Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1936 — Page 6
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Movie, Based on Story Written by Ace Navy Flyer, Filmed at Pan-American Base; Pat O’Brien Is Starred.
BY JOHN W.
The motion picture industry's salute to ION cio of aviation is
THOMPSO
~ embodied in “China Clipper,” the time-worthy movie starring Pat O'Brien,
. which is to open at the Apollo following the current feature, “To Mary—
With Love.”
Based on a story by Commander Frank wed ace Navy flyer, and
produced under the supervision of William I. Van Dusen, of Pan-American
Airways, the picture is said to reveal numerous technical secrets whic made possible the air commerce recently established across the Pacific. : In the cast with Mr. O'Brien are + the late Henry B. Walthal, Beverly + Roberts, Ross Alexander, Marie Wil- © son and Humphrey Bogart.
Flights Are Filmed
The exterior scenes were filmed mostly at the air base of the famous flying ships on the Pacific coast at Alameda. Maneuvers of the planes, which recently startled the aviation world with regular flights to the Philippines and China, are featured prominently in the lm. Other outside shois were taken at © Catalina“ Island where the foilage could easily be faked into looking like Oriental undergrowth. Mr. O’Brien plays the role of a ' flyer, inspired by the success of Col. \ Lindbergh, who wants to establish round-the-world air travel on a commercial basis. He finds plenty of daring airmen eager to join such © an enterprise but few capitalists willing to take a chance on such a risky venture.
Miss Wilson Supplies Comedy
Miss Roberts plays Mr. O’Brien’s wife, who, because nis almost fanatical work keeps him away from her, gives him up. Miss Wilson carries the comedy element as the harumscarum girl who 1s in love with an - air pilot. She always arrives at the port with the idea wf marrying her hero just when he’s taking off for other lands. ; The late Mr. Walthal, who died Just after finishing work on “China Clipper,” plays the role of the eccentric inventor who finally perfects "the type of engine and plane that © will stand the strain of constant - storms encountered on transoceanic
voyages. Following “China Clipper” the
i Apollo is to present a new musical | “Sing, Baby Sing” starring Adolphe © Menjou, Alice Faye, Ted Healy, Pat- | sy Kelly, Michael Whalen and the three Ritz brothers.
; Theater Books WIRE, Program
Seach al " Barn Dance to:Be Aired from Rivoli Stage.
One of station WIRE'S most popular programs, the weekly “Barn Dance,” is to be transplanted to the Rivoli Theater stage for two . performances each Thursday evening starting this week, according -to Joe Cantor, Rivoli manager. The two performances, one at 6 _. o'clock, which is to be broadcast direct from the stage, and another at © 8:30 will feature Morris Hicks as . “regular caller,” which in hill-billy parlance means master of ceremonies. $ Since 1933 the barn dance has held forth over WIRE, first broad- ' cast on Saturday night and for the . past two years on Thursday nights.
Stars to Be Here
Happy Long, singing “star” of the barn dance , is to be one of the stage production's featured performers. So also will be Uncle Hiram, Whose “barn” serves for a \ locale for the weekly get-together. . Hiram and Happy have been on the since its inception. Other featured attractions on the dance program include Red Dickerson and his “Wash-board Stringers”; the Mountain Rangers with “hill-billy swing music”; Joe and Jack, Harmonica Twins; the Melody Makers “barber-shop harmony” and Bill Jones, the “lonesome cowcn The feature picture to be shown with the barn dance stage appear-
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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN
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“Rhythm on the Range,” with Bin Cros furs ces’ Parmer Bob Burns
un. aise Latinter, at 13:45, 3:35,
LOEW'S
“His Brother's Wife,” featuring Robert Taylor and Barbara Stana at 11, 3:18. 3:25, 5:40, 7:55 and
KEITH'S
“Midsummer Pestival Revue,” 8 Federal Players’ production with vaudeville and a short dramatic sket “The Valiant.’ , Sustain at 8:15
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“Parade of the Stars,” with P Ash and Sim oo blin, on stage" oi 1:05, 3:40, 6:3 d 9:32.
an ya * featuring HerRuth Chatterton and imon, on sereen at 11:44, 2:19, 5:15, 8:11 and 1 0:37.
ALAMO
‘ “Rose Marie” with Jeanette MacDonald and elson Eddy. Also * ‘The Lion Man” with Charles Locher
AMBASSADOR
" s“Prouble for Two” with Robert Monigomer and Rosalind Russell.
