Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1936 — Page 13

Local Movie Star Looks to Big Roles

Leading Actress in TimesLoew’s Film Aspires to Musical Parts.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON If Mary Paxton Young, leading actress in “It Happened in Indianapolis,” ever makes the “grade” and gets into Hollywood's inner circle, she would like to do musical roles, the said today in an interview dur-

ing the filming of The Times-Loew's |

all local movie. “I'm having fun working in this

picture,” Miss Young said, “but it’s altogether different from the dramatic work I've done. In the movies you have to stand still most of the time. And many times it is natural to want to walk around. But walking gives the finished picture a sort of ‘jitters’ so it can’t be done. “At first I was a bit nervous about standing in front of the buzzing cgmera but I soon got used to it and now it is fun.” Miss Young, an attractive brunet with hazel eyes and a catching smile, was born in Vicksburg, Miss. After the Young family moved to Indianapolis, Mary was graduated from Sthool No. 76.

Joined Dramatic Group

From there she entered Tudor Hall where she first became interested in dramatics. She was a charter member of the school's drama group, The Masquers. From Tudor Miss Young went to Butler, spent four years in Thespis, Butler's dramatic organization. If she couldn't play musical roles

in the movies, Mary would like to |

play ‘heavy dramatic parts. She doesn't care for comedy. When asked what movie stars she liked, Miss Young was evasive. “I don’t think one can single out a star and say she liked him or her alone. There are so many types of actors and roles that it is almost impossible to compare them. I do like to see Dick Powell, Charles Laughton, Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullavan, and Jeanette MacDonald.” As pastimes, Miss Young prefers horseback riding, but also goes in for swimming, golf and archery. She likes best to watch polo games and trap-shooting matches. Miss Young's avocation is art. She has studied for several years and likes pastel work best. She is now taking lessons at the John ierron Art Institute and is studying costume design under Earl Beyer. She is getting her dance training with Jac Broderick, local dance master.

Sings in Choir

‘On Bundays Miss Young sings in the choir at Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church, and on week days studies voice with Jane Johnson Burroughs. At Butler Miss Young is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, and Phi Beta, national honorary dramatic organization. According to Director Leonard A. De Menna, shooting on “It Happened * in Indianapolis” should be completed today. Yesterday interior scenes at the Antlers were taken. Tomorrow the film will be shipped to New York for cutting and editing and should be back at Loew's before July 1. When the picture returns Manager Ward Farar is ‘planning a premiere for stars and cast. The Sim wil be shown at Loew's for a wee

Party Saved When

Groucho Dons Paint Times Special HO OOD, June 3.—Groucho Marx gave a birthday party for his 8-year-old daughter Meriamm and invited all the neighborhood youngsters. For the occasion, Groucho was the picture of sartorial elegance in white slacks and a yellow Sweater. Missing Meriam, the star found her sobbing in a corner. It developed that some of the more skeptical guests didn’t believe that Groucho was the man in the pictures, because he did not wear a frock coat, have a mustache and smoke cigars. Groucho donned his costume, put on a grease paint upper lip adornment and was the sensation of the party

Ruggles Isn't Timid Off Screen, Report

Times Special : HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—Charlie Ruggles seemis to be afraid of his own shadow on a theater screen. In his new picture, “Early to Bed,” he is dominated completely by Mary Boland. But this timid soul personality is Just a pose with Charlie. Actually he is as hard as a prize fighter in condition. . People who know him in real life generally describe him in this manner: “Once Charlie steps out of the studio He's another person. He stands straighter when he walks to his car for a drive to the Hollywood Athletic Club. And when he dons a pair of shorts and starts

handball, there’s nothing ‘mousey’ about him.”

Ginger to Desert Astaire for Movie

Times Special

Clark Gable Says He's a Rebel by Nature; Mutiny Role Enjoyed jum i’ es "2

Sympathetic View of Fletcher Christian’s Problems Held by Actor of ‘Bounty’ Part.

BY RUTH M'TAMMANY Times Hollywood Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—Clark

“star,” “leading man,” “matinee idol.”

favorite in feminine discussions.

‘Gable’s name is SYTOOTIIONS with His fan mail is large, he is a

But, coming up from a small Pennsyl-

vania farm, through years of hard labor in oil fields, rubber factories and lumber camps, he is a man’s man with a hankering for the out-

doors. He says he is a rebel.

