Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1935 — Page 7

FEB. 9, 1985.

'AH, WILDERNESS!'WILL BE OFFERED TUESDAY ON ENGLISH'S STAGE

Circle Offers Mystery Story Dickens Wrote ‘Clive of India’ Opens at Palace: Chan Show at Apollo. WHAT happened to Edwin Drood in the famous mystery story I story which Charles Dickens had only half completed when death took The probable ending of this thrill-' ing mystery tale has caused more ‘ argument than any other story of j the last 100 years. More than 120 prominent authors and playwrights are known to have tried to finish the story and 103 so- I lutions of the mystery have appeared in printed form. The discussion became so widespread in England at one time, back in 1914. that a mock trial was held to try to determine who killed young Drood. Briefly, the story is that of one John Jasper, psalm-singing choir master in an English village cathedral. who, unknown to his church friends, is s victim of the opium | habit and spends much of his time ' in opium dens. He has a nephew. Edwin Drood. who is engaged to marry beautiful, young Rosa Bud. Jasper is madly in love with the girl, but he also has a tremendous love for his nephew and is undergoing a terrible mental struggle as a result. Into the story comes another young man, Neville Landless, who falls in love with Rosa at first sight. Neville is a very hot-headed fellow and almost immediately upon meeting Edwin gets into a violent argument with him. draws a knife and threatens to kill him. And then young Edwin disappears. With his disappearance it is discovered that Neville has also left the village. Jasper and many of the citizens cry out for vengeance and demand the arrest of Neville as the murderer. Neville Is caught, and explains he only left on a walking trip and has not seen Edwm since the previous evening which he and Edwin spent with Jasper. The body of Edwm can not be located, but some of his clothing and jewelry is found in the river. About this time a mysterious old chap named Datchery arrives in the village. And it was here that Dickens left the story when he died. It was even a problem as to whether young Drood was dead, kidnaped or had gone away of his own accord. The answer has been worked out by four authors in the picturization which is now on view at the Circle with Claude Rains. Douglass Montgomery and Heather Angel featured.

m m a Big Spectacle Here Twentieth Century production studios have turned out their newe>t picture. "Clive of India,” starring Ronald Colman and Loretta Young with a supporting cast of 70 principals, including C. Aubrey Smith. Colin Clive and Francis Lister. It is now on view at Loew s Palace. Richard Boleslawski was borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to direct the drama, which W. P. Lipscomb and R. J. Minney came from England to adapt for the screen their stage hit of the same name which ran more than a year in London. The story, which traces the rise of Robert Clive from a $25 a year clerk for the East India Company to the conqueror of a nation, stresses the private life of England's greatest hero and the part his lovely wife played in his triumphs and defeats. Loretta Young is seen as the wife. C. Aubrey Smith and Colin Clive and Francis Lister head the supporting cast. Also on the program will be Mickey Mouse in his newest cartoon. "Two-Gun Mickey.” and a Hollywood snapshot as well as Edwin C. Hill in Hearst Metrotone News. mm* Charlie Is Here Again Hailed as the most engrossing and ingenious to date of the famous "Charlie Chan” films, the latest of the series. "Charlie Chan in Paris.”

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once more starring Warner Oland, is appearing currently upon the screen of the Apollo Theater, where it wall remain through Thursday next. Preview ■audiences have already seen ‘Charlie Chan in Paris,” both in Now York and Hollywood, it is said, ana without exception they have .ecorded their enthusiasm for this of a phantom killer who terrorized the gayest city in the world. Arriving in Paris. Charlie Chan is plunged into the dangerous shadows of the most baffling mystery he ever has encountered. The French authorities are frustrated. No one but Charlie is able to find the trail. In the course of his investigation, a beautiful Apache dancer is knifed to death and another lovely girl, an heiress, is charged with still another murder. But in the end Chan proves her innocence. "Charlie Chan in Paris” was written by Philip MacDonald, the same brilliant young writer who supplied the script of "Charlie Chan in London,” following the death of Earl Derr Biggers. creator of the wily Chinese sleuth. Fox Film, it is said, has surrounded Oland with a cast of un-

