Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1936 — Page 26

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Circle and Loew's Report || Customers -Well Pleased With Curent Attractions.

Bob Bune’ Is Big Drawing Power of Popular | Musical. - |

BY JAMES THRASHER

Over at’ the Circle, “The Big Broadcast of 1937" is do- | ing a regular Astaire-Rogers business, according to Frank Moneyhun, the theater's press | representative. | “And that,” says Mr. Moneyhun, “is: ‘tops’ in this part of the country.” Accordingly, there will be a second week's showing of the picture for those who have not seen this | latest ensemble of radio favo-|

rites.

This is the sixth annual “Big | Broadcast” release, and presents as | imposing array of talent as any of | the former editions. Four of radio's | top comedians, Jack Benny, George | Burns, Gracie Allen and Bob Burns, | head a list of stars that includes | such other headliners as Benny Fields, Benny Goodman and his orchestra, Frank Forest and Leopold Stokowski, whose eloquent hands di- | rect his symphony orchestra in a| Bach fugue practically in the midst | of Bob Burns’ bazooka playing. It is Mr. Burns and his partner, | Martha Raye, who have surprised | the local exhibitors. “We thought the name of Jack Benny would be the most potent factor in drawing the crowds,” Mr. Moneyhun said. “But as soon as the picture opened, we discovered that Bob Burns and Martha Raye were the chief attractions.”

Started in Vaudeville

Bob came to Hollywood from the! Ozarks by way of small-time vaudeville. As every one knows, he got a spot on Bing Crosby's Thursday |

right radio hour and proved so pop- | ular with his tall, backwoods yarns, | that Bing practically has been forced, to put Bob on an equal footing with him since returning from his Hawaii vacation. Nobody ever heard of Miss Raye | until “Rhythm on the Range,” in which she and Bob made their screen debut apposite Mr. Crosby. Jt only took one picture, however, and she was a green light at the | box office.

Presents Recital of -

Poems in Song Here |

For its opening program of the) year, the Propylasum Club pre- _ sented Miss Frieda Peycke -of Bev- | erly Hills, Cal., yesterday afternoon | in a recital of “music that speaks— | poems that sing.” . Miss Peycke recites poems to] music of her own composition, | though the selections in reality wind songs of the light “encore” type. | Yesterday she chose settings of |

Four Sirs. Are Featured in ‘Smart’ Comedy Picture.

Someone canvassed a group of screen stars” recently to find what they thought .was

|the funniest scene in motion | pictures. There was a great

variety of answers, of course, ranging from early-Chaplin to “Midsummer Night's Dream.” But if the poll had been taken a week later, there might have been some votes for Bill Powell's: fishing trip in ‘“Libeled Lady,” now at] Loew's.

If you haven't seen Mr. Powell as | the “compleat angler,” there will be | another week in which to do so. For

Manager Ward Farrar announced’

today that the comedy, starring Mr. Powell, Myrna Loy, | Spencer Tracy, would be held over. Every one has his own favorite brand of humor, but there will he many who will agree that Mt. Powell as a fisherman, when he sets out to impress the wealthy and | piscatorially inclined Walter Con- | nolly, is/ one of the funniest things since W, C. Fields shot his immortal pool game in “Six of a Kind,” or the Marx Brothers sold peanuts) {and “warmed up” for the ball game | | during a performancé of “Il Trova- | tore” in “A Night at ithe Opera. ” There is much mare to “Libeled Lady” than the fishing scene. however. It is movie .entertainment that might best be described as “smart.” You get everything from slap-stick to subtle gibes, set forth by four stars who know how it ought to be done,

Actress Is Comedian

Miss Harlow is a comedian, you know; when they ‘give her a chance. She can pack them in as a decorative fixture only, but given a part, can score heavily in. the field of | farce. Mr. Tracy, after the heavily | dramatic “Fury,” also Js a happy choice for his present role. Ever since they allowed Miss Loy

to escape trom the harem of Orien- .

tal characters, she has been one of Hollywood's most delightful and reliable comedians. And as for Mr. Powell, he hasn't 'let his “public” down in many a moon. In short, you'll miss something good if you pass up “Libeled Lady.”

