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

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Elephants, Stunts to Feature Afternoon and Night Performances.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON One thing the heat wave doesn’t affect is juvenile enthusiasm over 8 coming circus—to be specific, the appearance of the Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Co. at the W. Washington-st grounds, Tuesday afternoon and night.

Since Phineas T. Barnum years ago started his freak museum with a two-headed frog, a representative of his company has been in the circus business. The Ringling-Barnum-Bailey combination is one of the largest troupes on the road. Most important feature of any circus, the elephant brigade, is well taken care of by Ringling-Barnum-‘Bailey. There are seven herds, including one herd of African pigmies, and the aggregate weight of the pachyderms is more than 500,000 pounds. Center of attraction is to be-Col. T McCoy, long a favorite in Western films, who is to lead a troupe of rough riders and Indians in a special display of roping, riding and pioneer pageantry. Heading a long list of equestrienne performers is a former Hoosier girl, Dorothy Herbert, who has been riding and training horses "since she was big énough to sit in a saddle. For her special trick in

- ‘her current routine, Miss Herbert

igot her inspiration years ago when ‘she was a little girl living with her folks on a Kentucky horse farm. Saved Horse From Fire One night the stable caught fire. Dorothy raced to the stalls to rescue her favorite horse, one she had trained. It was a hard job, get-

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ting the horse out of a fire, but | with the aid of a blindfold she | made it, and at the same time got an idea for an act. It was to Jump, not just one, but a dozen horses over a blazing hurdle. Just as the: lead horse always tries to

' lead the others back into a blazing barn, Dorothy's trained horse al-

‘ways leads the pack over the burn‘ing jump.

+ There's a dignified lane leading

through the tents at the circus ‘eity (it may be seen Tuesday) which is called “Clown Alley.” { There's none of an alley's usual .drabness there. In this alley 150 yclowns spend off moments, not clowning but discussing the day's work, or perhaps playing an occasional card game.

Tiger Heads Animals without animals. There are 1009 ‘(count ’em) with the circus coming Tuesday. Head of the beast _brigade is Emir, said to be the “largest tiger ever captured. Emir is 8 years old, weight more than a “half ton. He stands nearly five

feet high at the shoulders, measures 13 feet from nose to tail tip. Other animals to be seen include

~ two rhinos, a herd of giraffe, hip-

‘popotamuses, 50 camels, zebra and, of course, elephants. Some seasons ago a new, thrill was injected into the Ringling cir‘cus with the advent of the man-.shot-from-cannon stunt. This year “the circus features two men, Victor and Hugo | (strange coincidence), who are expelled from the cannon's mouth, dropped (they hope!) into a net 200 feet away. “The-e-e perfor-r-rmance, ladees ‘and gentulmen, is to bee-gin at 2 'p. m. and 8 p. m. One day onle-e-e.”

TRICK RIDER TO PERFORM

One of the main attractions with the Ringling’ Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus which is to drive its stakes into the W. Washington-st grounds Tuesday for two performances is young Dorothy Herbert, shown above with her mount, King Cole, and one of the zebras in the herd with the show. Dorothy, a former Hoosier, does all sorts of trick riding.

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO “The White Angel,” with Kay Francis and Ian Hunter; at 11:30, 1:31, 3:32, 5:33, 7:34-and 9:35, CIRCLE Divided”

Roger Pryor to Head New Bill at Lyric

“Hearts with Marion

:05. Also Max Schmeling-Joe Louis fight pictures, at 11:46, 2:10. 4:40, 7:07 and 9:35. LOEW'S “San Prancisco” with Jeanette MacDonald;: Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, at 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10

and KEITH'S “The Campbells Are Coming,” Federal Players’ offering, under fhe direction of Charles Berkell. » Cur-

tain at 8:15, LYRIC Vaudeville on stage at 12:57. 3:51, 6:45 and 9:39. “The Big Noise,” with Guy Kibbee, ‘on the screen al 11:45, 2:39, 5:33, 8:27 and 10:49.

ALAMO “Moonlight Murder.” featuring

+ Screen Star to Tell About Movies in Vaudeville Appearance.

