Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1936 — Page 22

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CHILDREN TO GIVE OWN MUSICAL REVUE AT CIVIC THEATER

Book, Comic Characters Represented ‘Stop! Look! and Listen!’ Is to Be Presented Saturday. Not intending for adults to get ahead of it, the children's division of the Civic Theater is to present its own musical revue, “Stop! Look! and Listen!” at 2:30 Saturday afternoon and again at 10 30 and 2:30 Saturday, April 11, at the Playhouse. Encouraged by the success of the Civic's variety show, "Hold Your Hats,’’ Director Frederick Burleigh is drilling the youngsters for a similar presentation, which is to include singing, dancing and comedy. One skit is to show Popeye, Wimpy, Olive Oyl and Alice the Goon in school, and another is to picture boy policemen (grade school traffic boys* drilling and protecting their charges. Adventures of Little Black Sambo are to be included. Mickey, Minnie to Be There Doreen Saxton is to sing, “I Hate Baby Talk,” which tells the woe of a baby girl who is tired of being addressed in baby talk. She also is to play Goldilocks in the “Three Bears” skit which ends, contrary to the story, happily. Mickey and Minnie Mouse are to be represented in a skit by Carl H. Lieber Jr. and Peggy Poling. Other youngsters who are to take part in the show are David McDuffee. James Hutchinson, John Neal, Richard Thomas, Jackie Thompson, Billy Shirley, Dickie Peirce, Mary Elizebeth Karstadt Jr., Peggy Trusler and Moyra Sexton. Mrs. George Fotheringham, chairman, appointed Mrs. Willis C. Adams and Eunice Dissette state managers. Mrs. C. Irwin Cummings is in charge df scenic designing; ferownie Miskimen, Mrs. Harold Trusler, Laura Miller and Mrs. Volney Brown have charge of costumes. Mrs. William Mooney is to accompany all the skits on the piano.

Portrait Records Beauty of Winner Special HOLLYWOOD. April 2. —Additional honor has been bestowed on Jean Chatbum, winner of the Los Angeles Examiner's Search lor Beauty, by rcording her beauty in an oil painting by the noted artist, McClelland Barclay. Miss Chatburn, who appeared in “The Great ZZZiegfeld,” won the beauty sweepstakes over 2000 other contestants. Ann Loring Honored by Her Home Town Sflmct Special BROOKLYN. N. Y.. April 2.—ln Brooklyn it’s Ann Loring Week, a special tribute to the actress in conjunction with the showing of her flrst movie, “Robin Hood of El Dorado,” starring Warner Baxter. ,The young actress, who won a screen and voice talent contest in New York recently, is to return home after completing her current picture, “Absolute Quiet,” in which She has her second important role of her short but triumphant Hollywood career. Got Break in New York . Dorothy Lee, petite leading woman to Wheeler and Woolsey in ‘‘Silly Billies,” was born and raised ip Los Angeles, but had to go to New York to get her flrst stage “break.”