Also “Mur er | by Aristocrat.”
Golden Artow” with Bette Davis. Also “Love Before Breakfast” with Carole Lombard and Pred MacMurray. :
Airway
RESORT HOTEL
by Deck Morgan © 1036 NEA Serica, Inc.
BEGIN {HERE TODAY Ann Hamilton, pretty young secretary in a large busines office, goes to a travel agency to make plans for her two-week vacation, Bill Ware, travel bureau employe, persuades her tp go to Lake Racine. Bill is oBviously | attracted by Ann, but she gives him little thought. # Ann goes to the mountain resort and at first is lonely. Then she meets Ralph Spring, head boatman, ‘who tells {her he t not interested in girls. Ralph introduces her to Jaime Laird, wealthy playboy. Jaime is handsome and attentive. Ann tries to’ persuade him to do something useful with his life, but he laughs at. this. She also meets Lefty Pond, married "but flirtatious. Bill Ware arrives’ at’ Lake Racine and is annoyed to find Ann with se many other admirers. 2¢é#&an and Bill set out on a mountain climbing trip. A sterm comes up and they are obliged to spend the night in a log shelter. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XI
Perrone the guests at the Glenwood Inn arose for late breakfast, Ann and Bill slipped into their separate rooms and went sound asleep, glad that the ordeal on the side of the mountain was over. They had decided to keep their all-night vigil a secret. Ann awoke at noon and came down for coffee. One or two of the porch sitters eyed her curiously, for Ann had been an early riser. Ther suspected that she had been out dancing the night before with that playboy across the lake, Jaime Laird. They all liked Bill, the wholesome lad who climbed mountains and was so friendly. They would never have eiod him of any all-night didoes. But the news that ‘the collegeboy waiter conveyed to Ann at the table .was more disconcerting than the waggish looks from the porchsitters. At some time in the night the hotel manager's safe—a nay file-case affair—had been rob and $1000 in negotiable bonds eo, missing. It had been a quiet job, which hadn't been discovered until morning, and the detectives hadn't found any clews. /As a matter of routine they were searching all the guests’ rooms. After this late breakfast Ann went down to the boathouse for a swim. In her green. bathing suit she lay on the docks until the hour of 2, when people began to EQ into the water. Ralph sat at her side, watching the bathers while
house, if you want to see them.” “Now now,” Ann said. “I'm too gloriously lazy.” “You're just like all the rest” he said; smiling. “But no woman is going to make a fool of me! I'm saf
promise much to a girl; they went back to their wives in September. When Lefty spoke to Ann on the dock, he did it sheepishly, and his wife gave him a look that squeiched him completely. Mr. and Mrs. Ponds took the boat to the village. The same ferry that. took Lefty and his wife to the village brought back Jaime as a passenger. He was smiling and gay. Ann saw him from afar and waved.: At the sound of his voice something still tightened in her throat. When~hes jumped down to the dock to take her hands she felt her pulses race. “YT've been looking for you Every. ‘where!” he sald, He nodt Ralph, who moved away to Be the swimmers. Jaime took, Ann. to ‘the end of the dock for a private chat. His voice didn’t rise above a whisper. ‘He sat there, looking into her eyes. For the first iime Ann felt that he turned on his charm, as one, turns on water from a faucet. “I couldnt find ‘you last night,” Jaime said. “Where were you?” He “went on, without waiting for an answer, “Darling, what do you say—this is our last:chance to .run up to Canada for a week-end? It's your last week-end in the mountajns. Don’t be a silly, unworldly. girl. You can check out of the hotel, bid the porch-sitters adieux, and I'll drive you back to the city from Canada.” 2 8 8
NN looké&d at him and suddenly she felt that she was aware of his real character. She knew she was completely aware of herself. It she were responsible to no one but herself on. vacation. then. she'd meet that responsibility. not going to take a week-end trip with Jaime, no matter how harmless it seemed. “But why—why should we leave this adorable spot?” she said. He was like a petulant child. “Darling! I'm not happy here any longer. Restless. Escape. Please don't desert me. I need you.” He ran 8 hand through his hair. “you've got to help me.” “I ‘always thought when I became interested in a man, seriously, that I would need him,” she said. Suddenly she saw Jaime as he really was—a charming. boy who had & “line,” a manner of insinuating himself into one’s confidence. What would be his attitude if he were once sure of-her love? not asked her to marry had avoided the subject |- as though it were talk of the plague. contrast ‘to Jaime’s furtive way ‘of showing his affection there was Bill Ware's honest avowal of love.” There was nothing juvenile
her, like a man. Just as he had watched over her during the storm
She was.
