Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1934 Edition 02 — Page 2

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NORMA SHEARER COMES BACK TO FILMS IN SPECTACULAR 'RIPTIDE'

Sophisticated Role Is Taken by Star Again Robert Montgomery Is Seen in Part of Leading Man in New Production Now at Palace. "Riptide." the glamorous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film of Continental romance, in which Norma Sheaier triumphantly returns to the screen ager an absence of some eighteen months, is now on view at Loew’s Palace. In this new vehicle. Miss Shearer aeain plays a darinely sophisticated role, reminiscent of her successes in Divorcee,’’ “A Free Soul." and ‘ Strangers May Kiss.” It is her first film appearance since "Smilin’ Through. ’ which won the Photoplay Gold Medal Award for 1932. Robert Montgomery, who has played with Miss Shearer in a number of her past pictures, again is seen with her in the new hit, with Herbert Marshall sharing leading male honors.

Edmund Goulding, famous director of “Grand Hotel," filmed the current Shearer starring effort from his own original story. It is a sensational treatment of the eternal triangle with Miss Shearer portraying the role of a titled London society woman who avenges her smug husband's chilliness by having an affair with a young American admirer. The latter part is played by Montgomery, with Marshall appearing as Lord Rexford. The picture Is lavishly mounted and Miss Shearer wears an elaborate wardrobe of startling new creations designed for her by Adrian, famous screen stylist. "We're Together Again,” anew song hit by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, makes its debut in the production which abounds with spectacular party scenes and gay incidents of Continental night life at Cannes, France, and St Maritz, Switzerland, and other European centers. The supporting cast is particularly noteworthy with such famous names as that of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Skeets Gallagher, Ralph Forbes and Lilyan Tashman heading the list of players which includes Arthur Jarrett, Earl Oxford, Helen Jerome Eddy, George K. Arthur, Baby Marilyn Spinnert, Phyllis Coghian, Howard Chaldecott and Halliwell Hobbes. On the short subject program is the latest Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon filmed in technicolor titled, “Funny Little Bunnies," a burlesque subject, "Goofy Movies,” and rounded out by the latest minute views of current news as picturized by Hearst Metrotone News. ana Big Revue at Apollo Setting anew standard for musical production, Fox Film’s latest release, "George White’s Scandals,” is appearing as the featured attraction of the Easter w’eek program now' in progress upon the screen of the Apollo, where it opened Friday. Presented for the first time on the talking screen, the show is said to be embellished wuth the spectacle, grandeur and beauty that only the camera can encompass. George White himself enacts a part in the film, and he has recruited a galaxy of radio, stage and screen stars. Among the many notables in the film are Rudy Vallee, Alice Faye, Cliff Edwards, Gregory Ratoff, Adrienne Ames, Dixie Dunbar and Gertrude Michael. Vallee and Faye make a fine romantic team and do splendidly with their roles. Miss Faye, w r ho has never been in pictures before, having been headlined in Broadw r ay productions and over the air, is reputed to have done an exceptionally fine piece of acting, which is hoped to stamp her as a coming star. The fun making of Cliff Edwards. Jimmie Durante and Dixie Dunbar will have you rolling in the aisles, according to enthusiastic Fox Film executives. "George White’s Scandals" is said

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1— AI Jolson heads a cast of magnificent entertainers in “Wonder Bar,” now' on view at the Circle. 2 A scene from “Road to Ruin,” which opens an engagement at Keith's theater tomorrow. 3 Ruddy Vallee is one of the singing stars in George White’s Scandals, now on view at the Apollo. 4 Francis Lederer, a recruite from the legitimate stage, is seen in the

gigantic production numbers ano studded them with 300 beautiful girls and five outstanding hits. “Wonder Bar 1 ’ was an international musical favorite some years ago, playing in all the important European capitals under the name of "Wunder Bar.” A1 Jolson played the leading role of the proprietor of the “Wonder Bar” in the stage version, and also is starred for the first time in some years in the present screen role. Other members of the dramatic musical cast are Xay Francis, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Hal Le Roy, Guy Kibbe, Hugh Herbert. Ruth Donnelly, Fifi D'Orsey and Louise Fazenda. The five song hits introduced are “Don’t Say Good Night,” “Wonder Bar,” introduced by the orcehstra; “Why Do I Dream Those Dreams,” sung by Dick Powell; “Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule,” big dramatic musical production number, which will be long remembered as the hit of the show and will cause a great deal of controversy. Also "Vive La France" is sung by Jolson. Actress Aged Fast Dorothy Stickney, stage star featured in “Murder at the Vanities,” accomplished the unusual feat of playing a girl of 20 in the first act, a woman of 40 in the second, and an old woman of 75 in the third, in “Milestones.”

