Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1933 — Page 6

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THE THREE BARRYMORES ARE TOGETHER IN ‘RASPUTIN’

Richard Dix, Alison Skipworth, Wheeler and Woolsey Have Roles in New Movies That Will Make One Laugh and Think: Other News of Openings. ' Rasputin and the Empress. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's spectacle of the fall of the Romanoff dynasty, is now on view at Loew's Palace for an exclusive Indianapolis engagement. John. Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, the Royal Family of the American stace, are brought together for the first time on the talking screen in this production. Headed by the Barrymores the cart includes the names of such wellknown stage and screen talent a.s Diana Wynyard, English stage star; Ralph Morgan, who will be remembered for his portrayal of “Charlie" in Strange Interlude"; Tad Alexander, also a member of the ‘Strange Interlude, cast; C. Henry Gordon,;

the secret service man of “Mata. Harl," Edward Arnold, Gustav von Seyflertitz, Jean Parker, Louise Ciosser Haie, Purnell B. Pratt and! others too numerous to mention. Lionel Earrymore has the role of \ the Mad Monk, Rasputin. John j Barrymore plays the romantic Prince Chegodiefl. Ethel is seen j as the ill-fated czarina. Ralph Morgan portrays the czar. Tad j Alexander is the invalid czarevitch. ! Diana Wynyard enacts the beautiful Russian princess Natasha. Edward Arnold is the court physician and C. Henry Gordon plays the Grand Duke Igor. The story, slightly Actionized, tells of the strange monk, Rasputin, who, by curing the little Russian czarevitch of a deadly ailment, makes the superstitious czar and czarina his slaves, rules Russia j through them, precipitates a riot of '• orgy, meddles with politics and finally plunges Russia into the j World war. The story was written for the 1 screen by Charles Mac Arthur and j the film was directed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Richard Boleslavsky, author, war hero and for a number of years a director in the Moscow art theater. Alexander Toluboff, famous Russian architect, assisted in planning the sets of this production, which are said to be true replicas of the original build- | ings, cathedrals, palaces and courts j a a a

NEW SKIPWORTH COMEDY IS NOW AT CIRCLE A LADY’S PROFESSION," a comedy featuring Alison Skipworth, Roland Young and Sari Maritza opened yesterday at the Circle theater. The picture centers around a couple of penniless Britons, who possess more ancestors than money, and resolve to balance matters by coming to America, where, so they understand, there’s more money than ancestors. Miss Skipworth is one of the pair; Young, cast as her brother, the other. Miss Maritza is the latter’s daughter. Young goes across the ocean first, and when Miss Skipworth and Miss Maritza finally reach New York, it is to find him engaged in operation of a speakeasy. It's not a profitable venture, however, he explains. The bootleggers : who supply him with his stock are I terrified at the thought of what I will happen to them when prohibi- i tion is repealed, and are attempting I to force him to take a heavy quota of liquor, which he can’t possibly sell. Miss Skipworth, shocked at the whole idea at first, nevertheless takes a hand in matters. She’ll have nothing to do with the bootleggers, she says, and she proceeds, with English stubbornness and English thoroughness, to convince the bootleggers of that fact. She succeeds. and the beaten racketeers are left holding the proverbial bag. A romance between Miss Maritza and Kent Taylor runs through the picture. a a a BURLESQUE ON AFRICA IS ON VIEW. Wheeler and Woolsey are appearing at the Indiana all this week in their latest comedy, "So This Is Africa." That dark and mysterious continent has been a lodcstone to hundreds of explorers, fortune-hunters eager for gold and diamonds, ofter a refuge for men of the world down on their luck, and many times in the past few years the fascinating subject for many adventurous and melodramatic motion pictures. Wheeler and Woolsey. took careful estimate of the emphasis that film producers and the public had placed upon the African lure. Then they decided that much too much emphasis had been placed upon Africa, elephants, wild animals, wild men. wild life and calls of the wild. Result, "So This Is Africa.” This picture boldly puts Africa in its proper place. It reveals for the first time on the talking scroon a secret of that wild and strange continent that has never been known before. (The wildest thing in Africa is not the animals, not the men, not the life and not the calls of the Tarzan—but the WOMEN'. Along with this picture is a program of selected short subjects. Ed Resener and the Indiana concert orchestra with Dessa Byrd at the organ will have a musical presentation. A Paramont news reel will complete the bill. a a a new DIX movie IS AT THE APOLLO The art of impressing the ladies, as is reputed to be practiced by renowned charmers of the fair sex. has been concentrated into one delightful personality for entertaining movie fare in “The Great Jasper," RKO-Radio photoplay starring Richard Dix. which is the current attraction at the Apollo theater. The chief supporting players are j Edna May Oliver and Wera Engels, recently 'recruited from Germany The new film will remain through Thursday next. "The Great Jasper" is said to be a true adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Fulton Oursler. H. W. Hanneman and Robert Tasker did the adapting, while the film was produced under the direction of J. Walter Rub?n. Dix is reputed to show himself

