Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1932 Edition 02 — Page 5

JULY 23, 1932_

‘TOM BROWN OF CULVER’ OPENS ENGAGEMENT AT APOLLO

Ann Harding and Nance O’Neill Tops Cast of ‘Westward Passage,’ the New Feature on the Talking Screen at the Indiana. STRICT accuracy was an essential feature of the production of “Tom and Brown of Culver,” the Universal drama which is now being shown at the Apollo theater with Tom Brown, H. B. Warner and Slim Summerville as the featured players. The story deals with boys’ life at the famous Culver military academy in Indiana, and the preparation of the scenario involved the most painstaking attention to detail. In all stages of its preparation the picture received the active co- ° Br te^ ier ‘General Gignilliat, commandant of the school, and the entire staff of the institu-i tion.

In preparing the scenario George Green, author of the story, went to Culver to obtain the correct local color and the completed script was officially okayed by the commandant. Later the director of the picture made a trip to Culver for the purpose of studying the life there before he even started to work on the production which was made there and in Indianapolis. Colonel Robert Rossow of the academy stayed with the filming all through and then went to California to aid in editing and cutting the finished picture. Actual drilling of the boys who appear in the picture w r as in the hands of Cadet Captain Allison Parker, a recent graduate of the school. Cast includes such players as Richard Cromwell, Ben Alexander, Tyrone Powers Jr., Dick Winslowe. Norman Phillips Jr., Kit Wain. Kit Guard, Andy Devine, Russell Hopton, Sidney Toler and the executive staff of Culver. Short features round out the Apollo program. n a ANN HARDING HEADS BIG C AST Purported big in theme, cast and production, a picture dealing with ope of the more vital themes to women of the world today, is currently offered as the feature attraction of the Circle theater s new entertainment program. It is RKOPathe's “Westward Passage” which presents the glamorous star, Ann Harding, and an imposing supporting cast in a drama of love and matrimony, divorce and second marriage. The resources of the RKO organization were combined in attempting to make this picture as big as the theme upon w’hich it is based. Scores of imposing settings, including a Swiss chalet, a Paris chateau, a New York studio, a New England inn, a honeymoon cottage, and a trans-Atlantic liner were constructed. Against these colorful backgrounds unfolds the human story of a woman torn between two loves. Miss Harding is seen as a girl who tests the theory that a woman’s first love is the dominant passion of her life. With one romance ended on the rocks of divorce, the heroine of “Westward Passage” gambles for happiness in a second marriage and meets the problems that today confront hundreds of thousands of women. Robert Milton, a foremost figure of the American drama, and the man who guided Miss Harding in ; “Devotion,” directed. Laurence Olivier, with Irving Pichel, Zasu Pitts, Juliette Compton. Nance. O'Neill, Irene Purcell, and Donald Reed head the supporting cast. Variety short films and a Paramount sound news reel augment the Circle's bill. U tt SKYSCRAPER IS SCENE OF ADVENTURE A city within a city, that Is the modern skyscraper. That, too, is the skyscraper, around w'hich centers exciting action of “Skyscraper Souls,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s story featuring Warren William and Maureen O’Sullivan, which opened Friday at Loew’s Palace theater. All the action of the drama is laid in a great New York skyscraper. If the whole city of York had been taken as the background, a wider scenic diversity could not be possible. Visit a skyscraper and the whole social life of a city can be glimpsed in its corridors, lobbies and offices. There one can step into an elevator and rub elbows with the great and the obscure, the rich and the poor, the unhappy and the happy individuals that go to make up a great City's life. Similarly in "Skyscraper Souls” all the social strata of a city are shown, with some of the screen's best known personalities portraying the various roles. In the marble baths in the basement of this film "Skyscraper,” one may find William Warren, George Barbier anJ William Morris discussing a gigantic financial merger. In the shops that surround the lobby are Norman Foster, clerking in a bank; Hedda Hopper having a | sandwich in the building's drug store, go up a few flights to the building manager's office and there will be found Maureen O’Sullivan —pounding a typewriter and dreaming of love or Verree Teasdale, famous New York stage actress, mak-

LAND -O- DANCE OPEN’ SATURDAY and SUNDAY NIGHTS REG DU VALLE NOVELTY BAND 8500 East Washington St. Near Post Road

MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT MUTUAL BURLESQUE STAGE SHOW PRESENTING THE OVER-NIGHT STAR Dance SUNYA The Wonderful Personality BLONDE with FORM DIVINE The Crowning Optical Delight of All Time SATURNALIA OF WANTON RHYTHM —A MAELSTROM OF LITHESOME SPRITES IN DIVERTISSEMENTS OF EXOTIC AND DARING CONCEPTIONS. Culminating in the Terpstchorean Piece de Resistance

ing her first screen appearance as the woman whose life Warren Wilj liam wrecks. In the dress manufacturer’s office above, Anita Page works as a model, | with Gregory Ratoff as her employer. On another floor is. Jean Hersholt, a diamond merchant, and in the radio tower on the 102d floor, Wallace Ford Is broadcasting. It is a complete picture in brief, of life in a great city. Selected featurettes comprising the balance of the program include a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Frog cartoon comic, “School Days,” the most recent release of the Hearst Metrotone News and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s sport champions in “Flying Spikes.” ♦ * LOCAL FAVORITE IS IN MOVIE OAST “Miss Pinkerton,” adapted from the Mary Roberts Rinehart mys-tery-thriller of the same name which ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post recently, is the talking film attraction at the Indiana where it opened a week’s run Friday. Joan Blondell has the title role, and George Brent appears opposite her in the chief masculine role. Other members of the cast are Elizabeth Patterson, Holmes Herbert. John Wray. C. Henry Gordon. Mae Madison, Mary Doran, Ruth Hall, Nigel Dp Brulier and Blanche Frederici. Direction is by Lloyd Bacon. “Miss Pinkerton” is a gripping detective story which tells of a bored nurse who is suddenly assigned to a patient in a mysterious old mansion at the request of a police inspector. There has been a death in the house, and the police have been unable to solve the case. The young police inspector, enacted by George Brent, soon gives the nurse the nickname of “Miss Pinkerton.” as a result of her sleuthing. She aids him in his detective work, and finds the job doubly interesting because she is taking care of the aged and bed-ridden aunt of the dead man. As the story unfolds, their efforts to discover whether the death was an accident, a suicide or a murder meet with scant success. The situation is complicated further when the aunt is poisoned by persons unknown and when Miss Pinkerton is attacked and half-strangled by a shadowy figure. A series of other weird incidents lead to the climax. In addition to “Miss Pinkerton,”! the Indiana also offers a news reel and other short films. Ann Will Start New Belt Fad New Styles Will Be Seen in the Movie, ‘Three on a Match/ By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., July 23. Orry-Kelly, First National studio stylist, has picked Ann Dvorak, recent screen sensation, to introduce j anew style to f minine America ' through the medium of the screen. ! The fashion fad, originated by j Kelly, is anew type of belt, from ! three to five inches wide, raised to a pointed V in front, in keeping with the demand for the elevated waistline, and fashioned entirely of twinkling brilliants, rhinestones and mirrors. Miss Dvorak will wear it first in her latest First National picture, “Three On a Match,” using a flag blue negligee of metal cloth woven with matching cut beads, on which to set it off. This is in accordance with the one rule for wearing the belt, according to Orry-Kelly, who says that the garment with which it is worn must be simple in type, and of a plain, rather dark color, forj contrast. Joan Blondell and Bette Davis with other important roles in “Three On a Match,” also will ap- i pear in many of Orry-Kelly's ere-1 ations, while Warren William, Lyle Talbot. Sheila Terry, Hale Hamil-; ton and Grant Mitchell complete I the cast. Mervyn Le Roy directed. 1 Bob Becomes Golf Tutor Robert Montgomery, Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s prize polo player, has turned golf tutor for a time, to teach Sandy Roth, the stout detective of “Beast of the City," how to play the game.

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1— Tom Brown plays the chief boy role in “Tom Brown of Culver,” now on the Apollo screen. * 2 Ann Harding plays the leading role in “Westward Passage,” now at the Circle. 3 Maureen O'Sullivan is the pretty leading girl in "Skyscraper

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The headliner on the new bill, opening today at the Lyric, Is (he English funmaker. Daphne Pollard. She is as famous on the comedy screen as she is on the vaudeville stage. This season she is going in for comedy character w'ork.

