Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1936 — Page 14

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ROGERS HOPES TO ENJOY MORE COMFORTABLE STAY IN CITY

Bandmaster Booked for Lyric Revue Memory of Hot July —and Packed Houses Still Kept in Mind. When Buddy Rogers brings his California Cavaliers to the Lyric Friday for a week’s engagement, his only request will be that the theater's cooling system is in good working order. It took an accident last July to prove the handsome screen star and musician’s local popularity as well as his gameness. His appearance coincided with a breakdown in the Lyric's air-conditioning machinery, but working beneath the lights at a temperature of nearly 100 degrees, he packed the house for five shows a day. "To do that,” says Ted Nicholas of the Lyric, "you have to be a real trouper.” Has Traveled Far Since playing Indianapolis last year, Buddy has made a couple of pictures in London, reorganized his band and returned for a series of hotel and vaudeville appearances. He is playing the Palace in Cleveland this week, was in Toronto the week before, and recently provided the stage show at Loews State on Broadway. Sharing honors with Buddy in the Lyric revue is to be Jeannie Lang, tiny singer who first gained prominence in Paul Whiteman’s movie, "The King of Jazz,” and who later was featured with Whiteman’s orchestra. Others on the bill are Marty May, who played Huck. the orchestra leader, in the stage version of “Roberta,” and has been heard more recently as the star of the CBS program, "Marty May-time”; Ruthie Barnes, tap dancer, and Julius Losch and Arnold Hasjey, band members featured in comedy bits. Stage Is Preferred Both Mr. Rogers and Miss Lang prefer their present musical activities to screen work. Though Jeannie drifted from the stage into music quite by accident, Buddy started out as a musician. His first instrument was the trombone, but by the time he had left the University of Kansas, he had learned to play the piano, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, accordion, guitar and drums with professional skill. When the orchestra swings into “Twelfth Street Rag,” its favorite tune, Buddy demostrates his versatility by playing all the above instruments, and climaxes his performance by an impressive vocal rendition of the lyrics. Actor Subject to Curfew on Study Time* Special HOLLYWOOD. May 11.—The curfew rang each night at 10:30 for Owen Davis Jr. during the filming of "His Majesty, Bunker Bean.” It was a rather unusual one, however,* since it didn’t require Davis to put out the lights and go to sleep, but merely banned further study on his scenes until the following day. Co-directors Edward Killy and William Hamilton issued the edict when they learned that Davis, enthusiastic over the biggest opportunity of his acting career, had been burning the midnight electricity poring over his script.

Wild Rumors Give Hollywood News Hawks Chronic Jitters Gossip Has Ginger Rogers and Ann Shirley ‘Dead’ Daily, and Rich Stars' Mothers Are Forever Starving. T intri Special HOLLYWOOD, May 11.—Movie colony residents have usurped the politicians' position as ace instigators of "whispering campaigns.” The year- round activities of Hollywood gossipers surpasses in variety and creative genius anything produced at election time.

Hollywood rumors are elaborately formed and heavily disguised, like the bewhiskered villain in a melodrama. Particularly plaguing are the rumors of death, with Ginger Rogers and Ann Shirley the most frequently imagined victims. It keeps studio officials busy and embarrassed. they say. calling up stars to see if % they are still alive. No one knows precisely how or why such a story starts. Someone who has heard it telephones a newspaper. surprising the city editor who must check on the story to protect his paper. Rumors Are Classified Students of the subject have divided Hollywood rumors into several classes. Heading the category are Grade A rumors, which pass the whispering stage to mingle with the day's news in the papers; and Grade B. which includes stories that never get into public pitnt, but which are hardly less effective. A Grade A story that kept film columnists and drama editors in a state of mingled anticipation and irritation was the one concerning a film appearance of Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March, with John Ford as director. Opinion was about equally divided between "The Plough and the Stars" and "Playboy of the Western World” as the stars' vehicle. After more than a month of discussion, it turned out to be "Mary of Scotland.” But the gossipers had guessed the principals correctly. The most Jarring rumor occurred at the time of Dorothy Dell's death in an automobile accident. Two days before the tragedy, correspondents hurried to the airport to investigate a story that she had been killed in an airplane crash. The next day news wires from New York asked •Hollywood reporters to check the

