Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1936 — Page 4
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Singing Helo Plays Part of Boxer in Ambassador
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Riverside Prepares for Fourth Crowds
The annual fireworks program to be presented at Riverside Park for
ampbells Are Coming’ New Summer Offering
earts Divided” - with Marion Davies Dick Powell and - Charlie les, at 12:20, 2:45, 5.10, 7:40 and
- ; » / . > J . fant pictures, at 11:46, 3:10, ry patrons tomorrow night will be the i to Open Monday at Keith's Film, ‘Laughing Irish Eyes'|| =m © | EEE smd fe ge HET a WRT || 0 tnd oF» coniury of conto Author’ Nephew, Robert Peel Noble, Is Responsible for Phil Regan Is Starred in|. . a rg SIUSSHIGn, sefviue this vest ant the 2 for Comedy Based on Life in Small Lead Vocal Role of = Comedy Stars Bis sad ue ei Se pl: || ed on Tonor of ‘the binhtay
Authorities at the park have had
® » Hoosier Town. Picture. G P S . S Vaudeville on, sta stage at 13:57, 3:51, |!the 22 major ride and fun devices ous Ive Service ty Elhiee on ihe sefeci si 114s. || thoroughly overhauled in expecta : : 2:39, 5:33, 3:27 and 10:49. || tion of one of the largest Fourth BY JOHN W. THOMPSON | If we're not mistaken, Laughing : Se ALAMO of July crowds in the park's history. : A new play, “The Campbells Are Coming,” Robert Peel Noble, |: Irish Eyes” at the Ambassador Director cures Ruggles, “You May Be Next,” with Ann Picnic grounds have been enlarged nephew of Meredith Nicholson, is to be the Fed Sothern and Preston Also
takes a pleasant poke at fighting boys from Ireland who turn out to be singers when they get to America.
Players next offering |’
“Song "of and hundreds of new tables and 5
benches placed in the enclosure for the extra picnickers tomorrow.
Foster. ‘ 4 Trail J _ at Keith's, starting Monday. Marx as ‘Extras. e Trail” James Oliver
Mr. Noble, formerly of Indianapolis and nowa
dent of Los Angeles,
“The Bx-Mrs. Bradford” with Jean
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affairs of a mythical Indiana town, Kearnsville. The town, like many small communities, is asleep, and is about
istence, when the scion of the Wards, a young lawyer, decides, much against his father’s will, to
1 i in locate an important industry
the place. He hopes such a plant Il awaken the residents of Kearnsville, and put the town back on the map.
Contacts Campbells
To start the ball rolling, he gets in touch wifh the Campbells, millionajres, who, he learns, are seeking a place to establish a large manufacturing plant.
'3 His endeavors are fraught with
1 obstacles as well as pleasure, the J Jatter including romance with a
Kearnsville, the story turns well. “The Old Maid,” this week’s play at Keith's, with last performances tonight and tomorrow night, has attracted large crowds, according to theater authorities. The engage- : ment is limited to one week, as are J to be the rest of the Federal Play- . ers’ summer programs. Matinees are to be given on Wednesday instead of Saturday, it was announced.
Famed Actress
HOLLYWOOD, July 3.—Motion
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Special Props
Trees, Insects, Airplanes Among Stock Requests.
HOLLYWOOD, July 3. — A tree can’t be cut down within 20 miles of Hollywood without Nick Mallas popping up and asking: “Can I have it?”
specialists wha cater to the motion picture industry. He is a tree specialist who provides the shrubbery and trees for most of the sets, where
wigs tailored to ‘fit cinematics’ skulls, cockroaches, sugar-bowl ants, Indiahs—with or without Harvard accents—lizards, lions, cobras and ring-tailed monkeys—all are supplied by private specialists.
Provides Old Cars
John Twohy’s is to keep ancient automobiles in respectable running order. The machines, dating back to the turn of the century, are rented to studios. So many .@f Twohy’s cars were used in the making of Jane Withers’ ‘Gentle Julia” that two
Jim Spencer knows virtually every
Mallas is just one of the many
In what is generally admitted to be her greatest role, Kay Francis is adding new laurels te her crown in “The White Angel” which started a second week at the Apollo today. Miss Francis plays the part of Florence Nightingale in a biographical film describing the famous nurse’s fight for clean hospitals and competent staffs. Donald Woods, Jan Hunter and Nigel Bruce are also in the cast.
