Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1934 — Page 7

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'BROADWAY REVELS/NEW YORK HIT, IS STAGE ATTRACTION AT LYRIC

Two Feature Pictures Go on Screen at Indiana

•The Meanest Gal in Town’ and *The Ninth Guest’ Are Attractions at Movie House. The Indiana ‘heater today is offering two full-length features. "The Meanest Gal in Town” and “The Ninth Guest." In The Meanest Gal in Town." cast as the owner of a small-town fir-, •••ore who has been keeping company with a one-chair barber for ten long years Zasu Pitts is said to have excellent opportunities to display her wanly pessimistic brand of humor. Often a bridesmaid but apparently nevr to be a bride, she tries to lagga and lover, played by El Brendel, to marry her and help her run the drv goods store. Brendel. however, spars for time until he car. became a financial genius by adding a second chair to his shop.

This laudable ambition seems alnv-- - impossible of realization until Per? Kelton. a stranded show girl, strolls into the tonsorial parlor, compromise- El. and makes him hire her as manicurist. Business booms and Zasu burns, believing that Pert is not confining her vamping tactics to the customers. Others in the cast are James Gleason and Fkoets Gallagher. The other feature, "The Ninth I B r ■ ; ■ay st ig- success by Owen Davis, which has sent si n vers up the backs of hundreds of New York audiences during the las’ two years. Columbia studios, capitalizing on the present interest in mystery thrillers purchased "The Ninth Gue:' during its New York run and immediately adapted it to the Genevieve Tobin, Donald Cook and Hardie Albright enact the featured roles m the motion picture, while the important supporting cast ii sides Samuel S Hinds, Nella Walker. Edwin Maxwell, Edward Ell::- and Vincent. Barnett. a a a New Star at Palace Vnna Sten in Nana" is now on view at Loew s Palace theater. She is making her American film debut. Samuel Goldwyn brought her to Hollywood a year ago last May. and spent eighteen months and a fortune preparing her for her first picture. Lionel Atwill. Richard Bennett, Mae Clarke. Phillips Holmes and Muriel Kirkland apiiear with Miss Sten in the story of the rise and fall of a lady of the boulevards and the music halls of gas-lit Paris in 1870. I? was suggested by Zola's famous novel, modern literature's best known story of prostitution, and freely adapted to the screen by Willard Mack and Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Dorothy Arzner directed the picture, and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the song Miss Sten sings in the story. a a a Rogers Still on View Will Rogers is thought to have scored a personal triumph in “David Harum." Fox Film's latest release which is being continued for the second week as the featured attraction upon the screen of the Apollo theater. Rogers not only gives a sterling performance, according to his critic- but also proved that the public wa> perfectly justified in requesting producers to star him in this particular production. Edward Noyes Westcott's novel “David Harum," from which the 1m was adapted, offers Rogers a ole so much in keeping with his character it is little wonder that he carries it so well. The film portrays the life of a shrewd and sturdy horse dealer whose cold bartering and unethical methods of doing business are the gossip of the small town in which he lives. A young man who is in the employ of Dave Harum is about to throw up his job because of the ruthless manner of his employer's business dealings when he learns that underneath the hardness of this shrewd man is a soft heart that sympathizes with the i>oor.

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The young man is in love with a beautiful girl, but hesitates in proposing marriage because of his poor financial standing. The horsetraders efforts in helping the romance are unsuccessful. But he advises the boy to place all his money on a forthcoming race which the girl has asked him to enter. With romance hanging on the outcome of the race, the film comes to happy conclusion as the horsetrader employs his own hilarious methods in bringing the horse home a winner. Rogers is supported by Louise Dresser, as Aunt Polly; Stepin ! Fetchit, in one of the best comedy j roles he has had to date; Roger ImhofT. Noah Beery and Frank Mel- ; ton. Evelyn Venable and Kent Tavlor are seen in the romantic roles of the story James Cruze directed from the adaptation by Walter Woods. ana

Kay Francis Starred Kay Francis’ beauty and charm are admirably adapted to the role of night club hostess who holds her male admirers to heel while her histrionic talent is given opportunity to display itself in the tense and dramatic situations of her latest starring vehicle "Mandalay,” which opened at tne Circle theater yesterday. She again is cast with Ricardo Cortez, who played opposite her in "The House on 56th Street." one of her most successful dramatic pictures. The remainder of the cast includes Warner Oland, Lyle Talbot, j Ruth Donnelly, Reginald Owen, Hobart Cavanaugh and Lucien Littlefield. Through the betrayal of the man she loves, Miss Francis, in the role of a beautiful and aristrocratic Russian emigre, is sold into the hands of a notorious resort keeper and becomes the hostess of an exotic Eastern Night Club of Rangoon which caters to the desires of the wealthy idlers, traders and army officers marooned from the conventions of their homes Ricardo Cortez is cast in a role of j a rum runner whom the ladies can not resist and who wins the love j of Kay Francis only to trade her for a ship load of guns, to the re- i sort keeper, Warner Oland. Paul Harvey Fox, well-known J author, who knows his Burma almost as well as Kipling, wrote the original story and filled it with color, unique characters and thrilling action. now playing at the Circle.