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CARL LAEMMLE’S expressed opinions have always been interesting and widely read, and quoted. His first characteristic utterance following his recent operation‘in Johns Hopkins hospital was addressed to Martin Quigley, editor of the

Motion Picture Herald. Laemmle has an authority of years in the same executive position which no other man in moving pictures enjoys. Twenty years ago this month, Carl Laemmle was elected president of the newly formed Universal Picture* Corporation. He has been its president, its principal stockholder, and its guiding hand from that day to this. At the present moment, he is the only figure from that distant day who is still actually in charge of the organization he guided from its infancy. Quigley published this letter, and hereby gives permission to this j newspaper to reprint Laemmle's thoughts in regard to the present ! position of the moving picture business. “Mr. Carl Laemmle, who recently; had a sojourn in a Baltimore hospital, on emerging, fit and energetic again, has written to Mr. Martin Quigley, publisher of Motion Picture Herald, certain of his observations and notions while regarding the ceiling at Johns Hopkins. Remarks Mr. Laemmle: "I believe you would have been interested in the things that came to my mind while I was lying flat on my back for several weeks with nothing to do but think. It is quite amazing how much better perspective a man in this, or any. business can get when it is forced upon him as it was in my case. “I have jotted down the gist of my thoughts and if you think anything here will help the business or any one in it, use it as you like. I base my idea on Benjamin Franklins classic: ‘We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.’ These historic words were spoken when this nation was in its infancy. “They apply with equal force today to all parts of the nation, and to all of its activities. But they apply with peculiar force now to all

RIVERSIDE FREE ATTRACTIONS Sunday Afternoon at 4 o’Cloek AUTO POLO CANADIANS VS AMERICANS (TORONTO* (BUFFALO) Rematched by Popular Request SUNDAY NIGHT ‘HENRY FORD’S NIGHTMARE, The Nuttiest. Auto in Captlritjr Come Oat Sunday Just ftr Fun

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elements of the motion picture business. “Any man in this industry who is seeking to captalize on the, temporary misfortunes of others in this industry is a traitor to us all. He is weakening the structure on which the future of all of us is resting. “Any producer who secretly hopes his competitor will fall by the wayside; any exhibitor who secretly hopes his opposition will have to close; any distributor who works an unnecessary hardship on his customer; any exhibitor who unnecessarily pinches his distrbutor; any such man is misguided, mistaken and miscast in this business. He simply aoes not belong! “Now is the time for sympathetic : understanding: for patient cooperation: for broad-mindedness; | for the squarest of square dealings, each of us with the other. “On this immovable rock let us ; take our stand, not with a mere hope of reward, but with certain knowledge that no other policy can withstand whatever storms may come. “Whoever sells this Industry short is cutting his own throat. “Sincerely, • “CARL LAEMMLE." Complete Two Serials Ray Taylor, who has completed Universal's first two serials, “Heroes of the West” and “Jungle Mystery," has been assigned to direct the | next Tom Mix picture, which will go into production at Universal City j this week. Its title is “Tom's in 1 Town,” and it is an original story | by Jack Natteford and Tom Crizer.

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Souls,” now at the Palace. 4 Barbara Stanwyck is the star of “The Purchase Price,” opening today at the Lyric. 5 Joan Blondell and John Wray in an action scene from “Miss Pinkertbn,” now at the Indiana.