Stories about Hollywood, its stars and methods, are to feature the act of Roger Pryor, who is to top the Lyric stage bill starting Friday. Although the actor will be making his ‘first vaudeville appearance here, he 1s not a stranger to the || Chester Morris Flight, with Bane: Howard. =" Fr Ww 3 3

stage. Better.known for.his roleg as leading mah in numerous™ movies . - AMBASSADOR - during the past several years, Mr. “Under Two Flags,” with Claudette Pryor has had extensive experience || Colbert. Ronald Colman, Hot oamon the legitimate stage. ] A

| i Lady," with Fay Wray and Ralph He began acting 16 years ago in i . OHIO : a stock company, and 10 years ago “The Whole Town's Talking,” with crashed” Broadway to play oppo- Edward G. Robinson. Also. “Don’t site. Ruth Gordon in “Saturday's || Get Personal. : Children.” Leading roles followed in “Royal Family,” “Front Page,” “Blessed Event,” “There's Always Juliet” and “See Naples and Die,”

posite Mae West; “Lady by Choice,” with Carole Lombard, and “Girl Friend,” with Ann Sothern.

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Pickford ‘wild at a party she gave.

in which he played wtih Claudette Colbert. Went West in 1933

Mr. Pryor’s movie career opened with an important role in “Moonlight and Pretzels,” which was made at Universal's Eastern studios. In 1933 he went West, joined the Hollywood group, and made 20 pictures for Paramount, Warner Brothers, Universal and Columbia in addition to several independently produced films. x2

His screen plays include “Belle of |

the ’90’s,” in which he played op-

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Mr. Pryor is to be abetted in the Lyric show by the five Cabin Kids, Negro child singers, and several other vaueville acts. The picture for next week is “White Fang,” Jack London’s sequel to “Call of. the

Hollywood's Chief Ribber

Becomes Screen Comedian After Insulting Most of Movie Stars.

BY PAUL HARRISON

Hix woon, July 9 (NEA).— In some professions there is such a thing as being too well known. Ribbing, for instance. Vincent Barnett was a .professional ribber until, having insulted everybody ef any consequence in Hollywood, he had nothing left to do but become a screen comedian.

So today he is a successful and busy actor who plays a joke now and then just to keep his hand in. You may recall how Barnett, posing as a newspaper reporter, burst in upon George Bernard Shaw during that testy old gentleman's last visit to Hollywood.

While the Shavian blood pressure mounted, Barnett told him most of the things that two gen- | erations of newspaper men have been wanting to say, but didn't dare. Finally he introduced himself and Shaw laughed and identified him at once as that American insulter-fellow.” -

But there is nothing jolly about Barnett when he is busy with a job of ribbing. Introduced as a newly arrived German director, or an Austrian movie magnate, he still tells strange actors that they can’t act, and directors that they are pathetically amateurish, and

Cheats Perry at Ping-Pong He'll rib anybody. He had Mary

Pretended not to recognize -her as the hostess and monopolized her entire time by making derogatory remarks about each of the guests. He cheated Fred Perry at pingpong, criticized him as a poor tennis player, and concluded with some scurrilous insinuations about England’s part in the last war. Physical restraint by '10 guests was required to keep Mr. Perry from committing mayhem. Barnett’s greatest ribbing triumph here occurred when he first arrived, | during the early days of sound pictures. He was introduced to M-G-M executives as a celebrated German sound expert, and they asked him to tour the lot. : To their consternation (for that was in the time when nobody knew much about the audible art) he condemned every newly constructed sound stage and told them they might just as well junk a million dollars’ worth of recently purchased equipment. [. He always is pained by any intimation that his pokes are in any way vicious, eis

Don't Like Practical Jokes

He: said: “I don’t like practical jokes, or anything that does material harm. I've never poured soup down anybody’s:- neck, at banquets where I've been planted as a waiter. I've never pulled any telephone gags, or got a man in wrong with his wife. I've never pulled a rib in my life, where the victim couldn’t- laugh as loudly: as anybody. “Sometimes it takes the victim a

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Star of the Screen Stage and Radio

Mae West's Leading Lover in “Belle ‘of Nineties” and Hero of Numerous Other Films . . ., Telling Stories on ‘Hollywood!

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bridegroom’s place, marries girl. marriage stand.

is courted by wealthy socialite.

happily.

May Robson, Winnie Lightner.

cumstances.

