Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1935 — Page 2

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INDIANA SPECTACLE-DRAMA USES OLD 'GOOD vs. EVIL' PLOT

Production Tells Story Convincingly Preston Foster Does Good Work as Embittered Hero, Marcus. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Better than “The Crusades,” the newest of the spectacle-dramas, “The Last Days of Pompeii,” moralizes on the proverbial lesson of the triumph of good over evil. Marcus, the young blacksmith about whom the story of “Pompeii'’ weaves itself, is a virtuous, ambitious husband with a dutiful wife and a cute baby boy. He can not see where his happiness could be improved. An accident which causes the death of his wife and child turns him bitter, and he starts to attain material wealth. Becoming a fighter in the Roman arena, Marcus, ruthless, soon becomes champion of the Circus Maximus, gains wealth and riches. Adopts Friend’s Son One of his victims leaves a young son, whom Marcus adopts. The son develops many of his foster father's best characteristics, but the difference between the two becomes a definite breach when Marcus finds out his son has been aiding Christian prisoners, meant for the lions in the arena, to escape. “The Last Days of Pompeii” could not, of course, have gotten along without a scene showing destruction of the city. The manner in which this has been pictured is highly creditable. Although one can tell the scenes have been faked, one also must realize that volcanoes, ready to erupt, are not found lying around, even by movie companies. Preston Foster has done remarkably well with his first real character role. Marcus changes character f ro.a a kind and gentle blacksmith into a hard and conniving business man, and back to a kindly old man. Cast’s Best Listed Basil Rathbone as Pontius Pilate, John Wood as the grown-up so.i, Flavius, and Wyrley Birch as the son's tutor-slave, are the best of the cast. Strangely enough, the scenes of the crumbling Pompeii, of the prisoners fleeing under the rain of fire from Vesuvius, and of the combats in the arena before the bloodthirsty Roman “400,” ultimately are subservient to a fine, convincing story, an innovation in this type of picture. It's not as big, not as blustering, not as top-heavy as “The Crusades,” but it comes nearer to putting across a moral. Worked As Extra George E. Stone's first job in pictures was a day’s extra work which w'as obtained for him by William Farnum. At the time Georgie was a bellhop at the Lambs Club in New York.

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'Three Men on a Horse' Has Exciting Moment

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An exciting scene from “Three Men on a Horse,” comedy which is to open a three-day engagement at English’s Mondav.

Life of Prince in School Told Romberg Operetta to Be Given Three Days. Sigmund Romberg's “The Student Prince,” which comes to English’s Nov. 14, 15 and 16 tells the story of a young man's life at the University of Heidelberg. The prince leaves the gloomy castle, where he was reared, to study at the university. He forgets royal dignity and wins the respect of his classmates because of his gaiety and spirit. He meets Kathie, innkeeper’s niece, and they fall in love. But their happiness is destroyed by a letter from the castle commanding his return. The prince leaves, promising he will return. Becomes King Two years pass, and the prince becomes king. At last he escapes his royal duties and returns to Heidelberg. Meanwhile Kathie has realized that they never can marry. Rather than cause her lover further unhappiness, she pretends to love another. The book of the operetta is Dorothy Donnely’s skillful adaption of the play, “Old Heidelberg ” and is worthy of the lovely music with which Romberg adorned it. The work seems destined to a permanent place in the affection of all music-lovers.

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO "Red Salute.’’ starring Barbara Stanwyck, at 11:45, 1:49, 3:53, 5:57, 8:01 and 10:05. CIRCLE "Hands Across the Table,” with Carole Lombard and Fred Mac Murray, at 11:50, 1:52, 3:54, 5:56, 7:58 and 10:00. CIVIC PLAYHOUSE Children’s Theater. "Heidi,” 10:30 and 2:30. INDIANA “The Last Days of Pompeii,” with Preston Foster. Alan Hale and Basil Rathbone. at 11:18, 1:26, 3:34. 5:42, 7:50 and 9:58. LOEWS "Mutiny on the Bounty.” featuring Charles Laughton. Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, at 11:22, 1:57, 4:35, 7:10 and 9:48. LYRIC "Personal Maid’s Secret.” with Margaret Lindsay. Warren Hull and Ruth Donnely. at 11:41, 2:30, 5:19, 8:08 and 10:31. On the stage, "Folies de Paree,” French revue, at 1:04, 3:53. 6:42 and 9:31. AMBASSADOR "Alice Adams.” starring Katharine Hepburn, at 11:20, 2:20, 5:15 and 8:20. Also “Housewife,” featuring Bette Davis, at 12:20, 3:16, 6:12 and 9:18. OHIO "Broadwav Gondolier.” with Dick Powell, at 12:00, 3:22. 6:44, 10:06. Also “Hell’s Harbor” at 10:30. 1:52, 5:14 and 8:36.

