Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1936 — Page 26

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'UNDER TWO FLAGS' FURNISHES FOUR-STAR ENTERTAINMENT

Legion Film Packed With Fast Drama Story of Action, Heroic Love Best Since ‘Bengal Lancer.’ eands of the Arabian desert have been ably sprinkled beneath the feet of Ronald Coleman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell by Director Frank Lloyd, and the result is the best screen entertainment of its kind since "Lives of a Bengal Lancer." The picture, "Under Two nags," opening at the Apollo today, combines excellently the best portions of the Ouida novel with the splendid acting of the above qur -*t, and for almost two hours h.-'a this reviewer in a state of boyisn excitement. It is the story of a young British officer who enlists in the French Foreign Legion under the name of Victor to escape arrest for a crime which his younger brother committed and for which he had shouldered the blame. In Africa his brilliant military knowledge and able command of his troops under difficult conditions wins him a promotion from the company major, Doyle. Chooses English Lady At a case, run by a girl camp follower. Cigarette. Victor repulses her advances. Later he meets her in the market place, challenges her to a horse race with a kiss as th prize, wins. Off they race into the desert. And ’neath the romantic desert skies, she learns to love him. When Victor returns he accidentally meets Lady Venetia, English girl who had accompanied the English High Commissioner to his post, and falls in love with her. He dares jail to court her and captures her heart. Then comes news of the gathering of Sidi-Ben Yousiff’s forces in the desert and Doyle, made a colonel, is given the task of fighting the Arabs. He tells Cigarette the glad news, receives a cold reception, forces from her admission of her love for Victor. In the battle with the Arabs, Doyle sends Victor three times against the enemy with a deliberate attempt to have him killed. But Victor always comes back. At last he is trapped with a few comrades in an old fort. Doyle then relents, takes his entire force to the rescue. The result is that the whole army is surrounded by the wily African tribes. Facing extermination, Doyle and Victor make up. Gives Life for Rival But Cigarette rides at the head of a rescue party from the base camp I and, although she pays with her lite, j saves the man she loves. In his j arms she dies after telling him: j "Tell your English lady that IJ saved you for her." Back in the city, all of Victor’s past is cleared up with no blemishes left on his record and Cigarette is buried with high military honors. The one drawback to “Under Two Flags" is that it is too long. The speed it picks up during exciting episodes carries it right past the place where it should have stopped. The ending seems to be a rather childish attempt to "explain all.” Direction Is Adroit Director Lloyd has handled a cumbersome subject artistically. The battle scenes are among the best the screen has produced. Natural settings and technical excellence is only surpassed by the super-normal cast. Mr. Colman is his usual breathtaking self as Victor. He has the opportunity to get his face dirty fighting the Arabs and to display his flawless romantic technique with two lovely ladies. Miss Colbert's performance is just another role at which to marvel. The reserve of this young actress is remarkable. The way she takes the part of Cigarette, in which she does not "win out in the end" and makes of it a dramatic masterpiece is ingenious. For All the Family Mr. McLaglen blusters and roars entertainingly as Doyle, and Miss Russell continues her upward climb in the sympathetic role of Lady Vonelia. Deftly has Director Lloyd balanced this part with that of Cigarette so that audiences won’t feel that the "wrong" girl was killed. Among the smaller roles, that of Ivan, played by Gregory Ratoff, stands out as a gem of comedy. Nigel Bruce also appears in an excellent comedy part. J. Onslow Stevens plays the Arab chieftain with verve. Here is film fare which is healthful food for the whole family. And there won't be a dull moment for the most blase. It's a four-star picture in more ways than one. (By G. W. T.i Leads Are Selected for Manual Play Margaret Webber and Jack Kistner have been chosen for the leading roles in "Thanks Awfully," one of two plays which will be presented In the Manual Training High School this afternoon by the Mask and Wig, a dramatic organization, for the benefit of the Red Cross Clubs. • 'Professional' Quite Non-Professional Madge Evans, who typifies young professional women on the screen, has never been in any profession except that of acting. >'ow Thro Saturday! “COUNTRY I IW DOCTOR” I h{ DIONNE KIDDIES H Plug "Lora on a Hot" toM?!sL A Federal Theater Projeef Work* Progress Administration KEITH’S fTSU FEDERAL PLAYERS Tho Satirical Comedy “BEHOLD THIS DREAMER” I HTdHffrite. Ur. sw7 ~| I BAT. MAT.. lOe, Me, Sdc | la Preparation—"TH* TRIAL OP MART DUGAN”

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One of the Children’s Theater's most successful plays, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” is to be presented again tomorrow at 10:30 and 2:30 in the Civic Theater Playhouse. It was given