“I wondered considerably why the character Fletcher Christian, in

‘Mutiny on the Bounty,’ appealed to me more than any other I had ever portrayed. Then it came to me. He was a rebel.

“There are two kinds of rebels, however; ‘one, anti-anything for the sake ‘of being anti; the other, against things not clearly justifiable. “Fletcher Christian had problems, I understand—I’'ve had mine. I believe that if you have a purpose in life, a definite ambition, you can achieve them by determination and work. I seem to have reached one goal—pictures. I am happy in this work. “But I never forget that little farm—a zig-zag stream—the old swimming hole—a hickory grove. Today, packing up and hitting for the Sierras with my dogs, the old setting will reappedr. I was 5 then. I am sorry for any kid who wasn’t born on a farm—he misses something.” Richard Carle was in a “racey” gray suit and checkered vest, dressed for Wanger’s production “Spendthrift.” We last saw him a celebrated comedian in “Furs and Frills,” a Broadway musical comedy. “I have a private Pullman car, money and popularity in ‘Spendthrift.” . But tonight, at dusk, I'll trod my weary way home—unnoticed.” Jimmie Allen, 18-year-old boy who stars in the picture “The Sky Parade,” has an estimated radio audience of millions in the United States, Australia and Alaska. He is a fatalist. “Life to me is just a game of fate. You work, you play, you eat and— poof—you are gone,” says Jimnie. “Women Are Trouble” is the title of a new production starting this week at M-G-M. We visited the set on the first day of scene shooting. We learned from Stuart Erwin that it is his first stellar role; from Director Errol Taggert that it is his first “direé¢tor”’ job—he has been an

assistant. It is a story written: by!

George Harmon Cox, a magazine writer—his first to bé filmed. Ruland Blake wrote the screen adaptation—his first. The scene was a newspaper editorial room. “Here goes,” said Stuart Irwin, “for my first lines—and what lines!” Paul Kelly, the ie ity editor, said to his reporter, Erwin “Well, got anything, Mike?” “Yeah, murder scoop.” “Great, who did it?” “Dunno.” “You don't know? Where's She scoop? Mike, do you know what I think’ you Aare?” “Dunno.”

“A Jot of trouble.”

come actor and go into the cavalry. He .did all three. Tall, straight, affable and ambitious, he likes to keep on: the move. Craving action, he has had plenty for the last year and a half. “This is my fifteenth picture in eighteen months,” he said, “and as soon as I finish ‘Sweet Aloes’ with Kay Francis, I am going up to the State of Washington to play in a technicolor production. I expect to take the work on these locations as a vacation—all I'll get. “For the first time .in my life, I am tired. Here I am, a strong Irishman, who went through the revolution in Ireland, without a groan, complaining about my work. But it is really only the studio lights which bother me. That glare is the thing which bothers you, after many months of it. But I wouldn't get out of it; if I could . .. unless there's an Irish revolt.”

Unbobbed Girls Few in Picture Capital |s

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—When the RKO Radio studios sent out a call for 10 long-haired women to appear in the new Ann Shirley picture, “M’liss,” they exhausted almost 50 per cent of the unbobbed contingent listed in the screen town. Unbobbed girls are practically nonexistent on the extra lists, a chec of the studios revealed.

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO “Bullets or Ballots,” with Edwar

G. n an loan Blondell, 11:40, 1:40, 3:40. 5:40. 7:40, 9:40.

CIRCLE

“Florida Special.” with Jack Oakie * and Sally Eilers. at 11:55, 2:58, 6:03,

‘ “Forgotten Face.” with Herbert Marshall and Tide Michael, at

4:04, LOEW'S ‘The King Steps Out.” with Gris chot To

Mogre and ne, L, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20 and = and “Speed.

with . James Stew ‘Barrie, at 12:30, 32 oir and nd 3.55 KEITH'S

“The al Family” presented the Federal Players, at ore 150 by

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Barney Rapp and orchestra stage at 1:08. 3:48, 8:42 and y:26. Joe B. Brown in “Sons O’ Guns’ Borden. a3 11:22, 2:05, 4:50, 7:53 od

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Joan Robinson’ S

Piano Recital

Thrills Indianapolis Audience

16-Year-0ld Indiana University Co-Ed Displays Depth. .Poetry and Poise in Her Brilliant Playing.

BY JAMES THRASHER Concert-goers probably get fewer pleasant surprises than any other seekers of entertainment or artistic enlightenment, and consequently they may be pardoned for an unusual enthusiasm, Specially when the surprise comes in the person of a “child prodigy.”

