Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1933 — Page 5

FEB. 18, 1933

’ ARLISS IS A VERY HUMAN MONARCH IN ‘KING’S VACATION’

Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante Are Teamed Together in the Comedy, *What! No Beer,’ Current Screen Feature at Palace. "Fats" Waller and Pork Chops” Curry of the WLW Rhythm Club are appearing on the stage of the Indiana theater this week. The screen attraction is George Arliss in "The King's Vacation” with Dick Powell, former Indianapolis favorite in the cast. "Fats” Waller is the peppy master of ceremonis of the program which rose quickly to be one of the featured programs on the air. He is a pianist noted for his hot" rhythm and is being presented on the stage with Pork Chops” Curry, the smoky-footed hoofer, who is another feature of the Rhythm Club. Their act is similar to their work on the air.

Besides George Arliss and Dick Powell in "The King's Vacation,” there are Florence Arliss, the wife of George, and Patricia Ellis nd Dudley Digges. Arliss has the r rt of the king who is forced to retire from his kingdom due to an uprising. He is tired of all the pomp and ceremony of the court and goes to a small town to rejoin his first wife after an absence of eighteen years. There he hopes to settle down to a quiet and peaceful life but he finds his wife has changed and gone high-brow. His daughter is in love with a young mechanic and inventor played by Dick Powell. Her mother objects to Powell but Arliss takes a liking to him and helps his daughter to marry him. The story is a light and pleasant affair full of humor and action that offers Arliss plenty of opportunity his particular type of entertainment. an n TWO COMEDIANS HEAD MOVIE CAST At last the wets and the drys can agree on something. Those on either side who go to see the beer problem expounded by Buster Keaton and Jimmy “Schnozzle” Durante in "What! No Beer?” which opened Friday at Loew’s Palace for an exclusive Indianapolis engagement, will agree that as beer makers they are a pair of swell comedians. With malice toward none, and ’* hearty laughter for all, Buster and the "Schnozzle” operate brewery in this hilarious tale. It all happens when Buster, who is as dry as Jimmy Durante is wet, and “Schnozzle” leaves the polls on election day and, quicker than they know' w'hat has happened, find themselves at the nclm of a brewery, with two rival beer-running factions battling over their output. Buster lets himself be persuaded into the brewing business by the enterprising Durante because he has fallen in love with a girl he believes to be a society debutante, but who turns out to be the affinity of one of the beer-running barons. And when the police raid their brew'ery, w'hich is turning out 1,000 barrels a day, the comedians find themselves with the problem of getting rid of the evidence—which they do in a very novel way. Aiding the stars in provoking mirth are Phyllis Barry as the girl, the stuttering Roscoe Ates as the master brewer; John Miljan and Edward Brophy as the leaders of the beer gangs; Henry Armietta, Charles Dunbar and Charles Giblyn. Short subjects comprising the balance of the program will include a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Colortone Revue, "Hollywood Premiere”; a James Fitz Patrick travel talk entitled “Rio”; an M-G-M Oddity, “Whispering Bill,” and the most recent issue of the Hearst Metrotone News. 4 a ts a WEIRD MYSTERY IS ON CIRCLE SCREEN Warner Brothers w'eird, exciting thriller, “The Mystery of the Wax Museum” is now on view at the Circle. The story deals with a series of mysterious disappearances of both living persons and human bodies, and the appearance of a terrifying monster. After a fire, which melts and destroys his London collection of wax figures of famous beauties and infamous characters of history, Igor, a Russian sculptor, comes to a large American city, where his increasing display of amazingly lifelike statues in the nude, arouses the suspicions of the police, and the press. On the statement of her hardboiled editor, Frank McHugh, that it is ft “woman's mystery,'’ Glenda Farrell as a wisecracking reporter, is sent to solve the case, singlehanded. This she does, and in addition, saves the life of a girl “model” who is about to be the victim of a maniac, and sees that a number of twisted love affairs, including her own, go straight. The picture ts photographed entirely in Technicolor with unusual lighting effects used to heighten the fascinating mystery angles that dominate the production. The direction has been handled by Michael Curtiz. Important roles are enacted by Lionel Atwill, as the sculptor; Allen Gavin Gordon. Edwin Maxwell. Holmes Herbert, Arthur Edmund Carews, and Monxica Bannister. The story, taken from the play by Charles S. Belden, was adapted for the screen by Don Mullally and Carl Erickson. * n * "STATE FAIR" IS NOW IN SECOND WEEK The intriguing characters of Phil Stong's Literary Guild prize novel, "State Fair," are thought to have been made to live and breathe by the stars of the new photoplay of the same name which is now in its * second week at the Apollo theater. And these stars include Janet Gaynor. Will Rogers, Saly Eilers, Lew Ayres. Norman Foster, Louise Dresser, Frank Craven, and Victor Jory. Miss Gaynor as Mary, Rogers as Abel Frake, Lew Ayres as the reporter, Sally Eilers as the trapeze artist, Norman Foster as Wayne

