Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1933 — Page 6
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KEITH’S, IN BRAND NEW DRESS, OPENS WITH BIG MOVIE
Will Rogers Is Cast as a Physician in ‘Doctor Bull,’ Now on View at the Apollo: Palace Presents Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy in ‘Penthouse.’ EVERYTH IN G is in readiness for the opening of Keith’s theater today. The theater has been completely redecorated and beautified with many added improvements throughout Anew marquee and new electric signs have been installed. New lighting fixtures in the lobby and inside the theater will add to the general attractiveness of the playhouse. New carpet has been laid throughout the theater as well as new drapes and new furnishings. The motion picture booth has been entirely rebuilt and an elaborate Western Electric system installed. The Little Giant,’’ featuring Edward G. Robinson, is the opening
attraction. Robinson plays the sucker to a family of alleged society folks to such a marked degree that. "The Little Giant” may well be called Robinson's first conjedy. After proving a boob in the hands of these society gyp artists, Robinson is taken 10 r his bank roll. How he reacts after he discovers he has been trimmed, forms the basis for the comedy. Mary Astor is the leading player opposite the star. Russell Hopton, well-known for his vivid characterizations on the stage and screen, is seen as Robinsons right hand man. Helen Vinson. Donald Dillaway, Kenneth Thomson, Berton Churchill are In the cast. A news weekly and short reels complete the program. 000 “DOCTOR BILL’’ NOW AT APOLLO Will Rogers is reputed to have added another memorable characterization to his growing gallery in “Doctor Bull,’’ Fox photoplay appearing currently on the screen of the Apollo. The new film is said to rank with Rogers's portrayal in “State Fair” and “Connecticut Yankee.’’ “Doctor Bull” is based on "The Last Adam,” the best-seller novel by James Gould Cozzens. Rogers himself, it is said, was instrumental in persuading the Fox organization to change the title to "Doctor Bull.” The lovable character of the New England doctor gives Rogers an even better opportunity than he had in “State Fair,” according to reports coming from the studio. Through Dr. Bull’s eyes one sees the joys and sorrows of an entire town. He is always helping some youngster out of a scrape, even when it comes to playing cupid. Throughout he is reported to preserve a mellow humor. The film is thought to present a stirring story and has been brought to the screen with artistry and verve. Opposite Rogers, important supporting roles are enacted by Vera Allen, Marian Nixon, Howard Lally, Berton Churchill, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine, Rochelle Hudson, Tempe Pigott, Elizabeth Patterson, Nora Cecil, Ralph Morgan, Patsy O'Bryne, Veda Buckland, Effie Ell.sler, and Helen Freeman. John Ford directed from the adaptation bv Paul Green, who also adapted Phil Stong’s “State Fair." the last Rogers starring vehicle. Short subjects supplementing the featured attraction on the program are Movietone News, Harry Langdon in "Hooks and Jabs,” and a Terrytown cartoon. • 000 PALACE OFFERS NOVEL MOVIE. Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy are the featured players in Arthur Somers Roche's “Penthouse,” | now at the Palace. It is a cosmopolitan production, filmed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, and based upon the novel from the pen of Arthur Somers Roche, published serially in Cosmopolitan magazine. Asa scion of an aristocratic New York family, and a society lawyer who chooses to defend notorious racketeers. Warner Baxter is paid to give one of the finest performances of his long motion picture career. As Gertie Waxted, a beautiful night club girl. Myrna Loy is reported by preview critics to have far surpassed any of her triumphs in previous picture productions. W. S. Van Dyke, an acre director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. was in charge of the production. He is remembered for his exceptional supervision of "White Shadows in the South Seas” and "Trader Horn." Mae Clarke, Broadway stage favorite, who has appeared in such screen successes as Turn Back the Clock” and "Fast Workers,” fills a featured role as Mimi. the gor-
