Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1935 — Page 18

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Classic Film Is to Come Here Jan. 3 Shakespearean Drama to Be Presented for Full Week. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON More than 300 years ago, William Shakespeare, an unknown playwright, dashed oil “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in six days as a “rush assignment” for a wealthy patron.. The play was first performed as a part of the patron’s wedding ceremony. It lived to become one of the world’s classics. In the dead of winter, for the week beginning Jan. 3. Indianapolis is to see “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” highly heralded moving picture of the play at B. F. Keith’s Theater. Charles M. Olsen, Lyric Theater manager, and Mrs. Nancy Martens are co-sponsors of the road show production. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was directed by Max Reinhardt, aided by William Dieterle. The large cast is headed by Dick Powell, Jimmy Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Frank McHugh, Anita Louise and Veree Teasdale. Three Newcomers Give Aid Three newcomers to movieland have aided in the production of “The Dream.” They are Erich Wolfgang Korngold, musical director; Bronislawa Nijinska, ballet mistress, and Nini Thielade, danseuse. None of the trio ever had worked on a movie lot before and they had to produce from entirely new material—a Shakespearean “script” and a Mendelssohn “score.” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was first published in 1600 by Thomas Fisher, a young Fleet Street stationer in London. Another and faulty copy was “pirated” by James Roberts and it was this version that appeared in the famed P’olio of 1623. Advance reservations for tickets to see the Indianapolis showing of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” may be made through Mrs. Martens, at 33 Monument Circle. Learned Fast Luise Rainer, although she could not speak a word of English when she left Europe for America, could carry on a conversation in English when she arrived in Hollywood, Scouts College Teams Mickey Rooney scouts all big football games to get new plays for his team. One of his own original .plays was so clever that a college team used it.

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Light Opera Cos. Is Reorganized Adelaide Conte Will Be Musical Director. Announcement of reorganization of the Indianapolis Light Opera Cos. j is made by its founder, Miss Adelaide Conte. She is to continue as musical director. Miss Alice B. Cooper is dramatic director, and Charles C. Stone, business manager. The three constitute the board of directors. Company pianist is Miss Gretchen Leich, Mis. Pauline Mogle is secretary, and Miss Lucy Hollingsworth, treasurer. With the aim of increasing membership of the company to approximately 200, Miss Conte invites singers in Indianapolis and vicinity to attend meetings which are held Monday nights at the Irvington School of Music, 5657 E. Washing-ton-st. Membership now is 60, the largest since the group was formed three years ago. Cast selection for a presentation of “The Mikado” now is under way. "Trial by Jury” will be the second offering, to be followed by a light opera, probably a Sigmund Romberg production. Ginger's Stand-in Marks Birthday Timrx Fprcinl HOLLYWOOD, Nov. -21.—“ Baby Marie” Osborne recently celebrated her twenty-fourth birthday. For the last two years she has been standing-in for Ginger Rogers, and has just finished work in Miss Rogers’ new picture, “Follow the Fleet.” In the days when Miss Osborne was a star, Ginger’s mother, Mrs. Leila Rogers, wrote scenarios for her pictures. That old association is respoi t lble for her present position.

Adventure Film Booked | for Circle ‘The Three Musketeers,’ With Walter Abel as Star, to Open Friday. With a flash of rapiers and clanking scabbards, the fiery d’Artagnan and his fellow adventurers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, are to appear on the talking screen for the first time when “The Three Musketeers” comes to the Circle Friday. Several years ago a silent movie starred Douglas Fairbanks Sr. The present dramatization of Dumas’ j colorful novel features Walter Abel, New York stage star, with Paul Lukas, Moroni Olsen and Onslow Stevens as the musketeers. Margot Grahame is to be Milady de Winter, Heather Angel is Constance and Rosamond Pinchot plays the Queen of France. The period of the story is 1625, with France torn by the political struggle between King Louis VIII and Cardinal Richelieu. Against this intrigue, d'Artagnan plays the principal role. His history from the d&y he entered Paris to join the cadets until he realized his ambition to be a real musketeer and win the hand of the lovely Constance is an exciting adventure story. The picture’s supporting cast includes lan Keith, Ralph Forbes, Nigel de Brulier and John Qualen. Rowland V. Lee directed. A feature is “The Song of the Musketeers,” composed by Max Steiner, who arranged the musical score for the picture and directed the orchestral accompaniment. Roller Rink Open to Local Groups The Riverside roller rink is available for local organizations on “party nights,” Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, according to Archie W. Colter, Riverside manager. A band furnishes music for the j public sessions on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons and nights. For beginners, competent instructors are on hand at the afternoon sessions and a special parking space, for rink patrons is provided inside the park. Flie for Wardrobe Aline MacMahon could not find any “country town” clothes in actual country towns, so she made a special airplane trip to New York to 1 collect her wardrobe.

