Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1936 — Page 20

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Weak Story

No Handicap!

to Fun Film

Action Indicates Actors on Holiday Before Camera, Reviewer Says.

BY JOHN.W. THOMPSON If you've got a funny-bone (who hasn't?) you'd better strap it well before going to ihe ‘Apollo this week, because “Sing, Baby, Sing,” is likely to rip it right out of the socket. ' Our first impression was that Adolphe Menjou, Alice ‘Faye, the Ritz brothers (funniest trio since Marxes), Ted Healy, Patsy Kelly and Greg-

ory Ratoff, decided to take a

holiday and somebody the cameras by-accident. Anyway its screwy, daffy, and completely unstrung, all set to music. . | The plot, which is a pretty seri- ,| ous word to apply in this case, starts out with Joan :Warren, night club singer, losing her job. She goes to Nick Alexander, booking agent, as he is being thrown out of his "offife for nonpaymént of rent, along with Al Craven .and F Fyiay, his secretéry.

Enfer Star With Binge

While Joan goes back to the club) oo =

for her last night, Nick and his pals bump into Bruce Farraday, movie star on a binge in New York. Bruce

recognizes her as his Juliet. The papers jump at the story,

Bruce is taken to a hospital. He begs |

Nick for a drink and Al gets him a

jug of bay rum. He thinks it's South | American brandy. In come Joan and |

newspaper photographers and the story spreads like wildfire. ~ But Bruce's cousin, Robert Wilson, rescues the actor, gets him on a train for Hollywood. Nick, sensing a terrific buildup for Joan, charters a plane to take them on a chase after the fleeing Romeo. They catch him in Kansas City, a radio studio for a program with

with a fat contract. The handsome woung newspaper man who has

3g iled fill comes in for the romantic honors. . Menjou Performance Tops

Mr. Menjou, as the drunken actor, tops his fine performance in “The

‘ the streen’s most eonvincing comerdians. "Alice Fay sings two should-be-hit tunes, © Me" and “Sing, Baby, Sing.” She the -accent on looks talent.

ra th er

ing of Tony Martin.

parent reason and croons “When Did You Leave Heaven?”

~ that should take him far. Healy at Funniest

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BY SUTHERLANG/DENLINGER Times Special Writer

NEW YORK§ Aug. 29.— Barrymore is really through with the stage. Real-. ly through and happy about “That’s all there is. There will be no annual series of fasewell tours. I wish—what is it they say 7—to leave them smiling.” ; Miss Barrymore herself was smil-

end of Taylor's Lane, Mamaroneck, and smiled and drank iced tea and talked about her plans for the future and her memories of the past games and prize fights and places and people and things. It would have been good talk even if unaided by the Barry- | more voice and delivery. There” are times these days when the big porch might have belonged | presidency |

| rather than to a famous actress who. |

keeps reciting Shakespeare! and when he sees Joan singing he!

| ater should be done by

finally get him into | PEOPIE of the theater, but most of

: | ested in any one else.” Joan which puts her on easy street |

| gram for retirement and you said |

e S | so, but it developed that Miss Barrythe. story against Joan's|

| stage as retirement at all, { change—a chance to do other things

in a voice | | time for her three children, begin-

| or encouragement”

had decided that enough is enough. | That is because Miss Barrymore has | said that she wants to give ths | benefit of her experience to young-! who were coming along, to “any and all people who want help | in her own and | allied fields. i These people take her seriously, write and send telegrams or even appear, in awed enthusiasm, at the door of the white house itself. And they are right, because she means to be taken seriously.

Determined on a School “I am going to have a school,” said Miss Barrymore. “There never has been a school in this country run by any one who was anything in the theater.. Teaching for the thethe real

them don't care—they aren't interIf sounded like an ambitious promore, characteristically, did not look upon her decision to abandon the

but as

which she regards as quite as im-

She sat on the wide inclosed | i porch of the big white house at the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SING, BABY, SING’. DIAGNOSED RIOT OF

SATURDAY, AUG. 29, 1936

SICAL NONSENSE

Ethel Barrymore

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. leaves them smiling

not a conventional autobiography, and it is not being ghosted.

| portant, quite as absorbing, as any role in any play. Milky. Way” with this characteriza- | ticn and stamps himself as one of |

“You know,” she said, pressing out her cigaret stub. against the tray, making with her hands a slight and animated gesture, “when first I left

! the. convent I had wished to become “You Turned the Tables on|

a musician. It was decided that I

turn out that way. At 12 years old I felt that eating was important, and But now I am going to have time for music again.”

