Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1932 — Page 5

SEPT. 24, 1932

MERIVALE IN ‘CYNARA’ WILL OPEN ENGLISH’S NEW SEASON

Marlene Dietrich Plays Role of Mother in ‘Blonde Venus/ ‘ Now at the Circle; ‘Grand Hotel’ in Second and Final Week at the Palace. MARLENE DIETRICH, German actress of many film successes, is said to chalk up another outstanding performance in "Blonde Venus, - ’ which is now showing at the Circle theater. Miss Dietrich in her role as the “Blonde Venus’’ proves she can play a mother role. It is an entirely different part that Miss Dietrich plays in this picture. She portrays first a wife whose entire life is centered on her husband and small son. Because of the illness of her husband she goes through many viscissitudes and finds that she is in love with two men Fighting desperately to hold both, she is caught in a dilemma which

makes her an outcast, wandering from city to city, trying to escape the direful results of her surcharged emotional nature. The supporting caste includes Herbert Marshall of the stage, Cary Grant, new screen find; Dickie Moore, Gertrude Short, Gene Morgan and Rita La Roy. The supplementary program includes a comedy “If I’m Elected,” another novelty, "Nickelette” and a Paramount News reel. ' 0 FOX MOVIE FEATURED AT APOLLO Sparkling vrith nicely timed comedy moments and offering many thrilis and surprises as the story unfolds, “Hat Check Girl,” Fox romantic photoplay, is appearing currently at the Apollo, where it will remain throtgh Thursday next. Sally Ellers again captures the charm displayed in “Bad Girl," it is thought, with her sophisticated and self-reliant portrayal as the check girl at a big New York night club, and Ben Lyon is reported _lo make an ideal screen partner as the Park avenue playboy who falls sot Sally in a big way. The romance is skillfully built up from a most unconventional beginning, when Lyon, returning unexpectedly from an out-of-town trip finds Sally asleep in his apartment. Things progress swiftly to the proposal point, but here Sally balks; the difference in their social worlds, along with an ‘“affair” in her past, prove too much for her to contend with. Lyon's insistence, however, finally wins her over, but on the eve of their wedding, Sally’s former lover is found dead, and Lyon is held on a murder charge. How matters are finally adjusted forms the interesting climax of the story which Director Sidney Lanfield is reported to have handled with his usual deftness. Ginger Rogers, who will be remembered locally as having appeared in person on innumerable occasions, has the leading suporting role, as Miss Eilers’ chum and fellow-worker. Others in the cast are Monroe Owsley, Arthur Pierson and Purnell Pratt. Short subjects including Movietone News, ‘Sport Slants” and S. S. Van Dine's “Campus Mystery” supplements the featured attraction on the program. 000 “GRAND HOTEL” IS HELD OVER By the popular demand of the Indianapolis public “Grand Hotel,” the sen sational Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama with a million dollar cast, is being held over for a second and positively final week. This engagement is an exclusive run for the Palace. After this one engagement “Grand Hotel” will be gone from this city forever. It will never be shown in any other theater in this city at any other time. Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore take the leading featured roles of the production with such well-known stars and featured players of the talking screen and stage as Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Morgan Wallace, Tully Marshall, Purnell B. Pratt, Murray Kinnell, Edwin Maxwell and scores of others supporting them. In all there are over seventy roles of vital importance to the production. Miss Garbo appears as Grusinskaya, a celebrated Russian ballerina. John Barrymore plays the part of a worthless Baron, who comes to rob the ballerina, but stays to fall in love with her instead. Joan Crawford gives her greatest performance to date as a seductive stenographer, who is willing to sell herself to any one who has the money. Wallace Beery is cast as a financial genius, who is fighting with all his ingenuity to stave off financial disaster. Lionel Barrymore pprtrays the role of a consumptive factory clerk who is having one last fling' at life by spending his life's savings at the hotel. Lewis Stone appears as a sheil-shocked doctor and Jean Hersholt enacts the hotel's head porter. The entire story takes place within the confines of a fashionable Berlin hotel. a 0 0 NEW MYSTERY MOVIE AT APOLLO The Night of June 13,” a drama set in the suburbs of a large eastern city, featuring Charles Ruggles Clive Brook. Lila Lee, Gene Ravmond, Frances Dee. Mary Boland

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Adrianne Allen and Charley Grapewin, opened Friday at the Indiana. The story deals with the manner in which the lives of four families, living in adjacent houses on a suburban streeet, are tangled together. Brook is in the role of a young husband whose wife, Miss Allen, is hysterically jealous of him. When she suspects him of an affair with Miss Lee, their next-door neighbor, she commits suicide. Brook discovers her body and beside it a note in which she accuses Miss Lee of having been responsible for her act. To protect the girl, Brook destroys the note. The result is that the authorities charge him with murder. At the trial, each of the neighbors, to cover up some petty deficiency of his own, testifies damagingly against prook. Miss Lee has disappeared meanwhile, and knows nothing of the happenings. Ultimately, in a dramatic climax, the truth comes out, and Brook, in the very shadow of the gallows, is freed. In addition to this picture the program will be augmented with several short-reel subjects, including the Paramount News.

