Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1933 — Page 2

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CIVIC THEATER OPENS SUMMER STOCK SEASON TUESDAY

Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert and the Late Ernest Torrence Have Leading Roles in *1 Cover the Water Front,’ Now on View at the Palace. A STRANGE story of strange loves among the strange people of the ■f TANARUS, “eaports k pictured In the production “I Cover The Waterfront ” -starring Claudette Colbert and Ben Lyon, which is now on view at Loew s Palace. . Based on the current best-seller by Max Miller, “I Cover The Wateron., brings to the screen a story of mile-a-minute romance and advengang W ° Ven about Use in a Bea P° rt town ruled by a Chinese smuggling in has the role of a ship news rc r>°rt£r who aids federal officers „ n . r mmng down a gang of psuedo-fishermen. headed by Ernest Torrence Chinese into the United States, by means' a fertilize) t mSlde ° f lhe bodies of huge sharka which are delivered to

Lyon has been assigned by his newspaper to locate the landing place of the smuggled Chinese. Claudette Colbert portrays the role of Torrence’s daughter, who falls madly in love with Lyon until she learns that it was he that tipped the government off to her father and her love turns to passionate hate. After many difficulties are ironed out their romance is resumed and the criminal smuggling ring is brought to justice. Screen actors have found themselves placed in many strange situations during the filming of pictures in Hollywood’s history, but no assignment was ever so bizarre as the experience of a group of Chinese atmospheric piayers who were paid to become modern Jonahs, but instead of whales they were required to live inside the huge sharks. The Chinese extras weie enabled to breathe by means of a gas mask contrivance attached to rubber tubes running to the open jaws of the dead monsters. Outside of having to burn their clothing and to scrub themselves thoroughly after emulating Jonah, the Oriental actors suffered no lli effects from their unique experience. A last cast of Mature supporting players, headed by Ernest Torrence and including Hobart Cavanaugh, Purnell Pratt and Maurice Black, appear with Miss Colbert and Lyon. Ernest Torrence has played a score of diversified roles for many years in fllmdom and is best remembered for his work as the giant scout in “The Covered Wagon,” which was directed by Jatnes Cruze. who also directed “I Cover the Waterfront.” Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd hold the feature spot of the short subjects in a riotous comedy, “One Track Minds.” A Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Ye Olden Days,” and news of the week as picturized by the Hearst Metrotone News round out the program for the week. a a a LATEST ARLISS MOVIE AT CIRCLE If fate had intervened the career of George Arliss, he could probably have made a name for himself in the business world. There is no other kind of a role that Arliss enjoys playing more than he does that of the successful business man. He particularly likes to play the part of an American business man. He had such a role in “The Millionaire.” It is on record that he enjoyed making that picture as much or more than any that preceded it. He portrayed business genius in the role of “Alexander Hamilton,” and he followed that recently with a part which made him one of the world’s successful financiers in “A Successful Calamity.” He has another such role now, a role more than slightly reminiscent of the first American business man part in “The Millionaire,’ in his latest picture, “The Working Man,” which is now at the Circle. It was obvious throughout the making of the picture that he was I enjoying himself immensely. “The Working Man,” based on a story by Edgar Franklin and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell, Is a comedy drama in which Arliss, a wealthy business man, masquerades as a small town fisherman In order to prevent the ruin of the son and daughter of a woman he had once loved. tt tt a LANDI HAS TWO LEADING MEN “I Loved You Wednesday,” new Fox film adapted from the successful stage play of the same name, is the current fare being presented upon the screen of the Apollo, where it wfll continue through Thursday next. The new photoplay marks the first screen performance for Warner Baxter since his commendable portrayal in “Forty-second Street.” Elissa Landi, whose last important film Was “The Sign of the Cross,” is seen in the leading feminine role of the new film, appearing opposite Baxter. Laura Hope Crews, whose most recent screen characterization presented the competent actress as the menacing mother in “The Silver Cord,” has an entirely different role in “I Loved You Wednesday,” it is reputed. Others in the cast are Miriam Jordan and Victor Jory. The story concerns an exotic actress who becomes the world's most famous dancer. However, the plot does not wholly concentrate on her success. It dramatizes her love affairs and the underlying forces that