Choir Scheduled

Cancellation of its third concert, to have been given by the Russian Symphonic choir recently at Caleb Mills hall, has been announced by the Civic Music Association. Arrangements are being made for another concert attraction to take its place on the season's program. The next concert of the association season will be given by the Musical Art string quartet, noted ensemble of solo artists, which has played a number of years in the United States and Europe. The Musical Art will come to Caleb Mills hall next Monday night.

1 Anna Sten is shown here in a pleasant but rather sad mood in “Nana." which is now on view at Loew's Palace. 2 Mary Brian has the chief role in “Ever Since Eve,” now on the Lyric screen. 3 Kay Francis has the role of a bad woman in “Mandalay,” now at the Circle.

1 — Morton Downey will bring his new stage show to Loew’s Palace next Friday for a week’s engagement. 2 Jack Crawford, known as the “clown prince of jazz.” will bring his orchestra to the Indiana Roof Sunday night, March 18, for a one night engagement.

Slim LaMar's Orchestra to Play on Roof From the campus of Indiana university, where the famous orchestras now under the direction of of Herbie Kay and Joe Sanders were organized, comes Slim LaMar and his orchestra for a one-night engagement on the Indiana Roof tomorrow night. LaMar, tagged the “Greyhound of the Ivories.” directs his dance unit as he plays the piano in the Earl Hines fashion. Other one-night attractions scheduled for the roof are Jack Crawford. “the clown prince of jazz" and Charlie Agnew and their orchestras. Crawford and his unit will be featured Sunday. March 18. Agnew and his orchestra, which includes beautiful Emery Ann Lincoln and Dusty Rhoades, will play Sunday night. March 25. Tuesday and Wednesday only of this week, the Roof will play the music of Louie Lowe and his orchestra. a popular local unit which has been featured for the last few

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When the Civic theater at the playhouse presents “Three Cornered Moon” on Wednesday night. March 21. for four nights, Mary Florence Fletcher will have an important role.

years at the Trees and other Indianapolis night clubs. Following Lowe. McKinney Cotton Pickers, who broke more than one box office record during their appearance on the Roof in January of this year, will return for a one week engagement. The requests of local dancers and basketball fans throughout the state prompted Tom Devine of the Roof to book the Cotton Pickers for his basketball tournament dances. Can Such Things Be? One of the most difficult “props” to locate for Paramount’s “Melody in Spring” was a herd of 25 cows which would permit themselves to be milked by an equal number of singing actors.

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4 Evelyn Venable has one of the love roles in “David Harum" which is now in its second week at the Apollo. 5 Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin and Hardie Albright have many exciting minutes waiting for death in “The Ninth Guest." now at the Indiana. 6 Zasu Pitts falls in love with a barber in “The Meanest Gal in Town,” now at the Indiana.

3 Patsy Dell is a member of Delmar s Broadway Revels now on view at the Lyric. 4 Harry Delmar is the producer of Delmar’s Broadway Revels which is the current stage attraction at the Lyric.

Two Features Will Be Shown at Ambassador The Ambassador theater will offer | two major features starting tomorrow for a three-day engagement. Robert Montgomery and Madge Evans will be seen in “Fugitive | Lovers,” a story dealing with a girl making a trip across America via a bus. While trying to escape a sports j promoter who insists he is in love : with her, she is befriended by an j escaped convict. The pair encounter many thrill- | ing experiences with the police in ! every town on the lookout for the escaped convict. “Fugitive Lovers” boasts a large j cast, including Ted Healy and his stooges, c. Henry Gordon. Nat Pendleton, and a large chorus group. The other feature, “The Orient Express,” with Heather Angel and Norman Foster, is a romantic story of two tourists abroad. It is on the Orient express train that Ncrman Foster falls in love with Heather Angel, and it is off the train they discover their love j was all in error. Short reels will complete the program.

At the Alamo

The Alamo offers a double feature bill today through Monday, with George O'Brien in “Frontier Marshal.” and Edmund Lowe and Shirley Grey in “Bombay Mail.” “Frontier Marshal,” is a western drama with the story taking place in a small Arizona mining town where law and order are constantly violated. ♦ O'Brien’s sweetheart, played by Irene Bentley, is the victim of a swindle in which her father is killed. In trying to bring about justice to the killers, George, as a marshal, is double crossed and how he manages to clear himself is unfolded in a daring climax. “Bombay Mail” is an adventure story of a detective aboard a fast express train. Lowe, as the detective. discloses many thrilling experiences with the passengers. Short reels will complete the program;.

