Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1934 — Page 4

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LAWRENCE TIBBETT, FAMED BARITONE, SINGS TOMORROW AT MURAT

Two First Run Features on Screen at the Indiana Doug Fairbanks Jr. Has Stellar Role in One Offering; Jean Arthur of Little Women Fame Scores in Other. Two RKO first run pictures are being shown on the double-feature program which opened yesterday at the Indiana theater. They are “Buccess at Any Price” and “Two Alone.” “Success at Any Price” includes in its cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Colleen Moore. Genevieve Tobin and Frank Morgan. It is said to tell the story of a young man who came up from the gutter and stopped at nothing to get what he wanted. Doug Jr. plays the role of the young man, Colleen Moore plays the role of the girl in love with him, and Genevieve Tobin, the girl he loves. Beautiful Jean Parker is said to have won her role in “Two Alone”

because of her marvelous performance as the sad little Beth in “Little Women.” In “Two Alone” Jean has the role of an orphan mountain girl who knows nothing about life beyond the barbed wire fence that inclosed the farm over which the owner rules with barbaric might. A youngster (Tom Brown), about her age who has escaped from a reformatory takes refuge at the farm. As the love of the girl for the boy develops with beauty and sincerity, the farmer drives them like slaves and forbids them even to speak to each other. In time the two must fight for life as well as love and the romantic story, played against a picturesque background, becomes tense with drama. The youthful Tom Brown plays opposite Miss Parker, with the cast including Zasu Pitts, Arthur Byron, Beulah Bondi, Willard Robertson, Charley Grapewin and Nydia Westman. Elliott Nugent directed. oau Barrymore at Palace An average American family has been placed in the motion picture production of “This Side of Heaven,’ which opened yesterday at Loew’s Palace. The picture tells the story of a typical middle class family, whose heartaches, tragedies, romances and aspirations clash almost simultaneously. At the head of the family is Lionel Barrymore. At a time when other members of his family are facing their greatest crises, Barrymore becomes involved innocently i in an embezzlement at his office. He attempts suicide, but is saved by the concerted efforts of his family. Anew face to the screen, but well knowm on the stage, is Fay Bainter, who makes her debut in this picture as Barrymore’s wife who has succeeded in selling a novel to a motion picture producer. Mae Clarke deviates from her usual exotic roles, and appeals as a charming school teacher loved by two men, one a matter-of-fact business man, the other an idealistic young newspaper man. Mary Carlisle, so successful in other co-ed portrayals —and who admits she has never attended college—is seen as the younger daugh'teT'of Barrymore who believes marriage is too old-fashioned for a girl with her modern views on life. Henry Wadsworth, a recent recruit from the Broadway stage, plays the part of Miss Carlisle’s "flaming youth.” Una Merkel provides her never-

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failing brand of southern humor and C. Henry Gordon lays aside his mask of villainy to portray Barrymore’s boss. Others in the splendid supporting | cast include Tom Brown, Onslow Stevens, Eddie Nugent and Dickie Moore. William K. Howard directed “This Side of Heaven.” Featured on the short subject program is Patsy Kelly and Thelma Todd in Hal Roach's comedy, “Soup and Fish,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer subject dealing with the proper preparation of food titled “Vital Victuals,” the latest Mickey Mouse Cartoon “Steeplechase Mickey” and rounded out by the latest minute views of current news as picturized by Hearst Metrotone News. u n a Star at Circle “Journal of a Crime” opened at the Circle yesterday with Ruth Chatterton in the leading role, supported by Adolphe Menjou and Claire Dodd. Miss Chatterton loves her husband. played by Adolphe Menjou. She will not accede to his demand to give him up and kills the other woman, a musical comedy actress, played by Claire Dodd, in order-to save her love and her home. The picture depicts dramatically the effect of a murder on a woman of fine sensibilities and culture. The more dramatic scenes take place in the theater during rehearsals of a musical comedy show, which also affords an intimate glimpse of the back stafee life of Parisian theatrical folk. Other sequences take place in the fashionable Parisian home and in the gay night clubs on the French Riviera. The play was taken from the powrful drama by Jacques Deval and others of the cast are Noel Madison. Henry O’Neil, Walter Pidgeon and Henry Kolner. n a a Rogers' Final Week Will Rogers’ latest photoplay, “David Harum,” which now is in its fourth and final week at the Apollo has created a modern record in its phenomenal local showing. However, it has been pointed out the credit in every way belongs to the famous philosopher-star himself. It is true the vehicle, which is an adaptation of the famous E. N. Westcott novel of the same name, presented a most suitable part for Rogers, but it is doubted if any other star in Hollywood could have filled the role in a more fitting fashion.

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Al Jolson Here is the way Al Jolson appears in one scene in “Wonder Bar," which opens at the Circle on Friday, March 30.

