Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1934 — Page 8

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GEORGE GERSHWIN TO APPEAR HERE AT ENGLISH'S ON FEB. 1

Robert Montgomery Is Star in New Picture Stage Show Shares Feature Honors With ‘Fugitive Lovers’ Film at Loew’s Palace. All the sensations of a rapid, thrilling cross-oountry trip are revealed to audiences in Robert Montgomery's latest picture, "Fugitive Lovers,” which is on view at Loew's Palace. Also, as an added attraction, on the stage is ‘‘A Century of Progress Revue,” which musically is combining the 1933 world's fair highlights. "Fugitive Lovers" offers in addition to authentic scenes shot from a great Greyhound bus as it actually sped from New York to Holly-wood, a daring prison break and a thrilling man-hunt. A huge "road cruiser” rolls out of its terminal in New York City and, on its first night out, encounters a prison break as it passes a penitentiary. Repeated firing halts the bus.

Robert Montgomery-, in the role of Porter, leader of the break, manages to climb onto the luggage rack. Later, in clothing stolen from an unlocked bag, he enters as a passenger. Inside, Letty, New York chorine (played by Madge Evans) is repelling the advances of the gangster backer of her erstwhile show. In the role of "Legs” Caffee, the gangster, Nat Pendleton, is trying to force Letty to return with him to Atlantic City. Porter enters the bus and befriends Letty. "Legs” plots revenge. Then, suspecting Porter to be the man whom the police are hunting, he attempts to aid in his capture. As on any cross-country coach, the bus in "Fugitive Lovers” is filled w-ith variegated passengers, some humorous, some pathetic. Ted Healy is a jolly traveling salesman; his three stooges compose an hilariously funny vaudeville team, and Ruth Selwyn Is another interesting passenger. “Fugitive Lovers” was directed by Richard Boleslavsky. “A Century of Progress” revue is composed of six of the concessions at the late w-orld’s fair which were so tremendously successful. One of the outstanding features of this revue is the personal appearance of Ripley’s "Believe It or Not” characters. These Ripleyites were big hits at the world’s fair “Odditorium.” Their present theater tour marks their first appearance on any stage. “The Streets of Paris” has contributed its sixteen living Parisienne models. Hollywood-at-the-Fair and Old Mexico have turned over, intact, their complete lines of rhumba and shawl dancing girls. I Still others in the large cast include the dancing girls from Oriental Village, Alfredo and Dolores; Bernice Marshall, singer; Faith Bacon, dancer, and the personal appearance of the 1934 "Miss America.” * a a a Francis Tops Cast Few stories are said to offer a star a wider range of dramatic opportunities, or a more dazzling background, than are afforded Kay Francis in “The House on 56th Street” which will be shown at the j

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Indiana theater for four days starting tomorrow. As the orphaned daughter of a professional gambler, whose beauty wins her' immediate success in Broadway’s gayest musical show-, Kay Francis undertakes a role completely different from anything she ■ ever attempted before. As she steps from the stage into the most conservative social set of the city as the bride of Monte Van Tyle, scion of an old Knickerbocker family, Peggy’s happiness seems complete. It is not gambling for money that brings about her ruin. But Peggy can not resist gambling | with life, and taking chances with Fate. Becoming involved in the death of one of her former lovers, though innocent, everything she loves is swept from her in a calamitous sequel to an act of reckless generosity. Husband, child, friends and freedom are stripped from her in scandal and trial that follow. Miss Francis has in her support Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday, Margaret Lindsay, Frank McHugh, Sheila Terry, William Boyd, Hardie Albright and Phillip Faversham. Closing today at the Indiana theater is a comedy "Havana Widows” with Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Frank McHugh and Guy Kibbee. ft a a New Star at Circle The Circle theater is truly the ■ house of innovations, having the j unique experience of introducing ■ two new stars during the last year j in their outstanding motion picture j success, Mae West in “I’m No Angel” and Katherine Hepburn in j “Little Women.” And again, starting tomorrow, the I Circle will present two new sensations on the same day. One is a ; new star, Ann Sothern, appearing | in the leading feminine role w-ith Edmund Lowe in “Let’s Fall In I Love.” The entire presentation will : be heard over the newly installed sound equipment termed “Wide Range,” because of the wide range of sound waves, one is able to hear by use of the new equipment makI ing for greater motion picture enjoyment. Ann Sothern, a young musical comedy actress, is recruited from the New York stage. Edmund Lowe is co-featured while the supporting cast includes Gregory Rat- ; off, Miriam Jordan, Betty Furness | and Arthur Jarrett. The salient departure of “Let’s j Fall In Love” from the average mu-

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1— Robert Montgomery has the male lead in “Fugitive Lovers,” now on view at the Palace. 2 George O'Brien brings back the .western movie melodrama to the screen in “Frontier Marshall,” now on view at the Apollo. 3 Edmund Lowe and Onslow Stevens|heads a splendid cast in “Bombay Mail,” now- at the Lyric.