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as a finished character actor in his new role of heart-breaker who starts his career in a car barn and winds up in a mansion—an accomplishment paid for by gullible women seeking advice in love. The story is said to be a delightful mixture of veiled., comedy and powerful drama, culminating in Jasper’s realization that you can’t go through life taking love where you find it without some day having a reckoning. In addition to Richard Dix, Miss Oliver and Miss Engels the cast includes Florence Eldridge, the talented wife of Frederic March; Betty Furness, Bruce Cabot, James Bush, Walter Walker and two youngsters, David Durand and Dorothy Gray. Short subjects supplementing the featured attraction on the program are Movietone News and a cartoon entitled “The Hokum Hotel.”

Roof Will Have New Program Indiana Ballroom Will Be Open Five Nights Next Week. The Indiana Roof will introduce Ladies Night as a weekly dance attraction starting next Tuesday. The outstanding feature of this new night will be the fact that all ladies attending the ballroom on Tuesday evening will be admitted for a small service charge. Heretofore the Roof has been closed on Tuesday night. Under the new policy, the Roof will be open for dancing on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights and will give dance instructions for begiinners each Monday evening from 8:30 till 10:30. It will continue to operate under the combination ballroom and night club policy, offering table reservations and a floor show'. Currently featured on the Roof are the Continental Syncopators and a Creole Floor Show'. Included in the floor show personnel are a singing and dancing chorus; Billie and Dollie, dancing girls; Ann Mathews, a blues singer; Ann Richey, who jazzes a ballet number; Napolean and Fat, a comedy team; and Clarence Carter, a sing’er and dancer who acts as master of ceremonies for the unit. The show will be presented at 11:30 this evening and at 10:45 the other nights on which the Roof operates. The Continental Syncopators, who opened their engagement here last night, will remain on the Roof throughout the coming week.

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AM sure you have seen Clyde Beatty, young lion and tiger trainer, under the big top of a circus and very shortly you will see him as a movie actor. Beatty is different from most people who go into the movies because he is facing death every second from the "actors” with whom he associates. And that is no idle remark because Clyde has gone to the hospital several times and he was well acquainted with the hospital while making "The Big Cage” at Universal City. In this picture, he puts on a stirring drama with twenty lions and

twenty tigers in a cage at one time. And the remarkable thing is that he mixes both sexes. The other morning I left here early for Peru, Ind., the winter quarters of one of the Ringling units, the Hagenback - Wallace circus, where Clyde has his "cats.” I landed along with Harry Bason, a close friend of Clyde's (Harry is not a friend of the lions because he got nearer to a gander than anything else on the circus loti at Beatty's temporary home. Was surprised as I waited in the car, to see a coatless and hatless young man dash out of the door of

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1— Muriel Kerr, pianist, will appear in reeiial at the John Herron Art Institute, Saturday night, April 1, at 8:30 o'clock. Mrs. Lafayette Page is chairman of the local committee of the Schubert Memorial Association. 2 Ruth Page and Harald Krutzberg as they will appear in one dance at Keith’s Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

1— Julia Serda and Gustav Froehlich in a homey little scene from ‘‘Ein Waizer Vcn Strauss,” on view at the Ohio today from 5 to 11 p. m. and on Sunday from 1 to 11 p. m. 2 Alison Skipworth is very English in ‘‘A Lady’s Profession,” now at the Circle. 3 Here are the three Barrymores as they appear in "Rasputin and

the house, .yell a greeting to all of us and then calmly remark that he was going to the barber shop to get "dolled up.” Here is a man who has been bitten and torn by wild animals and in private life he is nearly a fashion plate. His quality of happiness and of friendliness is truly great. After Beatty had been expertly treated by his barber, he joined us