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Ballroom Gets Fine Opening Big Hit With Dancers Registered by Trumbauer’s Orchestra. The management of the Indiana roof set an entertainment pace at its gala fall opening last night vfoich it intends to rival continuously during the dance season w T hich is just starting, according to an announcement issued from the ballroom office today. Frankie Trumbauer, the suave looking dark eyed music master who very successfully upheld his end ofi the entertainment bill at the opening. is to remain on the roof throughout the coming week. Many times during the evening dancers who thronged the ballroom floor felt the musical influence of the six years which Trumbauer spent as a featured member of Paul Whiteman's orchestra. “The “Peer of Saxophonists,” as Trumbauer is known, will continue to feature popular saxophone solos during his limited stay here. He will also offer a fifteen-minute program each evening, an entertainment trick which Paul Whiteman has been one of the few orchestra leaders to employ. The roof will be open for dancing each Wednesday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Two new bars installed on the roof for the fall opening will be kept in operation each night that the ballroom is opened. One of the bars is located on the ballroom balcony, where table service is offered the roof’s patrons without charge. Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra will inaugurate a weekly waltz night policy on the roof next Wednesday evening with special arrangements of new and old waltz favorites. geous night club hostess who meets a mysterious death. Phillips Holmes heads the supporting cast as Siddall, the young man-about-town who is accused of the murder of Mimi, a former sweetheart, and whose life is saved through the efforts of his friend, Warner Baxter, who conducts a secret investigation of the crime and proves that Mimi’s death was the climax of an underworld frame-up. Others who play important roles in Arthur Somers Roche’s “Penthouse” include Martha Sleeper, C. Henry Gordon, Nat Pendleton, George E. Stone, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Charles Butterworth and Raymond Hatton. Short subjects complete the bill. 0 0 0 “TARZAN” IS NOW AT THE CIRCLE Edgar Rice Burroughs’ thrilling pen has brought* another vivid and startling story of jungle life to the screen, entitled “Tarzan the Fearless." which opened yesterday at the Circle with Buster Crabble in the title role. Crabble will be remembered as the young giant selected by one of the leading film companies for the coveted role of the “Lion Man” in "King of the Jungle.” His success was instantaneous, and he was recast in a similar part for this outstanding attraction. The story recounts the adventures of a small band of whites who penetrated into the fastnesses of the African jungles, the home of Tarzan. In the party are Dr. Brooks, mid-dle-aged archeologist, his daughter, Mary; Boci Hall, who joined the party principally because he was in love with Mary; Jeff Herbert, adventurer and ne'er do well; and Nick Moran, ex-convict. In the trackless wastes of the jungle they are beset with perils, seen and unseen, that would daunt the hardiest spirit. Beasts of the jungle stalk them: the primitive people of Zar attack them at every turn, daring exploits and thrilling rescues succeed one another in rapid succession and Tarzan is the center of the whirlwind of action.
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1— Here is Will Rogers as a country doctor in “Doctor Bull,” now on view at the Apollo. 2 Buster Crabbe plays the lead in “Tarzan, the Fearless,” a newi serial which is now on view in major position at the Circle, 3 Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery have both a happy and a sad time of it in “Another Banguage,” which opens Sunday at the Ambassador.
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THE MARTENS CONCERTS INC. opened its season sale of tickets last Monday for the five Sunday afternoon concerts to be given at English’s, and from all indications the demand for tickets presages a capacity audience for every concert. The concert season will open on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 22, with Rosa Ponselle, dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Miss Ponselle made her first Indianapolis appearance under the Martens Concerts direction two seasons ago. This concert is remembered as being one of,the finest ever heard in this city.
