Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1936 — Page 4

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BY JOHN W. THOMPSON If the late Will Rogers had to depend on a movie to perpetuate ‘his memory, that movie most likely . would be “State Fair,” which is to return to the Apollo Friday . His role, that of Farmer Frake, whose prizé hog, Blue Boy, is his primary interest in life, is one that the philosopher-humorist handled with ease. Personally, we think “State Fair” is about the closest

thing to real acting Mr. Rogers ever did. At least, it proved that “A Connecticut Yankee” wasn't an

accident.

Also starred in the movie are Janet Gaynor, . Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, Louise Dresser and Victor Jory.

While Farmer Frake watches his

hog with fear and trembling at the fair, Ma Frake watches her marmalade and mincemeat. The kids, Wayne and Margy, run off, and romance blossoms for both of them; a nice romance for Margy, one not so nice for Wayne. But everything ends up on the level. When the public demands such pictures as “State Fair,” one realizes that the screen world has opened its inevitable circulating library. This week at Loew's “The Big House,” a 6-year-old movie, and “Dancing Lady” almost two years old, are pulling in large crowds. Patrons like to compare stars’ work now with their earlier work, and they find those fortunate enough to have survived as highlights in movieland all have changed a great deal. When “State Fair” first played at the Apollo, it stayed three weeks. It might do it again,

Architecture Terms Given Movie Stars

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 15—When most people think of movie stars they think of them in terms of beauty, glamour and romance. But when Cedric Gibbons, M-G-M'’s art director, visualizes stars, it is in terms of architecture. Some of his impressions are: Norma Shearer, modern classic; Greta Garbo, Baroque; Joan Crawford and Claudette Colbert, regency; Marion Davies, early American; ‘Wallace Berry, Spanish colonial; Spencer Trancy, American colonial; Myrna Loy, French provincial; and Jean Harlow, chateau French. » The Marx Brothers, are not “Early Bedlam” but Late Italian . * Renaissance to Mr, Gibbons.

Movie to Be Made “+ of Musical Comedy

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 15.—The, _ screen at last is to see “Sally, Irene and Mary,” the musical comedy which ranks as one of the all-time record breakers during its years in America and Europe. The play has been the object of major attention and spirited bidding since the advent of sound, but it was only recently that Darryl PF. Zanuck acquired production sights. Assignment of parts is not to he until a screen play has been prepared, but Mr. Zanuck has promised one of the most imposing of Tis studio's productions,

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ALAMO “Under Two Flags,’ featuring Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell. Also “Hitch Hike to Heaven,” with Hen‘rietta Crosman. AMBASSADOR ‘The Princess Comes Across” with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, and “ eporger Patrol” with George O'Bri ‘OHIO

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JOEE. BROWN

" This is the third of a series of articles on screen comedians.

BY PAUL HARRISON

OLLYWOOD; July 15.—Joe E. Brown is a sensitive fellow, and life has given him an awful kicking around. But he always has got up smiling—smiling, indeed literally, from ear to ear.

He is thin-skinned in spite of the beatings he used to get as a 9-year-old .aerialist with the. Five Marvelous Ashtons, and the broken bones received when he was dropped by accident or for discipline, and the buffetings he took in comedy acrobatics. and the miscellaneous lacerations and abrasions suffered’ in his movie stunts without benefit of stunt men. Mr. Brown also is touchy about those pictures which he considers bad. Two years ago, returning from a cruise, he was met by interviewers who asked: “And why did you select the Orient for a vacation?” “Because,” said the candid comic,

'| “I wanted to be far away when

my last picture, ‘A Very Honorable Guy,’ was released.” His studio never quite forgave him that crack,

especially since it turned out to

be a pretty good picture after all The star often guesses wrong about his films. » » » OTS of people wonder whether he is sensitive about the size

‘| of his mouth. Brown says no, it’s

his comedy trademark. Yet he really is embarrassed when he hears that mouth compared to Madison Square Garden or Manitou's Cave of the Winds. Once, after being bitten by a lion, he was a little hurt by the story that he and the lion had been practicing putting their heads in each other mouths. The truth of that incident is that Brown, working in “The Circus

| Clown,” was in the cage trying to

rouse the lazy beast for a bit of acting. He gave it a coupe of pokes, but it went right on with its siesta. Somebody said, “Joe, try blowing

