Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1936 — Page 6

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BY JAMES

THRASHER

Once there was a boy named Hal Sherman, whose fam-

ily wanted him to be a physician.

But two things inter-

vened. He got the dancing “bug” when he was 16, and the same year he flunked his chemistry and geometry entrance

§ examinations for Harvard University.

So this week, after nearly 20 years, Mr. Sherman is delighting audiences at the Lyric in “Glorified Follies of 1936” with about as smooth an assortment of dancing and

comedy as one could wish.

In the ensuing score of years,

since he graduated from Boston Latin School, Mr. Sherman has been - around aplenty. — He counts King Edward VIII among his fans,

"and he has pulled gags in four lan-

guages during extended engagements in London, Berlin, Bwitzerland and Italy.

Met Edward in 1925

Mr. Sherman met the British monarch, then Prince of Wales, in 1025, the year after he had played | Indianapolis, among other places, | with the “Music Box Revue.” Bobby | Clark and William Gaxton were in | the show, as was Ruth Page, the In- | dianapolis dancer who currently is| dancing and directing *the ballet for | the Chicago Civic Opera Co. “Ruth is a grand performer,” said | Mr. Sherman. “That is, if you can | call an artist a performer.” King Edward is most democratic, Mr. Sherman found. He used to| drop in on the show to watch Mr. | Sherman dance. (“That’s not ego,” | the dancer insists. “The king was | crazy about dancing. He used to | do the Charleston until his partners | and his collars would wilt.”) Mr. Sherman lauded the British jense of humor. He said that show | Jusiness is grand over there, and | that 60 per cent of the vaudeville | cts are American. ° Along with Mr. Sherman in the ‘Glorified Follies” are several former | Ziegfeld stars and Charles Carlile, | A 0 sang on the “Follies of the Air” radio program, the showman'’s last | yenture. Among the former “Follies girls” | in the Lyric revue is Miss Betty | MacDonald, has been in five Zieg- | feld productions and who, in addition to being a decided asset to any | revue, has found time to be a dancer, an author of radio and motion | picture scripts and a radio per- | former. “Ziegfeld was like a little kid with | his radio programs,” Mr. sald. “He worried about them as| though he never had put on a show. He came to all the rehearsals, and And when it came his time to go on the air, his hand shook so that he hardly could hold the script.”

Air Show Ran 26 Weeks |

The Ziegfeld air show ran 26 | weeks its first season before sign- | ing off for the summer. That August Ziegfeld died. But in the meantime he had crashed a new field of entertainment, and given such later

Paris,

Carlile

ment lasts until Friday, and is supplemented on the screen by “Pigskin Parade,” with Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly and Arline Judge. And if you haven't seen Mr. Erwin, coaxed to college from an Arkansas melon patch, playing . football against Yale in his bare feet, “you ain't seen nothin’” in the football

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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

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with Shirley

“Dimples,” 1:46,

Jad Prank Morgan, at 11 3:46, 5:46, 7:43 and 9:40.

CIRCLE

“Valiant Is the Word for Carrie.” with Gladys George, Arlene Judge ang fons ovare: at 12:36, 3: 40, 6:54 an Also “Wives Never Know.” with Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles. at 11:12, 2:26. 5:40 and 8:54.

KEITH'S “It Can't Happen Here.” first performance of Sinclair Lewis! new play by the Federal Players. at 8:15. LOEW'S

v “Old Hutch.” with Wallace Beery, Lew Ayres and Cecelia Parker, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 and 15. Also ‘““Craig’s Wife,’ with Rosalind Russell and Sohn Boles, at 12:30, 3:24, 6:15 and 9:05.

LYRIC

“Glorified Follies of 1836,” with former Ziegfeld stars. Charles Carlile, Hal Sherman and others, the stage at 12:55, 3:42, 6:39

"Also “Pigskin Parade.” with Stuart e ud e, on the 1:55, , 7:39 and

ALAMO “Marihuana” and “The Avenger.”

AMBASSADOR

‘My Man Godfrey,” with’ William Powell. Also “Yellowstone,” with Henry Hunter.

OHIO “Imitation of Life,”

Colbert. Also ‘“‘Half a Sinner,” Joel McCrea.

with Claudette with

Sonja Henie Wears Magnificent Cape

Times Special

The winnah!

Clark Gable wins the fight and the girl, who is

Marion Davies, in “Cain and Mabel,” opening tomorrow at the Apollo.

Actress Gives Views on Youth | |

This Is Age of -Naturalness, Marsha Hunt Says.

Times Spécial HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4.—Marsha | Hunt is a young actress. But her age, evidently, affords no barrier | went it comes to ‘speaking her | mind” about such things as modern youth and the folk who were young in grandma’s* day. i “This is an age of naturalhess,” | observed Miss Hunt while in a comi municative mood during production |of “Easy to Take.” She continued: | “Young people of my acquaintance 9 lots of things that old Mrs.

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Claudette Colbert, Rochelle Hudson “IMITATION OF LIFE”

Joel McCrea, Sally Blaine “HALF A SINNER”

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4—The|

yards of iris sequins, bordered in white ermine, form the magnificent cape worn by Sonja Henie in her | debut picture, “One in a Million.” Six page boys are required to carry its train.

headliners as Jack Pearl and Eddie |

Dowling their start in radio. All one needs to do is chat a few minutes back stage at the Lyric to

discover that the affection that all I’ of Ziegfeld's employes felt for him |

is no myth. He treated them “right,” and you. are convinced that they won't forget it. The “Glorified Follies”

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Grundy might think shocking. However, I believe the youth of today is just as moral and clean-minded as were our fathers and mothers in their younger days. “The new freedom has brought a change for the better and the youth of today is, as a result, more honest than the boy and girl of two generations back. It is just that traditional inhibitions have been discarded and hypocrisy has been cast aside.”

