Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1935 — Page 9

MARCH 16, 1935

ENGLISH'S WILL OFFER 'MARY OF SCOTLAND' WITH TRIO OF STAR!

ROUNDING ROUND TUCATCDQ with Walter [ILn I LKj D. HICKMAN

"t kTHEN you go to see “Roberta - ’ on the screen, you may be assured W that you will see the best, the smartest, the most tuneful and the best danced movie ever marie m sound. When I saw ■ Roberta'* for the first time on the stage, I gave the t a.s the best musical comedy I have seen in my experience of reporting the theater. My serdict of the movie is that it is the best musical ever made m sound as far as I am concerned. This is not idle

hasty praise but the result of much thought which has crystallized into a conviction. In bringing ‘ Roberta" to the screen, the

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director was careful to keep the Uor yintact as well as the melodies. Three persons have made themselves in t his picture three of the leaders in movieland. They are FTeo Astaire as Huck. the orchestra leader; Ginger Rogers as Srharwenka and dancing companion of

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Astaire, and Irenne Dunne as Stephanie, the designer. Astaire and Miss Rogers landed at the top of the Hollywood ladder in ‘The Gay Divorcee" and now by their work in "Roberta" they have made their permanent home on this landder of fame. Their dancing, especially of “Smoke Gets Into Your Eyes,” is of the highest class. Miss Rogers by study and acquiring all that is needed to know of showmanship and rharm. has made herself into a fine dancer. Astaire possesses the best dancing feet in the business today and he acts with ease and sincerity. Miss Dunne is a lovely sight when she becomes a Russian princess with hr crown of jewels and old court dress. She handles beautifully the several song numbers that she has. Helen Westley is cast as Roberta, the greatest dressmaker in Paris. Fay Templeton played the role here and elsewhere on the stage. Both piav the famous death scene differently but both are equally effective. In the several dress parades staged Robertas swanky shop m Paris, the movie has it all over the stage. The gowns in this movie will make the men gasp. I am speaking of th gowns, not the models, but the models sure are peaches. “Rol •'rta" has everything that a great movie should have. Here is the musical comedy gem of the season. Now at the Indiana. m u u Concerning ‘Wedding Night* AFTER two pictures w.th foreign themes and backgrounds, Anna Stcn has entered the American scene, that of farm life in northern Connecticut. Her American scene picture is “The Wedding Night.” Miss Stcn

fits into emotional and tragic roles and this story gives her this type of a role. She is cast as the daughter of a foreignborn couple who still ciing to the ancient and attenuated customs of the old country. This puts their daughter in continual conflict wttth the freedom of this coun-

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try and the restrictions of the old. The entire action is concerned with her experiment in love with Gary Cooper, who Is cast as an American novelist who comes to the Connecfeult farm. The complications is that the author has a wife who just doesn't tin-

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der stand him and the farmer’s daughter does in her own inexperienced way. Between the frantic efforts of the farmer (Siegfried Rumanm to put his daughter into a loveless marriage to a beast of a farmer and the fight that the author s wife puts up to keep her husband makes a corpse out of the farmer's daughter. Not a very happy story, but it gives Cooper and Miss Sten opportunities to emote as well as giving the woman star a death-bed scene whirh Is indicated more by the emotions of Cooper .than actual acting cm the part of Miss Sten. There is lot of over-acting on the part of most of the cast. I realize that stories of this nature are difficult to make sound real. There Is just too much suffering because of love in this story. The innocent but wise love scenes between Miss Sten and Cooper are interesting if not too convincing. Personally, I can’t see that it is necessary for an author to marry or love his inspiration for each story that he writes. Maybe I am wrong. The photography, direction and sound are excellent. Now at Loew s Palace. an n Still the Leader \ FTER having seen Thurston for so many years on the stage both on road tours and in the modem movie theaters, I feel like I could write his stage history. The fact is Howard Thurston has meant much to me and many thousands of others who love make-be-

iieve In the theater. Years have made their changes in Thurston because he has adjusted himself to the fastmoving time of movie theaters. He has retained the best, of his mechanical tricks and many of these are the best on the stage today and have

