Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1935 — Page 20

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CITY AUDIENCES TO SEE THURSTON AND WEAVER BROTHERS

Arkansaw Travelers' to Head Bill at Lyric; Victor McLaglen With Edmund Lowe in* Film Vaudeville Company Boosts Long Record of Preference on Old Keith Circuit: Mystery and Comedy Combined in Screen Offering. WEAVER BROTHERS AND ELVIRY, internationally known In vaudeville circles as the original "Aricansaw Travelers.” are to appear in person on the new program at the Lyric starting tomorrow and will share headline honors with Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen who are teamed on the screen in the Fox comedy mystery film entitled “The Great Hotel Murder.” Abner and Cicero Weaver, together with Sister Elviry are to present their own 60-minute stage show which is called "Carnival of Fun.”

It is comprised of rural entertainment offered by a company that jiciudes the Weavers' 20 "Home Folks.” who are backwoods types from the Ozark Mountains. Homespun comedy blended with singing, dancing, hog-caiimg. and mountain music played on homemade instruments by a rustic band are to be among the features of the revue. The Weaver brothers and Elviry boast a record of 16 years as headliners on the traditionally famous Keith vaudeville circuit of other days. On the Lyric screen, Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen portray roles requiring them once more to appear as rivals. In The Great Hotel Murder." I/)we appears as a noted author of detective novels ■ and McLaglen plays the part of a I hotel detective with an inflated ego. While visiting in the hotel where j McLaglen is employed, Lowe is responsible for the discovery of a mysterious murder. He tries to help solve the crime.! but the hotel sleuth ridicules his theories. Each man then sets out to untangle the mystery in order to I outdo the other. Comedy alternates with drama as the rivals refuse to. Join forces on the case and. as a ' result, they precipitate a series of misadventures which lead to the climax. Supporting players in the cast include Mary Carlisle. Rosemary t Ames. Madge Bellamy. Henry’ O'Neill. C. Henry Gordon and John Wray. The film is adapted from Vincent Starrett’s Red Book magazine story. “Recipe for Murder.” De Mills Broadcasts Orders Owing to the immense size of the sets, Cecil B. DeMille in his current Par-mount production, “The Crusades. * equipped them with public address systems through which he directs the hundreds of extras. Prinx Travels Much Le Rov Prinz. dance instructor at the Vara mount studios, has been around the world five times; three times he “bummed” it and twice he traveled as a gentleman. Fields Writing Again Finished with his work in Paramount's “Mississippi.” W. C. Fields has donned his disguise and is working on the story for his next starring picture.

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Shirley Temple Stays at Apollo Child Star Sparkles as ‘The Little Colonel.’ An absorbing story, and the presence of the one and only Shirley Temple are said to make The Little Colonel,” which will be held for the second and final week at the Apollo, an extraordinary screen , event. Once again. America’s goldenhaired sweetheart is reputed to have captured Indianapolis theatergoers with her unpretentious art, and her honest acting to such an extent that she takes her place 1 alongside Will Rogers, so far as the popularity of Apollo stars are conI cerned. In “The Little Colonel.” Shirley is co-starred with Lionel Barrymore in a heart-stirring story of a bitter Kentucky family feud during the days following the Civil War, when prejudices still rankled, and a woman who dared give her heart to a hatred Yankee was ostracised by friends and relatives. The 5-year-old child has the role of the little girl whose love and laughter routs the bitterness and false pride that make wretched a stem old Kentucky aristocrat who has turned his back on his only daughter. Shirley's charm is said to shine in this vehicle, which is as tender as her baby heart. Not only is her work required to be extraordinary as an actress, but she quite captivates the most plase with her singing and quite surprises one with her dancing talents when she appears with Bill Robinson and accompanies him in his famous stair-dance. As if this wealth of surprises were not enough, this Fox Rim production by B. G. DeSylvia ends in a blaze of technicolor. For the first time in her meteoric career. Shirley Temple is presented in color. Barrymore's presentation of the obdurate colonel is said to be masterly. Other members of the cast include Evelyn Venable. John Lodge. Sidney Blacicmer. Alden Chase. William Burress. Rank Darien. Hattie Mac Daniel and others of like importance. Husky Manhandles Star Paramount has signed Hans Steinke, heavyweight wrestler, to manhandle Charlie Ruggles in comedy scenes for “People Will Talk.”

