Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1934 — Page 19

OCT. 20, 1934_

Double Band Is on Bill at Columbia Club Dutton-DeSautelle Group to Open Winter Season This Evening. The combined bands of Denny Dutton and Charlie DeSautelle, known as the Dutton-DeSautelle orchestra, will strike up the winter season music this evening at the Columbia Club. This orchestra has an interesting background. In 1921 DeSautelle returned to Indianapolis after a run on the road with the Brown Brothers’ saxophone sextettte, and organized a band called the Royal Terrace orchestra. This was the first time that Dutton and DeSautelle played together. In 1928 Charlie headed for Texas with his musical outfit, but Denny stayed at home. Here the latter organized his own orchestra, with which he played long engagements at the Green Lantern, Yantis Tostee Shop and the Showboat. In 1932 DeSautelle came back home after completing the Baker and Hilton hotel circuit in Texas. Prom that time on it was a battle between the two bands for the orchestral bids of the city. Finally, .he feud was forgotten and a combination was made, resulting in the present setup. The new band opened at the Showboat, played an engagement at the Indiana roof and then opened its recent period at the Cars. At the Columbia Club there will be dinner dancing on Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with after-theater dancing on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. English Grille Celebrating Sixth Anniversary Observed by ‘Blue Plate Lunch.’ The English Grille Inc., better known as the “Blue Plate Lunch,” on the Circle, is celebrating its sixth anniversary in Indianapolis today. Manager Wright is making a special day of the occasion with the Circle trio, a string ensemble, doing the entertaining. This trio has played for several years in various local night spots. The Grille cocktail hour is from 4 p. m. until 8 p. m., and the entertainment lasts from 8 p. m. until 12.

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Dressier 'Double' Is Hoosier

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. Tj* VERY ONE has his or her double in this world. That’s and old saying, but friends of Mrs. Fanny Dunn, Conners street, Noblesville, have proved that it is true in her case. During the lifetime of the late great Marie Dressier, beloved movie and stage star, Mrs. Dunn often was mistaken for the star. Even with Miss Dressier gone, strangers stop to gaze in wonderment as Mrs. Dunn passes. Photographs of Miss Dressier and Mrs. Dunn reveal a striking lioness. The longer one is acquhinted with Mrs. Dunn, the more pronounced is the similarity because of the gracious manners, lovely character and fine sense of humor possessed by the late Miss Dressier. Several years ago on the Pacific coast, while Mrs. Dunn was visiting in that section, she repeatedly was mistaken for the movie star. u a “T NEVER met Miss Dressier,” JL Mrs. Dunn said, "but I was urged several years ago to go to Hollywood and see her.” Some months ago before Miss Dressler’s death, a Noblesville movie theater staged a “Hollywood First Night” in which movie fans impersonated their favorites. Mrs. Dunn, dressed in an evening gown, arrived at the theater and her resemblance to Miss Dressier stopped the show. When she reluctantly went on the stage to make a “speech,” at the urgent request of the master of ceremonies, Mrs. Dunn suddenly frowned and shook her fist in true Dressier fashion. Mrs. Dunn professionally never has imp?rsonated Miss Dressier, although Mrs. Dunn herself was a splendid contralto years ago and has appeared in Gilbert & Sullivan operas.

