Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1932 Edition 02 — Page 6
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LORETTA YOUNG HAS LEAD IN ‘PLAY GIRL’ AT THE APOLLO
Constance Bennett, in ‘Lady With a Past/ Has the Services of Ben Lyon, David Manners and Others on the Talking Screen at the Indiana. “jpLAY GIRL.’’ Warner Brothers’ production adapted from an origX inal story by Maurine Watkins, who will be remembered for her Play ••Chicago,” is showing currently at the Apollo, with Loretta Young appearing in the leading feminine role. The photoplay has been described by the Warner production department as one having the same human appeal as Vina Delmar’s "Bad Girl" In "Play Girl,” Miss Yeung plays the part of Buster, a modern young girl who has carefully planned her business career and financial independence, without including marriage or motherhood. She forgets them all when she meets Wallie, a handsome young Lo-
thario, who promptly steals her heart. They marry and for a time Buster revels in the renuncation of her hopes and submerges her former ambitions in her love for her husband. But Wallie turns out to be a ne'er-do-well, lovable yet undependable, earning his precarious living by gambling. Hardly is the honeymoon over when Buster discovers his nefarious occupation. Her great trust in him naturally lessens as he makes and breaks promises to work and to refrain from gambling. A bitter quarrel sends Wallie to a distant city without Buster. Alone, with dwindling funds and expecting a baby, she resorts to his practice by placing her last cent on a horse because its name was Baby Mine. At this point an interesting climax is reached in the film that is thought to leave the spectator rather overwhelmed with joy. The comedy situations are handled by Winnie Lightner and Guy Kibbe in roles of unappreciated sweethearts. Norman Foster, Indiana boy, is seen as the young husband. Other important roles are handled by Dorothy Burgess, James Ellison, Polly Walters and Mae Madison. Ray Enright directed. Short subjects round out the program. * * a “THE WISER SEX” NOW AT CIRCLE Drama of the thoroughly modern type is "The Wiser Sex,” Paramount’s talking edition of Clyde Fitch's play, “Her Confessions,” which is the center of attraction of the Circle theater’s current film bill. Claudette Colbert, sometimes referred to as the “most unscandalized” beauty of the films, and well-remembered for her performances in “Manslaughter,” ’ “Secrets of a Secretary,” and “The Smiling Lieutenant,” is featured in this new picture offering with Melvyn Douglas, a young stage thespian who made his photoplay debut with Gloria Swanson in "Tonight or Never.” Others in the cast include Lilian Tashman, William Boyd, Effie Shannon, Ross Alexander, Franchot Tone, and Douglas Dumbrille. The direction is by Berthold Viertel. "The Wiser Sex” brings Miss Colbert to the screen as a lady of luxurious means, who gives up an European play tour to come to the rescue of Douglas. Douglas, who neglects his love duties to wash up an underworld blot on his city, has been prettily framed into a murder charge through the untender gestures of Boyd and Miss Tashman, a former showgirl friend. Action, displayed in drama and thrills, is carried through the climax, in which Miss Colbert, obviously doomed for her “last ride,” neatly turns the tables on the "brains” of the racketeer element. Comedy predominates the Circle’s short subject program, with an organ solo and a news reel adding variety to the entertainment. I nun COMEDY HOLDS FORTH AT PALACE Comedy week, for that is what it may rightfully be termed, is holding forth at Loews Palace, and for this rush of hilarity, Loew’s is offering “The Passionate Plumber” with Buster Keaton, Jimmy "Schnozzle” Durante and Polly Moran, and the latest Laurel and Hardy comedy, “Any Old Port.” Keaton has the role of the awkward plumber, Elmer Tuttle, who becomes involved in the romantic affairs of the tempestuous Patricia Alden, when he calls at her apartment to repair a leaky bathroom fixture. Circumstances bring about a unique agreement in which the plumber binds himself to prevent Patricia from seeing Tony, a handsome gigolo to whom she is drawn against her better judgment for she believes him to be married to a Spanish vixen named Nina. The ingenuity by which the distraught Patricia attempts to break her agreement and the equal cleverness with which Elmer makes her live up to it, is said to result in a comedy every reel of which boasts a side-splitting situation. Some of Elmer's most amusing blunders include an episode in which he gets a surprise shower bath, his appearance clad only in a towel and consequent interruption of a love scene between Patricia