Runyan, Orchestra Entertain at Cars Sam Runyan and his orchestra are offering lilting dance rhythms at The Cars. Mr. Runyan also contributes tap-dance routines. The program is particularly designed for those who prefer to stay out late, according to Robert S. Kiefer, manager. Play Being Prepared Robert Tasker and John Bright are preparing a screen play to be known as “The Black Gang” in which the principal roles will be enacted by Paul Kelly, Claire Trevor and Slim Summerville. Cobb Is Featured Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9. —Irvin S. Cobb, American humorist, is to appear in “Everybody’s Old Man.” This will be his first feature role.

Martens Concerts, fnc. TOMORROW 3 P. M. ENGLISH Don Cossack RUSSIAN MALE CHORUS Farewell Appearance--New Program Prices: sl.lO, $1.65, s2.2o—Tax Inc. SEATS OX SALE Martens Tirket Office, .33 Mounment Circle —Today. Theatre Box Office, 10 A. M.—Tomorrow,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Stage Success Opens Monday ‘Three Men on a Horse’ to Play at English. “Three Men on a Horse,” the highly successful comedy by John Cecil Holm and George Abbot, is to come to English’s for three days beginning Monday. There is to be a matinee Wednesday. The play has the unique distinction of having received unanimous indorsement by New York critics when it opened. It is now in its second year. The Chicago run of seven months was the longest postdepression engagement there. Alex Yokel, producer, is to present it in London and Australia during the coming season. Special companies are being formed for Boston and Philadelphia. The company coming here has been playing on the West Coast. Star Builds Home on Piecemeal Basis Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9.—Here’s a new version of “the house that Jack Built” story, as told by Joyce Compton, blond film actress. Every time she receives a film role Joyce hires carpenters to work on a home she is building. When she is out of work, construction steps. Joyce figures it will take a year to finish the home, which will be her “house of roles.”

Co-Feature Lorre and Edward Arnold Peter Lorre, co-featured with Edward Arnold in Dostoievsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” arrived in New York recently on his way to England. A star of the European stage, Mr. Lorre has played stellar roles in pictures made in France, Germany, Austria and England. His pictures include “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “Mad Love.” Cast Opposite Raft Rosalind Russell will be George Raft’s leading lady in “It Had To Happen.”

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DANCE TONIGHT I WALT SEARS Presents His GEORGIA REVELERS I 40e All Evening S',‘ INDIANA ROOF

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Home Town to See New Play First Charles Millholland’s Work Is to Be Viewed at Civic Theater. A home town audience is to pass first judgment on “Faun,'’ the newplay by Charles Bruce Millholland, native of Indianapolis, at the Civic Theater. Nov. 23. The script is now in the hands of several New York producers, according to Director Frederick Burleigh of the Civic Theater. Movie companies, remembering the success of “Twentieth Century”’ also will cast interesting glances at the premiere. Representatives of Gotham theatrical promoters are to attend opening night. The play's plot was suggested by the life of Nijinsky, though “Faun” is by no means biographical. It is the story of Valsky, a Russian ballet dancer who marries against his manager’s wishes. The manager, Sergayeff, breaks his dancer’s contract and forbids him to dance with any other ballet. Valsky tries vaudeville and fails. The outbreak of the World War finds him in Salzburg. Austrian officials discover diagrams that the dancer has made, and when they accuse him of sending code messages to Russia, Valsky has to “dance for his life” before a court-martial to prove the innocence of the drawings. Later, Sergayeff brings his ballet to New York and members of the troupe, finding Valsky there, force the reluctant manager to take him back. On opening night, Valsky receives an accidental injury which affects his mind. The final scene shows the dancer in Switzerland, mentally ill, and in a final conversation with Sergayeff, something within him snaps, and the curtain descends upon a hero gone insane.

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Christian Church to Be Meeting Site The Downey Avenue Christian Church is to be the scene of a oneday convention Nov. 15. It is to be one of a series of rallies throughout the state which began with a meeting in Gary yesterday, and is to conclude in New Albany, Nov. 25.

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'COUSIN HUGO' APPEARS AS LYRIC HEADLINER

“Cousin Hugo,” much-discussed relative of radio's Baron Munchausen, appears at the Lyric this week in the person of Sid Marion, and is a feature of the second edition of the “Folies de Paree.” Marion possesses a German accent as guttural and lubricating as the Baron's and, like the latter, is abetted :

