Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1936 — Page 13

MARCH 5, 1936.

FILM VARIETY MARKS CIRCLE'S NEXT DOUBLE FEATURE BILL

'Ca Main Blood/Adventure ! Piauie, Coming Back With Humorous 'Anything Goes 7 Attractions Which Ran During Cold Wave Are to Reopen Tomorrow; Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland Star in Dramatic Pirate Story. Variety will be the spice of the Circle’s program starting tomorrow, i with “Captain Blood” and “Anything Goes” on the double bill.

Both films have been seen here before, but it was during cold weather and exhibitors decided to bring them back. With two newcomers, Erroll Flynn and Olivia de Haviland in the leading roles, “Captain Blood” is, rich in adventure entertainiment. Guy Kibbee as the gunner ‘on the pirate ship and Basil Rathbone as Levasseur, infamous French pirate, add to the strength of a good cast. With no end of the hand-to-hand encounters, booming cannonades and romantic scenery, this film tells the story of a young surgeon, wrongfully sentenced to slavery in Jamaica, where he is bought by Arabella Bishop, beautiful niece of a plantation owner. He escapes with several friends. They become notorious sea robbers. Fight to Death Over Girl Years later, Captain Blood finds that Levasseur has captured a British ship bearing Arabella and he kills the French pirate to get the girl. With her is an emissary from the British king who wants the pirates in his navy. They assent, and all ends happily. “Anything Goes” is the screen adaptation of the successful Broadway musical. Although some of Cole Porter’s music has been chopped out, you can hear his “You’re the Tops” and Hoagy Carmichael’s “Moonburn.” The music is sung excellently by Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman. Chief comedian in the film is Charlie Ruggles, who plays Dr. Moon, a gangster disguised as a missionary. The action takes place on a ship bound for China. Billy Crocker (Crosby) jumps on board at the last minute when he sees Hope Harcourt (Ida Lupino) ushered up the gang plank by a group of toughs He meets Dr. Moon, who gives him a passport belonging to Public Enemy No. 1. The resulting confusion is fairly funny. Merman, Ruggles Funny Love blossoms before the boat docks and Mr. Crocker successfully kidnaps the lovely Miss Harcourt. Some of the picture’s most humorous incidents are supplied by Miss Merman and Mr. Ruggles. The latter wins the ship’s clay pigeon shooting championship, using his pet machine gun. He clips the hair of a Pomeranian puppy to make a false beard for Mr. Crocker, and performs other ludicrous tricks. Widely divergent in subject matter, “Captain Blood” and “Anything Goes” make a full evening of movie entertainment. (By J. W. TANARUS.) Ada Bicking to Talk to Evansville Club “French Music and Composers” is to be the subject of an address by Miss Ada Bicking, director of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, before members of the Evansville Muusicians Club tonight. The event will be the annual International music day dinner of the Evansville organization. Miss Bicking is a former music supervisor of Evansville. The musicians club includes 400 persons from Evansville and vicinity. Hepburn to Play Famous Role As “Mary of Scotland” in her new drama, Katharine Hepburn will play the role made famous on the stage by both Helen Hayes and Helen Gahagan. Woolsey Acts for Team Robert Woolsey handles all the business affairs of the famous team of Wheeler and Woolsey, whose new comedy is “Silly Billies.” Actor Attended Texas U. John Arledge, currently featured in the novel outdoor picture, “Thorobreds All," attended the University of Texas.