and Tony, his madcap duel with Tony and his fake suicide stunt by which he gains admittance into an exclusive gambling casino, only to start a riot. In “Any Old Port,” Laurel and Hardy portray roles of a pair of salt sea tars, whose difficulties start with their attempt to break up a wedding between a rough and tough lad and a timid girl. Other novelties, comprising the balance of the program, include a Silly Symphony cartoon, the latest issue of the Hearst Metrotone News and visions of New York as it is today. u u n CONSTANCE BENNETT IS STAR AT INDIANA Constance Bennett’s new film for RKO Pathe, "Lady With a Past,” opened Friday as the headlining attraction at the Indiana. For the first time in a considerable period, Miss Bennett is not cast as a poor working girl or an erring sister who has fallen and
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Biagini Returns to the Roof / Indiana Ballroom Books Many Well-Known Orchestras. Henry Biagini and his orchestra, the Jean Goldkette unit featured in the Indiana Roof ballroom during the first week of its 1931 fall season, returns to the Roof tonight for a one week stay. They come from the Plaza hotel, San Antonio, Tex., where they have been featured during the south’s winter social season. Since leaving the Roof, the orchestra has acquired a vocalist, Hubert Monroe by name. Munroe has what radio fans classify a “Bing Crosby” voice. After Biagini and his orchestra close their engagement in the ballroom next Friday evening they will go east. They will be replaced in the ballroom by another Jean Goldkette unit, the former Studebaker Champion orchestra. Josef Cherniavsky and his Sympho-Syncopators, WLW radio feature now appearing in the Graystone ballroom, Cincinnati, will make a one night appearance on the Roof Wednesday, March 30. Stone Is Booked at English’s ‘Smiling Faces’ Will Play Two Days in This City. Fred Stone will come to English’s for two days, Tuesday and Wednesday. The name of the ever popular Stone’s latest extravaganza is “Smiling Faces.” Foremost in featuring, next to Stone, is his own daughter, Paula Stone. The book of “Smiling Faces” was written by Harry Clarxe, and concerns the fortunes of a motion picture director who is “shooting” a picture of “A- Midsummer Night’s Dream,” according to ideas of his own, and from a scenario that Shakespeare himself could not be expected to recognize. This director, Monument Spleen, is depicted, of course, by Stone, and the star has devised an entirely new lay-out of tricks and stunts in the “typical Stone” mood and manner. Besides Paula Stone, the cast includes Roy Royston, Lotti Loder, Billy Taylor, Doris Patston, Hope Emerson, Isabel O’Madigan, Adora Andrews, Eddie Garvie and Boyd Davis. Included in this production is also a group of Albertina Rasch Dancers. The song-hits were composed by Harry Revel to pert lyrics by Mack Gordon. • Baseball Team Reorganized Buster Keaton’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer baseball team, which suspended operations about a year ago, has been reorganized. Keaton got it together again to play Joe E. Brown’s team for a Los Angeles Olympic games benefit and now plans a full schedule of summer baseball. been redeemed by love. She is cast as a wealthy member of a fashionable social set and is reported to be thoroughly convincing, as well as altogether lovely in the part. One big advantage of the new characterization, which all feminine fans will appreciate, is the opportunity it affords the star of wearing beautiful, modish costumes from the first scene to the last. Based upon Harriet Henry’s latest novel, “Lady With a Past” tells the very human story of a love-hungry girl who can not attract men because she is shyer and more serious than the other beauties in her social set. When she sees the most eligible males, including the man she has marked for her own, flock about an obvious siren who was once suspected of having murdered her husband, she is about ready to give up. A trick of circumstances puts her in Paris, and there, under the tutelage of a gay gigolo, she blossoms Into a real charmer and through no fault of her own acquires a "past,” which rivals that of the suspected husband-poisoner. Supporting Miss Bennett are Ben Lyon, David Manners, Mema Kennedy, Don Alvarado, Blanche Frederici, and ohers equally as important. Selected short reels and an organ program furnish added entertainment on the Indiana’s current bill.
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1— Fred Stone will come to English’s for two days starting Tuesday, March 29, in “Smiling Faces,” anew musical show. 2 Ted Lewis and his band with extra artists has been booked, at the Indiana, starting Friday, March 25.
