Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1933 Edition 02 — Page 5

FEB. 11, 1933

‘STATE FAIR’ AND ‘SIGN OF THE CROSS’ ARE NOW ON VIEW

Irene Dunne Plays Role of an English Chorus Girl in ‘The Secret of Madame Blanche,’ the Dramatic Feature on Current Bill at the Palace. MORF than 100 000 people, among them eight of the screen's leading stars, appear in Fox Film's “State Fair,” now at the Apollo theater. The stars of the production are Janet Gaynor, will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Faster, Dresser, Frank Craven and Victor Jory. 0 Miss Gaynor, Rogers, Foster and Miss Dresser are seen as members of a midwest farm family enjoying their annual outing at the state fair. Ayres plays a newspaper reporter who covers the fair for his paper, Miss Eilers portrays a carnival trapeze performer, Craven characterizes a country storekeeper and Jory appears as a barker.

Henry King, who directed “State Fair,” asserts that every man, woman and child who sees the picture will recognize a friend in it. “The characters of 'State Fair’ are the most human I’ve ever seen in a picture.” declared King. “And that goes without reservations. They are the sort of people we meet and talk with every day. “Furthermore, there is at least one in the group that every person will understand particularly well. It j may be the pretty farm girl played by Janet Gaynor, the farmer portrayed by Will Rogers or the carnival girl that Sally Eilers characterizes. Or perhops it will be the newspaper reporter Lew Ayres plays, I the matron played by Louise Dres- j ser, or the country storekeeper portrayed by Fiank Craven. Some- j where along the line, every person who sees the picture will recognize an especially kindred spirit. "It is characterization of this j type,” continued the director, “that { makes a story an ideal screen ve- i hide.” “State Fair” is the screen version | of Phli Stong's Literary Guild prize ! novel. a it n RIG SPECTACLE NOW AT THE INDIANA “The Sign of the Cross,” produced for Paramount by Cecil B. DeMille, which is playing at the Indiana theater this week, has a cast headed by Frederic March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert and Charles Laughton, and includes 7,MM) others. DeMille, noted for lavish pictures of biblical days and creator of “The Ten Commandments’ and “King of Kings,” is said to have surpassed all his previous w r ork in “The Sign of the Cross.” The gigantic sets used in the picture are all constructed in detail from originals. A duplication of the Circus Maximus. which was for several hundred years the scene of the bloody gladitorial combats and chariot races, has been produced in this spectacle of pagan Rome in the days of Nero. Also an elaborate Roman bath was created and is used by Miss Colbert in the picture. Duplications of several sections of Nero's Palace of Gold also used In “The Sign of the Cross.” Frederic March as the heroic prefect of Rome, sacrificing wealth, position, even life for love of a Christian maid who becomes a martyr, is said to have the most virile role in his entire career. Charles Laughton has the role of Nero and Claudette Colbert plays his wife. The picture is given a dramatic and touching finish when March and the Christian girl walk hand in hand to meet the fierce Numidian lions on the sands of the Circus Maximus arena. Another musical presentation is j being given by Ed Resener and the ! Indiana concert orchestra, with Lo- j ren Griffith, tenor. 000 DRAMA AND C OMEDY ON THE PALACE BILL Like a panorama of life is “The J Secret of Madame Blanche.” whieh I opeped an exclusive Indianapolis: engagement at Loew’s Palace thea- i ter Friday, for the latest drama j from the successful Metro-Goldwyn- } Mayer studios ranges over a period of thirty years, all crowded with ! graphic events shaping and coloring the varied career of its adventurous heroine. Irene Dunne as Sally, is a compelling figure in this screen adapta- j tion of Martin Brown’s stage play, I “The Lady.” To the glamour of the theatrical j atmosphere is added the quaintness | of the 90s realized in the sweep of costumes and the air of manners, j The man Sally as a chorus girl! marries proves worthless. He keeps! the marriage secret and because of fear commits suicide when he finds ! lie is to become a father. The child is taken from Miss Dunne by her embittered father-in- j law and it is not until several years j later that she is again united with | her son in a thrilling surprise ! climax. Phillips Holmes, Lionel Atwill, ! Una Merkel. C. Henry Gordon, Jean j Parker, Mitchell Lewis and Douglas | Walton appear in support cf Miss Dunne. “The Secret of Madame Blanche” j was directed by Charles Brabin. The laugh highlight of an otherwise serious program brings Laurel and Hardy in their latest vehicle, “Towed in a Hole.” As fish peddlers. these two seek to solve the serious and perplexing problem of the middle man in business. < As an extra added attraction, the first, talking picture ever made on the subject of "Technocracy” is offered. The film is entitled "Is Technocracy Right?" The most recent issue of the Hcarst Met rot one News rounds out the program. 0 0 0 “EMPLOYEES’ ENTRANCE” NOW AT THE CIRCLE "Employees’ Entrance.” a First National picture featuring Warren William and Loretta Young, is now feaured at the Circle. The locale of the picture is a huge department store of which Warren William as Kurt Anderson plays the general manager. He is a ruthless, unscrupulous, driving taskmaster, who rides roughshod over every one ; in his burning desire for business success. Even the president and vicepresident of the store are treated with little consideration by this general manager. Because hie has compiled a wonderful record and built up a remarkable volume of business for the store, his cruel attitude toward the employes is tolerated by the week-kneed owners. Loretta Young is cast as a model who for weeks has been trying to see the general manager. She finally meets him, rather unconventionally, and is given a Job in the store. She becomes acquainted with Wallace Ford, who is later made the assistant to Kurt Anderson. The young people love each other, I

