Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1936 — Page 4
Comedy Skit Featuring Zasu Pitts, ~ Charles Ruggles to Be Presented
on Hughes’ Program at 7:30 Tonight TUESDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
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NEGRO MIRACLE DRAMA TO OPEN AT CIRCLE FRIDAY
The screen version of Marc Connelly’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, “The Green Pastures,” which is to have its first Indianapolis showing at the Circle Friday, will enable those who enjoyed the stage play to witness again the moving story of the Bible as interpreted by the Negro. The play, a Negro miracle drama, contains a theme of religious devotion as well as natural beguiling comedy * ag : Sa = of the Southern darkies. From scene to scene, the stage, awn py FF inne and now the screen, is filled with pickaninnies clothed in = al bi LAR fledgling wings, cleaning ladies, gossiping about goings-on in Heaven, and the gentleman passing around ten-cent “see-gars.” Directed by Mr. Connelly and William Keighley, the film is said to follow closely the play which packed theaters in more than 200 cities during the last five years. Played against more than 120 sets, with a cast of 1000, including 30 from the original play and the Hall Johnson Choir, the production is one of Warner Brothers’ biggest undertakings.
Ben Bernie, Jimmy Melton to Feature Program From Hollywood.
Loew’s Coming Attraction Provides New Type for Star.
CHICAGO otutanl Net.) Hollywood's two geniuses of “fruse trated” comedy, Zasu Pitts and Charlie Ruggles, are to be guests tonight of Rupert Hughes over WFBM at 7:30. The apologetic Mr. Ruggles and the hand-wringing Zasu will col laborate in a comedy skit, “Twenty Years A-Waitin’,” written especially for this occasion by the Hollywood scenarist, William Rankin. We might not be far off in
guessing, from the title of tonight's
BY JOHN W. THOMPSON . “The Devil Doll,” booked for loew’s starting Friday, brings Lionel Barrymore to the screen in Just about the only type of role he . hasn't taken—that of an old woman. * Loew's second feature will be “We Went to College,” starring Charles Butterworth, Hugh Herbert, Una Merkel and Walter Abel. | In “The Devil Doll” Mr. Barrymore plays the role of a banker,
wrongly sent to Devil's Island, who Playing the role of “De Lawd,” created on the stage escapes with a mad scientist, and
disguised as a woman lives to see his by the late Richard B. Harrison, is Rex Ingram, shown
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took the role in this melodramatic film because he thinks every actor should appear in at least one good mystery thriller a year. “It’s harder work, excellent mental stimulation and it keeps you out of the rut,” he said.
Woman’s Part Difficult
“I never realized how difficult it was to play the other sex,” Mr. Barrymore explained while working on the “Devil Doll” set. “The makeup alone was an ordeal. . I was never nfeant for wigs and dresses. When my false hair wasn't slipping out of place, my feet were getting tangled up in the hem of my skirt. Changing my voice had its drawbacks Yoo, for I'm no soprano.” Mr, Barrymore said that this We of role always helps: him to keep a versatile repertoire of the tricks of his trade. “In an ordinary screen play, you can use a straight-forward delivery and ‘be more or less natural,” the veteran actor corhmented,” but in 8 mystery--you must use every bit of skill you possess to keep building up the suspense.
: Unnatural Effect Sought
“For mystery plays are plays of promise, that is, they keep leading to more and more excitement in each scene. So one has to be artful in order not to show the pseudoemotional ascent of the plot. “A natural delivery - would be fatal. You must be sufficiently unnatural to lend the character an aura of foreboding, anxiety, menace and whatnot, yet still be within the bounds of credibility. If you don’t inject enough of this quality into the role, the scenes lose their suspense; if you overdo it, they become farcial. It's like walking a ' tight rope In “We Went To College” a group
«of college grads come back to the
- old alma mater for graduation and ‘ go the day up in fine fashion with
+ Jomance and comedy.
Producer Solves ‘Loocey’ Difficulty
Times Special
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HOLLYWOOD, July 14—A certain producer, according to a local trade journal, was making a period picture, and the scene called for a Louis XIV bed. “I can't find a Looey Fourteenth
bed anywhere in Hollywood,” wailed
the property man. “That's all right,” the producer “Just use two Looey | the ~ Sevenths—twin beds are more fp . to date anyway.”
Penner to Start
. Musical Picture
- Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, July 14.—Summoned back from his vacation in England, Joe Penner is ready to start work Aug. 1 on his new screen musical, “’Round (the Town.” ~ New Brown, who contributed the idea for the new film, is to direct production, with Patsy Lee Parsons,
. new child star, in|one of the top
roles. Mr. Penner, also plans a radio comeback in the fall.