“30 Day Princess” in Production Sylvia Sidney goes before the camera this week in her starring role of “Thirty Day Princess.” the B. U. Schulberg production which will be released by Paramount. Cary Grant is her leading man. Henry Stephenson, Lucien Littlefield and Edward Arnold have been added to the cast. “Springtime for Henry” Again After testing titles on a preview public, Jesse L. Lasky, Fox producer, decided to resume the original title of “Springtime for Henry” over the amended one “Forbidden Lips.”

1— Will Rogers is now in his fourth consecutive week at the Apollo in “David Harum.” 2 Ruth Chatterton as she appears in a dramatic scene in “Journal of a Crime," now at the Circle. 3 Mary Carlisle and Tom Brown supply the love interest in “This Side of Heaven,” on the screen at Loew’s Palace.

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1— Katherine Cornell as she appears with her pet, “Flush,” in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” which opens Thursday night at English’s. 2 Lawrence Tibbett will be heard in recital at the Murat tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock.

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Last Tashman Film Is Booked by Ambassador The Ambassador will offer, starting tomorrow, a first run engagement of Lilyan Tashman’s last picture, “Wine, Woman and Song,” with Lew Cody. Miss Tashman, as a burlesque queen, discovers Lew Cody, a musical producer, showering love and lavish gifts upon her young daughter, who has just returned from a private convent school. Wise to the whims of the theatrical man, the mother plans desperately to thwart his advances. When she appeals to Mr. Cody to leave her daughter alone, he threatens to “break” her stage career by informing the press of her own past. During a production scene, she is informed that Mr. Cody and her daughter are on their way to be married. She quits the show suddenly and rushes to her daughter and pleads frantically with the producer to give up her daughter. He flaty refuses, and what follows is rounded out in a dramatic climax. As an additional feature, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Joan Blondell and Mary Astor will be seen in “Convention City,” a farce comedy on business men and “convention” gold-diggers. Short reels will complete the program. Cast of “Too Many Women" Irving Pichel, Mona Barrie. Matt Moore. Addison Richards and John Sheehan have been added to the cast of “Too Many Women,” with Warner Baxter, Rosemary Ames, Rochelle Hudson, Herbert Mundin and Henrietta Crosman.

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4 Tpm Brown and Jean Parker have dramatic roles in “Two Alone,” now at the Indiana. 5 Genevieve Tobin has one of the leads in. “Success At Any Price,” which is a part of the Indiana’s double bill. 6 Lew Ayres and Patricia Ellis appear to be happy in this scene from “Let’s Be Ritzy,” at the Lyric.

3 Audrey Gibson is one of the talented people with “Sweet and Lowdown,” now on the stage at the Lyric. 4 Hal Bailey is conductor of the orchestra which is furnishing the dance music at Falls City Casino.

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Tonight at the Indiana Roof ballroom, Charlie Agnew will present his orchestra with Dusty Rhoades and Emerie Ann Lincoln as soloists.

At the Alamo

The Alamo offers a dual feature program, starting today for a threeday engagement, in which Tim McCoy will be seen in his newest firstrun picture entitled, “Voice in the Night.” The other feature is Bud and Ben, western stars in their newest action picture, “The Rainbow Riders.” “Voice in the Night” is the story of McCoy cast as a telephone maintenance man. With his crew of linemen, he is sent out by his officials to iron out all the troubles related to telephonic systems. It is while “trouble shooting” McCoy discovers a plot by rival financiers to crush his company. The linemen' huskies battle the situation with wits and fists. During a terrific rain storm the levee is dynamited, threatening to put the telephone company out of commission just as its services are needed most, and this sequence supplies the big thrill of the picture. Miss Billie Seward stars with McCoy, and she last was seen in “The Prizefighter and the Lady.” Peggy Wood to Sing Peggy Wood will sing two songs in her part in “Merry Andrew” in which she will be seen opposite Will Rogers.

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Charlie Agnew and Orchestra Listed at Roof The Cotton Pickers will complete a one-week engagement tonight on the Indiana roof, where Charlie Agnew and his orchestra are scheduled to appear tomorrow night only. Featured in the Agnew unit will be Emerie Ann Lincoln, a songstress, and Dusty Rhoades, who is known to many local theater-goers. He was featured soloist with Emil Seidel and his orchestra in several of the downtown theators. Agnew and his orchestra have filled long-term contracts in both the Stevens and Edgewater Beach hotels, Chicago, and have been featured over Radio Station WLW, Cincinnati, from the Netherlands Plaza hotel. Starting Tuesday night, the roof will feature the music of Joe Cappo and his Egyptian Serenaders for the second time this year.

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Tuneful Comedy Revue Is Attraction at the Lyric Lew Ayres Supported by Able Cast, Stars in Film of Young Newlyweds on Same Program. Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Murat. LawTence Tibbett, baritone of the Metropolitan opera, will appear in concert under the auspices of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters. The accompanist, Stewart Wille. will have two individual solo groups for piano as his individual part of the program. The interest centers in this concert on the personality and the surprises that Mr. Tibbett is giving in his concerts on this tour. One reason for the interest is the announcement that excerpts from “Emperor Jones” will be sung by the famous singer.