Powell Star of Mystery Comedy Hit ‘Ex*Mrs. Bradford’ Features Suave Actor in ‘Thin Man’ Role. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON To most of us a William Powell picture is like manna from the heavens. Let it be known that that “manna’s here again, this time in "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford,” in which Mr. Powell is starred with Jean Arthur. It opens at the Circle today. In a "Thin Man” type of role, the suave Powell is cast as Dr. Lawrence Bradford, affluent gentleman about town whose penchant for solving mysteries is squelched by his ex-wife, Paula. She naively gets him all mixed up whenever the opportunity is presented. Whep a jockey dies suddenly during a horse race and the owner of the horse, Mike North, asks Dr. Bradford to examine the body for signs of foul play, it is the ex-Mrs. Bradford who gets her ex-husband into the case. Suspected of Murder Dr. Bradford finds a jelly-like substance on the boy’s arm but nothing to indicate murder. Yet Paula hangs onto to the murder theory. Later Mike North’s body falls in through Dr. Bradford's front doorway and the police suspect him of murder. The same type of jelly-like substance is found on Mike. After a run-in with a gang of book makers who all but take Dr. Bradford for a ride, he accidentally discovers the murderer and the missile. We won’t spoil it for you by telling. The plot of “The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" is an unusually intriguing one especially since Mr. Powell and Miss Arthur’s acting could stand a much lighter story. A good story and a good cast is a rare combination and this is a rare picture. The comedy is, if anything, even spicier than the "Thin Man" and every bit as carefree as “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” even though Stephen Roberts and not Frank Capra directed it. For instance, when Paula discovers a test tube containing the jelly-like substance Dr. Bradford had found on the jockey’s body, she steals it, has it analyzed and is told there is nothing poisonous in it. Undaunted, she serves Mr. Powell an entire meal made up of nothing but gelatin foods. There is gelatin consomme and gelatin salad and gelatin desert. All throug the meal she keeps asking him if he doesn't feel faint or dizzy. When he doesn’t she is nonplussed and tells him her secret. Able Supporting Cast Again, when Powell battles with a burglar he had discovered in his apartment, Paula attempts to help, swings a vase over the scuffling couple and puts her lover out like a light. The picture is full of such situations. Mr. Powell has an added touch of dignified humor in his role which makes it even more forceful

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One of 27 Waonmgton High School seniors to take part in three one-act plays tonight. Ann Mitchell (above) is to have a leading role in “The High Heart.” A fantasy, "Three Pills in a Bottle," and “Suzanna Skids," a comedy played by 12 girls, complete the program. than "The Thin Man.” And Miss Arthur plays right up to her hero all through the film. There are even times when her giddy comedy tops his performance. She deserves the highest praise for having come a long way on the road “back" and is destined for a long line of such parts. This, we believe, is her best role to date. With Eric Blore (“Top Hat’s” perfect butler) as Mr. Powell’s valet, Jimmy Gleason as the detective and Robert Armstrong as a gangster-booker, the cast supports the star remarkably well. The title might mislead one into thinking the film was another of the humdrum divorce-remarriage pictures which have cluttered theaters for some time. But take our word for it, "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford” has the brightest plot, the most sparkling comedy that has come out of Hollywood in months. Don’t miss it even if you have to beg or borrow the price of admission.

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right is Nancy Langan. The ladies in waiting (left to right) are: Betty Carter, Herberton Weiss. Alice Murphy, Moyra Saxton, and Margery Clark. Mrs. Rosamond Van Camp Hill is directing the production.

Films Interest Woman Skater Sonja Henie Flies West in Search for Role. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. May 8. Sonja Henie, blond Scandinavian ice skater, today said she is ready at any time to take off the steel blades for a pair of high-heeled shoes and become an actress. She arrived here yesterday from the East by airplane, accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Henie, and her professional skating partner, Jack Dunn. Miss Henie readily admitted she is seeking a motion picture contract and scheduled skating engagements here so studio executives would see her. One major studio was reported interested in signing her and will take a series of screen tests soon. Miss Henie has been the world's champion woman figure skater for the last 10 years and is a veteran competitor in the Olympic winter sports.

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Indorsing by Movie Stars Adds to Pay Good Cash, Free Samples Are Exchanged for Signatures. HOLLYWOOD, May 8. —(NEA) —The indorsement business amounts to quite a nice little sideline for movie stars, and may keep them in cigarets, shoes, automobiles, toothpaste, or whatever products they choose to approve. Several get good cash money in addition to free samples and the publicity afforded by publication of their pictures. More of them than skeptics would guess actually use the products they indorse. Popularity is a fragile thing, and they have to be pretty careful. Western stars, for example, do not indorse cigarets. One horseopera hero appeared in a tobacco advertisement and received a great many disapproving letters from: prent-teacher associations. For several months his pictures actually j were dropped from some of the preferred lists compiled by local censors. No Fan for Harlow Innumerable propositions are rejected by the stars. One company wanted Jean Harlow to stand next to a ventilating fan and allow her skirt to be blown this way and that—mostly up. It would have made quite an interesting picture. Miss Harfow said, "No, thanks." Makers of women’s nether finery and foundations are forever after Mae West’s indorsement. She always declines, figuring that this

