Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1936 — Page 24

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CIRCLE BOOKS LUM 'N' ABNER FOR PERSONAL APPEARANCE

Radio Team Coming Here April 18, 19 'Moon’s Our Home’ Is Film Attraction Scheduled on Same Bill. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Lum ’n’ Abner, radio funsters, are booked to “jot-em-down” at the Circle Theater April 18 and 19, I. M. Halperin, Indiana-Circle manager, announced today. The boys are able to appear here only two days because of their hation-wide broadcast, on the air five days a week. During the Lum ’n’ Abner personal appearance, the Circle is to set aside its doublefeature policy, showing one attraction, "The Moon's Our Home,” with Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda. It took an Elks' Club minstrel show six years ago to bring out the latent talent in Lum (Chester Lauck) and Abner <Norris Gosf >,and they have been playing together ever since. Both attended the University Os Arkansas. Abner was a track man and Lum went in for dramatics. Show Put Them Over In their home town, near Mena, Ark., Abner had a job as a traveling salesman and Lum was working for ft building and loan association. Then came the Elks’ show, in which the two put on a blackface act that wowed the local audiences. The boys believed they were pretty good, so they took their act over to station KTHS at Hot Springs. It didn't take them long to find they would be lost among the other radio blackface acts, so a few minutes before going on the air for the first time, they changed their dialect to that of backwoods philosophers. The fan response was tremendous. That was April 26, 1931. Now at the ages of 31 and 29, Lum and Abner are rated as one of the top-notch comedy teams on the air. When they started, all their programs were done extemporaneously. Their sponsors in Chicago demanded that they use a script, and the act almost bogged down. Their first script took exactly 16 hours to write and it was finished just in time to go on the air. Now the boys dash off their stuff in about three hours. Play Nine Characters In all, the team plays nine different characters and in the course of their broadcasting they have imitated more than 50 people. The greatest number of characterizations given on a single broadcast was 16. To keep the Ozark atmosphere in their programs, Lum ’n’ Abner go back home frequently to collect new words and phrases. It is said that many of their charatcers are based on folks living in the Mena community. The two have set a time limit on their radio careers. In three years, they announce, they are going to retire from radio permanently. Lum to raise grapefruit in Texas. Abner to operate a garage in his home town. They now are heard on the Pine Ridge program over an NBC network at 6:30 every day except Saturday and Sunday.

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Trio's Concert Wins Acclaim Less Familiar Fields Are Explored for Listeners. Among the most admirable musicians are those who explore the less familiar fields to bring us seldom heard examples of the tonal art. Included in this select group is the Concert Trio of Indianapolis, comprised of Violet Albers, violin; Mary Lohrmann Reiner, cello, and Ramona Wilson, piano, who played at the Herron Art Institute last night, and who are, as far as we know, the only local exponents of serious trio music. The program consisted of the Beethoven trio, Op. 1, No. 1; Tschaikowsky’s trio, Op. 50, and "Five T ;npicssions of a Holiday,” by Eugene Goossens. Os these, the second was given the best performance, and the third commanded the most interest, since the concert marked the first public hearing of the “Impressions” in Indianapolis. These youthful pieces by Mr. Goossens are vivid and sensitive

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Hollywood Producers Slap Own Faces in Fred Stone Film 'Farmer in the Dell' Circle’s Current Attraction Is Mostly a Vehicle for Monologue by Veteran Actor; ‘Boulder Dam’ Completes Double Feature Bill. Movie producers these days seem to get a kick out of slapping themselves in the face. The latest cuff is contained in “The Farmer in the Dell,” the main feature on the Circle’s program. Starring Fred Stone, the story, written by Phil Stong (he also wrote “State Fair”), moves around an lowa farmer whose aspiring wife wants to push her daughter into the movies. They move to Hollywood and Pa Boyer takes Adie, the daughter, to a studio. During the maelstrom of ‘‘.shooting” a pastoral film, “Back to the Soil,” the director sees Pa, lets him play a bit part in the picture. Pa makes a hit, is engaged for the rest of the movie.