but because the general manager believes that “marriage ties a man down too much to ever be successful in business” they are afraid to marry. This results in an unusual romance and leads to situations of dramatic intensity. Alice White makes her return to the screen after an absence of two years as the store vamp, who is the only one not afraid of the boss. Others in the cast are Allen Jenkins as the store detective, Ruth Donnelly as the general manager’s secretary, Albert Gran as the pomoous vice-president, Marjorie Gateson as the ritzy, insulted customer; Hale Hamilton as the president and Berton Churchill as the director and banker.

Lehr Will Offer New Floor Show Lyric Ballroom Plans Many Big Parties Next Week. . Dance lovers are promised a variety of specialty entertainment in the Lyric ballroom this coming week, it is announced by Harold Gaskill, manager. Elaborate plans have been laid for the appearance of specialty artists in the ballroom each evening of the week. “Whispering” Jack Wright and his orchestra continue to furnish dance music in the ballroom. A broadcast of the dance music will be made nightly over station WFBM. Monday night wil continue to feature a “Fore” party with Wright and his orchestra entertaining with a group of new dance melodies in addition to several comedy numbers featuring individual members of the orchestra. On Tuesday evening, the second preliminaries of the free style waltz contest will be held, for the selection of five couples to enter the semifinal contest which will be held on a later date. Ladies will be admitigil to the ballroom free on Wednesday evening as guests of the management. A gala affair is promised with a complete floor show, featuring the entire cast of the Raynor Lehr company which is headlining the stage bill at the Lyric, with Lehr acting as master of ceremonies.

Events in Neighborhoods

Talbott—Saturday “Sport Parade” and “Heritage of the Desert;” Sunday, “Night After Night” and “American Madness.” Belmont—Saturday, “The Match King” and "McKenna of the Mounted;” Sunday, “Washington Merry-Go-Round” and “The Devil Is Driving.” j

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Robert Winsted When the Civic Theater at the Playhouse opens "Young Woodley” for a run on Tuesday. Feb. 21, Robert Winsted will be in the cast. I Show Boat Presents MORREY BRENNAN Genial Giant of Jazz k| ’ and His Columbia Recording H Orchestra DANCE Saturday und Sunday VILLA VANESE 7800 Noble* vilte Road 808 McKITTRICK’S Ten-Piece Orchestra Cover. Saf.. *1 Couple— Min., lOt Couple Steam Heated! sskyS HARBOR drive out W. Wash. St. to Ben Davis, "ollow Municipal Airport Sien South. Sky Harbor Has Added More Heat!

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1— Walter Hampden comes to English’s for a two-day engagement, starting Friday, Feb. 24, in “Caponsacchi,” Friday and Saturday nights, and in “Hamlet,” Saturday matinee. 2 Mary Wigman, German dancer, will make her first Indianapolis appearance Wednesday night at Keith’s, under the management of Mrs. Nancy Martens.