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When a Small-Town Boy Sees Big Circus —He Gets a Thrill ‘Death Defying’ Ring Acts Shatter Illusions in Most Delightful Manner, Reviewer Reports. BY JAMES THRASHEF (Who Hadn’t Seen a Circus in 20 Years) Small boys, brought up in small towns, usually have to be content with small circuses. Os course, lack of perspective conceals part of the loss, enthusiasm makes up for many deficiencies, and memory retains a rather glowing image. But when this small-town boy betook himself to one of the week-end performances by the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus, in his illusions were shattered in a thorough, but wholly enjoyable, manner. ... .>

Most circuses that visited our village were “cowboy and Indian” affairs. presented by some spurious descended of Buffalo Bill. There was one. however, that had a lion. We recall that he was a disappointed looking beast, apparently suffering from nostalgia and a brave but losing fight against the mange. He Can Have the Job There was nothing mangy or disappointed about Mr. Beatty’s 40 “cats.” To be sure, they were sleeping peacefully in their cages when we arrived, but when they entered the arena they looked the picture of health, if not of contentment. It is evident that the lions and tigers aren’t very fond of their work or Mr. Beatty. They aproached the trainer like Joe Louis greeting a ring opponent. and went through their act with the alacrity of a small boy going to the dentist. Clyde Beatty's profession would

rumor that Dorothy Dell had been seriously injured in an auto smashup. Scarcely had the denials been wired back when the tragedy actually occurred. Some of the favorite rumors, all hardy perennials, include one about the actress whose studio had to spend thousands of dollars buying up nude photographs of her taken before her entrance into films; one about the high salaried star—any star—who is letting a poor old mother starve in Idaho, Wyoming. Budapest, Sioux City, or wherever poor old mothers starve; and that classic of all. the rumor about the horse Preston Foster punched to death. For good measure can be added the fables that Ginger Rogers uses a double in dancing scenes, that Shirley Temple is 18, but just small for her age. and the one that Katharine Hepburn was married last week in Arizona. It was “last week” in 1934, “last week” in 1935, and "last week” again this year. Which makes it her Paper Anniversary. [EGLISMWI9 >^T^ r l DRAMATISTS’ GUILD PRIZE PLAY I FUNNIEST—FASTEST—FINEST "BEE I BV BELLA AND SAM SPEWACK 1 I A GBORGE ABBOTT PRODUCTION j M H lUI. BEATS TH ÜBS.

not be our choice as a means of livelihood, but what he can do with ft whip and a chair is a credit to the human race. He moved around as gracefully as his felines, and was busier than any man we ever saw. Carrying on the family tradition, Mrs. Beatty also entered the ring and persuaded three incompatible jungle playmates to perform for the audience. There should be a place somewhere in the League of Nations cabinet for a lady who can make a lion and tiger ride on an elephant’s back. The Beatty's’ supporting cast surpassed any Hollywood "super spectacle” in skill, versatility and numbers. Our early circus training hadn’t fitted us to watch three rings at once, nor prepared us for the nervous strain of watching the Great Gretonas keep their balance. Lancing Under Difficulties By the time this European family had piled two men, a chair, another man and a girl all on a wire at the top of the tent, we had about enough. But the Great Gretonas took it in their stride. Terpsichore is courted by the Coles Brothers troupe, though unconventionally. Harold Barnes, the 16-year-old boy wonder, did a tango on the tight wire. Fifty-five tons of elephants danced the Continental and the Carioca, and a pretty young miss tap-danced on a galloping horse's Smell Still There Nine other young ladies, billed as the “human butterflies,” performed a scarf dance while hanging by their teeth in mid-air. Let Col. W. de Basil's Ballet Russe take notice. Circuses, we suppose, have changed less than other forms of amusement. But the loud speaker has replaced the ring master, and such things as a hippopotamus, 15 elephants, including the great Jumbo 11, and the “world's tallest and smallest men” are amazing to one brought up on “one'-ringers.” Still, there are familiar landmarks. The band members still wear red coats, and play as loud and fast as ever; the clowns haven't altered their makeup or antics and the circus smell remains practically the same. Gets Another Leading Role For her fifth leading role in less than a year, Margaret Callahan plays opposite Hoot Gibson in “The Last Outlaw'.” . wW——.— -