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Orchestra to Present Opera Former Local Student to Appear at Cincinnati. With Frances Benner, former Indianapolis music student, in the role of Magdalena, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is to present Wagner’s only comic opera, “Die Meistersinger,” in Cincinnati’s Music Hall Friday and Saturday nights, March 20 and 21. Eugene Goossens, the orchestra’s conductor and director of the production, has secured Frederick Jagel, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Cos., for the principal role of Walther. The part of Hans Sachs Ls to be sung by Arthur Fear, noted English baritone, who was a member of the Covent Garden Opera Cos., London. Inez Gorman is to be Eva, and Eugene Loewenthal is to be heard as Pogner. Besides a large supporting cast, there is to be a chorus of 100, and the full Cincinnati Orchestra in the pit. Scenery for the production has been borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera Cos. and Robert Korst, who for many years was chief assistant to Max Reinhardt and himself an opera producer, is to be stage manager. Morris Gets $5 as Extra in Film Long Hair Brings Chester Shakespearean Role. Times Special HOLLYWOOD. March 5 Chester Morris met George Cukor, director of “Romeo and Juliet,” in a barber shop. Morris had just returned from the desfirt where “Men Without Love” was filmed, and he had let his hair grow for three months lor his role. “Don’t cut your hair,” pleaded Cukor as Morris climbed into the chair. “I’ve been looking all over for extras with long hair to play a scene in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ ” It was supposed to be a gag, ,but Morris accepted. Next day he earned $5 for his work as an extra. The following morning, however, he showed up on the set with his hair neatly trimmed. “What did you do that for?” Cukor demanded. “You’ll have to blame Mrs. Morris,” Chester answered. “Shakespeare or no Shakespeare, she wouldn't let me come home until I’d had my hair cut.” Composers Write Film Songs Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, who wrote the reigning New York success, “Jumbo,” contributed four new song hits to “Dancing Pirate,” new all-Technicolor musical.

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Opening Tomorrow Apollo “THE COUNTRY DOCTOR”—The Dionne Quintuplets, Jean Hersholt, June Lang, Michael Whalen and Dorothy Peterson; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; directed by Henry King; technical supervision by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe; story by Sonya Levien and Charles E. Blake. Story—Doctor in Canadian wilds fights diphtheria epidemic without aid of hospital. Nephew brings serum by plane in time to save patients. Later, nephew has fight with girl friends father. Father, vindictive, ousts doctor who has no license. About to leave in disgrace, doctor is called on case. Aids in birth of quintuplets. Saves them, becomes hero. Circle “CAPTAIN BLOOD”—Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Guy Kibbee; directed by Michael Curtiz; novel by Rafael Sabatini; screen play, Casy Robinson. Story—Young English doctor is sentenced to slavery in Jamaica for treason. Bought by niece of plantation owner. Later doctor and companions board Spanish ships while invaders are ashore. Steal treasure, become pirates. Doctor-pirate becomes partner of hijacking French buccaneer. Kills him when he captures girl who “bought” him. Wiien France and England declare war, doctor saves Port Royal, becomes Governor of Jamaica. “ANYTHING GOES”—Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Grace Bradley; directed by Lewis Milestone; from the play by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse; music and lyrics by Cole Porter; photographed by Karl Struss. Story—Broker’s helper, in love with torch singer, forgets orders. Accidentally sails for Orient trying to save girl from kidnaping. Is taken for Public Enemy No. 1; boss refuses to identify him. Pursues love through trying circumstances in numerous disguises. Finds girl not really kidnaped. Proposes over ship’s loud speaker, is accepted. Learns he saved firm a fortune by forgetting instructions. Indiana “FOLLOW THE FLEET”—Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott and Harriet Hilliard; lyrics and music by Irving Berlin; directed by Mark Sandrich; screen play by Dwight Taylor and Allan Stout from the stage play “Shore Leave.” Story—Gob on shore leave wins dance contest with girl hoofer. She loses job, he promises to find her new one. Girl’s sister falls for gob’s pal, takes her savings, buys him boat. With fleet about to s9.ii, sister needs S7OO to save boat from salvage company. Gob jumps overboard, swims to other boat. He and girl put on show, raise money, Loeiv’s “LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY”—Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith, Mickey Rooney, Guy Kibbee; produced by David O Selznick; directed by John Cromwell; screen play by Hugh Walpole from the story by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Story—American boy is called to England to become Lord. Lives in castle with stern old grandfather. Boy is separated from mother, who married old Earl’s son and incurred his hatred. Boy wins way into grandfather’s heart. Reconciliation takes place, all ends happily. Lyric - “THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND”—Warner Baxter, Gloria, Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron; directed by John Ford; associate producer and screen play, Nunnaly Johnson; photographed by Bert Glennon, Story—Based on life of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth after assassination of Lincoln. Although evidence shows ignorance of Booth’s identity, Mudd is convicted by hasty court- martial. Condemned to life imprisonment on island off Florida. Saves lives of many guards and prisoners during epidemic. Finally freed after balked escapes and great suffering. VAUDEVILLE on stage, with Eddie Peabody, banjo star of stage, screen and radio; Tess Gardelle, original “Aunt Jemima” of “Scandals” and “Showboat”; Ross, Pierre and Shuster, impersonators; De May, Moore and Martin, dancers; Monroe and Adams Sisters, “Rhythm Juggling.”