about Bill; he wanted to look after ‘The Irish. zehellion
If you don’t’ think movie sets are realistic take a look (through the man-made fog) at this setting for “The General Died At Dawn,” now being filmed on the Paramount lot. The cameraman is swinging -about the ship on a huge steel crane which moves silently and swiftly to follow the players. On the deck can be seen Gary Cooper and Madeline Carroll, starred in the film, talking it over before they go into a scene in which they become the capSivek of a viscious Chinese warlord.
betting room to see how. the races are going. I'll give you a ring at the hotel.” He walked toward the boathouse to take the ferry back across the lake, Bill was walking down the. shore,
deeply engrossed in thought, when he. Ann
’s green eap “out among the swimmers. He waved and she swam to the dock to greet him. His face was ‘troubled. He looked haggard and wan. “What is it, Bill?” Ann asked. “You look as if you've seen a ghost.” She came up out of the water. ” ” » : E led her aside and said, “Last night- some bonds, were stolen from the manager's safe. After we came down from the mountain JI slept late. When I awoke shortly after noon there was a detective rummaging about in my room. He found a wrapper there—the wrapper that had been around the bonds in the safe”. Bill ran a hand through his blond hair. “I don’t know how the wrapper got’ there! The whole thing is absurd. I could not. have taken the bonds—because you and I were marooned in the lean-to high up on the mountain all night. But I couldn’t use that as an alibi.” Ann's hand flew: to her throat. That was Bill Ware, trying to shield her at all events, He did have a fine character. She realized how difficult it would be to explain their staying on the mountain all night. Wildly her thoughts envisioned what the porch-sitters would say. “Somebody must have planted the wrapper in my room,” Bill said, “to throw-suspicion on me. I told them I spent the night on the mountain— alone. But that’s merely my word against the evidence. I have to 80 to the hearing now—
(To Be » Concluded)
Jailed ‘as Revolter,
POOR KID BYJO DUDLEY -Daily Short Story
UCY was among the extra girls we had hired from a secretarial school to help us during the rush season:'All, with her exception, were the usual type of business girl — trim-looking, alert, energetic. :
Not so, Lucy. She stood out. Not Because she was striking, It was just the opposite. For, of all the pathet-ic-looking girls I'd ever seen, Lucy was the worst. The first day she was at work, I remember looking up from my desk toward the line of girls standing at
the long table getting thousands of |
1ettérs folded,! put into envelopes, and stamped. All at once, Lucy sort of tottered: Her thin_ legs didn’t seem capable of holding her up. I fully expected to ‘see them buckle under ‘her any minute. But she pulled herself together and went on with her job. At lunch time, she walked slowly to a chair, and just sat there for the next hour. From then on, I saw to it that Lucy’s work was as easy as it could possibly be. he never used to say much, but there was a look in those big, gray eyes of hers that got me. That look must have had the same effect on the boss, for when the work started getting lighter, he let all the extra girls go—except Lucy. “That poor kid ‘needs the work. ‘You can tell it by looking at her,”
he offered in explanation. We both.
looked across the office toward her— thin and slightly stooped, her wispy
hair brushed back from a sad-look--
ing, wistful face. I told him what a grand sport he was ‘to: keep her on as a regular. X No # 8 8
HE never left the office at lunch time, until finally some of the other girls and I figured out a way to ‘see "that she got something to eat. We explained that it had always been the custom, when a new girl was added to the staff, to take her for a round of lunches. In that way, we would ail get to know her better. 3 Slightly bewildered, she had her
first lunch with me. The poor kid|
—I can’t help but call her that still
—didn’t talk much. She just ate.|
| have to stop and. not be able to get | - she
but I've never felt miore miserable in my life. All the rest of that afternoon, 1 stole glances at her, and caught her, every now and then, surreptitiously brushing away tears. A gloom settled over the entire office. I began to watch the slow hands of the clock, wishing the day would Busy and end. The ‘boss sat at his desk and pit. tended to be engrossed in da pile of work, but I saw him Slane, at Lucy more than once.