Davis Is _ New Draw on Roof Freddie Bergin to Close His Engagement Sun* day Night. Freddie Bergin, smiling pianist, who has been presenting his nationally famous Vagabonds in the Indiana Roof Ballroom since its opening, will leave there after Sunday night’s dance. Charlie Davis and his orchestra will open on the Roof Ballroom, Tuesday night. Accompanying Davis will be the Call Sisters and Ruby, a trio which created much comment among persons who heard it during a summer engagement at an Indiana lake. Davis, master of ceremonies at the Indiana theater for three years, organized his dance orchestra here at the ballroom early last spring, using the nucleus of the band which appeared with him on the theater stage. Their engagement on the Roof is to be limited. Ladies night, successfully introduced as a weekly feature in the ballroom last Sunday evening, will be repeated again tomorrow evening. The Riff Brothers, four rhythm boys, and Miss Betty Jane Wolfe, “mistress of the blues” will be added attractions on tonight’s Mardi Gras program in the ballroom.

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On next Saturday night at the Playhouse, the Civic theater opens its season with ‘ As Husbs,nds Go.” Mrs. Irving Fauvre will have an important role.

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1— Sally Filers and Ben Lyon seem to have a nice time in “Hat Check Girl,” now at the Apo^o. 2 Wallace Beery and John Barymore in “Grand Hotel,” now at the Palace.

I—Eulah Machinger, contralto, will be one of the noted singers in the operas to be presented soon at Butler fieldhouse by the Chicago opera company. I—Mary Wigman and her dancing group will be one of the attractions to be offered by Mrs. Nancy Martens at Keith’s theater this season.

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ON Sept. 28 at 8 o’clock in the evening, the Municipal Gardens drama club, sponsored by the women’s department club of the Gardens will present a comedy-drama, “O Joy San,” written by Katherind Kavanaugh. This drama was originally produced by the Blunkhall stock company at the famous Globe theater in Kansas City, Mo., April 14, 1916.

The stroy concerns a young American banker who falls in love with and marries a Japanese girl. His mother arrives unexpectedly with the girl who has jilted him. Together they force his Japanese wife tc relinquish him by a trick. Eventually complications are ended and the lovers are united. Walter Creason will be stage manager for the production. Ushers and hostesses will be dressed in Japanese costumes. Hazel Linville will have the principal role of O Joy San. Other parts will be Stephen Shaw, James Forsyth; Mrs. Alexander Shaw, his mother, Mrs. Harriet Kiefer; Helen Reese, Fay Jones; Otako, Helen Judy; Yushi, jinrinkisha man, Detrich Swanner. Kenneth Hughes is directing the play which will be open to the public without charge. A musical prelude of Japanese music will be given by Kathryn Carlisle, coloratura soprano, who will sing selections from “Madame Butterfly;” Marjorie Alexander, mezzosoprano; Margaret Rasbach will play a group of oriental piano solos. • This is the first play of the season given by the drama group. Next month a short playlet will be given at the business meeting of the club. A colonial drama will be given by the drama department for the Department Club at the Municipal Gardens in November. mett The announcement of the season of music under the direction of the Martens Concerts, Inc., at Keith’s opera house, opening with the violinist, Fritz Kreisler, on Friday evening. Oct. 21. brought instant and gratifying responses from the musical public. Kreisler will be heard on the Friday evening of the state teachers’ convention. Other attractions booked by the Martens Concerts, Inc., will present