Auto Polo Featured at Park Comedy Automobile Act to Be Given Sunday at Riverside. Auto polo again will feature the free entertainment at Riverside amusement park Sunday afternoon, while in the evening the park patrons will witness the return of “Henry Ford’s Nightmare,” the ludicrous automobile spectacle that convulsed thousands of the resort’s visitors last Sunday night. The Riverside management was fortunate in being able to rematch the Canadians of Toronto and the Americans of Buffalo for Sunday's polo match. Each team is booked solid starting next week for engagements at fairs throughout the middle west, but with Sunday open they reaedily consented again to meet on th Riverside field. The Canadians, who dropped last Sunday's game to the Americans by a score of 3 to 2, were especially anxious for the return tilt, and have been engaging in strenuous practice during the past week preparing to even the count. “Henry Ford's Nightmare” is an elaborate comedy act centering around a mysterious automobile, without a driver, which performs as though someone were at the wheel, chasing the “actors” all over the field, shooting off fireworks and otherwise misbehaving in a. manner that would cause Henry Ford as much consternation as it arouses in the park patrons. The polo game will be played at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, while the auto act will start at 10 in the evening, it is announced. Officials for the polo contest will be as follows; Referee, Donaild McCloud; umpire, Walden Middlesworth; timekeeper, Jack Mooney. Flags used by the referee during play are as follows: Yellow flag starts each period, red flag signifies fouls and out of bounds, red and yellow displayed together signal a goal, while the checkered flag stops play. The two teams will line up with the same players as last Sunday, with Newt Fisher driving for the Canadians and Henry Wheeler handling the mallet. The Americans will have the famous Patterson brothers in action again. H. C. Patterson at the wheel and Alex Patterson as mallet man. Gardner Goes to London Cyril Gardner, whose latest picture, “The Doomed Battalion,” is meeting a splendid reception everywhere, is on his way to London. Universal has loaned him to Gloria Swanson to direct her picture, “A Perfect Understanding,” in London. He is arriving in New York on Tuesday and sailing on the Olympic the following day. Hedda Is a Cook Hedda Hopper has added another accomplishment to her long list by lecturing at a cooking school. And Hedda can cook. She was brought up in a small Pennsylvania town by a Quaker mother who believed that cooking was a necessary part of every girl's education. She recently completed work in M-G-M’s “As You Desire Me,” in which Greta Garbo is starred.

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Helen Cobum Helen Coburn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Coburn of Riverside Park road, Indianapolis, enacts the role of Myra in Metro-Goldw r yn-Mayer’s picturization of Faith Baldwin’s popular story. “Skyscraper Souls,” which is now at Loew’s Palace. Miss Cobum has been signed to a long term contract by M. G. M. and will be seen in featured supporting roles in forthcoming productions from that studio.

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With tow’ers and turrets envisioning some romantic castle of days when knights were bold and ladies fair, the Riverside fun house bursts upon park visitors as a strange note in the hurlyburly of roaring coasters and tooting merry-go-rounds. But, however grim and foreboding may be the exterior of the huge edifice, inside all is Joy supreme as happy crowds explore the scores of mysteroius caverns packed with surprising thrills.

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FREE PARKING—PIaza Motor Inn APOLLO The Hone of Bie Pictures Now! tohBROWN--5 CULVER I Kiddies All Star i| Last NEXT FRIDAY JANET CHARLES GAYNOR FARRELL in “THE FIRST YEAR”

Daphne Pollard, Noted English Comedienne of Stage and Screen, Heads New Vaudeville Bill Opening Today at the Lyric for a Week. A PROGRAM of stage and screen entertainment which is heralded by the management of the Lyric theater as one of the outstanding of the summer season opening at this popular playhouse today. Daphne Pollard, impish comedienne of stage and screen famfc, heads the stage show, including six RKO vaudeville attractions. Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent are co-featured in the new season’s Warner Bros vitaphone picture. “The Purchase Price.” Daphne Pollard, in her personal appearance revue, is said to have r pretentious offering, including four song scenes with eccentric dance specialties. Miss Pollard’s numbers are not mere songs, according to re-

Beauties Flock to Park Pool All Attendance Records Have Been Broken at Broad Ripple. In comparison with several other large amusement park swimming pools throughout the middle-west, Broad Ripple park has more swimming beauties than other parks, according to a statement by William F. Mahoney, park manager who recently returned from a tour of swimming beaches in other cities. “Now and then, of course,” said Mahoney, “we see the charming young lady who fears go near the water with her very modern suit, but the majority of Indianapolis girls really go in for swimming. "In my recent trip I saw more of the bathing beauty type at other pools than I do here at home. Perhaps because we are an inland city, our girls are determined to be more swim-minded than the ones whose home is near a lake or large river.” Attendance this past week at the Broad Ripple pool was the largest for the season, it was announced. “She” to Be Filmed Before Universal made “Dracula” and “Frankenstein,” it would have been difficult to visualize an extraordinary success for a picturization of Rider Haggard’s novel, “She.” Yesterday Universal completed the purchase from the English executors of the talking picture rights to this novel of eerie adventure in Egypt. Mack to Direct Classic As was anticipated by every one, Russell will direct “All America.” With such a football success as “The Spirit of Notre Dame” to his credit, it was almost a foregone conclusion that he would direct this year’s football picture for Universal. The football clans assembled at Universal city on July 20. Russell Mack expects to complete the production of “Once in a Lifetime” by July 23 and will start on “All America” on July 25.