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been for years. I really wish he could have time to palm cards and do intimate sleight of hand. But speed and spectacles is demanded in magic today and Thurston more than meets that demand. His daughter. Jane, has her part of the bill in which she uses mechanical tricks of various kinds. Just howgood a magician of the old school she will be I do not know because I have seen her do no old-fashioned palming. Miss Jane does have a pleasing way about her. but time will tell if she will become a great magician herself. That is something she just can't inherit because to be a great magician, hard work for a life time is demanded. The outstanding new spectacle of Thurston this year is “cutting off" the head and feet of a young woman with an old-fashioned Chinese beheading machine. This illusion is a marvel. It is theater of the best school and perfectly done by Thurston and his assistants. For a finale he is using his water fountain spectacle, which is a masterpiece. Thurston is on the stage most of the time. He still saws a woman in two pieces and gets lots of suspense and comedy from it. The woman still floats in midair and the magic ba# from a cabinet travels in midair

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City Stages Offer Drama, Magic and Music

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1. Pauline Frederick as she will appear in “Mary of Scotland" when the Theater Guild play opens a two-day engagement at English’s Monday night, Marrh 25. 2. Jane Thurston, daughter of Howard Thurston, famous magician, is appearing with her father now on the stage of the Circle.

at least half way through the auditorium of the Circle. To me this is his finest accomplishment. I like it best of all. Howard Thurston is one of the finest institutions that the stage ever has presented. The movie is a jolly production called “Love In Bloom," with Grade* Allen and George Burns. Now at the Circle. a a a Rural Humor Pleases \ BNER and Cipero Weaver along ■Y amiable sister, Elviry. are seen this week in a "Carnival of Fun," in a riot of rural rhythm and humor which amounts to nothing less than a barnyeard brainstorm. This goofy trio always makes a hit with Cicero's crazy musical contraptions, Elviry's stolid defiance of everyone and everything and the various specialists which make up the show. One of these is a bugler who triple-tongues a regulation army bugle with all the characteristics of Louie Armstrong. He stopped the show yesterday afternoon with his playing of "Bugle Call Rag." Another one of the troupe is an adept mimic of many farmyard animals and several of the more mod-

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ern noise-makers including an airmail plane ana a 1913 Model T Fard. A male quartet and a female trio, both very good harmonizers, round out the act with “Old Man River,” "Sw-eet Sue." and others. The novel musical performance of Brother Cicero who is a clever comedian with his hill-billy tomfoolry. is one of the main points of this show’. He plays a duet on one musical saw and tops off the show with a performance on a set of “drums” made up of tin cans, wash tubs and idsh pans. Elviry’s comedy is largely audience reaction because she is most serious, stamping her foot at the musical director for flirting with her and yelling "bloody murder” at the base fiddle player for playing too loud. The picture this week is "The Great Hotel Murder,” whoch starring Edmund Lowe and Victor MacLaglen, is a rather conglomerated series of events surrounding the

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3. Don Petry will be the featured vocalist with Ray Williams and his orchestra at the Indiana Roof ballroom tomorrow night. 4. The W’eaver Brothers and Elviry are the headliners on the current vaudeville bill at the Lyric.

death of a prominent man. Lowe is a novelist-slueth and MacLaglen is the detective chief. One can readily imagine the rivalry which springs up between the two. Now’ at the Lyric. 'By J. W. TANARUS.) Mary’s Record Experience Mary Ellis, singing star of Paramount’s “Paris in Spring,” claims the record for the most diversified career in films. She has been a Metropolitan Opera star, star of musical comedies, and a leading interpeter of Eugene O’Neill and Shakespeare plays.

