Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1934 — Page 7

MARCH 3, 1931

WILL ROGERS IS STAR OF 'DAVID HARUM/NOW ON VIEW AT APOLLO

Film Revolves Around Typical American Theme Part of Shrewd Horse Trader Is Taken in New Screen Production by Famed Humorist-Star. “David Harum. ’’ with Will Rogers in the title role, is the featured attraction now appearing upon the screen of the Apollo. of the nation’s friendly interest in the humorist-philos-opher- *ar letters are said to pour into his home regularly, suggesting a particular story or theme of character for his next picture. It. is reputed that more suggestions urging him to play “David Harum" were received than any other, and it was virtually in response to the command of the threater-going public that Fox Films produced this story. Ps typical American theme deals with a shrewd horse trader. Be-

cause of the coldness with which he barters, and his uncanny method of outwitting people in business dealings, his reputation is none too good in .he small town in which he lives. A young man who has come to work in the bank owned by the horse trader learns that his employer really has a soft heart, and that his hardness is only for those who deal unfairly. The young man has fallen in love with a wealthy girl, but hesitates to propose marriage because of his poor financial standing. The old man, who is interested in the boy, tries to help the romance along, but gets nowhere. When the girl comes to him and requests him to enter her horse in a forthcoming race, he advises the boy to place all his savings on the horse. The hilarious method by which the horse trader brings home a winner is said to bring the film to a happy and amusting conclusion. The cast in support of Rogers includes Louise Dresser, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Stepin Fetchit, Noah Beery, loger Imhoff, Frank Melton, Charles Middleton, Sarah Padden and Lillian Stuart. James Cruze directed from Walter Woods adaptation from the novel by Edward Noyes Westcott. a a a Lot of Music Here Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald are united at Loews Palace m “The Cat and the Fiddle.’ The music is interpolated into the production in such fashion that one has the feeling it is “motivated,” that it advances rather than retards the action of the plot. “The Cat and the Fiddle” concerns the romance of two young music students in Brussels. After a delightful courtship, Ramon wins Jeannette’s love and they live together in Paris, where she becomes a popular and successful composer. Novarro, however, can not work in their new and luxurious surroundings. He wants to go back to the tiny flat in Brussels. Jeanette, because she loves him, decides to give up her own career and go with him. but Ramon is persuaded by Frank Morgan, playing a wealthy impresario, that he is ruining Jeanette's career. He pretends that he does not love her and goes away, leaving her broken-hearted. Desperately unhappy. Ramon finishes his operetta called “The Cat and the Fiddle." and arranges to produce it in Paris with the financial aid of the tasty husband of Vivienne Segal, who plays an amorous prima donna. Miss Segal becomes infatuated with Ramon and her husband surprises her in an off-stage love scene with the reluctant young composer, i He withdraws his support and takes his wife out of the play. The musicians and the leading man desert Ramon on the eve of the opening. How Jeanette, whose love has never wavered, come to his assistance in his darkest hour, and how they are reunited while the music soars to estatic heights, is the climax.

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Such songs as “The Night Was Made for Love,” “She Didn’t Say Yes,” “A New Love Is Old” and “Try to Forget” are heard during the picture. Featured on the short subject program are those inimitable comedians, Laurel and Hardy, in their semi-full length comedy entitled “Oliver the Eighth,” and completed by the latest minute views of current news as picturized by Hearst Metrotone News. a a tt Bus Romance on View “It Happened One Night” is now on view at the Circle theater, introducing for the first time the latest romantic team of Hollywood Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The picture was directed by Frank Capra, who produced “Lady for a Day,” some months ago. The supporting cast includes Falter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Ward Bond, Allen Hale and Blanche Frederick. Clark Gable is cast as the adventurous newspaper man who has just told his boss where to go, over long distance telephone, and reversed the charges. Asa result, the boss murmurs “He isn’t with us any more” and Gable starts trying to get back to New York from Miami, the scene of the telephoning. Claudette Colbert is cast as the daughter of a very rich man who has locked her in the library of his palatial boat because she married a fellow' he didn’t like. And just to get even and away from it all, pretty, petulant Claudette dives into the surf and disappears beneath the waves only to show up at the bus station, where she meets Gable and they start their long trek back to New York together, but not without their differences. The two meet rather inauspiciously, on a bus leaving Miami. Gable notes with growing concern the girl’s apparent helplessness and takes her under his wing. Missing the bus on a stopover, they decide to hitch-hike on to the big city. Their adventures from this point provide the rest of the story.

