteside

Walker Whiteside, a wellknown stage star, comes to English’s Friday and Saturday in his new play, “Surf.”

hundred years age and is now making its sixth American tour will be the off ering at English’s opera house on Monday, Nov. 30. It has been referred to as a string of tuneful melodies, some sixty all told, that are introduced as essential parts of the story. These airs, centuries old, have been selected from English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh sources for the most part and are of the kind that will be forever popular. The play-as first done was edited by the late Arnoldl Bennett and toned down to some extent as our forefathers in the days of Queen Bess and Georges were accustomed to rather free use of decidedly broad monosyllables, but the spirit of the play is not lessened.

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