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North Central Music Conference, March 17-22 PRESENTS INDIANAPOLIS HIGH SCHOOL NIGHT Band of ISO—Orchestra, 225 Girls’ Chorus, 450—Mixed Chorus, 650 Monday, March 18, 8:00 P. M. Tech Auditorium Tickets Fifty Cents —at Ayres Accommodation Desk, Second Floor “At the Head of the Escalator” and Gladys Alwes Music Shoppe, 33 Monument Circle Tuesday, 2:00 o’clock —Murat theater—Chorus of 1000 children —50e Tuesday, 8:00 o'clock —Murat—Speech Choir and Fred Patton—Sl

puai mil MONDAY—TUESDAY—MARCH bNuLlan 25-26 matinee TUESDAY JA 3 Curtain Eves at 8:15; Mat. at 2:15 Mat.. 2.75 sharp. LATE COMERS M Inc. Tax. flgtgWILL NOT BE SEATED Ma ? rrh U i9 DRING FIRST SCENE. ■ftSSl —— The Theater Guild Presents MARY E SCOTLAND By MAXWELL ANDERSON with HELEN HAYES PHILIP MERIVALE PAULINE FREDERICK And a Notable Theater Guild Cast

Maxwell Anderson's Play, With Successful New York Record, Will Be Presented Three Times Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale and Pauline Frederick Share Honors in Historical Story to Open City Engagement March 25. “I\/T ARY OF SCOTLAND.” Maxwell Anderson’s famous play, with Helen IVI Haves. Philip Merivale and Pauline Frederick, will be presented at English’s by the Theater Guild on Monday, March 25, for an engagement of two nights and Tuesday matinee. A play of extraordinary stature, it ran all of last season in the Theater Guild's own playhouse in New York to audiences which crowded the theater nightly. Miss Hayes' success in the role of Mary Stuart was the outstanding triumph of the year in New York.

Sharing leading hoonrs with Miss Hayes will be philip Merivale, who will appear as James Hepburn. Earl of Bothwell, and Pauline Frederick in the role of Queen Elizabeth. Maxwell Anderson, who also wrote “Elizabeth, the Queen,” and the Pulitzer Prize play, “Both Your Houses.” has the gift of taking the

Milstein Will Play Tomorrow Maennerchor to Present Russian Violinist. The Indianapolis Maennerchor will present Nathan Milstein, Russian violinist, in recital at 3:15 tomorrow' afternoon at the Academy of Music. Milstein is now in his sixth consecutive American tour and although not yet 30, he is packing theaters and music halls all over the country. He was born in Odessa and studied first in his native city under Prof. Stoliarski and later in Petrograd under Leopold Auer. He survived during the revolution and finally succeeded in getting to Germany. He first conquered Central Europe with his playing and then w'ent to Paris, where he became a sensation. After that all other countries came under his spell. His program tomorrow will be as follows: i. “Sonatina. Opus 137. No. 3" Schubert Allegro EUisto. Andante. Allegro vivace iMenuettoi. Allegro moderato. “Sonata in G major. Opus 30“ Beethroven Allegro assai. Tempo di minuetto. Allegro vivace. “Concerto (in one movement! Glazounoff 11. “Caprices” (for violin alone) ... Pacaniri G minor. No. 13. E major. No. 1. A minor. No. 24 (variations). “Nocturne” Fauee “Minstreis” Debussy ■'Nigun” (from “Baal Shem” Suitei Bloch From “Mv Homeland” C'Aus der Heimat”) Semtana Leopold Mittmann will be at the piano.

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men and women of Soctch and English history and vitalizing them so that the characters step forth human beings seemingly of the present day and manners. He did this very thing, it will be remembered, in 'Elizabeth, the Queen." "Mary of Scotland" starts with the return to Scotland of Mary Stuart after the death of her husband, King FTancis 111 of France, and carries on up to the time of her incarceration in Carlisle Castle. England. Besides Mary the leading characters include Queen Elizabeth, John Knox, the Earl of Bothwell, Lord Darnley, Lord Bughley, James Stuart. Earl of Moray. Lord Morton, Lord Erskine, Lord Throgmorton, Lord Gordon. Lord Ruthven. Rizzio and Maitland of Lethington. The production was directed bj Theresa Hclburn. Settings and costumes were designed by Robert Edmond Jones.

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