Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1936 — Page 24

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'MR. DEEDS GOES ! T0 TOWN' IS ROLLICKING ENTERTAINMENT

Tuba Playing Gary Cooper Is at His Best as Farmer Who Inherits Big Fortune Star Ably Supported by Brilliant Cast in Frank Capra Film Based on Clarence Buddington Kelland Story, Opening at Loew’s Today. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON . Three big "oom-pahs” for ‘'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” one for Frank Capra who directed, one for Gary Cooper in his best role, and one for the first bass horn ever to be featured in the movies. The picture opened at Loew’s today. The him of this rollicking tale is a hick town youngster who plays a tuba and writes post card poetry. In Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Raymond Walburn and Walter Catlett, Mr. Capra has an entertaining a troupe of puppets as has been dangled before the

screen public in months. The arrival in New York of Longfellow Deeds, the greeting card poet from Mandrake Falls to whom an eccentric uncle tossed $20,000,000, is new blood in the veins of the newspaper headline hunters. But Longfellow, hiding away with his pet brass tuba, manages to dodge the reporters while editors tear their hair. Mac Wade, one of the hairtea rers, assigns Babe" Bennett, sob sister, to track down the elusive farm boy. His Troubles Many Longfellow’s troubles aren’t limited to newspaper people. Cedar, his late uncle’s attorney, attempts to do him out of a huge sum for professional services. Naively, Longfellow evades the signing of any papers. The opera company wants *IBO.OOO to pay off a deficit. They see the untrained recruit as an easy mark. But Longfellow comes from staunch stock and nobody gets a cent. But Babe gets him. She pulls an net in front of his home, pretends to faint from hunger, and succeeds in getting Longfellow drunk for the first time in his life. Next mornings papers carry headlines about Mr. Deeds, found feeding doughnuts to a horse at 42nd-st and Broadway just before dawn. He arrives home attired only in shorts. The feature stories continue daily. He falls in love with Babe, who hides her true identity, writes personal notes about Mr. Deeds ffir her paper. Finally the truth comes out, and the discovery that Babe has been tricking him proves to be the last straw for Mr. Deeds. He heads for Mandrake Falls, but a horde of starving farmers crowds his home and he decides to give his fortune to them. With a vast plan for distributing his wealth in a farm project, Longfellow works day and night to finish the examination of his tenants. Tried for Sanity The attorney, seeing his fee slipping, has Longfellow arrested as insane. At the trial, everything goes against him. He refuses to defend himself until Babe comes to the rescue. She admits writing the stories about, him, tells the court she loves Longfellow. With new hope, Mr. Deeds makes a heroic plea, and the judge announces: “I pronuonce you a sane man Mr. Deeds. Not only that but I believe you are tjie sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.” There is a nice, romantic ending. The plot reads rather drably, but the Capra “magic touch” gives it a vigor and freshness which mere words can not explain. The actors give themselves whole-heartedly to the director's wishes. They cease being individuals and become an impersonal part of a very funny whole. We wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Capra had a little moral he was trying to get across through the big, lumbering Longfellow. It might have something to do with the futility of modern life with its whirligig of big city activity, its lack of sentiment, its mechanistic philosophy. Characterizations Sharp Each sequence in the picture is clipped off at the precise moment when it ceases to add to the temperament of the story. The characterization stands out sharply and clearly, now like caricatures, now like oil portraits. Mr. cooper is at his best as Mr. Deeds, whose love for humanity is blasted by his first experience with wealth. Miss Arthur does an excellent job as Babe Bennett. Lionel Standee’s work as Mr. Deeds’ secretary is a gem of comedy. In one scene, Walter Catlett, as Morrow, a New York poet, surpasses everything he has done on the screen, reveals that with the proper guidance he could become one of the screen’s ablest comedians. The story is by Clarence Buddingto Kelland; the screen play by Robert Riskin. Both deserve a hand. Refreshing, ‘‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" is tops as light-hearted, hap-py-go-lucky entertainment. We wouldn’t have you miss it.

Vaudeville Acts to Be Given at Church The Federal Theater's vaudeville unit is to entertain at a cabaret show sponsored by the Young People of the Central Universalist Church at 8:30 tonight. Marjorie Petrizilek is chairman of the arrangements committee. A ft T hour of entertainment is to be provided by the vaudeville team, which includes 18 persons in 10 acts. Groucho Marx Torn From Famous Cigar Times Special HOLLYWOOD. April 24. —For once Groucho Marx had to part with his famous cigar. A theater usher at a recent preview requested that he discard it until the show was over. Groucho did.