Neighborhood Theater Programs

SUNDAY, OCT. 21 Ritz—Bing Crosby in “She Loves Me Not,” and “Ladies Should Listen.” Uptown—Shirley Temple in “Now and Forever,” and “Pursued.” Dream—Wallace Beery in “Treasure Island,” and Laurel and Hardy comedy. Stratford—Mary Morris in “Double Door,” and “Doctor Monica.” Mecca—William Powell in “The Key,” and “The Witching Hour.” Garrick—Joan Crawford in “Sadie McKee,” and “Cockeyed Cavaliers.” Rex—Burns and Allen in “Many Happy Returns,” and “Greatest Gamble.” Zaring—Franchot Tone in “Straight Is the Way,” and “Bachelor Bait.” St. Clair—Ronald Colman in “Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” and “Cockeyed Cavaliers.” Strand—Wallace Beery in “Treasure Island,” and “House Wife.” Rivoli—Harold Lloyd in “Cat’s Paw,” and “Crime Without Passion.” Irving —Wallace Beery in “Treasure Island,” and “Quiet, Please.” Tacoma—James Cagney in “Here Comes the Navy,” and “Romance in the Rain.” Emerson—Richard Barthelmess in “Midnight Alibi,” and “Stamboul Quest.” Tuxedo—W. C. Fields in “Old Fashioned Way,” and “Girl From Missouri.” Hamilton—Will Rogers in “Handy Andy,” “and “Personality Kid.” Paramount—Jack Oakie in “Shoot the Works,” and “Call It Luck.” Parker—Edward G. Robinson in “The Man With Two Faces.,” and “Call It Luck.” Roxy—Eddie Cantor in “Whoopee,” and “Once to Every Woman.”

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Hollywood—Lew Ayres in “She Learned About Sailors,” and "Murder in Private Car.” Fountain Square—Walter Connelly in “Whom the Gods Destroy,” and “The Man With Two Faces.” Sanders—Jean Harlow in “Girl From Missouri,” and “The Key,” Garfield—Warner Baxter in “Grand Canary,” and “Here Comes the Groom.” Avalon—Elissa Land in "Great Flirtation,” and “Midnight Alibi.” Oriental—Joe E. Brown in “Circus Clown,” and “Os Human Bondage.” Daisy—Robert Young in “Whom the Gods Destroy,” and “She Learned About Sailors.” State—George Bancroft in “Elmer and Elsie,” and “Such Women Are Dangerous.” Lew Revamps Tally-Ho Band Versatility Is Keynote of New Combination. Lew Davies, the young mestro at the Tally-Ho room of the Hotel Antlers, has reorganized his with versatility as the keyr* of the new combination. The ten men he now has in the band are playing a total of twentyfive instruments, in the presentation of Lew’s “Garber-like” arrangements. Most of the orchestra members double on two instruments and several of the band men play as many as five different instruments.

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More Crooners Anew rival for Bing Crosby, Lanny Ross, Joe Morrison and the other singers Paramount has under contract popped suddenly into the limelight today when William Frawley was called upon to croon a tune to Baby Leßoy. The scene was for the filmization of Damon Runyon’s “The Lemon Drop Kid.”

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Theater Guild, 16 Years Old, Still Popular New Program Promises to Be in Keeping With High Standard. BY PAUL HARRISON NF.A Smitf Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—The Theater Guild officially began its seventeenth year of life. And in that fact alone there Is comfort for playgoers, who may know that the new season is fairly launched, and that the stern guardian of the drama is not going to fritter away its talent on such frail little divertisements as have been cluttering several stages during the past month. The guild is a champion of the thoughtful theater, and has a way of gathering under its wing many of the finest authors and performers. It produced Shaw for years, and then O’Neill. And now, in Maxwell Anderson, it seems to have the writer of the most stirring prose of the times. After “Mary of Scotland,” such a sensation last year, he has turned to American history, the Valley Forge, for a theme. It s on the guild list for this season, as are George Gershwin's musical version of “Porgy,” a trilogy by Virgil Geddes, a play by S. N. Behrman, and several others. Philip Moeller is a director who never seems to falter. The staging of Lee Simonson and other Guildmen is acknowledged to have contributed much to the production standards of the entire American theater. As for performers, there is no forgetting that the Guild developed Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Also that it gave George M. Cohan and Helen Hayes their finest parts. Ruth Gordon now is appearing in her third role with the organization. And Helen Westley, one of the founders and a member of the board of managers, has been in at least one of its shows each season. It would be lilying the Guild to say that its current production, “A Sleeping Clergyman,” is a great play. But it certainly is a show of substance.and courage, and provocative to thought. It’s the sort of aggressive enterprise in which the organization should, and frequently does, engage. Some other plays have come and, very likely, soon will be gone. “Order, Please,” is a “comedy with murder,” which has a pleasant tone and a good deal of gentle humor. But it is a fpeble narrative and in spots the tactics seem to have been borrowed from the Christie comedies.

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