Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1932 — Page 6

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MARTENS WILL PRESENT ITURBI AND KREUTZBERG HERE

Ike Rose’s Fifteen Royal Midgets Top New Show Opening Today at the Lyric—‘Just Married’ Is New Berkell Bill Opening at Keith’s Sunday. TNDIANAPOLIS wUI be entertained next week by four leaders In the x musical and dance world. On Moday night the Indianapolis Maennerchor will present Georges Enesco, violinist, in recital at the Academy or Music. On Wednesday night at Caleb Mills hall the Civic Music Series will present the St. Louis Symphony, with Vladimir Golschmann conducting. On Thursday night at English’s, Mrs. Nancy Martens will present lor the first time in this city Jose Iturbi, famed Spanish pianist. „ 9P , next Sunday afternoon at English’s, Mrs. Martens will present Harold Kreutzberg and his dancers in a recital. nrv-i/i t n _ _

The St. Louis Symphony on Wednesday night at Caleb Mills hall will open with the overture to the opera, “Russian and Ludmills,’’ by Glinka. The program will include Franck’s “Symphony in D Minor,” Debussy’s Nocturnes and Wagner’s overture to the opera, “Tannhauser.” On Thursday night at English’s, Iturbi will play a program made up of the works of Bach, Schuman Chopin and Liszt. Chopin’s “Sonata in B minor, Opus 58,” will be one of the high lights of the recital. On Sunday afternoon at English’s, Kreutzberg will give a program made up of new dances, but his program will include “Angel of Anunciation,” which was a triumph on his former program here. nun MIDGETS TOP THE BILL AT LYRIC Three of the six RKO vaudeville attractions comprising the stage show opening at the Lyric today are heralded as headliner acts. They are Ike Roee’s Fifteen Royal Midgets; Sidney Page and comedians, and Lillian Bernard and Flo Henrie. Universal’s new first run production, “Nice Women,” co-starring Sidney Fox and Frances Dee, is the major screen event. Rose’s Royal Midgets arc considered to be one of the outstanding Lilliputian acts in vaudeville. These fifteen talented tiny people present what is termed an entire show in itself. There are some twelve specialty acts and more than fifteen scenes in their big little revue. Songs, dances, music, acrobatics and comedy repartee are featured by the tiny actors and actresses. The oldest of the group is 44 years and the heaviest weight sixty-eight pounds. There are nine miniature ladies and six little men. Mr. and Mrs. Marcel are the other couple of the troupe. They are said to have a son about 16 years old who is normal, and he towers fully two feet above the heads of his parents. Marcell performs a juggling act, as- ! sisted by his wife. Sidney Page, well-known variety comedian, is the second featured act. He announces that he is “Jest Foolin’ Around” and his foolin’ is re- i ported to create the best sort of spontaneous fun. Marie, Peggy Earle, and A1 Ricker are assistants to Page in his foolery. The third important feature of the bill, Lillian Bernard and Flo Henrie, are popular radio harmony singers. Three other RKO Vaudeville acts augment the program of stage entertainment above mentioned. Many amusing domestic complications, are reported to enliven the story of “Nice Women,” Universal’s comedy drama which costars two prominent Hollywood stars, Sidney Fox and Frances Qee.

"JUST MARRIED” TO OPEN SUNDAY In the lightest mood of the season thus far, the Berkell Players will cavort through “Just Married,” that hilarious farce-comedy from the pen of Anne Nichols, author of “Abie’s Irish Rose,” and Adelaide Matthews. The action of the play takes place on the pier of a steamship company in Bordeaux, Prance, and on the steamer Lafayette. There are several oddly assorted couples on board, from those grown gray in matrimony to various sets of honeymooners, willing and unwilling. . During the first night out these couples find their courses of life intertwining in a sort of “grand-hotel-at-sea’’ fashion. One of the passengers is a young man who is rather the worse for a wedding dinner—or rather, the drinks that accompany it. By mistake he is assigned to share the stateroom of a pretty girl who is aboard with her chaperons and fiance. Naturally, something must be done about the fiance for the happy outcome which is the inalienable right of every good farce. So a young French girl, blessed v/ith all the vitality and perseverance of her race, steps into the scene and takes the fiance off the young girl’s hands. But not before practically every one on board ship is suspected of dark doings to separate the various honeymooners. "Just Married” ran for two solid years in New York. Philip Brandon, Margery Williams and the entire Berkell cast will be present in “Just Married,” starting Sunday night at Keith’s.