At home he tells Ma that Adie got into the film, but that he must accompany her every day. His pay, starting at $25 daily, is boosted, and Ma takes advantage of it. believing it is Adie’s money. She immediately breaks Adie’s engagement to Davy, the boy back home who follows them to Hollywood. She buys new furniture and wants a new home. She picks up a strange “extra” player, Nicky Ranovich, who tells her he is of Russian nobility. He, she believes, should marry Adie. Ma Is Determined Pa attempts to save the DavyAdie romance by confessing about the film ruse. Ma doesn’t change her mind and Pa determines to leave. But it seems Pa can’t quit. His studio, believing their rivals are after the “down to earth” character, refuse to release him, raise his pay to S6OO a week. Pa accepts and goes on location. When he returns he finds Ma ensconced in a palatial residence with butlers and waitresses galore. She has turned Davy away “forever” and Nicky seems headed for a son-in-law’s position. Pa blows up, mood pictures, wrought with sureness, skill and a fine perception of each instrument’s character and possibilities. They are extremely difficult, but well worth the trouble of learning. The players did them full justice. The Tschaikowsky trio, heard here for the first time in several years, is healthy, virile music, despite its funereal close. Its interpretation was marked by warmth and conviction. The young ladies of this ensemble are doing a commendable work, and their playing shows excellent precision and sound musicianship. Greater elasticity and dynamic contrast, and more unity of feeling doubtless will come in time. As assisting artist, Helen Brooks Fausset, coloratura soprano, contributed a group of songs by Charles, Dickinson, Jacques Wolfe, Mozart and Verdi, with Mrs. L. A. Helgesson at the piano. (By J. TANARUS.)

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threatens to leave. With Adie weeping on his shoulder, he reveals Nicky as an impostor. Then Ma gives in. Mostly Fred Stone “The Farmer in the Dell” largely is a Fred Stone monologue. As such it is excellent screen farce. Mr. Stone is one of our better comedians and his handling of situations which other actors might have bungled has been done adroitly. Jean Parker quietly skips through the picture as Adie, adding little and detracting none. Esther Dale as Ma and Frank Albertson as Davy stay in the background. Only other actor to stand out is Moroni Olsen (“Three Musketeers”), who plays the role of Chester Hart, the director who discovers Pa. The Circle’s second feature, “Boulder Dam,” is a flag-waving story about Rusty Noonan, hotheaded mechanic who kills his boss in Detroit, skips out to Boulder Dam and gets a job. He makes good in a big way, but his success is due to the interest taken in him by Ann Vangarick, a night club entertainer in a nearby town. Rusty Talks, Ann Sticks Trouble starts when Lacy, who knew Rusty back in Detroit, finds him at the dam. He threatens to blackmail Rusty and Rusty tells all. Ann goes noble and stick', by him. Ross Alexander gives a halfhearted performance as the un-happy-go-unlucky slayer. Pat Ellis gives her usual humdrum portrayal of the girl who grabs her man and keeps him at her feet. Lyle Talbot and Eddie Acuff are in the cast. (By J. W. TANARUS.)

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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “A Message to Garcia.” with Wallace Beery. John Boles and Barbara Stanwyck, at 11:35, 1:35, 3:35. 5:35. 7:35, 9:35. CIRCLE ‘‘The Farmer in the Dell.” with Fred Stone and Jean Parker, at 11, 1:50. 4:40. 7:30. 10:30. Also “Boulder Dam,” with Boss Alexander and Patricia Ellis, at 13:40. 3:30. 6:30. 9:10. INDIANA ‘"Hie Singing Kid,” with A1 Jolson, Cab Calloway and Yacht Club Boys, at 11:30, 1:35. 3:45, 5:50. 8, 10:10. KEITH’S “The Barker,” Kenyon Nicholson’s famous play, directed by Charles Berkell. produced by the Federal Players, with Bernice Jenkins. Jack Duval, Ned LeFevre. Batty Anne Brown, Ira B. Klein in the cast. LOEW’S “Small Town Girl,” with Janet Gavnor and Robert Taylor, at 12:30, 3:40. 6:50, 10. Also “Moonlight Murder,” with Madge Evans, and Chester Morris, at 11:20, 2:30, 5:35, 8:45. LYRIC “Everybody’s Old Man,” on screen, with. Irvin S. Cobb, at 11:19. 2:05, 5:02, 7:48. 10:34. Vaudeville on stage, with York and King, at 1:05, 3:51, 6:48, 9:34.

