Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1933 — Page 5

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BIG NAME CAST PLAYS THE LEADS IN ‘OF THEE I SING’

Ernest Truex. as an Expert Murder Mystery Novelist, Is Held Captive by a Hard-Boiled Gang of Crooks in ‘Whistling in the Dark.’ at Palace. PLAYING the same role that he did in the New York stage production of "Whistling in the Dark." Ernest Truex is entirely at home in the movie version which is now at the Palace for an exclusive local engagement. Asa stage play, "Whistling in the Dark" ran for over eleven months on Broadway and also had a good road tour. Truex. who is hailed as the "king-pin" comedian of the great white way. and who is the only American to win a permanent place in both the New York and London theatrical world, is said to repeat his fine stage portrayal on the screen for this picture.

London critics hail Truex as the man who kept London in a con- ; tinuous gale of laughter for more than four years. He also starred in “The P’all Guy," a play which attracted international attention. The authors. Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter, turned Truex into an author for Whistling In the Dark"—a braggart writer of best-selling mystery stories, who brags to a band of crooks that he can plan and execute a "perfect crime." The crooks then hold Truex and Una Merkel, his fiancee, prisoner, until he makes good his boast. Death for both is the penalty of failure. Compelled to go through with it, Truex conceives a plan to murder a man on a speeding train several hundred miles away. He then seeks a way of warning his intended victim. Ernest Truex and Una Markel are supported by Johnny Hines, John Miljan, Edward Arnold, Joe Cawthorne, Nat Pendleton. Tenen Holtz, Marcelle Corday and Jack Perry. Elliot Nugent, playwright and director, both wrote the screen adaptation and directed this production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Short subjects comprising the balance of the program includes a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Colortone Revue entitled, “Wild People." a Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon comic, “Just Dogs,’ an M-G-M oddity, "Duck Hunters’ Paradise” and the most recent issue of the Hearst Metrotone News. a a a STUART WALKER DIRECTED THIS ONE. Gene and Glenn, two of America’‘s foremost radio entertainers, are now on the stage of the Indiana theater for a week engagement with them Jake and Lena. Frcdric March and Claude Colbert are seen in “Tonight Is Ours ’ on the screen. Alison Skipworth, who achieved success in “Madame Racketeer," “Night After Night,” and "If I Had a Million,” heads the supporting cast which also includes Arthur Byron and Paul Cavanaugh. Gene and Glenn became famous bv their broadcasts over stations WLW and WTAM. They are wellknown as a singing team and their comedy relief is furnished by the antics of Jake and Lena, two characters interpreted by Gene. Glenn is noted for his piano playing and acts as the foil for the comedy of Jake and Lena. Their stage program will be in the form of one of their radio broadcasts. As an added attraction Jake will try to perform some new tricks of magic that he has been practicing. Frederic March and Claudette Colbert are starred together for the fourth time in “Tonight Is Ours.” Noel Con wad wrote the play. It is a Paramount picture directed by Stuart Walker, well-known to Indianapolis theatergoers. Tile film has to do with two romantic young people who meet at a masked ball in Paris, fall madly in love at first sight, and spend a few giddy, glorious weeks togerner. Through an unexpected turn of events, they are separated and do not meet again until a year later. Desperate, they spend the might before her marriage together. But, just as all seems lost, fate again steps in to solve their problems for them. a a a NEW MELODRAMA ON VIEW AT THE CIRCLE “The Billion Dollar Scandal,” a new melodrama dealing with the expose of a nation-wide swindle, is on view at the Circle. Robert Armstrong heads the cast in the role of Fingers Partos. who, from a humble masseur, suddenly becomes the man of the hour, and the “saviour of 120 millions” when he tells, through the columns of a newspaper, the details of a gigantic swindle, the plotting of which he has overtieard in his gym class for business men. The story first picks up Fingers ir the penitentiary with his two pals. Later, out on parole the car in which they are riding strikes that of Masterson, a millionaire banker, and When Masterson is thrown from the car. unconscious, the nimble fingers of Fingers, ex-masseur, revive him. Masterson is so impressed that he hires Fingers and organizes a gym class of his friends. The rich men talk freely before Fingers, thinking he is too dumb to know what it's all about. He picks up their tips and makes himself and his pals rich on the stock market. His principal object however, is to set his younger brother up in business. but when the brother falls in love with Masterson’s daughter, Masterson. angered, breaks Fingers, in order to get rid of the young man. At the Invitation of Griswold, a newspaper editor, Fingers talks, and what he has to say results in the suicide of three of the millionaires

