Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1936 — Page 29

FEB. 28, 1036

MAE WEST AT HER BEST IN 'KLONDIKE ANNIE/ NOW AT INDIANA

Songs Excel in Story of West Coast McLaren and Reed Add Slightly to Typical Dramatization. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON If you lake Horace Greeley’s advice and “go West’’ for your movie fare, you’ll find that “Klondike Annie,’’ Mac West’s latest vehicle, at the Indiana is her best since “She Done Him Wrong,” which isn’t raving by any means. The story starts with Miss West, as a San Francisco Doll, at an amusement place run by a sinisterlooking Chinaman, Chan Lo. He Is madly jealous of her and won t let her leave. Discovering her plot to escape, he plans to burn her in lime, but she pulls a dagger and kills him. She makes her getaway on a small boat bound for Alaskan gold towns. The skipper. Bull Brackett (Victor McLaglen), falls for her and she resists his advances until he finds out who she is. At Vancouver the ship takes on Sister Annie, a settlement worker, ..lio is to take charge in Nome. She and &he Doll share a stateroom, and Mae almost is won over to leading a straight life, when suddenly Sister Annie dies. The same day officials come aboard searching for the murderess. T : Doll dons Sister Annie’s clothes .1 tells them the woman they died. Wcloomod as Sister Annie In Nome the Doll, as Sister Annie, is met by a delegation of settlement workers and is impressed by their lack of success and debts. Much against Bull’s washes she decides to stay and help them out of their difficulties, and how she packs the miners into the church! The collection plates bulge and “Sister Annie” becomes a heroine over night. Matters become complicated when Jack Forrest (Philip Reed), handsome mountie in love with the buxom church worker, overhears her telling Bull about the San Francisco killing. Torn between duty and love, he chooses love. But Mae sails away with Bull for San Francisco to plead self-defense. Better than usual are Miss West’s songs, “Cheer Up Little Sister,” "Occidental Woman” and “Little Bar Butterfly,” all done in typical West manner. Although Mae does less strutting and less wise-cracking, it seems to help the somewhat shabby story along. Unless taken in a sense of humor, some of the church scenes may appear sacrilegious. Mr. McLaglen and Mr. Reed aid slightly but it’s all Mae’s picture. Unless you go for her you may fall asleep during the first reel.

Van Dyke Practically Breaks Up Orchestra Timm Special HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28.—You've heard, probably, that one way to silence a horn-tooter is to stand in front if him and eat a pickle. It's

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1. —These two intelligent looking gentlemen are the stars of “The Bohemian Girl,” opening at the Lyric. Their names (as if you didn't know) are Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The stage show is the “Continental Revue.” 2. —Here is an unusually piquant pose of Mae West, whose latest film, “Klondike Annie,” starts at the Indiana. 3. Star of “Ceiling Zero,” air

the lip-puckering suggestion that does it. Well, it works. The other afternoon a symphony orchestra was making, or trying to make, some recordings of the music for “San Francisco,” and the director had no end of trouble. He couldn't understand why the brasses were blaring sour notes and the fiddlers were going into sympathetic hysterics. Just as he was about to break up his baton and storm off the stage, he looked behind him and caught W. S. Van Dyke, the picture director, sucking a lemon.

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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “Ceiling Zero,’’ with Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien. Stuart Erwin and June Travis, at 11:40, 1:38, 3:36, 5:34. 7:32 and 9:30. CIRCLE “Rose Marie,” with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald at 11, 1:15, 3.25, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:55. INDIANA “Klondike Annie." with Mae West and Victor McLaglen. at 11:50, 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50. LOEW’S “Modern Times,” with Charlie Chaplin, at 11, 12:50, 2:43, 4:36, 6:56, 8:16, and 10:05. LYRIC “The Bohemian Girl,” with Laurel and Hardy, at 11:25, 2:15, 5:15. 8:05, 10:46. “Continental Revue" on stage. A. B. Marcus show with Ha Cha San, at 12:56, 3:46, 6:46, and 9:36. OHIO “Annie Oakley,” with Barbara Stanwyck, at 10:30, 1:33, 4:25, 7:21, 10:17. Also “The Payoff” with James Dunn, at 12:30, 3:22, 6:18, and 9:14.