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keep her from the man who adores j her. Imposed upon by a philandering dilletant of her student days, she cherishes this first romantic love as a thing of beauty. Later, when true love comes, the memory of that first affair and the glamorous life she has led as a great public favorite, combine to shake her confidence in her own judgment. In a climax that is reported as one of tremendous sophistication and dramatic force, she | finds happiness with the man who loves her for what she Is rather than what she stands for. A novel feature of “I Loved You Wednesday” is the introduction of the colossal work at Boulder dam. Actual pictures of the project are interwoven into the story. Contrasted with this is the Dance of the Maidens, led by June Vlasek under i the direction of Sammy Lee. Henry King, director of "State Fair,” directed “I Loved You Wednesday.”

Battle of Music Is Announced Two Orchestras Compete on Thursday Night for Honors. A “battle of music” will be one of the features of the week at the Riverside dance palace, it is announced, and Thursday night has been set for the tuneful tussle. On that evening there will be two bands on hand, each seeking to demonstrate the superiority of its particular brand of music. Hal Bailey and His Collegians, the regular orchestra at the dance palace, will be in one corner, and the Brown County Revelers in tne other. The bands will alternate during the evening, in a duel of modern versus old-fashioned tunes. Tonight and Sunday night will be “whoopee” nights, Manager Mushrush announces, and the session tonight will be extended far beyond the usual closing time. Monday night the park and the dance palace will be dark, as usual, but Tuesday night will again be ladies’ night, when the fair sex will be admitted free. Wednesday night will be oldfashioned waltz night, when such waltz classics as “Blue Danube,” “Beautiful Ohio” and “Merry Widow” will be played. Friday night will again be observed as “Collegiate” night. The many new features are proving popular, and on week-ends thousands of fun-seekers from all over central Indiana have been visiting the resort, many bringing their lunch baskets to make a day of it in the picnic grove, where hundreds of tables and benches are provided for picnic parties. Beehlcr’s dog and pony circus is being held over for another week at the park. Performances are beingpresented at short intervals every afternoon and evening.

Movie News

Slim Summerville’s brother is a “prop” man at Universal studios where Slim is co-starring with ZaSu Pitts in “Her First Mate.” Jan Kiepura, movie star of “Be Mine Tonight," once received 17,000 offers of marriage in one week. Ginger Rogers, starring in Universal's “Don’t Bet on Love," will drop whatever she happens to be doing if you challenge her to a game of ping pong. She wields a wicked paddle. Ken Maynard, who played the lead in “The Fiddlin’ Buckaroo,” bases all his films on historical facts. Buck Jones’ hobby is deep sea fishing for four hundred pound tunas. The hero of “Gordon of Ghost City,” develops a bad case of fisherman’s arm now and then, from illustrating the giant tunas that escaped. John Boles may be seen every morning burning up the twentyfive mile stretch from his home to Universal City, on a bicycle which he purchased in France. He is cofeatured with Margaret Sullivap in "Only Yesterday.” June Knight, blond musical comedy actress starring in “Lilies of Broadway,” was born in Hollywood, yet had to come to New' York and establish herself on the stage before she could break into pictures.

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1— George .Arliss Is cast as a fisherman In “The Working Man,” now on view at the Circle. 2 Here is a rather appealing study of Elissa Landi who is starred In “I Loved You Wednesday” now at the Apollo. ,

1— Elsinore Funk has the leading role in “She Was In Love With Her Husband,” which will be the second production of the Civic theater stock season at the Playhouse. 2 Members of the cast and the director of “Ladies and Hussars,” which will open the first summer stock season at the Playhouse, Nineteenth and Alabama streets, next Tuesday night. Left to right —Norman R. Buchan, Jayne Hoffman. Hale Mac Keen, C’mari de

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ALBERT C. MARTHIN, 1727 Langley avenue, city, today is officially declared the winner in the “Hold Me Tight” Lyric writing contest conducted by The Indianapolis Times and the Apollo theater. The award was made by Abe Hammerschlag, president of the board of judges, who is conductor of the Lyric theater orchestra, and for years has been considered an authority on modern music as well as lyrics.