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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “Thanks a Million.” with Dick Powell. Fred Allen and Ann Dvoraic. at 11:32. 1:32. 3 32, 5.32. 2:32 and 9:32. CIRCLE “Mary Burns, Fugitive," starring Sylvia Sidney, at 11:37 1:42, 3:47, 5 52, 7:57 and 10. INDIANA “Peter Ibbetson.” starring Ann Harding and Gary Cooper, at 11:27, 1:34, 3:41, 5:48. 7:55 and 10:02. LOEWS "It's in the Air." with Jack Benny, Ted Heaiy and Una Merkel, at 11, 1:52. 4:44, 7:36 and 10:28. Also “A Feather in Her Hat.” featuring Pauline Lord and Basil Rathbone, at 12:29, 3:21, 6:13 and 9:05. LYRIC ‘‘Coconut Grove Revels,” stage revue, at 1:05. 3:59. 6:53 and 9:30. "The PayofT,” with James Dunn, on the screen at 11:36, 2:30. 5:24, 8:01 and 10:30. AMBASSADOR “The Goose and the Gander,” with Kay Francis, at 11:25, 2. 4.40, 7:15 and 9:50. Also “The Gay Deception.” with P’rancis Lederer and Frances Dee, at 10:15, 12:55, 3:30, 6 and 8:40. OHIO “We’re In the Money,” at 10:30, 1:16. 4:02, 6:40 and 9:18; Also "Power and the Glory,” with Coleen Moore and Spencer Tracy, at 11:35, 2:21, 5:07 and 10:22.

Nino Martini in Concert Sunday Famous Singer Is Coming to English’s. When 21-year-old Nino Martini sang Bellini's "I Puritani” in Milan, it was the first time the opera's tenor part had been done in its original key since the days of the great Rubini, who died nearly a century ago. This singer, whose phenomena) vocal range extends to F above the prized high C of tenors, is to be heard at English’s Sunday afternoon, as a presentation of Martens Concerts, Inc. Mr. Martini will sing the following program: “Vaghissima sembianza” Donaudy ‘'Spirate pur spirate” Donaudy Air from •‘Serse” iLargoj Handel “The Butterfly” Miguel Sandoval “Viva Navarra” Larregla Mr. Sandoval “Papillons” Ernest Chausson “Vous dansez Marquise".. Gaston Lemaire "Vainement ma bien aimee (from ”Le Roi D’Ys”) Edmond Lalo Intermission “La fleur que tu m’avls jetee” (from "Carmen” i Bizet ‘‘When I Have Sung My Songs” Ernest Charles “Persian Dawn” Cecil Cowles “What's in the Air Today”... Robert Eden “Romanze” Jensen “Fledermaus” Strauss-Grunfeld Mr. Sandoval "La alegria del batallon" J. Serrano "La roca fria del Calvario” ... J. Serrano “Eres Tu" . Miguel Sandoval Miguel Sandoval at the piano Uses New Dance Leßoy Prinz. dance director, is first to use the new dance rage, “Truckin’,” in film productions. Prinz utilized “Truckin’ ” in dance sequences of “Collegiate.” Started as Script Girl Alice White, featured in “Coronado.” started her movie career as a script girl.

Horror Film Brings Back Jekyll, Hyde Picture to Be Shown for Two Days at Ohio Theater. Hey, mamma, that man's loose

