Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1932 Edition 02 — Page 5

JULY 16, 1932.

LIONEL BARRYMORE PLAYS ROLE OF SENATOR IN NEW FILM

James Cagney Stages One Fight After Another in ‘Winner Takes All,’ Feature Attraction on Movie Bill at Apollo. THE WASHINGTON MASQUERADE,” drama of behind the scenes in the national capital, with Lionel Barrvmore in a dominating role as a senator and political power who falls victim to a woman's wiles, is the attraction which opened Friday at Loew's Palace. It is a dramatic cross-section of the lobbyist racket in the national capital. The picture based on the stage play, “The Claw.” was adapted to the screen by John Meehan and Samuel G. Blythe, famous political writer and directed by Charles Brabin, famous for “Beast of the City,” “Sporting Blood,” “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and other hits.

The story' deals with a senator who becomes a national power and a leader in the fight for public ownership of utilities. The vested interests set a woman to “vamp” him. He loves her, marries her, and she tricks him into being the tool of the lobbyLsts. Disillusionment comes, and in the senate he tears asunder the structure of “inside” politics in a mighty dramatic climax. Barrymore, famous in “A Free Foul,” “Grand Hotel” and others, has one of the most dramatic roles in his career as the beguiled senator, and Karen Morley, who appeared with him in “Arsene Lupin,” plays the political “vamp.” His daughter is played by Diane .Sinclair, and Nils Asther appears as the secret lover of the woman. C. Henry Gordon of “Mata Hari” farne is the chief lobbyist. William Morris. William Collier, Rafaels Ottlano and many other famous players appear. The dramatic highlights include the famous Barrymore speech before the senate, his defiance of the political machine, the “hazing” on the floor of the senate, his disillusionment when he learns the true character of the woman, the spectacular President’s reception, the official banquet and its dramatic denouement and the sensational fight before the senate investigating committee. Featurettes comprising the balance of the program will include Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in their newest comedy vehicle, “County Hospital”; the most recent issue of the Hearst Metrotone New r s and an organ novelty. a tt a NEW BOXING MOVIE AT APOLLO “Winner Takes All," starring James Cagney in anew Warner Brothers film, is the current attraction at the Apollo, where it will remain through Thursday next. It is thought, that Cagney’s popularity gained in prestige since his appearance in “The Crowd Roars,” and many who have seen his new picture herald it as even the best of his entire career. The picture opens with Jim, ill in health, and striving for a comeback at a desert sanatorium. He meets a girl, falls in love with her. He breaks his rest—and also his nose and ear—by fighting to raise some money she needs. He leaves her w'ith a promise of reunion and marriage to re-enter his career in New York. Once there he forgets her for a society girl who is interested in him only as an oddity. The crude boxer goes high-hat for the society girl’s sake. He has his broken nose and cauliflower ear fixed by a plastic surgeon and starts getting culture in a big way. His popularity drops off because he turns “powder-puff" boxer in order to save his new nose. It is only in the middle of his biggest fight that the truth dawns on him. Marian Nixon appears as his first love. Virginia Bruce, a new’comer to the screen, enacts the part of the society girl, and other featured roles are enacted by Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore and Alan Mowbray. Roy Del Ruth directed. Short subjects round out the program. tt tt tt BRIGHT COMEDY NOW AT CIRCLE One of the more famous novels about youth and Hollywood—Harry Leon Wilson’s story of the country lad who crashed the studio gates and made good—may be seen currently in the talkie, “Make Me a Star,” at the Circle, with Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts and Ben Turpin heading the cast. The action of "Make Me a Star” opens in a small town in Illinois where Erwin is the clerk in the general store, brow-beaten and held in contempt by almost everyone in the community because of his highfalutin ideas. Helen Jerome F.ddy, his plain, un-

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NORTH SIDE mravxi Ta|b<>t * **n<> st. Wvnne Gibson and Pat O'Brien in "STRANGE CASE OF CLARA DEANE” Sun. Double Featurr—Ramon Navarro in “BUDDIE”’ Warner Baxter and Conway Tearle in ••MAN ABOUT TOWN" NppBHMpNBMdBpBM Noble at Mass. ■ i jll Double Feature wMMRMMnBMMiMMHB Dolores Del Rio In "GIRL OF THE RIO” and "TEXAS GUN FIGHTER" Sunday. "SCARFACE" WEST SIDE ■■■■■■■PPHI W. Wash. A Belmont [OJa Double Feature ■■■■■MfeMßßMß Toni •UfcSIR V HIDES AGAIN" "FORGOTTEN COMMANDMENTS” Sunday, Double Feature—Chic Sale in "t. HEN A FEELER NEEDS A FRIEND" Georre O'Brien in "MYSTERY RANCH" PR IN CESS THEATER Weel Tenth at Holme* Aye. Dnnhle Feature—Warner Raster in ••MAN ABOUT TOWN” "HARD HOMBRE” tunHav Ws r rfn William in “MOUTHPIECE” Serial—Comedy—New* Reel.