1 — Even Will Rogers seems to love this sort of an embrace from Janet Gaynor. It happens in “State Fair,” now on the screen at the Apollo. 2 Here is Warren William, co-starred with Loretta Young, In a scene from “Employees’ Entrance,” now showing on the screen at the Circle theater.

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MARY Wigman and her group of twelve dancers will appear for the first time in Indianapolis next Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock in Keith's theater under the direction of the Martens Concert, Inc. In addition to the Cycle of Dance, “Der Weg” (The Way) in which Miss Wigman and her group have been triumphing on their present tour of America, will be two extra solo numbers. The dance that has won undying fame for Mary Wagman throughout the world is “Monotony Whirl.” This she has consented to do by special request, as it is not a dangerous dance, but a very exhausting one in that she symbolizes th. ~rh movement the ecstatic never ceasing which is the core of the dance. ————

For seven minutes she spins round and round on the same spot W’ith heroic energy, intensifying the circle with a whirling spiral of her arms and hands. It is said that spectators are drawn as if by hypnotic power into the very vortex of the dance.

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FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA Announces a Free Lecture on Christian Science By Robert Stanley Ross, C. S. B. of New York City, N. Y. Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, at Cadle Tabernacle, Monday Evening, at 8:00 o’ClocK February 13th, 1933 THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND *= __ AMUSEMENTS ENGLISH Saturday Matinee Feb. 24-25 Curtain rises: Evenings. 8:15: matinee. 2:15. Three final opportunities for Indianapolis to see THE LEADING ACTOR OF THE. AMERICAN STAGE WALTER HAMPDII In Two of his Greatest Successes fifty P/7/yA / Friday, Saturday Evenings "atmuluhskay based on OCBCPT B9OWH/MOS ’THEMUG 4NOTHf BOOK" Saturday Matinee Only *£jf m &lCL7TL C& 4/ W THC WTtSTDOtMi of*U TIMS 80TH PRESENTED AS HAYED BY MR.HAMPDEN OVER 500 TIMES SPECTACULAR SETTINGS CASTS OF -40. AH who thrilled by Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Bergerac” will wish U see him in these two plays. Ma i Orders Now S 1 **” j? rrh> ,3 JO, Ba| - •. si.i: Gaiiery, e WIUCI* aim Evt Oreh.. $2.75. *2.20: Bal.. *2.20. *1.65. *l.lO. Gal. 83e. 19',e lax Included

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It is calculated that she makes 120 revolutions of her body, spinning like a t p on full feet, not on toes, as in t pirouette. The complete program follows: “Der We*. Ein Tanzyklus; “The Wav.” dance cycle. First dance. Hvmnus. “Aufbruch,” “Departure.” Second dance. “Das Tor.” "The Gate.” SHOW Sat. and Sun. STATE FAIR GROUNDS 10 A. M. to 10:30 P. M. Admission Reduced to 40c —No Tax Ask Your Dealer About Feature Attractions

3 Bernie Cummins brings his nationally popular New Yorker orchestra to the Indiana roof ballroom Sunday night for one appearance only. 4 Esther Keough Is a member of the dancing chorus of the Raynor Lehr unit presenting “Small Town Boy,” now on the stage at the Lyric.

3 Charles Laughton is cast as the harp-playing Nero in “The Sign of the Cross," now at the Indiana. 4 Mary Brian plays one of the leads In “The Unwritten Law,” now on the Lyric screen. 5 Irene Dunne has a highly emotional role in “The Secret of Madame Blanche,” now at the Palace.

Third dance, solo bv Miss Wigman, “NachtEesang.'' “Song of the Night.” Fourth dance, “Traumvogel.” “Dreams.” Fifth dance. "Schatten.” “shadows.” Sixth dance. “Pastorale " Seventh dance, Hvmnus II “Ruckkehr.” “return.” “Montonie’ from Dance Cycle. “Celebration.” Miss Wigman. Dancers. Marv Wigman. Katia Bakalinskaia. Bella Chason. Gretl Curth Erika Crellek. Meta Menz. Pola Nirenska, Veronika Pataky. Ann Port. Gerda Reh, Else Schettler. Erika Triebsch. Vera Zahradnik. At the niano. Hanns Hastings. Percussion instruments are played by members of the dance group and the instruments have been imported from China and the Dutch Indies. 000 The third of Sunday afternoon musicals at the John Herron Art institute will be held Sunday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock. The program of Italian music will be given by Glen Friermood, baritone, with Frances Benner at the piano. The numbers are: i “Deh oiu a me” Giovanni Bononcini (1640-1703) "Laasciatemi morire” from “Ariama I ’.. Claudio Montevcrde < 1567-1643) DANCE, 10c Before 8:45 Tonite & Sunday CHATTERBOX BALLROOM Fountain Square Theater Bldg. 1105 Prospect St. HAL BAILEY’S ORCHESTRA AMUSEMENTS praiciiE N-O-W RAYNOR I VE&J LEHR iwkr/" * Thirty jwn! “Small Town In Addition 1 LESTER and LYOY 1 \ six it I n frank Shepard itr. n (/ ‘ P Scr e en^ UlU’