AMUSEMENTS

1h wL h I h ft, y^fVp I I POLLARD V (IN PERSON) j HARRIS and BROOKINS I with PAIL HARRIS P HORTON SPURR lollies” Lancing Cnmedlsui JACKSON & GARDNER || with DOROTHEE ADAMS VERNON RATHBURN and SAV-O-TETTE 1 family^

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jutric Mjngb, according to report, but each of the four is a complete little scene with a special set and costume. These songs are all original and have been written especially for the screen star. She opens clad in a bathing costume of the “Gay Nineties,” a ribbon across the front on which is printed “Miss Reno,” identifies her as a bathing beauty contestant. The song tells her troubles at not having what it takes to win the prize. The number concludes with a comedy dance. The second number is a travesty upon the dramatic "black-out.” In it the lyric tells a heart-breaking tale of why the occupant of the nearby cradle shall be torn away from her, because “It’s Mine, Ail Mine.” The next is a country girl characterization with an individual dance finish. The final number is known as “The Policeman Scene.” Miss Pollard originally presented this in a revue at the London Hippodrome, and has used it widely ever since. It consists of a song, a dance, dialog and acrobatic comedy with a policeman rharaeter. Next in mention on the stage MU are Bud Harris, Tom Brookins and Paul Harris, the “Harlemanlaes.” They sing, dance and furnish typical darky humor. Horton Spurr. an eccentric dancer who was with Eddie Cantor In the stage hit, “Kid Boots,” and at the same time w T as showing across the street in “Ziegfeld Follies,” promises to be another entertaining feature of the stage bill. Vernon Rathbum, saxophone virtuoso, presents as his offering on ths stage bill a in which he is the feaured soloist. Wally Jackson and Edgar Gardner present a travesty on radio broadcasting and have the assistance of Miss Dorothee Adams, w r ell-known Broadway “torch singer.” Some exciting gymnastics are promised the bill by the well-known Honey Family, formerly centerring circus features. “The Purchase Price,” which w r as adapted from the w’idely-read novel, “The Mud Lark,” by Arthur Stringer, presents its star. Barbara Stanwyck in the role of a night club singer who becomes a “picture bride.” Her adventures make an exciting story. Fox Gets Big Role Sidney Fox was yesterday assigned the feminine lead in “Merry-Go-Round,” the political play by George Sklar and Albert Malt. Edward Cahn will direct. Several people have had a hand in the adaptation of “Merry-Go-Round” to the screen, including Courtney Terrett and Tom Reed, both experienced newspaper men.

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WtS 1 SlLtt ■■■■■■■■lV. Wash. A Belmont llHU,,[♦jtim Double Feature ■■■■■l■l■i■■i■ Lukas in “THUNDER BELOW” Bob Steele in "RIDERS OF THE DESERT” Sunday Double Feature—Frances Dee In “STRAICGE CASE OF CLARA DEANE” Jean Harlow and Walter Hasten bn "BEAST OF THE CITT” NORTH SIDE pMVapiißlißMpMM Talbot at Find ML Tom Mix in “DESTRY RIDES AGAIN” Stindav—Double Feature—James Dunn In "SOCIETY GIRL" Ruth Chatterton in “RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH I S” Noble at Mass. ■ ii ■ Double ■■■■■■■■■■ Tom Moore “Cannonball Express” “South of Rio Grande” Sundav—Geo. O'Brien in "MYSTERY RANCH” and Zssu Pitts in "STEADY COMPANY" PRINCESS THEATER West Tenth at Holmes At#. Double Feature—Bob Steele In "SOUTH OF SANTA FE” and “LAW OF THE SEA” and J-^ar.ow Comedy—Serial—New*.