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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1936

- HOWARD BROTHERS HAVE BEEN CLOWNING TOGETHER 35 YEARS

Veterans

of Comedy Act Here

Willie and Eugene Assert Acting Fool Requires Serious Work.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON

Willie "and who

Eng-

Eugene Howard, are to be scen tonight at lish's in George White's can snicker up their collective sleeve at the Broadway and Hollywood pikers who boast of a decade or so in the show business. The two boys have been together onthe sthge for 35 years and they seem to get better all time. At least in demand now that at time their career. Willie contrib:

very nobly

they are

any in demand fewer turnart of

ites this to the fact that students of the drama are ing toward the delicate clowning these days. “Newcomers to the stage, for the most part, fail to display any interest in the comedy side of show business, * said Mr. Howard recently, “despite the fact that there is always room for good comedians. The financial return is good — at least eventually.

Art

“Perhaps they think ing would cheapen their art. But, believe me. there's -just as much art in acting the fool as there is in any other branch of the theater.” 'All humor as adapted for the stage, according to Mr. seriously planned and studied. Even the role of “straight” man, played in this duet by brother Eugene, the elder of the pair, is a serious business, Willie said. It is the duly of the “straight” man, or “feeder” as He is known. to set the pace of the gags, as well as the tempo

the Fool

clown-

in Acting

that

with which he paces the words he] are all-impor- | empha-~ | sis is not placed on certain phrases, |

These words because if the proper

uses. tant,

the response of the comedian will fall flat. Willie and Eugene started out together in one of the early counterparts of today's night club, St. Nicholas Inn: which in the 1900's was 'wav out in the suburbs New York. Before this Eugene had been a chorus boy in several shows and Willie had made his deput on the stage as a boy soprano. Willie says that the comedy they use seems to get more off-color each vear. When the Howard boys went to work for Mr. White they refused” to say But the public color stuff has round to it. “Although they have been dressed up to fit the times,” said Willie, “we are still using some of the gags we used more than a decade

ago.”

offcome

demand for made them

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO “Stage Struck” ‘with Dick Powell Joan Blon dell i nd Frank Mei igh 1 3 5:42, 7:45, and

CIRCLE 2 ith Pred Astaire Rogers at 11:05, 1:15 . 7:45 and 9:53 ENGLISH'S - ‘Scandal s."” George White's mursial produ uction with Willie and gene Howard and Helen Morgan,

at & KEITH'S

“Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh.” Players production under tion of John Cameron.

8:18. . LOEW'S “The Great Ziegfeld’ with William Powell, Myrna lov and Louise Ranier, at 11:20. 2:35. 5:45 and 9.

LYRIC

Johnny

a Pederal the direcCurtain at

Vaudeville, with “Miss America of 19: on stage at 12:55, J 46. 6:37 and Also “Feo in a Cr i,” with Joan Bennett and Joel McC rea, Op screen at 11:14, 2:05. 4:36, 7:47 ALAMO “Speed” with Wendy Barrie nd James Stewart Also Ed: ati Father” with the Jones Family. AMBASSADOR “Suzy” with Jean Harlow Pranchot Tone Also “Meet Woife'' with Edward Arnold. OHIO “Sins of Man" with Jean Hersholt and Don Ameche. Also ‘Behold My Wife” with Gene Raymond and Sylvia Sidney.

and

and Nero

“Scandals,”

the | more

Howard, is |

of |

some of the lines.|

| lights.

Now Thru Saturday !

Jean Harlow "Suzy EDW. ARNOLD

“Meet Nero

STARS AND SCENES FROM 'THE GREAT ZIEGFELD," OPENING TODAY AT LOEW'S

POWELL HOPES: ROMANCE WILL BRING PEACE AND HAPPINESS INTO LIFE

WITH JOAN BLONDELL

(Editor's note: Dick Powell thought he was terrible in “A Midsummer Night's Dream”; he has a loneliness he can’t shake off; he hopes that he and Joan Blondell may find “a tree-hung cove where they can really be happy.” This is the last of the life story series written by Mr. Powell.) ~

BY DICK POWELL as told to RUTH McTAMMANY Times Hollywood Correspondent I looked out of the window the train that was taking to Pittsburgh. The little towns flew by one after another. 1 thought of Mountain View, Ark, where I was born—it would be | sleeping there, all peaceful, just as it had for years. | Berryville would be a little larger, not much, and the people would still be real and friendly. Nice places—county places—good to think back on. Mother and Dad would be sitting on the front porch of the old house in Little Rock, contented. "Why did a fellow ‘have to be so restless, so ambitious? What is the struggle all about? Up todav, down tomorrow. “Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh!” “Hello, Powell, how the big Hollywood star ” “Glad vou came, Dick—the old town's not been the same.” I guess. this is it, the greeting of admirers. the glamour of public appearances, the glare of theater It gets into the blood— there's no cure. I went back to my answered the daily questions “when will your picture be out?” When two months had passed my Hollywood venture became a public joke. I couldn't convince them that it very often took twa months to edit and cut a picture.