FORTUNATE ACTRESS When June Martel walked into the studio to ‘sign her contract, Director James Hogan spotted her and immediately put in a request for her to play the leading role in ‘Arizona Mahoney,” | comedy.

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verses by such writers as Dorothy Miles, Edmund Vance Cooke and | Homer H. Rhoades. The poems of |

the final group of seven songs apparently were of her own composition, and marked the high point of the afternoon entertainment. (By J.Q. T)

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“DIMPLES”—Shirley Temple,

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“THE BIG BROADCAST OF land, Benny Fields, Benny and Francis Martin,

movies give razzberry to radio.

“LIBELED LADY” (Held Over

sents to divorce,

Bebe Barri Dancing Rockets. } ON SCREEN—“Her¢ Comes Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel, Stone. Jack Scholl.

about stars.

leads to broadcaster's rescue,

Opening Tomorrow Apollo

Petcnit. Produced and directed by Darryl F. Zanuck and William A. Seiter; songs by Jimmy MeHugh and Ted Koehler; dances

Story—Little street singer and grandfather are invited to wealthy lady's home to give performance. Grandfather avails himself of clock. Little girl returns it, lady wants to adopt her. Instead, she and grandfather joins lady's nephew in play-producing venture. Little girf fixes up all difficuities, romantic and financial, by scoring hit in new play, “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”

Burns and Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Ray MilGoodman, Leopold Stokowski, Eleanore Whitney. Directed by Mitchel Leisen; screen play by Walter DeLeon

Story—Small-town girl is victim of radio publicity man’s intrigues as they build her up to radio fame. search and bridegroom substitution finally set things right, as

Loew's

Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy. Directed by Jack Conway; author, Wallace Sullivan =

Story—Threatened with $5,000,000 libel suit, newspaper managing editor hires reporter to “frame” suing heiress. Marries reporter to his own financee to make things look serious. Reporter instead runs away with heiress, while bis bride protests. Finally, though, she con-

Lyric

ON STAGE—“Shooting High,” revue, with comedy by Slate Brothérs, Gene Sheldon and Loretta Fischer; music by Doris Rhodes, swing singer, and Paul White, Negro boy formerly with Ted Lewis; dancing by Ruth Pryor, ex-soloist with Chicago Civic Opera ballet; Oehman Twins, baliroom steps; E. Staniloff, Russian dances, and 16

Hobart Cavanaugh and George E. Directed by William Clemens; songs by M. K. Jerome and

Story—Ex-publicity ‘man fer films broadcasts scandal and gossip Matinee idol, one of broadcaster's victims, hires gangsters to beat him. Gunfight, which accidentally goes on‘the air,

|Limberlost

Prank; Morgan, Helen Westly,

As Now Rich Farm Land

Setting of ‘The Harvester’ Is Modernized for Picture.

Action takes place in New

le 1937”—(Held over) Jacy Benny,

There is not much Limberlost left in ‘Gene Stratton- | Porter’s - “The Harvester,”. ‘showing through Saturday at the Ambassador. Patrons are shown not swamp, but rich Warren County farming land that has taken its place.

A runaway, frantic

)—Jedn Harlow, William Powell,

The scene of the movie is in this transformed Limberlost in the days of the first horseless carriages and the first “layin’ down” bathtubs. Indianapolis seems very far off, a city of romance and mystery, but one “where genius is appreciated.” David Langston (Russell Hardie) iis: an idealistic young farmer, and i quite a handsome one. But he really has. little to do. with the story. | He - builds only the house, selects

Carter,” with Ross Alexander,

The handsome. Earl of Warwick’ recently arrived in Hollywood to begin a mavie career which he hopes to recoup his family’s vanished fortune. ? His salary at the beginning is reported to be $1000 a week—but

he is promised a raise if he makes

good!

