Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1936 — Page 4

‘eam Heads Direct Work for Summer

Director Burleigh Reports .Qutstanding Plays on Future List.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON.

Recruiting of workers for the annual Civic Theater subscription drive was to start today under direction of Walter E. Jackson, drive chairman, Although the actual drive will not open until Sept. 18, Mr. Jackson plans to have his crew at work throughout the summer months in order to give Director Frederick E. Burleigh a big send-off next autumn. Those who have perused the Civic's programs for the past several years will remember the humorous advertisements Mr. Jackson composed for his insurance company. Mr, Jackson also has taken several roles in Civic pro-

Scions. Alds Are Named

Assisting the chairman on the drive committee are Harold B. Tharp and Mrs. Robert C, Winslow, co-chairmen of the “Red” division, and Mrs. William G. Sparks and Morris M. Feuerlicht, “Blue” division co-chairmen. Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Sparks recently were elected to the theater board of directors and Mr. Tharp was chosen vice president. Other ‘members of the drive committee are JF. C. Albershardt, Miss Sara Lauter, Mrs. Kurt FP. A J Perry Meek and Mortimer C. scott. Mr. Burleigh, now in Cohasset, Maine, interviewing players in the summer stock company for which he is asssitant director, reports favorably concerning plays which will be available for Civic production ‘next year, Possible Productions Listed

Mr. Burleigh is aiding Alexander Dean, director of The Town Hall Players, in the selection of talent to be used in the summer plays at Cohasset. Among the dramas to be produced by the Maine players and which will be available for the Civic, are “Personal Appearance,” seen here at English's last season with Gladys George in the starring role. Dorothy Mackail, movie actress, is to take the leading role in the Cohasset production. The Eastern company also will produce “Libel” in the New York showing of which Norris Houghton, Indianapolis boy, was stage manager, and “Russet Mantle” in which James Larmore, former Civic player, was cast. “Wings Over Europe” and “Merrily We Roll Along” are also on the possibility list for local

Presentation

Actors Get Gridiron Experience in Movie

Times Special © HOLLYWOOD, June 9.—Actors Walter Able and Charles Butterworth learned about football {rom the bottom up. - The grid teams of the University of Southern California and the University of California recently staged a game for M-G-M's “We Went to College.” Mr. Abel and Mr. But- . terworth were the eleventh men on each team. After the first scrimmage the two Hollywoodians were rescued from the bottom of the pile. Each had a perfect black eye. While Una Merkel, who also appears in the film, nurses the boys, Hugh Herbert, Edith Atwater, Walter Catlett and Director Joseph Santley, have been playfully handing them huge steaks each day before work.

O'Brien Is to Play Daniel Boone Role

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 9.—Marking his departure from “boots and saddle” roles, George O'Brien will play Daniel Boone in the first of a series of pictures he is to make for release

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Time Tonight

Pulitzer Prize Play Booked as Attraction for Week of June 29.

The Federal Players, stock com- i 4 | pany constituting the Federal The-|

-|ater project in Indiana, will give

Feuerlicht, co-chairman of the “Blue” division; and Harold B. Tharp, co-chairman of the “Red” division. The actual campaign is to open Sept. 18.

HOLLYWOOD, June 9.—Ginger bers of the cast and technicians.

had an argument and by way of theme song. “Well, that’s the last scene today,” said Ginger. “Now for a real shampoo and/a curl. Did I shed real tears in that close-up or was it soap suds running down’ my face? Anyway, that music is good for my tears any time.” Fred Astaire likes his ‘name Lucky. “I can’t fail with that name because that is what. I am—Ilucky. With historical stories,

more popular by the minute, I am licky there is a place on the screen for just a hoofer like me.”