again; that monster, Mr. Hyde. The Ohio Theater is bringing back the 1931 picture, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” starring Fredric March, for a two-day engagement tomorrow. One of the first of the spine - tinglers, the picture, manufactured from the Robert Louis Stevenson story, tells of poor Dr. Jekyll who thinks he is taking all evil out of his body when he drinks a potion he had mixed, and too late, finds out that it has the opposite effect. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” has had no comparable counterpart in the last four years unless it would be “The Werewolf of London,” which did not play downtown. Plays Ambitious Doctor In “Dr. Jekyll,” Mr. March plays the young and ambitious doctor, whose hope is to manufacture a potion which will remove from the human body all traces of evil, leaving only the good. He is warned against trying such an experiment, goes ahead, drinks the mixture himself and turns into Mr. Hyde, a nasty individual with protruding teeth and a boyish bob. The biggest trouble with Mr. March’s dilemma is that he is engaged to marry Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart). When he’s Mr. Hyde he wants to go and see a little hussy’, Ivy Parsons. He finally kills her in his beast-garb. The picture’s end comes when poor Dr. Jekyll begins to fight with himself, Mr. Hyde. Oh, it's an awful mess. But it’s good horror. Indiana Will Make Presidential Poll A straw vote to determine Indiana Theater patrons’ choice for Republican presidential candidate for 1936 is to be held by the management in connection with the showing of “The March of Time,” beginning tomorrow. There is also a place on the ballots for patrons to pencil in other candidates than those mentioned in the newsreel. The results will be forwarded to the national offices of “The March of Time,” and national results of the poll will be announced from New York.

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Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, authors of “What Price Glory”, dramatized “So Red the Rose” for the screen

Lyric Revue Girls Dye Tresses Colors of Butler, Shortridge Kay Francis Comes to Screen With New Story by John Monk Saunders. We doubt if it's in honor of the Shortridge High School grid victory over Tech last Friday but the stage presentation at the Lyric theater starting tomorrow is called the “Blue Venus Revue.” and all the girls in the show have dyed their tresses anew shade of the school colors for both Shortridge and Butler University.

On the Lyric screen, Kay Fran- - cis is to be seen in her latest picture, “I Found Stella Parish,” which t also uses the talents of little Sybil * Jason, recently seen at the Lyric in her first picture, “Little Big Shot.” Lester Huff to Play Lester Huff, staff organist, is to f play a daily organ recital of classi- j cal music at 11 and on Sunday at c 12:30, instead of his usual organ q concert at each show performance. Mr. Huff will play any request. i In "I Found Stella Parish,” a i story by John Monk. Saunders, Kay I Francis is cast as a great actress £ with an unknown past. She sud- f denly disappears after a great per- e forma nee and a newspaper sends its I star reporter to find her. He traces her to New York, finds her living 1 under an assumed name and falls in t love with her. She finds out that he has been sending a daily story to his paper about her hideaway and returns to the stage heartbroken. That isn't all, but more would spoil the climax. Mervyn Leroy Director lan Hunter, Paul Lukas and Barton Mac Lane are in the cast Mervyn Leroy directed. Frank Libuse .comedian dubbed “Colonel of American Nuts,” is to head the stage cast at the Lyric. Joe May, another comedian, is to serve as master of ceremonies. Roger S. Hille, Chicago Civic Opera star, is to be heard. Others in the stage cast are Dolly Bell, stunt dancer; Three Sizes, acrobatic trio; a dancing chorus of the blue-haired ffirls and Jean Carpenter's all-girl band, “Blue-Haired Rhythmettes.” A double stage wdll be used to present these two features simultaneously. How Nickname Originated How Bing Crosby got the unusual nickname “Bing,” was revealed recently. Asa small child, his favorite game veas playing cowboy. Naturally, he had to shoot Indians and because he could yell “Bing! bang!” louder than any of his playmates they nicknamed him “Bing.” Left Shipping Business Colin Tapley, who is featured in “Peter Ibbetson,” in which Gary Cooper and Ann Harding are costarred, disposed of a shipping business inherited from his father, in order that he could embark on a motion picture career.

Army-lrish Game Shown in Movies The thrilling Army-Notre Dame football contest at Y'ankee Stadium in New York is to be seen in the current issue of The Indianapolis Times-Universal Newsreel. The Cadets pound through the Rambler defense for a score early in the game. Fighting furiously to preserve their lead, the Future Generals hold off the Irish up to the last few seconds of the game. Interference is called on the Army and Notre Dame takes the ball on the West Pointers’ two-yard line. A huge back crashes through to tie the score.

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Apollo Film Is Held Over for Six Days ‘Thanks a Million’ to Stay for Another Week by Popular Demand. It seems that Indianapolis moviegoers would like to hear more about I the novel political campaign which forms the theme for “Thanks a Million,” at the Apollo and so the picture is to be held over for an adi ditional six days. Chief comedian for “Thanks a Million” is Fred Allen, radio funmaker. Dick Powell is the romantic interest and Ann Dvorak is the leading lady. Rubinoff and his violin, the inimitable Paul Whiteman band and the rollicking quartet, the Yacht Club ' Boys, are in the cast. Opening Thanksgiving Day at the Apollo is to be "In Old Kentucky," ' the last Will Rogers’ picture.