Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1936 — Page 4
Film Booked
for Friday,
Presentation of ‘Hearts Divided’ Postponed for Week.
BY ‘JOHN W. THOMPSON If there is an atmosphere of smug satisfaction floating around the Circle Theater today it is because the powers that be have booked the
Max Bchmeling-Joe Louis official |
fight pictures to show there starting Friday. According to Frank Moneyhun, Circle press representativé, more interest has been shown in the LouisSchmeling pictures than any other fight film since Dempsey days In one small Ohio town where the pictures were shown Sunday, the box office saw its biggest business since the depression. The pictures, containing closeups and long range shots, taken in normal and slow motion, run for 35 minutes, practically the entire fighting’ time of the bout.
Davies Film Postponed
With the sudden booking of the fight pictures, the Circle has postponed the showing of “Hearts Divided” starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell, until a week from Friday. The fight films will be accorded Feature No. 1 prominence. “Nobody's Fool,” a light comedy, starring Edward Everett Horton, is to be the second attraction. This is the second a of a series of proposed Horton comedies, the first of which was “His Night Out.” Mr. Horton, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., was graduated from Columbia University where he managed, directed and played in class plays. Then followed 13 years of stage experience with stock companies. After that he started his own stage company in Hollywood. For several years he worked in movies during the day, starred with his own stage crew at night.
‘Scandals’ to Open at Chicago Sunday
The twelfth edition of George White's “Scandals,” having completed a season at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York, is tc open at the Grand Opera House :n Chicago for a limited engagement starting Sunday. Willie and Eugene Howard and Helen Morgan head the cast of more than 100 performers. The stow is produced in‘two acts and 35 scenes, with several new sketches added for the Ohitgto presentation.
Spent Last Dollar Robert 'Z. Leonard, now directing ~ “Piccadilly Jim,” after producing and directing “Peacock = Alley,” arrigg Mae Murray, spent his last dollar to hire an orchestra to play a he, picture's preview in New or
Holds Ring Title Nat Pendleton, playing the role of a pugilist in “Sworn, Enemy,” holds the title of world's heavyweight amateur wrestling champion. A standing challenge to all-comers has not been accepted to date.
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1—This trio of stars appears in “San Francisco,” the feature open~ ing at Loew's Friday. Clark Gable (left), cast as the “King of Barbary Coast,” is shown listening to the voice of Jeanette MacDonald as Ted Healy stands by to give him advice. 2—Recognize this fellow? He's Fats Waller, jazz poet of the or-
gan and piano, to be one of the main attractions on the Lyric
stage show starting Friday. The Lyric’s picture will be “Educating Father,” second of the Jones’ Family series. 3—The story of the nursing profession as inaugurated by the Great Florence Nightingale is told in “The White Angel” starting at the Apollo Friday. Kay Francis is shown above as Miss Nightingale with one of the patients the famous nurse treated during the Crimean War.
‘Follies’ Tour Includes City
Scheduled to Start Trip on Aug. 1.
The 1936 version of the Ziegfeld Follies,” which has just concluded a long engagement at the New York Winter Garden, is-scheduled to appear in. Indianapolis on its transcontinental tour starting Aug. 1. Although Vincent Burke, English theater manager, could not be reached for verification, the *“Follies” will. probably play at that house. After opening the road tour in Chicago, the “Follies” company is booked to come directly to Indianapolis with the full original cast of more than 100, headed by Fannie Brice. The show is being produced and
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directed by Billie Burke, widow of
the late Florenz Ziegfeld, under |:
whose management the “Follies” became an American institution. The chorus of more than 70 girls will be brought with the show.
Lockharts Get Child ‘Married many wears, Kathleen and Gene Lockhart are to play the parents of Jackie Cooper in “The Devil Is a Sissy,” the feature Cooper with Freddie Batholomew and Mickey Rooney.
Plays Reporter Role Stuart Erwin plays his seventh reporter “role in twa years in “Women ‘Are Trouble,” with Florence Rice and Paul Kelly.
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Star Tel ls Young Girls
to Develop Voice, - Singer Says.
BY JEANETTE ‘MAGDONALD ‘(Star of “San Francisco” opening at’ . Leew’s Friday.) ‘
“How can I develop a singing
‘| voice?”
. “How can I improve my. voice?” “What should I do to become a singer?” Two words answer these and al-
3 most any other questions pertain- | ing to singing. They are simple lit-
tle words, but relentless task mas-
1 ters. They are—Time and patience,
Had Ambition Early *
I was one of three girls and our parents wanied each of {is to have a Elsie, one of my two older sisters, ran away from boarding school to get married and
| so sacrificed her chances. The oth1 er, Blossom, journeyed from dancing
-| school to the New York stage, and
What’ sina Newcomer’ s Name? “Nothing, Is Film Moguls’ View
Few Players Puiblicized Under Own Family Designations, Especially After Arrival in Hollywood.
HOLLYWOOD, June 24—An inter-office: memorandum in a movie studio’s bulletin board last week read: “Frank Prince will hereafter be known as Fred Lawrence instead
of Robert Wells.”
Not that it matters—yet. . Frank Prince wasn't the name the young man was born. with either, and another ‘change or two is made before
he gets started in pictures,- will
probably do no harm.
Nothing, it is said, is permanent in Hollywood, except the changes. Frank Prince, who was once some one else, and who for a short time was known ‘as Robert Wells, will make his bow soon in a picture
under the name of Fred Lawrence.