Victor Moore, one of the better comedians in a number of Broadway successes, has an important role in “Never Gonna Dance.” “Twenty years ago I came to Hollywood, played in some two-reel pictures and I've wanted to get back ever since. I was in “Of Thee I Sing” .81 weeks and 64 in “Anything Goes.” In fact, I have been working steadily for years. I'm ‘never gonna’ go back to New York if I can help it. A fellow my age, who has been in the theater practically all his life, can do with some sunshine and rest. “I brought my man ‘Friday’ with me and he also wants to stay. His name is Maurice Galbraith Elliott. For over 20 years he has been my dresser, companion and understudy.

Made Good on Stage

“A few years ago I was playing in Denver and was taken with typhoid fever. They wired back to New York for a substitute but he didn't make good. As soon as I was able I sent word to the show manager that they had one of the best comedians in the business right in Denver.. “Who is it?” he asked. “Why Elliott, my dresser. Put him on tonight and maybe you won't take me back.” “Elliott made a hit and could have gone on with acting but he preferred to stay with me. He is

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New Musical Romance to Star Popular Dancing Team Again

Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire Working on Jerome Kern Melody ‘The Way You Look Tonight.

BY RUTH MTAMMANY

Times Hollywood Correspondent

Rogers and Fred Astaire are again

teamed in a dance-mad musical romance called “Never Gonna Dance.” The production has been in work three weeks and already the Jerome Kern melody, “The Way You Look Tonight,” is being hummed by mem-

Ginger Rogers was shampooing her hair in a scene, her tears mingling with the soapy water as she listened to the voice of Lucky (Fred Astaire) singing in the next room. In the preceding scenes they

a farewell Lucky repeated the

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“Private Number” with Loretta Young and Robert Taylor, at 11:41, 1:41, 3:41, 5:41, 7:41, and 9:41.

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KEITH'S

“The Royal Family” presented by the Federal Players, at 8:15.

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Virginia Bruce Gets ‘Born to Dance’ Role

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 9—Among the many screen favorites who are to sing and dance in the new Eleanor Powell musical, “Born To Dance” will be Virginia Bruce. Miss Bruce, who recently elevated her screen worthiness with a fine role in “The Great Ziegfeld,” is to appear in her first singing and dancing part since her mavie debut. Her songs have been composed by Cole Porter, of “You're The Tops” fame, who is doing the entire score for the new film. Other members of the cast include James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Una Merkel, Buddy Ebsen and Sid Silvers.

Bagpipe Band Holds

Monopoly in Movies|

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HOLLYWOOD, June 9.—The only organization in Hollywood which

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War veterans’ bagpipe band which

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Presenting “The Royal Family,” now in its second week at the theater, the company, under the direction of Charles Berkell, will complete 14 weeks of continuous stage fare.

The organization was formulated | March 2 under the direction of Dr. Lee R. Norvelle, theater project state director. . “The Old Maid” Next Opening June 29, the Federal Players, by special permission of manuscript owners, are to present “The Old, Maid,” Pulitzer prizewinning play. It was seen here at English’s last season, with Helen Menken and Judith Andreson in the leading roles. Mrs. Ricca Scott Titus probably will play one of the leading roles in the local production. The Federal Players company is made up of approximately 15 actors, with the option of drawing from approximately 23 members of the vaudeville section of the state project, if “extras” are needed. The Players also have a waiting list of local actors and actresses not on relief who have offered their services whenever needed. - Following ‘The Royal Family,” the Federal Players are to present Dion Boucicault’s famous melodrama, “After Dark,” originally produced in New York in 1868,

Hard Working Villain “After Dark” ‘is described as a

‘typical specimen of that boisterous

sort of drama which formed so integral a part of the American theater its early and wobbly years. It is in four acts and 11 scenes, with the hero called upon to foil the villain and save the heroine at the end of each scene. The play has undergone a number of fruitful revivals. It was done recently in New York with much success. The cheers for hero and hisses for villain have been revived by the New York audiences who enter into the spirit of the play whole-heartedly. Mr, Berkell has promised to perform “After Dark” here with all seriousness and hopes that the au-. diences will not take it that way.