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would be the most illusion-shatter-ing publicity possible. One manufacturer wants to sell corsets bearing her autograph. Can you imagine Klondike Annie posing in a corset? Oh, well—don’t try. They say Jiat Greta Garbo was asked to indorse a garbage can. to have been called the "Greater Garbo Garbage-ola," or something like that. That was probably the first time the wan Swede decided that she wanted to go home. Little Shirley Tops List Shirley Temple is Hollywood’s champion indorser. Manufacturers pay her an aggregate of about SIOOO a week for her sponsorship and royalties on sales. Her name appears on 12 different articles—dresses, paper dolls, cutout books, real dolls, soap, hair ribbons, story books, coats, hats, drinking glasses, underwear and handbags. But Shirley’s advisers have declined many an offer. Their loudest “no” went to a French manufacturer of fancy cigarets. He wanted to include her name in a list of stars who preferred his brand. A good many .lesser actors and actresses are inveterate chiselers who continually are seeking chances to make indorsements. It’s nice work when they can get it. Mary Bickford Aloof About the only topnotcher who consistently refused to make indorsements during her entire film career was Mary Pickford. She reckons that she must have passed up more than a million dollars of easy money. She’s doing a bit of indorsing now, on the radio. The next time you go to a movie, give a thought to these figures: The film is traveling through the projection machine at the rate of 90 feet a minute. There are 16 frames, or individual pictures, to each foot of film. Twenty-four of these frames flash on the screen each second--1440 a minute. If it’s a good feature with bigname stars, each of those fleeting flashes costs at least $5 to film, and

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO "tinder Two Flags,’’ with Ronald Coleman. Claudette Colbert, victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell, at U, 1:30. 4 20. 5:30. " 40 snd 9:50. CIRCLE "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford." feaiutlng William Powell and Jean Arthur, at 12:40. 3:45. 6:55 and 10:05 Brides Are Like That." with Boss Alexander and Anita Louise, at 11.35. 2:41, 5:51 and 9. KEITHS "Behold This Dreamer" with Hal Hawkes, Jack Duval and Federal Players cast. Directed bv Dr. Lee R. Norveile. At 8:15. LOEWS "The Great Ziegfeld" with William Powell. Luise Ranicr. Mvrna Lor. Frank Morgan tnd Ray Bolgar, at 2:30 and 8:30. LYRIC On screen. "The Law in Her Hands." with Margaret Lindsay. Klenda Farrell and Lvle Talbot, at 11:35. 1:45. 3:57. 6:00. 8:21 and 10:33. On stage. Major Bowes' ' Amateurs.'’ Unit 7, at 12:45. 2:57, 5:09. 7:21 and 9:33.

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WEST SIDE n rn 4 p 2*02 W. 10th St. STATE S/tIS" “TRAIL’S END” Aline MacMahon, “KIND LALY" BELMONT Featu*re° n * Jackie Cooper “TOUGH GUY” “THE CATTLE THIEF” D> *o v 2540 wTliiefc. st, Dick Foran “SONG OF THE SADDLE” “THE LONE WOLF RETURNS” NORTH SIDE R| m rj Illinois at 34th I /. Double Feature * Joel McCrea Miriam Hopkins “THESE THREE” "LAST OF THE PAGANS” UPTOWN Double Feature . Robert Donat “THE GHOST GOES WEST” “IT HAD TO HAPPEN" _ y 4D I) IPI/ 311th and Illinois uAKKIUV Double Feature Victor* Jorr “ESCAPE FROM DEVIL’S ISLAND” “LITTLE MEN” _ CTT y I A 111 st - Clair * Ft. Wayne M. LiLAIR Double Feature Aline. MaeMahoa “KIND LADY” “THE MUSIC GOES ROUND” nrv *fcth at Nertbw^Va IvJdA Richard Diz “TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL” Cartoon—News TALBOTT SS£k£? “TOUGH GUY” Ricardo Cortez "MAN HUNT” STRATFORD O 11v/l 1 r vlw Claudette Colbert “THE BRIDE COMES HOME” Geo. Arliss “MISTER HOBO" mjg p a Nb!e 4c Mass. MECCA D j u ohn W “ROSE OF THE RANCHO” "MAN OF IRON” l \v\ p a a a 2351 Station SU DREAM Eztra Special Svlvia Sidney “MARY BURNS. FUGITIVE" New Serial “Great Air Mystery" EAST SIDE TUXEDO i "&A.%tJSr fc 4LIAL/I/V7 Paul Muni “THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR” • “HER MASTER’S VOICE” TACOMA teSir.**ItIVIUIUi I Harold Lloyd “THE MILKY WAY” “BAR 29 RIDES AGAIN"

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St. Roeh Club to Give Play Delores Knarzer, Vincent Rolles Have Leads. The Young People's Club of SL Roch's Church is to present a threeact play, “Mother's Moment" tomorrow at 2:30 and 8:30 p. m. in St, Roch's Hall, 3600 S. Meridian-st. Leading roles are to be taken by Miss Dolores Knarzer and Vincent Rolles. Others in the cast are Gertrude Koers, Henry Arzman, Irvin Rohrman, Charles Telpen, Dorothy Teipen, Julia Geis, Robert McDonnell and Dolores Bauman,

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