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Fred Newell Morris is busy directing the Tabernacle Presbyterian church choir of sixty voices for a presentation of Verdi's “Requiem” at the church on Friday night, March 22. The soloists for the oratorio are Miss Patra M. Kennedy, Mrs. Walter E. Wallace and Perry M. Rush. Paul Matthews will be at the pipe organ.

Bull in Demand WANTED—A prize bull with a “dance floor” back for motion picture work. This requisition. turned in today by Cecil B. De Mille at Paramount Studios, is for a big banquet scene in De Mille’s next Paramount picture, ‘‘Cleopatra,” in which a girl will dance on the animal’s back.

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Deimar's Show Lauded as One of Finest on Road Company of Fifty Is Headed by Bob Carney. Paddy Cliff and Betty Girard. Indianapolis is one of the first cities in the middle west to get Harry Delmars ‘ Broadway Revels,” one of the most pretentious shows now on the road, the stage attraction for the current week at the Lyric. The show is embarked on a coast-to-coast tour following a highly successful engagement in New York. Proclaimed when originally produced on Broadway as one of the costliest revues presented in the metropolis during the present season, the company of fifty is headed by Bob Carney. Paddy Cliff and Betty Girard, a trio of stellar stage favorites. Among the show's outstanding aivertisements is a spectacular "Undtr

the Sea" ballet, one of the most i novel stage innovations conceived in recent years, and which features Ray. Ellis and Larue, sensational dancers. PrincipaLs include Patsy Dell, the Four Rainbow Girls. Jackie Starr. Joe Cowan, Bobby Morgan and the Three Michaels Sisters. They are supplemented with a chorus of twenty of Broadway's most beautiful and talented girls. The lyrics and music are by Ken Nichols, and the entire show, employing numerous lavish scenes, was staged personally by Harry Delmar. "Ever Since Eve,” the screen feature. presents George O'Brien, shorn of his familiar cowboy togs, in dress clothes as a wealthy playboy and nonchalant man-about-town who marries a social debutante much against the wishes of his three fos-ter-fathers. rough and rich goldminers, only to discover that the girl married him for his money. The resultant complications are packed with hilarity culminating in an unexpected climax. Mary Brian and Herbert Mundin are co-fea-ture in the supporting cast, in which Betty Blythe, Roger Imhoff, Rusj sell Simpson and George Meeker have important roles. tt tt U Next Civic Play The Civic theater has been fortunate in obtaining for the fifth and next to the last productio • of the current season Gertrude Tonkonogy's success, "Three Cornered Moon.” Opening on Wednesday night, March 2L it will play for four performances through the following Saturday. The play was the surprise success of last year’s New York season Having been authored by an unknown writer, it was given little chance of

New Arliss Movie

Once more George Arliss is soon ! to be seen in an historical role, and again he will portray an import? nt Jewish character who played a decisive part in the history of England. His first role of that sort, it will be remembered, was that of Disraeli, the man of Jewish descent who became prune minister and the favorite statesman of Queen Victoria, and contributed greatly to the glory of England. Now Mr. Arliss is to play the part of Nathan Rothschild in a motion picture called "The House of Rothsj child,” which is to be presented | soon by Twentieth Century Pictures ! Company. This picture will sketch the rise to riches of the wealthiest family : in Europe, and particularly tell the | story of how Nathan Rothschild, the British representative of the family who became England's mast outstanding banker and enabled its forces to conquer Napoleon. New Picture Starts Production on Paramount's “In Conference” starts next week with Helen Mack, Grace Bradley, Zasu Pitts and John Halliday heading the cast.

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surviving, but after being viewed by the critics, who all were impressed, it sprang to the front and ran well into the summer, playing to capacity houses. The movie rights to the play were quickly snatched up and Mary Boland and Claudette Colbert were starred in the cinema version. Ruth Gordon and Cecilia Loftus played the leading roles in the stage production. The success of the play is no more phenomenal than the amazing way in which the play came to be written. Miss Tonkonogv, who was only 25 and at the time a stenographer in a New York office, was engaged to marry a young physician, but because of their unstable financial condition the wedding was put off. In order to hasten the happy day. Miss Tonkonogy decided to write a drama. She went about, the business of writing the play and at the end of the first evening's work she had finished half of the first act. She continued her work at the office, writing only in the evenings and seventeen days later she had written the last line. It was immediately purchased by producers Richard Aldrich and Alfred Liagre and ten weeks after she had written "Act I —Scene II,” the play was on view on Broadway. , Asa footnote it might be added that she married the doctor mt more than two weeks after the play had opened. Hale Mac Keen has chosen an exceptional cast for the presentation of the play at the Civic. Mr. MacKeen will direct.

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