NEW BROADWAY PLAY

" Austin Strong, who wrote the original screen play for Richard A. Rowland’s “Along Came Love,” is to have his new play produced for fall opening on Broadway. He is the author of “Seventh Heaven.”

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Play Termed True to Life | by Producer

Abbott Writes Introduction to ‘Boy Meets Girl,’ to Open ‘at English’s.

The following is from the introduettion to the published version of “Bey Meets Girl,” which opens for four performances at English’s tomorrow night. Mr, Abbett is the play’s producer, and his article is used through the courtesy of Random House, publishers.

BY GEORGE ABBOTT “Boy Meets Girl” is, I think, the best play that has as yet appeared about Hollywood. It is the real thing because Bella and Samuel Spewack are reporters as well as dramatists and they report what they see and observe, not. what convention

would want them to see.

You don’t see the long line of eucalyptus trees outside the windows, but you must know that it is there. You must know that down in the. court below C. Fs window are a dozen strutting assistant directors and executives and in-

Zvmerable Slamorgus girls pusiuring for the benefit of all. Most of the writings about the great film colony have overlooked an inporiatié expression of the Holly-

for ; been given to believe in the past that a cross-section of Hollywood would reveal to us only a great number of not very bright actors ruled over by crass and illiterate producers. Bit the fact is not quite that. There is a great eagerness for the bigger and better things. Hollywood Ashamed Hollywood 1s is 4 Ashamed itself, and therefore Fashamed a Lo mendous effort to do the right thing. The bad taste at times exhibited in the films is not exhibited in the private lives of those who make them. They read the best books, cultivate: the best art, collect first editions, dress with great and exaggerated care, observe the conventions, and are all “ladies and gentlemen.” If, however, authenticity were the only virtue of “Boy Meets Girl” it would die unsung. It is the wit of the Spewacks that casts over the whole thing a

gay charm. They know how to|HoO

write lines which are not only funny to read but which crackle when spoken in the theater. And even when their technical construction of the play is perhaps unorthodox, as for example the scene between Rodney and Susie, in Act 1, the freshness of the writing prevents the audience from feeling any drop.

between” Rosetti and C. JI. while they are in the projection room examining the film tests of the various babies from whom they wish to select a successor to Happy. ‘Unfortunately, this scene—which is one of my very. favorites—had to be cut out because the audience, when the play was tried out in Philadelphia, felt sorry for the poor unfortundte babies who were not going to get. the job.

Closed Theater to Be Reopened

Twin Bill Tomorrow Night Set at Hollywood.

The Hollywood Theater, 1500 Roosevelt-av, which has heen closed for the t year, is to re-open tomorrow night under the management of Harry Markun and George trey. The theater has been redecorated throughout, and new sound equipment has been installed. For ‘the opening ' attraction, the management is offering Joe' E. Brown in “Earthworm = Tractors,” and “Nobody’s Fool,” which features Edward Everett Horton. The first feature will begin at 7 p. m..

In fact, the Spewacks write so |"

well that I wish that an appendix might be added to the published play, carrying all the scenes. that ‘we have cut out for purpose of [Stage production. I am sure you ‘would all like to read the dialogue

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov. s-Ted Healy ‘is back in Hollywood recove ering -from a severe case of “skysickness” as the result of his vaca tion in Texas. The comedian lef to visit: Houston and fish at Gale veston on completion of his role in

“Mad Holiday. " TOMORROW, Fri, |}

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A GEORGE ABBOTT PRODUCTION

SY BELLA snd SAMUEL SPEWACN EXACTLY AS PLAYEDSCORT THEA. LY. Eves. Good Orch. Seats: $2.20, others $2.75. Bale.: $1.65 & $1.10. Gal.: 55e.

Sat. Mat., Orch.: $1.65. Bale,, $1.10. Gal., 55c. Incl. Tax.

Seats Now on Sale

inte. Crests Jina OPENING EVENT OF SEASON ENGLISH--Tonight, 8:30

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ALL-STAR CO ANY on sale, Martens Office, Seats Circle (LI. 8921) until 5 P. I yr ater after 6 P. M. Prices, $1. 10, $2.15, $3.30, tax incl

Last Times Today—SHIRLEY TEMPLE in “DIMPLES”

Important Announcement!

The INDIANA THEATER is the only playhouse in Indianapolis large enough to house Max Gordon's huge four star musical play . . .

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Until Mr. Harry Katz placed the Indiana at

Mr. Gordon's

disposal there seemed no way

of presenting this gorgeous production in this city and Indianapolis could not have been included.in the history-making coast-to-coast tour.

Because of the large stage and capacity of the Indiana Theater not only can ‘THE GREAT WALTZ” be seen in its entirety, but at prices within the means of every purse. There will be an abundance of seats at 50c, $1.00 and $1.50, with the highest price $2.50, Plus Tax. This is something unheard of for a production of this size and importance.

“THE GREAT WALTZ” as

presented at the

Indiana Theater on MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 17 and 18, with a Matinee on Wednesday, will be the complete full

length performance

in its entirety. This is the

only company on tour and comes here intact fol dowing two seasons phenomenal run at the Center Theater, Radio City in Rockefeller Center, New

York, and Chicago.

sixteen

weeks at the Auditorium,

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The: advance sale opens at the Box Office of the Indiana Theater on Monday, Nov. 9.

Tickets may be secured from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. and all seats, at all prices, are reserved. Telephone reservations may be made. Call RHey 6071. Mail orders should be made payable to “The Great Waltz” and addressed to the Indiana Theater. Be sure to enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope for safe return of tickets,

PHONE RI. 607

for information of any sort concerning "The Great Walh"

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