Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1934 — Page 8

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MARTENS CONCERTS ANNOUNCES FULL PROGRAM FOR FIFTH SEASON

Joan Crawford, 'Natural in Delmar's 'Sadie McKee' Picture, With Franchot Tone in Lead, Reflects Private Life Romance of Famous Hollywood Lovers. Joan Crawford is said to play one of the outstanding roles of her film career in the title role of ‘’Sadie McKee,” new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film which is now on view at Loew’s Palace. The story adapted to the screen by John Meehan, is one of Vina Delmar’s popular novels. It ran serially in a national magazine before being published in book form and adapted to the screen. With Franchot Tone playing the romantic lead stimulations is automatically aroused. For the private life romance of these two famous lovers is thus reflected on the screen in a. whirlwind drama. In ‘‘Sadie

McKee” Tone, for the first time in his three pictures with Miss Crawford. "wins the girl” in the final sequence. The two other important roles were filled by Gene Raymond and Edward Arnold. The New York stage offered two of its actors to the supporting cast in Jean Dixon and Leo G. Carroll. Miss Dixon plays Opal, Joans friend, and Carroll the ‘ heavy” role of the butlpr. Esther Ralston returns to the screen in the role of Dolly, blond vaudeville headliner and torchsinger. Clarence Brown, who directed Miss Crawford in "Possessed" and “Letty Lynton,” two of her biggest successes, was at the megaphone in "Sadie McKee.” Brown and Freed, songwriters, contribute three hit tunes to the new picture: "AH I Do Is Dream of You,’’."Please Make Me Care,” and “I Looked in Your Eyes.” The story deals with a small town girl in iove with an amateur crooner. They elope and rush off to New York where the crooner, a weakling, deserts her for a vaudeville singer. She fights her way through various stages and finally marries a dipsomaniac millionaire whose life she ultimately saves from excessive drinking. In the close of the picture, she discovers that her love lies, not in these two men. but another, her childhood friend and one-time enemy. nun Two at Indiana The Indiana is now offering a double-feature program with “Little Miss Marker” and “Whirlpool,” both on the same program. "Little Miss Marker” was written by Damon Runyon and is based upon the same formula by the same writer as "Lady for a Day.” It is a baby girl instead of an old lady whom the tough gamblers take to heart. She gets her name because she is left as security by her father for a "marker,” more easily identified as an I. O. U. for a racing bet. As the father does not return to redeem the human security, the bookmaker is compelled to keep the child. She immediately starts winning

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over the rowdy denizens of the racing racket. They do not realize their interest in the child until she begins to pick up their rough language and equally rough ways. A fall from a horse sends the little girl to the hospital and a last-minute blood transfusion serves for a tear-jerking finale, it is said. The cast of "Little Miss Marker” includes Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford and Shirley Temple. It was directed by Alexander Hall. The second picture on the program Is “Whirlpool” and includes in its cast Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins and Lila Lee. The film purports to tell the powerful story of an ex-convict who rises to a position of illicit affluence in the mad era of prohibition—but who is still courageous enough and noble enoguh to sacrifice his own life that his innocent wife and daughter be freed of the stigma of j his checkered career. The program will also include an Indianapolis Times news weekly and selected short subjects. n h a Carroll Movieon View “Murder at the Vanities.” a Paramount film adapted from Earl Carroll s stage hit, and which combines for the first time a musical show and a murder mystery, is now on view at the Circle. Paramount brought Carroll to Hollywood to supervise the screen production, and he took eleven of his famous New York beauties to Hollywood to appear in the film. After he arrived, he then picked seven Hollywood girls to be with his eleven, and the eighteen are featured with Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Duxe Ellington and his famous orchestra, Dorothy Stickney and Gertrude Michael. Carl Brisson is the noted Danish screen and stage star who was just recently brought to the United States under a long-term Paramount contract. The film, directed by Mitchell Leisen from the original by Earl Carroll and Rufus King, opens with the premiere of an elaborate musical show. While girls are dancing and singing, and while the audience is- in tune with the frivolity of the evening, a mysterious murder takes place. Victor McLaglen, detective

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I —lrene Dunne plays opposite Rirhard Dix in "Stingaree.” which has been hooked at the Circle soon. 2 Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are in their second week at the Apollo in “Chance of Heart.” 3—Joan Crawford as she appears in a big scene from "Sadie McKee,” now at Loew’s Palace.