Old Acquaintance Renewed
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 3. — Jack Benny fell in love with Mary Livingstone because she didn’t talk, he said today. Mary was working in a department store and one night when
Jack’s girl friend stood him up, a friend fixed it with Mary. |. “You won't care much for her be-
some reason, received an awful
Mary Didn't Talk, and So They ‘Got Married, Says Jack Benny
Courtship Climaxed by Wedding.
on ‘Blind Date’; Whirlwind
“You walked out on me once,” she said. It seemed that when Mary was 12, Jack and Zeppo Marx, then playing vaudeville together, had dinner at the Livingstone home. sat around and talked, with Mary trying to monopolize Jack. After while, Jack got bored and went home. So the Bennys think maybe their marriage was predestined, or some-
with Selznick International Studio of her suit for asserted breach of
The folks |
lamb stew before its over.
It all starts when Pat Kelly (Walter C. Kelly) half owner of the
| Irish-American Athletic Club, stops
a fight because he knows its been fixed. So his partners, a couple of obvious crooks, bet him all he has in the club that he can’t produce an Irish boxer who can make good in America.
Scout for Fighter
Pat takes his daughter, Peggy. and goes to Ireland. There a couple of toughs offer him their fighter, Tiger O'Keefe, but Pat wants to see him in action first. While they're waiting, Peggy goes to the fair and meets a young blacksmith, Danno
O’Keefe. She hears him sing, enters him in the singing contest, at which
into a tree. Provoked, because Dan gets a bit | forward, Peggy walks out on him. He follows her to the inn where her father is waiting to see his fighter. At the door, Dan runs into Tiger and a brawl ensues, in which Dan floors his opponent. In the mix-up Dan is taken to America as Tiger.
So Danny Wins
After fixing a couple of set-ups for Danno, aided by her friend, Eddie Bell, radio columnist, Peggy discovers that Pat has booked Dan
to meet the contender for the cham-
pionship. She gets Eddie to fix that
Life,” and does a fair job as a prize
based his three-act comedy on a story of the same name written by Mr. s Times Special A rth d William Powell. Nicholson, who now. is United States minister to Venezuela. But thé story, which stars Phil HOLLYWOOD, July 3. — Di- iLaughing’ Irish Eyes with Phas ALL “The Campbells Are Coming” is : Regan (of “Singing Cop” fame) | oi order Hall has eve =. OHIO NIGHT DANCE Said to be an unusual tale revolv- makes up for everything by letting ; ry “The_ Prisoner of Shark Island.” ing about the Ward family, long St ol : R the singer win his main bout, al- right to be a proud man. He se- Sih Warmer Baxt Fits tna. “im TONIGHT-Adm. 25¢ prominent and influential in the udaios ent though he looks something like a | cured the comedy services of|| Bids’ with Zasu and Sim
Groucho Marx and Charlie Ruggles gratis while on location with his “Yours for the Asking” troupe at Coronado Island. : Marx and Ruggles were vacationing at the island and offered to appear in bathing beach sequences for the new picture, wh stars George Raft and Dolores. tello
re. “We're just a couple of millionaires on the loose,” Groucho said. “Go ahead and take the scenes. Charlie and I'll act up a bit.” So wide-awake fans are promised an added touch of comedy when they go to see Raft and Miss Barrymore,
Mouse Trap Catches
HOLLYWOOD, July 3. — Pretzels used in a restaurant scene for the film “A Son Comes Home” disappeared so fast that Art Camp, property man, secreted a mouse trap in one of the jars, taking only M Boland into his confidence. : iss’ Boland, promptly doublecrossed Camp, slipped the trap into the other jar where Camp was working. A few minutes later, a yowl revealed that Camp had been nipped by his own trap.
~ Dumbrille in “Mliss”
Douglass Dumbrille, now in “M’liss,” made his Broadway debut in a play starring James K. Hackets.