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Cadet Pianists to Play Here Culver Musicians to Be Maennerchor Soloists. Pronounced an “exceptionally gifted pianist” by Cincinnati critics after his solo appearance with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra last spring, Garfield Horn, 16-year-old pianist of Culver Military Academy, comes well recommended for his Indianapolis debut as a Maennerchor soloist Sunday afternoon at the Academy of Music. With him will be a fellow cadet, Wade Verweire, also a pianist. The young men are to present solo groups and two items for two pianos. Cadet Verweire comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather was a graduate of the Belgian Royal Conservatory. His father studied with Walter Guetter, principal bassoonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the late Franz Wagner, former principal ’cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. An aunt was a pupil of the famous American pianist, Fannie Bloom-field-Zeisler. To Join Military Band A member of this year’s graduating class, Verweire is solo clarinetist of the Culver band, and has accepted an appointment in the United States Marine Corps band following his graduation. He has studied both piano and clarinet since he was eight years old. Sundays program, which begins at 3, is as follows: Ballade in G Minor Chopin Etude in C Major Chopin Mr. Horne Chromatic Fantasia and Bach Mr. Verweire Concerto in A Minor Grieg Mr. Horne and Mr. Verweire Berceuse Chopin Military Valse Chopin Mr. Verweire Dance Rhapsody Delius Mr. Verweire and Mr. Horne Nazimova Is Coming to English's Stage Mme. Nazimova climaxes her brilliant acting career with the role of Mrs. Alving in Ibsen's play, "Ghosts,” which is to be seen at English’s two nights beginning Tuesday with a matinee. Thirty years ago Nazimoza played the part of Regina in the same drama. Since tlu.:; she has won acclaim in “Hedda Gabler.” “The Doll’s House.” “The Master Builder,” "Little Eyolf” and “The Wild Duck.” She has established a world’s record for the greatest number of consecutive performances of Ibsen’s plays. In the cast with Mme. Nazimova are McKay Morris, Harry Ellerbe, Beatrice Neergaard and Raymond O’Brien. Stewart Chaney designed the production, which has played as a road show in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Ranks Hollywood Sixth in Fashions By United Press HOLLYWOOD, April 24—Rega. famoiA European fashion designer, here for a brief visit, today ranked Hollywood no higher than sixth in the world style scale. The local film colony Is topped by Paris. New York, London, Brussels and Vienna in her opinion. Following Hollywood in the list of 10 best dressed cities are Warsaw, Rome, Berlin and Budapest. Asa class, however, Rega says that American women are far better dressed than any other national group because manufacturers in this country copy expensive creations and market them more quickly than elsewhere. The designer said that clothesconsciousness in Great Britain has had a phenomenal growth, which she attributes to the boom in motion picture production there. Lane College Girls Sing Here Tonight The Lane College Girls’ Glee Club of Jackson. Tenn., is to give a recital at 8:30 tonight in the Phillips C. M. E. Temple, N. West and Drake-sts. Mrs. Carrye NicholsStevens is the the director. Spirituals will make up tne bulk of the program, but works by Handel, Donizetti, Mann, Rachmaninoff, Abt, Elkins and Shelley also are to be presented. Solos, duets and quartets are to supplement the choral numbers.

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Studio Prohibitions Are Viewed as Joy-Killers by Screen Stars Speeding, Polo, Flying, Shaving and Smiling Are Among Things Tabooed for Various Players. Timex Special HOLLYWOOD, April 24.—Hollywood is becoming the “Land of Taboo” for movie stars. Prohibitions are being handed out daily to film players as long as they are at work in productions, it become known yesterday when Spencer Tracy was ordered to forego polo for the fiveweek period he worked in “Mob Rule.”

Clark Gable was forbidden to drive his high-powered car more than 45 miles an hour, and was told not to shave during the last two weeks of filming of “San Francisco.” James Stewart was grounded and warned not to fly an airplane while his latest picture, “Speed,” was in production. Took Freddie’s Motor Bike When Freddie Bartholomew appeared at the studio on a gasoline bike, it was confiscated upon orders from studio executives. Freddie represents too large an investment to risk a broken limb. Mickey Rooney has strict orders to refrain from football, baseball or any dangerous sports when he is working in a picture. In the midst of a production last year he broke an arm while tobogganing. During the filming of “The Great Ziegfeld,” Virginia Bruce was forewarned that she could not bob her hair. A permanent taboo exists for Stuart Erwin. He can not take his candid camera within the studio gates. Butterworth Smiles Banned Jean Hersholt has instructions never to shave his mustache, though he may grow whiskers for some of his characterizations. Charles Butterworth faces a permanent ban against smiling or laughing in front of the camera. He is considered more valuable on the screen as a “dead-pan” comedian. Nat Pendleton, former world’s amateur wrestling champion, is forbidden to wrestle professionally. He often has challenged other wrestlers, but studio executives have succeeded in stopping him in time to prevent a torn Pendleton muscle. When Charles Laughton was working on “Mutiny on the Bounty,” he had an agreement with Director Frank Lloyd not to gain an ounce of weight, and kept a masseur handy to shoo away any extra poundage.