by that able “straight man,” Cliff Hall. The skits are somewhat in the Weber and Fields manner, and the audience apparently liked them. The best item on the bill, in this spectator's opinion, is a girls' band, directed by Janice Janis. In rhythm, smooth playing and clever arrangements, they'surpass a good many of our well-known masculine aggregations. Wilfred Dußois does some adroit juggling with two tennis balls and a racket; Blanche and Elliot present out-of-the-ordinary dancing and Helen Doyle and Rose Moran are the featured singers. The chorus appears in colorful Ziegfeldian costumes, which are better than their dance routines. “Personal Maid’s Secret,” with Caruso Induced Negro to Study Recording Changed Life of Roland Hayes. Roland Hayes, noted Negro tenor who is to appear at the Murat Wednesday night, might never have been a concert singer, except for the great Caruso. Asa boy, Mr. Hayes was a foundry worker, and could not be convinced that he could make a greater success —and better pay—in a musical career. Finally his teacher took him to hear a friend’s collection of operatic records. One by Caruso played. “It made the shivers run up and down my spine,” Mr. Hayes has said. “I never forgot it.” After hearing it, young determined to develop his vocal resources. His place in the world of music today is evidence of the heights to which that determination has taken him. One of the foremost musicians of his race, Roland Hayes is renowned internationally as an interpreter of German songs as well as of the “spirituals” of his own people. Mr. Hayes’ program Wednesday night is to include two arias by Handel; 10 songs from the “Dichterliebe ” of Schumann; songs by Tschaikowsky and Helen Hopekirk; a cycle of spirituals and two numbers in the Negro folk idiom by Percival Parham, his accompanist.

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Diek Powell “BROAD"AY GONDOLIER” Also "HELP’S HARBOR”

M33E3M 30th and Northwestern TONIGHT B V” D H C : HT —Three Big Features—•“TOGETHER WE LIVE” •“JALNA” •“JUSTICE of the RANGE” COME AS LATE AS 8:20 AND SEE ALL THREE FEATURES SUNDAY and MONDAY —Two Big Features— MARIAM HOPKINS in “BECKY SHARP” Zasu Pitts-James Gleason ‘HOT-TIP” Also Short Subjects NEW NEWS for our thousands of patrons. The latest WESTERN ELECTRIC SOUND SYSTEM has just been installed to j improve your entertaining I hours at the REX. j

' TANYA and BUDDY KANE With an All New Company 40-Real Burlesk Stars-40 MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT

Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull and Ruth Donnely, is the week’s film attraction, and Lester Huff is featured in an organ interlude. “Memories of France” as an observance of Armistice Day. (By J. TANARUS.)

Dixie Orchestra Booked at Roof Walt Sears and Band to Open Tomorrow. Walt Sears and his Georgia Revelers are to give dancers on the Indiana Roof plenty of Dixie rhythm

when they make their first local appearance t omorrow. Sears was formerly director and arranger lor Ace Brigode’s 14 Virginians. H e claims to be pioneering anew Dixieland style with his present outfit. Featured vocalists are Chet

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Grimm, billed as “the little man with the big voice,” and Phyllis Wise. The band also features Bobby Meeks, accordionist.

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WEST SIDE

S-i- .-p r- -702 W. 10th St. I /A I P Double F’eature Shirley Temple “LITTLE MISS MARKER” “THE ARIZONIAN” Sun. Double Feature—Wallace Beery , “CHINA SEAS’* “PARTY WIRE” Hpi k a an l | W. W ash. & Belmont BELMONT *sa&KT “LADY TUBBS” “THUNDER IN THE EAST” Sun. Double Feature—Clark Gable “CALL OF THE WILD” “SUPER SPEED” Da ■f \i 2540 W. Mich. St. A I J Y Double Feature -Mary Carlisle “CHAMPAGNE FOR BREAKFAST” “UNCONQUERED BANDIT” Sun. Double Feature—Bing Crosby “TWO FOR TONIGHT” “LITTLE BIG SHOT” NORTH SIDE Ri y -y Illinois at 34th I I / Double Feature Guy Kibbe “GOING HIGHBROW” Sun. Double Fea; ure—Nancy Carroll “WOMEN WANTED” “ATLANTIC ADVENTURE” UPTOWN Nancy Carroll “WE’RE IN THE MONEY” •ATLANTIC ADVENTURE” Sun. Double .Feature—Wm. Powell “STAR AT MIDNIGHT” “HOORAY FOR LOVE” Special Ohio State-Notre Dame Football Game r* a nnin/ 30th a,id iuinoi~ LjAKKILK Double Feature Bing Crosby “MISSISSIPPI” “LADIES CRAVE EXCITEMENT” Sun. Double Feature—Kay Francis “ACCENT ON YOUTH” CT r'l A in St. Clair & Ft. Wayne ST. CLAIR “LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE” Sun. Double Feature—Zasu Pitts “GOING HIGHBROW” “CHINA SEAS” Rr \# 30th at Northwestern £ /\ Three Features “TOGETHER WE LIVE” “JALNA” “JUSTICE OF THE RANGE” Sun. Double Feature —Mirlan Hopkins “BECKY SHARP” “HOT TIP” _I _ _ Talbot & 22nd TALBOTT "z”: “FRONT PAGE WOMAN” “LADY TUBBS” Sun. Double Feature—Zasu Pitts “SHE GETS HER MAN” “WINGS OVER ETHIOPIA” _. r • 19th & College Stratford Do B u „ b C k y* u r “OUTLAWED GUNS” “MAKE A MILLION’* Sun. Double Feature—Richard Dlx “THE ARIZONIAN” “G MEN” i . p . Noble A Mass. AA r C f A Double Feature ,V * l ’ V “ V-rA Chas. Starrett “WHAT PRICE CRIME” “WILDERNESS MAIL” Sun. Double Feature— Wm. Powell “ESCAPADE” * “DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR” rv n r A t i 2361 Station St. I) re r A AA Double Feature Madge Evans “CALM YOURSELF” “CHINATOWN SQUAD” Sunday, Janet Gaynor “FARMER TAKES A WIFE” EAST SIDE ~ p, I ,ev a , Dearborn at 10th RIVOLI ** “STORM OVER THE ANDES” Son.—Will Rogers “Steamboat Bound the Bend”