Booked Here

The Indiana chapter of the American Guild of Organists has secured Dr. Sigfrid Karg-Elert, famous organist composer from the Leipzig conservatory, for an organ recital on Monday evening, March 7, at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. This is Dr. Karg-Elert’s first visit to this country. The program which he will play will be most interesting, consisting of new compositions written especially for the American tour, and works •'f the old masters, transcribed for the organ by Dr. Karg-Elert. Cheston L. Heath, choirmaster at Christ church, is the dean of the Indiana chapter. The committee completing arrangements for the recital Includes Mrs. Ovid H. Dunn, chairman; Mrs. Frank T. Edenharter, Mrs. Howard L. Clippinger and Paul R. Matthews. Ready for Work Will Rogers, recently arrived in New York from his recent trip to the scene* of the Sino-Japanese conflict, and the international peace conference in Geneva, will soon be Hollywood bound. He is scheduled to begin work immediately upon arrival in Hollywood on his new For comedy, “Down to Earth.”

The Waltz Featured at Lyric Mushrush Plans Parties in Ballroom Next Week. Erroll Mushrush, manager of the Lyric ballroom, announces a week of the old-fashioned waltz starting tonight. The usual Whoopee parties are in effect tonight and Sunday night. The American waltz will be featured on Monday night in addition to the Ford Frolic which has been a regular Monday event. Tuesday night, the Merry Widow Waltz will be the special feature during which the eliminations of the City Wide Championship Contest are to be made. Free dance instructions are given between 7:30 and 8:30 in the ballroom by Mushrush and his staff of instructors. Ladies will have their night on Wednesday. The Rye Waltz will be the event on this evening. A Leap Year Party is scheduled for Thursday night. Each lady patron of the ballroom will be permitted to bring a gentleman friend as her guest. A Flat-Foot Waltz contest will also be held. On Friday night an Old Fashion Round Waltz event is announced. Hal Bailey and his Collegians continue as the music makers in the Lyric ballroom.

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Winston Churchill

On next Saturday night at the Murat, the Indiana Council on International Relations will present the Rt. Hon. Winston spencer Churchill, who will speak on “The Destiny of the EnglishSpeaking People.”

At Circle

The screen version of Rupert Hughes’ well-known novel, “No One Man,” is currently showing as the main film attraction at the Circle. This picture is interpreted by a cast of Paramount featured players, among whom are Carole Lombard, Paul Lukas, Ricardo Cortez, Juliette Compton and George Barbier. Although the underlying thought in “No One Man” follows the purport of the original Rupert Hughes novel, that “no one man is sufficient to satisfy and occupy the heart of any woman,” there is satisfaction for male as well as female members of the audience, for in conclusion Nep, the insatiable huntress, appears to have been tamed, for the duration of the climax, at least. Entertainment thoroughly adult, timely and observing is presented in this story of a search for an answer to the problem that is sending increasing numbers to the divorce court every year. Lloyd Corrigan, director, has enhanced the plot with luxurious settings in New York City and Palm Beach. The role of Nep, the love dictator of “No One Man,” is portrayed by the vivacious Miss Lombard. This picture is her first production in several months, following her marriage with William Powell A special George Washington bicentennial short film, “The Man and the Capitol”; a Dessa Byrd organ program; a Roscoe Ates comedy, ‘“Never the Twins Shall Meet,” and a Paramount sound news reel make up the Circle’s added entertainment bill. Here Is Real Realism A secret tunnel through which Joaquin Murietta, famous California bandit, eluded posses of pursuers more than half a century ago is the scene of exciting chases and escapes in RKO-Pathe’s new western mystery-thriller, starring Tom Keene. Two New Ones In Cast Doris Kenyon and Ralph Bellamy are the newest additions to the cast of “Young America,” wnich shortly | enters production at Movietone City i under the direction of Prank Borzage. Others assigned to prominent ! roles are Spencer Tracy, Beryl Mercer, Tommy Conlin and Dawn O’Day. Real Names in Cast New assignments to the cast of “The Trial of Vivienne Ware,” the radio mystery drama now in production, include the names of Joan Bennett, Allan Dinehart, ZaSu Pitts, Herbert Mundin, William Pawley ami; Nora Lane.