1— Robert Browning is shown serving in the first out-of-door garden at Riverside Park. An old fashioned German band will appear there several nights during the summer. George Golding is the manager. 2 Riverside Park has installed anew railroad for children. Harold Danforth is shown at the throttle of “The Hoosier Flyer.”

pal of Oakie, the theater’s press agent, is called and he is no sooner in the theater than a second and more mysterious murder is committed. The musical show is permitted to proceed, and the film audience sees out-front all of the production numbers, while backstage, the mystery is solved at the final curtain. nun Gaynor Held Over Many readers of Kathleen'Norris’ recent novel, “Manhattan Love Song," ’ which now is enjoying its second week at the Apollo theater, as a Jaynet Gaynor-Charles Farrell screen feature, under the title jA OPENING NIGHT CEDAR CLAIR NITE CLUB ■DINE—DANCE—GOOD BEER SjlStatp Road No. 40—E. Washington Thro** Miles from City Road Not Closed to Our Place. [Dance VILLA S 1900 Allisonville Road Gene Franzman's Orchestra Myrtle Towell, Blues Singer Cover, Sat., 40c; Sunday, 25c. BEER Reasonable Prices BWashington 2564 Ring 2 Ni

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of “Change of Heart,” might suppose the noted writer was merely drawing on her imagination when she set the story down on paper. On the contrary, this tale of four penniless college youngsters and their adventures in New York is said to have been taken to an unusual degree from real life, being largely based on the author’s own experiences in the same situation. The story reveals the lives of four young people just out of college, two boys and two girls. Inspired and confident, they depart .'or a great city in which each hopes to realize his ambition. Awed by the topless towers and the gigantic, expanse of the mighty metropolis, they settle themselves in a boarding house, their confidence somewhat shaken. Through all their adventures runs a complex love situation. The love of Janet Gaynor for Farrell, however, soon become the focal interest of the plot. Farrell, believing himself in love with Ginger Rogers, regards her only as a sincere friend and pal. Becoming despondent over Ginger’s engagement to a wealthy man, he falls seriously ill. Janet finds him in a tenement house near to death. The love scene between Farrell and Miss Gaynor. after she has nursed him back to convalesence, is described as being the most singular in picture history. James Dunn and Ginger Rogers are the other two young people around which the story revolves.

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4 Jean Arthur. Jack Holt and John Miljan in a scene from “Whirlpool.” which is one of the two features now at the Indiana. 5 Shirley Temple is the little star of “Little Miss Marker.” now at the Indiana. 6 Claire Dodd and Warren William are featured in “Smarty,” now at the Lyric.

3 The Marsh Sisters with twenty-two entertainers will be featured in Chix’s floor show revue at the Indiana Roof's Speedway ball next Tuesday night. 4 Beatrice Tracey of New York and Tracey arc present on the new bill at the Lyric.

Noble Sissle to Appear at Indiana Roof

Current interest on the Indiana Roof is divided between Noble Sissle and his orchestra's one night engagement Saturday, June 2, and the roof’s annual speedway ball, to be held Tuesday night. Featured at the speedway ball will be Chix's revue and dance orchestra, a twenty-two piece unit which will entertain continuously from 9 until dawn. Included in the revue are the Harriet Smith girls; the Marsh sisters, formerly featured in the Ziegfeld Follies; the Martin sisters, formerly featured from WLW; and Virginia Maye. The floor show will be offered at 11:30 and again at 1:30 A. M. The roof’s ladies free program which will be abandoned Tuesday because of the speedway ball will be resumed Tuesday, June 5. Noble Sissle and his orchestra, who have spent the past three months playing one night engagements in the key cities of the United States, are returning to the roof by popular demand. Sissle, formerly teamed with Eubie Blake, has featured his dance orchestra on three continents.

Dance Tonight Riverside’s New Dance Gardens Admission 10c Before 8:30 Bush and His Gang Will Be There. DANCING NIGHTLY, EXCEPT MONDAY.

Lyric Installs New Sound System, Adopts New Policy

Co-incident with the installation at the Lyric theater of the latest Western Electric sound system for the presentation of talking pictures, Charles M. Olson, who operates the house, announces that the current vaudeville bill will mark the Lyric’s last stage show until fall. The theater will be devoted during the summer months to pictures only, the first of these, starting next Friday, being “Catherine The Great,” the much discussed and warmly lauded English-made United Artists production, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Elizabeth Bergner. “The Lyric’s new sound system,” said Mr. Olson, “will embrace every device for the improvement of sound and enunciation that has thus far been discovered. It will include “wide range,” by which is meant the perfect reproduction of the high and low tones of the human voice, as well as high and low tones of other sounds, and it will also include a battery of amplifying horns which can be ‘flied,’ cr carried up into the flies of the theater as a part of the picture screen. “This latter accomplishment is something especially desirable in a theater which presents stage shows together with feature pictures. It entirely abolishes the problem of waits, while going from pictures into the acts or stage shows, such as has been unavoidable because of the