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO
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UNNIEST MEN
W. C. FIELDS
+— This is the second in a series of grticles on screen comedians.
BY PAUL HARRISON OLLYWOOD (NEA), July 14— Around the movie colony these days there is a good deal of talk about a third party—or maybe a fourth party—presidential candidate to be selected from the entertain-
Hoople of Hollywood, is the unanimous selection. Originally sponsored by the West Side Riding and Asthma Club, Fields planned to make the race on the slogan of “a chickadee in every pot.” Lately, though, he has been having twinges of doubt, together with even stronger twinges of neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism, and a sacroiliac ailment. He has packed all these with his golf clubs and notes on his next picture, and by the time you read this he will be
hot springs. If Fields has any single outstanding quality, it is his complete nonchalance, on the set or off. You may have heard that he never says exactly the same line twice in rehearsals and during shooting. It is quite true, and there are two reasons for it. One is that he knows he is more effective when speaking with complete naturalness. The other is that he probably couldn’t learn & role verbatim if his life depended on it. Just Can’t Memorize There is no record that anybody ever was able to teach Fields anything. He admits that on Broadway he couldn't tell his left foot from his right for even the simplest bits of stage maneuvering. The stage production of “Poppy” was his greatest theatrical success, but he walked out on rehearsals because he couldn't memorize the part. Urged to return, he studied for weeks and finally learned enough of the lines to give the other players their cues. But he put in a lot of his own. Fields is a product of adversity. He was 11 when he crowned his father with a box and ran away from home. For four years he never slept in a bed, was always hungry, usually cold, and often ill, ; By filching fruit from stands and he det startrigoro
ment world. W. C. Fields, the Major | 1,
touring the desert and all available
cided he could juggle, too. At the end of two years he was engaged at Fortescue’s Pier at Atlantic City. Besides entertaining the patrons with his tricks, he had to venture into the water and be rescued from drowning once or twice a day. A lot of people would follow as he was carried into Fortescue’s for resuscitation, and some of them would buy er. It was 20 years ago in New York that he first faced a movie camera, but in those days the Hooplesque talents were submerged by slapstick. Later, in Hollywood, he made an equally serious mistake — allowed authors to tell him what to say, and directors to tell him how to juggle. Result was that his pictures were terrible and nobody would hire him,
Learned His Lesson
Finally came the prospect of a contract with-a major studio, and Fields knew what to demand. He declared that he would do the writing, and that he would say just what he wanted to say. Paramount agreed. te There have bzen nine pictures’ since then, each grossing more than the previcus one. Credit for screen-play authorship on seven of the pictures has gone to one Charles Bogel. Every other studio in Hollywood ha¢ called Paramount with attractive proposi-. tions for the borrowing of Mr. Bogel, but to no avail. Mr. Bogel happens to be Mr. Fields.
Dreads Retirement
At 57, Fields already is anticipating with dread the day when he no longer will be able to act. When that day comes, though, he still will have a few years for writing. Meanwhile, when he isn’t visiting the hot springs, he lives on a small suburban ranch, with a house on a hiliiop and a huze window. overlooking a valley. With Lim are his brother Walter and three servants; also numerous friends, ranging from topnotch . executives property men. They're all equally welcome.
NEXT-—Joe E. Brown.
Radio Station Used “A complete radio broadcasting sta-
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Makes Personal Appearances
Alamo Performer Voices. Intention of Sticking to ‘a Sure
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If you. had \ohble getting by the Alamo ‘Theater on N. Illinois-st, the reason i§ that Ken Maynard, the idol of most kids who ever have played cowboy, is making four personal appearances there today.
Yesterday: Mr. ‘Maynard perspired |
through four shows, before 6 and after which he had to weave his
way through: hundreds . of gaping
youths, ‘men and: women, THOSE. of |
whom ‘wanted’ to tell great guy they Some of them ys ea] one or two'wanted to sell him something. i we : “ It wou a super-su make a sucker of Ken, lesan to raw-boned, whole-hearted westerner has been around, as the saying goes. He's ‘been in the show business for 24 years, never has been late ‘to, or missed ‘a show, “He has produced hundreds of movies, never has appeared in ‘anything but a western story. “Strawberry Roan” last year was judged the best west- | ern ‘made during .the. year. ‘Ken | doesn’t think it was as worthy as others he’s done. . Yesterday, as the cowboy took off his high boots with the aid of a special boot-jack that looks like a kiddie car, he told us that he wouldn't play "in anything but a cowboy picture for love or money. “Western movies are a tradition,” he said. “As long as there are kids, there will be cowboy films. And my theory is: why get out of a -sure thing?”
