Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1935 — Page 11

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Go Into Your Dance/ Starring Al Jolson and Wife, Pleases; Powell in Clever Role at Palace Ruby Keeler Shows Progress as Actress in First Film Appearance With Husband at Indiana; Songs Done by Jean Harlow in ‘Reckless.’ BV WALTER D. HIC KMAN A LARGE. Rlorifi'-d musical with lots of dancing, enormous sets and many persons in the cast as well as several song hits is the result of the first movie that Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler have appeared in together. There is a lot of interest in this first appearance of this well known couple together on the screen. This event takes place in "Go Into Your Dance" and the production cos? a lot of money. Miss Keeler, in private life Mrs. Jolson. has been m several big musicals and other pictures with Dick Powell. Miss Keeler has developed into a splendid tap dancer. She has looks and personality

and with each movie she has improved as an actress. That proves that she is not Just resting upon her fame as the wife of one of the most famous men

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of the stage, screen and radio. Jolson appeared in the first sing-ing-talker to hit Broadway. He has had big successes from a box office standpoint in many movies and in others his draw’ was not nearly so large. You will see early in this

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movie that Jolson has a lot to do both In white and blackface. The old Jolson is present because he sings a mammy song, ‘Til Sing About You." He has another tuneful hit in “About a Quarter to Nine" and at the end of the picture Jolson rounds it out singing in the form and force which has made him famous. There is no has-been Jolson in this movie. He is fresh, eager and always willing to sing. He is good in his serious and sentimental moments with Miss Keeler as Dorothy Wayne, a showgirl and dancer, who loved Al Howard, a jazz singer. Os course, Jolson is Al Howard and a good human story has been woven around this character who had the habit of walking out on his engagements. It is to prevent repetitions of this that gives the story its big punch. There is a lot of action in this very long picture. Os course, all the high spot dance numbers are accorded to Miss Keeler and in these she is splendid. Helen Morgan Is herself again and she sits upon a piano and sings. Nothing new in this but it is expected when Helen is around. She has a good acting part because she is east as the woman who seeks to make a sucker out of Al Howard. “Go Into Your Dance - ’ comes under the head of being mighty big, tuneful and beautiful theater. Now r at the Indiana. ana Jean Is Reckless TN these days of producing lavish, -* expensive musicals woven into a definite story, it was decided to star Jean Harlow' and William Powell together in "Reckless." Here is a story of a carnival performer and her manager and friend. Miss Harlow is

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the girl and Powell is the man ager and friend. Mona, Miss Harlow, Is a wild sort of person and she cant see that Powell as Ned Riley is the man she should marry. In fact, she goes to sleep in a hammock as Riley pops the question the first time. Mona goes gaga over Bob

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and then there is the duece to pay because Bob is engaged to a wealthy auo cultured society girl. His rich and haughty dad knows that Bob has made a mr~s of his marraige. It was a mess, because after a wild drinking party Bob kills himself in the apartment of Riley. Os course, that gives you the drama—the unjust charge that Mona shot her husband in her lover’s apartment. Mona decides to attempt a comeback on the stage because she was to be a mother at the time Bob shot himself. Women who buy theater tickets decided that Mona was not fit to take care of the child and when she attempted her comeback on the stage in song and dance there was a near-panic. This one scene is the only one in which I can see any acting ability in Miss Harlow. To me she is not a good actress, but a type who has caused millions of persons to marvel at her appearance. In this movie she is listed as ringing several songs and she is at her best right at the end of the picture whei she is putting sob drama into melody. Powell does a magnificent job In his own right. He again is the clever William Powell and he has two good comedy helper* in Ted Healy and Nat Pendleton. May Robson is cast as Granny, the grandmother of Mona. Os course, this actress, with her great experience on the stage and screen, does a lot to strengthen a story that is far from being new. The dance numbers have been lavishly produced and the production cost a mint of money. But this costly production does not make a good actress of Jean Harlow. Now at Loew’s Palace. nun Davis Makes Hit Indianapolis’ own gift to the dance band show world. Charlie Davis, returns this week and gives the town one of the snappiest and mast entertaining exhibitions it has seen in some time. Charlie, if anything, Is more of a showman than ever. The band with Mr. Davis Is built on the same fundamentals which

made him such a success while ii Indianapolis be fore. He st i 1 makes fun, slipi ; in a tear-puller or two. and shows oil the versatility of. his musicians. Other acts or the bill this week include Arthur La Fleur and Mary, a pair of exceedingly good acrobats. La Fleur shows best in his act of