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in his car. I've heard lions don’t like. that.” So: Brown blew into the lion’s ear, and the lion turned and bit him on the face. It made a fine shot for the camera, and audiences later rolled ‘in the aisles at the spectacle

of the comedian’s discomfiture. ” 8 ” INDLINESS is Brown’s religion; he exudes it. He plays more benefits than anybody else in Hollywood. He visits hospitals. He’s a sucker for hard luck stories. A widow was about to lose a shabby little theater which her husband had left her, along with a lot of debts. Brown heard abou! it and played personal appearances in the theater until its obligations were met, and there was a litfle something left over for remodeling. If he had his life to live over again, he'd still be a comedian. “It’s a finer thing,” he said, and he was serious, “than any other pro-

fession. Than medicine, even. Why,

a great doctor once told me that 10 real belly-laughs will add a day to a person's life. “Sometimes I get to thinking about that, and hoping it’s true, and figuring how many days I have helped add to the life of the nation. even if only half the people who see my pictures get a few laughs from them. I'm a mighty lucky guy to be in the laugh business.” 2 = 8 HERE is a good-sized streak of perversity in Joseph Evan Brown. It may be that he stuck to show business during his early years because those times were so very lean and painfully difficult. He’s anti-superstitious; deliberately flouts the standard jinxes, such as breaking mirrors and whistling in dressing rooms, as a gesture of defiance. In the same way, his insistence on clean comedy is a hangover of revulsion against his early comedy training in burlesque. Brown was scarcely more than a kid when

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1—Public demand is responsible for the return of another Will Rogers’ picture. This time it’s “State Fair” which is to be revived at the Apollo for a week starting Friday. In the film with the late comedian are Janet Gaynor (shown with. Mr. Rogers in the above scene), Lew Ayres

and Sally Eilers.

« 2—When you see Lionel Barrymore on Loew’s screen Friday in “The Devil Doll” you probably will be surprised. Through most of the picture he plays the role of an old woman. Here we see him being made up for the part on “The Devil Doll” set. Loew's other feature is to be “We Went to College” with Charles Butterworth, Hugh Herbert, Una

Merkel and Walter Abel.

3—Henry Armetta seems upset about something in this scene from

“The Crime Of Dr. Forbes,” which

is to be the Lyric’s screen enter-

tainment starting Friday. Henry is talking to Robert Kent and Gloria

Stuart. Vaudeville is to occupy the

Lyric stage. °

he . trouped with “Uncle Sam's Belles,” “The Girls of the Moulin Rouge,” and like enterprises. But he insists that he never told an improper joke. “Neither have I ever impersonated a cripple,” he said. “Nor even a person who stutters. No use hurting anybody’s feelings. I don’t like

2 n=» . E enjoys a bit of ribbing now and then, however. Brown is a fine dialectician, and when he recognizes the voice of a friend on

the telephone he may pretend to be a very stupid Oriental househoy, or maybe a German wrong number. Recently he heard that an important executive was having a.

colors, blue with a red stripe. Brown telephoned him and in 20 minutes of heavily ‘accented conversation broke the news of a little accident to the beautiful red car with a blue stripe. What, that wasn’t the color scheme?—well, that’s the way he had painted it. But it didn’t make any difference anyway, said Brown, because he had dropped a match in a can of paint, and the paint had burned up, and so had the car. The victim of the joke burned up, too— spontaneous combustion, Brown's domesticity, including 20 years of married life and three children, is - at once the pride and despair of his bosses. The actor sometimes shows up a couple of hours late at the studio with what seems to him a perfectly valid excuse. “Sorry,” hell say, “I got. fo fooling around with the kids.”

Next—Hugh Herbert.

Ulric to Be Seen in Garbo Picture

Times Special HOLLWOOD, July 15.—After an absence of several years from the screen, Lenore Ulric, star of “Bird of Paradise,” “Kiki,” and “Lulu Belle,” is to return to movies in Greta Garbo’s “Camille.” . The cast so far selected for the movie includes Robert Taylor and John Barrymore.

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Show Goes on Despite Small Crowd, Hot Weather.

Hats off to Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey! They're troopers tried and true. Under the hottest sun that ever hit Indianapolis, the circus gang went through its routine, and came through with a smile, yesterday afternoon at the old baseball park on ‘W. Washington-st. YThe show was repeated last night before a large crowd. While the circus band played everything from Beethoven to Gershwin, the more than 1000 performers went through their paces, even though there were almost as many performers in the ring as there were spectators around it. Dorothy Herbert rode her black steed over high flaming hurdles, and made it dance to Victor Herbert's music; the Naittos tripped gaily along tight wires, Nio turning a back somersault and landing squarely on the thin rope, and the Zachinnis, Mario and Hugo, popped out of their cannon at the end of the show. These were only a few of the acts; many others were equally good. The human performers weren't the only ones to be congratulated for sportsmanship. The menagerie animals, lions, tigers, panthers and polar bears, all paced their cages

and showed off for spectators. The

elephants, pigmies and full-sized, tramped and dancéd around the rings in all their circus glory. To clowns, to flunkies who pulled and heaved to get the nets and rigging up for the show, to performers and fo hundreds of unseen workers, our heartiest praise. They refused to be dismayed by the hottest afternoon Indianapolis ever has known. (By J. W. T)