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Roberta' to Be Indiana Offering Broadway Stage Hit Taken Over by Films. The year’s gayest and most colorful musical romance will come to the Indiana screen tomorrow when Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers open in RKO-Radio’s film version of the Broadway hit, •Roberta.” Featuring the singing of Miss Dunne, the dancing and singing of Astaire and Miss Rogers, and a brilliant display of feminine fashions by a regiment of beautiful mannequins, the production offers sparkling entertainment of tremendous appeal. Melody and dance numbers and the lavish fashion displays all are woven logically into a fastmoving, thoroughly plausible story which combines tender romance with gay comedy. Love interest centers about Miss Dunne and Randolph Scott, although there is more than a suggestion of romance in the battle of wits between Astaire and Miss Rogers and their teaming of dance wizardry. The story revolves about the com-edy-rich situation of an All-Ameri-can football player falling heir to a fashionable Paris gown shop. The grid hero and his band leader pal set the world of fashion agog, the hearts of the mademoiselles

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1. Gracie Allen is still ga-ga and George Burns is the same in “Love in Bloom” which will open on the Circle screen tomorrow. 2. — Gary Cooper and Anna Sten have many soulful scenes in “The Wedding Night” which starts its engagement at Loew’s Palace tomorrow. 3. —Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen contribute to the mystery in “The Great Hotel Murder” which opens tomorrow at the Lyric. 4. —Shirley Temple starts her second record breaking week at the Apollo tomorrow in “The Little Colonel.” 5. —lrene Dunne has one of the four important leads in “Roberta” which will open tomorrow at the Indiana.

atwitter, and the feet of the Parisians aflame during the course of their hectic adventures. Jerome Kern, king of musical comedy composers, wrote the music for the screen production. In addition to the original songs, among them “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” from the stage show, new Kern songs written especially for the film, are presented. Fashions for the pictures were created by Bernard Newman, internationally known couturier. William Seiter directed the production, which includes in its cast such well known favorites as Helen Westley, Victor Varconi, Claire Dodd, Ferdinand Munier and Adrian Rosley.

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NORTH SIDE TALBOTT T F-i.v* Axa.A>*JWJ. i Gloria Swanson ••MUSIC IN THE AIR” • FATHER BROWN DETECTIVE” _ Rl m n Illinois at 34th I /. Double Feature * ± Will Rogers “COUNTY CHAIRMAN” Gene Stratton Porter's “GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST” UPTOWN 'BROADWAY BILL” • DEATH ON THE DIAMOND” no PAM mi station st - L/I\lLr\ivl Robert Woolsey •KENTUCKY KERNELS” o, 1 19th & College Stnmnrn Double Feature JliailUlU Robert Montgomery “MYSTERY OF MR. X” •WE LIVE AGAIN” ..n ,-,/y . Noble & Mass. MECCA Do^ a b ’; ffable'* “MANHATTAN MELODRAMA” ■BACHELOR OF ARTS” GARRICK &*£B “THE GAY BRIDE” “ITS A GIFT” R ap y 30th & Northwestern A Walter Connolly _ "FATHER BROWN DETECTIVE” Double Feature /j r\ IVI J. sAJ Ricardo Cortes • THE FIREBIRD” "THE BAND PLAYS ON” orgy /si Ain St 7 Clair &Ft Wavne ST. CLAIR %-“• s*"" • WHITE LIES” “FIRST WORLD WAR” NEW UDELL sa,*rSr “JUDGE PRIEST” “LOST LADY” EAST SIDE STRAND 'M-Hr • HERE IS MY HEART” • PRESIDENT VANISHES” _ n TI T’/'YT f Dearborn at 10th RIVOLI • RED MORNING” “THE SILVER STREAK” inUlliY l 550* E. Wash. St. IKVIAIt Double Feature mtllivi Laurel Sc Hardy "BABES IN TOYLAND” “SPEAKING OF RELATIONS” rr a OAII A 2442 E. Wash. St. TACOMA “M.rVnbVon* “MILLS OF THE GODS” “BABES IN TOYLAND” _ TITVmA -*°2o E. New York TL XE DO F sfio n , r : “SCARLET LETTER” “WWTS ÜBS”

Newspaper Story Ch osen for Film The screen treatment of Richard MacCauley’s Saturday Evening Post story, “Women Are Bum Newspaper Men,” in which Rrst National will star Glenda Farrell, has been completed. Roy Canslor, author of that other popular newspaper yarn, “H; Nellie!” which starred Paul Mun and Lillie Hayward, did the screen play for “Women Are Bum Newspaper Men.” Laird Doyle of the studo staff did the dialogue. Miss Farrell will be supported in the film by an all-star cask