Won't Have Ghast Writer Time for music, time for a school,

ning now their own careers; time in

Mr. Healy has never been funnier | Which to write a book. Retirement,

than he is dashing hither and yon with Miss Kelly at his heels.

scheme of this film and steals many scenes from the stars. As for the Ritz brothers, they took us off our feet. They sing, dance and make the worst faces (besides Martha Raye) of any one on the screen. But they should takc

with those who like the comedy raw. | Dixie Dunbar and Montagu Love |

_are in the supporting cast. It's way over on the nutty side, but “Sing,

of guffaws,

Mallory Outing Open to Public

Employes of the P. R. Mallory Co. | are to hold their annual outing at | Riverside Amusement Park tomor- |

row afternoon and evening, and of-

ficials have invited the general pub-

lic to participate in the fun.

Highlight of the day's activities | is ta be the crowning of the Mallory | popularity “queen” as the climax io | a contest which has been conducted |

at the Mallory factory for the last month.

BROWN STARTED EARLY

Tom Brown made his debut as a screen actor at the age of six when

Ted's | brand of comedy fits right into the | {more rapidly in Mamaroneck than

well, |

Sing” guarartees you plenty |

he, appeared with Henry Hull in|

“The Hoosier Schoolmaster.”

“I'd Give My Life,” A. Rowland produced mount.

| LIKES REPORTER ROLES Paul Kelley, handsome young

which Richard | for Para-|

His | latest role is that of an aviator in|

man who has been cast in “The |

Accusing Finger,” likes best those pictures in which

he appears as a newspaper reporter. | rc asco s—— p————— LE

TO ELIMINATE NOISE

. So intense are the dramatic | scenes in “Valiant Is the Word for

Carrie,” that an elaborate “inter- | set” telephone system has been de- | ~ vised by which laborers on the set! may converse.

Open Air or covered convertible

Saturday, 38c Couple Before 9:30-"75¢ Couple, 9:38 te 12—30¢ Couple 12 to 1— 23¢ Couple After 1. Janda. P Soc Couple. One Block South Municipal Airport.

Dance Labor Day Night : 30c Per Couple

Every Night Except Mon, Adm. 15¢ before 8:30

The CASINO

BAILEY'S O St, HAL BAI

LEY'S ORCH. |

claims that he |

| |

indeed! The book has been “in the works” for some while, and Miss Barrymore thinks that it will move

it did while she was still acting. It’s

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO

“Sing, Baby, Sing” with Alice » and Adolphe Menjou at 11:3 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30.

CIRCLE

“The Texas Rangers,” with Fred MacMurray and Jack Qakie at 12:28, 3:36, 6:44, and 9:52. Also “Grand Jury” with Fred Stone; at 11:25, 2:33,

5:41 and KEITH'S

“Macbeth.” a Negro Federal Theater Project production staged by Orson Welles, Matinee at 2:15. Night performance at 8:30.

LOEW'S “The Last of the Mohicans” with Bruce | Cabot, Randelph Scott, Binnie Barnet 3nd Sather Abgel, at 11:11, :17 and 10. Also ‘The hk Hote with Ralpa Bellamy at 12:31, 3:34, 6:17 and

LYRIC : “Follow The Stars,” Vie Oliver and 3:50, 6:40 and Tonight's. with Evelyn Venable, 8 and 10:20

on stage, with vaudeville at 1:10, 9:30. Also Claire Trevor at 11:40, 2:20, 5:10,

ALAMO “Every Man's Law’ with John Mack Brown... Also ‘38 Hours to Kill” with Brian Donlevy and Gloria

Stuart AMBASSADOR “Hearts Divided.” with Marion Davies and Dick Powell. Also “Hot Money." with Ross Alexander and Beverley Rowers

“Special Investigator” with Richard ix and Margaret Callahan. Also ‘Horse Play” with Slim Summerville.

{ and. things that happened,” | plained.

“It’s just about places, and people, she ex“I remember everything, you know. Everything. Above all, it is going to be my own book. Not a trace of a ghost. Some time ago a publisher came out to visit us and he said, ‘Ethel, you don’t know any~ thing about writing. Why don’t you get some one to ghost your book. I know just the man for you, he did all the writing for ——, the prizefighter, I said, ‘No thanks. If I write-ia book it's going to be all Ethel Barrymore.”