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1— Buster Keaton is being all dolled up by Jimmy Durante in “The Passionate Plumber,” now at the Palace. 2 Winnie Lightner seems to be up to some sly trick as she smiles at her victim in “Play Girl,” now at the Apollo. 3 Slim Summerville becomes a very unexpected “father” in “The
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- Henry Biagini The dance orchestra which comes to the Indiana Roof ballroom tonight, under the direction of Henry Biagini, known to his friends and dance fans as “Hank,” is the same Jean Goldkette unit which opened the Roof’s 1931 fall season last September.
New Events at Conservatory
On Wednesday, March 23, at 8:15 p. m., the advanced students of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will give a recital at the Odeon. Hayden Frye, pupil of Bomar Cramer, will play the first movement of Beethoven’s No. 3 Sonata, Opus 2. Beatrice Hatton, pupil of Donn Watson, will play the allegro' movement from De Beriot’s ninth violin concerto. Lucille Wagner, pupil of Earle Howe Jones, will play Rubinstein’s “Kamenoi-Ostrow.” Ferrell Scott will sing “Spirit Flower,” by Campbell-Tipton, and “The Cross,” by Harriet Ware. Scott is a pupil of Fred Jefry. Norma Ruginstein, pupil of Marie Zorn, will give “Rondo Capricioso,“ by Mendelssohn. Mary Martha Jones and Lucille Wagner will play “La Sevillane,” for two pianos by Chaminade, and a string trio of Valkman will be given by Violet Albers, violin; Stanley Norris, cello, and Lavon Patrick, piano. Saturday afternoon, March 26, the monthly studio recital will be given in the Delaware street unit of the conservatory, when the following pupils will appear on the program: Elizabeth Ann Schmidt. Brooks Walters. Betty Laven. Lois Jean Ferguson. Vivian Showalter. Bernard Woerner. Betty Jane Johnson. Jean Mutz. Clifford. Scholey. Mary Lou Steele. Doris Holleman. Norma Lucile Overbay. Madeline Fauvre. Jo Ann Baver. Robert Seeger. Kathryn Wright. Kathryn Jackson. Marie Dennison. Edmund Bard. Joan Anderson. Janet Murphy. Betty Heintzelman. Florence Mary Harrison. Betty Cramer. Wilbur Hiller. Ruth Davis, Martha Louise Sanders. Joan McConnelL They are puoils of Jeanette Gardiner. Fairv Hendricks. Marie Zorn. Fanetta Brady. Imogene Pierson. George Patterson, Allie Eggleton. I Lillian Carr Greene. Leone Rickman. Grace I Dorothy Flagg. Adolph SheUschmidt, Otis Pruitt and Lucile Wagner. The conservatory string quartet, composed of Edwin Jones, Georgia Baumann, Donn Watson and Alolph Schellschmidt, with Clarence Loomis, Sam Sims, voice, and Sara ■ Elizabeth Miller, pianist, will give a program on Monday, March 21, before the Propyl* am Club in the PropylAegm at ?§£> p. m.
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THE season 1932 is the golden jubilee year of that extraordinary singer, Cantor Josef Rosenblatt, who for many years has charmed the audiences of two continents. It will soon be fifty years since the noted tenor saw the dawn break for the first time in Biala-Cierkiev in the Russia of the czars.
Josef Rosenblatt, who makes an exclusive appearance in Indianapolis, at Temple Beth El-Zedeck, Thirty-fourth and Ruckle streets, on Sunday, April 3, at 8:15 p. m., thus celebrates lour decades of song, in which he has given hundreds of sacred concerts and. conducted religious services in the four corners of the world. The great cantor has been acclaimed not only for his rare musicianship, but also for those characteristics that have stamped him as a man of principle and conviction. For during his years of activity, he has never made a single concession to Mammon, nor violated by an iota his religious convictions or the requirements of his church’s ritual. The opera has sought vainly to seduce him with stellar roles and fabulous retainers. It was ready to waive the question of makeup, the question of cutting his beard in order to draw him upon the stage in world famous works by the side of world famous artists. But his congregation came first, the tenets of his religion made prior demands upon his artistry, and Rosenblatt appeared only in such surroundings as were fitting for his sacred occupation. , a a a BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 19. -Twenty-one Indiana university co-eds and six men students have been chosen for the choruses of the Jordan River Revue, the university’s annual all-student musical comedy. Rehearsals are being held each day under the supervision of Charles Dant, Washington, director of this year’s revue. The revue will be shown here April 12-14; at Muncie, April 21 and 22, and at the English theater, Indianapolis, April 23. The co-eds’ choruses for the revue will be made up of Elizabeth Burnett, Sara Ann Matthews and Dorothy Bolen, Bloomington; Mary Chambers, Martha Llewelyn and Mary Wisehart, Newcastle; Cornelia Scheid, Vincennes; Betty Ann Brown, Anderson; Priscilla Ramsey, West Lafayette; Nidrah Dunn, Indianapolis; Mary Stewart, Ft. Wayne; Eloise Coffing, Attica; Marcella Johnson, Gary; Dora Wright and Dorothy Wright, Whiting; Helen Thomas, Connersville; Pauline Sundsmo, Ft. Wayne; Tesse Hanzeros, Gary; Betty Raub, Winona Lake; Marjorie Jones, Clayton. The men’s chorus will be made up of Marcus Purdue, Evansville; Edwin Steers, Indianapolis; Robert Morris, Peru; Gilbert Shake, Vincennes; Stanley Atkinson, Evansville, and Kenneth Lewis, Anderson. Fred Sims of Carthage, a sophomore in the university, has been
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3 Donovan Sisters and Bishop are on the new variety bill opening today at the Lyric. 4 Philip Brandon has one of the comedy leads in “Widow by Proxy,* which opens Sunday night at Keith’s.
