Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1933 — Page 8

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'TEN-MINUTE ALIBI' GOES ON STAGE AT ENGLISH'S SUNDAY NIGHT

Warner Baxter Carries Top Role in New Fi! m * / 'As Husbands Go’ Comes to Apollo: Helen Vinson Is Cast as Leading Lady of Screen Play. Rachel Crothers, whose pen is responsible for such outstanding successes as ‘ When Ladies Meet” and "Let Us Be Gay,” once again comes to the forefront with her latest endeavor, “As Husbands Go.” Produced by Fox Films, the picture is appearing as the current attraction upon the screen of the Apollo theater, and will remain through Thursday next Warner Baxter is the star. Rachel Crothers is said to have that rare knack of sketching her characters from life and having them say things that most people think. In As Husbands Go,” she has written of a situation close to every home and every woman.

On a pleasure jaunt in Paris, a young wife and her middle-aged friend find unexpected romance Before returning to her home, the young wife informs the young Englishman she has become infatuated with, that she will secure a divorce from her husband. Upon her return she is determined to tell her husband of her new love, but his charming sweetness is impossible for her to penetrate. The situation becomes more embarrassing when her lover arrives. The husband welcomes him with open arms, and even when he real- j izes that he is the man his wife is in love with, he is determined to find out what sort of a man he is. j The Englishman’s admiration for 1 the husband becomes so great, that j he feels his presence is an injustice and so he departs. The young wife, | realizing her grave mistake, returns! once more to the love of her hus-1 band. Warner Baxter, who last was seen ■ in "Penthouse,” has for his leading} lady, Helen Vinson. Other members of the cast are Warner Oland, Cath- j erine Doucet, G. P. Huntley Jr., Frank O'Connor, Eleanor Lynn and Jay Ward. Hamilton MacFadden directed. Supplementing the featured at- I traction on the program are Movie- i tone News, a Terrytoon cartoon, and I a rollicking comedy, "Mr. Adam,” starring Ernest True. a a a Bancroft Is Starred Rowland Brown, author with Harold Long, and also director of the twentieth century picture, "Blood Money,” starring George Bancroft, which opened yesterday at Loews Palace, says it reveals conditions that exist in virtually every’ large city. The workings of the bail bond racket; how’ criminals are set at j large to continue their careers; how j the efforts of district attorneys, j judges and honest men are set at naught, are brought out in “Blood ! Money.” Bill Bailey is a professional bondsman who wields such an unscrupu- ! lons power in the underworld and in ! politics that his word is law both i up and down the social scale. He has been engaged in a profit- j able partnership for a number of j years with Ruby, the beautiful pro- j prietress of a fashionable gambling I speak-easy. In love and business j they have always played fair, for it I was Ruby’s stake of a S2O bill, taken from her stocking, that started Bailey's successful career in bail bonds. Hcwever, Elaine Talbert, a wealthy