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John Thomas, Prominent Baritone, to Sing Oct. 18 Sensational Group of Sixty Dancers Comprising Monte Carlo Ballet Among Features Listed. The Martens Concerts, Inc., announces the fifth annual season of concerts will be given at English’s when six musical attractions will be presented. Thursday evening, Oct. 18, John Charles Thomas, America’s favorite baritone again will be heard. The date for this concert coincides with the visit of the state teachers to Indianapolis and will give them the opportunity of attending. The Don Cossack Russian male chorus, Serge Jaroff conducting, will appear Sunday afternoon, Nov. 18. The most glamorous spectacle in ten years in America will be the third offering of the Martens concerts when the Monte fcarlo Ballet of sixty dancers and an orchestra of thirty will be seen Monday evening,

Broad Ripple Swimming Pool Opens Tonight The big swimming pool and the amusement park at Broad Ripple will officially open tonight for the 1934 season. The park and pool will be open every afternoon and night this summer. No admission will be charged to enter the park at any time during the summer. For many weeks scores of carpenters, painters and electricians have been busy giving the north side resort its spring housecleaning. The sw’imming pool is expected to continue its popularity as one of the show places of the middle west. A large staff of efficient swimming instructors and guards has been engaged and will be on duty at all times. A number of new fun and thrill devices have been installed in the amusement section of the park, among which is a junior speedway, where the youngsters may enjoy all the thrills of dri ung real miniature gasoline-propel.efi racing cars. The cars are the latest models and are equipped with safety devices so that they may be handled by the smallest children without danger. Nat Griffiths Jr. and his orchestra has been engaged for the season in the Broad Ripple dance pavilion. George Himmelbauer, the new park manager, states that well-known bands will be brought to the park at two-week intervals for one-night engagements. The new dance pavilion will be partly under roof and partly outdoor, and patrons are invited to suggest anew name for the dance placq.

fact that our sound horns, being carried on a track, had to be shunted into the wings at the left of the stage so that they would not interfere with the presentation of stage material, and later they had to be pushed back into place again. “I can also safely assert that Lyric patrons have really never heard ‘sound’ in the theater until they hear it reproduced by the new system now in the course of installation. If I remember correctly, the Lyric was the third house in Indianapolis in which sound was installed. There has, of course, been an unlimited number of improvements made in the sound system | field since that time, and the Lyric’s new system wil have them all.” “Catherine The Great” will be followed by Universal’s big special production, “Little Man, What Now,” starring Margaret Sullavan, the brilliant young actress who made such a pronounced hit with John Boles, in “Only Yesterday.” In “Only Yesterday,” Miss Sullavan was co-starred with Boles, but in “Little Man, What Now” she is, in recognition of her talent, accorded sole stellar honors.

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Dec. 10 in some of the ballets which have made this organization sensational. In the new year, the first concert of the series will present a distinct musical treat when the GlazounofT quartet with Igor Stravinsky, famous Russian composer-pianist, and Samuel Dushkin, Russia’s celebrated violinist, will give a joint recital. At that time, Mr. Stravinsky will be heard at the piano in his own compositions with the quartet. Stravinsky is world renowned for his "Fire Bird Music,” “Petrouchka” and many other well-known musical works. Joe Itrubi, famous Spanish pianist, will be the fifth concert on Sunday afternoon. Feb. 17. The closing concert on Monday evening, March 4, will bring a newcomer to Indianapolis, but a worldrenowned soprano of Europe and now a valued member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Lotte Lehmann. Season subscriptions for the series of concerts are now being filed and reservations are being made.

Versatile Trio •Stars in Lyric Stage Program That versatile trio of radio stars Tom. Dick and Harry, whose chain programs have endeared them to thousands, are appearing in person as the headliners of the current stage show at the Lyric theater. They make up one of the six acts of metropolitan vaudeville which constitutes the Lyric’s stage show. The motion picture feature is Warner Brothers comedy production, "Smarty” in which Joan Blondell and Warren William have the leading roles. The acts surrounding Tom, Dick and Harry include Barney Grant and company in a comedy sketch; Harry Welch and Bobby Taylor, a team of comedians who specialize in the hokum brand of merriment; Victoria and Lorenz, acrobatic sailors who climax their offering with a table rock stunt; York and Tracey in a unique singing and talking skit entitled “Can She Take It!”, and Sakuras Japanese Revue, an Oriental novelty which embraces equilibristic and barrel jumping feats. The fun is speeded by Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Virginia Sale and Leonard Carey. "Smarty” was adapted for the screen from a stage play by F. Hugh Herbert.

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