Unexpected Father,” opening today at'the Lyric. 4 Constance Bennett wears many wonderful gowns in “Lady With a Past,” now at the Indiana. 5 Claudette Colbert is one of the important people in the cast of “The Wiser Sex,” now at the Circle.
chosen to play the leading male role in the revue. The other leads will be Charlotte Hodel, Fort Wayne; Elsinor Funk, Indianapolis; Lloyd Griffin, Bloomington; Ned LeFevre, Elkhart; Richard Bixby, Anderson; Catherine Ryall, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Robert Mayes, Bloomington. Miss Hodel is the author of the manuscript for the Revue this year. The directors staff is made up of Dant, director; William Forkner, Hartford City, business manager; Charles Binford, Indianapolis, publicity director; Margaret Morgan, Austin, dancing director. Wears Green Robert Montgomery always wears a green dressing gown between scenes at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. He keeps three of them, so that if one or two have to go to the cleaner’s, he’s never without this lounging costume. It helps relax to get off a dress coat and don a loose robe when away from the lights, he asserted. He Took Dancing Lessons Nils Aether, who has the part of a South American playboy in ’’Letty Lynton,” with Joan Crawford, took lessons for a week to dance the tango in the opening scenes of the picture. “It is the hardest job I ever did—to keep dancing Spanish style instead of Swedish,” comments the foreign screen player. Jimmy Wanted to Sing Jimmy Durante was called to “The Wet Parade” set at the Met-ro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for an added scene. He didn’t ha/e the dialogue. “Say,” he inquired of Victor Fleming, the director, “where’s the lyrics for this scene?”
l/|iIPHI WEEK COMMENCING KEITHS SUNDAY NIGHT AT 8:10 T H E AT R E WEEK NIGHTS B:IS—MATS 2:15 I ItH lI I PLAYERS <1 MARGERY WILLIAMS WPHILIP BRANDON , /■ ' IN CATHERINE CHISHOLM CLSHINU’S l| ROLLICKING COMEDY HIT % JmWWHW' A ludierous adventure in love, matrimony e K .XV.* 1 , \ and high finance guaranteed as a sure-fire m *yC \ ■ cure fur the blues, or what have you? M \ IT’S A MIRTHQI AKE OF LAUGHTER! M " \ • MATINEE WED., THUBS- SAT. \ ZVe-.K'fMvtkZl Revival of "Uncle Tou’s Cabin”
Ballroom to Select New Talent Lyric Will Present Its Dance Pupils in Stage Show. The special event of importance for the Lyric ballroom this week is a chair dance to be featured on Tuesday night. . The usual M*onday night Ford Frolic continues. Ladies are admitted free on Wednesday night. Gentlemen are admitted free on Thursday night with each lady’s' admission. The Rye Waltz again is the feature for Friday night. Hal Bailey and his orchestra are featuring several new song and dance numbers. Some 400 youngsters are enrolled in the Lyric RKO dance school, which is conducted in the ballroom every Saturday morning. Louis Stockman, Myrna Celeto and Ernestine Ewing give these instructions. A special stage revue is being planned for the first week of summer vacation, and Stockman is beginning to select talented pupils from these classes for this revue. In Cast of Big Picture Mary Carlyle, apprentice ingenue, will be seen as the flower girl in the picturization of Vicki Baum’s “Grand Hotel,” which Edmund Goulding is directing with an allstar cast.