John Charles Thomas, one of America's foremost baritones, who will present the second Sunday afternoon concert Nov. 12, has w r on recognition in three fields of musical art—opera comique, grand opera and concert. For the past five years he has divided his time between concert and grand opera. His distinguished position in Brussels as leading baritone of the Royal Opera House soon attracted attention in other cities and he was invited to appear at the Royal Opera, Convent Garden, London. Offers from Berlin and Vienna followed and he is now the most sought after singer in the concert field. He sang ninety-five concerts last season in America. Mischa Elman, celebrated violinist, will be heard in the third afternoon concert Dec. 3. The fourth concert will present a newcomer to Indianapolis, Sigrid Onegin, famous Swedish contralto. An idea of the regard in which this great artist is held by the musically conscious is that Mr. Toscanini has
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2—The Diamond Broihers have a very important part in the new stage show on view at the Indiana,
engaged her for the Beethoven Cycle which he will direct in New York this season in three performances. The last of the afternoon concerts will bring Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with Walter Geiseking, pianist, as soloist with the orchestra on Feb. 25. 000 Fountain Square Theater ballroom opens its doors to the new dancing season tonight at 8:30. Arnold Peek and his Columbians \yill furnish the music for the dancers, while Pat O’Fansler, Irish tenor and comedian, will be in charge of the ballroom floor. O'Fansler comes to Indianapolis direct from station WOAM, Miami, Florida, where he has been radio-
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4 Myrna Loy and Robert Montgomery seem to be having a lovely time in “Penthouse,” now at the Palace. 5 Edward G. Robinson is very attentive in this scene from “The Little Giant,” which opens the movie season today at the B. tF. Keith’s theater. 6 Charles Bickford is giving Harry Green some very rough treatment in “This Day and Age,” now at the Indiana.
entertaining for the past two years, previous to which he was ballroom maestro at the Plantation, one of the nation’s largest ballrooms in Phoenix, Arizona. Pat entertains and sings while managing the ballroom. The ballroom is under the personal direction of Earl Cunningham of the Fountain Square Theater Company who announces many changes. One of the important additions to the comfort and convenience of the patrons is the installation of anew type ventilating and cooling unit which supplies the ballroom with 10,000 cubic feet c? fresh cool air every minute, exhausting at the same rate through another channel. A soda and sandwich bar has also been installed. Dancing to Fountain Square theater patrons will be free, plus a small service charge and will be continuous from 8:30 p. m. fill closing every night except Monday. 0 0 0 Indianapolis will hear one of the big vocal concert events of the fall and winter season on Thanksgiving eve, November 29, when the Wiener Saengerknaben, the singing boys of
Everybody’s raving about this great screen . . . stage . . . m m£s&j3*is££&' musical show! iSSra c aurr Cecil B. DeMille’s THIS DAY *531 4NO ads mSm _ ~ , fe===ON THE STAGE==b Irrepr eSSI bl e ir SO Entertainers in a Merry Melange of youth figntmg ffl Mirth and Melody. a m?njo n us St IS i ™ REE DIAMO " D BOYS W for the right fl "Fall-tea of 1933” to live! U PICCHIANI TROUPE # gj , y Whirlwinds of Italy * I Cliff Nazarro Meyer Girls • Comp 1e t e Jj Master of Mirth New Dances shmv S a at S i2*4s 1 Gene DeQuincy and Lewis 3:10, 7:00, 9:3ol i .... rnßßr p anc f s ll . L **“*,. „ . H LOU FORBES and His New Idea Music
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3—Frankie Trumbauer is conductor of the orchestra now playing at the Indiana Roof ballroom.
Vienna, will appear at the Murat theater. This famous international singing organization was founded by imperial decree in 1498, has sung in all the capitals of Europe, and visited America last year for the first time, singing in over sixty cities and scoring a sensational triumph wherever it appeared. It is under the management of the National Broadcasting Company Artists’ Service. The boys appear in costume and give operatic performances of Mozart, Humperdinck and Haydn operas. 000 Carl Niese, manager of the Alamo, has added another feature to the movie bill opening today at the Alamo. The first chapters of the ciew Buck Jones’ serial, “Gordon of Ghost City,” is being shown. Roberts Gets Big Job Stepehen Roberts will direct “Woman of the Earth,” the romance of rural Scotland entitled “Greenloaning,” written by A. J. Cronin, which is being made ready for the screen by Phil Stong.