The name was changed because the powers that be didn’t like his stage monicker. Since his career was almost all ahead of him, he didn’t mind. ! : - Carol Hughes, pretty little brunette, came to Hollywood as Kay Hughes and her name changed before she had been in filmland 24
hours. The name “Kay” is out for: ,anybody else on the Warner Broth-
ers lot, because it: happens to belong to Kay Francis. So it is Carol Hughes, instead of Kay, who is seen in “Earthworm Tractors” and “The Case of the Velvet Claws.” An ingenue who came to Hollywood as Ann Tobin emerged a few weeks later in small picture roles
as Linda Perry. - Genevive Tobin’
was under contract to the same
studio and évery one decided ‘that’
one Tobin would be enough. It was easier, of course, to change
a name than to get rid of a Tobin. The studios let Ann Dolan keep her first name when she was rechristened Ann Nagel, under which she appears in “Love Begins at Twenty” and “Hot Money.” Hugh Enfield, formerly a leading man: for Mary Pickford’s stage appearance, was renamed Craig Reynolds. ‘Denny Meadows (that wasn’t his real name either), who had played many stage roles with stock companies, is now known as Dennis Moore, a name picked bodily from the script of “Anthony Adverse.”
They got rid of Meadows because, .
according to Casting Director Max Arnow of Warner Brothers, Meadows can mean only one thing on the screen and that is a butler. So now Dennis has a chance {o become a leading man if the name means anything. There are several youngsters on
the Warner Brothers lot! whose names haven’t been touched. But. it is probably because the casting. o
‘men. haven't gotten around to that’
~yet. Some of the “untouched” ‘are
Rosalind ' Marquis, Jeanne Madden, Patric Knowles, Lyle Moraine, David Carlyle and Marjorie Weaver.
so determined was I to follow in her footsteps that I started to study music and dancing at the age of six. When I was 14 my father took me to New York on one of his business trips. Blossom was in a ‘Ned Wayburn review at the Capitol, and she introduced me to Mr. Weyburn. He coaxed my family to let me have a two-weeks tryout with the revue, they granted his request and I started on a long, hard career. When 1 first started to study voice I was made aware of the fact that too many singers ruin their voices by trying to- sing too much at too early an age. Singing in childhood enlarges the muscle of the throat and obstructs the flow of breath. The requisite of a singing ‘voice is to eliminate interference instead of creating obstructions by over-development "at the source of the power and supply: of breath, After all, the voice is not tangible. It- is simply breath in varied vibrations. fine instrument, like the violin, and we must learn to handle it: as an instrument before it can be well played. Too, we can not instill, too much
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| Often I have been asked by girls | who aspire to singing careers—
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technique in singing. We always have technique though we may not be conscious of it. Primarily to develop a good singing voice one must have an exéellent teacher... I have had the same teacher for seven years and I still have lots to learn. As an example of the stupidity of some singers in selecting teachers, I recall a friend of mine who told me she had decided to become a vocalist and that she had: hired two teachers, one for her “high” voice and one for her “low” voice. This is utterly ridiculous, because there is only one voice, whether its high or low. One should use common sénse and good judgment with singing: teachers. If one teacher doesn't seem to be getting you anywhere, dismiss her and try another one. The teachers, too, should employ common sense. . ‘I have in mind the foolish things that some: teachers did with children when I was a little girl. . There were the instructors who
Chicago City Opera Lists Its Artists
{Famed Singers Engaged for
Season to Begin. on Oct. 31.
Chicago's efforts to revive the for. mer glories of opera this year give promise of success with the ane nouncement of the City Opera Come pany’s six-weeks season which opens Oct. 31. An imposing array of foreign and American artists has been engaged
.| to recreate roles: made famous‘ at
the Metropolitan and in Salzburg, Milan, Paris and Berlin. - ‘Among them are Lily Pons; Laure itz Melchoir, Lawrence Tibbett; Rasa Raisa, Helen Jepson, John Charles Thomas, Elizabeth Rethberg, Richard ‘Bonelli, Gertrud Westeraren and Joseph Bentonelli. Other~ favorites engaged include Giovanni Martinelli, Marjorie Lawrence, Ezio Pinza, Tito Schipa and Armand -‘Tokatyan. Vivian -Della Chiesa, native Chicagoan, is to make her debut before a home town audiénce next season, but most “of the singers already have established reputations elsewhere. : Ruth Page, former Indianapolis dancer, is to be ballet diréctor and premiere danseuse. Richard” Hageman, Roberto Moranzoni and Henry Weber are to conduct, with Rudolph Ganz, noted Chicago pianist and former ‘conductor of the St “Louis Sypmphony Orchestra, scheduled for an appearance as guest conductor.
placed a glass of water on the pupil’s head. If the pupil could sing through her lesson without spilling any water, that was called voice control. I know of other feachers who would instruct the child to run up. a flight of stairs opening an umbrella. as the pupil ran, and to sing at the top of the landing.. That too, was called voice control.
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Is the biggest thrill Clark Gable ever gave onion the most spectacular entertainment of many Sedoonst. a
Blackie was rough and handsome; He had a way (his way)
‘with the weaker sex. One day an innocent. ‘young girl drifted -
into ‘his Paradise Dance Palace on the Barbary Coast. The
story of Blackie and Mary during Frisco’s wildest days is told
“on the screen in crashing climaxes of vivid motion: picture
magic! You'll gasp with astonishment at the spectacular thrills! You'll call it truly the ‘GIANT ENTERTAINMENT OF 19361
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