We really. admit that we trudged

hapter House last night without many sanguine hopes, but we stayed to hear one of the finest examples of student piano playing in our remembrance. The soloist was 16-year-old Joan Robinson, student of Prof. Ernest Hoffzimmer of the Indiana University School of Music. She is a freshman in the university.

Hardly a “Prodigy”

It is unfair to place Miss Robin= son in the “prodigy” class, for there is nothing childish about her performance, despite . her age. She confounds preconceived convictions of youthful musicians by possessing all of the qualities they never are supposed to have. Specifically, her playing has depth, poetry, imagination and poise in ‘addition to brilliant and clear technical attainments. Her program Was one of mature problems and proportions, consisting of the .Bach-Liszt Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, the Schumann G Minor Sonata, four etudes- by Chopin, shorter compositions by Debussy, Goossens and de Falla, and two pieces by Liszt, “St. Francis Walking on the Waves” ‘and the arrangements of Paganini’s ‘La Campanella,” with further elaborations by Busoni. - Last -night’s downpour prevented our arriving in time for the Bach, but the sonata, which is no child’s play, swiftly revealed Miss Robinson’s gifts. Passing over the conquest of the more obvious difficulties, Miss Robinson’s rich tone and remarkable voicing of the second .movement are particularly worthy of comment.

Credit Due Instructor

The Chopin group was played with intelligence, authority and commendable style. The C Sharp Minor study showed again, as in t Schumann, a true emotional conception and splendid dynamic control. Flashing b ‘marked the modern group, “Ritual Fire Dance” of de Falla, and carried over to the closing numbers. A clear facility always was present, and the “Campanella” was truly ex-

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Hatton Has Been Actor 25 Years

Finds - Hollywood as Much Fun as in 1911.

Times Special ' HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—Raymond Hatton recently “celebrated the anniversary of his first quarter century in motion pictures. © When he first went to Work 25 years ago, his dressing room was a piano box, and the studio was a barn. Recently he finished a picture for the same studio that pow extends over many city blocks, where pictures | are made on 14 sound. stages, any one of which could ‘hold the original barn in an unoccupied: corner. Although Hatton is only middle aged, in point of experience he probably is the oldest star in the business. He was a member of the cast: of Cecil B. DeMille’s early milestone of movie progress, “The Squaw Man.” Hatton finds Hollywood as much fun as it was a decade or two ago. His most recent pictures have been westerns, and the one just completed is “The Arizona : Raiders,”

with Larry Crabbe, Marsha Hunt

and. Johnny. Downes.

‘Most of Movie Outdoors ‘The. film in which Frances Drake and Randolph Scott appear opposite each other for the first time, “And Sudden Death,” has the year’s high so far for exterior locations, with a total of 18.

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none-too-good instrument provided | for the performance. Great credit is due Prof. Hoffzimmer for his thorough and musicianly training of the young artist. Yet he has had remarkable material with which to work. Miss Robinson obviously is biessed with sensitivity and intelligence, plus an unaffected warmth of rill and pleasing stage presence. If wigs were in fashion, we should stake ours tha: much will be heard of Jean Robinson before many years have passed.

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1. These two very meditative folks with the tea cups are Robert Montgomery (believe it or not) and Rosalind Russell, the stars of “Trouble for Two,” one of the films to open at Loew's Friday. The other picture will

be “Devil's Squadron” with Richard Dix. 2. ‘Indianapolis’ own Frankie Parrish, singer extraordinary, is the main attraction on the new Lyric. Theater stage program to start Friday. The film will be “Half Angel.” 3. Personally, we don't think hell get oul, because we have an idea Mary Boland is on the other side of the door. Charlie Ruggles (that’s him on the doorknob). is starred with Mary in “Early to Bed,” the Circle’s feature starting Friday. The second picture ‘will be “Special Investigator” starring Richard Dix. 4, Patsy Kelly (left) seems to think Loretta Young is a bit too love-sick over the picture on the table. The two girls are to be seen in “Private Number” open-

. ing Friday at the Apollo. Robert

Taylor is Miss Young's leading man in the film.

Hairdressdrs Face Big Task

Must Duplicate Coiffures of ~~. Tibet Women.