Opening Tomorrow Apollo :

“PUBLIC ENEMY’S WIFE”-—-Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, Robert Armstrong, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Joseph King. Directed by Nicke Grinde; screen play by Abem Finkel and Harold Ernest Haller. : Story—Respectable girl, hoodwinked into marriage with gangster, serves prison term for complicity in husband's crime. Threatening divorce, gangster says he will kill any man she marries. Girl falls for rich playboy, arranges wedding. Playboy gets cold feet when word comes that girl's husband.is out of prison, so G-man takes Husband's gang captures G-man but is killed by police sent to rescue. Girl and G-man decide to let

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' “THE BRIDE WALKS OUT”—Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young, Ned Sparks, Helen Broderick. Directed by Leigh Jason; .screen play by P. J. Wolfson and Phillip G. Epstein. Story—Extravagant bride can’t live on surveyor husband's salary. When she goes back to mannequin job he gets sore, scrams. Bride When husband is about to go to South America on dangerous job, bride rushes back. Socialite renounces love, bride and groom reunite. “Let's Sing Again”—Bobby Breen, Houston, Vivien Osborne, Grant Withers and Inez Courtney. Directed by Kurt Neuman; photographed by Harry Neumann. Story—Boy singer runs off to see carnival, is picked up by trapeze artist and tenor. Trapeze man wants to cash in on boy’s singing but boy runs away with tenor. In ho friend, boy meets father, who had become gredt Metropolitan star. Boy, tenor, father and girl artist, friend of trapeze man, carry on

Loew’s

“IT HAPPENED IN INDIANAPOLIS”—John. Maguire, Mary Paxton Young, Edward Green, Gene Dynes, Margaret Webber. A local talent short subject based on a high school story, filmed in Indianapolis under the sponsorship of The Times and Loew’s Theater. “Dancing Lady”—(Revival of flim produced in 1933)—Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Nelson Eddy, Fred Astaire, Franchot Tone,

“The Big House”— (Revival of film produced in 1930) —Wallace | Beery, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Leila. Hyams, Lewis Stone.

Lyric ) :

VAUDEVILLE, on Stage—Roger Pryor, screen star; Cabin Kids, singing Negro children; Maxine and Bobby, novelty dog act; Ray Vaughn, xylophonist; Eyler and Louise Stafford, miniature dance revue; Neiss Troupe, casting and trampoline. “White Fang,” on Screen—Michael Whalen, Jean Mir, Slim Summerville, Charles Winninger, John Carradine. David Butler; based on story by Jack London. Story—Half-wolf son of Buck, famous St. Bernard dog, saves life of snow-trapped traveller in mountains. Usually romantic cir-

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little time to see the funny side. Fred Perry got clear to Australia before he saw the humor of the ribbing I gave him. Then I had a

‘fine letter from him.

“I have ribbed nearly every star and executive in Hollywood and my best friends today are the ones who

once had to be held +9 prevent them

from socking me.” Barnett’s erstwhile profession has risen to haunt him. All Hollywood is ‘trying to rib him now, and not everybody here has Barnett’s knack for harmless gaggry. “They do everything to me,” he said sadly. “I get the hot-foot, and the: electric chair.’ I'm pushed into swimming pools and routed out of bed by calls at 3 a. m. And I've got to take it. I'd be ruined if anybody

was able to say that ‘Barnett can dish it out, but he can’t take it. + “A director stuck ‘a8 gun in my

ribs and said, ‘This would make a nice big hole in you, Vince!” Just then a prop boy standing behind. him shot off a revolver and a man standing nearby tossed a glass of hot water on my stomach. I had to grin. “Hollywood heard I was going to buy a new car. So every night I'd come home and find demonstrators with five-ton trucks, and salesmen who'd been told I wanted to buy a dozen’ ambulances and a hearse. One ‘man wanted to demonstrate a threshing machine—" But that’s the end of this department’s space. There'll be another chapter on Barnett one of these days.

KEITH'S [wo] Federal Players in “The Campbells Are Coming’

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A HOT - HEADED BOY MEETS A HARD-TO-HAN-DLE GIRL. IT'S A LAUGH RIOT FOR YOU!

Thomas Meighan (Story on Page One)

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Greta Garbo’s first feature picture was “The Saga of Gosta Ber-

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Athletic Events

Shown in Movie

i America’s star track and field men in the thrilling A. A. U. championships, and the University of Washington crew winning the right to represent the United States in the Olympics are among features of the current Indianapolis Times Universal newsreel, : Graham McNamee, veteran ane nouncer, describes these and other scenes, including a successful test of a new tiny plane which flies “backward” with tail in front; intimate views of Britain's youngest prince, Edward, and a bearded inventor of “Hollywood taking off on a brief “trip to Mars.” :

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