1— George Gershwin, noted pianist and composer, will appear at English’s on Thursday night, Feb. 1, as a special offering of Mrs. Nancy Martens. 2 Alfredo and Dolores are the graceful dancers with “Century of Progress Revue,” now- on the stage of the Palace.

sicale is the absence of a chorus and those undressed girl routines that we have seen so much of lately. Lilting tunes set in a background of musical romance atmosphere is the new trend. Three beautiful songs are introduced, “Let’s Fall In Love,” “Love Is Love Anywhere,” and “This Is Only the Beginning,” written by the composers of “Stormy Weather.” Ann Sothern is the former Harriet Lake, the lead in “Os Thee I Sing,” playing at Englishs’ theater last season. Starting tomorrow at the Circle. u a New Western Here George O'Brien, long identified with action and outdoor screen attractions, is appearing currently at the Apollo theater in the new Fox release, “Frontier Marshal.” O'Brien’s new photoplay is said to be the first considered worthy of an Apollo showing, and this engagement marks the star’s initial appearance on the Apollo screen. Adapted from incidents appearing in the novel written by Stuart N.

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Lake, the locale of the film is the surrounding community of Tombstone, Ariz., known in the olden days as a roaring, politically corrupt mining town where lawlessness and death were the order of the day. The story’ centers around the incidents in the life of Wyatt Earp, the west’s most widely known peace officer and the fearless leader of the law and order forces who tamed the elements that had made Tombtsone known the world over. Mr. O’Brien is cast as the frontier marshal, debonair and of the fashion-plate type, who, because of the girl he loves, remains in the city to avenge her father’s murder, and at the same time bring law and order to this town of bedlam. Mr. O’Brien finds that he is faced with a difficult task, for he discovers the mayor of the town is in alliance with the outlaws that have given Tombstone its disreputable name. How Mr. O’Brien manages to overcome these difficulties and capture the murderer of the girl’s father, is reputed to bring the film to a dramatic conclusion. Irene Bentley, who is said to outWest Mae West in her characterization of “Queenie,” is seen in the leading feminine role opposite O'Brien. Other members of the cast are George E. Stone, Alan Edwards, Ruth Gillette, Berton Churchill, Frank Conroy, Ward Bond, Edward Le Saint, Russell Simpson and Fostor. Lew Seiler directed. Short subjects supplementing the featured attraction on the program are Movietone News, a Romantic Journey novelty film entitled “Across the Sea,” an Aesop’s Fables and a musical comedy, “Popping the Cork.”

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4 Kay Francis has a highly dramatic role in “The House on 56th Street,” which opens tomorrow at the Indiana theater for four days only. 5 Ann Sothern is the new movie star in a musical romance, “Let’s Fall in Love,” which opens tomorrow as the screen attraction at the Circle.

3 Sigrid Onegin, contralto, will sing Sunday afternoon, Jan. 28, at English’s theater, under the management of Mrs. Nancy Martens. 4 Roy Cummings, a splendid comic, is the star of the current stage show at the Lyric.

Musical Show Is Featured at Lyric Theater With “Melody Lane,” a musical extravaganza on the stage, and “Bombay Mail,” a spectacular melodrama starring Edmund Lowe, on the screen, the Lyric theater's new show, now playing, affords a wide variety of meritorious entertainment. “Melody Lane” embraces music, songs, dancing and vaudeville novelties. Roy Cummings, famous Broadway comedian, who has starred in many big productions, is the featured funmaker of “Melody Lane.” Assisted by his partner, Flo Roberts, Cummings offers an unusual laugh skit. Other revue principals and vaudevillians in the show are Doris and Cochran, youthful team of agile steppers; Harry Foster Welch, celebrated mimic and character artist; Raynor and Virginia Caldwell in terpsichorean originalities; Tabor and Frye, popular Negro comedians who rank among the leading mirth provokers of their race, and George and June Bell and company, dancers of international repute, who but recently completed a tour of the larger music halls of continental Europe. The Lyric’s Fourteen Streamline Girls are much in evidence through-

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out the show, in new ensemble numbers. In “Bombay Mail,” Edmund Lowe appears as a suave and intrepid police inspector. The picture, adapted from L. G. Blochman’s novel of the same name, is a story of intrigue and murder of India. The entire action takes place on a railroad train, the Bombay mail, running from Calcutta to Bombay, in railroad stations teeming With the exotic color of India, and at the train's destination, the docks at Bombay. The star has the support of a notable cast of players, including Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Ralph Forbes, Hedda Hopper, Tom Moore, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Gary Owen and Huntley Gordon. Bernie in “The Great Magoo” Ben Bernie, “The Old Maestro,” will emerge on the screen in a featured role in “The Great Magoo,” the Ben Hecht-Gene Fowler play which Paramount will produce this winter, instead of in the screen version of “Murder at the Vanities” as previously announced. He and his band will report for work in Hollywood on March 4. Others in the cast are Cary Grant. Jack Oakie. Ida Lupino and Grace Bradley.