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That attentive ear belongs to Director W. S. Van Dyke, who is shown above rehearsing Jeanette MacDonald in one of her musical numbers for “San Francisco,” which is to be shown at Loew’s this month. The rapt gazes of sound and cameramen, electricians and the wardrobe mistress seem to indicate that Jeanette is getting along all right in the first picture in which she carries the entire musical burden herself. Her costars in “San Francisco” are Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy.

Maennerchor's Festival Is Set Annual Program to Be Given on May 23. Business is to be combined with pleasure in the Indianapolis Maennerchor’s annual May Festival, to be held on May 23. In addition to the regular program of choral and featured numbers, the audience is to hear auditions by young men and women vocal students of the city’s leading voice studios. An appearance with the Maennerchor next season and a prize of $25 is to be awarded the winning man and woman singers. Contestants are to be judged by music critics of the three Indianapolis newspapers. The men’s chorus, under the direction of Karl Reckzeh, will be heard in several selections to complete the musical program, which is to be interspersed Fith dancing. MOTHERS ~ WILL MEET Officers to Be Elected By Fall Creek Group Tomorrow. The Mothers’ Club of Fall Creek Kindergarten is to meet at 2 tomorrow in the Kindergarten for a round-table discussion and election of officers. Mrs. Edwin Weiss and Mrs. S. T. Richards are to lead the discussion on "Guiding the Emotional Stability of the Child.” Tea is to follow in charge of Mrs. Muriel Gibson. WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO "Under Two Flags,” with Ronald Coleman. Claudette Colbert. Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell, at U. 1:30. 4:20, 5:30. 7:40 and 9:50. CIRCLE ‘.'The Ex-Mrs. Bradford.” featuring William E 0 *? 1 ! and Jean Arthur, at 12:40. 3:45. 6:55 and 10:05. "Brides Are Like That.” with Ross Alexander and Anita Louise, at 11:35. 2:41. 5:51 and 9. KEITH’S "Behold This Dreamer” with Hal Hawkes, Jack Duval and Federal Players cast. Directed by Dr. Lee R. Norvelle. At 8:15. LOEWS "The Great Ziegfeld" with William Powell, Luise Ranier. Mvrna Lov, Frank Morgan and Ray Bolgar, at 2:30 and 8:30. LYRIC On screen. "The Law in Her Hands." with Margaret Lindsav. Klenda Farrell and Lvle Talbot, at 11:35. 1:45. 3.57. 6:09. 8:21 and 10:33. On stage. Major Bowes' "Amateurs.” Unit 7. at 12:45, 2:57. 5:09. 7:21 and 9:33. Twice Daily—2:3o-8:30 SS f|| M-G-M’s Show of Show* Btmrrimg WNHmr Myrna Lwm POWftl-IOY-RAINER 50 Stars! 300 Girls! All Seats Reserved M*t. Me-ll—***., PtM Tax

Artistic Development Noted in Recital by Young Pianist Sarah Marks Reveals Depth of Musical Insight, Digital Prowess in Program. Sarah Elizabeth Marks had not proceeded far with the three Beethoven Bagatelles which opened her program at the Herron Art Institute yesterday before it was apparent she had grown considerably in artistic stature since her last recital in that auditorium two years ago.