House There 300 Years

The home in which Miss Barrymore has planned these things has: been hers since she came here 24 years ago with her husband, Russell G; Colt, the arms manufacturer. Here ¥ere born her daughter and

‘Announces Final Carillon Recital

The season’s final carillon recital | from the Scottish Rite Cathedral is | tg he given at 8 p. m. tomorrow by | David, L.. Neafus, carillonneur. The following pregram will be

| played:

.. Handel

Loree JIo% “Xerxes” . Beethoven

| Minu “Mighty Lak’ a Rose’ “In the Gloaming" . “Love’s Old Sweet Son “Drink to Me Only With ‘Thine Eyes

Old Engin “All Through ‘the Night” “Auld Lang Syne" | Hymas | "The ‘oid Rugged Cross” {| “Jesus Lover of My Soyl" | “Onward Christian Vol ers’ “Song of ihe Joixa Boatman “Oh! Susan “Nobody I the Trouble I've Seen Hurieigh ‘to Thee”

{| “Parewell ....Lillokouma

(“HEARTS DIVIDED” and “HOT MONEY”

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WESTLAKE

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DEATH”

Sam, the youngest of her two boys, and here are the plum trees which she planted, heavy now with their burden of fruit, and the gardens which she laid out and the slope of terrace down toward the inlet and the marsh filled with waving cattails and rushes. The house has been there a great while; part ef it is 300 years old. The walls of its wide, high-ceilinged rooms are covered with pictures. Here is John L. Sargent’s sketch of Miss Barrymore made in Boston in 1903 in an hour and a half’s sitting, here are Audubon’s enchanting birds, paintings by Weyth which illustrate scenes from David Balfour, here, on the ascending wall next the mahogany staircase, delightfully lugubrious French prints—Derniers momens du Marechel Duroc, Der~ niers momens de Napoleon II, L’Aiglon, very fat, on his deathbed. The Barrymore school will probably get under way in October, although as yet most of the details,

IT'S PLEASANTLY COOL

including the size of enrollment, remain to be worked out. “It won't be expensive,” she said. “That wouldn't be fair. I don’t want to make anything out of it at all except, of course,:the cost, Ill have to charge something, or else it would get away from me, I'd be deluged. I want it to be something like a hospital, in that when people know how to do things, they may. A student, for instance, might be equipped to teach one or more subjeets. “There will have to be a number of .courses. Fencing, for one—if actors are going to play Shakespeare they must be at home in Shakespeare and dancing, and languages: French, Italian, German. There are four little theaters available in Mamaroneck, and we will put on plays, with an audience, because not even a rehearsal is any good unless it’s on a stage. “The need for this sort of thing has been increased by the decay of the road, of stock, of repertory. : In my grandmother’s theater in Philadelphia a great actor from England, or a man like Booth would come for an engagement, accept the theater's own company, and they’d all learn from him, Then, too, they did a different play almost every night.” And in the long room which used to be the billiard room, but which is now, so moves the world, given over to table tennis, there is an amazing collection of prizefight pictures which the mistress of the house, along with-Mt, Colt, assembled over a period of years, unnecessary proof that Miss Barrymore is a person of many enthusiasms.

Called Barrymore Gate

Out in the sideyard, next the drive, is a lawn inclosed by a grove of tall trees and in the center of that lawn a swing, all that remains of the slides and bars and athletic

impedimenta used by the Colt children in the days when the grove was known to their parents as “Coney Island.” The swing is used today by the gardener’s little boy. The house isn't called anything;

us here for 24 years and some time ago they made him head of the volunter firemen. The other day Sammy found the book that they keep, with the names and locations of houses in it, and he said, ‘Mother, look ‘at this,’ and there was our house listed as ‘Barrymore Gate'.”

She laughed. “We're trying to keep the awful news from Mr. Colt, she- said.

Has No Age Limit

In the garden, filled with her favorite orange zinnias, snapdragons, cornflowers, it occurred to Miss Barrymore to emphasize her willingness to teach the art:of speech, of proper bearing and diction, to others than those who wish to go on the stage; persons in radio, or on the lecture platform, or in politics—any one whose profession necessitates public appearances.

“That's why I don’t intend to have any particular age limit,” she explained “There are so many men who write well and sound bad. That's true of almost every poet I have ever heard, except John Masefield. Masefield reads his things beautifully, but all the others should be restrained. The women are worst as speakers before women’s clubs.”

A. & P. PICNIC WEDNESDAY The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.'s picnic Tor customers, originally scheduled for last Thursday, is fo be held at Broad Ripple Park

Wednesday, according to William B. :

Hubbs Jr., park manager.