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The Fountain Square and Granada theaters, both located on Fountain Square, are celebrating the end of Lent with special double feature programs at both theaters tomorrow. At the Fountain Square is presented “Carolina,” a romantic drama es the old south, starring Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore, plus a thrilling tale of the kidnaping racket, “Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen,” featuring Alice Brady. Baby Le Roy and Dorothy Wieck. At the Granada, Wheeler and Woolsey are featured in their latest full-length laugh feature, “Hips, Hips, Hooray,’ with Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee in support of the funny pair. The companion feature on the double bill at the Granada is “Lucky in Love.” a farce comedy with several tuneful melodies, starring Edmund Lowe and Carol Lombard. The attractions at. both theaters will be shown for four days starting tomorrow’s matinee. To Film “Rip Van Winkle” Paramount will bring Washington Irving's immortal classic. “Rip Van Winkle,” to the screen as an elaborate musical comedy, with W. C. Fields as the star. Lydia Roberti, stage and screen comedienne, will head the supporting cast. Paramount holds exclusive registration rights to the vehicle that made Thomas Jefferson a star on the stage. William Leßaron will act as producer.

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3 —Maida Dupree is a prominent member of the cast of “Broadway Merry-Go-Round,” now at the Lyric 3—Katharine Cornell will be seen in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” this afternoon at English’s and in “Candida” tonight.

leading role in "Man of Two Worlds,” now at (he Indiana.. 5 Edward G. Robinson has (he lead in “Dark Hazard,” now at the Lyric. 6 Irene Dunne has the lead in “This Man Is Mine,” which is now a part of the double bill at the Indiana. 7 Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall in “Riptide,” now at Loew’’s Palace.

Musical Battle Scheduled on Ind !OH3 Roof Post-Lenten gayeties on the Indiana Roof will commence with a Mardi-Gras dance and frolic tonight The contenders in the musical battle will be Joe Cappo and His Egyptian Serenaders, who are playing the last of a two weeks’ engagement on the Roof, and the original House of David dance orchestra. The latter unit will come here from Benton Harbor, Mich., where their colony is established. Tomorrow night’s engagement will be one of the few the bearded bards have played away from Benton Harbor

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'Eskimo' Goes on View Tomorrow at Ambassador Starting tomorrow, the Ambassador will present Metro's “Eskimo,” a strange drama of a race of innocent human creatures living by a strange code of morals. With a background of Arctic atmosphere, a love story is unfolded with Mala, a mighty hunter, who battles scourge of the white man to protect the ones he loves. Eskimo natives, according to their law, may have as many wives as he chooses, and the men are permitted to trade their women for any gift, such as knives, spears, dogs and the like. Mala, with several wives, is forced to move southward because of a food shortage, and comes upon white men traders, who induce him to trade one of his wives for food. When Mala discovers his bargain has been misrepresented, he seeks revenge. After getting his man. he i flees northward, and is the object | of search by the mounted police. He is captured and returned to i an out past of the police, and through his innocent ways does not know he has violated the white man’s law. The picture embraces several thrilling scenes of actual combat between natives and a herd of walrus, in which the walrus hurl natives madly into the air and crush boats in their desperate fight to freedom. As an added featurette. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will be seen in a forty-minute comedy, "Oliver the Eight.” A cartoon and newsreel wall complete the program. Raft Makes Good George Raft will remain with Paramount for seven more years, under the terms of a contract which he signed just before leaving Holly- I wood for New York. The agreeement j supplants a previous contract which had a month to run. Raft has made j eleven pictures since joining the! company. After a personal appear- | ance at the New York Paramount theater, he will depart for an j European vacation. His most recent j picture, “The Trumpet Blows,” is now being edited for early release

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