In the former appearance she astounded us with the technical accomplishments of a 15-year-old girl; yesterday she disclosed a deeper musical conception in addition to her digital prowess. The Beethoven compositions, light-hearted yet elusive in character, were played with sureness of purpose and beauty of color. Two Bach compositions followed, Siloti’s arrangement of an organ prelude in G major and the Partita in C Minor. Miss Marks delivered the prelude with a solidity and grandeur befitting the music, and her playing of the partita, though faltering at times, possessed clarity of outline and pianissimi of silken texture. Virtuosity Is Accomplished Os the second group, the Schumann “Papillons” was given a satisfactory performance. In three Brahms compositions that followed, two capriccios and an intermezzo from Op. 116, the young soloist seemed very much at home. The intermezzo was .done exquisitely, and the capriccios were of heroic, Brahmsian proportions. Miss Marks' accomplished virtuosity was given full sway in Liszt’s F Minor Concert Etude and the Paganini-Liszt variations in A Minor, which completed the concert. Moreover, she made them musically interesting as well as stunning display pieces. Throughout the program, many new beauties marked the path of Miss Marks’ musical progress. She has developed a compelling, songful tone, there is increased power and richness in her forte passages and a delightful delicacy to her pianissimo. Furthermore, she handled the acoustical difficulties of the Art Instituted Sculpture Court as competently as any young pianist we have heard. Miss Marks already has demonstrated remarkable accomplishments, anJ her future promises to be yet more brilliant. (By J. TANARUS.) v ‘Y’ Sets Camping Dates CSmp Tecumseh, Y. M. C. A. camp on the Tippecanoe River near Delphi, Ind., is to be operated by the Indianapolis Y from June (f through 16, it was announced today. The camp has accommodations for 132 boys. UfNC \ll • m A 01m* -

Organist, Pianist to Give Local Recitals The music department of the Broadway Baptist Church is to present Ben A. Camp, organist, and Miss Mable Pruitt, pianist, in recital at 8:15 Friday night in the church auditorium, Broadway and 22nd-st. The following program is to be presented: Prelude and Fugue In F Bach Melodie Rachmaninoff "Postludium Circulaire” Gaul Mr.‘Camp "Kamennol Ostrow” Rubinstein Intermezzo from "Cavaleria Rusticana” Mascagni Quartet from "Rigoletto” .Verdi Mr. Camp and Miss Pruitt Sonatine Ravel Etude Opus 10 No. 3 Chopin "Feux-Follets” Phillip Miss Pruitt First Sonata in D Minor Guilmant Largo e Maestoso Allegro Mr. Camp Mi &iS3fc* r That’s " What JOHN W. THOMPSON, able critic of The Indianapolis Times, t mm says about: aJ?OWIU ARTHUR BRADFORD' With JAMES OLEASON, ERIC LORE, ROBERT ARMSTRONG. StaxtUuf r ?Aideuf! II EDNA FERBER’S a SHOW BOAT With IRENE DUNNE

Competition Provides No Fear for Benny Goodman as He Invades New York King of Swing, Confident His Orchestra Will Please New York Public, Admits Best Music to Be Heard in East. BY RALPH NORMAN Benny Goodman isn't afraid of competition. Were he. his band would stay in the Middle West and not head East where he thinks the best musicians in America today are to be found. En route from Chicago to his New York hotel engagement, Mr. Goodman detoured during the week-end his popular dance orchestra to Bloomington for the I. U. Junior Prom, and here for an Indiana Roof engagement.

Join Show Today Billy Jolly and Alvin Joslin, two local amateurs on last night's Major Bowes’ Indianapolis program, are to arrive home by airplane today to join Unit No. 7, now playing at the Lyric, Ted Nicholas, manager, said last night. Billy, 17, a Shortridge High School junior, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Jolly, 902 N. Arlington-av. He played the banjo on the Major’s amateur last night. Alvin, who will be 17 Wednesday, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Joslin, 525 N. Colorado-av, and a junior at Arsenal Technical High School. He was taught to play the saxophone by his father. Alvin is to make his first Lyric appearance at the 12:50 show this afternoon and Billy is to arrive here in time for the stage show at 3.