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Tschaikowsky probably spoke without much reflection when he hailed Beethoven as the inventor of “program music” in the “Eroica.” There had been a great deal of descriptive music written in the century preceding this work, but it was the first great example of musical biography in symphonic form. Inciaents surrounding the composition of this symphony, third of the immortal nine, are well known. Beethoven, an ardent admirer of the French revolution, had dedicated the work to Napoleon. According to Ries} the title page bore the word “Bonaparte” at the top, the composer’s name at the bottom, and nothing more.

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Beethoven's ‘Eroica’ Symphony Is Scheduled for Program Starting at 7 on Blue Network.

By skipping around the dial, listeners should be able to hear most of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s program in Grant Park tonight. NBC's Blue network is to carry the full-hour broadcast beginning at 7, with WGN and Mutual coming on at 7:30. Unless warm weather prompts Conductor Eric DeLamarter to substitute lighter fare, the concert’s chief item is to be Beethoven's “Eroica” Symphony, which the composer once said was his favorite. This was in 1817, however, before the Ninth Syruphony had been written.

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had declared himself Emperor, Beethoven angrily crossed out the

hero’s name and remarked, “Then he’s nothing but -an ordinary man. Now he’ll trample on all the rights of men to serve his own ambition; he will put himself higher than all the others and turn out a tryant!” Later, when news of Napoleon’s death reached him, the composer is said to have remarked, “Did I not foresee the catastrophe when I wrote the Funeral March (the symphony’s second movement) in the ‘Eroica’?” (By J.T.)

OY Prospect of Hearing ‘Lazybones’ Sung in Japanese by Radio Artist WEDNESDAY EVENING PROGRAMS

(The Indianapolis Times is not responsible for inaccuracies In program annonncements caused by siation changes after press time.)

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Burns and Alien Cashing in on Gags for French Fans.

Hoagy Carmichael has heard his popular confpésitions done by all sorts of people in all kinds of ways. But when Midge Williams called him and said she was going to sing “Lazybones” in Japanese, the song writing pride of Indianapolis and

Indiana University promised to be present at her NBC Blue Network broadcast at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon. In fact, Hoagy went so far as to

| say that he would sing “Judy” for

the 20-year-old Miss Williams and her listeners, and even submit to a microphone interview, something that few people can persuade him to do. The famous tune-smith expressed surprise that any one could render anything as colloquially American as the ‘“Lazybones” lyrics into Japanese, but Miss Williams says she learned the trick on a tour of the Orient last year. She has made seve eral Japanese recordings of Care michael songs. 2 2 = - Another Hoosier on the air tonight is “Tiny” Ruffner, the handsome Crawfordsville giant, making his regular appearance an the “Let's Sing” program over WFBM at 7:30. “Tiny” passes through the audience with portable micro=

phone and samples of soap, interviewing people and peddling the sponsor’s wares. Tonight’s song leader will be Homer Rodeheaver, who learned how to make an audience sing long before radio was born as the musical companion of the late

Billy Sunday.

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Parisians are greeting each other along the boulevards with the French equivalent of “I think you're

-| pretty, too.” The reason? George

Burns and Gracie Allen, whose quips are being translated and broadcast throughout France. For the past few months, the two comedians have been selling their scripts after each program to the French broadcasting company. For=iegn radio officials, believing that fifty million Frenchmen must be right, willingly pay George and Gracie plenty of francs for the privilege of using their gags.

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The Indiana Traffic Safety Forum celebrates its tenth week on the air tomorrow, with Moncel A. Monts as guest speaker, at 1 p. m. over WIRE. Another radio play dramatizing the traffic accident menace in Indianapolis is to be presented later in the month, according to Martin M. Clinton; forum chairman.

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Sunday night’s amateurs, come= dians and symphony orchestras are to be joined by Nelson Eddy beginning Sept. 27. Singing for a new sponsor, Mr. Eddy is to be heard from Hollywood for the first 15 weeks; the next six concerts will be from various. points in the Middle West, after which the popular baritone is to broadcast from the CBS New York studios.

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