Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1935 — Page 6

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WORLD PREMIERE OF 'LADDIE' TO OPEN AT CIRCLE TOMORROW

Virginia Weidler, Child Star of Little Sister Role, Will Appear at Each Presentation New York and Hollywood Among Centers Which Will Be Represented at First Showing: Guest Manager Will Be S. Barret McCormick. THE eyes of the movie world will be centered upon the Circle Theater in Indianapolis at 8 tomorrow night when the world premiere of Gene Stratton-Porter s ••Leddie■ , will be held. Representatives from Hollywood, New York and other centers are arriving here for the grand opening of one of the most read books ever to be put on the movie screen.

Virginia Weidler, child actress who plays the role of Little Sister in ‘Laddie.” will arrive late this afternoon to attend the premiere tomorrow night. She will remain over to appear at the Circle with every showing of the picture during its engagement. S Barret McCormick, first producing director of the Circle, now of New York, will be here to act as guest manager of the Circle. •Laddie” always has occupied a unique place in the hearts of the reading public, and is a best-seller even today. Like all Mrs. Porter s work, ita background is the quiet Indiana countryside where she spent most of her life, and its keynotes are hope, good cheer and confidence. Os all her stories, it is the most autobiographical. Indeed, the story book character. Little Sister, youngest and most imaginative of the Stanton children, who in the story appionts herself guardian angel over the love of Laddie and his Princess, is said to have been enacted in real life by Mrs. StrattonPorter when a child herself. The entire story is written in the words of Little Sister as the eye witness and promotor of the romance between the two. Just as death ended Gene Strat-ton-Porters career at its flood, she was planning to film ‘ Laddie” herself. as she had two of her other novels, ‘The Girl of the Limberlost” and ‘ Michael O Halloran,” in silent form. RKO-Radio, appropriately enough chose young George Stevens, one of Hollywood's keenest and ablest directors, to direct "Laddie.” He had worked with, and for. Mrs Porter, during the making of her two silent films and became deeply imbued with the spirit of her work as she wished to translate it into the medium of the screen. A great admirer of the writer. Mr. Stevens welcomed the assignment with joy. and prior to beginning actual work on "Laddie,” made a special trip to the Strattot.-Porter country in Indiana, where he photo-

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graphed the original locale and settings of the famous story. The choice of John Beal, fresh from his success in "The Little Minister.” was a happy one. and the producer has lavished great care on "Laddie” to make it a worthy recreation of the much-loved story. Mrs. Porter was bom. and spent the greater portion of her life, in the northern Indiana country with which she filled her novels. She was born in 1863 in an Indiana framhouse. the youngest of 11 children. Her name was Geneva, which she shortened to Gene when she was 22. The following year she married Charles Porter, a druggist in the small town of Geneva, Ind. Swamp Held Interest Near her home was the great Limberlost swamp, and it was the great interest of her childhood and maturity. Its mysterious and brooding spirit runs through most of her stories, and for many years she used it as a laboratory for her nature studies. Thus huge morass, a mere swamp to the natives of the country, was made world-famous when Mrs. Porter's "A Girl of the Limberlost” was published. Nearby she and her husband built Limberlost Cabin, and there they lived for many years. There she began her writing career, and within its comfortable walls 10 novels and countless short stories were written. Once her writing career was well under way. remarkable success attended her work. Her stories of novels, one following the other with amazingly rapid succession, were all best-sellers. The only parallel to her remarkable carrer as a popular author is to be found in that of Zane Grey. McCrea Achieves Ambition Joel McCrea. who is playing the father of Shirley Temple in "Heaven’s Gate.” first went into pictures to earn enough money to buy a large ranch. Now he owns the ranch and has to keep working in pictures to support it.

What Screens Will Offer Beginning Tomorrow

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1— Arthur Hohl, Marion Marsh and Wallace Ford have the chief roles in "In Spite of Danger” which will be on view at the Lyric starting tomorrow. 2 Russel Hardie, Robert Young and Wallace Beery do a lot of talking as well as doing a lot of things in “West Point of the Air” which will open tomorrow at Loew’s Palace.

'Gold Diggers of 1935' Will Be Offered on Apollo Screen Dick Powell Heads Cast Which Includes Alice Brady, Gloria Stuart and Glenda Farrell. GOLD DIGGERS op 1935,” Warner Brothers’ new musical extravaganza. reputed to have been two years in the making, will come to the screen of the Apollo tomorrow, for a limited engagement of seven days. The 1935 edition of the famous "Gold Diggers” series, which have become an institution with the producers, boasts of a cast headed by Dick Powell and includes such well-known performers as Adolphe Menjou. Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn, Grant Mitchell, Dorothy Dare and Winifred Shaw.