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Frake, and Miss Dresser as Melissa Frake, are reported to be perfect in their various roles. Even Blue Boy, the elder Frake's championship boar comes in for part of the honors, as his various moods en route to the fair and during the spectacle of judging creates many a heart rendering situation to Abel Frake. Other complications of the heart see Margy fall in love with the young reporter and Wayne has an affair with intriguing trapeze artist. During ell the happenings Mrs. Frake is busy winning blue ribbons with her best species of pickles and mince mpat. Henry King, director, also comes in for a great portion of the praise due to his direction. Short subjects supplement the featured attraction. *

Artists to Be Guests of Wright Many Stage Celebrities to Visit Lyric Ballroom. Arrangements have been completed for a variety of entertainment by specialty artists this coming week in the Lyric ballroom. "Whispering" Jack Wright and his orchestra are playing an unlimited engagement in the ballroom. Dance music will be broadcast nightly from the ballroom o\ er station WFBM. In addition to a complete floor show the ballroom management announces that the “Three Rhythm Kings,” a colored harmony trio, will be a regular nightly specialty feature. A “Whoopie” party will be held in the ballroom on Sunday night with Wright and his orchestra playing a group of 1932 dance hits. The regular weeKy “Ford” party will be held on Monday night and Tuesday will see the finals of the free style waltz contest, the winning couple being declared the state free style waltz champions. Prizes will be awarded all contestants in the finals. On Wednesday night, the orchestra will feature a dreamy waltz every other dance, with Raynor Lehr, who is headlining the stage attraction at the Lyric, as the guest star of the evening. “Party” night will be celebrated Thursday with Fred Safford, vocalist, and Joe and Roy, violin and accordion duo. featured specialty artists who will make a personal appearance in the ballroom. Friday night will be “BargainWaltz" night with the orchestra contributing “Blue” melodies throughout the evening.

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Paderewski Indianapolis is one of the few cities in which Paderewski, greatest of all pianists, will visit during his present two months' tour. Mrs. Nancy Martens will present him in recital at Keith's. Sunday afternoon, March 5.

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The Brookside Players will present “Sauce for the Goslings.” a oneact comedy directed by Edward Green, before the Leisure Hour Club at Brookside Community House next Wednesday night. Feb. 22. The cast of the playlet includes Miss Myra Rowley. Miss Christina Valentine. Miss oiive Fagin. PietjeNell Lentz, Kenneth E. Lemons. Jack White and John E. Kleinhenz.

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1— Walter Hampden as he appears in the title role of “Caponsacchi,” to be at English’s Friday and Saturday nights, Feb. 24 and 25. “Hamlet” will be given Saturday matinee. 2 Jack Chesterfield plays the title role in "Young Woodley,” w'hich opens for a run at the Playhouse next Tuesday night. It is a Civic theater production.

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1— Jimmy Durante, beer suds, and Buster Keaton are teamed up together in "What! No Beer,” now on the Palace screen. 2 Nell O'Day is George O’Brien’s leading lady in “Smoke Lightning,” now at the Lyric. 3 George Arliss is a very human king in “The King’s Vacation,” now on view at the Indiana.

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THE Married Peoples class of the Irvington Presbyterian church will present something new in the way of minstrelsy in the church auditorium Friday. Feb. 24. Instead of the customery minstrel setup, the scene will be laid on the deck of the good ship “Jolly Roger.” The chorus, made up of men and women, will furnish the background for the black face or end men and the specialties, many of which will be presented by passengers on the ship.