Miss Cornell to Be Seen in 2 Roles Here Katharine Cornell will be seen in two varying roles when she appears at English’s for three days beginning Thursday night, March 29, with a matinee on Saturday. Rudolf Besier’s “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” will be presented on Thursday, Friday nights and Saturday matinee, and G. Bernard Shaw’s “Candida” on Saturday night. Basil Rathbone, star of the stage and the screen, will play opposite Miss Cornell. Guthrie McClintic staged the productions. The curtain will rise at 8:15 o’clock sharp at night and 2:15 o’clock at the Saturday matinee. “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” tells the famous love story of England’s poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, as it began and ended in Elizabeth’s home at 50 Wimpole street, London, which was dominated by her tyrannical father. An invalid, Miss Barrett saw few people. Her acquaintance with her began when he wrote her in praise of her poetry. It was many weeks before she permitted him to see her. The drama is based on the letters which were exchanged between them and strictly adheres to facts. The interpretation and explanation of the elder. Barrett is Besier’s only “imaginative” contribution to the historic romance. “Candida,” though written nearly forty years ago, remains one of Shaw’s outstanding comedies. Probably it has been acted more frequently than any other of his many plays. The scene is the suburban home of James Mavor Morell, a popular parson who is able to solve the difficulties which arise in the lives of his congregation, but finds himselflost when his own domestic existence is ruffled by the appearance of the young poet Marchbanks. “Candida” first was acted by Miss Cornell before she became a star in “The Green Hat” and is one of her favorite roles. She now acts it for the first times outside New York city. Miss Cornell is assisted by a large company, Including Charles Waldron, Orson Welles, Brenda Forbes, John Hoysradt, Helen Walpole, Pamela Simpson, David Glassford, A. P. Kaye, Francis Moran, George Macready, Margot Stevenson, Charles Brokaw, Reynolds Evans, Irving Morrow, Lathrop Mitchell, Robert Champlain. Jo Mielziner designed the setting and costumes for “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” and Woodman Thompson those for “Candida.” James Vincent is stage manager for both productions. Tay Garnett Sells First Novel Tay Garnett, Paramount director currently working on ‘Honor Bright” has sold his first novel, “The Great Gauna” to the Macauley Publishing Company.

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The program is as follows: (Irish Melodv) arranged by Vincent OBrian, Peter Warlock. “No Longer to Entreat You" - Johannes Brahms "Love Song" Johannes Brahms "The Omnipotence" France Schubert _ . Mr. Tibbett Chorale—“Jesu, the Jov of Man’s Desiring Bach-Hes* "Organ Prelude in G minor". .Bach-Silotl m Mr. Wille Excerpt from "Emperor Jones" —lntermission—"La terrasse des audiences du claire ... , lune ’ Claude Debussy "Ma,aguena" Ernesto Lccuona

Mr. Wille "The Hand-Organ Man" . Jaoques Wolfe ■Sunday Every Day" Jacques 'Wolfe "Deaths Lullaby" ...Modest Moussorgskv "Eleanore" s. Coleridge-Tavlor Mr. Tibbett B tt B New Revue at Lyric Another of the New York musical comedy revues of the type that have graced its stage with excellent returns in entertainment during recent weeks Is now on view at the Lyric. “Sweet and Lowdown,” is its title, and it has, as its bright and particular stars, Arthur and Morton Havel, a team of youthful comedians. The screen feature is “Let’s Be Ritzy,” a romantic comedy of today starring Lew Ayres. “Sweet and Lowdown” is a mixture of comedy, music, singing, dancing and vaudeville novelties. It is presented in eleven scenes. Principals surrounding the Havel brothers include Joe Evans, George Schall, Charles Randolph, Audrey Gibson and Thelma Temple. Among the vaudeville features are “The Honey Boys,” Tommy Hyde, Irving Karo, Eddie Richardson and Bill Douglas, a quartet of versatile blackface stars from the realm of minstrelsy whose songs and ccmedy antics provide the revue with one of its most interesting high-lights. The ensemble is composed of sixteen Chester Hale girls. Prominent in the cast supporting Lew Ayres in “Let’s Be Ritzy” are Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Isabel Jewell, Burton Churchill, Robert McWade and Hedda Hopper. Adapted from William Anthony McGuire’s stage hit of the same name, “Let’s Be Ritzy,’ concerns the humorous, and at times even tragic affairs of a young couple whose desire to go places and do things leads them to extravagances they can ill afford and so results in complications far reaching in their consequences. Cook to Make Movie Joe Cook’s first film for Fox will be titled “Scram” and will be placed in production in the spring. Mr. Cook is currently on tour with “Hold Your Horses,” his musical show. Newlyweds to Be Co-Starred Following their Yuma elopement “Pat” Paterson and Charles Boyer were agreeably surprised to find themselves teamed in Boyer’s first American film “By Royal Command,” the Erik Charell production.

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