Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1933 — Page 19
Second Section
THREE SEPARATE UNITS MAKE UP OPENING INDIANA BILL
Reopening of Indiana Theater Recalls Many Interesting Memories and Accomplishments of Leading Citizens Who Have Made Fine Reputations. ' | 'HE Indiana theater was formally opened on th<* night of Saturday, June 18 1927. Th® opening was a gala affair attended by stage and screen notables, local celebrities and theater executives from all parts of the country. The theater was thrown open to the nublic on the following day, and has been in continuous operation up until June of this year. It was closed in June for the summer season and will reopen again Friday evening at fi 30 in much the gala manner its original opening boasted. The theater was built and operated for the first few months of its
existence by the Circle Theater Company, a locally controlled oigamzation. Its building was made possible through the genius and foresight of A. L. Block, president of the company and the late Robert Lieber. vice-president, and at that time chairman of the board of directors of First National Pictures, Inc. Other local business men associated with Mr. Block and Mr Lieber were Ed O. Hunter. George Forrey, Theodore Stempfel. Fred Gardner. Preston C. Rubush, Herman P. Lieber and Leo M. Rappa port. The Circle Theater Company still controls the real estate holdings of the theater, but the operation passed into the hands of the Skouras-Pub-lix Theaters Company of Indianapolis and St louis Last January the Circle Theater Company again took over operation of the theater. Are Berrv, veteran theater manager. was named managing director of the new Indiana, continuing in that capacity until the operating lease passes into the hands of the Skoura.s Publix concern. Mr Berry returned to his original capacity last, Januarv when th® original company took over operation. The theater" was built from architectural designs submitted by Rubush and Hunter of Indianapolis, and the actual construction was under the direction of William P Jungelaus. The interior decorator wa.s Henry Richard Behrem. The house was erected at a total cost of $1,500,000. It has 3.500 seats. CORTEZ TAKES PIPE INTO SOCIAL LIFE Voti Can Always lawatr Ricardo by Following a Strong Cbuid of Smoke. Whenever you find Ricardo Cortez, screen actor, now appearing with Elizabeth Young and Richard Bennett in Paramount's Big Executive.” you'll find his pipe. Cortez is an inveterate pipe smoker, puffing it continuously at various Hollywood social functions and always on the set when not appearing before the cameras. Cortez, featured in their modern romance of the worlds greatest mnnpy street. Wall street, is enacting his sixtieth screen role since entering motion pictures.
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SONG TEAMS IN DEMAND AT ALL STUDIOS Permanent Song Writers Now Are Popular in Hollywood. One of the outstanding changes wrought in song writing by motion picture musicals has been that, of creating permanent song-writing teams. Arthur Johnston of the Paramount music department points out. Johnston and Sam Coslow\ who wrote the songs for ‘ Hello, Everybody” and ‘College Humor," are working together again, this time on B.ng Crosby s 'Too Much Harmony." Other teams at the same studio are composed of Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin, and Mack Gordon and Harry Revel. Other combinations well known in Hollywood are Rodgers and Hart. Brown and Henderson. Warren and Rubin, and Donaldson and Kahn. "In the old days." Johnston pointed out. "if I work out a tune, I would offer it io the first lyric writer I ran across and he would turn out the melodies. Lyricists worked the same way, creating a poem and handing it to the first musician who could write a tune ‘‘But in Hollywood the team system has evolved and has worked astonishingly well. The composer and lyric writer, once started together, develop a feeling of loyalty that is much more important than mere co-operative spirit. Working together constantly, they turn out better songs than either would do alone, or under a haphazard teaming that isn’t intended to last." Ann Is In Cast Ann Dvorak is to replace Sylvia Sidney in Maurice Chevalier's picture. "The Way to Love " The English version of the picture was resumed under the direction of Norman Taurog. It had been stopped when Miss Sidney claimed that a throat ailment prevented her con- j tinuing in the role.
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1. The theme song of this picture might well be "Hold Me” and it features Richard Arlen and Claudette Colbert, stars in "Three-Cornered Mooft.” which begins the Indiana theater's reopening program, Friday, Sept. 1. 2. This is a camera study of Richard Arlen and it has caught him In a serious mood—watch out. girls!
VALENTINO TYPE FADES Cortez Finally Is Able to Prove That He Can Play Many Roles. Ricardo Cortez has finally shaken off the bane of every thespian's existence—the danger of being‘ typed.” For years, regarded in Hollywood as the Latin lover type, he was groomed to fill the shoes of Rudolph Valentino. But. during the last year he has demonstrated his versatility by convincingly playing the part, of a doctor in "Symphony of Six Million." a tabloid columnist in "Is My Face Red." and a detective in "Thirteen Women.” And now in Paramount's “Big Executive." In the title role of this Alice Duer Miller story, Ricardo Cortez is the
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933
Golden Harvest Lawoence Gray celebrated his twelfth anniversary in motion pictures by signing with Charles R. Rogers for an important role in "Golden Harvest.” He will appear with Richard Arlen, Chester Morris and Genevieve Tobin under Ralph Murphy's direction.
! daring speculator w r ho has the illI fortune to fall in love with the great-granddaughter of one of Wall Street's old-school barons W'ho vow's he will "bust” the young man. Eliza- ; beth Young, a newcomer to the | screen via the legitimate stage, and i Richard Bennett are featured.