Legitimate Bookings Plentiful at City Theaters

1— Dusohna Giannini, soprano, will be guest artist w ith the male chorus of the Indianapolis Maennerchor at the Academy of Music, Monday night, Feb 18. 2 George M. Cohan in a characteristic pose from “Ah, Wilderness,” which will be at English's next Tuesday afternoon and night. 3 Paul Ash is presenting his own revue, “The Hollywood Penthouse,” on the stage at the Lyric. 4 Jose Iturbi, famous Spanish pianist, will appear in recital at English’s on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 17, as the fifth attraction of the season presented by Mrs. Nancy Martens. 5 Whitey Lowe will be the leading man in “Meet My Sister,” when it opens its engagement tonight at the Playhouse of the Civic Theater. 6 Doris Robbins, former Ziegfeld Follies beauty, will be soloist with Ben Pollock and his orchestra at the Indiana Roof ballroom tomorrow night.

usual talent. Mary Brian plays the I part of the banker’s daughter who , is charged with murder. Thomas Beck, brought to Hollywood from | j the New York stage, is seen opposite Miss Brian in the romantic roles. Other players are Erik Rhodes, j Minor Watson, John Miljan, Murray Kinnell, John Qualen, Dorothy Appleby and Henry Kolker. Especially selected short subjects round out the program. B B B New Dancer in Film Already famous in Mexico, Spain and a few’ places in the United States, Margo, Mexican dancer, brings her unique talents to the ! screen in the principal featured roles of Paramount's "Rumba.” \ | starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. Margo is one of the many film finds of that famous screen writi ing and producing team, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. She made her film debut in their "Crime Without Passion,” but appeared in a dramatic role which did not afford much scope for her dancing interpretations. Daughter of a prominent Mexican family, Margo learned her dancing in Spain and Mexico and made her professional debut at Agua Caliente. Later she appeared at the Ambassador Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles, and the WaldorfAstoria. New York, where she was engaged when Hecht and Mac* Arthur "discovered’’ her. In "Rumba.” Margo, Carole Lombard and Iris Adrian are the dancing partners of George Raft and appears in versions of the eight i separate rumba steps which are in- | troduced in the picture. Directed by Marion Gering, ■ "Rumba’’ tells the dramatic love story of a beautiful heiress and a tempestuous dancer against the tropical background of Havana, Lynne Overman. Monroe Owsley, Gail Patrick and Akim Tamiroff appear in principal supporting roles.

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Lenore Ulric to Be at English's Stars in ‘Pagan Lady’ to Open Feb. 18. Welcome news for the playgoers of Indianapolis is the announcement that one of the stage’s most vivid and exotic stars, Lenore Ulric, w’ill appear at English's for three days only, beginning Monday, Feb. 18, in "Pagan Lady,” the dramatic success by William Dußois, considered one of her finest achievements. In "Pagan Lady,” Miss Ulric. is provided with the type of role that she is unusually adept in portraying and one that is ideally suited to her histrionic accomplishments such as she revealed in "Lulu Belle,” "Kiki,” “Tiger Rose,” and "Mima,” all included in her New York successes which skyrocketed her to the heights of stardom on the legitimate stage under the banner of David Belasco. Laid in the days of prohibition, “Pagan Lady” reveals Miss Ulric as Dot Hunter, the sweetheart of a rum-runner in Florida who operates an outmoded hotel to cover his nefarious practices. To this secluded hideaway comes a leather-lunged evangelist and his young nephew, who is also destined for the evangelical field, in order to attend a convention of their brethren in a neighboring town. It is when the youthful missionary succumbs to the irresistible lure of* the beautiful girl that the play moves swiftly into its passages of powerful drama, creating entertainment that is tense and thrilling and enlivened by many artful comedy touches. The cast includes Gerald Kent, Robert Lowes, John F. Morrissey, Richard S. Bishop, Louis Kirtland, Jane Ferrell, Charles Harrison and Walter DeLuna.