Besides winning $lO, Marthin will have a chance at national honors because his lyrics will be submitted to a New York City committee, consisting of Rudy Vailee, Vincent Lopez, Leo Reisman and officials of the Movietone Music Corporation. The New York committee will make its awards in early fall when the national contest closes. The other cash winners are Mrs. Lorette Gwinnup. 530 East Ninth street, w r ho was awarded $5; Neoral Flack, 507 K. of P. building, $3, and, Margaret Bradburn, 812 North Parker avenue, $2. The ten receiving honorable mention and a pair of tickets to the Apollo are as follows: Marguerite L. Verbraken, 604 East Fifty-ninth street. Louise Lennox, 38 West Twenty-first street. Mrs. George Bruns, Maywood, Ind. John E. Kleinhenz, 524 Middle drive, Woodruff Place. • Milton N. McCord, 420 West Forty-first street. Lelia Karns Stair. 3861 North New Jersey street. Mrs. C. W. Laut. 5935 University avenue. Louise Tarkington. 4142 Oliver street. J. R. Glidewell. R. R. 2, Greencastle. Ind Mildred Kindred, 2146 North De Quincy street. J This contest was conducted recently in connection with the showing of the movie, -Hold Me Tight,” at the Apollo. All awards will be mailed to the winners. This song lyric writing contest brought a much larger response than Hammerschlag or myself expected, and w'ent way beyond the expectations of Kenneth Collins, manager of the Apollo theater. “There was difficulty in deciding the winner as the lyrics of Mr. Marthin and Mrs. Gwinnup both possessed merit,” Hammerschlag said. “I w'ould feel safe in sending either one to the New York judges, but after hours of study I decided on Martin’s lyric as the winner and the one whose lyrics will represent Indianapolis in the national contest.” Hammerschlag pointed out that although many people showed ability in writing a chorus, they fell down decidedly in trying to create two verses. Hammerschlag’s award is final under the rules of the contest. Under the rules of the national contest, I am not publishing the winning lyrics until after the final award is made in New York City. a e a The Sue Carolyn Studios will present senior students in recital on Monday evening, June 26, in the Audition Salon of the Wilking Music Company, 120 East Ohio street. The following students will participate -in the program: Gertrude Martin. Frederick Tucker. Emma Gene Tucker, Harry Bucher, Avonelle Brenneman, Maxine Francisco. Betty Jane Noonan. Genevieve Smith. Maxine Mahan. Beity Rose Martin. Helen Lowther. Esther Lyons, Edith Miller, Betty Seay, Harriet Gerdts, Dorothy Sallee. Louis Held, Francis Holsapple. Velma Pattman. Grace Carroll. Barbara Cotton. James Herne. Donna Nicholson. Evelyn Mav, Jack

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Herron, Harry Riddell, Violet Throm, Betty Sims, Lucile Atherton, Grace Wooddell, Thelma Carter, Elsie Rich, Isabel Darrow, Nina Langford, Betty Shaw. Lucille Hubbell. Samuel Peggs, Louise Cook, Harold Davis, Lucille Jenkins and Clifford Harmening. Hostesses assisting will be Mrs. Edward Pattman, Mrs. J. C. Darrow, Miss Avonelle Brenneman, Miss Edith Miller and Mrs. Peggy Adams •Nester. The recital is open to the public. ana The Dramatic Society of the Beville Avenue Evangelical church w'ill present its first drama, “His Best Investment,” at 8 o’clock Tuesday and Wednesday nights, June 27 and 28, at the East Tenth Street Community hall, East Tenth and Keystone streets. The cast, announced by Mr. Carl B. Jones, director, includes Glenora Mose, Vestro Skiles, Edna Stephens, Hannah A. Aegerter, Abilee Melvin, Marie Fuchs, Roma Aegerter, Ernestine Krome, Bernice Devitt, Walker Wilson, Fay Miller, HaWey D. Melvin, Ralph Heylmann and Edward E. Berlin, Just an Arctic Expression Philip Nunarook. hunter from the Arctic, and one of the Eskimos brought to Hollywood by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer polar expedition filming “Eskimo,” was taken to a nearby zoo, and among other things, shown a California grizzly bear. “Hugh,” he commented. “Bum bear. Not nearly so much meat on him as polar bear.” Alice Will Move West Now that her return to the screen in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “When Ladies Meet” appears to have settled her future, Alice Brady is out buying furniture for her home in Beverly Kills and considering offers for her New York triplex penthouse. One room is being fitted up for her four dogs. Loy to Have Vacation Myrna Loy is headed for a vagabounding vacation. If work at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio permits, she plans to leave next week on a freighter with no particular destination in mind.

