Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1932 — Page 7

OCT. 8, 1932.

CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER COMES MONDAY TO ENGLISH’S

Walter Huston Has Dramatic Role in ‘Kongo,’ Now on the Screen at the Palace; George M. Cohan Plays Lead in ‘The Phantom President.’ IN “Kongo," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, which opened Friday at Loew's Palace. Walter Huston lavishes his amazing skill of character acting In a dramatic way. It is a startling story, bringing in the mystery of the African jungle and the tangled lives oi the whites and blacks who fight for existence against the forces of nature Walter Huston plays "Deadlegs" Flint, who rules with a long snake whip from the wheelchair to which he has been confined by a man who stoic his wife and crippled him in the struggle. It is Flint’s relentless and desperate desire for revenge that has brought him to the heart

of the dark continent on the trail of his foe. C. Henry Gordon plays Gregg, the man Walter Huston is out to trap. Virginia Bruce, the recent bride of John Gilbert, is a white girl whom Flint plans to use in his fiendish scheme for revenge. Lupe Velez has a fiery role as a Portuguese girl, who serves as Flint's mistress. Conrad *Nagel is the white doctor, who has fallen victim to the black mans curse and seeks regeneration in love for the girl he rescues from Flint's toils. Credit is due William Cowen for his able direction of this throbbing melodrama. There are many deft touches, thrilling effects and startling action, and Cowen has handled all with a sure grip and a knowing eye. All the action of ' Kongo" takes place in the swamp and fever infested jungles of interior Africa. A large expanse of jungles, with trading post and stockade, and a river winding through, was built for the production under the able guidance Cowen. Hundreds of blacks in the grotesque paint and the traditional ornaments of the superstitious African natives, take part. The cunning of the whites in holding them in subjection through the fears of voodoo magic, is vividly shown. Featurettes comprising the balance of the bill include Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts in their newest comedy hit, “Alum and Eve,” a Pete Smith Sport subject "Out Board Motor Racing" and the most recent Issue of the Hearst Mctrotone News. a a COHAN MAKES lIIS TALKING DEBUT HERE From medicine man to President! From an itinerant medicine show, George M. Cohan is catapulted into the White House in “The Phantom President,” Paramount's new-sea-son comedy now showing at the Circle theater, with Claudette Colbert and Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durante in other featured roles. The nation is bemoaning the fact that "the country needs a man.” Into the breach steps the medicine man with a panacea for national ills. Senators Ronkton, Melrose, Sarah Scranton and Pitcairn, the “Big Four,” are plotting the nomination of Theodore K. Blair, financier, played by Cohan. They are concerned, however, about his lack of "sex appeal." Missing their train after a visit to Blair's home, they come upon Cohan, as Doc Varney, in his medicine show, and are astonished by his exact resemblance to Blair.

The “Big Four” conceive the idea of persuading the fast-talking, medicine-man to assume Blair's identity. Blair dislikes the idea, but is assured that the hoax will elect him and that Varney will fade out of the scene immediately after election. Meanwhile, Varney has met Felicia Hammond (Claudette Colbert), daughter of an ex-Presi-dent, and the object of Blair’s affections, and agrees to the hoax because of his rising interest in her. After many amusing situations that come out of this agreement, the picture is brought to an amusing and exciting climax. The rest of the program this week includes Donald Novis, famous national radio star in a comedy presentation, a screen souvenir and Paramount news reel. B B B COMEDY TEAM FEATURED AT APOLLO The thought of a priso.. football team is funny to begin with, but when it is carried out to the "X----trme in absurd equations, when the entire prison is given a collegiate atmosphere with h ,nds, cheering sections and an enthusiastic alumni with quaint and original methods of obtaining new gridiron talent, the basic idea easily becomes a laugh riot. Just how funny the whole nonsensical whim can be is demonstrated by the R. K. 0.-Radio picture. "Hold 'Em, Jail,” now at the Apollo, with Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Edna May Oliver and Rosco Ates in the leading roles. The vehicle is thought to be the happiest selection possible for the two versatile comedians, and has been described as delightful nonsense. There never was and never will be a prison like Bidemore penitentiary, which is where Wheeler and Woolsey land when they boast of their Imaginary football prowess in a tough dive where the “scouts” for Bidemore are looking for talent. Also, there never was a warden like Edgar Kennedy, who had a sister like Edna May Oliver, who had a niece like pretty Betty Grable. who supplies that necessary “love 'interest'’ in collaboration with Wheeler. The stuttering Roscoe Ates is the