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Mary Wigham and her dance group, Feb. 15; Ignace Jan Paderewski in recital Sunday afternoon March 5; Mendelssohn choir with Giovanni Martinelli, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, as soloist, and in concerted numbers with the choir. Cornelia Otis Skinner has been booked for two nights at English’s in her intimate impressions. The dates are Oct. 10 and 11. MUM I have received the following letter, signed “M. S.” and I am glad to print it. Dear Sir—l have finished reading your comment in the Sept. 12th issue of the Indianapolis Times covering the local theaters ottering, and I wish to take advantage of*your offer to hear from readers regarding your opinion on the picture • Back Street” at the Apollo theater. Many times I have been in full accord with your comment and criticisms on local theater fare, but here is one case where I beg to differ with you entirely, as I believe your opinion of the picture "Back Street” is rather misleading and unfair. , In my estimation, Fannie Hurst’s picture Back Street” is a very good picture and very good entertainment. The picture is a good one because the story is very interesting and true to life. It has the interest of the theater-goer because it is not a tailor-made picture like a lot of those put out by the studios which try to make u P.J vith expensive scenery and fancy clothes what they lack in real quality of the story itself. It is also my privilege to disagree with vou when you say that John Boles is miscast as Walter Saxel and that correct acting is done by George Meeker. In my opinion, just the opposite is true, as the fellow that plays that part of the son, is miscast, as he is too old for the part he is playing, and I believe that John Boles does a very good job of acting in this picture. Also nis voice shows to very good advantage, even though he does not sing in the picture, as perhaps you and myself regretted. Your statement that if the picture did not have that honest treatment~on the part of Miss Dunne, the story would nave sounded ridiculous, is a gross injustice to the author, Fannie Hurst, as I think the story is a very good one, and I believe a tally of literary men will show this to be a fact. i. e., as far as modern writers are concerned. You have been kind enough to ask your readers to drop you a few lines expressing their opinion, so now let me see if you will be kind enough to publish this letter of comment. Also I would like to hear through your columns of the comment of others to see if I am entirely mistaken. Please pardon my signing. Just an interested friend. M. S.

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3 Clive Brook is dramatic most of the time in “The Night of June 13,” now at the Indiana. 4 Marlene Dietrich is a good-bad mother with a son in “Blonde Venus,” now at the Circle.

3 Philip Merivale has the lead In “Cynara,” opening at English’s Monday night. 4 A member of the Wanderers, a musical organization at the Capitol today and Sunday. 5 Charlie Davis and his orchestra open an engagement Tuesday at the Indiana ballroom.

Mary Astor Returns to Screen Well-Known Actress to Have Chief Role in ‘Those We Love.’ Exactly one month and one day after Mary Astor’s daughter was born, Miss Astor returned to the studios to take up her career where she left off. On June 15, Marylyn Thorpe was born to Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. On July 16, the mother and baby doing well, thank you, Miss Astor reported to the California Tiffany Studios, where production started on the World Wide picture, “Those We Love,” based on the Broadway stage play by George Abbott and S. K. Lauren. Consistent with World Wide’s policy this season to draw scrSng name attractions from the open market for its nroductions, a highpowered cast has been signed for "Those We Love.” The player roster includes Mary Astor, Kenneth Mac Kenna, Lilyan Tashman, Jason Robards, Tommy Conlon, Bert Roach, Josephine Dunn, Hale Hamilton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Elizabeth Forrester, Harvey, Harvey Clark and Edward Maxwell.

Riverside

Riverside amusement park will be open tonight and Sunday afternoon and night, it is announced, with ride fares cut in half. All the concessions will be in operation, and there will be skating in the big rink during all the week-end sessions. Manager Roy Byers will “scoop” the weather man by staging a snowball party at the roller rink next Tuesday night, with half a ton of synthetic snow on hand for the event. A recent “snowball fight” at the rink was so heartily enjoyed by the skaters that an encore has been demanded.

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Mrs. Herbert Woollen

The chairman of the membership drive for the Indiana State Symphony Society Is Mrs. Herbert Woollen. A pep meeting for workers will be held Thursday night at 6:30 o’clock in the auditorium of the American Central Life building. The drive proper begins Monday, Oct. 3.

Here Is Latest Game “Spinner Golf” is the latest sound-stage game played stt the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. This noval arrangement was put up y the property man with the aid ot some chalk, a piece of rope and a golf stick. Members of the cast appearing in “Payment Deferred” spend their leisure time during the lunch hour knocking the rope around a circle which is divided into numbered segments. The person obtaining the highest score in a hlaf-dozen strokes wins.

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Mrs. Irving Fauvre, Mrs. Ricca Scott Titus and Norman Green Top Cast of ‘As Husbands Go/ Which Will Open Civic Theater Season. ENGLISH'S theater will open its new season Monday night, when Lee Shubert offers his latest dramatic success, “Cynara,” starring Philip Merh'ale, regarded as the foremost actor of the “legitimate” stage. Playgoers are warned not to confuse this new play with Hampden's “Cyrano de Bergerac,” which is described as a classic of the theater of twenty years ago, whereas Merivale’s “Cynara” is a play of today presenting a modem version of the age old eternal triangle. "Cynara” is the story of a man who tried to remain faithful to his wife while he is being reluctantly led astray by a pretty dress model. The theme really brings forth the question, “What should a wife's course be in the event of proven infidelity on the part of her husband?”