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Snyder to Play on the Roof New Floor Show Will Open Wednesday at Indiana Ballroom. A two weeks’ engagement will be j closed on the Indiana roof Sunday ; evening by Bernie Young and his j band and the Harlem Hot Shots. The roof, now open for dancing ; each Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, will offer Dick Snyder and his Detroiters as its next at- j traction. They will be accompanied by anew floor show troupe. Snyder and his Detroiters’ Wednesday opening will be timely, since they are termed the “waltz princes,” and ever# other dance on the roof each Wednesday evening is a waltz. The roof continues to offer beginners’ dance instructions on each Monday evening from 8:30 until 10.30. Ivan Saranoff and Corinpc Andre are in charge of the weekly class. They are concentrating theii teaching efforts upon the fundamental principles of the fox trot and waltz. They are being assisted during the instructions by a group ol dancers who lend the beginners practical experience by dancing with them. The Harlem Hot Shot floor show is shown on the roof once each night. It is scheduled for 11:30 this evening and for 10:45 Sunday night. Featured in the Harlem tribe are the Four Riffs, who are doing a comedy skit; Bo Jangles Jr., a boy dancer; Mae Board, who does a novelty entitded the “Crazy Dance”; Billie and Dollie, eccentric dance team; Clarence Carter and Margaret Montgomery, singers, and a singing and dancing chorus. involved, and Atlanta for the rest of them. tt tt ts “HOT PEPPER" FILM AT APOLLO Four screen stars and a dancing and singing chorus of beautiful girls in settings that are reputed to be the last word in lavishness are featured in the Fox comedy, “Hot Pepper,” depicting the most recent adventures of the immortal Marines, | Flagg and Quirt, and appearing as the current attraction being: featured on the screen of the Apollo during the current week, closing Thursday next. In this latest comedy, Quirt and Flagg, remembered for their escapades in "What Price Glory” and; "The Cock-Eyed World,” have cast, aside their uniforms and appear in evening clothes. They battle for the loves of women and live the life; of Reilly, ro to speak, just as in; their former vehicles, only on a! more hilarious scale, according to! advance reports. The two ex-marines become the j life of Broadway, rival night club owners, and their cases form the i background for the lively doing, where women and song vie with; wine and money. As the story unfolds, Flagg discovers a little stowaway on one of his rum ships. He attempts to send her back to South America but she 1 puts up a fight that for action is j said to outrank anything displayed! on the screen in recent weeks. Tlie role is portrayed by Lupe Velez. Flagg is really the favorite of the girl, who has become a night club entertainer, until the appearance of the suave Quirt. Then Quirt gets the girl and Flagg the air. They battle mostly 1 for the affections of the little fire-! brand who has become known as \ Pepper. El Brendel is seen in the comeAv role, while others appearing in the cast are Lilian Bond. Gloria Roy and Booth Howard. Dudley Nichols wrote the new story, but fully pre-! served the characteristics of Quirt j and Flagg as originated by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Short subjects round out the program.

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1— Jim and Walt two men from this rity who have made good on the stage and on the air are now appearing on the new bill at the Lyric. 2 Larry Fly is niansst and accordion player with Jack Wright’s orchestra now at the Lyric ballroom. 3 Gene and Glenn have the honor of being the entire stage show now on view at the Indiana.