Fay Gullion will act as captain and interlocutor. Black face or end men will be costumed as crew members on board the ship. Rastus and Pee Wee, cabin boys, will be played by Ralph Klare and Clell Rice; “Snowball,” the cook, by Howard Dirks; Mose, a stevedore, by Harold Stewart; Sambo, the lazy gob. by Ivan Hyfield, and “Midnight,” a roustabout, by Joe G. Curry. The entire chorus of twenty and the interlocutor will be dressed in naval attire. Jokes, songs and specialties will form the nucleus of the performance. Buttz Silver Dragon orchestra will provide the music and specialties will include James Westover, accordion artist ; Miss Mildred Haas, blues soloist; ’’Banjo Bill" Jolly, juvenile artist; Charles Schneider,, tenor soloist of last year's production, “In Old Vienna,” and “Syncopation in Tajis," by Junior Greenberg. Ralph Klare, well-known locally

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in minstrel work, will furnish one of the high spots of the show with the recitation, “Woodman, Spare That Tree,” and Clell Rice will sing two selections with the chorus. Klare, general director of the production is assisted by the following persons: Mrs. Buttz, in charge of music; James Boercher, stage manager; Harold Stewart, publicity and ticket sales; Ned Perkins, business manager. BUB' The Indianapolis Maennerchor will make its second appearance of the season at the Academy of Music Monday night at 8:15. The soloist will be Heinrich Schlusnus, baritone of the Berlin State Opera. BBS On Sunday afternoon. March 5 at 3 o'clock at Keith's theater, the greatest personality and musician of the day, Ignace Jan Paderewski, will give a recital under the direction of the Martens Concerts, Inc. Paderewski is now on his nineteenth tour of America. Indiana and

3 “Fats” Waller is the main part of the stage show now on view at the Indiana theater. 4 One of the members of “The Three Rhythm Kings.” a harmony instrumental trio, now at the Lyric theater. 5 Louis Armstrong, noted tvumpetcr, will wage a musical battle tonight with Dick Snyder and his orchestra at the Indiana Roof ballroom.

4 Janet Gaynor is the sweet country girl who learns a great deal at the lowa state fair in “State Fair,” now in its second week at the Apollo. 5 Lionel Atwill is a wizard at makeup as the Russian wax model expert in “The Mystery of the Wax Museum,” now at the Circle theater.

Indianapolis are indeed fortunate to have once more the privilege of hearing him, as his stay in America this season is only two months, and Indianapolis is the only city in Indiana he will visit. The complete program follows: “Chromatic Pantasie and Fug-tie" Bach "Sonata On. 27, No. 2 C Sharp Minor” Beethoven Adagio sostenuto. Allegretto. Presto Agitato. “Sonata F sharp minor. Op. 11”. Schumann Introdixione. Allegro vivace. Aria. Scherzo e intermezzo. Finale. "Ballade G minor.” Two Etudes—"A fiat malor” (Posthumous). “C sharp minor. No. 3 Op. 10” Chopin “Nocturne B ma.lor Op. 62" Chopin "Valse A flat Op. 42" Chopin “Nocturme a Raguse" Schelling "Theme Varie. Op. 16” Paderewski “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10" Liszt Paramount Buys Perkins’ Novel “Mike,” a novel by Grace Perkins soon to appear in Liberty magazine, has been purchased by Paramount for filming. Zoe Akins willl make the adaptation.

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No Blues The reason that Kate Smith, queen of radio, does not sing blues songs over the air is because her audiences have written their preferences definitely in favor of the cheerful, comforting program of songs she now renders.

Mystery Cast Is Completed The cast of “The Mysterious Rider” has been completed. It consists of Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Gail Patrick, Niles Welch, Irving Pichel, Clarence Wilson. Sherwood Bailey, Cora Sue Collins, Buster Miles, Captain E. H. Calvert, Warren Hymer and Berton Churchill. The Zane Grey story will be filmed entirely on location. It is being directed by Fred Allen.