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Bidemore quarter back who heartlessly accepts a parole at a critical moment of the “big game,” and nearly wTecks Bidemor’s chances for the "Penitentiary Conference Championship.” Wheeler and Woolsey win for Bidemore, but not until they have resorted to every device of the alert gag writer's mind. Others in the cast are Warren Hymer and Paul Hurst. Norman Taurog directed. Short subjects supplementing the featured attraction on the program are Movietone News, Aesop’s Fables and Screen Oddities. nun “LIFE BEGINS* NOW AT INDIANA “Life Begins,” the first picture to give an intimate glimpse into a maternity ward, is now showing at the Indiana theater for a week’s engagement. Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, and Frank McHugh are featured in this picture, which is said to start anew page in movie history, “Life Begins” is unusual in both theme and treatment. The story concerns the lives and tragedies of the women confined in a maternity ward of a hospital. The delicate subject it deals with has been tactfully, yet most effectively handled by the producers. The story starts with a young woman serving a long prison term for murder, being permitted to enter the maternity ward to give birth to her child. Then the attention of the audience is drawn to the other inmates of the ward. Among them is Florette, a pleasure loving lady of the night clubs, who disdains her twins until they are born. Also there is a snobbish, intellectual lady who had fed on the cold, psychological material about the upbringing of babies, and who changes her mind about such things when her child is brought into the world. Also a psychopathic patient, who believes she is to have a child, plays an important part in the story. All these individual stories are woven together in the confines of the maternity ward, which was the only set used by First National in the making of “Life Begins.” Elliott Nugent and James Flood directed the picture, which was adapted to the screen by Earl Baldwin.

Tremaine Is on Roof Tonight Charlie Davis Returns to Indiana Ballroom Sunday. Paul Tremaine and his orchestra, who are to play a one-night dance engagement in the Indiana roof ballroom conight, are known to the-ater-goers and radio fans alike. They have been a steady feature over the CBS from Yoeng's Chinese restaurant, New York City, for more than two years, and have made a series of Warner Vitaphone shorts, some of which have been shown in local downtown theaters. Their unique instrumentation, featuring violin sextet, string quartet, string octette, brass quintet, saxophone soloist, saxophone octette, euphonium duo, fanfare trio, vocal trio, double vocal octette, piano quartette and a harp soloist, have won for them the title “Aristocrats of Modem Dance Music.” Besides being featured in leading dance resorts throughout the country Tremaine has headlined for the Keith-Albee-Orpheum major circuit, Charlie Davis and his orchestra will return to the roof tomorrow evening for the Sunday “ladies’ night" program, and will again feature the Call sisters and Ruby. The Four Riff brothers, rhythm boys, under the direction of Slim Green, will introduce a group of new numbers in the ballroom tonight. including “Is Rhythm Necessary?” Quecnie Makes a Hit . William Cowan, directing “Kongo'' for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, wishes there were more actors like Queenie, the histrionic chimpanzee. Qi eenie broke out of her cage one mi 'tght and when Errol Taggart, ass. nt director, came on the set earh .ext morning Queenie was on the set where she had spent the whole night re-playng her scene.

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1— Walter Hampden, famous actor, will bring one of his most successful characterizations, Cyrano de Bergerac, to English’s, Oct. 19 and 20. 2 Cornelia Otis Skinner brings her solo show to English’s for two nights, next Monday and Tuesday. She is pictured as Jane Seymour > in “The Wives of Henry VIII.”

I—Here is anew idea for a footbali costume, but that is the attire Mr. Woolsey wears with Mr. Wheeler in “Hold ’Em Jail,” now at the Apollo. 2.—Walter Huston looks like he has had a bad night. He has in “Kongo,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer jungle romance, now showing at the Palace.

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FROM all indications the Martens concert series will open on Friday evening, Oct. 21, at Keith's, to a capacity audience, to hear Fritz Kreisler, violinist, in recital. Orders are being received at the Martens office, 33 Monument Circle, from every part of the state, not only for the Kreisler concert, but for the season of music. The Martens management offer Mary Wigman and her dance group, Feb. 15; Paderewski, Sunday afternoon, March 5; the Mendelssohn choir and Giovanni Martinelli, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera company, guest artist, April 24.

The privilege of reserving season tickets, paying for them two weeks in advance of each concert date scheduled, met with instant favor from the music loving public of Indianapolis and Indiana. Fritz Kreisler, world famous violinist, has, as one might expect, a large collection of violins. Among them are four famous instruments, a Stradivarius, a Gagliano and two violins of Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu. Asked for his favorites among fiddles, the violinist answered: “The ones I love best are those made by Guarnerius and Stradivarius. But if any one asks me which I love better of the two, I can only say—just as it’s hard for a man to tell whether he prefers brunets or blonds, or vice versa, even so I can not say which I prefer. In the matter of violins I am and always will be polygamous.”

AMUSEMENTS MARTENS CONCERTS, Inc.— Keith’s Opera House LAST WEEK—SEASON RESERVATIONS Pay for Them 2 Weeks Before Each Concert Opening Concert—Friday Eve., Oct. 21 KREISLER—VioIin Recital MARY And Her Grou P —Dancing Sensation *■■***■ ■ W* IwIPAI M Wednesday Evening, February 15 MARTINn I I Lendtaff Tenor Metropolitan Opera n I lIICiLLI Monday Evening, April 24. Cfifliiftl nuniß Prices for 3 Concerts—s9.9o, *8.25, MtllUtLdoUHN unUIK $6.00, $4.95, 53.30. Incl. Tax. DAnrDrU/Clf I Sunday Afternoon, March 5 rMUtnLWDIM Prices $3.30, *2.75, $2.20, $1.65, Incl. Tax SEATS ON SALE MARTENS TICKET OFFICE 33 Monument Circle LI. 8921