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Famed Composer to Visit City During Tour Leo Reisman’s Orchestra to Accompany Musician: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ on Program. Opportunity to see and to hear as pianist and conductor, the eminent and popular American composer. George Gershwin, will be accorded Indianapolis on Thrusday night, Feb. 1, at English's, under the local direction of Martens Concerts. Inc. Mr. Gershwin is making a tour of twenty-eight cities from Boston to Omaha, and from Richmond to Toronto, beginning tomorrow. The tour is under the direction of Harry Askin. who is remembered as a producer of big musical productions and also as the manager of the late John Philip Sousa and his band. Mr. Askin persuaded Mr. Gershwin to leave New York where his season’s hit. “Let ’Em Eat Cake." is playing as successor to hfs "Os Thee

I Sing,” and to appear with Leo Reisman's orchestra of thirty-six men under Charles Previn, noted conductor, in a program that will be typical of the composer. Naturally, a feature of the program will be Mr. Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue,” now in its tenth an--5 niversary, with the composer as solo | pianist. “Os Thee I Sing” also will be represented, in this instance by the overture, played by the large orchestra. Mr. Gershwin will have the famous tenor, James Melton, with him as special vocalist. Melton will sing ! several Gershwin selections, and | Gershwin, who will appear as conductor, will address the audience, | explaining and discussing some of j his compositions. Just as a reminder, there is given ! herewith a short list of Gershwin j musical comedies, not counting six George White's Scandals, including notably “Strike Up the Band.” “Girl Crazy,” “Tip Toes,” “Lady Be Good,” "Oh Kay,” and “Funny Face.” Then also there is that superlaAt Ambassador ■ Marie Dressier and Lionel Barry- [ more are starred in "Her Sweet- | heart,” which comes to the Ambassador tomorrow- and Monday. The new picture, formerly released by Metro as “Christopher Bean” has been changed to "Her Sweetheart,” and is a vivid drama based on a New York stage hit. Miss Dressier enacts Abby, the faithful old servant. Mr. Barrymore i is seen as the kindly country doctor j who under the lash of avarice turns | to a scheming, grasping scoundrel, ! seeking to rob his servant, only to j have the w-oman’s faith turn him j back again to his lifelong path of honor. In addition there will be shown a comedy, cartoon, and new-s reel. Additions to David Harum Vivian Oakland, Eddie Gargan and Spec O’Donnell have been cast in "David Harum,” the film adaptation of the famous novel by Edw-ard Noyes Westcott in w-hich Will Rogers is starred. Miss Oakland will play the role of Lillian Russell, the famous beauty of the '9os. Claire Trevor Returns Claire Trevor, Fox player, will leave New York for Hollywood soon, following a holiday of tw-o weeks in Manhattan. She will return by way of the Panama canal.

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tive work. “American in Paris,’’ and of still more ambitious sort, "Concerto in F.” During the summer of 1933, Mr. Gershwin had a tremendous sucess on his appearance with the Chicago Symphony orchestra. It was, however, a repetition of successes with the Boston, New York Philharmonic, Phildelphia and Pittsburgh orchestras, with each of which he played as soloist. a a a Sigrid Onegin Coming Sigrid Onegin's voice, which will be heard on Sunday afternoon. Jan. 28, at English’s theater in the fourth Sunday afternoon concert of the Martens concerts, recalls the golden age of song with its wonder tales of the great contraltos who soared to top C's and astonished with the ease of the coloratura flights and trills. Mme. Onegin is one of the few, if not the only contralto of our day, to sing the famous aria. “Una Voce Poco Fa,” from “The Barber of Seville,” in the original key. Rossini wrote the music originally for contralto, but the dearth of this type of songer to compass the difficulties and trills made it necessary for the transposition of this aria for a higher key. The program follow-s: Aria from -'Cenerentella" Rossini Mme. Onegin. "Plaisir d'Amour" Martini "I Shot an Arrow" Baife ‘She Never Told Her Love” Havdn "Piercing Eyes" Haydn Mme. Onegin. "Der Wanderer an den Mond" ..Schubert "Der Toppelgaenger” :...Schubert "Der Musenssohn" Schubert •'Der Erlkoenig" Schubert Mme. Onegin. "Intermezzo'’ Brahms ‘ Ballade” Brahms "Rhapsodic” Brahms Mr. Reutter. Aria from “Lady Macbeth” In original Shakespearian text Verdi Mme. Onegin.

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