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Opening Tomorrow Apollo “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE”—WiII Rogers. Myma Loy, William Famum, Maureen O'Sullivan. Adapted by William Conselman from the novel by Mark Twain; directed by David Butler; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Story—Radio repairman is hit on head, comes to in Arthurian England. Predicts eclipse, saves self from stake, wins title of “boss” and post of Arthur's prime minister. Sets out to rescue king's daughter, held captive by king’s sister. Is sentenced to hang, butrescued by modern army. Palace, however, is blown up; “boss” wakes up in modern times. Indiana **l3 HOURS BY AlK”—Fred Mac Murray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, John Howara, Grace Bradley. Directed by Mitchell Leisen; screen play by Bogart Rogers from a story by Bogart Rogers and Frank Mitchell Dazey. Story—Trans-continental pilot meets girl in Newark, takes “busman's holiday” trip to West Coast. Girl meets suspicious looking foreigner in Chicago. Plane forced down in Sierras. Nervous passenger turns out to be gangster in disguise. Shoots regular pilot and detective posing as “brain specialist.” Vacationing pilot is forced to fly plane to Mexico. Ten-year-old brat squirts extinguisher fluid in gangster's eye. Detective gets man. Girl gets rid of foreigner, takes pilot for better or worse. “TOO MANY PARENTS”—Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Billy Lee, Henry Travers. Directed by Robert F. McGowan; screen play by Virginia Van Upp and Doris Malloy from stories by George Templeton and Jesse Lynch Williams. Story—Four boys in military school, victims of divorce and neglect, become friends. Son of engineer fakes letters from father, is punished for lying. Heart-broken, lad gets in canoe, drifts toward dam. Father, summoned by school head's niece, arrives in time. Remorseful, he takes son and three chums under his wing, decides headmaster’s niece is necessary as mother for his son. Loew’s “THE GARDEN MURDER CASE”—Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, Nat Pendleton, H. B. Warner. Screen play by Bertram Millhauser from the novel by S. S. Van Dine; directed by Edwin L. Marin. Story—Philo Vance has one murder and two mysterious deaths to solve. One man falls from a horse and breaks his neck. The married woman whom he loves loses balance, falls off bus and is killed. Host in whose home both were staying is murdered. Vance solves all, incidentally falls in love. “DON’T GAMBLE ON LOVE”—Ann Sothern, Bruce Cabot, Irving Pichel, lan Keith. Directed by Dudley Murphy; story and screen play by Lee Loeb and Harold Buchman; photographed by Henry Freulich. Story—Gambler, running on-the-level club, goes into respectable business for sake of wife, baby. Fleeced in first business deal, returns to gambling. Rivals threaten when he resorts to crooked practices. With gunmen waiting, desperate wife bares crooked games. Patrons wreck place but gambler’s life is spared. Remorseful, returns to wife and son. Lyric “PARIS ON PARADE”—On Stage—Helen Denizon, danseuse; Bert Walton, comedian and master of ceremonies; Art Frank, comedian; Nellie Arnaut and Brothers, bird flirtation and whistling novelty turn; Ray Royce, “the happy inebriate”; Martha Boyer, singer; Rebau’s “Living Models;” the 12 Dare Devils, dancing ensemble. “TE VOICE OF BUGLE ANN”—On Screen—Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Eric Linden, Spring Byington. Book by MacKinlay Kantor adapted for screen by Harvey Gates and Samuel Hoffenstein; directed by Richard Thorpe. Story—Missouri farmer kills neighbor to avenge death of dog. Is sentenced to 25 years. Before killing, farmer’s son and neighbor’s daughter had fallen in love. Using relatives’ political influence, girl gets farmer pardoned after four years. Returning home, farmer and son again hear voice o? dog, Bugle Ann. They trace sound, find girl with pup of Bugle Ann. She had run over dog, kept it hidden after cruel father’s shooting. Dog later had died. (Story based on actual occurence.)

Hollywood Gay as Work Gains Social Season Is Brightest Since 1929 Crash. Times Special HOLLYWOOD, April 2. —lt’s the gayest social season Hollywood has had in six years. Everyone agrees that festivities in the film city have attained a brilliance unsurpassed since the crash. With production schedules mounting at all studios, more people are at work, and the tourist influx steadily is growing heavier. Carole Lombard, Hollywood’s foremost hostess, who has charge of the exclusive Mayfair Club affairs, declares • the orilliance of the season has caused a revival of large parties and the fashion for formal dress at all major functions. Hollywood at present is gayer than even Broadway has been in years,” she says. “I haven’t seen so many white ties and tails for at least six years. Parties are larger

and gayer. Everywhere there is an atmosphere of confidence. People are out for a good time again.” Miss Lombard expressed the belief that the Santa Anita race track season, with its attraction of wealthy and prominent sports people from the East, probably has much to do Willi Hollywood’s prosperity. Used Aviation Experts Richard Templeton and Gene Tiger, who served as technical directors on “13 Hours by Air,” featuring Fred Mac Murray and Joan Bennett, have each had more than 10,000 hours of actual flying. Hard to Keep Laughing Margaret Sullavan tries, without much success, to keep a straight face as Charles Butterwor'h “proposes” to her for a close-up scene in Walter Wanger’s production, “The Moon’s Our Home.” pnSST fj] Now & Tomorrow J| Iflb a “2 IN’ THE DARK” jg HHB I “Flash Gordon” No. 2 K. Maynard —t wuy? I

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Piano. Pupils to Perform in Recitals Public Is iftvited to Jordan Programs Tonight • and Tomorrow. Pupils of piano at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music are to present two recitals at the North campus, 3411 N. Pennsylvania-st, one at 8:15 tonight and a second at 7:30 tomorrow night. The public is invited to both programs. Twelve pupils of Leone K. Rickman Virginia Cohen, Carolyn Coxen. Suzanne Mahalowitz, Bille Anderson, Lois Ann Edwards, Jean Redwine, Jacqueline Frank, Betty Ann Irwin, George Browne, Frances Collins, Laura Lee Stadler and Catherine Richart—are to be heard tonight. On tomorrow’s program are pupils of Jeanette Gardiner—Ruth Copeland, Samuel Copeland, Jean Young, Marian Muhlenbruch, Elaine Bowers, Thomas Allebrandi, Barbara Suits, Betty Settle, Carol Bowers, Mary Margaret Schortemeier, Charlene Sunthimer, Elizabeth Ann Schmidt and Virginia Crawford. Three dramatic pupils of Bernice VanSickle—Carroll Trotter, Clarence Griener and Jack Watters—are to assist on Miss Gardiner’s program. Roachdale Seniors to Give. 3-Act Play The senior class of Roachdale High School is to present “Who ■Wouldn’t Me Crazy?” a comedy in three acts, Friday and Saturday nights, April 10 and 11, at the school. Sara Hatfield and James Rady are members of the cast. Specialties between acts are to be given by a girls’ trio and John Barks and Norma Porter.