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society girl who likes underworld thrills, is destined to change all i that. Elaine meets Bailey when he goes her bail, for shoplifting. Stealing for a thrill is her pastime. Bailey becomes infatuated with Elaine, a type new to, him. This brings about a break with Ruby, whose handsome young brother; Drury, is a bank robber with an obsession for beautiful women. While out on bail after a bold dayj light bank robbery, Drury meets Elaine and the girl, thrilled to death, responds ardently to the ! young rascal’s play.for her. Bancroft, the star of many pictures, portrays the part of Bill Bailey, the bondsman; Judith Anderson, popular Broadway star makes her screen debut as Ruby Darling; Frances Dee, a former Indianapolis girl, portrays the part of Elaine Talbert, and Chick Chandler Who has won many laurels on Broadway as a comedian, is cast as Drury Darling. This is Bancroft’s first picture under his new contract with Joseph M. Schenck and Daryl F. Zanuck for Twentieth Century, releasing through United Artists. The short subject program con- ! sists of a variety which should be I pleasing to every one with Charlie j Chase in his latest comedy riot, | “Midsummer Mush,” a return eni gagement of that pqpular colored Siliy Symphony cartoon "The Three Little Pigs,” a musical novelty by Waring’s Pennsylvanians, also a Newman Adventury subject "Samoan Memories” and rounded out by the latest issue of Hearst Metrotone News. a a a 'Female' at Circle Ruth Chatterton, now appearing at the Circle in "Female,” her latest starring vehicle, seems to have a habit of selecting George Brent, her husband, as her leading man. In her last five productions he has played opposite her in all but one. In her latest picture, he carries again, the leading masculine role and is incidently the only lover of this female Don Juan who is not bent to her will. Her role is that of a big business executive w’ho flirts outrageously after office hours with the handsome men in her employ. She is as ruthless in love as she is in business until she finds one man w r ho will not bend to her will, whereupon she finds he is the only man in the world she can not do without. This situation changes her whole career and revolutionizes her life. This play was directed by William Dieterle and includes a cast featuring Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Johnny Mack Brown, Ruth Donnelly, and Lois Wilson. a a a 'Disraeli' on View Once again motion picture fans and George Arliss admirers have the opportunity of seeing him in "Disraeli.” This picture is on view at Keith’s. During the last three years Warner Brothers has had so many requests from motion picture fans and theater owners for "Disraeli,” that they decided to reissue the picture nationally. For the first time in English his-

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1— Bert Lytel, famous on the screen and stage, heads the cast of “Ten Minute Alibi,” which opens tomorrow night at English’s. 2 Cesar Romero is one of the well-known members of the cast of "Ten Minute Alibi,” opening tomorrow at English’s.

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1— George Bancroft looks like a decent citizen in this picture, but he has a racket all of his own in “Blood Money,” now at the Palace. 2 Ruth Chatterton is the star of “Female,” now at the Circle. 3 Warner Baxter and Helen Vinson have some pleasant moments in “As Husbands Go,” now at the Apollo.

ROUNDING ROUND rpTJT? A npT? DC WITH WALTER 1 ilrL/V 1 H/IVO D . HICKMAN APPRECIATION of good music means in the most simple terms the opportunity to hear good music. We may get good music in many ways, but the more experience one has in accepting good music the better one is in his appreciation.

Another opportunity comes tomorrow afternoon at 6 p. m., eastern standard time when the Cadillac symphony concerts begin thirteen Sunday broadcasts over the blue network of the National Broadcasting Company. The Cadillac Motor Car Company tomorrow will present the Cadillac Symphony under the direction of Brund Walter with Jascha Heifetz as the soloist. On the following Sunday, Arthur Bodanzky will conduct and Rosa tory a sovereign, Queen Victoria, came to a reception given by one of her premiers. British rules of court etiquette are even more strict than those at the White House, and it is a well-known fact that the President never dines out. He invites his guests, but no one is permitted to be host to him. So it may well be imagined what a furore it caused when Queen Victoria decided that an especial compliment should be paid Disraeli at the time he made her “Empress of India” through his diplomacy. The plot of this brilliant story revolves around Disraeli’s acquisition of the Suez canal by buying the shares of the improvident kedive of Egypt at a time when Russia was attempting to acquire them. The Bank of England refused to lend Disraeli's government the money to buy “a ditch,” but a fellow Jew, called Meyer in the play, really reputed to be one of the Rothschilds, lent him the money which made the deal possible. Assisting Mr. Arliss in this dramatic picture are such players as Joan Bennett, Anthony Bushnell. Florence Arliss, David Torrence, Doris Lloyd. A Paramount News Weekly and the comedy completes the program.