Lyric to Present a Big Name Daphne Pollard, Noted Funmaker, Comes Soon. Daphne Pollard, the little madcap comedienne of the talkies, has | been booked for a personal appearance engagement for the week starting July 23, by the management of the Lyric theater. The famous English funmaker will top the usual sta,ge show of six vaudeville acts. Daphne Pollard hails from the English music halls where her particular brand of eccentric clowning held sway for many years. It is said that Charlie Chaplin first discovered her and brought the comedienne to Hollywood for her first picture tests. Mack Sennett starred her in many series of two-reel comedies in the silent days and since the advent of the talkies she has become quite popular in the audible comedies. She presents her act in four scenes, each with a special song, set of scenery and costume. The songs are all original and have been written especially for the screen player. She climaxes her act with a number known as “The Policeman Scene.” Miss Pollard originally presented this revue at the London Hippodrome and has used it widely ever since, until it is closely identified with her. It consists of a song, a dance, dialogue and acrobatic comedy dance with a policeman character. Especially quick changes feature the act. beautiful girl friend, joins him in j his rabid idolatry of Buck Benson, the famous movie cowboy hero, and j urges him to go to Hollywood to emulate the exploits of the revered ! Buck. At last Erwin saves enough money to go to Hollywood. In the film capital he tramps from studio to studio, never finding the Elysium he had always believed was there. At last, through the kindness of Joan Blondell, a hard-boiled “double” for a famous star, Erwin gets his first job before a camera. He is virtually kicked into fame—for the performance he gives as serious drama is so terrible that the directors see its great value as hilarious comedy . . . and so he succeeds, a serio-comic, who doesn’t know why he has made good. In addition to the regular cast of “Make Me a Star,” there are seven others whose names are “electriclight must-go’s” in every picture in which they play. These prominent stars Maurice Chevalier, Sylvia Sidney, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Fredric March, Phillips Holmes, Jack Oakie and Charles Ruggles—appear in authentic studio scenes which are part of the plot action of the picture. A short film with Ethel Merman, several comedy featurettes, and a news reel augment the Circle's bill 1 tt a a NEW BANCROFT MOVIE AT INDIANA I adv and Gent,” anew Paramount picture starring George Bancroft and Wynne Gibson, is now playing at the Indiana where it opened a week’s engagement Friday. It is the first picture at that theater ever to be advertised as carrying the personal endorsement of B. V. Sturdivant, district manager of the Skouras-Publix theaters of Indianapolis. “Lady and Gent” presents Bancroft as a bungling prize fighter who encounters one adversity after another. His manager is killed in a robbery, and the fighter comes to his rescue by shielding the dead man's small son from the knowledge of this tragic occurrence. Together with a cabaret habitue who loves him, the somewhat bewildered boxer goes from New York to a small town in Pennsylvania to rear the orphaned child. The sincere efforts of this dubious pair to act as the boy's parents extena over a period of years and bring the pictre to its climax after the youth has grown into manhood, i Bancroft and Miss Gibson por- [ tray the foster parents, and Charles | Starrett- appears as the grownup son. The part of the prize fighter s manager is portrayed by James i Gleason. ! .. T D i, rection is by Stephen Roberts. ; Lady and Gent” was written esI penally for Bancroft’s use on the screen by Grover Jonps and William Slavens McNutt. Be xrL Boop cartoon entitled Chess Nuts, ’ a Paramount Pictorial reel featuring Rubinofl, and a sound news reel are other program features at the Indiana.

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1— Stuari Erwin with his mop ready to clean up in “Make Me A Star,” now at the Circle. 2 Violet Meming and Alexander Kirkland look very much dressed up hi “Almost Married.” opening today at the Lyric. 3 Lionel Barrymore in a scene from “The Washington Masquerade,”

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Left—Here is proof that Frank Libuse can live up to his title, “The Colonel of American Nuts.” The eccentric pianist is headliner on the new bill now at the Lyric.

Now Playing at Camp Meeting Here

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The Rev. Tilden Gaddis and Bertha, Elma and Rachel Moser.

Three sisters and an evangelist are furnishing the music for the Salem Park camp meeting now/ in session just west of the city. They are the Rev. Tilden Gaddis, evaneglist of Cincinnati, and

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THERE are forty summer theaters operating “within a short ride from Times Square. New York, playing old Broadway plays and grooming new ones with noted stars and players for the next season.' The Quill, the paper of the Theatrical Press Representatives of America, is the authority for that statement.