Former “Gold Digger” films, it is thought, have been famed for their magnificent musical spectacles, and to insure maintaining this feature, Busby Berkeley was chosen to direct the 1935 edition. Berkeley, it is claimed, has taken a funny, clever story, gathered together a cast of film favorites, and, with the assistance of 300 dancing beauties, has assembled the whole into a tuneful comedy in which his talent for spectacular screen innovations has been given full sway. Three specialties are said to be outstanding, in one of which 90 snow-white pianos are seen to actually cavort on the stage. The dance team of Ramon and Rosita is also featured. The story is said to be a catchy romance with a fashionable hotel as the setting. A wealthy widow, who is essentially penurious, is the target of the gold digging propensities of a trio of schemers enacted by Menjou, Cawthorn and Mitchell. The widow, which is said to be the funniest role portrayed by Alice Brady for some time, has two children. She is trying to marry off her daughter. Gloria Stuart, to Hugh Herbert, also a millionaire, but who is more interested in writing essays on snuff than love. Her son. Frank McHugh, four times married and divorced, falls for the hotel hostess, and the daughter tails in love with the room clerk in the person of Dick Powell. Glenda Farrell does a little gold digging of her own at the expense of Hugh Herbert, but it ends happily. Specially selected short subjects round out the program. ‘Roberta’ Held Over THE biggest names in music, dancing and fashion contribute to “Roberta,” RKO-Radio's color-

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ful new musical feature centering about an intriguing romance in a Paris style shop. Jerome Kern wrote the music for the production, which stars Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Miss Dunne sings a number of Kern’s hit songs, and Astaire and Miss Rogers dance to the rhythm of others. Fred and Ginger also sing, with Astaire demonstrating still another talent by playing the piano. With Randolph Scott playing the romantic lead opposite Miss Dunne, a strong cast, includnig such favorites as Helen Westley, Victor Varconi Claire Dodd, Luis Alberni, Ferdinand Munier and Bodil Rosing support the three stars. William Seiter directed the Pandro S. Berman production. “Roberta” will begin its second w?ek tomorrow at the Indiana. a a a Air Movie on View Robert Young. Maureen O'Sullivan and Rosalind Russell provide the romantic background for the character performance by Wallace Beery, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's

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3 Fred Astaire, the dancing marvel of the screen, will start his second week in “Roberta” at the Indiana tomorrow. 4 Virginia Weidler and John Beal in a pleasant scene from “Laddie” which will have its world premiere at the Circle tomorrow night. 5 Dick Powell is one of the several stars in “Gold Diggers of 1935” which will open at the Apollo tomorrow.

“West Point of the Air,” which will open tomorrow at Loew’s. Beery is a grizzled old sergeant instructor at immense Randolph Field, the great Army aviation school where 80 per cent of the picture was filmed, while Robert Young is his debonair, too flippant, son. Young's flippancy leads him to the point where his nerve breaks; where he commits the unpardonable military sin, and is saved only when his father sacrifices his whole career for the honor of his son. These contingencies come about because of the tangled love interest Miss O'Sullivan, daughter of a general, Lewis Stone, on one side, with Miss Russell presenting the case for cophisticated Park-av. It isn't the first time in literary history that a man's whole career has hung upon a woman’s word, but in this case the absorbing story gains terrific impetus because of the amazing air feats which are part

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and parcel of the training course at Randolph Field. The desperate air stunt Beery attempts to save the name of his son; the remarkable rescue of Beery, trapped under gasoline flaming water in a wrecked plane; the simultaneous * parachute jump of 100 men—these are but a few of the thrills which emphasize the intensely human love story. Other players of the picture include James Gleason, Russell Hardie, Henry Wadsworth and Robert Livingston. Short reels will include an Our Gang comedy, “Mama’s Little Pirate,” a Hollywood snapshot and Edwin C. Hill in Hearst Metrotone News. Doris Nolan Fences . Doris Nolan, who is making her screen bow in "Heaven’s Gate” new Shirley Temple picture, is an expert with the foils and keeps in good physical trim by fencing.