NOV. 9, 1935

Bartlett Has Role in Musicale 'Cissy" Times special HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 9—Michael Bartlett, who was Grace Moores leading man in “Love Me Forever,” is to play opposite her in “Cissy,” with music by Fritz Xreisler. Bartlett studied for an opera career in Italy, and has sung at the famous La Scala in Milan, and in the leading opera houses of France and Belgium. “Cissy” will be Miss Moore's first production since her summer's trip to Europe, in the course of whicn she sang a comrnan performance of "La Boheme” at Lc ldon's Covent Garden.

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EXTRA! MUSIC LAND Silly Symphony in Color

EAST SIDE TACOMA T %TW “WELCOME HOME” “WERE IN THE MONEY” Sun. Double Feature —Joe E. Brown “BRIGHT LIGHTS” “CHINATOWN SQUAD” ti |l JXFI Jv I Double Feature 1 Guy Kibbee “GOING HIGHBROW” “MAD LOVE” Sun. Clark Gable-Jean Harlow “CHINA SEAS” In\/I kI /s 3507 t. H ash. St. IRVING “BRIGHT LIGHTS” Sun. Douiile Feature —f lark Gable “CALL OF THE WILD” “RED HEADS ON PARADE” • EMERSON H'E “FARMER TAKES A WIFE” “GOING HIGHBROW” Sun. Double Feature—Geo. Bast “EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT” “BONNIE SCOTLAND” | | .1, 2116 E. 10th St." Hamll to n I), ; , ; h, ? r \ pat l ur * C lark Gable “CHINA SEAS” “THE FAMILY TREE” Sun. Double Feature—Spencer Tracy “DANTE’S INFERNO” “ANNA KARENINA” PARKER Wm. Powell “THE THIN MAN” "TRAIL BEYOND” Sun. Double Feature—Toe E. Brown “BRIGHT LIGHTS” “SCARFACE” STRAND >ight Boris Karloff “THE BLACK ROOM” Musical Comedy—“YACHT CLUB BOYS” Color Cartoon Sun. Double Feature —( lark Gable “CHINA SEAS” Chas. Farrell “FIGHTING YOUTH” Color Cartoon R/'-n \/ w 2 3 21 K - Hash. St. vJ A Y Double Feature 'Varner Oland “CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT” “PARADISE CANYON” Sun. Double Feature—Zasu Pitts * “SHE GETS HER MAN” “FOLIES BERGERE” Paramount “AFTER THE DANCE” “THROW PACK” Sun. Double Feature —Svlvia Sidney “ACCENT ON YOUTH” “Man on the Flying Trapeze* SOUTH SIDE Fountain Square Double Feature John Wayne “TEXAS TERROR” “MAD LOVE” Sun. Clark Gable-Eoretta Young _ “ CALL OF THE M ILD” SANDERS “iSBfWST w Hoot Gibson “SUNSET RANGE” “SMART GIRL” Sun. Double Feature—Shirley Temple “CURLY TOP” “SHANGHAI” ii /. I e. . . Prospect-Churchman AVA C3N Double Feature nTnLVM H arren William “CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE" “CYCLONE OF THE SADDLE” Sun. Double Feature—. Tames Cagney “THE IRISH IN US” “CALM YOURSELF” a-vis.r-t .-T- a . Um *! ' , “r | d'an _ Bt. ORIENTAL Jiiss. “DON’T BET ON BLONDS" Sun. Double Feature—Richard Arlen “LET ’EM HAVE IT” “ACCENT ON YOUTH” ee . ps pi pt rv Shelby fit. GARF rLD I,oub,e Femturm VJ/-VIXI ILLU Boris Karloff “THE RAVEN” “FRONT PAGE WOMAN” Sun. Double Feature—James Cagney “THE IRISH IN US" “AFTER THE DANCE”