Broderick Is Fervid Knitter Helen Brode”''ck is one of the film colony's most enthusiastic knitters. Between scenes of “Love on a Bet,” she completed a large and intricate knitted spread. Berlin’s Songs Called Hits Radio listeners and orchestra loaders are already proclaiming Irving Berlin’s songs from “Follow the Fleet” among the outstanding hits of the new season.

Museum Reproduces Film Music of Improvising Pianist Period Scores for Modern Art Library Contain Reminiscent Strains of Movie Industry’s Infancy. Those who lived through the infancy of the movie industry will remember the gum-chewing pianist who used to improvise with one eye on the screen. The music of this resourceful person is being given t serious reproduction in the score written and adapted by Miss Alden Beach and Theodore Huff for the Museum of Modern Art Film Library in New York.

The new music is in true movie tradition and contains reminiscent strains of the “love music,” “hurry music,” “battle music,” “mysterioso music” and other types dear to the heart of the old-timer. But it also is to be a reflection of the early films’ contemporary music. Audiences are to hear the “Vision of Salome” and the “Birth of Passion” music from “Madame Sherry” as audible underlines for the more purple moments of Theda Bara's “A Fool There Was.” Mary Pickford’s popular opus of 1912, “The New York Hat,” is to have “Day Dreams,” a oopular song of the day, for its theme song. And strains of Debussy will accompany “Gertie the Dinosaur,” an ani-

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mated cartoon evolved by Winsor McCay in 1909. The score for the first program, released last month, contained 117 pages, and was used in all the presentations. It was compiled by Miss Beach after a year and a half in Hollywood, where she studied the relation of music to motion picture moods. Scenario Writer Won D. S. M. Dudley Nichols, who wrote the script of “Hary of Scotland,” which stars Katharine Hepburn, won the Distinguished Service Medal for sweeping mines from the North Sea during the World War.

Quins' Doctor Sees New York's 'Follies' By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who spends much of his time in the company of the Dionne quintuplets, slept late today because he spent last night looking over a number of other good looking young ladies at the “FollieS.” The idea of attending the Follies was Dr. Dafoe’s own since this, his third visit to New York, is being conducted strictly in accordance with his own wishes. He will be here for about a week and probably will do a b’t of nightclubbing later on, he said. The subject of Yvonne, Cecile, Annette, Emilie and Marie has been banned.

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Hays Blamed for Blocking Fascism Film Cinema Czar Denies He Was Responsible for Wastebasketing Novel. Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Will H. Hays, cinema czar, has denied that he was responsible for blocking a movie version of Sinclair Lewis’ novel of a Fascist America —“It Can’t Happen Here.” But Mr. Hays hasn't convinced Sidney Howard, who wrote the script now wastebasketed. “Either Mr. Hays has got to admit that he is yellow, or the company that they were fools,” Mr. Howard said on his arrival here. "He stopped it all right.” Mr. Howard, a dapper, mustached scenarist, spoke with a sort of philosophical bitterness. “I received my first intimation that there might be trouble,” ha said, “when a rough draft of the script was sent to the Hays office. Attached to the draft was a note asking whether we could use the word Fascism,’ and the prompt answer was ‘No.’ “Why did they object to its use? Because they thought it would, worry Mussolini.” Mr. Howard had no first-hand information that Mr. Hays ordered production stopped, but hei said Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials told him two weeks ago that it would not be made because Mr. Hays objected. “They said Mr. Hays stopped it,” he asserted. "It was a complete surprise to myself and to my director, J. Walter Rubin.” Mr. Howard wired Sinclair Lewis, then in Washington, asking him not to release the story since the matter might be adjusted. A few hours later Mr. Lewis phoned him that newspaper men already knew about It and then issued a statement crediting the stoppage to “fear of international politics and fear of boycotts abroad.” “It, was unfortunate,” said Mr. Howard. “I think it would have been a fine thing to make. Os course Mr. Hays was probably right—from his point of view.”

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