CHINESE IN DEMAND

One thousand Chinese extras, cast as the troops of a native war lord, are used in “The General Died at Pawn,” co-starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll.

Ee Sed

officially, that is. To some it is “the | Ju

Colt place,” but it has another name to the volunteer firemen of Mamaroneck, as the family, quite by accident, recently discovered. : “Britt is our chauffeur,” explained Miss Barrymore. “He has been with

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‘tainment.

The feature picture tells of a , blind mother who decides to leave her Austrian home to visit her three children in America. The children earlier have sent their mother to the best eye specialist in Vienna, and were forced into a pose of prosperous success to overcome her objection to the expense. Consequently the mother (Jane Darwell) thinks that her daughter Nina (Claire Trevor) is a musical comedy star; Anna (Evelyn Venable) a concert pianist, and Fritz (Dean Jagger) an automobile manufacturer. Actually they are a chorus girl, 5-and-10 piano player and a taxi driver. Frantic efforts to keep up appearances follow the mother’s arrival. Deception follows deception, climaxing in the kidnaping of the musical show’s leading lady so that Nina may star and an operation that restores the mother’s sight. - As master of ceremonies, as well as featured comic, Vic Oliver is a

Fable

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The “Bunker Bean” Stars in Another Grand Comedy! FRED STONE in

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With Owen Davis Jr. Louise Latimer

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‘Star for a Night Offers

Plot Based

on Results of White [os

Jane Darwell Takes Honors in Role of Blind Mother Hoodwinked by Well-Meaning Children; Revue Also on Lyric Bill.

Those who disgpprove of white lies won't want to see “Star for a Night,” which holds forth on the Lyric screen this week. There are enough of them in the picture to blanket the town. But for a refreshing plot with a novel twist, we would advise you to take it in. On the stage the management offers another revue production, “Follow the Stars,” which stars Comedian Vie It’s been :playing to big houses im Chicago, and

young revue all by himself. He does some pseudo-serious piano and violin playing, has an amusing line of © gags, and doesn’t tap dance or sing. Others on the bill are Alphonse Berg, who takes a young lady anda bolt of cloth and whips together a dress before you can tell the latest “knock, knock”; the Robbins Family in a well received tap dance and tumbling act; the Gilbert Brothers, extra-good acrobats; Carryl Gould, torch singer, and the decorative and efficient Bebe Barri chorus. (By

The Week End's Best Attractions

At Your Neighborhood Theater

WEST SIDE

NORTH SIDE

STATE .2902 W. 10th St.. Double Feature “ Edward Arnold CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” “ACES WILD” Sun. Double Feature—Jane Withers “LITTLE MISS NOBODY” | . Buddy Rogers, “DANCE BAND”

W.Wash. & Belmont Belmont Double Yerimon Lionel Atwil] “ABSOLUTE QUIET” “THE FUGITIVE SHERIFF” Sun. Double Feature—Michael Whalen “WHITE FANG” re Guy Kibbee, “THE BIG NOISE” DA | SY Double Feature. Herbert Marshall “FORGOTTEN FACES” “CARYL OF THE MOUNTAINS” Sun. Double Feature—Marion Davies

“HEARTS DIVIDED” Frances Dee, “HALF ANGEL”

NORTH SIDE

Hilnols and 34th

R RITZ HELD OVER

Clark Gable—Jeanette McDonald “SAN FRANCISCO” Sun. Double Feature—Richard Dix “SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR” Ce “PALM SPRINGS” Central at Fall Crk.

Double Feature Myrna Loy

“WHIPSAW” Frances Dee, “HALF ANGEL” Sun. Double Feature—Carole Lombard “The Princess Comes Across” “THREE LIVE GHOSTS”

° 42nd & Coll Uptown Double Feature George Bancrofi “HELL SHIP MORGAN” “THE BORDER PATROLMAN” Sun. Double Feature—Jean Muir

2540 w. Mich. St.

30th and [Hinels Double Feature Gea.