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In “Death Takes A Holiday,” which comes -soon to the Circle, Mr. Marsh plays the role of Death who takes a three-day vacation to learn why humans fear him.

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1— Lawrence Tibbett, Metropolitan star, will appear in concert at the Murat, Sunday afternoon, March 25. 2 Kate Smith is drawing tremendous crowds to the Indiana where she opened in person yesterday.

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1— Jeanette MacDonald and Ramon Novarro have a lovely musical and romantic time in “The Cat and the Fiddle,” now- on view at the Palace. 2 Gordon Westcot and Joan Blondell are In the cast of “I’ve Got Your Number,” now on the screen at the Indiana.

2 Features Are to Be Offered at Ambassador I The Ambassador presents to- ' morrow and Monday a double feature bill with Metro’s “Dinner at | Eight” and a showing of Universal’s I "S. O. S. Iceberg.” “Dinner at Eight” boasts a large cast, including Jean Harlow, John ! Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Marie Dressier. Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy. Edmund Lowe, Philip Holmes, Madge Evans, Billie Burke, Karen Morley and Jean Hersholt. The picture is an adaptation from the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. The other feature, “S. O. S. Iceberg,” tells the story of a lost expedition and their struggle to exist in the frozen north. The expedition, comprising an aviator, his wife and crew are doomed to die when a rescue party stumbles upon them, saving their lives.

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IN NIGHT CLUB

Gene Wood

Chateau Lido night club is reopening tonight with Gene Wood’s orchestra and Jimmie Fisher, vocalist, acting as master of ceremonies. This supper club has been completely renovated and remodeled. They are presenting three complete floor shows each Saturday night and supper dancingthroughout the week. Leyton Added to “Now I’ll Tell” Drue Leyton, heretofore known on the American stage as Freye Leigh, has arrived in Hollywood under contract to Fox. and will appear in an important role in “Now I'll Tell,” from the story by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein. Spencer Tracy and Alice Faye will be starred in the picture.

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3 The Lee Gails, dancers, are prominent in the cast of “Bottoms Up,” new revue, now on view- at the Lyric. 4 Katherine Cornell is pictured here as Elizabeth Barrett in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street.” Her engagement will open at English’s Thursday, March 29.

3 Here is Will Rogers as he appears in “David Harum,” which is now on view at the Apollo. 4 Clark Gable has the chief male lead in “It Happened One Night,” now at the Circle. 5 Edward Everett Horton and Lila Hyams have the leading roles in “The Poor Rich,” now on view at the Lyric.

String Quartet Is Booked Here for March 12 Sascha Jacobsen, first violinist of the Musical Art string quartet, which will be heard at Caleb Mills ] hall, March 12, in the third of the Civic Music Association concerts, has won a wide reputation as a solo artist as well as an ensemble | player. He is of Russian ancestry, although he was born just across the border in Helsingfors, Finland. His 1 father was a noted cellist, and his family for generations had played one or another musical instruments. While he was still young, his family moved back to Petrograd. When the revolution started young Jacobsen was taken to the United States, where he entered the class of Franz Kenisel. Soon after, he made his debut in New York, and has followed this with many tours of America. Another noted member of the quartet is a woman, Marie Roe-maet-Rosanoff. who is widely known as soloist and quartet player. She is an American, born of French and Belgian parents, and began her study of the cello in New York. Paul Bernard, second violinist, and Louis Kaufman, viola player, are other members of the organization. They are widely known as ensemble players.

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This actress* Anna Sten, may become as well known as Greto Garbo in the next year. Her first American made production, “Nana,” has been booked by Manager Jac Flex for Loew’s Palace.