i only the bathtub. His life is constructed for him and his bride selected by his womenfolk. . Chief among these is Alice Brady, |. in the part of Mrs. Biddle. She al- | lows her daughter Thelma (Joyce Compton). -no more freedom of choice than is allowed David Langs-

CHILDREN SPOIL SMOKY Smoky, Claudette Colbert's French poodle, likes to stay on the set when { his mistress is working, but all the children working with Claudette in “Maid of Salem” made such a fuss over him that she decided, he was getting too spoiled and now Smoky stays at home.

‘WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO

“Ladies in Love,” with Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young And Constance Betnewt sa 11 1:24. 3:24, 5:24,

7:24 CIRCLE ‘Big Broadcast of 1937," with Jack Marth eorge Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye and en at 11, 1:12 , 5:36, 7:48 and 10.

A LOEW'S

‘“Libeled Lady,” with Jean J Rarpow, William Powell, Myrna 593 5 Spencer Tracy at tl, 1:10, 3:20, §: 3 and 10.

7:45 LYRIC

“Girl on the Front Page,” with Sonia oSiHaLt nd Edmund Lowe at 1:36, 5:14, 7:53 and 10:32. 130 A ith Eddie Rio, Jeannine and others at 1:10, 3:49, 6:48

an ALAMO

“Three Wise Guys,” with ‘Robert Young. Also ‘‘Trail of the Terror,” With Robert Stevens. AMBASSADOR

ays run) with “Sin

‘““The Harvester,’ ng, Baby,

Alice Brady. Also Sing,” with Adolph Menjou.

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“Return _of Sophie Lang, ‘with Gertrude. Michael — Also. Thirteen Women,” Ey Irene Dunne,

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: i Actor Barred from

George Ernest, pinch-penny member of the Jones Family! and now playing a featured rble stellar picture, “Reunion,” has been placed: under a ‘no football” ban.

vorite sport until the picture is completed, doesn’t want to take any chances on del in a scrimmage.

fon or Mr. Biddle (Frank Craven). Nor does Thelma’s rival for young

INJURED IN WAR Herbert Marshall, who co-stars

with Anne. Shirley in “Make Way for a Lady,” served three years with the British army during the World War, was wounded severely and

pene 13 months in a military hos-

David's hand, Ruth Jameson (Ann. Rutherford), seem a dynamic personality. Mrs. Biddle’s only rival is Ruth's ‘I grandmother (Emma Dunn), who accomplishes by well-placed tears and indirection more than all Mrs. Biddies conspiracy can effect. (By

Football Playing

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22.—Young famillar as the

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To the Sweet Music of

BOB GREENEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

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Dance Tickets on Sale Today."

Press Club Fall Frolic to Be at Roof Roof Tonight.

For the benefit of 15,000 educa-

tors in the city for the annual conveption of the Indiana State Teach-

‘ers’ Association, tickets for the In-

-dianapolis Press Club's first annual Fall Frolic .on the Indiana Roof tonight are on sale today at downtqwn locations. Tickets are available at the Claypool, ‘Lincoln and Washington hotels, and from club members at newspaper offices. They also are to be on sale at the Roof box office, it was said. Two dance bands are to provide

{music for continuous dancing from

9 p.m until 1 a. m. Besides Dan Russo and his Orioles, Chick Myers’ orchestra has

| {been booked. Myers’ band has re-

turned to the Roof after opening St. Louis’ largest ballroom, the Arcadia, and after an extended tour of summer resorts.

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ladys George Go ‘Interview Tou

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22.—Gh George, precipitated into stardom as a result of her appears ance in the name role of” “Vali Is the Word for Carrie,” is m

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Miss- George will visit seven ci put will make no theatre a ances. Instead a series of reception n have been arranged at which will meet exhibitors, women's ant civic club leaders and press rep="¢ resentatives.

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