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hanging by his teeth and twirling at high speed for several minutes, slowing down almost to a stop, then suddenly beginning to turn again, with a literal whirl-wind finish. Mary performs favorably In a series of difficult dance acrobatics. Milo is on the bill this week as a clowning mimic who imitates everything from a locomotive to a spring fry. Si Wills and Joan Davis have a catching skit in which there Is a great deal of nonsense dished out in a pleasing style. Miss Davis distorts her facial and physical characteristics for most, of her comedy and the jokes in Wills’ skits are remarkably fresh. The hit of Charlie Davis’ act is the solo of little Miss Donna Mae Rehm. a native of Logansport, who dances, sings, stands on her head and generally captivates the audi-

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1. Charlie Davis and his band began a triumphal engagement on the stage of the Lyric yesterday. 2. Sally Gay is one of the smart entertainers with Charlie Davis and

ence. She is ably assisted by Charlie, who always was a hand at putting children at their ease. Some of the songs from the Davis’ band’s last movie short subject, “Echoes,’ - make up part of his program. Other songs are specialties by ‘ Coofy” Morrison, who has a very pleasing voice, and the antics of • Blubber,” a huge young man who plays the bass horn and sings as well as making himself humorously conspicuous. <-> The same old informality that characterized Charlie's former musical shows is present in the current one and the boys play without music while seated on comfortable davenports and armchairs. The picture on view is a sprightly comedy, “Spring Tonic,” featuring Lew Ayres and Claire Trevor. Now at the Lyric. (By J. W. TANARUS.)

Choir to Sing Sacred Music Midland College Group to Appear Tuesday. Garbed in black robes made unique by white collars designed by one of its own members, Midland College s A Cappella choir, Fremont, Neb. will appear in St. Mark's English Lutheran Church Tuesday night to present its concert of sacred numbers. No admission charge will be made. Directing the group will be Prof. Oscar Lyders, head of Midland’s School of Fine Arts since 1928 and formerly a soloist with the internationally famous St. Olaf Lutheran choir. Two numbers by Johann Sebastian Bach, “Sing Ye to the Lord” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” will open the program. Part two will include “Savior of Sinners” (Mendelssohn), “To Thee We Sing” (Schvedov), "Evening Hymn” (Landstad), “Lullabye on Christmas Eve” (Christiansen) and “the Shepherd’s Story” (Dickenson). “Evening Hymn” was arranged by Dr. F. Melius Christiansen, director of the St. Olkf choir, and dedicated to the Midland choir. Edward Grieg's arrangement of the Norse folk song, “The Countless Host in White Array” will open the choir’s final group. This part will continue with Cyril Jenin’s “Out of the Silence" and the Celtic hymn, “The Outgoing o: the Boats,” and come to a climax with Peter Sohren's “Praise to the Lord” as arranged by Dr. Christiansen. In addition to these numbers, the choir also has six miscellaneous selections, among them the Crusader's hymn, “Beautiful Savior” which has been sung by the Midland choir every year since its organization seven years ago. Other miscellaneous selections are “Aspiration,” a Norse folk song; “O Sacred Head” (Gerhardt), “Glory Be to God” (Rachmaninoff). “Salvation Is Created” < Tschesnokoff) and “Fierce Was the Wild Billow” (Noble).