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'Bottoms Up' Revue Is Featured on Lyric Stage •The Poor Rich* Starring Edward Everett Horton and Edna May Oliver, Is Screen Attraction. For the current week the Lyric presents, on the stage, anew- musical -evue, “Bottoms Up," featuring “Pop” Cameron of the Four Camerons, long a standard headline attraction in vaudeville. On the screen is Universal's comedy. “The Poor Rich." which has Edward Everett Horton and Edna May Oliver as the chief players. “Bottoms Up” is announced as “a repeal revue.” It is a mixture of music, comedy, singing, dancing and vaudeville innovations with “Pop” Cameron as the chief fun dispenser, aided by the other three Camerons: the Lee Gails, dancers: Helen Honan, impersonator of stage and screen celebrities: Beth Miller, “blues’’ singer; Dolly Bell, acrobatic dancer;

Bobby Bixley, exponent of “leg-o-mania,” and the Sixteen Cocktail Shakers, a chorus of well trained Chester Hale girls. Edward Everett Horton and Edna Mae Oliver form a brand new comedy team in ’The Poor Rich,” a story of the depression’s affects on a group of persons representative of our monied “aristocracy." The plot centers around the scions of an old, and one-time wealthy family, who endeavor to “carry on" in their accustomed way by means of the expedient of putting up “a front” even though they have no cash to pay accumulating bills. They manage very well until Dan Cupid and the police take a hand in their affairs with consequences of a most hilarious character. The cast in support of the stars includes such featured screen players as Thelma Todd. Leila Hyams, Andy Devine. Grant Mitchell. E. E. Clive, Una O'Connor and John Miljan.

With Kate at Indiana Kate Smith's “Swanee Music Revue” is now at the Indiana. The revue, a fifty-three-minute show, is staged and directed by Ted Collins. who played the part of Kate's- manager in her picture. “Hello, Everybody.” Kate Smith M. C.'s the entire show, and offers a repertoire ot popular tunes, ranging from the lyric ballad, “Boy of Mine.” to the fast-moving and ha-cha pace of “You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal.” # Jack Miller, a radio star in hiis own right, directs the seventeenpiece orchestra, and offers vocal solos in a baritone very reminiscent of Crosby. The orchestral arrangements are credited to Tony Gale, pianist, who has scrambled “What Is This Thing Called Love?” with “Rhapsody in Blue.” The Reilly kids, Grace 18. Alice 18 and Bob 20, do some fast soft-shoe and tap routines ranging from military drills to novelty steps. Steve Evans impersonates, cleverly, without the aid of make-up, Joe Brown, El Brendel, John D. Rockefeller, Lon Chaney, Pop-Eye the Sailor and others. Don Cummings, who last season played with Frank Fay “From Hollywood to Broadway,” in “Tattle Tales,” manipulates a rope and does some stunting, including a combination of tap dancing and rope twirling.

In Recital

Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, soprano, will be heard in public voice recital Friday night, March 9 at 8:30 at the John Herron Art Institute. Walter Whitworth will be the accompanist. Listed among her songs will be three by Indiana composers. “O, My Dear Heart,” by Van Denman Thompson, organist, and composer, and member of the music faculty of De Pauw university. Mr. Thompson has just completed the writing of an oratorio commissioned by the Methodist church to be sung at the centennial of the church. Two German songs, “Du bist wie eine Blume” and “Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet,” by Alice Menninger Stempel, formerly of Bloomington, will be given.

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Cotton Pickers to Return to Roof Ballroom At least one or more favorite dance orchestras appear on the schedule released by Tom Devine of the Indiana roof today. Outstanding on the new calendar are the names of Jack Crawford, “the clown prince of jazz.” and his orchestra; Charlie Agnew and his orchestra, featuring Dusty Rhoades and Emory Ann Lincoln; McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and Joe McCartney and his orchestra. All of the above units are to appear for one night only, with the exception of the Cotton Pickers, who will be on the roof for one week, starting Friday, March 16. The clown prince and his orchestra will be on the roof Sunday, March 18. Crawford's only Indianapolis appearance was made on the Indiana theater stage without his dance orchestra a few years ago. Since that time he has made a coast to coast tour and was featured with his orchestra in James Cagney’s picture, “Hard to Handle.” The Charlie Agnew orchestra, which has enjoyed a long run in the Stevens hotel, will come here Sunday, March 25, for their first local engagement. Red Hufford and his orchestra are the roof’s current attraction.

At the Alamo

The Alamo offers today a double feature program with John Wayne in “The Lucky Texan.” and Sally O’Neil in “Sixteen Fathoms Deep.” John Wayne is seen in anew type story, in which he plays the role of a college graduate who goes west for work on a ranch, owned by a friend of his father. Finding the friend penniless the two open a blacksmith shop and, while removing a shoe from a horse’s hoof, discover a small quartz bearing gold.

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