Dance Harold oKY HARBOR OPEN AIR WHEN POSSIBLE Drive oat W. Wash. to Ben Davis, follow Municipal Airport si*n south. 4 BIG NIGHTS Ililv Ist 3nd 3rd 4th uu, 7 SAT. SIN. MON. TIES.

3 Wynne Gibson is cast as a hospital nurse in “Emergency Call,” nowon view at the Lyric. 4 Claudette Colbert is the chief woman player in “I Cover the Water Front,” now at the Palace.

Schipper and Alan Wallace. 3 Lamberti, an eccentric musician, is appearing on the new bill at the Lyric. 4 Professor Davis Is demonstrating his method of teaching swimmers at Longacre Pool this summer. 5 Jerome Mann, known as the “One Man Revue,” is one of the headliners at the Lyric.

Water Show to Be Given on Sunday Broad Ripple Park Plans Many New Stunts for Visitors. Broad Ripple will present another big water show Sunday at the pool. Miss Ella Carver will again make her high dive into the pool. One of the main attractions in this week's water show will be the attempt of Miss Helen Lee Smith to break the world's record for the 300-yard medley swim. Another event will be the battle between the human fish, Earl Montgomery, and a fisherman. Montgomery will be fastened to the fishing line and the battle will be to see whether the fisherman lands in the water or lands the fish. The greased pole will be one of the centers of attraction when the contestants try to reach the orange at the end without falling off into the pool. Another stunt that will be presented Sunday afternoon will be wrestling on a raft out in the pool. In many wrestling shows the contestants often throw each other out of the ring into the laps of ringsiders, but Sunday at the Broad Ripple pool they be thrown into the water. The Broad Ripple dance pavilion is presenting for a week, starting Sunday, the original Brown Buddies of Louisville, Ky.

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Musical Movie

Within a few days Universal studios will begin the production of its first musical picture since “The King of Jazz,” when “Lilies of Broadway” goes before the cameras with June Knight in the featured role and E. A. Du Pont directing from the William Hurlbut script. Sally O’Neil and Dorothy Burgess are the two latest additions to a large supporting cast, which includes Mary Carlisle, Edmund Breese. Richard Carle and Oscar Apfel. Neil Hamilton has the male lead opposite Miss Knight. Several songs for the picture were written/by Lynn Cowan.

Va.jda to Be Naturalized Ernest Vajda, author of “Fata Morgana” and other stage hits, more recently scenarist of “The Guardsman” and “Reunion in Vienna,” will soon be a full-fledged American citizen. He has his first and second papers and will take his oath of citizenship on July 28.

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Mary Florence Fletcher and C'Mari de Schipper Will Alternate in Chief Role in ‘Ladies and Hussars'; Mac Keen Announces His Plans. THE Civic Theater opens its first summer season Tuesday night, June 27. with the production of “Ladies and Hussars,” a romantic comedy centering around members of the Austrian royalty. Hale Mac Keen, director of the theater, has selected a cast which is composed of a number of favorites of local theatergoers. Elizabeth Bogart Schofield makes her twenty-fifth appearance with the theater in this production. She appeared last in “Mrs. Partridge Presents” and ‘Til Leave It To You.” Mary Florence Fletcher made her debut with the theater in Everyman” in 1926. Since that time she has played eleven parts for t.he theater. She has also appeared with Stuart Walker and the Arthur Casey companies.