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CRITICS SPLIT IN VOTING 'WINTERSET' BEST PLAY

BY GEORGE ROSS NEW YORK, April 2.—To “Winterset,” Maxwell Anderson’s poetic drama about Manhattan slum dwellers, went the New York Drama Critics award for being “the best play of the 1935-’36 season.” Broadway looked forward to the verdict, for this is the first time in Rialto history that profesional reviewers have issued their own prize. That honorarium heretofore has been in the hands of the Pulitzer Prize Committee which still functions annually, but not to everybody’s taste. Which is why the critics organized td choose one of their own. But there was dissension that night the critics met at the Algonquin, and “Winterset” was selected by a vote of 14 to 3. The trio in the minority held out for Robert E. Sherwood's “Idiot’s Delight,” and the fiery repercussions of that meeting are now being re-echoed in the dramatic columns. But, despite a lack of unanimity among the theater’s experts, Broadway seems inclined to favor their decision over the Pulitzer Prize which can not be given to (1) a playwright who has won it before, (2) a dramatization of a novel (“The Old Maid” was an exception) or (3) plays with distasteful subjects. The only condition the Critics Circle demands is that play should be the work of an American playwright. “Winterset” was not counted among Broadway’s smash hits, but merely as a moderate success. Relating a dramatic story of gangsters, hoodlums and East Side vagrants in lofty language and blank verse, it was greeted the next morning with such contrasting statements as “It is the best play written by an American.” “It is prettily pretentious.” Audiences were equally divided in its favor and disfavor, but “Winterset” ran on; was comfortably set for the winter, then moved to other cities for a tour across the country. But while “Winterset” aroused

debate, there appeared to be a universal feeling about the following: That Burgess Meredith who appears in it as a passionate idealist, haunting Manhattan’s pauper rows to avenge the execution of his father, is the finest of the current crop of young actors . . . that Jo Mielziner designed a facsimile of the Brooklyn Bridge with a genius’ skill and imagination .. . that Richard Bennett, lured from Hollywood for the production, js still among the greatest contemporary thespians . . . that a young Latin lady named Margo, who was doing the rhumba in night clubs last year, is a promising actress, and that Guthrie McClintic put on a show that commands respect, if not enthusiasm. All these things the Critics Circle took into consideration, but primarily they were concerned with “the unusual poetic force,” rich' meaning, combining high literary distinction with compelling theatrical effect. And so to the author of “Winterset,” there goes a silver plaque and the blessing of the most powerful play jury in the world. As for the winner, Anderson is the author of “Gods of the Lightning," “Saturday’s Children,” “What Price Glory” (with Laurence Stallings), “Elizabeth, the Queen,” “Mary of Scotland” and “Valley Forge” among other plays; was once an editorial writer on a New York newspaper and at one time was discharged from a college professorship for denouncing war. “Idiot’s Delight” came in second in the Critics Circle report, but instantly became the First Drama for New Yorkers. With Alfred Lunt impersonating a gum-chewing, wisecracking hoofer and Lynn Fontanne ah exotic lady from Moscow in a blond wige, Robert E. Sherin a blond wig, Robert E. Sheronly has something important to say but says so brilliantly. Here, briefly, is the drama’s situation; To a mountain inn high in the Italian Alps, comes a motley crowd: Mr. Lunt and six dumbish chorines of his vaudeville act; Miss Fontanne, as a bewigged ballerina;

a munitions maker, a pacifist and other provocative people. Suddenly, at the climax of the Alpine idyll, after Mr. Lunt has sung a couple of songs by Irving Berlin and done a clog; after Miss Fontanne has enchanted the guests w’ith her thick-as-borscht accent, war thunders across Europe. From the frontier hotel, everybody, including the munitions king, escape, while Lunt & Fontanne remain to face a barrage of bombs and their violent end. > In those last moments. Miss Fontanne breaks dow r n, confides the truth to Mr. Lunt who suspects her all the time of having been his sister vaudeiillian and temporary inamorata back In Omaha. It appears before the final curtain that indeed she was. And with an elec-

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trical display of explosives crashing to earth, guns roaring over the Alpine heights, they chant “Onward Christian Soldiers” in a desperate embrace. It is a thrilling show and although it is, at best, a shallow sermon dh peace, Mr. Sherwood preaches with mockery in his tone, bitterness in his pen and with glib eloquence. The Lunts carry it off magnificently. Combined Concert Friday Miss Olive Kiler is to conduct the orchestra of the Indiana School for the Blind and the Olive Kiler City Orchestra in a combined concert at 8:lo tomorrow night in the School for the Blind auditorium, 7725 College-av. The public is invited.