1 — Jose Iturbi, famous Spanish pianist, will appear in recital at Engr lish’s Thursday night as a Nancy Martens booking. 2 Virginia Stevens will be in the cast of “Just Married” when it opens Sunday night at Keith’s.

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AS far as road shows are concerned at English’s, only two loom up as visitors in the next few weeks. Starting March 7 and continuing for three days, Charles Purcell and Vivial Siegel will appear in a revival of “The Chocolate Soldier,” which is now doing good business in Chicago.

On March 17 for three days, Ethel Barrymore will bo seen at English’s in “The School for Scandal/' in which she will have the acting services of McKay Morris, long a favorite with the Stuart Walker audiences here. I have every reason to believe that Indianapolis will be included in the tour of “Mourning Becomes Electra,’’ the new Eugene O’Neill triology which starts at 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon. Tentative steps have been taken to bring this latest work of O’Neill to English’s, and I most sincerely hope we have a chance to see it. - nun Milton Byron of the Berkell Players tells me that when things start happening to actors, it all happens at once. On the closing night of “In Old Kentucky,” Miss Margery Williams seriously cut her hand in making the jump over the gorge. On the opening night of “The Other Wife,” Philip Brandon broke a tooth off in attempting to bite a cigar which he uses in the second act. He had to suffer with that until the next morning. Both Bob Fay and William Pollard have felt the ill effects of bad colds. And to cap it all off, Henry Burton, head of the publicity department and associated with Berkell in the management, has been seriously ill at his home for several days at the first of the week. And Mildred Hastings took a bad fall at a rehearsal. On next Friday and Saturday, the Channing Club of. All Souls Unitarian church will present its annual show, “Gypsy Bride,” at the Civic theater. - u As the third offering of the 193132 season, the Sutherland Players have scheduled “The Little Princess,” the dramatization by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett of the much-loved story of Sara Crewe, which will be presented at the Sutherland Presbyterian church, Twen-ty-eighth and Bellefontaine streets, Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 22 and 23 at 8:15 p. m. The play is based on the story of Sara Crewe (the Little Princess), who comes to the elite boarding school of Miss Minchin as the most desirable pupil, for her father had gained in India an enormous fortune. * This play gives one a satisfying balance of wistfulness, make-be-lieve, humor and charm and will delight the children as well as the “grown-up children.” Norman Green, the director, has selected the following cast: La Vore Gibson as Sara Crewe, Bernice Young, Emily Yucknat, Helen and Mary Ellen Widdop, Margaret Kendall, Ruth Brown, Dot Lackey, Ralph and Betty Berrie, Eleanor Oakes, Delores Adams, Sue Tezzman, Alvin and Betty Schellschmidt, Katherine Sebastian, Robert Obberreich, Russell Young,

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Richard and Martha Robbins, John Farley, Paul Fledderjohn, Lilly Mae Oolay, Delores Adams, Barbara Hoppas, Elizabeth McClure, Mary Whitesides, Betty Hamilton and Norman Green. Emily Yucknat plays the part of Becky. * u “I’ll Leave It to You,” a light comedy by Noel Coward, is to be the second special production of the Civic theater season and will open at the Playhouse next Monday night. Performances are scheduled through Wednesday of next week in keeping with the theater’s policy of running the special productions only half as long as the regular bills., “I’ll Leave It to You” uses a larger number of the younger players than any recent offering. There are six juveniles of from college age to just after, while three older people complete the cast which is as follows: Mrs. Dermott... .Elizabeth Bogert Schofield Oliver Dan MaeDuffee Evangeline .....Mary Louise Minnlck Sylvia Jane Sky Bobbie David Clarke Joyce Helene Petri Daniel Davis Walter Jackscn Mr3. Crombie Mrs. James Kalieen Faith Crombie Katherine Mayer In announcing “I’ll Leave It to You” Mac Keen pointed out that it was of interest as being the earliest successful work of one of the most renowned present day playwrights. While it may seem trivial as compared to “Private Lives,” it is nevertheless amusing and should be interesting to those .who care to analyze the progress and development of the author.