Garric Bancroft

“HELL SHIP MORGAN” “SOAK THE RICH” . Double Feature—Wm. Powell “EX-MRS. BRADFORD” “KING STEPS OUT”

30th at Northw’t'n Double Feature

REX =~ “uid

_ “EVERY - SATURDAY NIGHT” “DANGEROUS INTRIGUE” Sun. Double Feature—Irvin 8. Cobh “EVERYBODY'S OLD MAN” “THE GHOST GOES WEST”

19th 1 S t ra tfo rd Dou Pg Biri Paul Muni “STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR” ‘FANG AND CLAW” ! Sun. Double Feature—R. K. 0.s ' “FOLLOW THE FLEET” - “WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO”

Double Feature

M ECCA. Clark Gable

“CALL OF THE WILD” “THREE MUSKETEERS” un. Double Feature—Warner Bros, “GOLDEN ARROW” “UNGUARDED HOUR”

I DREA 2361 Statien St. . M Double Feature - George Brent “The Case Against Mrs. Ames” “FOR THE SERVICE” Sun. Double Feature—E. G. Robinson “BULLETS OR BALLOTS” “BIG BROWN EYES”

—— asTSWF RIVOLI

“WHITE FANG” “EDUCATING FATHER” » EXTRA Tonight on late LAST SHOW Joe E. Brown, “ALIB1 IKE” Sun Dahle F¥eat.— Return Engagement 1 Rogers, “STATE FAIR” uy “PUBLIC. ENEMY’'S WIFE”

Te “ER acoma Double: Nr “MOONLIGHT MURDER” “GALLANT DEFENDER” Double Feature—E. G. Robinson “BULLETS OR BALLOTS” Jack Oakie, FLORIDA SPECIAL"

Tuxedo “Posse Feature

Pouble Feature 8 “FURY”

peneer Tracy “TIMES SQUARE PLAYBOY" san. Double Feature—E. G. Rehingen “BULLETS OR BALLOTS” “EARLY TO BED”

Noble” & Mass,

‘Newly Cooled 3155 E. 16th Jean Muir

Sun

St Clair louie Feature

Double Feature Montgomery “YROUBLE ‘FOR TWO” “DEVIL'S SQUADRON” Sun. Double Feature—Spencer Tracy “FURY” “EDUCATING FATHER"

UDELL" Udell at Often

Double Feature : Dickie Moore “LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE” “BARBARY COAST”

~ Talbot & Sted |

IRVING “Bostic Forties

Double Feature Loretta Young “PRIVATE NUMBER” “O'MALLEY OF THE MOUNTED” Sun. Double Feature—W, C. Fields 4 “POPPY” :

“LITTLE Miss N Nosop¥Emerson Dewi rai Jeanette MacBonali Gable “SAN FRANCISCO” Nows=Our Gang Comedy—Cartoen s Double Feature—Loretta Youn "PRIVATE NUMBER" Jack a “FLORIDA. SPECIAL"

EAST SIDE Parker 2036 E. 10th St,

Double Feature Warner Baxter “PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND” “THE WALKING DEAD” 2 Sun. Double Feature—Joe E. Brown “SONS O° GUNS” “FURY” 1332 E. Wash. 8 St. Double Feature Edward Arnold “SUTTER’'S GOLD” “SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR” Sun. Double Feature—Fred McMurray, “PRINCESS COMES ACROSS” “COUNTRY BEYOND" ®

Paramount a: = wim. Double Feature Glenda Farrell “THE LAW IN HER HANDS” ' “Comin’ "Round the Mountain” / Sun, Double Feature—JFanet Gaynor “SMALL TOWN GIRL” James Stewart, “SPEED”

BIJOU 114 E. Washington

Double Feature irene Dunne “SHOW BOAT” “WEST OF THE LAW” Sun. Double Feature—Richard Dix “SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR” “LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE”

SOUTH SIDE ~~

tr} orate eeprsrerAl

Fountain Square Double Feature Tew Avres “PANIC ON THE AIR" . “BORDER PATROLMAN” Sun. Double Feature—Barh, Stanwyd “THE BRIDE WALKS OUT” “SINS OF MAN”

Sanders At Foantain Squal

Double Feature Warner Baxter “ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO” “CALL OF THE PRAIRIE” Sun. Double Feature—Gary Cooper “MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN" “THE WALKING DEAD” »

Avalon "Seve Feature. Black King “GUNNER AND GUNS" “MOONLIGHT MURDER”

Sun. Deuhis Featu

re—dJdoe E, “SONS O' GUNS" “DON'T GAMBLE WITH LOVE"

Oriental "dese Feature |

Buvble Feature Gleason

“MURDER ON A BRIDLE PATH" “SONG AND DANCE MAN"

Sun. Double Feature—Shirley Temple “CAPTAIN JANUARY” “COUNTRY Sik

Garfield Duane Fea are

Sun. Double Featvre—Syivia sidney’ “FURY” y “FLORIDA SPECIAL”