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| T five minutes to five, the girls began getting their ‘desks in order for the next day. Everything was much quieter than usual at closing time. Then, suddenly the boss rose ang crossed the office to Lucy’s desk. “Lucy, I've decided to keep you on to substitute during vacation time. And by fall, I'm sure I can find Ko steady job—maybe here—for you.”
He said it quietly, as if rehearsed.
His ears were crimson as he started out of the room. Lucy looked dumbfounded for a moment. Then, she grabbed her hat and followed him. We heard her
say, “Thank you—oh, thank you!” as she passed him and ran down the’
stairs. That cleared the atmosphere. Everybody began chattering. We were all terribly plcased. ~And later, when .the boss came back into the room, his expressior. proved the old adage that one gets his greatest
‘happiness out of doing: things for others
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HE next Morning, before I cotild ‘tell Lucy how ‘glad we were that she would be with us during the summer, shé interrupted me. She was so excited that I hardly knew her. “Oh Margaret, guess what! I got it! I got it!” - A hundred things flashed through my mind. She had bought a toy for her baby sister. A silk dress for her]
fully nice to me——" She was like ‘one of those mechanical toys, wound up for a long time and now . let loose, going on and on. I never told the boss. None of the other girls did, either. Because every time he looks at Lucy, his face glows, with that Good Samaritan look of satisfaction. THE END.
(The characters in this story are fictitious)
(Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 3
Title of Song Hard to d to Write
Verses Come Easy, Veteran Composer Says.
Times Special - : HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 11, — The hardest task in the world is to pick six syllables tc form a perfect song title, Gus Kahn, veteran song composer, said today. “The first and most important thing about a song is the title, and this is the hardest part of the job,” Kahn said. the title, the song almost writes itself. Titles can bs in one word, or many words. The ideal is the title of six syllables; it has a sort of cadence.” He lists his most sticoesstyl sixsyllable ‘sang titles as: “I Wish I Had a Girl,” Your Eyes Have Told Me So,” “My. Isles of Golden
Dreams,” “Yes Sir, That's My Baby,” “Foot Loose and Fancy Free,” and
“Beside a Babbling Brook.” ‘Sentimental titles tellin are the best sellers, al
is a market for excepti titles, Mr. Kahn said.
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First Drama Has Premiere
Action Is Slow in ‘One Night at Brenda’s,” Playing at Keith's.
Miles Tiernan, of the Indianapolis Star, had his extracurricular fling at Keith's last night as he watched the Federal Players present his new play, “One Night at Brenda's.” We observed him squirm a few times as lines were dropped by players or a scene didn't go off just as he thought it should. We didn’t noe tice him guffawing at his own lines, and that’s a tribute to any author, As Mr. Tiernan intimated jokingly before the curtain, the play isn't a
idea, and many plays appar And it has moments polish, moments when playwright would be
It has a couple of characters, a racketeer and a. night club blues singer, which we think Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy could play much better than they do their parts in the current movie, “To Mary— With Love.”
Action Slow in Spots
But the trouble with “One Night at Brenda's” is there are too many moments when it doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere or doing any. thing. And that’s not a tribute to any author. The play opens in Brenda's! road house, where she is entertaining a group of friends on their twentieth reunion. While they are out of the room, one of their number, Dirk Maroni, has two henchmen drag Gyp Louie into the room, make him sign a paper giving them $7500, then drag him out. Then Gyp gets loose, gathers his men, surrounds the house, Kkidnaps Carol, Brenda's daughter, and slugs Larry, son of Brighton Bracke ett, one of the reunioners, just as Larry and Carol are eloping. The last scene leads up to Gyp taking Dirk for a “ride,” but interference of Dirk's gunmen stays the hand of tragedy.
Cast Is Competent
Jack Duval makes a fairly cone vincing Dirk; Alice Arnold, a splendid Gwinnie Blue, singer-heroine; Hal Hawkes, an overwrought Brighton Brackett, and Ruth King, a pleasant-voiced but ‘unconvincing Brenda. Ned Lefevre and Betty ‘Anne Brown are brief but effective roe mancers. The production last night was a bit clumsy, the sets a little hard to understand. It seemed as if the cast had leaped into the costumes win insufficient ‘rehearsal. ! a prominent Indiana artist, wi knows more about drama than most of us, said between the first and second acts: “They should give Miles plenty of black coffee, and let him sit down and rewrite the play around this cast.” (By J. W. T)
Actor Is Scholar Lewis Stone, who heads the cast of “Don’t Turn ’Em Loose,” majored in mathematics and history at Columbia University.
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