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Ponselle, recently here in persno under the management of Mrs. Nancy Martens, will be the soloist. Near stations for these concerts are KWK, St. Louis, and WLW, Cincinnati. u a Pat Lane tonight becomes master of ceremonies at the Indiana Roof ballroom. Lane recently completed a vaudeville tour and is back home for a brief engagenlent. a a a Miss Sara Lauter, one of the founder members of the Civic theater, has been selected by Hale MacKeen, director of the Civic theater, to play the role of “Mrs. Wiggs,” the leading lady, in the Christmas week benefit performance of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” which will be presented Dec. 2(5, 27, 28. Miss Lauter is one of the most experienced of the group of talented Civic theater players, and is expected to portray with vividness the character of “the sweet natured old lady of the Cabbage Patch.” She has taken an active (interest in the production, as well as the development of the theater from days when it was known as “The Little Theatre.” Rehearsal of the play will be begun within a few days and announcement made of the other members of the cast, Mac Keen announced. Three matinee performances of the play will be given for underprivileged children and their mothers, with a special presentation for the general public on Wednesday night, Dec. 27. An advance ticket sale has been conducted under the direction of Mabel Bain Annis, chairman, and

3.—Fances Woods and Billy Bray are among the entertainers now on view at the Taily-Ho room at the Antlers. 4—Raymond Lehr is presenting his new act on the stage of the Lyric.

4 Here is Eddie Foy Jr. in a scene from “Myrt and Marge,” now on the screen at the Lyric. 5 George Arliss may again be seen in “Disraeli,” which now is on the screen at Keith’s.

| Mortimer Furscott, chairman of the | board of directors. Free transportation and candy will be provided each child guest of the theater. > b b a The Conte Ensemble will present the operetta, “Trial by Judy,” at the Irvington School of Music, Monday, Dec. 18. at 8 p. m. There will be no admission charges and the program is open to the public. Soloists in the operetta will be Mary E. Colter, Chester McLaughlin, Clyde Foster, Clell Rice and William Rider. Assisting on the program will be the Russian String Choir directed by Merle Curry, and dance numbers by the pupils of Hanna Beck. B tt tt Two one-act Christmas plays will be presented at the fifty-first Street Methodist Episcopal church, Central | avenue and Fifty-first street, tomorrow at 7:30 p. m., under the auspices of the Periwig Players of the church. “A Christmas Guest,” by Constance Mackay, is directed by Mrs. Glenn Shoptaugh. The cast includes: Betty Kerbox, Rebecca Irwin, Betty Lewis, Merilyn Templeton, Norma McClintock, Dick Giffin, Joe Rutledge and Nelson Roetter. “Upon the Water,” by Tacie May Hamm, is directed by Mrs. F. A. Linton. The cast includes Mable McDaniel, Helen Nicholson, Mrs. Emma Foreman, Mrs. Robert Mason, Clyde Wood, F. D. Wallace. Mark McDonald is stage manager; Marjorie Newman is in charge of make-up, and L. J. Nau is in charge of publicity. During the intermission, Miss Isabelle Mossman will lead a “Christmas Carol Sing,” accompanied by Mrs. Fred Ulrich on the piano. A free-will offering for the Methodist Children’s Home at Lebanon, Indiana, will be taken. The public is invited. r BBS Here is the best news that Mr. Oberfelder at English’s has given us. A week from tomorrow night, he is to bring Margaret Anglin, Queenie Smith and Jessica Newcombe in “Her Master’s Voice,” now a great hit on Broadway. What a cast he has assembled. Mae West’s Mail Mounts Mae West's fan mail—the greatest in Hollywood—has leaped from a few letters from personal friends to 2,500 a week since she landed in the film capital seventeen months ago.

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Myrt, Marge at Lyric in Film; Lehr on Stage Radio’s most popular feminine stars, Myrt and Marge, in private life Myrtle Vail and Donna Dameral, make their movie debut in a comedy drama of theatrical affairs entitled “Myrt and Marge,” the screen feature for the current week at the Lyric, which also presents a pre-Christmas week stage show, topped by Raynor Lehr and company and Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers. Lehr will be remembered as the star of his own show at the Lyric last season, when he acquired a large and loyal local following. With the assistance of five versatile funmakers, he now is appearing in a breezy novelty of his own design. Ezra Buzzington's Rustic Revelers, well-known to Indianapolis theatergeors, appear in a * merry music, song and dance oddity called 'Corncrib Follies.” Other stage attraction sare Lloyd Nevada and company in “Mirth and Mystery,” a surprising “black art” novelty; Curly Brooks, “Steppin’ Son of the South,” popular colored singing and dancing comedian; The Four of Us, a quartet of harmony vocalists, and the Six Lucky Girls in a kaleidoscopic dance revue. “Myrt and Marge” unfolds an interesting story of the adventures of a young girl, ambitious for a stage career, who joins a company engaged in trying out a musical production in “tank” towns to ascertain if it is worthy of a chance on Broadway. It abounds in romance and action, with comedy predominating all the way.