Cast Selected for 'Seventeen' Broad Ripple Seniors Are to Give Tarkington Play. The cast for “Seventeen,” Broad Ripple High School senior class play, has been announced by Mrs. Ldlyon Winkle, in charge of the production which is to be presented May 15. Those chosen for roles in the Booth Tarkington play are Eva Thompson, Fred Steinmeier, Jack Noon, Marcella Reynolds, Betsy Marburger, Betty Smith, Bob Brittenbach, Paul Billhymer, Jerome Ross, Donn Rudd, Eva Pendergast, Albert Fehrenbach, and Jean Willicuts. “Seventeen” is a comedy of tho love-life of Willie Baxter, not quite 18. Privately he suffers all the torment of unrequited love. Little things like asking his father for spending money and running errands for his mother do not seem to him to fit in with a grownup's activities. When he. falls in love with Lola, the baby-talk girl, things point toward an exciting and humorous climax. Denver Attorney to Speak Charles Rosenbaum Denver attorney, is to address B’nai B’rith members at the Community Center at 8 toniglft. Mr. Rosenbaum is second vice president of District Lodge No. 2.

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WEST SIDE _ D T I T P 2102 W. 10th St. N I A I It. Double Feature x Dionne Quintupled "COUNTRY DOCTOR" "HERE COMES TROUBLE" BELMONT "'iKSi; f,X2r." i ULiliUiV/ltl Dionne Quintupleta "COUNTRY DOCTOR” Miriam Hopkins “THESE THREE” Da I rs 2540 w - Mich. St. A I N Y Double Feature 14 1 u 1 Bin* Crosby "ANYTHING GOES" Leslie Howard—Bette Davis "THE PETRIFIED FOREST” NORTH SIDE Rg m n Illinois at 34th I /, Double Feature And Shorts Myrna Lot—Clark Gable "WIFE VERSUS SECRETARY” “HITCH HIKE LADY” UPTOWN IV/ t Tll Miriam Hopkina Merle Oberon “THESE THREE Gee. Murphy "WOMAN TRAP” p a nn 30th *d nunou bARKK/K Double Feature Franchot Tone "EXCLUSIVE STORY” "ROSE OF_THE RANCHO” rur a a www St Clair ie Ft. Wayne jl, Lil/AIK Double Feature Dionne Quintuplet* "COUNTRY DOCTOR” Ann Hardin*—Herbert Marshall "THE LADY CONSENTS" Qpv 30 th at Nerthw't’n KIVA Double Feature Nelson Eddy “ROSE MARIE” Zane Gray’s “NEVADA” mil nATT Talbot A 22nd IALBUI 1 Etnre Paul Muni "THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR” “THE MUSIC GOES ROUND” STRATFORD SXmfSSZ 4 4 4 Richard Dtx “TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL" Aline MarMahon "KIND LADY” Mp ri /■r a Noble 4k Mass. Ktill A ®*Me Tnlun Frederic March “DARK ANGEL” Boria Karloff "INVISIBLE RAT” rxn rm 23111 Statlen St DREAM “KING OF BURLESQUE” Laurel-Hardy in "THE BOHEMIAN GIRL” EAST SIDE TUXEDO 4 ™^. N r~*. r rr h ■ VJ IVUI/V/ Warner Baxter "THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND” “THE MUSIC GOES ROUND”_ TACOMA “ROSE MARIE” Nosh Beery Jr—' STORMY”