But making movies is more than |
a business with Ken. He loves it. He likes to do tricks, likes jumping off a train on to a horse, but he won't do it ona full stomach.
istence. Riess bask arena In ox-
from Los Angeles. But he doesn't |
Westerners. PR get ‘to use it’ as’ much as he would like. Movie making. Xeeps: him too busy. If Tarzan, the’ “wonder” Hire with Mr. Maynard ‘in his appear-
ances. here, . knew how much his owner likes aviation, he pr
would be jealous. Ken likes to take | |
long ‘airplane trips alone, ‘through South ‘American jungles. A couple of years ago, while he was flying | over thé Yucatan, he suddenly realized that if he had to- land in the mass of criss-crosing lakes and
rivers, his parachute * wouldn’t’ be |
much good, because he couldn't get any place after he landed. ° Now: he carries an extra padded pockét under the chute, which contains a. compass, cheese-cloth and mosquito netting, condensed food rations for a week and other emer-
gency. equipment. Compasses are a |
passion with the cowboy flyer. He has: no less than -half a ‘dozen hidden away in: his: plane, On the screen during Ken's stay in Indianapolis, the Alamo is showing “Fugitive Sheriff,” a first-run
showing of Mr. ‘Maynard's latest |
movie. Famous: Play Fiimed “The Plough and thé Stars,”
in production with Barbara - Ban :
wyck as star, is one of the most famous plays in the repertoire of the Irish Abbey Players.
Extras. used in 1 “street scenes of the new Wheeler ‘and Woolsey comedy, “Mummy's Boys,” were ostly authentic Egyptians. .
Music
BY JAMES THRASHER
OW that a blessed moratorium on Mr. Paderewski's’ Minuet in G and Mr. Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C Sharp Minor is in effect, the piano works of Maurice Revel probably are played more frequently than those of any other living composer. - Three of his best known piano pieces, the “Pavane pour _une Infante’ Defunte,” the _ “Sonatine” and “Jeux d’Eaux,” are to be the offerings on E. Robert Schmitz’ final broadcast of the season at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon over: WFBM. Modern French music has formed the basis of many of ~Mr. Schmitz’ programs, and his friendship with Ravel and Debussy has made him a wellqualified interpreter. He has visited frequently at the former composer's _ picturesque home at Mont L’Amaury, near Paris, where Ravel lives in re- - tirement, and where the compositions to be heard tomorrow were written. With the departure of Mr. Schmitz for his usual summer of master classes in the West, CBS is to continue its interesting series with Mme. Lydia Hoffmann - Behrendt, internationally known pianist, as artist. She also is a “special- _ ist” in modern interpretation, but of a different class, having studied and coached with some of the foremost German and Slavic contemporary compos ers. The day and hour of the broadcast | will remdin the same,
Sunnyside to Get Theater Proceeds
_ Proceeds from tonight's performance at the Rex Theater are to be turned over to .the Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium, according to Louis R. Markun and Oscar Markun, owners. The bill for tonight includes “The Prisoner of Shark Island,”
with Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart, and “Love on a Bet,” with Gene Raymond.
_- Designs Number John : Harkrider, designer of the spectacular “Pretty: Girl” number
from “The Great Ziegfeld,” is de-
signing a similar spectacular num-
ber for “Swing Time,” new AstaireRogers musical.
radio drama, that it was suggested ‘by Mr. Ruggles’ recent starring picture, “Early to Bed,” in which he
Tw A flancee, Mary Bo= land, waiting for Rupert Hughes ,, years. Mr. Hughes proved, in the new series’ second program last week, that his. master-of-ceremonies technique had smoothed out cone sidérably. Doubtless he will prove as adept at this new job as in the varied endeavors which already have brought him success. 2 EJ » HO remembers when Paul Whiteman, Ben Bernie, Guy Lombardo, Jan Garber and many other of the older maestros used to lead their bands with a fiddle tucked under their chins? You can hear Maestro Bernie in a violine saxophone duet tonight with Jimmy Melton, none other. The famous tenor financed part of his college education by tooting in a band. But just in case his lip should be ‘a bit rusty, Jimmy is bringing along some new songs to sing. The broadcast, originating in Hollywood where Melton is makngs picture,. is to come via WLW at 7. ' 8 ” ” Johnny the Call Boy is moving from WIRE to WLW tonight. The time, 6 o'clock, remains the same, The program is to continue with the same performers: Leo Reisman'’s Orchestra, the Four Eton Bcys, the Sweethearts, Loretta Clemens and
| Phil Duey as soloists, ard the
“three-minute thrill” feature, cone ducted by Charles Martin. =
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CBS will carry Dr. Frank E, Townsend’s address of welcome to some 2500 delegates attending the second national convention of Townsend Old Age Pensiort Clubs at 1:30 tomorrow. The sessions are to be held in Cleveland.
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