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ictures at other studios calling for | cause she is awfully quiet,” the too, but when Eddie hears that she B tN | . § . . Ti S M ; 1906.10 models had to SE friend warned him. But, contrary to Ving, and Dan are to be married, he tells P LAN NO Rs 4 ¥.o o rocking the town with iis mighty Ni poned. prediction, Jack liked the girl, liked the radio audience about Danny Yt lary . ; pu rns ovies Tom Gubbins is the white king her more every time he saw her. Ob S being a fake. Well, the fight goes on T0 SPEND Sra drama vo» charming romance ¢ » * superb : of Chinatown. In one hour he can | Finally Jack went east to fill en- eron JSettlement round after round, and Danny wins THE 4TH °° 3) music and amazing spectacle! : y : ie | change a movie street set into a | 838 . ; . gros y | a Katharine Cornell Denies ui of oid shangtai. He hee s| It wes ihe stungest souchiz| Cheering fo Actors win Brim Xuan os giver) at LOEW'S! J Sq Shas WEEK 8 obAY! f{ Film Contract Standing order 10 Subply Orientals | Jo ON oo me sud» failed : J 1 self, the pict “SAN = & 3. . for the Charlie Chan pictures—11 | didn’t write to me an alley. 10 | By United Press up 0 his usial self thee » : 3 children and a Mrs. Chan. write her. Some time later I found | HOLLYWOOD, July 3. — Merle | drags perceptibly at times. But Mr. FRANCISCO \ 3 BpUnited Press out she was engaged to marry some | nyoonte out-of-court settlement Regan sings two excellent songs, IS— i y Unite Hula Dancers Available chap in Vancouver. My pride, for Laughing Irish Eyes,” and “All My / i
picture studios today were in_ the midst of their annual attempts to sign Katharine Cornell for pictures, but the outlook was as gloomy as
et The famous stage actress is be- _ ~ sleged with offers every time she i . comes to Hollywood with one of her plays,”and although she always answers with a firm “no,” the screen executives are after her
test preparatory to offering her a contract.
Hawaiian on the mainland and can sound up native dance bands and bona fide hula dancers in a hurry. The Al G. Barnes Circus, which winters 20 miles from Los Angeles, supplies most of the circus animals, players and circus paraphernalia for pictures, and Charles Flores, Jack Doyle and Walter ‘Cameron ‘purvey trick horses and other: livestock. The World War still is one of
jolt.” Sunday Too Far Away
So Jack asked Mary’s sister to have Mary down to Chicago for a visit before the wedding. Mary came and when she and Jack got together again it was too bad. for the guy in Vancouver. They scheduled their wedding for Sunday, but Jack got worried, thought it might be bad to wait
contract was hailed ‘today by fellow screen players as setting a precedent in studio-actor relations. -- The British actress sought $125,000 in her suit and received “more than $10,000” and a contract to star in one picture for Selznick. She filed the action after Marlene Dietrich replaced her in “The Garden of Allah,” in which Miss Oberon had agreed to appear.
fighter.. The other portion of the Ambassador program, “The Ex-Mrs. Bradford,” with William Powell and Jean Arthur, is top-notch comedy. the story of a doctor who didn’t want to be a detective and a girl, his former wife, who was determined that he should be. Well, he is, and what a sleuth. You'll laugh. (By J. W.T)
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again the next time. the richest fields of drama available thas long sng so they were married | The battle was followed closely by Ballew Has New Contract ] Rumors Miss Cornell had ac-|to pictures, and this means that | the next day, Friday. members of the screen colony who| Smith Ballew’s first assignment y. 2 cepted picture engagements be- (1914-18 model airplanes often are | When Jack asked Mary why she | feared that if Miss Oberon lost her | under his new contract is to be : came especially strong en she|needed. Garland Lincoln, wartime | had walked out on the fellow in |gyjt, the way would be opered for | “Serenade On the Seine,” opposite | visited several studios this week.| American pilot, keeps an assort- | Vancouver for him, she had a good | other studios to replace stars at will.' Ann Sothern. : - The dark-haired stage favorite | ment of them, including real ana | reply. then uttered her customary denial | imitation French Spads. and the film producers quieted i ep titer —— 2K : down until the next time she comes Dancers Publish Songs * *, : here with her company. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1s : partners of the dance and of movie Today Thru Saturday Bl + : . i, romance, are ffiendly rivals in song WM. POWELL * azn . Titled Briti shers writing. Each of the co-stars of “I “The Ex.Mrs) Bradford” Won't Dance” recently had a song er aehing Ish Eves? (an . published. : : i . : Sought for Movies v | A" E R S I D Wo af By United Press i. : HOLLYWOOD, July 3.—Holly- . [ge i wood’s love for titled film players Where Indianapolis Celebrates ‘ came out again today with word 3 ET FOURTH OF JULY the Gountess of Warwick a screen i 1 i
At the same time another studio was seeking to arrange tests for her husband, the Earl of Warwick, handsome nobleman, who is considered a good screen prospect. Another member was added to the growing British colony here today, with the arrival of Wilfred Lawson, English character actor, who has been signed to a longterm film contract, Although Lawson has not yet reach middle-age, he has played character roles on the stage and in films for several years.
Actress Likes California
Gladys Swarthout, soon to appear in ‘Champagne Waltz,” is the latest Eastern celebrity to become a southern California sun fan. She would rather live here than anywhere else she says.
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