Divorce Is One More Blow to Sylvia Sydney Disappointments, Triumphs Spot Notable Career of Young Actress. Sylvia Sidney, who yesterday was awarded a divorce from Bennett Cerf, New York publisher, has lived a strange career, full of glittering success and shattering disappointments. At 15 she enrolled in the dramatic school the New York Guild just was starting for novices. New York critics showered her performances with praise, but it took her two months of dreary trudging to land her first job. On the second night of the tryout run in Washington, Miss Sidney fainted on the stage and was ordered to undergo an immediate operation for appendicitis. She refused, and continued to play the role throughout the first week. Surgical examination showed a torn ligament in her right side and she spent the next two weeks in bed. In “The Old Fashioned Lady,” which followed “Crime,” Miss Sidney slipped on the winding stairway, received a fracture of a small bone in her ankle, but played the rest of the engagement with her foot in a cast. After a period in Denver stock, she made her first movie appearance in “Through Different Eyes.” Her “role” consisted ,cf a loud scream.

Wallace Beery Appears at His Best in Thrilling Film Drama 'Message to Garcia' His Characterization of Good-Bad Soldier Is Artistic Triumph in Apollo Picture Based on Incident of Spanish-American Conflict. Wallace Beery, at his best, leads the way through a swampy Cuban jungle to help John Boles deliver the “Message to Garcia,” and win Barbara Stanwyck in a thrilling movie starting today at the Apollo. In a grave crisis during the Spanish-American War, President McKinley hands a sealed message to Lieut. Rowan (Mr. Boles), tells him

to deliver it to Gen. Garcia in Cuba. Rowan hies himself to Cuba, almost is caught before he gets there. On the island, he is rescued from a professional spy by Sergt. Dory (Mr. Beery), a renegade who sells sawdust bullets to both sides. He is engaged by Rowan to guide him to Juan Maderos, who knows Garcia’s whereabouts. See Maderos Slain They arrive in time to see Maderos killed and, accompanied by his daughter, Raphaelita, they set out to find Garcia. The party supposedly is guarded by a band of natives who secretly blaze a trail for the enemy to follow. Dory discovers this, routs the natives and rejoins. Rowan and the girl, who believed he had betrayed them. In a skirmish with Spanish soldiers, Raphaelita is wounded. She convinces Rowan,

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out that the Spanish have captured the place. Rowan is tortured, but tells nothing. Dory is captured by Garcia's men, whom he persuades to go after Rowan. They capture the spy fort, deliver Rowan. The girl also has been brought there. The message is delivered, thereby enabling history, both romantic and factual, to repeat itself. It’s Beery’s Picture The picture belongs to Mr. Beery. His characterization of the goodbad Dory is an artistic triumph. To him have gone the best lines, and rightly so. Miss Stanwyck is miscast as the Cuban girl; she speaks part of the time in high-brow English and part in American slang. Mr. Boles suffers heroically, but is little more than background. Herbert Mundin as a tin peddler who helps save the situation affords a goodly share of the comedy. Alan Hale sneers nicely as the vallain sp.v. It’s full of red-blooded melodrama. with alligators, mosquitos and all. You won't go to sleep. (By J. W. TANARUS.) Cloth Sent From Scotland Jan Keith, currently appearing in “Mary of Scotland,” has just had a golf coat made from a Keith tartan sent to him from Scotland.

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