“Caro laccio” Francesco Gasparlnl (1668-1727) “Vlttorla. Mio Core” Giacomo Carissiml (1604-1674) II “Erl tu” from “The Masked Ball"... Guiseone Verdi (1813-1901) 111 “Fiocca la Neve.” “Snowflakes” Pietro Cimera "Perdutamente.” "Forgotten”. .Paola Tost! “Notte.” "Night” Ottorino Respighi “To Love. To Suffer” Pietro Tirindelli Cooper and Sidney in “Pick Up” Gary Cooper, who is being hailed by critics for his performance In “A Farewell to Arms,” and Sylvia Sidney, who has just finished a splendid portrayal in “Madame Butterfly,” will have the leads in the film version of Vina Delmar’s “Pick Up,” which B. P. Schulberg is to produce for Paramount. Marion Gering will direct the picture.

MOTION PICTURES 8 Great Stars in Picture^ v* ifavi®* \ TU,N6 ANO l! ° /fp 700 s °ON . ,it MgwMAM postia WHIHE DRESSER W fRAHPC CBAVEN VICTOR JORY — EXTRA ORGANEOGrE MOVIETONE nnTrwsv- ‘BARNYARD With “Stngin’ gam’* NEWS AAKIUON B |JNK’’ C Hi Jm ■ j Fannie hursts -baox street- 11 |k secrefJ.'Sl^/ BLANCHE /ip / IAURH / I PHILLIPS HOLMES I / UNA MERKEL I / lMDnia)Tf II LIONEL ATWILL I / *lh A Metn*. Jt ‘TO* u**' XI

Raynor Lehr Has Large Company of Singers. Dancers and Specialty Entertainers With Him in ‘Small-Town Boy/ Now on View at the Lyric Theater. “O MALL-TOWN BOY." featuring Raynor Lehr and his thirty players Is presented as the headline stage attraction on the Lyric stage this week. Other feature RKO vaudeville acts conclude the stage bill. “Unwritten Law',” co-starring Greta Skeets Gallagher and Mary Brian is the screen feature on view. “Small-Town Boy" is a play that carries both a moral and love them* and there is ample room for the speciality songs and dances which Lehr offers in conjunction with the presentation. Numerous musical numbers and vaudeville specialities are interspersed

during the action of the play. Several fast-moving elaborate dance routines are presented by the dancing chorus of sixteen girls and song numbers by individual members of the company. No law written down on the statute books has held as much interest for men and women as the unwritten law. around \hich has been built the screen feature, “The Unwritten Law.” co-starring Greta Nissen, Skeets Gallagher, Mary Brian. Lew Cody. Louise Fazenda and Hedda Hopper. The background of the picture Cummins to Play on the Roof Jac Broderick to Resume Dance Instructions at Ballroom. Bernie Cummins and his nationally famous New Yorkers are the first group of name artists to be engaged on the Indiana Roof since it adopted the combination night club and ballroom policy New Year’s eve. Acclaimed one of the most popular dance orchestras on the air today, Cummins and his New Yorkers will come here Sunday night from the Trianon ballroom, Chicago, from where they have been co-featured over radio station WGN, with Wayne King and his orchestra, opening and closing each radio program with their theme, “Dark Eyes.” In addition to the dance music of the New r Yorkers, the Roof will offer its usual program of floor show entertainment. Appearing on this week’s program will be Suzanne, an acrobatic dancer; Timme and Earl, who do fast taps; Clarence Carter, who will do a character song; Frank Ralston and Brownie, comedians, and Sicking and Saulkner, the “dancing dolls.” Dick Snyder and his Detroiters will remain during the coming week. Sari Maritza. Signs New Contract Sari Maritza. filmland’s youngest cosmpolite, celebrated the anniversary of her first negotiations with Paramount by signing anew contract as a featured player and receiving and assignment for the ingenue lead in an all-star comedy production, “Good Company,” opposite Richard Arlen, George Barbier, Alison Skipworth, Roland Young and Warren Hymer. Norman McLeod directs. Halperin to Make Pictures Negotiations have just been completed by Paramount with Victor and Edward Halperin, producers of the sensational “White Zombie,” for the production of a series of pictures by them at the company’s studio. The first of these will be “Supernatural,” a story by Garrett Westin, author of “White Zombie.”