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Bert Lytell Is Star of Noted Broadway Hit Cesaro Romero, Derek Fairman and Virginia Milne Are Included in Cast of Production. The cycle of detective plays, mystery thrillers and melodramas seems to be returning to the New York stage with a vengeance this season and several of the smash hits of Broadway that are playmg to S. R. O. on frequent occasions come under one or the other of these classifications. Outstanding among these successes is the English importation "Ten Minute Alibi,” which Herman Shumlin of “Grand Hotel” fame directed for Crosby Gaige and Lee Shubert and which shortly after its American

premiere on Oct. 17 at the Ethel Barrymore theater soon emerged into the hit class with indications of an all season's Broadway run. Arthur M. Oberfelder, showman who is giving the middlewestern cities a regular theatrical bill of fare with his road show productions of the latest New’ York successes, lost no time in closing a contract for this production as he felt that it would be an excellent holiday attraction as it offers perfect relaxation as well as thrills and suspense. Another important factor which determined Mr. Oberfelder to present this play was that it offered him an opportunity of presenting Famed Musical Unit Is Coming to Indiana Roof Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra long rated one of America's ace Negro dance units, will make a onenight appearance on the Indiana Roof next Wednesday night.' It will be the first time the Roof has booked a name orchestra for a mid-week appearance. Because of the attractiveness of Henderson’s waltz melodies, however, the Roof management plans to adhere to its weekly waltz night policy Wednesday night. Henderson’s dance music has come to local dancers through many channels, although his performance here next Wednesday night will be the first he has played locally. The Henderson orchestra has recorded numerous dance hits, it has been featured in musical shorts, and its unusually fine broadcasts over the Columbia chain are responsible for the personal appearance tour which brings the unit to Indianapolis. His eight years’ run in the Roseland ballroom in New York City was a record breaker as well as an assurance of his popularity in the east for as long a time as dancers like their music sweet and hot. The Indiana Roof is again operating under a straight dance policy. In addition to the regular program of dance music, the management is offering entertainment each evening and a floor show on Saturdays and Sundays. Table service, formerly confined to the ballroom balcony and grill, is now offered as a convenience on the edge of the dance floor, night club style. A Christmas party for employes of the Mallory Company will be given next Thursday night.

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Bert Lytell in a drama which might have been specially written so perfectly does he fit into the stellar role of Colin Derwent. "Then Minute Alibi.” while it has the Sherlock Holmes touch with its Scotland Yard, is an entirely new and novel treatment of a detective story, the audience is let in on the murder and the suspense and interest is sustained by the inspectors trying to unravel what they know to be a murder but which Colin Derwent through his perfect ten minute alibi forces the cleverest minds in the “Yard" to admit to be a suicide. The sympathy of the audience is with Colin Derwent who commits the murder only as the last resort to save the girl he loves from a fate worse than aeath. Philip Sevilla, the villain in the drama, is one of the foulest malefactors encountered in dramatic literature and it is a pleasure to see him safely put out of the way and then to see Derwent confound the nimblest minds in Scotland Yard with his ten-minuta alibi. The critics on the World-Tele-gram in reviewing the New York performance said it is “an evening of excitement and suppense ... see it you must.” An exceptionally strong Broadway cast including Cesaro Romero, Derek Fairman, Virginia Milne, Ivan Miller, E. J. Blunkall and Leonard Lord support Mr. Lytell and will make this play undoubtedly one of the high spots of the season. "Ten Minute Alibi” is at English’s for four days commencing Sunday night with a matinee on Wednesday.

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