A1 Belasco Tops Bill at Lyric ‘Emergency Call’ on the Screen Features Bill Boyd. An entirely new vaudeville revue packed with headliners and the exciting film drama, “Emergency Call,” are combined on the current stage and screen program at the Lyric for the week which opened Friday. Other important program features are anew organ solo by Lester Huff and such shortfilms as a comedy, news reel and travel subject. Embellished with elaborate new settings and studded with new' stars, the vaudeville revue is headed by Ai Belasco, who serves as master of ceremonies and does an act of his own. He also leads the Lyric stage band in a featured number entitled “Stormy Weather,” and introduces as soloist the theater's recently “discovered” singing usher. Basil Hobbs. Next in order of billing in the vaudeville revue comes Jerome Mann and company in “A One Mann Revue.” Mann is a dapper young juvenile impersonator who gives accurate impersonations of Ei Wynn, Walter Winchell, Singing Sam, Ben Bernie and others. Lamberti, titled “The Mad Wag of the Xylophone.” offers a featured presentation that contains an intermingling of comedy and xylophone music. A series of difficult gymnastic feats are performed by Prosper and Merit, named “Collegiate Athletes” A comedy turn is presented by the team of Seed and London. The Carla Torney chorus of twelve dancing girls appears in three new routines, one of which is announced as a drum major drill. On the screen, "Emergency Call” unfolds an exciting drama of the varied and stirring adventures encountered by the daredevils who man the police ambulances in a metropolitan city. The film depicts their breakneck rides through the city’s traffic, their many experiences both comic and tragic at the end of their wild trips, the sinister forces they are frequently called on to combat, and their desperate efforts to save lives. The large cast is topped by Bill Boyd in the role of a young surgeon at a county hospital. Imbued with high ideals, he gets a jolt when he finds the institution is flooded with bargain materials, cheap implements, and shysters overrunning the place to prey on the inmates. Because the chief of the institution is his sweetheart's father, he keeps his peace until his ambu-lance-driving pal dies on the operating table from defective ether. He then casts love and caution aside and thunders into action, bringing to justice the underworld czar who has used his prospective father-in-law as a pawn. William Gargan, Wynne Gibson and Betty Furness have the chief supporting roles surrounding Bill Boyd.

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C'Mari de Schipper shares the ; honors in playing the leading role j in this production with Miss Fletcher- They both gave such sterling I performances in the preliminary ; rehearsals that Mac Keen decided to | have them divide the performances. Miss Fletcher will play the opening night performance and the two j "’fil alternate each night thereafter. Miss de Schipper has appeared previously in “He Who Gets Slapped.” i "The First Mrs. Fraser" and “The Cradle Song.” Jayne Hoffman, one of Mac Keen’s j most promising discoveries this soui son, has an important role. She ! has played recently in “The Front Page,” “The First Mrs. Fraser" and j “The Cradle Song.’’ Horace F. Hill, another of the season's discoveries, has the masculine lead in the play. His past performances have been in ■ He Who i Gets Slapped.” “Young Woodley ” “The Front Page” and “The First I Mrs. Fraser." | Alan Wallace comes to the Civic | after four years in directorship of ; the Duluth community theater to play a leading role in this produc- ! tion and to direct the third bill. "A Woman of No Importance.” He is a former student of George Pierce Baker in the Yale Workshop and a former classmate of Mac Keen. “Ladies and Hussars" will plavfor five nights and a Saturday matinee. The second bill. "She Was in Love With Her Husband.” will open the j follow ing Tuesday. July 4.

A Song Hit

Johnny Green, composer of popular songs, whose latest melody. a I Cover the Waterfront,” theme song of the United Artists screen pro- - duction of the same name, is being featured by radio and dance orchestras everywhere, is following in the footsteps of George Gershwin, whose “Rhapsody in Blue’’ has placed him among the immortals of music.Green has left New York for Minneapolis, where he will act as guest conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, also serving as musical director for the State Theater orchestra. About two months ago Green acted as conductor for his own composition. “Night Club Suit?.” when it was played in New York’s Carnegie hall by Paul Whiteman’s band, the same aggregation that helped make Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” a classic. Now, Green’s “Night Club Suite” will be played by the Minneapolis symphony. As an indication of the immense popularity of “I Cover the Waterfront,” Helen Morgan is featuring it regularly at the very smart Embassy Club. Novarro Is in Switzerland Latest reports from Ramon Novarro, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, finds . him resting in Switzerland from his recent successful concerts in France. He returns this slimmer to appear with Jeanette Macdonald in “'The Cat and the Fiddle.”

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