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Raynor Lehr Now Presenting ‘Puppy Love.’ a Comedy, on Lyric Stage: Walter Hampden Booked at English's in Two Great Roles. TOPPING the stage bill at the Lyric this week. Raynor Lehr and his company of thirty players offer a musical presentation. "Puppy Love,” featuring singers, dancers, comedians, musical and vaudeville specialties. Other feature vaudeville acts supplement the stage attraction. On the screen, “Smoke Lightning," co-starring George O Brien and Nell O'Day, is shown. “Puppy Love” has been characterized the farce with a laugh every minute. The story revolves about a series of complications that begin with the hold-up of a society man on his way to a week-end party; and of a wilful old aunt who persists in i— —

misunderstanding. Numerous musical and vaudeville specialties are interwoven throughout the comedy skit. Singers, danc- , ers and comedians, supported by a I dancing chorus of sixteen girls, augments Lehr's stage production. Daring feats of horsemanship, which feature all of George O Brien's western films, are doubly prominent in the star's newest Fox picture, "Smoke Lijghtning.’ The action and excitement that distinguish the western star’s offer- j ings are amply supplied ni this up-to-date tale of an adventurous cowpuncher w T ho attempts to protect an orphan girl's heritage, from a band of crooks. His efforts involve him in plenty of adventures, including a battle along the top of a speeding express train. The locales of the picture promise to be surprisingly beautiful and included wdth the dramatic quality, the pictorial aspects are said td make this picture an exceptional offering. a a a HAMPDEN RETURN IN TWO GREAT ROLES. Walter Hampden, whose Cyrano de Bergerac was the high light of the first part of the current theatrical season throughout America, is now on a transcontinental tour for the first time with two other of his great successes, “Caponsacchi,” which has been called a companion piece to Cyrano, and the immortal “Hamlet.” “Caponsacchi,” like “Cyrano,” is a play of great souls and noble deeds, of a man w'ho loves where he can never expect to win, but risks life, position, honor, to succor and serve her whom he adores. Written by Arthur Goodrich and based on Robert Browning’s incomparable epic, “The Ring and the Book,” “Caponsacchi” carries the spectator back to one of the blood - ; iest periods of seventeenth century Italy, with its lusts, hatreds and intrigue, and, through medium of a murder trial in the Vatcan court, reveals a romance so exalted that in Italy it is placed beside that of Dante and Beatrice, and Petrarch and Laura. In Guiseppe Caponsacchi, the “soldier-saint” or “warrior-priest,” w'hose championship of the beautiful and persecuted Pompilia Comparini led him to transgress the laws of church and state only to be vindicated in the end by the pope himself, Mr. Hampden has a role of magnificent scope and variety, presenting him not only as priest but as cavalier and mountebank as well. This is a role which he has played over 500 times. “Hamlet” always has been Mr. Hampden’s major Shakespearean characterization. This role, too, he haS played upw'ard of 500 times, beginning in London when he was 25—the youngest Hamlet ever seen in the English theater. Mr. Hampden will play ‘'Caponsacchi” at English's Friday and Saturday night, Feb. 24 and 25, with a matinee of “Hamlet” on Saturday. Here Is An Idea Buster Keaton says ije learns all the new songs by picking them up on his automobile radio while driving. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedian takes a dr ve—and the next day strums a song on his ukulele. Rubinoff Makes Name Rubinoff and his violin have been picked by Max Fleischer to furnish music for anew Talkartoon featuring that sprightly little vamp, Betty Boop. Radio enthusiasts will catch a glimpse of Rubinoff in early scenes of the picture.

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Battle of Music to Be Staged Noted Trumpeter to Be at Indiana Ballroom Tonight. Louis Armstrong, acknowledged by musicians as the world's greatest trumpeter, will bring his Rhythm orchestra to the Indiana Roof tonight for a battle of music with Dick Synder and his Detroiters, the Roof's current musical feature. The musical battle should be one of the most interesting waged here in many a day. according to Tom Devine of the Roof, who calls attention to the vast difference in the styles of Snyder and Armstrong. The forthcoming engagement will be the first the internationally famous trumpet player has played on the Roof. Armstrong, now featured at the Parace theater. Chicago, has just recently returned from a tour of England. The former severely criticised Armstrong for leaving the beaten musical paths, while "Rhythm” hailed him as a creative artist.

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Saturday—At the Belmont. “The Most Dangerous Game” and "Gold;” Talbott, “Man Against Woman.” Sunday—Talbott, “You Said a Mouthful” and “Little Orphan Annie;” Belmont, “Silver Dollar” and "Little Orphan Annie.” One Move After Another Verree Teasdale had just got settled in her new home when she found one she liked better. Recently she fixed up her M-G-M dressing-room the way she wanted it, then the company loaned her to a studio in another part of town. Miss Teasdale says life is just one move after another.

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