AMUSEMENTS The Indiana Council on International Relations Presents The Outstanding Event in Years —Only Appearance in Indiana A Timely Lecture By WINSTON CHURCHILL Member British Parliament “Stormy Petrel of England” “Destiny of EnglishSpeaking Peoples” One Night Only, 8:30 SATURDAY, FEB. Zl MAIL ORDERS NOW— Send selfaddressed, stamped envelope. S3, $2.50, $2, $1.50, sl. Checks payable to Murat Theater. Box office opens Feb. 23d. TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOCT THIS LECTURE by England'* most famous statesman.

—MARTENS CONCERTS, Inc. • ■ ' NEXT THURSDAY EVE., 8:30 O’CLOCK—ENGLISH FIRST INDIANA- IIIHTW 141 WORLD FAMOUS APPEARANCE RJg JE%DA PIANIST IturM Is an Enchanter, a Superb Musician—Gilman, New Tork Herald Tribute. SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FED. 28—3 O'CLOCK KREUTZBERG & CO. DANCING SENSATION OF THE AGE. ORLY APPEARANCE IN INDIANA THIS SEASON iff Reqnes t—“ Angel of Annunciation on progrnm MOnLaV kARCfa f6TsTeenth INDIAN APOUS PONSELLE DEBUT • WORLD'S GREATEST DRAMATIC SOPRANO 9 _ ALL SEATS NOW SELLING. LI. BSCI Mail and Telephone Orders Given Prompt Attention. Prices, SI.OO, J 1.50, $2.00, $3.30, $3.00. MARTENS TICKET OFFICE, 33 Monument Circle,

3 Harald Kreutzberg and his dancers will be at English’s Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28, as a Martens attraction. 4 Here are two of the fifteen midgets that Ike Rose presents at the Lyric, starting today.

1— Leila Hyams has one of the leads in “Freaks,” which opens today at the Palace. 2 Carole Lombard is one of the beauties in “No One Man,” now at the Circle. 3 Sidney Fox is in the cast of “Nice Women,” opening today at the Lyric. 4 Marlene Dietrich is the big shot in “Shanghai Express,” now on the screen at the Indiana. 5 Joan Bennett returns to the talking screen following her accident in “She Wanted a Millionaire,” now at the Apollo.

Grand Ball to Be Held Tonight Indiana Roof to Be Scene of American Legion Dance. A premature observance of the national bicentennial celebration will be held in the Indiana Roof ballroom tonight, when the American legion will sponsor a military ball to be open to the public. The ball will open with a grand march, starting at 9 p. m., in which members of the legion will participate in full dress, led by a local legion post commander The Roof’s regular Saturday Mardi Gras program, which calls for balloon, serpentine and qonfetti showers, will be followed A1 sky and his musical stars, the Roof’s current musical feature, will offer novelty entertainment numAMUSEMENTS

ENGLISH THEATER HOLDING IT OVER TODAY and TOMORROW So Thousands May Yet See CLARENCE 1' AD ONLY Remember Sunday Is Last Day

bers in addition to their dance program. Broderick and Marietta will headline a floor show in which they will do a minuet, surrounded by the Broderick ballet. Mary Balsley, a blues singer who has been appearing in the ballroom during the last two weeks, will also fill a spot on tonight’s program. Arrangements have been completed for the Sunnyside Guild’s annual charity ball, and it will be given on the Indiana Roof next Monday evening. Jack Tilson and his orchestra, featured in the ballroom a few weeks ago, have been engaged to furnish music for the charity dance.

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‘Freaks/ a Story of Sideshow Life, With Wallace Ford: and Leila Hyams in the Leading Roles, Opens Today for the Week at the Palace.

SIDESHOW and circus slang, a language all its own, and practically unknown to the outside world, takes its place along with stage directions in “Freaks,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's sensational drama of sideshow life, opening today at Loew’s Palace. * Aside from the regular screen players in the bizarre mystery drama which was suggested by the Tod Robbins story, “Spurs,"' freaks from sideshows all over America played principal roles, and the settings and “props,” actual circus material, were handled by circus people. Tod Browning, who directs the picture, is himself a former circus performer, and once was a “barker” in a sideshow, as was Harry Shar-