1— Constance Cummings is the good looking star in “Billion Dollar Scandal,” which opens today at the Circle. In thte co-star role will be found Robert Armstrong. 2 Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Lupe Velez seem to be having a good time in this scene from “Hot Pepper,” now showing at the Apollo.

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INDIANAPOLIS last night paid tribute to its own pianist, Bomar Cramer, at Caleb Mills hall. And the artist gave a concert of such brilliancy, color and technical power that it excelled any recital I ever have heard him give. Caleb Mills hall was a proper setting for this Indianapolis artist*, who has grown so tremendously in technical ability in the last few years. It also was a worthy cause, as Cramer was presented by Sigma Alpha lota and Mu Phi Epsilon to increase the benefit scholarship funds.

The personal mannerisms of a concert pianist are nearly as important as his program. Cramer has developed a definitely satisfying concert stage appearance. All the time I felt that he was definitely sure of himself. He seemed to find unusual charm and light beauty in Oswald's “II Neige.” Then an oriental spell took! hold of the audience when Cramer played so gorgeously beautiful “Marche Chinoise,” by StravinskiSzanto. Delicate shading was found in Rachmaninoff’s charming “Etude i “Tableau, Op. 33, No. 6.” And De-;

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Indianapolis’ Favorite RAYNOR LEHR AND HIS 30-STARS—3O IN ADDITION TO JIM and WALT The WLW Stars -IN PERSON AND OTHER BIG ACTS R. K. O. VAUDEVILLE AND ON THE SCREEN Spencer TRACY Marian NIXON WITH Sam Hardy • Lila Lee Sarah Padden FACE in the SKY He painted his dream girl's picture for millions to see but he kept her heart for himself. WHAT A SHOW:

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bussy came in for skillful and sympathetic handling of a most pleasing theme. But it was in the opening number, Brahm's “Sonata, Op. 2,’ that the great power and the finished technique of Cramer was revealed. His artistry and mastery of this sonata was c o tremendous that I heard people in the audience whisper, “Magnificent,” and “Splendid,” during the playing of this work. The applause of the very lafge audience at the close of this sonata

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4 Lucille Page will be the chief dancer with “The Vanities” when it •comes to English’s, Monday, Feb. 6, for t'lree days. 5 Cecil Lean is one of the stars with “Os Thee I Sing,” which opens a three-day engagement at English's Monday night. 6Ed Resener is playing a violin solo number from “Rose Marie,” with the Indiana theater concert orchestra this week.

3 Ernest Truex and Una Merkel arc in a dangerous position when this scene in “Whistling in the Dark” is flashed on the screen at the Palace. 4 Spencer Tracy plays the lead in “Face in the Sky,” now on view at the Lyric. 5 Here is Fredric March making love to Claudette Colbert in “Tonight Is Ours,” now at the Indiana.

proved the verdict of those who whispered their approval long before the demonstration of applause. Cramer has grown so tremendously in his art until today he is becoming recognized as one of the real leaders among the younger artists. And he deserves the recognition. He is going farther and farther. It was necessary for me to leave to fill other engagements before the recital was over. And I left with regret. a a a I will interview Donald Meek, the vice-president in “Os Thee I Sing” over WKBF at 1 p. m. Tuesday. Meek is well known on the stage and the screen and he has kindly consented to the interview. This show opens Monday at English’s for three days. a a a Frank Cantwell announces that he has secured Morrey Brennan, known as “The Giant of Jazz ’ and his well-known orchestra for the Showboat. Under the new policy at the Showboat, Tuesday night will be known as celebrity night. "Red ’