Lyric Will Present Six Acts on Stage; Four of Headline Class Screen Presentation Beginning Tomorrow Will Be Columbia's ‘ln Spite of Danger/ SIX acts of vaudeville and the Columbia screen drama entitled ‘ In Spite of Danger" arc combined on the new program which will open ;omorrow at the Lyric Theatef. The four headline acts on the Lyric stage will include Harry Howard, Sibyl Bowman. Pat Henning and the team of Harris and Howell. Other acts to round out the bill will be Audrey Wycoff & Cos. and the team of

Keys Shafer & Keys. Harry Howard, a veteran comedian with a record of successes in several Shubeit revues as well as in the variety field, will return to the Lyric for his first local appearance in eight years. This time he will offer anew comedy act in which he is assisted by several stooges in the audience. Miss Sibyl Bowan, clever mimic

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NORTH SIDE TALBOTT T #imUy A N“ nd A i A A Tom Brown "BACHELOR OF ARTS" "THE FIRST WORLD WAR" Rt m rv Illinois at 31th | /, Double Feature A A Fay W ray "WHITE LIES” “GIRL OF MV DREAMS” UPTOWN j~ "THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN” "THE RIGHT TO LIVE” p. p, ~ r 2361 Station St. DREAM Gen porter*s ton "A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST” , ' r i 19th & Cofese Stratford Vnn'sft fcr "ANNE OF GREEN GABLES” "WICKED WOMAN" fn /y/9 a Noble A Mas*. MECCA D Fred* Astaire* "GAY DIVORCEE" "BABES IN TOVLAND _ . n n lr ,.r Illinois & 30th GARRICK sains. ■BSX _ ' '■"! ”'i\ r Viu'ViK''‘ REX 30th & Northwestern PRESIDENT VANISHES" ZARING D T„' ET* "LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE” "LOTTERY LOVER” pm /"it 4 ir\ St. Clair Sc Ft Wavne ST LLAIR Double Feature ij A . GL/TVAAY Wallace Beery "THE MIGHTY BARNUM" "MILLS OF THE GODSy EAST SIDE rirryj 4 XTT\ 1352 E. Wash. St. S 1 KAN 1J Double Feature UinnitD Will Rogers "COUNTY CHAIRMAN” "MAYBC IT S LOVE" _ nnTAI T Dearborn at 10th RIVIILI Family Nile ’ v/AvA Mav Robson “MILLS OF THE GODS" "OIGOLETTE" IRVING "IT’S A GITT” TACOMA "DANGEROUS CORNER" "ONE EXCITING ADVENT! RE" TIIXEDfI Double Feature IUALUV Helen xwelvetrees "ONE HOUR I.ATE" "FATHER BROWN DETECTIVE H 4 Tk ¥/'¥''¥■* E9SO E. Tenth St, PARK KR Family Nile * •UVIvIYAjIV Frank Morgan "BY TOUR LEAVE" "FRONTIER DAYS” HAMILTON "HERE IS MV HEART” "LOTTERY LOVER”

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of film luminaries, who has had top billing in two Indianapolis theaters in recent years, will offer her gay impersonations of Garbo, Dietrich and other stars. Pat Kenning, last featured here at Keith's in 1923, will be seen in his new vaudeville offering which is called ‘'Versatility.”

EAST SIDE HdlyWOOd Zen^. “DRAGON MURDER CASE” EMERSON iSLfrSflfS ~ Bin? Crosby “HERE IS MV HEART’’ “BAND PLAYS ON’’ Ti .New Jer. & E. Wash. Paramount Thursday on a £ d Frid * 2 Fine Feature Pictures Bing Crosby “She Loves Me Not” Edward Arnold “Wednesday’s Child” Silly Symphony Fox News Rr\ -\r \r 2721 E. Wash. St."" II X Y Familv Nite A Lois Wilson “TICKET TO A CRIME’’ “MARINES ARE COMING’’ SOUTH SIDE FOUNTAIN SQUARE^ Double Feature Walter Connolly “FATTIER BROWN DETECTIVE’’ “NEATH ARIZONA SKIES’’ C t \mrnc At Fountain Squara SANDERS Do Feature “CHEAT’NO CHEATERS” “HER SPLENDID FOLLY” GARFIELD VJi. 11X1 IGlvlZ Buster Crabbo “SHE HAD TO CHOOSE” “THE SECRET BRIDE” AVALON Pros F-“N^ m ‘* 11 " 1 Richard Arlen “HELLDORADO” “RURAL ROMEO” ORIENTAL ‘MUf PAINTED VEIL” “TRANSATLANTIC MERRY GO ROCND“ __ ~ i4> H. Meridian Roosevelt •WHITE PARADE’’,, “ROUGH NECKING WEST t SIDE w Wash. A Belmont BELMONT £is; “LA f CUCARAt HA” _ W T . Mich. DAISY Ba’lEf. • MADAME PI BARRY. STATE ■wntffilE*