3. And h er e is one right back—for the boys; none other than Claudette Colbert in another—and equally as fascinating—a camera study. 4. Remember the fiery little Spanish girl who played in Eddie Cantor’s last picture? Well here she is—Lyda Roberti—shaking an egg-beater at Mary Boland w’ho looks as if she might throw in her towel. Both girls play in "Three-Cornered Moon.”
SNAKE CAUSES TROUBLE Real Rattler Upsets Peace and Quiet of Actors on Location. Hunting "sidew’inders,” a variety J of rattlesnake so-called because they ; travel and strike sidewise, w r as the popular "after-shooting hours” sport of Randolph Scott, Buster j Crabbe and Jack La Rue, Paramount players, when they were out on | location at Bear Valley, California, i filming scenes for Zane Grey's romantic story “To the Last Man.” Prompted by the frightening experience of Esther Ralston *.vhen a | reptile crept into camp one night, | the four men launched the antiI snake campaign. They'set out every night, just< beIfore the camp bugler sounded taps,
Rack to Soil The latest entrant in Hollywood's "back to the soil" movement is little Baby Leßoy, Paramount's year-old thespian. His ranch, purchased by his mother and located twenty-five miles from Los Angeles, is said to be a self-supporting investment in addition to a playground. Truck farming is the plan.
to clear the surrounding shrubbery of lurking snakes. Armed with lanterns, forked sticks, pieces of looped cord and revolvers, their nightly foray proved successful each time.
Second Section
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All Stage Presentations Under New Policy to Be Produced Under Personal Direction of Edward J. Weisfeldt, With Lou Forbes Directing Orchestra. THREE separate and distinct features will top the Indiana theater s entertainment bill for its gala reopening performance Friday night, according to Ace Berry, general manager of the Indiana and Circle theaters. The stage presentation will be specially produced by Edward J. Weisfeldt. Mr. W'eisfeldt comes to the Indiana theater after successful seasons at the Fisher in Detroit and the Wisconsin theater in Milwaukee. Mr. Weisfeldt has packed his opening revue full of well-known talent, headlined by Col. Stoopnagle and Bud, popular radio stars who were recently seen in the motion picture, "International House.
AUTHOR TELLS HOW PLAY GOT ITS FUNNY NAME Gertrude Tonkonogy Tells Meaning of Strange Rimplegars. How' the play, ‘‘Three-Cornered Moon,” got. its title, was explained by the author. Gertrude Tonkonogy. when B. P. Schulberg selected it as a starring vehicle for Claudette Colbert. Richard Arlen and Mary Boland. It has been made into a rollicking Paramount screen comedy and can now be seen at the Indiana theater, starting Friday. "During stage rehearsals everybody was so busy we didn't think much of a title," she admitted. “Finally one night the crazy suggestion of a three-cornered moon came to me. We decided to call it that and intended to write a line into the script to explain W'hat it meant.” Miss Tonkonogy said ‘‘But we were so busy we completely forgot all about it. So the show opened with its curious title unexplained.” While talking to Mr. Schulberg. she asked him to explain the title in the film. Schulberg's explanation is this: In the picture the Rimplegars, the typical American family, lose all their fortune in the stock market on stock "Ma” Rimplegar bought and on which she forgot to pay margin, just one of her irresponsible tricks. So the fatal stock was named “Three-Cornered Moon.” In addition to the three stars, ‘Three-Cornered Moon” has a distinguished supporting cast including WaJlace Ford, Lyda Roberti, Tom Brown. Joan Marsh. Hardie Albright and William Bakewoll. It was directed by Elliott Nugent. Carole Assigned New Role Carole Lombard’s first role after her return from Reno will be in the Charles R Rogers production, "She Made Her Bed.”
I Jack Powell, blackface drummer i w-ho was lately featured in the Ed S Wynn show , will also be featured on : the bill, along with Four Muilin : sisters. Kendall Capps. Kay. Katcha and Kay and a line of the Abbott 1 girls known as the Twelve Abbot - ! teers. The screen attraction is "Three Cornered Moon," story of an Amerii fan family so looney that nobody knows what anybody else is talking j about, stars Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen and Mary Boland. "Three Cornered Moon" is a B P. Schulberg production adapted from the i Broadway hit by Gertrude Tonkj onogy and features Wallace Ford, 1 Lyda Roberti. Tom Brown. .Joan Marsh. Hardie Albright, and William Bakewell. Story of the fortunes of the addlepated Rimplegar family of Brooklyn, N. Y., it, tells of the efforts of i the self-centered members of this | household to survive the depression, | "Mama" Rimplegar. played by Mary Boland, has dissipated the family fortune in the stock market. | Everybody talks a great deal about ! the way out, but it isn't until the 1 family physician, played by Richard Arlen, takes a hand in the matter j and suggest that, they do something | to help besides talking, that, the i problem is solved. Inbet ween the events in the household, a romance flourishes between the doctor and Claudette Colbert, the daughter. The third feature on this program will be the musical presentation of the augmented Indiana Theater orchestra under the direction of Lou Forbes. Mr. Forbes was obtained bv the Indiana theater and is one of the most popular and talented young maestros in America. His offering the opening week will include both classical and jazz selections. It Still Goes On Twenty girls from Metropolitan New York presented themselves at, | the Paramount office last week as j possible candidates selected from among more than 5.000 applicants for the unfilled role of "Alice” in Paramount's forthcoming production, "Alice in Wonderland.” They wore interviewed with an eye towards giving them tests for the part. Meantime tests of applicants in other sections of the United States, as well as England, Canada and Australia, are going forward this w r eek. Tests will be sent to Hollywood for final review and j selection.