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in the animal quarters dressed as if for a stroll on Fifth avenue. He looked at his "cats,” talked to them, played with a most friendly (?) police dog and then lamented the fact that other engagements made it impossible for him to "work” his pets for us. He pointed out "Rosie,” a very old tiger who has been very ill. She is blind in one eye and is very thin. Clyde told me that "Rosie” was not long for this world and I noticed that this creature was wonderfully being taken care of in her last days. Then I noticed in the various cages housing over fifty lions and tigers that "Chester,” a tiger, was snarling and watching every movement of our party. This one is known as a “killer” and Clyde works him along with his other pets. The nearest I got was ten or fifteen feet from Chester's cage and I didn’t feel

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3 Miss Pietjc-Nell Lentz will be in the cast of“ Let's All Get Married,” when the Brookside Players presents this comedy at the Brookside Community House, Tuesday night. 4 Harry Bailey is pianist and accordionist with the Continental Syncopators, now at the Indiana Roof ballroom.

the Empress.” now at the Palace. You can easily recognize Lionel, Ethel and Jolm. 4 Believe it or not, Bert Wheeler and Robert W'oolsey look frightened in this scene from "So This Is Africa,” now at the Indiana. W'ould you? 5 Richard Dix loves, suffers and then dies in "The Great Jasper,” at the Apollo.

too safe then. Chester has wicked eyes. Then I saw “Sultan,” "Nero,” two new' members, female lions both sisters, and many others in this man killing collection of “pets.” Then I was introduced to a former noted trainer of lions. He was still proud of his profession which he can not now carry on. He has only one eye now and an arm, a hand of which is covered with a heavy glove. That tells his own story. Again I looked at the happy, good natured young trainer, Clyde Beatty. A man w r ho works the only black panther in a cage with other wild animals. I looked at “Jigs,” the black panther, and I knew that death lurked around any corner that he W'as about. I have seen all of the leading ani-

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mal pictures ever made but "The Big Cage,” is the wildest and the most thrilling of all. And Beatty and his pets, are the two reasons. Beatty will open at the Winter Garden in a few weeks with the Ringling circus, joining the Hagen-back-Wallace circus just before it plays here, probably sometime in the middle of June. And here is a guy who goes to a barber shop to get “dolled up” before he begins his season battle with death. / "The Big Cage” has been booked by Kenneth Collins for the Apollo soon.

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Indiana Now Playing Two Famous Sexplorers on a Sexsatio na 1 Sexpedition /i£ r \ into Africa! WHEELER AND WOOLSEY at their best in ; “So This Is Africa” • Ruth Etting in “Bye Gones" • I Vincent Lopez and Band in "Moonlight I ! fi 11/ Ed Resener and ///W Jjn the Indiana MV Concert Orchestra SM y 1 ' ~ 23c I 40e I till ft 1 after 6 I Children 10c I

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Ruth Page and Harald Kreutzberg Will Appear Sunday Afternoon at Keith’s in a Dance Program that Gives Both Artists Good Solo Opportunities. SUNDAY at 3 o'clock at Keith's theater an audience eager to see Ruth Page, an Indianapolis girl who has made good. and. Harald Kreu’zberg, internationally famous dancer with many friends here, will assemble in goodly numbers. Miss Page. Kreutzberg and Frederick Wilckens, pianist, arrive in Indianapolis today from Champaign, 111., where they danced last night at the University of Illinois. They wall be guests of Miss Page's mother. Mrs. Lafayette Pace, until Sunday, when they will leave immediately after the dance recital for Minneapolis, where they will appear on Monday evening.

Tom Keene Tops Cast at Alamo Two Heroines Never See Each Other in Film *Cynara.’ The Alamo theater offers, starting today, Tom Keene in “The Cheyenne Kid," a drama of the romantic w T est. Tom Keene, with his usual hazardous exploits, enacts a role of a daring broncho-buster. While pursuing a dishonest gambler he loses his favorite horse. Trudging across the prairie, he encounters a desperate bandit who engages him in a violent melee. Tom emerges victor, takes the bandit’s gun and horse and rides into a neighboring town. The townfolk note that his horse fits the description of the bandit wanted as shown on a reward poster. He is threatened by the unscrupulous, and finds himself in a most embarrassing position. For a while he is faced with the murder of his sweetheart’s father, w'ho owns a gold mine. How he faces this dilemma provides the suspense in "The Cheyenne Kid." a a tt “CYNARA” TO OPEN AT TERMINAL Two leading ladies who never once see each other through the dramatic story of "Cynara” is Ronald Coleman’s lot in the picturization of the international stage success of the same name, at the Terminal theater Sunday and Monday. The poised and graceful Kay Francis is the first. Her role is that of Clemency, devoted wife to the brilliant young barrister that is played by Colman. Ease and refinement and smartness are common attributes to her personality as well as her part. As the shop-girl, Doris, who is his undoing, there is Phyllis Barry, a newcomer to the screen. Phyllis is literally a daughter of the London theater. She spent a five-year novitiate in musical comedy stock in Australia, coming to Samuel Goldwyn’s future - star - hunting eye through a California musical production. She gets her first opportunity for film fame in “Cynara” in just the same way that her fellowstar, Kay Francis, had her first big part opposite Colman three years ago in “Raffles."