The same issue is responsible for a statement from Ben H. Atwill, press agent of “The Green Pastures.” that this show' has played for over tw’o continuous years without suffering a single cents loss for any week. “The Green Pastures” recently celebrated its I.oooth performance in Los Angeles and is now' playing week dates back to New York for a months rest for “De Lawd,” Noah and the others before opening another season in Boston. We are all aware of the turn away business that Katherine Cornell in “Barretts of Wimpole Street” has received. Certainly things are looking bright for the real theatrical article when “Pastures” and “Barretts” have been turning them away at the box office by the hundreds. In discussing the summer theaters ! on Long Island, the lakes and riv- ! ers, such stars as Alice Brady, Doroj thy Gish, Joseph Santley, Cecila Loftus, Patricia Collinge and Pedro

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Right—Miss Dorothy Sunderland of this city today starts her RKO vaudeville tour at the Lyric. Roy W. Woods is her partner. Both have broadcasting reputations.

the Moser sisters of that city. Four regular services are being held daily—at 6:30 and 10:30 a. m. and at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. Also three services for children and young people at 8 a. m. and

de Cordoba are listed as acting in those companies. Such directors as Theresa Helburn of the New York Theatre Guild. Melvin Burke w'ho directed for Walter one season at the Murat and also for Walter Vonnegut and others are employed. So it looks like a Broadway lineI up even in the summer time off of Broadway. And we know the Indianapolis situation. Arthur Casey did not even attempt another season. Charles Berkell tried to get through the summer, but closed up. As far as I know, the stock situa-

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now at the Palace. 4 James Cagney looks very mueh in earnest In “Winner Takes All," now at the Apollo. 5 George Baneroft has a tough fighting role In “Lady and Gent," now at the Indiana.

at 4 and 6:30 p. m. Missionary day will be held on Sunday, July 24, the closing day of the camp meeting. The Rev. O. H. Nater is secretary of the Missionary bands.

tion in Indianapolis for the fall and winter is just as indefinite as the first snow. So far Indianapolis is not included as a subscription city for the American Theatre Society, which offers plays of the New York Theatre Guild and the Drama League. We may not even get these plays, but I still have hopes that Indianapolis w'ill become an active subscribed center to this new theater group. Received a card from Bob Fay, for years with Charles Berkell In stock here, stating that he is acting in stock at Salem, Mass. Am going to endorse a movie on its opening day in Indianapolis. It is “The Washington Masquerade,” because Lionel Barrymore is giving the screen his greatest dramatic character acting. Don’t dare to miss it, at the Palace. tt tt u There are in Europe and America many riding acts, and the greater

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Pool Is a- - at Park Seiler, ‘Flying Yank/ Will Practice at Broad Ripple, Activities at Broad Ripple park Sunday afternoon will radiate around the swimming pool. Due to the extreme heat wave park officials are anticipating a record attendance of bathers at the big tank, and have increased the pool staff to handle the crowd. An entertainment program has been arranged for the swimmers which includes an exhibition of plain and fancy diving and a water polo game. The Ripple Diving Club will go through its aerial tricks at 2:30, and this will be followed by a water polo game between the Broad Ripple Huskies and Longacre at 3. Attendance figures at the Ripple pool this year show a great increase over last season and Indications are that anew mark will be set before the pool closes. New equipment installed at the pool this spring has proved popular with the swimmers, including the sand beach and suntan shed. The Ripple pool is the only outdoor swimming tank in the city equipped with diving helmet and vacuum cleaning outfit. This is only one of the many cleaning operations that the pool engineers use to back up and insure the park slogan, “Swim in drinking water.” number of them are with the Ringling Bros, and Bamum & Bailey circus, which comes to Indianapolis for performances next Thursday afternoon and night at the West Washington street show grounds. All of them agree that Rose and Mitzi Rieffenach, lovely sisters of the riding Rieffenach family, are the horseback stars of stars, no matter where the discussion may take place—Vienna, Berlin, Paris or in the dressing tents of the Greatest Show on Earth. The two girls were raised in the famous circus buildings of the continent, and they have ridden in public since they were tots. Nobody has to be told, who knows anything of circus families, that all of their forebears were bareback riders. That is tradition, and circus families follow It as a matter of course. Rose and Mitzi, however, have the only sister act in the world, and it is famous from Moscow to Madrid; from Vancouver to Buenos Aires, as the finest and most appealing equestrian offering ever conceived. These girls, with their sister Bertie, also work with the rest of their kin in that elaborate art known as the Rieffenach Family, which is one of the most famous of the family groups, rivaled only by the Davenports, another riding family with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus.

