Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1934 — Page 14

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INDIANA WILL OFFER 'THE LITTLE MINISTER'

Miss Hepburn Ably Portrays Barrie Story Scotch Village Reproduced in California as Background. Katherine Hepburn is now starred in the most colorful production of her remarkable career. “The Little Minister," RKO-Radio's piet urination of Sir James Barrie’s immortal story, which opens Tuesday at the Indiana. It was necessary to construct an entire Scotch village, the town of Thrums —or Kirriemuir, the modern name for the town. A reproduction of the village in its entirety rest, quietly in the shadows of the California hills, a work of art on the part of experts on Scottish architecture and landscape, who worked with the studio scenic experts. The picture gives many views of the exquisitely intimate village of Thrums. Barrie’s birthplace is shown in contrast with the famous Rintoul Castle, which was built after the style of the old Norman castles, with high ceilings, stonemuliioned and leaded glass windows and huge stone stairways. In the village are seen the homes of the poor weavers, the town hall, the public square, Rob Dow s blacksmith shop, old Nanny's humble cottage, the manse of the Little Minister, the kirk and the shops, and on a hill-top the old mill and the look-out scenes where the striking weavers kept a watch each day for the coming of the soldiers. Against this background Katherine Hepburns greatest starring Vehicle, Barries ‘‘The Little Minister,” recreates the quaint charm and events in the village of Thrums, with all the moving romance of which Barrie alone is capable—and which Miss Hepburn so ably interprets with her inexhaustible resource of power. John Beal portrays the Little Minister, and Alan Hale plays RotDow. Richard Wallace directed. Behrmans Play Opens in Boston ‘Rain From Heaven' Concerns Economic Issues. By l tuns Special BOSTON, Dec. 29 —At ihe Plymouth Theater Monday night a distinguished audience was regaled with the initial performance of “Rain From Heaven.” S. N. Behrman, the author, has given the intelligentsia a conversational play based on the social and economic problems of the day. The action takes place in Lady Wyngate’s (Jane Cowl) London home, where she is entertaining her admirer, Rand Eldridge, an American explorer, and several of her liberalist friends. Rand's older brother. Hobart, is opposed to Rand's intention of marrying Lady Wvngate, as she is opposed to a money-making scheme of his. His efforts are not needed, however, as Phoebe, Hobart’s wife, accuses Lady Wyngate of having an affair with Hugo Willens. Phoebe is in love with Hugo, and jealous of him, and has invented this story as the only solution of his actions toward her. The play ends with everybody’s personal affairs in a tangle and the world’s problems still unsolved.

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Katharine Hepburn as Babbie One of the events of the holiday season will be the opening on New Year’s day of Katherine Hepburn in Sir James Barrie's "The Little Minister,” at the Indiana. John Beal and Alan Hale are in the cast. Richard Wallace directed.

Daring Horsemen at Work With 'Lancers' Seventy-five of Hollywood’s most reckless horsemen—all former cow'boys and rodeo riders —are currently engaged in a series of mad saber charges at Sherwood Lake, 25 miles from the film city. The riders are engaged in one of the final spectacular scenes for Paramount’s “Lives of a Bengal Lancer”—a scene twice attempted and twice postponed due to unavoidable spills. Accompanying the troop on location was a doctor and 20 replacement horses.

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Shirley Temple Shows Best in Bright Eyes', Current Vehicle ot Child ' Star Now on View at Apollo. What is thought to be one of the finest, most human and heartwarming films in a decade is appearing currently upon the screen of the Apollo Theater. The picture so heartily indorsed is “Bright Eyes,” Fox Film's newest and best vehicle for the amazing talents of Shirley Temple, child star extraordinary. Incidentally, “Bright Eyes” will head the New Year's Eve program to be piesented at the Apollo Monday at midnight. Tile new Shirley Temple attraction is said to have universal appeal, in every sense of the word. Swift, human, at times pathetic, at times enormously funny, it is a story which will hold any audience in its spell from opening sequence to smashing finish. David Butler, director of “Bright Eves.' conceived the original idea of the story. With Edwin Burke, whose script of Bad Girl” won the Academy Award in 1931, he wrote it. Then Williahi Conselman. another gilted Hollywood man. adapted it to the screen. The efforts of every one associated with the new film are said to have met, with success. The action takes place at a large commercial airport near Los Angeles and in a wealthy Pasadena home nearby during the Hollywood season. Shirley is seen as the child of a servant in the aristocratic home, whose father had been killed in an air crash. Elissa Trains Voice Elissa Landi, co-starring with Cary Grant in "Enter Madame,” has taken up singing studies with Mine, Nina Koshetz, famous concert singer, to prepare herself for starring roles in future musical productions.

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