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CHARLIE DAVIS had a busy time visiting with friends before he started his current engagement at the Lyric. Davis has gone very far with his band since he left Indianapolis after playing at the Ohio. Indiana theaters and the Columbia Club for years. He has the long distance master of ceremonies record at the Indiana. His appearances in New York night clubs and his success over the radio has placed him in national demand. Charlie still thinks with all of his success that Indianapolis is the best city in the world and he is not joking. When the time comes, Charlie states he will be willing to return

to Indianapolis and take up his home life here among his friends. Tonight Davis will be the guest of the Variety Club at the Claypool. On Friday night, Aug. 26, Davis and his orchestra will return to the Columbia Club ballroom for a onenight engagement. After his engagement here, Davis will head west, ending up in Hollyw’ood, because he thinks Frank Parrish, Cuff Morrison and “Blubber” Pageler, all members of his orchestra, are naturals for the movies. tt tt tt City Violinist on Air T OUISE ESSEX, Indianapolis violinist who recently appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Symphony, will be guest artist over the WJZ-NBC network at 9:30, Indianapolis time, tomorrow morning. This program is sponsored by the Federation of Music Clubs. At 8:30 tomorrow night at Kirshbaum Center, Mina Kir ness, Palestian dancer, will appear in an Oriental dance program. Vincent Burke, manager of English's, announces that Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne will be at English’s for two days starting Thursday, May 16, in “The Taming of the Shrew.” (W. D. H.) tt tt tt Added to Program TT IRSTEN FLAGSTAD, new stai XV of the Metropolitan Opera, and Frederick Stock, renowed conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will join the General Motors Chorus of 400 and the General Motors Symphony Orchestra in presenting a program of the world’s great music at 7 tomorrow night in a broadcast from Detroit over a WJZ-NBC network. But for her Metropolitan Opera

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his band now at the Lyric.3. Rachel Helms will be the soloist with Louie Lowe and his orchestra at the Indiana Roof’s Easter Dance tomorrow night.

engagements, this will be Mme. Flagstad’s only radio or concert appearance in America this season. Opera-goers can not recall anything paralleling the amazing success of Mme. Flagstad’s career at the Metropolitan since the days of Enrico Caruso. She is considered the “life-saver” of the Metropolitan’s current season. Each of her performances has attracted capacity audiences, and critical opinion has unanimously pronounced her the greatest dramatic soprano the opera-house has heard in years. Mme. Flagstad has included in her program for the Easter Sunday concert the immortal “Liebcstod,” considered the greatest love music ever written, from Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” the exquisite “Agnus Dei” of Bizet, and the “Inflammatus” from Rossini's “Stabat Mater,” tt tt tt Films to Be Discussed “'T'HE Motion Picture and Its ReX lation to Leisure Time” will be discussed at a meeting of the Ben Davis High School Parent-Teacher Association at 2:15 Wednesday. There will be election of officers. Boy Scout Troop No. 17 will provide a short program under the direction of the Scoutmaster, John F. Drehobl, at a meeting of the Pleasant Run Parent-Teacher Association at 7; 45 Thusrday. The school children’s exhibits will be displayed. The Mothers’ Chorus will sing and Anna Rosemeyer will give several readings. Horace E. Abbott, county agent, will speak on the value of 4-H Club work at a special meeting of the University Heights Parent-Teacher Association at 7:30 Friday.

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Frank Miller and his dancing horse, as well as other clever horses, will be among the features of the Russell Brothers’ Circus which will open a three-day engagement here Monday.

300 Extras Eat in Filming 'Crusades' Two 600-pound steers and four sheep were roasted on crude spits over fires built right on the sound stage at the Paramount studios for scenes in Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Crusades.” The beef and mutton, purchased from a Los Angeles packing plant, was used for scenes showing the Crusaders in camp eating after suffering a long famine, and more than 300 extras had to eat to the point of satiety. Seek Claude Rains Paramount studio is negotiating with Claude Rains, now in England, + o play a featured part in “Jungle,” the next Cary Grant picture.