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Charlie Foy and His Cousins Top New Variety Bill at the Lyric: Indiana Is Now Offering ‘Little Revue’ on the Stage, With the Three Diamond Brothers. CHARLIE FOY AND HIS COUSINS are appearing in person at the Lyric theater as headliners on the new seven-act metropolitan vaudeville bill which was booked by Charles M. Olson. Foy, who is the second oldest son in the famous Foy family, is surrounded by a merry crew of funmakors in his act at the Lyric. He calls them "his cousins,” but they are not real relatives. The majority of these cousins are best described as “stooges." a miscellaneous assortment of male misfits. Charlie Foy, regardless of how great a reputation he might acquire for himself, will always be known as the late Eddie Foy's son. Like ail
the rest of his brothers, he had his stage training with his distinguished father in vaudeville as a member of the famous Foy family. The title of Foy’s current act, which has not previously been seen here, is "Rel-ative-ity Theory.” Besides Foy and his several lunatic aids, the Lyric’s new vaudeville bill also includes musical, dancing, juggling, whistling, and singing acts. Angus and Searle Twins, two sets of twins—two girls and two boys, appear in a comedy sketch entitled “Who's Who.” Its action is laid in a hotel suite. Modern trends in dancing are presented by Tom and Betty Wonder, young steppers who are billed as “The Dancing Wonders.” The Columbia Saxotette offer saxophone solo and ensemble work in a lovely turn called “Sax Appeal.” Pressler and Klaiss are featured in a hokum piano comedy presentation which is styled “Personality Plus?” Novelty and imitative whistling comprises the offering of Frances Sellers, known as “The American Nightingale.” The Lyric’s stage program is rounded out by the Five Elgins who are billed “Enjoying Themselves.” Three men and two women, they present speedy Indian club throwing and skillful hat manipulation. The supplementary short talking pictures shown at the Lyric are headed by “The Roaring Forties,” a new edition of the series from “Explorers of the World.” A Moran and Mack comedy, a cartoon, a “Strange a's It Seems” reel, and J\>x Movietone News complete the program. 0 0 “LITTLE REVUE” NOW AT INDIANA “This Day and Age," the first great spectacle of modern times by the master of spectacle, Cecil B.
Last Day Many people have entered their colored exhibit of Tarzan in the “Tarzan the Fearless” contest, being conducted in connection with the Buster Crabbe movie now at the Circle. All you have Jo do is to color in crayon or water color the Tarzan strip in The Indianapolis Times today, Friday or Thursday. Three judges, headed by Henry R. Behrens, decorator, will make the awards. All entries must be in the hands of The Tarzan Contest Editor not later than noon Monday. The first prize is $5; second, $2, and the next best three, $1 each. The next best twentyfour will receive a pair of tickets to the Circle.
Frawley Signs Contract William Frawley, New York stage star of “Twentieth Century” and “The Ghost Writer,” recently brought to Hollywood on a longterm screen contract, has been handed two more important roles. He will be featured with Cary Grant in “Come on Marines" and with George Raft and Carole Lombard in “All of Me.” Walker Directs Success “Death Takes a Holiday,” from the play by Alberto Casella, with Frederic March, Evelyn Venable and Sir Guy Standing featured, will be directed by Stuart Walker.
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De Mille, is now playing at the Indiana theater. The stage attraction for this week is “Little Revue,” a diverting musical comedy featuring the Three Diamond Boys. De Mille has brought to the films in “This Day and Age," the sons of screen stars of today and yesterday. including Wallace Reid Jr., Carlyle Blackwell Jr.. Bryant Washburn Jr., Neil Hart Jr., Frank Tin* ney Jr. and Fred Kohler Jr. The story concerns the battle of the youth of an average community against a city's subversive influences after all efforts o; the adult community have failed. When Boy’s week of the city comes along, students of the high schools are appointed to the town's executive, administrative and judicial positions. One of the boys appointed to the position of district attorney, has seen t,he murder of a merchant by one of the town’s racketeers. Zealously, he comes to the witness stand at the trial, only to have the defense attorney take advantage of legal technicalities and win an acquittal for his client. Undaunted, the boys go after more evidence and in securing that evidence, one of their number i3 killed by the racketeer, and the murder is planted on one of the boys. The story reaches its height when a mob of 5,000 indignant youngsters kidnap the racketeer, drag him off to an old abandoned quarry where they hold a kangaroo court and “sweat” a confession out of their captive, using his own expert “sweating” methods. In “Little Revue” the stage attraction for this week are such names as the Three Diamond Boys heading the revue and surrounded by the Pichianni troupe, Gene, De Quincy and Lewis, the Raset dancers, Lee Mason and Lou Forbesl with his new idea music.
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