rock, his production manager. So language of the circus is prevalent. Any wild animal in circus parlance is a “cat” —and elephant, regardless of sex, a “bull.” The canvas man is a “razor-back.” A brokendown acrobat is a “kinker.” There are a thousand other such terms. “Freaks” is a bizarre story of a sinister plot within the canvas walls of a circus sideshow. Amid amazing details is much comedy, a sensational dramatic climax, and a strange revenge. More fantastic than “Dracula,” it is even more dramatic than “The Unholy Three,” two former Browning creations hailed as the last word in the weird and unusual on the screen. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Bpclanova and Rosco Ates head the cast which also includes Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Rose Dione, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Edward Brophy and Mat McHugh, as well as a remarkable collection of freaks recruited from sideshows all over the country. For the laugh side of the program, the Palace will present Stan Laurel and his jovial pal, Oliver Hardy, in their newest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy riot, “Helpmates,” in which the troublesome Stan attempts to assist his equally troublesome friend Oliver out of their many difficulties. Also on the bill will be the latest Flip the Frog cartoon comic, “Fire, Fire,” the Hearst Metrotone News and a novelty subject entitled the “Mystery of Marriage.” mam JOAN BENNETT RETURNS TO SCREEN Joan Bennett’s return to the screen after a forced retirement of six months following her serious accident of last summer Is in the nature of a celebration at the Apollo where “She Wanted a Millionaire,” the Fox picture in which she was working when thrown from a horse, appears as the current attraction. At the time of the accident, Miss Bennett was fairly deluged with letters of sympathetic condolences and wishes for a speedy recovery from fans all over the country, which greatly allieved the painfulness of her injury and it may be of interest to these same fans to know that upon her recovery, Miss Bennett again mounted the same horse and pluckily rode him past the same hooded cameras which caused the * animal to rear tnd throw her some months before, according to reports from Hollywood. Briefly, the story of “She Wanted A Millionaire” concerns the adventures of a factory worker in a small town, the role portrayed by Miss Bennett, who enters and wins a beauty contest. This awakens her desire for luxury and after gaining

AMUSEMENTS . I I F mmnsss*. PETITE MARIE ■ UMamlßß PEGGY EARLE . AL RICKER rTTXTTn BERNARD Lim j f j o hemue HHI “Songland’s Pennant Winners’' jy.WTi karoubros. CHARLES BRUGGE Other* ftli IB “Strictly Dishonorable" . ■■ with FRANCES DEE—CARMEL METERS H See this amazingly amusing niory of two modern j WB

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it she discovers that it is a poor substitute for love.

The photoplay is said to have been produced on a lavish scale and’r shows many internationally acclaimed beauties in the beauty contest sequences. There is also reported to be an elaborate display of women’s fashions which are worn"' by Miss Bennett. The supporting cast includes Una Merkel. James Kirkwood and Spencer Tracy. John- - Blystone directed from an original story by Sonya Levein. Short sub- „ jects round out the program. ana “SHANGHAI EXPRESS” NOW AT THE INDIANA While interest in the Chinese ' situation is at its height, the Indiana theater is now presenting sots a special extended nine-day engagement of “Shanghai Express,” a talking screen drama of war-torn China, with Marlene Dietrich in the starring role. The story, which is described as most timely, deals with a hetero-.. geneous collection of characters aboard the fast express train be-, tween Peiping and Shanghai. Much of the action is concerned with the desperate attempt made to run the train through the gunfire between these two cities. The film ends with the arrival in Shanghai of the express train and its • passengers.. following adventures both harrowing and humorous, romantic and pathetic. Marlene Dietrich is a central fig-'! ure among the characters in “Shanghai Express.” A distinguished cast also includes Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette, LouisS ' Closser Hale and Gustav von Seyf**' feritz. The plot itself is based on recent actual experiences of its author, Harry Hervey, in the locale of the picture. The production has just been completed, and its release was rushed on account of" the present-day interest in the Orient. Miss Dietrich again is under the 1 "' direction of Josef von Sternberg,,., who directed her previous talking film hits—“ The Blue Angel,” “Morocco’ ’and “Dishonored.” An organ solo dedicated to the bicentennial celebration in honor of George Washington is a feature presented by Lester Huff on thte . surrounding program at the In* v ' diana theater. News reel views, which include a sequence featm> ing Kate Smith of radio fame, and also short comedy films are addi- _ tionat program items.