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Hadley, singer and trumpet player, has joined Brennan. a a a On next Friday night at the Jordan Music Hall, Y. W. C. A.. Mrs. Llilian M. Lemon of the Cosmopolitan School of Music, will present Sylvia Mae McCann and Bessie Lee Patterson in a two piano recital. He Loves to Swim Early to rise for a swim in the ocean is Franchot Tone’s formula for keeping in trim for screen work on his new role in the Joan Craw-ford-Gary Cooper starring picture, "Today We Live,” at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Coming from the Ne wYork stage, he took a beach house immediately upon his arrival.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Opens a Three-Day Engagement at English’s Monday Night: Raynor Lehr and Company Offers a New Musical Revue. ONE of the season's best revues, "Os Thee I Sing.” the Pulitzer prize winner of 1931 and 1932. will be the attraction at English's for three days, starting Monday. The combination which is responsible for the production of this musical comedy is considered in theatrical circles as well-nigh unbeatable. Each member of it has to his credit a record of achievement in the theater that has made his name a password wherever things theatrical are being considered important enough for serious discussion and their combined efforts have produced a musical play that has proved the sensation of the current year in New York and Chicago theatricals. Sam H. Harris, George Kaufmai, Morrie Ryskind and George and Ira Gershwin are names to conjure with.

“Os Thee I Sing" concerns itself i with many national follies, with Washington and politics and political machinery as its target. According to the authors, the time has come when the women voters want “a perfect lover” for President. Who cares for such major problems as unemployment and moratoriums? But to have a romantic element, such a candidate must be handsome and unmarried. The very election depends upon a happy ending in his story. How. they ask, is the national committee to find a wife? Why not an Atlantic City contest? So one is held, and the prize beauty is chosen. But it so happens that the hero falls in love with another girl, and they campaign together on a platform of "America Needs a Happy Ending.” Nothing is left unscathed, and the torchlight processions, the informal hotel room meeting ground of the national committee, a political rally in Madison Square Garden, the pageant of the inauguration, the hectic life of the White House, the inconsequential ramblings of the senate, and the gullibility of the American public are ridiculed. The company, which presents the musical satire to be seen in Indianapolis, has been selected especially, for the cities west of New York. It includes Oscar Shaw in the role of “Wintergreen,” candidate for President; Harriotte Lake, as the candidate's sweetheart; Donald Meek, who runs for Vice-President; Cecil Lean. A1 Sexton, Paul Everton, Francis Pierlot, Adrian Rosley, Victoria Cummings. Audrey Christie, John Cherry, William H. Pringle and Abe Reynolds. a a a LEHR IS NOW IN HIS THIRD WEEK Raynor Lehr and his company of thirty stars headline the stage attraction at the Lyric this coming week, offering as their consecutive week’s presentation “Oddities,” an elaborate musical revue. As an added stage feature .the Lyric management announces that “Jim and Walt,” Indianapolis’ radio favorites, are on view for a week's engagement. “Face in the Sky,‘” a Fox picture, starring Marian Nixon, Spencer Tracy and Stuart Erwin, is the screen attraction for the week. “Oddities,” produced by and starring Raynor Lehr, presents an elaborately staged musical revue featuring singers, dancers and comedians, assisted by a chorus of dancing girls. Specialty artists of both movie and stage fame will be featured throughout the revue. “Jim and Walt,” who are topping the bill of feature #RKO vaudeville acts, should be well-known to the-ater-goers as well as radio listeners. In their act, Jim and Walt offer several late musical hits which they have helped to make popular over the air. Other RKO vaudeville acts on the stage bill include the Six Buccaneers. an acrobatic act, and Boice and Marsh in a comedy skit entitled, “After The Ride.” “Face in The Sky,” a Fox picture, starring Marian Nixon, Spencer Tracy and Stuart Erwin, brings to the screen a picture that is distinctly American in theme. The plot concerns a traveling sign-painter always dreaming of his glorious future. He meets a little

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Eddie Cantor

Here is Eddie Cantor all dolled up like a bull fighter. He appears this way in “The Kid From Spain,” which opens next Friday at the Palace.

country girl, who is likewise a dreamer. With the aid of his clumsy helper, the painter aids her in escaping from her drab existence on a Vermont farm, only to fall in love with her. They are separated when the farmer overtakes them but meet again under unique circumstances in New York City. Sam Hardy, Sarah Padden. Frank McGlynn, Jr., and Russell Simpson head the supporting cast.

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