work and

" 2 zn

B= LE MAIRE Pittsburgh and

came to

up. “1 was said, vou feel about motion pictures.” “How is the ‘Blessed Event’ and where is it?” “Coming out soon. vou like to sign up for tures, Powell?” “How was I? the screen?” “Not. bad, course you ing on.” “I suppose so. I'm making money here. 1 like Pittsburgh.” “Well, here's a paper—3$300 al week—if you're interested.”

just passing through,” he

How would more pic-

How did

bad. f of work-

not lot

really need a

gimp Allen-Kent Taylor “SKY PARADE” Edward Arnold-Lee Tracy “SUTTER'S GOLD”.

| weeks of vacation with pay. ; without work were new to me and | {I wasn't { Brothers lent me to the Fox comt pany and Will Rogers for a picture. |

of | me back |

i class-rocm

t Mr.

| gO

| bugaboo to me—I — I can't read |

looked me

I look on |

"Music BY. JEROME KERN

Songs: “The Waltz in Swing Time" a fake Harlem” =“ The Wor You

fat

“I got $500 before for my work ‘Blessed Event.” “That was for four weeks. is a long term contract.” “I'll sign it. Give it to me.” Once more I left Pittsburgh this time for good as far as work was concerned. : I returned to Hollywood and to

happy. Then Warner |

“Wal, son,” drawled Will Rog-| ers, “I sort a didn’t think I'd have singin’ in this picture.” “That's great, Mr. Rogers.” “How would you like bank robber?” “Well—er—do I enough?” “No, but you look slick enough, I reckon.” I feel honored to have played even a crock in a picture with Will Rogers.

look

» » 2

‘VE been here ever

This | { but, Mr. i be an actor then. You don't under-

| upset.

i York

{ thing. to be a in

tough |

Days | devil-may-care

{ I'll prove it to you.”

that Shakespeare is the greatest, done hasn't been

training in the world for an actor?” | “Yes—I Kknow—I'm sure of it—| Reinthardt, I'd rather not |

| the *

stand—I'm licked before I start.” “Now, The part is light—it certain airy grace interpretation.” | worked pretty steadily since I came “But I haven't any airy Seto Hollywood. If I get away for I'm just a yodeler of popular tunes.” '} awhile my perspective may change. “You are a good actor, Dick, and | | Then, { with its high wall which did some“A Midsummer Night's Dream” |thing to me. It's too big anyway. only proved to me that I could be | Joan and I like a smaller one. Joan worse than I was in my first New | las a great deal of courage to martest—and that was some-|!Y me. There's a girl who knows | life—the restless life of theater and | screen people—life that can be bru- | tal and devastating and life that can be rich and deep.

just | in the nose” or shake his hand.

takes a

” un #

UT there have been many parts | which I have enjoyed. Any | screen actor's favorite role is the one he hasnt played. That part|(pat I am restless, that I have not

Which shail be the expression of | found myself in the shallows. We himself in situations he under- |

too, I'm selling this house |

| |

and | Maybe I just need a vacation. I've |

But Joan knows that I am never | quite satisfied with what I am doing,

1—The veteran comedienne, Fannie Brice, She is now appearing in the new and is shown above in a scene from “The Great Ziegfeld,”

on and on.

opens at Loew's today.

seems to go on and “Follies” in New York, which

2—Playing the roles of Flo Ziegfeld and Billie Burke in “The

Great Ziegfeld”

are William Powell and Myrna Loy, shown resting

between scenes while the picture was being filmed. 3—The surprise performance of the picture, which was shown at

Loew's

last season as a road :show

attraction, was that of little

Luise Ranier who walked off with individual honors as Anna Held,

Ziegfeld's first wife.

want the. step to be

« EVer.

1100

un a a

H yes, because we are both in| the profession whose aim it | is to amuse, I suppose the world, if | “there's Joan |

and Dick, the happy-go-lucky pair | But Joan and | I know that we are both in the] swirling waters of a fantastic city | where pictures are illusion and just | values aren't ever put on anything. | We have felt the force of the stream carrying us somewhere, tossing us| about anywhere. We feel we have | a better chance against the forcz| two abreast. So we are going down | | stream that way and when the final toss comes 1 hope we'll find a tree- |

interested, will say

—always laughing.”

stands and feels.

since and I|

have been in too many pictures |

to write about. Every actor his Waterloo, in some part he has | to play. at one time or another.| Mine was in Dream.” nightmare that Ill never live down. It was the ghost of Shakespeare after me again. It was the same horror which got me when I| tried to read lines in the English | of Centennial High | at Little Rock while the] “tough guy”

School school

After weeks of rehearsal

Reinhardt Shakespeare is a

“Mr. on with it.

the lines.” “Oh, nonsense, right. Jo you

vou are doing all | know, young man,

“and thought I would see how |

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with Max Reinhardt I went to him | one day with a real tear in my voice. | please—I can't

I have been lonely in Hollywood and here we come back to my personal conflict. I wonder if I can make you understand that I feel a | {lack of satisfaction in all the things I have done in my life. Per- | haps I really wanted to bz a seri-! ous singer, perhaps I wanted to be | a business success in a small city, | perhaps now I want to be a great actor. I don't know. But as I lock

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