EAST SIDE PARKER Irene Dunne "AGE OF INNOCENCE” “COWBOY AND THE BANDIT” HAMILTON " "BRIGHT EYES” “ONE HOUR LATE” Hollywood “ ‘Z,To",:“ "HOUSEWIFE” EMERSON ~ Ann Shirley “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES” “HAVE A HEART” Paramount 'Feature****' 1 Buck Jones “SHADOW RANCH” “KENTUCKY KERNELS” R/"i -\r \r 2721 E. Wash. St. I 1 \ Y Double Feature * Madv Christians “WICKED WOMAN” “GREAT EXPECTATIONS” SOUTH SIDE FOUNTAIN SQUARE Double Feature Arthur Bvron "PRESIDENT VANISHES” "RED HOT TIRES” SANDERS “ fiffiWS" OiinxcLavu Isabel Jewe , “SHE HAD TO CHOOSE” “DANCING MAN” GARFIELD SHr "BACHELOR OF ARTS” "WAKE UP AND DREAM” a \r a Y /"AXT Prospect-Churchman AVALON Family Nite T I Gloria Swanson "MUSIC IN THE AIR” "IT’S THE CATS” AnirXTTt I 1105 8. Meridian ORILiM AL Double Feature V7lviL ' i Helen Twelvetreea "ONE HOUR LATE” “WICKED WOMAN” n I. 1429 S. Meridian Roosevelt “CARAVAN” "SHE'S MY LILLY” WEST SIDE BELMONT " UA>A>iTAVyn A Sylvia Sidney "BEHOLD MY WIFE” "SECRET BRIDE” Da * O V 2240 w Mich. \ I S Y Double Feature iX A LI A Ginrer Reuters "ROMANCE IN MANHATTAN" _ "THE MARINES ARE COMING" Str i/r n 2702 W. 10th St. T A I K Double Featora ■ rv A Richard DU "CIMARRON” hja (SC4AA6BA n h

Get New Contracts Douglas Blackley and John Cox, young stock players, and Irving Talbott of the music department, have been given new contracts by Paramount.

LAST DAY! BERGERE” The year's honors in acting, to mjLGary Cooper for a distinguished ww JBp Amin successor to "Lives of a Bengal N £ Lancer/'to AnnaSten,modern and j' .tBSL- ,i ' " American for the first time, Producer Samuel Goldwyn and Direc- X. 1158* ■) j | ter King Vidor collaborating again m < - h If, as they did on their fine "Street s-f ■■■ *JL **%", mm iff v\ . 1 1 SAMUEL GOLDWYN GARY COOPER f i 7ANNA STEN ||/ XWEDDING I £ NIGHT" |t Ralph Bellamy"-* Helen Vinson | I fiNQ T THE HARE” ° nd Siegfried Rumann p in Full Color! Directed by KING VIDOR Released thru UNITED ARTISTS r “ pi,t S . plus! CHARLEY | llVKjfl fTd 3 CHILL chase ■ n, 1 J A "■ V" 1 In NEWS J —•

Famed Magician and Daughter Booked at Circle; George Burns and Gracie Allen on Screen Program Will Include New Features of Illusion in Man's Oldest Art; ‘Love in Bloom’ Is Film of Laughter; Anna Sten Stars at Palace. HOWARD THURSTON, his daughter Jane and a large company will open a week's engagement tomorrow at the Circle in a brand new program of magic and illusions. On the screen. “Love in Bloom.” with Gracie Allen and George Burn* in the leading comedy roles, will be featured.

The art which Thurston practices and with which he has amused as well as baffled 50 million persons in all parts of the world, is the oldest of all the arts. For thirty years now Thurston has been the foremost examplar of this fascinating art. For 27 years he played the legitimate theaters in this country, and it was only after a number of years of persuasive arguments on the part of the moving picture interests that he agreed to play under their coast-to-coast banner. Thurston brings a brand-new program to Indianapolis. His most sensational offering he calls “Vivisection,” the magical successor to his now world famous “Sawing a Woman in Half.” Other new tricks on the program are the beautiful “Mystery of the Water Fountain,” “Cylinders of Cagliostro,” the perplexing “Blue Box Mystery,” “Flyaway Princess,” “Miss Pandora Rom Paris.” “Astral Ball,” and “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.” Thurston’s daughter Jane, who “takes after her dad,” will also present a brand-new magic act. Since the death of Madame Herrmann, Jane Thurston is the only woman magician in the world. # * New Sten Movie Here Samuel Goldwyn’s production of “The Wedding Night,” starring a new romantic team, Gary Cooper and Anna Sten will open tomorrow at Loew’s Palace for a week’s engagement. The picture was directed by King

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Vidor from an original story by Edwin Knopf and adapted to the screen by Edith Fitzgerald. The film depicts in vivid and dramatic manner the experiences of a modern American girl in her revolt against the dictates and restraints of tradition and strict parental rule. The girl, living in the rolling farm country of northern Connecticut seeks to live in conformity with the liberal social order of America, but her father, clinging tenaciously to the habits of the old world, demands that she marry a man of his choice, whom she does not love. Anna Sten emerges in this, her third picture for Samuel Goldwyn, as a girl typically American in dress, talk and action. Gary Cooper plays the role of a famous New York author with whom she falls in love. Siegfried Rumann appears as the father of Miss Sten. Ralph Bellamy as the young man he picks to be his son-in-law and Helen Vinson as th wife of Gary Cooper. The short reels will Include th# prize winning Silly Symphony cartoon. “The Tortoise and the Hare,” Charley Chase in “The Chases of Dimple Street,” and Edwin C. Hill in Hearst Metrotone News. Dietrich Plays Clown Departing from her usual screen characterizations. Marlene Deitrich plays several high comedy sequences in Paramount's “The Devil Is a Woman,” her last picture under tha direction of Josef von Sternberg.