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Old Friends in Film

"Flora Finch and Namoi Childers were big stars when Paul Kelly was a child actor with the old VYVitagraph company. Kelly today is playing a featured role with Stuart Erwin in “Women - Are Trouble.” Misses Finch and Childers are playing small roles in the company.

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Flaunting all conventions, ine cluding the Republican, Walter O'Keefe (above), is to proceed as usual with his program at 7 tonight, on WFBM. “Mr. McGillicuddy” and Glen Gray's Casa Loma will be there to help out.

Chaplin Seeks

New Film Role

Abandons Famed Character; Contemplates Talkies.

By United Press ‘ HOLLYWOOD, Junie 9.—Charlie Chaplin, back in the film colony after months of roaming in the Orient, today sought a new characterization after announcing he was

through playing the wistful come- 1

dian with the baggy trousers and trick mustache. The graying actor who ‘has held

out*for seven years against the ad- |}

vances of talking pictures finally admitted he could no longer make silent films. Chaplin insisted, however, that the nimble little man with the bamboo cane would never become articulate on the screen. “I can’t make the. little ‘tramp’ talk. He has never talked, and will never talk. And I am afraid of more silent pictures. Motion pictures have moved ahead too fast and silent pictures now are too hard to make.” Chaplin's immediate plans are to star his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, in a fim Be will direct and produce. “I expect to

‘the three I will fc uce and direct; ‘Iwill have a in the third.” The tun not. certain of his plans, leaving them open to changes. If he finds a new charac-

ter to replace the shy little man at |.

odds with the world, he will drop him.

7 ‘Old Souls’ Recognized Anfong Stars by Swami i in Hollywood

Marlene Dictrich Assurred Prompt Entrance Into ‘Nirvana’ After Interview With Mystic.

Times Special : HOLLYWOOD, June $—There stars in Hollywood and when they

are seven ‘old souls” among the finish their present existence they

will enter directly into the state of Nirvana, or blessedness, without wan-

dering further on- this earth.

This is the opinion, at any rate, of Swami Daru Yoganu, East Indian mystic. He selected Marlene Dietrich, Madeleine Carroll, Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, Boris Karloff and Virginia Weidler as the seven. The swami is on the way to Geneva, Switzerland, for a conference of metaphysicians, and Stopped off in Hollywood long enough

to make some observations. Yoganu declared that “old souls” make themselves known by emanations from their karma or life force, which can be felt by all the psychics ‘schooled in the secrets of Far Eastern mysticism. The karma, said Yoganu, can be felt not only in the actual presence of the movie stars, but when their personality is fiashed on the screen as well.

15 More Have Possibilities

The swami selected the stars from a group submitted to him, and add-

ed that probably 15 more could be added to his list if he were able to survey the entire roster of play-

Virginia Weidley, youngest of the players, was said by Yoganu to be the “oldest soul” among them all, He visited her personally on the set of “Girl From The Ozarks,” and although the pigtailed child is only 8 years old, the Indian mystic declared that the progress of her karma started more than 1500 years ago Boris Karloff is the next oldest on the list, he said. It was his

opinion that the horror actor had spent much of his soul-cycle in

India. He said he had come across Karloff’s type many times while traveling in the East. : Matlene Has Control

Miss Dietrich, the swami said, followed Karloff in point of age. But he added that the glamorous star would probably achieve Nirvana sooner than any of the others because of the perfect control she exercises over her karma.