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Pausing between dance groups at the Roof to sip a cool drink, the bespectacled, studious director told us that while the East has the best musicians in the country, this is no concern of his because he never plays for musicians but for the public. Perhaps this explains why his orchestra, organized less than two years ago and almost unknown until last winter, is now "tops” with count’ess radio listeners and dancers. Began at "Bottom” To Indiana Roof patrons Saturday night, Mr. Goodman was undisputed "king of swing,” but the first time he played for Manager Tom Devine he was only a clarinet player in Ben Pollock’s orchestra at Racine, Wis. Since those days of work with other hands, including Ted Lewis’ and Paul Whiteman’s, the rise to popularity with his own organization has been far from easy. Benny Goodman's band played its first engagement at Billy Rose's Music Hall in July, 1934. Then, Mr. Goodman explained to show us what fate can do, the boys became discouraged and decided to disband. An NBC radio offer. Your Hit Parade, causefl - disorganization to be postponed indefinitely. The orchestra appealed to listeners, its radio work won it an engagement at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, followed by a successful winter at the Congress in Chicago. Now Mr. Goodman goes back to New York, not unknown, but the director of one of radio’s most popular dance bands. Stumped by Mozart The director’s musical ability is not limited to weird “swing” interpretations. Far from it; he is a recognized clarinetist, and plays many difficult classical compositions. He told us of rehearsing six hours with the Belgian Pro Arts String Quartet Mozart's “Clarinet Quintet” to make a phonograph recording, only to abandon the enterprise because desired perfection could not be attained. Musical undertakings with the Goodmans are family affairs. On the road as advance agent to handle bookings and arrangements is one brother, and another is a member of the band. Newcastle Audience to Hear City Artist George Newton, Indianapolis singer, is to appear in Newcastle tomorrow night as soloist with the Apollo Club Male Chorus. Walter Whitworth is to be accompanist. Mr. Newton is to be heard in two numbers with the chorus, the "Marching Song,” from Victor Herbert’s "Naughty Marietta,” and the Negro spiritual, “Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho,” as well as in two solo groups by Gounod, Lehmann, Mendelssohn, Somervell, Griffesand Warlock. A Federal Theater Projret Work* Progress Administration KEITH’S fTiarLl federal players In The Satirical Comedy !XP ' ) “BKIIOI.n THIS WEEK ) DREAMER” I NIGHTS, 15c. 25c, 40c ' 1 I SAT. MAT., 10c, 20r, BQe I Xext Week •THK TRIAL, OF MART DIOAN"

EAST SIDE IRVING K v T Charlie Chaplin “MODERN TIMES” “NEXT TIME WE LOVE” DTI7AT T 3,55 E • 10th st * KIVOLI Double Featora “TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE” Jaeh Healey “F MAN” EMERSON DnuWe Feature Ginger Roger* “FOLLOW THE FLEET** LIVE GHOSTS” HAMILTON Double Feature Gl °‘~ *SSUm 7i?ra3^BTPARKER XSf “ROSE MARIE”* 011 EddT Aaae Shirley “CHATTERBOX” __ STRAND '%&* „ „ “FRONT PAGE” ° Brien Richard Dig "YELLOW DUST” RAY V 2521 E WaahTst^ ** 1 Double Feature “THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAX* (A Full '-Reel Feature Picture) “A NIGHT *.T THE OPERA” Alo Big Amateur Show Tonight—lß Acta Paramount “THE KING OF BURLESQUE” “THE INVISIBLE RAY 5 ’ SOUTH SIDE * FOUNTAIN SQUARE’ Double Feature Ginger Rogera “FOLLOW THE FLEET” Jack Healey “F MAN” SANDERS “ Double Feature*** Map ntst “GOIN” TO TOWN" “HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE” Granada “ Warner Baiter “PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND” George Raft—Rosalind Ru*eU "IT HAD TO HAPPEN” A\r a I /"v VI Frospect-Churehiaaa V A LOW Do “ ble Feature fa ave i. a Franchot Tone “EXCLUSIVE STORY” Shirley Temple “THE LITTLEST REBEL** ORIENTAL * “IN OLD KENTUCKY”**** Larry Crabbo “DRIFT FENCE” GARFIELD “ROSE MARIE” “WHISPERING SMITH SPEAKS”