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The following is the program that Kreisler has chosen for his Indianapolis audience: “Kreutzer Sonta" Beethoven Adagio sostenuto-Presto. Andante con variazioni. Presto. “Concerto No. 3” (G .Major) Mozart Allegro. Adagio. Rondeau l Allegro'. “Piece En Forme De Habanera”... Ravel “La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin"... .Debussy “Spanish Dance” De-Falla-Kreislef “Tango” Albeniz-Kreisler “Caprice Viennios” “Liebesfreud” Kreisler B B B Vincent Burke at English’s tells me that two recently booked attractions include Donald Brian in a revival of “The Merry Widow,” Oct. 38 and 29. and Lillian Gish in “Camille,” Nov. 11 and 12. .. b u The Town Hall Series will open at English's at 11 a. m. Friday,-Oct. -28, with Countess Margit Bethlen. wife of Hungary’s prime minister and a member of the old nobility. Her theme will be “The Life and Duties of a Prime Minister’s Wife.” On Friday. Nov. 4, Vicki Baum, author of “Grand Hotel,” will speak. B tt B Brian Hooker’s masterly version

3 Paul Tremaine and his orchestra will play a one night's engagement tonight at the Indiana Roof. 4 One of the Andrini Brothers who are heading the new vaudeville bill at the Lyric with Sylvia and Clemence. 5 Lona and Lari, Mexican dancers, will dance tonight at the Hoosier Athlete Club.

3 Joan Bennett doesn’t look so wild in this scene from “Wild Girl,” now on the Lyric screen. 4 Loretta Young has a powerful mother dramatic role in “Life Begins,” now at the Indiana. 5 George M. Cohan is making his talking picture debut in “The Phantom President,” now at the Circle,

of Edmond Rostand's heroic comedy, “Cyrano de Bergerac,” in which Walter Hampden will appear at English's Oct. 19 and 20, has never been-presented on the stage except by Hampden. Written under commission for him. this adaption is the outright property, of Hampden who, for self protection, has refused all offers from other actors and stock companies who desired to use it. French-English scholars have declared the Hooker achievement to be far more than a mere adaption, saying that it is a re-creation of Rostand's flaming and glamorous original, in which all the fire and spirit of the French masterpiece are caught and remolded in equally glowing English.

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Lyric Starts Second Week of New Season Today, With Sylvia and Clemence on Stage and Joan Bennett in ‘Wild Girl’ on Screen. AFTER enjoying enormous success in London and in this country from New York to the Pacific coast in "The Wives of Henry’ VTTI. * Cornelia Otis Skinner has evolved another solo-drama. “The Empress Eugene,” which had its world premiere in London at the Haymarket theater this summer and which will reach English's on Monday for two nights prior to its introduction to New York. When she comes to the English, Miss Skinner will reveal several episodes in the life of that beautiful commoner. Eugene de Montijo, who became the wife and widow of the unfortunate Napoleon 111. The gifted solo actress introduces ner audience to Eugenie in the

Bois de Boulogne shortly before her marriage to Louis Napoleon. We see her next at Compiegne. in the full glory of the second empire. The third scene finds her in hiding in the home of Dr. Evans, an American dentist, whither she has fled after the defeat at Sedan. The fourth scene reveals her as host to Queen Victoria, who came to condole with her after the death of her son. the Prince Imperial, in the Zulu war. The final scene takes place in Eugenie's quarters in Paris a year before her death. Miss Skinner also will give a performance of “The Wives of Henry VIII.” her first work of its kind, which, like “The Empress Eugenie,” lends itself to an original technique which brings her character sketches nearer to actual theater. a a a LYRIC STARTS ITS SECOND WEEK Today marks the opening of the second week of RKO vaudeville and pictures at the Lyric. The management promises an all-round comedy, sing’ng and dancing group of artists. Sylvia and Clemence and Andrini Brothers, billed as “Stepping Out,” are said to do much more than dance. The act is a compound of steps, music, comedy and imitations. The Andrini Brothers, supporting the stars, are considered among the foremost banjoists and accordionists. having been a recent feature of the revue, ‘“A Night in Spain.” Frank Radcliff in “ Dark Doings,” with Genee Rodgers, will hold the j second feature spot. They are of- j sering a program of humorous var- | iations in music. This team is said i to rate among the top-notch colored i comedians. Other acts on the new bill in- ; elude the Alexanders in “Practice j Makes Perfect;’ Charlotte Arren I

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and Johnny Broderick in “Opera in the Ruff;” Wilson Brothers, singing comedians and the Liazeed troupe, featuring “Twelve Whirlwind Dazzlers.” The screen feature brings Charles Farrell in his latest release, “Wild Girl." supported by Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy and Eugene Pallette. The story is based on Bret Harte’s “Salomy Jane's Kiss." and made by Raoul Walsh, director of "In Old Arizona." Farrell is said to have one of the most romantic and colorful roles of his career as Joan Bennett's lover. Fox News and other short subjects will complete the program.

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