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I. M. Halperin, general manager of the Indiana and Circle theaters announced that arrangements have been completed to bring back to Indianapolis, for a week's engagement at the Indiana theater starting Friday, Feb. 22, the twelfth annual edition of Earl Carroll’s "Vanities.” This is the same show, complete and intact, recently at Eiglish’s and while here forced to m_>ve to the Murat on account of fire at English’s. The show to be presented at the

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Indiana wdll have all new scenery and costumes, replacing the material damaged by fire. Ken Murray is featured at the head of the cast of 50, w'hich includes the Three Samuels Brothers, Helen Charleston, Collette Sisters, Milton Charleston, Donald Burr and Claire Curry. This edition of the “Vanities” is staged in twenty scenes, with complete electrical and scenic effects, and with the usual elaborate costuming that distinguishes all editions of the “Vanities.” It was staged by and is under the personal supervision of Earl Carroll.

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George M. Cohan Stars in Play Which Reveals Eugene O'Neill in Wholly Different Vein Calmly and Truthfully, a Story That Could Have Been Real, Is Told: Mysticism and Freudian Touches Utterly Lacking. FOR those who seek adventure among notable achievements in the drama, there is an especial pleasure in contemplating Eugene O'Neill's ‘‘Ah. Wilderness!" the Theater Guild will present at English's next Tuesday, matinee and night.

In ‘‘Ah, Wilderness!" there is not to be found the O'Neill who is the constant subject for so many formidable essays on dramatic authorship. There is no mysticism, which generations of Celtic ancestry flower in him; no preoccupation with Freudian symbolism and morbid obsessions; no grand sweep of tragedy stemming from the ancient Greeks —none of the things with which the author heretofore has been peculiarly identified. O’Neill this time obliges with a diminutive thrice-told tale of the problems of adolescence in their relation to a typical Connecticut household as it conceivably might have existed almost three decades ago. The setting and the period lend a certain comic quaintness to the play. It is not enough that Mr. O’Neill has written truthfully and calmly, that he has understood the persons with whom he deals and that he has transmitted that understanding in plain words and situations that every one can understand. It is not enough that, being an artist, he should eschew’ the Broadway gags with which so many plays of this genre are habitually cluttered: that his rewards in abundant laughter flow’ out of his knowledge of character rather than a facility with flip banter. Such a play demands the most practiced and disciplined interpretation on the stage; end it is to the undying credit of the Theater Guild and to Philip Moeller, the director, that such a happy fusion of talents has been arranged for "Ah, Wilderness ” George M. Cohan, who impersonates Nat Miller, a newspaper man in Connecticut, has the reputation of being the most beloved actor in New York; a ti>bute not only to his personality offstage but also to his extraordinary competence on. Mr. Cohan wall be supported by

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Elisha Cook Jr., Jean Adair, Joe Allen, Catherine Proctor, Don Shelton, Edith Emerson, Freddy Stange, Jack Byrne, Ruth Gilbert, John Wynee, Ruth Chorpenmng, Lawrence M. Hurdle, Ruth Holden and John Butler. Robert Edmond Jones designed the settings. Ohio Will Offer "Convention City" Playing for the last times today at the Ohio Theater are Jackie Cooper in "Pecks Bad Bov," and Spencer Tracy and Kctti Gallian in "Marie Gallante.” Beginning tomorrow and continuing through Wednesday, the Ohio will show "Covention City," musical extravaganza starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell. Wednesday and Thursday the features wall be Ronald Colman in "The Masquerader," the picturization of the play made famous by Guy Bates Post, and Mae West in her "Belle of the Nineties.” Friday, Ohio patrons will see Claudette Colbert in "I Cover the Waterfront,” and "Limehouse Blues,” wdth George Raft.

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