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Film Produced on Lavish Scale Will Open April 26; Declared Most Able Characterization' Other Bookings Include Charles Butterworth in First Stellar Role and March and Laughton in ‘Les Miserables.’ PEERING into the spring movie season with the eyes directed along" Pennsylvania-st to Loews Palace Theater, one is rather startled to find the praspects even brighter than the winter schedules which brought such delights as “Forsaking All Others. -David Copperfleld," "Sequoia.” "Biography, - ’ and "Naughty Marietta " Following M-G-M musical drama. "Reckless.” one is enticed with the vision of George Arliss in “Cardinal Richelieu." which will open at Loew s April 26. Advance comments indicate this film is one of Hollywood's most lavish sDectacles and rate Arliss with his finest characterization. Mauieen O Sullivan and Edward Arnold are principal support-

Church Books Concert Group College Troubadours Will Appear April 28. Mme. Else Behlert Bauer, who has sung the leads in operas in such cities of Germany as Hanover, Nuremberg and Munich, will be featured as soprano soloist at the Troubadour concert to be given on April 28 at the First Reformed Church, E. lOth-st and Oaklandav. Mme. Bauer has been directing the Troubadours of Mission House College, Plymouth. Wis., for the last four years and is leading them this year in a concert of sacred and classical music built around Bach’s works. Mme. Bauer was born in Hanover. Germany. She played children's roles on the stage at the age of 12. At 16 she went into operatic work and was known as one of the best sopranos on the operatic stage. She sang in such operas as “Lohengrin.” “Walkuhre,” “Tannhauser” by Wagner, and “Aida” and “Carmin” by Verdi. In addition to being an operatic star. Mme. Bauer has been featured as a concert soloist in Stuttgart, Hanover, Zurich and other cities. She was especially noted for her interpretation of Grieg and Brahms. Since her arrival at ‘Mission House College, Mme. Bauer has brought about a renaissance in music in the school and community. She has directed the Troubadours for four years, and has directed a chorus of 125 voices in presentations of “The Messiah” to large audiences. She has been invited to sing as guest soloist by various organizations such as the world champion American Legion Band, Milwaukee.

At the Cozy

Starting tomorrow for a limited engagement, the Cozy theater, 138 N. Ulinois-st, will present an exclusive showing of “Guilty Parents,” a sex drama. The picture tells a forceful story of realism concerning modern youth. With hundreds of young boys and girls involved in criminal affairs, the picture depots the cause, namely, careless parents. The picture is for adults only. As an added feature, “The LineUp,” also will be shown.

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.ng players. In lighter vein is the ’ Jarring debut of Charles Butter* worth in a farce entitled "Baby Face Harrington, - ’ and one thinks Df Rasputin when Lionel Barrymore is announced in a horror story, "Mark of the Vampire." Great importance is piaced in the work of Fredric March and Charles Laughton in Victor Hugos immortal “Les Miserables.” of which the noted Hollywood correspondent, Louella Parsons, says: “Only one picture in a decade can match its spiritual qualities with its box office power, ‘Les Miserables’ is that picture.” Screen Play Magazine goes further in praise and claims, ‘ places March and Laughton among the immortals of the screen.” Jack London’s “Call of the Wildwill come to the screen with Clark Gable starred as another bright spot on the coming schedule. Loretta Young provides the romantic, interest. “No More Ladies” bounces Joan Crawford back into the spotlight and Greta Garbo is hurrying “Anna Karenina" with Fredric March cast opposite. Add the spectacular "China Seas” with Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and twenty other screen luminaries, and “Mutiny on the Bounty.” M-G-M's million-dol-lar production of this favored tale with Clark Gable. Charles Laughton and Robert Montgomery featured, one may have a very promising theatrical outlook. Alamo to Present Two New Pictures Starting today for three days, the Alamo will offer two first city showing features with Buck Jones in “Stone of Silver Creek.” and Jack La Rue in “Calling All Cars.” Buck’s new picture unfolds an ex-*, citing story of himself disappointed in love. He retreats to the wild open spaces to forget. He becomes involved with a tough gang of gamblers, and his life i nearly wrecked by their murderous episode. It is said the picture contains an abundance of Western roping, rid-~ ing and gunning. “Calling All Cars” is a drama of modem police warfare against pub-" lie enemies. Short reels will complete the program.

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