At Colonial

The Kane Bros., have secured the Colonial and will move their burlesque show today into that theater. They will continue the operation of the Rialto, but with a picture policy. The new show' to open at the Colonial today will be augmented, using twenty-four girls in the chorus and a number of new principals. The policy will be continuous with pictures in conjunction and a midnight show' Saturday night at the Colonial.

DANCE Chatterbox Ballroom Fountain Square Theatre Bid*. Free Admission Tickets SchifT* Outlet Shoe Stores. TUESDAY—Ladies Free. THURSDAY—Gentlemen Free When Accompanied by a Eady—Free Dancing; Lessons, 8 Till 9. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY—Whoopee Nite. Admission 10c Every Nite Till 8:15

KEITH’S, TOMORROW —3 O’CLOCK RUTH PAGE KREUTZBERG IN A PROGRAM OF NEW. DANCES Seat Snip Today Martens Ticket OfTicp. 33 Monument Circle. LI-89’21 Popular Prices—ssc. 83c, SI.IO, $1.65, $2.20. Tax Included Seats Selling 10 o’clock Tomorrow, Theatre Box Office Rl. 7512

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The Schubert Memorial Association of New York Presents MURIEL KERR in a Piano Recital sat„ April Ist 8:30 P. M. John Herron Art Institute Admission SI.OO at Door

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They will be presented here under the local management of Mrs. Nancy Martens. Miss Page and Kreutzberg have just completed a successful tour in California. Th following is the complete program for tomorrow afternoon's concert: Kings Dancp (Rcgr* KrPutzherpr Variations on Euclid >Mnmpoui Ruth Paso sone Os Space (Robert WolD . Ruth Paso Tango <Albemz> Kreutzberg Pifta ißegrri Kreutzlerg Barnum and Bailey (Smetana ..Ruth P, ge Promenade (Poulenci Ruth Page . . Kreutzberg _. .. intermission Three Hungarian Dances Brahmsi H, '-G?gi r e" QUe * ' CaSflla ' .Ruth' Page ‘Berceuse" "Giddy Girl" "Senorita " Ret olte I Wilckens* Kreutzberg T.opic (Scotti ....... Ruth Pace Country Dance iW'ilckensi B Ruth Pace Kreutzberg a a a ROLLER SKATING IS VERY POPULAR NOW The roller skating craze which is at present sweeping the country is a good omen, according to Archie i W. Colter of the Riverside Amusement Company, which operates the Riverside skating rink. Colter calls attention to the fact that a wave of roller skating popularity has marked the end of every period of depression this nation has suffered in the last two generations, and he believes the present turning to the pastime is a sure indication that the well-kpown corner is being turned. “It may just be a coincidence, but I know from experience in the rink business that when folks turn in big numbers to the rink sport, prosperity is on the march.”

Events in Neighborhoods

Daisy—Today, "End of the Trail” and "Strange Adventure”; Sunday and Monday, “The Billion Dollar Scandal,” and “Men of America.” Belmont—Today, “They Call It Sin,” and "Fighting for Justice”; Sunday and Monday, "The SonDaughter” and "Men of America.” Talbott—Today, “Self Defense,” and “The Red Shadow"; Sunday and Monday, “The Animal Kingdom” and “Under-Cover Man.”

Dine and Dance ■set JIMMY WILLINGHAM S ORCHESTRA CAFE BARCELONA lift East Maryland St. FLOOR SHOW 11 P. M. and 12:30

DANCE VILLA VANESE 7800 ISohlesville Road. Indiana Vagabonds One of Indiana's Finest Orchestras Cover, Saturday. 10c. Sunday, 35c

BRUCE’S TEAROOM ■Hpeeirtl Muwie Every Evening FLOOR SHOW SAT I KI'AV KVKMNG, R-IO No Cover Chartre With Dinner 737 North Pennsylvania