Many Types of Phobias Found Among Hollywood Film Players Nearly Every Star Confesses to An Intense Dislike for Something They Can Not Quite Explain. Times Special HOLLYWOOD, March 5. —Some choice phobias and psychoses, guaranteed to delight the heart of any psychologist, are to be found among film players. Nearly every star confesses to an intense dislike for something.

For instance, Claudette Colbert and Gertrude Michael have a strong “velociphobia” or “velophobia,” meaning a fear of speed. Both are terrified when traveling more than 45 miles an hour except when flying. Claudette can not explain that tense feeling when she rides in a speeding car or boat, but Gertrude attributes her phobia to a broken leg, received in an accident. Helen Mack, suffers from a form of calustrophobia—the fear of being closed in. She never locks doors in

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her home and hates to stay in hotels because she can’t sleep with the door locked. Carole Lombard is terrified by high places, and doesn't dare to look out of a high window, or at the earth from an airplane. Crowds are Sylvia Sidney’s pet fear. She always leaves early at football games or other events. The same holds true for crowded elevators, so Sylvia always walks up and down stairs.

Choral Body to Present Varied Bill

'A Song for Occupations’ by Roy Harris Is Specially • Interesting. Variety is to be the keynote of Saturday night’s program by the Westminster Chorus, John Finley Williamson, conductor, in Caleb Mills Hall. Os particular interest among the scheduled numbers is Roy Harris’ “A Song for Occupations,” commissioned by the New York League

of Composers and dedicated to the Workers of the World. Mr. Harris is teacher of composition at Mr. Williamson’s choir school on the Princeton campus,’ He achieved prominence last October when his overture, “When Johnny Comes March-

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ing Home,” was played by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Otto Klemperer. The concert is to open with Bach’s motet, “Sing Ye to the Lord.” After the Harris work, a group of American songs, including examples of Negro and cowboy music, are to be given. In the last group, the singers are to follow Jerome Kern’s “Old Man River” with the “Echo Song” by Orlando di Lasso (15201594), The concluding numbers are to be Fischer’s “Slumber Song” and a “Victory Song” of the Pawnee Indians. The Westminster Chorus is a presentation of the Women’s Auxiliary to the First Presbyterian Church.

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Book Film Coming

This is how Fredric March is to look in “Anthony Adverse,’ the long-delayed film version of Hervey Allen’s ponderous novel. The picture, directed by Mervyn Leroy, is to be shown soon at the Indiana. / Students to Give Plays Twenty-one sftidents of dramatic art of Josephine Fitch Wertz are to present a group of plays at the D. A. R. chapter house, 824 N. Penn-sylvania-st, Friday evening. The program, open to the public, is to begin at 8. SEATS NOW Eve., 8 Sharp—Mat. 2 Sharp Final opportunities to see a favorite star in his greatest role FAREWELL TOUR!! m EOM9MD ROSTVtffo Great Heroic Gmdg CYRANOeiaBEiKERAC as played by Mr. Ilampden nearly 1,000 times Mat. & Eve., 55c. SI. 10, 51.65, $2.20, 52.75, incl. tax.

WPA Actors Are to Give Golden Play Federal Players to Present 'Turn to the Right’ Beginning Monday. For their second production, the Federal Players are to present

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“Turn to the Right,” John Golden success of a decade ago. at Keith’s for a week beginning Monday night. Their initial venture. Booth Tarkington’s •’Clarence,” is to close on Saturday. Written by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard, “Turn to the Right” ran for two years on Broadway and later played throughout the country. It is a comedy drama of three ycung crooks who find romance and reformation on a New England farm. The cast, directed by Charles Berkell, includes Ned LeFevre. Betty Anne Browm, Hal Hawkes, Joseph J. Shea, Alice Arnold, Paul S. Rouse, Jack Duval, William Schneider, Elsa Ewell, Jess Fink, Ruth Benefiel, Gene Brittain and Sophia Wheeler.