Times Special : HOLLYWOOD, : June 3—Helen Hunt and her staff of hairdressers

inherited the biggest job of their careers ‘with opening of production of “Lost Horizon,” starring Ronald Colman. The assignment calls for 5400 waist-length braids to be work by extras representing Tibetan peasant women. The hairdressers also are to make 50 wigs, each of which is to have 108 thin braids. Each of these braids will represent a prayer or volume in the Kan-Djur, the Tibetan Bible. Hairdress in Tibet is of utmost importance, according to Director Harrison Forman. Many of the women, he explained, shave thei: heads, then wear elaborate wigs, end many of the men wear thei hair in a stubble that always is kept at an exact length.

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London Is Out, Comedian Says

Hotel Service Found Fine, But Sparks Wanted Heat.

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—Ned Sparks, dead-pan comedian who recently returned from a European sojourn, says he never was so glad to get out of any hotel in his life as the one where he stayed in London. “When I went to London to make

‘a picture, I stayed at a swanky ho-

tel where service is a phobia,” Sparks said. “It had an assistant manager for every guest. Some one always was rapping on our door, asking if there was anything we desired. : “I only wanted one thnig—heat. And they dian’t have it. I slept with a ‘big turtleneck sweater on, and still IT was cold. They were solicitous; they were polite; they bowed and called me Mista-a-h Sparks, but they didn’t seem able to turn on the heat. “I finally got lumbago, then I developed preumonia. I was twisted into a knot that would make Lon Chaney look like a prize-win-ning health child. But the old furnace simply wouldn't work and I almost froze to ‘death. “Believe me, they'll never get me to London again.”

Stone Is to: Star in Original Story

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, . - June 3.—“The

Great Man Votes,” an original story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman, is to

be Fred Stone’s ‘next starring pic- |

ture. Long a stage star, Stone is -becoming known, late in his career, as one of the screen’s foremost character actors. He ‘has appeared in: “Alice Adams,” “Farmer in the Dell” sud “The Trail of the Lonesome P e. ” $

Fields’ Stage Show Revived “Poppy,” starring: W. C. Fields, is a picturization of a Broadway stage show in which the bulbous nosed

Symphony to Present certs in Garfield Park This Month. : Through a gi sit o of the city ae : y Society the public is

Symphon to hear two free concerts by the Tee

Ferdinand Schaefer, regu lar conductor, is: to direct ) concerts.

Mr. Schaefer has announced gr these concerts will be of “sym= phonic” calibre in every respect, yer in formal dress

gauge for more pretentious projs ects in the future. The first program, which is to be announced in detail later this week, has been chosen with a view to pleasing varied musical tastes. Selections from the works of Wage ner, Weber, Dvorak, Delibes, Haydn, Strauss and Rossini are to be heard. The Symphony Society extends an urgent invitation to the public to take advantage of these freq concerts. Co-operation in transe portation facilities ‘is to be of« fered by the Indianapolis Street Railways Co.

Contralto to Give Odeon Hall Recital

Miss Mildred Baunigart, cone tralto, is to be heard in public res cital at 8:15 tonight in Odeon Hall, She is a pupil of Miss Elma Igel« man, artist teacher of voice at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. The public is invited to attend. Miss Baumgart’s program is as follows:

1 “Bi "Rotte dal caro bene”

i Gavotte from. “Mignon”

Aria, “My Heart Is “Nadeschde”) ...

“Bist Du bei mir” “Von ewiger Liebe” x “Mit deinen blauen Aug ‘‘Allerseelen’”’

Weary”

Leroux Nolin obbligato, Martha Rucker

‘“Peast of Lanterns” “Slumber Song of the Madonna”. ead “By a Lonely Fost ay . Griffes “The Cherry Tree Doth Bloom’... Goat tley Miss Frances Wishard accompanist.

Youngsters Amaze Movie Cameraman

Times Special - > HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—For 30 yéars, Henry Fishback has stood behind motion - picture cameras. Needless to say, Henry is a camera man, and what he has to say is decided interest. “I am constantly amazed,” Fishe

youngsters today have of the multi= tudinous details of acting before the cameras.” Not only are they coming to studios better equipped, but they make the most of every op= poriunity that presents itself on the

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Feature

“THE WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO” Mary Astor—“MAN O F_IRON”

TACOMA HEE “THE RAN Commu IRVING = “Bae Tithut”

: “CORONADO” Ben Lion—"FRISCO WATER FR( FRONT”

EMERSON ‘Souls Feature

. Fred “LITTLE Ry er

Plan NOW to be Friday at the BLE LE for the LAUGH of yo hife—and the THRILL your life !!

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