The play is from the pens of Harold M. Harwood and R. Gore Browne, and when presented first on this continent in New York was hailed by all critics as one of the finest dramas in recent years. It is an adaptation of a popular novel by Browne called “An Imperfect Lover," which in turn was inspired by Ernest Dowson's famous poem, which will be recalled by the familiar line, “I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.” 7’his poem also provided the title for the play. “Cynara” was originally presented in London, where in more prosperous days it ran for over a solid year. Last season Lee Shubert brought it to New York and it played in one theater for twentysix weeks. It comes here directly from a very successful engagement in Chicago. Supporting Philip Merivale is a large and notable cast headed by Sir Guy Standing, The engagement is for three days, with a matinee Wednesday afternoon. 0 0 0 CIVIC GETS READY FOR NEW SEASON Final rehearsals are to take place at the Civic theater this week on “As Husbands Go,” under the direction of Hale Mac Keen, in preparation for the opening Saturday evening, Oct. 1, of the play for a run of seven performances. The annual membership drive is nearing completiop, and reservations are already being made for the opening night. “As Husbands Go,” which will start the Civic theater’s eighteenth season, is a comedy by Rachel Crothers, who also wrote “Let Us Be Gay.” Mrs. Irving Fauvre, Mrs. Ricca Scott Titus and Norman Green are the headlined members of the cast. Others who will take part are Charles Guy Bolte, Jack Arthur, Betty Noland, Mrs. J. D. Peirce, James Bowling and Edith May Sprague. “As Husbands Go,” which was one of the Burns Mantle’s “ten best plays” a year ago, is the story of two women from Dubuque, la., on their annual jaunt to Europe. They meet an English author and | an idle but charming Frenchman. These two men, possessed of continental manners, fascinate the two women, whose lives at home seem to them to be humdrum in contrast with Paris. The women decide to return home, break family ties and marry their foreign lovers. Back in America, the glamor of Paris is far away and the outlook is less rosy. A continental air is not exactly suitable for Dubuque, la. “As Husbands Go” will be given seven performances nightly (except Sunday), beginning next Saturday evening.

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Opera Will Be Given at Butler Athletic Fieldhouse to Be Scene of Great Music Soon. Opera as a gigantic spectacle in the open air is the desire of those who recently presented to tremendous Chicago audiences some of Verdi’s famous operas at Soldier Field stadium in Chicago. This is the hope of Maestro Salmaggi, director of the Chicago Opera Company, which brings to Indianapolis the same cast of singers, chorus and elaborate scenery for their presentations at Butler university, Oct. 6 and 7. The opening performance will be “II Trovatore,” Thursday evening, followed by “Rigoletto” Friday evening. Popular prices will prevail and more than two thousand seats have been set aside to be sold at 50 cents each. Originally it was planned to use the stadium for these performances but owing to the uncertainty of the weather they will be given in the field house at Butler university with a possibility of a presentation of “Carmen” on Saturday evening. These presentations will be under the personal direction of Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi, noted Italian operatic impresario, who has made a great success of open air opera. More than 75,000 persons witnessed the program in Soldier Field, while 48,000 witnessed one performance at the Yankee baseball park, in New York city. Butler university is arranging the field house to sea,t at least ten thousand to hear this galaxy of operatic stars already assigned to the stellar roles of these popular classics.

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Martens Concerts, Inc. Keith s Opera House Three Subscribed Concerts Friday Evening:, Oct. 21st FRITZ KREISLER Violinist Wednesday Evening, February 15th Dancing Sensation of Present Day MARY WIGMAN And Her Group Monday Evening, April 24th MENDELSSOHN CHOIR MARTINELLI Soloist Leading: Tenor Metropolitan Opera Cos. Prices for Three Concerts $9.90, $8.25, $6.60, $4.95, and $3.30, Including Gov. Tax. Sunday Afternoon, March sth PADEREWSKI In Recital Prices $3.30, $2.75, $2.20, $1.65, Including Gov. Tax. Order Seats Now Martens Ticket Office 33 Monument Circle LI. 8921

BUTLER University Announces The Chicago OPERA Under the direction of Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi with original Soldier Field (Chicago) cast playing to over 75,000 people in 3 days— GRAND OPERA AT POPULAR PRICES FIELDHOUSE Butler University 2.000 Seats at 50c Thursday, Oct. 6th, at 8:15 IL TROVATORE Friday, Oct 7th, at 8:15 RIGOLETTO Gorgeous Ballet— Chorus and Full ORCHESTRA Ticket Sale Begins Monday, L. S. Ayres & Cos., Accommodation Desk, Main Floor. Also Butler University. Prices - • 50c, SI.OO $1.50, $2.00, (Plus Tax)