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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “Captain January,” with Shirley Temple, at 11:44, 1:44, 3:44, 5:44, 7:44, 9:44, CIRCLE “The Witness Chair,” with Ann Harding, Waiter Abel and Moroni Olsen, at 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:43 Also “Murder on the Bridle Path,” with Jimmy Gleason and Helen Broderick, at 12:45: 3:40. 6:35, 9:30. CIVIC “Accent on Youth,” with Jack Harding, Isabel Ayres, Margaret McEwen. Edward Green, Jane Smith and Alec Saxton, at 8:30. KEITH’S “Do Unto Others,” by Henry K. Burton, directed by Charles Berkell, produced by Federal Players, with Charles Althoff, Jack Duval. Ned Le Fevre, Ira B. Klein and C'Mari de Schipper in the cast. LOEW’S “Mr Deeds Goes to Town.” with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, at 12:18. 3:30. 6:45. 10. Also “Dangerous Intrigue.” with Ralph Bellamy and Gloria Shea, at 11:18, 2:30, 5:45, 9. LYRIC “Times Square Playboy.” with Warren William, on screen at 11:40, 2:18. 5:15. 8:12. 10:41. Vaudeville on stage at 1:09, 3 47; 6:44. 9:41.

Four Organ Pupils Give Recital Tonight Donald C. Gilley, head of the organ department at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, is to present four of his pupils in recital at 8 tonight in Odeon Hall.

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Circle Lists Choice Films for Summer Two Pictures on Each Week’s Program While Indiana Is Dark. With the closing of the Indiana Theater today, L M. Halperin, In-diana-Circle manager, announces the list of bookings for the Circle, which is to absorb the Indiana’s programs. The Circle is to have the choice of pictures from four major studios, Mr. Halperin said, and will play two films on each week’s schedule throughout the summer months. From RKO, the Circle gets “Mary of Scotland,” starring Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March; “The Dancing Pirate,” an all-color musical; “The Ex-Mrs. Bradford,” with William Powell and Jean Arthur, and anew Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire vehicle, titled “Never Gonna Dance.” “Showboat” Is Remade The 1936 version of “Show Boat” is to head the list of pictures the Circle will obtain from Universal. This film stars Irene Dunne. This is the second time Universal has filmed “Show Boat,” the first version being released in 1929. Other Universal pictures are to include “My Man, Godfrey,” with William Powell; “Dracula’s Daughters,” “Strangers at the Feast,” a,nd two stories made famous by Lon Chaney, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Phantom of the Opera.” Warner Bros, productions to be shown at the Circle are “Hearts Divided,” with Dick Powell, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton and Marion Davies, and, late in the summer, “Anthony Adverse,” starring Fredric March. Books W. C. Fields Movie “The Princess Comes Across,” another of the Fred Mac Murray Lombard farces done in the manner of “Hands Across the Table,” is one of the Paramount films which the Circle is tc present this summer. The latter picture did more business in Indianapolis than in any other city in the country, and Mr. Halperin expects equal fan interest in “The Princess Comes Across.” Another Paramount film scheduled is “Poppy,” tha first W. C. Fields picture in more than a year. Others from Paramount include

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NEW LEGION POST BAND AIMS AT STATE HONORS

BY JAMES THRASHER Something must be done, agreed Abe Hammerschlag and Lawrence F. Connaughton, about Emerson Post No. 202. American Legion, which probably had more musicians than any other organization of its class in the country. So they organized a 40-piece military and concert band from a membership roster of 99. When the new band makes its first appearance at the state convention in Muncie this summer, it is to be the only Legion band formed entirely by men from a single post. The name of Lawrence Connaughton may not be familiar to all, but to hundreds of Indianapolis friends “Connie” is known as the leader of one of the city’s popular dance bands, former director of the WKBF staff orchestra and the “spark plug” of the Legion “Musician’s Post.” Directed Show Bands Mr. Hammerschlag is vice commander of the post, president of Local No. 3, American Federation of Musicians, who for many years directed orchestras at Keith’s and the Lyric. He is conductor of the new Legion ensemble. General musical organization and direction and supervision of special band arrangements being prepared by post members are among “Connie’s” duties. Gar Davis, as post commander, is checking the endeavor. It was like old times, remarked Mr. Hammerschlag, when he raised his baton for this winter’s intial rehearsal. Seated before him were 12 men who had played under his direction as members of the 309th Engineers Band in France. Post Formed in July “The best band in the servicp,” Abe remarked. There were 18 Indianapolis boys in this army band, and they played “six-day stands” among the 13 base hospitals at Savenay, debarkation camp. After the war, six of the players served under Mr. Hammerschlag in local theaters. Emerson Post was organized last July, and has grown from a charter

“Home on the Range,” with Bing Crosby and Frances Farmer; “Forgotten Faces,” with Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael; “Early to Bed,” starring Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland, and George Brent and Madeleine Carroll in “The Case Against Mrs. Ames.” The Circle has booked several British films. The first of these will be “Rhodes, the Empire Builder,” starring Walter Huston, which is on the same bill with “Till We Meet Again,” starting May 1.

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