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Two Leading Players Cast in Comedy Roles for ‘Widow by Proxy/ Berkell Attraction at Keith’s Theater for the Week, Starting Sunday Night. BEING married by proxy is no new thing—particularly in Europe. The young man who acts not only as best man but as bridegroom for his friend, when said friend is called away on a business trip or something of the sort, is merely accommodating—not crazy. But being widowed by proxy is slightly different. The' situation has possibilities and the Berkell players intend to show, starting Sunday, in “Widow by Proxy” just what they are. The story, a sprightly and swift-moving farce, concerns the life, loves and adventures of one Gloria Grey, a beautiful but penniless music teacher.
She has a New York flat and a wardrobe—but her creditors have joined the wolf on her doorstep and something must be done. Just when she comes to the end of her rope, the long arm of coincidence reaches out td fill her heart with new hope. Dolores, her companion, whom she helped through a severe illness, falls heir to a small fortune through the settlement of the estate of her late husband, Jack Pennington. This estate she is to divide with Captain Pennington of the navy, Jack's brother, who has had an unfortunate love affair and distrusts women. As Dolores, from a fanatical dislike for her husband’s relatives, refuses to take the inheritance, Gloria persuades her to let her impersonate Dolores by posing as Jack’s widow. This is the foundation of the plot. Gloria, who has traded places with Dolores, visits the Pennington home, and promptly persuades them of her authenticity, and, almost as promptly, falls in love with Captain Pennington. When the two straitlaced spinster aunts of the Captain discover this, they are horrified—that is, until Gloria Intimates that she Is of royal lineage. This changes matters slightly, for the aunts are crown worshippers, and they take Gloria into their arms. Suddenly, on the eve of the wedding, Jack, who was pronounced dead only by rumor, appears on the scene and upsets the promising scheme of the fictitious widow. Margery Williams, in a role she has played many times, that of Gloria, and Philip Brandon, as Captain Pennington, have comedy roles in “Widow by Proxy.” *u m MOVIE COMEDY OPENS AT THE LYRIC Zasu Pitts, who has been called both the screen’s most talented comedienne and tragedienne, has been teamed with. Slim Summerville in Universal’s new feature length comedy drama, “The Unexpected Father,” which opens today at the Lyric. It was popular demand that elevated the tall, lanky Slim Summerville. who portrayed Tjaden of “All Quiet on the Western Front” and the playful marine who virtually every theater-goer promptly recognizes to feature picture stardom, and it, probably, was a happy thought to team him with the wistful-eyed Zasu Pitts. The story of “The Unexpected Father” is reported to be clean, and wholesome entertainment. The child played by Hollywood’s newest baby “find,” Cora Sue Collins, plays havoc with the scheduled marriage of the bachelor to a scheming gold digger, while the nurse from the dog hospital, played by Zazu Pitts, is created, quite by mistake, by the millionaire to queil the confusion. Dale Van Every wrote the screen play and M. Lief and Robert Keith added the dialog. Thornton Freeland, who filmed “Whoopee,” directed. Dorothy Christy, Claude McAllister, Allison Skipworth, Grace Hampton, Tyrell Davis and Ton O’Brien complete the cast. In addition to this feature picture the Lyric programs the usual six acts of RKO vaudeville on the stage. Galla Rini, favorite vaudeville, radio and recording musical entertainer, and his sister in anew musical revue, headline the stage bill, which also includes George Me-
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One of the soloists Sunday night at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church during the singing of the Gabriel Faure Requiem w’ill be Elmer Andrew Steffen, baritone. Holmes in a New Movie Phillips Holmes will don a ghastly make-up for his role in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Night Court,” in which he appears as the victim of gang torture. The make-up will show the effects of his harrowing’ experiences with gangsters. Kay and his four girls, Bob La Salle and company of comedians, Donovan giris and Bishop, a trio of harmony singers, and two other standard RKO attractions.
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DINE and jf DANCE Charley De Sautelle Orchestra EVER* KITE EXCEPT MONDAY From 9 P. M. Until ? T No Cover Charge YANTIS-TOSTEE SHOPPE Meridian at 23rd Street
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