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Frank Libuse, Known as ‘The Colonel of American Nuts/ Is the Headline Offering on New Variety Bill Open- % ing at the Lyric Today. FRANK LIBUSE, dubbed “the Colonel of American Nut*," and hit company of happy hooligans are headlining the stage show featuring six acts of RKO vaudeville opening at the Lyric today. William Cameron Menzies’ production of “Almost Married” for Fox, will be shown on the screen. Ralph Bellamy, Violet Heming and Alexander Kirkland are the featured members in the cast. Before entering the ranks of vaudeville, Libuse was the most famous waiter who ever spilled soup down a diner's neck or neglected to lay a table with cutlery. His business was doing the wrong thing in the right place and by so doing he became the most popular waiter on Broadway.

Lou Krugel and Charles Robles furnish the stage bill with a song program interspersed with comedy patter. The turn is caled “Drunk Again,” because the two of them are supposed to be returning from a banquet which, judging from the condition of one of them, was anything but dry. Josephine Chappelle and Harry Carlton offer a series of difficult and original athletic feats. Johnny Dove and company presenting a miniature musical comedy revue, Jean and Joe, radio stars, and one other RKO vaudeville act complete the stage program. Three former stage stars, Violet Hemming. Ralph Bellamy and Alexander Kirkland, are co-starred in the leading roles in "Almost Married.” Based on Andrew' Soutar’s novel, “The Devil s Triangle,” and adapted for the screen by Wallace Smith, Almost Married,” is said to be a human mystery story. Cast includes Allan Dinehart, Herbert Mundin, Grace Hampton, Eva Dennison and Mary Gordon. "Almost Married” was directed by William Cameron Menzies, ace mystery director, at Hollyw'ood.

With the Circus

Rose Rieffennach and “Snowball” Among the questrians of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus are the famous Rieffennachs, bareback atars without equal in the circus world today, the beautiful Mitzi-Rose sisters and scores of Europe’s most famous riders in brand new acts and features. There are the highly trained “high school” horses, well bred and proud in their demeanor, forming the most perfect menage act in circus history. Here a group of beautiful young women on prancing steeds perform to the delight of all. There are also the high jumpers, '■ the speed kings of the big top, J the dancing, waltzing, rearing horses and many other equine stars. All these wonder horsea with their clever riders will be seen when the circus exhibits in Indianapolis Thursday, July 21, for two performances, the first at 2 o’clock, the second at 8 o'clock, with the doors opening in each instance an hour earlier.

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Dine and Dance SHOW BOAT LES SHEPHARD and His Orchestra NEW LOW PRICES for the summer Every Nite £*; 40c Sat. Nite 75c SHOW BOAT Keystone Avenue and Aliisonville Road W A. 3918 Regular Bunday <P i nr Dinner SI.ZS

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Auto Polo Featured at Park Roy Byers Returns as the Manager of Riverside Skating Rink. A UTO POLO, a game filled with hair-raising thrills, will be the free attraction Sunday afternoon at Riverside amusement park, with two of the best-known professional teams in the country engaged for action. The Canadian team from Toronto, Canada, will meet the American team from Buffalo, N. Y., in the

Sunday afternoon contest, which will be played in a field to be laid out in the center of the amusement resort. H. C. Patterson is captain and driver for the American team, with his brother, Ale k Patterson, as mallet wielder. For the Canadians, Newt Fisher is captain and driver, while Henry Wheeler is

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mallet man. The games will be played in fifteen-minute halves, with A. R. Jones acting as umpire. The two teams have met twice this summer in the east, with each team taking a game, so that Sunday’s tilt here will be the "rubber” match, and promises to be a hardfought battle. Indianapolis sports fans had a look at auto polo several years ago, when the game was a featured attraction at the Indiana state fair and thrilled big crowds of spectators. Next Wednesday, at Riverside, the Capital Dairies will act as host to their patrons in an outing. On Thursday, Times carriers will invade the big fun resort for their annual picnic, and on next Saturday will occur the picnic of the Big Four Veterans’ Association. Many reunions will be held in the Riverside picnic grove during the next few weeks, starting with the annual reunion of former residents of Putnam county, to be held in the park tomorrow. The big Riverside rink is proving a pleasant place to skate this summer, the cooling system keeping the temperature congenial at all times. Roy Byers, a rink manager of many years’ experience, has been placed in charge at Riverside. Byers, in past years, was manager of the old Washington rink, the rink at Wonderland and at Broad Ripple. Why Steal a Cat’s Bed? Lionel Barrymore, while playing the senator and political power in “The Washington Masquerade” at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, insisted that the overcoat he wore in some of his scenes be kept in a corner of the stage, though he wasn't using it. It seems that Bill, the Persian cat used in the picture, has taken a fancy to it as a sleeping place—and Barrymore had taken a fancy to Bill and wasn’t going to rob him of his bed.

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