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Musi BY JAMES THRASHER VERY serious music student knows the three arbitrary divisions that historians have given the Beethoven sonatas as guide posts in the composer’s creative development. Wagner’s musical growth likewise is clear. But tomorrow E. Robert Schmitz, noted French pianist, is to continue his series with a lecture-recital, choosing four great periods in Chopin’s life and their influence upon his music. The program is at 2 on WFBM. Three mazurkas are to open the recital, typifying, according to Mr. Schmitz, the composer’s carefree childhood in Poland. The “Revolutionary” Etude, to be heard next, expresses the young Chopin's grief at the fall of his beloved Warsaw to the Russians, or so the legend runs. In the pianist’'s opinion, the Adagio of the F. Minor Concerto depicts Chopin's idealized love for the Countess Delphine Potoka. The so-called “Raindrgp” prelude, is supposed to relate an incident from the composer’s stay on the island of Majorca with “George Sand’ (Mme. Dudevant). This strange love of the gentle and refined musician for the coarse, aggressive authoress is one of musical history’s curiosities. It lasted from 1837 until 1847, and its dissolution is believed by some to have hastened Chopin's death in 1849.

Brings Family Here Because she can not go to Ireland to see her family, Maureen O'Sullivan, featured with Lionel

Barrymore in “The Devil Doll,” is her family to America to

‘Heavy Dating’ Cause for Romance Report

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 9.—Folks have been linking the names of Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck recently, as the two have carried out a pretty serious “date” schedule, Saturday night dates have become

a matter of routine for the two. Recently when Miss Stanwyck was

called -on to work late one Saturday

night on a beach location, Mr. Taylor drove 18 miles north of Mailbu to the location, watched his friend emote before the cameras and then got up a party among the cast and technicians after work, at which Miss Stanwyck was honor guest.

Drives; 500 Miles Eleanor Powgll, tap-tapping starlet, drove 500 es in the first automobile she owned, on the first day she o it.

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by Radio Today; Keynote Address at 8

Is to Be Broadcast on Three Networks TUESDAY EVENING RADIO PROGRAMS

All Political Schedules Are Subject to Change Without Notice. A potential audience of 65 alle lion radio listeners heard the

bang of Chairman P. Fletcher's gavel opening the Republican Na-

_| tional Convention in Cleveland this

morning. . On hand with a corps of teche nicians, announcers and commentators, the three major networks are to send the great political show to some 235 stations, and by short wave, to foreign lands. The next broadcast from Cleve. land’s Public Auditorium is sched uled for 8 tonight, when Senator Frederick Steiwer is to deliver the keynote speech, Network officials, however, have given up {forecasting political developments and procedure in ade vance, and all schedules definitely are “subject to change without notice.” Broadcasting technique has been altered radically since the pioneer airing of the conventions in "24. Fifty-two microphones are on the floor this year, one before each

WGN 720 (Mutual Network) | delegation, and are to be used joint-

ly by NBC, CBS and Mutual. In addition, each company is to have about 20 “mikes” for its own use. CBS, which introduced the coat lapel microphones at the 1932 conventions, has developed another novelty gadget this year—the “photo-mike,” combination transmitter and camera, which may be carried anywhere on the floor, or into the famous hotel room conferences, with no encumbrance of trailing wires. The pqrtable “mike,” having a range of four miles, easily may relay speeches to the master booth. :

‘Elaine Arden, George Givot’s only feminine rival in the Greek dialect field, is to play a return engagement on the “Laugh with Ken Murray” program at 6:30 tonight through WFBM. The pretty brunet played the Lyric last month, and has been a vaudeville and radio favorite for several seasons. Other headliners on the Murray bill are Phil Regan, tenor; Eve Arden, comedienne; “Oswald,” the “Oh Yeah?” gentleman, and the music of Russ Morgan and his orchestra. > ” 8 s Ben Bernie and all the lads are going to gang up on Frank Morgan, sputtering movie ‘comedian,. in a promised skirmish of repartee at 7 tonight, WLW. This is one of Mr. Morgan's very infrequent mike appearances. . . . With conventions taking precedence on all networks, the “Parties at Pickfair” sponsors have decided to move Mary's prosng theaest of the series from Tu lys to Sunday nights. The hour, 8, remains the same.

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