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presents an opportunity to these who are interested in seeing how motion pictures are made, to learn all the tricks if the trade. The background of “Unwritten Law’’ shifts from a talking-picture studio to an ocean-going liner which is the location site of a picture that is being made as the story, “Unwritten Law,” develops. The story concerns a man who has searched for his former friend for twenty years and has finally found him as a successful motion picture producer in a Hollywood studio. When he arrives upon the scene, he learns that his former friend is about to marry his daughter. How should he wreak his vengeance? How should he save his daughter? That is the problem. Skeets Gallagher is cast as the studio press agent. Mary Brian plays the part of the young actress and Louise Fazenda pojtrays the commedienne of the company. Lew Cody as the producer. Purnell Pratt as an author, Theodore Von Elta as the director and Ernie Adama as the electrician are among the several others in characters that are typical of the Hollywood studios.

MOTION PICTURES SWj in I Working ■ , this is your pioturn . . Now or tm i tomorrow! I Warren William I Loretta Young I EMPLOYEES’ I ENTRANCE H Alice White, Wallace Ford HLJj ““I I.ln>d Hamilton in ■EL ‘4 ■ Mark Srnnptt ( nmedy *** I “Too Many Highball*” ';X A J j VINCENT LOPEZ ' I and Hand I’lnylng JL. B ''Hawaiian I iinia.j" ffls I Paramount Non f2?S’"4o*Sl i KIQOItS 10c AIWAYS “ See- ; | The Burning of i The Colossal Circus PUgMaximus! \ The Splendor of \ \ 'Nero’s Court and r> the Mad Emperor in all his Glory! NRSgL | \ A Roman Holiday as j? \ Only Nero Could \ Present One! <NmJ§4 \ I CECILS. DEMMES I 'OteSIGH imCROSS WITH MEDIUC MARCH CTI ELISSA LANDI CLAUDETTE COLBERT Wm J, CHARLES LAUGHTON \ A Paramount production with a cast of i 7,500 people. ’ NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS NORTH SIDE PnMßmmrjV Talbot at 22nd Double Zane Grey’* “HERITAGE OF THE DESERT’’ Marian Marsh. “Sport Parade” Snn. Donb'e Featnr'-Congtanre Cummin** “NIGHT AFTER NIGHT” Walter Huston-Pat O'Brien AMERICAN MADNESS" at Mat*. ■ Double feature Tom Mix “Mv Pal the King,” “The Widow in Searlet,” Sun. “Tets of the Storm Country,’* ‘Phantom Erpreia'* lth and Co'lege |V|’fT|}l]'llJ Special Sunday VHmmmmiM Double Featuro Harold Llovd-Constanee Cummin** “MOVIE CRAZY" Jack Holt-Lillian Mile* “MAN AGAINST WOMAN” WEST SIDE W'aih. A Belmont. IIHA,, [#] J| J Double Feature ■■MMMNUi Buck ione* • McKenna of the mounted” Warren William-Lilv Damita ’ THE MATCH KING" Sun. Double Feature- Edmund Low* “THE DEVIL IS DRIVING” lee Tracy-Constanee Cummin** “WASHINGTON MIMV GO ROUND" UHMM .'">lo W Mich. I X Double Feature William Powell "One Wav Pa*sa*e" “Man from Ariron*" Sun “Conquerors" “Cabin in the Cotton” Went 10th at Holme* Are. Double Feature —Ricardo Carte* “Phantom of Crestwood” Harry Carer “NIGHT RIDER” Sun. Paul Muni “I’m a Fugitive From a Chain Gang”